Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Falrand modérats webte: for twenty-four today: Highe est, 64, at £:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. winds. tohight and tomorrow; ‘Temperature ours ended at 2 p.m. 88, at noon today; low- Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 " Entered as sec post_office Wi MODFED DRY LAW 1SSMITH'S DEMAND INSIBNING REPEAL “Common Sense” Asked of Congress in Fixing New Alcohol Content of Liquor. SEES THREE GREAT AIMS ACCOMPLISHED BY ACTION No. 28,887 Supporters See Governor's C_ll'ldi- dacy for President Stronger Than Ever. y iated Press. ALBANY, N. Y. June lan-Gage state prohibition ment bill is dead. Gov. Smith killed it last night with the few strokes of a pen necessary to affix his signature to the legislature's repeal bill, adopted four weeks ago. In announcing his action the gov. ernor called for “common sense” modification of the Volstead act by Congress, which would fix the alco- holic content of permissible beverages at a point that would make possible the sale of beer and light wines in| states that want them. 1 Think Prestize Grows. | This answer to appeals from many ®ources for action that would start the ball rolling toward modification of the Volstead act is counted on by his supporters to make him a formida- ble bidder for the presidential nom- fnation on a “liberal” platform in 1924. The Mullan-Gaee act passed out with few formalities. Reporters who | had swarmed the corridors about the executive chamber all day were ad- mitted at 6 o'clock, just in time to see the governor lifting a blotter from his wet signature. He smiled and said: “Boys, bin.! Motion picture cameramen ground out a few yards of film, and it was all over. In announcing his decision. Gov. 8mith made public a memorandum of | nearly 4.000 words. explaining ex- | hausfively why he had approved the repealer. 2 .—The Mul- | enforce- 1 have just approved the Cites Aims Sought. i Declaring the eighteenth amend- | ment was just as effective in New | York as it ever has been, and that} he ‘would require all state officers:to | aid the federal wovernment In striet enforcement of the Volstead act. he | gave these three things as the things he Hoped to accomplfsh by complet- | Ing the repeal: 1. Guarantee all citizens against beine placed in “double jeopardv” for | possible violations of the eighteenth amendment. i 2. Put the state in harmony with | the recent decision of Federal Judge | Knox of New York. declaring uncon-, stitutional that part of the Volstead ! act which restricts the amount of | liquor a physiclan may prescribe for any individual patient. 3. Bring about promecution of all} violators of the eighteenth amend- ment in federal court, whare offend- ers will be made to realize that it 18 the Constitution they are violating, not “merely a local regulation.” Acceding to the urging of his friends that he strike a note in a| campalgn for the return of light| wines and beer, he danounced the one- | half of 1 ner cent alcoholie beverage content provided in the Volstead act as “the work of fanatical drys.” call- | ing on Congress to modify it to a “common sense” maximum. and then leave ench atate free to set a figure below that. Defends Action. “1 yleld to no man in my reverence and respect for the Constitution of the United States and I advocate nothing which will infringe upon the provisions of the eighteénth amend- ment.” the governor said. “It Is nev- ertheless a fact that the definition of an intoxicating beverage contained in the Vojstead act is not an honest or & common sense one. It is im- possible to divorce from the public mind the impression that the defini- | tion offan intoxicating beverage as | containing not more than one half of 1 per cent of alcohol was written by the fanatical drys in deflance of the general experience of mankind and of actual fact. It seems to me that com- mon sense, backed up by good medical opinion, can find a more scientific def- inition of what constitutes an intoxi- cating beverage. ‘Such a definition should be adopt- ed by Congress as a proper and rea- sonable amendment of the Volstead act and a maximum alcoholic con- tent should be prescribed by Con- gress which would limit all states to the traffic in liquors which are in| fact non-Intoxicating within the| meaning of the eighteenth amend- ment. Subject to that limitation each state should thereafter be left free to determine for itself what should constitute an intoxicating beverage. States which then wished to limit traffic to beverages containing not more than one-half of 1 per cent of alcohol would be free to do so and those which desired to extend the traffic to the maximum limitation al- lowed by federal statute would be equally free to do so." StiH Efrective. - The governor emphasized however, that the mere’ repeal of the Mullan- Gage act; accomplishd by his signa- ture, dfd not ‘alter the effectiveness of the Volstead act In its present form as long as it stands unmodified, and served notice on all peace officers of the state that they would be expected to “enforce the Volstead act in its strictest letter.” The governor replied to President Harding's letter to Wesley Wait, Newburgh dentist, in which the President_expressed concern as to a possible clash between federal and state authorities If the yepeal be- came law. Cites State Rights, “I yleld to no man in this country when 1t comes to respect for the ut- terances of the Chief Executiye ot the United States,” said the gov- ernor’s statement, “but it is Impos- sible for me to be unmindful of the fact that I am the chief executive of a sovereign state and I am entirely in accord with & statement put forth in_the course of this discussion and signed - by former Judges William Bartlett, Almet. ¥. Jenks, E. Henr Lacomb’and Mr. Austin G. Fox, which (Continued on Fage 3, Column 6. Law nd-class matter hington, D. C. U. S. Dry Officials Speechless " At Smith’s Signing of Repeal Left Without Plan for Enforcement of Law in New York--Admit Gréat Wet Victory. Gov. Smith’s knockout blow at state prohibition enforcement in New York virtually threw up to the fed- eral government today the gigantic task of “going it alone” in the wettest spot in America. Although expected, the governor's signature vesterday of the bill re- pealing the state code left federal agencies in charge of prohibition speechless, without an announced plan and with no immediate proce- dure ahead but conferences. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes declined absolutely to make any statement on the situation. The federal government will have to take up the whole burden in New York, it was said on high authority today, in spite of the emphatic pro- nouncement of the governor in his statement accompanying signature, that the state forces would be called on absolutely to enforce the Vol act, and that the repeal of the WETISSUE I TED. TOPARTYBY SHITH Considered in Line for Demo- cratic Nomination on Anti- Dry Platform. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Gov. Smith of New York, in sug- gestions in a memorandum made public when he signed the bill re- pealing the prohibition enforcemen law of the state, is classed as hav- Ing definitely injected the prohibition | question into politics, looking to the next presidential campaign. Further- more, he will, it is sald by the politicians, unless he makes dis- claimer, be regarded as a potential candidate for the presidential nomina- tion on the democratic ticket, with his platform made known in advance, namely, modification of the Volstead act and broadening the power of the, |states to define intoxicating within their own borders, The first question which democrats liquors lare likely to take under considera- tlon fs, what wilk be the effect of his action upon public sentiment as to Whether he volces the thought likely to control in the making of the party’s national platform? In other words, will he be regarded as assum- ing the leadership of the “wets” and, by virtue of his great offictal position, tacking modification of the prohibi- tion law to the parl G. 0. P. Firmly Dry. Republicans will be glad. for polit- ical effect. that he signed the re- pealer and came out in such un- equivocal terms for modification of the prohibitian law, for the leader- ehip in the republican party is con- | vinced that the republican natlon convention will not event “squin toward an attack upon the Volstead act. The republican party, it is sald, will be recognized as taking the “6dry” end of the issue between the wets and the drys. There are varying opinions among democrats as to” whether Gov. Smith has forwarded or lessened the chances of his nomination by the demo- convention—assuming cratic national that he has presidential aspirations, upon which point he has thus far given no indication. Some demo- crats maintain that the party as a whole will be endangered if the country gets the idea that Go Smith is sceking to attach it to the wet program. Seen as Amset. Others hold that as his wet atti- tude was responsible for his over- whelming majority in the elections of last November, he will, with his known opinions, be an asset rather than a drawback as a presidential nom- inee. While discussing these considera- | tions the politicans do not lose sight of the certainty that tremendous im- petus has been given to the move- ment which has started and will take larger form with the beginning of the next Congress to modify the Vol- stead act and that the wets and dr: will come to clinches in Congress on | the eve of the selection of delegates to the national convention. Some states will begin as early as March to chose delegates for the conven- tions to be held in June. Drys Plan Campaign. The drys are expected to begin to reform their lines at once, in antici- pation of the fight to come on in De- cember. The Anti-Saloon League, of course, will bear the brunt of the organized fight against modification, and Gov. Smith’s action is thought to have given a new lease of life to that organization. The drys are understood to expect that “a terrible example” will be fur- nished by the anticipated immense in- crease in the distribution of liquors to follow the letting down of such re- striction of smuggling by the state— and it cannot be said it was very much, at that, and that this will be water over their wheel in their de- mand for support. —_— DELAYS RAIL DECISION. ST. PAUL, Minn, June 2.—The TUnited States circuit court of appeals today had under advisement the case in which the government seeks final separation of the Southern Pacific and the Central Pacific rallroads, as ordered by the United States Supreme lan-Gage act “will not make legal & single act which was illegal unde the period of existence of the statut Promise “Subterfuge.” The governor's promise to use state officers to enforce the national act was considered as “pure subterfuge,” a “gesture,” In official quarters here, | and as not made in good faith. These same officlals did not question the governor's sincerity in signing the repeal Dill, but they placed astonish- ingly small faith in all the promises he made of state enforcement with- out the code. In a word, it was said, the governor had promised continued co-operation and, at the same time, with a stroke of his pen, had destroyed the very agency for such continued co-opera- tion That signature was admitted on al les today as consummating in N York, the greatest commonwealth of the Union, an unqualified victory for nunued on Page g Wisconsin Wets Plan to Repeal By the Associated Press. MADISON, Wis, June couraged by the repeal of the Mullan-Gage enforcement law in New York, the wets in the Wis- consin legislature announced to- day that they plan next week to move to take off the table the Tucker bill, providing for repeal of the verson _ prohibition amendment law for Wisconsin. —En- { | Officials—Says Repeal Is Responsible. 1 NEW YORK. June 2.—Gennaro Ce- | longinoni, arrested last night charged with possessing 110 gallons of wise, was discharged today by Magistrate ! Goodman on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction since the arrest was made after Gov. the repeal of the Mullan-Gage state prohibition enforcement act. Magistrate Goodman ordered the po {liceman who arresjed Celonginoni to take him before a federal commis- sioner. The ‘case was the first of violation of the dry laws to come before a atate court since Gov. Smith signed the re- | peal. 1 | David Rosenberg, |1eged violation o act !acte, [ bail for examination by Magistrate Goodman ! | The first dry-law violation case to | |come up in Brooklyn after repeal of | ithe state law was that of Joseph K. | | Karpznaske, saloonkeeper, who was | {arrested today. The magistrate or- | {dered the prisoner taken before a fed- jeral commissioner, who held him in 181,000 bail for examination. arrested for al two hours before the governor 3 MORD FANATICS | SLAIN ON PATAISLE “Bullet-Proof” Prophet Among Those Slain by Constabulary. Is| By the Astociated Pre! I MANILA, June Fifty-three fa- | natical Moros, including Akbara, the | self-styled bullet-proof prophet, have | been killed in a fight with the con- | stabulary on the island of Pata. near Jolo (Sulu). No detalls of the upris- ing have been received. On May 21 a similar Moro uprising in the same locality was reported to | Manila. At that time it was said| that Akbara, who ‘called himself a | prophet from heaven and said no bul- | let could touch him, had led his fol- lowers in an attack on soldiers of the constabuldry. In_the firing that followed twenty-five Moros were re- ported slain, and it was declared that Akbara among the dead. Later it was learned that he had escaped. The constabulary suffered no casual- ties. Although dispatches then indicated that the uprising had been quelled, reinforcements were sent the insular constabulary. Before that Gov. Gen. Wood, learning that the Mords were practicing lawlessness in the name of religion, had sent a detachment of constabulary to Pata to cope with the situation. . McCUMBER TO STAY HERE. Former Senator Porter J. McCum- ber of North Dakota, defeated for re- nomination last year, announced in a statement today that he would open law offices here for practice related to federal tax and customs litigation and would remain “in cl touch Court. A decision probably will not be flied until late this month. SCORE Z 3 ‘4 PHILA. v - wASHINGTON. Batteries—Naylor.and Perkins; @ 2ol | 1] with- the politics of both my state and the nation.” OF FIRST GAME ST = L N ] Warmoth and Ruel. DryEnforcement| BYNEW YORK COURT = Smith signed | the Mullan-Gage | d on the repeal, was held in $1,000 | BANDTISRELEASE 1 AMERCAN AND - 0THERCAPTIVES Jerome A. Hedley, New York, Two Britishers and Mexi- can Set Free. INTERNATIONAL BOARD BEGINS INVESTIGATION Airplane Dispatched to Reconnoiter Position of Brigands—Eight Still Prisoners By the Assoclated Press. TIENTSIN, June 2.—Four more of the foreign captives held by the Su- how train bandits, one American, two British subjects and one Mexican | citizen, have been released uncondi- tionally and arrived today at the relief camp at Tsaochwang, accord- ing to a telegram from there. Those released today were Jerome A. Henley, American, Commodore | Hotel, New York, employed by the | Fearon Daniel Company at Shanghal; Edward Elias and Theodore Saphiere, both British subjects, and brokers of Shanghal; Manuel A. Verea, manu- facturer, of Guadalajara, Mexico. Expect 8 Others to Be Freed Soon. The dispatch from Tsaochwang said prospects were for the speedy release of the eight other forelgners imprisoned on Paotzuku mountain. sent an airplane to reconnoiter the i bandits’ position. The elght fcreigners still held. at last reports from the Shantung hills, —_—— DRY BASE R[FUSED {included four Americans; Maj. Roland |W. Pirger, Ordnance Department; I§ A, Shanghal, John B. Powell, Shanghai T 3 newspaper publisher, and Lee Solomon of San Francisco and Shanghal. The others were Elias, a broker of Shanghai and a brother of Edward Elias, who was released today, and Reginald H. Judge Refers Case to U. S.|Bomietentprmsin; both, Britian: French, and G. D. Musso, lawyer and capitalist of Shanghai, Italian. Release Expected Hourly. expected hourly, though it was con- | sidered likely that the bandits might hold two or three pendipg fulfiliment of all the exactions demanded of the Chinese government. One report sald that the last foreigner would not be freed untll the last of the outlaw " “(Continued on Page %, Column 1.) Tied Up. By the Associated Press. DUESSELDORF, June 2.—The main line railroad used by the French for the transportation of coal and coke out of the occupled Ruhr distriét was| cut early today by the explosion of | bombs, Both tracks were torn up for a considerable distance and traffic will be interrupted for some time. A coal train was derailed by the damaged tracks. In two other cases contact bombs were exploded when | struck by locomotives, both engines being deratled. Ordered Trees Cut Down. As In most cases recently the ! sabotage occurred in wooded districts, {the French have ordered that the trees be cut down to a distance of 200 meters on each side of the right of way in all districts where attempts have been made to cut the rails. The French announce that German civillans must chop down the trees and that the burgomasters of the various towns will be called upon to supply the woodcutters. The Germans are particularly at- tached to their forests, and numbers are expected to refuse to aid in the work as part of their pol- lcy of resistance against the occu- pation authorities. Four Sent to Prison. Four employes of the Krupp Works today were sentenced to varying prison terms and fines of 1,000,000 marks each upon conviction by a French court-martial of making plans of French barracks and re- porting the movements of troobs and trains for the benefit of the sabotage gang, headed by Albert Schlageter, recently executed by the French. Heinrich Sander, a buyer for Krupps, was sentenced to ten years at hard labor; Wilhelm Jenanicke, a designer, was given five vears; Earnest Mar- electrician, two years, and Wellandt, laboratory assist- x months. Baron Krupp von Bohlen and his three fellow directors, Bfuhn, Hart- wig and Oesterlin, whose appeal to the French supreme court is still pending, have been removed from the Joca] jail to the military prison at Zwelbrucken, in the Sarre valley. This will interrupt their active supervi- sion of the Krupp plant, which has been made possible through the French permitting other Krupp exec- utives to consult with them. President Gets Ten Months. Herr Lutterbeck, acting president of the Duesseldorf district, was sen- tenced today by a Belglan court-mar- prisonment on conviction of the charge of making insulting remarks about the Belgians. Herr Lutterback has been a thorn in the side of the occupation authori- ties, because he has been a prolific writer of letters of protest against 1 ellc(l_ of the French and Belgian icials. s - FES ST e | ! The international military commis- | {sion reached Tsaochwang today and | Leon Friedman of Chicago ; Fred | The release of most of them was| PAPLOSIONS WRECK TRANS IN RUHR !to public attention when J. Ogden Main Line Used by French to| Haul Coal Completely large ; tial at Sterkrade to ten months’ im-; ForD Loans Casn To RUN CITY GOVERNMENT AT CHEAPER RATES FISHER 10 CONDUCT. FIGHT ON PACKERS Forher Cabinet Officer En- gaged to Assist Case Against Merger. Walter L. Fisher of Chicago, who was Secretary of the Interior under President Taft, has been engaged by Secretary Wallace as a special attor- ney in the conduct of the Department of Agriculture’s fight to prevent the Armour-Morris packer combination. Hearings will be resumed in Chicago June 18, Announcement was made today of the retention of Mr. Fisher, who was selected because of his famillarity with the meat packing industry. He 1s counsel for the American National Live Stock Assoclation and has ap- peared at congressional hearings on the packers and live stock industry. Wallace Starts Fight. Armour & Co. already have taken over the Morris & Co. business and plants despite a warning of Secretary Wallace, who has begun a fight against the combination on the ground that it would constitute a monopoly. _restrain__interstate and foreign commerce wnd give oppor- tunity for the manipulation and con- trol of prices In the buying and sell- ing of live stock and live stock prod- ucts. The combination proposal first came Armour last November sought Secre- tary Wallace's indorsement of it. Sec- retary Wallace declared he saw no occasion for action by him at that time, but after further study inform- ed Mr. Armour he could not look with favor on the plan. He told Mr. Armour he should feel it his duty, if ! they consummated the purchase, to issue a complaint, which very likely would be followed by an order stop- ping the combination so a judicial de- cision might be obtained. Procecd With Purchase. The Armour company proceeded | with its purchase of the Morris prop- erties and a day or so before the transfer was made Secretary Wallace served the Armour and Morris offi- clals with a formal complaint requir- ing them to show cause why an order should not be issued against them. Hearings on the complaint were be- | gun in Kansas City April 30 and con- tinued at East St. Louis and Omaha, but were halted before the date set for the Chicago hearing, which was May 14. A final hearing was to have begun st Washington May 21, but was deferred until after a hearing had been held at Chicago. June 18 now has been selected for the resump- tion of the hearing at Chicago. SIX DIE AS FLAMES DESTROY THEIR HOME Mother, 4 Children and Her Broth- er Dead—Father and Two Others Escape. By the Associated Press. EXETER, Ont., June 2.—Mrs. Silas Stanlake, her'four young children and her brother were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the Stanlake home at Sodom, three miles from this city today. Awakened by smoke, Silas Stanlake, head of the family groped his way to a bedroom where he saved the lives &t his adopted daughter, Beatrice, twenty, and his oldest son Harry, twelve, by dropping them to the ground from a window. He then at. tempted to reach the room where h! wife slept with the four small chil- dren, Clarence, six, Charlle, four, Wil- fred, two, and an unnamed babe of two ‘weeks, but was prevented by the flames. s. _Stanlake's brother, Alfred, was trapped in an adjoining room. The father leaped to safety from a window after being severely burned. The origin of the fire is not known. The Star tomorrow will - publish exclusive pictures of all the offi- cers of the Imperial Divan, Imperial Coun- cil, Ancient Arabic Or- der Nobles of the Mys- tic Shrine. Fair and Warm, Weather “Dope’’ For Shrine Wee Washington's weather man is doing a bit of his best predicting for Shrine week, coming out today with a general forecast of: “Fair, generally and moderately warm. A word in confildence with Maj. Bowle, forecaster, this afternoon elicited the “dope” that no showers were expected to dampen the ardor of the throngs here next week, and that although the weather would be warm all right, it would not be the seasonal August warmth which early June generally brings to Washington about this time of year. Beyond that, things are in the hands of the gods of the clouds. The weather bureau has done all it can. CONTRACT IS SIGNED FOR CONSERVATORY The first of the new conservatories for the enlarged National Botanic Garden, which, according to plans of the library committees of the House and Senate. will take in the entire stretch of land south of the Capitol to the river, making this an impor- tant link in the chain of parks en- tirely surrounding the capital, will be completed by August 1, according to a contract just signed by George W. Hess, director of the garden. This is to be a “show house” and is to be erected on reservation 6B, be- tween 2d and 3d streets and North Canal and South Canal, just south of the present propagating greenhouses. This is an ideal site for an exhibi- tion house, because the Anacostia line of the W. R. & E. passes this site and the Capital Traction line passes within a square. Will Cost $10,700. The design for this show house. which is to cost §19,700 and is to be bullt by the American Greenhouse Manufacturing Company, with offices in New York and Chicago, was ap- proved by the Fine Arts Commission. Experts in conservatory construction pronounce the plans to be thoroughly up to date and say the new show house should be a model. The site, which was until recently occupled by the surface division and the eleotrical department of the Dis- triot of Columbia, is being cleared. The material for the new show house is being prepared in the factory and the first shipment of a carload of steel for the frame has actually been made, according to a telegram re- ceived today by Director Hess. Expects Congressional Ald. This show house is the first of a number of modern conservatories and propagating houses which are to be bullt. Director Hess said today that he expects to get a liberal appropria- tion from Congress as soon as it re- assembles for the erection of the first big conservatory to replace the pre: ent main conservatory, which has been condemned as unsafe. In this condemned conservatory are a num- ber of valuable specimens which are more than 100 years old and which could not be replaced. Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania is father of the legislation for ‘the ex- tension_of the Botanic Garden and has had plans drawn for the acquisi- tion of ail land south of the Capitol to the Potomac river, a great part of which area is already owned by the governmen! Flags Removed From Treasury " After Criticism of Positions Criticisms from patriotic organiza- tions of Washington of erroneous use of the flag in Shrine-decorations re- sulted in the removal today of all the flags that had draped the columns of the Treasury Department. buflding. The work of removing the flags was begun early this morning. It was not believed that the flags would be re- placed. Criticism of the Treasury officials for displaying the flag was declared to be unjust, and officers of the de- partment sald great care was exercised by those In charge of the decorations. It was sald that the hanging of the flags on the eolumns was inspected and !approved by Army officers. | “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every <ity block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 93,575 BISHOP T0 HASTEN CATHEDRAL PLANS Dr. Freeman Announces He Will Push Work on . Great Edifice. Completion of the great National Cathedral here within the shortest possible time was assured today through the election yesterday of the Rev. Dr. James E. Freeman of the Church of the Epiphany as third bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Washing- ton. After his consecration next fall, probably October 15, Dr., Freeman is to devote a great part of his time as| bishop to the completion of the mag- nificent gathedral, destined to be one of the greatest church edifices in the world. “Here the Cathedral must be bullt,” Dr. Freeman declared today. “But it must not bé built,” he warned, “by sacrificing in any degree the interests of any parish in the diocese. { May Get Higher Place, Episcopalians here and throughout the nation, as well as prominent men of all falths, rejoiced in the selection of the popular rector of the Church of the Eplphany as bishop-elect of the episcopal diocese of Washington, be- lieving that under his guidance the diocese will take its place as the see city of the country. It was freely predicted that Dr. Freeman has every chance of being the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in America, as a result of the general convention to be held in 1925, and that in such event a suffragan bishop elected for the diocese of Washing- ton. The Laymen's Service Association of the Episcopal Church in the dio- cese of Washington today arranged a corporate service of holy communion in the Church of the Epiphany tomo: row morning at § o'clock “as an ex- pression of their thankfulness to Al- mighty God for the divine guidance which led to a happy termination of the task of electing a person to be- the next Bishop of Washing- All men, whether members of the assoclation’ or not, are invited to take part in the thanksgiving service. Dr. Freeman's Address. Dr. Freeman's address of accept- ance yesterday was characterized to- day as a great statement concerning the general aims of the local diocese. Dr. Freeman said: “Dear brethren, clerical and lay. in the face of what you have just done I find myself in- capable of expressing to you the sense of gratitude that I feel for the honor you have conferred upon me. In such a_ situation I feel like crying out, “Who is sufficient for these things? “An incident in Froude's Life of Carlyle comes to me as 1 stand here. When Emerson visited him at Craigen Puttock the silent men spent long hours together in the evening, walk- ing out over the moors. At length, as they stood upon an eminence over- looking _the outstretching valley, Carlyle broke the silence, and sai Amerson, Jesus Christ died cn the tree that built Dunscore Church yonder, that brought you and me to- gether.” Paraphrase of Words. “I¢ 1 may venture to paraphrase Carlyle’s words on this occasion, may 1 say: Jesus Christ died on the tree— that is the central fact in our Chris- tian faith; that built the church of which we are members—and may I not be assured that brought you and me together? “As I stand here today I vividly (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) vould be | Even after the first criticism that the flags were wrongly hung there was Indecision on the part of the but when it was determined that the regulations prepared by the adju- tant general's office required the stars of the flags to hang at the ob- server's left, officials of the Treasury military officers to admit the: fact,| Department immediately ordered the flags removed. High officers of the Treasury ex- pressed_the opinion today that the severe dignity of the columns should not be covered with adornments and it is belleved that the columns will remain uncovered. The flags as they hung at the Treasury building were in the posi. tion reserved for the covering of Lodies of the soldier dead. TWO CENTS. SHRINE CARAVAN ON HORIZON AFTER STRUGGLEIN LD Pilgrim Scouts Bring Stories of Hardship as 500 Autos Roll In. EVIL TONGUES HIT D. C. BY GOUGING FALSEH00DS Rooming Committee Announces Room for 400,000 at Fair Rates. Pilgrim scouts treking into Wash- ington just ahead of the main body of Shrine travelers told solemn storics today of the hardships and uncer- tainties endured by the faitaful who attempted the long journey to Mecca in motor caravans. Awed by stories of high prices and poor accommodations here, dre by three weeks of rain and smothered by emplres of sti ern mud, hundreds turn hearkening not even to the sacred call of the muezzin, summoning ths hosts of the Mystic Shrine to imperial conclave. The vast majority of the hosts who started, however, are almost on the outskirts cf the city, and many of those who abandoned the journey by automobile are now taking any sort of accommodation they can buy onal- ready overtaxed western railroads. according to the tired, dusty dreds who have stumbled wearily into the city, salaamed before the Almas divan and started in to enjoy a good rest before the festivities be- gin tomorrow. Coast Caravan Lost. The California caravan, that start- ed from the Golden state with such pomp and display a month ago, was all but annihilated two weeks ago in a sea of Kansas mud, one Shriner from that ‘state declared. For four days the entire caravan was lost somewhere in the wilds beyond Sa- lina, and efforts t o reach it by wireless, telephone and telegraph failed. 'The whole state had been turned into a veritable quagmire by three solid weeks of rain. Chugging slowly through the al- most obliterated roads, most of the pilgrims reached Salina, but some had already turned their faces once more into the setting sun, determined to hurry back home and make the jour- ney ‘by rail. All but fifteen of the others turned back at Salina, and even the herolc few who determined 0 continue toward Mecca shipped heir cars to St. Louls and took up the march there. Kansas City had prepared to glve a royal reception to 1,000 automobile parties in the band. Only the fif- teen faithful reached that point with the first authentic story of the hard- ships to be encountered on the trail to Mecca. Similar storles found their way into western cities from caravans coming down from the northwest and up from the southwest, and were retold at Shrine headquariers today Gathers New Momentum, When the California band reaches Washington next Monday, however, it will be large as ever. En route through the states this side of the Mississippi it has picked up hundreds of cars, and one scout, traveling past it in a speedster, brought word that It consisted of more than 500 cars when it left Indianapolis last Thursday. Almost without exception Shriners who presented their compliments to the Almas Temple divan in the Homer buliding today declared the country had been flooded with propaganda, not only branding Washington as a city of gougers, but also to the effect that the crowd would be larger than the city could accommodate. They feared thousands who had intended making the pilgrimage had been kept away as a result. Partially sub- stantiating these fears was the state- ment of Noble Jack Siye this morning that he had received four telegrams from friends stating they had decided not to come to Washington because “there is no room for any more.” To refute such statements. the rooming committee announced that it had accommodations right in Wash- ington for 70,000 persons more than even its first high estimates had placed the crowd. It authorized the announcement that it can handle 400,000 persons in first-class, rea- sonably-priced rooms without any difficulty. These announcements are being broadcasted to every temple In the country, assuring every noble a hearty welcome and happy time if he cares to make the pilgrimage. “Greatest Crowd” En Route. Despite this adverse propaganda, the first Shriners in today reported that the greatest convention crowd in the history of America was now en route to the National Capital. The railroads substantiated the reports through their committee by declar- ing they already had reservations throughout the country for close to 160,000 persons. This does not taks into consideration the thousands who will come here in day coaches, either by _choice or necessity. Dr. J. T. Prendergast, chairman of the automobile parking committee. stated 500 automobiles had already reached Washington with Shrine pli- grims and that garage reservations for 2,300 other machines had ac- tually been paid for. He called at- tention to the fact that the regi tration of machines did not actually open untll 1 o'clock this afternoon and the committee did not expect the real crush to begin until Mon- day. Thousands of other cars, he concluded, would never be registered nor taken to parking spaces where they could be counted. Registration of visiting nobles and their guests began in earnest toda: At booths throughout the city vis- itors were asking for cards and by noon more than 500 had been sent to the central registration office, at 1413 G street northwest. Thou: more, It was stated, had been mailed in several days ago by temples wish- ing to avold the rush at the bootha. Most. of them will begin to arrive tomorrow. Elaborate Inaugural. Shrine week will be ushered in with all of the pomp and ceremony of a far eastern fete at 8 o'clock tomor- row morning, when close to 40,000 fez-capped nobles assemble at Union station and bid Imperial Potentats ~(Continued on Page 2 Column 1) )