Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and continued cool tonight; to- morrow falr and warmer. Tempera- ture for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m, today: Highest, 55, at noon to- day; lowest, 37, at 5:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 2_7 28,864. HINESE BANDTS T0 RELEASE ALL AMERCANS TODAY Advices Indicate Italian, Re- garded as “Valuable,” Will Be Only One Held. 2 SONS OF AMERICAN ARMY MEN NOW FREE Women Among Captives—Miss Aldrich in Hospital—Probe ated Press, SHANGHAL May captives held by the Shantung bandits are being released, except Chevaller Musso, the Italian attorney, accord- g to a message from Tsaochwang, signed by a relief agent named Nalll and addressed to the Asia Develop- ment Company. 10.—All , foreign Success in the negotiations to ran- ®om the foreigners held captive by Chinese bandits in the mountain fast- nesses of Shantung was indicated to- day (Thursday) when a dispatch from Peking announced the release of Roland Pinger, jr., and Robert Allen, r., sons of M and Allen. A. The ver, still were held at advices this afternoon A private mes om Tsaocha- wang, received in Shanghai by the Asia Development Company, reported | Chevalier Musso. an Italian attorney | of Shanghai. also was held. A pre- | vious_report had said t the bri- < were holding Musso for $1.-| 600.000 and that he was erit The bandits were believed to the valier their offi zands Advices received in Tsinanfu indi- cated that the captives would be re- leased tod: Two Women Held. Latest reports from Peking i ed that at least two women among the captives—Mrs. Sanderson, an American, and Miss E. F. Fleming, Engl! Previous statements that Mrs. B A on of Berkeley, Calif., and her niece, Miss Lillian Auld of | Eugene, Ore, were held were dissi- | pated today when it was learned in Peking that they were not aboard the Shanghai-Peking express train when | it was seized near Suchow early Sun- day. Miss Luey Aldrich John D. Rockefeller. j panion, Miss Minnie McFadden, ar- vived fn Peki aris today, having been_accompanled from_ Tsinanfu by Dr. Houghton of the Union Medical College. Miss Aldrich and Miss Me- Fadden were put into an ambulance and taken tg hospit where physl- elans prescribed several days of qulet. Under this advice they declined to re. late their experiences while In the| hands of the band| They were led away by the bandits, separated and_each held for twenty- four hours. They met at Tsinanfu, exhausted and ill from shock and ex- posure. cat- | were | ter-in-law of . and her com- | Probe In Ordered. The Chinese government has pro- mulgated a presidential mandate or- dering investigations into the affairs | of the civil and military governors of | Shantung province. The government also instructed these exccutives yes- terday to strain every effort to pro- cure the release of the captives. Another phase of the situation be- ing discussed today in the Chinese capital was the theory, said to be ac- | cepted freely in political circles, that | the bandit outrage was the outcome | of a larger plot than one of ordinary brigandage. The idea of agression against forelgners was not mentioned, | but the supposed conspiracy was held to have internal political significance. ‘The effect of the affair on one politi- cal party or another was emphasized. Relief parties, with supplies and edical ald, were rushed from for-| eign agencies in various cities to the locality dominated by the bandits. PROTEST BRIGANDAGE. French and British Bodies in China Act on Kidnaping. By the Assaclated Pross. TIENTSIN, May 10.—Both the Brit- | ish and French chambers of commerce last night passed resolutions of pro- test against what is termed “the Linching outrage.” It is understood that the American chamber of com- merce, which meets today, will take similar_action, The Great War Veterans' Assoclation, a British organization, adopted a reso- lution condemning the bandit outrage and demanding that armed foreign &uards be carried on all express trains. EXPORTER CAPTURED, Xee C. Solomon Taken Prisoner by Chinese Brigands. LOS ANGELES, May 10.—Lee C. Sol- ©omon, one of the Americans taken | captive by Chinese bandits, is a nephew of Fred D. Solomon of Los Angeles. Solomon is with a Chinese kxporting firm of Shanghai. The uncle today recelved a cablegram from this firm, which read: “Lee captured. Latest reports grom witnesses state he is being held, together with other captives, but not armed. Everything possibie is be- ng done to secure his early release.” JAPANESE AROUSED, Press Sees Need for Stationing Troops in China. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, May 10.—The newspaper Jijl compares the Chinese bandit out- Yage on the Shantung border with the Boxer uprising, and says it may neces- sitate stationing foreign troops in the principal centers of China. = Though apan bas not suffered in the present instance, she cannot remain indifferent, because of her close connections in China, adds the paper. The Chugal belleves that the rald was organized by parties wishing to em- barrass the Peking government, and this, in its opinion, makes the caso more Entered as second-class n post oificc Washington, D. C. q atter 'Train Plunges Into the Rhine; 29 French Die By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 10.—A telegram from Saint Goar, Rhenish Prus- sia, says that a train operated by the French plunged into the Rhine and that twenty-nine bodles have 80 far been recovered from the water. The report is based on the Statements of travelers arriving at Saint Goar, who add that the French have cut off access to the scene of the accident. Saint Goar is * mear Bacharach. BRITISH BATTLESHIP ' ORDERED TO RUSSIA TOBACK SEA RIGHTS “Why Don’t You Send Fleet to New York?” Labor Mem- ber Shouts in Parliament. Byt ssociated Press. LONDON, May 10.—The British war- ship Harebell has been ordered to the Murman coast to prevent further sovlet interference with British ves- sels outside the three-mile limit and to use force it necessary in perform- ing this mission, the house of com- mons was informed today by the un- dersecretary for foreign affairs, Ron- ald McNeill. The undersecretary said the govern- ment understood that another English trawier, the Lord Astor, had been cap- tured by a Russian gunboat while fishing ten miles off the Murman coast. The British agent in Moscow, he added, had been Instructed to enter a strong protest and to demand the |relcase of the Lord Astor's crew. “More War” Cries Heard. The agent was also instructed to demand the immediate and uncondi- tional release of the vessel and the | repatiation of the crew. Mr. MecNefll's statement evoked loud cheers from the ministrial benches, and cries from the laborites of ‘‘more war!"” George Lansbury, labor member for Poplar, addressing the ministrialists, shouted: - “Why don't you send a fleet to New York? You are a lot of cowards— you are afrald of America At this the speaker intervened. (An agency dispatch yesterday tell- ing of the selzure of the Lord Astor, said the Russlans claimed the trawler had been fishing within the Russian territorial limits.) Stormy Times Ahead. Between the controversy with Rus- sia and the situation created by the success of Art O'Brien’s appeal for a writ of habeas corpus, the govern- ment is clearly in for a stormy time. The laborites, most of the liberals— both Lloyd Georglan and Asquithian —and even some of the conservatives, it is said, disapprove of the minis- try’s handling of the dispute with Russia, and it is predicted in some quarters that next Tuesday's.debate in the house of commons may prove awkward for the ministers if they | are unable to get the solid support of their followers. The liberal press today strongly condemns the tone and “provocative” demands of Lord Curzon's note to Moscow. These newspapers agree that Great Britain had solid and im- portant grounds of complaint, but | they condemn the threat to termi- nate the trading agreement as worse than a blunder. The government’s position with re- spect to O'Brien is considered as at least difficult and as full of compli- cations. There is a general belief that the house of lords will confirm the appeal court's ruling, in which event Home Secretary Bridgeman must deliver O'Brien to the English courts. If he cannot do So he must show a reason satisfactory to the judges. AROUSED BY ULTIMATUM. Soviet Brands Demands Excuse for a Rupture, BY F. A. MACKENZIE. By Cabie to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 123. MOSCOW, May,10.—The decision in reply to the British ultimatum will be made by the government as a whole. Until a formal decision is made no officlal comment is available here. Unofficlally, however, the au- thorities express resentment at what they term the extraordinary and un- diplomatic phrases in which the de- mand is made, “The outcome depends upon the real attitude of the British govern- ment,” one said. “Does it want a settlement of .the matters in dispute? If it does we can come to an.ar- rangement. Is it simply seeking an excuse for a rupture as Austria-Hungary did when presenting the note to Serbia in 19142 If such is the case nothing we can do will be of any avail. One's first impression on reading the Brit- ish note is that the latter surmise is true.” Minnions Would Be Closed. How far such a rupture would go depends entirely upon circumstances. (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, May 10.—All the for- elgn captives held by the Suchow bandits are well, “having & wonder- ful time” and expect to be released soon,. according “to written messages recelved from four of them by relfef workers near Linching, which were relayed here today. The telegram received in Shanghai came to Henry Gensburger from his son Victor, Who is at Tsaochwang with relief parties who are seeking to aid the captives, among whom Is serious. The Kokumin says the incident hows the necessity of disbanding the (Continued on Page 2, Column 7) Victor's brother Emile. Replying to messages sent into the bandit stronghold, by the relief work- ers, came-four. written-repliea- from: ‘Having a Wonderful Time’ Is Message of Captive Americans WASHINGTON, nin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION v Star. “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, 94,049 D. C., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1923_FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. SHEETS OF FLANE RO B RUSHER - TAKELIVES OF T Score More Missing as 300- | Foot Wall of Fire Rises From 0il Well. | i l | ‘ {BELCHING PIT KEEPS RESCUERS FROM TASK | Clouds: of Steam Poured Upon Blaze—Confusion Reigns Near | Tragic Scene. By the Associated Press. CORSICANA, Tex., May 10.—Thir- teen identified bodies, three skeletons smouldering in a grim well pit and possibly a score of others to be un- covered, mark a tally of death wrought late yesterday by the ex- plosion of the giant gusher of the ! J. K. Hughes Development Company (McKee Ng, 1 well). ible Fifty Miles. Three hundred feet of flame, ablaze | across the horizon with leaps and starts, omniously signalize the fire for fifty miles around, reports radi- ating back here tell, and to here, but eleven miles from the belching mon- ster, bellows of black smoke clouds continue thelr advance this morning. The huge producer, which came in late Tuesday, flowing 15,000 rels of pipe-line oil, is a veritable funeral pyre. Charred. twisted. mangled bodies remain while the well burns, iconsuming the complete flow, nd 2,000,000 feet of gas as when it first 1gnited. The known dead reads: W. A. Hicks, Worthau driller for the development company S. P. Allen. Corsicana, field super- intendent for the mpany, who re- | cently brought in one of the country's | greatest high-grade oil producers in the Currie field. M. O. Turner, Norris, Mi Phillips, James Phillips, Ma J. 0. Cook and Travis Kerens, Tex.: Jack Cooper, Craig, E. C. Cooper and Emmet l(yrdw Corsicana, and L. P. Sheek, Dallas. skeletons | ame sixteen, it is know of the fifty-odd men in the Tex., head | Ban Mcisner, | Owens. | Fred | When the blast | of the exchequer, CALIFORNIA EXPERIENCES THE HOTTEST MAY IN° YEARS + BRITAIN NOT TO ASK, U.S. VIEWS ONRUHR Italy Backs Move to Reopeni Negotiations for " Rep- arations Parley. ted Pross. May 10.—Great Britain) ntend to exchange views | with the United States regarding the latest German reparations note, the house of commons was informed to- | day by Stanley Baldwin, chancellor | the government's two crews and « connecting gang were sucked into the sheet of flames, | Ten men escaped by running | through oil knee deep, some distance | from tie well, and fall flat | Many Do Herofc Work. | Ellis Hammell, drilling contractors, | and E. W. Quinlan and James Meeks, | scouts, with others, did heroic rescue spokesman, United States. said Mr. Bald- 't claimed reparation from for Great Britain to| America might merely source of embarrassment to the latter. Tt is understood in diplomatic eir- cles in Rome, says an Exchange Tele. graph dispatch, that the Italian gov- ernment, although considering the work. Quinlan, decorated by the | Lritish government with the Victori Cross, and by the French with the Medallle - Militaire during the war, | Inhaled so much smoke that he could | not speak above a whisper today. He | was gassed overseas. That onlookers previous to the ex- plosion had been kept at a distance prevented the loss of life from being greater. About 500 persons watching | the work of the drilling crews gave | incoherent accounts of the flare-up. | None belng certain how the fire | started, but all testified to the huge | volume of smoke which rose, filled | and hid the oil-soaked derrick. Some of the workmen were hurled flat on the ground; others seemed but to creep vainly away from the mer- ciless spread of the fire, although they actually were running through | the ofl drenched vicinity as fast as| legs could go. L. C. Cook, head driller of one of the crews, was scen to dash aw. and jump into some water nearby. He | died on the way to the hospital. SIX of the bodies are being held by an undertaking company here. | | Three unidentified bodies reduced lol | skeletons, are smouldering in a lake lof oil surrounding the well, which caught fire from the gas flame com- ing from the well. The woods for 200 yards around are burned to stumps. Confusion is everywhere. Steady, unbroken streams of automobiles keep coming. While operations in the oil fleld have not been suspended, hundreds of workers have crowded to the tragic scene. J. K. Hughes, head of the develop- ment company, sald he had not been able to obtain enough information to warrant making a public state- ment. ‘When the gusher caught fire Hughes was being informed over the tele- phone in his office at Mexia that the well had come in Tuesday night. “Well, I wish it had been a dry hole,” he remarked ironically, and, grabbing his hat, made for the Cor- sicana train to inspect the producer. Some of the crew which was re- lleving the day crew at the well had just come from Mexia a few hours before. Other members of that and | a roustabout crew working in the vicinity of the well were reported missing in the general confusion, and the personnel list makes it impossible to ascertain just how many are dead, missing and unaccounted for, Mr. Hughes said. Steam will be used today to ex- tinguish the flames, company officials announced. Boilers and firefighting apparatus are being sent to the scene, although there is little danger of the fire spreading. The burning well is the third com- pleted in_the new field from a sand between 2,850 and 3,000 feet. Oil fleld worlkers this morning fre- guently worked their way near the re in hopes of recovering bodies, but gushes of flame reaching many feet and the intense heat drove them off. as many prisoners, Emile Gensburger, Fred Ellas, Edward Elias and Theo. dore Saphiere saying that all were well and having a wonderful time, They declared they expected to be re- leased soon, and admonished their friends not fo worry. The relief workers measage to Shangha!l stated that they were en- camped two hours' march from the brigands' lair. In the party seeking to obtain the release of the captives are Lloyd Lehrbas who was captured by the bandits near Suchow, but who escaped in a few hours and brought jorder to break down the present dead- latest German offer insufficient, wili favor the opening of nexotlations in lock on reparations. The Italian note now is being drafted, the dispatch adds, and will be delivered Saturday. OCCUPATION COST HUGE. By Cablle to The Star and (hicago Daily News. Coprright, 1923. PARIS, May 10.—Withia a few days| the French government will ask the | chamber of deputies to vote credits of 230,000,000 francs representing the of the Rubr occupation from its | ption January 12 to May 31. Ofl this total more than half represents the cost of taking over and operating the Ruhr and Rhineland railways con- quent on Germany's policy of re- ance and sabotage. e milit expenses proper are 87,500,000 francs, but this sum in- cludes not only the cost of occupying the Ruhr, but also the maintenance of the Rhiveland occupation forces, which Germany under the treaty of Versailles, has” supposedly been pay- ing. but which Germany announced} when the French occupled the Ruhr she would cease to pay. PRESIDENT GIVES UP TRIP TONEW YORK Finds Matters on His Desk Require His Presence in Washington. President Harding today notified those in charge of arrangements for the testimonial meeting tonight at New York for Gen. and Mrs. Balling- ton Booth of the Volunteers of America that he would be unable to accept their invitation to address the gathering. B The telesram was sent shortly be- fore noon. White House officials said the executivo had hoped until the last minute to be able to go, and was unable to decide even after reaching his_office this morning whether he could do so. During the morning, however, he went over with Secre- tary Christian his engagements for the day and the various matters on his desk, and came to the conclusion that it would be ifhpossible tu leave the capital. 3 The President also had received an invitation to speak today before the annual meeting in New York of tho Chamber of Commerce of the United States, but he informed the officers of the chamber that he lacked the time to prepare an address which such an engagement would call for. 22 OF CREW TAKEN OFF STRANDED SHIP Three Remain on Board Steamer on Rocks Near Pacific Coast. ssociated Press. ”s‘::‘Aél'fl.E. Wash., May 10.—Twen- ty-two, members of the crew of the steamer Lake Gebhart, stranded on the rocks near Umatilla reef, off the to the outside the first story of the affair, and Carl Crow, representing the American chamber of- commerce of Shanghai and the American Red Cross. Both_ these organizations are sending supplies into the hills back of Linching for the captives. Washington coast, were transferred today to the tug Humaconna, accord- ing to a wireless message received ere. .Three men remained aboard the Lake Gebhart. | still prevail east of the Mississippi Rouses Families l And Saves Seven | Children at Fire By the Associated Press. CLEVE AND, Ohio, May 10.— After rousing members of four families occupying an apartment house when a blaze threatened de- struction of the two-story frame building here early today, John Cracium made trips_into the burning structure, carrled out | en of nine children rescued and | ske in @ door so one of the families could escape. ! Cractum carried out five of his | ehildren, his wife rescuing their aixth, a’ six-month-old baby. He | also assisted Mrs. Anna Marian and her two children to safe The fire, which drove the chil- dren and’ eight men and women into mear-freezing weather, appar- ently was caused by an overheated gas stove. ‘The damage was esti- mated at $7,500. RECORD MAY COLD WAVENEARING END Warmer Weather, Already in West, Due on Atlantic Coast Tomorrow. Temperatures much below mnormal river, and several stations réeported to the weather bureau today the cool- est weather ever recorded so late in the season. There has been a re- action, however, to considerably warmer weather between the Mis- sissippl river and the Rocky moun- tains, and generally warmer weather is forecast for tonight or tomorrow over most of the east and south. Frost is probable tonight in por- tions of the Atlantic states north of Virginia and in western New York. Fair, with rusing temperature for to- morrow, accompanied by moderately fresh westerly winds, was the prediction today for Washington, There will be no frost here tonight, it was stated. Saturday will be warm snd probably cloudy. BOY KILLED IN STORM. I Spectal Dispatch to The Star. PETERSBURG, Va., May 10.—Rich- ard Alley, nine years old, of Bland- ford was killed and three other boys injured when the roof of the pavilion at the playground was blown down upon them during a storm. One residence at Kenilworth and another at Colonial Heights were wrecked by the cyclonic wind. A sec- tion of the roof of the Norfolk and Western roundhouse was blown off. A garage at the home of W, W. Doyle was blown from its foundation and carried for some distance. Considerable other damage was done to trees. SNOW IN CUMBERLAND. 1 Special Dispat:h to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., May 10.—Cum- berland had a May snowstorm yes- terday, with temperature near freez- ing point, recalling the storm of May 10, 1861, when over two feet fell and wild animals from the mountains were driven into the city. At Frost- burg and in the mountains west yes- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) COURT GIVES SLAYERS OF FIVE DEATH PENALTY By the Associated Press. *IDABEL, Okla., May 10.—John Pope, confessed slayer of his estranged wife, her father and mother and two children,and Aaron (“Red”) Harvey, his confessed accomplice, were sen- tenced to death by District Judge G. M. Barrett here today. Jack Pope, Pope’s son, who admitted accompany- ing his father and Harvey to the scene of the killings, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state peni- tentiary. DUPONT RESIGNS AS GENERAL MOTORS HEAD NEW YORK, May 10.—The General Motors Corporation today announced the resignation of Pierre S. Du Pont as president and chairman_of the executive committee. Alfred P. Sloan, jr, was elected his successor ! grantea, j officlals here today. physicians resid- TERN UNITED STATES IN THE GRIP OF A NEAR- BLizzArD EXPECTU.S. TOSEEK STAY ON DRY RULE Enforcement in New York Hangs in Balance Pending Final Action. The second attack on prohibition enforcement in New York state with- in ten davs left the knotty problem of physicians’ liquor prescriptions trembling in the balance today be- tween Federal Judge Knox's decision, declaring void Volstead act restric- tions, and the expected attempts of the government to get a temporary stay of execution on the court's de- cislon, pending appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. Upless the stay of execution is it was sald by prohibition ing in the district under the jurisdic- tion of the New York court will be free to issue prescriptions without the restraining hand of the law. Un der no interpretation, however, it was said, could the effect of Judge Knox decislon be extended beyond the Hm- its of the court's jurisdiction, so as to free physiclans In other states from the restrictions of the act. Stay Is Expected. If the stay of execution is granted as expected, It was said. the present regulations of 100 prescriptions per physician every ninety days, and one pint per patlent every ten davs, will remain in force. This was the actual situation as to bare facts. But the future holds pos- sibilities of developments, it was ad- mitted, which may ieap the confines of New York state, where reputable physicians this week in court added their victory to that-of the wets in New York's legislature last week, which voted to repeal the state en- forcement code. Although Gov. Smith has not yet signed the state code repeal bill, and the physicians’ court victory already is under fire of the government and the drys, who will fight for stay of execution, and appeal to higher tri- bunals, the two blows in New York at prohibition enforcement are ad- mitted by both wets and drys to have widespread and national significance. Government officials were far from being agreed as to the effect of Judge Knox's decision or as to the course of procedure to be adopted by the government concerning regulations enforcing the Volstead act. Officials Have Doubtr. Higher officlals, however, admitted that there had been frank discussion of the physicians’ prescription situa- tion, and that in some government cir- cles a ‘‘very grave doubt” had been raised as to the right of the federal Eovernment to so limit the activity of physicians in presctibing liquor. There was no doubt, it was said in these circles, that the government had a perfect right to place sharp restric- tions around the abuse of prescriptions, but it was said to be another matter for the government to set up an arbitrary limit, beyond which it decreed the phy- sician could not go. In this point of the arbitrary limit, certain government offi- clals were in agreement with Judge Knox's decision. Mellon Plans Conference. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon shortly ‘will confer with Assistant Sec- retary Moss, Internal Revenue Commis- sioner Blair, Prohibition Commiesioner Haynes and other assistants over the problem presented by Judge Knox's de- cision. The matter will be gone over, not only as to the present status, but as to what attitude the government should take toward the matter as a whole in the future. At the Department of Justice also it it ‘'was learned that an appeal from Judge Knox's decision would be taken, and indications today were that the matter was considered of such far-reaching import that it would be rushed as rapidly as pos- sible, consistent with judicious ac- tion. Question Is Raised. The question has been raised, it was said, whether the government could change the regulations affecting physi- clans’ prescriptions pending _appeal from Judge Knox's decision. In view of the wide difference of opinion among officials charged with the enforcement of prohibition this problem stuck out today as highly controversial for the time being. Authorities, however, who pointed to the fact that the limitations were written into. the law, and not into the enforcing regulations seemed to feel sure that the executive branch of the government had no authority to liberalize the amount of physicians prescriptions for New York state, or the country as & whole, for that mai- ter, under the law and the Constitu- tion, TWO CENTS Lean Man in Lead In Highest Court Legal Marathon The “marathon craze” has #truck the District Supreme Court. Chief Justice McCoy has pre- sided for more than a week at a long-distance “talkfest” by two prominent members of the bar. The argument is over exceptions taken to the report of a special master in & suit involving the in- terpretation of a building con- tract and whether the parties lived up to their agreement. At noon today Col. James S Easby-Smith was well in advance of his competitor, Dean Charles Francis Carusi of the University Law School. C by-Smith is a professor at George- town Law School and kept the floor for five full court days. Dean Carusi tired at the end of three and one-half days; but suggested that his weight of 280 pounds had something to do with it. as Col. Easby-Smith does not welgh more than 150 pounds. Chief Justice McCoy did not render his decision as to the merits of the controversy, al- though obliged to declare Col. Easby-Smith the champion long- distance talker, OUIMET ONLY U.S. GOLFER SURVIVING Wins Fifth Round Match; Wethered Downs Willing; Grant Is Winner. By the Amociated Press. DEAL, England. May 10—Two Americans remained in the running for the British amateur golf cham- pionship at the completion of the fifth round this afternoon. They are Francis Ouimet of Boston and Doug- las Grant, American born but for some years a resident of London. ‘The only other American survivor of the fourth round, Dr. O. F. Willing of Portland, Ore, went down in a hard fight with Roger Wethered, the Oxford star. George V. Rotan of Houston, Tex., and John F. Neville of San Francisco lost in the fourth round this morning. Ouimet won from C.: Bretherton of Handsworth by one hole this after- noon after defeating Neville in the morning. Ouimet kept himself in the running for the championship only after a most trying uphill struggle in the afternoon. He was 3 down on the sixth hole and still 2 down at the turn. He also gave Bretherton & good opportunity togsquare the match on the home green, when he missed a short putt, but Bretherton failed on one of the same length, giving Ouimet the victory. The Bostonian seemed nervous and suffering from the cold on the out- ward stretch, which was played in a driving rain, and he was making every shot quickly and without delib- eration. The sun broke through, however, and on the homeward route the American was his usual steady self except on the greens. Ouimet tomorrow will meet Cyril Tolley, the former British champion, a match which is sure to draw a large gallery. The cards of the Ouimet-Bretherton | match wer: Ouimet—Out, 4 5 5 4 6 4 5 3 6—42. Bre'ton—Out, 4 5 5 3 5 3 6 4 5—40. Quimet— & 8 &8 5—38—80. In 4 5 4 Bretherton— In,4 5 6 5 3 5 5 4 5—41—81 it looked dark for the Americans for a time with Willing out' of it and Bretherton 2 up on Ouimet at the turn, but the Bostonian's pluck and steady play finally brought him home a winner and left him America's best hope, which the English golfing ex- perts have considered him from the beginning. "Grant Looms Large. Grant's victory this afternoon also brings him more prominently to the front as an American possibility for the championship. While the Eng- lish seemed inclined to claim him for thelr own, owing to his many years of residence in the British Isles, the fact remains that he was born in San Francisco, where his father, John D. Grant, stiil lives. He learned his goif on ‘the coast and has at times been California amateur and the Pacific northwest champlon, win- ning the state title at Del Monte four years ago. Ten years ago he mar- ried an English girl, Miss Rutherford, daughter of a member of the British parliament, Wethered defeated Willing, 2 up and 1 to pla: R. I Humphreys of Stourbridge defeated H. E. Taylor, Mid-Surrey, 3 and 1. Ouimet won his morning match after a stubborn struggle, in which Neville sank his first putt on seven (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) PAIRS ARE DRAWN IN TENNIS TOURNEY Manuel and Jose Alonso Face My- rick and Wightman—Rich- ards With M. Fukada. Twelve pairs of tennis players, tation, were drawn for the Chevy Chase Club invitation doubles tourna- ment, which was begun this after- noon, to last until Saturday, in- clusive. The pairings follow: First round, Manuel and Jose Alonso of Spain vs. Myrick and Wightman: Vincent Rich- ards of New York and M. Fukuda of Japan vs. Dabney and partner; Bill Tilden and Sam Hardy vs' Clothier and Larned; Dwight Davis and Ar- thur Hellen vs. Marcus Wallenberg of Sweden and de Serlere of the erlands. - N oeris Wiiliams, Watson Washburn, Harold _Crockmartin, Dean Mathey, Hugh Kelleher, Leonard Beekman, Zenzo Shimuzu and S. Kashio drew Py imuzu and Kashio were slated to play Kelleher and Beekman late this afternoon. Crockmartin and Mathey will not arrive until tomorrow morn- ing, when they will play Willlams and Washburn, many of them of international repu-| 1 | i FRAUD ORDER BARS “USE OF MALS T0 . COOK'S OIL FIRMS Post Office Department Acts to Curtail Promotion Schemes. | [ 1 1 | ACCUSED OF PREYING ON LOSING INVESTORS Charged With Claiming Mergers With Defunct Companies and Urging More Investments. A fraud order designed to curtail the oil stock promotion activitles of | Dr. Frederick A. Cook of north pole | fame by denying him the use of the | mails as an officlal of any petroleum {company was fssued today by the | Post Office Department. The order | the third of its kind to be authorized {in the department’s war on wildca: 0il projects in the southwest. Postmaster General New directed that all mail addressed to Dr. Cook as an officer of any of the ofl companies in which he is {nterested be returned to the sender. This action was taken after special agents of the department had forma:- ly reported that the one-time ex- plorer was making “false and fraudu- lent” representations ‘“intended {deceive and mislead prospective in- vestors” in the Petroleum Producsrs’ Association, of which he was presi- dent. Only 85,000 Available. The report showed that althou Dr. Cook's company had received mor than $438,000 on stock it had sold, o {January 31, 1923, there remained on hand, from all sources, a cash surplus of only a litle more than $5,000, with which to pay dividends aggregating $120,000. There was outstanding stock |to the value of more than $2,500,000, the Postmaster General was informed Dr. Cook organized the Petroleum Producers’ Arfsociation, and as presi- | dent was to receive, by mutual agree- ment, one-eighth of the gross re- ceipts in lieu of all other compensa- jtion. He was the sole trustee, and immediately employed scouts tu travel over the country to obtain 1. of stockholders in other compani | the Post Office Department's repr | sentative reported. ny Mergers. promoter received fr. these agents 300 lists, for which he paid $85,000. He {mmediately pub- lished literature, it is sald, announc- ing a merger of his company with those contained in-the list, despite the fact ‘that #n about 100 cases neither the officers nor stockholders of those concerns knew anything about such a merger. Other of the mergers were with companies that were already defunct. Letters were immediately dis- patched to the &tockholders of all companies, it is said, inducing them to invest 25 per cent of the total yalue of their stock.in the newly. ‘merged” companies. The stockhold- lers were told, according to the de- | partment's report, that unless they | paid the required sum everything they had already invested would be lost. Dr. Cook had no set price for {his stock. He charged from 25 cents to $2 a share, according to the client with whom he was dealing. Promised Fabulous Profits. In one circular Dr. Cook is alleged to have made the following state- ment: “Your dividend is just as safe as any cash distribution can be in any investment. That is, it is safe for the present rate of 2 per cent Interest per month or 24 per cent a year, which means 120 per cent per year on the amount you invested in this com- pany.” The Post Office Department was in- formed that Dr. Cook never paid 120 ver cent interest, or anything like it. To prove this the agents showed that the revenues of the Petroleum Producers’ Assoclation up to January 81, 1923, from the sale of oil and roy- alties owned by the company, “amounted to the sum of $2,§10.39." The stock issued at that time amounted to $2,500,000. Paid Two Dividends . Dr. Cook did pay two dividends amounting to $30,000, but it was shown that at that time his receipts from oil sold and royalties totaled only $1,070.19, and the inference was made that he declared the dividends merely as a means of “baiting” more victims into his alleged swindle. To substantiate this declaration the government investigators showed that” on January 31, 1923, cash on hand from all sources was only $5,660.77, although the $120,000 divi- dend was due. It was never pald. Retracing the former explorer's oil activities, the investigators declared he first entered that field in Wyo- ming as a member of the Cook Oil Company. That venture was highly successful, but the public was never invited to share in the profits, it is said. In 1919 he organized the Texas Eagle Oil Company, with a capital stock of $300,000 and invited the pub- lic to join him. Dr. Cook Is Summoned. Some months later Dr. Cook was declared to have organized the Texas Eagle Producing and Refining Com- pany, with a capital stock of $500,000. In this venture, too, the help of the public was solicited. Then the promoter reorganized both concerns into the Texas Eagle Oil and Refining Company, and issued stock to the value of $5,000,000. He invited the public to buy it, and in 1921 the whole concern failed, with almost a total .loss to all investors. A receiver was appointed, and Dr, Cook merged his interests with the Revere Ofl Com- pany, which is now under Investiga- tion. An official of the Post Office De- partment declared today that the de- partment -had “no idea” where Dr. Cook could be found, “but would be { delighted to know.” He was sum- | moned to appear at the trial yester- day to present reasons why the fraud order should not be issued He diq not put in an appearance, "‘-‘"‘