Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1925, Page 2

SIXP. 0. OFFICIALS LAID OFF IN'PROBE .. Part in Plot With Two Con- | gressional Employes to In- fluence Bill Charged. wo Washington residents, Capitol, and six post office six cities suspen; positions following an lon by post office in nto charges that money was 1sed to influence postal pay in These facts Postm General a statement in were bei re egislation were vealed S. New, in today E street, ome of discharged as Senate by ster made put the local men, assistant clerk of office committee ck C. Riedesel of Hampshire avenue, clerk of office committee, resign what he termed connected with the post Fred New House post ant notoriety vestization Six Held Migh office duty execu Posts. offict The six Is we post from embers of the the National pervisors impor are fon of Pos: some of t positions in t nost ey ar acting superinten w York City, In t vears; James M. G ashier at Boston, e; Peter Wiggle, postmaster of Detrolt, 24 vear: fce; Harvey M. Tittle, assistant «ster of Springfield, Ohio, 25 vea ervi 1. J. Fields serintend at Loutsville 4 Willlam Sansor ndent o with acti ser 4 years of The investigation nspectors came on interview between Post New and President Coolidge. tement by Mr. New revealed for t first facts in connection with ges involvi The offi of igation pay of Attorn at no s mployes of Se ttees under t included in the definiti of the United nst whose acceptance of are directed certain penal statutes, Traced Back to March. Inspectors C. H ork and R. M waukee were brought to Wash to m the investigation. The ts were contained In a joint repo e report implies that the init activities inquired into had their i ception March, 1924, Dermot requested t our po: supervisors assist the congr committees in preparing salary reases of post plo The Post Office Department’s r to detail these men without reque from tho committee was met wi Vice Chairman Paige's request th. McGurty, Tittle, Ransom and Fiel be assigned to help the Tittle then was president ¢ tional Association of Postal announc Pos Clarahan New gt of efu the Shortly gton with a him, whom the association’s in Washington, accor port, but they advised him such sment cotld nots be made il the employ of t i It was how ording to the report, th McDermot would be paid $125 month as correspondent of the Post Supervisor, a monthly publication the association Callet Shie:a arrangement, the was simply a vell to shie payment, according to a lett to McGurty, since McDe: one article for t after they reached Was McDermot approached proposition that they empl knew personally, paid representati ver, ac = for Payment. repo lissatisfied with would be empi as soon as he Government servic plan, according suggestion, accor ssociation’ assess § apicce was decid understanding th amount thus rafs devoted to legislation ar running expense 100 was raised A e repo 5.000 ‘members $§ ipon, with the two-thirds of the was to b nder Approximater~ 3 ated record re & T executive committ; the arrangement on the with rec McDer fle ds of di not, with t proposed 1 dissension by arran; member of the commi advanc be as t paid to Report on Payments. The \ug ot rowed from Ju! 11 t ite 85 vouchers laining & bLeing annotated as for e irred in this city for wo postal that All the super suggested his witho employmel agon) connection wi fearing bill, fair 1d for this re son th rth kee post $1,000 w present of $1,000 ad furnished them i 1t time. Ferg of the assoc cashier of t made a inspector and stat as purely a gift a ted by Rjedesel. tive committee indicated, that Riedesel knew he Ellsw se ilway that the was not office, s to recei present First Clue to Cane. clue disclosed (o the when. Me: dissatisfled ~with which the money inspector's report said _six supervisors directly cated proved unwilling a at first misleading ments until Fields and com insom ma breast toid the facts. sther schem was disclosed estigation 8 a result Last August arrangements wi cel post and attemp @ group A view » Influenc: slation changing pare This plan, however, w of it reach . Who broug airman Ste he i sought ake up when n e committee. sers of 1 to contribute ses and oth, post we ) aplece, to McDermot, posing as gener them, in The headquarters was given at 2, Washingto inspect visited room they were informed th months 1go R el visited th and made arramgcments for el paid t anager ents, ssociation \lbee Build post offic of t room 7 Wh . th iede ofli cler Harry H. McDermot, 1313 ”«\'\m"; was the The New Jersey Assistant, Who the “unpleas- | ve committee post- ener: The Depar States mone Bates of Mi re- g when Me- | ot committee. Super- them | without agreed, furthering sal association’ plan ed a certain amount, McDermot him be- tive commit- frank Cor: however, “Most | witnesses | state attempted Ly Mc these |29 year: semi-annual | t several |a receiptta jFirst of Twins | Arrives in 1924, Second in 1925 ¢ the Assoclated Press AMARILLO, Tex., January 2.—Not born in the same year, but yet twins fs the case of two youngsters here who made their appearance last night in the home of Mr. and Mra. T. B. Danlels. Thomas came into 9:45 p.m., December 31, 1924. brother Tames was born in 19 hour being 1:40 a.m. EAEns 2 VANRPERQUSTED, * SCORED BY STONE the world at His the rks | m- | ed | in- | ng re- blie Attorney General Removes Refused to Resign. ed, Waiter D. Van Riper. the New Jer- sey assistant United States attorney, ho refused to resign at the and A Attorney General Stone, was re- !1movea from office today Mr. Van Riper's soparation from the service is effective Immediately, and was ordered by Mr. Stone within a few hours after he had received a letter from the outgoing assistant district attorney refusing to resign and attacking officials of the Depart- ent of Justice. Without comment, Mr. Stone made public the letter he had written to Van Riper, demanding his resignation, | which demand was refused. The as- sertion was made that the Attorney General considered the activ Van Riper as “a gross disre, the Government's interests handling of the duties” of Telling the assistant district attor- { ney to discontinue participation in | the work of the office, he Informed | him that “the particular counts | @Bainst you are grave, indeed." 1 tal he he d- h ng v-| rs he 13 ng Text of Letter. | The Attorney General's letter to Mr. ey | Van Riper. follows «w| “Since our conference n-|partment, I have again gone over the he | entire situation of your handling of on [ the du of assistant United States |attorney. The report of my examiners forth what I regard as a very | serious condition 1 “The particular counts against you o¢ | #T¢ ETave, indeed, and amount to what O'11 consider a gross disregard of the | Government's interests in the han- | diing of the duties of your office. Your = xplanations of these delinquencies do lai |0t in my opinion, place your case n-|In any more favorable light. For that reason, I feel that you should at once . | discontinue all participation in the | work of the office of the United States attorney in New Jersey. If you wiil file your resignation at once, effective s of January 15, you may be given a1]a leave absence until that date est| "I have tried to be both painstaking th {@nd patient in this matter and have at [€iven consideration to all of Your ex- ds |Planations and statements in our vari- | ous conferences and in the letters you a- | exhibited to me. In view, however, of my official duty I can take no other step than the above.” Mr. Stone's letter was made public comment. Tt was assumed, oy |however, that he had decided to give as | publication to the communication as ve |a result of the publication by Mr. Van at t h- ing to the re-|Riper of his reply to the department an|in |in which so | Walker he | he denounced Mrs. Willebrandt, Assistant ney General, and informed the Attor- eneral that he would not resign. Van Riper's letter arrived at the Department of Justice early to- day Mabel at al gt Edge Backs Van Riper. Announcement of the Attorney General's action was followed by a renewal of the dispute between him and Senator Edge, Republican, New Jersey, over the incident, Senat Zdge declaring in a statement that no self-respecting man could do other than Van Riper has done.” Senator Edge referred in his state- ment to the telegram_sent to N | Jersey by Mrs. Mabel Walker Wi brandt, assistant Attorney Generad, directing that Van Riper should not handle the rum cases. The Senator added: “In my judgment, he goes out ot office much stronger than he went in. A compliance under the circumstances with the demand to resign would have been a virtual admission of guilt ““After the remarkablbe Willebrandt telegram, expressing lack of confi- dence, he owed it to himself to de- mand the justification for this public ault on his professional honor and integrity."” The department miade no comment on the incident beyond making pub- lic the correspondence. An outgrowth of the Weehawken rum scandal, the removal of Mr. Van |R:|v“1‘. parallels in some measure a | similar action taken recently in the rt 1d er - he p- to d- ts ed at ed | ee to g- t- e of United States Attorney Harrig| |at Boston questions In arising that out instance, too, ot liquor-law 1y he to x| the chain of circumstances leading to X | removal from office rk & Senator Underwood Recovers. Senator Underwood, Democrat, Ala- bama, who has been iil at his home here with, influenza, was in his seat today in the Senate, having braved one of the worst blizzards Washing- ton has hag in several years. The former Democratic leader ap- peared to be in good condition and was welcomed LY a number of his | colleagues on both stdes of the isle. He was prepared to resume direction of the fight for the passage of his bill for the leasing of Muscle Shoals by the Secretary of War. ut th ey | to n- us e he ed | & na | of mail addressed to the ‘Postal Ship- pers d Feder Bureau. Conslderable mail was received for a but suddenly stopped when the plan fell through.” The inspectors found that the su- pervisors’ association pald the six in- spectors $7,709, and the Chicago branch paid $1,650 in addition to San som for leglslative purposes at Wash- | ingt during the period they were i here. When it Dbe u- time ve me known, several days g0, that McDermot had been dis charged Chairman Sterling sald the {action had been taken “for the good of the service” and withheld further comment. Chairman Griest of the House committee, in announcing his acceptance of Riedesel's resignation, declined to discuss the circumstances which led to it de | he | th | Pt- | has been in the Government service said that at the close of the 15| Jast session of Congress a member of el the supervisors' association in saying as | good-bye to him informed him the as- ed | soclation was planning a little sur- ht|prise. Another member later safd the | association was planning to mak: | gift of a little purse of money “in er appreciation of the million and one re | courtesies and kindnesses - shown be | them on every occasion in the years ral | past.” “That their intended expression of he | appreciation was from the purest mo. 19| tives of friendship,” said Riedsel, "I en | had not and have not now the slight iis | est doubl, and that there ever was ¥ thought or expectation of y im- iper- condu simpiy sinis- e ce | p un ; Attor- | prosecutions played a leading part in | i In a formal statement Riedesel, who AMERICAN MARINES LAND AT NANKING Detachment of Troops to] Protect Foreign Property, t Shanghai Hears. E By the Associnted Press. SHANGHAIL January 2.—It is re- |ported that a detachment of Ameri- can marines has been landed at Nan King to protect the foreign residen tial district, following the looting by | the bodyguard of Gen. Chi Shieh- Yuan, former military governor of| Kiangsu, of a number of largest silk stores in the city, causing a loss of $800.000. Gen. Chi is a refugee here in Shanghal LIN THREATENS OFFICERS. is General Orders Culprits Caught or Commanders Executed. By the Associated Press. TIENTSIN, January 2—Gen. Lin Ching-lin, recently appointed military governor of Chihll province, and pro- tege of Gen. Chang Tso-lin, Manchu- rian leader, has given the command- ers of troops in the area where sol- | diers raided a train on last Tuesday until next Monday to find the culprits The commanders will be executed then if the guilty are not found, Lin | ays, adding that he will pay losses of foreigners as a result of the hold- ROB MUNITIONS SHIP. Gangsters, Believed Soldiers, Seize $250,000 Cargo. By the Associated Press SHANGHAI, January Upward of a hundred armed gangsters, belleved to be soldiers disguised, boarded the steamers Kingta and Kiang Yung Wednesday, while the vessels were moored at the King Lee Yuen wharf, on the French concession bund, over- powered the officers and crews, for- eign customs guards and French de- tectives, locking them in their state- rooms, and seized 200 cases of rifles and munitions, valued at more than a quarter of a million dollars. Disguished Consigned to Sun Chuen-Fang. The rifies and ammunition had beer hipped from Hankow and were con- igned to Gen. Sun Chuen-Fang, whu was engaged on the side of Gen. Wu Pel-Fu, deposed Peking military chief, | in the recent attack on Chekiang. Tha arms and ammunition, however, had been intercepted and were being held by the customs authorities. The gangsters made their onslaught from Chinese junks, grappling the ships. The seized goods were trans- ferred to the Junks, which disap- | peared. | Suip's Company Unharmed. | Those on board the steamers were I not harmed. The incident occurred | Wednesday night, but news of it was suppressed until this morning. Both | vessels belong to the China Mer- | chants’ Steam Navigation Company | The Kiang Tung fs a vessel of 1,451 tons register. The Kingta does not {appear in Lloyd’s Register | School Shows News Reels. | Motion pictures have becoype a regu- |1ar part of the equipment in the Se- nfor High School at Dubuque, Iowa. News reels are shown during the | luncheon period when weather condi- tions make outdoor reereations un- pleasant, and they are fast becoming popular. No admission fee is charged | By the Associated Press CHICAGO, Janua —Trans- missian of pictures across the con- tinent by telegraph by an instru- ment known as telepix (telegraph pictures) has been demonstrated as practicable, says today's Chi- cago Tribune, which is joint owner with the New York Daily News of the process. Pictures of the Notre Dame- Leland Stanford game in Pasa- dena, Callf., were transmitted by | the telepix to Chicago and New York for printing today in the formal inauguration of the opera- tion. ! The telepix machine will both | send and receive pictures by tele- graphic dots and dashes, requiring { and hour to 75 minutes to trans- mit an ordinary photograph. The number of telegraphic signals re. quired for ote pleture was sald to | night | statea | the woman home. When Washingtonians awoke thix morning they found the city under a blanket of xnow, additional evidence | accompanying plctures show some of the handicaps faced when the time ar-| begin the ordinary pursults of life. The upper picture | | made on Peansylvania Avenue in the v | Bullding, shows Government employex plowing their npanies of the city fought to retain their xchedules ix shown by the center picture. Bottom pieture shows a derallment at the south end of | the Key Bridge. Numercus such accldents occurred on the few lines operating. rived for citizens t rallway e ARREST IN SLAYING OF THOMAS BRADY R. J. Beavers Is Being Held as Witness—Second Man Still Sought. Wanted in connectioin with the in- vestigation of the slaying of Thomas Brady, colored, in a near-beer saloon at 807 North Capitol street, late Sun- day afternoon, Raymon J. Beavers, 21, 921 H street, was arrested last by Detectives Livingston and Vermillion and held as a Government witness Beavers is sald being with to have admitted George M. King and seph Irancis Nally when King is alleged to have killed the colored man. King was named by a coroner’s jury as Brady's slayer and Nally was held as an accessory zreh for King and detectives to Southern 1ed and, Beaver Mary where It was thought King probably | had sought protection on the prem- ises of one of the numerous moon- shiners said to be operating there. Separated in Maryland. It developed that both King and Beavers did drive to Southern Mary- land the day after the shooting, sepa- rating on the road not far from Hughesville. King Is believed to have returned to this city. while Beavers continued to Leonardtown He later returned to the city and was arrested. Beavers, discussing the affair with the polic declared he took no part in the trouble in the near-beer saloon. Following the shooting, Beavers sald he left the place by a rear door, re- turned to North Capitol street and met the young woman who had been in the automobile with the three men. Going to the Union Station, he he hired a taxicab and took Later, he hired an automobile and drove about the city, turning it in and getting another car becausé he thought the police learned the identity of the first car he drove. Detectives locked Beavers up to be held as o witness when the case is investigated by the grand jury, and renewed their search for King. Police of other cities have been asked to search for him. For Good and All From the Crusoe Magazine. Clerk (making excuses for a big error)—But sir, man isn't a machine He can’t go on forever. Employer—Oh, yes, he can: vou're going forever at the end of this week! |Coast Game Pictures Radioed East Proves New Device Is Practicable be fewer than half the number of dots and dashes necessary to tele- graph a 1,000-word news dispatch. According to Its owners, the telepix is easier to operate than a five-tube radio set and takes up less room. Only bad weather, in- terrupting telegraph facllities, can incapacitate the machine. The sending operator fixes to a drum a copper halftone plate made rrom a photograph. Where each of the thousands of dots appears on the plate an electrical contact is established. On the receiving ma- chine the transmitted dots are recorded on chemically impreg- nated paper fastened to a similar drum. It telegraphs 40 dots a second. Laboratory ~and experimental work hes been done for a year and tests made of the telepix for the last two months, the Tribune RIDAY, JANUARY Winter had arrived in full blast. The cintty of the State, War and Navy 3 to work. How the {JUDGES FACE Quiz | ON TRAFFIC CASES BY HOUSE BODY (Continued from rst Page) distinet judg The subcon ations has traffic court with other| ttee on District appro- | sked for a record of al‘.] traffic cases taken before the court dur- ing the last few months, and is having each case investigated so as to be prop- erly prepared to discuss the matter with the judges on a sound basis of fact. Heard Police The subcommittee was led to this | course after hearing testimony from the | Police Department. Police officials were asked why they were not giving better service and why traffic violations were not stopped through severe penalties. They were told that the blame rested with the courts, and specific cases were cited The hearings on the District appr | priation bill will be resumed this after- noon, when officials from the school and water departments are expected to Justify the budget estimates and to make arguments in favor of substantial increases over amounts recommended in the budget WATER FUND SOUGHT. to Ask $1,020,000 for Service and Extension. Testimony. Officials When officials of the District water department appear before the House subcommittee on District appropria- tions probably this afterncon they will seek approval of a total of $1,020,000, recommended by the Bureau | of the Budget, which is an fncrease of $4,000 over current appropriations for the water department. One of the most important individual items in the budget for the water service is the sum of $175,000 for ex- tension of service mains in supplying new localities with water. While this amount is not as large as the water department could use in meet- ing demands for water oxtenslons next year, it is a slight increase over the current appropriations. Among the new trunk mains which water department officials will ask the subcommittee to approve are the fol- lowing: Extensions Now Proposed. In Nebraska avenue, from Wisconsin | avenue to Forty-seventh street, $50,- 000; in Rhode Island avenue northeast, from Sixteenth street to Queens Chapel road, $70,000; in Allison street, from | Ilinois avenue to New Hampshire ave- nue, $48,000, and for several extensions in the vicinity of Forty-eighth and Grant streets northeast, $42,000. 1In the vicinity of Eighth and 1 streets northwest, $13,000. Another essential feature is $23,000 for the installation of fire hydrants. Since the expenses of the water de- partment are paid for from the water rent collected by the department, offi- cials are hopeful that liberal treat- ment will be given for the needs of the water department. 8-INCH SNOWFALL CRIPPLES TRAFFIC; THOUSANDS WALK (Continued from First Page.) stated that train service had been but little affected by the storm. There were some late arrivals, but the de- |lays were not due directly to the snow, it was asserted. Among the street car desasilments was one at the Virginia end of the Key Bridge, another at Seventh and G streets and a street railway snow plow at Wisconsin avenue and River road. Following a previous storm a plan was worked out at the District Bulld- ing under which the men of vaiious {branches of the Engineer Department vould be pressed into service by the | missioner treet Cleaning Department. ' Up tu noon touday the street clean- 92 2, 1925 ing department had not called out these reserve forces. Of the 17 plows owned by the city government, only elght belong to the street cleaning department, and they are being concentrated on the car track streets downtown. Supervisor Hacker's alm is to have these plows follow the trolley sweep- ers and push the snow away from the track in order to prevent it from be- coming packed in the rails and there- by jamming up car service, The remaining nine District plow being used under L. R. Grablll, superintendent of suburban roads, are in the outlying sectlons in the same way. The onl hovel men in service are the 176 regular street cleaners, who are mostly in the downtown section clearing cross walks for pedestrians, Robert Johnson, in charge of the District repair shop, sald he had 150 shovels ready to be handed to extra men if those in charge of snow re- moval decide to call out the laborers of the highway and other divistons. Mr. Hacker said the street-cleaning motor plows went into service about 6 or 7 o'clock this morning. Both street railway ' companies said they had their sweepers out throughout the night and were hopeful of getting by without difficulty until the sleet turned into heavy snow about 4 a.m. ‘The supervisor of street cleaning said he regarded the plow equipment the District now has as ample to do the work necessary to keep the street car highways open. Mr. Hacker said he did not feel like Investing a larger sum of money in equipment, because big snows do not visit Washington overy season. The department, he explained, has but $168,000 available for street clean- ing work. As soon as there is an appreciable cessation in the snowfall, he sald, the snow would be cleared away from sewers and other places. Policeman Henry ¢ Bauer of the second precinct was slightly injured in a triple collision between automo- biles about $:30 a.m. in front of 1324 Fourteenth street. Bauer was a pas- senger {in the car of Policeman Dankmeyer and when the machine became stalled he got out to muk~ a path through the snow for the front wheels. While a taxicab driven by 1407 Irving street, a dellvery truck of Bearing Cempany, and struck the liceman, NEW YORX IN STORM GRIP. John Vrohlotes ricocheted from parked nearby snow-shoveling Heavy Snowfall, With Prospect of Continuing Afternoon and Night. EW YORK, January 2.—New York City today is in the grip of the first heavy snowstorm the Winter. Driven by a slashing gale, the snow began falling at 5 o'clock As the snowfall continued unabated, the street cleaning department or- dered out 6,000 men and 417 motor- driven plows. trolley car companies reduced their schedules and put crews to work keep- ing the track clear. The Weather Bureau said the snow- fall would continue throughout the day and part ef tonight BACKS WAR MUSEUW. Senator Warren of Wyoming. chair- man of the committee on appropria- tions, today introduced a resolution providing for the appointment commission to make plans for the es- tablishment of a war museum in the Pension Office Building A similar resolution has been in- troduced in the House. Members of the commission would be the com- of pensions and the com- manders-in-chief of the American Le- glon, the Grand Army and the United Spanish War Veterans. The resolu- tion suthorized an expenditure of $1,000 for making the survey. of a FAST-COLOR SHIRTS n the semson's smartest colorings. with collars to match, or col- 3" altached $145 $2.00 and $2.50 irndes ... The Popular “LEWIS” Make UNION SUITS Bcru cotton ribbed. Regular 50 grade. 318 ale Price BATH ROBES REDUCED Blanket Robes $3.95 Reduced to. $6.75 Genuine Beacon Blanket Robes NECKWEAR Silk; Silk and Wool; Values to $2. Special, 69c 3 for 32.00 Ture Knits | to records of engaged in this work | the Washington | Elevated railway and | | were meagor. Reception Death At White House Second on Record| Minister From Hawaii Stricken at Fete 41 Years Ago. When Samuel D. Boss, veteran Post Office Department employe, feil dead in the reception line at the ‘White House yesterday it was not the first time that such a tragedy marked the New Year reception of a President of the United States. Exactly 41 years previously sim- flar festivitles wers cut short by the tragic and sudden death within the Executive Mansion itself of Elisha H. Allen, Minister from Hawall and dean of the diplomatic corps in the Capltal at the time. Judge Allen had pald his respects to President Arthur, and, according the time, had started for an anteroom for his hat and cane when he suddenly sank from an at- tack of rheumatism of the heart. Burg. Gen. Crane and a Dr. Basil Norris, who were nearby, were sum- moned, and administered assistance, but the Minister expired at «12:20 President Arthur, who had received | the diplomatic corps, and was at the | time shaking hands with the bureau chiefs, stopped the reception at once, although a long line of persons was waiting outside the White House to greet him. An account of the day says the line extended “to Fifteenth street.” The state breakfast at th. White House, which followed for the diplomatic corps, was described as of “subdued tone FOREST FIRE SEEN AOMILES DISTANT Virgin Timberland of Santo Catalina Mountains Gripped. By the Assoc TUCSON, Ariz., January 2 fire in ihe great virgin country of the Santa Satalina Mountains last night spread against a desert sky brilliant hued fan, visible 40 miles awar. To Tucson it appeared like a great flaming torch rising out of the desert Details of the fire available tod: Isolated “beyond head of Pima Canyon,” as the 1 tion of the fiye was given is th definite news received. The flames progress could mnot be learned be- cause of lack of means of communica- ed Press. -A forest only ! pedestrian | dale and Mount Rair ountains were not | believed to have been endangered, in | the opinion of observers here. Hug G. Calkins of Tucson, a supervisor of { the Coronado Nztional Forest, in which the Santa Catalinas are lo-| cated, left last night to lead the fight against destruction of the tim- ber stands surrounded by an endless | region abounding in glant cact! and dry mesquite. Australia now is enjoying its Sum- mer and is happy over pron of big crops | RASTIC Price ¢ In view of the T known assume even LA price of one! 52430 57830 Hand Tailored now, at We will buy one PRICES! cost. as .. merchandise help you be BETTER dressed at LOWER Tuxedos reduced to as low BALTIMORE FIGHTS BIG SNOWSTORM Other Maryland Cities, In cluding Rockville, Suffer Tie-Ups. By the Asiociated Prees. BALTIMORE, Md., Janu 2.—AR most complete paralysis of loc: transportation facilities marked t opening of Baltimore’s business hou today, due to snow which began falk ing last night and was continuing heavily this forenoon. Stores, offices and manufacturing plants reported insufficient arrivals of workers to permit of even a sems blance of ordinary operation. The raflroads reported no serfout delays to elther suburban or througl trains north and south, as yet. ROCKVILLE LINE HALTED. , Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., January 2.—Tis up of the trolley cars between thig city and Washington delayed hume dreds of Government workers thiy morning, and mall deliveries werd held back for many hours because of the heavy fall of snow. Though no serious accidents werq reported, a number of minor ones ard said to have resulted from slippery walks and tobogganing. Automobileg were hard to start and many of them stalled during their early morning efe rt to get out of parking places Some side streets were untracked by wheels and but Jittle by the feet of when the first sign of day- ight penetrated the fleecy air. Telephone communication was kept to the great relief of the Gove ernment workers, who were put ta the necessity of calling up their chiefs. Baltimore and Ohfo trains ta and from Washin, running regula TWO CARS OFF TRACKS open Special Dispatch to Street cars off ck er tied me early this mornin ent of automobile tra vas zed on a : heav Many Government e ployes walked to work, while were unable to get to their posts duty before the noon hour. Tele s piled up 90 per cent abov on account of these delays > for some t while 75 per snow. ROAD BLOCKED BY SNOW. blanket y. Rural roads are blc six fe five and ng it. Tra behin been snow busses ng ules. were runr VIRGINIA TRAFFIC OPEN ALEXANDRIA. Va., January Traflic d but slight ret by the snowstorm which last swept the territory south of the I ac River in the proximity Washington and Federal empl were not greatly delayed in getting to their wo Before the snow continued falling, but sidewal a streets were nowhere impassable. 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