j CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,3 TRYING TO FIX BLAME FOR DISASTER Official Investigation of the Knickerbock er Theatre Disaster Started by Both Sen I ate and House Washington. Jan. 30.?-The pos sibility that the number of dead in the Knickerbocker theater tragedy miglit be less than 1 GO was seen toinght after the police' had com pleted a re-check of aJJ. names in the earlier casualty lists and had made; a- thorough inquiry covering undertaking establishments and hpsj?itab. As a result ^their in vestigation it was said, that the death list so- far as definitely as certained now stood at $5. -. Ten names in the lists hereto fore-given of the dead wexctcnta ? trvely stricken out pe?dtog. more definite knowledge ?f s.thes? per sons. The ten had been, listed as ?taddress unknown" and there had been no naquirics by ?latives or friends for such persons., These were: W. N. Crawford, Albert Raker, E. H. Hail Paulos Lam by. i L. !L- Leblcx, Mr, and Mrs. Russell Maine, D. X. Walsh, Miss M. \ K. Walsh and a*Mrs. Davis. > * " Washington. Jan. 30.?Investi gation of the'cause of the Knick erbocker theater . disaster; which caused the death of more?than 100 - persons, was begun today by - several agencies, of the District of Columbia government with the probability that the senate and house also might undertime cx ? hsustive inquiries. - The senate is expected to act to morrow on ? resolution *>y Sena tor" Capper CRcpublicakn) of Kan ? sas,/calling: for. an investigation of theA catastrophe by. a senate com mittee. "Despite the announcement by Representative Mondell that the, .house - would jmt Authorize an inquiry- until' district officials have excluded their investigation, Rcp rys>cntatiye Ryan of Jfew York, charging that the collapse of, the roof was due. to faulty construc tion and. would not have occurred had ;h*rc been proper inspection, . o^ered a resolution proposing an inyesiigation. . ' j District, of ~Co^?ml^ Vcomnixs-' sk>ners: declared they would go into i phase of the. tragedy which " o^urrcd,.Saturday night when the' roof. . freigftCedS witlx . snow; fell on ? fen audience of several hundred, not only, for the purpose of fixing the blame but of also guarding against. possible recurrence of such calamities. Col. Charles Kel ler, engineer commissioner, after mailing a personal survey of the wreckage, declared he bclifeved the I cave-in was caused by a defect in material at some point of the roots support. Ho stated, how ever, that it would be impossible * now to determine whether there bad been any defect in material. t I'lans for the support of the rbof. Colonel Keller asserted, in dicate that the capacity for weight ? was greatly in excess of any re quirement in a climate like Wash ington's. . Building Inspector Healy also was of the opinion that plans for * the construction of the roof were sound and practical and that the necessary tests following construc * tion had been met. Primary to an investigation the federal grand jury went to the scene of the tragedy and examin ed the wreckage today. Witness es will be called before the jury v without delay, it was sokl, in an effort to fix blame. D. J. Ramsey Kcvitt, District of Columbia coroner, declnrm;? he ?1 would spare no effort In placing *' responsibility, requested Peyton ninety-five. Of the] I hundred and thirty-three injured. J ] sixty-two remained in hospitals; J with a doz'-n reported in ;t criti-! ical condition. The reductions inj ; th<- total death List resulted from j the tentative elimination of < i.^ht ' tnames for which the police are tunable to :ind any address. <..],?? ^erroneously reported dead. ;mi<1 one : duplication. A final check of the p??ii-.? has] [placed the death list at S?7. "Be Just and Fear N BRITISH AND FRENCH LOCK | HORNSJGAIN Question of Subma-j rines at Arms Meet ing ? Ambassador Jusserand Opens Controversy Washington, Jan. 31.?Prepara tions to present publicly the five power naval and submarine treat ies ot tomorrow's open session of the arms conference were com pleted in committee today after the British and French delegates again had indulged in a sharp exchange over the submarine issue. At the same time, the Japanese and Chinese about completed their drafting of the treaty by which Shantung is to be restored to China, and it was predicted that this agreement, too. might be form ally writen into the book of con ference accomplishments at tomor row's public meeting. Despite the British-French tilt, the naval committee of the whole approved in shoti order the two treaties by which the powers agree to limit their capital ship sea power and to impose certain re strictions on their use of subma rines. At the public session the treaties are to be read into the record and each delegation head is to deliver an address expressing his government's acceptance. Until the last minute it had been undecided whether the submarine declarations and the accompanying resolution condemning use f pois on gas in warfare should be pur into a formal treaty or left in tin form of a protocol not requiring parliamentary ratification. Expres sions at the commiHee meeting, however, are said to ..ave revealed a preponderance of opinion in fa vor of the latter course. In their final agreement on Shantung, it was learned tonight, the Japanese and Chinese accepted in substance the proposal sup ported by President Harding, pro viding that the Tsingtao-Tsinanfu Railroad shall be purchased by China and paid for with^ treasury notes and that two Japanese o!Ii cialx be includid in the operating personnel during the p?-riod of pay ment. The notes are to bo for fifteen years. with an option of full payment in five. The agreement on Japaneso par ticipation in the road's manage ment, a subject over which the! bitterest difference of opinion had I arisen, provides that there shall bei a Japanese trathe manager and ' that one of the two chief account ants shall be Japanese and the other Chinese. All of these officials however, are under the authority! of a Chinese managing director. The sudden flare up over the re- j t-mtion of submarines in the navio of the world came as an uncx- j pected feature of today s naval committee session, and led Jo a de bate between the French and the I British which approached an in tensity of feeling the exchanges of whir!-, took place when the ques tion first can e before tin- confer ence several weeks ago. In today's discussion Ambassa dor Jusserand took the h-rid for tin French and Lord Lee for the Brit ish, the former bringing the sub ject to tlie fore by announcing that he had received information from. Franc?- to refute I^ord Lee's previous charges that a naval ar ticle by Capt. Castex, of the French navy, seemed to Indicate a French policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. M. Juss< rand declared Lord Lee j had omitted to say that Capt. Cas tex concluded his argument on i submarines by the words "The Ger mans argue in this way." There- ' fore, the ambassador contended, the j article in question had been cited in a manner not quite fair to France Moreover. h?" added, the sub-title, "Character of German Submarine Warfare." had been omitted when the article was re- ; fcrrcd to. lb- asserted that Castex was only a lecturer at the stuff or- I i ganization school, while tlt<- real ' views of France on submarine war- I fare had been clearly expressed by] responsible men like Commander Vincent, opposed to German meth ods. Arthur J. Lalfour. ?l:c ambassa-I dor continued, had s;iid that Great j Britain won tin- fight against sub-i marines and that if war came again I tli- burden would be upon flrcat j Britain, which had o.UTG anti-sub marine craft during the war. in1 rvply ro that M. Jusserand point- I '?d out that from the beginning of j tic- war many French marines had j been mobilized to light in Flanders j and Alsace, bui when submarine warfare was declared by Germany. ! France had turned her attention to the. submarine, danger. As :i nint- , t? r of fact, the ambassador said, j the French mobilized as many as 1 L3?U anti-submarine craft and not ; ?J.'T as Mr. Halfour had said; Lord Lee replied to the anibassa- ! dor by saying he was nor prepared to enter into a new discussion, but \ he thought In- could support tin ! view that tin- genera 1 meaning j the Castex article w;is ;is lie had ! Originally decrlbed it. Further- ] more. Lord I.'-,, recailed thai the I British in their efforts to abolish ] submarines had been opposed i>\ j Franc* and that was to brini; upon : Great Dritain j heavy burden. He I ot?Ix-t all the ends Thou Aims"! at _Sumter, S. C, Saturd; BOSTON POLICE BATTLE WITH NEGRO BANDIT _ ! Sixteen Officers With Sawed Off Shot Guns Needed t o Subdue Him?Four, Wounded in Fight Boston. Jan. 'M?Sixteen police-i men, armed with riot guns.'battled, against Renzy Murray, a negro, 1 who barricaded himself in a house ] wounded two policemen and two;; negroes and only surrendered when j the police broke down the door. , Shouts of "Lynch hir.i" were made ! by ihe crowd who roughly handled | him before the officers hurried him i away in ;i patrol wagon. Mail Robbery j in Chicago - i Chicago. Feb. 1?Five sacks of, mail, believed ro have been regis tercd were stolen by three armed I bandits, who stopped the- mail clerk i enroute from the depot to the post-' office, according to police reports. \ MINERS MAKE COMMON CAUSE WITH RAILROAD President of Miners' Union Ready to Join Forces With Rail-; road Organizations Indianapolis. Feb. 1 ?The Uni ted Mine Workers of America ar?? willing "io unreservedly put their' interests with the railroad organi zations and stand with them in re sistance to The proposed attacks^ upon tluir wage schedule." .lohn L. Lewis, international president of the miners declared in making an announcement that an Lnvira tion to participate in the meeting] with the miners had been sent to : the officers of sixteen major organ-] zutions of railroad workers. ? ? ? House Passes Tax Postponement Bill Representative Bclser Spoke. Against Adoption of Rsolution _ i Columbia. Feb. 2.? In the house of representatives Thursday an ef- ? fort was made to kill the tax postponement resolution, but the fight was lost and the measure was] passed on third reading, going now i back to tin- senate for concurrence j in amendments, after which if be-j comes a law. The resolution provides ;i pen-j ally of one per cent on taxes paid in January and an additional one j per com for each month, up to June 1. with seven per cent after: that date and executions after Sop-: t ember 1. i Representative Belscr made a speech against the resolution, in which he showed that the state is not "broke." that the agricultural and manufacturing resources of the. state are enormous, and that it is; injurious to the state's credit to put ' out the report that the stat.v is j "broke." He said that h<- believes j the postponement oi' taxes another* year will result in injury to the j state's credit. - More Trouble in Ireland Serious Dispuc Over Bound ary of Ulster Imidin. Feb. -. -A serious situa tion has arisen over the boundary! question between Ulster and South. Ireland, it is officially stated. did not wish, to make .> controver sial reply. I"!; declared with some feeling that Croat Britain had show n good faith. She had offen d France .'? treaty as a guarantee of the situation in Furopc. he said, and he suggested that no further \-.oid be uttered that might male-, the situation worse. He believed i: better to go forward as friends anil j allies in the new reconstruction of the world. After the naval committee meet ing the Far Fastern committee dis ?ussed briefli the Chinese F?stern > ?ailway problem and the resolutem o prohibit importation 01 arms into "hina. but reached no decision. It ilso appointed :i subcommittee! ?omposed of the heads of dcloga ions to look over the partial druf; ?f the Far Fastern treaty, which las been prvpa red by t? -??!iri ic;i 1 . ?xpertx. and to determine just1 ??! at should be included. Ii u as a id tonight that the Kar Fastern j leetsions probahlj would have t?j ?< divided a ad embodied into at j cast two treaties because ot' the J '?riety of subjects treated. !?e thy Country's, Thy Cod's and 1 iy, February 4,1922 ENORMOUS > EARTHQUAKE RECORDED Georgetown Universi ty Reports Disturb-1 ance of Unusual Vi olence Somewhere South of Washing ton Washington. Jan. 31.?An earth ciuakc of greatest intensity. prob-| lbly twenty-six hundred miles south Of Washington, was registered at the Georgetown Scismographical i Observatory today. The tremors: became so?pronouuced as tu throw; registering needles off the scale, ; The quake is pronounced "enor- [ mous" by the ollicials of the obsor-1 yatory. , EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS FELT San Francisco. Jan. 31.? Earth quake shocks were fell along the Pacific coast from San Francisco to the Canadian border, according to reports received here. No damage was reported. TWOOTTSTAX PLACED ON JMiNE Senate Passes Gaso line Tax Bill After: Hard Fight ? Pro ceeds Divided Be tween State and Counties Columbia. Feb. 1. The senate late last night passed the gasoline tax bill providing a tax of two Cents a gallon. The hill passed tin-' house last year with a tax of one ?-'-:-.t. The Kill will btrcomc law ? when the difference is smoothed; out. Tas on kerosene is climinat- : cd. The proceeds of the tax will be divided equally between state and counties, the county's share to ?-:<> to roads. Strong effort was made to have the entire proceeds of the tax ap plied to the roads. The senate at first refused, by a vote of -0 to 16,1 to lay on the table an amendment, by .Senator .Moore, of Abbeville, to . distribute all of the money to the j counties to be used exclusively in ? the construction and maintenance' of roads, but a few minutes later reversed itself, and by a vote of 22 ! to 11 rejected the amendment. Byj a vote of -."> to 9 it rejected an ' amendment by Senator Goodwin,! of Laurens, to give all of the moil- i ey to counties for general purposes. Tin- fight for the senate committee ' amendments was led by Senators Christensen. Laney. McGhcc, J. H.? Johnson and Duncan. ! Senators Bonham. Moore, Good- j Kin and Ka;,'sdale b d the light I against the aiucndmciu Senators! Christensen and Duncan fold the! senate that the people were look-' ing to the general assembly fori relief on the state levy and to the j county delegations for relief on the county levy. By a vote of i to I ."> the senate j adopted an amendment to cut out j tin- one-cent-a-gafloiftlax on kcro-! senc. This amendm? nt was offered 1 by Senator Padgett, of Colleton.; who ur^?*d its adoption. The: senate rejected an amendment by Senator Padgett to put the enforce ment of the ia.w on iiie Depart-I moot of Agriculture. -? ? ?? Italian Delegates Not Advised; Representatives in Washing-; Ion Conference Know Noth- j ing of Chanjrc in Min istry j Washington. Ivel?. - -The bai- ' ian arms eonferencf ?'.< legates have le-en advised of the gover*:tii'*:il"s reported decision to resign. Spokes-; nn n said that the report-! : nation is probabl> '1." to ;>oiic\ toward tin- Vatican. opposition be-1 ing noted to half masting !. ' ;^ at the pot.e's death. -? .? ? Policemen Guard Street Cars Portsmouth. Va.. Feb. J 'After Illachs on street cars last night bw| strike sympathizers policemen wore placed aboard all cars operated in tie- eit> by men itnported to ope rate cars, which have been tied up fourteen days by thy strike of j I>iat fbrm irinployces. ['LAN FOR KNICKER BOCKER MEMORIAL PARK; Washington. Feb. - The house j ommitfee is considering a pro- j posal to transform the Knicker bocker theatre site into a park is j t memorial to the dead. rniiirs." OVERBIDDING HENRY FORD FOR PROJECT Revised Proposal to War Department Submitted by Fred erick Engstrum, of Wilmington, N. C. Washington. Fob. 1 (By the As sociated Press).?On the eve of de livery by Secretary Weeks of Hen ry Ford's offer for the govern ment properties at Muscle Shoals. Ali.. Frederick F. Engstrum of Wilmington. X. C. presented the war secretary with an amended proposal to complete, lease and operate the Muscle Shoals prop erties for the manufacture of ni tr.it" for fertilizers. The amended proposal was accompanied by a letter signed by Marion -Butler, acting legal adviser for Mr. Fng struuv, which recited the outstand ing features of the proposals as follows: .\ guaranteed cost to complete. Government retains ownership and preserves assets of $111,000, 0?0. Belums from investment, on a basis of 100,000 kilowatt gross de velopment: this lease will pay to the government, the letter says. $3.504.000 per year for 5" years, or a total .-a compound -1 per cent, in terest of approximately ?337,000. 000: this cash will be used to pro due;- cheap nitrates for fertilizers or can be turned into the treasury at the option of the government. Success of nitrate manufacture which can be economically used for fertilizer is dependent entirely on sale of power: without the sup port of the power development and sale of excess power to finance the nitrate plants it would not be pos sible, to continue the manufacture and sab- of nitrates. The power end of the industry is solely developed for the benefit of the factory. The separation of the factory . from the power de stroys the unity of the industry. This lease proposes to devote the entire power development to the manufacture of nitrates, including the development of improved methods for the reduction of cost of producing nitrates^?- The quan tity of nitrates annually produced is limited only by the amount of ex cess power sold and the selling price of nitrates fixed by the gov ernment. The method proposed to finance by the sale of excess power in the manufacture of nitrates is the only possible method by which nitrates can be produced under present known methods and sold to the American fanners at a price less than the Chilean products. "We will be glad," the Jotter con cluded, "to consider any changes or amendments which you may sug gest with a view to accepting the same if we can see our way clear so to do." Telephone Bill Killed in Senate Railroad Commission on Pub lic Utilities to Be Combined Columbia. Feb. 2.?The senate today killed the bill to require the telephone companies of the state to give free intorurban service bc twoo-n towns nor mow than thirty miles apart, and at the same time passed and sent to the house the bill to enlarge the railroad commis sion to seven members, combining .t with the public utilities commis sion. The bill has been debated for several days. It was introduced by Senator Miller, of Darlington, and was aimed, ii was charged in debate, at the present commission be cause of the decision of the pres ent commission in the telephone rate case last year. The new plan calls for a commission of seven members, elected by the general ,-d of payment. I; was announced, how e' er, that j in order to work out the remain- ; :n^- details, the two delegations [would meet again tomorrow. Dr. j Koo of the Chinese predicted that I before tomorrow night a final and rrmoX. Established June i. 1S6G. _VOL. LIL NO, 50 BOUNDARY CASE FINALLY JETTLED Attorney Gen. Wolfe Pleased With De cision of Supreme Court Columbia. Jan. 31. ? Attorney General Wolfe today expressed en tire satisfaction at the outcome of the famous boundary case, decided yesterday by the United Slates su preme court. This is in reality a victory for South Carolina. "The court," sob! Mr. Wolfe, "sustained South Carolina's original conten tion, that the thread of the streams between the two stales is the ! boundary. There is only one point on which we were not whol ly sustained, and that is that where there are islands the middle of the stream on the South Carolina side of the island shall be the boun ! dary. V.'c contended for the shore of the island towards South Caro lina, though the court decision is what we expected, as it is in line with the original Beaufort treaty." When Georgia first instituted the, suit, it was claimed that the South Carolina side of the stream? was the boundary. This would have given Georgia all the hydro-elec ? ric power development on the riv ers. Later, when the case got to court Georgia modified her conten tion and took the position, similar to South Carolina's stand, that the thread of the stream is the boundary. ? ? ? ?? ^ ? Harding Breaking the Agricultural Bloc There Are More Ways of Kill ing a Dog Than by Choking Him *Vith Butter Washington.. Jan. Cl.?Senator Kcnyon of Iowa, leader of tfto much discussed agriculture bloc and chairman of the senate labor committee, was named today by President Harding to be circuit judge for the Eighth circuit. Im mediately after receiving che nom ination, the senate confirmed it unanimously in open session. At the White House, i: was said, the president had appointed Mr. Kcnyon to succeed the lat ? .Tudge Wn 1 fer 1. Smith becan ?C. of his high regard for the senator's abil ity and because of the iattet's known desire to have a place on the federal bench. Senator Ken yon, in a formal statomcn! 'ater. tlso said the presiden'. when a member of the senate know of his dislike for politics and Li?, lo-. e for the law. In the senate. Senator Harrison (Democrat) of Missis/tppi after confirmation had been vnt d. raid i thai while he was conTki-nt that the appointment of Mr. Twnyon was because of the la?l*;r"? emi nent qualifications, the uje-stion would arise throughout the. agri cultural sections as to "whether the selection was not intended to drivo ;a wedge into, and ultimately de stroy, the agricultural bloc. Sen ator TIellin (L>cmocrat) of Ala bam;1 declared that with the Ken yon appointment the "drive to break the agricultural bloc has been started." Senator Kcnyon doc3 ::ot plan to unit the senate until probably the middle of February. By that time. t he expects passage of the Capper cooperative marketing bill in which fie js vitally interested and with which he has had much to do as I the leader of the agricultural blo<\ ? Senator Borah of Idaho is next in the Republican line on tb- labor committee and if the senate rule of seniority so-established is follow ? ed in this case Mr. Borah v.Ill ? head tie. committee! Des Meines. Iowa. Jan. SI (By Associated Press).?Gov. iz. j K?u:dall today announced he had [given no thought to the question 1 of whom he would appoint to suc ceed Senator W. s. Kcnyon, whose : nomination .as federal circuit judge j r>f tie- Iowa district was ?"<>i.firmed i by the senate. j Governor Kendall said I>e prob i ably would appoint a successor ira | mediately folio;, in;: the date when ;the resignation of Senator K*-u l yon takes pluer. Tiie Iowa governor also quieted ? rumors th.it be would ceefc : place himself by announcing he would not think of sx'signing tire govemoship t > become a candidate I even though l-.e knev. he would be I elected. definite settlement could be an nounced. j Nein- the Japanese would com [ment on the status of the negotla Itiens prior t mediators would want to make a statement after tomorrow's meeting.