Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and warmer tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy and warmer. Temperatures—Highest, 76, at noon today; lowest, 52, at 5:15 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 No. — MEXICO IS WARNED 0 PROTECT U. 3. . LIVES AND LANDS With New Revolution Rumor- ed, Kellogg Says Relations Are Unsatisfactory. 29,627. NATION STILL ON TRIAL BEFORE ENTIRE WORLD ‘Secretary Insists That Pledges to Foreign Interests Must Be Carried Out. By the Associated Press. ‘The administration will support the government in Mexico “only so long 85 it protects American lives - and American rights, and complies with its international engagements and ob- ligations,” Secretary Kellogg declared today in a formal statement. “Our relations with the government (ot Mexico) are friendly, but, neverthe- less, conditions are not entirely satis- factory,” the Secretary’s statement maid. “The government of Mexico is now on trial before the world,” the Secre- tary said. “We have been patient and realize, of course, that it takes time to bring about a stable govern- ment, but we cannot coun‘enance vio- lation of her obligations and faflure to protect American citizens.” Restoration Sought. “We are locking to and expect the Mexican government to restore prop- erties illegally taken and to indemnify American citizens,” Mr. Kellogg added. The statement was made today after . conferences with Ambassador Shef- fleld, who is home on leave from Mexico City. He said he had seen pub- lished reports that another revolu- tionary movement was impending in Mexico, and that he hoped very much that “this is not true.” The full text of the Secretary's statement follows: “I have discussed Mexican affairs with Ambassador Sheffield at great length. He has gone over the entire situation. “It will be remembered that we en- tered Into two claims conventions with Mexico under which joint claims com- missions were appointed to adjust claims of American citizens for properties illegally taken by Mexico and for injuries to American citizens of their rights. These commissions are now sitting and will, in due time, adjudicate these claims. Conditions have improved and our ambassador has succeeded In protecting American as well as foreign interests. Our re- lations with the government are friendly, but, nevertheless, conditions are not entirely satisfactory and we are looking and expect the Mexican government to restore properties il- legally taken and to indemnify Ameri- can citizens. - Insist on Protection. “A great deal of property of Amer- jcans. has been taken under or in vio- lation of the agrarian laws for which no compensation has been made, ‘and other properties practically ruined, and, In one instance, taken by the Mexican government on account of unreasonable demands of labor. “'Mr. Sheffield will have the full sup. port of this Government, and we will insist that adequate protection under the recognized rules of international law be afforded American citizens. We believe it is the desire of the Mexican government to carry out the conven- tions and to indemnify American citi- zens for the property taken. So long as we are satisfled that this is the policy of the Mexican government and this course of action is being carried out with a determination to meet its international obligations, that govern- ment will have the support of the United States. I cannot go into the detalls of the many cases which Mr. Sheffield has taken up with the Mexl- can government, but they will be worked out as rapidly as possible. “I have seen the statements pub- lished in the press that another revo- lutionary movement may be impend- ing In Mexico. I very much hope this is not true. Mexico on Trial. “This Government's attitude teward Mexico and toward threatened revo- lutionary movements was clearly set forth in 1923 when there was such @ movement threatening the consti- tuted government of that country, which had entered into solemn en- gagements with this Government and was making an effort to meet those obligations at home and abroad. “The attitude taken by this Gov- ernment at that time has since been maintained. and it is now the policy of this Government to use its influence and its support in behalf of stability and orderly constitutional procedure, but it should be made clear that this Government will continue to support the government in Mexico only so long as it protects American lives and American rights and complies with its international engagements and obli- gatlons. “The Government of Mexico is now on trial before the world. We have the greatbst interest in the stabliity, prosperity _anad Independence of Mexico. We have been patlent and realize, of course, that it takes time to bring about a stable government, but we cannot countenance violation of her obligations and faflure to protect American citizen: LA FOLLETTE IS ILL. Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, who is ill here with a heavy cold, again has taken to his bed after hav- ing been up about his room for sev- eral days. Although his condition has shown quuch improvement, his physicians be- lieve complete recovery will be facili- tated by continued rest. They say his condition is not critical. The Senatort will be 70 years old ymext Sunday. His present illness is recrudescence of an attack of grip end influenza which he suffered sev- eral years ago. Soviet Leader Attacked. MOSCOW, June 12 (#).—An attempt made yesterday to assassinate M. aasendin, president of the North Dvina, proviacial executive commit- teeman and a member of the central executive committee of the Soviet at Vellky Ustyus. M. Vaasendin received a deep cut in the shoulder. His assailant, a_man whose identity has not been establisk: pd, was arrested. Entered as second cl: post office, Washington, D. C. s matter MOTHER DIES IN VAIN. Fails to Save Her Two Babies in Tenement House Fire. NEW YORK, June 12 ().—Mrs. James Burns perished early this morn- ing in an unsuccessful effort to save her two sons, aged 1 and 2 years, from fire in a five-story tenement house on West Fifty-third street. She was overcome (ryifg to pass the bables through a firststory window to her husband. Her body was found in a bedroom near the children. Mr. Burns, a car inspector, was taken to Bellevue Hospital suffering from burns. He had jumped through the window to receive the children. DAVIS WILL SEEK TOEND BUILDING STRKE TUESDAY Calls Plasterers’ and Brick- layers’ Heads to Meet Here for.Arbitration. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, June 12.—Secretary of Labor James J. Davis has taken a per- sonal hand in attempts to settle diffi- culties between the plasterers’ and bricklayers’ unions that is threaten- ing to tle up $100,000,000 worth of con- struction work in New York, Chicago, Washington and other cities, and has called a meeting to be held in his office at Washington on Tuesday. Officials of the Plasterers’ Interna- tional Union and of the bricklayers have been summoned by the Secretary to attend the meeting in an effort to iron out the jurisdictional dispute which already has affected three of the larger construction companies of the country now engaged on major bullding contracts in the larger cities of the United States and Canada. Get Together Tuesday. Secretary Davis, who was here to- day to attend commencement exercises at Mooseheart, as director general of the Loyal Order of Moose, is undef- stood to have some definite plan of settling the dispute between the two unions, but declined to divulge details. ““We are going to try to get together on Tuesday In my office,’ he said. “Both sides have been asked to ap- pear. Until we get them together we do not know what can be done.” The plasterers’ strike, called last Monday, is based on the old dispute with the bricklayers over jurisdiction of plastering contracts, and was di- rected agalnst contractors who, the plasterers’ officials said, had refused to sign an agreement excluding brick- layers from sharing Jjurisdiction of plastering jobs. CONFER WITH UNIONS. Labor Department Agent Both Sides. The Labor Department’s Concilia- tion Bureau today dispatched an agent to Moosehart, Ill., to acquaint Secre- Davis with developments in the strike of plasterers in Washington and elsewhere, which began Tuesday. Thomas J. Willlams, commissioner of conciliation, left for New York to confer with representatives of the Plasterers’ Union and contractors in an attempt to bring them together. Appeals from the builders of the Palmer House and the Sherman Hotel in Chicago for the Labor Department to intercede in the strike is understood to_have been made. ‘The jurisdictional dispute between the plasterers’ and bricklayers’ unions is considered by the Department of Labor as one of the most serious prob- lems that its conclliation bureau has had to handle, with a general strike of both organizations on the horizon, The entire affair has been placed in the hands of Secretary Davis for re- view. Developments in the dispute, in which the bricklayers question the right of the plasterers to organize separately in clties where they are members of the bricklayers’ union, have been studied with especial at- tention during the last few weeks by the department’s conciliation bureau, and it has taken every opportunity to work for an agreement. Strike Adds Complication. The strike announcement in New York last night by President Mc- Givern of the International Plas- terers’ Union, however, came as a complete surprise to Labor Depart- ment officials, and they are inclined to regard the controversy as second in importance among those considered by its conciliation bureau only to the nation-wide mine strike in 1922. The present controversy, it was ex- plained, is primarily between the plasterers’ and _bricklayers' unions, the contractors holding that they are in the position of innocent bystanders. The International Plasterers’ Union has attempted to organize into sepa- rate unions plasterers who have pre- viously been under the jurisdiction of the bricklayers' unions in various lo- calities. The bricklayers' union has opposed this policy, and the dispute (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) Meets WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1925 FORTY-TWO PAGES. §182,000,000 GRANT MADE AMERICANS BY SOVIET'S HEADS World’s Largest Manganese Mines Are Leased to Har- riman Interests. 20-YEAR CONCESSiON IS ON ROYALTY BA?IS Deal Is Forerunner of Many Huge Projects for U. S. Capital, Russians Believe. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, June 12.—A concession agreement between W. A. Harriman & Co. of New York and the Soviet gov- ernment for exploitation of the Chia- touri manganese field was signed to- day. M. Djerfinsky, head of the supreme economic council, signed the agree- ment on behalf of the Soviet govern- mant, while George Tchitcherin, min- ister of forelgn affairs, countersigned it. John 8. Elliott signed on behalf of the Harriman interests. The contract, which already had been ratified by the Soviet govern- ment, becomes operative within 45 days, provided the Georgilan govern- ment in the meantime liquidates the present state monopoly for the export of manganese, which now controls the output of the Chiatour! mines. When this is done the $1,000,000 in cash advanced by the American inter- ests against the first year's royalties will become available through Lioyd's Bank in London. Photographs were taken while the contract was being signed, but Djer- jinsky, who has an aversion to pub- licity, became very restive while the photographer arranged his camera. Invites U. S. Capital. In a statement to the Associated Press correspondent, made while the concession agreement was being sign- ed, Djerjinsky said he hoped the manganese contract would prove a foundation stone for closer and friendlier relations between “the two great republics, the United States and the Soviet Union.” “I am delighted that the negotia- tions, which lasted longer than a year and which were fraught with many difficulties and uncertainties, finally have borne fruit,” said the head of the supreme economic council. “I am confident that the contract will prove to be the forerunner of other projects of a similar kind. We welcome American capital and Amer- ican business men to Russia, and will accord them every facility and con- sideration.” According to previous Moscow dis- patches, the concession granted to the Harriman _interests will.. them control for 20 yedrs of the manganese fields in the Chiatouri district of Geor- gla, sald to be the largest and most productive of their kind in the world. Expect $62,000,000. Soviet government officials have estimated that Russia will get a mini- mum of about $62,000,000 in royalties over that period, and that the Harri- man interests will profit to the extent of_$120,000,000. The concession is described as the |largest and most important active mining award ever granted by the Soviet government. It marks the first entry of American business interests into Soviet Russia on a large scale. Negotiations for the concession have been under way for more than a year. WILL PROTEST SHOOTING. Father Says Sons Narrowly Es- caped Dry Agents’ Bullets. DETROIT, June 12 @).—C. T. Fisher, vice president of the Fisher Body Corporation, today said he would make a protest to the Federal prohibi- tion office against indiscriminate firing on motor boats on the Detroit River. Yesterday he sald his three sons nar- rowly escaped {njury or death when they were shot at several times by men in a Government patrol boat. One of the shots, he said, went through the Fisher motor boat and several passed near it. The three boys on a pleasure ride from the Fisher Summer home at the foot of Grosse Isle, sald they heard no commands to halt and did not stop until one of the bullets ripped through the side of their craft. s ST TR R, Persia Passes Draft Law. TEHEREN, Persia, June 12 (#l.— The Persian government has- enacted a measure making military service compulsory. King Ali Occupies Bedir. LONDON, June 12 (#).—The govern- ment of the Hedjaz has announced that King All's forces have occupied Bedir, 200 miles northwest' of Mecca. TWO NAVY NURSES FACE TRIAL 'ON LIQUOR SMUGGLING CHARGE First Court-Martial For Woman in History Will Try Miss Anderson and Miss Glancy for Bringing Rum Into U. S. on Transport. . - FIVE THOUGHT DEAD - AFTER BOAT FIRE Explosion on Atlantic City Pleasure Craft Sends Passengers Into Sea. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. June 12— Five persons are believed to have been drowned last night when an explosion, followed by fire, destroyed the pleas- ure boat Crystal, forcing 30 persons, including the crew, to leap overboard while on a pleasure cruise about eight miles off Atlantic City. The explosion is believed to have been caused by a cigarette end thrown down a hatch- way. The body of Deborah McKnight, 18 years old, was brought ashore early today by Coast Guards, while a patrol boat is continuing the search for John Hannum of Northfleld, Warren Dilks of Linwood, Joseph Wilson of North- field and Martha Weiss, still missing. The survivors were taken to hos- pitals and treated for burns and sub- mersion. They had been afloat an hour before a Coast Guard cutter ked up 16. A “dry navy” boat rescued 11 others. The passengers were members of the Social Independence Club, com- prising regidents of Northfleld, Pleas- antville and Absecon. Captain Held. Capt. Willlam Young, commander of the craft, is“being held in $2,000 bail pending an investigation. Curtis Lyle of Northfield, a passen- ger, telling the story of the disaster, said the merrymakers were singing and dancing on the top deck when the explosion occurred. “I was in the cabin and was paying particular attention to what took place,” he said, “but some one tossed the butt of a cigarette through a small hatchway into a room where I think the gasoline tanks were. I am not syre of this, but apparently I am right, for the gas fumes must have cdused the explosion. [“There was a terriffic blast—like a crack of thunder banging right into your ears. The boat seemed to heave right up off the sea. She rolled from side to side, long sickening rolls that threw us around, and in a moment when we got to our feet I found my- s€lf on the top deck. I must have been blown out of the cabin. Lifeboats Gone. “The boat gave an awful lurch, and I saw two of the lifeboats go spinning into the ocean. The next thing I knew mpst of us were floundering around in tHe water. “Then I saw Dilks and Wilson try- ing to swim to Martha Weiss. Wilson took a couple of strokes and then his head flew back as a plank struck him. Then he vent under crying. Dilks almost reached Martha. She was striking_out for herself when she sank. Dilks went under then, too. “I saw searchlights from boats, then everything became confused. I came to in the hospital. AIR EXPERTS REPORT ON SEMI-RIGID SHIPS Advisory Committee Finishes Its ‘Work—Findings Will Be Kept Secret. The special subcommittee of the na- tional advisory committee for aeronau- tics, which prepared the designs from which future sem!-rigid airships of this Goyernment will be buflt, teday filed its:final report with the national com- miftee and was disbanded. As a re- sult of the work ‘of this group of scien- For the first time in naval historyordered for these women, but the fact |ijatg the Army has built and is about two women, members of the Nurse Corps, will face a general court-mar- tial at the Washington navy yard, ‘Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock, to answer charges of bringing intoxicat- ing liquor into the United States aboard a United States naval trans- rt. po'l'hs two women are Miss Ruth. M. Anderson, chief nurse, now attached to the Washington navy vard, and Miss Catherine C. Glancy, attached to the naval dispensary at the Navy rtment. De‘ll‘):e young women, it is alleged, brought the liquor into the United States aboard the ‘naval transport Kittery, on one of her recent trips from Cuba. Some effort 'was made at the Navy Department to suppress the ipforma- tion that the court-martial had been léaked out this afternoon. 4 ‘The court is composed as follows: t. Yates Stirling, who is captain of the Washington navy yard; Comdr. John H. Iden, Medical Corps; Comdr. Frank J. Fletcher, Lieut. Comdr. Ern- est W. McKee, Lieut. Fred. J. Bryant and Lieut. A. L. W. Gordon, judge advocate. The precept for -the court was re- celved at the Washington navy yard today, and preparations have been completed for beginning_the trial, which will be public, on Wednesda, The young women will be defended before the court by Lieut. W. O. Horan, at present on duty in the naval communications office irf™ the Navy Department. Lieut. Horan said today that he had no statement at this time to make in behalf of his clients, but would deny all the charges when they appear before the court martial next Wednesday. v to place in commission at Scott Field, 1., its first semirigid airship, the RS 1. This committee is the same which designed the Navy's dirigible, Shenandoah. As the work of this committee is considered confidential, it is not likely that the report will be made available to the public. The Navy haes never made public the committee’s report which forms the basis for the design of the Shenandoah. . The personnel of the committee fol- lows: Dr. Charles D. Walcott, chair- man of the national advisory commit- tee for meronautics; Maj. Gen. Mason B vice: DL B Tuek Bureau Service; Dr. L. B. Tuckerman, Bus of Standards; W. W. Pagon, Baltl- mére; Prof. William Ho chusetts Henry Goldmark, subcommittee, New York City. ] CHARGE $5,000,000 FRAUD Cuban Court Dockets Cases of Three Former Treasury Officials. HAVANA, Cuba, June 12 (#).—A $5.000,000 treasury fraud cherge re- ceived court cognizance when Dr. An- tonio Garcla Sola, judge of instruc- tion of the first section, issued a Jjudgment directing that the case against Celso Cuellar del Rio, son-in- law of former President Alfredo Zayas; Francisco Zayas v Arrieta, son of the former chief executive, and Moises Vietes be put on the docket for con- sideration. The three former treasury officials are charged with misappropriation of $6,000,000. WITNESS RETURNS IN SHEPHERD GASE Robert White, Long Missing, Comes Back to “Fight Thing to Finish.” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 12.—Robert White, long missing witness in the Shepherd murder trial, unexpectedly walked into the courtroom this morning and re- ported to Joseph Savage, assistant State’s attorney. “Here I am, Mr. Savage,” sald ‘White, who immediately was rushed to the office of the State's attorney. He ‘was accompanied by his wife and two children. “I am here to fight this thing to a ; there is more to it than you Savage sald White had stated. Ulterior purposes imputed to Alex- ander Reichmann, co-guardian with Mrs. Julle Shepherd of Willlam N. Mc- Clintock, were brought into the open today when Reichmann was so bitterly assalled upon cross-examination by W. 8. Stewart, chief of defense counsel, that four times the witness begged Judge Thomas J. Lynch for ‘“protec- tion from these insinuations.” Accuses Reichmann. Stewart indirectly accused Reich- mann of having profited from his at- torneyship of the McClintock $1,000,- 000 estate, which was willed to Shep- herd by young McClintock shortly be- fore he died of typhoid fever Decem- ber 4, a death Shepherd is accused of having caused by administering ty- phoid germs. “How much did you have when you came here from Iowa?"” asked Stew- art, and when Robert E. Crowe, State's attorney, objected, Stewart told Judge Lynch that he wanted to show ‘“when this man came here he didn't have a dime, and he got rich after he began handling the McClintock estate.” Mr. Crowe insisted Reichmann was one of the leaders of the Chicago bar and affluence was a legitimate result of his ability as an attorney. The first mention of the proposed suit by McClintock's cousins to break the will was made when Reichmann admitted he knew such a suit was con- templated, but denied he had an inter- est in it. Reichmann begged the court's pro- tection when Stewart made a sar- castic reference to the admitted fact that McClintock when a child had not liked him and again when Stewart sought to “prove by the wit- ness” that Reichmann in the noted King will case had an interested party sent to jail in an effort to break the will. The argument became so heated that Prosecutor Crowe angrily de- manded of Judge Lynch that Stewart be restrained from the practices of a. “shyster ‘lawyer.” Concluding his direct examination, Reichmann testified that as counsel for Mrs. Emma Nelson McClintock after the death of her husband, whom he had served in.the capacity, he had drawn up the will under which the estate was transferred.to the child. He testiffied that when Mrs. Mc- Clintock had wanted to name Mrs. Shepherd as a co-guardian he did not know who was meant, not being acquainted with the Shepherds at that time. Told of Will. Reichmann stated that Mrs. Shep- herd had no knowledge of Mrs. Mc- Clintock’s will until he informed her of it a short time after the latter's death. Reichmann insisted he thought he should have been compensated for helping take care of the McClintock bo; Y. Mrs. Shepherd got a personal al- lowance. of $75-a month and $400, later increased to $700, a month for chief of the Army Air|expenses of the McClintock house- hold. Much of Reichmann’s testimony Massa- fll::-lts;vlfi;‘ ::.’urh; o!htlafllcum:l wl:lh Institi of Technology, and | tI iepherds thres] out in the oramack chnlrm-no‘oyf the | probate_court over guardianship of young McClintogk, ta & “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed, Yesterday’s Circulation, 97,165 (P) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. SHODTTOREVVE 0 BULDING BL Plan Calls for $50,000,000 Expenditure — Previous Failure Disappoints. Following a conference with Pres- ident Coolidge at the White House today, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, chairman of the United States Public Bulildings Commission, stated that the commission will be called upon in the near future to find a new home for the Bureau of Mines, following the recent absorption of the bureau by the Department of Commerce. The Senator intimated that the commission may also be called upon to find new office space for the Patent Office, which figured in the reorgan- ization of the Commerce Department. Senator Smoot said that during his talk with the President the latter made it very plain that he was dis- appointed at the fallure of the last Congress to enact a public buildings bill for the District of Columbia and that he expressed a determination to try again when Congress next meets. Senator Smoot said he is of the same mind as the President. He con- siders the matter of providing several new departmental buildings as of extreme Importance, and is going to do everything ' within his power to impress this' fact upon Congress. Will Introduce Same Bill. It will be his Intention to introduce the same bill that was offered at the last session. It provides for a build- ing program in Washington calling for the expenditure of $50,000,000 to cover & period of 10 years. These buildings are to be constructed on sites already selected in the Mall, south of Pennsylvania avenue and east of Fifteenth street. Senator Smoot expects to take up the details of the housing problem in- volved in the transfer of the Patent Office and Bureau of Mines shortly. ‘The Patent Office will probably remain in its present structure for some time to come, but the future location of the Bureau of Mines, which now is in the main Interfor Department Buildings, {s in doubt. It also will likely remain in its present quarters for some time, but it is taken for granted that the Interior Department eventually will require the space. A number of other housing shifts also will come before the Public Bulldings Commission for approval. Senator Smoot said also that he feels very positive that the adminis. tration has no intention of seeking any changes in the present tariff law. " (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) COAST GUARD CAPTURES LAKE ERIE ALE RUNNER Canadian Boat Defies One-Pound Shots, But Is Boarded After Chase. By the Associated Press. ERIE, Pa., June 12—Members of the crew of a Coast Guard patrol boat captured a rum runner in Lake Erle early today, confiscating 70 cases of ale and: arresting Amos Vanderveer and David Carr of Port Colborne, Ontario. Three one-pound shots failed to halt the runner. The rum chaser finally overtook the runner and a machine gun was trained upon it. The two oc- cupants of the boat were captured when the patrol crew boarded their vessel as it raced for the Canadian shore. T Vanderveer and Carr, charged with violating customs laws and the Vol- stead act, and resisting arrest, were held in $5,000 ball each by a United States commissioner. Pepper-Thrower Blinds In Series of Mysterious Attacks on Home Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12— Blinded by red pepper, which she sald was dashed into her face as she lay upon her bed by a strange man, who raised & window of her room, hurled the pepper and vanished,. Mrs. Nor- man Gill of Fairfax County, near here, was brought to the Alexandria Hos- pital by -her husband late yesterday. Her condition is serious. The Gills had reported attacks upon their children, the robbing and firing of their home, the receipt of warnings to leave the community and a previ ous attack upon Mrs. Gill. The po- . lice have been mystified Ly the oc- BATILING CHNESE OPENFIRE ON ALE SHPPNG N CANTON Steamers Bound for Hong- kong Are Crowded With Fleeing Refugees. 14 KILLED IN ATTACKING BRITISH AND JAPANESE | Chinese Rioters Storm English Armory—Slay One Nipponese While Wrecking Shops. By the Associated Press. CANTON, June 12.—Foreign#¥team- ers were fired upon toda: as they moved within the fighting lines established by rival military leaders who continued battling for Canton, which is now held by the defending Yunnanese army. One Chinese stew- ard on the steamer Saion was wounded severely. ‘While the gunfire continued from both sides today after a night ‘of continuous shooting, neither army gained ground. The defending forces were anxious to attack Honam, but| the project could not be promoted, owing to lack of vessels, all of which are held by enemy forces. Refugees Crowd Ship. Steamers were proceeding to Hong- kong today crowded with refugees from the turmoil here. The move- ment of exports and imports is prac- ticaly nil as result of the dis- turbance. Silk shipments, however, are moving under protection Observers today reported that ad- ditional forces would be necessary e batle. If the forces Hsu Chung-Chi, who was reported nearing Canton with a Rus- slan-trained army, arrive in time and join with the forces of Chu Pei- TaR in assisting the attacking forces, the defenders may be driven out of Canton. Otherwise the Yunnanese will continue to hold the city. Eight Killed in Hankow. HANKOW, June 12 #).—Compara- tive calm had been restored this morning after last night's rioting in | which eight Chinese were killed and an undetermined number wounded while attacking the British volunteer | armo: | The trouble, incited by false reports published in the vernacular news- papers, started on the wharves, where Chinese police broke up a rioting mob and made a dozen arrests. The rioters rushed to the bund, damaged several Japanese shops, mauled the shopkeepers and then broke down the barricade and ad- vanced against the volunteer armory. Fire hose was turned on them without effect and finally, under or- ders of naval officers, machine guns were brought into play. Coolies Are Mobbed. When the coolies on the upper wharf attempted to resume work this morning they were mobbed and pre- | vented from undertaking their dutles. | A strike was declared, with students haranguing the crowd. The Chinese authorities are guar- anteelng the maintenance of order. They have undertaken the pat (Continued on Page 4, Column TIDAL BASIN BEACH PROPOSAL LAGGING Citizens Still Awuit Sanction of | Representative Madden to Plan to Permit Bathing. Officials of the citizens' advisory council were marking time today in their consideration of the possibility of opening the Tidal Basin Bathing | Beach this Summer, awaiting word from Representative Madden of II- linois, chairman of the House appro- priations committee, as to whether he would sanction the undertaking. While waiting for a reply to the telegram dispatched to Representa- tive Madden, officials of the council were considering what other steps | they might take to ascertain definitely | whether it would be proper to open the Tidal Basin and a beach at some | other point for the colored people, in view of the fact that the last Congress withheld funds for the operation of bathing beaches in the Tidal Basin. The situation today remains as it ‘was yesterday, namely, that while it is regarded as legel to open the beaches with private subscriptions, ! officials feel that those members of Congress having to do with District affairs and appropriations shotild in- dicate whether the sentiment of Con- gress would favor such a move. The citizens’ council sent the mes- sage to Representative Madden to Chicago, but information has reached the council that Mr. Madden is away from home. Tt ) Bandit's Gun Fatal to Banker. BENTONVILLE, Ark., June 12 UP). —Lou M. Stout, president of the Bank of Sulphur Springs, Ark., who was injured severely yesterday by robbers in an exchange of shots fol- lowing an attempt to rob the bank, dled early today at a Joplin, Mo., hospital. Virginia Woman currences. Sheriff Allison of Fairfax County yesterday said he would send for the bloodhounds at Occoquan and start them on a hunt for the culprits. Mrs. Gill' had been to Alexandria conferring. with State Fire Marshal Taylor. Upon returning to her home she was suffering from a headache and threw herself on her bed, she said, to ease the pain. Her husband was at work In a garden near. He was startled by her screams and rusk- ed to the house, to find her in great agony from the pepper. No trace was seen of the assailant. Stones were thrown at the 'Gill children Wednes- day, according to a report to the po- lice. EARN PROOTIN OR LEAVE NAVY, (ST 0F NEW BL Proposed Changes in Retire- ment Procedure Are of Sweeping Nature. FIXES TIME SCHEDULE TO MAKE EACH GRADE Tentative Draft of Britten Measure Is Made Public by the Department. The tentative draft of a bill design- ed to amend the present legislation governing promotion in the Navy and of vital interest to_every grade in the service, was made public today by the Navy Department. It would insure more retirements in the line below the grade of command- er and fewer above it, and direct that officers who had not been selected for promotion in specified ranks before reaching stated ages would be placed on the retired list. The bill was drafted as the result of conferences held during the past month by Rear Admiral H. P. Jones, Rear Admiral W. R. Shoemaker, Rear Admiral E. H. Campbell and Comdr. J. H. McCain with Representative Fred A. Britten of Illinois. Representative Britten, before leaving the city today for the Summer, declared he would introduce the bill at the opening ses- sion of the next Congress, although the Navy Department memorandum accompanying the copy of the draft sald it is “but tentative, has not yet received the approval of the Secretary of the Navy and is subject to changes before being submitted for considera- tion by Congress.” Time Limits Set. The bill calls for the retirement of officers from captain down to lleuten- ant, junior grade, unless they have completed certain’ specified years of service; captains, commanders and lieutenant commanders being retired on a percentage of pay equal to 2% per cent of their pay for each year of service, while lieutenants and junior grade lleutenants would be wholly re- tired from the Navy with two years' pay of their grade. The law at present declares that no captain, commander or lleutenant commander shall be promoted unless he has had not less than two years’ actual sea service on seagoing ships in the grade in which serving or who is more than 56, 50 or 45 years of age, respectively. This section, if amend- ed, would read that “no captain, com- mander, lieutenant commander, lieu- tenant or lieutenant (junior grade) shall be promoted unless he has had not less than two years' actual sea service on seagoing ships in the grade in which serving or who has com- pleted 35, 28, 21, 14 or 7 years of serv- lli‘e lslm:e date of commission, respec- tively.” First Step Four Years. The provisions of existing law relat- ing to promotion by selection in' the" line of the Navy are extended under the Britten bill to include and author- ize promotion by selection to the grades of lleutenant commander and lieutenant in the line of the Navy. The bill says that “no lieutenant shall be eligible for selection for promotion who shall have had less than four years' service in his grade at the time of convening of the board; that ex- warrant and ex-commissioned warrant officers in the grade of lieutenant or lieutenant (junior grade) if not se- lected for promotion shall have the op- tion of reverting to their former per- manent warrant status in the same manner as if they had failed in their examination for promotion; that not more than 10 per cent of any o shall be retired in accordance with the provisions of this act in any one year; and when such number of retirements would otherwise be exceeded the selec- tion board shall after making the se-' lections to fill the required number of vacancies as furnished to the board by the Secretary of the Navy, designate as eligible for future selection a num- ber of officers in the grades of captain, commander, lieutenant commander, lieutenant or lieutenant (junfor grade) as hereinafter provided, who would oth- erwise become ineligible for promotion by length of service, such number to be the excess over 10 per cent of the whole grade among those officers in the grade who would otherwise become ineligible for promotion by length of service, and the officers so designated shall, on approval of the report of the board, not retire, but shall remain on the active list and be eligible for con- sideration for selection by the next following selection board. Retirement Imperative. “Retirements of lieutenant com- manders and lieutenants (Junior grade) shall not begin until that year in which _the retirements of commanders and lieutenants under the provisions of this act first equals 10 per cent of the grades of commander -and of lieutenant, resepctively, except that those lieutenant commanders and lieutenants (junior grade) who have been passed over in selection for promotion shall be retired in ac- cordance with the provisions of this act. ““All officers of the Navy not other- wise retired in accordance with pro- visions of law shall be retired upon reaching the age of 64 years.” ‘The bill also provides that the total retired pay of captains, commanders and lieutenant commanders who be- come ineligible for promotion and are retired on a percentage of 2% per cent of their pay for each year of service shall not exceed 75 per cent of the pay they were entitled to re- ceive while on the active list. The officers with over 10 years' naval service previous to the date of their commission in the line of the Navy shall be retired with 23 per cent of their pay for each year of total service and their total retired pay shall not exceed 76 per cent of the pay they were entitled to while on the active list at the date of their retirement. Under the bill the service of Naval Academy graduates shall be computed from July 1 of the year in which their class would have graduafed. In conclusion, the bill amends the present legislation dealing with of- ficers of the line appointed from sources other than the academy to read: “That officers of the line of the Navy, who were appointed thereto pursuant to the act of June 4, 1920, from sources other than the Naval T (Continued on Page 2, uran