Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; temperature tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hours “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star’s carrier system covers rising ended at 2 pm. today: at 3 p.m. yesterday; a.m. today. lowest, 47, at § Highest, 63, e Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 No. 28,854 Entered as second-clads matter post_office Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, COURT RAISES BAN Turks Put Final O. K. on Chester ON SERVING LIQUOR ONUS. SHIPSAT SEA Supreme Bench Also Prohib- its Any Vessel Bringing Intoxicants to Port. —— MUST DUMP SUPPLIES OUTSIDE 3-MILE LIMIT Opinion of Daugherty Against Intoxicants on Ocean Is Overruled. ing of Attorney rican slips on the high seas was urned today by the Supreme which that ban prohibiting ships into wever, the Yoih American and foreign g bringing liquor stocks American ports under bond was legal 80 enforceable Within the three-mile limit. how- &.er. the court found that an entirely wifferent situation obtained. Sustain- 215 the position taken by Judge Hand w1 that point, the decision declared 10 illegal for American or foreign ®hips to bring into American ports < water liquor sealed in bond for The use of passengers on outgoing Novazes. Uphold Judge Hand. court held that the prohibition could not legally be ap- American ships from < when they are out- American territorial waters. To extent the decision reversed a in the case Ly Federal Judge c York v opi ] that the nsportation” and “importa- s used in prohibition hence- re to be taken in their or sense. Transportation is held 1o be carrving from one locality to @nother, it added, and it 18 not neces- pary that the transfer of possession er_title should be contemplated. In that connection the court oh- gerved that one cannot carry liquor his own automobile for own use The decision. regarded by the fed- sral government us one of the most mportant vet handed dowr in regard to prohibition cnforcement, was read by Justice Van Devanter. Justices McReynolds and Sutherland dissented. Justice Sutherland explained in his dissenting _opinion that he agreed that American ships cannot have aboard intoxicating liquors in Amer- ican _territo waters, but believed the prohibition should not apply to foreign ships. Under its intergretatipn, the court ftated. that no liquor could be breught into the territorial waters of the United the Panama canal, but that while the prohibition against importation or presence aboard under any eir- cumstances was complete, neither the amendment nor the enforcement act had made any reference to liquor aboard American ships on the high meas outside American territoria Jurisdiction. 7 For that reason the decision of tife Sower court which held that American ships could not have liquor on board on the high seas was set aside. Tmportation consists, the court said; of bringing into a_country from the outside, entrance through a customs house not being necessary to consti- tute importatfon in the true sen: The term “territory of the United States” was given the common defini- tion as confined to territory over which the United States exercised jurisdiction as a sovereign power and three miles at sea from its shore lines. i flect Still Unknown. the practical effect of the Rmendment cd to prevent #elling beve Kide that fortn dinary h What decision General | nst serving liquor on | held at the same time, | tates except through | Formal Terms of By the Assoclated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 30.—A convention putting into effect the railway development and mining con- cessions granted by the Turkish gov- ernment to the American syndicate headed by Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, retired, was signed today at Angora. The Turkish minister of public works affixed his signature for | the government and Clayton Kennedy for the promoting corporation. Commander Arthur T. Chester, re- tired, son of Rear Admiral Chester, {also signed the document on behalf of the American syndicate. LONDON. April 3¢.—The convention |under which Rear Admiral Colby M. | Chester, retired, and his associates lin Anatolia. has been signed at An- | gora, the Turkish nationalist capital. from Constantinople today, | . Announcement of ratification by .he Turish nationalist assembly on the Chester railway and mining conven- tion was made at Angora April 10. Intcnse Interest was aroused by the announcement that an American en- terprise had been successful in ob- BAVARIA PREPARES FORMAY DAY RIOTS iDay in Other Parts of Nation ! Expected to Be Quietly i Celebrated. | By the Associated Fress. H BERLIN, April 30.—May day | throughout Germany. it appears, will be dedicated to a celebration of what the workers regard as the unprece- dented victory of the unarmed Ruhr | laborers over the elaborately equip- {ped troops of France and Belgium. | With the possible exception of | Bavarfa, whence come rumblings of !impending disturbances, reports | teaching Berlin indicate labor or- { @anizations will observe the day with {the usual demonstrations. The Bavarian government professes to have learned that various radical { elements intend to use terrorism to force the workers into a general strike beginning at 6 o'clock tomor- morning. _ The soclalists of | Munich, it is said, have been ordered to carry such small arms as black- jacks and pistols when they parade, and as a result the police have been | instructed to assure protection to {all persons who desire to remain at their usual employment during the day | The Christian trades unions of | greater Berlin will not fall in line | with the holiday program of other labor organizations on the ground | that idleness. even for a day, should ! not be countenanced in a time of ! economic depression. row 1 FIND MAY DAY PLOT. E Russians Reported Arrested in Con- stantinople Conspiracy. are granted development concessions ays an Exchange Telegraph dispatch | Oil Deal, Ignoring Hot Protest Dispatch From Constantinople Indicates Grant Signed at Angora by Nationalist Government. | taining development rights of such | magnitude. Opposition to anything in the grant conflicting with the rights of the nationals of other coun- tries which had made commercial or development agreements with the Turks has been strongly in evidence since, notably from French and Brit; ish quarters, and the subject of the concessions has been already a topic of considerable informal discussion at the renewed Lausanne near east peace conference. While the agency Constantinople gives no detalils seems probable that the agreement Petween the Turkish government and the Chester syndicate has been put in final and formal terms and that the | signatures of the government officials and representatives of the concession- | aires have been attached, according | to the information reaching Constan- | tinople. message from Bank Holds Shares. | ZURICH, Switzerland, April 30.—Tt 1s reported here that one of the lead- ing banks of this city possesses 55 per cent of the shares of the Bagdad rallway, which it bought from a Ger- man company at a low price after the war began. Rear Admiral Chester, it is asserted, was unaware of this transaction when his syndicate ob- tained its concesslon from Turkey. The shares held here are said to be for sale to the highest bidder. RUSSIA PROTESTS PARLEY EXCLUSION Envoy Declares Such Action Is Violation of Bid to First Lausanne Gathering. By the Associated Pres LAUSANNE, April 30—An official protest against Russia being “ar- bitrarily kept out of the conference” was sent fo the near east peace con- ference today by M. Vorovsky, the scviet representative here. He de- clared such a decision was in direct violation of the terms of the invita- tion sent to Russia by Great Britain France and Italy preceding the first Lausanne conference on November 14, 1922, M. Vorovsky in his protest says Russia cannot accept the ultimatum of the conference that she must sign the convention fixing the status of the Turkish straits before being ad- mitted to the conference. Russia must enter the conference “on full terms of equality,” the soviet representative insists. FRENCH TO SEND TROOPS. ‘Will Add 20,000 Men to Force in Face of Turk Concentration. By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 30.—As a precaution against what is regarded as the concentrating 20,000 troops along the northern border of Syria, the French government has decided to reinforce its own military strength in the man- dated territory by two divisions. This will place 46,000 men at the disposal of Gen. Weygand, who salils late this week for Beirut to take over the it threatening gesture of the Turks in | D. C, U.5. ENVOY ENTERS BERLIN PARLEY ON REPARATION OFFER Houghton Takes Part in Al- lied-German Talk of New Proposal. LESS THAN 20,000,000 MARKS, FRENCH VIEW Experts Say Sum Will Be Raised by Loan—Peace Guar- antee Is Asked. Br Associated Press | LONDON. April 30.—The British American and Italian ambassado conterred today with Chancellor Cuno regarding Germany's new reparation cfter, say® a Central News dispatch trom Berlin. French Await Offer. PARIS, April 30.—The French gov ernment, Informed quarters, expects that the reparation proposals being framed by Chancellor Cuno, which It thought may be forthcoming within a day or two, will offer less than 20,000,000 8c1d marks in cash, The chancellor. according to the French, s expected to propose that this sum be 18ed by an internation- al loan, which Germany would secure by materfal guarantees to the sub- scribers. The balance of the repa- rations to be determined by an in- ternational commlttes of experts. COLOGNE, April 30.—Germany should namé a figure somewhere in the neighborhead of = 30,000,000,000 | ®old marks in her new proposals re- ’xardmx the total ameunt and method of payment of her reparation obliga- | tions, declared Herr Rudolf Brelts- i stag, in address in & social democratic { meeting here today Of this sum, he said. France should receive 26,000,- 000,600 marks, which weuld include | the costs of occupying the Ruhr, Germany and France could mutu- ally pledge themselves to wage no war for a entury, he added, ! previded the German borders were guaranteed. He declared that under | no circumstances would it be toler- ated that “even a single street on rman sell” be taken away from Germany, The evacuation of the Ruhr would tollow Immediately -upon the conclu- slon of the new agreement, according to Dr. Breitscheid's plan Postpone Conferemce. BERLIN, April 30.—The proposed conference between the central gov- ernment and the presidents and premiers of the German states to discuss the reparations question was postponed today ~ until tomorrow, when the political party leaders also j will be received. The new German reparations offer will be presented simultaneously to {the London. Paris, Rome. Brussels and Washington governments. U. S. ASKS GERMANY { PAY FOR RHINE ARMY {Take Move as Precaution Should ! Negotiations With Allied | Powers Fail. The State Department has filed it was stated today In well | cheid, secialist member of the reich- | Sta every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes | L 4 as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Net Circulation, 90,446 Sunday’s Circulation, —— I PARTY PLEDGE. yalugp | | | { i The first transcontinental flight of | a formation of Martin bomber air- planes was completed here today ' with the arrival at the naval air statior. end of Bolling Field from San Dlego, Calif., of three huge Marine Corps bombers. The fourth of the formation. which left San Diego April 19, was forced down at Harpers Ferry about 10:30 o'clock this morning, but signaled to the others that it would follow later. It passed over Washington shortly after 1 o'clock and continued on to its base at Quantico. At ten minutes past 11 o'clock the T-4, carrylnfi Capt. A. H. Presley,| Lieut. W.'S. Hallenburg and Sergt. H, | G. Alcorn, plowed through a water- | soaked field and came to & 8top before a diMinguished company. In this groap “were Seeretary ¢ the { Navy Denby and Mrs. Denby, Admiral | | William " & "Moffett, cnief af _the bureau of naval aeronautics; Maj DAUGHERTY, BACK TAKES UPISSUES Rum-Running and Sugar Suit to Be Considered Prior to Another Rest. | L | | Returning to his desk today after an | absence of nearly two months in Flori- da and North Carolina, recuperating PERFORMANCE WORLD COURT FIGHT MONDAY, APRIL. 30, 1923—FORTY PAGES. \ IThree Martin Bombers Reach ' D. C. in Flight From San Diego Gen. John A. Lejeune. cammandant the Marine Corps; Maj. Gen. W. C. eville, U S. M. C.; Lieut. Col. D. C. Turner, chief of Marine 1 tion. and Maj. Maurice Marine Corps aid to Secretary Denby. A special delegation from the Jap- anese embassy also was on hand to greet the flyers. Those in the party were: Vice Admiral Baron Abo, Capt. Kuroki, Commander Walda and Lieut Commander Sao. Others Follow Quickly. A few minutes later the second ship, the T-3, carrying Capt. J. E. Davis, | Capt. L. E. Woods and Sergt. Corn, | taxied up to the guests. This ship was followed shortly by the T-1, car- rying Maj. Roy §. Geiger, command- ing officer of the expedition; Capt. F. P. Mulcahey and Gunner Sergt. W. C. Pounders. ° Each officer arid man. was personally greeted by Secretary Denby. Admiral (Continu Page 2, Column 2.) BECOMES POLITICAL Lodge Defines Issue as Com-| plete Hostility to League | of Nations. | BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The fight over American entrance into the world court has resolved it- 98,882 TWO CENTS. PEPCO ASKS RIGHT 10 FULL REVENUE Would Discontinue Impound- ing Excess Collections for Current. The Potomac Electric Powe pany today asked the District Su- preme Court to permit the company to keep all of the 10 cents per kilo- watt hour it collects for current from electric light consume: The users of elect light never stopped paying the rate, but since the legal battle be c have tween the company and the commis- ; ston began in 1917 the company has been required by the court to pound the difference between the 10 cents collected and the rate which the commission deemed reasonable. During the nearly six years of liti- gation this impounded fund “as gTOwn to approximately $4,000.000. The power company does not ask &t this time for the release of the money impounded, but ‘does petition the court not to require the depositing of any more money to that fund. Would Null S-Cent Order. The company also holds District Supreme Court declare null and void the valuation placed on the property by the com- mission in 1917, and on which the eight-cent rate was ordered in that vear. The paper filed was in the form of {an answer to a petition by the Utili- | ties Commission asking the court to that the 10-cent | im- | should now ! FLOOD SHOWS NEED OF CONSTRUCTION OF STORM SEWERS $1,250,000 Could Be Used, Says Sanitary Engineer. $300,000 Available. TROUBLE IS BLAMED ON BLOCKED CULVERT Gordon Declares Congress Heights Washout Followed Clogging at Nichols Avenue. Need for larger appropriations fi | the construction of storm water sewers in all sections of the city was emphasized Ly the downpour of Sat urday night. which inundated parts of the Congress IHeights and Benning neighhorhoods. siz The sewer department could easils spend $1,250.000 in one year on subur ban sewers urgently needed. J. B. Gor- don, sanitary engineer, stated today He made the same statement in tes- | tify¥ing before the District subcom mittee of the House appropriations committee less than a year ago. Since all agencies of the city gov ernment are restricted in_the amounts they may ask for annually. the sewer department requested $330,000 for suburban sewers. Small Sums Voted. While the actual amount appropr ated for the vear beginning July 1 is only $300,000, that figure is substan- tially more than the Commissioners have had for suburban sewers in a vear during the last decade. During jthe twelve months just drawing to | close the allotn | was but $125.000 i of appropriations for | suburban sewers during the past ten | vears has been $112.000. With the increased sum of $300,000 made avi jable for the forthcoming year, Mr. rdon expects 1o make Some prog- toward meeting accumulated | 1 i | | i ent for this purpose The average ™ Heights the situation in Saturday night. Mr. Gordon s ¥ that, in his opinion, the back-up_was due to a culvert w carries Stickfoot branch under lols avenue becoming blocked | debris. Congress Denies Sewer Failed. The sanitary engineer said there is ino evidence that the eight-foot sewer nto which the stream discharges was {overtaxed. Observations in that sewer vesterday disciosed, he said, that the water did not rise to the top of the sewer. | The extension of this sewer through the Barry farm section will be taken up at sol future time, Mr. Gordon said. it has not been donie in the past. he explained. because the roads in_ the Barry farm have not vet been dedi- cated as public property. Condemnation | proceedings to dedicate Sheridan road, where one of the floods occurred, are | now pending in court, according to Mr. Gordon. ! Mr. Gordon said there also is need { for additional storm water sewer fa- ies in the vicinity of Benning. In near future, he continued, the s branch trunk sewer will have |10 be extended under the railroad at { Renning and across the tbattoir. | This neighborhood also was inundated | Saturday night 2 i‘ Needed in Other Sections. But, according to the sanitary gineer, Congress Heights and Ben- | ning are only two of many localities en- of the highest tribunal dutles of French high commissioner| .. " (1o American-German claims|from illness, Attorney General Daugh- | self into a political muddle. The |approve the order issued by the com- |all over the District where storm wa- could not be foretold. recent opinion of the Attorney General, American steam- ships were permitted to serve liquors on the high seas and in for- cign_ports, and both foreign vessels could bring intoxi- «vants intended for that purpose into American ports, sealed in their sea siores Now, however, ships serving liquor 81 having a surplus left on arrival At the three-mile limit could not un- der the decision of the court bring it into territorial waters of the United States in any form, and ships bound away from American ports will have 10 pass beyond the territorial limit without any intoxicants aboard, Some officlals suggested it was diflicuit to see how, under these cir cumstances, American shins ~ould re- sume liguor serving without great in- convenience. @ So far as the fleet operated by the Shipping Board is concerned, it al- ready has been indi ted that as a matter of policy liquor serving prob- ubly will not be resumed, despite the privilege given under the decision of the court “Examining the act as a whole,” the court said, “we think it shows very plainly. first, that it is intended to be operative throughout the terri- torial limit of the United States, with ‘1he single exception stated in _the (Continued on Page 2, Column 7. EXPLOSION SLAYS " SLEEANG MOTHER PADUCAH, Ky, April 30.—Mrs. Henrietta Wagner, alias Thomas, and Mrs. Emma Skillian, both middle-aged women. were arrested in connection with the death of Mrs. Rosetta Daugherty Warren, who was killed in Jan explosion which wrecked her home Lere early today. The women under arrest are charged with willful murder, con- spiring to cause the death of Mrs. Warren. Mrs. Warren’s three chil- dren. who were asleep at the time of the explosion, escaped injury. Police and county authorities claim tu have information pointing to par- ticipation of both women in the crime, 51 is said. Mrs. Wagner had threat- ened the life of Mrs. Warren on sev- eral occasions, they said. The Skil- gian woman is alleged to have aided $1d abetted in the conspiracy: The Wagner woman's motive is in- explicable at thig time, but authori- ties thought it would ultimately be traced to a mad jealousy due to War- yen's marriage. The dead woman's Jiusband grew up in the home of Mrs. Wagner, it is understood. will be Tntil the American ‘and | | IB} the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 30.—The police have discovered a bolshevist plot for the organization of a May day demonstration, it is reported. Leaflets have been seized which call ion the proletariat to rise against the i italist government. | ““Report has it that the bolshevik | commercial delegation here s In- | Yolved and that the police have made | Several arrests of Russians and { Turks. | ENGLAND TO BE QUIET. No Indication of May Day Dis- turbances Discovered. By the Associated Press. | | | 1LONDON, April 30.—Although the troubled, especially in the various shipbuilding trades, and the railway | men's grievances remain unsettled | there is nothing to indicate the.po: ! sibility of disturbances on May day. The workers' processions will con- centrate upon Hyde FPark, where there will be speeches, accompanied by the usual fiying of red flags. PROTEST RUHR POLICY. Paris May Day Observance to Take That Form, Say Leaders. By the Al‘tfldlttd Press. PARIS, April 30.—A protest against Ruhr occupation and the policies fol- | lowed by Premier Poincars and Chan- cellor Cuno is the special purpose of the May day labor celebration tomorrow, as advertised by the union, the leaders of which, however, express concern lest, “despite its elevated and noble purpose,” it may lack the magnitude of manifestations of recent years. | The striking midinettes have been enrolled to fill places of honor, and around them will be grouped the rep- resentatives of other unions, Some of which will strike for twenty-four hours, while some will be content with a_ten-minutes sympathy strike. | The taxi drivers have decided to put their taxis in the garage at midnight tonight and remain idle throughout May day. The subway, tramways, electrical and gas workers' unions have also | voted” for a general twenty-four-hour 1 strike. ¥ The bakers will go on strike, but the Jjourneyman _bakers agreed to work"~ overtime Monday night and bake sufficient bread for the city's consumption for twenty-four hours. PASTOR ENDS LIFE. WAYNESBORO, Ga., April 30.—The | Rev, J. E. Seals, pastor of the First Methodist Church here, ended his life this morning by putting a .bullet through his brain. He left a note saying: “It wi either the asylum or death. He is said’ to_have been in ill health since his wife dfed a year ago. ! in Syria and commander of the army in the east. The reinforcement of the 26,000 French troops already in Syria was decided upon, it is understood, at con- ferences between Premier Poincare and Gen. Pelle, French high commis- sioner at Constantinople and head of the French delegation at the Lau- sanne conference. Gen. Pelle has been assured by Ismet Pasha that the Turks are not concentrating their | torces against France, but the Paris | government looks with disfavor on what it believes to be an effort by Angora to exert pressure on France in the near east. 10,000 MINERS IDLE IN PITTSTON DISTRICT SCRANTON, Pa.. April 30.—Nearly ten thousand mine workers in the Pittston district of the Pennsylvania Coal Company were idle today as a result of the strike in the Butler col- liery spreading to the company's other workings. Faflure of the union officers to adjust a so-called button strike at the Butler operations was held responsible by the men for the walkout. The strike has not been sanctioned by the district officers of the union. The strike at the Butler colliery started a week ago because certain mine workers had not paid their dues. {labor situation in England still is| ] Children, Get Out Your Scissors and Crayons The “Color Cut-Outs” are > here! Every day there will be a doll or a dress in the latest fashion, a pet, or a toy.. Watch for them! Cut them out. ! Color them. il Play with them. i Go to parties with the dolls: £0 to the circus with them; go on camping trips. The “Color Cut-outs” will be your: pals. Watch for them every day In . The Star Beginning on the magazine page TODAY. commission a claim for $255,000,000, the cost to the United States of maintaining an army of occupation in Germany, as a precautionary measure to protect the Washington government should present negotia- | tions with the allies for collection | of the sum fail. Wadsworth of the was sent to Secretary Department tant Treasury tives of the allied governments for reimbursement of Army costs. It is regarded as probable that the pro- ceeding here will not be pressed since reports from Secretary Wads- Worth indicate that a satlsfactory adjustment probably will be reached by the Parls conferees. i< MRS. JULIA G. SCOTT, 80, DIES IN ILLINOIS BLOOMINGTON, TiL, April 30.—Mrs. Julla Green Scott, former president general of the National Soclety of the Daughters of the American Revo- 1ution, died at her home here yester- day. She suffered a stroke of paral sis Friday and never recovered con- sciousness. Mrs. Scott was elghty vears old She was a native of Danville, Ky. She traced her ancestry through both her father’s and mother’s lines to the Washington family. For two terms she served as president general of the D. A. R. During the world war Mrs. Scott was active in war relief work. With a decoration from the French government in recognition of her work in behalf of French war or- ™ fteen vears Mrs. Scott lived most of the time in Washington. She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Lelia Bromwell, widow of the late Col. Charles S. Bromwell of the United States Army, and Mrs. Carl S. Croo- man. Expressions of deep regret were voiced today at the national headquar- ters of the D. A. R. upon learning of the death of Mrs. Scott. The flag has been ordered at half-mast and the bullding will be closed to the public in honor of the former chief of the D. A R During the war she was appointed chairman of the war relief service committee of the organization, re- siding at the Arlfogton Hotel, after- Wards purchasing a house at 18156 Q gtreet northwest. Mrs. Foward L. Hodgkins, vice president general of the District of Columbla, D. A. R., said: “The sociefy has sustained a great loss Mrgad Scott’s administra- tion was one the finest the so- wa.' The claim was filed before Assis- | Paris to negotiate with representa- | Ambassador Jusserand presented her | erty was prepared to take up a number of important matters at the Department | of Justice, upon which he has been| Kept informed during his absence. i One of the first pending questions to which he will give attention, it was| said, is President Harding's request for | a ruling as to the executive's .u‘hnrilyi to order the use of naval vessels in com- | bating rum-runners. Mr. Daugherty was expected to dispose of this and | | other pressing matters during the sev- | eral days which he planned to re- | main here before leaving for a stay of | several weeks at Atlantic City. i He hopes there to throw off the last _effects of the illness from which he has now virtually recovered, it was sald. The government's sugar suit, filed recently in New York, also will en- gage Mr. Daugherty active atten- tion, which is expected to facilitate ! {handling of the case by his assistants. | The return of Mr. Daugherty made it possible for Assistant Attorney General Seymour to go to New York and take charge of the sugar suit at the hearing set for today before four federal judges. ASK U. S. BOOST FUND TO BUY FOREST LAND Experts to Call on Harding to Pro-| pose Resumption of Annual Appropriation. BOSTON, April 30.—A delegation of forestry experts, newspaper publish- ers, lumber and paper manufacturers and others will go to Washington to- morrow to see President Harding in support of a proposal to resume the $2,000,000 annual federal appropria- tion in effect beforg the war for pur- chase of forest lands. This years appropriation is $450,000. Gov. Cox in a letter to President Harding says the national forest commission in recent years has been unable to acquire land in competition with lumber companies because of reduced appropriations. As the lum- ber operations in all parts of the White mountains are excessive, in- cluding the high slopes, except on those tracts aiready acquired by the government,” Gov. Cox wrote, “I most earnestly urge in the interest of the water powers of Massachusetts the approval, in so far the circum- stances warrant, of such dncreases in the appropriation this year as may permit the completion of the program at the earliest practical moment.” e BERLIN SEEKS TREATY. | cur any obligations under the league merity of the court {tself, whether it is @ good thing for the United State: whether it is of benefit to the world, in fact, all the points raised in the| addresses of President Harding and Secretary Hughes last week, have been swept aside. | The issue now has been clearly de- | fined. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. chairman of the Senate foreign rela- tions committee, has stated it in un- | equivocal terms—it is the fact that| the court has a vague connection with the league of nations. All the assurances that America doesn't in- covenant, indeed, does not enter the league of nations in any sense, are beside the argument, for Senator Lodge takes issue with the President and Mr. Hughes, and announces that if the same court, with the same sys- tem of selecting judges, had been created through the action of all the fifty-two nations acting as individual countries and not by the league, the court would have received party ap- proval, Defines Real Issue. Senator Lodge’s own words on that point are so pertinent and describe | so clearly the lines of cleavage in| the present controversy which has| been until now beclouded that they | will undoubtedly be quoted again and | again in the next few months by the opponents of Mr. Harding. After pointing out that he does not object to the nominations being made by the | Hague tribunal, as is the case under the present scheme, Senator Lodge de- clares that if it had been proposed that these judges so nominated were “to be appointed by the nations severally and Independently and not by a majority of the council and as- sembly of the league, and with long terms and salaries, in my judgement such a court would have received (Continued on Page 3, Column 8.) ducing the electric light rate from 7.67 cents to 7.6 per kilowatt hour. The commission has changed the rate four or five times since the valua- tion suit began in 1917, and each time it has been required to get the ap- proval of the District Supreme Court for such change. Opposes New Reduction. The company opposes approval of the latest rate reduction ordered by the commission, basing its objection on the action taken by the United States Supreme Court a few weeks ago, when it denied the commission’s appeal from the decision of the Dis- trict Court of Appeals in the valuation case. The company takes the position that the action of the United States Supreme Court leaves the decision of the District Court of Appeals as final. The Court of Appeals decided the value placed on the power property by the commission in 1916 was erro- neous. They ask the District Supreme Court, therefore, not to approve the commission’s last reduction in rates and to authorize the company to keen all of the 10 cents it collects. The case probably will come before Chief Justice McCoy for hearing next week MISSING GIRL FOUND. Overseas Worker Who Left Sani tarium, Located in New York. SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, April 30— Miss Carmelita Welch, thirty, former overseas worker for the Knights of Columbus, who disappeared from a private sanitarium near Dayton last Tuesday, has been located ,at the Martha Washington Hotel in New York, according to a report received here. It is reported that the girl wired to this city for money and that the bank receiving the telegram communicated with relatives. ‘Model Shakespeare Play Fails | After Week’s Run in New York By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 30.—Shake- speare’s comedy, “As You Like It,” sponsored by the American Na- tional Theater to serve as a model play for many centers throughout the country, has failed after a week’'s run here. Marjorie Ram- beau played Rosalind. The public BUENOS_AIRES, April 30.—A Adi atech to La acion from La Paz, Ebiivia jar, he Gorma minibior 1t negot! ing a commd F R , reception was lukewarm and at- tendange dwindled after the first ight. e production cost about 06000 Augustus Thomas, executive head of the Producing Managers’ Association, which financed the project, said today that business considerations were responsible for the closing. He announced, how- ever, that some of the cast would be sent to other citles in the fall and that “Twelfth Night” would be staged here next season. “As You Like It” was brought here after being' produced at Washington, and Mr. Thomas said the attendance there had increased steadily during the week's sched- uled run. | mission a few weeks ago, further re- |ter sewers are needed to catch the {flow from open streams A person. he said, cannot drive { through any of the outlying suburbs of the city without crossing one or more of these open streams which | should be adequately connected with sewers. Washington. Mr. Gordon out. is growing rapidy in tions i suburban where sewerage is an important factor. He expressed gratification for the in- creased appropriation granted his de- partment for the new fiscal year and (Continued on I pointed direc- Column 1) RIVERSON RAMPAGE - WASH OUT BRIDGES 1 |Railroads Cut Off, Roads i Inundated, in Maine and i Vermont. | By tiie Awsocinted Press. | BOSTON, April 30.—The rivers of northern New England, swollen by the heavy rains of the last two da: are on a rampage. Several dams have been swept’away, bridges damaged and long stretcheg of railroad track washed out. Many highways are un- der water. Trains have been canceled on several divisions of the Maine | Central Rallroad and on portions of | the Boston and Maine system. Great | 1og drives, breaking their booms, have been swept away. Service by way of the Canadian Pacific railway from New England to the maritime provinces was cut off iby the cancellation of all trains on { the Bangor-Vanceboro gection of the main line of the Maine Central. The dam of the Howland Pulp and Paper Company at the outlet of Ebee- mee pond, near Brownville, Me., and the Katahdin Iron Works' dam in the same section of the state have gone out. Four thousand cords of pulp wood, which smashed through a boom in Queechee river in Vermont yesterday. rushed down into the Connecicut river, and early today had reached Turners Falle, Mass. where they swept away the flashboards of the dam. The city of Concord, N. H., was cut off from highway communication ex- cept to the westward when the Mer- rimac river and its tributaries over- figwed the low-lying roads in all other, ections.