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PHOENIX, ARIZONA, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 30, 1920
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VOL. XXXL, NO. 21?
Brotherhood Leaders Issue
Warning They Will No
Longer Try To Hold Men
In Check; Demand Action
Republican A. P. Leased WlreJ
CHICAGO, Nov. 29 Representatives
of the 16 recog.vlzed railway labor
unions today asked the railway labor
poara to rind some Plan throueh which
differences between tho roads and their
employes, other than wage disputes.
couia be settled. The union heads de
clared that unless some satisfactory
plan "was forthcoming immediately.
the men would take the settlement of
such disputes in their own hands.
During federal control of the rail
rods, disputes which did not involve
wage agreements were settled by
boards of adjustment known as No. 1
2 and 3. These boards went out of
xistence when the roads were returned
to private ownership, and the employes
want them re-established.
The roads contended when the mat
ter came up in recent wage hearings
before tho board that the board had
power only to deal with wage questions
and that consequently It could not rule
on other differences.
' The board took tho plea of the em
ployes under advisement and an
nouncement that if .lt decided to go
Into the matter an early hearing would
bo held.
Appearing before the board with of
ficials of 15 other recognized railway
unions, Mr. Stone announced that, after
being classed "for 17 years as an ultra
consei ative, I have arrived at the
point where I am through making ex
cuses to the men."
"There must be some plan found
somewhere, some place, whereby we
can get results for these men," Mr.
Stone continued. "The locomotive en
gineers have carried the load of re
sponsibility, for years. We have tried
to embody your board' decision of
last July in agreements with 35S rail
roads, but only four of tnese agree
ments have been signed. The roads
refuse to sign until the board passes
on the question of rules."
With Mr. Stone appeared officials of
tho other employes' organizations, ask
ing that the board hold a hearing to
decide on tho creation of national
' boards of adjustment which would hear
and pass on controversies other than
wage disputes. The matter had been
pending for some time, due to the fact
that adjustment boards creted under
United States government control have
no Jurisdiction over disputes arising
since the roads passed to private con
trol.
The board agreed to an immediate
executive hearing on the request and
1f It decided to comply, an early hear
ing will he set.
A motion passed unanimously by
the executive committee of the 16 em
ployes' organizations, was read by E.
H. Fitzgerald of the Brotherhood of
Railway and Steamship Clerks, Ex
press and Station Employes. The mo
tion resolved to submit an ex-patre
statement of disputes with railroads
on the matter of creation of national
boards of adjustment and asked for
an Immediate hearing. Mr. Fitzgerald
told the board that the situation was
urgent.
W. R. Lee, president of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, explained
that the request concerned national
boards which could hear and pass on
controversies;.
"Action to change tho present situa
tion Is necessary' declared Mr. Lee.
''I do not refer to your Jurisdiction or
authority. I believe the majority of
controversies is not concerned with
your decision of last July and the oper
ating officers feel that they are not
bound by that decision.
"The chief executives of the men
have told them they must .adhere to
the railway act. that they must submit
er.v (ontroverav to the board before
taking a strike vote or interfering with
traffic. But if the operating officers
are not bound, there is nothing left to
do but go back to the old method. That
we do not want to do if we can
help it."
Speaking for the Brotherhood of
Railwny Conductors, L. E. Shepherd,
prerident, told the board that the re
quest concerned a board auxiliary to
the labor board, to which can be re
ferred questions not involving wages,
with a view to lightening and expedit
ing the present board's labor.
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Lithuanians Hold
Two Women Relief
: Workers in Kovna
Republican A. P. Leased WlreJ
WASHIMi i O.N, Nov. 21). Two
American relief workers in Poland
MIsb Martha Graczyk and Miss Mary
Wasilczk. were said to be held at Kov
no on suspicion of espionage, in ad
vices today to the state department.
They arc members of the Grey Ameri
can corps asHlened as inspectors of the
European child fund and were ar
rested In Vilna by Lithuanian authori
ties and taken to Kovno for investi-
Ths ' dispatches explained hat they
had gone to Vilna. to distribute food -
ptuffs shipped there for babies and
children. Their chauffeur a'so was ar
TTnon the request of the Br't-
ish legation at Warsaw, the British
commander at Kavno is expected to
make formal Inquiries regarding the
women and extend any aid he can.
Federal Reserve
Bank in Sterling,
Colorado, Closed
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
STERLING. Colo.. Nov. 29 Neither
Fresident James I. Burney nor Na
tional Bank Examiner Roy E. Smith
would make a statement tonight ex
plaining the closing today of the
Farmers' National Bank of Sterling, a
member of the federal reserve system.
Uhe closing of the bank followed a
conference of directors and officials
with Examiner Smith lasting from
Saturday night until this mornipg.
The bank had extensive loans among
farmers of this district.
The November 15 statement of the
bank, which was organized In June,
1909, showed deposits of $1,380,375.23
and loans and discounts of $1,49". 980.72.
According to tho statement, there was
due the federal reserve bank $239,030
and other banks $292,005.18.
Federal bank examiners recently
went over the books of the institution.
Directors of the local chamber of
commerce announced after a meeting
today that an investigation had
showed other financial institutions of
the city were on a sound basis.
Bank officials said they would make
statement pending the arrival of
the .chief national bank examiner.
Overloaning Responsible
KANSAS CITY. Nov. 29. An "over
loaned condition" was ostensibly re
sponsible for the failure of the Farm
ers National Bank of Sterling, Colo
to open its doors this morning, C. A.
Worthington, deputy governor for the
Tenth federal reserve district, said to
night. Mr. Worthington said he heard
of no ill effect resulting to any of the
surrounding banks as a consequence,
of the plight of the Farmers National.
Information concerning the closing
of the bank, he said, would have to
come from the comptroller of the cur
rency in Washington.
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DENOUNCES ALIEN
RADICALS IN U. S.
FIFTEEN RECRUITS BRUTALLY
MURDERED WHEN MOBS AMBUSH
MILITARY PATROL IN IRELAND
(Republican Associated Press Leased Wire)
MACROOM, Ireland, Nov. 29. Two lorry loads of recruits in training
for the black and tans auxiliary police were ambushed last night by from
80 to 100 men near Kilmichael and 15 of them were killed. The bodies were
brought here this evening.
Already reprisals have begun and reports from the village of Johnstown,
between Macroom and Dunmanway. state that scarcely a house there is
undamaged and that most of the shops in the district have been set afire.
The residents are fleeing from the place in terror.
Hero shops have been closed and all business Is suspended. Large
parties of auxiliaries bearing rifles and revolvers are patrolling the tor n
and the people are apprehensive that the auxiliaries will take vengeance.
Tho cadets, under District Inspector Crake, were patrolling in two lor
ries when they were ambushed.
The auxiliary cadets arc recruits in training for the "black and tan''
auxiliary police.
Greenwood Reports Murders
LONDON, Nov. 29. Dispatches relating to the killing of 15 auxiliary
police cadets near Kilmichael were read in the house of commons by Sir
Hamar Greenwood, chief secretary of Ireland, during the Irish debate today.
The party which ambushed the cadets had been disarmed and brutally
murdered; their bodies were rifled of all money and valuables and even
clothing was taken from the corpses. Arms and ammunition also were
taken and the lorries burned.
Tho secretary thought that, with 15 former officers of the late war
thus lying dead, the house would not wish to continue the discussion. He
termed the affair a challenge' to parliament and civilization.
The subject then was dropped.
Auditor Testifies Ten Per lent
Ot Seven Million Dollar Repair
Bill of Shipping Board W
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INITIATES SUIT FOR
SUM SAID DUE UNDER
TRANSPORTATION ACT
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29. Radi
calism in labor circles, unrestricted
Immigration and the movement in this
country for support of Irish indepen
dence were denounced today by Bishop
Adna Wright Leonard of San Fran
cisco in an address before a meeting
of Methodist ministers.
Immigration, he said, should be re
stricted to those who were calculated
to uphold our constitution.
"While the United States has always
taken a liberal attitude toward the man
who desired to come to" this country
to make common cause with the people
and advance the interests of the na
tlon," he declared, "it was never in
tended as a refuge for people with
ideas destructive of the people of
Americanism.'
Speaking of bolshevlsra. he said It
was now threatening organized labor,
"I am the friend of the laboring men
and believe that wages are superior in
their claim to interest and profit," he
said. "But there Is no denying the
fact that friends of labor are being
alienated in large numbers by the at
titude that has been taken during the
last two or three years, and more re
cently in support of certain radical
movements that are not other than
bolshevistic. I have had in different
states In this nation prominent local
leaders in the labor groups tell me that
radicalism within their own organiza
tion Is becoming a great menace to the
Interests of working men."
Bishop Leonard characterized the
movement in this country in support
of Irish indfoendence as un-American
and aimed at the destruction of the
friendship between America and Great
Britain.
"But." he added, 'whatever have been
the mistakes of England In the past
and whatever be her attitude now on
this question that is internal and dem
ocratic, the friendship of those two
Anglo-Saxon nations must abide for
ever in order to safeguard human free
dom and to protect the Christian civi
lization of the world."
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German President
Wires Recognition
to Huerta Regime
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Nov, 29.
Germany has officially recognized the
De la Huerta government of Mexico,
according to a dispatch printed today
in La Prenza, a Spanish language
newspaper published here. The an
nouncement came in a cablegram from
President Ebert to Dr. Cuthbcrto Hi
dalgo, secretary of foreign affairs of
Mexico, according to the report. The
German minister to Mexico has been
instructed to attend the inauguration
of General Obregon tomorrow night,
the dispatch says.
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Reclamation Body
. Will Hold Special
Meeting on Dec. 10
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
SALT LAKE CITY. Nov. 29. A
special meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Western States Reclama
tion association has been called to
meet in Salt Lake City, December 10,
it was announced here today by for
mer Governor William Spry. The call
was issued by Governor D. W. Davis,
of Idaho, president of the committee.
Discussion of and deliberation upon
concrete action to be placed before
congress on the matter of reclamation
is the business to be taken up by the
committee. Thirteen reclamation spe
clallsts. one from each western state
comprise the committee. According to
Mr. Spry there is to be a concerted
effort to have passed one of the re
clamatlon measures now before con
gress and concentration, it is said, is
to be made upon the Smith-Fletcher
bill, which is understood to meet with
approval ot all sections, inasmuch as
it provides for reclamation of western
arid lands, eastern abandoned farms,
southern swamp lands and northwest
cut-over lands.
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Italian Attack on
D'Annunzio Lines
Appears Imminent
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Osteopath Serving
Life Sentence May
Be Granted Parole
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
BOSTON. Nov. 29. The board of
parole today recommended the release
on parole of Dr. Eldridge D. Atwood,
an osteopathist who is serving a life
sentence for killing Dr. Wilfred Har
ris, president of the Massachusetts
College of Osteopathy.
Dr. Atwood was engaged to marry
Dr. Celia P. Adams, also an oste
opathist, who committed suicide. At
his trial evidence was given that she
had admitted to him improper rela
tions with Dr. Harris.
Upon learning of her death, Atwood
went to Harris' apartment and shot
him five times. The parole is recom
mended on the eround that the court
ship of Dr. Adams and Atwood had
been "exceptionally idealistic" and
that Atwood killed Harris in a fit of
remorseless brooding."
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One Democratic
Representative;
53 Republicans
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
CHh-Yl-.NNb. Wyo.. ,ov. 2i). Only
one Democratic candidate for the leg
isalture in Wyoming was elected on
Nov. 2, a canvass of the vote disclsed
today. He was Thurman W. Arnold,
an attorney of Laramie. Arnold will
make up the sole Democratic represen
tation in the house of representatives.
Then are three. Democratic hold
overs in the senate.
Not sinco territorial day.- has the j
Democratic representation in thei
house been so small. The new house)
will be made up of 53 Republicans audi
one Democrat. The senate of 22 V.r-'
publicans ar.d three Democrats. ;
The law in this state does nor pro-
jie that each party sha.il ! repre
ss ntd oil all committees. Therefore
Mr. Anrold s task will not ho so great.
However, he probably will be the
i busiest member cf the house.
LONDON, Nov. 29. A dispatch to
tho London Times from Milan quotes
the newspaper Secolo as saying that a
movement of Italian troops Is reported
all along the armistice line in the
Adriatic zone, and it is rumored that
General Caviglia has been ordered by
the Italian government to take the isl
ands of Veglia and Arbe, which were
seiezd by Gabriele d'Annunzio's legion
naircs, and also to occupy the strip of
territory near Castua Invaded by
D'Annunzio soon after the signing ol
the Rapallo treaty.
D'Annunzio, according to the dis
patch, has issued a manifesto in
which he says a conflict is imminent
and that he and his men are ready to
fight and to die rather than submit to
tho Italian forces. The dispatch adds
that all males in Fiume from 18 to 52
vears have been reca'ted to the colors.
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
WASHINGTON. Nov. 29. Man
damus proceedings against the secre
tary of the treasury were instituted
today in the. District of Columbia su
preme court by the Grand Trunk
Western Railway company to require
payment of an interstate commerce
commission certificate calling for
$500,000 as 'due the road under the
guaranty provision of the Transporta
lion act. justice Mccoy Issued an
order returnable December 7. request
ing Secretary Houston to show cause
why the writ should not be granted
While the Grand Trunk company is
the only petitioner in the case, ap
proximately $400,000,000 claimed by
tne railroads is involved In the litlga
tion, according to a statement issued
tonight by the Association of Railway
Executives.
"This proceeding grew out of the
opinion rendered October 30 by the
comptroller of the treasury," the state
ment said, "based upon certain cer
tificates presented by the interstate
comnierce commission to the treasury
department in favor of the Grand
Trunk Western Railway company and
the Detroit, Grand Haven and Mil
waukee road, in which opinion the
comptroller of the treasury held that
partial payments could not be made
by the secretary of the treasury to a
carrier m advance of final settle
ment,. .........
"The comptroller held that the In
terstate commerce commission was
empowered to issue only one certifi
cate to each carrier, which certificate
must be for the full amount of the
final settlement. While in this pro
ceeding the Grand Trunk Railway
company is the only petitioner, yet tho
result of the decision rendered in this
case wil involve the payment of ap
proximately $400,000,000 now due to
railroads of this country under the
guaranty provisions of the transporta
tion act.
"This proceeding is a test case de
signed and necessary to settle what
the law Is In respect to that authority
and obligation of the treasury depart
ment to make partial payments under
the guaranty when amounts are cer
tified by the interstate commerce
commission as certainly and in all
event due, without waiting, before
making any payment for the result of
final accounting which cannot be ac
complished for a very considerable
time."
Secretary Houston said today that
no course was left the treasury but to
follow the dicision of the comptroller
unless a contrary decision should be
rendered by the courts. The comp
troller's rulings, he said, are binding
on the treasury and at present there
is no alternative."
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Mandate Mission
Members Will be
Chosen on Merit
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
GENEVA, Nov. 29 Removel of the
mandates' commission as far as pos
sible from governmental influence was
the task undertaken by the council of
the league of nations today. It was de
cided that all members of this com
mission shall be appointed by the coun
cil on personal merits and competency
and that they shall not occupy any po
sition involving dependency upon their
government.
The mandates question occupied al
most the entire session and necessarily
postponed the election of a successor
to Sir Reginald Tower as high com
missioner at Danzig. M. Viviano rep
resented France instead of B. Baur-
geoise, who was obliged to make a trip
to Paris, and Signor Tittoni also was
replaced, as his return to Rome for a
few days was imperative.
The French government will be in
vited to arrange for the transportation
and sustenance of the military expe
dition to Vilna,
The mandate -commission will in
clude one member named by the inter
national organization who will attend
all the meetings In an advisory ca
pacity only when questions of interest
to labor are discussed. Mandatories
will be required to submit annual re
ports through duly authorized repre
sentatives setting forth the situation in
territory under their jurisdiction. The
reports will be examined by the man
dates commission which will decide
what points therein shall be called to
the attention of the council. The man
dates commission will sit in Geneva.
The sub-committee on blockades to
day passed a resolution proposed by
Lord Robert Cecil delegate for South
Africa, that the council be asked to
name an international commission on
blockades whose duty it shall be to re
port to the assembly the measures it
finds necessary to put an economic
blockade into effect. This is regarded
as quite likely to put off a definite so
lution of the blockade question until
the next meeting of the assembly.
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WALSH INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE
HEARS MORE EVIDENCE OF RECKLESS
WASTE OF TAXPAYERS' MONEY; BOL
LING ON STAND TODAY.
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LEGION
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No Rate War For
Pacific Shipping
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
SEATTLE, Nov. 29. Representa
tives of every shipping concern on the
Pacific coast at a meeting here today
of the San Francisco and Pucc-t Sound
branches of the Pacific westbound
conference, adjusted their differences
on rates, it was announced, and dis
posed of the possibility of a rate war
developing out of alleged rate cutting
by shipping concerns outside the con-
l Orence.
Dublin Youth Held
In Connection With
Liverpool Outrage
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 29 A young man
who declined to give his name but who
said he was a Sinn Feiner and a native
of Dublin, was arraigned in police
court today on a charge of murder in
conection with the cotton warehouse
fires Saturday night.
The police stated that the prisoner
and two other men were discovered
near the scene of one of the fires act
ing in a suspicious manner. The three
men tried to escape when police accost
ed them, and the man under arrest is
accused of having fired at the officers
His bullet killed a civilian.
It is charged by the police that the
man under arrest had in his possession
plans of the premises In which fires
occurred. He was remanded to prison
for one week.
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Uruguay Sending
Special Envoy to
Mexican Capital
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. The Mex
ican embassy announced today that
President Brum or Uruguay had in
formed the Mexican government of
Uruguay's intention to send Dr. Pedro
Erasmo Callorda to Mexico City as en
voy extraordinary and minister pleni
potentiary on a special mission. The
purpose of Dr. Callorda's visit was said
by the embassy to be the strengthen
ing of "the bonds of ran-A- erican
solidarity" and to express to President
elect Obregon wishes "for the pros
perity and welfare of his government."
The embassy also announced that
Germany had resumed relations with
Mexico.
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
SANTA FE, N. M-, Nov. 29. Reso
lution demanding that Acting Governor
B. F. Pankey call an extraordinary
session of the state legislature and
that impeachment charges be pre
ferred against Governor O. A. Lar
razolo for his action in pardoning the
16 Villlstas from the state penitentiary
was received here today from the
Portales, N. M American Legion pos;
The resolution reads:
"Resolved, further, that in our judg
ment. Governor O. A. Larrazolo, having
left tho United States, the lieutenant
governor is clothed with all the powers
vested in a governor, and that he has
full authority to call an extraordinary
session of the legislature of this state,
and we ask that he do so at once and
that impeachment charges be preferred
against Governor Larrazolo for the
arbitrary misuse of his pardoning
powers and that the extraordinary
session pass such laws as will forever
bar a governor of this state from
perpetrating a similar act."
Governor Larrazolo is en route to
Mexico City to attend the inaugura
tion of President-elect Obregon.
The Villistas are serving sentences
for murder committed in connection
with Villa's raid on Columbus, N. M.,
March 9, 1916. They were to have been
released as soon as papers could 'be
prepared to deport them to Mexico,
but court action to prevent their re
lease halted proceedings until Decem
ber 4, when the case will be heard.
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Republican A. P. Leased Wire
BUZZARDS BAY, Mass., Nov. 29.
Charles Garland, tho young man who
has renounced his rignt to a million
dollar legacy left him by his father,
James A. Garland, who was a- wealthy
clubman and yachtsman of Boston, to
day made, a formal statement of his
reasons for rejecting the money. His
statement, he said, was duo to the fact
that the many reports of his failure
to accept the legacy had failed properly
tc present his position.
"I refuse to accept the money be
cause it is not mine," Garland said.
"A system which starves thousands
while hundreds are stuffed condemns
itself, A system which leaves a eick
woman helpless and offers its service
to a healthy man, condemns Itself. It
is such a system that offers me a mil
lion dollars.
'It is blind to the simplest truth
the money. It is the man who gives
food to the hungry who does good, not
the dollars given in exchange for the
food. I would be happy to be the man
if I had the food to give but I cannot
lend myself to handling the money
that is not mine even though the good
that might bo done is possibly great.''
Many people have written to tell
him what could be done with the
money, he said. "They seem almost
possessed to point out the power thai
I have in my hands but it is the most
pitiful thing they could point to. You
cannot serve God and Mammon! So
many people are ready to serve the
dollar, means so many less to serve
God. The.'-e are great opportunities
to do good but they are in men's
hearts, not in my cheek book. A
preacher in the name of Christ said
that this million bhould have been
turned to frood. He thinks that God's
tually, he said, but a year at Harvard
RAISIN COMPANY
IS EXEMPT FROM
ANTI-TRUST LAI
IN FEDERAL SUIT
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29 The suit
brought by the United States govern
ment against the California Associated
Raisin company under the Sherman
anti-trust act "will not lie under the
authority conferred" by that law. ac
cording to a letter written by Judge
B. F. Bledsoe of the United States Dis
trict court to the United States attor
ney, J. Robert O'Conner, made public
by the judge today. The judge, who
had under consideration a motion of
the defendants to dismiss the action,
suggested the government might amend
the complaint In making public the
letter the judge said he had been in
formed "that the United States will
take advantage of the opportunity ac
corded to it.
The letter, dated Nov. 24, opened with
the statement:
"In the matter of the suit of the
United States government against the
California Associated Raisin company
and others, my conclusion is that the
case sought to be prosecuted by the
government against the defendants
possesses sufficient basis in fact, per
haps, but within the rules of pleading
which I feel constrained to follow, is
not adequately pleaded in the bill here."
After referring to decisions quoted in
Rrgument, the judge said he was "im
pressed with the thought that what
ever else may have been done by these
defendants in the matter of securing
a monopoly of the manufacture of
raisins "in California, unless the dofend-
Republlcan A. P. Leased Wire
NEW YORK, Nov. 29. Testimony
that 10 per cent of the $7,000,000 ship
ping board repair bills in the South
Atlantic district was "graft" was given
here today to the Walsh congressional
committee examining into shipping;
board affairs. The allegation was
made by Charles Banzahf, a traveling
auditor of the board out of New York.
It was contained in a letter written
by the witness to the general comp
troller of the board last July, read to.
day by Chairman Walsh and identi
fied by the witness.
Means by which the. alleged '"graft"
was made possible, the witness testi
fied, included lack of inspection, fail
ure to check repair work, overcharges
for materials and labor and unneces
sary repairs. He cited an instance of
a repair engineer who, he said, had sat
in a pilot house and approved repair
tills amounting to "thousands of dol
lars" without ever looking at the work.
He declared inspectors had beea told
that "costs" were none of their busi
ness and that there was a spirit of
make, rather than cut down, repair
work.
German Ships Costly
Two of the former German ships
were brought into the inquiry for the
first time by Banzahf. He asserted he
had been instructed to check up bills
for the re-conditioning of the former
German liner Hamburg, now the New
Rochelle. This ship was sold on a
charter purchase contract to the Bal
tic Steamship corporation. The sale
price, he understood, was approxi
mately $985,000 and the shipping board
had advanced for the re-conditioning
of the ship about $400,000. The bill of
npairs for this ship, he added, was
about $1,500,000, which an audit of ac
counts reduced approximately $337,000,
The discrepancy between the. sale prica
of the ship and tho cost of re-con-dltioning.
he said he could not explain
without the contract of sale, which he
did not have with him.
Te contract for the re-conditioning.
he said, was awarded to the Morgan
Engineering company of Jersey City.
He also testified the steamer Mercury,
formerly the Barboes, was taken to the
same yard for re-conditioning, but
after $175,000 had been expended work
was stopped because of lack of funds.
Charoe Labor Not Employed
Up to six or seven' months ago. he
continued, repair work in New York
yards, generally speaking, showed
many Irregularities including charging
of hundreds of hours that were not
rendered, excesses of class labor and
excesses in materials.
Wooden ship construction promul
gated by the Emergency Fleet corpora
tion in the early days of its organiza
tion were gone into by Eads Johnson,
who was district officer of the fleet.
Johnson generally condemned the
wooden ship idea and said he resigned
because he could not conform to it.
In describing an experience with a
southern contractor who wanted to
build such ships, Johnson said tho idea
seemed to be "build one million wooden
ships that would take one million Ger
man torpedoes to sink."
Sales of surplus material now aver
aging about $1,000,000 monthly. G. D.
Watt, manager of the eastern division
of the sales and warehouse stion.
testified. The payroll of the division is
about $200,000 a year.
Watt said that if the present ratio
of sales continued, it would require
about 80 months to close out the prop
erty. It was said by members of the com
mittee that R. W. Boiling, Lester Sis
ler, former secretary, and Alonzo
Tweedale, now general comptroller of
the shipping board, would appear be
fore the committee tomorrow. Mr.
Polling is expected to make a formal
statement.
o
college which he left to get married! ants ny themselves, or through their
known to every child, the truth that l work is paid m dollars. jOU s work
the hungry should be fed and the will never be done until men see that
naked clothed. 1 have had to choose I this theory is untrue."
between the loss of private property i Mr. Garland's statement was made
and the law which is written in every j from his home here, a former inn of
human heart. T choose the one which
I believe to be true.''
Garland, who has stated that he re
nounced his claim to the million dol
lars because he thought Christ would
have done the same, continued:
stage coach days. The young man,
v.-ho is 22 years of age, is living at the
house with his wife and infant daugh
ter as the guest of his mother, Mrs.
Marie Tudor Green, who supplies them
with a maid and keeps their larder
I believe I could do no good with i full. U plana to o to won, even-
and preparatory schooling in this
country and in England fitted him for
no work ready at hand and he said
he thought it would be spring before
he found '-r wife joined
with him in his renunciation of n
million. i.6 a. though not
holding the same views, has told him
to do what he thought right.
In another house on tho estate lives
James A. Garland, III, a brother of
Charles Garland, who has accepted his
share ol his father's estate, made
larger by the fact that the mother of
the boys abandoned her rights in order
to marry Francis C. Greene after the
death of her first husband. At Hai
vard college is Hamilton Garland, a
third son, who lacks several months
of reaching his majority. His brother
Charles said today that he understood
Hamilton also was considering refusal
to take his share when he became of
age. Their ideas on the subject were
somewhat similar, he said, although the
influences of education and environ
ment were not identical.
Garland indicated that his refusal to
take the money was not based on any
question attached to the origin of the
Garland fortune, saying lie did not
know from what source it was de
rived, but ho believed it cyme iluun
i from his grandfather.
Philadelphia Man
Admits Presence
At Pierce Murder
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
PIT! tiiiu KG, Nov. 29 Jack Moss
of Philadelphia was arrested tonight
and according to the police, is bein?
held in conection with the killing of
Henry T. Pierce, in his apartment at
Philadelphia two weeks aeo. Clyde S.
Edeburn, captain of detectives an
nounced that Moss had told h'm he
was present when Tierce was killed,
but that the prison-.- ojj ne had no
actual part in the killing.
Moss was arrested in a hotel here
'ate today. According to Captain Ede
burn, he told a story similar to that
recited by Marie Fh.Uip.s arid Peter D.
Tread way who werj ar'i-'ed in Wheel
ing, W. Va, last week i:i connection
for the Pierce kiV.irg.
Moss told the police. Edeburn said
hat he was one of the f;ur persons
who made the trip from Philadelphia
to Wheeling in Pierce's a"tonobiie.
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American OU Note
Will Be Presented
to Commons at Once
chosen emissaries, are actually engaged
in interstate commerce, that this pro
ceeding will not lie under the authority
conferred b- t.'ie Sherman ar.ti-trust
law."
Belief was further expressed that
"overt acts" rather than "mere intent"
constitutes the "offense cognizable by
law" and that "the creation of a mo
nopoly bv some of the indefensible
methods asserted, following by fixing!
of arbitrary and unconscionable prices j
of the product, in interstate commerce,)
would justify and request the inter- j
vention of this court by injunction or;
otherwise." i
Th Infl.wa further .leelnrort h. be- ; ment ill the house
lieved that the "firm at opening price" j promised to present to parliament wnn
device, if made use of in interstate i the least poss::.e delay the Anieri
commeree bv possessing a monopoly can government s recent r.otc- concern
would constitute such a menace "as to j ins oil and me Bnu.-h government s
justify the intervention of this court.'" .reply to i'
Ttie thinex to which the ind'. .'id-
he said, j
1 herein
Mills Again Running
verted as heing oDjecuonabie,
in his judgment, "are not alleg
! in such a way as to entitle this court
j now to hold that the bill of complaint
I Js not susceptible to the criticis; : ad-
duced against it."
I in conclusion, the letter stated that
'if the government deemed it in.-id-I
isable to offer an amended ooiT.pl-rir t
j the court would proceed to uraiit ti '
i defendant's mo: ;-n d:M ,;- ..! ;
an opinion.
Republican A. P. LtastiWIre
LONDON N-v 2? The cover?..
or" commons today
15 Carolina Cotton
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
CASTnMA, N. , Nov. 20 After
s- . edi:;c idle fir two v-'-ks, cotto:
r; including the L. -.,-. Castor.!,.'
. . .. ! null, and the .r:nsi rorig char
. ;" 14 factories. !-.-. :n-,. .j operations to
'orl. i"g tima.