Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Showers tonight and probably to- Mmorrow morning, followed by fair dur- ing Friday; cooler. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. to- day: Highest, 86, at 2:45 p.m. yester- day. Lowest, 70, m. today. Full report on page 7. L Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page Zg Entered as secos post _offic HARDING, N DAHD, MAY DEFEND PLAN FOR WORLD COURT No. 28912. Special Interest Attaches to| Speeches Today in Home of Senator Borah. PRAISE FOR SOUTHERN UTAH EMPIRE BUILDERS, President Says 125-Mile Trip inj Zion National Park Gives New | Love of Beautiful. By the Aseociated Press. ON BOARD PRESIDENT HARD- ING'S SPECIAL TRAIN, June 28— President Harding today went into| Idaho, the home state of Senator Bo- rah, who oftentimes has disapproved, and sometimes denounced administra- | tion policies. i Because of the attitude of Senutor Borah toward the Harding admiais- tration there was particular interest| n the manner of the reception ac- corded the President. There also was especlal interest in the two addre the President has promiscd to make | in the state, one at noon at Pocatello and the other late in the day at Idaho | Falls. Both of the speeches will be extem- poraneous. Among the unofficial members of the presidential party there was euri osity as to whether the chiet exce- | utlve would touch upon the world | court question as he has in & number of the informal addresscs (hus made on the trip. Senator horah! has been outspoken in his opposition | to the administration proposal for| American adhesion to tie court. | Borah to Meet Train. The President will not visit Bolse, | Benator Borah's home city, but word | was received aboard the presidential train early today that Senator Borah planned to greet Mr. Harding on his | arrival at Pocatello and accompan him to Idaho Falls. Gov. Moore, a cording to the program of the day's activities, is to introduce the Presi- | dent_at ‘both cities. Introduction of | the President by the state governorsi has been the ruie throughout the trip into the west. Senator Gooding also had sent word | that he would join the party at Poc: tello. The program for the Presiden stop at Pocatello, in addition to the address, includes an automobile tour ! of the city and review of the school | children. "After speaking from the: rear platform of his train on arriving | at ldaho Fails, the President plans| to tour the city and then inspect al model irrigation district. I'he presidential party crossed over | into ldaho after two full days in Utah, a longer perlod than has been spent in any other state. The visit to | southern Utah and to Zion National | Park, the newest of the nation's play- grounds, made a deep fmpression on both the President and Mr. Harding. Had Weonderful Day. i “We have had a very wonderful day | today—wonderful in many wa " the | chief executive said in addressing| citizens of Cedar City last night after | returning from the 125-mile trip into! Zion Park. We have come to have a new love for the beautiful; we have found a new charm in the marvelous works of nature; we have seen ex-| hibited the results of her convulsive moods, and then in the canyons and | gorges and other aspects of Utah's magnificent scenery we have seen the | efiect of her relentless force operat- | ing throughout the ages. With it all, T think we have come to have. perhaps, even a greater reverence for tHe Creator, a new wonderment at His purposes, and a new curiosity to know | when we ourselves are going to understand fully God's purposes If {t was a wonderful day for the President, it was equally wonderful to the people of southern Utah, some | of the younger of whom saw their| first passenger train when the pres dential special arrived at Cedar Ci over the just completed extension of e Union Pacific from Lund to that v Many, including even the pioneers who went into the desert and mountain region years ago, saw in! Mr. Harding the first President of the! United States they ever had seen. Getn Cordial Greeting. They gathered from miles around into the little villages bullt in oases claimed from the desert by irrigation, and with waving flags, presentation of flowers and fruit and singing of sonss wreeted the presidential party as it passed toward Zion Park. Most of them were still along the roadside | a8 the party motored back to Cedar City late in_the day, singing “God Be | With You Till We Meet Again.” The | mreatest day in their lives had come and was gone Mr. Harding spoke at Zion City a follows: “Ladies and gentlemen: it wers not so late 1 should like to wait tor a few moments, because the man who | operates the radio amplifying de- ! vice has not as vet returned from the ! trip, and 1 wanted you to see one of | the marvels of modern science as ex- | hibited in the amplifying of public| speech. It is mot very often that those 5o far from the larger centers | have such an opportunity, and 1| though you would enjoy the experi- ence. “A speaker talking before cne of | these devices (indicating) can have ! his voice carried from this platform 10 the farther edge of your city and | be heard distinctly. ~However, it is | not In operation for the moment. I will take the opportunity to say how | pleasing it s to us to be so cordially | grested by #o large 2 representation | of the cltizenship of southern Utah. Pride fn Achfevement. “One of the things that has enter- tained most has been to see how men and women will toil with all thelir| might and with all their hopes on a ' Jittle strip of land, making mother | nature yield to their designs. I have: come to the conclusion that it is due| to something more than the mere | ambition to subsist and make a home. | 1 belleve the more impelling purpose | must be an inherent one in man to have something he can call his own and a place where he can see the re- sults of his handiwork. (Applause,) “After all. that is about the great- est inspiration there is in life. It so happens that we have too little of | such inspiration in the great working centers of population, but out here in the great valleys a man turns his hand to toil, sometimes successfully, sometimes with disappointment, and vet, always he has time to appraise ihe thing that he has done and to find a pride In his work. “If I were going to give a message to the boys irls who are listen- ing to m moment, 1 would tell them to have a pride in what they undertake to do In life, for pride in accomplishment has al- ways impelled humanity onward. Oh. it_has been good to see you, and I wish I could leave with you an ade- auate impression of the happy and ontinued on Page 4, Column 3.) far | | | it | two avi nd-cluss matter hington, D. C. AIRMEN ONCE MORE START 4-DAY FLIGHT Confident They Can Repeat Feat of Taking on Fuel While Flying. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif.. June 28.—In their second attempt in two days to break endurance and speed records, Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lieut. J. D. Richter, Army aviators, who were forced down by pected to be a flight of four days and | four nights. Before leaving the two aviators expressed confidence that they would be able to repeat whenever necessary the feat they accomplished yesterday of refueling in midair, thus prolong- ing their flight far beyond what has been done in the past by any airman. The practice they had vesterday be- fore they were forced to descend was believed to have been of much help to maintaining the gascline is poured down from the tank in the upper machine. It the program Is carried out the big de Haviland plane will receive not only ofl and gasoline from the machine, but food ami water for the tors at stated intervals, all in the daytime. LEV UPON BRITSH CARTAL PROPOSED Labor Party Would Lay Hands on Private Fortunes to Redeem Debts. By the Asse ed Press. LONDON. June 28.—A capital levy on a graduated scale of fortunes from £5.000 upward became an integral part of the British labor party's program today, when a long resolution deal- ing with national finance was adopted by the party conference in session in Queen’s Hall. Charles G. Ammon, labor member of parliament for Camberwell, ing the resolution, said the capital levy was the keystone of the whole future of labor finance, and, instead of apologizing for it, the party was de- termined to keep it to the forefront in its program. Plans for Debt Redemption. The resolution declares that the policy of labor is to redeem a sub- stantial portion of the British na- tional debt by a levy on capital, with a saving in annual interest and, sink- ing fund thereby being effected, to- gether with other economies, notably on armaments and by the taxation of land values. As a result of the levy, the resolution stated, it would be practicable to abol- ish the food taxes and lighten the bur- den of the income tax by raising the ex- emption limit, also the entertainments (ax and corporations profits tax could be abolished, and money provided for much needed social expenditure. The resolution urged the labor party in parliament, in default of a capital {levy, to press for abolishment of the food taxes before other relief in taxa- tion was given. Preface to New War. The resolution offered by George Lans- bury, labor member of parliament for Poplar, declaring against competition in building up of government air forces, was carried unanimously. The resolu- tion says the proposed increase in the British air force, in competition with France, is a preface to a new era of war, and the parliamentary labor party is calied upon to offer every resistance to it as “a crime’ against humanity to promote this new race in armaments within five years of the late war, which tiie peoples of the world hoped was the beginning of an era of peace.” Ti.e resolution demands the imme- diate calling by Great Britain of an internationel congress “for the pur- pose of eventually abolishing by in- ternational agreement all air arma- ments."” Mr. Lansbury declared all the evil the world came from one set of ple wanting to dominate another :t, and_that this spirit must be re-| moved from humanity. The labor movement of Great Britain, sald the speaker, should declare tkat it relied on the true justice of principles rather than on force. Frank H. Rose, labor member of parliament for Aberdeen, in second- ing the resolution, asserted that the so-called frightful air peril exlst, and that the people must not be ! stampeded into panic. U. S. TO JOIN MIGRATION DISCUSSIONS IN ROME| Meeting Early in 1924 Will Be Held on Initiative of Premier Mussolini. ROME, June 25.—An international conference to discuss emigration and immigration, to be convened on the initiative of Premier Mussolini, will meet in Rome early in 1924. All in- terested powers, including the United States, have been Invited and have agreed to be represented. generator | trouble yesterday, took off at 4.46.43 | o'clock this morning on what was ex- | delicate poise : noeded to keep the racing plane and | the refueling ship together while the | in mov-; did not ! WASHINGTON, D. USEOF . TROOS TOFIGHTRUM WAR OPPOSEDBY WEKS Tells War College Graduates Proponents Fail to Realize Consequences. | ARMY OFFICERS URGED TO MIX WITH CIVILIANS Become Leaders in Communities, Secretary Advises Mili- tary Men. Flat opposition to any project for using the Army to aid in prohibition enforcement was voiced here today by Secretary Weeks, speaking at graduation exercises at the Army War College. “I cannot believe,” he said, “that persons who advocate unusual em- ployment for the Army, such as en- forcement of prohibition, have given serious thought to the possible con- sequences of such a practice. The War Secretary sald he \was ‘opposed to the use of the Army for enforcement of civil laws unless all j<ivil police power shall have heen ex- hausted and there results that state of ‘insurrection and rebellion’ which federal law provides alone shall jus- {tfy use of troops in affording the protection guaranteed to state Bov- ernments by the Constitution.” Restriction by Congress. “In 18 he said, “Congress, with a full knowledge of the dangers and abuses which had arisen as a result |of the use of the Army in augmenta- tion of the civil police power, saw fit to pass the act forbidding the partici- pation of even a single member of the military establishment In a | 'posse comitatus’ The reasons for ithat legislation appear to me now to be as sound as when enacted.” Mr. Weeks' position was stated in- cidentally in his plea to the graduat- Ing officers, who have successfully | completed the final stage of their military education and been recorded ay eligible for high commands and general staff duty. to see that the | Regular Army hereafter takes a larger share in the civil life of the jcountry. The time has passed, he jsaid, when there should be an isola- {tion for the regulars. the national defense act having made the work of providing for "national security equaily that of clvilians and reg lars, although the regulary do the planning. ! Co-operation of All “It s "bOth, logical and desirable that there should be complete under- standing and co-operation between our citizens and those who are im- { mediately responsible for making ef- fective plans for our defense,” Sec- retary Weeks sald. “The War De- partment recognizes the great possi- bilities which the Army possesses for rendering important public service of a broad character. It must be a force for civic betterment wherever found. “Graduates of the Army War Col- lege have had unusual opportuniti to gain this broad conception of se ice.” You are men with proven capa- bilitles in the military profession. You have successfully commanded troops where success was dependent upon_consideration for both the wel- fare of the individual and the mass. End of Inolation. “I urge that you enter into the life of the community in which you may be assigned, and assoclate inti- mately with your fellow citizens in any constructive work which inspires your personal interest. Do your share in promoting progress in your local- ity, whether it be in religion, educa- {tion, or one or more of the many com. | mendable fields of civic associations. Assume leadership in removing the last vestiges of isolation which are the Army's heritage from those pio- neer dayy when its place was in the isolated regions of our territory rath er than in the centers of popuiation.” | Gen. Pershing Speaks. | Gen. Pershing, who also addressed the graduating officers. said: “The one-time role of a regular Army offi- | cer has passed with the Indian cam- nial possessions. “Our mission today is definite, yet so broad that few, if any, have been new flelds opened up by the mili: policy now on the statute book: Maj. Gen. E. F. McGlachlin, jr., re- tiring_commandant of the War Col- ry the Army, years' active service. 1n his own address Gen. McGlachlin urgently recommended that the War College become increasingly a grea military university, where represen tatives of all departments of the gov. ernment should discuss the problems of war. He insisted that “to the bal- anced mind, that sees things ae they are, it Is not opinion, belief or faith, but certainty, that there will be more wars”” In support of his statemen he enumerated what he called of argument agalnst the pacifisi in the way of general conditions exist (Continued on Page 4, Column z.) 17 Men, 23 Days in Open Boat, Row 1,750 Miles in Tropic Sea By the Associated Prees. LONDON, June 28.—Details re- ceived today of the experiences un- dergone by the survivors of the Brit- ish ship Trevessa, which recently sank in the Indlan ocean, tell a tale of euffering likely to go down in the annals of sea disasters. 4 The crew had been given up as lost for a month until yesterday, when Capt. Foster's wife and the vessel's owners received cable messages stat- ing that the captaln and sixteen of his crew had arrived at Mauritius island, having landed first on the Island of Rodrigues. : The survivors covered the 1,75 miles from the scene of the Trevessa’ sinking to Rodriguez by rowing and ealling their open lifeboat under the blazing troplcal sun, with equal only to two tablespoonfuls of gondensed milk and a single biscuit dally for twenty-three days, and with no water except that which they were | able to catch when It rained. Two native firemen died from ex- posure during the trip. The boat was steered by the sun and stars, as the compass was useless, and to add to their discomfort, heavy weather ) caused the eraft to ship much water, uiring almost continueus bailing. Capt. Foster reports that on June 9 they lost sight of the other life- boat, containing elghteen men, but ad- miralty officials say this may still I land on Mauritius Island. It was Capt. Foster's second i aster at sea. During the war, while a chief mate, his ship was torpedoed, and the liner that saved him was alss sunk, Foster, with thirty-one others drifted in an open boat for ten days before being rercued. | ¢ Fp paigns and the acquirement of colo- ! able to grasp the possibilities of the lege, had elected to retire also from | after more than thirty | rations | 8N . enin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION e s e T o s ~ ey e RS 1 EASTERN STARS LEFTINTOURNEY | i and Cable to Play Semi- Final This Afternoon. BY W. R. Two New McCALLUM. York golfers, one from | Buffalo and one from Philadelphia are playing this afternoon In the semi-final round of the national pub- lic links golf championship. 1 Raymond J. McAuliffe of Buffalo, | who played two extra-hole matches | yesterday, won on the last hole this| morning from Frank Dolp of Port- land. Ore, after a spectacular match | in which neither contestant led by more than one hale. J. Stewart Whitham of teammate, Harry Scharff, by the one- sided margin of 8 and Richard ‘Waleh of New York, runner-up in the champlonship at Toledo last year, defeated John MacAndrew of Boston on the last hole, while Joseph Coble ! of Philadelphia defeated a fellow townsman—R. F. Hamilton—on the eighteenth. i Match a Classic. The McAuliffe-Dolp match was a golfing classic, with both players shooting only two strokes above par | and playing phenomenal golf at times. | With both men out In 38, McAuliffe | was one up at the turn; the tenth and, eleventh holes were halved and Dolp | squared the match at the twelfth with | |a par 4 against 5 for McAulifte. Mc- | | Auliffe became one down at the short | | thirteentn, when his ball found a trap. | ‘l\icx\unfl’e drove the fourteenth green {326 yards and won the hole 3-4. The! |Afteentn was halved in par 4 and' | Dolp, with the match all square, ran ! down a 20-foot putt 1o halve the six- | teenth. Both players drove the 160- yard seventeenth and halved in three. | McAulifte, with the honor, hit a |screamer off the eighteenth tee straight down the middle and Dolp {hooked his ball into a marsh to the left of the fairway. He played a pro- visional ball, believing that the first ball was lost, but his caddy found his first ball and he played out twenty yards short of the grecn. McAuliffe’s | second shot was on the left edge of the green and Dolp put his third | twenty feet from the hole. The Buf- falo entrant putted up fifteen feet {shert and Dolp, trying for a 4, stopped on the lip of the cup. McAulifte then I holcd his fifteenth putt to win the match. v Rigi cards the McAuliffe-Dolp | maten follow: | MeAutire—Out. Doip—out 5 MeAuliffe | Doip—in.. of 4 5 . 5 Walsh Shoots 74. Richard Walsa shot a 74 in his match with Joan MacAndrew, finally winning on the last hole. Scharft was jfar off his game in his match with | Whitham, and was so far down at (Continued on Fage 2, Column 4.) _ 4 KILLED, 2 INJURED WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO i Nurse Among Victims of Crash at i Plainfield, N. J.—Party on Way to Resort. i By the Associated Press. i PLAINFIELD, N. J., June 28.—Four | persons were killed and two seriousty injured when a motor ear in which !liner Hans | liquors, 300 bottles of champagne and they were riding was struck by a | Baltimore and Ohio express train at | a crossing near South Plainfleld sta- tion today. Those killed were Harry Nichols of | Bast Orange, driver of the car; An- | drew Barnes of Newark. Miss Grace | Mounteney of Caldwell, 2 nurse, and E. J. Elliv of Newark, Miss Helen Ford'and Miss Cathleen Crooks, both nurses, were seriously | hurt. The party had been making a trip | to seashore resorts in honor of Miss Mounteney, who was to have been| graduated nurse next week. 4 The motor car was carried 600 feet} up the tracks and thrown freight train on a sidin; George Burke of Allentown, Pa., engineer of the train, said he did not e the motor car until after the col- iision. There was a bell but no gate- man at the crossing, he sai. THREE KILLED IN CRASH. Atlantic City Hotel Man Victim; Auto Hits One-Man Car. B the Assoclated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.,, June 28.— Albert L. Comstock, manager of the| Hotel Traymore here; his fourteen- | year-old daughter, Mary, and his | were killed today when a motor car | which he was driving struck a one- man trolley car at a curve on the Shore road. Miss Ida Clinger, Comstock’s secre- tary, and Miss ' Margaret Moore, | daughter of the housekeeper, were se- | riously injured. The car was lifted off its tracks and | swung against a telegraph pole. i U..S. DELAYS RULING 10 SEIZEVESSELS | | vew York deteatea nis| Thinks Such Policy Would| Bring Early Decision on ‘ “Legality of Action. The increasing number of foreign | ships which are docking in American ! waters with more liquor than permit- ted under the Supreme Court ruling has brought government officials to the point of considering application | of the provisions of the Volstead act for seizure of the vessels. No announcement of the govern ment's decision on the question haw been made, but high officials are said to feel that the present situation can- not be tolerated much longer. If a declsion is reached to promulgate a new Treasury regulation putting into effect the seizure requirements of the Volstead act, which is said to have been drafted, adequate notice will be given to forelgn governments, it is understood. Conferences Held. The situation has been considered at a serles of conferences participated in by Secretary Hughes and other State Department officlals; Acting | Secretary Gilbert of the Treasury and Assistant Secretary Moss, in charge |of customs; Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau and Com- missioner Haynes, Assistant Commis- sioner Jones and Chief Counsel Britt of the prohibition unit. Reluctance to invoke the enforce- ment law's ship_selzure provision is explained by officials as being du to a desire lo avoid serious interna tional disputes and to give the ship- ping lines a chance to determine in their courts whether they have a right to bring into American waters bev- erage liquors under the seals of their governments. No test csse has been brought, however, and it is believed that the seizure of a ship would re- sult in an early judiclal decision on the problem. Treasury officials today again cou- ferred over the proposal to apply. the confiscatory provisions of the Vol- stead act to the liquor-carrying lin- ers, and it was indicated afterward that there would be no decision for the present. Reports from abroad have indicated that in_some cases the foreign ship lines voluntarily are abandoning the policy of bringing in- toxicants into American waters under seal and should this change of con- duct became general, it was pointed out, there would be no need to resorc to conflacatory measures. SAILS WITH LIQUOR. Last Ship to Leave U. 8. Ports With Legal Supplies. NEW YORK, June 28.—The last ship to leave American ports with full liquor supplies for the eastbound trip _was . the Hamburg-American which put out today with 4,000 bottles of beer, 240 bottles of 1,050 bottles of still wines. She saiied from Harmburg on June 7, before the adoption of the ruling forbidding sm;:- to bring liquor into American ports. SINCLAIR CASE DISMISSED. LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 28.—A police court charge of conspiring to disturb the peace. which had been pending against Upton . Sinclair for about a month, was disthissed yester- day on motion of the présecution, During’ some_ récent ‘indtstrial . dis- turbances at San Pedro, the harbor district of Los Angeles, Sinclair at- tempted to read the Constitution of the United States to an outdoor audi- ence and his arrest followed. Union decided upon.a strike to enforce their demands for a wage-increase. At midnight, however, there were no THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1923—FORTY-SIX PAGES. 52,000,000 MORE TAXES COLLECTED Walsh, McAuliffe, Whitman nousexeeper, Mrs. Eieanor moore,| Notable Increase Over Last Year to Be Reported to Commissioner. When the fiscal year closes Satur- day. Collector Chatham M. Towers will be able to report to Commis- sioner Rudolph an Increase of more than $2,000,000 In taxes collected over the last fiscal year. On June 21, Mr. Towers' books showed that the peopie of Washing- ton had paid in $18,771,859.27 to meet their 60 per cent of maintaining the city this vear, which is far in exces: of what officials expected. With nine days of the fiscal year still to be heard from, the final figure will be still greater. On June 30, last year, tax collec- tions amounted to only $16,636,682.23. Te Fix Tax Rate. The increase in this year's revenue will be an important factor to Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor, when he fixes the tax rate next week for the new fiscal year. early for city officials to make definite predictions, indications are that a lower tax rate will be possible. The present rate is $1.30 per $100 of as- sessed value. The unprecedented increase in the “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 Although it s too | as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 90,081. Reflecting Pool To Have Electric FountainDisplay An electrical water display is to be provided in the transverse re- flecting pool of the Lincoln Me- morial near 17th street, which is expected to add much to the at- tractiveness of the locality. A fountain throwing a vertical stream will be Installed at each end of the pool and 125 jets around the edge will throw streams to- ward the center. The fountains will be {lluminated at night by an arrangement of electric lights. The work of installation is in charge of of Lieut. Col. Sherrill, the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, and will be completed in the early autumn. Plans also have been made for installing a system of piping around the main reflecting pool which will make it possible to provide a smooth surface for skating next winter. Last winter it was found that the ice forma- tlon was rather too rough for satisfactory skating. TRCIALSTRIE CASES DISHISED Indictments Nolle Prossed at Indianapolis on Motion of Daugherty. INDIANAPOLIS, June 28—Indict- ments aga‘nst 226 coal operators. officials of the United Mine Workers and mining companies, returned February 25, 1921, charging conspir- acy to violate the Sherman anti-trust | law, were dismissed in United States district court today by Judge A. B. Andcrson, upon motion of Attorney General Daugherty. CHARGED COMBINATION. Both Operators and Miners Named in Indictments. The indictment, which was returned by a_grand jury to the Indiana court on February 25, 1921, charged the defendants with violating the pro- visions of the Sherman act, and al- leges a number of offenses. “The gist of the charge in the sev- eral counts,” said the Attorney Gen- eral before the court today, “is a combination between the operators and the miners to increase the price of bituminous coal sold in interstate commerce and the limitation of coal| | to be mined.” This action by the Attorney Gen- eral, although not withdrawing the government's criticism of the acts of the miners and operators, according to the statements by the Attqrney General, wipes clean from the fed- eral court docket the official charges against thém by the government. v Qmes Indieted ;... . Those undér indictment inauded | the following: Forty-seven individual and 46 corporate residents of Indiana 33 individual and 26 corporate resi- dents of Illinois, 20 individual and 13 corporate restdents of Ohio, § in- | dividual and 3 corporate residents of | Missouri, 8 individual and 3 corporate | residents of Kentucky, 1 individual | and 1-corporate resident of the Dis- | jtrict of Columbla, 18 individual and | |5 corporate residents of Pennsylvania | jand 2 corporate residents of New ! York. 1 number of automobiles in Washing- ton plaved its part in swelling tax collections. The records of Wade H Coombs, superintendent of licenses, show that he has taken in $100,000 more than was collected from licenses last vear. This increase is due almost entirely to automobiles. Approximately 100, 000 tags were sold during the past twelve months, netting $400,000 in 1evenue. Last year only $317,000 was derived from automobile tags. Duplicate Permits Issued. Washington motorists are rather careless in keeping their automobile operator permits, judging from the fact that Mr. Coombs had to issue {5,406 duplicate permits during the vear, at 50 cents each. He also is- | sued 1,639 duplicae: tags. The 'unusual increase in the amount of taxes collected this year is a re- flection of the many new bulilding: constantly being added to the assess- ment books. And, according to Assessor Rich- ards, ihe total assessment of all real ! estate to be taxed during the coming year will be more than $26,000,000 in excess of the past year's total &s ments. The assessed value of estate for the past year $727,000,000. [ NDIGY DEBRODES ASMOTHER SLAYR Murder in the first degree is charged in an indictment reported today by the grand jury against George De Brodes, twenty-five years ,(fld. an attorney, for the killing of his mother, Frances G. De Brodes, at their home, 117 C street northeas! June 16. The grand jurors declare the killing was deliberate and pre- meditated. Harry B. Bachrach. known as a prominent candidate for Police Court judge, was indicted for false pre- 5. It is alleged that June 1 last ch represented a check which | Company for $400, thereby obtained that . amount of moneéy from Nathan Lieberma: against Constantine Hondropoulos, who is said to have passed a worth- less check for $16. The grand jurors exonerated Wal- ter L. Happoldt, a cab driver, of a charge of homicide. Robert Phillips, six_years old, it wad testified, ra in front of the machine on 8th street northwest near the Policé Court June 8 last and was killed. £ Others indicted and’ the charges against them are: Joseph Green, embezzlement; Glad iola I Peyton, forgery and utteri Chelsie Dent, mailing obscene m: ter; Robert M. Ostrander, Rafael Botts, Lawrence Simms, John Lewis Holmes and James Crampton, assault, dangerous weapon: James Jackson. grand larceny; Joseph Marchette, joy riding; James F. Willlams, bringing stolen ' auto to Washington; Melton Carter and 'George Jones, assault.to rape and assault to have carnal knowl- edge: Gladiola I. Peyton, forgery and uttering;_James A. Johnson, Jobn W. Hickey. Paul A. Brown and Patrick #igns that it would go into imme- diate effect, : s gt S C. Thomas, non-support. he had drawn on the Munsey Trust| was good and| False pretenses are also charged: The Attorney General, declaring | ;thll he was not convinced that the |acts committed by the defendants | | were unlawful, said: “In fact, I be-| |lieve the acts complained of were |unlawful. T have, however, reached |a conclusion that the evidence which | | the defendants would be able to sub- {mit to the jury is more or less con- "\'mclnl on the question of intent and | {18 more than necessary to create a | reasonable doubt of guilt. That being | 0, 1 believe a verdict of not guilty would be the inevitable result of the |trial in this case. 1 am, therefore,| {convinced it is my duty to enter & | nolle prosequi in this case.” il Right of Indivi is. | { _The Attorney General declared the | | government was “not opposed to col- {lective bargaining.,” but “must also uphold the right of Individual ba: ganing.” The third party to be co sidered, he pointed out, was “the ccnsuming American people,” and ne | beiieved it to be “the peculiar obliga- {tion of the “overnment to represent this third pirty.” The government, the Attorney Gen- eral emphasized, “has no prejudice against labor unifons represented in | such discussions.” He said there was | nu law to prevent the formatior of lator unions, nor was there any law, he added, “to prevent individuals, | whether they belong to labor unions | or not, from exercising their rights {as citizens and entering into honest { employment upon such terms and conditions and for such wages as may be agreed upon with the em- ployers, and 1 perform such service without interruption, intimidation, interference or molestation.” Right to Work. This particular part of the Attorney General's presentation was consid- lered as significant of the remarks | he has from time to time made that | |an American citizen always has the | Tight to work. “The inteliigent people of this| country,” sald the Attorney General, | “have grown impatient with the con- | stant quarrel—sometimes only a (Continued on Page 2, Column 5 | RESCUE 200 ON ISLAND | | AS CHLORINE TANK LEAKS H | Phone Operators Spread Alarm to| Summer Camps Along Ohio River. PITTSBURGH, June 28.—More than {200 persons were hurriedly moved off of Neville Island, in the Ohio river near here today, when a tank filled with chlorine gas discharged its con. tents into the heavy alr overhanging thut section. The tank was being taken into an industrial plant when it -sprang a leak and the deadly gas spread along the river. A light breeze wafted it ‘stream in the direction of a of other manufacturing i | plant: - . The alarm was quickly spread by telephone operators and messenge hurried to summer camps along the river. -Automobiles. were comman- deered and all persons In the danger sone tal to safety. So far as the auliorities were able to learn, there were no fatalities, but a large pumber of workmen were given 'fitst aid in factory emergency hospitals. The alarm was sent to Cora; and Dixmont, towhs in the nelgh! hood. | mines. lout the da: . TWO CENTS. U.S. WARNS MINERS PUBLIC WILL FIGHT NEW STRIKE MOVE Anthracite Workers Told Sentiment Demands Wage Agreement Be Reached. FUEL COMMITTEE ASKS ADJUSTMENT BY AUTUMN Union Reported Considering Stand- ing by Demands That Failed Last Year. Public sentiment “will suspension of anthracite coal supply this year,” the Federal Coal Commis- slon today informed the convention of union miners' delegates now in session at Scranton, Pa., new wage demands. In a letter signed by John Hays Hammond, the commission’s chair- man, the miners wete urged to seek an understanding with operators’ rep- resentatives, and particularly the con- vention was asked to “leave all ques- tions open” for negotiations in com- nittee. “The commission hopes that prompt #3d satisfactory response recelved to 4ts suggestions in the matter of the bituminous contract will be repeated in the negotiations about to be un- dertaken in the making of an anthra- cite contract,” Mr. Hammond's letter sald, referring to the necessity exist- Ing in anthracite mining for making of new wage contracts August 31. Expect Agreement. “The public expects an agreement. and we have full confidence that both operators and miners will recognize their duty to the public and will be able to effect a speedy conclusion. “You will receive within a few days the commission’s report upon the anthracite industry. In the mean- time we urge upon both sides tha_ in addition to the welfare of each, that of the great body politic of the American people is involved and that public sentiment will not tolerate suspension of its anthracite conl cup- ply with the beginning of the fall and winter season. “As the present contract provides ‘the continuance of production after August 31, 1923, shall be upon such terms as the parties may agree upon in the light of the report of the comi- mission,’ the commission confidently expects that all questions will be left open for consideration of the joint scale committee.” TO DEMAND RAISE. Lewis Asks Public to Back Miners in"Wage Battle. By the Assoclated Press. SCRANTON, Pa., June 28—Taking the gavel as permanent chairman of the anthracite mine workers’' conven- tion today, International President John L. Lewis of the,United Mine Workers in a keynote speech declar- ed that economic conditions and the prosperity of the country justified the union's policy of no wage reductions The hard coal diggers, President Lewis sald, are approaching the com- ing wage negotiations in no spirit of apprehension and with no desire to bring about a suspension of the The miners. he added, recog- niged the paramount necessity to me. gotiate a satisfactory wage agree- ment to keep the mines in operation. See Responsibility. The United Mine Workers, President Lewis sald, recognize that they have a responsibility to the public, but the public in return should “exercise some diligence to see that the miners re- ceive a fair deal.” President Lewis said the coal opera- tors have made up the losses of las year's strike, and declared that rep- tolerate no considering | utable statisticians had figured out that the fallure of operators to make the usual summer reductions in prices had added scores of millions to the profits of the coal companies. The United Mine Workers, Mr. Lewis an- serted. “disclaim any responsibility for the looting of the public pocke!- book.” President Lewis sald it wa his intention to speed the wage ne. gotiations. In this connection a let- | ter from the United States Coal Com- {mission, signed by John Hays Ham- mond, chairman, and addressed to President Thomas Kennedy of district 7, was read urging a speedy settla- ment. 0., COUNSEL TS PARKING BANMDVE Would Require New Regula- tion to Stop Owners Leav- ing Cars in Streets. Corporation Counsel Stephens to day advised the Commissioners that in his opinfon there does not appear to be necessity at this time for prohib- iting the all-night parking of auto- mobiles in front of residences. Mr. Stephens called attention to the fact that the courts have refused to hold persons who have packed their automobiles on the striets in fromt ¢ thelr dwellings whon arralgned under an existing regulition, whica say “No part of any street shall be used for the keeping, depositin, -storing displaying or selling of vehicles of any kind * * o ' Hela Unreasonnhle. “The courts hold it an unrehson: able exercise of the police powe: vested' In the Commissioners to pro- ! nibit the parking of automoviles in front of oné's dwelling during the night when such is not prohibited 1n- der the same circumstances through- " sald the corporation counse. “It is my opinion that the courts have properly so decided. It is not clear from the reference of the com- missioners that they desire new regulation drawn and a test made of (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.)