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Evening star., 1923-05-26
SOME LUNCHR00MS
DOUBLE ON PRICES
Shriners Find Printed Menus
Showing Sensational
Advances.

An organized movement by a GER
tain class of restaurants to put into
effect June 3 an increase in price of
foodstuffs ranging from Is to more
than 100 per cent, has been called to
the attention of the Shrine commit
tee.
These eating establishments, it
was said, planned to raise the price
of the staple breakfast of ham and
eggs from 80 to rs cents, while plain
beef stew now selling at Is cents is
scheduled to jump to 65 cents.
What move the committee will take
to prevent these restaurants from
putting into effect the high price
scale was not revealed at Shrine
headquarters today. 1t was frankly
admitted that the problem is a diff
ficult one.
Several of the eating houses
already have had printed new menu
cards containing the increased price
lists. A comparison of the old and
new bills of fare at one of these
establishme ents, made at Shrine head
quarters, show. that breakfast cereals
have been increased 5 cents, two
friend eggs. 10 cents; milk, cents a
glass; steaks and chops. Is cents:
cold meats, 20 cents; sandwiches,
from 5 to D cents; Salads 10 and 15
cents; fruits and desserts, cents:
fried potatoes, cents, and tea, )
cents per pot.
Evening star., 1923-05-26
Gambling Diues
Run Full Blast
Despite Expose

"The Hardway," one Of the gam
bling houses just beyond the Dis
trict border in Maryland, which
closed Wednesday night, following
The Stars expose Of it's reopening.
was again running full blast last
night. The crowd of men and boys
at the place. however. was smaller
than on the night preceding its
brief period of inactivity.
Proprietors of 1.-The Hardway" an
ticipated interference by the author
tiles when they hastily shut down
Wednesday night 1t was not long
after that Constable Humphrey made
his rounds near the house, peered in
and reported that everything inside
was as quiet as in the Cedar Hill
cemetery nearby
"Jimmy's" place, on Bladensburg
road, concealed behind billboards and
high fence, did not find time to
close. Business has been brisk all
week and the crowd there last night
appeared to be greater than on the
average Friday night.
Constable Tom Garrison at Hyatts-
vile was asked today whether he,
like Constable Humphrey over Marl-
boro way, had been peering around
at Jimmy's' gambling house. He
replied that he did not know that
there is such place in the county"
You must be mistaken" said Con-
stable Garrison. "If there are any
gambling. houses around here 1 don't
know it."
Evening star., 1923-05-26
RUMOR $4,0OO,OOO
WARDMAN DEAL ON
Western Buyers After Washington
Apartment Houses and Of
flee Building.

Sales of two large apartment houses
and an office building, involving in
the neighborhood of $4.000,0o0, by
Harry Wardman, whose company
owns the structures, are in the nego-
tiation stage. 1t is understood that a
group OF western buyers are seeking
the structures, which are the Dresden
Apartment, Connecticut avenue and
Kalorama road, the Cathedral Man
sions, Connecticut and Cathedral ave.
nues, and the Continental Trust Com
pany building, northeast corner of
14th and H streets northwest.
The report of the pending sales is
general through the business district
of the city, but at Mr.. Wardman,s Of
flee information regarding them was
refused, further than an admission
that negotiations were pending 1t
was said that 1t will be two or three
weeks before an announcement of the
sale will be made.
Evening star., 1923-05-26
PLOT TO FLOOD D. c.
WITH RUM DURING
CONVENTION N|PPED
Gigantic Scheme to Send
Thousands of Cases to
J City Uncovered.
HEADS OF SYNDICATE
.ARREsTED AT NORFOLK
Were Arranging Details of Ship
,| ping Liquor to Capital in
: River Boats.

Rr fhn Associated Press.

By Che Associated Press
NORFOLK, Va, May 26.-Federal
prohibition agents today were run
ming down evidence of a gigantic
liaaor smuggling syndicate following
the; arrest here yesterday of William
l.. Burwell, alias William E. Baker
whe, they said, had confessed that ne
was operating as agent for an organ
izasion controlling the fleet OF rum
runners which has been off the Flr-
ginaa capes for the last week.
Bs,rwell, self-styled second in COM
mand of the Atlantic coast rum fleet,
hisz wife and Rex D. Sheldon, all OF
Nevy York, were arrested yesterday
at ! local hotel, where they were held
unGer guard all day and last night.
Warrants for their arrest charged
them with unlawfuIly conspirlns TO
smuggle and transfer Intoxicating
liquor in the United States. me otne.
two also were said to have confessed
to az connection with the liquor SNUG
Cling organization.
Fifty-four i'm Syndicate.
The authorities said today they
expected to round up members of a
gigantic liquor smuggling ring with
important branches in New YORK
Canada, London. Scotland and the
Berrnudas. They said they had evil
dence that fffty-four men composed
the syndicate, the majority of them
representing large financial interests.
BuTwell was said to have admitted q
that zhe was shore representative
for Che fleet. and that his business
was Ito negotiate the sale and de-
Livery of liquor He told prohibition
authorities. they said, that the fleet
eontrnlled by his organization was
composed of four vessels-the !star'
the Cartona, the Strand Hill and the
schooner Mary Beatrice, all Of them
operating under the British flag.
Agents of the rum fleet, the au-
+hoTitzes said, have been in Norfolk
two weeks arranging for means OF
transferring the cargoes from rum
ships anchored beyond the three-miie
limit ct the mouth of Chesapeake bay
to small boats for ultimate delivery
ut Washington.
Thousands of Cases.
Five or six thousand cases of I'M
ported liquor are believed to have
been sent to Washington in. that
time, they said. most of it by means
of snyall speed boats. The entire
cargo 5o1 the rum meet accoiuihs ~
the authorities. was intended for de-
livery Ito Washington in time for the
Shrine. convention there in June
The Istar, one of the rum runners,
which, appeared off the capes last
week. after leaving the Jersey coast,
and was joined there later by other
craft ef the fleet, was said to have
on bosrd $4,000 cases of liquor from
Glasgow. According to the story told
,,.A hn CT
ceededz in discharging a large part
of herr cargo, but the other vessels
have been so closely watched by
the Gordon of coast guard craft dis
patched to the mouth of the Chesa-
peake early in the week that they
have been unable to negotiate deliv-
cries.
Evening star., 1923-05-26
USING DooL1TTLE's PLANE.
Lieut.. Crocker's Machine Figured
in one-Stop Flight Across U. S.

By the Associated Press
HOUSTON, Tex, May 26.-Lieut
Harrison G. Crocker of Kelly Field
San Antonio. hoped off from Filing
ton Field here at 5:21 am. Central
standard time) for his proposed non
stop gulf-toCanada flight He ex-
poets to land at Selfridge Field, near
Detroit, Mich, by pm.
Lieut.. Crocker is plotting a special
ly built De Haviland plane. 1t is the
one Lieut.. James H. Doolittle used in
year.
The ship carries 240 gallons of gas
oline, with a twenty -eight-gallon re-
serve tank.
Lieut.. L. S. Andrews, also Of Kelly
Field, is accompanying Lieut..
Crocker as far as Pine Bluff, Ark.
Lieut. Andrews will fly in a plane
similar to that used by Lieut..
Crocker.
In order to avoid technicalities
Lieut. Crocker sped south from Ell
lington Field until over the Gulf. OF
Mexico. Turning Immediately and
facing north for the remainder of the
trip. After leaving Ellington, he
said, 1.-The course will pass between
Liberty and Beaumont, Tex; ten
miles east of Arcadia, La, five miles
east of Forest City, Ark: twenty five
miles west of Memphis. Tenn; direct
ly over Blytheville, Ark, and Caruth-
ersville, Mo-; twenty miles east OF
Cairo, ILL.,; directly over Princeton
Ind; just east Of Indianapolis: over
Hartford City. and Decatur, Ind; ten
miles west of Toledo, then through
the border at its nearest point, land
ing at Selfridge Field, Detroit
Mich"
Evening star., 1923-05-26
OFFERS PRICE RECORDS.
Chaplin Sacks Company Explains
Advances.

Arthur A. Chaplin, president of the
Chapin-Sacks Corporation, today re-
quested the Shrine convention COM
mittee to appoint representatives to
examine the concerns records and
cost sheets to determine where the
recent increase in price of ice cream
was justified. The action of Mr..
Chaplin came as a sequel to a letter
addressed to the corporation by Har-
ry Standiford, executive secretary of
the citizens committee of the Shrine
convention, asking that the advance
in the price of ice cream be with
held until after the conclave of the
mobiles"
Replying to Mr.. Standiford's COM
munication. Mr.. Chaplin said:
I'VE are in receipt of your favor of
May "a, 1923, relating to the increase
in the price of ice cream. A grave re-
Election by innuendo, If not directly,
has been placed upon our company by
this letter, which was given to the
press. This increase in price had alb
solutely no connection whatsoever
with the approaching Shrine conven-
ton, which fact could readily have
been ascertafned by inquiry, but
which, in the press of other matters,
was doubtless overlooked
"Forty-five days ago this company
voluntarily reduced the price of ice
confident expectation that the usual
May reduction would occur in the
price of cream and milk, which did
not occur, aud that sugar frh!:s ind
f1avoring extracts would remain st
approximately the prices prevailing
at this season of the year.
every citizen of Washington is
well aware of the fact that in the
past year, and particularly in the
past few months, tremendous ad-
yances have occurred in the price of
sugar. cream and milk, the principal
ingredients of ice cream. over the
corresponding prices prevailing last
year. In addition to this, the cost of
labor has also had a material ad-
vance. The present increase in price
was, therefore, due to these causes
and not the reprehensible one of at
tempting to take advantage of our
prospective guests on this occasion.
I'm view of this fact we would ear
nestly request that you promptly ap-
point a committee from your organ
ization for the purpose of examining
our records and cost sheets to deter
mine whether this increase In price
was justified or not"
Evening star., 1923-05-26
10000 In LINE~OPEN
N. Y. SILVER JUBILEE
Months Celebration of Civil Prog
ress Launched With 5th Ave-
nue. Parade.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May ga parade on
5th avenue this afternoon of thirty
thousand persons, including city en-
ployes, soldiers, sailors and marines,
with Mayor Hylan as grand marshal,
opens New York city's silver jubilee
celebration, which is to continue for
a month.
Civic progress during the last quar-
ter century will be illustrated at an
exposition, which opens at Grand
Central Palace Monday night.
The jubilee was arranged by Mayor
Hylan to celebrate the twenty-f1fth
anniversary of the merger of the five
boroughs that now comprise the city.
He planned to finance 1t from the city
treasury, but some. who interpreted
the idea as glorification of his two
administrations. got a court injunc-
ton. Private subscriptions then made
the event possible.
Evening star., 1923-05-26
MAUGHAN's FLIGHT PLANNED
Daylight-to-Dark, Gotham-to-Fris-
CO Trip Set for June.

The daylight-to-dark. flight from
New York to San Francisco, planned
by the Army air service, is to be at
tempted between June Is and 25.
Air service headquarters announced
today that Lieut.. r. L. Maughan
would use in the flight a pursuit
plane recently built and modelled
along the same lines as the racing
machine in which he and Lieut. Matt
land recently established world speed
records. The craft Is capable of
averaging $50 miles an hour.
The first leg of the flight will be
from New York to Dayton, Ohio, $40
miles; the second to st. Joseph, Mo-,
about the same distance; the third, to
Cheyenne, Wyo.. $40 miles. and the
fourth to Salduro, Utah. 470 miles,
and this last from there to Crissy
Field, San Francisco. 420 miles. At
each stopping place thirty minutes
will be allowed for refueling and
rest.
Lieut.. Maughan believes he can
leave New York at am. and land
at San Francisco at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1923-05-26
FORMER DRY AGENTS
SEIZED In OHIO QUIZ

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 26.-Fred
Counts, former federal prohibition
agent for the Cleveland district. and
his brother. Attorney Frank Counts,
were arrested today at the order of
United States District Attorney A. E.
Bernstein on secret indictments by a
federal grand jury charging them
with conspiracy to violate the ma
tional prohibition act and to defraud
the government by obstructing prohi-
bition enforcement.
At almost the same time govern
ment operatives for Bernstein seized
Joseph A. Shearer, former federal
prohibition director for Ohio, and
Samuel A. Hoskins, politician of
southern, Ohio, as they arrived here
from Columbus.
Shearer and Hoskins are charged in
the same secret indictments with par
ticipation in the same alleged con-
spiracy to violate the Volstead act and
furnish protection to others. accord
ing to Bernstein,
Evening star., 1923-05-26
ChaOs Reported Near.
EXECUTED BY FRENCH.
Schlageter Shot for Sabotage
First of Occupation.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DUESSELDORF, May 26.-Albert
Schlageter was executed by French
troops today for sabotage on rail-
roads in the occupied region and
other offenses. He was shot in a
stone quarry near a cemetery and his
body delivered forthwith to the ceme-
terry authorities. This is the first ex-
ecution in the occupied zone.
Schlageter was escorted to the
quarry by two priests and went un-
falteringly to his death. Ten shots
were fred at him.
Besides sabotage. Schlageter, a for
mer Prussian officer, was convicted
by a French court-martial of es-
irals. He admitted he had blown up
railroad tracks and bridges. The
French regarded him. as a chief of
the murder gangs which have been
carrying on campaign of terror
against the occupation of the Ruhr.
Rioting mt Bochum.
BY the Associated Press.
BOCHUM. May 26.-Communistic
disorders broke out here yesterday
similar to those in Dortmund and
IuIiH6 Gil assault Oll
bourgeois newspaper offices. fire.
men, acting as police, clashed with
the communists and several persons
were wounded. Shops were pillaged
during the rioting. The occupation
authorities remained neutral.
VIII Extend Strike.
BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May 26.-The communist
workers council has decided to ex-
tend the strike movement in the oc-
cupied zone to the whole of West
phaIia and the right bank of the
Rhine, says a dispatch from Duessel-
dorf. The council had the permission
of the French authorities to hold the
meeting at Essen, at which this ac-
tion was taken.
The correspondent of Achtuhr
Abendblatt, in the Ruhr, reports that
the Dortmund police have arrested
three Russian agitarors. who were
apparently acting as bicycle couriers.
The correspondent says reports are
current that communists are organ
izing military companies.
Evening star., 1923-05-26
DISTRICT MAN TAKES
TREATY DRAFT TO SPAIN
Hackworth Sails for Madrid to Aid
in Completion of
Pact.

Green H. Hackworth, assistant to
the solicitor of the State Department.
had sailed for Madrid, Spain, to assist
United States embassy officials in ne
sotiations between this country and
Spain over the new amity and COM
merce treaty. 1t was announced to-
day at the State Department.
Mr.. Hackworth. it is understood.
treaty.
Mr.. Hackworth received his legal
education at the Georgetown Uni
versity Law School and took a course
In law and diplomacy at George
Washington University. He is a MEM
ber of the District bar and of the
supreme Court bar. He resides at
12U street northeast.
Evening star., 1923-05-26
BREAK WITH RUSSIA
AvERTED BY BRITAIN
Note From Moscow, While
Not Satisfactory, Points
Way to Amity.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, May 26.-Great Britain
has decided that there shall be no
break with Russia 1t is held In
diplomatic circles that while the last
note from Moscow is in some respects
rot wholly satisfactory. the remaining
points in the dispute with the soviet
government are susceptible of solu-
tion by negotiation.
The government of Prime Minister
Baldwin, it is known. desires to begin
Its career hampered by as few inter-
national problems and controversial
political issues as possible. If Leonid
krassin, the soviet representative
here, succeeds in having the Moscow
government compromise on Lord Cur
IONS reiterated demand for the with
drawal of the Russian political agents
abroad whose actions have offended
Great Britain. it is believed the Brit
1sh foreign secretary will inform NJ
krassin when he calls at the foreign
office next week that Great Britain is
disposed to discuss with him or an
other appointed plenipotentiary the
whole subject of Anglo-Russian rela-
tions at a conference to be called in
London in the near future.
Evening star., 1923-05-26
ALL RoADs GUARDED.
Dry Forces Here Augmented tt
War on Rum Running.

The Gordon of federal agencies
flung around Washington and the
Shrine convention has been stiffened
running by truck and boat from the
rum fleet off Norfolk, which was
thwarteH last night at Norfolk by
capture zof William L. Burwell, alias
William E. Baker, who says he was
second lin command of the Atlantic
coast rum fleet"
Prohibition officials today said off,
cially they had taken serious note Of
the "rurnors'' that bootleggers were
Washington with liquor from the rum
feet for the Shrine convention and
that all avenues into this city were
being SECURED by the federal forces
gathered here from several divisions
for the Purpose.
River fs Watched.
While =it was not officially an
nounced what specific additions had
been made to the prohibition forces
on land and coast guard boats oper-
ating in= Chesapeake bay, it was
indicated that the government was on
the Potoraac in some kind of a fleet.
When asked definitely whether fed
eral forcas had been put on the
waters ABOUND Washington prohibit
tion Officials evaded the question, and
the inference was readily drawn that
not only Fave the land forces Of the
prohibitioI outfit been greatly en-
1arged, bug that incognito there may
be several small government vessels
in the Potomac. The water front at
all suspicious spots is under close
surveillance.
Mo- Navy Boats Used.
The possibility of using naval ves-
sells tied up at the navy yard was
said to be put of the question. as the
matter of .using naval vessels for
prohibition. enforcement has been
submitted by President Harding to
the Department of Justice, where it
now rests.
The capture of BurweIl, alias
Baker, at Norfolk is considered by
prohibition zofficials here as a big
blow at the rum fleet. While little
is said concerning the suspected
ramifications of the alleged organi-
zation back Of the fleet, officials were
believed to feel that they had caught
the principal in one of America Is
greatest smuggling conspiracies.
Evening star., 1923-05-26
CHINESE BANDITS
MAKE NEW OFFER
Will Release Prisoners With
/. Pay If Terms Are Met,
They Report.

By Cable to Tie Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright. 1928.
PEKING, May 26.-The Linching
train bandits have sent an agent to
Peking with an offer to release all
foreign and Chinese captives and to
pay each of them 5000 for every day
they have been held, provided the
Peking government will depose the
present Tuchun of Shantung province,
abolish the Tuchun system and
amend Chinese regulations governing
mining concessions so that foreign
capital may hold so per cent of stock
in mining companies instead of the
49 per cent prescribed by law. The
latter condition is intended to in
vite foreign capital to invest in min
ing districts of Honan, Human and
Yunnan provinces
Are Chang Soldiers.
The bandits now admit that they
are former soldiers of Chang Ching
Yao, former Tuchum Of Human prov
ince, and declare that they turned
bandits because their wages were un-
paid for two years.
Their agent in the new offer to the
Peking government is a Hong Kong
Chinese named Ross, who after a
long talk with Premier Chang-Shao-
Tseng has mysteriously disappeared.
1t Is known that he has not left
Peking, and 1t is reported that the
police have arrested him and have
sent a note to the bandits threaten
captives are released Immediately.
Evening star., 1923-05-26
Planes to Garry
2 Cottor, Bales
In Shrine Feat

A demonstration OF the rapidity
of commercial transportation by
airplane Is planned by the Army
air service as a feature of it's ex-
hibition here during the Shrine
convention.
Two airplanes will leave Aber-
deem, Md, about June 2 for Au-
gusta, Ga, and receive there from
the Augusta board of commerce
two bales of cotton to be deliv-
cred to the Wamsutta mills, New
Bedford, Mass. The raw material
viii be fabricated overnight, and
when the two aircraft leave New
Bedford the next morning they
VIII carry several thousand COM
pleted masonic aprons.
The aprons will be distributed
that afternoon at Boiling Field to
the visiting Shriners.
Evening star., 1923-05-26
Are Chang Soldiers.
CHINA PAYS INDEMNITY,
Gives $25, 900 for Staying of Amer
lean by Sentries.

BY the Associated Press.
PEKING, May 26.-The Chinese gov
ernment today notified the American
legation of it's acceptance of the
American demand for an indemnity
of $4,000 for the killing of Charles
Coltman, an American citizen, at Kali
gan. December II. 1922. The govern
ment notification added that two ad-
jutants concerned in the killing had
been dismissed from the service
Coltman was shot by Chinese SEN
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