Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1923, Page 1

‘ WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomo: temperature tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hours High: ended at 2’ p.m. toda: 2 pm. yvesterday; lowest a.m. today. Full report on puge rrow: rising 86, at Elo:ing N.Y. Sindu and Bonds,Page 26 o7 ered as secs ol No. 289 Fnening ond rlnss catter post office ‘Washington, D. C. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. €., MONDAY, JULY 23, 1923—THIRTY-TWO . PAGES. * FRANCE 70 SPEED REPLY TO BRITAIN'S REPARATIONS NOTE . Paris and Brussels Active in Exchanges—Poincare Drops Other Work. PRFEMIER'S SPEECH FAILS TO DAMPEN OPTIMISM Unwillingness to Accept Revision of Commission's Estimate of Ger- many's Ability to Pay Voiced. oin itish repa 4 from London late reful reading on Satur- study today of are. ion to presenting to the cabinet visers with a view the w tomorr ole situatio ing on active o ply to London will v be made before the end of anxiov the vrer. £r compl tish reply, obtain a prompt agement to go to Rheims toda t off all his other work so concentrate upan ion question. ted around the 1 nd tight imen scem o it compartm ived unlikely rece from th Min- f the | shown politic: s commi capacity POINCARE IGNORES NOTE. parati Makes No Reference to British Reply in Speech. » vesterday at the u to the sél« world war. He no allusion to the British note 1tions. n h address with dramatic outline of the French offensive in the summer of i then replied to the recent f David Lloyd ¢ prime sperity of France. of the Zener concer B! ning repa Poincare a counter sorge, ae A considerable with the monstrous former tish minister, tion German speech de; 1 ogram of economic annihilation for up 1916 by staff's cribed the organ \ industry having carte s prodig- ncerns controlling all ction, from raw m terials t shed products, thus holding a snopoly on al 1th and dominating the and more d epublic vast s vertical forms of pre the peo- w the government and Sees Danger in Relaxation. we commit the imprudence losing ment in * declare Poine our re, “she arbitrary soom under th of this extraordinary ag- w1 on of industrial forces, and, Ly reconquering economic suprems vill impose upon the world the frame will qui mea influen most retrograde and immoral | California, Britain . waid M Belgium, Poincare. Italy and must unite hed and forever power! Germany. he German from which M, ructs tended rmany ehe had infl tries would « tw s compared with Germany, with ard to wool spinning, although nhappily it is to be fearéd England takes the liou's part of the plan.” The plan enumerated the raw ma- terials and manu tured goods to be removed from invaded departments in rly twenty industries and showed that the Germans counted not only on the damage to be done, but the time that would be requi ome her serious, ri pla Poi show damages 's_indu; ear or s BELGIANS STUDY NOTE. Officials Optimistic That Repara- tions Settlement Will Be Favorable i By the Associated Press. A BRUSSELS, July 23.~The ote on reparations on its arrival here by special courier was immed- iutely examined by Premier Theunis and Foreign Minister Jaspar, and then translated. Both ministers studied it thoroughly and drew up|} points to constitute a basis for dis- cussion at a special cabinet counell today. The feeling in official quar- ters can be described as still opti- mistis If the British views, as expressed the note, were regarded as un- hangeable and not open to modifica- tion after due discussion, it is believed tnis optimistic feeling would not xist, as some of the points in the ocuments are not comprehensible to the Belgian mind. Tt is thought that the diplomatic conversations which now are enter- “ing upon a period of great activity ill be aided by developments in the situation in Germany which are con- sidered to be evolving rapldly in a direction favorable to the Franco. + »Belgian po . No immediate conversations be- tween the French and Belgian min- sters are contemplated at present, but the discussions will be con- tinued through diplomatic channels. ;| Valley, Near Arizona Line. ing | t ibing the | . | Eeology for France to | British | 'Poss es Recapture 15 Madmen, With 26 More Still at L "#°/N DEADLOCK, MAY Delivery of 41 From Chester, 1ll., Asylum Believed Due to Carefully Con- ceived Plot of Lunatics. 1Br T CH of forty swociated Press TER, L. July e insane convicts, who last ym thg stute hospital insane here, had been ptured this morning. | Acting concertedly, in contradiction the frequently expressed theory ! insane persons cannot act in m, the frenzied madmen escaped buttering down u scction of steel mesh wire fence, after killing one of their own number and seriously wounding two guard I Frank Stubblefield, superintendent, suffered I tractured ‘arm in attempting to hold { back the inmate 1 Negro Conviet Killed. The dead convict is Willlam Jack- | son. a negro, “convicted in Chicago | on a murder charge. It was asserted | i today that he was stabbed to death by his fellow convicts in the general | fight preceding the escape, and not by | guards as previously reported. The wounded guards are James | Dentey, who was stabbed below the | heart, and Ralph Dilday, who was | clubbed about the head. Little hope | {1s held for Denney's recovery, it was | SOUTH CALIFORNIA - ROCKED BY QUAKE Shocks Extend to Imperial to L ¢ fun Three Men Injured. Calif., July The entire tier of southern Californ! counties was rocked by an earthquake of trom eleven seconds’ to twenty sec- onds’ duration at 11:28 o'cloc night, 1\ Bernardino, where the great- | est damake was caused, feeling a sec- lond h tremor at 1 o'clock this| | morning Tre 1ou ¥ 1 in, although injn rdino when roofs | ere have been no reports of deaths. Much damage was caused to prop: buildings on streets mning east and west being the chief sufferers. leep ¥ | Santa Ba Northern Paint. i | Santa Barbara was the extreme 1n(>r|hern point from which earthquake reports were received and San ‘Diego {the farthest south. The shocks ex- {tended eastward across the Imperial | valley nearly to the Arizona line. | No serious damage was done here. Long Beach. Glendale, kagle Rock, | iverside. Monrovia, Por San_ Jacinto, et, Ventura, Redlands, El Centro, | Avrow Springs, Mojave and { Needles were other places where the | Sharp shocks were reported felt. | Bullding Badly Damaged. In San Bernardino the Hall of Rec- | {ords, In a buflding in the courthouse |group. was badly damaged, tons of ock being torn loose from the walls. | The falling debris crashed through the |xo0f of a rooming-house adjoining. Los Angeles city and county jail in- mates were panicfstricken. There was some damage at Loma ra | Linda Sanitarfum, but none at the!it should follow the regular course of | government hospital at Arrowhead. | Patients in both institutions were bad- Iy frightened. A message from San Jacinto, which | | city was badly damaged in 1918, sald | | the damage there was not serfous, QUAKE MILD IN EFFECT. |Less Severe Than Many Heretofore i Felt in Same Area. BERKELEY, Calif., July earthquake which shook southern particularly San Ber- | nardino and Redlands, last night, was les severe than numerous others which have been felt in southern alifornia in the last ten vears, ac- cording to Prof. J. P. Buwalda of the artment of the University of California, as in many previous in- stances buildings were shaken down. | Although the great San_Andreas | fault, from which the San Francisco | carthquake of 1906 came, is tie near- jest to these towns, Prof. Buwalda {sald 1t was difficult to determine without more complete information whether the shock came from this fault or one of many subsidiary faults in southern California, |AMERICAN GUNBOAT FIRED ON BY CHINESE Engages in Ten-Minute Battle While on Patrol of West River. 23.—The By tlie Associated Press. CANTON, July 23.—Previous to the recent capture of Wuchow by the constitutionalists, the United States gunboat Pampanga, while patroling the West river protecting American interests, was fired on by artillery and rifies at Dosing, twent-seven miles below Wuchow, by Kwangsi troops, although the ship was flying two large American flags. It is the first time In the history of the West river that an American gunboat has been fired on. The Pampanga, in self-defense, was forced to return the fire of the at- tackers. Some difficulty was experi- enced in maneuvering the ship. The action lasted about ten minutes. There ‘were no American casualties. An apology for the attack was de- manded by Lieut. Leland P. Lovette, commander of the gunboat, and given by the Chinese. Lieut. Lovette last week brought peace to this seotion -0f China for the first time in_months by acting as an_intermediary between the forces of Sun yat-sen, southern constitutionalist leader, 'and the Kwangs! army under Shum-Hung- yiung. {mysterious murder of Mrs. Gra !had assembled The escape wus heralded by U cat’” siren at the institution, whic be heard for a number of miles, was followed by a scurrying of eiti- zens to their homes. Men obtalned firearms and misted in the search for the « 4 lunatics, some of whom had en adjudged homicidal mania Fifty gtards from the southern Tilinois penitentiary, adjoins the hospltal, are assisting in rounding up the c Exercising in Yard. 212 inmates were exercising the dash for liberty occurred. ifty inmates of ward D-1, consider. most dangeroys of the prisoner: ere in the inclosure and the opin- ion was expressed that these men were responsible for the delivery. It was pointed out that the deliv ery had been prearranged because of the team work employed. L an old method, two of the convicts started a fist' fight, apparently to attract attention. while others gath- ered around, shouting excitedly. The half dozen unarmed guards rushed through the velling group to quell the disturbance when suddendly they were attacked with fists. knives and clubs. An Investigation is under way to ascertain how the Inmates obtained the knives. Premier Bethlen Challenges Army | Officer to Duel By the Associated Press BUDAPEST. July Bethlen has challenged Col. Pronay to a duel. Count Bethlen sent his seconds to Pronay after the latter had publicly declured the premier “never keeps his word of honor. he offending statement was mude in the course of speech at Keoskemet, in which Col. Prona. attacked police orders inspired by County Bethlen. 23.—Premier GRAND IURY PROBE GETS UNDER WAY Special Session in Kepner Case Begins Hearing Witnesses. | By a Staft Correspondent. FREDERICK. three men, July —Twenty- members of the grand jury which was summoned into epe- | cial se: Frederick county to inquire into the Sim- | mons Kepner, solemnly assembled in the quaint little colonial courthouse here today, and within the next forty-elght hours will detetmine whether any one connected with the case will be formally charged with the crime. Possibility that the court might authorize the jurors to reopen the of Mrs, Kepner having destroyed her- | & self was nullified when Chief Judge | Hammond Urner, delivering his for- mal charge, told the grand jury that procedure and stmply determine whether . “there i3 ufficient ground for an indictment.” Family Physiclan Called. Ten minutes after the grand jury it repaired to {ts private chamber upon the instruc- tions of the chief judge. Dr. J. O. Hendrix, the Kepner family physician and the first person to examine the hody of the dead woman an hour after she had been found with a bul- (Continued on Page ‘Column 3.) PHILIPPINE PARTY SUPPORTING WOOD Democrats Blame Collecti- vista for Row; Oppose Mis- sion Coming to Washington. By the Associated Press. x MANILA, P. I, July 23.—The split between Gov. Gen. kLeonard Wood and Manuel Quezon, which resulted in the resignation of all leading officlals of the Philippine government, has devel- oped into a local political partisan em- brogllo, with the democrata party sup- porting Gov. Wood and the collectivista party opposing him, according to' polit- ical leaders here today. _ The democrata leaders today adopted resolutions opposing the joining of the parliamentary mission, which is to leave for Washington, D. C., within the next two weeRs to lay the facts of the Filipfno controversy before President Harding. Instead the democrata lead- ers favored a plan whereby the regu- larly elected resident commissioners would be given full power to lay the full facts before President Harding. ' Queson Is Blamed. Gov. Montinola of Tiollo, in a state- ment here today, places the entire re- sponsibility of the political crisis on Quezon and Manuel Roxas, speaker of the house of representatives. He cites instances where, he asserts, these men encroached on the perogatives of the governor general. Gov. Wood stated here today that no offer of cabinet positions has been made which | ng fons by the circuit court of | 1 S-TURK PARLEY, i - END WITHOUT PACT R onccun Treaty Must Be Signed or Negotiations Broken by Thursday, Is View. {BOTH PARTIES ADHERE TO ORIGINAL DEMANDS | Envoys in Session Sunday Fail to Settle Disputes—Poland Signs Treaty. | 85 the A LAT -d Press NE, July 28—The Turkish- | American treaty negotiations are ap- ]Drfluchhu: crigis. By Thursda | this week, when Ismet Pasha s: must leave for Angora, it will known whether the treaty will be signed or the negotlations broken off. Each delegation has sent lengthy dispatches to its government, seeking to harmonize their views on the di- vergent points, if this is possible. {The American and Turkish repr {tatives labored Indefatigably throug! jout vesterday seck wce the | conciusion of the yme | slight progress was formulas were 4 sides seem to be Bott their fundamental position on the di puted questions. Poland Signs Treaty. Poland and Turkey entered treaty relations here today. Thelr representatives signed three docu- Lents— ral treaty establish- ing frie elatfons, a commertial { treaty of the most fa vored 1 an additional ! merecial sntion. This last docu- | ment in teatures of the Eur pean treaty with Turkey which wil red by into on at the ba an m- Serbia Wi weenythe 3 it 4 : treaty be- ers and Tur- she find. tinancial uropean po nnderstood, the economic scceptabl v nd opened after the of BRITISH SEE VICTORY. | Diplomats Pleased With Triumph Over Soviet Russia. | | 87 the AssoctiteaiPrees LONDON, July | macy T pluming itself over what o | foreign office officials regard as Great | the fact that waile he didn't shy his) victory | bat into the ring, a capriclous wind | Britain's second diplomatic within three months over soviet Rus- | sia—the decision of Russla ta_accept the Lausanne ention regarding | the Turkish straits Downing Street's first diplomatic | victory is considered to be Moscow's | capitulation to Lord Curzon's ulti- matum of May $ in the dispute over | fishing Nts and the ment of I British nation. foreign off circles {ure ipelined to accord full credit Lord Curzon's knowledge and person {al influence for bringing the soviet {into llne on one part of the lausanne | agreement without giving them full | participation in the conte British off |start of ‘the Lausanne, conferenc | Great Britain maintained that uld take part only ling with the straits. This re sulted in the Ru ans declaring a | boycott on the conferen | e aae ENGLAND VEERING - TOT2-MILE LT Hughes Proposal for Stop- ping Rum Running More Favorably Met in London. con Recent dévelopments in England in connectlon with Secretary Hughes' | proposal for a spectal treaty to deal | With ship liquor stores and rum-run- ning incline officials here to belleve }that a more favorafile sentiment is developing in -London toward the American twelve-mile-limit “plan. Since the London foreign office sugestion has reported, it was pointed out today, there have been numerous indlcations that the committee’ took | @ more favorable view of the plan | than it was at first thought foreign office officials were disposed to do. The apparent favorable reaction fs believed to be due to a better un- derstanding of what reaily was pro- posec, and a realization that nothing had been suggested that In any way impaired the three-mile limit princi- ple of international law because no legitimate commerce could be embar. rassed by extension of the zone of gearch and selzure against contra- and. There is precedent in British prac- tice for local extensions of territorial urisdiction beyond the three-mile imit. It is pointed out here that the British method of |fisheries permits in far eastern pos- | sessions regts upon the patrol of wa- ters beyond three miles off shore, and this has never been regarded by any power as in any way invalidating the general principle of three-mile ter- ritorial delimination, 1t is assumed in Washington that complete study of the American pro- posal,and of British precedents has exerclsed a favorable influence in British foreign office circles, and it is Moped that this will be reflected when the formal British reply drafted. ~ IRENE CASTLE DIVORCED. Gets Decree in “Paris From Capt. © Treman. 5 to commlittee considering the American | granting pearl | is B s Aoy e ot T et members have )} pARIS, July 23.—Irene Castle Tre- been willing to accept such positions. In the meantime, he said, the undersec- | Man, the dancer, -was retaries are ing forward the busi- | divorce here todgy from her husband, motthofh‘l?bfimmm c-';t.nomfi'm By the Associated Press. _ granted @ | | \ | | | | | | | JONSON S SLENT ON 1524 CANDIDAGY ‘Senator, Back From Eu- | rope. Refuses to Indicate ! THis Aspirations. the allies and Turkish | RK, July 23.—Unite nator Hiram Johnson of California, boomed by his friends for the repub- A protocol of | Miean presidential nomination in 1924, | returned from a tour of t rope toda refusing to indi- cate to reporters or the crowd that thered to greet him, whether his hat®was in the ring Johnson enthusiasis professed to ! see two good omens in the incidents | of the homecoming. One was the fact that In the little fieet of craft that on Leviathan, —British diplo- | Went down the bay to meet him was | lthe tug Metomtnes. The other was { sied 1t for him into the bay. 1 Refuses to Talk. The senator only laughed, howeve when he was asked to comment on | the omens and declared: will not be interviewed on do- * polities at this itme; Later I ve a little to say. of the semator indicated they expeeted an important statement | from him Wednesday niBht when he addresses the testimoniul dinner be- i ing arranged in his honor. Senator Jahnson was taken aboard | the municipal st ner Magomb down the bay and landed at the battery. 1e was cheered there by erowd of | more than 2.000 persons us he entered | an_automobile to take him to his hotel To reporters who pressed him for ome indication of how he feels about he ‘“Johnson-for-President” move- | ment he had ever the samo answer, { though he phrased it differently—that | he wasn't going to be interviewed on | that subject today. | Out of Touch Here. “I have been in Europe four and a half months,” he sald. time I have been out of touch with domestic politics. I will talk about domestic politics only after T have had a chance to catch up with what | happened during my absence.” | Semator Johnson sald he planned to g0 to Washington the latter part of | this week and spend a few days | clearing up affalrs which have come {Jp during his absence. He expects ito | w ay h { The senator, who had become wed- {ded to the Leviathan on his trip jhome, wis grected down the lay early this morning by a committee of about t y-five, headed by Rhinelander Waldo and George Henry Payne. Most of the greeters were men who had been allied with the bull moose party, men who have {been warmly pro-Johnson for a long | time. As he left the Leviathan, Senator {Johnson gazed steadily back at her i for several minutes and then sald: “One cannot leave a ship like that without some emotion.” Views Have Changed. He had found many passengers on board, he sald, who had mnever thought much of the American mer- chant marine before. Now, he said, they were ‘resolved - that the - Stars and Stripes would be sufficient for them on the seas, and some were re- solved that the Stars and Stripes would be sufficient for them on land, too.” About his impressions of conditions in Europe and what he thinks Amer- ica’s attitude toward European affairs should be, Senator Johnson was a uncommunicative as he was about his presidential aspirations. Europe and ‘America’s relation to Euroge will be the subject of his address Wednesday night and his friends said he was {saving all his thunder for that ad- dress and the addresses which are to follow in various parts of the country. Thensanltor smiled and answered in the negative when he was asked if he proposed to follow the trail of President Harding’s recent swing i through the west in the delivery of his message to erica about foreign affairs. 1 havé no plan,” he safl. “I will delfver my message where I can and how I can.” Touches New Senator Johnson. / ‘Reporters who tried to smoke him out with some comment on.the re- cent election to the Senate of Magnus Johnson of Minnesota had little suc- dess. When some one told him the i Senator-elect had sald that “John- son “of California talks too little,” he replied, “there are a lot of people who talk too much.™ i L d States} “During that | g0 to California about September 1. | ET'S o N\ N ASK HIMOVER. / FOR ONE OF OUR. SPECIAL AMERICAN STATESMEN lgs ECTION 0 Britain Urged To Call Parley To Limit Arms By the Assoclated Pross. LONDON, Macdonald, er tlon in the house o ed a re increasi rted formed the beginning another race for armament. urged the government to take im- mediate ste tional conf tion of armaments. The resolution declare, this house deplores the { and g expenditire on naval | ana nd other military | | | s to call interna- limita- an cnce for the i 1 expendftures on . public health and simi- social and human servicef. 1., CANNOT NOW | i | [Soviet Must First Halt De- structive Tactics, Secre- tary Hughes Declares. ernment must cease to evince a spirit of destruction home and abroad before the government of the United States accords recognition to the Rus- sian government, Secretary Hughes jof the State Department de red in {2 letter to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Lahor, made publie here last night. The letter 6f Mr. Hughes was in- terpreted also n answer to the requests made by Senator Brookhart of Towa, just returned from Rus: ia, and others, for immediate recognition of the Russian government. The let- ter was in reply to a communication from Mr. Gompers. { Mr. Gompers’ Suggestion. Mr. Gompers, remarking on “misin- formation gathered by returning travelers during closely supervised tours” in Russia, suggested in a let- ter to the Secretary of State that some purpose might be served if “those standing for the American con- | racy could be given clearly to under- stand that the backbone of the whole situation regarding Russia is the dental to the people of Russia of ar‘x‘y OPPOrtunity to pass judgment on their own affalrs or to say by whom or In Wwhat manner they shall be governed.” The State Department position, he sald, had been. understood by him to be of “energetic opposition to a t rannical minority imposing the e S reluctant. peopte” 'K sing the oj v o Jressing the opinion of wage carner. States might, under any flances, ~extendy official recognition a vilifh; to. such a nous despotism is s Mr. Hughes Explains Policy. Hughes gave in conslderable detail the position of the administra- tion and a statement of principles which he said were guiding the poli- cles of this government toward Rus- sia. Amerfcan tradition, Mr. Hughes said, founded on a desire to refrain from interference with internal af- fairs of other nations, might require recognition of any government, even a government of a “tyrannical mi- nority,” when the people of the na- tion ‘concerned manifested “acquies- cence or submission” to it. Neverthe- less. recognition being “an invitation to intercourse” the government _ (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) circum- “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system cove: every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes, as, fast as the papers are printed. ! Saturday’s Net Circulation, 77,788 Sunday’s Circulation, 92,475 refuses to Tecogn RECOGNIZE RUSSIA Leaders of the Russlan soviet gove| cept of right and justice and democ- | “thought that the United | LEONARD — i3e Russian Yegime | l | | FORINPRDVING D.C Issue Would Give City Fa- cilities Vitally Needed. Preparation of mates for mext year missioner Oyster more {ever before that the should be allowed to sue to meet its pal necds, i 1toa AL linquiring into the {bond issue, but was not r. {mit himself for or against | Commissioner Rudolph refrained to- !{day from discussing the question for publication | the P ann has left Com- convinced than fonal Capital a bond is- ¥ J Frankiin ner, Sees No Objections. “If there are any legi why Washington should not be per- nitted to itself just as all s do, by borrow- financc would point them out to me” said provements that be appropri anly ot o big ar carried curre i1l inly work ot t “the such fcal wa is through uld not be b rowing more m than we could | we should b bonds gradu | regained the | the war in but I helieve ity to float the city has it lost during develop te ground municipal Water Pressure Needed. “We necd a stem of higl sure fire hydrants. There arc ber of park sites that should 1 quired before they are built s num- ac- upe {commodations. We streets that need paving. Our water- front should be brought into har- mony With its surroundings in the I nation's capital. ! 11 other cities ssus bonds to meet | fuch projects. Private business con- j cerns borrow money when they have | unusual obligations to meet. Why is {1t the people of the District cannot meet their urgent needs in that way. If there is any valld reason why it { shoula not done I would like to {know in what respect it is objection- able, | “Washington lago when the city . to develop and the last of that in- | debtendness will be wiped out next {vear.” Divides Burden With Future, have many issued bonds years from time to time in recent years, hut ihas never made any headway in Con- { gress. Commissioner Oyster was asked to- day ff he would take any steps to bring it to the attention of the men on Capitol Hill this year. Me re- i | plied: “F will gdvocate it whenever the | opportunity presents iteelf. Another {reason why I belicve theso big fmn- iprovements should be met through the issuance of bonds is because 1 think the futtre generation should help pay for developmnts that will benefit them as much as the present taxpay- ers.” Suggestion to Business. Capt. Oyster believes that if the civie organizations of the city would take up in earncst a campaign to ob- tain authority for a bond issue they would stand more chance of accom- plishing the large profects they are constantly asking for. The estimates that are now about to go to the budget bureau for next year are devgid of many things the taxpayers want because the Commis- sioners cannot get an unlimited budget before Congress. TENDLER Lightweight Championship Fight Tonight, 9 O’clock, Round by Round by Megaphone THARD-COAL SCARCE Commissioner Oyster Says| ate reasons | ing money on bonds, 1 wish some one | We are short of adequate school ac-| was just beginning | The bond issue has been suggested | TWO CENTS. HERE, PRICE BOOST SEEN BY DEALERS Anthgacite Situation Very Critical in Capital, Says Report of Merchants. USE OF SUBSTITUTES IS SEEN AS ONLY SOLUTION Long Ton, Necessitating Higher Price, Causes Unmerited Com- plaints, Is Announced. The the D! ithracite trict of coal Colum |eritical.” An increa: the price thracite Ly dealers, who are f by market fons to high priced fuel at the mines, looked for. Consumers of coal in the District are urged purchase and receive their supplics of bituminous codl at this time, because bijumino must, to 2 large extent, supply ans deficiency 1 hract al merchants hould sell their coal ¢ 2,000-pound ton ard unit of lcoal is sold union, except parts of Ma of Columb in of to Washingtor the basis of ned to be t ght by whi nnsylva the Dist i and Conl Dealers Report. the outstanding features the ation le tod coal Coal hoard. { thi port points « aftern ho Te- Mr th pre iations over gress 1 operators and ity. do not auser the wage cor 1. Cg wages, now in tween a miners at well for troverss Septe sumers shou at this t gency or t that time walkout in the | “I have found d er ulers to have nea and ck one have any stove coal {in stock, and very few have jon hana ny egg antbra t of Col my opinion in the Di t present vel anie these Th is gross mi report cars in W It is rent that who is pa to sell 1t 2 fore look £ 1 the reta prices by dealers who, due t ar forced to p chase > this 1 pric (Continued on Page 2, COURT ENIDNS - ALLEY EVETON | | | | | | | | | |Commissioners Halted in Proposed Criminal Prosecu- tion in Lockwood Case. | Justice of the’ District preme Court today granted a perma nent injunction against the District | Commissioners to prevent the institu |tion of criminal proceedings against |Charlotte 1. Lockwood and others owners of premises 218 to 236 Jack son Hall alley, by re on of the eon tinued use of the properties as dwell negs. Corporation Cou 1 Stephens | noted an appeal to the Court of Ap | peals and will seek an early deter- jmination by that tribunal of the ques {tion of the validity and scope of the [law intended by Congress to prevent the use of dwellings in the blind al- {1eys of Washington. | Proceedings The proceedings had been in by the Lockwoods against Cuno I Rudolph, James F. Oyster and Charle Keller, Commissioners of the Distri of Columbla, and Francis H. Stephens corporation counsel. Attorneys Cul- len, Cusick and Finucane for the Lockwoods dismissed the suit todas in so far as it related to Mr. Stepk ens and substituted the name of Ma J. ranklin Bell for Col. Keller, the Engineer Commissioner. Amended. Ruling by Court. Justice Bailey in his decision granting a temporary injunction som days ago did not pass on the validity of the act, bt declared that proceed- ings could not be brought against the Lockwoods, because the alley ou which their property is located does not fall under the four prohibitions of the statute. The court held that the requirements set forth in the law re Eleventh Street Side The Star Building ferred only to the alleys, and mot to houses erected thereon, and that the alleys were properly equipped the houses could not be closed because they failed to have one or more of the convenienges narrated.