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WEATHER. Increasing olopdiness t%nlth‘. fol- lowed b, -heflr and probal ldlulorn{s late tonight or tomorrow Warmer tonight. Temperature for 2 hours ended at 3 p.m. today §7, at noon today. Lowest, 39, a.m, today, Full report on page 7. iy thun- Highest, t 5:16 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 [ === No. 28,865. post Entered as second-class matter offico Washington, D. C. CHINESE BRIGANDS HOLDING CAPTIVES INROCKY FORTRESS Hopes for Release of Ameri- cans Hang on Effort of Confidant of Chiefs. LIVES IN PERIL AS FIVE BANDIT CHIEFS QUARREL “Troops Surround Stronghold. Captives Short of Food—Out- laws Ready for Siege. By the Assoclated Press. PEKING, May 11—J. A. Henley ©f San Francisco, one of the Amer- fcans captured by the Chinese ban- dits in the train raid of Inst Sun- day, has been released, according | to a dispatch from Licheng, which reports his arrival there. Mr, Hen- i ley, it 1 added, declared the other ! foretgners still held by the ban- dits are in good health. By the Associated Press. PEKING, May 11.—Hopes of ob- taining freedom for the captives held ®y the Suchow train bandits for ran- som today seems to lle in the efforts of Roy Anderson, an American of long experfence in Chinese political affairs and a personal confidant of several dmportant military leaders. He has announced he will visit the brigands In thelr stronghold at Paotuku and attempt to negotlate with them. He was one of the first on the scene after the hold-up of the Shanghai-Peking express, and since has been counseling and co-operating with the American, British and French consuls at Lincheng. Only One Pass to Enter. Paotuku, the bandits’ stronghold, is southwes of Yikslien, Shantung province, and forty miles west of the railroad. It is described as a large plateau, approachable by only one narrow pass. The outlaws are re- ported to have long used the retreat as a rendezvous and w have stored large quantities of provisions there. They are said to be short of water, d are forced to make fre- quent sorties for it. rding to a report by a Chinese oner, the leader of the brigands Is vouth barely past twenty of the name of Sun Wu or Su Yei-Yao. The Jeader is said to be willing to treat! for the release of his prisoners, pro- vided the troops withdraw seventeen miles from Paotuku. Prisoners Short of Food. Anderson plans to take along food supplies for the foreign captives, who are declared to be subsisting on short rations. The ministry of communications has nstructed representatives at Lincheng to render every assistance to the con- suls and foreign relief part . It is reported that the hardships of the captives have been increased be- cause among the leaders of the Five of the subchiefs E be bargalning for control of the kidnaping arrangements, thus en- taliing frequent shifting of the prison- ers from one camp to another. The government troops, while not pressing the bandits, still are en- circling their stronghold. Miss Aldrich Still in Hospital. Miss Lucy Aldrich, sister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, jr., and daugh- ter of the late Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island, remained in a hospital here today recovering from the nerv- ous shock caused by her day's cap- tivity in the hands of the Chinese bandits who seized the passengers on the Shankhai-Peking express train near Suchow last Sunday. Miss Ald- rich, under the advice of physiclans | refused to be Interviewed. She has been in seclusion, under medical care | since the bandits released her. SCHURMAN AWAITS WO‘ED. By the Assoclated Press. SHANGHAIL May 11.—United States | Minister Schurman, who arrived here with his wife and niece at midnight, announced that he expected hourly | to hear that the Suchow traln bandits | hed released all of their captives, ‘The most important factor in ob- taining the release of the. peisnncrs, sald, was the \\‘llh-’ the government troops which had pursued the brigands fto! thelr stronghold. This was now be- | ing carried out, he sald, to such an' extent that négotlations with the | bandits could proceed i “The Chinese authorities, my opinion, are doing_everything pos. | sible,” 'said Mr. Schurman. = “The employment of foreign military forces has not been considered.” ARMY TO SHOW T-2 AT SHRINE SESSION' | " 1 Record-Breaking Monoplane and f Radio Wagon Will Be Ex- hibited Here. The Army's giant monoplane T-2,| fn which Lieuts. Oakley Kelly and| John A. MacReady made the first| transcontinental flight from New | York to San Diego, Calif, will be| exhibited by the Army alr service in | ‘Washington during the Shrine con- wvention. Orders have been lssued by Maj. Gen. Patrick, chief of the alr service, | for the two officers to return from | Han Dliego with the machine to Mc- Cook Field, Dayton, Ohlo, stopping oft at Kansas City, Mo,, for a Satur- May and Sunday. It was explalned today that the commanding officer at McCook Field would designate pilots to bring the machine to Washington, and it de- pended upon conditions at the field lers of the post whether McReady and Kelly ‘would be its pilots on that trip. Another feature of the air service exhibit in Washington will be the radio-controlled wagon, which will be run through the streets guided y epparatus in an automobile trail- ‘some distanoce-behind the wagon.| Scientist Given $1,000 Prize But Now Asks Why Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, head curator of blology at the Natlonal Museum,, . has been awarded the Walker grand prize conferred at intervals of three years by the Boston Soclety or natural History for sclentific services, but Dr. Stej- neger doesn't know what for. Dr. Stejneger sald, when In- formed of the award, through an Assoclated Press dispatch from Boston, that he had received no ‘word, and could not say just ex- actly what the award was for, un- less It is for his general services in the interest of biology. Dr>- Stejneger has been with local museum since 1881. “I guess I must have got the $1,000 prize because I have been here so long,” the head curator of biology smiled. CANAL PROTEGTION URCED BY PANANA Asks U. S. Safeguard Re- public From Absorption and Duty on Imports. By the Associated Press. PANAMA, May 11.—In a memoran- dum submitted to Secretary of War Weeks, the government of Panama asserts that inasmuch as the canal has been completed the United States should definitely declare that it now holds all land necessary for the pro- tection of the waterway, thereby af- fording a safeguard against expro- priation which might eventually re- sult in the absorption of the entire republic. The memorandum sets forth Panama’s position with regard to several points in her relations with the United States. It asserts that the leasing of commissaries to private concerns Is acceptable to Panama only If the com- | panies vy duty on all importations. The Panama Railroad Company, it says, should pay the taxes on Its varlous commercial enterprises in this country and should make res- titution of all urban property in the citles of Panama and Colon under article § of the canal treaty. Ask Transportation. It is necessary, the communication says, that Panama should have means of crossing the canal withou® hind- ance, thus facilitating communica- tion between the two sections of the republic. Inasmuch as certaln Pan- ma roads may be used by the Amer- can government for strategical pur- poses, the note says the bridges on such ‘highways should be of heavy nstructfon and suggests that the United States pay for such improve- ments, as bridges of light construction suffice for local needs. The special housing facilities of- fered by the canal administration, the memorandum declares, have caused a depopulation of the West Indian districts In Panama City and Colon. Another point in the memorandum 1s that importations by canal em- ployes should be subject to duty. RUSSIANS RELEAS BRTISH SALORS Soviet Representatives in London, However, Are Pre- paring to Depart. By the Associated Press. HULL, England, May 11.—The own- trawler James Johnson, selzure of which recently occasioned a protest from Great Britain to the { Russian soviet government, have re- celved a telegram from the skipper, ellsen, stating that he has been re- leased by the bolsheviki and now is at a Norweglan port, expecting to sall homeward. Russtans Preparing to Leave. By Cable to The Star ard Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1923, LONDON, May 11.—The official rep- resentatives in London of the bolshe- vist government are making ready for a hasty departure should Moscow fall to comply with the terms laid down in Lord Curzon's note. In vir- tually all quarters the bellef s firmly held that the trade agreement of 1921 must go overboard no matter how hard hit may be some British manu- facturers or financiers who have ad- vanced money for Russian trade. At its best thls trade agreement has been & flimsy affair, affecting only the most transient of commerclal connections hastily constructed to meet an emer- gency, but now definitely proved a failure. Labor Party Aroused. Lord Curzon's ultlmatum has aroused intense anger among the members of the labor party in the house of commons as well as among liberals, who feel that every method of negotiation and compromise should be exhausted before again breaking off relations. No amount of arguing can tear down the facts set forth regarding ! the outrageous attacks on the White sea flshermen who are continually harassed by bolshevist gunboats, robbed of thelr catches and forced to dellver their vessels to the soviet government. Should a break in relations occur, as every one expects, the first war- like moves would undoubtedly occur- in the White sea region, where two British destroyers are now operating, but are held in restraint by what for- mal bonds still tie Great Britain and Russia. When these bonds are severed | some exciting brushes may occur be- tween the ralding boleshvist cutters | and the British fishery guardians. ADEQUATE ARMY URGED, SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 11.—The need for an adequate program of na- tional defense was inted out last night by Vice President Coolidge, in an address at a meeting uf Spring- field Post, American Legion. He said that the nation must main- tain an Army and Navy sufficlent to meet the requirements of a country of its size, but that thg polley of national defense must well de- fineds . ch WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MAY 11, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening St ar. as fast as t The 3Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes Within the Hour” he papers are printed. | | Yesterday's Net Circulation, 93,564 1923 —FORTY-FOUR PAGES. LAUSANNE PARLEY SHAKEN Y NURDER OF SOVIET ENOY Reprisals Against Swiss Citi- zens in Russia Feared as Result of Slaying. MOSCOW FULLY TOLD OF DIPLOMAT SHOOTING Bolshevik Delegation Declares Switzerland Refused Protection After Fascist Threats. By the Assoclated Press. LAUSANNE, May 11.—The murder of M. Vorovsky, head of the Russian sovlet delegation to the near east con- ference, by Maurice Alexander Conradi, & Swies, who once served in the Russ| army, has etirred Switzerland has no single event since the assassination of Empress Elizabcth of Austria at Geneva in 1898, Conradi. who was seized by the police in Hotel Cecil after he had killed Vorov- eky and wounded two attaches of the Russlan delegation, continues to main- tain that he acted alone to avenge his | father and uncle for mistreatment they reccived at the hands of the bolshevikl. The general fmpression In near east conference circles is that the excitement caused by last evening's events will not | directly affect the course of the negotia- tions because Vorovsky was not re- garded as an official Russian delegate, inasmuch as the soviet government w: not Invited to the conference. Swing Fear Results. Switzerland, however, keenly feels the position in which Conradl's act places her, and fears that world opin- lon may hold local patriotic assocta- | tions morally or materially respo |ble, tnasmuch as the Swiss fascist organization recently ordered Vorov- |sky to leave the country or take the | consequences. The fmplication in the latter alternative, spokesmen of the {fascistl assert, meant nothing more rious than that Vorovsky would be {dosed with castor oil or run out of the country as a penalty for his attacks on the Swiss government for its re- | fusal to grant a visa to 2 soviet cour- fer to Lausanne, Police Inquiries have failed to con- nect Conradi with the fascistl at Lausanne. The Zurich police have heen asked to {nvestigate reports that he was a memjer of the organ- ization’s branch in hat eity. Reds Attack Swiss. Russians In Lausanne, however, were quick to place responsibility for the crime on local agltation against Vorovsky. They also attacked the! Swiss authoritles for failing to pro- tect the representative ot Moscow in view of the fascist threats, and ex- pressed bitterness against the allles for creating what they termed a da gerous local atmosphere of hostility | to the Russians. A full report of the tragedy has been sent to Moscow, Vorovsky, with Hermann Ahren.. the Russlan press agent at the first | Lausanne_conference, and J. Didwil- | kowsky, Vorovsky's ' secretary, were | at a tadie in a hotel dining room when | the tragedy occurred. Conradi, who was sitting not far from the Russian party, leisurely finished his own meal, arose from his chair and, walking ward the three men, opened fire with a revolver. Vorovsky recelved the first bullet in his neck and coliapsed | across the table, dying almost in-| stantly. Ahrens, drawing the weapon he always carrled, was restrained from firing by a walter, just as Did- wilkowsky was shot twice in the ab- domen. Almost immediately Conradi fired two bullets into Ahrens’ thigh and one In the shoulder. He then sought out the proprietor of the hotel, to whom he turned over his revolver with the announcement that he would awalit the police. Ahrens Will Recover. Physi¢lans sald early today that Ahrens probably would recover, but that Didwilkowsky's condition was critical. Apprehension for the safety of the Swiss residents of Russia, numbering about 800, is expressed, both by the public and the press, in consequence of Vorovsky’'s assassination. ‘When Vorovsky attacked the Swiss government because a bolshevik courler from Moscow was refused a visa by the Swiss minister in Berlin, ! it was announced that no official ac- | tion would be taken agalnst Voro sky, particularly as the Swiss gov- ernment was anxious to avold endan- gering Swiss business men who went to Russia to reopen trade relations. The police today declared they were not obliged to give special pro- tection to Vorovsky, as he was not an official delegate to the conference, but that nevertheless, the chief of (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) ESCAPES IN WRECK CHASING RUM CAR Policeman’s Auto Hurled Over Fence as Negro Whisks Away With Liquor. Policeman Thomas Hayes, thirty- one years old, attached to the fifth precinct station, narrowly escaped death today when his automoblile was wrecked during a thrilling pursuit of a colored bootlegger. The bootlegger sped past Hayes at New Jersey avenue and L street southeast with the tonneau of his big touring car packed with cases of corn whisky. Although Hayes was driving a small, light car he gave chase. Realizing that speed alone would ve him from arrest, the negro open- ed his throttle and raced down New Jersey avenue at express train speed. The strain soon told on the police- man’s machine, and, as he reached the intersection of 8th and F streets southwest his steering gear broke. The uncontrollable automobile jumped the curbstone, crossed the pavement and turned turtle over an fron fence. ‘When Hayes dragged himself from beneath the debris of his wrecked car the bootlegger was out of sight. Haves' injuries conaisted of cuts and bruises. | garding the reply to Berlin, and no | new suggestions for the solution of T IS REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE, ‘TRY AGAIN. BRITISH TOADVISE GERMANY Completed Note Points Out Inadequacy of Offer in Simple Language. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, May 11.—Brevity and in- cisiveness are the features of Great Briain's newest note to Germany on the reparations question, which now Is complete. The document, consisting of | two typewriten pages, avolds technical details, polnts out in simple language the inadeq from the British view- point of ¢ 's proposals and urges her to try again. The note probably will be delivered to the German ambassador here tomorrow or Sunday, coples meantime being trans- mittsd "t France and Belgium as an act of courtesy. As already indicated, Ttaly's reply fol- lows the same general lines as the English response and will be presented to Berlin simultaneously. No Advance Coples for U. S. As the United States Is not directly concerned with reparations the Brit- sh government has not entered into with Washington re- conversations advance coples of the cabinet’s note will g0 to the United States. British ofticlals here, however, are much in- -sted in the views of the American government and are anxious to see whether the United States has any the reparation problem. New Offer Expected. PARIS, May 11.—A new German reparation offer is expected to grow out of the British reply to Chancellor Cuno’s note, according to well in- formed circles. It is believed here that the Germans have. been considering the plan ad- vanced by the British at the Paris confergnce in January with a view to ascertalning if certain modifications would make it acceptable to the French. 14 LEFT IN TENNIS TOURNAMENT HERE Williams, Washburn, llichuds,l Fukuda, Alonso Brothers and Other Stars Remain. Only fourteen are left in the Chevy Chase Club invitation doubles, the semi-finals having been reached in matches played early today. Alonso brothers of Spain, Norris Willlams of Philadelphia and Watson Washburn of New York are the survivors In the upper half, while Vincent Richards of New York, and Massamosque Fukuda of Japan, and Harold Throckmorton of Elizabeth, N. J., and Dean Mathey of New York are the pairs remaining in the lower part of the bracket. Willlams and Washburn today de- feated Alfred S. Dabney of Boston d Marcus Wallenberg of Sweden, 65, 8—6. Throckmorton and Mathey won from Hugh Kelleher and Leonard Deekman, & New York team, §—§, 6—3. Throckmorton and Mathey weres to play Richards and Fukuda early this afternoon, the winners going into the lower-half finals. This will leave two matches for tomorrow, Willlams and Washburn playing the Alonso brothers in the upper-half semi-finals and the victors in this contest play- ng the team that survives today's play. HONOLULU TO D. C. MAIL IN 150 HOURS IS GOAL SAN FRANCISCO, May 11.—The new scout crulser Omaha, racing here from Honolulu, is expected to com- Pplete its jourgay today in the record- breaking time of seventy-five hours, and also to set a record for mail delivery from Honolulu to Washing- ton. The existing record of 100 hours is held by the H. F. Alexander, for- merly the Great Northern, made in 1916. . *Man pouches from the Omaha will be carried to Reno by rail, from Reno to Ogden by mail airplane, from Og- den to Chicago by rall and the rest of the distance by air malil. Postal officials hope for a record of 150 hours. The distance from Pearl Har- bor. Homolulu, 44 San Franciso is 2,091 mlles, ) TWO CENTS. OF COURSE WE HAVE OUR DIFFERENCES NBUT-LOOK . yQUER THE Outside Aid Hope Gone in Germany, Houghton Asserts 5 elated Press. NEW YORK, May 11.—Germany has given up all hope of obtaining outside ald in the settlement of her reparations problem and has come to the realization that she must work her troubles out alc Alanson B. Hougbton of ( N. Y. American ambassador Berlin, who arrived for a four- week vacation on the George Washington today. “Germany Is friendly toward the Tnited States.” he said, “but she no longer looks on us as a country which may help her. She reallzes that she alone can pull herself out of the rut. I think Germany wants more than anything else a scttlement of the reparations ques- tion, “I don’t think Germany is looking for war. She wants to work and work peacefully.” SURVEY LIGHTENS ALLEY LAW BURDEN Only Few Dwellers Must Go, Building Inspector’s Office Decides. After making a careful survey of all inhabited alleys, offictals of the building inspector’s office have found that only a mere handful of the 10,- 000 alley dwellers will have to vacate on June 1, when the closing law be- comes effective, A. S. J. Atkinson, an asslstant bullding Inspector, has gone through every alley to determine how many of them fail to meet the requirements lald down in the closing law, which must be present if the dwellings are to remain in use. Corporation Counsel Stephens ren- dered a decision a few weeks ago, in which he held that under the terms of the act of Congress any alley that was more than thirty feet wide, that had sewer or water facilities and gas or electricity, would not have to be closed. It is understood that Mr. Atkinson's survey discloses that only a small number of alleys fail to meet the requirements. The reports of the survey will be placed in the hands of Maj, Raymond Wheeler, assistant engineer commis- sloner, tomorrow or Monday, and he probably will place it before the Board of Commissloners at the board meeting on Tuesday. ‘With only two weeks remaining be- fore June 1, the city heads will be forced to decide promptly what course they will pursue on the first day of the month. Another factor entering Into the situatjon is the sult for injunction ap- plied for by owners of a number of al- ley dwellings, which is now awaliting a decision in the District Supreme Court. The task of declding how far to go with the alley closing law in view of the fact that Washington will be crowded with visitors on June 1 is one of the most perplexing problems that any board of Commissioners has had to face in recent years. Obtains Wedding License as Joke, Mark Declares;| Benjamin D. Mark today re- turned for cancellation a marriage license which he took out yester- day afternoon and remarked: “It is all a joke.™ Mark, who is twenty-three years old, visited Col. W. A Kroll, the license clerk, with Miss Ida Burak, twenty-one years old, and secured the permit. A man who accompanied the couple then stated that they had known each other only flve min- utes, but the clerk did not put any credence in that statement and the license was issued. Mark’s little joke cost him $1, as Col. Kroll could not refund the Jcense feay WATCHMAN ROUTS THIEVES IN FINE CAR Tells Police Four Young Men Tried to Strip Apartment Hall in Night. A bold attempt by four automobile thieves to strip the apartment house hall furnishings was frustrated by the watchman shortly before mid- night last night. The robbers drove calmly up to the front door of the place in a glisten- ing-new, high-priced touring car. All four alighted, walked into the hall- way and were about to depart again with chairs, pictures and mirrors when the watchman happened to walk out of an adjoining room. As he reached for his pistol the bandits dropped their booty, dashed out and into their automobile, and sped away before they could be stopped. A thorough description of all four was furnished the police. They were young and well dressed, according to the watchman, who said he could readily identify them. Two of the number were recognized as young men who had called at the apartment house earlier in the day disguised as book salesmen. Their mission, ap- parently, was really to determine whether’ or not another visit with their two companions would be profit- able. DYNAMITE REPLY TO KRUPP VERDICT Sabotage Gangs Blow Up Bridge and Cut Off Coal Going to France. | By the Assoclated Press. ESSEN, May 11.—Sabotage gangs dynamited an important rallway bridge last night as their apparent anawer to the verdict of the French court-martial at Duesseldorf impos Ing the death sentence upon Albert Schlogetter, convicted with six others on charges of sabotage and esplonage. The bridge was on the main line between Waltrop and Lunen. The burgomasters of these two towns have been arrested by the French military authorities and It is expect- ed fines wiil be imposed. Cutting of the rafiroad line interferes with the transportation of coal and coke from the Dortmund district and will cause considerable inconvenlence to the French, Essen was like a deserted city to- day. All the stores, factories and public utilities were shut down from 11 am. until 4 p.m. in protest against the conviction of Baron Krupp, von Bohlen and other officlals of the Krupp works by a French court-mar- tial. " During these hours there was not even a policeman on the streets. The Krupp directors opposed the demonstration, it is understood, but the workmen insisted upon it, so the Krupp works as well as all the other plants were closed. THREE OF FAMILY DEAD, THREE INJURED, IN CRASH Railway Train Hits Automobile at Ohio Grade Crossing—Those Eurt in Serious Condition. By the Ansuciated Press CINCINNATI, Ohlo, May 11.—Three members of the family of Joseph Fiacher, a contractor of Hartwell, a suburb, are dead, and the father and {two others are serlously injured as a result of a grade crossing accident !in Hartwell last night when the au- tomoblle In which they were riding iwas struck by a Baltimore and Ohlo 'l-ut passenger train. |_The dead are: Mrs. Elizabsth | Fischer, forty years old, and her two jsons, Edward and Richard, aged, re- spectively, thirteen and eleven. injured are: Joseph Fischer, the fdther, and two other sons, George, aged nine, and Robert, age eight. Mrs, Fischer was killed al- most instantly and the two boys died during the night. A misinterpretation by Filscher of a signal glven by the crossing watch. man, Clements Grote, may have been responsible for the accident. Grote said_he waved his flag as a signal for Fischer to stop. Fischer, at the hospita], gald the crossing watchman had nvsé‘hln a “cloar slgnak” at 1909 19th street northwest of its| ipert, Hn the manufacture of lumber. Blair Defines Scope of Recent Liquor Decision A preliminary interpretation of the recent Supreme Court decision barring liquor within American territorial waters has been made by Commlssioner Blair of the in- ternal revenue bureau, for the guldance of revenue and customs officers, The new definitions as eet out by Commissioner Blair, follow: ““Transportation’ means any real carrying about. ‘Importation’ means any actual bringing in from outside the coun- ry. ““Territory’ as used in the eight- eenth amendment, means the re- glonal areas of land and adfacent waters over which the United States.claims and exercises domin- fon and control as a soverelgn power. “American vessels on the high seas are not territory within this meaning. “Hoth American and forelgn ves- sels within the territorial jurisdic- tlon of the Unlited States are sub- ject to the elghteenth amendment and the natfonal prohibition act.” OUIMET IS BEATEN INGOLF SEMHFINAL Poor Putting Costs Match With Wethered, 2 and 1, Despite Gallant Fight. By the Assoclated Press. DEAL, May 11.—Francis Outmet, last hope of the visiting American golfers in the British amateur cham- plonship tournament, went down to defeat this afternoon after a gallant uphlll struggle. Roger Wethered, took the Oxford ex- the Bostonian's measure in the semi-finals, 2 and 1, after Ouimet had overwhelmed Cyril Tolley, considered England's best bet, | 4 and 3, in the morning round. Grant Also Beaten, The last trace of American color | to the champlonship affray was lost | through the result of the other semi- final match, in which Robert Harris of tho Royal and Anclent defeated Douglas Grant, American resident of | England, 5 and 4. Ouimet and Wethered went out in & thunderstorm and a heavy wind|Vey's from the southwest. Wethered won the first hole, 4 to 5, Ouimet falling to sink his second putt. They halved the second in fours, COL. HARVEY DENIES HE PLANS T0 QuIT OR RUN CAMPAIGN “Interesting,” Ambassador Says of Report He May Be in Next Harding Cabinet. HE’S NOT “PRO-ENGLISH,” NEITHER IS HE A “FOOL” Denounces Story of British Hatred for U. S.—Lloyd George Com- ing Next Autamn. Dy the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, May 11.—George Har- vey, American ambassador to Great Eritaln, declared, upon his arrival on the steamship George Washington to- day, that he knew nothing about re- ports that he had resigned or plan- ned to realgn, in order to direct a campalgn for the renomination and re-election of President Harding. The ambassador declared he saw no reason for affirming or denying tho reports concerning his resignation. “Of course, I expect to resign some day,” he sald. “Every ambassador to the court of St. James, with one ex- ception, has resigned—and he dled But when I will resign I do not know.” Col. Harvey sald he had accepted an invitation to sall back to England July 4 on the malden trip of the re- conditioned steamer Leviathan, Told of the reports that he was to have a place in President Harding's cabinet if he were re-elected in 1924, AMr. Harvey smiled and sald they were Interesting If true.” Replies to Charges. Asked for comment on the resolu- tions recently adopted by the New York and Massachusetts legislatures calling for his return on the ground that he was pro-British, Col. Harvey sald: “As far as my pro-English senti- ments are concerned, I am an Ameri- can, but I am not a damned fool.” He smiled when he was asked whether he planned to revive Har- Weekly for the presidential campalgn of 1924, and said, “I haven't engaged a printer yeot” Col. Harvey sald his present visit | They halved the third in fives. Ouimet laid Wethered a stymie on the fourth, and squared the match when Wethered knocked Ouimet's ball into the cup. The next two holes were Bquared, but on the seventh, with both in the rough on their drives, Oulmet's second was trapped, and he was beyond the green with hi fourth. He aimost sank a forty-foot putt to square the match, but lost the hole. The eighth was halved. On the ninth Wethered hooked into the crowd, but the ball bounced from a spectator's head to the fairway. The crowd of nearly 3,000 cheered when Ouimet missed his third putt on_this green. With the tenth squared, Wethered went on playing steadily, but not: brilliantly. His first putt was sunk on the eleventh, twelfth and thir- teenth, when he became 4 up with 5 to go. Ouimet's poor twelfth, where he lost three putts putting took for a six. He also missed a short one | on the thirteenth. As the end of the match drew near the Bostonlan made a courageous ef- fort to overtake the Britisher. He won the fourteenth and fifteenth and seemed on the point of taking the sixteenth, which would have squared the match, but his putt, which ran around Wethered’s quarter stymle, refused to go in after lipping the cup. Oulmet's last hope expired with this shot, as the seventeenth was halved, giving the victory to the Britisher. The American's through the fairway was not up to his morning’s standard and he was several times in the rough. The thunderstorm in which the match started lasted until two holes (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) PROTESTS NEGROE MIGRATION NORTH Pine Association Head Ap- peals to Colored Labor to Stay in South. Declaring the labor situation in the south had become acute, John M. Gibbs of Norfolk, secrstary of the North Carolina Plne Assoclation, has written Emmett J. Scott of Howard Unlversity protesting against efforts to stimulate an exodus of negroes from the south to the north. Referring to a recent telegram sent by Scott to E. H. Gary of the Unlted States Steel Corporation, suggesting | that negroes were avallable for work in the industrial regions of the east, Mr. Gibbs asked to be “put In touch ‘with the facilities whereby thé mem- bers of the North Carolina Pine As- soclation can draw on the 83,000,000 negro laborers which you state are available to supply any deficlencies In the industrial reglons of the country.” Have Labor Shortage, “The members of the North Carolina Pine Associaiton,” Mr. Gibbs said, “are scattered throughout the states of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, in which ataf approximately 60,000 negroes are employed, and happlly so, At no time in the past six months have we had a surplus of labor at our mills and in the yards and woods. “The situation today is much worse than it was even three months ago and to such an extent are our manu- facturers suffering from a shortage of labor that none of thie mills are run- ning to full capacity. Wi is true in the lumber fndustry I true in other industries in the stal named,” the ! play | was his first leave of absence in two years. He was in the United States {about a month ago, but came that time on ofMelal business and wa. jobliged to hurPy back, Conditfons in England, the amb: | sador said, are improving rapidly, The { economlc situation is much better and jcredit has been re-established as result of the adjustment of the wi | debt to the United States, he sald. Unemployment {s decreasing at the rate of 20,000 a week, and there are only 1,200,000 unemployed left in England. Reason for Strike. The unempioyment, he sald, had been one of the chief causes of the great British emigration to the United States, many of the emigrants being armers, attracted by the high wages paid for farm labor In this country. The recent farm workers' strike in England, he said, was called to ob- tain a 25-shilling weekly wage, which just about corresponds with the Ameri- can scale for farm labor. British { financiers hoped soon to re-establish the parity of the sterling pound, Col. | Harvey added. The ambassador denounced talk of British hatred for the United States as “preposterous,” declaring the sen- timent in England for the United States was more friendly than it ever had been before. He declined to di cuss British politics or the World Court and league of nations issu | _David Llovd George, former Brit | premier, plans to come to America in the autumn, Col. Harvey said. Lord Birkenhead 1s coming over in August to address the political Institute 4t Willlams College. Coming to Washington. Col. Harvey said that he and Mrs. Harvey would proceed within a few days to Washington, where he ex- pects to see President Harding. Then, he sald, he would go to his home in Peacham, Vt, for a short rest, de- spite the fact that he expected to face some criticism there as a result of his recently widely clrculated declaration that all the inhabitants of Peacham had British ancestors. When it was called to his attention that a German had been found In Peacham, the ambassador said: “Well, he must have arrived after 1 left there. STILL LIMITS LIQUOR T0 PHYSICIANS HERE Dry Chief Deolares New York De- cision Applies Only to That District. There will be no change in the liquor prescription situation for the present In Washington, following Federal Judge Knox's dectsion in New York removing the federal re- strictions for that district, according to Edgar N. Read, divisional chief of general prohibition enforcement agents. This means, Mr. Read explained, that Washington physiclans will be restricted, as before, to 100 prescrip- tion blanks every ninety days and one pint of liquor per patient every ten days. In the New York district, under Judge Knox's jurisdiction, it was ex- plained at prohibition headquarters, the -court decision will apply to re- move the Volstead act limitations in that respect, but the liberalization will not for the present be extended beyond that jurisdiction. The government was understood to- day to be preparing to appeal the case and In the meantime to ask for 2 stay of execution of Knox's in- Junction. CATHOLIC CHANCELLOR DIES. NEW YORK, May 11.—Mgr. Joseph Dinsen, chancellor of the n Catholic dlocess of New York, died ay in St. Vincent's Hospital. He 48 Recrotary to Archbishop- Hages, b4