Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1922, Page 1

WEATHE! Partly cloudy today a: probably much change in tempe $8.0; lowest, TL6. Full report on page 5. local thundershowers; Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at 10 o'clock last night: Highest, R. nd tomorrow; not rature. No. 904.— No. 28,574. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1922.—SEVENTY-TWO PAGES. FIVE CENTS STRIKERS MUST RETURN BEFORE CONGRESS AGTS Belief at Capitol No Legis- lation Is Likely Otherwise. PRESIDENT CONFERS WITH SENATE BODY House Members Would Be Called to City If Emergency De- mands Law Changes. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Unless an emergency should arise making it necessary for the govern- wnent, in- order to protect the public, to take over the coal mines or the Fallroads, no legislation will be at- fempted by Congress to deal with Pither the mines or the roads until Wfter the strikes have been settled. This was the general belief at the Tapitol yesterday following conter- ences between the President and re- publican and democratic members of the Senate Interstate commerce com- mittee. Should an emergency arise demand- ing legislation giving the President the power to seize the mines or the roads, the House of Representatives would be called back to Washington Smmediately by the President. In the ordinary course of events the House will not return until August 15. It 1s understood that the President be- licves it will not be necessary to sum- mon the House. here is & general willingness on \e part of senators to keep hands off the strike situation and to give the administration full sway in effecting an adjustment of the mine and rail- road labor differences. Nothing should be done, they hold, which might embarrass the cxecutive in handling the situation. On the other hand, it was indicated Jesterday, legislation will be under- taken as soon as the men have gone back to work looking to a prevention of future disturbances tying up the coal supply and the transportation of the country. Senator Cummins, chalrman of the interstate commerce committee and co-author of the Esch-Cummins | transportation act, creating the Rail- | road Labor Board. followthg his con- | ference at the White House with the President, was closeted at the Cap- itol for two hours and a half yes- terday afternoon with representatives of the railroad brotherhoods. The brotherhoods are not involved in the strike, Senator Cummins point- ed out |later, but they are keenly in- | terest fi in it. Their representatives pointe | out to Mr. Cummins that the | brotherhoods are the trainmen, who| must operate the trains. The loco-! motives and cars, due to the strike! of the shopmen, they said, are get- ting into bad order, becoming unsafe. The plain intimation was, Senator Cummins said, that the trainmen might eventually refuse to operate| many of the locomotives and cars be- | cause of “bad order.” “It is easy to see to what this tends,” was his comment. If the train- men refuse to take out the trains Lecause they are not safe, the same yesult would obtain as if they were on strike, o far as the public| s concerned. . The representatives of the broth- @rhoods had demanded, Senator Cum- nins said, the repeal of all the labor provisions of the transportation act— which would meau the abolition of the Railroad Labor Board. He point- ©d out, however, that this was noth- ing new, as the brotherhoods always had opposed the labor provisions of the transportation act. to Amend Act. Senator Cummins indicated that he would be willing to have the trans-| portation act labor clauses amended—- after the men had gone back to work they should state specifically that in fixing wages of the workers, the Railroad Labo® Board should take into consideration living costs| and provide for a “living wage.” “No man should be required to work for less than a living wage,” said Benator Cummins. . “The transporta- tion act, by implication, at least, now takes into consideration a living wage, and I have no doubt but what | the Labbr Board took that into con= eideration in making its decision re- garding the wages of the shopmen.” The proposal to amend the trans- portation act in accordance with sug- &estion may be offered as an induce- ment. it was believed last night, to get the shopmen to go back to work. Ir some quarters, it was suggested, too. that the administration might propose that if the men “would go back to work it would use its in- fluence to obtain for the men the seniority standing they held before the strike. This issue is said to be one of the chief stumbling blocks to a ccttlement today of thie strike. —s0 Strike Developrhents . RAILROAD. Preaident Harding snent mont of Jesterdny comferring with Bem Hooper, chairman of the United States Railrond Labor Board, and members of Semate commlittees on the railway strike, but mo course of action was made public. Secretary Davis conferred with W. L. McMenimen of the Labor Board and B. M. Jewell and other strike leaders at Mooscheart, IIl., o gain all ponsible information on the controversy. Agreements hetween the ronds nnd employes prevented striken of 7300 clerks, freight handlers, sta- tion and express employes on the Chicago and Northwestern raflway nd 4,000 on the Big Four. The Railroad Labor Board will be auked to arbitrate wage differ- ences between the Michigan Cen- teal 9.000 maintenance of way employes, it was announced. Eastern roads nare planning to form company unions, L. F. Loree, chairman of the eastern presi- dents® conference of rallway ex- ecutives’ announced. MINE. A new pence nlan was submitted to President Harding and mine workera' leaders by John F. Dur- kan, mayor of Scranton, Pa. Government agencies took steps to effect emergency distribution of fuel to needy railways and publie utilities. Federal survey of strike situn- tion gives 610,000 miner on strike and 185,000 still at work. Michigan officials report coal shortage becoming more acute with supplies a state in- stitutions virt: ly exhausted. London reports heavy demand for ships to transport English coal to the United States. sary to Protect Public, He Says. By the Associated Press. . INDIANAPOLIS, July 22.—Gov. Me- Cray of Indiana today declared that he could not “believe that the will of thirty thousand miners and a given number of operators should be con- sidered paramount to- the interests of the balance of the three million peo- Ple who constitute the state of In- diana.” The governor made the dec- laration spondence with Harold A. Henderson, general counsel for district No. 11, United Mine Workers of America, over the possibility of proclaiming martial law in connection with the operation of coal mines. Declaring that martial law would be the last resort, the governor pdded that if it becomes necessary to mine coal under arms “in order to protect the 15,000 unfortunate wards of the state for whose care and comfort the state is responsible, it shall be done.” The governor's letter, sent today to Mr. Henderson, was in reply to a communication yesterday in which the miners’ counsel declared that a ma- Jority of the 30,000 Indiana miners are Ppeaceful, that to proclaim martial law TO PEACE, By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 22.—Three main principles now prevent a possible set- tlement of the railway shopmen's strike, B. M. Jewell, head of the rail- ways department of the American Federation of Labor, said in a state- ment tonight. These issues, he said, are found in the refusal of the rail executives: 1. To discontinue contracting. out of work. 2. To establish a national board of adjustment. employes who suspended work. “The responsibility for increasing losses to the railroads, to the com- munities they serve and to the wage- earners upon the railroads and else- where, through continuance of the present suspensiom ©f work,” statement said, “rests now plainly upon the association of raliway ex- ecutives and particularly upon that small but dominating group repre- senting the New York banking Inter- Accuses Rallroads. Pointing out that the Railroad La- bor Board has decided against the practice of contracting out railroad work in eertain cases, Mr. Jewell as- serted that the Erie railroad, the New York Central and its subsidiaries, in- cluding the Indlana Harbor Belt, the There was no confirmatioh of this lafter repert, however. It the transportation act 1s amended Bo as to have a “living wage” spe- eifically mentioned, it will be neces- sary to define a living wage. So far as could be learned last night, only' onc official attempt to define a living | wage has been made by a govern- | ment agency—by the War Laber B d, created during the war. Living Wage Defined. The War Labor Board decided that & “living wage" must be sufficlent to provide a decent home, adequate food and clothing, burlal outside of the than at free dispensaries and freedom Mom dependence on child labor.” .~ (Continued on Page 3, Column 3) Michigan Central and the Big Four, and the Western Maryland road have all contracted out shop work. “Many other roads,” the statement said, “have followed the same prac- tice, and always with the purpose and result of reducing wages, evading de- cisions of the Labor Board, degrading working conditions and attacking the employes’ organizations.” Aseerting that the Erie, New York Central and Western Maryland as well as’ other roads have announced their decision to fight -decisions “ih this matter to: the highest court, "Mr. Jewell said the board’s decision against the practice would be set at neught for years by some roails, decide thaf the board's powers are only advisory “eventually all rail- m-_dtwmbosmqlomtthtm-. 7] (HOOSIER GOVERNOR! THREATENS FORCE Will Call Out Militia If Neces- | in an exchange of corre- THREE ISSUES BAR WAY 3. To continue seniority rights of| the SECRECY FOLLOWS PRESIDENT'S LONG PARLEY ON STRIKE Senators and Hooper Ape i Closeted at White House for Rail Discussion. MR. HARDING BELIEVED TO WANT NO NEW LAWS ECnmmins Gets Many Complfiin" of “Bad-Order” Engines and Danger of Continued Use. ! i | { By the Associated Press. President Harding spent eight hours yesterday in close study of the railroad strike situation, but when his activitiex were concluded there was not the slightest intimation con- cerning conclusions reached or pos-| { sible course of administration action. Ben W. Hooper, chairman of the Railroad Labor Board, was the Presi- | ‘dent's chief informant, but a part | | | | {of the time Senators Cummins of lowa, Watson of Indiana and I\'elh:ng of Minnesota, all republican members {of the Senate interstate commerce | committee, were closeted with the| President and Mr. Hooper. Later also | Senators Underwood and Pomerene, | democratic members of the same Sen- late committee, saw the President. | For these conferences all the usual | | engagements were set aside. | Mr. Hooper left the sessions after lunching with the President, and last | night returned to Chicago. the President a direct and full | count of every move that Kad been | Imade by the Labor Board since the | {shop craftsmen walkea out July 1./ and further, a view of the positions | jtaken by the strike leaders, and by | the executives of the raiiroads with | whom the board has dealt. This was! i supplemented by the three republican | | senators, who themselves went over| ! in the controversy with heads stern railroads in a meeting in shington last week. Wants No New Legixlation. There was no discussion concerning the enactment of legislation, sena- torial participants insisted, and President Harding wus represented as believing #hat new law would be unnecessary and unhelpful for the moment. The questiom of seniority rights was again held to be the chief stumbling ‘block to the return of the men now out, railroad executives largely insisting that strikers had llost their relative service positions in employment by striking and the union leaders contending that em- ployes tuken on in their places should be dismissed. Suggestions that the President in- tended to take action in the rail strike without reference to the labor board were made after the session, but apparently without official sanc- tion. There alsoayere inferences that Chairman Hooper might be carrying back to Chichgo some new sugges- tions, on which tentative negotiations in an endeaver to get the strike called off might be resumed. Par- ticipants, however, were unwilling to discuss any phase of possibilities that the White House discussions revealed. “I do not view the railway situa- " (Continued on Page 4, Column 4 i | | i | 1 i SAYS JEWELL tracting-out methods of evading the transportation act wherever it is to their advantage. 2 Two Issues Recent. The contract issue is the only one of the three issues on which a strike vote was tuken, which Mr. Jewell's statement said held up a possible settlement. The two other strike is- sues were wages and working rules, it having been virtually agreed at conferences that these matters could Dbe submitted. to the labor board for i@ rehearing. The seniority and ad- justment board issues have been trought up since the strike started. Appealing for national adjustment boards to decide cisputes, Mr. JeweH sald that the Association of Railway Executives opposed such boards for the purpose of “deliberately” over- loading the labor board. “The proposition to deprive men of seniority rights because of sus- pension of work,” ‘the statement said, “is utterly indefensible if the facts are understood. The right of the senior employes to be the last laid oft and to have first preference in selection_for preferable jobs, he said, was of great importance, and assert- ed that the railroads wished to do away with seniority in order to “weed out those workers most active in protection of rights of their fellow employes.” Viclous Attack on Rights. “The purpose of destroying seniority rights,” sald the statement, “is a vicious attack on the right of men to refuse to work under non-ac- ceptable conditions”; depriving the men of seniority, he said, would be “a sweeping Injustice, unparalleled in modern history. - o “If the railway executives insist upon using this suspension of work, ‘which they forced upon the empioyes. as an excuse for depriving them -of the fruits of, long-life, ' contiguous, faithful service,” the statement said, “they wiil only give further evidence of the absolute mecessity for the or- gdnized employes to fight to the last | | | | potter's field, medical treatment other | 1o he said if courts continue to|ditch the conspiracy against thelr fundamental rights and against the general welfare of all men who ‘live by labor.® ~ ® G { | Finding WHTE ARESTED N PLACARD FIEHT |Provides Bond and Re- moves Strike Poster Pend- ing Court Action. WOULD NOT COMPROMISE State Has No Right to Suppress Utterances, Kansas Editor Holds. By the Associated Press. EMPORIA, Kan., July 22—A war- rant charging William Allen White, author and editor, with violation of the industrial court law in displaying a placard sympathizing with the Striking railroad shopmen, was issued in district court here late today. Mr. White, through his attorney, immedi- | ately made bond for his appearance when the case is called for trial in district court here next October. The warrant, signed by Roland Boynton, county attorney, a nephew of Mr. White, was issued on an in- formation filed by a representative of Gov. Henry J. Allen, lifelong friend of Mr. White. Placarding Withheld. ‘In a statement given out when the| warrant was Issued, Mr. White said the objectionable placard would not be displayed pending legal settlement of the case. The statement explained that this action was “no compromise. absolutely no acknowledgment of the right of the state to suppress free utterance, published in decent and! orderly manner,” but followed “a profound belief in law and legal processes.” Several days ago Mr. White posted the placard in a window of his new. paper office, the Gazette. The yellow poster announced “We are for th striking railroad men 50 per cent. Mr. White said he would add 1 per cent each day as the shopmen's strike (Continued on Page 3. Column 2) TWIN SUNS 140 TIMES BIGGER THAN QUR SUN of Heaven's Largest Known Bodies Held Major Dis- covery of Modern Astronomy. By the Associated Press. VICTORIA, B. C., July 22—“Twin” suns, fifty-two quadrillicn miles from the' earth, -have been discovered by Dr. J. S. Plaskett, director of the Dominion of Canada’s astro- physical observatory here through the observatory’s big seventy-two- inch reflector telescope, it was an- nounced today. Scientists here said the discovery was one of the most outstanding astronomical achievements of recent years. The suns have been named Plaskett, for the discoverer. Dr. Plaskett has estimated that the suns burn at a temperature of 30,- 000 degrees Fahrenheit as they whirl around one another. One, the more massive is believed ‘to be meventy- five times the bulk of our sun. The lesser 1s sixty-three times heavier. One is 15,000 times as bright as the sun, the other 12,000 times as bright. Plaskett, Dr. Plaskett estimated, is more than five times as, largs as any imown heavenly bedy. Reducing the figures to modern terms, scientists pointed out that an girplane~traveling 200 miles an hour would require 30,000,000,000 years to travel from the earth to.the newly discovered planets. Light, traveling at the rate of 186,000 miles a second, requires more than five thousand years for the passage.- The announcement of . the " discovery quotes Prof. Harold-Jacoby of Colum- bia University as characterising it #the most outstanding.of recent as- tronomical discoveries” and as- de- claring that the measurements re- corded by Dr. Plaskett must be ac- cepted ag mest reliaple. . 'VETO AWAITS Told of Oppositi | President Harding has informed | recent visitors that he will veto the last night. Senatorial leaders, who have plan- | | together with such changes as might | | be necessary to win his approval of ithe measure, denied that they had { heard the President had declared his {intention to veto the bill. They have put off taking up the bonus bill, or iany legislative matters with the President until the coal and railroad strikes have been settled, they said. Nevertheless, the impression that the President would veto the bonus bill has gained ground among some of the senators. it was learned. So much so, that a poll has been under- | taken to ascertain the possibility of | passing the bill over the presidential veto. It would require a two-thirds vote to accomplish this end, and it { has been developed by the canvass 8o | far made that at least thirty senators would not support a motion to pass | the bill over the veto. Probably other | | senators would vote against suclt a I motion also, it was said. Even the | supporters of the bonus plan admit that it would be very difficult to put {it through if the President refused his | approval. Ready to Answer AllL Tt is said that the President, in tell- ing visitors he would veto the bonus | bill, declared he had no hesitancy { whatever In expressing his views: | that he would tell any one who put {the question to him —meaning the | legislators, of course. | The fact that in many sections of the country it is reported sentiment | has swung against the soldier bonus | in the California court: bill has given the opponents of the CENTURY-OLD LAWYER, FORMER U. S. SENATOR, HANDLES OWN SUIT I WILL URGE AMERCAN | LEAGUE OF NATIONS Uruguay to Propose Formation at Pan-American Conference in By the Associated Press. Chile in 1923. H i LOS ANGELES, Calif.,, July 22. Cornelius _Cole, former United States senator from California, who will be 100 years old next September 17, and who maintains a law office, will act as his own at- torney in an action he has brought against the city of Los Angeles for damages to his property by storm waters. He asked presiding Judge Frank R. Willis of the superior court to set the case for an early trial. The judge inspected the calendar and replied: “Well, sengtor, if you are going to try the case yourself, we'll set it in your second century, October 18. You will have the distinction of being the first attorney more than 100 years old to try a case By the Associated Prém. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, July 22.— Formation-of an American league of natfbns will be proposed by Uruguay at the next Ran-American conference to be held in Santiago, Chile, in May, 1923. - This announcement was made in a speech by Foreign Minister Bue- ro before the American Associatlon here. = The forefgn jninister, who dwelt- at length upon the necessity of closer. touch between the United States and the _ South. American natioms, ~ex- Ppr gratification that o much al- et ad been dome to bring North th America closer, together. . IF REPORTS ARE CORRECT Recent Visitors to White House Freely Executive Not Expected. BONUS BILL, | { | | | on—Passage Over | bonus measure confidence it will | never become a law. The President | soldier bonus bill, 4t was reported | and the Secretary of the Treasury|ington the state of the Treasury and de- upon it. provision' for raising the money to pay the bonus. The pending bill| makes no such provision, and it will be passed without such a provision. | Under a special order entered into | south onto Conmecticut avenue when |bound ropes. { by the Senate several weeks ago, the | bonus bill is to be taken up for con- | sideration as soon as fhe tariff bill] has been passed. That the bonus bill will pe passed by the Senate once it comes to a 'vote, even its opponents' concede. They say they do not ex-! pect a Jong fllibuster ggainst the | bonus bill, though it will be discussed | thoroughly. They are banking heav. | ily on the hope and belief the Presi- | dent will veto the bill. See Tariff Enactment. The opponents of the bonus insist | that the President will win far more friends in the country by such a! course than he would by signing the | bill. The tariff bill. it is now predicted by Senate leaders on both sides of the cham- ber, will be passed by -the Senate by August 15, or perhaps a few days later. Then will come the consideration of the | bonus bill. Defeat of candidates for nomination | for the Senate and House in recent primaries, who have supported the | bonus bill, has given members of Congress considerable food for thought. | But the repubiican majority in the Sen- ate has pledged itself so often to the | passage of the bonus bill that it must g0 forward with it, it is said. CULBERSON RUNNING THIRD IN TEXAS VOTE Blanton Leading in Seventeenth | District Congressional Race. DALLAS, Tex., July 22—Earle B.| Mayfield of Austin had a lead of 4,879 | votes over James E. Ferguson of| Temple, and 6,734 over Senator Cul- berson for the democratic nomination for"United States senator in today’s democratic primary, according to in- complete figures to the Texas elec- tion bureau from ninety-three coun- ties. . Four of the counties were re- ported complete. Mayfield had 2 025, Ferguson, 18,146; Culberson, 16. 291; Thomas, 13,271; Ousley, 9,167; Henry, 7.049. Returns from the congressional districts were. meager. The in- cumbents in all except the first dis- trict were leading. In the first Rep- ! resentative Black had €64 votes and J. H. Davis of Sulphur Springs, 664. Representative Blanton in the sev- enteenth district was leading, ac- cording to figures from that district. He had 803-and his nearest opponent, | Oscar ' Calloway of Comanche, had| 487. For governor—In forty-seven coun- ties Gov. Pat M. Neft had 25,902; Fred Rogers, . 14,988, and Harry T. Warner 91, and W. R. King, i DUTCH CABINET OUT. mflflncmadslx'mmnaqbym to Reorganize It. THE HAGUE, July 22.—The Dutch cabinet resigned today and Queen Wilhelmina _has summoned C. J. M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck, the head of | the. retiring ministry, to form a new <cabinet. Z A year ago the ministry underwent stmflar redonstruction. . FIRST WOMAN ATTACHE OF AMERICAN EMBASSY SAILS FOR TOKIO POST SAN FRANCISCO, July 22.—The first woman attache ever assigned to an American embassy in the orient, Miss Maud Miles of Erie, Pa., cleared the Golden Gate to- day when the Pacific mail liner President Lincoln left for the far east. Miss Miles' appointment to the Tokio embassy came fin recogni- tion of her efficiency whén she was secretary to the advisory committee at the Washington con- ference on limitation of arma- ment. Members of the Philippine mis- sion, en route home from Wash- ington, where a plea for inde- pendence was made to adminis- tration officials, also were on the passenger list. Others sailing today were Wil- liam K. Vanderbilt, jr., who will visit the orient on a pleasure tour, and C. P. Chan of the Chinese diplomatic service, recently sta- tioned at London. NURSE NEAR DEATH Severely Burned When Ma- chine Fired in Wreck With Street Car. DR. KARPMAN ALSO HURT Miss Lawhorne Not Expected to Recover, But Physician's Injuries Held Slight. | Trapped in the blazing wreckage | with a street car at Cathedral and | Connecticut avenues, Miss Robie Iiawhorne, a student nurse of Wash | Asylum Hospital, was so| | have repeatedly called attention to|severely burned. bruised and internal- | ly injured yesterday afternoon that | {ned to discuss with the President the |clared it could not stand the added little hope is held for her life at|ber of points in her account bonus bill and his attitude toward it. | drain which a bonus bill would put |Emergency Hospital. Dr. Benjamin | | The President has insisted Karpman of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, | her listeners. !the benug bill, if it be passed, carry | who was drivin & the car, is suffering | from bruises and cuts. 1 Dr. Karpmn was driving east on Cathedral avenue, which was wet from the rain, and started to turn his car skidded across the car tracks | in front of a northbound car. In the | crash, gasoline was sprehd; it ignited, and the wreckage began to blaze! fiercely. I Dr Karpman was severely injured | himself, but being caught in a place of the wreckage much easier of es- cape was enabled to get away from the flames. The crowd that gathered fought fiercely to extricate the suf- fering girl from the bldzing car, but it was not until much of her body had been badly burned and all the hair had been burned from her head that she was dragged forth. Both Miss Lawhorne and Dr. Karp- man were placed in a nearby auto- mobile and rushed to Emergency | Hospital. Dr. Karpman was found to | have Suffered only severe shock, bruises and cuts, while Miss Law- horne was not only burned, bruised and shocked. but suffered, physicians said, internal injuries. While there was some slight hope | for saving the nurse’s life, physicians said. in all cases where as much of the body had been burned there was usually small chance of recovery. MRS. HALL RELEASED IN VIRGINIA MURDER | i Had No Part in Death of Mrs. Copperthite—Police Hunt Two Suspects. Virginia authorities last night an- nounced that Mrs. Alice Katie Hall, & | thirty-two years of age, a resident . of a houseboat at the foot of 24th| street, who was arrested by local| vestigation of the death of Mrs. James ' Copperthite of New Cut and Canal | roads, had been released. i The Virginia police are awaiting| developments, according to Sheriff| A. C. Clements, in the police search for Daniel Howeth and John Rey- nolds, who were recommended to be! held as accessorles in the case sur- rounding the beating to death of Mrs. | Copperthite in a shack on the west| side of Little river near Aqueduct| bridge early Friday morning. How-{ eth, whose address has been under- stood to be the U. S. Soldiers’ Home, | is alleged to be the owner of the shack. Reynolds lives in George- town, but police of the seventh pre- cinct reported last night that no trace | of him has been fopnd. Police of the tenth precinct have | inquired at the Soldiers’ Home for Howeth. Knowledge of such a per- son as a resident there was denied by officials, it was said. Mrs. Hall was arrested by the police in the belief that she was a material witness' In the case. Sherif- Clements. declared after suitable in- vestigation no valid reason was found for holding her. —_— SIX DEAD IN COLLISION. Engineer Added to St. Louis-San Francisco Fatalities. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., July 22.—The number of dead in the head-on col- lision of two St. Louls-San Francisco- passenger trains at Logan, near here early today, was increased to six late today when_it was established tha# five’ members of Andrew Hammer's family of Stoutland, Mo., ‘hed been i {family of Stoutiand; Mo, had been ported. The sixth victim was Ea- gineer C/H. Ring of.Monett; Mo,. - | listen. WOMAN N ACD MYSTERY TAKES BLANE FOR ALL “Did It Myself,” She Tells Mount Rainier Police ir New Confession. PLOT ONLY THICKENED BY “COMPLETE FACTS” Mrs. Cavey and Sister-in-Law Held Under Bond Pending Hearing. Her sightless eyes bandaged and her frail body shaking with emotion, Mrs. Louise Brooke, the “victim™ in Mount Rainier's “murder plot” mys- tery, yesterday evening unfolded to Prince Georges county authorities a remarkable version of how she came | Py her wounds and disfigurements— a story designed o clear of ali blame the wife and sister-in-law of Bradley Cavey, the “man in the case,” but which served only to further tangle the threads in one of Maryland's | strangest criminal cases. “Every one you have arrested is innocent,” she declared in starting what she termed her “complete con- fession” at a private hearing Mount Rainier before Justice of ths | Peace Robert E. Joyce and Constable | Thomas H. Garrison. “All 1 told Bradley Cavey about the acid-throw- ing and attempts on my life w. ah solutely untrue. He told you only what I told him: he thought I was telling the truth. I alone did scare him into stopping his atten- tions to me. T hoped to rectify the - of an automobile which had crashed | wrong he was doing his wife and baby and that I was doing my hus- band.” Although the woman's story was recounted firmly and quietly, as she frequently bit her lips to contro! her emotions, it was evident that a num- given with much hesitancy, did not satisfv After she had asseried that she burned both of her wrisis with lye applied with a clothespin | the bandage from one of her wrists was removed, disclosing cruel marks such as would be left by tightly Says Life Threatened. What the ‘authorities considered her most significant statement. oh- tained by careful grilling, was: “Yes. Mrs. Cavey threatened to kill me. later declaring she would get some one to do it for her.” Realizging that much interest was being manifesicd , by the officers in this statement, she hastened to add that she supposed Mrs. Cavey “lost her temper.” The private “confession” of the in- jured woman followed a public hear- ing before Judge Joyce, in which Mrs. Cavey and her sister, Rosie Bradio, \were released in bail fixed at $2,000 and $1,000, respectively, furnished by O. F. Rye, a friend. Constable Garri- son had asked that bond of $10.000 be asked of each. The women have technical warrants against them charging “assault with intent to kill” The trial was set for August 1 at request of M. Maurice Meyer of Baltimore, counsel for the defend- ants. “1 suppose 1 will be asked why I did all this,” Mrs. Brooke said in opening her talk. “I tried to make redress for my wrong, but I couldn't. It has come about just I told Mr. Cavey when I was urging him to stay away. He has his wife and family. I have nothing. They even took my boy away from me today. I adopted him seven years ago, and now the authorities have taken him back Beginning of Letters. “I will start at the beginning. Four years ago Mr. Cavey threw out of a train window a Saturday Evening Post on which was written his name and address. 1 wrote to him and mailed the letter to the address given. i police Friday night during their in-| We exchanged leiters. After a while e came to my home and had a talk with me. We meant no harm, yet I kuew I was doing wrong and I tried : to break off from him. I realized I was doing a great injustice to my home, but Mr. Cavey insisted thers was no harm in his writing and taik- ing to me. “So this state of affairs went en. Mr. Cavey never was willing to stop. Then Mrs. Cavey came to see me. She sald she nad found the paper with the aadress which her husband had given me and also some of my letters to him. She told me he was married and that I was married and said we must break up. I promised that I would. When Mr. Cavey first met me he told me he was not married, and for three years I thought he wa: single. I asked him why he didn't tell me he was married and he ex- plaihed he knew I wouldn't write to him in that event. “Afterward Mrs. Cavey’ and . her husband came over to my house and we both tried to persuade him not to write ‘to me, but he wouldn't I tried to effect a reconcilia- tion between them—I wanted to rec- tify the wrong 1 had committed. I told him that when the end came I would stand it out aldne, and that's what I'm doing today. He refused to go bzck to his wife, and shortly after they left my house together, but a few minutes later he came back to me. Visit to Baltimore. +“Sometime after this I went to Mr. Cavey's home in Baltimore—mot to break up his home, but to get Mm to promise to stay away from mine. My pleading was futile. The longer 1 tried the 'F it got. Yes, I did ask the way to’ the bay, but I waan's (Continued on Page 3, Colums 4.). -