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THE WEATHER
Unsettled, probably rain tonight and Sun
day. Colder Sunday.
VOL. XXXIV.
LLOYD GEORGE
CUTS STAY IN
WALES SHORT
Returns to London on
Monday to Deal
With Irish. 1
KING REQUESTS IT
Government Anxious
Over Latest Turn
of Events.
LONDON, March 25.—Official an
nouncement was made today that
Llcyd George has shortened his vaca
tion by one week and will return to
10 Downing street Monday to take
charge personally of the Irish situa
tion.
It is understood here the govern
ment is taking a grave view of the
matter and that King George sent a
request to Criccietli. Wales, asking
the Premier to return at once.
It is said the King is showing the
gravest anxiety over the turn that events
in Ireland have taken in the past forty
eight hours.
It has been intimated her© that the
government has no faith in the ability
of Sir James Craig to preserve order.
There are fourteen battalions of British
troops in the Ulster government area, and
the government is fearful they may be
used in such a manner that virtual
chaos will result.
The Government is making every effort
to put a sudden end to what is now con
ceded to be a fanatical war raging in
North Ireland. Michael Collins who was
expected to arrive here tonight, has
sent word that he cannot leave Dublin.
Griffith and Duggan will arrive Monday,
however, to lend their services in the
cause of mediation.
Sir James Craig telegraphed Winston
Churchill saying the latter's invitation
to a conference In London had been put
np to the Ulster cabinet for a decision
and that action on it would be taken
Monday.
It Is understood Churchill will propose
to Craig and Collins, if he arrives, that
the two of them agree to make an ap
peal to use their respective forces to end
the disorders. The alternative to such
action would be British troops taking
over the troubled regions In Ulster.
It is probable Craig would welcome
British troops instead cf entering into
an agreement with Collins.
REIGN OF TERROR
SCRIPS BELFAST
& BKLFAST, March 2.l.—Outrages are
Hmrlnuing in this city today. O r i man,
girl :md one baby were shot in the
Ime house last night. Several other
2P lings were reported and numerous at-
Berapts to commit murder were recorded.
Street firing has been intense. In
some sections the main streets are almost
shambles as a result of the conflicts.
This promises to be one of the worst
week ends, marked by outrages, unless
drastic efforts are made to restore
order.
LONDON, March 25.—The intelligence
section of the Irish office in Queen
Acne street was raided and ransacked
by agents of Irish extremists last night.
Nothing of value was obtained. Confi
dential documents were recently removed
from the Irish office, which is to cease
many cf its functions with establishment
of the Free State.
Gunmen, ‘Peeping Toms
Burglars and Prowlers
Give Police Busy Night
A negro foot-pad shot a white man
through the hand, a patrolman shot a
negro prowler, two negro “Peeping
Toms,’’ were reported to the police, a
burglar was discovered in an apartment,
two negroes were arrested on vagrancy
charges after one of them had been
found sleeping in the basement of a
house, and two alleged shooting affrays
took place last night in addition to the
nightly round of petty crimes always
occurring.
William Sergeant, 006 Ogden street,
proprietor of a barbers' supply company,
told police a negro attempted to hold
him up as he was walking in Alabama
street between Michigan and North
streets. Sergeant said when the negro
thrust a pistol in his face, he grabbed
the muzle of the weapon and thrust it
upward. Thi bandit wrenched loose
from Sergeant *.nd ran into the alley,
firing one shet as he fled. The shot tool;
effect In Sergeant’s right hand. The
wound was dreg*. 1 at a nearby doctor's
Patrolman John Stroh reported to the
night police captain that he took one
shot at a negro who was looking into
a window in the 5800 block in East
Washington street. S'roh had been
given instructions to watch for negro
prowlers who had been reported as
annoying the residents in that section.
Stroh spotted the negro. He slipped up
an alley and through the back yard of
the place. When about twenty feet
away the negro saw the officer and fled.
Stroh ordered him to stop, but that only
increased his speed. Stroh fired one shot
as the negro turned a corner and made
cood hi* escape.
C. V. McGrifl, 2W2 Brookslde avenue,
reported that a negro had bothered him
for the last week by peeping into his
windows every night.
Miss Rose Kirtman, 2201 Central ave
nue. frightened a negro "peeping Tom"
when she opened a door. She did not
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending at 7
p. m., March 26. 1922:
T'nsettled weather: probably rain to
night and Sunday: colder Sur.dav.
HOTKEY TEMPERATURE:.
6 a. m 52
7 a. m ">.'l
S a. m 58
0 a m 60
It) a. m Gfl
11 a. 67
12 (noon) 60
1 p. m 71
2 p. m.... 71
Published at Indianapolis, Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914, at
Ind., Daily Except Sunday. Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3, 1879.
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Today was “wear-a-flower” day in In
dianapolis. Thousands of roses, carna
tions, sweet peas and tulips were given
away by a score of pretty glris stationed
at the main downtown street corners at
noon, announcing the opening of the
National Floyer Show in the Manufac
turers’ building at the Indiana State
fairground.
Fifth National Flower Show
at the Fairground Reveals
Gorgeous Displaj r of Beauty
The Manufacturers' building at the
Indiana State fairground was a scene of
exquisite beauty when the doors were
open' and at 2 o’clock this-aflernoou for the
Fifth National Flower Show.
The most lovely blooms that nature
and modern cultivation can produce had
been brought from every part of the con-
■
Mi*
tion building, which will announce the
opening of the show.
Today was Chamber of Commerce day
at the flower show, with John B. Rey
nolds. general secretary of the Chamber,
acting as chairman. A brief ceremony
is to follow the opening of the show by
President Harding in which Mayor
Shank, O. B. Ties, president of the Cham
ber of Commerce, and George Asmus, na
tional director for tbe show, will par
ticipate
Women’s Club Day will be celebrated
tomorrow afternoon. Mrs. Hugh McK.
know anyone was near, she said, but
was frightened herself when she saw
a shadow on the walk leading to the
house. The negro (Shaped.
A burglar was discovered In apart
ment of Mrs. Hazel Jones, 1525 West
Vermont street, when Mrs. Jones re
turned from a visit next door. She
said when she entered the house, the
burglar closed tbe door and caught her
dress between it and the door jamb.
She freed herself and called for neigh
bor*. A police emergency squad was
called, buc when it arrived the burglar
was gone. Nothing was taken.
Two negroes, Robert Bradsher and
Robert Robinson, who told police they
hud just come to Indianapolis from New
York, were arrested on vagrancy charges
by members of a night riding squad,
Bradsher was found In the basement of
an apartment house at Nineteenth and
Bellfontaine streets and the other' negro
was found on the street corner.
A squad of police and an extra large
emergency squad from police headquar
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NEGRO SOUGHT
FOR ASSAULT
Farmers Join Police in Hunt
for Man Who Attacked
Girl at Peru.
PERU. Ind., March 25.—-Police in all
surrounding towns are today searching
for an unidentified negro who brutally
assaulted Miss Fern Whitson, 18, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Whitson, of
Peru, here last night as she was roOirn
ing home from the downtown district.
The girl was struck over the head with
a club and knocked unconscious. Part of
her clothing was torn from her body
before her assailant was frightened away
by passing pedestrians. Angry citizen*
formed a posse to search for the negro.
Attacks Family of 5,
Then Kills Himself
CLEVELAND, March 25.- Frank Szus.
41. attempted to kill his wife, two sons
and two daughters and then slashed hi*
throat with a razor, dying almost in
stantly. One of the boys, Frank, 11, is
believed to be dying; the others, It is
believed, will recover.
Police say that Szua, out of work for
months, was Insane as a result of worry
‘WEAR-A-FLOWER’ DAY IN INDIANAPOLIS
The slogan, “wear a flower,” linked
with the well-known “say it with flow
ers,” .was inscribed in large letters on
downtown sidewalks, attracting attention
’.O the show.
The following young women from the
North American Gymnastic Union and
the- Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority of
Butler College distributed the bouquets:
Landcn, chairman for the day is to be
assisted by a committee of ladies, who
wil lentertain with a reception in the
tea garden. Margot Asquith, wife of the
former prime minister of England, who
is to be in Indianapolis tomorrow, is
expected to visit the show as a guest
of Indianapolis club women.
Mrs. Landon's committee consists of
Mrs. Warren T. McCray, Mrs. A. B. And
erson, Mrs. John T. Brush, Mrs. Harry
S. New. Mrs. William II Coburn, Mrs.
Booth Tarkington, Mrs. H. C. Atkins,
Mrs. Lafayette i’age, Mrs. Bernays Ken
nedy, Mrs. William Knight, Mrs. Wood
bury Morris, Mrs. Frank D. Htalnaker,
Mrs. Evans Woollen, Mrs. Henry Lane
Wilson, Mrs. G. Barret Moxley, M>ss
Louise Kelfer, and Miss Adelaide Fair
banks.
An acacia bed brought from Nahant,
Mass., by Thomas ltoland, a fotmer
president of the Society of American
Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists,
promises to be one of the most popular
displays. These plants are of excep
tional beauty, and from the crly ex
hibit of the kind. Mr. Ko;and has de
voted an entire greenhouse to the culti
vation of acacias for a period of more
than three years. His collection is said
to be the finest in the world.
One of the interesting exhibits is that
of a model conservatory. A modern floral
shop also is an attractive feature, but
the flowers massed in banks of color
along the winding pathways and the
smaller exhibits showing the adaptabil
ity of flowers to table decoration, and for
all kinds of interior and exterior arrange
ment, are the center of interest.
Beginning at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon
Montuni's twenty-piece orchestra gave a
two-hour musical prt grain, with Miss
Marion G. Williams as soloist. Miss
Williams will be the soloist again tonight.
Montanl's orchestra is scheduled to give
Iwo two-hour programs daily during the
first four days of the show. Other or
chestra leaders "Til conduct the musical
programs during the closing of the show.
The Flower Show is to be different each
day, with carloads of cut roses, sweet
peas, carnations and other flowers ar
riving daily throughout the week.
Staging arrangements cull for -dis
plays of potted plants today and to
morrow, exhibits in the cut rose classes
on -Monday, rose plants on Tuesday,
sweetpeas Wednesday, carnations Thurs
day and special -lasses Friday. Potted
plant exhibits and the feature gardens
will remain throughout the week.
Child Loses Hand
by Dynamite Blast
UXIOXTOWN, Pa.. March 25.—Little
Charley Martin, 7,1 b recovering today at
the Uninntown Hospital from numerous
injuries sustained Friday afternoon when,
while seated In a rear neat in a country
school near here, he sutek a pin In a
dynamite cap, which exploded. All the
children were thrown into a panic and
Charley was hurled to the floor. He had
a hand blown off.
A dozen other children were more or
less severely injured by fiyti g splinters.
tinent for the rose
gardens and old
Dutch bulb gar
dens, grouped
-about the foun
tain, which forms
the centerpiece for
the garden.
Smaller exhibits
and disp 1 a j s
which tax the ca
pacity of the
Manufactur e r s ’
building are
equally attractive,
though less ex
tenaive.
The formal
opening of the
show will take
place at 8 o'clock
tonight when
President Hard
ing presses a but
ton in the White
House which is
connected with a
bell at the exposi-
Radio Craze Sweeps Indianapolis and ■
Expert, to Write Articles for Times,
Estimates City Boasts 2,000 Stations
Enables Family to
Hear Opera at
Home.
BRINGS_ CHANGES
Wonderful Discovery,
So Politicians
Think.
Wireless is sweeping Indianapolis and
other Indiana cities with such rapidity
that U. C. Kennan of the Capital Radio
Company of this city estimates there are
approximately two thousand receiving
stations in Indianapolis alone and from
eight to ten thousand in the State, in
cluding the amateur stations.
The spread of radio has been so rapid
the complexion of many Indiana homes
have been changed over night. Entire
families sit In the living room of the
home and hear a concert in New York, a
lecture in Chicago and even a sermon
being delivered in some distant city.
Many important news events, such as
public addresses, are caught by wireless
and many homes are familiar with the
remarks of public officials at gather
ings hours before the papers can print
them.
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1922.
Miss Marjorie Henderson, Miss Genevieve
Adams. Miss Grace Harding, Miss Gwen
dolyn Dorey, Miss Catherine Underwood,
Miss Elizabeth Mathews, Miss June Ham.
Miss Louise Strickland, of the sorority,
and Miss Viola Schneborger, Miss Adele
Martins, Miss Nlnua l’ritzloff, Miss Ed
na Blumenthal, Miss Anne Cr r a Grace
Funs of the gymnastic union.
SCHOOL BOARD
MAKES PLANS
FOR BUILDINGS
PUbgram Embraces Former
Outline With Some Modi
fications.
RELIEF KEPT IN VIEW
Tentative plans for the long delayed
school building program were made at a
meeting of the board of irfiool commis
sioners last night, sitting as a commu
te*' on building and grounds.
Despite the fact that the majority
members of the new- board were elected
last fall on a platform of opposition to
about everything that was done or
planned by the old board It is noticeable
that among tbo very first schools to be
considered were Nos. itk 315, 38 and <52.
Plans for additions at these schools were
made by the old board and a bond Issue
of approximately SBOO,OOO was asked
last year. Approval of this bond Issue
was refused by the State board of tax
commissioners on petition of ten mem
bers of the Taxpayers’ League of In
diana, and throughout the hearing, on
til* matter Charles L. llarry, president
of. the present board, acted *n harmony
with the remonstrators.
PROGRAM OF OLD BOARD
INCLUDED IN I’LAN.
With some modifications the program
of the old board for these four schools is
Included in the plau drawn up by the
board last night.
Erection of an eight or ten classroom
building at No. 30, 39 North Elder ave
nue, is planned in connection with the
problems at Schools No. 50, 30, 1(5, 5. 4,
23 and 24. No. Id, at Bloomington and
Market streets, is in an industrial dis
trict in which the number of school
children is not increasing, and it was
thought best to erect the addition at No.
30 This addition will relieve the strain
of overcrowded conditions at No. 50, and
when the new building at No. 5, which
Is now under construction, Is completed,
this will relieve conditions at No I<s.
In connection with the same general
scheme Nos. 5 and Id will (hen be able
to take care of the white children from
(Continued on Page Two.)
FINGER PRINTS
ARE IDENTIFIED
Expert Declares Impressions
Are Those of Arbuckle’s and
Miss Rappe’s Fingers.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 25.—The
foundation was laid today by the State
In the third manslaughter trial of Koseoe
(Fatty) Arbuckle for the introduction of
its "struggle” print evidence.
Adolph Juel, identification expert of
the Snn Francisco police department,
identified finger prints of the film
comedian and of Virginia Rnppe,, for
whose death Arbuckle is on trial.
The State will close its direct case
early next week.
LEARN THE MYSTERIES
OF THE AIR
Starting Monday Rudolph L. Dun
can, hero of the San Diego disaster
end director of the Radio InstitHie of
America, will start a series of articles
on the elemental* of wireless tele
phony and telegraphy the Daily
Times.
R. C. KENNAN,
radio expert with tbe Capital Radio
Supply Company, 146 North Pennsyl
vania street, will conduct a questions
and answers department for the
Times. Send your perplexing ques
tions to the Radio Editor, Daily
Times. He will answer them for you.
BE A RADIO FAN WITH
THE DAILY TIMES
Radio parties are becoming the last
word in social entertainment. World
famous opera singers and vaudeville en
tertainers are “caught” by I lie receiving
stations in many homes while the artist
is singing hundreds of miles away.
Theaters have Installed radio receiving
stations as part of their regular night
programs at certain hours. The Circle
Theater of this city is equipped with
one of the latent developments in radio
telephony,
TEXANS NOTED
FOR COURAGE
IN ADVERSITY
Meet Rebuffs in Way
Sure to Surmount
Difficulties.
SEE UPWARD TURN
Cotton and Cattle to
Be Basis of Loss
Recovery.
[Editor’s Note—Edward G, Lowry,
distinguished investigator and re
porter for the Philadelphia Public
Ledger, Is touring the agricultural
section west of the Mississippi Kiver,
In behalf of the Public Ledger and
the Dally Times, and writing a ae
ries of articles upon conditions as he
finds them. This is his fifth produc
tion based upon observations In
Texas. Others will follow at regular
intervals.!
By EDWARD G. LOWRY.
FT. WORTH, Texas, March 25.
It is not easy or always possible ap
proximately to estimate what Henry
James hight have called the large
lucidity of the Texas condition, even
after spending a week or more in
travel and observation. It is absurd
to make any generai comment about
the State. It would be as if one said
during a shower in Philadelphia that
it was raining on the western hemi
sphere.
Almost any statement made as the re
sult of personal observation in one part
of Texas would not be true about any
other part. So what is recorded here
must be taken as relating to Ft. Worth
and the country and towns tributary to
it.
They tell the itinerant observer here,
at once, that they are still in the hole;
they have made a recovery from hard
times only in the sense that they have
touched bottom and hat any farther
movement must be upward. They still
owe a lot of money, but with improved
prices they hope to pay all their debts.
It will take time. Cotton and cattle
sre the chief revenue-producers in this
country, and both have been hard hit.
The cotton men will be on their feet be
(Contlnued on Page Four.)
Pilot, Only Survivor of
Seaplane Tragedy, Tells
of Terrible Experience
MIAMI, Fla, March 25.—The graphic
story of a battle with death on the toss
ing Atlantic, with only the flimsy pon
toons of a hydro aeroplane between them
and the water—a losing battle—was told
here today on the arrival of the sub
marine chaser 154, which met the tanker
William Greene, off this port and brought
to shore the half dead form of Robert
Moore, pilot of the ill-fated Miss Miami.
The story of how the big flying boat
kept afloat for nearly forty-eight hours
after being forced to descend on account
of a broken propeller, and how the live
passengers became exhausted through
exposure and panic, two Jumping into
the water to end their misery, and the
story of how two women died In the
pilot's arms, was relayed to Miami
through members of the crew of the tank
steamship which picked up Moore from
the wreck of his plane last night. It
was related to them incoherently by
Moore after he was picked up.
PILOT UNABLE
TO TELL STORY.
Moore was unable to tell the story when
he reached her. He was In such a serious
condition he was rushed to a hospital for
treatment.
The submarine chaser, in command of
Captain Jones, reached Miami at 10
o'clock and the pilot was delirious.
Moore’s five passengers were Mr. and
Mrs. August Bulte and Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence E. Smith of Kansas City, and
Mrs. J. S. Dickson of Memphis.
The Miss Miami broke a propeller
blade soon after leaving Miami early
Wednesday, Moore told his rescuers and
Ihe ship was forced down. It rode the
waves safely, however, and drifted n th
ward In the gulf stream.
No trouble, he said, developed until
Thursday morning, when something
struck the keel of the boat and it began
Also Possible for the
Folk to ‘Attend’
Church.
CLUBS ORGANIZED
Concert to Be Given
for Local Fans
Tonight.
Churches are taking up the radio. The
Rev. Earl N. Griggs, pastor of the Capi
tol Avenue Christian Church, is making
arrangements to install a receiving sta
tion in the community house of the
church.
“We want to be able to give radio
concerts and also to catch the sermons
of pastors all over the country,” the
Rev. Mr. Griggs said.
Churches of the city are planning to
use the radio ns the principal means of
entertainment at gatherings of the young
people during the week. I’astors feel
with the radio and moving picture ma
chines, splendid midweek programs can
be given in the church and community
buildings.
Campaign managers have made plans
(Continued on I’ags Three.)
_ . , .. _ , By Carrier, Week. Indianapolis, 10c: Elsewhere, 12C,
Subscription Rates. j ßy Mallj 50c Per Month . 00 Per year.
‘ Fixer 9 Z s covered
on Jury to
Investigate ‘Fixing’
CHICAGO, 51 arch 25. —A "fiver”
found on the grand jury investigat
ing alleged fixing of juries trying
labor leaders caused Robert Crowe,
State’s attorney, to dismiss the in
vestigating body.
The "fixer” had obtained a domi
i; tit in g position on the jury.
The alleged grand jury “fixer” was
said to be at present employed as
a go-bet ween In labor circles.
Before being: dismissed, the grand
jury voted three indictments in con
nection with the trial of William
(Juesse, head of tiie Flat Janitors’
Union, charged with extortion.
The grand Jurors were indignant
when dismissed and for a time
planned to continue their investiga
tion independently, hut finally cnj
tented themselves with issuing state
ments attacking Crov.-e.
INJUNCTION IS
ASKED AGAINST
RATE INCREASE
Suit Also Asks Receiver for
Bell Telephone Com
pany.
MONOPOLY IS CHARGED
An Injunction to prevent the public
service commission of Indiana from en
forcing the rate increase granted Jan.
2<5, 1922, to the Indiana Bell Telephone
Company and a receiver for the Indiana
Bell Company, the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company and the Western
Electric Company was asked in a suit
filed in Superior Court, room 2, today
by T. Ernest Maholm, attorney for Ira
Chase Koehne, “in behalf of all tele
phone users in Marlon County.” The suit
also asks that the company be enjoined
from continuing the rates in effect.
The questions involved in the suit are
said, in the complaint, "to be of com
mon or general interest to all persons,
firms or corporations using tbe service.”
It is stated further as the persons in
volved number sixty thousand, 1* would
be “Unpractical'’ to bring all into court
Therefore, the plaintiff is suing for the
whole.
DISCRIMINATION
IS CHARGED.
It is alleged In the complaint the com
panies are discriminatory in their rates
and that some of tbe money of the Indi
ana Bell Telephone Company is invested
(Continued on Page Two.)
to leak. Men and women took turns
bailing watet.
Thursday flight one of the women be
came crazed and Jumped overboard. Her
name was not given by Moore. Shortly
afterwards one of the men, presumably
h*r husband, followed her.
This fate of the man and woman
seemed to depress the remaining two
women of the party. They gradually
became weaker and weaker and finally
fainted away. For seven and a half
hours, Moore told fils rescuers, he sup
ported them as best ho could. In the
meantime another of the men had slipped
off the plane. This loft only August
Bulte, vice president of the Lnrable Flour
.Mills Corporation, and Moore, who used
the pump frantically. Yesterday both
men were so exhausted they were no
longer able to use the pump and the
boat, swamped by a huge wave, over
turned.
Bulte and Moore scrambled back up the
side of the overturned craft and Moore
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Indiana Girl- Wife Tires
of Empty Bohemian Life
Mrs, May Cramer of Princeton Takes Poison
—Notes From H ushand Revealed,
CHICAGO, March 25.—May Cramer, the
second member of Chicago's newly-estab
lished Bohemian artists' colony to at
tempt suicide within a week, was near
death at Columbus Hospital today. She
took bichloride of mercury nfter leaving
a note, “No one cares for me and I am
tired of life.".
Letters from her husband, pleading
with her to return to her Princeton (Ind.)
home, were found in her room.
Mrs. Cramer, paid she was a
friend of Mary Lieberman, 17. who tried
suicide in the .same manner after seeking
In vain for ejtciteracut in the Bohemian
colony.
The girl left half a dozen suicide notes
which had been torn in scraps and
thrown on the floor until she finally got
one that suited her.
One letter from the girl's husband
read:
"You are miserable because you could
not content yourself to live hero with
us. You thought yon would find solace
some place else. But have you? No,
dear, you have not. Your actions have
only caused unhappiness and heartache
all around. Some clay you will realize
and appreciate the affection from which
you ran away.”
Another letter reproached her for her
determination to remain in Chicago and
continued :
“Girl, you are too strong-headed and
It Is causing you a great and deep sor
row. You are battling with a fate that
surely will overcome you because you
are w r rong In your contentious, and a
wrong beginning can have only one end
ing—a wrong and sorrowful one.”
Another letter from the husband read
in part:
“Do not allow your mind to drift
along narrow and revengful lines; that
is when the whole world seems wrong
and one feels that life is not worth liv
ing. And I feel, dear girl, that is just
your state of mind at present."
Miss Lieberman and Mrs. Cramer wore
friends. “Mrs. Cramer tried to kill her
self because she was involved in a dis
appointing love affair with a man with
ill. S. DECIDES ON ‘PROGRAM
OF PROTECTION’ IN COAL
STRIKE SET FOR APRIL 1
LEMS GIVES
MINE WORKERS’
VIEWS OF CASE
Says All Honorable Steps to
Avert Walkout Taken
by Men.
TWO GROUPS BLAMED
The following statement written by
President John L. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers, gives the offi
cial view of the Union leaders of the
underlying causes of what Mr. Lewis
calls the ‘ greatest strike in history.”
BY JOHN L. LEWIS,
President of the United Mine
Workers of America.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 25.—1f the
United Mine Workers could prevent it,
there would be no strike of coal miners.
AVe have done everything humanly pos
sible within the bounds of honor, but
two powerful groups of operators in
Pittsburgh and Ohio have deliberately
forced the miners to strike. These two
groups of operators have two objects
in view.
First, they want to destroy the miners’
union.
Second, the want to stop production
of coal and thus create a scare among
the people and boost the price of mil
lions of tons of coal on hand and clean
up enormous profits.
AFTER GOUGE AT
POCKET BOOK.
It will be a gouge of the coal con
sumers’ pocket book, but that’s what
these operators are after.
They broke their contract with the
miners for the purpose of driving the
miners into a strike. If they had kept
their written agreement to meet with the
miners in a Joint conference to negotiate
anew wage scale there would be no
strike and no inconvenience to the pub
lic.
We wßnt the public to remember when
it is compelled to pay a high price for
coal, that the miners are not to blame.
In 1921 the Union miners of the country
were employed only an average of 125
days. Thousands had only fourteen to
twenty-six days work in the entire year.
The average earnings were only S7OO.
This is not enough to support a family
these days. But we are not asking for
an increase. We are willing to continue
the present wage scale In force for
another two years, in the hope that there
may be a revival of business and in
dustry that will afford them more steady
employment. They are willing to take
this chance.
REFERS TO CAMPAIGN
OF UNEMPLOYMENT.
For many months past, coal companies
in many sections of the country have
conducted a campaign of unemployment
and starvation of coal miners to compel
them to take a reduction in wages. In
some fields coal companies have told
miners they would give them work 1f they
would accept a reduction to a poverty
level and also withdraw from the union.
This of itself is enough to sustain our
charge that unemployment and starva
tion are the weapons which the operators
are using.
We regret the necessity for the sus
pension of coal mining. Our men want to
work and earn a living, but the operators
are determined that they shall not.
The whole matter Is now in the hands
of the public. More than (500.000 men will
lay down their fools on April 1 because
the operators refuse to make a wage
agreement with them. Men cannot be ex
pected to work when they do not know
what they are to get for their labor, nor
the conditions under which they are to
work.—Written for the International
News Service.
.1. OGDEN ARMOUR SUBPOENAED.
CHICAGO, March 25.—J. Ogden Arm
our, head of the packing company will go
to Kansas City on Monday to testify in
the hearing on the Mistloe yards case.
Armour had not planned to testify at the
hearing, but he was subpoenaed today.
whom I had been friendly,” Miss Lieb
erinan said. “This man paid considerable
attention to me and Mrs. Cramer was
Jealous.”
When Mrs. Cramer took the poison,
she and (he man to whom Miss Lieber
man referred were alone In the woman’s
apartment;. The man took her to the
hospital in a taxi and disappeared. Po
lice are searching for him.
Mrs. Cramer was in the care of Dr.
Thomas A. Carter, famous specialist on
mecurial poisoning.
MRS. CRAMER
DECLARED BEAUTY
PRINCETON, Ind., March 25.-Sirs.
Slay Cramer, who attempted suicide in
Chicago because she was “tired of life,”
was the “prettiest maid on the H. H.
Harrlman estate in New York," when
George Cramer married her four years
ago.
Cramer, now a garage owner here, met
May Victor, then personal maid to Miss
Mary Harriman, at a “barn dance," he
said today.
Nightly, Cramer said, he saw the Jer
sey commuters departing fr->m Manhat
tan, and they looked so happy, when he
married the ravishing May, he aban
doned work as an electrician and set
up a little chicken farm on the New
Jersey shore.
They were to bo very happy.
“But thatywoman had an ungodly tem
per," he declared. "I tried three times
to live with her. but it was impossible.”
The couple came to Princeton about a
year ago, but was “no go.”
“I bava |2,000 worth of furniture stored
here —a monument to my g<jp ' inten
tions,” said .Cramer. )
Six months ago, when tho/couple sepa
rated again, Cramer said Jfb purchased r.
ticket, to Chicago for <hfA and gave her
SIOO.
i He has not heard from her since, he
said.
Princeton residents remember Mrs
Cramer as a "very pretty" woman and
recall she was the “first bobbed-haired
woman” In this little city.
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Attitude ‘impartial’
Except Where Pub
lic Concerned. .
STRESSES 4 POINTS
Will Warn Both Sides
That Property Must
Be Safeguarded.
WASHINGTON, March 25.—The
Government Las decided on a pro
gram of protection for the publio
during the walkout of miners
scheduled to start one week from to
day.
At midnight, March 31, the Gov.
eminent will issue a communication
to Federal agents throughout the na
tion outlining its course of action
during the tie-up.
The Government will:
X. Order all agents to protect mining
property against any violence.
2. Warn both sides against violence
and declare the attitude of the Govern
ment as ’’impartial” except insomuch as
the public interests are concerned.
i 3. Ask coordination of civil and State
authorities in the enforcement of law.
4. Announce the miners must not in
terfere with miners who want to work
if the operators choose to keep the
mines open.
SEE CLOSE ALLIANCE
WITH RAILROADERS
CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 25.—Close
alliance between the four million rail
road workers of the country and the five
hundred thousand coal miners during the
miners’ strike called for midnight,
March 31, was apparent today. Action to
be taken by tbe railroad unions during
tbe mine strike was problematical.
The general policy committee of the
United Mine Workers was on record as
having unanimously approved the call for
strike of coal miners.
Possibility of concerted action by rail
and mine workers are based on the fol
lowing significant developments at the
miners’ meeting here.
John L. Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers, obtained the promise of
W. S. Stone, chief of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, as a “rail chief
and citizen” to support and assist the
miners.
Lewis remained in Cleveland to confer
with W. L. Lee, chief of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen, and possibly offi
cials of other railroad brotherhoods.
Twenty thousand Norfolk & Western
railroad shop crafts employes announced
a sympathetic strike on the railroad that
is said to carry 80 per cent of the non
union coal mined In the United States.
A resolution urging two hundred thou
sand nonunion miners in the United
States and Canada to unite with the
union miners in the strike is on Its way
to the mines.
Reports claimed to have been received
by several members of the generai policy
committee of the miners, said employes
of some railroads were planning to re
fuse to handle cars carrying nonunion
coal.
Sixty million tons of coal will be on
hand, mostly at the mines April L and
will not be available unless it can be
distributed.
More than fifty thousand railroad teleg
raphers already have ratified the “pro
tective agreement” in which they agree
to support the miners in any wage con
troversy.
2 YOUTHS HELD
AS OPERATORS
OF BOOZE MILL
Police Seek Third Man as Em
ployer of Pair at SSO
Weekly.
Two 20-year-old boys were arrested at
2 o’clock this morning in a raid on a
house at 2018 North Capitol avenue,
where police found two large stills, as
complete, they said, as any ever found
here. An elaborate cooling system also
was installed on the second floor of the
house, where one of the stills was set
up. The other still was In the attic.
The raid is third on North Capitol ave
nue homes in the last month in which
large stills have been found in operation.
Those under arrest gave their names
as Charles Goldstein and Hyman Haspiel,
both of Cleveland. The police are search
ing for a third man, Sam Gloger, who is
alleged, according to tbe stories of the
two under arrest, to have met them a few
days ago and hired them each at SSO a
week to run the stills.
Haspiel was identified by George
Winkler, Federal prohibition agent, as
“local talent.” Winkler said Haspiel
lives at 833 South Illinois street. Gold
stein still clings to the story he is from
Cleveland.
The police who conducted the raid
said in addition to the stills, which were
of sixty-gallon and twenty-five-gallon ca
pacity, they found fourteen barrels of
mash and about two gallons of “white
“mule” in a barrel.
The police said the larger still was
used to make the "mule” and the smaller
one to double-distill the liquid. This
leads to the belief the operators of the
plant were members of an organized
“whisky ring" which helps supply In
dianapolis with “white mule.”
A twelve-foot copper pipe led from the
smaller still, through ihe wall, into an
other room, where cold water constantly
passed over and through a double-coil
cooling system. An eighteen-foot pipe kdJ
to the cooling room from the still in tta
attic.
An acetylene outfit, used to furnish ex
cessive heat for the manufacture of
“mule,” and which. It *9 said, was used
so suspicion would not be drawn to the
booze makers because of excessive con
sumption a? gas, also was confiscated,
along with seven five-gallon empty jugs,
a number of empty bottles, some corks
and two iOO-pound sacks of corn.
C. & A. LAYS OFF SHOP MEN.
BLOOMINGTON, 111., March 25.—An
ticipating a decline in business as a
result of the approaching coal strike,
the Chicago & Alton Railroad today
laid off ISO employes in Us shops here.
NO. 272.