Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER i Partly cloudy tonight and tomors . row; warmer tomorrow; gentle varias ble winds. Temperature for twenty-four ho ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 86, 3:30 p.m. yesterddy; iowest, 62, at am. today. Closiog N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 16 Entered as second-class mattef post office Washington, D. C. 28,614. Interference With Roads AR-REACHING PETITION FILED WITH U. S. COURT IN CHICAGO ‘orkers Are Given Full Protection as All _Molestation Is Barred by Judge. Strike Damage Outlined. ¥ the Assoc d Press. CHICAGO, September 1.—The United States gov- ernment today was granted a temporary restraining order against the six striking railroad shopcrafts unions, heir officials and members from interfering in any way ith the operation of the railroads and their properties. The order was granted by Federal District Judge ames H. Wilkerson on application of United States ttorney General Harry M. Daugherty and District ttorney Charles F. Clyne. The order will remain in orce until September 11, pending hearing on the gov- ment’s application for a permanent writ of injunc- 1on. The suit was filed shortly after the arrival of Attorney General Daugherty in Chicago this morning. The plea for injunction = named the railway employes department of the American Federa- tion of Labor, the six striking shop crafts and 120 system federa- tions. e The suit seeks to restrain all strikers from interfering in any way with the operation of the railroads. It was filed before United States District Judge Wilkerson. MANY ARE SPECIFIED. Besides the railway employes’ department, the six international unions, International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, International Association of Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers, Brotherhood of Railway Car Men, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Ship Builders, International Association of Machinists and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, as well as 120 system federations were named as the objects of the injunction. Soon after the arrival of Attorney ieneral Daugherty in Chicage Black- Turn Easterlin, assistant attorney Jg:neral. appeared before District 1dge Wilkerson and began reading copy of the petition for a restrain- ng order. The application was far- mbracing in character and sought to rrevent all interference with opera- = of trains or with railroad prop- in any way | The -application for injunction spe- | cifically named the presidents of the arious union organizations involved in the presemt strike which started July 1 1ast. following a wage decision of the Railroad Labor Board reducing wages of certain railway employes tiroughout the country. ployes of said railway companies to and from such premises in connec- tion with their sald employment; or alding, abetting, directing or encour- aging any person or persons, organi- zation or associations by letters, telegrams, telephones, word of mouth or otherwise, to do any of the acts aforesaid; trespassing or entering .or ®oing upon the premises of the said railway companies or any of them to do any acts of the aforesaid na- ture or for any other purpose what- soever, at any place or in the vicinity of any place where the employes of said companies are engaged in in- specting, overhauling or repairing locomotives, cars or other equipment, or where such employes customarily perform such duties, or at any other place * * * or causing any such persons so to do. Duress to Be Stopped. 1 ety Workers Protected. The suit il- uit seeks to enjoin all rail-| .y, any manner directly or indirect- way employes. attorneys, servants, : 2 3 Iy hindering, obstructing or impeding inion agents, associates and mem- | ¥ 2ot 2 e Tvor lers and all persons acting in aid | e OPCTRHION Of ANy OF the tralns o or in conjunction: with them, pri- [53id railway companies or any them in the movement, transportation of passengers and property in inter- state commerce or in the carriage of the malils, or in the performance of any other duty as common carriers and from aiding. ~abetting, causing, encouraging or directing any person or persons, association or .organiza- tion to do or cause to be done any: of the matters of the things aforesaid. “In any manner, by letters, printed or other circulars, telegrams, tele- prhones, word of mouth, ordal persua- sion or suggestion or through inter- views to be published in newspapers or otherwise in any manner whatso- ever encourage, *direct or command any person. whether a member. of any or either of sald labor organizations or' association, defendants herein, or otherwise, to abandon their employ- ment .of 3aid railway companies or any of them or to refrain from enter- ing the service of said railway corh- panies or either. of them. " Union Chiefs Reatricted. “Said defendants, Jewell, McGrath, Scott, Johnston, Noonan, Kline, Ryan, Franklin and Hynes and each of them as officers as aforesaid and As indivi- duals be restrained and enjoined from: “Issuing any instructions, requests, marily, until final hearing, and per- snently thereafter, fromy nanner interfering with, hindering obstructing rallway companies, 'eir agents, servants or employes the operation of their respective railroads and systems of transporta- tion or the performance of their public duties and obligations in the transportation of passengers and property in interstate commerce and the carriage of the mails, and from in any manner interfering with, hin- dering or obstructing the agents, ervants and employes of said rail \ay companies or any of them, en ziged In inspection, repair, oper: vion and use of trains, locomotives. and other equipment of said ailway companies or any of them, nd from preventing or attempting ) prevent any person or persons om freely entering into or from ntinuing In the employ of said rail- ay companies for the purpose of spection and repairing of locomo- ves and cars or otherwise. Conspiracy Is Banned. 'he suit also enjoined against con- combining, confederating. reeing and arranging with each in any persony organization or associations, to interfere with or hinder said rail- i public “t(ellllnl!d 4;!,:“"‘0;“0!;. in R ¥ any way to any defendant herein or way companies in the conduct of their o any official or members of sald lawful business of transportation of|labor organizations congtituting the passengers and property in interstate | gaiy federated $hop. oF ho nite Fommerce and the carriage of mails, *'to injure, interfere with, hinder or | Sricia), or member of any system annoy any employe of said raflway rompanies in connection with the per- formance afhtz:lr :;:n 5 as such em- ployes or wi gaing to or return- ing from the premises of sald. rail- way companfes “in conn their said employment, or at time :'Dhac by displays of force or numbérs, the ing of threats, in- simidations, acts of thets, their conduct, or the ac perform subsequent to the abandon- ment of the employment of said rall- way companies by the members of the shid federated sl ‘purpose of'or to. 3(!-& any such of- ficial Y S AR to‘abanden the empioyment th ION CHIEFS, 6 INTERNATIONAL | AND 120 SYSTEM FEDERATIONS | SPECIFIED IN TEMPORARY ORDER| Attorney General Daugherty , Asks Injunction to Balk Any | m K"_I_ HEAI]S [“: ! ln federation thereto with reference to crafts, or for the L 0" do or sa: the purpose of or Intended oy |deed WASHINGTON, D. C, NP RADICAL PLOT THREE RAILROADS 1 Disclosures at Chi¢ago Indi- ! i cate Plan to Attack Presi- | dents or Kidnap Families. DYNAMITE AND TORCH BEING FREELY USED Several Bridges Burned and Homes of Workers Attacked—Ex- plosives Found. | i BY the Associated Press. i CHICAGO, September 1.—Police and | federal opefitives here were under | orders today to start a vigorous drive | against radicals and agitators be-| lieved to be behind railroad wreck | and bomb plots. i Activities here followed twenty-four | hours of increasing disorders, bridge ! { burnings and dynamiting of raifroad property throughout the country. Disclosures of an alleged plot fo| kill three railroad presidents or kid-: nap members of their families were | made during the investigation of { radical plots, according to the Chi-| | cago Herald and Examiner today.| The three rail reads against whom | the alleged plot was made were said | to be the presidents of the New York | Central lines, the Pennsylvania sys- | tem,” and the Chicago, Rock Ifland | and’ Pacific. The home here of the| ! ringleader was said to be under sur- | E veillance and his axrest. -n_,e;peugfl,' | May Deport Aliens, | Deportation procuedings against | aliens arrested in connection’ wtih( plots against the railroads age prob- able, authorities said. - Gov. Bmall of Illinois granted a requisition ‘o extradite Willlam Z, Foster, radical leader and head of the Trades Union Educational League, | to Michigan, where he is wanted on charges of - criminal syndicalism growing out of the alleged com- munist meeting in the Berrien county wood. Among numerous plots and actions against various railroad properties in the past twenty-four. hours were ‘these: Carried Explostves. | 'W. P. Seyfred, president of the New | Mexico State Federation of Lavor, ! !and Andrew ‘Bruno. a plumber, were Iheld at Albuquerque following their arrest on a Santa Fe train and the discovery of bombs,,fuses and caps in their grips. Searching Seyfred’s} room, police said they found more bombs. i ! Road officials- said they believed| Seyfred and Bruno planned to blow ! up the Raton tunnel. The officers said they had information of plans; |to dynamite a bank building !nflt hotel under construction by non< | union 1abor at Albuquerque. Several bridges on the St. Louis Southwestern railway in Arkansas! and Texas were burned and telephone Nires were cut. The road offered a Toward of $1,000 for the arrest of persons responsible for the fires. Loose Rail Found. Track walkers discovered a loose rail near the junction of the Cotton Belt and the Missouri Pacific at North Little Rock, Ark. Spikes had been pulled from the ties. S Bridge burners fired a Sante Fe! trestle near Tecumseh, Okla., after saturating it with kerosene. Posses were in pursuit of three men said to have started the. fire. Homes of three employes of the linols Central at Faducah, Ky. were dynamited. The explosions oc: curred in different parts of the city. Five Arrested in “Missouri. Five men, including the chairman of two striking shop crafts were ar- rested at Slater, Mo., by deputy United States ‘marshals‘and taken to Kansas City, charged with interfering with the mails, ‘The charges included the alleged beating of a volunteer fireman on the Chicago and Alton .who was dragged from an engine cab by a mob at Marshall, Mo. 3 A Other developments included threats ainst raflroad officials at Memphis ‘clash between striking shopmen and workers at LaCrosse, Wis., and ‘the lugging of a Missouri Pacific shop foreman at alia, Mo. 1 prashiame R SRR 2 DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR. OSSINING, N.7 Y., September’ 1.— Luther ‘Boddy, negro’ slayer 'of Wil- liam Miiler and Francis Buckley, two New York city,-detectives, and Her- bert Smith, convicted for the killing WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITI OURT RESTRAINS ALL - ERIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1922 TWENTY-SIX PAGES. The Associated Paper and also All rights Member of the Associated Press the use for republication of all news dispatches ctedited 10 1t or not otherwixe credited in this Pres In exclusively entitled to the local news published berein, % of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Yesterday's Net Circulation, 83,320 TWO CENTS. RAIL STRIKERS ja*;:b i aa U.S. Ship Plays Havoc Witk § of Argentine Navy By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, September 1—The steamship American Legion. in ram- ming and sinking the Argentine ,torpedo boat Azopardo while leaving {her dock here for New York yesterday. also struck several other small naval vessels. They are the gunboat Parana, cruiser Patria, transport Patagonia, dispatch boat Gaviota and dispatch boat No. 3. None was seriously damaged. The accident is said to have been due partly to misinterpretation of jAmerican steamer and partly to the strong wind. The number of casualties is not definitely known, but it is re- | ported that four or five persons on the torpedo boat were injured. The American Legion was very slightly damaged, but she left shortly before midnight for New York. COURTTOUPHOLD MRS, VAN WINLE Woman Lieutenant Wins Fight Against Police signals sent to the engine room of the ; FRANGE DELAYS ACTON ON DEBTS Cabinet Merely Takes COg- nizance of Reparations Agreement. CONFERENCE IS FAVORED Would Be Asked to Dis- ’ cuss Plans. /, By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 1.—The French cabinet today simply “took cogni- zance” of the decision of the repara- tions commission on the German moratorium question, neither approv- ing nor disapproving it. It specifi- cally reserved, however, “entire lib- erty of action.” in case later develop- ments made other action necessary. The cabinet held that inasmuch as no moratorium had been granted Ger- many it could only “recognize” the situation, but it insisted that a con- ference should be called, attended by “all the allles without exception,” at which the questions of interallied debts and reparations should be fully considered. Premier Poincare was won over to the settlement yesterday only after the definite statement had been cir- oulated in allied circles that imde- pendent action by France against Germany at the present juncture would be construed in London and Rome as nullification of tHe treaty of Versailles. Consequently no doubt was__felt today that the cabinet would, although perhaps reluctantly, indorse the commission’s resolution. Would Change Methods. The first effect of the decision is to take the reparations question out of the hands of the commission for the present and to make it a matter for negotiation directly betwgen' the Berlin and Brussels govefnments. Belgium is left to determine what guarantee® she deems necessary to acceptance of thé short-term notes. Should the two countries fail to agree on the necessary guarantees, Germany is then required to deposit an unfixed sum of gold with some foreign bank approved by Belgium. It is belleved, however, that eed: agreement will - be reached, Schroeder, the German spokesman, yesterday _virtually promised M. Delacroix, the Belgian representative, that Germany would give any guar- antees demanded. . 4 The decision also anticipates an al- lied conference in the near future, at which a reduction of the indemnity to about fifty billion gold marks, and, the settlement by cancellation of the' interallied debts will be undertaken. The reparations comnrission prom- ises to consider, at a later date, Ger- any’s request for a moratorium of several years' duration. This will. be taken up after a mnew scheme for radical reform of Germany’s finances, including the balancing of the bud- get, is presented to the Berlin gov- ernment. Purpose of Relfef. The relief granted at the present time is for the purpose of giving the commission time in which to com- plete the new scheme’ of réform and Germany the opportunity of carry- ing it‘out. 3 * The commission expects that these rcfnmt‘lnd the reliet afforded by the virtual moratorium for the remainder K11 Allfes ~Without Exoeption | &K_:_: “SEPTEMBER MOR BARGAIN HUNTERS IGNORE RARE ART FOR 1 TON OF COAL By the Associated Press. DOVER, N. J. September 1— Sevres vases. rare paintings, tapes- tries and the like were thrown aside today by bargain hunters when a ) 1922 at an administrator's sale. cdompared, to the briskness of the offerings for the load of black pel- lets. The ton finally was knocked down to a motion picture theater owner for:§3y, - > e S8 783 “t0 Bdve ‘it carted to his bin _and thereby established s néw high-16veT for pea coal:” * . WOULD SET ASDE CHASTLETON SLE Attorheys\File Suit Claiming | Overvaluation of Apart- ment Property. ACTING FOR MRS. DU PONT Suit to rescind an exchange of prop- Jerty in which the Chastleton apart- {ment, at 16th and R streets, figured |at a valuation of $3,000,000, was filed today in the District Supreme Court | by Mrs. Jessle Ball du Pont, wife of | Alfred 1. du Pont of Wilmington, Del., jand the National City Development Company, a holding corporation. against Felix Lake, former owner of poration, which took title to the prop- erty taken in exchange by Mr. Lake. Allegation of misrepresentation as to the value of the apartment building and as to the fotal of rentals actually being received at the time of the ‘lsregment, are made by the plaintiff. Claims i Petition. } According to’ the -petition filed through Attorneys Douglas Obear and Douglas and J. V. Morgan, there were incumbrances aggregating $2,- 500,000 on the Chastieton property. and in the'exchange Mrs, du Pont paid $150,000 fn cash and transferred to Herr | the . Potomac corporation, at the re- | states that may be closer than-Maine. | quest of Mr:.Lake; a tract of 2,200 Ilqr "l:'n;r‘ ireat mu,hud.i, ‘where a gol opera as beencon- dueted for several years. This tract is said-tg have cost the du Ponts $800,000. * e to the Chastleton, sub- ject to.‘the incumbrances, was taken by the National :City Development: Company,-which joiried -Mrs. du.Pont * in the suif.to vacate the sal 4 ‘he- District Rent Commission, it will “be rémembered,. rugnsy. inve: tiggted .the, rentals .charged. at the on. luced a number of them. " The mlssfon also reported the ‘valuation ‘of :$2,000,000 ‘on' ‘the ¥, -reducing . the price paid.by rs. du_Pont.by.$1.000.000. A rnum- ber- of me of Congress have partments in building. / Valuation' Caltéd Tée High. Accordingtd the petitjon, repr sentations were made=that the veludtion of the property‘was $3,00 900 "and the’ annual net’income was res ‘statéd. -~ ‘Tearn A 23 Hdasma on:-Mr.. Lake_for ‘the ton of pea coal made its appearance Bidding on the vases etc., was dull. the Chastleton, and the Potomac Cor-+" Trial Board. {ORDER RECORD CLEARED| REPUBLIANS SEE VITORY IN MANE Slump From 1920 . Vote, However, Expected on i _ September 11. Hitz Will Sign Paper Lawyer Is Instructed to Prepare in Case. Lieut. Mina C. Van Winkle. head of | the women's bureau of the metropoli- | - tan police depart- | ment. will be ex-} onerated by Jus- tice Hitz of the District Supreme Courl, it is under 0od. that she i lacking ina proper | conception of tae | fundamental ciple of discipline which should pre- | #_in the police depirtment.” This | {DEMOCRATS ARE HOPEFUL | Election Earliest and Most Impor- ! tamt as Indicating Polit- ical Trend record of the offi- cer by a police trial bourd last | April 8. when, in | Mrs. Van Winkle. clearing her of a charge of insubordi- nation, it added tnese objectionable | words. Justice Hitz has ordered { counsel for Mrs. Van Winkle to draw up an order. which he has not yet signed. 1 The District Comnyssioners, in re-| | viewing the finding of the trial board, | disregarded the request of Roger J Whiteford, atterney for Mrs. Van ‘Winkle, that the objectionable words | be stricken from the finding. and af- | firmed the verdict of the trial bolrdl in toto. Justice Hitz has decided to di rect the Commissioners to strike o ’ BY N. 0. MESSENGER. | Staff Correspondent of The Star. PORTLAND, September 1.—"As goes Maine so goes the nation” is an axiom as old as American politics, due to the fact that Maine elects her United States senator, representatives in Con- [gress, governor and other state offi- lcials in advance of the general elec- tions in November. So it has come to pass that Maine !s looked upon as fur- { way the political wind is blowing and | which finds the officer “not guilty. [to hearten the political party which | He will also direct that the record of | Mrs. Van Winkle in the police depare- 2 Sparty ihat Joses. the objectionable words. The costs This year the election falls on Sep- of ihe proceeding will be assessed | tember 11, a date so far ahead of the |against the Commissioners. countrywide elections that in some Mrs. Van Winkle ran afoul of her | [ states “the nominations have not been | Superior officers last March, when she | made nor the groundwork laid for the refused to surrender two young girls campaign. The Maine democrats and |that had fled from their parents in | republicans have been put on their met- | New York and had come to Washing. itle by their respective pgrty manage.;'on in bove clothes before she hu ments to do .their best in the coming | an opportunity to question them. In-; showdown at the polls, for the effect it | Spector Charles A. Evans had directed | is expected to have upon the rest of the release of the girls to their par-! the country ents and so advised the matron of Chairman Buraing Wires. the house of aetention. but Mrs. Van Winkle, claiming that the arrest came | There is Judge Cordell Hull, down | Sicum, the purview of o general or at Washington, chairman of the dem- | livan, chief of police, did not im- ocratic national committee, who is|mediately obey the order of Evans. burning up the wires and loading the | LAtF, the gitls were turned over mails with exhortations to the fait gul up here to do the best that is in e e omissed. them and give the democrats of the| Maj. Sullivan served a complaint, country a stimulus for the campaign ahead. Then there is Chairman Adams of the republican national’ supposed to have been instigated by | Inspector Evans, against Lieut. Van| Winkle for insubordination and a| committee, equally vehement in warn- | trial was held before the police trial ihg the republicans not only to make | board. Inspector Evans, there testi-, it a victory, but not to let the plural- ity get'too much out of proportion to the vote of 1920, and thereby give fied that he had no complaint against Lieut. Van Winkle and regarded her the democrats a chance to gloat and to point to the reduced plurality as as a capable and conscientious officer. an omen of disaster to follow in l The trial board acquitted the accused, but took occasion to add the asper- | sion to which she objected. ‘When the Commissioners had ap- proved the finding, Mrs. Van Winkle in May asked the District Supreme Court, to_review the action of the; District Commissioners, and Justice | Hitz directed that all the proceed- ings in the case be presented to him. Through Assisfant Corporation Coun- sel Williams, the Commissioners con- ! fended at the hearing July 23 that| the controversy was a “moot” ques- | tion, as the trial board had acquitted the accused and there was nothing) for the court to review. The alleged | offensive statement added to the ver- dict, Williams claimed, was merely Maine has a way at intervals of up- setting the calculations of the poli- ticians ‘and come galloping across in a departure from form with a demo- | cratic victory. Democratic governors, senators . and - representatives- are from time to time eiected, showing, the republicans say, that the G. O. P. was asleep”at the switch, or that some acute local {ssue had gotten in its deadly work. . Wait until I Took a Ifttle further| Into the state before I offer any suggestion of violent upheaval 'this year. ' The Tepublicans carried the state about 66,000 in ' the ¢last presidential eléction. No ome looks | Claimed, was merely e N e A Ao o inary body Of the Do pabil k_of twenty to forty|jice gepartment, which has the right (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) | to say to members of the force that - while the evidence does mot sustain The charge, & repetition of such action might cail for censure. Boasd’s Powers Limited. In combating that staterfient Attor- ney Roger J. Whitford, for Mrs. Van i Winkle, pointed out that’the law does not empower the trial board to repri- mand or admonish. He declared that body may “fine, suspend, assign-extra hourx or:dismiss,” but can do nothing else under the law. Justice Hitz took the matter under advisement at that finie. ~ 3 = The order, as drawn and awaiting e aving come 0B o 1A ving “heard u n & writ of certiorari, the the plaintiff, return and t the. Commissioners of the District of Columbia ‘to the writ and the same having been duly argued by counsel for the mpoctlvx'_:"m-. it is ordered, adjudged and ed: “1.—That all of the finding juds- ment and determination of the trial board returnied on the eighth day of April, 1922,.in_the matter of charg: T ACoRNg- Won 5.) 34-Inch Hail < ‘Dritts .Cover - Gy R -~ Virginia Field | Disaton 0 The Star, . . 'j:r‘lvw?ox * September 1, Thirty-four inches of hail in Au- + gust sounds like nature’ faking.. but 7points - in Aususts , county caught;_ it ; yesterday = afternoon. Haslil in- the Heydenreich orchard “section; " about _four “ miles ~from town,- is- piled ‘up’ to: that depth. 1t resembles dritted snow. _‘The storm that accompanied the be heard ul petition’ o | company | conditicn greatly R TROLLEY MERGER BILL FOR DISTRICT - PASSED BY SENATE Ball Measure Would Permit Voluntary Combine of Street Railways. {UNITING OF W. R. & E. ! AND PEPCO ALLOWED :Tranxit Facilities in City Would | Be Greatly Improved and ’ Simplified. Is Belief. { The bill authorizes a voluntary merger of the street railway com- | panies and also would permit a mer- | &er of the Washington Railway aud Authority for a merger of tie street railway companies of the Dis- trict of Columbia is provided in a bill passed by the Senate today with- out debate and without an opposing vote. ciric Compary and the Potomac Electric Power Company The bill. which introduced b Senator Ball April 1 21, has been on the Senate calendar since June 23, 1921. The District committee. i1 & report cn the bill tiled by s Ball, described the object of the bil as follows: Objeet of Merger Bill. “To permit the union and opera tion of the Washington Railway and Company and the Poloma Electric Power Company under a sin- gle name and under a single board of directors and staff of executive o ficers. All of the stock of the power is owned by the railway compan: It will be possible tv oper- ate the merged corporation more ef- ciently, with a saving in tae accoun. - ing department. It will improve and strengthen the credit of the merged company and permit more economical financing of needed extensions and In order to maintain s « the public more than new capital ana $5.000.- 000 of refinancing will have to be ar- ranged within the next three years. The bill will not affect the relations or diminish the obligation or duiies of either company to the public. 1 will only permit these companies o do what is already permitted by the general corporation laws of most o the states, and what are now general- I‘_\' regarded as the best modern pra.- ices . Merger Greatly Desired. The committee feels that the first section of this bill is a prercguisite step for bringing about & the street railw. 10 be desired, and with as little delay as possible, Section two of this bill permits every street railw compa operat- ing “wholly or partiaily within the District of Columbiz ic merge one with the other. Under present laws this permission or authority, is with- Certainly the street railway situa- tion of Washington would be greatly improved and simplified should all the lines be operated by one com- pany. It must'be plain to every one that one-company operation wouid eliminate endless confusion in the matter of transfers. It would mean free transfers. It wouid enable many plans of rerouting to he worked o It would be of great benefit to the car-riding public. Means Operating Saving. “It would mean a saving in the operating department, and a reduc- tion in the coal bills. Again, a one- company operation would mean a saving in the overhead charges and would lend great strength to the new company in all matters relating to the financing of extensions and im- provements, made from time o tim “Of course, should there be urrea- sonable delays in bringing about these results, it remains within the power of Congres to> “ke such other further steps as ma¥¥\ " necessary.” TRAIN WRECKED; 2 DIE. By the Associated Press. CAPE GIRARDEAU. Mo.. Seb.>mbe: 1.—Two persons were killed and\ vev eral injured today when a St. L and San Francisco railway passen train, en route from St. Louis to Mem phis, was wrecked near here, when a trestle it was crossing gave way. COURT IS MOVED BY AGED FATHER’S DEFENSE OF SON ‘When James Kendricks, a vener- able man, whose shoulders were stooped with the weight of age. feeble and white-haired. took the witness stand in tbe District of Columbia branch of Police Court today to plead for his son, James Kendricks, jr., charged with intox- fcation and disorderly conduct, one of the most pathetic scenes that shave been enacts® “n the court- room for & long time took place. He told Judge Robert Hardison that his scn was a painter and was a good n when he kept awa from strong drink; that he ha been sober for a long time, but during the past few days the boy had been drinking bootleg “ steady,” which had turned him into a wild man. The old tan safd that ten years ago his son, while drunk had assaulted him “with a knife and had done nearly a year in the workhouse for the crime. But, Insisted the old man, “my . boy 1s a good son when he is sober. judge, do as you see fit The old man made his plea in a sobbing volce, while tears ran down his wrinkled old face. . ardison fined the boy $10. sentence and pl. on probation. The arm in arm with the e left the courtroom, the father mbblkY_ll: as if his heart woull