Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1923, Page 2

WORLD COURT AI URGED ONLAWYERS Society of International Law { Given Formal Proposal to <1 Use Influence. U. S. DUTY, SAYS FENWICK Bryn Mawr Professor Submits Plan—Backed by Elihu Root Speech. A formal proposal fér the Ameri- can Soclety of International Law to exert its influence towaid having the United States become & member of 1he Permanent Court of International Justice was submitted id enthusiastic applause today by Prof. Charles G. Fenwick of Bryn Mawr College, when fi annual session here. Open discussion of thé world's fm- mediate need for actual nternational 1egislation and the question of Ameri- can jurisdiction over the w fleet that does an uninterrupted business outside the three-miile limit off New York harbor occupied the at- lention of the society &t its session in the New Willard 1otil ths morn- ing Leads the Fight, N of. Fenwick led the fight for American participation iin interna- tional affairs as an activé member of the Court of International Justice in- dorsed by President Hard! | He scof- fed at those who declar bunal would become a suDer-govern- ment to which the United States would become subordinal “\ “super-government alreadv ex- ists the speaker declared. Law it- 4elf is a super-governmesat; and we ,w have an existing forsm of inter- rational law, The world i 1ooking to he United States to formulate a pro- gram that will lead it out &f its trou- Iles. We must not fail.” Public Opinion Sanction. “The sanction of any la¥ is public opinion,” Prof. Fenwick :continued. “As yet that factor remains an un- organized force, but I beliete the time is coming when it will detérmine the destinies of the world. Unfortunately, public opinion works too Jate now. Aftar Napoleon had devasiated d|:u- o) t n was afoused to ToDe D Ot oo iate. *git 1s one of our duties to awaken thZt power- ful but dormant force. > tions.” Prof. Fenwick concluded. “Not a law existed to control an¥ of the Situations that brought on the catas- trophe of 1914. Until we %o with ~icious nations as we do witl; domes- 1ic eriminals, 1 believe therezwill be no end of war. Name Not Important The questlon of Whether international body should be the league of nations, the perfianent ourt of international justice cx any- thing else matters not, the sheaker declared. Prof. Fenwick was su Ported by subsequent speakers, in- Prof. Manley O. Hudsbn of , Prof. Pitman B. of Wisconsin, hard of: Yale ¢ every war ciuding Harvard Universi Potter, the University and Prof. Edwin M. Borc University. On the question of American Juris- tion over the rum fleet off INew rk harbor the society is dl\:lded, Prof. Philip M. Brown of Prinzeton University declared it to be his Bellef 1hat the United States would be-jus: tifled in seizing ships that were; an- chored near its waters for the dur- Dose of violating its laws. He 3ald Great Britain would be in the fem- Larrassing position of having encdur- ed eriminals if it protested. . \dmiral Henson of the ~United States Shipping Board, Fred K. Neil- Zon. former solicitor for the Depart- ent of State; Hollis Bailey, a ncted International lawyer of Boston. ind others, however, declared it would:be Cuieldal for any nation to attempt to fbolish the law limiting a natiohal inaritime sovereignty to the thrée- mfile zone. H Urges U. 8. Take Part in World urt. Supporting President Harding in &is cnnl’e\:lton that the United Stafes whould participate in the Permanent Court of International Justice, Ellfu foot last night told the soclety that the question presented by the Prefi- dent's message to the Senate was veally only a question of moral sub- nort : “The the support di mount of contribution towatd of the court to be de; termined by our own Congress would be negligible” asserted Mr. Rock. “We undertake to do nothing and to ve nobody authority or power o To anything to us. The question i3 imerely whether we shall give ouy wmoral approval to the establishment of the same kind of court which ou¥ movernment has been urging for 3 zeneration.” H Mr. Root described at length thé zenesis and nature of the world court lis reasons for belleving it superiof the old Hague tribunal, the clear distinetion which he said should bé made between it and the league off s, the development of interna< tional law, despite the world war, un what he held to be the fallacy i ons advanced why this countr: ghould not support the court. Discusses “Outlawry ot War." Then, in closing his address, he snid:i “I wish to express my warm agree-3 ment with what Senator Borah has 1ecently said about outlawry of war.} \d T sincerely hope that the ¥ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Clothesline Post at Berwyn Blossoms Into Plum: Tree Doomed to death and with all chances of future existence appar- ently against it a plucky plum tree in Berwyn, Md., has fought its way to the highest pinnacle of success. More than a score of yvears ago there flourished in this same munity a large plum tree. One day. without warning, a storm struck it to the earth. The owners of the land on which it grew used the trunk and branches for fuel But they overlooked one branch. When Mrs. M. L. Turner moved to Berwyn, eighteen years back, she found something which she thought resembled a post and on which she WARNING TO USERS OF BOOTLEG LIQUOR Drink Sold in Washington De- clared of Poison Quality That Menaces Life. com- Any person who drinks bootleg liquor sold ia Washington is taking & big chance ivith his health and may endanger his life, according to Edgar N. Read, chie of the prohibition en- forcement for the Washington dis- trict. Whisky sold in Washington is all manufactured, with the exception of that obtained on physicians’ prescrip- tions, according to Mr. Read. Sin last October, when a certain “bij bootlegger was arrested and:his stock seized, no genuine whisky has been found by prohibition agents in ralds which covered every section of the city and includéd seizures of the prop- erty of most of the largest bootleg- gers n the capital, he stated. Boot- leggers make a profit of from 700 to 1.200 per cent on every bottie of the manufactured gin and whisky they sell, claiming this profit is part of the money which they must make on ac- count of the chance they take. The grain alcohol and some de- natured alcohol out of which the products of Washington bootleggers are manufactured and later sold as real whisky does mnot come from Washington,” but_from a source out- side this city, of which prohibiticn officials know. Canada is purchasing immense quantities of alcohol., out of which whisky is manufactured for a quick salo in the United States, under fake labels, and, because it has been car- ried across the international line, is sold as genuine bonded whisky. Retail bootleggers who buy from the whisky fleet anchored outside the three-mile limit off New Jersey and New York, “shop” around among the vessels of the et to get the cheap- est price for what they sell as real whisky. The stuff they buy is fre- quently manufactured outside the TUnited States. Familiar With Sitantion. Mr. Read is probably more familiar with the local liquor situation than any one indiviGual, as with his agents he has participatéd in or directed practically all the Hquor ralds in and around Washington in the last vear and a half. Agents of the prohibition unit. working with the under the direction of Lieut. O. T. Davis, have seized thousands of dol- lars’ worth of alleged whisky and gin during the past fall and winter. They have failed to find any real whisky or gin in all their seizures. The ligquor being sold by bootleg- gers in Washington now-is poison, to a_certain degree, Mr. Reed said, although the prohibftion agents have not found anv samples of wood alco- hol in their seizures. The “coroner's cocktail.” made famous in and near New York, has not yet found its way to Washington. ‘WALES OFF TO BELGIUM. LONDON, April 27.—The Prince of Wales left today for Brussels to at- tend the unveiling of a memorial to commemorate Belgium's kindness to Britain's troops in the world war. RUSSIAN CHURCH: AUTHORITY > the United States may be 7B tiie Associated Press. to this international court, hiel represents the highest point t reached by agreement of the na- ons in affording the same substitute for war by judicial decision of inter- vational cases that has been so ef- fective in doing away with private war among Individuals. T hope also that, following upon that approval, the influence of the United States’ will be employed to Lring about a new conference of all the nations entitled to take part in the making of International law. to formulate and agree upon the amend- wents. and additions, which should noew be made, to reconcile divergent ws and to ‘extend the law to sub- | jects not now adequately regulated bt as to which the intérests of in- ternational justice require that rules of law shall be declared and accepted. Moral Force Only Remedy. “War cannot be outlawed by proc- lanation, or by resolution, or by mere agreement, or by mere force. War can be outlawed only by arraying the wroral force of the civilized world in support of definite rules of conduct which exclude war, and by giving to ihat morul force institutions through which that force may be applied to «pecific cases of attempted violation. One of those necessary institutions is . court by whose judgment the great “nultitude who désire the peace of justice may know what is just. “The question -presented by the President’s message is really only a question of moral support. We under- iake to do nothing and to give no- Tody authority or power to do any- 1hing to us. The question is merely Whather we shall give our moral ap- proval to the establishment of the WARSAW, April 27_—The Polish government has recognized Most Rev, rchbishop Meletics Metaxakis, pa- riarch of Constantinople, as the su- ipreme authority in the Russian ortho- Zox church, inasmuch as Patriarch Tikhon, now detained: by the soviet futhoritles. is not free to exercise his bontifical powers. —_— e v permanent court of arbitration at %he Hague,” he said. ° = Asserting that the proposal that the United States should join the ¥orld court was quite different to that providing for membership in tme leag@e of nations, Mr. Root said: Y“The two different: projects ap- proach the great preblem of pre- ving peace from -different angles ard by different methcds. They dif- fek radically in their nature and their effpcts.” = Y¥The Court of International Justice completely excludes ‘the essential characteristics of the league organ- jsagion and procedur®,” continued Mrs Root. ‘“®o diplomatic agreement is sought or ttained. No member of court rep- resynts, or is at liberty: to represent, any.state whatever. H T Cites Question Prescated. “fhe question now _presented is whether the United States shall take part; with the other civilized nations in !\?porlln( the International Court of Jhstice, which the United States has %o long urged those same nations to_join her In creating. “Minifestly, the presumption is in favorsof the United States supborting the cAurt. Both self-respect and self- +ame kind of court which our gov- ~rument has been urging for a gen- eration.” Mr. Root at the outset of his speech Acscribed the composition of the court and how it worked. “This court does not supersede but interdst require that 1he United States should stand by its own policy, We cannot decently urge (he creation of such & court as this upon the rest of the world through a long series of years and then repudiate the court when they censent to it, unless we 4+ iu addition- to the old so-called:offer sbme adequate reason.” vice squad! could attach a hook to be used as a terminal for a clohtesline, During the summer that followed the post Lecame covered with tiny branches | and green sprouts and by fall these ' had gotten quite large. we trimmed off the lower | branches and the result is the beau tiful tree you see in the plcture, | Mrs. Turner sald today. “It has borne fruit for a number of years an its products are those deliclous red | plums, fine for eating and wonderful | for jeily.” {, Mrs. Turner is convinced the pres- ;ent tree has grown from the branch |of that perennial plant which was | destroyed by the storm. | She has since sold the property on | which the plum tree now stands, but 1it 1s located just across the street | from her present residence. TOHEAR JEFFERSON MEMORIAL PLANS Meeting of D. C. Committee on Foundation to Be Held Tomorrow. The first meeting of the Washington committee of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation will be held tomorrow at 4:30 pm. at the resi- dence of Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, vice chairman, 1626 K street. The meeting will be informal. Rep- resentatives of a number of various organizations of soctal and political tendencies will be present, as well as a number of old residents of Wash- ington Will Report on Condition. Mrs. Gouverneur Hoes will make a report on the coalition of several organizations and a men's committee will be formed for Washington. So- lcitor General James M. Beck. Gar- diner L. Boothe of Virginia and Mrs. Minnegerode Andrews will make ad- dresses. Tea will be served by Mrs. Helkins and several of her friends. Board of Governors. Members of the board of governors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation include the following: Ed- win A. Alderman, president. Univer- ity of Virginia; Mrs. Minnegerode Andrews. Lady Astor, George Gordon Battle, Bainbridge Colby, former Sec- retary of State; Miss Ruth Read Cun- ningham, John ‘W. Davis. former am | bassador’ to Great Britain: Victor [ { Dowling, justice, New York supreme feourt; James W. Gerard, former am- bassador to Germany; Stuart G. Gib- boney, lawyer; Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson. Moses H. Grossman, Charies N. Haskell, former Governor'of Okla- |homa: Charles D. Hilles, former chairman. republican national com- mittee; Mrs. J. Allison Hodges, Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes. Mrs. E. D. Hotchkiss, Mrs. G. T. W. Kern. Mrs. Martin W. Littleton, Charles D. Make- peace, vice president Seaboard Na- tional Bank: Martin T. Manton, judge, United States circuft court; Willlam G. McAdoo, former Secretary of the Treasury; Murray M. McGuire, presi- dent alumni board of Unliversity of Virginia; Guyt McLendon, secretary of state. Georgia: Alton B. Parker, former chief judge. New York court {of appeals; Theodore Roosevelt, as- | sistant secretary of the Navy: Thomas | 5. Rush, president National Demo- cratic Club; James R. Sheffield, presi dent Union League Club; Arthur S. j Tompkins, justice, New York supreme court: E. Lee Trinkle, Governor of Virginia; Felix M. Warburg, Mrs. J Skelton Willlams and Will Hays, for- mer Postmaster General. WARN HOUSEWIVES TOLAY IN SUPPLIES Arrangements for preventing a sudden rush on the market of food- stuffs in Washington during Shrine convention are being made by the cltizens committee on food sup- plies. of which John H. Wilkins is chatrman. Circulars are to be sent to every housewife in Washington urging her to buy at least three weeks' supplies of non-perishable foodstuffs tefore the conventlon. A statement by Chairman Wilkins today announced that “from a strictly local viewpoint it ssems highly inad- visable on account of the coming Shriners’ convention for housewlives in the city of Washington to allow their stocks to go to the vanishing point. As a result, the committes on food supplies is making every effort to urge buyers of non-perishable foodstuffs to accumulate supplies at least three weeks in advance, as & last-minute rush will necessarily mean _higher prices and possibly a real shortage.” Sugar is getting attention from the committee. The statement by Mr. Wilkins today announced that sugar enough to supply the demands of the public was on hand and that the de- mand for this product could be sup- plied if the market was not ham- pered by extreme movements, such as a buyers' strike or by hoarding. Sugar today is selling at 103 and 11 cents at the corner grocery. The prices being quoted by jobbing houses range from $9.75 to $10 per hundredweight. “Extremes are to be avoided wher- ver' possible.” Mr. Wilkins declared. “A buyers' strike can prove just as disastrous as hoarding. Speculation, no doubt, has played a considerable part in the recent advance in sugar, but in the final analysis the law o supply and demand always has and always will continue to operate.” 3 STAMP PRICE RECORD. PARIS, April 27.—A Vermilion one- penny stamp of the Island of Mau- ritius, 1847 issue, brought 122,000 francs at the sale of the lection yesterday. ‘errari cole the | D. ¢ RIDAY, MIGRATION RAISES |ETHICS OF PRESS NEGRO MORTALITY| TOPIC OF EDITORS Concentration in Cities of|New Society Holding First North to Have Vital Ef- fect on Race. Officials of the census bureau believe the general movement of southern negro farmers to mnorthern industrial centers, ehown by a recent survey of the Department of Agriculture, if con- tinued, will have a very marked effect both upon the labor supply in the south and upon the negro race itself. Analysis by the bureau of the negro population statistics of the 1920 census shows marked tendencles toward in- terstate migration and concentration in cities, the movement recelving its first impetus in the demand for unskilled labor during the world war. During the decade ended with 1920 nearly 335,- 000 negroes removed to cities in the south Atlantic states, and nearly the same number to citles In the east north central states. The increase in these cities, averaging nearly 50 per cent in the number of negroes, affords a vivid statistical picture of the call of the reat commercial and industrial centers for more unskilled labor. Might Retarn South. Fere forclgn immigration to be resumed in the future on a scale com mensurate with immig from 1890 to 1900 or during the period immediately preceding the war,” the census bureau analysis says, “it is reasonable to suppose that the negro, less in demand because of the greater labor supply, would drift back to his former environment. But immigra- tion, for the first eime in federal his- tory, has been restricted, und if this restriction continues and unskilled labor in prosperous times becomes again at a premium, s the negro to respond to the demand as during the war and continue to increase n urban centers during the present and sub- sequent decade at rates resembling those shown during the war period? Should this prove to be the case the effecct upon the labor supply in the south (and thus upon southern in- dustry and agriculture) and upon ths negro race itself will be very mariced “In every one of the northern states negro deaths in the five veara, 191%- 1919, outnumbered births; in the southern states, in general, the con- ditions are reversed. “Througkout the north and in the cities of the south negro deaths are more numerous than negro births—in fact, southern cities are even more unfavorable than those of the north ito natural tncrease. In 1920. for the [first time, the proportion of white i children to white women exceeded that of negro children to negro wom- {en, the difference belng 42 per 1.000. [At the present time the proportion of children to women among southern negroes is only about five-sixths of what it is among southern whites. Change Has Effect. These changes will doubtless prove to be closely connected with the rapid urbanization of negroes between 1910 and 1920. The rural negro population decreased in that decads by nearly one-fourth of a million, or 3.4 per cent, while ths urban negro popula- tion increased by seven-eighths of a millior, or 32.7 per cent. Under these tconditions the swarming of negroes into cities north and south and the sharp fall in the increase of all Amer- ican negroes are related almost as cause and effect “If the rate of increase between 1900 and 1920 be projected through the rest of the century without change, it would vield at fts close about 20.- 500,000 as the maximum limit of negro population. It also seems reasonable to anticipate that the negroes, who in 1790 were more than 19 per cent. or nearly one-fifth of the population of the | country and now are about one-tenth. {are likely by the end of the century to be not more than one-twentieth.” FAVORS RACE MIGRATION. ation {E. J. Scott Justifies Negro Leav- ing South for Better Wages. Migration of negro labor from the south to northern industrial centers and to better wages and a free and vntrammeled citizenship is justified and should be encouraged. Emmett J. Scott, secretary-treasurer of How- ard University, has stated in reply to a communication sent him by John M. Gibbe, secretary-tréasurer of the North Carolina Pine Association, Inc., of Norfolk, Va. Mr. Gibbs' let- ter ‘was a result of the telegram previously sent by Mr. Scott to Pres- ident Gary of the United States Steel Corporation. urging him to use his influence to relieve the reported labor shortage in the north with southern negro labor. “I very definitely feel that it is ! the duty of colored people wherever opportunity offers to leave those sec- tions where lynching and peonage are practiced upon them with im- punity,” sald Mr. Scott know |hllrk men are likely to meet in some of the northern sections, but ithese difficulties are inconsequential when compared with the privileges of a free and untrammeled citizen- “I am sorry that you are disposed to consider the ambition on the part of colored people to seek their fuilest development and the enjoyment of the fullest American cltizenship as dislike to feel that the south the natural habitat of the negro, as you {say is going to assume a permanent feeling of nostility toward the negro in these fundamental directions. If continue.” Thomas S. Gonter Rendered Val- ued Service to Country in Thomas S. Gonter, an employe of the Washington navy yard for nearly torty years and a lifelong resident of Washington, died suddenly vesterday morning at his residence, 138 13th Mr. Gonter was born August 16, 1849. On the occasion of his retire- ment from the navy yard, August 1. 1920, the commandant wrote that his “devoted service to the Na of our forth the highest praise,” and that he “felt called upon to express his ap- preciation of his veteran experlence and efforts.” While in the bureau of construc- walnut bedstead for installation on the U. 8. 8. Tallaposo, which was to have taken President Garfleld to Long Branch, but a change in plans was de- clded upon. Mr. Gonter also designed near the chamber of President Gar- fleld, in an effort to save his life after he was shot., Mr. - Gonter is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Bessie Haywood, Mrs. ter, and two sons, Earl and Edgar Gonter. Hir wife, Mrs. Alice E. Gon- ter, died two years ago. The funeral will be held from the family residence tomorrow afternoon Congressional cemetery. — ‘There are more than 44,000 jack- rabbits in Texss, byt less than 3 per cent of them have ‘ever ridden on a quite” definitely the difficulties that ship. i being unworthy. I should very much it does, 1algration northward will Two Wars. street southeast. country, marked by two wars, called tion Mr. Gonter designed and built & and installed a cold-air apparatus T.J. Tydings, Martha and Clara Gon- at 3 o'clock, and interment will be in ferryboal. 1 | i l jouting tomorrow to High Island, on | F. Brads jan Conference to Hear Presi- dent Harding. Work-a-day problems of the news- paper business and ethics and ideals of the profession of journalism are belng discussed this afternoon at the first annual conference of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, which opened today in the ballroom of the Willard Hotel and will continue in session for two days. The keynote of conference—putting their heads together for mutual co- operation in bettering their work for public information and education— was sounded In brief opening re- marks this morning by Casper S. Yost of the St. Louls Globe Demo- crat, president of this new organiza- tion. He explained that the member- ship 18 necessarily small on aocount of restrictions placed on membership and that this was done purposely 8o that all might take a closer und more intimate personal part in these con- ferences. President to Spenk. President Harding and John W. Davis. president of the American Bar Association, who was formerly am- bassador to Great Britaln, are among the spezkers on the program tom row nigh The President will spealk one of the 124 members who are directing the publication of news- papers in cities of 100,000 or more population. He was elected to active membership under a rule permitting such action In the case of editors of papers in citles of less than 100,000 population who have attalned dis- tinction {n other flelds. The morning sesston was devoted to the reading of reports by E. C. Hopwood, editor of the Cieveland Plain Dealer, secretury; E. S. Beck of the Chicago’ Tribune, treasurer, and other officers and chafrmen of com- mittees. Among those registered at the con- ference are: E. C. Hopwood, Cleveland Plain Dealer; David E. Smiley, Philadelphia Public Ledger; R. . Stout, Kansas City Star; T. J. Dillon, Minneapolis APRIL 27, 1923. Darlington Memorial Finished, " . Ready to Be Set Up Here be started on the erection in Judict- ary Square of the handsome memorial to the late Joseph G. Darlington, for many years one of the leaders of the | local bar. The memorfal is to consist of an| exceptionally artistic marble foun- tain, surmounted by a maiden in ths nude with a fawn by ler side. It is the work of €. P. Genneweln of New |York and is now reposing on the lawn at his studio on Long Island. | The design has been approved by the Fine Arts Commission and {s con- sidered by those who have viewed it GIRL SCOUT MUSIC Tribune; 'Paul Bellamy, Cleveland Plain Dealer; Archer Ii. Shayw, Cleve- land Plain Dealer; Albert W, Cum- mings, Wilmington (Del.) Morning News; James M. Thomson, New Or- leans Ttem: George S. Johns, St. Louis >ost Dispatch: H. S. Wright, New York Globe E. Nices, New York ening Mail; W. L. Chenery, N York Globe; Georgs Nax MeCain, Philadelphia Public Ledger. Willis J. Abbott, Christian Sclence Monito: Vance. New Britain (Conn.) Heral Arthur H. Vanden- berg, Grand Rapids Herald; Marvin H. Creager. Milwaukee Journal; Wal ter M. Harrison. Oklahoma City; George LA. Hughley. New Bedford Standard; John W. Mavnard. Newark ening News; Arthur M. Howe, Brooklyn Eagle: Arthur W. Stace, irand Rapids Press; E. § Beck, Chi- cago Tribune; Charles H. Dennls, Chicago Daily News. Edgar Markham, St. Paul Dispatch; Grover Patterson, Toledo Blade: Cas- par S_ Yost, 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat; Phil J. Reld, Detroit Free Press: Ed- ward Lindsey, Warren, Pa: Edgar B. Piper, Portland Oregonian; James A. Stuart, Indianapolis Star; Charles A. Segner. Chicago Evening Post; Don- ald Sterling and P. L. Jackson, both of the Oregon Journal, Portland, Ore Arthur Krock, Loulsville Times: Her- bert Bayard Swoke, New York Worl James W. Greene. Buffalo Express: Mare A, Rose, Buffalo Evening News, and William E. Lewis, New York Morning Telegraph. BOARD OF TRADE OUTING | ON RIVER TOMORROW Auto Caravan to Leave Headquar- ters at 1 P.M.—Gala Day Promised. { The big caravan of automobiles to take the members of the shad bake |for the | being defeated and membership committees of Washington Board of Trade on their the upper T ¢ river, will leave The Star bul 5. of Trade has its headquarters, tomor- row afternoon promptly at 1 o'clock The entertainment committee in charge of the outing has made elab- orate plans to keep things moving the entire time the party is on_ the island, and those who had a look at the program say there will not be a dull moment. All tastes have been looked after. It will conclude with a big dinner in the evening, and it will be dark when the party heads for Washington. There wiil be a game of base ball on ipetween teams of the business men, i fishing parties and a lot of other fea- tures, BRITISH SHIP ASHORE. Cymbric Queen Hemmed by Ice Off Cape Breton. HALIFAX, N. S., April 27.—Wircless messages today reported the British steamer Cymbric Queen ashore and hemmed in by an fice pack about five miles from Point St. Esprit, on the Cape Breton coast. The government steamer Sydney picked up distress signals from the Cymbric Queen, but could not re- spond, as she was bottled up by drifting ice in Bras D'Or lakes. The Cymbric Queen is a 2,400-ton vessel. HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES For Saturday FIRST RACE—The Pathfinder purse. $1,200; two-year-olds; four and a half furlongs. A. 3. Bujs...... 115 §Erankman .. . 112 3°F) e .. Broom: it R ko B . 118 §Sarah E K. Bryion entry. W, 21E Wi svtrs: Jhudlay Farm snizy. FOOND RACE—The Liverpeol steeplechase andioap, Tour-yoir-olds and up: purse, $1,00; short course (sbout two miles). Transpero . - 180 ons .. Gold Foyle 111139 {Eudors 3d . Bobipan 2000200 157 Aune Exosllence 43, A and Francls Buohanan eatry. THIRD RACE—The Greenwich ‘handicap; three-year-olds and up; purse, 500; six fur. longs. Broomster ..... Fair Phantom Tippity Witchet.. m "*l.rfi'. Wil FOURTH ,000 added: Rl esd s six ‘Dun] A X Bilk Tassel ... CE—" ke stakes. B e verold oote and ‘thiless teenth. fot 128 St Valentine B Bawis and Gresatres Stable d Deminion handios purse, $3,500; ml!n Devastation . 08 iln"h.-'r;"l'm Grand ... 108 SBetting Sun .. B ™ Whitiey and Greentree Stable e OE—OClaiming; _thros-yearolds T ey $1900; il and & sidtesnth, . 118 Maryland Belle... 108 D118 STrje Il 108 107 108 WP, Whitaey FIFTE RAOE—The 014 100 100 100 ENTH RACE—Claiming: four-year-olds T o ALR0%: mile oA & aariee, 10 STy e ” ® oy, Kty pprentics allowance claimed. o, track fai where the Board | Parade and Serenade Plan-! ned, Following Closing Session Today. ) Final business matters were fin- fshed at this morning’s meeting of the National Council of Gir! Scouts, in convention at Wardman Park Hotel, including the unanimous choice of Chicago for the 1924 convention, and the closing session of the convention will be held this afternoon at the White House, when the delegates will form a line of march and parade past Mrs. Harding. serenading her with Girl Scout songs if she is able to re- cefve them. All_question of any decentraliza- tlon in the scout organfation was setiled for the present this morning by a motion of Mrs. Arthur W. Hartt of Boston, “that no plan should be glven precedence over the present or- ganization and that local and district chapters should adjust conditions as well as possible compatible to the constitution until machinery is pro- vided by the committes on revision of the constitution,” that was unani- mously passed with a vote of thanks to Mrs. Hartt. Report of Committer. The report of the standards com- ttee presented by Mrs. Arthur O. Choate was accepted. a resolution presented by Miss Corinne Chisholm of Atlanta that medals be given for home service awards, being approved and referred to the awards committee. It was decided that the order of the Golden Eaglet, the highest scout award, should still require the pres- ent all-around qualifications. a motion that alternatives could be substituted physically handicapped scouts he treasurer's report was accepted with a vote of thanks to Mrs, Nicholas Work Lauds U. S. Women. Speaking at the annual dinner of the national council, held last night at the Wardman Park Hotel, Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of Inte- rior, said “there are more right- thinking girls. sensible mothers and wholesome young peopls in the United States than ever before in our his- tory, and the growth of the Girl Scout organization proves the statement. My patience has been tried.” he said. “at old people predicting the down- fall of civilization because young girls wear short skirts hung from the shoulders with no restricted waist line—just what doctors have been urging for thirty vears " Secretary of Commerce Hoover in ihis address sald that the franchise i for women means obligation and that lunless the women are better fitted to jundertake this obligation than the men have been this nation cannot hope to survive. Other speakers in- cluded Col. C. O. Sherrill, Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Dr. Vernon Kellogg. Mrs. Juliette’ Low. founder of the {Girl Scouts, and Miss Carolvn Thom. Mrs. Hoover Re-Elected. At vesterday’s session Mrs. Herbert Hoover was re-elected president; Mrs. A. O. Choate of New York, first vice president: Mrs. Jullus Rosen- wald, second vice president; Mrs. W. M. Hoffman, third vice president Mrs. Albert E. Thornburg of Georgla, fourth vice presidnt; Mrs. M. W. Olm- stad of Pennsylvania, fifth vise presi- ldent. Mrs. John T. Baxter of Minne- apolls, Mre. Lyman Delano of Wil- mington. N. C.; Mra Lyman Phelps of New Taven, Mrs. Nicholas Brady. Miss Parsons, Mrs. Skae and Mrs { | Williams were clected directors. CONFERENCE PLANS CHURCH PUBLICITY A conference on church publicity is being held in Epiphany Parish Hall today under direction of the Rev. Dr. Robert F. Gibson, executive sec: Tetary of the department of publicity of the National Council of the Epis- copal Church. epresentatives are present from the, dloceses of Washington, Rhode Island, Delaware. Maryland, ' eastern North® Carolina, South~ Carolina and southwestern Virginia. The confer- Iance was opened this morning at 9 o'clock with_communion, the Rev. Raymond F. Wolven, assistant rector of Epiphany, as ceiebrant, and the Sev. Thom Willlamson, ir., rector of the Church of the Advent, as as- sistant. : he principal discussion of the morning centered about the problems of diocesan papers, and how to get fhem into the hands of every church member of the dioceses. The con- ference is being attended by rectors, laymen and laywomen. ————— U. S. PARTY IN FRANCE. «“Good Will” Delegation Greeted by Officials at Home. * HAVRE, April 27.—The “good will” delegation from middle western and southern cities, which sailed from New York April 21, arrived here on the steamer France today. All the members of the party were well. The mayor of Havre and the sub-prefect received the delegation in the name of the city and the French govern- ment and bade the tourists welcome to France. ———— In spite of their entrance inte polie tics the women of Egypt are .not abandoning their veils. ‘Within a very short time work will to surpass anything of its kind now in Washington. The date for unveiling the memo- rfal has not been set, but a date within the next six weeks is expected. Authority to erect the memorial was granted at the last session of Congress and a site east of the court- house and directly opposite Darlington's office in the Columbian building on bth street, whers he walked daily for a third of a century on his way to court, has been se- lected and approved. The memorial, which will $20,000, was financed entirely by private funde. Those who have led in the movement are Julius Gar- finkle, Milton E. Afles, Frank J. Hogan and Charles C. Glover. BRITAIN S ASKED cost FOR MRS. HARDING: TO AID RUM BAN New Representations Made by U. S. on Friendly Lines Relating to Smuggling. New reprasentations on the subject of rem smuggling have been made b; the State Department to the British government, which s requested in friendly terms to co-operate in pre- venting vessels flying the British flag from engaging in liquor traffic between American and foreign ports. Among the subjects taken up was the question of canceling the British registry of rum vessels which are found to be actuall controlled by American interests. The British am- bassador here also was asked to use his good offices to obtain an agree- ment between the United States and Canada by which the Dominlon au- thorities would stop issuing clearance papers to vessels with liquor cargoes designated to the United States, §till other important measures to safeguard against liquor smuggling are under discussion between the British government and the State De- partment. but pending conclusion of the negotiations the department is withholding any official statement. From the 5:30 Bdition of Yesterday's TRIES TO DROP BABY FROM HIGH WINDOW Star. Prevented from hurling her two- vear-old child from the second-story window of her home at 1407 Mon- tello avenue northeast by firemen of engine company No. 10, who had just extinguished a blaze in the house Elfzabeth Holland. colored. the men reported, attacked Lieut. Crimmins, biting his fingers. The firemen were dragging the hose mrom the house vesterday afternoon when the woman, who had watched their work quietly, appeared at the sccond- story window and started to throw the baby to the street. A ladder was raised to the window, and before the firemen seized the baby from her arms the woman is sald to have grabbed a pair of scissors, with the intention of plunging them into the child. She dropped the shears, how- ever, as Privates Capps an took the baby from her, attacked Lieut. Crimmins. The woman was taken to the Gal- linger Hospital for observation. The fire in her house was started on the stairway, where clothes and other in- flammable materials had been placed for fuel. Tt was extinguished with- out any considerable damage. BOATS FROM WRECKED VESSEL REACH SHORE By the Amsociated Press. WALFISH BAY, Southwest Africa. April 27.—Three boats belonging to the wrecked Portuguese steamer Mossamedes have arrived at Port Alexander, Angola. ire- F. J then The Mossamedes grounded several days ago at Cape Frio, Africa, and was found abandoned with no sign of her 237 passengers, including 2§ women and 25 children, nearly all Portuguese. B S — REICHSBANK GAINS PROFIT Annual Report Reveals Big In- crease in Year. BERLIN, April 27.—The annual re- port of the reichsbank for 1922 shows a profit of 43,500,000,000 marks for the vear, as compared with 565,000,000 marks in 1921. A 40 per cent dividend has been declared for 1922, as agalnst onc of 10 per cent in the previous vear. The government's sharc in last year's net profits i3 fixed at 17,200,000,~ 000 marks. M. | Southwest Trom the 5:30 Edition of Yesterdsy's St STILL OPERATING INPRISON; DRUGS SOLD BY CONVICTS By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 26.— The county grand jury in a report to the court today on its {nspection |of prisons and city hospitals stated | that In a visit to the eastern peni- | tentiary it “saw prisoners under the | influence of drugs and liquor, found | still in actual operation where liquo: was being made and that the jur: | was able to purchase heroin from one | of the prisoners.” | The report was eagerly awaited a3 |& result of the resignation announced |last_Saturday of Warden Robert . MecKenly and the declaration by a prison inspector that a self-consti- tuted committee of desperate prison- ers known among the inmates as the “four horsemen” wers running the penitentiary. The grand jury report. stated that much of the recent trou- ble at the penitentiary was due to the fact that more than 1,700 prison- ers are confined in 800 cells, with 110 guards working in three shifts. Three women are confined in cells built for |two. Unemployment among the men {and women is also noted, most of the woman_prisoners sitting ldle in their cells all day und that the exiatence of the men is even more depressing only a litile more than 200 of being employed. The report stated that two babies born in the penitentiary, have bee sharing the cells of their mothers for nearly two vears. “The £o0d at the prison was unea able,” the report said, “and on one occasion the bread was sour and the meat was {ndescribably tough.” The prison, the report sald, has a commissary department, whers pris oners who have money can buy te coffee, sugar and other articies ¢ food, 'with luxuries such as cheese, sardines, cookies, eto. The report made many recommen- datlons to correct the evils it pointy out, and urged the abolishment of the old penitentiary and the prisoners placed on farms, where ehops could also be bullt to give employment to the convicts. —_— From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Sta- |.C. C. ORDERS CUT IN LUMBER RATES A general readjustment of railroad rates on sash, doors und other items cf miiled lumber house trimmings was ordered yesterday by the Interstate Commerce Commission, on the ground that present rates on these lumber products are unduly prejudicial to manufacturing plants in Wisconsin, Towa and Illinois, and unduly prefer- ential to similar mills on the Pacific coast. Railroads were ordered to estab- lish new schedules by July 16. The rates to be altered will be those ap- plying from the producing point to consuming territory located east of Buffalo and Pittsburgh. In general the raflroads were or- dered to reduce rates on mill wori from the Towa, 1llinois and Wisconsin mills, to bring them more neariy equal to existing rates on unfinished lumber between the same points. At the same time the commission held that the rates from the Pacific coast producing points to the same eaatern territory would be unlawful after the date given unless {ncreased X amounts designed to equalize the « uation. SMOKING CO-EDS SEEK COURT ACTION | Attorney to File Writ Against Col- lege President Early Next Week. A writ of mandamus to compel Tresident Albert F. Woods of the University of Maryland to reinstate two co-eds who were suspended re- cently for smoking at a dance in Washington, will be filed in the Prince Georges county district court at Upper Marlboro, either Mondax or Tuesday, it was said today by At- toruey John A. Garrett of Rockv who has Leen retained in the case. In the meantime, Attorney Garrett with lawyers engaged by parents of the girls, will prepare a bill of com- plaint regarding alleged irregulari ties at the university, which will be filed with Gov. Rftchie of Maryland The out-of-town attorneys are com- ing to Rockville tomorrow for a con- ference with Mr. Garrett. Attorney Garrett pointed out to- day that a third girl was suspended simultaneously with his two clients, but that she had not yet decided to join with her colleagues in taking her case to the courts. AlL three of the girls, he sald, are members of a sorority which was re- cently established at the university and which did not meet the offictal approval of the president, and for this reason they have been discrimi- nated against. S — PRICE GETS RESPITE. Charles Price, colored, who was to have been hanged today, was granted a re- spite yesterday by Chief Justice McCoy, at the solicitation of Attorney James A. O'Shea, until next Thursday. Mr, O'Shea made this eleventh hour appeal to the court, pointing out that Price had been hODin" his execution would be stayed up to last Monday, when the mandate from the Court of Ap- peals was recetved. The lawyer asik- ed u respite of thirty days for the prisoner to prepare to meet his God. Assistant United States Attorney O'Leary opposed any further dela pointing out that it had become a public scandal; that Price, who shot a man over a small sum of money. May 30, 1918, had not been executed for his crime nearly five years later. Avers Bible Furnishes No Basis For Leading Religious Beliefs By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 27.—An old con- troversy flared up today among bibli- cal scholars over the assertion of Dr. E. S. Buchanan, former manuscript curator of the Hispanic Soclety of America, that he has discovered a second century version of the New Testament which, he says, furnishes no basis for belief in the day of judgment, the end of the world, taptism”or hell, and assigns tb. woman 2 more superior place than previously accepted verslo :l!n'.M Buchanan's text was taken from vellum manuscripts, known as the. Codex Huntingtonianus Palimpsesius, supposedly brought _here after they were stolen from a Spanish monastery. His assertion that he deciphered the text after months of patient reading of underwriting which had been washed out by acld, but which was indelibly imprinted by a steel instru- ment used by the original writer is contradicted by others who say they carefully examined the manuscript. | "The putative version antedates b [two or three centuries the Vulgat which was a translation made by St | Jerome in the fourth century from the Hebrew texts. Dr. Buchanan first as- serted his discovery in 1917, but it w immediately disputed. He said th: when his version was first printed was suppressed in this country. D Buchanan is a teacher at prepars- tory school for boys at Ardsley, N {