Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Partly cloudy tonight and tomor- row; moderate temperature. - Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 81, at 2 pm. today. Full report on page 5. today; lowest, | , at 5 am. i Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 27 Entered as socond-class shatter No. 28,585. TAKE RHINELAND FROM GERMANY. NEW FRENCH AIM Would Create Own Parlia- ment and Government for Separated Territory. post office Wa PROPOSE SUPERVISION OF FINANCES BY ALLIES Scheme Now Before Poincare Would Be Penalty for Non-Pay- ment of Private Debts. Pr the Associated Press. PARIS, August 3.—Separation of the Rhineland from Germany, with its own parliament and goveriment and a separate financial regime su- pervised by the allies, is a part of the scheme of penalties presented to Premier Poincare as representative of the opinion of the French parliament, and which he is known to have taken under consideration. The scheme, which would put Into effect upon the definite refusal of the German government to fulfill the agreement for payments of private debts owing to French citizens by Germans since before the war, also nvolves the expulsion of all the Prus- the Rhine- replaced by sion functionaries from land, the officials to be natives. Increases Commission's Power. Other include an exten- sion in the powers of the allied Rhine- and measures of upon the principal provisions land commission economic pressure German industries amenable to the action of the commission such as the aniline dye industry, the iron indus- tries of Hugo Stinn the Krupps Ken id and others which are more or less de- pendent upon the occupying forces for the freedom of transit of raw ma- terials in the region of Dusseldorf, | Puisburg and Rubrort. All ierman property in France which was sequestrated by the gov- ernment during the war will be per- manently taken over, the proceeds from its sale kept by the treasury as . August Thys-| Franz Haniel | shington, D. C. |British Note Put Crimp in Poincare Debt-Slicing Plan By the Associated Pres: % PARIS, August 3.—Premier Poincare had just about finished a plan under which he could ac- cept a reduction in the reparations payable by Ger- many in consider- ation for cancella- tlon of France war debt to Grea! Britain when the British note to the allles was publish- ed, putting an end to all idea that such cancellation was possible, it is learned from a well informed source. it 8 also said that the note was made public before the coming London conference of pre- miers so as to set at rest all unofficial talk of debt cancellation and forestall M. Pofncare's plan based thereon. This plan involved the reduction of the reparations payable by Germany 10 50.000.000,000 gold marks, of which Belgium was to receive 10 per cent. { other allies 1 per cent and France the remainder, Great Britain abandoning { her share. It also provided for rigorous super- vision of German finances, control of German customs and a levy on Ger- man capital to assure payment of the reduced total of reparations. BRITAI WILLPAY DEBISDUETOL.S. Chancellor Horne Tells Com- mons There Will Be No At- tempt at Evasion. Premier Poincare. | August cat | Britain has no intention of suggest- f alteration of her finaneial obligations to the United States was in the house of re-emphasized com- [ mons today by sir hert Horne, | chancellor of the exchequer. in re- | viewing the British position on Ger- man reparations. “I wish to make it clear beyvond all question of misapprehension,” de- | clared Sir Robert, “that we recognize to the full our obligations to pay our i tates. and we do {not mean in any shape or form to | evade that obligation i debts to the United a penalty for German refusal to continue the present scale of pay-| ments for private debts contracted | with Frenchmen prior to the war. ac- cording to reliable reports in circula- | tion tonight { Forelgn Office Silent. | The foreign office continues silent on the exact nature of the penalties 1o be imposed, but it has been learned that the pressure probably will take this form. It was explained in of- ficial circles tonight, however, that this is a business matter, and that it will Le settled along business and eco- nomie line her than on military or p as has been sug- sested in some quarters. GERMANS DRAFTING REPLY. ‘Will Show No Intention of Evad- ing Private Debts. Ry the Associated Press. RERLIN, August, 3.—The erman government is drafting a reply to the French note of Tuesday swhich de- manded the payment of debts to | French citizens contracted by Ger- mans hefore the war, it was an- nounced last night The reply will point out thay the | German government has not an- | nounced any intention of ceasing to | inake payments, but merely_asks for certain facilities to do so. The reply will also declare that if Germany de- faults meeting her obligations, | that fact cannot be ascertained until| after August 15, the date fixed for | further states that the | payment. It sanctions which the French gover ment intends to take on August 5| cannot have a legal basis. | Loan Declared Essential. “Doctoring on symptoms is useless | and senseless,” was the opinion ex- pressed by Andrea Hermes, minister of finance, in discussing Germany's financial ills. He said that only by A moratorium and an international loan could Germany co-ordinate her chaotic currency and balance her budget. “‘Big stick’ politics are bad medi- cine to cure economic ailments,” the | minister added. { Dr. Hermes pointed out that the| erucial evil infesting present day ! world politics might be said to be an | arbitrary inclination to ignore the ob- vious interdependence of internation al economic interests and failure just- 1y to appraise national psychologies. | Grave Results Seem. “In some quarters”” Dr. Hermes | continued, “it is believed even today that a country of such economic im- | portance as Germany has been during the past decade and is now, funda- mentally, can be bled ruthlessly with- onut grave international results.” The minlister of finance said the op- position forces had- done nothing to help the Germans clarify the domes- tic political atmosphere in such a way that the weight of their problems could be settled. It was his opinion that had a farseeing and more toler- ant policy been adopted results would have been achieved beneficial to Ger many and not injurious to her op- ponents. Burdens Declared Unbearable. urdens have been laid upon us of a severity which is unbearable,” Dr. Hermes continued. “We have striven for a loyal fulfillment of our obliga- tions. We have drained the German economic structure, which was al- ready weakened through the effects of a lost war; sacrificed territory and other things of the value of billions of marks, and placed them at the di posal of our opponents. “Truly it has not fallen lightly uno: us. Yet lsn't it true if one wafks HANGINGS IND. DEALTHEAVY B Prison Head’s Report Says Death Penalty Fails to Halt'Crime. Capital punishment was dealt a heavy blow by William H. Moyer, general wuperintendent of the penal institutions of the city, in his annual | jreport to the Commissioners today. Supt. Moyer not only voiced doubt of the value of the death penalty as a means of deterring othess from crime. but was especially severe in his denunciation of hanging as a | form of execution. The head of the jail and workhouse also reported a remarkable decrease in the number of escaping prisoners during the last year, and cites this as evidence of the success of ihe | honor system of operating jails with- out walls and stockades. Although the average daily popula- tion of the jail, workhouse and re- formatory increased from 610 in 1921 to 738 in 1922, the cost of maintaining the institutions was less by $16,67L.27. As a result of thi al showing it was not nece ask for de- fciency appropriations during the past year. Permanent Bul ing Anked. Mr. Moyer reminds the Commis- sioners that the temporary buildings at Occoquan have been in constant wise for ten years and that the time has come when they should be re- placed by permanent structures sim- ilar to those being erected for the reformatory at Lorton. The new esti- mates include an item to begin this replacement. The water supply of the workhouse and reformatory is bad, the superin- tendent reports, due to the fact that it is obtained from Occoquan creek, which drains a territory of clay. He recommends the erection of a filtra- tion plant and several settling basins. The labor could be performed by the inmates and all materials except pipe llnd cement obtained at the institu- tion. Mr. Moyer believes that the record of only four deaths during the year from a total of 7,364 prisoners indi- cates that the penal institutions are in good sanitary condition. League of Inmates. The superintendent attributes the falling off in escapes to the estab- lishment of a league of inmates. On this subject, the report states: “The value of any system of ad- ministration of penal institutions which will give the inmates an op- portunity to show in what way and to what extent they can be trusted ca: nn[ lm’:i“er hel reasonably questione: n_discussing capital punish; Mr. Moyer said: oo “During the year one execution by hanging took place at the jail. Ag a deterrent capital punishment Is of doubtful value. Whatever of value it may have had is practically destroyed by delay and uncertainty of the oper- ation of the law. Execution by hang- ing is_especially abhorrent. "It has come down from a time when it was believed that the best way to prevent crime was to make thé punishment and keeps busy somewhere he must eventually see light at the end of his path? We need air and light.” Dr. Hermes asserted that the fall in even more horrible than the crime. Under the present condition of ‘public sentiment if even a dog were killed by hanging the public would promptly show righteous indignation at the the mark, with its ruinous effects, | wanton and unnecessary brutality, but was an urgent warning. It was his efi the victim | opinion that it was impossible to ::bn.c wlnk: lTl s a human being the t. If executions are LW think that efforts were being made | necessary for proper protection of so- to drive Germany's economlc stgue- |ciety it would seem that only the most ture into collapse, since owing to her [ humane method should be used, and (TaTivan ‘peoples. the " consequences | Geaiing wiih this-clest of erimmaoeor v ces nj C L would be incalculable be adopted " i U. 5. DEBTS POLICY /IS NOT AFFECTED BY BRITAINS NOTE | Official Treasury Statement Says Program for Collec- i tion of Loans Is Fixed. MONEYS OWED AMERICA CONSIDERED SEPARATE No Cognizance May Be Taken of Balfour Paper by State Department. Great Britain's note to her debtor nations suggesting cancellation of the whole interallied indebtedness will cause no change in the polloy of the United States toward its for- elgn debts, it was stated officially today at the Treasury. Secretary Mellon was represented fcan debt commission must continue gard to the disposition evidenced by Great Britaln to wipe out Interna- tional wartime indebtedness. Moreover, Mr. Mellon was under- stood to feel that inasmuch as Great Britain in _correspondence with thé { Treasury had acknowledged Eng- land's war debt to the United States and indicated a willingness to liqui- date the debt with interest and had announced the sending of a financial { mission in September to discuss ar- rangements for payment there should be no hitch in the proceedings. Also, according to the Treasury view, | British statesmen in parliament have | repeatedly described the American debt as an obligation to be met. | | No U. S. Reply Called For. While to a certain extent the Brit- | ish note was regarded by the Treas-| {ury as making more difficult an al- | ready complicated international finan- | considered | | cial situation, it was not as affecting the position of the United States toward foreign debtor | nations. As the note was not addressed (o the United States Mr. Mellon was said to hold the view that no of- |ficial cognizance of Its transmission would be taken by this country. The generally interpreted suggestion of cancellation of interallied indebted- ness contained in the note also was not regarded by the Treasury as in ! the nature of a proposal to the Unjted | States. On the abstract question of cancel- lation. however, Mr. Mellon was de- clared to have very definite views as to the udesirability of such = pro- ceeding fror: the standpoint of the | Unitea” States. While European na- | tions might wipe out each other's debts. the United Statcs, owing no ofie, would receive no compensation for relinquishing its foreign obliga- tions | The exact purpose of the British government in sending ils note, it was said at the Treasury. may not vat be apparent, although sugges- tions were made that there may have |of cancellation to the front before ithe meeting of French and British | premiers in London or to make plain an attitude by the British govern- ment_that if payment must be made by England payments must be de- manded in turn. England's willing- ness to lessen her share of Germah reparations. Treasury officials indi- cated, might be taken as revealing a desite to strengthen the British world trade position through en- hancing German commercial oppor- tunities. Debt Reduction Foreeast. | A lessening of German reparation payments to France was regarded at the Treasury as somewhat in the light of a_foregone conclusion, offi- | cials expressing the opinion that Ger- man reparations at present were *‘ob- viously more than the trafic would bear,” and that a willingness by France to reduce these payments would be merely a recognition of the necessity of accepting what could be paid rather_than demanding the im- possible. Negotiations between the American ebt commission and Jean V. Parmen- tier, the French financial representa- tive, probably will be resumed the latter part of next week. when Rep- resentative Burton of Ohlo, a mem- ber of the commission, returns to ‘Washington. Time Payments Poasible. 1f, however, there should ever be considered among debtors to the United States, official plans for cancellation of a part of the war debts, the only way this governmént would be will- ing to consider the matter, it was in- dicated at the Treasury Department, would be through proportionate re- ductlons, leaving, perhaps a larg bulk of the debt still to be collected. | Interest on the war debts might be the first point of attack in such a consideration, it was indicated. The United States War Debt Commis- slon, however, as at present consti- tuted has no authority whatever to enter into any such matters, it was emphasized, having been created b Congress for three years, for the spe- cific purpose of refunding the debt, {at a minimum Interest rate of 4% per cent. So far there had been no proposal to lower this rate, it was sald. But if ja lower rate were to be taken into consideration during the negotiations the commission would have to g0 be- fore Congress for a reopening of the whole matter and further authority. One view of the British position was declared to be that a reduction of the reparations might facilitate world trade, and hence result in more benefit to ail. There was no inclina- tion, however, on_the of Ameri- can officials to take with Great Britain against France the discus- sion of questions relating to reparations. FIND TRANSVAAL GOLD. New Belt Starts Rush for Claims, Says Dispatch to London. : LONDON, August 3.— Dispatches from - South Africa report the dis- covery of a new gold belt In the Transvaal, stretching from the border of Bechuanaland to Nylstroom. Re. ceipt of valuable specimens by the assay office from & storekeeper at a followed = ment oilmhth .::'tht ? ::‘1:'3- approaching the of a rusl - “n"- have already been umndozn several big groups of claims and gotd Is said to have been found in a num- ber of places. lonely post was as taking the position that the Amer- | negotiations for funding the obliga- | tions owed this country without re- | I | T | L0 HART NANED FORROGERS POST President Nominates Him to Be Quartermaster General of Regular U. S. Army. Col. William H. Hart, now in charge of the quartermaster and docking army bases at New York, was nomi- nated today by President Harding to be quartermaster general of the Reg-: ular Army with the rank of major general. He succeeds Maj. Gen. Harry L. Rogers, who completed a four-year term as quartermaster general July 22 Dis ing the nomination of Col Hart, Secretary Weeks said he had ‘Deen selected “not only because of the high efficlency displayed by hitn dur- ing ‘and since the worid war, but be- cadse of the uniform excellence of his entire service as an officer in the Army and his familiarity with the detalls and functions of the Quarter- master Corps. The officer while in charge, Weeks sald, had effected a saving .q( more than $6,000.000 in the activities im- mediately under his supervision fron August 7, 1920, to October 31, 1921 Col. Hart formerly was quartérmas- !been a desire to bring the question| ["o¢ the southern department. The the same time nomi- Benjamin Alvord to be assistant adjutant general with the rank of brigadier general. Col. Alvord was the first adjutant general of the E. F. and organized the general's department for Gen. shing in France. GIRL HUNTING FATHER, TINY PHOTO ONLY AID Admitted Into U. S. to Continue Search After Vainly Comb- ing Europe. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 3—With only e tiny photograph to aid her great determination, Miss May President at nated Col. Per- old, has started to comb the United States in an effort to locate her fa- ther, who has been misisng four years. Finally liberated from Ellis Island after an uncle in Youngstown, Ohio, had certified that his niece would not become a public charge, Miss Staple- ton showed the little locket on a chain around her neck which carries the picture of her missing parent. “All efforts to trace him abroad have failed,” she said. “But before I aban- don hope and regard my father as only a memory I want to search America.” Miss Stapleton left two brothers and a sister with her mother in England when she started on her quest., BRITISH P. 0. QUITS CHINA Arms Parley Agreement to Be Ef- fected Before November 30. By the Associated Press. HONGKONG, August 3—It has been decided that British postal agencies will be withdrawn from China by November 20. Among the agreements reached at the Washington arms conference was a provision for the withdrawal of forsign post offices from China. Stapleton, | from Liverpool, England, sixteen years | | | i f 'A.: to present them with conclusive evi- adjutant | dence TRIP FROM ALASKA TO NATIONAL Z00 DISGUSTS 3 CUBS disgusted bear long journey from | Alaska to the National Zoological | Park today and immediately bet;lme; part of that reservation’s official fam- | 1y i The four-legged tots are not vet a | ~ar old and will require a lot of | mothering” on the part of the Zoo officials before they become acelimat- ed. It is a Jong step, both in mileage 1 atmosphere. from cold Alaska to | iperate Washington, and the cubs | are not loath to show that they ! know It. Two are unusually of the Alaska brown bear and the third is a moderately good grizzly | cub. Al were presented to the park | by Dr. W. A Chase of Cordova, Alas- Delegate Sutherland, who repre- sents Alaska's interests at the Capi- tol, was especially solicitous as to the cubs’ welfare. DENS CLOSE DOORS FOR EXPOSE PERIOD Gambling Dives Take Vaca- tion Until Storm Blows Over. Three thoroughly a cubs ended fine specimens While Maryland and Virginia offi- cials patiently awaited for some one of the existence of the sambling houses just over the Dis- trict borders, the dens last night un- ostentatiously closed their doors| until the movement designed to sup- ! press them has dissipated. Proprietors of the “joints,” accord- ing to the wise ones, have gone on a vacation, and will re-open just as soon as the “storm” subshles. For the first time in many months the rattle of the dice and the hum of the roulette wheels were not heard lz=t night at “The Easy Way" on the Virginia banks of the Potomac near Highway bridge, and at “Jimmy’s” pretentious den on Bladensburg road adjacent to the Dis- trict line on the Maryland side. “The Hardway,” otherwise known as the Sherwoud Club, on the Suitland road near the Cedar Hill cemetery, which ceased operations Tuesday night, also remained closed. Sure te Reopen. No veil of secrecy shrouds the fact that the gambling houses are not closed permanently, although the au- thorities In the counties where they are located apparently believe they will not reopen. It may be two weeks or longer, the “wise ones” say, before the dens will again be in operation, but they point out that it is the.in- tention of the proprietors to resume business. Evidence that the gamblers plan to reopen the lawless houses, accord- ing to those who profess to know, is clearly shown by the fact that none f the gaming paraphernalia has een removed. and the stick me, guards, chauffeurs and otRers emk | ploved at the places have not been discharged. The gambling house [ proprietors, it is said, have gone to Saratoga to play the races untll the publia forgets them. Sheriff_A. C. Clements of Arlin | gton county, Va., sald today that he had information’ which positively indi- | cated that “The Easy Way,” alias| “The Mlami” had closed its doors| (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) 'SHIPWRECK HERO SAYS PEA SOUP, WHISKY BLANC AND WORK DO I MONTREAL, August 3.—Plc- turesque Hilaire Guerin, mayor of La Prairie, whose praises are being sung along the St. Lawrence for his daring leadership in the rescue of 470 passengers of the Rapids Princ which went on the rocks in the Lower Lachine rapids, today gave the following matter-of-fact recipe for the making of a hero: «“Whisky blanc, pea soup and lots of real hard work.” It was to these threa thin he declered—particular the third— that the men, women and children on the stranded steamer owed their safe taking off. “It was & great risk,” sald “Mon- sieur Hilaire,” as the mayor is af- fectionsfely kmown. “The boys were - brave. They risked their lives.” The boys to which he ylelded the credit-for the feat were .Jcseph Cardinal, Joliph Bouvain and Don- i i ald Bouvain—all, like Monsieur Hi- ire, steeped with the lore of a lifetime on the rapids. Forty times the quartet drove their frail lifeboat through a seething whirlpool into which the current swept a thirty-mile clip. And forty times they brought it out again, freighted with its pre- cloas cargo. Not one slip—a slip would have meant death, as Charles Ross, one of an earlier rescuing party, had proved hour before Monsieur Hilaire came. Ross, with a companion, Arm- strong, was swept away by the current when their boat crashed into the side of the stranded steamer. Armstrong was rescued further down the raplds, but Ross’ * body never was found. The = 1ds Prince still rested on the today, but—thanks to Monsieur Hi. laire and the boys, the passengers are all off. John F. Plerce, passenger traf- fic manager of the Canada Steam- ship Lines, said that although sey- eral of its raplds steamers have gone -on the rocks, not-a- single passenger.has yet been loat. . REEDLEAD, 747 1B PRECINGTS SHy “Pll Win Yet,” Says Long, as Missouri Senatorial Count Continues. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, August -Senator James A. Reed continued to maintain | peen kept up for his lead in the democratic senatorial Member of the Associated Press The Aswoeclated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dlspatehos credited to 1t or ot otherwise credited in this Paper and also the local news published bersin. | contest when belated returns from Tuesday's primary began coming in| today. With 3,420 out of 3,848 pre- cincts in the a lead of Long, former third assistant secre tary of state in the Wilson cabinet. The vote: Reed, 184.666; Long, 176,787 ‘When told of the latest returns by the Associated Press, the former third assistant secretary of state said: “I'll win out yet.” Additional returns received this morning showed that R. R. Brewster of Kansas City, indorsed by the regu- lar organization, had increased his lead over Willlam Sack of St. who ran on a “wet’ platform, to nearly 11,000 for the republican sena- torial nomination. The nomination of Brewster seemed assured, as most of the remaining precincts to be heard from are in the rural districts, in which he has polled many more votes than Sack. Conceded by New The belief of Reed supporters that he had won the contest apparently was strengthened this morning, wheu the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, an in- dependent newspaper, which fought Reed’s candidacy, appeared with a two-column picture of the senator on the first page, under caption, “Wins Nomination.” The Globe-Democrat asserted Reed apparently had been victorious by 4,000 to 6,000 votes, adding that the districts yet unheard from “are re- mote from populous centers and their vote is small.” Reed’s lead of 25000 yesterday morning on the face of returns from more than half the precincts of the state, but which included Kaneas City and St. Louis, was whittled down steadily as returns from rural precincts drifted in. Many rural precincts gave Long a big vote, and returns early today from 3,406 precincts gave Reed 185,- 380, and Long 176,455. Reed sup- porters declaréd a number of the pre- cincts, being in southwest Missouri, (Continued on Page 5, Colum FINAL TARFF VOTE PLNS AREUFSET Plans of republicans and-democratic leaders for a final vote on the tariff bill this month were upset at least temporarily today by Senator Len- root, republican, Wisconsin. Senator Lenroot said he was un- willing to consent to a unanimous consent agreement under which it would be possible for highly impor- tant changes in the bill, affecting the very policy of the national gov- ernment, to be voted upon without debate. Senator Simmons of North Carolina, the minority leader, had renewed his proposal for a vote on August 19 and then had agreed to accept a counter proposal fur a vote on August 17, of- fered by Chairman McCumber, of the finance committee. Under the agreement, committee amendments could have been offered until August 11, when debate would have ceased and the Senate proceed- ed to vote on all pending committee amendments. From August 11 to 17 the. time of debate Would have been under the control of Senators Sim- mons and McCumber. To this Senator Lenroot objected, declaring It was unprecedented so far as the Senate was concerned. Breaking Into the discussion about a unanimous consent agreement, 8enator Goodlng of Idaho, chairman of the republican agricultural-tarift bloc, offered his resolution proposing an investigation into the financial interest of senators or their relatives in any industry, property or com- modity affected by the adoption or rejection of any tariff duty proposed in the pending bill The investigation would be con- ducted by a committee of five sena- tors, which would be empowerad also to inquire into the number of senators owning or. controlling or financially interested in newspapers, the amount of revenue obtained by such news- papers from - importing department stores, which would' “benefit flnan- er. cially by the defeat of- the pending | biL™ Lous, | | {of the won | extension of the auth AN rights @ispatches of pablieagion of special | berein are alse reserved. ‘RETIRED’ HORSES FIND | WORK T0OO SLOW; DASH BACK TO FIRE STATION That you cannot break the spirit of a fire horse by relegating him to a garbage wagon was demon- strated today. Two of Fire Chief Watson's fine Steeds were recently transferred | to the garbage disposal system, having apparently outlived their usefulness in the fire service. Shortly before noon today the wagon to which they were at- | tuched was standing near 30th and O streets, in Georgetown, when a, sudden impulse seized the horses and they began to gallop down the street as they formerly did when the fire bell rang. On they sped until the quarters of No. 2 Truck Company, New Hampshire avenue and M streetl, loomed up hefore them. As they neared the truck house they ewerved around and headed for the door. Several firemen seated outside, saw them coming, and endeavored to stop them by wav- ing their arms. The horses, how - ever, pulled as far into the truck house as they could get before they came to a stop against the apparatus. One of the horses was badly | injured and died soon afier- | ward. .S PLAZAHOTELS GVEN CLEAN BL” Labor Department Investiga- i tion Fails to Substantiate | Yesterday's Net Circulation, 84,482 TWO CENTS. LULL IN EFFORTS 10 SECURE PEACE INRAIL WALKOUT Strike Leaders, Accepting. President’s Terms, Look to Washington. TRACKMEN WON'T JOIN SYMPATHETIC STRIKE Grable Denies Threat—Many Dis- orders Break Out After Com- parative Quiet. By the Associated Pross CHICAGO, August I.—There was & lull today in peace maneuvers in the strike. Rail men were reticent. and there was no forecast of where the next peace effort would originate Strike leaders turned their attention toward Washington, where Presldent Harding had a telegram sent by the | shopmen last night, after their meet- ing here, accepting his peace pro- posals upon the condition that the unions’ interpretation of the settle- ment suggestions be recognized. Rail- road exccutives also were awaiting Charges Made. Manugement of the government ho- | tels on the Union Station Plaza is | gIven a clean bill of health as the result of an investigation conducted by the women's bureau of the Labor | Department, Assistant Secretary of | Labor Henning announced tod: The investigation, Mr. Henning added, failed to substantiate any of the charges made in a filed four weeks ago with Secretary Davis by the Plaza Council and the report | ‘s bureau recommended | rity of the su- | perintendent of halls rather than abo- | lition of the position. news from the capital, after their ac- ceptance of all the President's pro- posuls excepting that regarding res- toration of seniority rights to strikers The maintena of way men will not indulge in “sympathetic strikes.” E. F. Grable. head of the organiza- tion, said last night when informed | of predictions of W. M. Parker, chair- man of the New York Central system federation, that maintenance of wav men of the railroad would strike within a week in protest against re- jeetion of the President’s proposal o settle the shopmen’s strise by (he railroad. Much Violence Reported. The report of the women's bureau. | ratified by Hr. Henuing today, is be- | Railmen noted the invitation of the Ueved to be the final word in a dis. | Southern railway (o striking shop- cussion of managemen culties at | 2 - the government hostelries, which has | M0 10 negotiate for a settlement everal months be- based on President Harding's plan, tween the Plaza Council and the hotel management. Petition Asked Resignation. The petition seut to Secretary Da- | vie called for resignation of the gen- | tate reporting, he had | eral manager of_the hotels and aboli- | 7.879 over Breckenridge | tion of the post of superintendent of | - | residence halls of the hotels. H Mr. Henning's statement, made pub- | lic this afternoon, follows: “Investigation of the conduct of the government hotels conducted by the Department of Labor, through the | woman's bureau, gives a clean bill of health to the management of the ho- | tels. The investigation was prompted | cific shops and men said to be strik- by a petition from the guests of the | ers. The dead man's brother. Will hotels caliing for the resignation of | Spradiey, was wounded, but will re- the general manager and the aboli- | cover physiciuns say tion of the position of superintendent | of residence halls of the hotels. The | 1000 Join Atwmck. Investigation failed to substantiate| a: jJackson. Mich, several police any of the charges mude In the peti- { o0 SO0 oo A tion and the report recommended the | Officers and striking IDEIED CAvers extension of the wuthority of the su- | slightly injured when more than a berintendent of halls rather than the | thousand &trike sympathizers, in- abolition of the place. i oi ¢ “Examination of the accounts of |CMding many wemen and children the hotels, conducted by the bure u | attacked non-univn workers with of efficlency. appears (o show that sticks, stones. «zix and other mis- the business administration of the | gjes e nen w v’ hofels is efficient. The average |5 c® &8 the non-u: Mepivars monthly surplus for each guest has Increased from $1.16 in 1920 to $2.14 mn 1921, and $3.45 in 1922 In the figures used in calculating this profit, however, no consideration was given to interést on the government's in- vestment, or the depreciation of the property or even interest ou the| present salvage value of the plant, or the pro rata overhead of the heating corporation. which would be consid- ered by any commercial concern. These charges are marked off as war emergency expenditures of the gov- ernment and are, therefore, paid by | headquarters | foreman with bricks and stones but made no comment At Dallas, Tex. the Texas division of the Missouri, Kan- sux and Texas announced that union men now on strike would be employ - ed only as new men. Violence was reported from six cit- jes in as many states during the night. Four of the disturoances as- sumed the proportions of riots, one | resulting in the death of one man. Carl Spradley was kilied during an exchange of shotg at Van Buren, Ark.. between guards in the Missouri Pa- ing the shops of the Michigan Cen- tral railroad Three speciul gu is of the Southern Pacific at East Rakersfield. Calif . were fired on. Polic investigated. but made no B In Lincoln. Nebi, wore than a hun dred men, wome:n and boys attacked the home of a Burlinzton route car Police dispersed the crowd. A demonstration In front of the hiome of another work- man also was broken up by police Man Beaten to Death. the federal taxpayers. The Investi-| pour n i gation disclosed that the manage z ment has changed the restaurant at | Missouri. Kansas a: wene the hotels from a liability to an as- |beaten with sticks and ropes and put set. The restaurant. which showed a | loss of $5,472.96 in July, 1921, earned | a gain of $1.261.95 in July, 1922, Stromg Prejudice See “The investigation has disclosed to some extent the work of the Plaza Council, organized among the guests of the hotels. It is difficult to know the possibilities of tne council. Its criticism and activities have from the beginning aroused strong prej- | udice. Apparently it has thus been | a failure, and those who ought to Know best believe it always must be a failure. It seems apparent that a hotel conducted by the guests at the expense of the proprietor could not be made & Success. “The real solution appears to lie in providing machinery whereby the necds and desires of the guests can be made clear to the management | without the agitation and disturbance which have been prevalent in the | past. To that end the situation may | be met by extending the duties and | functions of the superintendent of halls, or having two superintendents of halls and making them the rep- resentatives of the guests in consul- | tations with the management. The | woman’s bureau. in an informal | memorandum, outlines a plan for re- | organizing the Plaza Council on en- tirely different lines, and under a new | name. o Perhaps that is the proper | o, he report of the woman's bureau, as the result of its investigation, is a | valuable document and constitutes a | distinct_contribution on the subject | of this enterprise of the government.” | ASSASSINS MUST DIE. Appeal of Slayers of Field In-} shal Wilson Denied. By the Associated Pr _LONDON. August 3.—The court of criminal appeal today heard and dis- missed the appeals of Joseph O'Sul- | livan and Reginald Dunn, under sentence of death for the assassina- tion of Field Marshal Wilson. The appellants were not present at the hearing. HENRY FORD FINED $30. Speeding Charged Against Auto Manufacturer in N. Y. Village. LEROY, N. Y., August 3.—Henry Ford, the Detroit automobile manu- facturer, paid 2 $30 fine into the vil- lage treasury as a penalty for vio- lating the speed ordinance when passing through Leroy in his large touring car. Mr. Ford said that he was trying to ‘make the evening boat at Buffalo for Detroit. He drove to the office of the police justice, where Mr. Ford re- muined In his car while his driver wid secretary went - before - the - jus tice and paid the fiss. | date fixed. off a train at Upton, Tex.. by fifteen men. A strike sympathizer at Springfleid IIl., was sentenced to thirty days in jeil for violating a federal injunction by tearing one of the printed injunc- tion notices from a telegraph pole. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul was granted a temporaiy federal re- straining order forbidding interfer- ence with operations in Helena. Mont Robert Johnson, forty-two, an em- ploye of the Illinois Central shops at osted Johnson, asked work and then at- the four men ac him not to go t Burnside, was beaten to death this | morning by four unidentified men, the police reported. The assailants es- | caped. Witnesses told policemen that | i tucked him Hearing Set for August 28 The United States Railroad Labor Board yesterday adopted a. resolu- tion to begin the hearing of wage and rule disput involving the | maintenance of way union on Au- gust 26, The board’s action is in line with promises made to E. F. Grable, head of the maintenance of way Organiz tion, when the union’s strike plans were abandoned on July 4. At this time an agreement was reached by which Mr. Grable instructed bis gen- eral chairmen to take up, with the in- dividual roads, the matter of wages 1t was provided that if an agreement could not be reached the matter would be submitted to the Labor Board for an early hearing. z Cases involving foriy-three roads have now been submitted to the board, these railroads waiving their right to a thirty-day notice before submission of the cases. Other roads are said to have pursued a similar policy. Mr. Grable and several of his vice presidents appeared before the board today and agreed to the Most of the cases are on joint submiseions, the questions In- volved béing identical, 20 TRAINS CUT OFF. Texas and Pacific Acts Because of Strike Conditions. By the Assoclated Press. NEW ORLEANS, La., August Announcement of discontinuance of twenty passenger trains by the Texas and Pacific railway, due to strike conditions, was made here today. RESCUED FROM PIT. BEND, Ore, August 3.—Slowly sink- ing into 2 pit of half melted asphalt, left a paving contractor last year, Kioilis Noonehenter, mine years old, vad been imprinoned in the sticky oome for half an. hour when he was rescued i i i - ]