Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Partly cloudy and continued warm tonight and tomorrow, probably lecal thundershowers. ‘emperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 92, at 3:50 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 74, at 6 a.m, today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and B:ntls, Page 26 ¢h £ Entered as second-cluss matter post_office Washington, D. C. 28,909. RESIDENT SERVES, NOTICE OF A FIXED - DETERMINATION T0 ENFORCE DRY LAW Declares, in Denver Address, Readiness to Assume Bur- den If States Continue to Shift It to U. S. Shoulders. At Denver on of the land. * * * I am convin will ever be repealed. * dividual surrenders something of * a federal police authori * tween wets and drys, not a cont be and will be enforced. CONVINCED PROHIBITION | | cSoncd. sud. T am very sure aivo WILL NOT BE REPEALED| i | Cites “Spectacle” of a State Nulli-; fying Own Authority—Scores Buyers of Illicitly Sold Liquor ! as Arousing Resentment of | Millions Less Rich. will be enforced. * prohibitory policy. stat Instead of being an asser! * who can afford to buy, and are BY DAVID LAWRENCE. DENVER. Colo., June 25.—President | Harding today appealed to the Amer- | ican people to stop drinking intoxi- | cating liquors. And the President millions who resent the lawful pos- sesslons of the few, the lawless prac- tices of a few and rebel against the denial to the vast majority.” Mr. Harding made himself 100 per cent dry, politically and otherwise, in | his formal address at Denver, and,| while he didn't mention Gov. Al Smith of New York by name, he made 10 SUMNER CURTIS law “likel rove one of the | Pri ’ ronieytundens e Docioar maname, | Driver of Newspaper Men’s = Car Also Killed—Donald Craig Injured. There remains no doubt after the | President finished speaking that he is absolutely convinced the eight- | centh amendment will never be re- pealed. that neither political party | would dare to advocate repeal and | A that whatever changes are made |BY the Associated Pres: some day in the Volstead act “will| DENVER, Colo. Thomas represent the sincere purpose of ef-| F. Dawson, Colorado state historlan ective entorcement rather than mod-|ana nationally known newspaper eration of the general polic. man, died this morning in a Denver { hospital at 4:40 o'clock, the third vic- The rresident dld not make a legal | tim of the automobile accident in but a moral argument. His comment | Bear Creek canyon yesterday. Mr. on Al Smith's action in signing the | Dawson was with the group of repeal bill in New York state was| nowspaper men in President Hard- not amplified by legal explanation. | ing's party. which arrived here yes- He did not attempt to answer the|terday morning. The other dead are: conténtion of the New York governor| gumner Curtls. répresentative of that the Volstead act ftself is not Initne republican national committee, keeping with the spirit of the elght- | accompanying the Harding party and eenth amendment and that a Presi-|for many years a widely known news- dent of the United States actually ve- | paper correspondent. toed that measure without being| Tommie French. a statistican for called a nullificationist. Mr. Harding | the Great Western Sugar Company of simply insisted that “when a state| Denver, whe was driving the car. deliberately refuses to exercise the! Crita’s Sealp Lceraton powers which the Constitution ex- | S . o Donald A. Craig, manager of the pressly confers upon it. It obviously | ywhehington bureas of the New York commits itself to a policy of nulli-| Herald, was injured. Mr. Craig sus- fyin state authority, the Whieh e are. reluctant to conjec. |shoulders and sufered severe shock. ture.” | Early this morning, it was sald at the Mr. Harding, moreover, called Gov.| hospital to which he had been taken, Smith's action an “abandonment rath er than an assertion of state rights,” | Plications developed. which statement, of course. will be! Mr. Dawson suffered a broken disputed by the “wets” in New York, ankle, bruised shoulders and scalp who belleve [t much more in keeping, lacerations. His condition showed with state rights to refuse to enact | slight improvement this morning, legislation concurrent with the Vol- | physicians said, but later he dled. mtead law because they think that|{ The newspaper men who had gone 2 Makes Moral Argument. statute ig Itself a nullification of the|on the trip as guests of the Denver | stitution in prohib- | Press Club had climbed Lookout iting the sale of “intoxicating” liq-i mountain and were returning through uors. The “wets” will never agree| Bear creek canyon, twenty-five miles that one-half of 1 per cent of alcohol | from Denver, when the accident oc- represents the lower limit of “intox- | curred. = IR ey ae s | Car Is Seen to Swerve. Sees Law Here to Stay. intent of the Co | The motor car was rounding Look- But the chief executive wasn't dis-| ;= Glags curve, one of the sharpest posed to argue the technical phases|pengs in the Denver mountaln park of the matter. He feels that Pro-|pichway system, when it was seen * Laws, of course, represent restrictions upon individual liberty, and in these very restrictions make liberty more secure. It is a curious illustration of have proposed, as a means to protecting the fullest rights of the states, that the states should abandon their part in enforcing the That means simply an invitation to the federal government to exercise powers which should be exercised by the | went further than he has ever gome | in any prohibition speech, arguing | that “there are literally American end of| tained a badly. lacerated scalp, bruised | High Lights of President’s Speech Law Enforcement The prohibition amendment to the Constitution is the basic law ced that they are a small, and a greatly mistaken, minofity who believe the eighteenth amendment * The in- his privilege to do as he pleases for the common good, and so organized society is possible. * If the burden of enforcement shall continue to be increasingly thrown upon the federal government, it will be necessary to create which in time will inevitably come to be regarded as an instrusion upon the right of local authority. * The issue is fast coming to be recognized, not as an issue be- * * tention between those who want to drink and those who do not; it is fast being raised above all that to recognition as an issue of whether the laws of this country can So far as the federal government is con- so far as concerns the very great of the state governments and the local governments, it * loose thinking. that some people tion of state rights, it is an aban- donment of them; it is an abdication. * The resentful millions have the example of law defiance by those * reckless enough to take the ris: and there is inculcated a contempt for law which may some day find expression in far more serious form. Full text of President’s speech on page 4. CLASSIFYING LAW T0 GIVE HIGHER PAY Increase Above Present Rate and Bonus Predicted for Government Employes. Encouragement to the 60,000 civil service employes in the District of Columbia that they may expect salary ircreases above their present salaries plus the $240 honus was given today when Harold N. Graves, representing the United States bureau of efficiency on the personnel reclassification Loard, denled recently published I statements that “there is little hope {for any marked increases in the sal- iarles of government employes In the 1eclassification now going forward.” Efficiency Schedules Adopted. The personnel classification board has formally wdopted the bureau of. efficiency “schedules for employes of the federal and District governments lin Washington for the purpose of formulating estimates for the next fiscal year. These schedules carry pay increases averaging from 2 tg § per cent over and above the -présent pay plus the bonus. Thofe is a va- riation as between different offices so that In some caseés there will be no | pay increases. Tfie general effect, however, is a substantial increase, Mr. Graves sad. ¢ i The reclassification act as passed by Congress increased the rates for | | that he would recover unless com-!certain eclasses of workers over and ! above the bureau of efficiency sched- ules, so that on the whole the per- Icentage of increase would be consid- {erably more than 2 to 5 per cent, The District Commissioners !submitted their allocation to the pe Isonnel classification board and th cover a net percentage of ine for the entire District Sovernment of 18 per cent. . Result in District Noted. The bureau of efficlency classifica- | tion as applied to the District govern- | ment employes two years ago showed |an increase for the entire District of | more than 7 per cent. That difference |between 7 and 18 per cent is largely ‘anributahle to two facts: First, Con- WITH BYEDL! MORNING EDITION ASHINGTON, D. have | C., RADIO IS BIG FAGTOR IN FATE OF LATEST ARGTIC EXPEDITION To Play Vital Part in Success or Failure of MacMillan Voyage to North. SMALL SHIP CARRYING SPECIAL WIRELESS SET | Experts at Extremes of Opinion as to Whether It Will Work in Latitude. Test of MacMillan Radio Proves Success Special Dispateh to The Star. HARTFORD, Conn., —That the wireless apparatus on the Bowdoin, the tiny schooner which is carrying Dr. Donald B. MacMillan and his party to the Arctic, Is in fine working order was demon- strated yesterddy by the recelpt by hundreds of amateur sta- tions throughout the country of a message from the ship. Reports of this communica- tion were received at the Amer- ican Radio Relay League head- quarters here. In spite of bad static and ing the words sent by Donald H. Mix, the twenty-one-year-old wireless operator on board the Bowdoln, were clearly heard. At the conclusion of the test many of these amateurs called Mix, Indicating that the signals were strong and that there is an_excellent chance of direct communication to the farthest Arctic regions. The Bowdoin announced the fact that she had put into Boothbay harbor and was to leave for Halifax this morning. . June 25. Special Dispatch to The Star. WISCASSET. Me., June eighty-nine-foot schosnér is bobbing northward today off the coast of Maine. Iti8 no larger than Columbus® | caravel. But at its truck there are four threads of wire. This Is radlo. It is the first wireless equipment to be taken into the Polar north. Through, the long arctic night and through the months of unending day- light that follow eight men, stooping gm the tiny forecastle, will bend over | the equipment of that wireless plant. They will gend messages to ‘the great world far below them on the rondure of the earth—news of their discov- erles the day-by-day incigents of ther it perhaps word of trag- cdfes, And in the white silence they wiil- listen for the murmur of man- k{rid, brought to them by the miracle of wireless. They will stra'n over the tapping that brings wonl of great events in ! the affairs of the race; of little, but | dearer, incidents in the affairs of those they love. Men swathed in the furs of arctic animals will gather for the sound of cabaret jaszz and !will chuckle among thémeelves at 1 a joke in the bedtime story. l The eighty-nine-foot vessel is the schooner Bowdoin Her skipper is Dr. Donald B. MacMillan. returning now to the arctic, where he has spent thirteen of the last fifteen years He goes as special correspondent of the North American Newspaper Alli- ance, of which The Star is a member. At the Pole in 1909. If MacMillan had had wireless with I him on one of the earlier expeditions in which he participated, the world would have been spared one of fits most regrettable controversles. It i was MacMillan who was lieutenant to { Peary in the discovery of the north { pote in 1909. MacMillan is bound now on an ex- 2 v 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. | e Saturd; s Net Circulation, 81,048 Sunday’s Circulation, 95,386 MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1923—THIRTY PAGES. | MacMillan to Tell of Adventures In-Radio Dispatches to The Star Capt. Donald B. MacMillan, who sailed Saturday from Wiscas- set, M through for the Arctic, is the special correspondent of The Star, s membership in the North American Newspaper Alliance. Capt. MacMillan was Peary's licutenant on the expedition that dis- covered the north pole. The American Radio Relay League, the national organization of over 30,000 radio amateurs, will and The Star-4e-reccive the act as a link between MacMillan ories of what befalls MacMillan and his little crew of six men while the Bowdoin lies locked in the ice near the north pole. For the first time the public will, it is hoped, be told the week- ly story of the discoveries of an Arctic explorer, tales of an almost unknown northern people and the thrills that may come to follow- ers of the most advi nturous calling the twentieth century knows. The use of radio in the far north has not hitherto been at- tempted. Its success will mark a new stage in scientific progress; even failure, as regards sending and receiving, will be of extreme value in settling many important points of radio science, including the effects of the aurora borealis. MacMillan's last word to the American people, before putting to sea, is contained in the following message : “To the Editor of The Star: “I face north once more happy in the hope that through the month; head I shall be in touch with the homeland. Exploration will have a new meaning when week by week we can send reports of achievements and of events in our own life. *“It is my firm cenviction that the ex :{ by the North American New el Efi L e and my party will 2 as which In time must have of expeditions' members. “I wish now to extend my thanks, periment condacted joint- i Radio rove of scientific value in deter- ilities. Communication is a boon an important bearing on the psychology nd the thanks of those who go with me, for your co-operation and the assistance of the thou- sands of members of the American Radio Relay League in this sig- nificant undertaking. “Good-bye! | PUBLE LINKS COLE STARS I CUPTEST 64 Begin Play This Afternoon for Troohy Donated by | BY W. R. MeCALLUM. | Public links golfers from sixteen eastern and midwestern cities are| playing this afternoon at East Po- President Harding. | than DONALD B. MacMILLAN.” TKILLED, 40 HURT IN'L' TRAIN CRASH Women Among Victims of New York Accident—Death List Growing. B the Associated Press NEW YORK, June 5.—At least seven persons were killed and more two score injure:d this after- BALDWIN SAYS U.S. No Law Broken, Premier Af- firms, as Officials Con- tinue Seizures. | By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 25.—Stanley Bald- win, the prime minister, stated in the louse of commons today that there wus no ground for protest if British customs seals were broken within TUnited States territorial waters by officials of the United States customs servi His statoment was in answer to a lquestion whether Great Britain recog- nized America’s right to break the seals on Hator eboard ships. Mr. Baldwin said it was the prac- tice for the British customs authorities to fix their seals as a matter of 1outine on dutiable ship stores taken from England consumption of the stores in terri- torial waters. The seals must not be broken' in British territorfal waters; otherwise they are iIn no way inviolable. Foreign customs {scals, he added, were habitually | broken when necessity arose in Brit- igh territorial water: SEIZURES CONTINUE. | (e — { Officials Plan to Take Stores of Six Ships Today. ! By the Associsted Press. NEW YORK, June 25.—Two more “wet” liners steamed into port today cials were preparing to move on six other vessels which had docked over fthe weeck end with liquor tranported over the three-mile line in defiance of the Treasury Department’s dry ruling. The latest arrivals were the Anchor liner Tuscania and the French liner | Suffren. HAS IGHT 0 TAKE LQUIR UNDER SEAL in bond to prevent| while United States government offi- | TWO CENTS. WAL BELL TAKES OATH OF OFFICE AS D.C. COMMISSIONER Hard at Work on New Job in Few Hours After Reaching City. BESSON TO REMAIN_ _ AT- POST FOR WEEK New Member of Board Comes Here With Enviable Service . <" Record. . “Expressing desire to give his best fefforts to improve the National Capi- ital. Maj. J. Franklin Bell took office today as Engineer Commissioner of the District. Maj. Bell lost no time in getting down to work. Within a few hours ‘aner he reached the city from Pitt: burgh he was at his desk. “I am not a total stranger (o Washington,” he told newspaper men. “I am looking forward with keen interest to my service here. “I gave considerable thought to the problems of city planning while in Pittsburgh. particularly with rela- tion to the development of the water tront.” s Faith in Publielty. Maj. Bell asked to be excused from discussing In detail the problems that awalt him until he becomes familiar With them. He let it be known that the I.! a believer in acquainting the public fully with all municipal proj- ects In order that co-operation and united effort may be obtained Surrounded b officials em- ployes whose work he will comereine from now on. Maj. Bell took the oath of office in the board room at 1:10 o'clock this afternoon. Daniel E. Garges, secretary to the Commission- ers administered the oath, after Which Morgan H. Beach, clerk of the District Supreme Court, swore' Bell i member of the Public Ttil- ities’ Commission. R Sure of Election. | It is practically sertain that Bell “'Hl.be elected chairman of Public Utilities Commission, which task has always been assigned to the Engineer Commissioner. It is also understood that he be given the chalr- manship of the Zoning Commission The new Commissioner is for: seven vears of age. He speaks wi alertness and decisiveness. When some one suggested to him this morning that he was enterin office an the eve of the preparation o the annual estimates to Congress— the biggest task of the vear at the District building—he smilingly Indi- cated that he s not afraid of work Maj. Bel] corrected the impression which has prevailed here that he is a nephew of Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, former chief of staff of the Army. He said that he was not related to Gen. Bell May the First Official Act, His first official act was the ap- proval of a contract for the installa- tion of a heating aystem in the municipal lodging house by the M B. Casey Company. He comes to Washington with an enviable record in the service since his graduation from West Point in 1902 One of his first assignments vas at the Washington barracks, where his daughter was born His wife and daughter are now in Paris and will not come to Washing- ton until fall. He said that while he has had soma experience in dealing with water | power companies in other places, the | supervision of public service corpora- tions is comparatively new to him. H Colonel in France. i Maj. Bell served as a colonel in | France, and was the last American | engineer officer to leave the other side. | Maj. F. S. Besson, acting engineer | commissioner. will’ remain at the District building for about a week to assist Commissioner Bell. | Maj. Besson then will leave for a { vacation with his family, after which {he will go to the engineer school at Fort Leavenworth. The major has the duties of as long as the Volstead law Is on| 559, crash through a stone pillar the statute books it should be en-|,nq ire cable protecting rail and forced and that the states ought not | tumble down the jagged iacline al- to relax and put the burden on lh";ml):fl. to the waters of Bear creek, federal government lest the latter|goventy-five feet below. be compeiled “at large expense o} 1 ig pelleved that a broken steer- create a federal police authority. { ing knuckle caused the car to be- Perhaps the most striking para- | gomo unmanageable. graph in the Denver speech—cer- | tainly nothing like It has come be- | forc from the lips of the President ! any other hizh official charged OFih 4 g o. | mobile and Dawson about fifty feet With the enforciment of the pro- | d ition laws—wae his direc { down the incline. It is believed that e i iauarPeRl | Curtis was killed instantly. = French to people who have hard liguors in | their posscssion to set an example to | Was alive when other members of the so who haven't by giving i | party reached the victims of the ac- K eemethes, Mavent by giving it up | FCT, "It dled before he could be “Whatever satisfaction there may | brought to Denver. be in indulgence,” said the President,| Shortly before leaving his hotel yes- “whatever objection there is to the,terday afternoon Curtis sat in his mo-called invasion of personal 1ib. |Foom and talked to his wife in Wash- erty, meither counts when the su-|InEton over lovggl-didltana:l ta!gghone, premacy of law and the stability of | He }: b oL, frleuds waid, lx“ a our institutions are menaced. With ! ¢rowd of newspaper men are going to all good intentlon the majority sen. | (wke us into the mountains. In an timent of the United States Tas soughi | HOUF ot so we'll be up where they by law to remove strong drink as/dont know what heat is, in the heart a curse upon the American citizens, | °f the mountains. but ours is a larger problem now to | Harding In Shocked. remove lawless drinking as a menace | President Harding was _greatly to the republic itsel. | shocked when informed of the acci- Moy Fellow Dryan Ples. jdent. “I am unutterably distressed i been thrown clear. ¥rench was found a few feet from the wrecked auto- that such an accldent should have oc- That phrase “lawless drinking"curred.” he f;‘flld-b“‘l Iey e onsOw i % upon what has been a happy trip. will probably become the slogan of a|3PO% WS A% Deen & happy (R new campaign on the part of the|telling me of the joy he was experi- “drys” and it would not be surprising |encing. He was aiways a_gentleman ? and a ver; newspaper man. to see President Harding and other | pegret 1s beyond expression, but there high officials accept the plea of Wil- | is mome consolation in the hope that i 2 ; at | the injured men will recover.” b .'mm.“;n :r“"', Who asks that T, 44y of Mr. Curtls will be taken everybody in the government of the o Chicago by John F. Vivian, federal United States from the President | prohibition director, where it will be down take the pledge to abstain from | met by friends. Roy Roberts. rep- drinking intoxicants. Mr. Bryan's|resenting the Kansas City Star on appeal has long gone unheeded. but |the tour, will remain in Denver to be the Denver speech gives it added mo- | With Craig until Mrs. Craig arrives mentum, for the people in Presiden (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Harding’'s circle, have begun to real- FORD DOESN’T OBJECT. ize, Indeed, that one of the unfortu- Permits Citizens Urging Him for nate aspects of prohibition is the popular suspicion that high official; President to Continue Activities. SAVANNAH, Ga.. June 25.—A peti- have plenty of liquor either from pre. Volsteadian days or from friends who tion signed by citizens of Savannah indorsing Henry Ford for president do not inquire into the date of manu- facture or origin too closely. Waves of criticism like that, how- ever, wafted in the direction of the | naving been forwarded to Detroit, the general secretary to Mr. Ford has replied in a letter acknowledging the receipt of the petition. White House for some time and the “In_view of the interest displayed, President took occasion today to let the public know he knew just what Mr. Ford can have no objection to their further activitles in this direc- they meant. tion.” | { t “Many citizens,” sald the President, “not teetotalers in their habits, la fully acquired stores of private stocks in_anticipation of prohibition, pend- ing the ratification of the amend- ! ment and the enactment of regula- (Continued on Page 4, Column 4. ‘gress increased the rates for certain: kinds of work, and, second, the sal- aries of institutional employes are stated in the 18 per cent estimates in gross, with no deduction for mainte- nance, whereas, under the bureau of efficiency schedules deductions made on account of maintenane. It must be borne in mind that the District Commissioners’ estimates are | bility that they will be somewhat re- {duced because of the natural tend- are, port. | #elf 1s no minor factor. Yet jt is but one of scores of mat- | ters of sclentific inquiry which draw | the explorer northward again. What are the effects of atmosphereic elec- tricity and terrestr magnetism? What secrets are locked In this un- explored region of 500,000 square miles. Is the race threatened with Curtis was pin- | subjected to review by the personne] | another ice age, which would drive ned beneath the car and Craig had |classification board. with the proba- | the line of human life once more to a narrow belt in the tropics? Mac- Millan_will study the glaciers which | T (Continued on Page 2, Column &.; Dr. Donald B. MacMillan, one of the most famous of explorers and Peary’s lieutenant in the discovery of the north pole, today is bound again for the arctic. He goes as special correspondent of The Star and other members of the North American Newspaper Alllance. For the first time radio equipment is being carried on an expedition bound for within a few degrees of the pole, and week by week during the months of his journey Dr. MacMillan will send out ac- counts of his progress, his discov- eries and his adventuries. The radio directory has a new signal WNP—Wireless north pole. The explorer is confident that he will be able to keep in close touch with home by wireless, and not only to send out nev but to re- ceive 1n return news, loved ones, and the entertainme features of the broadcasting ! tions. Thirty thousand members of the American Radio Relay League, radio amateurs, are co-operating with The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance in thiz experiment, which, despite the doubts held by some experts, will in any event settle the im- portant point of the exact effect of the aurora borealis on wire- less. The plan, which will be described in detail later from the technical point .of view of the radio opera- tor. is briefly this: MacMillan, from - his ship, the (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) iHow MacMillan Will Keep Star Readers Advised of Adventures Bowdoin. will send a weekly story at a designated time. The 30,000 amateurs will listen for him. Those who live near Washington will, as arranged by the American Radio Relay League, send to The Star coples of the coded messages from the arctic as soon as they are re- celved. After being decoded. the messages from MacMillan will be published in The Star. The experiment {s regarded one of the most important ever undertaken. both from the point of view of the radlo expert and of the explorer. In MacMillan’s party of eight is Donald Mix, a lad of twenty, chosen from among hundreds as the ex- pedition’s wireless operator. Each week Mix will send out his chief's accounts—the stories of new discoveries, of progress, of life in the tiny quarters on the Bow- doin and of the natives' life and friendliness or enmity in the great white expanses without. Matters of tremendous import to science re to be studled, one of them being the advance of glaclera It is possible that the latest of man's great inventions, radio, will flash word that the world is faced with another ice age, which would ob- literate the progress made by the human race during more than fifty centurles. Dr. MacMillan will proceed from Maine to a point within eleven de- rees of the pole and there lock is ship in the ice. He plans to be gone for fifteen months. He may be held for years. And he may never return. The final story sent by him with his wireless may be as tragic as the last chapter in the career of Capt. Scott in the antarctic. tomac Park in the firSt annual com- | noon when a two-car train plungyl petition for the Warren G. Harding | trophy, the curtain-raiser to the| second national public links cham- | pionship, which begins with a thirty- | six-hole qualifying round tomorrow ! morning. Contestants in the compe- | tition for the cup presented by the | President of the United States num- ber nearly half the entire fleld of; about 130 entrants. i On the eve of the qualifying round | Chairman Standish of the public| links committee of the United States Golf Assoclation announced that three Washington players, in addi- tion to the ten already named, may enter the event. H. L. Smith, one of the original ten men who qualified a month ago to represent the Caplital § in the public links classic, who is a student at Georgetown University, has withdrawn his name and will not play. According to numerous re- quoats, the committee named John E. Shorey, W. E. Melton and Robert H. Brown addlional Washington ontries, They had tied for eleventh place in the qualifying round four Weeks ago, with cards of 84. The, total Washington contingent in the medal round for the national ‘event thus stands at thirteen, for Charles H. Rollins entered and was accpeted without qualifying. . ‘With many of the contestants ar- riving in Washington with bags filled with _ steel-shafted clubs, Chalrman Standish of the public links commit- tee of the U. S. G. A., today announced the governing body of golt had ruled out the steel-shaft club from the competition. Several of the en- trants have only wooden clubs with steel shafts, and they will have to secure clubs with orthodox shafts or use their fron clubs from the tee. The U. S. G. A. pointed out that its stand In the matter is consistent, and that until it is specifically allowed, the steel shaft will not be allowed in any tourney under its jurisdiction. 64 Playing Today. Playing today in the curtain-raiser to the championship are sixty-four golfers, many of whom, years hence, will be known as stars.in gelf. Most of them are youngsters—young in years, but old in golf knowledge—and many of them are capable of holding their own with the best in the land. A sprinkling of veteran players from the public links -through the land emphasizes the character of the game. The event which started today with the competition for the first golf cup (Continued on Page 2, Culumn 2.) from the Brooklyn-Manhattan Tran- sit elévated structure at Fifth and Flatbush avenues in Brooklyn and were smashed to match wood. Of the injured at least five were ex- pected to die. Amid screams, passengers climbed through broken windows, their faces streaming blood. Some were carried out. Others were able to crawl. As the cars crashed to the street they carried with them a mass of high-ten- sion electric wires and these, spitting sheets of blue flame. Ignited the shat- tered wreckage of the antique wooden cars. Flames Checked. Firemen fighting® amid terrified and screaming passengers soon checked the flames. Witnesses ‘'said that something Wwent wrong with the first truck of the leading car and it plunged over the side of the structure, dragging its mate with it. Part of the struc- ture itself was carrled away. In falling the train crushed two avtomobiles beneath it. Four of the dead were women. The first identified dead were. Alexander Lowsky and Mrs. Louise Wright, both of Brooklyn. Firemen tossed aside their helmets and rubber garments and plunged ! Navy submarine chaser, was brought/ into the wreckage, tearing at the tim- bers with their hands when axes and crowbars could not be used without endangering the injured. Two dozen ambulances, all aval. ble fire apparatus and a host of police reserves were on the scene in a few minutes. They were forced to battle a crowd of several thousand which quickly massed. NATIONALS, 0; MACKS, 0 IN SECOND INNING PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—Hol- lingsworth and Rommel were the bat- téry selections for the third game of the home series with the Washing- ton Nationals here today. Connie Mack made a few changes in the line- up, sending Riconda to third and Heimach to first. The weather was hot and about 4,000 witnessed the game. A {began removing the "seized liguor stores from the Berengaria. The |party was led by Reputy Customs Surveyor Cpleman. *They planned | next to visit the Paris, to seize liquors | declared in excess of her medical re- i quirements. Then dry agents planned to take up the case of the other week | enders, Cedrie, Carohia, Providence and Conte Verdi. The Tuscania, arriving from Glas- {gow, bhought a relatively small store. Seven dozen bottles of Scotch w. the largest inividual item. Eighty nine bottles of assorted drinks made up the rest of the cache, bearing Brit- ish government seals. The Suftren . was more heavily laden. She brought from Havre, in addition to a slight |stock marked “Medicinal supplies.” 1,151 bottles of wines; 821 bottles of | champagne. 55 bottles of gin. 18 bot- I (Conlinued on Page 7, Column 1) [CUTTER TAKES SHIP WITH $100,000 RUM Former Submarine Chaser Seized ! After Race Beyond Three-Mile- Limit at New York. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 25.—The Mary E. Gulley, formerly a United States in by the coast guard cutter Seminole liquot, valued at $100,000, which was seized after a chase beyond the three- mile limit last night. Coast guard officials refused to con- firm reports that the Seminole had been compelled to fire a number of shots before the craft answered a command to halt. The Mary E. Gully, which put out trom New York from the rum fleet several days ago, carried papers pur- porting to show both British and American registry, it was said. Her crew of six was held on charges of violating the Volstead act. Capt. Reed, chief of the coast guard service for this district, said today that rum-running had ' greatly i creased since repeal of the state pro- hibition enforcement act. “When the act was repealed,” he said, “we had reduced the rum fleet to six vessels. Now 'there are eleven and the number recently was as high as sixteen” today with a cargo of 1,500 cases of! performed { Commissioner since Keller re- | signed & month ago to accept a i position with a private water power development company. Engineer Col {LARSEN RETAINS $18,000 | PAID ON AIRPLANE FIRE New York Supreme Court Jury | Hung in Effort to Agree in ! Risk Firm Suit. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, June 25.—A supreme court jury reported today that it had ! been unable to agree on a verdict ia ! the sult of the Commercial Union As- surance Company, Ltd, to collect | from John M. Larsen. noted airplane | inventor and builder, $18,000 paid him jon a fire insurance policy. The fire which destroyed his airplane plant on Long Island was declared to have been set. Larsen, alleged to have hired an employe to fire the plant, contended that the charges were a frame-up to wreck his reputation. The jurors sald informally they had voted ten |to two in favor of Larsen. A similar suit in which the Globe and Rutgers Insurance Company is plaintiff was set @owa for trial tomorrow. GREECE EXPECTS TERMS ON DEBT EQUAL TO TURKS ! Venizelos Tells Lausanne Parley Nation Needs Concessions as Much as Angora. By the Associated Press. LAUSA! . June 25.—Former I're- mier Venizelos of Greece added today to the troubles of the near east con- ference over the settlement of the Ot- toman debt problem by declaring at a meeting of the finance commission that Greece certainly expected to be treated as well as Turkey in any allied con- cesslon regarding the payment of debt interest. The Turks contend they should be permitted to pay in depre- clated French money Instead of pounds sterling. 3 M. Venizelos reminded the allies that Greece was among the victors in the r and that Greek finances were quity s shaky as Turkish.