Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and warmer tonight and to- morrow; little change in Temperature for tw. ended at 2 p.m. today: m, today. Full report on page 7. Hi 50 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 4! temperature. four hour: ghest, 70, at at 6:10 N eecond-class matter Washington, D. C. PRESIDENT FAVORS SUGAR BOYCOTT 0 FORCE DOWN PRIGE Government, Howe'er, Will Sanction Restricted Con- sumption in No Way. HOOVER ALSO APPROVES DRIVE TO LOWER COST District Federation cf Women's Clubs to Consider Strike Here at Convention. While the American government will in no way recognize or sanction 2 boycott of sugar, because of the in- | crease in prices, the President known to personally favor it. To meet the present serious situa- tion. Mr. Harding. according to a White House spokesman, believes that it is wholly consistent on the part of the public to take means of bringing down the price of sugar and that the most effective way In his belief is to deliberately minimize con- sumption. The President was repre- sented today as considering such a course both meritorious and right- eous and that if properly conducted it would unquestionably be helpful in bringing about the desired results. Will Explain Feelings. It was made known at the White Fouse today that the executive will sometime today or tomorrow send a telegram to a city official in which he wiil explain his personal feelins Farding the so-called sugar b is &nd also the opposition of the govern- ment in the matter. The Presldent is known, however, to have expressed himself to the ef- fect that it {s not the business of the fFovernment to commend the conduct of a boycott in any particular. He be- lleves that the povernment must deal with such matters in a consistent man- ner, and that any action on its t must be strictly in regard to the lesal viewpoint Hoover Approves Action. American women who are organizing boyeotis against the use of sugar “are ©n the right track,” in the opinion of ommerce Hoover. to control prices of food commodities.” he said today. “is to bring about the spontaneous control of <consumption." Boycott to Be Launched Here. A boycott on sugar will be cham- pioned by Mrs. J. W. Frizzell, presi- cent of the District of Columbla Women's Clubs, tomorrow at the an- nual mesting of the federation, she announced today, following the White ilouse statement that President Harding was in favor of such a move. Mrs. Frizzell indicated she had pre- pared a formal report some duvs ago in which one of the principal pro- posals was a boycolt on sugar. “I am heartily in favor of such a iovement.”” said Mrs. rizzell toda “We are glad that President Harding has taken the stand he has. of the campaign which launching, and I am sure District women's clubs will the matter most earnestly.” Detalls Not Revealed. . Frizzell would not reveal the ails of the pro 1 she intends to set forth in her federation tomo meeting at the end t row Roo. at the ann svelt Hotel, al ut said she had worked out a plan, which | in favor | the | take up | inual report to the : ‘Boy Is Kidnaped; 'Radio Being Used By the Asrociated Press SCHENECTADY, Y.. May 1L— The force which his father has | helped to harness—radio energy— today was In search of Verner Alexanderson, six-year-old son of | E. F. W. Alexanderson," chief en- | ®lneer of the Radio Corporation of America, who yesterday was kldnaped from his home by an un- identified man. A stranger who last week told “Dodo,” as the boy was known, and his sisters—Edith, eleven, and Gertrude, seven—trat he would glve them some rabbits. yesterday returned to the children as they played in the yard of their home, told them the “bunnies were ready.” directed the girls to get a box, took the boy and disappeared. | Police lcarned that last week | two men asked theater ushers in | this city for particulars of the Alexanderson family, especially.as to its financial resaurces, Mr. Al- exanderson, a native of Sweden, is Known as the “most expensive man in radlo.” The boy has blonde hair. fair complexion, chubby red cheeks and wore when taken away a blue serge coat and sallor hat, blue and white striped rompers and tan shoes and socks. A F. L DROPS FIGHT ON DAUGHERTY RAL STRIKE INUNGT 0N | | Counsel for Shopmen Aban- ;‘ dons Case 24 Hours Before i Chicago Hearing. By thie Assoclated Press. CHICAGO. May l.—Leaders of the strike of rallroad shopmen today abandoned thelr case In defense against the federal injunction ob- tained by Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty last September, and an- nounced that their principal conten- tions iu the case had been upheld. | The announcement by counsel for the defendants. coming twenty-four | hours in advance of the hearing on the government's application for a permanent injunction, caused Black- burn Esterline, assistant solicitor | general of the United States, Inter- [ preted the action of the defense as mounting to a defauit which ermed a “flasco.” i | | he Shopmen Are Satified. | After announcing that all attorney or the defcnse had withdrawn at th {request of the officers of the railway | employes’ department of the American | Federation “of Labor, Donald ‘R. Rich- Iherg of defense counsel, explained that the shopmen were safisfied with the | situation and that the government could |tind such satisfaction as they could nd do as they wished with the case. | He made public & letter addrossed to | himself, Frank L. Mulholland of Toledo, Ohio, and James Easby ington, the attorneys for the defen: from RB. M. Jewell, resident of the r ay employes’ department, and the other leaders, cxplain eir view of the case. Involved Right to Strike. The case, the letter declared, in- Ived the right to strike, and the government had called the strike a | conspiracy. and that its primary pur- I p was to seek to establish that a e erted refusal to accept wages and working conditions as fixed by | the Railroad Labor Board was un- lawful. In this connection the shop- leaders referred to men’s To Find Abductor| %.YEAR P[AEE ANI] ‘WASHINGTON, GERNANS T0 FFER 3 BLLION HARS Industrial Entente With France Also to Be Proposed, Officials Aver. FINAL APPROVAL TO BE GIVEN PROGRAM TODAY Ninety-Nine-Year Non-Aggression Pact Provides French Security, the Su- | Leaders Aver. | gt e | BY the Associated Press. | BERLIN, May l.—Germany's new | program for a settiement o the rep- arations tangle, reichstag leaders be- ! lleve. will propose the flat payment | of 30,000,000.000 gold marks. the pro- | mulgation of a ninety-nine-year non- aggression pact signed by the Rhine | powers, and the establishment of a { Franco-German industrial entente. | The specific items on the program which recelves its final approval by | Rovernment officials today, before it !is transmitted to the allled govern- | ments and to Washington, have been | closely guarded by Chancellor Cuno. | However, political leaders. in close { touch with the government since it | decided to take advantage of the | wedge offered by Lord Curzon's re- | cent speech, express the opinion that these three points are to be the lead- | ing features of the new offer. | Neutral Jury Proposed. | In these quarters it is said that as ‘alternatives the German government | | would suggest submission of the ;Whole question to the judgment of {impartial economic experts, or would be willing to have new proposals subjected to the scrutiny of such a !neutral jury upon which Germany | {would be represented | | Reichstag statesmen hold the opin- {ion that the new proposals are more | |liberal than those which Germany . prepared for submission to the pre- miers’ conference in Paris last Jan- uary, but which were never heard. They point out that a ninety-nine- |year anti-aggression agreement would offer security to all the signatory |states. thus widening the scope of that “feeling of security” upon which | France has insisted | An tndustrial agreement between | France and Germany, it is believed, ! would establish a community of in-| terests, eliminating the dangerous: rivalries of international competition | jand also Riving Germany an oppor- | tunity to pay her reparution debts. | | Whether Germany is making the ! I payment of 37,006,000.9600 wold marks | | contingent on the successful flotation | of a foreign loan cannot be learned | although it was stated that the Ger- mun industrial and financial interests had vouchsafed to Chancellor Cuno | | their support for his new program. i Peace Offer Sought. The inclusion of a long-term anti- | aggression pact has been stimulated by the desire to have the question of wecurities projected finto the situa- |tion by France. solved on a basis that would call for mutual confi- dence on the part of all the powers concerned ! DENY RUHR LEAGUE ISSUE. France Hears Offer of Mediation Would Be Held Imprudent. | had been beni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, AFTER Bishop Harding, 14 Years Diocese Leader Here, Dies Had Been in Failing Health for Sev- eral Months. THE STORM 0 IN WASHIN Noted for Work in‘. Behalf of National Cathedral. Rt. Rev. Alfred Harding. Bishop of the Washington Diocese of the Prot estant Eplscopal Church, second bish- op of Washington. died at the bish- op's offictal Episcopal home, in the close of the Washington Cathedral, at | 10:30 o'clock last night, after a short jHiness, “Iie ‘wav seventy years old. Death was due to heart disease. He in faillng health for sev- eral months, but had been confined to his room only since April 18. He | was consclous up to a few minutes prior to his death. At the deathbed were Miss Henrictte Douglas, a sis- ter of the bishop's deceased wife, who MOONEY BECONES . POSTHASTE { | | RT. REV. ALFRED HARDING. made her home with Bishop Harding; Miss Charlotte Harding, a daughter, | land Paul Harding, a son, and Dr.| (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) VAST REHES ALK CREAT WARFIR L SUBURBS BOND ISSUE HELD VITALTOD.C.NEEDS “Most Feasible Method” of MeetiFg; Municipal Prob- lems, Says Mr. Oyster. With the time for the preparation of new estimates to Congress ap- nroaching, Commissioner Oyster again is considering the advisability of ad- vocating a bond issue to give Wash- ington the schools, streets, sewers and water mains it needs. Although previous suggestions for a bond lssue during the past few vears have failed to materialize, Capt. Oyster declared today that he still regards such a step as the most feas- ible method of carrying forward the | municipal projects which, of neces- sity, had to lag during and after the war. “I am informed," sald the Commis- | sfoner, “that practically every large city in the country Is resorting to bond issuey, to catch up on operations neglected during the war. Why would it not be feasible for Washington? The Commissioner cited the fact that the District has reduced its old bonded debt to an insignificant sum and that by the summer of 1924, sink- ing fund assets will be sufficient to wipe out the existing debt. “Cltizens’ associations in all parts of the city,” the Commissioner con- tinued, “are asking for improvements, and I know that the present board of ‘ommissioners wants to meet the wishes of the people as far as they possibly can. “It is impossible, however, to bulld faf. TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1923—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 95,324, Volstead Urges Year in Jail for Dry Act Evaders By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn,, May 1.—Mini- mum jail sentences of one year for violators of the liquor laws were advocated today by Andrew J. Volstead, former representative in Congress from Minnesota aad au- thor of the prohibition enforcement act. A The eighteenth amendment would have been functioning perfectly long ago if lawbreakers had not been dealt with so leniently by the courts. Mr. Volstead declared. Mr. Volstead expressed surprice at the actlon of the United States Supreme Court yesterday in re- versing Attorney General Daugh- erty’s ruling against serving liquor on American ships on the high seas. “The seaports are ours,” he said. “Who can stop us from keeping what _ships out of them we choose?"” T00 UNION BAKERS - HERE VOTE STRIKE Will Leave Ovens if Wage Demands Are Not Met. Large Firms Hit. Union bakers today reiterated their stand for an increase in wages at a meeting in Typographical Temple, and made arrangements for a strike. |Unless other action is taken at a later meeting, Washington's bread production will be curtailed serfouse 1y L. A. Spiess, attorney representing the Employing Bakers' Association, sald at noon that a statement ex- plaining the stand of employers would be issued soon. Approximately 700 bakers and help- ers were present at the meeting today, at the conclusion of which it was announced that another gath- ering would be held at 4 o'clock. Bakers Stand Pat. President Kamm of the Bakers' Union said after the meeting that |nis organization was “standing pat” on the previous action taken. That means that union bakers in Wash- ington will not work under the old agreement calling for 90 cents an hour for day work and $1 for night work. When employing bakers re- fused to accept a new agreement to- day calling for $1 per hour day work and $1.20 night work the union men announced that a “lockout” had re- sulted. Employers call the move a “strike.” Bakery salesmen will deliver the product of the bakeries whether the bakers sign up or not. it was sald today by one of the officials of this union. ~ Union bakers maintain, however, that in the large bakeries affected by the strike there will be no products to deliver. Large Firms Affected. Among the larger bakeries affected are Corby’s, Havener's, Rice-Schmitt, jDorsch, the Connecticut Pie Company and the General Baking Company. A number of other bakeries are includ- ed in membership in the Employing | Bakers' Association. 00SHEETSFARM TWO CENTS. MORE LEGISLATION PLANNED 10 SOLVE SHIP LIQUOR SNARL Officials Foresee Foreign Complications if Ban of Court Is Enforced. RULING DOES NOT BIND FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS World Court Suggested as Last Re- sort—Mellon Delays Action on Interpretation. To avoid international tions which government officia's frankly anticipate will result from that part of the Supreme Court deci slon vesterday prohibiting liquor on foreign ships within the American three-mile limit, the administration is considering the possibility of new legislation to amend the Volstead act ‘This was learned today from member of President Harding’s cabi- net, who declared the plan had been to go before Congress for relief im- mediately if such a decision had been handed down while Congress was in session. Details Still in Doubt. While the details of such legisla- tion were left in doubt, It was under- stood that " ngress could so amend the prohibition law as to enable for- elgn vessels to bring their liquor within the three-mile limit under seal, thus continuing the practice which was banned yesterday by the Suprems Court. Senator Sterling, South Dakota, re- publican, sald_today, however, he d.d not believe Congress would amend the prohibition act to permit foreign vessels to enter American ports with liquor aboard. Senator Sterling was chalrman of the Senate judiclary sub- committee which handled the Vol- stead prohibition act and also the anti-beer act. Thinks Bill Will Fail. “I expect that legislation will Le offered seeking to amend the law <0 as to permit forelgn vessels to come within the three-mile limit with liquor stocks on board,” said Senator Sterling. “But I do not believe that such legislation can get through Congress To my mind, the compensating part of the decision of the Supreme Court was that under the law foreign ves sels cannot come within the three- mile limit with liquor on board. “1 believe, too, that Congress will pass legislation amending the pro hibition ‘act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating beverages on American vessels, whether privately or govern- ment owned, cutside the three-mile limit. That a bill for this purpoes will be introduced I am confident, and I am equally sure that after it has been introduced it will be pasged.” That part of the decision which ab- solutely bans liquor, either sealed or unsealed, inside the three-mile limi on either American or foreign shij is believed by officials who are close students of the situation to be fraught with the most delicate inter- national possibilities. 1t will conflict di- rectly with laws of some foreign countries which ordain that liquor must be carried for the use of the crews, and in some cases for immi- grants on board. Situation Must Be Met. The situation must be met early however, it was explained, and the complica- | aaminsitration is placed with the ne- cessity of waiting, meantime, until she would place before the District |preme Court decision In the case of | all - the schools needed, to pave the | the December session of Congress to with all seriousness as a means of holding down the price of sugar. Although other matters, i the election of officers, a’ spe by Mrs. Wall Reid on nar. and cluding the Pennsylvania railroad against the Labor Board, in which the court held ithat it was not compulsory to ablde by the board's decisions, although holding that there was a moral con- straint to do so, | By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 1. he league of na- gravely compromise its mission if it gave way to suggestions, well meant, ! perhaps.” hut nevertheless imprudent. | laFge number of unsurfaced streets Secretaries New and Work:Standard Would Wreck In-‘},._l oA b e Hecorsaty at Ceremony of Sweanng | dependents and Seize Mid- :4emand for sewer and water mains Out of the annual appropriation bills. | “To my mind there are two ways of BONDPAPER LOST Secret Service Hunt Missing | H routine husiness will also be ccadu cd during the three-day ting, prospects were today, following the announcement from the White House, | that the federation probably would enlarge the boyeott campaign into the leading Assue of the annual meeting. —_— | As to the government bill of com- plaint in support of the applicatio: for a permanent injunction against the activities of the defendants in support of the strike, the letter de- {clared: tions would exceed its mandate and |even dangerous, tending to raise be- fore it questions not within its pur- view, such as reparations and the oc- *The nation-wide strike no longer | CUPation of the Ruhr.” ts.” | Louis Barthou, president of the rep- | laration commiskion. made this pro- | Attempt to Wake Ban Permanent. | 100, Cement at a lecture on the league Tomorrow’s hearing was to be the |pefore the university group for tha Zovernment's attempt to make perma- | |pagne 1ast night { nent the temporary injunction grant- | “frrance wil] never consent to such ed by Judge Wilkerson last fall, re- |, proceeding.” he continued, “nor, I straining the shopcrafts, who were o' sure, will Belgium. But the| i lhrrn“ on ._rl';;:haln all roads, from in- ! jeague is too well advised to commit terference with interstate commerce. |goap a blunder Blackburn Esteriine of Washington, | i o= | assistant solicitor general, Whko cons| guggestions that the league of na- | ducted the government's suit for the |tjons act on the Ruhr question were | e HYLAN BACKS BOYCOTT. Wires President Asking Aid Fighting Sugar Profiteers. Tr the Assoclated Pross. NEW YORK, Mav 1.—Supplement- ing Mayor Hylan's action in tele- grarhing Persident Harding an ur- in temporary Injunction, issued the fol- made recently in New York by Lord lowing statement on the withdrawal Robert Cecil in concluding his tour of Eent request that he publicly advocate | °Cthe defense counsel: the United States In advocacy of the| restriction of the use of sugar, woman | e Ao sanificance of the with- I Jeamue: jdrawal from the case of counsel for leaders of the buyers' strike move- | the defendants and fallure of the de-| CUNO CABINET FLAYED ment to force a drop in the price of | fendants to substitute other counsel | the commodity today discussed a pro- | 15 that the defendants have no de- | . 1 d i1l allow th Posal that they réquest the govern- | by sofenm.” e case to go| 500,000 Take Part in Radical May- Day Demonstration. ment to name a national sugar ad- | Will Proceed Tomorrow. | ministrator and that the product be, “This is a decided change in their | rationed 'st':itude.h as they have bersistently DY Wirelesy to The Star and Chieago Daily T v made charges against t -1 by e Tlhe women also outlined plans for | pIa0¢ LITESS SETNSt the Eovern:| pppriN, May 1.—The red flagruled a serics of mass meetings in the way fammenced and prosecuted from Berlin today, When the communists greater city, at which housewives |Ulterior motives and not in &00d|¢orced the social democrats to leave not only will be asked to support the 'faith The final separation and sub-! 0 blican black, red and gol buyers' strike, but will be taught the | 1i88ion of the gcvernment's case iy their republic s gy use of sugar substitutes. . Several | D the hands of Jacob M. Dickson and | banners at home and bring only lattan and the Bronx last night, at o7 ounsel for the defendant _ling. More than half a million men which women were the speakers flef conw nosnta, welex Mayor Hylan sent this telearam to | Pect to formally begin and proceed to- | and women took part in the dem- the President: { morrow. {onstration, which became violently “1 ‘hearclly indorse urgent request |, The flascu of the defendants !antl-Cuno and anti-Stinnes. the speak- of Gov. Davis of Kansas that' you |abandonment of the case is on a par iers demanding that the present cabi- Dublicly advocate restriotion in Sou|with the loudly proclaimed attempt|net make Its reparation policy more of sugar until it returns to reasona- I News. ‘wives of the whole nation.” KITCHIN ON REST CURE. Former Minority Leader in House Treated in Hospital. By the Associated Press. !to tmpeach the Attorney General, the | fefinite. ble basis. The people need all the| crats were united. and the demon- Your call will mobilize the house- | PASBY-SMITH NOT ADVISED. | Cuno _cabinet's reactionary policy Col. James S. Easby-Smith of coun. |1t was Hugo Stinnes, however, who advised as to the reason for the with-| He was denounced for his unpatri- lust for power, which, as one speaker WILSON, N. C., May 1.—Representa- dismal failure of which s still fresh| ‘It was the first time in five years help “and support” they "can ‘get ' n in the public mind. | that the communists and social demo- their fieht with ¢ o e B hea stration today Indicated that, the so- cratic feeling against the Local Counsel Unable to Explain | S, oM s has taken on a much more vivid tinge Union’s Withdrawal From Suit. |of red than it had six months ago. sel for the labor organization was not | heg sotame Th° DTUnt of the work- drawal of the unlon from the Chicago : Otic selfishness, his greediness in ex- iinjunction litigation. He stated that | PIOItINE the working class and his on account of his engagement In the put it, ~exceeds that of the former local courts he had several weeks ago tive Claude Kitchin, former minority leader in the lower house of Congress, i3 a patient at a local hospital, taking the “rest cure,” it was learned today. He entered the hospital yesterday, but his condition {s declared by his phy- sicians to be not serious. Representative Kitchin recently suf- fered an attack of influenza, and his already run-down condition was said 10 have been greatly weakened. He came to Wilson from Scotland Neck Yesterday by automobile, accompanied Dy Mrs. Kitchin and his two sons-in- Jaw. His physicians said today that the former minority leader was in #ine spivits. - v i requested his associate counsel and the defendants to relleve him from appearing at the Chicago hearing, which they agreed to do. “I have no further information, sald Col. Easby-Smith, “in the matter except a telephone message from Chicago desiring my authority to sign my name to an order of with. drawal, which _authority I tele graphed to Mr. Richberg, chief coun. sel for the labor interests. While I have no definite informadon as to this procedure, I have reason to be- lieve that the ‘defendants have found it necessary to withdraw from fur. ther defense to the government's in- junction proceedings_ on accou: the prohibitive cost of the litigation.” Kaiser: | With the exception of taxicabs and ! the suburban railroads, transportation | was completely stopped. ~ Electric light and power, gas and water were cut off, and the newspapers could not rint. ' This May day celebration w. y far the biggest and most impr: sive in the history of Berlin. Police and troops in large numbers were held in reserve, the ing that mobs might tionalistic newspaper offices and club The feeling against the reactofnari In New Official. William M. Mooney was sworn in as postmaster of Washington today at General New, Secretary Work of the 5 A z | i 1 : B ki Continent Field, Is Claim. | fibeiasusi® Thereace in tasation { By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 1.—A struggle |seen by Wall street, the New York: which would put the brunt of the burden on the present population, or by a bond issue, which would spread the cost over a period of years." Commissioner Oyster urged the civic | ceremonies held at the local city post for domination between opposing ele- | Organizations of the city to consider | office In the presence of Postmaster ments in the petroleum industry is|C8Tefully both alternatives and to realize that without some such plan of special financing the task of catch- Interior Department, George Chris-|World says today, with the Standard |ing up on accumulated work must go tian, secretary to President Harding, and other officials. Justice Adolph H. Hoehling of the District Supreme Court administered the oath to Mr. Mooney, which the Oil interests and a few other big re- | finers aligned against independent| companies operating chiefly in the! ! mid-continent field. The total financ- ‘inx strength of the Standard Oil| on slowly for a long time. The Commissioner intimated that it is his bellef the citizens' assoclations should not confine themselves to pointing out the needs of their re- spective localities, but should at the same time suggest possible methods latter took at his flower-embowered | group is given as $592.000,000 by the } of paying for them. desk, surrounded by high officials of the Post Office Department. “With the help of clerks, carriers and supervisory officials I hope to make the Washington city post office the best office’ in the country master Mooney declared, addressing himself to Postmaster General New, in a brief talk following the adminis- tration of the oath. Former Officials Present. The former chlet clerk of the Post Office Depertment was then surround- ed by his friends, who ranged from officials to messengers in the depart- ment. There were present two former Washington city postmasters, Merritt 0. Chance, whose resignation took effect yesterday, and Otto Praeger, who preceded Mr. Chance as postmas- ter. Mr. Mooney will be an “open door” postmaster. Although he will occpy the inner office, notable for its walls and ceiling of Circassian walnut, Postmaster Mooney let it be known today that all those who have any business with the postmaster of Washington will have no difficulty in seelng him. Postmaster General New was ac companied to the city post office by John H. Bartlett, first assistant post- master general; Paul Henderson, sec- ond assistant; W. L. Glover, third as- sistant, and H. H. Billany, fourth as- sistant postmaster general. Regar Is Promoted. Preceding the ceremony at the city post office at 10:30 o'clock, Robert 8. Regar, appointment clerk of the Post Office Department, was sworn in as chief clerk of the department to fill the vacancy caused by the appoint- ment of Mr. Mooney as postmaster of ‘Washington. Postmaster General New, Secretary ran very high, with tI result that the establishment of the Russian form of soviet government and the adoption of some plan for exterminating the than one speake Work of the Interlor Department and | other officlals attended the swearing in of Mr. Regar, the oath being ad- ministered by Thom: Howell, as- t of | reactionaries were advocated by more | sistant chief clerk. There were many floral tributes. " Post- ! paper. and that of the independents | | as $489,200,000. { | The offensive. which was behind | | the general smash in prices on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, the World says, has been seen by the street for three weeks. The objective, it is asserted, is the wrecking of the independents and the eventual control of the mid-continent fleld by the Standard Of] interests and their allfes. Gasoline Price Cuts Noted. “Recently gasoline prices have bfen subject to several cuts, always itiated by Standard Oil companies followed by the independent article says. “These cuts appear purely artificial to Wall street for |the reason that while consumption was increased enormously this year, Mexican production has continued to slump and the total supply of gaso- line available is relatively lower than last year. “For these reasons, it is said, the price reduction both in gasoline and California crude oil have been almed at the independents. If the {nde- pendents were out of the way, it would be possible for the large in- terests to take advantage of decreas. ing Mexican ylelds and increasin jconsumption in this country to pul { the price of gasoline to almost any figure desired. Echo of Senate Probe. “Some persons in touch with the fight and the circumstances behind it belleve that the combat had its in-| ception in animosities and jealousie: that accompanied disclosures at the recent ofl investigation conducted by a committee of the United States Senate. “It was reported that the {inde- pendents probably would take their case to the Department of Justice, claiming that Standard Oil, despite fts dissolution, was still in a position to strangle competition and that its present attack on the independents constituted a violation of the Sher- man sct.” e o CAMPAIGN FOR COURT DENIED BY PRESIDENT ‘White House Willing to Let Pub- lic Opinion Assert Itseif on World Tribunal Issue. Asserting that President Harding has no intention of carrying on a “campaign” to obtain indorsement for the administration world court pro- posal, White House officlals today sald that the President was perfect- ly willnig to let deliberate public opinion assert itself on the issue. The attitude of the executive was disclosed in connection with a formal denial of published reports that he was seeking to obtaln an indorsement of the administration plan from the General Federation of Women's Clubs at its annual convention next week in Atlanta. The President, it was added, had presented the proposal to the Senate and had stated his reasons for doing #0 and was content to let the matter rest with the American people and thelir duly elected representatives Did the Home Team Win, or Lose? Complete Box Score and full story of the game in the “BASE BALL FINAL” EVENING STAR—which is after the umpire calls “You’re out!” to the last man up. For sale by newsboys and newsdealers throughout the city Stock for Week at Engrav- ing Bureau. 1 One hundred sheets of paper. which | may have been printed into a total | of $100,000 worth of federal farm loan bonds are “missing” at the| bureau of engraving and printing. The secrét service of the Treasury has been trying to locate the missing sheets since last week. There is a possibility, it was learned, that they may be located in some allled de- partment of the bureau, and that no net loss to the government may ac- crue. Director Hill of the bureau today emphatically denfed that there was any loss at all. “There is absolute- 1y no shortage,” sald Mr. Hill. “We are always looking up differences in the bookkeeping record of the vari- ous departments of the bureau, and the paper goes through so many dif- ferent departments that it frequent. 1y travels faster or slower than ex- pected, altering the records as it goes through the processes. I am sure! there is no shortage.” Officlals of the secret service ad- mitted_that the record showed that somewhere between the raw sheets as handea to the bureau by the custodlan of paper and the completed output of federal farm loan bonds there seemed to be missing a total of about 100 sheets. It is perfectly possible, of- ficlals said, that the paper may be found in some other department or In | some secret place about the bureau. But, it was added, the fact has not yet 'been established that any bonds have been stolen. The amount involved is consider- ably higher than the usual amounts displaced in the operation of the bu- reau, it was learned, although there have been larger stocks actually stolen since the war. of the 5:30 Edition of THE on the street a few minutes draw up regulations enforcing the law as interpreted by the highest court How to draw up the regulations banning liquor on foreign ships is the knotty problem which has proved puzzle to Treasury oficials upon whom the burden devolves. How to enforce such a ban on foreign ships 1s an even more delicate problem. The matter of enforcing prohi fon on American ships was really made casi- er by the court decision, as it virtuall limited the enforcement for the pres- ent to the three-mile limit, although intimating Congress had the power to extend prohibition on the high seas if it desired. Temporary Enforcement. There has been a temporary en forcement of the Daugherty-Judge Hand ban on liquor aboard foreign ships within the three-mile limit for about six months, according to Palmer Canfield, federal prohibition director New York. but it was temporary. iting the decision of the Supreme Court, and, furthermore. permitted ships” crews liquor. “The foreign ships have been able to bring in liquor as ships stores for the crews,” said Mr. Canfleld, “but now, as 1 under- stand it, they will not be able to do that.” The question at the present time, according to officials of the Treasury. is, How can the matter be taken care of with satisfaction to the American law, as interpreted by the Supreme Court yesterday and without offense to foreign powers? Some arrangement must bo reached soon. Officials Studying Decislon. Officials of the Treasury were busy today going over the court decision with a view to promulgating regula- tions, while it was thought the mat- ter was probably discussed informally at least by the cabinet, at the White House, with which Atforney General Daugherty sat for the first time since he went south for his health. ‘Whatever regulations are promul- gated shortly, it was intimated by Secretary Mellon that foreign ships now on the high seas will be given a reasonable period of time to touch at American shores with liquor, without violation of the newly interpreted law. No Peril to Trade. Dangers were seen by certain per- sons that the ban on forelgn ships’ liquor would endanger foreign trade. but this view was scouted by Treas ury officials, who held that foreign lines would seek the business, where it was, regardless of embarrassing restrictions. The suggestion has been put for- ward not only in_Washington, but among shippass in New York, as well. that some provision of side-tracking liquor outside of the three-mile limit may be resorted to. Nearby Canadian. Bermuda or Mexican ports or even floating warehouses just off the im- aginary three-mile ‘boundary ‘have been variously suggested as side- tracks for both incoming and outgo- ing vessels. Required to Carry Wine. While the President and his ad- dering the ci 7 under the court’ (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.)