Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and Friday; continued cool. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: -Highest, 71, at 6:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 52, “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- at 6 am. today Full report on page 14, Clc_nin! ! Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 .+ post o. 289 68 office Washington, _@h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 48 second-class matter D C. U. S. ABANDONS EFFORT FOR HARD-COAL PEACE; PREPARES FOR STRIKE Disputants Told Further Moves by Government Are Dropped, F ollowing Break in Parley. OFFICIALS ARE READY TO PREVENT SUFFERING IF MINING IS STOPPED Full Weight of Authority to Be Thrown Into Balance to Protect Public During By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug winter. ust 23.—Semi-official notice that the federal government would not intervene further in anthracite ‘wage negotiations to prevent a stoppage of the mines September 1, today reached Atlantic City. The news was conveyed to both the policy committee of the mine operators and officials of the miners’ union, who broke off | negotiations for a new wage contract on Tuesday and left the unrelieved prospect of a shutdown in the industry next week.| The United States Coal Commission, both sides were told, could go no further in an endeavor to enforce peace, since the renewal of the wage-contract negotiations, which was taken at its inter- vent on last week, had merely served to precipitate another break. WASHINGTON CoLoEST AUGUST 22 For ME IN 33 YEARS BRUSH IS RUMORED FARLEY SUCCESSOR James Marks, 2 member of the executive board of the United | Mine Workers, central Pennsylvania district, conferred today with ! Mr. Lewis, and the visit gave rise to rumors that soft coal miners were being represented in the proposed anthracite suspension. The central Pennsylvania mines coal of a quality said to make it of value as an anthracite substitute. as a district representative, was solely | discussing with the international officers a matter of district | ever, said that Mr. Mark finances having no connection with the anthracite situation. Remain. the operato: Operators to Notwithstanding, group intends to remain in Atlantic| the end of the|of the iss in an effort to show that the |between the union and the empl> seek every means of reop- | City, week employe ening discussion, John L. Lewis. president of the Tnited Mine Workers, and the scale committes of the union, it was said. probably would stand by also until tomorrow. But there was no change of attitude in the front which the employers' group and the union| apokesmen have opposed to each oth- er. Mr. Lewls stood by the presenta- tion of the union demand for $2 a day wage increase for all men employed by the day mines and for a 20 per at least until cent increase in the piec ton for mining coal. The anthracite operators, refusing any increase over the present scale, tender arbitration e and of every an the guaranteeing likewise to award of wage increases make which larbitration may result in retroactive o September 1, if the mines arc kept running. Lewix Still Stlext. Mr. Lewis has maintained silence since he served notice that the mincs would stop September 1. There have been no meetings together of the par- | tles concerned, though the operators sald today they would ask anather meeting It even a pretext could be found, though their attitude would be unchanged. U. S. Marshal’s Forces to Provide Nation With Determined to prevent suffering in the event of an anthracite strike, the United States government today continued with fts plans to provide fuel to the people if 8 shut-down of the mines comes. The United States bureau of mines is preparing a complete set of instructions | to the consumers of anthracite ccal which will enable them to use eoft coal in hot-air heating apparatus wflnoul‘ changing the apparatus. The three most important questions to | be asked of the governors of anthracite | consuming states, or their repres a- | tives, when they meet with the fed- | cral fuel distributor in New York | Tuesday will be: First. How best can anthracite con- | sumers be educated to use substitutes for anthracite? Second. What suggestions have the governors or their representatives to make which will help the federal gov- ernment to move coal Into thelir States? Third. How much coal will be nec- esgary in each state to carry the con- sumers through the winter? The statement now being prepared by the bureau of mines will be ready for submission to the conference In 'w York Tuesday. Another matter that will be dis- cussed Is the advisability of having a special corps of Instructors in each state to go to dwellings and apart- ment houses to teach the household- crs and janitors the best methods of using the substitutes for anthracite. To Extend U. S. Scope. The law providing for the federal fuel distributor expires September 22, but it was learned today that Presi- dent Coolidge is prepared to use his authority to extend the life of the of- fice of the federal fuel distributor and to_enlarge it In a measure, this will be similar to the voluntary organization bullt up by the late President Harding last year before the Congress passed the law | providing for the fuel distributor. The work of distribution will go on, there- fore, If an anthracite strike material- izes, nnder the direction of the federal tuel distributor, aided by other offi- clals of the government and the state authorities. Not only will the railroads, the soft cou) producers and the state govern- ments be expected to do what they can to minimize suffering and demor- alization of industry, but federal offi- clals in every agency, from the White House down. will stand ready to throw the welght of their authority into the balance if it becomes necessary. In the prepartions now being made for eventualities the possibility of averting a final break betwen the op- erators and miners has been almost completely submerged. There was no indication in any quarter today that further overtures for a settlement were in prospect, although the Coal Com- mission, which already has Intervened without success, continued In session. It was said to be at work on a report 1o President Coolidge. D. C. Heads Discuss | comprehensive Fuel in Emergency The general coal and reserve anthracite stocks to the sections which would be most af- fected by the September 1 shutdownmerce and the chairman of the Senate | probably will not be revealed until the governors of the anthracite consuming states meet with federal officials and railroad representatives in New York next Tuesday. Federal Fuel = Distributor Wadlelgh, who called the conference after a visit to the White Iiouse. today gathered together all available Information bearing on available supplies and in co-operation n with the Interstate Commerce Commission to carry rellef program ‘into effect. Meantime it was learned that should any legal action become neces- sary on the part of the federal gov- ornment, the Department of Justice would be found in a state of com- plete preparedness. Many reports of a possible sympa- thetic ‘strike on the part of bitumi- nous miners after September 1 have been circulated in the whiripool of rumors and speculation that sur- rounds the preparations of the gov- ernment here. but if such a develop- ment is in prospect the government has no authoritative knowledge of it. It is considered unlikely by most offi- cials that the union leaders of the bituminous men would sanction a walk-out under the circumstances, but even that possibility has not been lost sight of in the general co- operation of all federal agencies to place the government in a position where it can fully protect the public interest. Conference Tuesday. Federal Fuel Distributor Wadleigh to- day was still awaiting responses to the telegrams he sent the governors of anthracite-using states yesterday invit- ing them to send representatives to a conference in New York Tuesday to de- cide on means to be adopted to keep the public supplied with fuel in the event of a strike. It was sald today that in all probabil- ity the governors would select tepre- séntatives thoroughly famillar with the question of fuel distribution In their states, rather than that the governors would themselves attend the confurence. The state executives, to whom the invitation were addressed, ificluded: Governors of Maryland, Connecticut, Delawage, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. In his invitation to the governors, Mr. Wadleigh sald: “An o e subject to be discussed will be the matter of education of the consumer in the use of fuels other than an- thracite, as it is felt that a systematic plan of public instruction can be made of great service in the practical and efficient use of such fuels and will thereby reduce the actual cost of heating with resulting savings to the consumer and the commanity.” Way to Protect Residents in Case of Coal Strike Tossible courses of action to be taken by the District government to avert, suffering in Washington this winter in the event of an anthra- cite strike were discussed at a con- . ference at the District building today. The conferees were Maj. J. Frank- lin Bell. Engineer Commissioner; Walter C. Allen, executive secretary to the utllities commission, and Rob ert L. Lewis, former secretary to the (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) Mr. Lewis, how-| rates per other fssus | lines of the adminls- | tration plan for supplying bituminous;be brought about when the special | important | Former Hog Island Official Confers With Coolidge on Shipping Policy. | | | I Following a long conference today at the White House betwecn Presi- dent Coolldge and Matthew C. Brush, president of the American Interna- tional Corporation and former head of ! the Hog Itland shipyard, speculation | has arisen that the President is con- sidering Mr. Brush to succeed Ed- | ward P. Farley as chairman of the Shipping Board. Mr. Brush said after seeing the Prestdent that, while the latter did not offer him the place, he personally would be delighted to serve Mr. Coolidge in any capacity, but that he would not accept the chairmanship of tho Shipping Board unless the members of the board are unanimous in the adoption of & program. Mr Brush said that the board fs now di- | vided and that it Is likely that the members will remain &0 unless they can be convinced of the wisdom of the adoption of the Indirect govern- ment operation plan favored by Presi- dent Coolidge and which calls for the appointment of subsidlary corpors tlons in the operation of the Amer- ican fleet. Mr. Brush expressed hope that probably a satisfactory situation may committee the President is to appoint. composed of the Attorney General. secretaries of the Treasury and Com- {commerce committee and the chair- {man of the House merchant marine committee, goes over the shipping | program as it stands. 1 Discusned Polie: | Mr. Brush admitted that the {greater part of his talk with the | President was in connection with the Shipping Board and its activities and | transportation. and prepared to act the framing of a definite policy. | Mr, Brush is looked upon as one of a|the most highly experienced men in | shipping in the United States, pos sessing rare executive ability. e especially well known to Mr. Coo |idge. their acquaintanceship dating back to the time when Mr. Brusa was |president of the Boston Elevated Railroad. | These two men became great friends and admirers of each other while Mr. Brush, as president of the company. and Mr. Coolidge, as governor of the state, worked successfully for salvation of the company from | financial ruin. Mr. Brush's record at Hog Island is well known and the icompany of which he is the head to- iday, which s a subsidiary of the Na- tional City Bank of New York, is de- ,voted to a large extent in the build- {ing and operation of ships and In | international trade. 1t is the opinion of some officials clove {to the White House that Brig. Gen | Charles E. Sawyer, personal physician | ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) | { i CHESTERIS FACING NEW TURKISH FIGHT Proposal Aided by French Re- ported to Be Looked on Favorably. By the Associated Press. | ANGORA, August 23.—The minister | of national economy has favorably {Tecelved an offer from a Turkish lim- iited company submitting a plan for . the development of the natlonal re- | sources, which would be substituted for the Kennedy-Chester agreement. | The project will be studied by the council of ministers. ‘The Turkish company, it is understood, is working with French development In- terests. The Turkish official press bu- reau, says the new plan Is much more | favorable to Turkey than is the Chester convention. | Ownership of the concessions in | Asiatic Turkey, obtained by Rear Ad- (miral Colby M. Chester, retired, passed last June to the Ottoman-American De- velopment Company, of which Col. K. E. ClA{lon-Kennedy. a’ Canadian, is a di- rector. - The convention putting into effect the Chester concessions was signed at An- gora on April 30. The convention w: ratified by the Turkish nationalist as. sembly on April 10, the | D. €, THURSDAY Provided in New Hotel for Girls Br the Assoclated P NEW ORK “visiting alley,” on sither side N August 23—A or hallway banked with ten small cur- tained-alcoves where working bachelor girl occupants may re- ceive thelr friends in privacy, will be a feature of irteen-story, 400-room apartment-hotel, to_be opened in October on West 34th street. A girl may obtain a_room and | meals a day for $550 to $12 a k. There is a ballroom on the floor, a large libr the d and sitting rooms floors. 00L WAVE HEADS FAR INTO SOUTH Records Fall as Arctic Chill Affects U. S.—Worst Is Over in District. | | The cool wave has spent itself and slowly rising temperature is forecast by the weather bureau for the next day or two. The thermometer reached its lowest point at 4 o'clock this morning by reglstering grees, one degree higher than the lowest yesterday which was 51, ac- cording to the bureau No colder days have been recorded since 1890, Weather bureau officlals explain the cool snap as being due to the \rxn\id chilling of the atmosphere in I the polar regions, bringing about a mild approximation of the usual win- ter differences between artic and equatorial air movements. At present a northern area of high | pressure has moved southward and is {spreading over a large part of the United States, while a long current of the warmer low pressure from the south has passed it moving north- ard, and today was stretched along the Canadian-American border. Temperatures of 48 degrees at Richmond, Va., and 46 degrees at Pittsburgh were recorded, and the bureau said the chill breeze would spread during the next twenty-four | hours through South Carolina, Geor- | gia, Alabama and Mississippl. Coldest Day in Pittsburgh. PITTSBURGH, Pa.. August 23.—All records for cold weather in Pitts- burgh during the summer were shat- tered today, when the government lthermometer registered 46 degrees at o'clock. The previous low mark {was 48, made August 23, 1888. In outlying suburbs, particularly those in the river hills, thermometers regis- tered as low as 41. A dense fog cov- ered the entire district. NO DAMAGE RECORDED. | ‘r i Chilling Temperature, However, Sends Birds Toward South. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 23.—Although warmer weather was promised in forecasts today, the eastern, southern and midwestern sectlons of the coun- try continued to shiver and records for cool August weather with light gripped by the cool wave. No damage was done to crops by frost in. Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, where the thermometer reached the lowest points. Drops of 20 to 25 degrees In the Gulf and South Atlantic states, followed a few hours after moderate summer weather, and Oklahoma and Kansas, which last week sweltered with tem- peratures near 100, experienced an- other extreme when the mercury drop- ped 40 degrees in some sections. Flocks of migrating purple martins and teal, reported flying southward over Chicago, by Harry Richards, park super- intendent and Deputy Game Warden Henry Kern, were said by those versed in bird lore to indicate an early winter. Light breezes from the south were ex- pected to bring general warmer weatbher tonight and tomorrow. SOUTH GROWS CHILLIER. By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTA, August 23.—August weather records continued to tumble today throughout the south. Lower temperatures were general, according to reports, some of the southern states reporting decreases of approximately 32 degrees over that which prevailed during the forepart of the week. In a number of cases the drops were accompanied or preceded by rainfall. bj 52 de-| trosts were reported from sections| AUGUST 23, y ¢ Foening Star. tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. | Yesterday’s ! Net Circulation, 88,422 1923—-FORTY PAGES. FLOOD MAKES 1,000 HOMELESS INWEST !Damage of $1,000,000 Es- | timated From Break in Dam in Colorado. | | | | | 5 the Associated Press FOWLER, Col. August 23.—Ap- | proximately 1.000 persons are home- less today and damage estimated at $1.000.000 has been done by flood waters which rushed down the val- leys of the Apishapa and Arkansas rivers yesterday and today. follow- Ing the breaking of an irrigation project dam near here. Five hundred persons have moved {out of the danger zone in North La | Junta, according to word recefved here, and approximately that num- ber fled from thelr homes in the valley below the dam. Observers saw a dozen houses, and many car- casses of cattle and horses, as well as huge trees, tumbling along on the rest of the flood after the dam broke vesterday. People Get Warning. | Warned of the breaking of the | dam, scores of families hastlly moved | their household goods from the path jof the water and most of them, it was reported here, were able to save most of their livestock. The flood waters were expected to| | reach Lamar, Colo., late today and| { residents in the lowlands there were | moving to higher ground { When the dam washed out, a wall of | water twenty-five feet high swept | down the channel of the Apishapa jFiver, then spread out over a terri- | | tory of a mile wide. As it spread out, | jthe depth decreased to four or five | | feat, observers said, but took trees, houses and livestock in its path. The wall of water swept the valley | from the dam which is thirty-six | miles south of Fowler to the junc-| tion of the Apishapa and the Arkan- sas river, three miles east of here, traveling at a speed of flve mliles an { hour. Then it swelled the flood in the | Arkansas, which, because of recent rains and cloudbursts, already has| risen to a point near that attained | iduring the disastrous Pueblo flood of | { June, 1921. The city of Fowler is not| in the path of the flood 1‘ | | | Lowland Crops Destroyed. | | Crops in the lowlands for many | miles along both rivers have been de- stroyed, it is declared. | The flood resulted from the wash- | ing out of the huge earthen reta‘n- | ing_wall of the Apishapa river dam The wall was eaten away slowly at first and warnings were broad- cast to residents in the valley below. | Soon ' the destruction became more rapid and then all the huge dirt wall swept out. leaving only the con- crete base which scarcely slowed the rush of water from the canyon. When the flood neared the Apis- hapa_Arkansas river junction, 1,500 feet of ralls and tles were swept| from the Santa Fe railroad grade. A Santa Fe raflroad briuge nearby was not destroyed, however. One span of a Santa Fe trail highway.bridge was swept away, along with the ap- proach. Santa Fe rallroad officlals said traffic over the damaged tracks, which are on the Denvét-La Junta divieion of the line, likely would be restored this afternoon. LA JUNTA BRIDGES MENACED. 1 By the Associated Press. LA JUNTA, Col.. August 23.—Flood | waters rushing down the Arkansas river following the breaking of an irrigation project dam near Fowler late yesterday reached La Junta. at § o'clock | this morning. The river rose gradually. Shortly after $ o'clock the high water began tearing away the ap- proach to the North La Junta bridge. ! The waters had not yet reached the floor of the West La Junta bridge at | that time, however. Rosidents along the river bottom, warned of the near approach of the high water, took refuge on higher ground, in" some instances taking their household goods with them. The river at present is about one- half mile wide, and it is spreading rapldly over the lowlands along its banks. The river here has not yet approached the high stage set two years ago in the disastrous flood Which swept the Arkansas valley. CAR FARES TO ADVANCE. CLEVELAND, Ohlo, August 23.— Street car fares here will be advanced from eleven tickets for 50 cents to five for 25 cents, effective September 1, 1t was announced by the Cleveland Rallway Company today. The in- crease, due to automobile competition and increased wages for employes, will affect only the rate at which tickets are sold. Cash fares will re- main_at 5 cents with a penny for transter. Cmainm. | addition | self in favor | Brazilian MELLON TO BACK BUILDING PLANST0 ENDU. $.SHORTAGE Will Urge Congress to Act at Once to Meet Needs of Government. BELIEVES WORK SHOULD START WITHOUT DELAY Comprehensive Program Covering Twenty Years Considered Neces- sary for Federal Offices. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is convinced, the government should take tmmediate steps looking toward a building program for housing govern- ment activities in government build- ings not only in Washington, but throughout the Mmation. Mr. Mellon feels, it was learned to- day at the Treasury, that the coming Congress should take up the matter with a view to framing a program of | construction to be continued over a| term of years, but to be inaugurated just as soon as practicable. The House appropriations committee was cuid to have the matter before it. The needs of the Post Office Depart- ment, the Treasury and Veterans' Bu- reau’ particularly have become so pressing, according to officlal reports to the Secretary, that in his opinion there is some question now whether the government can afford to wait much longer for labor and building prices to recede | convinced, is the only effective m. Hoover Urged Delny. Secretary of Commerce Hoover some time ago proposed the depart- ments hold back their building pro- £rams until such time as the labor Involved in construction would be in more nced of employment, and the of government building would not tax the construction fa- ilitles of the country. The federal reserve board, shortly after also no- | tified federal reserve banks to post- pone building operations for the same reasons. In spite of this opinfon, which has been generally held by a large circle ! of those studying the building prob- lems of the government, Secretary Mellon today was represented as feeling that the necessity for gov- ernment-owned space had become too great to wait longer. Whether building costs will go down materially within the next year was a problem for which Treasur: officials did not care to forecast a s lution. In Washington the need has become serious in the internal reyenpe bu- reau, Secretary Mellon was sald to believe. Income tax records are scat- tered through several buildings. In the handling of some big corporation taxes it s necessary for the cases to g0 through various branches of the bureau in separate buildings, entall- ing a loss of efficiency and operating expenditure. It would be a very great saving, Secretary Mellon believes, to have ail the internal revenue records in_one building. Furthermore, one of the most im- portant and serious factors in the situation is the danger of fire. Tax records of the American people are scattered throughout this city in frame firetraps, liable to destruction, under a severe fire hazard. It would be an economy to bulld| a new home for the internal revenue | bureau, It was further pointed out as the saving would in actual fact | amount to more than the interest on the Investment in a new building Twenty-Yenr Program Urged. To frame a comprehensive building program for the government would not necessarily entail the outlay of a great sum during the first year, it has beeen explained. The program could provide for expenditures over a number of years, with provision that the greatest needs should first be met. This would involve, it has been estimated by some who have studied the matter, a twenty-year program, to construct in this clty and throughout the United States ail the public buildings now actually needed. The needs of government | space were sald constantly to be on/ the increase. j Chairman Langley of the House | committee on public buildings and grounds has repeatedly declarcd him- | of an omnibus public butldings bill for this next session of | Congress and has announced he would | fight for its enactment. The government's rental bill has mounted to more than $20,000,000 a ! year, it has been pointed out, in practically every instance is In- creasing. The rapid growth of the post office | service and parcel post has in some | cases, it has been reported, obliged | the post offices to use the public streets for handling packages. REBELS SEIZE TOWN. Revolutionists Force | State Troops to Retreat. i i MONTEVIDEO, August 23.—Advices from Riviera say that the town of San Pedrito, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, has been taken by a force of 2,000 revolutionaries. The state troops have retired. | | | | i i been in constant Frenchman Flies Over 132 Miles in Motorless Planre VAUVILLE, France, August 23.— Georges Barbot, the French avla- tor, flying in a motorless airplane, yesterday covered 212 kilometers (approximately 1325 miles), over an officlally measured circuif. This is a record distance for this type of machine. Barbot remained in the air six hours. four minutes and twenty-one seconds. NEW SURTAX CUTS WILL BE FAVORED Mellon Believes First Reduc- tion on Big Incomes Helped Treasury Receipts. Secretary Mellon will renew to the next Congress his recommendation {for a reduction in the higher brack- ets of income surtaxes. An announcement of his purpose at the Treasury today, however, said he as uncertaln whether the proposal would meet with a favorable recep- tion at the Capitol. The large increase in income tax receipts by the Treasury during the last fiscal vear was said to be tributed by the Secretary in no small part to the small reduction in sur- taxes brought about in the last tax legislation. at-| TWO CENTS. BALDWINTOCONFER . WITH POINCARE ON REPARATIONS ISSUE British Premier Despairs of Reaching Agreement by Exchange of Notes. CURZON MAY FIGURE IN INFORMAL PARLEY English Press Sees Nothing of Benefit in Negotiations Be- tween Allies. By the Associated Press, LONDON, August 23.—Recognizing the futility of a further exchange of lengthy notes on the reparation issue, Prime Minister Baldwin has decided to meet Premier Poincare upon the former's return from his vacatlon at Aix-les-Bains, it became known today. The rBitish premier will not formn- ally ask his French colleague for {an appointment, but will make known lquietly through second parties his readiness to discuss the whole repara- jtion problem in the light of the {French premier's latest note. | The British premier feels that while See Good Results. He was said to believe this cut had acted as a stimulant to investors to employ their money in productive en- terprises as differentiated from the tax-exempt securities. A further re- duction in the higher surtaxes. he is o of competing with the exempt issues. Some members of Congress who have talked with the secretary re- cently have informed him that there is little hope of tax legislation at he next session, but he feels that ¢ should send his recommendations to the Capltol regardless of the op- position. he recommendations for reduction in the higher brackets probably will be contained in the annual report of the Treasury Department, which usu- ally goes to Congress in the first few days of a new session. Other Tax Proposals. The secretary may also support changes in other tax schedules, but the nature of these recommendations probably will remain undisclosed un- til near the opening of the session Tax experts of the Treasury have touch with” mem- bers of Congress who are investigat- ing tax questions, and it was indi- cated today that sych recommenda- tions as the Treasury may make will be the result of the long study and a careful consideration. VERA CRUZ IN GRIP OF STRIKING UNIONS Committee of Workers Takes Control of Police—All Ac- tivity Is Tied Up. By the Associated Press. VERA CRUZ, August 23.—Vera Cruz is virtually under the control of a committee of strikers, which has taken over direction of the police. | Order is being maintalned The envoy sent by President Obre- gon has returned to Mexico City with striker gelegates empowered to nego- tiate a settlement, The wives of the members of the | syndicate of ‘“tenants who pay no rent” marched to the city markets vesterday and compelled domestic !servants buying food to go to the headquarters of the strike izn the syndicalist membership list and im- mediately declare a ten-day strike. The League of Maritime Unlons, re- | considering its previous decision, has voted not to declare a strike without financial aid from the striking unions. and | The dock workers, therefore, remain | at_work No trains are running and no public utilities are in operation, but stores are kept open. WILL SUSPEND STREET CAR SERVICE IN BERLIN By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 23.—In conse- quence of the enormous losses suf- fered in running the street cars in Berlin the municipality has decided to suspend the operation of the en- tire service. Notice will be given all employes that every effort will be made to resume operations at the earliest possible moment. President and Wife Find Ideal In Model Home Near Treasury Enthusiastic as & young married couple on their first house hunting expedition, President and Mrs. Coolidge today went through the model home in the Sherman statue reservation Jjust south of the Treasury. They walked from the White House to the bullding, which was built by the General Federation of Women's Clubs to advance the na- tional better homes movement and dedicated last spring by *President and Mrs. Harding. The President and his wife visited every room, and on leaving expressed them- selves as being highly pleased with the architecture, the general arrangement of the rooms and the modern equipment throughout. Inasmuch as the President and Mrs. Coolidge themselves are at the moment considering a rear- rangement of the living rooms of the White House, it is thought not unlikely that they may have re- celved soms idess during their in- spection of this model house. The President was greatly im- ! L pressed with the light and venti- lation arrangements. But aside from this feature he seemed more interested in the kitchen than any other room. While looking over the modern equipment of this room Mr. Coolidge expressed some disappointment that the refriger- ator was not built-in, so as to permit the delivery of ice from the outside. He seemed satisfied when he was later shown an open- ing intended for a bullt-in refrig- erator. He commented upon the size and the brightness of the lving room and the fact that it contained a plano as well as read- ing matter. He expressed much pleasure at seeing a set of mod- ern_reference books among the reading matter in the living room. Miss Lida Halford of Washing- ton, director of the General Feder- ation of Women's Clubs, and Mrs. W. B. Meloney of New York, pres- igent of the Better Homes Move. ment, showed the visitors through the house. The President and Mrs. Coolidge are known to be deeply interested in the better homes movement and since the concep- tion of the movement Mr. Coolidge has been a member of the aavis- ory council. In France he should profit by the sug- |Bestion contained at the end of M. Poincare’s note that France was ready | to discuss the indemnity problem ver- {bally. 1t s thought possible Lord Curzon, the secretary for foreign af- fairs, may participate in this confer- nce, since he plans to remain for |some time at Bagnolles, where he is at present recuperating. Both Aix-les-Bains and Bagnolles lare within easy train distance of l'aris and both British cabinet minis- jters could readily stop oft for a few days at the French capital on thelr way to London and have an earnes personal talk with Premier Poincare. | Deluy Conference. Tt is felt there is no immediate need of such a verbal exchange of views and, lin fact, that it would be preferable to postpone it until the British government experts charged with the study of repa- ration questions have carefully ex- amined ail the clauses of the French note and presented their findings to the cabinet. The meeting, therefore, in all likels hood, will take place after Mr. Baldwi: has had his vacation and has the con- sidered and mutured judgment of the cabinet before him Figures Assalled. Britich treasury officials who cx- amined the financial features of the re- ply said the French figures were wholly inadequate. They drew the infercnce that France, after collecting her own trreducible 25,000,000,000 gold marks out of the class A and B reparations bonds to cover the property devastation in the war zone, intended *o pay her debts to the allies and the United Ntates out of the class C bonds, whizh are gei- erally regarded here as of little more value than waste paper. Before his departure with Mre. Baldwin on Saturday for Aix Les Balns, Premler Baldwin will discuss the Poincare note with such cabinet members as remalin in town. For the present he declines to commit himself on the French note until the whole of that complicated document has been thoroughly examined. The Belgian note, which British officials hope will have a modifying effect on the rigidity of the French claims and which they expect to be of 4 more generous character than the Poincare argument, will probably arrive here Monday and will be sent forthwith to Premier Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Curzon in Franc A majority of the morning new papers, commenting on Premier Poin- care’s note, are disappointed over the substance of the note and declare that, In effect, it leaves things just where they were. Preas Scen Little Hope. The Daily Telegraph concludes that there Is little hope for an agreement between Great Britain and France, lelther with regard to the Ruhr or the amount of reparations or the question of interallied debts. “For all practical purposes.” it says, “the note leaves things precisely as they were and indicates no approximation to common ground on which Great | Britain and France can hope'to renew the united actlon which both nations deeply desire.” The Daily Chronicle thinks that, taken at Its face value, the note would put an end to all hopes wuf common action between Great Britain and France, but belleving that M. Poincare’s words are addressed 1o French critics rather than to Great Britain, it thinks it i{s possible to cad between the lines some indica- on of Frenth wlllingnéss to come to terms. “But,” it adds. “the French must either come to terms with us at on before we are all Involved in disaste or we must part company at once.” i | See No Solution. “We cannot see that the note car- rieg the world nearer a solution of the reparations problem or points the way to the rescue of central Surope from total ruin,” the Dal News says. “M. Poincare forget nothing, admits nothing and propose: nothing than what had been propoe- ed with less urbanity before.” “The note,” says the Westminster Gazette, “serves only to demonstrate how impossible it is to reconcile the British policy toward Germany with the policy of the French government.” GERMANS DISCOURAGED. Press Sees French Note as Offering No Hope. By tho Associated Press BERLIN, August 23.—The German press generally regards the French reply to the British reparation note a: unfavorable, considering it as marking no further progress toward a solution of_the reparation problem. “The note contains no clear decision,” says the socialist Vorwaerts, “though it offers possibilities. It contains no assurances that France will desist from the polciy which must eventual- ly bring an end to Germany's capac- ity to pay and result in poiitical and economic chaos in Europe.” The Tageblatt denounces Premier Poincare's attitude toward passive re- sistance, and declares it is not a fact that such resistance was started to protect the interests of a few capital- sts. I e Boursen Courler concludes from the note that France needs money, as otherwise M. Poincare would not rec- ommend that Germany ralse foreign loans tor the payment of reparations,