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Evening star., 1922-01-29
IMPRISONED 7 HOURS,
LIVES TELL THE TALE

William Galloway had miraculous
escape from death. Immediately after
the crash he found himself pinned
down between two seats. With the
utmost difficulty he was able to lay
his head fiat on the floor and breathe;
, the air seeping through 'crevices at
that point. He was unable to move.
He was brought out slightly hurt. Mr.
Galloway was imprisoned at o'clock
at night and not rescued until
o'clock THIS morning.
He was seated under the meZzanine
tier when he saw the entire mezzanine
descending on his head. He quickly
threw himself down between two
seats. He lay there for seven hours
listening while his rescueEa saved
.ay through to him.
Evening star., 1922-01-29

District Commissioner James F. Oyster
Joined with Commissioner Rudolph IN
announcing plans fur All investigations
Commissioner oyster went 10 the
ruins of the theater shortly before noon
to confer. he said. with Col. Keller about
having the various wooden bridges. such
as the Aqueduct and Calvert street
structures. cleaned of snow as soon as
possible Possibility Of these bridges
several of which have been condemned.
coilapsing under the weight of snow was
pointed out.
You may rest assured that the Com
miSSiunrrS will see to it that thorough
and complete uNeStIGation of this un-
fortunate occurrence Is made. said Com
missioner oyster today. 1T is to-"
early he explained. to endeavor to
carry out any systematic probe i'll view
of the efforts which must be made to
rescue the victims.
Structural Experts On Duty.
Il have just ordered Z. H. Davis and
r. L. Lewis. structural engineers of my
Office. to so to the scene at once and
report to Maj. Cary Fl. Brown. assistant
engineer commissioner. who has taken
Evening star., 1922-01-29
PHONE OPERATOR
CALLS RESCUERS
Responds to Initial Report of
Crash and Summons Doc
tors and Workers.

An operator of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Co. was the first
to receive and disseminate informa-
ton of the disaster. An incoming
call registered and mans voice on
the wire said:
''My name is Norris. The roof of
the knickerbocker Theater has caved
in. Send the nearest DOCTOR
The control information desk was
notified and the young woman in
charge. without awaiting further in
structions. Immediately called the
Police Department and the Emer-
gency Hospital. Six operators We're
then assigned to the task of calling
every doctor in the Columbia eX-
change. and when that list was en-
hausted. the North exchange list was
drawn upon. In all. seventy-two doc
tors were notified in the space OF a
few minutes.
Chief Operator on Job.
The chief operator. meantime, get
ting in touch with telephone near
the theater, ascertained from time to
time what was needed, and notified
the surgeons of all the city hospitals
of the catastrophe.
The telephone company then util-
lied it's big fleet of trucks, which
had been engaged in transporting the
operators to and from the exchanges.
to dispatch force of workmen to
the scene. These men included ma
chinists skilled in the use of acety-
lene torches, tools and just the kind
of work they were called upon to
perform.
Traffic conditions in the telephone
exchanges became indescribabe as
the night wore on. Thousands of
residents, frantic to hear from rela-
tives used the wire. The operators
had already had the most trying day
in the history of the telephone COM
pany, but refused TO leave their
sWitchboardS.
Worse Conditions Today.
Conditions were worse during
today and an unprecedented volume
of long distance calls aggravated
them. People in other cities. read
ing the bulletins of the calamity in
the morning papers. sought to get in
communication with friends here.
Never was there such an immense
amount of long distance calls.
Charles T. Clagett, division man
ager of the company. has issued an
urgent appeal to citizens to refrain
from using the telephone needlessly
in this period of stress. Only neces-
sary calls should be made, it is
urged. for the volume of business
classed as necessary in connection
of the exchanges.
Evening star., 1922-01-29
JACK PINE FOR PAPER.

MONTREAL. January 2S.-Possbil-
ity of utilizing jack pine for making
neWSprint paper today is occupying
the interest of members of the Can
adian Pulp and Paper Association. who
in recent years have watched with
apprehension the steady dwindling of
the spruce forests, heretofore regard
ed as the only considerable source of
supply for newsprint.
Use of jack pine for the purpose was
advocated at the associations meet
ing yesterday by Maurice Nelson.
who said that his firm, the Belgian
on successful experiments with jack
pine under both the sulphite and
ground wood processes of manufacture.
Mr.. Nelson pointed out that the de-
pletion of the spruce forests entailed
ever-increasingly long hauls to the
mill, while jack pine is plentiful and
cheap and attains commercial size
forty years earlier than spruce.
Evening star., 1922-01-29
LACK
HOLDS RUSSIA BACK
Necessity for Inducing Ref.
ugees to Return Seen by
B0IShevists.
By the Associated Press.

MOSCOW. January l. - Russia 8
lack Of constructive leadership for
its industrial and commercial recon-
struction becomes more apparent
every day, and the necessity for in
ducing refugees to return is clearer
to the bolshevists. perhaps, than to
non -bolshevists, who have less
knowledge of the inefficiency of gov
ernment departments and the diff
cultjes the communists have behind
the scenes.
Premier Lenn has repeatedly
stressed the deSirability of attracting
back to Russia the 2.0O0.0oo Russians
who have fed to other countries and
represent the cream of Russian in
telligence The engineers. scientists.
bankers. teachers and merchants are
greatly needed.
Let's. Esthonians and Lithuanians
played Il large part in the business
life of old Russia. They had enjoyed
the benefits of both Swedish and
German culture. Many of them are
highly trained specialists and man.
ayers and directors of various enter
prises. But they have nearly all left
disorganiZed Russia and taken up
residence in the new Baltic states.
Will Not Re-enter Trade.
Baltic merchants will not re-enter
trade in Russia, for they lack conf
dence in the communist government.
Manufacturers are unwilling to re-
sumo their old work under govern
ment concessions. Even property
owners-or rather former property
owners-are unwilling to take back
their apartment houses and hotels
under the proposed concession plan.
Consequently the new economic pol
icy is falling far short of eNpecta-
tions.
Free domestic trade is not entirely
free. The term is misleading. 1t is
impossible for merchants to ship
goods at will on Russian railways.
Permits are required for each ship
ment. 1t is difficult to get these.
The pilfering on rail lines is eX-
tenSive. There is no insurance.
1t is largely through the goods car
ried by hand that markets in the
great cities are supplied. Railway
men carry flour and sugar from the
Ukraine to eke out an existence. 1t
brings a better price in Moscow and
Petrograd. Meat is also carried to
the cities by railway employees and
regular dealers. who employ carriers.
Movement to the Right.
Lenins inSistence that the govern
ment must win the confidence and
support of the intelligent classes is
generally regarded as a preparation
for further movements to the right
in governmental policies as soon as
il is Scssible to make them without
Sssf :5sing the communist party
utterly.
The communist party is rapidly be-
coming a party in the sense that the
United States and England have par
ties. Its important leaders show
daily signs of making further con-
cessions to the hostile majority. which
will have nothing to do with the
communist principles or half-com-
munist schemes. such as the conces-
sion plan of letting factories to old
owners.
/ The building up of the far eastern
republic at Chita under bolshevis,
domination. but with general elec.
tions and right of private property
is looked upon in Russia as an indi.
cation of revised policies which will
eventually be adopted in European
Russia.
Evening star., 1922-01-29
WILL ADDRESS ZIONISTS.
DR.. Baer Epstein to Tell of Work
in Palestine.

DR.. Baer Epstein will speak. under
the auspices of the Washington
Zionist district on the progress in
the work of upbuilding Palestine as
the Jewish homeland tomorrow night
at 8 o'clock at the Adath Israel Syna-
gogue, 9Th and I streets.
Members of the women's Zionist
organization. Hadassah, the Mizrachi
and Poale Zion are co-operating in
the arrangements for the meeting,
and the public has been invited to
attend. Joseph A. Wilmer, president
of the Washington Zionist district,
will preside.
Evening star., 1922-01-29
MANY AMAZING ESCAPES:
/ PTTUFUL SEARCHES MADE
Parents Franticaiy Inquire for Cildren-Little Girl
Found Uninjured; Mother Dead-Hundreds
q Scene All Night.

As in all cataStrorhieS, there were
many miraculous escapes last night
at the Knickerbocker. And there are
many who have cause today to be
thankful that for some reason which
seemed trivial at the time. they
changed intentions of going to the
Knickerbocker
Men and women who were rescued.
tell of how they sat in the balcony,
or in the pit below-how 4 chance
glance at the ceiling above showed
tho roof parting. followed by a ter
rife hiss and the crash of falling tons
of brick and mortor-how. when they
recovered consciousness, they found
themselves lying under twisted iron
Eirders-untouched, save for a bruise
Or scratch.
Parents Search for Children.
One of the most pathetic scenes
about the ruins as the work of res
cue proceeded was the search of a
father, or mother, for a missing boy
or girl who had "gone to the
movies" Some of them. before the
lines of police and soldiers were
drawn up around the ruins, had man.
aged to get to the pile of debris. Call
ing, calling hopefully the name of
loved one. they stumbled about over
the wreck: needing, then passing on,
rs some voice pleading for help came
from beneath the wreckage.
Then the women-the mothers, who
gathered outside the lines after they
were formed. Pleading with agon-
lied voices to be let inside the lines
this case to protect life from the
standing wall, expected to capsize
any minute.
Telephone calls to The Star office.
after news of the catastrophe had
spread. were pitiful. One of them,
q plaintiff. childish voice, said that
r.Mama and papa went to the movies
tonight. Were they hurt?"
Another, from a nurse. said four lit
tie children were waiting the return
Of their parents, who had gone to the
theater.j Endless questions reached
The Star concerning the names of
dead and injured. A name would be
given. searched for in the first lists
received from the scene. and many
times the tragic news of terrible
death was broken.
Then there were those who were
separated in the accident from those
with whom they had gone to the
theater. A husband, recovering con-
sciousness, was taken out of the
fuins. only to return to look for his
wife, who had been sitting beside
him. A little child. who with her
mother had attended the theater. was
taken away. unhurt. Her mother was
found later in the debris. dead.
Representative Barkley of Ken
fucky searched the ruins several
hours for his young son, who had
started for the theater earlier in the
evening. After hours Of anguish. In
,sA!sh hesaw the Wapsied dead taken
Evening star., 1922-01-29
BURGLAR KILLS PRIEST.

CHICAGO. January 2S.-A burglar
entered the parish house of the St
FLORENCE Catholic Church and shot to
death the Rev. Florian Chodniewicz,
when the latter started down stairs
IN hearing noise made by the bur-
gIar. The burglar Immediately OPEN
ed fire. The Rev. ChodniewicZ uled
several hours 1ater from the wounds
SSoaaYoA
Evening star., 1922-01-29
CALVERT STREET BRIDGE
IS CLOSED TO VEHICLES

The District Commissioners have or
dered the closing of the Calvert Street
account of the weight of the snow
that has fallen upon the structure.
That bridge has been destined for
some time to be superseded by an
other, and as the accumulation of
snow had caused doubts to be eX-
pressed as to the safety of the pres
ent bridge. the closing was ordered,
to take effect at once.
Evening star., 1922-01-29
RECEPTION is POSTPONED
Party for Mr.. and Mrs. Coolidge
Put Off Because of Theater
Horror.

The re eep.ion which was to have been
given to the Vice President and Mrs.
Coolidge tomorrow night at the Con-
gressional Club has been called off on
account Of the Knickerbocker Theater
disaster, Mrs. Harry woodward. chair
man Of the entertainment committee,
has announced, .-.....
Evening star., 1922-01-29

charge" Mr.. Healy said.
The building inspector estimated that
the snow on the roof was about two
feet deep. with Il weight of between 20
and 25 pounds to the square foot. He
explained that the weight might have
been greater on certain parts of the roof
where the snow had blown into drifts.
This weight. he said was not as great
as it would have been today or tomor-
row. when the snow would have thawed
and become water-soaked.
At Theater All Night.
Mr. Healy was asked if he had
reached any definite conclusion as to
what structural supports had given
way. replying as quoted above. Mr..
Heaiy was at the theatcr all night. but
said he was thinking more of how to
get the piiIned-in men. women and
children out of the wreckage than he
was thinking of the cause of the col
lapse.
The building inspector could not re-
call a previous case of the collapse of a
building in the District of Columbia
directly as a result of the weight of
snow on the roof. Small shacks have
gone down under heavy snowfalls, he
said.
Evening star., 1922-01-29
snow.

Investigation the collapse OF the knckerbocker heater
roof will be started at once Cuno H. Rudolph
chairman the District Commissioners stated today
Until thorough made the direct OF the
tragedy will be determined officials stated NO man can tell
present time just what directly responsible TOR the
collapse the roof declared Building Inspector Ileay.
Col Charles Keller engineer commissioner who sperv1se
the building inspectors office at the scene OF the catastrophe
all night oathcrin" first hand information
Evening star., 1922-01-29
SHACKLETON, BRITISH
EXPLORER, DIES ON SHIP
Report of Death Early in Month,
While on Antarctic Expedition,
Comes From Montevideo.

BY the Associated Press.
Montevideo. Jan .9.-Sir Ernest FL
Shack Teton. the British explorer
died January on board the steam
ship Quest, on which he was making
an Anarc,ic expedition.
Evening star., 1922-01-29
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
i BLAME FOR COLLAPSE
). TO BE MADE AT ONCE
Tragedy's Direct Cause Cannot
/ Be Known Without Thorough
Probe, Say Officials
(TTY'S STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
ORDERED TO MAKE REPORT

Commissioners and Inspector at Scene
of Wreck--Rescues Precede Inquiry
To Clear Wooden Bridges
At noon today, Commissioner Rudolph
said that an investigation of the disaster
would be called by the building inspector.
The commissioner said that all theaters
having this type of roof, which is known
as the cantlever roof will be ordered to
remain closed until the building inspector
can see to it that the is removed and,
afterward can see if the roof has been
- weakened in any way by the weight of the
=
New Britain herald., 1922-10-18
ALMADEN ONWARD WINS.

Avon, Conn.,, Oct. 1S,-Almaden On- ward defeated Col. Bidwell in the fea- ture race of the opening days card at Cherry Park yesterday afternoon, ta king the first two heats of the event Tn the third heat, the two pacers flashed under the wire head and head in dead heat. Hollyrood Fancy won the 2:17 trot impressively, while Great Excitement was easily the class of the 2:24 trotters.
New Britain herald., 1922-10-18
MANY WANT TICKETS
Public Sale for Harvard Center Game on Saturday Brings Out Thousands of Purchasers.

Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 1s.-1ndi- cations today were that Center col lege. making probably its last ap- pearance in the Harvard stadium. will meet the Crimson eleven next Saturday before a crowd that will pack the great amphitheater. Public sale of seats in Boston and Cambridge yesterday exhausted 10000 and left many prospective purchasers still standing in line.
 The last lot of 5000 held over un- til the day before the game to min imize speculation, will be taken quickly, 1t was believed. In all about 51 GOO tickets will be sold.
 The recent edict on football poli- cies given out by the presidents of Harvard. Princeton and Yale, in the minds of those familiar with the sit uation here, will make impossible a continuance of the Center Harvard rivalry now in its third year.
 The record to date is victory for each team. Head Coach Fisher of Harvard said yesterday he would start the varsity eleven as it opposed Holy Cross two weeks ago. Reports from Center college indicated several changes in the Kentucky lineup, due to the reinstatement of Shadoan and Gordy
New Britain herald., 1922-10-18
ENTRAIN FOR EAST.

Danville, Ky, Oct 1S.-The Pray ing Colonels' of Center college, en- trained here early today for their trip to the Harvard stadium. where next Saturday the third annual Har- vardCenter football game will be played. Twenty-Five players. Coaches Moran and Bond, Dr. C. E. Allen, faculty representative, and Student Manager Bergman made up the party.
 Coach Moran's schedule called for arrival of the Iarty at Boston Thurs dayff noon; practice by the squad afternoon, and the final workout Friday morning.
New Britain herald., 1922-10-18
BUT TWO SWIMMERS
 WERE SUCCESSFUL
Nearly 300 Attempts Made to
 Cross English Channel

New York. Oct. 18.-During tho past fifty years there have probably been close to 500 attempts to swim the English channel.
 Noted swimmers representing many nations have made the attempt and on at least five occasions women have engaged the treacherous currents and icy waters.
 Of all that number, but two have been successful
 Captain Matthew Webb, in 1875, and Thomas W. Burgess, in 1911, were the swimmers who succeeded in swimming from the English coast to the shore of France.
 Webb Failed Once.
 Captain Webb failed in his first attempt to reach France but on his second try, starting August 24, 1875, after twenty-one hours and forty-fve minutes of buffeting tides which threatened to take him back to the English coast, Webb finally touched ground and walked up the sands near Calais.
 Thomas w. Burgess, an English man by birth, but who spent the best part of his life in France, is the only man. other than Webb, who negotiated the distance. Burgess made the swim on his eighteenth attempt and he was fifty-two years of age at the time. Burgess was f- nally successful in 1911, and his time was approximately the same as that made by Webb thirty-six years previous. His time was twenty-two hours and fifteen minutes. Like Captain Webb, Burgess started his swim from a point near Dover, Eng land, but he landed at Cape Gris- neg, on the opposite shore.
 Both Swan 45 Miles.
 The actual distance covered by these men was close to 45 miles. As the crow flies, the distance between Dover and Calais is not more than 21 miles. The channel tides run from the North sea into the ocean and back-six hours each way. Every swimmer hopes to make the swim in two tides, but none has succeeded.
 When Burgess made his successful swim he was within two miles of the French coast when the third tide caught him. and it took him more than nine hours to swim those two miles,
 There have been any number of swimmers who have been taken from the water when victory was apparently within their grasp. and Burgess has all along insisted that t is the last two miles that count and it didn't take a superman to reach that fatal point under favor. able conditions.
New Britain herald., 1922-10-18
 TO
PLAYERS PAID OFF
Regular Giants to Receive Si,5i5.7i as Share for Winning Worlds Base- ball Championship.

Chicago, Oct. 1S,-(Ry Associated Press, )-Checks ranging in sums ranging from $50 to s4,645.71 were mailed yesterday from the office of Commissioner K. NJ. Landis, baseball commissioners to seventy-four men who participated in the 1922 worlds series games at the Polo Grounds, New York.
 Three checks, each for s2,s42.s6, were handed to players Joe Bush, Waite Hoyt and Fred Hoffman of the Yankees while they were leaving Chicago last Sunday, en route to Ja- pan.
 Eighteen Giants, including Manager John McGraw and Coach Hugh Jennings, each received a check for S,545,7l. Five members of the Giants were given individuals checks for s4545.7o which is one cent less than the amounts received by the highest group. One of these was 'Cosey' Dolan, the veteran assista mt coach.
 The veteran pitcher Jesse Barnes received one cent more than his bro- ther Virgil, who also is pitcher. The checks of twelve others, including players who were lately added to the Giants roster. ground-keepers, train CTS, mascots, etc, ranged from so00 to s2,722.S5.
 or the twenty-nine checks mailed yesterday to members of the Yankee club members, twenty-three were for s2,s42.S6 each and two for s2.S42.S5 The remaining seven checks, repre- sented sums ranging from $50 to s1- -l'a5' The total amount of the checks mailed yesterday was s177.- 2Ss.37 of which s111.2S9.37 went to the members of the Giants, and s6s. 642.33 to the Yankees
New Britain herald., 1922-10-18
RECORDS STILL GOING
swimmers at Honolulu Are Perform
 ing in a Brilliant Manner.

Honolulu, Oct. Is (By Associated Press)-More worlds records were smashed last night, the second of the swimming trials in the Outrigeer club tank. Warren kealoha, broke his own worlds record for the 100 meter back stroke. by swimming it in one minute, 12 3-5 seconds. His for mer record was 1:14.
 Gwitha Shaud, of New Zealand swan the 40 yard free style in six minutes, 2-5 seconds, thus better ing Sybil Bauer's record of 6:16.
 Marie Chen Weheslau made a new American record when she swan 50 yards free style in 2S 4-5 seconds. The previous record was 29 fiat.
New Britain herald., 1922-10-18
SPENT S98. 900.
West Virginia Man, Despite This.
 Loses Congressional Nomination.

Huntington, w, Va. Oct. 1S.-C. Fred Edwards, wealthy manufacturer, pleaded not guilty in common pleas court yesterday afternoon to the charge of violating the corrupt prac- tices act in his unsuccessful campaign for the republican senatorial nomina- tion at the August primary election.
 Edwards, the first candidate in West Virginia ever indicted for excessive campaign expenses, admitted in his statement of expenses filed with the seretary Of state, that he spent about s96,oo0 in seeking the nomination. The state law permitted total ex- penditure of less than S5,h00
New Britain herald., 1922-10-18
KILLED BY BENZINE.

Yonkers, Oct. 1S.-Miss Clarisso Simonds, aged 30, of 10 Lamartine Terrace, Yonkers is dead from an odd accident late Monday night. While alone in the home of her aunt, Mrs Robert Neville she filled a pan with benzine to clean some clothing. It Is believed she was overcome by the fumes and fell into the pan. She was found face downward in the benzine.
 Coroner Edward Fitzgerald held yesterday that death was accidental. She was born in Baltimore and had lived in Yonkers Is years.
New Britain herald., 1922-10-18
PRAISE ASHLEY
Local Boy Did some Splendid Work
 for Middlcbury Eleven Against
 Dartmouth in Last Saturdays Game

Middlebury, Vt Oct lS.-Coach D, B. Morey's football charges face the hardest game on their schedule when they stack up against Hugo Bezdek's roaring Penn State eleven, Saturday. It will be Alumni Day at State College and Middlebury is especially anxious 10 see his eleven press the Nittany Lions, as President Thomas of Penn State is a Middle bury graduate and was president here up until two years ago.
 The work of Stanton F. Ashley, New Britain High school product, was the big feature of the Dartmouth game and he will bear careful watch ing against Penn State
 This Is Middlebury's first year on the Penn State schedule.