Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Unsettled this afternoon. followed by generally fair tonight and tomer- row; little change in temperature. Temperature for tweniy-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, $5, at 12 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 75, at 6§ a.m. today. Full rejort on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 26 0y P SN Entered as secord-class matter post office Washington, D. C. No. 28,571, MICHIGAN PROPOSES TO TAKE OVER MINES: SEEKS U. S. SANCTION Strike at Glance By the Associated Press. Governor Will Ask Federal Aid for asked President Harding's ap- proval of plan to take over state’s i e His Scheme. e ANOr Gt hndee ot e control. ‘ Eighteen governors, answering ¥ 9 I ! President- Harding's message, FAILS IN EFFORT Croriisa b aitiFos fios omib apbott 3 ' ore refused and nine have not AS AN ARBITRATOR By —— i Coke production in Conells- ville Pa., fields increased 10,000 ~ S ; : tons last week despite strike. Convinced Many Union NS e arahowa i ‘easing concern over ontinued alling off in output of non-union mine: Raiiroads and public util- ities in west and southwest be- ginning to feel shortage. Colorado strikers asked Presi- dent Harding for protection from state police. Men Would Return if Not Outlawed. By the Associated Press. LANSING, Mich.,, July 20.—Gov. . Body of fifth man kil!cd\!Vn mine -~ = attle near Wellsburg, V. Va., Alex J. Groesbeck, in a telegram Monday found in woods. prepared for transmittal to Presi-| dent Harding today, asked the sanc- | tion of the federal government iorl a plan to take over and operate | Michigan coal mines under state control. The message asked whether | the federal government would join | iR i etale il Tt oves el [}I-UB UVER MlNERS directing resumption of operations | in th ines. ] i civd | Government, as Last Resort, May Call on Governors to Operate Properties. The governor's decision tu seek faderal approval of his proposal was reached after a day and night spent in unsuccessful efforts to bring about | agreement between the miners an operators in the Saginaw coal d trict. It followed defeat of two pro- | posals he offered the miners and op- erators. l i No Major Grievance. The first was that Michigan miners BLOW FOR UNION MEN be allowed to adjust their differences ! . =, and relation to work indepenaent of | Step Will Be Adopted Only as Last nal affi o vhic i . . their national affiliations, which was | Recort Successful in Five refused by John 1 Lewis, interna-; tional head of the mine workers. | States Now. The second was the refusal of thel e D T RBNOE miners themselves to throw thej B = SRRES weight of- heir endorsement into |} The United States government has “\‘l.\ d plea for separate peace in{determined upon a plan to get coal Michigan t e s e g The governor's personal invitation | [F the American people if the pres- Governor Groesbeck of Michigan - STATE OPERATION WASHINGTON, D. C., ‘THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1922—-THIRTY-EIGHT ' PAGES. e ROADS WILL YIELD ITHIN TWO WEE SAYS UNION LEADER Will Capitulate When “Wé Bring Them to Knees,” Jewell Declares. I STRIKE LEADERS FIRM FOR SENIORITY RIGHTS ! |Lack of Coal and Repairs to Equipment Brings More Train , Curtailments. By tht Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 20.—B. M. Jewell, president of the six federated shop crafts, predicted today that the rail- roads will capitulate and settle the strike within two weeks. The strike is becoming more effec- tive daily, he said, “and the roads will vield as soon as we bring them to their knees.” The railroad executives' statements on the seniority question were char- acterized by Mr. Jewell as camouflage designed to cover up the real issue— a_national adjustment board. The executive board of the striking unions will meet this afternoon to! consider an answer to the statement| Issued by the railroad officials last; | nighit 1 Cannot Justify Fight. s The railroads know they ecannot | Justify their fight against the national | adjustment board before the public,” | Mr. Jewell said. “The board would| take working rules disputes off the | hands of the Railroad Labor Board; | except in cases of appeals, and leave the board free to devote practically Il its time to wage questions.” The transportation act provides for | the establishment of “adjustment board and attempts have been | made several times by board mem- | |bers to have regional adjustment | bodies established, but without suc- | ccss. When the national agreement was up for revision last year. the |auestion of a national adjustment | board was broached by the unions, but nothing ever came of it. Mr. Jewell said today that the| ions opposed regional boards be- | cause two or three different bodies in | different sections would be trying to { i ’ and conforences at Saginaw yester-|ent effort of the operators to mine day showed, he declared. that neither [ coal should fail the workers nor employvers have any % & major_ grievances and that the men| Tee!ZINE that there is doubt as to are out only because workers in other | the powers of the federal government atates are out. It shows also, he said, | to seize the mines, or even to regu- that there is no ill-feeling in the dis- | jate them, the governors of the vari- | l'ousstates of the Union where coal is Susciles Opaxntion produced will be called upon to seize e beiieves. he said, that the state |and regulate the mines in order to could man and operate the mines—the | insure @ fuel supply to the people of ief producing ones,~at least—and | other states. The duty of the states that the miners, if offered the oppor- tunity an dable t& do so without risk- outlawry from their organization, to express their autonomy and do what the federal goverrment may lack the power to do will be empha- would be glad to return to work. sized. . 1t was infimated today that if nec- essary auilority to proceed with his Would Break Up Union. corded. the entire resources Pl Such a step might have the effect of of the state police and the national 2 Surd. if mecessary. would be thrown | breaking up the miners’ union aito- into the work of prod ng coal, in| gether, and for that reason will be event the striking miners declined to | suggested only as a last resort. Five return to work LEWIS DROPS GAUNTLET. ! states already have successfully car- rled out that policy without a word from the federal government. which thus far has refrained from encourag- ing any break-away of the states from the national miners’ union jurisdiction. Says Michigan Must Make Ar- rangements With Union. Py The states of Washington. Colorado, the Arsociated Press. ) Utah, Kansas and New Mexico are to- Advised that Gov. Groesbeck of | day mining coal not only sufficient for Michigan contemplated state opera- | (hait own needs, but for other states tion of the coal mines, John L. Lewis. | The powers of the individual stat pre nt ef the United Mine Works and regulated, just crs of America, today made this com- | as administration did dur- ing the war. but wage agreements ! the Governar of Michigan de- | ©2n be negotiated direetly between ! L e e eonl minars in | workers and operators. and the price et A hiv ffores to operate | ©f coal to the consumer can be defl mines in Michigan he will find that | bitely tmijed. = Once the nczotfatione e e W e Ve nitea Y Mine | chances of the national union recover- ngomex }ing its influence with the miners woulc - i be imperiled. White House Stlenu. H White House and other federal of-| ficials declined to ';1 uss the Bov-| Auministraton cilficials conversant ernor’s course in advance of receipt! i 3 of the telegram he had prepared for | %It the intimate details of the con- Tranamittal (o Procident Harding, but | ferences which took place here. be- Lay Blame on Lewis. were frankly pusled by his’ an.jtween miners and oberators’ repre nounced intentio ask sanction of | sentatives say that because nounced intention 4 ask sanction of | sentatives say that because the on and operate the mines in Michigan | €™™Ors in those five statey mel under state control. By generaliy | tioned above were getting along xo followed legal precedent. it was said, | well with their men they naturally state authority regulating and | declined to come to Washington to sntrolling the actual mining of coal {put themgelves once more under the been huld paramount. In 1919 ! influence of John f. Lewis of the Gov. Allen of Kansas put several ' miners' union. These adminisiration mining roperties in the hands of a . officials fay, however. that if Mr receiver under ap agresment with the | Lewis had “accepted arbitration the ' owners, and h volunteer workers !numbers of operators refusing would and stite protection kept them negligible. erdting until the strike was ended } firsc time inlabor his- by @ national arrangement. The ac shid a cabinet officer toda tion is considered here to be a pre. | “the miners had before them in c cedent under which any state can act. Continued on Pag d FRESIDENT HAS AUTHORITY. | fl[ E N A CE TO Can Send Troops to States Without A Request. The President has authority to send federal trodps into a state without ! the request of the people or governor | of that state. in the opinion of At- ' torney denerat paueneris wien wn | Additional Trains, Ho In Various Pa chief executive of the land, require such action. The Attorney General, however. expressed the hope that no federal troops would be necessary in the present coal and railroad strike situ- ation. Although the Department of Justice, the Attorney General said, had never taken the position, so far as he was concerned. of interfering with labor unions or labor organizations in the performance of any legitimate things they might do, it was solemnly em- phasjzed that there was “only one federal government under the fed- eral Constitution and federal laws.” The federal Constitution and federal laws, said the Attorney General, are superior to any other laws or any set of men in the country. He em- phasized further that a highest pow- er in the country rested in the na- tional government and in the Ameri- can people. INTEREST SHIFTS TO“FIELDS. i i i Announcement was made today by Postmaster, General Work that “any menace endangering the delivery of mails arising out of the strike of rail- way shopmen had passed.” The anncuncement was made in the face of reports from divisional offi- cials of the mail service that addi- tional trains were being annulled in various parts of the country, but Post Office Department officials ex- plained that the situation now was 8o in hand that in practically all in- stances where the railroads- were un- abie to carry out their mail contracts ather means of moving the mails were found, either through the attaching of mail cars to other trains or through motor-truck delivery. All But Nine Governors Reply to President's Appeal. By the Associated Press, The center of developments in the coal strike was steadily shifting to- y away m Washington and out into the coal flelds, where the policy f the government inyolving reopen- ing of the mines under state or fed- eral protection will be tested. Responses were yet to come_fro soverad governors to President Hard- | TeX» and Rocky Mount, N. C., scenes ing’s appeal for co-operating in in- | recently of strike disorders, showed: euring the nation’s fuel supply, but}an improvemént in ‘the situation, but 4Continued on Page-3 Column.2) ™~ ghat the department Report Troubles Shifting. Coincident with the Postmaster Gen- eral’d announcement, Attorney Gen- eral Daugherty said reports to. the Report Officials. Department of Justice from Denison: | could not be road |;.4 received in-~of.coal fu i various parts of the same system, | and nothing but cenfusion would ult. “Regional boards,” he said.| the railroad Pending his meeting with the exegu- | tive board this afternoon, Mr. Jewell ment of the railroad executives. t Hooper Ends Efforts. With immediate prospects for peace and railroads today settled to & test of strength. The statement. of Chair- man Hooper of the Railroad Labor engaged in peace negotiations left | the situation open to direct negotia- tion between strike leaders and rail- Union leaders remained firm in their | demand that full seniority rights be restored to the shopmen now on efforts were broken. Rallroad | s were fully insistent that ¢ rights of men now at work | tion from cither side of a weakening of the determination to carry the | point at issue. | extension of the curtallment of trans- | portation. some portion. however, be ng due to the coal situation. but the | to equipment. Reports were that the strike is being felt by the iron and steel industries; that coal mines in coal cars and that a portion of the fruit crop of the Pacific coast is en- dangered by lack of transportatjon. Rauks of the sgrikers were aug- mented vy walkouts In other unions vesterday, al indications today were sious Reports of violence fell off some- whal. but troops were called out in ings and_whippings continued. At Kansas City a general chalrman of { the maintenance of way men's union, ble, said that members of that union n the southwest would _strike of | ~<Tontinuea on Page %, Column 3.9 interpret the same national rules on would mean war and not peace on | declined to comment on the stgte~ in the railway strike gone, strikers | Board that the board no longer was | rcad operators, or other quarters. being the rock on which | recognized. There was no indica- Reports today indicated a gradual major part because of lack of repairs parts of West Virginia are without Strikers' Ranks Augmented. that there would be turther acces- two more states. and isolated shoot- {in a telegram to President E. ¥. Gra- MAILS OVER SAYSPOSTMASTERGENERAL wever, BeinéAnnuIIed ris of Country, formation of outbreaks in several lo- calities in Montana and Idaho. . Supt. Van Dervoort of the railway mail service at Seattle advised the Post Office Deprtment of the annul- ment of a total of ten trains in Was! ingon state and Montana. Reduction of train service between Belhaven and Mackeys and between Columbla snd Mackeys, all in North Carolina, also was reported to the department, but announcement was made that mator rol & truck probably would be in. Need Train Pretection. General Manager Whitenton of the Missouri, Kansas and Pexas rallroad telegraphed Postmaster General Work that the road could inaugarate no train service ‘between Deleon and Cross Plains, Tex., unless protection ;n afforded the employes working at eleon. ‘He added that “ é States marshal Is not '..‘,..'.'.'}.?.}"a‘i“ uties to protect . our -workmen: Deleon,” and further sdid “unill protection was give 6, tween Stamford and ‘Rotan,” resumed. £ .0 Supt, Cisler of tane HAGUE WRECKED BYRUSS DEMAND Conference Suddenly Ends as Success of Hopes Seems in Sight. ALL WILL GO HOME Break—U. S. Approval of Non- Concession Pact Reported. Truest Ex;| ion of Sudden Collapse By Cable to The Star and Ghicago Daily News. Copyright, 1922. THE HAGUE, Holland. July 20/—The true explanation of the sudden breaking up of the con- ference on Russian affairs is thia: . Some time yesterday Litvinoff. head of the soviet delegation, informed the British delegates that it Moscow announced its recognition of Russia’s interna- tional obligations as proposed the soviet government would expect immediate de jure rec- ognition. In view of this conditlon an agreement with the Russians here was impossible and the breaking up of the conference is considered thoroughly justi- fled. { AR e (PGPS R LS Ry the Associated Press. THE HAGUE, July 20—Confer- here wan thix com- enee on Russian affal djourned at 5130 o'clock ftermoon by the non-Rusxl adopted a pating power to use, its influences to prevent its nationals from ac- concesalons in- volving property formerly owaed by foreigners. A letter from the Washington government exprenses American approval of this position. By the Associaled Proas. THE HAGUE, July 20.—The Hague still was gasping today over the sud- den developments in the conference THE |NAME SLEMP SUCCESSOR. | | | | | | | | | | f | trial of James Alphonso Frye, a color- {ed youth, charged with killing Dr. | Robert W. Brown. prominent colored physician. two years ago. Chief Justice Walter I MecCoy presiding in Criminal Court, No. 1, today overruled all efforts by counsel for Frye to place upon the witness |Klalld Dr. William M. Marston of PUBLIC'S NIGHTMARE T. Crockett Bowen Will Be G.O.P. Congress Candidate. Special Dispateh to The Star. WINCHESTER., Va., July Ninth district leaders in all night con- ference at Norton settled upon T. Crockett Bowen, lawyer of Tazewell, as repu an congressional candidate in —_— BAR LIE-DETEGTOR s s v e o AT MURDER TRIAL Chief Justice McCoy Rules Against “Truth-Meter” in Frye Case. DEFEATS DEFENSE MOVE Counsel for Accused Negro Pleads | sales of” such propet Use as Scientific as Finger- print System. The lic-detector, which, it isclaim- ed, will reveul through a man's blood pressure whether he is telling the truth. will not be used in the murder American University. operator of the “truth-meter. In reply to the requests of Attorney Mattingly for the defense, Justice McCoy niude it clear that he does not believe the instrument employed by Dr. Marston has been developed to the point where its use should be permitted in a court of law. Later Use Possible. When it is -developed to the per- fection of the telephone and the tele- 1 i ithe United States and Germany. i several classes of property in their The Assoctated the uss for republication of all Bews credited to it or not otherwise credited ia papcr and also Yesterday * TOO MANY ART FAKES BEING SOLD SO PARIS PLANS POLICE PROBE By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 20.—A legal inves- tigation of the sale of. spurious works of art attributed to cele- brated dead artists has been start- ed in Paris on the complzint of buyers and dealers who recently have been victimized by clever im- itations of famous masters. This traffic has gone on mcre or less, it is known. for years, but recently it has taken on such pro- portions that numerous complaints have been registered -with criminal courts. Corots, Melssoniers and Troyons are among the most com- monly imitated paintings. Some counterfeiters have reached such perfection that their - tions have heen 1 to the originals imposed upon ex . including a_ngmber of Ameri and some of fhem have even crept into important collections. A great number of clever copies re have been placcd on the markaet and dealers have finally be alarmed and made complaints. vestigating judges are endeavor to hunt out the studios where these counterfeits are produced. CITIZENS OPPOSE CHANGE IN ZONES Trinidad Association Sees Park Plans Ruined by Proposal. DEMANDS GERMANS PAY .. LA |Land North of Camp Meigs and Gallaudet Reported Sought Senator Underwood Calls for Iy twination of the scheme for Patterson H 1 H H T'ark and improvement of the land north Quick Action in Bill Intro- ;uf‘r(A?n]p )’l:g:‘a‘n: Gallaudet for pub- duced in Senate. | {lic purposes was held up as a conse quence of any change in zoning classi —_— | fication of the area between the lines of % | West Virginia and New York avenues ASKS FOR COMMISSION :vy von H. vork. president of the Trini- |dad Citizens’ Association, before the zoning commission in the District build- ing boardroom today. Several wurm arguments ensued !when R. B. H. Lyon, representing the Ivy City Land Development Company. asked the commission to change that jarea from resident second commercial zone. His reason. he stated. was that capital could not be Interested in that iand at present by Scnator Underwood of Alabama,|in its form of residential proper(y and that is company. owner o hat desitecruE RS nLithe Agnate: Property, desired & change in order The Underwood bill is & comprehen- | to induce investments of capital in sive medspre. It makes disposition °'i"‘:f ey i i il th G 2 though reports had been circulate ail the German property In this Coun- | L 10 %o the meeting (o the effect try tuken o¥er by the allen property {that the land was wanted by a big custodian’ and the proceeds of ‘the |railroud corporation, Mr. Lyon made American | no specific mention of a railroad in claims are to be adjudicated by a com- | M8 opening address. mission, and, uniess they are other- | Want Excellent Rensom wise satisfied. paid out of the German| Mr. York declared that up to a year Would Sell German Property Here Unless Payments Are Met in Other Ways. The first bill for the payment of American claims against Germany wes introduced in the Senate today 1 to industrial or property in accordance with the pro-|ago’ the commission considered this visions of the Versailies treaty and{land good residential property. and the separate treaty of peace between [he asked that if any request for a change from this classification be pre- sented it should be accompanied by excellent reasons for such. “A¥e have fostered a plan for the | | Commission Favored. Provision is made for a commission to be known as the enemy property | to be composed | claims commixsion, of six commissioners to be appointed | by the President by und with the advice and consent of the Senate. It will sit_in Washington, have practi-; in thai vicinity ing for residents of the Trinids tion. With the advent of the botanic ! garden development. and possibilities of the cxtension of the Patterso Jv all the powers of a ted | for u public park, as w States court to settle and Jd= lings of Mount Olivet cemete el a1 claims made by the governmeni of | east. we believe that thix ritory. | the ited States and by American|although confronted in the vicinity by | citizens against Germany, -growingla railroad, Folds good pos es | out of the destruction of life and|for development along residential | property or otherwise before and aft- i lines. This will be more not or we entered the wa- which were|when -New York avenue is cut secured by the treaties mentioned, | through, Fiving easy a to the and al! claims of German subjects for | downtown section of the city to prop- erty holders In that vicinit “We would not mind if some big| reputable firm of the high-class type, | such as Is known in many cities, wished to build there and provide homes for.workers. That would be all t. But we do fear results of turMing this prospective residential property over to industrial or seec- ond commercial usages.” the return of property taken over by the alien property custodian. The German property in the hands of the United States is to be classified and American claims paid out of the order, each class to be exhausted be- - fore the funds of another class are | touched, ‘Under this plan the prop- | graph, said the justice, it probably will be considered in court. The judge ! said he intended to make further in- on Russian affairs yesterday and the | quiry into the accomplishments of the precipitate decision of the European delegations o terminate the gather- ing imnediately, after Maxim Litvin- off, head of the soviet delegation, had offered to submit to Moscow the ques- tion of recognlizng the validity of Russlan pre-war debts and the prin- ciple of compensation for nationalized foreign property. For a few minutes yesterday a large section of the non-Russian rep- resentatives, headed by the English, seemed ecstatic over M. Litvinoff's proposal to waive Russia’s claim for credits from the European powers and seek Instructions from the Moscow fovernment on the tangled. question of property ri, But when later without the soviet representa- tives they Iqlmzfll\ely turned down M. Litvinoff's proposal and decided’to snuff out the conferenge today. with the forma! presentation of reports from the subcommissions on credits, debts and foreign property confiscated in Russia. SUCCESS IN SIGHT. the non-Russians met Conference Collapsed at Its Most BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. The 8 Chicago I,y Cable to The Star and Chicago Daly News. THE HAGUE, July 20.—The con- ference on Russian affairs has ended at the very moment when the concil- iatory attitude of the Russians seemed to make success possible. Today the non-Russian commission meets to wdopt téports. . This, of.course, is a mere ?rmlllli‘, The Fretich will pro- pose a pact pledging the allied and neutral nations not to accept as con- cessions from’ the soviets property in Russig formerly belonging ‘to for- eigners. Francé his negotiated with .| the United States regarding this pact, l J sphygmomanometer and observed that perhaps a year from now his| opinion might change. The principle of the device is to de- tect through rising of the blood pre: sure when a man is telling an un- and Wood first truth. .Attorneys Mattingly endeavored to have Dr. Marston take the stand as an expert to testify as to the resuits of a deception blood test to which he subjected Frye at the jail on June 10. Justice McCoy over- ruled this motion on the ground that the jury was not concerned with the truth or falsity of Frye's statements a month ago, but only with the verac- ity of his testimony in court yester- day and today. An effort then was made to have the instrument applled and the test taken in court. Frye had already told his story to the jury, however, and the court held such a test should have! been made when the defendant was teatitying. < 3 Third Move Overruled. The mext move of counsel for the accused was to have Dr. Marstoft take the stand and submit the records of the test made last month to form the basis for hypothetical questions. This also was overruled. : In arguing for the imtroduction of the . lie-detector, Attorney Mattingly declared that courts hesitated at first to_permit: the introduction of finger- print_evidence and were slow to ac- gept the testimony of expert alientwts. He contended that all new -departures from the conventional 'methods of doing things' have to start somewhers. and that the powers of the lie-detector would mever be generally recognised unless its use is permitted. Frye declares he is innocent of the murder of Dr. Brown. The case prob- ably will go to the jury late today. ACCUSED IN LUMBER CASE, HE PLEADS “NOT GUILTY” Frank T. Sullivan, one of the ten men indicted Tuesday by the special grand Jury in connection with the sale of sur- pius Jumber, appeared before e b Simiiee Mooy of Criminal Court afternoon f“."*‘ : ) 2 § }the first of ‘th W " o a i 1 for Mr. Sulll: o Hie any erty of the German government it self wil! by used o pay Amer!- can claims and only when that is ex- hausted will the property of German subjectsbe used to satisfy Ameri clabms ~ Clalms of American citi againut Germany have been filed w the State Department to the amount of nearly $1,000,000,000. Some of these claims may. be exaggerated, but it is Uelieved that just and proper claims amount to at least $400.000.- | 000. - i Othera Support York. A. J. Driscoll, president of the Mid- | City Citizens' Arsociat spoke in | support of the stand of Mr. York.| from the angle of a resident inter- ested in park development. Dr. Hall of Gallaudet also opposed change in the classification. On the other hand, Joseph 1. Weller, ! real estate operator. and Morton Luchs, realty expert. testified that ~operty could never arsume for able value under present conditions such ae residentlal zoning classific: (Corinued on Page 18, Columr 5.) MYSTERY INATTAG UPON MESSENGER Colorqd Youth, Assigned to: President, Slammed Against Executive-Avenue Fence. Mystery surrounds the unprovoked attack upon one of President Hard- ing's colored messengers yesterday afternoon on Executive avenue, near the White House, by an unidentified white ‘man. Bushrod Mickey, aged twenty-three, was returning from a trip for the President, and upon nearing the White House noticed a white man of about 175 pounds, heavy set, leap from an automobile on the street and rush toward him. The attacker, shouting abusive language, struck the negro a powerful blow between the eyes with his fist and slammed the boy against a picket fence. Be- fore the boy could recover to offer resistance the assailant leaped to his car and disarpeared. The mecret service and the White Housé police have thus far been un- able to find a clue to the alleged as- sailant or to discover a.motive for ‘the uhprovoked attack. The boy was said to have Rad wonde enemies. 'Hiz eyes today &rs badly. ! i Scores Long Delay. Discussing his bill Senator Under- wood said: - “The treaty of Versailles, as well as the separate treaty of peace, contem- plated that the Germun. property In our hands should be -used as a piedge to secure the settlement of American claims against Germany, It has been nearly, three years- sinces President ‘Wilson brought the Versaillas treaty back to the United States and more than & year hax elapsed since a sep- arate peace with Germany was de- clared. So far as 1 kn". no-step has been taken by this government o protect American claimants and to provide for the liquidation of their ims. : ‘We hear a mreat deal about the just, rights of the German claimants to the funds in the hands of the'alien | property custodian, and various bills have been introduced to return the property to them, and I think it about time that something was done to re- imburse the American citizens for theip just and proper claims against the German government. At the rate at wihch the claims have been al- lowed against the funds in the hands of the alien property custodian it is doubtful if .there stilk be enough ‘prope; left to sécure American claims unless prompt action is taken. I shall press my bill jpon the Senate for early consideratio ARMY BOARD ‘NAMED. Gén. Dickman to Direct Reduction MThe- "of general officers to su- pervise Fefliiction of the number. of regylar officers. of the Army to the figures prescribed by Congress will be headed by Mal. Gen. Joseph T. Digknian, retired, as president. Other = members of the board, it was unced, today at the War Depart- ment, will be Ma). Gen. Merritt W. Treland, surgeoh geheral; Maj. Gen. Henry P. McCain (rétired), former ‘Sajutant, and Brig. Gens. 'Andre’ W. Brewster and Ernest ‘Hinds. AL rights of publication of speeial dispatebes herein, are also reserved. WOULD STAY RESIDENTIAL | establishment of a large public park | were ac said Mr. York. speak- | | make | while fr o Press s exclusively entil the local sews published Derein. Net Circulation, 85,175 TWO CENTS. INURDER ATTEMPT CHARGED T0 MAN INACID MYSTERY Police Hold Archie Walters, Baltimore, and Seek Hand- some Brunette: IMT. RAINIER WOMAN | “TO HAVE BEEN SLAIN" { Mrs. | Brooke, However, Declares i She Attacked Self and | Sent Letters. Solutton of one of the most cold- blooded murder plots in police an- nals of Prince Georges county, Md., involving the intended killing last night or the night before of Mrs. Louise Brooke, attractive young wife of Nace Brooke, of Mount Rainier, and the placing of her body In an abandoned burial vault not far from her home, is expected to develop to- day, following the arrest last might lin Baltimore of Archie Walters, charged with attempted murder, and | the impending arrest of a “tall bru- nette, young married woman,” whose {name and address are known. ' Walters, a_thirty-vear-old machin- list. employed by the Baltimore und Ohio railroad. is being held for the | Prince Georges county autho Constable Thomas H. Garrison of ¥ attsvjlle. went to Baltimore today [ to get Walters and to take into rus- tody the woman implicated. They | will be brought back to Mount Rain- {ier to face Mrs Brooke, whe ix blind- led by acid alleged to have been [ thrbwn on her by the woman. burn- {ing her shoulder horribly. and who bears on ber wrists what are be- {lieved to be rope marks—evidences {of three attempts to do away with | her. | \Walters told Baltimore detectives that the charge was false and offered to show that he was in Baltimore wheu the attacks were made on Mre | Brooke. He said he did not know Mrs. Hrooke. but sdmitied knowing Bradley Cavey. who swore to the warrant agginst him. Jealous Wife Blamed. The crueity to which the twenty- five-year-old woman has been sub- jected during the past months is said by those investigating the case to be the vented wrath of a jealous wife Complexities of the family discord and alleged “quadrangie” prefacing the murder attempts the police hope to straighten out when the prelim- inary hearing is held before Magis- trate Robert E. Joyce of Mount Ra- nier. in the near future. . Sitting last night in the parler of the Brooke home, on .the Baltimore and Ohio railroad tracks, between the District line and Brentwood, her eyes heavily bandaged and her - wrists likewise wrapped with cloth. Mrs. Brooke steadfastly denied that more than one attack had heen made on her. and as firmly refused to assist to the authorities .n their attempts pring the guilty ones to the bar of Justice. Her story, what there was of it, was altogether unsatisfactory to Con- “tables Garrison and White. who dix- count her repeated assertion that the hole burned through to her shoulder blade and the torn flesh on her wrists sidentally inflicted ¢ “This is the only statement I will she reiterated guietly at the hour's quéstioning Micers: “I wrote vou have in dressed to me. 1 an the nelusion of last night by ail the letters Vour possession ad: burned myself on the shoulder with Lot greass and burned my wrists ing an cgk. That is all 1 will sa Threatened in Lettera. letters to which Mrs. Brooke referred are six in number and all contain vile threats against the woman’s life and accusations against her character. They are unsigned. The documents were turned over to Constable Garrigon by Cavey, Balti- more and Ohlo fireman, whose plea for police protection for Mrs: Brooke led to the issuance of the warrant for the arrest of Walters on a charge of assault with intent to kill. The Jletters. Cavey said. were thrown at various times from trains passing in front of the Brooke home. They were pivied up by Mrs. Brooke and a neighbor and were sent by Mrs. Brooke to Cavey in Baltimore. One of them is a special delivery mes- sage, mailed In Washington not long ago. The assertion of Mrs. Brooke that she was the author of the let- ters fell through, the police say, when Constable Garrifon had her write a sentence and compared her penman- ship with that of the letters. There was absolutely no similarity between the two. Before concluding with her final statement” last night, Mrs. Brooke sald that about a year ago a paper With the nume and address “L. F. ¢~ care of Baltimore and Ohio Y. M, C. A." was thrown from a train passing the house. Picking up the paper, sh howed it to her hus- band, saying, “You've been quarreling with me lately, daddy, so I'm going to write to this man.” Her husband, still obdurate over a domestic “spat of no consequence, told her to go ahead. The Brooke wrote a mote to a Baltimore and Ohio fire- e said, and he replied the next day. This subsequent exchange ol letters went on until haif a_dozen letters had been sent. Mrs. Brooke She contiuned to corre- purely as a Jjoke. hat threaten- ing, unprintable letters began to be tossed almost daily from passing trains, she said. “Reason for Plot.” It is thought that some of the let- ters, written (o Carey by Mrs. Brooke “in a spirit of fun” fell into the hands of a woman in Baltimore whose jealous attachment to the fire- ma jumped beyond bounds and led to | the plotting. for the life of Mrs. Brooke. Mrs. Brooke claimed that this wom- tall brunette, about twenty or' enty-two years old, approached her Saturday. July 1, she was walk- ing along the railrond tracks toward Brentwood, and dashed a burning liquid into her face from a paper cup, which she carried in her hand, ex claiming, “I'll fix you now for good. Mrs. Brooke declared she was blind ed by the liquld, and that she stumbled and crawled to her home several hundred feet away, Where she washed her eyes and face. She was. able. to -see, she sald, although her eyes burned 'frightfully. ~Later . she weént Yo' Johns Hopkins Hospital fl%lfi' yes 10ding - their ai t