Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1921, Page 1

WEATHER. Partly cloudy; local thundershowers tonight or tomorrow; no change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at noon today: Highest, 81, at 11_am. today. today; lowest, 69, at 4 am. Full report on page 5. Closing New York St 8,216, e Entcred as second-ctass matter post _office. Washington, D. C. CUTS IN CAR FARES, GAS o WASHINGTON, D. C, WORKING BASIS FOR AND ELECTRICITY RATES ] 5 CrRMANPEACE ORDERED BY COMMISSION pyer oW FINSHED Eight Cents Cash Prevails on Traction Lines, But Five Tokens Will Be Sold for 35 Cents After September 1—New Gas Rate, $1.10. LIGHT RATE DROP DEPENDS ON COURT; CONSUMER TO CONTINUE TO PAY 10 CENTS| ©XFECT Commissioner Oyster's Plan to Permit Potomac Electric Power Company to Use Portion of Earnings Now Being Impounded Loses by 2 to 1 Vote—Quick Decision Surprise. New Pub for Rates for street car, gas the Public Utilities Commissi | effective September 1. tokens for 30 cents. Gas rates—$1.10 per 1,000 Electricity—8 cents per ki lic "Servicé R_ate's | Car fare—8 cents cash fare or five tokens for 35 cents, ; Old rates—8 cents cash fare, or four | 18. Old rate, $1.25 per 1,000 cubic feet. ber 18. Old rate, approximately 814 cents per kilowatt hour. | The charge to the copsumer will remain at its present rate of 10 cents, pending a court decision. ¢ i D. C. and electric lights, as fixed by on today, are as follows: cubic feet, effective September ilowatt hour, effective Septem- L ion downward A general revis: ered today by the District was ord: Cash street car fares will remain at 8 cents, but the rate tokens after September 1, when the be reduced. panies after that date wi which makes 2 uniform s a companies when tokens the used in’ The rate for gas i of rates for public utility service the_ Public Utilities Commission. . or new schedule becomes effective, will Instead of four tokens for 30 cents, the street car com- ill be compelled to issue five tokens for 35 cents, traight fare of7 cents on the lines of the several place of cash fares. s reduced 15 cents a thousand cubic feet, which will make the price $1.10 after September 18, the date of the next meter reading. The electric light charge undergoes a reduction® of 5 per c This means the present rate of 8 Jowered to approximately 8 cents. ent. /i cents for elegtric current will be In-so-far as the new electric charge is concerned, it will have to be approved by the court before it ca are now paying 10 cents for elect n be made effective. Consumers who ity will continue to pay that amount, but the courts will determine what part of the charge is to be impounded. At present the Potomac Electric Power Company, in accordance with instructions from the court, is impounding 134 cents of every 10 cents collected, and it is asumed that under the new schedule it mill impound approximately 2 cents. Oyster’s Plan Commissioner Oyster’s plan to mitting the Potomac Electric Power of impounding a portion of its earni cial assistance to its parent company, the Washington Railway and Elec-: Not Sustained. solve the street car situation by per- Company to discontinue the practice ngs in order that it might give finan- tric Company, was not sustained by the commission. Mr. Oyster gave a dissenting vote to the plan which oners Kutz and Rudolph. was adopted by his colleagues, Com- The commission met yesterday afternoon, reviewed the evidence taken in the recent rate hearing, decided on the changes that should be made in the rates and formally issu order embodying these chang It has been expected the commission would quickly dispose of the rate ses. but its action yesterday in ding up the entire docket came as urprise. The telephone company, « present rate, according to a ion rendered earlier in the week the commission, will be permit- Ty 1ed to stand seven months longer, is the only one of the four major utility corporations operating in the Dis- 1rict that escapes without a reduc- tion being imposed in its rates. 10-Cent Gas Cut Proposed. The Washington Gas Light Com- pany had voluntarily proposed to the commission that its present rate of $1.25 be reduced to $1.15. Below that price, the company told the commis- sion, it would not be able to go if it is to function efficiently. but the commission determined that another 5-cent cut in the rate, in addition to t1he amount suggested. by the cor- poration, would not operate dis- astrously upon its business. In the order affecting the street car companies the commission defends jts action in establishing a uniform rate of fare for both the Capital Traction and the Washington Railway and Electric _companies on the ground that different rates of fare would lead to intolerable conditions. Repenats Previous Holding. ‘The commission,” states the order, “repeats what it has said in previous street railway cases, that to give this reduction on the lines of the Capital Traction Company, and at the sxame time to continue the present rates on the lines of its competitor, the Washington Railway and Elec- tric Company, would mean that so much_traflic would be deflected from the Washington Railway and Elec- ed to the utilities companies today's \ tric system to the Capital Traction Company that &he revenues of the former would be decreased probably to a point below ac- tual operating expenses, thus necessitating increased rates on its lines, and at the same time destroy- ing the service standard of the Capi- tal Traction Company by an over- whelming traffic load,” which it could not possibly accommodate. In other words, it is highly desirable in the public interests to maintain a uni- form rate of street railway fares to prevent a disarrangement of street | railway service disastrous to the companies and to the public alike.” PRESIDENT HAM'S COMMENT. W. R. E. Head Says Return Will Be Reduced to 3.57 Per Cent. President Ham of the Washington Railroad and Electric Company made the following c¢omment upon the commission order: “I have not had an opportunity to Germany Has Assented to All American Propositions, It Is Understood. FORMAL TREATY SIGNING ED AT EARLY DATE Negotiations Carried on Three ‘Weeks—Picking Ambassador Puzzles Berlin. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, July 30.—The German for- eign cflice expresses belief that the negotiations, which have been pro- ceeding for the last three weeks be- tween Ellis Loring Dresel, the Ameri- can commissioner in Berlin, and Dr. Rosen, the foreign minister, have pro- gressed sufficiently to warrant the conclusion that a general working basis has been established for the con- clusion of a formal peace treaty be- tween Germany and the United States at an early date. It is understood in well informed quarters that the Geman government has assented to propositions submit- ted by the American State Depart- ment, through Mr. Dresel, in the way of informal inquiries based upon the essential principles enunciated in the Porter-Knox peace resolution. None of these, it is said. had been opposed by the Wirth cabinet, which is de- clared to be wholly in accord with the American attitude on the preroga- tives and privileges and various rights under the treaty .of Versailles, to which the United States is entitled by virtue of America's participation in the war. Economic Features Ignored. The informal pourparlers here have not touched upon economic features of the proposed treaty, but have dealt with the cardinal points upon which the United States places emphasis in connection with its interpretation of the Versailles treaty. The conclusions reached ag a result of Mr. Dresel's negotiations are being formulated in the manner desired by the Washing- ton authorities and an official memo- randum, it is forecast, probably will be ready for publication within'a few days. Upon this memorandum, it is { understood, the formal treaty will be based. The question as to German envoy In W while remains in abeyance, who shall be the shington mean- as the |German government prefers to await America’s initiative with respect to the appointment of her representative in Berlin. It is a matter of conjec- ture in official circles here whethufi,or". in which the king.dgclared accredited ambassadors will be ap: pointed to either post immediately, the inclination being to believe that the first stage in the resumption of relations probably will call for the renaming of charges equipped with far-reaching credentials, after which the regular diplomatic procedure will be followed by the selection of am- bassadors. Financiers Spurn Office. The German government I8 still ex- priencing difficulties in its efforts to induce any of the leaders of finance or commerce to accept the Washing- ton appointment, which apparently is viewed by the leaders of big business as anything but a sinecure. For this reason the probability is forecast that Germany will be compelled to re- sort to the academic world, where several candidates are in sight. The proposition is being made that an economic commission, in charge of a professional diplomatist, be dis- patched to Washington for a begin- ning, as it is recognized that the re- sumption of relations will involve the settlement of numerous pOSt - war economic issues for which the ordi-| narily equipped embassy would not suffice. The government also is mani- festing anxiety on the question of the cost of maintaining diplomatic and consular services in America in the face of the depreciated mark. 4,000 SPANISH KILLED BY MOROCCAN TRIBESMEN make a careful calculation of the re- sult under the commission's orders reducing the ratcs of car fare and of electric lights and power. “It would appear, however, that the revenues of the system will be re- duced about $550,000 per annum, of which ~approximately ~$337,000 will fall upon the railway company, re- ducing the rate of return to 3.57 per cent on the fair value of the proper- ties as fixed by the Public Utilities Commission. The new order is not effective until September 1, which will be ample for the board of direc- tors of the company to consider the matters involved in the commission’s orders.” —_— GOVERNOR TO RETURN. Len Small Says He Will Go to Springfield. AURORA, 11, July 30.—Gov. Len Small, who has announced his inten- tion of returning early next week to Springfield, where he is under indict- ment for embezzlement of state funds while state treasurer, today resumed. his tour of inspection of Illinois road projects. He plans to spend Sunday at his home, in Kankakee. PO S HOSPITAL FOR LOGAN. Former Governor Is Chief Backer of New Institution. Special Dispateh to The Star. LOGAN, W. Va., July 30.—A new hospital for Logan is planned by the Guyan Valley Hospital Company, Which has been incorporated by the secretary of state at Charleston. It \ill be owned chiefly by Dr. Henry D. Hatfield, a former governor of West Yirginia, and Dr. A. K. Kessler of the Kessler-Hatfield Hospital at Hunting- ton. The company is capitalized at $200,000, and the incorporators, be- sides Drs. Hatfleld and Kessler, are Drs. A. S. Jones, J. E. Rader and C. . Taylor of Huntington and Dr. S. B. Lawson of Logan. CANDIDATE IS UNOPPOSED. £pecial Dispateh to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., July 3%.— J. R. Henderson of-Stafford county has been declared the democratic candidate in the general election in November for he house of delegates from the legisla- tive district composed of Stafford and King George counties, no one having opposed him for the nomination before she primary, 2T FARM BUILDINGS BURN. | Flames Start From Engine Spark While Wheat Is Threshed. Special Dispatch to The Star. PURCELLVILLE, Va., July 30— While wheat was being threshed on the Hay farm, near Ashburn, this county, which is now owned by Cur- tis Arundel, fire was started by a spark from the engine yesterday aft- ernoon, and entirely destroyed the large barn, adjacent cow barn, corn | crib containing 100 barrels of corn, farming implements, several tons of hay, straw and part of theiwheat which was being threshed. ‘The loss is partly covered by in- surance. Panic Follows News of Death of Gen. Silvestre and Staff. LONDON, July 29.—Casualties suf- fered by the Spanish forces in the first two days of the recent fighting near Melilla numbered about 4,000, says the Melilla correspondent of the London Times. While they lost forty guns, many machine guns and eighty- five tons of munitions, in addition to automobiles and a great quantity of equipment and arms left in abandon- ed posts. g He adds that indescribable panic occured in Melilla when the news was received there of the death of Gen. Silvestre and his staff. The general's disappearance contributed greatly to the disorganization- which followed. CAMPERS IN CUMBERLAND Ford, Edison and Firestone to Go to West Virginia. CCMBERLAND, Md., July 30.—Hen- ry Ford. Thomas Edison and Henry M. Firestone, accompanied by Bishop William Anderson and other mem- bers of their camping party, arrived here from Big Pool, Md. They intend to obtain a camp site on Cheat river, in West Virginia, for the remainder of their outing, it was said. BLIND HERO OF ARGONNE STEALS AWAY BRIDE AFTER KIN STAB HIM By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, July 30.—The post- war romance of Salvatore Filippo, blind hero of the Argonne, is as full of thrills as was his military service, according to the story he told here today prior to his depar- ture for Erie, Pa., with his sixteen- | year-old Italian bride, Isabella. They arrived on the steamship Ar- gentina yesterday. Filippo lost his sight as a result of wounds suffered while rescuing a member of his’squad from no man’s land in the Argonne, and he went to the land of his birth a year ago with his mother. In a lit- tle village in the province of Lucca he met Isabella Bruna, and, charm- | n ;d by her soft voice, began to woo er. The girl's father objected to the suit. Filippo persisted, however, and, finally, he and Isabella were secretly married. Then, according to Filippo, relatives of the girl broke into his house at night and stabbed him, leaving him for dead and taking Isabelia away. They succeeded, he said, in tem- porally turning Isabella’s affec- tion away from him, but he in- duced her to visit him on board the Argentina just before it sailed. Telling her the boat didn’t sail un- til' 4 o'clock, he led her below decks, and when 4 o'clock came Isabella found she was twent. miles at sea. She refused to speal to him for several days, but before the steamer docked here they again were on honeymooning terms. a WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION KING'S REPUDIATION LONDON SENSATION | Newspapers Give Promi- nence to Affair—Many Attack Northcliffe. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 30.—The sensational and unprecedented incident of a British sovereign repudiating to par- liament through the prime minister statements attributed to him in a newspaper interview is given the greatest prominence in the entire British press this morning. | Political circles have been able to talk of little else since I’rime Minis- jter Lloyd George appeared in the house of commons yesterday and read a statement, authorized by King hat words attributed to him concern- ing the government's Irish policy in | a reported interview in the United States by Lord Northcliffe, owner of the London Times, were “a complete fabrication.” Cause of Repudiation. | The alleged interview quoted King George as saying to Premier Lloyd | George just before his majesty left England to open the Ulster parlia- ment: “Are you going to people in Ireland?” The premier is said to have replied: | No, your majesty.” Well, then, you must come to some agreement with them,” the king was quoted as saying. “This thing cannot go on. I cangot have my people killed in_this manner.” (The foregoing conversation ap- peared in an interview published in Ncw York city, July 23, attributed to H. Wickham Steed, editor of the Lon- don Times, who is traveling in Amer- a with Lord Northcliffe. It was igiven by Mr. Steed the day after his larrival “from England, and subse- quently appeared in English papers attributed directly to Lord North- {cliffe. The latter yesterday sent a cablegram from Washington to Lord Stamfordham, private secretary to i King George, denying the reported in- terview. Cablegram From Northeliffe, The cablegram sai “Please convey to his majesty, with my humble duty. my denial of ever| having ascribed to his majesty the| word or words as stated by the prime minister yesterday. 1 gave no such interview”). British newspapers display the en-! tire affair at great length and under) large headlines this morning. The, papers controlled by Lord Northcliffe | contain brief editorials calling at-| tention to the denials of both King George and Lord Northeliffe. The Times in an early edition as- sumed that the reporter who took the alleged interview was “misled by ig- norance of British constitutional p.rac- tices, but dramatized the conversation | with such technical skill® that the government was induced to accept his version “of a purely imaginary con- versation between King George and the premier.” This statement does not appear in later editions of the Times, neither does the Times nor the Daily Mail, an- other Northcliffe paper, offer a! further explanation of Lord North-| i cliffe’s share in the incident, but hoth devote considerable space yin com- menting upon the king's correct at- titude in relation to his opening of the Belfast parliament. Praine for King. The Times says: “At Belfast the king's action olhvi- ously was in accordance with consti- | tutional tradition, but at the -same itime it should be clearly understood that his majesty constitutionally was entitled to call the attention ut his advisors to his own standpoint. The Mail says that it is unnecessary to remind its readers regarding the “attitude of the Northcliffe press toward the throne of England and the revered sovereign who occupies shoot all the he king,” it continued, “hag dore more than anybody to bring about a new understanding of the Irish’prob- ! saved i vide adequate playground facilities SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1921—EIGHTEEN ening Star. | l l e PENNSY PAGES. ' Voice Echoing Amid Peaks Saved Mrs. Stone After Husband Fell By the Associated Press. SPRAY FALLS. Alberta, July 30.—! Mrs. W. E. Stone, resting in an im-| provised camp on Mount Eanon, de- | scribed today how the shrill sound of | her voice, caught up by the multitude of peaks and crags and re-echoing, | her life after her husband.| president of Purdue University of] La Fayette. Ind, had perished in climbing the mountain, and after she lain eight had days on a perilous had figured out the probable course that Dr. and Mrs. Stone would take in the attempt to ascend Mount Eanon. From a point | of vantage the searchers had scoured every side with their gladses without a sight of anything. Then, as they decided to go on, one member of the party thought he heard the ery of a woman from afar. _Listening in- tently, the searchers heard It again. A more minute inxpection with their glasses revealed far below and across the canyon the form of a woman. One hour later Mrs. Stone was rescued. Sas Body Tumble 5,000 Feet. At different periods she had raised her voice with all the vigor she had, expecting that some time it might be heard and she would be rescued. Dr. Stone was within five minutes’ climb of the top of the hitherto un- scaled mountain. the goal which he and his wife had set. when his own | death occurred. | The accident happened on July Mr. and Mrs. Stone expected to make the climb, rest at the top, and then | get back to the food caclte th«l! night | Dr. Stone was climbing above, hopefully, cheerfuly and unhesitat PLAYGROUND FUND (10 MILLION OFFERED CONTINUES T0 GAIN More Than Two Play Spots May Be: Opened Next Week. Contributions to the District play- grounds fund continued to reach Dis- trict Commissioner Oyster today, giving promise that more than two school playgrounds can be opened next week with the funds provided by the public. The total fund pledged up to last night was in excess of $300, and when Commissioner Oyster reached his desk this morning he found a number of additional checks had been received. These, however, had not been listed up to noon today, on account of the pressure of other District affairs to which the Com- missioner was required to give his entire attention. 1t is estimated, roughly, that $150 will be sufficient to keep the school play- grounds in operation for the balance of the summer.. Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, supervispr of playgrounds, sald today that the first school recreational parks to be opened for white children under the public fund would be either the Jef- ferson or Fairbrother school playground. The first colored school playground to be placed in operation under the fund will be either the Phelps or the Garrison. Mrs. Rhodes Makes List. Mre. Rhodes has a list of five white and five colored playgrounds and it 18 hoped that donations to the fund will be sufficient to make possible} the opening of all ten grounds before the last of next week. It was stated by Mrs. Rhodes that the opening of these grounds would relieve the sit- | uation"in the congested portions of | the city and be the means of taking thousands of children off the streets, Among the many indorsements of the proposal by Chairman Focht of the House District committee to pro- for all the children in the National Capital by the government taking over any vacant Jot the District au- | thorities desire for such purposes; until the owner is ready to build, lem, and to advance the cause of Irish peace, but he has acted, as he always acts, within the limits of his consti- tutional position. After ridiculing the at&ibution of such ‘“monsense” to the king: the Morning Post says that Lord North- |cliffe’s denial was needed “as the words ascribed to him were not en- tirely out of character to other au thentic uterances from the same lips. Assafled by the Post. Referring to an article in the Daily Mail last Thursday describing the activity of Lord Northcliffe in ‘America, the Post continues: “Northcliffe's mind is clearly over- strained. It is a case not for the poli- ticlans, but for the doctors. There is a point at which megalomania be- comes dangerous. The patient must either be persuaded to rest or his| The Daily News, suggesting that the upon it, comes one from Luis F. Fost of Chicago, formerly assistant Sec- retary of Labor. Calis Bill a Fair One. In recommending the passage of such legislation as a “sensible and fair proposition,” Mr. Post wrote to Chairman Focht as follows: “It may be of use to you to be re- minded that the only moral basis for permitting monopolization of natural resources (and that is what city lots are, as truly as a navigable river or a fall of waterpower they -shall be put to appropriate and serviceable use. This was the basis of feudal tenures as well, and we of modern times recognize its validity in suppressing unserviceable uses. “The relation, therefore, of lot own- ers to the public—at “any rate, as a_ n al proposition—in --the nature of a trusteeship. It is right epough, therefore, that when -the obligation friends must fear the worst.” i (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) - ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) |a sign, he plunged over her head to the ab: below. He fell fully 5.000 feet, in the opinion of his wife. She | her: ) is that | ngly, when without a word of warn- ing, a farewell of any kind, not even saw the body strike a rock, bound from it from cliff to cliff and on down the side of the mountain. She hegan a hasty descent down the cliff in an effort to get to her husband. | She fought her way down the side of the mountain, and when found was 3,000 feet below the point where Dr. Stone had fallen. On Ledge of Rock Eight Days. liow Mrs. Stone became marconed on a ledge of rock she does not know herself. She could proceed neither way. In that position she spent the eight days. She had no food, but during the middle of every day when the sun was high a tiny stream of nielted snow cafe close enough that she could refresh 1f. She never gave up the fight. v day she cried for help, and it was because of this spirit that she eventually was discovered. Dr. Stone seemed to have had a p1esentiment that the venture might. end in:disaster. When he and Mrs. Stone departed from camp on Mount Assiniboine, the Matterhorn of the Canadian rockies, on July 15, they they did not return in three days a searching party should be sent out. The mountain is almost inaccessible. Last vear a Wakefleld party made an unsuccess- ful attempt to scale it. They had reached an altitude of 9,763 feet. when they came to a stone wall which was impossible to ascend. They had no time to make another attempt, but suggested that an as- cent might be made from the south- east end of Mount Glory. With this mation. Dr. and Mrs. Stone made ort which ended tragically. FOR 287 VESSELS Various Bids Received by Shipping Board for Wooden Craft. A bid of $10.000,000 for the whole government fleet of 287 wooden ves- sels was received today by the Ship- ping Board made by R. A. Thompson & Co. New York city, but the en- velope did not contain a check for $1.000,000, the required 10 per cent deposit. The board is endeavoring to get in touch with the Thompson firm to ask about the check. Five of. the fifteen bids received were from Seattle. The bids aver- aged from $10 per ship, offered by one of five Japanese firms, to $7,500, of- fered by the C. S. Hutchison Company of Cleveland for.the ship Sturgeon Bay. The Ship Construction and Trad- ing Company of New York offered $2,100 each for the whole fleet. Pen- dleton Bro New York. $25,000 for five shi estall & MacQuaid of Seattle, $25 for forty-three ships: $5,000 for the Clio, by the Union Sulphur Company, were vari- ous offers made. The board took the bids under con- sideration. PROGRESS EXHIBIT OPENED. Seccretary of Labor Davis today opened the progress exhibit and con- vention being held on the Municipal pier in ‘Chicago. A signal from the White House officially opened the convention. The convention will last several days. Member of the Associated Pre: The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in thls paper and also the local news published All rights of publication of special ! 1 trickling down, Qispatches aerein are lv ieserved. Yesterday's Fate Smiles on Girl Asleep in Great Gun As Fort Fires Salvo By the Associated Pres PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., | July 30.—Loulxe O'Brien, four- | teen, minsing from her home all night, was found nt day- break aslcep inside the mur- wle of a l14-inch gun of the shore batteries at Fort Wor- den. Other gunx at the fort had been fired just before the girl wax dixcovered. According to | therities whe had horse back ride the previous afternoon. Far from home while she wax dismounted, the horse run away and she, low- ng her way and weary of dering in the darknesx, took refuge in the long black object that wuddenly loomed | in her path. ! Officers nt the fort xald it | wan only by chance that this | gun wax not fired. ENNSY AL CAR RFLED BY BANDITS Westbound Train Held Up Early This Morning—Clerk Wounded by Robbers. By the Associated Press PITTSBURGH, Pa. July 30.—Four bandits boarded the Manhattan lim- ited westbound on the Pennsylvania railroad at Cassandra, miles east of Pittsburgh, this morning at 2:45 o'clock, and after wounding A military au- one for a ninety car and escaped. The robbery occurred between Gal- litzen and Cassandra, while the train was in motion, two robbers having Iboarded the train when it stopped to {drop the “helper,” an engine which sists heavy passenger trains over nountain grades. They climbed down over the coal in | the tender. and while the other two {were at work in the mail car, ordered {the engineer to stop the train. This he did. and at almost the same mo- ment a_series of shots sounded from jthe mail car. which was hitched jus iback of the engine. Two of the bandits upon boarding the car ordered the seven clerks at work there to throw up their hands. They quickly complied, and the ban- dits, selecting Lantz, demanded to know from him where the valuables were kept. Maill Clerk Shot In Legs. Lantz told them there was no val- uable mail on board. at which one of them opened on him, shooting him {thrcugh both legs. 2 | The gunman kept the clerks covered. | while the other robbers made a quick search of the car. Selecting a bag containing 1 reign registered mall. he backed toward the door. and calling ito his companion prepared to lea Meantime, the pair on the engine had jdone tehir work. and as the train !pulled into the Iittle station at Cas sandra they all dropped to the ground and disappeared in the dark- | ness. The conductor and brakemen run- ning toward the engine to ascertain the cause of the sudden stop. encoun- tered mail ¢lerks pouring out of the car. They gave Lantz such aid as was possibie and then tooK the train to Johnstown, where Lantz were re- moved to a hospital. Physicians there I'said his injuries were not serious. Vain Search for Robbers. Federal and county authorities were quickly notified and hastened to Ca dandra, where search is being made for the bandits. They were joined later by a detail of the state police, and -a thorough tains in the vicinity of Cassandra. Soon after daylight they found a mail bag, evidently one stolen from the car. It had been slit open and the contents removed. Officials of the Pennsylvania railroad here said that the robbery is the first of a mail train in the long history of the Pittsburgh di on. The Man- hattan limited, which is one of the crack passenger trains l\e(w?en New York and Chicago, left New York last night at 6:05 o'clock, and arrived here twenty-three minutes late this morn- ing. It was in charge of Conductor James Thorne and Engineer G. A. Jackson. Post office authorities said that Lantz, the wounded clerk, resided at Thompsontown, Pa., near Altoona. —_— 5-CENT BANK “RUN.” Women Faint in Crowd at Boston Institution. BOSTON. July 30.—Several hundred persons, influenced, the police say, by malicious propaganda, were in line to withdraw their deposits from the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank when the doors of that institution opened today. continuing a run which began in mild form vesterday. Some of the depositors had been in front of the bank since 1 am. waiting to take out their money. notwithstand. ing reassuring statements issued by the bank commissioner declaring the bank absolutely sound. Five women fainted and became hysterical ~when policemen turned back & score persons who broke _through bolice guard at the door. No was seriously hurt. Officials of the bank said they were not disturbed by the prospect of a run, as there was $2,000,000 in cash in the vaults and $22,000,000 in other securities which couid be converted into cash within twenty-four hours. others mounted of the one peveRalidave - Lot sy X F Qintos cash withingtweRty-(okr Bous, ROOF OF GOVERNMENT PRINTERY WILL BE RAISED TO INSERT A STORY The difficult engineering feat of raising intact the roof of the south wing of the government printing office, measuring almost half a square in length and one- eighth of a square in width, has been undertaken in the work of adding a story to the top of the building. Huge “jacks” have been piwced under the supports. Six. of them already- are laid, and dozens of others will be needed beneath the roof-girders ‘before the roof can be raised without damage. The winding of the jacks will be un- dertaken, it is proposed, through steam. power. It will be two weeks -before the final work is completed which will allow the roof to be raised. The raising of the roof in this manner, it is expected, will save several thousand dollars which it would -cost if the roof were torn up in sections and replaced by a new roof. Improvements for the govern- ment printing office are going for- ward at a steady pace. The work is slower at present, according to engineers, than it will be after the roof has been raised. One of the features in the im- provements will be the enlarge- ment of the hospital space on the third floor. The addition of an- other section, with improvements in facilities, it is. expected, will double efficiency’in service. Public Printer George H. Carter, who has been out of the city this week, it is expected, will begin work on details of the plan for a ‘conference of departmental repre- sentatives on printing immediately on his return. The approval by President and Gen. Dawes, director of the budget, of the plan of cen- tralizing the departments in print- ing - work has virtually assured success of the plan, which will be put into operation as soon as de- tails as to its management are perfected. RUSSIANS ACCEPT { Woman to Riga—Sees ;Htm\'»r to aid 1 J. Lantz, a mail clerk, rifled the mail | Search is being made of the moun-| Net Circulation, 86,055 ! TWO CENTS. U.S. TERMS TOFREE PRISONERS FORAID Speedy Negotiations Asked to Relieve Million Famine- Stricker_] Persons. MRS. HARRISON RELEASED THROUGH U. S. SENATOR Baltimore No + Change Toward Americans. Mr. France Escorts BY tie Associated Pross. RIGA. Juiy 30.—The offer of Herber: in relieving suf- Sering due to famine on condition that all Americans now held prisoners in Russia be released has been accepted the Russian authorities, who sug- immediate otintions in order by ges ne to receive speedy assistance, according to a dispatch from the Rosta News Agency of Moscow, received here today The text of the reply, made in the iname of Leo Kameneff, head of the non-partisans’ non-political famine relief committec, is as follows: Tex of Acceptance. “The Russian government. upon learning of the proposals made by in the name of the American ief Association, finds them quite acceptable. including the stion of the release of American an government considers o fix oon as possible dit on which the im- e relations are to begin. humane intentions guarantee the feeding, medical aid and clothing of the million children and invalids. For this purpose the Russian govern- ment considers it uscful that Directo Brown or 2ny other person authorize for the negotiations should. immedi- tely come to Moscow, Riga or Reval he Russian soviet government ex- quick reply, stating the place and time for the negotiations (Signed) “KAM Acceptance No Sul SFF." ine. meneil's ! reply was sent o im Gorky to the soviet mission in London for delivery there throuzh the American relief organization, ac- cording to the local bolshevik le tion The acceptance by Russia of the demand for the release of the Amer- licans did not come as a surprise to the soviet authorities, notwithstand- ing the criticisms of the United States for raising the prisoner ques tion in u time of famine. The soviet officials - are understood 1o believe that their acceptance will not only bring the nceded famine relief, but also open channels of future rela- tions between Russla and America. The American government repre- sentatives in Riga consider the nots of Leo Kameneff announcing accept- ance of the Awmerican conditions for famine relief as constituting also an |answer to the demand made by S State Hughes for the r. the American prisoners in i U. S. Must Send Supplies. | The American relief administra i tion in the Baltic states is in no po- ition to extend aid on a large scale |to Russia at present. having only | sufficient supplies on hand for its re- | Hief work in the Baltic are: it was explained in connection with the news of the Russian accey tHence it is expected that the plies must be rushed from the United States. | The newspaper Novy Put, the official | bolshevik organ here, d res the ques {tion of releasing the imprisoned Ameri- cans was in no way connected with the famine in Ri 5 “The American government,” it says, “could long ago riated its | citizens from soviet prisons without re- sorting to such highly cultured and hu- mane_pre Thix was proved only vesterd: ching of an agree- ment betw and Hungary. If, however. the American government con- siders the present moment favorable for pressure on Russia, then certainly we can only be at the diplomatic tact of Secre te Hughes.” Baltimore Woman Free Mrs. Marguerite E. Harrison of Bal timore, a newspaper correspondent, who was among the American citi zens held prisoner in Russia, has been released by the soviet authori- ties and arrived here this morning The release of Mrs. Harrison was United States S {secured through tor Joseph I. France of M who has been on a visit to soviet Russia to investigate conditions there, and it was under his cscort that Mrs Harrison reached here today, the sen- ator having concluded his Russian visit. Mrs. Harrison is pale and thin, but | not in a particularly bad condition as the result of her imprisonment. Acceptance Surprixes. | Senatcr France expressed surprise at the announcement just received from Moscow that Russia had ugreed to release the American prisoners. “It had not decided at all thut when 1 left,” said the senator. | “Senator France's trip was an teresting one, he reported. “I still favor trade rclations with Russia,” the senator declared. He would not have anything fur- ther to sav in this connection, he add- ed, until he had an opportunity to obtain some rest, as he was much | fatigued. He said that while in Mos- {cow he had seen Nikolai Lenin, the | Russian soviet premier. Senator France said he brought no official messages from the soviet gov- ernment. He declared he found con- ditions in Russia improving, notwith- standing the famine. in- Mrs. Marguerite E. Harrison, daugh- ter of the late Bernard N. Baker of Baltimore, and a sister-in-law of Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, and for many years, a brilliant news writer, went to soviet Russia nearly cighteen months ago as hte corre- spondent of the Baltimore Sun, and the New York Evening Post, to write feature stories for those newspapers. Ehe also sent cable and wireless dis- patches to the Associated Press and for a time, up to last October, these messages were virtually the only first hand news received in the United States from the isolated capital of soviet Russia. Mrs. Harrison was taken into cus- [tody by the soviet authorities in June, 1920, just as she was about to leave Russia. She was released not long afterward, but was arrested for the second time October 24 last and since held prisoner. Several times efforts were made through official and pri- ivate channels to secure her release, i but in each instance up to the present these efforts were fruitless. Since the death of her husband, Thomas B. Harrison. Mrs. Harrison (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.)