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Evening star., 1925-05-12
SERIOUS COAST PROBLEM.
Superior Speed of Rum Runners Ham,
pers Pacific Blockade.

SAN DIEGO, Calf, May 12.-Offi-
GERS of the Coast Guard force here
admitted today that they were badly
hampered in their efforts to stop the
work of five large ships, four of them
carrying British flags and the other
flying the Belgian colors, which are
now cruising off the Southern Califor-
mia coast ready to deliver cargoes of
liquor to fast boats from shore The
ships are all faster than the Coast
Guard cutters, and the small boats
which go out for Illicit cargoes also
are faster than the Government craft
The Coast Guard cutter Tamaroa,
now in port, found the rum fleet off
Santa Rosa Island, which is one of the
Santa Barbara Channel group, on the
night of May 4. When daylight came
the Tamaroas s officers saw the five
large freighters, their decks piled high
with cases of whisky, only a short dis
tance from the island. With them was
a score of fast motor launches, sup
posed to have come from San Pedro.
The speedboats Immediately began
racing at full speed in the direction of
San Pedro, while the rum-carrying
ships began weighing anchor.
One of the British rum runners
steamed out to sea, followed by the
Tamaroa. Another headed south.
one of the liquor ships for $50 miles
off shore, when it gave up the chase.
Returning to Santa Rosa Island, the
cutter found that some of the liquor
ships had returned. Again it gave
chase, this time following one of the
vessels until it was in Mexican ter
ritorial waters. Later the Tamaroa
ran into another flock of big rum run
ners. Short of provisions and fuel, the
cutter finally was forced to come back
to San Diego, le, wing the duty of
keeping an eye on the rum fleet to the
cutter Vaughan.
That the rum fleet is receiving able
assistance from conferedates ashore
was the statement made by officers
of the Tamaroa.
While chasing vessels of the rum
fleet the Tamaroa sighted floating
about Is miles off San Clemente
Island fifty fuel tanks lashed to.
gether. These tanks, filled with much
needed fuel oil for the British rum
ships, had been towed out to sea by a
launch.
Coast Guard officers said two British
rum runners were at anchor yester.
day near the Cortes Banks, so miles
due west of Point Iona, and two
others were off Santa Rosa Island.
The Belgian steamer Gertrude, first
of the New York rum fleet to appear
Continued on Page 8. Column So
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Special Dispatch to The Star.

SFtCIdI UisphIch 70 The star.
BOSTON. May 12.-Adherence by
the United States to the World Court,
unless the statute providing for the
court is amended means the entan-
clement of this country in the league
and the political affairs of Europe,
Senator Borah of Idaho, chairman of
the Senate foreign relations COM
mittee, said in an address last night
TO the Unitarian Laymen's League.
The World Court today is the
League of Nations court a depart
ment of justice" of the league; 1t is
dominated at last by the politics of
foreign offices of the different govern
ments," Senator Borah insisted de-
claring his opposition to the adher-
ence of the United States to the court
Evening star., 1925-05-12
WOMEN ARRA|GN
JUNGLE MORALITY
Quinquennial Delegates De.
clare for Equal Standards
for Both Sexes.

The International Council of Wom-
en- today turned it's attention to the
| oldest and newest issues affecting
the status of women in the world -
morality and suffrage.
Nine. Avril de Ste Croix, veteran
French apostle of equal moral stand
ards to replace the jungle code by
which women are cructf:ed a-d men
unpunished for the same offense, had
passed a series of resolutions de-
signed to help forward tn. work
The suffrage resolutions, presented
by F'ru Betty Kjelsberg of Norway,
and which called for a feminist bloc
in the parliaments of the world,
stirred an animated discussion, in
which German and Scandinavian del
egates were lined against British and
American
The morals resolutions follow:
The |. G. w. urges that measures
be taken for suppression of such
newspaper advertisements as are CAL
culated to incite immoral behavior
The l. G. w. urges the institution
In all countries of woman police. with
the same status and responsibilities
as men in the same service.
Geneva Plan Indorsed.
The l. c. w. urges that the age
OF consent be referred to a future
conference to enable a more compre-
hensive study to be made
The International Council of
Women urges all women in countries
not yet having ratified the convention
OF Geneva for the protection of women
and children to use all their in
fiuences to obtain ratification"
'I'nnCidnrincr hn hot
would accrue If the international
societies established a common plan
or work for the protection of immi-
grants and for the campaign against
the traffic in women, the committee
against the traffic urges that the ma
tional councils endeavor by their in
f1uenee with their affiliated societies
to establish a more effective and eco
nomical organization"
The International Council of
Women urges that in those countries
in which there is still state regulation
OF prostitution the national councils
should continue to work for the sup
preston of regulation, which, by de-
grading a whole class of women, per-
petrates an injustice and is an out
rage against womanhood.
The suffrage resolution, which
aroused the discussion, was:
To Disrupt Parties.
Resolved, That in order to get the
best results from their voting power
women, when they are enfranchised.
should join political parties and should
form groups within their own parties
for the discussion of the special wom-
ans point of view on all political ques-
tions, and through which they can
unite to influence them
This was passed after a move to
withdraw 1t had been defeated by q
narrow margin. Fru Kjelsberg eX-
planned that this system had been used
by the Norwegian women.
Mrs. j. H. Cowan. delegate from
Australia and former member of the
Australian Parliament, spoke against
the resolution. 1.-The evils of party
government" she said, "are well
known. Parties usually are more of a
curse than a help to movements Of
this kind. But once women are in
parties then party loyalty is the e.
Continued on Page 4, Column ~
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CAILLAUX REVEALS PLAN.
Would Apply Annuities to Recon-
StrucfiOn and Debt.

PARIS, May II (AP.-Finance Min
lister Caillaux announced today that the
Dawes plan annuitieS that revert to
France must be used for the compile
ton of the reconstruction of the
devastated regions, and for the
amortization of interallied debts, under
some form to be determined later.
Caillaux made the statement to the
finance committee of the Chamber In
Quilting his financial plans.
Caillaux declared that three and one
half billion francs must be raised to
balance the 1925 budget, and he added
that France must be prepared to
make heavy sacrifices which he hoped
would be only momentary.
Is Silent on Plans.
The finance minister informed the
Chamber committee that he had
evolved plan for the rehabilitation
of French money and for the refund
ing of the domestic debt, but would
not go into details or even consider
doing so as long as France is not GER
tain of having a fully balanced budget
and as long as the problem of inter
allied debts, which the government is
going to try to solve, has not been
settled
CaillauX said that among the re-
ceipts shown by the 1925 budget was
1.240,000, 900 francs from the Dawes
plan, of which, owing to the heavy
proportion of deliveries in kind, only
small proportion in cash was re-
ceived by the French treasury.
The first effort of the government,
Caillaux declared, would be the imme-
diate and final liquidation OF war dam
ages through loan annuities, which
were guaranteed by the payments ex-
pected from Germany.
Caillaux gave the French internal
debt as 150, ,000, ,000, 900 francs and con-
solidated loan at 10000, ,0OO,OO0.
Short term paper issue and the in
come tax cannot be increased, he SAID,
but fraud will be eliminated.
Anxiety Is AlIayeG.
The anxiety caused by newspaper
dispatches from America to the effect
that the United States was about to
prevail upon France to settle her war
debt has been allayed by corrections
issued in Washington and Paris.
The explanation of the commotlon
appears to be that M. Caillaux is con-
tinuing the negotiations started some
time ago by his predecessor, M. Gle
mentel, but in more practical and ef-
fective manner.
There is less talk now of an eventual
scaling down of the amount to be re-
paid to America. 1t is said in diplo-
matte circles that the Herriot govern
ment, which preceded the Painleve
ministry, abandoned all claim to
eventual reductions.
Evening star., 1925-05-12
Food Prices Here Steadily Increase;
Range Higher il, Only 2 Other Cities

Retail food prices in Washington
have increased IL per cent during
the past year. showing a steady
upward progress since April, 1924,
until a few days ago food prices in
the Capital were 81 per cent above
the average cost of food in 1913.
The latest compilations do not 30
beyond April Is, but on that date
prices here ranked among the high
est in the country. According to
Department of Labor figures only
3 of % of the large cities of the
Nation showed a greater increase
over 1913 prices than Washington.
Food prices here reached their
peak in the middle of 1920. when
Washington showed the largest in
crease over 1913 base prices cf any
of more than so large cities. In the
Fall Of 1920 food prices in the Cap
ital began to decline, reaching their
Evening star., 1925-05-12
PRESIDENT HOPES
NEW DEBT PARLEy
WILL SETTLE ISSUE
Counts on Conversations
Bringing Definite Plan of
Loan Repayment.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
President Coolidge hopes the con
versations now in prograss in Paris
and Washington on the French debt
settlement question will lead to some
definite plan for a refunding agree
ment.
1t apparently is too early to make
positive predictions whether this hope
is to be realized, but Mr.. Coolidge re-
CARDS the discussion, as having al
least entered the stage of "negotia
tions"-a term applied in diplomacy
to describe only definite and concrete
International exchanges.
White House and other officials
would not say today whether they re-
garded the statement made by FL
nance Minister CaillauX to the French
parliamentary finance committee as
indicating that the negotiations had
entered a more definite phase.
The American viewpoint on that
subject probably will not be formed
until official reports of the state
ments are received from Paris.
CAIIJAIX REVEALS Plan
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BORAH TO BACK World COURT
IF 1T is DIVORCED FROM LEAGUE
La,U Creating Body Must Be Rewritten, He Tells Uni.
tarians-ReserUations Proposed by United
States Declared InefectuaI

unless it should be completely di-
vorced from the League of Nations.
If the World Court should be given
complete independence with no league
attachments, Senator Borah would be
ready to support it, and support the
entry of the United States into such
a tribunal
1T is claimed" Senator Borah said.
that we Cwho oppose the COURT are
preJud1ced against this tribunal be-
cause the league created it. Speaking
for myself, have no objection to it be-
cause the league created it. 1 do not
care about the fact that the league
created it, If the league will give it its
independence after it is created.
Il think ii is in the interest of
CONTINUED on Page 8 Column d
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lowest point late in 1923. In the
Fall of that year they began to rise
slowly, with the upward progress
in prices being accelerated during
the first part of 1924. and finalIy
stopping last Fall. Since last Fail
prices have dropped slightly here.
the Labor Department figures show
Z but are still far above the general
average.
In April year ago Washing
ton. Baltimore and Birmingham
topped all of "a cities with the in
crease shown over the 1913 base
In April this year Birmingham was
the city with the largest increase
81 per cent-over the 1913 base
while Washington showed a 81 per
cent rise.
Evening star., 1925-05-12
Acts to Bar Not Only Mails,
But Express to Obscene
Writing and Art.
JUDGES ALLEGED LAXITY
DRAWS P. O. AGENTS FIRE
Prosecutor Completes Plans to
Bring Local Dealers Before
District Court

While Assistant District Attorney
Ralph Given was completing plans
today for his first legal barrage into
the ranks of dealers in salacious lit
erat ire and obscene art" here, the
Post Office Department has begun to
put into operation machinery intended
TO deny the publishers of such ma
terial not only the use of the mails,
but the right to transport their maga-
zines and pictures by express, too.
Although it is commonly believed
that the publishers of "unmailable"
reading matter and photographs can
circumvent the law by distributing
their questionable wares through eX-
press companies, officials at the Post
Office Department declared today that
it is illegal to put such material in
interstate commerce in any manner
whatever, and those found engaged in
such practices are to be prosecuted TO
the limit.
Evening star., 1925-05-12
Heads Italian Navy.

ROME, May IL A.P)-Premier
Mussolini has appointed Vice Admiral
Baron Alfred Acton as head of the
general staff of the Italian Navy.
Baron Acton served as the Italian
naval delegate at the Washington
Armament Conference.
Evening star., 1925-05-12
80 of 32 Convicted in 1924.

Thirty-two publishers of ribald mag
azines and vendors of obscene pictures,
most of which were photographs from
actual life, were arrested last year for
violating the postal and interstate
commerce laws. Only two of this num-
Der succeeded in establishing their in.
nocence, the others being found guilty
and sentenced to fines or imprison-
ment by courts in various parts of the
country. 1t is believed this number
will be exceeded this year.
The Post Office Department, inspec-
tors pointed out, is handicapped in
its campaign against salacious publi-
cations by an insufficient force to
more carefully examine the mails for
violations of the law. In the past. it
has been obliged to devote its activi-
ties to looking up publishers against
whom definite complaints have been
made. AS a result, many others have
been slipping through, which accounts
for the startling number of question
able magazines that are to be found
for sale on Washington newSstands.
Evening star., 1925-05-12
SFrOnt Press to Home
Within the Hour

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star., 1925-05-12
so Tons Seized i'm Year.


More than so tons of magazine.
were seized by postal inspectors las
year and destroyed arbitrarily. :!
score or more sacks of "unmailable
material. all magazines and pam
phlets, are reposing in the office o
local inspectors now, awaiting a sim
liar fate. Some of these sacks cor.
tain current editions of magazine:
that have been offered for sale or
Washington newsstands for months
appealing largely to the trade of The
younger boys and girls in the high
schools.
Bitter complaint is made by some
of the inspectors oTer the easy
sentences imposed by judges III some
of the States on the publishers OF
several magazines. In one case
after a publishr had pleaded guilty
to number of counts the court
fined him one-half of the minimum
fine and sentenced him to 80 DAYS
on each count. but promptly placed
him on probation. The agent hac
worked for weeks to make com
plete case against this publisher.
Close Inspection Ordered.
Such instances, il was declared
have encouraged publishers to increase
more and more the field>of licentious
literature until today, inspectors say
the magazines that are plainly beyond
the pale of common decency can be
counted by the scores. AS a result,
plans are being made to tighten in.
spection of mails in every city, with
the hope that eventually the mails
may be completely closed to such pub.
llcations. Express offices, too, are to
be diligently watched, and any indie
cent publication that is brought to the
attention of the postal inspectors will
be thoroughly investigated.
Assistant District ATTORNEY Given
intends to make his prosecution sweep
ing. He feels that the very manner
in which some local news dealers dis.
played lewd pictures puts them out of
the realm of art" He cited one case
in which one dealer had opened a
magazine to two pages filled with nude
pictures and placed it in his front win.
dow to attract trade. He does not
believe a plea on the ground that the
drawing represented art" would hold
before any jury.
Plans Test Cases.
He plans to make a definite tes,
with the two cases for which he has
asked that warrants be issued. Should
the courts sustain him, which he
confidently believes will follow sub
mission of the evidence he has accu
mulated. he intends to sweep Wash
lngton clean of icentious literature
and put an end once and for all to
the practice of dealers in '1ewdness'
deliberately catering to the trade OF
high school boys and girls. Indica
tlons that even children in the graded
schools have been sold some of the
literature have been found.
District Attorney Peyton c. Gordon
declared that the section of the Dis
trict code which forbids the sale of
lewd or indecent magazines is not only
clear, but is sweeping in it's scope. He
said it takes in all types of magazines
and even books, of which a number
also are under scrutiny The law
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
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WEATHER.

tU. s. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Unsettled tonight and tomorrow;
not much change in temperature.
Temperatures-High II, at $3.50
yesterday. Lowest, so, at Z am. to-
day.
Full report on page Z.
Evening star., 1925-05-12
Oath is Taken.
Manifesto to People.

In manifesto to the German people
this afternoon President Won Hinden-
burg said:
True to. the oath, 1 will devote all
my energies to guarding the consti-
tuition and laws. Let us strive through
honest, peaceful work TO gain the rec
ognition of other nations to which we
age entitled, and to free the German
name from the unjust stain which
still lies on it today"
The President added that his Office
did not belong TO one clan, one re
Hgious persuasion or one party alone,
but TO the people in its entiretX
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Continued on Page 3, Column s.
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BERLIN, May 12.-Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg was inaugurated
President of Germany today.
Except for e. brief shout of protest
from the Communists, the inaugura-
tion was carried out according to
schedule. the field marshal being
sworn into office by Reichstag Presi-
dent Paul Loebe before a crowded
house.
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Continued on Page 8, Column p
Evening star., 1925-03-25

Cotton production has become the
main agricultural enterprise of north
Syria
Evening star., 1925-03-25

Air-linerS planned by the British In
passenger service between England
and India are to use hydrogen in the
gas bags
Evening star., 1925-03-25

an actual naval battle. Each salvo
OF the IL drea.dnaughts represented
the firing of some 125 tons Of steel
projectiles.
The great battle line staggered
through the calm Pacific waters
amid protective smoke screens at
q speed of IS knots, or more than
20k miles an hour. Stagger was the
word, for a squadron of gray de-
.stroyers launched schools of tor
pedoes, with dummy heads. at the
battle line, Stimulating the enemy,
and causing the dreadnaughts to
veer this way and that to avoid the
one weapon that the dreadnaught
fears most.
The ton projectiles Of the mighty
16-inch guns are sent 20 miles with
a force that no arinor can Withstand,
and the turrets can hurl one every
Ave seconds.
Evening star., 1925-03-25
Orders Husband to Wait.

Justice HitZ yesterday ordered Her
bert A. Newton to stay in Washington
pending the determination of a suit
for maintenance filed by Mrs. Frances
X. Newton, who charges her husband
with mons support. The wife tells the
court that Newton said he would leave
town if she sued. They were married
Al Richmond, Va, May %, 1920, and
have one child. Attorney Samuel NJ.
Boyd represents the wife.
Evening star., 1925-03-25
125 TONS OF STEEL
HURLED IN SALVOS
Eleven Dreadnaughts Fire
Six Minutes, at Same Time
Dodging Torpedoes.
By the Associated Press.

BY tht Abs0ClAted FreBs.
NAVAL BASE, SAN PEDRO, Calf.
March 25.-The commence firing
pennant from the signsl bridge of
the superdreadnaught California was
the herald today for the six most
noisiest minutes In the naval history
Of the Pacific Ocean. The naval back
bone of the American Nation stood
in battle line, 10 miles Off the base
here. for the major gunnery event
Of the year, force practice of the
battle fleet.
This practice Stimulates a naval en-
gagement of six minutes on behalf
of mightier feet in gun power
than history has ever reported in
Evening star., 1925-03-25
TIGERT TO BE HEARD.
q. S. Education Commissioner
Will Address Teachers Tomorrow.

Commissioner of Education John j.
Tigert will speak to the teachers of
the tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thir-
teenth divisions of the public schools
in the auditorium of Dunbar High
School tomorrow at 2:45 o'clock.
The meeting will be under auspices
Of the Columbian Teachers Associa-
tion, composed of nearly all the off,
GERS and teachers of the divisions
named above. Garnett B. Wilkinson.
first assistant superintendent of
schools, will open the meeting and NJ.
Grant Lucas, president of the asso-
citation, will preside.
Evening star., 1925-03-25

bellicose desires and deprecated all
idea of discord
Il am curious, therefore, to know"
he said. who Is going to start a war
between the two countries"
AS proof OF the friendship of Japan
and the United States, toasts were
proposed to President Coolidge and
the Emperor of Japan.
A cabtegram from Prince Tokti-
gawa, president OF the Japanese
Evening star., 1925-03-25
MATSUDAIRA SEES
NO WAR LOOMING
"Who Would Start Conflict Be-
tween q. S. and Japan?"
Envoy Asks.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 25.-Tsuneo
Matsudaira, new Japanese Ambassa-
dor, told the Japan Society at its
annual dinner here last night that
on his way to Washington he had
been asked what he thought of the
possibility of war between Japan and
America.
Convinced no issues existed between
the two countries which awaited ad-
justment by force, the Ambassador
said he replied:
Il don't think about it"
With unirnportant exceptions, he
said, both peoples have disclaimed
Evening star., 1925-03-25
Cartoonist Nears Recovery.

DES MONIES, Iowa, March 25.-J. n.
Ding" Darling. cartoonist, has "im-
proved rapidly since the first progress
was noted yesterday, and every hope
is held for his complete recovery,
said a bulletin issued today by at
tending physicians. The cartoonist
is i'll with peritonitis.
Evening star., 1925-03-25

The oratorical contest has aroused
great deal of interest at Dunbar High
School. The principal, Walter l..
Smith (shown below, has appointed
a faculty committee to make arrange
ments for the contest. members of
which are shown above. Upper row, left
to right: G. Daniel Houston, chairman;
Neyal H. Thomas, William NJ. Brewer.
Lower row, left to right: Clyde C.
Mcduffie, Eva B. Dykes and Louise
Cook. There is also a student commit
tee made up of Charles B. A Shorter,
Howard Allen, Harold Lewis, Edward
Edwards, Edith Flynn, Louise Tashley
and Wanna James, which is co-ope-
rating with the faculty committee for
the contest.
Lillian l.. Washington was the
schools representative in the 1924
contest.
Evening star., 1925-03-25

House Of Peers. expressing the -coun-
try's sympathy for the tornado suf-
ferers of the Midwest and South.
was read. So
Evening star., 1925-03-25

Collecting dolls is hobby with
Miss Myrta o. Bosworth of Norton.
Mass, and some of those in her col
lection of more than 100 are over 50
years old.
Evening star., 1925-03-25
U. S. LAND WITHDRAWN.
Taken From Public Domain When
Valuable Ruins Are Found.

More than 10000 acres forming part
of the Parunaweap Canyon, adjoining
the Zion National Park, in Utah, was
temporarily withdrawn from the public
domain by an executive order issued
today, pending legislation to add it to
the park.
The withdrawal was made after the
area was found to contain prehistoric
ruins and Indian graves. The area COM
prises unsurveyed and unappropriated
land and a petroleum reserve.