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WEATHER. \ (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and continued cool morrow slowly rising temperature. Temperatures—Highest, p.m. yesterday. today Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 No. 29,626. increasing cloudiness, Lowest, 56, Full report on page 7. tonight; to- with 94, at 2:15 . at 8 a.m. Entered as second class matter post_office, Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D. C, ¢ Toening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1925 —-FORTY-FOUR PAGES. The Star’s Yesterday's * (#) Means Associated “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington hdmes as fast as the papers are printed. Circulation, 97,094 Press. TWO CENTS. U. . GUNBOAT FIRED ON NEAR GANTON; ATTACK RETURNED Pampagna Replies to Na- tives’ Shots, But No Cas- ualties Occur. PEKING DEMANDS FOREIGN TROOPS BE WITHDRAWN Note to Powers Insists State of Siege at Shanghai Should End. Denies Riot Blame. B the Aseociated Press. HONGKONG, June 11.—The Amer- fean gunboat Pampagna was fired on today near Whampoa, an island be- 'Base Ball Pools Weekly; 60-Cent Tickets in About 50,000 Washingtonians, who are willing to take a gambler's chance with the odds for winning first prize stacked against them 8,008 to 1, are Investing approxi- mately $30,000 a week in well or- ganized and systematized base ball pools conducted by professionals. Despite the widespread popularity of the pastime, which is most vigor- ously condemned by law, it appar- ently has not yet come under the scrutiny of the police. Temptingly large cash prizes, rang- ing anywhere from $500 to $1, are luring these persons, in whose veins must run a little gambler's blood, to stake their money in a game of chance in which the odds are so un- favorable. The professionals who operate these pools are destined to riches Their profits are mounting higher and higher as the base ball season tween Canton and the sea, while con- | progresses. They are Wallingfords voying & launch belonging to the| personified. Every week is enrich- “hristian College of Canton. The!ing their bank accounts by at least ampagna returned the fire. No cas- | $2,000. tualties were reported. United States marines haye been Janded on Honan Island, in the Pearl River, near Canton, to protect the American Christian College. Inflammatory placards in Chinese in- <iting disturbances in sympathy with the Chinese strikers were posted in prominent places in the business sec- tions of Hongkong today. The police are removing them. At the request of the Shanghal Sea- men’s Union the local unions are cir- cularizing their members to join the strike against foreign ship owners. ) AWAIT PROBERS' REPORT. U. S. Answer to Peking Note to Be Temporarily Held Up. By the Associated Press. A reply to the Peking government'’s demand for withdrawal of foreign anding parties at Shanghal is expect- d here to await a report from the ommission of investigation to Shang- hat by the Peking diplomatic corps. The note relates to what happened t Shanghal on May 30 when the bresent trouble there began. B. Cunningham, American consul gen- ral there, reported that the order to fre was given the police after. the tudents had become “a threatening nob, assaulting two foreign police | onstables and threatening the lives| f foreigners.” So far as known the rashington Government has recelved othing official which challenges the ccuracy of this report. Between 800 and 900 marines and luejackets from American, French, British, Japanese, Itallan and other hips are believed here to have been ut ashore, the largest groups being jhe American and French. The forces vere assigmed strictly to-duty in| anding essential public utilities, nd so far as known have taken no art in the police work of the settle- ent otherwise. It has been understood that the onsular body in Shanghal reported he situation so much improved in he last few days that the re-embark- Ing of naval forces was under con- ideration as a measure of assurance o Chinese residents that the forelgn overnments had no purpose except 0 protect their own nationals and heir property. Some of the naval orces are belleved already to have been withdrawn to their ships. The action of the commander of the merican gunboat Pampanga in re- urning promptly the fire directed at s vessel while he escorted a launch s in line with the policy the Wash- ngton Government has directed its pficers to follow in similar cases in| “hinese ports and rivers during the everal vears of continuously disturb- d conditions in China. It has been hhade plain that such firing would aw the immediate return fire of merican craft regardless of what action of Chinese might be involved. In view of the fact that no casual- fes were reported in the Pampanga ncident, and the difficulty in fixing esponsibility for the attack, the ex- hange of fire is not expected here to ead to any serious international con- equences. REPLY IS DELIVERED. Foreign Office Demands Volunteers Be Disarmed and Disbanded. CHINESE PEKING, June 11 (P). ‘The Chinese foreign office, in a note | oday to the foreign diplomatic corps, jected the latter's argument that froreign police at Shanghal only acted ldefensively in firing upon Chinese Jdemonstrators there recently. The forelgn office note declared that the authorities of the foreign con- cesslons at Shanghai should proceed at once to raise the state of siege ex- isting there and should re-embark all forelgn marines, disarm volunteers and police at Shanghal and liberate all prisoners. It also said that all institutions that have been closed or occupled by for- elgn forces should be restored to their normal condition so that order might be restored as soon as possible. This action, the note said, would facili- tate the negotiations regarding the #hanghal situation which the Peking government desires to undertake. [” The note declared it was impossible to admit the responsibility for the deplorable occurrences at Shanghal rested upon the Chinese demonstra- yors. CHANG FORCE STARTS. ¥ 1,000 Manchurians Marching to “Po- lice” Near Shanghal. SHANGHAI, June 11 (#).—About 4,000 Manchurian troops under Gen. Chang Hsueh-Liang, son of Gen. Chang TsoLin, Manchurian war Jord, were today moving from Nan- Xing to Shanghal, ostensibly to main. thin order on the borders of the for- elgn settlement and to strengthen Chang Tso-Lin’s grip on the Shang- hai region. It was reported here today that 600 Chinese students, led by agi- tators from Peking, conducted a dem- onstration at Mukden, the headquar- ters of Gen. Chang Tso-Lin, but that their efforts to Incite a general strike at Mukden failed because of official precautions. The secretary of the Chinese Cham- ber of Commerce announced today that a committee of 21 had been ap- pointed to assist in mediating be- tween the municipal council and the official body of the strikers, known as the General Union of Edueation, | Jabor and Commerce. Operators of these pretentious pools keep themselves in the closest seclu- sion—they are known only to the agents and runners who form the essential liaison with the players. 1,000 PLASTERERS GO 0UT ON STRIKE Refuse to Work With Union Bricklayers Begause of Ju- risdictional Dispute. As the result of a jurisdictional dis- pute between the Plasterer’s Interna- tional Union and the Bricklayer's In- ternational Union, approximately 1,000 ‘Edwin | unlon plasterers are idle in Washing- ton today and all plastering by union mechanics is at a standstill. Not only is this jurisdictional dis- | pute between the two unions affect- ing the Natlonal Capital, but it will affect the whole country and approxi- mately $100,000,000 worth of construc- tion in New York, Chicago, Detroit and Washington. Officials of the Fuller Co., here.fo- day stated that 200 men employed by them on buildings here are idle and that plasterers on all genstruction handling union labor are hot working. Efforts are being made, according to these officials, to appeal to President Coolldge to assist in settling the dis- pute which has resulted in the re- fusal of union plasters to work on the same jobs as union bricklayers. No attempt is being made to replace the union men on strike in most cases. The dispute is of long standing and about two months ago the strike was postponed by a conference. The plas- terers claim that bricklayers are in- vading their jurisdiction by doing plas- tering work. Arbitration Falls. All efforts have been made to avert the strike order called Monday by Ed- ward J. McGlvern, president of the Plasterers’ International Union. Ar- bitration and various conferences and efforts of the Department of Labor, however, have failed to bring about any settiement. Hopes that the Presl- dent will have something to say in the matter, inasmuch as the dispute is purely jurisdictional and between the unions themselves and does not in- volve any question of increased wages or hours, are being held forth by those interested in the mater. The bullding of the majority of residences in the District is not af- fected, however, as most of the operative bullders belong to the Oper- ative Builders’ Assoclation of the Dis- trict of Columbia, who use mostly non- union plasterers. Mr. McGiven states that he called the strike because of the refusal of contractors to sign an agreement ex- cluding bricklayers from sharing ju- risdiction on plastering jobs. A strike was called on March 19, against the Thompson-Starrett Co., the union stating that the company had let its plastering work in Miami, Florida, to a man who employed bricklayers to do the work. A truce was called for two months, but no agreement was found possible. ISLE NEARLY VANISHES. Tides and Rains Sweep Nicaraguan Pacific Seaport Area. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, June 11 (#).—High fides and heavy rains have almost inundated the Island of Azer- radores_ on which is Corinto, most im- portant’ Pacific seaport of Nicaragua, say reports reaching here. Rail communication has been inter- rupted and the inhabitants fear the island will disappear into the sea. Mayor of Y Louis Dares City to Sue Him for State Tax By the Assoclated Press. ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 11.—Suit will be filed agalst more than 2,000 individuals for delinquent State income taxes within two weeks by City Collector Koeln. Among the delinquents, according to his own statement, is Mayor V. J. Miller, who asserted the State as afrald to sue for the tax. “They know I would prove the law unconstitutional,” he said. Mayor Miller, who is a lawyer, sald he had made no return for State income taxes since three years ago, when he offered a return to the assessor’s office in which he deducted his annual losses from his income for the year. This is not .permissible under the State income. tax law, which provides a $500 fine or one year imprisonment or both for refusal or failure to make income tax returns. The " The_chamber was most_dnxious, (Continued on Page:5,Column.2.) Missouri Supreme Court has up- heldthe constitutionality, of the law. Reap $30,000 One in 8,008 Can Win Approximately 50,000 Players Here Buy Gambling Scheme Based on Runs in Major Leagues. - Thelr base of operations is in some quiet, unsuspected place, where police seldom tread. One is located near the top floor of an apartment over prominent downtown bank. An- other is said to have hi¢ headquarters in the apartment of a small hotel in the business district. To play the game costs 60 cents weekly—a small investment, which promises such alluring returns. _But the odds against the player, it must be remembered, are 8,008 to 1. The 60 cents provides the player with a small envelope, carefully sealed and machine sewed to make its con- tents doubly secure. Opened, it re- veals a folded colored sheet, com- monly called a “ticket,” on which is printed a serial number, the names of the 16 American and National League base ball teams ruled in squares so that the number of runs scored daily by each team may be tabulated. Opposite 6 of the 16 teams a hole is punched. These six teams are the ones on which the plaver pins his hopes for winning one or more of the numerous cash prizes. The total num- ber of runs scored by each of these teams are computed ingeniously to de- termine the prize winners. ~ There (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) FRENCH ARE SLENT ON SECURTY PACT Chamberlain Statement Halts Comment Until Terms Are Made Public. By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 11.—Apparently moved by the utterances of British Forelgn Secretary Chamberlain, the- French newspapers are withholding comment on the Anglo-French security past un- til Forelgn Minister Briand returns and the terms aré given out for pub- Ication. % Mr. Chamberlain, in a diplomatically worded communique issued at Geneva yesterday, attacked the publication of what he termed misleading statements about the proposed allled note in re- ply to Germany's security pact pro- posals. M. Briand and he had agreed, he said, not to divulge the contents of the note until its delivery to Berlin, but one-sided and misleading accounts had appeared in print in some countries. He added that no reflection was in- his way home by automobile, or his conferees. The chief British action, say Gene- va dispatches, is that the erroneous accounts failed to make clear that the proposed security pact would be mutual as to operation among the participating powers. The Echo de Parls, commenting upon Premier Baldwin's statement before the British House of Commons, says the premier means that the pro- Jected treaty of guarantee on which Mr. Chamberlain and M. Briand reaches agreement must not be re- garded as something fixed and un. changeable; that its text wil be defi- nlely established with Berlin. Thus, the paper thinks, the Germans will be allowed to produce amendments. The British guarantee, it adds, is strictly bilateral—"England promises to join the attacked against the at- tacker, that is all.” STIRRED BY CANADA. Premier’s Statement Held Prelude to Disapproval by Dominions. LONDON, June 11 (#).—The Dalily Express, Lord Beaverbrook’s news- paper, today said editorially that Pre- mier King of Canada made a final and fateful ‘pronouncement, the gravity of which can hardly be exaggerated, in his recent negative statement in reply- ing to a question in the Canadian Par- liament as to whether Canada was a party to the security pact with France. ., Premier King gave serlous and ir- revocable warning that if Great Brit- ain upholds the pact it must do so without the Dominion, the Express says. “What Canada sayg today,” the newspaper continues, ‘‘other domin- ions may say tomorrow. If any do. minfon government ventured to give such a pledge it would certainly fall; therefore Great Britain must choose betwen the French pact and the sol- idarity of the empire. ““The dominions simply will look on silently, reserving complete freedom from the military guarantee, If it ever has to be put into force.” fEa e NEW TREASURY LOAN -~ THRICE OVERSUBSCRIBED $125,000,000 Issue, Smallest of Postwar Bond Sales, Quickly Taken. Subscriptions to the Treasury’s lat- est issue of certificates of {ndebted- ness, which were to have approxi- mated $125,000,000, were three times the total asked for. . The subscriptions wi night, *The lssue, which swas the smallest floated by the Treasury fn its post-war financing, will be used along with June 15 tax recelpts to retire some $400,000,000 in mat: securities. e, FOURTH BOMBER HANGED. Communist Put to Death for Part in Cathedral Outrage. SOFIA, June 11 (#).—The fourth man to be put to death for the Sveti Kral Cathedral bomb outrage in April, Pertchemilieff, .a communist, was hanged at 5:30 o'clock this morning. ‘Three ‘other men were hanged on May 27 for the bombing, which caused the deaths of 160 persons. |Radio Programs—Page 36. tended upon M. Briand, who 18 now on{ minister declared: FRANGE WILFUND DEBTTO.S.SO0, BRIAND DECLARES Assures Representative Bur- ton That Early Steps Will Be Taken. CAILLAUX PROPOSES BIG BANK NOTE ISSUE Four Billion Francs Needed to Re- tire Maturing National Defense Bonds. Br the Associated Press. GENEVA, June 11.—It was under- stood here today that French Foreign Minister Briand, conferring with Rep- resentative: Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, a member of the American debt- funding commission, made it clear that France intends soon to take steps to settle her debt to the United Etates. BIG BANK ISSUE PLANNED. Four Billions in Special Notes to Pay French Bond Holders. PARIS, June 11 (#).—Finance Minister M. Caillaux and the finance committee of the Chamber of Deputies today discussed a fiduciary issue of four billion francs in special bank notes to meet the heavy retirement of national defepse bonds this year. Calllaux explained that nothing resembling inflation had entered his mind. The bank notes would be issued with such conditions that they would be returned 16 the Bank of France with short' delay, and they would be guaranteed by ample re- serves, the pature of which have not been disclosed. No decision has vet been reached regarding the issue. “Must Pay United States.” The declaration that France should enter upon specific engagements for setlement of her Interallied debts featured Caillaux's statement last | evening before the finance committee f the Chamber of Deputies. The minister also announced that once the country’s financial condition had been brought back to a healthy state, he would consider the negotia- {tion of a foreign loan, particularly in ithe United States. The United States and Great Britain, he told the committee last evening, would be more lenient in their debt settlements if France taxed herself heavily, and a debt settlement, with a definite’ plan for budget stability, would restore French public con- fidence. *‘Nations, like individuals, must live within their means,” he said, “or otherwise they, like private citizens, must go bankrupt.” In reply to reports of a plan for increasing the note circulation, the “I am earnestly studying every possible means to avoid such further inflation.” Ar- rangements had been made, he an- nounced, to meet the treasury pay- ments maturing this year. As regards a capital levy, the favorite scheme of the Socialist, M. Calllaux was unable to assume re- sponsibility for such a measure, which he believed would fall to meet the needs of the situation. TELEGRAPHONE CO. OPERATION UPHELD D‘iltrict Supreme Court Auditor Finds Charges of Fraud Baseless. Herbert L. Davis, auditor of the District Supreme Court, today filed a report to the court, which will be read with interest by Ahe 17,000 stockhold- ers of the American Telegraphone Co., which has a capital stock of $5,000,- 000. Charges and counter-charges of fraud and mismanagement have been pending for many months in the court, including Insinuations against W. Clarke Taylor, the receiver, in con- nection with, the handling of the com- pany's affairs since the court took on. The report of the auditor commends the management of Receiver Taylor and holds as baseless the charges made by Hugh P. O'Rellly and other stockholders against the company and its management by Charles D. Rood. The auditor suggests that the litiga- tion so hurtful to the company be speedily concluded. He also finds that in his opinion the plaintiffs acted in bad faith4n bringing the litigation, and their case should be dismissed. Mr. Davis finds that Rood bought and pald for 94,000 shares at $2 share, making a total of $188,000, and that the company is indebted to Rood individually in the sum of $114,549. The report is voluminous and goes into detall concerning the litigation. SHEPHERD DEFENSE LOSES FIRST POINT Fails to Curb Prosecution's Al- lusions in Opening Germ Murder Trial. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 11.—Strenuous ef- fort by the defense to have Judge T. J. Lynch limit the opening statement of Robert E. Crowe, State's attorney, opened the trial of William D. Shep- herd, charged with fatally administer- ing typhold germs to his foster son, Willlam N. McClintock. A. T. Stewart, chief of defense coun- sel, sought to have the State’s outline of Its case stripped of any reference to the deaths of Mrs. Emma Nelson McClintock and Dr. Oscar Olson, or autopsles over them, but Mr. Crowe successfully resisted the attempt. Judde Lynch ruled that it would be proper to object if the State sought to introduce anything not allled with the death of young McClintock, but allied_with what Judge Harry Olson charged was a plot by Shepherd to obtaln the. McClintock $1,000,000 estate by slaying those who stood be- FRATCASE HEARING SOPENEDIN COUAT Capt. J. M. Ward, Father of Student, Says He Signed “Pledge” Under Protest. Hearing of the contest between the Board of Education and the members of the high schools affiliated with fra- ternal organizations was commenced | today before Justice Bailey of the Dis- trict Supreme Court. Chester C. ‘Ward, Ribert E. L. Yellott and Charles R. Babson, students who were de- prived of honors in athletic and other school activities because of “frat” | membership, are suing for a writ of | mandamus to compel the board to re- store them to the positions from 'COMPLICATIONS AWFUL ONES i ‘IIWL \S\.k"’ Park Fountains Open to Children As Bathing Pools All of the pools and fountains in the public parks of the city were opened today for bathing purposes to children 12 years of age and un- der. The order was Issued by Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, director of public buildings and pub- lic parks of the National Capital. The order permits bathing in every park pool except the reflect- ing basin in front of the Lincoln Memoriai. Permission to use this is withheld on-account of the prox- imity of the municipal swimming pools just across the street. How- ever, Col. Sherrill said that he thought that on very hot days he would open the reflecting pool to the use of the children. END OF 16TH STREET which they were deposed. The three applicants told their | storles to the court and Capt. John M. |Ward, U. 8. A., father of Chester, ‘Ward, testified that his son joined the Gamma Chapter of the Sigma Delta fraternity with his full permission and approval. The chapter frequently met at his home on his invitation, Capt. Ward sald. The witness declared he bad frequently protested the signing of “pledge” cards, as he considered in- quiry by the school authorities into affilfations of his son after school hours as “impertinent and none of the business of the Board of Education.” Board Member Testifles. Capt. Jullus 1. Peyser, membor of the Board of Education, who, with Ernest Greenwood, vice president of the board, voted against the frater- nitles order of the board, testified for the boys. He characterized the regu- lation depriving “frat” members of school honors as “un-American,” and sald that he had refused to sign “pledge” cards for his son, who at- tends Central High School. Capt. Peyser was not cross-examined by Mr. Wilkes. Chester Ward was the first witness offered by Attorneys John E. Laskey and Richard C. Thompson, represent- ing the petitioners. He Wwas cross- examined by Assistant Corporation Counsel Wilkes. Corporation Counsel Stephens was present at the hearing, which was attended by several mem. bers of the board, by Supt. Ballou and a number of the school principals. The courtroom was crowded by members of the “frats” and sororities and by parents interested in the case. Superintendent Under Orders. At the beginning of the hearing Jus- tice Bailey Inquired of Mr. Laskey concerning the powers of the school superintendent to inflict punishment or penalty, and was informed that he is merely an employe of the board and subject to its order, and has no power otherwise. When Mr. Laskey objected later to the introduction of “pledge” cards signed by young Ward the court remarked, in admitting them into evi- dence, that they might play an impor- tant part in the question of issuing a mandamus against the school board. Young Ward told the court he is 17 years old and was president of the class of 1925 of Western High School until ‘'a few months ago, when Dr. Newton, the principal, advised him that he was ineligible to hold that po- 2 | gition because of his membership in the Sigma Delta. He was also deposed trom the vice presidency of the. “W' Club, which aided in policing ' the school, and also from his position. of athletic editor of the Yearbook and of literary editor of*the Breeze, .Since his demotion, the witness sald, he had been designated by Dr. Newton as a substitute teacher of English at West- ern High School. Had Good Record. Mr. Laskey introduced the record of the witness, which showed his scholastic standing and his deport- ment while at school to be excellent, and also a certificate from the school showing him entitled to wear the “W" for good school citizenship and for his prowess in foot ball. * On_cross-examination Mr. Wilkes had the witness identify his signature and that of his father to two *pledge” cards which contained a dis connection_with any “frat” organi- zation. The cards contained the words “‘under protest” between the signature of the boy and the father. Mr. Wilkes attempted to get the th- ness to repeat the oath taken by members of the fraternity, but Ward sald he had never taken the oath and could not repeat the word: He dented that the “frat” rules re- quired him to promote. the welfare of members in preference to other friends, and sald he never knew of the passing of any regulation In con- flict with the orders of the Board of Education. Ward admitted the sign- ing of pledges had been discussed on two occaslons in meetings, but only unofficially. He denied that he attempted to conceal his affillation with Sigma . L "{Continued on Page 2, Column 8.)__ MAY BECOME PARK Bell Plans to Save Attractive Knoll Beyond Alaska Avenue as Beauty Spot. Plans for a circular parkway at the northern extremity of Sixteenth street, just beyond Alaska avenue, are being formulated by Engineer Commissioner Bell, in conjunction with the Natfonal Capital Park Com- mission. Col. Bell pointed out that where Sixteenth street now ends there is an attractive knoll, through which a deep cut would have to be made whenever that thoroughfare is exended farther north. “It s my thought,” said the Engi- nere Commissioner, “that that is a logical and admirable spot to pre- serve by carrying the roadway around it In a circular fashion. The eleva- tion thus retained would command a fine view of Rock Park Park and the city to the southward and would be available for some future memorial.” The Engineer Commissioner said that a circular parkway at Sixteenth street and Alaska avenue would bal- ance the appearance of Sixteenth street, which has the White House and Lafayette Square at its southern terminus. While the plan has not taken on definite shape, Col. Bell indicated that he has broached it to officlals of the Park Commission, the Fine Arts Com- mission and to District Surveyor Mel- vin C. Hazen. Col. Bell compared the proposed development to the Chevy Chase Cir- cle on Connecticut avenue, but added that the Sixteenth Street Circle would be even more attractive because of its elevation. FOUR YACHTS RACING 3,665 MILES TO TAHITI Longest Spo_rdng Boat Contest Un- der Way, With Owners of Each Vessel at Helm. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Tune 11.—Far out on the Pacific four yachts are well under ‘way to the Island of Tahit! - in the longest sporting-boat race attempted. Before night the craft should have completed about 185 miles of the 3,665-mile trek. Dr. E. R. Parker's Idalla and the Elolse, owned and piloted by J. C. Piver, are radio-equipped, and are ex- pected to keep in touch with ships at sea. Each boat is being skippered by its owner, L. A. Norris at the wheel of the favorite of the race, the Mariner, and Mark Fontana is pilot of the Shawnee. By the Associated Press. s BERLIY, June 11.—The federal eagle on the German coat-of- arms is. too ugly to suit the Ger- man _ Nationalist Reichstag floor leader, George Schultz. During a budget committee's diacussion of the federal art com- missioners’ appropriation = Herr Schultz” said: . **“It }s high time that:the present federal eagle, which on account of its ugliness is extremely unpop- ular, be supplanted by an eagle with talons and a sharp beak.” The post-revolution eagle has been roundly criticized ever since its adoption. Some object to it because it looks both Tight and left; others describe it as a hy- brid—a cross between :an_ eagle - German Federal Eagle Needs Talons | And-a Sharp Beak, Says Herr Schultz| 1 o w% i L BEACH PLAN'S FATE INMADDEN'S HANDS Reply to Telegram Awaited Anxiously by Proponents of Basin Scheme. ‘Washington's hopes for temporary | bathing beaches this Summer rested in a large degree today upon the reply of Representative Martin B. Madden, chairman of the House ap- propriations committee, to the tele- gram of inquiry sent him yesterday by Jesse C. Suter, chairman of the Commissioner’s advisory council. Mr. Suter had received no reply today, evidently because of the difficulty which was expected to be experienced | in reaching Mr. Madden, who is not at his home in Chicago. Senator Warren, chairman of the Senate appropriations committee, re- plied today to the telegram and ex- pressed the belief that the decision for opening the bathing beaches at the Tidal Basin and Jones Point should rest with the city government. “An- swering your dispatch at this distance | away from the Capital,” Senator War-| ren wired, “I cannot feel justified in advising, preferring to follow judg- ment of city government.” A similar telegram dispatched to Senator Capper was also unanswered, aithough Mr. Suter was notified from Topeka, Kans., that the telegram had | been forwarded to Senator CaDDQr.‘[ Senator Capper, however, is expected to express himself favorably. Madden Opposed Beaches. Importance was attached in ad- vance to the answer to be sent by Mr. Madden. It was Mr. Madden, it was recalled here today, who expressed his opposition to having the beaches con- tinued at the Tidal Basin this Sum- mer in view of the alleged insanitary condition of the water there and the resulting danger, in the opinion of some, that would result to bathers. On the other hand, a growing senti- ment among members of Congress to have the Tidal Basin opened this Sum- | mer is indicated by those who have talked the subject over with Col. C. O. Sherrill, director of public buildings and public parks of the National Capital. i Almost every day some member of Congress calls upon Col. Sherrill to of- fer services in getting the beach opened, and pointing out that it was not the apparent intent of Congress to have the National Capital go without bathing facilities this Summer. Updyke Behind Move. Representative . Updyke, the new member from the seventh Indiana dis- trict, was in conference today with Col. Sherrill, and said that he was strongly behind him in any move he might make to give the people of ‘Washington a place to bathe. The In- diana representative said that some- thing should be done immediately and he felt that the problem could be worked out satisfactorily. “This is a serious matter,” Repre- sentative Updyke said. *“There is no place where the people can go for reg- ulated bathing, and the result is that many persons are losing their lives. | While I was not a member of the last Congress, 1 was present at many of the proceedings, and I do not beileve that it was the intent of Congress that the National Capital should be left as it is without bathing facilities. Of tourse, many of the wealthy people can: go to the hotel pools and other places, but I.am particularly inter- ested in providing places where any citizen can go and enjoy the water sports at any time. “It does not seem to me to be rea- sonable to leave the Capital City with- out any bathing facllities this Sum- mer. My town has a_population of about 375,000 people. It s an inland (Continued on Page 5, Column 3) and a rooster—while still others dub it “a sour and embittered parrot.” President von Hindenburg, too, his artistic worries. The paintings hung in the Presiden- tial Palace at the request of the late President Ebert fall to meet the fancy of the new chief ex- ecutive. ‘Whereas Herr Ebert preferred landscapes and portraits, Von Hindenburg wants military sub. Jects.. He bas, therefore, request- ed the director general of the Prussian Museum to remove most of the paintings selected by his predecessor and substitute. mili- tary scenes, to be borrowed from the national gallery and the ar- , senal, i Py SHIP BOARD FACES L03S OF POWER 10 SELL VESSELS Coolidge Suggests Shift of Authority to Fleet Corporation. ACTION IS EXPECTED ON O'CONNOR’S RETURN President’s Move Prompted by Dif- ferences That Have Split Board Membership. By the Ascociated Press. President Coolidge has suggested to the Shipping Board that it delegate completely to the Fleet Corporation the authority for negotiating sales of ships and lines, reserving to itself final approval or rejection of the contracts, ‘While no action has been taken by the board, indications are that the suggestion will be approved when Chairman O’'Connor returns next week from a trip to Florida. The suggestion was embodied in a letter written June 5 to the board through Chairman O'Connor. The Fleet Corporation now has authority to negotiate sales of individual ships and even to Initiate steps looking to sales of lines. Negotiations for the sale of lines, however, are for the most part conducted by the ship sales committee of the board, headed by Commissioner Lissnér. Whatever sales are arranged through either the Fleet Corporation or the ship sales commit- tee are required to go to the board for final approval. The board has been sharply divided in considering many sales, the most recent case being on June 5, the day the President wrote his letter, when it rejected proposals for the sale of freight ships and lines in the North Atlantic. In that case one plan was recommended by the Fleet Corpora- tion and another by the ship sales com- mitte of the board. The board was against both proposals. In his letter President Coolidge said he was “greatly impressed with the great difficulties” in the negotiation of sales contracts. “I have the strong feeling,” he add- ed, “that such complex negotiations cannot be competently carried out by the often independent discussions by buyers with the several members of the Shipping Board. Furthermore, there s an unwillingness on the part of some of our shipping men to enter such an involved scerie of negotia- tions. “In order that we should make vigorous attempt to carry out the pur- pose of the merchant marine act—that is, the disposal of the merchant marine into private hands—on equitable terms, it seems to me vital that these negotiations should be placed in one single hand, reserving to the Shipping Board the final voice in the acceptance or rejection of the specific contract. “T would like to suggest to the board that all negotiations of every charac- ter for the disposal of ships or lines should rest in the hands of Admiral Palmer (president of the Fleet Corpo- tion); that the members of the board should refuse to see or discuss these questions with any. individual during the course of such negotiations; that Admiral Palmer should be authorized to sign such contracts subject to the approval of the board. The board will then be in a position to exercise its proper function in the acceptance or rejection of the contracts. “I am convinced that better terms will be secured for the Government and more progress made in carrylng out the intent of the act than can be accomplished under the present basis organization.” a’lt The board delegates its authority as suggested before the end of the month, it is expected that the sale of 200 ships already authorized for scrapping will be conducted by the Fleet Corporation. This sale is ex- pected to bring into the market Henry Ford. Chairman O'Connor, on his own Initiative, recently visited Mr. “ord and discussed not only the possi- bility of sale of ships for scrappink but for operation. Under the change suggested such activities by individual board members would no longer be possible. FOUR KILLED IN CRASH RETURNING FROM DANCE Two Men and Two Women Are Victims When Train Hits Auto at Grade Crossing. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 11.—Two men and two women were Kkilled early this morning when the auto- moblle in which they were return- ing from a dance south of here was struck by a train at a grade crossing. The dead -are: Margaret J. Ste- vens, Ruth Harrell, 21, and Lynn Steinburger, 23, all of Columbus, and Thomas Ellsworth of London. . WOUNDED, ROUTS BANDITS Shot in Stomach and Leg, Veteran Policeman May Die. CHICAGO, June 11 (®).—Edward Dean, veteran Chicago policeman, to- day defended $9,000 receipts of the Chicago Motor Coach Co. at the prob- able cost of his life. Struck in the stomach by slugs from a sawed-off shotgun and wounded in the leg by a revolver bullet, Dean chased four masked robbers from the company’s office and fired six skaes st them be- fore he fainted. In another fight with robbers early today, James Maynard, a patrolman, killed a negro burglar. GUILTY IN BOY’S DEATH. Orp.'hlnl‘o Attendant to Be Sen- tenced as Result of Scalding. MONTREAL, June 11 (#.—Rene Francois de Vleeschouwer, known as Brother Usmar of the orphanage at Huberisau, was found guilty of man- slaughter today for scalding to death §-yearold Hector Galarncau, oné of his charges, January 21. He will be sentenced at the end of the court term. ‘The boy died following immer- sion in a tub of boiling water. Brother Usmar contended that the scalding oceurred - while changing Hector's clothes. he was