Washington Post, The (Newspaper) - March 12, 1921, Washington, District Of Columbia NUmber of the Associated Press I Pms Is tit thp re publication of all patches credited to it or not otherwise credited IB this paper and tbe local Hie Washington Tost IB a member of the receiving tbe complete loea 6f tbe with moderate and yesterday 6O; NO. DAILY AND SUNDAY ENTERED AS CUSS u. o. MARCH 12, 1921. 1M1, BT THB TOST TWO of G. W. Pep per and Guy D. Goff DELAYS DECISION Patronage Matters Press for Action as Cabinet Special Session of Congress May Be Called for April Begin tariff Revision Promptly Without Effort at Department Are in President Sees HARRY 1821. by The Post Co I Three names are under tion for solicitor of the United are former tor George of Wharton of and Guy D of former States The appointment of a eral will probably not bo made until the middle of this perhaps Attorney General Daughorty is ious to have the appointment settled Mr. Daughorty left ton yesterday evening for his and will not return until By that it is the choice will have been It is thought that former Senator Sutherland will be Mr. erland was active in the campaign for the election of Mr He spent some time at and was a trusted counselor of the His name has frequently been with a place on the United States Supreme It is known that Mr. Sutherland would not be averse to accepting the solicitor and this is perhaps the only position he would consent to That the former Utah senator might have had a position in the cabinet had he wished is believed by many sons close to the It is for this reason that his name is the pre- ferred Headed Bar Senator Sutherland is an man by He was born in in 1812. studied law in and after moving to Utah practiced law He was a member of Fifty-seventh Con- and a He was elected United States senator in and served for twelve He was president Bar Association in 19flB and 1917. and is regarded by his former associates la the Senate as one of tne ablest constitutional lawyers in this Wharton Pepper is one of the leaders of the Pennsylvania He Is years He is one of the most active directors of the University of a trustee pf the Carnegie and served In the world war as color sergeant of the Kirst provisional regiment at N. V In 1913. He is the author of a number of works and is as one ot the foremost lawyers in tho United States Was District Mr naff is a son of the late ator from West Nathan Ho left West Virginia to be- a resident of Wisconsin and district attorney in Milwaukee under Mr. Taft's In the war ho served as an tive officer in The it is has not made up his mind as to whom he will but persons close to him that his choice will bo Mr. Sutherland Patronage matters consumed a part of the President's time He spent the morning con- ferring with senators and members of Congress who had candidates to Senator Lodge was one of the late afternoon callers and his interview with the President related to the time of adjournment of the special session of the The has not definitely decided upon the date for the calling of the extraordinary of but it 13 likely it will be April 11. Look for Long Members of the Senate and House jre anxious to have as much of a u-i because they realize that once in session they not get away for a long The President has had numerous In- for his summer few ago Elmer of former secretary of the national invited the cient to spend his summer on the coast and in and he departed from Washington in the hope the President would But with prospect of a long of Congress the com- lair summer It is doubtful if the President will be to leave ington at any time for any Members of Congress who have had experience believe that with tariff coming up for consideration it next before Congress will be able ro It has been virtually that will be no effort made to pass tariff and that when the special sion begins the House will plunge at Into the consideration of tariff law along Republican tive Appointments Are At the cabinet meeting which lasted for more than two the heads of the various de- Soviet Most ot Desert Reds By FRANCIS Cable Tke Yoik March evidence that the power of nine Is crumbling Is found in tbe fact that the cadets whom lieon bolshevist ister of considered his most trusted bolshevist soldiers also betrayed him in the attack on Aware that all ot his army is not reliable be- cause they are tired of the endless Trotzky in- trusted the Kronstadt attack to the sending the at- tacking from But the most of cadets joined the Kronstadt and the at- tacks therefore were 1021, by Sew York discussed departmental fairs and talked with the dent over the appointment of ants and others in their respective Mr. Harding is to be governed largely in his appointments by the recommendations of his Positions in the Interior department are giving Secretary Fall some con- Mr. Fall is in a way and is not in any hurry to announce his There are numerous candidates for the positions of commissioner of In- dian affairs and the general land of- For the former there are at least half a dozen Victor of former ernor of the Choctaw has been indorsed by a number of inent Republicans of the Western Albert H. of Arkansas president of the Home National of that has behind him Representative Phil Campbell and other leading members of the while of has been the appointment of H. B. of Kans. Mr. Peairs is a school teacher at the Haskell in- in J. George superintendent of the Osage Indian Is another date for Indian Be- sides all these Is Alva of one of the leading licans of that who has backing of some of the most tial Republicans of the it is not improbable that eventually he will be Many Candidates in Secretary Fall has been urged to appoint Edward C. of the board of Assistant and it IB laid virtually all the members of the public lands tee of the House are urging his Tie it is said there will be considerable opposition on the part of Boms 91 senators to his Two men are prominently for the position of of the general land mer Gov. William Spry of Utah and Lou Pettijohn former secretary of State of who lives at Garden Gov. Spry was an active supporter of Mr. Harding In the preconvention and has the support of Senator whose manager he in the recent The President did not finish day's engagements until in tbe One of his toward was Ignace for- mer premier of who called to pay his The President dined with Mrs. Harding at the White House and retired at his usual ASK VANDERBILTS FOR ACCOUNTING Attorneys for H. C. Barker Seek Securities Held by William K. as New March 11 the was made in surrogate's court here today to have William K. and Harold S. executors of their father's make an ins of stewardship of their ther as the surviving trustee of a trust fund created for Adele K. Schmidt who died in last The application was made by attorneys for Harold C. nephew of Adele E. Schmidt and under the terms of her to receive the property forming the The establishment of the trust fund dates back to 1877. when Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt bequeathed it to his Catherine the income to be used by and to con- on to her one of whom was Adele E. Schmidt The children were given power of disposal on William K. derbilt was one of of this and he continued to it until his death recently in The fund constitutes property con- sisting of in Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad Barker's the petition be- to the Clarence Barker memorial at N and the rest was left to the of the death of an She has since Baiker asks that the court instruct 'the William K. estate to pay over to him the with any interest that has DEATH FOE Actual Slayer Life Ad- viser Most Be to death a man who another lo kill and giving a jail sentence to the one who actually com- the The court sentenced Romeo R. who shot and Lucien to a prison term for while his Joseph R. who incited the mMt YO to the Evidence brought out that the suspected sette of Illicit love affair with youns Millard's wife and counseled the son to Fight Desperately as Insurrections FOOD DEARTH HARRIES REDS Ultimatum to to Fire Big Bands Defeat Lenine Farces Bast of Kief aad Rebels Rise in Commissar Admits Distrust of Troops to Trotzky Russian Chiefs in tke March dozen or more insurrections are in progress out and the movement is encouraging other say local who sert they are gaining confidence of the ultimate success of counter revolutionary movement as they learn of fresh antisoviet forces appearing from Odessa Besides a dozen or more main in- many bands are reported to be operating under stimulus of the Kronstadt Bast of ana the Volga river re- gion there are flve main the most important of Is headed by Gen. vik who recently consolidated his forces With those of Gen. These bands are said to number from to all mounted and well The bands defeated the in several encounters east of have tightened their hold in Kief and are preparing to defend it from within and Says Soviet IS the today is in the beginning of phases of upheaval which will have essentially the same occurrence of March 1, 1917, said Alexander F. Russia's former of fundamental causes of breaks in Kerensky the same as those which brought about the four years and the outcome will be the same overthrow of the Russian working masses and the con- and are t of are be and regime depends entirely on the aid of their Chinese Tartar mercenaries the soviet may fce able to suppress the present but it will be only a postponement of their for the Russian hordes tired of the bolshevist Must Be Left soviet claims that the present risings are due to allied intrigue are Allied to the antisoviet forces ended with the col- lapse of Gen. the er in The success of present movement noninterference with the outside Russia must be left Reports from Reval today say that Russian emigrants forming a there to include tives the which soon will enter the Central News Helsingfors cor- respondent according to a who has just escaped from the town of 90 miles northwest of has fallen the hands of the revolutionaries through the soviet troops having been withdrawn to Leaders Are The leaders of the revolutionary movement are entirely unknown in political which cates the movement is and one from the masses of the rlan people according to president of a group of Russian social democrats In M. Baikaloff today communicated to British labor leaders Important vate information which he as from sources of Information in He revolution is being carried on by soldiers and The parties are not Indirectly The movement IB concentrated in but Is spreading through the have reliable information that the garrison of Pskov and Smolensk have that in hoff and Kolomna 100 miles 57 miles south and miles southeast of the ers have expelled the commissaries and proclaimed a general and that the peasants of the western and the are in open Ultimatum Is is but only by can the authorities prevent the Moscow workers from joining the Revolutionary authorities at the fortress of Kronatadt have sent an ultimatum to the soviet authorities in demanding the surrender of the city March 25. If the city is not given the ultimatum there will be a general it is asserted in an dispatch to the London Wholesale arrests and of workmen are said to have curred at and Kronstadt last night sent out a wireless dispatch that there is plenty of food and ammunition a tele- gram from Stockholm fire from Kronatadt has been well the wireless dis- patch is quoted as ress of Todleben and all other soviet batteries on the Karelian peninsula have Two of the four 12-inch guns at Gorka have silenced from the battleship has been the railroad to it has been destroyed and thaw has placed the surrounding marshes in such that the fortress has been cut off from the rest of the bolshevik Revolt Near A great movement in the vicinity of is reported in a Reuters dispatch from Soviet troops are said to have mutinied and murdered bolshevik commissars Trustworthy news from the interior of says a dispatch to the don from shows the food situation is food train having reached the country from Siberia since February 11. The ation is aggravated by congestion of the transport On the main railway from Perm to 300 trains are being held It is the dispatch con- that communist troops are approaching but their loyalty is Moscow Distrusts Heavy fighting continues in The railway station has been bombed by airplanes from A Helsingfors message reports the antisoviet peasant has badly defeated the red troops in the Kursk The bolshevik received reinforcements from and commenced on Wednesday a. vigorous offensive on the Petrograd but suffered heavy says a dispatch to the London Times from War Minister Trotzky ordered from Petrograd the entire bolshevist west army to the aid of but the Moscow that army replied he not trust his and demanded special in- TOWN NEAR ESSEN SEIZED BY ALLIES Entry Into East of Accomplished Without ATTACKS SIMONS Bnt Foreign Minuter Vote of Confidence Americans Not to Collect March 11 the ed six miles east of Ruhrort and seven miles northwest of has been entered by the according to a Central News made Dr. R. for- elgn the other German envoys to the London conference have received a of confidence German and a governmental crisis is not expected despite the made at the sitting o for- eign affairs committed during Hugo the attacked in violent terms not only Dr. but the entire says a Berlin dispatch to the London declared the ment was pursuing no definite and it was suffering from an absolute lack of Dr. Simons is reported lo hive said the government has no im- mediate intention of making fresh reparations Attacks Dr. Karl firmer secretary of the criticized Dr. Simons in most lent terms at Thursday's meeting of the foreign affairs committee of the reichstag for offering at the London reparations conference to accept an- for Hve says the todav in giving details of the although the official report said the proceedings were Dr. Simons admitted that in making the offer he exceeded liia the newspaper but justified his tion on the ground that its purpose was to avoid a The general says the was that none of the reichstag approved the conduct of the but the dissatisfaction was not so great as to warrant the belief that Dr. Simons should be Other newspapers likewise express the opinion that Dr. position is no longer in and declares that even the pan- Germans have abandoned their Gen. Allen French Military March 11 the Associated Gen. Henry T. commander of the American forces of Will follow the same icy regarding the collection of toms along Rhine as on other problems connected the making the of the commission his orders to his according to information received here from Gen. it was is ing notification of the Will Not Block tke American forces on the Rhine will take no part In the of but no objection will be made to such action by the allies within the territory occupied by U was learned yesterday at the State De- Gen. commanding the American has reported that the commissioner of the commission was studying the plan for the collection of duties at all heads occupied by and It been understood here that agents of the allied governments would be stationed at to the collection both of import and export Gen. it was will act without specific No change int he of the American force or its role has been but it officially stated that no obstacles would be placed in the way of the allies in carrying out their newly adopted The American troops will continue to act with tha Rhineland but with the understanding that has since the occupation of the that the American ing officer is responsible only to his own government in determining tions affecting the maintenance and operation of his Austria Takes Exceptions To Demands of Entente Three reservations have been made by the Austrian republic in accepting the entente demand for the surrender of military The would cover the guns defending the Danube at 88 miles northwest of this and 17 miles The second to demands prohibiting the operation of military and the third would relate to the demobilization of the Vienna The government is preparing an appeal to the league of The big guns demanded by the allies are understood to be of the same type as those used by the Germans in battering Belgian HANDS SHOT TO DEATH Jeweler Killed by Who Flee With New March armed bandits early today entered the Eighth avenue jewelry store of Abraham tied his shot to death and escaped with a number of The loot was valued at about Belief that the intruders killed Harris after he had partly extricated himself from nis opened fire on them was expressed by the His with one dis- charged was found in the rear of the Two negroes who saw the robbers fleeing discovered the victim and no- the A bulldog standing guard had to .be tied before the body could be DROP IN LIBER LAID TO BANDITS Brooklyn Prosecutor Says Sale of Stolen Bonds Forced Prices Now March 11 the elated that a block of stoleti liberty worth had been sold for half that price caused District Attorney of Kings who is conducting an investigation into an alleged bond to express the opinion that such transactions had forced down regular market price of liberty bonds during the past two Mr. Lewis said he believed the greater part of stolen liberty bonds had been sold at greatly reduced prices and that owing to the number stolen this would materially affect the price in legitimate trans- Mr. Lewis today traced bonds which Nathaniel had in his back to Abe who was arrested Mr. Lewis said he had not discovered where Cohen procured the Daniel G. of who as a material appeared Lefore Supreme Court tice Manning in Brooklyn today to ask that his bail of be His request was the district attorney that bins had refused to disclose where he had obtained stolen bonds worth found In his MUST BE Kaiser's matum to An absorbing sage of revealed for the first time in the publication of Prince tomorrow's day WASHINGTON THE INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT wonderful pictures of the historic event on the east front of the Capitol on March THE DAY POST ROYAL short story by the famous E. Phillips CODE OF THE Charles Neville lays the scene for his thrilling novel in regions of eastern THESE FEATURES WILL APPEAR SIVELY IN THE SUNDAY WASHINGTON POST FIGHT mm COT Unions Appeal to Cummins for Senate I they would not be abl weekly e to meet the POOR MANAGEMENT CHARGED Roads Aim to Break Organized Declares J. Wage Policy Says Former Secretary of C. S. All of Big Western Lines Call Conferences of Per Cent Cut Is the Associated March looking toward the wholesale reductions of of railway employes of the tion was assailed tonight by union The railway executives were mous in declaring that the reductions were necessary to pave the way for lower freight and passenger said that the wage cuts would begin with the unskilled but would finally reach the highest In replying to this J. G. president of the American Train Dis patchers asserted that the train sheets would show that the roads were not economically and in a letter to Senator A. B. chairman of the Senate inter- state commerce he called for a senatorial investigation of the transportation situation as to avert serious strife over wage Sees Labor Board of proposed wage tions on individual roads has been expected since the meeting 6f the railway executives here on February said a statement issued by W. Jett former secretary of the war labor board and now consulting economist of the railroad is part of the plan to deluge the United States labor board with a of complaints and cannot be of much financial benefit to the complaint after another must be the labor board and a of time must elapse before sufficient number of even W can be by the Tire New York financial recognized of the fact wage tions and sanction by the ment to of its guarantees to the railroad securities have reached another low level on the stock Charges not be so if the road executives were straightforward and sincere in their labor policy if their plans were directed by the most intelligent and far seeing of the heads of the If financial and not the breaking down of the labor were the the railroads in a certain area or dis- would notify their employes of proposed wage invite them to select to meet representatives of the carriers in con- ference and if no agreements could be a complaint ing a large number of railroads and their employes be brought before the labor reason concerted action for Wage is not taken now is that the Association of Railway is dominated by and misguided group who are more interested in breaking down labor on individual roads than they are in securing wage Their zeal against labor unions leads them unconsciously to neglect what the most rational railway presidents clearly perceive to be the financial in- of the transportation Proposes 2O Per Cent The only road Chicago which has not called its employes to discuss wage readjustments Is the Illinois In the case of the Chicago Great the ence was to discuss a proposed re- duction of 20 cent in the pay of all excepting those in the train telegraph operators and unskilled The proposed that the reductions be made effective within 30 Conferences will be held at March The proposed will be officials to keep the roade out of and en- able them eventually to reduce traffic which now were said to be than the public can Statements from officials of the sociation of Railroad Executives were that lower rates ot pay for skilled workers probably would be sought after for unskilled men had been In every case the roads specified that they would seek lower wages accordance with the provision of the transportation act which provides that conferences must be held with the employes and the matter brought before the railroad labor board only when an agreement could not be reached In Depending on Statements the presidents of various roads declared that the were imperative to en- able the railroads to It was said that the now were existing tire through the leniency their creditors and were forced to their k. The only road besides the Great Western to specify theam ount of reduction which would be sought was the Hale said that the road planned to cut approximately 8% cents an hour off the pay of unskilled bringing them down to 40 cents an The proposed cut would vary in different he and was simply an Burlington officials said that the average pay of unskilled workers in other industries was 30 to 35 cents an hour and virtually all officials said that railroad pay must be placed on a par with in other Minimum of 25 Cents an St. March reductions ringing from cents an hour to a minimum of 25 cents are contemplated for unskilled workmen by the Northern Pacific and Great it was announced late Plan 18 March Union Pacific railroad has proposed a tion of 18 cents an hour in the wage scale of common ft was an- The decrease wouW be from 48 to 30 cents an The proposal was submitted to bor who met with railroad officers here An- other conference will be held here on March 24, at which union officers will report back the attitude of their men on the Gives St. March Wabash railroad today issued an ment that notice of a proposal to re- duce wages next month has been served on its unskilled A conference of officials of the road and representatives of the employes probably will be here next week to discuss the it was Lays Off March of the Denver and Rio Grande road Company today announced a ther lay-off of 700 The road has laid off more than employes since January 1. No action has yet been taken reduce it was said at the company A. MEDIATION FAILS Receiver Refusal Ends Over March by two Federal mediators to settle the wage strike on the ham and Atlantic railway ended here today after refusal of B. to enter into the the two commissioners announced they would return to The L. C. Chambers and it was will matter before President Harding in an attempt to restore ice on the which has been paralyzed since the strike be- gan a week Col. Bugg predicted that practically normal service might be resumed next with new In declining negotiations through the Col. Bugg matter what conclusion might frs reached by I could fay out money TJie raise in rates gave an ing increase in 1920 of but failed by 1713.214 to meet tbe increased wages allowed by the way labor YAP WAITS ACTION BY HARDING Japan's Reply to Protests Leaves Next Step Up to NATIONS MAY MOVE Secretary of Labor Davis Offers Mediation by Department HAS PRESIDENT'S SANCTION Employers Workers Asked to Send Representatives Action Follows Conferences at toe White House Cabinet Officer Departments of Agriculture and Will Situation He and Justifies Every Effort to v The services of the Department Labor in settlement of the between packing house ployes and the packing concerns growing out of proposed wage tions were offered in telegrams sent last night to the unions and packers by Secretary of Secretary who dispatched the telegram after a conference with President also requested the packers and employes each to nate two representatives to meet witb Department of Labor agents in an at- tempt to readjust the dispute which threatens to develop into ft Telegram Sent to The telegram sent to Dennis secretary of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America at which practically identical in text with the one sent the five Federal government is concerned about the maintenance industrial activities in fullest under- standing and hopes there will be BO interruption of the continuity of em- ployment m the great packing If the Department of Labon can be helpful in promoting under- standing and can aid in any way to cessation of such services by this department will be given most Just whole problem of industrial readjustment is of such widespread public concern that Department of Labor with the knowledge of Departments of Agriculture that two of engaged ia department to possible such into the as may helpful in leading to a just and factory am a like request to and am acquainting them with this to Surely there must be a just solution and tbe good offices of this department are tendered in the hope of finding that solution so essential to the of the common Sending of the telegrams followed a day of strenuous work for the new Secretary m an effort to forestall the first to loom on the horizon thn new assumed President Gets The action of Davis was understood to c been taken with the full sanction of President who was Thursday of the decision of thp packing house em- ployes to fot a strike referendum as result of announcement by packers that wages would be cut proximately 12H per cent. A andum left at the White House Frank secretary of the American Federation of was referred to Secretary the Wilson administration through the arrived at office o'clock American embassy at Tokyo is under- morning m order to thoroughly stood to have contained a reiteration with the situation of the claim j before attending the cabinet meeting at 11 o'clock Status of Guam Gable Cited as Precedent for Japanese Claim the Associated Diplomatic between the American and Japanese governments concerning the status of the Pacific cable center of Yap have left the and it remains for the Harding administration to dictate the next Japan's reply to the protest against Japanese control of the island by jurisdiction by reason of mandate awarded by the supreme As to Japanese control of the for- mer German cables centering in the against which the American government particularly Japan is said to adhere to the ple of free use of the cables by all but with operation and con- trol remaining under the power that ia in possession of the ends of the Cite Guam Cable Japan that this arrangement exists In the case of the cable that runs from the of in the to The American company which j laid the it admitted the right of Japan to control the end which was landed in with America controlling the end in The Japanese view also is under- stood to be that since direct cable communication between the United States and Asia by way of Guam and Manila already the line from Guam to Asia via Yap only an in- direct overflow connection sary in ordinary and that fore settlement of the question of con- trol is not Allies May Meanwhile it is suggested that since the league of council has referred the American protest ad- dressed to it to the allied a reply may come from that quarter which may contain the germ of a basis for One incidental result of this the issue between Japan and the erlands arising from the claim the Dutch government to control of the former German cables extending from Yap to the Dutch Bast The matter was discussed at the cabinet and at the tion of President Secretary Davis conferred with him again at o'clock this when the President placed the entire matter Jn. the Sees Serious Secretary Davis later conferred with Secretaries Wallace and Hoover and transmitted the telegrams ing the services of the department to aid in adjusting the differences at 4 o'clock last Before going into the cabinet ing Secretary Davis said he believed is the duty of the Department of Labor to do all it can to assist in avoiding and in making public the telegrams he President placed in my the matter of trying to bring to agreement both parties in the ened strike between the packers I have spent the whole day on it I Have tried to do the right Mr. Davis declared the situation was and Justified sible effort to avoid an actual idle will running two Will Employ More March rado Fuel and Iron Company today announced that to T j i lie n i irm win in the stiel H. additional men will be com- next Monday IRISH LEADER WILL SPEAK Will H. Pearse A new council of the American sociation for the Recognition of Irish Republic will be installed in Alexandria tomorrow afternoon at The meeting will be held the Richmond Daniel C. president and national secretary of the will address the me tomorrow night at haJL you think t
