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Today Bonds Up-Wheat Down. ettls and Unions Smashed. Woloome IhtbawWa. Cost of Idlnss,. ARTRUU 33SBAN <rr~vaa. uss.) Pour - and - tbesmqaarters per eest Victory Bonds sold at par yesterday. This writer, who bought $300,000 of them in the exeiting days, promised readers that they would one day sell above par and they will. There Is in all the world no investment as safe. As money gets cheaper, because men fear to invest it in industry, U. S. bonds will go up. Wheat goes down. It sold at is cents a bushel yesterday. Formerly a bushel of wheat and a day's labor were worth about the same. Roman soldiers, marching, chewed raw whole wheat, carried in a bag at the waist. That explains the won derfully strong, flat teeth still found in old Roman skulls. Recently wages have got away from the level of "one bushel of wheat for one day's work." But you notice that as wheat drifts below a dollar there are five or six million idle Americans that would like to be sure of even one dollar a day for the next hun dred days. One bushel of wheat will keep a family alive for several days, with cold water added. And thus far the plan has been to give the run of men only as much as would keep them alive. Eleven thousand milk wagon drivers on strike in New York are smashing milk bottles, overturning wagons labeled "milk for babies." The employers, as is natural, hide gladly behind the babies' long skirts. Drivers, without knowing it, are smashing their unions while smashing milk bottles. They may be in the right-only the Angel Gabriel knows about that. But employers, wisely advised, had no lockouts or strikes while labor was scarce, in war. Labor, not advised, is playing the em ployers' game, abandoning jobs, with five millon, ide, waiting jgi their places. Shibusawa, richest Japanese, is in America, traveling with fifteen Japanese big-gun financiers. His object is to establish "better rela tions" between Japanese and American financiers. Let him not fret: his task will be easy. Finance knows and sympathizes with finance, whether its skin be white, brown or yellow. Labor of dif ferent nations and colors fights, finance never. Viscount Shibusawa, eighty two, will find only glad, out stretched h a n d s. American finance will say: "Come right in, sit down. Want to sell? We'll buy. Want to buy? We'll sell. Glad to see you." That's why finance rules. It is intelligent and unprejudiced. As Lord Beaverbrooke said here, a little while ago, "the British empire deals with anybody, in cluding cannibals." This nation does not realize Its biggest losses or what causes them. To run the Government costs a little over three thousand million dollars a year. Harold A. Hatch, an expert, says that Idleness costs the country four thousand million dollars a year. About three thousand millions additional is wasted by "slowing up" by workmen foolishly afraid to produce too much. There you loee twice what it costs to run the Government-army, navy, and all foolishness combined. H. G. Wells, asked yesterday what Russia needed, replied: "To be let alone, allowed to recover." Russia will come back when the United State. decides to do the sensible thing. Russia i. the only country in the world that could ever be greater than the United States-in wealth and resources, and she is greater now in sise, population, and un developed possibilities. Smooth gentlemen from Japan will soon tell the Washington conference that the Mikado yearns for peace and all Japan hates war. You get more accurate infor-. mation when you read a cable from Tokyo announcing the mur der of Hara, Japanese prime minister. He is the first Jap anese without aristocratic birth to head the Japanese govern ment. Hie really wanted peace, a cutting down of war expense. That's why they murdered him. En u ~INALH E P/ifr kinlgb W~ sa 4*7..:. E D IT IO9 ft1. Vesrn $E.W. wub FE a . ms. N o arth wNM wR. NN1ua.NVr -----a--.uWASHINGTON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1921. ..S.5.. [GGf /y Si im] liGGI Detec MAY ORDER HUGHLETT TO PATROL IN RANKS Connors Due for Reprimand as Outcome of Getaway by Norman Garrett. Fleet S. Hughlett, detective ser geant, attached to detective head quarters, probably will oe returned to patrol duty in one of the pre cincts as a result of the escape of Norman Garrett last Saturday night. The recommendation of the board which inquired into the escape is that Hughlett be reduced to the ranks, and that Detective Sergeant Josph Connors, who accompanied him, be severely reprimanded. Oyster Considers Report. Commissioner Oyster, who haa charge of the administration of the pole as ha toe repass 'e fore hin. t has not acted on it yet. According to the testimony offered at the hearing, Garrett was sitting on tbie front seat with Hughlett when he esca ed. A few hours before he escaped he was seated on the rear seat, and complained of being cold. He was allowed to sit in front with Detective Hughlett so that he would be urotected from the wind. When the machine, which Hughlett was driving, neared 1Mirk. Md., it stopped and Detective Connors (went ahead to lpok for some one tot tow them into Washington. Shortly after Connors left, Detec tive Hughlett discovered that he could start the engine, and attempt ed to overtake Connors. Garrett jumped from the machine an,1 disap peared in an eight-foot ravin" beside the road. Hughlett lumped out after him. firing several shots. When Hughlett jumped out of the machine he did not take -imne to stop the engine and it ran down the road a short distance before it swerved into a ditch. Search for. Prisoner. When Connors returned Ht.ughlett and his partner went to Hyattsville, where they aroused Constable Garri son and the three started a vs ,-atic search for the escanad pris oner. The testimony showed that this was the second prisoner to get away from Hughlett since he was assigned to the detective bureau. Several years ago while bringing a man back to Wash ington, with the accused driving an other machine to which he was chain. ed. the prisoner made his escape but was captured afterward. The police still are searching for (larrett, who is supposed to be hiding somewhere in the neighborhood of Eighteenth street. and Florida avenue, where he was last seen. He is wanted on the charge of stealing automobiles in Washhington. BLAST WRECKS KNITTING MILL; TWO GIRLS HURT POTTSVILLE, Pa.. Nov. 5.-An +x ploionofa tank wrecked the large knitng rl of J. F. Hast & Son at Schuyikill Haven yesterday afternoot, injuring two girls andi causing a ios of 816,000. Only the fact that most of the employes were out of the buid ing at lunch prevented a large ('as ualty list. The cause of th explosion was the failure of a safety valve to wa-k promptly after high pressure came on. The injured are Lilly (ientaling .in I Lillian Freese. They are burned and scalded. FEED CATS OYSTERS SO THEY'LL WIPE OUT RATS GREENWI'H P'IEIR, N. J. Nov. 5.--Oysters on the half -shell nre proving a tasty' morsel for more than~ a 5,-ore of fats that frequent wharves here. where oyster sehoon ers unload. Rats like oystern as well as cats do. and it in to keep away the rats that swarm upon the piers that the oyster men have c-oaxed cats to the wharves by feeding them fresh oysters. Every cat on the piers in getting sleek and fat on the diet. and the rats are being exterminated. GET-R tives A Boy Whose Amorous Dad Tried To End Life In Rochester The little five-yer-old son of Dr. Lewis Bliss; the former Wash ington chiropractor who attempted suicide in Rochester, N. Y., last Tuesday after two women claimed him as their huspand. The boy is the son of Wife -Ns. 1, formerly ..of --Waei l. - BUTLEi1NGREEK LEGATION KILLS SELF WITH SUN Widow and Two Children Sur vive Man Who is Suicide for "Personal Reasons." .ohn Paris. thirty-five years old, ended his life today by firing a bullet Into his brain at the Greek legation, 1838 Connnecticut avenue, where he had been a butler for the past five years. The body was discovered at 11 o'clock this morning by the Greek Min ister, Alexander Bouros, who went into the basement to give the butler some special orders for the day. A note written in Greek was found near the body of the dead man. It stated that he was taking his own life for "personal reasons." he did not state in the nqte what the reasons were. Paris leaves a widow and two chil d:en. They are in Etirus, Greece. Attaches of the Greek legation are unable to throw any light on the suicide. LIBERAL MEMBERS QUIT BELGIAN CABINET POSTS BRI'SSELS, Nov. 6 --Further com plications in the Telgian cabinet situation developed yesterday when the Liberal ministers, who objected to the nppointment of M. Van Cauw laert, leader of the Fl'emtish party, as mayor of Antwerp. offered their resig rastions. If th#'e are aree'pted the complete overhauling of the cabinet will be necessitated. as" it has already been dlisarrangedl as a result of the recent retirement of the 8ocialist members. H. G. Wells Thomas Edison G. Bernard Shaw Are Only Three of the Brilliant Conitrib utors to Ihe Sunday Times Tomorrow. ORDER TODAY. ICH-QU X~S URT Cace I JAPA! ROPE LEFT ON NECKS OF YINKS D. C. Man Writes Watson He Found Men Buried Without Means of Identification. A declaration that he found four uncoffined bodies of American sol diers in France, with nooses around their necks, indicating that then had been hanged, was made in a let ter written by Rufus T. Hubbard, living at the Atlanti Hotel, Sixthi street and Pennsylvania svon-* northwest, and sent to Senato" Tom Watson of Georgia today. No Marks of Iduedmife beu Wubbastni sa a e 1 uWIt bar of the Graves RegistruIsn IeVr ice. desoribes vividly how he -came upon these four bodies. He ys that ordinarily a bottle was put In each casket containing the name, rank, re ligion, and other details about the de ceased. In this case there were no bottles and he found it impossible to obtain any information about them. He Indicates his belief that the men were executed without trial. Further support for the charges of brutality against army officers, made by Senator Watson, came from Ken neth P. Robinson, who gave his ad dress at 653 Mynsey building. Robin son relates an Incident of a soldier who was suspended by his wrists from 8 o'clock in the evening to 3 o'clock the following morning. The charge against him was that of "too much wine." Flooded With Telegrams. Senator Watson is receiving a large number of letters and telegrams hour ly in support of his charges. Secretary of War Weeks today de clared that he Is confident that all the charges made against the army by Senator Watson of Georgia, will be disproved. Referring to statements, alleged to have been made by Senator Watson, reflecting upon army nurses, the Sec rotary said: "No decent man would make such charges against a class of people, and I measure my words when I say that." Secretary Weeks conferred today with Senator Wadsworth relative to the investigation of the charges to be made by a Senate committee. He said that army officers would testify before the committee if called. Hanged After Army Trial. BEAUMONT, Tex., Nov. o.-Dr. E. T. Miller, of Beaumont, who was one of the surgeons attending the seven-year-old French girl attacked by an American negro soldier near La Rochelle Hlospital In France In December, 1918, said yesterday the negro was tried by court-martlal and hanged. lHe declared this was the only crime that happened In the La Ro chelle area that he knew anything about and that he never heard oi unIust treatment of American sol diers. PHILA. GREETS BEATTY; GEN. DIAZ DUE TONIORROW P~hILAIELPHIA, Nov. 5.-WIth Admiral Heatty here today and Glen eral D)ias coming tomorrow, the Quaker (City has taken on a gals aspect Sir David Hleatty arrived here early today at the home of Rt. E'. Strawbrldge, in Bryn Mawr, where he joined Lady Beatty, who has been staying here for the last few days. Following an official reception ~t City Hall and a brief InspectIon '1 the navy yard, Rir David will be the guest of honor at a banquet in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. With Lady Heatty he will leave for Washington on Monday. General Dias. upon arrival here tomorrow, will be given a reception at the Metropolitan Opera House. Later he will vIsit Independence Unll and the ItalIan sections of the city. ICK-W . WN THE TIMRRS. 1A 0 >unish 4ESE Villa, In Role Of Good Samaritan, Helping Poor In Mexico Br Eaesma dse New. s.vIe.. MEXICO CITY, Nov. 5. "Pancho" Villa, former bandit, a peared today in the role of Good Samaritan. Villa called a meeting of mer chants, bankers and landowners at Torreon, where he presided and made a speech in behalf of the Mexican unemployed. "Pancho" said that be would contribute all the corn, wheat, and beans on his big reach at Canutillo for the relief of the destitute. Villa called attention to the distressed condition of the labor ing classes as the result of un employment and asked the meet ing to adopt a resolution recosm mending a wage increase of one per day to all workefa. e resolution was adopted. SUIT TO REGAIN PROPERTY FROM HOUSE OF DAVID GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. S. Preliminary hearing in a suit brought by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hansel to 4. wprperty they, aer 'they ~ ever to the House of David, a religious colesy at Ben ton harbor, Mich., has been set for NoeeeS r & in the United dtates District Court here. They also asked compensation for services rendered from the time they entered the House of David in 1906 until they were expelled last December. Allegations that moral conditions in the colony render it a place unfit in which to raise children, that a written confeesion they were obliged to make upon entering the cedony was used to coerce Them and that they were obliged to sign over all their possessions to Benjamin and Mary Purnell. leaders of the colony, are contained in plaintiffs' petition. JERSEY WINS CROWN AS BEST CRANBERRY STATE BOSTON. Nov. 6.-New Jersey this year will wrest honors as the coun try's largest cranberry producing State from Massachusetts, the State department of agriculture reported yesterday. Armies of fruit worms have waged destructive war against Cape Cod's 11.21 cranberries, adding to damage wrought by spring floods, in the bogs. As a result, the Bay State's cranberry crop will be nearly 77.000 barrels less than last November. while New Jer sey is estimated to have the largest cranberry crop in its history. New Jersey, Massachusetts and Wis cnnsin are expected, the report said, to supply the market with ,422,000 bar rels, or about 9,000 barrels less than In 1920. THEATER PARTIES NOT PART OF CHILDEN'S EDUCATION LONDON. Nov. 5.-Theaters are held by British courts not to be educational institutions, under the terms of a deciaion handed down by the lord chief justice yesterday. The case arose when auditors of the educational funds of the city ques tioned the legality of the school au thorities spending 3.000 pounds in taking children to apecial perform ances of Shakespearean plays. The lord chief justice remarked the educational authorities should take children to the Houses of Par limenit, Westminster Abbey and the Tower of Iondon, but that the law did not contemplate attendance a' theaters as a part of a child's ele mentary education. MAIL POUCH WITH $26,000 MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS *DICDHAM, Mass.. Nov. B.-The dis. appearance of a mail .nouch contain. ing $36,000 in negotiable checks, sent by the Dedham Natipal Blank~ t the Boston Clearing House Octlober 15, became known yesterday. The pouch was one of two forwarded by train. Its disappearance was noticed first at te Boton. Terminal. Postuffh insectrs resaid to have found ne trace of it. The iargest of the checks in the pouch was for $17,000. Paymient on this and aTch other ellecks as could be recalled han heesn stopoeri and a duplicate for the 117.000 cbeck haa been issued by the bank. LLLINC MONDA Y h *M E rment CABINI LAFOLLETTE I1N ATTACK ON MELLON Badger Senator Asks Treasury I Head to Resign as Ally of Rich. By Internaieml News sevie. The retirement of Secretary Mellon "as the fiscal head of the Govern ment" was demanded in the Senate today by Sebator La Follette (Re publican) of Wisconsin in charging list Mellon had "brazenly and im pudently laid down the principle that wealth will not and cannot be made to bear its full and fair share of taxation." Wabean Retorts. iidrl' l'm tlz selon , e amedament Introduoed by him to the pending oompromise tax bill to require all tax returns to be made public by the Treasury Department. "The fiscal head of the Government." La Follette asserted, "has laid down the principle that wealth will not and cannot be made to bear its fair and full share of taxation; that the people must carry far more than their f: and just share of ta.xation if tn. revenue needs of the Government are to be met successfully. "He has laid down that principle, brazenly and impudently, and he ought to be retired for making a declaration of that sort." Senator Watson (Republican) of In diana suggested that the purpose of La Follette's amendment to throw the light of "pitiless publicity" on all tax returns was to "inflame the pub lic mind." "You cannot inflame the public mind unless some wrong has beer. done," La Follette retorted. "The pur pose of my amendment is not to in flame the public mind, but to get at the truth and force wealth from the cover afforded it by the Treasury De partment." "There isn't an argument to be made against my plan for publicity." La Follette continued. "I am sure if it were submitted to the people of the States It would have 100 per cent support. "You know eery well that when you cover up returns, as they are covered up under the present system you make it impossible for the people to get the information we should have in a real democracy and you provide in incentive for dishonesty." Tax Publicity Asked. Senator Johnson (R) of California said that "in most States, includin California. all tax records are spread open on the records for any citizen to look at." "The theory that the public has the right to know all the facts about tax ation is generally accepted in most of our States,' Jtohnson continued. "why, therefore, should not the Fed eral Government accept it. It publi city be accorded an a right by the States, on what theory that is justi fiable, does the Federal Gov'ernment and the Secretary of the Treasury pretend to the right of secrecy in these mnatters?' l.aFollette stated that It wuns his purpose to force holders of tax exempt securities "to place all fac'ts concerning their holdings before Conigress and the country. His amendment inv'olved all hold era of Federal. State and municipal bonds and similar fornms of tax exemp~t securities. '*The country in #'ntitled to know who is bearing a paroper share of the country's burden of taxes and whon Is escaping them." said Llrol ' ett9e "We were urged in passing this bill to remove the surtaxes on In comes in excess of $66,000 on the grounds that otherwise capitalist *would invest their money in ta exempt securities and thus esca *"Wealth must prepare to hear lust share of taxation and if Is . vesting its holdings in such securities as will enable it to escape taxation. the country is entitled to know all about it. FORD * 0 For E S* * ET RE Three Guesses Who This Innocent Baby Is. Evelyn Nesbit! * r l Evelyn Nesbit. former actress, and wife of Harry K. Thaw, as an innocent babe of fifteen months. Little did baby's mother foreso, in those long-ago days, the lIItIb expera nces of life that the. grl w -ag face when she UP. 42 FPqIDHAM ST!T 3HURT E ROUTEHERE Driver of Tn Ihich Crashed Througn -- .. Is Dying In hospital. One o' dyinr in Mercy Hos pital, * nore. -. others re ceived se.ei e- 'cuises, and a score more w ,. Ia aken up this morning when a t.. wr truck, con taining forty-two Fordhan Univer sity students . . 'cute to the George town-Fordham football game here, crashed through the bridge over Conowingo creek, twenty-eight mites north of Baltimore and fell into the water thirty teet below. Truck Driver Dying. John (leaby, driser of the truck, of 104 West Fortieth street. New York City, is so badly injured he is not xpected to live. Ti, ater injured men, whose nat ere' ,t known, were treated by l-aysicians at the scene of the accident. The tri'-"" heavily laden with -hs. was proceeding at a fair ' eed down an incline just ('onowingo Creek. There . turn in the road just b , -, -Ige, and accordingj to pa *e. - in the accid.'nt, Cleahy, th er. could not stop the truck . .e to avert the ac cident The mn.. raahed through the railing of I * ge and plunged over the thirty- - ankment into the water. whi. ' . t deep at this point. Nor Leap to 14afety. Several of the students lsened out before the truck went over the em hankment, hut the majority had no time to jump. After their -uts tand bruises were treatel. the students caught a train for Washington at Rising Sun. Md. Glenbyv was taken to Mercy llosital in the motor -ar of Dr. Snodgrass. IManager Kelly. of the Fordham team, when seen at the IKbbitt House this afternoon. said he had not heard ofe the accident. hut Immediately got in touch with the Baltinore poline. The F.ordham players. Kelly said. were not on the truck. They enme from N.'w York by train. The truck left New York yesterday afternl(oon for Washington. Nov. 11 Made French Holiday. PA RIS. Nov. 5 -The Chamber of Deputies yesterday passed a hill mak in-t Armistice Day a national boli day This y-ear it will be re-iebrated November 11. hut afterward on the Sunday following that day. A delightful serial of la intrigue, and the triumph c L I IL scape SIGNS SAIONJI is EXPECTED TO ACCEPT PORTFOLIO Elder Statesmen Have Names of Several Eligible to Succeed Slain Premier. By Iatenatieal News Service. Confirmation of the resignation of the Japanese cabinet as a result of the asamla.io.n of Precer afrs r-eess as U Japse The expectation prevails Japanese here in boh official unofficial sources, that Marquis Salonjl, who was head of the Jap anese delegates at the Paris con ference, and who Is now an elder statesman and a member of the Genre, will be asked to form a ner cab(pet and assume the premalesr ship. By lsternatieai News erice. LONDON, Nov. 5.-A message of condolence over the assasina tion of Premier Harz was sent to the Japanese government today by the B.st'sh government. Certain officials sac significance in the fact that the Japanese premier was as sassinated on the eve of the Wash ington conference. By DUKE N. PARRY. (t.pynght. 192. by International News service. ) Tokyo. Nov. 5.-The Javanese cabinet has resigned following the assassination of its head. Premier Hara. Advices to this effect were sent to Admiral Baron Kato. minister of the navy in Washington today. Admiral Kato ranked next to the late premier in the cabinet. The resignation of the cabinet will not be accepted for a few days. probably, pending Plans for the formation of a new body. Elder Statesmen Meet. The Genro, or elder statepmen, ia eluding Prince Yamagatea and the Marquises Matsukata and Salonii, went into session late today. Upo.i their decision depends upon whose shoulders will fall the task of forming a new cabinet to succeed that of Premier Hara. It was believed here this afternoon that Marquis Saionji leads all of the possibilities to head the new cabinet. As one of the eider statesmen he oc cupied a place in the public life of Japan very clone to the royalty. lIe in a formaer leader of the tSeiyii-Kai party. which Premier Ilara headed at the time of his death. No less than three times before he has been cailed upon to occupy the post of prime min ister ad interim between the resignii tion of one ministry and the formation of another. Several Possbilities. ofFollowing Marquis Salonji in the list ofpossibilities to h edthe new cabinet lie Baron Shimpel (Ito, a member of the house of peers, and a cabinet memi bier during the Terauchi regime. Via count China, ambassador to Great Britain. and one of Japan's moat jdistinguished diplomat.. is also men tioned as is Baron Kenjiro Decn, gov ornor of I''ormhona and an ex-minister of communication. Count Yamamoto. premier in 1914. nnd famous s a cabinet organiser, visited the palace today. It was learn ed his visit was in connection with plans to form a new group to succeed the lHar. ministry but what part he will play' was not learned. Formation of the new ministry Is nnticipated within the next three days. tilt hough should difficulties he encoun tered in the selection of his personnel, the delay may be greater. The tirst commoner to become pre. mier of Japan. Takashi Hara, will go to ,1i grave a commoner. His will. ve and adventure and f love over dishonesty. I