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2 * THE EVENING ' 8 TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1922. SEEKNEWCAVE MURDER" EVIDENCE URGES MORE LENIENCY FOR ERRING YOUNG MAN ‘Writer Says Youth Encouraged to Waywardness by False Accusations. Woman Battered Other to|™ge=iosmetor o ruy s con- Death, Third Tells Police as “Sickened” Witness. ASK WHERE WAS HUSBAND Los Angeles Probe Extended as Wife Is Taken From Train in Alleged Flight. ated Pross. By the As LOS ANGELES whe Iberta Meadows v tne nigut berure she was the vie- tim of what has become known locally the “stone age murder,” because 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. Peggy Caffee, upon whose t timony the Los Angeles county grand jury vesterday returned an indict- ment charging murder against Mrs. Clara Phillips, now held at Tucson, Ariz. declared that the pight before ed Mrs. Phillips and on a ride in Mrs. automobile to the lonely the voung widow's body ay evening, she bouts of Mrs. she Mrs. M Meadow spot where was found Wednes and Mrs to Mrs. Meadows' apartment and that Mrs. Meadows was not at home. Mrs. hillips is said by her husband 10 have told him, before her hurried departure on the trip to El Paso, Tex., Phillips made a secret visit p: that ended in_her being taken from the train at Tucson, that she killed Mrs. Meadows because of Jjealousy, which, he asserted, was unwarranted. Mrs. Meadows And, according to the story of Mrs. Accused. Caffee, who was present during the alleged slaying, Mrs. Phillips ac- cused Mrs. Meadows of having been intimate with her husband, and of | having accepted presents from the oil promoter. Phillips has_di he spent last Tuesday night. “l can- not answer important questions of that nature,” he said. Relatives and friends of the dead) woman, who was only twenty years old and had been a widow only a few hs, rallicd to her defense and that any aspersions on her | characater and reputation had basis only on “idle gossip."” The cor announced the inquest over Mrs. Meadows' body would be held Monday Phillips has been detained as a material witness and will be held as such, ac ing to the sheriff's office. | at least until his wife is brought | back to California. W. I Traeger. sheriff, is now in ‘Tucson, exy ting to bring Mrs. Phillips back with him. Phillips is! not under arrest, but deputy sheriffs | have been de constantly. riled to remain with | was permitted testified before to go had the In Chorus and Filia. Phillips, who is twenty-three Mrs years old, is said to have had a briet experience with a comedy motion picture company as “a bathing girl.” She has been employed as a chorus girl Mrs. Caffee said she was also a former chorus girl. Mrs. Caffee went to the scena of the slaying yesterday and showed officer act spots Where she the argument and ensuing ph; struggle between the two women took place ‘After Mrs. Phillips began striking | Mra. Meadows with the hammer.” said | Mrs. Caffee, “the girl was asking me | to help her and I went toward her. 1 was right front of the girl, and Mrs. Phillips came toward me. I den’t know whether she was meaning also Calif., July 15.—The | 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 home and of a young nephew. Past experience will prove that the hoy at | heart is not what the act he is| charged with now, procialms 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 i year under one manager. | Here he worked hard and faithfully, | always congenial and eflicient, and he was honest to the penny. He made many a majority of the customers. Had the firm for which he had been so faithful given him i chance to speak for himself, or had it properly in- cestigated certain accusations, which were made against him, he might not have been where he is today. Are not such services worthy of a hearing in one's own behalf? It is hard for a man, much less v boy in his teens, to live down the disgrace of belng dl charged without a hearing and un- truths put in circulation after his discharge. We can safely say, that nine-tenths of the young men, growing up in these times, until after they have passed thelr teens are on the fence, and are easi influenced one way or th other, according to their asso- ciations, environments. advantages and encouragements. It takes but little 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 it we had more uplifters in the world, and if more of our so-called Christian people were willing to give a word of encouragement, and if there was less of public condemnation _ and kicking a fellow after he is down. Statesmen may continue to fashion their elaborate schemes for the es- tablishment of universal peace, but ned to say where i, yntil men learn to love, live and let live, and not until men under- stand that the young need a kind | word and a friendly hand, will the dream of universal brotherhood and lasting peace be realized. H. R. THOMPSON DUDDING T0 HOLD JOHN D. TO PRONISE 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 who was reported to have left Fair- Fight. mont last Tuesday for Baltimore. g’ Photographic Resemblance. “Eight years ago John D. Rocke-| Martinsburg, W Va. police officials feller, sr., promised my society | thought they recognized a picture 1$100,000 if T would remind him of it at the expiration of this perioi of! I'm going to hold him to that| promise.” years. This dent E. Relief Society today, s the comment of Pres, Judding of ths I'risoner. upon recelving an answer to his letter to the Rocke- | or Foundation from the assistant ! Standard 0il Representatives to | By Cable to The friends, and won the respect cf | NON-PIRATE PACT URGED FOR RUSSIA U. S. May Be Asked to Enter Agreement to Protect In- terests of Nationals. EXPLAINS ABRUPT BREAK! Attend Meeting on Caucasns Fields. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER, r and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1022, THE HAGUE, July 15.—The mystery of the abrupt break in the conference on Russian affairs apparently has been solved. Despairing of the pos- sibility 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 i by which the nationals of one country will not pirate the Russian conces- slons belongmg to the nationals of another country, and under the cover of this pact it is expected the private oll interests of the world will en- | | sentatives of the principal oll inter- deavor to reach a limited agreement. There ests here next week, it is reported., It is expected that the { months the oil experiment is found to The soviets will permit the resump- tion of ofl exploitation in the Cau- to be a meeting of repre- representative of the Standard OIl | Company or its European allies will United States will be asked to adhere to the non-pirating pact. If after a few be successful, some new branch of Russian Industry will be opened up. Baltimore Clues Shift to An- other Missing at Fair- | OMAN THOUGHT l 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 Catons- ville Thursday, on notification by the Falrmont police that she was located at Akron, Ohio, last night, the Baltimore police turned thelr at- tention to other clues today. Another Fairmont woman, however, {s now involved In the case, the description of the slain woman closely fitting that of Helle Lennon, of the victim as that of a woman who visited them last Monday looking for a prohibition officer. In a general 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- to hit me, but she called out to me. 1 ant | derer of the woman, who was black- ‘Get out of my way’ All this girl secretary of the foundation. The iat-|jacked, her throat cut and shot to said was, ‘Lady, save me' I didn't|ter said that the foundation had | death, turned toward identification of Yeae say anything el That | changed its plans since Dudding saw |3 Ford automobile seen close to the v @ &he fell down 1 started |the oil kllng':mfldmnx"ow rgmu :1‘:" | scene of the crime late Tuesday night. down the hill, and when 1 got down | Eiven only to education and public g thera 1 looked back and I saw Mrs. | health. { ‘}‘n]l:‘":? ';!:’Prlnr'utl‘xv-te:: : Phillips hitting her then, and the | Out for $100.000. { e Fairmont, W. Va., iIn R e i t $100.000. b {communication with Baltimore city D e Biond earw mer hitting, and | “Ull get that $100,000 yet" de-iand county authorities, meanwhile L g ot one e ISy self, | clared Dudding today. “I am not |are running down every clue obtain- o G i ¥self.} going to let my business be side- | able there. e h when I got|trecked by some clerk who may mean | Only one tangible clue to the slayer e e e W e |well but s not interested in other |exists, on which Baltimore police are Mfl' a on Arme and she said |People’'s business” And he pro-| working. It is the description given Blaac on T and 1 took my | ceeded to dictate a letter to Edwlin | by a clerk in a hat store of a stockily B ir aud dte it VIR Embree, socretary of the founda- | bullt forelgner who bought there the L i tion, asking him to call the attention | cap found bloodstained u short dis- “Could Do It Again.” j of Mr. Rockefeller to this lasue. | tance from the scone of the crime. A s o 2 | In the letter he pointed out that ' score of clues run down by poli “Mrs. Phillips said, ‘Nobody can take ! ;" was in 1914, when he had a talk | wera found worthless. Hunv)lre?ls fj my husband away from me! and|with Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Green | persons have passed in single file ‘I can do that again’ And then she | rcgarding the matter. ~They told !through the morgue, seeking to Y e ihim, he recalled, that “they 'helped | identify the woman, but there was | calmed down and pretended 0 M| g clesa and that he might come hack | none who could say definitely who that she wasn't afrald of anything.|in eight or ten years. If successful,|she was. i But I was pretty afraid of her { they “intimated.” Dudding says. that | “She had ammer in the car. | there was littie doubt but help would | ASK D. C. POLICE AID. And her w lk gloves were alll iy would like to have this matter| full of blood and she took mine and put them on her arms And was blood all over her face. arms, dress, shoes and stockings. nd she drove Mrs. Meadows' car fack. After she got me in she took it and went as fast as ever she could down the hill and 'way down along the car line on the street there, and | kept on until she came to her home. She didn't bring me home. She let me off at Figueroa and Pico streets.” “What dld she say to you before she let you out—anything?”’ asked W C. Doran, chlef deputy district at torney. “Before,” “when 1 was down the hil answered Mrs. Caffee, up there and started she said—she was hol- lering to me—If you say anything I will kill you! That was when I was running down the hill, because I ot 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. Illinois Operators Accept Presi- dent’s Proposed Coal Arbitration. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 15.—The Coal Operators’ Association of the fifth and ninth districts of Illinois have ‘voted to accept President Harding's plan for arbitration of the . coal miners’ strike, at a meeting here, ac- cording to an announcement made by ‘W, K. Kavanaugh, president. President Kavanaugh has depart- ed with the scale committes of the association for Washington to attend the conference of bituminous coal operators called for tomorrow. —_———— REBELLED AT HUBBY’S KIN ‘Wife, Asking Divorce, Says She ‘Worked for “Vast Gathering.” Because her husband invited all|ceiver for New his relatives to thelr home and com- |has been al {pelled her to do the housework for the “vast gatherin Jones has filed suit in the District Supreme Court for & limitod divorce | from her husband, Willlam E. Jones, an employe of a grocery firm. Mrs.|the entire Jones also makes other charges of cruelty and says her husband de- serted her last month. She asks all- mony for herself and maintenance for the child. - Attorney Ra Neydecker appears for the wife, i | " Mrs. Viola N.|were listed as $10, called to the attention of Mr. Rocke- there | ¢ her. sr.” Dudding wrote, “and see if he will not recall the matter. I was | impressed that we would be sure of | {help if things turned out well with | . us. Now I get a letter from Mr. ! Stoughton, assistant secretary, saving | that the foundation had changed fts plans. I think that this promise—I looked upon it as a promise—should Dbe kept and I am sure it will be kept if the matter is put up to Mr. Rocke- feller. 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 promise. If you know what I have been through the eight yearss, the money would come, I am sure, by special delivery. Somebody has gnt to look into this matter, as 1 am not going to be turned down by a clerk. Dudding said today that he had re- quested the ald of Senator Davis Elkins and the entire West Virginia delegation in Congress to help in get- ting the matter of their constituent before Mr. Rockeleller, r. DENBY FOR SHIP SUBSIDY By the Assoclated Press. The Navy Department today made public a dispatch received by Acting Secrotary 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 sal am strongly for ship subsidy. lave 80 spoken publicly several times.” A press dispatch from Yokohama on July 10, the Navy Department an- nouncement eaid, quoted Secretary Denby in & speech as saying he hoped that the Shipping Board's request for o subsidy would be met “by some other form of grant.” RECEIVER FOR OIL COMPANY. BOSTON, July 16.—A temporary re- England Ofl of Bostan, pm by Federal Judge Mack. _ Liabilities of the corporation, which has large refineries in Fall River, g ey t or o g a 7,434,600, Gasper G. Bacon of this , was named temporary recelver, Sy | Believe Woman Involved in Local i Crime Possible Victim. George G. Henry, chtef inspector of e Baltimore police department, this morning asked tha 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 dealings with Italian residents of {Fnlrmonl. W. Va., and the authorities { there, while investigating the murder iof Dominic Cuzzocoli, In the woods jnear Benning and ' Bowen roads northeast in December, 1919, sug- gested that the murdered woman probably was Marie Puglise, who, it was suid, had accompanied Cuzsoc:!! 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 womap recelved from the Baltimore police this morn- ing. He said, however, that the swollen condition of the body ‘may have changed its eppearancc. Cuzgsocoli resided with his uncle, Joe Altomonte, 203 Cleveland avenue, Fairmont, where Marie Puglies was housekeeper. It was reported that Altomonte's nephew and the house- keeper ran away from Fairmont with $700 of the uncle's money and went to the North Carolina town. 1 Cuszzocoll and Marle came to this; city, and Altomonte and two frien came here and Induced them to return to Falrmont. They returned, but the man disappeared the next day and inothing was heard of him until his | body was found in the woods. He had | beén stabbed seventeen times in the back and chest. Altomonte and two other Italians | 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’ evidence against an Italian man in a white slave case in Baltimore. The man was convicted and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. " stective Morgan, on learning of the recent tragedy in Baltimore, s g' sted that the victim was Marle igiles, He thought she probably had been slain by members of a band of Itallans who probably were responsible for the murder of Cussocoll, but today he sald he tho:fihxt thé photograph re-. ceived from timore was not a Mke- ness of her, & thimb] of the ind the tain’ will slip | on_smoothly. sl KLUXEN BOY..FIFTEEN. ACQUITTED OF MURDER OF JANETTE LAWRENCE|RAIL PEACE ON ROCKS; Harold Price, for defense, at the Morrixtown (N. mociate counsel; Franeis Kluxen, 3d, defenda: J.) courthouse yesterday afternoon as Kluxen, just adjudged not guilty of the and Elmer King, chief counnel murder of Janette Lawrence (whosé body, brutally stabbed, was found last October), was thanking his counsel and receiving their congratulations. Rescue of 137 Armenian Orphans Described by Former D.C. Woman Trudged in Mud and Slept in Holes, Says 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 city of Urfa, Cilleta, a Turkish nationalist strong- hold, more than one hundred miles overiand, to the nearest Krench out- post, is told in a report which hi just been received from her at Neat East Rellef headquarters in New York. Mrs. Kalk, who is a descendant of Secretary Stanton of Lincoln's cabi- net, has been a rellef worker in tne 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 lite when the Jacob Jones was torpedoed. “Our caravan consisted of seventeen camels, seven wagons and half a doz- ‘n monkeys. Tl were loaded with tents, blankets, personal baggage, and the children, who ranged from nine to fifteen years,” she says in her re- “On the outskirts of Urfa the sh officials checked off each child, to see that the total did 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 beside one of the water holes upon which we depended for our drinking supply. Pass Scene of Mansacre. “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 andant's head was carried back to Urfa on a spear, and was there kicked about the streeis. That night we halted at Sarymahara, and had our first unpleasant experi- ence. The camel drivers absolutely refused to put up our ten pre ferring to push on. However, the cnilaren being situation by “Unluckii tired out, we met eeping in the open. the “Bob” Le Gendre Gets License To Wed Miss Helen Marie Lake “BOB” LE rack Georgetown GENDRE, University o ———————— e “Bol Le Gendre, twenty-four, na- tionally known athlete of Georgetown University, and Miss Helen Marle Lake, elghteen, of 1634 Newton street northwest, obtained a marriage II- cense In Cuinberland, Md., yesterday, according to Information recelved 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 li- censé, and Miss Lake had been en- gaged for more than a year and- had been acquainted for about two years. ‘While it was generally know: around the \lnhv.rlltly'r llél:“hm arry, evnnlulmy I'.nll :lo to the athlete ther offic! Were not expecting such a quick step. Wen Many Henors. o3 %4 he is called by thousands ol‘sh‘;:' Ifl‘l‘fll\‘firl, was Jfllhfl from Georgetown last mont! one of the t athletes that ever at- most brillian . i e here, iladelp! every intercollegiate the returned to Was! (e ey 3 after capturing the ington July 3, rather than make the long journey to his home In Lawistown, Me. 1t 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 haye gonme to the home of “her {munt, Mrs. Florence G. Mahan of East Pittsburgh, Pa., for a visit. They- left for that city yesterday, and stopped oft at Cumberland, where a license was procursd, Because her daughter was always in faver of a plain and simple wed- ding ceremony, Mrs. Lake, mother of Miss Lake, safd today, she expected that the couple would agree on such & marriage shortly after Le Gendre's graduati: Miss Lake was born in Washington and was educated at the Notre Dame Convent. She 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 ocou Gendre would engage in. ll::gtgm;: Ing offers with motion picture com. panies hava been made to him’and & prominent Washington business man has given him the opportunity ad jump at the western intereel-|to manage a local commercial house. D o meet at Chicago, his Jast| 1t was said that “Beb: had e0 many stic activity, positions to choss from that he is The athlste was a guest of thelalmost bewjldered. and unless he has Lakes here after his graduatien, and| definitel on one of them also during the Christmas and Easter* within few days, he is still holidays of university, as he keeping several business o~ganizs- prefevred to remain in Washington tious on the fence. it rained that night 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 dclegation, consisting of 150 men, was headed by a Zouave drill team of twent men with fatigue uniforms and rifles, who performed the spectacular feat at their conven- tion of scaling a twelve-foot wall In charge of the delegation were V. G. Sharver, district deputy grand 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. cial train and will leave Washington early tomorrow morning. —_— all the next day, and the treeless mountainside offered no chance of shelter. The children shivered with cold, and what wiih iwo feet of mud on the road we could not even_ en- joy the luxury of sitting down. For- tunately, we found a large empty cistern and crawled into it for a rest. The provision wagon had over- turned, dumping everything in the mud, =0 all we had to eat for the mid- day meal was half a loaf of bread apiece. Trudge in Mud Knee Deep. “Oft 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 Serudf, where we found a khan or native mud inn. We gave the chil dren a hot supper and dosed ir with guinine, then we fell asleep in the khan courtyard. surrounded by camels, donkeys, calves, chickens and During the night 1 was Psuccessively aroused by a camel, three donkeys, a calf and various dogs, who were nosing about for food | natives. | Eene *ha party off from Sunday until Thurs o-called “beehive” mud villages whi h are so piciuresque from a dis- tar-c and so unsavory when seen from 1 witain. Two Partles Made Up. “Next day we procured wagons and made up two parties, the one consist Jther compri g0 on with mo, the who were o sixty-seven children, | send w along later. We left at 3am, after a vast amount of yelling and cursing on the drivers' parts, and much groning and scolding on ! t of the unwilling camels. By | gaybreak we were Dassing man ‘illages and Arab camps, with i black tents of goats’ hair, while be- {hing s rose .he majestic Taur! mountains, with snowclad peaks. passing through a village, we seives surrounded by ‘sav- who commenced Once, | found ouri ! age-faced Kurds, | snatching food and _extra clothing | from the children. Fortunately, we | had several Turkish guards, and so | managed to escape without much loss. The guards se-mied o regret the fact | that they could not stir up a genuine { fight, as they had 100 rounds of am- | munition with them. 4 On reaching the half-destroyed bridge which spans the Euphrates between Kemalist and French terri- tory, we got a native to clamber out on the girders and shout across & | message to the effect that some Amer- fcans in charge of a party of Near East Rellef orphans wanted ferryage to the opposite bank. Up dashed a French motor boat with an offic Who 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 Dox cars. As a matter of faet. due to prowling animals and the presence Might long, pillowing my head on my suit case. Rowed Across River. “Early next morning we moved baggage and children to the river brink and croseed in the five large rowboats with which the French pro- Vided us, Arriving on the-other bank, ] and the Turkish officials checked and rechecked the children, who were then put into box cars on the train eppo. . o AnPRe reached our destination at 8 o'clock that night we were 80 weary that we could have gone to sleep standing up. Meanwhile the second party of children at Eski Serudj had come along _under charge of another Near East Rellef worker. ‘We had not lost a child, and with the exception of 8 few blisters and back- aches nobody was the worse for our ous trip” Loy lldren were moved from Urta as & matter of ecomomy in rellef administration and alsc because of the greater security of the French oa ebout Belrut. War conditions 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 15—Eight men, the crew of the gasoline eloop Ella Flaherty, which went ashore about 200 yard® south of the Cape Henry coast guard station yesterday, brought to Norfolk under a rest by federal prohibiticn and cus- toms officers. A small quantity of liquor was found aboard the Flaherty, and the eight men will be held, United States District Attorney Paul W. Kear said, I m & cua' of attempted smug- :fl:. and lating the prohibition law. | Egki Serudj proved to be one of the | ing of seventy children who would { tived out that it was demed best lo | of thievish Kurds, I lay awake all! DEFIANT ROADS PUSH PLANS TO OPEN SHOPS (Continued from First Page.) the Rallrcad 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. Several trains on the Seaboard Alr Line were added to the growing list of annulment: Dock operators at Cleveland pre- dicted a tie-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 steamers. Rallroads have begun to withdraw their solicitors from the peach and melon districts of Georgla, 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 Trouble. 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 rails ara belleved to have caused the wreck. C. J. Stoner, a fireman, was killed and five trainmen were Injured when two frelghts on the St. Louis-San Francisco system crashed headon at & bridge over Center Creek. near Jol- 1in, Mo. Confused orders, rail officials declared, were responsible. 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 rallroad shop crafts strike,” is given by the board of di- rectors of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, zccording 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. | Barnes' letter also said that the cham- ber calls upon business organizations of the country to take such leadership as ! will crystalize public sentiment in up- | holding the President in the exercise of his authority for the maintenance of uninterrupted railway transportation, The board of directors, the letter declared, “commends the statement ‘n! President Harding making cleur ithe issues Involved in the railroad shop crafts strike. We believe in the peaceful settlement of controversies and due respect for agencies estabh- ;liched by law or mutual agreement 1 for securing just and impartial de: cistons.” | “We commend the President,” the letter continued. “for his determina- tion to maintkin the supremacy of ithe law, and we urge the administra- tion to use all the power of the |aRencies of the government to that end. “This strike of a section of raflroad {employes i= against a decision of the | Bovernment's own agency. H “That agency is continuouely in se. 1 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 organ- | 1zations of the country to take such eadership as shall crystalize publi i sentiment in upholding the President {in 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 work without fntimidation.” i | { BALTIMORE FEARS SPREAD. { | Further Walkouts Threaten, But Shop Situation Much Easier. [ Special Dispatch to The Star. | BALTIMORE. July 15.—Predictions |that the striking railway shopmen would be joined within a few davs {by the stationary’ firemen, the main- |tenance of way workers and the mem- bers of the “big four” brotherhoods a meeting of the Baltimore strikers at the Richmond Arm CL Notice has heen served on the rail { ways, it was sald, by the brotherhoods Ithat they would under no circum stances undertake duties ordinarily performed by shopmen, and it was re- 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. 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 Ohio system if called, he said, and about 4,000 in and around Baltimore. A threat to apply for federal in- junction in Maryland. so as to protect raliroad workers against alleged in- W. Galloway, vice president In of the Baltimore and Ohlo railroad. Mr. Galloway said that several workers from the Mount Clare shops had told him of their intention to leave, because, they said, their wives d children were being “threatened and Intimidated. Despite reports of disorders, Mr. Galloway's statement sald, the s: tem 'u 2 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 sald. “There has been some improvement noticed In the territory where we have federal injunctions.” Several hundred men were brought into the city yesterday by the Balti- more and Ohlo, presumably for as- signment to the Riversfde shops, where conditions have been more critical than at Mouat Clare. Advertisements asking for work- ers have been changed by the Penn- sylvania rallroad to ask only for meachinists 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 a reduction of 25 cents in the price of midcontinental oil. The new price is $1.76 for Oklahoma and Kan- sas oll ad $2 for north 'Central Texas oil. e To keep small rugs lying smooth sew & small brass ring on each corner of the rug and slip the ring over a tack in the floor. | were freely made last night following | called that the reported attempt of | timidation, was made yesterday by C.! charge of maintenance and operation | 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.—Business, finai- clial and conservative elements of this great community are highly agitated over published reports from Wash- ington that President Harding cen- templates the possibility of takiang under government control the mines and raifvays, in case of emergency. Disquietude was occasloned Thurs day by suggestions that Congres§ might take the initiative in this di. rection if the strikes were not soof settled. All day yesterday, in looking intd the political prospect here which brought the writer in contact withs men In political, business and financlal 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 the first step and authorize the seizure 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 selzure and government control and operation. The news spread with amazing rapidity and soon was the gen- eral subject of discussion. Tte 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 wus sald today at the White House" The report went on to say that while there was no statement as to whether the executive considers i 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 thet the President was willing to take the risk of impeachment to serve the public | weltare. That suggestion created a profound | impression and seemingly served to ac- fcentuate the thought that possibly the President was contemplating taking over the mines and roads. It is known here that a number of telegrams were sent to President Harding, Secretary Weeks and Senator Lodge vigorously | deprecating any such possible action | ““ft 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 at this hour. What Strikers Want. | The Boston Herald, commenting ed!- | torially, says this morning. in part, {“If 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- iment is speedily reached—he will be giving the strikers exactly what they {have been looking for. They want ithe government as an_employer. The reasons for this need 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 cosl mines, it can equaily 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, in- stead of surrendering to violence, will only in uct his Attorney General to seek indictments of the union Jeaders, | who are interfering with interstate | comme he will be accompiishing xactly the same result, and showing t the same time that & demoecracy 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 b ing 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- idents. 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- ctly what they had hoped by vio- lence to accomplish.” RESTAURANT IS STONED. | Attacked at Harpers Ferry as ’ Strikebreakers Are Fed. | Specinl Dispatch to The Star, WINCHESTER, Va., Baltimore and Ohlo detectives, rested last night at Brunswick, Md, for carrying pistols while off com- pany property. have been released for 15. July hearings later today. | Strike sympathigers stoned a res- {taurant at Harpers Ferry, where strikebreakers were being fed at company expense. None was seriously | hurt. i e 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 issue a strike order to the 40 000 men of his union t any hour” was made today by William Parker, leader of the New York Central main- tenance of y 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 {n holding off on the !strike for which they had voted “‘overwhelmingl. 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 said. If Grable persicted 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 Assoclated Press, PARIS, July 15.—Four persons were killed and more than fifty injured yesterday when a- passenger train jumped the tracks as it was enter- ing the Gare du Nord &:‘ smashed into the stone wall whi lines the approaches to the statioy.