Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1923, Page 2

- % CADET DRILLS T0 LAST TWO DAYS Twenty-Six Companies Will Compete at Ball Park May 22 and 23. Twenty-six companies comprising ‘he Washington High School Cadet Nrizade will compete this year in the nnual company competitive drill, re- rded the greatest of all high “hool military affairs. The drill will L held at the American League Base Rall Park May 22 and 23. Thirteen tompanies will go through the pre- bed maneuvers esch day. Company G of Central High School will opan the event at $:30 o'clock on lie morning of May 22, and Company f Eastern will close it the follow- « afternoon. The order and time of the appearance of the companies on drill field, announced today by eur. Col. Wallace M. Craigie, U. 8. A., wrofessor of militury sclence and in the high schools, follows Company G, Central, of Central, 9 a. m.; D of Cen- 30 am.; E of Central. 10 a.m. Central, 10:30 am.: A of agutral, Western, 2 p.ar A of pn: b oof Laster siness, 230 pa 1 K of Wester 4 G of Lastern, 5 pam. v 23--Company D of Tech. 8:30 m.: H of Tec! 9 am.; L of Colum- \ia Junior High School, $:30 am.; C Tech, 10 a. m; E of Tech, 10:30 : A of Tech, 11 am.: B of Tech, wm.: H of Western, 2 p.m.; F Tech. 3:30 p.m.; 1 of Business, 3 Central, 3:30 p.m.: M of nior High School, 4 p.m., * of Kastern. 4:30 p.m. Judges of the drill will be Tieut. ol William H. Waldron, Col. Frank Rowell und Maj. Willlam H. Simp- all of the infantry of the Regular GOMPERS ON STAND IN HIS OWN BEHALF Head of A. F. of L. Defendant in Suit of P. J. Ryan for $25.000 Damages. as the May , ! tral, & | It of | i o | | | i i ! Ilastern Americar ompers, president of the Federation of Labor, testi- fod this afte in own be- ' in de suit for $23.000 darizges for alleged slander brought agatnst him by P J. Ryan. former editor the Plate Printer. The case being heard before Justice Hitz a jury in Circuit Division 2, N, pers deelared emphatleally A L. has kept its skires clean and as its head, has (voided partisan political activity He denied the charge of Mr. that he had sought to abor vote for Gov. paign of 1920 Mr. Gompers told union in conventic the same committee included, to present to th 4 democratic conv posals of organized in the platforms unions. The rnoon se of u and the how the lab bud designated | which he was republican ntions the pro- r for planks ble to labor republicans accentuuted their refusal by adopting the oppo- | site of the proposals and the demo s adopted some of the proposuls and referred in Sympathetic terms to others, The purpose f the labor keep free from partisan maintained. Mr. ¢ roughout the pr and in the cong: “We have 2nd democrats Teader. “and pproval of some nd the damnation we helped to defeat.” Counsel for Ryan objected he termed the “political tion” of Mr. Gompers. but Tlitz permitted the witness ceed. FOUR U. S. GOLFERS LEFT INEEAL PLAY (Continued from Fi ion to 1y was Slured, 1 cumpaizn camy { republ said the received that were of those ct H mopers et supported alf abor the “lected whom i to pro- i rst_Page.) 1 victor on the | The cards: | | i wnly two holes and w tifteenth green, Ouimat—out, 3 Clough—Out. 4 5 Quimet—In, 4 Clough—In, 5 Dr. Willing Never Headed. Dr. Willlng was never headed in his match with Blackwell. He was 3 up at the turn and won the eleventh. Blackwell took only one of the re- matning holes, the fourteenth, and the match ended on the sixteenth gréen, with Dr. Willing tho victor, 3 und 2. The cards, Willing— out.. 4 3 4 4-37 Hope, who will meet ung Cambridge star a ernationallst from the course. Crummack, Dr. Willlng’s op- ponent tomorrow. is a many-time shampion of Lancashire, Noel Layton, who put Jesse Sweet- ser_out of the tournament in the opening round, went down today on the twenty-first green, beaten by D. oulby of Port Marnock. ouglas Grant, conqueror of the ~hampion, Holderness, will meet Gil- lies of Woking tomorrow. Humphries Hard Pushed. Wright gave Humphries a tough struggle. Wright was two down when they turned, however. and was never able-to catch up. The cards: {fumphries, out Wright, out. Iumphries, in.. Wright, fn..........456 Neville ran strongly Jiis match with Ricardo, and was two up with a medal score of 38 at the turn. His last aix holes were & suc- cession of 4 The cards Neville, out. Ricardo, out. Neville, in 444 Ricardo, in. 43 MISS CUMMINGS OUT. o Rotan, is a Scotell in- Turnbury 145 445 L4504 43637 .366 465 Only American in Ladies’ Open Championship Eliminated. the Associated Press. BURNHAM, May 9.—Miss Edith Cummings of Chicago, the only American entrant in the iadies’ open z0lf championship of Great Britain was ellminated today by Miss M, G. Wickenden of Neville, 5 and 4. ——— GRAIN BLAST KILLS TWO. BUFFALOQ, N. Y., May 9.—Two men were injured, one probably fatally, by an explosion of grain in a drying kiln at the plant of the H-O Cereal Com- ny vesterday afternoon. Fire fol- Towing the ‘explosion destrovod one auilding, causing & loss of §25,000. e | | { bition i ton {sued lcover of night. and had UNLIMITED LIQUOR GRANTED DOCTORS BY COURT’S DECREE ontinued from FKirst Page.) Campbell bill embodying it was pass- ed. Opponents declared it interfered with the practice of medicine and was not a constitutional uct curbing the use of liquor for beverage purposes. Prohibition advocates contended that the limitation of prescriptions was necessary to prevent evaslon of the prohibition law and some also argued that alcoholic liquor had no curative value. BEER FIGHT EXPECTED. Right of Congress to Forbid Use as Medicine Doubted. The decision of Judge Kuox in the w York district court, which in ef- fect holds that it is not possible, un-{ der the strict interpretation of the constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture, sale and importation of liquor “for beverage purposes.” to limit the number of prescriptions « physiclan may lssue, it fs belleved here will open up the whole question &2 1o the right of Congress to specify what use of liguor may be made for strictly medicinal purposes, und also what use may be made for strictly sacramental purposes. It is regarded as llkely that the so- called anti-beer act, which declares that only spirituous and vinous lquor may be prescribed by will be challenged in the courts on the me ground that (‘ongress has no right to fix the number of pre- seriptions that a physiclan may is- sue for the use of liquor for medicinal purposes. Deoubt Congress Powe Tt it i not within the power Congress to limit a physician in the number of preseriptions which he may ixsue, it was pointed out by members of Congress here today: it within its power to say what kind of alcholic liquors may be used for medical purposes and what kind may not The language of the constitutional anendment makes no reference to the use of liquor for medicinal or sacra- mental purposes. It merely provides that it shall not be used for beverage purposes. Senators who have favored prohibi- tion look with considerable skepticism upon the legislation mnow on the statute books with regard to the use of liquor for medicinal purposes. The opinion was expressed here today that the entire subject might be re- viewed now by the courts, and with results which would invalidate the so-called anti-beer act in large part. DENIES PINCHOT FUNDS. Pennsylvania House Kills $250,000 Ttem for Enforcement. Special Dispatch 1o The Star. HARRISBURG, Pa., May 9.—Vrobi- enforcement Peunsylvania received two severe blows vesterday &t the hand sentatives and the federal court here. The former by a vots of 108 to §9 struck from the general appropria: tion bill an_amendment to provide u fund of £230.000 for rigid law en- forcement. which was inserted bill ut_the request of Gov. inchot. The bill was passed finally and sent to the senate without this item. Judge Charles B. Witmer. in federal court ruled that the “John Doe" search warrant is dead, so far as th s> of his name in the documents iy concerned. The judgc granted a mo- to quash a search warrant is- in the name of “John Doe." was offered by counsel for a whan whose house waus ralded on this ¥pe of warrant about slx weeks rohibition agents here frequent hive warrants issued in the name of John Doe” when they are about to raid a place. but do not know who is in charge. FEAR BANDITS' ESCAPE. n h Py the Associated Press, TIENTISIN, May 9. —F. P. Day. the American who escaped from the Suchow train bandits, revealed in an cofticial statement to the American consul today the disquicting prob- ubi'ity that the baundits, surrounded by soldiers, had crept from their fastnesses in the Lills. under the umed their nireh with fo into the cign captives. )ay Said that as be was military headquartcrs scouts report- ed to the Chinese genecral that the brigands had escaped from their hid- ing places on the mountain summits. This, in Day's opinton, indicated that they had eight or nine hours' start on their pursyers. Capture Grows Dificalt. interior leaving Negligence of the soldlers in not| closely “investing the bandit strong- holds is reported here. If the kid- napers got away the difficulty of capturing them hag been increased vastly, likewise the suffering of thier aptives, as the country is remote, wild and thinly populated. At present it is unknown whether the bandits turned cast or west after they crossed the Shantung boundary. u physiclan. | of | is not | 5 of the house of repre-| in the | their | REPEATED TODAY Shakespearean Performance to Be Given in Central High Auditorium. Shakespeare lock this School | The all-high &chool pagent will be held at 4 o afternoon in the Central igh | auditortum, instead of the natural{ amphitheater, just south of the 16t i street reservoir, as orlginally sched- uled. The chunge was made today on account of the cold and inclement | | weatner. i The retary of State and Mrs. Hughes are to be among boxholders at the pageant this afternoon. Other boxholders are Miss McCohn, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Noyes, Mrs. Butts, Mrs. Sams, Prof. and Mrs. Smith, Prof. and Mrs. Keyser, Miss Gunther, Miss Watts, Mr. und Mrs. Hart, Mr. and Mrs. Thurston, Miss Grosvenor.Miss Regina Schloer, Miss Sanderlin, Misa | Lockwood, Miss Yoder, Prof. and Mrs. ‘eldt, Mr. and Mrs. Call, Miss A. Wilson, Mrs. Cameron. Dr. and Howard Hodgkins, Justice and } Strafford. Dean and Mre. Ferson, | Sanders, Mrs. Sedwell. Mrs. | Misa Mebrlde. Mr. snd Mre | es and Miss Barnes holders vyesterday Miss Watkine, Mr. and Mrs. Miss Orr, Mrs. Morgan, M chardt, Miss Simons, Mr. Egbert English, Dr. and Mra. Wileos, As sistant Superintendent and Mrs Kramer, Miss Merrill, the secretar: of the board of education and Mrs. Hine, the superintendent of schools | and Mrs. Ballou, Mr. and Mrs. Allan | Davis, Maj. Besson, Maj. Sullivan. Mr. Stuart, Miss Shanley, Dr. and Mrs. Shute,’ Prof. and Mrs. Herron, Prof. and Mrs. Earnest, Mrs. Outwater and Miss Wilkins. Patrons for Pageant. Patrons for the pageant included the Secretary of State and_ Mrs. Hughes. the Secretary of the Treas- ury and Mrs. Mellon, the Secretary of the Interfor and Mrs. Work, the Postmaster General and Mrs. Chief Justice and Mrs. Taft. the | retary of Agriculture and Mrs. Wal- lace, Commissioner und Mrs. Cuno ! B Rudolph. Assoclute Justice and ! Mrs. Wendell P. Stafford. the British ambassudor and Lady Geddes, the | assletant secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Roosevelt. Mrs. Raymond B. Morgan, Dr, and re. C. E. Munroe. ~Hepresenta- | and Mrs. Lowrey, Dean and | Wilbur, the superintendent of hools and Mrs. Ballou, the assist- “nt superintendent of schools und Mrs. Kramer, Mrs. Anthony W ne Cook. president_general 1. A, R.: Sen- ator and Mre Cameron, Dr. Frederick Juchhoff, Dr.” Frank W. Collier, Prof. and Mre. Charles 8. Smith, Prof. and Mrs. Merton L. Ferson, Mr. and Mrs W. B. Hardy, Dr. and_ Mrs. Abram Stmon, Mrs. Brandeis, Mr. and Mrs. Cook, Dr. and Mrs. W. K. Butler, M and Mrs. Housto Dr. and Mrs, Swormste Miss Jessle MucBride, {Dr. and Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr. Mrs { Ellen icer Mussey, D Shute, Mr. and Mrs. lerror Mre. Thomas W. Sidwell, Mrs. Tapham, Prof. and M Vieck, Dean Kalusowski, Dr. and Mrs John B. Larner, Mrs. Adelix Hensle: Prof. and Mrs. Paul Kauffman, Dr |and Mrs. Herman Schoenfeld, Mrs. Willtam F. Dennis, { Senator and Mr: i included i Danie!, | Bov- | Mr. i i i i Phippe. the treas- | jurcr of the United States aud Mrx. | White, Senator Davis Elkine the {dean of Teachers' Coflege, (George Washington University, und Mrx. | i Ruediger; Dr. and Mrs. John Paul | i Harnest, Col.” and Mrs. Thomas N:{ {Gireen, Alexander T. Stuart, Dr. ‘harles Clinton Swisher, Prof. and Mrs. Elmer Kevser, Dr. Howard I Hodgkins, Mr. ‘and Mrs. Ernest L. Luciux Clark, Dr. and Mrs. Walton C. John. Prof. and M Grant Hodgkins, Mr. and Mre. Karnest L. Thurston, Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter. Mrs. William E. Chamberlin. Mr. and Mrs. Otto L. Veerhoff und Mrs nigérode Andrews CELLARLESS HOUSES RESULT IN PROTEST Lincoln Park Citizens Ask Com- missioners to Stop Con- struction. | Min- | { i 1 ! | Strong objection was expreszsed to the erection of four-story houses without cellars in the vicinity of the jnew Eastern High School in a resolu- tion of protest adopted at a meeting | of the Lincoln Park Citizens’ Associa- | tion in the Bryan School last night. | It is fervently hoped that they will not urn back toward Kweiteh to join the bandits in Honan province led by | the notorfous Loa Yang-jen. Mr. Day also brought confirmation that the bandits held I, H. Rowlatt. a vprominent British ' resident of Tientsen. Mr. Rowlatt Is manager of Reiss & Co., merchants, and is be- lleved to have been married in San Franclsco about six months ago. Belleve Twenty-Six Held. The belicf expressed hero today that the bandits still held about twenty-six foreigners, or twice the number who escaped, was based on the report that several foreigners, luding four American missionaries, boarded the Peking express at way statfons, and, therefore, were not vamed on the Iist of passengers given out after the bandits had scized ; the train. Miss A, Coralli, the Ttal when released by the bandits with & ran- som message, tried to take with her one of the two boyvs held—the sons of Majs. Allen and Pinger. the American Ariny officers. but the bandits refused, and upparentiy, she said, the children were separated from their fathers, Inflamed by Imcident. Another incident that fanned the flame of indignation here occurred Monday night when a Canadian mer- chant " named Lowe, traveling _to Shanghai on the Tsinpu railway, was pulled from the train by Chinese civil- ians, beaten, bound and carried off to the bureau of forelgn affairs here. Chinese pollce standing by made no effort to releuse him. The bandits, he reported, were arm- ed with Mauser automatics. He took careful note of the bandit chief. looking for distingulshing marks, and got slapped for his pains, but believes he could easily identify the chief. Many of the bandits were young, some no more than sixteen or seven: teen. They carried a flag with a white cirole cut by nine red lines. Race Gamblers Now Try to Tap Air for Results By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 9.—The radio has Lrought about the “air tappers” as belting successors to the wire tappers of anclent days us o means of getting advance horserace results in wagers with bookmakers. Yesterday a radio set was found concealed in a tree behind a barn at the Maple Heights runnlns track here. Track police locate the apparatus and tore it from its lodgings. officials believe gamblers Trac! planned to use the device to flash raco results to accomplices down- town; who would try to bet with hookmakers before the ‘ results - could be telegraphed to the citye The following were appointed mem- bers of a committee to register a pro- test to the District Commissioners and to Congress when it convenes, and ask that action be taken to stop the construction: I. L. Bushong, chafrman; David Babp, W. L. Gam- mell and L. L. Beasley. Deploring conditions at the car barn of the Washington Rallway and Elec- tric Company, where it is alleged cars going in and out of the barn park on the outside, block the traffic in the streets and on the sidewalk, the as- sociation will ask the District Com- | missioners to put a stop to this “un- | necessary blocking of trafc.” An additional copy of the resolu-| tion is also to be sent to the ranru; company. A resolution asking that sidewalks be installed around the several gov- ernment-owned trlanguiar parks in the section was also adopted, as was & resolution asking that a sidewalk be placed along South Carolina ave- nue between 12th and 13th streets. “There is very heavy traffic of both pedestrians and automobiles along this latter juncture,” it was stated. A resolution to protest the actfon of the Federation of Citizens’ As- soctations in withdrawing their del gate from the District of Columbla Public School Association, which had been referred to the committee education for investigation, w tabled. ELEVEN PLEAD GUILTY. Entering pleas of guilty and with- drawing their demands for jury trials, the following _defendants, clm-“’ed with violating the national prohibi- tion law, were assessed the fines in- dioated yesterday in Police Court and their cases closed: Alfred D. Blitz, 75; Alfred Btephens, $50: Vernon Story, $60; Hilda Franklin, $50; Gene vieve Harris, $60; Red Williams,_ $7! Mattle Coleman, $50; William McLean, $75; Earl Murphy, $50; Calvin Dovo, $100, and Frank Amarosa, $50, —_—— NURSES FOR REGISTRATION. Sixty-one nurses took the exami- natfon for registration in the District building yesterday, the examination was held by the registration board of nurses. SUES FOR $25,000 DAMAGES. Nora A. Cooney, a teacher, ha filed suit in the District Buprem Court to recover $16,000 damages from the national board of the Y. W. C. A, which conducts the Grace Dodge Fotel. - While & guest last February, plaintiff says, she slipped on the floor of the corrider and fall- ing sustained serious injury. She is represented by Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert and Rudolph H. Yeatman. M j pifed | with |s { for u writ of habea: “ LIABILITY OF FATHER MADE JURY MATTER Judge Holds People Sup- porting Children May Have Claim to Credit. A woman leaving her husband with- out just cause may irchase even necessitias on his credit, but when she takes with her children of tender age it i3 a question for the jury whether those furnishing necessities *a the children did so on the credit of the father. This, in effect Distriet Court opinion by ( < the ruling of the ¢ Appeals. in an iief Justl Smyth set- ting uside u summary judgment for $4.120 In favor of WElla and Alice Downs against George A. Maschauer, The Misges Downs took care of Maschauer's wife and three small children after the wife and husband had separated. The appellate court beld the case should have bLeen sub- mitted to u@ jur Cane for Jury. father voluntarily wnd knowingly suffered the children to live apart from him,” says the chiof justice, “and made n6 provision for their support, the jury n the sbsence of proof to ‘he cor trary. that the defendant made Ler his #xent to contract for necessarles and was lizble to third persons who supplied such necessarles good faith ou Lis credit. We do not think. in thig case, that the conduct of the mother, if improper. should be charged to the children. TIf the father. know- ing they were destitute. refused to sypport them. and the plaintiffs sup- them with necessaries on credit, he is liable.” In cases where children are of urer age and leave home volun- t v to see e world or to escape necessary dlscipline, the court points out, merchants and others extend credit at their own risk Ag to the Wife who leaves her husband or lives separated from him because of her own misconduct, the court suggests: Tt seems to he well settled that where the wife deserts the susband the burden Is upon to recover for necessaries furnixhed to her to allege and prove that either “1¢ the ™ she lived apart from him by mutual | consent or that the separation was occasioned by the fault or nilsconduct of the husband. “The husband who s able and will- | ing to support his wife and gives her no just cause to abandon him or leave his bed and board cannot be compelled to support her elsewhere than at his own house, if he has one. s liability for necessaries provided by other persons for her support rests entirely upon the ground of his neglect or default. Where a person is justified In eupplying the wife assigtanco the credit must be extended to tha husband. not to the wife. and the burden of showing that it was extended to him rests upon the party furnishing the neces- saries.” RIGHT TO REOPEN CASE DENIED REV. F. J. FEINLER Court Refuses Habeas Corpus Writ to Priest Who Had Been Par- doned—Alleger Pro-German. Justice Toehling of the District preme Court has denled the appli- cation of the Rev. Franz J. Feinler, a priest who served with the A. B _F. corpus to re-open 3 involving a charge of pro- Cermanism. E President 1larding has given Father Feinler a full and unconditional par- don «und the court held he could not £o behind that action. The petitioner claimed that the pardor did not re- store his rank nor destroy the record of the court martial proceeding by which he was convicted and sentenced to serve fifteen vears in the peniten- tlary. The sentence was reduced to four years and the clergyman placed on parole. He regarded the limftation of the parole as prison bars. ignt irfer.! his | those who seek | FREER ART GALLERY OPENED TO PUBLIC I Opportunity Given for Viewing Rare Collection of Drawings. Engravings and Etchings. The public of Washington was to- day afforded Its first opportunity of visualizing the interior of the Freer Art Gallery and the works of art on exhibition within its walls Collections instalied in ing represent the results of the per- | sonal study and acquisttion {period of about thirty-five Charles Lang Freer, Among the collection are works of by James | Whistler, consisting of drawings |engravings, etchings. lithographs and paintings. There are also Lylonian Byrzan e, Chinese, Cypriote, {Greek, Ttalian, Japanesa |Near Fast and East Iudin. Pal ‘n'\'r:«n. Tibetun works of art and 1 jmerous other unclassified exiiibits M Incide {the center of the buflding m seen a fountain, surrounded by i KTeens. Marching around the [tain are a number of peacocke. This ene has ulready heen a sufeient attraction to cause several artists to begin painting it Gne of the main attractions to the public during the earlier part of the day was the “peacock room.” in the southeast corner of the huilding, | which contalns a number of beautiful aintings of peacocks and seventecn | wainscot panels in_artistic designs. The gallery will be open daily from 19 am. to 4:30 p.m. 1 | | 1 | i over a vears of American art MeNeill Egyptia Kourear { bodian, ¥ be ever- foun ‘ PIMLICO ENTRIES For Thursday FIRST RACE—Purse. $1.300; two-year-old fillfes: claiming: Sve furlengs. Myrtle Bilson ... 106 *Justme .. .. 108 Snow Maiden 104 *Happr Night. . 108 Wood Lady 184 *Fiying Fur..... 105 Humble . 110 Viola Burton 110 *Julia M . 102 Rock Court . 108 SECOND RACE—Meunt Washington steeple- Jurse, 32.000; four-yesr-olds and up: os. 132 | | iVox Pepuli 154 Musty - 142 Lellipo) 180 *Boss Joha. 18 pounds claimed for rider. THIRD RACE—Handicap: fllies and mares; purse, $1,000; three-yearolds and up; one | Tady Baltimere... 114 SThimble ... us | “Prodigious .. 112 Pellyana .. *Maryland Belle, 103 FOURTH RACE—Purse. $1.300; olaimin three-yearolds and up; six furleng: 2nd, 137 oo, 149 J st FIFTH RACE—Purse, $1.500: the Chess- pouke handicap: three-yearelds & six furlongs. | 1P, 5. P. Randeiph entry. SIXTH RAGE—The Arlingtes; claiming; 83,000 added; three-year-olds ead up; one ... 111 *Welldnder . 112 18 Insulate ...00 00 88 Top Bergoaré 11 U1 flady Myl ;V:;uly 106 ‘tSamuel Louls eatry. SEVENTH RACE—Purse, $1.300; claiming: three-year-olds and up: six furlongs, Jobn Merrill 120 *Dark Hill. 110 soss 110 . 16 i) irah . *Joseph Brant Utah . ... Josephine O.... *Apprentioe allewance claimed. Weather clear, track heavy. —_————— To have an invention protected all over the world it is necessary to take out nearly seventy patents in as many different countries, the estimated cost of which 1s about $25,000. the build- spacious open-air court in| 133} MEXICO T0 STAND ON 6 MAIN ISSUES Delegates to Parley With U. S. Instructed First to Uphold Sovereignty. By the Associated Prees. MEXICO CITY, May 9.—The ins tions which the Mexican commission- ers must unalterably follow the confere: with the delegates, which will i questions at issue between two countries. were given them cently at meetings between the e missioners, Ramon Ross and Fer- nando Gonzalez F and Dresident Obregon and Alberto T'ani, m of forelgn relations. Under the fn- structions the Mexican commissioners must First—Insist on absolute respect for Mexican sovereignty Second—Agree to non-retroactivity insofur as it affects petroleum rights acquired prior to May 1, 1317, or of articls 27 of the present constitu- tional nationalizing subsoil and min- eral products. Third—Announce 14, the re- n- May on the administra- tion's support of the new oil law re- cently enacted by the chamber of deputies and now pending in the sen- ate, which is intended to satisfy ob- ! jectlons of foreign interests against alleged retroactivity and confiscatory interpretations of Article 27. Chamizal Settlement. Fourth—Agree to a settlement of the Chamizal dispute, granting the United States land which the Rio Grande river has swept northward, but {nsisting on indemnification of Mex- ico. together with an agreement to ar- range some method for settling dis- putes in the future involved through changes in the river's course. Fifth—Announce that the Mexican government will not permit more than 40 per cent of United States -apital to be invested in the pro- posed nations! hank of issue, leaving full eontrol of the bank in the gov- ernment $ixth—Propose arbitration { settlement of 4l aquestions {pute the question of recoguition of Mex- ico 13 settled. Tt is indicated that strict adher- instruetions, involving national sov- ereignty, guarantees regarding sub- soil rights and concerning the gov- ernment’s support of pending pe- troleum legislation, precludes the possibility of an agresment to Bign a treaty of commerce and amity prior ito the granting of recognition to I Mexico by the United States. It was | emphasized toduy that tho delegates have not the slightest authority to Ibind the Mexican government to fol- |low their recommendations. although |any agreement reached or recom- | mendations made will be submitted to congress and be regarded sympa- theticully by the administration. Regarding the return of the na- tional railways to the control of private owners. it was Intimated that this problem would be delayed until after the elections. Regarding_statements published in the United States to the effect that radical state and local authorities could neutralize the federal govern- ment’'s guarantees as to foreign prop- erty rights, it was stated in govern- ment circles today that it was con- zidered needless to emphasize that the central administration ias strong enough to comply with any interna- { tional obligation which it might con- tract | The forcign relations department of the Mexican government is giving © all then. ws relativ conversations betwee the United States regarding out- standing _questions between them. Neither tha visiting delegations nor the Mexican delegation are to make {any mpecial statements, it was learned officially today. It also was ascertained that representatives of the press and everybody execpt the|e delegates and attaches will be barred { Kansas out early this morning to from the meeting place of the con- ference. “Silent Policeman” Downed by Autoist y J«.:%e”. - An autemebile this moraiag, wtreet out of ce: lon. The concrete base of the setal structure Pennsylvania avenwe. It was only three days age that demolished. and additionnl searching for the driver. porting the lamp everturmed and bout 1:15 o'cl put the beacon trafiic light at Peansylvania ave: The a “-‘.Mh u‘l:tt‘wl ‘on 15th streot and was making avenue when the driver failed to go.far enough south. lamp, weighing ono and District employes installed a the lamp hurled some distance toward the souw new lam amage to the structure amounted to ubout ¥25. Police of the first pree - & tarm east on Peansylvania ~half toms, was moved abent four feet, the h curb on The lamp was inct are at a cont of BITG. durinfll Amertean | | i i ! China’s Promise to Ransom - Captives Allays Anxiety Here Peking Pledges Speedy Action to Gain Release and Put Down Brigandage. Powers May Demand Ind¥mnity. The anxiety of aMeials here for the | fate of the Americans and other for- | elgn nationals held captives by the| Chinese bandits in Shantung province | appeared to have been somewhat al- layed today by the reports received at the State Department from Min- ister Schurman at Peking. The department announced late yes- terday that it had been advised by the American minister that the Peking government had agreed to pay the ransoms demanded by the bandits on representations made to the prime minister by the Portuguese minister at Peking, dean of the diplomatio corps there. The government also. the department was informed, agreed to act as rapidly as possible in meot- ing the other demands made by the Portuguese minister in behalf of the diplomatic corps at Peking. Reserve Right to Indemnity. Thess demands were that in addi- tion to immediate steps to secure the releasc of the -captives, the govern- ment should conduct an inquiry into the wliole uffuir and tuke strong mil- jtary action to put down brigandage in Shantung. The prime minister was sald to have stated that the govern- ment intended to dismiss the civiland military governors of the province. In presenting its demands the dip- | lomatic corps was said to have in- formed the Chineae foreign office that it “reserved the right over and above any moral and material da o8 | claimed to demand a progressive in- demnity for every day after the 12th of May that the foreigmers remain captive.” Developments in the situation, in- cluding the reported close pursuit of | the bandits by Chinese troops, ap-| peared to have made more remote the | possibility of using American_troops | in China in conjunction with those of other powers. In any event, it was suld, such a course would be pro: posed by this country only as & resort. General te Take Charge. State Department advices from Cor- sul Davis today said that Gov. Ch! was sending a general officer “to co- operate” with the Chinese forces 'r efforts to secure the release of the captives. Gov. Chl also Lad ordered Commisctoner of Forelgn Affairs Wen. the dispatch said. “to take steps to co-operate with iMr. Davis.” Consul Davis also reported that the frinoners held by the bandits wers eing well cared for, according_to information received by him. Mr. Davis said he would go to Lincheng today. Minister Schurman has instructed Maj. Philoon_assistant military at- tache at_the eking legation, to pro- cesd to Lincheng today, accompanied by Maj. Horsefzll, language officer at the legation Lack Further Facts. further definite Information, the dispatch suid, bad been obta‘ned by the legation as to Americans still held captive. Legation dispatches add od that it had been impossible te ver!- £y persistent reports that two Amer' cans, Mrs. Seaton and Mies Auld. to ists from Manila, were on the train. “Since two American consular off- cers are now on the scene of the holdup,” the dispatch said, “and on May 10 there will be two Americar military officers as well, it i{s hoped that more definite information wil! be available.” Sne to See Wughes. Sao0-Ke Alfred Sze. the Chinese min ister, returned to his post here todav after an absence of saveral monthr in China and immediately arranged for "a conference with Becretary Hughes at tho State Department. It was said that neither the min ister nor the legation had any new advices regarding the plight of the foreigners captured by bandits in Shanfung province, but that Dr. Sze desired as quickly as possible to ex prees personally the regret of his government over the incident \Lincheng, Scene of Bandit Raid . On Railroad, Boxers Menaced 1 i idenly discern for the|junks laden with the rich products in dis- | of fertile Shantung. wean the two countries after | Province of Peanmuts and Halr Nets. enca to the first three features of the | ern machinery. i | !v “Lincheng. scere of the Chinese bandit raid, lies along the Tientsin- Pukow railway., whose building was interrupted in 1900 by the Boxer up- rising.” saye bulltein from the headquarters of the National Geo- graphic Soctety. “The scene of the kidnaping of American passengers is 374 miles | south of Tientsin, northern terminus of the line, where a party of Ameri- cans, including Herbert Hoover, were besicged during the famous Boxer outbreak “Lincheng is important commercial- 1¥ because it is the junction of a nine- teen-mile branch railroad to Yihhsien, | a colliery town, whence comes the coal which is distributed to all the towns and cities along the 626 miles of the Tientsin-Pukow line. Road Marked Economic Isnovation. “This road was built as the result of a joint concession obtained by Great Britaln and Germany In 1895.| Its building was notable politically | because it marked the first raflway, project in China wifere the construc- | tion and the control were vested| wholly with the Chinese government. “Well equipped express trains, with leeping and buffet cars, run dally way between Tientsin and a South of Lincheng the train runs' ong hills which rise suddenly from' the plains and shortly bevond the town of Han-Chuang passengers sud- the high embankment ¢ the Grand Canal. bordered by busy villages and flecked with white-safled | “Peanuts and hair nets are two imortant products of Shantung. Coal | and iron mines are worked with mod- | A passenger on this! railway would harbor as little| thought of bandits as he would in| traversing similar wheat, tobacco and | cotton flelds and truck gardens of | our own country. The population ia| denser in this province than in our, most densely populated state, Rhode Island. The climate has been com- | pared to that of Maine. “Begun about fifteen years ago the COOL TILL FRIDAY, PROSPECT FOR D. C. (Continued from First Page.) ' worst May storm since 1 A regu- lar blizzard as thick as any last winter raged. Along Lake Superior the sterm was especially flerce. A northwest wind s packing ice into Whitefish bay and forcing it down St Mary's river. The steamer Glenshee of the Great Lakes transportation company is aground at Sweets Island near Detour. Ashland, Wis., reports a heavy blizzard raging and extensive ice fields being driven about Lake uperior. At St. Paul, Minn.. the thermometer e to the coming | went to 2 degrees below freezing, but Mexico undirising temperature is predicted for today. Crops in that section of Minnesota were not injured, accord- ing to the state agricultural com- missloner. In the near southwest, Kansas City, Mo,, reported orchardists and garden- T8 {n many sections of Missouri and determine the amount of damage from frosts predioted for last night. Hundreds of orchardists in the Osark region of Missouri and Arkansas burned smudge pots last night in an effort to prevent damage. The cooler weather was felt as far| south as Texas, where, although temperatures dropped twenty de-| greee, it was warm enough for the ler not to approach freezing. Tn tho old souti, Atlanta reported a rainfall of 1.54 Inches preccdz‘d a Reavy drop in temperature. Elec- trical disturbances and a hard wind accompannied the rain and damaged property. ‘The lowest tdmperature was reported as thirty-three degress. Weather forecasts for that part of Georgla for today are clear and cold. New Orleans and the coast section of Louisiana are not affected materi- Slly. The New Orleans tomperature early today was above seventy. MISSING MAN: SOUGHT. John A. Falck's disappearence from his home, 874 Waynewood road, Philadelphia. last Saturday morning cas reported to the local police to- :i‘.'\a‘ }?rlpnds who asked the local poiice to participate in the search that is being made for the missing man said there was no reason to be- lieve he had come to this city. ¥alck, who is sixty-six years old, is a man of steady habits, his friends say, and relatives are unable to uc- count for his absenc He ate break- fast with his wife and daughter Sat- urday morning, left home and board- od @ street car to go to his place of business. - The missing man wore a blue serge suit when last seen by his wife and daughter. He is five fest nine inch: tall, has blue eyes, bushy gray eye- Liows and is partly Lald. % | are descended frol {in the hands of the outlaws. kand manufacture af hair reets has uttained remarkable proportions. The hair originates in China, {8 shipped to Europe and America to be chemicall treated for ‘decoloring,’ is sent back 1o merchants in treaty ports and re- distributed for net making among homes of the interior. Only reocenti* has an attempt been made to prepa: the hair in the province. Standing f4r the Faith. “The suggestion that the recen' hold-up was participated in by grand- sons of Confucius, many times re- moved, may seem preposterous to ad- mirers of the peaceful and urbane sage; yet it is probably literally true. “Confucius was born at Kufu barely seventy miles north of the scene of the bandit attack and he lies buried there, surrounded by many thousands of hi$ descendants. “The way in which this family or clan has persisted and multiplied de- | serves to rank &s one of the bioloj cal wonders of the world. Tt is esti- mated that 70 per cent of the popula- tion over a large gegion around Kufu the great teach- er. At the little town, which is at once the birthplace and burial place of Confucius, lives today his seventy- mixth Jineal descendant, the ‘Holy Duke.” K'ung. “The towering mountain, Tai Shan. China’s most holy eminence, les in sight of the Tientsin-Pukow railwa not many miles north of the po! at which the attack was made. It has been deemed holy since before 2200 B. C. Confucians, Taoists and | Buddhists alike revere this mountain and have erected shrines at its foot on its slopes andlut its summit. 1t is w favorite poffit for pllgrimage as many us 10.000 pilgrims a day making ~the journey to it durinz February und March. Many of these climb laboriously to the top and there worship. “The contrast between the barbar- ous China of bandits and the modern China of western Ways Wwas unoon- sclously heightened by the choice of Lincheng for the attack. There the branch line to Yihhsien runs to ene of China's greatest coal mines, fur- nishing fuel for its modern factories and power stations. This largest mine in Shantung is operated by a Chi ese company, o other mines ig“b‘yol‘ol:‘:l;:‘fiz‘*‘:fa being exploit- TWO U. S. MAIORS ESCAPE WITH BOY FROM BANDIT GANG (Continued from First Page.) ‘was & British sybject of Rumanian parentage. At this hour there is no confirma- tlon of the persistent reports that an ui:ldentified American has been slain. ELIAS BROTHERS ESCAPE. Richmond Man and Wife Still in Bandits’ Handa By the Asscctated Press. SHANGHATL, Muy 9.—Tred and Ed- ward Elias, British brokers of Shang- hai, have escaped from the Suchow train bandits, according to a message a2 | received today by the offices of the Shanghai and Nanking Raflway Com- pany. It {8 not known definitely whether all of the woman prisoners taken by the kidnapers have been released. . W. Pratt of Richmend, Vs., who with his wife was visiting China on a tour of the world, is known to be still 1t s not certain that Mrs. Pratt and M Manuel Ancira Verea, the .atter t Srife of @ prominent Mexican, have been released. There have bLeen no reports concerning the fate of theso two women. although repcated mus- sages received here usscrt that il the woman prisoners wore granted their freedom. PRESIDENT MAY FAVOR BIG TRIP President Harding was id by White House callers today to be in- clined toward adoption of the pro- posal that he return from his Alaskan trip by boat, passing through the Panama canal and possibly visiting Porto Rico, Secretary Denby, who advanced the proposals, and Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board. have discussed it with the executive several times within the last week, and it was learned today that the President plans in the near future to go over it thoroughly with several of his ad- visers, The return by water would pre- vent the President from speaking in & number of cities where has ten tatively promisediRo make address and very likely would make nect sary a rearrangement of his _itine: rary from Washington to the Paciflo coast.