Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1923, Page 1

Increasing cloudiness tonight, prob- ably followed by showers and cooler tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: at 3:20 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 5 5:30 a.m. today. Full report on page Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 Highest, 78, —_ No. - 28,880. - PLOTTOFLOODD.C. H RUM DURING - GONVENTION NIPPED Gigantic Scheme to Send j‘housands of Cases to City Uncovered. HEADS OF SYNDICATE _ARRESTED AT NORFOLK Were Arranging Details of Ship- /. ping Liquor to Capital in River Boats. By the Associated Press. \ORFOLK, V&, May 26.—Federal prohibition agents today were run- ning down evidence of a gigantic liguor smuggling syndicate following the arrest here yesterday of Willlam urwell, alias William E. Baker, they said, had confessed that he operating as agent for an organ- izailon controlling the fleet of rum runners which has been off the Vir- ginda capes for the last week. Barwell, self-styled “second in com- mand of the Atlantic coast rum fleet,” | his’ wife and Rex D. Sheldon, all of New York, were arrested yesterday at & local hotel, where they were held er guard all day and last night. Warrants for their arrest charged them with unlawfully conspiring to smiggle and transfer intoxicating Jiquor in the United States. The other two. also were said to have confessed to % connection with the liquor smug- gling organization. ! Fifty-four in Syndicate. The authorities said today they expécted to round up members of a gigantic liquor smuggling ring with impértant branches in New York, Canida. London, Scotland and the Berraudas. They said they had evi- denca that fifty-four men composed the ayndicate, the majority of them représenting large financial interests. %uirwell g\\'aa sald to have admitted e s a shore representative e fleet, and that his business o0 negotiate the sale and de- liver# of liquor. He told prohibition authdrities, they said, that the fleet contrblled by his organization was compased of four vessels—the Istar, the Cartona, the Strand Hill and the schooher Mary Beatrice, all of them operating under the British flag. Ageats of the rum fleet, the au- thorities sald, have been in Norfolk two eeks arranging for means of transférring the cargoes from rum ships anchored beyond the three-mile limit st the mouth of Chesapeake bay 1o small boats for ultimate dellyery at Washington. I Thousands of Cases. ¥ive or six thousand cases of im- ported liquor are believed to have been ment to Washington in, that time, £hey said, most of it by means of sniall speed boats. The entire cargo of the rum fleet, according to the authorities, was intended for de- livery ito Washington in time for the Shrine. convention ‘there in June. The , one of the rum runners, which? appearéd off the capes last week, after leaving the Jersey coast, and joined there later by other craft éf the fleet, was said to have on bozrd 33,000 cases of liquor from ! Glasgeav. According to the story told | the ;authorities, the Istar has sue- ceeded: in_discharging a large part of her: cargo, but the other vessels have been so closely watched by the cordon of coast guard craft dis- patched to the mouth of the Chesa- peake warly in the week that they have been unable to negotiate deliv- eries. ALL ROAD: GUARDED. Dry I%:rces Here Augmented to War on Rum Running. The ‘cordon of federal agencies flung around Washington and the Shrine convention has been stiffened agalnst 2he alleged campaign of booze | Yunning by truck and boat from the | rum fiéet off Norfolk, which was| thwartedl last night at Norfolk by capture Zof William L. Burwell, alias ‘Willian . Baker, who says he was “second ;in_command of the Atlantic | coast ruim fleet.” Prohibition officials today said offi- clally they had taken serious note of the “rumors” that bootlemgers were in _a ccncerted campalgn to flood ‘Washingion with liquor from the rum | fleet for the Shrine convention and | that all ‘avenues into this city were | being scoured by the federal forces | gathered: here from several divisions Tor the purpose. River ix Watched. While it was not officially an-| nounced what specific additions had been made to the prohibition forces | ©on land énd coast guard boats oper- | ating in: Chesapeake bay, it was | Indicated That the government was on | the Potor3ac in some kind of a fleet. When asked definitely whether fed- eral forces had been put on the waters atound Washington prohibi- | tion officiéls evaded the question, and the inferehce was readily drawn that not only Have the land forces of the prohibition outfit been greatly en- larged, bul that incognito there may be several small government vessels | in the Potomac. The water front at all &uspicious spots is under close surveillance. @ Navy Boats Used. The possibility of using naval ves- sels tied at the navy yard was said to be but of the question, as the matter of zusing naval vessels for prohibition? enforcement has been submitted by President Harding to | the Departient of Justice, where it now rests. / capiure ‘of Burwell, alias Horfolk is considered by prohibition Zofficials here as a big blow at thé rum fleet. While little is sald concerning the suspected ramification? of the alleged organi- gation back Hf the fleet, officlals were believed to feel that they had caught the principél in one of America's greatest smuggling conspiracies. SHELDON WELL ENOWN. May 26.—Assistant Tnited States: Attorney Clarke today announced that Rex D. Sheldon, ar- rested in Norfolk in_connection with rum smuggling off the Virginia (Continyed en 3 3 Entered as second-class matter post_office Wash hington, D. C. Planes to Carry 2 Cotton Bales " In Shrine Feat A demonstration of the rapidity of commercial transportation by _airplane is planned by the Army air service as a feature of its ex- hibition here during the Shrine convention. Two airplanes will leave Aber- deen, Md., about June 2 for Au- gusta, Ga., and receive there from the Augusta board of commerce two bales of cotton to be deliv- ered to the Wamsutta mills, New Bedford, Mass. The raw material will be fabricated overnight, and When the two aircraft leave New Bedford the next morning they Wwill carry several thousand com- pleted masonic aprons. The aprons will be distributed that afternoon at Bolling Field to the visiting Shriners. BREAK WITH RUSSIA AVERTED BY BRITAIN Note From Moscow, While Not Satisfactory, Points Way to Amity. By the Associated Press LONDON, : May 26.—Great Britain has decided that there shall be no break with Russia. It is held in diplomatic circles that while the last note from Moscow is In some respects rot wholly satisfactory, the remaining points in the dispute with the soviet government are susceptible of solu- tion by negotiation. The government of Prime Minister Ealdwin, it is known, desires to begin its career hampered by as few inter- national problems and controversial political issues as possible. If Leonid Krassin, the soviet representativi here, succeeds in having the Moscow government compromise on Lord Cur- zon's reiterated demand for the with- drawal of the Russian political agents |abroad whose actions have offended Great Britain, it is believed the Brit- ish foreisn secretary will inform M. Krassin when he calls at the foreign office next week fhat Great Britain is disposed to discuss with him or an- other appointed plenipotentiary the whole subject of Anglo-Russian rela- tions at a conference to be called in London in the near future. CHINESE BANDITS MAKE NEW OFFER e itable in_the Rubr nnleswimpersens | H H r 1 atately, says le- Will Release Prisoners With ,i ?,,,,f,"c'“:;,,,";;“;; e Pay If Terms Are Met, They Report. By Cable to Tise Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyrigat, 1923. PEKING, May 26.—The Linching train bandits have sent an agent to Peking with an offer to release all foreign and Chinese captives and to pay each of them $200 for every day they have been held, provided the | Peking government will depose the present Tuchun of Shantung province, abolish the Tuchun system and amend Chinese regulations governing mining concessions so that foreign capital may hold 50 per cent of stock in mining companies instead of the 49 per cent prescribed by law. The latter condition is intended to in- vite foreign capital to invest in min- ing districts of Honan, Hunan and Yunnan provinces. Are Chang Soldiers. The bandits now admit that they are former soldlers' of Chang Ching- Yao, former Tuchum of Hunan prov- ince, and declare that they turned bandits because their wages were un- paid for two years. Their agent in the new offer to the Peking government is a Hong Kong Chinese named Ross, who after a lgng talk with Premier Chang-Shao- seng has mysteriously disappeared. It is known that he has not left Peking, and it is reported that the police have arrested him and have sent a note to the bandits threaten- ing to execute him unless all foreign captives are released immediately. CHINA PAYS INDEMNITY. Gives $25,000 for Slaying of Amer- ican by Sentr;es. By the Associated Press PEKING, May 26.—The Chinese gov- ernment today notified the American legation of its acceptance of the American demand for an indemnity of $25,000 for the killing of Charles Coltman, an American citizen, at Kal- gan, December 11, 1922. The govern- ment notification added that two ad- jutants concerned in the killing had been dismissed from the service. Coltman was shot by Chinese sen- (Continuea on Page 2, Column 2. RUMOR $4,000,000 WARDMAN DEAL ON Western Buyers After Washington Apartment Houses and Of- fice Building. . Sales of two large apartment houses and an office building, involving in the neighborhood of $4,000,000, by Harry Wardman, whose company owns the structures, are in the nego- tiation stage. It is understood that a group of western buyers are seeking the structures, which are the Dresden Apartment, Connecticut avenue and Kalorama road, the Cathedral Man- sions, Connecticut and Cathedral ave- and the Continental Trust Com- pany building, northeast corner of 14th and H streets northwest. The report of the pending sales is general through the business district of the city, but at Mr. Wardman's of- fice informnation regarding them was refused, further than an admission that negotiations were pending. It was said that it will be two or three ‘weeks before an announcement of the sale will.be made, ' WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1923—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. v - BLODDSHEDINRURR SPEEDS NEW CON REPARATIN OFFER Specification of Guarantees Forecasted as Only Change, With Sum No Greater. REJECTION IS BELIEVED ASSURED IN ADVANCE Note to France and Belgium Seen as Cuno’s Swan Song, With Downfall Following. By Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1023. BERLIN, May 26.—A new Ge'man note on the reparations question will be ready for dellvery in a few days. It is firmly believed here even at this time that it will be rejected by France and Belgium because it will contain no new offer, but will merely specify what guaranties Germany is willing to offer. Most German politiclans realize that eventually the money offer will have to be raised to forty billion gold marks. This was realized by the socialists long before the last note was sent, but. Wilhelm Cuno prefers the chan- cellor's palace in Wilhelmstrasse t- the offices of the Hamburg-American line in Hamburg and has been striving hard to retain his present position A few days ago even he admitted with a sad smile in speaking to an American caller, “I am going, but I do not know where." The new Ger- man note is expected to be Cuno's swan song. All he wants is that his friends shall be able to say, “He had to quit, but he ‘was game to the last.” READY TO GUARANTEE. Industrialists Will Badk Repara- tions Loan, Government Told. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 26.—It i3 stated that the Federation of German Industrial- ists has infcrmed the German gov- ernment that the members of the federation are prepared to give the requisite guarantees for international loans for reparations purposes, says a dispatch to Reuter's from Berlin to- day. Chzos Reported Near. DORTMUND, May 26.—Chaos-1s in- clal Workers' Internatfonal at Ham- burg by the Dor{mund general trade unions. The message says: “The Ruhr occu- pation has intensified conditions of distress and has aided revolts Bloody fighting has occurred in several places.” EXECUTED BY FRENCH. Schlageter Shot for Sabotage. First of Occupation. By the Associated Press. DUESSELDORF, May 26.—Albert Schlageter was executed by French troops today for sabotage on rall- roads in the occupied region and other offenses. He was shot in a stone quarry near a cemetery and his body delivered forthwith to the ceme- tery authorities. This is the first ex- ecution in the occupied zone. Schlageter was escorted to the quarry by two priests and went un- falteringly to his death. Ten shots were fired at him. Besides sabotage, Schlageter, a for- mer Prussian officer, was convicted by a French court-martial of es- plonage and_ assoclation with erim- irals. He admitted he had blown up railroad tracks and bridges. The French regarded him: as a chief of the murder gangs which have been carrying _on a campaign of terror against the occupation of the Ruhr. Rioting at Bochum. By the Associated Press. BOCHUM, May 26.—Communistic disorders broke out here yesterday similar to those in Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen. During an assault on bourgeois newspaper offices, fire- men, acting as police, clashed with the communists and several persons were wounded. Shops were pillaged during the rioting. The occupation authorities remained neutral, ‘Wil Extend Strike. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 26—The communist workers' council has declded to ex- tend the strike movement in the oc- cupled zome to the whole of West- phalia and the right oank of the Rhine, says a dispatch from Duessel- dorf. 'The council had the permission of the French authorities to hold the meeting at Essen, at which this ac- tion was taken. The correspondent of Achtuhr Abendblatt, in the Ruhr, reports that the Dortmund police have arrested three Russian agitactors, who were apparently acting bicycle couriers. The corr:spondent says reports are current that communists are organ- izing military companies. MEETING IS POSTPONED. Belgian Foreign Minister’s “Ill- ness” Delays Conference. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, May 26.—The documents presented by the Belgian ambassador consist mostly of experts’ reports on various questions touching the repa- ration problem. Apprehension was expressed today in some quarters that M. Jaspar, the Belgtan foreign minister, who has long been regarded as lukewarm to- ward the French interests, had exer- cised his influence to postpone the projected meeting between Premliers Poincare and Theuni: Calied Diplomatic Iliness.” BRUSSELS, Mz 6.—The continued indisposition of Minister Jas- par is considered in political circles here to be a “diplomatic illness,” due to his reported desire to delay the interview between the French and Belgian government heads until after the publication of the new German reparations notes Foeniy WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION STRONG NAVY VITAL NEED, SAYS DENBY, Tells Naval War College Class| War Is Possible on Huge Scale. By the Associated Press. NEWPORT, R. . May 26—Warn- ing that the Navy must be kept ready for defense “in a world full of men-: ace” was given by Secretary Denby in an address today to the graduating class of the Naval War College. At no time in the nation’s history, he added, had there been greater need for “close study of naval science and earnest devotion to duty. “It is & day when naval strength Is vitally necessary and a full grasp by Haval. officers of - world . possibili important,” Mr. Denby con- tinued. “We think in terms of hope for continued peace; we strive through diplomacy, backed by power ito keep that desired peace, but we must not be blind to facts. highly Future War Certain. | “We know now bevond peradven- | ture that war between great powers | or groups of powers will always in- | volve many other nations and we can- jnot say with certainty that such a war may-not come at any time. There {need be no demand for excessive |armament. There will be none for a great increase of our present estab- lishment made by the Navy Depart ment at_the coming session of Con gress. We shall ask for additional | cruisers, allowed under the treaty of the limitation of armament. We shall ask for additional light draft gun- boats, the vital need of which is being demonstrated every day, and we shall ask for certain submarines and air- planes. “There will be nothing extravagant {in our recommendations to Congress, and we hope to be able to keep the proposed appropriations approxi- mately within the limits reached last | year. While, therefore, we do not anticipate the need of a great build- ing program, we do realize that what we have must be in constant readl- ness for effective use.” Regrets Disputes. The Secretary referred to such con- troversies between branches of the service as that between advocates of aviation and the capital ship as often “unnecessary and misleading. “There should be no belittling of the scope and power of the various arms of our sea forces,” he declared, “no exaggeration of one at the cost of another. On the other hand there should be no lessening in the study and development and full supply of all new arms.”’ Discussing at another point what he conceived to be the essential qual- ity of leadership in the naval officer, Secretary Denby said: “Leadership not alone implies ca- pacity to fight ships and men, to in- spire enthusiasm, but it also implies sympathy and understanding. With these qualities and their application by officers and petty officers, from the captain down, many & man is saved {from A. W. O. L. and desertion; many & man’s life Is changed from gloom to cheer, and many & man is saved to the Navy who might otherwise be lost. - *1 hope to see a still closer contact between commissioned and enlisted men. It will result in benefit to both, Personally, 1 believe that within sound limits the fewer courts-martial and other punishments, the better. A happy ship is a good shij SEPARATE TREATIES WITH TURKS AGREED Lausanne l’nr/ley Reaches l)ecinign on Question of Aliens’ Privi- leges in Country. By the Arsoc’ated Press. LAUSANNE, May 26.—Negotiation of separate treaties between Turkey .and the other nations to .determine the privileges of foreigners in Turkey ‘was agreed upon today by the politi- cal committee of the near east con- ference as the solution of the long- standing di ite over this question. The treaties must be negotiated within a year, Turkey meanwhile maintaining the status quo, g YOURE_FINED ND. THE A\.&boo WL Bt To 1 « Il i 1 0y ANY! THE HONEST BOOTLEGGER. DISTRICT MAN TAKES TREATY DRAFT TO SPAIN Hackworth Sails for Madrid to Aid in Completion of Pact. Green H. Hackworth, assistant to the solicitor of the State Department, had sailed for Madrid, Spain, to assist United States embassy officials in ne- gotiations between this country and Spain over the new amity and com- merce treaty, it was announced to- day at the State Department. Mr. Hackworth, it is understood, carried with him a draft of the treaty. Mr. Hackworth received his al cducation at the Georgetown Uni- versity Law School and took a course in law and_diploma. at George Washington University. He is a mem- ber of the District bar and of the Supreme Court bar. He resides at 120 V street northeast. BULF-TO.GANADA ) = 8 FLIGHT STARTED i I | | Lieut. Crocker Passes Mem- phis on Non-Stop Trip, Hous- ton, Tex., to Detroit. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 26.—An air- plane, -believed to be the De Maviland plane in which Lieut. Harrison G. Crocker left Ellington Field, at Hous- ton, early today on a non-stop flight to Detroit, passed Earle, Ark., about| twenty-five miles west of Memphis, at 10:35 o'clock this morning. USING DOOLITTLE'S PLANE. Lieut. Crocker’s Machine Figured in One-Stop Flight Across U. S. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., May 26.—Lieut. Harrison G. Crocker of Kelly Field,| San Antonio, hopped off from Elling- | ton Fleld here at 5:21 a.m. (central standard time) for his proposed non- | stop gulf-to-Canada flight. He ex- pects to land at Selfridge Field, near Detroit, Mich., by 7 p.m. Lieut. Crocker is piloting a special- 1y built De Haviland plane. It is the one Lieut. James H. Doolittle uged in his one-stop cross-continent flight last year. The ship carries 240 gallons of gas- oline, with a twenty-eight-gallon re- serve tank. Daylight-to-Dark, Gotham-to-Fris- . 1 co Trip Set for June. ! The daylight-to-dark, flight from ' New York to San Francisco, planned * by the Army air service, is to be at- . tempted between June 15 and 25. Air service headquarters announced | today that Lieut. R. L. Maughan would use in the flight a pursult; plane recently built and modeled along the same lines as the racing machine in which he and Lieut. Mait- | land recently established world speed ; miles west of Memphis, Tenn.; direct- 1y over Blytheville, Ark., and Caruth- ersville, Mo.; twenty miles east of Cairo, Il.; directly over Princeton, Ind.; just east of Indianapolis; over Haritord City, and Decatur, Ind.; ten miles west of Toledo, then through the border at its nearest point, land- ing at Selfridge Fleld, Detroit, Mich.” Lieut. L. S. Andrews, also of Kelly Fleld, Is accompanying Lleut. Crocker as far as Pine Bluff, Ark. Lieut. Andrews will fly in a plane similar to that used by Lieut. Crocker. In order to avold technicalities, Lieut. Crocker sped south from EI- lington Field until over the Gulf of Mexico. Turning immediately and facing north for the remainder of the trip. After leaving Ellington, he said, “the course will pass between Liberty and Beaumont, Tex.; ten miles east of Arcadia, La., five miles east of Forest City, ATk.;: twenty-five MAUGHAN’S FLIGHT PLANNED records. The craft is capable of averaging 160 miles an hour. The first leg of the flight will be from New York to Dayton, Ohio, 570 miles; the second to St. Joseph, Mo., about the same distance; the third, to Cheyenne, Wyo., 540 milk and the fourth to Salduro, Utah, and this last from there to Crissy Field, San Francisco, 420 miles. At each stopping place thirty minutes will be allowed for refueling and rest. Lieut. Maughan believes he can leaye New York at 4 am. and land at San Francisco at 9 pm, ! tendent of police, announced today. | | become effective tomorrow. NO, No, JUDGE ! ‘TAINT FIT FOR BODY NEW TRAFFIC CODE BEGINS TOMORROW Reckless Driving Rules and| Other Changes Effective, Folice Announce. The reckless driving regulation enacted by the Commissioners a month ago becomes effective tomor- row. Maj. Daniel Sullivan, superin- The thirty-day notice required by law | expires at midnight. | The regulation provides in sub- stance that no vehicle or street car shall be so operated as to endanger | the life or limb of any person or the safety of property. The penalty for | violation is fixed at not more unu“ $300. 5 There are a number of other minor | modifications of the trafic_regula- toins which were made by the Com- | missioners at the same time, and also | Other Rules Effective. H Among them is one which states! that on approaching an intersection | at which there is a crossing police- | man, the driver shall not proceed | rafght ahead or make a right or ft hand turn until signaled to do! 50_by the officer. i There is another new section which ! provides than when a motorist is| overtaken by another driver ap- | proaching at a legal, but greater rate of speed, the slower moving ve- hicle shall move in and give right of | way to the approaching car upon re- | ceiving a signal from the second car. | quested the Shrine convention com-{ A vehicle turning into a street to| | the right must keep as near to the | {right hand curb as possible. | These are permanent amendments|COSt sheets to determine where the| to the traffic regulations and are in- |Fecent increase in price of ice cream; dependent of the special rules for the | Shrine period. } 30,000 IN LINE-OPEN | N. Y. SILVER JUBILEE| Month’s Celebration of Civil Prog- ress Launched With 5th Ave- | nue Parade. | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, May 26.—A parade on 5th avenue this afternoon of thirty thousand persons, including city em- ployes, soldiers, saflors and marines, | with Mayor Hylan as grand marshal, | opens New York city’s silver jubilee celebration, which is to continue for a month. Civic progress during the last quar- ter century will be illustrated at an exposition, which opens at Grand | Central Palace Monday night. The jubilee was arranged by Mayor Hylan to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the merger of the five boroughs that now comprise the city. | He planned to finance it from the cit treasury, but some, who Interpreted the idea'as a glorification of his two administrations, got a court injunc- tion. Private subscriptions then made the ‘event possible. FORMER DRY AGENTS SEIZED IN OHIO QUIZ| By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 26.—Fred Counts, former federal prohibition agent for the Cleveland district, and his brother, Attorney Frank Counts, were arrested today at the order of United States District Attorney A. E. Bernsteen on secret indictments by a federal grand jury charging them with conspiracy to violate the na- tional prohibition act and to defraud the government by obstructing prohi- bition enforcement. At almost the same time govern- ment operatives for Bernsteen seized Joseph _A. Shearer, former federal prohibition - director for Ohio, and Samuel A. Hoskins, politician of southern, Ohlo, as they arrived here from Columbus. Shearer and Hoskins are charged in the same secret indictments with par- ticipation in the same alleged con- spiracy to violate the Volstead act and furnish- protection to others, accord- ing to Bernsteen. PREUS FILES IN RACE. ST. PAUL, Minn, May 26.—Gov. J. A. O. Preus today became the eighth didate to flle in the senatorial ::ne to succeed Knute Nelson. Gov. us made no formal statement. | not occur, and that sucar “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every ity block and the regular ed; tion 1s delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed, Yesterday’s Gambling Dives Run Full Blast Despite Expose “The Hardway,” one of the gam- bling houses just beyond the Dis- trict border in Maryland, which closed Wednesday night, following The Star's expose of its reopening, was again running full blast last night. The crowd of men and boys at the place, however, was smaller than on the night preceding its brief period of inactivity. Proprietors of “the Hardway” an- ticipated interference by the author- ities when they hastily shut down Wednesday night. It was not long after that Constable Pumphrey made his rounds near the house, peered in and reported that everything inside Wwas as quiet as in the Cedar Hill cemetery nearby. “Jimmy's” place, on Bladensburg road, concealed behind billboards and a high fence, did not find time to close. Business has been brisk all week and the crowd there last night appeared_to be greater than on the average Friday night. Constable Tom Garrison at Hyatts- ville was asked today whether he, like Constable Pumphrey over Marl- boro way, had been peering around at “Jimmy's” gambling house. He replied that he did not know “that there is such a place in the county.” You must be mistaken,” said Con- stable Garrison. “If there are any gambling houses around here I don’t know it.” — SOME LUNCHROOMS DOUBLE ON PRICES Shriners Find Printed Menus Showing Sensational Advances. An organized movement by a cer- tain class of restaurants to put into effect June 3 an increase in price of foodstuffs ranging from 25 to more than 100 per cent, has been called to the attention of the Shrine commit- tee These eating establishments, it said, planned to raise the price of the staple breakfast of ham and eggs from 30 to 75 cents, while plain | beef stew now selling at 15 cents is scheduled to jump to 65 cents. ‘What move the committee will take to prevent these restaurants from putting into effect the high price scale was not revealed at Shrine headquarters today. It was frankly admitted that the problem is a dif- ficult one. Several of the eating houses already have had printed new menu | cards containing the increased price lists. A comparison of the old and new bills of fare at one of these establishménts, made at Shrine head- quarters, show, that breakfast cereals have been increased 5 -cents, two triend eggs, 10 cents; milk, 5 cents a glass: steaks and chops. 15 cents; cold meats, 20 cents; sandwiches, from 5 to 15 cents; salads, 10 and 15 cents; fruits and desserts, 5 cent fried potatoes, 5 cents, and tea, cents per pot. OFFERS PRICE RECORDS. Chapin-Sacks Company Explains Advances. Arthur A. Chapin, president of the Chapin-Sacks Corporation, today re- mittee to appoint representatives to examine the concern's records and was justified. The action of Mr. Chapin came as a sequel to a letter addressed to the corporation by Har- ry Standiford, executive secretary of the citizens' committee of the Shrine convention, asking that the advance in_the price of ice cream be with- held until after the conclave of the “nobles.” Replying to Mr. Standiford's com- munication, Mr. Chapin said: “We are in receipt of your favor of May 24, 1923, relating to the increase in the price of ice cream. A grave re- flection by innuendo, if not directly,, has been placed upon our company by this letter, which was given to the press. This increase in price had ab- solutely no connection whatsoever with the approaching Shrine conven- tion, which fact could readily have been ascertained by inquiry, but which, In the press of other matters, was_doubtless overlooked. “Forty-five days ago this company voluntarily reduced the price of ice cream 10 cents per gallon in the confident expectation that the usual May reduction would occur in the price of cream and milk, which did frialie and remain st prevailing flavoring 'extracts would approximately the prices at this season of the year. “Every citizen of Washington is well aware of the fact that in the past year, and particularly in the past few months, tremendous ad- vances have occurred in the price of sugar, cream and milk, the principal ingredients of ice cream, over the corresponding prices prevailing last vear. In addition to this, the cost of labor has also had a material ad- vance. The present increase in price was, therefore, due to these causes and not the reprehensible one of at- tempting to take advantage of our prospective guests on this occasion. “In view of this fact we would ear- nestly request that you promptly ap- point a committee from your organ- ization for the purpose of examining our records and cost sheets to deter- mine whether this increase in price was justified or not.” —_——— T-2 LEAVES EL PASO. Kelly and MacReady on Way to ‘Washington. EL PASO, Tex., May 26.—The mono- plane T-2, piloted by Lieuts. Oakley Kelly and John A. MacReady, which arrived here yesterday afternoon on its flight from San Diego to Wash- ington, D. C., left Fort Bliss at 6:10 o’'clock (mountain time) this morning for Lawtol kla. Net Circulation, 92,858 P — 5 NATIONS PROTEST DRY SHIP RULINE; SEE TRADING CURB Commerce Menaced If Rec- ognized Practices Disre- garded, U. S. Told. COMMENT IS WITHHELD. BY STATE DEPARTMENT British and Spanish Send Notes. French, Italian and Dutch Opinions Given Verbally. Five foreign governments already have made known to the State De- partment. their position in regard to the recent Supreme Court ruling against the presence of liquor on for- eign ships inside the three-mile 1imit. Besides a communication received vesterday from the British embasdy, the department has received the views of the Spanish government; also in writing, and the attitude of the French, Italian and Dutch gov- ernments have been presented orally to Secretary Hughes. Protest Inconvenien In substance, it was said today at the department, the five countries take the same position in calling at- tention to the “Inconveniences” re- sulting from the court decision and also point out that freedom of inter- national commerclal intercourse is threatened If heretofore recognized practices of comity between nations in this regard are abandoned. The State Department would not in- dicate what course it would follow re- garding the British or Spanish notes. The British communication has not been subjected to study, nor is it in- dicated whether it calls for a sue- cific reply. The Spanish note was passed along to the Treasury Depart- ment, where new regulations affect- ing foreign ships are in preparation, and the same course undoubtedly will be followed with the British commu- nication. Treasury officials also have been informed as to the substance of the statements made by th Italian and Dutch. deint Haynes Is Adam: Prohibition Commissioner Haynes, it was learned today, is not in ac- cord with the plan reported to be under consideration at the Treasury to designate as medicine liquor the wine rations carried by foreign ves: sels. Such a method of elreum- venting the objections of the forelgn powers would not be a real compli- ance with the Supreme Court decls. on, in the opinion 3 some of his s’xdesA oS o ncetand Tt was learned also that a draft of the new regulations proposed by Dprohibition headquarters would ex- | clude even the liquor carried or- dinarily as ships® store: Contest Jurisdiction. In formal representations to the State Department on the ships' liquor question the British government is understood to have taken the position that American port authoritles have no jurisdiction ‘in international law to interfere with the bringing of lauor into American waters by for- eign vessels as part of - larT;llpDIloN. r SpsinyrenT e British position is unders | to ve based on the construetion: thas the jurisdiction of American officials cver foreign ship cargoes intended for importation into the United States in no way extends to ships’ stores or rations. Find Way Out. | _The British view. with its appar. conflict in principle with the recont Supreme Court decision, is presentsd as Treasury officials are endeavoring to formulate regulations to carry out the decision and at the same time, it is understood. satisfy the position of foreign governments. There were |increasing ~indications today that they have found a way to accomplish this by permitting foreign ships to list the wine rations of their crews as a part of the medicinal stores al- lowable under the law. While the British representation was being made at the State Depart- ment a corps of Treasury and pro- hibition lawyers were engaged in fur- ther study of a tentative draft of the regulations. Assistant Secretary Moss, who has jurisdiction over the prohibition unit of the Treasury, and J. J. Britt, prohibition bureau coun- sel, conferred with Secretary Mellon, but it was said the discussion includ- ed only minor questions developed under the court ruling. No Comment Here, ne of the Treasury officials would comment on the action of the British, but it was stated that representa- tions had been expected. Publica- tion of the proposed regulations, which are to go into effect June 10, will be made at the earllest possible date, it was said, so that foreign gov- ernments may know the problems with which they are confronted. In this connection, it was added that the American government, knowing the ‘contentions of other natlons, would be better able to meet situa- tions developed by protests. COPYRIGHT VIOLATION BRINGS JAIL TERM Pennsylvanian Must Serve Three Months for Producing Two Plays. PITTSBURGH, May 26.— Thomas Casey of New Castle, Pa., was today sentenced in federal court to serve three months in the Allegheny county jail for infraction of the copyright law, one month for producing “Way Down East” and two months for pro- ducing “Lightnin’” at Oil City, Pa., in 1922. 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