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The Washington times., 1923-05-01
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS REGL

10 nave American vessels Dry De.
cause 1t means more passenger traf.
fic with the British ships having
bars.
Officials Await Text.
Foreign office officials refused to
comment upon the American de-
cision until they see the text, They
expressed the hope that there waA
some modifying clause which would
be OF benefit to European shipping
lines. It is not expected that Great
Britain will make formal protest
against the decision unless British
shippers claim it is an infringe.
ment upon their legal rights.
The possibility, was pointed out
that vessels now sailing from New
York and Boston may have their
American ports of departure trans
ferred to Canada. Under the present
American laws, a ship may not carry
liquor from an American port nor
sell 1t while within three miles OF
shore, but outside the three.mile
zone all ships american included
may sell liquor openly. BY sailing
from Canada the "three-mile lirnita-
ton" would not exist.
Reply to Hughes Delayed.
Great Britain's reply to Secretary
of State Hughes latest bootleg
note" concerning the smuggling of
vast quantities OF whiskey from
British to United States territory is
being delayed.
The communications from Wash
ington are in the hands of Board OF
Trade experts and crown lawyers.
Their decision may not be given for
weeks. Consequently the United
States may not get an answer until
some time in June or July.
Opposition to demands made by
the United States is increasing
steadily. 1t is contended that com
pliance would cripple British trade
cause loss of money, and bring down
hostile criticism upon the govern
ment. Prospects for British CO.
operation with the United States to
prevent rum running are rapidly de.
Ginning.
The Star, in commenting edi
torially upon the situation, said:
Compares u. s. to Soviet.
"The United States, of all the
civilized nations, is most opposed
to the Soviet government. Yet the
two countries just now are doing
the same things. The Soviets seize
trawlers outside of the three-miie
limit and now comes the American
dry decision. Both are equally
high-handed and arrogant toward
foreign nations and foreign peo-
Plies"
The Star fears that the Supreme
Court decision at Washington Zen
dangers maritime freedom"
White Star Line and Cunard Of
ficials conferred at Liverpool. They
said they would have to obey the
American law. but have not yet
made any plans for the future.
They discussed the possibility OF
taking liquor and wine supplies on
board their ships outside of the
three-mile limit.
The liner Majestic, which will
sail tomorrow will carry $4,000
quarts of ale, 1900 quarts of
champagne, 1900 pints OF other
wines, 1000 quarts of whiskey; 800
quarts of liquors and a large guam
tity of beer. The liner also will
carry $4,000 gallons Of drinking
water.
The Washington times., 1923-05-01
CONFUSION
FOLLOWS
RULING
New Laws Will Be Needed to
Strengthen Enforcement,
4 Is Claim.
By GEORGE r. HOLMES,
international News Service.


The law enforcement branch of
the Government almost mired
down today in the morass of COM
plications arising from the Su-
preme Courts sweeping interprc-
tation e. the liquor laws.
Decision Clear Enough.
Officials who wrestled with the
task of framing new rules and regu-
lations declared ruefully that the
courts decisions made the laws
clear enough, but added immeasur-
ably to the difficulties of enforce
nent.
These outstanding facts confronted
officials today:
The three-mile limit has been
legally turned into the great Amer
lean bar line, beyond which SNUG
glers, bootleggers, and keepers of
floating saloons may ply their trade
unmolested by American authorities.
"a Veriable armadas of smuggling
boats may gather just over this line
and play hide and seek with Aneri-
can patrols, flooding the coast with
liquor where they can.
90 Foreign ships may not bring
into American waters anything eX-
cept medicinal liquor, despite the
fact the laws of at least three coun-
tries-France, Italy, and Spain-re-
Quire stear ship owners to furnish
wine rations for crews.
CD Violations of these laws by for
eigners render their vessels liable to
seizure and confiscation by the
American Governments proceeding
filled with undreamed of interna-
tional complications.
(D Strict inspection of incoming
3oreiga vessels at the three-mile
limit or in port is impossible. It
would take young army to attempt
It, and Congress is unlikely to spend
that much money.
90 The American Government
will of necessity have to depend
largely upon the willingness of for
eign steamship lines to observe the
law voluntarily
l6l There will be another wet-and-
dry fight in the next Congress,
maybe several of them.
iD Prohibitionists will ask Con-
gress to amend the Volstead act to
make the law follow the flag and
make American vessels dry the
world over
90 The Government will ask Col?
gress to amend the law to exempt
foreign vessels from the provisions
Of the act which prevent them COM
Ing into ports with liquor under
seal.
Cabinet To Discuss 1t.
This was the situation today
when President Harding met With
his Cabinet 1t was expected liquor
would be one of the chief subjects
discussed.
Despite the Supreme Courts de-
cision that American vessels may
have liquor beyond the threa-niile
The Washington times., 1923-05-01
POLICE believe
DEATH DUE To
HK|NG
Body of Leighton Mount Found
on Northwestern U. Campus
Covered With Debris.
BY international News service.

CHICAGO, May Efforts to
suhstantiate the theory of Evans
ton police that Leighton Mount.
young Northwestern University stu
dent, was murdered during q class
rush at the school in September,
1921, were continued with q grim
earnestness today following discov-
cry of Mounts body buried under
half ton of rocks and debris beneath
a pier near the University campus.
Identification of the body, which
had been reduced to a skeleton,
was made by the youths mother,
who recognized a belt buckle. She
has maintained since the day Of
her sons disappearance that he
was slain by sophomores and that
his body eventually would be
found.
Second Student Killed.
The discovery of the body fol-
lowed with dramatic suddenness
the tragic death of Louis Aubere,
who lost his life last week when
an automobile containing a group
of Northwestern freshmen, which
was being chased by car filled
with sophomores, was overturned
in a collision. Aubere, like Mount,
WAS q lICSUHtt1Is
The theory of police at Evanston
today was that Mount was accident
ally killed during a particularly
rough hazing at the hands OF
sophomores, who, frightened, car
ried the body. to the pier and con-
cealed it. It was recalled that on
the same night Mount disappeared
several other students were 50 bad
~ mistreated they barely escaped
with their lives.
Others Were Hazed.
One of these freshmen was tied
to a breakwater in Lake Michigan
and almost drowned. Some others
were tied together with q rope and
cast into shallow water where they
almost strangled before they could
free themselves. Others were left
overnight in the forest preserve.
tied to trees.
University officials today ex-
pressed the belief that young
Mount had committed suicide. point
ing to a letter he had written a
young woman before his disap-
pearance.
Members of the junior class, who
were sophomores when Mount van
ished, were to be subjected to
rigid examination today.
The Washington times., 1923-05-01
BUILDS WORLD
RECORD FILM
STAGE
OoldWyn ExceIs Much Talked
Of Warner StFucture-Chap-
lin Brothers Separate.
BY GUY PRICE.
tcopyright. 1929, by Cosmopolitan
News ServIce.)


LOS ANGELES, May IA sure
evidence Of film prosperity is the
employment not so much Of stars,
directors and extras around the
studio, but Of carpenters and
mechanics.
Which leads us to comment on a
spirited race or competition at
present being waged between two
of the largest film corporations for
supremacy for the distinction of
having the largest motion picture
stage in the world.
Warner brothers recently COM
pleted a great working plant and
the news was heralded far and wide
that this stage not only was the
largest but was the final exclana-
ton point In modern studio con-
struction.
Smarting under the sting of
usurped distinction, Goldwyn sent
an 8. =. S. for its architects,
and today there stands completed
at the Culver City Illuminating
plant 1.-THE worlds largest film
stage" not excepting even Warner
brothers much talked Of monster"
This new enclosure covers more
than. an acre and q half of ground
and contains $1,000 square feet of
floor space. Fifty average motion
picture ''sets" may be built on it
simultaneously.
This achievement will stand until
another producer turns green with
envy and builds a bigger one.
1t is reported here that Hope
Hampton, not Lenore Ulrich, will
be starred in the David Belasco-
Willard Mack production of Tiger
Rose" Miss Hampton is due to
reach the coast within a few days.
Charles Spencer Chaplin today
figures in another separation. After
years Of continued business associa.
ton, the comedian and his brother,
Sid, have come to the parting of
the ways. Some say they have
broken socially as well as motion.
picturally,' but that cannot be veri-
fled. At any rate, Sid has been
signed by Goldwyn and the i'm.
mediate future will see no more Of
the celebrated brothers on the
screen together.
The Washington times., 1923-05-01
British Shipping Men
Fear Liquor Sales By
u. S. Vessels on High Sea
BY DAVID NJ. CHURCH.
By DAVID NJ. CHURCH,
International News Service.

LONDON, May 1.-The decision
of the United States Supreme Court
that liquor may be sold on Amer
lean ships beyond the three-lnile
limit created CONSERVATION in lii
ish shipping circles today. The
British had expected to get the
bulk of passenger traffic between
American and British ports because,
under the old ruling Of the Ship
ping Board, American vessels were
dry.
The big question now is whether
the American Government will at
tempt to enforce the Volstead Srrc.
hibition law upon ships flying the
American flag irrespective Of the
courts ruling. British shippers be-
lieVe 1t is possible to contest the
decision under international law.
British shipping men are anxious
The Washington times., 1923-05-01
50 YEARS OF MARRIED
LIFE ENDS WITH DECREE

NEW YORK, May AFTER
thirty.six years of married life. Mrs
Jennie May James obtained de-
cree of divorce from FREDERICK K
James, a resident Of Oscawanna
near Peekskill.
Supreme Court Justice Young in
Ossining granted the decree on the
defendants admission that the sig.
nature on a hotel register in Allan
tic City was his. The couple lave
been separated eleven years.
The Washington times., 1923-05-01

mitted to the Senate for approval
this winter.
Dawes is brother of Brig. Gen.
Charles Dawes, former Director Of
the Budget.
The Washington times., 1923-05-01
VASSAR GIRLS GIVE 1000
TO AID GERMAN STUDENTS

BERLIN, May 1.--Vassar students
have donated $1,000 for tho aid
of German women students, accord
ing to an announcement by Ray.
mond T. Rich, Berlin representative
OF the European Students Relief,
which is charged with the distribu.
ton of the money.
Rich says the action of the stu.
dents was due largely to the visit
to Germany. last autumn, Of the
president OF their college, Or. Henry
II. MacCracken.
The Washington times., 1923-05-01
800 ENTERED IN
CLEOPATRA
CONTEST
List Is Growing Fifty a Day
and Must Be Closed May IL
to Allow for Judgment.

So keen has become the compe-
tition for the honor of reigning as
Washington's most beautiful wom-
an during Shrine week in June,
when the largest number of visitors
in the history Of any American city
will assemble here, that it will be
necessary to close The Washington
Times and Herald Cleopatra contest
by May IL.
There are now more than 800
registration cards on file in the
contest office and the list is grow
ing at the rate of more than so a
day. Every type of feminine beauty
is represented in the registration,
from the raven-tressed, olive-skinned
Latin to the fairest of fair blondes.
Studio Capacity Taxed.
So great has become the problem
of handling the registrations that
the capacity Of the big Bachrach
studio, where entrants are being
photographed free of charge, IL
taxed to the limit. Sittings are now
being placed three or four days
ahead and the list is growing
steadily.
It was expected when the con.
test was opened that the great
honors to be conferred upon the
winner and upon the ten closest
competitors would result in the
most active competition In the
history of any Washington beauty
contest. None of those handling
the plan, however. had any inkling
of the proposition that was actual
" confronting them or of the in
tense and widespread interest which
/ would be aroused.
Capital Famed for Beauties.
Washington has long been famed
for the beauty of it's women. Visi-
tors from foreign nations, from
Paris, Vienna, London, the most
famous gathering places of beauty
in the Old World, have been out"
spoken in their admiration Of the
loneliness of this city's feminine
population. In two successive ma
tional beauty contests Washington
has taken honors. In one the
Washington entrant was adjudged
the most beautiful girl in America;
in the second the Washington en-
trant was among the first three
of more than 100 entered.
The problem which will confront
the judges in the Cleopatra contest,
when the list is closed May ~, can
be realized when 1t is considered
that a more representative gathering
of beauties has been brought about
than ever before. The winners of
a half dozen former contests have
been entered and there is no assur-
ance that they will be able to out
shine some of the new material
brought to the fore during the past
few days.
Immediate Entry Urged.
The judges. however. are DESTROYS
that every beautiful girl in the Dis.
trict of Columbia be entered so that
the final selection may be truly
typical of Washington best. For
this reason the committee in charge
is urging that all possible entrants
who have not yet registered do so
at once so that there may be no dis
appointment when the lists are
finally closed.
Registrations should be made in
time so that all photographs can be
placed in the hands of the judges at
the close of the contest. Applicants
who have no recent photographs can
secure orders for free sittings at the
contest office, Room 346,. Munsey
building. All applicants, whethe"
submitting photographs or securing
orders for sittings, must register in
nm ~ -Aek
The Washington times., 1923-05-01
MAN, 90, HANGS HIMSELF
FROM HOOK IN BATHROOM

NEW YORK. May Henry
Seims. ninety two. who lived with
his daughter. committed suicide
by hanging himself to q window
hook in the bathroom.
His daughter found the body.
Seims had been i'll and was de-
spondent, His wife, eighty mine.
is still living.
The Washington times., 1923-05-01
Butter Test Results.

DIR. William c. Fowler, District
Health Officer, declared today that
tests OF country butter made in the
OF the Health Depart
ment have failed to disclose the
presence Of tuberculi baciIli.
The Washington times., 1923-12-28
MRS. COOLIDGE
WRITES SICK
GIRL
Frances Wolfe, in children's
Hospital, Proud of White
House Letter.

A sick little girl is Francis Wolfe,
As she Hes in a Children's Hospital
bed. kept from play by tuberculosis
/. ef the hip.
4 very proud little girl is Francis
Wolfe. as she reads over and over
again q message of hope and cheer
rom Mrs. Calvin Coolidge.
The nine-year-old child is helpless
For three years the disease has
taken toll of her strength. Before
that time she was an exceptionally
promising piano pupil.
For months one of her few recrea'
lions has been reading the news
papers. Several weeks ago she read
OF promise by Mrs. Coolidge to a
friend that IL she ever came to the
White House, she would play q
game OF solitaire on the gold piano.
Discovering q common bond IN
love Of music, Frances wrote the
kLrst Lady Of the Land. telling OF
n0eseH and asking how solitaire
might be played on q piano.
Frances waited patiently until q
reply came.
1t read:
Ny Dear Little Frances Wolfe:
Mrs. Coolidge enjoyed your nice
letter, and asks me to send to you
e . souvenir q little picture Of the
White House. She hopes that you
may soon be able to leave the hos.
pital after your long stay there"
The letter was signed by Miss
Flora Harlan. Mrs. Coondge's Sec
4SG4xys
The Washington times., 1923-12-28
HEAVY INCREASE
IN INSURANCE
REPORTED
Department of Commerce Also
Lists Advance in Cot
ton Prices.

A heavy increase In the amount
o. insurance written by forty lead
ing companies in November over
The same month last year, was re.
ported today by the Department OF
Commerce.
For November, $685., s43, 900 In
surance was written against 1904.
$4,000 in October, and 1851, S52, 900
IA November, 1922, according to
the statement.
Figures showed that the per
capita distribution of money outside
the United States Treasury and
@44.01 December 1, as against $43.27
November / and $41 December i,
1922.
Cotton consumption for Novem-
Der totaIled SCI ,631 bales, compared
60 81. 825 in October and 597, 100 In
November, 1922. Stocks of cotton
held by mills and warehouses on
November 80 totalled 500, 900 bales,
% against $4,000 bales held at
the end Of November q year ago.
The department reported an in
crease in cotton prices, the whole
sale average being IS cents a pound
IN November, 80 cents a pound in
October. and 25h cents a pound a
year ago. Prices Of cotton goods
averaged higher in November, 1t was
stated
Prices OF iron and steel averaged
lower in November. The production
Of pig iron totaled 40 900 tons in
November, compared to $4,000 in
October, and 1885, 900 a year ago
Bituminous coal production was a.
900, 900 tons in November, 49,171 600
In October, and 1922. 900 tons a
year ago. The anthracite output in
November was 1925 900 tons, com
pared to S,724.000 in October and
1890, 900 a year ago.
The Washington times., 1923-12-28

Fashioned Of Brytonia, Luxonia, \
and other high luster fabrics. To
visitors are assured $65 coats at SD
Visitors who have waited for Il
Christmas sale will find all coats {
while reductions.
PaIais Royal Basement StOl
The Washington times., 1923-12-28
$1.29

w o m ems Enveloping
Aprons, of black sateen,
with trimmings Of braid
and cretonne. Regular
and extra sizes. at $1.29.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-08
MUST PURCHASE
HORSE, LOVING
but LAME
Court Holds Sale Is Legal
Though Animals Hind Legs
Are Useless.
by international News Service.


SUPERIOR, Wis. June 8.-Wheth.
er a horse, possessed of a kind and
loving disposition, but lacking mo-
tive power in his hind legs was
worth $3.50 was the question pre-.
sented for decision in unique suit
tried In municipal court here.
The suit resulted from the sale of
the horse by one E. L. Maynard,
farmer, residing near here, to q
neighbor, s. j. Engstrom. After he
had obtained possession of the
horse Engstrom, according to May
nard's complaint, refused to pay
for the animal.
Engstrom in his reply declared
that an agreement had been entered
into between himself and Maynard
whereby he was not to be compelled
to pay for the horse until his
qualities had been proven by actual
service. :. He told the court that this
test revealed that the horse was
kind hearted and loving, but also
that his hind legs were lame and
that for pulling purposes the horse
was worthless.
The court. after hearing the evil
dence, decided that bargain had
been entered into and ordered the
defendant to pay for the horse with
out having ruled upon the question
put to him by Engstrom attorney
regarding the monetary value of
kind disposition in horses.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-08
FAILURE
SUCCESS IN
KITCHEN
'iirl DeveIopes Big Baking Bush
ness After III-fated Broad
way Venture.

NORWICH, N. Y, June 8.-Lured
by the glamour of the stage, Mary
Evelyn Jones, only daughter OF
former State Senator Samuel A.
Jones, left her home in Norwich and
started career behind the footlights
in New York. BUT, it has become
known, she found that destiny had
not picked her for an actress, and
she has, ended up not on the stage
but in the kitchen.
She is making more money, too, in
the baking business than she ever
dreamed Of making on 1.-THE stage.
Backed by big financiers she is turn.
ing out new kind of cake, and
though she is home now with her
parents here she expects this coming
year to make her business in New
York known nationally.
Tired Of little Norwich, Miss Jones
went to New York to seek q fortune
as an emotional actress. She caught
ION with David Belasco's company in
1.-THE Woman" and understudietl
Miss Mary Nash, on one occasion
playing the part.
Made $500 In Year.
That did not satisfy, though. She
left the disillusioning footlights ard
went in for art. Moving to quaint
Thirty-fourth street studio she be-
gan painting oandy and cake boxes.
II had no Neal talent for paint
ing she confegses, but the buyers
at the shops seemed to like the
brilliancy and arrangement of my
;colors. y received $500 one year
for my work.
. Friendship which she developed
with John Wanamaker, late mer-
chant prince, and Lucious Boomer,
head of the Waldorf Astoria and Nc
Alpin and Sherry candy shops. led
her on to fortune by way of the
kitchen, after art began to pail as
before had the footlights.
''Mr. Boomer saw my boxes and
asked to see the girl who painted
them" she explains. II called and
we talked about boxes.
Il told of my plan for an attrac-
tive, palatable popular-priced cake.
HIN, when shall we begin to
manufacture those cakes?' said Mr..
Boomer. He said he had a candy
factory in Astoria where an office
for me and an oven for my cakes
could be provided"
First Sales Huge.
In one month she sold $500 cakes.
Miss Jones says And she adds that
there is no reason why she can't
make it $4,000 a month, John Wana-
maker told her there was no reason
why she couldn't.
She first visited Mr. Wanamaker
because while there was limited
sale of the cakes to tea rooms at
$3.50, she wanted to sell a great
many more at a reasonable price.
Mr.. Wanamaker launched the sale
of dollar cake for her. Under her
direction the venture has prospered
spectacularly.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-08
DIVORCE SUIT, SEQUEL
TO GOLDEN COURTSHIP

NEW YORK, June S.-Mrs. lisa
belle Welsch, who married Howard
G.. Welsch, a real estate broker.
after a courtship of only twenty-six
days, has instituted suit for d.
vorce. She will ask Justice Strong,
in the Supreme Court in Brooklyn,
Monday, for $500 a week alimony
and $4,000 counsel fees pending
trial Of the suit.
Mrs. Welsh. then Isabelle Landau,
of Montgomery, Ala. says she met
Welsch November "a, 1922. when
she was in Brooklyn on a visit to
her sister.
Mrs. Welsh charges that on May
20 her, husband was found in COM
pany with a young woman In
hotel in Manhattan. She repre-
sents that he is worth 5O,OOO
and that he has an income of $780,
600 a year. Welsch says his in
come is +inconsiderable. His being
caught, he says, was a pre-ar-
ranged matter" His wife's refer
ence to. their courtship as being
golden" was countered by her hus-
bands assertion that his matrimo-
NAL experience was too golden" to
suit him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-08
OMAHA MAN To
CLAIM CHUNK
Of \. !.
Says He Owns Ground on
Which Stock Exchange and
Trinity Are Located.
International News Service.

OMAHA, Neb, June 8.-All Oma.
ha man will leave here for New
York city next week to claim as
his the ground upon which the Now
York Stock Exchange, Trinity
Church and other buildings in that
vicinity are erected
r. F. Henderson is the claimant.
He Is one of the fourteen heirs to
the estate left by his great-great,
grandfather, Robert Macomber, now
valued at SETS, OO0, 900.
MIR. Macomber had 100 acres Of
land near Trinity Church." .ex-
planned Henderson, land he turned
over the lease in his will to the
Trinity Church Corporation from 999
years from. his death.
"All these years the money has
BEEN accumula ting, So that today 1t
is estimated at $675, 00O.000. There
is no. dispute. This property must
go through the courts, and am
going to New York to see to this. y
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-08
Eye Hurt by Popping Cork.

PHILADELPHIA, June S.-FranK
Glider may lose the sight OF MS let
eve as the result of the explosion OF
a saltwater bottle, which ne pui-
chased in a store. He was taken
to the Mt. Sinai Hospital.