Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1923, Page 2

COSGRAVE ELECTED WITH MANY ABDES), Brother, ' Cabinet Members| ;and Others of Government Party Win in ireland. 3 By the Asociated Press. : .DUBLIN, August 28.—President William T. Cosgrave has been elected | om the first preference vote from Kilkenuy. The president's brother Philip W | elected from South Dublin amd Gen. Richard Mulcahy, minister for defense, and Kevin O'Higgins, min- ister for home affairs, both of the present cabinet, were also returned | from Dublin. N. Byrme, govern- ment camdidate from Wicklow, also was elected. COUNTESS IS \ Threat of Benewal of Shooting Brings Prompt Response. B the Aswcinted Press LONDC August —The Dublin { eorrespondents of the London news- papers estimate that between 60 and 70 per cent of the electorate voied in yesterday's general election, which Rot only was the firgt to be held since the establishment of the Irish Free State, but also was the quietest and most peaceful that ireland has ever seen Shortly before the tour of Dublin reve steady procession of the voters to the ¢lection stations. Among the late comers was President Cosgrave, who. after he had motored from Kilkesny {0 Waterford, toured North Kilkemny and Carlow, returning to Dublm im time to cast his ballot Counteas 1s Exged. The Daily Telegraph's correspond- ent tells of & Sinn Fein rally at Rath- mines late last night at which Coun- tess MarkievicZ told her audience that | if the republicans did not win & ma- jority in the dail there would be a resumption of sheotiug. “If that's your gan g from the crowd, “here’s the Srst shot.” This sally was accompanied by a well { directed eg&. which, the correspond- ent assents, found i1s mark "The Dally Mail's correspondent says | it was almost pathetic to see the countess driving about the capital in a taxicab, the sides of which were Covered with posters and flags. The cab was filled wAth children. ncluding the son of Eamonn De Valera. Reports from the provinces indicate that the day passed peacefully. Only { in Waterford were there the old-time election day amusements. In that city the government aud Redmonite brass bands engaged in @ musical conflict, four of them playing at once. TEA COMPANY LOSES PLEA AGAINST RIVAL Injunction to Bar Sanitary Com- pany From Adjacent Store Denied by Court. EGGED. polls cloked & Jed a slow and rephied g voice ; i . Justice Balley today denied the mo- tlon of the Great Atlantic and Pa-1 atfic Tea Company for & preliminary | injunction restraining the Senitary Grocery Company from operating its grocery store at 941 I street north- west, next door to the store of the de- tendant, 943 1 street ‘Mhe suit of the tea company was based upon a restrictive clause in thelr printed form of Jease which seeks to prevent any owner of real estate who firet leases to the tea com- pany from renting any of his prop- erty within 500 feet to any other re- tail grocer, 0 long as the tea com- Jany " occuples . the' property rented y it “In the local case the original les- sor, who made the lease to the, tea company, therealter sold both stores to a new owner, Vernon A. Weite, who also was sued as a_defendant. Welte leased 941 1 street to the San- itary Grocery Company. The plain- tiff applied for an appeal, but Justice Bailey declined to grant the appeal on the ground that it was not an ap- Dealable order. “Colladay. Clifford and Pettus repre- sented the Sanitary Grocery Compaay, and Louis Ottenberg repregented Mr. ! Welte. Douglass, Obear and Douglass represented the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company PRESIDENT DETERMINED TO MAKE RECORD IN GOVERNMENT ECONOMY (Continued_From_First Page.) | ! | resist the bonus advocates and make a drive for lower taxation? See Western Drive. From a political viewpoint few people are able to estimate which would be more effective. There are many more millian taxpayers, of course, than there are soldiers en- titled to a bonus. The support of the big business and financlal centers of the country would be given the Coolidge administration if at the ! same time that-a bonus was shelved taxes were reduced. The agricul- tural west is off the political res-r- vation anyhow, and is an uncertain quantity, but a program of lower taxes would trend to hold ‘the east solidly behind tha\republican admin- istration—that's one theory by which the politics of the hour is being cal- culated. Senator Smoot, chairman of the Senate finance committee, has said that he didn’t look for a reduction of taxa- tion @t the next session. But there s no doubt that the western insurgents. especially the La Follette group. wili press for tax revision, especialiy on er incomes and for a rajsing of axes on those of higher incohes. 1f ‘the western senators are going to take the initiative in tax revision, the T rs," who want to keep the admin- istzmtion lined up with eastern senti- ment, would prefer {o control the sit- uation By offering rogram of theie own. It fu inconceivable that the ad- ministration -would sit stlently while the ingurgents offered programs of tax revision, Two Courses Open. Can _the government reduce taxes and pay a bonys, too? The advocates of the sales tax think so. This in- troduces etill another element into the controversy, as there are many people In Congress who think the present system of taxation could be simplified by a sales tax, ai they are glad of the excuge that the bonug situation offers to remew their advo- cacy of a vales tax. ‘The announcement of Chairman Mad- den, however, will for the present have the effect of forcing the/igsue as between a bonus and tax reduc- tion, with the administration watch- ing carefully the. trend, of public opinion to see whether the country ‘would ‘:her add to its expenditures, with a possibility of increased tax tiop, eep @n w years with its poMey of ri debt #pd taxes generally, for s e the }allies. | nitely are bound togeth: 'Pinchot, of Roosevelt Type, Wields “Big ns Coal Miners and Operators Must Agree, |Favorable Outcome May'Renew His 1924 Chances. BY ROBERT T. SMALL, Sporiad Dinpatch 1o The Star. HARRISBURG, Pa., There is a decided flavor to all Govermor of August 28. Rooseveltiin that Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania, is doing 1o stop the hard coal miners’ from striking. The governor. tutored in politics at the knee of the colonel, is trying' out the “big stick.” “It must mot be; I will not permit 1t he says in effect. while the coun- try applauds with the gemerbus hand which always goes out to the bold. Of course, Gov. Pinchot has not the prestige behind him which was Roosevelt's. when the latter was given credit for putting an end to the anthracite Strike in 1902, So it remains to be seen how he eventual- Iy will fare as a result of the out- coms of the negotiations instituted by him here. R Plays Lone Hamd. ~ That he is ac & solely in his ca- pacity as governor, Mr. Pinchot. the one-time chief forester of the Roose- velt administration, has taken pains to make perfectly clear. The federal goverfment at Washington may be ready to back him up in anything he does, but the governor is not count- ing upon this support. He realizes that he is making a lone and per- €onal fight. If he loses he will not have lost te for having tried. If he wins even a partial or a moral victory, great credit will be his. The governors friends are mot at all unmindful of the political bearing the present megotiations may have upon his future. They belleve that Pinchot is another man of destiny. He had lapsed into political obscurity until three years ago, whem comstant eriticism of the forestry policy in Pennsylvania brought him an offer | from Gov. Sproul to become head of the state forestry depactment. Pin- chot glagdly accepted the task. Then came the death of Penrose and chaos | within the republican party. Pin- chot. quick to take advantage of what | be regdrded ax a favorabie -oppor- tunity, announced himself for gov. grnor’and won hands down. At once ere was a great shout of ‘P for President”” e Pinchot Rules Party. 3 not been forgotten. ! And Pinchot today is in the saddle in ibbed Pennsylvania as much a | as the party knows. Of course, there is an anti-Pinchot fac- tion within the party. but Pinchot is govgroor for four years. and the powkr and the glory of office arc his. ‘The polftical backers who are smil- ing so broadly today as the spotlight of national publicity glows upon Gif- ford Pinchot and his strong. brave words to the recalcitrant miners and operators zay that the governor step- red into the critical anthracite sit- uaticn only after it had seemed to| him that the Yederal government had exbausted ite resources. It is known hery that suggestions have been made | that Pregident Coolidge should call the warring miners and operators to the White House. .1t was pointed out in thege dispatchés a fortnight ago that the Federal Coal Commission would- be unable to make much, if any, headway in untangling the sit- wation, and that only personal and direct ‘action by the President might be effective. Leags Toward Under Dex. His €riends say that Gov. Pinchot volunteered to act onlv when assured that President Coolidge was not BELGIUM STANDS FIRM WITH FRANCE, OPPOSES BRITAIN ON RUHR ISSUE (Coptinued From First Page.) | mentioned by certain of the allies as the total Germany can pay. The note agrees that the negotia- tions thus far show that Germany's Gebt can be considerably reduced. The question, he asserts, is how it can best be done with justice to all the In couclusion, the Belgian forei=n minfster declarés that so long as thed security of the countries which suf-| fered from invasion_is not assured there can be neither a real and en- durable peace, nor a reduction jn armaments. Meets Polucare View. The Belgian note, which was received favorably here, is in such complete accord with Premler Poincare's stand on most of the irritating points in question, such as the legality of the occupation of the Ruhr and the terms upon which the territory would be evacuated, that it is thought in offi- cfal eircles that the contention on these points will be abandoned by the! British cabinet or be left in suspense while the larger aspects of the prob- lem are discussed. The change in the method of dis- cussion proposed In the Belgian note is felt here to be an absolute neces- sity to prevent ruffling the feelings of “the allles, as was evident in the recent exchange of notes, and the French premier is believed to be very amenable to initiating a system of talks between the allied ministers, ar- ranged to suit the British, provide that there is no return to. the ol supreme council meetings. 'he declaration of the Belgian for- eign minister in the note that repara- tions and the interallieq debts defl has awak- ened grest interest in French circles, as did the proposal that if the Ger- man debt is reduced reparations should be distributed on the basis of material damage done. But discreet reticence is obsegyed upon these! points in official circles. - BRITISH DISAPPOINTED. | See No Hope for Reparations Solu- tion in Note. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 28.— Belgium's latest reparations note, made public today in Paris, is considered by the British government officials, to whom it was addresseq, as offering little or no advance Low: & zolution of the Ruhr impasse. Whilo appreciating the generous, language and the marked amity of' the document, British forelgn office experts were regretfully forced to ad- mit that its financial proposals fall far short of Great Britain's expecta- tions. The acturial formulae, with which the note abounds, will he ex- amined by the British treasury au- thorities with an open and sympe- thetio mind, in the hope of findin even some slight basis of accommo- dation to the British reparations plan. But cursory examination of the French text of the Belgian note, they said, revealed only slight signs of agreement. British officials admitted they were frankly disappointed that the Brus- sels cabinet falled to offer anything new or ahy concrete or workable so- lution of its own conoception. They profeseed to see in the note some evi- dence of composition by Premler Poincare of France. Some surprise was expressed over the . firm restatement of Belgium's afaims to priority. British .experts reaffimmed thelr view that Belgium jure no onc here can say. {rather long gray mustache |Jaw. A _ government's best information !ferences here, in Crisis Stick” GIFFORD PINCHOT. ready, et, to take any steps him- self. the President may do if the Pinchot conference ends in fail- Washing- ton’s attitude, at the moment, seems to be onc of “watchful waiting” so far as the anthracite strike ie con- cerned, but continued activity In rseparation to supply the eastern country with substitutes when the supply of anthracite Gov. Pinchot s 8T figure state cap continuing his conferences with ~wperators and miners. Tall and thin, his prominent features rise out of pallied cheeks, somewhat sunken. A loosely fowing, ides some of the stronger lines in a firmly set riendly twinkle, and smile wrinkles' about the eyve, however, tell of another side to Gov. Pinchot. They show that in the “even handed jus- tice” he seeks to deal out there is a large element of friendifness and hu- manity, with always, perhaps, Just a little leaning to the “under dog.” Calls Own Advisors. Tt was this phase of Pinchot which gave the miners some hope in the present conferences. This hope was bolstered by the character of the men Pinchot led about him for the conference, In th Eroup are many men who lean largely toward the miners and believe that some amelior- ation of working and Hving condi Hlons are due themy Tn selecting hi own group of advisers and investiga- tors. Mr. Pinchot has shown that while he was glad to get the federal a to the anthracite situation, he wanted in the end to rely upon his own re- sources. There is every reason to believe that in preparing for the fateful con- Gov. Pinchot asked bimself “Wha done?" In the first place the colonel would have minced words. Nelither did governor. Hit first and hit hard was the colonel's motto. The gover- nor made it his 'own. “Bump their heads together and try to knock some sense into them” was the colonel's idea. The governor's mind ran along in the same direction. “Come to my private offic manded, and they came. Back In G. O. P. Mr. Pinchot could not keep the colonel out of his prepared public address to the miners and operators. “The Rodkevelt platform of 1912 asserted that ‘the public good comes first. " said the governor. He did not ¥ the “bull moose” or “progressive” platform of 1912, but the “Roosevelt platform.” for, as Roosevelt returned to the fold to die as a good republi- can, 8o the governor rules today as would the colonel have he com- the representative of the G. O. through the G. O, P his friends aspire to greater political honors for him. (Copyright. 1923.) was showing herself too exacting in this respect, in view of the allies’ generous action in wiping out the $1,500,000,000 owed them by Belgium and the further fact that the Bel- gians have already received about £360,000,000 of the total of $500,000.000 reparations due them from Germany. The suggestion by the Brussels government that the ' percentage agreed upon at the Spa conference 'be revised receives scant sympathy from the British, who see in such a plan a curtailment of both the British and Itallan shares of the indemnities. Broadly. therefore. it is held in go: ernmental circles that a reparation sclution is no nearer today than a year ago, and that whatever slender hope there is for the future rests with the versonal meetirg of Prime Minister Baldwin and Premier Poin- care before the former returas from his vacation in France. FRENCH SATISFIED. Think Belgian Note May Lead to New Allied Action. By the,Associated Press. PARIS, August 28.—The impres- sion in official circles today, after reading Belgium's reply to the recent British reparation note, is that the fleld is now clear for a new start toward negotiating a settlement of the problems between the allies Each of the most interested powers has stated its attitude clearly and the difference between them in actual money figures is regarded as not 30 great as to preclude an agreement when thelr statesmen take an op- portunity to talk the situation over. The question now is as to who will make the first move toward such conversations. The British prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, is looked i upon here as the one from whom the initiative would most properly come, since he has the best occaslon to take the step before leaving France, where he now is spending a short yacation. He is expected to call on Premier Poincare at any event while passing through Paris for London, and it is pointed out that he would find no bettet opportunity for a heart- to-heart talk with the French premier. CLIMBED BRASS POLE; NOT DRUNK, SAYS COURT Fireman Acquitted of Charge He Turned in False Alarm August 18. William E. Mothershead, fireman, of 491 K street southiest, charged ‘with turning in a false fire alarm, was acquitted today before Judge Robert E. Mattingly. A charge ef driving-while under the influence ef liquor was similarly dismissed. Young Motershead is attached to the 26th Zngine Company. It was charged that on the morning of August 18 he had turned in an glarm on Bladensburg road. It was brought out in the testimony by his fellow firemen that, at the time the alarm was turned in, Mothershead was seat- ed in the engine house, although off duty. The charge of driving while under influence of liquor was dis- migsed when it ‘was learned that young Mothershead had climbed the slipper brass pole at the engine house. Judge Mattingly remarked that not many sober persons, and surely not a drunken person, could o dctendant Wb ted by . The defendant wae represen Charles W. Darr. - Pe - and | D. , DEALERS RUSH| BIG COKE ORDERS Shipments of Large Quan- tities of Substitutes Al- ready En Route Here. | | ! | Without waiting for an actual shut- down of the antharcite mines, several large coal dealérs here already have ordered comsiguments of coke and other substitutes, and some of the shipments, already are on the rails, it was learned today. One of the largest dealers in Wash- ington stated that he has a consign- ment of coke en route and that he kunows of four or five other concerns | that are stocking up on substitutes in order to insure householders against a fuel shortage. D This dealer siid coke is now selling at $12 and $12.50 per ton, which is about $3 less than hard coal. Last winter, he pointed out, coke was - Iy higher than coal = S Sure of Ample Supply. | Although a strike in the 'anthracite { mines would mean an inadequate sapply | of hard coal, Washington. coal men are | eatisfled there will be an ample supply of other fuels to heat all the homes of | the city. . | i 'lzin-sidel;‘tnn! the Board of de of Washington, today received an invi- tation from the NationaNRetail Coal Merchants' Association to furnish lo- cal retailers with a supply of pam- phlets to be distributed to ail their cus- | tomers, outlining the causes of the present controversy between the miners and operators, Mr. Dove said he would communi- cate with the members of the local {umilhlllnn today relative to accept- ng the organization’ vi- o ‘ganization's invi The to a check- erators miners. No Law for Regulation. With Englneer Commissioner Bell in New York attending the confer-| ence of state officials on the .nmr-»1 pamphlet is devoted mainly discussion of the so-called ff system of having the op-| collect union dues from the | cite coal situation, the District gov- ernment is marking time today onh the question of whether to make plans for municipgl regulation of de- lh?‘-rleu this winter. ‘ommissioner Oyster point t today that the Cxflmmiuslonorgdh:?:l‘u no 1law under which the business of aelling and delivering coal could be regulated. He pointed out, however, that in the crisis of last year much was accomplirhed through the volun- v co-opcration of the local dealers. ‘Whither the Commissioners will adopt the voluntary system of regula- | tion followed last winter has not been | decided and probably will not be set- tled until all efforts to avert a strike in_the hard coal mines have failed It is understood that some local dealers, as a matter of good business, already have begun to apportion hard coal evenly among their customers, {PINCHOT MEETS MINE OWNERS IN LAST EFFORT TO AVERT COAL-STRIKE! (Continued From First Page.) tive compromise offer standigg. That calls for the granting of th® “ch off’ demand by the operators, their acceptance of the principle that wage increases are necessary and their abo- lition of all but eight-hour- ployment. With these concessfons, it was said, the union officlals would allow the mines to work while ne- gotiations resumed. HINT AT PEACE OFFER. —— Entire Scale Committee of Miners Called to Meeting. By the Associated Press. HAZELTON, Pa., August 28 — Thomas Kennedy, president of Dis- trict, No. 7, of the United Mine ‘I'ork-] I ers and chairman of the scale com- mittee of the anthracite miners, tele- phoned to district headquarters here today from Harrisburg, calling the members of the scale_committee of the seventh district to Harrisburg for a meeting_tomorrow. While Chairman Kennedy gave no details, the menfbers of the committee were inclined to believe that a propo- sitién has been made at the confer- ences with Gov. Pinchot which re- uires action by the entire committee Tom the hard coal fields. i | LEWIS REMAINS SILENT. l Miners’ Leader, Recovering, Now in Philadelphia. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., August 28— John l. Lewis, international pres! dent of the United Mine Workers, who shifted his headquarters from Atlantic City to Philadelphia Iast night, said today that he would have no statement to make regarding the anthracite wage negotiations while the Harrisburg ley is in progress, unless the situation should warrant one. Mr. Lewis is in touch with the ituation at the state capital and does mot expect to go there unless his presence is imperatively needed. Philip Murray, international viee president, is acting for him. Mr. Lewis is recovering from a heavy cold. He said he was feeling much better. H From Yesterday's 5:30 Edition of The St 3 DEAD, BIG LOSS, IN INDIANA STORM Lightning Kills Couple Under Ledge and Washout Causes Fafal Wreck. By the Assoclated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., August 28.— Three persons are dead and property damage estimated at more than 100,000 was done yesterday by a heavy rain- storm, accompanied by lightning, throughout the state. Robert .-White of Madigon, Ind., and Miss Jessie Wolls of Indlanapolls were killed at Madison when lightning struck a ledge of rock under which they sought refuy from the storm. George L. Novinger of Garrett, Ind., engineer of a Baltimore and Ohlo passenger train, was killed when his train was derailed be- cause of a washout near Gary, Ind. Y. Miller, fireman of the train, was thrown trom the cab and escaped injury. . Telephone and tele ph wires were down and many bri s were washed out by the heavy rains near Valparaiwo. Several bulldings on the J. W. Dowd aairy fagm were blown down, and tha. damage was estimated at §45,000, BRITISH YACHT WINS. By the Asscclated Press. ROTHESAY, Scotland, August 28.— The Britisher, Coila 1II. won the third race for the Seawanhaka cup Trom the Aemrican six-meter yacht Lea to- day, giving the British boat two race to one for its opponents, the Lea hav- ing_won yesterday and the Coila TII on Satu: . The Lea was dlsabled in | today’s race. - - -— ! fostered by the French, was causing D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1923 EUROPE IN DESPAIR 15 COOPER'S VIEW Y. M. C. A. Secretary Re- ports After Trip Through Several Countries.’ The universal language of Europe today is the American one-dollar bill, declared Willlam Knowles Cooper. general secretary of the Y. M. C. A, Just returned from a conference in Austria on the development of boye' | work in all countries, in an addre: before members of the Newcomers' Club in the City Club yesterday. “I have experienced much since leaving America,” said Mr. Cooper, “and am sorry to say 1 have not much encouragement to offer for present condttions in Europe. Iam neither a prophet, nor arm I making suggestions for the deplorable conditions at every Dband over there, but to me it seems that Europe is without hope so far as the present generation is con- cerned.” Gives Details of Trip. He detailed his trin, which took him through France, Germany, Eng- land, Scotland, Austria. Polapd and Czecheslovakia, and told of the ap- parent undercurrent of bolshevism eveloping wt every turn, and sur- prised his auditors by saying that many supposedly comservative people had ceased to rezard with fear estab- lishment of the soviet form of gov- ernment in their lands. While declaring that after visit- ing 300 miles of battlefields in France he felt that nothing Germany could y would be too great for the dam- ge done, he said that the republic militaristic attitude, together with that of Poland, which he said w a seething volcano throughout Europe, which mav belch forth at any moment. He sald further that Hungary, still boiling with resentment over the loss of her provinces, was only waiting the opportunity to recover hér confiscated territory. \ What Fremch Expect. “Condensed,” said Mr. Cooper. “the general opinion of all French people as to just what America should do is, first, that she wipe out all European debts; second, enter the league of na- tions, and third, assist France in col- lecting her reparations from German He said there was a universal feel- ing, even among the British, that the President of the United States wielded more power than other man in any world, and why he does not use it to suve Europe was difficult for them to understand. He told of the great numbers of idle in Great Britain, saying that in the heretofore busy town of ShefMeld two out of every flve workmen were standing on street corners. He nluo! stressed the situation resulting from the occupation of the Ruhr area by the French, the outcome of which, if continued, will mean only “the entire loss by France of any reparations, the loss of trade to England and the spec- tacle of government after govern- ment changing to soviet rule.” Against United States Intervention. “The much-talked-of plan to evolve a United States of Europe is an im- possibility,” said Mr. Cooper. “The intense nationalism that is now grip- ping every people off the continent will not permit of such an idealistic scheme. “After seeing it all.” he Hd in concluston. “the more firmly con- vinced am I that America should wash her hands of all the miserable poli- ties and stay to herself, ever willing to aid in her own charitable manner.” NEWSPAPER IS SOLD TO NEW YORK UNION Purchasers of the Call Organize $500,000 Corporation—Nor- man Thomas Editor. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, August 28 —Members of a score of New York unions have bought the stogk of the New York Call, for fiftcen ycars New York's leading socialist-labor publication, it was announced today by the news- paper. The Call was founded and Dublished for fifteen vears by the Workingmen's Co-operative Publish- ing Company. The new owners have organized the Labor Press Associa- tion, Inc. which is_capitalized at $500.000. ' Norman Thomas, formerly asso- ciate editor of the Nation. has been, appointed editor-in-chief and Heber Blankenhorn, for seven years with the Evening Sun, managing editor. Organizations whose members have eubscribed for stock include the Garment Workers, the Clothing Workers. the Fur Workers. Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, Hat and Cap Makers. Bakery Workers, Leather Goods Workers. Neckwear Makers and Press Writers' unions. BERGDOLL INSISTS GOL IS BURIED IN MARYLAND; DOUBT HOAX IN FINDING (Continued From First Page.) Through the now fa- mous peephole in the door of the Bergdolls’ home, Grover saw the de- tectives standing before the door a few moments before they entered the room and found that the two had escaped. It was learned that that which in- terested the Department of Justice agents most is how Bergdoll escaped { from that room and who occupled the | adjoining rooms through which both ! made their eseape. There was a re-| port today that the room Bergdoll oc- cupled during his stay here had a. secret passageway. It was signifi cant that Bergdoll, everytime h stopped while at Hagerstown, spen the majority of his days and nights in_room four in the Vivian Hotel. It was learned that the two govern- ment agents also were investigating the reports that Bergdoll presented Shirley the high-powered sedan, which the hotel owner has had since shortly after Bergdoll left the city Shirley yesterday denied that the car had been given him by the draft dodger, but ad- | mitted that Bergdoll pald a small bill for him for repairs to a house. It is significant that Bergdoll often drove the same make of car and it was in this make of machine that he made his drive for liberty from Philadelphia across the Canadian border, when he escaped to Germany. Despite the complete and emphatic denial made last night by Miss Esther Houser, sister of Lee Houser, that her brother had found a box containing $100,000 or more, while engaged in re- pair work upon a road near here, and that the whole story was a& hoax framed by her brother, a practical ulur. her version of the affair was ing given little credence today. Fellow laborers, who were working near Houser at the time the find is said_to have been made, are equal emphatic in declaring he did uneart € box. The men also described Houser as a very quiet, retiring man, and say they have never known him to play a practical joke. A PENNSY TRAIN WRECKED. MATAWAN, N. Y., August 28.—Both lines of the' Pennsylvania Railroad Company were blocked near Matawan early today when the engine and one Pullman of the New York-bound Penngylvania ?Dl’.‘l was deratled No one was injured. The engineer and fireman jumped. » known today. e | ti i i it Russian Artisans Prosperingy Under Strapge Pact With So viet Take Over Houses, Repair Them and Split Rent. Will Be Owners of Dwellings After 20 Years. Bricklayers, plasterers, paperhangers and plumbers are likely to become the future wealthy landlords of Russia, ac- eording to Charles W. Surles, American Relief Administration worker, of 225 Indiana avenue. “They are the people to whom the housing problem offers no terrors. They are assured of living quarters for themselves and families, and ulti- mately of & nice little rent roll coming in regularly if present building prac- tices remain in vogue. “There is 2 marked improvement in the appearance of Moscow since I ar- rived there a year ago last May,” said Mr. Surles, “and it is due, in a measure, to the fact that a number of the ruined Dbuildings are being reconditioned under & co-operative plan. A group of work- men are allowed to take over one of the old residences. on condition ,that they will make it again habitable. They can do the work themselves or hire it done, and when it Is completed they are privileged to live in the build- Ing themselves and to rent out the re. maining space. As 1 understand it, they have to pay in to the government one-half of the rents that they collect for the first twenty years, keep the bullding in permanen{ repair. and at the end of that time the building is to pass into their permanent possession.” Although most of his time was spent in the Russian capital, where he was in charge of the commodity accounting for the $7.535,000 worth of medical supplies from the United States Army surplus and from the American Red Cross, which the A. R. A. distributed, Mr. Surles also traveled extensively, visiting Kiev, Odessa, the SHOOTING OF REV. PIERCE IS DESCRIBED IN COURT (Continued From First Page.) up a pistol from the ground near Mr Pierce’s hand, and that later when the pistol was examined one discharged cartridge was found in_its chamber. Defense counsel also gof into the rec- ord a statement by the witness that when Mr. Pierce came out of the house with the shotgun, he. Godsey, stepped to one side, “to get out of the range” a8 he was in line with R. O. Garrett In answer to a direct question, the witness said _he could not _say whether Mr. Plerce had not fired, neither could he say that Larkin 'C. Garrett had fired. Replying to further questions, Mr. Godsey said he was a clerk in Flip- pen’s general merchandise store and that he was not on speaking terms with R. O. Garrett, although he and L. C. Garrett a1 speak. Mr. Godsey was excused after being on the stand an hour, his testimony having been frequently interrupted by objections and tilts between counsel. Another Eyewltness. G. D. Diggs, another eyewitness. told of seeing the Garrett brothers going to the Pierce home. Later, he sald, Mrs. L. T. Danby ran out into | the road, screaming: “They are fight- Ing; they are killing Mr. Flerce!! e sald he reached the Plerce home in time to see the end of the fight and the subsequent shooting. Mr. Digge described how, he said, Mr. Pierce entered the house and returned with the shotgun. He said he saw R. O. Garrett cover the min- ister with his revoiver and heanl some one say: “Give me that gun,” but did not know who made statement. The witness declared he heard two shots very close together, but could not say who fired the first, though he was sure Larkin G. Garrett fired the second. He then gave an uninterfupted and rather dramatic description of how he saw R O. Garrett fire time after time into the minister's body. Rising to his feet before the jury. he re-enacted the scene as he said he saw it, “Robert Garrett placed the re- volver against Mr. Pierce's heart and fired. As Mr. began to fall, Robert Garrett fired again, again anl again. He fired again and again after the body was om the ground.” As he testified the witness leaned toward the jury and went through the motions of firing as he sald it was done by R. O. Garrett. J. M. Shepherd, also an eyewitness to the tragedy, followed. He said that when he reached the Plerce home he saw the minister standing at the corner of the porch with a pistol in his hand and facinz R. O. Garrett, a little to his left. and Lar- kin C. Garrett slightly behind his brother. He did not see the shot- gun at all, he said. Says Larkin Fired First. Larkin Garrett fired the first shot and then R. O. Garrett stepped to- ward Mr. Plerce and fired into his body—*"almost against his body.” the witness said. He also told of seelng other shots fired by R. O. Garrett, several after the minister was on the ground. He said Mr. Plerce’'s face was badly bruised and bloody. Mr. Shepherd aiso said he did not see the minister fire, fhough he had the pistol in his hand. He produced the revolver, which he sald was the one Mr. Pierce had and which, he testified, contained one empty and four loaded cartridges, when it was On cross-examination, the witness admitted that Mr. Plerce might have fired his revolver without him know- ing it. fie was asked about the meeting the home of Willie Gray, four at ago, at which a proposal to kill years {R. O. Garrett is alleged to have been made. “Did you attend the meeting?" Garrett Threatened. “Yes,” we had a meeting at which we discussed ways and means of carrying the election of Mr. Dickerson ‘over Mr. Garrett for court clerk, and “Mr. Stuart said the only way to win he election was to kill Bob Garrett.” “Immediately several of us got upon our feet and said If anything lke that was to be done we were not in it,” said Mr. Shepherd. “Don’t you know that on May 3 an attempt was made to assassinate one of -the Garretts?” ‘Don’t you know that $3,500 reward has been offered for the apprehen- sion of the person who shot at Mr. Chandler that night?" “Yes." Much wrangling here ensued over Mr. Shepherd being allowed to state it 1t was not a matter of common knowledge, following the shooting of Chandler, that an attempt had been made to assassinate one of the Gar- retts. “Waen't it rumored that it was a ctaged affair?’ asked Mr. Bonifant. The defense objected, but Mr. Smith safd: “Well, let it & There was some latughter from the counsel, and Judge White _ad- monishsed the legal contingent. say- ing: “This matter Is a serious one and I think the sihiles of counsel gre very unbecoming. Court recetse pm. for dinner at 12:05 ——e ‘Ona swallow does not make & sum- er, success, ™~ the | Pierce crumpled and | CHARLES W. SURI Crimea. Minsk, Kharkov (the capital of the ~ Ukrain Petrograd and Ekaterinosiav. He als time in the Alexandrovo “Of course, erons a bes people ving, but it to me that M shows more jof imprc than the other towns,"” Not only are there building improvements, but there is some Work being done repairing the | streets. One of the interesting phases { of the latter operation is the fact that numerous shrines, small structures housing an {kon ‘ore which the peasants piously cross themselvés and frequentlv kneel in_prayer, are being torn down ostensibly because their presence in the center of the | st ts is an obstruction to traffic. ‘Before 1 left Moscow, 1 noticed that se irches had- been | elosed and were placed under a guard |of soldiers. 1 d t know whether !thnt was really done to prevent peo- | ple worshiping there: perhaps it was {only to protect the Luildings. Moscow is full of churches and there are still plenty of them running.” 0 BANDITS FLEE district | WITH S0 UM |Three Stand Guard Over Watchmen While Seven Roll Out 45 Barrels. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, August 28.—W |armed men stood guara i three watchmen se le three over the 1of whisky from the | Wakem & McLaughlin /ALl the robbers esca { liquor. The stolen Hquor, according to po- lice estimates, might be marketed at bootleg prices for something Iike $90,000. -~ The warehouse, a government bond- { ed warenouse, is situated on East Iili- nois street and, according to police information, the robbers rolled the barrels of whisky out of the front entrance and loaded them without any interruption. While the three watchmen held under cover of revolvers in the band knocked hoards ! stairways and rolled the barrels down skids from the ond and floors. During the time the men were heid prisoners, the robbers registered the watchmen's regular calls on a watch service. - When the robbers fled the watch- men summoned the police, but the invaders and their cargo vanished. IINERS' REFUSAL 10 ARBITRATE HIT Julius H. Barnes Sees Chal- lenge to Basic Principle of Industrial Relations: In its present aspect the coal situa- tion has become a challenge to a funda- mental principle of industrial relations, Jullus H. Barnes, president of the Cham. ber of Commrerce of the United States, declared vesterday in a statement deal- ing with the controversy in the anthra- cite Industry. . “We never have found,” Mr. Barnes said, “any method of settiement of dis- putes to replace the one of physical con- test and violence except the method of Judicial interpretation by reference to an impartial tribunal. The establish ment of courts and tribunals is the one distinctive feature which marks the dif- ference between a civilized organiza- tion of society and that of unorganized barbarism. Offercd to Arbitrate, “Now, if it is true that in this dis- warehouse of into a truck ed with the were others off the pute there has been on the part of the | operators an unreserved offer to submit | the questions to impartial arbitration, and if that offer has no conditions which tend to render it unfair or partial.in any degree, and if that offer has been flatly refused, then we .are, as I sald, to the point 'of challenge to the prin- clple on which organized society pre- { serves its orderly existence. “There has developed, moreover, a feeling that the public has an in- ‘terest in the settlement of wage dis- putes and of relations between work- | such a|San _Antonio. iers and their employers on scale as ghis, such as has not before been gerlerally recognized. It is now realized that grants unfair demands on either side, and is reimbursed by a public price levied on every consumer, is not a fair settlement in an article of such common ude and of such a charac- ter as to assume almost the character of a monopoly. Direct Challepge Seen. “Therefore, there is an unusual sig- nificance in the direct issue, stripped of all other technicalities, as to whether, in_this great industry, the question of the relations between workers and employers is to be sub- |Jecl to the determination of an im- partial tribunal, in which the publie interest will aiso be considered, or Wwhether one side or the other shall impose its’ will brutally upon the other, and the public pay the cost. “It may be true that, twenty years |ago the Tefusal of the employers to submit thege questions to arbitration, when requested by workers, is today the foundation on which justification is attempted for today's refusal on the other side, but the ethics of twen- ty years ago in industrial relations are not the ethics of today, and past nd ofe fine deed does not make | wrongs do not make the foundation| mendous )for present wrongs as well” v en other robbers | j early today loaded forty-five barrels | third | starving, TALKS and TALES . Wih and About CAPITAL’S GUESTS | | If asked to name the port handling the greatest volume of imports into llhf‘ United States next to New York, I venture to say that not one person |in a thousand would answer ofthand, {the aistrict of Port Arthur, Tex., which fncludes the adjacent towns of Beaumont, West Port Arthur and 2 'ort Neches. This: grouwp today, according to R. c.y Daft of Houston, Tex., president of " the Waco, Beatmont, Trinity and Sai\‘ne Railroad Cempany, not only clai 918 such distinction, but can also shovv figures ‘which places it fifth rank iameng all ports of the country |in_vo §ume of all tonnage handled. My, .Duff is stopping at the Hotel Washi: 2,5ton, “While attending to busi- ness wAth the Intérstate Commerce Commis gion relative to the consumma- tion of % deal by which he secured the abo\ae-mentioned road, it being formed b3 ' the cbnsolidation of two lines in T 9 Xas-formerly owfled by th Missouri, . @3nsas and Texas. The de tails of t%h € transaction are no being com Hleted, Mr. Duff havin taken hold _ & pril 1 last. Applicatio, 3 has already been made to extend th«® Hne 101 miles from its ent south. WNMOst terminus at Live ingston to t1 w Port Arthur district, which when o vmpleted will intersect en route a bo “‘ of 800,000 ac of virgin timber . @nds. carrying 2.600.- 000,000 feet of t.2nber, thence through the gulf coast g 21t dome oil produc- ing district, sei %'ing the three oil ficlds of Saratog., Batson and S Lake, famous in- cOnhection operations of the | 2te John W The road will th =1 continue tw miles across the ric belt into aumont, a city (v 50,000, located the head of na Wigation on th. Neches river, and {h*nce alongsid of the Neches rivei’ 4 stream of about a quarter-mile - wide and twen- ty-five deep., through ~ Port hes and alongside of the governmen ship canal, constructed 3iround shore of Sabine lake to Porti Arthur and West Port Arthur. This district to Port about twenty miles, rep pesents most remarkable industri's'l area the southwest.. Prior to d kscovery oil at Spindle Top, south of Beau mont, the section from Bea3imont to Port’ Arthur was desolates Drairic lands entirely undeveloped. . Today the banks of the streams a t'e lined with great oil refinerie e 1! oper- ating, and three under const.?iction, whose pipe-line systems i3 diate throughout the southwest, ancl Wwith one to three carloads of Meg<ican crude oil arriving daily. se refineries run more than A 70.- rels a day, with a capas it3 w h is dally being enlarged. Sia ¢ 1900 the percentage of population i N the area has increased 1,000 per ! jumping from 10,000 in t approximately 100,000 toda; In additifon the government has deepened the waterway up to Beau- mont twenty-five feet, making it pos- sible for the groups of ports to hold their important position In_short order another extension northwest to Waco will be under- taken which, if successful, will ierce the heart: of the cotton belt and create a direct line from that city to Port Arthur, thereby reliev- ing much of the present congestion resulting from transportation of the normal output of 2,000,006 bales of cotton in the section to Galveston. Mr. Duff's eyes sparkled as he showed where the volume of imports received at the Port Arthur sroup last year amounted to $350,000,000, while the OuUtgoiBE ovean lomnaze was greater than that of the district of Galveston a &reater, too, than that of New Orleans. The exhilaration resulting from hearing of such Prosperity was short- ived, however, for mo sooner had 1 entered the lobby of the Hotel La Fayette than 1 ran s¥ap-bang into Thomas H. Pickford, well known local property owner, who had just re- turned to his apartments: after a three-month trip - abroad, six weeks of which had heen wpent in the re- stricted Ruhr district Mr. Plckford was amything but op- timistic in his report of conditions Europe, and was emphatic in his decla- ration 'that at present things looked most discouraging. “Germany is ! syuckin tion,” said the 1 ower per cent of the masses vire virtual and those unfortunate nough to be cooped up- in the re- tricted area of the Ruhr \Are on the verge of Insanity. It is a common sight fo gee taxicab drive®s eating their black loaf and one cwion for dinner, Of course, a few prot\eers i the unhappy country are Makir; money, buying property on tima, and then walting for the mark to devline to pay for it. They pay their taxes in the same wey, but the great maswts have nothing. Referring to conditions in the Ru especially, Mr. Pickford said thag France had apparently lost her he “Her ,treatment of the imprison people is most harsh,” he continuec “The slightest excuse will bring fort Arthur ¢ the a settlement, which | and said drastic orders forbldding any Germ to cross the lines. Families are s rated overnight, young girls handled roughly by Algerian soldiers, and life for the residents is most un- bearable. The invasion is an abso- lute failure, and is only serving to intensify bitter hatreds.” Mr, Pickford said the attitude of the invaders toward Americans was none too courteous, and gave a specific M- stance, where he assisted the' widow of Gen. Duval in her efforts to se- cure transportation for a yourkg gen- tlewoman from the restricted atvea (o wer home in Frankfort. “The permit was granted,” said Mr. Pickford. ¢but when time came for the young wonan to leave it was immediately scinded.” i On the other hand, the tourist said} Americans were treated with all con- sideration by the Germans, and that the populace was most distressed when our doughboys left for home. As an example of the distress in the kaiser's old domain, Mr. Pickford stressed the condition in Wiesbaden, heretofore one of the most prosper- ous towns in all Germany, declaring that at present more than 50 per cent of the shops were closed. great hotels and dwellings going to rack and ruin, and no hope of reliet for the terror- stricken inhabitant Fearfully down in the mouth after such_a pessimistic recital, T beat it hot-foot downtown again’ in search of another Texan and, entering the ‘Willard Hotel. nearly upset Dantel ,Willard, president of the Ba timore® and Ohio railroad, who was hurrying from the house to keep an agement. rngx:!tod‘)' rushing up to the desk, T begged to be allowed a talk with some party from the Lono Star state and was immediately sent un to the fourth floor, where I found T. B Baker of San Antonlo, president of the Baker string of hotels, with big houses at Fort Worth, Austin and Mr. Baker was extremel:r optimi tic over the outlook of his busine was on his way north to etails for the finishing of complete 5 the St. Anthony, in his new house, San_Antonfo. The recognition of Mexico will be a great boon to the hotel business in southern Texas, acoording to the San Antonio man, paving the way for a great exodus of tourists from the ftates, who have heretofore felt squeamish about venturing into that country. “Folks in our section of Texas and the people of Mexico have always worked together, and resumption of diplomatio relations will be a gre impetus to cement these- relations. eaid Mr. Baker. He said further that the Mexican government was contemplating the construction of a huge highway from. New Laredo to Mexico City, which. hen completed, will add greatly to the pleasure of American tourists. ‘Asked what effect prohibition had had on the hotel business, Mr. Baker said it would be impossible to de- tormine results for many years as many other sources from which money is derived have evolved from the dry enactment, especially the tre- increase in touring. T automobile MIXER, ) 14