Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1923, Page 1

he Sunday Star, WASHINGTON, WEATHER. Fair today; cold this morning, fol- lowed by rising temperature during the day; tomorrow fair, with rapidly rising temperature. Temperature for twenty-two_hours ended -at 10 p.m. last night: Highest 44; lowest 21, Full report on page 9. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers block and the 'g'guhr edition ml: ivered to Washi: homes as fast as the papers are printed. | e \ \ 3 Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. PUNCHE DTG tery of s Eipians ALLED TERM FIR] "ol 2 Tondon Escasasor 4 RUHR WHHDRAWAI_ Scientists Obtain Facts to Show Race 940.— No. 28,825. D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1923.—EIGHTY-SIX PAGES. % FIVE CENTS. Weeks Expected g To Defend Free |P R[SIDENI I-AGKS Speech in Army. PIWER T REDUCE Requests vent Army officers from spe: licly in regard to their profession | and using language that conflicts | king pub- b | ernment has receded from its posi- Aided in Task by Conference Between Jasper and Mussolini. DEATH TOLL IN ESSEN BLOODSHED PUT AT 11 Two Frenchmen Also Reported Slain in Fracas—Troops Set Upon by Mob. - BY WILBUR FORREST. By Cab to The § i the New York ribune. Copyright, 1 PARIS, March 31.—Following the news from Berlin that the Reich gov- x tion of refusing to negotlate ay long as the French and Belgians remain in the Rubr, Premler Poincare is pre- paring a draft of the allled terms, which will be submitted to the rep- arations commission after the Cuno government further recedes from its policy of resistance and makes the first move toward negotiation. The premier will probably put con- siderable labor into the task of draft. ing terms during his retreat to his country place in the department of Meuse. 1t was expected that M. Poincare would leave P’aris yesterday, Dbut he remained at his desk, receiv- ing a visit today from Baron Ro- mano the Italian ambas- Avezzano, Broad Lines Understood. It will be recalled that Minister Jasper of Belgium met Pre- mier Mussolini at Milan several da ago. The broad lines of the ally negotiation policy, merging the par- | cular policies of s three govern- ents, may therefore now Lo suffi- erstood for Premier Poi “oretgn his rets ms during both the Belgian and Italian oints of view are known ‘o be| trongly in favor of meetiig the/ iews of Great Britain, v Joint £ranco-Belgian-Italian docw.aent wiil doubtless leave ample space for the accommodation of Downing street. _ Conferences Frultful. To date, aside from the Franco- ian ugreement progressively ate the Ruhr as“Germany-spaws: has been no‘ cohesive inter- »a as to what to say to Ber- the time comes to say some- The fact that Premier Poin- >w about to put a plan on i.akes it evident that the re- nformal conferences have been ful. Franco-Belglan authorities in tuhr relented today a trifie on question of export licenses andl taxes necessary to exportation uf‘ lucts from the Ruhr factories. A cree signed by G Degoutte al- ws all contracts made by the Ruhr dustrials with foreigners prev: § to February 1 to be executed, the foreign buyers apply for ex- rt licenses and pay the prescribed raking of this step follows protest: \inly from the Swiss and Dutch vernments. ELEVEN DEAD IN ESSEN. 3 Thirty-Five Wounded in Fighting ‘With Krupp Employes. | sy the Associated Press. LONDON, March 31.—A Reuter's| ispatch from Berlin tonight says it .s now ascertained that eleven per- ons were killed and about thirty- ve wounded in the fighting today at ssen between French troops and mployes of the Krupp works. A dispatch to the Central News says the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger re- ports that two Frenchmen were killed during the trouble. Mob Sets on Troops. LSSEN, March 31.—Clashes between French soldiers and German workmen at the Krupp piant here today resulted in the death of five or six of the Ger- mans and the wounding of about thirty. According to the French verson of the affair, a lieutenant and eleven sol- diers who went to the Krupp works for the purpose of requisitioning automo- biles were set upon by a mob various- Iy estimated to number between 2,000 aud 3,000, which was called together | by the factory siren. The mob showered stones upon the soldiers, the French say, while many of the workmen, armed with revolvers, fired shots. The soldlers returned the fire, shooting over the heads of the mob ¢ first, but, when the workmen refused disperse, finally aiming to ill. Automobile Attacked. Fhen the skirmish was at its height \ automobile bearing two French civil- 1 engineers came along, and the fury B the workmen was shifted to them: hey were attacked, badly beaten and everely wounded. The French also ssert that the watches, wallets, pass- rts and identification papers of the engineers were stolen. The automobile was smashed and | Be: al Carrler of Was One of First to Invent Script of Own Language. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Ma March The history of the ancient kingdom | of Ethiopla through the long span of | 1,100 years—from 750 B. C. to 350 A.D.—has been completed in principal outline by excavations in tombs and pyramids In the Anglo-Egyptian Soudan by the Harvard-Boston ex-| pedition headed by Prof. George A.| Reisner. | The most recent researches of the | expedition in the pyramids at Meroe have established that the culture of | the Ethlopians stood as an outpost of | tlan civilization in middle Afric, | Dr. Reisner said in the report which | 31— {he has just made; that In the art of | the Ethioplans a Greek influence ob- | tained and that the invention of & script of their own was evidence that | the Ethiopians were people of genius. | The Ethiopians, Dr. Reisner de- | clared, are not and were not African . FLYERS SHASH THO SPED NARKS | i | ‘Seven Beat French Record atJMr. Harding Bronzeu 500 Kilometers, Two at 1,000 Kilometers. By the Associated Press. DAYTON, Ohijo, March 31.—In a spectacular aerial derby Army avi- ators from MecCook Field today set new world speed records for and | 1,000 kilometers, far eclipsing those | made this week by French aviators at the Villa Sauvage Atrdrome. Tnofficial figures tonight showed that Licut. Alexander Pearson com- pleted 500 kilometers in 1 hour 50 minutes .and 12 7-10 seconds, making approximately 169 miles an hour, and that Lieut.. Harold Harris and Civil- fan Pilot Ralph Lockwood traveled 1,000 kilometers in 4 hours 52 min- utes and 35.24 seconds, averaging around 126 miles an hour. Lieut. Batelier of the French army was the holder of the 500-kilometer record, with a time of 2 hours 42 nutes and 51 2-5 seconds, and Lieut. the 1.000-kilometer dis- tance, whose time was 6 hours 39 minutes and 40 2-5 seconds. In addition to the 500-kilometer mark set by FPearson, Harris and Lockwood also are credited with ex- ceeding the French record for that distance, as are four other McCook Field aviators. Eleven ships took the air shortly after 1 o'clock today in the effort to best the French records. Seven were to try for the 500-kilometer mark and four for the 1,000. Five of the planes finished the 500-kilometer distance and four of the others were forced down. Others Break Record. Aviators who beat the French rec- ord for 500 kilometers and their time are: Louis Melster, 2 bours minutes 48.44 seconds, average speed of 127 miles an hour; Lieut. Arthur Smith, hours 32 minutes 31.88 seconds, an average speed of 122.1 miles an hour; Lieut. H. H. Mills, 2 hours 36 minutes 26.69 seconds, averaging 119.2 miles an hour, and Lieut. J. S. Stromine, who went the distance in 2 hours, 42 minutes 35.48 seconds, speeding at 114.7 miles an hour. The time of Harris and Lockwood for 500 kilometers was 2 hours 26 min- utes 39.9 seconds, a speed of 127 miles an hour, The air circus was completed without a gerfous mishap. The planes that were forced down were mostly for engine trouble; Smith smashed a wheel In landing, after being forced down by a broken support wire. Thrills of the day were furnished by Pearson, who flew a Verville-Speery ship. Taking off last, after a “barrel” roll at the start, nearly made him crash, Pearson steadily crept up on the leaders and soon was setting the pace, Harris and Lockwood flew a DH-4 with a stock Liberty motor, and fleld officials said tie flight constituted one of the severest tests that type Liberty motor has been put to. o PRINCE OF WALES TO PAY $17,500, COST OF HIS BROTHER’S WEDDING | By Cable to The Star and New York Tribune. (Copyright, 1923.) LONDON, March 3L—If you get married at a registry office in Eng- land it will cost you seven shillings, or about $1.75. If, however, you hap- pen to be the Duke of York your wedding will cost $17,500 or there- abouts. Actually, the expense to the king's second m on the occasion of his marriage Lady Elizabeth | Bowes-Lyon, at Wéstminster Abbey, the chauffeur took refuge among the tittle group of French soldiers, but not before he was struck with sev- cral missiles. The engineers were | taken inside the Krupp plant and se- verely manhandled. One of them, giv- ing the name of Snowden and speak- jng English, came off much better than M. Sauvey, the other, whose ame and language are entirely rench. Tanks Rescue Engineers. The French military command in en, informed of the rioting. sent ontinued on Page §, Columa 2,) on April 26, will be nothing at all, since his elder brother, the Prince of Wales, has undertaken to defray the whole cost of the elaborate ceremo- nial as_part of his wedding gift to the engaged pair. Behind this fact there is a curious financial situation in which the royal family finds itself. Although King George draws an annual grant of nearly half a million pounds from parliament, by far the greater portion of this sum must be devoted to the expenses attendant upon the upkeep of the royal estab- 4 | negroes. He described them as “dark colored races, in which brown pre- vails,” adding, however; that many individuals show a mixture of black blood. 01d Impression Dispelled. The impression that Ethiopla was governed, by a long line of queens named Candace, held in the New Testament and by Pliny and Strabo, already weakened by the discovery that the name was only a title mean- ing queen, was further dispelled by the vexcavations. It appeared that from 750 B. C., every ruler of Ethiopia was a male, Dr. Reisner asserted.| The five queens buried in the royal| cemetery with the country’s kings were mothers who had served as regents during the minority of their | king-sons, he thought. This latest report from Dr. Reisner (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) | | PLAY IN SOUTHLAND HELPS PRESIDENT TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—34 Pages. ~Local, National, Foreign. /8 and Gosslp—Page 15. rs to Bible Questions—Page 17. | Boy Scout News—Page 17. Community Centers—Page 19. Fraternities—Page 20, D. A. R. Actlvitles—Page 20. Arts and Art'sts—Page 21. Schools and Colleges—Page 22. News Ideas In D. C. Schools—Page 23. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 23. Finanial News—Pages 25 and 26. Cl;_lulfled Advertisements—Pages 27 to Civillan Army—Page 24. Aviation Actlvities—Page 24. News of ths Clubs—Page 34. Veterans of the Great War—Page 34. Spanish War Veterans—Page 34. PART TWO—I16 Pages. Editorials and Ed'torial Features. | Washington and Other Soclety. | Girls and Thelr Affalrs—Page 15. Serial, “The House of Mohun"—Page 16. PART THREE—12 Pages. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. g Music in ‘Washington—Page 5. Motors and Motering—Pages 6 to 9. Book Reviews—Page 10. Boys and Girls’ Page—Page 11. PART FOUR—4 Pages. Pnk Sports Section. PART FIVE—S8 Pages. Magazine Section—Features and Fiction. ROTOGRAVURE—S Pages. World Events In Pictures. COMIC SECTION—4 Pages. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Betty; Mr. and Mr: ARREST IN THEFT FROM IRENE CASTLE NEW YORK, March 31.—Charged with the theft of a $9,000 pearl neck- lace from Irene Castle-Treman, the dancer, James R. Cooper, proprietor of a popular theatrical gem shop here, was locked up by detectives to- night. He was taken in custody just he was about to enter his fashionable suburban home at Seabright, Long Island. The charge was grand lar- ceny. Last October M necklace to the Cooper shop appraised, she told the police. time since then that she visited the shop to regain the gems she was told the proprietor was mnot in. On Cooper's person was found a pawn ticket indicating he had disposed of the pearls for $1,500 the day the dancer left them at his shop. Police say he confessed he did it because he needed ready money. 10 IN MOB NAMED IN FLOGGING CASE By the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 31.—Ten men, whoege names were not made pub- lic, composed the mob that flogged Dr. J. D. Dowling, city and county health officer, last May, federal and city au- thorities announced today. The authorities announced that C. W. Tyson, arrested yesterday, had made a statement and had givin the names of ten men who he said had composed the mob. MEDICAL STUDENT Happy—Wife Also Shows Marked Improvement. By the Associated Press, ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, March 31.—| Rested and improved greatly health, President and Mrs, Harding | tonight brought tielr Florida vacation | | to an end, departing by special traiu | for Augusta, Ga., to spend another week before returning to Washington. | Those who saw the President and | his wife step from a train twenty- five days ago at Ormond, and who | also saw them board the train here tonight, could not but see plainly the | benefits derived from a vacation spent | in the warm sunshine, away from the cares of Washington, and without edules or any firmly established routine. President Is Bronzed. The President, through the open life of the houseboat trip and the daily rounds of golf, has been bronzed by the Florida sun, and, In the words of a member of the party, “has improved 100 per cent.” Mrs. Harding, who left the White House for the first time since- her illness of last fall when she boarded the traln for Florida March § has been recuperating rapidly. and during | the week spent here in St, Augustine, where she has appeared in public a number of times, she has surprised | old friends by her improved condi- | tion. 1 Members of the party ascribe m»! benefits derived by the President and | Mrs, Harding during the more than | three weeks spent in Florlda to the | fact that their whole thought has| been, as they put it, “to play.” Seek to Press Business. i The President realized that he| needed rest and recreation, and has | put his entire self into his vacation. To forgt the cares of state has not been easy at ail times for the| President, as almost everywhere he | has gone, but chiefiy in the larger ! places he has visited, there have | been those who would have remind- ed him of the things he came to| Florida to forget. Some have wanted him to make | speeches—and he came very nearly | making one here today during a visit | to the Florida State School for the| Blind and Deaf, although it was not | that he was urgently pressed to do | s0, but because he felt he could not leave flearly 300 blind and deaf girls without saying a kindly word. Oth- | ers have tried to get his ear to| recommend certain friends for ap- pointment to office or to hint that thoy might accept official position should it be tendered them. And| there have been not a few who would talk politics. Polities Play Little Part. The President, for the most part, | however, has “played” since he came to Florida, recognizing that this is the last real vacation he will get (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) to i lishment; so, relatively speaking, the king isn’t really a rich man. The| Prince of Wales, however, recetves | the revenues of the Duchy of Corn- wall, which includes properties in| which much London real estate fig- ures. His personal income from these sources is estimated at about 100,000 pounds sterling, or half a mil- HELD IN RUM CASE Ralph J. Benart, who told the police the richest ol 0 {l richest member of the royal fam- |}, yyg o student at George Washing- The Duke of York, on the other ton University Medical School, was hand, has no other income but his grant of £10,000 a year from the na- tion, which will be raised to £25,000 a year upon his marriage. ‘The wedding contract definitely confers upon the future Duckess of York royal rank and the right to bear last night by prohibition agents and members of the police vice squad on charges of illegal possession and sale of Intoxicating liquor. Ten women and five men were re- ported discovered by the raiders in arrested at 1227 15th street northwest | [the title “royal highness.” “This also has a most important bearing upon the possible succession to the throne; for, should the Prince of Wales not marry, the Duke of York and his children, should he have any, would become the heirs presumptive. Benart's home when the police seized two and one-half cases of what was described as Dawson Scotch whisky, valued at $300. The raid was con- ducted by Sergt. McQuade of the vice squad and Agents Fowler, Ruby and Packard of the prohibition enforce- ment forces. Benart was released on $2,500 bond. . APRIL 1, 1923 Blue noses and scarlet cheeks to | maten equaily colorful sults and j dresses will be the v thls Easter. { Although the long-suffering public ma, er and shake before freez- { ing blasts, {ion will vie this afternoon to glve | Washington a riot of vivid hues, speaking both physically | aisniy. “The coldest F |known"” is what Dame | ise. “Not =0 much wi day: but—abnormally until night.” ter we have ever ature prom- Most Brilllant Hats. before offered” is the pledge of Dame Fashion. “Even men are to dress more gaudily. Their suits will be of gray, brown and blue, but their ties will be loud, their handkerchiefs Deau- | ville and thetr” topcoats—well, a bit | of everything, T guess.” So at least Washington can lock forward to a harmonious when“the annual promenads on 16th * CHOSEN BY BANK {Merchants’ Directors Name Rolfe E. Bolling as First Vice President. \ | { Merchants' Bank late yesterday Directors of the {and Trust Company Treman took the ! elected Rolfe E. Bolling as first vice be president, Frank P. Harman, jr., as i vice president, and E. J. Emrich as | assistant treasurer. Mr. Bolling formerly was president lot the Commercial National Bank of) {this city, retiring from that posi- {tion at the annual election in Janu- | ary, 1922, to make way for the pres- ! ent incumbent, R. Golden Donaldson. During the interim he has resided in New York city, where he has for come years held the office of vice president of the Chatham-Phoenix National Bank. He has a large following in this city. o the official roster of the bank by the resignation of Ezra Gould three weeks ago. Mr. Harman returns to the Mer- chants’ Bank and Trust Company after a brief retiremont, but as vice president, where he formerly was treasurer. He s a son of Frank P. Harman, also one time president of the Commercial National Bank, a well known capitalist and man of large affairs. At the samé time the directors elected Rolfe E. Bolling, James Wal- ter Carter, Frank P. Harman, Frank P. Harman, jr., and Edwin W. Pop- | kins as members of the directory. Negotlations leading to the changes as indicated were conducted for the | bank by its president, P. A. Drury, who ls well satisfied with the re- sults of his conference and who be- lieves that they will work well for Ithe future of the institution. Un- ! questionably the addition of new personnel to the big trust and sav- ings institution means an important shifting of stock interests, involving an important amount of cash. Edwin W. Popkins, who is made a director, i3 treasurer of the bank. CHERRIES $2.50 POUND. SAN FRANCISCO, March’ 31—A four-pound box of cherries, the first of the season to arrive in San Fran- cisco, sold for $2.50 a pound today to a local grocery firm. He will fill the vacancy created | Dames Nature and Fashion To Vie in Easter. Procession| :Scarlet Cheeks and Blue Match Bright Garments in Annual Style Parade. mes Nature and Fash- | and mo- | as yester- | cold, at ieast| “The most brilliantly colored hats| and gowns for women we have ever, outlook | SNEW OFFIGERS (OYSTER MAY URGE i | | | | established as one-way Noses Will| street, Connecticut avenue and down | F street gets under way. Those who | do venture forth need not bother about physlcal color. The only sug- gestion the weather man had to offer was: “Just have one or two over- coats handy.” Loud Colors Popular. A trip through Washington's best stores for both men d women this veason was like walking around in a | paint factory. Vivid reds, striking | greens, lavenders and brilllant Llues predominated everywhere. And, zc- cording to the salesfolks, the louder the chapeau for my lady the faster it sold. Fashion has somewhat reversed “English” on the sexes, too. While suits for women will seem more less tight, compared with last season, the opposite will be the case with men. The trousers of men who keep up to the modes will be almost baggy. They are to start at the hips and fall stralght to the shoe tops, without any shaping __whatever. “Really _draped (Continued on Page 3, Column ) | ONE-WAY STREETS 10th, 12th, 13th and 15th in Congested Area May Be Restricted. Commissioner Oyster probably will recommend to the board of Commis sloners within the next week or ten | days that 10th, 12th, 13th and 15th streets within the congested area be streets for north and sputh trafic only, it was learned yesterday. Capt. Oyster also has in mind recommending the one- way rule to be applled to Lafayette Square, with Jackson place for south- bound and Madison place for north- bound traffic. - The Commissioner, however. is awaiting a report from Inspector Headley, chief of the traffic bureau, before laying his plan before Com- missioners Rudolph and Keller. If ho decides, after hearing from In- spector Headley, to take the matter up gvith his colleagues, he will sug- gest that two of the numbered streets be dcsignated for northbound | trafilc and the other two for vehicles southbound. May Awalt Convention. One of Commissioner Oyster's ad- visers Is of the opinion that new one- way streets should not be established | until just before the Shrine conven- tion in June. £ The Commissioner is Inclined to| the belief, however, that it would be better to act sooner, 8o that the com- | munity will be accustomed to them before the throng of convention tour- ists begin to arrive. Capt. Oyster “believes that travel will be expedited both for the pedes- trian and the motorist if three or four of the main downtown thorough- fares on which there are no car tracks are made one-way streets. Await Klote’s Return, R. G. Kiotz, traffic engineer of the Public Utilities Commission, is expected to return to Washin—ton tomorrow with valuable information for the Cbmmissioners on the regu- lation ef vehicles in large American citles. |e | some rings. (DENTIST SHOOTS BOY | ‘With the returp of Klotz the city fathers will be ready to act on the recommendations of the traffic com- mittee, " which recently proposed a The cherries namber of important changes in the were from a ranch ncar Vaca.vme., traflic code. e 3, with the aims of certain “peace” or- ganizations may result soon in plain statement by the Secretary set- & forth his opinic tlons concerned and their tes, Mr. Weeks said y had received from ns a number of ests & speeches delivered by Army off One of them asked particularly that| he order Brig. Gen. Amos A. Fries, | chlef cf the Chemical Warfare Serv- ice, to stop making speeches. It | was indicated at the War Department | that the Secretary wmight answer the | requests by making plain the right| of officers to act as individuals and | by revealing to the country the “men- | acing end unpatriotic program of | certain organizations.” i WILSON'S AUTO HIT BY HURLED BOTTLE Missile Dropped From Albee Building Dents Hood and Showers Glass. of tiie or terday that he! peace organiza- Dro A whisky bottle, balleved to been hurled from one of floors of the Albee the limousine of Weo night a fow min parked before Kelth's T the upper ! Buiiding: struck. entrance for to the e ide from denting the hood and scratching A quantity of paint off of the front of the car, the missle did 1o harm. Wilson's chauffeur had driven | ar up a small ai to one of the Tgency exits of the theater, which the former President always uses to | leave the auditorium. It was shortly before 11 o'clock, and several police- men were on duty to protect Mr. Wilson until he was safely in his car. Suddenly there was a crash, and a | second later the few persons who | were near the car, waiting for a glimpse of Mr. W were showered with pieces of glass. Hasty examination showed a dent in the hood of the car. Only a few persons saw the occurrence, however, and there was no excitement. As a result, when Mr. Wilson was escorted from the theater by a representative of the management and helped into | his machine, not even that officer knew of the incident. One of the members of the Wilson party was told of the incident, but said it was too trivial to warrant inquiry. The police did not believe an at- tempt was made to injure Mr.| Wilson. Just where the bottle, which | was only a small half-pint container, came from is not known. It is thought, however, that some roisterers in one of the upper floors of the theater building threw it from a window in a moment of drunken hilarity. Since no one saw the bottle thrown or knew anything of it until attracted by its crash, the police | found it impossible to make a suc- cessful investigation ALLEGED BAD CHECK ARTIST IS ARRESTED Mr. Special Stamping Outfit Used Is Police Claim—Said to Have Defrauded Jeweler. Accused of having executed an un- usual varfation of the check scheme, involving the use of a spe- clal stamping outfit for fraudulently certifying the checks, Marx Fritz, thirty-six, of 713 North 6th street, Philadelphia, was arrested late ves- terday afternoon by Headquarters Detectives Livingston and O'Brien. Acting on complaint of the Whi more, Lyan & Alden jewelry firm, at | 1225 F street, the detectives rushed | in the headquarters automoblile to a| pawnbroker's ofiice, where Fritz had gone following his appearance at the | peting foreign coun He was ar-| rested and lodged in a cell at the| F street establishment. first precinet. Fritz is reported to have entered the Jewelry store vesterday after- noon &nd made a request to be shown He mined some of! those offered him. finally selecting a | diamond ring priced at $450, for| which he tendered a $450 “certified” check on a Philadelphia bank, it was said. The check proved to be worth- less. The ring was recovered. -' Executive | under the | leving the duty to be even parti { respensible” (for prev BELIEVED BURGLAR| e L | When Dr. Douglas A. White, 308 Rhode | Island avenue northwest, looked from | a window of his home late last night and saw two persons apparently trying to cut a window pane from the Seaton Garage and filling station next door he grabbed a revolver and fired at them. Rushing to the street Dr. White met a policeman and the two seized Cyrous Statwood Sheppen, sixteen-year-old col- ored boy, who had been shot in the neck. The boy was rushed to Washing- ton Asylum Hospital, where his condi- tion 18 not regarded as serious. Dr. White. a dental surgeon with of- fices at 1225 New York avenue north- west, told the police that he discovered two persons trying to break into the garage Friday night. Yesterday morn- ing a pane of glass was found cut. The pane was replaced and an examination last night after the shooting showed that it had been cut again. | Dr, White was not held. The police | are seurching for Sheppen’s companion. | Latone TARIFF ON SUGAR Is Authorized to Cut Rates Only When Costs Warrant. MAY EQUALIZE THOSE AT HOME AND ABROAD Executive Barred From Acting in Such Matters Merely Because High Prices Are Prevailing. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. absolutely no chance for a reduction of the tariff sugar at time in the near future. rs are to bo freed from the f the interests in control rellef will er agency on Furthermore, sident Harding's are tied lu the matter of the conception has swept the cou as to the powers possessed by the President to declare a reduction In duties under the new The President ¢ hig gives i pow tain whether nge in the cost of be The la the to investigate and asce President there has been a.ch production at home and abroad and to adjust the tariff solely the basis of this changed cost of produc- tion. The cost of producing sugar in the United States has n g0 down st the Fordney-McCumber tariff law became effective last September. On the contrary has gone up to some extent. Therefore, the tariff investigation which has been begun ecific orders of the Pres- ident is certain to result in a report which will leave the President pow erless to do anything in the v .t reducing the present duty 7 cents a pound. Disappointment Predicted. of t own a state disappoint- Already investigations Tariff Commission have s of affairs which will be ing to the people who have counted upon sugar ef through a tariff reduction. Hope of relief through this source has been fostered by the big eastern refiners of Cuban raw sugars, who have sent notices to all of their customers—the whole- sale and retail grocers—saying that if the duty on sugar were removed the cost in this country would go down 2 or 3 cents a pound. Preliminary inquiries by members of the Tariff Commission have shown that since September 19 last, when the new law became effective, the price of sugar has increased by $2.67 th e re !a hundred pounds at New York. Against this $2.67 increase in price there was an increase of 16 cents a hundred poun in the tariff. The tarift therefore, accounted for only 6 per cent of the increased price fixed by the men in control of tho market Even Presid Hardine himselt { appears to have been misinformed as to his powers under the tariff law, for in ordering the investiga- | tion he said: “If there is any ground for be- sugar prices) “I proclaim a reduc vided by the law.” sha Provision in Tariff Act. w pointed out here by government authorities that the S nothing as to prices, normal or otherwise. It deals whol with the cost of production. e ab. o is the text of the paragraph from the tariff act: ‘Whenever the President, upon fn- vestigation in costs of production of articles wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States, and of llke or similar articles wholly or in part the growth or product of com ries, shall find it thereby shown that the dutles fixed in this act do not equalize the | differences in cost of produc ® * * he shall, by such investiga tion, ascertain said differences and proclaim the changes in classifications or increases or decreas any rate of duty provided in this act sho by said ascertained differences in suc costs of production necessary to equalize the same. * * * that the total increase or decre such rates of duty shall not exce 50 per centum of the rates specifie in this act.” The President, under the act, s restricted to “equalizing” the costs of forelgn and domestic production. He can do no more despite the de mands that have been made upon him from many sources to declare forthwith a reduction of 50 per cent in the tarlff. Among those who have demanded this reduction is Corde Hull, chalrman of t3e democratic na- tional committee. Provided Publicity Chief Weapon. The government's hopes of doi something to control the prico of sugar lie chiefly at this time in the force of public sentiment and the publicity which has been, stirred up. The entire nation today s watching the sugar market, and wiil want to know the reason for any further ad- vances. The old claim that the tariff 1s responsible will hardly do. The price of duty-paid Cuban sugar at New York September 19 last was 4.61 cents a pound. The new tarifft bill increased the duty 0.08 cents a pound. Therefore a pric: of 4.67 cents \Continued on F'age 3, Columa 5.)