Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1926, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system every city block and the regu tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 101,586 TWO C BRITISH STRIKE END L0OMS AS PARLEYS § BEGIN; SITUATION S | GENERALLY BETTER I Negotiations Going on Under Cover in London May Bear Fruit by Tomorrow. Labor Leader Declares. WEATHER. . S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) slightly cooler tonight; tomor ir; gentle to moderate north nds. Highest, 68, at 2:20 p.m. ves. 1y: lowest, 48, i aamn. today Fuil report on Ter ¢ Foening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION s (#) Means Associated Pr &% ;‘:‘S»”éf‘-‘ MERELY. TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1926—FORTY PAGES ond_clas ashington, matter DG Entered as post ofti NORGE TAKES TOAR! ON FLIGHT T0 POLE + ND ACROSS TOP OF WORLD T0 ALASKA Ideal Waather Conditions Re- ported Along Course Over| Arctic—New Land Is Goal| of Explorers on Airship. DO, AATTITUDE OF LABOR HELD RESPONSIBLE FORU. 3. PROGRESS 'Soundness of Theories Due to | Experience, Barnes Tells Chamber of Commerce. No. 29,960. e SAYS GOVERNMENT AND RESOURCES HAVE AIDED' Price Control Abroad and Farm Problems Here Discussed at 14th | BYRD PARTY NAKES SATEBLOTS OUF " PLANS FORRETURN - NEWS OF WILKINS {COAL BOARD CHAIRMAN REPORTED AS MEDIATOR Collapse of Walkout in Many Sec- tions Reported—Trades Congress Denies Further Calls to Men—Four Killed, Several Hurt LINCOLN ELLSWORTH. CREW EXPECTS TO COVER | 2,000 MILES IN 3 DAYS| & | ROALD AMUND! supreme economic position of States was attributed by rnes of New York, in an ning the fourteenth annua the Chamber of Commerce ttes today, to its p Discovery of Even Small Island Would Afford Connecting Link | for Air Route—Amundsen Cer-? | Jutiu Union adivess meeting o of the United H. E tain Dirigible Will Succeed in Venture Over the Ice. ay - 11.—The rigible Norge the ht to itzbergen Am i mor Now fly The expedi sage reccived from it 11:45 o'clock apt i sends its best nier (of Norw for his rdly an received immediate- wa afternoon that t0 the v) offici announced Amundsen will land found name of Capt possession of any voyage in \ther conditions for a trans. « provailing in the Arc. to the Weather Bureau. high pressure is reported S u and Alaska t elear, cold weather, wrevails ndition \hnorma fram both This indicates with Jittle win fl of although oceur m he 1 svery of Land Their Goal. Amundsen, the noted ex- Lincoln worth, hi ion thelr un- i Roald plorer, and American compa n successful attempt to reach the North | airplane last year, hope v to discover land during the Ttaltan-built dirigible Amund- is only Pole by primarily flight of thel Norge, which began today sen has pointed out that 2,000 miles from Spitzbergen to Alaska and that ‘the discovi of aven a small picce of land near the top of the world would afford an in- valuable connecting link Detween America and Lurope and Asia. Under the plans outlined by Amundsen this Spring the Norge will fly in almost straight line across the pole and th h the center of the unexplored region of the Arctic area in the polar sei. The leaders of the expedition have estimated that it will take three days to fly from Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, to Point | Barrow, Alaska. Col. Nobile at Wheel. The first pilot of the Norge is Col. IImberto Nobile, the ltallan aviation officer, who superintended her cc struction and who flew her success fuily from Rome across e to England, thence to N and Leningrad and finally to & ritzbergen, from which point Lieut. Comdr. Rich- rd E. Byrd made his airplane flight o the North Pol rly this week. Among the flvers whom Amundsen ed to take on the trip to the jole were Lieut. Hjalmar Rilser- TLarsen, Lieut. Oscar Omdahl, Capt. this | along the | Commander Sleeps Clock Around After Kings Bay ! Celebration Ends. North | BY WILLIAM BIRD. | Spectal Correspondent of The Star. | KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, May 11. } Although protesting that he was not | Comdr. Byrd retired early | return Sunday night and | the clock around, Floyd Bennett, | his pilot, doing lkewise. In the ex- | hilaration of their success they had not r ito what extent their mus. | | cles and nerves had been strained by | 10 days of unremitting labor to | prepare the expedition. | Kings Bay rubbed its eves aftor all-night celebration, wondering | whetlier it were true or not that the | [ little band of Amerfcans who wriggled | their ship into the harbor 10 days ago | in a snowstorm and rafted ashore | through the grinding fce had already {flown to the Pole and roturned. Al express the most admiration for Comdr. Byrd's accomplishment and wonder at the absolute perfection of " sued, his | thes its | his_navigation, which took his pl to the Pole without the slightest devia from the course. On his return. | ding to calculations made this orning, the plane still had gasoline 1d oil enough for 514 hours more of | ight. Prepare for Return. | The entire expedition took a day off | terday, but today the c gathering material for the return. The | Chantfer’s boilers must be cleaned, and this will ta m a week to a f | night. Mearwhile Yord. | the Josephine ! while probably doing no further ex-| ploring, will be taken up for one or | more test flights over Spitzbergen, e ally to obtain more data ubout sk construction. Both Comdr. Byrd an Bennett agree that skils are the only | stble landing gear for Polar work | but think those used in the first | flight had insufficient surface and that the design can Improve. Bennett is enthuslastic about the possibilities of Arctic flying and he predicts it will goon be a commen occurrence for planes to traverse the Polar re- gions, alighting and soaring at will Ellsworth Sees 3 Flags at Pole. In a special interview ILincoln isworth said: When the Norwegian. American and Itallan flags r side by side at the Pole there will be a symbol | to the three nations whose sons| have deposited them as an example | of the spirit which seeks to give and not to take. The Arctic has hidden its secrets for 1,000 years. Many people of different nations hav offered life and health to discover them “These efforts will be continued E | Special Cor | ment with {lieves he could live indefinitely while and | of many months, a collapsible b | which | which_will kill a polar bear. development of natur sources, habits of industry 1l stable and sound government, with {he American worker contgibuting in | large measure to the soundness | Amer n institutions. “American organized labor,” he his last vear declared the| \sure of rightful compensation for | the worker depended upon the produe. ! | tion results of his labor. Thus was abandoned the old theory of a ‘living Wag nd the fssue was squarely iio | made with the European labor Barrow | cept that the workers' daily perform | ance must be restricted so that more | day's wages must be paid to accom plish « given result. “America i no self-com titude when it speaks, with rnestness, of the lessons of | its experience and its own de. velopment in this time of economic | cricis in Great Britain. Vast and powerful trade tmions, inclined to en force the day's wage concept of re stricted production, retard ial prog ress in Great Britain with national ¢ lizations of emplo: ow to see the dividend and w earnings posibilities of highly modern equipment.” sion and Fairbanks Wonders Whethe: He Has Started Into Unex- plored Polar Area. BY FREDERICK LEWIS EARP espondent of The Star and North Amierican: Newspaper Alliance FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 1 Extraordinary static has made ra communication from Point fmpossible for the last 4 hours and we do not know whether Capt. Wil kinsg has hopped out the Arctic | ck or is still detained at his base by fog. Chief Radio Oper: Howard Mason, in e of the De troit Arctic Expedition radio system here, has not caught the signals of the Barrow station since last Sunday night At that time the weather on the northern coast of Alaska w oo fog the explorers to take their bigz monoplane, the Detroiter, out over the ica. With Capt. Wilkins are his navigator, Maj. Th his pilot, Charles 1 con G M as Five hundred gallons of gasoline | were placed In the plane’s tanks after Barrow--enough for a hours or more. Every of surplus baggage has heen lisearded - the three men will depend upon the skill of Capt. Wilkins and his experience at foraging from the Arctic if they are forced down on the ice. | comme | surance problems. i Julius Klein, director of the Bureau | { of Yoreizn and Domestic { leveled new attack on for | eontrols of essential raw er on an o | Hotel, while Frank R. ldent of the American Ilectric Rail ation, declared that more susses and more pri- will add to the grav Jlem of congestion in ) cities at another luncheon | meeting at the New W rd Hotel. one of its three 200-horsepower | M es pointed out that the time air-cooled Wright motors will keep it | ng when there shall have to be in flight. 1f it should land, however, |4 separation of the necessary from in such condition that Pllot Wiseley | the unnecessary traffic in congested would not be able to gei it into the | districts air again, Capt. Wilins is preparcd| Agriculture was advanced for a long journey across the ice, with | Ereatest problem confronting the the following equip-nen | busine interests of the country by Sleeping bags, fur clothing, John W. O'Leary, president of the luks to replace those worn | | chamber, in his annual address. t 1 on | the crisp ice during a tre Directors’ Nominations Indorsed. ibly | at, | which is made of rubberized fabric| Mr. O'Leary's address immediately and welghs less than 10 pounds, to|followed action by the national bod cross open leads of waler, two lirgoe | indorsing nominations for 17 director- | caliber rifles and a small’ gaire «gun | ® and naming of a resolutions shoots either .22 bullets or | . | small shotgun shells. The large rifles y mo single subject.” Mr.| hoot a _hollow-nosed copper hullet | O'Leary said, “has had more thought piere] » i anization than are 150 rounds of ammunition fori nd properl cach weapon. { s r the prosperity of all our ped { pl is bound up in the success of agri- | Price Control Attacked. While Mr. Barnes pointed to the new concept of American labor and our v 1y advantageous position as the basis of American living stand ards and production, scores of the more than 2,000 delezates to tl - | gathered | mieetings to discuss foreign domestic distribution, in-| ukation and transportation - of 10 Carries Simple Equipment. A forced landing is unlikely, but the Detroiter es the simple equip- which Capt. Wilkins be fiing towa he big plane, nearly feet long with a wing spread of 72 feet, at a speed of 40 miles an hou which would permit it to come in a comparatively restricte nooth ic d navigable Maytlower ites, presi as the nuk- out + Dol | permits.” .C.POLICE WOULD GET MORE POWER Give Capital Force Fed- eral Scope. The proposal that District of Colum bia policemen he given broader powers | to enforce the Volstead Jaw was acted | upon favorably today by a subcommit- | ted of the Senate judiciary committee, | which bas been considering methods | ghtening up prohibition enforee ment machinery here and throughout try. wommittee will Ke {ts rec ions to the full committee at a special meeting Thursday. The sec- tion of the new enforcement bill af fecting the District of Columbi would_ give Police Court judges and United States commissioners full au thority to issue warrants under the | national prohibitionactand would make | | members of the local police depart ment eligible to serve such warrant It also would empower District police- men to pursue bootleggers into neigh boring States with the same status | that United States officers would have. | These additional powers were recom- mended several weeks ago by officlals of the Treasury Department directing prohibition enforcement. Included In General Measure. The section covering the Distri was in the general measure for tight- ening up prohibition enforcement throughout the country. The bill is not expected to pass at session_of Congress. The wets prepared to debate it at length, Sfering as amendments their modifl- tlon proposals. The other salient features of the prohibition committee bill are: Manufacturers of malt beverages | required to sive bond and take out th The Treasury could refuse to renew liquor permits after review at the end of each year, but the permittee could appeal to the courts. | Penalties of imprisonment for 10 | vears or §10,000 fine, or both, in cases | of conviction for diverting denatured BROTHERBE GANG KILLED WARD Osear Wisting and Tdeut. Gustave unti] the secrets are revealed. 1hope Amundsen, @ nephew of the ex- plorer. All these men had been on previous polar expeditions. Mr. Ells- worth is the only American member | ofthe fiving cre ARED FOR ANYTHING. How Ttalian Crew Will Stand Cold | One of Amundsen’s Problems. | By a Special Correspondent of The St KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, May 11. Amundsen and Ellsworth e o t with good weather ! nd no unusual winds or fog they will be able to reach the North Poie and hen s a course for Alaska, they have not neglected to prepare for be- ing forced down on the ice. Indeed, all the equipment for this expedition has been planned with 2 twofold purpose— to keep them warm in the air, and to enable them to proceed with some as-| surance fety it they are forced| to desc before they reach Alaska.| The y Amundsen has | spent in the Arctie ic have been of ite value in this respect, for he vs the minimum of cloth- ing, su ind equipment that the| members of the expedition will need. | The elc s been prepared wigh | , the double need of . pecial and Anta provided, with | the pull sort, | i v k. which is on tobacco pouches and overshoes. is to enable the men to get in and out of their sults quickly, and also to reach instruments in their inner pockets without delay. Three Layers of Clothes. ayer of clothing is a woolen underwear. Over of sillk to keep out over this the flying Their feet are pro: 3 of heavy woolen ¢ wear low ubber soles to prevent /ing about the keel, but Their first Leavy suit c fs is an overail e wind iined wi ected b tocking B arks in they are 1 ey will put on high boots of water- f and soft leather, similar to those <ed by all Arctic explorers. On the ship are provisions for two onths for every man, consisting of pemmican (chopped meat and fat dried so that it will not spoil),. choco- late and biscuits, as well as malted nilk tablets. This is the same food which Amundsen has used for years i his North and South Pole expedi iions, and it has been found that a man can live on a few ounces of it a v without becoming weak. although il lose o ioi of weight. And none 3) | ou OFFICERS DESTROYING rced to take to the ice | r mathod will be successful. “The value of these expeditions i doilars and cents is fmpossible to estimate, but the people who paid for e “With thelr lives and sufferinz have not paid vainly. Ixplorations grow out of the best qualities, both | physical and mental.’ oy Jopy 2 he New York Times (Copyright. 102 b, Bost Dispaten $300,000 IN WHISKY W. P. Squibb Pre-war Stock of 14,- 400 Quarts Ordered Poured Out by Court. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 11.—De- struction of the W. P. Squibb whisky stock, with a bootleg valuation of £300,000, was begun here today by Linus P. Meredith, United States mar- shal. There are 14,400 quarts of the | contrabana liquor. mandate from the United States | Cireuit Court of Appeals at Chicago affirming a destruction order from the | Indiana District Court, and withheld several weeks, was sent to Meredith today. The mandate was not deliv- ered to the marshal at the time it was | received from Chicago because of an | investigation into the theft of 330 cases from the padlociced stock. i Three negro emploves of the Fed-| sral Building recently confessed to par- | | ticipation in the liquor removal, while | | another negro and a white man were | indicted for participation in the same | | theft. Yesterday District Judge Rob- | ert C. Baltzell granted a petition of- fered by Albert Ward.. district attor- | | ey, asking that the liquor be poured | ®fhe Squibb whisky was selzed at | Lawrenceburg, Ind., in 1921, and the | tollowing vear brought to Indianapolis and stored in the Federal Building. There were originally 1,453 cases in the stock, which prohibition officers say is the last pre-war whisky in In- diana. President Signs Fund Bill President Coolidge today signed th Agricultural Department appropria- : tion bill calling for an appropriation Iior 1he nexi fiscal vear g 1 Can Live Off the I | Capt. Wilking' faith in his ability to live off the fce is shown in the small quantity of rations carried— enough to sustain three men for taree | weeks. There Is pemmican, dried strips of venison or other meat mixed | with fruit or fat and compressed intc small cakes and a sunpiy of Army | emergency ration. The latter looks and tastes somewhat like chocolate. | It is made of chocolate, egus, meats and vegetables and will sustain life but Is not used for the purpose if other food is available. In addition there is a supply of hard bread, (Copyrieht. 1926, by North c: | Daver Alliance ) erican News- BELGIAN CABINET QUITS; COALITION BODY SOUGHT| New Program of Financial Work Urged Under Temporary “Na- ‘tional Union” Regime. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 11.— The cabinet headed by Prosper | Poullet, which went into office June 17, 1925, has resigned '_f)l.&pnlv]l?x from Brussels vesterday said that M. Brunet, Sociali i dent of the Chamber of Deputies, been invited to form a new cabi by King Albert. The ca be one of “national union,” containing h‘\'(- &ma s and Democrats, five Catholics, and two or three Liberals, The program of the new cabinet, it was agreed, was to be limited to a solution of Belgium’s pressing finan- clal problems and was to carry over only until the end of the present sesison of Parliament. HARRY G. LEVY KILLED. Wall at Walter Reed. ! Harry G. Levy, 23 years old, 2007 | Connecticut avenue, general manager | for Sidney G. Heckinger, wreckin, contractor, was crushed to death when | a wall which was being torn down at ‘Walter Reed Hospital fell on him to- day. He was taken to the emergency ward at Walter Reed, where he was pronounced dead by Dr. F. McA. Noose. Levy is survived by a widow, Mrs. May Levy, to whom he was married two years ago. Levy had been in this city approxi- mately Ave years, coming here from Hazelton, Pa. He was a graduate of Lehigh University, a member of the Masonic lodge and a member of Pil Lainbda Phi teoniiy, culture. “The policy which would cripple ag riculture fail to exact from business extreme penalty. Our great markets are the farmers' markets. | from alcohol or rum for beverage | purposes. Penalties of imprisonment for five | years of $10,000 fine or both, in cases | gf feonviction for diverting denatured | the spirit or the letter of the law. | while “on the other hand, the scope | of the trade association has been so { well defined that it makes me believe | { infancy and | ulatien | with | Crushed to Death Beneath Falling| i Our daily food is the production of those farmers. It is for the preserva- ion of these markets, for the preser- tion of our food supply, for the| eventual stability and success | Severe penalitie: riculture that we turn our ck: j{_yemx\;xio;jr physic: squarely against any proposal which | for liquor. would imperil the future of agricul-| More stringent provision for seizure re. | of vehicles used to violate the pro- “We believed several years ago and | hibition law. 3 believe now that Government in- | Seizure of all vessels on the high terference toward agriculture would | seas undertaking to smuggle liquor result disastrously to agriculture and | into this country, except that foreign therefore to all of our people.” | vessels must be seized in accordance} e irs vxae AssoeBtio | with treaty stipulations. Sees Big Trade Assocl . Search of American craft by the Mr. O'Leary recalled the recent de- | Coast Guard at any place on the high cision of the Supreme Court and | seas. § # Spioions. expressed by the Depart- | Search of dwellings on evidence of ment of Justice, and added that commercial distilling. there 18 little reason today for a| Ixchange of Liberty motors for| trade assoclation to transgress either | COM! pleted new power boats to Be used | | in_enforcement. | Employment of retired Army, Nay | and Mgrine Corps officers in the pro- hibitioRl unit without forfeiture. of ciation still is in itg their retired pay ! will grow to be one of | the greatest factors in the self-reg- { of busines: Mr. B: s said that the Govern- ' DRUG MEANT ! ment, thwough the Federal Trade | BLAMED IN BOY’S DEATH! Commission, should, in co-operation Lusiness itself, preserve fair | Petween industries and, in- | ny tne Asocisted Press “Recent revision of the e R ot 1h: et commisnion s | L STOUK. (CIIY. ToWa. P Yawarrant the belief that | narcotic in food intended for a wom- sald, in jail on a charge of pos- Government desires to develop in- | an. held ! dustry fairly and helpfully, aban- |Sessing drues, but eaten by several | i i - | messenger boys, probably caused the e role of petty | Goath of Louis de Jarlais, 16, Coroner e orent, with business, |- H. Robbins belleves. Alfred Korth, should assume’ the administration of | husband of the woman, is under ar- credit influence and financial policies | rest. Y by enlisting administrators selected | Late Sunday a messenger was sent | S , _ | with sandwiches and coffee for Mrs. | i ,‘C’ém:}?mfl\?{“fim“,’:,‘LH:‘: “,’t"brl,:;,’nm-on_ Kroth. Fearing -that nar- color. The evidences of c.,n.‘Jco‘t;v; 3;"."'1:‘ Be e ressional determination not to amend | Jail 1 this waws @ 0t & F e vid Hghtly or alter the ereat principles | livery and LU ‘?"{«‘;{)"0-‘_ e of currency and credit, encourage | €d the spoils with his fellow workers. the helief that public servants sober- | Young de Jarlais drank some of the Iy realize the responsibility which |coffee. As he slept late because of his ests upon such action.” . ! night work, his mother did not at- | tempt to arouse him until late yes- Opposes Class Beneflts. | terday. He died a few minutes after “Government should recognize, as | Mrs, de Jarlals succeeded in waking | business already insists, that it 1a1h1m. i right ~that the national treasury, | ) levied by authority of Government on S - | French Kill 57 Brigands. all its people, cannot rightfully be appropriated in the interest of any single class. The evidence in high BEIRUT, Syria, May 11 (A.— administrative office and in the halls | Fifty-seven brigands were killed by of Congress that the obligation of | French forces in the Midan suburb econoi is a solemn public trust and | of Damascus, in a cleaning-up drive, {Continued on Page 2, Column b.) | Which began last Thursday, says an {Confinued on Tage 2. Coumn 3) | jaicial_communique issued here to- day. The French lost three killed and three soldiers were wounded ohol to unlawful uses. Stronger Seizure Law. for counterfeiting ns' prescriptions the trade play dividuals. May 11.—A| { 1 Radio_Prgmms— - Page 22 | Dynamite Blast Wrecks Bed. But Boy, 15, Is Unhurt By the Associated Press. KLAMATH FFALLS, Oreg.. May 13 One gide of the home of Dis triet Attorney k. L. Eiliott, former special prohibition prosecu tor, was wrecked at midnight by an exploston of dynamite set off by an unidentified person. The charge ed on a window sill of a dinarily occupied by Mr. 1liott, but last ¢k Elliott, 15-year-old State was pl bedroom « and My night by son, The e within 3 the vouth, the Tou sed plosion which took place feet of the head of shattered the side of nd demolished the bed on which he was sleeping. His only injury was a slightly tehed thumb. Officers found the remains of u fuse that had burned about five minutes No threats against Elliott. had been made LIEVES Blames Friends of Peters, Whom He Slew—Trenton Police Doubt It. By the Associated Press. NE Ward, missing millionaire, has fallen the victim of belated gang vengeance for slaying Clarence Peters in 1922, in the belict of Ralph D. Ward, a brother. Ofticers are s hing for Walter Ward in New York, New Jersey and Maryland. When Walter was tried in White Plains for murdering Peters, he claim- ed self-defense, saying the in ma- rine was a member of a ackm: gang and threatened him with d unles Ward was l;'iml twice and acquitted the second time. Assunnpink Creek, near the Penn- vania Railroad station at Trenton, N. J., where the missing man’s auto- mobile was found last Thursday with a4 windshield broken and a rock lying on the front seat, was dragged yes- terday, but nothing significant was found. The Trenton police gave up the search on the theory that he was ml,;slng for reasons best known to him- self. This theory they held on the basis that this is not the first time disappeared. He vanished in 19 it took a week for his own detectives to trail him to the Bowie race tracl he paid $75,000. EoeTiiey TOKIO, May 11 (4).—Emperor Yosh- ihito of Japan suffered a slight stroke of cerebral anaemia this morning. His conditlon is not believed serious, how- ever. Emperor Yoshihito has been an in- valid for the past five years, and h frequently suffered such = fainting spells. The last stroke came Decem- ber 20, 1925, and caused him tem- porarily to. postpone his departure for Numazu, where he usually spends his Winters. President’s Plans Uncertain. It was stated officially at the White House today that President Coolidge has not yet made a decision regarding the place at which he will spend his vacation during the coming Summer. He still has several places under serious consideration and it is thought he will make up his mind within the next week. With one exception, the | places being considered by the Presi- dent are located in the Adirondack Mountains. ¥ YORK, May 1l.—Walter S.| | | OCCOQUAN AFFAIRS AGAIN UNDER FIRE Barnard Grilled by Gibson Subcommittee—Use of Manacles Censured. As +ftermath of the surpri visit 1o the District workhouse at | Occoquan last Saturday by the Gibson <ubcommittea of the House Distriet committee, M. M. Barnard. superin tendent of the District penal institu tions, was culled ¢ t it when hesrings were resumed {n the gener: investigation of the ad ministration of the municipal govern ment. The n, nig nacling of runaway prison ers at Occoquan was censured by the | committee, while Capt. out of his wide experlence i unruly prisoners, asked for Barnard advice rding a better and more effective | with the neasure of control. This, tose stionlng of Engineer Com oner Bell regarding street laying d resurfacing contracts, were the principal features of last night's hearing. Barnard #Has Long Service. Capt. Barnard is superintendent of the three District penal institutions- the workhouse Occoquan, the re. formatory at Lorton, and the jail. He has been supperintendent for two and a half years and for nine and a h: vears has heen connected with these | institutions. At the outset of his questioninz Representative Blanton sought to make the superintendent admit that he s under the jurisdiction of Con- gress, in contradiction to statements made during an altercation at Occo- quan in which Capt. Barnard resented Mr. Blanton estion that he ought to be careful and guarded in | his remarks bec was being inves mittee from Congr Mr. Blanton questioned Capt. Bar nard insistently about Mrs. Herndon, use that institution a com- who is in charge of the woman prison- | ers at Occoquan. Capt. Barnard said witness last | handling | in Railroad Accidents. By the Associated Press LONDON, May 11—A Trade Union Congress spokesman an- nounced tonight that he under stands the government has place an embargo on foreign fund which ‘might be sent to the Brit- ish strikere, LONDON, May 11.—Peace nego ations in Great Britai genera! ike can be definitely said to b | going on under the surface. They have not yet reached an oi- a man high in the labor ranks statcd te this afternoon that parleys were oceeding. They state, how thing further tent. it was possible something tangible would be forthcom to morrow. but emphasized that noth ling definite was in sight now Farlier today indications casing in the general strik became more pronounced A. J. Cook, the miners’ chief, de clared: “Peace is possible at ar moment, on terms that will- give { economic security to the miners.” At almost the same time a govern nent spokesman was saving to the newspaper men: “Without being unduly optimistic, -I think we may say that the tide has turned. There s a tendency all over the coun for the strikers to drift back to work.” ' such he added e were ver, in n co s for the mo He « of a deadiock Both Sides Are Silent. rts of peace negotiations, with r Herbert Samuel, chairman of the Royal Coal Com fon, as one of the central figures, continued to fill the Rey The North Wales Presbytery added its voice to the pleas for peace by tele graphing King George, asking him to call a round table conference of ail the leaders concerned in the cris The Trade Union Congress denied ance of further strike orders, by id the “second line of defense” me: including the electrical and gas work |ers, were continuing to walk out on | thelr own i tive. The T. U. C. denial was prompted by a Belfast message saying the I | bor council there had received intima. tions that the engineering and ship | building trades would cease work to morrow, 1 Shipyards May Be Closed. { A report from the Clyde said she was very effic best at her job that I Mr. Blanton then sons-in-law of Capt. Ba nt and one of the | ha nard who are | threatened stoppase of ship ers and engineers there keenly discussed. Eighty men would be involved ad ever seen. | about two | rd work- was bein thousand in such a employed, one in charge of the chicken farm and the other in charge of the garage, insisting that if they are worth the money they are paid, Capt. Barnard should have tried to get more than $100 a month salary for Mrs. Herndon. “apt. Barnard said that the jobs were not comparable, and corrected ement that appeared in last Sun- day’'s Star that he had found jobs for his two sons-in-law by stating that they had their posit superintendents. Mr. tarilv stated that he belleved both of these sons-in-law are good men in their positions and worth every cent they receive. . Condemns “Inhuman Practice.” Chairman Gibson said that “speak- ing for a majority of the committee, we are convinced that it is an inhu- man practice to keep any prisoner manacled with a steel cuff and chain | riveted on, and we don’t know of any other institution that handles them in that way.” Mr. Blanton stated there are just three things he is not sa the conduct of Occoq is that the manacle: oners and they are ient st shment cells; the second is that Mrs. Herndon gets only $1,200 a year, and the third that prisoners who work hard are not given sufficient food. He also commented that, “we don't Iike the way you treat Congressmen; otherwise we do like the way that you run the institution.” Capt. Bar- nard answered, “Come again the same way and I'll treat you the same.” Mr.” Blanton partially excused the superintendent’s resentment when he found Mr. Blanton examining the (Continued on Page 6, Column 2.) n. One of these are put on pris- not given suffi- By the Associated Press. A petition protesting against the pro- posal to turn over Gen. Robert E. Lee's Arlington home to the Daugh- ter’s of the Confederacy was filed with the House yesterday by the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic through Lida E. Manson, national president of that organization. Referring to the recent act of Con- gress authorizing the colnage of Stone Mountain half dollars, on which ap- pear the likeness of Lee and one of his generals, the petition said addi tional - toy Plan io Give Lee Mansion to baughiers |Of Confederacy Hit by Ladies of G. A. R. the Arlington Mansion in the hands of the Daughters of the Confederacy “to be made a memorial to that traitor to his Government, Robert E. Lee.” “No words can fully express our just sontempt and indignation,” it asserted, “at such atempts of those who, being unsuccessful in all attempts at dissoiv- ing our Union, because of lapse of time and too lenient political influence, will undo all that the lives of these men (Washington, Lincoln, McKinley and Roosevelt) made possible and make dishonor, disloyalty and treason, are contemplated to place ' on a par with loyalty and honos ions under former | Blanton volun- | sfied with in w and blankets in the pun- | movement, but local observers did not not look for a unanimous stoppage. Reports from the provinces indi cated that the strike was steadily col- lapsing in South Wales, as far as the tramway men, railway men and elec- tricians were concerned. The govern- ment spokesman, citing improvement in the transportation services, said 503 trains were run yesterday in the { whole country, as compared with 849 on the first day of the strike. trike Ts Tllegal. general strike ‘“was and even now is not. a strike against parliament, the gov- ernment or the constitution,” MacDonald wrote for the first cop the British Independent. The paper, which appeared in mimeograph form this afternoon, is edited at London, { by Oxford undergraduates and has for | its announced purpose the work of consiliation “I_heartily welcome your efforts. | Mr. MacDonald wrote, concerning the | paper’s conclliation plans. “This dis | pute ought never to have happened | and had the problems been handled | with ordinary care and common sense. | there would have been neither a | strike mor a’ lockout * ¢ ¢ * | will and calm heads in the end will | prevail. We are working literally night ‘and day that that may be soon."” Denies The present never meant Famous Train Wrecked. The first case of serious sabotas since the general strike began was re- ported today. The famous “Flying Scotchman. an express from Edinburgh to Lon don, one of the fastest trains in Great Britain, was wrecked yesterday near Newecastle, and the authorities today claimed a rail had been deliberately loosened. The train was being run by a volun teer crew, replacing railway men. | Luckily the engineer had slowed to | a bare six miles an hour, and only one passenger was injured. The engine and two coaches turned over. The train was running about six miles an hour when an inspector on the engine with the ~volunteer 'engifeer noticed that a rail had been pulled up. The engineer slammed on all the brakes, but the locomotive and four coaches left the rails, the engine and two coaches toppling over. Sailors aboard helped the passengers out.. All the baggage was removed to Newcastle. Four deaths from rallway acci dents have occurred in the last 24 hours. Three passengers were killed (Continued on |