Washington Post, The (Newspaper) - May 10, 1923, Washington, District Of Columbia Member of fa PreM la tit to the far cf n wi credited lo it not other credited in aad aleo M Brwa herein The Post in member of tan Allocated the of the world Belrt and continued cool toda and tonight row fair rising tore Temperature 1 eat 08 lowest 88 i NO AND SUNDAY AS MATTIR rusTOFFlCE C THURSDAY MAY 10 1923 ues BT THB POST GO TWO CENTS Breakfast Dish Served Fresh Daily of dominion Whoolt around in flight an enemy man can newer overcome but he can pretty nearly catch up with what witK your electric apark ateam all at your with a full account of the old flight A of the Thm loathing to fne ach Stir a little into the coffee and let the go application for an tion to enjoin the In turea ia denied and Daugherty will hurry an Court appeal to the Supreme France acti the part of the and the death is on Herr con- of in the Ruhr and and terma are imposed on others ai Germany in teit the fate of Baron von Bohlen who n hailed by Cuno aa champion The chancellor the Kruppi owners and men will be bound together in an iron com- munity of whatever that mar mean in the yeari to The French think the British attitude likely to encourage and train entente London's reply to German today or tomorrow will point out their un- Maybe De Valera never kissed the Blarney atone Anyhow the dail merely laugha aa Ma peace terma are read The free re- them all including a demand for a general election the of republicana to alt in parliament out taking the oath and other An Irishman never knowa when be'e licked Eara cocked for the next event on the maybe the funs are too Would have the a law a doctor from more than one box of pilla for a patient in a eral judge in New York un- constitutional the liquor limitation on by Brother Vol tad and the air for of Billy Mitchell who generally the cream off the milky way with Kit little dipper that a fiant plane ia built with a pan of 125 feet feet high 3 in each wing requiring a crew of 11 and of gaa an hour You may have your breakfast in New York and your dinner in aame day and et to you're not afraid of the 65 houri And the flivver of the aky that the trip to Mara en a box of and a pint of water Man haa reaped the pinion of the eagle and it off on The flight Of future daya Safety ta a food even for cloudmen So cornea a tion that the wooden f the Jama river pride be an- chored here and there at aea aa fillin They aay that rum and don't mix but if they could be made to and every hangar a inn n idea would be born that would to Mulberry politici may be behind the kidnapping incident in Suchow cornea through thai the face dire the are called off At two white wemen are till the of tke raid and Mi Auld and Mrs Sealon are not yet located of Church of of Church England King George and Mary in fica at Vatican by One- of n G R B Derrick Crew Trapped in a Sea of Fire FLAMES Spark FEET HIGH Blow From Hammer Starts Inferno WELL FLOWING WIDE OPEN Spooling Feet of Gas and Barrels of OU Ex- plosion Ignites Everything Within Hundreds of ered Burned to Have Miraculous Came in Midst of Effort to Get Flow Under Control Corsicana Tex May 9 By A least 13 men were killed by an explosion of the G K Hughes Developing Company's McKie No 1 well ten miles southeast of here late today There is a possibility that the number o will reach 25 A spark from a hammer on a rock as th valve was being changed at the well ignited the oil and gas from the gusher A crew of twenty men who came from Mexica this morning have not been accounted for The crew was working near the well when it caught fire The bodies of five men have been recovered Those recovered are so badly red that Identification is Impossible Two other bodies have been ed near the well One mane a Mr SImmonds who was on th derrick floor with the crew escaped bv ning His clothing not oil soaked did not ignite A fifteen year old boy with him Travis Owen 32 ot Keren Texas died in the hospital here tonight as the result of Injuries making the tal dead thirteen Physicians held out little houe for Bird an- other victim Bird said there was bet wen eight and ten oh the derrick floor at the of the and that he thought he and Owen were the only two who escaped Officials of the company are making a check of the men ing One man said that the of the dead men were where they fell when the blast occurred and the well still burning It would be sible to e them The fire started about 3 o'clock this afternoon while hundreds were In the vicinity of the well Word of the tragedy was telephoned to Corsicana with urgent call that all available doctors medical supplies and lances be rushed to tile scene According to an eye witness the crew was on the derrick floor ing the control head when suddenly there was a flash of bj two other flashes the fire shooting 100 feet in the air In a second feet or the well was ignited All the trees and shrubbery around the was saturated with oil and the ground was quickly burned clear 4 great pool of oil near the well also boiled skyward quicks The will continued to burn and is now flowing wide open with the flames darting into the air Gaa and Oil Houston Tex May 9 con- reliable saj the McKie No I well was wild at the rate of barrels of oil and in excess of feat ot gas when It ignited The well is the third completed in the new field a sand between 2 and 3 000 Chilly Blasts Will Stick Around Today Warmer Tomorrow It's a cold cold dav In the Ing when the mercury drops with a thud to 38 or and the weather nan forecasts as much for the mark early this morning for Washington and before he crawled under his own extra winter- last His guess after a study of weather charts of the en- tire country is that the come cold wave will not temperature lower than this The record ot 33 degrees on May 11 is destined to stand along with dance and dishwashing marks A spark of optimism was struck in the forecast which Indicated frost as unlikely except in ex- tremely places The break is to come tomorrow which will be fair and bring rising ture MIDWEST SNOW-CLAD FAR WEST SWELTERING East Shivers and Sees Flakes While Near Pacific Mercury Tops the 100 Mark Chicago May the Bait shivered and the West sweltered the central covered this morning by a blanket capricious of snow May to was treated by more moderate Weather although still below the sonal normal The weather bureau here predicted warmer weather for this forecast area tomorrow and that normal May temperatures will return before the first of the week following the weather of last night and the enow which at times approached the proportions of a midwinter billiard Willie several Eastern cities re- ported snow today the West was In the warm weather that set May records at some points when the thermometer sailed over the mark The snow which covered most sections of the middle West this morning and at in Michigan reached a depth of 10 inches had nearly all disappeared during the day It was reported that and fruit would not be materially aged for reason that they were behind the seasonal normal due to the cold spring Calif May coaches were added to all trains today to carry those seeking to escape from the heat The hot spell continued with temperature ing from 194 to Vlo decrees out tbe Imperial valley t dajr ft of At State ered the ground in protected and at tne snow malted it fell Class 1 Roads Barn in March Earnings of class one railroads for March filed with the Interstate Com- merce Commission and compiled by the Association of Railway Executives showed a total net income of This amount the estimated represented an an- rate of B 84 per cent on the value of railroad property ing March 1922 the same carriers earned 000 For the first three of this net income of the claas one roads was last year 11 was Class one roads operate more than 30 per cent of the country's mileage Baby Rash Epidemic Declared Not Serious The mild epidemic of among babies at the Columbia tal Is nothing extraordinary and curs often at every hospital Dr W H DuBose superintendent said laat night Thirty-two cases of the rash have appeared among the SOO babies in the hospital in the last four months but the spread of the dis- ease has been checked he said is a mild rash never ing death nod disfigurement and pears In the form of small on the face and all of thr babies suffering from the rash are thriving Dr DuBose Den by Sees Disloyalty In Charges by Sims na hv Rear Admiral William N retired that favoritism was wn in appointments to high rival drew a retort v from who it hard to believe that v ni made the statement at- n him 1 can believe any officer would such utter disloyalty o the service the Secretary added Sims was quoted in press as asserting that wonal Influence bring greater warda than training In navy and the recent shift of flag to illustrate his allegation He Mid more than half the arise details to who riad not been trained at the War college Vem Talak Adv U S Loses Sugar Decision Daugherty to Take Appeal ment s application for a temporary injunction lo enjoin trading in raw sugar futures by the New York fee and sugar exchange and ing associations was denied today by the United States circuit court oC appeals before which the case heard The court announced that s memorandum stating Its reasons might be filed later The temporary injunction had been applied for pending final ing on the charge that transactions in raw augar futures as operated by the exchange and its clearing constituted a conspiracy or agreement in restraint of foreign and interstate trade and commerce In lation of the Sherman law and son tariff act Artificial The government asked the coart particularly to enjoin trading in raw sugar which were not backed up by ownership or of actual sugar stating that investigations had shown only a small fraction of the sugar dealt In had actually been de- livered to or sugar The prices oof refined sugar were artificially fixed said the United States attorney who charged they were manipulated for gam-bHng or speculative purposes Will Declaim An appeal to the Supreme in the possible Attorney General Daugherty announced day will fee taken by the government the New York court decision denying an Injunction to prevent speculation on the New York sugar market Mr Daugherty a statement was made after a lengthy his assistants He not officially Informed whether the decision was In the final form to take an Immediate appeal and as a result the next step was undetermined Attorney General Seymour haa had charge of the sugar said receipt of the court's opinion was to determine further action The sole purpose of the said Mr Saymour Is to ex- case to a final hearing Will CM All Mean aft Raid Attorney General and Mr the Department of was responsible for all protect the nst exorbitant sugar should be found determined by the Supreme Court their view was that the Department would have met Its responsibility leaving further action deficient and so no disappointment over the adverse turn declared the ciple Involved was the law now the government a te protect the public against gambling In the vital necessities nf life De- spite the denial of a ir- they contended the ment theory of the suit sound Roles Physicians Should Not Be Limited ENJOINS DRY OFFICIALS Holds That Congress Erred in Volstead Act MAY AFFECT NARCOTICS LAW Federal Judge Declares Placing limit on Doctors Prescriptions Functions of Profession Sees Injustice to Patients and Menace to Human Restrictive Clause Outside of tent to Suppress Use of to Appeal Case New York May Judge Knox today declared tional as restricting the right of a physician to prescribe for his the provisions of the Volstead act and its prohibiting the prescribing more than a pint of spirituous liquor every ten days By implication he indicated his belief that a provision of the son antinarcotic physicians from act prohibiting prescribing in- creased doses of drugs to addicts un- der treatment also was for the game reason sel for Dr Ernest S Bishop re- cently indicted for violation of the drug prescribing limitation an- they would apply for dis- missal of the indictment Will Appeal The decision in the liquor pre- scription case was the first blood for the Association for the Protection of Constitutional Rights an of 100 prominent physicians who brought the suit through their President Dr Samuel W Lambert dwn emeritus of the College of at Columbia university States Clark announced however that the case would fee to States Supreme for final decision and that he would a stay of Judge Knox's decision tn the meantime Physician Challenged Law Dr Lambert filed his action in 1922 claiming In effect that Congress was usurping the functions of the in limiting the amount of liquor that might pre- scribed to any one patient and asking that the State prohibition director the internal revenue department and the United States attorney s be restrained from molesting him in his avowed determination to ignore provision which he declared was Il- legal Judge Knox read a 3 000 word de- upholding his contention of and granting the injunction asked Although he said the question of whether liquor is a valuable agent is so highly controversial that a questionnaire directed to physicians had resulted in a vote in favor of the use of liquor in certain cases Congress itself In the very legislation under attack had recognized it as having a legitimate medical No Limit In Church let The he continued is that having done so Congress out reference to the quantity of liquor actually required for the treatment of a particular ailment and of the good faith ment ahd skill of the in at- tendance proceeds to limit the amount to be prescribed to not more than a pint within a period of ten The eighteenth amendment was de- signed to bring about the prohibition of intoxicating liquor for beverage purposes and was not I think In- tended to put an end to the use of liquor for purposes regarded by those who proposed the amendment and bv many of the States that ratified It as Justifiable and proper Such uses he said included its use for sacramental purposes for purposes and for Industrial purposes pointing out that no limit had been placed on the amount that might be used for sacramental purposes Instead of manifesting the same solicitude fot the physical being of a person suffering from disease that it evinced for the spiritual comfort welfare of members of certain gions sects he continued Congress restricted In the manner complained oh the medicinal of intoxicating liquors late If the complaint alleges the administration to a patient of more for extension of the law or than the statutory quantity of liquor tain known aliment the Inability of such patient to his legitimate needs supplied means that he Is to a prohibition that certainly is not within the terms the amendment and which It easily UN SECOND FAGS Earl Sails To See Fiancee Here Southampton May I By A P The youthful Earl sailed from Southampton today on the steamship Olympic for New York to loin his fiancee Miss Jessica Brown American musical comedy actress He motored here from nis Hampshire estate with his mother Lady esk and his slater Lady Kathleen Carnegie Lord said that until he had consulted with Ms fiancee he could not aay at what time and place the marriage would take place He added that he had resigned his com- mission In the British army and would remain In the United States for some time U S Banker in Paris Killed by Stray Shot Paris May 9 By A P M Parmalee of New York cashier ot the Paris branch of the Guaranty Trust Company was shot and killed as he was walking home through one of the principal streets last night An showed that the bullet which caused the fatal wound was of the same caliber as that of the re- volver carried by one of several lice officers who were to arrest members of a gang near the scene of the killing RADIUS FOR PLANE Mitchell Tells Lions Club of Huge Machine Now Un- der Construction Construction of an airplane with a radius of to miles Ing passengers and able to go from New York to Peking In mately 66 hours with only four stops soon will be a reality according to Brig den William Mitchell chief of the air service the Lions club at the yesterday Gen Mitchell said a plane was bo ing built having a span of 125 feet 30 feet high having three engines on each wing and requiring 11 men to navigate it and burning mately pounds of fuel an hour With this plane In operation It is expected a trip across the continent will be made in daylight without any stops In speaking of the recent flight across the continent without a stop Gen Mitchell said the men had been fully trained In airplane technique and were drilled on the of try they were to pass over and knew every Plans for the annual convention of the International Association of Lions clubs at Atlantic 21 were discussed The booster prize was awarded to William Tost Got Profit on The kid New York May business ability of Charlie Chaplin brought him profit from one motion one of eight for which he had to produce for 000 James D Williams organizer of the First National Company testified today at the Federal Trade sion Investigation into charges that the famous tion and six other defendants tute a trust Chaplin Williams testified was additional for each of the pictures over the contract price because of heavy production ex- penses and in addition had received 70 per cent of the gross receipts of which brought him 000 profit Mary he continued also nas allowed expense of each picture she produced as the First tional contracted with stars to that they were obliged lo pay the tion expenses out of the contract price Shopmen in East Ask Raise of 20 Per Cent New York 1 for a per cent wage increase received by a number of Eastern roads including the New York tral and Ohio and burgh and Lake Erie from the road unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor it was learned In the financial district Officials of the Baltimore and Ohio are already reported to have begun conferences with their employes The Pennsylvania and ley roads which have wage ments with so-called company unions are not affected by the de- mands Boy on Bicycle Is Killed by Truck While riding his bicycle from his home near public school about S 30 o'clock yesterday and TV hen In front of the Alfred A Bawson son of J Somerville Dawson who ia con- with the ment of the office of the ers for the District of Columbia was run over and killed by a truck which was on its way to Washington with a load of produce The boy was about to pass the truck when a wheel of his bicycle caught in the way car track causing to fall immediately between the front and rear wheels of the truck William Johnson colored who was operating the truck was exonerated by the police The tragedy so unnerved the pupils of the public school that they were dismissed for the Machine Shapes Nose Any Form Desired Atlantic City X J May electrically operated nose cutter and reshaper which It is claimed will reform any nasal appendage to con- form with the owner's desire with minimum loss of blood and no waa exhibited today at the annual convention of the American society and the American and Rhinological so ciety The ia equipped with knives work from the inside of the nose Smart Fashions for Limited Incomes May Vogue Out BIG SYSTEMS n U S Chamber of Receives Proposal TO RATE MAKING Report Calls Operation mies HELP INTERCHANGE OP CARS Rail Inadequacy Last Fall Bald to Have Cost More Than Was ed to Run Is Urged to Restore Lines to Profitable ship Again ence in and bution Laid to Unions in Address New York May actions bearing upon the future of ica's railroads were taken at today's session of the annual convention of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States First the chamber as a whole adopted a resolution urging its bers civic bodies and the public in general to engage quickly in a united effort to restore the railroads to a sound and profitable position in the forefront of American ness Second the committee on governmental relations to trans- headed by George A Post presented a report in which the be- lief was reiterated that the roads should be owned and operated by private capital under government regulation Third the report of the committee on railroad consolidations headed by Carl R Gray president of the Union Pacific system urged a general con- solidation of all roads into possibly twenty great but caly maintained such a merging of not to points Plan Big The resolution adopted by the chamber pointed out that railroad executives by an abiding faith tn the American people have authorized the expenditure of which Insures a marked advance in railroad progress and will contribute largely to the prosperity of the country In opposing government ownership and operation of the railroads the committee on governmental relations pointed out that only from lessons learned from the growth of past and a realization of the Inadequacies of the present could a proper on the needs of the future be obtained It is the conception of the com- said the report that it Is the duty of the American people in the maintenance and advancement of their own welfare to shape tion that our railroads under honest efficient and economic man- agement be assured of ample enues wherewith to provide adequate facilities for the required tion of persons and commodities Transportation Act The committee asserted it was giv Ing close attention to the present transportation act but had not yet studied it fully enough to warrant an opinion as to whether changes should be made Consolidation of the railroads committee on that subject said would be felt most In its effect on rats ing Economies of operation and con- struction the report declared would be minor and should not be gerated Today many relative rate the report said which might under other conditions he de- sirable because they would bankrupt certain roads and unduly enrich others When there have been developed through dations fewer large of equal strength there be greater possibilities for more rate firmly believes that dations of and by themselves should not be allowed to affect through rates based on long established rate basing points If a t dations were to disregard these bases this would conceivably involve great injustice Hel Ctam Another advantage of tion report said would accrue from the and supply of cars It was asserted would be advantageous because chases could fee made from a larger viewpoint with greater financial opportunities because internal relocation of cars would be Consolidation under the ation act the report declared would not stifle competition but would even enhance it The purpose of each action it was aliened was merely to croup trade The tonnage of freight transported CONTINUED OH PAlil Seeks Sanction On Senate Aspiration St Paul May J A O will resign to accept ment Is United States senator from Minnesota in succession to the late Senator Knute Nelson if the State Supreme court holds the governor of the State may appoint the successor was made clear by today In a formal statement declaring of the people of our State now such that It Is my duty to re- apend and that such action carries the wish of Senator Nelson It was not indicated in what man- ner the matter would be presented to tne supreme or how soon a de- could be looked for American Seids Plea That Soldiers Withdraw Flying Snow Causes Detroit Car Collision Detroit May 9 Eight persona were hurt some seriously late when an car crashed Into a street car standing on a wye at avenue and Seven Mile road The motorman could not ear on account of clouds of mow I 1 1 Tae street car had just backed on to the wye and before the motorman could close the switch the interurban ran Into it LIQUOR LAW REPEAL CALLED BONEHEAD PLAY Wheeler Says New York Wets Need Not Think They Are Going to Recede From Union Repeal of the prohibition ment provisions by the New York legislature was characterized as a play by Wayne B 2 church aided by various asinine of the wets New Tork he said tried to secede from the union last month They think they are fo get from under the can't do Robert G Covel presented tne lowing nominations which were de- clared Owen B Kellar president John L Bateman vice president John L Bateman Ice president Clyde Fried secretary and B J Brooks treasurer SAY WHITE WOMEN HELD Bandits Have Headquarters ia Hills Back of Lincheng FOURTEEN REGAIN LIBERTY Miss Lock Aldrich With ions Reaches She Saw Man Killed for Lagging X umber of Americans Hare caped or Been in Peking Lajs Raid on Train lo One of Factions Trying to Embarrass Opponents Shanghai Thursday May 10 By A Americans and other foreigners held by the Suchow bandits in the hills back of Lincheng face dire consequences unless the troops surrounding brigands stronghold are withdrawn ing to a message which has been sent out by one of the captives J B Powell American newspaper man of Shanghai Lay Raid to Politics Peking May some one of I the Chinese political factions U be- hind the bandit raid on the j express Sunday morning with the object of embarrassing its opponents through international 1 complications following the ing of foreigners is the impression steadily gaining ground here The theory is said to be freely m Chinese political circles Coal Mining Is Safer Than 100 Occupations occupation than cording statistical summaries filed slon JJ C Brydon chairman of the operators committee said State In- ed more Clian 100 regular occupations in death and Injury to workers were more frequent in proportion to numbers employed than in coal mining Window cleaning of farm machinery ex- for sewers not deeper than seven gravel clay and sand pits many types of concrete placing and painting w ere among the occupations listed as more gerous MAY VISIT CANAL Urged to Return From Alaska Trip by Way of Panama President Harding said bv White House callers to be inclined toward of the posal that he return from his Alaska trip by boat through the Panama canal and visiting Porto Secretary who advanced the proposal and Chairman backer of the Shipping Board have discussed it with the executive several within the last week and it was learned that the President plans In the near future to go over It with several of his ad visers The return bv water would prevent the President from speaking in a number ot the cities where he tias tentatively promised to make drawes and would make necessary a rearrangement of his Itinerary from Washington to the Pacific coast SEES BIBLE GAOT Message Calls It Inspired Vehicle of the Greatest Xew Tork May tations may come in the affairs of men and of human society the Bible remains the book of books dent Harding wrote to the lam I Haven In regretting his In- ability to attend the annual meeting of the American Bible ciety tomorrow at the home of Mrs Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay The the President con- winning constantly acceptance men wherever they live as the Inspired vehicle of greatest truths that have been re- to tbe The president praised the society not merely as an instrument for furtherance of Christianity but aa a potent force in tbe of civilisation itself Churchill H president of organisation will preside and Wood president emeritus will review the society's work DOUBTFUL sit Dinner Depends OB President Harding was saM at trw White House to be un- of America to attend a had related them to him meeting in Kew Tork tonight As as the bandit gang left for Gen and Mrs tne train Sunday morning with tiling more than an ordinary case of brigandage inspired by the cupidity of unorganized outlaws Effect OB is that idea of aggression ers entered the plot center on effect the af fair will have on th s that parti It is pointed out m some quarters that the semblance of organization reported to among the bandits of the district is dominated bj an element which hus no sym TV er with the sue cesse in the of the militarists of Chihli This s nominal leader is Tsao Kun Its power la Gen Pel Fu sponsor of the present Peking government The government today an- that a has been issued ordering tiers of the of the civil and governors of Shantung and at the same time ing those to do their most to obtain the release of held by the bandits Ma assistant at- tache of the legation Maj 1 interpreter left for Larch ngr from that the making their in the hi 33 miles from The Ch nese press here prints re- ports that ore of the of Chang in d of Manchuria is amorg the native cap- tives in the hands of the briganda Still Held at two white women ana v more are being he d the Suchow In the hills back of One of these is believed to be Sanderson an American ard the other MISE B F Fleming C Tt is je to issue exact lists of who have escaped or have been freed and those who are hero to tbe fragmentary Information com ng in Maj Roland Robert Allen and Maj Pinger s son Roland jr have escaped according to received This brings the total of those wno have escaped or have been te fourteen f at Tientsin Thursday May 18 By A P Lucy law of O Rockefeller Jr arrived here on the late night train tram en route to Peking SDe was accompanied bv Miss den and Schonberg Dr H 3 Houghten of the Peking Medical college in charge of the parts lie three had retired forbade disturbing them but he recounted hoped to be able to attend and later from foreign prisoners and them that even if found H led off with a band of Chinese possible to make the trip he could One et these she said enable UP th no decision could be shet hi one of tbe It was of officia Harding up to per tal ng uid ea loft each off the hill ola some of
