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i r.j ni. ft THE WEATHER "AH the News That's nt to Print." Fair today; Tuesday cloudyr change ia temperatare; north wind. Ttmptrttun Uat 24 brar-Cfcx. T. asto.

2S. far roc fun iHihw rrport Pi i- NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1922. TWO CENTS CBKTS fE.NTS 23,382. BEAD IN COLLAPSE OF THEATRE; ALL ARE IDENTIFIED; TAKEN FROM RUINS ALIVE, BRAVE AWAITING RESCL CONGRESS MAY START INQUIRY TODAY TO FIX THE mm III BLAME CONCLAVE EXPECTED TO SPEED ELECTION OF THE NEW POPE 'y predicted In Rome That Bene- filet's Successor Will Reign by Saturday. DOUBT AMERICANS CAN VOTE refer Declares That Talk of Hi Own Candidacy Is Preposterous.

URGES FORGIVING ENEMIES Cardinals Maffi, Rattl, Lega and Fentalna 8ald to Havo Best Chaneasl TlOME, 2 (AMKcUted Prew). flTh 2Lt Pontiff ef th Roman 'Catholic Church vill elected by next Saturday, accordlos to the conaenaas of opinion a expressed by the prelates arrhrtnr here with the Cardinals attached to the conclave. They expect that the decision will he reached on the third or fourth hallbt. The conclave will open on 1 do aot expect a sharply drawn contest. which, some predict." said a prominent Bnsllah ecclesiastic today.

Althouxh there are naturally divergent wt uxn( the Cardinals, these dif--cBos are not Irreconcilable, and I confident that the Sacred CoUegw able to asree upon the auccessor Bo edict in reiaUvely abort Unie. Vnerlcaji and English church dignities consider it a certainty that the noire will fall upon an Italian. They beiMrve that the best chances lie with Cardinals Maffi. BatU. Lrega and La lonlaine.

Ilerder Xts Aside Candidacy. Cardinal Mercter ao thinks that the Bext Fhpe certain to be an Italian. He said today to the Associated Press: There la no need to Indulge In rain conjecture or to count the vote In ad-Yance. but one must wait the decrees Providence for the rast five centuries has ruled that the Luprem Pontiff should be an Italian. The distinguished Belgian Prelate did r-ot concur in the opinion that has been Ireeiy expressed In Vatican circles that over has a foreign Cardinal had such m.

chance of being elected Pope." It is against all tradition that a for- should be elected." ald the Car- Cical. "The next -e-ope cenauujr wu to an Italian. ll was winwg umi -V af was tne Arcnoisoop u- uci "-) notibtedly you have heard, your ijnl-ffience. that the naine of another Belgian Cartilnai is being pronwnently mentioned ilXor the coming Conclave." it was added. Oh.

yoa must not think of that. replied Cardinal You must ot believe It. It I preposterous. rover thought of that before. Provl-' penca will decide.

Urgee' Fergtvtag laemUs. -ForgJa your enejnies." aald the Cardinal In response to a Query as to whether be favored closer relations between the- Vatican and the QuirinsJ. The Lord's Prayer." he added. say. Forgtv us as we forgive those who treepass against u.

Tne present does not seem a lavorabte moment for reaction. Perhaps, after all. it Is possible tor the world to live in peace and friendliness on with another. The correspondents asked the Cardinal whether in his mention of the Lord 1 Prayer he Included Belgium late war enemies as also to be forgiven. 1h Lord does not Appear to have mad any distinction." repUed the Cardinal- "He simply forgive those who have trespassed against iJ-' Then, after a pauaer the Cardinal a face took on a -serious expression.

yes." he aald. I am sure that ln-cladcs our late enemies." With reference to the Americans at-iendlng the conclave. Cardinal Mercier thought that Cardinal O'Connell might arrlv In tim. but that the chance of Cardinal Dougherty were very slim un-m the aesaioB was long. He smiled and aald: Cardinal O'Connell may have the jne experience as in 1914.

when he inded at Naples and hired a fast auto-nobUe. burning up the roads in an effort to reach Rom on time. Four puncture delayed him, and he reached four hours from Rome, a tn "ells were pealing Joyously." What re tie bells ringing fprr ked th Cardinal of a priest standing ar by. Because of the election of the Pop. th clergyman responded.

Then, alow up. Don't have any puncture. Cardinal O'Connell th chauffeur." ordinal Mercier concluded by ex-essins the hop that the Americans ould arrive In time to participate. He a received many measages from the 'nited States Inquiring concerning his i-alth- He is somewhat annoyed at the Voort of his illness and said today that ia nevr felt better. Indeed, he looked -nach healthier and youngec than he did Jrectly after the armistice, i Throughout bis talk- he referred to America the most endearing terms, claiming "The great American na-lon great people.

How many good I bar mad there!" Say Alt Weald Aeeept Italian. 1 A prominent English prelate, who ked that his name be withheld, said wouId a trreat mistake to elect foreign Cardinal, as that would an lluatlsf aC- tton among countries such aa the uniteji states, -tireat xtruain ana rw-. whom probably felt that they merited a the office, whereas the edecUon of an Italian would be acceptable to all. This official expressed the opinion that the new Pope would continue the policy 4 Benedict XV. in relations with the i Oulrinal.

but would be careful to observe the complete Independence and dignity The Vatican should be neither the 4 Coatlaae a Pae Fire. FI)RIDA ATUtmC COAST LINK. xM-minntly the Florid Route, fi Through Train dally. Office. VM Broadway Advt, Rockefeller Cats Perpetuity String to Education Gifts John D.

Rockefeller has released the General Education Board from any obligation to hold any of his gifts of money in perpetuity. In a letter In the annual report, out today. The board receives the right not only to distribute the income but the principal, in It discretion, for the benefit of educational Institutions. Mr. Rockefeller has given to the board so far $126,788,094.

of which the entire Income has been distributed, and ft2.I22.442 of the principal. The capital funds held by the board at the end of the fiscal year were $84,652,652. Last year the board made these gifts: Colleges and secondary education $19,981,534.17 Medical education 11.859.513.23 School and colleges for negroes 1.212.658.00 Miscellaneous 145.000.00 Total $33,196,706.42 ON ANTARCTIC TRIP Heart Disease Kills British Explorer Aboard His Ship, the Quest. Off Gritvicken. BODY TAKEN TO MONTEVIDEO Death Will Not 'Stop Expedition He Headed Story of His Fight for the South Pole.

MOfJTEVIDEO. Uruguay. Jan. 29 (Associated Press). Sir Ernest Shackle-ton, th British explorer, died Jan.

on board the steamship Quest, on which he was making another expedition Into the antarctic regions. Death was due to angina pectoris and occurred when the Quest was off the Gritvicken Station. Th body was brought to Montevideo on board a Norwegian steamer and will be taken by another steamer to Europe. Captain L. Hussey of the Quest wOl ac- company the body home.

Sir Ernest dietl on board the Quest, which was anchored off South Georgia Island. The previous night he had been slightly indisposed, but no uneasiness was felt tor him. His medicinal needs were attended to by Captain Hussey. At 8:30 o'clock on the morning of Jan. 6 Sir Ernest beaaer to aink rapidly, and despite all efforts by his attendants he died within tnree minutes.

The body was placed in a zinc shell. which was hermetically sealed by Dr. Hussey, and afterward in a wooden coffin carried by the Quest for emergencies. The body remained anoara from Jan. 5 until Jan.

17. when It was transferred to the Norwegian steamer. Professor Cruvel. The Professor Cruvel left South Georgia the same day, arriv ing at Montevideo this morning. The body will be embalmed and placed In the British cemetery here awaiting transport to England.

Sub-Commander Frank Wild will assume direction of the expedition. Governmental anc military honors were paid to the body. The Government will retain custody of the body until It is embarked for England, which probably will be on board the steamer Andes Feb. 11. Th expedition which Sir Ernest Shackleton was leading at the time of his death left London on Sept.

17 last. Thousands cheered as the Quest, his little 200-ton ship, sailed from the Thames. Sir Ernest announced before his departure that It was to be his last trip" my swan song." The party stopped at Lisbon early in October, reporting that the Quest had been damaged in a heavy storm ofr the west coast of Portugal. It was reported at Madeira on Oct. 17 and at Rio Janeiro on Nov.

22. After staying there three weeks for repairs, the Quest left Rio on Dec. 18 for South Georgia, an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, which Shackleton was to have used as a Jumping off place for his trip into unexplored regions. No word was heard from him after he left Rio. His purpose on his laat trip was not to try a spectacular dash for the South Pole, but to make an oceanographlcal cruise, with scientific explorations and observations.

The trip was to have lasted two or three years and to have covered 30,000 miles or more. Sir Ernest announced before he left London that he intended to make a coast line voyage, which he expected would add more to knowledge of the Antarctic than Isolated voyages into the interior. The party Cant la aed Page Fear. SHACKLETON DIES Muratore Faces Operation for Appendicitis; Physicians to Consult on His Condition Today Luclcn Muratore, leading tenor of the Chicago Opera Company, and said to be the highest paid male opera singer in the world, may have to be operated on for appendicitis. A consultation of physicians at his apartments In the RJtz-Csrlton Is expected to decide this morning the question of whether such an operation Is necessary.

It was made known last night that the famous tenor sang the role of Don Jose In Carmen at the Manhattan Opera. House Saturday night against the advice of his doctor end while suffering great pain. He refused to heed the counsel of caution, he said, because he had been advertised to appear with Mary Garden, and he felt it hia duty not to fail the Directress at the last moment, particularly In view of reports of a breach between him and Miss Gar- PALL MALL TAMOCS CIGARETTE, Round. Plain ends. 0 0c.

Advt BtfXL-ANS FOB IT UANDI. DON'T Ivt. LONE GUNMAN BOWS TO NIGHTSTICK AFTER TWO SWIFTHOLD-UPS Enters Saloon, Barks Military Orders to Eleven Customers, but Gets Only $6. DEPARTS AND BARS DOOR Climbs Aboard Taxi in Green wich Village and Takes $1 1 From Chauffeur. RUNS AFOUL OF POLICEMAN Reaches Station House a Few Mln utes Before Robbed Saloonkeeper, Who Identifies Him.

Steaky Galvin." real name John Murphy, has a record as a champion at beefsteak parties and another In the archives at Police Headquarters; including a recent Jail term, but the police found nothing last night to indicate that he had undergone military training. None the less when he entered Lino Marino's poolroom at 665 Washington Street yesterday afternoon it was In crisp, soldierly fashion that be ordered: Cues down hand up Fall In To the rear, march The commtnCi were emphasised by a pistol held very steadily la his hand. and the ten patrons in the place obeyed. Marino, sitting behind a little desk near the door, slumped In his seat, too reared to ret Steaky whirled, saw him and shifted his pistol until the barrel was poked In Marino's direction. Who U'you think you are?" he de manded.

Tou're In on this party. Put 'em up and march If you don't you am going to Te tin 10 roarcn. The proprietor scrambled from behlnd the desk and double-timed to the rear of the billiard room, where he huddled with the others. Finds Small Pickings. Steaky.

keeping a wary eye on the eleven, made his way to the till. Jerked it open and scooped out $4 with one hand while he waved hi pistol in the other. Then he turned, a long, alow look over the group, each man shifting uncomfortably and lowering his eyes as the robber's gas fastened on his face. His Inspection finished, the run man remarked: Tou're a bum bunch The lot of you haven't got enougri on you to make It worth while frisking you. But remember.

I'm going now. There's another guy outside with a gat. You put one of your ugly faces out that door and you'll get drilled. I don't like your looks. He won't either." One hand on the pistol he stuck Into his coat pocket, Steaky backed slowly to the door and whisked himself outside.

Marino and the ten stood almost as rigidly as tf they had been under the eye of a drtllmaster for a moment Then they relaxed, edged cautiously toward the door and finally made a daah for It. The double doors were fast. The robber had stuck a stick through the liandles and the tirven were prisoners. They kicked and yelled until a passer by freed them. As he raced Into the Charles Street station.

Marino, pointing at a battered looking Individual at the desk between Patrolmen Waters ana Connolly, shouted That's him. I want my $6." It seemed that Steaky got as far as Washington and Perry Streets in Greenwich Village after the stlckup when a chauffeur seeking a number, asked him where it was. a This Is It," said Steaky. Pull up." Hearda a Taxlxemb. When the chauffeur, Lucio Benedetto of 242 East Forty-sixth Street, stopped at the curb.

Steaky Jumped on' the running board, poked his pistol in the driver's ribs and went through his clothes with nimble fingers. He pocketed (11 and hurried away, not bothering about Benedetto's fare, who was making himself aa small and inconspicuous as possible on the tonneau floor. Step on the gas and let's see how far and fast that old bus can go." ordered Steaky as he departed. Benedetto obeyed Continued en Page Fear. den.

He has been compelled, however, to cancel his appearance with Miss Garden in Monna Vanna tonight-After the curtain fell at the end of th second act Saturday night Muratore's condition alarmed his personal physician and secretary. Dr. Rene Bowldln. and every effort was made in the dressing room to relieve the pain. The tenor resolutely returned for the remainder of the opera and tbe audience was unaware that he was 111.

Oh reaching his room at the hotel after the performance he collapsed. His condition then appeared so serious that Dr. Charles F. A. Locke of 187 West Sixty-ninth Street Has called Into consultation.

Lnsi night Dr. Locke was again summoned to the hotel by Dr. Bowldln. as the patient's fever had risen a degree, from Htt to 100. In constant attendance upon Muratore yesterday was his wife.

Lina Cavalleri. ALAMAC HOTKL In ATLANTIC CTTT Is directly on the BOARDWALK in MOST cent'l location. AMERICAN PLAN AT I Golf privileges, sea baths, eonosrts. Adrt- SMITHWICK DEPICTS HORROR Congressman Saw Roof Falling and a Chunk Pinned Him Down. "LIVED A YEAR" UNDER IT Freed Himself, but Collapsed Trying to Assist Another Calls Escape Miracle.

AN AVALANCHE OF PLASTER Then Steel Beams 'Catapulted Down, Followed Quickly by Collapse of Balcony. WASHINGTON. Jan. 20 (Associated Press). An avalanche of broken plaster, bricks, snow, splintered wood and twisted steel beams catapulting upon the audience while the orchestra played and a comedy film was ground out.

Is the description of the Knickerbocker Theatre disaster given today by Representative John H. Smithwick of Pensacota. Fla. He was in the balcony of tie theatre when the roof 'collapsed under Its weight of snow and escaped unaided Just how he cannot recall with jnore or less serious hurts. The orchestra was playing beautiful music and a comic film was running." said Mr.

Smithwick. lying in hi bed. bandaged and with bis face and trands covered with cuts. Suddenly there was a aharp crack. I looked up and aaw a great fissure running across the celling.

It wa right over my head. I Instantly realised what was happening. The plaster began to fall, dropping down In large and small chunk all over th theatre. It seemed to me. Wtlle I was looking up a great piece right over my head started to fall.

I ducked, crouching involuntarily I supppse. down between the seats. The piece struck the seat right where I had been sitting. Tie fore was broken by the seat, but it pinned me down where I was crouching. Tte noise was awful.

It was a great, tremendous roar. It was simply Indescribable. I never can forget it, In the midst of th roaring were shrieks and cries of women and children and a few shouts of men. There were cries for help, groans and. worst of all.

the moans of those In terrible pain. It was awful. I can't describe it. I see It all the time those poor children and men and women crying and groaning there. These In Ualceny Mere Frtaaate.

"There were only a few of us In tie balcony. Luckily there weren't more. The balcony gave way and crashed, soon after the ceiling began to fall, on those on the lower floor. They were caught the worse. We in the balcony were fortunate.

I guess there was a lap of maybe twenty seconds, hardly more, before the balcony fell. Funny, but It spun around, kind of twisted, as. its supports gave way and it swung down on ttose below. It didn't go straight down. Just kind of slid sideways and slanting.

I suppose from the weight of the debris that had fallen on us upstairs. I don't know how I got out from where I was crouching under that chunk of plaster that had fallen on me. I really believe It weighed aU of 000 pounds. And I think I moved that plaster with my shoulders. Anyway, I crawled out between the seats to where I saw a small hole In the plaster above.

I forced myself up through that hole, wiggling and shoving. Then I crawled out over the snow and plaster, over the tangled debris, to the doors on the Eighteenth Street side. Across the aisle from me when the crash came was a little fellow I never saw. him again and I wonder If he Is dead who laughed and roared at every Specially funny part of the film. I don't know what became of him or the others in the balcony after we were stowered with plaster.

Like an lee Pond Breaking Up. "As the ceiling broke, the plaster fell first in chunks. It was Just like an ice pond breaking up. The roof didn't give way on one crash. It sensed to break up everywhere.

That Jet in the snow, which came In through the broken places where the ceiUng had given way. It's queer, but I was conscious all the time when I was pinned down under thereby that great piece of celling. My mind, when I saw the ceiling falling, and afterward, was Just as clear and collected as it is now. I knew I was hurt some, but didn't know how badly. It seemed that my time had come.

1 lived a year. I tell you. pinned down between the seats. It wasn't until I got outside that 1 noticed blood falling from my face and hands. I got out myseir.

sso one heloed me. I crawled over the broken seats and plaster and snow to the door. On the way 1 saw a young fellow lying half curled up. moaning and crying for help. I leaned over to lift him and then everything went black.

The next I remember I was at the door, wiping the blood from my eyes and mouth. I don't know how I got out. I dldn see any other injured ones as I crawled Contlnaed on Pa Two. S. T.

If yoa wsnt know what roes through th air tonight by wlrelsss telephone, read IO DEPARTMENT of THE OLOStt RiDIQ cents at all newsdealers Advt, List of WASHINGTON. Jan. 29. The list of ATKINSON, MART ETHEL, 2.233 Eighteenth Street, Washington. BAKER, ALBERT; on police list; no address given.

BARBER. VIXCENT. 1.800 Belmont Street: died at Garfield Hospital. I1ARCHFELD. ANDREW JACKSON, former Representative from Pittsburgh, l.lHo Calvert Street.

Northwest. Washington. RARCHFELD. Miss HELEN. his daughter, same address.

DEAL. JOSEPH violinist In Knickerbocker orchestra, 1.488 Chapln Street. N. Washington. BELL.

ARCHIE boy. 2,111 Bancroft 1,1 1 a lauc, II1CKEL, ILLIAM 1.030 Nineteenth Street, Washington. BICKEL, Mln FRANCES, daughter of above, same address. BO CRN THOMAS RANDOLPH, manager for Harry Wardman. 2.07 Hlllyer Place.

Washington. HOWUKN, Mrs. DAIST OARVET, 2.129 Eighteenth Street. N. Washington.

IIRA1NERD. CHACNCEV CORET. Washington correspondent of Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Vice ITealdent of Gridiron Club: 2.039 New Hampshire Avenue, Northwest, Washington. BRAINERD. Mrs CHAl NCKY his wife; formerly Miss Edith Kathbone Jacobs of Mount Vernon, N.

same address. BBOl'RSKAl', WILFRED, student at Georgetown Foreign Service School. 1.012 Sixteenth Street, Northwest, Washington. 1ICEHLER, ALBERT the Portner Apartments. Washington.

CANBV, WILLIAM employe of Mld-daugh A (Shannon, decorated by French Government for service in war; 1.838 Calvert Street, Washington. CO ELL, Mrs. H. 2.401 Eighteenth Street. Northwest.

Washington, CROCKER. WILLIAM formerly clerk Bureau of Standards, later with International Chamber of Commerce. Congress Hall Hotel. DALE. Mrs.

NORMAN E. MARTIN, 2.583 Adams Mill Koad. Washington. DAIBER, VINCENT 10 years old. son of Carl W.

Dauber. 1.800 Belmont Koad. Washington. DOHICH, Miss CLARA. 163 Euclid teenth Street, Northwest, Washington.

DOR8CH. Miss HELEN, 1.065 Euclid Street, Washington. D. C. DIKE.

KIRKLAND. 1,713 RlggS Place. Washington. DCTCH. Miss MAROARET M-.

clerk In Statistical Section of Adjutants Office, 25 years old: originally from Ludington. 1,740. Euclid Street, Washington. ELDRIDGE, ALFRED clerk In Treasury', organist at St. Margaret Church; 1.733 Twentieth Street, Northwest, Washington.

ELDRIDGE. Mr. ALFRED wife of above: same address. ELDRIDGE, GUT of Senator Smoot of Utah. 1.824 BUt-more Street, Washington.

ERNEST. F. District Manager. Office Dlctograpn rrocucts Company. 42 Evans Building.

Washington. FARR. M. 1.884 Columbia Road. waaningTon.

ATT ELL, H. address unknown. FERAl'D, Mrs. VIRGINIA, sister of Dr. Julio Bianchl.

Guatemalan Minister to the I'nited States; 2.800 Ontario Road. Washington. FIEOE. CHRISTIAN. 1.010 Eighteenth Street, Washington.

FOSTER. ESTHER, young girl. 1.713 Lamont aireei, asningiun. FREEMAN. GEORGE violinist in orchestra.

South Bend. Ind. FLEMING. THOMAS, Vice President Terminal Storage Company; 1,861 Wyoming Avenue. Washington.

FLEMING. JOHN Assistant Examiner in Patent Office: son o. Thomas 33 years old same address. FLEMING. Miss MART LEE, 33 years old.

daughter of Thomas; same address. INWAPORRESCUE Children Have Marvelous Escapes Two Found After Ten Hours, Sleeping. WASHINGTON. Jan. 23 (Associated Press).

Lieutenant V. M. Tarsons of the Marine Corps, who assisted in directing the rescue work at the Knickerbocker. Theatre, gave graphic descriptions ol many individual rescues. We were digging into the ruins." he said, when we aaw a tuft of red hair protruding.

We uncovered a small boy. probably 9 years old. who told us that his sister was beneath the pile of debris also. The girl was rescued, and neither she nor the boy was seriously hurt, through some miracle but their mother, near by. was dead.

Dr. Gearhart. a dentist, was found pinned beneath a beam. He told ua as we endeavored to extricate him that he had been conscious ail night in that position. A woman beside him was dead.

One fellow with both legs horribly broken asked for cigarettes as he was carried out on a stretcher. He Joked with the rescuers about his mangled limbs, remarking that he had about six legs now. He was certainly full of grit. a group of two women and a man whom we were digging out also displayed remarkable nerve, talking with tHA rftouers and directing their work." Sleeping peacefully beneath the debris in the wrecked theatre two little glru. about 4 and fJ years old.

were found early today by rescuers, ten hours after the playhouse roof had fallen in. Apparently neither of the children was badly hurt. They vere taken to a hospital without identification. Four hours earlier a ft-year-old girl was found unhurt, seated between the bodies of two women. Her life evidently had been saved because nhe fell between the seats and because of the protection Continned on Page Two.

MLD-SOCTU SPECIAL, 1:04 P. WTCH thru Sleepers to Carolina Resorts. Sea-heard Air Lin By, 142 W. 424 St. Aart.

HIGH COURAGE SHOWN the 107 Identified Dead Special to The A'etc Fork Tive. the Identified dead In the collapse of the Knickerbocker Theatre follows: GARVEV, Miss AGNES, address unknown. GEARH ART, Mrs. CLTDE wife of Dr. C.

M. Gearhart, Washington dentist; 1.868 Columbia Road, Washington. HAGl'E, Mrs. ARNOLD, widow of the late Dr. Arnold Hague, a prominent Government scientist and geologist; 1.724 I Street, N.

W. HALL, Mrs. VERA, address unknown. HILLYER. DO COLAS, member of old Washington- family, grandson of Judge Hlllyer.

2,021 Hillyer Place. Washington. Hl'GHES, WILLIAM advertising manager Evening Star, brother-in-law of Colonel Lerow W. Herron. 2.503 Champlaln Street, Washington.

JACKSON, DANIEL broker, brother of E. Hilton Jackson. 2.701 Connecticut Avenue. JEFFEKIES. JOHN MILLER, aged 27.

son of Louis E. Jeffries. Vice President and general counsel of the Southern Railway System, 1.787 Masaachusetts Avenue, N. Washington. JEFFRIES Miss ELIZABETH, aged "23.

sister of above; same address. KANSTON OSKAR aged 38. formerly of Louisville and Chicago: expert in the valuation bureau of Interstate Commerce Commission; 2.B17 Seventeenth Street. N. Washington.

KANSTON. Mrs. OSKAR his wife, wife, aged 36; same address. KANSTON, Miss HELEN DOROTHT. their daughter, aged 13; same address.

KANSTON. Miss AUYLN, their daughter, aged same address. KNEESI. HOWARD Vice President and Treasurer Semme Motor 5.201 Colorado Avenue, Northwest, Washington. LAFLIN, CCTLER.

age 16. of Chicago, page in the House of Representatives, related to Representative William S. Greene of Massachusetts. 1.S21 Belmont Street, Northwest, Washington. LAMBERT.

Miss NANNIE LEE, formerly of Asbboro, N. cierk War Department. 2,111 Bancroft Place, Washington. LAMBT, PACLC8. address unknown.

LEHMER, LEROY, of Mount "Vernon. N. and S.1.1 Calif ortn Street, Washington, Manager of Indiana Lumber Company. LXHMEK. Mrs, ELIZABETH, wife above, same addreaa.

LYMAN, DAVID 10 years old. 1.718 T-n-rnlif first mi lit rant, Nnrthirrrt Washington. MeKENNEY. I' LI AN 45 years. 1.821 Adam Mill Roadt examiner of account for United States Shipping Board, McKIMMIE.

WYATT, sales agent, Bur- lington Hotel. Washington. MAINE. RCSSELL; on polio list; no address given. MARSH.

Mr, Belmont Street, MELLON, Mis AGNES IB years old, 1.437 Belmont Street, Washington. MIESKEY, JEAN, wife of leader of Metropolitan Theatre orcheater. th Chastleton Apartments, Washington. MONTGOMERY. SCOTT, 1.824 Belmont Road, died at Walter Reed Hospital at noon.

MCKPHT, Miss VERONICA, 1,860 Call fornia Street, Washington. MURRAY, JAMES The Plains. Va. NATIELLO, ERNEST, leader of Knickerbocker Theatre orchestra, L00 Belmont Street, Washington. O'DONNKLL, DOMINICK 1.731 Columbia Road.

Washington. O'DONNKLL. Mrs. DOMINICK wife of above, same address. OGDEN.

Mrs. VIVIAN, clerk. 3.121 Mount Pleasant street. Washington. PRICK, AXEL, daughter of Captain Louis H.

Price. Finance Department United State Army, Beverly Courts, Washington. FES8AV, Mrs. CARRIE mother-in-law of Dr. Kenneth W.

Kinney Cal-verton Apartments. Washington. Harding Says Crash Causes Wonder on Revolving Fates WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (Associated Press). President Harding issued the following statement lat today on the Knickerbocker Theatre disaster: I have experienced the same astounding shock and the same Inexpressible sorrow which has come to all of Washington and wbigh wilt be sympathetically felt throughout the land.

If I knew what to say to soften the sorrow of hundreds who are so suddenly bereaved, if I could say a word to cheer the maimed and suffering I would gladly do It- The terrible tragedy, staged in the midst of the great storm, has deeply depressed all of us and left us wondering about the revolving fates. FRIEND OF A VICTIM COMMITS SUICIDE HERE Copt. Francis M. Barber, Retired Navy Officer, Cuts Throat in the University Clnh. Capt.

Francis Barber. 77 years old. a retired Navy officer living at the University Club, committed suicide there at 1:43 o'clock this morning In grie' at the death of an old friend who lost his life In the Knickerbocker Thestre disaster in Washington. The name of the friend was not learned. Captain Barber cut his throat with a rasor in a lavatory In the basement of thje club house at the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fourth Street.

An ambulance was called from Flower Hospital. Dr. Strassburger. who came on It, found the aged man dead. It was the surgeon who learned from club attendants that Captain Barber had been plunged Into deep melancholy upon learning the name of some victim of the Washington theatre At 10:80 o'clock last night Captain Barber returned from a visit to his sister, Mrs.

S. B. Thompson of 2,074 Seventh Avenue. Those In the club did not notice his movements after that. THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER Musical Masterpiece with Donald Brian and Teas ICoata.

Csntary The, 24 A CwU P'k WssU-JUvU PITCHER. LOIS, Chevy Chase. Md. RLSSELL. Mrs.

MARIE. 2.473 Eighteenth Street, Northwest, Washington. 8AMMON, WILLIAM 21 years, ef Kammerer. law student at George Washington University. SCHOOLFIKLD.

W. I. of Danville. temporarily residing at 2,114 Mount Pleasant Street, Washington. SCOTT.

WILLIAM Street, S. W. 400 Eighth 8HEA, Dr. JAMES F. or South Hadley Falls.

medical student at Georgetown University. 1,919 Calvert Street, SIGOCRNEY, Mrs. CORA secretary of Harry Wardman; 2,700 Connecticut Avenue. Washington. SPROVL.

LA VERNE. 17 years old. page in House of Representatives, son of Ervlne E. Sproul. 7.220 Union Avenue.

Chicago: nephew of Representative Elliott Sproul of Illinois: 2.001 Sixteenth Street, Northwest, Washington. SMITH. Mrs. MARIE widow. L813 Columbia Road.

Washington. STEPHENSON. CLARENCE 49 Franklin Street, Boston; Washington Y. M. C.

A. STRAY ER. LOCIS WILLIAM. Washington correspondent of The Pittsburgh Dispatch since 1908. former President of the Gridiron Club; 1,837 California Street, Washington.

STCRGES, VICTOR Atlanta. Gs, George Washington University vocational student: 1.764 Street. Northwest, Washing-ton. TAYLOR. Mrs.

GERTRCDE, 1,505 Ho-bart Street, Washington, TOHMS. Miss GLADYS, clerk. 1.713 Lamont Street, Northwest; daughter of Albert W. Tohm. THOMPSON, CHRISTINE.

14 year Old. 1.710 Euclid Street, Washington. TRACEY, WILLIAM, trombone player In Knickerbocker Theatre orchestra, 501 Rhode Island Avenue. Washing-ton. TCCKER.

Cmi CHARLES. COWXES. lawyer, of Donaldson and Tucker; 2.117 Connecticut Avenue, Washington. TCCKER. Mrs.

CHARLES COWXJES. wife of above, same address. I'BDONO, JACOB, 42 year, merchant. ,2.312 Twentieth Street, Northwest, Washington. I'BDONO, Mrs.

JACOB. 40 year Id, wif of above, earn addreaa. VALENTINE, LOCIS ScrtJTJ- pny. member Aim Temple .727 Thirteenth Street. Northwest, Waah- liurton.

TALENTIirK. Mrs LOCIS 9 Wlf of above, sam address. VANCE, Captain REG IN A LB 49 year Old. cresnaenc or en nuon National Bank. Fred ericas ourg.

vs VANCE, Mrs. CARE8SA. 4 year old, wif of above, nam addreaa. -WALKER, JOHN 2.109 Eighteenth Street, Washington. WALKER." Ml.

JOHN 1, Wif of above. am addreaa. MILDRED clerk la War Department, 1.727 Riggs Place, Washington. WALSH. D.

address unknown. WALSH. Mis M. Ju. addreaa unknown.

WALTERS, WILLIAM bom Brooklyn. N. student at Georgetown Medical School, 2.009 Street. Northwest, Washington. WARNER.

Captain WHJJAM K. Quartermaster Corp. U. 8. A.

114 Ontario Road. Washington. WARNER, Mrs. ISABELLA WILSON, wif of above, same addreaa. WESSON, Mrs.

ANNA D. wlf of Colonel Charles M. Wesson. U. 8.

A-, and daughter of tbe late Brigadier Gen George B. Da via. former Judge Advocate of th army. LS21 Belmont Road. Washington.

WHITE. IVAN 24 year old, employe of United State Shipping Board, parents live at Culpeper, Va, Portner Apartments, Washington. WISE. ELIZABETH. 1.J1S Street, N.

W. MANY OF VICTIMS WERE WELL KNOWN Husbands. Wives and Children of Many Washington Homes Included in Death List Special to The New Tor Times. WASHINGTON. Jan.

29. Following are short obituaries of some of th more prominent victim of the Knickerbocker Theatre accident: OCT S. ELDRIDGE of 1.824 BIHmore Street waa a brother-in-law of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah. Mrs. Smoot's maiden name being Miss Alpha M.

Eld-ridge. Mr. Eldridge was 42 years old. Eorn In Salt Lake City, he waa educated there. Prior to coming to Washington he was employed by the Winchester Arms Comoany and the United States Steel Corporation.

Three montns ago he came to the capital to fill a position In the Government Bureau or riiriciency. Mrs. Eldridge was also injured in the theatre accident. She is at the Garfield Hospital suffering from cuts and bruises. She will recover.

Cnntala WILLIAM E. R. WARNER of the United States Army waa a native of Alameda. CaL. He entered the army at the outbreak or tne world war ana served three years overseas.

He was one of the young officers selected by the Pershing Commission for permanent rank In the regular service and nan been on duty in this city about six months. His wife, who was also ISlled in the Knickerbocker disaster, was Miss Isabel Wilson of New York. WILLIAM B. 8 AM MO 21 years old. was a rtrst year student at oeorg Washington University.

He spent part of his time as an employe in the office of the Custodian of Alien Property. His father, a business man of Kammerer, Is a friend of Representative Frank Mondell. wno idenuiiea me ooay of the student. Sammon's family has been notified of his death and the body is being held pending th receipt I Instructions from Wyoming. Celenel CHARLES C.

TCCKER. 52 years old, born In New York City and educated at Columbia University, prac ticed law In Washington for many v.r, Durina- the World War he served in the Judge Advocate General office and aaw brief service abroad. He waa Csnttnae en Page Tw. HMkmL fi- M1M swAShta. Ail SBorta.

Wonderful golf, Leav N. Y. and winter' ea tar Panama: CLEARED Rescue Squads Work All Day and Late Into the Second Night. BELIEVE NO BODIES REMAIN Use of Jacks and Engineering Equipment Speeds Up. SIow; Search of Night Before.

1 MANY ACTS OF HEROISM And Many Scenes of Sorrow as Crowds Throng Morgues to -Identify the rictims. Special Thm JT Tr Ti. WASHINGTON. Jan 29. On hundred and seven bodle taken from th ruin of th Knickerbocker motion picture theatr which collapsed last, night a heavy- "snowstorm have bean Identified.

Army officers directing: th react work expreaaed the belief late tonight that no inore bodie remained In that ruin, bat added that the search would be contlnaed until all doubt wa r-. moved. i i The number of toJured, Including; thee who received first aid and. were taken home. 1 expected to exceed S30.

AV doaen or more. of the Injured ar In precarious condition and the 'death of torn wsthe-xfe Men and women prominent In th -octal and pod deal Ufa of th aation'a were those who were taken rdead Jrom the wreckage jiVmJt A tsimonn mArrua nnd firit aid station In" a near by Christian Sciance Church and Tn the hospital or in cjty. The theatre la situated In a select real- dential eectlon. within a abort tUatanr -of several of the embaasle arl lega-Mnn. nu of th Wmsts of th ma ns re- ment had been that not a week went by without at least en Cabinet WJnfrtr attending a performance.

-v -VV Ttaaalatnt Per) ea. XJej. Among- th dead were Sefiora Virginia i Feraod. aister of Dr. Julio Bianchl, th Guatemalan Minister, and Dr.

F. Shea cf Harney "Faila, Ma, a student of Georg Washington Unlvr-'-alty. who had accompanied Sefiora Feraod to the performanc. Another victim waa Guy S. Eldridge of Salt Lake, aty.

brother-in-law of Senator' Reed Smoot of Utah. Reported dying; la Wai- ter Reed Hospital fa Edward H. Shaugh- neaay, 8econd Assistant Postmaster Gen- era, who ha been meting a Prwfmss- ter General la the abacne of Win H. Hays and hi first assistant, Mr. Ehaughnessys wife, and daughter were seriously Injured.

7 Two newspaper mea were among- the victim Chauncey Brain rd. corre- apondent of The Brooklyn Eagle, -and Loul W. Stray r. ooriepondeat of The Pittsburgh Dispatch. Mrs.

Bralnerd ac- companied ber husband, and waa a killed." Strayer took hi daughter to see th fUm, and she wa rescued after be- in pinned under debris for aom time, Former Repreasntatrv Barchfeld of Pittsburgh and his', daughter. Hat! Helens, both war carried down ia th wreckage and John Miller 'Jef frie, aa aviator tn th world and ia Elisabeth Jeffrie. IS years eld. children of Lou la Jftrie. Tic Pre- tdnt and General Counsel of th South- ern Railway line, were also ansone; the victim.

Their bodies were taken freca th ruin lat today Two well-known kiBed were Themes Fleming, vice President 1 of th Terminal Storage Company, and' hi aon, John P. aar assistant- examiner la th Patent Office. Among th children who died were La Verne Sproul. a nephew of TTrnrasonta tiv Elliott Sproul of Illinois, and a young friend, both of Whom have acting a page in th 'Hous of Repre- eataUvea. The are but a few of th name of men and women well known in the life of Washington who were victims of th tragedy; There were army and ury officers, men prominent In th tmalnnaa and professional lif ef Washington and other identified with official circles of the Government.

There were grim stories of entire faro- Die wiped out, caught beneath the en-veloplng blanket formed by the falling roof, and each hour brought some new development that added to the horror of th tragedy as th weary rescue parties worked In relay throughout th day and night to dear up the tangle bf plaster, bricks and twisted iron girders. Ceagr Aetlem Officials of Washington Who hav to do with placing th responsibility for the disaster were alow In coming to a XuH' realisation of what had taken plao. There was endless talk during- th day of investigations and autopsies, but at' -nightfall no arrests or official movea had been made. Members of th Snat -and House committee under whoa Ju- risdlctJon th District of Columbia come promised action, if action waa necessary. -Leader -Mondell of th House aald th matter would brought directly to th attention of Congress tomorrow and an -independent Investigation asked if step had not been taken in other directions by that time, Estimate mad today placed tv nu-n-iber of person in uie theatre.

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