Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1921, Page 2

EIGHT COMMUNIST LEADERS ARE SLAIN Trotsky Reveals Assassina- tions During the Past Two Months. “WHITE TERRORIST” PLOT Maxim Gorky Among Other Rus-| sians Threatened—Relief Work Now Is Under Way. By the Associated Press. RIGA, September 1.—Eight Russian communist leaders at Petrograd have been assassinated within the last two months in connection with the *“white terroist” plot, it was revealed by Leon Trotzky In a speech before the Moscow soviet meeting last Tuesday night, ac- cording to a Rosta news agency dis patch, received here today. The dispatch added that attempts had been made to assassinate M. Zinovieff, chairman of the executive committee of third internationale; Maxim Gorky, and M. Ansilohitch, president of the Petrograd trade unions, and to rob a train loaded with gold and other valu- ables on which Leonid Krassin, the soviet trade representative, was riding. CHILDREN FACE STARVATION. 225,000 Being Fed by Tartar Re- public to Be Turned Out. By the Associated Press RIGA, August 31.—In one of Rus- sia’s starving regions, the Tartar re- public, even the children will receive no food after tomorrow, according to announcement published by the Izves- tia toda. Twenty-five thousand children main- tained by the state institutions will be dismissed, while 200,000, fed under the card rationing system, also have received their last supplies, the an- nouncement said. The monthly re serve of the Tartar government to the amount of seventy cars of bread, sev- enteen cars of cereal and two cars of sugar have been exhausted and no further supplies are in sight. FOOD BEING UNLOADED. PRESIDENT WANTS CONGRESS -TO ACT (Continued from First Page.) steel business and other trades af- fected by railroad development would bave to take back many of the men they have laid off. Mr. Harding pleaded with Congress to act on the railroad bill before it recessed so that an improvement in the industrial sit- uation might result, but the Senate refused to allow the plea to interfere with its plans for a month’s vacation. Business Men Want Tax Fixed. Fourth, Congress has debated first the tariff and then the revenus bill, and has failed to pass either one. The ad- ministration has urged action right along, contending that the business men of the country want to know what their taxes will be before they make any plans for expansion or the reopen- ing of factories now closed down. t is practically as difficult to operate a btusiness without knowing the size of the year's tax bill as to try to get along without knowing from week to week or year to year what the pay- roil will be. Business petitioned Con- gress to hurry up and get the tax bill through by July 1, so that planning could- be done during the sunmmer months. Now it will be late autnmn be- fore there wil be a revenue bill. ‘The administration will have to keep Congress constantly reminded of its duty to get results on the tax bill, the passage of which is expected to stimulate business. Conference Com ed. The unemployment conference is generally commended in Washington as a move in the direction of discov ering the true facts, but when any: body asks an administration official what is to be done with the facts, at remedies are proposed, the in- table answer is a shrug of the shoulders and the expression of a hope that Congress will take heed and employ itself with pending legis- lation. (Copyright, 1921.) ASKS $15,000 DAMAGES. ‘Woman Claims Voice Was Affected Through Collision. Grace M. Cross, through her attor- neys, Wilton Lambert and R. H. Yeat- man, has filed suit for $15,000 damages against the Capital Traction Com- pany. The plaintiff avers that on July 24, while seated in a stalled automobile on the Calvert Street bridge, one of the company’s cars, without warning, collided with the vehicle and in con- sequence she was injured to such an extent that she has been unable to use her singing voice, “by which she placed of Lo, the state capitnl the counties involved. CAR STOPS CHANGED, BUT NOT ANNOUNCED Although the Public Utilities Com- number of changes in the location of nounced following, the meeting that Asked if he thought it advisable for are to stop, Mr. Allen replied they moved. Mr. Allen said it is the rule of the changes in car stops. ‘The commission also approved, with mission, in session today, ordered a car stops, Walter C. Allen, executive the changes would not be made public. the people to know where street cars would know that when the signs are commission not to give out proposed a few minor changes, the tentative equipment and operation of motor bus secretary of the commission, an- rules recently drafted to govern the , would also be under martial law, . Shaded portion of map shows five West Virginia countiea which may be 1t is located id ome of PRESIDENT SOON TO ACT ON MARKET VALUATION ‘Will Soon Take Up Appointing of Commissioners to Determine Damage at 7th and B. President Harding very shartly will take up the matter of appointing the commission provided for by an act of Longress to appraise the valuation of the Center Market bullding at 7th and B streets and to determine the damage that will follow taking ever of this property by the government. Assurance to this effect was given by him to former Senator Nathan B. Scott of West Virginia, who called at the White House in the interest of stockholders in the Washington Market ompany, which now owns tne building. Hih- informed the President that because THOUSANDS REFUSE _ TO RETURN HOME FROM MARCH (Continued from First Page. than disturbing reports began to ar- rive at Gov. E. F. Morgan's office that men waiting in western Boone and eastern Logan countles to join the marchers when they got that lnu- S had not dispersed and were in: on completion of the march. these reports reached Logan county the authorities immediately took steps to prevent a movement across it. Deputy sheriffts were dispatched to the eastern hills' to offer resist- ance. Meanwhile alarming reports that the east Logan and west Boone coun- ty bands rapidly were growing larger and that men from Cabin and Paint creeks were streaming across Boone county to join them caused Gov. Mor- gan at midnight Monday to dispatch an appeal to President Harding for federal ald. During this time the Logan authorities were not idle. Calls for help went to ad- Jacent counties and hundreds of citizens, including many ex-service men, re- sponded to the call. State troopers from Mingo also were rushed in and special trains from Charleston carried arms and ammunition into the county. Adjt. Gen. John H. Charnock and mine workers’ officials visited the armed camp of the marchers in the vicinity of Jeffery, close to which are the towns of Blair, Clothier and Sharples, often mentioned in the news dispatches as seats of trouble. They exhorted the men to abandon their enterprise, but to no avail. Three Killed Yesterday. Yesterday the marchers started to advance in at least two places—over Blair mountain anr at Crooked creek. Reports brought into Logan, the county seat, were that several mem- bers of the blocking patrols had been killed and indicated casualties among those trying to move forward. Through the night, motor cars transporting additional men and mu- nitions sped along the Logan-Blair road to Spruce Fork ridge and re- turned with reports that firing con- tintzed along a three-mile line. Authorities definitely have estab- 1ished that three of the Logan county forces were killed yesterday. These men, one a deputy sheriff and the others volunteer peace officers, were shot to death in the Blair mountain encounter, which occurred shortly be- fore firing on Crooked creek began. In addition to John Gore, a Logan dounty deputy. previously reported killed, John Cofago and Jim Munsie fell in_the mountain fight, Conflicting reports of casualties among _the men trying to march to- ward Mingo were received at the sheriff's office early today. The num- had heretofore been able to receive considerable compensation.” Eleven Cars Leave Riga for Famine | Suit against the Baltimore and Ohio of the delay in appointing this commis- 2404 v arkel company has been put to great disadvantage and embarrassment. lines in the District. These regulations require adequate heating of the buses in winter, specify ber ranged from one to a dozen. It was explained in some quarters that it was extremely difficult to check Area. By the Associated Press RIGA, August 31.—American food for starving Russian children is rapidly being unloaded at Riga and Reval. Eleven cars, carrying fifteen tons each, left Riga last night, with facilities for shipment increasing daily. Each ton of food is sufficient to feed 1,000 children one week. At the rate the American supplies now are being for- warded to Moscow. that base will have enough in the first shipments to feed approximately 30,000. The first ship- ment of 6,000 cases of milk left Reval yesterday, and a relief ship was being unloaded at Petrograd today. ‘WANTS WIFE TO GIVE UP SON. A petition has been filed in the Dis- trict Supreme Court by Robert Franz, Railroad Company, for failure to con- vey d#in good condition” a shipment of grapes from California to_Wash- ington, was filed today by Vincent Marino. The amount of damages asked by the plaintift is $5,000. Leon- ard J. Mather appears for the plaintiff. FORD 'CASH, $54,000,000. Motor Company Has Large Sum of Ready Money in Bank. LANSING, Mich., September 1.—The Ford Motor Company has in the neigh- borhood of $54,000,000 in cash in the bank, according to a report tendered the Department of State here. The report, it was stated by the secretary of state, has not been officially ac- cepted because of minor errors. and the limits to which the various size vehicles may be loaded, and further provide for proper ventilation and sanitation. It is understood that one of the changes decided upon will require all front-door buses to be equipped with emergency exits in the rear. ACTION IN ALIMONY CASE. Sitting in the Equity Court yesterday, Justice Hitz directed United States Mar- shall Maurice Splain to arrest George D. Warner and require him to furnish $1,000 bond to guarantee his appearance Scptember 9 to show cause why he should not be adjudged in contempt of court for alleged failure to pay his wife, Mrs. Sarah F. Warner, $7.50 a week ali- mony, as ordered. The wife, through Attorneys Alfred D. Smith and Kate P. He said that it is difficult to keep the market space fully rented and be- cause of this the company is losing money. Also, that prospective tef- ants holding oft signing leases, or else they llfn only very short-term leases, thinking that the government, when it assumes ownership and cou- trol, might not continue their lease. Senator Scott stated further that the market tena: “are trying to cut down rentals, delay in signing leases, and do other things that the general uncertainty of the situation warrants.” The selection of the three men to Serve on this commission was left by the President to the bureau of mar- kets of the Department of Agr)- culture, it is understood, and that the names of three men recommended for appointment were placed with the President some weeks ago. Sen- atos Sceo. sald ne felt_trom the surance given by the President that losses on the other side because men who fell quickly were picked up and carried away. If dead, the bodies hastily were buried, it was added. The fate of four deputy sheriffs and a Logan magistrate, held captive on the other side of the line, remained in doubt today. Sherift Chafin, in a state- ment last night, significantly re- marke fear for them.” ALL TRAINS STOPPED. Not Even Mail Is Being Moved in Area of Armed Men. By the Associated Press. ST. ALBANS, W. Va,, September 1.— All trains on the Coal river branch ot the Chesapeake and Ohlo railroad from St. Albans to Madison, Jeffery and other points, where armed bands sr., for a writ of habeas corpus to com- pel his wife, Barbara Franz, to surren- der to him their four-year-old son, Rob- ert Franz. Plzintiff, through Attorney Wilton J. Lambert, states that his wife left him June 17 and took their child. Justice Hitz has ordered the wife to show cause September 8 why the petition should not be granted. . Franz declares himself a citizen of Austriz-Hungary. may be returned to the company for correction. The flnancial statement in the report will not be made public until it has been officially accepted by the department, it was announced. —_— As a result of the increased use of machinery more women than men are now employed in the cigarmaking !industry in America. DELICATE FEASTING | from our Delicatessen Depart- .ment helps while away many pleasant Summertime occa- sions. Picnics, motor haunts, little gatherings at . home, prove CORNWELL dainties delec- tably delicious and irresistible no matter the weather. SALADS Fish Fruit Vegetable Chicken COLD CUTS Lamb Pork Veal Beef Cold Fowl When Ordered These and every requisite for the meal, hot or cold, inexpensively fatrly priced. — -t T1415H Strecle; Main 878 Glass Tops for Fine Furniture —such as tables, dressers, buffets, bu- reaus, etc., have come to be considered aecessities. They protect but do not conceal the fine wood grain, the luster and finish which justify pride in own- ership of handsome furniture. We Cut and Fit Glass —plate, window, etc—for all special re- quirements, at Reasonable Cost. Drop us a postal or phone, and we’ll be glad to send a competent representative to take measurements, quote prices, etc. HUGH REILLY CO. RETAIL PAINTS WHOLESALE 1334 New York Avenue Johnson, sets forth that she has re- s ceived no money from her husband since ould make the appointments ! have been collecting for the past few January 25, 1918. ‘without any further unnecessary delay days, have been stopped. he last Open All Day Saturday Closed All Day Mo_hday - Fall “Blorheims” Ready—and again we start “Doing the Big Things—First! " Most Styles (a few at $12) HIS spring, when we started selling all Men’s “Flor- sheim” oxfords at $9.75, Washington literally gasped! And will continue doing so this fall. For over three- fourths of the new fall and winter “Florsheims” are to be Ten Dollars! Remember that “Florsheim” in shoes is the same as “18-karat” on gold. Men’s shoes don’t come any better—can’t! During the war period they sold at $16 to $20. : The new styles are simply wonderful! Entirely new ideas in fall high shoes and the heavier weight fall oxfords. You'll want a pair for Labor Day. All Remaining Summer Oxfords Now in three greatly reduced groups Many suitable for fall. $3.95, $5.95 & $7.85 tfain from here left yesterday after- ilroad men said that not on, 1 :i?n the mail was being moved. ersons who reached here early to- day tried in vain to induce owner: of automobiles to take them to Madi- son or Jeffery. They said that all roads between here and those points were patrolled and that armed men had been stopping motor cars within five miles of St. Albans. Some 200 people were assembled at the railroad station waiting for trans- portation up Coal river. Many of them had been here since yesterday after- noon.” It is thirty-eight miles from Albans to Madison and about forty- five miles to towns just over the line to Logan county, where armed men are reported as having been gather- ing since last Sunday. Sheriff Hill at Madison reported over the telephone this morning that the movement of armed men along the highways through that place toward Jeffery, Sharples and Blair had con-| tinued during last night and was still in progress. Many of them traveled in automobiles, he said. Business here was practically sus- pended, the people filling the streets and discussing possible eventualities along Upper Coal river. All information here was that there was no backward movement of armed men from Jeffery and the other towns where the bands have been concen- trating. OFFICIALS GIVE UP HOPE. Believe Martial Law in Zone Inevitable. CHARLESTON, W. V. September 1.—When state officials reached their offices this morning and glanced at last night’s reports from Logan coun- ty they expressed the opinion that martial law in Logan and other near- by counties was inevitable. Should it be declared, Kanawha county, in which Charleston, the capital, is locat- ed, would be included. 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They told news. paper men they were members of the United- Mine Workers of America, but not partles to the conflict and had no desire to stay in Blair during the border trouble. It was added they exhibited passes signed by the secretary of the local union at Blair, authorizing them to pass through the lines to the rear. Miners Ask Guarantees. These men are stated to have said that “about 2,000 men occupied the territory along Hewitt and Mill creeks. Philip Murray, yice president of the International Organization of Mine Workers, has telegraphed Presi- dent Harding expressing the belief that the men along the Boone-Logan border would disperse provided the government gave the men a substan- tial guarantee. that their lives and property wou be protected from “armed gunmen”- In his telegram Murray asserted that on Saturday, August 27, “an army of marauders invaded ‘the mining community of Sharples and fired into the homet of Unite¢ Mine Workers.” William Petry, vice president of { district No. 17, sent a similar message to the President. _——— DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Mrs. Jeremiah Collins Lived in Washington Sixteen Years. Mrs. Jeremiah Collins died Wednes- day evening, at her residence, 2400 16th street northwest, after an illness of several weeks. She is survived by her husband, with whom she came to this city from Helena, Mont., about | sixteen years ago; a daughter, Mrs. Edwin S. Hege, also of this city, and by a son, Ted E. 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