Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and cool tonight and tomor- row. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 76, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 68 at 4:50 am. today. Full report on pag 20. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 20 enin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION - Star. “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 hcmes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,974 No. 28,89 post -office Was| Eitered as second-class matter hington, D. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1923-TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. OLLOWS OPENING Great Demonstration Given at Station and Along Streets—Renews His Plea for U. S. in World Court. OF THREE PROBES Creditors Sue M. S. Wolfe &! Co., One of Largest Firms, as Bankiupt. i OFFICIALS DENY CHARGE CONCERN IS INSOLVENT| TFederal, State and County Prose-I 1 cutors in Gotham Launch | ¥ Investigations. | BB the Associat NEW YORK. June Fist of brokerage | Augmented today by the filing of an | petition in bankruptey | stock lures ‘Was involuntary mgainst M. S. Wolfe & Co., one of the | Jargest curb market . with a} foranch office in Chicago. i Like the firm of L. L. Winkelman | W& Co., which failed vesterday, the | fWolfe house had been a member of | #he Consolidated Stock Exehange un- ! il about a year ago, when it with- drew after having been placed under | #investigation by the exchange | The Wolfe firh was one of the five argest holding membership in the New York -Curb Mauriet amarion . R¥olfe, the senlor member, was adm Ltd on March 16, 1911, Other members 1 fof the firm are C. N. Moulton, O. Perry Wolfe, Carsen T. Mor and I'hvlr\v.\' Biariman. - i Relatively 1 i The bankruptey petition was filed ®y counsel for the Metropolitan Ad- ! Wertising Company. Dispatch Printing @nd Bindery Company and Joseph F. Brandenburg, who presented relatively ®mall claims. Inquiries for fng the action r Sirin members to their thur Garfield Haye ) Suspension of M. S. Wolfe & Com pany from the Curb Lxchange was « announced a short time after the fil- Sug of the petition. Mr. Hayes issued the following statemnet: “Our clients claim the ivent. Last night their bunk bal- nce was $120, S. cquity in_loans, security in hand and security in transit ard in transfer amounis to $200,000 additional. These assets ar imediately realizable. Slow asse of very substantial value also are on hand. All paid securities of cus-¢ tomers are tagged and in the boxes. Liabilities will not exceed $450.000. Yvery effort will be made to coop- erpte with the-receivers for the pro- tection of creditor: Rumors of Other Failures Due. Rumors of other impending fail-j ures on the curb, slowed up tradingl fn the cariy hours of the half-day gession, but stocks showed greater strength than they did at vesterday's| close. i A short time after the bankruptey etition had been filed. Federa] Judge ondy appointed Perc Michelbacher . Fece r, in bond of $50,000. District Attorney Banton rushed two of his assistants to the firm's offices as soon as he heard the news nstructing them to see that books of the firm ‘were kept available' for serut in the general investiga- | tion of alleged bucketing which he is | conducting. H Three prosecuting attorneys—the federal government. the state and New York county—are conducting in- | Vestigations of bucket shop opera- today with the entranc of Attorney General Carl Sher- nd a staff of five deputies. lie state's entry into the situation followed yesterday’s closing by in- 1oluntary bankruptey proceedings of tiile Winkelman company, the largest brokerage house on the curb, after Jones & Baker, the firm which closed its doors a week ago. Confers with Curb Market Head. Mr. Sherman has begun his investi- gation by conferring with John W. Cur- 1is, president of the Curb Market! ‘Assoclation. and with W. S. Silk- worth.. president of the Consolidated | Stock Exchange. Both have agreed 10 co-operate with him, he said. The state's investigation will be carried on with funds de: »d from a $100,000 sppropriation recently provided by the legislature for this work. The state’s investizations, Mr. Sher- man said, wi be made under the ‘artin law giving the attorney gen- “ral very broad inquisitorial powers §r cases where complaints are made pt bucketing orders. “blue sky” stock promotion schemes and other fraudu- ent methods in the sale or distribu- *on of stocks or bonds. While stock Jrucketeers or fraud promoters can- rot be sent to prison under this law, they can be put out of business hy irjunctions from the supreme court | on submission of proof of fraud. Winklemann Case Up Today. The Winklemann bankruptey will %e in court today, when creditors will | segk to compel the firm to deliver its ' hooks to Charles L. Livingston, who yesterday was appointed receiver un- | der $50.000 bonds. In their petition the charge the firm had been insolvent for four months and during that period had transferred large sume of Money to certain creditors with the . aileged purpose of making = such «creditors preferred. Within a few minutes of the closing of the con- gern’s doors District Attorney Banton had started an investigation. The New York Curb Market Association suspended the firm shortly after the Qoors closed. Upham to Stick ms pi all Claims, wtion concern- crred by the counsel, Ar- were re ! are whoily | creditors | joresidential part; ‘aware cities and a trip on the jably HAILED IN By a Staff Correspondent, WILMINGTON, Del, June 9.—Fol- lowing a demonstration at the sta- tion and on the streets of Wilming- ton comparable in enthusiasm to any- thing he has received since becoming President, President Harding today was the guest of the Young Men's Republican Club of this city and was praised in the highest térms and his administration lauded. Near his side at the luncheon ‘table Mrs. Harding at and smilingly listened to the tributes. . The first lap of the journey of the from Washington, which will carry them to svver.fl‘llhfl— was made without iicident. the way to Union station from the White House the President and Mre, Harding motored by the way of 'ennsylvania avenue, in order that the latter could see the Shrine dec- orations, she having been unable to view these before. At the Union station they were cheered as they walked across the concourse, and there was quite a demonstration dur- GUARDIANS BOARD STANDS FIRM ON HOMES FOR WARDS Children to Be Kent in Insti- tution Until Proper Places Are Found. on The board of children’s guardians. in a statement from President W. W. Millan, today put itself squarely on record in favor of placing the chil- dren committed to it in good homes rather than place them permanemtly in an institution. The board issued the statement in order to make its position unmistak- clear to the public and to re- move the impression that a majority of the board is advocating the insti- tution in preference to the private boarding home. Mr. Millan also made it plain that Mrs. Ella H, West, executive agent of the board. did not resign volun- tarily yesterday, but had been re- quested to do so. Mr. Millan pointed out that Mrs. West's letter of resig- nation was given to the public be- fore he recelved it. Refutes Reports. In refuting reports that the guar- dians are opposed to the private home for for the wards, the president of the board says: “All intelligent people concede that a home is better for a child than an institution, but many, including a ma- Jority, if ot all, of the present board, do not subscribe to the doctrine that any home is better than any Mnstitu- tion. They think a good fnstitution is better than a poor home.” The board intends to use the Indus- trial Home School as Congress in- tended it should, namely, as a receiv- ing place for the children, = There were reports in circulation today that one or two members of the board may resign. Mr. Millan said the board has not yet selected a successor to Mrs. West. It is believed the statement issued by Mr. Millan today will go far toward clearing the situation and ending the atmosphere of controversy. The state- ment follows, in full: “The board of children's guardians, at a meeting on yesterday afternoon, at which those present were Judge George C. Aukum, Judge M. M. Doyle, Dr. William A. Warfield, Mre. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Mrs. Frank B. Noyes and the president, W. W. Millan, ac- cepted the resignation of the agent of the board to take effect June 20, 1923. Mrs. Grosvenor, at her request, was recorded as voting in'the negative. The resignation was, in effect, though not in terms, tendered to take effect June 30, 1923, in a letter addressed by ihe agent of the board to the presi- dent, under date June 8, 1923, and de- livered to him at the meeting at about :25 p.m.. by a clerk from the office of the board, some time after it had been circulated on the streets in an afternoon newspaper. “Because the letter, by its omis sion of reference to the correspond- ence preceding it as well as by its general tenor, failed to acquaint the public with the board’s reasons for acting, or the fact that it had moved in the matter at all. the board, although declining to take the more drastic action of removing the agent at once, was unwilling to accept the resignation as tendered, and accepted it to date June 20th, as stated. Gave False Impression. “The agent’s letter obviously creates the Impression that the resig- nation was voluntary and because of her dissatisfaction with: certain ac- tions of the board and the attitude toward her of certain of the members. Comments upon the letter.in the arti- cle that accompanied it were based upon this assumption. This madeé it necessary, in the opinion of the board, (Continued on Page 2,>Column 4.) by President, ' He Says,Denying G.0.P.Break . . BY HAL O'FLAHERTY. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyrignt, 3 LONDON, June 9.—Fred W. Upham ot Chicago, treasurer of the republi- can national committe, immediately upon disembarking from the Majes- tic, expressed surprise at the report that he had resigned or intended to wesign from his position. He de- clared that his friendship for Presi- @ent Harding and his desire to con- #inue serving on the national com- smittes “oad never changed in the Blightest degree. “Before I left Chicago,’ said Mr. - Upbam, -“some minor disagreement had arisen between . President Hard- ing and Chairman Adams of the com- mittee over the republican attitude toward the world court, but that matter did not involve me or my posi- tion as treasurer. If Mr. Adams dif- fers with the President on a matter of foreign policy it does not follow necessarily that a break in the com- mittee is imminent. I have no thought of resigning and unless the committee takes the unprecedented action of calling for resignations I intend to continue my work.” Discussing - the. reports of Henry Ford’s growing strength as a presi dential possibility, Mr. Upham de- clared that Mr. Ford might have a considerable following but had not a chance in the world of becoming the republican nominee, | WILMINGTON ing thie five or six minutes the train | stopped in Union station, Baltimore Several In Party. In the presidential party are Sec- | | retary of the Interior Work and Mrs. Work, Secretary of Agriculture V | 1ace, Senator and Mrs. Ball of Dela- ! | ware, George B. Christian, jr., and| Mrs. Christian; Brig. Gen. Sawyer and | Mrs. David Tod of Youngstown. who | has been visiting the White House | for the past week. When the party arrived at Wil- mington, it was met by the local ¢ mittee, headed by Col. H. A. du Pont, former senator from Delaware: na- tor Bayard., Mayor Harvey and Col Thomas B. Miller. alien property cus todian. Following a meneral hand- | shaking and introduction, the party | took their places in the automobile | procession, and, as they slgwly pro- ceeded to the hotel, more than a mile | distant, they were cheered by the | throngs of people lining each side of {the street. In front of the city hall | quite a large number o {7 (Continued on Page 2. Column 1.) |Killed Captain | And Two Others | On Ship, Charge| By the Associated Press LISBON, June | officer of the steamship Brave Coeur committed suicide today at Oporto, according to a message re- ceived here, while policemen were endeavoring to arrest him on a charge of killing the commander of the vessel, the wireless operator and another officer and wounding a 8ea- man and a passenger while on the high seas. The shootirg was done with a revolver. After running amuck | the officer took refuge in his cabin. —The second | | The Brave Coeur sailed from Hamburg. June 1, for Galveston, Tex. Latest shipping registers name Capt. Selme as her com- mander. SEE STINNES TRICK INRUHR EUARANTEE PARIS SPURNS NOTE Diplomats- Point Out He Al- ways Has Sought to (:or;- trol Railroads. BY GEORGE WITTE. By Cable to The Star and the Chicago Da News. Copyright, 1923, BERLIN, June 9.—There are two weak spots in the German note sent to Washington and the allied coun- tries on Thursday, according to prom- inent allied diplomatis who were in- {terviewed today. The first one is the question of a moratorium. “France will never consent to a moratorium of four years because French statesmen realize only two well that there is no telling what may happen within the next four years and whether then France will be able to collect a single sou from Germany,” said one high diplomat. “It is now almost five years since the armistice. orthern France has not yet_been re- built. The army of unemployed in Great Britain still numbers more than one million. What Germany has paid in gold and in kind is trifiing com- and France during and after the war. Unless Germany is forced to pay all she possibly can the qiestion of rep- arations will be a farce. History is being made too quickly these days for such a vital issue as the payment of the re.?irallona to be put off for four years. Railroads Losing Much. | The other weak spot in the German | note concerns the securities. The commercial attache of a former ally of the United States told me that the rallroads, for instance, were a nega- tive security, as they are losing many millions of dollars annually. “It is only a short time ago,” said the attache, “that Herr Groener, the minister of transportation, announced that under no circumstances would the rallroads be offered as sequrity. Now the German government is not only offering the railroads as se- curity, but is making every effort to et the allies to take over the whole of the Rhineland railroad system dur- ing the occupation by the inter- allied troops. At is certain that the industrial group headed by Hugo Stinnes will offer to- pledge 10,000,000,000 gold marks, at which the German rairoad system Is valued, if the government Would be willing to hand over the railroads to private interests. The ownership of the German railroads has been the supreme ambition of | Stinnes for the last five years and if the German note is accepted as a basis for negotiations the odds are 5 to 1 that Stinnes will achieve the goal he has set for himself. Willing to Surrender. Communists throughout Germany de- clare that the reparations note means that the Cuno government is willing | to surrender as the result of negotia- | tions which Stinnes has been carry- ing on behind the scenes with the lFrench Comite des Forges. The Rote Fahne, in Berlin, claims that within | the last few weeks Stinnes himself has met personal friends of Louis Loucheur and other French industrial- ists to discuss the consolidation of the French ore iIndustries with the Ger- man Ruhr coal mines. “The question which now concerns German workingmen is whether they are willing to live under a Cuno- Stinnes government or wirether they (Continusd on Page 2, Column 3.) fwinl | pense. | mac pared with the losses of Great Eritain |’ §400 000 SHRINER FUNDTOCOVERALL | Liabilities Over $350,000 for Handling Throng Twice That at Frisco. i $250,000 COLLECTED BY FINANCE COMMITTEE 34 More Temples Here Than at Pa- cific Conclave—Costs Only Slightly More. As the dust of the departed cara- vans settled slowly on the horizon, Thomas E. Jarrell, chairman of the Shrine finance committee, crawled painfully from beneath a mountain of bills today and solemnly announced that Almas Temple had royally en- tertained the Ancient Arabic Order, | Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and yet remained well within the limitations of its convention strong box. With total assets of approximately $400.000, the finance commitiee fig- ured today that its total liabilities aggregate somewhere nd the former figure, givtng hington the distinction of having antertained almost twice as many nobles as San Francisco did in 1922 with only a slightly additional’ ex- While the committee will not be in a position to issue its formal report befo fonday, enough bills had been received today to warrant assurances that the executive board is still solvent. $250,000 Raised By Committee. Of the $400,000 raised here to care | for the Shrine pilgrims during their sojourn, $250,000 was collected by the finance committee alone, $38,182 was pledged by Almas Temple as an or- ganization and another $40,000 was pledged by the nobility of that temple individudlly. The remainder was ob- tained from various sources, includ- ing the $50.000 appropriated by Con- gress as Washington's contribution and contributions from patriotic pri- vate citizens. Disbursements made thus far in- clyde $3.416 for automobiles, approxi- mately $55.000 for decorations, $636 for auto parking spaces, $486 to han- | dle necessary baggage, $18,344 to run the executive offices in the Homer building, $10,000 spent by the finance committee, $36.777 for grandstands, $33.968 for hotel and housing, $3,204 to_entertain the imperfal divan, $4,- 763 for publicity and $10,761 for souvenir badges and similar trinkets. There yet remain many additional items to be tabulated, however, In- cluding banquets, entertinments, pub- lishing and arranging programs, and handling the pageants and patrois. Thirty-four More Temples Here. San Francisco last year raised a trifie more than $400,006 and had a balance of about $109,000 to return to subscribers proportionately. Wash- ington, however, attracted thirty-four more temples to the pilgrimage of 1923 than did the California metrop- olis, and Wellington C. Pflueger, who has been Mr. Jarrell's right-hand man on the finance committee, point- ed out today that the expenses here would be somewhat larger. He de- clared, however, that disbursements would fall “well within” assets now on hand. A considerable sum of money will be realized on salvaging material used in the construction of the grand- stands, illuminating the *Road to Mecca” and in making the Garden of Allah. Early this morning several men asked permission to enter bids for the lumber used to bulld the grand- stands and the Chesapeake and Poto- Telephone Company will take over the poles from which the neck- laces of lights were strung over Pennsylvania avenue. McCandless Praises City. Past Imperial Potentats James Sut- ton McCandless, who spent nearly an hour at Shrine headquarters, paid Washington high compliments this morning and congratulated Almas Temple for having swung so success- fully “the greatest convention the Mystic Shrine has ever seen.” “In no other city but Washingto; said Mr. McCandless, “would it have been possible to offer such a re- markable program. The forty-ninth conclave of the Imperial Council was the greatest in_ the history of the Shrine. I wieh fo particularly thenk the officials of the government for their graciousness, and more especial- ly President Harding, who proved himself to ‘be a real, human man— just like the rest of us. Glad to See President. “You know the people out in the country more or less look upon the President of the United States and his cabinet—all high, officers of the government, in fact—as persons sel- dom to be seen. T heard many men and women en route to Washington say: ‘I wonder if we will see the President. I wonder if he will come out where we can look at him.’ ~You | can wetr imagine their joy and the i way President Harding and his en- tire cabinet not only ‘came out’ where they could ‘see’ him, but actu- ally mingied among the people. - “President Harding enjoyed the af- fair hugely. One night after we had already toured the crowded down- town streets and then gone back to the White House, he said: ‘Let's go down and see that happy crowd just once more.” So back we went. The thousands who came here last week learned much more about their gov- ernment and how it is run than they could have learned in a lifetime. No person could have stood in the midst of that tremendous crowd at mid- night Thursday, heard the strains of ‘America’ .come from a tremendous chorus, 8ee everybody turn instinc- tively toward the Capitol—majestic in__ its _convention _illuminations— (Continued on Page 2, Column 2,) v This Week's Big Shrine Events In the Rotogravure Section Of Tomorrow's Sunday Star, between | l | ! | Confesses, TWO CENTS. CONCLAVE EXPENSE! - FLPIND ADNITS SLAYINGFIANEE After Arrest, While Attempting to Throw Body From Boat. By the Associated P NEW YORK, June 9%—Eluigo Lo- zade, Filipino butler for Dr. G. W. McAuliffe, today confessed, the police sald, that he had strangled his| flancee, Miss Blossom Seeley Martin, employed by the doctor as a nurse. He admitted he had taken her bog, a1 wrapped in green portieres, to Eliza- bethport, Staten Island, eighteen miles away, where he was attempting to dump it from a ferry boat when he was arrested. Although the Filipino refused to tell why he killed the girl, pollce belleve his poverty caused her to break the engagement. Lozade, twenty-five vears of age, came to this countryefive vears ago and had been employed at the McAu- liffe home since 1921. Miss Martin had been a nurse there for four vears Quarreled at Home. They were left alone in the home of their employer yesterday afternoon. They quarreled. Miss Martin went to an upper floor to doft her uniform before going to her rooming house. Lozade waited for her at the foot of the main stairway in the drawing room, and, as she came down, leaped up and clutched her throat, he is sald to have confessed. Aside from the blue marks of fingers on her throat, the body was unmarred. A letter, apparently a typewriter | copy of one he had sent his flancee, was found among the prisoner’s ef- ects. It read, in part: “Probably this s the poorest and most_despised letter you ever receiv- ed. Ever since I met you I have been always in terrible dilemma. 1 can't help but think of You profoundly, and in so doing it is only a matter of time to tell you that I have selected you and only you as a fair wife. I} am only waiting for the time to tell you the supreme sacrifice I am having at present. Please be merciful and use the best judgment in my favor:| Don't_tarry in answering this,_letter, in order that I may be free from men- tal and physical disturbances.” JAPAN SENDS SHIPS TO CHINESE PORT Answer to Demand for Apology Is Strengthening of Force in Trouble Zone. | By the Associated Press. TOKIO, June 9.—Japan's reply to China’s note of yesterday demanding an apology for the shooting of Chinese rloters by Japanese marines | at Changsha, province of Hunan, June 2, and the withdrawal of Japanese gunboats from Changsha, was the dispatch today of four destroyers from the Sasebobaz to reinforce the Japanese patrol on the Yangtie river and the official statement that Japan was determined to defend the lives and property of her nationals in China. . —_— WOMAN, 73, SLAPS THIEF. Boxes His Ears, But Wishés She Had Time to Spank Him. CHICAGO, June 9.—Mrs. Anna Nor- ton, seventy-three, boxed the ears of & burglar whom she found in her fome Tast night, and said afterward her only regret was that she didn’t have an opportunity to spank him before he escaped. N A variety of interesting photographs reproduced in this superbly printed section—a worthy seuvenir, of the great Shrine conclave. ST \ g Postage prepaid. = In Tomorrow’s Sunday Star A Mailed in Maryland and Virginia, 5c. All other states, 10c. N fpoints north. Army Instructor AssignedtoD.C. MAJ. WILLIAM H. HOLCOMBE, PLAN TO LINK D.C. WITH FARM SECTION Permit for Rail, Steamboat and Barge Line Is Sought by Virginia Firm. Application was filed with the Inter- state Commerce Commision today by Channing M. Ward, on behalf of Lawerino Company, a Virginia cor- poration, to construct and operate an interconnecting barge, steamboat and railroad line in three counties in Virginia and one in Maryland, for transportation of commodities from these counties to Washington and The Lawerino Company proposed to operate ¢n King George and West- moreland countfes, in Virginla, to econnect with Carroll county, Md., at Popes Creek, the terminus of the Pennsylvania rafiroad, and to con- struct and operate a railroad line of jabout forty miles in King George. Westmoreland and Richmond coun- ties, Va., to connect with the water line across the Potomac river. The termini of the water lines will be at Nomini creek and Colonlal Beach, Va., and Popes Creek, Md. Give Route to Be Used. The railroad will run, the applica- tion says, from the Virginia state line on the Potomac river at Persim- mon point, in King George county, through Westmoreland and Richmond counties. The application, filed by W. W. Crump of Richmond, points out that ‘present and future public necessity will require the proposed construc- tion,” and adds that at the present there is no railroad in these three counties. Construction of the pro- posed lines will operate, the applica- tion says, to bring a territory now without railroad transportation into direct rail communication with Bal- timore and Washiington, and will af- ford facilities for business on a mod- ern basis and quick importation now \acking. —_— MAY GRANT PARDONS. President Harding has before him twenty-two cases of prisoners in fed- eral penitentiaries who were con- victed of violating the espionage and gther war laws and for whom clem- ency is being urged on the ground that wartime offenses of this char- acter should be forgiven. He expects to act on all of them be- fore. he leaves on his western trip,| and it has been indicated that in some instances clemency will be granted. In most of the cases, however, it is believed the Department of Justice recommendations were adverse. The administratioh is continuing its policy of considering each commuta- tion ‘or pardon application on its in- dividual*merits, declining all requests for & '"ifll amnosty. Woma, (= KEEP Q ANAY FROM THAT & BIG CITY CHAP}| | | | | | HOLCOMBE NAMED - ASD.C.ENGINEER | | |Army Officer Detailed From | Fort Humphreys Effective on June 15. | Maj. William H. Holeombe. Corps of | | Engineers, who has served as an in- structor at the Engineer School at | Fort Humphreys. Va., since October, 11920, has been detalled as an assistant {to the Engineer Commissioner of the | i | at District of Columbia. to take H'Tw‘(‘li June 15. An order to that effect was {issued at ghe War Department the recommendation of Maj | L. M. Beach, chief of engineers Maj. Holcombe will fill the va ey in the list of assistants to the Engi- Ineer Commissioner caused by the| prospective assignment of Maj. Frank S. Besson, Corps of Engineers, as a/ student officer at the General Service chool at Fort Leavenworth, Kan,, in September next. He is junior in lineal rank to Maj. Raymond A. Wheeler, Corps of Englneers, one of | the other assistants to the Engineer Commissioner and the latter officer will become senior assistant when Maj. Besson Is relieved. Besson Holds Over. the offlce of the chief of engi- neers today. s stated that while Maj. Holcombe is ordered to report for duty at the District building June | 15, Maj. Besson will not be relieved | from duty there on that date, it hav- | {ing been arranged that Maj. Besson, | who has been acting as Efgineer | Commissioner for nearly two months, shall continue to serve in that po- | sition until the President appoints an Engineer Commissioner to succeed Col. Charles Keller, Corps of Engi- { neers, whose résignation takes effect June 15. or thereabouts. 465 Col. Keller has accepted a posi with a large engineering corporation engaged in the development of water power in California and will be placed on the retired list of the Army on his own application under the thirty years' service retirement cl Secretary Weeks today pected to confer soon with Gen. Peach, chief of engineers, re the selection of Col. Keller's su and submit the matter to the Presi- dent next week for final action Native of District. | Maj. Holcombe is a native of the District of Columbia, but was ap- pointed to the Military Academy from Indiana. He was graduated at the nead of the class of 1914 and assigned to the engiheers. He has served several tours of duty in this city with troops and as a student at the Army War College and also served with troops in Texas. | During the world war he held the rank of lieutenant colonel and was commander of the 2d Battalion, 6th Engineers, in France. Later he was | made director of the 2d Corps En- gineer School of the American ex peditionary forces and then assistant commandant of Army Engineer | School with those forces. Since his return to the United States, in Sep- tember, 1918, he has served in_the office of the chief of engineers, War Department, then at Norfolk, Va. | and later at the engineer school at | Fort Humphreys. He has held the regular rank of major since July, 1920. ) today on Gen. | At aid he ex- v | By the Associated Pres: . DETROIT, Mich.. June 8.—A mos- quito fleet of from thirty to fifty small boats is supplying Detroit and | its suburbs with the equivalent of | between 50,000 and 65,000 pint bot- | tles of Canadlan beer every twenty- | four hours. The illicit beverage is | smuggled across the Detroit river in | barrels, kegs and cases, The supply of beer transported by the miniature rum fleet is supple- mented by occasional carload ship- ments which come into the United States from Canada by way of the | railroad tunnel under the river, ac- cording to the rum runners. They claim that one of the biggest and wealthiest operators on the Canadiagn side uses the tunnel to get beer across. The cars, it is said, are consigned to Mex and by manipu- lation are unloaded here.” Runners estimate the dally average of beer brought in through this channel at 800 cases, or about 10,000 bottles. | street. designated for one-v ] that the ONE-WAY STREETS MADE PERMANENT BY COMMISSIONERS Thirteen in Downtown Area Retained After Successful Test During Shrine Week. MERCHANTS FAVOR PLAN, SURVEY TODAY SHOWS Majority Express Belief Business Will Not Be Affected by Change in Regulations. of been Thirteen the one-way that have In effect during the snrine convention were:made perma nent by an amendment to the traflic reguiations approved by the Commis sioners this afterncon, Commissioner Oyster announced. They follow That section 15 of article 12 of the volice regulations is hereby by adding thereto way streets “Sixth northbound. B amended the following one street, - Louisiana ave., to K “Tenth street hound “Twelfth street, K bound. “Thirteenth street to K streets, north to B streets, south- Penneylvania ave- nue to K street, northbound “Fifteenth street, K to New York ave- nue, southbound McPherson st bound “Madison place. northbound “Jackson place, southbound. “Eighteenth street, B to K bound. “Nineteenth d street. square Executive northbound. avenue, north- north- street, K to B. soui- b from 13th to 15th west - ! vound D street, from bound. The oners thes, be on tion 1th to 15th, cast action taken by the Commis this afternoon means that thoroughfares will continue 1 way streets without interrup All “other streets that were traffic for the period of the Shrine convention wi return to their former status at mid- night tomorrow To. Study Parking. Commissioner Oyster also announced traffic committee appointed some time ago and which has already recommended and had adopted a nun ber of new regulations will go into ses again ‘next week for a thorough study of the downtow: parking_situation The Commissioner held ence this morning with Hart, assistant corporation counse who is secretary to the traffic com ee. regarding the parking situ- ation. It is understood to be the view of the Commissioner that there are some few congested streets on which it would | well to further restrict parking. TI Commissioner also believes that dow town parking, where it is allowed should be parallel to the curb and no: at an agle. These questions will b. gone into thoroughly by the traffic coni mittee and a report made to the Com missioners. Sullivan Backs Plan. Maj. Sullivan, superintendent of lice. in recommending the one streets to Commissioner Oyster, sa ‘Had it not been for the adoption of a special regulation creating thes. one-way streets it would have beer extremcly difficult to ndle 1 great volume of traffic during the veriod of the Shrive convention. 1t effective and helpful during thar period there is no reason to their effectiveness for 1 time it is, therefore, ommended that the order be issucd Officials of the inclined to be should not have a_confer Ringgold fire department were ve that 12th street been included as a one-way street. The police heads ex plained, however. that the plan would not have been evenly balanced with out a southbound street between 10th and 13th streets. Commissioner Oyster pointed out that all north and south streets or which cartracks are located have been left as two-way thoroughfares, because of the fact that with street cars run- ning in both directions it would be al most impossible to have vehicular traffic going one way. In view of the requ hearing: on the posal, for a public one-way-street pro made yesterday by the Mer- chants and Manufactur Associa- tion, the - views of merchants and others whose places of business located on or nmear streets which are at present one-way streets, are in- teresting. Those voieing their views were selected at random From 15th street came the following suggestion. George W tional White, president, X Metropolitan’ Bank: “I am in favor of the continuance ystem, and feel that by it at 50 per cent of Washington's traffic problems will be solved.’ Atles Favors Plan, Milton E. Alles, president. Riggs National Bank: “I favor the proposi- tion, and think it should be given a rial. 1 think should ntinued on Page ‘olumn 2. Thousands of Gallons of Beer Brought Into Detroit Daily There is some other smuggling from isolated points on the Canadian side. It is claimed that beer in small lots is sent from Walkerville to Grosse Pointe, but aside from the beverage carried by the fleet and via the fail- road it is probable that not morc than 200 or 300 cases a day get across the border. The active of estimates made by half a dozen runners and as many bootleggers, places the total ship- ments of Canadian beer across the river at not more than 4,000 cases or 5000 on the biggest days. This would aggregate between 14,000 and 15,000 gallons. Canadian customs of- ficlals and local and federal peace officers on the Americ: ide throw up their hands and declare the figures to be away too high. But the opera- tions on the. Canadian side indicate that somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 cases do get across every day Whisky-running acro: the ~ river has had a sharp decline. Operators on the Canadian side—and they are operating within the law there and are willing to talk, and even boast- assert that the thousands of quarts of alleged Canadian whisky are sent over. 2