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Evening star., 1922-09-16

1t was o'clock in the evening in
Marlboro. Aside from the jangling
tune from a tinny piano player. peace
reigned supreme. Mostly. Marlboro
enjoyed the sleep Of the righteous.
A prisoner arrived. hatless and out
of breath. looking for the sheriff
There had been a Jail delivery.
Marlboro's ancient. whitewashed bas-
tile had been evacuated. The prison.
ers had gone. They were roaming
Prince Georges county somewheres in
the imm edtate vicinity or elsewhere.
Marlboro's Jail is not an ordinary
jail. 1t is in class of its own;
It has it's good points and its bad.
It is a two-story structure, white
washed inside and out. surrounded
with a high board fence, like an old
time stockade. 1t is a quiet place,
past misconduct and lay plans for
the future.
But the sheriff could not be found.
Marlborians jumped from nightshirts
to trousers, and crowd collected out
side the Jail stockade. A light glowed
from a second-story window of the
building. and a voice called down:
I'VE all is lonesome up heah. All
the rest of us is gone away. An dis
jail amt safe a-tall, with the door
standin' wide open. Fust thing you
know we's goin' to hab burglars
breakin' in"
Not Crazy Yet.
/. "Why didn't you go. too?" called a
citizen with a fiashlight.
"Oh. man, we amt crazy yet" an
swered the second-story front, I'VE
knows when ives well off,
BY that time a deputy jailer had
arrived with a key to the stockade
Evening star., 1922-09-16
D. c. SCHOOL BILL
! REPORT TO SENATE
Compulsory Education Urged
by Committee-DeIegate
Measure Lags.

The Senate compulsory school edu-
cation bill for the District of Column
bia was ordered favorably reported
tee, with some minor amendments
Chairman Focht announced that he
would seek to obtain action in the
House on the bill next week.
The Reed bill, providing for the
election of a delegate to represent the
District in the House, was favorably
reported to the District committee by
a subcommittee, headed by Represent
ative Reed Of West Virginia. On mo-
ton of Representative Millspaugh, the
District committee provided for the
appointment of a subcommittee to
hold hearings on the delegate bill
which is similar to the Poindexte1
bill which has been reported to the
Senate. Chairman Focht appointed
the following subcommittee: Repre-
sentative Reed, chairman, and Repre-
sentatives Millspaugh, Sproul. Blantor
and Hammer.
The hearings, it is expected, will
not De DeS uu uullA IA0k uCAl ScSSiOL
of Congress.
w. NICK. Clayton appeared before
the committee today in support of The
delegate bill, and said that hearings
on the measure had been held bott
before the Senate and House commit.
tees. and that there was no need OF
further hearings.
The controversy which has beer
under way for-some time over the
board of children's guardians an6
its handlingsof children was broeche6
during the meeting today. Mrs. Nina
ID. Van Wrinkle. lieutenant in charge
of the woman's bureau, took the stont
in support of the board of children'i
guardians, and replied to some OF the
criticisms that have been made.
Chairman Focht Of the committee
announced that he would introduce a
mothers pension bill for the District
of Columbia, similar to the law now
in effect in Pennsylvania, his home
state. MI. Focht had part In draft.
ing the Pennsyls auia Law.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
NEW YORK CENTRAL FARLEY.
officials and Men Seek Agreement
Under Peace Plan.

NEW YORK. September 1S.-Ofi-
cials of the New York Central lines
and the six shop craft unions now
on strike on the road went into con-
ference today to seek a settlement
of the strike on the basis OF the plan
adopted by the policy committee OF
the union.
The conference was the first ef-
fort mAde by an eastern road to set
tie the strike on the new basis If
it is successful the result will AFFECT
the lines of the company In other
sections of the country as we'll.
The beginning of the end of all
the labor troubles that have from
time to time beset the transporta-
tion lines of the nation for the past
several years was believed to have
come yesterday. when the New York
Central lines made peaceful Settle
brotherhoods and the Pennsylvania
system. began negotiations toward
a similar end. Arrangements for like
conferences here next week between
brotherhood leaders and six other big
eastern carriers are under way.
The various roads making up the
New York Central system agreed to
continue for one year, beginning
September 80, the present wage scale
and working rules for their trainmen
and conductors and to withdraw from
the United States Labor Board their
requests. made more than year ago
for a downward revision of wages and
the elimination of time -and-a half
pay for overtime work.
The New York Central gave out a
statement indicating it would soon
call into conference the leaders of the
engineers and firemen in the hope OF
amicably coming to terms with them.
SIGN B. & o. AGREEMENT.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
':Please Lock Door," j" Urge Trio
After Companions Break Jail
Marlboro Prisoner, Refusing Chance to
Flee, Seeks Sheriff to Report Unsafe
Condition, of County Stockade.

and. by the use of flashlights and
matches. the crowd found the back
door of the Jail standing wide. Every
cell was unlocked and a hole in the
board fence showed the method used
in getting out of the yard. Three
prisoners were gone and three re-
mained. one white man and two col
ored. OF the prisoners departed, ac-
cording to a colored mate who had
remained, one had done wrote a
check" and another had broke into
ice box" The crime Of the third
was unknown.
The method of escape was simplicity
personiaea-1ssA rs A Afaeputszs3z4ler~Ieft his
ring of keys inside the Jail. in his
desk. A prisoner found them.
Prisoner Recounts Episode.
One of the colored prisoners who
likes his present quarters tells the
story:
They sure fixed it up fine, but they
wouldn't go till after supper. They
wasn't goin to miss any meal or nuth-
in like dat They just went away
easylike and didn't leave no note or
nuthin'. They wanted the white boy
who had been rested fer speedin' to
go along. but he said he'd jist get
rested fer speedin' agin, an he liked
this place morn some of the other
places he's been in-so he stayed an
went to tell the sheriff all about It,
It's a fine jailhouse. an when you-all
goes, lock the door after you
Somewhere three, prisoners are run
ming wild and loose-one who done
wrote a check" and another who
broke into a icebox''-and they are
burdened with a great ring of keys
small keys and big keys. They took
the keys with them. but there is moth
ing else missing from the jail.
You shall know them by the keys.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
SOUTHERN SHOP
TERMS TIED Up
Union Chairmen Refuse to
Sign Agreement and
Meeting Ends.

General chairmen of striking shop
craft unions of the Southern railway
and officials of the road failed today
to reach an agreement to settle the
strike on the basis of the Warfield-
willard-Jewell proposal adopted by
the general policy committee Of the
shopcrafts.
Ready to Settle.
The statement was made by rail-
road officials after a brief conference
that "the Southern was willing tc
settle on the basis OF the Chicago
agreement and presented this to the
shopcraft chairmen for their sigma
lures, but so far they have declined
to sign"
The breakup of the conference
represented the first failure in nego-
tiatfons between strikers and rail.
roads, which were understood to have
subscribed to the Warfield Willard.
Jewell agreement.
willing to Continue.
Southern officials expressed a will.
tneness to continue the negotiations
but the general chairmen did not i'm.
mediately disclose whether they
would make another move toward
peace.
The statement issued from the
headquarters Of the Southern here
after the conference said:
"A conference between Vice Presi-
dent H. w. Miller of the Southern
railway system and the genera
chairmn Of the six striking shop
crafts adjourned this morning with
out reaching an agreement for i'm
mediate termination of the strike or
the Southern.
..The Southern was willing to set
tia on the basis Of the Chicago agree.
ment' and presented this to the shoI
craft clrafrmen for their signature
but 30 tar they have declined to
sign"
Evening star., 1922-09-16
STRAW HAT RIOTS
KEEP POLICE AND
WHITE WINGS BUSY

NEW YORK. September 16.-Street
cleaners were busy today as the result
Of straw hat riots, which extended from
the Battery to the Bronx last night.
The appearance Of straw ha. any
place in the city was the signal for
hoodlums to begin work. Many rowdies
used sticks with nails in them to de-
stroy hats.
The police were kept busy, but there
were too many hats. 1t had been a
warm day and was a warm evening.
Dozens Of arrests were made for dis
orderly conduct. The headpieces of
three plain clothes men were destroyed.
One police sergeant was tripped and
feb into a gutter while chasing boys
who had battered his hat. Hoodlums
boarded street cars and took hats from
passengers. One victim said a mob of
1000 was destroying hats on the upper
West Side
Evening star., 1922-09-16
SIXTEEN ROADS
SIGN TERMS ON
PRE.WAR BASIS"
New York Central and Penn
syIvania Lines Make
Peace Pacts.
TEMPORARY LULL
IN INJUNCTION FIGHT
Judge Says Restraining Order
Will Not Be Renewed Sep
tember 21.
BY the Associated Press.

Ds the hSsoclateu 1TtbS.
CHICAGO, September 16.-Sixteen
railroads had signed separate agree
ments with various labor unions to.
day through pre-war methods In
vogue before the United States Rail-
road Labor Board was created as
arbiter of disputes between rail-
ways and their employees.
These settlements, however. accord
ing to Ben W. HOOPER, chairman OF
the board. do not repudiate the board
but rather are entirely in accord
with the transportation act" His
comment referred to yesterday s
agreement between the New York
Central lines and the train service
brotherhoods. and other pending
peace negotiations.
Following settlements with the Or
der of Railway Conductors and the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
the New York Central lines opened
negotiations today with the shop
crafts on the basis of the Warfield-
Willard-Jewell plan. Separate agree
ments with the engineers. firemen's
and switchmen's unions were in pros
pect, according to officials.
Pennsylvania Agreements.
The Pennsylvania system was party
to similar agreements with rail
unions at Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
Agreements on wages and rules
with newly created shop unions were
announced by the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy. which had turned
down the Warfield- d-Willard-Jewel
proposals.
Today brought a lull in the gov
ernments Injunction proceedings be-
fore Judge James II. Whkerson. At
torney General Daugherty and his
strength of 500 affidavits supporting
charges of violence, intimidation and
destruction of property and attor-
neys for strike leaders will open the
defense Monday.
Not to BE Renewed.
Judge wilkerson told the opposing
lawyers that the restraining order
will not be renewed when it expires
September q unless the injunction
hearing is completed then.
If the Injunction is upheld by
Judge Wilkerson it means the end
of strikes in which interstate COM
ment are directly involved, Attorney
General Daugherty said.
Judge Wilkerson called for an in
vestigation of remarks attributed to
Mr.. Jewell commenting upon the
strike and published three days. after
the restraining order went into
effect.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
LEAGUE DISARMAMENT
committee DEADLOCKED
French and English Split Over
Guaranteeing Protection
to Cosigners.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, September 16.-The dis
armament committee of the league
of nations, which is considering
Lord Robert Cecils disarmament
plan, reached a deadlock today when
it came to draft the fourth paragraph
of the project. Delegate De Jouvenel
of France asked that this paragraph
be worded so that the nations sub
scribing to the plan should sign the
covenant guaranteeing protection to
the cosigners before disarmament
was begun. Lord Robert Cecil, how
ever, insists that disarmament should
precede the signing of the guarantee
pacts.
NJ De Jouvenel also demanded that
a provision be inserted that the dis
armament should be. to an extent
proportionate to the security pro-
vided by the guarantee pacts.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
SIGN B. & o. AGREEMENT.
Officials and shopmen Accept "Bal-
timore Plan"

BALTIMORE. September ia
peace pact generally known as the
Baltimore plan, was signed here this
afternoon by Charles w. Galloway.
vice president of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad. and representatives. of
the striking shopmen employed on the
Baltimore and Ohio.
Practically all of the striking Bal
timore and Ohio shopmen are expected
to be back to work within ten days.
Signing Of the agreement came as a
result Of a conference held at the Bal
timore and Ohio central building be-
tween Mr. Galloway and George H.
Emerson, chief of motive power, and
F. E. Blazer, assistant to Mr.. Gallo
way, representing the Baltimore and
Ohio, and William ]. MCGEE, president
of the Baltimore and Ohio system fed
Grafton, and his associates. who in
,cluded c. NJ. Fullerton of the machin-
lists, E. NJ. Garrity of the boilermak-
ers, ]. E. Shaffer Of the blacksmiths,
John ]. Wall Of the sheet metal wrok-
ers, c. w. Murphy Of the car men, J.
w. Korns Of the electrical, workers
and J. v. Stewart Of the stationary
firemen and oilers. representing the
striking shop craftsmen.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
CLERGYMAN. FOUND SLAIN
WITH UNKNOWN WOMAN
Bodies Discovered Under Apple
Tree on Farm Near New
Brunswick, N. j.

NEW BRUNSWICK, n. j., September
16.-The bodies of the Rev. Edward W.
Hall, rector of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church of St. John the Divine,
here, and an unidentified woman were
found under an apple tree on a farm
near here today.
There was bullet wound in the
clergyman's forehead and three wounds
in the woman's head.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
HARD COAL CARGOEs GAIN
5,222 Tons Shipped Yesterday
Along Lehigh Valley Line.

NEW YORK, September 16.-The
Lehigh Valley railroad announced
today that 1929 tons of anthracite
coal from mines along its route were
started on the way to distributing
points yesterday, as compared with
40,351 tons one year ago.
/. Since the strike settlement 11l.30b
tons have been forwarded.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
TAMPICO GUARANTEED.

MEXICO CITY, September 16.-The
United States health authorities have
declared a quarantine against Tam
pico because of yellow feyer, it is re-
ported here. The usual fumigation
regulations have been prescribed bet
fore vessels from Tampico are per-
mitted to enter American ports.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
$4,000 CHRISTIAN
GIRLS, SEIZED BY
TURKISH SOLDIERS

LONDON, September 16.-Twenty-
five thousand Christian women and
girls have been conveyed to the in
terror and distributed among the
Turkish soldiers" says a dispatch to
the Times from NJ. Lascaris, editor of
kosmos, a Smyrna newspaper, who
has arrived on the island of Mitylene.
New refugees from Smyrna arrived
here this morning (September 15), in
Guiding many Americans and English.
They say the Turks are using ma
chine guns at the street corners.
killing indiscriminately.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
sPANIARDs FLEE QUAKE.
Cottages Shattered and Number
injured in Villages.

By the Associated Press.
vIGO. Spain. September ia
sharp earthquake last evening, last
ing several seconds. caused the col-
lapse of a number of small cottages
in the villages Of vomelos and Cirti-
banca1vo.
A few persons were injured. The
Inhabitants took refuge in the fields.
There was q recurrence of the shock.
but with diminished intensity. within
. quarter Of an hour.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
TOWN TO PICK PRUNES.

SALEM, Ore, September 16.-The
labor situation in its relation to the
prune harvest has become SO acute
lately that plans are being made for
merchants Of Dallas. the county seat,
to close their stores next Monday so
their employees may pick pFunes. The
crop In big.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
BRITAIN PREPARES
TO BLOCK TURKISH
DRIVE ON STRAITS
Fleet Instructed to Protect
DardaneIles From Advanc-
ing Kemalist Army.
SMYRNA REFUGEES FACE
DEATH IN LOOTED CITY
Many 0utrages Laid to Turks.
Victims Cast Selves
Into Sea.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. September 18.-The
British government has adopted
the attitude that the effective and
permanent freedom of the Dnrdan-
elles is n vital necessity. for the
sake of which it Is prepared to
make exertions. 1t was authors
tatively stated this afternoon.
The British government, nd
dressing Rumnnia, JuSOsIavin and
Greece, Is asking their participa-
tion in an effective defense of the
neutral zone, 1t was learned OFF,
cially. Great Britain also hns in
vited her dOminiOns to be repre-
scented by cOntingents in the de-
fense of those interests, for which
they have already made enormous
sacrifices, 1T was also authOrf-
tatively stated.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
POSTAL HEAD HITS
"VENGEFUL" ONES
"Queer Trait Their Guide" I"
Says Postmaster General,
at Portland, Me.
DEFENDS CIVIL SERVICE
Employees Convention Told of I'm
portanee in Relation to
Public.
DEFENDS CIVIL SERVICE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associa ted Press.
PORTLAND. Me. September l6.-
Postmaster General Work took a fling
discharged postal employees" in ad-
dressing the postal convention of pos
tai employees Of the state of Maine
Such employees. he said, were guided
by queer trait in human nature
and occasionally attacked individuals
in the department in an effort to JUS
tify their separation from the service
Their motives, however. he added
were SO patent that they deceive nc
one" The spirit of good fellowship
brought into the postal system by for
mer Postmaster General Hays, Mr.
Work said. had established a mutual
confidence that could not be shaken
by such .insidious attacks"
Concerning attacks on the depart.
ment recently by certain civil service
reform organizations" Postmaster
General Work declared that mo ons
familiar with the major principles 0.
civil service would destroy it, and NJ
one friendly to it would stand in tn,
way of its improvement or use it.
udIffS- kSotk4tedt campaigns 10 utS
credit the cause of a party of oppo.
site political faith to their own
CommissfOn Non-Partisan.
The United States Civil Service Com
mission, he added, was a non-partisar
tribunal, an agent of the government
similarity of names, with self-con-
stituted organizations which have nc
privileges except that of free speech
and no responsibility under the law
for the administration of civil serv.
ice"
Il like to think of the Post Office
Department as the university Of the
people," said Mr.. Work. 1T does moi
originate knowledge; neither does al
endowed university; but each. in it:
own way. gathers knowledge of wha,
has been done and transmits it tt
those wishing to be informed. 4
teaching university groups tea cher:
who elaborate established principle.
to those who sit in wait. But if s
man can read at all, the postal service
"opens the world to him. Ii he car
write. he may express himself to the
world for a two-cent matriculatior
fee"
Test OF Government.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Bartlett, who accompanied the Post
master General to Portland, declared
these are days when the fundamental
principles of government are being
tested In the class of interests 'on
deck the ship of state is unsteady
and leaking"
Mr.. Bartlett asked the postmasters
to keep in mind that he is the only
representative Gin the smaller towns>
of the United States government in
his community, and because Of this
fact many country boys and girls, the
patriots of the future, will receive
their first ideas of business and coun.
try through him."
Evening star., 1922-09-16
ABANDON STRIKE VOTE.

NEWARK, N. J.. September 15.-An
anticipated strike vote by employees
on the Pennsylvania lines did not ma
terialize at the meetings, here last
night Of Local 1926, Railway Clerks,
1Contia1sd on page q column
Evening star., 1922-09-16
WEATHER.

Fair tonight and tomorrow: cooler.
Temperature for twenty four hours
ended at pm. today: Highest, 81.
at 3:l5 pm. yesterday, lowest, 81, at
: am. today.
F'ul. report on page Z.
Evening star., 1922-09-16

The Associated Press 10 exclusively entitled 10
the us. for republication OF all news dispatches
crsdited 10 u or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
Al rights Of publication Of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-11
A. F. L. Political Policy
INDICATED, Says Compers
Declares Tuesdays ''Rebuke"
Came From Labor as Well
as Other Factions

Labor's policy Of non-partisan sup
port of Its friends and attack on its
enemies was vindicated in TUESDAYS
returns, Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor, as
serted last night at the Hotel Cont
mental. Mr.. Gompers said:
"The American Federation of Labor
has perfected its Organization for po-
litical as we'll as economic effective
ness." he DECLARED, land In politics Is
pursuing a sbn-partisan course, stand
ing only for principle. Our only test
is Have the candidates been true to
the best interests of the people? Or
have they by some process undertaken
to destroy the freedom Of to- great
mass Of people and endeavored 70 force
compulsory labor upon the working
people? 2"
Denial of any labor victory at the
polls was made by the, National AS
sociation Of Manufacturers in a state
ment.
"oS the s1s Congressman whose
legislative records were analyzed by
organized labor, ell, or nearly 70 Der
cent of the whole number, were flatly
opposed to the labor group" the state
ment reads. "Of this number, 1873 were
elected, and Of the I02 recommended
and Endorsed by labor, only tifty-seyen
were re-elected,n
New-York tribune., 1922-11-11
Says Curley agreed to
Ctenseaceau's Welcome
Higginsoa 4sserts Mayor .ds.
sented TO His Heading Com.
ntiftee TO Greet Er.Preusier

BOSTON, NOV. i0.-After Mayor Cur
ley announced to-day that the city OF
Boston would take no official part in
the reception to Georges Clemenceau.
ON November %, a statement was Is.
sued by Francis Higginson jr., saying
that he had been asked by Colonel
House, who has charge of the distin-
guIshed Frenchman's visit, to act as
chairman of committee to make ar
rangements for public address by M.
Ciemenceau in Boston. Mr.. Higpin-
sons statement explains his contra
versy and is in part as follows:
EARLY In October I, in company with
the French Consul, called on tha
Mayor, explained what Colonel House
mad asked me to do, and told him Of
M. Glemenceau's objections to any pub
hc entertainment Mayor Curley
promptly agreed to abandon his more
elaborate plans, told me to go ahead
fand make the arrangements. and CON
sented TO meet NJ. Clemencnau at the
station, to greet him in behalf Of The
city and to ride with him in the narass
to the State House.
"A few days ago, through n clerical
mistake, circular letter was sent to
the MAyor Through the same mistake
similar letters were sent to the Gov.
ernor. to General Edwards, TO Admiral
Wiley and to NJ. Flamand, the French
Consui. As soon as this mistake was
discovered note was sent to each of
THESE gentlemen requesting them To
disregard the letter.