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Bonds Up-Wheat Down.
ettls and Unions
Smashed.
Woloome IhtbawWa.
Cost of Idlnss,.
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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.
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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
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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