Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. g 'Y 4 ; Member of the Associated Press Fair and continued warm tonight; z . S 3 . 4 The Associsted Press is exclusively entitied to 90, at 2 p.m. today; lowest, 71, at 5:30 . b . All rights of publication of speecial a.m. today. Full Teport on page 1. ’ b 2 . P Gispatches hereiz are alse reserved. . 1 / Saturday’s Net Circulation, Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 19 : WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ‘Sunday's Net Circulation, 3098 No. 28,368, Enrohas sseont-cas mauer WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1922 _TWENTY-SIX PAGES. o TWO CENTS. SHERIFF AND 8 STRIKERS DEAD, MANY ARE WOUNDED, IN BATTL OF 400 AT WEST VIRGINIA MINE Tipple, Dym Burns to Ground; Attackers Pouring in Deadly Volleys. DEFENDERS, IN DARING CHARGE UNDER FIRE, Sniping Still Continues While Miners Are Rescuing Wounded Comrades and Police Are Rushed to Scene. By the Ascociated Pres<. WE ~—Sheriff H. 1. Duvall and cight men are known to have been killed and a large number wounded in a fight at the Clifton mine | of the Richland Coal Company, ten miles from Welisburg, near the Pennsylvania state line, today. burg and the wounded taken to \Wheeling hospitals. who was withthis father at the mine when the T. H. Duvall, fight took place, acompanied th here. PREPARE FOR IMMINENT ATTACK. “There had been rumors fo! be attacked, because it had been “and last night we heard the a LSBURG, W. Va., July UNION MAY QUTLAW 25000 TRACKMEN WHO JOINED STRIKE OPERATORS' REPLY | caor v prsient tses EXPECTED TONIGHT| “ovedien o st Threaten to Quit. Situation Here Rests Pend- ing Probable Acceptance of President’s Proposals. ted During Fight, SPREAD OF WALKOUT _ LOOMS ‘AS MANY VOTE FORCE RETREAT Clerks on 60 Roads Cast Ballots. Big Four in Kansas Seek Sanction to Stop Work. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 17.—Approximately 25,000 maintenance of way men have struck without permission from Presi- dent Grable, J. C. Smock, vice president of the union, estimated today. Mr. Smock said the strikers probably will be outlawed by their national offi- cers. Peace negotiations in the, railway strike temporarily were at a standstill today. Rail heads and strike leaders | expected today's developments to in- dicate more clearly the ultimate out- come, however, with statements and circumstances ariously pointing toward a spread or settlement. Much importance was attached to-the number of shopmen returning to work itoday, as this date marked the time limit for retaining seniority and other rights. Hopes for a settlement at an early date appeared to be based chiefly upon the attitude of E. F. Grable, president of the Maintenance of Way Employes’ Union, who is expected at Chicago to- day from Washington, where he held a conference with Fresident Harding. Mr. Grable said he would confer with mem- bers of the United States Railroad Labor | Board here to get support to prevent {0GLE AT WHITE HOUSE i iHoover Also at Conference With | Chief Executive—United Mine | Workers’ Committee in Session. 1 By the Associated I'ress. BULLETIN. Intimation was given in well informed governmental circles thin afternoon that the administration was preparing to take drastie me- tion within the next forty-eight hours in the coal strike xituntion. 'he P'resident waws represented as being of the opinion that Inasmuch as the miners’ representatives had refused government 'Bitration and the bituminous operators were undecided on ngeeptance of wuch a proposal that the interest of the public demanded Immediate re- opening of the mines. v 17 (by Telephone to Pittsburgh). The dead were brought to Wells | e body of his father to their home; With the operators of both bituminous and anthracite mines in continuous ses- sion since early last night, the coal strike situation today rested as it had te Saturday atternoon, when the r some time that the mine was to operating non-union,” said Duvall, ttack was to be made soon. The | i STRIKE UNCERTAIN { ELECTION ELEMENT Textile Workers May Have KNICKERBOCKER DEBRIS YIELDS TEN DIAMONDS Large Turquoise in Second Ring Recovered By Wreckers Among Crumbled i i | Germany has been MORATORIUM HELD - VITAL TO GERMANY BY INVESTIGATORS Reparations Body to Be Told Two-Year Halt in Cash Indemnities Needed. THINK BERLIN SINCERE IN CUTTING EXPENSES Frenchman Will Sign Report, But * Holds Dissenting Opinion, Rumors Declare. By the Associated Press. ™ PARIS, July 17.—The members of the allied committee on guarantees returned to Paris today from a month’s inquiry in Berlin with the majority of its mem- bers convinced that a moratorium of two vears or more on cash indemnity payments is the only solution of the present financial crisis in Germany. The regort of the committee to the reparations commission probably will be made Thursday or Friday. While it will not contain, it appears, a definite recommendation for a moratorium, the members of the committee are expected to inform their respective delegations that a long breathing spell must be accorded Germany. It was learned from a reliable source that the French member of the com- mittee is the only one who does not favor a moratorium. Despite this, he is expected to sign the report of the committee, which will be strictly tech- nical in character. The committee’s inquiry has led a majority of the members to believe thav making an_honest effort to carry out the budgeiary re- form and other instructions laid ‘down by the reparations commissiou, but that the country is suffering from the mis- sheriff had a detail of men at the mine, but he gathered up a num- Effect on Results in Concrele and Cinders. President was advised that the United | carriers from requiring maintenance of N takes made before these reforms were her of others e in Wells 3 o HEE y cers’ work. instituted. i "Of "’i_ll""" here in W el"»b“‘;f{ and we went out to the mine last yiine Workers had voted to refect the | ¥ ":“l:;’ 2 ”"”":“ ;“‘"" Rhode Island. The reparations commission was night. he report was tha big crowd o v ir way |government proposal for “rbitration. In- DDCIEE LG LS * G < £ . only notified today that Germany ha mg I s that a big ¢ d _f men were on their way i e e e e e h( .ll"lm ;}-u:u :1! the l\nld::"l'l pins, buttons and sall trinkets |Géposited 32,000.000 gold marks in irom over the state iine in Pennsylvania, and after- we reached |the operators might seize the opportuni- ke e e it TataTamen of | bo; er ‘e::(" rflf; ¥ are : are being dug up frequently. designated banks to meet her July 15 5 s % Py line th 1 finitely in 1 eing written. 3 morning reparations payment. the mine the sheriff placed guards around the property. tyatoiing themsslvesiupidedaitely GOOD SHOWING BY G. 0. P. The first attempt at clearing out | Tep s P |tavor of the government arbitration | R. A. Henning, general chairman of | workmen engaged in clearing out ths aeh i R e e alaan i Lonz Delay Blam | plan, although up to a late hour this | the Federated Shop Crafts of . | the th ; Ay e : o BATTLE STARTS AT DAYBREAK. . {moriing o vote” had been taken and | L (L at “onty the refusa of | B L e R et batunt oot icaniog e s “Nothina . s e et e . { Former Gov. Beekman Expected to| = %" L uary 28. when the roof crashed in, |Germany because of her long deiay Nothing happened until about daybreak, when firing began [ofuthesaelibieationy :{J,'f#f;;fi,"finle"'?r" m:ds 4o };meevmk "m“:':i i P mixed in with the crumpled con- was begun last Thureday, and. [in bringing about the financial re- . 3 3 3 3 g mEG gommittce, which met at the Washington | striking shop crafts workers with | Give Senator Gerfy crete, cinders and splinters. The | according to J. F. Collins, in charge | forms which would probably have from the top of the hill above the mine opening. We replied to ',m Wt the bnerators to the Iresidents | their full seniority rights was pre- | first ring found was a cluster of prevented the fall of the mark. The of the work, building will the interior of the investigators, however, are reported not be cleared for Nentingsassetiiomenciasiar asyie 10 be convinced that the present roads of the northwest are concerned. plan wouid be at the White House be- Warm Fight: the fire, and the sheriff ordered the men to move up tié hill. Bhes iR e ricnt ten diamonds, in good condition 92 pes & v 4 Rl BY N. 0. NESSENGER. and valued by the police at $150. | nother two or three Weeks. Ac. |Zovernment of Germany has been do- responded. firing as they went. The's acl .| Alfred M. Ogle, president of tne|Possible extension of the strike was! 2 2 { N it could to comply with the P . B e : 9 heriff reached the top before National Coal Association, chlef | forecast in the statement of William | giaw Correspondent of The Stai The second. a large turquoise. was tivity at present is centered on the | |{nS{ tetions of the reparations come. he was killed. | saw him a few minutes before, and he was hurry. | spokesman for the operators' group. | Prl'k?";-a"‘"gn‘;f‘::‘: ffi::‘l'o“:l“;;‘“."el"i PROVIDENCE, R. L, July 17.—One o(i marred only by a gash down the broken up concrete which was | mission. but had found it impossible ; 3 B ¢ 4 land Secretary of Commerce Huover {of railway . cal officials | center. Both were found in the revent the present situation ~ ing aftera small part of the mob. 1 suppose he was killed shortly | were closetcd with the Erexident for |in_eastern centers were having jn- | the doubtful states in the next sena-| FERICE PR T pacs ofihe mopt. §2 wecilaniob thie R because of the policy pursued f hat, bec 17 { his t 2 1almost un hour today. Neither woyld | creasing difficulty in _holding the | torial election will be Rhode Island, center section of the.theater | pgjcony —large concrete slabs |Ly Germany up to a year #go. after that, because 1 found his body there when I came up. > |inake any comment on thelr discls- | muintenance of way men at their|witn the republicins now considered| @nd directly under the edge of the aneian i The commitiee concluded an agree- sion, although Ogle accompanied See- {retary Meflon and William B. Field, non-union operator of Pittsburgh, Tipple Blown Up, “The mob seemed to be armed with . He said 20 per cent of the 0 men in the metropolitan dis- ct already were on strike. balcony. THe jewelry was turned over to Policeman F. B. Owens, on Germany under which of capital will be ab- i is still going on along the road lcad- to the mines. ment with th {to have a fair show of gaining the vy el {seat held by Senator Gerry, demo-| steel rods, will not be removed until the debris on the floor of the : k 2o Rohutely stopped, but the a1l kinds of guns, and had abundant | Charles Nichais. Emeray Haoia iof i to the Treasury Department atter | TA m svage io X, H. Fitzgerald,|crat The uncertainties of the future| duty while the excavating ls un theater has been taken out. The |the plan are being withheld pending ammunition, because they kept shoot-| & man named Mozingo, all seriously | 164¥ing the While House, m”“n"g‘:’fi"}‘,' o Clerks, Freight Handlers, | inciude the effect of the textile strike | Way, who handed them in.to Do~ | twisted and torn steel girders, pow | (he outcome of tie moratoriur quest The members are also said to be that the German budget ing, even after we had broken their jnlured. have been brought to Wells-{ line and they were running over the| At 10 am. {and the swing of the vote of some| lice headquagters. lcy | Univh,. waid’ 8 strike vote of 5,000 | r 175,000 women who WIN take part in e Washington Hotel the ot erks on the Chicago and Northwest- rusted from long exposure, still committee of the United Mine Work: remain in virtually the same po- an ambulance loaded Aside from the two rings, other convinced “Some of them evidently ot In be-1to ‘Lring 'in the wounded and ine! Prexident further outlining the gov-|ing for authority to strike. A can.| The contesting candidates in = unearthed today by the workmen. | ers. The orchestra pit s a mass |granted Germany. hind us. because they exploded aioajec ot (he dend. noewt €| ernment arbitration plan and to re- | Vass of the strike vote of the same |vember will be R. Livingston Beek= | These Included several pairs of | of iron and concrete. The Colum- The committee is expected tfo re- Sikcasof danimitaiundes U prcs — [Ceive the report of the commitiec|organization on the Chicago and|man. republican, and Semator Gerry.| eyeginsses. # gold knife and chain | bia road wall of the theater is |POTt e caught fire and “Was burned ‘10 the satterini from kunshor woneie diic. | the Arbitration ban (o the President|per cent of the workers favoring i | demoTaL W ile e T raner, | Allached.. an Army officer's: hat | supported from the outside, {"and of little value. aithough the 5"";\’*:“:;;:('1!':"”“;' L:l;vvllv'gmk‘n&“-lx N({!:.-a into the office of Dr. Quinn here | Saturday afternoon. | walkout. according to representa-|not be ma *| shield and two woman's purses, After the interior of the house |French are reported to be in favor were busy mob. “I don’t know how many of the men who attacked us were killed. were at least eizht. for | am sure I trying to =aw that many bodies. There may be others out in the woods through | which they ran when we went after them up the hill. I know a of | Otto Leullen, deputies and state po- | information that the capacity ofunion | them were wounded. but of course!|ice early today broke up a march |imines in the central competitive fleld it will take some time to get the | of men who were on their way to the | which would go back to work a exact number, as fhe lecs seriouslyi Lincoln Hill mine, near here. Nine |plan were agreed upon for arbitration wounded were helped away by their | arrests were made. The mine has|yould approximate 76,000,000 tons. friends i been operating with non-union men At the Labor Department the hope 400 in Attacking Mob. “There must have been 300 or 400 in | the mob, while riff Duvall had not more than about twenty men with him. The tipple and the village of Clifton- | ville are in 2 hollow"and the mine open- ! ing is on the hillside not far from the top. The mob gathered in the brush at fhe top, and opened fire on the tipple. As soon as the shooting began we started up the hill after them, and from then until they had all disappeared everybody was shooting his best. “So far as 1 kinow only one of our men was killed. Irwin Mozingo, a spe- | cial deputy, who had joined' father last night when we were on the way to the mine, was wounded. He was shot in the face and pretty badly hurt. “We succeeded in capturing some of the men in the party, nine, I believe, and we brought them here under guard. 1 don't know who they are vet. None :rd(he dead slranzer% has been identi- Police Aid Rushed. The news was late in reaching ‘Wellsburg, but as soon as the extent of the fight became known a call was sent to Gov. Morgan and Col. Jack- son Arnold, commanding the state police, for help. Capt. White, com- manding Company A of the state police, was orderéd to move his men from Haywood, W. Va., to Wellsburg without delay, but reported that dis- continuance of a Baltimore and Ohio train between Fairmont and Wheeling was delaying prompt movement of the men. Sergt. Ruth, in command of a detachment of state police at Moundsville, also was ordered to get| to Wellsburg as quickly as possible, and within an hour was on the way with his force. Sherift Put iIn Charge. Sherift Clouse of Wheeling was In- structed by Gov. Morgan to take charge of the situation at Wellsburg, and arrived here before noon. The town was thrown into a fer- ment of excitement, but no imme- diate trouble was anticipated by the authorities, although it is the center of an important mining region. Some of the mines in this vicinity have operated with forces more or less depleted since the strike was called last Avril, and the Clifton mine wag one of them. Mines dver the line in Pennsylvania. from which the at- tacking party is believed by author- ities to have come, have been closed. FIRING STILL CONTINUES. % Ambulances on Way to Get ‘Wounded Are Turned Back. STEUBENVILLE, Ohfo, July 17— Automobiles carrying newspdpermen and ambulances proceeding _from Wellsburg and Follansbee, Richland here, - Firing break up that; There | . Va., to | union mines refuse to come int rath mines turned back :yltom and accept the ot the this momning, - “arbitration tri {this morning and asked that their| Sections of the operators’ group wounds be dressed. [ach had been | were said to generally favor accept ishot in the arm and one, in addition, | ance of the governinent broposal, had been hit in the leg. hile it was understood that severai {not give their names, nor did they i Ohio operators and some from Penn- jexplain how they came by their in-|sylvania were against acceptance. ! juries. Secretary Davis would not comment ’ jon the coal situation today, although . suly 17.—Sheriff | the Secretary was understood to have WASHINGTON, Pa i | since the coal strike was called. was also held out that the miners in et | the central compstitive field might The War Department had received | recede somewhat from their stand in no report beyond press dispatches to- | favor of a_semi-national wage: con- day on the attack on the Standard |ference, and meet the miners in a few mine of the Richland Coal Company, | district 'conferences to form a basis Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) | for a larger meeting. DOVE OF PEACE HOVERS OVER STRIKE SITUATION Only Coal Obstacle Is Division of Operators. 1 i tives of the union. Ask for Strike Sanction. Topeka, Kan., unions of the Big Four brotherhoods and the Switch- men’s Union petitioned their efficers for permission to go on strike July {20, In St. Louis fifty stationary firemen jand oilers, employed by the Terminal | Railroad Association, voted to strike today. Clerks and station emploves on more than sixty of the 201 class 1 roads have taken strike votes, ac- cording to information received here. At Milwaukee failure to receive a strike order from President Timothy Healy of the International Station- ary Firemen and Oilers Union was taken as a sign of nearby peace. Reports _of cancellation of trains, { because of shortage. of coal or equip- ment, and of violence, continued to come in. Gov. Kendall of Towa issued a warning to mine and railroad strikers and sympathizers in that state not to interfere with the activities of railroads, following a reported moles- tation of strikebreakers. A similar report from Hoisington, Kan., to Gov. Allen caused him to send Capt. Wint Smith there to Investigate and re- i Bar to Rail Settlement Is Cutting of - Seniority and Other Rights. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Sparring for position and trying to get the best bargain they can, the various parties to the railroad and coal strikes are convinced that they must make peace soon or run however, and when 50 or 60 per cent of the total tonnage of coal is rep- resented by the operators who do ac- cept the arbitration the strike will come to an immediate end. As for the rall strike, confidence that it will be settled rests largely upon the fact that peace negotiations port whether troops were necessary. Switch Thrown Three Times. At Nevada, Mo., it was reported | that a switch on the main line of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail- road had been thrown three times, but ‘that it was discovered each time by employes before an accident re- sulted. A guard at Brosley, Mo., shot and slightly wounded a non-strike sym- counter to drastic action by the fed- eral govermment. The general opinion here is that the coal strike will be settled, along with the railroad strike, before m; days have elapsed. No such impres- sion of hopeless deadlock as usuaily forecasts a long strike can be tained by talking with any of ths principals or their spokesmen. The nearness of an agreement in the rail strike is such that the President has hesitatéd to use federal troops leul the situation may be aggravated and | tlement reached. The President has peace prevented. The coal miners|ROt heretofore been as fully appre- } are aching to modify their refusal ofCiative of the dangers of permitting arbitration, and the government has |certain railroad executives to ignore been trying ever since Saturday to|the decisions. of -the United States prevail upon the coal’ operators to|Raflroad Labor Board: He s being take the necessary action which will [Urged to take some step' which. will make arbitration possible. - . assure the rallway employes that the Would Lure Non-Union Men. government does not have ore stand- The single obstacle in the coal con- |33 OF emplovers and quite another, troversy has been the division among | L, SmPIoYes. PIECY the operators. The miners, \before| L0° Tallroads have resorted ' to accepting arbitration, want to be con- | SO 8ction and other dilatory ‘moves vinced that the decision will apply to| VDich have had the -eftsct of pre. all coal operators, or at least a sub- | YONt!N& the Labor Board from: exer stantial majority such as will fix a|C'8iNg Jurisdiction over certain phases scale for the “industry. Because as- |3t WOrking rules and labor standards. surances to this effect have been lack- | railwhy - cmplages hc many of the ing the coal miners hesitate. They |confidence in the Labor Board. o are eager to have the ‘arbitration cov-| M bor r. Harding is aware that ‘irre- er non-union as well az union mines, | SPECHYS OF the details o e 50 that when the award is made the | thing must be by the eecutive to restore the the workmen in the ;ll:lofl({n of Mhr o managers, Question of mutual ce . with mistrust over abstract g er than' crete g ces . ction of the is tying. on andthre on Friday last came within a: of success. At that time only a dis- pute as to whether the men who went out would forfeit their rights of seniority of service was holding back a settlement. The western -railroads are ready to grant this point, but eastern executives are refusing. It is difficult to imagine, however, that the eastern roads will insist on a course which will prolong the present strike and add to its proportions. Belleve President Should Aet. Presidential action in the rail strike is bound to be a corollary of any set- increase i strength of the miners wture bargaining, Many operators who run non Z n _the union for fi of the e gedi . pathizer durlng an argument about the strike. A special agent of the St. Louis and Francisco railroad was shot and killed accidentally during a friendly scufMe with another agent at Harvard, Ark. STRIKE UP TO BOADS. Forcing of Other Work Upon Men Only Cause, Says Grable. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich., July 17.—Members of the maintenance of way union who e in an unauthorized strike will not be expelled from the union “for ' the moment,” .buf brotherhood organizers will be sent to interview the strikers and attempt to persuade them to Temain at work pending final decision as tb-a national strike, E. F. Grable, president ' of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Rallway Shop La- borers, said here this morni ng. e call for the 400,000 mem- No strike oy em. of the bro in pros- bor: hefore de"—""" and a walkout will not be ordered then if the rail- desist from their reported ef- forts to lndn:e mm?u.oé:r‘t m-a;:n L0 rxers, Mr. Grable. said. oo .. 'Will-Confer-With Board., - - le-sent out B call for a ‘.I.’umurmy before leaving for Chicago, where he hopes to confe: the Raliroad Labor Board fforts toward t worl leged practice of the of assigning’the work- of ers to: shop m:fin‘ belonging “orgmnization. . 2 ‘were insisting on | i | iSenate for the it is accepted that they will be nomi- nated on the respective tickets with- out opposition. Mr. Beekman was governor of the state for six years. Mr. Gerry was in the United States six-year period, so that both have a record before the people by which their qualifications can be appraised. Kntrunce Through Soclety. 1t seems that in this state in re- cent years entry into the United States Senate is through a soclety portal—Newport, which opens to men of great wealth. Neither of these gentlemen is a native son of Rhode lsland, but both came from New York. One of the complaints agalnst Senator Gerry in his own party is that he has “Imported” New York henchmen to ald him, instead of relying upon local talent. Another uncertainty of the future is the strength of the independent vote, which is steadily iIncreasing. This Wes shown in the ‘election of a democratic mayor of - Providence When Harding carried the state by a landslide. Rhode lsland is regarded as normally a republican state. There are no indications of the ex- istence here to any extent of the spirit of revolt in. the republican party which was so notable in Indi- ana; Towa and Pennsylvania. No Individual G. O. P. Leader. At present, Rhode Island republi- cans are unbossed by an individual. In the lifetime of the late Charles R. Braden the state had a boss of the type of Penrose, but as in Pennsyl- vania the dead lion left no successor. { Now there is a coterie of small would- be bosses, none with a considerable following that could be delivered. The person of Patrick Henry Quinn, who keeps the party well in hand. What s sgriously concerming the people of the state at this moment— that is, theé thinking, sympathetic t which has a thought above :Ilfe“;:l:ullnl and gratifications of the moment—is the great strike amcng the textile workers. <What effect it will have upon politics is problemati- cal. The politiclans are thinking about electing a United States senator of the democratic or republican politi- cal faith; the earnest, public-spirited souls are wondering how the indus frial sore that is eating into a large section of the population can be cured. Blame on Employers. This is the twenty-second week of a strike among the textile workers of the stite. It was a strike not for higher wages but against a reduction of wages,-following sharply upon & previous reduction of a 20 per cent, which had been acceptéd by the work- ers without a, murmur. nthhi -::d by neutral observers thal e :;!rp.loyzn were largely to blame for the crisis which is now on.' It s charged that they acted in a ruthless manner; that they did not call in.the Jeaders of the employes and endeayor to arrive at an understanding, it that they abruptly announced a cut in wages overnight and stood pat on t. hen . efforts were made to submit t.h«vnl ac-:om- to arbitration the em- ployers refused. They felt that they efi‘-!: ‘wear the strikers out in courle of time, it is hered to that alleged,, and have ad- course. It is partially ‘some 20 per cent having ‘month. such & _Worth democrats have a strong leader in the | one containing 58 cents and a car token and the other 51 cents. Hair- TRACK EXTENSION - PERMIT DUE SOON ‘When the Capital Traction Company complies With certain legal require- ments. it will be given permission by the War Department to extend its line from M street across the new George- town bridge and construct a loop on the U. S. reservation at Rosslyn, Va. That action will be taken by Secre- tary Weeks in accordance with the recommendations of Gen. Beach, chief of engineers ofj the Army, and of the District Comm#8sioners, ‘a¢ well on an opinion rendered today by Gen. J. A Hull, judge advocate general of the Army. Because the act of May 18, 1916. authorizing the construction of the Georgetown bridge specified that the Washington and Old Dominion rail- way be permitted to lay a double track across the bridge, and t company has since relinquished that privilege, the chief law officer of the War Department. was asked if the Secretary of War could legally trans- fer tbat privilege to the Capital Traction Company. * Judge Advocate General Hull has replied in the affirmative, on the gen- eral ground that Congress intended primarily that tracks should be laid on the bridge to aid public traffic. The right to use the bridge in that way is not taken away, the judge advocate general says, by e actio of the Washingtond and Old Do- minion Company in declining to con- struct the track. He sugests that the chief of engineers obtain a formal | Felease of that company’s privileges {in the matter and that the applic: tion of the Capital Traction Company be granted on “such conditions as the Secrétary of War may deem- just and uitable.” %% his report on the subject Gen. Beach said that the extension,of the Capital -Traction Company's lines across the bridge, as proposed, “is regarded as offering the best possib! ution of the street railway prob- tem at the brige, as it will relieve congestion at the District of Colum- bla approach’ by eliminating the ‘Washington and Old Dominion trains from the streets.” - MODERN PICKPOCKETS INVEST SMALL COINS, EXPECTING BIG RETURNS ~By the Associated Press. 2 NEW YORK, July 17.—The mod- ern ‘pickpocket in New York is | 1 ge in the hope of getting shanee o, e Sope, 20 ing to that fountain-head of in- formation, the police, is the way P iving selected & potential vic se! £ tim, the pickg et n drops a _ in fron him. Then he cails the Strange attention to it, solicl- tously .l:qllfln‘ it perhaps he did not drop than I (i sizamier vackons - s s AL S8 sidons {member of Congress and iday on the charge of using the mails has been cleared out the walls will be razed. | TWO POLIGEMEN HELD FOR ASSAULT { Two policemen, Privates Ernest C. Spaulding and Charles E. Bremmer- man, were indicted by the grand jury | today on the charge of assault with a dangerous weapon as a result of the | arrest of Louis W. Moore, a young| Canadian student, two months ago. It is allsged that Moore was taken from a Georgia avenue street car on the night of May 28 and severe beaten by the officers because he had | rebuked Spaulding for not giving his seat to a lady. 1 Moore was acquitted in Police Court | a few weeks ago of charges of .-.s-" sault and disorderly conduct. | According to the information pre- | sented to the grand jury, Moore and | 2 young woman companion were rid- | ing home on the car and were stand- ing in front of a seat occupied by | Policeman Spaulding. After another passenger had given the girl a sest. Moore states he told the policeman. “if you were a gentleman you would give the lady a seat.” ! Later further words passed between | Moore and the officer, after which, | Moore claims, he was taken from the car and beaten. James D. Bailey who is alleged t ias Eugene Vann, have posed as to have offered to “sell” government auto- mobiles to rural letter carriers ulously low prices, was indicted t. i | t | to defraud. Other indictments were retur; follows: John Thomas Isaac, with dangerous weapon; James A. false pretenses: Charles E. h, grand la ceny; Nell A" Yeager, embezzlement. d a3 ault s | ment to co-operate. Better, non-support of dren; Samuel Harvey, non-support of wife and minor children, and George M. Downs, non-support of minor chil- ‘en. BOYS TOURING WORLD ON 85 CENTS HELD ON REACHING WHITE HOUSE With but 85 cents between iem, Herbert Tittle, seventeen ears old, and Roy Furches, fifteen years old, left their homes in Ten- nessee for a tour of the world. They arrived at the White House grounds yesterday, when they ‘were taken into custody by Po- liceman Foley, who sent them to the house of detention. while their parents were being notified. ;l‘;. bg;:.uld they wanted to see 1 of more rigid control under the terpretation of “econtro in the treaty of Versailles. The Eng- lish and French members are in con- troversy over the meaning of the word, the French taking it (o signfy immediate personal supervision over the word the whole financial scheme in Ger- many. while the English hold that the English meaning of the word simply indicates a general supervision of u less stringent nature It is probable that the reparations commission will be asked to define to what extent control could be ex- tended under the present form. MUST FURNISH OWN LANES FOR TESTS Applicants- for D. C. Flying Permits Cannot Use Gov- ernment Machines. When a Washingtonian aoplies for an air operator's permit here, which will be necessary after next Saturday, he’ll have to furnish his own airplane to make the tests which will stamp him efficient or inefficient, according to tentative plans of the Commission- ers. When the regulations were promul- gated, effective July It was a question as to how the skill and knowledge of aircraft of the appii- cant could be determined. So the District Commissioners promptly laid the burden of making preliminary ar- rangements cn the shoulders of En- gineer Commissioner Keller. Consults War Office. Col. Keiler has written a letter in behalf of the Commissioners to the War Department asking permission for the air service to conduct tests He has not yet re- ed a reply, but ;.llere ‘I\l noDlenllcl- fatlure of the War Depart- S As It Jooks from tuatioh for a pro- airman wiil be oday’s perch the si :pect)iveplocu licensed the following: Then he wants the neeessary per- mit to lgnd and fly in the District— The applicant not being in the Army. Naval, or or postoffice service—he'll walk into the office of Wade Coombs, who has charge of District licenses, and ask for a permit. ‘Wade Coombs will take his name, address and telephone number and will let him know when the first tests are to made. Then possibly the Army air service will designate s testing commission, and assign dates for the conduct of the exami- nation. Must Use’ Owa Machine. In order to preciude the possibility of an applicant 'm‘!hllnt nvm :" t rty _in fine it ne's not efcient, he'll ‘have to furnish his own airplane or fur- nish & bond to cover the cose of an Army airplane if the latter is loaned hi im. Then he'll oft the | given to fliers for