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SHasT\ tit i sfren i*f& sk MEMBER associated PRE^S. FAIRMONT. WEST VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING. APEEL 24,191S. TODAYS NEWS TODAY PRICE THREE CEN]3RSf
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1 REGION TOOAT
R: fEll OFF Ml
KPfe Operators Begin to Start
^ /For Big Meeting at
|p^?".v : Huntington. ?
f lfl mum lunch
E^Mtate- Fuel Administrator
0 ::f_ . Barnes Sends Out In'..' Rw
happy smile which 'most ev*
(?k Vm?{? A?? I?n?
1W j a/vuj ui uic WAi UUOJUC99 uaa uccii
""""^ wearing for over a week began to
... Cade along about 10 o'clock this mom,'J"
tng It did not actually disappear but
there was a suggestion of doubt about
ft. "Whether It will come off depends
upon what happens tomorrow morning.
To put the matter briefly, just
when the operators and miners, en.
couraged by the continuance of a
I good caT supply were beginning to
get on their metal and were prcpar
lng to turn out a- good production that
would he worth while talking about
t ; the railroad is showing signs of losing
interest in the little game of cut1:J
o-roo-? <vn r.chn r& ? o?r>
I There were Just 949 open tops In the
. region this morning, and 53 of tliem
were, underlined for coke. Old Man
' "Gloom poked his head into the door
v-of the Central "West Virginia Coal OpL,"
era tors' headquarters in the Jac oos
. building several times before lunch,
si ^~tf the bando does not do better than
; that tomorrow morning he will come
fy- clear inside, put bis feet on one of
s - the desks and squirt tobacco Juice on
^..-the rugs. He hasirt been outside
; ; long enough to feel at all strange amid
those familiar surroundings.
Asid9 from the falling off in the
>' ear supply the transportation conditions
are the same as yesterday. Six
i 'hundred cars can go east and 200 of
Eg them can go through the Shippensburg
yards and np the Reading road.
0 Yesterday 1.074 cars were loaded in
Be region.
I? Many jGoing to Huntington,
r, There was a noticeable absence of
^ Wg coal men about town today. I*resident
Jenkins of the Operators AsP
sociation and Secretary Patton went
: - east last night. They will be in Bal?!
tlmore today and expect to go on to
gfe New York, but hope to be able to be
at Huntington in time for the meeting
of the West Virginia Coal Operators"
Kg association. Qnite a number of local
men will be in Huntington for this
-I state meeting and some of them have
v ' already started for that city.
? Because of the absence from the
.. fcity of so many of the onerator-3 the
usual weekly meeting of the Coal club
7 was called off.
Coal Notes.
-v The meeting of West Virginia operators
at Washington for the purpose
of forming a West Virginia 'Alining
association to be affiliated with the
* American Mining Congress turned out
. to be a fizzle. A statement was issued
that it had been decided to postf
pone the meeting until after the
meeting at Huntington in the interest
' of marmony.
I Fixing Retail Prices.
J. Walter Barnes. Federal Fuel Administrator
for West Virginia, has
given instructions to. the local committees
of Ohio. Wetzel, Mercer.
Summers. Grant. Monroe. Nicholas.
Hardy and Hampshire counties to fix
! - - the "'gross margin."' -which is the dif.
_ ferenca between the cost at the destination
and the cost at the home,
a" which action has already been taken
F -in Berkeley and Jefferson counties,
p. . The idea is to give prospective buyers
of coal definite prices on all sizes
Is and qualities of coal used in their
r communities. With "gross margins"
f v recanvassed and a proper price of
fci coal reached the Fuel Administration
. hopes that all indefiniteness in refe:>"
mni to nriees will bo removed and
that if the consumers cannot get def Suite
.information as to prices from
B' local dealers or mines 3ellinc to <ic
. xnestic consumers they can get it from
the County Chairman of the "ciiel Com
inlttce.
K: In instructions to the Chairman of
js the County Committees this paragraph
Hp Is receiving attention:
p", '"Xo donbt the most perplexing prob
lem confronting yon and your ComH
xnittecs has been the great variation
Hl .1.,between the costs of the different re
I tilers given in a community. Some
immjttees have not realised that the
to high cost of the inefficient relilers
were abnormal costs: and they
are so fixed the gross margins that
reh the dealer with the highest costs
stlized a substantial net profit. By
sgulation of retail prices and pracces
the Fuel Administration can' enjurage
efficiency in handling, and de5fifc>r
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INS RE
IN Y- M. C. A. SERVICE j
Pr. George J. Fisher of the Y. M. j
v. heading the drive ;o send 600
,' physical "directors to the war zone
j before October.
Center. Fred Jacklitsch. the veteran
j baseball catcher, who played with the
Boston Nationals.
Bottom. Piatt Adams, one of Ameri-;
ca"s Olympic champions, juniper and |
. all round athlete.
Underwood & Underwood. |
IWUCOiESi
j, tiiraea!
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r^na came Alter i>ong xu
ness at Fairmont Ave. i
Home. i
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j Mr?. Margaret Gaston Heimick. aged i
SO yors. wife of Captain N. 0. Hel-j
mick. and one of the flfost highly re- !
spcct-:! women of the community, died 1
at eight o'clock this morning at her
iiome in Fairmont avenue after a lingering
iilness with a complication of
; diseases. J
I Mrs. Helmick was a daughter of the
[ late James and Charlotte Gaston and
was born a: Duck Crees. Harrison
county, on February 15, 183S. On Jan,
uary-2$. 186-i. she was united in mar-;
j riage with Captain Helmick who sur-j
, rues uer loccuipr wim i(iu>
Mrs. Lucy Pi^vpont. wife of John ?.
Pierpont. of Harrisville, \V. Va.; Fred.
; Carroll and Loui*. G. Helmicfc. all of :
this city, a son. "Ernest. is deceased !
as are also three children -who died in ,
infancy.
Mrs. Helmick was a woman of quiet, j
unassuming personality and was a
favorite with all with whom' she came i
in contact. She was .a home loving:
. woman and in her home life her in- j
fluence was keenly felt and her- death
comes as a severe blow to her aged |
I husband and children. She had spent j
practically her entire married life in ;
this community where she was univer- I
sally loved and revered.
Funeral servires are announced to j
be held at the residence on "Thursday
arternoon a: ;:uo o'clock and tne ooay j
will be in- rred in WoOaU^b ceme-.
tery by Ur.rirrtaker R. C. Jones.
Six Americans
Killed in Action:
'By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON-. April 24.?The eas!
auliy list tciay contained 43 names 1
divided as f ows: Killed in action I
, 6; died of wounds 3. died of disease!
11: wounded everelv 16: slightly 13. j
Lieutenant Granville Wheat is the \
; only officer tamed. He was slightly j
; wounded. ;
Killed in sr'ion: Sergeants-J. J-j
! Broadhead. Orn'iie G Fuller;Corporal'
' Frank P. Go ; m. Privates.- Cliarles j
; W. Foote. Felix M. oiiva. Rcger Wil-1
I son. S " j
Died of -won: :*: Corporal Frank D-j
i Brooks; "Wagoner John J. Burwell.
Private Cbas. B. Knnston.CAR
STRIKE IN DETROIT.
! DETROIT^ Mir*.. Aprll 25,_The tie ,
up of Detroit's street.car system cans-;
I ed. by -walkout of motormen and'con-'
; ductors early today was still in ef-:
rect tills aiteraoon. Mayor Marx af-.
te a conference -with official* or the!
j Detroit United Railway said that if!
: the car men did not call it off by to-!
j morrow morning the city would take I
j summary action to move the cars.
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Government Hopes to
SUME
ONE AMERIC,
DURING THE
Many Instances of Individual
Heroism Are Reported.
HEROES ML MODEST
Battle in French Town
Up to Best Traditions
of Republic.
WITH THE AMERICAN* ARMY IN j
FRANCE, April 24.?(By Associated ;
Press.)?The shell torn village of j
Feichetrey around which centered the !
hardest fighting in connection with (
the recent heavy German attack on
the American' positions appears to be ?
destined to hold a proud place in the!
story of American participation in the ;
world war.
The correspondent is now permitted
** coco? rtf individual
bU IC11 VI Q 4V " ?
heroism -which will convey an idea ;
as to the metal of the men. One 01
them. David Griggs, of Ea3t Hampton.;
Conn., passed through the enemy barage
at least seven times, to carry am-1
munition to his hard pressed comrades.
Griggs, who is 19 years oid. was so
modest that he would not tell his!
story but insisted on speaking of the;
bravery of others. Finally one of his;
comrades pointed him ou: and said, i
"That is the bravest man in the regi- j
ment."
Raymond A. Ferris, of Medford.!
Mass.. acting as a courier was blown;
o?T the road twice by the concussion' I
of shells. Although stunncu and near-j
ly crazed by the intensity of the gunj
fire when be reached the point in the;
rear of the line to which ue was sent!
for ammunition he carried out his orders.
Then he asked for a revolver
saying he wanted to go out and fight
the Germans but he fainted from exhaustion.
When he regained #con- .
sciousness his first words were an j
inquiry whether his message had been '
delivered.
Charles Sisikler. a Phladc-phia law-1
yer. who is now with the Red Cross
and was in the thick of the lighting,
told the correspondent today cf two!
Americans who. armed only with auto-1
malic pistols, charged an eocnr* machine
run. killed eight Germans and j
captured the gun.
It is also related that one American
sharpshooter killed 15 Germans.
MHKTN KM i
TO HUT GOV.
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Extensive Plans Being: Made.
For Friday and Saturday.
T-. S. Schwenk of Mann-ngton willj
introduce Governor John J. Cornwell:
when he speaks In this city on Saturday
afternoon at 3 o'clock, according.
nljtna nnnnnnrpii todav bv Glenn
F. Bares, chairman ot" the Marion
County Liberty Loan, committee.
Extensive plans are being made by 1
Chairman Barnes for the Liberty Bond j
solicitation on Friday afternoon. Lib- j
erty Day. All of the Fairmont Banking
institutions trill be closed excrpc j
for business In connection Wilis the j
sale of Liberty bonds.
The Women's Liberty Loan Com- ;
mittee. the employes of all the banks ;
and others interested trill devote their i
time to the sollctation of bonds in j
the afternoon. At 5 o'clock there j
trill be patriotic speaking in front of!
the court house by Fairmont Four)
Minute men. The speaking will con- J
tinue nntil about six o'clock at which ;
time the Fairmont contingent of draf-;
tees will be escorted to the Baltimore j
and Ohio railroad station.
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Tn-n PftTovrr-n lWiniCJ'f'.PT |
U iuhjj 1 UlCilgXi JJULUWVV^ I
Sends in Resignation j
fBv Associated Press>
LOXDOX. April 24. ? Viscount Mo- ;
tono. Japanese minister for foreign af- j
fairs, has resigned according to a Ron- J
ter dispatch from Tokio. , ^
The question of Japanese interven- j
tion in Siberia probably refi to the ;
withdrawal of Viscount Motono from ;
the foreign ministry of v i'. c he has '
been the head since "JCo I>er. 1916, |
when Count Teranchi for in' d the pres-,
ent council.
There have been reports recently that j
Viscount Motono might resign in eon- i
nectlon with the Siberian situation but j
explanations of such a possibility were j
scant. *
Have .the Liberty 1
DRIVE
AN KILLED 15
FIGHTING IN
THE GERMAN BLOW AG
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American troops hold the line cle
the heights of the Meuse to Seichepre
heavy enemy attack centered against
attempt to separate the Americans an
LOCAL Fill! i
FIRM UfflUUI I
JEW MRS;
Food Officials Allege Whole!
sale Supply House "Violated
Law.
Claiming that the Wholesale Supply j
company, doing business on Jackson
street, below Monroe, boo sold as '
)
much as nine barrels of fiout to one i
man without substitutes the place of
business was closed last m0ht by J.
R. Trotter, or Morgantown. director :
of food distribution tor West Xlrginia. j
The case was investigated by County i
Food Administrator Joseph Rosier. :
who reported it to Director Trotter, j
who last night posted the following |
sign on the front door of the Whole-1
sale Supply company: |
"Because W. H. Billingslea. the J
proprietor, sold flour to consum- i
ers in large quantities and with'
mill >10 1
OUt SUDSIIlUtes. cxiiss oi*'-ww
closed for two weeks, or until 6 j
p. in. May 7, 191S.
By order Federal Food Admin- i
istrato.
Br J. R. TROfTER.
Director of Distribution."
Mr. Billingslea today stated that
during the latter part of last week Mr. ;
Hosier called at his store and that ;
they discussed the matter. Mr. Billingslea
clauc: that he believed that I
his authority to sell the flour was ,
based, on tie following section of the :
law' ' ;
"A written statement from the ony.;
er that he has purchased a given quan- ;
tiiy and kind of wheat fiour suhsti- j
tntes. not balanced by other purchas- i
es of wheat flour, may be accepted as .
satisfactory evidence of the facts ;
stated.** {
Mr. Billingslea claims that he dis
cussed with Mr. Rosier the different
phases of the la wand he believed that
Mr. Rosier was looking up the real in- ;
terpretation of the matter . He con-1
tends that if he knew that he had been j
violating 'he law that lie would have
beer, willing to qhit the custom, al- i
leged to he a violation of the law. In j
other words he telieved that if there j
had been anything erroneous about it!
that he would receive notice.
As ss patriotism goes. Mr. Bill(C--ntinued
on page four.)
Earl Miller's Body
Has Arrived Herei
The body of Karl Miller arrived here I
" * * 1- r?i }
mis mornaig irom nuun ibuuiu, *?., j
where Ills death occurred several.
uays ago. Miller was a member of!
C>.n>?any A. 10th infantry, at the Rock j
Island arsenal. Funeral services will
be held on Thursday afternoon at 2
o'clock fnm the First M. E_ church :
and inie-tnwo* will be made in "Woodfciwo
tem->i< ry by Undertaker Mqpgrave
and Son.
axlf Put Over This
vw;1"
IN SOII
> GERMANS I
FEICHETREY
J
AINST THE AMERICANS
3rn:
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VCSIUILES^ .Touu. | | 1
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^^5VR(C? "SEKKEP^iEy
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ar around the St. Michiel salient from j
y. about a twenty-mile front. Thei
Seicheprey. and was apparently an!
d the French. It failed completely.
iimnir
SEDITION CASE
With German Officials They
Conspired Against
Peace of India.
<3v Associated Press!
SAN" FRANCISCO. April 24.?
Twenty-nine persons Hindus, former
German consular officers, business
men and others were found guilty
early today by a jury iu the Federal
ocurt of conspiracy to violate the neutrality
of the United States through
plots to foment revolution against
British rule in India.
Yesterday during this trial Ram I
Chandra, editor of the Hindu publi-j
cation Ghadr (Revolution,) was shot'
dead in United States District Cour:^
here today by Ram Singh, another)
"'Via iw lnrn W3C i
iUUUU uvicuuauii ?**?u *** ?u*?- ?
shot and killed by United States Marshall
James B. Hololian.
Ram Chandra was shot as he walked
across the room. Shingli. who hat.
been seated across the counsel table
from him, opened fire with an automatic
pistoi, firing into Chandra's
back. Chandra staggered forward and
fell at the foot o? the witness chair;
just as a ballet from Marshall Holo- j
han's revolver killed Singh.
Holohan. a giant, shot clear across t
the court room, hilling Singh with a j
bullet through the back of the neck.
To clear the intervening figures Holohand
swung his arms overhead as is
done in 'serving-' a tennis ball, and
fired downward.
Chandra when shot was w;thin two
feet of District Attorney Preston.
Feeling against Ram Chandra has j
run high at various times in the:
course of the long trial, because of i
testimony to the effect that he had i
fattened his personal income with
money intended for the revolution.
Ram Chandra and Ram Singh both
were dead when examined by physicians.
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Air laid on Paris
Complete Failure
(By Associated Press*
. < PARIS. .V?ril 24.?Aeroplanes hav
ins b-een heard coming toward Paris
an air raid yarning was given shortly
before midnicht last nisht but no
aeroplanes reached the Paris district!
according to an / official statement is-'
sued today. The statement readsr I
"Suspicious signs of aeroplane en-i
gines having been reported by watcn- j
ing posts, as coming in the direction '
of Paris warning was given af lZ:S?j
p. m. No aeroplanes crossed the fire.
cnrtaln or flew over the Paris district.!
All clear was sounded at 1:02 a. C- j
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ARCHBISHOP IRELAND ILL. f
ST. PAUL. Aril 24.?Archbishop:
John Ireland' who returned to St. ]
Paul recently from Florida where he j
recuperated from a break down has <
sulioicti j. ieidpju iL 4i-uiiuuiiujir*rT
bis residence today. Slight improve-^
ment ?ai noted this Afternoon, phy
ctHaw iffitfl, . I
AMES
Socks Least of
The Womes
of Sammies
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 24.?
Socks are so plentiful In the ranks
of the American expeditionary forces
that the ban on the parcel post
shipment of hosiery from America,
will be continued. Major Cenera!
March, acting chief of staff, has
advised Senator Weeks of Massachusetts.
MAI BOX CAR
WITH LUMBER FOR
COAL RHI1E
When P. H. Joyce Arrives
in Town Things Will
Begin to Happen.
There is at least one person who is
doing everything in his power to hasten
the construction of the South Siilc
bridge. This man is P. H. Joyce, an
employee of the John F. Casey company.
the bridge contractors. Joyce
has the pleasant job of riding a box
?" trit V? Timihor
bridge on its way from Cleveland, 0to
Fairmont.
All work on the new bridge now depends
upon this one car load of .lumber
and until it arrives only a limited
amount of work can be accomplished
it contains lumber for the false work
and when it arrives will give tho
bridge men quite a bit of work to do.
By the time that this carload of lumber
is used up it is believed that the
remaining material for the bridge will
be here and then all will be safe to:
tear down the present structure.
It Is Mr. Joyce's job to get this im-:
portant' carload of lumber to Fair-1
mom. He is an expert car chaser and |
finds that the best way to accomplish:
a job of that kind is to follow np the j
car. He has had some queer exj#riences.
but the last that the local i
bridge authorities heard from him he
was still with the car and liad reached j
Holloway. O. This report was received j
in this city Saturday. The car is ei-1
pecrea nere aany.
This morning workmen began to
put up the false work, using what lumber
is now on hand. The Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Company is
putting up telephone poles below the j
bridge preparing to tear down the
lines across the present bridge until
after the new bridge is completed.
G.F.I. COMPANY TO
nnrii nmuv nroT
urcn ncHLti ucn.
Offices Will be Fitted Up in
The Fairmont Hotel
Building.
About the first of May the Greater
Fairmont Investment Company will
open a real estate department in the
room on the Jefferson street side of
The Fairmont Hotel building which
adjoins the main entrance to the hotel.
Announcement to this effect has
been-made by a committee of the directors
consisting of C. D. Robinson.
W. J. "Wiegel and C- E. Smith.
The Greater Fairmont Investment
Company has 15 houses in the Monongahela
Industrial section of the
city which are now nearing completion
and' which it will sell. The company
also owns about twenty houses
in Pleasant Valley. Building lots m
the Monong&hela Industrial section
will be put on the market and in addition
to these the new department
will do a general real estate and rent
tag business. The business or tbe
Utilities Corporation will be absorbed
by tbe Greater Fairmont Investment
Company.
Tbe Engineering department of the
Greater Fairmont Investment Company
will remain in the quarters it
now occupies in the Professional
buildingMissionary
Meeting Thursday.
The regular meeting of the Woman*
Home and Foreien Missionary society
of the First Baptist church will be
held on Thursday -at the- church ax
2:30 o'clocfc. A program made up
of surprises win be presented. Today
the women "of the church are spending.
the -day at the church sewing for
the'Bed.-Cross.
ECTOR I
JgS|]||?S
:aUH0N I
BARKS OF LAI W
BEGUN AT40MK 9
Batteries
on Both Sides of
the Stream Were in Ac
tion.
LARGE SECTION INVOLVED I
! German Attack Northwest .
of Albert Was Driven
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< Py A?s<vl*{<?i3 Pr?se<
WITH THE AMERICAN ARST8T EC ...
FRANCE. April 24?The Germans bej
?an s heavy bombardment of the
j British positions m the icitme sec
lor this mornj-ti; sua t;*e latest re- ports
stale ih:tt a>; attack fc in prog- ||^H
A Gemsn bombsrtiinent of the
j Brit':-h positions on both side of the
i river ha we on the nor.-uern bafle
j front was begun at for.- t"iis mor?-j
in?. A large setion ?f t.Vs bsiti? fro.it
j Is seething although no dstinite ?:|
mensions of too in'r-ttry action are
| yet known.
j Northwest of Albert early today the
j enemy troops which advanced from
their trenches for an assault were
driven hack by the British fr-*. Northwest
of Merville. a large conoentration
of German sohliers aw dispersed
by the British artillery.
PARIS. April 24.?The German ar- '
| tillerv has been conducting an ex|
tremely heavy bombardment of the
j Franco-British front between the
| Somme and the Avre in the region
?* **- <N~ emit iftllorc.
i or nang^ra-i^n*i5u.xinrri ,
Bretonneaux. the "War office reports
' tod3y.
LONDON. April 24.?The attack delivered
yesterday by the Germans
northwest of Albert was in region of
Aveluv wood. Renters correspondent
at British headquarters reports. Germans
left their trenches after intense
artillery barage and advanced in
massed waves. When they encount- .
ed British rifle and machine gnn fire.
I however, they retired without endeav
' oring: to come tc close action.
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Garden Plots fl
Owner of lots at Outlook Farms
desires to arrange with some par
i ty to cultivate on shares garden :
of one or two acres, splendid soil.
Sufficient manure on ground for
fertilizing. Xone hut reliable par- :
ties need apply. Address Box 3775
West Virginian.
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DANCE j I
for Benefit of Red Cross 1
Fairmont Hotel
Wednesday, May 1, 8:30. j
Wright's Orchestra
$3.00 Per Couple. 1 jh
WANTED. j 9
Help in machine shop and ma- ! chine
operators. Apply - j
OWENS BOTTLE j
' MACHINE CO. j
WANTED | I
Laborers., at South Side j
Bridge. Steady work all
| summer. JH
, JOHN F. CASEY CO^
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