Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1923, Page 2

[ KLAN SEEKS CAUSE OF CARNEGIE RIOT ‘Large Rewards Offered for Information as to Who Started Battle. By the Ansociated Press. PITTSBURGH, August 27.—Rewards totaling $7.500 have been offered by the Ku Klux Klan for information as to those responsible for the riot Sat- urday night at Carnegle, in which Thomas R. Abbott, a Klansman, was killed and a number of others wound- ed, one seriously, Imperial Wizard _H. W. Evans and Sam D. Rich, king Zkleagle of the Pennsylvania Klan, % each have offered $2.500 reward for ! Abbott's slayer, while the Pennsyl- {vanla organization, in addition, has iauthorlzed $2,500 for those responsi- ble for the rioting. The coroner's inquest into the ideath of Abbott will not be held “for isome time,” it was declared by at- ftaches at_ the Allegheny county fmorgue today Coroner W. J. Mc- +Gregor said that nothing pertaining to the killinz of Abbott had been turned over to him, becavs the 3 sheriff's office Ithe rioting, and had not yet made “a report. Plans Deep ¢ intend to go into this S fully as possible,” the coroner sai 3 “We will make an exhaustive inve gation, and whe we have all the i Fucts in_our po: jon T will set the igate for an Inquest. 1 can promi Ithat my investigation will go to the ivery bottom of the affair, and when 1the inquest is held T hope to be able it0 present a complete report to the Jury.” 1" County detectives worked : Carneglie district today, locati: Zsons who witnessed t learing up details surrounding <illing of Abbott 2 Patrick McDermott, a Carnegie un- idertaker, remained in the county jail Itoday. He was arrested in connection with the killing of Abbott. District Attorney Samuel H. rdner, who is lirecting the investigation. 1d the sual course would be followed. Me- Dermott will be questioned, Mr. Gard- ner sald, and if sufficlent eyidence is forthcoming, he will be held for the coroner. No Application Made. olin F. Conley, burgess of (ar- negie, in a statement issued todu declared that the klan had made no application for a permit to parade. He said: understood that Dr. J. E. Humma of Carnegie had asked coun 1y authorities for a permitt. but they Ead referred him to the borough of- ficials. The borough. 1o law which requires application for # permit to parade, ties said it was n unwritten la that persons wishing to stage a dem- onstration should get their sanction. The burgess declured that when it became evident that the klansmen were marc! & toward Carnegie, he ordered his police to make an effort to stop them from crossing the bor- ough line. Failing in this, he added, they were ordered to permit the pa- rade to enter. The police took the position that a band of hooded men marching in the streets constituted disorderly conduct, and they acted | on this ground When the parade reached the bridge | near the borough line the rioting started and for several hours all sorts | of m iles filled the air, and the bark | of p ols could be heard from time to time. he rioting finally died| down and the klansmen returned to a nearby hill. An_ undetermined number of persons wetw-injured Probe. the g pe the The. streets where the fighting oc- | curred were littered with bricks, and today an emergency force of street cleaners vas at work /At Wabash Field six men stood guard ‘over the property left by klansmen | fafter their initiation ceremonies Sat- lurday night _————— :PINCHOT BLUNTLY TELLS : MINERS AND OPERATORS HARD COAL STRIKE NOW WILL NOT BE ALLOWED, (Continued from First Page.) cleaning up. | | i | ‘which {s second on! to her respon- sibility for the safety and welfare of “her own citizens. We have taugh hem to use our product. The pros- perity of the region which produces anthracite comes largely from such Muse. Having taught them to expect “and value our service, we cannot “lightly disappoint them. “The country is just now entering upon a perlod of prosperity after a prolonged depression. The closin ‘down of the anthracite mines would { 4end to undermine the confidence es- wential to a continuance of this pros- ‘perity. © “Our railroads are heavily taxed already. An uneven output of coal— mow much and now little—will tend 10 block _transportation; and the blocking of transportation will be al- most as effective in making a coal { shortage as closing the mines Sees Interests of Both. . “The public has not forgotten, and ‘1 shall not forget, the rights and in- iterests of the miners and the opera- itors. Each side represents a great and vital service to the public. More- ‘over, each slde stands in the presence rof a great and vitally important duty Jto the people at large. i wThe public does not and cannot see with your eyes and appreclate with ‘Your experience the background and he details of the present controversy. /But it knows the essential facts. I _express a truth none will deny when ] say that the anthracite-using people 0f the United States are losing pa- tience, and I ask you to consider that ‘fact with care. ;' “The public interest demands that this controversy shall be settled, and Ithat a suspension of mining shall be iavolded. The thing is possible—and it must be done. Both Must Concede. “Settlement means that neither side can get everything it would like. Few eople ever do in the world we live iin. But the settlement of this dis- ‘pute is absolutely necessary for the ipublic safety and welfare. The public ‘needs and must have coal, and I am lentirely confident that the public is ‘going to have it. It is my Guty to n- isure to the public, by every lawful ‘means at my command, the necessary supply of coal. “I 'recognize the right of mine workers to organize for their own .protection and to fair and decent conditions of lving. 1 am fully ‘wware that the strike is a right which should not be arbitrarily abridged or denled. The exercise of ithis right, however, should be made ‘unnecessary by the use of orderly and reasonable methods of adjust- ment. “I'recognize the right of mine oper- «tors to & just return on their in- _vestment and thelr managerial abil- ity. “/As the representative of the people of this commonwealth I am here to tell you that these rights are to be “recognized and protected and that the public rights are to be recognized and_protected also. “The Roosevelt yhatform of 1912 asserted that ‘the public good comes first’ Do not forget that the pub- liv cannot look with indifference upon unnecessary industrial confljct over private rights while it suffers in Tealth, comfort and the very essen- tialy of life. & ‘e are At the threshold:-of wingsd, & call your attention again to our : i still was investigating | rioting and ! it is sald, has| but the authori- | TWO KILLED BY TRAIN. Efforts to Awaken Men Asleep on Tracks Prove Futile. FORT SMITH, Ark.. August James Bradsha was killed Frank Williams was fatally injured Pacific freight train near Gore, Okla., last night, according to a dispatch received here today. Both were res- idents of Viap, Okla. According to a companion. the two men fell asleep on the track and {efforts to awaken them as the train {approached were futile. | —— — PRESIDENT SEES |Mrs. Upton Explains Plans for Organizing Republican State Groups. President Coolidge tdew this morning of what done toward organizing women preparatory to the campaign of next year, Mrs. Harriet Upton, vice chairman of the execu- {tive committec of the repubican tional committee, who has personal- was given an is being |1y directed the committee’s activities ! with the |among women voters, was | President for half an hour today and idescribed more important ithe organization work. { Mss. Upton said that women mem- ibers of the national committee had [been selected in thirty-eight states ;and that the remainder would be de- ded upon within so. Sechs to Stir Imterest. The national committee is aiming to stir up more interest among woman voters than has been manifested in the past. Attention is being paid to the organizing of woman workers in e groups, according to Mrs. Upton. Mis. Upton said also that the com s n- and state leaders. She ial attention is to be paid to the development of a group of woman' campuign speakers. She was tisfled that women will be a great- r factor than ever in the national campaign of 1924, Sees R Daniel Willard, president of the Bal- timore and Ohio railroad, was in con- ference for a short time with the President today. He said afterward that the call was merely his good wishes, Senator Ball of Delaware. chairman of the District committee of the Sen- ate and author of the Ball rent act, called on the President to pay his respects. The senator said that this was the first opportunity he had had to greet Mr. Coolid; ince becoming Chief Executive. » According to Senator Ball, there i3 some_likelihood of the Rent Commis- trict, county said that spe | | | | | | | | i | | sion being extended for a year or two, | and probably longer. He said that while ke did not care to comm himself re- arding an extension, he know of Cxistence of _sentiment among members of Congress for such a mov. i It has been represented that because {of extensive building the time is com- ing when there will be great need for a tribunal such as the Rent Commission to protect owners and budlders in what be described as a cut-rate rent war. The senator ha been advised that many persons in Washington have the | opinion that within the year the supply of homes will be far in excess of the demand, and should that situation arise, owners and builders will have as much use for the Rent Commission as Liave tenants in the past Among others who saw the Presi- dent today were Secretary of Com- merce Hoover, who said he discuss only routine matters, and Secretary of ‘Agriculture Wallace, who called merely to present a friend, Represen- ative McLaughlin of Nebraska, Rev. J. C. Olden, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church, and Rev. Barkley of Kentucky. Mrs. Coolidge did the strolling for the White House today. The Presi- dent did not take his early morning constitutional for the first time since he has been President, but Mrs. Cool- dge, shortly after breakfast, accom- panied by Col. C. O, Sherrill, chief military aid of the President and officer in charge of the public build- ings and grounds; walked from the White House to the White House hot houses and the propogating gardens in the grounds just south of the Monument. Col. and Mrs. Harvey at White Houx, Col. George Harvey, American am- bassador to Great Britain, and Mrs. Harvey, are guests at the White House. They arrived in Washington vesterday, and it is understood they will remain until Wednesday Col. Harvey saw President Coolidge shortly after he assumed the office of President, and when he went away e said he would pay another visit efore returning to London. Al- though the ambassador has not made known the date he intends sailing for his post, it is thought he will be in this_country until the second week in September. On the other hand there are some in official circles who are of the opinfon that Mr. Harvey will very shortly resign to devote his entire attention to writing. Visit Mrs. Harding. Col. and Mrs. Harve; afternoon motored to yesterda: Friendship fand spent an hour or so with Mrs. Florence Kling Harding. President and Mrs. Coolidge fol- lowed their usual Sunday routine vesterday. In the morning they oc cupled their pew in the First Con- gregational Church, where they heard a sermon on the “Pioneer Spirit,” de- livered by Rev. Nehemiah Boynton of Brooklyn, N. Y., an intimate friend and fellow Amherst alumnus of the President. Following' the services, Rev. Mr. Boynton joined the Coolidges at the White House and was their guest at ainner. duty to the public, yours as miners and operators, mine as executive of the only anthracite producing state. “The eleventh hour is upon us—and the crisis has now been reached. We must do in this eleventh hour what should have been done before. It can be done and must be done. There is still time. Let us use this time in an effective spirit of common counsel so that this common danger may pass, with due regard to the rights of all, and with due credit and honor to ali concerned. After the close of the present session I desire to consult with each side separately at as great le;mth as the time available will per- mit. Meets Miners First. “I will meet first with the miners because, they are, to use a legal phrase, the plaintiffs in this case, and 1 suggest 2 to b o'clock this afternoon as the time. Tomorrow morning tfrom 9 to 12 I will meet the oper- ators for a similar conference. Other conferences may be arranged later. “I propose to treat those conferences with each side as wholly confidential. What is said to me by one side will not be revealed to the other, either now or later, unless by mutual agree- ment. I ask also, and I desire es- pecially to impress upon you, the ne- ceasity that each gide shall refrain un- til the end of this conference from making public its position on any is- sue here involved, thus affording the largest practicabie opportunity for discussion and agreement. The ur- gency. of the situation, together with he shortmess of time available for agreement, justifies this request.” and LEADER OF WOMEN republican | Taylor | the na- details of the mext month or mittee is endeavoring to develop dis- | to extend | d G ] PAY AS WE DID” when they were struck by a Missouri | German Exactions in 1871 Are Cited by French Premier in Ruhr Defense. | CHASSEY-BEAUPRE, France, Au { Bust I'remier Poincare in an ad- {dress in this village yesterday served notice on rmany imake an heroic effort to pay repa- rations just France did in I The address Qelivered at the jdedication of u monument to war {dead. In it the premier told Germany inot to look for any reduction in her | reparation: debts. “What we did fifty-three years ago,” sald M. Poincare, “they can try to do mow. If they do not try {to do it they will compel us to en- |force against them the menace they {made then, ‘Pay us or we remain.’ " “France,” contiued M. Poincare, continued, “had to pay five billion francs, which was an enormous sum ithen.” He told how the country raised other billions to pay the expenses of war simp!y by getting to work. Denlesx Heavy Payments. He added that the French payments 1ld be proved. while us for the German Chancellor Stresemann's as- tion regarding Germany's pay- ments, he declared, ““it s vain to pretend that Germany already has paid forty-three billion gold mark for even twenty-five billion, as w. said by an economic Institut ashington, which it has heen im- possible for me to identify, and which is not listed in the congr rectory” on the official year federal capital "hese are arbitrary estimates. In case they show us what strange ults we would get if international experts ever were entrusted with the task of determining Germany's capacity 0 pay. And in this connection 1 do not |need to say that our opinion will not change. The premier for the future by recalling the past | “Germany made no mystery of her in- {tentions “during the hostilities,” he {declared. ~ “Several times she’ un- masked her war aims, and up to the day she felt her hopes vanish she always planned to crush us forever.” Sees Gala for U. S. The other allies, continued M. Poin- care, would not have fared better than France. “On the other side of the he said, “the United 5 arily, perhaps. would been om the cor quences of a Germanic victory; but they could not long have remained indifferent to the creation of a colosal power which had become the real soverign of Europe and ready 1o throw its tentacle ound the globe.” for civil- ation would have been shaken and rmany would have gained “politi- commereial and intellectual su- hacy from pole to pol 1d be- under the Hohcnzollerns e the human race. says the premiel constitute ms of strang suppositions” as they several times threatened to become realities. There- fore. he declared, “have we not the right today to remember our fears when we demand the execution of a treaty whose moderation many of our compatriots think excessive?” DEDICATES Y. M. C. A. PLAQUE. lw of cal pre come r of These, 2 dia_not the | some Poincare Praises U. S. Part in War; Regrets Peace Aloofness, By the Associated Press, NDRECOURT, France Augu‘l The best way to be aided, néti is to! suld ! only in heaven. but by men. commence helping one's self.” I'remier Poincare today in dedicating Young Men's Christian Association plaque on the city hall to commemo- rate the arrival of the first Americin troops on the fighting front in the wotld war. e 1ed into this conviction that us Rubr,” the premiar ued. “All that happened before —all that has happened since—confirms our belief that we were right." g These words ended the premier's is the the coming to the battlefront of the Americans_and regret that wartime alliances had been dissolved premiey had come te Condrecourt from Chassey-Beaupre to dedicate the plague. Herrick Represented. The Y. M. C. A. was represented by Mr. Hanson, its general superinten- dent in Europe, while Col. T. Bentley Mott, the American military attache, was present on behalf of Myron T. Herrick, the American ambassador. A band played the American national {anthem and at the end of the music the crowd shouted “Long live Ameri- - long live United States! The Americuns think.” said the premier in his address, “that a people that pass the time in consultations, hesitations and complaints is afflicted with incapacity and impotence. A people that knows what it wants is always sure to attain their esteem and affection.” M. Poincare praised recording the arrival troops in France with plaques in- seribed in English and French “in remembrance of the heroic days of the great war when the sons of France and the sons of America, side by side, gave their lives for liberty. He then recalled his visit, when Presi- dent of France, to Gen. Pershing at Chaumont. Praises U. S. Soldlers. “But,” he continued, “I felt even more profoundly how great and ad- mirable was America’s resolution when I came with him near here on the plateau of Delouze to review his idea of American the of to_speak to their valiant officers.” M. Poincare described the American troops as “an army that still was small, but which grew day by day and month by month and assumed formidable proportions; an army which in mass movement and on the march_displayed certain inexperience, but whose leaders and soldiers were magnificent in spirit and energy; an army that crossed the ocean to de- fend on_foreign soil not -only the rights of the United States, menaced by the German empire, but the rights of all civilized peoples, and. in par- ticular, the rights of Belgium, violat- ed by Germany, and the rights of France, who herself formerly crossed the seas in aid of America in her first steps and never since has failed in her traditions for honor, justice and liberty.” Regrets Allied Break. To assure peace in the future, sald M. Poincare, “how greatly desirable it would have been that the union, so close during the war, should dur- ing peace, have kept the character and force of an alllance.” The peace negotlations, he added, justified France in belleving that reparations and her future security were assured, but “exercising .its -prerogative, the American Senate did not ratify the work of its President, and the United States, after giving Europe an un- forgetable example of its nobility of soul and precious military collabora- tion, judged that the hour had come to withdraw and no longer concern itself with affairs in which it was not directly interested. “However much we regret this de- termination,” M. Poincare continued, “we understand prefectly that it is not directed against us, and that if it deprives us of the official ald of the United States in enforcing the treaty it ought not to alter the sentiments that unite our countries.” The premier said France was not mistaken in believing mutual attach- ment, strengthened by traditions and comradeship under fire, -was a better insurance of political friendship than sealed parchments. Although the American_troops had been_withdrawn from the Rhine and there was only an official cbserver on the refjarations POINCARE DEMANDS that she must ! 1871, of | justified his concern | contin- | address, which was devoted chiefly to | The | first divisions and when he asked me Capital to take care of the overflow United French efforts commission, the people of the States watched sympathetically reconstruction and France's to safeguard her rights. inks Americans Approse. “It is not for their government, of course, to approve or disapprove of {our methods,” the premier continued, “as it is not bound by the treaty, and the reserved attitude it ha shown on this is proof of friendly impartizlity toward all the allies, but fthe American people in a very great {majority find 1t_ very proper that tling to be paid by Germany, we ould have taken guarantees and that we do not wish to surrender them for empty promises. Itecently 1 received from Wash- gton a personal letter from Gen. Gouraud. who was about to return ‘}lu France after a warm welcome in America, who told me he brings {away the conviction that former | combatants, their families and their (friends, are with us in heart in the action forced upon us by Germany's conduct. What could be more just or_more natural? When, after the w America de- cided to accept any obli ions aty she acted as a free and v ign nation, and before decid- ing she consulted her own interest. as was her righ rven her duty. She will not think it strange, therefore, that now we ourselv o straight ahead and that we beg by acting the rights and duties of morose | 10 POLAND SLAIN Three Shots Fired at Him and He Dies on Operat- ing Table. By the Associated Press. PRAG August 27.—Three shots iwere fired at M. Daskaloff, the Bulzarian ambassador. at noon ves- terday and he died a short time later jon the operating table. His assailant. Atanas Nikoloff. a twenty-six-year-old Bulgarian, was arrested. M. Daskaloff was appointed ambas- dor to Czechosloyakia under the reghme of former Premier Stam- boulisky. When Stamboulisky was overthrown by the Bulgarian army mm June of this vear, the new v government requested the Czech au thorities to extradite Daskaloff, but the request wag never complied with. In D was minister of interior, a bomb was {thrown at his automobile when he leaving the parliament. No one was hurt and no damage was d _—— USE OF NAVY IN DRY PATROL IS SCOUTED (Continued from First Page.) order that the Navy be used for the enforcement of the prohibition law, it is sald it would make the service the laughing stock of the world and forever ruin its prestige in interna- tional affairs, Navy men, who have considered the prohibition problem in the light of what they see, day by day, along the {coast, are of the opinion that the ex- tension of the barred zone from three to twelve miles, as proposed in the negotiations between = Washington and London, would not be an effec- tive barrier to the smuggling now going on. There are many places along the coast where veseels can an- chor as easily twelve miles out as they can-now at three. In stormy weather the vessels farther out are safer than those in shore. It would be more difficult to keep the rum fleet under surveillance twelve miles out and the small boats running in shore really would have a wider range of action. Naturally the cost of rum running would go lup, but this would be passed along to the ultimate consumer just as all “legitimate” businesses pass it along. First in Generations. The arrest for piracy; the first of its kind in America in many gener- ations, was attended by entirely jtwentieth century methods. It was made by a motor cycle policeman in Beverly, Mass., where President Taft used to take the White House in the summertime. The pirate was in a high-powered limousine, with a chauffeur and all the comforts of the luxurious rich. There was never a black flag, a skull and cross bones nor a cutlass about. The pirate had on low-quartered patent leather shoes instead of the flaring topped boots that were worn in Capt. Apple- jack’'s day on the raging .main. Twentiéth century piracy on the sea is as ugly and unromantic as twen- tieth century brigandage is ashore. Just as the gunman of today shoots first and fails to give his victim the courtesy of a choice between money and his life, so the pirate of the At- lantic coast shoots as he boards the 1 { {ll-destined craft, shoots the skipper STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. ember last. when M. Daskaloft | from Petworth's xchoolx. They stand ORE PORTABLE SCHOOLS NEEDED Construction Being Pushed to Provide for Increased Attendance Coming Year. Additional portable school build- ings are being cohstructed to accomo- date the ever increasing number of children attending the District public schools. T of adequats buildings and classrooms In the [ trict schools iy assuming a ous problem for the hoard of education Wwhose constant ¢fforts to catch up in the schools’ building program and to replace the temporary and emergenc plans with perma nt structures has balked time -to ti by sal of Congress to appropriate suflicient funds, | | | | | question s from orth Petworth is the latest prob- 1 and it has been necessary to build four portable buildings at Al- son street and Iowa avenue in order o take care of the tremendous in- | crease of population in that section The new portables will of the city take care of about one hundred and | children in the immediate | cighborhood of their location, thus | doing away with the cessity of | these grade students having to go a| lons distance to the already over-| crowded est Brightwood Park i Petworth schools. e o s Appropriations Refused. 2 Appropriation for the of a site for the erection of a grade school n north Petworth have been included 1 three prior school budgets submit- ted to Congress. and in each case have been refused. There fs no doubt that a similar request will be Included in the coming District ap- ! Ppropriations. The new Macfarland chool. ~almost adjoining the new portables, will open in October, filled to capacity. which means that the five portables now at the School. and which eliminate the play- | ground there, will have to be retain- ed. 1t wus hoped that these port- ables could be eliminated by the! erection of the Macfarland School, | {but Congress reduced the size of the new junior high school and thus it {will be filled to capacity at onee Increase of Puplis Foreseen. There will be a tremendous in- cuse in north Petworth within the next few years and the school au- thorities will have to do something to house the children, it is pointed | out Even if ther were allowed funds' in the next appropriations for the | ercction of a new school in that lo- cality, romething would have to be done {0 accommodate the children dur- ing the course of its construction. w school buildings in the Dis- trict are only serving to accommodate the yearly increase in the school pop- ulation and are not helping to elimi- nate the congestion caused by past years of necessary make-shift ‘and crowding brought about by the lack of sufficient school appropri s declare school offictats, 0 0 tOnS: HOUSER CONCEALS HAGERSTOWN BoOX! | Junior High i 1 | i (Continued from First Page.) found besides the coin. Previously, Houser had said there was but $10,000 in gold. This led to the deduction that the money, still unseen by any one, was Confederate or civil war cur- |rency of the United States. Houser settled this by stating the bills were of dates within the past ten years. ‘ Houser revised the story of finding the money. 1Instead of finding it be- neath a rock in the roadbed, as for- merly stated, he found it several feet under top soil on the side of the road. Excavation s belng made parallel with the road for the widening of the | road with a concrete elbow. Houser said he will refund the money-to Bergdoll or any one else who can identify it. He refused to discuss the Wheeler contention. Shipley said that the Bergdoll men registered at his hotel under the name of Carson, made frequent all-day trips along the country roads. On each trip the Bergdolls were guarded by six men heavily armed. It was on Thursday that Houser discovered the money, which was in a scratched tin box made for the hold- ing of biscuits and which, despite its exposure to unusual conditions, was well preserved. Siient at Firat. When first approached about the actual finding of the box Houser was stlent. Persistence forced him to un- burden himself. “I was working with a pick on a side of the old road on the other side ot those mountains,” he sald, point- and the cook and makes away with|ing to where a jut of the Blue Ridge all aboard that is valuable. The charge of piracy has been lev- eled against Carl Voss of Glouces- ter—a man well known in the little fishing village. It is claimed that he and two companions boarded the Nova| ] saw part of a box sticking up. Scotia rum _schooner, J. Scott Hank- inson, off Thatchers Island, and at- range terminates at the Potomac river across from Harpers Ferry. “An old house was opposite me, broken down and decayed. Right in my way was & rock, which I moved, took my pick and dug it up. It turned out to contain money. Baybe it is be- tempted to kill Capt. Arthur Moore| cause I swing a pick left-handed that and Cook Harry Harme:. Capt. Moore, being a shrewd business man as well as a deep sea rum mefchant, fortu- nately had been Into Gloucester the day before and deposited $15,000 in|don't think I'll get married. Tam lucky; but anyway. I got it. “What will do with it 1 don't know. I won't have to work unless 1 want to, which Is one thing, but T one of the most respectable banks of | have ever wanted is plenty to emoke the town. ‘Landlubbers”. of the Department of Justice have worked up the piracy case. Tn these Volsteadian' ‘days all things have changed, t | sleep. and plenty to eat and a soft place to Esther, my sister, looks aftcr my needs in the right way. “There's an old wioman back in those hills,” he indif§ted them with |and his Petworth | 8 MONDAY, AUGUST 0t schoslhouses fn the mountainous districts of Kentucky. but are being built in the Nation's ivon wstreet and lowa avenue. another wave of his arm, “who told me she had been dreaming of ghosts walking along that road for th nights running. Maybe that had something to do with my finding the box, but I don’t know. If the money belongs to Bergdoll, let him come and dig for it. That's the way I got it and anybody that wants it can get it n the same way 1f they know where to dig. “Yes. there was some gold coins in it, and and some big bills, mighty big bills.” At the Hotel Vivian here, where Grover Bergdoll made his headquar- ters, some interesting facts were brought to light when the news of the. finding of the treasure was told to the proprietor, who denled that the money found by the hillman was that cuched by Bergdoll. Suwspicious of Bergdoll. “I knew Bergdoll, for he had stopped at my house at different times before he got into trouble” he sald. “I knew him as James Carson, brother, Erwin, as Edward I watched them for a time became suspicious of their ac- Here, show you some- He led the to a room nd floor where Brown and tions, thinz." This is window curtain th hole that he used He had half-a-dozen all the time. They never left him. AU night they used to make long motor trips and return early in the morning. They would park their cars down the str walk past th windows and duck quickly up the stairs. Never did they use the ele- vator. One night @ man who was here saw Bergdoll and his brother and said he knew them, but I told him I only knew them as Carson and Brown “The next night three men came. They looked like government agents. They arrived late at night but in ome way Bergdoll got wise and before they could arrest him he had way a he re to That peep- from. him staved nad watch men with had_five new valises cach one was The bags were be blue heavy and long as tween revolver. as lead The road where found by Houser is and most desolate Spots in this sec- of Blue Ridge mountains. here is only a church and one house within five ‘miles. The house is of recent construction and was bui B the war. It is occupied by C. S. eler. father of the boy who saw Houser unearth the box. “I have been sniffing a gold taint in the alr for three years," declared the treasure was me of the wildest Wheeler. “I am glad a poor man found | it. Howard, my son, saw him find it and the boy says he got there first and Houser took it away from him. I am golng to consult a lawyer and have Houser tell what was in it a “l think the boy should get a por-, tion of what was in it John Brown's headquarters during the civil war is four mil as the crow flies across the Blue Ridge mountain from the scene. Across the Potoma a short distance away, Brown’s body ies a-molding in the grave.” Close by is the “sour apple tree” from which he was hanged. This is the famous Confederate city of Charlestown. While Houser’s home is but twenty- four miles from here the roads lead- ing to it are undergoing repai and the only method of approach is by automebile on a roundabout route. This leads down a well paved road across historic South mountain that saw %o much history of the war of the rebellion, and then through pros- perous farming country into Fred erick. FREE STATE REACHES AGREEMENT WITH POPE Irish Envoy, However, Must Act in Subordination to That of Britain. By Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1023, ROME, August 27.—Tt is reported that after long, secret negotiations, unknown even to the Irish bishops, the Trish Free State government and the Holy See have reached an agreement. In case the present government is re turned to power as the result of today elections, the Holy See will acknowledge the presence here of an Irish representa- tive, provided he acts in_subordination to the British envoy at the Vatican as a kind of attache. GRAVES OFFICE MOVED. For the benefit of relatives and friends of the world war dead, whose bodies have been left permanently overseas, the quartermaster general of the Army has announced that the office of the American graves regis- tration service, Quartermaster Corps, in Europe, has been removed from No. 8 Avenue d'lena to No. 20 Rue Molitor, Paris, France. el LITTLE GIRL KILLED, CRUSHED BY BUS Driver, Held by Police, Is Ordered Released by Coroner. Ten-year-old Minnie Hall. duughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willlam }i. Hall, ¢ L street southwest, Wwas crushed be- neath the wheels of a cross-town bus of the Capital Traction Company r Water and M streets southwest, rtly after 8 o'clock last night. and Was pronounced dead by Dr. W. W. ager. Emergency Hospital physi- cian. It was reported to the police that the child was trying to board a side step of the car In an effort to get a | short ride not far from the terminus of the bus line and only a short dis- tance from her home, when missed her footing, fell and was run over. Hugh D. Dollins, 749 Princeton street, took the child's body to Emer- gency Hospital. Frank Vernon Rog- ers. 3204 14th street northeast, driver |of the bus, was detained by police of the harbor precinct until his release | wav ordered by the coroner. | The bus driver was exonerated by @ toroner's jury this afternoon. The evidence showed the child tried to jboard the vehicle without the driver's permission and fell before he bring his machine to & stop. : One Hurt in Crash. | A collision Detween autom driven by William Wils street, and Milton Day, 3 street southwest, occurred yvesterday after- noon at 3d und K streets southwest. Bernard Shorter, colored, five years o0ld, 1220 Delaware avenué southwest, |occupant of the latter machine, was hurt slightly. He was treated at Providence Hospital by Dr. Moody Matti Maki, giving his address as 11213 Tth strect. was driver of an auto- mobile that ran into a barricade at Connecticut avenue and Livingston street, about 5:30 o'clock this morn- {ing. The car made a sudden turn from the obstruction. crossed the {sidewalk and landed against a tree. _Maki, who received an fnjury to his lip, was treated at Emergency Hospi- tal, and later returned to the Tenley- town police station. where a charge of driving while under the influence of liquor was preferred against him. Oscar Hendrickson, 1002 11th street, lowner of the car, was arrested on a charge of intoxication A passenger bus belonging to Carey j Tayman, Allentown. Md., and the automobile of David Catcher, a nelgh- bor, collided last night about 9:30 |o'clock rear Minnesota and Pennsy vania avenues southeast. Mrs. Catcher ustained a painful injury to her head. She was taken to Casualty Hopsital. Hurt Dodging Ambulance. tting out of the way of ency” Hospital ambulan nd K strects last night, I colored, 2333 6th street, fell and received a slight injury. She 1 | fused hospital treatment. An automobile belonging to Willie | Blue, colored, 1528 Columbla street, | yesterday morning overturned near | the Park Road entrance to Rock Creek Park. Pearl E. Blue, twenty- four, and Melvin White, two years old, were injured. They received treatment at the office of a nearby physician William Murchler, fourteen years ©0ld. 1352 G street southeast, was pain- fully “injured vesterday morning as a result of a collision between h bievele and an automobile at Mary- land avenue and 1ith street norti- cast. He was glven first aid at Casualty Hospital. — OUTBREAK OF RIOTING BRINGS TROOP DETAILS TO GUARD IRISH POLLS biles 9th | wn fthe E jat atn { Nelson, i (Continued From First Page.) {for intcrference with the voting and no intimidation at the polls is expect- ed. Government Confident. ! Supporters of the government have daily increased in confidence and it is now believed that this group will constitute the largest bloc in the new house. | The republicans rely on the new | voters to imprave the showing made by them in the last election when they took thirty-six scats. The final pre-election pronounce- ment of the republicans, issued as a manifesto, bore the name of Eamonn De Valeri, but is strongly suspecte of having becn the work of- Mrs. Erskine Childers, who can read the | republican leader's mind as can no one else. Among other things the manifesto says: “The world once more is looking on. Shall it be that this generation has turned renegade to the national faith and outdone the disastrous sub- )mission_of princes and prelates to Henry IT which brought us centuries of shame and sorrow?” FIND DENTIST NEAR PUBLIC HALL Horace W. Hamilton of Norfolk Dead in Cleveland Mystery. Wife Here. h 1 i CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 27.—Hor- ace W. Hamilton of Norfolk, Va., was found dead, his face badly beaten, at the foot of an outside stairway lead- ing to the basement of Cleveland's $10,000,000 public hall today. His hands were marked with knife cuts. In one pocket was found an open jack knife. Police belleve he was at- tacked elsewhere and his bedy dragged to the foot of the stairway. He was last seen alive vesterday morning. Hamilton, a dentist, was employed in a laboratory here. A negro, who detectives say admitted he quarreled with Hamilton Sunday night, and another man were arrested as sus- pects, Friends of Hamilton say he had a wife in Washington, from whom he had been separated. Two Take Off on Flight Seeking Three New Aviation Records By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, August 27.—Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lieut. John P. Richter took off at 5:07 am. from Rockwell Field, North Island, in an attempt to establish an avia- tion record for endurance, speed and distance. The weather was cloudy, and the officers circled about at an elevation of 500 feet. The two airmen expected to make the first contact with a re- fueling plane between 9:30 and 10 a.m. Thereafter they had plan- ned to' make contacts every two hours. .The De Haviland plane manned by Capt. Smith and Lieut. Richter was expected to stay aloft on a course, illuminated at night, over the environs of San Diego. Two refueling and provisioning planes were keyed up to the haz- ardous task of keeping the record- seeking plane going. Capt. Rob- ert G. Ervin and Lieut. O. C. Mc- Neill were assigned to one of them, Lieuts. Virgil Hines and Frank Seifert to the other. Two previous attemts for dis- tance and duration records had been made by Capt. Smith and Lieut. Richter last June 27 and 28. In the first attempt the alrmen were forced down. after five hours Dby burning out of a’generator on their plane, and on the second flight the Ayiators became lost in the fog after about twenty-four hours-of fiytng, and were forced to land, A | ! could | TALKS and TALES With and About CAPITAL’S GUESTS Local golfers, and for that matter followers of the ancient Scoteh game In all sectlons of the country, will doubtless pleased to hear of the suce attained by the Department lot Agriculture in developing a new {grass for green that promises to rev- olutionize golf courses in the United States. The department has evolved & wva- tem of planting greens with wen: grasses, and satisfactorv nave been the results that the Olympic Athletic Club San Francisco, on on advice of the United States Golf Association’s green section, has plant- ed one of its two courses by the method. This was learned from Ken- neth MeLeod, manager of the Golden Gate organization, who is stopping at the New Willurd Hotel while on a tour of inspewion of all athletie. %olt and country clubs in the ceun- try in an effort to secure valuable hints for the new Olympic Club now teing erected, Mr. MecLeod said he had come to Washington primarily to confer vith the experts on the new covering. “As vet there has been no sizn of the blight on our new course.” said the manager, “but we want to be pre- pared should any appear. The Agri- cultural Department deserves great credit for its experiments.” Since leaving the coast Mr. McLooa has visited all athletic and goif clubs and large_ hotels in_Portland, Ore Seattle, Spokane, the Yellowstone Denver, Detroit, Omaha, Kansas City St. Louis, Chicago, Boston, New York Philadelphia and Washington, direct- ing his attention on the athletic, golf jand restaurant features, in the orde named The famous {home town is the oldest athleti in the country, having been founded in 1860, four vears before the New York Athletic Club came into being The Olympic is now erecting a new downtown bullding, at 524 Post street an Francisco, to accommodate it ,000 members. The house is located in the center of San Francisco club dom, being surrounded by the Unio League, Eiks, Woman's Athletic Clui and others. William F. Humphrey, legal advise to the Western Marine Salvage Com- pany, is its president, having served in that capacity for sixteen years. It wa due entirely to his untiring efforts that the club was held to- gether after the fire. The club has 400 acres within the city limits and has two 18-hole golf |courses. It is a popular resting place for both TUnited States Senators hortridge and Johnson, while former Senator Piglan may be found there any day. { " Mr. McLeod was loud in his praiec of local goif clubs, and sald the new {Congressional Country Club, designed by Phillips Julian, gives every evi- |dence to suggest that it will function {as the equul of the best on the con- |tinent. {__If such | be 50 of Olympic Club should happen that Willlam {Henry Harrison Dempsey puts_ a jauictus on the aims and aspirations of Louis Angel Firpo, the Argentine firebrand, next morth, the chances are that the combined armies of all South Amerfcan republics will cut loose for these United States, and the Mon- roe doctrine will be little more than a hazy dream. Or at least so thinks Robert L. Downs, president of the National Capltal Hotel Company, ow ers of the Hotel Washington, who, with his son, Donald, has just return- ed from an extended trip through Latin America. | ““Great excitement prevails in all 1large cities down there over the com- |ing fight,” said Mr. Downs, “and the {unanimous opinion is that Firpo will | knock Dempsey out. T hate to think wh will happen if he fails.” @ local hotel man was loud in his praise ot the beauties of Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio de Janelro. Trinidad. Santos, the Barbados and other places of interest visited. He {%aid that more than 100,000 persons attended the races at Buenos Alres every Sunday. Mr. Downs sailed on the Munsen line steamer, American Legion, was out of sight of land for fourteen days, and had only good reports to ren about the service of the compan He was at Montevideo when the recent tidal wave visited that place and has many wonderful photographs of scemes in South America. Reports of tremendous damage |caused by the overflowing of t Colorado river that usually appear | Ithe eastern newpapers at this time jof the vear are. as a rule, greatl: j exaggerated, according to D. E. Car- penter of Greeley, Col.. who is stop- ping at the Shorcham for a few days Mr. Carpenter is her on business with the Interstate Commerce Com- mission, and iIs the man who first started the Colorado river commis- sion, over which Secretary Hoover presides as chairman, and which at & last meeting in Santa Fe drew up the treaty of the geven states, which pro tects the rights of all residents in those states touched by the Colorado and its tributaris the first agreement of the kind cver entered into by individual states of the Unlon. “These reported floods are, for the most part, nothing more than cloud- bursts,” said Mr. Carpenter,” and are really of far more benefit than d: age. " They are localized and, as the streams of the state are unusually low at this season, aid materially in fllling ditches and furnishing the much neaded water for irrigation and other purposes. Of course, some danrage is done, the washing away of a few bridges, etc., but compared with the good results attained is quite negligible.” hould & movement to impound the waters of the Clorado behind two great dams for irrigation purposes, which now needs only the indorsement of one of the seven states to the treaty be carried out, one of the most wonderful inland pieces of water ever known will be the result. This inland eea, formed from back ‘water at a great dam to be constructed in the huge Colorado canyon, according to specificutions, would cover more than 150 miles in length and from fifteen to twenty-five miles in width, and resting at the bottom of two 5,000-feet high cliffs would present a spectacle un- rivalled in the world. At the meeting last year in Sante Fe, over which Secretary Hoover pre- sided, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho and Nevada favored the ercction of the two dams, Arizona being the only state of the seven not con- forming. It is said that Secretary Hoover is intensely interested in the project. | Whether due to the passing of the old-time - billlard parlors, the ever- increasing interest in out-door sports or the advent of prohibition, a very noticeable falling off in the small army of newspaper grabbers that used to infest local hotel lobbles is quite perceptible today. | And never was there a more enjoy- {able -indoor pastime, especially on a {rainy afternoon. than to watch the apparent unconcern of one of these free readers when out for his paper. Usually well dressed, and bearing an air of importance, many will re- {member him us he strolled about the {lobby, ever waliting for some guest to leave a paper in a chair. They will also recall the nonchalant man- ner he flopped in the seat, once his {eyes fell on-a journal left alone and {unprotected, the deliberate sitting on same, the few minutes walit, the look of discomfort at finding he ‘was rest- ing on some foreign substance, the gradual slipping of the hand to find out what disturbed him, the bringing 1o the surface of the paper, the dis- interested look at the headiines, the faked move to toss same away, and then, Oh, and then, the reconsidera- tion and four hours of continuous reading that followed. Do you fe- member him? THE MIXER. TURKISH VILLAGE BURNS. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 2 The village of Sarylaryi, on the Bos- porus, about eight miles northeast of this city, was destroyed by fire last night. Seven hundred houses wer: burnéd, the conflagration lastine eight hours. The damage Is estimat- ed at 2,000,000 Turkish DDHII“"