Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1922, Page 2

g1 SHOTS FLY THICK. AS SPEEDER FLEES D. C. Woman Races to Dis- trict Line as Maryland Folice Shoot at Tires. ESCAPED AFTER ARREST Irs Loranger Declares She Speed- ed Away After Officers Required Her to Stop at Lonely House. Amid a fusilade of revolver shots, rs. Lucille 1. Loranger of the Ward- man Park Hotel yesterday afternoon led two Maryland state road police- men a wild chase down the Rockville succeeded in crossing mei pike and District for Indi re before she was arrested ding the speed limit. antly branding_the Maryland as frauds, Mrs. Loranger policemen d she had deliberately, run aeay when one insisted upon forcing her into a small house on a lonely road afier she had submitted to arrest for driv- ing her automobile in Maryland with- out showing a license tag for that state. On’ the other hand. the Maryland authorities charge that Mrs. Loran- ger s ded away from her captors when the for the pury went to get a magistrate | of having the charge legally entered and bail arranged. They also claimed she had been ar- rested in the same vicinity only pwo weceks ago on a similar charge. Drove to Small House. A\ccording to Mrs. Loranger, she started out for a ride along Old Falls road. Shortly after leaving Wiscon- avenue the two policemen ap- | hed and orde: her to show ; - icense to drive in Maryland. failing to do so, she said, they ipstructed her to drive to the office ! of 4 magistrate at Bradley lane. 1 “l complied with their request,” Mrs. Loranger declared, “and roun | We « to a turn in the road One of the offic disappeared and the other insiructed me to proceed to the left for two blocks. This drought us 10 a small house in a decidedly ionely | section ‘hen 1 demanded that the officer me to the magistrate's otfice h merely grumble That office was o n Sunday.” 1 knew that to be false. Quickly throwing my car in Kear. 1 stepped on the zas and head- | ed for the District line as fast as 1 could drive. The officer gave chase and was in joincd by other one. the | ave Up in District. | “Down the road we flew. both police- men close at my heel close range. 1 was terrified. The road was filled with other cars and myg po- sition w I was not afraid because I precarious. another ar, do now how to drive, but my car was liable to slide road any min- ute. F ed the line and rrest.” was effected by Motor oliceman Albert Sharkey of the cytown station. Upon being taken Ars ranger posted $45 collat- released. Her Maryland W. L. Rogers and F. H. of the Maryland state roads captors were Claggett force, both of whom continued the pur- suit into the District until they saw their quarry safely in the hands of the law. At Bethesda the authorities de- -lared Mrs. Loranger had been ar- | rested two weeks ago for speeding and was flned $20. When she admit- ted that she did not have that sum with her, the magistrate loaned her the money. Declare Mrs. Loranger Laughed. The Maryland authorities corrobo- rate Mrs: Loranger’s story up to the point of her escape. They claim the officers took her to the office of the | magistrate and left her on the road whila they went on the porch to sum- mons that oficial. To their amaze- ment, they turned and saw the wo- man dart down the road, laughing at them as she went, they say. According to the policemen they gave chase and, drawing alongside, ordered Mrs. Loranger to stop. When she failed to do so they opened fire nd succeeded in puncturing one of the rear tires on her automobile. Still she continued at a speed of fifty niiles an hour,” and eventually suc- céeded in outdistancing the oficers until she ran into the Washington policeman. THE WEATHER | District of Columbia and Maryland | —Partly cloudy tonight, followed by local thundershowers late tonight or{ tomorrow; little change in tempera- ture; moderate southwest, shifting to northwes, winds. ! Virginia— Partly cloudy tonight agd tomorrow, with local shunder- showers tomorrow, and probably in eXtreme north portion late tonight; little change in temperature; mod- erate winds, mostly southwest and Vest Virginia — Partly cloud; weathér, b local _thundershowers late tonight or tomorrow, except fair in sputh portion tonight; slightly warmer in north portion tonight. Records for Twenty-Four Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m.. 78; 8 p.m., 73; 12 midnight, 71; 4 am., 68; 8 a.m., 74: 1 miduy 3 8 am., 74} Barometes—i p.m., 29,95 30.00; 8 pm, 2 12 midnight. 29.99; 4 29.97. 8 aim., 30.00; noon, 20.99. Highest temperature, 81, occurred| at noon today. Lowest temperature, 64, S e . 64, occurred at Temperature same da; Highest, 92 lowest, 70 =7t Y°4r—| Condition of the Water,, | Temperature and_condition of the $ -: Great Falls—Tem- perature, 7%; condition, clear. em- | Weather in Various Citfes. 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CHICAGO, July 31.—A check-up on the casualites in the Herrin, Ills, mine massacre made by varlous labor agencies and coal associations inter- ested shows that of the seventy-two men in the mine at the time it was attacked by the union forces, sixty- four are either dead, wounded or missing, while ‘the total casualties on both sides numbered more than seventy. The tabulation follows: Non-uaion miners and guards in mine, 72; bodies of non-union men officially buried, 19; non-union men wounded, 34; non- union men missing, believed to be dead, 11; total casualties on non- union side, 64: union men killed in fighting, 2; union men who died from wounds, 1; unfon men wounded (esti- mated no official figures available), 4 to 8; total casuaities on union side, 7 to 15; total casualties on both sides, L to 79, The figures show that only 8 of the 72 men in the mine are knowh to have escaped unhurt. Of the wounded non- union men six stiil are in hospitals— two in Herrin and four in Chicago. U.S. COAL SUPPLY SYSTEN STANTED ISpencer Sets Wheels in Mo- tion for Distribution to All Sections of Country. {RAILROADS COME FIRST, Public Utilities Will Also Be As-| sured Adequate Supply—Pres- ent Stocks Low. The government -machinery emergency distribution of coal swung into gear today as the central com- | mittee here, with Henry B. Spencer, federal fuel distributor, as adminis- trative head, began active function-| under the program devised to to the industries and ing supply coal {localities where it is most needed, and to maintain fair price levels at the mines. The central control organiza- v |tion was rapidly being' perfected, it and firing at | was said, with the organization of an | {adequate staff to handle the rush of |as reports and orders expected to flow through Washington. Accepting only the of keeping the railroads and inter- state public utilities supplied with coal, and directing a proper distribu- tion’ as between states, at the same time through car allocations holding mine prices at a fair level, the fed- eral agency looked to the various states to control distribution and prices for consumers within their borders. In many states :reation of the necessary administration for this already has been reported to the central committee. - Requests for coal from governors of states already have begun to come in to the federal fuel distribution committee, Secretary Hoover stated today. The states, he said, asked par- ticularly for fuel for their public utilities. Fuel Distributor Spencer was at work today perfecting the organiza- tion of regional committees in the producing mine flelds, and it was ex- responsibility jpected that orders could be forward- | ed to all districts within forty-eight | hours. To Function Three Months. Maintenance of the federal emerg- ency coal control organization, Mr.| Hoover asserted, probably will be necessary for at least three months after the coal strike is ended. It will be necessary, he explained, to provide for the needs of some sec- tions, such as New England, where there are practically no stocks of coal, and the northwest. ‘Whether an appropriation will be i necessary to defray the expenses of | represent not American doilars, | the emergency organization has not yet been determined, Mr. Hoover said, adding that the question could be decided by the time the House re- assembles on August 15. No matter if the coal miners of the nation went to work tomorrow and continued to work at capacity for the rest of the year, the probability re- mains that certain sections of the country would be hard put to get! enough coal for their needs, govern- ment officials declared today. available supply of coal above ground, { meanwhile, has dropped almost to the | vanishing point, and is now far be- low the level of 20,000,000 tons, which has heretofore been regarded as the margin of safety. Distribution of coal, in the opinion of George QOtis Smith, director of the | geologigal survey, remains the great problem of the industry after the miners go back to work, and even if mines were opened immediately a jcoal stringency would probably be!within a few days. felt in some sections, even with the priority service orders of the Interl.h e situation in anthracite is serious,” Mr. Smith said. “One quarter of the coal year is gone and, practically speaking, no anthracite has been mined.” Headquarters of the federal coal distribution eommittee were opened today in the old war trade board building at 20th and C streets, where | Henry B. Spencer, head of the fuel | distribution committee, and his assist- ants will begin today their task of diverting the coal of the nation to localities where fuel is needed most, practically decentralizing the previous distribution system. The federal coal distribution committee will clear all coal priority orders through the cen- tral office in Washington,. But beyond the borders of the stateg distribution and control of resale prices will rest | entirely within the hands of the state distribution committee, working in co-operation with the central com- mittee. Coal Output Increased. Whid the weekly revort on pro- | duction furnisted today by the londy | geological survey for the week ended Saturday showed an increase in pro- duction of 20,000 tons, oficials could not estimaty ' today approximately how much codl the government can count on.' Production for the week mounted from 3,700,000 tons for the ta 3,900,000 tens for was declared to be due partly to more men at Work in Pennsylvania, mrtl& ‘est Virginia, and 1y to heavier shipments from Ala- a and the far west. The survey declared anthracite -production re- mained practically sero. Loadings of bituminous coal on the first day of last week reached 13,- 083 cars, 417 cars above loadi for tha mudinf Mon but 3,664 cars Below the last Monday before the strike of shopmen. - In its survey - the governme blireau compares last week's pro- mawmpr;:t a. O.Mnn with a nor- luction at- season of from 500,000 to 12,000,000 tons. Total cosl production of the United States for & normal year is between 520,000,000 and 560,000,000 tons. When g coal nhmnvnt out o‘n strike ere were rou about 65,000,000 %fil umlu‘l.. gd -‘zw d, tuting reserve coal supply of the nation. A large part of these.re- serves were In the possession of ent for | The | to improved car ! HELD FOR KILIG MAN WITHH ALTO Frederick Stevens, Colored, Faces Charge in Baltimore. Witness -Also Arrested. FLED, POLICE CHARGE Oficer Also Injured in Accident. Shots “Jired at Speeding - Automobile. | Captured by ice of the ninth pre- | cinct® station after a general lookout | had been issued for his arrest, Freder- iick Stevens, colored, 2325 17th street northwest, is today confined at the ininth precinet tion awaiting shis return to Baltimdre, where he faces a charge of killing a man and causing the injury of a policeman. David Butler. also colored, 1013 La- mont street northwest, is already under arrest in Baltimore, where he is being heldas a material witness to the tragedy. Dector's Brother Killed. Charles J. Rouse, sixty-eight wears, a brother of Dr. Benjamin Rouse, 1034 ast Monument street, Baltimore, 1s | the dead man and George Manns of the central police district the injured policeman. Steveris was arrestod after a com- bined scouring of the vicinity of the accident and this city by the police {of both Baltimore and Washington, while Butier was arrested after chase through Baltimore streets, | during which several shots were fired lat his car by pursuing policemen. Butler was eventually arrested on the Baltimore-Washington boulevard by Policeman Otto Einoff, who {threatened to kill him if he did not stop the machine. Detective Lieut. Jenkins of the Bal- timore police force came to Washing- ton yesterday and asked Inspector Grant to aid him in their search for Stevens. Grant immediately sent a |general lookout and assigned Detec- {tives John Flaherty and J. H. Fow- ler to make an independent investi- gation. Notified of the arrest of Ste- vens Detective Jenkins is expected over from Baltimore again today to |swear out_a warrant for Stevens and {have him extradited to Maryland. Stevens and Butler in two auto- {mobiles, each carrying a party of colored people, went to Baltimore on a joy ride yesterday, it is charged. 1At Pratt and Light streets the car, aid to be owned by Frederick, struck Mr. Rouse, causing injury from which {he died. The two machines are sald to have sped away without offering istance to the injured man. It s a block from the scene of the jaccident that Policeman Manns took | {up the chase in a commandeered auto- | mobile. Overtaking the speeding ma- {chine, Manns leaped oh the running {board of the car when he fell. Every I policeman in Baltimore was told to {be on the lookout for the two ma- ichines,. with the result that Butler {was overtaken shortly afterward, | while Stevens was apprehended only { this morning. | {CHICAGO ALDERMEN WIN i MILLIONS ON HORSES Clean Up at Vienna Race Track, But Millions Are Crowns, at 330 or So Per Dollar. By Cable to The Star and Chicage Daily News, _ - Copyright, 1922~ . - VIENNA, July 3l.—Aldermen Rob- ert J. Mulcahy and William J. Lynch iof Chicago have become millionaires {by backing the winning horses at the | Vienna racetrack. Mulcahy as won i three millions and Lynch has cleaned up more than a million, which they con- | sider very good, considering they and | the rest of the party of touring Chicago {lawgivers have been in the city on the iDnnube only a little more than twenty- | | four hours.” They celebrated their sud- {den accumulation of fortunes at dinner {last night by giving a bus boy a tip {of fifty thousand—which is more than {his_wages for two months. i The two new Chicago millionaires are [ not really as rich as the large figures {of their winnings indicate, for they but {Austrian crowns, which are quotcd {in the Unied States at three one- { thousandths of a dollar. {FRENCH COMPLETE PLAN FOR WAR REPARATIONS; SEEK PARLEY BY AUG. 15 By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1022, PARIS, July 31.—The French gov- {ernment has completed the elabora- tion of its long projected plan of i reparations on lines which it believes i to be practical as well as firm. Premier Poincare has requested iPrime Minister Lloyd George of Great Britain to begin a conversation of the matter before August 15. If that request is refused the matter {may be glven to the newspapers DIVE FOR LEG IS FATAL. Negro Killed Raising Money for Artificial Limb. ! By the Assoctated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 31.—Ed- ward Powell, & negro, with but one leg, staged®an exhibition dive from the center of the Harahan bridge over:| {the Mississippi river yesterday, as a means of raising a fund to buy an artificial limb. He appeared on the surface of the water for a moment after the dive and then disappeared. His neck probably was broken as he hit the water, it was said. ¢ PREMIER AGREED UPON. Rector of Cracow University Ask- ed tp Form Cabinet in Poland. By the Associated Press. WARSAW, July 31.—The cabinet sit- {uation tonight was regarded as hav- ing virtually been settled, when Presi- ident Pilsudski, at the request of the majority of the diet, asked Dr. Nowak, rector of the University of Cracow, to accept the premiershi, | strike on April 1, coal produttion has {averaged about $,500,000 tons a week from non-union miges, and a few .union mines where production has continued. This has been all bitumi- nous coal. The anthracite production has been exceedingly small. For one- fourth of the year, at the 3,500,000, ton-a-week rate, the annual lue: tion. would approximate 168,000,000 tons, about one-fourth of the,normal consumption - by . industries, railyouts and utilities has e sx: ceeded production, so that it is esti- ;nnog‘:ow reserves must be far be: low The stone w: McLean. Rev. William Cabell Brown, bishop of the diocese of Virginia rector of St. Joha's, presided over the exercises. v y laid Snturday afterncon, with Masonlc services by Shnrom Ledge, No. 3: SCENE AT CORNER-STONE LAYING OF NEW PARISH HALL OF| MRS. ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. McLEAN, VA. (on right), and Rev. G. C. Shears, ALLIES MOBILIZE TO BLOCK GREEKS’ ATTACK ON PORTE (Continued from First Page.) .. GASOUNE T HEARIG ASSRED Commissioners to Set Date as Soon as Draft of Bill Is Completed. Greeks in. America during the last vear have been of immense assist- ance to the government. The Greeks are still hopeful that the American government may release the balance of the $50,000,000 credits established during the regime of Premier Veni- zelos. This balance amounts to $33,- 000,000. ' BRITISH WARNED GREEKS. FAVOR DOLLAR AUTO TAG Lloyd George Says Athens Govern- ment Promised Neutrality. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 31.—Prime Min!ster Liovd George, replying to questions in the house of commons this after- noon, said that on the same day the l Greek government proposed the oocu- i Opponents of Plan See Hardship on Firms Whose Trucks Do Not Travel Maryland Roads. The Commissioners will Mold a public hearing before sending legis- lation to Congrese providing for au- | tomobile reciprocity with Maryland on the basis of a gasoline tax in pation of Constantinople by Greek troops the British government { warned the Greek government of the scrious consequences of such a v | Step. !pace of tue nresent hors Dowe"| ;" reply to this warning, he sald, charge. This assurance was given|the Greek foreign minister had v ster and | £iven positive assuranoe that there oday;inyCominnionery oy was no cause for alarm and that Keller. the Greek forces under no circum- Col. Keller, who is handling the |stances would enter ' the neutral reciprocity issue for the board, inti-|Zone without allied consent. mated a date for the hearing prob-! —_— ably will be fixed as soon as the pro- | posed bill is in final shape for aub-! mission to the District committees; of the Senate and House. i One of the arguments that have been advanced In the discussion of a gas tax is tha: it would prove a hard- ship 0 commorcial concerns em-| ploying motor trucks that seldom, if ever, run into Maryland. It has been contended that the owners of these trucks, using large quantities of gasoline ennually, would be penal ized in order to obtain reciprocity for those who go into Maryland. Keller Belittles Argument. Engineer Commissioner Keller, who sees in the gasoline tax a chance for automobile peace with the nelghbor- ing state, does not believe the motor ! truck argument is wel! taken. He made it known today that he be- {lleves there should be some change {in the method of taxing motor trucks, { because of the damage they inflict upon the surfaces of streets and roads in the District. The gasoline tax, he said, is a step in the right direction ! toward such a revision. 1f the gasoline tax is_substituted for the present system of collecting a flat annual charge according to horsepower, each truck and pleasure car would pay in accordance with the | distance it travels over the highways. | meeting in New York Tuesday or the May Convert Motorists. shoperafts’ policy committes meeting The Commissioners, it is under- |l Chicago should ;e";“ =5 H:;"’;. stood, are of the opinion that some | .nS S Peace proposal the group tha : rejects it would face full responsi- of the motorists who are apprehen- Sive mvar the adoptinn of the pas | DAty for continuance of the railroad S e chane b s nazh irh (e :;‘r’:i-nd all thut might result there- Jmes .‘""mufl’l’;’ :"m'“" with the re-| "y unton leaders, however, ex- sultsie montd bring pressed the belief that the peace plan Col. Xeller said it is his understand- [ would meet with the strongst possi- ing of Maryland's proposal that no tag |ble oppostilon from railroad execu- wiil be required from that state in|tives attending Tuesday's meeting in order to cross the boundary line if {New York at the call of T. De Witt Washington adopts the tax on gaso- |Cuyler. They expressed the belief line. that the President’s plan would be ac- There would be a nominal charge of | cepted finally, but only after a bitter Union Leaders Expect Men to Be Back at Work Be- fore Week Is Ended. | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 31.—Strike leaders were arriving from all parts of the country today for Tuesday's meeting called to consider President Harding's pian for a settlement of the railway shopmen’s strike, and hopes were ex- pressed that the men would be back at work before the end of the week. The position of the striking shoj Wharton, labor member of the United States Rallroad Labor Bozrd, who de- clared: possibly $1 for the District tag,!|struggle, based on the refusai of which would be good in Maryland as | many roads to consent to the restora. it is now in every other state. tion of senlority privileses to the srikers. Agree on Outlimes. A mefber of the labor board as- { serted, however, that the general out- lines of a settlement had been agreed to last week at conferences between Prsident Harding and Mr. Cuyler and Bert M. Jewell, head of the striking shopmen. “If peace had mot been in sight on both sides,” he declared, ‘“neither would have consented to the separate meeting to consider a peace proposal submitted by the President of the United States, because neither could afford to be placed in the position be- fore the public of bearing the respon- sibility for a continuation of the walkout through rejecting the Presi- dent’s plan. “The senfority issue, after the beginning of the strike, declared, “was not as formidable as it at 8 o'clock and one shortly after mid- | appeared at first sight” He asserted night. Graveyard silence prevailed in | that a satisfactory solution of the dif. on the second :visit, the sheriff said,.ficulty which would fully protect the ! when he made the initial irip. out!rights of the strikers and the new lon the second visitfl, the sheriff said, | men and yet would yield full justice |he found in the place four men playing , to those who by remaining at work 3 socizble game of pitch, and there |had helped the nation’s commerc was a complete absence of money, ! moving would be found. | chips, dice and other gambling para SRR DR rdiug to Sheriff Clem , sccordh s 2] & e e e avesalght Tor investi.| One of the plans under considera gation, and subsequently released be.|tion, he sald, would return pension | Sause ‘he had no evidence to further | privileges and seniority rights to the hold them. “The Easy Way” is reputed to be the (toughest of the joints, for its clientele is drawn principally from the tough sections of Washington. A more Yefined crowd of men, made up- mostly of business and profes- sional men, are eaid to frequent the other gambling house At "The Easy Way” it is not un- comnmon for a stranger to hear at | 1east four different languages spoken {around the gambling table. | The .most pretentious of the dens i probably is the one located on the Suitland road, just beyond Cedar Hill cemetery, in Prince Georges county. lllora than a mililon dollars is said to have over the big green- topped . gaming tables. since jt was started. nfl:‘a:‘?l{l:‘l, can be found just over OFFICIALS IGNORANT OF GAMBLING DENS “Continued from First Page.) { had been Informed of “The Easy Way," about & quarter of a mile from the Highway bridge on the Virginia banks of the Potomac. The sheriff said he had regetved reports of the watcrfront gambliny house and has made several | trips to the place, but has never found any evidence that could possibly result {1n convictions. | According to Sheriff Clements, he and his deputies made two W¥isits to “The Easy Way” Friday night—one strikers, but would rank them on the shop list below the men who remained at work, but ahead of the new men who had been taken on during the emergency, the new men to recelve the rank to which they were entitled to by length of actual service. He said that this would not conflict with any promises made to new employes and would be in line with settlements reached in other railway strikes. In raflway circles it was asserted that any settlement would insist on a return to work by the men under the reduceg put into effect by rehearing. The question or """-’i -gun;ubn:lmrg it was said, migh! P lore While the' roads would yisld on the to the abolishment of outside con- tracting for shop work. Disorders in the strike showed a marked fall off Sunday. Three men fifty shots with state guardsmen ,at Denison, Tex., in the most_serious outbreak reported over the Sabbath. No ome was injured. - dalctons | 10 Dinth. precioct. FORRAL PARLEY employes was expressed by A. O.| “If either the railroad executives’ ‘wages the labor board on July 1, a of mational another of the more|main grievance at issue by agreeing MERCHANTS SEEK COALFOR DSTRCY Committee Named to Keep Transport System in Opera- tion If Railways Fail. FREIGHT STILL MOVING Plans Made to Cope With Possible | Emergency Through Truck | and Boat Lines. 1 Mapping out of plans for a trans- portation system to bring coal and other products into the city in the ! event the railroads fail on account of I the strike i= the duty of a committee of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, announced today by iBrig. Gen. Anton Stephan, president of the body. The committee is composed of R. P. Andrew®, president of the R. P. An- drews Paper Co.. and former presi- dent of the association; John F. Wil- | kins, John F. Wilkins & Co., John S.| Dunn, manager of Hugh Reilly Co.; M. E. Horton of M. E. Horton, Inc., and Charles J. Columbus, secretary of . the association. i Each member of the committee has | accepted the appointment, and the first meeting to lay plans for its work will be held in the associ j tion'’s rooms, in The Star building, | Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. | The members were selected, it wus explained, because each one is thor- oughly familiar with the shipping situation in the Distriet of Columbia, | and, it was further pointed out, two of ‘the members are large distribu- | tors of food in this oity, and. there-i fore, handle large volumes of freight. While the situation here from an incoming freight standpoint is re- ! ported to be good, it was the desire of President Stephan and the mem- bers of the association to take a step toward preparedness, and have truck and boat lines in hand, ehould | | such an emergency develop that it | would be impossible or difficult to | Eet goods into the city. Much at- { tention will be given to the coal sit- uation here. A supply for the public utilities is{ practically assured, but the merchants jare desirous ‘of Keeping their own | { plants going, and aiso te provide heat ! during the winter months. i Under the instructions given the| committee by the association it is to] survey the situation and map out {plans’ for keeping open the lines of communication. |FOUR POLICE PHONE | BOOTHS IN SUBURBS | (Continued from First Page.) of transfers there were three serg- jeants who wil be changed tomorrow as follows: John J. Bourke, from the tenth to the seventh: Gustave Lauten, from the sixth to the tenth, and John L. Mec- Lucas, from the seventh to the sixth. List of Privates. The list of privates transferred fol- lows: James P. Barrett, from eighth to seventh precinct, for duty in booth; | L. A. Ketonen, from crossing force to regular force in first precinct; Dennis J. Murphy, from precinct de- tective at tenth iprecinct to patrol duty at fifth precinct; Charles E. Manfleld. from patrol duty to de- tective in first précinct; Marion B. Payne, from bicycle at ninth pre- icinct to motor cycle, same precinct; jDewey A. Davis, from bicycle to mo- tor cycle in ninth precinct; George C. | Deyde, from bicycle to motor cycle in tenth precinct; Arthur L. Thomas, from bicycle, sixth precinct, to_motor cycle, tenth precinct; John Nicola, from patrol duty in eighth precinct to mmoil cycle in tenth precinct Thomas Hayes, patrol duty, in fifth, to_motor cycle, in tenth. Earl A. Skinner, from patrol duty in leighth to motor cycle in tenth; Wat- ison Salkeld, jr., patrol duty in third to motor cycle in ninth; Eugene | Davis, from patrol duty in third pre- cinet to detective bureau; Charles E. Kelly, from pateol duty In sixth to motor cycle in seventh; Raymond Gibson, from patrol duty in eighth to motor cycle in seventh; Fred E. Pat- node, patrol duty in third to motor jeycle in seventh; 'Edward E. H. i Browning, from patrol duty in tenth ! to motor cycle same precinct; Wesley L. Hunt, from patrol duty tenth to {motor cycle same precinct; John W. Skinner, -from patrol duty ninth to ‘motor_cycle same precinct; Clarence | R. Robinson, from patrol duty seventh : to motor cycle In same precinet; John T. Leavell, from patrel duty tenth to seventh precinct for duty in booth. Otto Sonntag, from patrol duty sixth to tenth precinct for duty in booth; William F. Sager, from patrol- man, seventh, .to patrolman in third precinct; Robert.L. White, from p: trolman: seventh to eighth precinct Harry Corney, from patrolman ninth to motor cycle in same precinct; Ar- thur B. Cooper, from patrolman seventh to sixth: Oscar L. Green, from patrolman ninth to third; Frank B. , from bicycle tenth to bi- cycle fn sixth; Dallas “A. Gourley, from patrolman tenth to elghth; Wil. bur E. Dungan, from patrolman tenth to dighth; Albert H. Colvin, from pa- trolman tenth to patrolman eighth; Alex McKie, from patrolman in tenth g) ce boo(th in same n':t;blch‘: . Kénnedy, from patrolman 00! ! guty in temth precinct; Charles E. | Smith, from patrolman to booth duty i in tenth; Benjamin F. Williams, from man to booth duty in. ninth; P. . Hayden, from patroiman to booth HUGH LEGARE DIES. Wife of D. C. Capitalist Succumbs After Long Illness. Mrs. Stella Alberta Legare, prom- inent in Washington society and wife of H"'c’l':elfnra‘ capitalist and sports- man, in New York city Sat- urday following a lengthy iliness. Mrs. Legare resided here at 1714 Massachusetts avenue. Funeral services for Mrs. Legare will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Church of the ‘Trans- ;lm;:nmn, Gallatin street west of 4t) Besides her husband, Mrs. Legare is survived by one married sister and one son, Kent. Representative Will Kent of California was her first cousin, Her father, Sidney A. Kent, made & fortune in real estate and in the grain market at Chicago. —_— MLEAN EDICATE COMMONTY HAL $11,000 Structure Being Erected by St. John’s Episcopal Church. Special Dispatch to The Star. McLEAN, Va., July 31.—In the pres- ence of a large audience, the corner stone of the new $11000 community hall erected by St. John's Episcopal Church of McLean, Va., was laid Sat- urday afternocon with impressive re- liglous and AMasonic ceremoniss. The Rev. William Cavell Brown of Rich- mond, Bishop of Virginia, was the guest of honor and the principal speaker of the occasion. The stone was laid with all “the ancient and uresque customs and usages of Diasonry by a delegation from Sharon Lodge, No. 327, A. F. and A. M. of McLean. Clifford’ Hastings. past master of the lodge, presided in the mbsence of Worshipful Master Mark Turner. Appropriate music was rendered by the church choir. Rev. G. C. Shears of St. John's Church and Bishop Brown of Virginia offered prayers for the successeof the mis- sion of the mew structure. Address by Bishop Brown. In his agdress at thé close of the ceremony, Bishop Brown emphasized the fact 'that the building was in- tended to serve as a community cen- ter for the entire neighborhood and would be available for any worthy community enterprise or gathering, including theatricals, dances and oth- er entertainments, as well as for civic gatherings. It was his personal de- sire, as well as the wish of the build- s, he said, to see the building be- e of the greatest possible use to all citizens of the community, re- gardledx of denomination. The new hall, which will be one of the largest and best equipped com- munity buildings in rural Virginia, is substantially constructed of hol- low tile. The ground fioor will con- tain a large auditorium and a stage ! with dressing rooms adjacent, while the basement will include a spacious banquet hall v equipped kitchen., A modern moving picture machine i to be installed. First Floor Finished. While the hall will not be complet ed until September 1, the first floor now finished and the “building has been offered by the church author- ities to the McLean day board of governors for use as an ope dancing_pavilion during the eighth annual McLean day community fair, to be held on the adjacent school- house grounds next Saturday. FACTA INTRUSTED 10 NAME CABINET Premier Who Had Resigned Is Selected by King Emmanuel. Br the Associated Press. ROME. July 31.—Luigi Facta, who, with his cabinet, resigned on July 19, today was intrusted by King V tor Emmanuel with the task of form- ing a new ministry. Vittorio Orlando, who had been re- quested by the King to form a cabi net, visited the King vesterday and informed him that he had found it impossible to carry out the task be- cause of the intransigience of both | the socialists and the fascisti. The socialists informed him that if a new government were not formed within the majority group which overthrew the de ; would bring about a general strike throughout Itaty. s Dificulties Ahead. Political circles expressed the view today that Signor Facta would not find it easy to form a cabinet, as he would have to convince the Catholics, socialiste and democrats, whose votes against him resulted in the overthrow of his ministry, that the new administration he purposcs forming was different from the for- mer: that he must show that the weaknesses of which it was accused no longer exist and that he would be able to restore order and main- tain it through having sufficient power to check f: isti excesses. On the other hand, it was pointed out, he must convince the fascisti, the nationalists and the conservatives that he is not subservient to the socialists. Otherwise, it is argued, the threat made by Deputy Mussolini, the fascisti leader, at the last ses- sion of the chamber, when he de- claréd that the fascisti would rather organize a revolution than allow the country to become the play of the bolshevists, still holds good. The difficuities mentioned. many parlia- mentarians thought, would have quite as great a bearing even if his object merely was to form a “summer cabinet” to endure until the chamber reopens in November. Urges Ministers to Rem: Signor Facti*is making an effort to keep In his proposed new cabinet those ministers whose actions did not incur the criticisms of the ma- jority which overthrew his recent administratipn. He began by asking Signor Schahzer to remain as foreign minister, considering that the inter- national questions in which Italy involved, having already been dealt with by Schanzer, nobody was better qualified than he to bring them to a satisfactory solution. RAILWAY ‘TERROR SQUAD’ SEEKS BOMB-THROWERS BUFFALO, N. Y., July 3lL.—Increas- ing magnitude of the bomb and mine explosions along the lines of the In- ternational Raflway Company result- ed today In the assignment of a squad of detectives to run down the terror squad” alleged to be operat- Ing in sympathy With the striking carmen. Explosions under car weels were frequent in all parts of the city last night, but most of them were caused by . torpedoes of the t; signals on steam railroas damage. In one instance, the police belleve, gun-cotton or hi- roglycorin _was _usod. and did no radius of & oaatuns with ample and well | -air | ta cabinet the socialists { used as however. The . blast shattered csr windows and aroused |western trip by U1 5. PROBES €OST - OFCAYP TRACKS B. & 0. and Pennsy Accused of Overcharging’ for Work at Camp Meade. !3568,000 TOTAL INVOLVED 'Bailrauh Laid Fifteen Miles of Rails Under Unsigned War Con- tract Giving Cost Plus 10 Per Cent To investigate the claim that the government had been overcharged by the Balttmore and Ohio and Pennsyl- vania railroads for trackage built during the war at Camp Meade, &« commission of representatives from the Department of Justice, the War Department, and the Interstate Com- merce Commission is at camp today inspecting the property in questior The two roads are suing the gov- { ernment for, roughly, more than $40.- 000 per mile for the econstruction which was done under the cost-plus system during the war without ned contract he B. & O. railroad is suing the government for $430,000 and the Pennsylvania for $135,000 in ocon- pection with the camp raflroad which was built- from Odenton, Md iand throughout the camp. About fif- }xeen miles of track are Involved | auDue to the pressure of war day and the great necd. the governme it was sald, had not taken the ti {to sign up contracts, but, as in many other cages, had told the railroads to go ahead with construction as speedily s possible, rush it through to completion, and to settle for it later with the government. A thorough investigation was be- ing conducted by the commission at camp today, in connection with the cases. In ‘addition to Capt. Coe of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the government representatives were Dr. Percy Cox of the Department of Justice, Maj. H. M. Tripp and Lieut G. M. Hammond of the War I partment. £ COURTHALTS CASE OF IRV . HORSE Petition of Shipbuilder’s Son for Habeas Corpus Con- tinued Until Wednesday. {FIGHTS REMOVAL TO N. Y. Is Under Indictment on Charge of | Using Mails to Defraud—Vir- | ginia Proceedings Cited. Justice Hoehling of the Dist preme Court today continued until Wednesday the hearing on the habeas corpus petiton of Irwin A. Morse, son of Charles W. Morse, New York | shipbuiider, to prevent his return to | the metropolis to answer an indict- ilmem on the charge of using the ! | mails to defraud This is a similar proceeding to the one held in Portland, Me.. Jast Mon- day. when the eider Morse and Ru- pert M. Much, former auditor of tn Shipping Board, jomtly indicted wi Irwin A. Morse, gave bond 1o appear in New York after Fletcher Dobsns {special ussistant attorney gene {had entered into a stipulation that {the civil suite, pending in Virginia, i by the Morses against the Shipping | Board and the government aga‘ the Morses should be tried before the criminal charges in New York and Washington. i United States Attorney rdon stated today that he will oppose the offer by counsel for Morse of the {stipulation &s & settlement of the {matter of the reiurn of Irwin A Morse. Maj. Gordon claims that Mr Dobyns made the agreement without his knowledge and consent and with- out the consent of the Attorney eral. Fletcher Dobyns was in co iference with Maj. Gordon today, bu ineither would discuss the matter of the stipulation. Attorney to Presemt Tramscript. W. Bissell Thomas, attorney for the younger Morse, will present to Justice Hoehling Wednesday a transcript of the proceedings before the court in Maine relating to the stipulation. The | copy of the transcript reads “During the hearing of the causes Mr. Rockwood stated in open cour! ihat he s willing that the petition of the government for removal of the defend- ants to abide the trial of the case in {New York be granted and that the de- in {fendants shall give bail to appear {New York upon these removal pr ings, provided that the governme: agree that the civil cases now pending in Virginia, the Virginia Shipbuildin Corporation vs. the Emerge: Fiee Corporation, and the United States of | America vs. the Virginia Shipbuiiding | Corporation and others, shall be tried iin the United States court in Virginia before this criminal case of the govern- ment against Charles W. Morse and others is tried in the state of New York, iand before the twq,cases in Washing- ton of a criminal nature against said defendants are tried apd that no fur- ther indictment shall be found against these defendants until such trial of the civil cases in Virginia. “Mr. Charles W. Morse and Mr. Ru- pert M. Much, the defendants, ar« asked in open court whether they agree to this arrangement of coun sel, and they state in open court that they do so agree. Others Comcede Agreement. “Assistant District Attorney Mer- rill also states in .open court tha: agrees to this' arrangement, and Mr Dobyns ale0 agrees to said arrang:- ment, but makes this further statc- ment: ‘That in the vase of the United States the Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation the government Dfo_milim either to try sald cause or dismiss same; that the cause will go on trial and will be either tried or dismissed, S0 that there shall be but one suit. “The -court makes the following statement: ‘Of eourse, this stipula- tion does not prevent the government from pressing this criminal suit to trial at any time after the trial in the court in Virginia, but without await- ing any appeal. Of course, it would be competent for the defendant to urge the matter of the pendency of an appeal as a reasop for the con- tinuance of the criminal cases “July 24, 1922; approved, Clarence Hale, district judge.” COOLIDGES TO PACIFiC. Will Leave Friday for Visit to Los Angeles. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass, July 31— Vice President and Mrs. Calvin Coo- lidge, who arrived in Boston yester- day from Washington, were guests today of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns at Littles Point. -~ They are to. rnulnl there uiitil they leave for Los Angeles Friday. y accompanied on the e e thelr .-lln J.Sl:n and -Calvin, and Mr. and Mrs. Stearns. T e daiannt Coolidie said his visit ere was mostly for rest.