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The Net Circulation of the Washington Herald Yesterday Was 43,955 THE WEATHER. Today and tomorrow?Fair and contin ued warm. Highest temperature yesterday, 92; loweit, 65. THE WASHIHGTON HERALD i CONDENSED NOVEL SERIES Ton are mtftritift the great nat newnptp^r feature of year* if you are not readtn* the masterpiece? of the wot la's literature in The Washington lie. aid. NO. 4655 WASHINGTON. D. C.. SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1919. THREE CEVTS PROVOST GUARD RESTORED TO PREVEN T RIOTS MAJOR IS DENIED HIS OLD JOB BY POWER COMPANY CoL Woods Demands Hbnor Citation for Employer Be Returned. UNIQUE DISREGARD OF OTHERS' RIGHTS, CLAIM President Ham Declares Places Were Held Only When "Practicable." Declaring that to refoilni to re employ Maj. wnitaJM Stokes Sheet* the Washington Railway and Electric Company had railed to keep Its prom ise to reinstate employes entering mili tary service. CoL Arthur Woods yes terday demanded that the citation awarded'the company he surrendered. In a letter to President William F. Ham. of the railway company. MaJ W. K. Kobbe. acting for Col. Woods, write*: "I may tell you that oat of the thou sands of citation* sent to Individuals and business flrma all over the United States, we have never had an instance of such disregard of the rights of others as exhibited in this case. Volunteered for Aray. Maj. Sheetz had been connected with the Potomac Electric LJght and Power Company for more than five years when he resided at the entrance of the United States into the. war. to volunteer in the army. After fourteen months overseas in command of the 502nd Engineers. Maj. Sheetz returned to the United States and resigned his commission. At the office of the Potomac Elec tric Light and Power Company. Maj. Sheetz was informed that his former CONTINUED ON PA*'.B SEVEN FIVE REPORTED DEAD ON TENDER Explosion on U. S. S. Mel ville Said to Have Caused . Ten Casualties. Colon. July 26.-Reports were re ceived here that an explosion occurred in the boiler room of the U. S. S. Melville yesterday, resulting in ten casualties, including five dead and Ave injured. The Melville is a naval tender of 7.150 tons. She was built in 1915. She joined the new Pacific fleet soon after her return from the Azores, where she was on duty during the flights of the naval airplanes in Europe. She ts now on her way to the Pacific Coast with the Pacific fleet. Every effort was being made by the Navy Depai tmerit last night to obtain an official account of the ex plosion reported lo have occurred on the U S. S Melville, in the Panama Canal Failure of wireless communication forced the navy to fall back on the cables. Secretary Daniels wired Rear Admiral Rodman to hurry his report. PASSENGER PLANES BEGIN NEW SERVICE Atlantic City. N. J.. July 26.? Regular passenger aeroplane serv ice between New York and Atlantic City was begun today. Two wom en. Mrs. John A Hoagland, of New York, and Miss Ethel Hodges, of Dallas. Texas, were the passengers on the pioneer trip. The flying boat. "Mllllcent.** of the traveler's air line, left the starting place at the foot of West Eighty third street. North River, at 11:58 p. m. and arived at the Atlantic City a?r port at 3 18 p. m, having ? covered the distance of 106 miles in just HO minutes. ' John D. Cannot Forget Shaves Once Cost Less Syracuse. N. Y.. July 3.-John V>. Rockefeller had no objections today to paying 20 cents for a shave. But paying that much for a shave caused him to ruminate on the good old days when shaves were only b cents. He told Charley Messenger. tne barber who shaved him. that be could remember the day when he could have his week's growth removed for no more than 6 coppers He confided ?o the tonsorial artist that for many years he shaved himself Heavy Snow in Art en tin*. a Buenos Ayres. July 3S. ? Heavy snows have (alien In the Cordillera. ' paraly*in* the traffic by mule back 1 aroand the sections of the Transan dine Railway which .are sUU blockaded oy recent anowa. * FINNS ELECT DOCTOR AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE [ Helsingfors, July 26.?Dr. Kaarle Stahlberg was elected President of Finland yesterday by a majority of eighty votes over Gen. Mannerhelm. The Diet vote was 134 to 54. j The election of Dr. Stahlberg indi cates that the possibility of inter vention by Finland against the Rol .shevists is more remote than ever, j There is some talk of a coup to seat Gen. Mannerhelm as President, but it is not believed there is any chance for its success. The army commander* offered [resignations when the news of Dr. , Stahlberg's election became known j and departed for the north to join jGen. Mannerheim. ! ENGLAND GETS FLEET FROM FLOOR OF SEA London. July 26.?The work of re floating the German warshipa sunk in Scapa Flow la progressing rap idly and it is expected that by next year th* entire fleet will have been | ' raised. Under the laws of salvage j Britain will acquire title to the re j stored fleet. Nearly all of the light cruisers and destroyer* have been moved into shallow water and the big ships are now receiving attention. It is ex pected that the flagship Baden and | some of the other battleships will j be raised in about ten days. RUSS OFFICERS FLEE DEATH VIA COFFINS Helsingfors. July 26.?Russian army officers, formerly with the Im perial army, are still beinj? executed in Russia. This word is brought hero by several officers who former ly were connected with the Imperial organ Ixation. These men have reached Finland after hair-breadth escapes. They declare they evaded their pursuers by hiding in coffins. Word also was brought that the Putsloff Gun Works, which was Rus sia's "Krupps." has been shut down and that other factories are sus pend in?. HUNS BALK AT FRENCH PRICE PUT ON MURDER Weimar. Germany, July 26.?For j "ign Minister Mueller told the na | tl ?nal assembly today the German . government considered France's de : mand for 1.000,000 marks in connec | tion with the recent murder of a i French sergeant unjustifled. and would not be admitted by Germany. "It is a case of compulsion cor responding to a state of war." he said, "and not in harmony with peace, which Germany has just rati fled." VON TIRPITZ REFUSED RIGHT TO SAVE KAISER Paris. July 2fi.?The council of j jflve, It was learned today, has noti fied Admiral Von Tlrpitz. former j German minister of marine, that his [substitution for the former kaiser In assuming guilt for the war. is lm- ' I possible and cannot be considered | Von Tlrpits was told he could j testify in behalf of the former ?n | peror If he was willing to take the Irisk of Incriminating himself TURKEY ERRED IN WAR, SULTAN THINKS NOW J London. July 36.?"Our nation coro | mltted a great mistake in entering the war." the Sultan of Turkey is quoted as saying in an interview pub lished by the Morning Post today from its cornypondent at Constan tinople. The Sultan protested against the peace treaty with Turkey, declaring the terms were severe. CROWN PRINCE SIGHS FOR RETURN TO HOME j Berlin. July 26.?The former crown j prince of Germany, in his seclusion at ! Wterlngen. ls suffering from home sickness. "which stows stronger | daily." and is looking foi*ward eagerly ( to the time when he can return to j Germany to assist in rehabilitating | the fatherland. I This was revealed In a letter writ ten by the fugitive May 1, printed in the second edition of Capt. Kurt An I Jeers* book. Just published. Rumanians Defeated By Hungarian Reds Rome. July Hungarian Red forces have broken the Rumanian front between Oongrad and Szegedtn. according to a dispatch frim Fiume to the Resto Del Carlino. The Ru manians are retiring rapidly to the east, the dispatch said Both Csongrad and Szegedln are on the Tlsza River, which forms the front In the advance of the Red array eastward. Csongrad is seventy miles and Ssegedin ninety-six miles south of Budapest. FIRST NATIONAL CELLAR SAFE, SAYS FAIR ADDICT 7 New York. July 26.?"They'll never enforce a *vlsit and search* law on my cellaret." said Edith Dale, who has utilised the former repository of spare change to hold a neat nttle half pint. Miss Dale is & member of the "Take It FYom Me" company, but she says the Federal officials never will dare to try to take her private cellaret from her. MARRY IN PLANE 500 FEET IN AIR Wireless Phone Used bv Minister in Another Machine. Sheepshead Bay, X. Y., July 26 ? Alarri?ges are made in heaven, say philosophers, but the marriage of Miss Millie K. Schaefer. of Seagate, to Lieut. George H. Burgess, U. S. A... was consummate in the air here today, 500 feet above the earth. Thousands of eyes turned skyward as the airplanes carrying the bride and bridegroom and the preacher circled above the Sheepshead Bay motor track. For a bridal gown Miss Schaefer wore an aviator's suit. She sat be hind the bridegroom who piloted the plane. Following closely behind in an other plane the Rev. Alexander W outers, of the Edge wood Dutch Reformed Church, with his Bible open before him. spoke to a wireless tele phone transmitter which carried his solemn words to the bridal pair. As the preaeher reached th*? cli max in the reremony Lieut. Bur g?ss' and the bride's "I do" were distinctly heard by him. Then the machines volplaned to earth amid cheers. On reaching the ground, Mrs. Burgess received a large bouquet of flowers. GIRDLING PLANE MEETS ACCIDENT rjeot. Col. Hartz. army ptlot. who is making a flight around the rim of the country, wast forced to land at A usable Porks. New York, today when his gasoline supply ran low after he became lost in mountain storms. Col. Hartz left A u rust a. Me., yester day morning and was to have reached Cleveland today, the third day of his flight. Col. Hartz' compass failed when he encountered heavy storms over the White and Green mountain ranges He lost his bearings and after cruis ing about for several hours was forced to land. In landing on rough ground the nose of the machine was broken and Hartz wired the Air Service here that it would probably take several days to get parts to make repairs. Montana Town Wiped Out by Forest Fire Missoula, Mont.. July 28.?Nine buildings at St. Ignatius. Mont, forty miles north of Missoula, and in the heart of the Flathead national forest, were destroyed when the for est fire there broke through the line and swept about the town. Only a bank, one store and a hotel were left standing. Bauer Quits Austrian Foreign Minister Post Basle. July 2?3^7rei|Sn Mjnlst? Bauer, of Austria, has resigned, re ports from Vienna said today. Dr. Karl Renner, chancellor, and head of the Austrian peace delega tion. has assumed the added respon sibility of foreign secretary. Veterans of World War to Play Important Part in Decision, It Is Said. American veterans of the world war are to play an Important part in fix ing the country's permanent mili tary policy. Senator Wads worth, chairman of the Senate Military Af fairs Committe. announced l?st night. Tn commenting upon the military committee's appointment of a sub committee to begin hearings at once on legislation reorganizing the army or a permanent basis. Wadsworth said that the American legion and i other veterans' organizations will be | invited to submit their views. Wadsworth outlined the goal to wards which the Ctnmittee will work in framing iru bill, when he said: "It is hoped that Congress will I write a military policy for the Unit ited States which will be acceptable to the people, democratic in charac ter, elastic in its mechanical work ings. and capable of providing the country with an adequate defense." CHARGE D.C.ICE DEALER HOARDS STOCK FOR RISE Baltimore Reports Wash ington Plant Could Relieve Shortage Here in City. BARGE LOAD IS COMING Rationing Will Overcome Danger of Famine Is Belief Here. Ice dealers are taking it coolly while Washingtonians are warm, very warm, indeed, over the prospect of not fretting- enough fee today. Local dealers say there will be enough if people will be satisfied with what is rationed out to them. When It was proposed that ice be obtained from the large plants in Baltimore for shipment into Washing ton. a big ice dealer in the Maryland city said one of the plants in Wash ington was holding up a large supply awaiting higher prices. 12,000 Ton* Coming. The breeziest news is that a barge load of 12,000 tons of ice is on its way from Hudson Bay to Washington. ( It is due here Thursday or Friday. Three carloads is the daily shipment from Baltimore, but beginning today this will be increased to tive or six cars. It was also stated that only a small surplus is being held in Baltimore. Conservation was urged by local ice manufacturers yesterday, fol lowing an announcement by the health department that the city's supply was far below normal. I>e-|?end on Made Ire. According to C. P. Sacks, vice president of the Chapin-Sacks Ice Creaxn Company, the District's sup ply of manufactured ice will meet the usual summer demand of the people, with some conservation. "Washington depends mainly on manufactured ice. and of that there is by no means a scarcity. It is true that thero is not much natural ice, h*?re or elsewhere, because of the mild winter, but a lack of natural ice should not affect Wash ington greatly. since it is not used to a great extent here." R. H. Gangwisch. manager of the <X>NTINCXI> ON PAGE TWO Peace Spurned by Germany In 1917, Erzberger Claims Weimar. July 26.?Germany's na- ? tional assembly witnessed a dra matic scene today when Mathias Erzberger. finance minister, dis closed that Germany had rejected an opportunity to make peace -in 1917. The conservatives were respon- ; sible for neglecting the opportun- j ity, Erzberger charged. Cries of "Murderers!" came from the Social ist delegates. Erzberger revealed the peace l offer with dramatic effect when he i read Papal correspondence involv ! ing the German minister to the iFOCH ASKS 6,000 YANKS IN SILESIA Paris, July 26.?Marshal Foch rccommcnded today that a force of 6,000 Americans be stationed in Upper Silesia as an army of occu I pation. His recommendation was includ ed in a statement to the council of | five in which he advised that the ' allies maintain 150,000 troops as an occupation force in the Rhine dis trict. Upper Silesia was cedcd to Po land under the terms of the treaty, but provision was made for a plebiscite to decide whether the people wished to remain a part of j Poland, return to Germany of form j ^heir own government On account I of disturbed conditions, the Peace i Conference decided allied troops j should remain in Silesia during the plebiscite. Formatio t' iluanci&l and eco nomic allia . -u existed among the allies in v ar, was pro j posed to t o-.ur.cli c five today by I Signor Ti ?ni. JtcJibn Foreign Min J ister and -'ad ??f hi country' peace I delegation Tittonl w>, authorized to I ask Her rt Hoover whether the United St iies wouo in the alliance. Both ltal and Franc r are understood to be supporting th* r iggestion. The Bi c-riar f e? ? delegation ar rived in "?**:.* to4a;-* and is awaiting presentat the treaty by the alliance. Admire Von Ttrpitx former German Marine ^tinister. *111 not be consid ered as ? ;**:bsfUmk tof former Kaiser, Von Tir _ was juMtifled by the Big ' Five to v. He wai told he couW testify I V:I?,c ?ehalf if he was 1 ' k of incriminat ' ing him ??? Vatican. He already had admitted some ot Germany's war "mistake.'-" when a member of the assembly threatened the government with a vote of censure. The letter he road was dat?'d Au gust 13. 1917. written by the Papal Nuncio at Munich to Michaelis, then chancellor. Erzb^rger explained the letter covered a telegram to the Papal See from the British minister to the Vatican. It read In part: "A declaration is desired with re* gard to the imperial government's intentions toward the complete inde pendence of Belgium and the pay ment of damages to that country. Your attention also is directed to the question of guarantees for Bel gium's political, economic and mili tary independence. "If satisfactory declarations are made on these points an important step will be taken toward peace negotiations. "The British minister has in formed his government that the Nuncio will answer these questions as soon as the German government's reply is received." Army "Chow" Agreed with Miss Wilson When Miss Margaret Wilson re turned several weeks ago from "her visit to Paris, it was noted by friends of the President's daughter that she had gained weight and ap peared altogether in better health than when she left Washington. Miss Wilson possibly gave the rea son yesterday, while visiting the Park Vifew Community Center in connection with her activity in the campaign to reduce the cost of liv ing. Mrs. William Kenner, acting post mistress of Park View, was telling: Miss Wilson of the army food. *lt certainly wafe fine." she said, and ventured that Miss Wilson would have been interested in see-' ing some of it. | Then the President's daughter! surprised a group of listeners, laughingly, shfc replied: "I ate it for four months ini France." Nothing Unique In the "Shimmy" Judge Decides \ New York. July 26.?The "shimmy" ! isn't unique. Supreme Court Justice Luce decided today. | He denied the application of George I White, producer of the "Scandals of 1919," to prevent Gilda Gray from ! "shimmying" for Shubert's "Gaieties of 1919" because she has contracle<l j to do a "special, unique and extraor dinary" dance for the former produc tion. Justice iAice declared that' the "shimmy" did not come within the meaning of "special, unique and ex ! traordinary WILSON CERTAIN PACT WILL PASS WITHOUT CHANGE Senate Attacks Fail to Shake President s Faith In Efficacy of Treaty. President Wilson still believes the league covenant and the peace treaty will be ratified by the Senate without modification, it was learned at the White House last night. Senate attacks on the documents have not served to bring the Presi i dent to a point where he is ready to ' compromise, as opposition leaders havfc hinted. He intends to continue ! his stand for adoption without 'reservations or interpretations, he let it be known. He n-gards proposed reservations, submitted by Republican Senators. ! as* undesirable. It was learned last night that the President is considering start i ing his league speaking tour sev i eral days earlier than be has hith erto planned. He may leave Wash ington for the Pacific Coast August o or 6 in which caae he will stop at Lo? Angeles before going to San | Francisco to review the Pacific ! fle*-t. Will Hold I'p Treaty. Leading Republican Senators lajst j night predicted that the peace treaty | will be held in the Foreign Rela I tions Committee until President I Wilson has returned from his | speech-making trip. I Senator Curtis. Republican whip, said I a canvass of the sistuation had re I veaJed that in the opinion of most I Senators the treaty will stay in com mittee from four to six weeks lomrer. I Senator Moses. declared that "neither the Foreign Relations com ; mittee nor the Senate will act upon ! the treaty until we have had an ! 'explication.' as President Wilson would say. of many of its features. Whispering behind a door in Paris and communications in confidence ; in the White House won't suffice." ; Senator Lodge indicated that com ? mittee mrmbers might probe "stub , t?orn" l>ecause President Wilson has I decided to hold up the French de CONTINUED ON PA<iE TWO MARINERS WIN IN LONG STRIKE New York. July 2f* ?The marine workers ' strike, which has tied up coastwise transportation for seventeen I days, was settled late today when rep | resentatives of the American Steam ship Association. United States Ship | ping Board and marine labor organ ! izations reached an agreement on I wages and working conditions. j The question of union recognition j was waived. j A meeting of subcommittees of the i organizations interested will be held ! Monday to work out details of the settlement. The settlement gives an I increase of $15 a month to electricians. \ assistant refrigerating engineers. | deck engineers, pumpmen, storekeep ers. oilers, water tenders, firemen, chief stewards and chief cooks. A $10 a month raise is granted boat swains. boatswains' mates, quarter ! masters, able seamen, ordinary sea j men and J5 to mess boys, waiters and stewardesses. There will be no increase in | crews, according to the agreement. J In connection with the working j hours on small ships, it was agreed ! that a committee consisting of a member of the Ship Owners' Asso ciation, Shipping Board and unions j shall decide upon them. It is expected the men will be ordered back to their ships after ; the meeting Monday. It has been conservatively estimated that 300 ships have been tied up during the strike, 40.000 men were affected, and millions of dollars were lost. He'll Lo*e Any Place. Paris, July 26.?A suggestion that j the trial of the Kaiser be held at j Monte Carlo is finding marked fa vor among the delegates to the Peace Conference in view of the growing opposition in England to i the plan for holding the trial in ' London. I Precaution Taken To Break up Any Mob Gathering Patrol of Streets by Military- Police to Con tinue Until All Danger of Trouble Is Ove ?Several Arrests Made But City Staye Comparatively Quiet Despite Rumors c: Riots. A provost guard of several hundred men was rc-c.-tablished n | Washington last night. Aimed with rifles and pistols, as well as clubs, the military polio will patrol the streets in groups of three to quell any rioting I he; I will remain indefinitely. Troops brought here to stop race riots will be withdrawn today, i j was announced last night by Maj. Pullman. Anticipating the usual Saturday night crowd on the streets, ihi | police a?d military early in the evening made every preparation to sto| any outbreak. With thirty-five automobiles manned^ with police and service men, ready to J answer riot calls, a vigilance wan I maintained until early this morning j when the streets vserc almost <*om- i pletely cleared of pedestrians. The machines, under the direction | of Lieut. Howard N Fiske. l\ S. N.. were distributed at twel\e police head- | quarters, one at each of the precincts j and the few remaining of the thirt> - 1 rive constantly patrolled the more threatening districts. At No. fr and several other precincts the machines were sent out frequently on what proved to be fake call? Several ArrrKl* Made. Plain clothes men were stationed around public plaeog downtown to .-pot troublemakers*. Arrests for disorderly conduct DENY DRY LAWS AIDED D.C. RIOTS t ? Anti-Saloon League At tacks Rep. Kahn for Mak ing "Vicious" Charge I The Anti-Saloon League of Amer ica issued a statement from its head quarters here yesterday declaring that victory over the alcoholic bev erage liquor traffic is not yet com plete and calling upon the prohibi tion forces to maintain organized effort while Federal and State legis lation is under way to make the Eighteenth amendment effective. While commending the members of Congress who put through the prohibition amendment code in the House, the league criticises Repre sentative Kahn for his claim that crime has increased under prohibi tion and for his statement that the Washington race riots were caused by prohibition. The league cites Jhe District po ' lice records to show that there has been a decrease of 5^ per cent in arrests for drunkenness, and says: -The claim that the riot was caused by prohibition is not only false but vicious. Everyone knows I that prohibition does not cause riots 1 but where ever riots occur in saloon j cities, officials close saloons to re ? stor order. 'occur in saloon cities, officials close I saloons to restore drder. "This was done in Mr. Kahn's own ! wet city following the earthquake 1 in San Francisco. The riot here has no relation to prohibition. If sa loons had been open in Washington J the night of the riot, the bloodshed and disorder would have been in , finitely worse." MOTHER WHO KILLED BABY IS IN COLLAPSE | Pittsfleld. Mass.. July 26.?Mrs. j | Gladys C. Dunn, central figure in | ' one of New England's most sensa-j tional court dramas w ys in a state) of complete collapse today at hen home. Her attorneys believe, how ever. that she will be sufficiently 1 recovered by Monday to take the stand herself to tell the juty the 1 details of how she shot to d^ath her ' 3-year-old son. whose father Is J. Allen Dunn, the novelist. ! Dunn, is in constant attendance on his wife. The tragedy and trial have effected a complete leconcilia tion. Ruu QuMtion Af&in Up. London. July 26 ?Great Britain s Russian policy has assumed prom inence again today as a reault of I recent disasters on the Arcii Iangel front, including de#eal of the British forces at Onege. A state ment from the government wu ea fscUL wmade in n^venl pr<Tinrt.?. riv or vix in ? few. but tie ^ belov- th.> .vertit. f,,r Ksturds nipht. Willie 8nipfK. ?-.?|orr-d. *3 >,?!. "?d. of S&<? Armory ,<?un M.uthwr-nt was taken lo < Hospital .ill a o.ep cash in h:s l< ft I.V sustain", in an altercation with nn unidentl tied person at Kuuf-nnd'vnt-hti and I utr^tK *r>uthM'?>;t. l r-o.hU- W .. HiniorH Rumors were flyin* yesterday e?w? trouble forthcomm, from m?n> nu?nm end after dark. TF JT-, captain- ,? u> colored districts .-onltnuallr were har wh.7^^ of ,LT. co'or ? ? ~-??l pm?u<. f7m request in* rt_ , , of "O1*" to he sent to oeeta.t localities on she slightest cause a ^or">'?" complaint. *' 1 r, n,ad' against the sroupin* a. H-wWrr" ">rn"r* mistake f, Zj'* such condition* wer. k'">up" 0ut<'t,y *""? Thc authorities tound no d .ti move " k'""r- ?? ?" ? ?*pocially on Pfmpvlvon ? RVfflu' <*??<* w** thnmjred um?. n'ar midnisrht with one ?,f lysest .-rowd* ,inr, tfl. f of the rioting. Kuan t.r t?A.l,">t,*1 ^ ,n .... lh<' 'und to care for th* ?. .j. r.:1"? of police oBict, k.11*. in the riots wan turned ..v., , 1" rda >? to Alonzo Tueiijn I, 'or the District and treasu , 1 und. Thu.*e wh? contribute , h fund were; Woodward and U>thro,. , ploy?, of UansburRh ' ** ?*?? ??oamoa T*ieatc- . . through Mr Brylawski. state Amusement f'omr.in- *?? > Uy M'-6 H?>?, fl o?k. tS; Harry s. Fisch. t . |: n s Adams. tl. Oe^,K. | wn. *v>. tx>uis Laurofr A. Kmtnons. jr.. Jio siev,. \,....t,?. . AIR MAIL STRIKE VIRTUALLY EN03 Panper of another air msr -err ice strike seemed averted la.-t n ti,? following an all day conf. r. n.. i?. tween postal official, ?-h,rl?, Anclin repr* sr-ntinc ihr "All Pi lot F will K|? ?? lh, Jl>fc tomorrow." said Anclin Anclin and rep,. ?entatives of the Western air mail division win fer todsj with <?tto l>raeKer. I,, ad Of the aerial mail system. sUpt. ?Ionian and Pilot tiardiner of f|e\e land are c,p? t..d h(.r, t;i, conference. An?!in presents |.,iois of b. mont fleid. where several fliers Ki - dsv failed to ro up with the niail. stoppinc service on the W?shtn> t;.n-Xew York lec of the system b*'> at work yeaterda* exceiitint- I'ilots E Hamilton |^ae and t-con 8nnth. w ho w. re pended. "Praecer has pro mi?ed to rive an answer today to our d. mnnd to. the reinstatement of smith sil l-e-e. said Anclin. "One other demand w. made ws. for modification of the rule Und -r which pilots must ko if.,.,, dcied. no matter whai the weslh'r or forfeit their jobs" It was tins rule under which Ie? wid Snath were suspended by Uia Foatofflce Department Anclin said demands for a new wace scale also wtti be put up to Praccr today The pilot, wart a minimum wage of ?S <.ihi a ? - ? i? Mid. The ^ca)? now tanft-^*- frt to $2,800, according to Pra r Farmer Blown Up By Dynanr Pittafleld. Masr.. July Ko^hler, SI. was at Hill pital in 4 Rfrioui co*m^ reault of a dynamite e> Suapiciou? that some stealing from hi? bai XHM d>namite over ao Oitt if it were op -*a the dynamite would e Ko^hler forjfot Hie rSp Vnr| .opened the door h \ ey> ,w* taking Un nacaabar \ ' I *P Hmmrf ? ^t ? a* th* on * J in ?te*r