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WEATHER. Partly cloudy and continued warm tonight and tomorrow, probably local thundershowers. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at S p.m. today: Highest, 93, at 3-80 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 74, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. i Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 20 Vo 9ft 000 Entered as second-class matter p os t office Washington, D. C. PRESIDENT SERVES NOTICE OF A FIXED DETERMINATION TO ENFORCE DRY LAW Declares, in Denver Address, Readiness to Assume Bur den If States Continue to Shift It to U. S. Shoulders. CONVINCED PROHIBITION WILL NOT BE REPEALED Cites “Spectacle" of a State Nulli fying Own Authority—Scores Buyers of Illicitly Sold Liquor as Arousing Resentment of Millions Less Rich. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. DENVER. Colo.. June 25. : —President Harding today appealed to the Amer ican people to stop drinking intoxi cating liquors. And the President went further than he has ever gone in any prohibition speech, arguing that "there are literally American millions who resent the lawful pos sessions of the few, the lawless prac tices of a few and rebel against the denial to the vast majority.” Mr. Harding made himself 101) per cent dry, politically and otherwise, in his formal address at Denver, and, while h© didn’t mention Gov. A1 Smith of New York by name, he made it very plain that he thought the recent repeal of the Mullan-Gage law was "likely to prove one of the historic blunders of political manage ment." There remains no doubt after the President finished speaking that he is absolutely convinced tne eight eenth amendment will never be re pealed. that neither political party would dare to advocate repeal and that whatever changes are made some day In the Volstead act "will represent the sincere purpose of ef fective enforcement rather than mod eration of the general policy." Mnkea Moral Argument. The president did not make a legal but a moral argument. His comment on Al Smith's action in signing the repeal bill In New York state was not amplified by legal explanation. He did not attempt to answer the contention of the New York governor that the Volstead act Itself Is not In keeping with the spirit of the eight eenth amendment and that a Presi dent of the United States actually ve toed that measure without being called a nulllflcatlonlst. Mr. Harding simply insisted that "when a state deliberately refuses to exercise the powers which the Constitution ex pressly confers upon It. It obviously commits Itself to a policy of nulli fying state authority, the end of which we are reluctant to conjec ture.” Mr. Harding, moreover, called Gov. Smith’s action an "abandonment rath er than an assertion of state rights." which statement, of course, will be disputed by the "wets” in New York, who believe It much more in keeping 1 with state rights to refuse to enact ; legislation concurrent with the Vol- | stead law because they think that I statute is Itself a nullification of the j Intent of the Constitution In prohib- 1 Itlng the sale of "Intoxicating” liq- j uors. The "wets” will never agree ' that one-half of 1 per cent of alcohol { represents the lower limit of "intox- j loatlng" beverages. See* Low Here to Stay. But the chief executive wasn't dis- j posed to argue the technical phases of the matter. He feels that pro hibition has come to stay and that as long as the Volstead law is on the statute books it should be en forced and that the states ought not j to relax and put the burden on the j federal government lost the latter j be compelled "at large expense to j create a federal police authority.” Perhaps the most striking para- | graph in the Denver speech—cer- j talnly nothing like it has come be- i fore from the lips of the President I or any other hlprh official charged j with the enforcement of the pro- | hibition laws—was his direct appeal 1 to people who have hard liquors in i their possession to set an example to ! those who haven’t by giving it up I altogether. "Whatever satisfaction there may j be in Indulgence,” said the President, j "whatever objection there is to the j so-called invasion of personal lib- \ erty, neither counts when the su- j prcniacy of law and the stability of ' our institutions are menaced. With | all good intention the majority sen- j timent of the United States has sought j by law to remove strong drink as I a curse upon the American citizens, but ours Is a larger problem now to | remove lawless drinking as a menace i to the republic itself." May Follow Bryan Plea. That phrase "lawless drinking" j will probably become the slogan of a 1 new campaign on the part of the | “drys" and it would not be surprising j to see President Harding and other i high officials accept the plea of Wll- j liam Jennings Bryan, who asks that ; everybody in the, government of the ! United States from the President ; down take the pledge to abstain from ; drinking Intoxicants. Mr. Bryan’s: appeal has long gone unheeded, but the Denver speech gives ft added mo- ! men turn, for the people In President 1 Harding's circle, have begun to real- ! ize. indeed, that one of the unfortu- j nate aspects of prohibition is the ! popular suspicion that high officials ! have plenty of liquor either from pre- j Volsteadlan days or from friends who j do not Inquire Into the date of manu- 1 facture or origin too closely. Waves of criticism like that, how ever. wafted In the direction of the White House for some time and the President took occasion today to let the public know he knew just what they meant. "Many citizens,” said the President, "not teetotalers In their habits, law fully acquired stores of private stocks in anticipation of prohibition, pend ing the ratification of the amend ' ment and the enactment of regula i,Continued on t*age 4. Column 4.) - , . » . i * » T\ — ■ ■■ ! High Lights of President’s Speech At Denver on Law Enforcement The prohibition amendment to the Constitution is the basic law of the land. * * * I am convinced that they are a small, and a greatly mistaken, minority who believe the eighteenth amendment will ever be repealed. * * * Laws, of course, represent restrictions upon individual liberty, and in these very restrictions make liberty more secure. The in dividual surrenders something of his privilege to do as he pleases for the common good, and so organized society is possible. * * * If the burden of enforcement shall continue to be increasingly thrown upon the federal government, it will be necessary to create a federal police authority which in time will inevitably come to be regarded as an instrusion upon the right of local authority. ♦ * * The issue is fast coming to be recognized, not as an issue be tween wets and drys, not a contention between those who want ( to drink and those who do not; it is fast being raised above all that I to recognition as an issue of whether the laws of this country can j be and will be enforced. So far as the federal government is con cerned, and. lam very sure also, so far as concerns the very great ! majority ■of the state governments and the local governments, it j will be enforced. i $ * * It is a curious illustration of loose thinking, that some people have proposed, as a means to protecting the fullest rights of the states, that the states should abandon their part in enforcing the ' | prohibitory policy. That means simply an invitation to the federal government to exercise powers which should be exercised by the states. Instead of being an assertion of state rights, it is an aban '} donment of them; it is an abdication. * * * The resentful millions have the example of law defiance by those who can afford to buy, and are reckless enough to take the risk, j and there is inculcated a contempt for law which may some dav find expression in far more serious form. j Full text of President's speech on page 4. AUTO WRECK FATAL TO SUMNER CURTIS AND T. E. DAWSON Driver of Newspaper Men’s Car Also Killed—Donald Craig Injured. 11 , I By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., June 25.—Thomas F. Dawson, Colorado state historian and nationally known newspaper man, died this morning in a Denver i hospital at 4:40 o'clock, the third vic -1 tim of the automobile accident in I Bear Creek canyon yesterday. Mr. , Dawson was with the group of 1 | newspaper men In President Hard j ing’s party, which arrived here yes- I terday morning. The other dead are: ’] Sumner Curtis, representative of 1 the republican national committee, j accompanying the Harding party and for many years a widely known news ! paper correspondent. Tommie French, a statistican for I the Great Western Sugar Company of I Denver, who was driving the car. Craig's Scalp Lacerated. Donald A. Craig, manager of the i Washington bureau of the New York j Herald, was injured. Mr. Craig sus- ] | tained a badly, lacerated scalp, bruised j I shoulders and suffered severe shock. I Early this morning. It was said at the 1 ‘ hospital to w-hlch he had been taken, j j that he would recover unless com- ■ j plications developed. | Mr. Dawson suffered a broken 1 i ankle, bruised shoulders and scalp i | lacerations. His condition showed i J slight improvement this morning, i physicians said, but later he died. The newspaper men who had gone i on the trip as guests of the Denver ] Press Club had climbed Lookout | mountain and were returning through I Bear creek canyon, twenty-five miles j from Denver, when the accident oc | curred. Car la Seen to Swenr. The motor oar was rounding Look- j 1 ing Glass curve, one of the sharpest ! I bends in the Denver mountain park ! i highway system, when It was seen | I to swerve toward the edge of the ! | road, crash through a stone pillar i and wire cable protecting rail and I tumble down the Jagged incline al j most to the waters of Bear creek, I seventy-five feet below. I It is believed that a broken steer j Ing knuckle caused the car to be j come unmanageable. Curtis was pin | ned beneath the car and Craig had | i been thrown clear. French was found ( i a few feet from the wrecked auto- j I mobile and Dawson about fifty feet 1 down the incline. It is believed that 1 | Curtis was killed Instantly. French i was alive when other members of the | party reached the victims of the ac j cident, but died before he could be 1 brought to Denver. I Shortly before leaving his hotel yes- J terday afternoon Curtis sat In his < room and talked to his wife in Wash ■ Ington over long-distance telephone. !He told her, friends >»aid. "that a l crowd of newspaper men are going to i take us into the mountains. In an ! hour or so we’ll be up where they I don’t know what heat is, in the heart | of the mountains.” Harding In Shocked. President Harding was greatly | shocked when Informed of the acct i dent. "I am unutterably distressed ■ that such an accident should have oc -1 curred,” he said. “It lays a sorrow ] upon what has been a happy trip. Only this morning Mr. Curtis was | telling me of the Joy he was experl ] enclng. He was always a gentleman 1 and a very able newspaper man. My ; regret is beyond expression, but there i is some consolation In the hope that i the Injured men will recover.” 1 The body of Mr. Curtis will be taken 1 to Chicago by John F. Vivian, federal ' prohibition director, where It will be ; met by friends. Roy Roberts, rep ; resenting the Kansas City Star on ! the tour, will remain In Denver to be I with Craig until Mrs. Craig arrives 1 (.Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) | FORD DOESN’T OBJECT, j Permits Citizens Urging Him for President to Continue Activities. SAVANNAH. Ga.. June 25.—A peti tion signed by citizens of Savannah indorsing Henry Ford for president having been forwarded to Detroit, the general secretary to Mr. Ford has replied in a letter acknowledging the receipt of the petition. “In view of the interest displayed, Mr. Ford can have no objection to their further activities in this direc tion." • . lEbcirina Sfaf. VV J V V WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION i CLASSIFYING LAW iTO GIVE HIGHER PAY Increase Above Present Rate and Bonus Predicted for Government Employes. Encouragement to the 60.000 civil service employes in the District of Columbia ihat they may expect salary increases above their present salaries plus the 8240 bonus was given today when Harold N. Graves, representing the United States bureau of efficiency on the personnel reclassification board. denied recently published t statements that "there is little hope j for any marked increases In the sal ! aries of government employes In the i•classification now going forward." Efficiency Schedules Adapted. The personnel classification board has formally adopted the bureau ol efficiency schedules for employes of the federal and District governments In Washington for the purpose of formulating estimates for the next fiscal year. These schedules carry pay Increases averaging from S' tq fi per cent over and above the -present pay plus the bonus. There Is a va riation as betw'een different offices so i that In some cases .there will be no j j pay increases. Tfie general effect however. Is a substantial Increase’ Mr. Graves said. I The reclassification act as passed 5 |by Congress increased the rates for I certain classes of workers over and! above the bureau of efficiency sched ules, so that on the whole the per centage of increase would be consid-‘ j erably more than 3 to 5 per cent. 1 The District Commissioners have ’ ; submitted their allocation to the per- 1 ] sonnel classification board and thev cover a net percentage of increase for the entire District government of 18 per cent. , Result In District Noted. The bureau of efficiency classifica tion as applied to the District govern ment employes two years ago showed jan increase for the entire District of j more than 7 per cent. That difference' between 7 and 18 per cent is largely j attributable to two facts; First. Con gress increased the rates for certain : kinds of work, and, second, the sal-| aries of institutional employes are stated in the 18 per cent estimates In i gross, with no deduction for malnte- I nance, whereas, under the bureau of j efficiency schedules deductions are made on account of maintenane. It must be borne In mind that the | District Commissioners’ estimates are I ■ subjected to review by the personnel ' {classification board, with the proba-I jbllity that they will be somewhat re ; duced because of the natural tend-' i (Continued on Rage Z, Column (>.; How MacMillan Will Keep Star Readers Advised of Adventures Dr. Donald B. MacMillan, one of i the most famous of explorers and Peary's lieutenant in the discovery of the north pole, today is bound again for the arctic. He goes as special correspondent of The Star and other members of the North American Newspaper Alliance. For the first time radio equipment Is being carried on an expedition bound for within a few degrees of the pole, and week by week during the months of his journey Dr. MacMillan will send out ac counts of his progress, his discov eries and his adventurles. The radio directory has a new signal: WNP—Wireless north pole. The explorer is confident that he 1 will be able to keep In close touch with home by wireless, and not only to send out news, but to re ceive in return news, advices from loved ones, and the entertainment features of the broadcasting sta tions. Thirty thousand members of the American Radio Relay League, radio amateurs, are co-operating with The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance in this experiment, which, despite the doubts held by some experts, will In any event settle the im portant point of the exact effect of the aurora borealis on wire less. The plan, which will be described in detail later from the technical point of view of the radio opera tor. is briefly this: MacMillan, from his ship, th* WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1923-THIRTY PAGES. RADIO IS DIG FACTOR IN FATE OF LATEST ARCTICJPEDITION To Play Vital Part in Success or Failure of MacMillan Voyage to North. SMALL SHIP CARRYING SPECIAL WIRELESS SET j Experts at Extremes of Opinion as to Whether It Will Work in Latitude. Test of MacMillan Radio Proves Success Speclil Dlipztoh to The Star. HARTFORD. Conn., June 25. —That the wireless apparatus on the Bowdoin. the tiny schooner which Is carrying Dr. Donald B. MacMillan and his party to the Arctic, Is In fine working order was demon strated yesterday by the receipt by hundreds of amateur sta tions throughout the country of a message from the ship. Reports of this communica tion were received at the Amer ican Radio Relay League head quarters here. In spite of bad static and fading the words sent by Donald H. Mix, the twenty-one-year-old wireless operator on board the Bowdoin, were clearly heard. At the conclusion of the test many of these amateurs called Mix. Indicating that the'signals were strong and that there Is an excellent chance of direct communication to the farthest Arctic regions. The Bowdoin announced the fact that she had put into Boothbay harbor and was to leave for Halifax this morning. • Special Dispatch to The Star. . WISCASSET. Me.. June 25.—An etghty-nlne-foot schoener Is bobbing northward today off the coast of Maine. It-19 no larger than Columbus’ caravel. But at its truck there are four threads, of wire. This Is radio. It is the first wireless equipment to be taken into the Polar north. Through, the long arqtlc pight and through the months of unending day light that follow eight men. stooping In the tiny forecastle, will bend over the equipment of that wireless plant. They will send message* to the great world far below them on the rondure of 1 the earth—news of their discov eries grffi the day-by-day InoiAent* of their *Mve», perhaps word of trag edies. And In the white silence they will- listen for the murmur of man kind, brought to them by the miracle of wireless. They will strain over the tapping that brings word of great events In the affairs of the race; of little, but j dearer, incidents in the affairs of j those they love. Men swathed In j the furs of arctic animals will gather j for the sound of cabaret Jazz and ! will chuckle among themselves at ! a Joke In the bedtime story. The elghty-nine-foot vessel is the j schooner Bowdoin. Her skipper Is Dr. Donald B. MacMillan, returning now to the arctic, where he has spent 1 thirteen of the last fifteen years. 1 He goes as special correspondent of i the North American Newspaper Alli ance. of which The Star is a member. At the Pole In IW9. If MacMillan had had wireless with him on one of the earlier expeditions in which he participated, the world would have been spared one of Us most regrettable controversies. It ; was MacMillan who w r as lieutenant to i Peary in the discovery of the north | pole In 1909. MacMillan Is bound now on an ex- I peditlon of tremendous scientific 1m ; port. The wireless experiment In it j self Is no minor factor. Yet it is but one of scores of mat- I ters of scientific inquiry which draw I the explorer northward again. What I are the effects of atmosphereic elec ; tricity and terrestrial magnetism? j What secrets are locked in this un explored region of 500,000 square j miles. Is the race threatened with ' another ice age, which would drive 1 the line of human life once more to I a narrow belt in the tropics? Mac- MUlan will study the glaciers which (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) i Bowdoin. will send a weekly alory at a designated time. The 30,000 amateurs will listen for him. Those who live near Washington will, as arranged by the American Radio Relay League, send to The Star copies of the coded messages from the arctic as soon as they are re ceived. After being decoded, the messages from MacMillan will be published in The Star. The experiment Is regarded as one of the most Important ever undertaken, both from the point of view of the radio expert and of the explorer. In MacMillan's party of eight is Donald Mix, a lad of twenty, chosen from among hundreds as the ex pedition's wireless operator. Each week Mix will send out his chiefs accounts—the stories of new discoveries, of progress, of life 1 In the tiny quarters on the Bow doln and of the natives' life and friendliness or enmity In the great white expanses without. Matters of tremendous Import to science are to be studied, one of them being the advance of glaciera It Is possible that the latest of man’s great inventions, radio, will flash word that the world la faced with another Ice age, which would ob literate the progress made by the human race during more than flfty centuries. Dr. MacMillan will proceed from Maine to a point within eleven de grees of the pole and there lock hla ship In the Ice. He plans to be gone for fifteen months. He may be held for years. And he may never return. The final story sent by him with his wireless may be as tragic as the last chapter in the career of Capt. Scott In the antarctic. • _ MacMillan to Tel! of Adventures In iladio Dispatches to The Star Capt. Donald B. MacMillan, who sailed Saturday from Wiscas set, Me., for the Arctic, is the special correspondent of The Star, through its membership in the North American Newspaper Alliance. Capt. MacMillan was Peary's lieutenant on the expedition that dis covered the north pole. The American Radio Relay League, the national organization of over 30.000 radio amateurs, will act as a link between MacMillan and The Star-ta-receive the stories of what befalls MacMillan and his little crew of six men while the Bowdoin lies locked in the ice near the north pole. For the first time the public will, it is hoped, be told the week ly story of the discoveries of an Arctic explorer, tales of an almost unknown northern people and the thrills that may come to follow ers of the most adventurous calling the twentieth century knows. The use of radio in the far north has not hitherto been at tempted. Its success will mark a new stage in scientific progress; even failure, as regards sending and receiving, will be of extreme value in settling many important points of radio science, including the effects of the aurora borealis. MacMillan’s last word to the American people, before putting to sea, is contained in the following message; “To the Editor of The Star: “I face north once more happy in the hope that through the months ahead I shall be in touch with the homeland. Exploration will have a new meaning when week by week we can send reports of achievements and of events in our own life. “It Is my firm conviction that the experiment conducted joint ly by the North American Newspaper Alliance, the American Radio jl Relay League and my party will prove of scientific value in deter mining difficulties as weß es possibilities. Communication is a boon which (n time mutt have an important bearing on the psychology of expeditions’ members. , “I wish now to extend my thanks, and the thanks of those who go with me, for your co-operation and the assistance of the thou sands of members of the American Radio Relay League in this sig nificant undertaking. “Good-bye! DONALD B. MacMILLAN PUBLIC UNKS GOLF STARS IN CUP TEST 64 Begin Play This Afternoon for Trophy Donated by President Harding. I»V W. R. McCALLVM. Public links golfers from sixteen eastern and midwestern cities are playing this afternoon at East Po- : tomac Park in the first annual com- ' petition for the Warren G. Harding j trophy, the curtain-raiser to the . second national public links cham- , plonshtp, which begins with a thirty- ! six-hole qualifying round tomorrow ; morning. Contestants In the compe tition for the cup presented by the ■ President of the United States num ber nearly half the entire field of j about 130 entrants. On the eve of the qualifying round j Chairman Standish of the public! links committee of the United States Golf Association announced that three Washington players, in addi tion to the ten already named, may enter the event. H. U Smith, one of the original ten men who qualified a month ago to represent the Capital In the public links classic, who Is a student at Georgetown University, has withdrawn hla name and will not play. According to numerous re quests, the committee named John E. Shorey, W. E. Melton and Robert H. Brown as addltonal Washington entries. They had tied for eleventh place In the qualifying round four weeks ago, with cards of 84. The total Washington contingent in the modal round for the national event thus stands at thirteen, for Charles H. Rollins entered and was accpeted without qualifying. With many of the contestants ar riving In Washington with bags filled with steel-shafted clubs. Chairman Standish of the public links commit tee of the U. S. G. A., today announced the governing body of golf had ruled out the steel-shaft club from the competition. Several of the en trants have only wooden clubs with steel shafts, and they will have to secure clubs with orthodox shafts or use their Iron clubs from the tee. The U. S. G. A. pointed out that Us stand In the matter is consistent, and that until It Is specifically allowed, the steel shaft will not be allowed In any tourney under its Jurisdiction. 04 Playing Today. Playing today In the curtain-raiser to the championship are sixty-four golfers, many of whom, years hence, will be known as stars, in golf. Most of them are youngsters—young in years, but old in golf knowledge—and many of them are capable of holding their own with the best In the land. A sprinkling of veteran players from Che public links through the land emphasises the character of the game. The event which started today with the competition for the first golf cup tContlnued on Page 2, Column 3.J 7 KILLED, 40 HURT IN V TRAIN CRASH! Women Among Victims of New York Accident—Death List Growing. jßr tl»o Associated Press j NEW YORK. June 25,—At least 1 seven persons were killed and more j than two score injured this after j noon when a two-car train plungjM 1 from the Brooklyn-Manhattan Tran | sit ele'vated structure at Fifth and ; i Platbush avenues in Brooklyn and j ; were smashed to match wood. Os j i the injured at least five were ex i pected to die. j Amid screams, passengers climbed ' through broken windows, their faces ■ streaming blood. Some were carried out. 1 j Others were able to crawl. I As the cars crashed to the street they [ ' carried with them a mass of high-ten sion electric wires and these, spitting sheets of blue flame. Ignited the shat- ! tered wreckage of the antique wooden I cars. | Flames Cheeked, Firemen fighting amid terrified I and screaming passengers soon j checked the flames. Witnesses said that something [ went wrong with the first truck of I the leading car and It plunged over j the side of the structure, dragging j Its mate with It. Part of the struc- { ture Itself was carried away. In falling the train crushed two j automobiles beneath It. Four of the dead were women. The j first identified dead were. Alexander : Lowsky and Mrs. Louise Wright, both I I of Brooklyn. 1 Firemen tossed aside their helmets j and rubber garments and plunged ! into the wreckage, tearing at the tim bers with their hands when axes and crowbars could not be used without endangering the Injured. Two dozen ambulances, all availa ble fire apparatus and a host of police reserves were on the scene In a few minutes. They were forced to battle a crowd of several thousand which quickly massed. NATIONALS, 6; MACKS, 0 IN SECOND INNING PHILADELPHIA, June 25—Hol lingsworth and Rommel were the bat tery selections for the third game of the home series with the Washing ton Nationals here today. Connie Mack made a few changes in the line up, sending Rlconda to third and Heimach to first. The weather was hot and about 4.000 witnessed the game. “From Press to Home Within the Hour** The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. . ~ r _ _ ' ■ *■ *• —— —*" —— -—4— Saturday’* Net Circulation, 81,048 Sunday’s Circulation, 95,386 * V TWO CENTS. BALDWIN SAYS U. S. NAS RIGHT TO TAKE LIQUOR UNDER SEAL i No Law Broken, Premier As-i firms, as Officials Con tinue Seizures. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 25.—Stanley Bald win, the prime minister, stated In the house of commons today that there was no ground for protest if British customs seals were broken within United States territorial waters by officials of the United States customs service. His statement was in answer to a question whether Great Britain recog nized America's right to the seals on liquor aboard ships. Mr. Baldwin said It was the prac tice for the British customs authorities to fix their seals as a matter of toutlno on dutiable ship stores taken from England in bond to prevent consumption of the stores in terri torial waters. The seals must not be broken in British territorial waters: otherwise they are in no way Inviolable. Foreign customs seals, he added, were habitually [ broken when necessity arose in Brit ish territorial waters. SEIZUKES CONTINUE. j Officials Plan to Take Stores of Six Ships Today. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 25.—Two more "wet" liners steamed into port today , while United States government offi cials were preparing to move on six other vessels which had docked over i the week end with liquor iranported over the three-mile line in defiance of the Treasury Department's dry ruling. The latest arrivals were the Anchor liner Tuscania and the French liner j Suffren. I Customs men shortly before noon j began removing the seized liquor j j stores from the Berengaria. The i i party was led by Jjeputy Customs ! ; Surveyor Coleman. They planned I next to visit the Paris, to seize liquors I declared in excess of her medical re quirements. Then dry agents planned to take up the of the other week enders. Cedric, Caronla, Providence and Conte Verdi. The Tuscania, arrlv.ng from Glas i gow, bhought a relatively small store. I Seven dozen bottles of Scotch was the largest inivtdual item. Elghty -1 nine bottles of assorted drinks mad* up the rest of the cache, hearing Brit ish government seals. The Suffren i was more heavily laden. She brought I from Havre, in addition to a slight I stock marked “Medicinal supplies," 1,151 bottles of wines; 821 bottles of I champagne. 56 bottles of gin. 18 bot j (Continued on Page Column 1.) j CUTTER TAKES SHIP | WITH SIOO,OOO RUM I j Former Submarine Chaser Seized After Race Beyond Three-Mile- Limit at New York. I , j By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. June 25.—The Mary jE. Gulley, formerly a United States I Navy submarine chaser, was brought! In by the coast guard cutter Seminole ! today with a cargo of 1,500 cases of! liquet, valued at SIOO,OOO, which was i seized after a chase beyond the three- j mile limit last night. j Coast guard officials refused to con- j Arm reports that the Seminole had been compelled to fire a number of shots before the craft answered a command tp halt. The Mary E. Gully, which put out from New York from the rum fleet several days ago, carried papers pur porting to show both British and American registry. It was said. Her crew of six was held on charges of violating the Volstead act. Capt. Reed, chief of the coast guard service for this district, said today that rum-running had greatly in creased since repeal of the state pro hibition enforcement act. “When the act was repealed." he said, "we had reduced the rum fleet to six vessels. Now ‘there are eleven and the, number recently was as high as sixteen." IMAJ. BELL TAKES OATH OF OFFICE AS D.C. COMMISSIONER Hard at Work on New Job in Few Hours After Reaching City. BESSON TO REMAIRU r __ AT-POST FOR WEEK New Member of Board Coifies Here With Enviable Service - Record. . > Expressing desire to give his best efforts lo improve the National Capi tal. Maj. J. Franklin Bell took office toda> as Engineer Commissioner of the District. Maj. Beil lost no time in getting | down to work. Within a few hour* | after he reached the city from Pltls j burgh he was at his desk. I I am not a total stranger to Washington/’ he told newspaper men. “£ am looking forward with keen interest to my service here.” I gave considerable thought to the problems of city planning while In Pittsburgh, particularly with rela tion to the development of the water front.” Faith in Publicity. Maj. Bell asked to be excused from discussing in detail the problems that | await him until he becomes familiar | with them. He let it be known that he is a believer in acquainting the public fully with all municipal proj ects in order that co-operation and united effort may be obtained. Surrounded by officials and em ployes whose work he will supervise o7 >^m n .°' V i on '.K la i Bell took the oath . In the board room at 1:30 oclock this afternoon. Daniel E er a « Be ra^ Cl ; etary J to ,he Commission administered the oath, after nio? IO c n H ‘ Beach - clerk of the District Supreme Court, swore Bell in as a member of the Public Util ities Commission. Sore of Election. I* i* Practically sertain that Maj 5 e .;.. w - Public Utilities Commission, which task has always been assigned to the Engineer Commissioner. It is also understood that he be given the chair- Ir '4LD S ” lp Zoning Commission The new Commissioner is fortv seven years of age. He speaks with alertness and decisiveness. When some one suggested to him tfria morning: that he was entering: office on the eve of the preparation of the annual estimates to Congress the biggest task of the year at the *? u i J ding—he smilingly indi cated that he la not afraid or work M a J- Bell corrected the Impression which has prevailed here that he Is a nephew of Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, former chief of staff of the Army. He said that he was not related to Gen. Bell. First Official Act. His first official act was the ap proval of a contract for the installa tion of a heating system In the municipal lodging house by the M. B. Casey Company. He comes to Washington with an enviable record in the service since his graduation from West Point in 1902. One of his first assignments was at the Washington barracks, where his daughter was born. His wife and daughter are now’ in Paris and w’iil not come to Washing ton until fall. He said that while he has had some experience in dealing with water power companies in other places, the supervision of public service corpora tions is comparatively new to him. Colonel in France. Maj. Bell served as a colonel in France, and was the last American ! engineer officer to leave the other side. Maj. F. S. Besson, acting engineer commissioner, will remain at the District building for about a week to assist Commissioner Bell. Maj. Besson then will leave for a I vacation with his family, after which j he will go to the engineer school at Fort Leavenworth. The major has ( performed the duties of Engineer j Commissioner since Coi. Keller re i signed a month ago to accept a | position with a private water power | development company. — .LARSEN RETAINS SIB,OOO PAID ON AIRPLANE FIRE j Now York Supreme Court Jury I Hung in Effort to Agree in Risk Finn Suit. j By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 25.—A supreme court Jury reported today that it had | been unable to agree on a verdict in I the suit of the Commercial Union As- I surance Company, Ltd., to collect I from John M. Larsen, noted airplane | inventor and builder. SIB,OOO paid him on a fire insurance policy. The fire which destroyed his airplane plant on Long Island was declared to have been set. Larsen, alleged to have hired an employe to fire the plant, contended that the charges were a frame-up to wreck his reputation. The jurors said Informally they had voted ten to two in favor of Larsen. A similar suit in which the Globe and Rutgers Insurance Company is plaintiff was set4ffwn lor trial tomorrow. GREECE EXPECTS TERMS | ON DEBT EQUAL TO TURKS ■ Venizelos Tells Lausanne Parley 1 Nation Needs Concessions as Much as Angora. By the Associated Press, LAUSANNE, June 25.—Former Pre mier Venizeios of Greece added today to the troubles of the near east con ference over the settlement of the Ot toman debt problem by declaring at a meeting of the finance commission that Greece certainly expected to be treated as well ns Turkey In any allied con cession regarding the payment of debt Interest. The Turks contend they should be permitted to pay in depre ciated French money instead of pounds sterling. M. Venizelos reminded the allies that Greece was among the victors in the war and that Greek finance* wore quit* as shaky as Turkish.