Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1922, Page 1

tonight and tomorre: ‘3 p.m. (odlfi Highest, 8! yesterday; lowest, 71, at No. 28,598. Ent PRESIENT PN STRIE MESSHGE FOR TOMORROM Situation to Be Laid Before Gongress and Nation Comprehensively. * HOUR YET TO BE SET FOR JOINT SESSION Rail Union Leaders Meanwhile | Continue Preparing for New York Parley. By the Associated Press. President Harding in a message to- morrow to Congress will present to the federal legislators and to the| country the position of the govern- ment with respect to the existing in- dustrial troubles, particularly the railroad strike. Arrangements for the President's appearance at a joint session tomor- tow of the Semate and House were completed at a conference today at the White House between the execu- tive and Senator Lodge of Massachu- setts, republican ate. Belief had been expressed in some quarters prior to the conference that the President might delay presenta- tion of his message until after it had been determined whether the media- tion efforts of the train service broth- erhood chiefs in tomorrow’s confer- ence with -a committee of railroad executives would be successful or re- sult in failure, but Senator Lodge said | he found the President fully decided | to o before Congress at the earliest| possible moment. The hour that the President will go to the Capitol was not _decided today and may not be until tomorrow. At Work on Message. The President, after conferring with Senator Lodge. Immediately started preparation of his message, which his advisers expect to be a comprehensive statement of the strike situation, of the efforts of the government toward settlement and finally of the gov-| ernment’s policy henceforward. Meanwhile the railroad union lead- | ers in Washington continued in ses- Partly ‘cloudy and continugd warm rature for 24 hours ended st at B! Clasing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 23 ered as sécond-class matter office Washington, D. C. leader in the Sen-{ am. to:f;: Strikes at aGlance By the' Associated Press. Developments in the rall strike sit- uation today included- Union chiefs continue meetings in Washington in hopes of direct set- tlement. . Traffic conditions In far west where unauthorized walkout of trainmen stranded many trains easing up. Numerous local conferences con- tinue in various sections. - Violence reported in some sections. Developments today in the coal strike situation included: With miners at scattered points In seven states ordered back to work, at- tention turned to miners-operators par- loy at Philadelphia tomorrow. when it'1s hoped the anthracite strike will be mettled, and to meetings Friday in Chicago between Illinois miners and operators. Thousands of Illinois miners are preparing to go back to work in belief an agreement will be made ghortly. Washington state operators re- fuse to meet miners. saying their mines are running satisfactorily on an open-shop basis. Troops ordered withdrawn from mines {n Ohio. TEARS IWEST BEGIN 10 UNRAVEL iDirect Negotiations Hope of Railway Heads and Union Officials. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 16.—Transporta- tion tfe-ups in the far west began to unravel today as rail heads and union leaders looked toward direct negotia- tions for ending the strike of rall shop chafts employes. Railway executives here were pesse- mistic, over the success of peace par- leys proposed by leaders of the non- striking unions, in whose hands the shop crafts placed their case. Rejection by the unions of President Harding's proposals for ending the strike, railroad heads declared, al- ready broke their faith in the sug- gested conference, but despite thelr lack of confidence executives of the western roads approved acceptance of the proposal to meet the unions in New York tomorrow. Situation Still Critical. Although conditions on roads in the far west were relieved by breaks in the strike of train crews, the general situation remained in the critical stage it reached many days ago, and sion preparing for the conference, which the brotherhood chiefs have obtained . from the Association of Railway Executives in New York to- morrow. - 3 | The union heads. after a two-hour: conference, adjourned and prepared | to leave for New York at 3 o'clock | this afternoon. ’ i Warren §..Stqne, chairman of the} meeting, said that he, as chief n{i engineers, and the head of the “brotherhood” group of: traim-service men not now on strike, including the switchmen with the firemen; con- ductors and trainmen. would be the only ones to meet the committee of raiiroad exécutives, but that they de- sired the heads of the striking crafts and the officers of other railroad unions to be on the ground. Might Be Needed. “We might need them for confer- ence at any moment there,” Mr. Stone sald, “and we want to have every- bod¥y at hand while the discussions with the managements are continu- ing.” L. E. Sheppard, chief of the order of condwgtors. said that the “brother- hood” officials would go into the meeting with the executives without any fighd proposition, but prepared to comsider the matters that might come up in a concillatory spirit. At the same time, officials of the seven striking crafts, one by one, declared that their men could not accept and would not accept any strike settle- ent basis which did not return them to work with the senlority status they held on leaving service July 1. Mr. Sheppard added that the “brother- hood” mediation would be conducted in_the light of this fact. The adjournment of the general union conference concluded a series of meetings which have been almost continuous during the last week. SHOPNIAN BEATEN ~ BY MOBOF 300 Riot Squad Kept on Jump by Strike Disorders at Scranton, Pa. | | i By the Associated Press. SCRANTO! Pa.,, August 16.—Nu- merous disorders in connection with the railroad shopmen’s strike kept this city’s riot squad on the jump last, night and early today. No arrests were made. A crowd estimated at 3,000 attacked a shop worker at Bellevue and gave him a bad beating before he was res- cued by policemen. Two other men employed by the Central Railroad of New Jersey here locked themselves in a passenger coach to escape from the crowd. Every window in the coach ‘was smashed before the police ar- rived and dispersed the crowd. . Another crowd of 200 persons at- tacked workmen at the Keyser Valley shops of the Lackawanna. Dies of Stillete Wounds. SAYRE, Pa., August 16.—Norman Carmel, employed at the Lehigh Val- ley railroad shops here, died early to- :"hln he '.."l;:sz?ac::d'- b§ five: o e ot made o o Arzeees Strigped of Clothes, HORNELL, N. Y., August 16—E. L. Nelson of Buffslo, who arrived here yesterday .to .work in the. Erie rail- roup of to - the and ours President Harding’s next expected move was to lay the whole industrial crisis before Congress. Embargoes were lifted and trains were moved again over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific, the r ds chiefly affected by the walkouts of|hi the big four transportation brother- hoods, Refusal of brotherhood leaders te sanction the walkouts when the Sante Fe issued ultimatums demanding im- ‘mydiate explanations of the attitude of national officlals of the train service 'unions, were followed by speedy de- velopments in untying the traffic knots in California &nd other western states. ~ Conditions on other roads af- fected by the brotherhood walkouts were slower in clearing up. Vielence in Arkamsas. Outbreaks and violence in connection _with the strike during the last tweny- four hours included a2 clash between strikers and guards and workmen in the Missour! Pacific yards at Van Buren, Ark, six miles west of Fort Smith. More than 100 .shots were fired. * At Little Rock, Ark., George Walker; ORDER TO RESUME COAL PRODUCTION ENDS LONG STRIKE Twenty-Week Tie-Up of Mines Is Broken Seven States. in }umou LEADER HOPEFUL OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Further Conferences Arranged With Operators in Hope of General Solution. By the Associated Press. . PITTSBURGH, August 16.— The Pittsburgh Coal Producers’ Associa- tion today fintly refused to meet with the oficers of District No. 5, United Mine Workers, to megotiate & wage agreement “In conformity with the wo-called basic agreement mego- tiated by rump convention at Cleve- 1nm last Tuesday.” The refusal was In réply to an invitation from Distrist President P. T. Fagan. CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 16.— For the first time in twenty weeks striking soft coal miners at scat- tered points in seven states were to- day under orders to begin coal pro- duction. This result of the part set- tlement of the strike, however, af- fected only a small minority of the 450,000 soft coal diggers who threw down their picks last March 31. But union officials were on their way back home to seek to make peace with other employers. President John L. Lewis of the miners, who remained here for a day’'s rest before entering the peace negotiations with anthracite opera- tors at Philadelphia tomorrow, pre- dicted that soft coal operators gen- erally would accept the agreement made here, and held out hope for an early quantity production. He alsa sald he was hopeful of the result of the conference with the anthracite operators, who employ 155,000 men. District union officials before leav- ing here for home sent invitations for five meetings of operators, with the view of concluding peace. Further Meetings Arranged. Two Pennsylvania associations of operators were asked to meet the tnion chiefs Friday. One invitation went to the Freeport Thick Vein Op- 1 erators’ Association, and the other to the Pittsburgh Coal Prqducers’ Asso- clation. The Southwestern Interstate Operators’ Assoclation, includin; members in Missourt, Kansas, Okla- Arkansas and Texas, were asked to meet with the union at Kansas City on Tuesday. Illinols operators were invited to Chicage on hile the Indiana Operators’ on w ligited for a confer- ‘Association was sol ence at Terre Haute, slso on ay. The general agreement concluded here and adopted by the union as & basis for supplemental agreefents throughout the coal flelds continues the old wages and working condi- tions, including the check-off of union dues, to April 1, 1923, and prosides machinery for negotiating but not arbitrating next years scale. The agreement also calls for a national convention of operators and miners of the bituminous territory to be held in this aity next October 2 for select- ing a fact-finding. commission to in- vestigate the coal industry. Strike of 1908 Reealled. Under the policy laid down by the union, the District officials may conclude CABINET APPROVES POINGARE'S STAND Premier Congratulated for His Oppaosition to British Proposals on Reparations. By the Associated Press. RAMBOUILLET, France, August 16. —The French cabinet today unani- mously approved of the German repa- rations policy of Premier Poincare and congratulated him on the stand he took at the London conference of allied premiers. This action was taken after M Poincare had .glven an exposition of the unsuccessful negotiations in Lon- don. A plan, which is reported to have been prepared in case the reparations commission's decision on the mora- torium question pronounces Germany in willful default of her payments, deals with measures to be taken in Alsace-Lorraine and the French occu Dled territory of the Rhineland. It understood no military measures have been contemplated thus fa ‘When the mgll(.rl alighted at ti Ramboutillet_sfation the crowd gave chears for England, as well.as.for, France, slthough there were some of “Down with Lioyd George!” "’i':u' cabinet decided not to call an estraordinary session of parliament, since the government is constitution- ally empowered to make decisions during_parliamentary recesses. ‘An official communique, issued after the morning meeting, said the pre- mier made a complete exposition of the London negotiations, and the rea- son why it was found impossible to reach an agreement. The ¢cabinet, said the communique, was unanimous in approving of his attitude, and de- clared itself entirely with him in his view of the reparations situation. BRITISH PUBLIC STUNNED. (Continucd on Page 2, Column 2.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) President to Make Issue On Domination by Labor BY DAVID LAWRENEC. President Harding means to place squarely befors the country the dan- gefs of national domination of babic industries by labor unions. Irrespective of whether the meeting in New York tomorrow between the Tail excutives and the brotherhood chiefs who represent the shopmen brings an end to the rail strike, the President feels that the lssues involved in the present crises are toa big to be suddenly. sheived with the abrupt termination of the l de his mind . Harding has not made up min tn':* for =p.clflc legislation at this time, but he feels that Congress and the country should know the détails of the troversy so as to have the ‘way open for thorough consideration of the whole problem. The President's narrative of what has happened will also_serve a useful purpose as a basis for any action that may have to be taken if the present emergency should grow so serious as to require instant seizure of railroads . without waiting for con- gressional authority. Some of the President's friends have told him that he owes the Am jcan people a frank explanation of what he :ll tried to do and that the public should know just where to place the responsibility. On top. of this_are considerations of justice to the President himself, ap the criticism e has grown to such pro- present con ns as to make members of Co: gress foarful that it would reflect un: favorably on the republican party at the polls next November. ‘Merely Incidental Phase. This phase is merely incidental, as Mr. Harding -has: proceeded alang }imes that seemed to him expedient from day to day without regard to whether {t was politically wise or un- ‘wise. Ncnrt?ol:l:. dl:., t;l::u:;‘ 1d be the last to de: - ivro.“u on'.-h g.g",';';‘ by the -lcét‘nuto uring the O are not,u to be developed on the" 3 :‘!‘ .l?eh few facts and statements as have been authoritatively issued thus “r.l"lu President slone knows the ‘whole mrv‘..:n:t only :‘t. ‘:o .nu-toul- to-settle -the strike, but the issues hich od tl& outl a greatest fundamental fact of all which has impressed Mr. Harding as he has seen the crisis grow more acute from day to day. It is the power of the national labor leaders to subject the country to hardships an railroad managements to conduct themselves in a way that goads the ‘workers to take desperate measures. Unfon Domination Question. Shall national union domination be permitted im such absolute essentials as transportation and fuel? Mr. Harding thinks not. While the right to organize and the right to quit work are conceded, the right to abuse those privileges is {not conceded. Hence the President be- lieves regulation is necessary in the public interest. Such regulation can come only t\‘l‘:mmbuu?o:‘“ boards Tepresenting the public interest. The President still thinks the Railroad Labor Board can be made the agency of pro- tection to all concerned. The person- nel of the board today may not be‘what it should be, but that does not, mean that the idea is wrong or the plan unsatisfactory. In the coal industry a natiohal board or commission analogous to the United States Raflroad Labor Board would be recommended. The powers of Congress to regulate ‘ interstate " commerce as flnfldofl by the federal Constitution .ve gradually been clarified by de- cisions of Supreme Court of the Corporations ‘monopolize production and gouge the Be, Mr. Harding gublle. too, , bor unions or railroad managements can be made amenable to the public in- terest through regulation. ‘The Interstate Commerce Commis- wi onal B similar step would be n respect to the awards of a nati firemen | total d the corresponding power of the|are Dbelieves | & Virtual End of Entente Is Feared by Press. By Cable to The Star and Chicaso Dally News. LONDON, August 16.—The break- down of the conference involving the virtual end of the entente leaves the people stunned, as they had supposed up to the last moment that at least some pretense of an agreement would be made. The falling exchanges on he further weak- first results registered. e are not as yet di- aper: retr:‘t’;'cvnnpe ing the fearful conse- quences which seem certain unlk thero is a sudden repentance on b sides of the channel. The British government, though ‘weakened by the Balfour note, has the solid opinion of the majority with it on the French question. The French belief that the failure of this conference means the fall of Prime Minister Lloyd George hv"v‘fi‘zt Europe is about to face will be decided largely by the action of French parliament and the British cabinet in the near future. At pre: ent few have any clear idea of wha must be done next. FRENCH STAND UNCHANGED. Huge Debt Given as Cause for Their Demand, By Cable hmfll,:;rfl:.lzflmlflnm News. PARIS, France, August 16—The re- markable unity of French socialists, 1ib- erals and conservatives in the present and against 's account—8,000,000- 000; a tota} of us.ooom.aou. The French budget, m interest and g A R B & w:: ‘was fought on French woil, and at least 75 per cent of the material destruction was - fered by France .alone. Great Brit- ~{Continued on Fage 3, Columa &) - & gri 2 EFiistaid 2005 9N:E I ey | plers, foot of Linwood street, early led | this morning, four harbor pirates at- is | men are foreign seamen. SR Pk e , secured & shot; an ‘| opened fire. . ‘Three of the ts were cap- nam ai Brooks, pairs. DEMPSEY-BRENNAN BOUT LIKELY TO BE BANNED IN INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., August 16.— Gov. McCray of Indiana, after an- nouncing today that he has prepared a letter directing the sheriff of La- porte county to forbid the staging of the Dempsey-Brennan fight at Michi- gan City, decided to defer sending the letter. It is understqod, however, that local officials will act to prevent the match. The letter will go forward in case the officials in Laporte county fall to take action. MISSISSIPPI RAGE IS NECK AND NECK Stephens Leads Vardaman by Few Votes in Returns From Eighty Counties. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, August 16.—In- te and unofficial returns from eighty of the eighty-two Mississippt : _ yemterdmy’s democratic primary, complled by the New Orleans Itém at noon, show: Stephens, 52,480. Vardaman, 52.198. Kearney, 14,517 MAY BE SECOND PRIMARY. Stephens’ Supporters Admit Pos- sibility of Run-Off. By the Associated Press. JACKSON, Miss., August. 16.—Re- turns from isolated sections in the democratic primary yesterday were awaited today to determine whether former Senator James K. Vardaman or Hubert D. Stephens of New Albany will succeed John Sharp Williams, ‘who will retire from the United States Séhate next March. Managers for both candidates admitted the race was close, and, in the opinion of po- litical observers, a second primary probably will be necessary. Both campaign headquarters early tcday expressed satisfaction with the situation, Vardaman headquarters holding_that the former senator i ecially strong in the less popu- ted sections where communication is.dificult. On the other hand, St phen’s supporters deciare their ad- vices indicate that he’ will lead when the final count is made, but admit & possibility that a second primary will be necessary. Miss Belle Kearney of Flora, was run- ning behind her two male opponets. Incomplete and unofficial returns from seventy-four of the eight-five counties in the Btate gave Stephens 45,014, Vard- aman, 44,620; Kearney, 18,226, In the congressional districts in which there were contests, returns early today were far from complete. Eight of the eleven counties in the fourth "district showed Jeft Busby leading Representative T. U. Sisson, by 400 votes. Representative Collins was running behind Floyd Loper in returns from three counties in the fifth district. The vote was: Loper, 2,336; Collins, 1,780; Mrs. J. E. Arnold, 508. There were no contests in the first and third districts, the incumbents baving recently been declared the nominees, amd in the other districts incumbents were in the lead. 4 HARBOR PIRATES CAPTURED IN GUN BATTLE, ONE SHOT By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., August 16.— Boarding the United States lighthouse tender Maple, at the government tempted to rob the ship and were captured after one of them had been shot and seriously wounded. All the ‘When policemen arrived at the pier they found the pirates shooting from beneath a string of freight cars near- by.. The Maple was being defended Samuel Bowdy, ‘‘quartermaster, ‘who, armed with & shotgun, had seri- ously wounded one of his assailants. Bowdy says. the four came upon him suddenly as he was pacing the deck “Hands up.” He dash assailan tured by police. The wounded man was found three hours later clinging to & pler. - HALTS NAVY TEST. + caused 2’ Navy Department's df ts “with Xh The Pul nd her tender, thé destroyer left today for Boston for ;r SHIP BOARD LIQUOR SOURGE DEMANDED Two Members of House Want to Know How Booze Was Purchased. Resolutions calling upon the United States Shipping Board to inform the House where and how much liquor it bought for sale on American ships since the national prohibition law went into effect were introduced today by Representatives Gallivan, democrat, Massachusetts, and Bren- nan, republican Michigan. The resolutions also request the board to say whether it would be practicable if it contemplates to con- tinue the sale of liquor on ships “to acquire such liquors from the se- questered stores held by the prohibition director,” and which part of the funds appropriated by Congress ‘has been used for the acquisition of in- ocean going ships operated or con- toxjutlrgullquorl for sale upon ocean- going D _operated or ocontrolled by the board January 16, 1920,” the date on whi the prohfbition law become_effective.” The board also would be required to inform the House of the total smount of intoxicating liquors ac- quired by the board from each foreign country since the advent of prohi- bition and the prices paid therefore and whether the largest amount of such liquor was obtained from dis- tilleries, breweries and dealers in the United Kingdom, “whose officials are being petitioned at this time by the United States prohibition com- missioner to co-operate with this country in enforcing prohibition out- side and bevond the three-mile limit.” The Gallivan-Brennan resolutions, identical in wording, set forth that the Shipping Board has adopted the policy of selling or permitting the sale of liquor on its ships, “claiming that it is necessary from a financial standpoint, cause of competition with foreign ships selling liquor, to pursue this policy,” and according to reports, the board has not purchased or obtained any of such liquors in the United States, “but that it has acquired them in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and in other foreign countries at prices greatly in excess of those at which similar liquors could be obtained from the United States prohibition com- missioner.” —_— D’ANNUNZIO DEVELOPS HIGH FEVER AFER RALLY Serum Injection Given Poet Who ‘Was Injured in Fall at Billa. GARDONE RIVIERA, Italy, Au- gust 16.—The improvement noted yes- terday in the condition of Gabrlele @&Annunzio, who was seriously in- jured in a fall at his villa here Sun- day, was only transitory, symptoms of cerebral congestion reappearing in the afternoon. The fever also in- creased, his temperature rising _to 101.8, but this was attributed to the effect of an injection of anti-tetanus serum. WOMAN SUES GOVERNOR. Action Against Mississippi Execu- tive Is Third Filed. MEMPHIS, August 16.—Miss Frances Birkhead of New Orleans, yesterday filed suit for $100,000 damages against Gov. Lee M. Russell of Mississippi in the United States district court at Oxford. Miss Birkhead, as in her two previous suits against the governor, alleges seduction under a promise of e. Service was secured by federal court officers on Gov. Russell ‘when he returned to his home at Ox- ford to vote. The trial was set for December 3. OPERA STAR DROWNS. RICHMOND, Va., August 16.—For- est Dabney Carr, former Metropoli- tan opera star and prominently iden- tified with Richmond musical circles, was drowned in the surf at Virginia Beach yesterday afternoon, accord- ing to advices reaching this city. NEWTON BAKER RE-ELECTED. CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 16— Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, has been re-elected chairman of the Cuyahoga county democratic executive committee, 2 post he has held for eleven years. -He was chosen last night at the biegnial mity convention. Former Judge W. C. ugh, who placed his name in nomination, advocated the re-eiection of Mr. a8 er, “to paper and also PRESIDENT TELLS HOOSIER BOY JOB IS NOT HAPPY ONE “T am afraid you would not like my Job as much as you think you would,” President Harding smilingly replied to Leonard Kincade, & Terre Haute high school boy, who, when he was received at the White House yester- day afternoon, said something to the effect that he hoped he could have the President’s job some time in the future, “It i not as happy a job as one would imagine,” the 'President con- tinued. “However, if you keep work- ing hard throughout your life you will be sure to succeed.” Young Kincade rode his bicycle from Terre Haute here, and his let- ter of introduction to the executive :’u penned by.Gov. McCray of In- lana. ALL LEE HIGHWAY BUILT NEXT YEAR To Be First Completed Auto- mobile Route From At- lantic to Pacific. ACTIVE NEAR CAPITAL $275,000 Bond Issue Proposed to Build Road From Falls Church to Fairfax. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. FALLS CHURCH, Va, August 16.— Completion of Lee highway from Washington to the Pacific coast by Christmas, 1923, is not only a hope but a probability, according to Dr. S. M. Johnson, director of the Lee High- way Association. He delivered this message last night at a large and enthusiastic road meeting held at Merrifield and at which initial steps were taken for a $275,000 bond issue for building an eighteen-foot con- crete road from Falls Church to Fair- fax, a distance of eight miles, ‘and now one of the worst pieces of road on the entire Lee highway route. ‘Dr. Johnson recently returned from a trip to the Pacific coast during which he was in conference with the governors and road officials of all the fifteen states through which Lee high- way passes. Pacific to Mississippl. A modern hard-surface roadway has been completed, s building or the money for its building has been provided all the way from the Pacific ocean to the Mississippi river. Mis- sissippi and Alabama now are ar- ranging to raise the money to build uncompleted sections of the road through those states. Tennessce will vote a big bond is- sue this fall, assuring completion of the road from the Alabama iine to the Virginia line at Bristol. From Bristol to where the road crosses the south fork of the Shenandoah the road now is complete, except for a few short gaps, and the raising of money to build these now Is under way. This brings the Lee highway com- plete, or with assurances of comple- tion mext year, to within 100 miles of the National Capital. Every ef- fort now is being centered on assur- ing completion of this 100 miles next year. This will give a_perfect motor_roadway from New York to San Diego, Calif, and will be the ! first completed transcontinental high- way. To Lend Money to State. The meeting at Merrifield last night was attended by representatives of the Falls Church Citizens’ Association and of the Highlands, Merrifield, Hat- mark and Fairfax units of the Lee Highway Association. Col. C. Seoane of the Merrified unit presided. Chairman George Harrison of the Fairfax board of supervisors and other members of the board also ‘were in attendance. The meeting was the outgrowth of a special meeting of the Falls Church Citizens’ Association last week and a conference which followed in Wash- ington at headquarters of the Lee Highway Assoclation. At the Falls Church meeting and the subsequent Washington conference it was arranged that the supervisors of Arlington county would lend to the state, without inter- est, the money necessary to build the mile and a quarter of road from Hall's Hill to East Falls Church, to be repaid within two years from state and federal funds. ~A proposal to build the eight miles from Falls Church to Fairfax on the same basis was before last night's meeting at Merrified. Favor $275,000 Bond Issue. The concrete proposition, upon which favorable action was taken, was that at the November election Falls Church and Providence "dis- tricts of Fairfax coumy snould vote upon the question of issuing bonds for $275,000. the proceeds to be loaned to the state and the Falls Church-Fairfax road built next vear. The only cost to the taxpayers of the two districts will be the interest on the bonds for two or three years. A committee of fifteen was appointed to adjust the question of apportionment as between the two districts and to circulate petitions asking the circuit court to sanction submitting the bond issue to the voters at the November election. Col. Seoane named the following committee, of which he was made chairman: Falls Church, John F. Bethune, M. E. Church and Mayor H. A. Fellows; Highlands, H. H. Mulard, P. B. Nourse and Frank Birch: Mer- rifield, Charles R. Moran, C. A. Seoane |and Charles Kaiser; Hatmark, J. W. j Pobst, H. C. Weston and R. J. Miller; Fairfax, F. S. McClandish, S. H. Young and J. W. Rust. The committee met after the public to sub-committees and prepared to begin its work immediately. 2 U. S. TREATIES ARE LAID BEFORE NATIONS’ LEAGUE By the Associated Press. GENEVA, August 16.—Two Ameri- can treaties—that ending the state of war between the United States and ‘| Germany and the Yap agreement— have been registered with the league by Germany and Japan. %‘..“?.“,’.“!m«y is the second docu- ment growing out of the Washing- ton conference to be filed with the league, the other one being the Chinese-Japanese-Shantung accord. The German-American treaty was one of sixty registered by Germany, who, although not & member of the league, has offered tto register her ijc agreements. 2 g'rno“ncnnn;hru hundred treaties, tncluding a score signed by the United have now been filed with the Al rights of publication of epscial Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 84,853 B meeting had adjourned. organized in- ! the local news published berela. TWO CENTS. WBRIDE IS THIRD OF WIFE'S KIN 10 DIEMYSTERIOUSLY Indian’s First Husband Also Murdered and Slayer Never Detected. ESTATE FIGHT INDICATED Brutal Killing Also Casts Doubt on Robbery Theory—Death Wagon Is Sought. Barney A. McBride, the wealthy oil operator, who was brutally murdered last week and his body left on the road near Meadows, Md., was the third person closely assoclated with the Creek Indian family to which his wife belonged to die a violent and mys- terious death. It was learned at the bureau of In- dian affairs today that Silas Deer, the first husband of McBride's full-blooded Indian wife, and Wesley Deer, her brother-in-law, were shot to death in Okiahoma in 1901. The mystery sur- ;g\]l‘X{'Aed‘{n‘ their deaths has never been Silas Deer Deer, ‘MoBride's. stepaangheer. ana ot was originally from him that she in- s;;ile%or::‘filirggl:err(arlu‘ne of $100,- left to her by her murderd uheler Revives Vengeance Theory. Discovery of the fact that the fa: of which McBride became a mer:‘l:i{ through his marriage to Mrs. Deer twice before had been the victim of assassins lent added importance to the previously advanced theory that the Oklahoman had been slain by a :‘v:;'l"ine.etl"l:my Dll; ‘I,', the direction of a e tica nadesHiibjibo 1 organization in Baffled in their efforts to prove ti McBride was killed by (h‘x’eves, ‘!,l:: police began to concentrate more carefully today on this possibility and again interviewed several of the Indians living in Washington and who admit having known the mur- fn'tr:ramma?l%n ;l’hey hoped to glean more 'rom them concer; as;‘oc.!a;;s in the west. Sringans cBride was undoubtedly rob! But_the detectives are no:' 1ncl|‘:|e!dd‘ to believe that the dead man was stripped of his valuables as a blind to the real motive that prompted the brutal murder. The mere viciousness ;l:‘:,‘:;l;cg the man was slaughtered ed as an ar; or_rth!s oD ‘gument in favor There is no case in the crim history of Washington where a r‘:;l ber literally carved his victim to pieces and then strangled him with a rope merely to commit a theft, particularly when the thief must have known that the only booty was & g::;n‘znd' l;ln’g‘whole very size would picion should to dispose of it. e atiempl = Checks Arfe Valueless. cBride’s money was tied up in travelers’ checks, which mo ’-nl burglar would dare attempt to have cashed, for such an act would re- sult in his arrest immediately. Nor would any “fence.” no matter how well protected he might be, consider accepting a draft bearing the name of a man whom the whole country knows to have been murdered. The slayer of McBride was elther lucky or a master at his bloody trade. He left behind not one trail by which the police might follow him. Presumably, he committed the mur- der of a prominent man in the very capital of the nation, carried his body to a nearby state and then dis- appeared as completely as though the earth had swallowed him. Another highly important bit of information obtained from the Indian affairs bureau today was the fact that scme of Miss Deer's property ‘was recently in litigation. McBride's ward, it was stated, was only part owner of considerable property which was divided among two Indian na- tions. Recently overtures were made by the persons owning the other part to make a trade, whereby Miss Deer ‘would become sole owner of the prop- erty in one nation and the second party sole owner in the other. A representative of the Indian bureau was in_Muskogee at the time the transaction was under discussion, and met McBride. Miss Deer Favored. McBride was personally handling Miss Deer's affairs, he said, though the guardian had already turned her property over to the federal authori- ties for administration. The Indian bureau reporesentative returned east before the transaction was settled and therefore did not know the out- come, but he did learn that the deal i would have resulted decidedly favor- | able to Miss Deer if McBride succeed- | ed in obtaining all that he asked. | The government official was much { impressed. he said, by the ardor with | which McBride guarded his former | ward's affairs. At the time he turned |them over to the Indian bureau—in 1919—he pointed out that strife be- tween factions in Oklahoma was 80 | strong that he feared to have the | girl manage her own affairs. A brother of Ellen, Bernard Deer, also inherited considerable property from his parents, but sold out his share years ago. The police said today that they had learned that a wagon. and not an au- tomobile, had been used to carry Mec- Bride's body from the spot where he | was murdered to the culvert near Meadows. They would not divulge the source of their informatio The police admit that they have {been hampered by so-called “dog- {berry detectives”” One of the clues {they wasted time over regarded & straw hat. A reporter breathlessly {told of finding it seven miles from !the spot where McBridt's body was {found. He pointed proudly to a cut in the rim, evidently made by a Knife, and declared the chapeau had been worn by the slain man. Investigation proved that McBride jhad not worn a straw hat, but a green felt affair. In addition. the | straw hat was size 6%: McBride | wore a 7%, and that was rather small for him. One of his most prominent features was an unusually large {head. To cap the climax, detectives | happened to notice there was not & isign of blood on the hat or around the slash the knife was supposed to have made. With the hope of obtaining some !information which will lead to the identity of the man who was seen playing pool with McBride at the Elks Club last Wednesday evening. Acting Inspector W. S. Shelby and |Headquarters Detective Thomas_G. ‘Walsh have gone to Prostburg, Md., where the Eiks are holding a state convention. Bot or. Shelby and Defective members of ‘the Elks, mer is etary of the Incidentally the Washington : ‘pougaeadde S|y uj Ind o3 payed oy} puene o3 pauueid tu-lu;w oys uopssfussIo oy} Jo Tiem's 103 ZUIYOIE BOIT SO[IION