Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1923, Page 13

{ clines. THE WEEK Epitome of Events Up to June 3, 1923, FOREIGN. War clouds pass as Greco-Turkish row is adjusted. Chinese soldiers open attack upon bandit retreat. Casual- ties heavy as reign of terror grows in Germany. Kaliser junks Old Testa- ment and yrites new preface to Bible. Great Ruhr communists ex- tend control. Russ reds plot revolt in United States. Great Ruhr strike comes to an end, 500,000 men work. Two dead in German riot as mark d, | months. Ink and tar freely applied in Paris socialist-royalist row. Exe- cute hundreds in Russian plots. France and Japan protest ship liquor ruling. NATIONAL. Forty noted Americans deny sciance and religion conflict. Lieut.” Crocker files De Haviland plane from guif to lakes in twelve hours. U. S. action against Veterans' Bureau heads for fraud is seen. Daugherty denies he will quit cabinet. Billion dollars bid for Shipping Board fleet. Chinese pig tails furnish United S: girls 180, 143,136 nets. Thirty-six slain or hurt in ax crimes in Alabama in forty-two Claud Kitchin, former mi- nority leader of House. dead at Wil son, N. C. Gov. Smith, New York opens hearing on dry repealer. Lasker will thoroughly investigate billion- dollar_bid for Shipping Board fleet Gov. Smith signs Cuvillier bill re ng state prohibition code, ex THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO plathing, however, state peace of- ficers must enforce Volstead act. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. President Steward, National Fed- cration Federal Employes, charges personnel classification board breaks law in using bureau of efliciency forms. Smoke screen in rum car jcrash, five hurt. City preparing for Shriners; lunchroom owners blame higher pay for food incrense. Classi- fleation board will make no reply to Steward attack, President joins So- | Journers' Club,” Department | tice Investigates charges of profitee ing for Shriners. Check on g system at bureau of engre #nd printine, Jesse W. Smith, Da erty aide, kills self with pisto ident leads nation fn Memor! exercises, says United States’ duty further peace of world, Mrs. Hard- | Ing plants tree to war dead. Haynes | ays dry net tightens on Shrine con- again extended. Dr. ‘J. M. Sterre t, founder of All Souls’ Sterrett Me- morial Church, shoots self dead at home. Plan 40,000 Shriners to greet imperial potentate Sunday. Dr. James Freeman, rector of Church of Epiphany, elected Bishop of Wash- ington, to succeed Bishop Harding. —_— LEPER LEAVES CITY. South American Girl Taken to New York Hospital. Miss Carmen Gownder, the young South American girl, who was quar- antined here ten days ago as a leper by Health Officer Fowler, has been taken to a skin hospital in New York state for treatment, Dr. Fowler | announcea —— ntlon. Downtow king ban | One hundred thousand eggs are pro- duced by a qu by Order the Series of Eight Special Shrine Issues of ¢ Foening Star and he Shundwy St sent to your friends out of the city Sunday to Sunday June 3rd to 10th inclusive They will be eight interesting issues — covering completely and competently every feature of the great demonstration—and its accompanying incidents. There will be two pages of graphic pictures printed on special paper each day beginning Monday. A twelve-page Rotogravure Section—*“Washington Beautiful”—will be issued with Tuesday’s Star. Every day throughout the week there will be four pages of special features in connection with the festivities. % A new and up-to-date Guide to Washington will be printed in each of these issues—telling what to see and how to reach it. These eight issues will form a complete history—in word and picture—of one ef the most interesting events that has ever taken place in the National Capital. Everything you will want to know ab out—you’ll find in The Star., The Eight Issues Sent Prepaid - Anywhere in the U. S., 40c bas | ||| characterized by ! questions that have been put t | from if! “Does , D. C, SATURDAY, Suburban Heights. | COES CUT TO SEE HOW GAR~ e IS CCMING ALONG TELLS PRED TO RE CAREFUL. NCT TO POKE 1T SO BIDDER FOR FLEET ANSWERS LASKER an Who Offe. 2d Billion for . S. Vessels Hits Shipping Board Policy. By the Associated Press. SILV CRI W. Slack, the United nt N. whose ~ billion do tes govern- marine fleet Chairman Lasker of {the Shipping Board as a “summer last night issued his first statement. It is largely an the Shipping Board and on Chairman Lasker's sing methods and concludes refu to answer the two him These questions * and “Who was jattack on a many are: “Why did s back of you A local paper praised Mr. Slack. member of the publicity com of the chamber putting Silver Creek on the map Still Sceking Bond. at Chair: gles ou do it? ker jdid not invite him nor a representa- | of his company to m Board committee v lso intimates that he fis ing for a million-dollar :1d have been required ihad the Shipping Board decided to take up the details of his bid We are willing to hazard atement that if our proposition fis summer drean: the sell ing methods of Chairman Lask 3 {be described as a horrible nightmare. {_ Mr. Slack mentions Henry Ford in {his statement, but only n indefi- {nite way. Mr. Ford passed through y 1S, but there_is that he met Mr. ck_does not claim that e Detroit manuf d.” the statement says, with tears Ne: Henry For {“had to beg his friends, lin his eyes. for a few erable { thousands which gave h start \ the greatest business career in all { history. All bankers have turned | down the proposition of the Shipping | Board, Just as they turned dow | Henry on the one occasion when t | thought he needed large financial cupport. The American people need to save what is left of ruin; not the {timid support of a few narrow {irinded bankers, but some real busi- ness brains.” yu Ford Can Speak for Self. vour reference to Henry Ford mean that he was or is inter- ested in your bid?" Mr. Slack asked g “Let Mr. Ford speak for himself,” he replied. One _part of the statement carries the inference that Mr. Slack fs con- sidering & withdrawal of his bid, but, like other parts of it and his interviews, a direct statement is avoided. “Due to the business methods of Chairman Lasker.” the statement says, “we are now in & position Where we may either go ahead with this proposition and unmask Chair- man Lasker's batteries completely, or We may withdraw with considerabie prace and eclat. The question we Bave to decide is whether or not we are willing to involve others in finan- cial responsibility.” NAMES NOT MADE PUBLIC. Conference Member Claims Pro- posals for Purchase of Fleet Ships. NEW YORK, June 2.—Although in- vited to attend, John W. Slack of { Silver Creek, N. Y., the billion-dollar bidder for the government fleet, did not appear at the conference between bidders for emergency fleet vessels and a special committee of the Ship- ping Board, which ended its sessions yesterday. Definite proposals were submitted during the conference which may lead the fleet, Mayer Lissner, member of the conferring committee, stated. refused, however, to make public the names of the bidders or the amounts offered. The special committee will make a report of the conference to Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board in Washington Monday. |$30,000,000 PROJECT OFF. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 2.—The Moreland Courts apartment buildings, & $30,000,000 project started by Josiah Kirby, former president of the Cleve- land Dissount Company, in_Shaker Heights, a village near here, were Lo- day in the hands of a receiver. The buildings, work on which stopped when the discount company went into receivership, were Intended to house 5,000 persona. Edward O. Peck, secretary of the discount company, was named re- ceiver for the property late yester- day, following a suit in foreclosure brought against the North Shaker Boulevard Company by receivers for the discount company in behalf of the Harriman National Bank of New York, trustee of the North Shaker Company's $3,000,000 first mortgage bond issu The North Shaker Company itself 18 not involved, it was said. the | urer. | to the sale of numerous vessels of | He | JUNE 2, 1923. DROPS SUDDENLY TO HANDS AND KNEES CALL TO TRED PERLEY O COME QVER- TRED YANKS IT OUT AND SAYS THEY CUGHT TO WATTH THESE: WEEDS BY STUART P. WEST. 1 Dispatch to The Star. YORK, June 2.—The {standing features of the past cial world have been a |renewed decline in the commodity {markets, & further recovery followed | by switt reaction on E: {change, a dwindling interest in i vestment bonds and a ther collapse in the German mark Wheat and cotton have gone not because demand h fallen ibut because both the grain trade week down off. {the cotton trade had been setting too | store on the unusually . retarding farm operations the prospect for the vernment uch isprin | reducing crop. The {cotton proved to be {pectations. The cou jmarket has suggested that a ! miscalculation has been made firee | of commerce. for | wrm Prices Unsettling Factor. all events the decline in farm calling into question the fu- buying power of the s been an unsettli in the uation. Another disappoint- frg incident has been the uy the judgment expressed in the copper ind a week ag hat the rea Justmenr in this quarter w plete. The price of the me | having turned upward from {cents a pound. came down to 143, t wiping out ail the gain since middle of January. At the same time the latest figures on oil production have shown that so | far the price cutting has not had {the desired effect of reducing output but that, on the contrary, there has {been some increase. Under these cir- cumstances talk of a still further ! decline in crude oil prices is not un- reasonable. ew Steel Bookings Dwindling. Up to now the reaction in eel quo- tations has been comparatively small, the output at the mills has been well maintained and there have been no cancellations to speak of. But, on the other hand. steel plants are ope ating to a large extent on old busi- ness. New bookings have been fall- ing further behind current shipments than the; This raises the doubt whether con- sumers fill their full require- ments for the third quarter until there has been more of a concession in prices. These sum up what may be classed $60,000 AND WHISKY SEIZED BY RAIDERS Money Found in Cedar Chest Held as Evidence of Ex- tent of Business. At price ture states, I 15 to 151 the Sixty thousand dollars in cash and a large number of pints and half pints of whisky were found in the home of Charles Brown, colored, 414 iN street northwest, last night, when !the place was ralded by Lieut. Davis, Sergt. McQuade and Detective Bauer, the raiding officers say. The whisky was done up in attrac- tive packages, ready for delivery. The money was found in a_ cedar chest. The whisky was confiscated and the money placed in charge of an officer. Sergt. McQuade, one of the raiding party, said that Brown has been ar- |rested & number of times for violat- ing the national prohibition law and has paid large flnes. McQuade says that Brown operates a line of taxi- cabs for hire as a camouflage for his bootlegging, the man being described by McQuade as one of the largest bootleggers in the cit: The cash found in the house is considered by police as evidence of at least some proportion of the business conducted by Brown in the alleged illicit sale of whiskies. McQuade says that the whiskies | confiscated last night from Brown !were ryve whiskies made before the Volstead act went into effect., When Brown was taken by the police seven {other men were arrested, but they |were not held. Brown was released lon a $1,500 bond. He was arraigned and demanded a trial by jury. case went over for assignment. bond was renewed. —_— BANKERS ACCUSED. ROME, June 2.—William Carconi, president of the board of directors of the Banca Italiana di Sconto, and the entire directorate of the bank, which suspended payments in Decem- ber, 1921, are named among those accused of irregularities in connec- elon with the institution's failure, according to the Giornale d'llatia. The et of | in the United States branch of Police | Court today and pleaded not ‘““"‘:?&i’ia“’ti"f““”" and his counsel pic- The | Roode underwent in Franc THE AMATEUR. GARDENERS Commodity Price Declines : Are Vital to Financial World | Action of Wheat and Cotton Outstanding Features of Week-Less Interest Shown in Invesment Bonds. out-| p | | | | { hus | S€1V | were even a week ago.|Was under conditions of depreciation | i | alone a perioa of | night | terday before Judge Stanton in crimi FINANCIAL. ‘—By GLUYAS WILLIAMS. " (C) Wheeler Syn. Inc. SHOUT WIFE TO COME HERE GUICK. ASKS HOW'S THAT FOR Hs ATTEMPT AT GARDENING RETIRE TELUNG EACH OTHER- HOW MUCH THEY'VE ALWAYS DISLIKED THAT MAN GLUYAS W ILUAHS) the doubtful latively the busiress e one side of the he record of bank ¥ keeping up but | Ma com! un- B ords fc within ever known, this time of and per cent of the greafest reached in October, 1920. { the banks and age are the tra- trade activity. therefore, to recon- e idea of any ff in cer- the prob- | rd revision | ductio: so far, merce has been long as speculation holdin \ere ha ground work of a s up well een no over- K the here. Plight of German Currency. The plisht of the German ney ars at moment cur- quite in | 100 per c it was “pegged t from February to iddle the ou izatios loan on co flation is considerab! r now Austrian crown, and assistanc the outside is quite out of the qf\l;:"j tion until the problem of reparations is settled. Even in case of ment foreign capital would Lold of German government ties unless Germany could balance and put an e of paper not It would be far more difficult for Germany to do this than it w Austria, although the Austrian case | was certainly rable enough. It} than the 1 her budget to the terrific outpour nothing 1i French as: were virtu and enormously put in its place. (Copyright, 1923.) Problem in D.C. Shrinks Beside This Village’s By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC, Iowa, twenty-seventh annual vention of the Danish Lutheran Churches of America s in session at Elkhorn, Towa, a Danish settlement about 100 miles north of here. More than 800 delegates from all parts of the country and many church offi- cials from foreign lands are already registered, and it is d that more 1 be in attendance be- fore the end of the session Sunday night. Elkhorn, with a population of 200, is overwhelmed by the throng, and accommodation is at a premium. JURY URGES MERCY FOR GUILTY VETERAN | Baltimore Man Convicted of Ob- taining $52,000 in Bonds Un- der False Pretenses. e as bad that old of the revolution repudiated and a new duced currency unit | the 3t {do With bri | spread | liquor. drinker i 13 PRCES OF GRAN INSHARPTUNBLE Prospect of Much Bigger Wheat Crop—More U. S. ° Regulation Feared. H By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 2.—Likelihood that the 1923 production of wheat in the United States will be much larger than was expected has had muct 1ging about a big drog in wheat values this week. Compared with a week was to 7% down and provisions to private e crop or >, wheat t lower, co a2 oats 1% Accordin tive 600,000 was ago. acreage ter and spring have been balanced litions on the re- creage. Inasmuch as prices have been based to a consid- erable extent on prospects of a heavily decreased yield this season, the new outlook has had a g effect on many holders led to a good deal of liquidat ne and fur f er July. ies tended to delivery ing to a discount un Scareity of corn hold corn an in the fac values, s in the May of corn, who until the e: the month refused to settle d out of more t for lower qu. OROPHGANDA LS POSON RUM FLODD Smuggling Tales Give Ped- dlers Chance to Unload Same 0ld Stuff. The town class ceived n news being a that huge quan of smuggled” hooch has been re- in W 1 be week as leggers to c customers loading liquor unfit for human con- sump Indications of this was had when it was learned that corn whisky @octored and artifically colored to th approximate tint of rye was being handed out to purchasers with the smooth whisper that * part of smuggled goods bre his | Regret Stock on Hand. The fact that Washington holds ady a considerable amount of w h v that is just as good as pre-war ages is cited as deplorable s prominent “dry” exponents, but the situation that the d’ of such news brought about in glving opport with are handli are genuine. more deplora- n completed for run- ns of “rye” to be a uor o fusel This is ation of alcohol. e el colorings, and some flavoring ¢ known in the “inner circle” of the less aristocratc bootleggers. Orders already are being placed for some of this supp! W meang getting in past cordon of agents surround id out arg experts d nd the_ talk ; : into Washin on already as “hootleg propa favoring the element stomach-rotting beverages. Chance to Unload. Ruby, assistant chief of this jurisdict “good liqu Ralph divisional |ago in a statem “Muct getting with satisfaction reet-corner peddlers. to hear th. It liquor £ heralded rn-whisky They're_ gl word is being chance to N, Read, divisio: the dry forces here, statement. He dec at all pos sible precautions are being taken ta keep the liquor out ngton but that all the for worl nnot stop seem y intelligent men from investing in “terrible stufr in the belief they are getting gen he buyer is s out of te: tion men decla of good liquo nine quarts of detrimental to sold.” he sufferer in nine one of the prohibi- “For every qua sold at least that is alth of the MAIL FLYER PLANS 20-HOUR FLIGHT Frisco-to-New York Trip to Be Attempted in Plane of Own Construction. A twenty-hour coast-to-coast fligh( in a homemade airplane will be at- tempted within the next ten days by Clare K. Vance, a Logansport, Ind, air mail pilot, the National Aero- BALTIMORE, June 2.—Louls Rem- sen de Roode was found guilty with | a recommendation for merc; last | on a charge of obtaining! $52,000 in bonds by false pretenses.. The jury was out over seven hours. | Final arguments were concluded yes. nal court, after a trial which lasted all week, and the case went to the jury at 2:30 p.m. De Roode based his defense on the strain and suffering de where he was badly wounded twice while ser ing with the American forces in the world war. The prosecution called many witnesses, the burden of whose testimony was that de Réode was sane before the war and “mentally capable” on March 1 when he is alleged to nautic Association announced yesterda Vance plans to go it alone, without mechanic or alternate pilot A request for offic the contest committee of the tion has been filed by A. C. Nelgon of Salt Lake City, superintendent of the western division of the air mail serv. ice, but it was explained that the tr would take place while Vance was on leave of absence and would not be considered as under Post Office De- partment auspices. Vance's machine, which he bullt himself, weighs, fully loaded, 4,208 pounds and has a gas capacity of 354 gallons and a maximum speed of 123 miles_per hour. He plans to leave San Francisco at 10 o'clock at night and arrive in New York the follow. ing evening, LastsFebruary In a snowstorm Vance made the first suc- on by have obtained the bonds by means of bad checks. L Infections of the nose and throat are the cause of 40 per cent of the absences among store workers, cessful landing on the crest of the Sierra mountai —_ A bill has been passed in Austral denying the right to recover money - lost on bets. v