Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1922, Page 1

Member of -the Associated Pross The Asmclated Press fs esclusiyely catitied to the use for republication of all ‘mews dispatéhes eredited to 1t or mot sthorwiss cwdited fa this vaper and also the local news Dublisbed hereia. WEATHER. Fair tonight: tomorrow local thun- dershowera: continued warm. Temperature for twenty-fourghours ended at 2 p.m. today: High 88, at 2 pm. todsy; lowest. 10, 4 today. Fuli report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bands, Page 28 No. 28,551 IRISH REBELS HOIST * WHITE FLAG AFTER TERRIFIC EXPLOSION Section of Four Courts Blown | Up as Collins Attackers Press Bombardment. BUILDING IN FLAMES; 30 DEAD. 50 WOUNDED Free Staters Turn on Menacing « Outposts—Dublin Becomes Huge Fort. By the Associated Press, DUBLIN, June 30.— The insurgents who have been occupying the Four Courts in Dublin surrendered at 4:10 o'clock this afternoon, It was officially announced, says a press association statement. The surrender was preceded at 4 o'clock by their hoisting the white flag over the buiiding. An explosion, which blew up a section | of the building, preceded the surrender by a few hours. It is believed a con- siderable number of the insurgents were wounded by the explosion, although they were not occupying-that part of the structure which was blown up. When the surrender took place the Four Courts were still in flames. There were 130 of the irregulars in the party. They marched out with a priest at the head of the column. The Free State . commandant had issued orders to cease firing. Rory O'Connor, commander of the republican army insurgents, who sur- rendered the Four Courts today to Irish Free State forces, was taken prisoner, says the correspondent for the London Press Association. Other buildings held by bodies of in- surgents are now being attacked and firing proceeds throughout the city. Unofficial estimates of the casualties in the two days' fighting here place the number kiiled at thirty, with more than fifty wounded. This forenoon twelve deaths were reported and twenty wounded, the latter including hoth men in the fighting forces and private citizens. Airplones Ald in Attack. Observations by airplanes had pre- pared the way for the attack on the Four Courts, enabling the Free Staters to map out the inner defenses, says the Freedman's Journal, in de- eribing . the preparations for last evening’s assauit. The artillery bom- bardment had thus been extremely ef- ; fective, and the breaches in the wall made at the most vulnerable points. ‘The constamt explosion of shells and the Incessant machine gun and rifle fire had, it was bellevee: lessened the morale of those behind the great walls, making .sleep Impossible since the first shots were fired forty-aight hours before the assault. Early last evening provisional gov- ernment troops wera in position with pouches filled and bayonets fixed awaiting the hour of attack. Bombers were attached to each unit, and ma- chine guns and armored cars were ready to cover the advance. After final .inspection and the giving of in- structions the first parties, under cover of darkness, began the advance from the adjacent streets leading into Church street and Winetavern street, proceeding quickly to their final posi- tions. from which they vance at the double quick. Intense Machine Gunfire. An intense burst of machine gun and rifie fire was then opened from | 211 sides agzinst every defensive posi- tion in the Four Courts. Suddenly it ceased and the storming parties ad-| vanced on the run. At some points spirited resistance was met, but this was soon overcome and the irregu-| lars fell back. The Free State forces closed in and a number of the irregu- lars were surrounded. Further re- sistance being wuseless, they sur- Tendered. The remainder retreated to what might be termed the last line of de- fense. in the eastern parts of the rear | building. Every effort was being made dur- ing the attack, following the policy of the provisional government com- mand at the opening of the opera- tlons, declares the Freeman's Journal, to prevent serlous loss of life. 33 Irregulars Taken. An official bulletin issued from the headquarters of the Free State troops early today, describing the capture of the greater part of the Four Courts, says that, in the desire to save the lives of those in the build- ings, special precautions were taken and that the casualties to the Ir- regulars were not heavy was due to the skill with which the attacking party conducted the operations. ‘When the Four Courts was occu- pied thirty-three irregulars were made prisoner. The Free State forces occupied the greater part of the bullding, including the central hall and library, and the irregulars were forced to retire to the rear of the eastern section, a considerable por- tion of which was blown away by artillery fire. During the evening application was made to the officer commanding to admit a nurse in uniform with a woman to the Four Courts, says the statement, the appeal being ~made on the groundi f h ity. The officer became and when the nurse was signatories to the irregulars’ procla mation. Darcy said he had been chie of staft of the irregulars. made prisoner. Twelve Mines Captured. Entering the building, the Free in piain clothes on the street corners. ‘The statement says the troo shewn extraordinary oontrol in face of the provocation givea in o returning with wounded from the vicinity of the Four Courts ambulance he irregulars, actording to_ the Entered as second-class matt post office Washington; D, . at 5:30 a.m. !SIGNS CLERK BONUS BILL. | President’s Action Makes Eflecdvel Year’s Extension of $240. I The bill extending for another }'elri the $240 bonus for federal aleoyel} was signed by President Harding lll the White House today. It now be- comes law. ————. .S, 197 BUDGET *BALANGED, WITH " SOME GASH LET | | | | Treasury Official Shows How ! Government Has Made | Both Ends Meet. The government balanced its budget for the fiscal year 1922, ending today. To achieve this result of the federal financial operations for the year was } described by Undersecretary of the ! Treasury Gilbert as “no mean ac- complishment,” but for the fiscal year 1923, opening tomorrow, he declared the prospects “are not good,” with | a budget deficit estimated as high at $485,000,000. Final Treasury reports for the clos- ing fiscal year will not be available for a day or two, but Mr. Gilbert, | who has charge of the government i finances, declared that expenditures for the year would be less than $3,- 900,000,000, or $500,000,000 less than was estimated as necessary by the spending departments at the outset of the year, and that there would be a small surplus of receipts. D.C. SEWER DELAY BLAMED FOR ROCK CREEK POLLUTION Maryland Commission Cites Delay in Completing Dis- trict Interceptor. SHERRILL ACTS AT ONCE TO SPEED UP PROJECT Confers With Commissioners on Proposal to Get Funds to Fin- ish Mile and Half. Completion of the District inter- ceptor sewer to connect with sewer mains from Maryland towns s the only solution of the pollution of Rock creek and other streams flowing into the District of Columbla, the Wash- ington suburban sanitary commission | informed Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sher- rill, officer in charge of public build- ings and grounds. The Maryland commission has been and 1s now ready and willing to con- nect with the District sewer system as soon as the latter is brought up to the District line. Until the act of Congress authorizsing this connection is carried out, Maryland sewerage will be dumped into Rock creek, the board indicated. Conference to Be Held. By this frank statement of the fact the Maryland commission started “That this has been accomplished,” he sald. “in the face of the unfavor- able prospects that confronted us at the beginning of the year Is due to the unremitting efforts of the govern- ment departments and establishments under the firm leadership of the President to reduce current expendi- tures to the utmost limits coasistent with proper administration.” things rolling today in the offices of the District and federal governments, with the following action: Col. Sherrill is to have a conference | today with the District Commission- ers to see what can be done imme- dlately to get funds with which to had to ad-! en for interroga- ttiton the discovery was made that “ghe” was Thomas Darcy, one of the He was State troops found mines” had been laid, but these were disconnected. A large quantity of ammunition, in- cluding twelve mines, also yas cap- tured. The government forces in passing through the city were sub- jected to frequent attacks from men “have i river was fired on by the As to the coming year, the under- secretary pointed to the possibility of a deficit greater than already esti- mated. as, he contended, appropria- tions for the next year have.not been passed by Congress. Ho he maintained, the government “owes it to itself and the rest of the world to keep its finances clean and bal- ance its budget for 1923, as in the three previous vears, and the only way to accomplish this is to reduce expenditures already estimated, and avold new avenues of expenditure to such an extent as may be necessary to wipe out the indicated deficit. Reductions Since 19 Discussing the handling of the pub- | jlic debt during 1922, Mr. Gilbert de- clared that with the approach of the end of the year the total gross dm] ;of the United States was about. $22,- 950,000,000, a total reduction of over $3,600,000,000 since its peak on Augist In, 1919. This was accomplished, he explained, by the application of 1$1.000,000,000 balance in the general ifund made possible by lessened ex- | penditures and outstanding maturi. | | ties; application of about $200,000,000 |of repayments by foreign govern- ments; receipt of funds from salvage 1 and other assets remaining over from ithe war aggregating about §1,400,- 000,000, and the’ application to debt ireur‘emegt of about $1,000,000,000 of | surplus tax receipts during th. ¢ | veare 1920, 1921 and 1922, & e Tl or the future, he asserted, liquida- tion of the public debt will' hava oo be accomplished chiefly from surplus | revenue receipts, and particularly | { through' sinking fund and other ac- counts, as the Treasury balance has { been reduced to as low a figure as | consistent with proper conduct of 1 goéernm;n':‘ business. nough has been accomplished, Mr. Gilbert ‘stated, to assurs the sucess ! of the Treasury's plans for refund- | {ing the $7,500,000,000 short-dated debt. consisting of victory notes ma- | turing in May, 1923; Treasury cer- | tificates of ‘indebtedness and war | savings certificates. “Remarkable Progress” Made. Since the Treasury’s refunding pro- gram was Inaugurated in April, 1921, he reported ‘“remarkable progre: {to have been made. Victory notes |now outstanding amount to about 1 $2,000,000,000, as compared with $4,000,000,000 at thet time, Mr. Gil- i bert said; Treasury certificates ag- | gregate about $1,830,000,000, com- | pared with $2,750,000,000, and war sav- ings certificates, $650,000,000 against $750,000,000. | " There are now outstanding, he continued, about $8,200,000,000 of en- tirely new obligatfons in the form Treasury noteés, issued In accord- h the refunding plan. These, he explained, apd the Treasury frame its plans so as to take care of them at maturity out of surplus revenues or through secondary re- {funding operations, if necessary, without undue strail (to the financial markets. “There/ still remains outstanding, however,” i d, “about $4,500,- 000,000 of ions maturing within less th'.n a year, $2,000,000,000 est attention of the Treasury for prac- tically the whole of the next fiscal year.” Dawes Says Farewell Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes was to pay his farewell official respects to President Harding this afternoon in the last of his regular weekly visits to the White House as director of the bureau of the budget. 3 | AND QUITS AS YO By the Associated Press. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 30.— George L. Oles, elected mayor of Youngstown on an Independent ticket after = sensatignal cam- Paign, today resigned from office after six stormy months of admin- istration. A statement given out by Oles zaid that “my head is full of public troubles and of praise enough to last me the rest of my 1life,” and‘asserted that “no matter ‘what I do I make enemies.” He attacked businessmen who sigmed petitions to retain “st war- ,,lhml‘h Congress has authorized the [ “THANKLESS JOB,” OLES LAMENTS, complete ‘he last mile and a half of the interceptor sewer in Rock creek valley from Pinehurst to the District Ine. J. B. Gordon, sanitary engineer of the District, is working on estimates for completion of the sewer, to be in- cluded In the estimates for the fiscal year 1924. Agreement Being Worked Out. The District Commissioners are having worked out an agreement -be- tween them and ihe Washington | Suburban Sanitary Commission, under which the latter would be permitted to use the sewers, in accordance with authority of Congresg. There never has’ been’ an ‘agredment before, Commissioners to enter into one. Another development, bro out during an fhquity iffo the matter by a reporter for The Star, is that some of the pollution problem can be obviated by a. connection with ti District/ sewer system at this tim and that the District is ready to fu nish this service as soon as the agree- ment is entered into. Sectiofl Can Conmect Now. There i3 quite a well developed sec- tion of Chgvy Chase near the District line which can receive District sew- erage service at -this time, without {awaliting the completion of the main interceptor sewer. This section now dumps its sewage into gne of the lateral streams flowing into Rock creek. The District sewer main to which this section of Maryland could be connected ends at Beech street, and is ready for connection at any time that the Maryland commission gives the authority and the agree- ment is completed. Nothing has been done in the mat- ter since 1917, until recently, accord- ing to J. B. Gordon, sanitary engineer of the District, but' up until that time, he said, both the District and the Maryland commission had been working gradually toward a sewer connection at the District line. It was necessary to build the inter- ceptor sewer from the navy yard, and a little has been included in ‘each year's estimates up to 1917, until the sewer {s now within a mile and a half of the line. He said that the Maryland authorities also had been buftding a little at & time. Both the District and Maryland have been working in close touch on the whole matter. Never Working Agreement. One of the matters that has been delaying the whole affair, Mr. Gordon pointed out, was the fact that there never had been a working agree- ment between the two territories, by which the connections would be made and the service furnished, as author- ized by Congress. The matter has been & subject of conference between the District authorities and the com- mission in Maryland, but the first concrete action looking to a drawing up of the agreement was not taken until & short time ago, and it was said that It will be ready for sub- mission within a short time. Now that the matter has been put clearly up to the federal ernment and the District authorit! by- the Maryland commission's latest commu- nication on the subject, it is the belief that the matter will be pushed to & final conclusion. Sherrill te Push Actiom. Sherrill sald thet he . had inued on jumn Col. (Con UNGSTOWN MAYOR ;:_n::glmoney I t’nll.vle nver! earned earn, an receive fiv m&nk yous. Wonderful!” 5 cut the clif year to $300, Iy one tax "3 n.':'rot-u to diamona (gublic -Eun-:) s made it gree * * T have practical- 1y cleaned the town of lure. & notorious bullding Is s empty, 2 Put Town on Map. Al rights ispatehes of publicztion of speetal hersia are also reserved. PRINCIPLES =4 HAVE BEEN Z 7// AS WELL S YTAILORED - OH BOY! News Note: The Soviet Delegates Have Ordered Dress Suits and Extensive Wardrobes for The Hague Meeting. JUSTICE HOLMES GOES UNDER KNIFE Operation Minor, But More Serious One Is Planned in Boston Hospital. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. BOSTON, Mass, June 30.—Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the United States Supreme Court is in a Brook- line hospital, where a minor operation has been performed upon him pre- paratory to & more serious one which his physicians-plan to perform upon him 28 soon as conditions are entirely favorable. The nature of the ailment of the justice is withheld from the public, but his physiclans are su- premely confident that unless unfore- ween gomplications -doyels _hc will '.2' able’to ntum“lfil 'ggmu homte, Beverly Farms, in a week or ”‘;hl l;lnl_n ‘of Justies Holmes came a& & complste surprise to his many friends hers who have seen him on the streets and at his favorite club since the summer recess of the court began. The first intimation they had that all was not well with him was a week ago, when, at the Amherst commencement, Justice- Holmes was unable, to be present to receive in pergon the honorary degree of doctor of laws which Vice President Coo- lidge's alma mater had voted him. In His Eighty-Second Year: When it became known today .that Justice Holmes was in the hospital his friends manifested much uneasi- ness about him, With the result that his attending physicians issued a re- assuring bulletin to allay their fears. Justice Holmes is in his eighty- second year. His friends fully realize that, because of his advancing years, he cannot long remain on the bench in an active capacity. Massachusetts politicians have been speculating for some time on his prob- able successor, although it is realized that President Harding may not de- sire another Massachusetts man ‘nn bench, as Justice although born in Kentucky, was edu- cated at Harvard and made his home here since his graduation. Appointed by Roosevelt. Justice Holmes was appointed by President Roosevelt twenty years ago. Judge Horace Gray, a Massachusetts man, had died, and the naming of Holmes was hailed as a concession to the “forward looking” progressives | mos; At that time President |many rural precincts of the party. Roosevelt was anxious to have the Northern Securities Company, wl\l'ch consolidated ‘two competing trans- Philander C. Knox, the Attorney Gen- , was hting it -in the courts. ohen the tlos was handed down it was - found _that Justice Holm was lined up against the government, For & time there was & coolness to~| him_ displayed by the ‘H’::l‘l, according to gossip, which noticed by the President, who da nounced the report and gave a dinner in Justice. Holmes' hgnor. Private in Ofvil War. Justice Holme: tingulshed Puritan family. His' fa- feader in American literature. The present justice graduated from Har- vard, eulisted as & private in a Mas- saciusetts regiment in the civil war, ‘was wounded three times dhd muste: nant colenel. ed out.as l,ll.ll.t e “In his ptain,” his alike, only finally to ::nm EA then locate him on & bo: train bound for i Justice Hu HIGHER™ PAY ANNOUNCED. One-Halt of Bepent Wags Cut Re continental lines, declared-illegal, and | 3! comes from s dis- janoounced by tha‘l:l Miyof Qies of Youngstown re: IMMIGRANTS SPEEDED AS TIME LIMIT NEARS NEW YORK, June 30.—When the restrictive immigration quota year commences at midnight tonight the first steamer to land her passengers will be the President Wilson. She ar- rived from Trieste early today and anchored in Gravesend bay. Among the vessels close to this port endeavoring to arrive before their quota for the month is exhausted is the Argentina from Trleste, Dante Alighieri from Genoa, King Alexan- ! der from Piraeus, Conte Rosso from Genoa, Latvia from Danslg, Nieu Amsterdam from Rotterdam, Seyd- tz from Hamburg, Paris from Havre, Laconia from Southampton and the Vestris from Hamburg. | A CUMBER DROPS | S48 VOTES BEHIND By the Associnted Press, * JFARGO, N. D., Juse 50—United States Semator Porter J. McCum- Ber, seeking remomination, was passed today im the count of votes of Wednesday’s re) - | can primary election by the N partisan League candidate, Lynn 3. Fraster, former govermor, with i 75 per cent of the precimets tal- Hed. Gov. Nestos, independent, Beld a wide lead over his league | *rRenemt. B. F. Baker. The vote—For semator, 1515 of 2,084 precinets (unofficial): Fra- sler, 67,541; MeCumber, 65,890. For overnor, 1433 precincts (unof- fielal): Nestos, 75,534; Baker, - 56,890. FARGO. N. D, June 30.—Lynn J. Frazier, recalled Non-Partfsan League Governor of North Dakota, swung into the lead early today in the racs for republican United States senstorial | nomination over his opponent, Forter J. McCumber, incumbent, in returns compiled by the league state head- quarters. The Grand Forks Heraid, which opposed Frasier, declared in editorial this morning that defeat of North Dakota’s senior senator now seemed assured. The Curier-News, league organ, de- I clarea today that Frazier's nomina- tion is “practically certain by more than 15,000 votes. Returns ia Cenflict. Returns complled by newspapers and theee given out by the league differed soffiewhat, however, the Non-Partisan figures showing Frasler ahead by more than 800 votes, and the others giving McCymber a Jead of slightly more than 4,600. McCumber - forces admitted, how- ever, that the figures they had were 1y from his strongholds and that erally 1 vorable to the league had yet to I ort. The league figures; from 1,256 cincts of 2,084 in the state, gave er 57,808, and McCumber 56, lead for Frasier of 843. The newspaper tabulation from 1,181 precincts gave McCumber, 56,379, and Prasier 51,741, a lead for McCumber of 4,368. Gov. R. A. Nestos, who was elected the state’s chief executive at the re call election last October, which oust- ed Frazler, held a big lead in, the republican gubernatorial contest over B. P. ker, league candidate. Newspaper figures from 1,137 pre- cincts gave tos 68,043 and Buker 46,476. Reports from 1,266 precizct: e, gave Nestos 62,110 and Baker . Nothing was available early today Fra: 60, & ther, Oliver Wendell .Holmes, was & !on ather contests, including repre- sentatives and democratic senatorial and state tick3ts, but tabulation of returns on the: ‘was expected to start today. Today’s News in Brief. of -the federal budget for u.‘.l‘gonncvd by Treasury oylllcln.lll, age 8. Piee 1 I.Tlxltll:. “Holme; in Boston hospital. ank bandits us! D. C. car. Foil b an ing a Unilon ~officials 2,600, Tailroad shopmen will strike here tomorrow. Fassse denc B jenicy: bill, wi '.c‘-.r:'m $326,561 for mfiflcfl needs. % jorids legisiator held - on_ fraud ,‘&"& .‘| ' Page 12 Mys: Eligabeth Kahn victim of apache gangs In Paris, husband loluyv.-:.. o undergoes operation | Page 1 FOIL BANK BANDITS USING D. C. AUTO Two Runners and Policeman Wounded, Robber Be- lieved Killed. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, June 30.—One bandit is believed to have been killed and two runrers of the Textile N: tional Bank and a policeman were slightly Injured in a pistol fight to- day, In which eight men tried to hold up the runners in the northeastern part of the city. The bandit believed to have been killed was rushed away by his seven companions In the limousine they used to commit the robbery. The license number on_ the car was Washnington, D. C.. 63695. The bank runners and a third man wera taking $12,50¢ to the Stead & Miller upholstery mill, at 4th and Cambria streets, In an automobile when the bandit car rounded a cor- ner and haltéd their machine. Some of the eight robbers jumped out and opened fire on the runners with sawed-off shotguns. The runners re- turned the fire while the other man picked up the money bag and ran into a nearby textile mill without being hit in the general firing of both sides. A policeman arrived on the scene and joined in the fight, which con- tinued unt{l one of the bandits fell The robbers suddenly ceased firing, threw their fallen companion into the machine and escaped. John C. Mitchell, the policeman, ‘was the most seriously wounded. He had numerous buckshot wounds. The two runners had their injuries dressed at a hospital and returned to the bank. EKOFF CAR TAG OWNER. New Willard Given as Address License Issued. The District license tag. 62695, was taken out under the mame of John T. Koff, whose address was give as the New Willard Hotel, and whose occupation was given n engineer. There ;was no record of a drivers ermit issued under tWat name. ‘Willard New John T. Koff. ADMIRAL WARNS Speclal Dispatch to The Btar. NORFOLK, Va., June 30.—That there has been more or less indis- criminate smuggling of intoxicat- ing liquors into the United States .on board vessels of the United States Navy is indicated in orders Jjust promuigated by Rear Admiral Hugh 8. Rodman, commandant of 'the fifth naval district. These or- ders are intended to stamp out the practice or‘any attempts at smug- gling in the future on vess en- tering the United States thsough Hampton roads. If any liquor is rought in, the responsible parties when apprehended will be dealt with severely. The general orders from Admiral Rodman sounding this warning were fssued from fifth district headquarters here at the naval base. They are the outgrowth of the conclusion of the first phase -of the naval investigation being made into the attempt to smugsgle -geven cases of high-i e eighty-3 e «liquors Into this country from Domingo on the naval transport Sirius. The inquiry' hag run its course here, but will be continued in Santo Domingo, where important :r ot set 3} bottles of rd the Sirius ter in Banto Domingo ‘harbor, up - in four large packing boxes: Board of Tnvestigation. The board of inveitigation Is headed by ‘Commander B. T. Bul-, mer, U. 8,:N., and includes Capts. QUARTERMASTER OFFICE DROPS 300 CIVILIANS Other Branches of Government, However, Absorb Greater Num- ber of Dismissed Employes. In consequence of reduced appro. priations 300 civilian employes today were dropped from the rolls of the quartermaster general's office, the bu- i reau of ordnance and the office of the ! chief of air service. Practically all of them have been transferred to other bureaus of the government, about 150 BoIng to other executive departments and 150 to the adjutant general of- fice, War Department. The increase of force In the last named office is ed on a special appropriation of $280,000 for supplying states with the records of service of their citien soldiers in the world war. Since January last the total force of the War Department in this city, including the field force, has been re- duced from 5,884 to 4,987, a decrease of 897. The pre-war strength 'April 6, 1917, was 2,911. March 1, 1921, the, fotaled 9,623 and today it is fore 4,987, No changes were made in the classi- fled service of the State Department today. Next year's appropriations for the. temporary force called for a re- duction of about fifteen clerks by resignation: [ SAY 2,900 SHOPMEN WILL STRIKE HERE Union Officials Predict Men Will Lay Down Tools at 10 0’Clock Tomorrow. Virtually 2,500 railroad shopmen em- ployed in the Washington terminal and other railroad centers around Washing- I - Yesterday's Net Circulation, 86,145 TWO CENTS. RAIL SHOPCRAFTS RESISTING EFFORTS T0 PREVENT STRIKE Jewell Defies Order to Meet in Negotiations to Pre- vent Walkout. LABOR BOARD CHAIRMAN WARNS AGAINST WALKOUT Declares Public Will Not Stand for Commerce Check—Sees One Grievance Justified. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 30.—Leaders of the railroad shop crafts, whose nation- wide walkout is set for 10 am. to- morrow, today notified the United States Railroad Labor Board that the shopmen refused to delay their strike pending negotiations begun by the board, which were to be started at a conference at the hoard's headquar- ters at 2 o'clock this afternoon. “If the telegram of the Railroad Labor Board of June 29 (summoning the shopmen’s leaders to the confer- ence) means that the board is Is- suing an order to the shopmen that the situation remain in status quo until a settlement is reached,” read the Jetter of B. M. Jewell, shopmen's leader, to the Labor Board, “then the shopmen regard it as vold, because it forces ! 'm into non-acceptable employmen The letter referred to the United ton will walk out at 10 o'clock tomorrow | States circuit court ruling in the morning when the 400,000 shopmen all f:n(n-{':v-:h‘r'-umad' case, holding v : at the decisions of the Rallroad over the United States go on strike a8 |y 01 Boarg are oniy advisory. a protest against the wage reductions “Being an administrative arm of and working conditions ordered by the | the government,” the letter said, “the board cannot coerce railroad em- lmllmd hbofBfl-""‘l"":‘:"fd:‘“’ ployes into unacosptable employ- predicted today by union offic! OT® | ment. The transportation act did than 1,200 of this number are at the [ not and cannot grant the Labor Board ‘The Hotel has no record of FOR SAILORS SMUGGLING LIQUOR Washington terminal, which includes the Union Station, Ivy City and Ecking- ton yards, while the remainder are at the Southern railroad in Alexandria and the Potomac yards. Final arrangements for the walkout were completed at various meetings last night, which were held behind closed doors. According to present plans the men will report for work as usual to- morrow morning and lzy down their tools promptly at 10 o'clock. “The Washington railroad - crafts- men will go out 100 per cent,” said Charles Frasier, business agent of the jocal machinists’ union. The employs in the Potomac yards and the South. ern rallway and Alexandria, who will |Bo on strike, will number €35, it was d.Of number i . 15h90a 85 5 southern ratiread. © Trafic Results Uncertatn. What eftect the strike of the local raflrosd employes will have on the transportation arteries leading inand out of the National Capital, meither unfon officlals nor authorities at the Union station would venturs to fore- cast. r. Frasier, however, expressed the b:m that the strike probably would not interfere immediately with the operation of the trains out of the city, but indicated that fits resuits Would Ilkely be felt within a few days. Washington terminal officials, n the other hand, are of the opinion :int transportation will continue to authority to coerce railroad employes into unacceptable employment.” Five minutes before the hearing was to convene, at 2 o'clock, only one unjon head had appeared, although there was a strong representation of railwaymen. The lone union man was E. H. Fits- gerald, president of the clerks. Assurance that both the railroads and their employes will abide by the law and the orders of the United States Railroad Labor Board was the basis on which the.federal body had pinned its hopes of throttling the threatened rail strike today. From authoritative sources, it was learned today that practically all of the railroads which have been co: tracting railroad work to outside & practice declared in violation of the law and the board's orders would enter the official investigation by the to-anngunce com- guette. Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, urlington and Frisco—have an- nolml:el cancellation of their con- Board Action Enceuraging. ‘When the board stepped into the breach yesterday to intervene as an arm of the government by summoning before it today officials of the unions and railroad executives, new hopes rose over the horizon—hopes that the board would repeat its successful me- on of last October, when it avert- ed nation-wide rail strike on the eve of the threatened In rejecting Jewell's terday the rail executives warned because train service employes, e aclude the “big four” brother- Noods, as well as switchmen and teleg- that a strike would not be against the railroads, but against the gover: rs, are not parties to the con- T Teies over wages and working T terminal authoritles also Indi- ment of the United States, because th men would be striking against orders by a governmental agency. The executives summoned to the l.-_.'f& that heretofore several peri- Sdles1 strikes of the raiiroad em- conference were from twenty-three roads charged by employes with ille- T a By e one, did. not seriounly interfere with the operations of the trains in and out of Washington. Men Affected by Plan. According to union officials, the local employes who will be affected by the strike include machinists, bollermakers, blacksmiths, pipe fit- ters, sheet metal workers, car repair i men, track men and car cleaners. ‘What preparations, if any, have been made by the rafiroad authorities here and In the Potomac, Eckington and Ivy City yards to handle the situ- |ation _in the event the men are out (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) OF JAIL TERM clently to fix guilt upon any offi- cers or enlisted men of the Navy or Marine Corps, but the probe will g0 deep, it is declared, and the gullty party or parties properly punished. Several Navy men. involved in an attempt to smuggle intoxicants from the West Indies on the mine sweeper Red Wing last winter and tried at the naval lase here are serving terms in the naval prison at Portsmouth, N. H. This is the fate awalting guilty parties in_the Sirius case. 0 commanding officers in the naval transport service Ad- tniral Rodman has issued orders reading in par Text of Order. _ “It is to be regretted that the commandant's attention has re- cently been directed to several ef- forts on the part of persons in the Navy to smuggle intoxicants into the United States on govern- ment vessels. Every effort will be made to stop it and apprehend and bring to trial all offenders.” Commanding officers are warned “mot to receive cargo for shipment unless covered by proper bill of h the further state- I 1 ‘t gally contracting shopwork. Officials of twenty class 1 roads who protest- ed that a strike on their lines over | the contract controversy was unjus- tifled, because they had not followed the practice of farming out shop work, also were invited. Of "the three issues upon which shopmen voted in their strike refer- endum the proposition for a walkout in protest against the contract sys- tem received the heaviest vote, ao- cording to réports in advance of any official announcement. The question of striking against the wage reduc- tion was said to have received the lightest favorable vote. Reports from some centers today ‘were that not all shopmen planned to respond to the strike call. ‘Wage reductions effective tomor- row aggregate approximately $135,- 000,000. More than one million rail- way employes will feel the slash. ¢ Ben W. Hooper, chairman of the Labor Board, who was credited with having taken the leadership in avert: ing a threateded railway strike last October, has issued a statement de- claring ‘that “it is evident to ew student of the situation that the rai way labor organizations have no ju cause for serious complaint at the treatment they have received at the hands of the federal wage tribunal during the war period and sinc Employes Have Just Com ““The people of the United States ai sick and tired of haviag rail ransportation and trafic periodic: interrupted by controversies between rallway managements and employes.” he said. “It was this feeling whi moved Congress to enact the tran pri- ifterent portation act of 1 “The_right to st vate busine: is quite a thing from any supposed right to choke and obstruct the flow of inter- state commerce in this vast contl- nental nation. Railway transporta- tion is not a private business. It is es- sentlal to the very existence of aur epublic and to the individual well- belng of every citizen. “] do not hesitate to make the pre- diction that never again will there be a successful raflroad strike of any considerabl proportions of i rtance in this countfy. The people will not stand for it. “The employes do have on substan- tial grievance against certain of the d that is the contractl employment to so-call This i3 not simply a labor , it is & pub- lic grievance. This policy carri to e and tie u lading,” wi ment that “officers’ household ef- | fects and personal baggage ship- rod from outside the continental imits of the United States must be accompanied by declaration for customs when shi as cargo.” This has reference to shipments from foreign stations to home porta. I “This declaration,” Admiral Rod- man continues, “must not only list all dutiable artitles, but must also state that_ all dutiable articles have been listed and that there is no contrabard such as intoxicants its legitimate end destroys the labor articles of the transportation act, treats the United States Congress -with contempt, deprives the public of lawful protection from railway is- bor troybles and grievously imposes upon the employe: MRS. DAUGHERTY BETTER BALTIMORE, J! Harry M. Daugherty, wife of the Attorney General of the United States. who has been confin 8" twenty-fi Shomhe dlscharsed, *Talk about a thankless statement contini ‘!.‘ was on_as s W. T. Gailiford and R..L. Nelson of ~ the Marine; Corps, with Lieut. C in_the shipment.” Commanding officers are direct- ed, fln:;lry. “not wflroto:lv; .:; board. personal effects o xfi ‘whatever which are not list- | in accordance with this order. I ! t 1o P ntieal Iraders Densdie. of e m a.disense of the Joints. will. baidy. . Page discharged Saturday and will go tof - urged her home in Ohio, oficlals of the has been postpon i) Friday, July 7, it was donounced 4, LA meatin m&u streann e M