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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-02-15
Beavers Look as Weak
as in 1922 Right Now
Portland Moguls May Be Making Things Easy for the
Iron Duke to Take Over Managerial Reins in 1924;
Beavers Headed for Cellar
BY LEO II. LASsEN

!: !. ! &. : =. !: !:
+ CONSIDER the Portland baseball situation.
Bill Kenworthy, part owner Of the Beaver
club, is banned for this year from the Coast
W n league. He will play for Columbus in the
| VA~aN American association.
SFA Kenworthy will return 10 the Rose City i'm
- HaSSl 1924, and it's dollars TO doughnuts that he
SN~Li | will manage the club
VIZ Nh Il The 1923 Portland Coast league team
NJ ~ I doesn't shape up one whit better than the
cSAS8 1922 aggregation that finished in seventh
1911 place
Jimmy Middleton, pitcher, will manage
the team this year. and in the history Of baseball mighty
few pitchers have made good as managers. Even
Chrsty Mathewson brany hurler that he was couldn't
make go Of it when he piloted Cincinnati.
The reason is that pitchers seldom take part in the of
fensive work Of the club They have no experience in d.
rectng attack, so necessary for managers.
Consider them Kenworthys in 1924 if the Beavers
should trot home in first paceor in the first division
In 1923 The Portland fans, loyal lot TO their club would
yell murder the 1928 manager deposed if he made
good showing this year. On the other hand they will
greet Kenworhy the baseball Moses lead them out Of
the diamond wilderness in 1924 if the Beavers flop
again this year.
The Portland owners have made no real efforts to
strengthen their club They have the only untred manager
in the league and they have catching department weak
nfied and only fair pitching The outfeld looks good
AS the thing stands Portland will be lucky if ii
doesn't fill in the basement again this year.
If Portland does finish higher than the cellar with the
team lines up it will only be because other clubs
in the league have poorer teams.
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will be submitted to the man

team TO have an umpire ready for
each OF the preliminaries. The Star
VIII appoint the official umpires for
the finals.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-02-15
Star Ball Meeting Is
Delayed Until MOnday

HE first meeting Of The Star Junior Baseball league
takes sock the chin from Kid Snow and the session
scheduled for Friday will be held Monday
The delay will give ample time for this department to
have the rules code for the lined up The plan for
Fridays meeting was to have last years rules and
added the changes needed
But the complete code will be submitted to the
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1OEAAINIScENcEs OF
u8da1e eA
"A Told To Leo H. LA..en
Ernie Schorr as an Outfielder
"A Told TO leo X. LAs.en
CHAPTER XIII

TN certainly pulling for Hunky Schorr to make good with
l the Indians an outfieder this year
Sehorr is too good hitter to waste his time trying "a
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ayers at next weeks meeting.
As there will BE- but two meetings
of tho managers before the be-
ginning OF the season It Is import.
ant that every team interested in
the junior league have a represen.
tatlve At both.
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good outfielder in time.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-02-15

)NSlDER the Portland baseball situation.
Bill Kenworthy, part owner of the Beaver
club, is banned for this year from the Coast
league, He will play for Columbus, in the
American association
Evening star., 1923-04-12
BUSES TO REPLACE
BLADENSBURG CARS
Utilities Body Sanctions Tearing
Up Of Tracks, Transfers
to Be Free.

The Public Utilities Commission
today handed down its decision per-
mitting the Washington-Inter
Railway Company to tear up it's
tracks on Bladensburg road to the
District line and establish motor bus
service.
The company has agreed to operate
the busses for five years, with free
transfer to street cars at 18th and H
streets northeast. The company also
agrees to pay the District $4,000 it
owes for special assessments before
scrapping the tracks.
Officials of the commission ex-
pressed the belief today that the COM
pany acted fairly in meeting the
above requirements laid down by the
commission.
The change Is being made because
the company declared it was unable
to meet the financial burden of re-
building the tracks in connection with
the paving Of the highway.
Officials Of the company said today
there would be no interruption to
service in making the change. The
busses will be put into operation be-
fore the work of tearing up the rails
begins.
Evening star., 1923-04-12
b0NAR LAW BOWS
TO LABOR ASSAULT
Chancellor Opens Inquiry Into
Salaries Paid to Ex-
Service Men.
BY the Associat ted Press.


LONDON. April 1.-THE govern
ment today bowed to the will of the
opposition in the house of commons
on the question Of the treatment Of
war veterans. which brought about
its defeat on a snap division Tuesday.
The chancellor Of the exchequer an
nounced that a committee would be
appointed to investigate the griev-
ances OF ex-service men in regard to
the salaries they are receiving in the
civil service.
The proceedings opened a tense at
mosphere. but there were no indica-
tions in the early stages Of the sit
ting that there was to- be a repeti-
tion Of last nights disorders. in which
blows were struck and some members
of the radical element In the house
chanted The Red Flag"
1t was the lnsistcnce Of the la
borites. supported by mary rnemt ers
Of the other parties, for a definite
statement from the government as
to what it intended to do for the
veterans that formed the cloud
from which developed the present
storm. Out of the overcast skies
that brought the government a de :
feat on Tuesday on IA Srap division
there grew yesterday a hurricane.
forcing a suspension CT the sitting
after wild scenes of disorder unprec-
edented for at least a generation IN
the staid old house Of commons
Clasps at "Red Flag.
England gasped this morning when
It read the press reports Of the
physical encounters and the singing
of THE Red Flag" within the sacred
walls.
Not even among the opposition was
it doubted that the government whips
would be able to muster a majority
when the next division came. but all
parties agreed that the situation in
which the cabinet was involved was
most embarrassing and would require
delicate handling.
The laborites were credited with
the intention Of maintaining the
policy of obstruction until the state
ment they desired is forthcoming.
but parliamentary experts expressed
the opinion that IL the government
announced it's intention Of appointing
the committee 1t was conceivable that
business might be resumed without
an interruption. Such a TRANQUIL
CONTINUED on Page 2. Column ~
Evening star., 1923-04-12
DENY CARTER is ILL:
SOON ON WAY TO LUXOR
Reported Sickness of Co-Discoverer
of Tutankhamen's Tomb, False.
Cairo Reports.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, April PA Reuter- dis
patch from Cairo today declares
there is no truth in the report that
Howard Carter. the American Egyp-
tologist. co-discoverer of the late
Lord Carnarvon of the tomb of Tut
ankhamen, has been taken i'll. Mr.
from Cairo to Luxor.
An exchange telegraph message
from Cairo last night said Mr.. Carter
had been stricken with illness there
and that Lady Carnarvon in conse-
quence had postponed her trip to
England with her husbands body.
Doyle Appears Wrong.
NEW YORK. April 1.-THE sudden
illness in Egypt of Howard Carter.
co-discoverer with the late Earl of
Carnarvon Of the tomb of Tutankha-
men, reported last night and denied
today, tends to corroborate the belief
that there exists an elemental spirit
in the tombs which avenges those
who opened them, Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle said today. He said Mr.. Car
ter's illness was very much more
than a strange coincidence, coming so
closely after the death of the Earl of
Carnarvon from an insects bite.
"It may be very well to record this
Illness" he said. but the fact re-
mains that many men who have en-
tered these tombs have come to sud
den death"
Evening star., 1923-04-12
PRESIDENT CALLS
CONFERENCE TO
S|FT SHIP FACTS
Will Meet Saturday With En-
tire Membership of Ship
ping Board.
AIM WILL BE TO KEEP
U. S. FLAG ON ALL SEAS
Lasker Does Not Look for Definite
Conclusion Immediately,
He States.

President Harding will meet with
the entire membership of the Ship
ping Board Saturday to discuss the
merchant marine, when he will be
presented with report Of the study
or the situation made by the boards
policy committee
Chairman Lasker. in announcing
the conference with the President.
said 1t was unlikely that any definite
conclusion could be reached at the
meeting, but said the board desired
ITO have the benefit of the Presidents
views on the situation in which ii
finds itself"
The board desires to emphasize"
Mr.. Lasker added. that whatever
conclusion is finally reached will be
one that will insure the continuance
and extension of adequate services
under the American flag"
Operating Losses Shown.
The boards balance sheet for Feb
ruary, made public today. indicated
that the operating losses attendant
upon government shipping operations
year. Total expenses in excess OF
income from operations during Feb
ruary were s4,065.3S1.50. decrease Of
$4,000 from January The net
operating losses for February were
about ss,436,o0o, the difference being
made up by overhead. repairs, insur-
ance and lay-up expenses"
Chairman Lasker said the present
high cost of operations was to some
extent due to the dull season with
passenger earnings at low level and
to extensive repairs made necessary
by the unusually severe storms in the
fall and winter. The chairman ern-
phasized that in its accounting the
board did not figure capital charges
nor the several forms of insurance
which it carries for itself
Presents True Picture.
81 strongly feel" he said, that fail
ure to include the proper proportion
Of capital charges in monthly cost
statements prevents giving a true
picture of the results such as all com
mercial statements should reflect.
These omissions, however. are in line
with established government prac-
tice, which the board is powerIess to
correct"
The operations during the month OF
February covered all trading routes.
IT was asserted. so that American
shippers can ship in American vessels
TO any port of the world"
Evening star., 1923-04-12
Three Children
DisappearWhile
At Play in Ohio
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WARREN, Ohio, April 12.--Neigh
boring towns and cities have been
asked to aid in the search for Mary
Williams, five years of age; Johnny
Williams, three, her brother, and
Teresa Sanford, three. who mys-
teriously disappeared Tuesday eve
ming. They were last seen on the
Erie Railroad bridge over the Ma
honing river. One theory is that
the children may have climbed into
a box car on a railroad siding and
were carried away with train.
Police and firemen were expected
to resume their search of the river
today, in the belief that the chill
dren may have fallen into the
stream and drowned. They drag
ged the waters for more than a
mile from the bridge yesterday,
darkness hating their efforts.
Abandoned buildings, packing
cases and places where the chill
dren were accustomed to play,
along the banks of the river, were
combed by searchers led by Billy
Sandford, five-year- brother of
the missing Teresa, but no clue
was found.
Lumber yards, freight stations
and other buildings were searched
by Boy Scouts, while police scour-
ed the downtown section, without
result.
Evening star., 1923-04-12

Traditional luck of the hardy and
care-free steel worker apparently
operated to save about half a dozen
of these artisans of the construction
industry from being crushed to death
shortly before 10 o'clock today, when
a giant steel crane buckled as it
started to lift fourteen-ton steel
girder to the second story of the new
Hotel Walker, Connecticut avenue
and De Sales street. The crane COL
lapsed with a deafening crash across
the steel framework Of the building.
With but little warning the 105-
foot skeleton steel mast bent. and an
instant later fell diagonally across
the structure, knocking down. like so
many match stems, number of tall
steel perpendicular beams and drap-
ing itself over the frame work. At the
same time the great ninety-foot steel
boom of the derrick, which extend
ed from the base of the crane out
ward over the truck from which the
girder was being lifted, plunged
downward with such force that 1t
curled itself over the edge of the
truck, after partly crushing the rear
end of the latter.
Workmen had just completed at
Evening star., 1923-04-12
GUARD Chief SHIFTS
HERRIN RIOT BLAME
Adjutant General Says Personnel
Officer Failed to Report
Seriousness.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. April 12.-
Blame for the failure to send state
troops to Herrin to prevent the riots
which caused more than a score of
deaths was placed on the shoulders OF
Col. Sam Hunter, a personnel officer
of the state guard by Adjt. Gen. Car
los E. Black, testifying yesterday
before tho legislative committee in
vestigating the affair.
Col. Hunter Is expected to appear
before the committee today to begin
his version Of the events which cul-
minated in the attack on the Lester
mine, near Herrin, and the killing of
the non union workmen and guards.
Gen. Black told the committee that
at 1920 o'clock on the morning of the
fight Hunter had reported to him by
telephone that he had been to the
mine at. $3.50 o'clock and there was no
trouble. ~
When his attention was called to
the fact that Hunters written report
to him made no mention of this con-
versation, Gen. Black said the report
was wrong in some details and that
he had called Col. Hunters attention
to 1t. but that Hunter had not an
swered.
Gen. Black said Hunter did not re-
port the shooting of two union men
afternoon, nor did he report that
hardware stores had been looted of
guns and ammunition.
IF had had information that
stores were broken into I would have
sent troops" Gen. Black said
Evening star., 1923-04-12
Workers Narrowly Escape When
Massive Steel Crane Collapses

taching the girder to the lifting hook
Of the boom my means of large steel
ables and had moved a few feet to
one side as the signal for lifting was
given. The girder had barely cleared
the truck when the crane collapsed.
The men under the boom scattered IN
all directions and workmen in other
parts of the buildings skeleton darted
to safety.
The falling boom missed the corner
OF the Oakland service station by Ave
feet.
Robert F. Beresford, architect Of the
hotel, who investigated the collapse,
expressed the opinion that buckling
of the mast was due to the parting
of guy cable running to the top OF
the crane. He said that the machine
Is made to Withstand greater strains
than that put upon it today, pointing
out that several sixteen-ton steel
girders had already been successfully
raised in the past few days. There
are two other cranes in operation at
the hotel site, SO work will not be de-
layed, he said. A new crane will be
ordered from New York, he asserted.
The damage done to the framework
was Of such a nature that 1t can be
easily repaired.
The wrecked mast and boom are be-
ing cut into sections by acetyleus
torches. -
Evening star., 1923-04-12
FLOWERS FOR SNYDER.

Edgar c. Snyder today completed
his first year as United States
marshal for the District of Columbia
Chief Deputy Robson and the other
deputies gathered in the Office of the
marshal today and after presenting
him with a basket of flowers ex-
pressed to him their appreciation of
his many kindnesses throughout the
year. The marshal was deeply affect
ed by the visit of his associates and
assured them that the responsibilities
Of the office had been greatly tighten
ed by their cooperation and faithful
performance of duty.
Marshal Snyder spoke Of his own
experience in the office, being his
first government duty, and contrasted
it with his former experience in the
newspaper field.
Evening star., 1923-04-12
.UPH0LDS BARRING
TRACT TO COLORED
Chief Justice Mccoy Confirms
Right to Restrict Property
Ownership.

Chief Justice Mccoy of the District
Supreme Court today upheld an
agreement made by number Of
white persons owning real estate not
to sell to colored persons as binding
on the parties to the agreement and
not against public policy or in con-
travention of the fourteenth amend
ment to the Constitution. He over
ruled a motion to dismiss the suit
for injunction brought by John }.
Buckley against Irene II. Corrigan
and Helen Curtis. Mr.. Buckley owned
property on S street near New Hamp-
shire avenue and Mrs. Corrigan owned
another house in the block which
she sold to Helen Curtis colored, in
violation Of the agreement among
the white property holders. The de-
PENDANTS were allowed ten days to
answer the suit.
After viewing the authorities at
length, the Chief Justice declared the
weight of authority favored the up
holding Of the restrictive agreement
A mere restriction Is not in violation
Of the constitutional rights of col
ored persons, the court points out. AS
to the claim of the defense that the
restriction is against public policy
the court shows that the statute pro-
viding for separate schools for white
and colored children in this District
has been sustained by the Court Of
Appeals. and the municipal authorities.
under the direction of Congress, have
provided separate bathing beaches,
tennis courts, golf courses and play
grounds
Attorneys James S. Easby-S Smith
and David Pine represented Mr.
Buckley while Attorney James A.
Cobb appeared for Helen Curtis, who
sought to dismiss the suit.
Evening star., 1923-04-12
Dances so Hours
And rs Minutes
And Still Going
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, April 12.-Miss
Helen Mayer, twenty-one, at noon
today had established a new record
of continuous dancing of fifty
hours and twenty-five minutes. and
was still dancing. She said she
expected to continue dancing until
4 pm. Starting at 9:35 am. Tues
day morning she equaled the
record of fifty hours and two
minutes, established in New York
last Monday by Miss Alma Cum
mings, at 1857 am, and at noon
was twenty-three minutes ahead
OF the record. She had used six
male partners up to noon.
Dancing with her fifth male
partner Miss Mayer said she felt
better early this morning than at
any time since starting. Two other
girls, who started several hours
after Miss Mayer, dropped out of
the dancing this morning after
having passed the twenty-eight-
hour mark.
Evening star., 1923-04-12
Gems Weighed by Scientists
Here Support Einstein Theory

S:ientists at the bureau of stand
srds engaged in checking up the
Einstein theory Of relativity by physi-
cal experiments have adduced further
evidence tending to show it's cor
pectness.
The demonstration involved the
testing of the weight of topaz and
diamond crystals under different
placings in relation to the axis of
the earths, DR.. Paul r. Heyl, in charge
OF the experiments, used scales so
delicate that they are able to detect
q weight difference of one part in
billion Of even the small precious
stoues.
According to the older theories of
gravity a topaz or diamond crystal
might b expected to vary in weight
Ehen the direction OF it's axis was
Evening star., 1923-04-12
Trotsky Fauors
Getting Foreign
CAPITAL in Russia
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. April 12.-Leon Trot-
sky, the bolsheviS minister Of war.
has come forward as a strong ad-
vocate of a continuation of the
new economic policy and for for
eign cooperation in Russian re-
habilitation.
In an article outlining his plan
for the rehabilitation OF industry,
which the coming communist con-
gress probably will authorize him
to take over, he advocates the
closing of Improbable factories
and the concentration of others.
He declares that the government
industries can live side by side
with private Industries, including
those formed with foreign capital,
which he advocates attracting by
way of concessions. leases and
otherwise. He also advocates the
changing of the labor code of plac-
ing Industries in the hands of sin
gle responsible managers instead
Of groups of workingmen's COM
mittees, as is now the case.
Evening star., 1923-04-12
PUSH HUNT FOR DE VALERA
Six Columns Of Troops Scour Tip.
perary Mountains.

By the Associa ted Press
DUBLIN. April 12.-Six columns of
Free State troops, under Gen. Prout,
are securing the mountains in Tip
perary for Eamonn De Valera, Dan
Breen and the other republican ad-
herents who escaped the national
troops when Liam Lynch was fatal
ly wounded and captured Wednesday
This operation is the best organized
effort yet made to capture De Valera
The area in which the troops are
operating is very mountainous and
little information regarding their
movements is trickling through.
1t is reported that Breen Is likely
to succeed Liam Lynch as leader of
the rebels in the south. although
Gen. Frank Aiken. a daring irregu-
lar from Louth, also is mentioned for
the post.
Thomas Keating, one Of the south
ern irregulars leaders, died today from
his wounds in the Dungarvan Hos
pital. keating, with a party. of ir-
regulars, was surprised by troops
operating at Coolnasmear, near Dun
garvan, County Waterford. The ir-
regulars refused to surrender and
were fired upon, Keating receiving a
mortal wound. He was one of the
most active of the southern irregu-
lars.
Evening star., 1923-04-12
ENGLAND TOF|GHT
GRANT TO CHESTER
OF TURK OIL RIGHTS
Plans Energetic Protest if
Concessions Take MoSuI
Drilling District.
SUBJECT.TO BE AIRED
AT LAUSANNE PARLEY
Anatolia Welcomes American
Project-Would Rebuild Angora
on Washington Lines.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 12.-Great Britain
purposes entering an energetic pro-
test against the granting by the
Turkish nationalists of certain con-
cessions in Anatolia to the American
interests headed by Rear Admiral
Colby NJ. Chester, If these concessions
are found to embrace the Mosul oil
fields, it was declared here today
1t is generally believed in London
that in Its present form the Chester
agreement with the Turks differs
materially from the original Turco-
American convention, although no
exact details have been received from
Constantinople. British information
is that the present American plan is
concerned chiefly with the opening
up of Anatolia by an extensive rail-
way system and the granting as pay
ment of property rights upon large
scale.
VIII BE Aired at Lausanne.
In view of the official protest al
ready made by France against these
commitments to Americans as being
in contravention of the Franco-Turk-
ish railway and ports agreement of
1914, 1t is considered certain the whole
subject will be aired at the approach
ing peace conference in Lausanne.
How far the Washington govern
ment can discreetly identify itself
with the project is regarded here as
problematical, inasmuch as the An
CORA governments action in award
ing these concessions to Americans
after they are alleged to have been
previously given, at least in part, to
other countries. will undoubtedly raise
issues calling for judicial or even in
ternational settlement.
1t is presumed in interested quar-
tGrs here that the State Department
will associate itself with the enter
prise only to the extent of obtaining
the impartial adjudication of the
American promoters claims wherever
they may conflict with the prior
rights enjoyed by nationals of other
countries. @
Evening star., 1923-04-12

changed from a position vertical to
the axis of the earth to a position
horizontal to that axis
The Einstein theory, which has
challenged the Newtonian theory of
gravitation in some respects, leads to
an expectation that the crystals
would not vary weight under any
conditions. So far DR.. Heyl in his
weighing has been unable to find any
of the weight differences which the
Newtonian explanation of gravitation
would imply.
The crystals used have been ar
ranged on the balances SO delicateIy
that they can be turned without re-
moving them. The scales are also
inclosed in a small room and oper-
ated by long rods vhich extend
through hole in the wall, in order
that even the heat radiating from the
operators body may not affect the
result