Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1922, Page 6

ROM THE AVENUE AT NIN On Sale Today $35 and $37.50 - ; Hand-Tailored SUITS FOR MEN ‘At the Lowest Price That Really Fine Suits Have Been Offered in - Four Years, Namely, $25 Embracing 268 All-Wool, Hand-Tailored Suits, in fabrics of blue serge, pin stripes, herring- bones (tan and gray), plaids, checks, oxford grays, and plain shades of brown, green, black and gray. Models for men and youpg men; sizes for every fig- ure. Weights for now and Spring. % FROM THE AVENUE AT NINTH Our Entire Stock of Men’s Winter Underwear 1, Off " This is treacherous weather. To keep well, keep warm. Our underwear gives you the neces- sary warmth without unneces- sary weight. Shirts, drawers and union suits of cotton, wool,;wool mixtures and silk and wool are in- cluded in the following famous makes: : Vassar Winsted Am!xo Duofold F. ormerl}; $1.75 to $8.50 . Now $1.31 to $6.38. | C[ONY A MRARLE Maurice Baskin Relates Ex- perience of Self, Wife and Son in Theater Crash. Another eyewitness to the Knick- erbocker cra: Maurice Baskin, who was in the theater with his wife and ten-year-old son, and who escaped with a possible fractured ankle, while his wife suffered a dislocation of the left shoulder blade, gives a descrip- tion of the disaster. Mr. Baskin, who declared he and his family escaped death ‘“only by a miracle,” said: “We were sitting near. the center of the balcony when, the crash oc- curred. The plaster “started falling on the stage, 'and in an instant the whole ceiling and roof came down on u: ‘We instinctively crouched in the 8 and I felt a tremendous weight of steel and ‘x}aster pressing on my back and shdulders. I resisted the pressure with all my might, as our son, ten years old, who was in the next seat, was under me. Luckily the pressure relaxed somewhat when the whole mass reached the floor level. . Sees Break in the Lathing. “There was a small break in the solid sheet of lath and plaster about two feet from where Mrs. Baskin was. She started to crawl toward it, and we called for help, but none ap- peared for a while. By the time her head reached the opening two young men appeared and helped her to get out. Our boy, who was practically unscathed, followed her out. When I tried to move I found my right leg caught in the debris. I gave it a violent jerk and felt something snap. However, in the excitement I disre- garded it and moved quickly toward the opening. “When I got above the mass of debris, the sky was showing over us, and the ' mass of sSnow-covered wreckage formed a sort of slanting surface from the southwest corner toward the 18th street entrance near the stage. A hugs steel girder was lying across the stage and that part of the building, one ‘end of which was abutting into the wall several feet from the ground. . “Dark, Like a Cemetery.” “Everything was still and dark, like a cemetery. Only occasionally could we distinguish a faint moan. ‘The two men who helped us out were trying-to rescue others from the same opening. Several small boys, who apparently escaped unhurt, were wandering aimlessly over the wreck- age, evidently terror-stricken. One of them mentioned quietly, ‘My mother is there’ I started to look around and noticed a young woman sitting on the snow, her face bleeding. 1 tried to lift her, but I just then noticed that my right leg gave out and I was standing on one leg. I limped toward the door on the 1Sth street side. There was an opening near the door. - “A man was standing near the door yelling, ‘There is a child there. don't go this way.' “As several of the rescued were now near the door he snatched a large slab of concrete and was threatening to kill anybody who ap- I bent over to the opening but could see nothing there. Firemen then appeared. They lifted the man with the concrete slab bodily out of the door and ordered us out.” Mr. Baskin also ‘told of the “spirit of devotion and self sacrifice of Dr. James F. Coupal, a veteran of the world war, who spent more than two Medical Corps of the Army in France, and who is now a major in the U. S. Army Medical Corps, atached to the Army Medical Museum.” Official Statement. According to a statement made to- day by the officials of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, all work had been compiéted for the day when the out- bound shed collapsed, due to the heavy amount of Snow on its roof. All operations were resumed at noon_today when city officials al- lowed the railroad to reopen its offices. At both the inbound and out- bound sheds, New York and Florida avenues northeast, all carloads and less than carloads are being handled as usual. proached the -door, but was doing! nothing toward rescuing the child.| years on the firing lines with the: ‘| No Movement of Earth Bejore Theater Crash, Seismograph Proves Suggestions that there was a wibvement of the earth just prior te the crash of the root of the Knickerbocker Theater, Sat- urday night, were negatived to- -| .day “by Father Tornderft of Georgetown University, seismo- logical expert. Father Torndorff, at the re- quest of The Star, examined the 0K sheets of Saturday and reported that they showed ‘absclutely no movement of the ear: EARTH OFF CENTER, SO MOUNTAINS SLIP Seismographs Break as Pa- cific Bed Shifts to Com- pensate “Flat Wheel.” NEW YORK, February 1.—The earth in its dizzying whirl through space got off center for a few mo- ments yesterday and shifted its “poles” or axis to fit the new center of rotation. Then, in order that it might. not be traveling on a “flat wheel,” so to speak, 'a few million tons of solid rock, somewhere off the western coast of the United States, in the bed of the Pacific ocean, “slipped” a hundred feet or so to even things up. “Observers here said they could not be certain whether the displace- lmen( was horizontal or vertical. In the great San Francisco shock of 1906 the horizontal displacement amounted to about twenty feet.” This is the manner in which pro- fessors of geology and seismograppic observers account for ‘the viokent earth vibrations which demoraliz- ed instruments in _observatories | throughout this country. ~Thus far the exact location of ithe huge “slip” has not been determined, although observers from Washington, D. C., to Berkeley, Calif., agree that it prob- ably was a few hundred miles off the mouth of the Columbia river. The absence of a recorded disrup- tion of the visible surface of the earth or of the huge tidal waves which usually radiate from the scene of an_earthquake lead the pbservers to believe the “slip” occurred miles below the bed of the ocean. Its vio- estell by the quavering seismographs, which in some in- stances were thrown from the ‘re- cording rolls, while a “strong ma- chine” at Berkeley was set in motion for the first time in many years. “No doubt the earth was readjust- ing itself,” said Prof. J. J. Lynch, 1 selmographic observer at_ Fordham I University here. : i i lence was a “About every so often the earth be- comes upset, goes off center, changes time, there is a violent earthquake, a | slipping of mile merrily along again.” ps | "The Andes, along the Pacific” coust lin South America, and the chain of | rocky deformations which join the | | i two continents; disappearing into the sea off southern California, are con- tinually lifting, falling and “slipping.” according to the seismologist and the geologist. Many of these .disturbances take place in midocean, the only visible evidence being the zigkag lines miles distant. One of the examples of sugh a parg in December, 152 ost notable n oceurr are ci | for the “lost” earthquake. Its source of origin never has been definitely established, although it was of such proportions as to shatter instruments | thousands of miles a: and to send a tidal wave circling the earth. WILL TRAIN GUARDSMEN. In execution of plans for the train- ing during the summer of National Guard and Reserve Corps Field Ar- tillery units, the 2d Battalion of the :3d Field Artillery, at Fort Myer. Va., will be transferred temporarily to Camp Bragg, Ga., and a detachment of the1st Field Artillery at Camp Meade, Md. to Tobvhanna, Pa..to - assist in the training of 'National Guardsmen and reserves in the re- 8 spective corps areas. . its axis, and usually, about the same of strata, and we go | trailed by a seismograph hundreds of , . and scientists still | dgeling their brains to account | DISTRIT PRASES SHDERRESLURS Appreciation Expressed for Services During Disaster at Knickerbocker. That the efforts of regular soldiers to release the bodies of the dead and Injured from the wreck of the Knick- erbocker Theater Saturday night are appreciated is shown by correspond- ence that has passed between the District Comnilssioners, the War De- partment, and Gen. H. H. Bandholtz, ¢ommanding the military di Washinsing y district of Commissipners’ Letter. In a letter to the Secretary of War, ;hled Commissioners of the District ald: “The Commissioners of the Dis- trict of Columbia, for themselves and on behalf of the people of the .Na- tional Capital, are under the most profound obligations for the efficient and sympathetic service rendered by | the uetachment of the military force here in the work of removing the dead and releasing the injured from the ruins of the Knickerbocker Theater, and ask that you will be g00d enough to express-to all of those in your department who were engaged in that dangerous and beneficent work their cordial ap- proval of the manner and spirit in which it was done. They wish also that you will accept for yourself the asgurance of their appreciation of your co-operation in the. measures of relief. which that deplorable ex- igency required.” Secretary Weeks sent that letter to Gen. Pershing, chief of staff of the Army, with the following memoran- dum: “It has given me deep gratifica- {tion to know that our men were able to rendcr such valuable service in connection with this lamentable dis- aster. Please convey to all concerned my sentiments and these expressions of appreciation their assistance has occasioned.” f Letter From Gen. Pershing. Gen. Pershing sent the following letter to the commanding general of the District 8f Washington: “The Secretary of War has request- ed that all members of your command who participated in the rescue work at the Knickerbocker Theater be in- formed of his gratitude for the valu- able service rendered. A copy of a letter from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia is inclosed. Mili- tary men cannot excel other citizens jon such an occasion in untiring ef- forts, sympathy or disregard of pe son, but their work is particularly cf- feetive because of organization.” W are thankful and proud that m.___ bers of the Army were available ready again to assist in time of pu | lic need.” DEATH OF MR. KNEESSI. Issues Statement. Charles W. Semmes, president of the Semmess Motor Company, of which Howard G. Kneessi, who was killed in the Knickerbocker disaster, was an active official and partner, today issued the following statement on behalf of his partner's family re- garding reports on the death of Mr. Knee: “Mr.,Howard G. Kneessi's body was jrecovered from under great piles of wreckage about 7 o'clock Sunday night, and will be placed in a vault | this afternoon. The funeral will take place later. at a date to be announced Kneessi 'is at the Garfield suffering from a broken 1, I t, many bruises and great shock. ! Their son Donald was happily not | with them and is now safe at home {, “We are all stunned by this catas trophe which has fallen on our city, and are prostrated by the loss of lour business associate and devoted friend.” - —_— The election of Popes by conclave | dates from the middle ages. In earlier times the vote of the Roman clergy, cast in the presence of the faithful, was the elective power. The Overcoat Evefit of the Season Begins Here Today The P-B After Invehtory Sale of Men’s Overcoats . i Our Entire Stock Reduced.in Two Group 413 Men’s Overcoats V3 Off Formerly $35 to $90 - Including foreign and domestic great coats, 2 _ ulsters, chesterfields, astrakhan collar over- coats, ulsterettes and English guard coats. Every size from 33 to 46 in regulars, stouts and shorts, in a variety of styles and fabrics for men and young men. * Reductions 'FROM_THE Only once a year—after inventory—can we offer such inducements. If you need a coat .now, or expect to need one next year, we ad- : vise you to look into this unusual sale today. are final. AVENUE AT 129 Men’s Overcoats 1, Off Formerly $35 to $50 NINTH . L Head of Semmes Motor Compsnylt SYMPATHY FOR BEREAVED SENT TO COMMISSIONERS lecretn’y‘nughu Transmits Let- ters of Foreign Envoys Express- ing Sorrow Over Disaster. In a letter to the District Commis- coples of communications of sympathy and condolence on actount of the disaster at the Knickerbocker Theater received by him from the ambassadors of France and Japan, the ministers of Cuba, of Denmark, of Bolivia and of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, from Senator Albert Sarraut of France and others. “In transmitting these copies to you,” said the Secretary of State, “I avalil of the opportunity to assure you of my own sense of horror at the calamity and of my full share in the sympathy all feel for those so sud- denly bereaved or injured.” LAST TRIBUTE PAID 10 GRASH VICTIMS Sorrowing Friends and Rela- tives at Funerals of Dead in Theater Disaster. - Reverently and solemnly friends and relatives with tear-dimmed eyes paid final tribute to the victims of the Knickerbocker Theater disaster at the funeral services held today and yesterday. Fraternal and social organizations lent themselves in sympathy at the services by their at- Bodies were taken to other tendance. tomorrow in their ' native town or city. N Funeral services for Col. and Mrs. Charles Cowles Tucker were held at 3 o'clock this afternoon at St. Mar- garet’s Episcopal Church, Connecticut avenue and Bancroft place. Rev: Dr. Herbert Scott Smith officiated. Mem- bers of the Society of Colonial Dames attended the services. Interment was in Oak Hill cemetery. = John L. Walker, employe of William B. Hibbs & Co., will be buried tem- porarily in a vault at Rock Creek cemetery. Funeral services under the of Harmony Lodge, No. were held this afternoon @ t the undertaking par: lors of Thomas S. Sergeon, 1011 7t street. Members of the Hibbs firm were present at the services. Rev. Dr. Earle Wilfley, pastor of the Vérmont Avenue Christian Church, officiated. Funeral services for Mrs. J. L. Wal- ker were also held, Rev. William Car- roll of St. Paul's Catholic Church of- ficiating. Joint services for Mr. and Mrs. Al- fred G. Eldridge were held this morn- ing at 11 o'clock at St. Margaret's Ep! copal Church, with Rev. Dr. Herbert ott Smith officiating. Mr. Eldridge had been organist and director of the choir for’ the lajt seventeen years. interment was in Glenwood cemetery. Fleming Family Services. Funeral services for Thomas Flem- ing and his son and daughter, John Paton and Mary Lee Fleming, were held this morning at 11 o'clock at St Thomas® Episcopal Church. Rev. Dr. C. Ernest Smith otficiated. Interment was in_Alexandria. The bodies of Oskar G. Kanston, Mrs. Oskar G. Kanston, Aulyn and Dorothy Kanston were taken from Gawler’s pariors this morning and shipped to Chicago, where funeral services and interment will be held. Funeral services under Masonic au pices were _held for William Hughes of 2503 Champlain street, at the underfaking establishment of Jo- | seph Birch & Sons, 3034 M street, at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Interment was in Glenwood cemetery. Services Yor Miss Lois Pitcher, 3910 McKinley street, Chevy Chase, Md., and Miss Mildred Walford, 1727 Riggs place northwest, George Wa ington University students, who went to the theater with Mrs. Gertrude Taylor, who was also killed, were held today. The rites for Miss Pitch- er were in Lee's undertaking parlors at -1 p.m., Canon Austin of the All Saints’ Episcopal Church of Chevy Chase officiating. The services for Miss Walford were given in St. Thomas' Episcopal Church at 3 o'clock, Rev. Dr. Ernest Smith presiding. ® Both bodies were then taken to Rock Creek cemetery and placed in a vault. Rites for L. W. Strayer. Rev. Dr. Wallace Radcliffe of the New York Avenue Presbyterian ‘W. Strayer, in the chapel of Gawler's undertaking establishment, at 2 o'clock today. The body was sent to Sydney, Ohio. Following these services, last rites for Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Brainerd were held. Rev. James McBride Sterrett of All Souls’ Episcopal Church offici- ated. The bodies were then sent to New York. The funeral of Thomas Randolph Bourne was held from his late resi- dence, 2027 illyer place, at 30 o'clock this afternoon. Rev. F. Hinkle, assistant rector of St. Mar. garet’s Episcopal Church, officiated. The body will be buried in Oak Hill cemetery. * Miss Mary A. Forsyth will be buried from St. Paul's Catholic Church at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, following brief services at her late residence, 1802 Belmont road. Interment will be in Mount Olivet cemetery. Mass for Georgetown Students. Low mass was said at St. Patrick’s Church this morning by Rev. W. Cole- man Nevils, dean of Georgetown Uni- versity, for the five university stu- dents who lost their lives in the crash. They are Wilfred Brosseau of North Adams, Mass.; Victor M. Sturgis, Au- gusta; Ga.; Ivan J. White, Culpeper, Va.; Dr. James S. Shea, South ey Falis, Mass, and William Walters, Brooklyn, N, Y. About 300 members of the Georgetown University were resent. The body of Victor M. Sturgis was removed from Sergeon's undertaking parlors and sent to Augusta. The re- maining bodies have been sent to their spective homes. us‘;rvxces for Ivan White were held yesterday at the _Bethel Baptist Church in Culpeper, Va. Rey. George W. Cox presided. Mr. White, who was twenty-six years old, was a veteran of the world war, having served over- seas. Since being mustered out of the service he had been connected with the Shipping Board here and was a law student at Georgetown niversity. UThe Ivuferal of Mrs, Cora C. Sigour- ney was held from Lee's undertaking parlors at noon today. Mrs. Sigour- ney, who was private secretary to Harry Wardman,. lived at 2701 Con- icut avenue. nelel‘lsl Mary Ethel Atkinson was buried from Speare’s undertaking es- tablishment at noon today. Miss At- I¥nson lived at 2233 "18th street. Services for Mrs. Pessou. body of Mrs. Carrie Newsom P:;‘:u of yme Calyerton apartments ‘was taken to Bealsville, Md., today interment.. 3 fDaerflcen for George S, Freeman, a musician in the orchestra of the thea- ter, were held at Sergeon's undertak- ing establishment, following which the body was sent to Lexington, Ky. Interment of the body of Thomas Dorsey, 2524 17th street northwest, will be in Martinsburg, W Va. The body was sent to that city today. In! nt of Christian Fiege, a membér of the orchestra, who resided /street northwest, took place in Prospect Hill cemetery at 2 o'clock today. Rites were held in the undefl‘lgn‘ establishment of Frank s Sons. & _Ggl:r'mf & for Klfl;llnd Duke, 1719 lace, were held St. Paul’s St Church this oon at 2 Church officiated at the services for L. | o'clock. Interment was in Mount Olivet cemetery. Funeral services for Miss Hazel M. Price, ‘Dudley Courts, were held in the chapel of S. H. Hines' undertaking establishment. Burial was in Arling- ton cemetery. Mrs. Marie H. Smith, 1813 Columbia road, was buried in Rock Creek ceme- tery this morning. Rites were held in Hines' undertaking establishment. Burled in Arlington. Interment of the remains of Joseph made today in Arlington cemetery. ervice was held in the chapel of the undertakers. Short services were held for James W. Murphy. at Gawler's parlors this jafiernoon. The body will be taken by the Southern railway tomorrow morn- ing to Marshall, on arrival of the train. “Y;:unneral services for Jacob Urdong and Mrs. Rose Urdong will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at the residence, 2312 20th street. Dr. Abram Simon will officiate. Washington Hebrew Congregation. Funeral services were held for W. Secretary Hughes transmitted ) yy, Deal of 1438 Chapin street was| Va., where services | will be held at the Episcopal Church !"5;' ; PROPOSE INVESTIGATION BY EXPERTS IN TRADES Towa Circle Citizens Would Call on Iron Worker, Mason and Car- pen’ur'in Theater Probe. An investigation of the Knickerbocker Theater disaster by reprgsentative men in the iron working trade, stone mason work and carpentry was favored in & resolution adopted at a meeting of the Iowa Circle “Citizens' Association, at the Nortaminster Presbyterian Church last night. The resolution stated: “In addition to the various Investigations now in progress, all of which are heartily sup- ported, there should be one by a com- mittee of three citizens—a practical jiron worker, a practical stone mason { @nd 4 practical carpenter—who_ shall nvestigate without fear or favor, and iTeport to the people their conclusions, Inter- i with s ment will be in the cemetery of thei ch _recommendztions for the rrection of building evils existent and the future as they should deem best.” W. M. Countryman, one of the leaders 01 in 1. Bikle and his daughter, Frances M.|of the association and its vice president, Bikle, at Thomas Nalley's parlors, 131 { 11th street southeast, at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Interment was in Mount ((m et cemetery. i s for Mrs. Gertrude Funeral servi : wife O’Connor_ Martindale, at 11 o'clock. Services for Wyatt Coleman Me- Kimmie will be held tomorrgw after- noon_at 2 o'clock at the Bhrlington Hotel, interment to be private. ! Agnes Marie Mellon was buried in Mount Olivet ervices at St. Paul this morning at 8:30 o’clock. Funeral services were held Cemetery, Tracey at the parlors of William H,, Scott, 409 Sth street, southeast. Mrs. Anne Davis W Col. Charles M buried at W Point, . follow- ing services tomorrow afternoon at 4:20 o'clock at her residence, 181 Belmont road. ’ HI.\YNES APPOINTS WOMAN ife of will be eral Prohibition Agent. Appointment of Miss Georgia Hop- ley of Bucyrus, Ohio, as the first woman general prohibition agent t be attached-to the mobile enforce- ment forces of the headquarters unit was announced today by Commis- sioner Haynes. - Miss Hopley is a former Obio news- Harding ax{lign in Ohio, charge of the work of the women throughout the state. i i Y 2 % 2 2 Z 2 / dollars. | introduced the resolution, which was jadopted by unanimous vote. i H. M. Fulton, president, was in the Ichalr at the meeting. of Nor-! ! man E. 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Littell, president Catholic Chureh, | Of the Red Cross canteen. i “The District of Columbia Chapter of the American Red Cross, especially h to publiciy acknowledgze, and m heartily thank all of the churches. clrbs] hotels, confeot restau- rants, baking companies, drug stores Sapply seorcs i cae men and women of the neighborhood, the newspapers, soldiers, sailors, marines, policemen and firemen, and all others who so wonderfully, generously and fliciency assisted them in their work for those in nced during the relief work at the Knickerbocker disaster. great was your assistance that feel the greatest praise and thanks we can give you can in no- wise measure the gratitude, not only of the Red Cross, but of the entire community. (Signed) "LUMBIA CHAPTER, THE DISTRICT OF CO- LUMBIA CHAPTER, “American Red Cross, and the Canteen Corps.” All hotels, etc, who sent supplies ist the Red Cross canteen Jan- and 30 will find containers at i: Science Church or at the District chapter healquarters, 16 Jackson piace. to (Ul ERE, and rgest and