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2 MINE RIOT SUITS TOTOTALS1.00000 Coal Company to Froceed - Against Union, Lewis and County. - B the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 24.—Estimates of the amount of property damage and de- termination of the cold figures to be fixed as the legal value of human lives lost in the mine riots and massacre of “bloody” Williamson county were being compiled today in preparation for the damage suits which the Southern Iliinois Coal Company announced will be filed against the International Union of the TUnited Mine Workers and the county. The ~suits aggregate more than $1.000.000, according to Fol'ett W. Bull, counse! for William J. Lester, president of the company. Suits will be filed not only for the com- but in behalf of the families of ploves s ain by the maddened mob kers and their sympathizers. Cases in the federal court probab'y will be started at Indianap where head- quarters of the Unit.d Mine Workers are located, and additional suits at Marion, Il county seat of Willlamson county, Mr. Bull said. Action against the miners' union may include a suit aga John L. Lewis, international president of the organiza- tion, it was said. First steps in the cortemplated suits will be based on reports brought back from the scene of the massacres by Arthur S. Lytton, law partner of Mr. Bull. MINERS FLEE HERRIN. 150 Pass Through Carbondale. Decline to Explain. By the Associated Press. CARBONDALE, IlL, June 24.—More than 150 miners from the Herrin dis- trict passed through here last night and early today, going out of the coal fields. They were believed to be union men Those that could be approuched would give no reason for this exodus and the names of the men were like- wise not available. COAL CORiPANY BROKE AGREEMENT. SAYS SNEED TUnion Official Declares Attempt Made to Ship Coal Despite Understanding. By the Asociated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June 24.—Sena- tor Willlam J. Sneed of Herrin, sub- district president of the U'nited Mjne Workers of America, dcclared yes- terday that an understanding regard- ing the work at Herrin “was entered into by W. J. Lester of the Southern Tllinois Coal Company with President Frank Farrington and State Board Member Hugh Willis of Herrin, at the miners’ state headquarters in Spring- fleld early in May. “Lester agreed that no work of loading coal would be attempted.” sald Senator Sneed, “and that the striking miners would be employed stripping the coal In preparation for future resumption of mining. How- ever, after 75,000 to 100,000 tons of coal had been uncovered by the steam shovels the company violated its agreement. Union mine workers were directed to load the coal. “Twenty rebelled Immediately and were fired. The first of last week the company brought about sixty workers from Chlcago and started them to work under guard, discharg- ing all United Mine Workers.” CHICAGO, Ill, June 24.—The strip mine was belng operated without any officlal agreement with the_miners’ union, according to Fuller W. Bull, attorney for the company. Mr. Lester sought an agreement! with Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois miners, in April, he sald, but was told that, under the national organiza- tion’s policy, no coal could be mined in the state following the strike, April 1. After more than a month, Lester again communicated with Farrington, Bull said, asserting that he could not afford to pay the high cost of uncovering unless he was able to ship the coal and sell it at present market prices. Farrington apparently agreed, he declared, and the company then made arrangements to bring in common laborers to load the coal. WAGON MINE OWNER SUES FOR INJUNCTION eks to Restrain Attempts of Union Miners to Close In- diana Workings. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June 24— The United Mine Workers of Amer- ica and all officers and members of the union were made defendants in a suit for an Injunction filed in United States district court here today by Clara Masson, owner of the Peacock coal mine In Knox county, Indiana. The court is asked in the suit to restrain union miners from continu- ing activities aimed at closing so- called wagon mines of the state. John L. Lewis was made a defendant to the suit, as president of the United Mine Workers of America and as an individual. The bill is voluminous and recites in detail many circumstances con- nected with the activities of crowds of miners that have marched in re- cent weeks against various wagon mines. The bill, however, has not been filed on_behalf of other mine owners than Clara Masson, according to attorneys. MILITARY BOARD TO PROBE LAXITY DURING MINE RIOT (Continued from First Page.) lars’ worth of mines would have been ruined through flooding within a few days. These caretakers are not mine union men. Unions Guard Caretakers. The fact that the men were being coerced into quitting came to the at- tention of Col. Hunter yesterday afternoon. With county and union officials he fmmediately conducted an investigation which' verified the re- ports. He then telegraphed Adjt. Gen. Black of the situation, stating that if the mines were unguarded he ex- pected trouble with which the local authorities could not cope. He said a‘d would be \necessary. Mr. Willis and Col. Hunter, assisted by the sheriff and the state’s attorney, worked until early this morning to assure the mines of protection. “The miners have gone back to work and they will stay back under pro- tection of the mine unions,” eaid Mr. ‘Willis today. “Threats made to them ‘were by irresponsible individuals and not by union officials.” Search for bodies continued today at some points in the county, although the searching parties were few. ‘Twenty-two bodies had been recov- ered and it was considered certain that many more still could be found. Concorning the property loss no definite estimate could be made. The « buildin ‘burned damage to the one steam blown up, the pumping plant dn‘a&— PR e DR. LAWRENCE WILSON ! IS CLAIMED BY DEATH ! Oldest Member of Harmony Lodge Dies in Mobile—Civil War Veteran. 1 DR. LAWRENCE WILSON. Word was received here today of the death in Mobile, Ala., Thursday, of Dr. Lawrence Wilson, veteran of the civil war and for many years a resident of this city. Dr. Wilson was born in_Southington, Ohio, September 2, 1842, and enlisted in Company D, 7th Ohio_Infantry, June 3, I861. He saw extensive service in the war and participated in the following cngagements: Cross Lane, Va.; Kerns- town, Va.; Port Republic, Cedar Moun- Dumtries, Va.; Chancellorsville, ysburg, Lockout Mountain, Missio ary Ridge, Ringgo'd and Rasaca, Ga. was wounded at Port Republic, r Mountain and Ringgo.d, Ga., and discharged July 7, 1564. ar later he was appointed to a sury here and re- | graduated from town Medical Col.ege in 1870, and moved to . where he practiced medic He wis app Dbost aster of Sodier Creek, Ka 153., and was elected Mayor of rance, Kan., two years later. Dr. Wil- n_was president of the Glasco Miiling C..npany of Kansas and likewise as- ant adjutant general of the G. A. R. of Kansas. Dr. Wilson was appointed to the medical division of the pension office in 1897 and since that time had made his home in the District. He was re- tired two years ago, and had recently gone to the home of his son, Law- rence Wilson, jr., in Mobile, for his health. \ He aided materially in the forma- tion of Woodside, into a com- organizer of R A A Harmony Lodge, . A. A, Until his death he enjoyed the di tinction of being the oldest member of the lodge. Dr. Wilson was presi- dent of the 20th Army Corps Associa- tion and was an_ honorary member of Mosby's Unit, United Confederate Veterans. Funeral services will bo held at his late residence, 921 Shepherd street northwest, Monday at 11 o'clock, and will be in’charge of Harmony Lodge. | Interment will be in Arlington n: tional cemetery. C. Edgar Bittinger. master of Harmony Lodge, has called a special communication to be held at Masonic Temple Monday morning at 10 o'clock. —_——— mited and two or three freight cars of coal burned, probably ran close to $100,000. Two freight cars of food supplies were taken. Says Strikebreakers Shot First. In the first statement from union officials concerning the massacre, newspaper reporters were told the blame lay squarely on the coal operators who imported slr_ikebrelk- ers The statement declared that the first shots were fired by the strike- breakers and that these shots were without provocation and that one of the chief causes of the disister was the high-handed manner in which| the imported workers “held up pri- vate citizens and refused to let them lrilver!e the public highways by the o mine:’ Col. ,Samuel Hunter of the state adjutant general's office reviewed his official investigation of the disaster, the following being the salient points of his report: That Col. Hunter on half a dozen occasions asked Sheriff Thaxton and other local county officials If they wanted troops sent here, but was told each time—even after the fight- ing started—that the local authorities could handle the matter. That he urged the mine officials to close it down to avert a disaster, but the request was refused. That an indignation nieeting of 600 miners was held just outside of Herrin the day before the fighting started. That he persuaded the beseiged workers to run 0p a white flag and obtain consent from miner officials for a truce, but that this truce was broken, by whom, he did not know. TROOPS READY TO START. Lester Appeals for Guards to Pro- t tect Victims’ Burial. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 24—Tllinofs troops held themselves in readiness today, prepared to leave on a moment's notice for the coal fields of bloody Williamson county. Transportation arrangements yes- terday following Gov. Small’s orders to mobilize remained in effect today 80 an Immediate departure could be made on orders to entrain for south- ern Illinois. Some of the Chicago guardsmen were permitted to spend the night at their homes after they had ar- ranged to answer promptly a call to arms. Others slept in the old 24 Infantry armory close to their stacked rifles. In the ranks of the mobilized men were many veterans of the European conflict, Among the personal requests to the governor for troops was that of Wil- liam J. Lester, president of the Southern Illinois Coal Company, ‘whose strip mine at Herrin was the storm center of Wednesday's riots. Mr. Lester said that soldiers were needed to assure proper burial of the massacre victyms and to act as guards for mourners, against whom it was feared the wrath of striking miners might be directed. “No relative or friend of any of the dead is safe under present cofiditions at Herrin,” he said. *“I can not con- ceive that such atrocities as the massacre of my employes could occur in_America.” Counsel for the Southern Illinois Coal Company whose strip mine was burned Thursday and the non-union | workers slain by striking miners and sympathizers, today sent a telegram to Adjt. n. Carlos E. Black at Springfield, requesting that troops be sent to Wililamston county. The at- torneys charged that the sheriff of the county was still refusing to do his duty and that there was danger of further outbreaks. — ARTS CLUB IN GREEK PLAY “Alkestis of Euripides,” a Greek comedy, will be presented on the portico of the Chevy Chase School this afternoon by the Arts Club of ‘Washington. Included in the cast are Algernon Tassin, Miss Anne Ives, James Otis Porter, Maurice Jarv. L. G. Perce, Edgsr Tremlett Fo Miss Elsle Porter and Carlton von Valkenb: Waiter E. Berry has arranged the musical score and will direct the Greek chorus. U.S. REGOGNIZES Secretary Hughes Replies to Communication From Inter- national Tribunal. By the Associated Press. THE HAGUE, June 24.—The perma- nent court of international justice made public today a message from Charles E. Hughes, State of the United States, dated March 31, which is the first American recognition of the permanent court. Secretary Hughes, replying to a com- ! munication from the permanent court, dated March 27, said: “The State Department will be glad to receive the court, transmitted directly or through the Am¥rican legation at The Hague. Any letters rogatory or commission for taking testimony, ich may be received, will be for- warded tc the appropriate executive authorities in the United States in order thut they may be brougat to the attention of the court for such action as it is possible to take with reierence to them under the laws of thiz country.” TRY TO FIX BLAME IN WILSON MURDER| [ 377 The general store operated by Mr. and Mrs. Shannon at Fort Foote, (Continued from First Page.) to support it, and it is said in some quarters that if such a plot ever ex- isted the slavers of Field Marshal Wilson cannot be eonnected with it. L officials are understood to mmunicated with the provis- al government in Dublin concern- ing the crime. but nothing autkorita- tive in the cennection is disclosed. The official precautions to protect pibllc men have not yet been ex- tended to_ in - the closing of the all in parliament.’ They but some of the Iy were detectives. Scores Cabinet. Post prints a state- dy Wilson had sent a to the cabinet to the effect he presence of any cabinet minis- at her husband’s funeral would be distasteful to her. The message caused niuch consternation, and the newspaper s.ys a letter was written informing v Wiison that the absence of cabi- net members from a military public funeral would be regarded as disre- spectful to the king. Thereupon she ylelded. The Post's correspondent adds that when J. Austen Chamberlain, govern- ment leader in the house of commons, called at the Wilson residence on th evening of the fleld marshal's assassi nation to express his sympathy, he was received by Lady Wiison's niece. Upon seeing him she exclaimed: “You are the last man who should be in this house today!” She then left the room, and Mr. Chamberlain departed without accomplishing his mission. Funeral on Monday. Subject to the approval of Lady Wilson, it was decided late today that Fleld Marshal Wilson be buried in St. Paul's on Monday if the military ar- rangements can be perfected by that time. Otherwise the burial will take place Tuesday. The Duke of Connaught will repre- sent the king. tary honors. will come to England to attend th services, but will not be accompanied by French troops. The Duchess of Devonshire was to have given a ball last night in honor of her daughter, Lady Rachel, which was to have been attended by the Duke of York and Princess Mary and possibly by the Prince of Wales. It is now announced that on account of the assassination of Field Marshal Wilson none of the royal family will attend the ball. Seventeen of the men arrested after the assassination have been released. DENY HAND IN CRIME. Widow & Irish Republican Statement De- plores Death of Wilson. DUBLIN, June 24.—“The shooting of Sir Henry Wilson was not done at republican instance or of the Irish republican army; if it were the Irish republican army would acknowledge the fact,” says a statement issued by the publicity department at the Four Courts headquarters early this (Sat- urday) morning. “The death of Wilson is to be de- plored,” the statement continues, “not because it occurred apparently at the hands of Irishmen, but because he was a victim of the Imperial policy pursued by the British government in Ireland. “There I8 no use trying to saddle the responsibility on Ireland or any group of the Irish people. The re- sponsibility must rest where the in- exorable finger of history will place it, on the government that has tried to carry on the policy Great Britain has continuously and consistently adopted in its relations with Ireland for centuries, to partition Ireland into a north and south; to win the allegi- ance of the north by making it over- seer in the work over imperial en- slavement; to gain the allegiance of the south by threat of the iron heel; to pamper one and suppress the other and to make one appear the natural enemy of the other. “These have been the British gov- ernment methods in the past. They are its methods today. The scenes of outrage and carnage in the north are the result of British instigation, Brit- ish connivance and British duplicity. “In all this Wilson played a part that time will define, and he played it not for Ulster, but for his imperial masters. It would be hypocritical to condemn_such action as the shoot- ing of Wilson while the causes that provoke such deeds remain.” Eamonn De Valera, in a statement to the press last night, disavows any knowledge of the assassins of Field Marshal Wilson or their motives. —— DR. CUMMING RESIGNS. District Assistant Health Officer Accepts Philadelphia Job. Announcement of the resignation of Dr. James G. Cumming, assistant bealth officer of the District, was made today. Dr. Cumming’s resigna- tion was accepted at the board meet- ing of the Commissioners yesterday. He stated that he had accepted the position of chief of the bureau of public health of Philadelphia. Dr. Cumming had been here only four months. He has had experience in health work in New York city, in the Army and with the California state board of health. The Commissioners expressed re- gret at the loss of his services and their inability to offer & salary suf- ficlent to hold him. STUDENTS AT BANQUET. School of Commerce Association Elects Officers. ‘The National School of Commerce Students’ Assoclation celebrated the close of the school for the summer with a_banquet in the Fyanklin Square Hotel Thu night. Pre- ceeding the dinner, the annual elec- tion of officers was held with the following result: President, Marc Cohen; vice president, John P. Doran; secretary, F. J. Cchrider; treasurer, Vernon 8. Auld, and P. D. Keyser, B. W. Rissinger and W. T. Spence. Bdwin C. Bosworth, esident of the school; Paul E: Lesh, local at- torney, and Edward M. Tyler deliv- ered addresses. Secretary of | any. communication from | i i ‘WASHINGTON D. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1922. ~ PLUCKY WOMAN STOREKEEPER AND SCENE OF ATTEMPTED HOLD-UP Md., nbout five miles from the District line. RATHENAU IS SHOT TO DEATH IN AUTO; ASSASSINS ESCAPE (Continued from First Page.) failing In an attempt to oppose combination with the Siemens Schukert Company. Toured African Colonfes. Aside from business obligations, he accompanied Dr. Denburg, then sec- retary of state for the colonies, on a tour of the German possessions In'| Africa. He later represented German concessionaires in mine exploltation in Morocco. Banking next engaged his energies and he became the head of one of the leading German finan- cial houses. He became chairman of the administrative council of the A. E. G. and soon made a name for himself throughout the empire as a commercial magnate. At the outbreak of the world war, while immersed in the development of big business on a tremendous scale, he was offered the offlce of minister of raw materiala His work in taat capacity obtalned extraordi- nary results. Upon the suocess of his work depended not only the economic life of the interjor of Germany, but also the maintenance of the far- flung German armies. Hin organiza- tion almost nullified the allies’ block- ade. It was not until after the war that the actual food privation afflicted the people. The exactions and com- plexities of bureaucratic life never appeaied to him and he was glad to plunge into the activities of the A. E. G. after peace had been declared. dropped his chosen work without = murmer, however. He was offered the portfollo of minister of recon- struction. 5 Beortfolio Eliminated. He held this post for several months, but when the cabinet was reformed in October, 1921, his port- folio was eliminated. Although not a member of the cabinet, he repre- sented the German government sub- sequently In various economic con- ferences with the allies. He was ap- pointed fcreign minister on January 31, taking the post that Chancellor Wirth had been temporarily filling following the retirement of Dr. Wal. ter Simons. The accomplishment for which Dr. Rathenau came into greatest prom- inence while minister of reconstruc- tion was the agreement which he negotiated with Louis Loucheur, French minister of liberated regions, at Wiesbaden last Ootober, under which Germany has been paying a part of her reparations to France in goods instead of money. As forelgn minister Dr. Rathenau was a leading figure among the Ger- man delegates at the Genoa confer- ence. Dr. Rathenau’s prominence at Genoa came rather from what he ac- complished outside the conference than in it. The Genoa body had been in session only a few days when the startling _announcement came, on April 17, that as German foreign min- ister he had signed at Rapallo a treaty between Germany and soviet Russia. Reacts Like Bombshell. News of the signing of this pact, which has gone down In history as the treaty of Rapallo, broke like & bombshell among the Genoa conferees and came within an ace of breaking up the conference. The treaty, which was a general agreement of amity and commerce between the two nations, giving full recognition to the soviet regime, drew out a strong protest from the allied representatives and resulted ultimately in the exclusion of the German delegates from the further conferences with the Russians at Genoa, on the ground that as Ger- many had already made her agree- ment with Russia independently of the allies there was no longer any reason for her participation in the talks with the Russians. Dr. Rath- enau, in the German reply to the al- lied protest, warmly defended the signing of the treaty. He_ declared the negotiations for it had begun long before, the fact that it had been signed right under the noses of the allies during the confer- ence had no particular significance. Busy With Reparations. Since the close of the Genoa confer- ence Dr. Rathenau has been largely engaged in considering German repara- tions questions, meanwhilé taking fre- quent occasion’ to defend before Ger- man official bodies .and public meet- ings his course in signing the Rapallo pact. Dr. Rathenau was born September 29, 1867. His earlier active life wai confined almost exclusively to busi- ne: the exigencies of the war alone g him into polities. His after- the-war eall to head the work of Ger- man reconstruction met with a mixed reception in Germany, as he had given evidence of liberal economic jideas, Which had displeased some of Ger- many’s business elements. His abil- ties in the- way of practical applica- tion of business principles to govern- ment, however, were widely. recognized. BOWIE. BOWIE, Md., June 24 (Special).— Engagement of Miss Marian jen, an assistant to the collector of taxes for the District of Columbia, to Bernard V. Luers, local merchant, has been announced. The wedding is to take place the morning of July 12 at Sur- rattaville. BRANDYWINE. BRANDYWINE, Md.,, June 24 (Spe- cfal).—Annual commencement exer- cises of Brandywine High Bchool last night were largely attended. The graduating class was composed of following: Sallie Perrie Robin- son, Leroy Robertson, Alice Llewella Dent, Marian Beatrice We! r, Wil- liam Alton Gallshan, ir.; Juliag Car- Iyle Brysn and Mary Myrtle Tayman, London, 0overs & spagp of ten Rores. 3 . | WM, ROCKEFELLER DIES; ILL ONLY SINCE SUNDAY (Continued from First Page.) that he had between $100,000,000 and $250,000,000, conoentrated in various Standard _Oil companies, Anaconda Copper, Consolidated Gas, Brooklyn Tnion 'Gas, St. Paul and National City Bank. A friend recently stated that Mr. itockefeller's death, when it came, ~hould have no appreciable effect on he stock market, as none of his wldings would be tossed on the open narket. Announcement of his death was re- eived in Wall street nearly an hour vefore the market opened, Mr. Rockefeller returned to his home last Thursday after a visit with his brother to the farm on which they were born, at Richford, in Tioga county. Drenched in Showers. Friday Mr. Rockefeller complained of not feeling well, but the follow- ing day he insisted on going out, and was drenched In a heavy shower, Sunday his cold gave his family con- cern, and pneumonia quickly set in. During the week relatives were summoned. Willlam Rockefeller had been in 111 health for many years. The state of his health, in fact, and his where- abouts, became a matter of intense public curfosity in 1912-13, when the congressional committee investigat- ing the “money trust,” desired him as a witness. He could not be found. For months the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives led a search, which was fruitiess. When attorneys representing him finally capitulated by accepting the subpeona for him, it desciosed that he was at Nassau, Bahama Islands, but his physician emphatically main- jtained that to ask Mr. Rockefeller to answer questions on a witness stand was to invite his death. He Wwas subject to such spasms of cough- ing, that speech above a whisper was lkely to strangle him. The Pujo committee, still determin- ed to get his testimony concerning an alleged manipulation of the cop- per market with H. H. Rogers sev- eral years previously, arranged a special sitting in the financier's cot- tage at Jekyl Island, but had pro- ceeded with less than a dozen ques- tions when the witness was seized with laryngeal spasms and palsy. The committee was unable to con- tinue without fear of causing his death. Suffered From Caneer. It was then that his physicians ad- mitted he was suffering from a can- cer of the throat. They were both born at Richford, Tioga county, N. Y., on their father's farm—Willlam on May 31, 1841, two years after the birth of John. In Cleveland, Ohio, to which the family removed while the broth- ers were boys, William began his mercantile career in the produce commission business, as did his brother, and joined the latter soon after he became iInterested in oil, about 1862. The establishment, soon afterward, of a branch office In New York led to the removal of William Rockefeder to that city to take charge of it. From that time until his retirement in 1911 he was the active head of the New York com- pany. In almost every respect, except his success &s an oil magnate, William Rockefeller differed from his broth- er. He was a club _man, his brother belonged to none. He was interested but slightly in philanthropic work of any kind or religious activity. Alongside the blocks of millions his brother gave away, William Rocke- feller's largest known gift was $100,- 000 to Wellesley College. He was an _enthusiastic motorist and saw nothing In golf, of which his brother was such a devotee. He did not en- joy the latter's rugged health. Al- though there was no known estrange- ment and they both had summer residences at Tarrytown, N. Y., the | brothers were seldom seen together. On May 25, 1864, he was married to Almira Geraldine Goodsell of Fairfield, Conn. He had two sons and two daughters, Willlam G., Percy A., Ethel G.. wife of Marcellus H. Dodge, and Emma, wife of Dr. David H. McAlpin, jr. —_— FOUR IRISH AMBUSHERS SLAIN BY CONSTABLES Republican Army Snipers Recover Killed and Wounded Com- rades’ Bodies. By the Assoclated Press. BELFAST, June 24—Four Irish republican army men were killed and several wounded at Cushendall, in southeastern County Antrim, when jthey ambushed a party of military ‘and special Ulster constables. The crown forces suffered no casualtes. The constables and military left Ballymena, in western County Apn- trim. at 8:30 o'clock last night. While fiuln through the main street of vlf!ngo of Cushendall an hour later they were attacked by a large body of republican soldiers, who held positions on the high ground com- manding the road. The crown forces lof: thelr rxotor cars and a running fight ensued. ‘he bodies of their killed and wounded comrades were recovered by the ambushing party. In the re- publican campaign in this district a month_ago & bank and the houses of many loyalists were burned. "A policeman. returning from the Lecky road barracks last night was challenged by one of the curfew atrol. A shot was fired and, plerc- ng the window of a nearby house, struck James Murray, who was lying in bed. His jugular vein was sever- ed, causing death in a few minutes. ———————— The glass roof of Victoria station, MRS. GEORGE H. SHANNON, Who, whep commanded by thief with &un to hold up her hands, knocked the weapon from his hands and later chased Bim with shotgun. The gun- man melf when he found that t he escape his pursuers. FREE FERRY PROVIDED NEW BATHING BEACH lColumhla Island Resort to Be Opened Shortly After July 1, Says Sherrill. A free ferry will be operated by the government to the new bathing beach to be opened shortly after July 3 on the lower end of Columbia is- land, it was announced today by Col. C. 0. Sherrill, officer in charge of pub- lic buildings and grounds. The boat Bartholdi, which last year plied the Washingion channel from its wharf to Haines point, has been assigned to the ferry service and will be operated free of charge to the pub- beach, and temporary buildings are to be built to take care of the bathers early in the season. Later on more permanent structures will be added, it was understood. The bathing beach, which is be- ilieved to fill a long-felt want, Is lo- cated on an ideal site for the pur- pose, and has a natural, sandy, shelv- ing shore. The stchedule of the boat Bartholdi and hours of service of the free ferry, together with announcement of where she will dock, are expected to be made public soon. The Barthold! holds about 100 pas- sengers, and is a seaworthy little craft, expected to see heavy service through the bathing season. . FREDERICK, EN MASSE, WELCOMES MARINES Force on Way to Gettysburg Gets Hearty Greeting—In Camp at Fair Ground. Special Dispatch to The Star. CAMP FELAND, MARINE CORPS EXPHEDITIONARY FORCE, FAIR GROUNDS, FREDERICK, Md., June 24—This town turned out almost en masse today to greet the United States Marine Corps, east coast expeditionary force, en route from {ts base at Quantico, Va. to Gettysburg, Pa., to re-enact that great battle of the civil The force was given a recep- tion that it will never forget, and there was a general reinforcement of the pleas received earlier in the march that the force spend tomorrow in celebration of Maryland day in the town, with & parade and review. Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, com- manding the force, previously had said that he would grant the request of the citizens if Gov. Ritchie of Maryland would come over for the day, and now the citizens are sending reinforcements to get the governor to make the trip. Should th:‘ gov- ernor find it impossible to attend, the marines will break camp here to- morrow morning early and start a twenty-mile hike to Thurmont, Md. where they will camp tomorrow night. If the state’s chief executive says he will come the marines will ain a day and another night The foroce broke camp at Camp MoCawley at daybreak today and were on the march by 5:30 o'clock. followed closely by the motorized train and heavy guns It was a straight march, maneuvers having been abandoned for the day. The, men are much pleased with their fair grounds camp site, as they have many conveniences not usually found in the fleld, including running water. CENTER GIVES PLAY. The junior work of the Thomson Community Center was brought to a close at ‘the Thomson School last with the presentation of “Cinderella” by the children of the center. The play was preceded by a plano solo by Everest Harned and ‘was followed by four solo dances and c. Progress {s reported at the bathing | ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 24 (8pes oiai). — Mrs. ' Frances _Elizabeth | Thompson. widow of John E. Thomp- {#on, died Thursday night at her home at Derwood, this county, aged elghty- two years. Her death followed an illness of less than an hour and was due to heart disease. She is survived by the following children: John E., Harvey and Clarence and Edgar Thompson of Washington, Mrs. Ray- mond Waters of Richmond, Va.; Mrs. Clarence W. Ricketts and Augustus Thompson of this county. The funeral will take place at 2 o'clock Sunday afterncon from the family residence, burial to be in For- est Oak cemetery, Gaithersburg. Mrs. Thompson was a daughter of the late Madison Harriss of this county and was 2 lifelong resident of the county. a Among the couples married In Rockville recently were Miss Irene M. Brown and Karl E. Noll, both of Washington, and Miss Edna’ M. Soott and Earl F. Skillman, both of Alex- andris, Va. A license has been issued for.the marriage of Miss Frances T. ‘Wilhide of Boonsboro, Md,, and Law- rence B. Schrider of Silver Spring, this eounty. ALEXANDRA, ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 24.—Wil- lam E. Fitzgerzld, seventeen years old, who lives at 335 South Patrick street, was seriously injured today when 'a bicycle he was ‘riding and an Army truck from Camp Humph- reys came together. Fitzgerald was picked up and placed in an auto- mobile driven by Miss Virginia K. | Keith and taken to the Alexandria Hospital. _Fitzgerald sustained a compound fracture of the leg. ‘When intercepted by Policemen Taylor and Thompson last night at Columbus and Oronoco streets a young man_registered on the police blotter as R. H. Thorp dropped two glass jars filied with fluid which the police” said had the odor of corn liquor. The officers took Thorp in custody and gathered the fragments of the jars He was fl‘nestio for breaking glass in the stree : The sewing circle of St _Mary's Church held closing exercises Wednes- day night at the Lyceum Hall. Many of the parents and friends of the class Visited the exhibition. The children and their parents were guests on an outing at Wellington Villa, Fairfax county, Thursday. A prize of & $2.50 gold plece for attendance was award- ed Mary Carne, and a gold rosary, for general improvement, to Minnie Higglns. Others who were awarded special_prizes follow: Elsie Gensemer, Helen Moore, Frances Schuman, Eliza- beth Sampson, 3 Quinn, Emily Lannon, Dorothy Woolls, Catherine McGowan, Margaret Trig- ger, Emily Chisholm, Catharine Bren- ner, Marion Roland, Catharine Samp- son, Minnie Jenkins, Mary Beall, An- nie Struder, Mary Altcheson, Cora Woolls, Rosie Ramer, Mary Loulse Tullock, Clara Bradley and Pauline Caton. All efforts to locate Miss Henrietta Spoonhoward, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Spoonhoward, of 303 King street, thus far have failed. The police of several cities have been furnished with post- card pictures of the missing girl Mrs. Sarah L. Taylor, forty-six years old, dled Thursday at the Alexandria Hospital. The body was taken to her late home, 610 South Lee street, whence the funeral will take place at 10 o'clock Monday morning. Services will be conducted by Rev. Dr. Percy Foster Hall, rector of Bt. Paul's Epis- copal Church, and burial will be in Arlington national ceme Alexandria Lodge, No. 758, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, will have a large number of candidates up for election at its meeting Monday night. UPPER MARLBORO. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., June 24 (Special).—Much interest s being taken in the offer of a premium of $200 to the extension service of the University of Maryland, by the Balti- more and Ohio raliroad company, to be divided equally between the most worthy club boy and girl selected from one of the following countles: Cecil, Hartford, Baltimore, Prince Georges, Montgomery, Howard, Car- rol, Garrett, Frederick, Washipgton and Allegany. The award will be made for general activity shown in club work. It is stipulated that U!e { premiums shall be applied on winner's | expenses to the University of Mary- {1and, provided he or she is a bonaj fide student or becomes on within one year after winning the premium. If the winner is unable to accept this proposition, he or she may receive an educational trip. The contest is to begin at once and the winner will be | announced November 10. Nominations imust be in the hands of the director of extension, University of Maryland, College Park, Md., by November 1. The award is to be made upon the current year's demonstration, but the winning” candidate must have com- pleted at least one other year of demon- stration work. Candidates, who must be between the ages of fourteen and twenty, Inclusive, will be selected by the county agents and home demon- stration agents in the various coun- ties and should be recommended by at Teast two citizens of the county. The winners will be selected by a unani- mous vote of not less than six ex- tension service workers. —_— HYATTSVILLE. HYATTSVILLE, Md., June 24 (Spe- cial).—Announcement has been made by the Washington suburban sani- tary commission of award of im- portant contracts for water and sewer oconstruction in Maryland ter- ritory adjacent to Washington, in the Washington suburban sanitary di: trict, totaling $179,303.15. Contract for the construction of sewers for Brentwood, Cottage City and adjacent territory in Pr'nce Georges county, at the prica of $54.- 573.75, and a oontract for censtruc- tion of sewers in Riverdale at an ex- pense of $41.834.75, have been award- ed B. C.‘Bnko\’, Uniontown, Pa. the lowest bidder. To Philip Agrios of New York city, lowest bidder, has been awarded a contract for construction of water mains for section 3 d Martin's ad- ditions to Chevy Chase and Wood- mont at & prioce of $73,765.90. ‘A oontract for oonstruction of a water main from the Takoma Park filter plant to connect with the main now being laid under existing con- s- from s.ilwr ng o Che an _expense of $8.- IIIA:IrS,. has been awarded the Boyle Contracting Company of Baltimore, lowest bidder. These contracts supplement those {let by the commission in March for { wator and sewer trunk line consgguc- tlon, totaling $55,022.40. A contract has also been awarded entailing an expenditure of $46,936.97 for cast iron pipe and fittings. Two additional contracts are soon to be awarded for construction of sewers in College Park and Chevy Chase. LANDOVER. LANDOVER, Md,, June 2¢ (Special). —Closing exercises of the Landover Grammar School, in the school last night were attended by an assem- blsge that packed the room. The “Tom Thumb Wedding,” perhaps, was the outstanding feature of &n ex- cellent program. Taking part in this were Marjorie Smith, Blanche Gordy, Mildred Farker, Johnnle Lynbham, Ruth Gordy, Evelyn Courtney, Mar- cia Parker, Beatrice Lambkin, Ralph Hammer, Edwin Long, Aubrey Lan- ham and Freddie Mott. Other fea- tures included of the Clothes,” Marjorie Smith and Blanche Gordy: Indian scene participated in by Es- telle Carrick, Christobel Long, Mil- in which appeared Smith, Ruth and Blanche Gordy; rose S S o ed by STam Was grrang bott, The pro- ! by the clerk of the circuit court here | Sarah Wood, Marie | dred Gilllan and John and Everett Gordy; Yankee Doodle trio, Marjorie | live {n the town where w K. P. Ab- ALLIES UNCERTAIN OF RUSS ATTITUDE Question of Whether Lenin’s liness Will Change Policy Still Hangs Fire. - BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. }y Cable to The Star and Chics News, Copreignt, 62z T DT N THE HAGUE, June 24.—Uncertainty 1s telt among the western delegations regarding the position the Russlans intend to assume at the opening of the negotiations on Mondey. It is « {question as to whether M. Lenin's j ilinees, supposedly from some form of | paralysis, will or will not change th soviet foreign policy. 8o far nobody knows. The political situation in Moscow is obscure. There is apparently a good deal of maneuvering within the con munist party between the moderat and extremists, but with what practi- cal results it is too soon to say. The | only definite indication 1s the person- ne! of the soviet delegation which is expected at The Hague today. Leonid Krassin and Foreign Minister Rakov- sky of Ukrainia are opportunists, but N. N. Krestinsky, M. Sokolmkov and especially Maxim Litvinov, the head of the delegation, are all Know as extremists, giving the delegation as & whole an extremist complexion | This almost certainly means that the soviets will not recede from the terms | of their memorandum of May 11—not immediately, anyway. Policy Becoming Effective. Meanwhile the “new economic policy in Russia is gradually becoming ef- fective. The country is so impover- ished that it not only produces barely half enough food for itself, but is scanty industrial products cannot be sold because nobody is able to bu 50 that in the midst of general want there is the paradox of overproduction However, the budget has now been estaplished on a theoretical gold busis and some tuxes are being collected. particularly the so-called tithe on a ricultural production. Small industries and small private properties are swid ‘m be free. Some thirty of the larger industries have been formed intu trusts, which pay wages and sell goods for cash. They are managed by & board of directors appointed by the supreme council on national economy j2nd consisting of workmen, tech- iniclans and former capitalists. In ternal trade is said to be free. The soviets, however, still keep a tight hold on the railways and the foreign trade, which are not free, and controll- ing which the soviets really control everything. These facts necessarily form the basis of the soviet foreign policy. The general soviet thesis is that western capital is necessiry to Russian recon- i struction and that Russian reconstruc- tion is. necessary to Europe. Their Russfa, they maintain, is an entirely new Russfa, and they desire to obliter- ate the past as in the treaty of Rapallo. JAPAN WILL EVACUATE SIBERIA BY OCTOBER 30 Tokio Privy Council Approves Four-Power Pact Drafted at Arms Parley Here. By the Assoclated Press. TOKIO, June 24.—Japan will evacu- ate Siberia by October 30 next, it was learned today. _The Jlapancse cabinet yesterday de- cided that Japan shall evacuate Siberia. according to reports carried by the Japanese news agencies. The decision has been referred to the imperial diplo- matic council. The cabinet decision to withdraw from Siberia is declared to constitute a reaffirmation of Japan's policy in that country. The date of evacuation will not be fixed until after the mat- ter has been considered by the diplo- matic advisory council today. A Japanese warship, dispatched to {Vladivostok following the overthrow lof the Merkulov government there {June 2, has advised the Tokio gov- ernment that the incident was only a trifling affair, reports of which ha been exaggerated. The Merkulov brothers again are at the head of the administration. The Japenese privy council today ap- proved unanimously the quadruple treaty recommended at the Washington arms conference. The treaty was sent { to the prince regent for ratification. He promised that this formality would be carried out. REV. H. H. FONES DEAD. Venerable Baptist Minister Long Was Prominent in, Virginia. Rev. H. H. Fones, well known Bap- tist minister for many years in the 0ld Dominion state, died early this morning at 4117 5th street, where he had resided for a short while. He was In his elghty-second year. Rev. Mr. Fornes was born in 1840 when a young man entered Rich: College.” After graduating therefr, he took the usual training course-for the ministry at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Immediately {after finishing this course he began his work at Old Rappahanneck Church, where he continued to serve as pastor for fifty-four years. Prac- tically all his life was spent in West moreiand county, Va., where ha be- came endeared to all with whom he came in contact. 2 Funeral services will be held Rappahannock Church Tuesday af ernoon at 1 o'clock, Dr. Judson Ramey officiating. A short service will be held before leaving for Rappahannock Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock at Hines' Chapel, 2901 14th street. sz, Surviving the deceased minister ate four children, Mrs. Edwin D. Brown, Robert D. Fones of this city, John P. Fones of Atlantic City and H. H. Fones, jr., of Seattle, Wash. —_—— REV. JOHN R. ROTH DIES. St. Mary’s Catholic Pastor Had Been Ill for Long time. Rev. Jokn Richard Roth, for sev- eral years pastor of St. Mary's Caths olic €hurch, died Thursday following a long lliness. Death was not ex- pected, as the illness was not regard- ed as serious. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 10 o'clock at the church. Requiem mass will be celebrated by Rev. P. J. O' of St. Joseph's Church. Rev. Gallagher, Catholic chaplain of pub- lic_institutlons, will be deacon and Rev. John H. Eckenrode of the Im- maculate Conception Church will be subdeacon. Archbishop Michael Cur- ley will pronounce the final abso- lution. Rev. Mr. Roth was born near Linz, Germany, February 18, 1869. He was educated in the schools at Rott, St. Francis Seminary, Milwaukee, and at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore. He wT)- ordained by Cardinal Gibbons in 9 He had been pastor of Bt Mary's Church here zince shortly be- fore the war. Prior to his Washing- ton appointment he bullt St. Mary’s Church at South Cumberland, Md. and served as pastor for eight yea: Interment will be in St Mary's dislogue, “Hanging | cemetery- —_— Amendment Accepted From the Boston Transcript. “Mother,” sald Jounny, “the Smiths i “J think I shoula use the word ‘re- salute to|] slde.” interrupted his mother. in the town ore we m *Well, they reside ‘where wa resede here, don’t they:” i ‘