Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. cloudiness; littis change in tempera- ture. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. toda; 0 p.m. yesterday 0 a.m. today. Highest, 71, at Fair tonight; tomorrow increasing i lTowest, at | ! 46, 0 Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Sfar. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular e tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s _ Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 .N(). post_otfice Wasl Entered as second-class matter hington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C., 98,857. U.S, STANDS FIRM | FOR DRY SHIPS, BUT FACESHARD TASK Ban to Be Enforced, Though Comnolications Will Be Avoided, if Possible. { ! i WILL BOARD SUSPECTS AFTER JUNE 10 DEADLINE Penalty for Foreign Ships Not In-| volving Seizure Sought—World to Be Warned. By the Associated Press. smuggling craft to bring her to a day at coast guard headquarters, along between the fleet and shore, Seneca, ordered by Washington to fleet, mounts heavier guns than th Seizure of supply bosts puttin of a coast guard patrol about th forces watching for landed rum. p of the biggest units of the fleet Signs of activity had been Wwhether these vessels had left the able for months could not be learn Speculation was rife along the actually had given up In the fac drive or merely figured opposition would prove les Coast guard officials, howeves find a coast guard cutter on the j Determined to enforce the Supreme Court ship liquor ban up to the three- mile limit on and after June 10, the American government plans to pro- ceed with discretion against foreign vessels, to avold as far as possible under the law embarrassing interna- tional complication With representations threatened from maritime powers requiring Jiquor on board their ships, the Treas- ury today was proceeding with the difficult task of drafting regulations strictly to enforce the ship ban, provide some penalty for viols tion by foreign vessels, and vetavoid the necessity of much ships except in cases of flagrant violation. Will Bonrd Suspects. American customs offici not hesitate, under the new tions, It was learned at the Treasury, 10 board a foreign vessel within the three-mile limit. upon suspicion or fnformation that she carrled illicit llquor. The liquor would. of course. under the regulations, be seized, and 1f the case proved sufficiently serious violation of the new American pretation of the dry laws, some addi- tional penalty would be imposed What that penalty will be the problem over which legal experts of the Treasury today were wrestling Medicinal liquor for the crew an passengers will be allowed under the new regulations. it was learned while at the same time 1t was plainly fntimated that diplomatic represent- atives of forelgn powers would not be molested in their efforts to bring in beverages for thelr own use. Allow for Medicinal Needs. restrictions have discovered either in the new decision in the Volstead act. or in promulgated regulations, which will now embarrass the displomatic customs of the past. Danger of foreign ships trans- | ferring oversize liquor stocks into | inedicinal stores would be success- | fully prevented by the strict regu- lations concerning medicinal stores, it was stated, although ample pro- vision will be made for actual| medicinal need. Indusirial alcohol will De dealt | with under the new regulations in such manner as not to restrict the legitimate supply, and yet to rig- orously safeguard against the possi- bility of its being diverted to bev- erage purposes. France Leads Fight. Of the foreign powers expected to continue cbjection to the three-mile dry ring around this country, France, Jtaly and Spain led the list, while from quarters close to the Hritish it has been intimated that they would not lodge formal objection. inasmuch as the British have no law providing for liquor aboard. Foreizu shipping interests, how- ever, have continued their vigorous objection to the ruiing, some even zoing so far as to talk of retaliation One suggested informally. and per- haps tacetiously, it was undesstood, that a movement might be startéd to | would Nqo legal been or | | | | 1 lquor | actual ‘ seizure of | regula- | er- | court | {rim. but refused to fall AMERICAN GOLFERS WIN BRITISH CUP iOuimet and Willing Win From Big Field; Play Off Tomorrow. Br the Associated Press. SANDWICH, England. May St. Georges challenge cup, one of the most important golf trophies in land, has been captured by the Amer- ican invaders. Dr. O. F. Willing of | Portland, Ore., and Francis Ouimet of Boston, former American open cham- pion, tied for first place in the two- day . Wwith aggregate scores of 153 each. They morrow play elghteen de the winner. will to de A. Gardner of Chicago, captain of the American team, thus making the vi | tory of the invaders still more over- whelming, Ouimet’s card was Out 5 455 4 In 5 55 4 Dr. Willing's card was 253536 1 ia 55 3 4653 rdner's score W 4 Robert Ouimet's Luck Had. Ouimet's card out was three under | his mark for the first nine holes yes- terday. He had hard luck with sev- eral long putts, which went to in. On the tourth green he barely missed sink- ing a twenty-footer. His finest shot of the day was on the seventh, where his second shot with the wood car- ried 225 yards dead to the pin, and he was down in three. This hole meas- ures 454 vards, On the ninth Ouimet missed a two- foot putt for a 3 and met with !1r:|,!~ lar fate on the tenth On the 457- yard firteenth his approach shot from Just of the green lipped the cup, fail- Ing to roll in. On this hole he made an effort to get his second shot to the green. but failed by two yards On the sixteenth the Boston star ran a forty-foot putt to within three inches of the hole. and on tle sev- enteenth he rimmed the cup. worst mishap of all was on the elghteenth, where he missed a short puit for a 30. Sweetzer Quits. Jess Sweetser, the American ama- teur champion gave up at the seven- teenth hole today. Sweetser took $1 for the first round yesterday, and was never able to get going in his usual style. He took 40 for the first nine on the second round. Sweetser's approach shots were a and he cut his puts badl Cyril Tolley, the English star. who had a 79 yvesterday, gave up at the yrohibit entry by American vessels within the three-mile limit of th foreign power without liquor aboard. | Suggettions of retaliation, however, | have not been seriously considered | ington officials, who have #ot their hands to a thorough en-| forcement of the law H June 10 ¥ | Set. | The effective date of new regula-| tions was set finally at June 10, fol- Jowing conferences yesterday between | various government heads. It was!| firgt said at the Treasury that the date had been set for June 15, but it was officially announced later to bel June 10. This is practically a com- | promise between the June 1 date sug- gested in Attorney Genera) Daugh- | nt statement and the June | considercd by the Treas-; Mellon's official an- nouncement of the effective date em- | vhasized the care with which government will proceed i . “Tt will readily be understood.” said | Secretary Mellon, “that the prepara- tion of regulations under this deci- eion, affecting as it does, the rights of forelgn governments under inter- national laws and treaties, as well as the rights of our own citizens, will require more than ordinary care. Notices to Be Given. All vessels sailing for American ports,” he continued, “due to arrive | after June 10, will be subject to en- forcement of the regulations now being prepared, and thereafter all forcign and domestic shipping will, | without further notice, be subject to | the provisions of such regulations, “The foregoing information is to- day being sent to the Department of | State with the request that it be given widest publicity through diplo- matic and consular channels.” ONLY BRIEF FIGHT SEEN. this | l | European Acceptance of U.S. Right | to Decide on Liquor Predicted. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WIL] Three days' intensive discussion, pro and con, of the Supreme Court's drastic liquor decree has developed » number of conclusions. Among the principal ones are: 1. That the extra-territorial privi- jeges of foreign diplomats will not be withdrawn. 2. That sagacious political consid- erations will deter the administration from restoring intoxicating drink to the United States government ships, even though it is now permissible on the high seas. 3. That foreign governments and ehipping lines are without any re- course, to bring in or to store liquor within' the three-mile limit, except as an act_of diplomatic courtesy on the part of the United States. 4. That federal authority to deal twelfth hole today. after taking 41 to the ninth. A shower of about an hour's dura- tion fell this morning as the Amer- and British amateur golfers tournament for the St. lenge cup. The rain did not affect the course materially, as the sandy ground ahsorbed the moisture quickl Dr, 0. F. Willing of Portland. Ore.. led the field when today's round be- gan, having done the first half of the 36-hole stroke competition in 74. The St. George's cup is among Eng- land’s finest golf trophles, and in the thirty-five vears of its existence never before has passed into hands. SEAPLANE STRIKES SMALL RIVER BOAT Fishermen Get Wetting When Craft Is Upset by Airship Taking-Off. Two men_ received a ducking and more than their share of a day's ex- citement today when a motor boat in which they iwere fishing was struck by a seaplane of the naval air sta- tion, Anacostia, D. C., as it was tak- ing oft for a filght. The boat was elightly damaged and the seaplane | turned up on its nose with its occu- pants, Lieut. K. McGlnnis, the pilot, of the bureau of naval aeronautics, and Lieut. F. W. Wead, also of the bureau, hanging suspended until a boat from the air station released them. The men in the boat were W. J. O'Brien of 132 R street northeast and C. C. Cridler of 1231 C street south- east, both employes of the Washing- ton navy yard, who had taken a day off to fish in the Anacostia river. According to the men the seaplane struck their boat amidship, throwing Cridler into the water. He sank to the bottom, and when his head ap- peared above the water he was haul- od into the damaged boat by O'Brien, who had been thrown over the side of | the craft by the impact, but was able to hold on. The two men were NEW YORK, May 3.—The flight of the Jersey rum fleet during the night was believed to be due to the action of the coast guard cut- ter Seneca In sending a four-inch shot across the bows of a small The Seneca opened fire yesterday afternoon, it was announced to- four-Inch was belleved to have struck fear in the h and the four schooners which made stroke competition which ended | holes to- | Third place was captured by Robert | the | The | little off the gresn most of the time it | alien | 4-INCH SHOT FROM U. S. CUTTER PUTS RUM FLEET TO FLIGHT halt after two small runners, scooting . had defied a signal to halt. The Join In the constant patrol of the e small cutters, and the boom of a ts of the fleet. ng out from New York, the pl e fleet and reinforcement of s roved too great a handleap for two esterday. The British tanker Wars- i ? i \ | zawa and the vacht Istar sailed out to sea shortly before dusk. noted aboard another small steamer up the rest Kum row, but H anchorage they had found so profit- cd today. ! water front as to whether the fleet | | of the prohibition enforcement spring ad departed for some other bit of coast, where tiey s effective. r, declared that they had the rum fleet on the run, and that no matter where the units went they would ob. VITALSSUES AL ASPARLEYCLOSES Pan - American Conference Ends With But Little Accomplished. BY CLAUDE 0. PIKE. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News prright, 1 SANTIAGO, Chile, May 3.—The pan- American conference held its last plenary session today, with no out- standing accomplishments to its credit. The really live issues failed of solution or were passed on to the next conference. The attempt to reduce armaments was a complete failure. The commit- tee report presented by Ambassador Fletcher does not qndicate any con- crete progre this vital subject. Instead. it leaves the question to th poiitical leaders of the A B C nations to use for campalgn purposes, en- abling them to continue the top- heavy budgets for naval and military armaments by holding up the spec- tacle of the great armament in the ieighboring states. p r The date of a possible conference by Argentina, Brazil and Chile to consider the subject has not been fixed. Probably some time will have elapsed before public opinfon makes a conference advisable. The other important subject—that of co pulsory arbitration by nations-—was not settled. The commlttee report is made up of generalitles, Indorsing the inciple and recommending that the American nations studv the subject. The United States delegates feei {that the net results of the conference | have been beneficial on the whole 2nd |that satisfactory progress has been {made considering the number of na- tions in the conference and the di- ‘verrencv of opinions. They believe |that one of the outstanding results jachicved Is the adoption of a plan for {reorganizing the Pan-American Union. { They say it will enlarge the organ- jization’s aphere of action, increase its {abillty to render concrete service and |strengthen the national friendships. on ley Date Unknown. Connlder Trademarks. | The trademark ccnvention which makes possible complete protection of l(‘nxx)rlghu throughout the Americas is considered a forward step. The laifferent nations are requested {o take llegislative action to make this pro- | tection effective. The plan for providing a commission of inguiry prior to any conflict makes possible inter-American peace where Ibefore it was possible only In cases iwhere there were special treatles be- tween the different nations The more technical questions on the agenda hzving proved impossible of settlement were referred to a series of special conferences. Most of the !l proposals touching international law | will likewise Zo over to a congress | | which it Is proposed to hold later in Rio de Janeiro for the purpose of tak {eari, N. M., about 250 miles northeast | !ore attsmpting a non-stop transcon- | ] { hardest |Ing up and drafting international law applicable to the Americas, providing the nations approve. None of the re- ports made by the conference are ef- | fective unless they are approved by | the signatory natio In the past; f some have paid little attention to ap-: proving the reports. It | that Argentina did not adopt or ap-| prove the actions of the four preced- ing conferences. D. C. MUST PAY $7,500 FOR FUGITIVES’ ACTS| The District of Columbia must pay Howe Totten $7,500 damages for trespasses on his farm in Fairfax county, Va., by escaped prisoners from Occoquan, according to a verdict rendered this afternoon by a jury in circuit division No. 2 before Justice Hoehling. The suit was filed Janu- arv 12. 1911, Mr. Totten for five years before bring- ing suit had occupled his farm as a dwelling and_for the breeding of pedi- greed doge. He charged that by-teason of lax and inefficient guard over the in- mates of the District’s workhouse, many prisoners had escaped, annoved and frightened his family, servants and em- ployes and had rendered it unsafe for his wife and children to use the grounds about his home. He was obliged to abandon his home, the plaintiff claims. Assistant Corporation Counsel Wil- liams defended for the District on the plea of governmental function. Attor- ney Henry E. Davis represented Mr. Totten. By the Associated Press. 1 Appointment of Mrs. Mabel G. Rei- | necke to be collector of internal reve- nue at Chicago was announced today at the White House. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 3.—Mrs. Mabel G. Reinecke, whose appointment as col- lector of internal revenue here was announced officlally today, is the first woman revenue collector in the coun- try. She has been acting collector since the recent death of Collector 4 YIth rum-running along the American prought to the air station and put to |John C. Cannon in Florida. “(Continued on Page 2, Column bed while their clothes dried. Mrs. Reinecke is the daughter of is asserted | fis Woman Is Appointed Collector Of Internal Revenue at Chicago NONSTOPFLYERS ENTER CALIFORNIA ONTRPFROM .Y Army Monoplane on Trans- continental Flight Going at High Speed. TRACE LOST AND AGAIN PICKED UP IN FAR WEST| Landing at San Diego Arranged, as | Officials Plan Lower Time Test. AC-1 in Illinois. By the Associnted Pross. EL CENTRO, Calif,, May 3~The monoplane T-2 passed over El Cen- tro at 11:23 a.m., Pacific time. LOS ANGEL] May 3.—~Twe airplanes passed over Oglliby, Calif., sixteen milex weat of Yuma, Art at 1115 lock, Pacific time, bound Westward, according to a report to the southern Pacific dis patcher here, who has asked raf rond telegraphers in the Imperial valley atch for the pasxing of the Momnoplane. T-2 in transcon- tinental flight. PHOENIX, Ariz. May T-2, en route to San Diego, on an attempted non-stop flight, passed over Wickenburg, Ariz, ffty- % northwest of here, a a.m., mountain time, according to a sSanta Fe rallrond dispatcher's meaxnge recelved here. The plane, according to the message, was fly- | Ing high, headed due weat. 1 The monoeplane was leas than 300 | es from itx Pacific coast ob- | Jective when 1t passed over Wick- enburg. i EL PASO, Tex., May 3.—The mono- | plane T-2, on its transcontinental fiight, passed over Santa Rosa, N. M., | at 6:30 o'clock, mountain time, this | morning, flying west The plane was fiving at a fast un- cstimated speed. This information as received here at 10:25 o'clock this morning over the Western Union lin A report aviation said the Bs from the North Island | station, San Diego, Calif., plane passed over Tucum- of Ll Paso, at 7:30 o'clock, mountain time. Efforts to locate the plane fol- lowing this report failed. TRACE OF PLANE LOST. Passes Kansas City, 1,100 Miles| from Start, at Midnight. KANSAS CITY. Mo. May 5.—Tha! monoplane T-2, in which Lieuts. Oak- | ley . Kelly and John A. Macready today presuma- lexice facing the part of the Ulattle from Hemostead Y.. to San Diego, Calif.. the home station. After the huge plane flew low over Kansas City at midnight last night. pproximately 1,100 miles In an alr hine trom its point of taking off, au- thentic trace of {t was lost through the hours of darkness That part of the vovage had been made in something less than eleven hours. a speed of approximately 100 miies an hour.” That same rate of progress should bring the next report from some point in the sparsely set- tled districts of New Mexico or Ari- zona tinental flight, early Wwas over Now 3 Engine Hums Regularly, When the T-2 passed over Kansas City the engine seemed to hum stead- ily and there was no indicatlon that anything was wrong. It is presumed that the pilots from here followed southwest the line of the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific railroad. which they traced on their previous transcontinental effort when ng from San Dlego. they were forced down by a damaged motor at Indianapolis. LANDING IS ARRANGED. Flood Lights to Illuminate Field if Night Overtakes Flyers. SAN DIEGO, Calif.. May 3.—Maj. Henry H. Arnold. commander at Rockwell Fleld, at North Island, has completed arrangements to facill- tate the landing of Lieuts. Kelly and MacReady If they complete their transcontinental trip today. Flood lights have been placed at points along the fleld to illuminate it in case a landing after dark is neces- sary. NEW FLIGHT PLANNED. Air Service Officials Seek Reduction in Time Allowance. By the Associated Press. While Lieuts. John A. MacReady and Oakley Kelly were in the alir to- day fying the glant but slow-moving monoplane T-2 from New York to San Diego, Calif., in an effort to cross the | continent _without _stop, Army air service officials announced that an- other transcontinental air flight was being planned. The plans contemplate a reduc- tion in the time allowed Licuts. Mac- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) James H. Milmore, a veteran of local politics and business, and the wife of George W. Reinecke, a real estate operator. She became secretary to the chairman of the Roosevelt cam- paign committee of Cook county in 1912, when the Dprogressive party sprang into existence, and has been active In organizing women in cam- paigns since. She became interested in taxation matters and was given an appointment in the Cook county tax department. In 1921 she was appointed chief deputy internal revenue collector here and during five months of Mr. Can- non’s illness shouldered the responsi- bilitles of the office which now is hers by appointment by President Harding. THURSDAY, | to Mexico, I By the 2 < MAY PAYNE NOW FREE TOE0TOMEXED Deposition to Be Taken in| Morse Trial That He May Take Up Duty as Envoy. John Barton Payne, special will not be detained Washington by reason of the sub poena laid on him last week by coun- sel for the defense in the Morse con- spiracy case, on trial before Justice envoy | Stafford and a jury in criminal divi- sion 1. In obedience to the court's sum- mons Judge Payne was in court this morning, and Attorneys Wiiton J Lambert and Nash Rockwood for the defense asked leave of Justice Staf- ford to put the witness on the stand without walving the right of the de- fense to move for an instructed ver- dict at the conclusion of the govern- ment's case. Justice Stafford held this course could only be pursued on stipulation of counsel. United States Attorney Gordon declined to o stipulate, and an agreement was reached by which counsel for the defense will take a deposition of Judge Payne outside the presence of the court to be held for use in the event the defense has to put on evidence. Jury Is Excluded. The jury was excluded from the courtroom while counsel discussed the advisability of taking the te: of Judge Parne before the jury so that the special envoy would be able to leave Washington Sunday night on his important mission. Mr. Lambert wanted to put Judge Payne on the stand and let the jury have the benefit of his personality while testifying. but when the gov- ernment objected the court decided that the prosecution has the right to have only its testimony in evidence when a motion is made for an structed verdict. The Introduction of evidence for the defense in the midst of the government's case is confusing, the court suggested. Justice Stafford declared he would not feel justified in granting a motion unless there was a stipulation of counsel. The agreement to take the deposition and | to suppress it until the government's case is ended was reached. . G. Higley of New York, formerly connected with the Morse interests, (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) RAIL GRASH KILLS INUTAH, S0 HURT Report Landslide Swept Two Locomotives From Tracks, Causing Disaster. ssociated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, May 3.—Five persons were killed, one is missing and thirty were Injured in the wreck of Denver and Rio Grande Western passenger train No. 2, east- bound, at Woodside, Utah, late last night, according to official advices received at offices here. The dead: Arthur Hookey, attached to the naval training station, Great Lakes, Iil.; Mrs. E. C. White, Soldlers’ Summit, Utah; E. C. Partridge, pro- fessor Brigham Young University, Utah; F. R. Rader, locomotive engi- neer, Grand Junction, Col.; Albert Anderson, fireman, Grand Junction, Col. The train baggageman is miss- | ing. Two Engines Overturn. / Two engines pulling the train of eleven cars were overturned, killing one engineer and one fireman, and the bag- gage car and smoking coach crashed into the wreckage. killed were occupants of the smoking car, it was reported here. Meager reports were received and officials of the road said the cause of the wreck was unknown. One report said that the two locomotives were swept from the tracks by a landslide. The injured were brought to Salt Lake hospitals. The wreck occurred in the treacherous canyon country of a mountainous region for two miles east of Woodside, at about 11 e'clock last night. in | in- | | | | | The passengers ! | Washington Net Circulation, 95,039 1923 ~-FORTY-FOUR PAGES. ____TWO CENTS_ STILL It’s Easy to Find Bride in District, Sherri That no was Col. THIEY COME! of t excuse for stressed 0. Sherri public buildinzs when, in an addre bers of the Lions Club in the New Willard Hotel, he said that com- paring its population with other cities, Washington has more sin- gle girls. more old maids and more widows than any other city in_the country. Referring to out-door life, the of- ficial said that figures showed the number of persons using athletic facilities provided by the govern- ment_here s amazine, pointing out that last year 150,000 persons played golf 000 tennis, 300.- 000" used the bathing beach and hundreds of thousands took part in other sports. men aining sin by Lieut. charge of and unds before mem- yesterday STREET CAR FARE CUTUNLIKELY NOW, Both Lines Show Decrease in Traffic and Earnings, Records Indicate. With passenger traffic falling off on both street rallway systems, records of the Public Utilities Commission indicate | that a further reduction in car fare is not likely to be made for some time to come A studs of the books today by Walter C. Allen. executive secretary of the commission, and E. V. Fisher, chief ac- countant, disclosed that traffic is on the decline on the lines of both the Washingten Railway and Elecetric and the Capital Traction companies In_February of this yvear the W. R. and E. hauled 66,000 fewer persons than in the same month of last year. Capital Traction Company suffered reduction of 331, i ruary. Deny Actunl Increase. Although the W. R. and E. report- ed an increase in traffic of 254,942 passengers during January over the same month of last year. this was due to the fact that in January of 1922 the companv s lires were prac- tically at a standstill for several days during the tevere snowstorm. Officlals :ay ‘hat because of that conditior. the higher passenger fig- ures repcrted for tpis January are not an indication of increasing travel on ftreet cars. In February of this_year the in. come of the W. R and E. was $1 lces than fer the same month of 1922, «md the Capital Traction's_earnings for this February were $34.730 less. Fares Lower Now. Mr. Allen explained that these re- ductions in revenue are due partly to a falling off in traflic, and also to the fact that the rate of fare was lower this February than in Febru- ary, 1922. In March, 1922, the commis sion reduced the price of tokens from five for 35 cents to six for 40 cents, The records of the commission show that for the calendar year 1922 the Rallway and Electric made a return of 4.34 per cent on the commission’s value of the property, which is less than the commission belleves to be a reasonable return. The books of the commission show the return of the Capital Traction Company last year was §.45 per cent. The utilities commission, it is under- stood, has decided to permit the Washington Railway and Electric Company to retain the one-man cars it now has in operation, but will not authorize additional ones. FOOCHOW TROOPS REPORT CAPTURE OF CHINA CITY Take Hankiang, Fifty Miles From Capital—Force Southern Army Back, They Announce. By the Associated Press. AMOY, China, May 3.—Letters re- celved here say that troops from Foo- chow, capital of this province (Fukien), captured Hankiang, about fifty miles south of Foochow, on April 23, after two hours of fighting, in which the southerh army retreated to Hinghwa. Casual combats are reported to have continued in the vicinity for several days, with g big battle expected some- where between Hinghwa and Chuan- chowfu. The | | i 1 | that she FOOD GAMBLERS HIT 1 Thinks - B WOMEN'S CLUB D. C. Federation Favors Su- gar Boycott—New York Prices Dropped. Heavily scoring “stupendous food Jling,” the District of Columbi Federation of Women's Clubs unani i mously voted to join the sugar boy- cott at the annual meeting of the federation at the Hotel Roosevelt this morning. “We should ask Congress for ex- tended legislation for controlling gambling in food,” declared Mrs. Lucy B. Swanton, chalrman of the federa- tion’s legislative committee, in pre- senting the resolution, which reads as follows: “Speculation the price of sugar to advance to ab- normal heights, unnecessarily in- creasing the already high cost of living, thereby adding to the intensity of the struggle for existence. “The District of Columbia Federa- tion of Women's Clubs in mecting as- sembled this 3d day of May. 1923, de- plores this speculating in the necess: ties of life ana give our support to the movement already approved by the Maryland and other federation of Women's clubs. and by the President of the United States Hoover, to limit the consumption of sugar 2y only using such quantitics s are absolutely necessary, hoping thereby to force down the price of sugar. % is further resolved that each director in the federation report to her respective club this resolution by the District of Columbia Federation, {and urge its adoption and support.” Hnas Many Protests. Mrs. Ellis Logan, chairman of the public welfare committee of the federation, declared that she had re- ceived letters from Washington comen asking i the federation would join the genéral boycott, and had been notified by many women that they were using little or_no sugar in their homes. M Frizzell, president of the ation. in her report declared The two milllon club women of our country should speak in strong pro- test, as did the Maryland federation, against the power of any monopoly to shoot the price of sugar from 6 to 11 cents a pound. If we say we believe in the American home, let us seek to protect it economically.” Would Pay Prisoners. The federation also adopted resolu- ns approving the payment of pris- oners during their Incarceration, and deplored the recently exposed treat- ment of prisoners in Florida penal camps. Mrs. Frizzell was nominated for re-election. Other nominations were the re-election of Mrs. C. P. Grand- fleld, present flrst vica presient; for second vice president, Miss Cor- nelia Hill,_ Mrs. Faber Stevenson, Mrs. Redwood Vandergrift and Mrs, Blggs: for corresponding secrétary, Mrs. W. Stecle, Miss E. Grove: for re-elec- tion as recording secretary. Mrs. A. K. Wime: for treasurer. Mrs. Rorke, and for director, Mrs. E. S. Shetton. SUGAR PRICES DROP. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 3.—Reduction of the price of refincd sugar from 10 to 91, cents was announced by one large refiner today, after Cuban raw had drop- per %4 to 6y cents, cost and freight. cqual to 7.97 in trading on the New York coffee and sugar exchange. The low price on raws was made on a sale of 15,000 bags of Porto Ricos to a local refiner. % cent below tne recent high level. Raw sugar futures broke about points during the forencon trading, w der renewed liquidation. U. S. WINS $227,908 5 RULING IN TAX FIGHT| First Decision Is Against Munition Manufacturers Seeking to Recover $15,000,000. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, May 3.—In the first of a series of test suits brought by munitions manufacturers to recover $15,000,000 in taxes levied by the gov- ernment on picric acld exported dur- ing the world war, Federal Judge Learned Hand today directed a ver- dict in favor of Willlam H. Edwards, who levied and collected the taxes as collector of internal revenue, and against the American Synthetic Dyes, Inc., plaintiff in a suit to recover 227,908 in sugar has caused| and Seccretary | The tigure was about | FRENCH TURN DOWN FLATLY NEW BERLIN REPARATION OFFER Poincare to Frame Reply to Be Communicated to All the Allies. CUNO SOUNDS CHALLENGE TO WAR ‘TO LAST GASP’ Tells State Premiers if Proposals Are Rejected, It Means Aim of of Conquerers Is Annexation. s the Associated Press PARIS. May 3.—The French cabine: today unanimously rejected the new German reparation proposale. The reasons given for the rejection were lack of guarantees and the in sufficiency of the sum offered by Ger many Premier Poincare will consult with the Belgian government as to the re ply to Germany; and when it is read | it will be communicated to all allies. CUNO CHALLENGES FOE Sees Annexation as Aim if posals Are Rejected. | Br thie Arsocinted Press. i BERLIN, May 3.—Although the new German reparations proposals are criticized in some circles as too pli- able, opinion in government quarters holds that the offer affords a starting point for negotiations. ewspaper comment is varied, the Tageblatt de- claring that Germany hae offered a ground on which the allies may meet her, while Die Zelt belleves that Ger- many cannot pay thirty billion gold marks. In referring the proposals to t state presidents and premiers Chan- | cellor Cuno. it became known today { asserted that German ;is ready to end the present perfod of destruction, but is also ready tc hold out to the last gasp, which would mean death to any reparations. Ready for Fight. “We are ready for this” he con- ued, “because we know that if our proposal is not mccepted as a basis of negotfation the other slde is not aiming at reparations but at annex- ation or destruction. The world hith erto “as looked on at this quarre! as a spectacle, without particularly interestimg ftaelf. We once again put to it the question Does it want peacs or a continuance of a conflict which may lead to unimaginable events? It is for the world o speak.” Herr Cuno pointed out that pa ment_of thirty billion gold marks would mean a vearly expenditure of 1,800,000.000 gold marks. He feared the Reich would be unable to get loans at o per cent. Induntry to Extend Aid. Expressing Germany's readiness 1o give every economic guarantee for the loans, he remarked that every- | thing belonging to the reich, partic- | ularly the railwavs, customs and | taxes, had already been pledged by | the treaty of Versailles. He added | “But we will go further. We shall | take care that German industry | agriculture, trade and finance shall place themselves at our disposal with | &l their resources.” If thirty billion gold marks ap- peared too small an offer it was be- cause the world had forgotten the enormous disbursements in mones and kind already made by Germany he sald. Germany could only perform her heavy task, he said, if her credit was restored and her internal finances put in order. The government. he added, was ready to carry out any agreement guarantceing peace with France based upon reciprocity and was ready to submit to arbitration al questions in dispute. SCORED IN LONDON. Press Characterizes Note Stupid and Unwholesome. LONDON, May 3.—The Times in an | editorfal characterizes the German note as stupldly worded, giving only the vaguest guarantees and so clum- sily presented as to irritate ever French susceptibility, but adds: “Yet we believe that France and Belgium be wise not to reject it too as would summarily.” The Times contends that the sum | the note proposes to pay is not wholly | out of relation with the total Premier ; Bonar Law suggested at Paris in i January, and that the intentlon of note is to bring the allies with rmany to the conference table on wal terms, while France's imme jate purpose is that Germany should ! capitulate. The Daily Mail says “For sheer effrontery, it would be hard to match | the note; it is a typical Hunnish pro- duction and the French will not be caught in such & trap as this The Post Says: “It has not even the merlt of novelty: it is a mess of Stale, rejected ingredients, an unwhole- some dish U. S. WILL NOT ACT. Hughes. After Wiedfeldt Confer- ence, Says No Action Required. Présentation of Germany's lates: reparations offer to Secretary Hughes was followed today by a brief confer ence hetween the Sccretary and Otio | Wiedfeldt, the German ambassador | " Later it was made known, in an | authoritative way, that the document | @id not, in _the opinfon of State De- | partment officials, require any action {by the Washington government. iU. S. BUILDINGS BURNED. Newspaper and ¥. M. C. A. in Mex- i ico Destroyed—Two Killed. TAMPICO, Mexico, May 3.—The of- fices of the Tribune, the only Ameri- can newspaper in Mexico, and tha buflding of the Young Men's Christian Association ‘were destroyed by fire yesterday. Two persons were kiiled |and ten’injured, ‘all Mexicans. —The loss probably will reach $600,00