Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1923, Page 1

WEATHE] Falr today; R. tomorrow cloudy and unsettled; moderate temperature. Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at 10 p.m. last nij 76; lowest, 58 Full report on page 5. ght—Highest, No. 950.— BULGARIAN REGIME OVERTHROWN AND GABINET JAILED IN BLOODLESS REVOLT Leaders Backed by Army De- clare State of Siege and Say Violence and Murder Have Yielded to Peace. ZANKOF AND MELETIFF HELP NEW MINISTRY| Agrarian Legal Proceedings of 01d Cabinet to Be Abandoned—Fron- tier Closed and Trains Halted, But General Mobilization De- nied—Stamboulisky Prisoner. By the Associated Press, SOFIA, June 9.—Ti.c Agrarian cabi- net, headsZ oy Premier Stamboulisk. was overthrown early this morning. the plot being carried out by reserve officers, With the assistance of the active army. Althoush the new regime proclaimed a state of there was no bloodshed. siege, and issued a proclamation to the nation, ‘Bulgarian liberty dawns again. The regime of deceit. violence and murder has collapse: under the weight of its crimes, and # new era of law, harmony and peace has arrived.” Prof. Zankof, with Prof. Meletiff, rector of the Unlversity of Sofia, took ing an active part in constituting a new | ministry, which is credited with the| intention of abandoning the legal proceedings carried out by the Agra- party against former cabinet! ministers. rian Finds Hi Premier Stamboulisky, who been living in seml-retirement in his native village of Slavonitz, returned to | Sofia night. On his arrival at| the station he found troops drn\‘\'n$ up, and he was received in silence. | When the premier asked for an ex- the officers ignored the He then tried to telephone headquarters to obtain an explanation, but discovered the wires had been cut; then he understood he | was a prisoner. | The coup was carried out with mili tary precision. Members of the re- serve officers’ organization and units | of the active army surrounded par- | lament house and arrested the min- | isters and deputies, while those min- isters who were absent were arrested later at their homes. Among those arrested were the members of a| powerful organization known as the | “Yellow Guard” and alleged to be a stanch supporter of M. Stumboulisk elf Prisoner. has | ast planation question. to pol Capital in Isolated. All the frontiers are closed and mo | trains are allowed to leave the capital. The Military League, which led the movement, issued a statement this after- noon den ving rumors of a general mo- | bilization ; it said calm prevailed among | the population, making such unnecessary. The premiership of the new govern- ment has been left vacant for the pre ent, and the minist of agriculture algo has been left open. The other posts | in the cablnet were filled as follows: | Minister of war, M. Zankof. interior, Rousseff; public education, M. Moloff; commerce and industry, M. Bobochev- ki: public works, M. Stoentcheff; finance, M. Todoroff; railways, M. Ka- | | a step | Zassoff ; justice, M. Smiloff. FEARS SERIOUS RESULT. i 1 Head of Delegation at Lausanne Sees Change as Untimely. LAUSANNE, June 9.—M. Todoroft, of the Bulgarian delegation to the lL.ausanne conference, learned of the overthrow of the fia government with undisguised concern. He pointed out that it had occurred fit a particularly unfortunate moment, compromising Bulgaria’s negotiations | to secure a port on the Aegean sea.| Tie feared reaction, explaining that the Angorian party was powerful and would hardly submit quietly to the new order. REPORTS ZANKOF PREMIER. LONDON, June 9.—An Exchange Telegraph dispatch telling of the overthrow of the Bulgarian govern- ment and the arrest of the ministers, ays that the new premier is Prof. Zankof, who also is serving zs min- ister of forelgn affairs, Reuters correspondent at Sofia sénds a semi-official statement deny- ing reports that the new zovernment has ordered mobilizatioa. The state- ment adds that the publit services available are quite sufficient and that there is no disturbance anywhere. The semi-official Bulgaroan Tele- &raph Agency has issued a statement saying: “The motives for the change in government are so well known that they need no explanation. Bul- garla, which has been constitution- ally independent for forty years, can nut support a government which has shown growing contempt for legality and would seem to consider violence 4 fundamental principle or domestic admintstration. “The rapidity with which the gov- ernment has been overthrown is the best proof of its unpopularity and its corruption. The new government has been received with great en- thusiasm by all classes of the popu- dabdon - I Entered as second-cla post office Washington, D. C. | mier Poinca {ence on reparations and | first, but later to admit | be proposed | Monday, when he re | conference matter Premier Captive Of Bulgar Rebels PREMIER STAMBOYLISKY, re- tNGLAND MAY JOIN ALLYRUHR DEMAND ;Doubt as to French Consent to Negotiations—Poincare Fears Arbitration. I By Cable to The star. PARIS, June 9.—A plan whereby England would join France, Belgium and Italy in demanding that Germany call off passive resistance in the Ruhr in teturn for an agreement by Pre- to a general confer- interallied the all erman Marquis Curzon debts to inciude only will on s the French, Belgium and Italian ambassadors in London. This information ocomes from official circles here tonight. Following Premier Mussolini's statement of Italian policy last night, which is Interpreted as favorng ces- sation of the German passive resist- ance, it is ‘generally hoped and ex- ected that England will come into line with a declaration which in the words tonight of the semi-officlal “would re-establish allied to At the same time the condition that Premier Poincare agree to a general is regarded as injecting a new feature into the situation and the | first reaction of the French government to the reported British plan can only be described as unfavorable. It s recognized, however, that res toration of allied unity on the precise basis indicated by Premier Poincare and countersigned by Belglum would Tepresent a great concession from Eng- land to the French point of view, even though it did not imply formal ap- proval of the Ruhr occupation. On the other hand, acceptance of a general con- ference, in which the whole questions of reparations and inter-allied debts would again go into the melting pot, is { not favored by the French premier, who would prefer that the next step after | cessation of German resistance should be a preliminary discussion through or- | dinary diplomatic channels. Back of M. Poincare’s attitude lies the fear that France might be en- tangled in a position prejudicial to her interests through another great international parley, in which Eng- land might be enabled to play the i Tole of arbitrator. In Premier Poincare's view, the last German reparation note was in- spired as much from London as from Berlin, and, as already stated in these dispatches, it is regarded as unsatis- actory here. This is on the basis of its merits, -even aside from its | failure to fulfill the condition of call- ing off the Ruhr resistance, Nevertheless, Premier Poincare will face the most serious criticism in France if he attempts flatly to turn- down the British plan as it has been outlined. In unexpected sections of the French press, it may be observed that the German note, on second thought, is being regarded as register- ing an’ advance over former Reich communications, both in general tone ‘land in regard to certain particulars. I PARLEVIS LD he Sunday Star. WASHINGTON, D. DELAWARE TURNS 007 EN HASSE 10 GREET PRESIDENT Mr. Harding Makes Four | Short Speeches on Holiday Motor Trip Across State. SAYS U. S. IS EXAMPLE WORLD IS FOLLOWING Nation, Back to Work, on Road to | Prosperity, He Declares. To Return Monday. By J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Harding was Delaware's guest today, and during his motor trip from Wil- thusiastically greeted by many thou- sands of men, women and children. It was a whole-hearted non-par- tisan welcome that was accorded the Executive and Mrs. Harding, who rode by his side, and there was no mistaking their deep appreclation of the demonstration. More than once |1n the four brief addresses the Presi- dent delivered along the way he re- ferred feelingly to this. ‘Fou fine citizens of this whole state {have given me Jov—vou have siven me comfort and inspiration and have thrilled,” he said to one gathering. It way evident from the President's remarks that he wished to leave a | message that would remind his hear- ers of the necessities for a rededica- tion of the present-. | the ideals of the foundink fat The President referred several {times to the good fortune of this na- {tion in being prosperous and at peace with the world. He said also that no opportunity should be lost in pre- {paring the younger generation to assume the burdens of the nation. Speaks at Wilmington. The President spoke first in Wilmington, where he and his party were the guests of the Young Men's Republican Club of that city, and wére gathered. Col. Pont, former United States senator, in presiding, lauded the President for his accomplishments since being the head of the nation and praised his administration. Le Roy Harvey, the mayor of Wilmington, made a |rousing old-time republican cam- paign speech, in which he predicted that the record of the present ad- ministration would insure Mr. Mard- ing being re-elected. The President, when sald that he had fully make no speeches on this trip, but that he could not “remain dumb to the kindly words of Col. du Pont and Mayor Harve: In continuing, he said: “It is good to get out of Wash- ington and breathe the good air of America. By this I do not mean to convey the impression that there is an unwholesome atmosphere in the National Capital. But, I do like to get out where the people are busy in the constant making of a greater re- public through their individual and collective activities. Work Cure for llis. “I have been Impressed by the children. T always am. It thrills me to the heart, and, God helping me, I want to hand down to them the re- public we have inherited. We have gotten back to work. The only cure for u great disaster Is to dig down |hard and build anew. This is what the world needs most today. We in America are the best examples of what contributed to getting back to normaley, and I hope we shall con- tinue to be an example to the world. I hope we can give something of our encouragement and helpfulness and example to the world and thereby aid the world in righting itself. We would not be happy in the United States if the ocivilized world was in constant distress. We do not live by ourselves any more. There must be a fraternity of citizenship through- out the world. Somehow God intend- ed it so. “We are sometimes a littlo remiss in our history. I did not know until today that Delaware was the first state to subscribe to the Union. I guess you were 5o small you thought it would not hurt to do the right thing. It was a good thing. Some of us have not come to realize how incomparably great we are and that Henry A. du introduced, intended to | MILFORD, Dei., June 9.—President mington across the state he was en- | where more than 600 men and women | [ner parents and detectlves after a | (Continued on Page 2, Column Private Radio Conversation Made Possible by Invention By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June, 9.—Privacy has been made possible in radio-tele- phonlo conversations through a de- vice that “scrambles” words at the sending end, so’ that to any one listening in they are unintelligible, and clarifies the tones to the person for whom the message Is intended, was announced today by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The invention has been used suc- cessfully, it was said, over a thirty- mile stretch of ocean between Los Angeles and Catalina Island. The problem of obtaining privacy in radio conversation was solved by engineers of the Bell system, it was asserted, partly as a result of the post-war scarcity of cables for undersea use. “The wireless ‘talk bridge,’” said an; engineer of the company, “which bas glven aatislactory - & night and day since 1920, was design- ed to permit two-way talking be- tween the Mainland and the island. “Heretofore talks over the Cata- lina Island radip link have been ‘ploked up’ by amateur receiving sta- tions in the region. The privacy system was designed to remedy this. It is not clalmed that the new sys- tem ls absolutely secret. An in- genous person might devise a set which could listen to the system, but such a set would be much more complicated than the ordinary set. “The new radio attachment before putting the messages on the air will distort or ‘scramble’ them, and no receiving set which is not specially designed to ‘unscramble’ them, and no receiving set which is not spe- clally designed to ‘anscramble’ them across the thirty-mile gap of water | C., MYSTERY IN TRIP 0FLOSTCHILD BERE Accompanied by Man to| Washington, Girl, Eight, | Goes Back to N. Y. | i By the iated Press. NEW YORK. June 9.—Emma Ruth | Smerling, eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Smerling of Brook- Iyn, who disappeared last Thursday and since has been sought by police of many cities, returned to New York from Washington, unaccompanied, to- | night as mysterfously as she had| dropped from sight ! The child was met at the train by 1 | telegram had been received from ! Washington earlier in the evening seying she was on her way home and | safe. The telegram was signed “H. F. J." the Initials of a mam, the police said, the girl met at a friend's home in Brooklyn and became friendly with. She had a “wonderful time,” she said. “The child told her parents the man, who is known to the police and is be- |tng sought, ‘treated her nicely,’ and did not harm her in any wa She met him her home Thursday | morning while riding her bicycle, she [l"‘d Capt. McCloskey, in command of { Brooklyn detectives, and talked with | him. “Do you want to come with me?* [she sald he asked her, and she re- plied: “Yes. He then told her, she said, that he would take her on a trip by train and automobile and she went home, put on her hat and coat and left the house unnoticed by her mother. A few minutes later she met the man again and they went to the Pennsyl- vania station and took a train for Philadelphia. From Philadelphia they motored to Baltimore and this morning arrived in Washington. After she had seen the sights the man told her, she sald, that he had to g0 to Virginia and asked her if she wanted to go with him. She said she told him Virginla was too far away | and she had been away from home long enough. Then the man bought her & ticket to New York, put her on th{ train and telegraphed when she wo'ld arrive In New York. Ex-Marine Captain Sought. After Capt. McCloskey had finished questioning the child, he declared he would send out a general alarm for Hubert F. Jennings, said to be a former captain in the United States Marine Corps, later employed In the Brooklyn navy yard, as a chief hull inspector for the Shipping Board. His employment there ended when work on the steam- ship America was completed. Jennings, police sald, was a frequent caller at the home of Mrs. S. B. Price, next door neighbor of Mrs. Smerling. The two women were close friends and the child was often in Mrs. Price's home. In the way, it was said, Jennings and the little girl met often and grew fond of each other. The police were Inclined to believe Capt. Jennings took the child away in a fit of mental aberration, his war experiences, it was said, possi- bly having temporarily disarranged his mind. SOCIALIST ORGANIZERS DRIVEN FROM COUNTY SCRANTON, Pa., June 9.—Two or- ganizers of the soclalist party were sent out of Lackawanna county to- day by the authorities when they attempted to hold a meeting and or- ganize a branch at Old Forge, near her. About 1,000 miners had gather- ed to hear them talk, but were dis- persed by state police, sheriff’s depu- ties and borough policemen. As the organizers—sald to be Birch Wilson of Reading, Pa., secretary of the socialist party in Pennsylvania, and Griolano Zalenti, editor of a forelgn language newspaper in Chi- cago—stepped from their machine they were bundled back into it again and rup to the Lackawanna county dngy - near SUNDAY MORNING, JUN = ) 10, TODAY’S STAR Pages. General News—Local, National, Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page 22. Trade Unlon Activities—Page 26. The Ciwillan Army—Page 27. Financial News—Pages 28 and 29. Radio News and Gossip—Page 30. Classified Advertisements—Pages 31 to 3o, PART TWO—16 Pages. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Soclety. D. A. R. Actlvities—Page 12. Army and Navy News—Page 14, | Veterans of the Great war—Page 14. Girls and Their Affairs—Page 15. Parent.Teacher Activities—Page 15. Review of New Books—Page 15. Spanish War Veterans—Page 15. Girl Scout News—Page 15. PART THREE—12 Pages. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo. | play. Sertal, “The Mystery Girl"—Page 4. Music in Washington—Page 5. Around the City—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6 to 10. Fraternitics—Pages 9 and 10. Boys and Girls' Page—Page 11. PART FOUR—1 Pages. Pink Sports Sectlon. PART FIVE—S8 Pages. Magazine Section—Features and Fiction. ROTOGRAVURE—8 Pages. World’s Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—1 Pages. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Betty; Mr. and Mrs. CATHEDRAL CALLED SHRINE OF AMERICA Bishop-Elect Freeman Says It Is Place for National and World Assemblies. The Natlonal Cathedral is to be completed as “a place for great a semblies, national and international, meeting In Washington upon great missions that relate to the best in- terests of America and the peoples of the world” Rev. Dr. James E. Freeman, bishop-elect of Washington, declares in his first public statement concerning the plans of the Episcopal Church to complete the structure. His statement was made public toda: “This cathedral, that it is propo to erect in the capital of the nation, makes an unusual and unique ap- peal, because it is national in char- acter,” said Dr. Freeman. “There Is no city on this continent where such a building can so_fitly express the high ideals of our nation as Wash- ington. . “This is more than a diocesan building, and its interest is more than local. Here in Washington stand the great buildings that have to do with the large concerns of federal admin- istration, and here it is indispensable that a great cathedral bullding should incarnate and Interpret those things that we hold and believe to be funda- mental to the perpetuity of the nation itself. Witness of Comimon Faith. “Beyond the fact that it is the bullding of a great religlous body, it must stand as the witness of our common faith as a people. In the very best sense, it is to be a house of prayer for all people. “No building in Great Britain so focuses the affections of the people as Westminster Abbey. This great abbey is literally the shrine of Great Britain. It is believed that the Na- tional Cathedral in Washington must ultimately come to be to America what the abbey is te the English people. It ought to be the place of sepulturé for the great dead of our nation. It ought to furnish a place for great assemblies, national and international, meeting in Washington upon gréat missions that relate to the vast interests of America and the peoples of the world. “From its pulpit must issue mes- sages that deal with the most vital concerns of our individual and cor- porate life. This National Cathedral INETY-TWO PAGES. CLAS FEALOUSY CALSED MURDER Filipino Tells Police Girl Was Friendly With Mar- ried Man. Assaciated Press. ! " YORK, June 9.—Jealousy over | the friendship of Blossom Martin, his sweetheart, with a married man led him to strangle her in the home of the doctor, where they were both lemployed, Eluigo Lozade, a Filipino | houseman, told the police today. {not divulged, told the district attor- jney he had known the young girl for (more than two years, during which time, he said, she had frequent quar- rels wih Lozade, because she would not give up her friendship with him. Stirred by Jealousy. | The dapper, under-sized Filipino |was arrested in Staten Island early today as he bore the body, wrapped |in a bundle much heavier than him- self, to a place of concealment in New Jersey. In his confession to the po- lice, Lozade sald his jealous rage had {centered on the dead girl's contention that he was financially unable to sup- port a wife, and nerved him to stran- gle her when she refused to listen to his pleadings last night. With detectives looking on, Lozade re-enacted his crime in the doctor’s |home, and showed how he had bun- jdled the body, Jack knife fashion, in two portieres and heavy paper. Then, carrylng the heavy burden in his arms, he traveled by taxicab and fer- ry to the Elizabethport ferry on Staten Island, where the strain be- gan to tell, and he was forced to ask a chauffeur to assist him. Chauffeur Suspicious. His suspicion aroused, the chauffeur alled a policeman, who arrested Lo- zade just {human burden into the river. The | Filipino fought flercely for five min- utes before he was subdued. Lozade was employed as a house- man by Dr. G. B. McAuliffe, where the iMartin girl also worked as an office attendant. She was formerly of Troy and was twenty-two years old. Her friends told the police today that she had complained several times that Lozade had threatened her life, once with a revolver. The police announced tonight they had abandoned their first belief that Lozade also was connected with the murder of Ream Constance Hoxie, seventeen, committed several years ago. They learned that he could cor- roborate his alibi for that crime and said they were satisfled. Lozade was locked in jail for the night, BULL FIGHTS TO AID NEW ORLEANS CHARITY To Be Permitted by City and S. P. C. A. Authorities If Animals Are Killed, Is Announced. NEW ORLEANS, June 9.—Bull- fights will be held here beginning June 30 and continulng for eight engagements. The bulls will be im- perted from Piedras Negras, Mexico, and a troupe of toradors are due from Spain. The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will permit the fights, provided the bulls are killed. A percentage of the proceeds will go to various city charities. The Coliseum, used for staging boxing matches, is being converted into an arena. as R . i il Of Today's conclave. In Today's The married man, whose name was; he tried to toss his The Star’s “From Press to Home Within the Hour” o the regular d.ld;'az «ity block and the de!(ivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. FIVE CENTS. Jesse W. Smith Leaves $25,000 To Daugherty By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON C. H., Ohio, June | 9.—Under terms of the will of the late Jesse W. Smith, intimate friend and close political assoclate of Attorney General Daugherty, who committed suicide in Wash- ington, D. C., May 30, the Attorney General is glven a bequest of $25,000. The will, probated here today, makes bequests aggregating $190,- 000. His former wife, Roxy R. Stinson, will recefve $25.000; At- torney General Daugherty and M. 9. Daugherty, §25,000 each; Ed- mund St. John, a cousin, of Bristol, Tenn.. $75.000: Mre. Ella St. John, Bristol, Tenn., $10,000; and to other relatives and friends the will provides for bequests of from $1,000 to $5,000, including $3,500 to John G. Price of Columbus, for- mer attorney general of Ohlo. A rosewood desk is given to Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. McLean of Wash- ington, D. C. The instrument bears the date of May 11, 1922, and makes Harry M. and M. S. Daugherty executors, —— AYLANINSISTS U. 8. SHOULDHALTLIQUOR AND ENFORCE LAWS “Do Not Try to Shift Bur- den,” N. Y. Mayor Advises. Assails Anti-Saloon Head. - By the Assoclated Press NEW YORK, June 8.—Mayor Hy- lan, who recently pledged city sup- Dort to the enforcement of the Vol- stead law, told Federal Prohibition Director Palmer Canfleld in a letter tonight, all liquor should be stopped at’ the port of entry and that en- forcement was offictals. “Enforcement of the Volstead law is your job in this locality,” sald the mayor's letter, “and you should go at it honestly, Do not try to shift the burden on the shoulders of anybody ejse. Dg mot rip open the feather béd and let the feathers be strewn to the seven winds and then expect the peace officers to go and gather in the feathers. Keep the feather bed intact. Must Block Port. “Stop the liquor from coming in at the port of entry so that the peace officers of any locality will not have to go for the little violator. Get the hooch and rum runner. The people of this country are sick and tired of being humbugged. They have been ‘hornswaggled’ more on the enforcement of this law than | on any other law that ever was placed on the federal statute books. Mayor Hylan launched a bitter at- tack on William H. Anderson, state | superintendent of the Antisaloon League, declaring that if he “and a few others of his kind who, of course, need the salary which they derive from contributions paid in by well- intentioned people,” would give their aid to the federal authorities in stop- | ping liquor at its source, the people | would get an honest enfercement of the Volstead act. up to Government Attacks Anderson. “But of course,” said the letter, “we realize that if liquor was stopped at the port of entry and we had an hon- est enforcement, there would be no more contributions coming into the coffers of these private organizations and Anderson and a few more of his 11k would not be continued longer on the pay role. Consequently it may be advantageous to allow liquor to seep in along the Atlantic coast and the Canadlan border.” Mayor Hylan said his letter was In reply to one he had received yester- day from Director Canfleld, which “evidently was for public consump- tion in an endeavor to shift the burden of the enforcement of the federal law from your shoulders, where it rightly belongs, to the shoulders of others." Had Thanked Mayor. Director Canfleld yesterday wrote the mayor thanking him for his as- surances of co-operation from local police and pointing out that failure to enforce the prohibition law would stimulate and promote other crimes. “It Is not only a matter of helping the government,” wrote Mr. Canfield, “but of helping yourself. Law defiance is highly contaglous, and the weak- ening of law enforcement at one! point weakens the entire structure. Mayor Hylan's letter today con- cluded with an appeal for “common sense” enforcement, and declared un- less liquor was prevented from com- ing into the country there could be no honest enforcement of the Vol- stead act. AR A v This Week's Big Shrine Events ; In the Rotogravure Section Sunday Star A variety of interesting photographs reproduced in this superbly printed section—a worthy souvenir of the great Shrine Sunday Star Mailed in Maryland and Virginis, Sc; All other States, 10c; Postage Prepai T XContRusS on Fage 2, COMID 3.3 b b M AL jcourts of the United States, [tic. Now it is U.S.SHIPLIQUOR BAN EFFECTIVE TODAY IS THREAT OF SERIOUS ROW WITH NATIONS Vessels of Three Powers, Forced to Violate Own Laws, May Bring Test Case to Determine Validity. OFFICIALS SEEK METHOD TO AVERT COMPLICATION Flexibility of Medicinal Needs Seen as One Small Loophole; Embassy Liquor Not to Be Af- fected; Dry Agents Prepare to Enforce Measure. Despite vigorous protests from sev- eral foreign powers and in contraven- tion of the law in at least three Eu- ropean nations, the American gov- ernment last midnight placed in ef- fect its ban on beverage hooze at the three-mile limit, laying down the dis- puted principle of prohibition even on foreign ships in American terri- torial wate The thing is admittedly fraught with possibility of the most delicate interna- tional eventualities. It is going to be hard to enforce. Foreign powers don't like it. They have protested vigorous- v, and have not promised cordially that they will try to co-operate as best they can. In fact, it may be that one of them, particularly of the nations which re- quire ships’ crew rations, may declde to violate the regulations, and make a test case. The regulations will cause the ships of at least three nations to break their domestic laws requiring ships crews rations—France, Italy and Spain. Tent e Complicated. But if the test case is brought, where could it be tried except in the bound to uphold the American Supreme Court edict upon which the regulations are based, or in the world court established under auspices of the league of nations, which is now the target for gome of the brightest fireworks of a powerful branch of American sentiment? That ship-liquor ban, which will bar all beverage liquors inside the three- mit of these coasts, throws the an prohibition question for the first time like a barb into international relations. Hitherto it had been “domes- international. America legislates for forelgn vesels, as well as American ships. Trouble loomed on the horizon the moment the Supreme Court of the United States handed down the edict declaring American prohibition ex- tended to the three-mile limit on all ships, but to none beyond the three- mile limit. Protests, at first informal, began to pour in from foreign shippers; later from the powers themselves, intor- mally and then formally. For a time it was hoped by the con- servative thought of the administra- tion that there would be a louphole to escape international complications through declaration of all ships' stores to be medicinal liquors. This door was later closed. It was found impossible under the law and the court’s decision. Problem Remalns. The crew-rations problem ke a burr under the saddle. At- tempts were made to remove it. It wouldn't be removed. And there it sticks, an avowediy open question, & point of absolute departure between the laws of the United States and the laws of France, Italy and Spain. Briefly stated, the ban, on at last midnight, provides three things: 1. “No merchant vessel, domestic or foreign, may lawfully carry as cargo within the territorial waters of the United States any liquor for use for beverage purposes’ “It is unlawful for any United States or forelgn merchant vessel within the territorial waters of the United States to CATTy or possess as sea stores any liquor whatever for beverage use..” 3. “Liquor for non-beverage pur- poses may be transported on vessels within the territorial waters of the United States under permit in ac- cordance with the provisions of" certain sections of the regulations. In that third point enters the only possibility for amelioration of ‘the situation so far as forelgn sKQs are concerned, and that will extend only to medicinal and sacramental liquot. No hard and fast limit is prescribed for non-beverage liquors, but sen- timent is widely split over the pos- sibility of saving the International situation thereby. stuck See Ome Way Oat. One school of thought is inclined to feel that the agencles charged with administering no-beverage pro- visions of the regulations will be able to make them so liberal that foreign protestants will bo appeased. Others feel even more strongly that the medicinal restrictions will be made strictly medicinal, and afford no rellef. The administration of the entire set of regulations rests upon the Treas- ury Department, which has relegated the work to the customs service, the prohibition unit and the public health service. The French government not only filed protest against the banm, but went so far, it was learned_yester- (Continued on Fag P