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a Today WEATHER: Unsettled tonight and tomorrows local nhorrerm and thnnderstorots prob able tomorrow. Not much change In temperature. Temperature at S o'clock thin morning. 74j aver age for pant 30 year, 78. FINAL. EDITION on tone; 3 Cents High Wages, Prosperity. Censoring Prayer. For Sale, One City. The World's Explosions. NUMBER 11,266. Publlahed every evening Unciuairte SuncUjr) Entered . econd-cltst matter at tb postoMce at YTsihlnstoa, D. C WASHINGTON, SUNDAY EVENING, . AUGUST 24, 1919. PRICE THREE GEM'S. I By 1BTHUR BRISBANE. I (CopTrtEhU Hit.) Millions of shares of stock, many millions in bonds were sold In the week just ended. Prices bobbed up and down, chiefly down, as gamblers bought or sold eight shares where investors bought two shares. Always when prices fell, the gamblers and financial writers ex plained that the trouble was "labor and its increasing demands." A few years hence, after some real shaking down, when every thing booms, those who now tell you that labor's demands are ruin ous; will be saying wisely, "great prosperity due to prevailing high wages." The cunning big man al ways gets his part of the money distributed to the litttle man. The little man must get it before the big man can take it from him. The more the little man gets and spends, the more the cunning man puts away. Religion being important on Sunday (it should be so always), here are two religious items that reflect the modern religious mind: Judge Bacon, of Massachusetts, decides that you may play golf on Sunday without breaking any law, if you don't keep score. You may yea ".Fore" until you scare the birds, dig up the sand with your niblick, and even curse demurely in a low voice for your own relief. But if you keep score, that's a game and you break the Sabbath. The other religious item comes from Washington. Dr. Couden, the blind chaplain of the House, has been warned by the Speaker of the House to keep politics out of his prayers. Dr. Couden prayed for the League of Nations. Speaker Gll lett. Republican, told him to "Let up" and let Congress and Mr. Wil son fight it out Dr. Couden's voice trembles when he tells reporters: "I have been chaplain of the House twenty four years and never before told that I put politics In my prayers." Some of the Congressmen are taking seriously thi3 censoring of prayer. Others need not do so, for, of course, Omnipotence knows what is going on and has its opinions of the League of Nations, with or without information from Dr. Couden. We no longer pray as the inno cent minded clergyman prayed at Batavla; N. Y., beginning: "Oh Lord, as -TaJfist doubtless sbim by the morning papersii'c Having stopped using theflying machine. ii regular war, we are finding jtitseful In other ways. It Is helping American soldiers to find bandits in Mexican mountains. And up in Labrador, "timber cruisers" In flying machines are mapping out timber lands that will supply millions of tons of pulp wood for white paper. The Government has for sale in West Virginia an entire city called Nitro. It cost seventy, millions, has houses for twenty thousand people, factories, theaters, water works, sewers, all complete, with hospitals, school houses, and street car system. How much do you think Uncle gam will get for this seventy-milllon-dollar city? What a blessing if Government would allow individuals to buy the fifteen hundred portable houses, in cluded in the sale. Have you heard what happened when the ' Government sold a similar smaller piece of property? The facts given to this writer by an army officer are enlightening. A neighboring town wanted the little city as a suburb, and offered fifty thousand dollars to be paid in installments. The Government could not take payment in that way. So it sold the miniature city to a speculator for one dollar, all "sh. and he. probably, sold it to the neighboring town on the in biallment basis. There will be some interesting stories told when Government finishes selling to wise buyers the stuff that cost tax payers and bond investors thou sands of millions. A reverend doctor in London says, "The nerves of the world are on strike." That, he thinks, is the great trouble. It would be more accurate to say that complications now dis turbing conservatism are such as always follow great wars. War is & curse because it kills and makes men brutal. It is a blessing be cause it pulls men out of the rut. When the Czar of Russia sent his troops to France, where they were cheered and had a chance to study; democracy, it was pointed out in this column that trouble for the Czar would follow the re turn of those men from France. When you pull men out of their rut, they begin to think, and when they begin to think, look out; they are not so easy to manage. This country, before the war, had settled down into a nice little rut. Two dollars a day was plenty for the little man, a thou sand millions was none too much for the big man. Everything was for the best In the best possible world, as long as a few had plenty, and too much. But thirteen mtllou men were listed and cross-examined and made to think. Five or six mil lions were taken from their home3 and moved somewhere el6e. Twd .(Contlaued 'on Pace 3, Column 5.) WASHINGTON WRECKED YANKS SWEEP SOUTH HOT ON EL Pi.SO. Tex., Aug. 24. The sec ond punitive expedition of the United States army into Mexico within a week was in full action today pur suing horse thieves who raided ranches and stole stock near Fort Hancock, Tex., yeserday. Orders from Gen. James B. Erwin, commanding the El Paso military district, were for the field command ers to recover the stock, punish the bandits, and return to American ter ritory. CoL Fanclsco W. Glover went to Fabans, Tex., yesterday and will direct the operations. Trail Is Hoi The information given at military headquarters was thai this "hot trail" had no connection with the punitive expedition Into the Biff Bend country under command of Colonel Langhorne. General Erwin gave out the follow ing statement: "I was informed by Major Ron, Seventh Cavalry, commanding the border patrol in the El Paso-Fort Hancock sector, by telephone that armed Mexicans had stolen and driv en across the border Friday after noon stock belonging to ranchers near Fort Hancock; that he. had in vestigated the matter, had found conditions as stated and had affida vits from reliable citizens that the facts were as represented. "I ordered him if absolutely cer tain that the stock had been stolen and driven across the border by Mex- (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) Keeping Up With The Times A ACT A DAY Don't miss the news in the classified advertising columns of The Times. There's an interesting cross section view of life in Washington every day. For instance, a somewhat careless glance at ' yester day's paper reveals these things, among others: An army officer lost his trousers from his. automo bile spare ones, of course. Help .wanted advertis ments are still numerous an average of 100 positions offered each day. The number of people who want evening work is no ticeable piecing out income to meet the cost of living. Prices of rooms to rent seem to be tending down ward. Odd things are offered for sale at second-hand opera chairs, evening dresses. Horses can be bought Few people think of horses these days. Baby carriages are pretty con stant offerings, tokens of families growing up. Houses can be had at all prices and in all locations. Clairvoyants offer to tell the future and your for tune. And automobiles all makes, waiting to take some one out on these hot even ings. I HE OF NEW BANDIT GANG British Troops Revolt; Fearing Use in Russia, Refuse joBoard Ship LONDON, Aug. 24. Thfee hundred soldiers of a draft of 1,200 men who had been home from France on leave re fused to embark at Southampton for France and broke out of camp, according to a copyrighted dispatch to the Phila delphia Public Ledger. The j Warwicks, Berkshires, and Grloucesters, and they allege that it is intended when they get for Eussia. Claim Violation of Pledge. Some of the Warwicks allege that they had been told inFrance that they were destined for service In the Black sea theater of war, and as they had not volunteered for this, they contended that any order for them to go to Russia would be a violation of of the war minister's pledge in Par liament. The refusal of the troops to embark Ic the sensation of the day here. It Is pointed out that it is now practically Impossible to get anybody but volun teers ta&ght against the Bolshevists. V Qnestton Arise. The -question naturally asked Is what would be the attitude of the troops if called upon to suppress In ternal troubles, such as an uprising In Ireland. The mutinous troops at Southamp ton should have paraded before pro ceeding to theiiock. but at that "time they were lying about on the grass JILTED, GIRL SUES FOR $100.000 BALM Arrested, Says It Doesn't Matter What She Did With His Presents. BALTIMORE. Aug. 24. An after math of the differences of Henry M. Daingerneld an.l Miss Helen M. Pow ell, after Mies Powell's release on bail on a charge of destroying cloth ing belonging to Mr. Daingerneld, came yef terday in the filing of a suit for $100,i'00 damages in city court. Miss Powel declared her suit was for breach of lTomlse to marry. Miss Powell had faced Justice Daw kins, in Northern police court, on Fri day. She was charged with the mali cious destruction of wearlr . apparel left by Mr. Daingerneld in her apart ment, and was released on $200 ball after demanding that the case be sent to court. She made no statement be fore the justice, but was not reticent yesterday after the suit for damages had been tiled. She was asked If It were true that she had destroyed Mr. Daingerfleld's property. "I will not say now whether I oid. ' was her reply, '"but. if I did it was nothing to what should be done to a follow who tells a girl that she 1j to be his wife and then deserts J her without cause." i Miss Powell, who is an attractive ! blond, adjusted her hat at a new an- I gie and in doing so attracted atten- j Hon to a platinum ring on the third ' finger of her left hand. I "That's the wedding ring he bought for me," she said. "And it is not the I only present Mr. Dalngerfield gave me." she declared. A gold meshbag, and a string of beads had been given her. she said, and he was negotiating for a . large diamond ring, which he to give her as an engagement was ring. YANKS FOR SILESIA TO BE ASKED OF U. S. PARIS. Aug. 'M. The American commission investigating the situa tion in Silesia, it was learned here to day. will request the Government at Washington for authority to send American troops to Silesia, as It Is re garded here as certain that the Ger mans will agree to allied occupation of the territory immediately. SIX-HOUn MIKE DAY UROBD. BERLIN. Aug. 24. International agreeemnt to establish a six-hour working day in all coal regions of the world will be urged by Germany If the repor by the commission investi gating conditions In the Ruhr coal fields Is adopted. This commission Is working on a plan to Institute a six hour Vork day in all Germany by February 1, 1020. i men belong principally to the U back to France to fit them out In the public parks. They were very orderly and gave no trouble to the civil authorities. The mayor of Southampton last night saw the men and offered to state their case to the war office and stand by them if it was found that their grievance was legitimate. He also offered to place the guild hall at their disposal and to listen to their statement, but the men declined his Offer and remained in the park.v Although the soldiers had prepared to spend the night in yie park, they marched back to the rest camp and are under armed escort. The rest of the draffs, amounting to a consider able sUmbirniaB(Jw.lle -last. night. The' Government: It fit nnrUitnnf VIH deal firmly witk the matter? Com plaints or lack or discipline In the conscript army have been frequent lately, and it is thought that there are agent at work, to influence the minds of the men against fighting- tne .uoisnevists. ARMMOOD CUTS N. Y. LIVING COST Surplus Sales and Fair Price List Helps Reduce High Profits. NEW YORK, Aug. 24. The back of the high cost of living here has been broken, or at least badly bent, by the sale of army foodstuffs and the fixing or rair prices in retail stores by Food Administrator Arthur Williams. Next week, eh announced today, an effort will be made to have the butch ers fix a reasonable price on various cuts of meats, and it Is also probable en effort will be made to establish prices on fish. United States District Attorney Ben" A. Mathews, has concluded his inves tigation of stores of food discovered throughout the city by firemen on in spection tours, and In cases where he has found the food to be illegally hoarded with intent to obtain exor bitant profits he will present the facts to the United States district court with a request that the stuff be inrown upon tne open market. In the past three days more than $150,000 worth of food has been sold directly to housewives from the army supplies. BOMBS FOUND AFTER YEAR IN POSTOFHCE ,. CHICAGO. Aug. 2-1! Government employes in the "dead letter" division of the Chicago postoffce congratulated themselves today. An infernal ma chine, lying in the office for nearly a year, was discovered by a clerk. Neatly wrapped In a small box it was complete with an alarm clock, sulphuric acid, a mysterious sub stance not yet analyzed, and a small blotter. The postmark showed if .. mailed from Albany. N. V.. jn Novem ber. 1018. Upon a small slip oLpaper inside the package was wrlttffiNjust wet this blotter with acid and g(t rid of it quick. Send it to Jake and get your pay." LEAGUE OF SMALL NATIONS PROPOSED GENEVA. Aug. 24.Cermany is the prime mover In a plan to found a league of small nations, according to Information reaching the Journal de Geneve from its Munich corre spondent. The Germans hope to persuade Rus sia. Austria, and Hungary to join the league, and later Italy and Japan. DEAD. GUI ONLY HOPE OF U. S. N PACIFIC. NAW BELIEF The proper and necessary answer to the taking and development of the Caroline Islands by Japan is to proceed immediately with a modern fortification of the American Island of Guam, according to prominent navy officers It became known today that the most prominent navy officers are of the opinion that the fortification of Guam should have been commenced soon after the United States' fleet Went around the world during the Roosevelt administration. The subject has been discussed at length by the General Navy Board,t.and the latest developments make it, a. subject of prime importance at this time. Shantung Actios Important. Foremost among the developments is the fact that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has recommend ed that German rights in the Shan tung Peninsula be restored to China and not given to Japan. What the navy officers have in mind is that the United States should, do at Guam what it did at Manila; fortify it to the limit and make it a base not only for commerce, but for as many warships and as of great tonnage as the necessities of any case, might warrant. Without such a base' In the Pacific, between the United States and the Philippines, Japan would have control by reason of her occupation of the Caroline Islands, it is pointed out. HUNGARY RIFE WITH POGROMS AND FAMINE VIENNA. Aug. 24. Conditions of extreme unrest prevail throughout) Hungary today. Pogroms have reached jrtarming numbers. Port of j ment is being sought for Mrs. Fran the population Is suffering from lack t ces Scovllle de Mumm, noted beauty. of food and political intrigue is at its height The Romanians, who first inspired the pogrrom agitation, have not is sued a proclamation opposing It. American representatives have as certained that the Rumanians are seizing cattle at lnflnltelmal prices and reselling the stock at a tre mendous profit. Advices received here state that many families in Budapest have heen without meat for weeks. Hungarian workmen, discouraged by the state of affairs, are leaving the trades unions, and organizing on a nationalist basis. BATHINGWIDOW,ALL IN BLACK, STIRS ATLANTIC CITY ATLANTIC CITY, Aog. 24. The "bathing widow" Is the latest, and CTen the lilasc bench habitues Have shown n new Intrrent. Two handsome blondes n day or two ago Invaded the beaeh throngs garbed in mourning costumes cut, of conrnr. In bathing unit style. The errpe veils were of Jet black and pinned back from the sides of snug little bathing esps, and per mitted to flont backward to the wearers waistlines. A narrow edging of white was visible nroand the bottom of the caps In front. The rent of the at tire was of black, with black silk hose. Knger ryrn wntched to see what effect the waves would have upon the outfit, hut the mourning maids were too wise to venture nearer than ten feet from the tiniest wavelet. EXCUR What They'll Investigate Herewith Is Presented For the First Time the Complete Plans For the Survey By Congress of Conditions In Washington An old-time municipal house-cleaning, such as the Dis trict 'of Columhia has not known since the birth of the organic act in 1878, will begin within the next fer days under the auspices of the House District of Columbia Com mittee. Chairman Carl E. Mapes, of the House District Commit tee, and Congressman Ben Johnson of Kentucky, ranking minority nlember of the committee, will go "before the House Bales Committee tomorrow and ask that an immediate re port be made on the Mapes resolution, giving the commit tee or any of its subcommittees carte blanche in a cellar-to-garret investigation of District affairs. A subcommittee of five, with Congressman Norman J. Gould of New York as chairman, has been named to corn duct the investigation. - Sbme pf tne most important phases of (the investigation and the order in whigh they will be made follows: JHOfffr-Imortant Phast 1 Salaries of the sneers and en of tie Police Department. The entire Hosts District Con mitten has nlrradr fc-oae ea record as favoring as Increase Im sal aries of all mesaoers of the de partment. 5 The City Policemen's TJnloa. The action of the District Coa zalssloners fa opposing1 any aalem that Is affiliated with any na tional labor organisation will bo donbt be upheld by the Congres sional committee. 3 Salary Increases for mem bers 6t the Fire Department. Pay la the Fire Department Is less thpn that In the Police Depart ment. The subcommittee Is go ing to lnqnire Into the entases I U.S. AID IS ASKED IN MUMM DIVORCE Beauty Starts Fight to Share in Millions of Her Ger man Husband. Aid of the United States Govern. formerly of Kansas, in her ngm ior a divorce and a share in the millions of Walter de Mumm. her German hus band, from whom she was separated soon after the war began. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas today Is preparing to call for an early vote on his special resolution to re store the American citizenship of Mrs. de Mumm, who became a German sub ject when she was married in London In 1913. Mrs. de Mumm, in Paris, Is anx iously waiting for Congress to act. "With her citizenship- restored. Mrs. de Mumm, her friends say, will be prepared to begin a legal battle that will involve action In France. Ger many, Switzerland and America. Mrs. de Mumm's attorneys met rep resentatives of her husband In Switz erland and arranged" a separation agreement under which the wife was to receive $1,000 monthly during the war plus $1,400 monthly while her child was living with her. Last spring Mrs. de Mumm man aged to get her divorce suit filed In a German court, where It now is pending. PRESIDENT TO SEND AIR NOTE TO WALES A note of welcome to the Prince of Wales, transported by airplane from MIneola Field, N. Y., to Toronto, will be sent by President Wilson tomor row. The note will bo carried by Capt. J. M- Footed a test pilot of an airplane concern. At Toronto, Caotaln Foote will take aboard the Prince's reply to Presi dent Wilson's latter and relay It to Mlneola. where the regular mall plane will receive It and rush it to Wash ington. SION 17 HURT a pecaliar sJraatlo here, -viz iat while there are approximately eighty vacancies la the Police De partment.' there I a. waiting list la the Fire Department, where the pay Is less. 4 The "hlda! coadnct, acta, omissions and doings' of Major Raymond Pallmaa. Sapcrlatead eat of the Metropolitan Police de partment. POLICEMEN'S XUiXOPT. 5 The activities of the legisla tive committee of the new police men's anion. The committee will Investigate certain representa tives who have recently spent considerable time la the House (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) TREATY VICTORY BY OCT. 1 IS PREDICTED Democrats Also Forecast Com pact Will Be Ratified Without Amendment. Reserving their fire for delivery on the Senate floor. Democratic members of the Foreign Relations Committee believe they now have the country behind them in their fight to force speedy ratification of the peace treaty without amendment or reser vations. President Wilson's conference with committeemen at the White House is believed to have won approval throughout the country for the treaty as written. With the hope that the treaty will be reported to the Senate late this week. Administration leaders also be lieve the President's conference will have the cumulative effect of swing ing into line many Republican Sena tors heretofore regarded as "mild reservatlonlsts." Ratification of the treaty without amendment by October 1, is being predicted by Administration leaders. Democratic Senators this week will withhold all debate on amendments In the Foreign Relations Committee to speed action. They will content themselves merely with voting against more than 100 amendments td be offered by Senators Fall, Borah. Knox and Lodge. This. Democrats figure, will get the treaty on the Senate floor late this week. Then the Democrats will unlimber their heavy artillery to make the strongest fight of which they are capable to defeat all amend ments reported by the committee. Amendments will be voted on by the committee Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. 14-LB. GOLD NUGGET FOUND BY ANZAC RABBIT CATCHER SYDNEY. Australia, Aug. 24. A rabbit catcher In Mudgee, New South Wales, while robbing a bees nest, stumbled on what he found to be a nugget, fourteen pounds In weight, says a copyrighted dispatch to the Philadelphia Public Ledger. It was In the shape of a malteae cross and practically pure sold. ONE SECTION CRASHES INTO 10MB ELWGOD, ft J. ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 24. One Washingtoniair was killed and 'seventeen others were injured in a rear end collision on the Pennsyl vania railroad at.ElwooaV N. J., early this morning, when the fourth section of a Washington-Baltimore.-Atlantic City ekeur- Siori train plowed into section thrgj siaudkis atMhftfiori: The dead: , . O. S. Wa&n, tyrty years old, of 810 G street sostkeaeti Washington. The Injured: H. 3L 3U11HWH, 35 years eli, 421 21st street northwest, back injared. L. S. HeltoB, SI years oil, IM 3rd street aertfeeasf side asd back Jojarei. A. J. Grew, 85 years eli, 8J8 street northeast, back aad head injured. Mrs. Baford C. Lee, SIS D street northwest, knee iajared. Mrs. Schewey, SS years eld, 24 1, Florida avenue aerthwest, knee hurt. l ' Emily D. Reader, 42 years eld 332 Elm street, stomach iajared. H. il. King, 24 years old, Ban ter Station, Arlington, Va., left leg injured. Henry P. Rogers, 32 years eld, 1419 Cohen street northwest, ia jared and safferiag from shock. Rodgers could not be found in the city directory and there is no Cohen street in Washington. C. TV. Doremns, 24 years eld, 146 Quincy street northeast, head injured. Caraway Bell, twenty-two years old, 613 Pennsylvania ave nue northwest, Xetropolltaa Be tel, knee-iajared. Mrs. Jesse Brown, 1432 & street northwest, the Mortoaj bac kinjured. Miss Edith Hanger, eighteea years old, 119 Fifth street north east; lacerated forehead. Erwin Kling, thirty-one years old, 436 Virginia avenue; ana hurt. Mrs. Hattie Brown, thirty-five years old, 950 R street north west; leg hart. Mrs. L. TT. Fitzgerald, 42 years old, 1105 P street northwest, leg and knee iajared. Miss Jennie Cassidy, 20 years old, 1215 K street north-west, contagions on body. 'Kalpa Townsend, 30 years eld, of Camden, '. J., engineer ef train. Left Last Night. Section Xo. 3 left Washington last night at 9:54 o'clock, with R. J. Towa send. one of the injured, as engineer. Section No. 4 left the same station at 10:50 o'clock. Both trains ware crowded to capacity with capital ex cursionists. Seven hundred Wasa Ingtoniana were on the two trains. N'earing Atlantic City, Section No. 3 was held at Elwood. N. J a signal station eighteen miles from the re sort, for orders. Section No. 4 was following th train closely. While standing at the station, tne crew of the first section notlocd the "headlight of the .following train bearing down upon the helpless X curslonists. Frantic efforts were made to sl (Continued on lage 3, Column 5.)