Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1922, Page 2

2 . P4 FIND 28,000 DEAD IN SWATOW RUIN Search for Additional Victims Continues in City Swept by Typhoon. FAMINE MENACE GROWS Food Shipments Rushed to Scene. Polie Prevent Looting of Dead. the Associated Press. 'HONG KON@, August 8.—Typhoon stricken Swatow, & mangled and mis- erable caricature of the port of & week ago, doggedly goes about the | first =hastly task that falls to the survivors of the storm—burial of ‘(he dead. Bodies of 28,000 have been recov- ered, a death toll that triples former estimates and cuts in half the former population of the city. ‘These figures were given In & circular issued by the Swatow Chamber of Commerce from its branch in Hong Kong. Lack Coffins for Victims. Rude oAffins have been hammered together wyith lumber salvaged from the wreck of the city. But these cand not be knbdcked together fast enough to dispose of the heaps of bodies which are a sanitary menace. Gunny sacks and mattress bags have been made into crude shrouds. Grn;es are urr! a in the alluvial flats om :hlcl:dllhye D“ogrt was built, that bodleé Ly bo‘lnurred as they are recovere: e Wreckage. At ot tond ey grove anoher h in Hong Y :V‘:fiflgr;g.;oo for relief tothe ‘British . Rice is being shipped ul at Swatow. Rice is being shipped sariptions are being sought. leSm In Hong Kong are uniting in relief measuses for the sufferers. & ‘Bandits, making grim capital of the city's disaster, are reported to have raided homes and robbed pedestrians in the natlve section. Ghouls sought to Joot the dead, but were promptly stopped by native police. City a Heap of Ruins. Swatow is a heap of ruins. The tidal wave, which swept the road along the harbor while the storm was at its helght completed the devastation which the storm started. Waterfront buildings, crumpled before the assault of the water, lie in tangled nondescript piles. Three steamers, caught in the storm, were piled on the beach. Smaller craft, demolished when they sought shelter in Swatow harbor, add to the tangle on the waterfront that swirls with the tide. Bodies of many victims have drifted out to, sea. They have been sighted by steamers as far as fifteen miles the devastated port. Many Wwill never recovered. RETREVENT Bl NOW IN SENATE Civil Service Committee Favors Measure Aiding * Disabled Employes.. AGE CUT TO 55 YEARS Amendment of House Plan Greater Benefit to Veterans of ? Service. A bill amending the civil service retirement act so as to provide an- nuities for employes of the govern- ment_ who, through no fault of their own, ' become separated from the mervice before reaching the retire- ment age was reported favorably to the Senate today by Senator Sterling, chatrman of the clvil service com- mittee of the Senate. The bil! already has passed the House. It is intended primarily to Take care of the emergéncy brought about by dismissal of emploves at the pavy yard because of sary reduction of force of the agreement reached at the Washigton conference for the lmi- tation of armament. The fenate commitice a Hoyse bill so that the bill will apply to ‘employes who have reached the age of ffty-five years, instead of sixty years. Just Reward Favored. The report sald in part: “Your committee belleves it is only a mat- ter of justice that an employe ad- vanced in years, who after many ears of service for the government Ticomes separated from the service through no fault of his own before reaching retirement age, shall re- e a proportional annuity. ‘Among those separated from the sezvigs. 6f the navy yard are many 'Are past 55 years of age, but less thn 80, saveral of whom have had frdm, 50 to 30 and even 33 years of servi It is not an easy matter for men who have passed the age of 85 years to secure satisfactory re- employment. The government itself makes 50 years the maximum age lmit in appointing mechanics to the service. Annuity Certificate. “The bill provides that the retired émploye may accept a certificate en- titling him to annuity based on his length of service, when he reaches the regular retirement age, or he may accept an immediate annuity in lieu of deferred annuity, such imme- diate annuity being based on the présent worth of the deferred an- . nuity. The worth of an'immediate annuity of course, a great deal less than deferred annuity. It is believed that in the great majority of cases the retired employe will pre- fer to accept immediate annuity. “No' immediate appropriation will be- required as. the accumulation.af the retirement fund will. be sufficient to take care of all retirément an- nufties for at lezst ten years. The GoSt under this bill will advance the tipié of exhaustion of the fund only a few months.” it bill_now goes to the Senate endar. Senator Sterling hopes t sget action upon it at an early date —_———— AGAIN DELAY HOP-OFF. Flight to South America for Ama- zon Study Held Up Second Time. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., August 3.— The big seaplane Sampalo Correa, which is to make a fieht from Net: York tosouth A=, ca and thgn an grip up the Amazon river, wi &' time -today in the od; re not just S Eomaen 75 S Rirnson, Col.JayJ.Morrow On Retired' List At Own Request COL. J. J. MORROW. Col. Jay J. Morrow, Corps of En- gineers, Governor of the Pafama jCanal Zone, has been placed on the retired list of the Army on his -own application after-more than thirty- five years' service. At the War De partment it is stated his retirsment does not necessarily involve his relief from his present dutles as governor of the Canal Zone, and that he will continue to serve in that capacity for several months at least. Under the rule the President is restricted to the Corps of Engineers in the selection of his successor. Col. Morrow was actively identified ‘with affairs of the District for many years, at one time in charge of the District water supply system and the improvemsnt of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers, and then as En- gineer Commissioner of the District. That was during the administration of President Roosevelt. I A native of West Virginia, Col. Morrow was graduated from the Military Academy in June, 1887, and assigned to the Corps of Englneers. | He served in the Philippine insurrec- ltlon as a major in the Volunteer En- glneer Corps, and in the world war as a brigadier general In the National Army. In April, 1920, he was ap- pointed colonel of engineers in the regular Army. PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO CONGRESS MAY FOLLOW REFUSAL {(Contined from First Page.) | Board. Mr. Harding's new proposal is simply a short cut to the same end by asking both sides to submit the matter at once to the board. (Copyright, 1922.) REJECTION OF PLANS LIKELY. Government’s Proposal, However, Believed to Be Final. Inferences and rumors that have reached the White House today are thought by many to foreshadow re- jection by the rallroad shop crafts- men of the Prestdéft’s second pro- posal for immediate settlement of their differences with the railroad x- ecutives. After a long conference of leaders representing the shop craftsmen here, it is konwn that they express dis- appointment and dissatisfaction at the President’s proposal to refer the mat- ter of senlority to the Railroad Labor Board for decision. The union leaders announced that a meeting has been called here tomorrow of the chief executives of the shop crafts to con- sider the President’s newest proposal. A general conference here has also been called next Friday for all the railroad union executives to consider {the matter. Acceptance Not Certain Regarding the President’s new plan of settlement, the shopmen's repre- sentatives in Washington said today lnm while they did not care to -as- sume to speak for their unions ahead of the outcome of the conferencs scheduled for tomorrow, they did not want the public to get the idea that it is a foregone conclusion plan will be accepted. B. M. head of the railroad employes’ depart- ment of the A. F. of L., who has been the spokesman for the shopmen dur- ing their present strike, is known to have stated, following the receipt of the President’s,new plan, that “nobody should get the idea that the shop federation will eccept.’ There was no indication at the White House today whether or not any information had been received regarding the attitude of the rafl- road oxecutlves toward the new plan. It is understood that they will meet next Friday in New York, when an answer to the President’s appeal will be declded upon. Proposal Belleved Final. So far as the efforts at settling the strike by voluntary mediation are concerned, it is generally accepted that the President’s latest proposal fs final. In fact, it is understood to have been 8o described by the execu- tive himself. - Just what significance {is attached to this description of the | administration’s decisions Is not ap- {parent, though it is believed in soma i quarters to fmply that should failure tagain mark the President’s attempt to mediate the-controversy the gov- ernment has-a eourse of action i view to protect the interests of the nation as a whole. Pending formal reply to the White House communi- cation sent out yesterday, it appeared Lunlikely that aiternative plans would ba disclosed. To clear the way for carfying out the administration’s proposal that iwork be resumed and that the men- fority issue be left to the decision of the Rallroad Labor Board -ani the latter's finding on both the' rail- roads and the emploves, the board is: | known to ‘have made it clear in ‘for- | { mal resolutions that it had not up to jthis time passed upon this question. Following receipt yesterday of the President’'s proposals, Mr. Jewell and his associates issuéd a statement an< nouneing that they had requested the chlef executives of all the striking shopcraft _unions and - the stationary firemen and ollers to meet them in a conference . here tomorrow. Another message to W. J. Stone. chief-of the engineers, and E. J. Manion, presi. of the'telegraphers, asking their operation, was also dispatched. Text of Statement. The statement as reported Associated Brean taowsror o Y he “Messrs.. Noonan, Johnston and Jéw- ell ‘have beeén in conferénce soveral hours.considering the proposal madé o DY the President today. We have fe- quested the chief executives of ‘al the riking . shopcrafts unions ahd ationary firemen and oftersvtd meet us here Wedneaday of this week: “We_ haxe also urgently.requested by telegraph and talephone that.a £ 1ay erengs ajl empl defen: {hemssives, nece; cline_ to operal motives and. c: “It {s élear to that railroa@“eqii mo unsafe maust. be had sottlemen lbzg:l are firm. u'mw . mow.-{n. ser¥ice. - Unbi: Qbéi.on nt' 18 growing each day, and «relior an hie poar, Wil b THE . EVMG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1922. WARNS AGANST “HET OFFENIVE Wheeler Says Propo#exi .Se,n- ate Investigation Is Only Smoke Screen. .. SEES DISTILLERS’ HAND Anti-Saloon’ League Counsel Says Efforts Are On to Under- mine Enforcement. Warning that the liquor interests are about to launch a new offensive against prohibition under cover of a senatorial investigation of the fed- eral dry enforcement department was issued today by Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League of America. The investigation {s intended smoke screen behind which the wet forces hope to hold prohibition en- forcement up to the ridicule of the public during the primaries and forthcoming elections, Mr. Wheeler declared in a public statement. It should not be taken serlously, he thinks. “Rellably Informed.” The statement in full follows: “We are reliably informed that the wet interest will have a resolution introduced in the Senate within a few days to investigate the federal prohibition department. “There are two reasons why the wets are active in having this in- vestigation made just now. The dis- tillers are primarily. interested in it because they are not able to get large withdrawals of liquor, sumably for medicinal purposes; but really fo be diverted to bootleg chan- nels. In view of the recent scandals connected with the di ests, including _theft withdrawals and federal agents, this proposed investi- gation should not be taken seriously. The recent attack on the federal pro hibition department by the distillers through resolutions adopted at Louls- ville shows that a concerted effort is being made to undermine the pro- hibition department and hold it up to ridicule. Violations Promiscuous. “The big thing back of the investi- gation is to try to discredit prohibi- tion during the primaries now being held and the coming election. Out of approximately 500 breweries which had permits to make cereal beverages 285 - violationa -by breweries have been detected. Many of their permits being revoked and they want to start a backfire on the prohibition unit, “If those who are back of this in- vestigation have definite information about {llegal acts or corrupt prac- tices of any of the federal agents they know that it would doubtless receive prompt attention if reported to the enforcement department. Those who will back this resolution will be the same who have opposed prohibition and its enforcement and the grant of adequate power to the prehibition department to make pro- hibition effective. The investigation would simply be brewery and distil- lery propaganda to.discredit prohi- tion.” OFFGALS PROBE MOTON PTURES Acting on its own {nitiative, the Federal Trade Commission, repre- sented by Commissioners Gaskill, Murdock and Van Fleet, made a per- sonal investigation of several motion picture films last week in an effort to decide whether a film released locally was a relssue of an old film, and whether in reissuing the film exhib- itors were not leading the public to belleve the film was an entirely new production. The decision of the com- mission in the case is expected to be made public this week. ged The three members of the commis- sion visited studios of two éxhibitors in Washington, viewing three films, all taken from a novel famous many g0, ‘but all bearing different . The commission today an- nounced that a formal complaint has been issued against the Fox Film Company of New York, questioning whether the reissue of an old film under a new title, without disclosing that the films are reissues is an un- fair method of competiticn. old pictures under,a new titl mission’s eomplaint said, tends lead exhibitors, and through them the ‘public, into the belief that such rcissues are first-run pictures. The picture viewed locally was taken from the book “Black Beauty,” and was shown under three different titles at ‘two film exchanges . The trip of the commissioners to tha motion plcture exhibi is said fo be the first similar attempt by the commission to decide on its own fini- tiative by personal investigation what constitutes unfair competition in re-issue of motion picture filmw P continue 8o as long as the Aseocia- tlon of Rallway Executives declines ccept reasonable terms of agree- Union Chiefs® Telegram. The union chiefs' telegram to Mr. Stone and Mr. Manion said: ‘Shop crafts did everything con- celvable . to avold necessity for a strike, and since the strike have alf 81l times been willing to confer with authorized to submit a basis of honorablé sef tlement. We accepted the President’s terms of agreement,® submitted to employes ahd Imanagers. July 31. Ass sociation Rallway Executives, in re- jecting. the President's terms of agreement, obviously acting under the direction of thqse who exerclse the financial tontrol and dictate the labor policies of the rallroads, re- pudiated the promise given by their chairman to the President and defled the spokesman of the American peo: ple. To date, only the employes have made concessions. Obviously, the strike. must be settled if the country is to avojd the jmpending calamity of a collapse of transportatfon. . No Constructive Program Seen. “The government has the authority to promptly settle the‘;\i-l‘l:e ‘onp::r‘;e juat,.fair, and reagonable basis:pro- Dased.by the President July 31, Hows t is now apparent.that mo con- structiye.-program: is being . proposed. and (hat unjess the Tallroad employ’ ean offer additio Ihe Soveling Subite, Alceady o and, trgveling public, alrea t gered by the continued use of defeds tive -raiirgad equipment, will be Im periled to a greater extent. Bellev- ing thag- the “chrief executive.of ; of the'standard raflroad labor ori izations, result of their years of experience, h;ogl pul re ndustry of settlément, e ;}agers and the enipldyes, 580! that, yeu,.as chairman ol the' r: d. o fin_\u’:fl-,hz:gu é chi lb;oen‘sf\'.“reqfl#!l i t tend conte: ] gF JUST A COUPLE OF VIEWS OF THE CONDITION OF GEORGIA AVENUE. R Upper: The street car rails in many places are exposed for thef view was taken above Military road, like rolling over the ties. rect this condition ) load of vnse'.lblel and cantaloupes. agreed to do full height, and riding between the rails is t the raiiroad company has started to eor- Lower: Above Sheridan street the highway proper is in a bad condition, as will be evidenced by this view which covers omly a small section of it. SUSPECT WOMAN IN THEFT OF $44 Fingerprints on Scissors Give Clue in Trade Com- mission “Robbery.” Fingerprints on the blade of a pair of scissors which were used to open a desk from which $44 was stolen a few days ago at the Federal Trade Com- mission have directed suspicion to a woman employe of the commission. The “robbery” last week is the latest in & series of petty thefts which have een golng on at the offices of the Federal Trade Cominission for sev- eral weeks. The woman employe of the commis. sion, who is under suspicion of steal- ing her own money from-her own desk, is said to have informed of cials of the commission that $44 wag missing from her desk one afternoon last week. Detectives were put on the case, and they informed C. G. Du- ganne, assistant secretary of the com- mission, tifat because the scissors with which the desk drawer had been opened had been handled by so many persons since the robbery it was practically impossible to trace the thief by the fingerprint method. Mr. Duganne suggested that probably the deepest prints half-way up the blade of the scissors would be the prints of the thief. Therewith fingerprints of all the employes on the floor on which the robbery took place, including higher officlals of the commfssion, were taken, with the result that the prints of the woman under suspicion were found in the place where natural leverage to open the desk drawer would be exerted. —_— SEAKTE TO SETTE 3 TARRF ISSES The Senate was to dispose today of all pending amendments to three fm. portant sections of the tariff bill, the sugar schedule, the proposed five years' bounty on potash in lieu of a duty and the rate on white arsenic. Senators from sugar producing states belleve they would ke able_to muster the necessary majority for the Broussard amepdment proposing a duty of 2 cents a pound on Cuban raw sugar, an increase of 1 cent over the rate in the Underwood law and of 1 cent above the rate in the emer- genay tapiff and the bill as reported to the Senate. < The committee amendment, offered yesterday, for a.bounty on pot was opposed generally-by the demo- crats as.a departure from the tfad) tional policy of Congress. On other - hand, committee membe ; pointed to the bounty on sugar pai in the 90s as precedent for their rec- ommendation. ~ The bounty recom- mended for domestic producers is the same as the tarift duties originally stggested, 3% cents a pound for two years ending Octaber 1, 1924; 2 cents for the year ending .October 1, 1825; 1% . cents for succeeding year and 1 gent for the. final year, . The white arsenic duty of 2 cénts & pound already has been approved by the Senate, but has been reopenéd at the Insistence of senatars from squthis ern states, Who agrer that it whll cost gotton growers m lons of do¥ars* year. They. also contend that it"wi Prove a burden.on 'hrmei;-:%ngr_flw and that the duty, will ben&fit” only smelting interests who producé hrge- nic as & by-product. ie SLAYERS’ PLEA REFUSED. Assdssins of. British Field Marshal Are Denied Appeal LONDON, August &—The‘at general today refused to-sanction |m0‘£ ta., the* house, -of: lo Joseph O'Sillivan and Reginakd, ‘under-sentence ta.be. hanged A 10, {g"v(»he assasination of E;l‘eld 8| % : .| Ses 2 POINCARE DEMANDS JOINT ALLIED GRIP ON GERMAN TRADE (Continued from First Page.) George said if Germany failed to meet her obligations it would be a matter of serious concern to all the allles. He emphasized that all would suffer equal- ly. He cited figures which had been is- sued by the Bankers' Trust Company of New York, which he characterized as “an _impartial authorit; showing that the French expenditures on the war had amounted to $37,500,000,000, those of Italy $14,600,000,000 and those of Great Greatain $49,000,000,000. The premier argued that Great Brit- aln’s claims to repamtions, therefore, were as great as those of France. Dur- ing the war, he said, Great Britain had raised £3,000,000,000 by taxation. parried a statement of M. Poincare on the devastation of Francd by calling attention to the devastation to British trade. Mr. Lloyd George sought to assuage the French fears of the incomplete dis- armament of Germany. ! tions and related the process of making munitions for war. He said: “Germany is not in a position to plot a military surprise on her old_enemies. My experiences have convinced me that it ‘'would take Germany thirty years to accumulate secretly the war materials which it took us, working full blast, two years to manufacture.” He asserted that Germany had suffer- ed three revolutions, but that the gov- ernment there, on the whole, was stable. GERMANS IN PROTEST. Cabinet Condemns Poincare’s Plan to Collect Debts. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 8—The German cabinet, after discussing the French “retorsions,” now being enforced for Germany's failure to promise pay- ment ir full of t pre-war private debts ow!ng to Frenchmen, voted to issue an _informal statement con- demning Premier Poincare’s pro- cedure as illegal, especially in its relation to the Versallles treaty and the Franco-German agreement cone cluded at Baden concerning titles to private property. Wo offictal counter-demonstration or formal protest is time being, as the government is apparently deslrous of awaliting the outcome of the allied discussions in London. | !W. B. STEWART SUCCUMBS SUDDENLY AT HIS HOME Assistant Clerk to Senate Finance Comnrittee Recently Suffered At- tack of Acute Indigestion. 1 - | ence’ with Presi "} vetrans, William: B.. St of the committee nate;’ died -suddeniy’ today - at Stewnrs :n“""k?'o ‘% nré’ two. weeks -ago s ineti gestion.”: A -day. ed to_ the Capitol, - _been -an: employe “many years; and-in on finance of. beeni_with the late | thre. ia, Arst He cited his| own experiences as minister of muni- | have resulted from the presence of} nncd for the DANGERDLS POLES ALLOWED 10 STAND 0. B. Zantzinger Claims Mr. Keller Condemned Bla- densburg Road Menace. Although the dangerous condition of Bladensburg road, due to the presence of trolley-wire supporting poles in He , the center, has been admitted by the District Commissioners in corre- spondence with O. B. Zantzinger, and promises made months ago that they would be removed, they are still standing. Many serious accidents these poles and their presence is made all the more dangerous by thé rutty condition of the thoroughfare and railroad right of way which may result in throwing an automobile into any of the poles. Mr. Zantzinger was led to take up the matter with the; Commissioners because of the acci- dents due to the poles. “I travel over Bladensburg road daily and it is, indeed, a pike of ruts and a disgrace, not only to the Dis- trict of Columbia, but to the entire country. The ruts are bad enough and dangerous enough, but the death poles are much more 50,” he said to- day. Removal Was Promised. “Just about a year ago. the Engineer Commissioner wrote me that these poles would be removed, but they are still there, and it does not seem possi- ble that right here in the Disgrict of Columbia such corditions would de al- lowed to remain, especially =s there is so much sald and writter about ‘safe- ty first’ Correspondence with Mr. Zantzinger shows that the raflroad company had ‘been notifled by Col. Kutz, then Enghl- the have the funds, whereupon it was told that the work would be done by trict forces and the cost charged against the company. To the latter ‘the company entered protest, but it/ was then the intentlon of the Commis- sloner to proceed unless stopped by the courtk. Engineer Commissioner Keller, in a Jetter dated December 1, 1921, to Mr. Zantzinger, sald: tewart, additional clerk an ar “I have just found an opportunity to take a look- at the poles on the Bladensburg road, and I find that the center poles to which you object are still in plac Poles Still Standing. “As you were informed some time ago, a decision was arrived at by my predecessor that these poles should be removed, .and the board of Commis sioners approved his views on the sub- fject. Since that time, however, it has hot beenfound possible to spare from the District service those employ who are best qualified te remove the poles, they being busy with otirer work which it was judged required: precedence over the removal of the Doles. in question, “My investigation disclosed that this unfavorable’ condition will seon be at an end. and it 13 hoped at a com~ paratively early date the work of changing the poles may be set on oot.” The poles are still standing. PLEAD FOR HOSPITAL. Construction in New Jersey of a government. hospital for tubercular | former service men was, urged today by Senator Frelinghuysen of New Jersey. and J. D, Sears, commander of the New Jersey department of .the erican Legion, daring a confer- dent Harding. They ukgented several sites in high altl des’ for @ hosbital. G ‘At present 400 New. Jersey war the President was told, aré rtered in, contract ho:yufig_ & “"the men in hospitals ot , comMig to Washington he was - he vallay mAll sebvice, Office: 7 4-im‘n‘t,“n:§ :‘m’ g"!'rtniult‘ imr 10 the. tol, 3 stew:';l, h!nnd a‘wl,t}; acquat among_public: ; was Tegarked by' th TS, e anniveérsary of their & Ml;flx the g ‘Mason, having been ing. /. He d highly [ was s ».“dlsgra o | S deretict. ka | 2a0pted e | SIREN-VOICED HUCKSTER WITH “CANT-E-E-LOPES” ARRESTED FOR BLASTS John Sutros, a young Italian, was looking for a job Saturday. He was willing to work at anything. He applied to a huckster for work. He filled the requirements—Ilusty lungs, the power of making himself heard biocks away, in- dustry and an ambition to do things. He ‘was emplayed to work from early in the morning until he sold out the wagon. He the job for $5. He started out with & two-horse wagon loaded to capacity. Every step the team took John let out & yell with the power of a siren sounding ’ a fire alarm in & rolling mill—"can- t-e-e-elopes, cant-e- e-elopes” John an- nous and the people on the next two blocks sat up and took notice. John was certainly advertising his passing with his foghorn voice yelling “can- t-e-o-elopes, cant-e- e-elopes, | cant-e-e- cry and made haste to investigate. ~ He had no trouble in tracing John with his auctioneer voice. He told the boy he must let up on the disturbance. John thought he had a right to cry his ware: —his boss was paying a huckster license and why should a policeman stop him. He had heard it paid to adver- tise and he was trying it out. George was arrested and appeared in Police Court yesterday. He was put on probation with the admonition from Judge Hardison not to disturb the peace and dignity of the commonweaith. PARLEY WILL PASS ON STRIKERS’ REPLY (Cor.tinued from First Page.) objections are mot insuperable. The concurreat condemnation of opposite extremes raises a suspicion that the President must have found the safe and sane position of fairness and conservatism. Many Men Needed. “The opinion already expressed by one executive that the President’s recommendations seem to ‘demand a complete surrender on the part of the railways and the characterization of the proposal by a leader of the employes as an uncalled for attempt to help the railroads break the strike’ will be hard to reconstrue in the pub- lic mind. “The rising of business prosperity 2nd the consequent increase of rail- way traffic, coupled with the accumu- lated shopwork resulting from the strike, will necessitate the employ- ment of a greatly enlarged number of mechanics. The other ordinary processes of readjustment that al ways follow a strike would likewise operate effectively. On a very large number of the roads, in my judge- ment, the question of seniority would never even arise.” Board Ready to Act. Acting upon President Harding sug- gestion for ending the rail strike, the Labor Board today stood ready prompt- ly and readily to consider the seniority question, sole remaining barrier to peace on the railroads. In a majority resolution adopted last night the board asserted as much will- ingness to act on the seniority con- troversy as to reopen hearings on the wage and rule issues originally involved in the strike. A. O. Wharton, the only one of the three labor members present at the meeting, voted against the resolution fter an amendment he offered was voted down. Resolution Misinterpreted. “The only difference in the attitude of the board toward the wage and rule questions and the seniority question,” the resolution sald, “is that, as to the former, the board would be called upon to rehear matters already formally de- cided, and, as to the latter, to consider a question which has not been formally heard and decided, but which has been Inferentially touched upon in the reso- lution of July 8, 1922 The July resolution, which declared that striking shopmen were no longer employes of the roads, was wrongfully interpreted as “outlawing” the strikers, Mr. Hooper asserted. The board’s offer to hear the senior- ity question and render a decision on it, came on the heels of President Hard- ing’s proposal to rallway executives and the striking shopcrafts. Disorders on Increase. Increasing disorder marked the progress of the rall strike, which is in its sixth week. Troops were ordered to Joliet, IIL, where two men.were killed and Sheriff Newkirk was injured in a clask yesterday at the E!gin, Joltet and Eastern shops. Gov. Thomas E. Kilby of Alabama ordered national guardsmen to Al- bany following a report that au- thorities were unable to cope with disorders growing out of the strike shopmen. Austin King and R. J. Murphy, fo: mer carmen In the Northern Paclfic railroad .shops at St. Paul, were ar- rested when Samuel B. Smith, a shop employe, charged that the men at- tacked him when he went to work, WORK FARMED OUT' SCORED IN PROTEST Machinists Tell President Hundreds of Federal Em- ployes Lose Jobs Thereby. NAVY YARD CASE CITED Dismissals Largely Due to Letting Contracts to Private Plants beat him and threatened to hang him. Beaten With Wire. Howard McDonald, a machinist's helper in the St. Louls-San Fran- cisco railroad shops at Monett, Mo., reported that he had been beaten with strands of wire rope. Three men were held in connectlon Wwith the attack. Gov. Allen of Kansas asked Mayor Bufton of Kansas City, Kan, to fur- nish additional protection to work- efs at Argentine, where a workman in the Santa Fe shops was attacked. ree men, charged with violation of a federal {njunction restralning strikers from i terrenn;P with op- eration of the Texas and Paclfic rail- road, were found gulity at New_ Or- leans and sentenced to thifty days. One man, chatged with a similar of- fense, was discharged. Declaging that a general state of Iswlessness has prevalled at Needles, Calif, since the beginning of the strike, 1. L. Hibhard, general man- ager of the Atchison. Topeka and Sanla_Fe, sald the San Bernardino coynty Jury would asked to fnvestigate conditions. Striking shopmen lost three con- tentions in. federal. court at Pertland, Oregon, when motions to satrike qut portishs of a complaint against them weré: overruled. Flogged in Jail Go) structed Atforriey General Coco ta investjgate the situation at Gretna, |a_guburb of New Orledns, where fif- | teen, men, were {mprigoned ufter they testified that they had been beaten by plleged strikers and strike sym- ipathizers. Several men testified that they, Were flogged by negro trusties within the walls' of the Jjail. Thg | risoners’ were released by Federal | uage Wostetf. ‘mgfldnnl to’'thé Attorney general, dec! thie dmprisonnient of 'the men: M,-lfll "_I‘Q !‘-ll‘nm fi: oval of any n\‘l-duty in cohx;‘ec i WAtR the xffair, ity tmw-cy ofs fhree locals. of -the Brgtherhood. of flway Trginmen in a joitit meeting at Houstdn, Texas, lutions’ protesting _the Papker of Loulsiana in-|of Gov. Parker, in_ his| i Is Claim. Protest against the “farming out’ of government work to private Secretary of Denby and chairman of the Senate and House naval affairs committees by Columbla Lodge, No. 174, Interna- tional Association of Machinists. Lack of work at the Washington navy yard, which has already result- ed in the wholesale discharging and furloughing of hundreds of skilled mechanics, the organization pointed out in a resolution sent to the BOV- ernment authorities, is attributed largely to the “farming out” of Work by the government to private con- cerns. It was charged in the resolution that the private plants do not pro- duce work on the same high stand- @rd as the government’ establish- ments, besides they employ “a great amount %of foreign labo: The resolution called upon the offi- cials “to see that all work is routed to government owned establishments” where it will be handled by “Amer! can citizens.” It also was recited in the resolution that the navy yard workers have been commended highly by the chief of the bureau of ordnance for their work- manship and skill and high efciency during the war and that the emploves “eager to maintain in time of peace the excellent reputation earn- ed by the Washington navy yard.” In this connection the resolution emphasized that the navy yard men resent statements which bave ap- peared in the press, in which recent layoffs were characterized as the eli- mination of “dead wood,” thereby “casting a reflection an the efficiency of the personnel.” WILL DECIDE BANK CHARTER QUESTION Backers of Anacostia Insti- tution Face Problem Follow- ing Crissinger Order. PROMOTION FEES CAUSE Controller Refused to Allow Opening of Business After Building Was Secured. The Merchants and Farmers' Bank of Anacostia, which has been re- fused permission to open by Con- troller of Currency Crissinger because of the fact that $3 per share of the subscription was to be used for “pro- motion fees,” will probably apply to the controller for a charter to en- gage in business within the District, it was learned today following a conference yesterday afternoon be- tween Mr. Crissinger, Raymond E. Huntt, president of the bank, and Marion Butler, counsel for the bank. At the office of the controller it was said that representatives of t! bank had been informed at the con- ference yesterday to prepare an of cial application for a charter. Further than this, the controller said- today, he would not comment. Attorney Butler, who has been in consultation with officlals of the Treasury and of the bank, also with stockholders of the bank, said the conference had been had with the controller In_order to “adjust” the situation, and that a statement might be forthcoming on behalf of the stockholders within a day or two. Whether the bank would make ap- plication to he District Columbt: tas been ref y on account of the promo paid to the Premier Finance Compaay. or whether it would move across the District line into Marylund was, not made clear. It was belleved, DoW- ever, that stockholders, ofiicers and counsel for the bank will ‘makerigll <Morts to open the bank in 1ts prosent tocation at 1205 Good lope road, Ana- costis, where a bullding has been re- modeled and equipped with furmiture. it is understood the controlier would have no objection to the bank applying for a charter In Maryland. About 500 persons in Anacostta and nearby Maryland are understood to have subscribed to nearly two-thirds of the capital of the bank, which has been placed at $250.000. Groups of stockholders have been reported as meeting in various places, not only in Anacostia, but in Maryland. to discuss the situation, and it was learned to- day that a definite move made to- ward a_meeting of stockholders in Anacostia for tomorrow night had been forestalled on the advice of coun- Such a meeting to formulate a policy from the majority of the stock- holders was understood, however, to be planned for the near future, The Merchants and Farmers' Bank nas. b organizing for some time, ¢ith headquarters at its office build- 'ing on Good Hope road, and its tele- phone number appears in the cuprent apring issue of the telephone di- rectory under the name of the Mer- fchants and Farmers' Bank, Incor- porated. 30 DAYS’ SUPPLY LIMITED TO D. C. COAL CONSUMERS (Continued from First Page.) lantic lines also were considered. Another rallroad problem’ attacked the committee was the question priorities in west-bound tratic over east-bound traffic, espectally in the ‘est Virginia fields, cfforts being made to work out a means of enabling Droner TIEht of way for fuel, distribution. NMany industrial concerns thropgh- out the country, it was said today to fthe committee, .are applying ‘1o the committee direct for fuel, but theso requests - are ing Teférred to’ the state tions, where they shanld have be¢n sent in the first instance. Senistor Letiroot, republican, Wis- censin, appearsd ioday: at thie’ conl | committee, to take up :the necds o The porthern lake sections, He de- dlaTed” he was beirg bombarded with prals from: the ‘Aofthern lake re- :%n‘.m“ the¥: he supplied. before the winter. The meeting of Penmsylvanfa’ co opertore with ).l;ti'lfll eer ‘enid Fle