Washington Post, The (Newspaper) - May 15, 1923, Washington, District Of Columbia Member of fo PTW i The PreM tft I to of I newt d 10 t ftr oot Klw hi tid tsc news t -t ct in ni today tmt probably tomorrow warmer day cooler tomorrow afternoon or night Temperature est 71 lowest 47 NO AND AS D TIES DAY MAY 13 1923 BT TBS POST CO A Breakfast Dish Served Daily Every Jay a Every a Tko of news art at breakfast table their lo gleaned from all tile world In a Chicago discovers that bobbed hair ia Uy this whan u trying to grow a crop Oft have I war of winat contend And front on earth th infuriate Waete far ana and by the whirlwind ot Virgil tears a pathway 30 wide through county Tax i tha good farmers and thair are in morning's sleep aod whan tha score Is counted there are 16 known dead and 100 while the casualties may la I SO A wolf in clothing tie potentiality of compared to a thief in blue coat helmet A Raffias of the force in Newark of standing in with the robbers and borrowing expert crooks from friendly jail keepers when a safe to be blown Truth stranger even than the tion of the writers of detective stories and that's going National Association of discovers Virgil and an- that labor conquers thing Increased a key that fits the lock of prosperity Great oaks from little acorns grow and prosperous street railways from the humble nickel and this de- spite the fact that even the dollar nowadays was supposed to be dead Detroit's unified system in one short year pays huge with largely extended service on a fare average kij a prison bat Archbishop a a a prison a 60 the rim of hatred ike of foreign in jail The Eternal City to Eternal out lor Forty are connratf of the International ance Although wasn't built in a day ia the of tko seum woman's in sweep gains what elsewhere required many years Mite Muriel John granddaughter recently opened a thoo far women in Chicago an- a final clearance and it going in for opera A smart bonnet is no proper crown for real art Fred Stone finishes an eccentric dance in a Broadway show and than an monologue a practical evangelist that down the house If religion could annex the be standing room only for the devil The way to measure the future is by past President Harding on the eve of swing around the prepares with eare ad- dresses to American people on the two years of history ha tea and pages he now about to Ell G R B Muriel dosing Shop Has Clearance Sale f n eaco 1 Miss Muriel nrm c daughter o Harold F and granddaughter of John D who surprised in when she a women's weir shop here is to abandon the project A sale of gowns was announced at slop va preparation or closing Is unit that MISS Is studying for opera has no tune or other Interests Greece Will Fight Turkey Rather Than Pay Reparations Cahle War ifl tonight nd M to than The Crock army Of In Thrace given to be ia to on it today I The do that Angora tor ind that the question be not m at Lausanne Whether Greece out Iker threats It ta on Great Britain won the war Athens to an fo now it should to pay for the Tornado in Mitchell Leaves Path Ancient Chinese Guns Given to Alexandria Fire Company Museum museum a thf b p Engine company MOKE DEATHS EXPECTED Parts of Stricken Area Have Not Been Heard Prom NEARBY TOWNS SEND HELP Hospital Churches Homes in Town of Colorado Thrown Open to BOO Refugees Eight Children Two Women and Six Men tims Most of Tbem Killed in Beds -in Early Morning Work of Retarded by Muddy Roads At Least 50 Homes Destroyed Colorado f ex May dead and 100 injured were reported late this afternoon as B result of the tornado tore through Mitchell county south and east of here early today The injured are in the pital Methodist and Baptist churches and private homes here Some were hurt so seriously their deaths are expected The tornado struck between 4 and 5 o'clock this morning and caught most of its victims In bed It buildings and left death and its wake for 30 Starting south of Westbrook it con- through the county and passed just west of Loraine ov All the deaths ere on more or less Isolated farms Due to the distance between farms and demoralization of wire communication H was expected here that it would be many hours before the entire district could he heard from Citizens of towns near the swept area rushed first aid provisions and relief supplies for tie victims The Colorado Chamber of Commerce started a relief fund to oare for the destitute Two The known dead r TO Mra J o 70 H 3 boys aged B to li infant son of Joe Anderson Infant ter of Jim Walker C Simpson C Sheffield Jesus Joe Richburg 45 son of Joe 12 daughter of Joe H Mrs XV s Shelton Westbrook Tex a baby girl Work of organizing rescue parties was almost completed late this after- noon Between 400 and 500 besides the are here and kitchens have been erected to provide them with food More are In Tlie situation is gradually taking a semblance of order Trains ara running regularly but roads In this vicinity are wet and soggy and this is hampering to some extent the work of tbe rescue parties All IB Its The devastated district is thickly populated for rural territory At 69 houses were reported de- Damage to crops could not be estimated The wind tore and twisted everything In its path J K Green chairman of Red Cress workers here said injured reach 100 and probably as as 54 are killed and from a dozen nearby n-s have been appealed to and are searching In the area Only damage was done to the town of Colorado Itself The cyclone was accompanied by a severe hailstorm and heavy rain Relief Train War Big Spring May special train left here at noon today carrying nurses physicians and supplies from this and towns Estimate of the dead is 50 and the Injured will total about three that many according to Information received here from relief workers start Abilene Texas May burs and his two children were killed and a number ef persons injured In a tornado which struck the Spade ranch of Colorado city and mowed a path 25 long across Mitchell county Texas last night Just west of toraine six or eight houses were demolished and a ber of persons are reported fatally injured Including T K Willis Willis and eight members of the ily of Henri Tidwell The Southwestern Telephone and Telegraph Company rt ports a large number of Itl blown com C mm along th of of th T xai and s hi fir tnat no traces of thera yet ben Barbers Strike In Brooklyn York May thousand barbers in we t on today for m their un on officials firry of now A a of Che Wat out P np I tla fO a w twelve hni r t wh will m r i of a member the addition uf and are l years old by Thomas D f of quartermaster n prt a t The i w br from Peking he r hellion by Brig n r Humphreys and by hmi K Mr old books also wern tur if d over ta the museum M Downey The guns weight about each and the cannon about 100 pounds ana the latter about four feet high with their carriages and all formed part of hte ancient defensive armament of the Great Wall of China SUET NOTE MS ON FREEING Will Make Report Today on Parley Over Terms MORE TIME REQUESTED Diplomats Ask Orders From Governments Society Downtown Fire Subdued Volumes of Black Smoke Block as tOn Firm Ground Finally Butter Vats in Chestnut Farms Dairy Plant State Declares PENALTIES WILL BE URGED No to Break Off Relations PROPAGANDA IS DENIED Moscow May 14 By Soviet Russia's note to Great Brit- the text of which was given out lure today is couched in conciliatory terms Expressing regretful prise at the ultimatum it proposes a at a time and place to be arranged with England at which responsible representatives of both shall discuss not only secondary questions raised in the British note but shall also regularize fully the relations between Russia and Great Britain The note set forth what it de- dares are certain errors in tne Brit- Uh charges with regard to ganda by Russia in the East While admitting that Russia naturally sent money to the Russian representative in Persia rt says the British are in thinking that sia has use for money in the East other than far propaganda Their International The note responsibility tjw third Moscow international 19 arbitration raised by tba Russian Of trawlers the families of Charles P I- an civil engineer in in 1920 and of an- other British subject in whose a claim was made If the British will asTree to give for the long Imprisonment of several Slans in England and India With regard to the two notes sent to England signed by which Mr Hodgson In Moscow returned complaining tney were couched It they reply the first Britain ST The document of about words Is signed by Litvinoff ant commissar for and addressed to Mr Dodgson reaction to en- mity toward the soviet republic has been crowing during the last lew months the note British ultimatum wag a of its sharp and unjustified hostility threats It de- are Hot the to settle vate and relatively between and in any case the establishment of correct With the soviet republic Is not attainable by this means While appreciation to expressed of the value to Russia of the British agreement nevertheless England has benefited also the document out and Russian trade has been growing with consequent reduction in the prices of many commodities throughout Europe Great Britain speaks of the merous challenges which Russia has thrown to Great says the note adding Tlie soviet government permits itself to assert the complete baselessness of such a statement William T Tilden Champion Tennis Player ot the World Begins a of articles on How to Play Tennis in The Washington Post Next Sunday to Stronghold ot Return to Peking With Report of Doubtful Results but Officials of State Department Declare or Early Settlement Is Good Bandits Claim to Have to Be Demanding Old Authority in Raided Region Motor Crash That Cost Life May Be Basis for ments Attorney Sara Car De- Wrecked Is Charge Mount's Friend to Be Reexamined on Strength of mor Brother Waylaid Him Tientsin May 14 A Restoration o authority they formerly enjoyed in the they have been raiding and not som is the condition for which the Suchow bandits are ing out before the will release their prisoners according to the latest advices received here Extension Needed Peking May 14 By A Gen inspector general of the Chili Shantung and Honan forces at the request of tVe tary governor of Shantung has asked the Peking government to cure from the diplomatic in the capital an extension 0 time for release of the prisoners in the hands of the dits The members of the diplo- matic corps seem to be fully Impressed with the seriousness of the responsibility resting on them and have requested instructions from their respective governments Rot ta Ise It ts understood at present there Is no question of employing alien troops either ae guards or In tbe the possibility of greater International complications than about the It j thit rho w II to appoint a of foreigners to traverse the railroad lines to make a of the precautionary ar- rangements by the government against holdups similar to the cheng affair Roy Anderson and a party the Chinese government who went to the of the train bandits in an effort to negotiate the release of the held by the raiders returned here reporting doubtful results Is a lack of agreement among by Mr Hodgson was never in regard to the details of sent again to the British government and therefore must be retarded u unset t while the second letter did not contain anything offensive These notes were In reply to Mr Hodgson's protest execution of Ugr The note declares that despite understandings Russia greatly friendly relations with Great surrender of prisoners ie Be The foreign diplomatic officials In Peking conferred today and discussed the nature ot the penalties which they would recommend to their at the expiration of the period of grace given the Chinese officials In which to release The ture of the recommendations was not divulged further than a statement that they gave favorable tion to a proposal that their ments Insist that guards of picked Chinese soldiers be placed on all through trains on the railways from Peking to Shanghai Mukden and Hankow Report The military governor of Shantung the Department was advised yesterday by Consul John K Davis has agreed verbally to call off the attack on the bandits who wrecked the express and to take them into the Chinese army The brigands Davis reported had ex- pressed willingness to release for- eigners still held captive If this was done He said the governor had In- formed him the was rafted night Although there was said to be a lack ot agreement among the chiefs aa regards details It waa said that negotiations were proceeding and that there were goad prospects of an early settlement A statement issued by the State De- yesterday said Men The department has received in- formation from Consul John K Davis and Mai at under date of May 13 ot that the bandits have saM that they u release prisoners on the Mon that the siege rifted and the he taken Into thf The Hami hat number s be tween the sea The has ien de alia t to he ar Liter bit hai agreed to the mentioned condE The governor haa that the siege raised the of The Ch J non have again gone to the INQUIRY IS SIDETRACKED Death of Another Student in Ante Is Probed NO ACCIDENT BOY DECLARES Chicago the grand jury investigating the twenty months ago of Leighton Mount versity student spent only a abort time today in questioning witnesses and no important information was divulged Robert E at- torney said tonight that tions were on firm ground finally and predicted that the mystery will be solved Conkling Fitch a more and a former roommate oi Mount's who broke down Under questioning Saturday after that he knew all about the case and then retracting the will be questioned farther Mr Crowe said adding that he Fitch knows more than he has di- The youth is in voluntary custody The Mount sace was temporarily sidetracked the State's attorney's office today to Concentrate oa the in- of death of Louis Aubere another freshman In an a class scrap about ago and a week Before a skeleton Identified ae that Mount was found un- der an pier detailed wae killed when an automobile ed with freshmen another chine Mr Crowe said that the grand Jury might be asked indict the bays ia the two cars for manslaughter The States attorney telegraphed Fitch prosecuting attorney at Mich father of young Fitch asking him to come to Chicago to sist In questioning Ws son Bitch has lived at the Mount home since coming to the and ing to hta statements was with Mount during part of the class rush in September 1921 The boy gave the State's attorney a new lead today when declared that campus gossip was involved with Miss nig friend and that he had been waylaid by her brother Fitch said be dfa not believe the story but a subpoena was recalling Mias Fuchs to she has a brother Mr Crowe also ordered all gation of finances after Q H K Sutherland publisher of the Ington News and a friend at tbe Fitch family him the boy last year dent a check for to his mother to assist in buying a house Reports from ever say the boys father declared Koscoe earned all money The check the father said waa for and came from money saved several years ago Girt New Mr Crowe was advised today that District Attorney Banton of York has located Miss Hotchkiss a friend of J Allen Mills of Akron Ohio a former student Kt Rye Y Mr Crane tonight wired a list of questions to be asked her in an effort to explain letters sent by Mills after the class rush In which he Is reported to have referred to His terrible experience and ex- pressed a desire to get en with those who led him into it Mrs Audrey Scott bride of Fred Scott of Walter Dill Scott president at Northwestern failed to appear today to tell about a telephone from young Scott Her father testifying Saturday asserted he asked the girl to warn Mr quist not to talk about the Mount case Mr Lonnquist a wealthy ness mart of Evanston told the attorney's office that he would hale hla daughter appear tomorrow Alleges Secrecy Pact story of the Aubere death oat Mr Crowe revealed that all the principals had entered in- to an agreement to conceal their con- with the episode sophomores he said had been the laughing stock of the campus be- ranse the freshmen kidnaped the elms on the of a party The sophomores decided to retaliate Handcuffs he were borrowed from the toTi department and vaton bile loads oF sophomores dispatched CONTENTED ON Face One of Most Stubborn Fights in Recent Months Thick clouds of smoke caused by burning butter tubs and empty crates In the basement of the Chestnut Farms Dairy 1118 nue last night attracted thousands of theater goera debutantes and society matrons wh the two-hour subdue flames which destroyed the build ng Many spectators were guests of the Grafton hotel opposite or residents of the Connecticut ments Many persons the Windows of their homes to watch the foremen who had one of the most stubborn blazes in recent years to combat Hundreds of young people in evening clothes on their way to dances mingled In the crowd Forces Caution The dense clouds of smoke com- enveloped buildings along Connecticut avenue as far as Dupont circle The British embassy draped In a haze of gray smoke ably the occupants of dear old London Score a of other houses were likewise enveloped with the haze of smoke for several houfs The heavy volumes of smoke caused the to use every precaution ia fighting the fire Three alarms were turned in practically every piece of apparatus in the section of tbe No one waa Jured or smoke The blaze was kept in the cellar ef the building Firemen were obliged to tear up part the first floor m order to combat the blase H N manager of the dairy mated the Damage at about covered by Hundreds bystanders drawn to WILL HOLD GRAND JURY Witt Blame Say Leaving rmr I tea pen letters George internationally known mo sic publisher is charged with iHg written to prominent women will be kept Ia session to hear possible further Dis- Attorney Banton tonight Twenty-five desired witnesses It was said the among thera several pf nine women known to have received Mr Maxwell's defence will be based on the naming of a Woman as the suspected writer of the letters was by intimates Ot- of the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers of which MJ Maxwell ia president said that he was so 111 at the time some of the letteis were mailed that he could not sign checks of the ciety i The District Attorney refused to tell whether Mr Mai apartment had been searched He said he not know Mrs Allan A Ryan one of tbe women attacked would return from Europe to testify and expressed the that the case could he tried Without Mr Banton sail that the writer on the letters written had dot been found and that tie believed it had been destroyed Think TRAPPED ON TRESTLE SIX LEAP TO DEATH Jump Into River to Escape proaching Car Four Bodies Recovered III May of four persona who leaped into the river from a treitle et Campbell's island last t3 avoid being by a- street had been recovered late today and search wag being continued for tw believed to have been drowned The bodies o two o the men and a woman have been identified fete day The dead all of are Ethel 20 a Roy 19 a bell bo v antl Milton G CarHon 19 elevator tor Chanea Lanigan a Rick Inland salesman and Jr Elsie Gee sle a j sales g rl known to Davenport last night or the resort still are was found parked near the trestle The body of unidentified w Jg believed to be that of or of Mrs fe of an operator wh m n in the Her Crlson a of the y that may accompanied him people were back to Blast Hoi Sne a f P a at the island when on the trestle the scene of the blaze were drivea back a block the smoke Street car service was Interrupted for an hour The as discovered Joe a w atchman at 7 30 o clock He turned in an alarm but the ex- tent of the blaze caused second and third alarms to be n George Watsn chief of the de- clared tne blaze was one o the act fought in recent die to inability to reach i le source of the The blaze appeared have in the basement one of the the buildings wh ch house tre tubs crates and paper caused the smoke For sometime fireman had difficulty in finding an entrance the Heavy steel doots in were thrown open ad a of drove Bremen back holes were cut through the and lines of hose Several times the blaze broke out in other places working its way into the bachr of the men were obliged to cut through cement floors and walls in tne flu tit and no Injured gas masks were brought play One feature of the fight was that no fireman was either injured or over- come by the smoke Several men were brought out just in time to prevent them being over- come by the smoke As the filled with water men Were obliged to right the standing in water up to their waists and chests Toe cellar of the Palace market owned operated by Charles A partly flooded water But no damage was caused Brawner declared that ery of milk and other necessities throughout the city will not be in- At an eraly hour thia morning hose was lowered into the basement to pump out the overflow The of thA was not touched by the fUmea The offices and plant suffered from water Report o People 01 Stewardship Is Belief CITIES TOPICS Expected to Discuss World Court Views at St Louis RAILWAYS AT KANSAS CTTY ASK RIGHT TO ABROGATE DsW AKIn I Allies Have Substitute Offer to Give in May ith Assistant Secretary o the United States Treasury or a ment of the occupational costs of the American army on the Rhine called meeting at the foreign office late tomorrow They will submit to him at that time it is understood a substitute their proponed addition to the draft ot the agreement by which they would reserve toe right to abrogate the agreement in certain eventualities BSr John Bradbury returned London test Thursday and had a meeting the French Belgian and Italian delegates at which the sub- waaf agreed upon framed in a manner hope will be to the American ment referred the substitute to Advisers Think Transportation ical Topic There Farm Inter- ests Expected to Be Taken Up at or Portland May Hear on Alaska and Amu Facto Seems Allotted to Are Presented respective governments and In view of the call for tomorrow's it has approved The negotiations have been pended for the last two weeks CHARGE POLICE TURN BANDITS ON DAYS Death of Newark Patrolman veals Crime Alliance Authorities Say Newark N 3 May sinister alliance between certain Newark members of the professional underworld jail keepers is be- by to been un- covered by their investigation Into the death of Patrolman Peter who was shot last Friday night when a fellow officer surprised a gang that was robbing a furniture house The investigation according to uty Chief of Police McRell hat dis- closed that some patrolmen not only became bandits on their days off duty but conspired with turnkeys at the Jail io liberate expert safe to help en difficult jobs Patrolman was a member of this band and was accidentally shot by one of bis partner In crime McRell asserts Four men two of whom are said to nave confessed have been arrested in connection with Friday's shooting One of them is Theodore Schaeffer Two jail guards have been ordered before the police for nation STEALS OHE Wew York Salesman Held With on Kidnaping Charge New York Mai 14 ck G 45 old a salesman was arrested and held w ba charged kidnaping Hgh old Stella from hoire Newark J last The cr es of he little that the tn po home he A tent on of s as A was ead UK her Into a house at rd and fifth th s morning Stella told the officer Alien kad feund her in front of her home and lo her an isM he had Drought ta New York because he loved chil dren on the itinerary of Western trip ident has begun to give con- thought to the addresses he will make en ronte to the Pacific coast and in the coast The itinerary as now arranged provides for speeches in about twelve cities the first in St loots and the last San Diego Calif Although Mr Harding has indicated that he regards ad- dresses as somewhat secondary to the real purpose of the to nevertheless proposes to with care WiU Outline Through them he intends to re- port to the American people on the stewardship with which he was en- trusted two years ago and otso to outline the future policies of his ad- ministration As the first step toward tion he has begun to select the topics he desires to discuss and assign them to the various cities chosen for principal addresses In doing this the President is under- stood to be a policy speaking on a topic to the of which the is the center f Tims at Levin The first address r Lou's le understood will be of a ot a preface to to devoted In the wain to a presentation of the dents views on proposal membership in the nent of justice are expected to follow a ong the hues down by the Executive in his New York address last month with the addition of new in support of the proposal Passing oo to Kansas City the ident according to some of his ad- visers will speak on the tion problem In this address it is considered Mr Harding wir outline at least In a preliminary way the recommendations with respect legislation which he will malce to Congress In December He also will discuss water tion a phase of the transportation Question which was discussed by him with Representative ton of Missouri a Republican ber of the House rivers committee Will Alaska The next address will be made at Hutchlnson Kan and from win be to the general question the President outlining what his administration hu done for the with particular mention of the tariff end credits legislation Speeches to be made at Denver Salt Lake City Bolce Idaho and Helena Mont likewise will be on subjects of to communities As foe Seattle some of those who have re- cently with the President understand that he desires to announce in that city his new policy for Alaska an based on observations made during the more thin two weeks he will spend then This is contingent however on whether be returns that city after his Alaskan trip or lands at Portland Ore In the latter case the Alaskan addren will be made at Portland Arms Facts Goad One of the contemplated bj the executive will deal with the results of the arms conference and he is said to feel that the logical place for such a speech would be a Pacific coast city the west coast be- ing Interested in four power treaty as well as many of the other conventions which from the conference President orma Iv m- ed o Utah bv GOT who with King a Vd at the White nether H Goodin s f OCA v B f r d to ex S rr h or daj s ada pr to spend
