Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1923, Page 2

. JRYHOLDS TWO 1 | INWAR RISK CASES v e . 28 Indictments Reported, In- I tluding Alleged Marriage License Fraud. Violations of the war risk insur- ance law are charged in two indict- ments reported today by the grand jury, One of the indictments charges Edward F. Harris with receiving $100 from Thomas Carey, a war veteran, for assisting him in the preparation of two afiidavits to be submitted to the Veterans' Bureau with Carey's upplication for a compensation award. The money is #ald to have been paid to Harris March 4, 1922, The other violation is alleged agalnst Jeanette Carter, who, March 31, 1921, is said to have solicited §$100 from Richard Neal for helping in the preparation of an application for him to the Veterans' Bureau. Charge Grand Larceny. Grand larceny is charged against Agnes Thompson and Mary Elliott, salesladies. Two chargey are made against Miss Thompson, while Miss Elliott_is named in one indictment only. "The young women are sald to have taken n number of dresses from a store where one of them was em- ployed last month. Perjury in connection with the ap- lication for a marriage license is alleged against James R. Mothers- head, nineteen years old, by an in- dictment reported today. _Mother: head is said to have told Col. Kroll, the license clerk, that Emily M. Buie, whom he wished to marry, was nine- teen years old. The mother of the bride ‘and the girl herself told the grand jurors that she was only fou teen. The bride also declared she in- formed Mothershead she would not be fifteen until October. Receiving stolen propert in an indictment against Walter Les- ter Hummer, an automobile salesman. He 'is said to have received $2,000 from a post office employe, knowing the money to have been rified from the mails. Ignores Charges. The grand jurors ignored a charge of assault against Lee Prince’ and a charge of sending obsceue matter through the mails against M. Mont- gomery. Others 1 gainst and Samuel Morton George Thomas, at Cornelius Alexander, dangerous weapon; John larceny after trust; Harry Brown ter Dempsey, Lee Darcin and Bingham, housebreaking and larce Homer W. Hawkins, embezzlement (two cases); Leroy Payne. forgery and uttering; Frederick W. Campbe hristlan_J. Wettig, James Brow fas Bub Brown; Guy M. Jacobs. calvin R. McCarthon, Harry B, Tucker, Jevemiah Hawkins, Howard W. Steinert. Portman Magee, William charges Kinard larceny mpted robbery: assault with . Simmons, W indict and the them 1 William grand A. Jackson and George Hanratty, non support 5 CERNAN HAYORS GIVEN JAL TERNS Burgomasters Charged With Refusing to Execute French Orders. By the Associated Pregs BRUSSELS, June Belgian court-martial at Aix la Chapelle has sentenced five German burgomasters to terms of imprisonment ranging from one to two months and fined them from 1.000,000 to 2,000,000 marks for refusing to exe ute orders given by the military authoritles of occu- pation. The landrath of Heinsberg s sentenced to months imprison- ment and fined 5,000,000 marks for inciting the burgomasters to resist- ance. w six FRENCH TAKE MONEY. Forces Seize Reichs- bank Notes. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 22 —Approximately 180,000,000,000 marks in notes belonging to the German reichsbank have been seized by the forces of occupation since they entered the Ruhr, according to the lokal Anzeiger today. Although the reichsbank. has some of its notes printed by private plants it recently adopted the practice of having such supplies for the Ruhr delivered in sheets not bearing serial nimbers. The printing and cutting of them was com- pleted in a special room in the Dort- mund branch of the reichsbank. Re- cently the French forcibly entered thie room, the newspaper states, and com- pelled the workmen to complete the printing and cutting of notes amounting to 1,090,600,000 marks, which the troops then carried away. COAL EXPORTS STOPPED, Occupation Germans Shut Off From Italy and Holland. By the Associated Press. ESSEN, June 22.—Germany's coal exports to Italy and Holland have completely stopped, following upon the French seizure of the last railroad ilues available to the Germans for such purpose, it is stated in German quarters. ‘The daily output from the Ruhr mines at present is estimated at about thirty thousand tons. From 10,000 to 15,000 tons of this amount is sent to the cokerles for the supply of the &9s works, while the mines keep the remainder for their own necessities, including the fuel allowances regu- larly made to miners. The Germans declare that the French are now com- mencing to extend their reduction ot traffic to the street railways, and de- mand the shutting down of all lines placed in operation since 1921. The new measure means a further handicap to the distribution of food- stuffs, as the French occupation of numerous rallroad stations and lines led the Germans to resort to street <cars for the transportation of food supplies, » HAS NO REPLY. LONDON, June 22.—Premier Baldwin #tated in the house of commons yester- day that no reply had been received from France to the recent British note on reparations and the occupation of the The government had no official tion that food supplies in the ‘were being - interfered with ‘through the placing of the Ruhr rail- ¥oada under. Franco-Belgian control, o LOSES $400 BAR PIN. * Loss of a bar Pin sot with eighteen diamonds, valued at $400, was report- ed to_the police by Gertrude Coffin, 1908 Kalorama road. She sald she left the pin in & retiring room of a department store and when_she re- ed it was gone, e . < » {locking J. WALTER DRAKE, Ot Detrolt, who succeeds C. H. Hus- ton as Asxistant Secretary of Com- merce. Mr. Drake lmmediately be- comes Acting Secretary im the ab- mence of Mr. Hoover. | NEW BROKER FIRM FIRED BY EXCHANGE General Move to Clean Up “Shady” Houses Expected | to Bring Early Action. ‘ I i By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 22.—New develop- ments on the part of the thres stock exchanges and Attorney General Sher- man were expected in Wall street to day in a general move for a clean-up shady” houses. Consolidated {today expelied P. |Stamm & Co. ! Mr. Stamm ordered to appear before the board of governors of the }Consolidated yesterday to explain re- ported fictitious trades, and when he did not show up it was voted to expal {him. The Consolidated rules provide Itkat a member-may be expelled fo failure to answer questions regarding ! his financia condition uditing committee covered that a large ipart of Stemm's transactions were ex- ecuted elsewhere than on the floor. He wrote a letter offering to withdraw from membership, but it was declined. Company's Statement. | Stock Exchange i. Stamm of P. G was a | The exchange's reported it had dis [ P. G Stamm & Co. issued {lowing statement af:er { “on-June 1920, resignation the Consolidated Stock sgain June 12 and year 1 “ou lwas bes the exch the its expuision offered governors of Exchange June 21, 23, we our the | ana | this to on for desir unfavora ngb has be recelving cently. We plan to continue doing bu :s in bonds and investment se- rities The summ reason ause of to resign | publicity curb 7 ry action bers, expelling the Second for a v General Sherman obtained temporary fnjunctions restraining the _inter- brokerage firms of W. W. Weese & Co. and J. H. Dube & Co. from bucketing or otherwise engug- ing in fraudulent transactions. Silkworth Quits. ket yesterday to again Two me one an pending ar. while Attorney dy who probably will succeed W. ilkworth as presi- dent of the Consolidated Stock Ex- change next hursday, will start thorough reorganization of that change, it was sald today Mr. Silk- w h. who had beeu under fire be- cause of his relatio: with now ban Tupt members of the exchange, an- nounced his resignation yesterday “for the good of the exchange. District _Attorney Banton charged the New York Stock EXchange with ing responsible for the unsettled idition in W 1 street by its fail- re to get behind the Sheridan act defeated by the last legislature, which would have placed supervision of the brokerage business in the hands of the state superintendent of banks | Securities valued at $3,000,000 were found in the vaults of Knauth Nachod & _Kuhn, brokerage firm which failed last Saturday. Receiver Boreland reported Yesterday. A com- plete examination had shown that all securities were Intact and in agre ment with the firm's accounts with various clients, he said. He also said he had insured the securities for § 500,000 to protect against possible loss before they were restored to their rightful owners —_— ACTRESS’ DENIAL OF SLUR ON DRY U. S. IS UPHELD Glasgow Pt;per Mus: Pay £500 for Printing Interview She Repudiated. Lawrence Twe a ex- sociated Pres RGH, June 22—The Glas- gow Weekly Record has been order- ed to pay Miss Hetty King, musio hall artist, £500 for printhg an in- terview in which she was made to criticize American audiences for dullness and _unresponsiveness in consequence of prohibition. She testified that she gave no such Interview and asserted that it was in complete contradiction of the real facts. She sued for £3,000. The defendant expiained that the article was obtained from a London journalist and was based on inter- views which Miss King gave a jour- nalist in America, now dead,” and who communicated her views as he understood them to the London writer. 22 —————— HOLDS HARDING HAS MET AMNESTY ONLY HALF WAY President Harding _in releasing twenty-seven out of fifty prisoners convicted of violation of war-time laws, whose release was sought, has, in the opinion of the joint amnesty committee, “met the amnesty ques- tion only half way.” “Unable to resist the great and growing demand for amnesty, he has still not faced the issue,” said the committee in a statement made pub- lic today. ~“Liberty-loving men and women all over the country will be aroused by his failure to greater ef- forts and will continue with una. bated energy their demands for the release of the remaining twenty three prisoner: The committee quotes Senator Pep- per of Pennsylvania as saying pre. viously that certain of those still held in prison should be released. “Until these twenty-three remain- ing political prisoners are release concludes the siatement, ‘America cannot take her pleas as & country where the principle of free speech is not only according to the letter of their Constitution, but a reality. —_—— Yex J:x! 'Taint so bad to wolk ongce in a a8 ye say. we did nuttin’ but loaf all de time we wudn't mever get no chance't o strike” | ton, i tab! | tories {ille TABLET T0 MARK HOME OF MONROE D. A. R. Committee to Hold Exercises at Former Executive Mansion. A tablet will be unveiled at 2017 I street northwest, the residence of the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe, and for six months the executive mansion, by the state historical committee of the District of Columbia Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution tomorrow at 4 o'clock. ‘The tablet will mark this house, now occupled by the Arts Club of Washington, as one of the most his- toric in Washington. It was erected in 1802 and was in 1805 the residence of Gideon Granger, then postmaster general. When James Monroe be. came Secretary of State during Madi- son's term as chief executive, he occupled the house. During his resi- dence here and after the battle of Bladensburg he became Secretary of War, and for six months after his inauguration as President in 1817 he occupied the dwelling, as the White House had been burned by the British in 1814 and had not yet been com- pletely restored. Used as Embassy. Many other distinguished persons have Tesided on the premis The bullding served as the British em- bassy under the ambassadorship of Stratford Canning and as the Aus- trian embas: under Baron de Mare- shal. Cleveland Abbe, the famous meteorologist, who started the dally weather reports, also resided there. The program tomorrow will consist of remarks by Mrs. Catherine Nagle, state historian, District of Columbla, r. A R, who will introduce Mrs. Ed- ward J Ryan, chairman, prescrva- tion of Rhistoric spots, District of Columbia, D. A. R, who will take charge of the program To Present Tablet. The tablet will be presented by Mrs. Willlam B. Hardy, state regent, District of Columbia, D. A. R. and the unveiling ceremony will be per- formed by Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes and Miss Maude Campbell Gouverneur, ‘who are great-grand- daughters of President Monrce. On behalf of the Arts Club of Washing- Mrs. Henry K. Bush-Brown, modeled the bas-relief head of Mon- se on the tablet, will accept the t. Addresses will be made Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, preside general of the . A. R; Cuno Rudolph, president of the board Commissioners of the District Columbia. Mr. Allen C. C dent of the Columbia Histo ciety, will give the histo of the house and neighborhood. The music for the occasion will be provided by the Interstate Commerce orchestra. program is in charge of consisting of Mrs. E. chalrman; Mrs. Catherine } Capt. and Mrs. Louis A. Abbot, H ot a gle, {and Misx Maud Burr Morris, MORE HEAT LIKELY WHEN BREEZE DIES tinued from First Page.) ot ird tures n 100 degrees, the during June for ity -York reached 96. ngton and Harrisburg. Pa., re- ported maximum of 93 and Atlant Clty, J. 80 degrees. Providence was the hottest spot in New England, the mercury touching 85. The heat forced the closing of fac- d schools generally in the eastern states. Probably the most severe suffering from the heat In this city oceurred in the ecastern section of Queensboro as result of the failure of the water supply. Officia said it was due to use of hose lines for spraying gardens highest either Wa ONE DEAD IN BALTIMORE. Mercury Breaks All Records Yes- terday. By the Associated BALTIMORE, 22 first death a result of the heat wave sweeping the east occurred vesterday when seventeen-month-old Clara Ludetka succumbed. Eight prostrations have been reported The mercury smashed all records for Jun= when it reached 100 degrees at 4 pm EIGHT DIE IN OHIO. Md, as June The here By the Associated Press. COLUMBLUS, Ohio, June 22.—Ohio today was still held in the grip of a hot wave, which has taken a toll of thirty lives since Monda Numerous prostraticns have been reported. Re- lief in the form of rains may come late this week or early next week, in the opinion of local weather bu- reau attaches. Bight deaths in the state yesterda were charged 1o the torrid weathe thermometers in some sections regis. tering as high as 97, the year's maxi- mum. DETROIT, Mich., June 22.—The heat wave has claimed three victims in the state during the last twelve hours. An unidentified man about sixty vears old collapsed yesterday and died last night. Another was struck by lightning. ' At Grand Rapids a man dropped dead on the street. Seventy-seven Y. river, g & EVENING STAR, , D. C, FRIDAY, WASHINGTON, JUNE 22, 1923. SEEKING RELIEF FROM HEAT OF CITY HUNDREDS FIND COMFORT ON BANKS OF THE POTOMAC RIVER | | Photogrnph made at Hains Pol BLIZZARD DEFENGE | REGEIVES SETBACK| Judge Holds State’s Bill of ! Partigulars Is Suf- ‘ ficient. By the Assoctated Press. LEWISBURG, W. Va. June 22— Judge S. H. Sharp today held suffictent | the bill of particulars filed by the { state in the case of Willimm Biizzard, indicted as an accessory to murder {in the miners’ march on Logan coun- ty in 1921, despite the ()bj(‘c!lnnsl raised to it vesterday by Blizzard's lawyers. Judge Sharp then dismissed the veniremen summoned for the | {trial until Monday, indicating no at- ! tempt would be made to obtain a jury until that tim Judge Sharp, in his ruling, declared | he did not pass at this time on the question of whether statements of al- | leged co-conspirators with Blizzard in planning the march would be ad-{ missible as evidence. He intimated | that such questions might be ralsed| when the evidence to which the de- fense objected was offered in the| course of the trial. iU. S. GIRL CLERK HELD | IN THEFT OF RECORD i . | Used Government Information in | Effort to Extort Money From | Druggists Charged. | { | By the Associated Pross. CHICAGO, June 22.—Miss Kather- ! ine Mauser, formerly of Indianapolis, o stenographer in the office of A. R. | Harrison, prohibition divisional chiet | here, was arrested today on a charge 1of stealing government records in connection with an investigation of attempts 1o €Xtort money from drug- glsts. A man is being sought as the instigator of the extortion scheme. NORMAL TEACHERS BACK NEW SALARY SCHEDULE Dr. Ballou Notified of Approval of Ratings Drafted by Federated Teachers’ Union. Another teacher group, composed of normal scnool teachers, has unani- i mously indorsed the new teachers’ {salary schedule drafced by the legis- 1ative committee of the Federated | Teachers' _Unifon, and submitted to| Supt. of Schools Ballou last week, it was announced today. Mr. Ballou has been notified of the fayorable action | by Miss Rose Parkman, representative | of the normal school teacher group. || | Officials of the union are elated over the action taken by the various | groups of teachers, pointing out that although the salary schedule was | drafted by one group it represents | the view of many of the various | teacher groups. | | | | Edwina Dumm is probably the only { woman artist who draws a comic' strip for use in the newspapers. , Potomac Park, Iast night, showing a few of t breeses from the Potomac, enjoying comforts of home. Geddes, With Left Eye Nearly Well, To Visit England Recovered from the attack on his eyes which has kept him con- fined to a dark room for about a month, Sir Auckland Geddes, the British ambassador, will sall from New York Tuesday for England the Berengaria. The ambassador has not been pronounced cured, but his progress has been so satisfactory that his physician permitted him to carry out his plans for a vacation, made several months ago and whkich were halted by an ailment to the left eye. He will be accompanied on the trip by a trained nurse, and expects to remain in England for about three months. ASKS MANDAMUS ON CLAIM FILED Fuller Company Wants Treasury Head to Consider Alleged Loss on D. C. Courthouse Remodeling. on The George A. Fuller Company to- day filed a petition for mandamus in the District Supreme Court against Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury. The company says it sus- tained a loss of $36,408.88 on Its con- tract to remodel the courthouse at Washington, D. C., by reason of the increase in cost of labor and ma- terials due to the entrance of the United States into the world war. The company filled its clalm with the Treasury Department _three onths after the passage of the act ¢ September 19, 1919, and declares the department has failed to act on it. Attorney G. Thomas Dunlop ap- pears for the compan WORKER FALLS OFF ROOF, PROBABLY FATALLY HURT George Warren, Colored, Employed as Slater, Is Conveyed to Freedmen's Hospital. George Warren, colored, forty-five years old, 1664 Kramer street north- east, fell from the roof of the new building of All Souls' Unitarian Church, 16th and Harvard streets, about noon today and was probably | fatally injured. Warren was in the employ of the firm doing the slate work and was standing on a narrow ledge about thirty feet above the ground, land- ing slate that was hoisted by a man on the sidewalk. Suddenly the rope parted, it is stated, and Warren, losing his bal- ance, fell to the pavement below. He was unconsclous when picked up, and was given first ald before the ar- rival of the tenth precinot police patrol wagoen. when he was taken to Freedmen's Hospital. It was said at the hospital that the patient’s no hope for his recovery was held out. His skull was fractured and he sustained minor injuries. 3. C. &, boys phetographed Just before” the start teday for ‘fhe Y. M. 5 A cump-en condition was critical and | city dwellers, fanned by 17 B0YS TO FROLIC ON ANNUAL OUTING Party Leaves for Two-Week | Stay at Y. M. C. A. Camp on Rhodes River, Md. Seventy-seven boys left this morn- ling for Camp Letts, the Y. M. C. A. boys’ camp on the Rbodes river, Md. {The party is in charge of Earl B. Fuller, secretary of the local Y. M. C. }A. boys' department. The party will stay for two weeks, but each individ- jual may stay until August 17 if he {cares to, as a fortnightly contingent will leave Washington until that date, The camp, which is situated on the Rhodes river, a branch of Chesa- peake bay, In Maryland, consists of a number of acres of land partly un- der cultivation and from which the camp is supplied with fresh vegeta- bLles and fruit. Fresh milk and eggs are secured from the nearby farmers. The camp = inspected by the Mary- land state board of health. Program of Day's Activities. There is a natural amphitheater near the camp for all sorts of sports. Here s a program of a day's activi- ties: Rising hour, setting-up exer- cises, morning dip, breakfast, chapel, preparing tents for inspection, In- spection, instruction hour, swimming period, dinner, quiet hour, open pe- riod for use of boats, hikes, etc.; league games, swimming period, sup- per, open period or use of boats, group games, etc, camp fire, soctal programs, preparing bunks for the night, evening prayers, lights out at 9:30 p.m. Members of Outing Party. Those attending the camp are: Ed- win A. Austin, Edgar O. Allen, Harry K. Baker, Karl F. Baldwin, William Byrd Barbour, Fred Steele Bau- knight, Carl E. Beans, Davis N. Beers, Elliott A. Bowles. Judson W. Bowles, W. Melvin Brouner, Nelson Brown, Forbes Brown, Howard F. Carl, Willlam R. Carlsen, Clayton E. Chandler, Fred W. Cromwell, John Lester Culler, Rodney G. Darnellle, A. Erickson, Oscar R. Evans, Na thaniel Everard, Willlam Everard, Everett Eynon, Edgar Ford, Edgar Fry, Sidney Gerbich, Benjamin Gold- berger, Joseph Goldberger, Arthur Griessmer, Mervin Halstead, Otho Hammond, Warner Hammond, Wil- liam Hanlon, Jack Hardester, Edward Hargett, Blaine Harrell, John Harton, David Haycock, Robert' Harvey, Bus iter Heller, William Helm, John M. Howard, George Huguef, Nathan Hurd, Thaddeus Jones, Alvah LeRoy King, Philip Kline, Walter Lee Kline, Joseph Larimer, Peter Leary, Duvall Lemon, Alle Linton, ~Paul’ _Little, James H. Littlepage, George McCoy, Paul McKeige, J. Allen McNeal, Charles Maddox, Henry Maranian, { Roger Marquis, James Mason, Ralph | Meredith, Richard Miller, Willlam | Goddard ' Mitchell, Willlam Penn | Montgomery, Warren Moore, Brent Morgan, Marshall Morgan, Willlam Needham, Donald Nevin, Jack Nevin, Joseph Nevin, George C. Offutt, Oliver Pagan, Nathan Poole, David Rafter. | Norris' Reed, Hugh ' Reld. Richard | Riedel, Jack Rinehart, Richard Rob- erts, Samuel Rohrer, George Rowzee, Charles Ruth, Franklin Sheridan, Jo- seph Simmons, Gerald Sloan, Harry Smith, Jack Stearns, Charles Strother, Bradford Swope, Kelsey Young Saint, James Harding Sawyers, James Tate, Roy E. Thomas, Willlam' Kimmel Van Kirk, Albert Van Horn, William T. Waring, John M. Waters, James E. Weedon, Ralph _West, = Armistead Wharton, Milton White, George Ans- ley Wilcox, Joseph Wiillams, Robert Willta Joseph Woodward, Harri- son Wrenn. 'MYSTERY SHIP OFF -AST DISAPPEARS Doubt Expressed That Vessel Was Rum Runner Suspect as at First Reported. By the Associated Press. GALVESTON, June 22.—A myste ous ship has faded away after pitch- ing about anchorage off Healds bank lightship, according to incoming ship captains’ gossip, but whether she was the original gulf coast rum-runner, as they reported, is a question. “There was a boat anchored out there, but I couldn’t say whether she was & rum-ship or not.” This was the statement of Capt. J. H. Halsey, master of the Morgan line steamship El CiZ, when asked to ap- pear before Collector of the Port Humphreys yesterday, in connection with a report that there was a 2,250 ton steamship anchored eight mile off the bar with liquor. Capt. Hal. sey admitted he was the source of the story. Capt. Halsey said he had observed one launch in the immediate vicinity of the craft, Mr, Hum‘)hu s ordered a tug to search the localtly in 1 tion to it any trace of the boat could found. Capt, C. B, A!'m-trnn’. mast ot m a 1t "ifa‘h lpl.?m th size. would be visible :n'llu away. No trace of the ship was sight Loren L. Davis, Paul Davis, Everett| D.C.Weeds Must Be Cut, Health Officials Rule Down with the weeds! This was the war cry today of Commissioner Oyster and Health Officer Fowler as they launched their annual drive to clear the va- cant lots of the city of unsightly growths of wild plants. The sanitary inspectors of the health department, in co-operation with the police, will serve notice on the owners of all such lots to cut down the weeds within a stat- ed time. Wherever the property owner fails to comply with the notice, the health officer has authority to have the cutting done and assess the cost against the propert The cleaning of unkempt vacant ground has been one of Commis- sloner Oyster's hobbies since he took office, He belleves that a lot covered with high weeds or refuse tends to mar the appear- ance of the National Capital BRITISH LINER SLIPS 5 IN WITH RUM STOCK DESPITE GUARD SET P (Continued_from Fi pleasantly wet trip, ending with a all last night, but when they rose this morning looking for an “eye- opener” they found everything sealed tight. Passengers with pocket flasks were in great demand. SEIZURE ORDERED. Treasury Officials Declare New York Authorities Will Act. Treasury officials, arriving at their desks this morning to find that the { British steamer Baltic had arrived | | unexpectedly at New York, with a supply of liquor under seal, declared that the New York customs officials had fnstructions to seize all such stores and that there should be no question of thelr authoriiy to pro- ceed at once against the Baltic At that time no officlal report of the Baltic's arrival had reached Washington and Assistant Secretary Moss, in charge of customs, received his first word of the development from news dispatches. He indicated that he expected no delay in the in- stigation of such action at New York as would furnish a basis for a test case on the sealed ship stores issues. Acting on instructions from the Treasury Department here, customs officials ‘at New York were prepared to seize today the beverage liquors carried under British customs seals by the liner Berengaria for her return voyage when she docked at that port Seisure Ordered. The seizure was ordered by the de- partment vesterday after deciding on a policy of strict enforcement of its ship regulations in respect to all ves- sels which attempt to bring intoxi- cating liquor inside the three-mile 1imit under foreign government seals. Instructions proyided that the sealed stores be seized and transferred to a bonded warehouse and a receipt sued to the master of the vessel In the case of both the Berengaria and the liner Olympic, which also is now bound for New York with a sealed liguor store, the American agents of the operating lines have been advised in advance of the in- tended action of the Treasury. The agent in each case had informed cus toms officials that a formal protest would be filed as soon as the action was taken. In regard to such pr tests, Treasury officials merely said that this was the logical course for the shipping companies to take and would not discuss what action department might take when are filed. Decision of the department to follow this course and stand pat on its regula- tions, was announced after a day of conferences yesterday between Secre- tary Mellon a his advisers and clals of the State Department The Treasury Secretary, who earlier in the day had expressed’ grave doubts as to the right of the American government to break the official seal of a foreign power, declared in announcing the policy finally decided on that the department felt entirely sure of its ground. they is- the | | against what CLASSIFIERS MOVE 10 LARGER OFFIGES J Work on Personnel So Heavy Transfer of Forces Found Necgssary. So heavy has become the work of the personnel classification board that it has obtained new. and com- modious quarters fn temporary | building No. 6, at 20th and B street opposite the Munitions pullding. where already a large part of the force has been moved from other 1o- cation where the been working. About 100 persons are now locax ed in the new quarters, busy in preluy inary work on the returns coming in from various government depart ments, and more will be move later. Some of them wers tran ferred from temporary building No where the carly work of the b was done. Some were taken fr headquarters in the Treasury build ing, which will still be retained the' headquarters for the board To Consider D. C. Situation. Among the early matters to be sidered by the board, whic understood will meet soon, wil the situation here in the Distri Columbia, which has brought objection from certain organization including the National Federation of Federal Employes and the America Association of Engincers Much of the objection seems to founded on the method adopted classifying the District, in which v used the old job sheet of the burea of efficiency, now declared by some be out of date. Attack Not Answered. The classification board has not ya replicd to the attacks upon its wo. in the District, but will shortly g over in detail all the proposals sul mitted, it is said, for careful stud of the situation. Critics say th is wrong in using the old bu efficlency job sheet data, while board s understood to take the po- sition that under the law it is using the matter only “so far as practica ble,” and has laid upon department heads and chiefs the responsi of making the new clas tirely up to date and efiicient. N swer, however, has been made by board to any of the attacks upor Throughout the departments bureaus of the District classificai committees and those in charge of that work were busy today working on the data, for I the board called June 1 vet 1o be submitted, and the board has called upon all those who are behind to speed up their work. that the classification may be miads personnel k on ltn ample time to be included, as it r be by law, in the estimates submi by the President to Congress in cember. WANTS . KEP FRE OF EUROPE Eliot Wadsworth Sees Ruhr as Warning Against Entry Into Foreign Affairs. ciated Press AMBRIDGE, June 22.—A war he de d be i1 consequences Wi e entry of TUn an affairs Wadsworth of Bostor of a to possible might follow 1 States voiced by Eliot assistant retary in an address alumni at con Lere. Withou declared, into Europe was cannon, Ship Confiseation. One of the many elements in the situation on which Treasury officlals are doing little talking is the ques tion whether ships which bring in liquor under seal ghall themselves b Volstead act authorizing seizure of contraband carriers. It was sald by one Treasury spoke: man today that only an extreme con- struction of the law would permit confiscation of a regular liner because Other legal authorities insist, how- ever, that the law makes such con- fiscation mandatory in the case of a liner, just as in the case of an ordi- nary rum runner. In the haze of ar- is surrounded there is no clear indi- cation so far that a definite policy on the question has been adopted. CUTTER GOES TO AID SHIPS HELD BY REDS By the Assoctated Press. TACOMA, Wash., June 22.—The coast guard cutter Bear, has left Nome for East Cape, Siberia, where four Amer. fcan schooners, Including the Iskum, of Tacoma, were recently seized by soviet authorities ostensibly charged with violating trading regulations. This fnformation reached Gen. J. M. Ashton, one of the owners of the Iskum today, in a telegram from Becretary of State Hughes. SLAYER ELECTROCUTED. COLUMBIA, 8. C., June 22.—Eugene Adams, youthful negro, was elec- trocuted at the state penitentiary this morning at 9:22 o'clock for the murder of Attaway Brown, a mer- chant of North, in Orangeburg coun- ty, early this year. Adams went to the chair without a word | effects, | Only by confiscated under the clause of the! | help reorganize of the presence of intoxicants aboard. | gument with which the whole subject | | and will war is being the occupation ite far-reachir ed in hist America free by conduecting efficiently will t Dosit to re to the world ar he world's economi machinery, Mr. Wadsworth said Outliney the Dangers. 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