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" WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Burean Forecast.) Fair tonight and prob: row; s'owly rising temperature. Temperatures: Highes p.m. yesterday; lowest, 54, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 No. 29,646. FEAR OF HUGE WAR LED TOOIL LEASE, DECLARES DOHENY Says He Acted Only After Admr. Robison Convinced Him of Pacific Menace. TOLD FOREIGN WARSHIPS \WERE READY TO ACT Hawaiian Base Declared Sole De- pendence of Navy—Divulges “Military Secret.” By the Ascociated NEW YORK York Times today i right interview, in wk Dobeny. giving his ow» of the naval oil leases. discloses what he in- dicates has been regarded hitherto as & great military secrel. Speaking at Lo: spondent advice of . the Times says, Mr. Doheny that there never would have Leen an Elk Hills leage nor would his company have undertaken the con- struction of the Pearl Harbor naval Prose July The New es a cop: h Edward L. oil base had not Rear Admiral John! K. Robison, chief of the Naval Bureau of Engineering in Washington, con- vinced him that a great war in the Pacific threatened the United States in 1921, and that the proposed Hawal- ian ofl base was the one link in the national defensive chain on which de- vended victory or defeat for the United States. Mr. Doheny will go to trial in Washington in October on a charge of criminal conspiracy with Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, in connection with the Elk Hills oil lease, which the Government, in the Los Angeles Federal Court, has suc- ceeded in invalidating. Barred as Evidence. The story of naval officers’ fears of war in the Pacific, Mr. Doheny was contained in a deposition b miral Robison put in evidence on the trial of the sults to annul the Teapot Dome and Elk Hill leases, but the portion relating to the military secret | was stricken out. In this connection Secretary Wil- bur, subpoenaed to produce certain documents, sent a certificate that it would be against the national interest to Qv so, Mr. Doheny said. He called attention to remarks by Judge Ken- nedy in the Teapot Dome decision that there was no further need of zecrecy. AR, “Robison recalled to my mind the horrors of the {nvasion of Belgium, Mr. Doheny said. “With a force I hall never forget he asked me to visualize the results of even a tem- porary Oriental invasion of the Pa- cifif coast of the United States. He dwelt on how much worse, how much more horriable, how much nore to be | dreaded was an Oriental Invasion than even the worst horrors of the German invasion. ““He even startled me with informa- tion regarding orders which had been given to foreign war vessels and even to merchant ships in the Pacific for their mobilization on incredibly short notice. He pointed out that modern warfare had reduced the efficiency of coast defenses so that they were no longer to be relied upon. He told me that in an attack upon this country of ours by a navy in the Pacific de- feat was sure to come to our fleet un- | less there was an adequate naval oil reserve in Hawail. Says Pacific Power Is Ready. “He said that every responsible of- | ficer of the Navy in Washington had received confidential bulletins which disclosed that the oil reserves of a great naval power in the Pacific were adequate for war. He called my at tention to the fact that there still! existed a well known alliance between this great Pacific nation and the most powerful naval nation of the world.” Mr. Doheny said that every one who had been informed of this situ- ation had been warned of its highly | confidential and secret character be- | cause of fear that the arms con- ference, then in session at Was ington, might be wrecked by revela- tion of plans for a naval base in Hawaii Mr. Doheny further discloses, the Times savs, that the famous execu- tive order of President Harding which gave the Interior Department, under Mr. Fall, adminisirative powers | involving the naval oil reserves, was suggested not by Mr. Fall, but b; the then Sccretary of the Navy Denby; that the war fear of Navy officers had been communicated to Secretary Denby: who brought up the matter of joint control in a cabinet meeting. Mr. Doheny was forbidden by coun- sel to discuss the $100,000 loan he made to Secretary Fall, and the let- ter signed by Mr. Fall in which the latter wrote that the loan had been obtained from Edward B. McLean, publisher of the Washington Post. The Times states it has learned that a prominent member of the Re- publican national committee of 1920 brought the letter to Mr. Fall in its completed form and urged the Secre- tary to sign it Mr. Fall strongly de- murred. the newspaper says, but the committeeman argued that an elec- tion was coming on and those who conceived the idea of having Mr. Mec- Ledn pose as the lender of the $100.- 000 thought that the letter, if signed and made public before the Senate committee. Would clear the political atmosphere. Contract Made by Navy. Mr. Fall, the newspaper asserts sizned the letter, but not mailing it, he returned it to the man who brought it to him. A few hours later it was in the hands of Senator Len- root, chairman of the Senate investi- gating committee, and shortly there- after it was read into the record of the committee and given to the press. Counsel for Mr. Doheny declared that the McLean letter episode is the one incident in his long friendship with Mr. Fall that Mr. Doheny can- not excuse. In the inerview Mr. Doheny charged that telegrams had disap- peared mysteriously from the files of the Interior Department after the files had been ransacked by persons in’ the employ of the Senate investigat- ing committee. He said these tele- grams would have disclosed that Fall had no part in making contracts with Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, \Second Year of Quota Law Angeles to a staff | () ably tomor- t, 80, at 4 DG ' Brings Higher By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 1—A most desirable effect of Uncle Sam'’s new {mmigration policy has been its gift to the American people of “an op- i portunity to get acquainted,” Com- missioner Curran sald today when asked to sum the results of one year’s operation of the immigration law of 1924, At 1201 am., oceu the sec: |ond " birthday ~of | that statute with its radically re- tive quota | provisions ~ ana {other features new in the history of | American efiort 1o control the great (ommissioner Curran. { flow of immigra tion. The quietness in the executive [ wing of the immigration headquarters jon Ellis Island typified the situation | throughout the broad-flung building. | The landing stage was empty and a scant half-score anxious relatives held seats, where formerly surged crowds. The fruits of this national breathing spell_might not be Immediately a FRENCH SEEK PLAN 10PAY DEBT; ITALY i | | | Paris to Inform U. S. of De- | sire to Open Negotia- tions Soon. i 1 i | By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 1.—It is understood | that the French government is soon to llnform the United States of its desire {to open negotiations in Washington {lm’ settlement of the Franch debt i Instructions to this effect may be |sent by Forelsn Minister Briand shortly to M. Daeschner, the French Ambassador in Washington. Anxious | consideration is being given at the for- | elgn office and ministry of finance as Ilo what can specifically be proposed or accepted. | The advisers to the foreign minister {0 not appear to have reached their {conclusions as vet, but it is recognized | that obth the American and British debts must be arranged as part of the ! French government’'s program | stabilize the country’s finances | Autumn. i Credits Are Needed. Credits in the United States are |deemed necessary for this purpose { The word loan is not used. but rather | credits, probably somewhat of the n: |ture of those recently obtained by {England with the Federal Reserve Bank pound. | When M. Briand and Finance Min- }ister Caillaux are ready to make defi- nite_proposals, experts will be sent |to Washington to treat with the | American Debt Funding Commission. | M. Calllaux's plans for financial renovation and debt funding have been disarranged by the opposition to { his |from the Soclalist wing of the gov- |ernment parliamentary majority. ! Plan Modified. Consequently he has been oblized {to modify his three.step plan, which |was to begin with the balancing of the budger, followed by the voting of new taxes to provide a sinking fund for pavment of the debts, after which would come stabilization of the franc and debt settlement. M. Briand and M. Caillaux |agreed that negotiations should be iinitiated only when the French gov- ernment is able to make a precise offer to the American Debt Funding Commission. Therefore, they have de. sired to dispose of the budget que: | tion and assure a treasury margin be- |fore sending a formal communication {to_Washinzton. The Socialist opposition to M | Caillaux’s taxation program for pro iding a sinking fund for debt pa: ! ments makes it uncertain whether |this fund can be ralsed this year, {and for that reason the debt plans may have to be modified. The date ! when instructions may be sent to.Am- |bassador Daeschner 1is therefore | necessarily vague. | ENVOY SAILS HOMI_i |to | Alberti Expects to Return August 1 to Continue Parley. Discussions here of a plan for fund ing Italy’s war debt to the United | States will'be delayed at least one | | expert of the Italian debt mission, re turns to Rome for additional data on Italy's capacity to pay. He will leave Washington immediately, it was an nounced after two conferences yester- day with the American debt commis- sion, and the negotiations will be re- sumed after August 1. While members of i commission had hoped the negotia- tions would proceed without interrup- | tion, they are not anxious because of | the delay. Tt is their desire that Italy enter the funding agreement with full information as to details of its progress, and it was suggested further that officials here wish to avold any Impasse in the negotiations because of its possible effect on other debtors. Italy Stands Committed. Italy is regarded now as committed ‘to a funding policy and it is thought that this might encourage Belgium, France, Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia to give headway to similar negotia- tions. Signor Alberti’s return to Rome will give him his first opportunity to dis- cuss fully the debt situation with Pre- mier Mussolini. The emissary was in this country when he was selected by the premier to join Ambassador de Martino in conducting the negotia- tions, and the Ambassador himself had little opportunity to go over the I subject with the premier before he contracts were supervised by. Assist- | visit is expected, therefore, to provide the Doheny interests, but that these|came to Washington. Mr. Alberti’s " (Continued.on. CantigedeooRass 2o CAURL T~ ¢h *+ SUSPENDS PARLEY to | this | new tax measures encountered | are | { month while Mario Alberti, technical | the American | Type Immigrant {Younger Men. More Easily Assimilated, Replace Old Type on Anniversary of Policy. Curran Says parent to the casual commissioner said. but hey already are being seen by those closely in touch with the problem and the har- vest will accumulate steadily.” A marked improvement in quality | of “immigrants was the chiet effect noted by Mr. Curran on the flow through Ellis Island, which handles { half of the 1,000-a-da admittances | authorized under the existing quotas. Not only are the individuals of a higher tvpe, hut they are generally | vounger than in the old open-door | days and therefore “of greater assim: ilability and larger economic value to the countr; Mr. Curran said the pr aquota of 300,000 should be ample for period of s, while the husiness “becoming acquainted” was in throughout the n: n. visitor makinz a return trip Ellis Island today after a lapse of several vears would have difficulty in recognizing it as the principal receiv. qir port for ien disembarkations. The long corridors between th | screened stalis were practically empty {and in the visiting ‘“‘pens’ onl; “ small group indicated the business of examining applicants for admission still was in progress. In contrast with the past daily aver- age of several thousands of temporary (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) the nt net f pre i A |President Exiles | ‘Paul Pry’ Because | Of a*Mean Streak By the iated Pres SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 1.— Paul Pry, President Coolidge's Airedale dog, has developed a mean streak, and Mr. Coolidge decided today he would make a better mascot for the marines than a pet at the Summer White House. The Airedale, which recently was muzzled, was driven by the Presi- dent and Mrs. Cgolidge to the marine camp near here and turned over to Lieut. Edgar Allen Poe. They still have with them Rob Roy, white collie, which has re- tained a_ more dignified manner than his former playmate. | FOWLER ASKS DATA Complained of in Depart- mental Market Survey. | _Acting Secretary of Agriculture R. W. Dunlap today informed Dr. Wil liam C. Fowler, that the “most insanitary stores’ deal {ing in meats in Washington were ated in business districts; that other |stores in which insanitary conditions | were noted were scattered throughout | operated principally by foreigners. and that inquiry of the department's in- vestigators as to whether heaith cer- |tificates for clerks were required was janswered in all cases in the negative. | _After receiving the report from the ‘Depar!men( of Agriculture, Health |Officer Fowler indicated that he still wanted to obtain from the department the locations of the stores in which conditions needing correction ~were found. ‘Wants Specific Data. The health officer said he probably {would request that his inspectors be | permitted to examine the records of |the Agricultu Department of stores | visited during the survey, so that the | inspectors might follow up specific cases. The Secretary’s information was embodted in a letter which Dr. Fo ler received and made public today and was in answer to 10 questions the local health officer had asked of Mr. Dunlap following publication of a department report that Washing- which were ‘“outstanding examples r\'hgre sanitary methods were lack- ng. All of the general instances of in- sanitation mentioned in the report and which Dr. Fowler construed as applicable to Washington do not exist here, Secretary Dunlap's letter showed. The Washington survey, the letter sald, was made during the Summer and Fall of 1924 by experienced men | employed regularly by the depart- ment. They visited more than 40 stores located in all sections of the city in addition to public markets, where careful observation and in- quiry was made. New Law Needed. Tn answer to Dr. Fowler's question, “In what way are the laws of the District of Columbia relating to food- stuffs inadequate?” Secretary Dunlap aid: “As o matter of proper sanita- Ition” not oniv, but in the protection {of the health of the public, the de- partment believes that refrigerated | display counters which voluntarily adopted by a number of markets and have been, as a matter of legislation, exacted by some cities should universally be required. The need for this s particularly empha- i sized in those cities where high tem. peratures prevall during the Summer months Reference to the sale of meats from wagons, does not apply to Washing- ton, the letter sald, “as this i not a common practice in this city.” The practice of displaying meats on un- covered counters is general in all " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. $100,000 for Manses and Churches. NEW YORK, July 1 (#.—Appro- priation of $100,000 toward the con- struction of churches and manses ‘was announced today by the Presby- terlan Board of National Missions. New churches are to be built at East Youngstown, Ohio; Alton, Til; Port Angeles, Wash.; Casper, Wyo.; Ports- mouth, Ohio, and El Paso, Tex. WASHINGTON, ON UNGLEAN MEAT |Wants Addresses of Shops| local health offcer, | ton was among seven principal cities | have been | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, IDISTRICT TAX RATE - BOOSTED 30 CENTS fMunicipal Finances Fall $700,000 Behind During Past Fiscal Year. | 1 $1,000,000 DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BLAMED Coming 12 Months Cause for Great Increase. The Distriet Commissioners this afternoon fixed the tax rate at $1.70 ner $100 of nssessed value on real es tate and tangi personal property {for the new fiscal vear. This is an in | crease of 30 cents over the old rate of 1 $1.40 For the first time since the system of fixing a different tax rate each vear began, the District failed during the last 12 months to raise the amount required to meet its proportion of ex- penditures by approximately $700,000 This was revealed in the report of Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor, and 12 months. In | previous vears the District has shown a surplus, which was carried forward | &s a credit in fixing the next tax rate | Therefore, it was necessa | Commissioners to make allowance in the new rate now fixed for the deficits of the past fiscal year. | Maj. Donovan's report explained that | the failure of the old tax rate to raise the required amount during the past {vear was due largely to the fact that | deficiency appropriatior uthorized by Congress after the $1.40 rate had |been fixed were zreater by nearly {$1,000.000 than hdd been anticipated | when "the tax rate was fixed at the | beginning of the vear ax rate will apply to bills ovember of ithis vear and rate for the coming Text of Report. | The report.of Maj. Donovan upon | which the new rate was fixed reads in part as follows. “For the fiscal year ending June {30, 1925, the Commissioners fixed a full assessed value of real estate and produced with other sources of rev- enue, including the tax on intangible personal property, the tax on public utilities, banks, building associations etc, and collections from miscellane- ous sources, a total sum of §19,203- 076.91. enues a collected in the fiscal year nd used as a credit in the fiscal amounting to $5 the further sum o being the District’s proportion | c08.62. | tions carried to surplus by warrant {of the Secretary of the Treasury. | The actual revenue collection of the | District during the fiscal yvear 1925. exclusive of the two ftems mentioned. applicable to_appropriation 1 amounted to $1.457,310.96. Deficit Carried Forward. The total obligation against the revenue of the District for the fiscal | year 1 represented by the regu- to assist in stabilizing the [the poorer residential sections and|lar District approvriation act, de- ficiency appropriation and the third fifth of the cash fund of $3.000,000, amounted to $20,014,585.19. The ap- propriation charges, therefore, for the fiscal year 1925 exceeded the rev- enue credit by 1,508.20. This def- icit in revenue collection is considered as an element in fixing the tax rate for that year. “In previous fiscal vears the reve- nue collections have been more than adaquate to meet appropriation |charges. The deficit {lection in the fiscal vear 1925 is due [to an underestimate’ of appropria- tions made subsequent to the begin- ning of the fiscal year in deficiency appropriation acts. The auditor's es- timate for the total of all such ap- propriations to be made following July 1, 1924, chargeable against the revenue of the District was $2,045. 948.20. while such appropriations as actually made by Congress amounted 1to £3,967,649 | 1926 Total $31,827 “For the fiscal vear ending June 30, 1926, the total amount appro- priated by the District appropriation act for that vear is $31,827,797, from which is deducted items chargeable the water fund, amounting 29,920 and items chargeable to the gasoline tax fund amounting to $812,- 000, leaving the amount to be paid from revenues of the United States and the District of Columbia $29,- 786,877. The contribution the TUnited States for the fiscal vear 1926 is 39,- 000,000, leaving the net amount to be raised by the District of Columbia on the basls of the amount appro- priated by the District appropriation act for 1926 at $20,785.877 To this stallment of the cash fund of $3,000,- 000, or $600,000. The estimated e: penditure for refunding erroncously paid taxes, $30.000; the estimated ex penditure for extension of streets and avenues, $30.000; police and fire pen sions, $450,000: estimared in_appropriations for the fisc 1926, $500,000, and the <horis revenue credits in 192 For all of the several : cated the total estimated appropria- tion charges against the District reve. nue for the fiscal year 1926 are $23,- 207,385.28. | Estimated Revenues. 1926 are as follows: Tax on intangible personal property, $2,200,000; _esti- mated collections on the tax on public utilities, banks, building associations, etc., $1,800,000; estimated collection of penalties on overdue taxes, $150,000, and estimated collections from various miscellaneous sources, $2,700,000. This leaves $16,357,385.28 to be raised by the application of a tax rate on real estate and tangible personal property. “The estimated total assessed valua. tion of taxable real estate for the fiscal year 1926 is $860,000,000, and for tan- gible personal property $105,000,000, making a total estimated valuation for both purposes for the fiscal year 1926 of $965,000,000. The application of a tax rate of $1.70 on each $100 of |the full valuation of assessment of |real estate and tangible personal prop- erty will, thérefore, produce an esti. mated revenue of $16,405.000, as agning $16,367,395.38 gequired,” WEDNESDAY, T05170PERSID Need to Make Up Deficit During | had to be allowed for in fixing the new | for the | This amount includes surplus rev- | of lapsed cash balance of appropria- | charges, { is carried | | forward to the fiscal year 1926 and in revenue col-| to ! amount must be added the fourth in-; deficieney | The estimated revenues for the year | ¢ Foening Star The Star” every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” s carrier system covers Yesterday’: s Circulation, 98,832 JULY 1925—F ! i [ | { i i REBUILDING BEGINS N SANTA BARBAA ;Workmen Clear Away Debris | as Financiers Negotiate ! Behind Closed Doors. | By the Associated Prese SANTA BARBARA, | brief dawn spread over Santa | Barbara, earthquake-stricken city of {the Pacific, her thousands of {sons and daughters arose face Calif., July 1 as iwhich coffront them in returning tangible personal property. This rate | their city to what was formerly de- | |seribed as the millionaires’ play- {ground and municipal gem of the { Pacific coast. | | the eapthquake. heaviest to visit described as the the Pacific coast since the first but throughout the night there have been nearly a score of slight, : imperceptible shocks No exact estimate of the loss has been announced. but it has been de- { seribed Dbetween $20,000.600 and 1$25.000,000. | During the structural engi |neers, who have heen assizned the |task of testing the remaining strenzth {of the city's structures, began ar i Angeles and San Fran freely predicted that | : of the buildings, although stand ing and exhibiting but slight traces of the earthquake's ravages. would be jordered demolished to make way for more solid and substantial structur Wreckers at Work. As the surveying party moved along the thoroughfares, wrecking parties, headed by Los Angeles and Santa Ba bara firemen, began the demolition of the structures against cree of the engineers fell. Behind the wrecking parties came swarm of workmen and motor truck clearing away the debris. Santa Bar- bara was arising from the ruin of crumbled stone and twisted steel, a |catastrophe wrought early last Mon- night {day when the foundations of the build- ings were shivered by the earth’s om- inous rumblimgs. Although the physical aspect of the reconstruction program jevidence in the shouting men and panting trucks, there was another vital factor at' work. While noise reigned in the streets, financial min, of the community sat behind closed doors and in terms of wealth sought to checkmate the fate which had re- {duced their buildings to ruins. $2,500,000 Fund Raised. H. I Cotton, a Los Angeles bank- er, annoupnced last night that a re- volving fund of § 0,000, to assist in the rebuilding had been successfully negotiated. He sald the clearing houses of San Francisco and Los An- geles had offered $1,000,000 each to the found, and smaller financial institu- tlons would immediately subscribe the remaining $500,000. Another financial assistance plan was born when the banks of Santa | Barbara late yesterday sought a loan of $20,000,000 from financial institu- tions throughout the United States. Rescue work centered on one loca- tion today, at the ruins of the San Marcos Building on State street, in which two bodies of victims are be- lieved to be covered by the wreckage. Giant steam shovels gnawed stub- aly at the mangied wod and steel as the debris gradually was cleared A sraphic eyewitness account of the antics of the earthquake in 2 vegion was brought to Santa last night hy J. M. McAvoy, «ontinued on Page 2, Column 6.) AMUNDSEN WILL DINE " 'AS KING'S GUEST SUNDAY | Members of Expedition Will Be Met by Officials When Steamer Arrives. By the Associated Press. OSLO, July 1.—Capt. Raold Amund- sen will dine at the Royal Palace Sunday as the honor guest of the King and Queen of Norway. The highest state officials will attend. The members of the Amundsen- Ellsworth North Polar expedition are returning from Spitzbergen on a steamer due here Sunday. They will be met by government and city officials. Vote Confidence at Athens. ATHENS, July 1 (®.—After a statement by Gen. Pangalos, premier in the cabinet set up following the recent military coup, the National As. sembly -last night voted confidence in the new government, 185 to 14 which the de- | was more in | the | IFTY PAGES. () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. D0C,GIMME SOMETHIN' To QUET = MY NERVES! | AINT GETTIN' f7 MUCH ResT LATELY tax rate of $1.40 for each $100 of the |Serious pgoblems of reconstruction, | | Ten people have lost their lives in | OSCAR UNDERWOOD. (NDERWOOD QUITS MACE FOR SEMATE | Senator Refuses to Be Can- didate for Re-Election When Term Ends. | By the Associated Prese BIRMINGHAM. Ala., July ! ator Oscar W. Underwood will not he |a candidate for re-election to the United States Senate when his present term expires. Senator Underwood today announced | his intention to retire from active po- | litical affairs after March 4, 1927, in a letter to Victor H. Hanson, publisher | of the Birmingham News. The letter follows “Will you allow me to say in the | columns “of the Birminzham News that I will not he a candidate for re- | election to the United States Senate. | When my present term expires I shall | retire from politics. I want my friends |and constituents to know how thank- |ful T am for the opportunity they have given me to serve my State for | 30 vears and that my heart is full of | | gratitude for all the honors they have | conferred upon me. Will Live Near Capital. Senator Underwood does not an- ,nounce his plans for the future, but | he is known to have told friends that | he expects to devote his time to writ- ing. He will spend part of each year 1at the country home near Washington recently purchased by him and the remainder in Birmingham. Senator Underwood’s retirement will i come after more than 30 years of con- | tinuous service of his State in Wash- tington, during which period he has jenjoyed or declined many. honors { within the gift of his colleagues in the ] National Capital. 1 SEEK UNDERWOOD SEAT. | Two Candidates for Senate Are An- nounced in Alabama. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. July 1 (P).— |Hugo L. Black. Birmingham attor- terday for the seat in the United States Senate held by Oscar W. Un- derwood. After a visit in the State Senator Underwood left today for a vacation at Tate Springs, Tenn., | without announcing his decision as {to whether he would be a candidate for re-election. Former Gov. Thomas Kilby of Anniston has announced intention of entering the r: Saves Coolie’s Lif By the Aseociated Press. . CHICAGO, July 1.—A hastily as- sembled American flag with 68 stars, which was used by a Chinese to save his life during recent up- risings in China, has been presented to the Chicago Rotary Club by H. G. W. Woodhead, former presi- dent of the Tientsin Rotary Club. Ah Sing, a coolie porter em- ployed at the Liscum Club, recrea. tion headquarters for American sol- diers and sailors in Tientsin, was deverely beaten when revolutionists jnvaded the club ‘and took soms A 1.—Sen- | ney, filed notice of his candidacy yes- | | actual occurrences during the strike . 5. MAY SUPPORT | CHINESE DEMANDS ?Is Expected to Urge Early Action on Question of Ex- traterritorial Rights. | | | | By the Associated Press. | Instructions for Minister MacMur- | ray. who will arrive at his post in | Peking by July 4, are expected to in- | dicate a desire here that the whole question of extraterritorial rights in | China be taken under consideration at the earliest practicable date. If the other powers concur in that viewpoint, the international sion authorized during the Washing- the arms conference to deal with ex. traterritorial rights probably would take up its functions. together with | representatives of all nations who Ihave a natural interest in Chinese | questions. | New instructions are under prepa- ration at the State Department to be | cabled to Mr. MacMurray. They are based on all advices received from China in connection with the anti-for. eign disturbances, including the pro. visional government’s demand that ex. traterritorial privileges be discon tinued | Schurman Paved Way. Initiation of such an the que: lative step taken by any foreizn | country toward providing- a perma nent solution for the present situation in China. The Washington Government always |has favored curtailment of special | inquiry into | privilezes in countries able to estab- | | lish adequate judicial systems of their own. In common with other powers, |the United States already has re. linquished rights of extraterritorialit in Turk: i and it sponsored at shington con- ference the proposal for a commission to study the Chinese judicial situation Even before the pr anti-foreign excitement in China was | Jacob Gould Schurman, then American Minister to Peking, in an address de. livered in that city. outlined a course of action in regard to changes in the Chinese judicial procedure which he sald could pave the way for the |abandonment by his government of extraterritorial rights. There has been no reason to doubt that he spoke the mind of the Washington Government. 13 Nations Involved. Thirteen nations probatly would he | given an opportunity to participate in the inquiry now proposed. They are ithe nine “which signed the extra. territoriality resolution at the Wash. ington Arms Conference—the United States, Belgium, Great Britain, China, France, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands and Portugal—and the four who sjnce have adhered to the policy expregsed in that resolution—Denmark, Peru, Spain and Sweden. FIRST PARLEY LIMITED. Commission Will Confine Work Shanghai Affair. PEKING, July 1 Martel, the French ministe: Cerruti, the Italian minister, and Ferdinand L. Maver, the American charge d' affaires, constitute the for- elgn commission named for discus- sion, beginninz probably next Chinese authorities. The discussion will be limited to the and rioting at Shanghai. virtually re ! suming where the recent conference at Shanghai was interrupted. The Chinese have been advised that con. sideration of the other questions, guch as rendition of the mixed court and the fundamental alteration of the Shanghai_administrative system, can " (Continued on Page 4, Column 4. American Flag, With Sixty-Eight Stars, e in Riot at Tientsin| of the furnishings while it was temporarily deserted. “Ah Sing,” Mr. Woodhead said, “wanted to save the remaining furniture or perhaps another beating. So when the next band of outlaws arrived he had made an American flag and had it fly- ing from a window. Shouting, he pointed to the emblem and pre- dicted dire results if the premises were violated. The group left and no others bothered him.” The flag is made. of strips of red and white cloth with a plece of blue starred bunting for the Jack portion, 7 commis- | ion would be the first affirm- | precipitated by the Shanghai incidents, | to Signor Mon- day, of the Shanghai affair with the ANTHRACITE UNIONS AP FIGHT AS SOFT COALSTRIKE LOOMS | Bituminous Walkout Threat- | ened to Force Wage Scale Adherence. {WAR TO FINISH PLEDGED TO RESTORE CHECK-OFF Hard Coal Miners Also to Refuse Lower Scale in September. Agreement. i | | | | | By the SCRA TO; ssmen in east $200,000 hituminous coal min: unemploved, was recom- executive hoards of 2 nd 9 by the anthracite tridistrict scale convention today The exact amount was left to the | boards to decide | John L. 1 | president, in { tion yesterday P n 1 A te miners dv of possik to rike and at as otherwise mended di wis, international mine dressing the conven- after pledging a finish fight in the approaching negotiations with the anthracite operators to re- new the contract expiring August 31, ned the bituminous operators that unless steps were ken to enforce the Jacksonville ment union of- ficlals might a_ Nation-wide strike in the soft | & coal field: Sees Menace to Agreement. He =aid certain soft coal com ies had joined with certain soft coal consuming railroads to scuttle the three-year agreement. Both, he said sought to demoralize and pauperize the union districts as a means of de- stroying the miners' union | Denouncing this as an “infamous conspiracy,” the miners’ president contrasted the “private and business morals” of men like John D. Rocke- i feller, jr.; Secretary of Treasury Mel lon and C les M. Schwab, who. | he asserted, had failed to us {influence as stockholders in bituminous coal companies to pre- vent violation of the pact. Strike May Be Called. “T am calling attention of the Gov- | ernment of the United States and of the American people to this fact.” said Mr. Lewis. “I have cited the instances and I have named the names of the men responsible for this action. 1f this situation con- tinues, it may be necessary, later on, to authorize a national shut-down of the mines of this country while the Government and the coal operators and representatives of the mine workers: discuss whether the Jack- sonville agreement is going to be carried out Mr. Lewis sald his a shut-down applied only to the soft coal fields. Referring to the coming anthracite negotiations, he said the hard coal miners would not accept a cut in wages and would insist on the check-off system of collection of union dues being incorporated ir new agreement BRITISH WALKOUT LOOM i references to i the i | Declaration of War Seen in Operators® Order of Wage Cut. LONDON. | association | owne: gave notice yesterday |of intention to terminate the agree- ment with the miners’ federation on July 31, at the same time i ing that the basis of a proposal for a new agreement had been considered and would be communicated later. The terms of the proposal are not known, but undouhtedly include an in- crease in hours and a reduction of wages, which it is practically certain the miners will refuse. Hence, unless negotiations in the meantime reac a compromise, there will be a serious mining erisis at the end of July i Secretary Cook of the miner | eration characterizes the owners tion as “a declaration of wa body knows whether the upshot be a big strike, but the present is likely to stimulate the move; {ready afoot to revive the triple al llance of miners, railway men and | transport workers, which collapsed on jthe famous ‘“black Friday” a few | vears ago. Export Trade Lost. Great Britain, in the opinion of | many experts, has lost, and is not like- |1y to rezain, a large part of her ex- | port trade in coal owing to the develop- | ment of water-power electricity abroad | the increasing use of oil fuel and the | stimulation of German coal productic for reparations. More than 400 col- lieries closed down in the past year, | and the annual loss of revenue through ! coal exports is approximately $30, | 000,000. Stagnation in coal trade reacts on | the railways and means a loss of re | munerative freightage. Great Brita lags behind the continent in the d velopment on a large scale of electri- cal energy, which, sued, would more economic the emplo; ment of coal resources. pensating partly for 'ass in the expe 7 The government. as Premier Bald win announced vesterday, is stll con sidering this development. The prime minister's suggestion to subsidize in- 1stry meets with only lukewarm comment. In the meantime, unemploy ment, which showad a slight reduction the previous week, is again increased by nearly 20,000 in the past week. \VISTULA FLOODS, CRACOW IS BELIEVED IN DANGER | Valleys Become Lakes—Villages Submerged—Heavy Loss of Life Feared. | By the Associated Press. WARSAW, July l.—Devastating | floods have followed the worst rainy | spell experienced for a generation in Galicia and _ Silesia. The Vistula | River and all the mountain streams lare out of their banks. The city of |Cracow is in danger. | Many parts of the district look like |vast lakes from which emerge the {few villages situated on higher ground. Other villages have been | submerged and loss of life is feared. | Fifteen children crossing a bridge over the Dniester River near Mar- jampol on a school excursion were washed away and all perished, A i | will ction nt al-