Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1923, Page 1

& i WEATHER. Showers and cooler tonight; tomor- “From. Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi. tiop is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. row fair and much colder. Tempera- ture for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 77, at 4330 pm. yesterday: lowest, T [} tgday. Full report_on pas: Ry Closing No. 28,870. THREE HOSTAGES SLAIN AS BRIGANDS PLANNEW FORAY Murder of Chinese Seen Warning to Authorities De- mands Must Be Met. PEKING OFFICIALS OFFER SELVES FOR FOREIGNERS Negotiations’ Delay Believed Due to Extensive Associations of | Bandits. | Officials to Give Selves to Brigands to Free Captives Br the Associated Press. PEKING, May 16.—With the Kovernment's congent Minister of Communications Wu Yu-Lin. and Gen. Yang Iteh have pro- ceeded to the stronghold of the brigands as hostages in order to obtain the release of the foreigners held captive. By the Assoclated Press. SHANGHAL May 16.—The strong force of bandits entrenched in hills back of Lincheng, where they are holding their foreign prisoners, are contemplating a possible attempt to kidnap parties of foreigners at Tsao Chwang, who have been negoti- ating for the release of the prisoners captured on the Shanghai-Peking ex- press May 6, according to advices brought here today from Linchens. he Suchow bandits have moved their foreign captives ten miles farther back | into the mountains behind Lincheng, according to advices received early this morning. ‘With_an unconfirmed report from Lincheng that three of the Chinese cap- tives had been hurted to their deaths over a precipice in the Shantung moun- tains as a warning to the authorities, further word of the negotiations for the release of the foreign captives was awaited anxiously. The Lincheng report said the Chinese | victims were killed instantly. The al-} leged murders were said to have been intended to impress on the Chinese gov- ernment and the foreign diplomatic ! corps that the bandits meant what they | said_when they announced that ail e ban ;r‘soners would be slain unless thel 1ts’ terms were complied with. The of the ullimtum.‘sonl out Sun- was believed to have ex- last hree day pired either today. night or some time | Leaders of the bandits are said to| have met emissaries yesterday after-| noon at Dragon Paw cliff, ten miles | morth of Tsaochwang. Counter pro-| posals were discussed, and it is be- Heved that the outlaws’ final decision was forwarded today. . The demands emphasize, as a basic | requirement, that the foreign diplomats | guaranteo the bandits against re-| prisals from Chinese or foreign ' sources, and also that the diplomats | pledge the carrying out of the general | terms. The terms do not mention ran- som, but require the formation of the | bandit force, numbering 8,000, into two | brigades, with Sun Mel-Jun, one of the | bandit leaders, appointed brigade com- | mander. The Chinese government also | is ordered to send the bzndit strong- ! hold full supplies of ammunition, this to be preceded by the withdrawals of all pursuing troops. Chevalier Musso, a prominent Italian attorney, one of | the captives, is reported in a desperate | plight from iliness. TERMS NO NEARER. Delayed Negotiations With Brig- ands Likely Due to Associations. Br the Associated Pross. TIEN TS; 16.—Reports from Lincheng vesterday said that timism pointing to the immediate re- lease of the foreign captives held by | Chinese bandits was based on mis- placed negotiations lasting three days, and that a settlement was no nearer than at the start. The delay was sald to have been due largely to the fact that the brig- ands who seized the express near Suchow were not acting inde- pendently, but were members of an extensive organization be consulted. Other factors may have entered into the situation. but it the attitude of the bandits has stif- fened. Dr. Martens has returned from the bandit headquarters with the statement that he way not allowed to Stocks and Bonids, Page 21 “ Rntered ns secohd-class matter post office_Washington, D. the | { they” struggled C: iGives Best Diet To Follow for 152-Year Life By the Assoclated Preas. LONDON, May 16.—The ripe old @ge of 152 years is within the 8Tasp of any one, says Dr. Josiah Oldfield, the latest aspirant to the shoes of Ponce de Leon. He belleves in a dlet of coarse bread, porridge, buttermilk, vege- tables, ‘butter, cheese and home- brewed ale, and solaces Americans by saying that the last-mentioned article Is not essential to long life, although a potent factor in attain: ing it He asserts that the vitamines in the barley in the old home-brewed ale are responsible for the stamina of the English of the last five cen- turies. HOT SPRINGS DIGS OUT OF WRECKAGE Darfiage From Flood and Fire $1,000,000 to $2,000,000, With One Serious Casualty. BY the Assoelated Press. HOT SPRINGS, Ark. May 16— Merchants reopened their doors to- day after a night through which crews of men worked in tireless ef- forts to remove the wreckage and debris left behind by the flood and fire late Monday, when torrents from a mountain cloudburst dashed down the slopes to form raging currents in the principal streets, while flames enveloped the buildings in an entire block. Central avenue, Hot Springs' main thoroughfare and the chief stream bed of the whirling flood, thirty-six hours’ earlier, again is open to traf- fic, though the working squads were able to clear away but a small part of the jetsam which the current piled against every stationary obstacle. From this thoroughfare as a base street the sanitary force€ today are working out gradually in the rest of the damaged area. Utilities In Service. All public utilities—gas, lighting and street car service, which were put out of order by the cle- ments—again are functioning. Mrs. Kate Christianson, the only person known to have received seri- ous injury in the disaster, is in a hospital in a seroius condition as a result of a crushed skull which she guffered when she was-cayght in her automoblle by the Central avenue torrent and -swept ‘wlongs fow thyee bl6cks. Engaged in the work of rescue. while the churning waters and fire were at their height, Lovett car woman from & burning bi only to be engulfed in the irr iblé current. Half walking. swimming, he battled his way to & hose cart, lifted his human burden upon it to safety, then slipped back | into the stream. He was swept away and thrown agalnst a concrete post. When comrades lifted him from the water he was unconscious. Flames Add to When flames burst from the win- dows of the Grand Rapids Hotel the flood was at its height, reaching a depth of nine fleet in many places. error. Guests trapped in the Marqueite Hotel, cscaped from the flames Into the roaring torrent which had been Central avenue. With children i their arms or held aloft above the flood. men and women braved the streams and waded or swam to safety. Others were snatched from their feet by the current. but rescued Kopes hastily stretched by firemen at intervals across the flooded street brought many to saféty from where the current. Nearly 100 automobiles. parked on Central avenue, were bowled along like chips on the charging tide, So rapid was the current. electric | desperataly against. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1923—FORTY-TWO PAGES. HARDING FORESEES | STRIFE IF STATES | REPEAL DRY LAWS Declares Liquor Ban Will Be Enforced by U. S. as Con- stitution Requires. BELIEVES CONFLICTS WOULD BE INEVITABLE Letter to New York Resident Says Issue Still in Abeyance, as Gov. Smith Has Not Signed Bill. Dy the Associated Pre: NEWBURGH. Y., May 16.-—Repeal of state prohibition enforcement stat- utes would be likely to result in “more or less conflict between state} and federal authorities,” in the opin- fon of President Harding. The views of the President were expressed in a letter to Wesley Wait of this city, made public tod: A bill passed by the legislature repeallng the act is awaiting action by Gov. Smith. Mr. Wait wrote to the President urglng that if Gov. Smith shoul® sign the bill Congress be convened and that the governor and the mem- bers of the legislature who voted for the bill be suspended. “Every state official who voted for this bill is subject to the law of trea- son, having taken the oath to sustain the Constitution of the United States,” Mr. Wait's letter said. President's Reply. In renly, President Harding wrote “Pending the approval of the Cuv !Iier bill by Gov. Smith, this matter is ihardl}- to be regarded as having i | | reached the stage where any fed- eral authority is called upon for a determination of national policies. With much of what you say, 1 am fully in accord. Mr, Lincoln said at| the time when slavery was still a recognized. established and accepted institution throughout a considerabls part of the Union that the natioa could not exist half slave ard haif free. That expression has been ac- cepted ever since =zs presenting the obvious and conclusive logic of the | situation. which then confronted the Union. Certainly it would have heen <till more Iimpressive if thers had been at that time a constitutional provision against slavery ns there is now a constitutional provision against the liquor traffic. i ¥. §.'to Entorce Law. | “The nation has deliberately, after { many vears of consideration, adopted the present policy which is written ;into the eighteenth amendment. It {1s the law of the land and of every| So long as | state within the Union. {it remains the national policy there can be only one course for the na- tional government to pursue. That| is. to use everv means to make ef-! fective the law passed in compliance with this constitutional mandate. To do this wiil be the unquestioning pol- icy of the present administration; and T may add that I am firmly con- vinced that it must be the policy of other administrations that shall come hereafter. “The eXecutive of the nation and equally the executives of the states are sworn to enforce the Constitu- {tion. Tt is difficult to believe that public approval will ever be given to any other than a policy of full and 1 literally discharging this duty. It does not seem fitting, however, to lenter upon a discussion of a situa- tion which has not yet arisen Sees Many Complications. ¢ VIt will be obvious that many com- | plex and extremely difficult situations !must arise if any of the states shall {decline to assume their part of the i to 1P {avenue, Property loss still is undetermined | respongibility of maintaini - | today, though estimates place it be- {0, = g S o op- | train | which must | is evident that| {tweer. one and two millions. Along | the line of the flooded strects stores were crushed and merchandise ruined | or washed away. i AIRPLANE ELECTION AID. {Ontario Voters to Be Carried ! Through Air to Polls. i TORONTO, May 16.—An airplane will carry voters to the polls in the Ontario general election June 25. Be- | cause of the impassable condition of i roads in the northern districts, the i provincial government has engaged an aviator to serve as an aerial hack- man at Moose Factory, the small trading post. where American naval \sit the captives, some of whom balloonists harrowly escaped death The bandits, it is stated at Lin- ‘l'éz;he" AR Y ey cheng, resent the action of the 7 Chinese soldiers in tightening the cordon drawn about the hills. American Not Heard From. No messages have been received from Roy Anderson, an American, in | close touch with political and mili- tary affairs in China, who started for the captives' camp yesterday to lcarn the result of Monday's confer- ence between bandity and Chinese officlals. An officiak statement concerning Monday's conference sald: “A tenta- tive understanding” had been reached 1or the release of forelgn ana Chinese captives, It developed, however, that the bandits of southern Shantung, laving an organization extending 1erhaps to other provinces, and Tealizing the opportunity afforded by the capture.of the foreigners to ob- tain concessions from the govern- quent, mdst be consulted as a whole befors effecting a flnal settlement. Thosé guarding the foreign hostages sald they could not commit all in- volved without a general expression of opinion. The little son of Maj. Roland Pin- ger, American Army officer, who was captured with his father by the Su- chow bandits and ter released, barely escaped death at the hands of the brigands, according to advices brought out from the ~mountain stronghold “by bandit express,” as the carriers operating between the robbers’ headquarters and Lincheng are called. Young Pinger was unable to keep up with the column of hostages as it was forced at high speed over th Tocky ground following the raiding (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) BANKERS BUY BAGDAD R.R. British and Swiss Group, Headed by Rothschilds, Invests. By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 16.—Tho Bagdad raflway has been purchased by a group of British and Swiss bankers headed by the Rothschilds, according to the newspaper Vatan. The bankers are said to have ac- quired the German and Austrian holdings In the road. | By the Associated Pre: TIENTSIN, China, May flammatory circulars calling on the people to rise up against foreigners have been discovered in a number of | nearby Chinese villages and in the | native city here. The circulars allege that ' a foreign committee, whose names and occupations are given, Is | planning to turn the former German | concession here over to the British. The German territory or settlement reverted to China upon the declara. tion of war against the central pow- ers. Since then it has been badly ad- Revolt Against F oreigners Urged :Upon Chinese in Tientsin Region 16. — In-; {stution and the laws enacted in pur- suance of it. The states are equipped with police organizations and judicial establishments adequate to deal with such problems. The federal govern- ment is not thus equipped. “1 venture that if by reason of the refusal or failure of any state to dis- | charge its proper duty in such con- | nection the federal government is at length compelled to enter upon the territory and jurisdiction of the state and to set up those police and judicial authorities which would be required, the most difficult and trying situa- tions would inevitably arise. More or less conflict between state and fed- l eral authorities would seem unavoid- able in such circumstances. The im- pression would be created that the federal government was assuming to interfere with the functions of the states, and’ the distressing results that would ensue readily suggest themselves. BONAR LAW IN PARIS. Not Expected French Officials. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 16.—Andrew Bonar Law, the British prime minister, who has been taking a sea voyage for his health. arrived in Parls today. The foreign office was not inform- éd of his présence and consequently it is assumed that there will be no contact between him and th (ot e French Premier to See ! ministered by the Chinese, foreign- ers assert. i Recently foreign property owners' have been endeavoring to persuade the Chinese government to fulfill ob- ligations which it contracted several vears ago. Among them, it is said, the government agreed to a foreign advisory and administration council to oversee taxation and the disburse- ment of revenues in the converted le{‘;llor‘!. larizt e circularizing of the natives i regarded serlously, as it 15 not be. lieved the circular was concocted by irresponsible persons. ASKING ARRES OF B More Warrants to Be Sought Later—Liquor Vessels Are Undeterred. Br the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 16.—The govern- ment, which announced yesterday plans to smash a rum ring alleg be operating liquor fleets from Miami to Boston, today obtained eight federal warrants charging conspiracy to violate the Volstead act and de- fraud the government of customs duties. More warrants. it was an- nouncad. would soon be sought. One of the warrants was issued for Alfred Ernest Corns of Uniontown, alleged to be the supercargo of the British steamer Yankton, which put into this port yesterday out of food and fuel. It was from the cap- tain and crew of th: Yankton that United States Attorney Haywood's office claimed to have learned of the | manner in which the rum fleet were operated. Another warrant named Charles T. | Cox of Brooklyn. a towboat captain. Charles W. Johnson of Philadelphia, Jacob A. Kirsh, Nathan Scharlin, Abraham Scharlin_ and Harry Lo Marks. all of New York. and Edward A. Flanigan of New York and Wash ington, were the other defendants. Men Are Secattered. According to attaches of Mr. Hay- ward's office, Johnson lives on Willow Philadelphia, but is con- nected with the Johnson Brewing Company of Uniontown, Pa. Kirch and the Scharlins were de- scribed as the brains of the alleged smuggling conspiracy. The Scharlins lare believed to be connected with a Chicago drug concern dealing in med- icines containing alcohol. Government counsel asserted they had copies of cablegrams showing that the alleged ring had cabled $168.000 to Scotland within the last month. presumably for the purchase | of liquor. Marks, the other New Yorker, was | said to have been assoclated with Kirch. Flanigan, although said to have originally ‘come from Chicago, has been dividing his time lately befween New York and Washington. RUM CREWS FEARLESS. Leave St. John' Daily, Despite! U. S. Threats. By the Asso-iated Press. ST. JOHN, N. B., May 16.—Despite reports from New York that the United States government is waging vigorous war on rum fleets off the Atlantic sea- board, the liquor trade is picking up briskly, now that the worst of the spring storms are believed to have passed. Rum schooners, reported to be head- ing for the Jersey three-mile limit, are putting out almost daily. ‘The schooners’ clearance papers men- tion ports in the West Indies, but the water front smiles. Vessels arrive from southern waters in ballast, tie up at a wharf for a few days and then slip quietly down the harbor. Recelving their cargo of rum, they glide silently out to sea without attracting much attention. & Three schooners, exceptionally heavy loaded, have cleared this week. ART 0’BRIEN FREED, ARRESTED AGAIN Seized by Scotland Yard After Be- ing Released From Deporta- tion Action. e By the Associsted Press. LONDON, May 16.—The court of appeal today ordered the release of Art O'Brien, who was deported to Ireland after being arrested In the Maréh roundup of republican sym- pathizers. O'Brien was brought be- fore the court on a writ of habeas corpus. Upon his discharge by the court, O'Brien was immediately taken into custody by officers from Scotland Yard and was removed to Bow street. Mo N N\ | By the Asocinted Press MENTONE, France. May 16.— | |George Jay Gould, the American ! financier, who has been 11 at Cap Mar- tin, near here, for some time, died at 3 o'clock this morning. Mr. Gould was striken with pneu- imonia at his villa on March 20. For several days his condition remained critical, but he then railied, and on April 3 was said to be out of dan- ger. Three weeks later, however, he suffered a relapse, and on May 3 took & turn for the worse. The end came peacefully. Mr. |Gould's wife and two children were at his bedside. Mr. Gould succeeded to the leader- | ship of the famous Gould family upon {the death of his father. Jay Gould, | December 2, 1892 In addition to as- | suming responsibility as trustee and | lexecutor for the $80,000,000 estate left | BRTANTOALLOW RUSSIA MORE TIME Extension of Ultimatum, Pending Discussions, Calms Labor. | ! By the Associated Press | LONDON. May 16.—The govern- |ment's announcement that Great Brit- 'ain had decided to extend the time (George JayGould, U.S. Financier, 1.5.OPENS RUM WAR, |Dies From Pneumonia in France Railroad Builder Ill for Some Time; Thought to Have Been OQut of Danger, But Relapse Is Fatal. by his father, he carried on and ex- panded the great railroad holdings of the latter, and within a few years, during which he applied the lessons learned from the clder Gould. he be- came one of America’s foremost rail- road financiers. The 6.000 miles of road left by Jay Gould grew into more than 20,000 miles under the management of his son, while tne many investments in other huge en- terprises, ~including the Western Union Telegraph Company. also were ;»m‘i“ly managed by the principal eir. George Jay Gould was born in New York city February 6, 1864, the sixth in line of descent from Maj. Nathan Gould, or Gold, the original ancestor, who came from the south of England i 1646 and settled in Fairfield, Conn. When quite young Gould showed an inclination to follow in the footsteps of his father. He recelved a thorough education from private instructors bsequently entered Columbia Tsity, but was not graduated. After a tour of Europe he became a (Continued on Page 2, Column 2. SAYS MRS. CROKER HAD 2 HUSBANDS Declared She Already Was Married When Becoming Tammany Chief’s Bride. Br the Assnciated Press. DUBLIN, May 16.—The allegation that Mrs. Bula Croker was already married when she went through the late 4 limit of the ultimatum to Russia marriage ceremony with the pending discussions bpetween Lord Curzon and Leonid Krassin over the controverted points, relieved the par- liamentary situation last night to the extent that the opposition did not de- mand a division at the close of the| | debate. | Labor has vigorously opposed a Ibreak in the relations between En land and the sovlet; consequently, when Ronald ~McNelll, undersecr tary of state for foreign affairs, in- formed the house that there would be no break, at least immediately, the point of the opposition’s chief weapon was blunted. Mr. McNeill asserted nevertheless that the government's concession did not mean Great Britain accepted the answer returned by Moscow to her demands. On the contrary, he said, the Russian reply was entirely unsatis- factory except on the point covering the rights of British fishermen, and even on this England could hardly agree that this question could be set- tled at an international-conference. Replying to the argument of J. Ramsay McDonald, leader of the op- position, that. the Russian note offer- ed a means to a settlement throughl| peaceful discussions, the government spokesman sald Great Britain never thought of making her grievances a casus belll. She only sought to guar- antee the proper observance of the commercial agreement between the two countties. Former. Premiers Lloyd George and Asquith both agreed that the gov- ernment had made a wise decision. . WAIT BRITISH REPLY. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News, Copyright, 1928. MOSCOW, May 16.—Russia is anxiously awaiting the British reply to the note forwarded to London in response to the Curzon ultimatum. In higher official circles the feeling is_pessimistic. ] While wide publicity ‘has bsen given here to the British agita- tion for_the maintenance of relations, many Russians are convinced that Lord Curzon is determined on forcing a break. They look at the matter as 8 pel nal issue and belleve that one man’s hostile will can dominate the British policy. . | BUYS CONTROL OF LINE. By the Associated Press. * NEW YORK, May 16.—The Eastern Steamship Company has acquired con- trol of a _majority of the stock of the Old Dominion Steamship Com- pany, it was announced today, Richard Croker, Tammany Hall chiet- tain, was made in the court of ap- peals here today on behalf of Mrs. Ethel C. White of Cedarhurst, in connection with the iitigation over the Croker will. Mrs. White is a daughter of the late Mr. Croker. The court action today was In the form of a hearing of her appeal from the decision of Justice Dodd refusing her the right to plead in the case brought against Mrs. Croker by Richard Croker, jr. William Jellett, Mrs. White's attor- ney, declared that it would be charged “that at the time Mrs. Bula Croker went through the ceremony of marriage with the late Richard Croker she was the wife of another man, and that she concealed that fact from Croker at the time and down to_the day of his death. “A further plea will be that by making false representations to the deceased she raised a prejudice ‘in his mind against his children. Sergt. Hanna, for Mrs. Croker, sald this was part of a campaign of calumny conducted in the American press. Yesterday’s WIND MAIMS SCORE, UNROOFING 20 HOMES One of Victims in Ohio Town Ex- peoted to Die After Being Crush- ed in Ruins of House. By the Assoclated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, May 16.—More than a score of persons were injured, one seriously, when a near-tornado struck Byesville, five miles south o here last night. Approximately twen- ty building were unroofed. Charles Grimth, sixty-five, was crushed =o badly when his two-story frame Eecxed to die. Three others in the ouse escaped with minor injurles. ‘The high wind was preceded by a heavy rainfall. Most of the injured suffered cuts and bruises received when hit by falling or flying debris. Many trees and poles were leveled. PRESDENTTOSKT ALASHAPROBLENS Whether One Department Shall Have Jurisdiction to Be Studied on Trip. The problems which the President jand members of his cabinet will study during their approaching tour of Alaska are summarized in an officlal statement given out at the White House today. Foremoet among these problems is placed the question as to whether the complete jurisdiction over the whole territory of Alaska shall be vested in a single department of the government. Other questions enumer- ated include proposals for immigra- tion and colonization of the vast ter- ritory; further railroad development questions relating to the liberaliza- | tion of the mining laws; questions re- lating to the fisherfes. The President, it has been an- nounced, will leave Washington, June 20, under present plans, on his way ska. He will be accompanied. it officially stated today, by the Secretary of the Interfor. the Secre- tary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Commerce. For the first time in history the chief executive of the government is to tour this northern country. Difficulties of Supervision. to the White House According statement: “Difficulties of governmental super- vision of Alaska, complications in ad- ministration, co-ordination and co- operation of executive and judiclal functions including centralization of jurisdiction will receive the personal and intimate attention of the Presi- dent and the departmental heads ac- companying him along with the proposition of the adoption of a con- atructive program for the opening up of the immense resources of the ter- ritory. Heretofore compelled to visualize conditions existing In Alaska through reports made annually by depart- mental bureaus, these high officials of the United States will see the sit- uation for themselves at close range and will be enabled to reach decisio upon the very ground instead of at a distance of 5,000 miles. “The history of Alaska since its purchase by the United States reveals some startling facts. The territory was purchased from the Russian em- pire in 1867 for the comparatively in- significant sum of $7.200.000, the amount being paid in gold. Since then it has proved to be a most lucrative investment. Up to 1922, it has pro- duced from its mines, its sea and fur trade the aggregate sum of $1,100,- 000.000. and during this time it has cost the American government, in- cluding the original purchase price, approximately $200.000,000. Riches Await Development. “Inestimable riches and hidden treasures are still hermetically sealed in its natural recesses awaiting de- velopment. The total area of Alaska in 590.884 square miles. Tts immen- sity can only be realized when a com- parison with the area of the United States shows that it is one-fifth as large as the total territory embraced in the forty-eight states of the Union. “The population of Alaska presents an interesting problem. For years after this country became American territory there was a slow, but grad- ual {ncrease in the number of inhab- itants. Ten vears ago. following the census of 1910. the population began to dwindle, and. as a result, 10,000 people left Alaska between 1910 and 1920. Its permanent population is now fixed at approximately 60,000, of which about one-half are whites and the other half Indlans. Eskimos and persons of divers nationalities. And along with the decrease in in- habitants has come a corresponding loss in the commerce and trade of Alaska, The total commerce In 1920 amounted to some $106,000,000. as compared with $63,000,000 in 1931, a decrease of $43,000,000. “Alaska's Rreatest resource fis its mineral ®ealth. There is gold, silver, copper, zjnc, antimony and tungsten in immense quantities. Deposits of coal, including bituminous and lig- nite, have been found upon a magni- tudinous scale. So has oil and petro- leum. in_addition to platinum, lead (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) |Leviathan Given Noisy Send-Off Sailing for Boston After Delay By the Associated Press. NEWPORT NEWS, May 16.— The ‘Shipping Board steamer Levia- than, delayed by fog yesterday, left Newport News at 8:25 o'clock this morning for Boston, where she will be drydocked for the finishing touches of her reconditioning for transat- lantic passenger and freight service. The big liner made the trip down the channel without mishap, slip- ping slowly through the waters as airplanes circled overhead and thou- sands of watchers on shore and aboard the many craft near the banks cheered and whistles were blown. The Leviathan left the dock of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry- dock Company soon after another Shipping Board steamer, the President Buchanan, arrived for reconditioning at a cost of $3,990,000. Work on thi President Buchanan will give em ployment to abouf 2,000 men and will require 355 days. With Capt. James Peake of the Vir- ginla Pilot Association, at the helm, the Leviathan left her dock at the shipyard, flanked fore and aft and on both sides by tugs. Capt. Lowe, a Boston pilot; Capt. Stowe, an Atlantic coast pllot, and Capt. McLaughlin of the New York assoclation also were on the bridge with Capt. Herbert Hartley. master of the vessel. These men will see that the newly crowned queen of the seas reaches the Boston' navy yard In safety. She proceeded cautlously until she passed out the | channel at Old Point Comfort at 9:45 o'clock. when her speed was grad ually increased as she started down the, bay for the Virginia capes. No chances will be taken on the trip up the coast, Shipping Board representa- tives declared, in view of the still in- completed work of reconditioning. A full crew was aboard the big liner when she sailed from here, together with a force of shipyard workmen | who will ald the employes at the Boston yard in putting on the finish- ing touches. From Boston the Levia- than will leave on a trial run to Guantanamo bay some time in June, with 800 invited guests. She is sched- uled to leave New York July 4 on her first transatlantic trip as an American passenger liner. house was demolished that he is ex-| Net Circulation, 93,647 ] TWO CENTS. DEBTORS OF U.§. 10 BE FORCED T0 . PAYBYNEWPLAN Treasury Will Withhold Set- tlement to All Found Owing Government. MILLIONS TO BE SAVED BY PLAN, SAYS McCARL Claims Hereafter to Pass Through Cross Index—Indebtedness to Be Deducted. Controller General McCarl, taking the trail of Uncle Sam's debtors, has established in the general accounting office what promises to be the world's greatest collection agency. By a sys- tem of cross indexing of all debtors of the government he has cut off payments of any sort to any person against whom the Treasury has claims. It is the intention, the controller general informed department heads in a letter today. to break down an belief that & debtor can “get away without paying the government. In the future no payment by the govern- ment can be approved finally until the certificate of settlement has cleared the cross index of debtors. In case a claim is found. the control- ler ‘general simply will notify the claimant that he will be given for the present only so much as the amount of the certificate exceeds the claim held by the government Sees Great Saving. Mr. McCarl believes he can save millions of dollars under the plan. Several claims are said already to have been adjusted on the set-off basly. Two of them are reported to have been in excess of $10,000. “There are hundreds of thousands. if not millions, of dollars owing to th government 'as a result of improper payments of disbursing officers dis- covered by the accounting officers in the audit.” the controller general's letter said. “While the disbursins officers involved are primarily respon- sible, in many instances their bonds are so woefully insufficient that the government will sustain great losses unless something is done to protect its interests. It is the intention of {the general accounting office to get this money back into the Treasur. To that end the controller general will go the limit.” Can Enforce Claims. Heretofore each agency of the gov- ernment has disbursed public funds intrusted to it without ryegard to counter claims pending in_other de- partments. Under the new system { Treasury officials believe the con- troller genéral will be able to force settlement of claims in évery branch of the government except the Emer- gency Fleet and the War Finance corporations. The funds of each of these are specified by law as corpo- rate and, therefore, are regarded as not subject to the controller general's audit after they have been turned over to the Treasury C. . DUNPHY LEADS IN GOLF CONTEST District Champion C. J. Dunphy of the Columbia Country Club today led the field in the first half of the quali- tying round of the spring invitation golf tournament of the Chevy Chase Club. Playing In a gale of wind and with occasional showers falling. Dumphy shot a score of leading George P. Lynge of the Washington Golf and Country Club by two strokes. Walter R. Tuckerman of Chevy Chase and M. B. Stevison, of Co- lumbia were tied for thira place at the half-way mark with scores of §0. | Other scores turned up to 1 o'clock follow: A. H. Haughey. Merion, 83; W. R. McCallum, Washington, §3 Morven Thompson, Chevy Chasce, 8 G. P. Edler, Washington, 88; G. W LaMoungain, Columbia. 85; B, F. Sim- mons. unattached. 89; Claude S Watts, Columbia, §9: John I. Power. Washington, 89 W. Freeman. Washington, 89; Lee Crandall. Ban- rockburn. 90: B. V. Byer. Columbia. 91; W. W. Smith, Columbia. 90; I. H. Wright, Washington, 91; John A Meclllhenny. - Chevy " Chase, 90 J. A. Talbott. \ashington, 91 Hugh McKenzie. Columbla. 93: W. F. Turton, Bannockburn. 93; F. S. Early, Indian Springs, 95; John 8. Moses. Washington, 95: H. C. Crain. Columbia. 96; L. W. McKernan. Wash- ington, 98: K. C. Kalbfus, Washington. 100: M. E. Miller. Bannockburn, 101: Howard Coombs, Kirkside. 101; Dun- bar Dodeon. Kirkside, 104: Mark Thayer, Washington, 110; Grafton S. Wilcox. Indian Springs, 111; A. R Legare, Chevy Chase. 105; M. & Brown, Washington. 105. Nearly 250 Start. Nearly 250 golfers. including every player of note about Washington and many fine golfers from out of town. started today in the thirteenth an- nual spring invitation tournament of the Chevy Chase Club. The firat pair left the first tee about 8 o'clock this morning, and the plavers will con- tinue driving off until late this after- noon. The fleld is the largest ever entered in a local golf tournament. and but 64 out of the nearly 250 entrants can qualify, leaving more than 180 out of the event at the con- clusion of the day's play. Two new holes have been put in use on the rearranzed course of the Chevy Chase Club, the fifth and sixth. and it was predicted that these holes might make the scores higher than in former years. However, the pre- diction was also made that a score of 84 or better would be necessary to qualify in the first sixteen. Canadians in Mateh, Playing this morning with Dwight Partridge, winner of the Indlan Spring tourney last week, was George S. Lyon, the sixty-six-year-old Cana- dian, wio won the Chevy Chase event last year, defeating shall Whit- latch in the final round. Lyon is accompanied by several other fine Canadian golfers, any one of whom may cut a figure in the ‘present tournament. Walter R. Tuckerman, Sam Dal- {zell. Allan Lard, C. A. Fuller and Mr. Partridge will represent the Chevy Chase Club. along with many others whose handicaps are not so iow. and Chevy Chase hopes to keep the Pre dent’s cup at home this ye: