Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1922, Page 2

2 * " ' THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1922. -—L—_I___—_—.—'_—fi. SEEKNEWCAVE MURDER" EVIDENG Woman Battered Other to Death, Third Tells Police as “Sickened” Witness. ASK WHERE WAS HUSBAND Los Angeles Probe Extended as Wife Is Taken From Train in Alleged Flight. By the Associated Pross LOS AN Calif., July Whereabouts of Mre. Alberta Meadows | on tne nigut vervrce she was the vie- tim of what has become known locally as the “stone age murder,” because it was accomplished with a nammer and a rock, and where A. L. Phillips, husband of the woman accused of the crime, spent the night, were subjects | of inquiry today, according to an- nouncement by deputy sheriffs work- ing on the case Mrs. I'eggy Caffee, upon whose tes timony the Los Angeles county grand jury vesterday returned an indict-{were made against him, he might not ment charging murder against Mrs. {have been where he is today. Are not 5 % & P i such services worthy of a hearing in Clara Phillips, now held at Tucson, | Such services worthy of a hearing in Ariz. declared that the Right before | man, much less 1t boy in his teens, to she accompanied Mrs. Phillips and,live down the disgrace of belng dis- ¥l i Mrs, | charged without a hearing and un- Meadows on a ride in Ars. 6 YT ulation. after his ows' automobile to the lonely | diceharge. where the voung widow's body | We can safely say, that nine-tenths Gad (Vednaadas & <he |of the young men. growing up in ind Wednesday evening, She i)y, . Simos “until after they have | Phillips made a secret Visit| j;.ceq thelr teens are on the fence, dows’ apartment and that ¥s was not at home. ps is said by her husband before her hurried 0, Tex., Mrs. | to have told him, departure on the trip to El I that e being taken from the tr that she kill: Mrs. Meadows ause of Jealous; which, he asserted, was unwarranted. Mrs. Meadows Accused. And, according to the story of Mrs. who w slaying, Mrs. Phillips ac- Mrs. Meadows of having been intimate with her husband, and of having accepted presents from the oil promoter. Phillips has_declined to where he spent last Tuesday night. ‘1 can- not unswer important questions of that nature,” he sald. Relatives woman, who was only twenty years old and had been a widow only month: to her defense asse any aspersions on her characater and reputation had basis only on “idle gossip.” The rron announced the inquest over Mrs. Mcadows' body would be held Monday | Phillips has been detained as al material w not under arrest, but deputy sheriffs have be detailed to remain with him constantly Mrs. Caffer was permitted to go af she had testified before the grand jury. In Chorus and Film. Phillips, who is twenty-three years old, is said to have had a briet cperience with a comedy motion picture company as “a bathing girl.” Mre She also has been employed as a chorus girl Mrs. Caffee said she was also a former chorus girl. Mrs. Caffce went to the scene of the slaying yesterday and showed officers exact spots where she said the argument and ensuing physical struggle between the two women took place the girl was as to help her a 1 front of the girl, and came toward me Phiilips on” S it e, but she called out o me. |ieller Foundation from the assistant ‘Get out of my way.' All this girl cretary of the foundation. The iat- said was, ‘Tady, save me' I didn't|ter said that the foundation had hear her say anything else. That changed its plans since Dudding saw was before &he fell down 1 started | the oil king, and that now funas are ! {1 and when 1 got down | given only to education and public, 1 looked back and I saw Mrs. | health. ips her then, and_the | Out for $100.000. eed ot Oneto mysels, | clared Dudding today. “I am not cried out, ‘Oh to myself.{ zoing to let my business be side- eh i 2ot | tracked by some clerk who may mean Backe fa the e o Totlwell but is not interested in other blood on her g people’s business.” And he pro- e Ty EXT and 1 took my | ceeded to dictate a letter to Edwin n 't’““ thief and dig it b ¥ | R. Embree, secretary of the founda- EmeEaRs 3E Lol tion, asking him to call the attention “Could Do It Again.” {of Mr. Rockefeller to this issue. 3 | In the letter he pointed out that “Mrs. Phillips said, ‘Nobody can take i j; wag in 1914, when he had a_talk my husband away from me! and|with Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Green | . o that again’ And then she |Tegarding the matter. They told 2 e o ShAC . st A : : r:g‘h:m, he recalled, that “they helped calmed down and pretended to me |g,ccess and that he might come back that she wasn't afrald of anything. |in eight or ten years. If successful, I was pr aid of her. | they intimated. Dudding says. that | B'f.;h, i sendienpon gy UL | there was littie doubt but heip would | B e white SN UElos 4 i I'be fortheoming. | And her white silc gloves were alll “I would like to have this matter O O Mher "arme. Amq there called to the attention of Mr. Rocke- pa B o "all over her face. arms, | feller. sr.” Dudding wrote, “and see if = b By e o i 2 "I he will not recall the matter. I was dress, shoes and s ngs. “And she drove Mrs, Meadows' car back. After she got me in she took it and went a down the hill and ‘way down along the car line on the street kept on until she came to her home. She didn't bring me home. She 1 me off at Figueroa and Pico streets “What did she say to you before |0 (¢ she let you out—anything C. Doran, chlef depufy d torney. “Before,” answered “when I was up there down the hill lering to m will kill you runnin sick standing there and sort of fell over against a wall."” Mrs. Caffee told the grand jury her parents, whose names were not stated, lived “In the east, near Philadelphia.” APPROVE HARDING PLAN. Mrs. Caffee, ‘If you say anything I 15—The {home and of a young nephew. present during lhrs and friends of the dead! ess and will be held as! 1% to the sheriff’s office. | until his wife is brought | “alifornia. racger, sheriff, is now in on, expecting to bring Mrs. back with him. Phillips is 1$100,000 if T would remind him of ips began striking |at the expiration of this periol of! the hammer.” said | years. I'm going to hold him to that | ing me | promise.” 1 I went toward her. | fast as ever she could | he { there. and | ,jans. and started | she said—ehe was hol- | promise. URGES MORE LENIENCY FOR ERRING YOUNG MAN Writer Says Youth Encouraged to Waywardness by False Accusations. To tre Tditor of The Star. The public papers of July 8 con- tained quite a lengthy and sensation- al report narrating the capture of one youthful burglar and the shooting of his companion. How ready the world is to condemn a man when he has made a misstep! Strange how quick when a man has fallen the world will adgone kick after another! What an odd, religious world we live in. so many ready to condemn, and so few wiih the outstretched hand to help and to lead a wanderer home! Consider. for a few moments, the boy was only nineteen years of age. the sole support of a mother, of a Past experience will prove that the boy at heart is not what the act he is charged with now, proclaims him to be. He has worked hard, and tried to make good. For some time he was employed by one of Washington's largest firms, under several managers, and for a little over N year under one manager. Here he worked hard and faithfully. always congenial and eflicient, and he was honest to the penny. He made many friends, and won the respect of | a majority of the customers. Had the firm for which he had been so faithful given him l chance to speak for himself, or had It properly in- vestigated certain accusations, which and are easily influenced one way or the other, according to their asso- ciations, “environments, and encouragements. It takes |1ittle of the above mentioned mal- treatment to send a youth on the downward path, also It takes but lit- tle kindness and fellowship to keep him straight and to inspire him with love, hope . and trust. There would be fewer young men falling and a better manhood "if we had more uplifters in the world. and if more of our so-called Christian people were willing to give a word f encouragement, and if there was {less of public condemnation . and kicking a fellow after he is down. Statesmen may continue to fashion ir elaborate schemes for the es- of universal peace, but t tablishment { not until men learn to love, live and | | let men under- live, and not until need a kind stand that the young word and a friendly hand, ting peace be realized Latpest H. R. THOMPSON —_— DUDDING TO HOLD JOHN D. TO PROMISE | 0il King’s Letter Says $100,- | 000 for Prisoners Is Not Available. |WRITES TO SECRETARY Won't Be Turned Down by a Clerk, He Declares—Resumes Fight. “Eight vears ago John D. Rocke- feller, sr., promised my This was the comment of dent E. E. Dudding of th2 )'risoners’ ! 1| Relief S know whether she was meaning | an answer to his letter to the Rocke % today, upon receiving ciety {impressed that we would be sure of | {help if things turned out well with | us. Stoughton, assistant secretary, saying | Now [ get a letter from Mr. that the foundation had changed fts if the matter is put up to Mr. Rocke- Saw Ray of Hope, “All the years I have worked with this hope, I could all the time see a ray of hope across Mr. Rockefeller's the T am sure, by Somebody has got to look into this matter, as I am not | going to be turned down by a clerk.” Dudding said today that he had re- | the aid of Senator Davis, Elkins and the entire West Virginla quested delegation in Congress to help in get- ting the matter of their constituent before Mr. Rockeleller, sr. Titaois_Operators Accept Prest-| DENBY FOR SHIP SUBSIDY dent’s Proposed Coal Arbitration. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 15.—The Coal Operators' Assoclation of the fifth and ninth districts of Illinois have voted to accept President Harding’ plan for arbitration of the co miners’ strike, at a meeting here. & cording to an announcement made by W, K. Kavanaugh, president. President Kavanaugh has depart- ed with the scale committee of the association for Washington to attend the conference of bituminous coal operators called for tomorrow. e REBELLED AT HUBBY’S KIN Wife, Asking Divorce, Says She ‘Worked for “Vast Gathering.” Because her husband invited all his relatives to thelr home and com- pelled her to do the housework for the “vast gathering,” Mrs. Viola N. Jones has flled suit in the District Supreme Court for & limited divorce from her husband, Willlam E. Jones, an employe of rocery firm. Mras. Jones also mak cruelty and says her husband d serted her last month. She asks &li- mony for herself and maintenance for the child. Attorney Raymond Neydecker appears for the wife, other charges of By the Associated Press. The Navy Department today made | | public a dispatch received by Acting | Secretary Roosevelt from Secretary Denby at Yokohama “to correct an erroneous impression concerning his attitude on the administration’s ship subsidy plan. Secretary Denby's message sald: “I am strongly for ship subsidy. Have 80 spoken publicly several times.” A press dispatch from Yokohama on July 10, the Navy Department an- nouncement sald, quoted Secretary | Denby in & speech as saying he hoped that the Bhipping Board's request for @ subsidy would be met “by some other form of grant. RECEIVER FOR OIL COMPANY. BOSTON, July 15.—A temporary re- celver for New land Ofl of Boston, has been a ni by Federal Judge Mack. Liabilities of the corporation, ‘which has large refineries in Fall River, were listed as $10,447,000, with “con- tingent or possible liabilities” placed at $7,434,500. Gasper G. Bacon of this city, was named temporary receiver, rincipal assets are described as the entire stock of the New England Oll Re&l gl;ll mml.:dmoo!th‘ st e New Englan Ta- tion, Ltd., of Canada. e Island Oll Market of Virginia, claims a Jmmt of $1,161,000 againat the 1 | | | i sions belongmg to the nationals | tion ot ofl exploitation | casus. j ests here next week, it is reported. irepresentative of advantages | but ! months the ofl experiment is found to will the { dream of universal brotherhood and | iat society | thought Presi- | | communication { wera found worthless. T think that this promise—1 ! {looked upon it as a promise—should i be kept and I am sure it will be kept | dealings with | Fairmont, W. Va., and the authorities there, while investigating the murder {of Dominic Cuzzocoll, 1f_you know what I have | {been through the eight years: That was when I was ' money would come, down the hill, because I ot !special delivery. | on_smoothly. NON-PIRATE PAGT URGED FOR RUSSIA U. S. May Be Asked to Enter Agreement to Protect In- terests of Nationals. EXPLAINS ABRUPT BREAK! | Standard 0il Representatives to Attend Meeting on Caucasus Fields. Pl BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER, By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyriglit, 1922. THE HAGUE, July 15.—The mystery of the abrupt break in the conference on Russian affairs apparently has been solved. Despairing of the pos- sibllity 6f reaching a complete agree- ment with the soviet delegates, the representatives of the principal west- ern powers, it seems, have decided to try an experiment. They will recom- mend the adoption of an agreement which the nationals of one country will not pirate the Russian conces- of another country, and under the cover of this pact it is expected the private oil interests of the world will en- deavor to reach a limited agreement. | The soviets will permit the resump- in the Cau- There is to be a meeting of repre- sentatives of the principal oll inter- A the Standard Oll Company or Iits European allies will attend. It is expected that the United tutes will be asked to adhere to the non-pirating pact. If after a few be successtul, some new branch of Russian industry will be opened up. WOMAN THOUGHT KLUXEN BOY, FIFTEEN, ACQUITTED OF MURDER OF JANETTE LAWRENCE|RAIL PEACE ON ROCKS; Left to right: Ha for defense, at the Morristown (N. J.) courthol murder of Janette L. and recelving their congratul i Franeis Kluxen, 3d, defenda yesterday afternoon as Kluxen, J rence (whosé body, brutally stabbed, was found last October), was thanking his counsel nd Elmer King, chief counsel adjudged not gullty of the Rescue of 137 Armenian Orphans Described by Former D.C. Woman Trudged in Mud and MURDERED FOUND; stcpt in otes, savs Baltimore Clues Shift to An- other Missing at Fair- mont, W. Va. D. C. POLICE AID ASKED Victim of Knife and Blackjack Possibly Involved in Slay- ing Here. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., July 15.—Having eliminated Carmelia Salroca of Fair- mont, W. Va, as the murdered woman whose body was found near Rolling Road Golf Club at Caton le Thursday, on notification by the irmont police that she was located Akron, Ohio, last night, the Baltimore police turned their at- tention to other clues today. Another Fairmont woman, however, is now involved iIn the case, the description of the slain woman closely fitting that of Helie Lennon, who was reported to have left Fal mont last Tuesday for Baltimore. Photographic Resemblance. Martinsburg, W Va., police officials they recognized a picture of the victim as that of a woman who F | visited them last Monday looking for a_prohibition officer. In a gerveral way it was sald her { physical features conformed to the description given the Fairmont police | of the woman in the Baltimore morgue. Search in Baltimore for the mur- derer of the woman, who was black- jacked, her throat cut and shot to death, turned toward identification of |a Ford automobile seen close to the scene of the crime late Tuesday night. Every Clue Investigated. ‘Police of Fairmont, W. Va. In with Baltimore city and county authorities. meanwhile are running down every clue obtain- able there. Only one tangible clue to the slayer exists, on which Baltimore police are working. It is the description given ¥ a clerk in a hat store of a stockily bulit foreigner who bought there the cap found bloodstained a short dis- tance from the scene of the crime. A score of clues run down by police Hundreds of persons have passed in single file through the morgue, seeking identify the woman, but there was none who could say definitely who she was. ASK D. C. POLICE AID. ! Believe Woman Involved in Local Crime Possible Victim. George G. Henry, chtef inspector of { the Baltimore police department, this morning od the local police to assist in establishing the identity of | the woman found murdered near Catonsville, a suburb of ‘Baltimore, early Thursday morning. Detective Joseph Morgan. who had Italian residents of in the woods { near ~Benning and ' Bowen roads inortheast in December, 1919, gug- | gested that the murdered woman probably was Marie Puglise, who, it | was said, had accompanied Cuzsocoll from Falrmont to Bowden, N. C., some time prior to the commission of the murder here. He was unable to identify a photo- graph of the dead woman received from the Baltimore police this morn- ing. He said, however, that the swollen condition of the body ‘may have changed its appearance. Cuzzocoli resided with his uncle, Joe Altomonte, 203 Cleveland avenue, Falrmont, where Marie Puglies was housekeeper. It was reported that i Altomonte's nephew and the house- keeper ran away €rom Fairmont with $700 of the uncle's money and went to the North Carolina town. Cuzzocoll and Marle came to this city, and Altomonte and twec friends came here and induced them to return to Fairmont. They returned, but the man disappeared the next: day and nothing was heard of him until his body was found in the woods. He h been stabbed seventeen times in t back and chest. Altomonte and two other Itallans were held in jail for investigation in connection with the slaying. Testi- mony to connect them with the crime was not obtained, however, and they were released. Later it was learned that Marie Puglies had turned state's | evidence against an Italian man in a white slave case in Baltimore. The convicted and sentenced to ye imprisonment. tive Morgan, on learning of the recent tragedy in Baltimore, ested that the victim was Marie iglies, He thought she probably had been slain by members of a band of Italians who probably were responsible for the murder of Cussocoll, but today he sald he thought thé photograph re- ceived from Baltimore was not a Mke- ness of her, Whe&apuulnt curtains en win- dow r t 'a’thimble over the end of the rod and the tain will slip to Mrs. Florence Kalk. Perilous Scenes Pic- tured in Report to Near East Offices. How Mrs. Florence Stanton Kalk, a former Washington woman, led 137 Armenian orphans, wards of the Near East Relief, from the Cilicia, a Turkish nationalist strong- hold, more than one hundred miles overland, to the nearest French out- post, is told in a report which h just been received from her at N East Rellef headquarters in New York. S Mrs. Kalk, who is a descendant of Secretary Stanton of Lincoln's cabi- net, has been a rellef worker in the near east for the past year. She is the widow of Frank S, Kalk of Wash- ington, and before leaving for the near east lived at 2000 16th street | northwest. Her son. after whom the destroyer Kalk was named, was tne first American naval officer killed In the war. He lost his life when the Jacob Jones was torpedoed “Qur caravan consisted of seventeen camels, seven wagons and half a doz- v monkeys. These were loaded wich tents, blankets, personal baggage, and the children, who ranged from ninv to fifteen years,” she says in her re- port. “On the outskirts of Urfa the Turkish officials checked off each child, to see that the total @id not exceed the number which we had been permitted to evacuate; then up MRS. FLORENCE KALK. we went, over the zlgzag mountain road. Once hourly we rested, usually | besids one of tha water holes upon | which we depended for our drinking, supply. Pass Scene of Mansacre. 4 “Presently we reached Feris Pacha, | where lies the ravine in which 300, French troops were massacred after ! ther had marched ou: of Urfa under | promise of safe conduct to Beirut. the French com: wdant's head was | carried back to Urfa on a spear, and was there kicked about the 3 That night we halted at Sarymaha: and had our first unpleasant oxperi ence. The camel drivers absoluely refused to put up our tents, pre-| ferring to push on. However, the| cnilaren being tired out, we mat the | situation by sleeping in the open. | “Unluckily, it rained that night and | “Bob” Le Gendre Gets Licerse ; To Wed Miss Helen Marie Lake “BOB” LE GENDRE, Crack Georgetown University athlete, e “Bob” Le Gendre, twenty-four, na- tlonally known athlete of Georgetown University, and Miss Helen Marte Lake, elghteen, of 1634 Newton street northwest, obtained a marriage 1i- cense in Cumberland, Md., yesterday, according to Information received here today. Mrs. V. E. Lake, mother of the bride, was informed of the pro- posed ceremony this morning, Robert Luclen Le Gendre, as the name appeared on the marriage 1i- censé, and Miss Lake had been en- gaged for more than a year and-had been acquainted for about two years. nerally known around While it was ge! kiioseniaconing the university that o] 1ly marry, Coach O'Rellly and ;‘l'r::rm;mychl- close to the athlete were not expecting such a quick step. Won Many Hemors. 0! as he is called by thousands of his admirers, was graduated from Georgetown last month as one of the {lliant athletes that ever a :‘:::l‘sdbrtht institution, He h: ‘won high honors on the track fleld here, in Philadelphia and at Vlrllllll(“ every iate meet held dur the im:rf:w';ur:. He returned to Wash- ington July 2, after capturing the broad jump at the western intereol- te mlt’;n;t Chicago, his last io act ad l'l‘no l:v.nl te Was guest of the Lakes here after his graduation, an also during the Christmas and Hlllchr.‘ preferred to remain in Washington tions on the fence. holidays of the university, | i | rather than make the long journey to his home in Lewistown, Me, ‘Went Vialting. The couple left Washington Satur- day, July 3, as the guests of friends of the bride’'s mother In Edensburg, Md. and from there Miss Lake was to have gone to the home of “er aunt, Mrs. Florence G. Mahan of East Pittsburgh, Pa., for @ visit. They- left for that city yesterday, and stopped off at Cumberland, where a license was procured, Because her daughter was alway: in favor of a plain and simple wed: ding ceremony, Mra. Lake, mother of Miss Lake, said today, she expected | tunately, | between Kemalist and French terri- that the couple would agree on such & marriage shortly after Le Gendre's graduation. Miss Lake was born in Washington and was educated at the Notre Dame Convent. Bhe has a host of friends in this city and is one of the most popular of her set, Many Offers of Positions. At the university and the home of Mrs. Lake it could not be definitely learned just what occupation Le Gendre vo|111 engage in. Many tempt- ing offers with motior picturs com- panies have been maae to him’and ELKS AT WHITE HOUSE. Texas Delegation With Band Pays Respects to President. Elks, equipped with rifles and a band of fifty-two pieces, visited the White House today to pay their re- spects to President Harding on re- turning from their national conven- tion at Atlantic City to San Antonio, Tex. The delegation, consisting of 1 men, was headed by a Zouave drill texm of twenty-six men with fatigue uniforms and rifles, who performed the spectacular feat at their conven- | Barnes' letter also said that the cham- ‘bn calls upon business organizations of tion of scaling a twelve-foot wall. In charge of the delegation were V. G exalted ruler; Grover G. Collins, sec- retary of the Texas Elks' State As- sociation, and Herbert Peairs, chair- man of the committee on entertain ment. The Elks are traveling by spe. clal train and will leave Washington early tomorrow morning. e | all the next day, and the treeless mountainside offered no chance of shelter. The children shivered with cold, and what wiin 1wo feet of on the road we could joy the luxury of sitting down. we found a large empty stern_and crawled into it for a rest. The provision wagon had over- turned, dumping everything in the not even en- For- mud, so all we had to eat for the mid- | day meal was half a loaf of bread apiece. Trudge in Mud Knee Deep. )ff we started again, with the wind wrapping our soaked garments about our bodies and our legs knee- deep in mud. Soon the children be- came absolutely exhausted, many of them falling face downward in’ the mud and refusing to move. By heroic efforts we reached the village of Eski Serudy, where we found a khan or native mud inn. We gave the chil- dren a not supper and dosed with quinine, then we fell asleep in the khan courtyvard, surrounded by camels, donkeys, calves, chickens and natives. During the night 1 was successively aroused by a camel, three donkeys, a calf and various dogs, who were nosing about for tood “I slept in my clothes, and, In fact, rone o1 ‘h> party took their cl off from Sunday until Thursday night Lski Serudj proved to be one of the so-called “beehive” mud viliages which are so picturesque from a dis. « and so unsavory when seen from in. Two Parties Made U ext day we procured wagons and made up two parties. the one consist- ing of seventy children who W‘:Ju!d go on with m-. the Other comprising sixty-seven children, who were so t w tired out that it was demed best to | send ihem wlong later. We left at 3am., sfter a vast amount of ye DEFIANT ROADS PUSH PLANS TO OPEN SHOPS (Continued from First Page.) the Raliroad Labor Board that the workmen had formed a new union and asked for recognition by the gov- ernment. Additional injunctions restraining strikers from Interfering with rail- road operations were granted to roads at various points by federal courts Beveral trains on tha Seaboard Alr Line were added to the growing list of annulmezs. Dock cperators at Cleveland pre- dicted a tle-up of some of the great lakes shipping within the next few days because of the rail strike and a shortage of coal for lake steame Railroads have begun to withdraw their solicitors from the peach and melon disiricts of Georgia, according to reports from Macon. Shippers declared that in their opinion there would be no melons shipped outside ©f Georgia by the end of another week, if the strike continues. Wrecks Add to Troul Wrecks increased railroad troubles. Jake Herman, an expressman, was killed and seven passengers were in- jured when a Gulf, Colorado and San- ta Fe passenger train was wrecked near Wharton, Tex. Spreading ralls are believed to have caused the wreck. C. J. Stoner, a fireman, was killed and flve trainmen were injured when two freights on the St. Louis-San Francisco system crashed headon at & bridge over Center Creek, near Jol- 1in, Mo. Confused orders, rail officials declared, were responsibl Five passengers and the baggage- master were injured in a wreck near Saluda, N. C. A runaway “helper” locomotive, used on the Saluda mountain climb, ran headon into a passenger train. C. OF C. BACKS PRESIDENT. Full Support Offered in Maintain- ing Law During Strike. Support of = President Harding's “determination to maintain the su- premacy of the law,” and of his state- ment “making clear the issues In- volved in the railroad shop crafts strike,” is given by the board of di- rectors of the Chamber of Commerce ol Sharver, district deputy grand'will crys: cistons.” mud | {the law, and we urge the administra. |employes is against a decision of the | Eovernment’s own agency. |~ “That agency ix continuously in se ing | that of the United States, according to a letter written by Julius H. Barnes of | Duluth, Minn., president of the cham- ber, and delivered at the White House | by Harry A. Wheeler of Chicago. Mr. the countr to take such leadership as lize public sentiment in up- { holding the President in the exercise of i his authority for the maintenance of uninterrupted railway transportation. The board of directors, the letter | declared. “commends the statement | jof President Harding making cleur | ithe issues involved in the railroad shop crafts strike. We believe in the | peaceful settiement of controversies | and due respect for agencies estab- lished by law or mutual agreement ifor securing just and impartial de- “We commend the President,” the| {letter continued. “for his determina- { itlon to maintkin the supremacy of | tion to ure all the power of the| agencies of the government to that end. ! “This strike of a section of raflroad | sion to carefully consider and fairly decide in the public interest contro- | versies hetween railroad management | and their employes relating to wages | and salaries or working conditions. | “The attempt of the striking rail- road employes to enforce their own | views through methods of industrial | war should meet the condemnation of all who belleve in orderly processes of settlement. “This country is slowly emerging from a period of unemployment and ! severe business depression and cannot | patiently view any unlawful inter-| | ference with its transportation facill ties. retarding its industrial recovery. | | “We call upon the business orga | 1zations of the country to take such | {leadership as shall crystalize public | sentiment in upholding the President | n the exercise of his authority for the | | maintenance of uninterrupted rail- | | road transportation and for such local | protection and community public order | as will secure every man his right to | t\\'ork without intimidation.” H { BALTIMORE FEARS SPREAD. | { R D, !Further Walkouts Threaten, But | Shop Situation Much Easier. | | Spectal Dispatch to The Star. { BALTIMORE. July 15.—Predictions the striking railway shopmen | and cursing on the drivers parts,iwould be joined within a few days| and much groaning and scolding on the part of the unwilling camels. By daybreak we were Dassing ma villages and Arab camps. with their black tents of goats' hair, while be- hina rose majestic Taurt moun with snowclad peaks. Once ins, age-faced Kurds, who Ccommenced enatching food and extra clothing from the children. Fortunately, we had several Turkish guards, and so managed to escape without much loss. The guards se-nied o regret the fact that they could not stir up a genuine fight, as they had 100 rounds of am- | nition with them. m‘t‘m reaching the half-destroyed bridze which spans the Zuphrates tory, we got a native to clamber out on the girders and shout across a ! message to the effect that some Amer- feans in charge of a party of Near East Rellef orphans wanted ferryage to the opposite bank. TUp dashed a! nch motor boat with an officer f‘v‘)‘:) presented _the . commandant's compliments and an invitation to spend the night at headquarters. However, we spent the night where we were, sleeping in some abandoned box ca: As a matter of faet, due to prowlin imals and the presence of ievish Kurds, T lay awake all| night lon pillowing my head on my suit cas Rowed Acroas River. “Early next morning Wwe moved baggage and children to the river brink and crossed in the five large rowboats with which the French pro- vided us. Arriving on the-other bank, I and the Turkish officals checked and rechecked the children, who were then put into box cars on the train 0. . 'n\"‘/)fel:vv‘:s reached our destination at 8 o'clock that night we were 8o weary that we could have gone to sleep standing up. Meanwhile the second party of children at BEski Serudj had come along under charge of another Near East Relief worker. We had not lost a child, and with the exception of a few blisters and back- ches nobody was the worse for our tri 'l‘!l‘::‘::'h"drsn ‘were moved from Urfa a matter of economy in rellef administration and also because of the greater security of the French area about Beirut. War conditiol still largely prevail in Urfa. More than seven thousand other war and famine orphans had already been con- centrated in the Beirut area by the relfef organization. SLOOP CREW ARRESTED. NORFOLK, Va.. July 156—Eight men, the crew of the gasoline sloop Ella’ Flaherty, which went ashore about 200 yard# south of the Cape Henry coast guard station yesterday, a prominent Washington business | Were brought to Norfolk under ar- man has given him the opportunity | rest by federal prohibition and cus- to manage a local commercial house. It was sald that “Beb” had so many positiens te choss from that 1 almost bewjldered, and unless he has | eight men will be held, United ecided on one of .dun ;Jll‘-trlct Attorney Paul W. Kear sai of attempted smug- ) shine .u;h‘:gmh' the prohibition law. definitel within the last few days he is still keeping several business o~ganiza- toms officers. A small quantity of found aboard the Flaherty, ang t! tes liquor was {by the stationar: s{a meeting of the Baltimore strikers | i passing through a village, we | c | found ourselves surrounded by ‘sav- |ways, it | tha firemen, the main- | workers and the mem ig four” brotherhoods ng tenance of wa bers of the | were freely made last night follow at_the Richmond Armory. Notice has been served on the rail- | as sald, by the brotherhoods they would under no circum- stances undertake duties ordinarily performed by shopmen, and it was re- called that the reported attempt of | the Western Maryland railway, when | the shopmen on that line first went | out, to have their trainmen make | minor repairs had produced threats | of a sympathetic strike. i Ballot returns, said to be about equally divided for and against a| strike, are being received at the head- | quarters of the Baltimore and Ohio Brotherhood of Railway and Steam- ! ship Clerks, Freight Handlers and Ex- | press and Station Employes. Strike ballots were sent to the men on July 5, it was said by L. B. Snedden, presi- | dent. Would Affect 12,000. | The strike would affect about 12.- | 000 men on the Baltimore and Ghio | system if called, he sald, and about | 4,000 in and around Baltimore. H A threat to appiy for federal in- Junction in Maryland. so as to protect raiiroad workers against alleged in- timidation, was made yesterday by C.! W. Galloway, vice president In| charge of maintenance and operation | of the Baltimore and Ohlo railroad. | Mr. Galloway sald that several | workers from the Mount Clare shops | had told him of their Intention to | leave, because, they sald, their wives | and children were being “threatened | and Intimidated.” Despite reports of disorders, Galloway's statement sald, the s: tem a8 & whole shows some improve- ment. 37 Per Cemt Working. “We still have 37 per cent of avail- able forces in the Federated Shop Crafts working” he said. “There has been some Iimprovement noticed In the territory where we have federal injunctions.” Beveral hundred men were brought into the c'tg rellerd-y by the Balti- more and Ohlo, presumably for as- signment to the Riversfde shops, conditio: have been mo! than at Mount Clare. Advertisements king for work- ers have been changed by the Penn- sylvania raillroad to ask only for machinists and carmen, George M. Smith, division superintendant here, | said last night. “This reflects the situation here, he said. “Employment in all lines ex- | cept the two named is now normal, despite the shopmen’s strike.” REDUCTION IN OIL PRICE. TULSA, Okla., July 15.—The Prairle ©Oil and Gas Company today an- nounced & reduction of 25 cents in the price of midcontinental ofl. The ne: price is $1.75 for Oklahoma and Kan- sas oll ad $2 for north central Texas oil. —_— To keep small rugs lying smooth sew & 11 brass ring on each corner of the rug and slip the ring over a tack in the floor. HARDING THREAT FRIGHTENS BOSTON Fear Consequences if Roads and Mines Are Seized in Strike. TOPIC IN STORE AND SHOP All Branches of Business and In- dustry Involved, Is Belief in East. BY N, 0. MESSENGER. (Staff Correspondent of The Star.) BGSTON, July 15.—Busin finan- clal and conservative elements of this great community are highly agitated over published reports from Wash- ington that President Harding con- templates the possibility of takiag under government control the mines and raifways, In case of emergency. Disquietude was occasioned Thurse day by suggestions that Congres§ might take the initiative n this di. rection if the strikes were not soof settled. All day yesterday, in looking ints the political prospect here which brought the writer in contact wits men in political, business and financial circles, the superabsorbing topic of conversation was the strike situation and the attitude of the administration at Washington toward it. The sug- gestion that Congress might take ths first step and authorize the selzure and ‘operation of the mines caused grave alarm. The prevailing opinion as expressed was that the government should first exercise its ®overeignty and protect the mafls and Interstate commerce by whatever forceful means were found necessary. Capitulation to either side of the strike controversy was declared unthinkable as long as the govern- ment at Washington still lived. In some quarters the opinion was volced that more important, indeed, was the government's declaration and exertion of its soverelgnty than the speedy transmission of the mails. News Rapidly Spread. Early last evening came the report of the President’s attitude toward pos- sible seizure and government controi and operation. The news spread with amazing rapidity and soon was the gen- eral subject of discussion. The report reaching Boston declared President Harding considers that he has power as chief executive of the United States to operate coal mines in an emergency, it was sald today at the White House,” The report went on io say that while there was no statement as to whether the executive considers the present such an emergency, the ex- istence of power had been definitely de- termined in the minds of responsible officials, and it was added that the President was willing to take the risk of impeachment to serve the public elfare. That suggestion created a profound impression and seemingly served to ac centuate the thought that possibly the President was contemplating over the mines and roads. It i here that a number of telegra sent to President Harding, Secr Weeks and Senator Lodge vigorously deprecating any such possible action. It may be that the community has not obtained the correct impression of the President’s mind and intention and is unduly alarmed, but it might be in- teresting for Washington to know what this part of the country thinks about the case as It is understood a! this hour. What Strikers Want. The Boston Herald, commenting edi- torially, says this morning, in part, It President Harding persists in his purpose of taking over the railroads and the coal mines, and having the government run both—as he inti- mates that he will do unless a settle- ment is speedily reached—he will be giving the strikers exactly what they have been looking for. They want he government as an employer. The reasops for this necd no diagram. They have been for years trying to force the railroads into public owner- ship, and they would like to have the mines put under the same control— because it would mean their control “If the government can operate in safety railroads and coal mines, it can equally well insure their opera- tion under private control: in each case it will require the use of fed- eral troops and the display of the au- thority of law. If the President, i stead of surrendering to violence, w. only instruct his Attorney General to seek indictments of the union leaders, who are interfering with interstate commerce. he will be accomplish exactly the same result, and showing at the same time that a democracy may be stronger than organized labor. “If the President now surrenders, as he seems proposing to do, it will be the end of our democracy and the beginning of sovietism. He should in- stead, before it is too late, reflect on the example of Grover Cleveland, in similar circumstances, who has gone into history as one of our great Presi- dents. He kept the faith. He main- tained order. He moved the United States mails. Mr. Harding in this crisis should not surrender to the doers of violence by giving them ex- actly what they had hoped by vio- lence to accomplish.™ RESTAURANT IS STONED. Attacked at Harpers Ferry n; Strikebreakers Are Fed. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., July 15.—Six Baltimore and Ohio detectives, ar- rested last night at Brunswick, Md, for carrying Dpistols while off com- pany property, have been released for hearings later today. Strike sympathigers stoned a res- taurant at Harpers Ferry, where strikebreakers were being fed &t company expense. None was seriously hurt. _— TRACKMEN PRESSING. May Take Strike in Own Hands, if Grable Fails to Act. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 15.—Prediction that E. F. Grable, president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Railway Shop Workers, would 1ssue a strike order to the 40! 000 men of his unfon “at any hour was made today by William Parker, leader of the New York Central main- tenance of way men and president of the union's association of eastern chairmen. The New York Central men, he de- clared, are “up in arms” against Grable's action in holding off on the strike for which they had voted ‘overwhelmingly.” Pressure is being brought to bear upon Grable by chair- men in all parts of the country, who. in turn, are but relaying protests of the men, Parker szid. It Grable persisted in his refusal to order a strike the general chairmen undoubtedly would “take things into their own hands,” Parker declared. FOUR DIE IN RAIL SMASH. By the Associated Press, PARIS, July 15.—Four persons were killed and more than fifty Injured yosterday when a~ passenger train jumped the tracks as it was enter- ing the Gare du Nord smashed into the stone wall which lines the approaches to the station.