Evening star., 1933-07-15
Successor to TaWSe Will Not
Be Named in Immediate
Future, However.
62 PRISONERS TO REACH
ATLANTA LATE TODAY
Bewhiskered Group Seem Happy to
Leave as They Yell Good-by
to Friends.

The District Commissioners have been
notified by the Bureau of the Budget
that President Roosevelt has approved
the filling of the vacancy in the post of
superintendent of the District Reform
atory at Lorton, Va.
The notice is in reply to a request
forwarded to the President early this
week, after the city heads had received
and accepted the resignation of A. C.
TaWse, Lorton superintendent. who quit
during disagreement with his superior,
Capt. M NJ Barnard. head of the Dis
trict'S penal institutions, over the
handling of a number of rebelliouS priS-
oners at the institution.
A provision of one of the Federal
economy measures provided that after
July l vacant positions in the Federal
and District Governments could be filled
only with the approval of the Presi-
dent.
Appointment Delayed.
Members of the District Board of
Public Welfare and the District Com
miSsioners are studying qualifications of
several candidates TOR the LOrton post
but the position will not be filled in the
immediate future. Dr.. Luther H.
Reichelderfer, president of the Board of
Commissioners, declared Capt. Barnard
would retain active direction of Lorton
for the present or until the situation
there has been entirely quieted down.
Among those prominently mentioned
as successor to Tawse are Col. William
L. Peake, for IA years superintendent of
the District Jail. and Carl Lewis, an
official of a large manufacturing plant
at Kokomo, Ind who some years ago
served as chief clerk of the District
Workhouse, at Occoquan, Va.
SiXty-two of the prisoners figuring
in the disturbance at Lorton last week
were due to arrive at the Atlanta Fed
eral Penitentiary this afternoon, having
been placed aboard train on the Lor
ton reservation yesterday. Their jour-
ney was begun without incident
Shackled in pairs by their feet. the
men Were taken out of the cells in
which they have spent the last week
and put on a railroad car about 100
yards from the cell-block. Although
they were on the way to prison of
much stricter rules and closer confine-
ment than the one they were leaving,
all seemed happy to go.
Sport Long Whiskers.
Sporting long wtiskers from their
eight razorless days, the men yelled
good-by to friends still at Lorton and
paid little attention to the rifles and
pistols trained on them by the guard
of 16 Metropolitan policemen. They
laughed and jCked.
Arrangements are now on the way
for sending second group of prisoners
from Lorton to the Federal peniten-
tiary at Lewisburg. Pa. This group
will leave early next week, it is ex-
pected.
Prisoners Who Left.
The prisoners who left for Atlanta
yesterday were Tom Harvey, William
H Proctor, Clyde M. Fisher Frank Ma
honey, Robert Mcfarland, William
Ellis, James Thompson, Thomas j. Hig-
gins, George Kline, John Williams. Otha
Grant. Jester G. Kirkley, Edward B.
Lee, William E. Caddes, Bernard Ross,
James @. McCraw, Henry Fegen. Will
liam T. BarWick, Jack Mahoney.
Charles Edward Brown, Clarence NJ.
Williams, John Sager, Herbert Jones,
jr.; James R. Sheehan. James w.
Handy. Samuel Adler, Thomas Cleve-
land, Erasmus c. jenkins, Homer M.
Sneed, jr.; George Brooks Raymond
B. Prayer, Henry johnson, Henry T.
SnoWden, James ]. Mulligan, William
Tierney, Kermit E. Hill, James L.
Neese, Russell ]. Harris, Andrew D.
Minor, Richard Halfpap. John Williams,
Louis Anderson, Claude M Summers,
James Matthews, John T. Phillips,
George Tinker, Benjamin Brown. Don
aid Henshsw, Francis Mulvey. George
A. Gather. Edward j. Fitzpatrick Will
liam Longstreet, George Moy. Archie
Lyles Albert E. Cash, John H. Isaac,
Amos R, Stepney. Joseph M. Stevenson,
James Lamar and Luther Bethel.