Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Bhowers tonight and tomorrow; warm- er tonight; cooler tomorrow night. Tem- perature for twenty-four hours ended ag 5 pm. toda: Highest, 71, at 3:40 pn. yesterday; lowest, 55, at 6 a.m. y. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 No. 28,869. Entered as second-class post_officeWashington, matter D. C. CHINESE ~ BANDITS PREPARE T SLAY PRISONERS ~ TODAY IF DEMANDS FAL Grim Leader of Outlaws De- mands Brigand Force Be Taken Back Into Army Be- . fore Captives Are Released WANT NO RANSOM; ASK ONLY SOLDIERS’ STATUS German Priest Rushes ' Outlaws’ Terms to Diplomats at Lincheng to Save Captives’ Lives—Con- verses With Several of Ameri- cans Held in Hills. Ry the Assomiated Progs. SHANGIHAT, , M 15.—TUnless the forelgn diplomatic representatives in China guarantee by tonight that the Chinese “government will carry out 1 the terms fixed by the Chines VAndits in the Shantung hills relgners held captive will Yilled. Father Willlam Lenfo <ed priest, who conferred with the andit chieftain Sunday, reported to the American consul at Lincheng ther Lenfers described the chief- tain, called Wang, as “a young man, dressed, wearing ye priest persuaded Wani o A the limit of had been fixed -HIl Sunday. © pledges of Chinese officials meant n. thing to the bandit and hene the word of the forcign diplomats must be given. i S nd for Bis ultimatum, Want No Rtansom. Command. Wang drafted terms —which did not dem, but required that the Peking gov- €rnment restore all the bandits the status of regular soldiers, with a pledge that they would suffer no Teprisals. d Father Lenfers, arriv- ing in Lincheng after fnnumerable hardships, presented Wang's letter to the Amerlcan consul today. The priest said the leader of the outlaws, “quiet-toned, cordial, friend 1y, grim,” made this ‘comment on the Dossible faflure of the Chinese gov- ernment and the foreign mini do_his biddin| B e ‘Do not_deceive yourself or believe | me soft. What I threaten I will carry | out exactly as I promise. Yoy are| missionary and you know that what say s true” Gives Vivid Picture. Tmmedlately after reporting to the ! his consul the priest dispatched a letter (Pavment of -Teparations over and Speakers united in dep to Max Friedman, a brother of Leon Friedman, one of the captives. The letter, which was delivered to the ciated Press fn Shanghal today, | vivid picture of the priests | Interview with the leader of the out- | | 't came telllng me thag the second in command was coming. He ! arrived with an armed guard with | three rifles and about twenty drawn | Mauser pistols. “He ordered me to | We went over the mountaiu top and arrived at a small- er village, where he told me were| quarters. 1 saw bandits ' everywhere, but all were respectful. | Lender Quiet, Grim, “Tn a clean room having a table end four henches, 1 was given the | ! of honor, un Mel-jan, the ' second in command, seated himself | opposite others who entered. Then | @ young man ¢ ¢ ¢ clean, well dressed, | wearing eveglasses—appeared. The others showed him every mark of| respect, and 1 then learned that he was called Wang, the commander-in- chief. Throughout our interview he was * quiet-toned, cordial, friendly, rim. *pt well {n the bandit village, Wrote. “It was 9 when a mes a t &t my left, hevex- | plained that his men were not bandits, but had beerr deprived of their livli- | hoods when they were dismissed as iers, unpaid. © They determined on | kidnaping of forelgn- | ers to force 'eking to re-enroll them | all in the military” service, He em-| phasized that they did not want money in return for the captives, “I listened to ev hing he "said| and promised overything that I felt | I could promise. Prepared to Ki “Wang quietly told me that he had prepared for the slaughter of his| captives unless his demands were ac- | cepted within, first he said three days, | then two days. The demands were| that the troups be withdrawn with the | assurance given that there would be no reprisals in any form, and guar-| antees that the bandits be re-enlisted | in tho military forces. “I talked with him for more than an hour. but was unable to softén or modify the demands, which in- cluded guarantees from the forelgn diplomats, since the bandits were un- willing to_accept any pledges from | Chinese officials, however placed. lowed to See Captives. “Then 1 begged to see the captives. First they brought in Leon Fried- man. He looked well, and sat down and talked to me for a quarter of an hour. He then called Eddy Elfas, | since he talks German. Ellas -also | was well. Red-cheeked Maj. Allen | then was brought in. He was calm, melf possessed. Next the younger | Ellas was carried in—carried because, his rlght foot was infected and badly’ swollen, the condition of it looking serfous. When he asked for med!- | cine the bandits told him a doctor| was coming to see Chevaller Musso (an Itallan attorney of Shanghal), Ellas said his foot palned him, talked to the captives, told them all what was being done and ex- plained the demands of the bandits. | “Then 1 resumed my conference | with the chieftain. After I had, begged him and plead with him he | agreed to lengthen the period of his ultimatum, fixing three days (from May 12). “He absolutely refused to modity his terms. Talking with an unmoved ex- pression n an unraised volce he de- «olared that If his demands wera not met in three days he would Lill all. He added that the foreign diplomats must uarantee his requirements. “The ' thieftain' then * ordered that the terms be drafted. . This was done, (Contnued on Page 3, Column 2.) Wangg | nd money, | to **! warned Ismet that G |a Moslem ruler under a French pro- { meeting. imany difficulties {a final settiement will - Reichstag Believe‘;x " WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foening PRPRPRRR: x 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, 93,524 WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1923—FORTY-SIX PAGES. 1Germany, at Her Wits’ End, May Put Case Up to World Only Path Open Is Note to Creditors Consenting to Inter- national Body to Fix Obligations. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, May 15.—The allied replies to the reparations offer of May 2 have engendered in official and reichstag circles a belief that the only path now open to Germany may well be the dispatch of a brief, formal note to_thée creditor powers suggesting that inasmuch ag the reich is appar- ently unable to make concrete and precise proposals, she unreservedly consents to permit a commission of | International economiats to determins her obligations, Such a solutlon of the diplomatic deadlock, ft s argued, would afford the entente statesmen an opporttni to Indicate their approval of or opy | sitlon to a plan aiming at an wltl- | mate settlement of the reparations question based on economic prinel iand on German capacity to pa Germany, as well as the entente, shoul be represented on such a commission. Incorporated fn 014 Offer, Although this sugkestion was fn- corported »1n the releh’s recent offer, it was burfed In the body of the note in a manner which subordinated it to the proposals, »vernment officlals who have {informally discussed the exchange of notes see no possibility that a new MOVE T0 PREVENT TURK-GREEK CLASH IAllies Act When Venizelos | Warns Ismet to Limit Rep- arations Demands. i | By the Acsociatad Press, ; LAUSANNE May 1 ~The efforts {of the allies at the near east peace conference here are being directed at present toward averting a possib i break between Greece and Turkey over the question of reparations. | Former Premler Venlzelos and M. | Alexandris,’ the Greek foreign min {Ister, had a lengthy conference yes- |terday with Ismet Pasha, head of the | Turkish delexation, on this question. !So far ‘as appears no grounds for a speedy and satisfactory solution were discovered. It Is declared, however, Greece's | position was emphatically stated by M. Venizelos, and that he cece, with her army, at present strong and well equipped, . would® not stand for any {above the sum which it might be adjudged wis due (reece from Turkey. MOVE ON THRACE SEEN. Turks Believe Greek Army Will Act if Allies Approve. BY CONSTANTINE BROW) By Cabie ta The Star and Chicago Daily News. Coprright, 1623 CONSTANTINOPLE, May 15.—News from Lausanne is ‘received In Turk- ish circles with a certain amount of skepticism. s The situation in Greece Is clear. The ‘present Greek governmefit suc- ceeded in overthrowing King Con- stantine on promises that-they would save Thrace. In this they falled. Un- less it is able to recover Eastern Thrace the days of the revolutionary government are numbered. Plastiras | and Pangalos, leaders of the govern-| ment, are too ambitious to glve up, their present position and are con-| sequently eager to play their last| card, fight the Turks and reconquer Thrace and eventually Constanti- nople. The Greek army has a better chance than ever bafore to realize the old dream. In Thrace at present it out- numbers the Turks three to one and is provided with a much better arma- ment and equipment. If 0 far the Greeks have kept qufet it was be- cause they feared that the allles would not permit the resumption of hostilities in the near -east. Turks Fear Advanee. The Turks fear that In the last few days the -allies have ‘changed their | attitude and are willing to give the Greeks a chance to recover their lost provinces, and hence Venizelos' threat- ening attitude at Lausanne. The Turks again mistrust_every- body, but -2specially the French, whom they accuse of plotting againsi the nationalist government. The, main argument is that the French! have allowed the former sultan, who | is now In Switzerland, to summon & pan-Islamic congress in Damascus, to which the Sultan of Morocco, 1t is announced, will send d:legates. It is argued that if the French are not hostile to the Kemalist govern- ment they would not permit the for- mer sultan to hold a.meeting In a province under a French mandate dnd | | tectorate, Who 8o far has refrained from taking part in the pan-Islamic movement, to send delegates td the Press Changes Tone, Local Greek newspapers which until now have advocated a separate peace with Turkey have changed their tone suddenly, and the Prula, a Greek sheet | inspired by the Athens government, says: It 18 useless to try to save the Lausanne conference from its fate, All hope is lost and the guns will Boon speak agaln.” ¢ The allled authorities, however, claim that all this excitement is un- avoldable and that in spite of the still in the way be reached and peace signed probably before the middle of June. Gen. Harrington,' commander-in. chief of the allled army of occup: tion, has sald publicly that the evacu- ation of Constantinople is only a question of a few weeks. SHOT BY MASKED MEN. By the Associated Press, BUFFALO, N. Y., May 15.—Resist- ing an attack by two masked men, Ralph Hosler of Findlay, Ohlo,; New York Central rallroad timekeeper, was shot and probably fatally wound-. ed early today. that | ‘ German offer could be made which would not likewlise be rejected on the ground of fts flexibility. They con- tend that German finances and eco- nomics are becoming riecadily worse. Talk of & government crisis is dis- missed as inviting a needless com- plication of an already gravely ag- gravated internal and forelgn situa- tion. There seems to be ne reici- stag group which would willingly {assume the logucy Chancellor Cuno | would leave behind. United Socialists Wars, The united soclalists, of ull the par- | tien. least ampire to government hon- ors in the present situation, cspeclally | |in view of the alllex’ rejectlon reparations offer which to no extent was Inspired and sup this group. ‘There has been no indication that Chancellor Cuno has forfelted pariia- mentary support as a risult of : rejection of his proposals. There Is an Inclinat rters to {ndu | and Forelgn Mjnister v to address the briefest to the allies setting forth that many will unconditionally accept the findings of an authoritative slon for the fixation and the terms of the necessary loa The investigation would also de the question of securities in so far |as they concern reparations adjust- | ments. CITE SHARPCUTS INGIRLS' WAGES (Women’s Trade Union Ii League Conference Takes Up Reductions Here. of i small | | | | Reports of sharp reductlons in the ages of women in the District of i Columbia spurred the national con- ‘ferenice called by the Natfonal Wom- len’s Trade Union League, opening [ here today. to spirited discussion of {how ‘the effect of the Supreme Court ! | dectston declaring unconstitutional | | the minimum wage law could be met.? Names Brought Out. istablishments in this eity which have cut wakes of women and girls and threaten to make further cuts !in the future were brought by name {before the gathering of twenty-three national organizations of women rap- resenting all parts of the country, which is meeting for two days at 1424 |New York avenue in a concerted u.l fort to see what can be done. Ing the ef- fect of the court decision upon girls and women of the nation. while vari- | ous proposals were set forth, warn- !ing the women against radicul steps, . ported by , FLOOD AND FIRES SPREAD HAVOC AT HOT SPRINGS, ARK. Reports of Dead Run From None to Fifty in Still Iso- lated Resort City. ITORRENT SWEEPS DOWN FROM MOUNTAIN SIDES }Flames Break Out in Ruins. Stores and Homes Crushed in by Water. Ry the Associated T'ress. HOT SPRINGS, Ark, May 15— Mot Springs at moon today was en- deavering to extricate itaelf from debris and ruin left by flood, fire and wind, which t night wreek= ©d the business district of the city with damage 10 property which 1s expected to run into the millions. Several perwons are reported to have been killed. but thus far re- ports of fatallties have not verified. It is not expecte that the death list will ex- ceed three or four persons, While monetary loss is roughly figured in the milllons, no accurate esti- thix hour. re reported to ut thus far re. P heen verificd. It however, that th eath list will exceed three or four persons. While the monetary I roughly figured In the mil necurate estimate is avallable nt this hour, MEMPHIS, Tenn., May Springs, Ark., famous resort and many disasters, was stricken last night by a flood which swept down the sides of the three mountains which form triangle about the city and by fsires which b t In the wreckage. It ports seeping out generally placs the loss of life at seventeen, altlnugh ne report, re ved over ruilroad telegraph lines to Shawnee, Okia.. es- timated the numb killed as high as fifty. Says No Lives Lost. A telegram recelved from Western Union manager’ at Hot Springs at 10:30 o'clock this morning ald, so far as known no lives had been lost, but that Marqueite Hotel and w number of n y had been destra [ timate of the property damage available at that hour. Wire communication with Springs from Little Rock, Ark., restored for a she e early day, but the brief news.bulletin sent before the wire went down Tea the attack of the raging water which swirled four to nine feet deep through the entire city, splitting it into three arts, apd ~Wwith the tire which fol- owed. It was stated in that mes- Aobody was in the morgue at 2 ik this morning, but it was in- ed that the city could not po: have escaped without doss of Hot sibly Rellef on Way. officials from St {yet suggesting new legislation and i constitutional amendments as possi- | i bilities. | | Reports on Washington _establish- iments we jught by Miss Anna! Neary of Baltimore, organizer for the | | American Federation of Lahor; Miss ! Ina Courtney, e president of the | Retil_Clerks’ Union, and Miss Ethel M. Smith, leg! secretary of {the Ndtional Women's Trade CUnlon | League. | 1. Hotel Cuts From $16.50 to 86, 1" The first place to, cut the wages of women In Washington from the $16.50 minimum, it was reported, was a local | hotel, which shortly after the District court acton on the law, reducgd the | wages of hotel waltresses in the cof- ifee shop to $6 per week. One un- named ten-cent store was the next to follow suit, it was reported, with a reduction to $38 per week, while another five and ten cent store an- nounced that it would not make re- ductions. Most department stores of the city were said to have cut their wages so (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) DECLARES SUSPECT IS MRS. PHILLIPS Carson Insists She Is Innocent, However, and Will Fight Extradition. | i i ' | By the Aksociated Press. TEGUECIGALPA, Honduras, May 15. —Jesse Carson, who posed as the husband of the woman held by the Honduran authorities as Clara Phillips, California hammer mur- deress, told newapaver men today that the woman ‘in reality was Mrs. Philli Carsons who s also being held by the authorities, asserted,* however, that Mrs. Phillips was not respon- sible for the death of Mrs. Albert A. | Meadows, for which ghe was convict- ed, the real slayer, dccording to his story, being another woman. In view of this, he added, he would fight against extradition of Mrs. Phillips, | spending $10,000 if need be in her| defense. Carson has addressed a number of | notes to President Gutlerrez asking | | for an interview, but has recelved no reply. | with rters of the southwes: . are en route to Hot with instructions from Jam « chalrman, at Washin, . to use all lef w draw on the Re rellef funds if ne Hot Springs virtually is isolated and the meager information available ix had mostly from members o crews who left the stricken ci fore the floods re: by intermittent bLits of mitted over telegraph wires, news tr: which | fall almost tmmediately. = Mountains. as wide Kansas City and Water Sweeps D From all source: rated as St. Louis, Joplin, Mo.; Muskogee, Oklahoma City | and Shawnee, Okl and Texarkana and Dallas, Tex.. along with the mite of Information ilot Springs was able to send to Little Rock early today, It in gathered that after hours of rainfall the water coursink down the mountains at whose feet Hot Springs nestles shortly before dusk became a dangerous ,current acing through the principal’ streets and rapidly increased its menace. It is thought that perhaps a cloud hurst added to the avalanche of water that hurtled on the city. Hundreds of inhabitants of the imperiled and submerged areas were reported to have escaped by fleeing to the moun- tain slopes. From there they sought to observe the extent of the disaster through the darkness rendered more somber by the unceasing downpour of rain and smoke rising from the burning districts. Homes Crushed In. Separated from friends and famil scores spent the night on the hill- sides, the reports sald. The one brief news bulletin direat from Hot Springs devoted a vara graph to a Reneralization of heroic rescue work. Eversywhere was con- fusion and terror mingled with herculean exertion, as many wers dragged from the mad waters in which floated the contents of homes and busi- 85 houses, Stores and homes {vere crushed in the rushing torrent, automobliles aheir occupants were whirled away and at least half a hundred negro dwellings in the southern sec- tion of the town were horne off on the crest of the plunging stream. Fire quickly burst out and before the firemen, Impeded by the high water, could fight it effectively al m an entire city block had been | destroxed and reports. declared that | a number of persons were killed in the flames. REPORT 6 OR 7 DEAD. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 15.—Frag- mentary_ reports recelved by the Little Rock Democrat from H (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) MOTHER, MACHINIST, MAKES $30 DAY; ANOTHER 1S BRICKLAYER By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 156.—Two mothers in overalls earning big pay at husky men's jobs were discovered here to- day. Mrs. Katharine Nelson, who is thir- ty-five years old, and has & son sev- enteen and & daughter 'sixteen, earns $30 a day as an-electric welder. She works on- skyscrapers, bridges, smokestacks and the like. Mrs. . Florence Thompson, twerity- six' years old, is a brickiayer—the product of a school for artisans con- ducted by her husband. When she works at the trade, which i3 when- ever she needs a new hat or gown, she draws the prevailing wage, $10 & day and up. In her native Denmark Mrs. Nel- son was a machinist's apprentice in her husband’s shop. When he died she came to America. She could not get a woman’s job 80 she became a machinist in the Erie rallway shops and later an electric welder. Just now Mrs. Thompson is erect- ing the vari-colored brick facade of her home in Long Island City. When that is done she Is going on another construction job for a short while in order to increase her wardrobe. She does not lay brick steadily, she says, “for I have my housework to do an. baby to care for,” al the | buildings ! was | Louis, eighteen | v ¥ . H . M v . ¥ . PPPPPRBIPPTPRRT IR ) TWOD. C. RECTORS {Dr. Freeman and Dr. D’udley | Expected to Get Many | Votes in Convention. Withithe election of a new HIshop of Wughington scarcely two weeks away, Belng set for May 31 at the ! Church_ of the Ascenmsion, the pre- election. cholee seems to have nar- rowed down two prominent local S0 1 clefgymen. It is Ln)dt-r.\lnwl that the gates 5 the convention, generally speaking. tend to favor the Rev. Dr. Jands E. Freeman, rector of the Church 3f the Epiphany. Clerte3l delegates, broadly speak- ing, leag toward the Rev. Dr. George F. udley,’rector of St. Stephen’s Church. { Church. Out of the general interest which the situstion is creating in Episcopal Church > circles, both here and throughout the country, the above seems té stand out as definite. Must Win Majority. It is upon such a basis, it is un- derstood: that the two houses will g0 to the clection, set for 10 am. While both men undoubtedly will get votes from both houses, it is be- lleved that the general divislon will be along the lines above outlined, and then an ittempt will be made to et majoriy of both lay and clerical delegates for one of the two. If this tannot be done, and the bal- loting shbws that Dr. Freeman h a majorigy of the votes, but ¢ ' not mntand a majority of the cleri- cal Swhile Dr. Dudley has a ma- Jority of the clerical votes, but cannot { Win & majority of lay votes, then the lists profably will be opened to a “dark horse.” FBoth Much Liked. In a gerferal sense, Dr. Dudley will | recelve the votes in the convention of those fygvorable to a “high church” {and Dr. F¥eeman the votes of those | favoring & “low church.” Both min- {isters stand high in the cpinion of v dele- | | both clerg¥ and laymen. Two out;of-town clergymen whose names havk been mentioned more and more, it is understood, as possible dark horse” candidates, falling the clection of: either Dr. Dudley or Dr. | Erceman, are ministers of prominent {New York churches. It is also ad- { mitted thap some other minister of one of theblocal churches might be | placed in tke lists, as was donw when the late Bishop Harding was elected. The Rev. br. Ernest M. Stirea of St. Thomas' Chfjrch, New York, nas becn prominentlyy mentioned, in cass the delegates fall to elect a local man on the first few ballots. The Rev. Dr. C. R. Stetson, former rector of §tMark’s Church here, now rector of Twnity Church, New Yori, is the other;out-of-town man whose name fis befhg spoken of In connec- tion with thy coming election. RESIDENT'S TRIP TOTAKESIXTY DAYS Probably Will Leave Capital About Jupe 20, Returning " i§ August. ‘President Hérding has decided defl- nitely to makd his contemplated trip through the west and to Alaska, leav- ing Washinglbn about Jume 20 ana being absent from the capital about sixty days, it: was announced today iat the White House. The President is having pre- |pared a list. of the problems con- | fronting the gdvernment with respect to Alaska, whith will be made public within a few days. It will serve as a basis for thé study to be made by | the ‘President And the cabinet mem- | bers accompanying him. —_— SEIZE LAST OF REBELS. Irish Round Up Remnant of Irreg- ulars fn Wicklow. By the Assoclated Piess. DUBLIN, May15.—The last band of i republicans offerating in County Wicklow waw céptured today after a flerce engagemeht. The leader, named Plunket, was shot dead. Two machine . Buns were taken, B s INLEAD FOR BISHOP Swedish S inger, Wearing$14,000 Jewels, Missing Ity the Assotated Press, NEW YORK, Mag.T5.—The un- explained disappearance of Lydia Lindgren, “the. ®wedish Nightin- gale” of grafid opera, who wore Jewels valied at $14.000 when last 10 the police her husband, Raul Quirze, an operatic tenor. went to the office of her at- Mrs. Anna Hochfelder, in district vesterday, ar- ranging with her husband to wait for her before the customhouse, in thelr automobile. Quirze waited until after dark, then hasten but found no word of her. xht of frantic ephoning to ves and friends s followed by police for ald. Miss Lindgren Is a sop has sung In the Chicago ropolitan operas. She is regarded as a typleal Swedish beaut i ! IALLEY CLOSING LAW WILL MOVE ONLY 92 !Small Number Affected if Commissioners Accept Board’s Findings. inhabitants out of the entire alley population of the D {trict will be required to move June 1 {under the alley closing law, if the Com- | missioners accept the survey of A. S. !J. Atkinson, secretary of the condemna- tlon board, it was learned today. Mr. ! Atkinson will submit his findings to the Commissioners this afternoon. This will leave 265 alle; approximately 9,000 men, women children, unaffected by the closing la sel Francis under the tephens, who rulad t anguage of the low {alley. in order to be hell unla | for residence purposes, would hav ibe: First, less than thirty feet wid !second, fail to run through from street o street, and, third, be without sewer, water and light. At the direction of the Commission- 1 Mr. Atkinson made a personal |inspection of all the alleys ani looked at those which failed to meoct these three requirements. an 1o Does Not Condemn Property. It 1s understood that Maj. Ravmond Wheeler, executive officer of the zon- ing commission, will consider the possibility of zoning the property in fllegal alleys for second clal districts. The alley law does not condemn the property, but merely renders it fllegal for residential usec. The alleys which were found to be affected by the law as interpreted by the corporation counsel follow: Masonic Hall alley, Wisconsin ave- nue and M street, rospect Potomac street. Containing home occupied by two persons. Car 'Stable alley, Wisconsin avenue, Potomac street, street. One home of elght persons. Dagg's lane, Nichols avenue south- east, Bowen and Sheridan roads. Four houses, seven occupants. Grace court, 8th and 9th, D and E streets southwest. Seven houses, thir- teen occupants. Clark’s alley, 4%, M and N streets southwest. Four houses, sixteen per- sons. Crabtree ‘alley,3d-and 4%, B.and C streets northwest. Five houses, eighteen persons. f‘ooyor »pm' p - alley,. .31st, Wisconsin avenue, Water street and the canal One house and four persons. Reed's court, one house and eleven ersons. P Atliniston court, 7th, H and I south- west. 1 | ' one doubtful, containing twenty habitants. WASHINGTON TRAIN IS DERAILED IN N. Y. By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., May Baltimore and Washington passen- ger train on the Pennsylvania rail- road was derailed near Protection, Erle county today. Passengers were severely shaken up, but railroad of- ficlals said no one was seriously hurt. The train consisted of a mall car, baggage coach, a smoker, two day coaches and five Pullmans. The bag- gage car and both day coaches and three ‘Pullmans left the ralls. At the point where the derallment took place the roadbed is flanked by a high em- bankment which prevented the cars from overturning. | avenue and M street and Grace 1 | 1 i i S Contuining | gaineq ground, following the state- | ment of the administration The small number of persons found | President would to be affected is a result of the de-|during his trip : cision rendered by Corporation Coun-,Alaska this summer, go into long di i | | | | Two homes and eight persons. | There is one other alley listed as ago living in Europe, ine In-. he did not reveal today. | | lPresident Believes Discus- lat the White House today. lot little Smimer. | opposed to the United State: | court "are paid TWO CENTS. OPPOSES UNTIMELY WORLD COURT TALK sion of Possible Reserva- tions Is Premature. | Discussion of possible reservations | the protocol proposing adherence | of the United States to the world court is considered premature at this time by the President, it was said by man for the administration to a spok : | tary It was pointed out that the Presi- | dent had proposed to the Senate the | Sta adnerence of this country to the world court, belicving that it would be a wise step. Emphasis was laid upon the fact that he had gone to the Sen- te with his proposal in advance of seeking to commit this country in any d in connection with the This the President con- court. . sidered the proper course to be pur-| sued. Will Discuss Other Topies. Congress will not convene for seven | months. The discussion of the world court proposal by the Senate cannot take place until that body bles. For that reason, in the opinion of the P'resident, it was said, detailed discussion of reservations would be avall. When the I'resident transmitted the proposal in regard to the world court to the Senate he sent along the four reservations proposed by Secretary Hughes, designed make it clear to the world that the United States, in adhering to the court, did not intend to become in- volved in the affairs of the league of nations. In some assem- to quarters the impression | pokes- | House, that the ot, in his addresses cross the country to man at the Whit i | cussion of the worid court proposal, | but that domestic issues would be ful | given the preference. Moxes Back In Capital. Senator Moses of New Hampshire, republican irreconcilable in regard to the league of nations, and now the outspoken oppenent of the proposal that the United States take part in the world court, returned to Washin ton tod: The New ! i Hampshire senator has ! been in _Europe for the last two months. He said today that his first- hand view of conditions abroad confirmed him more strongl. an ever in his opposition to the United States_entering the league of nations. | Furthermore, he said, he is strongly ! adhering | to the world court, as proposed by | the President T think there are enough world ourts now, with The Hague tribunal, and I can see no reason for setting up another such tribunal,” said Senator Moses. He added that he believed that the adherence of the United States to the world court could not | help but involve the United States in the affairs of the league of natlons. | “The World Court judges are elect- ed by the league, theé expenses of the | ¥ the league and the gourt acts as an agency of the league,” said Senator Moses. Europe is gradually “coming back” economically, Senator Moses said. He was In France, Great Britain and Austrin part of the time, but did not visit Russia or Germany. The people abroad seem to have a kind of nebu- lous ‘idea that the United States will eventually mix In European affafrs, he said. Scnator Moses will be in Washing- ton for a week before returning to | his home in New Hampshire. He will | g0 to the White House to call upon President Harding, bearing to him a| message from an important person- whose identity | | He will confer, it is expected, with | Senator Lodge, chalrman of the for- | clgn relations committee; Senator Brandegee of Connecticut, Senator Borah and others in Washington. Refers to Rumor. Senator Moses' attention was called today to the published stories to the | effect that he was Koing to run the | campaign of Senator Hiram Johnson | of California for the republican nomi- { nation for President. Senator Moses said that while in Parfs he had re. turned to his hotel to find a number of correspondents waiting for him with a copy of a Paris edition say- ing that Senator Moses was going to have charge of the Johnson cam- paign. “I will say now,” continued Sena- ! tor Moses, “just what I said then, which was: This article in the Paris edition of the Herald Is very inter- {ury NEWU. . BUILDINGS VITAL NEED HERE, 1S CABINET'S VIEW Next Congress to Be Asked to Provide Money for More Structures. PRESENT SYSTEM BAD FOR WORKERS IS CLAIM Mellon Cites Case of Office Buiid- ing That Is Rotting on Foundation. Congress at its next session will ba urged by the President to appropriats sufficient public money that the Bov= ernment’s agencies may be properly housed In Washington, The problems of housing the varfous departments and bureaus of the gov- ernment was discussed at today's cabinet meeting at the White Housa and it was agreed by all present that between now and the time Congress convenes a consistent and economical construction program must be care- fully prepared. It scemed to be the opinion of the meeting that the build- ing program should not be confined to Washington, but should answer the needs of the federal government in fts operations throughout the entire country. The President and his advisers are in accord with the general ide sented by the Fine Arts Commis which calls for a centralization government department; and south of Pen and it was intimated meeting that the program to be pre- pared very lkely will include these deas. pre- ion, Problem In Acute. According to the by @ number of the cabinet officers during the discussion, the problems of housing have grown to embar- rassing proportions. The condition of some of the rented hufldings are such that not only is the health of occu- pants endangered, but the efliclency »f workers is being impaired. The discussion was brought up by Secre- Mellon of the Treasury, who ted that he wanted advice and how !(.. handle the situation, which up to | that time had him “stumped.” One rented bullding under his department and which houses a certain section of the income division is in such need of repair that the building has ctually becoms unsafe. The condition of this bullding and the need for per- manent buildinkssdo take the place of temporary structiifes was pointed out { in Sund: The foundations,. | he said, " tting aw To make the nece pairs would ¢ 000, which amount is $5,000 more than the’ available funds for that particu- lar buildin Also, to move in another building would cost approximate 20,000, 1t therefore decided that he' should &0 ahead und have the repairs made with the available $15.000 and “trust to luck” to get the remainder in the meantime. cre Mellon was followed by other cabinet officers, cach with their gloomy accounts of housing condi- tions of their respective dey Each gave the opinion that the j lem is becoming worse each Ve that already it had been found difii- cult to efficiently carry on the work of the government. Ne views expressed i Tells of Problems. Postmaster General New, in describ- ing the problems of his department, is known to have told the gathering that the demands for better housing facilitles for post offices throughout the United States are most extraordi- nary and insistent pointed out that despite the fact that the normal business of the has inereased more than 250 per cent and the fact that the installation of the parcel post system has greatly added to the labors of the department, buildings are stil Leing used throughout the country which were either erected or rented for the use of the department as far ¥ at fitty vears ago. In other words, this branch of the government are virtually doing busi- n the streets” for lack of space, according to the views of one binet officer. In preparing the general program for these public buildings, it is b lieved that the fine arts commission and the architect’s office of the Treus- Department and the budget bu- reau will direct the preliminary work. Jt is not thought that the proposed reorganization plan of the art- ments of the federal government, if enacted. will interfers with the adop- tion of such a general construction plan 12 STREETS ORDERED RESURFACED BY D. C. Commissioners to Spend $58,000 Soon in Conditioning Many Thoroughfares. department Resurfacing of twelve streets in different parts of the city at a cost of §58.000 was ordered by the Dis- trict Commissioners in board session today. The streets to be repaved are: Elm street, second to third; Benning road. : Benning road, from the east end of the bridge to Minnesota avenue. Benning road, from the end of the present asphalt pavement for a dis- tance of 450 feet eastward. J New Cut road, Foxall to Canal road. Little Falls road. east of Conduit road. b Foxall road, from Conduit road to Canal road. W street, northwest, ‘Western avenue street, from Chevy Chas street. . Oakdale street, from 3d to 4th streets northwest. Carroll street, from Cedar street to the District line. from 2d to 4th streets and. Rittenhouse e Circle to, 32d esting. It teaches me anew the truth of the old saying that a man must Ko far away from home to get the news” V street, from 2d to 5th streets northwest. ¢ Benning bridge, crossi branch, to be resurfuced . = the Kn<torn ith ekl