Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1921, Page 1

* Kutz, chairn sgued that the Washington Railway ! economy. WEATHER. Partly cloudy, with local thunder- showers tonight or tomorrow; no change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 88, at 4:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 73, at 4 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing New York Stocks, Page 29. = No. 28,200. post _office Wi Entered as second-class matter ashington, D. C. CITIZENS PROTEST UNIFORM GAR FARE RATES IN DISTRICT Right of Public Utilities Com- mission Is Challenged at Hearing. OPENING GUNS FIRED FOR CHEAPER TRAVEL Consideration of Zoning System Op- posed as Contrary to Charters of Traction Companies. The risht of the DPublic Utilities Commission to give the Capital Trac- tion Company the same rate of far required by the Washinston Railway was questioned ayton, attorney for and ric Compa by William McK. ¢ the Federation of ssocia- | tions, at the opening of the strect rate at the District building Washington Railw and Electric Company argued that che utilities act requires the commission to fix a rate of fare that will not discriminate be- ween the two groups of car rulerfi_ At the opening of the hearing Col. n of the commission, an- that he and his colleaguces up three que desire to hear arguments. nounced tions upon which They Program of Commission. “First—Whether the commi sexceeded its power in fixing a un JJrate of fare for all street railway Nines. ! “Second—Assuming that the com- | mission had the right to keep the rate | tuniform, should the present rate of | fare be continued or changed? “Third—Should the chanxe in rates, it a change is decided upon, be ef- |fective on September 1 or at an car- lier date?” : Speaking to the first question, Col. Kutz said: “It has been implied by the Fede: atlon of Citizens’ Associations and by certain members of Congress that the comm on is without authority to fix the same rate of fare for all street railway compan The commission is desirous of obta )it can on this question that the commission was sir to correct the sit Before beginning to a the commission’s right If it is true wrong, it de- n.” ue against Capital Traction Company whatever rate of fare the other system must; have Mr. Clayion made a motion! that the commission strike from the petition of the Washington Railway and Electric the clause in which it asked that the same rate of fare be Siven the Capital Traction-Company. .Motion Overruled. The attorney for the izens ar- {and Electric has no rigkt to ask for ¥ feommission exclude from i | ! a rate of fare for any canpany that it does not own or_control. Col. Kutz overruled the Mr. Clayton then moved motion. that the the case any evidence looking to the estab- Jishment of a zone system of fare: He based this motion on the conten tion that the charters of the com- panies specifically provide that only | a single fare shall be charged for a continuous ride on any of the street yallway lines. A zone system, he srgued. would mean two fares for a ride. . federa must t ion contends tha fix separate of fare for the » companies, then ems to me a zone System might to be considered,” replied Col. commission The chairman. however, announced that t ae he n comm on it Tas heard fix a uniform rate on Questioned. Clayton if the to fix Separ- fare for the Georgetown nnaliytown and the City and ban companies if it had to fix raie between the Capital nd the W. R. and E. Clayton answercd that from a would reserve a ayton's motion to zone system it trictly iegal aspect the Georgetown and Tenleyto and the City and Suburban © corporations But for twe years, he said, the have n controlle shington R: Company and are e, . Clayton Ing these roads a porations the W and FElcctric has and tric « part of that declared that in ke independent co hington Railway not violated letter of the merger act of 1900, but he contended t the Washington Railwa lectric has violated the #pirit _of the act of 1900 in not doing away with the separate tity of the Georgetown and Ten- npanie “If we have the same rate ington 1w Georgetown City the legal of are for the Wush- y _and Electric, the and Tenleytown and the d Suburban, why haven't we tion Company “If you wan view ~without asked ol. Kutz. to take the cold legal considering the equi- tahle side of the question, you have | that right,” Mr. Clayton replied. Position Declared Reversed. At this point Mr. Clayton was in torrupted by Attorney Jobn S. Bar- bour of the Washington Railway and Electric. who asked agree in a previous Washington Railway and Electric and the Potomac Eiectric Power Company were entitled to a combined rate of Teturn. Mr. Clayton replied that he believed he did take that position. He added that that was an instance of the de- sire of the citizens to be fair to the ‘Washington Railway and Electric. Mr. Barbour then asked him if he did not contend against separate rates of fare in a rate case in 1917. Mr. Clayton replied that the citizens had gone with the commission in that case and had not objected to the uni- form rate of fare during the war period. Ar. Barbour then asked Mr. Clayton why he had changed his position in this case. Mr. ton replied that the coun- try is now returning to a state of normalcy and that things permitted ;o(;'w vears ago should not continue Attorneys Challenged. He challenged attorneys for the company to find any section in the utilities law that gives the commis- slon the right to fix the same rate of fare for all companies in the District. When Attorney Yelle* took the floor for the company at ...on he cited paragraph 2 of the utilities act, which provides that rates shall be non-dis- eriminatory. He explained that_ he iook_this wording_to_mean non-dis- ", (Continued on Page 4, Column'4.) ining all the light | to give the! fates| until it ) its might to! town and the City and Suburban | right to fix| it he did not| case that the| REHEARING IS ALLOWED IN MINIMUM WAGE CASE Court of Appeals Revokes Order in Suits to Test Validity of Law. | | The District Court of Appeals has revoked its order denying a rehear- ing on the question of the constitu- tionality of the minimum wage law and will rehear the case next fall. Suits to test the validity of the law fixing a minimum wage for women and minors were brought by the Children’s Hospital and Willie Lyon a female operator of an elevator in the Congress Hall Hotel. Justice Bailey of the Distric preme Court upheld the validit the law and counsel for the plain- tiffs appealed. The Court of Appeals in a two-to-one opinion held the luw Su- valid. Chief Justice Smyth rendered | the opinion, whi s concurred in 1 by Justice & the al {sence of Ju Justice Van | Orsdel rend. opinion declaring that if the law wis consti- | tutional it was but one step to com- { munism, “when the t ident would be compelled with his indolent neighbo; | Counsel for the plaintiffs asked a rehearing. tief Justice Smyth and Justice Stafford denied the and provi- o divide and ordercd a stay | allow the pla to seek from | the United Supreme Court. A { second application has met with a avorable decision from two membes of the court and the clerk {ceived an order to restore the {to the calendar for a rehearing in| i due cours ARCHITECT'S FORCE - FOUND UNDERPAID {Inquiry Opened in Lefting of Contracts to Nine Archi- tects for Schools.: Realization that the salagies and | force in the office of the municipal architect of the District are entirely inadequate was the result of the hearing today before the House Dis- trict committee investigating the let- ting of contracts to nine architects in |been in history, declared De Valera, | connection with the school building |2s he was about to enter Into con- | program. | ference today with Mr. Lloyd George. | Representing the opinion of mem- Declares Outlook Bright. bers of the committee. practios Asked what he considered was the | r‘very one of whom indicated his con. | Prospect of a settled peace being | currence in the view, Chairman Focl { cuere «© view, Chairman Focht | he salaries paid to the munici : cipal itect and his force of employes |are measly and beggarly.” “‘He tells us the draftsmen get $1,200 L300 and 1400 a year, T ess than the pay of a bricklaye | He, himself, compelled under the 1 {to supervise the school bullding prosram, gcts 4 salary of .600. It is an outra scan- dal on_the mation | be 4nd @ sean To which Repres Virginia _added: £2.000,000 entative Woods of '‘And very poor | Investigntion Ordered. | of Representative Hammer of North i Carolina, the committee instructed | I have been told, said, “that; ithe chairman o investigate and |You have been rather disappointed in | make *recommendations of " what 'y not tulking more freely with you, should be done within the law, cluding recommendations for = ade- quate salarie: Representative Sproul of Illinoi who started the investigation, an who had been comparing the work done by the school supervising archi- tect in Chicago, with a force of more than twenty men, admitted ‘that that official received $10,000 a year, while the municipal architect in_the Dis- trict receives only $3,600. Represent- ative Blanton of Texas said: “We ought to give the municipal architect all the help he needs at adequate salary, so that he can carry out this work under the law.” Chairman Focht added. “And commend him for what he has been doing.” Today's Witnexses. The witnesses before the committee rwere Maj. Carey Brown, assistant to the engineer commissioner, and Albert | L. Harris, the District architect. Both of these witnesses said that with the sole purpose of expediting the erection of the nine school buildings 8o as to| have them completed if possible for the opening of school a year from next September, they had recommended to |the District Commissioners the em- i ployment of outside architects whose commission is to be 3 per cent of the cost of the building, not including mechanical equipment, with the mu- [ nicipal architcet’s office retaining | work of supervising construction. ! "t was explained by Maj. Brown, in ireply to a question why they did not | have standard buildings and why dif- | ferent architecture were required for | each building, "that six of the build- “he!ings are additions which must con-|by Sccretary {form to the original structures. He {explained that one new building north iof Lincoln Park, the only locati |available, is a corner lot which will | require entirely different construction | than if it was at another location. Architect’s Office Clogged. Both Maj. Brown and Architect Har- ris explained why this work could not |be done by the municipal architect’s |office. They said that office already | was clogged with current work on ad {mates for other District buildings. Besides that, out of the $2.000.000 school building program, the munici- pal architect’s_office has reserved the two Junior High schools, the Tu- { berculosis School, the Eastérn High chool. Gallinger Hospital and other important building work, which_is being handled _exclusively by | municipal architect's office. Representative Hammer of . North after absenting himself | from the hearing for a while, made | the announcement on his return that | Carolina, i he had been in conference with Rep- | | resentative Ben Johnson, formerly | chairman of the District committee |and now a member of the House ap- | propriations committee, which han- dled the school building budget, and had been advised by him that the action of the District authorities in Jetting out contracts to nine archi- tects was unwarranted in law Representative Sproul of Illinois read the law covering this point, | which showed that the work was to | be done under the supervision of the I municipal architect. Representative | Woods of Virginia and others felt that the spirit of the law was that the work should be done by the municipal architect’s office. _— NOMINATIONS TO SENATE. President Names H. V. Steelman as Assistant Treasury Register. The President today sent to the Senate the nomination of Harley V. | Steelman of Marietta, Ohio, to be assistant register of the Treasury. Other nominations sent to the Sen- ate by the President include: To be assistant attorney general, Rush L. Holland of Colorado; to be post master at Hagerstown, Md., Frank L. v Bennett. law | After a heated hearing, on motion | the | : 3 1 the right to include the Capital Trac- |ditions and repairs and making esti- | ,‘Sii’.‘é(‘é’ hes the | W The WASHINGTO CROWDS IN LONDON | CHEERANDPRAY AS IRISH PARLEY OPENS De Valera Declares Outlook | for Success Brightest in | History of Erin. {JUBILANT AS HE BEGINS {TALK WITH LLOYD GEORGE i First Step Is Effort to Find Basis 1 for Settlement—Men Meet H Alone. fated Press, July {rived at No. 10 Downing street at 14:30 o'clock this afternoon for his | conference with Mr. Lloyd George, the British prime minister, set for that {hour, at which an effort will be made {10 find a basis for an Irish peace set- tlement. The republican ieader's appearance at the prime minister's ofiicial resi- dence was punctual to the minute. Mr. | Lloyd \George was awaiting him and their conversations over the peace ques- tions were begun immediately. Crowds Kneel in Prayer. Notwithstanding a drizzling rain, a | great crowd which had gathered at | the entrance to Downing street wait- od patiently Or some announcement irom the momentous meeting. Shortly after Mr. de Valera entered the prime lminister’s house the crowd knelt in! Whitchall and began to recite the| | rosary. ! | The Irish republican leader drove | directly from the hotel in Buckingham ! Pulace road used as headquarters by | the Irish delegation to Downing street in a motor car. He was accompanied ! by Art O'Brien, president of the Gaelic | {League in London and Robert C. Bar-| | ton, & member of the Irish delegation. | TA] crowd, mostly women, which | | vad gathered about the hotel swarmed | {around the automobile as it departed, {cheering and waving Sinn Fein flags. | i The outlook for a lasting peace in | {Ireland is brighter than it has ever | brought about by the conference, Mr. | | De era replied: outlook is brighter than it} as in history. I am sure.” he! that the atmosphere in Enf- | is right for peac added, land and Ireland The only thing that is necessary now is for us to get down to rock bottom.” { "It was the first time Mr. De Valera | had spoken for publication since his arrival in London Tuesday evening. | _“This is simply a private conference ! with Mr. Lloyd George, instead of a i long-range bombardment, to see what {can be done at close quarters.” satd the republican leader, who was in a ! bright and cheerful mood, in talking | { with the correspondents. H era Explains Silence, i De V {but I am sure you quite understand | the @ifficulties of the moment. I have come to tell you that it is not that I do not wish to say a number of | things to the people of Great Britain | but that the moment isn't opportune | for it. | | "“As far as I can see from your| i press here, which I have studied very | cfully, there is no country in the world which needs more to under- | stand the aspirations of the Irish peo- {ple and the right and logic of their {case than your own people here. “I should be very glad indeed to put_the case before your people, but | {as 1 am putting it before the repre- | i sentative of your nation 1 think it unwise to put it before your public.” | | ! Quotes Ex-President Wilson. | Asked whether he would insist on| the discussion in London being given | full publicity. Mr. de Valera employ-| ed President Wilson's phrase, declar-{ ing he personally was in favor of | “open covenants openly arrived at” | It was announced from De Valera's headquarters that this afternoon’$ con- | ference would take the form of a personal _interview between the | | British prime minister and Mr. de | Valera, no one else being present. Reports published today that an! | agreement was reached at the recent | | Dublin conference between Eamonn | | de Valera and the southern unionists i regarding the terms which would bé | demanded from the British govern-| {ment at the conference in London {were categorically denied at de! | Valera’s headquarters this morning | Childers of the visiting | { Irish party. Pact With Unionists Denied. “There was no discussion, direct or indirect, of any such terms,” said Mr. ! Childers. “The conference confined itself exclusively to discussion of Mr. Lloyd George's invitation to a con- ference and of the arrangements re- garding the truce.” i~ The published report to which Mr. | Childers referred alleged that the _ provisional agreement besides the provisions of the present government of Ireland act, the following: A dominion status for Southern Ireland; Southern Ireland to be exempt from imperial taxation and have full fiscal autonomy; Northern Ireland to remain as it is at present. Mr. de Valera, republican chleftain, and Prime Minister Lloyd George had |planned carefully for' the meeting; | which was looked upon as possibly the first stage of a new and brighter | epoch in the relations between the two peoples. The meeting was simply to prepare the way for further and more important discussions, but the fact (Continued on Fourth Page.) Toda);’s News in Paragraphs Employes of D. C. architect ‘Shown to be underpaid, o pagnCy i Forty-one injured at Chesapeak: When boardwalk collapses. .. epfge;m; Fight for cheaper car fares in District begun before Public Utilities Commis- sion. Page 1 Ex-Controller Williams of Treasury de- nounces federal reserve board’s meth- ods. 5 Page 1 President,’ receiving chair from news men, lauds profession. Page 3 Gen. Badoglio, Italian army chief, calls on Secretary Weeks._ Page 4 Chamber of Commerce directors adopt principles on utilities questions. Page 20 Declares monopoly on ofl will aid only monopoly. © Page 24 Tech will ask for entirely new building. ' 3 Page 25 Body of Lewis Hudson Boss, D. C. sol- dier killed in France, due Saturda: Page 27 TAX ON PRODUCTION {President Wants Best Way to jof a greatly | America is at this time a paramount ! fashion as | cause it will not be so difficult to col- bening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION N, D. C, —_—— NOW APPEARS SURE Relieve Business—Revenue Stamps Likely. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Harding has made it clear to the republican leaders in Congr that he wants a tax program adopted j which will lift restraint from business initiative. He is not committed to a sales tax, but is inclined to believe that a tax on production at the source can be imposed without adding to the burden of business. While the tax program is in em- bryo condition certain fundamentals| practically agreed upon. For in- stance, business men everywhere have been imagining that with the repeal of the excess profits tax the govern- Ment would be obliged to increase Mmaterially the corporation taxes. The aim of the Harding administration, however, is to avoid any increase of corporation taxes, if possible. and Dnly’ to impose a slight addltl?rr;‘ in ere corporation taxes if necessary. is. indeed, no thought of making the corporation taxes a substitute for the excess profit tax. This decision ought to be good news to the business men of the .country who have worried over the prospects increased corporation tax. President Harding. however. feels that the revival of business in consideration, and that nothing should be placed in the way of busi- ness incentive. Execess Profit Tax to Go. The repeal of the excess profit tax is a foregone.conclusion, and it is certain that the next revenue bill will not attempt to make the busi- ness and industries of the country carry the bulk of the load. Instead, the tax burden will be more evenly distributed by the use of every sort of stamp tax. The three-tent letter postage may come back, and it seems assured that revenue stamps will be necessary on practically every kind of business transactions from bank checks and i drafts to real estate papers and other documents of purchase and sale. While these small taxes may prove annoying and inconvenient, the feeling is_that such annoyance is hardly to be compared with the bur- den hitherto carried by business as a Whole. Taxes at best are disagree- able, but the government's job thig time is to distribute them in suc to stimulate a business revival. i The tax on production is favored as a substitute for the sales tax, be- lect and will not be paid several | times as goods pass from producer to consumer. The exact form of this production tax has not yet been de- termined, but the idea appears to be to impose the tax.on the output of commodities very much as the present tax on automobiles is covered. ‘Will Pass on Payment. In such cases, of course, the manu- facturer will pass on the payment of the tax to the consumer, as happens with automobiles, but in the sales tax proposal the chances were that more than one tax would be imposed on the same article as it passed to various stages. = The progress of the tax program is expected to be more rapid after the House finishes with the perma- nent tariff bill. Indeed, it is the ad- ministration’s plan to have the Sen- ate sidetrack the tariff bill when it gets to the Senate, by having lengthy i committee hearings. The revenue bill agreed upon by republican leaders will also be introduced in the Sen- ate and referred to committee while it is being discussed in the House. It will mean that the tax bill will come,out of the Senate finance com- mittee ahead of the tariff, and prob- ably will be passed hefore the tariff Dbill is debated. The hope now is that both the tax and the tariff bills will be out of the way by October 1. {(Copyright, 1921.) Gen. Sawyer Rides Horseback for First | Time in 35 Years Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, the President’s personal physi- clan, mounted a large sorrel Army horse and rode for two hours in Potomae Park today. It was his first horseback ride in more tham thirty-five years and it was the first of a course of exercise he has prescribed for himwelf. He was accompanied by Lieut. Mathieson, the President or- | derly, and, although he felt a trifie strange and imexperienced at first, he thoroughly enjoyed the ride. | | U PROVIDE FOR HIM. : Has Weird Dreams | After Eating Egg | Taken From Snake Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., July 14. —. Knee, prominent | 2 churchman and merchant of | Mariboro, Va., was “dead sure” he saw snakex while he slept Inst night, and he is not yet entirely convinced he didn't. Mrs. Knee had an encounter black snake w a_ six-foot while whe was gathering exgw late In the nafternoon. The snoke waw coiled.up under a hen, and Mrs. Knee touched the xerpent when she reached in to get the eggs the hen had laid. After the wsnake had been Killed an egg came out of itx | mouth, being the egg the hen | hod lald while sitting on the | smake. Mrx. Knee, it was said, Intd the egs aside, but Mr. | Knee got it by mistake. boiled | it and ate it. During the night he had terrible drenms, meigh- | caused by eating | VLS AT RESERVE BOARD Says Rules Cramp Banks, Merchants and Farmers. By the Associated Press. AUGUSTA, Ga. July 14—Stubborn refusal: of the Federal Reserve. B to modify its rules and policies to adapt them to changing conditions and to sectional and seasonable dc- mands has causeM unnecessary hard- ship and obstruction of return 1o healthy conditions. John Skaitoa Wil liam: former controller of the ci rency, ‘declared here:teday in -ar ad- dress before the Augusta fiard of Commerce, the Georgia Press Assgo- ciation and farmers of the state. Calls Administration Poor. The reserve board, he asserted. “te- came by poor administration sUff aud inelastic, consequently oppressive and injurious where it ghould. ha helpful, and dangerousl where it should have been repressi Mr. Williams declared the pol of the board had resulted in “cruel cramping of banks. small merchants and farmers of the country, and actua! stimulating of wild_speculation and destructive usury in New York.” Purpose of Act Lost. “The intent of the framers of the great federal reserve act,” Mr. Wil- liams continued, “was that the system be governed and conducted on plain, common sense principles, applicable to both the village and small towr and the big town man. One of the prin- cipal and most vital purposes was to prevent congestion:of money atthe centers for use in gambling or for exactions from gamblers when funds are needed for moving or. carrying crops or for development and conduct of productive enterprises. I say that broad and.noble purpose has been hindered, preverted and in large measure reversed by the ma- jority of the Federal Reserve Board to maintain_and enforce rules un- necessarily hard, inflexible and un- varying. _— FOUR KILLED IN CRASH. OAKLAND, Calit, July 14.—An air- plane from the Jacuzzi Brothers’ air- plane factory in Berkeley fell at Mo- desto, killing the pilot and three pas- sengers, today, according to word re- ceived by the Oakland Tribune. vd § H i i Ik jting down governmental expenditu: THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1921—-FORTY PAGES. M OUTINGS AIR. FOR- THE R ME@M? SEE FINE PROGRESS BY U.S.INREFORMS Leaders Optimistic Over Dis- armarent, Budget, Bonus Delay and Tax Revision. The administration is beginning to !gee the clear for a more op- timistic view of the future on leg lative and administrative progress. These are the features of the pro- spective situation which cause gratifi- cation: Removal of the menace to financial nditions held to be embodied in the proposed bonus legislation, through the holding up of that measure. Tangible results in the way of cut- now and Kkeeping them down in the future, by the work of the budget reformers. Prospect of action in the early fall on the tax revision bill, possibly tak- ing precedence, “as heretofore fore- cast, of the tariff bill in final enact- ment. Definite advance toward stabiliza- tion of world peace and limitation of expenditures for naval and military armament, to come from the confer- ence of the five aliied and associated powers in Washington in November. Bonus Delay Not Feared. The best judgment of republican leaders in Congress is that the party in power will not suffer disparage- ment by postponement of action on the bonus bill. although the demo- crats will go To the utmost to make political capital among the members of the American Legion by the fail- ure of the majority to pass the bill. The way the bonus bill was handle is_expected to “take the curse off’ with the rank and file, who were in- tent cpon its enactment. 1t is pointed out that the party re- sponsible for legislation made a showing in good faith in behalf of the bill and only desisted effort when the President and the Secretary of the Treasury presented arguments to support the contention that the bill. | if made into law. wou'd work untold ill upon the economic, 1r.dustrial and financial condition of the country Those arguments are expected to ap- peal to the mass of the people who would be affected by the misfortunes predicted to follow sach a law. and to gain their support for the admin- istration which halt=d its passage. Results From Budget. Reports of the progress being made by the budget reformers in cutting down expenses of the government immediate- Iy are classed as gratifying. A big saving is expected to be effected for the current year and larger economies for the succeeding budgets. While it is not contended that these will be of mag- nitude sufficient to materially reduce taxes, for the purposes of the impend- ing bill, it is maintained that the coun- | try should find satisfaction in the spec- tacle of reforms being accomplished, with more to follow. 1t is prediced by House leaders that a tax revision bill will be reported to the House within five weeks after the pas- sage of the tariff bill, July 21. This may prove an overoptimistic view, but the leaders are determined to make it come true if possible. The Senate will determine later whether to hold back the tariff bill while it expedites the tax bill, the trend of sentiment among republicans at this time said to be in favor of such a course. Many senators are in favor of it because they think the country is more concerned oOver taxes than the tariff. MAJ. POLK COMING HERE. Maj. Newton K. Polk, fleld artillery, at Fort Howard, Md., has been ordered | to this city for duty in the office of the chief of the militia bureau, War! Department. Germany Puzzled at U. S. Peace, Saying, “It Doesn’t Mean a Thing” BY A. R. DECKER. By Wireless to The Star .and_ Chicago, Daly. News. Copyright, 1021 BERLIN, Germany, July 14.—Ger- many does not know what to make of the United States. She is puzzled be- cause of the elusive peace which per- sists in maintaining its distance. With the news that President Harding had signed the peace resolution passed by Congress, many Germans expected that German ships would sail from New York under the German flag bringing raw materials a8 cargo, American buyers and American dollars advanced to pay the ‘war debt. Germany is peeved because peace still seoms distant., - » - = “We were told,” said the Lokal Anzeiger yesterday, “that peace with the United States would come July 4. It is now the 13th and there i# no peace vet, despite ~President Harding’s signing. The reso- | ! | lution is a useless instrument, for it is not a law until the President has pro- ¢ldiméd’ it.” Nothing could be naiver tkan the German who, the Americans will say, will swallow it whole. ““That President Harding has no faith in the resolution, its phrasing, contents and spirit, we appreciate. The United States government will continue exam- ining at lengt. the legal status while negotiations with France continue. The United States will not do anything ob- jectionable to France. The United States will need French friendship in the coming years, even as France seeks to strengthen her ties with the United States. “In the fall Marshal Foch will visit Brother Jonathan and then we shall see if. Washington will not. discover: the legal status of the treaty of Versailles and will ratify it with reservations. -In the meantime Germany ' and the United States are neither at war nor at peace, but-between the two conditions.” Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or mot otherwise credited in.this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches bereln are also rescrved. s Yesterday's | COURT UPHOLDS FLYERS. Ballocnists Wrecked in Canada to Get No Punishment. The naval court of inquiry on the free balloon flight into the Canadian wilds last December by Lieut. Louis A. Kloor, pilot, and Lieuts. Stephen A. Farrell and Walter H.nton, pa: sengers, called for no disciplinary ac- tion and held that differences be- tween Lieuts. Hinton and Farrell, which came to blows, were adjusted in a manly wa The court filed its report during Secretary Daniels' tenure of office, but was not accepted until Se ry Denby approved it and made it public. BOARDWALK CRASH INJURES FORTY-ONE Persons Thrown Into Water at Chesapeake Beach by Coliapse. Two score persons were injured, six of them seriously, when the sup- Ports of a section of the boardwalk adjoining the dancing pavilion at Chesapeake Beach collapsed last night, plunging them into the shal- low water below. Women became hysterical, children screamed and men stampeded, creating a panic which caused injuries to many. A vaudeville show had just ended on the dancing pavilion, which was crowded vo capacity, when the a lent heppened. Virtually without a warning, a section of the boardwalk labout tifteen feet square gave way. | sloping toward the water. it did |« £ap of five or six feet rated | hoards and through this about | twenty-tive persons were thrown into | the water, about two fect this point. Others were thrown lagainst benches and rails surround- ling the pavilion. [ (AN of those injured or drenched were brought to Washington on a special train which left the beach at $:15 o'clock, about three-quarters of an hour after the accident. Four ¢« and two police patro the train at the Dis- and took the injured to ana Casualty hospitals. Lixt of Injured. Those seriously hurt are: Paul Wilkerson, 717 10th street, sprain | of the spin | “are. L. V | internal injuri Thomas H. | cass, infuries fo baicc and, bee m [ | | | { Walter Poetzman, 1214 Sth street, | broken ribs. # | "Mrs. John T. Ryan, Tth street | so ast, injured about head and | bruised about body and limbs. John Gociz, 447 New Jersey avenue, ! contusion of the t hip. All of the seriously injured are in the ¢ and Casualty hospitals today cover. injured, but not | Cthers who were i seriously are Edward C. Smith, 233 14th | northeast, injured about legs a | body: Miss Anna Keil of North Tona- | wanda, N. ¥, broken ankle: Mrs. A. | W. Brown, 4328 Georgia avenue: Mrs. | Flora Mueller, 1115 A street: Mrs. | Raymond W. Clark, 1412 Chapin | street; Miss Lorenz Whitzer, 474 | street’ southwest: Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dick. 1619 Sth street: W. | 414 sth street: Mrs. Helen Brewton 11800 33d street; Harry Jermane. 532 | Cedar street. Takol Park: Misse: {Ruth and Florence Newman, 1369 E | street southeast: Mrs. A. Baur. 45 | Nash street: Mrs. Roy A. Wolf, 1110 !1 street; Mr. and ) Charles F. { Bechtel, ‘1215 Talbot street; Mr. and |Mrs. R H. Lenkin, 1334 G street i northeast: Mrs. Alma Monroe, 1241 1 street northeast: David Nest, 1216 | 6th street; Mrs. F. M. Thring, 31 Flor- {ida avenue northeast: Mrs. A. Mac- ! Downey, 121 Bates street; Miss Cath- {erine Fenton, E street southwest; {William L. Newber, 3803 11th street: | Mr. ana Mrs. John W. Dunbar and their daughter Helen, southeast; Mre. Carrie Walter. 615 A street southeast; Mrs. E. J. Hierling, 4 F street southwest; Fred D. Mil- ler, Capitol Heights, Md.; James Stanley, Chesapeake Beach; Fred May. | Chesapeaks Beach: C. 1 Smith, 627 [ Keefer place; J. Ramisch, 611 Keefer | place. " Immediately after the accident sev- eral men leaped into the water and rescued some of the unconscious vic- ims by lifting them to the boardwalk, {about five fget above. Others who {were not severely injured climbed to {the dry section. | The portion of the boardwalk which collapsed is just south of the dancing pavilion. adjacent to a soft drink stand. Those standing on it were thrown headlong into the water, and as they struggled toward the board- water by other falling persons. As the injured were taken from the water they were carried to police headquarters nearby and doctors ad- ministered first aid. The seriously in- {jured were carried to the train on limprovised stretchers made of camp- {ing cots and hardwood beénches. Investigation Made. After clearing the inlet of the struggling mass. a thorough investi- gation was made by the beach author- ities, who questioned the persons who were taken to Washington on the spe- [cial train as to whether any of their |relatives or friends had not been ac- counted for. persons were received. The accident came at the close of the first annual outing of the Gavel Club of Master Masons and other local {organizations of the National Fed- | eration of Masonic Clubs, which_was Theld yesterday at the beach. More |than 3,000 persons attended the out- ing. News of the accident spread rapid- Iy to Washington. and many anxious relatives and friends met the special train on its return from the beach. Police reserves from the sixth and ninth precincts also were at the Dis- trict line. _Policemen Injured. { Two policemen, Paul Nicholson and 13, A. Foley, were badly shaken up when the patrol wagon of the second | precinct,, which was hurrying to the | District line, was struck by a street car at 9th and H streets northeast. Policeman Foley was cut on the right hand, while Officer Nicholson re- ceived_a painful injury to his face. J. T. Monroe, a passenger on the street car, was also cut on the right hand by flying glass. W. F. Jones, president of the Chesa- i peake Beach Railway Company, when interviewed regarding the accident, said that he was present, and stated that as soon-as the accident happened | every effort was made by the officials {of the town of Chesakeake Beach and of the railway company, which oper- ates between Washingfon and the town, to assist the injured and bring them to_ Washington on a epecial train, where they could receive proper medical treatment. Declared Well Constructed. Mr. Jones stated that the accident seemed to him to have resulted en- tirely from too many people massing on a small portion of the boardwalk, | p: which extends along the whole water front of the town of Chesapeake (Continued on Page 20, Column 5.) deep at | street | Fi Reitmare, | 153 B street | walk they were driven back into the No reports of missing | Net Circulation, 89,284 TWO CENTS. JAPANESE ACCEPT HARDING PROPOSAL FOR DISARMAMENT Reply, However, Makes No Reference to Discussion of Pacific Questions. EXPECT TOKIO TO AGREE TO ENTIRE DUAL PROGRAM French Circles Doubt if Briand Can Attend—Canada Favors Pacific Conference in U. S. acceptance of President | Harding’s suggestion that a confer- ience to discuss limitation of arma- | ments be held here was received at the State Department today, but made | no reference to the question of a dis- | cussion of the far eastern question. | Japan's | Unqualified acceptance by the ; Chinese government also was re- iceived, State Department officials | would make no comment on the form lof the Japanese reply, which was not | made public in text. | Silence of the Japanese government las to discussion of far eastern prob- |lems was not believed, however. to | have interposed any serious obstacle |to the carryinz out of the plan. It | was indicated that the formal invi- ! tation would be forwarded to Japan as to the powers which have trans- | mitted full and unaualificd acceptanc and, in the end, officials believed. Ja- {pan would agree to participation in the dual program. { "It "was not indicated whether the | United States would make further in- formal or informal, as to the uiry, A of Japan. Reply ough Embassy. The Ja se reply was made through the American embassy at Tokio, which ix understood not to have supplemented it with any ex- planation. Unofficial dispatches from Tokio and from London have create the impression that Japan w willing to join in a frank discussion of the far eastern questions, although other informal dispatches also have ndicated that the Tokio government must move with caution on account of the political factions and schools ©f thought in Japan. The belief is firm here that Japan will ultimately agree to take part in the full discussion of all the subjects | before thé conference. “This ovinion is based upon the con- sideration that Japan cannot afford, for many reasons to obstinately stay | out of a conference whose object is 50 Jutary to the world's welfare. It is sa | helieved that if she should show indi- |cations of withholding, pressure | Souia" be brought to bear by Great | Britain of a character sufficient to | cause her to change her mind. i Peril Seen in Alllance. | 1t is thought in administration and diplomatic circles here to be incon- ceivable, for instance, that Great ould renew the Anglo-Jupa erstanding while Japan was a conference of world to settle disturbing east and the Pa- staying out of powers called questions in the far | cific. {" It is pointed out further that if Ja- pan should m the end refuse to par- | Yicipute in the discussion of the - |ternational questions she would find | herself isolated from the sympathy of | Great_Britain, France. Italy and the [ Thited States and assuming an osten- sible attitude of deflance to world :pinion which could not last. “low that all of the nations invited | o participate In the disarmament cor.- ! ference have sent their icceptance | immediate steps will be ‘aken to X he date for the gatheriag and to {issue and rrepare the form 1l invita- ccady has ® Eest a onference. but arriv, e Clate will be left to Secretecy Hughes. He will communiciie with the governments to participate regard- !ing @ date, and afer an agr-ement | has been reached, will draft, with the | President’s approval, the invitations to the nations. BRIAND MAY NOT COME. Political Circles Favor Trip—Par- liaments to Be in Session. | By the Amociated Pross. y PARIS, July 14.—Political circles in ixenernl look with favor upon the sug- i gestion that Premier Briand go to Washington personally to represent France at the disarmament -confer- ence, but since it appears that the conference is not likely to be held be- {fore November. it has been pointed {out that the parliament will then be 'in session, thus raising complications over the question of the premier’s per- | sonal attendance. ; The parliamentary regime, as is well known, requires the responsible head of the government to be ready iat all times to appear before the par- |liament to set.forth the government's iews on important questions and to pe ready to reply to interpellations. | Premier Briand was able to go to ! London during the parliamentary ses- ision, because he could get back on ishort notice if his presence were necessitated by developments in the parliamentary debates. The trip to | Washington, however, it is pointed out, presents a far more serious i problem. PN parliamentary circles it is noted [that the chamber of deputies, after | the summer recess will have to take iup the grave problem of French ! finances, including budget questions | of such importance that the presence {of the responsible head of the gov- | ernment would seem to be required. iNo opposition to Premier Briand's | going_to Washington, however. has | B aterialized thus far. but it is re- | garded in political circles as quite fikely that the strong minority in the chamber opposed to the government il raise objection if the suggestion | becomes official. HARDING ATTITUDE FACTOR. Canada Believes His Wishes Are First in Pacific Conference. Special Dispatch to The Star. WOOTTAWA. Ontario., July 14.—One result of the - wolrd-important Wash- Ington conference may be a decision to hold no fall session of the Canadian parllament. The disarmament con- ference to be held in Washington this fall will probably be. a long-drawn- out affair. This fact will have an effect on the domestic political situa- tion and may preclude the possibility of a fall_session of parliament, Grat- tan O'Leary, with Premier Meighen's arty, cables. “The question as to whether the Pa- cific conference is to be held in Loa- “~(Con on e