Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1922, Page 1

. WEATHER. ] ¢ tonight; tomorrow partly || | loudyalittle change in temperature. | emperature for twenty-two houra ‘ | | | | ended at noon today: Highest, 37, at i1 4:10 p.m. yesterday, lowest, 72, at 3 | a.m. today.’ sport on page ull Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 11 Entered as secord-class matter post office Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, SAWRDAY, ,JULY 22, 1922-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. Coal Strike at Glance Developments in the conl strike situation today included: Washington officialx prepared to &ive miners and operators ten dayx 10 two weeks to try out Prexident EFFORTS T0 HALT ' SH'FI IU§ERAN."]N: R L e e | maintenance of coal shipment. lic utilities buy in Great Britain. Secretgry Hoover expects opinion ieneral Daugherty Pennsyivania Mayor, Atter5 Seeing President, Expected | to Meet Lewis. STl ey |~ ONE OF FIVE CONFERRING WITH BOTH FACTIONS NOW Demand for ships to _carry Welsh coal to United Statex boosts shipping rate. ence with 1d meet John 1. | president, Monday. tle anthracite strik n effort to xet- ‘Warning® against activities of radicaln insued at Hazleton, Pa. Perasylvanian miners protest azainst presence of 11,000 state troops in mine fields. “Outlook Very Bright,” City Of-| ficial Says, After His Interview ? at White House. il WARNEB an effort to bring about resump- tion of mining operations in the an- thracite coal fields, @ conference in which John L. Lewis, head of th, Tnited Mine Workers, is expected to| participate, will be held Monday | = - cither in Scranton. Pa., ar New York, John F. Durkan, mayor of Seranton, | Word Sent Out Into Hard announced today after he had con- | ferred with President Harding re-| i i i parding the situation. l Coal Fields in Union War Mr. Durkan is one of the five mayors F of Citiex' in the anthracite region of on Radicals. Pennsylvania who have been nego- | tiating with miners’ representatives and operators in an about a resumption o effort oper: to bring ions. The 11,000 TROOPS ON DUTY Serantop mayor ha onferred with M. Lti\\‘h'. and said today he was tain the miners’ leader would attend | : - . the conference. He udded he did net | Stationed at Strategic Points know whether operators would be | - = Jresent. + Ready to Move In if Disorders Explained His Plan, . . 4. Durlcan sad he had gone oxer | + Attend Reopening Mines. he entire situation with the Pr By the Associated P: dent and had explained to him the | gazt oo e Plan he and his colleagues had in ZLETON, FPa., July 22.—Miners 'mfiu;nll fnrl;vrnu:m: about a e "mmn‘lhrounlmuz the hard coal field have of the anthracite suspension e de- | receive srbal wa ainsf st s her p)nn.} !('I d ver ’|1 »\\Ar g against the o outlos 18 véxy bricht> |activities of radicals, who are alleged Jir. Durkan after his interview with | to have started a campaign to cause He expressed confl- | disorder in the region, so that tro 2 stantial progress would | wou 1ot tent in - Word was s by he made at Monday's conference. Aft- | fentiingWord wwasigent o s interview at the White House [@ll local officials to guard Durkan returned to Scranton. against permitting strangers to ad- A | dress meetinps of union men or carry le prepared to wait for ten days |7 an¥ other activity. ccording to present ind! TROOPS READY TO ACT. to test the success of efforts ti RO resume production of bituminous mines | gioo: s - 3 ! Station e i hefore adopting any drastic course re- | edjfats StatezlolBolnts/iin garding the coal strike, the government | Hard-Coal Fields.’ Col. E. J. Stackpole, jr., command- union w or two weel cation: in the meantime today was pushing its HOOPER CONFERS AT WHITE HOUSE; - SENATORS CALLED Cummins, V\Tatson, Kellogg and Others Summoned After i Hour’s Parley. |LABOR GIVES PLEDGE OF AID TO STRIKERS| i |B. & ©. Issues Invitation to Em- ployes to Discuss Peace, But Many “Ifs” Involved. i By the Associated Press. Chairman Hen V. Hooper of the | Railroad Labor Board, arriving here today in response to a summons {rom the White House, went into confer- ence with President Harding pre- | pared to give the executive a com- plete survey of the railroad strike situation and the recent negotia- tions conducted with a view to bring- ing about a settlement. | i The Labor Board chairman went to |the white House soon after arriv- Jinp here from Chicago, and the President’s list of engagements for the day had been arranged 8o as to allow an immediate conference of =s great a length as the conferces might| desire. i Comment on the strike situation | was withheld by the chairman prior to his conference with the President, but it was indicated that he might have a statement to make after see- ing the President. Wire Support to Strikers. | Almost coincldent with Mr. Hooper's {arrival the American “Federation of Labor made public telegrams sent by | the labor legislative representatives! of the national and international unions located in Washington to B.! [ M. Jewell. leader of the rail strike| | ferces, and John L. Lewis. president | {of the United Mine Workers. pledging | sympathy and co-operation in the re- | | spective strikes of the railroad shop | !ind mine workers. The telegrims} re signed @y Samuel Gompers, | ident of the American Federation Labor, as chairman of the legisla- | representatives’ conference, und% | sai “Reports made to the conference ¢ plans for dist supply to insure continued opera- tion of the railroads and essential in- dustries With coal present stocks of coal there will risk of an industrial shut- s are convincedwby u fort afting to develop the response bution of the dwindling | ng the 104th Cavalry, established his| rom various sections of the country headquarters in the field after 350 indicate a rising public sympathy In soldiers encamped in the Cokeburg|favor of the men who are fighting for region, where important mine: {right and justice. [ by Plitsbureh Interests ‘are. located; | pALter the conference between the arly thi ing. Nati ] | Presiden n T e s morning. All the National Rt promess mearly an hour juard units are fully equipped { been 1 definite. period of fia- e 9T | Chairman Cummins of the Senatg fn~ cording to Col. Stackpole. terstate commerce committee, 'Wwho to I'resident Harding's invitation to op- | 1alurs to resume operations, and the | ment in the meantime may con- | He pointed out, he will not furnish protection to any particular mine or mines, but will troops be stationed at convenient points, where they will be held in réserve for co-operation with t effort fail. What these steps might e was the subject of prolonged digcus- sion at yesterda binet meeting, but { 3tate police and county officials if without, it was understood, any definite | Reeded. They will also patrol high- { with other committee members con- ferred with ealtern railroad execu tiges on the strike situation Thursday i nfgnt. was called to the White House. ! Other Senators Summoned. ! Senators Watson of Indiana, and tormulation of poli Daugherty Report Awaited. Secretary Hoover, at this stage. it was said at the Department of Commerce, expect- | before night from At-! ed a report torncy General Daugherty covering the legal aspects of the administra- tion's plan for coal distribution and price maintenance during the strike cmergency, and it was indicated; road’s employes that details of the administration's | their stations were not made public, et T e administration ® | as it was said they were likely to be 1weal committees in the various pro- ways. | . o 2 Besides the troops in the Cokeburg | KCUIOEE of Minnesota, the other mew | ression, units are also encamped near | bers of the Senate interestate commerce { Edensburg ar 1 Conemaugh, (‘amhria‘commllte?. who conferred with the rail- county, and Heilwood. Indiana county. | road executives, also were summoned Stations Not Made Public. | to the White House. HARRISBURG, Pa. July 22—In-| Daniel Willard, president of the | formation as to the disposition of ! i - PR R TR Vatio i { with members of the Senate inter- | National Guardsmen in the bitumin-| J./\ "Commerce committee and ad- { ous flelds of the state today reach®d | yised them of the move for a separate the office of Adjt. Gen. Beary, but|settlement of the strike among the A conference is to held Tuesday at Baltimore, sena- be tors were advised, upon call in a cir- cular issued yesterday by Mr. Willard to the shop crafts’ empioyes on that road. The circular stated that the (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) { changed any time as circumstances | require. Official announcement also 'RAILBOARDMAY BESHIFTED FROM CHICAGOTO CAPITAL dicing districts working under a|re central committee yin Washington, | ¥as made of the opening of the might be made public late today. | Euafdsmen's regular summer camp details of the administra. At Mount Gretna 12 are still incomplete, but | ‘ned today that the cen- Al committee would be entire- overnment body composed of presentatives from the Commerce | N artment, the Inte ate Commerce Commission, the Justice Department nd the interior Department. with Secretary Hoover as chairman. In Zddition. it was understood, adminis- ’l the railroads and the producing coal operators. V Conference Expected ‘Ioldl!‘ trative aides would be selected from | Call for Hooper Believed Forerunner At nimes ot torts proaweina on-| Of Attempt to Relocate Headquarters. erators are expected to meet with| Secretary Hoover on Monday tg con- sider the administration’s plan. The operators to ‘attend the Monday con- furence, it was said, would in general be the same who attended the recent meeting which resulted in the volun- tary fair price agreements, repre- sentatives coming from present pro- ducing districts including Alabama, southern West Virginia, Hazard, K Harlan county, Ky.; the southern Ap- palachi of Kentucky and he Kanawha district of . northern West Vir- sinia, mson, W. Va.;: Elk River, W. Va.: western Kentucky, the Vir- zinia Operators’ Association and from western Pennsylvania. Plans wil be discussed at the Mon- day conference, Secretary Hoover sald, making the “voluntary restraint profiteering effective in the one or o districts which have refused to perate and are now demanding $7.50 a ton for coal at the mine, and further to make it effective against the minority of irresponsible opera- tors in the other districts who have broken away from the agreement.” “The responsible operators are holding to the price,” Mr. Hoover con- tinued: “on the other hand some pan- icky railway buyers and others are sending out orders today offering $8 at the mines.” Results in Doubt. Reports at vyesterday's meeting on results to date of the President’s appeal for opening of mines in strike territory did not in- dicate substantial new production, but more time was said to be needed cabinet i | BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Harding's decision to send for Chairman Ben W. Hooper of the United States Railway Labor Board {may be the forerunner of g change n location of the headquarters of the board itself, which hiherto has been {fixed at Chicago by law. | So close is the relationship between many activities of the federal gov- | ernment in the National Capital and the work of the Labor Board that, en- tirely apart from the numerous prob- lems which have arisen to complicate the rallroad strike situation, the President is convinced that the in- terests of everybody’ would be better served If the board moved to Wash- ington. Mr. Harding is considering a request that Congress amend the transportation act to permit the change. For many weeks Mr. Harding has been trying to keep in touch with the rail situation either by letter or long- distance .telephone. But he lacks in- formation as to intimate phases of | the negotiations between rail execu- tives and labor leaders, which cannot be gotten except by personal contact. The atmosphere, 80 to speak, is miss- ing—it is hard to follow "the delicate processes of industrial negotiation | trom a thousand-mile distance. Some Mixtakes Made. The Labor Board has made some ! mistakes — probably its members wodld be the first to admit it. There are. those in the government who for a test of its success, according |Claim that these mistakes would not to the Associated Press. Non-union production was found to be runging far below the/levels of April, Hly‘nd June, in spite of vrice incentives for greater production, and this charged up directly to the effectiveness of tl railroad strike in the mining terri- tory concerned. What steps will be taken after the test period outlined were still in de- bate. Prospects that the mines would he taken over, and that the govern- ment would proceed along the lines suggested In President Harding's telegram to Gov. Sproul of Pennsyl- vania, setting up, a commission to fix wages and force operations in the industry, were discussed. There were also repeated tions that failing to accomplish a isfactory resumption of transpor- .~ (Continued o Paga %, Column Ty 1 have happened if the board had been located in) Washington and had the | benefit of the counsel and facts which | varlous departments of the govern- ment could give. | ™In ‘the queation of sentority rights | which drose after the rail strike was i called the Labor Board, in the opinion of its critics, put itself on record too rapidly and ‘made it difficult for the railroads to recede on this point. It {18 asserted that the railroads have in | the past used the threat of forefeiture of seniority rights only in 2n extreme emergency and have constantly post- poned putting It into effect to give time for a reconciliation. Mr. Harding and Mr. Hooper find somt way out of the present difficulty on senfority rights. They might have accomplished this many days ago it they could have -sat down face to face and talked it out. The President feels | Many Advantages Seen in Change. closer contact also with the Inter- state Commerce Commission. ~ The board which has been sitting in Chi cago fixes the wages of the rallway employes—the largest item of ex- penditure which the railroads have. The Interstate Commerce Commission fixes the income of the roads. The one bears a close dependence on the other. The President is_ insisting | that ‘the two boards ought to sit do¥n together ocasionally and com- pare notes. Difter on Figures. Figures and statistics, it has been said, can be made to prove anything. Rail executives sometimes have one i set of figures as to costs of operation, and the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion has another. This was forcibly illustrated in the big decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission on i rate eductions effective July 1. The | Interbtate Commerce Commission | practically denied the correctness of many figures furnished by the road managements. Similarly” with respect to costs of living, for the Labor Board is charged {with the responsibility of fixing a just and reasonable wage. The labor aders claim that the Department of {Labor figures show that a workman cannot live comfortably on the wages fixed by the United States Railroad { Labor Board. i Get-Together Inevitable. | A general get-together of all bu- reaus and departments involved in the cransportation problem is in- | evitable, and Mr. Hooper’s conference with the President ig bound to be followed by otber conferences before a solution to the rail strike is fouhd. Indeed, President Harding is known ta have considered favorably the idea of a department of transportation in connection with the reorganization of the government, 5o that all matters affecting freight and passenger carry- together in a single jurisdiction. The Shipping Board, for instance, is con- stantly faced with questions grow- ing out of freight hauls by the rail. roads and operating agreements with st:amship companies. Bringing of the Interstate Commerce Commission and United States Ralfiroad Labor _?osrd together is the first step in ‘co-ordination,” a word, incidentally, ; of which much was heard 1 | themselves compelled now to arrange|and which is bobbing u]zn:-‘arll:‘n::‘l the reconstruction activities of the government grow multiplex. It takes a_strike likethe railroad crystaliize plans into action. (Copyright, 1922.) that the Labor Board ought to be in| ing by land and sea might be woven | { | | { | _strike wl N IR [SHACK MURDER ATACMA-ARICA REITRATION AGEEEMENT Cune-Pery GERMANY ACCEPS NORKTORIM PLAN Conditions Demanded by Al- lied Committee Heavy Load, Chancellor Wirth Says. ~ PIN HOPE ON REPARATION Germans Trust Forthcoming De- cision Will Be Definite—Coal Demands Are Modified. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 22.—Germany has form- ally accepted the demands of the allied committee on guarantees, which were presented at Berlin last Tuesday. In a letter to the reparations commis- ion ~recelved today Chancellor Wirth stated that Germany, after profound de- liberation; had decided to accept the con- ditions for the duration of the mora- torium, which the German government assumed would soon be granted. The conditions, the letter points out, place a heavy load upon the German government and their acceptance is only agreed to by the government and the parliament\on the theory that the forthcoming decision on the reparation question will constitute a definite set- tlement of the chief financial questions ! which have been the subject of negotia- | Baltimore and Ohio. conferred today | i . tions between thecommittee on guaran- tees and the German government. The German chancellor in his let- | it must be understood that | ter says the conditions laid down by the com- mittee, and any additional conditions which may be imposed in connection with a moratorfum, must not in any way challenge the Sovereignty of the German state aor interfere with the normal functioning of the govern- ment. * Dr. Wirth also insists that the for- tunes of individuals and their busi- ness organizations must remain se- cret. X Conversations Are Begua. Unofficial gun in reparations commission clr- cles on the question of a moratorium i for Germany now that the contents of the report of the committee on guarantees have become substantially known. p The report of.the committee on guarantees .will probably be pre- i sented to the reparations commission on Monday or Tuesday. It is ex- pected the latter will spend the re- mainder_of the week in considering it. It is said that rigid financial control over the German finances would be insisted upon by the com- mission a first condition of any respite. y tonl’ Demands Reduced. The commission, announced in an| official communication last evening that with a view to granting further rellef to. Germany it has been decided that Germany shguld deliver to the allles only 1,725,000 tons of coal and coke during the period from August to October, Inclusive; The former schedule of deliveries called for 5,750,- 000 tons per quarter. 7 The decision' provides that should the total production of coal and coke in Germany during that period be greater than 8,350,000 tons, 20 per cent of the surplus should go to the allies. The commission has. approved in principle the request of the Austrian | government for the release of cer- tain state revenues to be used as col- lateral for the foundation of a bank of issue and for a foreign loan. GRIM RUSSIAN FAMINE ENDED BY AMERICANS Reliet Work 'Soon May End as Officials Sail to Report Few Starvation Deaths Occur. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 22.— Whether 'the American Relief - Kdministration will continue its activities in Russia will be decided in Washington soon after the arrival of Edgar Rickard, Dr. Walter Lyman Brown and Col. Wil- liam N. Haskell, who sailed for Amer- jca today on the Aquitanig. They will confer with Herbert Hoover and former Gov. Goodrich of Indiana, who recently returned from Russia. The returning American Relief Ad- ministration men will report that the Russian famine has been allayed to such an extent that there are now few deaths from starvation. Ten wil- lion_persons are subsisting on food- stuffs bought with American money. next fiscal year. conversations have be-; i tionalists. ORLANDO INVITED BY ITALIAN KING TO PICK CABINET PLAN SINGLE HEAD Orlando, having been invited by the| taks the torma. | GUarding, Fire Protection tion of a mew! and Maintenance Lack Unity at Present.’ government to! succeed the de| Facta ministry, | has held a long | conference with | Don Luigi Stur-i zo, Italy's priest- | politician, nnd' secretary gener- al of the Catho-! lic party, con-| cerning th number of Cath olics to be in cluded in the| A proposal to centralize all the T s B Or- | maintenance, guarding and fire pro- lando induced the Catholic leader to|tection of federal buildings in the Yot xhle u'ilr‘nluion of ‘:.T.'"L“’“J:,‘.’S' : city—so far, at least, as the executive ves to the new cabine T e o e e s toasarvatives | department buildings are concerned— Would be prone to indorse the activi- [ Under the authority of one responsible lies of the fascisti, or extreme na-|office, instead of allowing this service Strife between the fas- ' to be dissipated, as it is said to be SHERRILL HAS TWO J0BS Proposal Would Provide Clear-Cut Division or Else Positive. Merger. ORLANDO. |address was understood to be the cist! and communists was & factor in the downfall of Premier's Facta's ministry. 3 Signor Sturzo is said to have agreed that efther Codacci . Pisanelll or Prince Ditrabia should be given a portfolio in the new government. The latter was Signor Orlando’s inter- { iat present, with a lack of uniformity, economy and efficlency, has achfeved ;such proportions that it has been credited to it or paper and also All rights dispatches - 2 ety ae it The Associated Press is 2xclusively entitied to the use fo1 republication of all news dispatches || not otherwise credited ir this || he locel news published bereln. | | of publication of special herein are also reserved. COURT FORBIDS VISIT WITH OR SIGHT OF ANY WOMAN EXCEPT WIFE By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 22.—John Haas was restrained by court order, made public today, from “visiting, seeing, talking to or riding with any woman in the world,” except his wife. Another injunction restrained Haas' mother-in-law from “visiting, talking with or in any way interfering with the domestic happiness or connubial felicity” of Haas and his wife. The restraining orders followed a reconciliation, after Mrs. Haas had sued for divorce. She claimed her husband would not “forget other women.” He said his mother-in-law caused the, trouble. LAD TO BRANNAN Woman Literally Be?ten to Death, Evidence Before Coroner’s Jury. TWO HELD ACCESSORIES Other Arrests to Be Made as Pris- | oners Across River Are Under Heavy Bail. Following a rigid examination by Acting Commonwealth Attorney Harry Thomas, which included testimony of eyewitnesses, Thomas Brannan of 1026 Potomac street, Georgetown, was held without bail by a coroner's jury yesterday for the action of the grand jury in the death of Mrs. James Copperthite of New Cut and Canal roads. Mrs. Copperthite’s battered body was found in a shack on the west side of Little river near Aque- duct bridge early yesterday morning. | L. J. Vaughn of 3618 O street and Mrs. Adalaide Rhodes, living on Little river, who acknowledged be- ing at the shack during the day, were held in $10,000 bail each as accessories to the crime. The jury further recom. mended that Daniel Howeth, '\'hose( United States Soldiers’ Home, said to | be the owner of the shack, and John Reynolds of Georgetown also be held in the same amount and on the same ' charge. Search is being made by the | local police for them. Coroner B. H. Swain presided at the inquest. When inquiry was made at the Sol-| diers’ Home today regarding Howeth it was stated no such person was known there. - Second Woman Arrested. The local authorities late last night arrested Mri Alice Katie Hall, thirty-two yvears old, who lives on a houseboat at the oot of 34th street, said to have been one of the party in the shack Thursday. Mrs. Hall at | formally presented to Gen. Lord, | director of the bureau of the budget. With Gen. Lord out of the city to- preter during the peace conference. id,y, i Ewordie s Iroriheonilng Krom FOR EARLY FUTIAE | was definitely learned elsewhere that | such a proposal had been gaining in |favor among certain departments, | had been documented and laid on Gen. | Lord's desk as a proposal to further the administration’s drive for econ- omy and efficiency. Concentration Satisfactory. Col. C. O. Sherrill, who is superin- v ¥ e S tendent of State, War and Navy De- District Qfficials Will Call At- | vartment buildings, has now under ‘his control the buildings of the In- tention of Congress to Needs. | partment buildings was effected the District authorities probably will | first of this month, and is understood S s o have proved satisfactory, with a not ask in this year's estimates for altightening up of the guard particu- definite appropriation to begin in-!larly. stallation of a system of high-pressure !fi Col Sherrill Hniuis capacityéasiol 5 cer in charge of public buildings an fire mains in Washington. | grounds, whick is separate from his In submitting their annual report|duties in connection with the other to Congress in December, however, ‘l‘i‘u:ll‘dlns;:. has M!up,ervl.ion of the 5 = | White House, Monument and other they will, it is understood, call “‘a'publlc TERTRLT | terior Department, which include the attention of the lawmakers to the " (Whether the proposed change The transfer of the Interior De- | pension office, patent office and gen- project as one of the municipal im- i eral land office building. provements which should be provided for in the near future. Failure to seek an immediate ap- propriation would by no means be an indication that the city heads do not recognize the value of high-water pressure in checking fire. ~ Garland Granted Leave. On the contrary, they gave further vidence today of their interest In Ilhe matter by granting J. S. Garland, | superintendent of the water depart- ment, leave of absence to inspect the new high-pressure system installed in Boston. At the same time Mr. Garland will visit 2 number of other New Englan cities to observe methods used in lay- ing water mains to find out if the local water department could {im- prove its system of doing that kind of work. The question of how much of a re- duction in rates the fire insurance companies would allow Washington | high-pressure main: in the event were installed will be an important ; factor in obtaining the nceded ap- propirations from Congress, District officlals believe. Aside from the question of imsur- ance rates, the civic and trade or- ganizations of the city are for high- pressure fire mains -on the more urgent ground that it is essential to the saving of lives and the protection of property with the number of high buildings steadily increasing. For All Business Area. Whenever the system is installed it will extend, in all probability, throughout the present business area as outlined in the traffic regulations; that is, from Pennsylvania avenue to K street and from 17th to 7th street, The east and west boundaries may be widened, however. s now seems likely, no money reasen that the current needs of the city are so great that they will amount to more than the city can hope to get in the appropriation bill. Streets in need of repair, sewers that should be extended, new school buyildings to be erected and a num- ber of similar developments have ac- cumulated to such an extent from the war period that the Commissioners will find it a puzzling task to keep their budget within reasonable bounds, despite the fact that they are_ mno longer restricted to the re- guirément of asking for no more than twice the ‘estimated revemues for the FAA 3 N < would place an officer such as Col. 1 Sherrill in charge of all the execu- i tive department buildings in addition to the public buildings and grounds { was not made clear. | Would Centralize Anthority. It was learned, however, that there had been a growing sentiment in favor of some more clearly organized and systematic control over the build- ings of the government, by which all | the grounds might be under one au- thority, and the buildings, under an- other. Or, it was pointed out, the whole could be merged in one officer. But that officer, it was said, should ;be more independent than Col. Sher- rill is at present, for under the pres- ent organization he is under direc- tion of the chief of engineers of the | War Department, and that was iwhat some of the Interior Depart- ment officlals were unable to under- tand, July 1, when they came ander ! Col. Sherrill's jurisdiction. Why, they |wlnled to know, did the War Depart- ment want to assume authority over | the home of the Interior Department? Col. Sherrill has authority over the various buildings under his direction t present in_ a peculiarly divided manner. As officer in charge of pub- llsvhulldlnll and grounds. he is re- sponsible for the parks, White House, j monuments, &nd certain other similar pu‘blxk; hfilldlngA For this, his ad- ministrative office is in the building. e Gperates Under Commisaton. As superintendent of State, War and Navy Department buildings, and others which have since been added to that office, he has an office in the State, War and Navy building, in charge of the assistant to the super- intendent, Capt. F. W. Hoover. It is first denied she had visited the place, but later admitted. the police say, she had been there previous to the slay- in; ‘That's him! That's the man T saw knock the lady down!” cried William Jones, colored, nine-year-old son of | Mrs. Louise Jones, who lives within | a hundred feet of the house where/ the crime was committed, when Sheriff A. C. Clements brought Bran- | nan before the jury. The boy had been preceded on the stand by his mother, who, after tell- ing of having seen a man strike one of the women in the party at the shack and knock her down, was some- | what uncertain about identifying Brannan. She said he looked like | the man, but that the one she saw wore a yellow shirt. It was then that Prosecutor Thomas called the boy ter Mrs. Jones positively identi- | fied Brannan. She said she had heard | quarreling all afternoon at the shack, but said she paid no attention to it | as she thought it merely a result of the drinking “that was going on.” Saw Woman Beaten. | “I was busy with my cooking.” said the witness, “and when my children | kept talking about the fighting I told | them to keep away and mind their own business. They kept talking| about it, and about 5 o'clock T looked | over to the house and saw a man hit | a woman three times, once at least!| with his closed fist. She put up her | lhands to ward off the blows. but final- | 1y fell to the ground.” The witness said that none of the others present made an attempt to stop the man. Mrs. Jones declared that after 8} o'clock there was quiet in the shack | until about 2 o'clock in the morning, | when she heard men's voices and the | barking of a dog. “I thought it only | that same old fight.” said the woman, “and paid no attention to it.” Young Jones testified that he saw another man knock Brannan down ! after he had hit Mrs. Copperthite, and also said he saw the men carry the woman who had been knocked down into the hut. Contradictory the and Mrs. having statements marked Rhodes. Bra! uck the woman at all. nan denied He didn't remember much just what had occurred. i nan’s testimony by sayving he did not see Brannan strike Mrs. Copperthite. He said he had reached the shack | about noon Thursday, and that Mrs. Copperthite, Brannan and Reynolds arrived about 4 o'clock in the after- noon. g “I saw_Mrs. Copperthite sitting on (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Why Not Learn to Swim? to_this latter office that the Interior " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) —— BECOME A FLATHEAD, TRIBE URGES PRESIDENT. INVITATION IS ACCEPTED President Harding today ac- cepted the invitation ‘of the Filat- head Indians. of Montana to be- come an honorary member of their tribe. He will be addpted with elaborate ceremonies during the next few dayyl rding to plans outlined by thf Ronan, Mont., Community Club, which extended the Invitation to the President on_behslf of the Indians. President Harding in his reply of acceptance said had no ob- jection to a .proposal to have a mountain - peak on the Indian reservation named Mount Harding. | Pointers on how to acquire proficiency in this most health- ful of sports for men, women and - children alike will be found weekly in the pink sports section of The Sunday Star, beginning tomorrow. Illustrated articles explaining the various stroke: with training tips, will be presented. They have been prepared by Gertrude Artelt, national champion and record-holder, - awarded -the honor of having the most per- ‘fect figure and of being the best type of all-round athlete at the last competition of the American = Gymnastic Union, Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 85616 | nary ! strengthened in the minds of offi Hit testimony of Branpan, Vaughn | sald he was “full of corn” and really | Vaughn partly substantiated Bran- | —_————— | | killed, % i wreck was due to apparent miscol* TWO CENTS. HAND OF VENDETT VELED IN MURDER THREATON WONAN Black Hand Plot Suspected in Mount Rainier Acid- Throwing Case. ARREST ITALIAN WOMAN: HELD FOR INVESTIGATION Declsred to Fit Description of Brunette Who Blinded Mrs. Louise Brooke. Mrs. Rosie Bradio, twenty-five years old. of 1420 Hanover street, ti- more, a sister-in-law of Bradley Cav- ey and who is the woman Cavey has admitted “somewhat” fits the de- scription of the solidly built bru- | nette who blinded Mrs. Louise Brooke of Mt. Rainier with acid, and who ix believed by the police to have taken part in other murderous attempts on her life, was taken into custody toduy by Prince Georges county authori- ties. She denied having any knowl- edge of Mrs. Brooke's assailant. She and Cavey, who is lodged in jail at Marlboro on default of payment of $2500 bail. probably will be brought before Justice of the Peace Robert E. Joyce of Mt Rainier to- night for a hearing. Likely Vendetta Plot. Interesting developments bearing on whether Mrs. Brooke was marked for death in a vendetta arranged by blackhanders were looked for by the authorities. Mrs. Bradio and Mrs Cavey are Italians. With the acid thrower on the occasion when Mrs Brooke's sight was destroyed was a dark man, appearing also to be an Italian, according to testimony sworn to before Judge Joyce. Mrs. Bradio was brought te Hyatts- ville this afternoon by Constable Thomas H. Garrison, who went to Baitimore this morning and got her at Baltimore police headquarter: She was urrested last night by the Baltimore officers at the request of the Prince Georges county authoritfes on a warrant sworn out by Judge Joyce. She is being held for in- Definite decision as to the advisability of holding a hearing tonight will be made this afternoon at a conference between Constable Gurrison and Judge Joyce. When the hearing takes place, if testimony warrants, Mrs. Bradio probably will have a formal charge placed against her in connectiom with the piot. Black Hand Theory. The black hand theory has gained in credence with the unfolding almost hourly of additional- details of the attack on young Mrs. Brooke. The authorities are convinced that the injured woman certalnly would not refuse so consistently to aid in the apprehension and prosecution of her tormentors unless some dire threats of mysterious origin are being held over her. It is believed that the same persons who have been imperilling Mrs. Brooke's life have conveyed to her some way, a message that they will do away not only with her, but with her seven-year-old son and per- haps some others close to her. It is understood that this angle of the case will be thoroughly probed when Mrs. Bradio is put on the stand. Held as Witnesnes. Technically. ~Mrs. Brooke. Mrs Cavey and Miss Addie Smith, sister of Bradley Cavey, are bonded in the sum of $2.500 each to insure their ap- vestigation. pearance as state witnesses. None of these women has been arrested, how - ever, and it is likely that they will not be arrested at presents it was | disclosed today. Archie Walter, against whom a war- rant charging assault with intent to kill was issued on complaint of Cavey. is in Baltimore, where he went yes- terday after being released from the Hyattsville jail on $1.000 bond. The peculiar situation of having Cavey, the accuser, in jail, at Marlboro. while Walter, the accused, is at large was brought about following the prelimi- hearing before Judge Joyce nigit before last. when the belief was ~ was understood, that Cavey's charges against Walter were in the nature of a “frame-up.” * Mrs. Brooke went to Baltimore yes- terday to obtain hospital treatment for her’eyes. She contends that she is now able to see slightly. but the officers are of the opinion that this assertion conforms to her apparer! policy of making light of her injuricf A T FIVE REPORTED KILLED WHEN TRAINS COLLIDE | :Meet Head-On at Logan, Mo.—List of Casualties Indefinite. Details Lacking. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., July persons were killed and several per- sons injured this morning when a St. Louis and San Francisco passen- ger train, No. 2, known as the Texas special, struck train No. 8, known as the Meteor, in a he Hision at Logan, Mo., about -tive miles west of Springfield. A list of the dead and injured was not available. The cause of the wreck had not been ascertained. Engineer Ring, on train N according to reports. 9, was Ths struction of orders and failure to ob. | serve signals by Engineer Ring, tha offices at St. Louis road's general announces. The bodies have not been recovere® from the wreckage as yet, according to an official report, but several can be seen buried beneath the debris. A wrecking crew from Springfield is on its way to the scene of the accident. Relief parties are also being sent out trom adjoining towns to aid the in- jured passengers.. JOPLIN, Mo., July_22.—Six persor’ were killed in the head-on collision of St. Louis-San Francisco passenger trains numbers 2 ‘and 9. at Logan, Mo., this moming, according to the raiiroad agent at jonville. which wherein 2,000 women and girls from all parts of the country contested. is near Logan. Besides C. H. Ring, engineer on train No. 9, a man. his wife and three child _were killed, ‘the sgent sa They e passen- gers on No. 2 and were seated in the front end of one of the coaches, .,