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Evening star., 1923-10-01
WILL QUIZ WEBB
IN DEATH Of WIFE
Analysis Demanded to Deter.
mine if Society Woman
Died of Poison.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October Charles
webb, whose wife, Mrs. Gertrude E.
German Webb, wealthy New York and
Philadelphia society woman, died at
the westchester-Biltmo Country
Club, in Rye. n. Y, last Tuesday. will
be questioned today at police head
quarters here regarding the causes Of
her death.
Mrs. Webb's relatives have insisted
that an analysis of the dead woman's
kidneys be made to discover If she
was a victim OF poisoning. She first
became Ill over a month ago and
gradually grew worse. while a num-
Der of physicians were at loss to
diagnose her disease.
Mr.. and Mrs. William 7. Hunter Of
Devon, Pa, who were with Mrs. webb
when she died. charged that she was
the victim of slow poisoning, admin
istered over a period Of at least a
month.
The symptoms of which she COM
planned, the Hunters said, were iden-
tical with those suffered by her
webb marriage last November. The
mother had strongly objected to
Webb's courtship, they added.
Although the chemical analysis has
not been completed. Coroner Fttzger-
aid announced last night that he was
preparfng to make an fnvestfgation.
if the findings warranted.
Mrs, Webb left an estate estimated
at between $2.000,000 and $3,000,o00
Mr. webb said last night that she
had made a new will just before her
death. The previous win had dis
posed of her estate among relatives.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
STARTS AT 6:59.
ZR-1 Carrying Crew to St. Louis
for Part--in Air Races.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
LAKEHURST. " J., October L.
Uncle Sans newest and largest air
deviation, the ZR-1, left here at $50
o'clock this morning on the first leg
of her trip to st. Louis, where her air
Navy crew will participate in the in
ternational air races which begin next
Thursday
ground crew of the big naval dirig-
ible warped her out Of the hangar
and paid out the cables until she had
reached an altitude of 1000 feet. Me-
chanics and officers spent more than
an hour in a final inspection before
everything was pronounced In perfect
trim.
At the thousand foot elevation the
ZR-1 encountered (, a thirty-five-nile
northwest wind. -. : p:
AS she turned her nose to the west
Commander Frank, II, McCrary sent a
wireless message to the ground. say
ing: ION way to St. Louis and return.
Flying. 1000 feet altitude. Speed
forty-four knots"
Among the forty-two officers and
men in the crew is Col. G. g. Hall of
the United States Army, who is on
board as an observer for the Army.
The ZR-1 is scheduled to pass Read
ing. Pa, at 10 o'clock, Pittsburgh. at
1: Columbus, 4: Dayton. 5. and Gin
cinnati {. From Cincinnati the big
ship It to go slower than on the day
light part of the journey and Is ex-
pected TO arrive in st. Louis not
earlier than z o'clock tomorrow morn
ing.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
RA|[BROTHERHOODS
DEMAND PAY RAISE
Engineers and Firemen Re.
uuire Restoration of 1920
Wage Schedules.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, October Wage in
crease requests for restoration OF
schedules in effect before the ap-
proximately 12ts percent reduction
handed down by the United states
railroad labor board on July 1, 1921,
were being presented TO many rail
roads throughout the country today
by representatives OF the Brotnerhopa
of Locomotive Engineers and Broth-
erhood Of Locomotive Fireuen and
Enginemen. where contracts expire
October /. Joint action was being
taken in many instances.
This became known today with the
president of the engineers. that q
circular Of instructions had been
mailed to the general chairman and
secretary-treasurer OF all general
committees of adjustment of the en-
gineers brotherhood. instructing
them to "service the required thirty
days notice on their respective man
agements at the expiration of the
present schedule"
The instructions are that the thirty
,, days notice be served on all roads
where the present schedules expire
on or before October 1, 1923, not later
than today. asking for a restoration
Of the reduction in wages and placing g
a days minimum wage at IS.
The engineers circular Of instruc~
tion reads in part as follows: "At the
time you serve the required thirty
your schedule present the following
articles:
"U) That all rates in effect under
decision No. 2, United States Railroad
Labor Board. effective as of May 1.
1920. and applicable to locomotive
engineers be restored in their en-
tirety. ...
"te.) In all classes Of service the
earnings of engineers from mileage.
Overtime and other regulations ap-
plicable for each days service per-
formed shall mot be less than eight
dollars ($S) per day."
Wherever you are working Jointly
with fremen or have a joint schedule
we would recommend that you take
the matter up with their general COM
inanding chairman and work in con-
junction with them," the instructions
conclude.
+ With the engineers. joining in the
increased wage movement all four
transportation bEotherhoods have in
ttiated movements for wage increases.
The brotherhood of Railroad Train
men and Order OF Railway Conduc-
tors took joint action here last week
| favoring a request for an increase
ranging from IL to Is per cent. This
action followed a referendum vote of
members of the two brotherhoods.
Circulars Of instruction to general
chairmen of these two brotherhoods
VIII be mailed out this week, and
the requests presented to the rail-
roads throughout the country on Oc-
tober 10.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen sent out a
circular Of instructions on September
IL to chafrnen Of its general griev-
ance committees instructing them to
present requests, as contracts expire.
for restoration of the 121s per cent
cut handed down by the United States
Railroad Labor Board on July 1, 1921.
d. B. Robertson, president, said today.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
Finds Mountains Marching
Ouer american Continents
DR.. Bailey Willis, Back From Chile In.
quiry, Says Range Movements Cause
of Disastrous Earthquakes.

Vast geological changes. in the
course of which the Andes noun
tains slowly are being pushed east
ward over Argentina, and the Cali
fornia coast ranges forced steadily
northward, are in progress as q re-
suit of irresistible pressure exerted
from within the earth, beneath the
Pacific deep. offering ample eXplana--
ton for recent disastrous earth
quakes. DR.. Bailey Willis, one OF the
worlds leading geoiogists, has dis
covered.
DIR. Willis, who is professor emeri-.
tus Of geology at Leland Stanford
University, has just returned from
South America, where he was sent
by the Carnegie Institution OF WASH
ington to study the earthquake that
rocked Chile last year, killing more
than 500 persons and destroying
property worth millions of dollars.
He Is in. Washington to submit his
report to the Institution.
Expects More shocks.
Both the Chilean earthquake and
the recent cataclysm in Japan, said
DR.. Willis. were due to the process OF
geological, changes. and many more
equally serious seismic disturbances
may be expected for generations to
come. They may never cease. he add
ed, and pointed out that man must
learn to construct houses capable of
withstanding seismic vibrations If he
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column s.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
FRENCH TROOPS ON GUARD.

By the Associated Press.
DUSSELDORF October French
troops are patrolling the streets OF
Duesseldorf today, having assumed
the entire responsibility of maintain
ing order. A formal state OF siege
has not been declared, but the cur
few law, closing activities from II
forced. These measures have been
deemed necessary as result of yes
terday's outbreak at a separatist
meeting, resulting in the killing of
half score of Germans and the
wounding of many others, the French
finally Intervening.
A casualty list compiled today
shows that ten persons were killed
and more than zoo seriously wound
ed, PrGbably another 100 were
The French still hold all the Sc
curity police in a state. of arrest
pending decision as to their re-
sponsibility for yesterdays violence.
that the police on duty were men
acting under proper authorize tfon
and that no outside police partic-
irated In the trouble. as some of the
reports have had It
Outward quiet had been restored
today, but nervousness was in evil
Glence among the population.
Tho German version of the out
break at a separatist meeting yester-
day maintains that the security po-
lice, whom the French hold RESPONSE
ble for starting the shooting made
no move until q civilian policeman
rad been killed by the separatist
''self-protection.
This force, says a statement issued
by the city authorities, attacked the
blue policeman took away his sword
and had begun to beat him when the
security police appeared. Thereupon
n shot was fired, the Germans allsge,
from the ranks of the separatists.
This brought out the rest Of the
green force and the pitched battle
Followed.
Friends of the Rhineland separatist
movement had made extensive prep
arations for yesterdays meeting and
twenty-f five train loads of "Rhineiand
various Rhineland communities.
Forming in. a great procession, the
demonstrators. numbering about
$4,000 but argumented to 10000 from
tho ranks of the curious, marched to
fhe Hinderburgstrasse. where the
separatist leader Joseph Matthes
began q speech. He had said scarce
Iy more than dozen words when
several shots were fired. AS a small
group made a rush for Herr Matthes
the security police fired a volley. The
shooting then became general, caus-
ing the dispatch Of French troops to
the scene. according to the French
officers, the security police refused to
obey their orders to cease fire, where
upon French cavalry surrounded the
police barracks; and after taking sew
CONTINUED on Page 2. Column 80 !.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
Ne,0 Shocks In Japan;
California Is Shaken
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, October L. Seven
earthquakes occurred shortly
before 9 O'Clock yesterday. Tel
ephone messages from Osaka
stated that the treinors cansed
q small panic there. although
NO mention was made Of any
actual damage being dene.
H0NGKONG. October la
slight earthquake, lasting near
ly n minute, was felt here at
noon today. .
LONDON, October 1.-The
West BrOmwfch seismOgrnph At
I i1S O'Clock yesterday morning
recorded O severe earthquake.
The disturbance probably was
about 1,500 miles distant.
DENVER, October - An
earthquake OF severe intensity
was recorded on the sefsmo-
graph at Regis College here at
8,35 O'Clock Saturday night.
The graphs indicated u shock
nearly as great ~ those record-
ed by the recent earthquake In
Japan, Father Forestnil said.
CALExTCo, Calf. October 4.
"A light earthquake shock
fraversed the Imperial valley
both above and below the Mex
ican border, yesterday. No
9hmase was done.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
HARD COAL EXPORT
EMBARGO URGED
Representative Rogers Is
Alarmed by Increased Ship
ments to Canada.

AS sound, permanent policy OF
conservation" Representative John J.
Rogers of Massachusetts, will urge in
the next Congress the wisdom of de
claring a permanent embargo on ex-
portation from the United States Of
anthracite coal
In the meantime, in a letter re-
ceived by the Interstate Commerce
Commission today, Representative
Rogers proposes "as brake upon
excessive expectation Of coal to Can
ada" until the more efficient stop
through embargo can be put in force,
IAN adjustment of freight rates" to
protect domestic consumers within
the United States.
Representative Rogers wrote TO the
commission as follows:
Exports to Canada.
II wish to call to your attention
the fact-to me an extraordinary
fact-that from October /, 1922, to
April 80, 1923, the period Of extreme
stress. we exported to Canada alone
2,6s6,031 tons of anthracite. This fig
ure should be compared with the ex-
port to Canada of 1,785,36S tons OF
anthracite for the same seven months
a year earlier, when production and
distribution were substantially nor
NAL. These figures are official. hay
ing been furnished me by the Depart
ment of Commerce. Nor did we scrimp
on bituminouS coal exported to Can
ada, corresponding figures being
s,127,920 tons. as compared with
5,251.941 tons for. the same seven
months of the preceding year when
conditions were substantially normal
Thus we exported for this period SO
per cent more anthracite and well
over SO per cent moro bitumtnous coal
than we had exported twelve months
before.
Figures recently issued by the
federal fuel distributor indicate that
for the first seven months of 1928
nearly three million tons of anthra-
cite were exported. During the en-
tire year 1922 only two and one-third
million tons were exported. More btu
minous coal-a good deal more-was
months Of 1929 than during the entire
year 1922. OF course. it will be re-
torted that 1922 was the strike year.
But 1929 is a year. especially in the
anthracite world, of inadequate sup
ply and inflated prices. If anthracite
exports continue at the present rate
the total exports for the year 1923
will exceed those of any year in his
tory.
Supply Being Exhausted.
Anthracite is a disappearing COM
modify, whose extraction from the
earth becomes yearly more costly,
more difficult and more dangerous.
Should not the retention of anthracite
for our. own use be regarded as a
proper measure of conserving one Of
the most essential of our national
resources? furthermore. even In nor
NAL times the cost of anthracite has
been increasing from year to year. A
restriction of the market to domestic
consumers would tend, under the ia
miltar law of supply and demand, to
keep the prices at a lower level.
II have therefore been urging the
wisdom of declaring a permanent en-
barge on the expectation from the
United States of anthracite. j do not
propose this solely, or even primarily.
because of the terrible experience we
passed through last winter. / pro-
pose 1t as a sound permanent policy
of conservation.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
PRISON TERM. UPHELD e
IN TRAFFIC ,Ac cClDENT
Douglas c. Jones Fails in Appeal
From Sentence Of Three Years =
for Causing Death. q.

Douglas c. Jones, a young white
man, must serve three years in the
penitentiary as the result Of a traffic
accident. The District Court of APP
peals today dismissed his appeal from
a sentence of three years imprison-
raent imposed on him in November.
1920. Jones failed to docket the ap-
peal in the appellate court in time,
and Assistant United States Attorney
Bilbrey asked Its dismissal.
Jones caused the death Of Harrison
A. Shreye August s. 1920 while, driv-
ing reckiessly at 9Th street and Rhode
Island avenue. He collided with an
other machine, which was driven upon
the sidewalk and struck and killed
Shreve, pedestrian.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
FRI FIGHTS GALE
ON ST. LOUIS TRIP
Makes But II Knots an Hour
Against Strong Head Wind.
Air Proves "Bumpy."
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG. Pa. October l.
The dirigible FRI passed over Har-
risburg at 11:2o am. today.
Strong head winds were encoun-
tered by the ZR-1 from the beginning
of her journey early today from
Lakehurst to st. Louis. the naval bu-
reau of aeronautics was advised by
radio from the big dirigible. AS a
result, speed was decreased by more
than 90 per cent of her cruising speed.
At s am. the dirigible was 1900
feet over Mount Holly. y. J.. with
her six engines turning up forty-one
knots, but because of adverse winds.
with a ground speed" of only sew
enteen knots. The air continued
"bumpy" as the ship pushed west
Word was received at the air sta
tion from st. Louis that 1t would be
impossible for the ZR-1 to land there
tomorrow morning because Of ad-
verse weather conditions. This news
was wirelessed to the dirigible while
1t was flying over Reading, Pa
Commander J. III. Klein, jr., chief
executive officer at the air station,
said he believed the airship would fly
over st. Louis tomorrow until the
weather permitted a landing or else
it would make nonstop flight, re-
turning at once to its home station.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
MRS. STOKES AWAITING
HEARING BY GRAND JURY
Will Back Charges Against Hus-
band in Chicago Before Attending
to Divorce in New York.

CHICAGO, October Although her
divorce case is set for trial in New
York today. Mrs. Helen Elwood
Stokes will remain in Chicago until
given an opportunity to testify before
the grand jury in connection with her
charges that w. e. d. Stokes sought
to show that she had at one time
been an inmate of a notorious club"
here.
The grand jury will convene today,
and states Attorney Grove has indi-
Gated that the Stokes case might be
the first considered, IL a final review
Of allegations brought TO light dur
ing the last two weeks by Assistant
States Attorney Wharton 5ustifes
such action. -.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
SHIPS IN COLLISION
REACH LIVERPOOL
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LIVERPOOL. October The White
Star liner Cedric and the Cunarder
Scythia, which collided during a
dense fog yesterday off south ireland,
arrived in the Mersey today, the Ced-
ric having continued her inward bound
voyage from New York and the
scythia, outward bound, for Boston,
putting back.
The Cunarder has rent in her
wide and twelve to fifteen feet deep,
above the waterline. She had a list as
she lay at anchor. probably due to the
shifting Of the cargo. The Cedric ap-
parently was not SO badly damaged.
.lTheres;were several marrow escapes
among the passengers. many OF whom
on both liners were on the decks
whenfthe collision occurred.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
RELAPSE Is SERIOUS
FOR ITALIAN PRINCESS
Giovanna, Third Daughter Of EN-
manuel, Suffers Grave symp-
toms of Hemorrhage. .

ROME, October IA serious re-
lapse has been suffered by Princess
Giovanna, third daughter Of King
Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena,
who. with her sister Princess Mafalda,
second daughter OF the royal house.
was believed to be virtually out of
danger after the attack of typhoid
with which both were seized a fort
night ago.
Grave symptoms of hemorrage and
peritonitis made their appearance
yesterday in the case of Princess
Giovanna and her condition is caus-
ing the greatest anxiety.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
Nationalists in Attempt to
Disarm Garrison at Kues-
trim, Near Berlin, Repulsed
and Leaders imprisoned.
TROOPS ARE MOBILlZED;
r. MINISTRY NEAR BREAK
General Uprising Reported Un-
avoidable, With Warlike Atti-
tude Of Populaoe Increasing-so.
eialists Threaten to Quit Cabinet
Because of. Stand on Bavaria.
~ The Associated Press.

ny The Associated Press
LONDON. October IA rev.
olutionary movement, originated
by nationalist organizations, has
broken out at Kuestrin, fifty
miles from Berlin, says Reu-
ter's dispatch from the German
capital.
The insurgents attempted to
disarm the garrison and occupy
the fortress, but the commander
OF the reichswehr arrested the
nationalist leaders and drove
back the attackers.
Reichswehr Summoned.
Detachmerts Of reichswehr from
neighboring towns have been sum-
moned to Kuestrin, the dispatch adds,
and the troops have been ordered to
suppress the revolt ruthlessly. AS
a result of the insurrection, DIR. Ges-
sler, the minister of defense. has I'M
posed a censorship on all news of q
military character.
Kuestrin. city of approximately
10000 inhabitants is located in Bran
denburg. The chief industries are
the manufacture of copper and brass
ware.
Profound anxiety and doubt as to
the maintenance of the unity of the
German reich is expressed in dis
patches by British newspaper cor
respondents in Berlin,
General Reveit Feared.
1T appears at the. moment that
nothing but a miracle can hold the
reich together much longer" says one
correspondent, and his view is sup
uorted by several others. A break by
q. ;avaria Is written of not as a possi-
)ility, but almost a certainty, an
opinion which is strengthened by the
remarkable royaiist demonstration
that took place In Munich on Sunday
when Prince Rupprecht and his wife,
attending a military memorial cere-
mony, are reported to have been ac-
claimed with frantic shouts of Long
live our king and queen"
The central government, the dis
patches say, is intrigued against not
only by the nationalists but by the
socialists. and according to some oil
the writer's the cabinet shows signs
SCf immediate distntegration.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
U: S. HERO DEAD IN FRANCE
RESTING IN Cemeteries
Bodies Assembled in Designated
I Spaces-Work of Identifying
the Grounds Is Begun.

PARIS, October 1.-The bodies of
American soldiers who fell on French
battlenelds during the world war
have now all been: brought into sew.
eral large cemeteries, where they will
lie permanently unless later trans
.ferred to the United States.
. Work has: been begun on the beau.
tffcation of the cemeteries. Thirty
thousand trees and shrubs will be
set out at Romagne. the largest OF
the American cemeteries.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
HUSBAND OF LE0P0LD'S
DAUGHTER DIES IN PARIS
Count Mattaschich Eloped Thirty
Years Ago With Princess
Louise Of Belgium.

By the Associated Press. -
!. PARIS. October Count Geza
Mettaschich, who thirty years ago
eloped with Princess Louise. daugh-
ter Of King Leopold II OF Belgium, is
dead here. The count and the prin-
cess arrived in Paris Ave weeks ago
and were living in obscurtty In an
hotel in the center
Of the city.
The princess Is heartbroken and
refuses to see visitors.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
Quake Death List
Is Set at 10000;
235,OOO Missing

An official dispatch from Toxic
to the Japanese embassy today
places the number of known dead
in the earthquake zone at 100000.
the injured at 125.000 and the
missing at $4,000. The number of
persons who have left Toxic is
LOSS. 900.
A total of $4,000 houses was
destroyed. and the total property
damage was said to be variously
estimated at two and one-half to
five billion dollars.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
MILK COMPROMISE
FAILS TO HIT COST
Producers and Dealers Bury
Hatchet and Supply Is
Uninterrupted.

Peace reigned once more today be-
tween the milk dealers of Washing
ton and the farmers of Maryland and
Virginia, following the reaching of n
compromise settlement Of their diff
ferences. AS a result of the treaty
the city's milk supply came in today
in the regular way.
For several weeks the possibility
of n break between the dealers and
producers on October / impended be-
cause the largest distributors refused
to sign a contract put before them
by the producers.
The producers wanted the distribu-
tors TO agree to purchase all milk
through the Maryland and Virginia
Milk Producers Association instead
of dealing with each farmer directly.
Direct Pay for MIX.
Under compromise the dealers will
continue to pay each farmer directly
for his milk, but the distributors
agreed to deduct and turn over to the
producers association that organiza-
tion's brokerage fee, provided the
farmer requests the dealer to do so.
The original demand Of the pro-
ducers was that each dealer pay the
association for the milk received and
the association, after deductinS its
fee, would pay the farmer. The set
tlement provides that the dealer shall
pay the farmer the cost of the milk.
minus the fee to be given the associa-
ton.
To Invite Representative.
The dealers further agreed to in
vite representative of the producers
to be present to witness the testing
and weighing of the milk after it
reaches the distribution plants in
Washington.
During the fortnight of discussion
the dealers were making plans to get
milk from other sources in the event
they could not reach an agreement
with the Maryland and Virginia pro-
ducers. At the same time the nearby
producers were arranging to ship
their milk to Washington after today
and market 1t themselves, If the
dealers did not take 1t from them.
The question of price to the con-
sumner was not involved, the farmers
having decided ten days ago. not to
seek an increase this winter The
present charges for milk, therefore,
will continue.
Evening star., 1923-10-01
TROTSKY ASSURES U. S..
INTERESTS OF RESPECT
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, .october IA Reuter-
dispatch from Moscow quotes MIN
lister Of War Trotsky as saying In
reply to a. question: "As long as
private property exists in America
American interests In Russia will be
respected. and all .engagements en-
tered into with the soviets wifi be
scrupuiously kept. Any other &C.
ton will bo suicidal"