Evening Star Newspaper, June 11, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. showery weather tonight and Temperature for twenty-four hours Highest, 81, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 61, at noon endad at 2 p.m. today: today. . Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 2 No. 28,895. Entered as sece DEPOSED BULGAR PREMIER DEFENDS HIMSELF IN VILLA Peasants’ Aid Resistance, But Revolt Leaders Said to Condene Escape. ARMORED TRAINS WIN DAY OVER OPPONENTS Paris Alarmed With Pro-Germans in Control at Bulgarian Capital. By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 11.—Detachments sent to apprehend Stamboulisky, Bulga- rian premier deposed by revolution- ists, have as yet failed in their mis- sion, says a dispatch from Le Jour- nal's Sofia correspondent. He adds that Stamboulisky vesterday was de- fending himself in his villa at Sla- vovitza with the aid of gendarmes and peasants. *The new government, headed by Prof. Alexander Zankoff, is sald to be willing that the former premier should leave the country, as the min- istry seeks above all to avold blood- shed. Hence it is loath to send an organized expedition to capture him and ‘hopes he will leave the country. The correspondent, who is the only French special writer in the Bul- Rarian capital believes, nevertheless, t Stamboulisky spent all day Sat- in prison with the ministers of his cabinet, although he was sub- sequently liberated. post_office Washington, D. 3 ond-class matter C. England Makes All Khaki Cloth The Marine Corps found it neces- sary to go to England to get fiber- dyed materials of the desired shade for mew uniforms for the “devil doge,” not possible of production in the United States, it is sald. Contract has been made with Spin- ner & Co. of Manchester, England, for 500,000 yards of fiber-dyed khaki drill, at rates sald to be $180,000 less than it would have cost'to obtain similar cloth in this country. Fifty-five American mills were canvassed for the desired material for the uniforms, and the Amos- keag Manufacturing Company was the only one that submitted a bid. That bid is said to have been 60 cents a yard higher than the bid of the English firm, and did not give | satisfactory assurance that it could | provide the shade of khaki desired. | The process of dyeing the cloth is | a secret one, not vet American manufacturers TRAIN SHED BURNS AT 1,000,000 0SS Sleeping Passengers Saved in Philadelphia Station. Twenty Persons Hurt. known to By the Associated Press, PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 11.— Tire early today practically destroyed the train shed of Broad Street sta- tion, the Philadelphia terminus of the Pennsylvania railroad. A quan- tity of mail and baggage, and a num- consumed, The flames spread westward and | €id not reach the main building con- taining the waiting rooms and ticket ber of passenger coaches also were | T { | ¢ Foenit WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Star WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1923—THIRTY PAGES. FRANCE ACCEPTS For Marines) BRITISH PLAN FOR REPARATIONS TALK Reopening of Discussion Hinges Upon End of Ger- man Passive Resistance. JOINT NOTE WARNING: BERLIN URGED IN PARIS Reply to Teuton Offer Would Re- quire Several Weeks of Allied Meetings, French Believe. By the Associated Press PARIS, June 11.—No replay to the recent German note is considered necessary so far as France is con- cerned, it was said at the foreign of- fice this forenoon, but if the allies de- sire to improve the opportunity to re- sume a general discussion of the reparations question, France is ready. A reply by the allies in common, it is held in officlal circles, would re- quire probably several weeks of negotiations, because of the impossi- bility of their uniting in an answer i until they themselves come to an ar- rangement. The only united action by the allies now feasible in the view of France, it was sald, would be a common notice to Germany that she must cease her passive resistance to the execution of the treaty of Versailles. Afterward the allles would have the leisure to go all over the problem if they were dispoxed to do =0, but France will insist that if the discus- sions are resumed the: eed on the basis of the French N AL 1) = THE MODERN OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE. HAGEN FAR BEHIND INBRITISH TOURNEY ! Bank, was today GET LONG SENTENCES. York Bank Officials Given From 20 to 22 Years. YORK, Pa.. June 11.—Thox Bard, defaulting cashier of the sentenced to twenty twenty-two years in the pe B. city | ' | MORE SICK LEAVE GRANTED 300,000 “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. Saturdays Circulation, 101,932 Sunday’s Circulation, 110,217 Four More Rum Ships Join Fleet Outside New York By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 11.—The rum fleet, which came back Saturday to harass federa] prohibition en- forcement authorities in New York, had increased today from elght to twelye vessels, Assistant So- licitor Barnes of the customs serv- ice announced this afternoon. Eleven of the vessels, he said, were of British registry and one was of French. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 11. —The fishing power cruiser Nun- ziata of Sea Isle City, with a cargo of 400 cases of champagne, cor- dials, whiskies and a crew of four men. was seized by customshouse officials today as she attempted to land at an inlet near here. BREAD PRICES HERE RAISED BY BAKERS Flour Prices Drop to Near Level Before War; Wage Raise Given as Reason. Two local bakeries sent the price jof bread up 1 cent per pound loaf | today, and indications point to a sim- ilar general increase throughout the feity within the next week. | Although bakeries concerned dia not comment on the increase in price, | the general explanation given is that| | local bakers have been operating jon a small margin of profit for some time and that recent increases in wages for bakers and bakery sales- ;men have added additional hurdent‘ [to an already mounting overhead TWO CENTS. FRENGH ASK LIQUR BAN BE RASED T0 GVE CREW BATION First to Officially Protest U.S. Action in Sealing Ship’s Rum While in Port. REPORT RULE DISOBEYED BY TWO NATIONS’ SHIPS Sailors on Three Vessels Reported Getting Wine on Theory It Will Be Overlooked. The first international complica- tion to result from enforcement of the new ship liquor regulation de- veloped today when the French em- bassy took up with Treasury officials the question of releasing from custom seals enough wine to supply the reg- ular ration to the crew of the French liner France, in New York harbor. The embassy is understood to have taken the position that inasmuch as the France sailed from her home port for New York prior to June 10, the effective date of the new regulations, these regulations do not apply to her and she is permitted to serve wine to her crew under the same practice as obtaind before the ship llquor edict of the Supreme Court was put into effect. Heretofore, it was pointed out. foreign ships entering American aters have submitted to having heir liquor supplies sealed by cus- toms authorities with the under- standing t the seals will be broken by customs agents at stated en- | { cast ‘of baking. The -bakeries putting a price of § Field Postal Workers A"Owedicems wholesale per pound loaf into effect today were Rice-Schmidt and to Take Time Off by | Dorsch. At the Corby bakery it was | the Hour. Resistance Put Down. offices. These, however, were dam- oged by water. The general offices of the company were not damaged. There was no official estimate of the loss, but it was belleved it would approximate at least $1,000,0000. Many Firemen Overcome. i A round up by the police and hos- pitals showed that about twenty | persons. nomne of them passengers, | were slightly injured. The greater rumber were firemen There were nearly two hundred times to release the two_ liters of wine a day prescribed by the French Jaw as a part of the ration of each member of the crew of a French ship. j forth at the Paris conference in Jan- This means, it is explained, that France-at present is still unwilling to make further concessions in order to render a united reply by the allies| | possible. = o 4 i Premier Poincare will probably ob- 3 foct to, & mew allied conferemce, &t American Golfers. least for the moment, it is thought. He Is believed to prefer the more de-| , liberate ~ method ' of =~ megotiation | 4o Press. ! through diplomatic channels and will} . Lon | probasly decline any suggestion to| LT BT LR discuss reparations unless the allies | ®xperfence of Walter Hagen, Ameri- consent to unite in giving Germany | can holder of the British open golf previous notice 1o cease GhStruction| yitle was the feature of the play up ' ry. and William H. Boll. assistant | cashier. was given u sentence of fifteen | {to twenty years by Judge N. M. Wan- iner in the York, county court today,] {after they had 'admitted embesaling | !more than $1.000,000 from the institu- ! tion. The k was clesed in the | latter part of Apeil. ! Bl iien: ] G Y CHECK COLLECTION Teports from the province, says the correspondent, are that armored trains were sent to Plevna to dis- perse some thousands of peasants who had armed to Tesist the new regime. The ministry of War express- es belief that this opposition was put down without difficulty, as was a similar manifestation at Radomir, Isolated shots were heard in Sofla on Saturday, but no casualties were reported. All the shops in the city Present Open Champion Shoots 82; Smith Leads Practice Discontinued. Reports reaching the embassy are to the effect that the New York customs authorities have refused to continue that practice, and have notified the master of the France that under the new regulations the hip's llquor stores must remain sealed until she has again passed outside the three-mile limit {learned unofficially that an increase | | is being considered, but has actually {not vet been put into effect Flour Price Droj ! New sick and annual leave privi-i Ag an incidental to the increuse in leges for the Washington city Post!ine cost of bread. flour dropped about ce and the other 300,000 employes|3g cents.per barsel during the last of the postal service, similar to those | fow weeks and is beginning to hover | in closed their doors. even to the bak- ablishments. The capital was terday. French officials over the situation the Balkans. are_ pessimistic in Bulgaria and Although there is the opinion that Stamboulisky’s agrar- ans are strong enough numerically ) briag him back to power, the at- titude of Bulgarfa’s neighbor states| i bellsved to be unfayorable to a| revolutionary government and there 1< some doubt that she will be per- nn’!rlf‘d to solve her problems her- se Pro-Germans in Saddle, The new regime at Sofia, it is ap- | parent herc>.meaps the reappearance | of the old pro-German element, some | passengers in the ten sleeping cars in the station when the fire started. They were aroused and told there was no immediate danger. The cars were pulled out of the shed by shift- ing engincs to the west Philadelphia yards, and later were attached to trains and departed. One string of seven sleepers was destined for Bos- ton, and the other three sleepers for Pittshurgh. The passengers peering through the smoke-stained windows did not |get a complete picture of the blazing shed, but realized they were being rescued from a perilous situation. All were prevented from rushing from the cars. in the Ruhr. BRITAIN TO SEEK PLEDGE. ‘Will Ask Berlin for Order Ending| Passive*Resistance in Ruhr. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June had an important conference with the French ambassador, Count Saint Aulaire, this morning. the British foreign secretary urging that the French government accept Berlin" latest reparation proposals as a basi for negotiations. If France will do | nalf of the | American centingent a 75. | however. does not necessarily [ that he is likely to be found among ! i to mid-afternoon today in the first} qualifying test for the! British open championship. Hagen took 82. as compared with a 73 for the lowest score up to this i time, made by Fred Robson, the|Supreme Court Sustains Fed- | English internationalist, while Gor- 11.—Lord Curzon|don Lockhart of Gleneagles had a . ‘and MacDonald Smith of the Hagen was oft form both the fairwa and on the greens. The champion's poor showing today. imply on i eral Reserve Rule ‘in Vir- ginia and Georgia. Methods banks in used by federal reserve Georgia and Virginia to banks not members of that RIS UPHELD | instance, he is already effect Department, hgve been placed in ef- fect by Postmaster General New. Formerly employes in field service of the department were able onl to take sick Yeave by the day, and’ annual leave by two-hour perfods. If an employe was reported ill.in the morning, he was charged with & day's sick leave, or a like amount of annual leave, it his sick ledvé was used up.! Under the new ruling he will bé charged exactly the tima he is ill, the minimum bel»g one hour. If he is taken ill after six hours' work, for harged with: just the two hours’ sick leave. 1 in the Post Office|g4round a pre-war figure at $6.75 for | carload lots wholesale and from $7.50 to $7.75 in small retail lots. The increases to journeymen bak- ers referred to gbove amounted to 10 cents per bour.” There are approxi- mately 420 bakers in Washington, ac- cording to union officials, who re- cefvell Ahe peconit fworease. This is in addition to6 200 helpers who were guaranteed a wage of $3.50 per day in lleu of a minimum $3 per day. nion officials eéstimated from statistigs on file that the increased wages for union men as a sult of the change in the salary scale last month would amount to not more | 1 | though { Treasury Treasury officials took the com- plaint under advisement and, al- they would not discuss the situation. they indicated that the point raised had presented one of the most delicate questions involved in the whole ship liquer controv It was pointed out, however, that cven si:ofild the old practice be con- tinued in the case of ships which, like the France, sailed for American shores prior to June 10, only tem- porary relief to foreign shipping in- tevests would resuit Rule Will Stand. After a hurried conference of cus- toms and prohibition officials at the it was indicated that the i compel The new order was received en-| thusiastically at the Washington city | post office. | the missing when the real show opens. Most of the cards turned in today French construction of the regula- tions did not accord with that of the American government, and that there would be no relaxation in favor of the serving of wine rations. CREWS GET LIQUOR. than $480 a day at a liberal estimate. Bakery salesmen also recefved an increase in-thelr guarantee from $25 | per week to $35. They get 10 per cent on sales. If their sales run more |than’ $350 a week they get a com- mission proportionately more, and if | under $350 they get the minimum | guarantee of $35. 5 Officlals ‘of that union estimated | Think Customs Officials Will Be that about two hundred and fifty of | g < 420 bakery salesmen received a bene- Lenient in Enforcement. fit from the increase in the commis- slon gurantee, setting a figure of | BF the Associated Press this, Lord Curzon will inform Ger- | many, it was stated, of the French| 2%, %" oper seventies, and. it government's willingness 1o discuss| Hagen breaks 75 tomorrow it is be- the problem collectively with the|ji\6q he will surely qualify, and even allies. 2 1 (& 76 might squeeze him through into Great Britain, it is explained. Will| ¢y gelect circles. then endeavor to obtain from Berlin | a pledge of the cancellation of the| Often in Trouble. Hagen's troubles began on thely,. orders for passive resistance in the Hahr. which Premier Poincure has named s A condition precedent to|fourth hole, where he took four shots| Tne American Bank and Trust| to sink his ball after getting Within|company and other banks of Georgia. 35 vards of the pin. After that his ang the Farmers and Merchants' Bank | Eleven Coaches Damaged. The sleepers were the first to be removed from the burning shed. Four shifters assisted in getting out strings of other coaches. In all eight steel coaches, three electric coaches and three locomotives were trapped and badly damaged. They were too far back in the shed for the train crews to risk their lives to get them of the leaders of which have now come into prominence. These men are anti-Serbian. The Havas correspondent at Sofia says it is belfeved in the Bulgarian capital that King Borls knew of the revolutiona plan and is thought to | view favorably the overthrow of Stamboulsky. who put the monarch | in the position of a figurehead. Pre- mier Zankoff, says the writer, has n on intimate terms with the king. | new premier, a professof in Sofla system to cash at par checke drawn upon them By their Jepositors which reach federal reserve banks for col- | tection or clearance were wwroved| NEW D, C. WORKERS LOSE PART OF BONUS brought against the federal rescrve Five Dollars to Be Cut From Pay i banks at Atlanta, Ga., and Richmond, lany pourparlers. If Germany ac-| I quiesces in this, steps will be taken | ot A eanipelonging ¢ oivous) international confer- | ersity, aveled extensively ughout many, Austria and Hungary during the war. The Bulgarian cabinet, as named in the Sofla dispatches, is made up of men little known in official circles here, where it is expected the old ministers released from prison are likely to replace: some of the mer temporarily put in charge of affairs Information reaching the foreign office is to the effect that the agra- rian associations are giving up their s SOFIA REPORTED QUIET. Communists Said to Be Loyal to New Ministry. By the Associated Press. SOFIA, June 11.—Complete tran- quillity prevailed in Sofia at an early hour today. Premier Zankoff, head of the new government, has assigned the portfo lio of foreign affairs to Christo Kal- loff, while Col. Voulkoff is the new minister of The cabinet now represents all parties with the excep tion of the communists and the pea ants. The king rcceived the members of the new ministry yesterday. Premier Zankoff called upon the diplomatic representatives and informed them of the change in government. The Bul- garian Telegraph Agency publishes a note asserting that the leaders of the communist party have announced that they will be loval to the new regime. war, The government has taken no ex-| ceptional measures to preserve or- der, nor has a censorship been es- tablished, it is stated. REPORT ON REVOLT. Legation Says Sofia Is Peaceful. An official report on the overthrow of the Agrarian government of Bul- garia, and of the appointment by. the king of the provisional government headed by Premier Lankoff, a mod- erate socialist, boulisky cabinet, was received at the State Department today from the le- gation at Sofia. The provisional gov- ernment, the message said, was sup- orted by the army, and order pre- alled In the zapital under martial law with regulur troops pelicing the streets. Reports from thé provinces, it was added, indicated that the coup had been successful also in large cen- ters. The provisional ministry has issued a_manifesto, the message eald, dis- claiming any purpose of wreaking vengeance on the deposed cabinet. Members of former ministeries held in prison under the agrarian govern- ment have been released by the pro- visional government, it was added, The new government will accept the reparations agreement and con- tinue negotiations with the Interal- lied commission.” the state depart- ment's announcement said. “There has been no discontinuance of administra- tive functions or public services, and the coup d’etat was of an essentially fascista character.” U. 8 | to succeed the Stam- was among those left in the shed, {but it was not touched by the flames. Today all that remained of the |great. arched shed. one of the great- {est in the world when it was built more than forty ears ago, was the skeleton framework and the side walls. When it was built it was roudly referred to by the railroad as the “portal to Philadelphia” It | was 707 feet long, 307 feet wide and 1100 feet high. The shed covered six- teen tracks and there were eight platforms. | Trains Are Delayed. | Outgoing train service was delay- !ed several hours. Passengers on in- coming trains were discharged at the West Philadelphia station and brought to the center of the city by auto- mobile or trolley. When outgoing service was restored, all trains left from the West Philadélphia station. | The Philadelphia and Reading Rail- way established a thirty minute spec- al train service taNew York to take icare of the heavy Monday morning i traffic to that city, |absorbed much of the upstate traffic nd the Baltimore and Ohio handled {considerable additional business south. ! Through south and west trains were {delayed because of the local yard con- | gestion. | Fire Spreads Rapidly. The fire started shortly after 1 a.m. {under the wooden platform in the train shed, which covers several acres jand spread rapidly. Dense volumes of smoke soon filled the shed and (Continued oq Page 2, Column 3.) By GEORGE WITTE. | By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1823. BERLIN, June 11.—We started out [from Berlin at 9:30 p.m. A drizzling | rain impeded our progress so that | cur German motor car was traveling |alout twenty miles an hour. There { were many cars ahead of us and many more behind. All the cars were equipped With magnetos. A mysterious invitation had been issued to us. “Start at 9:30 for Hamburg” it !read. “Get a car with a magneto | Take enough food to Jast twenty {hours. Take blankets and be" pre- yared to spend the night in the open. The leader of the procession will ex- plain when the moment arrives.” A big, speedy car headed the pro- cession. With our big headlights on we started. Through Berlin's tough- est ‘streets we went. Then we sped along the shadowy lares of the province of . Brandenburg and the grand duchy -of Mecklenburg. Even This railroad also | i | to convoke an ence for the settlement of the whole | dispute. The conference between Lord Cur-| zon and the French ambasador Jast-; ed more than an hour. While noth- ing was given out officially regard- ing the discussion the two diplomats had a frank ex- change of views concerning the at- titude of their respective govern- ments on Germany's latest offer. It was arranged that the Italian and Belgian ambassadors discuss the same subject with Lord Curzon this| afternoon, with a meeting of it is known that| the | twice on British cabinet following, at which| took three putts. troubles were frequent. He had ajof Monroe and other banks of orth poor drive and was short with a putt|Carolina contested the authority of | at the fifth and sliced into the rough |the federal reserve banks at Atlanta | at the sixth. lodged in a heather bush, then went into the rough and then into a bun- ker, so that it took him six to get the green. He m at the ninth and sliced a brassie shot jon the tenth. On the twelfth Hagen drove into the rough and his approach shot wus Ithe state courts in North Carolina de- | cupicided that under the federal reserve | trapped. His ball lipped the thirteenth, the where he He was bunkered the views of France, Italy and Bel-|on the short fourteenth and missed glum were to be taken up. The British cabinet is nest efforts to reach a ground with France and thus re- cement the entente cordiale, but if France insists upon the uncondition- al occupation of the Rhineland until all reparations are paid there seems little prospect of a solution, accord- ing to the British view. The cabinet here is unreservedly opposed to this measure, feeling that Germany's ca- pacity to pay depends entirely on the free and untrammeled operation of her great industrial plants and full liberty of movement for her work- ers. g THREE SWIMMERS DIE. Two Others of Party at New Or- leans Still in Serious' Condition. NEW ORLEANS, June 11.—Three of a bathing party were drowned at Grand TIsland yesterday and two others, who were rescued, still were unconscious early today, according to reports received here this forenoon. ing ear- common Wireless Wave Stops 20 Autos Dead, German Scientists Find| when we arrived at Wittenberg, no- body in the party knew what it was all about. “Something is goin within the next haif hou gulde. We were all more or less weary, Lut we cheered up when he made this announcement, with a grin on his face. So on we went. After about twenty minutes, and all of a sudden, every car in the line stopped dead. Every driver believed something was wrong with his car. In a couple of seconds everybody to happen said our Tealized that all the cars had stopped | as though by magic. Every drivi tried to start his mnchlne.y but ell; vould not budge an inch. Then the miysterious leader of the party came uxl t2 a group of us. Tt is Nauen,” he said. “That blg wireless station has stopped all our cars by sending out waves that !.lopbed our magnetos. It is an en- tirely new invention, and a special Vave is ‘being used. This experl gent is the first of a series which 111 ‘be applied eventually to air- vlanes. electric trains and even sub- marines. If every trial we make proves as successful as this, war- fare in the future will'be completely revolutionized.” two-foot putts on both the fifteenth and sixteenth greens. One Eight on Card. Hagen wase seldom straight from the tee. was frequently in the rough and often trapped, getting into trouble on almost every hole. His |cara: Out . In o Smith playes for a six on the Out In . 4 [} 5 4 d golf, except His card: Joe Kirkwood also took one six, but otherwise was steady. His card: Out 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 - In 3 45 4 45 3 & 53776 Jim Barnes played his usual strong game through the fairways, but was in poor form on the greens, the re- sult being a comsiderable sprinkling of 58 and 6s in his card, which rea 3 455 43 437 3 5 4 5 6—43—80 George Aulbach of Boston took 80. Jangle, the former South African cad- dle, had 82. Tolley Shoots : Cyril Tolley, former Britfsh ama- teur champion, had a 78. Abe Mitch- ell, the British veteran, turned in a 79. Ted Ray, former British open champion and winner of the American open championship fn 1920, turned in a card of 77, George Duncan, British open champion in 1920, and J. H. Taylor, several times the British title holder, got 76. CO-OPERATIVE 'LEAGUE OFFICIALS ARRESTED Held by Federal Authorities :for Alleged Conspiracy to Use Mails to Defraud. PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 11.—Three former ofiicers of the Co-operative League of America were arrested by federal authorities here today on warrants charging that they used the malls in furtherance of a scheme-to defraud. The case, post office in- spectors declared, involves mortgages valued at $1,300,000, owned by inves- tors in Pennsylvania and other states. -Charles E. Succop, president of the league, and John Clark, vice pri dent, were held in 35000 ball each for & hearing next Monday. -Harry J. Bovard, secretary and treasurer, w: held on $10,000 bail. "~ On the seventh his ball |and Richmond to require them i an |OUt charging any commission or ex- sed a two-foot putt|change for their services. i | i { i ) i {of the federal reserve system. must | | its banks should -be at par. to cash checks drawn upon them with- Decisfon in Georgia. { The federal courts in Georgia and | act the federal reserve banks had | ample authority 1o sustain the posi- | tion they had taken, and that the so- | called “country” banks, not members cash at par_all checks drawn upon them and cleared through the fed-| eral reserve banks. Justice Brandeis declared. in deliv- ering the opinion, that in the North | rolina case the law of that state.l with regard to method of payment'| was valid and that the state statute | was constitutional. i Justice Brandeis, delivering the | opinion, stated that Congress had not imposed upon the federal reserve | banks the duty to collect all checks ! at par and did not impose upon such banks a duty to introduce par clear- | ance against the wishes of some of the banks affected. Justices Van De-! vanter and Sutherland dissented. | Thé effect of the decision was to! afirm the decision of the federal| courts in Georgia and to reverse the | decision of the state courts in North Carolina. Attacks Check Charge. The right of banks to charge a' small ‘exchange or commission for cashing checks drawn upon them was challenged in the Supreme Court in cases_growing out of the policy of the Federal Reserve Board. to in- sist that all clearances made through The federal courts in Georgia_sus- tained the Federal Reserve Bank i of .Atlanta in insisting that checks sent it for clearance should be paid their- full face value, aml the state courts of North Carolina, when the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond insisted that all banks in its district should clear checks at par, held that the law of that state which per- mitted banke to charge an exchange for cashing checks was invalid. The .controversy was considered, of vital importance to the smaller banks, which fnsisted that the ex- change they charged for their sery- iges ‘In’ cashing.checks drawn upon them formed a material part of their income. The federal reserve banks denounced the practice as “petty graft” deelaring that its customers and cllents were entitled to. receive in settlement the full amount for which the check was ' written. —_—— i MUSIC CLUBS MEET. ASHEVILLE. N. C. June 11.—Re- ports of committees and officers oc- cupied today's business session of the . National Federation of Music Clubs, in convention here, The ad- dress of Mrs. John F. Lyon of Fort Worth, Tex., president, followed the formal reports. Musical contests in voice, violin and piano were béing conducted today. with twelve contestants, having ‘sur vived the preliminary eontests of Sat- urday. The names of the winners are to be announced tonight. of 800 for Rest of i Fiscal Year. ! Maj Daniel J. Donovan, city auditor. has discovered that the ap- propriation for payment of the bonus is not sufficient to cover all employes for the remaining two pay days of the fiscal year. The Commissioners. therefore, found | it necessary to cut $5 from the en- velope of 800 men and women taken ! into the municipal service during the | currant fiscal year. This number in. cludes members of the police and fire departments as well as school teach- ers and clerks. Tt is the hope of the city officials that this temporary reduction will make up the deficit in the appropri- ation. but it'may still be necessary to take ame or two dollars more oft | the salaries of these new workers at-the end of the month. When the new appropriations be- come available on_July 1. these workers will be put back to their regular pay status. ARTHUR C. HOLDEN DIES. MELROSE, Mass., June 11.—Arthur C. Holden of Washington, D. C.,| deputy commissioner internal revenue ! in charge of the saies taxes division, | died at the home of his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Clarence P. Holden, here yesterday. He came horc last Thurs- day, having been ill since the first of the year. Mr. Holden was born in Wood- stoek, Vt. forty-two years ago. He entered the government service in 1907 in the.Post Office Department. In 1913 he was transferred to San Francisco, .where he installed’ a par- cels post system. During the war he was postmaster of Camp Fremont, Palo Alto, Calif. In 1919, he was transferred to the | Treasury Departinent. ; would { show $2,500 a week, or about $400 per day as the total amount the increase figure all over town. These added, union officials say, that $880 is the mount of additional overhead cause by the increase in wages. The capacity of one local bakery is figured at approximately 100,000 loaves daily by officlals of the bakers' union. . On this basis, an in- crease of 1 cent per pound loaf would bring to this single bakedy $1,000 a day extra, which, it is pointed out, would be sufficient to pay all Wash- ington's bakery pay increases and leave about $120 surplus. figures, Band Concerts In Public Parks ‘Begin Tomorrow Announcement was made by Col. C. O. Sherrill, officer in charge of pub- lic ‘buildings and grounds, that the summer band concerts in the’ public parks for the season of 1923 will com- mence tomorrow evening. It was |plained that the concerts will be given | in the Sylvan theater in the Monu- ment grounds southeast of the Wash- ington Monument during the re- remainder of this month. The schedule for the month follows: June 12, 7:30 “to p.m., United States Army Band. June 14, 7:30 to United States Marine Band. Juné 16, 5 to 6: States Marine Band. June 18, 7:30 to States Army Band. June_21,” 7:30 to States Marine Band. June_23, 5 to 6: States Marine Band. June 25, States Army June_ 28, States Marine Band. June 30, 5 to 6: States Marine Band. p.m., p.m., United United United United United United United .p.m., p.m, p.m., p.m., p.m., p.m, Mrs. African Lion Earns Title Of “Good Mother” to New Cubs s Two—count "em—two. , I “She's'a’fine mother to them, too."‘ says Supt. Ned Hollister, as he stands | in the lion house at the Natlonal Zoological Park and fondly watches| the two new lion cubs. | Do Mrs. African Lion says nothing, but | proudly hoists.one of her cat-sized cubs by the back of the neck, carries it around 2 'bit, and carefully places it back on the floor of her cage. So excited did_she become, seeing so many persons before her cage, that Mr. Hollister was forced to build up a board barricade, behind which she might conduct her maternal duties free from prying ey But in a short time now, it is hoped, the cubs will be. so strong that the boards may be taken down and the people of Washington allowed their first real sight of a zoological rarity. Lion cubs are just that—a rarity. Many years ago the local “zoo” had some cubs that lived, but since that pair maturity. “She wasn't a good mother,” was the explanation . That' is why Supt. Hollister is so proud of the five-year-old African mother. She seems to know just how to bring up her cubs-in distinction from' some of the other lion mothers, which did not seem to care much, for their offspring. ‘The new cubs, born May 19, have just got their eyes open. They are very.good specimens, Supt. Hollister says, and are their mother’s second set, the first pair having died, “which they usually do,” he said. as ever been brought to ! | | Were designed to apply rigidly NEW YORK, June 11.—Crews talian and French ships in New York received their wine rations yester- estimate | day and will continue to enjoy them d | despite prohibition regulations to the contrary, the New York Times said today. The Times specified the sea- men of the French liner France and the Italian liners Alberta and Argen- tina. “The opinion among the foreign crews,” that newspaper said, “seemed to be that the serving of the wine would be overlooked by the American jauthorities.” So far as could be ertained, the Times said. “there s was no official {basis for the foreigners' belief.” Under French and Italian law sea- men -gerving ships of such registry must be served daily with two liters of wine Subject of Discussion. These mandatory laws have been the subject of diplomatic discussions between the .affected governments and the United States, as the Supreme Court has ruled that liquor eannot be brought into American ports for such purposes and the Treasury Depart- ment has issued regulations enforcing that decision. The first two foreign ships carrying liquor to arrive put into port yester- day with tReir liquor stores under seal. They (the White Star liner Celtic_and the Cunarder Carmania). both British, sailed from their home ports before the Treasury regulations became effective. The previous cus- tom had been to lock the barrooms where the liquor was stored when the ships reached the American three- mile limit, but yesterday the liquor was removed to special compartments and placed under customs seal. TU. S. OFFICIALS SILENT. Refuse Comment on Reported Vio- lation of Ship Liquor Rules. Treasury officials in charge of en- forcement of the new ship liquar regulation declined today to discuss in any way reports that several for- eign liners in New York had disre- garded the ban against serving wine as-a part of the rations of the crews. Whether any such development had been reported to Washington by customs authorities at New York was not disclosed, nor was It possiblé to ascertain what the next step might be should the reports prove true, In framing the regulations of- ficials tried to find a way to avoid conflict with the laws of those for- eign countries which require their ships to serve wine as a part of the crew ration, but the effort was futile and the new rules as promulgated o edict of the Supreme Court against the presence of any beverage liquor aboard any ship in American waters. Presumably a violation of thi stipulation would result in legal pro ceedings, but it is realized that it might be desirable to let the offend- ing shipowners themselves make the 2, Column I! ~ (Continued on Page