Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Partly cloudy and moderate tem- perature tonight and tomorrow. Tem- perature for twenty-four hours end- ed at 2 p.m. tod: 4:40 p.m. yesterda; am. today. Highest, lowest, 79, at 63, at 4:30 - | Clo;in; N.Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 15 © No. 28,593. Entered as second-class matte: ost Tofico Waahington, ‘B¢ C. RAIL UNION CHIEFS MEET T0 CONSIDER PLAN OF PRESIDENT Long Session Predicted as 17 Leaders Convene, With | Rejection Forecast. STRIKE BEFORE CABINET; MANY REPORTS READY No Inkling Given of Probable Course of U. S. Should Peace Efforts Fail. | B the Associated Press. Heads of seventeen railroad labor organizations, including those on strike and the larger operating| brotherhoods, considered President| Harding's latest strike settlement| proposal for more than two hours to- | day without reaching any decision as| to what response should be made by the men on strike. Warren . Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Engineers, who pre-| sided at the session, which adjourned shortly after noon, said another meet- ing would be held later in the day| but that probably no answer would | Le drawn up before tomorrow. Chief officials of the seventeen rail- road labor organizations went into joint session shortly after 10 o'clock today and B. M. Jewell, their chair- man, said the session would be a They had nothing to add to long one b their previously given indications that the shop unions intended to reject the President's proposal. whi vides for leaving the seniority of =1l strikers to adjustment by the Raiiroad Labor Board after their re- turn to work ! Expect Dispatches. Attending the meeting today in ad- fition to Chairman Jewell were War- ren S. Stone, gvand chief, Brother- hood of locomotive engineers; D. B.| Robertson, president, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; Sheppard, president, Order of Railway Conductors; J. W. Kline,! ident, Brotherhood of Black- | iv. H. Johnston. president. Association of Machinists; J. A Franklin, president. Brotherhood of Boilermakers; James Burns, vice president, Sheet Metal Workers' Al-} James J. Noonan, president, | Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; Martin F. Ryan, president. Brother: hood of Railway Carmen; T. C Cashen, president, Switchmen’s Union; E. H. Fitzgerald, president, Brother- hood of Railway and Steamship Clerks; E. J. Manion, president, Order of Railroad Telegraphers; F. Grable, president, Maintenance of Way Employes; D. W. Helt, president, Brotherhood of Railroad Bignalmen; Timothy Healy, president, Brother- hood of Stationary Firemen and Oil- ers, and W. N. Doak, vice president, Brotberhood of Trainmen. The or- ganiustion of the train dispatchers was also expected to be represented at the session. Cabinet Meets Also. President Harding and his cabinet ywent into session at exactly the same‘ time the union leaders assembled and | the rail strike was foremost in the zabiz 't discussions. Attorney Gener- 2l Daugherty before leaving the De- partment of Justice for the White House sent telegrams to representa- tives of the department in Arizena. New Mexico and California, asking for reports on the walkouts of the Big Four Brotherhood members on the Santa Fe in its western territory. He also carried press dispatches tell- ing of the walkout into the cabinet meeting, and other members of the President's official family went to the cabinet session prepared to report ¢n various features of the rail strike. So far as known the shop craft ex- ecutives, who have been here several days, have taken no steps as yet to- ‘ward framing their answer. No New Strike Planned. It has been repeatedly emphasized by Mr. Jewell, spokesman for the allied shop unions, that the general conterence was desired In an advisory | way and that extension of the strike among other railroad unions was not expected to result from today’s meet- ing. Since the conference was called, however, members of some other rail unions at various points have re- fused, with the sanction of the union heads, to work under conditions pre- wvalling due to the shopmen's strike. Protest walkouts against the use of troops and armed guards and also against zlleged deterioration of roll- ing stock resulted and it appeared certain that this phase of the rail- road problem would be given much attention by the general conference when it went into session. Early action by the shopmen toward framing their answer to Mr. Hard- ing’s proposal that the senfority dis- pute be referred to the Railroad La- bor Board for settlement was not expected. Mr. Jewell anticipated that it would take a day or more for the general conference to go over the ground with the shopmen. It seem- ed likely that the men's answer would not reach the President before next week. Rejection Is Predicted. Since the President's new and final suggestion was made known shop- craft leaders here have freely pre- dicted that it would be rejected, al- though declaring themselves without power to commit the unions on such a proposition. The executive heads of the organization in the shopcraft federation who have power'to act have been engaged in conferences here preparatory to the general gathering today, and nothing' has ‘been said to alter the impression that rejection is a foregone conclusion, only the form of the answer to the President being in doubt. Meanwhile, administration leaders have given no inkling as to the course the government will follow if it again faces rejection of its efforts to bring about voluntary termination of the strike. Congrel will be in full session next week, ready, as the Presi- dent desires, to take up the problem should the adxministration find it ex- pedient to seek emergency lexislation, but there is nothing to Indicate that a definite program has been or will be prepared until the answers of both zides reach the White House. > he Z eni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Sfar WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1922 —TWENTY-TWO PAGES. |23 TIME BOMBS SET OFF IN CALIFORNIA RAILYARD Blasts in Santa Fe Stockade at San Bernardino Continue Three Hours. Great Increase in Disorders. DY the Associated Press. SAN BERNARDINO, Calif, August 11.—Twenty-three time bombs ex- ploded at Intervals during a three- hour perlod early today in the stock- ade of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rallroad within 200 yards of the company's roundhouse, ac- cording to the sheriff's office. The bombs were located on the ground and in exploding did no dam- age. except for blowing much earth into the air, it was sald. More explosions were expected mo- mentarily and no one was allowed in the stockade this morning. Seri Tie-Up Threatened. CHICAGO, _August 11.—Serious threats to traffic by refusal of train- men to move trains at points where troops are on guard; renewed outbreaks of violence resulting in several deaths, and_the possibility of walk- outs by maintenance-of- men_on various roads marked the progress of the strike of shopcrafts employes as railroad heads and union leaders gathered for conferences today to consider separately President Hard- ing’s proposal for ending the strike. Members of the “big four” trans- portation brotherhoods, upon whom train moements depend, were author- ized by their chiefs to suspend work if they consider strike conditions and | the presence of soldiers at terminals and junction points “unbearable.” Nom-Union Men Killed. Switchmen at Moberly, Mo.. returned to work after a short walkout. but firemen there voted not to aid in the movement of freight trains until the demands of the striking shopmen were met. Two non-union employes of the New York Central lines in the Collin- Wood yards at Cleveland, one a dis- patcher and the other a callboy, were shot and killed on a street corner. Their slaver escaped. At Hulburt, Ark.. two negro shop employes of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific were shot and probably fatally wounded. At Birmingham, Ala., an attempt was made to blow up a dining car used for feeding shopmen and labor- ers in the Frisco yards. The bomb missed its mark and blew a hole in a nearby box car. The explosion oc- curred just before 100 men were due to arrive at the car. Police found a bundle of dynamite sticks in the yards ear the cars. Shanty Cars Dynamited. Dynamite was used in an attempt to blow up shanty cars and a diner in the Southern rallway yards at Asheville, N. C. Windows were shat- tered in other cars. State rangers were sent to Texar- kana, Tex.. in connection with strike trouble there. Water pipes supplying RAILHEADS SPLIT ON HARDING PLAN 1148 Go Into Conference With Division Clearly Marked. Realize Gravity. EAST WANTS FINISH FIGHT Committee Named to Prepare Re- ply—Personnel Same as Re- jected First Proposal. By the Associated Press. NE WYORK, August 11.—Heads of 148 American railroads today ap- | pointed a committee to recommend & reply to President Harding's latest proposal for settlement of the natlon- wide rail strike. It was not indicated by those leav- ing the conference chamber What would be the nature of the reply to the administration’s suggestion that the matter of seniority—at which the executives had balked at their last meeting here—should be left to the Railroad Labor Board. T. Dewitt Cuyler, head of the Asso- ciation of Railway Executives, was nemed ex-officio head of the commit- tee, with Judge Robert S. Lovett of the Union Pacific as chairman. The membership was reported to be ap- proximately the same as that which rejected Mr. Harding's first proposal. Fiske Before Meeting. Haley Fiske, president of the Metro- politan Life Insurance Company, which is a large investor in railroad securities, appeared before the conference. It was reported he carried an important mes- llg‘; to the executives from the finan- 1al interests. eTha seriousness with which each ex- ecutive is taking today’'s meeting w: evidenced by the remark of one prei dent as he entered the conference: Vital Problem to Solve. “This meeting marks another epoch in railroad history. Its importance is second only to our meeting in 1916 with President Wilson. I trust our decision today will be beneficial to the railroads, to our employes and to the nation. We have a vital basic labor problem to solve, and we must solve it with justice to all.” The meeting with President Wilson, to which the executive referred, was called at the time the “big four” protherhoods were threatening a na- tion-wide strike, and preceded pas- sage of the Adamson act. From the start a sharp division in the voting strength was apparent, which was so clearly defined as to ‘be almost section: alterably opposed to acceptance of the President’s plan, because it pro- vided that the question of returning strikers with seniority rights un- impaired should be shunted back to e United States Railroad Labor Board for final decision. Loree Leads Attack. The attack was led by L. F. Loree, president of the Delaware and Hud- son; W. W. Atterbury of the Pennsyl- vania, A. H. Smith of the New York Central and Frederick Underwood of the Erie. To accept the plan, they maintained, | SUsS " (Continued on Page 7, Column %) * > | the Texas and Pacific yards and the union stations were cut by unknown persons. Marvin Oxiner, a car Tepairer em- ployed by the St. Louls and San Fran- cisco railroad at Memphis, Tenn., died from gunshot wounds recelved when he was attacked and robbed by two negroes while on his way to work. Conferences were arranged between railroad and union officials in Chi- cago today in an effort to avert a walkout of 2,600 manitenance of way men on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. Strike Vote Possible. Maintenance of way men at Kansas City sent resolutions to their nation- al officers demanding “protection of their interests,” even to the extent of calling a suspension of work. A strike vote to poll sentiment of “big four” brotherhood men at New Or- leans on the question of a sympa- thetic strike to aid the striking shop- men was in prospect. Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson, recently appointed to the bench to succeed former Judge K. M. Landis, commissioner of base ball,” granted an injunction restraining strikers from picketing in the yards of the Elgin and Eastern railroad, at Jollet, Iil, where troops remained on guard. The Eastern. Joliet and Eastern outer belt line for Chicago shipping still was tied up by a walkout of the “big four” brotherhoods in pro- test against the presence of soldiers. Posting _of circulars designating | shop workers as “scabs” and “strike- breakers” was restrained in an in- Junction granted at St. Paul by Fed- eral Judge Booth. Four Tr Canceled. Strike ballots were ordered for clerks employed by the Lackawanna. In conference at St. Paul governors of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, lowa dent to | President Harding their approval of action toward government operation of rallroads serving coal regions and all mines also if necessary to relieve 'thr situation brought by the dual strike of rallroad men and miners. Coal shortage was assigned by road officials as the reason for a tempo- rary cancellation of four branch line trains on the Missouri Pacific out of Wichita, Kan. The Missouri Pacific announcement followed withdrawal of six passenger trains of the Frisco line operating in Kansas. Deputy United States Marshal Albertson was seriously burned when a bomb exploded in his hands shortly after the explosion of the twenty- three bombs. Explosion of the bombs created ter- ror in the vicinity of the shops, hurl- ing fragments several hundred feet. The bombs were of cast iron pipe elbows filled with a white powder, and according to investigators, were ap- parently thrown into the stockage. FRE SWEEPS CORK INHEAVY AT Flyer Reports Every Police and Military Barrack in City Burning. SEE REBEL LAST STAND Correspondent With Nationals Says Bottling Move Is Un- der Way. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 11.—All the mili- tary and police burracks in Cork are burning, according to the report of a government aviator who flew over the frergular stronghold late yesterday, says a Times dispatch from Dublin. The correspondent of the Daily Mail, telegraphing his paper Thursday from the headquarters of troops, says: “An expedition is landing tonight on the Kerry coast, which will close all the gaps and hem the rebels on the the national Mallow Fermoy-Mitchelstown line, where they must make their last stand. There are many desertions from their ranks.” An Exchange Telegraph Dispatch from Dublin today said many” | big buildings in Cork were in flames, in- cluding the offices of the Cork Ex- aminer and the Constitution. Heavy fighting was still in progress, said the dispatch, although most of the irregu- lars were believed to have evacuated the city proper. National troops have occupied the towns of Clonmel, Cahir and Dun- garven. CORK STILL ISOLATED. By the Assoclated Press. DUBLIN, August 11.—Communica- tion with Cork, except by sea, is still impossible and the exact results of the fighting between the irregulars and the provisional government forces are unknown here. It fis riously stated that the nationals have entered, and that they have not en- tered the city. Some of the wounded brought here on a steamship say the irregulars were strongly posted at Passage West and that the nationals had to fight their way through under in- tense fire, a number being wounded and one killed. They reported that the government troops who landeq at Union Hall also are fighting thelr way through the hostile districts. The crew of another vessel ar- riving from Cork said the admiralty house and the British Naval Hospital at Queenstown, both of which -be- came familiar to American naval men overseas during the war, were blaa- ing when they left, as well as two other large buildings, 'in which fre- quent explosions were heard. It is reported that the Iirregulars have evacuated Clonmel. The reconvening of the dall eireann, scheduled for August 12, was post- poned today until August 26. GEDDES LANDS IN'U. S. NEW YORK, August 11.—Sir Auck- land Geddes,” British ambaseador, and S80-Ke Alfred: Sse, Chinese minister at families on the 1 Mauretania from today. Neither would dis- affairs. Ambassador {mmediately COAL WAGE PLAN 1S BEING FRAMED AT JOINT PARLEY Cleveland Conference Draft to Be Used as Basis of Settlement. ALL DE’,MANDS GIVEN COMMITTEE HEARING Operators Present Represent 20 Per Cent of Central Com- petitive Field. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 11.— ‘Work of framing a wage scale agree- ment, which union officials said they expect using as a dasis of settlement in the nation-wide soft coal strike, was begun today by a committee of twenty-two miners and operators. ! President John L. Lewis of the miners and Michael Gallagher of this city, president of the Pittsburgh Vein Coal Operators’ Association of Ohlo, head- ed the committee, the entire person- nel of which was selected from the scale committee of the general con- ference called here to consider peace plans. Demands to Be Heard. Demands of both the miners and the operators were to be placed before the committee of twenty-two, and its Teport was not expected to be ready for presentation to the general con- ference until next week. The miners stood pat on their de- mand for re-establishment of the contracts that were in force just be- fore the start of the strike more than four months ago, but the operators’ demands had not been made known by the producers’ committee members. Operators Represented. The operators participating in the conference were shown by its cre- dentials committee to control about 20 per cent of the coal production of the central competitive fleld, which comprises western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Approximately two-thirds of this tonnage was that controlled by Ohlo operators. W. A. Glasgow of Philadelphia, counsel for the mine: had returned today from TPledO. where he met yes- terday with'some Illinois operators who are not participating in the con- ference. He declined to discuss his i‘fi"‘mn'a‘;‘“;fian“"ed with President wis and other union official: Feturn b his clty. - ot 0 - committee of twenty-two, known as the subscale comzntn. was nained today to include twelve miners and ten operators, but with each side to have equal number of votes {n deciding all questions. All of the operators’ committemen, ex- cept two, were Ohio men. Some of the Ohlo committemen sail they owned mines in Pennsylvania. W. A. Batterlee of Clinton was the In- diana oromtor member, and Richard Campbell of Springfield. was the 1)- linois operator member. The miners’ committemen include the union's in- ternational officers, and also th unfon officers of Illinois, Indian: Ohio and western Pennsylvania dis® ricts. OPERATORS JOIN PARLEY. 800,000 to Million Tonnage in Illi- nois Added to Representation. CHICAGO, August 11—The United Electric Coal Company, owning mining property in Ohio and Illinois, has thrown its Illinois tonnage into the four-state wage conference at Cleveland, it was authentically re- ported here this morning. The capacity of the company’s Illinole mines was given as between 800,000 and 1,000,000 tons. This is the first reported break in the stand taken by the Illinols Operators’ Association. U.S. RAIL CONTROL UPTOPRESIDENT Congress will authorize the Presi- dent to take over the railroads and the coal mines if it becomes neces- sary and such action is recommended by the chiet executive, in the opinion of senators who have followed the situation closely. On the other hand, it is belleved that should the President go to Con- gress with a proposal to amend the transportation act 50 as to provide penalties for failure to obey the de- cisions of the Railroad Labor Board, or penalties for engaging in & con- spiracy to interfere with interstate commerce, it would be impossibie to obtain legislation for many, many weeks. Such a remedy to meet the present strike situation .would be entirely ineffective, it was said to- day. The question as to how much power should be given the Labor Board -and ‘the- question of penalties to be imposed in the case of & strike or lockout are controversial, to say the least. Congress probably would debate them for a long time before acting and there is little assurance | now that such proposals could be en- acted into law. Much interest in what the Presfdent to Congress regardin, evidenced at the Capitol , it was pointed out, no le; islation may be asked for in regard to the s if the roads reach a set- tlement with their men or if the may proj the strike Of course, {f roads succeed in filling up their shops ‘with other workers to such an extent as to make it possible to move enough :nln- to handle all the freight of- ered. ‘The sov-rnmcnt. through the Inter- state ‘ommerce Commission, is tak- ‘Wh ether the locomot! and cars are in such bad order as has been alleged by some of thE rainmen. rman Cummins of the Senate interstate. commerce committes con- ceded today that legislation was un- ‘would em- ing l!lY'l to ascertain der’ consideration which power Presidént to take over the railroads if transportation became He denied, how- been 1 ucted by ing to draft such a bill. NEW REPARATIONS PACT IS REPORTED Germany Granted Morato- rium to End of Year, Says Unofficial Dispatch. | | TALK OF SPLIT CEASES Allied Premiers Believed to Have Agreed on Chief Points in Dispute. By the Associated Press. } PARIS, August 11.—Germany, n)’a' a dispatch to the Havas Agency from London this afternoon. will be granted a moratorium until the end of this year. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, August 11.—According to information received from London this noon an agreement has virtually been reached on the four main points of the reparations controversy and a general accord is now anticipated, says the French semi-oficlal Havas | Agency. The impression in London ! is decidedly optimistic and talk of a split has ceased, it adds. Premiers in Comferemce. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 11.—Premiers Poincare, Lloyd George and Theunis of Belgium had a long conference to- day previous to the official opening of the reparations conference. Premier Theunis was said to be striving his best to effect a rapproche- ment between the British and the French. Premier Poincare returned to his hotel for luncheon after his four- hour conversation with Mr. Lloyd George and Premier Theunis. “We shall continue our conversa- tions this afternoon,” M. Poincare told the corre.pzndann “1 have recelved from Mr. Lloyd George a written sommunication, which we are dis- cussing.” This referred to the document pre- pared by members of the British cabinet. The French premier sald he did not think there would be any session of the full conference today. M. Poincare said an agreement had been reached on “the first part” of a reparations plan, but he did not indicate what it w: He sald they were working on the other parts. Foreign Minister Schanzer of Italy, although he did not participate in this morning’s conversations, pressed himself as quite confident that an agreement was in progress of being made. ‘The document which was prepared yeaterday by the British prime min- ister’s assoclates, it is understood, embodies, a definite alternative to Premier Poincare’s reparations plan, and is the basis of today's conversa- tions_between the British, French and Belgian premiers, who are con- eldering it point by point. ‘The British Proposals. ‘The British proposals for settlement of the German reparations question, brought forward in reply to those of Premier Poincare of France, are in four sections, it was reported today in French circles, as follows: First. A moratorium to be granted to Germany to extend to the end of the present year. Second. Prompt payments of repa- rations in kind, especially coal and ‘wood, to be made by the Germans. Third. The moratoriun also would be dependent upon financial reforms in the interior of Germany, under con- trol of the reparations commission CoME oN OVER Harold F. McCo Mme. Ganna ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches eredited to it or Dot otherwise credited in this Paper and also the local news published berein. All rights of publication of special dispatcive herein are also reserved. rmick Marries Walska in Paris By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 11.—Harold F. Mc- Cormick of Chicago and Mrs. Alex- 5 7] 2oder Smith Coch- ran (Mme. Wal- 4eka) were mar- ried today in the city hall of the sixteenth ward here. Announcement of the marriage was made by the bride. After the wed- ding Mr. and Mrs. McCormick gavea luncheon at the Ritz “Hotel at MoCOEMI whic! r. _an nE CK- Jirs. Dudley Field Malone were guests. Mr. Malone was counsel for Mme. Walska in the proceedings which recently resulted in the divorce between her and Mr. ‘ochran. Mr. McCormick and his bride, after the luncheon, left for an automobile tour. Their destination was not an- nounced. Mr. and Mrs. Malone were the only witnesses at the marriage. The marriage of Harold F. McCor- mick, millionaire Chicagoan and long head of the International Harvester Company, to' Mme. Ganna Walska in Paris today furnished a dramatic climax to a series of remarkable epi- sodes in which marital infelicities and romantic attachments are almost 4 £ inexplicably mingled. Separated by Incompatibility. Mme. Walska, Polish opera queen, was the wi{e of Alexander Smith wealthy manufacturer. In- ivided them and a de- Cochran, compatibllity PRESIDENT FELICITATES REPUBLIC OF GERMANY UPON ITS ANNIVERSARY A hope that “good understand- ing and prosperity and happiness” attend the fortunes of the German people was expressed today by President Harding in a message congratulating President Ebert upon the anniversary of the found- ing of the German Tepublic. Mr. Harding’s cablegram fol- lows: “On this anniversary of the day when Germany adopted the repub- lican form of government I am happy to express to you my sin- cere good wishes and my hope that the great German republic may steadily go forward along the path of peace which leads to good understanding and prosperity and happineses.” MONTANA DRY DIRECTOR SUSPENDED TEMPORARILY G. 0. P. Committeeman Protests Action Prior to Being Given Hearing. By the Associated Press. HELENA, Mont., August 11.—0. H. P. Shelley, federal prohibition direc- tor for Montana and republican na- tional committeeman from this state, has received a telegram from Wash- ington, signed “Smith, acting com- missioner,” suspending him “during certain investigations,” and directing him to turn his office over to John H. Metcalf, an agent of the general pro- hibition enforcement office. Mr. Shelley immediately wired Com- missioner Haynes, insisting that it the wire from “Smith” was authentic, that he should be given an oppor- Fourth. The reparations commission | tunity to be heard before being sus- would be authorized to collect 26 per | pended. cent of German customs. FRENCH DEPORT 500. By the Associated Press. STRASBURY, August 11.—The com- missary general of Alsace-Lorraine has announced that in pursuance of the French ‘“retortion” measures SRASBURG, August 11.—The com- Alsace-Lorraine have been served ‘with expulsion notices and must cross the frontler before Saturday evening. EUGENE O’BRIEN HURT. Film Actor’s Skull Fractured When Hit by Motor Truck. LO8 ANGELES, August 11.—Eugene rien, motion picture actor, who suffered a possible fracture of the skull and internal injuries when he n'l"h ':-un down bu \no:c:r tmz last ‘Was repor resting easily at & Hollywood 1 today. - Surgeons treating O'Bri scalp ::\;?: it necessary to shave off his ‘He said today he would not turn the office over to Metcalf until he received further orders from Washington. —_— PAVING BIDS ACCEPTED. Asphalt Street Contracts Totaling $75,000 Awarded. The Commissioners today awerded to the Crantord Paving Company of this city a contract for the paving with asphalt of a number of thor- oughfares at a cost of approximately $75,000. The streets to be pavad are: Nineteenth' street northwest from C to E, 15th street northwest from H to I, 38th street nofthwest from Cathedral avenue south, 16th street from KEast Capitol to B, East Capitol from 15th to 18th and Rhode Island avenue northeast from 12th ‘to 16th. Commissioners also awarded to Adam McCandHish contracts amount- ing to about $9,000 for the laying of service sewers difterent parts of the city. - = .« s cree divorcing them was issued by a French court on May 31 last, to be- come effective in sixty days. Mr. McCormick's first wife was Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, daughter of John D. Rockefeller. She obtained a divorce last December after a married life of twenty-six years. The decree was obtained on the ground of desertion. Reports were frequent during the spring and early summer that Mr. McCormick intended wedding Mme. Walska when she had obtained her final decree, and these persisted, de- spite deniais, which were generally regarded as what international par- lance terms “diplomatic.” Mr. McCormick sailed for Europe in July, and reports from Paris were that he was frequently seen in Mme. Walska's company. Friends of the couple generally believed that their marriage would not be long delayed. Rivals Paternal Romanee. The sailing for Europe of the bride- groom in today's Paris wedding fol- lowed shortly his recovery in Chi- cago from an operation. He was ac- companied on his voyage by his daughter Mathilde, whose romantic attachment -to Max Oser, former Swiss army officer and proprietor of a riding academy In Switgerland, where Miss McCormick lived during a great part of her girlhood, has rivaled the paternal romance in pub- lic attention The outcome of Mathilde's romance is not yet definitely apparent, but Mr. McCormick has declared he would not interfere in his daughter's af- fairs, and Miss McCormick only yes- terday went with her governess from Paris to a resort near Lucerne. where her fiance also is stopping. The present is Mme. Walska’s third (Continued on Page olumn 3.) PRESIDENT URGES FLEXIBLE TARIFF Senators Summoned to the White House Told of Shift- ing Conditions. President Harding in a letter to- day to Chairman McCumber of the finance committee, read to the Sen- ate, mot only urged that a flexible tarift be provided for, but that the Tarit Commission be made the agency for investigation and rec- ommendation for changes in tarift rates. President Harding intervened today in the Senate fight over the flexible tarift provisions, outlining to senators sum- moned to the White House the desira- bility of elasticity in the tarift during present shifting world conditions. The executive conferred first with Senator Oddie of Nevada, a leader of the republican agricultural tariff bloc, some members of which are opposed to the flexible plan in any form, and later saw Senator Frelinghuysen, republican, New Jersey, sponsor of the “sclentific” tariff plan. Consideration Resumed. The Senate returned today to con- sideration of the flexible tariff pro- visions of the administration bill, with the outcome epparently in doubt. rn-eu provisions with all proposed a mendments as well various “scien- tific” tariff proposals had to be dis- posed of before a recess tonight under the agreement controlling the debate. Opposition to the delegation to the President of the broad authority over the tariff duties recommended by Mr. Harding in his annual message last December had developed on the re- publican as well as the democratic side. As a result i1t appeared that jeven it the provisions should be ap- proved the authority to be delegated to the executive would be curtailed I sharply. Proponents of the flexible tarif! plan, led by Chairman McCumber. of | the finance committee, argued that | some such proposition asthat of- { fered was necessary in order to pro- | tect certain domestic _industries against a flood of jmports from coun- tries having greatly depreciated .cur- rencies and cheap labor. Their posi- tion was that elasticity in the tarift was essential untll present chaotic conditions in the world of industr; {and commerce had come to an end. In urging the amendments, Senator Smoot of Utah, ranking republican (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 83,437 TWO CENTS. MACBRIDE, LIKELY NAME OF MURDER VICTIM ALONG ROAD Inscription Found on Tag in Man’s Shoe Gives New York Address. CORRESPONDS WITH ‘MCB’ MARK PRINTED ON LINEN Police Are Working on Theory That Slaying May Have Been Done by Gamblers. ‘The combined detective departmenis of Maryland and the District today were following faintly marked trails through the pall of mystery that en- shrouds the murder of the elderly man whose body, mutilated by a score of knife thrusts and with a small plece of rope tied firmly around his neck, was found along a road mnear Meadows, Prince Georges county, yes- terday. The discovery early this afternoon of a small leather tag bearing the in- scriptions, “MacBride, New York, Lodge No. 1, B. P. O. E, 108-116 West 43d street,” inside a shoe worn by the murdered man is considered by the authorities as most likely to lead too complete {dentification. Two highly important facts had been established today in the discovery that the victim had lived here at 232 3d street, the residence of Mrs. Mary E. Cone, and that he was a member of Lodge No. 1, B. P. O. E.. New York city. Pending more definite informa- tion from the New York police, the authorities here made every effort to prevent the premature publication of more important discoveries. Detective Vermillion visited the 3rd street address and was told by Mrs., Cone_that her roomer had dis- appeared Tuesday, leaving behind a number of collars bearing the laun- dry mark “M. C. B.,” which are the same initials found stamped on the linen worn by the man the night he was murdered. It was also learned from the Elks’ Club in New York that a man giving the name of R. A. McBride of Musko- gee, Okla., had registered there from July 28 to August 1. Additional information which was expected momentarily from the New York authorities will clean up the mystery of the man's identity, it is believed, giving the local police a foundation upon which to start a more thorough investigation of the murder itself, which still remains a complete mystery. Whether or not the victim feared being murdered is a new question raised by discovery of an identifica- tion tag kept in such an unusual place. The tag was carefully tucked in a pocket between the tongue and vamp of the shoe and never. W 3"’.‘ been found except for an seel- en Detectives were calling a Tennessee congressman on the telephone to ex- plain that the man's shoes bore ev! dnce of having been purchased in that state, thinking perhaps he would rec- ognize the initials “M. C. B.” In his hurry to read the name of the city on a flap_the detective jerked the tongue and out rolled the identification tag. Identification Marks Removed. he murderers carefully removed from the man's pockets and clothing any marks they thought might help in identification. Only the laundry marks were overlooked, and per haps they had reasons mot to fead | | marks made by a laundry in a fog distant city. But the assassin ncve suspected that the real identificatior, tag was hidden behind the tonguc of a shoe. Arrangements are being made to remove the body from the under- taking establishment at Ritchie Sta- tion, where it was prepared for burial, to the District morgue. The police’ believe identification will be more likely if the body is kept here, where larger numbers of persons are likely to view it than if it remained in the Maryland village. Out of the host of probabilitles one stands out that the police belleve may soon develop into an important clue. Careful examination of the body this morning by Inspector Grant and Detectives Kelley, Scrivener and Horn resuited in the unanimous opinion that the victim followed a sporting life. While Inspector Grant would not say definitely that the victim was a professional gambler, he admitted that he bore every evidence of hav- ing spent much time with the ele- ment that frequents race tracks and the better sort of gambling houses. Likely Victim of Gambling. With this deduction, it was pointed out that Prince Georges county has most recently been the seat of a num- ber of gambling houses which were exposed, several of which were forced to close. Whether or not the stranger could have been killed as & result of a brawl over a game of chance, or ‘whether he “knew too much” are two questione that the police are at least considering. While some members of the squad of detectives conducting the probe de- clare robbery could have been a mo- tive, others declare the fact that a valuable diamond stickpin was left in his tie scouts this theory. On _the other hand, Constable Thomas Gar- rison has advanced the theory that the man might have been murdered by a man employed to drive him to some clandestine place in Prince Georges county. ’ Fifteen Wounds Found. The latter theory is regarded as ex- ploded, however, by the strange bru- tality of the murder. Fifteen wounds, probably made by a large penknife, were found in the man's head by Dr. J. E. Stansberg, who performed the autopsy. Seven of them penetrated the skull and caused brain hemor- rhages that resulted in death, Other slashes were found on the man’s arms and hands. ‘What might be additional proof that the crime was committed In the District was found this morning in the shape of pool of coagulated bleod, which was discovered near Fort Dupont, about one quarter of a mile from the spot where a battered straw hat was picked up yesterday. It Is believed that the murder was commit- ted there, the body placed in an auto- mobile and carried to the spot near Meadows, where a boy discovered it yesterday. Bertillon experts from both the Dis- trict and Maryland police departments have taken measurements of the body, and the authorities soon will know whether the man wi known to the nolice departments of either of those commonwealths. ASHER ASSUMES OFFICE. - By the Assoclated Press. HAMILTON. Bermuda, August 11.-~ Lieut. Gen. Sir John Asher, newly ap- pointed governor of Berm ase that office yesterday in success 8ir James Willcocks. sumed sion to Gen. 3