Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1922, Page 1

Member of the Assoclated Press WEATHER. Fair and warmer tonight and to- morrow. Temperature for 24 hours at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 80, lowest, 58, at 4:15 a.m. The Aseciated Press is esclusively entitied to the use for repubiication of all mews dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this oaper and also the local news published herels Full report on page 7. Late N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 No. 28,557. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. DESPITE DISORDERS PEACE HOPE GROWS INRAILROAD-STRIKE: Hooper and Jewel Open Way to Settlement in Ex- change of Letters. 50 WAGE ADJUSTMENTS CASES COME UP TODAY!: Signalmen's Chief to Confer With Labor Board Member—Roads Report Many at Work. By (he Associated Press. CHIC ). July 6.—The strike of railway shopmen assumed a more con- atory aspect today, the sixth day since the nation-wide walk out, and feeling became more general in rail circles that the last twenty-four hours had shown a marked trend pe despite increased disorders at scattered points It was believed that change of letters bet Hooper. shairman of the United States Railroad Labor Board. and Bert M. Jewell. head of the railway employes' department of the American Federa- a co tion of Labor, probably opened the way to regotiations for an early set- tlement of the controversy. Jewell's ement that the shop crafts ng to confer with any- hody uuthorized by railroads to bring peace proposals” was accepted as a promising indication of speedy return to normal conditions i the railroad shops. Mr. Jewell says he neither included nor excluded any lody, but that if the Labor Board came with_a definite proposition he v-ould not hesitate to consider it. The statement was made in the face of the repeated contention by the railroads that the shopmen's strike is not against the carriers. but against the government. and therefore a mat- ter to be settied hefore the Labor Board, the government tribunal. Board Protecting Strikers. Chairman Hooper asserted that the labor board “has been protecting the interests of the striking shopmen. while they have been calling the board names. Explaining his failure to answer last Friday's summons to appear at a joint conference before the board, Mr. Jewéll said the summons came too late to avert the walkout set for Sat- urday and that his appearance would only have caused confusion in the nks of the shop crafts who had their orders to strike. nother harbinger of peace in the ement by Chairman Hooper was that a number of rallroads which had been farming out shop work to con- tractors were ready to abolish the contract system, which proved to be the maln issue in the shopmen's strike, according to returns in the strike ref- erendum. Fifty additional wage adjustment cases, forty-four of which apply to lerks and not included In recent de- cisions. were set for hearing by the labor board today. Confer on Sign Another conference hetween Helt, president of the railroad signal men. and W. L. McMenimen, labor member of the board which met yes- terday. was in prospect today. Metanwhile the railroads generally were advertising for men to take the places of the striking shopmen and strikers were reported at many points to be drifting back in uncertain num- hers to thelr old jobs. This reported back-current continued in the face of repeated assertions by shop craft leaders that the strike was virtually 100 per cent effective. The Chicago tind Alton, upon whose lines some of the most serious dis- orders of the strike have occurred, continued to empioy new men at the cmployment office which the railroad opened yesterday in Chicago. Men. D. W. Slater, Mo. At both places local au- thorities called for troops. Some Trainmen Quit. Despite the agreement of their president, E. F. Grable, and members of nis executive committee to with- hold strike orders, maintenance men it various pofts were reported to be joining striking shopmen. With the exception of and Bloomington disorders Alton, the most_seriou (Continued on Page the Slater on the urbances Column 6.) Marion Thrills Mrs. Harding Has Body Guard Special Dispatch to The Star. MARION, Ohio, July 6.—Marionites are enjoying today the thrill that comes once in a lifetime. It is born of the discovery they have made that Mrs. Harding—the “duchess”—wife of the President, has a secret service guard all of her own. When Mr. Harding was elected in November, 1920, and several sleuths of the secret service moved to Marion and took up their station outside the Mount Vernon avenue home, the inci- dent was interesting to the folks of Marion, but it was expected. There was always an air of mystery about the service men, which made them attractive, and it was considered a great mark of erudition to be able to point one of them out to a visitor But that Mrs. Harding, first lady of the 1and, should come back to Marion with a secret service operative as- signed to her and to her alone, with no worries about the President or anybody else, has fairly taken Marion’s breath away. Perhaps it has made some of the folks a little difdent, a little awe-stricken. But it really has made no difference at all in Florence Harding. She has be- come accustomed to the secret serv- ice guard and moves about with the same freedom that she did before her senator husband became the President. - The assignment of a secret service toward | Alton | shops were the scenes of disorders at | { n | Rescuers Brave By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 6.—Panic raged seventy-five feet under ground today {when fire broke out on an uptown Lexington avenue subway express near 59th street. Deadly gas filled the ten cars when guards attacked the small blaze with ‘fire extinguishers and about 150 men, women and children were affected by |the fumes before they crawled through the darkened tube to out- lets and climbed or were lifted to the street, two levels above the express tracks. Three persons were so badly at- tacked by the gas that fear is felt for their lives. About fifty were sent to hbspitals and the others receiyed medical attention. The train carried !about 500 passengers. | A downtown express on reaching the spot where the other had halted also was filled with fumes. Windows were broken as the passengers fought to escape. The fire started in the motorman's box after a fuse had blown out. There }was a flash of flame and the smoke swept through the crowded train. When the emergency brakes were applied and the train came to a grind- ing halt, guards threw open the doors and passengers made a mad scramble to escape. Those unable to walk were carried from the cars to the 59th street station. Fire ladders also were dropped through iron grating at 61st street and unconcious women lifted to the street. Injured Placed on Sidewalk. The injured- were stretched out on the sidewalks for several blocks. A temporary hospital was organized and fourteen pulmotors put in operation. The crowd of spectators soon became so dense that police reserves had to be rushed to the scene. Men, women and children filled the ten-car train. When the firemen |arrived, they soon succeeded in quelling the_ blaze, which in itself was small. Many of the fire fighters were overcome. Relief work soon got under way. Besides the doctors who hastened to FISCALPROPUSA GV CONGRES iD. C. Citizens Would File | Brief and Watch Audit Before Committee. When the joint congressional com- mittee, headed by Senator Phipps of Colorado, met this afternoon in con- ference with the District Commission- | ers and representatives of the Treas. ury and Justice departments to begin an investigation of the fiscal rela- tions between the federal and District governments, two requests from the! citizens of Washington were laid be- fore them. The requests were made in a letter trom Edward F. Colladay, chairman of the citizens' joint committee on fis cal relations, because at conference: with Senators Phipps and Ball, chair man of the Senate District committee. yesterday it was impressed upon Mr. Colladay that to press a formal ap- pearance in behalf of the citizens at} this time would embarrass the joint congressional committee. Chalrman Phipps and other mem | bers of the committec made it piain| | that they desire very strongly not to! | hold hearings on the subject of fizcal | relations, but to proceed at once with their audit of accounts which have occasioned periodical debates in Congress regarding the financial af. fairs of the National Capital. The; expressed & strong purpose to work ; out the equities in the case without arousing bitterness of feeling or con- | troversy between those groups in Congress commonly called “friends of the District,” or “antagonists of the District,” or “prejudiced against the District. Adjudication Desired. Chairman Colladay, speaking for the organized citizens of Washing-} ton. expressed a desire to co-operate ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) at Discovery 1 1 | | i i I i operative with the wife of the Presi- dent, it seems, is new with the pres- ent administration. It was authorized by a change in the law for protec- tion of the President during the time Woodrow Wilson was in the White House, but inasmuch as Mrs. Wilson was seldom, if ever, seen in public without the President, the necessity for assigning a epecial guard to her was non-existent. Mrs. Harding is a Wo:hlln of great energy and wide ac- tivit! Ever on the Go. : She is ever on the go in Washington and occasionally makes trips out of town without the President. She has even had short crulses and entertain- ments on the Mayflower while the President was busy in the White House. The home folks have just learned that wherever she goes there also goes the secret service guard. One operative has been assigned to Mrs. Harding ever since the inauguration. He was with her also on the shopping tour in New York just prior to the inauguration. An unobtrusive, llke-l able chap, he appears, too. Members of the President's party | have excited almost as much interest here as the chief executive and the first lady. Yesterday, for Instance. was Military day, with Gen. Pershing and Gen. Sawyer dashing about t gether in the same automobile. GJ Sawyer Is no longer “Doc” Sawyer/i Marion At first it seemed Marion would never get accustomed to him as anything but “Doc,” but there has been s0 much in the papers during the last year and a half about “Gen. Sawyer” that Marion just t title without knowing 1o, o~ t© the (Comveizht, 150 OVERCOME AS FIRE | BREAKS OUT IN SUBWAY ke wzers From New York Under- 1d—14 Pulmoters Used. i wrestle with, Mr. Rudolph said, is to: WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY ‘6, 1922 -FORTY PAGES. mesto Carry Trapped the scene in ambulances, many other physlcians jumped into taxecabs, in in ‘many cases bringing their office nurses with them, Store Employes Ald. Rloomingdale’s department store at 39th street and Lexington avenue, promptly organized a fire brigade of seventy-five employes, who dashed into the subway to ald in the rescue work. The store’s drug department was ralded for supplies and pul- motors. Many firemen were overcome as they tried to descend the subway steps. Members of the rescue squad donned their gas masks to attack the flames. Mayor Hylan, one of the first ciry officials to’ arrive, was driven back by fumes when he attempted to en- ter the subway. He directed that.ex- perts be summoned from the fire de- partment and the department of water supply, gas and electricity to,| make a thorough investigation of the | blaze. Frank Hedley, president of the In- terborough Rapid Transit Company, also hurried to the scene. Patrolman Frederick Norman tosk charge of the train when it halted. | He commanded the passengers. lu| the name of the law, to remain quiet. Then he directed the guards to open the door, and began dragging half- conscious men and women from the train. Then he, too, collapsed and had to be lifted to the street, but soon was revived. No Station at Spot. There is no station in the lower tunnel at the place where the train halted and the only means of escape was through narrow wells equipped with ladders leading up to the street. Thirty-six passengers from one car were carried up one of these wells uncomkcious. | On the street level all was con-| fusion. Thousands of persons milled | excitedly, and pelice reserves had to | rope off traffic in order that the rescue | work might progress unhampered. About an hour after the accident occurred a check of the injured failed | to reveal any dead. although (wo men and a woman were taken to hospitals in a critical conditio NAME COMMITTEE ON TAX CHANGES Three City Officials to Tackle ! Task of Legislation on Two- Instaliment Plan. Appointment of a committee of three | city officlals to consider what changes | Congress should be asked to make in the taxation features of the new ap- ropriation act was announced today by Commissioner Rudolph. The committee wili be composed of Francis H. Stephens, corporation counsel: Daniel J. Donovan, auditor, and William P. Richards, assessor, Creation of such a committee was suggested by Maj. Donovan yesterday in his report, on which the Commis- sioners based the new tax rate of, $1.30 | er $100 of assessed value. The first | problem the committee will have to! recommend amendatory legislation to ' simplify the collection of tangible and | intangible personal taxes. i Collection Dificult Ta As the new appropriation law is| rded, Mr. Rudolph pointed out, the ! collection of these taxes is going to prove an extremely difficult problem. Heretofore personal tax payers have had until January of each fiscal year | to note an appeal from the assessment | placed on their tangible and intangible | effects. The new law provides that half of | all taxes, including personal, must | be paid in November and the balance ' in May, instead of paying the whole | amount {n May. This places on the Commissioners” the unusual task of | collecting half of the personal tax bills | three months before the time fixed | by the personal tax law for appeals. | Realizing that only a few months remain in which to have Congress untangle this situation, the Commis- sioners are endeavoring to devise some workable plan for the present fiscal year. Amendment Is Needed. Here is how the problem may be handled, according to officials, until new legislation is obtained: Collect in November half of the per- sonal tax bills based on the assess- ments fixed by the assessor's office. | Appeals could then be heard as usual in January, and the final payment on the tax bill in May could be adjusted, ! making allowance for any deductions made in the assessments from which appeals were tuken. While this may sound feasible and simple of exccution, it will entail a | mass of figuring and bookkeeping in the assessor's office wnicn could be | eliminated ty an amendment in the legislation. t Today’s News in Brief. Committee of city officials named to take up work on tax changes, Page 1 Dr. Herbert Bryson, refused habeas COrpus writ, must face charge of murdering Mrs. Helen Haines of - this city. Page 1 Bathing prohibited i ck el Cel. Sherrill. i rf’:';eb{ Dr. Simon re-elected president of Mxmax—a of education. Page 3 arines break camp at Gettysburg for return to Quantico. Pl“e 3; London Rotarians place wreath on | unknown soldier's tomb. Page 5, Ward not normal, brother tesifies.. ! Page 12| Derlby ‘weathers heavy social day. | Page 19 being attempted, to re- d Chen factions at Can- Page 20 i \ M-dialio:,. unite Sun ton, China ‘ Asia Minor atrod probe agreement Pnean % Page' 20 eru’s stand fto speed_agree- ment. oty P page 30 C;::‘bl::n! ‘}h\lve eo.n‘!‘erred Ch'h of doctor w8 upon Chief Justice Tate. . O - Page 20 75 hurt as trein pen switch. e Paze 21 |on 1or the past Yep, HE SWORE. HE'D NOT SHAVE, TiLL THE TARIF, BILL WENT _THROUGH! ANO ROCK CREEK PARK BATHING 1S HALTED Sherrill Orders Ban Until Means Is Obtained to End Pollution. Bathing is prohibited in Rock creek by an order issued today by Col. C. 0. Sherrill, in charge of public build- ings and grounds. The ban will con- tinue until the District sewage sys- tem is connected with that of nearby | ! as contemplated through of the interceptor Maryland, the extension sewer, or until some other means is | 'SAYS PRESIDENT found to purify the waters of the stream, which now serves as an out- communities. Col. Sherrill's announcement stated that bathing §s prohibited in Rock creek “until further notice,” on account of the insanitary condition of the water, “which is so_serious that it cannot be corrected by any possible means of chlorination.” Sewer Conmection Selution. “As soon as the conditions are such as to justify, notice will be given that bathing may be resumed,” the an- nouncement declared. “It is with the greatest regret that this office is com- pelled to take this action, due to the insanitary condition of the water in the territory covered by the tribu- taries of Rock creek.” Officials seem of one mind that the proposed connection of the District sewers with those of Maryland offers a better solution of the present prob- iem than either the construction of proper disposal plants in nearby Maryland towns or by court proceed- ing to forbid sewage dumpinsg. Point Out Uncompleted Work. Officials of the District government point to the act of Congress, ap- proved September 1, 1916, providing for the work on the sewer extension to the District line, and that the work has gone on to & certain point. The general assembly of Maryland, in 1918, incorporated the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, which ! has reported to the District govern- ment that the completion of the in- terceptor sewer {s the only solution of the problem of pollution of Rock Creek. Both sides of the line offi- cials seem to believe the same way about the proposition, and both groups are going ahead on that basis. J. B. Gordon, sanitary engineer of the District, said today that he will present his estimates July 15 to the assistant Engineer Commissioner, and that these estimates will include an item for the completion of the sewer. This will be for the fiscal year 1924. Offers Best Answer. Mr. Gordon is firmly of the opinion that the connection of the District sewer with those of Maryland offers the best solution of the problem. By thus taking the sewage of nearby Maryland towns underground through ‘Washington into the Potomac, a much | better disposal is secured than by use of septic tanks, he believes. Mr. Gordon declared that septic tanks in theory are all right, but that often in practice they do not work out. The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission has the authority to “hook up” with the District sewer as soon as the District shall extend the sewer to the District line. The sewer is now about a mile and a half short of the line. Pollution on Increase. Conditions now existing In Roek creek are described In a memoran- dum by Maj. W. P. Baker, Medical Corps, U. §. A., sanitary inspector of the ofice of public buildings and grounds. In his report to Col. Sher- rill, Maj. Baker said: “In accordance with your instruc- tions, a most careful control of the water in Rock creek has been carried cw_months. Samples of water have been taken almost daily for complete bacteriological analysis, nd determinations of free chlorine have been made every hundred yards below the chlorination house. “For some time a continuous chlori- nation of the stream has been carried n: by this means nave main.aneu S iomtentration of about .06 parts per liquid chlorine in the bathing pool below. Tais has used sbout 150 pounds of "liquid chlorine in twenty-four hours, which, except in time ef storm water after z“ hluvyduln.liI emed to ution adequately. congrel lh:e%uy the water in the creek is noted to have diminished con. siderably in volume and flow, and at the same time a higher degree of pol- THER WIFE AND BABY SICK, HUSBAND RAISES CHECK; COURT DISMISSES CASE By the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, July 6.—William Strickler, ninctcen, whose wife and baby were sick, &ut a day's work and a check for $4 in payment. He put a zero after the four, eashed the check and spent the $40 on his family. Strickler admitted everything to Judge Sidney N. Reeve of the su- perior court, and the public de- fender told how, a few days later, Strickler's wife died, and how Strickler, at her grave with hig four-month-old baby in his arms; was arrested, handcuffed and taken to_jail, Then the public defender asked TIME-LIMIT ABSTAI i let to sewage in nearby Maryland! i i probation for Strickler. “Probation,” thundered the court, “Why, the case is dismissed.” 15 DRY IOLATOR Senator Hits Chief Execu- tive and Chairman Lasker on Ship “Traffic.” President Harding and Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board were charged by Senator Caraway, demo- crat, Arkansas, in the Senate today with flagrant violation of the pro- hibition laws in permitting the sale of liquor on Shipping Board vessels. The senator said “All Christian Americans protest” against such sale of liquor. Elmer Schlesinger, general counsel of the Shipping Board, who gave the opinion that sale of liquor on Ameri- can vessels beyond the territorial limits of United States, was described by Senator Caraway as a “wet” and an attorney for interests which fought the prohibition act. “The man responsible for the most flagrant wviolation of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act is the President of the United States,” said Sen- ator Caraway. “With a stroke of a pen he could close more barrooms than was i history of the world. The President could "instruct the Shipping Board to close the saloons on all ships operated by the Emergency Fleet Corporation. The President knows, all know, that were he to give such an order, Mr. Lasker would obey it. Says All Have Permission. “Every ship that sails beneath the American flag, owned, operated or leased by the Shipping Board, sells whisky by the express or implied permission of the President of the United States. Tomorrow all of them Would be dry if he willed it.” Senator Caraway referred to Presi- dent Harding's speech, July 4, at Marion, declaring for enforcement of | 1 recent statement attributed to Secre- tary Weeks, suggesting a beer and wine modification of the Volstead act. “Can his apologists deny that he (the President) connives at the breaking down of public morale?” asked Senator Caraway, adding that apparently Secretary Weeks express- ed the personal sentiment of the ex- { ecutive. cutions of a former service man in Baltimore for possession of liquor and | to seizure of a local excursion boat jowned by a negro, on which lquor was found. He added that the re- publican party posed as solicitous for the negro, having recently reported out the Dyer anti-lynching bill “simply to give Senator Lodge the negro support in his race for re-elec- tion.” The Washington negro, Sena- tor Caraway asserted, “in a smill way imitated the methods that are pur- sued by American ships. Question of the Future. -“I would like to ask the President,’ Senator Caraway continued, “the At- torney General, the chairman of the Shipping Board-and the leaders of the republican party in both houses of Congress if it is a-part of their pro- gram. when they shall have put through a ship subsidy and have transferred all of the vessels of the government to private ownership to give to the purchasers a guarantee that they shall have with the ship and the subsidy, wrung from the tax- payers of America, a license also to sell intoxicating liquors?’ Senator Caraway asserted that no one could ‘“honestly contend that every American ship that now sels i lution of the stream with sewageiwhiskey within and without the three- tound. . This was of course to e i nile is not: violating -the el hteenth @ .cu % ae ever given to any other man within the | th eprohibtion laws, and also to the| Senator Caraway referred to prose- | NER. EATS EXPLOSIVE, Child Dynamite Cap as Candy. His palate torn out by the ex- plosion in his mouth of a “piece of candy” offered him by a man in an automobile July 3, George Dant, jr.. six years old, of 2712 Bladensburg road, is slowly recovering, but is ex- pected to have faulty speech for life. While playing Monday afternoon the child was met by three men in an automobile coming into the Dis- trict from Maryland. “Have a piece of candy,” the man at the wheel said, offering young Dant a brightly colored article, which the child thoughtiessly placed in his mouth. “A good bite, and I'll give you another,” cried the man. The child bit, when a muffled ex- plosion” oécurred, as the explosive blew up, tearing his palate and two holes in the roof of his mouth. The man and his companions fled in the automoblle, according to the story of two other children. Later in the night the Dant child vomited | | 1 paper, presumably wrapped around the explosive. The father notified the local police, but little hope is given of apprehend- ing the miscreant, except through publicity, it being thought that such a man would be mean enough to have many deserved enemies ASSASSINATION RUMOR STIRS HAGUE DELEGATES Denial Made of Reported Attempt on Lives of Russian Rep- resentatives. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 6.—A rumor that an attempt had been made to assassinate the Russian delegates to The Hague conference caused considerable ex- citement in the Dutch_capital this morning, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch. There was no confirmation of the report up to noen. Both the police and the Russian delegation at The Hague denied that any attempt at assassination was made. The report probably grew out of the action of the police in turning back { 1 i sians, said to be monarchists, who were traveling under false passports. VATICAN GENDARMES REVOLT, SAYS REPORT Shout “Long Live the Pope,” “Death to the Commandant.” Swiss Guards Rushed In. By the Associated Press, LONDON, July 6.—A Central News dispatch from Rome says the gen- darmes serving In an honorary capacity in policing the Vatican mutinied this morning, crying ‘out: “Ing live the Pope!" “Death to the commandant” They were immediately disarmed (and the barracks occupied by Swiss guards. SHIP HITS WRECK. Fog Off San Francisco Results in Finding: of Lost Vessel. SAN FRANCISCO, July 6.—Beside the sea-battcred hull of the steamer Writtier, lost a month ago, the steam schooner Arctic was a waterlogged wreck today on Saunders reef, seventy miles north of here, with, her crew of approximately fifteen apparently in_no danger. The steamer Brunswick was stand- ing by. In a fog last night the Arctic struck the wreck of the Whittier. —_— OBREGON T0 0. K. LOAN. EL JASO. Tex., July 6.—Paulino Guerrero, federal collector of customs at Juarez, said today that he under- stands from persons from Mexico city that President Obregon expects to sign the financial agreements and ne- gotiations arranged by Adolph de la Huerta, Mexican secretary of the treasury, with the international com. mittee of bankers in “a few days. Mr. Gurrero said he had been in. ! formed that President Obregon had .gone over tihe documents with hi abiyet and haddecidcl to sicn. g i BOY'S MOUTH TORN Men Declared to Have Given several pieces of red, white and blue | from the Dutch frontier fifteen Rus- | Al rights @ispatches | of publication of spectal herein are also reserved. Yesterday's Net Ci.nnlnlion, 85,479 TWO CENTS. SENATOR’S “HAYMAKER” SENDS REPRESENTATIVE TO FLOOR IN LOUISIANA By the Assoclated Press. BATON ROUGE, La., July 6—A fist fight on the floor of the Louis- iana house of representatives between Senator J. O. Stewart of Lake Charles and Representative F. C. Claiborne of New Roads was the chief topic of conversation about the capital city. Mr. Claiborne came from the en- counter, in which both men delivered blows, with a bleeding cheek. The fight followed a heated tilt in con- nection with a senate bill which had been referred to the house judiciary committee, of which Mr. Claiborne is chairman, and threw the house into an uproar. The force of Senator Stewart's blow caused Mr. Claiborne to spin around in the center aisle of the house chamber until he tripped and fell face forward, striking against a chair. Under a resolution adopted by the house a committee was appointed to investigate Senator Stewart's ac- tion in coming into the house and enga; g in a fight with a member of that body. —_—— 1 i STORYOFWOHAN | BLON TOBRYSDN Deathbed Tale of Battle for Life Sends Physician Back ; to Jail. From a Staff Correspondent «f The Star. HUNTINGDON, Pa, July 6.—Dr. | Herbert Bryson, snell-shocked war veteran of Washington, D. C., lost his fight for temporary freedom here yes- terday when after a habeas corpus hearing before Judge Thomas , F. Bailey he was remanded to jail umtil he should face the court in September on a charge of the murder of his com- mon law wife, Mrs. Helen Irene Haines, who was shot on April 8. Mrs. Haines was the wife of a chauf- feur of Washington. She disappeared ! with Dr. Bryson in the summer of 1921. | | { | ' “Shot Me,” Sald Woman. i An ante-mortem statement of Mrs. Haines, introduced in the testimony | of James Corbin of Huntingdon, who | had been summoned to the bedside of | the sick voman by District Attorney | Chester D. Fetterhoof, proved the fea- ture of the Learing. Corbin testified that Mrs. Haines verbally stated, “Dr. Bryson shot me. He had no reason 0 shoot me and should be punished.” Efforts of counsel to discount this testimony on the ground that there had been no attempt made to obtain a written statement were apparently fruitless, in view of the decision of the CDII!? Mrs. H. Bryson, mother of the i prisoner, and Mrs. L. Randall, his jsister, were in the courtroom through- out the hearing, Dr, Bryson, clean shaven and neat, sat In the courtroom quietly while the state killed every hope of his obtaining freedom on bail as witness after witneas testified. Threw Lampshade at Him. Corbin’s testimony quoted Mrs. Haines as declaring, “I ran upstairs, and as I ran I threw a lampshade at | him. He followed me and grabbed me by the hair. Igotaway from him and ran to my little boudolr. Hel | said he would kill me and started | down for his revolver. I then locked { myse}f in the boudoir and he broke | down®the door and shot me. He had | no reason to sheot me and should be punished. “The shooting resulted, ac- | cording to Corbin, as the result of a family quarrel. This evidence is expected to prove important at the trial in September. It had not been made public previous- {ly. State’s Attorney Fetterhoof, on the night that Mrs. Haines ‘was brought to Huntington from Cass- ville, a remote village in this county, {in the ambulamce of Myron McClain of that town, immediately slll'flmoned: i ! Corbin, Horger Smucker and two nurses as Witnesses to the dying statement of the woman. McClain appeared as a witness at the hearing. BELIEVE D VALER HASFLED DUBL FRE LOSSHEAVY Republican Leader Said to Have Escaped From Sack- ville Area on Tuesday. 20 BUILDINGS IN ASHES; CALL TO ARMS ISSUED Burgess in Critical Condition. Four Snipers Shot Dead—Women Among Rebel Prisoners. By the Associated Press, DUBLIN, July 6.—Twenty buildings on O'Connell strest, Dublin's main thoroughfare, were destroyed by fire after the surrender of the insurgent republicans, who had turned the buildings into fortresses in their re- sistance to the provisional Free State government. The fires, which raged through the night, were under control at noon to- day, and only smoldering ruins re- mained where the insurgents made their last stand. It is believed the damage will reach several hundred thousands of pounds. Four snipers were shot dead during the night. Robert C. Barton, former minister of economics in the dail eireann cabinet, was arrested at the home of Erskine Childers. De Valera Sald to Have Escaped. The account of the final surrender of the insurgents issued by the na- tional army headquarters said: “At :30 pm. a party of men led by Mr. Art O'Connor, left the Granville Ho- tel under a white flag and surrendered to Lieut. Craney. “One of the party said they were given orders to surrender by Mr. Cathal Brugha. Mr. Brugha, brandish- ing a revolver, then dashed out. When he came upder the fire of the troops he was wounded, and was removed to a hospital.” The Irish Independent today says it is informed on good authority that Eamonn de Valera, the republican leader, left the Sackville street stronghold Tuesday night. It is understood that papers of a military nature were found in the possession of Barton when he was arrested at the Childers residence in Bushey Park road. Burgess Dying of Wounds. Cathal Brugha (Charles Burgess), the De Valera minister of defense, wha was wounded in a leg during a futile dash for escape, was operated on in a hospital at midnight. He was very weak after the operation and this morning was reportéd to be sinking rapidly. At 8 o'clock this morning the fire in the Smckville street area still was raging outside the area which the republicans had held under their direct control, where the flames start- ed. The whole line of buildings from the offices of the Dublin Tramway Company to Findlater lane, which formed the 200-yard frontage of the republicans’ last stronghold, is ruined, including the Hammam, Gresham, Granville and Crown hotels ard the general post office. Six buildings on the opposite side of the street also were destroved by the fire, which threatened this forenoon to spread to Henry street. Sixty-five Killed in Eight Days. Casualties in yesterday's fighting. so far as the records of the city hos: pitals show, were one killed and six- teen wounded. For the eight days of the iighting in Dublin the casualties are given as 61 dead and 259 wounded, not includ- ing four snipers shot dead in Marl- borough street and the wounded taken prisoner from the republican (Continued on Page 14, Column 1 I Aid in Flooding Sensational charges that the met- ropolitan police of New York city ! were not only failing to assist pro- hibition enforcement agents in help- |1ng to dry up what is considered the wettest spot in America, but that the officers themselves had actually turn- | ed *bootleggers.” in many instances, were practically admitted today by high officials of the government. or months sub rosa stories of the { floods of liquor in New York city have | been trickling through to the capital { from visitors to the metropolis, but !it remained today for Prohibition | Commissioner Haynes to admit that | the prohibition forces are more con- | cerned about the situation in New ! York than they have cared to say; that liquor is available in far more places than it ougnt to be and that the_city police force thers is of very 1ittle assistance. “What can you expect?’ said Com- missioner Haynes. High officials of the Treasury De- artment, charged with the enforce- Peent of prohibition, declared they had heard reports of the condition in New York. that officially there had been no revelations forthcoming, but that 80 g’r the government had no means of el rcing the police force to co- operate. querence i offic i }s and pleas for assistance were | the only clubs the government had | over the situation, it was said, unless i Some of the police force could be caught in the act of actually violat- ing the law. Rum-Smuggling Rampant. muggling into the city of New rk and the adjoining New Jersey echst has reached such a stage that it is considered the worst around the nation’s bérder. Boats ply the At- lantic from Cuba, the Bahamas and other islands in the south, bringing cargoes that, in spite of the vigilance of all the forces the federal govern- ment can spare to throw into New York, are being landed in small boats throughout the night in es, in dark places and peddied to the thirsty from hundr of bootleggers and scores of bars. Unofficial reports. Zrom numero: s with New York city i | (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. U.S. DryAgentsAdmitN.Y. Police City With Rum visitors to New fork that liquor could be had almor: anywhere in the city for the askiZg were not quite borne out by of.lial reports from the prohibition forces, but when con- fronted with special information ob- tained from prohibition forces them- selves, high officials admitted that New York was the great sore spot in prohibition. Day Has Hardest Dry Job. Commissioner Haynes, while opti- mistic that eventually New York will be cleaned up as well as could be ex- pected, declared that a great burden rested upon R. A. Day, state prohi- bition enforcement officer for New York. “He has the hardest job in the pro- hibition unit,” said Commissioner Haynes. Nominaliy the New York police were said to be helping the prohibls tion agents when specific cases were brought to their attention. which could not be refused; but the atti- tude of the entire force was said to be not in sympathy with the hardest drives being thrown into their city by the federal forces. Through reliable rces it wi learned that some individuals of th New York police force have been found by federal prohibi i asents to be confiscating liquo: nning about to xell it again I nd of “bootlegging” by office: .« torce was branded as some of Lie most reprehensible on record. Much Better Than Old Days. In spite of the troubles of the pro- hibition forces, however, Commis- sioner Haynes declared today that he had hopes. He belleved that, ascom- pared with the old wet days, there had been great improvement. Cs “I had a wvisitor from London yes: terday,” sald Commissioner Haynes. “He had juet come through New York. In describing the comparative condi- tions in the two cities, he sald that so far as prohibition was concerncd New York was a veritable paradise. In New York, he said, he had seen two half drunks, who ,put together would not make one good o In London, he told me, they were reel- ing on every corn { 3 ¥We are making a drive on New, the commissioner declared '\ York,