Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1922, Page 2

CORK REBELS FLE ¢ INTO KERRY HILLS Mary MacSwiney Reported Among Prisoners—De Valera Escapes. NATIONALS TAKE YOUGHAL Dundalk and Probably Drogheda Captured by Republicans in Attack With Bombs. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, August 14.—Com- mandant McKenas, leader of the Irish insurgents in County Louth, and five other republicans were killed during the fighting which resulted In the capture of Dundalk by the irregulars, says a Teport from that town late this aftenoon. Commandant McKenna was eap- {ued by mational forces during the Four Courts battle in Dublin, but Be later excaped. CORK, August 14.—The irreguiars who evacuated Cork before the ad- : vance of the na- tional troops have apparently been completely routed and are fiying hel- ter _skelter ‘into the hills of north- western Cour}l." Cork. The hills across the border in County Kerry are sheltering large numbers of irregulars. The barracks at Fermoy. north of Were burn- od by the irregu- Tars yesterday previous to their evacuating the town. A brigade MARY MacSWINEY. from Cork is reported to have dis-| banded at Macroom. following differ- ences of opinion over the firing of the castle there. 7 1t is rumored that Daniel O'Cal- laghan. lord mayor of Cork, has been arrested, together with Mary Mac- Swiney. The whereabouts of Eamonn De Valera remains a mystery. When last seen here he was driving west- ward in a closed carriage. This was evening, shortly after the irregulars had left the city. All of eastern County Cork has now heen taken by the nationals. Youg- hal, on the coast north of this city, was entered without a shot being fired. National patrols here were fired on three times last night. The death of Arthur Griffith has caused a profound sensation in Cork, and the opinion is widely expressed that there is no one to take his place at this critical period. REBELS SEIZE DUNDALK. Jail Is Emptied and Prisoners Armed to Aid Attackers. By the Associated Press. BELFAST. August 14—A large force of republicans entered Dundalk at 3 o'clock this morning. The Anne street police headquar- ters, which was occupied by the na- tionals. was the first objective to be stormed and taken. The garrison was captured. The jail was the next to fall and all prisoners, who were mostly re- publicans, were liberated. These. were supplied with arms and joined their rescuers in the attack on the town, in which bombs were freely used.” The railway station and gen eral post office were taken in succes sion. Many of the inhabitants, es pecially Free State- sympathizers, fled. The republicans seized a railway engine, which was dispatched with a view to blocking the rear and pre- venting the Free Staters from send- ing up reinforcements. A report was received in Belfast this afternoon that after capturing | Dundalk the irregulars occupied Dro- { i SOVIET CLERGYMEN PERMITTED TO WED UNDER NEW DECREE By the Asmociated Press. MOSCOW, August 14.—All restric- tions on marriage for bishops and clergymen have beén removed by the iving church conggess” of the re- cently formed soviet church, whose members are working to have the new church take the place of the oid orthodox church. Among ‘the ‘“red clergy.” as the clergymen of the new church are called, the orthodox church is referred to as the “dead church.” It is contended by the ‘“red clergy" that by permitting marrjages clergy- men are brought into closer' contact with the community. Regarding monks, the congress decided that the higher monks may disregard their vows and marry, still retaining thetr positions. OIL MAN'S MURDER MYSTIFIES POLICE Establishment of Robbery Motive Is Net Result of Five-Day Probe. AUTO IS KEY TO CRIME Search Is Also Being Made for i Companion of Slain | Man. After five days of investigation, Wash- ington and fiaryland police authorities admitted today they are no nearer the !solution of the mysterious murder of | Barney A. McBride, wealthy Oklahoma | oil man, than they were when his badly | mutilated body was found last Thurs- |day in a culvert on a Maryland road. | Al 4hat the authorities apparently ihave definitely established is that rob- bery was the motive for the crime. Various other theories advanced as pos- ble reasons for the brutal slaying | have been djscarded. | Careful fearch of all the jewelry stores and pawnshops in Washington. Baitimore and Philadelphia and other large eastern cities is being made by the poifce in an effort to find the watch and valuable diamond ring which are believed to have been stolen from Me- ide when he was murdered. he auchorities are confident that the jewelry will be found in the near I { jfuture. Until the watch and ring are irecovered the police feel certain that they will Wave no tangible clues to follow. Shirt Clue Fails. Various clues which the authorities have spent much time investigating have failed to develop a2nything im- portant. The blood-stained turned over to the Washington desec- tives Saturday night by a D strest haberdasher and which was believed at thé time to be an important piece of evidence proved to belonz to a Washington man who was cut on the lip during a brawl last Wednesday {night, the same night on which Mc- i Bride was slair. Maryland authorities today uncov- ered what they term “important in- { formation” which, they claim, may lead to the discovery of the automo- Ibile in which McBride was a passen- {ger. This information Deputy Sher- {18 Pumphrey said he would turn over jto Inspector Grant. chief of detec- jtives, this afternoon Although the Maryland authorities refused to reveal the nature of the “Important information.” it was learned that it concerned an auto- mobile which was seen in the vicinity of the culvert where McBride's body was found. The Washington authori- ties, however, are attaching little automobiles seen on the Marlboro road on the night the crime was com- mitted, pointing out that scores of machines park alongside this road nightly. The death of McBride was due to a fractured skull caused by a blunt gheda. —— RECEIVER APPOINTED | FOR D. C. FUR CONCERN ! B. HJ Stinemetz & Son Company | Allowed Thirty Days to Of- fer Creditors’ Terms. Tustice Hitz of the District Supreme Court today appointed Louis Binder ! Baltimore as receiver of the B. H. Stinemetz & Son Company, a corpora- 1id of 1201 F street northwest,| rrier and ladies’ clothier. The bond the receiver was fixed at $20,000. The court staved an adjudication in Tepkruptey for thirty days to afford | hie ufficers of the carporation an op- | portunity to submit a proposition of | compromise to its creditors. The appointment of the receiver followed the filing of a petition- by three creditors of the company_hav- ing claims in excess of $1,500, in which the insolvency of the corpora- tion is charged and an admission of inability to pay its debts made. In asking for the recelver Attorney ¥dwin L. Wilson, for the creditors, explained thar suit has been instituted | by some creditors and others have | threatened to take similar action, and the best way to conserve the assets would be for the designation of a re- ceiver. The court was advised that the stock of furs and clothing is esti- mated at $15,000, while the debts, as | far as known, total about $35,000. i Through Attorney H. W. Kelly the | company admitted its inability to make collections sufficient to pay its debts at this time and consented to the appointment of a receiver pending an offer of settlement with its credi- tors. The receiver will be authorized, it is said, to surrender furs left with the firm for storage in the event that the proposed compromise with the creditors should fail. MARYLANDER KILLS TWO, SHOOTS SELF (Continued from First Page.) 1 drew Fritz returned to the hamlet, and called ‘at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stitley. They were seated on_the front porch, and with them were Oliver Shepherd and his wife, who Is a sister of Stitley. The Shep- herds resided with the Stitleys. Fritz commented as he walked up on the porch that he had just shot Bradford, but no importance wag) placed by the family circle on this statement. Near-midnight Shepherd Temarked it was tlme to retire, and he arose to- enter the house. Fritz mrose simultaneously, drew a re- wolver and fired. The first bullet penetrated the chest and was fatal. A second bullet fired at Stitley hit Bhepherd in the arm as he reeled into the house. s The murderer esc&pt‘ into a nearby woods. where his body was found yesterday morning by Sheriff: James A. Jones. ‘DOUG’ FATRBANES ARRESTED POMONA, Calif., August 14.—Doug- “Mas Fairbanks, motion picture actor, who participated in the last arrested Saturday night for|girike The punishments range from He | suspension from service for various W apeeding. it became known today. was said to have been driving thirty- five miles an hour. His wife, {an autopsy Mary | The E. Martyn, deputy coroner, who made on the body yesterday at Ryan’s undcrtaking establishm¥nt at 317 Pennsylvania avenue south- east. Dr. J. E. Sansbury of Meadows, Md., who made the first examina- tion of McBride's body, pronounced | that his death was due to a hem- orrhage and loss of blood. Pool Player Is Sought. VIth the question of where Mc- authorities, a coroner's sworn in yesterday by Deputy Coroner Mertin in order to be pre- pared to hold an inquest if It is ever establizhed that the Oklahoma man was killed in the District. On the jury are Louis Sacks, A L. Crecy. Willlam W. Riley, C. C. Lang- Tey, Z. Zimmerman and Wilbur Clements eadquarters Detectives Kelly Scrivener, who are taking the bri::ld» pal part’in the investigation of the murder mystery, are still endeavoring to find the man Who was seen playing pool with McBride last Wednesday afternoon the Elks Club. The murdered man’s movements have been traced up until he left the club about 5.30- o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The body of McBride was shipped this afternoon to Miskogee, Okla., where it will be burled near the grave of his Indian wife, who died years ago. It was claimed yesterday by M. A. Arbuckle of Muskogee, an intimate friend of the slain man. SR T ol STREET CAR HITS BUS. Crash Injures Passenger Alighting From Motor Vehicle. An empty street car crashed into a motor bus with ten passengers at 1ith and Rhode Island avenue this morning, resulting in one injury and the shaking up of several oceupants of the bus. As the car struck the bus, Dr. Lloyd H. Newman, colored, of 140 S street, was about to alight, and was thrown to the ground receiving ts and bruises about the head and body. He was treated at Freedman's Hospital where his condition was pronounce not serious. R. E. Perry was the driver of the bus and was uninjured, while C. W. Campbell and C. W. Craigstead were the conductor and motorman, re spectively, of the street car. Bgth car and bus were badly dam- aged. —_— KILLED BY BURGLARS. Jersey Lumberman, Surprising Robbers in Home, Is Shot. MT. HOLLY, N. J.,, August 14.—Wi1- liam Giberson, wealthy lumberman, was shot and killed by two burglars early today in his home at Lake- hurst. Mr. Giberson, unarmed, walked into the room re the burglars were working and they opened fire on him, Then they fled, taking $300 in cur- rency. — RAIL STRIKERS PENALIZED. By the Amsociated Press. ROME, August 14—A decree was issued today puniehing 50,000 rail men ral periods to unconditional dismissal. heaviest penalties are imposed on Piokford, was with him. Fairbanks|those guilty of participation in previ- Wwill appear for trial August 22. ous syikes. S shirt | importance to reports of the various | instrument, according to Dr. Herbert | Bride was murdered still puzzling the | jury was; 5 ar CHANGES UNIFORM OF TRAFFIC COPS Motor Cycle and Bicyeie Patroimen Also to Don New Garb. { o PRODUCE ‘CHESTY’ LOOK Blu¢ Mackinaws, Leather Puttees and Brass Buttons Expected to Awe Motorists. Traffic policemen, motor cycle and bicycle patroimen this winter will be all dolled up in new uniforms, with blue mackinaw ocoats and leather Puttees, brass buttons down the front and an appearance similar to the Northwest Mounted Police of Canada One hundred and seventy policemen are affected throughout the city. The order for the new uniforms is golng out this week during the ipspections for the winter uniforms by Inspector Harrison. There are many traffic policemen, according to reports, who have new winter uni- forms left over from last year, some of them worn only a few times, many not worn at all, which they never will don again, if the order is strictly 1 enforcedl. The new uniforms will arrive in time for the winter months, according to police department officials. Reason for Change.’ One of the reasons for the adoption of the new uniforms is the hollow chested policemen. The new uniforms will give policemen a “chesty” attitude,, cording to one traffic expert of the Washington department, which will subconsciously compel respect and | obedience from otherwise refractory t a lot of talk among the policemen affected by the order. In- spector Harrison looked over the men of the first precinct this morning Who are included in the new order of things and simply said: “Get the Rew uniforma for the winter. That {started things. Of course, the mwen didn't yell out their grievances where the inspector could hear it. but there formed during the morning a few small groups who talked matters ©¥SNow then” declared one traffic policeman, “here’'s my brand-new uni- form—never had it on. Cost me, let’s see, $52.50 last year. And now it's Mo ‘good. Got to get the pew uni- form.” 3 ; “Well"” declared another, “there’s mine. Cost the same as yours. Got my overcoat, too. Haven't had that coat on for more than two or three times.” Recent Lucky Sale. Another smiled. He had sold his uniform only this morning. Inspector A. J. Headley, in charge of traffic, declared that there was | ho cause for alarm because_of the un- {availability of the new old-type uni- | forms, since there were some 800 cop. ipers to form a market to relieve the { men of clothes which would be needed I no, more. s ] “There is always something of this sort during the changes of uniform, {he said. "I have heard of no com- | plaints, but I myself have a frock | coat and other items of apparel which will have to go by the board. As a | matter of fact, I think that I can sell this blouse to some member of & band, for bandsmen's uniforms, if you've ever stopped to think of it, are almost identical with the coat and trousers of the police officer. But all considered, there are scores of policemen affected by the new or- der who will have to find some way of getting rid of new clothes which they Blunked down over $50 to get, and Which, if they find no market for them, will have to be scrapped. New Uniforms Cheaper. The final words of Inspector Head- iley may serve to cheer up a few of | these. | “There will not be so much goods the ac- i will be a cheaper price.” said he. Y& here's another thing: On those wet days when automobiles are slosh- ing around in puddles and squirting { muddy water all over the landecape, including policemen's long overcoats, Motor cycle policemen at present iare using a khaki uniform resembling that worn by Army men. Bicycle policemen use a blue uniform, “the coat of which is almost the same Jeagth as the one worn by foot police- men. Both these types will be ban- ned under the new order, as will the uniform and overcoats of the Sraffic officers, which are similar to those of lthe foot policemen. AWAIT UNION MOVE i AS NEXT STEP TO END RAIL STRIKE (Continued from First Page.) the executives, was in a long Sunday conference with the President. In-a statement later Mr. Cuyler said the executives at their meeting in New York Friday had “with practical unanimity responded favorably to the President’s call.” ;vproxlmltely three-quarters of the mileage represented, Mr. Cuyler said, voted favorably for a resolution pro- ividing that ail striking shopmen be re-employed, while the remainder de-. sired that the strikers be re-employed “ag far as practicable.” Question of Senfority. The chiet condition upon which the majority voted acceptance, as shown in his statement, was that “such ac- ceptance involves no surrender of the: principles witn respect to senior- ity ,-‘Aopud by the carriers August 1, 1922 Also there was insistence that the Labor Board pass upon the relative senfority of loyal employes who remained st work and 'giw em- ployes who have since accepted serv- ice with the strikers who may re- enter the servi The majority acceptan vi '21.::'« to their former positions here vacancies exists and that where their former positions have been filled other employment of the same class be found for them. The minority | resolution provided for restoring for- [mer positions to strikers only where vacanoles exist. When the executives left the im- pression prevailed among them that the strike would be fought out te a finish and that the government would not attempt further effort at com- promise. Union leaders, chowev said mediation and compromise efforts would be continued. There was no statement from the White House or administration sources. QUITS WORK IN BRAZIL. John T. Kirby of Houston, Tex, and president of the Southern Tariff Aseo- ciation, today tendered to President Harding_his resignation as member of the United States commission en- gaged in comstructing the buildings to rej t this government at the centennial tion. He explaiped to the personal affzirs would not permit his Turther absence from the country aad hat it was imperative that he give his full time to his ‘dusiness. L s further = in the new uniform, and the result| there will be only leather puttees; there to meet the siush and mud next winter. that striking emrployes be | Hugh Wallace, former Amerf with the Marquise de Saint Smuveanr Club, P The ex-ambassador is st)! MRS. HARDING SENDS $100 CHECK TO HORSE Wife of President Lauds Owner of Clover for Grateful Care of Old Animal.’ By the Associated Press. CATAWISSA, Pa. August 14.—Mrs. Warren G. Harding has presented a | check for $100 to Clover, a fifty-one- year-old horse. This became known with the publication of a letter from {the President’s wife to the animal's owner, Rev. Dr. Myers, in which she expressed herself deeply moved by “the sense of justice and gratitude and faithfulness which impels you to sacrifice your comfort rather than kill splendid horse which has given you | {a long life of willing service.” i It seems a strange ingratitude.” jthe letter continues. “that demands such a sacrifice, because your fail- ure to attain weslth has not made a cruel and inconsiderate master of you “For example's sake, .I hope Clover will long continue to be the oldest ! {horse in the world. and that somehow ithere will grow an impression that Ithe loving God never intended either dumb friend or self-sacrificing_men to be consigned to Mother Earth merely because the most and best of their strength has been exhausted in {human service.” STRASBURGER LEAVES ! BEQUESTS TO CHARITY | | Many Legacies Contained in Will Widow Inherits Share in Business. | The will of Joseph Strasburger. | proprietor of the Family Shoe Store, i 1 i who died July 30 last, was filed today for probate. The document is dated | April 29. 1922, ‘and provides a bequest of $1,000 to' the Hebrew Orphans’ Home of Atlanta, Ga.; $500 each 1o the { Emergency Hospital and Hebrew Re- | | liet Society and the Hebrew Home for | {the Aged in this city. The Children’s Hospital is given $300 and the Good Hope Orphan Asylum $200. The sum of £300 is left to the Washington He- brew congregation for the upkeep of his burial lot and $200 additional to inscribe his name upon the memorial tablet in the synagogue and to re- serve space thereon for his wife's name. Specific bequests of cash include $10.000 to his sister, Bertha Hirsh; I,fi."flfl each to nephews and nieces, { May Turnage, Leona Solomon, Edgar j Hirsh, Helen Strasburger, H. Law- { rence Strasburger and Camille Kad- iden. Edith Newmeyer is to have $10. | *“The household effects. his interest !in the shoe business and the remain- ling estate after the payment of the legacies are_devised to the widow, Florence E. Strasburger. 120 GALLONS OF LIQUOR ° UNEARTHED BY RAIDERS Intoxicants Found Buried in Bar- ney Barger’'s Back Yard—G. T. Harper Also Under Charges. { Buried In the back yard of the {nome of Barney Berger, 408 26th street, y today, twenty gallons of !liquor were unmearthed by Lieut. Davis. Policeman McQuade _and} Reven! Agents Fowler and Elliot during & raid on the premises, Fowler climbed the back ferfce and fell on a crate of squawking chickens, while the other three entered by the front door. They asked Berger where the liquor was, and he told them to find it if they could. So “therough a search did they make ‘fhat they: eventually dug up the intoxicants in the back yard. rger was charged with lllegall possession and selling of intoxicants in violation of the national prohibi- tion law. George T. Harper, 3285° N street, also was arrested by prohibition agents and the police this morning. e the proprietor of the near- and soft-drink establishment at According. beer ithat address. to the! revenue agents, he threw.a quantity | {of the Jiquor over his back fence | when about to be taken in cuetody, | | Poiice ciaim that some ‘of the bottles ! containing liquor were not broken and were seized as evidemce. With Harper, Louis Hochtresser, his bar- tender was arrested, both being charged with {llegal possession. AIRMEN BURN TO DEATH. Two Lpse Lives' When Plane Catches Fire'in Test Flight. DAYTON, Ohio, August 14.—Lfeut. Morarity and a Mr. Stonebreaker! were burned to death today when the | afrplane_ which they were flying caught fire in a flight over Wilbur Wright Field near this city. They were testing the speed of the plane. — RUSSIAN DESTROYER SUNK. By the Associated Press, LONDON, August i4.—A Heisingfors dispatch to the Central News today said the Russian legation there an- ent that his{mounced that a Russian destroyer had| and Lowell been nk during recent mayal maneuvers. No details mneenua the hame of the ship or the place sinking were given. i nis I eoll, Il residing im Paris. INSURANCE AGENT SOUGHT BY POLICE Collector for Alexandria Company Reported Having Suddenly Disappeared. MISSING SINCE THURSDAY Washington Authorities Asked to Assist in the Effort to Locate Him. ALEXANDRIA, Va: August 14— James H. White, a collector for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of this city, bas been missing from home, at Bailey's Croasroads, Fairfax county, since Thursday morn- ing, the local police haye been {n- formed. Bernard Dyson, cashier of the life insurance company, said today the man made his usual reports Wednes- day, August but since that time he had heard nothing from hfm until informed by his wife Friday morning that her husband had not returned home the previous night. Mr. Dyson was unable to state whether White had any of the company’'s money on his person, or if he had. coufd not estimate the amount. White's col- { lection route took him in the vicinity of his home at Bailey's Crossroads. Regarded as Honest Worker. White, who is about thirty vears old and is the father of one child, was employed by the company about ! a year ago, and since that time has proved a willing and honest worker, Mr. Dyson said. The man had not ted his last week's salary. White is about 5 feet 713 inches tall, weighs about 155 pounds, is dark complexioned and has dark brown hair. When he left his home Thurs- day morning he wore a tan Palm Beach suit, straw hat and low tan shoes. o Local Police to Ald. ‘Washington police have been asked by the local authorities to make a search for the missing man. White's mother and broker John live at 212 A, street northeast. 'U. S. RIFLE TEAM PICKED AFTER QUANTICO TESTS As a result of the small arms com- petition at Quantico, Va., the follow- ing named persons have been selected as members of the rifie team to repre- =ent the United States In the interna- tional matches to be neld at Milan, italy. September 12-20 next: Maj. L. W. T. Waller, U. S. Marine Corps, captain; Maj. J. K. Boles, field artillery, U. §. Army. coach: W. N. Stokes, civilian, of this city, holder of the world individual champlonship; Lieut. Commander C. T. n, U. B. Navy, coach; Lawrence Musslein, clvilian, this eit; Sergt. Maurice Fisher, U. 8. Marine Corps: Lieut. Commander A. D. Denny, U. S. Navy, and either Capt. Joseph Jackson or Marine Gunner C. A. Lloyd, U, S. Marine Corps. The last two named tled in the competition. The scores of the men selected for the team were higher than the scores made by the United States team of last year, when the world title was wrested from Switzerland for the first time In seventeen years. It is ex- pected that members of the team will sail from New York city August 23, on the steamship Blue Hen. AIR TRIP TO CONGRESS. Ohio Member Flies Here From Dayton in Few Hours. In order to be on hand for the opening session of Congress tomor- row, Representative Fitzgerald ar- rived here by airplane today from Dayton, Ohlo; The trip was made in four hours and twenty-four minutes. ‘With Lieut. Harold Harris as pilot, ' the machine took off at Dayton af 8:10 o'clock this morning. A stop of = twenty-one minutes was s_at Langlin Field, Moundsville, . Va., for fuel and. oil. The machine landed safely at Bolllng Fleld at 1256 o'clock. TAMPER WITH SIGNALS. Cables of Block System of Rail- " road Beported Cut. BOSTON, August 14.—Automatic block sigaals on the Boston and Maine railroad at South Acton, Ayer Junction were put out of commission_last night by persons who with battery boxes and cut cables, the road annouscsd today. = 2 SEAMEN ON LAKES ' BET WAGE BOOSTS Fifteen-Dollar Monthly In- crease for All Men Other Than Ligensed Officers. | | | Inorease for Mates and Assistant i Engineers Also Guaranteed, But Amount Not Made Public. | 15 the Assoclated Press. : CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 14.— | Al employes of the Lake Carriers’ Association below the grade of licens- ed officers have been granted wage increases of $15 per month, effective lswtember 1, it was announced in a ‘lfllement issued by George Marr, | secretary of the association, here to- |day. The association, the statement declares, will continue to operate under the “open-shop” policy. Guarzntees of mates and assistant | engineers who are hired by the sea- son also have been increased, it was stated, but the amount was not made public. Under the new terms the fall wage scale will be $95 a menth for firemen, deck hands, able seamen, stewards, oilers and cooks, according to Mr. Marr. No action on the eight-hour day was taken. Text of Statement. A copy of the statement issued w sent to Secretary of Labor Davis. follow: “The experience of the ship owners, managers and licensed officers for the past vears has demonstrated the necessity of what is referred to as the open shop principle in order to give that control and direetion of the ships which {s required for the equal good of the owner, the employes of the ships and the dependent trade. And 80 it is resolved: “That the owners of the ships on the great lakes do mow declare that the open shop principle be adopted and adhered to on our ships. “That the Lake Carlers’ Association stands fer the foregoing principle. 2 Goed Service Regquired. “That it should be the aim of the committee in the means they shall adopt to recognize a fair and equit- able rate of wages, to insist on such regulation as shall promote the com- fort and well being of the employes, shall put the discipline of the ships in the hands of the executive officers and tendering liberal appropriate wages and conditions, requiring in re- sponse appropriate, diligent and prompt service from the members of the crew. “The question of was considered and it was decided effective September 1 to make an increase over the summer rate of $15 per month to all employes below the grade of licensed officers. Mates and assistant engineers are hired by the season. Their guar- antees have been increased, notice of which is now being prepared.” GOLORED WOMEN'S CLUBS IN SESSION Mass Meeting - Precedes | Opening of Convention. Delegates See President. Delegates of the twenty-sixth an- nual convention of the Northeastern Federation of Women's Clubs, which began a three-day session here to- day, were enrolled by the credential committee this morning at the Met- ropolitan A. M. E. Church, M street between 15th and 16th streets mnorth- 1 | | | the fall wages | { | west. The delegates are the guests! of the District Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. Today 1s executive day and will be devoted largely to welcoming and en- roling delegates. with a special pro- gram tonight. The regular executive session was held at 2:30 this after- noon, with Miss Roberta J. Dunbar, chairman, Providence, R. I and Mrs. Susie 1. Amos, Mrs. New Haven, Conn.; Marv D. Gardner, Cambridge, Mrs. Charlotte Belle, Brooklyn, Miss Alice B. Smith, Haverhill, . Mae Amos, New ven. Conn., in conference. ‘The District Federation of Colored Women'’s Clubs held 2 mass meeting at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church last night for the purpose of intro- ducing prominent, colored women from different parts of the ceuntry to members of the Northeastern Federa- tion. Miss Halle Brown, presi- dent of the National Association of “‘OPEN SHOP” CONTINUED | RARE EMERALD SEIZED. Czar Believed Former Owner of Jewel Held in Belgium. By the Assoclated Press. ARION, Belgium, Augudt 14.—What is belleved to be a priceless jewel, formerly the property of the Roman- ofts of Russia, has been seized by the customs authorities here. It is a splendid emerald, an inch and three- quarters long. an inch wide and holds pendant of twenty large dlamonds, the largest of which is 5aid to be of the purest quality. The jewel was on its way from Berlin to a firm of dia- mond_cutters in Antwerp and its de- 0 francs. clared value was 180,001 Customs _experts jewel 1s valued at franc: RAILWAY DISPELS ALASKAN GLAMOUR Through Pullman to the Tanana Replaces Mixed Freights and Dog Teams. the 1 YUKON TRAIL MADE EASY Bi-Weekly Passenger Train Takes Traveler Through Scemes of Grandeur Once Wild and Remote. By the Aswociated Press. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, August 14.— “All aboard, through train for the interior,” thus sings out the white- coated porter, standing with step in band at the rear of the “Sourdough” IHmlled. A glance along the train shows it made up of exress and bag- | 8age car, day coach, Pullman sleeper and an observation chair car. It seems incongruous that this equipment is ready to dash through the heart of Alaska and bring up on the banks of the Tanana river, that mighty stream whose mere name conjured up visions of argonauts, dog teams, myriads of caribou and the old days when only strong men reached the Tanana. On July 13 the through freight took the place of the mixed train operated heretofore, and a regular bi-weekly passenger and freight service has been installed. Old Way Was Rough. Travelers recall a trip over this route two vears ago. It entailed a mixed train that began to crawl along as it entered the Broad Pass country, where operation extended almoet to the last rail laid. Then came the horse-drawn sleigh or dog team to the next roadhouse at Sum- i hemmed in by icy mounsains and swept by wintry blasts Overnight {at the crude roadhouse and the trip was continued to Nenana, on the banks of the Tanana, down a dangerous canyon where the dogsled clung to the beetling cliffs by the teeth of the brake. Maybe it was 40 degrees below zero and only the hardy or those compelled to take the i trip braved it. { Today this eame country is un- | folded "in scenic_grandeur from the | window of the Pullman or the rear platform of the observation parlor car, or mayhap while the traveler {dines in the buffet car ahead. The | bleak, icy mountains are bathed in {mysterious lght. Little rivulets rush- down from the mountains to |join the noble Susitna, carrying its turbulent flood “Into Cook inlet. The system of crossing the Tanana in winter on rails laid upon the ice soon will be supplanted by a 700-foot single steel span bridge. with ap- proaches well above the flood of the stream; the narrow-guage Tanana valley “dinky” line will retreat be- fore the oncoming of the mogul en- gine and its serpentlike string of modern equipment. Change Sudden and Complete. “Fairbanks,” shouts the porter, and old Alaska. has vanished; the great land of mytery along the Yukon be- comes but a banal echo of something that has been, but is no more. The change has been so sudden and 8o complete that the old-timers are finding it hard to readjust their lives 1o the new conditions. The railroad has wiped away the dog team as a means of transport to the interior, the horse-drawn sleigh over the Richardson highway, from Valder. is but a tourist adventure: automobiles take the place of the stage in sum- mer and the railroad now serves a country extending to Neme on the northwest and the arctic slope to the north. down the Tanana from Falrbanks to the Yukon, and up the Yukon to Dawson—a veritable ad- venture for the tourist who has ab- sorbed the romance of the days of '98. The old-timer says the Dawson days will come again: where, he i unable to state; but the lure of the “ahovel-in”_ ground Xheckons, and as the railroad threaded north the pros- pector broke new trails. What the future holds for the dreamer is as problematic as the first venture into Colored Women’'s Clnbl.‘;h;‘nfllltlul the forbidding country that has so speaker, spoke on bilities of | guddenly been transformed into a re- the Colored Woman.” Mrs. George B.| gion wherein the most delicate may Federation of Colored Women's Clubs; Miss Eva Jenniffer of Hot Springs, Ark., organizer of the Maryland State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, and Miss Lethia Flemming of Cleve- iand, Ohio, an aetive member of the Ohio Stats Federation, were ‘guests at Iast night's meetin; Col. Charles Kelier, Commissioner of the District of Columbia, will gtve a welcoming address to the dele- gates at a special meeting to be held in the Metropolitan Church tonight, after which a general reception will be temdered all delegates. There will be short addresses by Rev. Charles B. Stewart, Rev. Oscar J. W. Scott, Bishop 1, N. Ross, Rev. H. J. Callis, Rev, J. Milton Waldren, Rev. O. E. Jones, Mrs. Julla M. Layton, Mrs. Hallle Q. Brown and Sits. Marie Ma- dre Marshall, after which there will be a énecial musical program, which will inciude playing and singing. President Harding received at his office today fifteen of the delegites. The visitors were presented to the President by Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, vice chairman of the execu- tive committee of the republican na- tional committee, who is in charge of the republican women's vete. LAWYER FOUND DEAD. Levy Mayer, Prominent Nation- ally, Heart Victim. CHICAGO, August 14.—Levy Mayer, prominent attorney. Who for years has represented some of the mation’s biggest interests, was found dead e in his apartment in the Black- -n‘;l:.' Hotel. He died of heart dis. ease, according to an announcement by relatives, and was found by his valet when he went to awaken him Mr. Mayer was senior member of 1the iaw firm of Mayer. Meyer, Aus- {trian & Platt, with ofices here and }in New York. Mayer was an attorney for the “big five” packers and for Jiquor in- terests.. He was born in mond, iVa., in 1858. Shortly after leaving ‘Yale—about 1876—he began practice ihere and later ex s work to {New York. He maintained residemce here and at Mapomet, Mass. —— Although nearly all ships carry|ville and Nashville railroad, left thesr { agmiralty stalf point of view it was ° wiral the flag signais are still used for commuaicating with one anothe>. nowadays, Willlams, president of the Georgia|]ive and prosper. POLICE COURT’S NEW CELLROOMS OPENED Steel Partitions and Concrete Floors Replace Old Wooden Construction. The mew cellrooms of the Police Court building, which have been un- der reconstruction since the st of June, were open this morning for the detention of prisoners. ‘When the buflding “~was recon- structed in 1906 the cellroom plan | had six cells, a hallway and one small reception room. Several months ago the building inspector con- demned the wooden beams of the old celiroom. New goncrete floors have been laid, and in ‘place of the old cells, one big celiroom and two small celirooms of the best steel construction have been installed with toilets. The new arrangement is convenient and more sanitary and facilitates the handling of the prisoners brought to court from the varoius station houses and the jail. Since the old cclirooms have been out of commission, witness rooms on the United States and District of Co- lumbia branches of the court floors have been used for the handling of the prisoners. This temporary ar- rangement during the past extreme hot weather has been trying on the prisoners and court officials having the prisoners in charge. The cost of ithe improvements approximate some- i thing like $5,000. i S S N 1,200 JOIN STRIKE. —a=e s Trainmen Leave Posts, Tying Up Coal Districts. By the Associated Press. CORBIN, Ky., August 14.—Twelve hundred trainmen, members of the big four brotherhoods, employed on the Cumbertand division of the Loujs- f 1 trains at 18 oclock this morning. tying up the great Harlam and Be county coal districts. imit, a bleak, desolate spot in winter, | UPTALBEAUY " 1O BE PROTECTED Legislation Preserving Park Highways Plan for Next Wiriter. MAY ACQUIRE NEW- LAND Transfer of Histaric Broad Branch Road to United States Considered. To preserve the natural beauty of environs of the District of Columbia. especlally in the vicinity of Rock Creek Park, Congress will be asked next winter to pass necessary legis- iation and provide the momey re- quired. Aside from the interest in this mat- ter being manifested by individuals and eltizens’ associations, it is known that the office of the super- intendent of public buildings and grounds has some definite ideas re- garding the future treatment of these so-called “beauty spots.’ It was learned today that the su- perintendent of public buildings and grounds will include plans in his an- nual report and make a special ¢f- fort fo impress Congress witn the tmmedlate necessity for making nec- essary improvements in the park system. Preservation of Beauty. First of all, preservation of the ipresent beauty of Broad Branch road. |which conmects Rock Creek Park at a short distafice above Pierce mill with Chevy Chase, will be urged This historfc thoroughfare is looked {upon by many as ome of the.most na jural and beautiful highways in « llboul the city. It traverses a roll- ing country, and is lined throughout lwith beautiful shade trees. i To prevent what is feared will be the destruction of the natural beauty 1of that section traversed by this highway, because of the proposed cutting through of streets and the erection of residences, those intere ed in preserving the beauty of th section will put -considerable force {behind their corts to have enacted 1a bill authorizing the purchase by | the government of 100 feet of ground on either side of the roadway for a distance of probably a mile and a half from the point where it connects with Rock Creek Park. Transter of Jurisdiction. The bill also would transfer (e jurisdiction of Broad Branch read from the District of Columbia to the {United States. | It is expiained that by acquiring {the strips planned on either side of the roadway the natural beauty of” the latter and of the land immediatelv on its sides would be preserved for all time. Inasmuch as the government now owns only a very small strip of the land required, it is estimated that the appropriations needed may be a trifle {larger than Congress would care to ispend at this time. The public buildings and grounds office will resume its effort next win- ter to obtain the appropriation-neces- sary for the purchase of land to carry out its development of the so-called {Klingle ford valley. BRITISH FOR BIG AERIAL STRENGTH Naval Experts See'Disad- vantage in Neglect of Development. i 1 'FOR BETTER EQUIPMENT {Nation Has Eighty-Eight Flying ] Fighters in Commission and Many Reserves. LONDON, August 14.—“The navy of the future must take to tae air; otherwise it will be at a hopeless dis- advantage,” said Capt. Viscount Cur- zon in the house of commons, when the naval estimates came up for dis- cussion. He pointed out that, accord- ing to the latest figures the navy had only nine fighting airplanes, in con- trast with the eigthty-six possessed by the United States Navy. To offset the allegation of Capt. Curson the air ministry has issued a statement declaring the Brilish navy to be better equipped with airplanes than that of any other power and claiming no fewer than ninety-eight fighting_air machines in commission. with & large number of reserves. For Greater E ent. George Lambert, a former civil lord {of the admiralty. expressed the opin- ion that the British navy was very inadequately equipped with aircraft. “Can the navy say that from the de- fensive point of view the money of the taxpayer is being spent lo the best advantage?”’ he asked. “You are going to spend £16,000,600 on two new battleships, but it is useless to spend money on capital ships unless you have sufficient aircraft for the !3hips you already possess.” Lieut. Commander Kenworthy em- phasized the great need of strength- ening the air fleet. “We are ex- posed to two great dangers from {the air,” he said, “massed attacks by fieets of alrplanes fiying by night and scattering ison and disease germs on our cities, and having our food supplies cut off by attacks on the trade routes. The two capital ships would be of little use warding off such raiders.” Attack by Alrplanes. Mr. Amery, financial secretary to the admiralty, answered some ques- tions about recent experimental at- tacks by airplanes on warships in the channel. According to published sen- sational reports. he ssid, the attacks Iweu completely successful and if made in real warfare would have completely wiped out a considerable portion of the mritisn navy. The maneuvers were not of a “wholly novel character,” but part of a series of valuable and constructive exer- cises which have been carried out for some time. It is not true that the airplanes threw out smoke screens. The torpedo-carrying airplanes were sighted fifteen minutes before firing their torpedoes. They were under dummy gunfire. ““There 15 a great difference between the effect of dummy gunfire and real gunfire on the morale and the steadi- nees of & fiyer when at a low altjtude at the moment of discharging torpe- does,” the speaker continued. “Thcy were attacked by gunfire in dummy from light cruisers and destroyers. The attack developed under favorable conditions. We could mot use real counter measures. The attack thus deveio) its full offensive effect and a number of hits were recorded under ithe most favorable conditions. I do not know the exact number of hits, but I am informed that from the not con: red to be at all large, or in any. way. beyond what was e3- pected.” v 4 A ¢