Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1922, Page 1

A\ . WEATHER. Falr tonight and tomorrow; cool Temperature for twenty-four hours Member of the Assoclated Press ! The Amociated Press io exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches | _eradited to It or ot otherwise credited in this | ] . | ended at 2 pm. today: Highest, § " at 3:15 pm. yesterday;, lowest, 6 Daper 2ad also the lesgl new published horoia. | | m. today All rights of publication of wpech | dlspatches hereln are also rescrved. | |~ Ful. report on page 7. Clo: sing N.Y. Sl_ocln and Bonds, Page 19 No. 28629, En ared_as second-class matter office Washington, D. C. ¢ WASHINGTON, D. C, BRITAIN PREPARES TOBLOCK TURKISH DRIVE ON STRAITS, Fleet Instructed to Protect Dardanelles From Advanc- ing Kemalist Army. SMYRNA REFUGEES FACE DEATH IN LOOTED CITY Many Outrages Laid to Turks. Victims Cast Selves Into Sea. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 16.—The British government has adopted the attitude that the effective and permanent freedom of the Dardan- elles is a vital neeessity, for the sake of which it is prepared to make exertions, it was authori- tatively stated this afternoon. The British government, nad- dressing Rumania, Jugoslavia and Greece, s asking their participa- tion in an effective defense of the neutral zome, it wax learned offi- elally. Great Britain also has in- vited her dominions to be repre- wented by contingents in the de- fense of those interests, for which they have already made enormo sacrifices, it was also authori- tatively stated. By the Assaciated Fress LONDON, September 16.—Succeeds ing dispatches ffom Constantinople, Athens and other centers of informa- tion in the near east only tend to magnify the tale of the tragedy in Smyrna The greater part of the city i ruin, laid waste by a conflagration of incendiary origin, and the flames, ording to the latest account, had reached the waterfront, where the quays were crowded with fear- crazed Christian refugees, who fled to the city as the nearest port of escape from the Tur Many have thrown themselves into the er rather than run the risk of being burned alive or of facing Mustapha Kemal Pasha's soldiery, drunk with victory and fired with re- ligious fanatic m utiliat nd whole- tions. Large numbers of fers have beefdecapitated, n; Greek d th of having served bring death to women and childr, the sword. Country Devastated. Estimates” of the number killed vary greatly, and the latest Athens dispatch quotes an American relief worker as declaring that up to Thursday morning there had been 120,000 victims. It is thought this figure may include the wounded also, »wn into the sea. Allegations in the Greek army he Arm ns, and en are being put to ber of dead at-from 1,000 to 2,000. Landward from the city it is re- ported that all the villages are burn- ing, and that the whole countryside has been devastated. Officlal dispatches received from Smyrna today state that all the for- eign consulates were destroyed by the fire with the exception of those of_Spain, Belgium and Norway. Meanwhile the Turkish_forces in the north have continue® their ad- vance, and almost simultaineousl with the news of their capture Panderma, on the ea of Marmora, comes the annou ment that the Bri fleet in the Dardanelles has been ordered to prevent any attempt to cross the straits. and that no ships shall be allowed to concentrate for the purpose of transferring troops in a movement toward Thrace Jugoslavia and Rumania are also as they are opposed to the Turks again securing a foothold in Europe. While the Turks do not possess a navy. they control a swarm of light ves: and have a cail upon some Jarger ships in the Black sea. Russians Support Turks. The Turks are not without support in their European ambitions. The Russo-Angora treaty is understood to bind the Russians to co-operate with Mustapha Kemal in the capture of the Dardanelles in return for the freedom of the Black sea, and the Moscow gov- ernment is reported to have prepared for action all its forces ‘in the Cauca- sian republics, and to be holding its Black sea fleet in readiness. Russians born in 1901, hitherto exempt from service, have been called to the colors. The British government is especial- 1y concerned over the neutrality of Constantinople and the straits, and it js reported that the French and Ital- jan troops are also under orders to increase their vigilance in the neutral zone, and that some have already been landed at points hitherto unoccupied. Fear Bulgarian Attack. By the Associated Press. & BELGRAD! September 16.—Ru- mania and Jugoslavia have completed an exchange of views regarding the at- titude they will adopt in case the Bul- garians advance toward Saloniki, ac- cording to the newspaper Politika. Greece, the newspaper adds, again has drawn the attention of the Belgrade government (5 the Bulgarian military preparations on the Greek frontier and has asked Jugoslavia to support the Greek viewpoint in regard to Thrace. All the JugoslaVian cabinet members have been recalled to the capital in view of the gravity of the situation and the government has declded to participate in the conference of powers to settle the near eastern question. American Women Safe. BOSTON, September 16.—All wom- | United States health authorities =l in Others have not had the chance to choose, according to dispatches from fireek sources, which tell of horrible | they sav, and others forced into sacks | s previous reports placed the num-| of | watching any move in this direction, | 25,000 CHRISTIAN GIRLS, SEIZED BY TURKISH SOLDIERS LONDON, September 16.—Twenty- | five thousand Christian women and | girls have been conveved to the in- terior and distributed among the Turkish soldiers,” says a dispatch to the Times from M. Lascaris, editor of Kosmos, a Smyrna newspaper, who has arrived on the island of Mitylene. | “New refugees from Smyrna arrived here this morning (September 15), in- cluding many Aniel ns and English. They the Turks are using ma- chine guns at the street torners, killing indiseriminately CLOSING OF FORD PLANTS S BEEUN Exorbitant .Coal and Steel Prices Blamed for Loss of 100,000 Jobs. | | Five Detroit Factories and Many Assembling Houses Over United States Affected. ! | By the Assaciated Press. DETROIT, Mich., September 15.—As 4 protest against paying what he be- | lieves to be exorbitant prices for coal {and steel, Henry Ford today began the process of closing up his huge indus With the suspension complete when the last shift of workers leave the vari- ous factories tonight, approximately 100,000 men will have been rendered | 1dle for an indefinite period. The plants fected inciude the five factories in the | Detroit area and numerous assembling | stations throughout the country. Other cerns, the output of which goes chiefly to the Ford company, also are expected to suspend gperations. In announeing the contemplated clos- | ing several weeks ago, Mr. clared no coal shortaze existed. That brokers were lding enough coal to supply the needs of the country and | that the public was being “gouged” by | the dealers. He also criticised govern- ! ment agencies for their method of ap- portioning coal. feo Improvement During Week. | The past week brought some improve- | ment in the fuel situation, Ford officials serted yesterday, but this, they said, did not warrant a change in the sus- | penston order. Tha first layoff of men occurred last {midnight at the River Rouge Blast furnaces. where about 18,000 are em- iployed. When shifts were changed the workers turned in their tools and were told not to return until notified |of a resumption of operations. Two |thousand men are to be retained at this plant, however, to_tend the coke ovens, which cannot be allowed to | cool. | At ghe Highland Park plant the night%orce went to work as usual, but completion of the night's work brought the same notice given the steel workers. The day and early night forces were to be checked out i a similar manner. Approximately 40.000 men are employed at this plant. | The remainder of the workers af- {fected are employes of the Dearborn ractor factory, the Lincoln plant, a ory at Northville, and those in |cities outside of Michigan. \ Most of the factories likely™ to be laffected by the closing of the Ford {industries, through the loss of their |chief market, are located in Detroit, or nearby Michigan cities. They | manufacture various parts and acces- sories not made by Ford shops and in many cases are only equipped for this !work. No authentic information as [to the number of employed in these 1shops could be determined today. Prices Found Too High. Since declding ies, Mr. to close his factor- Ford has held daily confer- to solve the fuel and material prob- lems but in every market considered, he said, he found prices higher than he believed they should be. The rail strike cut off fuel supplies from the Ford mines in Kentucky |and transfer difficulties prevented shipment of coal from other non- union fields over the Ford railroad, | the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton. This | federal fuel administration was not functioning as it should and that the Interstate Commerce Commission | had failed to meet the rail and coal jcrisis. There was no alternative, the manufacturer declared. but to “pay profiteering price: ather than do that, he declared, he “would keep the plants closed indefinitel Inquiry today failed to disclose any other Detroit manufacturers who contemplated action_similar to that of Mr. Ford. Some of the local plants were reported working on short fuel rations, but manufacturers as a to obtain supplies sufficient to avert | suspension. CLERGYMAN- FOUND SLAIN WITH UNKNOWN WOMAN Bodies Discovered Under. Apple Tree on Farm Near New Brunswick, N. J. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., September 16.—The bodies of the Rev. Edward W. Hall, rector of the Protestant Episco- pal Church of St. John the Divine, here, and an unidentified woman were found under an apple tree on a farm near here today. There was a bullet wound In the clergyman'’s forehead and three wounds iln the woman's head. ———— TAMPICO QUARANTINED. MEXICO CITY, September 16.—The have declared a quarantine against Tam- an missionarles in Smyrna, with the|pico because of vellow feyer, it is re- exception of Mrs. Alexander Mac- ported here. The usual fumigation Lachlan, wife of the president of the | regulations have been prescribed bev International College, are safe at Athens, the American board of com- missioners for foreign missions was informed in a cablegram received ,here today from the Greek city. The missionary men were #till in fore vessels from Tampico are per- mitted to enter American ports. TOWN TO PICK PRUNES. SALEM, Ore., September 16.—The labor situation In its relation to the prune harvest has become 50 acute Smyrna, the message sald. Mrs. Mac- ||ately that plans are being made for Lachlan is belleved_to have remain-|merchants of Dallas, the county seat, ed with her husband. The dispatch, which was signed by | their employes may pick big. (Continued on Page olumn 3.), to close their stores next Monday so ‘The crop is |MAY HIT OTHER CONCERNS | Ford_de- | ences with his executive in an effort | lled to charges by Mr. Ford that the | | whole believed they would be able | SITEENROADS G TERMS O PREWAR “BASIS {New York Central and Penn- sylvania Lines Make Peace Pacts. TEMPORARY LULL IN INJUNCTION FIGHT Judge Says Restraining Order Will Not Be Renewed Sep- tember 21. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 16.—Sixteen railroads had signed separate agree- ments with various labor unions to- day through pre-war methods in vogue before the United States Rail- road Labor Board was created as arbiter of disputes between rail- ways and their employes. These settlements, however, accord- ing to Ben W. Hoober, chairman of the board, do not repudiate the board, but rather are “entirely in accord | with the transportation act.” His | comment referred to yesterday's agreement between the New York | Central lines and the train service brotherhoods, and other pending peace negotiations. Following settlements with the Or- {der of Railway Conductors z2nd the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the New York Central lines opened negotiations today with the shop- crafts on the basis of the Warfield- Willard-Jewell plan. Separate agree- ments with the engineers’, firemen's { and switchmen'’s unions were in pros- | pect, according to officials. Pennsylvania Agreement | The Pennsylvania system was party ito similar agreements with rail | unions at Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Agreements on wages and rules with newly created shop unions were | announced by the Chicago, Burling- ton and Quincy, which had turned down the Warfield-Willard-Jewell proposals. . Today brought a lull in the gov- ernment’s injunction proceedings be- fore Judge James H. Wilkerson. At- torney General Daugherty and his aides rested their case on the strength of 600 afdavits supporting charges of violence, intimidation and destruction of property and attor- neys for strike leaders will open the defense Monday. Not to Be Remewed. Judge Wilkerson told the opposing |lawyers that the restraining order will not be renewed when it expires | September 21 unless the injunction hearing is completed then. 1t the injunction is upheld by Judge Wilkerson it means the end jof strikes in which interstate com- merce or the United States govern- ment are directly involved, Attorney General Daugherty said. Judge Wilkerson called for an in- vestigation of remarks attributed to | Mr. Jewell commenting upoq the ! strike and published three days- after the restraining order went into | effect. tNEW YORK CENTRAL PARLEY. | 1 | officials and Men Seek Agreement Under Peace Plan. NEW YORK, September 16.—Offi- cials of the New York Central lines and the six shop craft unions now on strike on the road went into con- ference today to seek a settlement of the strike on the basis of the plan adopted by the policy committee of the union. The conferehce was the first ef- fort mhde by an eastern road to set- tle the strike on the new basis If it is succeseful the result will affect the lines of the company in other sections of the country as well The beginning of the end of all the labor troubles that have from itime to time beset the transporta- tion lines of the nation for the past several years was belleved to have came vesterday, when the New York Central lines made peaceful Bettle- ment with two of the operating {brotherhoods and the Pennsylvania system, began negotiations toward a similar end. Arrangements for like conferences here next week between brotherhood leaders #nd six other big eastern carriers are under way. The various roads making up the New York Central system agreed to continue for one year, beginning September 30, the present wage scale and working rules for their trainmen { and conductors and to withdra% from the United States Labor Board their | requests, made more than a year ago, for a downward revision of wages and the elimination of time-and-a-half pay for overtime work. The New York Central gave out a statement indicating it would soon call into conference the leaders of the engineers and firemen in the hope of amicably coming to teyms with them. SIGN B. & 0. AGREEMENT. Officials and Shopmen Accept “Bal- timore Plan.” BALTIMORE, September 16.—A peace pact, generally known as the Baltimore plan, was signed here this EITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION \“Please Lock Door,” Urge Trio | After Companions Break Jail Marlboro Prisoner, It was 9 o'clock in the evening in Mariboro. Aside from the jangling tune from 2 tinny piano-player, peace reigned supreme. Mostly, Marlporo enjoyed the sleep of the righteous. A prisoner arrived, hatless and out of breath, looking for the sherjff. There had been a jail delivery. Marlboro’s ancient, whitewashed ba tile had been evacuated. The prison- ers had gone. They were roaming Prince Georges county somewhers: in the fmmediate vicinity<or elsewitere: Marlboro's jail is not an ordinary jall. It is in a class of its own: It ‘has its good points and its bad. It is a two-story structure, white- washed Inside and out, surrounded with a high board fence, like an old- time stockade. It is a quiet place, where wrongdoers may meditate over past misconduct and lay plans for the future. * But the sheriff could not be found. Marlborians jumped from nightshirts to trousers, and a crowd collected out- side the Jail stockade. A light glowed from a second-story window of the bullding. and a voice called down: * “Ive all is lonesome up heah. All the rest of us is gone away. An' dis jail ain’'t safe a-tall, with the door Fust thing you to hab burglars standin’ wide open. know we's goin’ breakin’ in.” t Crazy Yet. “Why didn’t you go. too? citizen with a flashlight: “Oh, man, we ain’t crazy vet” an- swered the second-story ‘front, “we kpows when we's well off.” ‘By that time a deputy jailer had arrived with a key to the stockade SOUTHERN SHOP . TERMSTIED UP Union Chairmen Refuse to Sign Agreement and Meeting Ends. called a General chairmen of striking shop- craft unionsof the Southern railway and officials of the road failed today to reach an agreement to settle the strike on the’ basis of the Warfleld- Willard-Jewell proposal adopted by the general policy committee of the shoperafts. Ready to Settle. The statement was made by rail- road officials after a brief conference. that “the Southern was wifling to settle on the basis of the ‘Chicago agreement’ and presented this to the shopcraft chairmen for thelr signa- tures, but so far they have ‘declined to sign.” The .break-up of the conference represented the first failure in nego- afternoon by Charles W. Galloway, vice president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and representatives of the striking shopmen employed on the Baltimore and Ohio. Practically all of the striking Bal- timore and Ohio shopmen are expected to be back to work within ten days. Signing of the agreement came as a result of a conference held at the Bal- timore and-Ohlo central building be- tween Mr. Galloway and George H. Emerson, chief of motive power, and F. E. Blazer, assistant to Mr. Gallo- way, representing the Baltimore and Ohio, and Willlam J. McGee, president of the Baltimore and Ohlo system fed- eration, and his ites, who in- cluded C. M. Fullerton of the machin- ists, B. M. Garrity of the boilermak- ers, J. E. Shaffer of the blacksmiths, John J. Wall of the sheet metal wrok- ers, C. W. Murphy of the car men, J. W. Korns of the electrical. workers and J. V. Stewart of the stationary firemen -and oilers, representing the striking shop craftsmen. 5 ABANDON STRIKE VOTE. —_— B NEWARK, N. J., September 15.—An anticipated strike vote by employes on_the Pennsylvania lines did not ma- tiations between strikers and rail- roads, which were understood to have Senate. subscribed to the Warfleld-Willard~|the following subcommittee: Repre- Jewell agreement. Willing to Continue. Southern officials expressed a will- ingness to continue the negotiations, but the general chairmen did not im- mediately disclose whether they would make another move toward peace. The statement issued from the headquarters of the Southern - Rere after the conference said: “A conference between Vice Presi- dent H. W. Miller of the Southern railway system ‘and the general chairmn of the six striking shop crafts adjourned this morning with- out reaching an agreement for Im- mediate termination of the strike on the Southern. 2 “The Southern was willing to set- t1a on the basis of the ‘Chicago agree- ment' and presented this to the shop terialise at the meetings; here last|craft cltairmen for thelr signature. night of 1226, lway [ but So far they have declined to Flee, Seeks Sheriff to Report Unsafe Condition of County Stockade. “BACK TO NORMALCY Refusing Chance to use of flashlights and crowd found the back nding wide. Every | cell was unlocked and a hole in the {board fence showed the method used getting out of the vard. Three prisoners were gone and three re- mained. one white man and two col- ored. Of the prisoners departed, ac- cording to a colored mate who had remained, one “had done wrote a check” and another “had broke into | a jce box.” The crime of the third was unknown. The method of escape was simplicity A deputygufier-jeft his inside the Jjail, in his prisoner found them. " Prisoner Recounts Episode. v:ind. by the | matches. the | door of ‘the j; | One of the colored prisoners who likes his present quarters tells the| story: “They sure fixed it up fine, but they wouldn't go ‘till after supper. They wasn't goin’ to miss any meal or nuth- in' like dat. They just went away | easylike and didnt. leave no note or nuthin’. They wanted the white boy who had been 'rested fer speedin’ to go along, but he sald he'd Jjist get ‘rested fer speedin’ agin, an’ he liked | this plage mern some of the other places he's been in—so he stayed an’ went to tell the sheriff all about it. It's a fine jailhouse, an’ when you-all goes, lock the door after you.” Somewhere three prisoners are run- ning wild and looke—one who “done wrote a check” and another who “broke into a icebox —and they are burdened with a great ring of Keys— {small keys and big keys. They took | the keys with them, but there is noth- ing else missing from the jail. You shall know them by the keys. D. C. SCHOOL BILL “REPORT T0 SENATE Compulsory Education Urged by Committee—Delegate Measure Lags. The Senate compulsory school edu- cation bill for the District of Colum- bia was ordered favorably reported today by the House District commit- tee, with some minor amendments. Chairman Focht announced that he would seek to obtain action in the House on the bill next week. ‘The Reed bill, providing for the election of a delegate to represent the District in the House, was favorably reported to the District committee by a subcommittee, headed by Represent- ative Reed of West Virginia. On mo- | tion of Representative Millspaugh, the | District committee provided for the appointment of a subcommittee to thold hearings on the delegate bill, which is similar to the Poindexter bil! which has been reported to thel Chairman Focht appointed entative Reed, chairman, and Repre- sentatives Millspaugh, Sproul, Blanton and Hammer. _The hearings, it is expected, will not be begun until the next session of Congress. W. McK. Clayton appeared before the committee today in support of the delegate bill, and said that hearings on the measure had been held both before the Senatc and House commlt-l tees, and that there was no need of further hearings. ‘The controversy which has been under way for-some time over the H board of children's guardians and |po! its handling>of children was broeched ring the meeting today. Mrs. Mina . Van Winkle, lieutenant in charge of the woman's bureau, took the stond in support of the board .of children's guardians, and replied to some of the criticisms that have been made. Chairman Focht of the committee announced that he would introduce a mothers’ pension bill for the District of Columbia,*similar to the law now in effect im Pennsylvania, his home tate, Mp, Focht had part in draft- ¢ Foening Star. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1922—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. . BEVERIDGE READY FOR STIFF BATTLE Indiana Democrats Deter- ‘mined to Wrest State From Republican Control. WATSON TO AID NOMINEE ‘Senntor Will Make Number of Speeches in Support of Ticket. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. (Btaf Cerrespes of The Star.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Septémber 16. —Out here where they breathe, eat, live, politics, the men and women voters are sefting their houses in order for an epochal contest for the United States senatorship, represen- tatives in Congress, and state offices below the governorship. to be an important campaign be- cause the democratic party, which from time to time has held the state, has set out to try to win back its own, after the Harding landside of 1920, Everybody is familiar with dramatic contest for the United States senatorship nomination be- tween Senator Harry S. New and former Senator Albert J. Beveridge, the resulting in Mr. Beveridge winning | by some 20,000 majority. The question which most interests the democrats is whether that fight engendered bitterness _between republican fac- tions which will help them in a for- lorn-hope endeavor to carry the ‘nited States senatorship in Novem- er. Perhaps it ought not to be called a forlorn hope, because of the per- sonality and character of the demo- cratic_candidate for the place, for- mer Governor Ralston, and because of local conditions ' upon which democrats pin their faith. But when the investigator talks to frank and candid politicians about Mr. Bever- idge’s prospects they reply by figuring on his expected majority—seemingly taking his election is assured. Beveridge People Confident. These commentators speak of an ex- pected Beveridge majority of 50,000. ‘When it is suggested that back east had come estimates of a Bever- idge majority of 20,000, the reply is: “Well, if there are conditions war- ranting possibility of a reduction of the republican plurality of two years ago of 180,000 to a paltry 20,000, then the conditions would more likely re- sult in the election of the democrat.” The republican campalgn on the senatorship will receive impetus when Senator Beveridge makes his opening speech at Evansville on the 25th in- stant. He will devote himself mainly throughout the contest to national is- sues. His democratic opponent, Mr. Ralston, has already begun on the na- tional issues by attacking the repub- lican tariff bill. He and Senator Rob- inson of Arkansas started the ball rolling at a democratic barbecue here Thursday, when Mr. Ralston made an appeal to householders, by telling them of the monstrous increases in prices of goods that the tariff bill, as it is now framed, will entail. But the main fight of the democrats will be made against increased state and na- tional taxes, especially state taxes. The democrats claim that taxes have increased almost 70 per cent in three years, since the republican tax law went into effect. Prior to that, for several vears, the taxes had been col- lected under the tax law framed by the democrats. The republicans offset these charges with the claim that the state's needs have grown. L ‘When a democrati¢ leader was asked what tangible, practical, political hope he had of defeating Mr. Beveridge, he replied that in addition to the tax! feature he depended upon disaffection among republicans to Mr. Beveridge as an alleged radical. He said that the old guard republicans would be told that Mr. Beveridge, if elected, would join the radical bloc_in_the Senate composed of Senators La Fol- lette, Norris, Brookheart and others, and that they would be urged to sup- Tt a_conservative democrat. The best judgment here is that tl democrats are leaning upon a broken reed in that e tion. There may be some Irrecofioflable ' standpatters| who will vote against Mr. Beveridge, others who may not vote at ‘all, but at this stage of the campaign there is no indication of the existence of a sufficlent number thus inclined to de- feat him. It promises | Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 84,393 _—— ] TWO CENTS. STRAW HAT RIOTS KEEP POLICE AND WHITE WINGS BUSY NEW YORK, September 16.—Street cleaners were busy today as the result of straw hat riots, which extended from the Battery to the Bronx last night. The appearance of a sgraw hat any place in the city was the signal for hoodlums to begin work. Many rowdies used sticks with nails in them to de- stroy hats. The police were kept busy, but there were 100 many hats. It had been a warm day and was a warm evening. Dozens of arrests were made for dis- crderly conduct. The headpieces of three plain clothes men were destroyed. One police sergeant was tripped and feH into a gutter while chasing boys who had battered his hat. Hoodlums boarded street cars and took hats from passengers. Oné victim said a mob of 1,000 was destroying hats on the upper West Side. POSTAL HEAD HITS “VENGEFUL” ONES “Queer Trait Their Guide,”| Says Postmaster General, at Portland, Me. DEFENDS CIVIL SERVICE ' 1 Employes’ Convention Told of Im- portance in Relation to Public. | By the Axsocinted Press. i | PORTLAND, Me., September 16.— Postmaster General Work took a fling today at “vengeful, discredited and| discharged postal employes” in ad-| dressing the postal convention of pos- | tal employes of the state of Maine. Such employes, he said, were guided ¥ a queer trait in human nature, and occasionally attacked individuals in the department in afi effort to j tify their separation from the service. Their motives, however, he added,| were 80 “patent that they deceive no | one.” The spirit of good fellowship | brought into the postal system by for- | mer Postmaster General Hays, Mr.| Work said. had established a mutual | confidence that could not be shaken by such “insidious attacks.” Concerning attacks on the depart- ment recently by certain “civil service reform organizations,” Postmaster General Work declared that “no one familiar with the major principles of civil service would destroy it. and no one friendly to it would etand in the way 0f its Improvement or use its namedm-palitical campaigns to dis- credit the cause of a party of oppo- site political faith to their own. Commission Non-Partisan. - The United States Civil Service Com- mission, he added, was a non-partisan tribunal, an agent of the government, | and should not be confused, through ! similarity of names, “with self-con-| stituted organizations which have no | privileges except that of free speech | and no responsibility under the law | for the administration of civil serv- ice.” | _“I like to think of the Post Office { Department as the university of the | { people,” said Mr. Work. “It does not | originate knowledge; neither does an | endowed university; but each, in its jown way, gathers knowledge of what has been done and transmits it to’| those wishing to be informed. A teaching university groups tezchers | who_elaborate established principl | to those who sit in wait. But if a! | man can read at all, the postal service | |‘opens the world to him. If he can | | write. he may expresmhimself to tne | world for a”two-cent matriculation | ee.” i H Test of Government. ; First Assistant Postmaster General | Bartlett, who accompanied the FPost-| master General to Portland, declared | “these are days when the fundamentai ! principles of government are heing | testéd. In the class of interests ‘on| deck,’ the ship of state is unsteady | and leaking.” Mr. Bartlett asked the postmasters to “keep in mind that he is the only | representative (in the smaller towns) of the United States government in his community, and because of this| fact many country boys and girls, the | pairiots of the future, will recetve| their first ideas of business and coun- | try through him.” LEAGUE DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE DEADLOCKED ; i French and English Split Over Guaranteeing Protection to Cosigners. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 16.—The dis-| armament committee of the league | lof nations, which is considering| Lord Robert Cecil's disarmament| Plan, reached a deadlock today when | | it came to draft the fourth paragraph of the project. Delegate De Jouvenel of France asked that this paragraph jbe worded so that the nations sub- scribing to the plan should sign the | covenant guaranteeing protection to the cosigners before disarmament was begun. Lord Robert Cecil, how- ever, insists that disarmament should precede the signing of the guarantee pacts. M De Jouvenel also demanded that a provision be inserted that the dis- armament should be- to an extent proportionate to the ~security pro- vided by the guarantee pacts. SPANIARDS FLEE QUAKE. Cottages Shattered and Number Injured in Villages. By the Assoclated Press. VIGO, Spain, September 16.—A sharp earthquake last evening, list- ing several seconds, caused the cel- |mm of a number of small cottages in the villages of Vomelos and Cirti bancalvo. - A few persons were: injured. ‘ The i i | Moreover, there 18 too much ag stake | jnhabitants took refuge in the fields. There was a recurrence of the shock, { 40,351 tons one year ago. in the control of the state and cou lollau d the seats {n the House, = == = - P but with diminished intensity, with a quarter of an hour. . ! rightness and | at length by republican i ment | i | 2| KELLER WITHHOLDS FVIDENCE AGAINST ATTORNEY GENERAL House Judiciary Committee Adjourns Impeachment Charge Hearing. PROOF IS REFUSED UNTIL PUBLIC TRIAL Minnesotan Insists on Decision of ‘Whether Accusations Constitute Indictable Offenses. Declination of Representative Kel- ler, republican, Minnesota, to pre- sent evidence today in support of his impeachment charges against At- torney General Daugherty as the re- sult of the rafl strike injunction brought about an adjournment of the House judiciary committee after an hour's session, at which it had heard Mr. Keller present a general pre- liminary statement Appearing bLefore the committee, Representative Keller declared his | purpose was “to see the laws of the nation enforced without fear and without favor, and to preserve the dignity and integrity of the institu- tions of the United States.” The Minnesota representative, wha brought his charges zs the result of the Attorney General’s petition for an_inju; in the cases of strik- ing railroad employes, declared he {had mo personal or partisan feeling aguinst Mr. Daugherty, and asserted that he had no personal interest in » which is now or has been Department of Justice. n Semse of Duty. “But when an Attorney General of the United Sta not only refuses ta prosecute individuals and corporations who have done the most outrageous offenses, but also uses his high office to break down and nullify acts of Con- e fundamental con- said Mr. Keller, in a preliminary tement, “1 have a ¢ right, I have a duty as a representa- tive in Congre to seek to restrain his illegal activities and to remove him from office by the process of impeach- ment as prescribed in the Constitution, “I fully appreciate the gravity of the charges which 1 have preferred against the Attorney General. It is because of their ve: gravity and seri. ousness that I demanded upon the floon of the House, not an investigation, but the formal process of impeach: ment. % “I am pfopared at the appropriate time to present witnesses and doeu- mentary evidence to sustain every charge “that I make. But 1 demand that when such evidence is presented it shall be in public hearings so thal the American people may know whein- er or not my charges were sustained Function of Committee. “I contend that at this the function of the commit termine only one point—namely, whether these charges which 1 pre- sent constitute impeachable offenses if they are sustained by competent evidence. “This is a time,” Mr. Keller further asserted, “when the. very safety of the nation demands that the Amer- ican people be assured of the up- impartiality of their public ofiicials and of the administra- tion of justice. Unless the people are convinced that this is a government of laws, and not of men who arbi- trarily and autocratically override constitutional limitations and trample upon the most sacred rights of Amer- jcan citizens, there is no Stopping place short of anarchy and Frevo- Tutjon.” . Row Precedes Recess. The Minnesota representative after presenting his siatement. in which he declared he desied only “to preserve the dignity and integrity of the in- stitutions of the United States” in bringing his charges, was questioned members of the committee, who demanded that he present evidence to sustain what Chairman Volstead described as gen- eral charges. This brought on a wrangle, which ended with adjourn- of ‘the committee until Tuesday, when Mr. Keller was instructed to ap- | pedr with any witness he deisred to | have testify. “You have got to furnish sufficient evidence to raise a sufficient presump- tion—otherwise, we could not report there sclution to the house,” Chair- man Volstead told Mr. Keller. “If we go to the House, we have got to have something nite on which we ase a request for an investiga- F. McGrady, representing the American Federation of Labor, told fhe committee the federation desired to be heard in the case, and that Samuel Gompers, president, would be ack in Washington next week. He did not say specifically, however, whether Mr. Gompers would appear. Might Prejudice Cane. Representative Dyer. republican, Missouri, endeavored to have Mr. Kellar present his evidence today The Minnesota member declined, say- ing it might prejudice his case if he disclosed any of his evidence in ad- vance of a formal hearing, at which he desired to be represented by coun- sel. “I have made charges and am ready to prove them.” Representative Yates wanted quick action, declaring it was unfair to the Attorney General to let the charges against him hang over dur- ing a recess of Congress “When a member of the House comes in and makes charges against the Attorney General” sald Mr. Dyer, “he ought to be prepared Lo offer proof immediately, and if not he should be courteous enough 10 withdraw. Mr. Keller declared he could not be ready before Thursday, but the wrangling was cut short finally with a motion to hear him Tuesday. —_— HARD COAL CARGOES GAIN 35,222 Tons Shipped Yesterday Along Lehigh Valley Line. NEW YORK, September 16.—The Lehigh Vall railroad announced today that 35222 tons of anthracite coal from mines along its route were tarted on the way to distributing oints yesterday, as compared with . Bince the strike settiement 111,306 tons have been forwarded.