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ROADS REFUSE
PEACE PARLEY
BELIEF IS THAT MERE OPENING
OF DISCUSSIONS LONG STEP
TOWARD AGREEMENT
ROADS WILLING TO RESPOND
Leave Door Open for Settlement
Through Railroad Labor Board.
—Case Thrown Back Into
Lap of Arbiters
Chicago.—While flatly refusing to
meet the leaders of 400.000 striking
shopmen to discuss peace proposals,
railway executives have left open the
door for a settlement of the strike
through the United States Railroad
Labor board. Immediately after reach
ing an agreement with the heads of
the four” brotherhoods not to
require their members to do any of the
work of striking shopmen, (be execu
tives began consideration of a peace
program submitted to them by Ben W.
Hooper, chairman of the labor board,
after a'conference with B. M. Jewell,
head of the shopmen’s organization.
Their answer, in the form of a letter
addressed to Mr. Hooper, asserted that
the strike was called In defiance of
the board.
Also that any conference between
the executives and the strikers would
not be “permissible or tolerable,” as It
would place the carriers In the position
of seeking to find means to subvert
the decision of the board.
“A prompt recall of the strike or
der,” the letter added, however, “would
permit the resumption of former meth
ods of conference and permit the con
sideration of any matters which repre
sentatives of employes might desire to
submlti”
The willingness of the roads, how
ever, to respond promptly to any sum
mons by the labor board to any further
hearing that may be called in connec
tion with this subject In event the
board should determine on that coarse,
was expressed by the executives.
In railway circles the belief was ex
pressed that the mere opening of ne
gotiations was a long step toward a
peaceful settlement and that the recent
moves had resulted In throwing the
case back Into the lap of the labor
board In the exact position In which
it had rested when Mr. Jewell had al
lowed a strike order to go Into effect
on July 1.
SIX AHE KILLED: FORK
ARE INJURED IN WRECK
M. P. Flyer Half Hour Late Crashes
Into Freight Train Near
Kansas City
Kansas City.—Six persons were
killed and 40 Injured, most of them
seriously, when the Missouri Pacific
Scenic Limited Flier, west bound, from
St. Louis to California, collided head
on with a freight train near here.
The filer, running half an hour late,
left St. Louis at 9 o’clock in the morn
ing. after connecting with a Pennsyl
vania fast train from New York and
Philadelphia. Most of the passengers
were from the east, a railroad official
said.
Misunderstood orders are believed to
have been the cause of the wreck. Ac
cording to the rules of the road, a
freight train must seek a siding 15
minutes before a passenger is due, re
gardless of other orders. It Is be
lieved the fact that the train was late
confused ‘he men In charge of the
freight train.
A railway mall car, the baggage car,
the smoking car and a chair car of the
passenger train were wrecked. The
smoker was telescoped for two-thirds
of Its length. None of the sleeping
cars or the diner left the track.
Eight Youths Killed In Explosion
Watertown, N. Y.—Eight children,
ranging In age from 11 to 16 years,
were blown to pieces by the explosion
of a 75-milllmeter shell or. the back
porch of a house In Dimmick street.
The children were playing croquet In
the back yard. The shell Is believed
to have been set off by the sun or to
have been struck by one of the victims
with a croquet mallet. The shell was
supposed to be a “dud” and had been
kept as a souvenir.
SI,OOO Reward Offered For Information
Chicago.—Attorney General J. Brun
dage has offered a reward of SI,OOO
for Information leading to the arrest
and conviction of the persons who
committed murder and assault In con
nection with the strike of coal miners
In Williamson county, (Herrin) 111.
Elka Meet Next at Atlanta, Ga.
Atlantic City, N. J. Atlanta,
Georgia, was selected as next year’s
meeting place for the Grand Lodge of
Elks at a recent session of the annual
reunion of the organization.
Float Vessels That Hit Shore
Seattle, —The Steamships Wllamette
and Northland, which went ashore dur
ing a heavy fog overhanging the strnit
of Jaun De Fuca, were floated, and
proceeded to Seattle under their own
power. Both are reported practically
undamaged.
HOLD-UP HALTS
EDITORS’ SPECIAL
Visitors Given Wild West Show and
Feed; Cheyennes Entertain With
Tribal Ceremony
Mlles City.—Replete with thrills and
the staging of a holdup of the special
train carrying the members of the Na
tional Editorial association, that ag
gregation of publicists was greeted on
their arrival here on their first extend
ed stop in the state of Montana, in the
spirit of the west.
The preliminary reception being the
special train “holdup” by Montana
men, “Bill” Coleman, “Hell-Roarin” A.
G. Jon(«, Smith White, well-known
cowboys o ftbe ranges, and "Wirt” W.
H. Newcom, with “Al” Leighton as
train flagger, who entered the train
and ordered “hands up”.
Many of the easterners at first
thought it was the real thing. Porters
notified the passengers of the Invasion
and prospective "frisking”, and a num
ber are reported to have begun to hide
their valuables at once. Following the
“holdup” a number of the editors were
taken from the train and given a ride
In the old Deadwood coach.
The holdup was staged about three
miles outside the city, and on the ar
rival of the train here, the members
of the association were taken in auto
mobiles to the fair grounds, where a
wild west show was presented.
A chuck wagon feed followed. A
ride through historic Fort Keogh af
forded pleasure to the guests.
During the early evening a band of
Cheyenne Indians arrayed in their
colorful regalia entertained the visit
ors with tribal dances in the tourist
camping grounds. Tribal adoptions
were conducted. The tribal adoptions
were conducted with all the tribal
pomp and ceremony peculiar to the
Cheyenne tribe.
TO REDUCE BERLIN’S
NEXT GOLD PAYMENT
Next Installment 32 Million Marks.—
Germany May Ack‘ Relief of Fur
ther Payments During Year
Paris.—The reparations commission
has decided to relieve the German
crisis to the extent of reducing the
monthly installment of 50,000,000 gold
marks, on the schedule of payment,
to 32,000,000 gold marks. Germany
had announced her willingness to pay
the whole amount but the commission
ruled that in view of the crisis the
smaller figure was all that would be
required.
Credit to the amount of 106,000,000
gold marks was given to Germany on
her reparations account for deliveries
of dyestuffs made during the last few
months to the Textile Alliance of
America for the allies, and also for
deliveries of coal which had been
made to Luxembourg at the request of
the allied governments. These credits
were due Germany for some time and
the officials thought the time oppor
tune to allow them In view of German
difficulties.
Members of the repartitions commis
sion spent all day discussing the Ger
man crisis.
The commission was expecting to
receive a formal request from Germany
for a moratorium In some form. Indi
cations were that the German note
would ask that Germany may be re
lieved of all remaining payments this
year.
Coal Situation Marks Time
Washington.—The coal strike situa
tion is marking time pending decision
of operators and miners as to accept
ances of President Harding’s proposal
for the fixing of a new wage scale by
arbitration. The workers’ representa
tives were delaying reply pending a de
cision by the general policy committee
of the union summoned to meet here.
The operators group also withheld re
ply pending opportunity for discussion
of the plan.
Mrs. Spreckles Gets U. 8. Post
Washington.—Mrs. A. B. Spreckles,
San Francisco, It was announced, has
been appointed special representative
of the department of labor and will In
vestigate conditions among women In
Industry in Europe. The appointment,
it Is explained, is similar to that re
cently of the late Lillian Russell-
Moore of Pittsburg, who investigated
Immigration conditions In Europe for
the department.
Must Work or Leave Homes
Uniontown, Pa.—Wholesale evictions
from coal company houses throughout
the great Connellsville coke region will
take place under an ultimatum ad
dressed to striking miners by operators
of the field. The strikers were noti
fied that unless they return to work
they must vacate the houses.
Dover Resigns Poet
Washington.—President Harding Is
understood to have under consideration
the resignation of Elmer Dover, of Ta
coma, W’ash.. and formerly cf Ohio, as
assistant secretary of the treasury In
charge of customs and Internal revenue.
2,200 Clerks Join Walkout
Cincinnati. O. —Clerks on the Chesa
peake & Ohio railroad have voted to
strike and have been given strike sanc
tion, It was reported unofficially. It
was said approximately 2,200 men are
affected.
TO PROTECT LIFE
AND MOVE TRAFFIC
ROADS ATTEMPT TO REOPEN
SHOPS; EASTERN LINE
CLERKS QUIT
TROOPS CONTROL SITUATION
Some Lines Cancel Passenger Trains;
Men Fail to Answer Ulti
matum to Return to
_ Work
Roanoke, Va. Members of the
Brotherhood of Railway Celrks, Sta
tion Employes and Freight Handlers
on the Norfolk & Western railway
have been ordered to walk out
Chicago.—With Increasing numbers
of state troops and emergency forces of
United States deputy marshals on
guard wherever outbreaks have been
threatened, the government has an
nounced that life and property will be
protected, the malls continued and In
terstate commerce not Interrupted de
spite the strike of railway shopmen.
After a conference with President
Harding, Attorney General Daugherty
said that additional deputy marshals
had been authorized and that they
would be sent wherever strike dis
orders justified.
Aside from a few clashes, the can
cellation of some passenger trains on
the shorter runs, and the reopening of
shops In various sections of the coun
try, there have been few developments
which railway executives had expect
ed to furnish the turning point of the
strike because of the ultimatum of
many roads that all strikers who did
not return to work would forfeit their
seniority rights.
Little disorder was reported as the
result of the efforts of the roads to
reopen their shops.
The Katy shops In Parsons, Kansas,
the scene of rioting earlier In the
strike, reopened under the protection
of 300 national guardsmen with 150
non-union men on duty.
UNITED STATES DATA
SHOWS BIG 1922 CROP
Promise to Shatter Average For Last
Five Years.—Conditions
Are Good
■Washington. Crops in general
promise better harvests this year than
their average for the last five years,
forecasts of the department of agri
culture, based on July 1 conditions,
just issued, Indicate. Bumper crops of
■white and sweet potatoes and tobacco
are forecast and most of the crops are
larger than last year. With the ex
ception of wheat, com and oats, acre
age this year ranges from one to 22
per cent larger than those of 1921.
Cora acreages are Increased this
year In most of the corn belt states
but in the cotton states decreases are
shown, while in lowa, largest corn
producing state, there Is a two per
cent decrease and In Missouri a three
per cent decrease. The crop In gen
eral made good progress to July 1, ex
cept in the southeast, where It has
been neglected for cotton. Growth has
been slow east of the Mississippi, but
stands are good and fields fairly culti
vated. Farther west rapid growth has
been made.
Subway Fire Traps 500
New York.—Trapped In a dark sub
way tunnel 75 feet below the street
and reeking with gas fumes and smoke,
nearly 500 men, women and children,
passengers on a train of the Inter
borough Rapid Transit company, were
converted into a frenzied, shrieking
mob. Almost a third of its passengers
were overcome before they could fight
their way to safety. Three probably
will die.
Ask Receiver for D. A R. Q.
Denver.—The New Yo-.-k Trust com
pany, as trustee for adjustment mort
gage bond holders, has filed a request
for a receivership for the Denver and
Rio Grande Western railroad in the
federal district court At the same
time suit to foreclose on $10,000,000
adjustment mortgage bonds Issued in
May, 1912, was filed in the district
Cuurt.
France May Quit World Meet
Paris. —Withdrawal of the French
representatives from The Hague con
ference owing to the attitude of the
Russians is declared probable. Instruc
tions sent to France's delegates by
Premier Poincare are said to support
this assertion.
Idaho Medics In Convention
Wallace, Ida.—Seventy-five members
of the Idaho State Medical association,
together with a number of nationally
known specialists, have assembled here
for the opening session of the associa
tion’s annual convention.
China Factions in Big Battle
Canton, China. —Heavy firing has be
gun In the direction of Whampoa, the
scene of a duel recently between forts
occupied by farces of General Chen
Chiung Ming and Dr. Sun Yat
Ben.
GERMAN GOVERNMENT
IS NEAHOLLAPSE
Drastic Measures Are Adopted to Sup
press Anti-Republic Move.—
Blames Pessimism
Washington.—The fall of the Ger
man government is threatened, and
stringent measures have been enacted
for the protection of the Republican
regime, the commerce department ad
vised In a cablegram from Commercial
Attache Herring at Berlin.
Tire political crisis resulting from
the assassination of Foreign Minister
Rathenau, Mr. Herring reported, has
aggravated the period of currency de
pression inaugurated by the failure of
the foreign loan negotiations, and the
feeling now is general that Germany
faces grave political complications,
with the fall In exchange which has
dropped to the lowest level in history.
Berlin.—The decline in the value of
the mark, apparently brought about by
the assassination of Foreign Minister
Rathenau and the consequent loss of
confidence in the stability of the state,
continues, despite the action of the
government and the Relchbank in
throwing great sums of foreign money
on the market to stem the depreciation
of German currency. Manufacturers
are declared to be buying foreign
money to purchase raw materials and
the public Is following suit In order to
unload marks.
The Frankfurter Zeltung declares
the collapse has been due not so much
to foreign countries selling marks, as
to Germans, vho, “In wild pessimism,
fought to obtain foreign currency.”
NATION IS STRIDING
ONWARD TO PROSPERITY
52 of 65 Cities Show Increase In Em
ployment; Huge Shortage in
Harvest Fields
Washington.—The United States Is
“striding vigorously toward industrial
prosperity” according to the economic
summary for the month of June, is
sued by the United States employment
service of the department of labor.
Employment Is Increasing, the sur
vey said, despite unsettled conditions
In the coal fields, cotton textiles in
dustry and the railroad controversies.
Os the Go leading cities of the coun
try, 52 reported increased employment,
while 13 reported decreased employ
ment during June.
Many difficulties, the department
further stated, beset the handling of
the labor supply for the harvest sea
son In the big wheat belt in Texas,
Oklahoma, North and South Dakota.
The bureau was said to be receiving
telegrams dally from Lincoln, Hastings
and Syracuse, Nebraska, asking for
hundreds of men.
Polish War Will Embroil U. 8.
Chicago.—Maj. Gen. George Bell, Jr.,
declared In a speech here that the
present Polish situation Is the growing
menace of another war that will draw
In the United States. Hanford Mac-
Nlder, national commander of the
American Legion, another speaker,
pledged every member of the 11,000
posts of the American Legion to take
up arms again whenever called on.
$2,000,000 For Near East Relief
Los Angeles.—A million dollars In
cash and 9,197,694 pounds of food and
clothing valued at $1,000,000, have
been donated to the relief of the famine
sufferers In the near east by residents
of California, Oregon, Washington, Ne
vada, New Mexico, Arizona and Mon
tana since June 1, 1921, according to
an official statement Issued by the
American Near East Relief.
B”l to Accept Ford's Offer
Washington.—Unconditional accept
ance of Henry Ford’s offer for pur
chase and lease of the Muscle Shoals
projects, Including the government’s
Interests in th * steam power plants at
Gorges, would be provided under a bill
Introduced in the senate by Senator
Ladd, Republican, North Dakota.
Fire Situation Improved
Victoria, B. C. —The forest fire sit
uation In British Columbia is Improved
but continues “extremely critical,” ac
cording to officials of the provincial
forestry department Two hundred and
ninety-one new fires, all small so far,
are reported.
Seeks Delay In Gold Payment
Berlin. —The German government
has started action which may result In
absolving Germany from meeting the
payment of 50,000,000 gold marks re
quired by the allies July 15, In send
ing delegates to Paris to confer with
the reparations commission on the
schedule of gold payments.
Nlno*lnjured in R. R. Wreck
Hutchinson, Kan.—Running at 40
miles an hour, eastbound Santa Fe
train No. 4, ran Into an open switch at
Burrton, 16 miles from here, wrecking
the train and Injuring nine persons
seriously.
More Soldiers Than Before War
Washington.—Germany laid before
the Genoa conference figures showing
that there are today under arms In
Europe nearly 1,000,000 more soldiers
than there were when It was on the
verge of the World war in 1913.
WYOMING
STATE NEWS
COMING EVENTS.
July 25-28—Frontier Days Celebra
tion, Cheyenne, Wyo.
George W. Metcalf was chosen pres
ident of’ the First National Bank of
Lander at a meeting of the directors.
He succeeds D. A. Randall, who has
disposed of bls stock.
Charles Erickson, 35. of Laramie,
was Instantly killed one-half mile easl
of Rock River when an automobile in
which he was riding plunged over a
twenty-foot embankment.
Judge Melville C. Brown of the Po
lice Court of Laramie fined his wife,
Nancy Fillmore Brown, SI.OO for using
water out of hours. Mrs. Brown ap
peared In court. The judge paid the
fine.
Construction work has been started
by the Yampa Development Company
on its project of development in north
western Colorado and the Snake river
valley district of southern Wyoming.
The initial work is being done on an
Irrigation project.
Charles Hysham, son of C. J. Hy
sham, wealthy .ranchman of Moorcroft
was killed near Sundance when ar
automobile in which he was speeding
overturned and pinned him under
Death. His companion, named Sunder
land, escaped without injury.
The city council of Laramie has
awarded to J. S. Schwartz of Colorado
Springs, Colo., the contract for con
necting Pope Springs with the city wa
ter supply, and for laying new water
mains at Soldier Spring for the pur
pose of bringing the water direct from
the spring to the mains.
The fact that the large per cent of
taxes gathered in the state goes to
the schools, and that any effort to re
duce taxation means the cutting down
of education facilities, was emphasized
in the talk made by Governor Robert
D. Carey at the meeting of the Sheri
dan County Farm Bureau in Sheridan.
Herman B. Gates, former Wyoming
state treasurer and more recently oil
operator in Denver, has formed an in
vestment company in his old home
town of Worland, was shown in arti
cles of incorporation filed with the
secretary of state of Cheyenne. The
name of the enterprise is the Gates
Investment Company.
His mind shattered, James Carroll,
homesteader, residing at the head of
Buffalo creek, in Sheridan county,
kept vigil over tfie corpse of his bro
ther, Mike Carroll, for two months be
fore neighbors made the gruesome dis
covery. When physical exhaustion
overcame him, the demented man slept
on the same bed beside the horrible,
decomposing body of the dead man.
A fight to have incorporation of the
town of Manderson declared null and
void on the grounds that at the time
of recogintion the village did not have
the required population of 150, was
terminated in court at Basin when
Judge Isley returned a ruling in favor
of the’ defendants. The judge held
that the town had enough people when
Incorporated and that the proceeding
wap entirely regular and legal. The
suit was brought by the attorney gen
eral in behalf of the state.
Earl Felix Sturgeon, 13 years old,
youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Sturgeon of Wheatland, was dragged
to his death by his own saddle horse,
while riding to his brother’s ranch at
the edge of the Laramie plains. In un
saddling his horse the reins, which
were tied together, caught in his spur
and before he could extricate himself
the horse became frightened and bolt
ed. Friends who witnessed the acci
dent raced after the horse but young
Sturgeon was dead before they could
assist him.
Dr. F. W. Beckman, who has beer
In charge of the work of inspecting
dairy cattle in the north end of Big
Horn county, reported that he had con
eluded the work of testing 1,176 cow*
nt Deaver, Cowley, Byron, Kane anc
Lovell, and that in all that numbei
there had been found but three which
shows tubercular signs and had to bt
killed.
The Texas Oil Company’s Wyoming
refinery is to be located about two
miles east of Casper, it was officially
announced by Judge F. W. Freeman,
in charge of the western division for
the Texas Company at Casper, and ac
tual work on the refinery will begin
as soon as a few details about the land
on which the plant is to be located
have been ironed out
Two new street cars of the one-man
type have been purchased by the
Cheyenne Electric Street Railway
Company and will be put in operation
on their line in Cheyenne during the
latter part of August. The cars are of
the type known as the Birney Safety
Electric street railway cars. Their
use will eliminate the necessity of
using both a motorman and conductor
as is done on the cars at present.
L. A. Reed and J. 8. Reed have sold
to the Midwest Refining Company 29.3
acres west of Laramie. Horne Bros,
leased to the Gypsy Oil Company of
Tulsa, Okla., a half section of land
near Rock River, where the Tulsa con
cern is’ preparing to drill a test well
for oil.
The ownership of the Torrlngtox
Telegram has passed to F. S. Pavltt
who comes from Greeley, Colo., wher<
he has been In business for manj
years. Pavltt is a staunch Republicar
and the Telegram will continue to sup
port the principles of that party.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1922.
.Copy for Thia Department Supplied b>
the American New Service.)
THE MAN WITH DOUBLE BRAIN
Hayward Thompson, Memory Shocked
During World War, Writes
With Both Hands.
The majority of us do well to write
legibly with either of our hands, but
when a man Is
found who can
write with both
hands slmuitane.
ously, and more
than that—when
he can write for
ward wIA one
hand and back
ward with the
other, it is evi
dent that he has
a perfect right to
the title of “Mys
tery Man.” Hay-
ward Thompson, an ex-service man
in Denver, Colo., Is just such a man.
Due to a severe Injury to his head,
received during the war, he has what
is known as a “double brain.” One
side of this brain directs the writing
of one hand while the other side gov
erns the other hand.
Thompson’s memory reaches back
only to the time when -he left a hos
pital some months ago. He remem
bers nothing of his life before that
time. It was through the veterans’
bureau that he established his iden
tity as Hayward Thompson. Os his
family, former friends, his work and
home before the war and his activ
ities during the war. he has been able
to learn nothing. The veterans’ bu
reau and the Colorado department of
the American Legion have been mak
ing every effort to help Thompson
learn of his past.
THE REAL UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Child of Streets, Picked Up by Kind
hearted brothers, Never Knew
Who He Wai.
Tragic though the story is of a sol
dier whose identity was lost after his
life had gone out on the field of battle
and whose cross in Flanders simply
says, “Unknown Soldier,” his story Is
not shot through with such pathetic
glory as is the story of a lad who
never knew who he was and who gave
his life for a country in wiiich he had
never known a mother’s love or a
father's pride. Every mother who
does not know just where her son Is
burled, weep. over the grave of the
unknown soldier, thinking that per
haps he is her son. Over the grave of
the boy who has always been un
known there are no mournei-s.
A tiny bundle of humanity was
picked up In a Baltimore street some
twenty years ago; ft was a baby boy.
When after a thorough search, no one
was found who would claim him, be
was taken to be reared by two broth
ers, who gave him the name of Ed
ward John Evangelist Smith. When
he was old enough, they sent him
to Mount Saint Mary’s school to be
educated. In 1917, before the boy’s
eduention was finished, a Marine re
cruiting officer visited Mount Saint
Mary’s. His story of the country’s
need for men caused “Smith,” as he
had come to be known, to enlist. He
went overseas and took part in every
engagement In which the Fifth regi
ment of marines participated. On the
morning on which the armistice was
signed, one of the last German bullets
flying claimed “Smithy” as its victim.
Wells Hawkes, “Smithy’s” captain,
has started a fund to erect a monu
ment to “Smithy”; a child of the
street, an unknown lad in school, the
real unknown soldier I
WOUNDED ON ARMISTICE DAY
Buckeye Naval Officer Holde Dietl no
tion of Being Injured in Action
After Close of War.
O. O. Rolf of Toledo, 0., holds the
inlque distinction of being a United
States naval offi-
cer wounded In
action after the
signing of the
armistice which
closed the World
war. As a naval
lieutenant and ex
ecutive officer of
a merchant ship,
Rolf was severe
ly wounded when
his ship was fired
on by a German
submarine as it
left La Polls, France, on the afternoon
of November 11, 1918.
After several months in hospitals in
England and on the continent, Rolf re
turned to America and resumed the
practice of law in Toledo.
Soldiers Classed With Idiots.
Soldiers and sailors, along with
felons, idiots and insane people are
denied the right of suffrage Ln certain
states of the Union, it is pointed out
by a writer in the American Legion
Weekly. He quotes from the World
Almanac, which saya that because of
their occupation, soldiers and sailors
are not allowed to vote in the follow
ing states: Indiana, Missouri. Ne
braska, North Dakota, Oregon,
Texas and West Virginia.