Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1922, Page 1

04 Member of the Associated Pre-‘ The Associnted Press Is exclnsively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not othierwise credited in thy 2uper and aiso the local news published berefn. WEATHER. Unsettled tonight and tomorrow; probably showers; slightly warmer tonight. 'l'e‘mnen(urc for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: 2 pm. today: lowest, today. Full report on page 2. Highest, 82, at 6. 7, at 1 am. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 Entered as sec o. 28,578. ord-class matter post office Washington, D. C. h ¢ Fyen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1922—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. STRIKE PEACE HOPES FOCUS ON WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCES 'AS PRESIDENT MEETS BOTH SIDES PRESIDENT SAID TO HAVE | NEW PLAN TO END STRIKE ~ C But Situation Said to Be Covered. PARLEY ADJOURNS UNTIL AFTERNOON Davis® Suggestion = Said to Have Brought Meeting About. Br the Associated Press. The White House again today be- cime the center of developments in the rail strike and the focus of efforts toward peace, President meeting in conference first with T. de Witt Cuyler, chairman of the As- sociation of Railway Executives, and then with stri B. M. Jewell, who reached Washington early in the day from Chi Mr. Jewell and his colle with the into conference President at 11 o'clock shortly after Mr. Cuyler} had concluded an hour and a half's discussion of the strike situation with Mr. Harding. Awaits President’s Pleasure. Mr. House said he had presented viewpoint of the railroad manage- ments and that he would remain Leen no new development in the sit- uation. Mr. Cuyler indicated that he would | return to the White House for an- other conference after th had discussed the situation strike leaders. Pressed for an opin- ion as to whether sefifority was the sole stumbling block in the way of gettlement, he said he had seen no statement from Mr. Jewell point and could not therefore sa. whether that was the position taken by the unions. The strike leaders held a brief con- ference at their hotel before going to the White House, the heads of the six international unions meeting with William H. Johnston, president of the International Association of Ma- chinists, ‘another of the labor organ- izations involved in the strike. Mr. Jewell participated in the conference | only for a few minutes just before it adjourned. Maintain Absolute Silence. All of the strike leaders maintsined absolute silence regarding their visi to Washington prior to seeing th Tresident, even refusing to say whether they came at the invitation| Harding or upon their own| The general belief, how-! of Mr. initiative. ever, was that Secretary of Labor Davis during his conference with Mr. Jewell last week at Mooseheart, IlL, had suggested the leaders come to Washington and that they had acted upon that suggestion after Mr. Davis had acquainted the President with it. The union chiefs who conferred with the President, in addition to Mr. Jewell and Mr. Johnston, included Timothy Healey, president of the firemen’s organizatfon: J. W. Kline, president of the blacksmiths; J. A Franklin, president of the boiler- makers; M. F. Ryan, president of the carmen; James Burns, vice president of the Sheet Metal Workers' Unlon and Edward Evans, vice president of the International Brotherhood Electrical Workers. While Mr. Cuvler was at the White House Alfred P. Thom. general coun- sel of Mr. Cuyler's organization. visited the Department of Justice, seeking a_conference with Attorney tieneral Daugherty. The Attorney General was busy at the time, and an engagement was made for later in the day. It was understood, however, that Mr. Thom desired to see Mr. Daugherty on a minor phase of the strike situation. Adjourn T 2:30. Mr. Jewell joined the other union officials after they had been in ses- sion for a short while, and later the conference broke up, all participants going from it directly to the White House to see President Harding. On_leaving the White House after an hour-and-a-half conference, Mr Jewell and his assqciates said they would again meet with Mr. Harding at 2:30 p.m. They added they did not know whether any others besides themselves would participate in the afternoon conference. — Mr. Jewell. acting as spokesman for the group, said the morning con- ference was confined to a general discussion of the strike situation. The labor leadefs endeavored to give the President their views as to the controversy. Mr. Jewell said, declin- ing to be drawn out by questions as to details of the conference discus- sion. I. C. C. PRIORITY CONTROL CALLED AID TO LABOR Gompers Declares Mine Owners Robbed of Any Chance to Reap Huge Profits. Control by the government, through the Interstate Commerce Commission, of movement by rail of food and fuel will “strengthen the hands of both the miners and railroad workers who are Ton strike~ Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, declared yesterday. Action of the government, he said, will take away “whatever chance the mine owners expected to have for making huge profite out of a continuance of their resistance to the fair demands of the miners.” Mr. Gompers called attention to what ne termed the “truly marvelous discipline and conduct of the men on strike.” imating that more than a milllon workers were now idle, he said the Instances of disorder “have been almost negligible.” 25 MORE COAL SHIPS. NEW YORK. July 27.—Twenty-five additional vessels yesterday were or- dsred withdrawn from the idle fleet of the United States Shipping Board to De used as coal carriers and fill sched- uled 'sailings of vessels previously withdrawn for use in carrying coal from British ports to the United States. The Shipping Board recently with- drew forty-two ships for use in the conl-clrry{nc traffic. ) omment Withheld,| Harding leaders headed by | Cuyler on leaving the White the | in, Washington “to await the pleasure | of the President,” but that there had | President ith the on the! of | BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Presidential influence will settle the rail strike within the next for- ty-eight hours. onferences between President Harding and T. Dewitt Cuyler, chairman of the Association of Railway Executives, on the one hand, and with B. M. Jewell and representatives of the shop crafts unions, on the other, have pro- ceeded to the point where accept- ance of a formula for a settlement cannot long be delayed. Briefly, the President wants the men to go back to work and the railroads to take them back with the understanding that rehearings will be given on matters al in dispute before the United S Railroad Labor Board and with the further agreement that the seniority rights problem will we left for future determination. Seniority Issuc to Board. In other words, the process would be this: The workmen would | return to work and ask that their | seniority rights be restored. Na- turally the railroads, to be con- sistent, would refuse to grant the request. This would immediately become a dispute within the mean- ing of the transportation act and the Labor Board would get juris- diction over the matter. If the Labor Board subsequently should decide that the seniority question had arisen after the pres- ent strike began and was not real- 1y an issue before that, and if the board should grant the restoration of senfority rights without mak- ing the decision a precedent for future cases. all of which would have to stand on their own bot- toms, the railroads would be bound to accept the findings of the Labor Board. To Bring Ronds Into Line. Unfortunately some of the de- cisions of the board haven't been respected in the past by the rail- | i | LEWIS SEES JOINT CONFERENCE SOON| | 1 Head of Miners’ Union !Ex-| pects Action in Central Competitive Field. ‘WORD FROM OPEBATORS}* John M. Hessler Informed by Gov. McCray of Indiana View. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. July 27— John L. Lewis, head of the miners’| union, said here this afternoon that he had “avery reason to believe that! an interstate joint conferenze of the central competitive fields will be ar- ranged within a few days.’ I i conference if operators of the other states in the central competitive field would enter the conference, Gov. Mc- Cray of Indiana said In an message ‘today to John Hessler, president of District No. 11, United Mine Workers of America. RS Mr. Hessler said he felt confident | such a conference would be called at lan early date, and that the strike would be settled on terms satisfac- tory to the miners within thirty dayvs thereafter. Says Strike Is Won. Standing in_the lobby of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, where he has been conferring with districe presidents of the union from Penn. sylvania, Ohlo and Indiana, Mr. Lewis dictated’ the following statement to newspaper men: “It is undoubtedly true that to all purposes and effects the mine workers have won their present strike, and it is almost universally recognized in industrial and financial circles throughout the country that no wage reductions can be applied in the mining industry. Joint Comference Needed. joint conference to be convened in |order to permit of the immediate negotiation of a new wage agreement. This is the only way by which a | settlement can be made.» There will be no district or separate settlements. I have every reason to believe that an interstate joint conference of the central competitive flelds will be ar- ranged within a few days. Such an | arrangement will permit a resumption { of mining and rellef to embarrassed industries and a suffering public.” STATE PLANS OPERATION. Indiana operators would meet with! miners’ representatives in a four-state | “It only remains for an interstate ! roads, but there is every reason to believe that President Harding will make an effort to enhance the prestige of the board by secur- ing even at this late date obedi- ence to the board's decisions on the part of the railroads. Mr, Harding has tried to maneu- ver the situation without attempt- ing to influence the Labor Board's actions, but occasions for guid- ance have arisen. which have a direct bearing on the settlement of the rail strike, and the Presi- dent is using his powers of per- suasion to bring about a compro- mise which will ostensibly be the action of the Labor Board, but real- 1y the policy of the administration. Mr. Cuyler, who represents the 148 rail executives who operate Amerlca’s railroads, has a job on his hands trying to reconcile the various viewpoints of eastern and western roads, but the impression after he left the White House was that the situation had reached a point where Mr. Cuyler's leader- ship was essential to a settlement. Then the Conl Strike. As for the coal strike, the Pres- ident feels that he will have a bet- ter chance to tackle that situation, possibly with a new conference be- tween miners and operators, if the rail strike is brought to a peaceful end. John L. Lewis' published tatement that he is ready for a “joint conference” is regarded as significant. for he did not limit the conference to specific sections or require that all operators be rep- resented. He made no limitations, The administration finds itself more or less fatigued from pre- vious efforts to do something through a conference with miners and operators, but the situation has grown acute since the disputants were on the White House carpet, and the belief prevails that a change of attitude and a compro- mising disposition now may be ap- parent where no symptoms of rec- onciliation were visible a week ago. Altogether the two strike situations ook as if they might be settled by executive pressure very soon. | | (Copyright, 1922.) STRIKERS T0 HELP KEEP FOOD MOVING Co-Operation Pledged Dis- trict Program by Terminal Employes. { WOULD HANDLE TRUCKS| Resolution Congratulates Mer- | chants and Manufacturers for Activity. Co-operation with the Merchants| and Manufacturers’ Association in | maintaining the food supply of the | District was pledged today by the | striking employes of the Washington | } whether it {s advisable to establish HARDING TO PASS ON COAL CONTROL Senator Borah Will Seek President’s View on U. S. Mine Operation. BILL CALLS FOR PROBE But Committee Delays Action on Measure Pending Word i From Executive. President Harding will be asked his opinfon by Senator Borah, chairman of the committee on education and labor, of the Borah bill to create a| coal commission to investigate the coal industry and report to Congress! government control or nationalisation of minés. Senator Borah hopes to confer with the President today. The determination to consult the President regarding the bill was reached at a meeting of the commit- ! tee on education and labor today. Consensus of opinion was that Sena- tor Borah should obtain the Presi- dent's views and give them to the other members of the committee at a | meeting to be held tomorrow. Members of the committee felt that! it would be inadvisable to take any | action on the Borah bill until after | they had learned the President's| views. They are particularly anxious | not to do anything at this time which could in any way interfere with the settlement of the existing strike. Doubt as to the constitutivaal right of Congress to authorize a federal in- vestigation of the coal industry touch- ing intrastate rights was expressed by some of the members of the com- mittee as well as Senaotr Pepper of i { terminal in a resolution adopted at| jthe daily meeting of the federation, No. 106, of the Federated Shop | Crafts. ! | | As the result of the plan of the. | Merchants and Manufacturers' Asso- | clation to operate fleets of automobile jtrucks to transport food supplies in | jthe event of a complete breakdown | of rall transportation, the strikers an- inounced their readiness and willing- I ness to operate the trucks and to keep | ithem in first-class working condition. |/ Charles Frazler, business repre- sentative of the striking shopmen, | pointed out that the fight which the | strikers are making is against the railroads and not against the public or government. The strikers, he said, regret that it may involve some in- convenience to the people, and they | are anxious to keep it to a minimum. | Merchants Congratulated. | The resolution congratulated the| Merchants and Manufacturers’ Associ- |ation for its public spiritedness in | planning to keep food supplies com- |ing into the city, and pointed out that the striking terminal employes {ofter their “gssistance in mobilizing iauto trucks, running and Kkeeping | same in repair that the citizens of Washington may not suffer owing to the autocratic stand of the rail- roads.” Copjes of the resolution were or- dere: sent to the Merchants and Manufacturers' Assoclation, the Dis- trict Commissioners and the press of the city. The "resolution pointed out that “considerable misunderstanding ex- ists among the general public that | has caused this condition to arise, owing to the impossibility of the ral road shop crafts now on strike to| have their grievances given to the public in an unbiased manner.” Several hundred of the Washington ! Indiana Mines May Be Taken Over, Says Gov. McCray. \ INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 2'1.—l Gov. Warren T. McCray announced ! last night that the state of Indiana | was arranging to take over and! operate “sufficient mines to 5upply] Indiana’s necessities.” The announce- H ment was made in a telegram to John Hessler, president of the Indiana Miners, who is in Philadelphia in an endeavor to arrange a settlement of m;r':'lnd' atrike. sident Hessler had wired Gov. McCray that the union officials were contemplating a call for an Interstate conference, and urged him to use his influence with the Indiana operators. The governor promised his “unqual ifled support to the movement,” and added - that “in the meantime my preparation for coal production wiil proceed as rapidly as possible.” ‘The goyvernor advised Mr. Hessler that he had received “official word from Wuhlnm: that in the present situation Ind! utilities cannot be R « on terminal's striking shopmen have found work in private machine shops in the District and will not return to their former positions when the raflroad strike is settled, union leaders report- ed today. These men, the majority of them first-class mechanics, it was sald, are not only recelving a higher wage scale than ‘that at the terminal, but are working under much better condi- tions in the private shops. Terminal officials wil o difficulty in replacing these machin- ists, the strike leaders claim, because it will take the average mechanics who replace them considerabie time to learn how to do the various kinds of work | that develop in a railroad roundhouse. Work Boom Predicted. Settlement of the strike, which local union officials believe will r sult from the conférence today b tween President Harding, De Witt Cuyler, president of the American As- | tion. | supported by Pennsylvania, who talked with Sena- | tor Borah prior to the comnuttec meeting toda It is believed, how- ever, by Senator Borah, tha: his bill, can be amended s0'as not to trans- | gress the provisions of the Constitu- —_——— OBREGON GAINING AFTER NINE DAYS IN BED | Has Slight Bronchail Trouble, But | Condition Is Not Alarming. State Affairs at Standstill. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, July 27.—Thg phy- sicians in attendance on President Obregon describe his aflment as a slight bronchial indisposition. In some quarters there are alarming rumors as to the president's serious condition. These rumors seem io be the fact that Gen. Obregon has been confined to his bed | for the past nine days. The president was showing steady improvement from an attack of bron- chitis, it was said today. It understood the president’s condition has not permitted him to discuss any phases of the agreement of the American bankers and oil men with Secretary of the Treasury De La Huerta, who s@w the chief executive for only a minute on his return Mon- day. Other members of the cabinet have called at Chapultepec palace, but have taken up no official ques- tions with the president. SEVEN KILLED, 50 HURT IN RIOTING IN RAVENNA Italian Cabinet Crisis Still Unset- tled, as No Premier Dares to Oppose Fascisti. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Datly News ROME, July 27.—In a serious con- flict in Ravenna between Fascist! and republicans seven persons were killed and fifty were wounded. Minor dis- turbances continue in several other parts of the country. Meanwhile the ministerial crisis, after lasting eight days, has not been solved. Orlando and Bonomi have both half tried and then declined to continue their efforts to form a cabi- net. No one seems to dare to under- take to form a government in the face of the hoatility of the Fascist! and the es of the right. 1 soclation of Rallroad Executives, and B. M. Jewell, leader of the striking shop chaftsmen, will bring with it a work boom in_the raiircad repalr (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) ‘The upshot of the present situation, it is ved, will be & new but en- tirsly coloriess cabinet to tide over the- summer vacation period, after ‘which general elections are likely to be held. *&‘, / H {ltke The Hague peace conference, as, TENYEAROLDBOY | {Companion Injured When| BAKER ONCOURT OF ARBITRATION IN WORLD TRADE By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 27.—New- ton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, has accepted a place upon the new arbitrational court of the Inter- national Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Baker, who is president of the Cleveland Cham- ber of Commerce, yesterday sent his acceptance to A. ; 5 C. Bedford, chair-| Premier Demands Full Reparations man of the Amer-! Commission Pass Upon “Sanctions.” ican section of| the BY CONSTANTINE STEPHANOY. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. BULGARIA DEFIES | JDAY ULTIMATUM Declines to Yield Gross Cus-| toms Receipts and Rev- enues From Mines. WILL APPEAL TO PARIS: | | international ; hamber, who had asked Mr. Baker | to serve on the! L N. D, Baker. roposed world Copyright, 1922. court for the arbitration of commercial| SOFIA. July 27.—The three days of grace allowed the Bulgarian govern- ment to accept the ultimatum of the reparations commission, which threat- ened to apply sanctions in the event of a failure to accept, expired Wed- nesday night with Bulgaria in de- flance of the commission. The Stambouliski government an- nounced that it would never yield the country's gross customs receipts and | its gross revenues from mines, but| only the net revenues, as stipulated in | the peace treaty. Premier Stam-! bouliski declared that he would ap- peal to the full commission in Paris, while there M. Daskaloff, the minlster; of the interior, has just gone. This is the first time the agrarian government has shown a bold front to the exactions of the reparations | i commission. In this the government | Pair Are Struck While Run- ning Across Road. |is upheld by the entire nation, which | {has been taxed beyond the endurance Jumping off the rear of a Wagon On, of its patience, particularly since the which they had been riding, James|lavish expenditures by the repara-| differences. Plans to form such an international court were decided upon in June, but,! yet has no legal sanction. KILLED BY AUTO. i | i q Sfar. |a window was ALl righ aispateh | ts of pubilcation of specisl es hereln are also reserved. \ Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 85,175 * TWO CENTS. KILLED FOR WHISTLING; MURDERER CARRIED AX HARLAN, Iowa, July 27.—John Schaefer, seventy years old, whose aversion to whistling first gained him the pame of Crank, then sent him trudging moodily about carry- ing an ax as a threat agalnst whistlers, and finally landed him in a cell charged with murder, was transferred to a secret hiding place today by Sheriff Hansen to pro- tect the old man. Schaefer carried his ax around the streets of Panama for years without more than raising it as a threat until last Friday, when it brought a whistler to death. The victim was the village blacksmith, John M. Hersdt, sixty. Hersdt, who was a notoriously cheerful ‘whistler, and went from one tune into another all day eince a horseless age cut into his busi- ness, stood in front of the shack that housed his forge and watched Schaefer storm at some whistling boys. The boys fled and Hersdt shouted: “Come on over, John, and whistle for me.” Hersdt was struck down and died in a hospital Saturday night. MANIAC GIVES UP, FORGED BY THIRST Quits Barricaded Home After 13-Day Battle, With One Slain, Many Hurt. By the Assoclated Press. . HINTON, W. Va., duly 27.—John Fredeking, the insane man who barri- caded himself in his house and for thirteen days resisted the efforts of | deputy sheriffs and state police to arrest him after he had killed one man and wounded four others, this morn- ing appeared at the front door, threw up his hands and asked for a drink of water. Two troopers, who with other of- ficers had resorted to every known means short of firing the house to di: lodge Fredeking, stepped up to the door, got him the water he craved, and | then led him to the county jail. Appeara_to Be Dazed. He refused to answer their ques- tions and appeared to be dazed. Phy- sicians were summoned from the Hin- ton Hospital, where they had been treating the men wounded in the fir- ing of the past days, and dressed a bullet wound in Fredeking’s right arm and another injury to his @ight shoul- der. Amazed at the tireless energy of Fredeking, who, in addition to kill- ing one, shot four others, the men who lald slege to the home aba doned immediate hope of starving the madn into submission. His sup- ply of ammunition also seemed ehd- less. Deranged Fifteen Years. Long periods of quiet led police to believe that their quarry was ex- hausted, but each fresh attempt to batter down a door or climb through met by a volley from within. Fredeking, according to his father, has been mentally deranged for fif- teen years. His coffdition suddenly became worse thirteen days age. when he forced his family from the house. When Lou Matty, a prohibi- tion officer. attempted to enter he was shot and died soon after. Sev- eral days later, with the house sur- rounded, Earl Hope gained entrance, and he too was shot. His condition FOR YEARS AS THREAT Walsh, ten years old, was run over|tions commission itself are consid- thirteen, both of Mount Rainier, struck and injured about the body and leg by another automobile opposite the Fort Lincoln cemetery today on! :ARMY BALLOON BREAKS Bladensburg road, in Maryland, a short distance from the District line. According to persons gathering about the scene immediately after the accident, William Day of 715 M street southeass, colored, driver of an un- covered dellyery wagon, stated the boys had ridden on the rear end of the wagon for some distance in spite of his warning to them to get off. Jumping oft they ran in front of two| automobiles, it was stated, & machine | striking each youngster. One Victim Dead. According to the police, Thomas J.! pleted today when the dirigible bal-| i h 1 ;ered no small hindrance to Bulgaria's and injured fatally, and Joseph Smith, | gnancial recuperation. st was | tween the government and the com- | Relations be- mission are in suspense for the time being. DISTANCE FLIGHT RECORD Blimp Makes 1,100 Miles From Langley Field to Belleville, L, in About 40 Hours. By the Associated Press. BELLEVILLE, 1, July 27.—The longest flight ever attempted by the Army lighter-than-air service was com- Livsie of 1709 North Pulaski street,!lcon A-4 arrived at Scott Field, near ! Baltimore, was the operator of the machine which struck young Walsh. { The boy was picked up and placed in the same machine and rushed to the Casualty Hospital. He was pro- nounced dead on arrival by Dr. Joergensen. The Smith boy, according to the police, was knocked down by a ma- chine operated by O. B. Zantzinger, a local real estate dealer of 918 12th street, residing in Hyattsville, who was on his way to his office. Zantzinger brought the boy to the /stationed here permanently, here. The blimp arrived from Langley Field, Va.,, a distance of approximately 1,100 miles, in forty hourse and fort minutes of actual flying time. Two stops were made. The balloon will be it was said. BLAST IN MILK BOTTLE. CHICAGO, July 27.—Charles D. Sig- hospital, where he was treated for|ner, assistant general manager of lacerations about fracture of the leg. Relatives Netified. e body and a| the Delaware, Lackawana and West- ! ern railroad, reported o police to- day that explosives placed in a bot- 1is critical. Three others sustained WATER REPLACES LIQUORINBIG PLOT REACHING MLLINS |Goods Imported Under Transshipment Guise Are Declared Stolen. HAYNES DENIES- CHARGE OF BOOTLEG COMBINE Many Government Employes Be- lieved Corrupted in Scandal. Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 27.—The embargo recently placed on liquor importations by the government was attributed by the New York Tribune today to a successful plot by a huge bootleg combine by which “liquor warehouses which had bulged with imported wines whiskies now bulge with and ing evidence alone,” Says tie newspaper, “prevents the |government from officlally revealing cne of the biggest liquor scandals since prohibition.” Bootleg rings, the article says, are suspected of having corrupted gov- fernment employes in various branches lvg the revenue service in a successful | Plot to divert millions of dollars’ worts | of lquor importations held in bonded + warehouses. Millions Involved. From August to the end of December {last year 0,000 worth of liquors { were imported and stored in govern- iment warehouses, mostly along th | Atlantic seabo nd during the twelve months of 1921 liquor importa- |tions, the story says, more than doubled those of 1920. Since permits |to withdraw the liquors were neces- sary, no alarm was felt over the in- | coming tide of whisky and wine, but | e bootleggers are alleged to have waived the use of permits and de- { veloped the practice of watering their visible stock. I: Under e law if anybody wants to {import liquor. store it in a warehouse. {then change his mind and export the | Stuff back whence it came, nobody has !violated any section of the statutes {intended to make the country alco- | holically a nd if the changing of {wine or whisky to water is carried ‘uul. then the weaker fluid is what goes back to wet countries, while the stronger goes down the throats of Americans, so the story says. | Until & few months ago it was un- | derstood that bootleggers used to store their stocks for ostensible lr,anuhlpm(-m to Cuba, Mexico or countries with similar attitudes to- Transshipment Now lllegal. ward drink and then divert the {liquor during rail shipment in this country. But a court decision held these transshipments to be illegal un- ! der the Volstead law. From this, it is {sald. resulted the water substitute | method within the warehouses. |MB. HAYNES EXPLAINS LAW i T TR | Believes New York Report of Wa- i tered Liquor Fictitious. The sole object of the promulgation of the new Treasury rexulation for- bidding importation of liquor was to | make effective the terms of the { WHllis-Campbell act dealing with | liguor importation, Prohibition Com- | missioner Haynes explained today. bullet wounds. | The regulations, Commissioner Last filh' S K“bbt:m!l; Jas | Haynes said, have been in the process hurled into the house, but Frede- Pl Durled tared in amother Toom and |0f formation for several months, but several considerations such as excep- escaped any ill effects. Lived Mainly on Nuts. | tions being made to enable the im- Fredeking said he had been living | portation of certain classes of sacra- mainly on & supply of nuts. The | mental wines delayed their promulga- house was ideal for a fort, a two- | tion until the recent date. It is well story brick house situated on a steep known, he contended, t rules and | regulations are necess: to make terrace in the center of the city. In (i iative an act of Congress of this upper rooms he kept watch from all | kind and hence the new import rules sides on his besiegers and wag se- had to be promulgated under the cure from attack because he made Willis-( ‘ampbell law. his headquarters in a room at the | Mr. Havnes denied reports that the head of the stairs. | reguiations were issued to thwart a City and county officlals who |huge bootles combine, whose opera- sought to capture the young man | tions had resulted in liguor ware- were hampered by a ruiing of the|houses which had been filled with | county judge that to kill him would | imported ~wines and whiskies now ibring a-charge of murder, and state | being filled with barrels of water. police held themselves in reserve, but | The commissioner added that there Were in charge when the surrender |never was a time when there were was made. so many rumors abroad in New York At the time he killed the deputy who | of the activities of enormous bootleg sought to take him to the hospital |rings and there never was a time Fredeking also wounded his father.|when liquor conditions were better. Charles Hoke of White Sulphuri The commissioner pointed out that Springs Is in & serious condition, hav- | the Willis-Campbell measure, which ing been shot through the lungs after | Was enacted last November, specifica succeeded in gettin, Iy provides for an embargo on the o 5 importation of liquor until the supply within the country shall no longer into the| house by advancing behind a metal | | abiet { De sufficient to meet the current non- beverage needs, | FLAMES PERIL 3 TOWNS, | /BLOW UP PRISON WALL; 105 PRISONERS ESCAPE OAKLAND, Calif., July 27.—The towns of Concord, Clayton and Dan- | ville were threatened by forest fires | fanned by shifting winds today. Resi- { dents remained awake all night ready accidental in nature, but the Inquest Police of the uinth ":d"“ have| le of milk on his front vorch blew | to move their belongings. Water was | Irishmen Confined at Dundalk notified relatives in each case. A| 4 pig right thumb when he started | hauled through the fields in sleds | coroner's inquest will be held to-|to carry the bottle into the house. and wagons, and back firing resorted | Crawl Out Through Hole. Signer, who is sixty-one years old, sald the incident occurred yesterday morning. It was not reported to the police until today. ' morrow at Hyattsville, Md. Constable Thomas Garrison took charge of ihe case for Prince Georges county au-| thorities, and was @iven custody of both automobile operators. Zant- zinger and Livsie were veleased on their. personal recognizance to ap- pear at the {nquest tomorrow. Mr. Livsie told the volice that he was not certain as to which of the boys he hit, but that he was sure that he had on & blue shirt. If this is the case, according to officials of Casualty Hospital, the boy who was struck by Mr. Livsie is young Wilson. “In any case,” declared Constable Garrison today, “the preliminary In- vestigation which I have made shows me that the occurence was purely By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, July 27.—A ro- mantic story of ligfior smugglers foading their cargo in Bermuda under direction of a girl and mak- ing runs o the shores of Long Island sound, gun fights and seiz- ures by federal agents 1as been revealed in the arraignment of Mrs. Edith Stevens, nineteen years old, in Brooklyn, on an indictment charging conspiracy to smuggle liquor into New York from Ber- and formalities must be carried out I am _convinced that both auto- mobilists did everything in theiry power to avold hitting either of the boys, and what happened was beyond their control.” ; The local police teport, which ascribes the death to Mr. Livsie, it was explained today, is purely a preliminary report and subject to revision upon more conclusive de-i{ muda. velopment! She 'was indicted as an ac- complice of Antonio Casses UNEMPLOYED TO MEET. A meeting_of Washington's unem- ployed will ‘be held at Typographical emple, 423 G street, this evening at 7:30 o'clock, under the auspices of the International Brotherhood Wel- fare Association. Striking employ of the Washington ~terminal ha been fnvited to attend. . weafthy tobacco merchant, who fled when a second indictmeht charging a plot .to smuggle huge quantities of liquor into the coun- try followed seizure of two of his vessels. Ci was charged with, beins to. thousands of cattle. visible twenty miles. GIRL LEADER OF RUM SMUGGLERS, | ON TRIAL, LIVED LIFE OF DARING owner of the yacht E£dith, captured by government agents here with 1,000 cases of liquor aboard last March. At the trial of Capt. Charles Oman of the Edith he testified that a woman directed the loading of the Edith in Bermuda and ac- companied the cargo to New York. He declared Cassese also was aboard, Neither was on the yacht when It was seized. Oman was sent to Atlanta for a year. The trawler Ripple was the sec- ond vessel to be captured by the government agents after a voyage to Bermuda when # iried to land a cargo of liquor in New York arbor. The vessel was only tak- n after a revolver battle with che crew. When Cassese learned of the second seizure he fled. ai- though out on $5,000 bail In the first case. Mrs. Stevens, whose trial begins today, denied she knew anything about the Ripple, although she admitted being on board the Edith and making a trip on the yacht from Bermuda. & The fire had covered more than | fifteen miles this morning and killed | The glow was| Much Damage Done. | By the Associated Press. | BELFAST. July 27.—Through a { hole blown in the wall by a mine, 105 { prisoners escaped from the Dundalk | jail, County Louth, today. The shock of the explosion shook the town, shattering the windows of the county hospital and the dwellings of the town's best residential district. MEXICAN MINE OWNERS ARE FACING TAX SALES i i | By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, July 27.—More than 12,000 mining properties throughout Mexico will be open o denouncement (August 1 because the owners have not paid the taxes, says an official statement today. The government has been lenient with the miners be- cause of bad market conditions, but now has fixed a time limit within which they must pay. The government has also walved fines for non-payment, but even un- der these conditions the majority of the owners in arrears are unable to pay. A considerable number of de- faulted properties s anticipated ioreign capital. The mines in ques- tion include all classes. 4