Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1922, Page 2

RALYARD CLERK SHOTATCREWE VA Fatally Hurt While on Picket Duty at Norfolk and West- : ern Offices. By the Associated Press. CREWE, Va., July 12—Russell Wig- gins, a Norfolk and Western yard office clerk, was killed and an un- identified man was wounded, when some one shot into a crowd of picket- ing clerks at the station here at 10:45 o'clock last night. All the Norfolk and Western clerks here have struck, and the men were picketing the com- pany's local offices when the shoot- ing occurred. The wounded man, whose name could not be ascertained, 1t is understood, was taken to his home. Wkile in union circles it was de- clared the shooting was done by & Norfolk and Western detective :nur"d sent here to guard the company's property, this could not be confirmed today. The authorities have made no arrests, nor have they announced what action will be taken in connec- tlon with the trouble. It is under- stood that between twenty-five and thirty detective guards are on duty here. Soon after the shooting intense ex- citement among the strikers and townspeople prevailed, but today the situation was quiet and the author- ities expected no further trouble to grow out of the affair. TICKET OFFICE CLOSED. Norfolk & Western Acts as Clerks Go on Strike. By the Assodiated Press. PORTSMOUTH, Ohio. July 12.—Due Norfolk and Western strike, Supt. H. C. Weller of the Portsmouth division of the road ordered the city ticket office here closed indefinitely. Passenger Agent Cliff Connell and ~ Assistant Passenger Agent E. V. Per- dew were sent to Kenova, where they will sell tickets in the Norfolk and Western depot there. ~When the clerks walked out at Kenova, the depot was left without a selling force. ‘About 100 Norfolk and Western clerks here are to go on strike at 10 o'clock this morning. This was decided at a mass meeting last night. Every clerk and freight handler is expected to quit work. SAY 0. SHOPHEN CREULATED PLE Terminal Company Officials Receive Copy of Paper Handed “Neighbors.” Striking shopmen are believed by officials of the Washington Terminal Company to be circulating a plea for support of the strike among families living in neighborhoods where strik- ers as well as strikebreakers reside. Into the hands of the officials at the Union station today fell one of the alleged circulars, which asked for support of the strike, and appealed to the recipient to influence a strike- breaker in the neighborhood to “do his share in making the railroad jobs of the country jobs that will enable an_American citizen to educate his children and receive a rate of pav that will enable him to live accord- ing to American standards.” The cir- cular is mimeographed and is signed “The Committee.” 1500 “Fellow Citizens.” It states in the first paragraph that the Department of Labor has just is- sued a bulletin estimating the num- ber of strikers in the country at 1,150,000, and follows by stating that 1,500 of the number are “your fellow citizens of Washingto: Then the circular says: “The fifteen hundred in Washing- ‘ ton were compelled to lay down their tools in protest against the Chinese coolle rate of pay and working con- ditions inflicted on them by a recent decision of the United States Rail- road Labor Board, a board created by law, and clothed with the authority and responsibility of fixing wages and working conditions that are ‘fair and reasonable.” “Attitude Commendable.” “The workers of Washington who are on strike, and who typify the real American citizen, have assumed a most commendable attitude, and are doing exactly what every' rallroad employe of the shop crafts is doing in nearly every city, town and hamlet throughout the broad expanse of the| United States. In a majority of cases they are men with families; tax pay- ers; the very highest type of citizens, who were compelled to take this ac- tion only after their representatives before the Railroad Labor Board had exhausted every poseible argument to have a decision more favorable to them rendcred. *You can, we feel sure, muster among your category of acquaintances a dear friend who was compelled to resort to this drastic action, and we feel you can do them a good service if you will make it & point to visit them and en- courage them to ‘hold the fort.” It is with considerable disappoint- ment we are moved to inform vou that . living at street, did not join, as his fellow work- erg throughout the country did, and we are, therefore, appealing to you to use our best endeavors to have him do is ‘share in making the railroad jol of the country jobs that will enable an American citizen to educate his children and receive a rate of pay that will enable him to live according to American standards. 'We hope you will comply with the two above named requests, feeling sure that in doing so you wiil experi- ence are in making this a better place for a workingman to live in. “Respect! 1y, HE COMMITTEE.” _ FORD TO EXTEND PROFIT- SHARING TO RAIL MEN ‘Widening ' of Scope Awaits Only Permission of State Utilities , * Commission. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich., July 12.—As soon as permission can be obtained from the state public utilities commission -t profit-sharing plan by which Ford. Mo- tor Company employes are permitted to invest part of their wages in the company will be extended to employes of the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton rallroad, owned by’ Henry Ford. Reports to this effect were confirmed today at the offices of Mr. Ford, when it was announced E. G. Liebold, repre- senting the Ford interests, had ap- ‘ed before the commission at Lan- to ex the pl ment is to be filed by Mr. Liebold with the sion, the decision to follow a study agmh'mtmuu. — ORDERED TO CAMP MEADE." ‘Warrent Officer Henry C. Noack has 2L e s r ne; :1“1 and Man‘li:'o Camp Meade, Md., y. i PASSAGE OF MAILS DEMANDED IN PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION The text of President Harding" the railway strike situation, follows: “A Proclamation “Whereas the United States Railroad Labor Board is an l{.n” of the government, created by law, and ch ‘with “ tI duty of adjusting disputes between raliroad operators and employes engeged in interstate commerce; and =53 “Whereas the United States Railroad Labgor Board has recently handed down decisions, one affecting the wage bf the shop craft em- ployes, the other declaring the contract system of shop craft work with outside agencies to be contrary to the intent of the transportation act and. therefore, that such practice must be discontinued: and “Whereas the shop craft employes have elected to discontinue their work, rather than abide by the decision rendered, and certain operators have ignored the decision ordering the abandonment of the contract shop practice; and “Whereas the maintained operation of the rallroads in interstate commerce and the transportation of United States mails have necessi- tated the employment of men who choose employment under the terms of the decision, and who have the same Indisputable right to work that others have to decline to work; and “Whereas the peaceful settlement of controversies in accordance with law and due respect for the established agencies of such settle- ment are essential to the security and well-being of our people; “Now, therefore, I, Warren G. Harding, President of the United States, do hereby make proclamation, directing all persons to refrain from all interference with the lawful efforts to maintain interstate transportation and the carrying of the United States mails. “These activities and the maintained upcemety of the law are the first obligation of the government and all the citizenship of our coun- try. Therefore, I invite the co-operation of all publiq authorities, state and municipal, and the aid of'all good citizens to uphold the la; d to preserve the public peace, and to facilitate these operations in Which are essential to life and liberty, and the security of property and our common public welfare. “In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. ‘Done at the city of Washington, this 11th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-seventh. “WARREN G. HARDING. proclamation;. in connection with, “By the President: CHARLES E. HUGHES, Becretary of State.” NEW RAIL PEACE PLAN LAUNCHED BY HOOPER; U. S. MAY USE TROOPS (Continued from First Page.) boards of adjustment to hear all ats- putes except those involving wages. Invitations to attend today's ‘big four” conference were sent to the fol- lowing: T. DeWitt Cuyler, chairman of the railway executives' associations, and other rall executives; Warren S. Stone, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; W. G. Lee, pres- ident of the Brotherhood of Raliroad Trainmen; D. B. Robertson, president to the governors of Mississippl, Ten- |Of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- nesseo and Texas, while Gov. Boyle of | men and Enginemen: L. E. Bheppar: president of the Brotherhood of Rall- way Conductors, and T. E. Cashen, pres- ident of the Switchmen's Union of North America. PROBE TARRING OF FOREMAN {Nevada was asked by the Union Pa- \cific for state Intervemtion in the strike at Las Vegas. Disorders occurred at Chicago, Mil- waukee, Sayre, Pa.; Orrville, Ohio; Dennison, Tex., and at Roodhouse, Il1., Bert Dickson, a roundhouse foreman for the Chicago and Alton, sald to be a nephew of W. G. Blerd, president of the road, was tarred and feathered by a masked band. | “Two car repairers were reported to have been abducted at Marion, Ohio, {and at Pana, IIl, a car man left town under threats of strikers. At Alglers, La., four negroes work- ing in the shops of the Southern Pa- cific were fired upon by a crowd of whitos, thirteen of whom were arrest- ed for violating the federal injunc- Roodhouse, Ill., Officials Investi- gate Attack on Worker. By the Assoclated Press. ROODHOUSB, Ill, July 13.—City officials today began an investigation into the tarring and feathering of Bert Dickson, night roundhouse foreman of the Chicago and Alton shops here, by tweaty-five or thln{ masked men. Dickson was on strike one day and went back to. work. tion. The prisoners denied they were | = Special policemen sworn in as a re- strikers. 1t of th ’ Clinton, Ill, New Franklin and | that ochk:o!n'.mn"rnhe: ’u’ll;’kl.:a “i.':i'“fi Slater, Mo., and Parsons, Kan., where troops were on duty, remained com- paratively quiet following several hectic days. Bloomington Situation Tense. The situation at Bloomington, I, remained tense with troops holding the yards and shops. Frequent shootings and the general hostile at- titude of strikers and large crowds of sympathizers kept national guardsmen on constant vigilance. Meanwhile city and county author- ities were attempting to re-establish civil government. Engineers, firemen, train men and conductors announced that they would refuse to enter the Alton yards at Bloomington to take out trains as long as machine guns bristled in the shops. They voted to operate only mail trains unless the trains were de- nephew of W. G. Blerd, president of the Chicago and Alton railroad, prob- ably was given the coat of tar and feathers by sympathizers of the striking shopmen, ‘although the identity of the men could not be learned. Dickson left Roodhouse on a train for Chicago last night after the tarring and feathering had been carried out quietly. Seizing Dickson at the roundho the men, who wore handkerchiefs over their faces, took him to a secluded point several miles from the city and applied the tar and feathers. Dickson ‘was left to return on foot. MANY DEAD ENGINES. B. and 0. Sidings Full of Locomo- tives and Cars at Willard, Ohio. ' 7HE WVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 6. WEDNESDAY, JULY ’ POSTMASTER GENERAL FIRST CUSTOMER FOR NEW STAMP|p. Mr. Work shown buying the first stamp of the new special delivery series, which was put om sale today. stamp, with a copy of the die, will be presented to President Harding. RESERVE BANK HIT BY GHECK DECISIO Authority Exceeded, Judge Holds, Approving the “Mas- sachusetts Rule.” By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C., July 12—Signing o Judgment for $9.000 against the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Judge Henry G. Connor, federal district court here, yesterday declared that the bank had exceeded its authority in accept- ing from the Bank of Lumberbridge its check on another bank in paymentofa check held by the reserve bank for col- lection. An appeal probably will be taken to definitely establish the ques- tions involved. 3 Judge Connor holds that the ““Massa- ohusetts rule” that banks collecting checks are agents of the original drawee of the check and not of the first bank handling the same has become Of uni- versal application. Two Specific Questions. He reduces the issues presented in the case to two, the right of the reserve bank to transmit the check directly to the Bank of Lumberbridge and the right of the re!:hr:e bank to accept any ent other n’ money. u’l!:a‘ question came before Judge Con- nor in a suit brought by Malloy Brothers of Quitman, Ga., against the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and Napler H. G. Balfour of Fayetteville. On November 30, 1920, Balfour sent a check for $9,000 ‘to Malloy Brothers, who deposited it for collection with the C. FISCAL INQUIRY AWAITS RULING ON STATUS OF SURPLUS Chpairman Phipps of the joint con- gressional committee investigatin, the fiseal relations of the District an it with re to the gurplus revenues of the District now in the Treasury, said today that he still was iting for a report from the Department of Justice in regard to the legal phase of the investigation. As soon as th s in ha said, and the committee obtains a similar report from the corporation counsel, the joint committee will proceed with the investigation. Benator Phipps indicated that it might be several days before he hears from the Depart- ment of Justice. He sald that the committee had asked H. J. Gallaway, the representative of the Department of Justice, to make a thorough ex- amination of the lawsg before sub- mitting his report. STRIKE FIRMNESS URGED BY PUBLC Government Swamped With Requests That Trains Be Guarded. BY DAVID LAWRENCE, Requests from all parts of the coun- try are reaching the government ask- ing for the appointment of hundreds of deputy marshals to assist in the enforcement of the federal laws which make it an offense for any one to interfere with the malls or inter- state commerce. President Harding’s proclamation, however, doesn't make it a matter for the Department of Justice merely, but for the War Department and all other agencles which can command a re- spect for the law. The use of federal troops is in- evitable. President Harding and his advisers are loath to use them, as they would rather have the civil branch of the government carry out the law processes of the government, but the inadequacy of civilian officers such as marshals and deputies is al- ready apparent. Laws Are Misunderstood. The government is apprehensive that the situation will grow worse chiefly be- cause strikers in the past have not un- derstood the laws which they are violat- ing. Most of the leaders seem to be under the impression that moving "the mails is essential, but if other trains are stopped or delayed there is no penalty. The opposite is true. For the laws of the United States are just as explicit with reference to the movement of passenger and freight trains as mail carriers. No warrants have gone forth as yet to arrest leaders or strikers, but in the 1894 strike such a step became neces- sary, as there was wholesale d'.-r?:d of the law and wrecking of trains. Per- haps the best exposition of the law which the strikers are confronted with The POSTMASTER GENERAL BUYS NEW STAMP Special Delivery Souvenir Will Be Presented to President Hard- ing as Keepsake. Postmaster General Work pur- chased the first stamp of the new special dellvery serfes today when they went on sale at the philatelic agency at the Washington clty post office. He wlill present the stamp to the President, together with a die-proof prepared from the master die from which the stamp is printed at the bu- reau of engraving and printing. The new stamp shows a special delivery boy on & motor cycle. W. I Glover, third assistant post- master general, who has supervision over the design, manufacture and is- suing of postage stamps, purchased the second stamp for his wife, who is an _enthusiastic stamp collector. The new stamp also went on sale at the post office today and met with the general liking of the public. EASTERN STRIKERS WILL REMAIN 0UT Won’t Return Till Satisfied, 1 Regardless of Mails, - Says Leader. By the Associated Press. DENY GUNMAKER “BRIDE DROWNED Physician Challenges Story of Accident, Blaming Death to Poison. By the Associated Press. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 13.—The opinion of Medical Examiner Donald- son of Fairfleld that Mrs. Jane Rich- mond Borden Hotchkiss, bride of four months, whose body was found a few days ago off Fairfleld Beach, met death by accldental drowning was challenged today by Dr. P. A. Chris- tian. Dr. Christian expressed belief that Mrs. Hotchkiss had died in the water from a powerful drug. He declared that the investigation had resolved itself into a difference of opinion b tween medical men, but that he was convinced the case was one of & well planned suicide. Says Autopsy Needed. Dr. Christian, who was first to examine the body, declared that the nature of the drug could be_ deter- mined only by an autopsy.. He ad- mitted that tablets found in the bath- house in which Mrs. Hotchkiss dres: ed for her final swim showed no poi- sonous ingredients. Relatives and friends of:Mrs. Hotoh- kiss, the wife of a wealthy retired machine-gun manufacturer of Bridge- port, and who, before her marriage, lived in Erie, Pa., hold that sudden immersion in the cold waves, was the oause of death. in connection with strike. He said: “A rallroad which is a Ilink and from that state to is engaged in the business of inter- state commerce and every organiza- tion or conspiracy in restraint of such trade or commerce is by statute declared to be illegal, and all per- sons so combining and conspiring are Zeeling of having done your | i livered to them outside the shop dis- trict durlnhz thedencl-mpment of the ops in the yards. e ‘meeting of fhe “Blg Four” brotherhood chiefs was called for the purpose of discussing issues growing out of the shopman's strike. "Among other developments of the last twenty-four hours was the an- nouncement by D, W. Helt, president of the Railway Sjgnalmen, that no strike would be called, and the fail- ure @f clerks, station employes and freight handlers on the Norfolk and Western to respond to an official au- thorization of a strike. Shop crafts at Sayre, Pa., formed a “peace committee” with the an- nounced intention of preventing dis- orders as far as possible. More Deputies Sworn In. Additional deputies were sworn in by United States Marshal Levy in Chicago to increase protection of the Chicago and Northwestern shops. Shop crafts leaders expressed satis- faction over the success of the strike, while most roads were non-commit- tal. The Santa Fe, Burlington and Missouri, Kansas and Texas an- nounced that conditions were steadily improving on their lines. Santa Fe shopmen were reported by the road to be returning to work in consider- able numbers. Forty-one molders who joined the walkout at Parsons, . were re- ported back on their job: Police at Boston drove pickets away from employment agencies. where men wers being accepted for rallroad work. { " Roseville, Calif., officials were {n vestigaing the dynamiting of one of the largest water tanks on the South- ern Paclific system by a party of un- known men and an attack by strikers upon an employe of the Pacific fruit express. The Baltimore and Ohio at Youngs- town, Ohio, and East St. Louis and Flora, 1ll, and the Missouri Bacific and Frisco at Kansas City. were among the roads to wkich federal injunctions were granted. Wabash Drops 54 Trains. Two hundred maintenance of way employes on the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., joined the walkout and 100 “section men at Dennison, Ohio, went out on strike. 3 The Baltimore and ‘Ohto' and the Erie sent some of their. rolling"stock to outside shops for repairs. Rifty- four trains were annulled by - the ‘Wabash. by Investigations of the strike’ situa. tion were made by Gov. Kilby of Ala- bama and Gov. Morrow of Kentucky. Striking shopmen at ‘Topeka, iy Ildnptad resolutions declaring _that they would not return to the Santa Fe shops until all employes who re- mained at their posts during the strike were removed and their places filled with men who joined the walk- out. Citles Liable for Damages. Notices to Kansas mayors inform- ing them that their cf are liable for damages under the state ‘“mob” law were forwarded by Attorney General Hopkins. A crowd of men, women and chil- dren stoned the home of Samuel Thompson, & Santa Fe employe, in Chicago. ompson was working at Core:l‘tch, Ill, and his wife was home alone when the attack was made. Po- on Presi- j dent Harding’s proclamation, said the | be way to end the strike was to call a iconference of railroad executives and shop crafts leaders. Neither Mr. Jewell nor Chairman Hooper of the Labor Board indicated a tendency -to yleld much from the positions they iook at ihe outset of the _strike. irman Hooper made it plain that striking shopmen would come. before the Labor Board only in accordance with the transportation act, that they must go back to their jobs before m;o:ould expect consideration by the rd. Peace Propesals Suggested. ‘Tentative proposals considered 1 ce oconferences included the t:u:: hat the raiiroads abolish the contract of out - work system farming ‘worst rall congestion in because of the shopmen's strike is at Willard, a Baltimore and Chio rallroad Junction point, according to dispatches recelved here from Willard. Forty-six dead engines stand in the roundhou there and twenty-one of the twenty-four tracks at that point are blocked with cars. Federal Judge D. C. Westenhaver has granted an injunction to the Erie Rail- road Company restraining pickets or strikers from interfering with. men at work in the Erie shops and rounho at Kent, Ohio, where between 35 and 40?) me;’zl A.rde g“lt on strike. ne hundred women, wi - ing railroad shopmen, Myl o front of the New York road offices this morning defles at Police dispersed the crowd resting four women and one man. few bricks were thrown, police and one of the women is chi assault and battery on & police lieu- By the Assoclated Press. - CLEVELAN! Banking Company of Peryy, Fla. m pt-in"'-hro\li.hn b‘.nnv:{, Jack- sonville and Atlanta, the check reached the Reserve Bank of Richmond, and on December 10 was transmitted directly to the Bank of Lumberbridge. NEW YORK, July 12.—President Harding’s proclamation on the rail shop crafts strike resulted today in a public declaratioh by the *strike conduct” committee of the eastern raflroads that they would “continue on strike until a satisfactory settle- ment is reached, even if every mail traln in the district is canceled.” The declaration issued by John J. Dowd, chairman of the workers’ com- mittee, sald: “The shop crafts strikers in the metropolitan district will, of course, obey to the letter the President's proclamation. We belleve, however, that the precise meaning of the doocument should be more clearly de- fined. To this end we have adopted the following interpretation of the proclamation, upon which we base our polioy for this district: “The President mentioned our ‘indis- putable right to decline to work.’ We believe this right is superior to any presidential proclamation. We assume, therefore, that the President did not D, Ohio, July 13.—The northern Ohio bathin, carelessness persons. and necessary.” On marked the check ‘“Pald, the account of Balfour, and on the same date sent to the reserve bank its check on the Atlantic Banking and Trust Com- pany of Greensboro for $9,203.90, in payment of that and other items. On December 17 the reserve bank ‘was informed that the check on Greens- boro was no-good and on the sameé day wired the Bank of Lumberbridge it must make the check good, but the lat- ter bank was placed in the hands of a receiver on December 23, before the check was pald. The check was charged back by each bank, in turn, and finally debited to Malloy Brothers by their bank. when I seat ner,” Dr. thered in the Colli; | e, Collinwood yards responsible hurled taunts and ‘work, the men to after ar- A say, od with w FORCE IF REQUIRED Medical Examiner Donaldso: port to the coroner death as “acciden " Dr. ed by the criminal act, omission or “I washed my rands of the case “Mrs. Hotchkiss may possibly have been seized with an attack of apo-1{to apply the same broad principles of plexy or severe Femorrhages of the |law brain while in bathing. I do not think i passage of trains from state to state. there is any necessity for an autopsy | The marshals and deputy marshals in or turther investigation, however, a8, the past have called for troops to help 1 am convinced no other HOME SCHOOL TRUSTEE Report s a crime. ve the cause of drowning while Donaldson added that of any other person or the that an inquest is un- to spiracy to \ t l ! l that report to the coro- Donaldson said rSon wWas | ut. for her death.” e United State $10,000 or to tmprisonment for not today. | more than two years. The Harding administration is about by law gullty o Congress has passed laws to regulate such commerce, and has provided punishment in & certain pre- scribed way.’ Reference to Pemalty. The same judge added a reference wwnspiracy make any one convicted of a con- reak liab! the commission of statutes which the laws of the to a fine of in securing the uninterrupted Telegrams from all parts of the United States indicate that .wve apprehension exists in meany raflroad centers as to whether the marshals can cope with the situation. Federal troops are being held in readi- ILL LEAVE BOARD mness for service. Experience in the 1894 strike has T ishown tha Resignation Put in Mail Toda; I the delay In sending federal troops resulted in many dis- Srders and that the local authorities 6! intend in other parts of the document Volating the aidswark ordiamace TO BACK PRESIDENT'S to impute illegality to our refusal to May Be Result of yere promptly Sbeyed Just as soon as Strike sympathizers are all work, even if rail trains should be an- 1 i Tave stoned the home Sf & raiirosd PROCLAMATION !nulled as a direct result of such refusal. Controversy. tons ta ase 1ts Army to Fun the rail- worker in Collinwood last night. The shop workers in the port of New - o BEAT UP TEXAS FOREMAN. Santa Fe Worker Taken Out and Assaulted by Mob. By the Agsociated Press, FORT WORTH, Tex., July 12.—Ac- cordig to a report received hers this morning and confirmed at the Santa Fe loffice in Cleburne, a general foreman employed in the shops at Cleburne was taken from his work Iast night by & crowd of men and assaulted. The foreman had remained in the shops when the shopmen struck recent- ly, and the attack s believed to have been made in connection with the atrike, B. & 0. TRAINS ATTACKED. Crowd at Locust Point Fires at Smkébmkon—aoun Hurt. BALTIMORE, M4, . July 13.—Two trains of the Baltimore and Ohlo rafl- ‘road carrying about 150 reak “were stoned and fired npo.nmlky‘z cmivl“’ of men at Locust Point last evening. Car windows were broken and some of | the occupants were cut. No hit by bullets 30 far aa Knowe® Tas assailants dispersed upon the appear- ance of the police. It was the first dis- order attending the railroad 'strike in the Baltimore district, | TRACKMEN AT BIG PARLEY. ing Swesty-cight ralrcade ing twenty- states, from the Ontasis ag™ on the north to the Baltimore and Ohio on the wuth.aan here today for a con- ference with Vice Presid Rob- erts and E. Enke o.tn ‘mw' 2. hood's exectitive council® bect r. Roberts s act be taken onnmwo-l%obohm the rallroad executives that the cut ordered by uumum- Board o tives asked to walive the thirty and to hear the argument of the mien s once. Mr. Roberts expresssd optimism as to the outcome. e to De re- s Eene 32, The old commission ing : until its successor is EIGHT. (Continued from First ) people’of the couditry and that its ef- fect both upon railway executives and would be such as.to clarify the at- mosphere and create a feeling differ- ent from that which has actuated rties to the strike. b‘}‘: Ka event ‘of the’ proclamation wing ineffective, ~the impres: ion among postal offictals was that both state and federal troops would be called upon to see that mall trains, enpecially, were operated without molestation. These same officials ex- ressed the opinion that ‘while the Driking rallway workers naturally Were to be expected to evidence their feelings in various -ways during & eat strike, yet fow, if any, would :tl;nfl to any move that would interfere .with the movement of the mafls. e TRADE BOARD GROWS. Membership - Committee Approves Six New Names in Drive. t Despite the weather and the fac that r:sny people are out of town for spective members con- Ao gn up for the Washington Board of e. Six applications for ‘membership were .p‘?;:v:«'l t,he:';::m“ at .a mee = s committee 1 the " bosrd ac :‘-'.'"&‘. nflr‘l‘e‘l‘ submitted at the next meeting of the executive committee. ‘The for the spummer outing of the board, to be held July 19 at | Arundel-on-the-Bay, will Idave ‘tlhé offoes” ot e Dot AL it e, The ang at 9 oclock In LIl the resort will be 3 :rnl?ontngbnn and a “rip-roaring” time is prom! Fred White, popular chairman of the outing committee. Dhisid SO PARLEY -ON-RENT BODY. Ball and Oolladay ~Confer i Over Nominbes for Commission.. Ball, chajrman of the Dis- tfl‘o.tn:o‘:hlune. and Edward F. Col- ,_ republican national committee- msn for -the District r‘nl:o l:o -h'-l.ve'h: nference this Ersitid in ‘Rent Commission, it of the District diy. Probably they will later sce t 1a ‘although ot 8 mvi.-h:-n 2 . i5E - SHARES LIQUOR REVENUE. direct .| York area will continue on strike until the great body of striking workers. iroads or to protect strikebreake: One member of the board of trus- |13%’% Laramount nesd of transpor. tees of the Industrial Home School|tation is forcing the government into has decided to resign, it was re-|exactly that position. And the proc- liably learned today. lamation by the President is paving The name of the member could not |the way for broad federal action. It be obtained this afternoon, but an-{may become necessary to proclaim other member of the board stated!martial law in specific sections of the that he understood his colleague's|country, though this, as & rule, has letter of resignation to Commission- ; waited the appeal from governors o er Rudolph would be put in the mails | the states. In order, however, to en- today. force the federal laws, troops may be This member of the board also re-|sent anywhere in the country with- frained from stating whether or not!out reference to the presence of state the reported resignation was a re-!mlllt!l or the attitude of state offi- a satisfactory settlement is reached, even if every mall train in the district is canceled. On the other hand, acts of violence or the physical interference ‘with the movement of trains will not be tolerated by this committee. As a mat- ter of fact, the absence of acts of this kind In the New York district is the one sensational feature of this strike which has not appeared -in the newspaper headlines. In so far as President Harding refers to such acts, we heartily concur. The proclamation was uhnecessary as far as we are concerned.” FAMILY IS WIPED OUT WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO Party on Way to Wedding, Includ- ing Prospective Bride, Dead at Railroad Crossing. By the Assoctated Press, GREENVILLE, Pa., July 12.—A fam- ly party of five, traveling by auto- mobile from Altoona, Pa., to Erfe, Pa. to attend a wedding tomorrow, wi ‘wiped out near here today when the machine wes struck by a -train on the Bessemer and Lake Erie: railroad. Among the dead was Miss Edith Schults, who was to have been the bride. = Harry Schultz, Mrs. Mary Schults, Florence Schultz, age four year: Miss Edith Schultz and Johh Hamor, age eighty, father of Mrs.. Schults, all of Altoona, Pa;, are dead: ‘The automobile was making good ‘time as it approached a sunken cross- ing. The. train, two light engines and a cabooss, also was 531d to have been traveling at high . The putomobile was dragged almost a ‘quarter of a mile. - NEW ARMY -CUT LIKELY. Japan May Still Further Reduce. g Military Forces. By the Associated Presy. 3 { TOKIO, July 12.—SHil .further re- dyuctions of the Japanese army, below those announced on July. 4, are con- Zempla Lted by Minister of 18 e sug- ted army reforms did not The demands of the it . CoPlete HOLMES UNDER_ KNIFE. sult of the disagreement which has|cials. arisen between the trustees of the! Within the next twenty-four hours home school and the board of chil-|the crisis in the strike situation may dren's guardians over the policy of ,be expected, but present indications the guardians of withdrawing chil- jare that the use of federal troops dren from the home school and plac- ;alone will allay the fears of the ing them in private families. | workers, who are ready to run_trains, but who think the strikers will d them violence. (Copyright, 1922.) SUSPECT’S DEATH FAILS TO HALT MURDER PROBE ;Alleged Slayer of Camp Eustis Girl Said to Have Died From. Poisoning. By the Associated Press. NEPORT NEWS, Va., July 12.—The death by poison in his jail cell Mon- day night of Russell A. Van Arsdale, charged with the murder of Miss Rose Brady, at Camp Eustis, on June 10, will not result in dropping further in- vestigation of the case, it was said by H. S. White, in charge of Department of Justice agents, who worked up the case against Van Arsdale. Nothing further could be learned as to when an inquest over Van Ars: dale’s body .will be held, if at Coroner B. R. Gary said the case ob- viously was one of polso: , but add- ed that he did not believe an inquest necessary. ASSAULT CASE PROBED. Thomas Allen, 20 years old, col- This is the first intimation that any of the board members involved In the ! controversy would resign. Commissioner Rudolph this morn- ing received a letter from Frederick ‘W. McReynol chairman of the board of tru 8 of the home school, in which it is understood inquiry was made regarding the possibility of a conference between the two board: Neither Mr. McReynolds nor Com- missioner Rudolph would make public the letter today. Rudolph said, however, that the question of a con- ference probably would be considered by the Commissioners when Eingineer Commissioner Keller returns to the city early next week. SUMMERS WOULD RUN. District Attofn y Mentioned for Congress by, Virginia Friends. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., July 13.—IL. P. Summers, United States district -at- torney, who is in attendance upon his court here, wh shown a dis] h from Bristol thut he was ng boomed for republican nomination for Congress. in- the ninth daistrict, pro- ounded the following question to &oprenm:ln Slemip through - the local press: “"ld;Po = ’:cflet’n thflgl::lntlo ;‘“ ul u n '!olr. s..".;mm declares that he is not |ored, of 621 Rhode Island a candidate for the nomination and being held by the police t: that he is in favor of nominating Mr.| vestigation - into the sassault upon Slemp again. Although not & candi- | Mrs. J. Ri Vidmer, of Wardman date and despite the fact that he does | Park Hotel -Monday. morning. De- not want to g0 to Congress, Mr. Sum- | tectives Scriwner, Flaherty and Fow- mers said he would accept the nomi- |ler are !nv-mlufiou. case. Mrs. nation if named by the convention. | Vidmer woke up Mondsy morning, z > she told police, following the depart- UNION MEN RAP CHIEF. ure of her husband for work, to find a negro in the room with his hands at her throat, She was struck, and % p the negro_ran. She potified House Suspenkico; §f Bookkewpstal Dliar, ik ter Called High-Handed. NEW YORK, July 12.—Denouncing as “star chamber proceedings” the Detective Harry Daugherty, who re- ported the assault to Acting Inspector| suspension o!n'.ho flm‘“ old 3: Bookkeepers; Steno ors an - » ,%ulm orders from of Detectives Plemmons. ' Anthony countants™ on Ford, colored, 21, of 1721 Seaton street, ‘who also was held for investigation yest: , Was released. Police are continuing the Investigation today, but have not reached the point where «l ‘have been entered. ORDERED TO THIS CITY. Y, at of inspection and sur- 2| Taxes Towers, IMARINES GET BACK' Pass Hurriedly Through Washington, Taking Boats for Quantico. Seasoned veterans of the battle of Gettysburg, past and present, being the east coast expeditionary force of the United States Marine Corps, headed by a distinguished company, passed through Washington today in four sections. In the lead of the infantry there was a contrasting touch to the fleld khak! of the force glven by the somber attitre of the oivillan and the beaming white of the Navy. To the right of the main column rode Theodore Roosevelt, now the acting head of the Navy and also head of the Marine Corps. To his left and in the center rode Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, commandant of the Marine Corps, and to his left rode Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, the commander of this foree of hardened and sun-tanned veterans, who march- ed afoot to Gejtysburg, there re-en- acted the battle of Gettysburg a history told them the Union and Con- federate forces fought it during the clvil war, and then they showed to thousands of people just how the ma- rines, with their modern equipment, would conduct such an engagement should they face it today. Dolls Adorn Trucks. The thunderous explosions of the several hundred motor trucks, draw- ing the camp kitchens, post ex- changes, camp equipment, announced the advance guard's arri They passed hurriedly through Washing- ton without stopping, hitting it for Quantico, their base, where they are expected to arrive tonight Their trucks were decorated, in many in- stances fore. aft and amidships, with gigantic dolls, in gold lace and flimsy silk dresses, captured by these sun burned lads as they passed through Maryland. Though they have passed through a hard training period, there were smiles on every truck as they rumbled past the sidelines, and this is the reason they have made them- elves fast in the hearts of Mary landers, through whose country thes have just passed. About a half an hour behind th. motor train came the infantry, th: blue steel of their rifles sparkling in the hot sun, in contrast to their dull uniforms of khaki. Their steps wer: snappy, and they showed no effect from the intense heat which reflected from the hot asphalt pavements over which they marched. Their packs were lightened somewhat, their sheiter tents blankets, etc., being in the newly de- signed, ruber-tired pack carts, which are being experimented with on this march. The machine guns of the or- ganization also are on similar carts. Thousands of people lined the streets along the line of march. Trip Down Potomae. The infantry proceeded direct to Potomac Park by way of 13th street and Pennsylvania avenue. At the sea- wall in Potomac Park there were nearly a dozen barges and four Navy tugs, assigned to the Quantico base. The marines boarded them and fin- ished the last part of their month's maneuvers by#a trip down the river. Bringing up the rear was the mo- torized field artillery. The equip- ment was drawn by tractors, which rumbled over the city streets. Be- hind each tractor, which lald for itself a steel track as it moved, was a long ammunition wagon, and one of the famous 75 mm. guns. The fleld artillery passed over the same route through Washington. and left by way of the Highway bridge. The slow tractor speed will not permit it to make Quantico by nightfall, so it will camp below Alexandria tonight, and is scheduled to reach the base at 6 o'clock tomorrow evening, thus bringing into camp the last detach- ment, and completing the most suc- cessful and gigantic maneuvers ever held in time of peace in this coumtry by the Marine Corps. CHANGE IN SYSTEM BY TAX COLLECTOR Method of Keeping Realty Accounts to Be Reorgan- ized Under New Law. The system of keeping real estate accounts in the collector of taxes office is to be reorganized along the latest known lines of éffclency. This became known today when a committee composed of Collector of faxse) 1o Assessor Richards, uditor Donovan and Victor G. - sant of the bureau of efllcleoncsfollr‘l- spected modern mechanical equip- ment used in several of the federai departments. It is understood the committee visited the internal tevenue bureau and other branches of the Treasury. Made Necessary by Law. A change in the methods of pr« paring bills and keeping accounts in the collector's office has been made necessary by the change in law r quiring the collection of taxes twic a year, in November and May. The calculating typewriters and other devices used by the federal gov- ernment were favorably considered by the committee, it was said. Several more conferences will be held, how. ever, before recommendations are made to the commission. As soon as the appropriation act passed it became apparent to District officials that some changes would have to be made in order to avoid a voluminous amount of work in pre- paring tax bills twice a year. Will Work Out New System. It is the hope of the committes that new system may be worked out which will permit the collection of taxes semi-annually with as little if not less work than is now required for collections once a year. The pro. posed changes also may obviate th: necessity for increasing the clerical force to meet the requirements of the new law. FLYING TO SIBERIA. American Reaches Alaska Second Attempt at Feat. DAWSON CITY, Y. T., July 12—In his second attempt to fly from the United States to Siberia by way of the Behring sea, O. O. Prest of Neva today was preparing to hop off for Fairbanks and Nome, Alaska, whence will begin the last and most severe leg of the flight. Prest landed here yesterday, the first man to fly to the Yukon from the south. He took the route from Skagway, Alaska, to White Horse through the White pass and over the Chilkoot range to Selkirk. A mountain blizsard wrecked Prest's airplane last year when he first essayed the flight to Siberia. PROMINENT BRITON DEES. LONDON, July 12—Sir ‘Thomas Glen-Coats, chairman of J. & P. Coats, Limited, and former liberal member of pariiament for West Renfrewshire, died today at his home, Ferguslie Park, Paisley. He was ‘He was created a barone! wite, who was Elise Agn daughter of Alexan Walker Montreal, died in 1910, on FROM BETTYSBURG