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New York Senator Attacks Terminal When Payment For Land at Charleston Comes Up in Senate Washington. June 2.?As if there had not been enough misinformation and prejudice voiced in the senate re cently in connection with Charleston Senator Wadsworth of New York, chairman of the committee on military affairs, today made another contri bution Just before the senate adopt ed an amendment to the deficiency appropriation bill to pay $-440,000 in judgments for land taken over by the government on which to build the greater quartermaster terminals at North Charleston. Before the item was adopted, Senator Wadsworth said: "I do not question the obliga tion of the government to pay these judgments, but I should like to know if .this completes the purchase of land for this base, because if it does it ends a chapter of what in my judg ment, has been one of the most ex traordinary expenditures, resulting in the most useless facility for the gov ernment that has come out of the war, I think we 9pent $16,000.000 for docks and buildings from which not one ton of supplies was ever shipped or can bi*' Senator Dial: "I beg the senator's pardon." 'Senator Wadsworth: "This is even yijigher up the river Chan the navy yard." v^.v**Sie?ator Dial: "It is a little above '?Jthe yard. A great deal of shipping has been carried on from there. There were 50.000 soldiers landed at that place, when they came back from France." "Senator Smith: "The statement of the senator from New York is but another evidence of the fact that con ditions down in that section of the country are not understood because they, are not investigated. The trans portation of troops from abroad and their, disembarkation at Charleston broke records. I think ships came right up to the magnificent terminals j and the soldiers disembarked and j . irere distributed to the -various sec tions from which they came in less time and at V?ss expense than'at any rather place on the Atlantic. Senator Smith insisted that the rec ';:&t?s showed - that many tons of sup plies did pass through the terminals and noted that a remount station was established. He said that the navy yard; was placed where It is on the recommendation of a commission of naval experts who selected it as the :'3>fest~.from ? strategic point of view of the .numerous suitable locations in i the waters around Charleston, and that it was "put up the rirer in or 4for* to.^ be further away . from the range of big guns at sea. He de clared that every admiral who has studied the location of the yard has pronounced it to have no superior on the Atlantic coast. ? **We could legislate here - for the interests of the country at large with a>great. deal more benefit" concluded Setvator Smith. *Tf we woold study j th>j resources of* the country as a j whole and not look at it from a sec- j tfonat standpoint/' ^Tbjs item of $440,000 was made up of -ieveraf . judgments to which the government had consented and was jmt in the bill by the senate appro priation after due certification by the attorney general and the secretary of treasury. Reform in Ireland ;_? Change To Be Made in Black and Tan Force Dublin, June 1.?The statement Is made' in the Independent that Vis count Fitzalan (formerly) Lord Ed mund Talbot.) the new Vnceroy for Ireland, obtained from the cabinet as a condition of his acceptance of the viceroyalty, an undertaking that the inception cf his regime would be marked by the withdrawal of the Aux- j Mary Police called in Ireland, the! "Black and Tans." In offcial quarters in Dublin this! statement is not confirmed. But it is generally, taken to point to some change in the control of the Auxiliary Force. ? Nominally the force is composed of men who are supposed to be cadets for the Royal Irish Constabulary, ewaiting appointment as district in spectors, and is therefore technically part of the police. But it is not con trolled by the heads of the Royal Irish Constabulary and has its own Commander-in-Chief in General Tu dor. . It is composed exclusively of ex officers who served in the war, and numbers about 1.500 men. It is not believed here that in present condi tions it is likely to be disbanded. New York, June 4.?Frank Tannen baum, a one time mob leader and radical agitator, has been graduated from Columbia University as an hon or student. Every day reports come in from almost all sections of the county of surprising heavy boll weevil infes tation. A number of farmers are picking the weevils, while others are preparing to begin the r -:e at once of calcium arsenate. The fight against the weevil is on, bLt, the farmers will find that the only way to make a win ning fight against the pest is to plain very little cotton and the greater part of their land in other crops. The season at Pocalla is now in full swing. There are crowds of bathers in the lake every afternoon and even ing, and the dance hall has a good crowd also. Each year Mr. Beck im proves and makes more attractive this popular resort, and he deserves the liberal patronage that he receives. : Invitations to the annual com mencement of St. Joseph's Academy which will be. held in the Opera House' Tuesday evening, June 14th have been issued* . . ?Business Stagnant in Greece i - Trade Has Fallen Off and Ship j ping Business Prostrated i _ j Athens, May 8?Business in Greece ! has fallen off to such an extent that 'American commercial representatives find themselves without anything to J do. Trade in all lines has become {stagnant. The shipping business is i prostrated. The only vessels to arrive tin three weeks were two hospital ships I bearing dead and wounded from the j Anatolian front. j The government is buying nothing (except a limited quantity of food sup plies for the army. It is withholding [payment on all outstanding accounts. 1 Every franc is needed for the Asia Mi nor campaign. The Greek franc (or drachma) has only one-third its former value. The cost of life was never higher, the mo rale if the people seldom lower. The price of bread was advanced 40 per cent a few days ago. The army is costing 4,000,000 francs a day. For eign observers are agreed that the country cannot go on without a finan cial crisis. j The defeat of Venizelos and the re j turn of King Constantine has affected all business in a country where com merce and politics are closely asso ciated. The blockade of foreign cred-. its. the rapid decline of the drachma, and uncertainly as to the future has resulted in commercial paralysis. Greece feels especially her inability to use the $33,000,000 credit she has in the United States. The American (State Department has made it clear that this cannot be touched until the question of recognition of the King is settled. Constantine insists he never abdicated, and refuses to recognize the legality of his son Alexander's reign. This attitude may have an Important bearing upon America's policy toward j Greece and the question of the $33, 1000,000 credit. The docks, warehouses and customs house in Pireaus (the port of Athens) are choked with merchandise, due to the inability of the purchasers to pay for it. The same condition prevails at Saloniki, Smyrna and Constantinople. Orders have been cancelled by the wholesale. Retail prices have increased to a J point where they are prohibitory. Tax es steadily are mounting. The gov ernment is faced with the necessity of issuing more paper money. Bank rates em short loans to stock-exchange brokers range as high as 40 per cent There is huge speculation in exchange, manipulators buying large amounts of foreign money on margin and then sellmg it at a profit. Profiteering in Cuba Landlords Are the Worst of All Offenders Havana, Cuba, May 14?Bitter com- j plaints are being made here against rent profiteering. Attacks are made I almost daily in the newspapers on ] rent profiteering landlords. Numbers j of cases of three room apartments for j which $150 month im demanded; with i one month'srent in advance and two months rent as deposit, are cited. One relief project being considered for submission to the city council pro vides for the appropriation of $1, 000,000 yearly for a number of years to construct four-room homes for the poorer people at a cost of about $3,000 each. By selling these homes on a partial payment plan, it is declared that the proceeds, turned into the construction of more homes, would soon solve the housing problem, and, incidentally, eliminate the rent prifiteer. Pagan Splendors for Senate. (Philadelphia Public Ledger). Congress has no serious thoughts of adjournment this summer. At least the senate has not. The senate is making itself comfortable for a long stay, and ^in the process is grad ually withdrawing from all contact with plebeian folk. "The forbidden ground" of the sen ate is gradually being extended. The marble room no longer will be invad ed and troubled by the "herd." Other spaces have been fenced off fully from the presence of more voters and or dinary' taxpayers. Hereafter the senate will dine in the presence of its own exclusive self, and in- that presence only. Only frag mentary descriptions of itssumptu i ously splendid outdoor cafe will ! reach the outside world, j We shall not know whether the senate will dine in the old Roman fashion, taking its humming birds' tongues and Hyblaean honey while reclining upon softly cushioned lounges or not. Nor will we/ know whether dusky survivors stand back tof each senator, waving >.vith languid i wavings an ivory-handled fan of pea cock feathers. There are a Lot of [things that we may never know about this new, high-up and far-re moved summer eating place of, the potent, grave and reverend" senators. There was a tale some time ago j of some marvelous gorgeous senate i baths?gilded. bedizened, marbled j and silvered baths. Surely the sen !ate is again making use of these? The I "most exclusive club in the world" i does itself well. i Mexico Ci:y, June 4.?War Minister Calles, says that official recognition I of the Mexican government by the ! United States is the only hope of re '. iieving conditions there, ii 11 I j Leipsic. June 4.?Lieutenant Xeu I mann, who was charged with sinking ?a hespital ship while commanding a German submarine has been acquitted Rough keepsie. June 4.?Nathaniel jlngraham has b< en found guilty of the murder of his rix year old daughter and sentenced *<? be electrocuted. Boston .tune 4.?Thomas Edison. Jr., predicted in an interview today that automobiles would soon carry indvidual stills to produce fuel for their operations. f I Weather Reports By Wireless l - ! Daily Bulletins to Be Distributed Throughout the United States Columbia. June 4.?Bulletins con taining1 weather observations are to i j be issued by wireless throughout the United States, effective June 1, accord ' ing to announcement made today 'from the Columbia weather bureau. ^Conducted by the weather bureau and j the army and navy, uper air observa tions are to be issued. These will be taken by the aero station of the navy I at Paris Island, and also by the new jaerological station at Due West, con | ducted by the weather bureau. It is i j also stated that amateur or private) ' army and navy, upner air observa tions, which come direct from the ns jval radio station at Arlington. Such istations can secure the necessary <n struction from the Columbia bureau. There is at least one amateur aero station in Columbia, and this will >>e able, as will others, to get the govern- i ment*s daily wireless reports. The government recently establish ed at Due West the aerologicai station of the weather bureau. Upper air ! records are here obtained by the use Of sounding baloons, large kites and the like. Strange Religious Rites Observed! j Description of Good Friday Cere- j monies in New Mexico _ i 1 i Albuquerque. New Mexico, May 31. ?A description of the Good Friday rites of the Penitente sect at Abiquiu, New Mexieo is given by Mrs. Alida F. Sims, of Albuquerque, wrho was an eye witness of one of these observ ances. It was at this village that a j party from Albuquerque saw two men tied to crosses tbi9 year for twenty five minutes, as the climax of the rites. Mrs. .Sims story started with the arrival at the \illage. "The 'morada' or Penitente chapel was easily picked out nestling on the hillside" ?he said. "We found a woma:. lighting eighteen candles on a large triangle of wood placed in front of the alter. We could see that the images of the saints and the figure of Christ were draped in black. "The women and the girls knelt in front of the alter on a strip of can vas stretched upon the dirt floor of the altar, and began to sing. The men and boys who had been linger ing outside came trooping in and knelt; then three old men and one woman walked round and round the triangle, passing in front of the al ter with a genuflexion while the re sponsive chanting was going on. "We stepped outside. A faint, plain tive piping attracted my friend and she observed. That is the Penitente ?pito' or flute. You will hear that where%'er they are. "The next morning we heard the notes of the pito again. Below me. on a trail issuing from a canyon, wound a little procession, headed by the 'pitero,' or flute-player, who walked backward. ;*But the Center figure caught and held the goz*1?a figure stripped to the waist, with blood-drenched trous ers?a figure that at each step struck Aiself with a great whip that came away blood-stained. "Slap, slap came the jack of the lash. But the penitent made no sound. His head was covered with a great black sack. Beside hirn a boy walked, carrying a pail rilled with salt water, into which the whip was dip ped from time to time. "In front of him walked a woman carrying a hymnal, and singing a wailing chant. "The procession made its way to the graveyard, where. walking over stones and briars, the. believers pro:3 trated themselves and kissed the cross. "The flagelant then made a circuit [of the cemetery, and the procession I returned to the morada over the stony path?a distance of half a mile [each way. The slow and tortuous j journey consumed one hour and twen ty minutes." In another procession seen the same day by Mrs. Sims, one of the peni tentes shouldered a cross up the steep path to "Calvarlo," accompanied by flagellents. Once the cross-bearer stumbled and fell, and his companions' laid the great wooden beam upon him eo that he was pinned to the path beneath it. When the crest of the hill was reached, the worshippers began mak ing th^ return trip down the hill mi their knees. I-ater in the day. Mrs. Sims attend ed the services of "last tiniebles" in the chapel. These services repre sent the hours of darkness and chaos that followed immediately alter the death of Jesus on the cross. The I witness thus describes the scene: [ "The babies were taken out, the I door and windows covered with [blankets, the candles of the wooden j triangle gradually extinguished. Just [before the last light went out. a weird i sound came through the wall, as j though it were issuing from the bow [els of the earth. The brother in charge of the rites conversed with the supposed "lost soul.' ? Then the last candlelight flickered j out. phinghig us into thick blackness. Instantly the most deafening noise 1 | had ever heard broke loose at close i quarters, ('bains rattled ami clanked thunderously. Pltos mingled with wooden rattles. The sound of whips lashing flesh, was heard. 'i changed my se;j{ in {he darkness. A heavy chain fell on my font. "The inferno ceased, and the can dles wer.? relighted. There the Brother of Light, which is another name for Penitente, <.tood calm and unruffled. There was not a chain in j sight." Geneva. June ?The international Olympic committee has awarded the 1&24 Olympic games to Paris and the 19 2 s games to Amsterdam, 1 j Alligators on I Golf Course -. Chief of Police of Cleanvatery ! Fla., Issues Orders That They Must Not Be Molested i - i Clearwater. Fla.. June 4.?Chief of j i Police Joseph Russell has issued a [warning that the first hunter who i I lakes a pot shot at any one of the five j ? alligators that roam at will over iClearwater'a golf course, is going to j [jail, for the chief, who also is 1 boss" j j of the course, is determined that his ! ! pets shall not he disturbed, j "If golfers cannot get along with j the 'gators the sellers will have to jplay their cow pasture pool else-j I where, that's all there is to it," the: j chief has declared. j At least live alligators are known \ j to be making th^ir homes on the! course. Russell recently discovered a I linle shaver about two and one-half i j feet long. How many more are in jthe vicinity he does not know but the j j old rule that where there is much | j smoke fire will be found, holds good ! with 'gators and he believes there are I several who have not registered, i "Joe." the largest one. named for [ the chief, is seven and one-half feet in length. Russe! says "Joe" is a "secluded sort of cuss" because he i.* I seen only in the late afternoon or j when high tide raises the level in the j water of the creek which "Joe" in- j habits. The creek crosses the fair- i way of Number 3 hole. The other j four are from two and one-half to four feet in length. Two of them oc- | eupy the creek near .Number 3 green while the other two are near Num ber S sreen The two- near Number 8 have become sc accustomed to the golfers that they paythem only pass ing notice. Charles Livingston Bull, the- artist, discovered the 'gators the first time recently while playing a round with Sewell Ford, the writer, when he ] walked almost upon a four footer sun ning himself "What's the idea, trying to give the tourist player a thrill?" asked Bull. "Partly," Ford replied, "but I be lieve Russell intends to train a few ?gators to act as caddies during the rush next season." Search for a River of Gold. Edmonton, A It a., June I.?Search for a lost river?a river of gold? will be undertaken this year by several i from the Yukon and Alaska, who are : now here outfitting for the long jour ney into the north country. This lost river bed. where the Peace river once flowed, is somewhere in the big bend of the Peace, bisected by a line drawn from Fort St.John to the mouth of the Battle River. Some years ago an indian brought into Fort St. John a fair sized gold | nugget which, according to the tale J told by old timers of the north, he discovered in a stream in the country to the north-east of the post. Soon after this an old trapper, a white man, who made Fort St. John his headquarters, came into the Fort with a quantity of coarse gold which j he had washed from some stream in j h similar direction to that from which the Indian hailed. He never visited his trap lines after i this, living on the fat <?!' the land in carefree idlenes at the post. He j often disappeared, whenever his sup- I plies of necessaries ran low, and would be away for a few days, al ways returning with a fresh supply ! of gold. This aged trapper lived in this \ manner for a number of years. He j died, as many trappers and north country men have, on the trail. His body was found frozen. With him j went his secret, he never having told j anyone the location of his find. The books oft he Hudson's Bay company [ still contain a large credit account in the name of the old trapper. Northmen, who tell the story of the mystic El Dorado n??rth of the j Peace, declare that the gold was only j available after a heavy fall of snow. 1 with which the old fellow apparently I washed his mineral. From an am:./ sis of the circumstances generally, it i is thought that the place from which gold was taken was an old river bed j where the Peace once flowed, but I whether the story is correct or not re- j mains to be proved. Prospectors, however, are putting j up good money to test the truth of the theory that the precious metal does exist somewhere to the north of Clear Hills in large quantities. New York, June 4.?Ralph Upshon. the New York pilot, and Chief Fore caster Andrus, of the Federal Weather j Bureau, who won the National Bal loon Race from Birmingham have been designated as one of tin* three! teams to represent th?* United States in the Bennett Balloon Races in Bel gium in September. Winston-Salem, June 4.- R. J. Rey nolds Co.. announces a reduction of! appoximately twenty per cent inj wages of employees. Pekin, June 4.?Several hundred! students and teachers seeking to in terview the Chinese Premier over ar-l rears of pay attacked by soldiers who: used rifles and clubs. Tokio, June 4.?The naval garrisons j have been ordered withdrawn and the) protection of the island of Yap. will bei left to tin* police, it is officially an nounced. : Washington. June 4.- ? Department of Labor officials believe that Mayor j O'Callaghan of Cork, who came here as a stowaway to testily before the investigating committee, has returned! to Ireland. I -m-1.? ? ?? ? j Warsaw. June 4.?Lieut. Jwaniicki.j the Polish aviator who was convicted] of giving British agents military se- ? erets has been exe< uted. j Washington. June 4.?Chairman j Volstead announced today that he would ask for a special rule to force early consideration of the bill pro-j hibiting the prescription of beer as a medicine. Bank Embezzler Trial j W. C. T. Bates, Jr., of Columbia i To Be Tried in Federal Court j Next Week _ i - Columbia, June 4.?W. C. T. Bates, j Jr., the young- bank teller of Colum- | bia, charged with embezzling $153,000 from the- Liberty National bank, is to be tried at the term of federal court . which begins in Charleston next Tuesday, according to a statement made today by United States District Attorney Weston. Still another inter- [ esting case will be that against Ar thur W. Fraylick, of Hopkins, Rich land county, charged with embezzling $ 0,000 of postal funds, when he was postmaster at Hopkins. Of seventy-five cases ready for trial, fifty-seven are for violation of the pro hibtion law. About seventy-five more cases are to be presented to the grand jury next wek. A few auto theft and narcotic eases are on th roster of cases. Roads of Remembrance Trees To Be Planted on High ways as Memorials Washington, .June 4.?The "Roads of Remembrance" idea, originated by the American Forestry Association in the avenue i>f memorial trees lead ing to the tomb of the late President McKinley, are now being planned in many sections of the country, accord ing to reports received by the as sociation. National patriotic organ izations have adopted the idea for marking points of unusual interest and civic improvement groups are us ing it to beautify local roads and highways. Air*. Warren G. Harding has sent the trowel she used in planting the Ohio Tree on the miniature Road of j Remembrance of the American For- j estiy Association to Canton, O., .Mc- | Kinley's .former home, for use by the Lincoln Highway Memorial AssocJa- j tion in planting 200 trees aiong a j memorial avenue from Lincoln High- j way to MeKmley's monument. Among | these trees will be a "War President's Row" with six magnificent trees, one for each of the "War Presidents" from Washington to Wilson. A hand some box was provided for the trowel in which will be kept a record of the trees it "plants" before it is returned to the Forestry organization in Washington. In a letter to Mrs. William D. Cald well, of Canton, president of the Lin coln Highway Memorial association, Mrs. Harding expressed the hope that the trowel might "inspire some more tree planting." Mrs. William W. Richardson, Vir ginia librarian of the Daughters oP the American Revolution is complet ing plans for a road of remembrance into Yorktown, the forestry associa tion announces and Geo. P. Blow is restoring Washington's headquarters there. A very bad road leads to the birthplace of Washington, officials <>f the forestry association point out and they suggest that a good road be built and planted with memorial trees. Between Kau Claire and Chippewa Falls in Wisconsin, the Chambers of Commerce is well along on a memor ial highway plan connecting the two cities. Centering at Elgin, HI., a three cornered plan has been put underway for planting ten thousand trees along the Lincoln Highway by the Cham bers of Commerce of various towns. ! the association says. At Tampa. Fia.. the Rotary Club has completed the planting of fifteen miles of the west coast load in memory of the men of Hillsborough county. At Fort Myers, Flu., the road planting Wea has been taken up. From California come reports of a statewide roadside tree planting cam paign and many of the towns have registered their trees. There the road authorities are co-operating in giving instruction as to the proper road side j planting met nods. Luther Burbank planted the first memorial trees along j one road. At Laporte, Ind., the Ha- ! mon Gray Post of the American Le- j gion will plant 3,000 trees. "Opportunity for memorial and a i great educational ? campaign on tree values are found in roads of remem- j hrance." srJd Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the association today. "Let us go slow with monument building and save them for the prop er placing along these roads of re membrance or giw them the proper approach at the end of memorial ave nues easily reached from our high ways. As the auto becomes more and more the method of business and pleasure travel so will the demand for these beautiful roads mount higher and higher. Why not vision the fu ture and provide now for these things?" OFFICERS FOR FILIPINO ARMY! j - i Manilla. P. I., April 1."?Application ! for 325 candidates for commission as j second lieutenants in the Phillipine Scouts have been received at Fort Santiago headquarters of the Phili pine department of the United States army, since it was announced a few weeks ago that :i oomepetitive exam ination would be held late in April to select ;i number of officers for that branch of the army. Applica- j lions have come from Filipinos in all ! parts of the islands, including half a dozen from far away Davao, island of Minda nao. According to adv ices f rom Wash- j ington, there will be sixty-five ap pointments made from those who pass! the examination. In order to re- I ceive an appointment, an applicant j must be between the ages of 21 and } Philipine Islands. -.?... Washington, June 4.?Consular of ficers overseas have been furnished by the State Department with infor-j mation showing the exact number of; immigants who may enter here under the restricton law. ? Railroads in Philippines State Owned System Barely Made Expenses Last Year Owing to Competition of Trucks * Manilla. P. L, April 10?The an nual report of the Manilla Railroad company which is owned by the Phil ippine government, shows operating revenue for 1920 of $3.9983,000 and operating expenses of 54,933,000. Af ter deductions ofr fixed charged and taxes, the report shows a profit for !the year of $11,900. ! Commenting on the inroads which ?the motor truck has made into raii i road traffic the report says: "The i present situation is ur.tenable and in !the absence of an adequate tax meas ; ure the government is confronted I with the alternative of subsidizing its rail and water line? or restricting the operation of trucks to non-com ? pt-ting routes." The company operates approxi mately 000 miles of railroads and the ] total assets, according to the roport, amount to $40,600,000. jClemson College Trustee Resigns - IB. H. Rawl, of Lexington County Will Remove to California ! Columbia, June 4.?'?>. H. Rawl, of I Lexington, has extended his resigna tion to Governor Cooper as a mem ber of the Board of Trustees of Clem son College. The governor received [the resignation Friday morning but has not taken any action in regard to it as yet. Mr. Rawl resigned because he is leaving the state. He goes soon to , California, where he wrill enter busi ness. Mr. Rawl's term expires next year. The legislature will elect his successor, ! though the governor may appoint Ianother trustee to serve in the interim. Music in Hawaii Old National Melodies Sung at Convening of Legislature in Honolulu Honolulu, T. H., April 15 (Delay ed)?Music flooded the senate and house chambers as the eleventh leg islature of Hawaii recently adjourn ed at midnight after a sixty-day ses sion. Senators and representatives, chaplains and clerks joined in har mony, the like of which probably would not be heard in any other leg islative body in the world. In the senate, the smaller cham ber of the two, the singing of old Ha waiian melodies, was more general than in the house, although both showed a marked degree of that com radeship which is typical of the friendships of Hawaii, no matter what political complexions may be. The booming basso profundo of Senator John Wise joined with the clear tenor of Senator Charles King, a recognized authority on Hawaiian music, while above the two soared the bell-like baritone of Rev. Akaiko Akana, chaplain of the ?enate, one of the leading vocalists oi the terri tory. Ancient and lively hulas, plain tiff meles or chants, and an occasion al modern air told all and sundry that the eleventh legislature was dy ing fast, but dying with a lilt on its legislative tongue. Paroled During Good Behavior. Columbia. June 3.? Governor Coop er yesterday afternoon paroled during his good behavior James Sanders, Co lumbia negro, who was serving a life sentence on a' Richland county gang for the murder of Chas T. Filers, a white man, whom he killed in 1915, and for whose death he was sentenced in May. 191?. it was brought out in the trial that three white men made improper approaches to San ders' wife on the street. She went home and told her husband and he found the men and rebuked them for attacking his wife. The men drew knives, and threw bricks at Sanders. it was testified, and ih^ negro fired, killing Ellers. War Veteran Faker. Columbia. June 2.?James Evans, posing as a hero of the World War, was yesterday ordered out of Colum bia by the recorder, on the ground that he was a faker. The man was asking aid from people on the street. He pretended that he. had lost his voice in France, as a result of wounds received in the fighting. He showed a printed sheet, on which he appeal ed for money to augment: the govern ment's small allowance. He showed what purported to be an army dis charge, but this was examined by army men here and pronounced a counterfeit. He picked up a lot of money here. When the officers ap proached him he was seen to throw some papers in a garbage can. These were later rescued and were found to be the fake discharge and the pub lie appeal. Norfolk. Jure 4.? Bight members of the crew of the steamer Mitchell were injured and others slightly wounded by a party of masked men who escaped before assistance arriv Kattowitz. SiP-sia. June 4.?The Po lish insurgent lenders are taking dras tic steps to prevent plundering'. Fir ing squads are busy daily but the P.?les are said ?o be continuing riot London. June 4 - The League of Nations committee on Amendments has referred to a committee of jur ists the question of reporting to the assembly; meeting tr -sponsihility article ten places on e members. New York, June ? he former German Liner Kaiser (helm has been renamed Presider/ ard.ing.