Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. | Cloudy tonight, tomorrow showers; moderate easterly winds. Temperature for twenty-four hours -ended at 2 p.m.: Highest, 67, at 4:15 p.m. yesterday: lcwest, 45, at 3:30 a.m. today. | | Full report on page 18. | ! | \ Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 27 ch No. 28,836. Entered as second-class matter post mfo V!gmgulon, D. C ENGLAND TO FIGHT GRANT TO CHESTER OF TURK DL IGHTS Plans Energetic Protest if Concessions Take Mosul Drilling District. SUBJECTeTO BE AIRED AT LAUSANNE PARLEY | | Anatolia ~ Welcomes American Project—Would Rebuild Angora on Washington Lines. By the Associated Press. | LONDON, April 12.—Great Britain | purposes entering an energetic pro- H test against the granting by th Turkish nationalists of certain con- cessions in Anatolia to the American interests headed by Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, if these concessions are found to embrace the Mosul ofl fields, it was declared here today. It is generally believed in London that In its present form the Chester agreement with the Turks differs materially from the original Turco- American convention, although mno exact details have been recelved from Constantinople. British information 1s that the present American plan is concerned chiefly with the opening up of Anatolia by an extensive rall- way system and the granting as pay- ment of property rights upon a large scale. Will Be Aired at Lausanne. In view of the official protest al- ready made by France against these | commitments to Americans as being in contravention of the Franco-Turk- fsh raflway and ports agreement of 1914, it is considered certain the whole &ubject will be aired at the approach- ing peace conference in Lausanne, How far the Washington govern- ment can discreetly identify ({tself with the project is regarded here as problematical, inasmuch as the An- gora government's action in award- fug these concessions to Americans after they are alleged to have been previously given, at least in part, to other countries, will undoubtedly raise issues calling for judicial or even in- ternational settlement. It is presumed in_ interested quar- ters here that the State Departmsgt associate itself with the enter- | prise only to the extent of obtaining | the Impartial adjudication of the American promoters’ claims wherever they may conflict with the prior rights enjoyed by nationals of other! eountries. ‘WELCOME IN ANATOLIA. Press Sees Friendly Era With U. S. as Result. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. B Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1023. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 12.—Most of the Anatolian newspapers welcome the Chester project for the economical development of Turkey on the ground that it will help to establish friendly | relations with the United States, “the ouly country which has no political or tmperialistic aims in tbe near east.” Initial Project Modified. Admiral Chester's initial project Las been greatly modifled, and from building railroads in Anatolia it now undertakes to reconstruct virtually the whole economic and social life of | “rurkey. According to Clayton Ken- nedy, representative of the Chester group, the concern promised the na- tionalist government to build “rafl- ways and towns, introduce the elec- tric light in practically all the vil- lages in Anatolia, make golf courses, construct gymnasiums to give the new Turkish generation a chance to develop an athletic .nation and to build up-to-date hotels at thermal | &nd climateric resorts.” Or, in other words, transform Anatolia within twenty years from a half savage country Into the foremost civilized state in the near east. Angora on Washington Lines. The towns will be a reproduction of the small American towns, while An- ora will be a reproduction of Wash- | ngton in mintature. At first the | Chester group will confine its activi- | ties to finding financial support for building a network of more -than ! £,000 miles of railways connecting the eastern villages of Anatolia with the | Aegean and Black Seas. The project seems very daring, de- manding an inv, ment of se\'erall hundred million dollars in an eastern | country ruling itself and keeping ex- ecutive power in its own hands. Such e government has little chance of iccess in a nation where 98 per cent of the inhabitants are illiterate. On mccount of this many Turks are some- what skeptical as to the possibility of Americans investing many mil- Jions. The regions through which the railway concessions are given are belleved to be rich in minerals, French Show Alarm. Should the situation in Turkey be- come stabilized after peace is signed the Chester project on a less ambitious e might have a chance of success, provided the capital were purely Ameri- | | Campbell, director of the observatory, | Lignt, Trotsky Favors Getting Foreign Capital in Russia By the Associated Pr MOSCOW, April 12.—Leon Trot- sky, the bolshevik minister of war, has come forward as a strong ad- Vocate of a continuation of the new economic policy and for for- eign co-operation in Russian re- habilitation. y In an article outlining his plan for the rehabilitation ot Industry, which the coming communist con- gress probably will authorize him to take over, he advocates the closing of unprofitable factories and the concentration of others. He declares that the government industries can live side by side with private industries, including those formed with foreign capital, which he advocates attracting by way of concessions, leases and otherwise. He also advocates the changing of the laber code of plac- ing industries in the hands of sin- ponsible managers instead ups of workingmen's s is now the case. _————— BENT STAR RAYS BEAR QUT EINSTEIN Relativity Proved by Photos Taken in Australia Dur- ing Eclipse. By the Associated Press. SAN JOSE, Calif., April 12—Dr. Al- bert Einstein’s theory of relativity has bean so satistactorily proved by experiments made by the Lick Ob- servatory expedition, which photo- graphed the eclipse of the sun in Australia last year, that no further experiments will be made, Dr. W. V announced last night. Photographs of stars made at night | on the Island of Tahiti three months before the eclipse, and pictures of the same stars, taken in conjunction with the photographing of the eclipse at Wallal on the northwest coast of Australia, on September 21, 192 show a bending of the star's rays, Dr. Campbell said, as close to the amount | the Einstein formula proponents of prescribed by as “the most ardent Einstein's theory could hope fer. The average deflection on three sets | of plates measured, the observatory director said, was 1.75 of a second of an arc. The measurements covered a minimum of sixty-two and a maxi- mum of eighty-four star images on each pair of photographic plates. Scores of Stars Recorded. “Two photographs of the eclipsed sun and its immediate surroundings were obtained in Australia with each of two specially designed and con- structed cameras, with lenses having apertures five inches in diameter and focal lengths of fifteen feet,” Dr. Campbell said in explaining the ex- periment. “The four sensitive plates, each seventeen inches square, recorded the images of several scores of stars in the = group surrounding the sun, though in reality these stars were many million times as far away from us as the sun. -The same cameras were used three months earlier on the Island of Tahiti to photograph the same. stars when they were in the night sky and without the sun in_their midst.” For the first time in twenty-five years. on the date of observation the day was clear. Twelve photographic plates brought back to the observa- tory turned out to be satisfactory and afforded excellent bases of measure- ment, Dr. Campbell said. Prof. Einstein's theory, to Dr. Campbell scientists is, however, much more complex than a mere hypothesis that light is bent in passing large celestial bodies. The theory, in its larger proportions, involves a radical change in attituds toward the nature of the universe—at least by scientists. One of the elements of the theory is that light is a substance and because of that is attracted by gravity. Weight and Repelling Power. Some of the interpreters of the theory also maintain that by virtue of the same quality that makes it subject to the pull of gravity it has a repelling power because of its according | wetght. There is also involved in the theory the assumption that the pull of gray- ity on any substance varies with the | velocity of that substance in motion. being presumably the most tenuous form of visible matter, is less | | subject to the force of gravity than | more taneible substances. The Einstein in discussions among coast astrono- mers gets its name, it is explained, from the fact that it deals with time and space as relative things, distance having meaning only in theé relation of objects to each other in space. it belng measured by the relation of events and subject to motion for ite existence as a method of measure- ment. Important to Science. As far as the man in the street is concerned, Dr. Campbell does not ex- pect his confirmation of the Einstein theory to make any appreclable dif- ference. It willl not affect base ball, taxes or prohibition. But in astrono- (Continued on Page 12, Column 3.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) Gems Weighed by Scientists Here Support Einstein Theory Zzientists at the bureau of stand- ®rds engaged in checking up the instein theory of relativity by physi- cal experiments have adduced further evidence tending to show its cor- gectness. The demonstration testing of the weight of topaz and diamond crystals under different placings in-relation to the axis of the earth~. Dr. Paul R. Heyl; in charge of the experiments, used scales so delicate that they are able to detect & weight difference of one part in 2 billion of even the sthall preclous stones. According to the older theorles of Eravity a topaz or a diamond crystal might de expected to vary in weight ben the direction of its axis was ‘ « involved the operator'’s body may not affect the changed from a position vertical to the axis of the earth to a position | horizontal to-that axis. The Einsteln theory, which has challenged the Newtonian theory of gravitation in some respects, leads to an expectation ‘that the crystals would not vary weight under any conditions. So far Dr. Heyl in his weighing has been unable to find any of the weight differences which the Newtonian explanation of gravitation would imply. The crystals used have been ar- ranged on the balances so delicately that they can be turned without re- moving them. The scales are also inclosed in a small room and oper- ated by long rods Which extend through a hole in the wall, in order that even the heat radiatifg from the result. and other western | theory of relativity | The | same, it is alleged, is true of time,! | WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1923—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. D. C, i - Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is deiivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 95,492 TWO CENTS. FRANCE REOPENS NEGOTIATIONS ON RUHR WITH BRITAIN Willing to Discuss Cut in Reparations, Bonar Law Will Be Told. ENGLAND MUST ACCEPT POLICY OF OCCUPATION Paris Will Not Begin Evacuation Until Germany Actually Be- | gins to Pay. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copsright, 1023 | PARIS, April 12.—Important nego- | tiations have been begun between | France and Great Britain looking to- |ward the possible reconstitution of the entente on the reparations ques- tion. Count Saint Aulaire, French ambassador to London, has just re- turned to his post with verbal in- | Structions from Premier Poincare to inform Premier Bonar Law that France is wiling to discuss the re- duction of the reparations total and the question of Franco-Belgian se- curity if Great Britain first accepts {the policy of the Ruhr occupation, but not otherwise. “Under no conditions will France lagree to evacuate the Ruhr district upon a mere renewal of promises by Germany. When Germany actually begins to pay France and Belgium will progressively, and in proportion {to the payments receivel, evacuate {both the Ruhr and the Rhincland, but lit is nevertheless the Intention of rance to maintamn a mission of en- gineers and a nucleus of troops in Essen unt!l the last payments are re- celved. The engineers would watch | the working of the German industries to prevent reparations frauds 2nd the troops would be to provide a frame- work for renewal of the military oc- cupation in case of another German | default. |~ This ‘information is from the best possible French source. It should be added, however, that the inner- | French circles are not »ptimistic over | ish conversations. the Bonar Law It is feared that government will feel able to agree to the Lrench insist- cc _upon prolonged oc:ipation of Essen. BERLIN REFUSES ORDER. u Declines to Give Information Be- fore Making Arrests. | By the Ansoctated Press. | BERLIN, April 12.—In a strong | protest to the interallied Rhineland {commission against the commission’s |vecent order that the German au- | thorities must inform it when they lintend to arrest any subject of the occupying powers the German gov- ernment declares it will refuse to {comply with the order. | was contained | | The protest in a note sent the president of the commission, on be- balf of the German government, by the German representative with the commission. The order in question. declares the note, gives the subjects of the oc- cupying powers a protection such as | i states, under the so-called capitula- tions, and the order is regarded as infringing upon German Jjudicial soverelgnty. It is reported from Buer that that| town has been fined 50,000,000 marks |and that all street traffic at night is | forbidden on account of the blowing | up of the militarized railway between Buer and Recklinghausen. CHARGE 51 “MURDERED.” By the Associated Press. ESSEN, April 12.—Fifty-one Ger- ! mans “murdered” and 238,000 tons of { coal and coke exported—this is the standing results of the occupation of the Ruhr, which began exactly three months ago. They declare that the reparations deliveries of coal and coke under preoccupation conditions would have amounted to 4,200,000 tons of coal and coke. sved a list giving the names, ad- dresses and occupations and the dates of the deaths of forty-eight Germans who have been killed. Twenty-five of those killed are given as laborers, thirteen as officials nd the remainder merchants, manu- facturers and pensioners, and two | women. The ages range from eight to_seventy years. The press censorship, the Germans say. makes it impossible for them to specify accurately "how many cen- turies in prison sentences have been imposed and how many billions of marks in stolen money, confiscated re- lief funds and in fines should be add- ed to the record.” BUSSES TO REPLACE BLADENSBURG CARS Utilities Body Sanctions Tearing Up of Tracks, Transfers to Be Free. | | The Public Utilittes Commission | today handed down its decision per- mitting the Washington-Interurban | Rallway Company to tear up its | tracks on Bladensburg road to the District line and establish motor bus service. € | The company has agreed to operate | the busses for five years, with a free | transfer to street cars at 15th and H streets northeast. The company also agrees to pay the District $16,000 it owes for special assessments before scrapping the tracks. Officials of the commission ex pressed the belief today that the com- {pany acted fairly in meeting the above requirements laid down by the commission. ,The change is being made beciuse the company declared it was unable to meet the financial burden of re- building the tracks in connection with the paving of the highway. Officials of the company sald today there would be no interruption to service in making the change. The busses will be put into operation be- fore the work of tearing up the rails begins. UPHOLDS BARRING | the outcome of the new i'ranco-Brit- | is granted only in the less civilized | VIAIng for separate schools for white | under the direction of Congress, sought to dismiss the suit. way the Germans summarize the out- | Semi-official quarters here have is- : TRACTTO COLRED Chief Justice McCoy Confirms \ Right to Restrict Property | Ownership. | Chief Justice McCoy of the District Supreme Court today upheld an agreement made by a number of white persons owning real estate not to sell to colored persons as binding on the parties to the agreement and not against public policy or in con- travention of the fourteenth amend- ment to the Constitution. He over- | ruled a motion to dismiss the suit for injunction brought by John J. Buckley against Irene H. Corrigan and Helen Curtis. Mr: Buckley owned property on S street near New Hamp- | shire avenue and Mrs. Corrigan owned | { another house in the block which she s0ld to Helen Curtis, colored, in violation of the agreement among | the white property holders. The de- | | fendants were allowed ten days to| answer the suit, After viewing the authorities at | 1ength, the Chief Justice declared the jwolght of authority favored the up- | holding of the restrictive agreement. A mere restriction is not in violation of the constitutional rights of col- | ored persons, the court points out. As! to the claim of the’ defense that the restriotion is against public policy the court shows that the statute pro- i and colored children in this District has been sustained by the Court of | Appeals, and the municipal suthorities, ave provided separate bathing beaches, | tennis courts, golf courses and play- grounds. Attorneys James S. Easby-Smith and David Pine represented Mr. Buckley, while Attorney James A. Cobb_appeared for Helen Curtis, who \GUARD CHIEF SHIFTS ’ ! HERRIN RIOT BLAME Adjutant General Says Personnel Officer Failed to Report Seriousness. { | 1 { By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, T, April 1 Blame for the fallure to send state troops to Herrin to prevent the riots |'which caused more ‘than a score of {deaths was placed on the shoulders of I Col. Sam Hunter, a personnel officer of the state guard by Adjt. Gen. Car- los E. Black, testifying yesterday before the legiflative committee in- vestigating the affair. Col. Hunter {s expected to appear And ‘this i 'BONAR LAW BOWS BE KIND TO ANIMAL! Dances 50 Hours And 25 Minutes And Still Going By the Assoclated Press CLEVELAND, April 12.—Miss Helen Mayer, twenty-one, at noon today had established a new record of continuous dancing of fifty hours and twenty-five minutes, and was still dancing. She said she expected to continue dancing until 4 pm. Starting at 9:35 a.m. Tues- day morning she equaled the record of fifty hours and two minutes, established in New York last Monday by Miss Alma Cum- mings, at 1 am., and at noon was twenty-three minutes ahead of the record. She had used six male partners up to noon. Dancing with her fifth male partner Miss Mayer said she felt better early this morning than at any time since starting. Two other Birls, who started several hours after Mlss Mayer, dropped out of the drncing this morning after having passed the twenty-elght- hour mark. 10 LABOR ASSAULT Chancellor Opens Inquiry Into Salaries Paid to Ex- Service Men. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 12—The govern- ment today bowed to the will of the opposition in the house of commons on the question of the treatment of war veterans, which brought about its defeat on a snap division Tuesday. The chancellor of the exchequer an- nounced that a committee would be appointed to investigate the griev- ances of ex-service men in regard to the salaries they are receiving in the civil service. The proceedings opened a tense at- mosphere, but there were no indica- tions in the early stages of the sit- ting that there was to be a repeti- tion of last night's disorders, in which blows were struck and some members of the radical element in the house chanted “The Red Flag." 1t was the insistcnce of tha la- borites, supported by mary memters of the other parcies, for a definite statement from the governmen: as to what it intended to do for the veterans that formed the cloud from which developed the present storm. Out of the overcast skies that brought the governmant a de- feat on Tuesday on a sPap divis: there grew yesterday forcing a suspension cf the sitting n a hurricane, after wild scenes of disorder unprec- edented for at least a generation in the staid old house of commons. before the committee today to begin his version of the events which cul- minated in the attack on the Lester mine, near Herrin, and the killing of the non-union workmen and guards. Gen. Black told the committee that at 10:20 o’clock on the morning of the fight Hunter had reported to him by telephone that he had been to the mine at.8:30 o’'clock and there was no trouble. ‘When his attention was called to | the fact that Hunter's written report to him made no_mention of this can- versation, Gen. Black said the report was wrong in some details and that he had called Col. Hunter's attention to it, but that Hunter had not an- awered. Gen. Black said Hunter did not re- rt the shooting of two union men y the mine guards on Wednesday afternoon, nor did he report that hardware’ stores had been looted of guns and ammunition. “If I had had information that stores were broken into I would have nt troops” Gen. Black said. Wallace Irwin is wri yarns. Hashimura Togo Is Coming! Next Sunday In the Magazine of The Star ting « new series of the funniest stories you ever read. He has the Japanese schoolboy telling all sorts of READ THE FIRST STORY IN Next Sunday’s Star -, Gasps at “Red Flag.”. England gasped this morning when it read the press reports of the physical encounters and the singing of “The Red Flag” within the sacred ‘walls. Not even among the opposition was it doubted that the government whips would be able to muster a majority when the next division came, but all parties agreed that the situation in which the cabinet was involved was most embarrassing and would require delicate handling. The laborites were credited with the intention of maintaining the policy of obstruction until the state- ment they desired is forthcoming. but parliamentary experts expressed the opinion that if the government announced its intention of appointing the committee it was concelvable that business might be resumed without an _interruption. ch_a tranquil (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) S week REBEL LEADERS CAPTURED N ERIN Count Plunkett, Markievicz and Mary Mac- Swiney Seized. By the Associated Press LONDON, April 12—It is reported in Clonmel that Count Plunkett, Countess Markievicz, Miss Mary Mac- Swiney and the late Liam Lynch's { brother were captured by Irish na- tional troops in Tipperary toda: an Exchange Telegraph from Dublin. LYNCH'S BROTHER TAKEN. says dispatch Later Released, However—Party “on Way to Funeral. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, April 12.—It is stated on | 8004 authority here that Miss Mac- Swiney, on her way to the funeral of Liam Lynch, at Clonmel, was ar- rested by Free State troops, being taken from a train after a struggle, It is also stated that Count Plun- kett, Mrs. O'Callaghan, widow of the late lord mayor of Lymerick, and the brother of Liam Lynch, who is a member of the Christian Brothers' Order, were arrested at the same time and place, but that Lynch later was released. PUSH HUNT FOR DE VALERA. Six Columns of Troops Scour 'l‘ip-| perary Mountains. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, April 12.—Six columns of Free State troops, under Gen. Prout, are scouring the mountains in Tip- perary for Eamonn De Valera, Dan Breen and the other republican ad- herents who escaped the national troops when Liam Lynch was fatal- 1y wounded and captured Wednesday, This operation is the best organized effort yet made to capture De Valera. The “area in which the troops are operating is very mountainous and little information regarding their movements is trickling through. It is reported that Breen is likely to succeed Liam Lynch as leader of the rebels in the south, although Gen. Frank-Aiken, a daring irregu- lar from Louth, also is mentioned for the post. Thomas Keating, one of the south- ern irregulars’ leaders, died today from his wounds in the Dungarvan Hos- pital. Keating, with a party. of ir- regulars, was surprised by troops operating at Coolnasmear, near Dun- garvan, County Waterford. The ir- regulars refused to surrender and were fired upon, Keating receiving a mortal wound. He was one of the most active of the southern irregu- lars. HAYNES SAYS RUM RUNNERS TOOK AUTO Prohibition Chief Blames Theft of Machine on Enemies in ‘Wet Camp. Bootleggers were accused by Pro- hibition Commissioner Haynes today of stealing his automobile. Bearing an Ohlo license, which he sald made it easily distinguishable to his rum running enemles, the machine was driven away while the commis. sloner was attending a theater last n:—shL He said he did not believe an o inary automobile thief took it. TURKISH IRREGULARS RAID TREATY ISLAND Land on Castelorizo and Slay Itallan Garrison and Many Greek Notables. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 12.—Turkish ir- regulars have raided the small island of Castelorizo, off the Asia Minor coast, which figured in the recent allled-Turkish peace negotiations, and assassinated the Italian garrison and & number of Greek notables, says a Central News dispatch from Athens quoting advices recelved from the 1s- land of Rhodes. " The raiders were arrested by forces sent from Rhodes by the Italian au: thorities. s Countess | Three Children DisappearWhile At Play in Ohio By the Associated Press. WARREN, Ohio, April 12.—Neigh- boring towns and cities have been asked to ald in the search for Mary Willlams, five years of age; Johnny Williams, three, her brother, and Teresa Sandford, three, who mys- terfously disappeared Tuesday eve- ning. They were last seen on the Erie Railroad bridge over the Ma- honing river. One theory is that the children may have climbed into & box car on a railroad siding and were carried away with a train. Police and firemen were expected to resume their search of the river today, in the belief that the chil- dren may have fallen into the stream and drowned. They drag- ged the waters for more than a mile from the bridge yesterday, darkne; halting their efforts. Abandoned bulldings, packing cases and places where the chil- dren were accustomed to play, along the banks of the river, were mbed by searchers led by Billy Sundford, five-vear-old brother of the missing Teresa, but no clue was found. Lumber yards, frelght stations and other buildings were searched by Boy Scouts, while police scour- ed the downtown section, without result, PEPGO WILL KEEP RATEAT 0CENTS Approval of All Valuation Claims Will Bring No In- crease, Report Says. | | | | | No increase above the rate of 10 cents per kilowatt hour for electrity {would be sought by the Potomac Electric Power Company even if the District Supreme Court should event- ually allow all of the company’ claims as to the value of the property, it was reliably learned today. At the present time the commission only permits the company to keep cents per kilowatt hour, but the users of electricity are now, and have during the period of litigation, con- tinued to pay the old 10-cent rate. Would Keep 10-Cent Rate. i 1f the company's estimate of 1ts valuation is finally sustained it would get the benefit of the full 10 cents, but, accordiag to authoritive Infor- | mation obtained today, the rate would ;nol go higher than that. | When asked today what they | thought of the suggestion being en- tertained by the commission for a conference to bring about a com- [ promise on the valuation, officials of the power company stated that they | see no legal obstacle to such a step. Study Court Opinion. The company, these officers stated, anxious to co-operate with the com- | mission and would attend any meet- {ing called by the commission with & view to arriving at a final valuation. Two members of the commission, it is known, are giving serlous thought today to the possibilities of a settlement of the litigation, but they will not form definite conclu- sions until they have studied care- fully the opinion of the United States Supreme Court, in which it sent the I\'aluallon case back to the Court of | Appeals for want of jurisdiction. May Work Out Compromise. One District official said today that of the United States Su- in- | the acti | preme Court means that some the property must now be made in accordance with the verdict of the District Court of Appeals. If this be true, he said, it would be a most de- sirable step if the commission and the company could agree betwéen themselves what the value should be and have that agreement ratified by | the District Supreme Court. If such a settlement cannot be ar- rived at it is the consensus of opinion of those familiar with the case that a year or two more of litigation may ensue. One of the factors that will bring about 'delay is the lack of funds in the hands of the commission to go forward with an extended court fight | to fix a complete new valuation. FLOWERS FOR SNYDER. Edgar C. Snyder today completed his first year as United States marshal for the District of Columbia. Chief Deputy Robison and the other deputies gathered in the office of the marshal today and after presenting him with a basket of flowers ex- pressed to him their appreciation of his many kindnesses throughout the year. The marshal was deeply affect- ed by the visit of his associates and assured them that the responsibilities of the office had been greatly lighten- ed by their co-operation and faithful performance of duty. Marshal Snyder spoke of his own experience in the office, being his first government duty, and contrasted it with his former experience in the newspaper field. Massive Steel Traditional luck of the hardy and care-free steel worker apparently operated to save about half a dozen of these artisans of the construction industry from being crushed to death shortly before 10 o'clock today, when a giant steel crane buckled as it started to lift a fourteen-ton steel girder to the second story of the new Hotel Walker, Connecticut avenue and De Sales street. The crane col- lapsed with & deafening crash across the steel framework of the building. With but little warning the 105- foot skeleton steel mast bent. and an instant later fell diagonally across the structure, knocking down, like so many match stems, a number of tall steel perpendicular beams and drap- ing itself over the frame work. At the same time the great ninety-foot steel “boom” of the derrick, which extend- ed from the base of the crane out- ward over the truck from which the girder was being lifted, plunged downward with such a force that it curled itself over the edge of the truck, after partly crushing the rear end of the latter. Workmen had just completed at- 2F | crease in the original value placed on | PRESIDENT CALLS " COMFERENCE T0 SFT SH FACTS ;Will Meet Saturday With En- | tire Membership of Ship- | ping Board. |AIM WILL BE TO KEEP U. S. FLAG ON ALL SEAS | Lasker Does Not Look for Definite Conclusion Immediately, He States. President Harding will meet with the entire membership of the Ship- ping Board Saturday to discues the merchant marine, when he will be bresented with a report of the stud: of the situation made by the board's policy committee. . Chairman Lasker, in announeing the conference with the President said it was unlikely that any definite conclusion could be reached at the meeting, but said the board desired “to have the benefit of the President's views on the situation in which it finds itself.” “The board desires to emphasize’ Mr. Lasker added, “that whatever conclusion is finally reached will be one that will insure the continuance and extension of adequate services under the American flag.” Operating Losses Shown. The board’s balance sheet for Fel- ruary, made public today, indicatel that the operating losses attendant upon government shipping operations continued to run around $30.000.000 2 vear. Total expenses in excess inconte from operations during Feb- ruary were $4,065,381.50, a decreass of $876,000 from January. The operating losses for February were about $3,436,000, the difference being made up by “overhead, repairs, insur- ance and lay-up expenses.” Chairman Lasker said the present high cost of operations was to so extent due to the dull season with passenger earnings at a low level and to extensive repairs made necessary by the unusually severe storms in the fall and winter. The chairman er- phasized that in its accounting the board did not figure capital charge: nor the several forms of insurance which it carries for itself. Presents True Picture. “I strongly feel,” he said, “that fa ure to include the proper proportion of capital charges in monthly cost statements prevents giving a true picture of the results such as all com- mercial statements should reflect. These omissions, however, are in line with established governmert prac- tice, which the board is powerless to [ correct.” The operations during the month of February covered all trading routes. it was asserted, “so that American shippers can ship in American vessels to any port of the world.” DENY CARTER IS ILL: SOON ON WAY TO LUXOR Reported Sickness of Co-Discoverer of Tutankhamen’s Tomb, False. Cairo Reports. By thie Associated Pres LONDON, April 12.—A Reuter dis- patch from Cairo today declares there is no truth in the report that Howard Carter, the American Egyp- tologist. co-discoverer of the late Lord Carnarvon of the tomb of Tut ankhamen, has been taken ill. Mr. Carter, it asserts, will shortly return from Cairo to Luxor. An exchange telegraph message ifrom Caliro last night said Mr. Carter had been stricken with illness there and that Lady Carnarvon in_ conse- quence had postponed her trip to England with her husband’s body. Doyle Appears Wrong. NEW YORK, April 12.—The sudden illness in Egypt of Howard Carter, co-discoverer with the late Earl of Carnarvon of’ the tomb of Tutankha- men, reported last night and denied today, tends to corroborate the belief that there exists an elemental spirit in the tombs which avenges those who opened them, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said today.” He said Mr. Car- ter's illness was very much more than & strange coincidence, coming so closely after the death of the Earl of Carnarvon from an insect's bite. “It may be very well to record this as the bite of an insect or some other illness,” he sald, “but the fact re- mains that many men who have en- tered these tombs have come to sud- den death.” Workers Narrowly Escape When Crane Collapses taching the girder to the lifting hook of the boom my means of large steel cables and had moved a few feet to one side as the signal for lifting was glven. The girder had barely cleared the truck when the crane collapsed. ‘The men under the boom scattered In all_directions and workmen in other parts of the building’s skeleton darted to_safe: ‘The falling boom missed the corner of the Oakland service station by five feet. Robert F. Beresford, architect of the hotel, who investigated the collapse, expressed the opinfon that buckiing of the mast was due to the parting of a guy cable running to the top of the crane. He said that the machine is made to withstand greater strains than that put upon it today, pointing out that several sixteen-ton steel girders had already been successfully raised in the past few days. There are two other cranes in operation at the hotel site, 50 work will not be de. layed, he said. A new crane will be ordered from New York, ho asserted. The damage done to the framework was of such a nature that it can be easily repaired. The wrecked mast and boom are ing cut into sections by acetylene lo*hex. |