Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1922, Page 3

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By the Associated Press, DUBLIN, July 22.—With both flanks of the republican Insurgent army broken, through yesterday's capture 1of Waterford and Limerick, the ir- | regular trcops today were reported {to be rewreating in the direction of Cork. They are believed to number :ome thousands of soldiers, suffi- ciently equipped with all arms ex- cept artillery, and they are expected to give the national army forces con- siderable trouble In guerrilla tactics, { but it is doubted if they make a de- termined stand before reaching Cork. Telegraph lines from Cork were artiully restored yesterday, and ssages reaching Dublin indicated t the city was comparatively quiet. 3 iderable anxiety, how- the “inhabitants, who feared that the city might soon be- come of fignting. Some trav- elers arriving in Dublin from Cork aid most of the people were strong- in sympathy with the provisional rnment, but that they were over- ved by republican troops _ The national forces are sald to be in_complete control of Limerick, ex- i cept for a few insurgent snipers. The 1y was reported to have suffered little from bombardment, but was | &reatly damaged by fires that were iznited by the irregulars when they | were compelled to evacuate. ! Gunners Spare Castle. i King John's Castie is sald to have i been purposely spared by the nationalist gunners, the government wishing to pre- serve historic architecture as much as possible, but this discrimination did not |save the ancient building, as the repub- i are alleged to have deliberately |set fire to it. It was almost completely | destroyed. Many business buildings were said to been destroved by fires, which d from the Strand and other bar- | ignited by the frregulars. Mos of the insurgent soldiers apparently es- caped through holes in the walls of ad- 'julnmL’ bu hr]ss. marking house-to- {house tunnels from the central posts to {the outskirts of ghe city. | (Reports reaching here through Free tite channels charge the republicans with havl ng looted the Limerick stores jof pract v everything valuable. The i0ss is said to have amounted to several thousand pounds, Valera Flees to Clonmel. Eamonn De Valera is alleged to have {been in the city for some time, but left {when the attack began, going to the re- |publican headquarters at Clonmel. i Word reached here early ‘today that jthe national forces captured Castlerea, {County Roscommen, yesterday, after i i irregulars, who surrendered. | Heavy firing occurred early today iwhen a party of men, armed with rifles and machine guns, attacked the Four Courts Hotel, adjoining the ruins of the {Four Courts building, now held by na- tional army forces. The assailants fired from across Liffey river. The national trcps returned the fire and the attack- ers finally withdrew. No casualties were reported. EAST CORK PIER BLASTED. Girl Alighting From Trolley Car Slain When Nationals Ambushed. BELFAST, July 22.—It is reported here that the irregulars have blown |up the Ballycotton pier in East Cork. They also are said to have evacuated {Roche Point in Cork harbor. Nationalist troops were ambushed yesterday in the south side of Dub- lin by assailants on the housetops and behind walls, who fired rifies and { hurled bombs, says a Dublin dispatch this afternoon. | A young girl alighting from a trol- {ley car was killed. Several civilians {were injured. The casualties among {the troops were not reported. The Another attack was ade later in Camden street. 5 Prixoners Total 130. The prisoners captured in Water- {ford by the national army total 150, lincluding the leader of the city brigade and members of the irregular [ headquarters staff. A large quan- tity of ammunition was obtained to- gether with large numbers of mines, | The nationalists lost four killed and cleven wounded. In Limerick the ir- regulars are reported to have lost twenty killed and many wounded. While the inhabitants of Limerick were almost on the verge of starva- tion, the national troops report hav- ing found many sacks of flour utiliz- ied instead of sandbags to fortify buildings. The irregular force is {said to have been composed, for the | most part, of boys between the ages of ten and twenty-five, in char; | Liam Lynch. Lol The capture of Castlerea, County Roscommon, which was held by 300 to the nationals, who conyerged on the town and shelled the irregulars’ h lquarters after the latter had re- fused to surrender. After an hour's lhombardmenl the white flag was j hoisted. Many of the insurgents sur- jrendered. The others fled, fighting { while retreating. i !STEEL MERGERS LEGAL, DECLARES DAUGHERTY torney General Reports Two Proposals Within Law. The Department of Justice will take no action against the merger of the { Bethlehem and Lackawanna steel com- | panies or the Midvale, Republic and i Inland companies, Attorney General Dougherty holding that neither of the proposed combination, if put through would violate the Sherman act, the Clayton act or the Webb act. s was the opinion submitted the Attorney General to the Scn-h(z yesterday in response to the La Fol- {lette resolution asking the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Com. mission to inform the Senate what steps they hed taken to ascertain the purpose and effects of the proposed mergers, and to protect the puble interest, and whether in the former's 1opinion they warranted procedure un- der the Sherman and Clayton acts to prevent their consumimaticn. As to whether the consolidations would constitute a violation of the federal trade act, Mr. Daugherty sald that although the Senate resolu- tion seemed broad enough to call for an_expression of his views on this point, he “must for obvious reasons decline to express any. Members of the Federal Trade Com- mission said the opinion of the At- torney General would have no effect upon the commission in its indepen- dent investigation of the mergers, nor would it be necessar: mission to wait for the actu: tag of the three suing a complaint, merg- »mpanteg before is- |sheiling the local headquarters of the | !irregulars, was effected without loss | | Answering Senate Resolution, At-| Abe Martin Says: Th’ ole-fashioned , candidate that used t' promise t’ reduce| taxes now has a son runnin’ fer office that’s goin’ t’ bring booze back. We're all strangers when it comes t’ findin’ Easy street. (Copyright National Newspaper Service.) i e Sl v ae ARCATEETS RUSH NEW SEADOL WORK Contracts to Be Let by Oc- tober 1 on-Junior High Buildings. SAME PLANS FOR BOTH; Langley and Macfarland Structures | Will Be Susceptible of "Enlargement. Full speed ahcad has been ordered by Municipal Architect Harris on the | specifications for the two new junior | high schools o that the Commission- ers may advertise for bids by Septem- ber 1. . Contracts should be let be- fore October 1. The Langley built on the street, between northeast. Tae High will occupy the lavenue northwest, between Upshur and_ Alliron streets, with 13th street in the rear. Same Plans for Doth. { Junior High will be elevated tract on T 1st and 2d streets Macfarland Junior site .on_lowa Both buildings will be erected from | the same set of plans, con: ting of 2 main structure, with two end wing: %o be put up luter as additional ap propriations are obtained. The main building of the Langley School will e placed practically on | (he crest of the T street hill, which | {is one of the highest spots in Wash- {ington, and consequently a most de ruble school site i The main building will be placed so | tHat when it is extended the west wing will abut on tne fine of 1sti street, | which has not been cut | through vet. The east will will ex- tend down the side of the :slopc’ toward Zd street. ! New Streét Plam. i At the east end of the school & new | street, to be known as Ec nston § terrace, is to be opened. This street | will begin in a point At the incer- | Section of 2d and T streets, und ex- tend in a southwesterly irection to Prospect street. The opening of ¢ leave a triangular space bounded by 2d street, Eckington terrac T andi Prospect streets. Condemnstion pro- ceedings to acquire this triangle s a park are now pending in court. | The Mactarland Scnool will froat on | Towa avenue toward the All treet end of the lot, leaving room Zfor an! athletic field between the building | and Allison street. —_———— RETURNED AS ‘FUGITIVE. street will Theft. | Louls Moore, alias Ernest L. Smith, was brought back to this city from Wi mington, Del., last night by Detective Conners’ to answer charges of the theft of an automobile from Charles H. Orme | of 6501 Georgia avenue. Conners also brought back the auto- mobile alleged to have been stolen. ! Moore said that he had to get to Wil-| mington to see his sweetheart, accord- ing to the police, and that since she had | not telegraphed him funds, he took the | automobile. ~ He was released from the Newcastle, Del., county workhouse two weeks ago, according to the police, after serving a sentence of two and a half years on charges of a @imilar nature. ‘While Conners was discussing his case ! this morning at police headquarters, Robert P. Bailey walked into the detec- tive bureau to report the theft of an automobile which he had parked out- side. The machine was on the south 1 {ing School for Louis Moore Charged With Autol {side of Pennsylvania avenue in front of the District building and opposite Bail- | ey’s place of employment at 1347 Penn- {sylvania avenue. —_ LIMIT AIR FIRE PATROL. Service Restricted to National For- | ests in Oregon. Army airplanes will again maintain a fire patrol over the national for- ests in Oregon this summer, although, {due to lack of appropriations, the War Department has been forced to restrict the patrol to that state. Decision to conduct the patrol with iseven planes from the Crissy and Mather fields, California, for a period of sixty days, beginning at once, was reached at a conference between Gen. Patrick, chief of the air service, and the Secretary. of War, and instruc- tions to that effect were immediately forwarded to the air officer of the 9th Corps area at San Francisco. DETROIT PAPERS MERGED News Purchases’ Journal, Latter Ending Publication. DETROIT, Mich., July 22.—Purchase of the Detroit Journal by the Detroit News was announced by both news- rs today. The newspapers, both in P atternoon field, are to be merged fm- mediately, the Journal ceasing publica- tion with its first edition toda: The Journal plant, located at Fort and Wayne streets, is to be disposed of. The total purchase price for the title and good will was In excess of $2,000, 000, is_was announced. The News is o by the Scripps estate, while_the Journal was the property of C. C. Ver- han, Paul Block and H. S. Talmadge of New York and N. C. Wright_of Detroit. ——— INJURED IN AVALANCHE. YOSEMITE, Calif, July 22.—Miss Frances Killam of Palo Alto, Calif,, was seriously injured and ten others recelved minor injuries in an ava- larew on the ledge trail in Yosemite valley. DIPLOMATS LAUD TACNA QUTGOME: Brighter Day Seen for Pan- America, as Delégates Begin Leaving. CONFERENCE “VICTORY” Arbitration Protocol Declared As- surance ~ of Successful - Negotiations, By the Associated Press. A brighter sy for pan-American relationships was seen by diplomatic and official Washington today as a re- sult of the final accord of Chile and Peru for arbitration of their forty- Year dispute over Tacna-Arica. itration protocol, nignedl yesterday, just before adjournment of | the Chilean-Peruvian conference con- vened here ten weeks ago at the in- vitation of President Harding, was commented upon by diplomatists and | by those in high authority in the Washington government as-not only marking another victory for the “con- ference plan” of ncgotlation, but as 1emoving an International irritation which might have had serious conse- quences throughout the Americas. Sull to Be Ratified. The protocol and its complementary act still are to be ratified by the Chilean and Peruvian congresses, and although no serious opposition is ex- ted here it appears likely that res- toration of diplomatic relations be- tween Santiago and Lima, broken in will await parliamentary ap- 1 The ratifications are to be anged within a period of three months under the terms of the set tlement, d it is expected that Presi dent Harding as the designated ar- bitrator will begin formal considera- tion of the question immediately afterward. Some Delegates Depart. Some of the conference personnel already had left Washington today and the others will remain only a few days longer. Carlos Aldunate, head of the Chilean delegation, ex- pected to leave tonight for Atlantic City, preparatory to a voyage to Europe. The Peruvian delegates, who were | luncheon hosts today to Dr. L. S. | Rowe, director of the Pan-American | Union, are to say good-bye to the capital early next week. Dr. Rowe. who has taken an active though informal part in the Wushing- ton negotiations, declared in a state- | ment today that the conference set- tlement meant a long forward step | in peaceful relationships in the Americas. He praised the attitude in which both sides had approached the question_and the infu by the United States in fair and just agreement. SIX GIRLS CAPTURED. securing a Enjoy Short Liberty in Flight From Training School. | Six inmates of the National Train- irls, on conduit road District line, escaped last| were back n in e | the and near night institution today following their dis-; { ¢ and return by police of the h precine ials of the institution declared that only six left the place. It i believed that plans were formulated { during the showing of a motion pic-| i ture at the pl last night and that ipped away under cover| during the entertainment thereafter. the girls of darkness or shortly iless {the United {on_the Folly Quarter roa FELICITIES EXCHANGED _ BY BRITISH AND U. S. ARMS DELEGATIONS Messages of felicitation have bgen exchanged by the members of the British and American dele- gates to the Washlngton copfer- ence \on_limitation ~of armament. The British message was addressed to Secretary Hughs, It bore the signatures of Earl Balfour, Lord Lee, Lord Riddell and other mem- bers of the British delegation, and sald: = % At A nio) ner of the Brit- ish mifl N)D &l:ahlnhon. which also was. gftended by British and Amerlelnlne,'q)lzi correspond- ents who'were pres¥hit at the con- ferencey. it -was resolved to send to you and to your colleagues of the American delegation a mes- sage of friendly greeting and to express ‘once more our apprecia- tlon of Washington's kindness and hospitality and our happy memo- ries of the spirit of co-operation through which great things were accomplished.’ In reply Mr. Hughes eabled: “My colleagues of the American delegation heartily appreclate the friendly message from the reunion dinner of the British mission to Washington. ~“They join me in sending to you and your asso- ciates cordial greetings, and are glad of the oppoftunity to speak once more of the pleasure with which we always remember the friendly to-operation, of the Brit- ish mission.” SRR S iy BRITISH SHIP LOOTED | OF $2,000 OFF FLORIDA| London £aid to Have Asked U. S. to Investigate Pirate’s Mur- , * der of Captain. By the Associated Pre: MIAMI, Fla., July 22—Official wire- | messages from Commissioner | Cleare of the Island of. Bimini to Col. F. H. Jenkins, British vice consul in| fiaml, received llast night, adVise that the British schooner Willlam H. "Albury was boarded by three youths, Wwho manned the auxiliary schooner Falcon, amd_ that only $2,000 of the large sum in the schooner’s safe was| secured by the pirates. Capt. Edgecomb, colored, of the schooner was killed_during the raid on the vessel off Gun Key llite Thurs-} day afternoon. According to Chief of Police Quigg, | the description given of the chief of | the pirate gang tallies with that ‘of | Jimmy Truitt, a Miami young man | recently discharged from the state penitentiary, where he served a year for stealini fruit. The police yester- instituted _search for Truitt “Eft Powell of Arch creek and a third youth, whose home is- believed to_be in Stuart. | The British government has asked | tates to investigate the | cording to information re- i Lieut. Col. Jenkins, vice| murder, a ceived by consul here. —_— FLOOD RECORD BROKEN. Speciai Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE. July 22.—Coupled wy:h; the report that the bridge over the | middle branch of the Patuxent river, in How- hed away ! from the more car than tory. | had been was anrouncement commission floods rred this y ever before in Maryland's h Four times a part of the Frederick ke has been put out of use tempo- | rarily. Highways throughout the state | usly damaged. These washouts and floods are not only due to cloudbursts, but also to the fact that the ground for some time has been saturated with water which the | land cannot absorb. Rainfall has been ! hea and continuous, and at present no relief appears to be in sight. ard county state raining for the 121st Regiment of | 0., CUARDSBREAK CANP TOMORRON Companiés Mustered Today for Purpose of Check- ing Pay Rolls. | FINAL REVIEW TONIGHT Two-Week Training Declared Most Successful Outing Since Reorganization. Preparations are being made today at Camp Simms, District of Columbia, for bringing to an end one of the; most successful camps of the National Guard of the District of Columbia | since its reorganization following the war. Though the past two weeks of | Engineers of the National Guard of the District of Columbia have been! intensive ones, and the troops have crowded in much work which has made them real soldiers, many of, them view the end of the encamp- ' ment with much regret. One of the important proceedings of an encampment of militia Is being held today, that of mustering each | company for the purpose of che ing up the pay rolls. . com is required to have a specified num- ber of men in order that the o may receive pay. Aside from this ceremony, there will oe/little doin in | the camp this afternoon, until time i for the official ceremonics. There will | be a parade and feview, the iinal one of the encampment, this evening at 7} o'clock, and it is expected that it will draw a large crowd, which will = an organization which has l:een high- Iy praised by regulavs. After the parade and review there will be a public band concert by the 1st Engineer Band. Camp will be brok:n carlv tomor- row morning. and following police work and packing and loading of cquipment, the troops will return to their armory at 472 L street north- west, where they will be released, after they have been paid for the two weeks of training. - DAYLIGHT QUESTION | LEFT TO BRANCHES Employes’ Union Decide Action Following President’s Reply on Referendum. Department branches of Federal! Employes’ Union, No. 2, were em- powered, as a result of action taken at a meeting last night at 1423 New York avenue, to take such action on daylight saving “as conditions war- ranted” President Harding's re- sponse to the request for a referen- dum of federal officers and employes on the daylight-saving plan was read and the meeting decided that in view of the President's statement, depart- ment heads were frce to change the hours, the several branches of the union could take such action as they saw fit. A rising vote of thanks was ten- dered the legislative committee for ts “exceptionally efficient service in nnection with the campaign to re-{ tain the $240 salary bonus. YOUNG MAN SHOT DEAD. | Virginia Slayer Surrenders and Claims Self-Defense. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July Robert Batten, son of James Ba n, well known merchant of Mount : ¥air, Albemarle county, was shot and ntly killed by Gilbert Via, twen- | y-three-year-old son of W. A. Via. prominent farmer living near the | border line of Albemarle and Augusta counties. Young Via came to this city and /| surrendered to the authorities yester- | day. He claims self-defense. Bad | blood is said to have existed between the two men, who married sisters, daughters of Austin Garrison of Mount Fair. “EARL” RUNS AFOUL POLICE. MONTREAL, July 22.—A man who is alleged to have posed as the “Earl of Dunblayne’” at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, as A. J. Walker-Craig at the Windsor and as E. 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