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HOSPITAL DRIVE CLOSES TONIGHT Campaign Going Better Now '350 Memberships Report ed at Noon The Cook Hospital membership campaign will close tonight. Start ing. Wednesday, the drive has" ex tended over a period .of four days, and all wards and suburbs of the .city bare been-thoroughly canvass ed by the ward chairmen and their Assistants. At noon today 350 memberships, or $360, had been reported to Mrs. G: E. Smith, general chairman of the drive, and as the campaign will | not -close unt|l>?tonlght and' the Workers are Btlll canvassing a much larger membersblp Is expect ed when tbe drive closes. There Is no age or sex limit to !membership in the association, and anyone will be enrolled as an honorary member upon tbe pay ment of U which .Is >ths annual membership tee. Knife, Razor and Glass Jar Used -by Combatants During Struggle After spending the night In drunken revel, Landen Owens and Charles 'Williams, negroes, broke oft diplomatic relations shortly before B o'clock this morning and a battle followed. .When Assistant Chief of Police Shroyer and Police man Daiigherty reached the Wil liams home at 538 Monroe street, the house was-in darkness but they could hear curses and yells comln* from inside. The officers gained an entrance am arrested Williams, Owens and Alberta Hayes, a negro woman, |M^too1cJJ>6m all 'the ;city? This mornlns tbe trio explained thj8 trouble to Mayor W. W. Cons' way, and the Woman was f ned 15 and coats and the men $10 and costs each. Owons paid his flm> and, that of the woi.inn, but Wll liaitsH was unablo to jiny. Alberta Hayes, one ot the wo men In the case, tbe others hay ing left the hourc before Ihe orti cene arrived, told Mayor Conawnj i tH#t Williams who rents tho house ? had "been Boiling her and Owens whiskey all night long. Between 4 ami 5 o'clock this morning, thet j men began to quarrel, and Wl?. Hams ordered Owens out ot the house. Owens refused to go, and Williams pulled a razor and Unite out of his clothing, and with the razor in ono hand and the knife In the other he started to forcibly eject Owens from the house. Owens seised a fruit Jar which earlier In the night had been fill ed with whiskey, and hurled It at Williams, the fragments of broken glass cutting a deep gash in Williams lp. While hurling things at each other, the light in thfr room was extinguished, and the men continued to fight in the dark. The arrival of the police stopped hostilities. After the trial In police court this morning,.Chief Snider escort ed Williams to the office of Pros ecuting Attorney Frank R. Amos where he was held pending an In vestigation of the' alleged charge lodged ? against him . of selling -whiskey. Alberta Hayes and Lan den Owens were being -held as witnesses. John Coskl, who says he worked until yesterday, when tho strike order caused hiiu to cease worn, was before the mayor on a charge of being drunk arod disorderly at the lnterurban station lasj even ing. John entered a plea of gi^tty to tho charge of being drunk, nnd the disorderly charge wa* drop ped. He was fined |6 and costs. He made an-angements to jay and was released from Jail. .Mike Rubso, arrested by Pollco man Fleming on a charge of being drunk In Jefferson streel. entered a plea of guilty and drew J5 ana costs, which he paid. STOLENI Reward for Information. Ford Touring. License No. 33513. Factory No. 2083. Mot or No. 4896718. Red Flsk Tire on, left front wheel. Taken from Meredith street at 9:40 Friday evening. r . LEVI B. HARR. v',".. " ,i HOUSE! FOR SALE Handsome new 6 room subur ban.home in Fairmont. Just .completed. Garage, half acre ground. All city conveniences.' Eleven years to pay. Barrack i a?8 rc***' ?"'cr?8' section. BKfeife-H. STAOOER8 ' V Former Monarch Ends Life at Home on Island of Madeira ILL ONLY ONE WEEK Millions of Crowns Raised by Friends in Effort to Save His Life FUNCHAIj", April 1.?By The Associated Press)?Former Em peror Charles of Austria Hungary died here today. - Former Emperor .'Charles was taken ill at his home in exile on the island ot Madeira slightly more than a week ago. He was first said to be ttitferlng from fe ver, but advices frony Funchal March 28 announced" that his ma lady was bronchial pneumonia and Jater It was stated, that he was suffering from pneumonia with cerebral complications. His con dition became so serious Wednes day that Extreme Unction was ad ministered. There was some Improvement In the former ruler's condition Wed nesday but he failed to maintain bis gain and Friday's advices were that he was growing rapidly worse. The illness ot the ex-ruler excit ed wide-spread sympathy among the Monarchists In Budapest. One ot the former court physicians started from Vienna in the hope ot reaching Funchal and attending the ex-monarch. Several million crowns had been raised to defray the expense. In Budapest It was rumored that .Count Julius. Andra say had sold a famous Rembrandt for 300,000 francs to assist the ex Idaunebarnes i IS BEST SPELLER t Union District Girl Misses Only One *>Word in Hard Test District spelling contests, to de cide the two pupils to represent the school# of the various magis terial districts at tho county cham pionship spelling match to be held at 10:30 o'clock next Saturday morning in the county court room at the court house, were held at 10:30 o'clock this forning., Madeline Barnes or the Miller ville School, Union District, is leading all the county so far, hav ing misspelled only one word in the test. ?Helen Saccomon of the City Point School in Lincoln Dis trict in second, and A. Marie Swisher of Catwaba School, is third. Miss Saccomen misspelled nine words and Miss Swisher, ten words. The district winners, as announc ed by Superintendent Barnes, the school they attend, and the num ber of words misspelled by each is as follows. Lincoln District. First?Helen Saccomen, City Point School, (9). Sccond?Ralph Watkins, Caroli na School, (19). Third?Irene Smith, 'Thpburn School, (24), Fourth?Mercia Thomas,' Ida May School, (29). . Wlnfleld District. First?A. Marie Swisher, Cataw ba School, (10). . - Second?Ruth Bowman, Hill School, (14). Third?Georgia Hall, Hoult Shool, (19). Fourth?Agnos Hawkins, Hill School, (37). Union District. First?Madoline Barnes, Levels School, (1). Second James Reeves, Hopewell School, (26). Third Olive D. Rudy. Grasse Run. (28). Fourth?William Dilliner, Mill ersville School, (2&). NEW FEDERAL OFFICER SWORN IN THIS MORNING Alt Richmond, new deputy United States marshal for the nor thern district ot West Virginia, and Miss Virginia Fleming and George L. Robo, olfice deputies under the retiring marshal, were all sworn In before United States Commissioner J. F. Kirby today. Richmond Was sworn.in as a field deputy and Miss Fleming aAd Rose ns officdeputles. Marshal C. E. Smith and the other members ot his staff are. at Elklns today -where Louis Buch wald was sworn In as marthtl and M&rahal Smith .was to -.tora^orer Text, ofOfficial Statement of Ndrthiern West Virginia Coal Operators Association Here (Reprinted from The West Virginian yesterday) ?> On Mardh 7,' 1922, the directors of the Northern West Vir- ; , glnla Coal Qbeiators' Association met In thelr.bfflces'at Fair- ' mont, West YVirglnla, and, authorised the advisory'hoard of .. '/ho assoclatlqnfto/Jnvite. district officers of district No. ' TJnited Mine Workers of America, into conference for the pur pose of negotiating a -wage scale and working-agreement to'; ? become effective-after the expiration of present contract.' ? ? March 81, 1924, ' " The membership of the Northern West Virginia Coal Operators' Association Is composed of the majority of the operators In twelve and one-half counties,in Northern West Virginia with ant approximate normal annual production of 20,000,000 tons and approximately 20,000 employees. In accordance with the Instructions from directors of this association, the advisory board sent an Invitation in the form of a telegram to President C. F. Keeney of district No. 17, United Mine Workers of America, to meet at Baltimore on the,, 13th of March. Mr;'Keeney. accepted this invitation by tele-' gram for a conference preliminary to the. negotiations. . The association sept to Baltimore on the 13th to negotiate an agreement with the United Mine Worker^ of America the' full scale committee aid the sub-scale committee and a meet ing of the directors ofthe association was also called the same ? date at the same place.1! Mr. Keeney appeared at this.meeting, stating he bad no authority, and asked that.an adjournment take place until the 25th,at which time he would come back to Baltimore to meet with the, operators with authority to nego tiate and conclude a scale. He -stated that,hls-?dlstrfct con-.; ventlon was to meet at Charleston on the 21st anil that this convention would appoint a scale committee with authority to '. act and that he would seethe authority from the International Policy Board at its meeting.In Cleveland on the 24th. To all of these requests the operators agreed, and returned to Baltt- ; more on the 25th of March'propared to negotiate and sign a scale with an agreement for working conditions. The meet ing convened at the Southen Hotel, Baltimore, on the 25th. shprtly after 10.a. m. and MaBYed Mooney, secretary of dls-. trlct No. 17, requested adJwhtmerit until 1:301 stating that it would he Impossible faHwKyCeeney to be present'untll thatj time. -AdJournment>was\a'gteeV to and-upon re-convening at. 1:30, Mr. Keeney wsb asked If Tie. was "prepared to negotiate i and'slgn a wage agreement for the field of Northern \Veat Vlr-J glnla, beginning April 1." Mr. Keenoy. replied. "Mr.' Chair-, man and gentlemen. I am unauthorized to negotiate and con clude a contract at this time." Mr. Keeney also made further statements with reference to why lie did hot have authority, and arter itis speech International Representative Moore made a statement to the same effect that-Mr, Keeney spoke and the ?' meeting adjourned. ' Notwithstanding these facts, the United Mine Workers of America sent to Individual members of their organization In Northern West Virginia the following referendum ballot: ^ "Do you favor and vote for a-general suspension of mining . operations beginning April 1. when the present contract be tween cool miners and operators expires, In the event no agree ment Is reached by that time?" , By. the mine workors' refusal to negotiate a new contract as specified on this ballot, they destroyed the only means of preventihg.a suspension of work on April 1. r,i From this -record; the public wllj clearly understand the : ? Asso- i ^?'Sloubn Tfriafi''preserrFsituation.' Thfct p^ltioirvhas raen con sistently n willingness to negotiate witn^fche miners' union iii an effort to avoid a stoppage of prodiiatJjjn In this district. The operators not only took the initiative by asking for nego tiations. but consented to delay while the miners' officials sought to obtain authority from their National Policy Com mittee. The fact that the district union officials are without-, this authority has been and still is the sole obstacle to a peace ful settlement in Northern West Virginia; The scale commit- : tee of the operators has been from the start authorized to con- _ duct such negotiations. That the public will ,not obtain Us $ ? usual supply of coal from this district is. due simply and solely to the National policy of the United Mine Workers. In the face of this attitude on the part of the operators, it 1 must be obvious that a suspension of mining operations on April 1 is not only not of their seeking but beyond their power to?prevent. I E President Keeney Chief Speak er at Meeting-Mooney ? Not Here Today Miners of Northern West Vir ginia today celebrated the Eight Hour Day, which happened to fall on the first day of the general sus pension in the union coal fields of the country. , At Monongah today, the miners held a celebration,! and at 2 o'clock C. Prank Keeney, Charleston, pres ident of district 17, United Mine Workers of America, made the chief address . Nick Aiello, Fair-1 mont president of sub district 4,1 was the other speaker. Keeney ar rived in town last night. He will; also address a miners' Eight Hout Day celebration at Mount Clare atj 7 o'clock tonight. A parade andj other features were observed. | A meeting is scheduled to be held1 I at Star City this afternon at 1:30 | o'clock. Fred Mooney, Charleston, secretary of district 17, will not be j present at the meeting owing to being detained in Charleston. The address there will be made by A. ! D. Lavendar, Charleston, district organizer. One of the big Eight Hour Daj I celebrations to be held in the coun ty today is at Rivesville. There addresses will be made this after noon by S. B. Montgomery, former secretary of labor of West Vir ginia, H. E. Peters, Fairmont, for-i mer president of sub district 4, and Nick Aiello, Fairmont, president of sub district 4. There are other celebrations at] | various points In sub district 3, with headquarters at Grafton. j MARGARET A. LEE DEAD Word was,received here -todayI from Huntington of the deatf1 Miw Margaret A.- Lee^iSt'J, old, and daughter of rjacfib-tfiv of 71irvlrtffhi| - ? M wiU-beshii shooting oeen IN MINING FIELDS Chief of Police and Patrolman at Benton, III., Are the";I First Casualties J. ? BENTON, 111., April 1?Shoot ing occurfra today irr v,?rlousuefc-. tlons of Southern Illinois wht'rt the miners' Btrlke Is reported as 100 per cent complete. Two cas ualties were reported. Jesse HenBon, night chief of police at Duquoln, was serloualy wounded and Policeman Walter Sconce was slightly hurt by firing by Harry Rcld, a miner. i EIGHTEEN AT GRANT TOWN WILL BE GIVEN DIPLOMAS Eighteen pupils will be gijen dlplamns at graduation exercises Tuesday evening at the Grant Town School. The members of the class will be addressed hy t. A. Barnes, county superintendent of school. Those who will be graduated are: Anna A. Gorman, George Rob ert HlUBko, Mary Veronica Ker tis, Bessie Elizabeth Cooley, Jas. McGraw, Anna Catherine Ander son, Richard Almond, JamesJWSl ker Almond, Jr., Leonard Monroe, Bertha Aretta Nlckoys, Tholma May Puschar, John Pleya, B?nla mln Ruthowskl. Jennie Stralaftt, Ida Dorris Tennant, ? Fred Tofftli man, Pruda Elon Wilson, Har bert Clayton. Wolfe. f." Recent Storm Causes Little Damage to Crops in Co'lil ' :Vt'-.wS The'reoen'tjatormi age.-,to? crop- -" " [Extent Strike\Will Not Be '* Known Until Monday; It Is Now Believed NO STATEMENT MADE Keeney and Mooney Not at. Offices in Charles ton Today CHARLESTON, April'l.?Union and non-union fields In the south ernfpart of West Virginia were .waiting until Mondayvto' determine I What would be the effect of the |strike call of the" Unifcd Mlnr | Workers. President'- C. Frank, I Keeney and Secretary Fred Mooney n fiA8. /10' 17 were not at their S?iff i. none of th? other of liclals could give ^ny estimate of the number of men who had an* scored the strike'-cill. saM6P.wb1tative" '<* operators rurfihp nn' "18 mines were Sum ArV"'/ Part "me a"d ?jj?gj April .1 was generally- ob sened.as a holiday by tHe miners they could not tell how many min ers would strike. D. C.Kenned? aecn-etary of the * Kanawha Cool swelf nfSti, A5B?Clatlon' 8?ld on>y mJnes wer# operating .Kanawha fleld'.today. ' Ho otn.!2 ?oweV6r- th?' many were ttfosed because of Mitchell Day, 8a Pew J? >;ear.aU mines Jn the fj,?' Closed, and added-'that nr .hf Mr? ',he strlke call Only-60 of the 221 mines In the field were operating, and these on part time ho!n?-S^e'1iiJlnes where work was being carried on today ho aaid nof. ma y employed about,700 men,- Suit "UjiIuC. con ,r?" L?E?n an^willlam-'' J,r- Kennedy declared iT? .L i 8 flelds would de todary r0gUlar nun,b8r of cars Rl??6flo0.' th? mines In the New . ert were declared by the operators to be working today hut ??f.f,ClaI rep?rt of number of "l ". ,5.or "umber of men employed do nni ?-g iVen' J"08' ot the mines do not work on Saturday, the onor. ?h?rf(8u!d' addln6 ">at the effect of' tU Monday C?UJ'1 "i>t be tM wa1tsnHt8nP?"C0 h09d1"arters, V. c* w l! lhr,,ort, had been ro-1 ceived from the coal fields. There of nlckeM?~rmatlon- wa? addert, t it.. 5 ?r omploylng guards1 for mine property protection. NEELY LIKELY WILL BE CANDIDATE FOR SENATE Major; M. M. Neely was r visitor In Charleston one day this week. Every place the well-known Fair mont man goes these days, he Is approached on the matter ot being a candidate? for the Domoeratlc nominatlonpfor Unltod States Sen ator, andsjherefore the Charles ton Gazette begged that ho make a statement along this line. Ma jor Neely said that his trip to Charleston had no political signi ficance. . "I prefer to make no statement as to my political ambitions or fu ture course,", said Major. Neely. "There Is plenty of time for that If It shall ne necessary, at alL'' Following this expression a3 to his own personal case, Major Nee ly made a few remarks concerning the conduct of .yie government un der the present TSopubllcan admin istration, wh(ch,. as 'was to be ex pected, coming from a Democrat, were not at,'all, compllmentay. Despite the'fact that Major Nee ly^fflir never seen fit to make a statement that he Is In the race for the'Democratip nomination for Un: Ited .States Senator, .the Charles ton Gazette, which should be close Jo the Dflmocrallc situation gen erally) Intimates that Major Neely> Is to enter'the race. Former Looai Minister Will ? < Preach at Palatine Baptist Ices at the 'toffthis cit: Sunday! Baptist Ch conducted fiflA: formf ? Illinois Workmen? PurportecUo Be From Conimunist'.party fjti- ' " * ?SPM>,*OP^EtD/:"HI., ;AprU 1.? - instructions ' to Iilllnols' miners to; (Us'rcgajd circulars ? purported . to tie.from the Communistic Party, were issued from the miners head quarters, from District No. 12 last nt$ht overHhe.name of JjranV Far-' rinBton; district president, who de clared that union officials believe the' circulars havo,bean distributed not by communists but- by detec tive, ngencies fot the purpose ofln clilng miners to . acts dr disorder toi make business 'for' the detect tlves. "You are urged to do everything possible to maintain order and to protect dining properties against acts, of depredation," the message I continued. Approximately 85,001) miners ???? pended work In Illinois' 1,036 coal mines today in obedttnce to th? strike .order of the International Frejsldent^arrlncf-n'' left last night for Franklin County to speak at a'.miners' meeting.today. . No Official Estimate on Num ber of Men Joining in Strike Available PITTSBURGH, April 1.?No, Of ficial estimate of-the numbs/ of,| union miners lntho Weaternpenn [sylvanla bituminous fields ' left ffioasifflsiasfl ot'the mln^rR or from the Pittsburgh Coal-Producers' Asso ciation controlling about 75 per cent of tho output of the dstrlct. Today marked the celebration of the Eight-hour Day. which is al ways observed by the miners as a holiday, and the operators said' that they would be unable to de termine the extent of the walk-out before Monday.* Miners' officials expected that some 45,000 union men In tho Western Pennsylvania flolds and 43,000 more In Central Pennsylvania territory, would Join the suspension. "So far as could be learned early , today theS?Am?n quit their posts before mloMsht yesterday. ??"^V ' Tho greatest doubt centered about the number of non-union men who would join the movement in the vicinity, comprising mines.In. Clearfield County and surrqun<)iijf territory no Information was fArCn-i coming from union headquarters at Greenburg, from, which a call had been sent, out during the past few days to the ?;< hon-unioh men * to strike with the organized miners. In West Virginia. Reports from West Virginia and Eastern'Ohio la^ last night, were Indicqtlve of a general suspension Of mining activities. Practically j-the dnly doubtful region was-that centered about Cumberland, Md., in the Georges Creek and Upper Potomac fields, . where mining ior fifteen nionths - has. been at sub normal activity and fully ;3,0b0. men havq heen'idie. Six thousand minors were Mjld to be effected hy the strlke hnt.neither union of flclals or operators ,-ctruld 'state the" exact number of men who would' stop work; ^hiB'-was partly due:to: the individual ? cbhtniot' v system used b/many of ,tfcwpper?'tors Ini those. districts.?' -Ci TwentyVthousandywSii^^n'um-" .bar of .union men v estimate ?. to; have suspended Vork' in Clear 'Elk and Jefferson Counties ft 000 no?-? with'; mum' " ru;, ?ji-'.A BMPEr* UnionvOffitu^GllimSl Non-Union Miners J 1 1 HOLIDAY ' 0B5E Senator Borah RropbtesvC ernment Opi&ation of Coal Minos WA8HIN0T0.Nr ApflfttegS Government operation of coil mines were auggeoted s today by 8enator Borah, chairman of tne Senate labor committee," after corlfererioea with,the re prcaentatlvea ;of. tho- mlnera and operatora. The aenator aaldthla waa Ui# alternative |f : tho cohI Industry waa not re. organliud, > ? r? Make Second. Demand A demand that Secretary of Labor Jimet J. Davit make public a itatemerif 'th'at:4he.' Unfted Mine Workera have "deliberately refuted'? to, nego tiate with the operatora otj Northern Weat Virginia la coil* talned In a telegram cent to day to Secretary Davla by George S. Bracken, secretary of the Northern. We at Virginia! Coal Operatora' Aaaoclatlon, The telegram followed-the re ceipt of ? wire from Davla In reply to a prevlo.uademand of a almllar nat'tirjfry . Wvit'ijffi;