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Evening star., 1923-08-14
STATE TROOPS ACT
E. { {. AS TULSA POLICE
Martial Law Proclaimed
After Police Are Charged
.FS With LaWIessness.

9 BY the Associated Press
TULSA. Okla. August 14-Martial
law descended upon Tulsa at 6 am.
by decree Of Gov J. c. Walton, as the
result of recent cases of mob violence.
Three companies Of infantry, equipped
with automatic rifles. will enforce
the military rule under command of
Adjt. Gen. b: II. Markham.
Only the police department and
sheriff's force will be superseded,
however. it is understood. courts and
other civil agencies not being dis
:. turbed.
." Issuance of the proclamation of
martial law came yesterday atter
representations made In Oklahoma
: City to Aldrich Blake. executive coun-
selor, by Nathan Hantaman, VINO was
, abducted here Friday night by band
: of unmasked men. taken into the
country and severely whipped. Hant-
. aman said narcotic and liquor sales
, were mentioned to him before he was
}, whipped, but that he asserted inno-
'cence.
Charges Against Police.
Charges that the Tulsa police were
. involved in the abduction have been
! made by Hantaman and Mrs. Mabel
: West, proprietress OF rooming
!: house where Hantaman lived.
Hantaman was seized on the street
within a block Of the police station.
after he had been held several hours
ON a vagrancy charge. He alleges he
was held by the police so that his
, abductors could identify him.
Denial that the police were in any
way involved in the affair has been
made by city officials, including
Mayor Newblock and Police Chief
Rees Moran.
Whippings have been numerous in
Tulsa for months.
Hantaman declared that before ap-
plying the lash his captors questioned
him about sale of narcotics and
whisky. He said he told them he
knew nothing about it.
Evening star., 1923-08-14
PARIS PRESS SEES
DEFINITE BREAK
French Believe They Now
Oppose Germany Support
ed by Britain.
By PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
BY Gable 20 The Star and Chicago Daily New
CnnNrighf lq9a

Copyright 1923.
PARIS. August IA survey today
Of French newspapers of all shades
Of opinion confirms the first impress
sion that the British note on a repara-
tions settlement is regarded here as
u definite rupture Of the entente, with
the result that French henceforth will
stand opposed. not to isolated Ger
many. but to Germany openly and
strongly supported by Great Britain.
The British note. says lie Matin.
lis the equivalent of a rupture with
France"
The Echo de Paris says: Even
abandoned. even opposed by Great
Britain let us remain true to our
policy. for Great Britain for a long
time can not do anything effective
against it
Urges Intensified Action.
The Journal says: The only log
the German crisis and the British
note is that France and Belgium
should intensity their action in the
Ruhr."
The Liberte says: Let US turn
our backs on this sordid egotism of
whose capital and commerce were
covered by the heroism of our SOL
diers. Let US watch what Is happen
ing in Berlin. Let us be unmoved
either by Britain's hateful diatribe or
by the new possibilities appearing in
Germany"
THE British thesis. says the Petit
Parsien, sis that Anglo-American
capitalists have priority rights over
the French and Belgian peasants
whose homes and fields were ruined
Calls Policy Montrous.
The Liberal Oeuvre declares that
the British policy monstrous. The
Excelsior thinks the reason Great
Britain pleads GcTmany's cause so
Britain desires, "as Lloyd George de-
clared clearly before the house of COM
mons last August .. that French power
should be counterbalanced as quickly
as possible by q strong Germany"
The lntransigeant says: "On the
whole, these documents are a man
ner of repudiating the entente cor
.diale, which clearly indicates what
attitude france must now take"
Scored by Communist.
The Communist Humanite says:
Diplomatic language cannot be
harsher or more impertinent than the
British note"
lie Temps says: THE most singular
feature is that at the same moment
.when Great Britain denies the truth
1eIS lul, tTleS TO DULY
France, Injuries Italy, excites Ger
many and arouses Americas suspi-
scions. Great Britain finally consents
10 state its pecuniary claims and for
ethe whole of it's credits demands
merely the sum due the United States,
namely 14.2O0,0 900 gold marks"
- The newspaper of the French Metal
lurgists declares: THE British note
is preparation for separate action
which seems henceforth to be decided
upon. We must therefore consider not
only the reparations payments, but
.the re- establishment of European
equilibrium"
Evening star., 1923-08-14
'23 KILLED IN MOTOR
J: PLUNGE INTO RAVINE
, tRy the Associated Press.

sRy the Associated Press.
&sLOURDES, France, August IA
.Twenty-three persons were killed and
Seven wers probably fatally injured
yesterday when a motor coach filled
with excursionists plunged down
250-foot ravine in the Pyrennes
.mountains near Saint Sauveur.
The motor driver, In attempting to
~-avoid striking a woman who stepped
from the bushes, swerved his machine
sharply and the coach overturned,
crashing to the bottom Of the ra-
wine.
The woman who was the indirect
cause of the accident ran screaming
to the nearest village, gave the alarm,
and tainted A rescue party eXtricated
the bodies. All were terribly mutt
lated and il was impossible to iden-
tify any of them.
Evening star., 1923-08-14
From Yesterdays $50 Edition OF The Star.
BIDS FOR NEW SCHOOL
ALL EXCEED MAXIMUM
S147. 900 Lowest Offer for $13O,OOO
Building North of Park
Eoad.

When bids were opened at the Dis
trict building yesterday afternoon for
construction of Lew eight-room school
between Georgia avenue and 10th
street north of Park road it was
found that all of them were in excess
of the available appropriation,
Congress allotted $4,000 for the
building, but the lowest bid was
S147,00O There were dozen other
proposals, ranging all the way TO
$3.50 The Commissioners will de-
eide at an early Date whether to ask
for revised bids.
Evening star., 1923-08-14

again for a settlement of their diff
ferences will be fruitful.
Should regulation of coal deliveries
become necessary the Public Utilities
Commission. in all probability, will
be selected. to handle it.
Although the commission has volum-
inous records from last winter of the
requirements of each consumer. it
was pointed out today that the COM
mission would have to gather. new
data for this year. .t
Officials of the commission believe
that there is much more coal already
delivered to Washington homes for
the coming winter than there was at
this time last year.
This fact, however. would not lessen
the need for supervision over deliv-
cries. because 1t would be necessary
to see that those who have not yet
obtained coal received a fair proper
tion of the total tonnage shipped into
the city.
Evening star., 1923-08-14
DIES OF GAS POISONING.

Raymond Shermer. forty-five years
old of 30 G. street southwest. died to-
day from the effects of illuminating
gas which he inhaled while on the
third floor of that address today.
His body was discovered by 5. c. Ogle.
A call was sent to Emergency Hos
pital and DIR. Pearlman. responding
with the ambulance. pronounced him
dead Police are attempting to get
in communicates with the wife and
of the deceased, who are in
va. : --.&AA
Evening star., 1923-08-14
MIsUsED RAZOR: JAILED.

So far as Laura Thomas, colored. is
concerned safety razor" is a mis-
nomer. She was slashed three times
on the left arm last night in a south
west alley by Annie Williams, col
ored, with whom. she had a dispute
I'm the United States branch of Police
Court today Annie was given sixty
days in jail by Judge McMahon, who
could not "see" the plea; that; Annie
only had a safety raxor" In her
hand at the time of .the.hght between
Evening star., 1923-08-14
HUSBAND KILLS WIFE,
THEN TAKES OWN LIFE

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could not tell whether her heart was
beating or not.
Rushed to Hospital.
Mayor j. Frank Rushe. who was
presiding over a meeting of the
Prince Georges County League, was
summoned. and rushed the dying
woman 20 the Casualty Hospital.
According to III" mayor, Mrs. Cartmel
died before arriving at the hospital.
Meanwhile the body of Cartmcl lay
IN spencer street opposite the First
National Bank Of .HyattsVillc. We've ed
by hundreds. \ C"runcr's jury was
summoned with William II. Anglin.
foreman. Justice of the. Peace Herbert
). Monat. acting coroner.
After viewing the remains of Cart
mel II was decided TO hold an inquest
this evening at o'clock in the fire
department headquarters.
According to the dea3 woman's
brother. Mrs. Cartmel was attending
the picture show The Unconquerable
Man, with her sister law. Mrs
Richard y. Garrison. and the latter'S
children, Elva and Carroll. Some time
during the performance Cartmel came
in and sat beside his wife. It was
pocket and became alarmed.
Arrested for Non-Support
Constable William T. Conners of
HyattSville is authority for the state
ment that. about three months ago,
he took Cartmel into custody on a
warrant sworn to 10y CartmePS wife,
charging d@SertiOn and non support
Conners states that he brought Cart
mel before Justice of the Peace W.
Brooke Hunter here for Il hearing
and that Judge Hunter ordered him
to pay 500 a month alimony, placing
him under $500 bond According to
Conners. the couple had been mar
rIed about two years ago in Wash
tngton and had been separated about
three months.
Cartmel was a monotype operator
in the government printing office aud
was hugler in Company +. lst Mary
land Infantry. stationed in Hyatts-
VILE. and formerly. II is stated. held a
similar rank in the Regular Army.
He was an expert pistol shot, having
attained a score of S6.7 over the pistol
range while in camp at Saunders
range, Glen Bernie. Anne Arundel
county, Md. last week. He returned
from camp Saturday morning with his
company.
The coroner's jury is composed of
William III. AnGlin. foreman. and Har-
yey Smith, l.. +. Livingston. w. Gait
keyworth, Lemuel l.. -,Tait. o. w.
Taylor, George y. Bowen. VI, u. Mer-
ritt, j. w. Yost, H. A King, r.. j. King
and Rev. j. Edgar Smith. These wit
nesses have been. summoned: John
Gargas, Emmett ID. Dowden, George
WiSeman. Mrs. Il. A. Garrison, vii.
liam II. Tobin. Fred Kolback, Charles
Norris and DR. II. T. Willis.
Cartmcrs parents recently removed
to Roanoke. Va.
Evening star., 1923-08-14
U. S. READY TO FIGHT
ANTHRACITE STRIKE
WITH SUBSTITUTES
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ernmental expenditures. The Presi-
dent was represented as believing
that the arrangement under the
budget and accounting act had
worked TO save the government many
millions of dollars. and his desire
was said TO be that a policy tending
TO a further curtailment should be
followed so long as efficiency OF the
federal machinery was not imperiled.
A spokesman for Mr.. Coolidge re-
iteratcd that II was the new Presi-
dents desire that every one who serv-
ed under Mr.. Harding remain with
the new administration.
President Cooldges administra-
ton is to stand on the position laid
down by Secretary Hughes in his
speech at New Haven last December
In the matter Of German reparatons
The government. it was declared. Is
ready to help in any way il can with
out involving itself indirectly.
While il was said that no offer had
been made to assist. 1t could be eX
pected that the government would be
ready to respond to any request for
help that bore the marks of merit
Considers Immigration Vital.
President Coolidge. according TO a
White House authority, considers the
immigration question one of the most
important before the United States.
He was said to believe this admins
tration must take some decisive steps
If the immigration situation is to be
satisfactorily met. He has expressed
himself as believing that aside from
the other requirements of the immi-
era ation bureau the alien should con-
vince the authorities that he INTENDS
to make this country his future home
and will recognize American stand
ards.
He discussed the question briefly
with Secretary of Labor Davis today
and is looking forward to full re-
port the latter will make within the
next few days as a result of his OBJ
servations on his recent trip in Europe.
The budget is looked upon by Pres
ident Coolidge as one of the most
wonderful governmental instruments
established in modern times, and he
was said to have told Gen. Lord to-
day that he doubts IL it will be neces-
sary to change this governmental
agency in any particular for some
time to come.
Evening star., 1923-08-14
JOCKEY KILLED IN RACE.
Two Others Hurt in Fall at Co,
lumbus, Ohio, Race Track.

COLUMBUS. Ohio. August IL
Jockey Albert Arvin of Louisville,
KY. riding Mont PERI. owned by his
father, J. G. Arvin. died a. few minutes
after the horse had fallen in the fifth
race at Beulah Park yesterday.
Jockeys John Byrne of New York
and Charles Eames were injured when
their mounts. Edith X. and Don Jose.
went down. Byrne was taken to
hospital. Eames was bruised severely.
Evening star., 1923-08-14

this subject in the New York confer
ences. Therefore it is safe to say
that upon this first essential point
there is likely TO be no agreement.
President Coolidge may have to act
and act drastically before the recall
citrant owners and operators can be
brought into line.
1t is only stating an apparent
truth TO say that at the Atlantic
City anthracite conference the first
report of the National Coal Commits
sion, was treated as a Yeritable
scrap of paper" Both miners and
operators insisted they could not un-
derstand the report in many of its
details. They said the language was
confusing and ambiguous: that even
the figures had to be studied from
many angles before their meaning
was apparent. Even then. as the
operators and miners refused to view
the report at any time from the same
angle, there was no agreement be-
tween them as to the commission
| findings.
Report Caused New Row.
The report seemed but to throw
, another bone of contention into the
negotiations. Both miners and oper-
ators thought the report might be
useful for propaganda purposes. That
is. they thought each side could get
out OF the report something to back
up its contentious.
President Lewis claims there is no
excuse to give the miners for asking
them 10 work after August 81 with
! out IA new agreement. He says the
miners have been ready to negotiate
for months. It was only at the re-
quest and invitation of the miners
| that the meetings with the operators
were begun at Atlantic City in July.
| This was nearly eight weeks before
| the expiration of the old agreement
| Mr.. Lewis contended that If a new
agreement could not be worked out
| in that time there was small hope IL
ever would be worked out
President Lewis also contends that
! if the miners agree not to suspend
work the night of August 81 there
will be no telling how long the nego-
! tiations may be drawn out. There
| would be no incentive for the opera :
tors to hurry. The negotiations might
| run into next spring and then be
! broken off. The miners feel their
best strategic position is at the be-
ginning of the winter mining. They
| deny, however. that they are respon-
| sible for the agreement running out
at this time. They wanted the new
' scale negotiated last spring 1t was
at the request of the operators that
| the expiration date was fixed at the
beginning of falI--a crucial time for
! the stoppage of coal production
| The more he studies the coal Situa-
tion. the more the new President will
! be convinced that he must act person
| ally rather than through a commits
| sion. He alone can avert a strike.
Evening star., 1923-08-14
POLICE SEIZE ALCOHOL.

Fifteen gallons of alcohol and an
automobile were seized when Police
men Billman and Arlington of the
third precinct yesterday arrested John
Fl. Parsons. twenty eight years old,
and Edward IT. Parsons, twenty-one
years old, both of Camp Duke, Va, in
~sn alley between 25th and s26th
streets, Pennsylvania avenue and NJ
street northwest, on charges Of trans
porting and illegal possession Of
'lfduor. - =. = = + f,ss'<.
Evening star., 1923-08-14
BOTH SIDES AGREE
TO CONFER IN N. Y.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. y. J., Au-
gust 14.-JOhn l.. Lewis, presi-
dent of the United Mine Work.
ers of America, has accepted the
invitation of the Federal Coal
Commission to confer in New
York tomorrow with the COM
mission and anthracite opera
tors in an effort TO avert
strike September j.
Although Mr. Lewis declined
TO make public his reply to the
com mmunicatiOn, IL was learned
today fhnt IL hnd been forward
ed and that miners representa-
tives on the joint scale COM
mission had been notified to go
to New York.
PHILADELPHIt. August Ia.
samuel ID. Wnrriner. chntr-
man Of the general committee
of the anthracite operators. to-
day announced TINT the opera
tors have accepted the invita-
fiOn Of the Federal Coal COM
mission TO attend the pnrley In
New York with the cOnI miners
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1923-08-14

ton. One is the possibility of large
scale substitution. of bituminous coal
by consumers. bituminous operators
having offered to undertake to make
available suitable types of bitumi-
nous, and another is the unusually
heavy production of anthracite during
recent mqNhs, which is now in
storage -'is
Evening star., 1923-08-14

hewitt admitted that his statements
were purely such,
There was a growing belief Ethat
the defense would eventually demand
that it's medical experts be given an
opportunity to study the ,wnppds IN
Mrs. Kepner's headl - ss5sz2z7 sssz122s-'
Evening star., 1923-08-14

Top o tn morning. Mr.. Hcyei
how's shipbullding today"
"Shipbuilding' all right, but freight
car building is much better"
This little greeting and Response
happened at the door of the Raleigh
cafe, just as c. ]. (Stcve) Heycr. man
aging director Of the Tampa Dock
Shipbuilding Company. accompanied
| by Mrs. Hcyer, had finished breakfast,
and nothing would do but that tn"
man. who was up to his ears with
work all during the war. must tell about
present conditions down Tampa way.
Things looked pretty gloomy 70"
Il while said the SouthCrHcr. "csPC-
ciaily when sugar was shot 10 piece
down in Cuba. but NOW everything
has changed. Cuba is prosperous. W.
are building both wooden and ste"!
vessels. and as most of us shlphuild-
ers switched over to making freight
cars after the war, increased orders
along the line makes life worth liv-
| ing"
Asked if the recent flurry in cuba
had affected business. Mr.. Hcycr said
! that it had not. that most of the com
| modities out of Tampa went 10 tn"
| island, and that Tampa shippers
would be the first to feel it,
The shipbuilder is also secretary Of
| the Wooden Shipbuilders' Association,
| having served in that capacity Tor
many years. He is in Washington on
! business with the Shipping Board.
Rev Roy Campbell Of san bieg" I
| Calf. one of the best known news
| paper writers on the coast, was
| guest al the Hotel Washington for q
| day. later going to stay with friends
| in the city.
| DR.. Campbell is sky pilot" of the
San Diego Kiwanis Club, and les max
| ing a tour Of the south and east, ad:
dressing Kiwanis clubs in Id Paso.
/ New Orleans. Washington, Boston
| and Philadelphia, and. incidental
! ", letting the people Of thesc
| places know of the newly con, !
! Dleted southern route, the San Diego
and Arizona extension of the South
ern Pacific railroad. built by John i.
Spreckels, which makes a direct line
| from the. coast through New Orleans
; and Washington to the Atlantic sea
| board.
The people of the west are travel
f! ing east today more than they have
| ever done before" said the clcrr--
man. 'Californians have been con
4 tent to stay at home, but. are nov
| getting acquainted with the rest OF
! the country; especially is this so with
our folk in San Diego since this ne~
route went into operation
| A versatile man is this California
| preacher, for when not occupying thu
pulpit or talking railroads he dcyoteS
/, his time to newspaper work. and runs
| a special first-page column In the San
| Diego Evening Tribune three times a
week. He will leave on his totr. this
THE Al9EF :
Evening star., 1923-08-14
LITTLE HOPE OF PEACE
SEEN BY OBSERVERS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

Observers who have closely followed
the negotiations between the anthra-
cite miners and operators at Atlantic
City are doubtful of the outcome of
the called conference of miners and
operators with the National Coal Com
mission.
President Coolidge has approved
this first step looking to a settlement
of the hard coal controversy. but the
break between the miners and the
operators is SO wide It seems impos
sible that the mere presence of the
coal commissioners can bring about
an adjustment.
II is believed here today that only
a personal appeal from the President
himself can be effective. In the end
II is expected that Mr.. Coolidge will
have TO bring the operators and the
miners representatives straight to
the White House and tell them Just
what he and the country want OF
them.
Coolidge Wants Truce.
Mr.. Coolidge. acting through the
Coal Commission at this time, is eX-
tremely anxious that some sort of
truce shall be patched up so as to
prevent a suspension of mining in
the anthracite fields at midnight on
August 81. If this truce can be ar
ranged. he feels certain that longer
negotiations, longer consideration of
the various issues involved in the
present deadlock, would bring about
a settlement for a period Of at least
two years.
But here Is where the President
and his commission will strike their
first and perhaps their greatest snag.
The miners are in no mood to agree
to continue work after August 81, on
the assumption that new wage scale
and working agreement can be en-
tered into later.
The position the miners take is abb
soIute. They say the wage agree
ment expires on August 81. They say
there has been plenty of time, plenty
Of opportunity to agree upon a new
scale. If there is no new scale, no
new agreement, there Is nothing by
which the workers can be guided, and
therefore they will not work.
At the very outset of the negotia-
tions at Atlantic City, begun on July
9 last, the mine owners asked the
miners to agree to continue work
after August 81 even if no new agree
mentthad been reached by that time
The owners even went so far as to
say that It would be understood that
any agreement subsequently reached
should be retroactive to September
Of this year. 1t was argued that
under such an arrangement the
miners could not possibly lose any
under the new scale which might be
| worked out.
Refused Proposal.
Evening star., 1923-08-14
Refused Proposal.

/, John L. Lewis, president of the min
ers, acting under instructions of the
various presidents of the district or
ganizations, turned the operators pro-
posals down with q bang There are
no new arguments that the coal COM
missioners-.can -srini ste- bear upon
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