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i WEATHER.
Unsettled weather, probably show
ers tonight and tomorrow; moderate
temperature. Temperature for twen
ty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today:
Highest, 75, at noon today; lowest, 64,
at 6:30 a.m. today.
Full report on page B.
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PREMIERS IN PARIS
DECLARE NO ISSUE
PRESAGESRUPTURE
Poincare and Baldwin Confer
Without Reaching Definite
Solution of Problems.
CONVERSATIONS COVER
ALL POLITICAL POINTS
Future Relations of France and
Britain Expected to Be Vitally
Affected by Parley.
B.t the Associated Press.
PARIS. September 19. —Premier
■Poincare and Prime Minister Stanley
Baldwin of Great Britain conferred
here today, presumably on the repa
ration question. Their conversation
ended at 4 p.m„ when M. Poincare
went to the Qul D’Orsay and Mr.
Baldwin proceeded to Ramboulilet to
be received by President Millerand.
An official communique issued after
the meeting read;
Basically In Accord.
"A meeting of the prime ministers
of Prance and Great Britain took
place- this afternoon, of which they
took advantage to proceed to the
exchange of view's on the general
political situation.
“It was not expected that in the
course of the meeting MM. Poincare
and Baldwin would be able to settle
upon any definite solution. But they
were happy to establish a common
agreement of views and to discover
that on no question is there any dif
ference of purpose or divergence of
principle which could impair the co
operation of the two countries, upon
which depends so much the settle
ment and peace of the w - orld.”
IMPORTANT RESULTS SEEN.
Premiers’ Meeting Expected to In
fluence Ruhr Developments.
BV WILLIAM E. NASH.
Br L'ablv to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
PARIS, September 19.—Premier Bald
win of Great Britain and Premier
Poincare had a long talk on trouble
some problems after luncheon at the
British embassy today.
The luncheon was attended by a
fairly large crowd of guests. But at
the interview, which brought the two
premiers face to face for the first
time, they were alone save for an
interpreter, M. Caruerlljucfc. The BrUv
Ish premier talks French so poorly
and the French premier has such a
poor command of English that an in
terpreter was deemed necessary. By
excluding every one save the inter
preter they hoped to avoid indis
cretions.
Preliminary conversations
Tuesday by Premier Baldwin with Sir
William Tyrrel, permanent undersec
retary of the British foreign office,
who came over from London specially
for the purpose, and by Premier Poin
care with the Belgian premier and
Louis Barthou of the reparations
commission gave a more comprehen
sive character to this afternoon’s in
terview than had been expected ear
lier.
The Paris edition of the London
Daily Mall states mat Mr. Baldwin
may acknowledge France’s victory
in the Ruhr and "Accept the conse
quences ensuing from it. The French
afternoon papers intimated that the
meeting of the two government heads
may become an important event in
the development of future Anglo-
French relations, even though no
noteworthy decisions may be reached.
British embassy officials have been
persistently attempting to minimize
the importance of the interview be
tween Premier Baldwin and Premier
Poincare. The visit, they say, was
purely a courtesy call. Returning
from a rest cure ut Aix les Bains.
Premier Baldwin, it is asserted, could ;
scarcely avoid a can upon the French 1
premier. And as the two, men had j
never met before, this seemed a good !
opportunity to bring them together. ■(
On the other hand, the French say ;
there is a very interesting topic that
Premier Baldwin may have wished
to discuss with M. Poincare. That
is the position of Great Britain in
the events that seem iikely to follow
upon the surrender of Germany in
the Ruhr. Capitulation apparently
is bound to come soon. Germany will
then place herself at the mercy of
France and Belgium, offering them
everything they desire in the way of
guaranties for the payment of repa
rations.
Seeks British Interests.
Such action would be fine for France
and Belgium, but where does Great
Britain come in? Although she is a
creditor of Germany, she took no part
In the Ruhr operations, and conse
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VOTENOADVANCE
IN PRICEOF MILK
Farmers Who Supply Wash
ington Will Not Charge
More Next Winter.
The farmers of Maryland and Vir
ginia. who produce Washington’s
milk supply, voted this afternoon not
to seek a higher price this winter.
This was announced this afternoon
by O. A. Jamison, secretary of the
farmers’ organization, following a di
rectors’ meeting at 1731 I street.
This action. It is believed, removes
the possibility of an advance In the
retail price of milk in Washington after
October 1.
At the present time the basic whole
sale price paid to the farmer by the
local distributor is 29 cents per gal
lon for milk of 3.5 per quality.
The wholesale price is higher In pro
portion to the Increase In quality
above that percentage. The general re
tail price at this time Is 14 cents per
quart.
QUAKE IN BERMUDA.
HAMILTON. Bermuda, September 19.
—An earth shock sufficient to cause
the bouses to tremble was felt hefe
at 6 o’clock last night. No damage
gas been reported.
CIVIL WAR ITS GERMANY
LOOMS OVER RUHR DELAY
Socialist Deputies to Push Negotiations
With France—Americans Escape
Raids on Foreign Currency.
BV HIRAM D. MODERWELL. ‘
By Coble to The Star nnd Chicago Dally News.
Copyrhtht, 1923.
BERLIN, September 19.—Germany
now faces another, internal crisis,
more serious than any that has gone
before. This time she is threatened
not only with a series of local riots,
tut with civil war. ,
The socialist deputies took stock of
the situation on Tuesday and decided
to make the sharpest possible de
mands on the government to hurry
negotiations with France to the ut
most. All signs show that they are
right advancing prices, unemploy
ment and the growing boldness of the
armed revolutionary groups.
In Bavaria, however, the insistence
of a speedy agreement with France
is interpreted as “pressure by the so
cialists to complete the humiliation
of the fatherland,” and the national
ists openly boast that they will "ifb
sure 6 " thC eovernment from this pres
-5,000 Worker* Parade.
While the Bavarian prime minister
was uttering such a threat in a speech
COURT FREES FIVE
HELD BY MILITARY
BODY INOKLAHOMA
State Troop Tribunal Loses
in First Test With Civil Au
thorities, Is Said.
By the Associated Press,
TULSA, September 19.—Five men in
dicted by Gov. Walton’s Tulsa county
military commission investigating mob
violence and hooded band activities
here since mid-August, were freed in
civil court today when arraigned for
preliminary hearings. They were the
first of the thirty men thus far In
dicted by the military tribunal to be
released.
The scheduled'court test of author
ity between the military and civil offi
cers in Tulsa county was put over to
Thursday, when Assistant Attorney
General C. W. King today obtained a
continuance of habeas corpus proceed
ings before Judge A. C. Hunt in dis
trict court, involving three convicted
fleggers held by the military forces
Here.
Tulsa went to bed last night in a
situation defined by Sheriff Bob San
ford as one of “synthetic rebellion."
It was perplexed as to who rules the
roost —the military or the civil
authorities.
A district judge has ordered the
state’s adjutant genera! to appear in
a civil court with three military
prisoners. The summons, delivered
to the civil sheriff. Sanford, was com
mandeered by the military sheriff.'
Col. E. L. Head, who it Is indicated,
may or may not serve it upon his
superior officer, Adjt. Gen. E. H.
Markham.
Situation Complicated.
The situation was further compli
cated by a mystery surrounding the
whereabouts of Adjt. Gen. Markham
since his departure for Oklahoma City
JJpnday.
whether the right of habeas corpus
exists In Oklahoma under martial law,
despite Gov. J. C. Walton's order sus
pending the right, is the legal ques
tion Involved.
The townsfolk are all mixed up—
but business is as usual; and aside
! from the half dozen guardsmen on
jduty on the mezzanine floor of the
city’s leading hotel and two score
iof their comrades quartered in an
H outlying armory, there is no evidence
; of the political furor which grips the
state.
The seventy-five militiamen who
constitute the force here are visible
only at the armory and at military
headquarters.
The three military prisoners brought
before Judge Hunt are Ben and
Grover Sikes and Earl Sack, all of
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JONESBRIS PAR
TO LEADIN GOLF
Max Marston Trailing in Sec
ond Round of Amateur
Championship.
By the Asiociated Pres*.
FLOSSMOOR COUNTRY CLUB, CHI
CAGO, September 19.—Bobby Jones of
Atlanta, national open champion, fin
ished hta morning round 2 up to Max
Marston of Philadelphia in the second
round of the amateur golf champion
ship tourney, but he had to shoot
34-36 —70, four under par, in order to
have that advantage over Marston,
who nipped one stroke off the so
! called perfect figures himself.
Jess Sweetser, New York, amateur
champion, finished the first eighteen
2 up to DavqJHerron of Chicago.
Jess Guilford, Boston, title holder
in 1921, was 2 up to Dexter Cum
mings, Chicago, Intercollegiate cham
pion, at .the end of eighteen holes of
the second round.
Btaa4ißg of Skate.
Deitsmore Shute finished the first
eighteen holes 1 up to Ned Allis of
Milwaukee.
Bob Gardner of Chicago overcame a
handicap of 1 down on the first nine
and adjourned for luncheon 2 up to
Bill Fownes of Pittsburgh.
George Von Elm, Salt Lake City,
was 4 up on Jimmy Manion, St. Louis,
at the end of eighteen hojes.
Wllfle Hunter, Los Angeles, was 2
up to Francis Oulmet of Boston at
the end of eighteen holes.
Joe Wells, Ohio champion, was 3 up
on H. K. B. Davis of Sap Francisco,
at the end of the elghUjptb hole. <
4 . ( . ~ii I Ms* »
Wc\t Ituenhm Sfetf.
V J \ ✓ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION L/
WASHINGTON, D. C„ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1923-THIRTY-FOUR PAGES
Sunday 5,000 workingmen paraded in
military formation through Leipzig
and were greeted by trades union
leaders as “the first Leipzig regi
ment of the red army.”
The government has not relinquish
ed the hope that negotiations with
France still may be possible on the
present basis. Encouragement is
found In the reported statement of
the Belgian charge d’affaires here
that the Belgian government will
mediate between Germany and France.
SKIP U. S. MONEY.
Berlin Agents Permit Americans to
Retain Cash.
By the Associated Pres*.
BERLIN, September 19.—N0 Ameri
cans were molested in yesterday's
raids by government fiscal agents for
foreign currency, although it was
stated that Dr. Fellinger, the govern
ment's "Dictator for Foreign Cur
rencies” has instructed his detectives
to keep a sharp lookout for foreign
ers of dubious extraction, who were
making a specialty of dollar spec
ulation. The American tourists who
happened to be guests of the raided
(Continued on Page 2. Column 6.)
SERBS MASS FORCE
ON 6ULGAR FRONT
■
Guerrilla Attacks on Mace
donia More Absorbing to
Belgrade Than Fiume.
By Cable to The Star and Philadelphia Public
Ledicer. Copyright, 1923.
BELGRADE, September 19. Bel
grade seems far more Interested just
■ now in Bulgarian guerrilla attacks
on Macedonia than in Flume. For
eign office circles say; “The time has
j come to teach the Bulgarians a need-
I ed lesson.”
I Through southern Serbia yesterday
an unusual number of troops were
observed in every town, living in
shelter tents and drilling. Evidently
they had recently moved to the dis
trict, and it is understood many more
are concentrated on the Bulgarian
and Albanian frontiers In that region.
The Serbs are greatly elated by the
visit of Marshal Franchel d*Esperey,
who, they report, publicly called the
Bulgars "thieves and barbarians” and
declared that France would not fall
j to come to the aid of Serbia If she
! were attacked by Italy or Bulgaria.
Jugoslavia Stands Firm.
As regards Flume, Jugoslavia is
standing firm on the Rapailo treaty,
apparently willing to let the nego
tiations continiTe to drag, as in the
past, but will consider an Italian at
tempt to precipitate a decision by an
nexing Fiume or Fiume annexing it
self to Italy as a casus belli. Mean
while both ultimatums and mobiliza
tions are insistently denied.
The conciliatory tone the Serbs use
in speaking of Italy Is forgotten,
however, when the subject of Bul
garia enters the conversation.
“HUNGARY WIT HITALY.”
Report From Budapest Follows
Step In Fiume Crisis.
By Cable to The St«r and Philadelphia
Public Ledger. Copyright. 1923.)
ROME, September 19.—Following
the installation of an Italian military
governor at Flume, the most interest
ing developments in the Adriatic sit
uation are reports that Hungary
would give military aid to Italy in
the event of a Balkan blow-up and
stories of large French ammunition
contracts with Belgrade.
Italians are heartened by the re
ports from Budapest that Hungary
would ’’fight by Italy’s side,” but
that extreme is not looked for In
Rome. As for Belgrade, it is assert
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SEESMPLUS
ABOVEJIJIOOO
House Ways and Means Com
mitte Head Predicts Saving
if Economy Continues.
Representative Green, republican,
of lowa, next chairman of the House
ways and means committee, today
predicted that if the government con
tinued its present campaign of econ
omy there would probably be a sur
plus at the end of the fiscal year
1925 of $200,000,000 or $300,000,000.
This prediction was made follow
ing a conference at the Treasury
with Secretary Mellon and high
Treasury officials, during which Mr.
Green said the work of the tax-sim
plification board and the ways and
means committee had been discussed.
Mr. Green added, however, that he
did not know what the report of the
tax-simplification board would con
tain, nor what would be the recom
mendations of Secretary Mellon to
Congress concerning taxation.
Baifet Economy Seen.
Mr. Green bxsed his prediction as
to the possibU surplus at the end
of 1925 upon the present trend in
government expenditures. The re
port of the budget bureau, now in
preparation, which President Cool
idge will submit to Congress In De
cember. will be necessary to get a
more complete picture of the fiscal
year 1925, Mr. Green said. But, ac
cording to the avowed Intentions of
Gen. Lord of the bureau of the bud
get, the estimates for 1925 will be
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SEEKIIULWO
FOR U. S. BUILDINGS
Os NEXTGONGRESS
“Omnibus” Bill to Follow Rep
resentative Langley’s Con
ference With Coolidge.
URGENT NEED IS CITED;
PRESIDENT’S MIND OPEN
Government Paying $23,000,000
Yearly in Rentals—Confident -
of Relief Measure.
i
There will be Introduced at the
next session of Congress an “omni
bus” public buildings bill carrying an
appropriation of at least $100,000,000,
according to Representative John W.
Langley of Kentucky, chairman of
the House committee on public build
ings and grounds, following a con
ference with President Coolidge at
the White House today.
In making this known Mr. Langley
asserted that he has reason to feel
certain that some kind of a general
building bill will be passed. He ex
plained, further, that it may bs pos
sible that his committee, ip prepar
ing this legislation, will draw up a
bill providing for a total appropria
tion of $50,000,000 a year for ten
years. Instead of a total of $100,000,-
000 for a period of one or two years,
as was contemplated recently.
Building*. Great Need.
There is an urgent need for public
buildings throughout the country - .
Mr. Langley contends. He said he
is of the opinion that President
Coolidge has an open mind upon the
subject. Mr. Langley is aware that
the majority of administration offi
cials are opposed to an omnibus pub
lic buildings bill and would have It
put aside for the present in favor of
bills for Individual buildings. The
proposed structures include one for
the State Department, the Depart
■ ment of Justice, an archives building,
to be constructed In that section of
the Mail south of Pennsylvania ave
nue nnd east of 13th street, and one
for the general accounting office of
the Treasury Department nnd the in
ternal revenue, to be located on
plaza property in the vicinity of the
Capitol.
Congress will not agree to bills for
individual buildings such as this, Mr.
Langley contends, and he has told
Mr. Coolidge to that effect. Mr. Lang
ley recalled the fact that President
Harding attempted to get through
bills for’an archives building and
one or two of the others Just men
tioned at the last session of Congress,
but without success.
Inform Xevr Member*.
To better acquaint the membership
of Congress, especially the newly
elected members, with the figures and
facts concerning a general buildings
bill Chairman Langley is sending out
a circular letter. The outstanding
feature of this communication is the
fact that the federal government Is
spending $23,000,000 a year in rentals
for buildings throughout the country
and also that there have been no
public buildings built for half a dozen
years and that many of the govern
ment’s activities not only in Wash
ington but elsewhere are housed in
buildings Inadequate in size and in
many instances insanitary.
As an argument in favor of this
legislation, Mr. Langley explained
that the government could issue
bonds to the amount of $500,000,000
to care for the building program, and,
after paying interest on the same, it
could at least have $300,000,000 over
and above what is being spent an
nually In rentals.
Clark Also Present.
Representative Frank Clark of
Florida, ranking democrat on Mr.
Langley’s committee, accompanied
him to the White House, and made
it plain that he was in entire accord
with the chaiftgmn’s views.
Before leaving the White House
Mr. Langley presented to the Presi
dent Mrs Langley, who Is vice presi
dent of the republican state commit
tee of Kentucky, and M. S. Crane of
Jackson, Ky.. who was one of the
original Harding men of that state.
John Aiken, chairman of the board
of directors of the National Shawmut
Bank of Boston, Mass., told the Pres
ident today that the bankers, not
only of New England, but those
whom he has met from other sec
tions, are greatly impressed with his
administration and have expressed
themselves favorably toward his
leading the party in 1924.
Labor conditions generally and
those affecting directly the railway
employes wece discussed today dur
ing a conference between the Presi
dent and a committee of the Brother
hood of Railway and Steamship
Clerks, composed of H. Fitzgerald,
president; George L. Levy, secretary
and treasurer, and E. C. Milan, vice
president. They assured the Presi
dent that they were ready to give
him their support.
Representative Mayhew Walnwrlght
of Rye, N. Y., former Assistant sec
retary of war, • called on President
Coolidge today to pay his respects
and to tell him briefly of his obser
vations during a trip around the
world he has just completed.
Others who saw the President today
were Mrs. Harriett Taylor Upton,
vice chairman of the executive com
mittee of the republican national com
mittee; MaJ. Stanley Washburn and
Charles L, Pack and Representative
M. L. Davey of Ohio, and former Rep
resentative P. H. Kelly of Michigan.
The President late this afternoon will
meet with the members of the United
States Tariff Commission on a num
ber of matters pertaining to petitions
for rate changes.
STORM MENACES SHIPS.
Anxiety Felt for Schooners Off
Bering: Sea Coast.
By the Associated Pre*B.
NOME, Alaska, September 19.—Rag
ing storms are sweeping the Bering sea
coast for a distance of. 100 miles to
eastward and westward of Nome. Grave
fears are felt for the schooners Sea
Wolf, Silver Wave, Teddy Bear and
Nokatak, which are overdue more than
a week at Nome from ports to west
ward.
The schooner Fred J. Wood, owned
by A. H. Moore, with a party of old
hunters, went ashore in Port Clarence
bay at Teller, afghty miles northwest
01 Nome. no casualties.
gsgsh
The Star’s Great Picture “Beat”
First Photographs of Japan’s
Earthquake, Fire and Tidal Wave $
In Today’s Star , $
These remarkable photographs, with first pub
lication in the east in The Star, were brought to ( y
the Capital at great hazard and expense. Rushed ()
from the scene of the disaster, they landed at ()
Seattle last Saturday, where they were put
aboard a special airplane by the Pacific and
Atlantic Photo Service. Through storms, they
were carried above the clouds, the plane breaking v
down near Minneapolis. Another plane took the v
photographs to Chicago, where they were placed Q
in the hands of a special messenger and brought Q
by train to Washington this morning—about sixty- A
four hours after they arrived in Seattle. a
The Picture “Beat” of Years
In Today’s Star q
REV. DR. TOPPER
TO MM WIDOW
Resigned D. C. Pastor’s En
gagement to Mrs. D. J.
Walton Announced.
i
Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA, September 19.
The engagement of Rev. Dr. Henry
Allen Tupper, who resigned Monday
as pastor of the First Baptist Church,
Washington, D. C., to Mrs. Debbie J.
Walton, widow of Capt. John M.
Walton, city controller of Philadel
phia for twenty-five years, was an
nounced this afternoon. Rev. Dr.
Tupper, a widely known minister and
author, is sixty-seven years old. Mrs.
Walton’s husband died in March,
1920, at the age of sixty-seven. She
now lives at 4205 Chester avenue, this
city. No date has been set for the
wedding.
The couple became acquainted about
a year ago. Rev. Dr. Tupper said
he has tendered his resignation from
the pastorate of the Washington
church with the Intention of travel
ing and revising some of his literary
work after bis marriage to Mrs.
Walton. Capt. Walton was active
In politics here for a number of years
and was a prominent club member.
He left no children. He was married
twice. His first wife died in 1902.
Rev. Dr. Tupper has held the pas
torate of the Washington church
since <1919. President Harding fre
quently attended sermons preached
by Dr. Tupper from his Washington
pulpit. It«r. Dr. Tupper studied at
colleges in North and South Carolina,
Richmond, Va., and the University
of Virginia. He was graduated from
the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary In 1879; was granted the
degree of D. D. In 1890, and the de
gree of LL. D. In 1906 by Georgetown
College, Ky. His first wife was Ma
rie Louise Pender of Richmond, Va.,
whom he married in 1879.
Chaplain During War.
Rev. Dr. Tupper held pastorates In
churches throughout the south and
also held a pulpit of the Calvary Bap
tist Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. He was
a chaplain during the Spanish-Ameri
ran war. He Is president of the New
York Baptist Ministers, Conference.
New York Foreigners’ Mission and
a trustee of the Garden Cities Asso
ciation of America.
Rev. Dr. Tupper was' appointed in
1912, special peace commissioner at
the international peace forum, and
during fourteen trips to Mexico had
fruitful conferences with the leaders
of the federal government and con
stitutional parties. He has traveled
extensively and is the author of a
number of books on travels and near
east countries. During the world war
he toured the country twice, ad
dresing nearly 200,000 soldiers In
cantonments.
MISS FLAGLER TO WED.
NEW YORK, September 19!—The
engagement of Miss Mary Harkness
Flagler to M. B. Carey, Jr., of Ridge-,
field. Conn., was announced today by
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Harkness Flagler. Miss Flagler .is
the granddaughter of Henry M. Flag
ler, a founder of the Standard 041
Company, ..
COSGRAVE RE-ELECTED.
Agitin Heads Executive Council of
Bail.
By the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, September 19.—William T.
Cosgrave was re-elected by the dail
today as president of the executive
council of the Irish Free State.
PiRIEUAMEO
AS EXPLORER, DIES
Wealthy Ohioan Made Name
as Hunter and Photographer
of Wild Animals.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 19.—Paul
J. Rainey, noted explorer and big
game hunter, died aboard the British
ship Saxon, en route from Southamp
ton to Capt Town,
- - S'”.'M his business aseo
: iciates wore in
| R^opcrR 30 * ainey
1 ~ V jungle near Nai
was buried at sea,
Paul J.. Bainey. the m e s sages
from Mrs. Rogers said. The Saxon
left Southampton September 17 and
was due at her destination Sep
tember 30.
Although he made extensive ex
plorations and valuable scientific
discoveries in the Arctics, bringing
back many of the first captive speci
mens of animal life’in polar regions,
Rainey probably will be best re
membered .as the first bit£ game
hunter of the tropics, whose exploits
were preserved in motion pictures.
Killings Restricted.
He gpt his first taste of adventure
near the north, pole. Theh he turned
to the tropics and. after the British
government ■ upon to re
strict-his killings of lions and tigers,
accepted a commission with the Brit
ish forces, later becoming official
photographer for the Red Cross In
France during the world war.
Rainey was born at Cleveland on
September 18, forty-six' years ago,
and for many years had been a di
rector of W. J. Rainey, Inc., a $lO,-
000,000 coal and coke distributing
concern founded by his father.
In 1910, he went into the Arctic
with Harry Whitney on the Boethlc
on an expedition which netted valu
able living trophies and was termed
highly successful. A year later he
sallied into .deepest Africa. Soon re
ports trickled from hla camps, to be
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N. y. PRESS STRIKE
HINGESONPARLEY
Union Leaders in Conference.
Newspapers Continue Com
bined Issues.
By the Associated Pres*.
NEW YORK, September 19—A
meeting between George L. Berry of
the International Printing Pressmen
and Assistants’ Union and officers of
the New York Web Pressmen's Union,
No. 25. called for today, offered vir
tually the only hope of settlement of
the strike of pressmen, which has
materially curtailed publication of
most of the city’s leading daily news
papers. ,
The strike, which began when
worker* on morning newspapers left
their posts shortly after midnight
yesterday morning, continued through
yesterday and last night, with both
afternoon and morning papers re
sorting to limited editions bearing
the title. The Combined New York
Newspapers, and carrying on the
front page the name of each paper
affected.
Orders Mem Back.
Mr. Berry in a letter sent to the
local union last night ordered the men
to return to work, declaring the strike
was unauthorized, and failure to com
ply Immediately with his request
would result in a suspension of the
union's charter. Early this morning
he had received no answer to that
communication, but it was expected
the reply would be delivered at the
r noonday conference.
The papers published this morning
were thin, eight-page acairs. contain
ing little or no advertising and no
editorials. Features were curtailed
and one of the leading stories on all
front pages was an account of the
pressmen's strike.
Track Held Up.
Pickets were stationed at all news
paper plants throughout last night,
but. aside from Jeers as the trucks
rolled away, there were few untoward
incidents. Police reported that a
driver for the New York American
had been held up and additional men
were sent to guara that office. The
drivers’ union, however, refused to
allow patrolmen to ride in their
wagons or cars.
The Dally News, the American, the
World, the Herald, the Tribune and
the morning Telegraph manned
enough presses to publish eight-page
morning papers. Each maintained
Its individuality except that about
one-fourth of the first page was taken
up by the banner, ’’The Combined
New York Morning Newspapers,” and
the captions of the ten publications
In the group. Including the Times,
the Staats-Zeltung and the Progresso
Italo-Americano, which did not pub
llßEdltorials were eliminated from all
ed'Mons, as were most of the usual
comics and features. Advertisements
were restricted to financial, steamship
and theater displays.
Other Papers Benin.
Meanwhile the smaller English
dailies and foreign language publica
tions not affected by the strike are.
riding the crest of a boom. The for-’
mer have gained several pages In size
in the last twenty-four hours. F.lar
ing headlines are appearing where
they seldom appeared before. One
morning paper announced today it
was using all its presses and those of
another non-struck plant in caring
for It* sudden boosted circulation.
Several foreign language 'news
papers are appearing for the first time
printed In English from captions and
editorials to advertisements. News
stands which distribute out-of-town
dallies report selling thousands of
extra copies.
Five men who said they were press
men for the World were arrested to
day charged with malicious mischief.
Detectives said they seized fifty bun
dles of newspapers from an ele. ated
train and carried them in a taxicab
to the East river, ostensibly with
the Intention of destroying them.
The newspaper famine was relieved
in the late afternoon when a com
posite newspaper, representing joint
ly the eleven afternoon newspapers
affected, appeared on the streets.
The unique publication, which bore
the names of all the newspapers in
the usual typographical style used by
each, was the result of a conference
between newspaper owners and offi
cials of the international union. It
was there decided that the papers
would pool their resources to permit
the publication of a six or eight page
newspaper to contain whatever ad
vertisements and news each of the
dallies deemed it expedient to print.
PRINCESS MUCH BETTER.
TURIN, Italy, September 19.-—The
improvement in the condition of
Princess Mafalda, who is ill at Rac
conigi, continues, according to dis
patches received here. Newspaper
men who have been watching the
castle night and day report that the
windows of King Victor Emmanuel’s
bedroom were dark last night for the
first time since the illness began, in
dicating that the crisis was past.
“From Press to Home
Within the Hour”
The Star’s carrier system covers
every city block and th«"r«guUr edi
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Yertcrdty’i Circulation, 91,516
* TWO GENTS
LONDON REFUSES
U. S. PROPOSALS ON
LIQUORSIGGLING
Note Received Today Agrees,
| However, to Refer Issue to
Imperial Conference.
HUGHES HAD SUGGESTED
12-MILE SEARCH LIMIT
Door Is Believed Still Open to Ne
gotiate Treaty Settling Ship
Rum Problem.
Tho British reply to Secretary
Hughes' proposals for a reciprocal
agreement on ship liquor and liquor
smuggling was received at the State
Department today and was described
by officials as “in general not sym
pathetic to the proposals.” The Brit
ish government plans, however, to
present the question to the British
imperial conference, which meets in
London next month.
State Department officials view
the British communication as leaving
open the possibility of negotiating
a double-barreled treaty to curb rum
running and also to facilitate legiti
mate liquor shipments in foreign
bottoms. There was no attempt,
however, to disguise the fact that the
British government had indicated
general disapproval of the plan and
raised objections against it.
Asked 32-Mile Limit.
In his proposals, made to several
powers, including France as well as
Great Britain, Secretary Hughes
pointed out that the draft treaty sub
mitted was designed to make a spe
cial arrangement extending the right
!of search and seizure up to twelve
miles off shore for the particular pur
pose of preventing whoesale smug
gling of liquor into the United States.
It was emphasized that no project
was being put forward by the United
States for any change in the general
rule of International practice that
fixes the limit of territorial waters.
Secretary Hughes also pointed out
that under existing law In this coun
try the government was powerless to
permit stores of liquor on foreign
ships to enter American waters, even
when it was clear that the liquor was
not to be used or delivered within
American jurisdiction. By an exer
cise of the treaty-making power, Mr.
Hughes proposed to overcome this
obstacle In away t»iat would have
the effect of an amendment of the
law.
Win Not Publish Note.
j The State Department does not plan
|to make public the British com
j municatlon nor would officials dis
| close the specific grounds upon which
' British objections were based. Ap
parently there is some hope in Wash
j ington that reference of the question
[to the Imperial conference leaves a
pdoor open to ultimate negotiation of
j a treaty along the lines of that pro
j Posed by Secretary Hughes. In anv
event the State Department regards
the matter as still In an indefinite
state.
Since ships chiefly concerned both
in the ship liquor controversy and in
the smuggling operations have been
of British registry, other countries
have deferred answers, pending dis
closure of the British viewpoint. So
far as known, the Washington gov
ernment has received no official in
°f the attitude of any of
draft .rt a .v OV " nmentS t 0 Which tho
draft treaty was communicated
ANTHICiIEMINES
NOW mu
155,000 Miners Return to
Work After Two Weeks of
Idleness.
By the Associated Press,
SCRANTON, I’a., September 19,
After an idleness of more than two
weeks, due to the suspension by
order of their union leaders, the
I 155,000 min© workers in the an
-1 region resumed work today.
The new wage scale, covering a
period of two years from September 1
and embodying the terms of the Har
risburg agreement, based on the set
tlement submitted by Gov. Plnchot,
formally was ratified by tl)e trl-dls
trlct convention of the United Mine
Workers on Monday and the sus
pension order officially lifted.
The new scale includes a 10 per
cent Increase in wages, an eight-hour
day. recognition of the union and the
principles of collective bargaining.
Union leaders said that a large out
put this winter was assured, although
It was not expected that normal pro
duction would be restored for several
days.
Operating officials said that the
mines generally were in excellent
condition. Tools of the workers and
the mine mules were lowered into the
underground workings yesterday and
thousands of men were awaiting at
the mouths of the mines when the
whistles blew this morning for a re
sumption of operations. -
DRASTIC CUT IN PRICE
OF MIDCONTINENT CRUDE
By the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla., September I#.—A
drastic cut in the price of mid
continent crude oil and a radical
change in the classification of the
grades heretofore used were an
nounced today by the Prairie Oil and
Gas Company, which posted a new
schedule reducing former prices from
15 to 70 cents a barrel and cutting
Ihe number of grades from eight t»