Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1922, Page 1

~ WEATHER. Clou dy and warmer tonight; tem- perature above freesing; shov ers. T¢ mperature for twenty-two hours end.ed at noon today: Highest, 58, at tomorrow noon today; te day. lowest, 35, at 4:45 a.m. Full report on page 7. > Ne:w York Stock Market Closed Today 98,423, Entered as second-class matter D. C No. 34 BODIES YIELDED UP BY ROMA; CRAFT’S BAG REPORTED UNSOUND; CONGRESS SCORED FOR FUND CUTS Officials to Probe Rumor Envelope Was Rotten. LEFT RUDDER GAVE WAY, OFFICERS SAY Over 20 Bodies Found Piled Among Mass of Tangled Metal. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., February 22.—Com- pletely wrecked by fire and explo- sion, the Roma, the world's largest semi-rigid airship and the pride of the Américan air service, had yielded up today the last of the dead of the disaster which overtook her yester- day while maneuvering over Hamp- ton roads and sent her hurtling downward to crash into the network of high-power electric wires that Wwrought her destruction. Recovery of the last body fixed the toll of the disaster—the greatest il the history of American aeronautics— at thirty-four dead, eight injured and | three practically unhurt. Of the dead thirty had been _identified, although ny of the bodies of those caught! the interior of the ship when she crashed were burned, blackened and charred almost beyond recognition. These dead included some of the air service's most gallant officers and mien, the list containing the names of Maj. John Thornell, commander of the ship at her christening in Wash- ington lasi December, and Capt. Dale Mabry. her commander during yester- day's ill-fated flight. Official lInquiry Soon. Air service men from Langley Field. the home station of the craft, began shortly after dawn today the clearing up of the wreckage of the warped and stered skeleton and at the same preparations began for the of: al inquiry. Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the air service, who came here by airplane yesterday as soon as word of the disaster was flashed to Washington, made a per- sonal inspection of the wreck during the night and ordered an immediate investigation. : Officers at Langley Field still were at a loss to account for the mishap that caused the ship's rudder to tiit and thereby rendered the 410-foot craft unmanageable. Possibility de- veloped, however, that the inquiry would take notice of reports that the bag of the Roma, constructed in Italy, was rotten, although officials at the field d-clined to discuss such reports. In connection with the forthcoming inquiry these developments, some of- ficers said, had beencestablished def- initely: First. That the left rudder of the Roma gave way when she was less than half a mile from where she went | down near the Army base fire station. Second. That there was no fire on the ship until after the tilt began as a result of the right-hand side of the rudder going into an almost ver: tical position. Third. That the craft became un- manageable as she swooped over the base reservation, narrowly missing a 150-foot smokestack of the central| lheating plant. ourth. That the immediate cause: of the explosion with such force as| to wreck the entire craft and set her on fire was contact with a net of 2.200-volt high-power electric wires, | icss than 100 feet from where the! Jioma crashed into a pile of railroad car parts. i Fifth—That the Liberty motors, which were being tested, were not re- sponsible for the disaster, unless some- thing more tangible shpuld be learned than appeared today. The point which the Army board of investigation, which will be organized today, will decide is what caused the Tudder supports to give way. Two Pilots Escape. Strict orders have been issued against the survivors discussing the cause of | the disaster, and frankly officers from Langley Field are utterly at a loss to understand what caused the rudder to | tilt, making the huge craft unman-| | 8 > were two pilots in_charge of shir steering gear. They were Capt. Waiter J. Reed and Lieut. B. G. Burt, both of whom had been at the! Wheels of the Roma on previous trips. Both Reed and Burt escaped with their lives, Burt being unscathed™ and Reed now being on_the road to recov- ery at the Public Health Service Hos- pital. Burt discovered soon after the rud- der support gave way that he could post office Washington, The Casjualty List. The list of dead, injured and sur- vivors of the wreck of the Roma, de- stroyed yesterday at the Norfolk Army base, as announced by the Army air service here today, follows DEAD. Maj. John G. Thormell (married), home address, Sidncy, Iowa; emer- &eney, Mrs. John G. Thornell, wite, Langiey I'ield, Va. Maj. Waiter W. Vautsmeler (mar- t ried), home addrexs. 57 Amerscan | street, Erecport, il; Mrs, C. F. Vauts- | meie., mocher. ) Capt. D e Mabry (single), home address, 207 Cardy street, Tampa, Fin.; G. E. Mabry, brother. v Capt. Geo."D. Watta (single) address Indianoln, Miss.; Mrx. Watts, mother, Capt. Allan P. McFarland (single), home address 520 N. Meridian street, Indianapolis, Ind.; Mrs. M . Me- Farland, mother. Capt. Frederick J. Durrschmidt (sin- home D. Ele), home address, 100 Main street, Derby, Conn.; Max A. rrschmidt, father. First Lieut. John R. Hall (married), home address, Ki le, Miss.; Mrs. ice C. Burns (mar- Brandon, Mixs.; ‘Wiiliam E. Riley (mar- ried), emergency addrexs, Mrx, Minnie H. Riley, wife, 526 East 86th stree! New York. First Licut. Ciiferd E. Smythe. ! (married), home address, 5623 Win- | throp avenue, Chicago, Ill; R. M. | Smythe, father. First Licut. Wal (married). Home i fleld, Tenn.; emergency, Mra. z Cummings, . 406 South Ivy street, Monrovia, Callf. First Liéut. Ambrose V. Clinton (married). Home address, 301 Charl- | ton street, Ga.; Mrx. Har- riet Clinton, wi 1 First Lieut. Harold K. Hine (sin- xle). Home address, 251 W avenu Bridgeport, Conn; Paul Hi axter Sergt. Roger C ::tler. 1815 Stiles st., Phila N delp! ries York eity. Master Sergt. Homer Gorby. Mother, | Mrx. Jessic Gorby, Raymond City,! W. Va. Technical Sergt. Lee M. Harris. Wife, 14 Aladdin Village, Langley Field, V Serxt. Virgil Hoffman. Staft Sergt. Lomis Hilliard, Sister, Miss Ioma Hiiliard, Cold Water, Kan. Staff Serst. Marion J. Beall. Father, Al 0. Beall Plata, Mo. r&t. Thomas A. Yarborough. Father, T. W. Yarborough, 2528 Pel ham street, Selma, Ala. Sergt. William J. Ryam; residence, 180 Comover street or 100 Cemover street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; fa Mr. William Ryan, Cappoguin, Ireland. Staff Sergt. Edward M. Schumdker; Mru. Sarah Van Ness (first cousin), Red Bank, N, J. Staft Sergt. James M. Holmes; moth- er, Mrs. Iva A. Holmes, 215 Zist street, Ashland, Ky. % Corp. Irbey B. Hevron: Mrs. Minnie G. Hevron, 1614 South M stréet, El- wood, Ind. Private John E. Thompson; Mrx. Eva Thompxon (mother), R. F. D. No. 1, Box 120, Bentonsville, N. C. Private (first class) Marion Hill; Goldle Meyers (sister), general deliv- ery, Newton, L Private Gus Kinkston; George Hoop- er (half-brofher), 3011 West Kentucky atreet, Louinville, Ky. Private Theron M. Blakely; no ad- dress given. CIVILIANS, Stryker, McCook Field, Walter W. Dayton, Ohio. Robert J. Hanson, Dayton, Ohio. William O’Laughlin, McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio. Charles N. Shalenberg, McCook Field, Dayton, Ohlo. ~ Cressie R. Merriman, Mitchel Field, MeCook Field, INJURED. Maj. John ‘D. Reardan (married). Home address, Langley Field, Va. Capt. Walter J. “Reed (marri Home addrexs, Searsdale, N. Y.; W liam J. Reed, father. First Lieut. Clarence H. Welch (xingle). Home address, Papillion, Neb.s M. V. Welch, father. Manter Sergt. Harry A. Chapman; Mrs. J. R. Ward, mother, 1626 Fred- erick avenue, St. Joseph, Mo. Corpl. Albert O. Flores, residence, 140 Church street, Norfolk, Va.; Mr. Vicente Klores, father, Santuroe, Porto Rico. Sergt. Joseph M. Biedenbach, 411 Market wstreet, Akron, Ohio. rles W. Dworack, McCook Field, neither elevate or right the ship. He and Reed used their levers in every way, and velled to the mechanicians to cut the motors off. It was appar- ently their intention to land the ship, and every emergency apparatus was brought into play. But when the Roma hit the elcc(ricl wires and a second lzter crashed int the pile of car material, the explo- jon came, sending sheets of blinding ) feet in tHe air. loma as going at reduced gpeed as she came in a northwesterly direction over the Army base reserva- tion. When first seen by eyewit- nesses on the ground. she was making only thirty” or forty miles an hour as near as they can tell. 1€ all happened so quickyly, and the survivors are so badly shocked that those who can talk are unable to esti- mate the speed, according to Army | officers. How eleyen men managed to escape from the mass of flames and gas fumes with their lives, three of them,| practically unhurt, is considered an act of Providence. Practically all of the forty-five men on the Roma were amidships of the craft. \o N Twenty Found Under Cabin. When the cabin of the ship—that part in which the men were riding under the great bag, Was wrenched Joose from its support, it was hurled into the ground, and more than twen- 1y bodies were found piled among the girders and supports, all in a tangled mass. ~ As the flames enveloped the . ship the cries of the wounded and dying could be heard for a hundred yards. The eleven men who jumped oui or were dragged to safety by rescners were scarcely safe before the cries ceased, because death had ended their suffering, so intense was the heal. Capt. George D. Watts of Mjssis- sippi, numbered among the dead, nar- rowly escaped a similar fate last spring when a captive balloon he was plloting at Ross Field. in California, pecame unmanageable and the cap- tain leaped to safety from a height of 2,000 feet, it was recalled today y " air service officers at<Langley Fileld. The balloon was careening perilously « at a height of 15,000 feet, when Capt. ‘Watts opened a valve, which caused the great bag to plunge like a2 plum- met to earth. When about 2,000 feet from the ground the Army officer real- ized, he told brother officers, . .at a safe landing would be impossidle and he leaped off in a parachute, making a aafe landing. z g . c Dayton, Okio. . Walter A. McNair, Bureau of Stand- ards, Washington, D. C. UNINJURED. Lieut. Byron T. Burt, pilot. Ray Hurley, ‘eivilian, McCook Fleld, Dayton, Ohlo, Sergt. Vernon P Ind. e NEED METAL CASKETS. Burial Preparations = for Roma Victims Arée Under Way. Col. George H. Penrose, chief of the cemetarial division of the War De- partment, announced today that every possible care is being taken of the bodies'of th® dead officers and men in the Roma disaster. An under- taker named Roush has taken over| the task of preparing the bodies for burlal. Col. Penrose said. Most of | the bodies, on account of their condi- | tion, will have to be placed in metal caskets. It was understood today that high officials of the War Department had ordered the legal limit of $100 placed on preparation for burial of the body of an officer or man killed in the service waived, and that no expense will be spared in preparing the bodies of the victims of the Foma accident for interment. o Many of the bodies will probably be brought to Washington for inter- ment at Arlington, Col. Penrose said, » Terre Haute, 1 while others will be sent to the homes | m, of the dead. RUDDER SLIP THEORY IN ROMA' DIFFICULTY * FAILS TO CONVINCE Experts in_aviation here declare that the slipping of .the rudder theoretically could ~_ have - had nothing_to do -with the impossi- bility of bringing the Roma to a ,horizontal position. Around the rudder is an “elevator”—a sort of box kite—which is used for bring- t ing the plane up or down. The slipping of the rudder itself would not have affected thx vating or depressing of the pi keel, it was sald, unless the der-slip caused disarrangeme: “ the “elevator d- sment of - (~ Licut. Tinker was to make the trip l-are sure WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1922_TWENTY-SIX PAGES. $300,000 to Opérate Helium Gas Plant Turned Down. EVERYTHING READY TO OBTAIN PRODUCT Engincer Urges Step to| Siore Quamityk‘ming to Waste. Directly on the shoulders of Con- gress is to be placed much of the blame If further inquiry demonstrates that the great loss of life following the accident aboard the Army air- ship Roma was due to the burning of the gas in its big bag, according to those who have made a close study of air craft. Failiire to provide the small sum of $300,000 additional to operate at full time and capacity the $7,000,000 helium plants at Fort Worth and Petrolia, Tex., places this responsibility on Congress, according to officers of both the Army and Navy. - Lieut. C. S. Tinker, United States naval reserve force, a consulting engineer of this city, and who was the -official representative of the Navy Department in connection with the tests” and transfer of the ill-fated ZR-2 from the British to the Ameri- today that the PRESDENT GREET HISTORE BODY National Monument Society Is Honored by Chief can governments, said serious loss of life on the ZR-2 and the Roma would not have occurred if Congress hal provided enouzh money to run the helium plants. Escaped Death on ZR-2. to America on the ZR-2, but at the time she was making her final trip was detained at the office of the Brit- ish air ministry on business, and thus escaped this terrible accident. He said that at the investigation made Executive. there at that time it was declded that! The eighty-ninth annual meeting of had the b ol e e her have | the Washington National Monument So- helium the accident wo {been as serious. The collapse would | ciety wag held at noon today at the res- | ington of two members of the sub: have occurred, but the airship Would | jdence of Charles C. Glover, 1703 K ot have been om0y ed By Meiartea|street. President Harding. president of a yell, which would prevent any |the society (the president of the United I‘ghler-lhnln-isirhmdaclglne l;tfimd “'flf‘, States always occupying this office), at- aloft until it had been filled with & £ A atisewoed the Co7 was| tended the reception following the regu put_in shape, filled with helium and 3 testod. However, Congress would not) by business at the White House from appropriate Lhe money to run the fine| gnaning the meeting. Mr. Glover, as $7.000.000 plants at Fort Worth and A ice preatdortt kR Petrolia, Tex. | e o calledrto - oeder Pipe Lincs Lald. oric society, founded in 1833, prompt- “There Is everything there.in readi- ness for the devejopment of a large |1y-at-the stroke of 12, the officers and hell\m‘: Bas l\.;p:h{. Plntehllr;el hz(vo members. of the organization beln‘g even been laid between the two sta- Sund ‘a table. When Presi- gas from Petrolia to Fort Worth. At |Gl cieq by Mr. Glover and the the latter place are enough flasks or{ giper members of the society in turn. tanks to store all of the gas developed, s aTas i aaaheen and enough could be developed there Enterts S to fill twenty ships as large as the| Following ‘the business meeting the Roma. These flasks will accommodate | members of .the society were enter- 20,000,000 feet of the gas. Millions of | tained at luncheon by Mr. Glover, after cubic feet of this gas are going to|which a reception was held, shortly waste evéry day. It cannot be recov- |after 1 o'clock. The District Commis- ered. and in a few years there will be | sioners, members of the cabinet, prac- no more there. Congress is responsi- | tically all the judiciary in the c}i(y ble for allowing this valuable gas to|and members of Congress and other g0 by unused, and Is _responsibie for |officials were In attendance. This was its loss. and for any loss of life that |the first time in five years that the oceurs through the burning of hydro- | Eoclety has held a general reception Sen-iilied alrahip envelopes. to official Washington following its 3 business meeting. Gas Can Be Stored. ¢ Officers of the society were re- o “The appropriation $300.000 | gjected as follows: Justice Van De- would permit the working of these |vantér, first vice president; Charles C. plants to their full capacity and per- | Giover, = sccond vice mit the storage of the gas, which | Theodore W. Noyes, treasurer; and F. will last foreder onge recovered. There |y, Harvey. secretary. The President is no loss and it does not evaporate.| ¢ ~the United States is always It is an inert gas. It will not burn.|Dleaident of this soclety. There is no way to make it burn.| ™ 'mpose present included President There is no known chemical with |y, M08 PRUSIC, "Soiie” van De- which it can be mixed which would| ,nter, Charles C. Glover, Theodore make it burn. It can be mixed with | Y0 RE S0 €T “Harvey, ‘Robert T. other gases, but then it will not burn. | %o JIVES Lt Gharies D, Walcott, “The C-7 is filled with helium. Up | pon v ‘White, Rear Admiral Willar to a month ago it had made from | Henry ‘White JReXT TOUIE gerberc twejty-five to thirty teips in the alr| by iy,n, David R. McKee, Rt. Rev. Al- a total of fifty hours. I do not know | Putman. DRRIS G- COol Seison Page. how many trips it has made since| .5 Gen. Willam A. Black was unable that time. But during that period | ,"3itond owing. to his fllness in New Yorl not one single bit of the hellum in the envelope was lost. “Helium,” Lieut. Tinker gxplained, “ig taken from natural gas. The gas as it comes from the wells is piped into a refrigerator. The other gases liquify. but the helium remains. Then the other gases are run off and used.| Wil immediate action should be | Kirk Ports forced on Congress to have it pro-|lives and vide for the operation of this plant, | qualities which, while valuable now, will be a [ Speake: e loss in a few years unless it is moved | Representatives and Col. C. O. Sher- somewhere else. In a few vears the | rill were elected to membership. pressure of natural gas will be so| Resolutions were adopted commending low there that no more helium can fthe flag ceremonies at the.Washington be made at that point. Monument and urging rtlhniz they {‘Ng Conts 4 1-2 Cemtn Cuble Foot, | Dbroadeasted throughout the country by Helium gas costs approximately 4% | ™31% gecretary reported the result cents a cubic foot to produce. While|of correspondence which he has had this is higher than the cost of pro-|with state officials of South Dakota, Arizona, 1daho and New Mexico in ducing hydrogen gas, it is absolutely rd to the placing of memorial silly to talk of the higher cost as.an|TPS0S ffom those states In the argument for hydrogen. Hydrogen s | {t3ohington Monument. These states loss; it is unsafe and is easily wasted,| J1one remain to place stones, all necessitating continuous production. | ;o other states of the Union being Resolutions of Regret. Suitable resolutions of regret were presented by Seéretary Harvey upon death of Henry B. F. Macfarland, A fiiam. Corcoran Eustis and Henry er, paying tribute to their works, ..and _ extolling their as men. r Gillett "of the House of Once the helium ls produced it is ted in the shaft. there_forever. It will not explode ToproBe e eaid that ho had a com- even : munication from the secretary of The only ship of the United States Dakota stating ,that air forces inflated with helium at the | 2219 Famt’ bom ng | last session of the legislature Present time is under the Navy De- |5 'Bo 180 200 'was made for. & partment. It recently made a suc-|memorial block of native stone, bear- ce:f!:l trlplh"&n;l‘k:;to‘:rlto this city, fing the coat of arms of: South which wen n istory as th and an_appropriate inscrip- first successful flight with helium Dakoth :: > il M the inflating gas to be accomplished, | _ (COBU or attempted. Experts point out that New Party indsmuch as the very first attempt in Special Dispatch to The Star. * a_ flight with helium as a lifting power proved a success, the develop- ments to be expected along this lina in the future to remedy BALTIMORE, February 22.—The formation of a woman’s party in Maryland, with woman candidates. for all offices.at every election and | many of the difficulties now experi- enced with helium. Sufficient con- gressional appropriation to enable the Army to provide helium for one or more lighter-than-air craft is expect- ed to be requested by War Depart- ment officials in the tabulation of the next estimates for the maintenance of the service. Texan to Resume Fight. Representative F. G. Lanham of| with the ultimate parposeof lining ‘exas, who has made a lone fight for| up the solid women's vote behind the full-time operation of the helium| .y, candidatés of & woman's party, plant in Texas, id today that he would make a° strong fight in rhe present Con;real to have an_ appro- priation of $800,000 made, which, it is estimated, will be required:for a twelve-month operation. Congress last year appropriated a Jump sum for the Navy of $400,000, out of which it could expend money on the development of helium. For the Army It appropriated $250,000, after a long fight. The House first appropriated $100,000 for the helium development, but Representative Lan- hdm attempted to have it Increased to $400,000. The Sehate approved, but in conference the amount was to $250,000.. " may result from the defeat of the women's jury service bill and the equal rights bjll in the legislature Monday night. 2 A canmpaign ‘of retaliation against the legislators who vio- fated their party pledges in voting against the bills is being planned by the women who advocated the 2ills, and the formation of a wom- an’s party may r i «Marylapd never steps forward- very_. fast,” said Mrs. . Almira s:Ln. & ‘1ocal business-woman ¢, on Half-and-Half Plan, : 55 e pr 1 The ts at-Fort Worth and Pé~ and one of the 2 3 trolia _are operated for M o lar business mecting. being prevented ! “the his- : president; | FEBRUARY 22, 1922. [ MILK HEARING TUESDAY. IHouse Committee Notifies Pro- ducers—Want Early Beport. Hearings on the Washington milk; |supply will be resumed next Tuesday [ morning in the office of Representa- {tive Lampert of Wisconsin, chairman |of the subcommittee, which has beerh| | conducting hearings on this bill for | several months. | Chairman Lampert announced to- |day that he has notified the Mary- land-Virginia Milk Producers’ Asso- ciation that the subcommittee is now ready to hear from the producers. He {explained that the hearings had been delayed by the absence from Wash- | {commitiec, one of whom returned| iseveral days ago and the other fs due | back tomorrow. Chairman Lampert isaid he is anxious to make a report jon this legislation as soon as possi- e. DIVORCE INCREASE LAID T0 SIX FACTS Member of Alexandria Inves- tigating Committee Out- lines Basis of Report. From a Staff Correspondent. ALEXANDRIA, Va., February 22.— jJt will be shown that at least six co.nlrlbutlnz primarily to the grea: increase in divorces In Alexandria during the past two years. These facts will form the basis of the report which ultimately ‘will be made by the committee of seven law- yers now engaged in investigating! i 1 the evil, according to one prominent | member of that body, who is in a po- sition to speak authoritatively. This committeeman, who Is note for his conservatism and his loyal devotion to his community, has no| hesitancy In admitting that a divorce | evil exists here. “That fact! is well established,” he said today. “The court records .are | conclusive. The first thing to be con- | sidered in arrivihg at a solutton or in removing this evil and preventing its reappearance is the cause which has made this condition possible. Primary Fact Established. In my opinion the investigating committee has probed far enough into the affairs to establish the following as a primary fact: “First. The divorce code of the state of Virginia is inadequate, and because of its very indefiniteness it has made possible the easy defeat of the intent of the law. It has permitted irregu- larities_and at times fraud. To be Imore effective the law must specify |clearly what constitutes a domicile and a residence in the state. AlSp it must require more investigation of Iflc!! sworn to by witnesses and i should require lawyers to make some effort -at determining the truthful- ness of statements made to them In the preparation of their divorce sults. “Second. Professional witnesses, some easily and cheaply hired by seekers of marital.freedom, have con- tributed largely to this sinister con- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) Jland Women Threaten to Battle Men & oy that in another two'years we will ‘get whiat we want. Of course, in this state women are not so well organized- as a. political factor, and nnm‘ that is uc{ompushed i very mucl y '?"1. .5‘ absolutely in favor of a woman’s party in this state, and bave not.only advocated {t. but I work _for it gfidufll of women h_fir me_that y oution £or. the. wome Idtion fo: e. women foifutian for immediately. e s2id to e Qnly" of Mty Mrs. Willlam M. Maloy, one of most promiment .~ workers “conservative”: woman . voter groups, -was equally ' em- phatic in calling attention to the legislators to make. ' - = ’ Mrs. G ive fe?nuw 3 tg League of Women Voters, t the democrats in the legislature broke the platform pledge. -1t the chosen representa-. i tives of the mql-. elected on:-‘ Pottain e Tviclate that outstanding facts have developed as|; 4§ FLAGS ENCIRCLE WASHINGTON SHAFT Wreaths Laid at Monument to Father of His Country, Honoring Natal Day. Forty-eight flags, one for each state in the Union, flew to the breeze at 9 o'clock this morning around the base of the Washington Monument i{in exercises during which represen-| tatives of patriotic and other soci- eties and government departments Iplaced wreaths at the foot of the| shaft. Colors were sounded by buglers from Fort Myer promptly at $ o'clock™as Muster Clarence C. Sher- of the-office of public buildings and groundsgheld a replica of the flag adopteiby the Continental Congress June f4, 1777 v As colors were sounded, officers of the High School Cadets, who had been stationed at each of the forty- eight flags placed in a circle around the monument, loosed their hold upon the folds and the banner flung in the cool breeze which cut across the grounds. Frederick D. Owen of the office of public buildings and grognds was in charge of the ceremonies,’ assisted by Col. Wallace M. Craigie, commanding the High School Cadet detachments, made up of picked men from the va us cadet companies. The compi- nies acted as a guard of honor. Wreaths at Foot of Shaft. In the name of the President. the first wreath was placed by Col. Sher- rill at the door of the shaft, above which was a shield bearing a legend itelling of the birth of George‘Wash- ington at Wakefield, Va., 190 years ago, and the numerals of the present year. A wreath from the Washington Na- tional Monument Society was pre- sented by F. L. Harvey, setretary. A Wreaths from other organizations fol- Commissioners of the _ bisirict. Wreath from other organizations fol- lowed quickly, These included the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the Dfs- trict; the George Washington Uni- versity, Dr. Howard L. Hodgklns, president; the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion; the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution; the Dis- trict government; the government de- partments; the office of public build- ings and grounds; the Grand Army of the Republic, Col. John McElroy; Spanish War Veterans, C. W. Mc- Caffrey; the American Legion, James A. Drain, chairman of executive com- mittea; Veterans of Foreign Wars, S. H. Jacobson; the George Wash- ington Memorial Association, Mrs. H. ¥. Dimock, president; Cyrus C. Coombs, grand master, Masonic Fra- ternityy the local Y. M. C. A., through Secretary Cooper; the various citi- zens' assoclations, through their presidents; the Washington Chamber of Commerce; the Washington Board of Trade; the City Club; the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, Secretary Morrison. The wreath of the Associa- tion of Oldest Inhabitants was placed by John Clagett Proctor, Washing- ton Topham and Albert Harper. At Memorial Bullding Corner Stome. Following the simple but impres- sive services at t Monument, the participants moved along the Mail to 6th and B streels, where a United States flag was raised over the corner stone of the contemplated Washing- ton Victory Memorial building. Sev- eral wreaths also were left here. PREMIERS TO CONFER. 1 i Lloyd, George and Poincare to Meet “Somewhere in France.” By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 22.—Prime Minis- 'ter Lloyd George of Great Britain and Premier Poincare of France will meet somewhere lil_hmnce Saturday for a conference. e principal subjects for discussion will be the agenda and the the date of the Genoa conference. It is considered probable that the situstion in Asia Minor and German reparations also will be discussed. NAMES AMERICAN BISHOP. The Foening Star. -MORNING EDITION i | | i The Assoclated Press s exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news_dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Daper and aiso the local news published bereis. Al rights of publication of special Member of the Associated Press | was lifted. | is not settled. The Columbia, he said, ; rill, smalron-of. Col. C. 0. Sherrill | dispatches berein are also reserved. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 95,557 * OPENING IS POSTPONED. Genoa Conference Delayed, Perhaps | to March 23. ROME, February 22—The Genoa conference, according to the news-| papers, will open March 15 or 23, in- stead of March 8, as originally an- nounced. The delay is said to be nec. osmary in order to complete prepara- ons. DISTRICT THEATERS SOON T0 REOPEN National Ready Tomorrow, Cosmos Monday and | Poli’s March 6. Having shown a prompt spirit of | co-operation in meeting the require- ments of the District Comm oners, the two legitimate theaters closed Saturday night for repairs have been authorized to reopen. The New National will open its doors tomorrow night with The White- Headed Boy,” which was booked for this week. The opening night will be 2 benefit performance for the George- town University Hospital, the man- agement announced today. Monday night was originally scheduled for this benefit. Poli's Theater will open Monday evening, March 6, when Margaret An- glin will begin her scheduled engage- ment in “The Bronze Woman.” Cosmon Alxo 1o Reopen. Manager A. Julian Brylawski the Cosmos Theater said that his theater will open with an entirely new series of attractions next Mon- to open immediately, he said, but day afternoon. He would be able for the fact that the entire show booked for this week was promptly canceled upon receipt of the closing order, and that he immediately set about to install a new seating equip- ment, consisting of French-gray leather upholstered chairs, with low backs, and affording easier access and exit, without disturbing persons who are already seated. This work will require the remainder of the present week. The theater has been entirely cleaned and renovated and every sug- gestion of the examining engincers sent by the District Commissioners has been carried out. There was never a question of the safety of the theater from a structural stand- point, and the Cosmos, he says. was | he first theater from which the ban of i | | Engineer Commissioner Keller said the date for the opening of the Metropolitan Motion Picture Theater | will reopen as soon as matters called to the management's attention can be corrected. The Engineer Commissioner stated that he would endeavor tomorrow to obtain the services of outside en- gineers to check up on the inspection of the Metropolitan made by en- gineers for the management and for the District. Col. Keller' said he has not_ con- ferred with the managers of the Maryland Theater, on Sth street, and | the Foraker, colored theater, on 20th street. Poll's Needed Fire Exits. The management of Poli's Theater announced today that one of the main | reasons which prompted the Commis- sioners to close that playhouse was the scarcity of fire exits in the top gallery. Certain minor alterations were also required and, through the expert ad- vice of Thomas W. Lamb, architect for all the Poli theaters, and the earnest desire of the management to! co-operate with the Commissioners, the early opening of this house was | made possible. i Mr. Lamb stated that the building | itself was in excellent condition, con- Sidering that it is one of the oldest theaters in Washington. The Com- missioner, while extremely solicitous | to assist the management in every way possible regarding its early | opening, was nevertheless very firm | that every point should be carried out according to his instructions, and | to this end he was assured by the management. To Close Top Gallery. Rather than make any attempt at its reconstruction at this time, it has been decided to close the top gallery | entirely. It is such decisions as this that indicate to what extreme the management intends to go in order to place Poli's Theater in a position to pass the most rigid tests. At the New National a wooden stairway in back of the: stage will be replaced with metal, doors lead- ing out of the structure repaired and other minor alterations made, it was stated today. Col. Keller said today that the de- tail of firemen at the legitimate thea- | ters will be increased as a further safeguard. KING TO ASK ORLANDO. TO FORM MINISTRY By the Associated Press. ROME, Febtuary 22—Enrico de Nicola, president of the Italian cham- ber of deputics, today declined the | king’s invitation to form a new cabi- net to succeed the Bomomi ministry. Signor de Nicola told his majesty he belleved former Premier Orlando would be the most likely person to succeed in, tie formation of a mew government, whereupon the king summoned Signor Orlando for a con- ference this afternoon, when it was! sald he would invite the former premier to assume the task. i CAVE-IN BURIES THREE. One in Tunnel Under City Car Tracks Is Rescued. r CANTON, ©hio, February 22.—Three men were buried when a tunnel being dug under car tracks in a city street here caved in this morning. One man was rescued alive and wi; recover. Two others have beea im prisoned for more than an hour nd it | is feared they have been crushed to death or suffocated. i The tunnel was being put through the street under the car tracks in con- ) nection with the laying of a large sewer. . LABORER LEFT_$100,000. CAPE_GIRARDEAU, Mo., February 22.—Jacob Kirchoff, employed by a ce- ment manufacturing concern here at/ 35 cents an hour, has been notified nu.tl hnchu mhle(fited| i Rflog.ogo“mm hl‘:'. ancle, Casper ichoff of urg ‘whose life he had saved in a rail- in East 8t. Louls, IIL, 'WO CENTS. REACH AGREEMENT ON PROVISIONS OF ALTERED RENT LAW Senate Subcommitteemen Will Report Finishqd Measure. LAW TO BE EXTENDED . TWO YEARS FROM MA Commission Would Be Enlarged and Business Properties Placed Under Jurisdiction. The provisions of the bill extending the District rent act for a period of Wo years were finally agreed upon by the subcommittee of the Senate District committee in charge of the measure at a meeting today. The bill will be reported by the eub- committee to the full committee ‘at a meeting at 10 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing. The full committee will be asked to take speedy action on the measure. Main Features of Bill. The main features of the bill, it is understc J, as it will go to the full committee are: Extension of the life of the rent act for two years from next May, when the present act expires. An increase in the membership of the Rent Commission from three to five. Inclusion of business properties under the supervision of the Rent Commission. Limitation of appeals from the Rent Commission to the District Court .and the employment tional counsel for the Rent sion. Supreme of addi- Commis- Other Measures Pending. The Senate District committee is to hold 2 meeting at 2 o'clock this after- noon to consider other measures now pending before it. At 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon the committee will hold a hearing on the proposed opening up of 1st streer northeast. NEW RESERVATION FOR 4POWER PAGT Senator Johnson Would Pre- serve Full Liberty of Judgment. A new reservation to the four- power Pacific treaty was submitted to the foreign relations committee today by Senator Johnson of Cali- fornia. The Johnson reservation, together ith thofle presented by Senator Brandegee and Senator Pomerene, will be considered further at a mee ing of the foreign relations commit- tee tomorrow morning. In the meantime Senator Lodge, chairman of committee, President the question of reserva tions. The Johnson reservation to the four-power treaty follows: “The use of the word ‘rights’ in the preamble and in articles 1 and 11 of this treaty shall not be taken to commit the signatory powers to any guarantee of, or to any opinion regarding the validity of any rights which may by any powers or people be claimed as valid, but which at the same time may by other powers or peoples be deemed invalid: and it is understood that in any dispute, ex- isting_or fuiure, regarding the valid- v of rights, the signatory powers reserve each to itself a full liberty of judgment.” The Johnson reservation is a mew . proposition and separate _entirely from the Brandegee and Pomerene proposals. Senator Lodge said today that he had not indicated to the committee what his position would be on the question of reservations. Would Accept Reservations. Administration leaders in the Sen- ate have indicated they would me- cept a blanket reservation to the four-power Pacific treaty. This is be- |lieved to have cleared away many of the obstacles in the pathway of the treaty in the Senate. The draft of the proposed reserva- tion, offered by Senglor Brandegee of Connecticut, republican member of the foreign relations committee, is as follows: “The United States understands that it assumes no obligation either legal or moral, to maintain the rights in rela- tion to the insular possessions or insu- lar dominions of any 6f the other high contracting parties and that the consent of the Congress of the United States shall be mecessary to any adjustments or un- derstandings under articies 1 and 2 by which the United States is to be bound in any way and that there is no obliga- tion either legal or moral to give such consent.” Senator Pomerene of Ohio, democrat, proposed an amendment by adding the words, “it is understood, however, that the adjustment provided for under ar- ticle 1 and the understanding contem- plated under article 2 shall be subject 1o the consent of the Congress of the United States.” See Much Debate. Senators Borah, republican, Idahe; and Johnson, republican, California; were said to have been consulted in the preparation of the resegvation, Considerable debate, however, on.the Senate floor was certain to precede’'s ratification vote, regardiess of what action might be-taken in the com- mittee, it was said. 3 The only. pronounced opposition to the Brandegee reservation at yester- day's committee meeting was said by members to have come tFom Senater Kellogg, republican. Minnesots, who insisted that qualifications were un- necessary and could only be a source Proponents of the Senator Williams, democrat, M ippi, to oppose the reservation, but’ otherwise -they believe committee approval will 3 given unanimously. —_— SUPPLY BILL PASSED.. The legislative bill, carrying $12,- $0.000 for expenses of Congress next - erday by the & yest, sent to conference. It was nate the third of regular supply the ures. to. get thro s of of embarrassment. proposal expect