Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and cooler tonight; tomorrow cloudy and unsettled. Temperature for twenty-four hours Hij Towe: ended 2t 2 p.m. today: 3:30 p.m. vesterds. a.m. today. ghest. 81, at st, 58, at 3 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Toening Star. every city b Closing N. !. Stocks !.Ed Ronds, Plg_e_ go Entered post_office Wa: No. 28.847. s second-class matter shington, D. C. - WASHINGTON, P C, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1923—THIRTY PAGES. HUNDREDS FIGHTING MANY FOREST FIRES - IN2NEARBY STATES Scores of Conflagrations Stiil Raging Unchecked in Vir- ginia and Maryland. RUSH CARLOADS OF SAND TO SAVE HUGE OIL TANKS Cumberland Orchards Menaced by | Flames—5,000 Acres and One House Swept Near Hyattsville. Scores of forest fires still are ras- | ing unchecked today In many points | through Maryland and Virginia after having done thousands of dollars’ damage. Property is threatened in all directions, and hundreds of men | are fighting the enveloping flames Twelve distinct fires ars burning near Cumberland, Md., where the ive orchards on Green Ridge mountain | are in immediate dgmger. A spectac- ular fight is being made to save the | large storage tamks of the Standard Ofl Company in Cumberland Narrows, | near the city limits. Carloads of sand | are being rushed the | flames, which have to af extens up to stem approached WHEN PLANE FALLS {Navy Machine Crashes Into |have not yet be Harding Certain Choice of G.O.P., SaysT.W.Miller Thomas W. Miller, alien property custodian, after a conference to- day with President Harding, issued a formal statement in which he sald it was certain that the repub- lican party in the next natlonal convention will renominate Presi- dent Harding. The alien property custodian re- ported to the President on public opinion as he had found it during a month’s trip through the west, but e sald his statement as given out had not been laid before the ex- ecutive. Among matters on which he reported was understood to have been sentiment on the world court issue. TWO FLYERS KILLED Chesapeake Bay Near Hampton Roads. Two Navy aviators were killed to- day when the seaplane in which they were cruising about Hampton Roads crashed into the bay. The bodies recovered, the Navy | Department was informed by long- distance telephone from the Hampton Roads Air Station. Ensign Gordon Gunther of the| menacing distance Fifteen-Mile Path Swept. °South of Herndon, flames have sum ything from Lawyer road to Hunters tion, leaving a devastated path of | more than fifteen A gale blowing and little headway can made in stopping the fire. The forest fires which have burning in the neighborhood Hiyattsville, Md., since Saturday noon | already have spread over 5.000 @ and rned down one home. it is believed that the fires are under there still is danger embers a fanned start running through u burned woadland, Many fire-tighters ire standing guard Fires Silver Spring through area of five places from two to three m Anc forest fire still is burning after three days in the Big Pines, near Rockville, Numerous smaller fires are reported from other local- tes. Va, walls of be | miles. been of | have run miles, at wide. | OIL TANKS IN PERIL. Cumberland Practically Surround- ed by Woods Fires. Epecial Dispateh to The Star. | CUMBERLAND, Md., April 23.—This | city practically is surrounded by the | flames of forest fires, and every avall- #ble man has been pressed into serv- | jce to fight the fires which are burn- | fng in twelve different localities, | threatening much damage and loss | of life. | The gravest danger thus fer has| been the closeness of the flames fo | the large storage tanks of the| Standard Ofl Comyany in Cumberland | Narrows, just beyond the city limits. | ¥xplosion” of these tanks would re- €ult in inestimable damage as well as loss of life. With car loads of kand, which are being rushed up. it is hoped to check the surrounding re. Orchards in Danger. A stubborn fight is being waged to £ave the property and orchards in the Green Ridge mountain district. Flames are approaching the orchards | in every direction, and only through the shifting and subsiding of the galelike winds, which have been blowing continuously for the past twenty-four hours, are thousands of trees and many buildings likely to be saved. Fire yesterday circled the Allegany County Tuberculosis Sanitarium, but was extinguished by the Cumberland city fire department. Supt. Walter J Cooper had automobiles on hand to haul the patients away, €0 menacing had the flames become Home Is Saved. | Farther up the mountain, the home owned by W. Carl Richards, a mem- | ber of the Allegany county bar, was threatened in a similar manner, but | the flames were subdued befare any | serious damage was done. Knobley mountain, in West. Vir- ginia, opposite south Cumberiand and | Dack of the shops of the Western Mary: land railway, is all ablaze. Cumberland is enshrouded by smoke, Sunday motor- ists found a thrill in drivingg through avenues of firc over the mountain roads. FIRE PATH OF 15 MILES. Flames Near Herndon, Va ing Heavy Damage. Caus- | | Special Dispatel to The Star. HERNDON, Va., April 23.—Forest fires last night lighted the skies for miles around for the second consecu- tive night as flames continued to spread southward from Hunters sta- tion after having burned over a path fifteen miles in length. The fire first was discovered Sat- urday the other siue of Lawyer sta- tion near Wiehle. A strong gale quickly fanned the blaze into unman- ageable proportions. Although many buildings were saved. through the cfforts of scores of volunteer fire fighters the flames still are raging unchecked. In its path the fire has repeatedly | burned along the tracks of the Wash- ington and Old Dominion line. BURNS OVER FIVE MILES. Several Thousand Acres in Area of Nearby Fires. Bpecial Dispateh to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., April 23.—Fire which started Saturday about noon over an area of several thousand acres along a stretch of five miles, in the woods all the way from Berwyn Heights to Bladensburg, practically had spent its force this morning, al- though still burning in places. Prop- erty owners, however, still were on the alert to extinguish any dormant blaze which might flare up with the rising or shifting of the wind. Many Firemen Summoned. The fire, which broke out In Rog- ers’ subdivision, on the Edmonston road, midway between East Hyatts- ville and Riverdale, brought several hundred firemen and other citizens (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) " s BERUNTOOFFER naval reserves and Chief Machinist | Mate W. Hill of the Regular Arn ! were the victim. Ensign Gunther's | home was in Cambridge, Mass, and/ s from Ocean View, V. had been at the e for several days taking flving training reg d of re-| serve officers in order aintain their status of aviate E Hampton Ro: to 1 ALLIES NEW TERMS To Declare Readiness to Ne- gotiate Reparations and Guarantees Questions. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, April 23.—The Berlin cor- | respondent of the Central News says he learns on good authority that the German government is preparing a positive offer to the allies. The government, he adds, will de- clare its readiness to negotiate and discuss the questions of reparations and guarantees. TRICOLOR OVER ESSEN. | | | ESSEN, April 23.—The French flag| today flies over Essen for the first, time. A battalion of French troops! today presented arms while curious | crowds of Germans watched the tri-| color hoisted to the top of the flag- staff over the Kohlensyndikat, where the Runr coal barons once central-| ized a business of 100,000,000 lrnns.i The bands of the French playked “The | { concession, is in the fo FIGHT ON CHESTER GRANT LOOMS AS LAUSANNE OPENS Both Britain and France View 0il Concession to Americans With Much Uneasiness. U. S. WILL STAND FIRM FOR OPEN-DOOR POLICY Many Vital Issues Left Over From Former Parley‘ to Come Up—Rus- sia Declines to Be Eliminated. BY the Associated Press. LAUSA April 23.—The ques- tion of the near eastern oil fields, es- pecially those covered by the Chester aground today as the allied and Turkish delegations met in another effort to draft a peace treaty acceptable to both sides. Whether the general subject of con- cessions comes before the conference formally seems to depend on the suc- cess of direct negotiations between British and French concession hold- ers and the Turkish government, which were sed by the allles when they agreed to detach economlc ques- tions from the tr France, it Is| believed, will probably insist on the| rights accorded her in 1914 by the| rmer Turkish government, and the British delegation has let it be known that it will support the French clatm ! n the event the issue is brought be-| the conference. | France and Britaln Une Both Great Britain and France rc-? celved the news of the Chester grant| with a of un ness— be- | cause thinks the 19 4 agreement gives her priority ered by the in territory cov- concession, and Great | Britain because to whether the is uncertain as| ion thus opened | to American exploitation affects the | mandated Irak territory in which lie| al flelds. < here understand that the United States, through her represent- 1ce she she o v | ative, Joseph C. Grew, will continue | dating the n to support the open-door policy that | she advocated at the previous Laus- | anne conference, It is also belleved that Minister Grew will defend, if| necessury, the Chester concesslon in | the event the American government ! decides it is not violation of its | adherence to a policy of equal rights | for all nations. Vital Problems Up. As a legacy from the previous con- | versations the delegates have on| their hands such troublesome ques- tions as the legal rights of foreign- | ers in Turkey and the Ottoman debt. | The allies hold that foreigners In; Turkey should not be entirely under| the jurisdiction of the Turkish courts, | while the Angora sokesmen insist; that special judicial privileges cast| an unfavorable reflection on Turkey's| sovereignty. Great Britain did not| accept the last-minute concessions | made to the Turks last February on ' this question, whereby forelgn legal! advisers to be named by the allles would be informed of all arrests of| foreigners, and it seems likely that! the question will be reopened Developments indicate that soviet | short. 5 { Russia will decline to be eliminated Marseillaise.” The ceremony Wasias a factor in the present negotia- At French headquarters it | tions, but will insist on having some- was said_the ceremony was merely a:thing to say, as one of the states matter of form, in order to have the |invited to the original conference. Erench flag flying In the heart of the Ruhr. NEW BERLIN PROTEST. | Face Russian Issue. A Russian, who was a member of the soviet delegation at the last con- | ference, arrived here today and an- nounced that authorized Russian representatives might come later on. This statement was regarded as showing that Russia might be desir- ous of entering into officlal contact with the powers and thus make a step toward official recognition, which |it was realized the execution of Vicar :‘Gen(-r:cl Butchkavitch had seriously { retarded. Dr. Gustav Stresemann, leader of | Tpe same Russian spokesman de- the peoples party, told a publiciclared today that if the powers had | gathering here vesterday that Lord ijeft intervention In the Butchkavitch Curzon's speech in the house of 10rds | case (o the Vatican the churchman's | last Friday had created a new politi-) Jife would have been spared. but that cal situation which the German gov- | Poland's aggressive attitude *forced BERLIN, April 23.—The government has sent a note of protest to the French, British and Belgian govern- ments against the expulsion of Prince von Hatzfeldt, the German commis- sioner in the occupied territory, whereby the population, it is d clared, is “deprived of the last means of making known the sufferings they endure at the hands of the occupying forces.” i | “for our life and death does not de- | lat Tona, Mich., died from lot a guard. ernment would take at its proper value. What Lord Curzon said about a settlement of the reparations ques- tion, he asserted, formed a suitable Fasis for a continuation of interallied | discussion. An understanding could be reached | with Germany, Dr. Stresemann add- ed, regarding’ German reparations. pend on whether we pay a billion gold | marks more or less.” BOY BEATEN TO DEATH, | BODY IS SAID TO SHOW| Fractures on Skull Alleged to Con- firm Charges Against Michi- gan Prison. ORLANDO, Fla.,, April 23.—An ex- amination this morning of the body of Frank Patterson of Orlando, who, it is alleged in letters written to his parents by inmates of a reform school the effects of a whipping received at the hands indicated, according to Undertaker Hand. who examined the body, that the lad had been beaten to death. Three large fractures were found on the skull, the principal wound be- ing on top of the head, which, it is said by those examining’ the body, did away with the theory that the boy dled as the result of a fall to the floor, in a riet in the institution, RUSSIAN CHURCHMEN GIVEN SEVEN YEARS By the Associated Press. RIGA, April 23.—Bishop Nifont and Deacon Lepokrov havé been convicted by a tribunal in Tsaritsin, Russia, of opposition to the sequestration of church treasures, according to advices received here. The bishop was sentenced to seven years’' imprisonment and the deacon to a term of eight years. | the ! the Syrian front, is cited to show that Russia’s hand. FRENCH OPPOSE GRANT. Believe Pre-War Concession Should Stand—Weygand Goes to Syria. By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 23.—The sending of Gen. Weygand to Syria, coupled with French government's protest against the Turkish concession to the Chester syndicate, is widely com- mented on by the government and opposition newspapers as the sign of serious differences between France and Turkey. The fact that Turkey has voted 25,000,000 Turkish pounds to support her army, together with the mobilization of Turkish troops on Turkey is willing to meet the issues raised by France, such as the Ches- ter concession. Up to date Turkey has not replied to France's protest against the Ches- ter concession. It is admitted in French official cir- cles that the sending of Gen. Weygand ria to replace Gen. Gouraud is one means of intimating to the Turks that they cannot menace the Syrian frontiers without good cause. The belief is expressed that France is anxious not to offend Americans by seemingly trying to block American interests’ in dealing with Turkey. However, the French assert that their own concessions are valid, and that the Turks are acting in bad faith by ceding old French concessions to Americans. The French say it is not in the interest of international comity to permit the new government in Turkey to denounce pre-war agree- ments of the former imperial gov- ernment. According to the details of the old concessions, it is said the concession was promuigated by an imperial de- cree of May 1, 1914; that work was begun and " that 500,000 gold francs were spent on the work, which was stopped by Turkish request, due to the economic crisis created by Ger- ml:iny’! declaration of war against the allies. i WIL CHARGE GRS PAY T 10 8 A WEEK Union League Says Some Women Here Reduced to $6 by Wage Law Loss. Direct reductions women's wages In District establishn ranging from 30 to 0 per cent, resulted fr the decision United States Court imum wage law, it w charged today by the National Wo en's Trade Union League. It further charged that other establish- ments are preparing to lay off hun- drede of women, who will be replaced later at lower wages These arbltrary salary cuts were made, it was said, In the face of the assurances of employers that such action would not be taken Seek to Stem Tide. To find some means of stemming this alleged tide of reductions, which the league fears may extend to all states where minimum wage laws in Supreme inval was j are called in question by the Supreme Court’s decisio ncunced today national conference of a'filiated bodie state laber officlals and other groups interested in the situa n to be held in Washington May 14 “As an {mmediate result of the de- cision of the Supreme Court last week,” said a letter sent to the vari- ous organizaticns asking them to send delegates to the conference, “wages in Some instances have been cut to $6, $% and $9 a week. Even with the adverse decision of the lower court last November, forcement of the law was interfered with by Injunction, some hotels re- duced wages, and now the reductions are in full swing, by one method or another, {n mercantile establishments as well. As the decision of the Su- preme Court {s believed to invalidate the minimum wage laws of thirteen states. the effect upon the wages of the 1,500,000 woman workers in those the organization an- that it has states may be anticipated from the| effect in ‘the District of Columbia The results will also 'bear downward | upon the wage standards of women in all other states in future. The im- portance of the problem, in our judg- ment, calls for the best thought of every group of socially-minded men and women in the United States. By conference ®f their Tepresentatives we believe that some constructive plan can be devised which would com- mand the support of all interested groups. Among the organizations that have been asked to send representatives to the conference in Washington are tha National League of Women Voters, the Young Women's Christian Asso- ciation, the National Council of Catholic Women, the Councll of Jew- ish Women, the American Association of University Women, the National Congress of Mothers and _ Parent Teachers' Associations, the National Consumers. League. Girls' Friendly Societies, National Federation of Bi iness and Professional Women, Na tional Council of Women, Women's Christian_Temperance ¥nion, Amer- fcan Home Economics Association, General Federation of Women's Clubs, the American Federation of Labor, Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, the National Catholic Welfare Council, National Conference of Social Work, American Associa- tion for Labor Legislation, and others, also the State labor officials of min- imum wage states. The National Women's Trade Union League, which is calling the confer- ence, iy a federation of working- women and allies of the labor move- ment, with its executive board com- posed as_follows: Mrs. Maud Swartz of New York, president (member of the Typographical Union): Miss Rose Schnelderman of New York, cap- maker, vice president; Miss Elisa- beth Christman of Chicago, glove- worker, secretary-treasurer: Mrs. Sarah Green of Kansas City, waitress; Miss Agnes Nestor of Chicago, glove- worker; Miss Pauline Newman of Philadeiphia, walstmaker; Miss Julia S. O'Connor of Boston, telephone operator; Mrs. Raymond Robins of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League; Miss Ethel M. Smith of the Federal Employes’ Union. EETANM [Police Break Up Marathon Dance called al when the en- | SHAKESPE iAfter Two Shu as their promoters s continuously Mrs, William Farrell, After dancing, claim, for 108 he Elsie W and who the Coliseum We. nesday at ight, had their efforts to make a record suddenly terminated when Pratt_and headquarters and Capt. 3y appeared dens, at 21st street av northwest, Joe an, the that he show his failure to . cd of dancers and Mrs. Weber re- hall in tears, cops had it in” for mid Detectives ns Flather of t the enn and Pennsylvania nded of manager, Fre dancers’ fire permit. Upon the hall was cle about 100 spectat S to the rear of the 15 that “the K. Fox, manager of the hall, told reeman t as far as he was concerned the exhibition could con- tinue. Mr. Freeman then demanded of Capt. Flather his reasons for clear- ing the hall. Capt. Flather said, “You | have no fire permit.” Freeman said Mr. | \ e would get one. Capt. Flather sald, “You get a permit if you can.’ Instead of going a: HARDING T0 DEFEND WORLD GOURT ViEW swer Critics in Speech to Associated Press. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The battle inside the administra- | tion to persuade Fresident Harding | to abandon the world court proposal, | or at least to let it slumber, i8 over. The President has listened to the pleas of some of the strongest politi- cal advisers in the republican party, some of them in his own cabinet, but has decided to go through with Rhis fight, irrespective of the dire pre- | dictions of party friction, irrespec- | tive of the pessimistic pictures that have been painted to him of ultimate | defeat. | The President tomorrow will an- swer tha critics, those inside the re- | publican party as well as outside, in | a speech to be delivered before the | members of the Associated Press in | New York at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Mr. Harding appears not merely a8 & chief cxecutive—tor the Assoclated Press has frequently had Presidents to address its annual meeting—but as a fellow editor who is personally acquainted with dozens of the editors and publishers who will be there. Will Settle Doubt, Mr. Harding has felt that it was necessary for him to set at rest once and for all the doubts and misgivings which have been glven currency of late concerning his attitude on the world court. Some reports have had it that he did not intend to stand by his original position, or that when he found out how the party leaders felt he would switch his course. These stories have only had the effect of stiffening Mr. Harding's determina- tion. He probably would acknow edge, with pride. that he has flexibil- | ity of vlewpoint—contending that every chief executive should keep his | mind open to the last—but he will not brook the whispers of a “lack of backbon: which started before the famous soldier bonus bill was passed, and which resulted only in a stronger conviction that he ought to veto the measure. Somewhat the same situation has arisen about the world court. It has been satd, for instance, that Mr. Harding sent the proposal to Con- gress several weeks ago because he was under the influence of ‘“pro- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) How to Play Pung Chow Also Known The Ancient The first of a series of eighteen articles appears In Today’s Star Save all the articles and you have a- complete story of the game. as Mah Jong Chinese Game r a permit!” ARE—1564-1923 ffle 108 Hours in touch & that Capt. Flather's unjustified. Meanwhile the dan Freeman torneys, say action was the spectators and comp! d that their goal of world’s record had been snatched away from them, awaited further de- ments apt. Flathes n Gardens came wh Mr. Freeman said of 108 consecutive h been made. got n the dancers at a record irs had just Crowds Follow Dancers. of the Saturday de to the large crowd ollowinz dancers fr night a hurri Maryland town, the departura where witnessed the contest throughout yes- | of terday At midnight they were then hustled oft in automobires to return to Wash- ington, but being advised that Penn Gardens was not open a switch was | stockholder, is als mede to Greshner's Villa, Va., wh they arrived at 1 a.m. The dance was continued in a room at until 9:05 5 o'clock today. The dan CRISFIELD V60000 RUMOR DISPROVED of Natural Causes, Doc- tor Holds. By a §taff Correspondent. CRISFIELD, Md., April 23.—After experiencing the thrilling prospect that discovery of children's bodies in a pond here would unearth a practice of voodoism among some colored resi- dents, this castern shore town. through its authorities, has settled down to a csnservative view of the situation. Just two natural deaths, followed by failure to make the re- quired interment, is the accepted theory of town officials and state police. The investigation still is being pur- sued by Chief of Police James W. Ker- win. In conjunction with Dr. C. E. Collins, town health officer, an ex- amination of the birth records of children for the past four years is being made, and these are to be checked against the families, as the only means of identifying the dead. This examination will be completed by the time of the inquest Wednes. day afternoon. Will See Pastor. Late this afternoon Chief Kerwin is to have a conference with the col- ored pastor of a local church, who, he is informed, has some information that there was a “cleaning up” of a nearby undertaking establishment re- cently. Chief Kerwin explained that the establishment had recently under- gone a renovation, and in view of the fact that a number of old rags and other litter were found in the bag containing. the bodies of two chil- dren, this led the police to a theory that’the bodies might have been in the rubbish from the undertaking es- tablishment. Although a local fire engine pumped the pond dry where the bag was found, there was not disclosed any additional evidence of murdered chil- ren. Dr. Collins had the two bodies found last week taken to the morgue, where he carefully examined them, Death had ensued about eight months before. Minute examination was made for evidences of violence, but none was found. He made a spe- cial examination to determine whether the bodies had been embalmed. They had not. But it is not uncommon among the poorer classes to forego embalm- ing the dead. Dr. Collins, as well as other officlals who have been pursu- ing the investigation, laughed at any theory of witchcraft having anything to do with the deaths. Bodies Not Burfed. Only two theories now are held by the police and the county health of- ficer. One {s that the two children died natural deaths and their bodies were kept because of the inability of the parents to pay for burlal, and the other is that some one was paid to inter the bodies and failed to carry out the contract. ’ As there was no evidence of vio- lence of any kind on the bodies, the police are centering their efforts on trying to locate the persons who vio- lated the hcalth regulations by dis- posing of the bodles in such a man- ner. with his at-| 15060 ers, who | honored when presented the next day. &{O0n the date of the cf appearance at the | ere of a petition filed in the that place !a number. of the stockholders of the | | I | President Expected to An-;ChiIdren Found in Lake Diedi | | | { | | | | | { lable as his successor to immediately “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers lock and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday's Net Circulation, 93811 Sunday’s Circulation, 100,212 TWO CENTS, Comfort in Water Lack for Girl Who Dislikes Washing Two little girls were watching the firemen at work in the smoldering Pierce lumber yard fire yesterday morn- ing. “T didn't have to wash my face this morning.” said one of the chil- dren, in childish glee. “We didn't have much water to drink and mamma wouldn't waste that on my face.” She evidently lived in nearby Brook- land, where some of the water mains were drafned by the fire cngines. One family in the vicinity took water from the furnace boiler, boiled it and used it for household purposes. As the engines began to slow down yesterday afternoon water service in Brookland returned to normaley. RECEIVERS NAMED FOR GOLDEN & C0. Death of William G. Carter and Protested Check Bring Plea From Creditor. Justice Siddons of the District Su- preme Court today appointed Willlam H. Sholes and Arthur N. receivers of the Golden & Co., Ir to 928 Louisiana The bond of the at $100,000 The appointment followed the filing | of a petition by the International| Finance Corporation, which told the| court the commission company is in- nt, and that its check for $5, given April 1% last to the corporation, had | Murphy as | pmmission firm of | orporated, of 922 avenue northwest. receivers was fixed s¢ finance been k's dishonor, the petition sets forth, William « managing head of the corpo- | . died suddenly at his home in| Chase, Md. There is no ke his place in the bus . the ! court is advised, as the assets of the corporation are largely of perishable nature. the appoint of & receiver is urge Attornevs Douglas, las are counscl for poration and th that the assets verted nd to cash and t ts would be avoided by t pointment of u receiver and results obtained for the creditors of | Rosslyn Packing Company Invelved. The death of Mr. Carter, its chief 0 made the ground freuit court for Arlington county, Va, today by Rosslyn Packing Company of Ro: lyn. "Va. Judge Brent appointed Charles S. Douglas of Washington as | receiver of the company and Hugh | H. Obear and William Gloth as at- torn to_the receiver. The Rosslyn | Facking Company and a mumber ot tha chief creditors consented to the receivership. | o schedule of assets and Imhl]\»l ties of either of the companies has| becn filed. Arthur N. Murphy, one of the re- ceivers of Golden & Co., has been cashier of the firm for many years, it was stated. Mr. Shol is a law- yer. Walter A Johnston and Fred | §. Swindell appeared for the company. Statement by Directors. A statement fissued by the hoardl of directors of the company, follow “An application was today filed by | one of the creditors of Golden & Co. | Inc. of Washington asking the ap- pointment of a receiver for that| corporation. | “This action was due to the sudden | death on Thursday last of Mr. Wil- | liam G. Carter, its president and a. tive manager of the business. which iz and has for a long time been con- | idered probably the largest comm ion house and food dealers in the | District “While this action a creditor it is understood that board of directors will not appointment of a receiver, as the| directors are all actively engaged in | other lines of endeavor and lack the | experience and time to conduct so large a business. None Avallable as Head. “Mr. Carter had grown up with the house of Golden, had been its active | head for many vears, and its presi- dent for the last nine years, and the board of directors had no one avail- was taken by the oppose | take up the management of the busi- ness, and the naturc of its stock on hand partly consisting of more r less perishable food commoditi made it necessary for immediate ction. “The death of Mr. Carter not only removed the company’s active head but its principal owner, and in the interest of creditors and stockholders it was thought best to liguidate. “The house of Golden maintains accounts with several local banks and it is understood that all are prac- tically secured. COURT BARS CUT IN RAILROAD RATES By the Associated Press. BOSTON, April 23.—A permanent in- junction restraining the Interstate Commerce Commission from carrying out its recent order providing for the sale of non-transferable and inter- changeable mileage tickets at a 20 per cent price reduction was issued today by Judges Mack, Brewster and Morris_in the federal district court. The injunction order was issued after a hearing on a petition of fifty cast- ern roads opposed to the Intersiate Commerce Commission ruling. Interstate Commerco Commission officials said today that the federal court order restraining the comnmis- sion's mileage book installations fromn going_ into effect would probally be appealed at once to the Supreme Court. At the same time the Boston court order is likely to prevent the mile- age books from going on sale any- where in the United States on May 15, though the terms of the restrain- ing order as conveyed to the com- mission only affect the status of the eastern railroads, which challenged the commission’s policy before the court. It was sald that some action might be considered necessary by the commission to make sure that the mileage books are not sold by south- ern and western railroads which did not join in the court proceedings. Under the terms of the commission's order against which the injunction has issued, practically all the large rail- roads in the United States were re- quired to begin selling mileage tickets 13 |a HOME WATER CUT BY LUMBER FIRE BARES FUND NEED Delayed Appropriation Part- ly Blamed for Distressful Brookland Situation. SPIGOTS ARE DRAINED IN MANY HOUSES Extension of Protection Area Comes Up as Damage Is Placed at $150,000. Spigots many went completely dry in Brookland homes yesterday morning while firemen fought desper- ately with an in ply to check wiped out the vard at 616 northeast. 1uiry at the District bullding to- revealed that offiel water department have oring for five years to obtain propriation to lay a thirty-inch water maln in Rhode Island avenue northeast to afford fire to that dequate water sup- the fire which nearly W. A. Plerce lumber Rhode Island avenue the ap ampl proteetion t until th to get into {1 T £ is year were they app The t oney it r the thi; ode ange ¢ appropriation carry the It is a st neid pipe the but iy vesterday have handl. s ard As it happened, the tuw drew wat small, outgrown ity that they away from a consider- of Brookl:nd ter department fore g0 such a sity fire department than e ough water to bl Aty or miore mains vulled all of the wate able That the, saw several Years ation is evident from the testimon before the District subeommitice of the I appropriations committes than a year ago. A member of tho subcommittes asked Capt. Wood to explain the item of $46,000 for a Rhode Island avenue water main. Here is the captain's testimony “That is to partially replace a very indirect unsatisfactory loop, which we are resorting to now, by which we feed water over a distance of seven miles through a twelve-inch main; very unsatisfactory even when the pumps are working. This is what ‘we call the second high service, which comes by gravity from the Brightwood reservoir, located on 16th street use Pumps Ald Pressure. “When the pumps are working we get a little better pressure, but in the vicinity of Langdon, if there were fire, the mains would not ade- quately furnish water. That item n emergency, and we were very much disappointed in not getting it last vear. In this estimate we will not he able to complete but will he able to realize a considerable portion of it The original estimates prepared by the Commissioners last year called for $162,000, which would have taken the new thirty-inch main as far as 16th street northeast District officials pointed out today that it does not save the federal gov- ernment to postpone _authorization for new water mains. because they are paid for wholly out of the water rents paid by private consumers. Congress, however, since 1917 has been directing that a part of the income of the water department be used for the upkeep of the aqueduct and filtratio ant. which are under the War Department. From 1917 to 1922 approximately $1.084,000 has been thus taken from water rents for the maintenance of the aqueduct, District officials say. They believe is this money should be left to the water department to be used In laying the new mains that are constantly being needed to afford ample fire protection to rapidly grow- ing communities. J. S. Garland, superintendent of the water department, with a crew of his ost experienced men. hurried to the scene of the fire Sunday morn- ing anu ordered an extra pump put service at the pumping station 2, Column 1.) PHILLIPS SUSPECT ORDERED HELD BY U.S. By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 23.—A\ telegram was received at the office of Gov. Friend W. Richardson from Secre- tary of State Hughes Informing him that the American consul in Teguci- galpa, Honduras, had been Instructed to hold a woman believed to be Mrs. Clara Phillips, the “hammer murder- ess,” until extradition papers had rived. The telegram stated that Jeese C. Carson, a traveling companion of the woman, also would be held pend ing arrival of extradition papers for him. Carson will be charged with first degree arson. LOS ANGELES, Calif., April Telegrams concerning plans to arrest a woman known in Tegucigalpa, Hon- duras, as Mrs. Robert Young, but be- lieved to bs Mrs. Clara Phillips. “hammer murderess,” were exchanged today between the governor's office in Sacramento and the sheriff's office here. The governor's office sent the sherift's office this message: repare five sets of _extradition papers in Phillips case. Wirs charges against traveling ¢ompanions, if you desire their provisional arrests.” The sheriff's office replicd: “Order provisional arrest cf Jesse C. Carson, traveling companion of Clara Phillips, on arson charge: also &ood for 2,500 miles of travel at a 20 per cent reduction under stundard passenger fare rates on and after May 1 l on charge of aiding murderess to escape. Five sets of extradition papers being prepared to send to you at once.”