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WEATHER. Fair tonight change in northwest winds. and tomorrow; temperature; ‘Temperature no moderate for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. to- da; Highest, 63, at 5:30 p.m. yester- lowest, 45, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 25 ¢ Foening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 28,849. Entered as second-clacs matter post office Washington, D, C. PRESIDENT READY | 0 MEET ENEMIES OF WORLD COURT Home: to Mend Rent G. 0. P. Ranks After Pute ting Fight in Open. in McNARY AND STERLING GRATIFIED BY ACTION Both Declare Definite Course Will Win Votes for Party in 1924. Having placed before the country his reasons for advocating American membership in the international court, President Harding returned to his desk today prepared to argue out the differences over the issue which | have arisen among republican leaders. “The country likes a man who will take a position he believes right and stick to it. T dent Harding's courageous speech in w York deal- ing with the proposed adherenc the United States to the world will win votes for the party causes any defection in the ranks of the republicans, it will be small.” Briefly, this expresses the Senator MeNary of Oregon and Sena- tor Sterling of South Dakota, both republicans and strong supporters of | the proposal that the United States hould join in the world court. Others Disturbed. But there are others among the republicans who are much perturbed because of the stand ta n by the President in support of the ent of the United States into the court. In th opinion, the ow in the They see possibilities ot a par! fon over the world court that r bring about democratic victory year. While they are not sp publication at this time, s friends of the administr: in Senate are privately making no s of their disappointment cf the Pre dent's stand. Opponents of the administration— ranged on the republican side of the Senate chambber—declare a split is coming that will result in the dis- memberment of the republican part Senator Sterling said frankly t - did not agree with those repub- icans who fear that to make an {ssue In favor of entry into the world court will be harmful to the Party at the polls. Glad lssue Made. i “1 think the issue should be made; and the President has made it he said. “The people in South Dakota will be glad to see the United States enter the world court. The people of South Dakota are representative of the people of the great middle west. Personally, I believe that the people would have approved gladly the entry of the United States into the league of nations with the res- ervations which were adopted by tne Senate. With those reservations, the interests of the country were amply protected. My own opinion is that the other powers would Yet be glad 10 accept our membership in the league with such reservations. But the treaty of Versallles cannot be sent to the Senafe by the President row and the world court is a dif- ferent thing. Senator McNary, Oregon, was equally certain that the people of the we: would approve the stand taken by the | President for the world court | “When the vote is taken in the Sen- ate on the protocol providing for ad- | herence of the United States to the| world court,” he said, “there will not | be more than nine or ten votes cast sgainst the proposal.” Six-Vote Power Fought. Senators who do not like the pro- posal of the President and those who do not think it e to inject the| world court as an issue into the political situation, said today that one of the argumenis which would be made against the proposal and which| would have great welzht was “six to one” voting power of British Empire in the league. the agency through which the judzes of the court are selected. How could republican senators who opposed during the fight over the league the six votes allowed the Brit- ish empire be now expected to con cur In the position taken by the Vresident that this was not a draw- back to adherence to the world court, they asked. They criticized ticu- larly that part of the President's ad- dress in New York. Cites Hughes Proposal. Senator Sterling called attention to the fact that Secretary Hughes had suggested a reservation to the pro- tocol providing that the United States should take part through its repre- sentatives in the election of judges of the world court on an equality with other nations. Hg said he b lieved this would protect the inter- ests of the United States in this matter. “Now that the Irish are going into | the league of nations,” Senator Sterl- ing said, “perhaps some of the oppo- sition to the world court will be dissi- pated,” he said, I “The courageous attitude of thei President is bound to gain support,” continued Senator Sterling. “The rec- ord of the President has been one of courage. His stand on the soidiers’| bonus, whether you agreed with him| or not, was courageous. He did not swerve in his determination to put through the shipping bill at the last session, and now he shows no sign of glving way in the slightest on the ! world court.” 1.0.C. REVOKES ORDERS | ON RAILWAY FARES Orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission requiring railroads to be- gin sale of interchangeable mileage books at 20 per cent reduction on reg- views xt ing for = of the ular passenger fare rates on May 15 were revoked today, and the effective date of the mileage books sale post- poned until January 1, 1824. The action of the commission, which follows the granting of an injunction in_Boston against the commission’s order, resulted directly from an ap- peal for postponement by western carriers, Though the court order only re- strained sale of the books by fifty eastern railroads, the commission de- cided to forestall the confused situ- ation which would arise from sale and use of the mileage in other parts of the country and from possible court action on behalf of western and southern raillzoads. Harding Speech Widely Printed In Paris Pres By the Assoclated Press. ! PARIS, April 25. — President Harding's declarations regarding American membership in the Per- manent Court of International Jus- tice, made In his speech at the Assoclated Press luncheon in New York yesterday, were given wide publicity here and have attracted much interest in league of nations circles, “The United States iy bound to interest itself in this way in the world affairs,” said Senator Henrl de Jouvenel, editor of the &Matin and prominently identified with league activities, A number of others prominently assoclated with the league were reluctant to express their views, as they felt it would be regarded as telling the United States what she should do. While President Harding'’s speech was given prominence by the morning newspapers, it was re- ceived too late for them to make extensive editorial comment. PRESIDENT HELPED BY TALKTOEDITORS Support for World Court| Gained at New York Meeting. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, April Harding has made American member- ship in the world court of interna- tional justice an almost assured fact. The President won to his side enough republican editors to keep in line a suffic number of republican s ato who, together with a solid democratic strength, will furnish the necessary two-thirds to ratify the protocol. Mr. Harding did not reach out for democratic support—he had it already. In fact the democrats were prevented from greeting him with excessive en- President | thusiasm, for he took occasion to rap hard the idea of American member- ship in the league of nations, and in- sisted the United States, under his ad- ministration, would not enter “by the side doot a fling that made the democrats frown, but gave many republicans the tisfying thrill which they really wanted before making up their minds to support the world court. President on Trial The President was on trial before the assembled editors of the Asso- ciated Press. It wasn't the world court proposal so much as Warren Harding himself who was being scru- tinized.. The corridors were buzzing with political gossip all day. Nat- urally, when editors from all parts of the United States get together in one place they talk about political currents. Mr. Harding's candidacy for renomination in 1924 accentuated this feeling and made the atmosphere seem more like a plea to a biparti- san political convention, if there ever could be such a thing, than an ordi- nary speech to a group of business men and writers. It really had the setting of a speech to Congress, for though there to emphasize division, as is the case in the House and Senate, partisanship sat there just the same. It was apparent in the applause; it was evident in the comments one heard after the speech was over. Made Good Impression. Personally Mr. Harding made a good impression—he has a likeable personality. Editors showed their pride that one of their number is in the White House. In every respect the audience was disposed to be friendly. But deep-seated beliefs and convictions are not easily disturbed by the plea of a President. Mr. Hard- inz had this advantage—he made his argument to many editors who hadn’t made up their minds, who had heard rumors of friction inside the party. but diant know witether to belte them to show the world court had been of republican origin. He read from previous national plat- | forms of the republican party. He didn’t refer to Elihu Root, republican statesman, who practically drafted the worid court plan, but he did go back to his own campaign speeches to show that he was merely advocating some- thing he and the party had always stood for. A good many republican editors who orrespond, more or less, to the so- alled * “irreconcilable” “group in the Senate were disappointed—they didn’t want Mr. Harding to make an issue inside the party. They committing political suicide. They are unconvinced—this was apparent, for_example, in the leading editorial | in Frank Munsey's New York Herald today, which said, of course, Mr. Hard- ing was right in saying the republican party wanted a world court, but not this ‘world court, because it was cre- ated by the league of nations, and that | It sug- | d court. | was a democratic creation. gested that he start a new worl, Seek to Undermine. These editors will not be satisfied to let Mr. Harding get the benefit of such waves of sentiment as he got here in New York at the news gathering. They will keep hammee, ing away, burrowing contsantly as the “irreconcilable” group did with the league of nations itself, until the whole republican party was swung to their side by the issue. The first |1ine of attack Wil be to take advan. tage of Mr. Harding's own stater in-his speech here. when he said oy, would not have it thought that I hold this question paramount to all others confronting our government.” This gives opportunity for all sorts of proposals on domestic issues which | can be kept In the foreground. The | ship subsidy bill was killed by such tactics. Mr. Harding will have a slim | majority to work with in the next! Congress. The radicals will have enough domestic measures to propose and discuss to keep the world court from coming up and while the demo- crats will help on the final vote, it is hardly to be expected that they will assist Mr. Harding In the troubles with his own party. Selection of Judges. The President iIncurred consider- able democratic hostility because of his condemnation of the league of na. tions, principally because the very a guments he made for accepting six. to-one voting in the assembly of the league for purposes of selecting world court judges, are to democratic minds equally ~applicable to full- fledged American membership in the league itself. But the biggest benefit that will accrue from the speech, so far as Mr. Harding is concerned, is the effect on his own political fortunés. Many edi- (Continued on Page 21 Column 1) < oor, the back door or the cellar | was no political aisie | The President took his stand | on the party record—he endeavored | think he is | WASHINGTON, D. C, ANGORA IN STRAITS OVER TS FINANCES, PRESSES CHESTER Turk Demand for Cash Adj vance Said to Cause Fric- tion in U. S. Syndicate. MOSCOW FUNDS FAIL, AS DO FRENCH CREDITS American Group Reported Nego- tiating Persian Loan—Turks 1 Defiant at Lausanne. | BY HAL O'FLAHERTY. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Cogright, 1623, LONDON, April 25.—Through pri- vate commercial sources word | reached London today from Con- {stantinople that the Angora govern- { ment is so vitally pressed for money {that it must immediately take drastic steps to recoup the national Owing to the recent dis- able relations between the Tutks and the bolsheviki all supplies of money from Moscow have ceased. while French credits have similarly disappeared, leaving the Turks in sorry financial straits This money shortage is declared responsible for the Turks pressing Adm 1 Chester and his colleagues for immediate substantial advances for the concession rights given them. The requests are made so insistently as to caus veral members of the vndicate to lose all their | sm for the great projoct of | rebutlding the Turkish rallroads and { exploiting their copper mines. They look upon the present Turkish -de- manda for cash payments as another maneuver like that of 1914, when Turkey inveigled France into \a vancing a huge loan and then pudial the concession the loan was securcd. Expect Cautious Pollcy. British interests feel certain that the Chester syadicate will adopt cautious methods in dealing with the Turks, prob- ably delaying immediate steps to put the concession rights into effect. Many signs exist of Turkish flnancial difficulties, according to reports from well informed British sources. For the past month the Turkish government has refused to pay civil emplo, m C stantinople, basing its refusal on puliti- cal grounds, but actually not having cash for ready use. Officers and men of the Kemalist army are complalning bit- terly over the failure of the goverument to pay salaries. PERSIAN LOAN REPORTED. American Syndicate Said to Be Negotiating Advance. By the Associated Press. | _LONDON, April 25—A loan which ian American syndicate is reported to |be considering for the Persian gov- ernment would, if made, take the place of that contemplated by Great i Britain _under the Anglo-Persian |agreement which Persia failed to ratify two years ago, according to the diplomatic_correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The writer, who recently professed | to have learned of the prospective loan, suggests that knowledge of | these negotiations may have prompt- jed the Turkish nationalist govern- I ment to seek an immediate substan- | tial advance from the Chester syndi- |cate. This request, the correspon- i dent adds, possibly 'accounts for re- iported differences” between members | of the syndicate. Announcement was made in the |House of Commons last evening by Ronald McNeill, undersecretary of ! the foreign office, that Great Britain | did not_intend to raise a discussion | of the Chester concession at the Lau- | sanne peace conference. 5 TURKS STILL DEFIANT. | By the Associated Press. LAUSANNE, April 25.—The resumed near east conference got under way with the Turks apparently in no more (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) $14,000 ALLOTTED FORPOTOMAG WORK | Dredging to Be Resumed as War Department Assigns Funds for River. Out of the general appropriations of $57,000,000 for rivers and harbors, | Secretary Weeks has allotted the sum [of $74,000 for the improvement of the Potomac river at Washington. That allotment was made as a result {of a conference at the War Depart- ment - yesterday afternoon between the Secretary of War and Maj. Gen. Beach, chief of engineers and Gen. Taylor, his chief assistant. The local allotment is designed mainly to improve and malintain the navigation of the Virginia chanrel to Georgetown. The present controlling depth of that channel is about eight- |een feet, indicating gradual shoaling ito the extent of nearly six feet. It is | planned to resume dredging at once to obtain a controlling depth of twen- | ty-four feet, which is regarded as suf- ficient for purposes of general navi- gation in these waters. ‘According to Maj. Tyler, the engl- neer officer in charge of the river improvement, the allotment of $74,000 will be expended as follows: Dredg- ing Virginia channel, $53,200; main- tenance_of levee around Columbia Island, $1%00; operation and mainte- nance of 'tidal gates, $2,000; repairs fand maintenance of government plant and property, $8,000, and engineering, clerical and contingencies, $9.000. Immediate improvement of the Vir- ginia channel and Columbla Island, opposite the Arlington reservation, is one of the preliminary steps in the project for ‘the construction of the monumental memorial bridge, de. signed- to connect the Lincoln Me. morial in Potomac Park and the Ar- lington national cemetery. That bridge will cross Columbia Isiand and will connect with roads in the ceme- tery grounds and with proposed bou- levards to the north and south of that reservation, upon which { i GERMAN LEADERS FACING DLENA Should Nation Offer Repara- tions Figure in View of Finances, Is Question. ted Press April ~Whether Cer- many warranted In now coming | forward with a reparations offer, in | view of her internal financial situa- | tion, is one of the questions that are | is | perplexing Chancellor Cuno and his | cabinet, according to well political circles. The government is represented as | desiring to show an accommodating | attitude in response to Lord Curzon's | recent appeal to Germany to make | the first move for the settlement. If! Cuno decides to fix a figure which, in his opinfon and that of the cabinet members and reichstag leaders, would actively promote objective discussions | with the entente, political circles be- leve that it will be largely in defer- ence to the “psychological atmos- phere” created by Lord Curzon's re- marks in the house of lords. Views of Hughes. Both the chancellor and Foreign Minister von Rosenberg are still said to believe that the shortest road to a solution of the whole reparations tangle has been suggested by Secre- tary Hughes, The officials are know to be of the opinion that the verdl reached by unbiased authoritative perts would also contribute mea ably to stimulating confidence in reparations loan tha: might be bascd on_the findings of such & jury. The chancellor and his “forelgn minister do not lack counsel, in the situation created by Lord Curzon's | address. As reflected in_the press| this voluntary advice may be summed up in the words: +“Go slowly; don't get nervou: ‘Among the relchstag parties—not- ably in the ranks of the united soclalists—there is evidence of a| strong determination to force the | question of Germany's frontiers to an ultimate settlement; and there is also | a desire that Germany's position in this respect be fixed quite as in- delibly as that of her ultimate repara- tions obligations. This phase of the present situation Is being stressed as representing an imperative require- ment for the future recognition of Germany’s _territorial soveregnty and as an Indispensable condition to the maintenance of co-ordination in her internal financial and political affairs. Forelgn Loan Prospects. Financial quarters are chiefly con- cerned with contemplating the pros- pects for floating a foreign loan, and with the methods of underwriting it. In the opinion of leading bankers this is palpably the crux of the final | reparations agreement, as it wiil in- | stantly determine the amount of ready cash available for France and Belgium. Considerable curlosity is therefore being mainifested as to whether Ger- many offers an attractive financial risk to any forelgn banking syndicate. EXPECT GERMAN OFFER. informed | London Predicts yImpofl.ant An- nouncement Soon. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 25.—The prospect of Germany making a definite repara- tions offer, especially with reference to a settlement of theRuhr situation, is widely discussed In the press her The view is generally taken that re cent utterances of German statesmen snd comments by German newspapers point to the likelihood that an im- portant pronouncement on _this sub- ject will be forthcoming from Berlin soon. Opinions differ as to whether such a pronouncement would contain an outright offer in figures. It has been hinted here that Lord Curzon has suggested to Germany a sum which would be acceptable to the allies, but the Times today professes the ability to deny this report authoritatively. The newspaper also cites utteranc: of allied statesmen showing that any ! offer of a settlement in the Ruhr must be made directly to Paris and not to London or elsewhere. GERMANY CREDITED. By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 25.—Germany has been credited by the allied repara- tions commission with 695,606,800 gold marks for payments in Kind on rep- aration in 1922, it Is announced. These revised figures show that the allles placed orders for an additional 156,000,000 ' gold marks worth of goods, which were unfilled during ar. e nce, the figures reveal. ordered only 29 per cent of the goods, to the amount of 950,000,000 gold marks al- lotted to her, while the other allies exceeded their allotment of a half billion gold marks and received 97 per cent, of their qum,. Caughtin S wamp,? Child Is Rescued | By Dog’s Devotioni B thie Associated Pro NORTH BROOKFIELD, Mass, 5.—The life of little Flor- was credited today to of her shepherd dog ence Codri the devotion € Seeking May flowers in the woods north of here yesterday, the child caught in a quagmire, She n to sink and grasped the « Florence went deeper into mp King stood firm to his night child and dog re mained there too exhausted to make a sound Today a_brother of the twelve- year-oid girl, continuing his search after a large posse had gone to rest from a night-long hunt, found some of the flowers which she had dropped and then discover- ed little Florence still holding on to King. The child was in the | swamp up to her arm pits. The | dog’s legs were deep in the mire. | Florence was exhausted and speechless for several hours, but it is believed she sustained no per- manent ili effects. The dog re- sponded readily 1o treatment and frisked about his little mistress toda ASKS ARBITRATION FORALL AMERICAS, Treaties Advocated by Para- | guayan Delegate at Santiago. I BY CLAUDE 0. PIKE. 1 By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. | Copyright, 1923, 1 SANTIAGO, Chile, April —The | position of the United States as the | guardian of the peace in the western | hemisphere again will be emphasized if the pan-American conference rec- | ommendetion for compulsory arbitra~ | tion among American nations is ac- | cepted. The report made by the armaments | committee was based on the proposal | of Dr. Gondra, delegate from Para- | guay. The arbitration treaties recommend-l ed are similar to those advocated by | ‘Willlam J. Bryan, with a modification | made at the suggestion of the United | States delegation, making the findings of any commission threatened clashes more _elastic, that nations need not submit to the decisions of the commission where it is shown that national honor is at stake. The personnel of the proposed commission was made all-American, the selection of the fifth member not being left to the president of Switzer- land, but to the American nations themselves. It is expected that the Gondra proposal, as soon as the text is completed, will be adopted unani- mously. Delegates of the larger na- tions have received instructions from their governments authorizing ac- ceptance. Governing Board. An agreement virtually has been reached on the subject of reorganiz- ing the governing board of the Pan- American Union, making it possible to get the unanimous approval of the | members of the political committee in accordance with the principles laid down by the Costa Rican delegation, | with certain modifications suggested by the United States delegation. The proposal as rewritten makes it possible for any nation not repre- sented on the governing board to obtain special representation in cer- toin cases. The revised proposal says nothing about making the office of president of the board rotative, as desired by the Cuban delegation. Will End May 3 It is virtually decided that the con- ference shall end May 3, although the date has not been fixed officlally. It is ‘COmmittee cf Board of Tradei { Trade believes should in the next budget was laid before {on streets and avenues of the trade i“to the deplorable condition of the |the duty to keep the space between | sioners to bring to the attention of ! mittee states, should also be opened | investigating | Congress toward improvements in the 807 | results may be obtained.” | expected that the prospect of an qarly adjournment will force the A B C na- tions to get down to work in earnest on the reduction of armament question. Members of the conference say they do not want to enter upon a technical dis- cussion of the matter which affects only Argentina, Brazil and Chile, but if these nations adopt a plan for future deliber- ations this will be agreed to by all the members. DRAFTS NAVAL TREATY. By the Assoiated Press. 6 SANTIAGO, Chile, April 2 -Presi- dent Alessandri of Chile, who Is con- ferring with the Argentine and Bra- zillan delegates to the Pan-American conference in efforts to reach a for- mula for an agreement on armament limitation, has drafted a new pro- posal for a five-year treaty under which capital ship tonnage would'prevailing now. The national be limited to 66,000 tons, auxiliary ships to 85,000 tons and submarines! to 15,000 tons, every city bl The Star's carrier “From Press to Home Within the Hour” system covers lock and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1923—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. Net Circulation, 96,31_3 TWO CENTS. 99% OF LIQUORS SOLD STREET PROGRAN SUBMITED DD, Urges Improvements in City’s Highways. A comprehensive program of street improvement t the Board of be asked for the Commissioners today by George C. Shinn, chairman of the committee body. The committee so asked the Commissioners to give careful con- sideration in their next estimate to the need for better street lighting on many of the main arteries of travel. Attention is respectfully invited,” the committee stated In its letter, paving between some of the car tracks of the local railway com- panies. Under an old statute (which does not appear to have been re- pealed) the Commissioners are charged with the duty of requiring strect railways companies to keep the space between the tracks ade- quately paved. Many accidents have | Lappened as a result of poor paving | between car tracks and the safety of pedestrians and travelers ower the highways of the District of Colum- bia requires a strict enforcement of the car tracks adequately rpaired.” Wants 14th Street Extended. The committee asked the Commis- Congress at the next session the bill | for the extension of 14th street through the Walter Reed Hospital | grounds. It is pointed out that prac- | tically every organization in the city | is in favor of this project. | The committee also asked that the | extension of New York avenue north- east from its present terminus at | Florida avenue, be advocated with re- | newed vigor. This improvement has been at a standstill for a number of years. New Hampshire avenue, the com- | from the Metropolitan branch of the | B. and O, railway to the District line. This development passes through a rapidly growing section and is re- | garded as an urgent need. On the subject of street paving in general, the committee said: “Notwithstanding the attitude of retrenchment displayed by the last capital of the nation, it is felt that a good start was made and it is hoped that at the next Congress more good Should Be Resurfaced. The resurfacing of 11th street south- east from the Anacostla bridge to Pennsylvania avenue Is cited as a much-needed improvement. Georgia avenue also should be resurfaced from 7th and Florida avenue northward to the present asphalt pavement. Re- quest glso is made for resurfacing Wisconsin avenue from Georgetown northward. The committee tells the Commis- sloners that 10th street northwest, one of the main arteries of motor travel, should be widened. Other streets which the committee feels need attention include: Seventh street from B southwest to the whart; 14th street from B northwest to B southwest; 19th street north of Penn- sylvania avenue; Benning road be- yond 15th and H streets northeast. The following streets are called to the attention of the Commissioners as In need of new paving at an early All streets adajcent to Eastern High School; Upshur street, 2nd to 4tht Webster street, 2nd to Rock Creek Church road; 3d street, Upshur to Webster; Ingraham street. 13th to 16th; Jefferson street, 13th 16th; H reet, 1th to 17th south- 9th street, Crittenden to De- Hamilton ‘street, 11th to 16th; 13th street, Hilton street south, and Ridge road, between Reservoir street and Nebraska avenue. EEem oo T SWITZERLAND REPAYS U.S. $10,000,000 ON LOANS Dy the Assotiated Press. BERN, Switserland, April 25.— Switzerland has repaid the United States during the last year $10.000,000 on account of loans floated there in 1919 and 1920, it was officially an- nounced today. One of these loans was issued at 8 per cent interest and the repayment of the $10,000,000 is sav- ing Switzerland 400,000 francs year- 1y owing to the cheaper money r:t;l ebt of the country, however Increased 90,000,000 francs last year and now tals 2,110,000,000 francs. IN D. C. RANK POISON CHEMICAL TEST SHOWS Real Stuff Impossible to Get, Bootleggers Now Make Own, Survey Reveals. SITUATION STUDIED TO PREVENT DEATH WAVE IN SHRINE WEEK ‘Alcoholic Deaths Much Larger Than Figures Indicate, City Officials Point Out. Ninety-nine per cent of the liquor sold by bootleggers in Washington today is unfit for human consumption. Dr. T. M. Price, District che mist, has not found a sample of genuine Scoteh whisky, rye whisky or gin, in the liquor submit- ted to him for analysis within th Many of the deaths in Wash: ords as due to gastritis, endo or a direct result of drinking the bad leggers are now selling. A muc e past six months. ington which appear on the rec- myocarditis, or other causes, are whisky which Washington boot- h larger percentage of deaths is actually caused by alcoholic poisoning than is shown by records of the health office or the Gallin, say. ger Municipal Hospital, officials nable to obtain real whisky, bootleggers are “doctoring” their poisonous products today even more than in the past. Corn whisky is mixed in the mash with lye, to age it for a quick sale. Its use wiil ruin any stomach, if it does not cause immediate death. The only real whisky obtainable in Washington today is that purchased on a physician’s prescr Survey Made by Star. These facts were brought to light| by a survey of the bootleg liquor situ- | ation in Washington, made by The | Star, to present, if possible, an epi- demic of deaths which may result from the present inability leggers to obtain real whisky. The retail whisky men have not been able to obtain whisky for more than six months, and have turned to the aiter- | native of “doctoring” the poisonous products they sell as “fine stuff, bot- tled in bond.” When your bootleg- ger drops the hint that he got part of the proceeds of a distillery robbery a few weeks back and will sell you a case of “real goods” cheap. if you in- sist on doing business with him—and a risky business it is, with the end often a coroner's certificate—insist on a thorough chemical test from the bottles of the case you buy. Either that or take the tip from men who | know the whisky game in Washing- ton and discontihue the use of boot- leg liquor entirely. Grain Alcohol Base. “Rye” whisky being sold today at from $10 to $15 a quart is simply a 50 per cent base of grain alcohol, diluted with water, with a drop of caramel added for color and a few drops of “rye” or “Scotch” flavor to give it the whisky aroma. Too often even grain alcohol is not used, but de- natured alcohol, a rank poison, work- ed with bichloride or carbolic acid forms the base. “Rye” and “Scotch™ flavors are now being sold in bottles similar to other flavoring extracts. They give the aroma of “rye’ or Yscotch” to the concoctions sold by the bootlegger. The 1 per cent of real whisky found in Washington, according to Lieut. O. T. Davis, in charge of the vice squad, is almost invariably stock that has been in the hands of the owner PAYNE SUBPOENAED FOR MORSE TRIAL Former Head of Shipping Board Required to Stay in District. John Barton Payne, former head of the Shipping Board, will not go to Mexico to bring about a reconcilia- tion with President Obregon, if coun- sel for Charles W. Morse and his as- sociates, now on trial before Justice Stafford and a jury in Criminal Divi- sion 1, can prevent it. At the request of Attorney Nash Rockwood, Justice Stafford today ordered a subpoena on behalf of the defense to be lald on Mr. Payne to require his attendance at the Morse trial. When court convened today Attor- ney Rockwood inquired of United States Attorney Gordon whether all the wit- nesses whose names were read to the jurors would be in attendance at the trial, as he had read In the papers that some of them were leaving the jurisdiction. Maj. Gordon responded that he could not assure counsel that all the witnesses would be used by the government, put tnat his office would see that those needed were on hand. Attorney Rockwood then de- clared that he had special reference to Mr. Payne, and asked if the gov- ernment could assure his presence. When Maj. Gordon declined to give such assurance Mr. Rockwood asked for a subpoena on behalf of the de- fense. . Review by Gordon. Maj. Gordon reviewed the ostah- lishing of the various cornorations Ly Morse following his purchase of the plant of the Robert Palmer & Sons Shipbuilding Railway and Ma- Tine Company, in April, 1916, $115,000, ariong which was the Gro- tun Iron Works, which was capital- 1zed ut #1,000,060. but In which “no real money was placed by Morse.” Attorney Wilton J. Lamhert of of boot- | for | iption. for years. Only in rare cases is it found that it has been sold recently by a bootlegger. Practically 100 per of the 99 per cent of manufactured whisky is poi- nous and is likely to bring death physical and mental disability to the drinker. The slogan of the corn hisky manufacturer these days is make it quick and get it quick, and he devil take the consequences.” No Genuine Whisky. Not one sample of genuine whisky ! has been analyzed by Dr. Price, the District chemist, within the past six months from the liquor taken in raids. All the whisky he has tested | within that period has been manu- factured—probably in the District of Columbia. Yet, in fairness to all concerned, it must be said that the Washington bootlegger is at least careful to fore- |80 the use of methylalcohol—the | wood alcohol of commerce—or the so- called ~ “coroner's cocktall,” which caused so many deaths in and around New York a year and a half ago. He | does use ethylalcohol, or denatured { alcohol, which he sometimes mixes with bichloride or carbolic acid to remove its poisonous constituents. There is no real gin sold in Wash ington, except on physicians’ scriptions, Lieut. Davis and Dr. Price say. The same is true of whisky, but | probably more gin is sold on unt | of its cheapness than whisky. of the corn whisky, the largest part of which comes from nearby Mary |1and, is “run off” in zinc or tin ve sels ‘and in the process absorbs part of the zinc or tin of the container. This corn, so vile is it, has been known to eat its way through a five- gallon tin can. The newest drink among the persons who cannot afford to pay high prices for booze is called “Jakie” and is made from Jamaica ginger. It has practically the same effect as a Mills bomb in the stomach, Lieut. Davis says, and sometimes one drink is quite enough to leave the drinker i1l for days. Clean-Up Begins. The vice squad, Lieut. Davis says. is making every effort to clean up Wash- ington before the Shrine convention. Undoubtedly, however, he adds, some bad stuft will be sold and there may be some deaths. Bootleggers who have heretofors been carefui, may take the chance of a quick sale to unknown persons and substityte immediately poisonous booze for the alcohol-caramel com- bination that is only slightly less dangerous. except to the case-hard- ened drinker. But Lieut. Davis and the vice squad will be backed up by every resource of the federal prohibi- tion” unit, according to Prohibition Commissioner Roy A. Hayvnes, who is determined that Washington will be known after the Shrine convention the cleanest city. from a booze stand- point in the country. Ask Citizens Ald. Commissioner Haynes today urged every citizen in Washington to do his utmost to smash the poison whisky evil in this city. Records of the Gallinger Hospital and of Coroner Nevitt's office do not in- dicate to even a fair degree the pre- valence of bad liquor, according to the coroner and Dr. E. W. Patterson, super- intendent of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital. Six hundred and sixty-two cases of alcoholism came to the Gallin- ger Hospital during the past vear, of which five died, their deaths directly at- tributable to alcoholic poison'ng. These were practically all police cases, in which men or women were picked up on the streets drunk and taken to the hospital for treatment. The alcoholic cases were greater last year than during the preceding year, and this year are again maintaining a high mark, Dr. Patterson says. Ten Deaths in 1921. Records of the health department for the past calendar year show ten deaths in Washington during 1921 from alcoholic polsoning. Deaths from gastrius ana other kindred causes total many times that number, for sometimes the coroner or the at- tending physician, out of deference to the family of the deceased, issues a certificate of death from another cause, when likely the real cause is alcoholic poivoning. The records of private hospitals, not obtainable, probably would show a fairly large percentage of deaths from acute alco- holic_poisoning, physiclans say. Au- topsles are not performed in- every case of death which appears to result from natural causes, Dr. Nevitt says, the coroner usually being able to tell from surface indications the immedi- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.)