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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-05

Ambassador Woods mes
sage was sent from IwaH and
relayed at San Francisco. The
text follows:
Communications have just
been opened up with Yoke
hama.
"The situation there is ex.
ceedingly serious.
"Some Americans are re-
ported to have lost their lives.
"The casualties In Tokyo
are estimated at 10000.
-"I believe All Americans in
Tokyo are safe.
'The food situation is
acute. Send supplies from
Philippines at once as already
requested"
ORGANIZING RELIEF.
Henry B. Hitchcock, the
American consul at Nagasaki,
advised the State Depart
ment that he was organizing
relief work with Consul
Dickober at Kobe and the
British consul at Nagasaki.
He also sent confirmation of
the death of Consul Max
Kirjassoff at Yokohama and
of Vice Consul E. G. Rabbit.
Hitchcock agreed that con-
ditions in Yokohama were
relatively worse" than in
Tokyo, and said that clear re-
ports concerning the extent
of the disaster and the loss
of life were now being re-
ceived from the earthquake
area.
Messages from Edward Bell,
of the United States
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P|VCHOT HEARS
BOTH SIDES
IN STRIKE
Governor Now Striving to
Shorten StruggIe-Urges
Increase in Wages.
BY GEORGE e. DURNO,
International News Service.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Sept. S.
Fighting with his back to the
wall, Gov. Clifford Pinchot today
prepared for still another meet
ing with the anthracite operators
and miners, whose differences
precipitated a strike in the hard
coal fields last Friday.
His Supreme Effort.
At o'clock this afternoon the
Governor of Pennsylvania calls one
mroe conference together. and in
cidentally plans to launch his SUI
Dreme political effort. Having
failed to stop the walk-out, he will
endeavor to bring the two factions
together and make the stoppage OF
production of as short duration as
as possible.
Settlement-so far as Pinohot lS
commemorative be reached on the
basis laid down by him last week.
This basis includes ten per cent
wage increase, establishment OF a
basic eight hour day, recognition
gaining, and full recognition Of the
Union with a semi-check off.
This plan, in the Governors opin.
on, represents the best possible
offer, 1t Is said. A spokesman close
to the State executive has described
il az something LESS than which
he miner would not accept: more
than which the operators would not
offer"
Governor Pinchot is known to
ear that the mediation Of the
strike will be taken out of his
hands by official Washington. His
political fortunes hang squarely on
his success or failure. Prompt
action Is the only thing that will
save him, he believes.
To forestall a transfer of media
ion, the Governors political adj
viaors are sponsoring the statement;
That no one could offer a better
.olution-upon no other plan could
'ettlement he based"
Optimism Prevails.
AS the conference hour ap-
.roached, however, "a distinct at
losphere of optimism prevailed
ceiling seemed to be general that
re outcome of the latest meeting
would he most favorable.
The miner delegation arrived in
Harrisburg this morning after a
week end in the coal fields. The
hree district presidents--Rinaldo
Cappellini, Tom Kennedy. and Chris
Golden-had been with their people
over Labor Day, sounding out the
Continued on Page 2. Column 81
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D. c. TITLE GOLF
PLAY NEARS
FINALS
Weight, Brown, Brooke and
Mcclure Will Contest
in Last Games.
By LEONARD w. COLLINS.

George ]. Weight will play Rob.
ert H. Brown, and Edward P.
Brooke will match distance and &C.
curacy with William A. MCGUIRE
in the semi-fina1 rounds of the first
annual District municipal golf tour
nameht now IN progress over che
East Potomac Park course.
In Class B the semi-finalists will
be George r Crook, Robert D.
Betikofer, Arthur e. Weathcrly
and James e. Collins. Crook meets
Betikofer in the upper bracket,
while Weatherly is scheduled to
play Collins.
r. E. Terry and Roger Mehur1n
will battle it out for a place in the
finals of Glass c, as will the youth
full Charles w Cole and the vet
eran Thomas M. Galloway. The
semi-final matches will be at Is
holes match play, starting at 8
o'clock.
Immediately after the last pair.
ing of the mems semi .finalists have
driven from No. I tee. the semi.
finalists in the women's event will
get into action.
All Matches Close.
Unlike the matches of the pre-.
ceeding day all Of those contested
today were close and in the ma
jority Of instances the winners were
not decided until after the fifteenth
hole had been reached. The only
really one-sided match came In the
George Voight- Houghton contest.
Voight was right on his game
from the very start. while Hough-
ton was continually in trouble as
the result Of slices or hooks from
the tee. To make matters still
harder for Houghton he seldom got
any Of the breaks In his approaches
to the green's.
Weight was never really extended
he having his opponent three down
| at the first turn. Weight main
tanned his even, but
At no time during the match was
Voight ever really extended. He
had Houghton three down at the
turn and as he clicked off hole after
hole In par golf he ended tho issue
on the twelfth green.
| Robert Brown caught John X
Miller on one Of the latter's off daH q
and before Miller knew what 1t VIZ.
all about he found himself eliminate
from further competition In tn
event at the sixteenth. Brown Wa.
then four up.
| William Mcclure started out :
end his match with John Shorey o.,
the tenth green. Mcclure she
brides on Nos. / and and WIZ,
down in par four on the thir
Shorey dropped the first three holes
The youngster won the fourth AID
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Congressman's Party
Sends Word All
Are Safe

Congressman Ernest K. Ack-
erman of New Jersey and his
wife, who were en- tour with
Miss Juliet Weber, a sister Of
Mrs. Alderman, in Japan, and
who were reported to have been
killed in the disaster, are safe.
A cable to this effect was
received today by Mrs. Frank
L. Hatch, sister of Mrs. Ack-
erman, who. resides at the
Wardman Park Inn.
The Ackermans sailed from
Seattle on July Is, and were
in Yokohama when the quake
occurred. The cable, notifying
relatives of their safety, was
filed at Nikko.
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By HAMILTON FISH, JR.
Member Of the Foreign Affairs Com
mittee Of the House OF
Representatives.

Copyright. 1923 by International
News Service.)
BY WIRELESS FROM THE 8. s.
PIERRE LOTT IN THE MFDI
TERRANEAN. ON SHIPBOARD
Sept. 5.-When l left Athens last
night the war cloud seemed to have
blown over in Greece, but 1t over.
IgS Belgrade pending the leasu
Of nations decision.
The Greek foreign minister as
sured me that Greece would no
declare war under any circum
stances unless the Greek mainland
were invaded.
Hr ~ quiet. No War-lik
agitation is permitted. No mill
tary measures have been taken, OK
cept the withdrawal of the fleet
behind the screen of mines neal
he Salamina forts.
But the Greek foreign office re
ports great excitement In Jugo
slavia. where the situation Ia evi
IDENTIFY serious.
1t develops that the Italian Off
-ials, who were delimiting III
ireek Alban an frontier, Wer
s'abbed in their beds and not kille,
" rifle fire.
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CRISIS
TOPIC OF
LEAGUE
Council, However, Takes No
Ection-Creece Demands
Intervention.
BY Interna onaI News service.

BY lBAeEUZNon8t GCWO 0SHbeS0s
GENEVA. sept. 5.-The League
of Nations council adjoutped To-
day without taking any decisive
action ii. the Italian-G Greek dis
pute. i
M. Politics, representative Of
Greece, read q long report de-
manding that the league inter
vene. He contended that "m the
league eshirks its duty in this
instance it will be wrecked.
Italian Gives Assurances.
M. Salandra, the Italian delegate,
maintained that the league was not
Italian-Greek controversy. He az.
sured the league members there IL
no danger Of war. Rome. he said,
does not recognize the right of
the league even to discuss the
Italian Greek proposals which are
now in the hands Of the Allied am
bassadors in Paris.
1t is reliably reported that the
South American bloc, which forced
the election of M. Della Torr1ente
of Cuba, as president, held secret
meeting to plan pressure to force
league Intervention upon Italy.
Cuba Called Resentful.
The South Americans claim that
the league will have been proved
useless unless 1t moves to protect
small nations. Italians sources
point out that Cuba's activity in
forcing league Intervention arises
from the fact that Cuba herself
may seek such action.
Cuba is resentful over American
pressure regarding the lottery law
and railroad legislation.
The council meeting adjourned on
motion of Lord Robert Cecil OF
England.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-05
THREE ALLEGED ROBBERS
ARE CAPTURED IN SWAMP

MONROE, N. Y. Sept 5.-The
three robbers who shot and killed
Detective Edward c. Dollard al
Monticello, after he, had surprised
them rohbing a store, were captured
by State troopers here today, after
being surrounded in the swamps.
The prisoners gave their names
as Cornelius Short, Jersey City
Peter Fessler, Gutenberg, NJ J..
and George Barohe, Hoboken, N J
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-05
Congressman Thinks
Italian-Greek War
Danger Has Passed

Danger of 1OGr bet1Oee1l Greece
and Italy is apparently over, &C
cording to the following radio
gram received in New York today
By Bradford Merrill, general man.
Gger of the Hearst newspapers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-05
HARVESTED
BY Police
SQUAD
Wagon Loads of Witnesses Are
Also Taken by Officials
to Station.

Under cover of the racous
strains of that famous banana
song, . score of police and pro-
hibition enforcement agents early
this morning raided Washington's
justly famous Old Dutch Mill, jazz
palace extraordinary.
Six men and one woman were
arrested and some dozen others
were taken to the Second pre-
einct station house, where they
suffered the taking of their names
and addresses. It was the Sec
ond visitation of the police in two
months and it was followed by
the same wild scrambling for
exits that characterized the first.
Seven Are Arrested.
Thomas e. Gardiner, colored
proprietor, was the first to feel the
heavy hand Of the law. He was
charged with running a disorderly
house. Henry H. Goldstein, assist
ant manager, was arrested on
charges of transporting. illegal pos
session, and selling.
Others who were arrested are:
Florence Green, thirty, 1927 NJ
street northwest, drinking in pub
lie; Raymond B. Evans, radio oper-
yator, at Fort Myer, drinking in
public; Walter E. McCollum, twen-
ty seven, 1905 K street northwest,
drinking in public; William E. Bur
ton, twenty-three. 1900 Ontario
road northwest. transporting.
A gallon of alleged whiskey was
seized in the raid. Two quarts
were found on Burton, it was said,
and a like amount Is alleged to
have been found on Goldstein. All
were released on bonds.
That the clientele of the jazz
palace has not suffered from the
first raid is shown by the list Of
those arrested. Margaret Wallace,
pretty model, who claimed to be
employed at the Corcoran Art
Gallery, living at 1901 NJ street
northwest, was one of those who
were taken to the station house
Is witness.
Another young man, equipped
with pad and pencil, who said he
was a reporter on a Washington
morning newspaper. was taken as a
witness. Police say he gave his
name as Stewart Careve, 901 x
street northwest.
Others alleged to have been found
in the place, and all of whom are
booked as witnesses are: Guy Young
gunner's mate, Navy Yard; Jesse
Simpson. 10 G street southeast
Ralph Payne Walbert, 935 K street
northwest; Edward Jones. 231 Ninth
street southeast; Joe Decker, radio
operator at Fort Myer; Carl
Schlager. Willard Hotel: James
Caldwell, National Hotel, and
Thomas Flamerly, 2144 H street
northwest.
Witnesses Taken.
Lieuts. o. T. Davis and Michael
Raedy, and Sergts. James Nc Quade
and Kilnnartin, of the Second pre-
cinct. headed the raiders. For some
time the police have had spoilers IN
the place and last night IT was
seemed the proper time to pull the
raid.
Two wagon loads of prisoners
were taken to the station house
The jazz band, melodiously turning
out enchanting music that was en-
1ivening the dancing, disbanded
abruptly, police say. The band mem
bers, experienced in the ways of the
police. sought means of egress from
that place.
The cases will be called In Police
Court today.
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MAN FOUND DEAD IN ROOM
OF RICHMOND HOTEL

RICHMOND. Va, Sept. 5.-,Iohn
M. Chandler, of Durham, NJ c.,
aged about fifty years, was found
dead on the floor of his room in the
Richmond Hotel this morning, death
being due to hemorrhage.
Coroner Whitfield was called to
investigate. Death was doubtless
due to natural causes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-05
Jananese Bonds Drop.

NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-Japanese
bonds continued to so lower today
= the result of the catastrophe
that visited Japan. Toxic SIS fell
over one point to a record low.
Other issues declined only Grac.
tiOnaliy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-05
Trade Boards Ask Coal Action

Acting upon the suggestion OF the
coal dealers of Washington, the
board of directors of the Washing
ton Board Of Trade decided last
night to urge President Coolidge to
speed up arbitration between the
coal miners and operators.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-05
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS
FELT IN CYPRESS ISLE

ATHENS, Sept. S. Renewed
earthquake shocks were felt today
Ipon the island of Cyprus in the
Mediterranean.
No casualties were reported.
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Premier Yamamoto had
previously been reported
as having safely taken
fight from Tokyo. He
was in conference with
his cabinet at the Naval
Club ut the time Tokyo
was burning and the pre-
mier and his official faEn-
lily narrowly escaped
death when. the building
was destroyed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-05
j. 5. NARSH|PS
HAVE REACHED
YOKOHAMA
Asiatic Elect Division Will
Give Immediate Aid
to Homeless.

BY international News Service.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. g.
Twelfth district naval headquarters
announced today that destroyer d.
vision ~ Of the Asiatic fleet under
command of Admiral A. e. Ander-
son had arrived at Yokohama.
The destroyers will give iYnmed-
late aid to the suffering people.
u. 8. Vessel Takes SOundings.
American destroyers, led by the
Stewart, Capt. E. B. Pettingill COM
handing, have reached Yokohama.
1t was announced today, and sound
ings of the harbor are being taken
to determine the safety of naViga-
ton.
The Stewart Is equipped with sonic
depth finders, the most modern In
struments for determining naVigable
waters.
Soundings are considered neceS.
sary In Yokohama because of the
great upheavals which have taken
place on the floor of the ocean there.
Ships Bringing Relief.
The army transports Merritt and
Meigs have left Manila for Yoke
hama with food, medical supplies,
and personnel for relief work in
Japan, Secretary of War Weeks
announced today.
The two ships are loaded with
supplies purchased and turned over
to the Government for transporta-
ton by the Manila chapter Of the
American Red Cross.
Additional supplies are to be
started on their way across the
Pacific within the next twenty-tour
hours, according to plans OF the
War Department and the Red
Cross.
u. s. 8. SonIme In Readiness.
Orders were issued today by Score
tary Weeks for the transport SOM
me. now at San Francisco, to be
loaded Immediately with food, princi-
pally rice, and medical equipment
and to stand by in readiness for a
dash to Tokyo. The Somme has a
CARRYING capacity of 5000 tons.
While this relief work is getting
under way. national headquarters OF
the Red Cross is perfecting plans for
it's nation wide campaign to raise
$3.50. 900 to provide for the dis
aster victims.
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Old Dutch Mill Raided Again
Yamamoto Is
Reported
Missing

BY international News Service.
MANILA, Sept. s.
Premier Yamamoto of
Japan 10 semi-of6cially re-
ported here today 40 miss
ing.
Evening star., 1923-06-21
Financial Failures.

Twice within week large bro
kerage and private banking firms,
members OF the New York Stock Ex-
change, have failed. One closed its
doors last Saturday and the other
yesterday. Both OF them. it is be-
lieved. have been embarrassed by
their dealings in German securities.
Both had close German connections.
The second house to fail was for a
time under restraint during the war,
under the trading with the enemy
act.
These failures do not necessarily
involve heavy losses, if any. They
are not particularly significant in
themselves, save through the coinci-
dence of close occurrence. Indeed,
the second failure is attributed in part
to the first. But an unfortunate
effect has been produced by the fact
that on Tuesday President Cromwell
Of the New York Stock Exchange
made an official statement Of reas-
surance to the effect that investiga.
ton Of several names touched by
rumor-that of the firm failing yes
terday being one OF them. though not
mentioned-shswed no suspicion OF
Evening star., 1923-06-21

weakness adhering to them. 1t Is
now pointed out. by conservative fec.
tors in New York that this statement
Is calculated, followed so quickly by
the announcement Of another failure,
to weaken public confidence in the
stock exchange, perhaps causing a
withdrawal Of support and patronage,
a heavy shrinkage in the volume of
business and possibly the beginning
Of a period Of stringency.
These failures are to be differen-
tiated distinctly from those others
that took place some months ago, one
of which led to a trial just culminat.
ing in confession and sentence of the
principals. The earlier failures were
those Of strictly brokerage houses of
a questionable sort, commonly called
bucket shops" The firms that have
just failed. members OF the New York
Stock Exchange. were in effect private
banks. with large brokerage connec-
tfons. 1t Is an interesting fact
worthy of note that in all likelihood
case had been recognized few hours
earlier it could have been averted. A
member of the Morgan firm was
called on Tuesday night by telephone,
being reached after several attempts
at quarter to IL O'Clock. He told
the representatives Of the firm that 1t
was too late to do anything then, but
suggested that they LAY the picture
before him the next morning at 10
o'clock. Before that arrived it was
too late, as the line of certification
had been exhausted and could not be
renewed. Probably with two hours
more in which to operate the credit
would have been covered and the fail
ure averted.
There Is nothing in these failures
to indicate an unsound condition of
domestic finance. They do, however,
suggest that financial houses with
heavy German holdings and interests
are in a measure Of danger. German
securities are not sufficiently fluid to
be safe holding. With the mark fall
ing as it is now to the point of van
ishment on the foreign exchange, and
with the German government in an
insecure position generally, financial
associations with that country are to
be rated as liabilities. rather than as.
sets, for any financial institution.
Evening star., 1923-06-21
The Marion Star.

President Hardins's sale of the con-
trolling interest in the Marion Star,
Just announced, is doubtless dictated
centrate all his energies and attention
upon his present eXacting job. Tn
doubted!y he relinquished his control
of the paper with deep regret. He had
held it for thirty-nine years. No man
let's go of a business in which he has
been the leader and director for four
decades, and which is still a prosper
Gus and profitable enterprise, without
a wrench. The fact that from the
editorship of the Marion Star Mr..
Harding has passed through the
United States Senate to the presi-
dency has not lessened his interest in
the work that was once his mainstay
and for a long time his sole occupa-
.tion. Presumably the Presidents re-
Iinquishment of control was dictated
by the desire to see the newspaper
that was his for SO long continue in
prosperity and strength, and feeling
that it could be SO maintained only by
putting it into the hands of those who
could devote themselves directly to it
without distraction.
The affection Of a newspaper owner
for the journal that he has made, or
that has made him, cannot be meas
ured in terms of profit or substantial
success. 1t is a parental affection
which is beyond definition. Therefore
IL is gratifying to find Mr.. Harding
now. while letting go the control of
his paper, holding an interest in it
and retaining, as It is stated, an edi-
torial connection with it. an interest
and a connection which will probably
continue throughout his life.
Evening star., 1923-06-21
On Guard.

Secretary of War Weeks. in q
| notable address delivered yesterday
at the commencement exercises of
Brown University, made a vigorous
drive against agitators who suggest
| nostrums for the ills of the body
! polite and again came valiantly to
! the defense Of the system OF indirect
representative democracy which now
prevails in the United States. Secre-
| tary Weeks, well grounded in the
principles Of the fathers, looks
askance at and deprecates the tend
and so-called reforms, and. although
philosopher that he is, he recognizes
that they are not new to this age,
generation or country. Every age
he said, has had its ultra -modernists
in political science, its violent critics,
its destructionists, its suggested cure
alls."
Recognition of that fact, however.
Secretary Weeks contended, does not
warrant abatement OF the necessity
ing Of pernicious doctrines by the agi-
tators of our times. He sees grave
menace in the expansion Of the pri-
mary system in nominations. He
contended that our experience with
the primaries thus far has improved
neither the quality of our government
nor the quality of our public serv-
ants" Viewing the possibility Of the
extension of the primary system to
presidential nominations, he said: 1T
is very easy to understand how a
man of some personal popularity, who
possibly has been brought to the ia
vorable attention Of the public through
some personal act or business activ-
ity, might be nominated for the presi.
dency, although he might not possess
one qualification necessary for that
great office"
Secretary Weeks warned his hear
ers that the system of government
inherited from the American fore
fathers is being endangered and weak
ened by the attempts at change on
the part of malcontents and by the
political inertia of believers in Ameri-
can representative government. 1t is
that inertia which may be truly said
to be the most dangerous phase Of
existing conditions; the Indifference
of the electorate who know better,
who are sound in their beliefs, and
yet fail to exert themselves in re-
sistance to the malcontents.
Secretary Weeks never uttered a
truer word when he said, History has
fully demonstrated the wisdom of
those rather conservative methods
and policies which have guided the
nation since 1776.'' 1t is devolvent
upon those who believe with him in
that statement to be on guard
against attempted impairment of the
system.