Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1922, Page 1

Member of the Associated Press WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly cooler tonight. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 .pm. | The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitle¢ to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited {o it or Dot otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. today: Highest, 91, at 5:3 terday; lowest, :30 a.| , at Full report on page 7. | | 0 p.m. yes- m. ‘today. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 21 Entered as secon d-class matter post office Washington, D. C. 'Proposed New Law Emergency Exists Priority Ordered Aims to Prevent Future Trouble. WOULD MAKE STUDY OF NATIONALIZING Appointment of Commis- sion Provided by Sen ator Borah’s Measure. | A commission to study the coal| industry and to advise Congress ast to the need and feasibility of na- tionalizing the coal mines or thel need of government regulation and control of the coal industry is pro- posed in a bill introduced in thej Senate today by Senator Borah o(l Idaho, chairman of the committee! on education and labor Referring to his bill, Senator! Borah said that it was the case of “in time of war prepare for peace.] “The purpose of the bill is to aid in | making it impossible, in the future, to have the public threatened by a] coal famine, as at present. To Get Early Consideration. “As’ soon the members of committee have had time to read the bill, T shall call a meeting of the com mittee to consider it,” sald Senator { Borah L The bill is the first step taken in Congress lookiug to a prevention of | nationwide coal strikes Tfi the future Senator Borah has been at work upon it for some time. The commission which it is proposed to create will be composed of three members, appoint- ed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Special provision is made that no member of the House or; Senate shali be eligible. One member of the commission is to be appointed from a list of three nominees present- ed to the President by the National Coal Association. A second member | is to be appointed from a list of three nominees submitted by the president of the United Mine Workers' Asso- ciation, and the third member is to be a representative of the public in no wise interested in a busineS§ WHY with the coal industry. One-Year Term. The life of the commission is to be one vear and the salaries of the com- missioners $8.000 a year. The com- mission must make its first report and recommendations as soon as. practicable, and not later than nine months from the passage of the bill. The report is to be made to Con- gress and to the President. It is the duty of the commission to investigate - fully all conditions and facts relating to the coal indus- try, “with a view of aiding, assisting and advising the Congress relative to legislation, either in the nationali- zation or the regulation and control of the coal industry by the govern- ment.” ’ Function of Commixsion. The commission is directed to as- certain and report to Congress and to the President: First, as to the ownership and title of the mines Second. cost of production: . Third, profits realized by the opera- | tors or owners of the mines, during the last ten years, labor costs, wages paid, regular production and sug-/ Zestions as to the remedy for the same. All kinds of coal mines are covered. The commission also Is directed to | submit recommendations relative to | the standardization of the mines upon the basis of their productive capacity: the standardization of the | cost of living for mine workers and | the living conditions which must be | supplied, standanlization of a basis | of arriving at the overhead cost of producing coal and delivering it at the door of the consumer, recognizing | in this compilation that the standard- 1zed cost of living of the miners | i must be the first and irreducable item of expense. Question of Nationalizing. The commission must report upon “the advisability or necessity of tionalizing the coal industry, and the feasibility or necessity of govern- mental regulation and control of the coal industry.” It is provided that dati or infor- mation obtained by the commission shall not be made public except us it may be made public by reports to (®ongress or to the President, or in l compliance either with the request of the Congress or the President. GLOBE FLYER FALLS. Maj. Blake Unhurt, But Plane Smashed, Says Dispatch. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 25.—The alrplane in which Maj. W. T. Blake, the British aviator, is attempting a round-the- world flight from England crashed to the ground: at Sibi, British Belu- chistan, near Quetta, Saturday, says an Exchange = Telegraph dispatch. from Barachi today. The aviator escaped ‘njury, but the undercarriage of his plane was smashed. Air force mechanicians from Kar- chi have been sent to assist in con- tructing & new undercarriage for he damaged plane. Sibi is 360 miles rom Karachl, and the conmtinuation f the flight, which Maj. Blake began ‘fom Croydon May 24, is likely to be - ANTI-STRIKE BILL INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS TO GUARD PUBLIC; CONTROL OF COAL IN 48 HOURS the Associated Press The interstate Commerce Com- mission today declared that an emergency existed in transpdrta- tion in territory east of the Mis- sissippi river which required it to direct routing of shipments of all essential commodities and to fix preference and priority for the movement of food, perishable products, coal and other fuel and live stock. Public utilities which the com- mission placed as entitled to coal supply after railroad fuei were defined in the order as street and interurban railways, electric power and light, gas, water and sewer works, ice plants serving the public general or refrigera ing foodstuffs, and hospitals. In a second general service or- der, issued under its emergency declaration the commission re- quired that all carriers in rout- ing shipments disregard the usual practice and forward traffic to destinations by the routes most available to expedite movement and prevent congestion. Ry The immediate policy of the government in the coal strike situation was declared at the White House today to be a con- tinuation of its endeavors to fur- nish protection to men ing to work in the mines and to put into motion the machinery decided upon for distribution of the dwindling coal supply The statement was made that should coal not be produced in ap- preciable quantities under this protection and in accordance with the President’s invitation to the operators to open the mines, some other steps might be taken, but that President Hard- ing was unwilling to consider at this time what they might be. ~Fhe government cannot force men to work, but it can create a condition in which men willing to work and desirous of work may work in safety. If is demonstrated after a fair trial that there are no men willing to' work some other plan or some other method must be devised to get coal. President H-rfifng accordingly was represented as unwilling to speculate or anticipate such a sit- uation and such a necessity of adopting another method. The Railroad Labor Board re- mains the only agency through which the government can and will deal with the railroad strike situation, though President Harding is continuing to hold himself in contact with all ac- tions which the board takes in the matter, it was said today at the White House. INCH OF STRIKES SOON T0 BE FELT, REPORTS NDGATE Steel Industry in Particular Faces Shut Down—Crip- pling of Utilities Seen. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 25.—The railroad strike, combined with the coal strike, was being brought home to the pub- lic today through the announcements of leaders in several industries that unless a speedy settlement was reached closing of the plants, with resulting unemployment, rationing of fuel ard food supplies, and a crip- pling of public utilities service would result. Steel plants, especially in the east, will be closed on a wholesale scale if present conditions continue until August, according to the head of a large steel corporation. Industrial coal was sald to be unobtainable at and price in New York. In increases of from $5.25 to !l%hég‘?: coal prices were announced. A short- age of coal cars in bituminous fields has caused an appreciable decline in | production. The close relationship which the strikes were assuming was seen in the statement of H. B. Trumbower of the Wisconsin railroad commission that if thestrike lasted an additional two weeks rail transportation in that state would be at a standstill. Washington Still Silent. Official Washington still maintained silence on the rail situation,/but it ‘was confidently expected that Presi- dent Harding would begin action to end the shopmen’s strike during the week. In some quarters it was be- liéved that the next move might come through the Railroad Labor Board. The labor board went into execu- tive session today, presumably to of- ficially hear Chairman s _re- fl‘ of his conference with, ah WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1922_TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. S — Firm Stand Taken by Mr. Hoover to Guard Public. “ROBBERS” WILL BE DENIED USE OF CARS Ample Distribution and Fair Prices Will Be Assured, Is Belief. The government's emergency coal j control program will begin to func- tion within forty-eight hours. Secretary Hoover in making this announcement today said ratification of the emergency plan for distribution and restriction of unfair prices by the operators’ associations was expected within forty-eight hours, but if co- operation was withheld in any district the government would proceed to ap- point the necessary local committees. The emergency coal control plan, Mr. Hoover stated, Is intended to ap- ply to all coal produced, whether in the mon-union or union fields, and it was indicated that service orders by the Interstate Commerce Commission providing for priorities in the alloca- tion of coal cars may be expected al- { most immediately. All Menns Exhausted. i As regards the coal strike itself | Mr. Hoever declared the government had exhausted -every means toward a settlement, that it had offered ar- bitration, which had been rejected, and the matter to be taken care of now was the distribution of coal as { produced. The Commerce Secretary emphasized the intention of the government to | prevent advancing coal prices. and| declared that under the emergency program no freight cars wouid be | allocated to those who tried “to rob | the public.” Sharp advances in prices hive been reported to the Commerce Department from_some localities, he said. reaching as high as $13.50 a ton western Kentucky. Selection of the personnel of the tral committee of government offi- ls to supervise the operation of the emergency plan was expected to be discussed with President Harding today by Secretary Hoover and an- nouncement of its make-up to be made shortly. New Legislation Likely. Possible enactment of new legisla- tion in connection with the g@vera- Thent's emergency coal conts - gram was indicated by Mr. Hoover. He declared that no legislation wa necessary to institute the plan, but intimated that should its operation be required for any considerable length of time legislation might be necessary to defray the expenses of the organization. The personnel of the central com- mittee, it was believed at the Com- merce Department, would consist of |the government officials who have been active In the drafting of the government's plan—Secretary Hoover, chairman; B. Esterline of the Depart- ment of Justice, Director George Otis Smith of the -geological survey, Inter- state Commerce Commissioner ‘Aitchi- san and F. R. Wadleigh of the Com- merce Department's coal division. The Interstate Commerce Commission was understood foday to be prepared to issue the declaration of emergency under which Secretary Hoover's dis- tribution plan will be put In operation. Under this emergency order the car service division of the commission, headed by Commissioner Aitchison, will be able to direct the movement of cars, declare embargoes to prevent the ship- ment of coal except to the consignees whose needs it is considered necessary in the public interest to supply first, and to require railroad managements to take any other steps which gre deemed necessary to the control of the coal supply. in i Fact-Finding Body. Proposals for a federal fact-finding body to investigate the coal indus- try have been frequent since the be- ginning of trouble in the local fields. Such a step has been favored by or- ganizations of mine operators in the bituminous and anthracite sections of | the industry and emphasized as de- sirable by the miners’ union leaders. President Harding has proposed to give the commission, which he has suggested should be created to arbi- trate wage difficulties and other is- sues in controversy between the em- ployers and miners, additional power to make a general survey of coal production, establishing labor costs, transportation costs and analysing distribution methods. The chief contention of officials of the United Mine Workers in refusing to accept the arbitration proposal of the President was that insufficient facts had been assembled about the industry, its profits and its possible progress_in efliciency to allow them to accept the conclusions of a simple ar- bitration board in the matter of wages. Might Call Strike Off. Miners' representatives are begin- ning to hold that the President might be able to get the strike called off should he offer the men the previous wage scale temporarily and create ¢ Tn RLRDADSSEE AID OF SHPYARDS Some Repair Contracts Let and General Survey of Fa- cilities Under Way. STRIKE BRINGS BIG LOSS CEMy ST 2,000,000 Workers in Walkouts Represent Daily Wage of $8,000,000. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, July 26.—The use of shipyard machine shops for repairing the rolling stock of the railroads in the United States is the latest devel- opment in the strike of the shopmen. Bome repair contracts are reported already to have been let and a general survey of shipyard plants is being made, according to R. H. M. Robinson, president of the Merchants' Shipbuild- ing Corporation of Chester, Fa.; thc shipyards of the New York Shipbuild- Todd yards in Brooklyn and yards at Cleveland, Ohio; Norfolk, V: and inson as capable of use by the rail- roads. Strike leaders say shipyards work- ers will refuse to co-operate in a move to take work from the rallroad shop crafts. John G. Walber, spokesman for the that union men in the Schenectady shops had refused by a 3-to-1 vote to strike against doing railroad re- pair work. He said that other shops were displaying the same temper involve them in the dispute with the railroads. Strike Order Suspended. Representatives of the 7,000 signal- men working on the northeastern railroads and affiliated with the Brotherhood of Railway Signalmen of America have announced the sus- pension of the strike order recently voted, pending further negotiations ‘with rail officials. The decision to suspend the strike order followed a two-day conference here of sixty union representatives. The territory involved includes all of the United Dixon line east of Ohio. A_pessimistic_picture of businesy conditions resulting from railroad, coul and textile strikes is painted with figures included in the weekly review of industrial conditions made public by the national industrial con- ference board, an employers’ organi- zation. 32,000,000 on Strike. “A pressing effect on business gen- erally is, evident” the rewiew said. “Altogether over 2,000,000 persons are voluntarily idle through strikes, and since the beginning of July 100,000,000 man-hours of work have been lost each week, With the average wage of labor taken at 50 cents an hour, the wage loss alone since the first of the month has been in excees of $160.000,- 000 and is proceeding at the rate of over $8,000,000 & day. This, in effect, means a serious contraction in pur- such a fact-finding body to make its investigation of the industry and lay a report before him and before the union and employers. ‘Wage negotiations could then be taken up directly between the union leaders and the employers, without further government intervention, and a final contract made, The method, it Was pointed out, though not by unon spokesmen, wouid result in maintain- {ing the war-time wage scale for at least another year. Government_ officials, however, have said that there would be no further negotiations opened up between the administration and che United Mine Workers until the union itself asked for them. * e 450 HIRED IN DAY. C., B. & Q. Reports Many Additions to Working Force. CHICAGO, July 25.—The icago, Burlington and ’nl.uc‘r— nllrvfin added an average of 126 to 350 me- chanical workers to its Sorces daily during the period 10-22 fnclu- ive, and the high ‘was reached yesterday, when 450 men were em- fé“i"’ tomer ‘n'..euh';'-nn‘l‘-"l' Setke situatioe pu nis rosd” Dot Passenger train service is al nolst chasing. power, which in turn may have its effect on future employment and general business conditions.” The conference board reports a light increase in the cost of living :&‘ce May 165, \Vnh a 24 per cent re- cession from the peak reached in July, 0. 1920 ports of wage changes gathered by the conference board,” the review said, “shows that while last menth there were more- increases than, de- Creases, between June 15 and July 15 the number of decreases slightly ex- ceeded the number of increases.”, SEABOARD ADOPTS PLAN. 3 ——— Repair Work on Engines Carried on in Shipyards. By the Associated Press. ‘JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 25. Use of shipyard machine shops for locomotive repair work was adopted in Florida by the Seaboard railway soon after the shopmen's strike be. came effective. The Merrill-Stevens Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, and.the Tampa Company, are handling engines running “these two cities.- 1n eni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ing Company, at Camden, N. J.; the| Chicago, were mentioned by Mr. Rob- | States from Maine to the Mason-; g ACCUSED OF AX SLAYINGS. | Son-in-Law Held Responsible by Two Juries in Double Killing. GRAND MEADOW, Minn., July Responsibility for the deaths of John ‘Wagner and his- wife, attacked by a man armed with an ax in their home here a week ago, was placed upon Au- gust F. Detloff, jr. a son-in-law. by two separate coroner's juries here, it was announced toda; D.C. TAX ASSESSOR GIVES TIP ON BILLS Richards Tells Property Own- lers How to Figure Out Half- Yearly Returns. Here is a simple rule laid down to- day by Assessor Richards by which | property owners may find out how much their real estate tax bills will be this year: . Get out your tax receipts of las! t i your new tax bill. Taxes for this fiscal year will be due in equal installments in No- vember of 1922 and May of 1923. So. lif you divide by two the tax as- certained by the above procedure you | will have the actual amount you will owe in November. That is the way Mr. Richards and railroads, on the other hand, declared | his clerical force are preparing the | party against Senator Ball for the tax records for the vear. { vear taxes were not due until Ma of each fiscal year. This year Con- gress ordered semi-annual payments Until this ' against the efforts of the strikers to!,nq directed that property be taxed | on a full value instead of a two- thirds assessment. the right of appeal between Ju November, Mr. Richards obtained the approval of the Commissioners to use the two-thirds assessments of last year as the basis for a full-value appraisement 1n.order to avoid a great volume of of clerical_work in the short time available. Mr. Richards is not even having new tax ledgers made this summer. He is taking las {adding in a new column value assessment. When the next fiscal vear begins, however, on July 1. 1923, a new bien- nial assessment wiil bé-on the books. The fleld men of the assessor's office are already at work on that task. These new assessments will be com- pleted about December and the books will be opened in January for the noting of appeals. 200,000 VLADIVOSTOK UNEMPLOYED HUNGRY Correspondence of the Associated Press. VLADIVOSTOK, July 5.—Unemploy- ment in this district is menacing, More than 200,000 persons are out of work and practically on the verge of starvation. The town' council is doing all that it can to relieve the situation, with little success.. ~Em- igrants in large numbers are mak- {ng their way to the north, to Kam- chatka, and the Okhotsk coast in the hope of finding employment. Petitions for permission to go to soviet Russia have been sent the government by 145 workmen who wish to take their families with them. Stories of prosperity rivaling the Klondike in the gold rush days are an added lure to those who consider riving at years ledgers and the full | going to the Okhotsk district, where ' gold fields and other mineral depos- its are being worked. HOUDINI ACT FATAL. Man Bognd Under Water Drowns; Two Companions Held. PITTSBURGH, July 25.—Two men were in jail here today in connection with the drowning of Willam G. Gitfilns, ‘who died while attempting to free himself under water rom thongs which bound hia hands and feet. May. Increase the assessment by 50 {per cent. Multiply the figures thus obtained by $1.30 and you will have| Realizing that it would be impos- | sible to make a new assessment of property and give owners time for % | has left for a prolonged visit to the AlL rights of publication of special L 4 dispatches herein are aiso reserved. . Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 85,235 TWO CENTS. COURT ORDER HALTS EVICTION OF INVALID WOMAN AND FAMILY Justice Hoehling of the District Supreme Court late yesterday pre- vented the eviction of a sick woman and her eleven children from their home at 4201 Eye street northeast. Charles H. Jones had purchased a new home at 115 8 street northeast, but because of the iliness. of his wife, could not move. Eibert B. Nixon, owner of the property had obtained a judgment for possession from the Municipal Court and had directed Marshal Snyder to evict the tenants. Jones appealed to Justice Hoehling the court directed the issuance of an injunction against the owner and the United States marshal, stopping the eviction until Mrs. Jones is abie to be removed. The court was told that Nixon had another home and is not in urgent need of the Eye street house. Attorney J. A. Cobb appears for the plaintift. LEGION DEMANDS DR, SAWYER QU | Hospitalization Methods Hin- | ! der Care of Veterans, Says Col. Sprague. | CONDITIONS ARE SCORED Letters on Legislation and Pro- vision for Wounded Men DU PONT FACG SENATE CNTEST Made Public. By the Associated Press. | CHICAG July —Col. A ‘ ‘ Sprague, chairman of the American Legion's national rehabilitation com- mittee, in a letter to Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, personal physician | {ing | for WORK ON CONDUIT WILL BEGIN SEPT. 1, BEACH ANNOUNCES Orders Contract Let for Sec- tion From Great Falls to District Line. DISTANCE IS 8 MILES; COST TO BE $2,058,725 Arundel Corporation Will Be Given Job—Must Be Dome by June 30, 1924. Work on the new aqueduct from Great Falls to the Dalecarlia receiv- reservoir at the District line, & distance of about eight miles, wil begin September 1, and be completed June 30, 1924, Gen. Beach, chief of engineers of the Army, today authorized Maj. Max Tyler, the engineer officer in charge of the District water supply system to contract with the Arundell Cor poration of Baltimore for the struction of that section of the new conduit at a total cost of $2,055, Bids on Three Divisions. The Arundell Corporation offered tc do the work for that amount, its bid each of the three working di- sions being as follows: First di sion, at Great Falls, $394,650; division, con- - - ond or intermediate $918.- 188.30; third, or Dalecarlia division $74 Taken altogether it wue the lowest bid received and was with | in the amount of available appropria- to President Harding and chief co- ordinator of the federal board of| hospicalization, made public today, charges that Gen. Sawyer is standing | of proper care for wound- |ed and shell-shocked veterans and holding up hospital plans voted by | Congress. ! Appealing to Gen. Sawyer to “stand | aside,” Col. Sprague said more than | 4,500 mental cases still aré confined | in contract institutions and that of | the remaining 4,715 victims of mental | disorders only 3.500 are in govern- ment institutions devoted entirely to | their care. { Quoting from a letter received from Gen. Sawyer, in which the chief co- ordinator said, “I am convinced that the peak of hospitalization has been passed” and that the government had sufficient beds: except in two districts, Factional Troubles in Dela-| ware Likely to Stir Up Opposition. CONVENTION AUGUST 22 Present Situation May Have Bear- ing on Senator Ball's Candidacy Two Years Hence. Delaware politics, involving the nomination and election of a United States senator, to succeed Senator Du Pont, is attracting attention among political leaders in Washington, ac- j centuated by the intimation that the | o) “gpragye réplied: {Impending contest may have & bearing | "It is almost unbelievable that, hav- | upon the political fortunes of Senator ; ing satisfied Congress that these hos- | Ball two years hence. Nomination of | Pitals were needed and that they e o e emata will be,|Should be built to capacity. that we be.lnow have to repiy to your statement made in conventions, the republicans | that they are unnecessary. !"‘ef”n"g Auguzs; Zi)eland the de:""l Best Treatment Demanded. {crats August 20. egates to these ., 4 eony antioks s Rl lioe HCnoken alors | BensjsEr STt eiC R EsiERpie and every real American is: | these men the best care that medical | : maries. | Up to the present time Senator Du > 2| sclence can provide in government in- | | stitutions maintained at the highest! | Pont has no contestant for the re- i publican nomination, but factional . b Y ctionalt 4 andard of equipment and adminis- tration’—and near to their own| | troubles are said to be impending of a {character which might throw a dif- 2 = | ferent light upon conditions by the |NOMeS. 0 that if rehabilitated they can be returned 6 civil life with! i | time the convention meets. The charge Is made in' Delaware that |8reater ease. and if doomed to hos-| | groundwork is now being laid to|Pitalization they can be near to those control the future machinery of the | Whom they love best | “Four years have already passed | {and the veterans have not yet been | provided for. A belated program is | i Feud Between Supporters. now being held up and changed. It ! Senator Ball and Senator Du Pont |is being changed to meet your ap-| lare friendly, but there is a bitter feud | proval between some of their respective sup-| “I appeal to you, sir, to stand aside | i porters. Conditions are alleged to allow this program of the Vet- ! ihold the germ of possible weakening | Bureau go into effect, and, at | of Senator Du Pont's chances of car- rying the state in November If nom- ted. and this possibility is_causing Senator Du Pont ! nomination in 1924. The Sprague letter follows one | written by the general July 12 to Col. Sprague dealing with the legion’s demands for hospital_care of the, wounded under the Langely appro- | priation bill. ! Replying to charges that he was| “penurious and mercenary,” Gen. | Sawyer said: T | some apprehension. i west, placing his interests in the i hands of Daniel O. Hastings, who is {at odds with the supporters of Sen- | ator Ball. Another circumstance Wwhich may Imilitate against Senator Ball two| “God forbid that a dollar should | {years from now is the fact that if|{ever be considered in comparison Senator Du Pont is re-elected both|with the results we are seek-| "senulors will hail- from the same sec-,ing for the world war veterans, but| tion of the state, and the factional |at the same time, let me say that it | { opponents of Senator Bail are ting | I8 our duty to oppose wastefulness | this objection long in advance. Sen|and senseless expenditure wherever ! ator Ball has publicly indorsed Sen-|it is found possible to do. { ator Du Pont for the nomination not-) “Because we have money is no | withstanding. jreason why we should waste Be- | {cause the Langley bill has given us| Many Factional Troubles. When Gov. Denney, republican, ap- pointed Senator Wolcott, democrat, | chancellor of the state, the understand- | ing was said 4o be that ffe would ap- | | point Daniel O. Hastings to the vacancy {in the Senate. There was so much ob- jection to this, however, that the gov- | ernor was dissuaded and an ugly situa- | tion was in part relieved by the selec- tion of Mr. Du Pont. Since then, it is these millions of dollars. not manda- tory. thank heaven, to use, let us be | careful in the disposition of it.” Bill Carries Moral Mandate. To this Col. Sprague replied: i “If there ever was a bill which carried a_moral mandate to the gov- ernment it is the second Langley bill. You will remember that the iegion fought to have the money appro tions, Under the terms of the contract the work must begin simultaneously ir each division within thirty days fromw the execution of the contract and be entirely completed by June 30, 1924 It is expected that all the c ct formalities, including the necessary signatures, will be executed before the close of this week. Will Be Built of Concrete. The contractors will then have month’s time for the installation of their working plant at different points where operations are to gin and making other necessary rangements. The new conduit will be construct- ed of concrete and will parallel the existing brick conduit practically the entire distance from Great Falls to { the Dalecarlia reservoir, near where a filtration plant will be established WILL PUSH ARPEAL IN THEATER CASE Gordon to Expedite Prepara- tion of Record for Higher, Court Plea. United States Attorney Gordon will expedite much as possible the preparation of the necessary record for the appeal by the government from the decision of Justice Siddons dismissing the indictment for man slaughter against five persons charged by the grand jury with re- sponsibility for the col e of the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater January 25 last, which cost the lives of ninéty-seven patrons of the the- a; He will prepare at once bita the defense forth his inten 1 by the Court sion of Justice tions to the counsel for in which he will set tion to seek a revers of Appeals of the de; Siddons. Record Not Leng The necessary record be very lengthy and Maj. Gordon will en deavor to so rush the preparation as to have the papers filed with the ap will not pellate tribunal before the opening of the fall session in October. With the time allowed by the rules of the appellate court to counsel for the de fendants to file their briefs, it is not ely that the case would be reached in regular course for argument be fore the January term. Maj. Gordon however, may request the court to ad vance the case and if this request is granted a hearing may be had in De- cember. Such Charges Rare. Justice Siddons in his opinion yes- terday commented on the rarity of charges of manslaughter based upon The negligent building operations ourt could recall but two ona the Ford Theater dis (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) POLIE HONT ALEEED VI OF PEAPOGHET Complainant Disappears After Frank Reed Is Arrested on Sus- picion by Policeman Thomas. With a suspect behind the bars, po- I1ice of the first precinct are now looking for a complainant in a2 pick- pocket case on a 9th street car at 9th and G streets. Frank Reed, col- ored, twenty-nine, of Suffolk, Va., was arrested after a chase by Policeman H. D. Thomas after cries for police had risen followwing a melee on the car. Witnesses aver that an uniden- | tified white man recovered his pock He was directing @ new play when | etpook after it had been lifted from his attention was called to a woman | pim by a pickpocket. He held ihe friend who had just entered the thea- | man for a time, put released him be- ter. 'Mr. Belasco leaned over the foot-|gore the arrival of the police. lights to greet her. The woman stum- Patrolman. Thomas arrested m!d‘| bled and the producer, in attempting | who, he cliims, was fleeing from the to 1ift her to her feet, lost his bal-|gcene, In the meantime, the com- ance and tell on the music stands and | piainant disappeared. Capt. Brown is railings, brulsing his arms and legs | now looking for the latter in the‘hope severely. of identk the suspect. Detective J. M. Peterson of the seventh. cinct, detailed last night at the colored B. P. O. Elks’ night at MASSACRE. Suburban Gardens, 51st and ‘A streets Baska, July 26.—An- | portheast, arrested Haywood Pope, no one of the Indians who |address, after, he all he saw the nan lft the pock of John Helde, poolroom declared, factional troubles have in- creased. There are two potential candidates for the democratic nomination for the senatorship, Thomas F. Bayard and W. W. Knowles, both prominent lawyers. | The democrats are badly split by fac- tional differences, makin® the entire political situation in Delaware very ihndly entangled. [FALL OFF STAGE LAYS BELASCO UP 3 DAYS Producer Lands in Orchestra Pit While Attempting to Aid ‘Woman Friend. NEW YORK, July 25.—The appear- ance of David Belasco with bandages around his arms revealed today he was mo0 severely Injured last Thursday in a fall from the stage of a Broadway theater to the orchestra pit that he was confined to~his bed for three days. | { | was quashed | | | 1 { | | i i i | uplye at 9th M and the other the Budden in New York city. The in_the Ainswo growing out of the Ford Theater disaster by our Court of Appeals While the Buddensieck indictment was 1d by the New York tribunals In 'the latter case. Justice Siddons points out. neither ' “tige. place nor circumstance” were omftted from the indictment. In the Knickerbocker in- dictment no facts are alleged to shuw the act or acts or negligence, nor is there any allegation as to which of the five accused persons was negli- gent, or whereln he failed to properly perform his work. . ASKS PROBE ON SISAL. Senator Capper Alleges Monopoly by U. S.-Mexican Interest. Sherman anti-trust law prosecution of alleged American-Mexican monopoly of sisal, used in making binding twine, was asked of Attorney General Daugh- erty in a formal complaint filed vester- day by Senator Capper, republican, Kansas, chairman of the Senate agri- cultural bloc. _The_Sisal Sales Corporation and its New York agents, Hanson & Orth, and the Commission Exportadora of Yuca- tan, Mexico, were named by Senator Capper in his complaint. The former | was alleged to be the American selling organization and the latter charged with being in control of the Mexican sisal production. o PRESIDENT ACCEPTS " DOVER’S RESIGNATION President Harding hus accepted the resignation of Elmer Dover, Tacoma,, or] v, e