Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; slight- ly_warmer tonight. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest. 74, at noon today; lowest, 57, at 4:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 25. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 _— 0. 28,898. FUGITIVE PREMIER, Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. ah WASHINGTON, D. C, CUT OFF, TURNS 10 PRESIDENT LI QUITS; SURRENDERS SEALS Fhen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 92,637 THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1923—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. \President Pleads With Nation l To Learn National Anthem TWO CENTS |SHIP ADRIFT BARES TALE OF 9 KILLED IN Deplores Apparent Inability of Greater . MAKEFINALSTAND Few Hundred Armed Farmers With Stamboulisky Beset by Bulgarian Troops. AGRARIAN LAWS NULLED BY NEW GOVERNMENT Property of Former Ministers to Be Seized—Looting of Treasury Laid to Cabine.. By tho Associated Pre: SOFIA, June 14.—Ex-premier Stam- boulisky is reported to have been halted near Tatar Bazardjik and is #a1d to be making a stand against the Zovernment troops with several hun- dred peasant guards. Several casual- tles have already occurred. Part of this band fled in a motor ©ar, but was caught and arrested. 1t is officially asserted that last March Stamboulisky received from the treasury 4,000,000 Swiss francs, ostensibly for state purposes. but Teally for other ends. It s reported a large quantity machine guns and ammunition @iscovered at Stamboulisky' near Sofia. of was home Stamboulisky Laws Suspended. SOFIA, June acts of the new Bulgarlan govern- ment has been to suspend those laws passed by the agrarians which are rcgarded as infringing upon the con- stitution. The standard Bulgarian orthography, which was modified by the previous government by dropping several letters, has been re-establish- ed and all the newspapers, including those suppressed by the former re Kime, appeared today in the long-ac- cepted orthography. i The property of the former cabinet members will be sequestrated, it is 14.—One of the first| TOSOLDIERCAPTORS Also Turns Over Government Documents, Say Advices to London. FIVE CABINET MEMBERS TAKE GOVERNMENT REINS Capital Orderly Despite Complete Breakdown of Power. Troops in City. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 14.—President Li| Yuan-Hung of China has resigned and | turned over to his captors at Tien- | tsin the government seals which he took with him in his flight from Pe- king, says a dispatch to the Evening | News from its Tientsin correspond- ent. By the Assnciated Press. PEKING, June 14.—With the execu- tive branch of the Chinese government disorganized by the flight of President Li Yuan-Hung, and the resignation of the cabinet, the semblance of a national | adminlstration is being carried on by five representatives of the various ministries. Shen Jui-Ling, vice minister ¢f lustice, and representatives of the departments of finance, navy and foreign affairs met last night and agreed to carry on a provisional government inasmuch as | they were the legal delegates of parlia- | | ment. They decided to request Premier Chang Shao-Tseng, who with his cabinet resigned on Junme 6, to re- turn and resume his office. (en. Feng Yu-Hsiang, commander of the metro- politan troops, and Wang Hual-Ching, | head of the metropolitan police, met the | members of the ministries and promised ! that order would be maintained in the | capital Las that | eity, i advices from Tientsin reported | Li Yuan-Hung, who fled to that his home, when threatened with a | military invasion of Peking yesterda: | was a prisoner in the Tientsin railw. “TOGERMANYNEAR Interpretation of “Abandon Passive Resist- ance” Is Sought. William . today B. Beam of Paterson, { applied to the District Su- | Warren G. Harding, President of the | United states Jlssui‘ a rule on Mr, Harding to show | cause why he should not be com- pelled to reopen the matter of the al- lowance by D. R. Crissinger, then ][]lNI ALLIED N[]IE 'President Made Defendant In Suit Brought by Banker Term3 preme Court for a mandamus against | dent Harding, and was answered in a He asked the court to | the matter was wholly in the hands Part of Audiences to Sing “Star Spangled Banner.” President Harding deplores the fact |for the colors, namely, the obliga- that mo few American citizens know |tion to “maintain an America unim- the words of “The Star Spangled |paired,” for which the American flag Banner,” and he would like to hear |stands. audiences sing this anthem instead | A tribute was paid to the Ameri- of mumbling it. He so expressed him- | canism and patriotism of hfl’IHP \'et'- self gt t * day -, | erans of the civil war by the Presi- indes nS Flag day meeting today, | G008 O i he told his audience that der the auspices of the American- |.gomehow, 1 have concluded recently lzation Commission of the American | that about the dearest picture of the Legio: 5 flag—and we shall not see ong— £lon in Continental Memorial Hall. | flas"and we thajl not 2o Jons: as been an interesting experi- | yjoq by the old veterans of the civil ence to me to note audiences singing | war.” He also spoke of the rxnmn: natlo tnac » to | Of patriotism set by a young nav. atlonal airs—chat is 1ot the way to | Of BRtrigUem. ser DY 8 yorne BaiL put 1t—I have noted them trying to |cilors in the recent Shrine parade. sing our national airs, and outside of | | was received b: were mumbling their words, pretend- Ing to sing,” the executive said. He urged the meeting to take steps that will tend to result in Americans learning how to sing “The Star Span- gled Banner.” This should be done, he contended, as one of the man festations of reverence to the flag. The President then asserted that Americans have a greater obligation, quite apart from CHNERING LEALS CHEVYCHASEFELD Wilmington Golfer Sets New Course Record in Mid- dle Atlantic. Mr. Beam immediately referred the bject matter in a letter to Presi- letter from Secretary Christian that Breaking the course record by three strokes Horace G. Chickering of the Wilmington Country Club, today led the fleld in the qualifying round of the Middle Atlantic Golf Association’s of the controller, in whom the Presi- dent had great confldence. Much correspondence was had between the petitioner and the office of the con- troller, the court is told. and a letter the petitioner July about 2 per cent nearly all of them | the consideration | Bishop-Elect Present. | | BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Harding is preparing in| to deliver on his western trip and there is plenty of advice being volun- advance many of the speeches he is|V BLOODY SEA BATTLE | Smugglers, Abandoning Chi- nese When Food Runs Low, Precipitate Fight for Life. DECKS RUN RED AS AXES AND PISTOLS FIND MARKS Bargain in Havana to Land Celes- tials in U. S. Revealed—Vessel i Found Off Sandy Hook. i o The executive was accompanied to | the hall by Secretary George Chris- !tian and his naval and military |aides, and was the first speaker on the program following an impressive invocation offered by Rev. James E. | Freeman, Episcopal bishop-elect of | this diocese. | _In_onening his (Continued on Page 3, LINK WESTERN TRP WTHSECOND TERN iPolitical Experts Attach Great Importance to Ef- fect on President. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 14.—The crew of four men and five Chinese passengere missing from the two-masted British schooner Mary Beatrice, which wax found drifting oft Sandy Hook last night were kilied in a battle of pistols and axes, according to stories told by the survivorg to immigration officials when the craft was brought into quarantine today. Three of the fifteen Chinese sur- vivors were taken to the hospital at Ellfs Ieland. The remainder were da tained pending investigation by the authorities. Each Pald $500. When the Mary Beatrice was boarded last night by officials one of the orientals, making signs, indlcated that his comrades and the members of the crew who were missing had found resting places In the deep, bur did not explain in what manner they had died. Shrugging his shoulders he pointed over the side. The owner of the vessel, with whom the Chinese had Largained in Havana to clandestinely [land them on American soil, he said had abandoned them and his ship en their food stores ran low eight a: ago. Fach of the Chinese was understood to have paid the owner $300 to be landed here. .| on, i The first day of the rudderless Peking vernment passed with the city appar- ently peaceful. announced. The administrative staffs| g, throughout the country have been| dismissed and new prefects, who for | g, the most part are reserve officers,| have been appointed championship at the Chevy Chase| Club, with a card of 72. Two strokes| behind Chickering came District| controller of the currency, of the ap- | [] Teceived by the petitioner Suy | plication of the Paterson Safe De- ‘had been approved May 20, 1921, and posit and Trust Company to change |that, as far as that office was con- Dy the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, June 14.—A joint reply by all the allies to the last German | teered as to what he should say and | how he ought to say it All of the presidential contingent| Battle With Axes. The story told today in Chinese to Minister Faces Dismiswal. Dimitri Stanciof, the present garian minister in London, probably will be dismissed, it s stated Ivan Guessofen, a former premier aud graduate of the American college at Constantinople who has been in exile in Switzerland, will head a spe- elal diplomatic mission to London. A nation-wide appeal has been made to the business men, workers and others to contribute toward low- ering the cost of the necessaries of life. The cabinet has decided to Erant 50,000 leva to all families who lost relatives under the Stamboulisky | régime. M. Offob, former minister of agri- | member of the! culture, {s the only cabinet to succeed in evading arrest. He escaped to Rumania HOT FIGHTING REPORTED. Peasants and Government Forces in Conflict. Bul- | { . China’s “Christian general,” Feng Yu- Hsiang, was the active military power behindthe plot which forced President Li Yuan-Hung out of office and sent him in flight to Tientsin. GIVEN “THIRD DEGREE.” | | President Li Forced to Reveal Hid- ing Place of Seals. B the Associated Press. | Tl'l' NT June 14.—How President {11 Yuan-hung, fleeing from Peking to | Tientsin, was held up by armed sup- jporters ‘of the Chihla party, put | through “the third degree” and final- {1y ias permitted to proceed to his residence in the foreign quarter here when he divulged the hiding place of seals of office which disappeared when he sought safety in flight, be came known here today. The special train carrying the r i public's ousted chief executive reach- ied Yangtasun, outside Tientsin, last night and there it came to a stop. | It developed that -another special | bearing Wang Chen-Ping, Yang Iteh ;#nd other Chihli party larrived and that its armed guard had {heid up the president's cngineer at | their gun muzzles. The two trains leaders had | reparations note is regarded in official Ix der m N circles here as likely to be sent, pro- | the name of the National Trust Bank of Paterson. v russels, London, Paris| :'fl"";m:: ;:z,:mem’ Can agree | reauested to compel President Hard- {ing to roperly ex v upon an interpretation of the term | N8 to “Properly execute the laws of “abandon passive resistance.” The exchange of views between the | capitals of the allled powers is con-| Unuing. with Belgium and France| making it clear they consider it in- !dispensable that Germany make an| officlal declaration disavowing acts of sabotage and shootings in the Ruhr and inviting the population of | the valley to refrain from any overt, act toward the occupying troops. | CURZON MAKES QUERY. { States and of the petitioner.” { Mr. Beam in a lengthy application officers of the bank before the appli- cation was acted upon. Three days desired information STORES MAY RUN Asks French About ‘“Passive Re- sistance” Meaning. By the Associated Prew PARIS, June 14.—A note from Lord Curzon, British secretary for foreign affairs, asking what was meant by passive resistance” with regard to v the Arsociated Press. | then were coupled together and pro- BELGRADE, June 14.—Dispatches| ¢¢¢ded into the Tientsin Central sta- | tion. from Sofia say that sanguinary con-| flicts are occurring between the peas- | ants and government forces at Tatar | fr. Given Third Degree. There president Li was removed om his coach and subjected to a Bazardjik. M. Daskaloff, the Bulgarian minis- ter at Prague, is reported to have re- ceived word from former Premier Stamboulisky that a determined struggle must begin for the over- throw of the “usurping government.” Acting upon instructions from Daska- | ofi. who has taken up Stamboulisky nantl® as leader of the Bulgarian agrarians, M. Lioudskanoft, Bulgarian charge d'affaires here, called on For- eign Minister Ninchitch and notified him that the charge does not recog- nize the government formed by Pre- mier Zankoff at Sofia. PEASANTS HOLD TOWN. Armed Forces Revorted Marching From Popovo. BUCHAREST, June 14.—The town of Shumla (a fortified Bulgarian town fifty miles west of Varna), is report- ed in the hands of peasant guards, ac- cording to information which reached here yesterday. The Shumla district i8 ‘said to have become the most Im- portant center of resistance to the new regime. Armed peasants are said by the ad- vices to be marching from Popovo, in northern Bulgaria, and to have clashed with government troops at Bela, between Tirnovo and Rustchuk. Insurgents also are reported moving on 'Varna. The Rumanian council of ministers has decided to admit Bulgarian refy ges to Rumanian territory provided they enter in small groups, unarmed. Reports of Outbreaks Discredited. LONDON, June 14.—Telegrams from Sofia today to the Bulgarian lega- tion here declare that calm and order prevall. and that the manifold rumors of riots in the country and quarrels between the peasants and the town population should not be credited There have been no serious outbreaks, 1t is added, and at present everything is normal in the capital. The Sofla correspondent of the Even- ing News, telegraphed his paper un- der yesterday's date, saying: . tamboulisky's capture will be very difficult {n the mountains, which are covered with green scrub. The intention is to take him alive, as the | government wishes to prevent blood- shed at any price. Thanks to the measures taken by the new govern- ment, no members of the late cabinet have been harmed, although the mob feeling is high.” —_— < “UNJUSTLY EXECUTED.” CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., June 14.— The words “unjustly executed” are chiseled on a monument just com- pleted here for the grave of George M. Baker, who paid the extreme penalty April 7 in connection with the killing of a Walker county, Ga., deputy sheriff. The stone also bears a few lines of verse which in effect plead the inn cence of the youth and asks forgiv ness for those who brought about his death. vigorous “third degree” to make him | I reveal the whereabouts of his miss- ing seals of office. Finally he told | 'his inquisitors that they had been | taken to the French hospital In the {legation quarter of Peking by his | wife. The Chihili leaders then sent a special train to Peking with the | president’s secretaries to obtain the | seals from Mme. Li. This morn- {ing they telegraphed that they had { located the missing emblems of of- | fice, but it is not known yet whether | Mm'e. Li has surrendered them. | Wang Chen-Ping _also demanded that President Li sign three man- dates, said to be copies of mandates isued by the former president, Hsu | Chih-Chang upon his departure a | year ago. For some time Li stubborn- |1y refused to sizn, but in the end he again yielded, and with the affixing of his_signature to these documents such resistance the French would be willing to modify the Ruhr occupa- tion, was before the French cabinet when it met today. It was indicated after the meeting that there probably would be no re- ply for a day or two, as the French desire to consider fully whether there may not be found some adjustment of the British and French positions. CLASH TOLL NOW SEVEN. One Killed by French Patrol De- clared Swiss. DUESSELDORF, June 14.—Another German who was wounded when a Dortmund Sunday night died vester- ntinued on Page 2, Column 5.) | | i i isters Couldn’t ' | BY CONSTANTINE BROW By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. Copyright, 1928. .BURGAS, Bulgaria, June 12 (by courler to Constantinople, June 14). —The Bulgarians have proved that a bloodless revolution is possible, even in the Balkane, and the organi- zers of the present movement which ended Stamboulisky's dishonest and autocratic regime declare proudly that the revolution cost fewer lives than an ordinary election. The main reason for the smooth development of the revolution was the excellent organization of the plot. The leaders in the movement, who were virtually all former officers organ'zed throughout Bulgaria 5,000 commissioned and 15,000 reliable non- commissioned officers with instruc- tions to arrest the representatives | of the Stamboulisky's government as !soon as they received the signal | either by telegraph or special mes- | sengers. At many of the centers the officers rode sixty miles in order to avoid the risks of a railway journey. Main Concern to Aveld Bloodshed. The main concern of the revolu- tionists was to avoid bloodshed, and this they realized would be pos only by arresting Stamboulisk lowers in the villages, thus depriving the peasantry of leaders.. Once this was done the members of the revo- | { | (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) Bulgar Revolt Cost Fewer Lives Than Ordinary Balkan Election Plot of 20,000 Ex-Service Men So Well Laid That Stamboulisky and His Min- Strike a Blow lutlonary committee, all former offi- cers, believed that the men who served under their orders in the vari- ous wars would accept thelr leader- ship when backed by a reascnable number of machine guns. The first move of the local organ- izations in the towns and villages was to arrest the prefects and subprefects as soon as the news reached them that the members of the Sofia gov- ernment were safely under lock and key. Not a single government secret agent was aware of the existence of the plot, and the members of the gov- ernment arrested were virtually all in their own homes in Sofia Friday night. Sofia reserve officers in smail groups left their homes after mid- night and arrested the policemen in streets, with orders to avold mnols Most of the policemen submitte without & murmur, and the few who ! did resist were clubbed. Ministers Arrested in Homes. While this was going on in the streets detachments of cadets and officers from the Sofiia garrison were |arresting the ministers in thelr homes. Some comic incidents occur- ired. The officers who arrested the minister of agriculture say that his excellency was 8o frightened that he asked for a glass of water with the remarks that this was the first time he had tasted water in the last twelve months. Most of the min- isters showed surprise, but none tried to resist arr (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Germany's attitude in the Ruhr, and; French patrol fired into a crowd inj | board of governors of the Merchant and Manufacturers’ its meeting Wednesda; {lumbus, secretary, | said today. The area, he said, and it will be pro- posed that the line be run by the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- clation. considered by some of the merchants, according to Secretary Columbus, as necessary to counteract the effect on business of the one-way scheme which is to be placed force next month, upon completion of the thirty-day notice already given by the Commissioners. 1 Fear Loss of Business. If the Commissioners insist on their regulation to maintain the one-way streets, it was said, some of the mer- chants feel that it will keep people from coming downtown to shop. They business will be so materially de- creased that it will pay to install a bus line to bring prospective cus- tomers from the all-day parking and two-way streets and down to the many stores in the business section. As all of the merchants will profit from such a service, it is to be pro- posed that the merchants' association undertake the operation of such a line. Detalls will be considered by the board of governors of the merchants’ assoclation at its meeting next week. Just how the persons who would ride on it could be'controlled, it was ex- plained, would have to be worked out later, as, it was pointed out, unless | there was some method of controlling any one coming downtown could get on one of the busses, whether they proposed to purcha ything at any of the stores or not, Oppose One-Way Streets. According to Mr. Columbus the merchants feel keenly the proposal to make permanent some of the tempo- rary one-way streets. A meeting was held yesterday at the Raleigh Hotel to take up the matter, at which twenty-elght persons were present. There were people who have busf nesss on the proposed one-way streets who favored them and others who protested. but the particular protest noted there was against pe sons who park down town all day in one place. More traffic policemen downtown, in order to enforce the limited parking ordiuance, is to be pressed by the as- soclation. according to Mr. Columbus The majority of streetsy in the so- called congested area limit parking to one-half-hour periods. Mr. Co- | lumbus, when asked for his opinion s to what might be considered reasonable period to permit a cus- tomer to complete shopping, sald one Bour at each store which the buyer proposed to vieit: Tnauguration of such a service is| traffic | in feel, according to Mr. Columbus, their | to a national banking Institution un- | cerned, the incident was closed. The court is also|tition for the court’s action declares the United States therein for the pro- | states, tection of the Treasury of the United eral Reserve Board, to five senators |and to Vice President Coolidge, but sets forth that June 15 iast he wrote | ! Mr. Crissinger asking if inquiry had |3 been made into the character of the |tion with the bank in question. later he recelved a letter refusing the |of the United States has ever been BUSSE FORTRADE PROBEDBYEXPERTS Establishment of a motor bus line to bring customers into the congested | begun an informal investigation to {and one-way-street area from points determine whether the Washington whether if there were a cessation "‘Uun outside is to be proposed to the and Georgetown Gas Li Association at|return on , Charles J. Co- | per thousand cubic feet of gas. | | | | | | Champion C. J Dumphy of Colum- bia, with a score of 74 and Albert R. MacKenzie of Columbia, was in third place with 76, while M. B. of Columbia, came next with 7. Chickering's score of 72 breaks the course record of 7. Parson of Chevy Chase a month ago. Chickering's card follows: Out.4 4 4 4 4535 4—37 In..3 4434544 4—35—total Scores Turned In. Scores made this morning in the qualifying round were considered un- usually low. The scores turned in up to 1 o'clock included the following in addition to the leaders: L. S. Barr, Columbia, Morven Thompson, Chevy Chase, 81; J. C. Davidson, Washington, 81: W. W. Rapley, Columbia, 81; J. 1. David- son, Washington, 82; R. P, Davidson, Chevy Chase. §4: Lynn Haines, Ban nockburn, 84; Worthington Fraile: Chevy Chase, §5: A. L. Christman, Columbla. 86 W. Freeman, Wash: ington. §6: J. Turner, Washing- ton, 86; Carl_F. iellerman, jr., Ban- nockburn, Lee Crandall, Ban- nockburn, 8§8; L. W. Laudick, Colum- bia, 88; Fred MacKay, Richmond, 88 John_7. Harris, Bannockburn, 89; . P. McClenahan, Washington, Robert Stead, jr, Chevy Cha: J. W. Childress,” Chevy Chase Karl Bannockburn, The 'petitioner has since written letters to Mr. Harding, and in his pe- that gince last August he has had no word directly or indirectly from the chief executive. He has appealed. he to the governor of the Fed- in no case has he been able to se- cure any investigation or relief. From the petition it appears that r. Beam is involved In some litiga- He T2 appears as his own counsel. No such suit against the President filed here, it is stated. GAS RATESIND.C. W The Public Utilitles Commission has Hookstadt, 91; W. M. Kennedy, Columbia, 91: Heaths Davison, Washington, 92; fus, Washington, 9: Harr: Bannockburn, 94; L. S. Morey, Wash- ight companics are earning more than a reasonable the present rate of $1.05 made by Donald | B tare difficult to compare, For the calendar year 1922 the com- matter will be brought by the head panies earned a return of 7.40 per of a large business in the congested | cent on the commi $13,060,262. accountants of the commission as ex- cessive, but they are inquiring now into the business done during the twelve-month period beginning with last June and coming up to the pres- ent time. 11.92 Per Cent Earned. The records of the commission show that for the first four months of this calendar year the gas com- panies reported a veturn of 11.82 per cent on the value of the property. Officials of the commission point cut that January, February, March and April represent the cream of the year's business. When the summer months are included the average re- turn may be lower. Ol Price Droj Oil, one of the largest ingredients used by the Washington Gas Light Com-~ pany, Is now costing the company ap- proximately 5 cents per gallon. When the present rate of $1.05 was fixed for gas in March, 1922, the testimony showed the company was paying between 8 cents a gallon for oil The Maryland public service commis- sion yesterday announced a reduction in the price of gas in Baltimore. Offi- cials of the local commission say that rates in Washington and Baitimore however, the reason that a large part of the Mon- umental city's supply of gas is a by- product from the Sparrow Point steel plant. Bootleg Brides Plan Proposed to Win U. S. Entry By the Associated Pre: NEW YORK, June 14.—News of the New Jersey rum fleet has pene- trated into Syria, whence comes a novel suggestion of “bootleg brides. The Near East Relief announced today that a delegation of leading residents of Sidon recently called Florence Stanton Kalk of director of a girls’ orphan- age In the Syrian city, and pr posed that the Near East Rellef ter a ship to transport the girls to the three-mile limit. The_delegation suggested that New Yorkers could come out to the ship, select a free bride, be ma ried there and ke their wives back with them as citizens of the United States, to whom immigration quotas do not apply. 'he delegates d they had hi 'd of rum row, and that they belleved if Americans took such trouble to get thelr liquor they would take equal pains to get handsome and capable wives. The suggestion was not accepted. and ion's valuation of This is not regarded by for ington, 94. MANY STARS AMONG 140 GOLFERS ENTERED IN MIDDLE ATLANTIC Nearly 140 golfers, including the finest players in the middle Atlantic section, with only one or two excep- tions, are playing today in the quali- fying round of the annual individual championship of the Middle Atlantic Golf Assoclation. With at least a dozen golfers capable, on _the strength of the game they have shown this year, on toppling the crown from the head of Champion Thomas W. Sasscer, the champion- ship this year at Chevy Chase prom- ises to be one of the best that has ever been held by the association. B. Warren Corkran of the Rolling Road Golf Club, for many years one of the leaders in golf in this section, is entered. His clubmate, H. Lennox Bond, 3d, also of Rolling Road, with drew at the last moment yesterday. Bond won the Baltimore Country Club tourney last year, and was to have played with Corkran the medal round today. Dunphy Local Hope. Local golfers are pinning their champlonship hopes on Chris J. Dun- phy, the District champion, who has played real championship golf this spring in winning the Chevy Chase and_Columbia spring_events. Dun- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) BIG SUM SOUGHT FOR EMBASSY HERE French Propose to Spend Six Million Francs on"New Building. in By the Associated Pres: PARIS, June 14—The project for a new French embassy in Washing- ton, hanging fire since 1914, is likely to be realized if the chamber of deputies passes a bill reeommended by its finance committee for the sale of the plot of ground owned by France and the purchase of another more available site for $185,000. It the sale is approved another bill will be Introduced to appropriate five or six million francs to.build an embassy. The report to the chamber says the French government Oowns property in Brooklyn valued at $2,000,000, which was bought at the beginning of the war for storage purposes, the sale of which will provide the amount needed to build In Washington and to construct & home for the French consulate in New York. hereabouts, which includes not only persons in official life, but the polit ical advisers high in the councils o the republican party, look upon the| {western trip as an affair of par-| amount political importance. The | President himself has tried to soft pedal the political side and keep his, trip and speeches on a non-partisan basis, but the talk In Washington| constantly is of the effects of the| !Journey on the possible renomination | and re-election of Mr. Harding. ! Bet on Harding. Right now the feeling inside the| presidential circle is one of confi- dence. A few days ago one or two men in the group of a betting disposi- ‘ tion wagered $5.000 that Harding would be renominatéd and re-elected. | Somebody in New York took the other | end of the bet at even money. Itisa| small incident, but it does illustrate how some of the President’s friends | feel about the outcome. Strangely enough. much of the con- fidence about the ultimate success of | President Harding is based . belief that the opposition to him will | not be effective. Republicans watch democrats and make their own an- alysis, and, while the wish may be| father to the thought, the truth is the | | republicans think the democratic | party will not be a harmonious affair | in the next campaign, and that the ! | candidate chosen will not have the| { united support of the party. Whether this is because no one man eems to be in the lead for the demo- cratic nomination or whether the split over the wet and dry issue will | prevent the nomination of a strong | enough candidate is hard to say, but | the republicans do expect the demo- | crats to do the worst thing Instead of the best thing. Such an expectation is logical from republican sources, but at present it is a fact that the deémo- crats are disorganized and that a lot| of work will have to a crusading candidate able to make a popular appeal, not only to demo- crats, but to republicans, will catch | the tmagination of the voters and de- | tract from the Harding strength. Prosperity of Country. The other fundamental on which re- publican confidence just now is based is the prosperous condition of the ountry and the high rates of wages being pald. Change, it s argued. is not made when things are going well. The west was the hotbed of dis. content last year, but reports reach- ing the White House would seem to indicate a steady improvement from that_direction for Harding. These (Continued on Page 2, Column |JUDGE PICKS OUT MOTHER FOR BABE Girl Awarded One Woman When Other Refuses to Name Physician. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, June 14.—Leona Felicia, five years old, cause of contention be- tween two women, each claiming to be her mother, today was awarded by Superior Judge David to Mr Julia Prybylski. The other woman, Mrs. Violet Lenz, nearly collapsed when she heard the judge's decision. For four days both women have flatly made the same claims. Each swore that Leona was her natural daughter. Each had witnesses to sus- tain the claim. ~But Mrs. Lenz's re- fusal to name the physician sald to have been the child’s father turned the tide against her, although another physician testifled that he was pres. ent when Leona was born. nesses, who said they saw the child with her when she came on an im- migrant ship from Poland in 1920. | the crew, upon a| be done before | Mrs. Prybylski also produced wit- | an interpreter was of a pitched bat- tle with axes, pistols. marlin pikes and belayving pins. It was precipi- tated, it was belicved, by the failure of the skipper to carry out his part of the bargain with the crientals. Up and down the deck of the schooner the fight was waged until the white paint was covered with blood and four British sailors and five Chinese iay hacked and beaten to death. The survivors heaved the dead over the side: Distress Signal Helsted. The remaining fifteen Chinese though ignorant of the sea and the ways of ships, were favored in the ensuing days by fair weather. The craft drifted aimlessly. Its larders were emptied. A distress signal was hoisted to the masthead, and it was thus she was sighted by Pilot Hall of Sandy Hook yesterday afternoon. it was after the owner of the vessel had abandoned her that the fight occurred Some of the Chinese declared the trouble was started by members of who tried to extort more | money from them in order to carry out the skipper's promise to land them. The three survivors, who were taken to a hospital. were badl wounded. One man’s arm was almost severed. _ ENGLAND PAYS L. 3. . INLIBERTY BONDS iSaves $1,400,000 on Debt. Both Parties Benefited by $70,000,000 Payment. | | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 14.—Great Brit- ain will save $1.400,000 tomorrow when it pays $70,000,000 in liberty bonds to the United States as the first payment of interest and prin- cipal on its $4,600,000,000 war debt, financiers closely in touch with Wall street said today. The saving, it was said, will be effected through the purchase of the bonds by the British treasury at an average of 2 per cent below par, to be redeemed by the United States Treasury at par. By accepting the payment in lib- erty bonds, it is pointed out, the United States government will reduce its own war debt by exactly $70,000.- 000, as it will cancel the bonds. Thus Great Britain’s and the United States’ war debts are cut down by one stroke. The payment is the first of the regular serles agreed upon between the two governments last winter. The first payment under the agreement was made March 15. It was of $4.- 128,085 and was arranged to round out the British figure to $4.600,000.- 000, so that computation would be easier. Before the debt agreement was reached two other payments were made by Great_Britain, October 15 and November 15, 1922, totaling $100,- 526,379, _— TROLLEY FARE DOUBLED. Seattle Rate to Be 10 Cents or 3 for 25 Cents Saturday. SEATTLE, Wash.. June 14.—Enact- ment of an ordinance raising fares of Seattle's municipal street railway sys- tem from 6 cents to 10 cents or three rides for 25 cents, was completed yesterday with the signature of | Mayor Edwin J. Brown. The increased |fares will become effective Saturday The 5-cent fare. which has been in effect since March 1, was abandoned by the city council when it was shown that the system was losing Her testimony was that Leona was & Polish “war baby” and that before her marriage to her present husband she was forced to work for her living and placed Leona in the care of Mrs. Lenx more than $3,000 a day under its operation. Mayor Brown, who at first opposed the increase, said it had been demonstrated conclusively the 5-cent fare would not pay under present gonditions.