Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1923, Page 1

“WEATHER. Falr tull';: and tomorrow; rising temperature tomorrow. for twenty-four hours en today: ost, 86, at 4. tarday; lowest, 63, at 1 Full report on page 25. ‘Temperature ded at 2 p.m. :30 p.m. Y 5 am. today. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 No. 28,913, - HARD GOAL MINERS Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D, C. he Fpenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION q WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1923—-FORTY-SIX PAGES. D. C. Use of 76,472,440 Gallons PRESIDENT POINTS “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. | | Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 89,861 TWO CENTS. BRITAIN PUTS U. §. * Of Water in Day Breaks Record ‘With 76,472,440 gallons consumed in | four hours ended at 8 o'clock this PLAN DEMAND FOR T0 PROSPERITY AS IN QUANDARY BY 20 PER CENT RAISE Two-Year Contract and Rec- ognition of Union Among Terms Proposed. OWNERS WILL RECEIVE CONDITIONS NEXT WEEK ‘Workers to Negotiate for Same Ad- vantages Sought in Strike of Last Year. By the Associated Press. SCRANTON, Pa., June 29.—A demand for a 20 per cent increase in the con- tract wage scale with an increase of a dollar a day for all men paid by the day was presented to the anthra- cite miners conventlon here today for adoption and submission to the mine owners next week. The list of demands drafted by the convention's scale committee follows the general Ilnes of the demands formulated In January, 1922, and fought for for five and a half months last year. The present wage scale adopted 1ast September expires August 31. Other demands submitted to the convention today for adoption include the follow- ing: Ask Two-Year Contract. A two-year contract with complete recognition of the union. That the differential between classi- fication of labor previous to the award of the United States anthracite coal commission shall be restored. Uniformity and equalization of all day rates and skilled mechanics, such as carpenters and blacksmiths, ete., be paid th recognized standard rates existing In the region, which shall not be less than 90 cents per hour as & basis. All day men to be pald time and half time for overtime and double time for Sunday work. Eight-Hour Day for All That the elght-hour day clause in the present agreement apply to all persons working in and around the| anthracite collieries coming under the jurisdiction of the unign. That where coal is paid for by the cas, the system shall be changed and the miner pald on the ton basis of 240 pounds, and where pepalties are | imposed for refusé that the amount| of the refuse be fixed by a mine com- | mittee and colliery efficials. i A more_liberal and satisfactory | clause in the agreement covering the | Qquestion of miners who encounter ab- | normal conditions in their working place. Other Demands Technieal.: The list includes other demands of a technical nature, most of which were embodied in those presented to| the eperators last year. The report made to the conventio also includes a clause that unoffi- cially elected officers in district No. } | shall be permitted to become mem- | bers of the committee which will ne- | gotiate with the operators, subject to | the approval of the biennial conven- | tion of district No. 1, which meets in | Wilkes-Barre July 16. This recom- | mendation, the report stated, was made without prejudice to any con- troversy that might arise concerning the election for pfficers of district No. 1. | This clause lends color, according to | delegates, to reports that the elec- ' tion of Rinaldo Cappellini to the| presidency of district No. 1 may be contested in_the district convention. | On the unofficial returns he had a | majority of near ten thousand. Cap- pellini has been referred to as a radi- cal by his opponents. COAL REPORT DELAYED. Federal Commission Findings to Be | Nut After July 4. l While the law creating the coal| commission requires a report by July | 1 on wages and costs of production | in the anthracite industry, it was said | today that the conclusions could not be made public until after July 4 be- cause of the belated arrival of statis- | tical studies. The findings will be available, how- | ever, in time for use of anthracite | mine operators and miners’ union offi- | cials In wage negotiations, which they | are expected to institute soon. Daniel M. Link, an Indiana attorney, has| been delegated by the coal commis- | sion in the meanwhile to attend the ! Scienton convention of the miners' | un)an, which is now engaged in fram- ing new wage demands, to act as an | observer of the proceedings. | U. S. CHINESE STAND OFFERS NO BALM Foreigners in Peking Unsoothed by] Sze’s Cable That Suggestions Are Unheeded. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily Ne Copyright, 1023, PEKING, June 29.—Publication here today of a cablegram from Al- fred Sze, Chinese minister to Wash- ington, announcing that the Ameri- can government will refuse to carry out any of the suggestions made by American and British commercial or- ganizations for restoring order in China, has not had the tendency to southe the feelings of foreigners here who have protested against the leth- argy of forelgn powers in dealing with the Chinese situation. The feeling of dissatisfaction is further augmented by the announce- ment_from Chinese officials that the Washington government intends to rebuke the ‘American Chamber ~of Commerce in_China for its cable to the State Department protesting ~gainst lack of forceful action and railure to safeguard American life wnd property, | continue the flight. {the racing plane again. | Martin | into the manner of the Jewish leader’s one day, the people of Washington used more water during the recent heat wave than at any time In pre- vious years, according to figures ob- tained from the water department to- day. Even during Shrine week, when there were more than 100,000 visitors in the clty, the consumption of water only reached 74,000,000 gallons. ‘The high mark of recent years was reached last Friday, when the total consumption was 76,472,440 gallons. On Monday and Tuesday of this week more than 75,000,000 gallons were drawn from the reservoir. * The cool breeze that brought rellef to the city last night reduced the con- sumption of w the tw CRASH ENDS TRIAL - TOFLY FOUR DAYS Aviators Forced Down in Fog and Plane Is Wrecked at Landing. By the SAN ssociated Press. DIEGO, Calif., June The airplane carrying Capt. H. Smith and Lieut. Army aviators, In their attempt to remain in the air for four days and four nights, crashed into the mud fiats between Coronado and North Island at about 4:40 a.m. today. It was reported by telephone from Rockwell Field that neither of the {aviators had been seriously injured. According to officers, the aviators were trying to make a safe landing, 20— Lowell ress impossible, Plane Turns Over. Lieut. Virgil Hines sald that the wrecked De Haviland had turned upside down in ‘the mud, but that | Capt. Smith and Lieut. Richter had {escaped injury and had been put to bed. 4 Capt. Smith and Lieut. Richteg broke at least one record—that for speed over 2,500 kilometers—and are believed to have broken that for spesd over 3,000 kilometers, When the aviators ran into the fog they changed their course, which had been fifty kilometers fong. on a cer- tified speedway, to an inside air lane of shorter distance. They evidently be able to see their way and still , Fail to Refuel. At the same time, according to re- ports from Rockwell Field, Lieut: Hines and Seifert took off to refuel They made several attempts, but only one of these was successful, Lieut. Hines said. In that attempt Hines and Seifert! were able to deliver to the other| aviators only fifteen gallons of gaso- line. Lieut. Hines said that the gasoline | eed line of the racing plane had| started to make trouble and that ten minttes later Capt. Smith and Lieut. Richter were forced down. POISON DISCOVERED IN RABBI'S STOMACH Rigid Investigation Ordered Into| Death of San Francisco Jewish Leader. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.—An autopsy disclosure of the presence of poison in the stomach of Rabbi A. Meyer, who was found dead Wednesiay, Was tie starting point today of a rigid investigation death. e Rabbi Meyer, who was nationally known in Jewish circles, was head of Temple Emanuel, one of San Fran- cisco's leading Jewish congregations. His death at first was attributed to heart disease. The autopsy surgeon | reported that while the heart was | slightly enlarged, the condition seem- ingly was not sufficient to have caused death. Coroner Leland said he did not sus- pect_sulcide or foul play, but that the fact polson had been discovered in the stomach necessitated a rigid inyestigation. From 1902 to 1906 Rabbi Meyer was head of a temple in Albany, N. Y. In 1906 he went to Brooklyn, N. Y. where he remained until he came t California in 1914. SEND CALL FOR HELP o J. B. Richter, dense fog having made further prog- | thought that by doing this they would morning to 71,000,000 gallons. Officials of the water department say that these records point to the necessity for the exercise of greater care by all users of water during the remainder of the summer. Beginning Sunday, July 1, police regulations become effective prohib- iting any one from turning the hose on_the sidewalk or the street. Under the law lawns may be water- ed between the hours of 5 and 8 o'clock, morning or evening, but | householders will use water sparingly even during the hours that it is per- mitted. Some idea of the high consumption during this summer may be obtained from a reading of the following rec- | ords for this time in past years: 1918, highest consumption. 71,- July, 1919, 71,000,000; June, 1921, 73,000,000, 000.000 20, 6 and Jun FRANCE INCREASES FUND FOR AVIATION Germany, Not England, the Cause of Expansion, Depu- ties Are Informed. | By the Associated Press. | - PARIS, June 29.—The chamber of deputies last evening approved an ap- propriation of 211,000,000 francs for aeronautic establishments and ma- terial. The soclalist deputy Mistral called attention to the fact that the appro- priation has been raised from 36.- 000,000 at the government's last- | minute demand, and wanted to know if this was in _reply to Stanley Bald- win's recent declaration in London. {He also asked wheiher a new arma- ment race was thus to be initiated. Deputy Benazet protested any in- ferences suggestive of the possibility | of France attacking England, and the deputies supported him by their up- use. He then asserted that the in- in the appropriation was due to Germany’s activity in aviation. RHINE BRIGEREAD TROOPS ADVANCED French ‘Extend Mayence0c- cupation Zone in Direction of Frankfort. | By the Associated Press. COBLENZ, June 29.—The French to- day extended their occupation in the Mayence bridgehead to Langen, on the Darmstadt-Frankfort raflroa | line, eight miles south of Frankfort, and Eschborn, on the Kronberg line, seven and a half miles northwest of Frankfort. The exten- sion is a jenalty for recent sabotage on the ralilroads. The scene of the French extension of the occupation area is far removed from the Ruhr, being along the east- ern edge of the Mayence bridgehead, the southernmost of the three bridge- heads established along the German border under the armistice and the treaty of Versailles. pushing forward slightly of the French lines northeast of Mayence to- ward the big city of Frankfort, which the French military front now closely i approaches both on the north and the i gouth. BIG FIRM REDUCES Chapin-Sacks Corporation Nullifies Increase Before Shrine Convention. The wholesale price of ice cream manufactured by the Chapin-Sacks Corporation has been decreased 20 cents a galion, it was learned today. Retailers have reduced their prices proportionately. Shortly before the Shrine Conven- tion tife corporation advanced the wholesale price of its product 20 cents a gallon, and its recent action nullifies this increase. The company IN FIRE AT HAMPTON National Soldiers’ Home Burning and Flames Are Reported Spreading Rapidly. By the Associated Press. HAMPTON, Va. June 20.—A call for assistance in extinguishing a fire at the Natlonal Soldiers’ Home near here was sent to nearby towns this afternoon, when a blaze that started in the mess hall got beyond control of the men and equipment on the res- ervation. Fire-fighting apparatus ffom :bree cities now is battling the flames, which are spreading f: SUN YAT-SEN HARD HIT. By the Assoclated Press. CANTON, June 20—Sun Yat-Sen's constitutionalist government in a des- perate_effort to raise funds in the face of hostile armies driving from thres sides is selling temples and public lands over the protests of the general public and conseripting large numbers of the working class for service in Sun’s front trenches and along his transportation lines. attributed the increase in May to the rising costs of ice cream ingre- dients and the cost of labor. No formal announcement of the decrease wd% made by the company, retailers said today. Drivers of the ice cream distributing wagons un. ceremoniously informed their cu. tomers that a cut of 20 cents a gal- lon had been ordered by the com- pany. Heretofore, the retallers said, whenever a rise or a cut in_prices was made, the company formally no- tifled them in a circular letter. Offi- cials of the company could rot be reached. Reports are current that an “ice cream war” exists in Washington due to the competition of a new ice cream manufacturer who recently en- tered the local fleld. % —_— NASHVILLE DONS FURS. Drop of Temperature to 85 Fol- lows Rain and Wind. NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 29.—Over- coats and furs by scores appeared on downtown streets here last night When the thermometer dropped to 6 degrees shortly after moon, and re- mained there until after midnight. The drop was precipitated by 1.03 inches of rain, which fell last night, accompanied by a sixty-two-mile-per- hour wind and a brilliant lightning display, : | water department officlals hope that ANSWERTOCRIIES From - 4,500,000 Idle Two Years Ago, Nation. Now Needs Workers, He Says. WARNS AGAINST FALSE ECONOMIC EXPERIMENTS ‘Whole Credit for Achievement Not Claimed for G. 0. P. in Speech in Montan; iated Press. Mont., June 29.—Present- ing here in Butte today a report on the post-war revival of business, President Harding declared that na- tional mobilization by business, labor and government forces to overcome depression “was no less accomplished than the great co-operation to win the war.” Outlining the steps taken under government direction to wipe out un- employment and to restore confidence in business, the rPesident asserted:| | “It our procedures have been rather plain and old-fashioned, they have vet produced- results that justify pride and requires no apolo Better Day by Day. “If we are accused of getting no- | where in particular,” he added, “we may very well reply that at any rate we have been able to stay right here, | that we regard it as a zood placo to ! stay, and that day by day we have| been getting better and bett:r. { “I am disposed freely 10 admit that | some other folks have had more ex- | citement than we have had; buc aj good many people in this world ! would be glad to exchange their stock of excitement for a modest shars in our American accumulation of simple contentment and dinner table neccs- | saries.” Seized in Baltimore Hotel, Keating Tries to End . Own Life. By the Associated Press. | BALTIMORE, Md., June 29 —Thomas |, The President said he did not Bre- . Keating, 1204 Kennedy street north- | Sent the report on revived business|y.y Washington, D. C., shot and prob- | conditions “as the accomplishment of | b1 fatally wognded himself today in or he nis room at the Hotel Rennert, when i | | !a particular administration | the public confidencer arrested on a warrant charging him with S 3 B {in the National Capital. { teatimony to the supreme sens d | the office of Herbert Hopv sound genfus of a nation which Gould | of Commerce, and & nophos P TORE T continent gnd its altruisms embrace & [jand, Mdy, - ooy e lnmu.';r-fnmwn of bumsBIty.". e | gry fak taken at onee to Mandy Houpi- people have done in the last twol|grtical, The bullet had touched his {years. No other pcople has had the |pragn, o | None other looks out today upon 50 | several months. He had been living at | cledr a horizon, and I venture that d"‘m_em ol ek s ‘"‘v i new era. | - “Thus convinced. I know that you [of “T. J. Kelly, Denver. Col." ‘This morhing two local detectives for the pride, the satisfaction and the ratitude which the national admin- cused him of being Keating. ARRESTEDD. C. MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF { having passed a number of bogus checks | found him in bed in his room and ac- This he | Frankfort- | | justification of any party’s claim upon | “Rather it Is placed before you 28, geating claimed to be an attache in make its- 00-0peration ~extend 1o. 4 ienting. wealthy -distiller of Cumber. added;; rThet is what the American i) where it was said his condition was | fortune to parallel the achlevements. | pojice had been trailing Keating for | we stand only in the doorway of the istered at the Rennert under the name ! will permit me to add just one word | istration feels in having been able to | leadership and direction to this ac- complishment. We will not claim ! much; for the great end could have contribute something of suggestion, | | dentea_at first, but finally broke down and admitted his identity. the detsctives {sald. He was permittéd to go to the bathroom to wash. A moment later the officers heard the report of a pistol and It results in the | {CE CREAM PRICES | been attained only through the com- | found him lying over the bathtub with plete unity, in spirit, purpose and|a wound in his right temple. A revol- | patriotism, of the whole American|ver was clasped in one hand. | nation. Jobs Seeking Workers. KEATING WANTED HERE. “Two years ago we made a careful census of unemployment in the | United States and found 4,600,000 or 15,000,000 workers without jobs. That was bad, but since then matters have been reversed, and if nowadays We|clerk in the Department of Commerce. jare disposed to worry about the prob- | petectives O'Brien and Livingston lem of unemployment we have to con- sider ways and means to fill a halt million or a million jobs which want workers and can’t find them. That is|on local merchants. | the stmplest ‘picture of the industrial | formed that he had passed a number | evolution of the last two years. That | is the bed-rock foundation on which {American business and American ad- {ministration have erected their con- |fidence that this people will not be led into the paths. of devious experi- mentation, the mazes of untried eco- (Continued on P’age 4, Column Z.) Three Warrants Issued on Bad- Check Charges. 1 T. J. Keating, who is about twenty- warrants were Issued for him, added. It was known to the detectives that he had relatives in Baltimore and that he had made several automobile trips between the two citles the past few days, and it was because of his Bal- timore connectlons tha that city had been asked to locate and arrest him. Checks he is alleged to | have passed in thls city were for | sums of not more than $15. Keating is under bond of $1,700 in this city to answer charges growing out of an automobile accident he had they LASKER SEES DRYS eight years old, was employed as a| have been looking for him to answer charges of having passed bad checks| They were in-| of checks, they stated, but only three | the police of ;Police Employe Held in T heft Of Automobile John Francis Mater, thirty-elght | vears old, of 475 Maryland avenue | southwest, employed at police head- | quarters, was locked up today in a | volice station on the charge of hav. ing stolen the only | signed to the woman's bureau for of- | ticial use. ! The automobile disappeared from lin front of the house of detention and when its absence v'as discovered the male members of ithe force were requestea to search tor it. Motor Cycle Policeman P Myers of the Anacostia squad lo- g the car this morning on a_side nad near Alabama avenue and Stand jroad southeast, with the police de- partment employe in it | Taken to the police ;Xl stated, gave an explanation that did nct quite satisfy the offic and he was locked up, charged with tlolatin ection 831 he_ District aking - prope: longfng to the District. 4 Mater has Been in the employ of the department several years and is & “telephor.e -operater in”the central hureau at hepdquarter: WALSHLEADS 5 UP i I i | | Outplays Whitham in First 18 Holes Over East Po- tomac Course. BY W. R. MeCALLUM. Richard Walsh of New York began the final eighteen holes of the na- tional public links championship at Zast Potomac Park this afternoon 5 up on J. Stewart Whitham, his fel- {low townsman. Outplaying Whitham all the way | through the first twelve holes, Walsh was 8 up at the end of the twelfth. Whitman won four of the next five holes, only to lose the eighteenth, to end the first eighteen holes of the thirty-six-hole final 5 down. Whitham Plays Off Game. Far off the game he showed yester- day, when he defeated Raymond J. McAuliffe, the Buffalo crack, Whit- ham repeatedly missed his tee shots and was unsteady through the fair- way. Walsh, on the other hand, was playing steadily and held the upper hand from the very first hole. Whitham missed several chances to automobile as- | ! northwest. | Thinks Next Congress Will Modify Volstead Act Af- fecting Foreign Ships. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 29.—Expressing a belief that the next Congress will change the Volstead act to permit foreign ships to bring liquor, under seal, into the territorial waters of the United States, Albert D. Lasker, retiring head of the United Stat Shipping Board, in a statement said he had reason to belleve dry as well as wet lawmakers would, support such a measur He saild he was merely expressing his personal views, but expressed his belief that the board had never been in favor of the Treasury Department’s ruling result- ing In the policy of seizing liquor from foreign ships entering American “to surmi: Iln that pro- hibit foreign ships from brin, this country a sufficlent a ‘liquor for the return trip was done as an aid to American shipping. In- stead it is a blow and may be a big loss.” said, . Fears No Complications. Mr. Lasker sald he did not fear in- ternational complications, asserting that there, wi nothing to prevent foreign -ships leaving ir - liquor supplies outside the three-mile limit and picking them up.as they returned, American ships may not do. “The >rinciple is” ke said, “that in trying to make the ocean dry, the keeping of the land dry endanger- ed. - I believe the dry advocates will wee it that way and take ‘steps ac- cordingly.” AIDING LAW CHANGE at 18th and U streets the night of reduce Walsh's lead on the first nine :g;:l‘e 5t Tarl Roth, 1933, 18th street, | holes, but was unable to hole the win- parked in_ front of 1740 U street.|ning putt. He was 5 down at the end struck and broke the leg of W. D.|of the first nine holes. { Hottel, 2461 18th street, and damaged | Walsh won the first three holes of the steps of the U street hodse. the last nine, to become 8 up on his Policeman Bunn of the eighth pre-|fellow townsman, but at the thir- cinct arrested Keating several hours!tecnth Whitham began a string of atter the accident. He charged him | steady golf that appeared certaln to with assault on Hottel, colliding and | bring him to the eighteenth hole not failing to make his identity known |too far down to Walsh to hope for after the accident happened. It is said’|a recovery on the last round this aft- by the police that he abandoned his|ernoon. car after the accident. According to information received by the police here Keating left a note in the Baltimore hotel room, declar- ing: z 1 stppose you will take care of my body. I am sorry I had to do it. If any of my friends find my body, get Martin Fahey (undertaker) to 'tak care of my body. Some of my papers are In the box in Caswell Hotel.” Holes 30-Yard Shot. ‘Walsh holed a chip shot from thirty yards ‘away at the twelfth to win the hole. . Whitham won the short thirteenth by sinking a fifteen-foot putti He also won the fourteenth, avith a par 4, and holed a chip shot from the edge ‘of the fifteenth green to win the hole, 4—b. Whitham won the sixteenth, when Walsh's third shot was far over the green, against the wind. The seventeenth’ was halved in 4, aithough Walsh was just off the edge of the green with his tee shot. Walsh_won the eighteenth hole to FIND MISS MINTER IN SANITARIUM REST Friends Learn Film Actress Could | .5 &S 0F he morning rouna Not Stand Noises at Home, |1V But Will Return. 3 Wash—Out .. ‘Whitham—Out Walsb—In Whitham—In The final round started at 2 o'clock. | Mil Minter, mofio’:n;lczt:; SEM"F|NALS BR|NG e o “whom trisnds "besun| - THRILLS BY CLOSELY- CONTESTED MATCHES gearching yesterday when they learned she had been absent from her Van Cartland Park was pitted against Pélham Bay Park in the home for a Week, is in a sanitarium at Pasadena, n Los Angeles, tak- p of the: national public links ing a “rest cure.” according to her | ol *crumplonsnip at. East, Potomac grandmother, Mrs. Juliette Miles, P;rkmzm;.-y -“I ‘e|wkvorl:: is Ilureh:u “Mary will make her home with |unfold the public links champlonship or .'n'lum soon,’ ular l(u'l(‘l’le.. flag next year. Where it will go— “but there are carpenters and work- |OR Which of the metropolitan public men hammering on the building next | courses it will be unfurled—will be o her mother's house and the nolse ) decided by the battle in the final b =~ (ConUnued vn rage 2, Lolumn 5.) irritates Mary's nerves.” By the Associated Press. 1LOS ANGELES, Calif., [ PRESIDENT HARDING'S IDEAL PICTURE. 29 SCHOOL YARDS | TOBEPLAYSPACES | Will Open for Summer July 5—Additional to Gov- ernment Grounds. Twenty-nine school yards wilH be thrown open as summer playgrounds 1'0" July 5, Mrs, Susie Root Rhodes, |superintendent of muntipal play- !grounds, announced today. Added to the twenty-three mu: i- pal grounds, these school campuses will give a total of fifty-two “islands lof safety” on which the boys and 1 |girls of the city may romp through the vacatign period without danger {ot aceidents. School Yards Chowzn. The school vards selected- by Mrs. Rhodes for summer use foliow: White—Adams, 17th, R and New Hampshire avenue northwest; Arthur, ist and Arthur place n. Bowen, 3d and K streets southwest; iBrookland, 10th and Monroe streets northeast; Buchanan, E street soutk east, between 13th and 14th strects | Burroughs, 18th and Monroe strects {northeast; Cooke, 17th and Columbia {road northwest; Corcoran, 2Sth and [ S streets northwest; Dennison, S street between 13th and 1ith Eaton, 34th and Lowell streets’ northwest; Emery, Lincoln road and Prospect street northea Fairbrother. 10th _and I strects {southwest: ‘Menry-Polk, 7th and O streets northwest; Hayes, oth and K streets northeast; Johnson-Powell Park road and Hiatt place north |west; Jefferson, 6th and D streais jsouthwest; Seaton, I street northweost, between 2d and 3d streets; Takom Piney Branch road and Dahlia street northwest; Thomson, 12th and L |Streets northwest; Wallach-Towers, !D street southeast, between ith and §th_ streets. | ™ Colored—Briggs, Inorthwest: Anthon (IS streets southwest; Bruce, Kenyon |street northwest, between iand Sherman avenues; Birne ‘avenue, Anacostia; Giddings, 3d and !G streets southeast; Langston-Slater, {North Capitol and Pierce streets: Ma- i gruder, 18th and M stree-s nort jwest: 'Payne. 15th and C strents southeast; Wormley, Prospect avenue {between 33d and 34th streets north- west. . Permanent Municipal Grounds. For the information of children who have not attended the play- grounds in former years, Mrs. Rhodes also listed the permanent municipal grounds, which are: Bloomingdale, 1st and Bryant streets northwest; Chevy Chase, 4lst, 42d and Livingston streets northwest; Gallinger, F street between 21at and 22d streets northwest: Garfield, 2d and I streets southeast; Georgetown 33d street and Volta place northwest: Happy Hollow, 18th street and Kal. orama road northwest; Hoover, 2d and N streets southwest; Iowa Ave- nue, 13th street and Iowa avenue northwest; Mitchell Park, 23d and S streets northwest; Montrose Park, 30th and R streets northwest; New Hampshire Avenue, New Hampshire avenue and L street northwest; New York Avenue, 1st street and New York avenue northwest; Park View, Warder and Otis streets northwest: Plaza, 2d and E streets northeast William S. Phillips, 9th_and Longfal- low streets northwest; Rosedale, 17th and Kramer streets northeast; Twin Oaks, 14th and Taylor streets porth- west: Virginia Avenue, 10th street and Virginia avenue southeast; Car- dozo, 1st and I streets southwast Howard, 5th and W _strests north- west; Logan, 3d and G streets north- east; Phillips School, 27th and N strects northwest: Willow Tree, 3d 4%, B and C streets southwest. = ' ITALIAN DEPUTY STABBE Deputy Speaker in Serious Condi- tion—Assassin Escapes. LONDON, June 29.—A Central News dispatch from Rome says that Gluseppe Pietravalle, deputy speaker of the chamber, has been stabbed at Naples and.is in a serious-condition. His assailant escaped. ACTRESS GETS DIVORCE. Bessie Eyton Wins Freedom Plea of Non-Support. By the Associnted Press. £ LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 28.— Mrs. Bessle Harrison Coffey,.known on the stage and screen as Bessie Ey- ton, yesterday was granted-a divorce trom Clark Coffey, whom she charged with non-support. streets: 22d and E streets Bowen, 9th and SHIPLIQUOR STAND Seizure of Foreign Liners Openly Violating Laws May Be Necessary. OFFICIAL WORD LACKING BY STATE DEPARTMENT Curzon’s Statement That Comity Has Been Violated Viewed as Serious. With one horn of the ship liquor dllemma cut off by Great Britain's re- fusal to consider the American two- sided treaty offer, and with the other horn—remedial legislation by Con- gress—belleved by officials to be jam- med and choked by the dry sentiment In the country and Congrees, the ad- ministration here today faced the most delicately acute international! situation of all the aggravating pre- dicaments into which this government has been precipitated in the history of prohibition. Hesitant to seize foreign liners which have in open violation of Amer- ican law brought In beverage liquors under ~seal, the administration's Im- mediate problem seemed to be: “How can the government bring sufficient pressure on foreign shipping interests to persuade them: to keep thelr bever- age liquor outside the three-mile lim- it, and at the same time avold such extreme measures as arrest of foreign captalns, fines to shipping, and, wors: of all, seizure of foreign vessels? United States Plan Unacceptable. Great Britain, through Marquis Curzon, secretary for foreign affairs, yesterday in the house of lords in effect proclaimed to the world that |the American treaty proposal to ex- tend the three-mile limit for search end seizure to twelve miles, and at the same time mitigate the severity of the American ship liquor ban was entirely unacceptable. The State De- partment here had not received this morning any official communication from Great Britain, but was deeply concerned in the receipt of press dis- patches of the foreign secretary's re- marks, No official comment w. forthcoming. Lord Curzon's declaration that this | zovernment had the right to break | the customis seals of a forelgn power inside the three-mils Wit but that the whole ship liquor ban’ was con- sidered ‘a_violation of the, comity of nations, was taken in unofficial quar- ters here today as a broad hint that Great Britain would persist in her (S“orl! to mitigate the ship liquor an. The administration, it was revealed at the Treasury, ig by no means ready to seize foreign ships. Although the actual regulations for such seizure have been drawn up, and are on file at the Treasury, it was revealed that the policy of the administration, ad- mittedly in a quandary how to pre- vent violation of American law, had not yet been committed to the drastic step of ship selzure. Liquor seizure. it way indicated, would be continued. Door Shut to Possibility. Great Britain’s refusal has shut the door to a possibility of relieving the situation\by treaty: and high officizls who today declared the only other eventuality was remedial legislation by Congress, were just as emphatic in their bellef that the dry Congress would pass no legislation sufficient really to afford international relief. Why does not this government seiz the foreign liners is a question which has obtained for three days, but which again today was met with the reply that although the Volstead act does provide for seizure of vessels vio- lating the law, it is not mandatory upon the administration to go to such lengths. “Not all criminals are hun was the answer glven in explanation of the principle that not all of the ponalties provided in the Volstead act need be applied. While Lord Birkenhead in the Brit- ish debate yesterday held out some hope for settlement of the difficul through further “representations, there was .no definite indication in any official quarter here today as to what form such negotiations might take' toward an alleviation of the { situation. Great Britain having evi- { dently rejected the American offer, it was a matter of some conjecture as to what the British may have in mind to make the trend of their repsesenta- tions. Smuggling Separate Subject. Intimation by Lord Curzon that the real motive of the United States in making the treaty offer was “the de- sire_to put pressure on us to check traffic in contraband liquor” was un- officially answered today by the ex- planation that the two subjects dealt with In the American proposal were in reality separate. The matter of smuggling and the matter of British 3hips entering American gvaters under the ship liquor ban, hm€ng separate origin, were said to have presented problems to both nations, and were consequently included in the proposal. Lord Curzon's reference to a “loop- hole” in the Supreme Court decision by which the United States might avold selzure of liquors wes the sub- ject of much discussion here today, with the plain intimation set forth that no executive of the American government could take advantage of the “loophole” without additional leg- islation by Congre Whether Congress when it meets will take advantage of the ‘“loop- hole” to enact amendatory legisla tion to relieve the situation is a matter over which wide difference of opinion exists, but the declaration of high oficials of the administra- tion today that there was little hope in_that direction left the whole (Continued, on Page 2, Column 2.) FIREMEN ARE PROMOTED. Sergt. Staples Is Made Lieutenant; Two Privatgs Advanced. The Commissioners today announced the promotion of Sergt. C. W. Staples to-be a lleutenant in the fire depart- ment. Privates J. E. Allman and J. H. Swann were advanced to the rank of sergeant. by C. W. Reld and W. R. Cryer were appointed privates to fill the vacan- cles created by the promotions.