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Evening star., 1922-06-15
Tech Students Declare Two
Appeals Brought No
Intervention.
FATAL FIGHT BLAMED
PRIMARILY ON BOOTLEG
Civic Pride Goaded Alexandrians
and Washingtonians to Clash
on Manchester.

Charges that officers of the steamer
Charles Manchester had failed to take
action to keep order and prevent the
spread OF rioting on the boat last
night which resulted in one death and
number of injuries, were today
placed in the hands of Attorney Clyde
D. Garrett by Norman Barnes. presi-
dent of the Tech Alumni Association,
with a request that steps be taken
along legal lines in this instance.
Tech students charge that twice
Capt. Henry Turner, in command OF
the steamer, was sought with requests
to stop the incipient riot. which later
developed into melee in which
scores of participants hurled pop bot
other with fists. but that they were
met with the reply that the officers
were too busy" to attend to such
things. since they had to take care of
the boat.
The fatality and principal injuries
are:
Louis B. Mccormack. twenty years
old. 1877 5th street northeast, dead
at Alexandria,. Va. stabbed through
the heart with a knife.
Eugene Albright, twenty. of 5l3
Queen street. Alexandria,. injured on
the head with bottle.
James r. Hewitt. eighteen, 1901
King street, Alexandria, injuries to
the head
Jesse Gilmartin. eo9 Queen street,
bruises and abrasions.
Ernest Joseph Watson. twenty. of
$50 l street southwest, stabbed four
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DRY AGENTS NAB FIVE
ALLEGED RUM-RUNNERS
IN NARRAGANSETT BAY

Dy tne AsSorlAte1 fress.
NEW YORK, June 15.-Five al
legged rum running vessels. plying
between a steamer anchored in
Narragansett bay and the Americ-
eral agents. United states Attorney
Hayward announced today.
The seized vessels were the
ocean going tugs II. S. Lockwood
of Maiden, City of Boston and Ler-
mond.
The tugs were seized in the har-
Dor here. The five vessels have
twice unloaded the steamer Coro-
ia of alcohol and whisky loaded
i'll New York ostensibly for de-
livery in Greece, Mr.. Hayward said.
The Corona. oWH ned by the Globe
Steamship Company of New York.
and operated under Peruvian reg
istry. put out for Greece last
March with a cargo of 10000 gal
Ions of grain alcohol, according
TO information gathered by the
federal agents. Instead of proceed
ing to. Greece, it is alleged, she
turned her cargo over to the five
vessels which delivered it to boot
leggers in Newton creek.
Last month it: is alleged. the
Corona again cleared for Greece,
this time with 1000 cases of whis-
ky. which she had taken on at
Bermuda. Again she anchored and
turned her cargo over to the
American rum-runners. it is al
legged.
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MRS. RHODES WILL
QUIT SCHOOL BOARD

After ten years ofcontinuous serv-
ice Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes has de-
cided to resign from the board of edu-
sources today.
1t is understood that Mrs. Rhodes is
desirous of giving up her seat on the
school board In order to devote all of
her attention to her position as super
visor of municipal Fairgrounds.
Playground Work Grows.
Mrs. Rhodes was on the school
board for several years prior to her
appointment as director of city play
grounds. The work of the latter de-
partment has grown steadily in the
past five years and is now one of the
most active branches of the city gov
ernment.
Mrs. Rhodes period of ten years on
service, SO far as could be learned
today. Mrs. Rhodes present term has
two more years to run. but. according
to her friends. she feels that play
grounds have come to be recognized
as of sufficient Importance to the
time OF the supervisor
Many new centers of play for the
boys and girls of the District have
been opened since Mrs. Rhodes took
office. and the scope of activities on
the Fairgrounds has been broadened
to include all kinds of athletic events
In addition to her regular work. Mrs
Rhodes during the ensuing summer
will have to supervise the operation
of more than a score of school play
grounds, under a special appropriation
Of $4,000 contained in the District
bill, which is expected to become Q
law before July j.
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FORMER ARMY MAN
GUILTY Of BRIBERY
Ex-Capt. Ritzman Accepted
$500 to Influence Pur-
chase of Chains.

Charles A. Ritzman of Detroit
Mich, formerly a captain in the Army
in charge of the maintenance divi-
sion of the motor transport corps
was convicted today by jury in the
criminal division of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia on
an Indictment for bribery. The jurors
found that he accepted $500 from c.
r. Standley of Boone, Iowa, to infiu-
ence the purchase of 100000 worth
Of skid chain and skid fasteners for
use of the government. The jury ac-
quilted him on the two counts which
alleged that he solicited the bribe.
Motion for a new trial will be filed
by his attorney. Thomas c. Bradley.
Ritzman is at liberty on bail
The testimony showed that Stand
ley in November. 1918, came to Wash
ington to see why he was not getting
more orders and after conversations
with Ritzman reported his suspicious
to the military intelligence office and
the Department of Justice. He was
given $500 of government money to
hand to Ritzman in a local hotel room
in which a dictaphone had been in
stalled by the officials. The money
was marked and was paid over to
Ritzman while the machine recorded
the transaction as the money was
counted. "one hundred, two hundred
and so on.
In his defense Ritzman claimed
that he was suspicious of Standley
and led him on to the offering of the
bribe money whcih he intended to
turn over to his superiors. but was
arrested before having opportunity to
do so.
Assistant United States Attorney
Bilbrey conducted the prosecution
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ROCK CREEK MADE
FOUL BY DRAINAGE
FROM CHEVY CHASE
Sewage Disposal Plant Too
Small TO Handle Refuse,
Army Engineer Finds.

Pollution of the waters of Rock
Creek is being further aggravated, 1t
was learned today. by the dumping
directly into the creek of the raw
sewage from the disposal plant in
tended to take care of the sewage
from Chevy Chase. Md.
Mai. Willis P. Baker, United States
Army Medical Corps. and in charge
of the sanitation in Rock Creek, as
we'll as other waters in federal parks.
plans to go to Chevy Chase tomor-
row and look into the conditions
there. and to examine the disposal
plant.
VIII Examine Refuse.
While this suburb has sewage dis
posal plant that is supposed to treat
the sewage before being dumped into
the creek, Maj. Baker said that 1t had
been brought to his attention that
many times the raw sewage Is dumped
directly into the waters without
tr reatment
Samples Of the refuse will be taken
as has been done at points on the
creek where other towns dump their
sewaee, and these will be subjected
10 meteorological examination in t3e
laboratories of the Army Medical
school. other specimens will be taken
AT the same time and sealed to be
used as exhibits in the governments
proposed action to secure an fnjunc-
tion to prevent the Maryland towns
from using Rock creek to carry on
their sewage.
Mai. Beker plans to take the speci-
mems tomorrow, but 1t will take sew
eral days to put the waters and sew,
age through the meteorological ex-
aminations in the laboratory, and it
ia not probable that the results will
be known before the first of next
week, it was said.
Other Tests Under Way.
Frequent samples are being taken
at points along the creek to de-
termine to what degree bacteria is
present in the waters. so that should
they at any time become very danger
GUS use of the waters for any pur-
pose whatever might be stopped. A
continuous watch is, being kept by
the medical department on the con-
dition of the waters from a sanitary
standpoint.
The sewage disposal plant. at Chevy
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GRAND Jury HOLDS
WARD FOR MURDER
indictment Charges Staying
of ex-SaiIor in Alleged
BIackmaiI Fight.

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, June 10
Walter S. Ward, millionaire bakers
son, today was indicted b. the West
chester grand jury On a charge of
killing Clarence Peters, ex-sailor, last
May.
District Attorney Weeks made a
formal complaint to Supreme Court
Justice Morschauser charging that
George S. Ward, father of Walters.
Ward, has entered conspiracy to de-
feat the ends of justice.
Justice Morschauser, who impan-
eled the grand jury investigating the
Ward case. was asked by the district
attorney to sit as committing magis-
trate and Investigate the charges
brought by the district attorney.
George S. Ward, for whom a sub
poena has been issued, is said to be
in Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1922-06-15
LIQUOR SALE BAN
ON AMERICAN SHIPS
ASKED IN CONGRESS
Bankhead Offers Amend
ment to Merchant Marine
Bill in Committee.

Definite steps through legislation
to stop the sale of liquor upon
American ships were started today
through presentation by Representa-
tive Bankhead, democrat, Alabama,
of an amendment to the merchant
marine bill which would cut off the
government aid provided in the meas
ure from any ship carrying intoxi-
eating liquors or beverages.
The Alabama representative offer
ed his amendment at a meeting of
the House merchant marine commit
tee, of which he is a member, called
to take final action on the merchant
marine bill. Considerable doubt was
expressed, however, that the amend
ment would be accepted, as the indi-
cations were that the majority mem
bers of the committee would vote TO
report the bill as framed by d sub
committee.
Provisions Of Bill.
The Bankhead amendment world
provide that no part Of the money
hereih appropriated shall be used for
the payment of compensation to the
owner of any vessel upon which any
liquors or beverages containing more
than one-half OF l per cent alcohol
by volume are stored, sold, kept for
sale, offered for sale or other disposi-
tion within or without the territorial
waters of the United States"
Attorney General Daugherty will be
asked for q new ruling on the ques-
tion Of the sale of liquor on Shipping
Board vessels, it was indicated today
at the Treasury.
High Treasury officials in discuss
ing the matter today said that al
though Prohibition Commissioner
Haynes had not submitted to Secre-
tary Mellon request that Mr.. Daugh-
erty be asked to review the ruling
of Former Acting Attorney General
Frferson. holding the selling of liquor
on American ships to be illegal, Sec
retary Mellon was ready to forward
such request if it came from Mr..
Haynes.
Would Harmonic Differences.
Mr.. Haynes was understood to be
considering the need of a new ruling
by the Justice Department in order
to harmonize the difference of opin-
lon between Mr.. Frierson's ruling and
the stand taken by General Counsel
Schlesinger Of the Shipping Board,
that liquor could be sold lawfully on
government vessels outside the three
mile limit.
Meanwhile. officers said, the Treas
ury and the prohibition unit would
maintain its position that in view of
the existing differenEe of opinion it
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Special Dispatch to The star.
BRISTOL. Tenn.-Va., June 15.-Shut
off from the outside world by range
after range of high, rugged noun
tains. government agents. state Off
GERS and scores of sheriffs and their
deputies today are engaged in the
greatest offensive ever waged against
the moonshiners of Tennessee. Ken
lucky, Virginia and North Carolina.
The present drive marks the culmina-
ton of nearly three months of prepa-
ration and preliminary skirmishing.
Already blood is trickling down
some of the mountain streams, but
the toll of dead and wounded cannot
even be guessed at this stage OF the
struggle. But there is every indica-
tion that the officers of the law are
lightning" The mountaineers who
have been sent back from the 'front.'
as prisoners admit that for the first
time since prohibition enforcement
was attempted the moonshiners have
been unable to put stills in operation
faster than the raiders seized them
This is a clear indication that the
flood tide of illicit liquor from many
of the mountain districts has turned
to the ebb.
Stills Harder to Find.
Hundreds of stills are in operation.
There is no doubt of that. And many
of them will be in operation for some
months to come. But these illicit
plants in the mountain Businesses are
daily becoming harder to find. Hav-
ing apparently gained the upper hand.
the enforcement agencies will strive
hard to hold the advantage they have
won. So vast is the undertaking that
state prohibition officers are just be-
ginning to realize the scope of the
success of their operations prior to
the arrival of the federal army"
The most significant phase of the
battle today is that the moonshiners
themselves appear to be discouraged.
Their losses in money values and in
life have been heavier than they care
to admit. Furthermore. they are re-
alizing apparently for the first time
the full scope of the prohibition move
ment. Heretofore they have regarded
the fight as an Individual "grudge"
against them. They know little that
ever transpires outside their own
mountain districts. Many of them. in
Jail. have been told for the first time
Evening star., 1922-06-15
BLOOD STAINS STREAMS
IN MOUNTAIN RUM WAR
Fire Thousand Stills Capturedm Great Often
size Orer Rugged Ranges of Tennessee,
Virginia, Kentucky and ~ Carolina.

that liquor making is outla"eo
through all the United States.
sheriRs and Deputies Lead.
Unlike many other sections of the
country where the federal agents
have been refused local and state as
sistance in the enforcement of the
prohibition law, the government rev
enuers" who have been sent into the
mountain country of the south have
been loyalty supported by the sherihs
and their deputies. without this sup
port. 1t Is admitted. little progress
could have been made. The noun
tains of the south are unkind TO .hose ..
who do not know them we'll In tne
enforcement activities thus Tar 'he
sherjfYs and their men have been oy
far the heaviest sufferers, for they
have led the way and have oeen nrst
on the firing line. without their Keen
eyes, their cunning Woodcraft anu
their stout hearts. the moonshiners
would reign supreme in the noun :
tains today.
AS it is. the courts already are
clogged With cases and many 1ails are
cluttered with whisky .maklns ps p.ss
oners. Within the last few montns
it is estimated that more than ''ooo
stills have been seized.
Enforcement Nearer Reality.
Prohibition enforcement, In short
is today nearer a reality than ever
before. Close observers agree that
the production has fallen about one
half, and the summer of 1929. which
was all set to be the banner season
for the output OF the fiery liquor
already has entered a stage OF deep
depression Moanshine is moving
more slowly toward the cities ana
both makers and runners are demand l.
ing higher prices for the heavier
risks they are running day by day.
1t is estimated that something like
2. 2.OOo,0 900 gallons of white stoff' came
out Of the mountains last year. Pro
duction for a record year started with
rush in the early spring. but 1t is
falling off rapidly now. For raids
during the past few weeks have ex-
tended from the Cumberland noun
tains along the Virginia
border as far south as the Great
Smokey Chain on the Tennessee
North Carolina border. and as far
east as the Blue Ridge in Virginia.
The relentless sunshine of state and
federal enforcement is slowly but
surely dissipating the Illicit mountain
dew.
iCOpy right 19os
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ergency Hospital.
Student Being Held.
A number of others received minor
injuries. Police are holding Wat
son. James Noonan, twenty-four, of
1245 '22d street, and John Edward
Histon. twenty-one. of col X street
northeast, for investigation. Jack
Hayden Lewis, AT Irving street, who
was taken to Emergency Hospital in
an Intoxicated condition, was also
charged with intoxication and turned
over to his father after deposit of $25
collateral.
nical High School being held in the
affair. The consensus of investiga-
tors opinion seems to be that Tech
High boys kept well out of the fight,
taking virtually no part in it.
Two excursions yesterday were held
at Marshall Hall, one was under the
auspices of the Tech Alumni Associa-
tion. the other under the auspices of
the Railway Mail Clerks Union of
Alexandria. Approximately 500 per
sons from this city and 500 from Alex
andria were on board.
intermittent Fights on Land.
The actual fracas started after the
boat had left the pier at Marshall
Hall. at about 9:45 o'clock. Inter-
mittently during the evening there
had been fights on the grounds, A
group from Alexandria and a gang of
Washingtonians were opponents. A
general melee took place just above
the dock before the steamer started.
Witnesses declare that approximately
100 persons engaged in this mix-up.
1t centered about one or two pleasure
seekers and was broken up within
fifteen minutes after it had started.
What started the trouble is credited
to several different things. At Alex
andria today two big reasons were
being given. One was that Washing
tonians were guyifig the Alexandrians
about the city and municipal pride
caused jesting words to turn to
harsher ones which later gave place
to blows.
"A woman was at the bottom of it"
declared another Alexandrian today.
But he failed to explain the exact
connection of the woman with the
fight. declaring his remarks to be
based on hearsay.
Bootleg Blamed by All.
There's one reason upon which vir-
tually all agree as a principal con-
tributing cause. That's bootleg
moonshine from Charles county
Tech students say that bootleggers
on the boat were as thick as flies.
and that it was not uncommon at all
to have a shoulder tapped and the
words whispered: DO you want a
little liquor?"
: These statements have received
such credence among prohibition en-
forcement agents that it was an
nounced today a new cleanup cam
paign in the Charles county district
would shortly be inaugurated by
Virginia dry enforcement groups, to
wipe up what is fast becoming a
mecca to -throated lawbreakers.
ers.
OF the actual fight, little definite is
being told today. To get a general
an airplane X-ray photograph Of the
Charles Manchester just before she dock
ed at the Alexandra wharf. 1t was then,
1Confjnued on Page p. Column Ii
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TRAFFIC. IN KNIGHTHOODSB BRINGS
CHARGES OF SCANDAL IN BRITAIN

the dominant political party which
recommends the honor list to the
king. but, they allege lack OF
distinction iIf the candidates,
which. says the outlook. makes
the latest list beyond a joke" IL
laughs at the knighting of one
manufacturer of patent candy and
of another man because. Of his ac-
tive part in the local life" of his
home town.
1t is asserted that with few ex-
ceptions the honors which were
granted for scientific and literary
distinction constitute simply a
guide for the rich unknown" 1t
is said here that except for Barrie
and Pinero no first rank writers
have been knighted. 1t it recalled
that Galsworthy rejected a sug
gestion of knighthood, saying that
LITERATURE should be its own re-
ward"
The London Nation asserts that
the latest list constitutes
"coarsening of the material of
public and political life unknown
since the worst days Of the
eighteenth century"
Evening star., 1922-06-15
TWO NATIONS AGREE.
Stand of French and Belgians to
Be Same.

PARIS. June 15.-The Belgian for
eign minister. M. Jaspar. had long
interview with Premier Poincare last
night, which resulted, according TO
the Echo de Paris. in a complete
agreement as to the stand to be taken
by the two nations at The Hague con
ference.
Belgium, it was added, will main
tain the attitude she adopted at the
Genoa conference regarding the re-
turn of private property In Russia
taken over under the soviet govern
ment's naturalization program.
1t is stated in some quarters that
should France decide that her dele
gates will not meet the Russians
when the joint conference begins at
The Hague on June 26, Belgium will
follow suit.
Evening star., 1922-06-15
BUILDING MEN FREED.

BUFFALO. June 15.-Seven indict-
ments against building supply deal
ers, voted by special grand jury
following the visit to Buffalo of the
Lockwood housing committee. were
dismissed in the supreme court by
Justice G. w. Cole. In an opinion
dismissing the indictments Justice
Cole held that the defendants had
been automatically granted immunity
when representatives of the Lock
wood committee questioned them at
private sessions in hotel rooms here.
Evening star., 1922-06-15
SAYS SPIRITS SAVED RAILROAD
FROM GALVESTON TIDAL WA We

elations last night at a meeting
of spiritualists, he said that he
had not revealed his relations with
the spirit world before because he
did not want people to think him
a nut"
II have built more than 5000
miles of railroad" he said, ..and
every part of the route was de-
termined by spirits, who came to
me in my dreams and told me
what to do.
When I was building the Kan
sas City Southern I was warned
by spirits not to build the terminal
at Galveston, because it would
lead to disaster. They told me to
terminate it at Lake Sabine,
where I built the terminal of Port
Arthur. Four days after the ter
minal was completed the tidal
wave wiped out Galveston"
Evening star., 1922-06-15
BY HIRAM X. MonEHwELIa
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1922

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1922.
LONDON, June 15.-Charges that
the traffic" in knighthoods and
peerages has become a scandal
which is lowering the whole
standard of our public life" are
being made in reputable weekly
newspapers following the honors
recently bestowed on the occasion
of the kings birthday. These
papers assert that the people are
talking" although this talk does
not enter the great newspapers
because they are owned either by
peers or by men who hope to be-
come peers.
Those protesting do not hint at
personal bribery or corruption.
from which British public life is
singularly free, nor do they object
to the classic system by which the
prospective peers make a substan-
ttal contribution to the funds Of
Evening star., 1922-06-15
nv the Associa ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 15.-That
every mile of the 5000 miles of
railroad he has built has been
constructed by following the ad-
vice of spirits, and that he changed
the direction of the Kansas City
Southern and built his terminal at
Port Arth0r, Tex, rather than
Galveston, which the spirits
warned him to avoid because of
coming disaster there, is the as
sertion of Arthur E. Stilwell. who
says he has been president of
many railroads, and was president
for seven years of the National
Surety Company. Making his row.
Evening star., 1922-06-15
$145,080,232 COST
OF STRIKE THUS FAR
IN KEYSTONE STATE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, June Is
Coal miners and operators of
Pennsylvania as an estimate.
have lost $145,oso.s32 by the pres.
ent strike-hgures issued today
by DR.. c. B. Connolly, state com
missioner of labor and industry,
after a study of reports to the de-
partment's mediation bureau.
The figures date from April l.
and are from official sources. They
are based on an average daily
wage of $5 for each miner, and an
average cost of maintenance of
the mines while idle to the opera
tors of $4,000 day. counting
ffty-seven and a half working
days during April, May and June.
Evening star., 1922-06-15
PARIS LIVING SCARS.
Now 217 Per Cent Higher Than
When War Broke Out.

PARIS, June 15.-The cost of liv-
ing in Paris is 217 per cent higher at
present than at the outbreak of the
world war, according to the report
of special commission appointed by
the minister of commerce. The report
was based on comparison of the
prices of thirteen articles of food and
Evening star., 1922-06-15
ITALY ROUTs ARAB REBELS.

ROME, June 15.-A Tripoli dispatch
reports that Arab rebels in the Italian
colony in Tripolitania have met with
a severe reverse at the hands of the
Italian garrison. The outpost of
Gioso was captured by the Italians.
thus, it is said. breaking all chances
of an uprising.
Evening star., 1922-06-15
BRITISH SAVE DAYLIGHT.
Commons Makes Plan a Permanent
Fixture,

LONDON, June 15.-Daylight-saving
time in summer throughout the Brit
ish Isles is made a permanent fixture
through the passage by the house of
commons of the Summertime bill"
The measure, which was adopted by
a vote of 206 to 2S, is similar to that
in effect in the other European coun-
tries.