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COAL MINE PEACE
_AGAIN CALLED OFF
HARDING TIPS HOUSE TO KEEP
IN SESSION; MAY ASK
R. R. CONTROL
MAY ASK LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Effort To End Both Strikes Being
Foredoomed To Fail; Telegrams
Ask “Rejection" Presi
dent's Offer
Washington.—President Harding has
asked congressional leaders, In view
of the Lienaclng Industrial situation
arising from coal and rail strikes, to
hold the house, r>ow in recess, continu
ously in session along with the senate.
The prospect was that, falling early
settlement of the labor controversies,
the administration might call for leg
islative action to enable the govern
ment to cope with conditions which
thus far have failed to react favorably
to efforts on the part of the executive.
Suggestions were advanced that con
gress might be asked to authorize re
sumption of federal control over the
railroad systems should President
Harding find it impossible to termin
ate the strike satisfactorily, with the
further possibility that direct legisla
tion amending the transportation act
might be sought to make the Kailroad
Labor board decisions in wage matters
binding upon managements and em
ployes.
Tl?‘re also was a proposal in some
quarters that jurisdiction might be
riven the board by law over differ
ences which arise during the strike, as
lid the present seniority issue.
Meanwhile, the leaders of all union
organizations in the transportation
field began to gather in Washington
for a conference to determine the re
iponse which shall be made to Presi
dent Harding’s latest offer of a settle
aient basis for the seven railroad
anions now on strike and to determine
is well,, according to statement of
those who will participate, what joint
ar co-operative action the labor forces
shall take in case the president’s offer
is rejected.
B. M. Jewell, chairman of the group
t»f officers of the striking unions, de
plored that he had received hundreds
of telegrams from locals of the shop
crafts, “telling us to reject the presi
dent's offer and not a single one asking
Its acceptance.’’
SUGAR TARIFF DEAL
SHAVES BEET PLEA
Senate Sets 3.2 Cents Duty; Refuses
Bounty Os $9,500,000 To Pot
ash Producers
Washington.—The senate has ap
proved an Increase of three-tenths of
a cent a pound in the tariff on sugar;
rejected a plan for a government
bounty of $9,500,000 for domestic pot
ash producers, and rescinded its for
mer action In voting an impost of two
cents a pound on white arsenic. Pot
ash and white arsenic were placed on
the free list.
The sugar rate of 2.3 cents a paund
was a compromise between the 2.5
cents duty urged by Louisiana cane
and western beet sugar producers, and
the 2 cents proposed by the house and
approved by the finance committee
majority. It is three-tenths of a cent
above the tariff in the existing emer
gency act and 1.05 cents above that in
the Underwood act.
The compromise was offered by Sen
ator Smoot, of Utah, ranking Republi
can on the finance committee, and was
accepted by the same vote as that by
which the senate rejected the 2.5 cents
duty, 37 to 35.
Three Indicted for $1,000,000 Graft
Washington.—lndictments have been
returned by the special grand jury in
vestigating alleged war frauds against
Ernest C. Morse, Everly M. Davis and
Alexander W. Phillips. The three men,
all of whom live in New York, were
charged In the indictment with having
defrauded the government out of more
than $1,000,000 in connection with the
sale of the war-built Old Hickory
Powder plant, near Nashville, Tenn.
Record Corn Crop Forecast
Washington.—Bumper crops In gen
»ral this year, resulting from highly
favorable growing conditions during
July, were Indicated by the govern
ment’s August crop report, just Issued.
A 3.000.000,000 bushel corn crop, for
the fourth time In the history of farm
ing In the United States, was fore
cast.
Revolutionists Doomed By Soviets
Moscow.—Fourteen of the 34 social
revolutionists accused of high treason
against the Soviet government have
been sentenced to death.. Among the
condemned are several of those who
turned reformers.
Dr. Crane Will Head University
Laramie, Wyo. - Arthur Griswold
Crane, of Edinboro. Pa., has been elect
ed president of the University of Wyo
ming. Dr. Crane will fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Dr. Aven
Nelson.
HEAR-STRIKES BEGIN
TYINGJJPSANTA EE
Big Four Men Bottle Up Trains and
Balk At Moving Them While
Guards Remain On Duty
Los Angeles.—Members of the en
gineers, firemen, conductors and train
men brotherhoods on several far west
ern divisions of Santa Fe lines have
notified railroad officials here that
they no longer would move trains
through points where armed guards
ire employed on railroad property.
Railroad officials and officers of tlu*
•our brotherhoods conferred here on
means of settling the dlfferencec be
ween them.
From Bakersfield. Cal., it was re
ported that ho trains were moving
*ast over the road’s lines and brother
load men there were quoted as saying
hey had given the railroad 24 hours
•ithin which to remove armed guards.
Strategically, the checking of train
lavements at Needles was admitted
v railroad men to be a severe blow at
he operation of the Santa Fa system,
s Needles is the neck of the trans
portation hottie, so far as the Santa
"e Is concerned. It Is a desert town,
nd all the trans-continental traffic of
he Santa Fe system normally is
•outed through it.
If the brotherhoods make good their
I treat-to halt all trains there, the situ
tion would result in paralysis of the
pstern lines within a short time.
SENATE R SES AGAINST’
THE FLEXIBLE TARIFF
’’ropcsal To Let Executive Vary Rates
Denounced As Astounding and
Dangerous
Washington.—Flexible tariff pro
is’ons designed to carry out President
'landing's recommendation to congress
’ast December, met with such strong
opposition In the senate that their fate
’n the voting that must come under
he unanimous consent agreement, ap
ipnred to be in doubt.
It seemed to be fairly certain that
’ (‘fore they could be approved, they
votild have to be modified to an even
■renter extent than proposed in a sub
stitute for the original plan reported
by the finance committee majority.
Virtually all the Democrats and a num
ber of Republicans, Including Chair
nan Gooding and other lenders of the
•grlcultural-tariff bloc, have indicated
’heir opposition to the provisions in
■my form, while others on the major
’ty side have insisted upon a sharp
•urtallment of the broad authority the
•ommitfcee has proposed shall be given
•n the president.
Under the committee substitute, the
chief executive would be authorized to
increase or decrease tariff rates w4th
n a radius of 50 per cent if Invest!-
at lon developed that such action were
necessary to equalize “the differences
n conditions of competition’’ in the
nrlncipnl markets of the United States
as between domestic and import ar
ticles.
To Umpire War Demands
Washington.—Announcement that an
agreement between the United States
•nd Germany, providing for the deter
mination of the amount of claims
igainst Germany, signed in Berlin, has
been made by the state department.
The agreement provides for a claims
commission to be composed of two
commissioners and an umpire.
Associate Justice Day, of the United
States supreme court, it was announc
ed. has been selected by President
Harding ns umpire. He will have au
thority to decide finally upon ques
tions on which the two commissioners
—one to be selected by each govern
ment —may disagree.
K. K. K. Leader Has Court Fit
Jjos Angeles.—The trial of 37 re
puted members of the Ku Klux Klan,
alleged to have participated in a raid
at Inglewood last April, halted abrupt
ly, when Nathan A. Baker, former
klengle for Los Angeles county and one
of the defendants, collapsed in his
chair and was carried in a stretcher
from the courthouse.
Baker was the admitted leader of
the raiders. His explanation of the
affair, made public before the trial,
was that he was acting as an officer
• f the law In an attempt to secure evi
dence of the violation of live prohibi
tion laws.
Cellars Give Way To Tight Islets
New York.—Tight little islands In
the sea, personally owned and con
trolled. are the newest retreats of
Americans who seek to defeat the
Volstead act. Many wealthy Ameri
cans are buying or seeking to buy
small Islands In the Bahaman terri
tory, It is said.
No Peace In Joliet Strike
Joliet. 111. —A proposal which, it was
hoped, would lend to settlement of the
controversy between members of the
"Big Four" brotherhoods of the Elgin,
Joliet A Eastern railroad nnd the car
rier ended with no agreement reached.
Killed While Cleaning Revolver
Missoula, Mont. —Rudolph Kurth. 43,
was acc’dently shot here while clean
ing nnd repairing a revolver. He
’bought the gun was not loaded nnd
held the muzzle against his chest while
tapping the trigger with a screw-driver.
SAFETY EXCUSE
HINT FOR TIE-OP
CONFERENCE CALLED TO DRAW
OTHER UNIONS INTO PRES
ENT STRIKE
HARDING OVERTURES FAIL
Neither Side In Mood To Accept Peace
Proposals; Strikers Forecast For
mal Rejection.—Telegraphers
Taking Strike Vote
Washington. President Harding’s
new proposes for ending the railroad
shop crafts strike have met spoken re
buffs from both railway and union
leaders.
In addition, the leaders of the strik
ing unions have called into conference
at Washington the heads of other
unions connected with the railway ser
vice.
This call was accompanied by sug
gestions by B. M. Jewell that the other
unions will shortly find it necessary
to “refuse to work on defective equip
ment’’—adding that he did not expect
strike action to be proposed at the
general conference.
At the Sfime time, the Railroad La
bor board voted willingness to act upon
the issue of seniority which now di
vides the executives of the roads and
their striking shop crafts; and 1,100
telegraphers on the Big Four road
have begun taking a strike vote.
As a “final call’’ from the govern
ment for immediate settlement of the
rail strike, President Harding com
municated to railroad executives and
heads of the striking shop crafts
unions, proposals that the men be sent
back to work, that the managements
take them back, and that adjustment
of the crucial seniority issue be left to
decision of the Railroad Labor board.
Though the president was said to
consider this the only practical course
the government' could take, union
spokesmen, Indicating Its rejection,
have summoned their associates to
meet here to pass upon the proposal
nnd called to Washington for general
conference, the heads of all railroad
labor organizations to consider meth
ods of co-operation that might make
the strike more effective.
The rail executives have made no
response to the White House, though
press dispatches Indicate that they also
will meet to frame a collective answer.
TOLL OF TYPHOON IN
CHINA 15 NOW 28,000
Lack Os Coffins Necessitates Burying
Dead In Old Bags and Mat
tress Covers
Hong Kong.—The toll of the typhoon
of August 2 at Swatow has now
mounted to 28,000 dead. Coffins are
lacking to provide decent burial for
many and the bodies are being interred
in gunnjtjsacks.
The new figures on lives lost, almost
tripling previous estimates, were con
tained in a circular Issi&d by the Hong
Kong branch of the Swatow chamber
of commerce. The circular stated that
28,000 bodies of victims of the Swa
tow disaster had already been ac
counted for.
Benevolent societies attempting to
care for the dead, are using mattress
covers and old bags as coffins for the
myriad of dead could not be provided
for Charitable organiza
tions of Hong Kong are combining to
organize effectual measures for the
relief of the stricken city..
Another British steamer, In addition
to the two previously reported ashore
was bound from Hong Kong to Shang
hai when she met the fury of the ty
phoon and was wrecked, but her pas
sengers were saved.
Witness Against Conley Arrested
Helena, Mont.—Frank Whitlock, con
vict, star witness against Frank Con
ley in the suit of the state against the
former warden recently tried before
Judge A. J. Horsky, is in jail in Butte
for forging checks in the mining city
while out of the penitentiary enjoying
a little freedom. Whitelock’s term has
not expired and legally he is still an
inmate of the state prison. He has
served two terms previous to the pres
ent one for like offenses.
Two Dry Agents Shot
Kemmerer, Wyo.—Bombarded with
bullets as they sat in a depot waiting
room, two federal prohibition agents,
James Kukules and Ralph H. Long,
both of Cheyenne, were seriously
wounded at Fossil station, 10 miles
north of here.
First Women Pickets
Spokane.—Women pickets have been
on duty at the Great Northern shops at
Hillyard. This is said to be the first
Instance of women being employed for
work of this character In Spokane or
vicinity.
Typhoid Grips Miners’ Camp
Uniontown, I’a. —With 50 cases of
typhoid fever reported from tent col
onies of miners of Fayette cdunty,
health officials are working at top
speed to prevent a further spread of
the disease.
DEBT AGONIES CALL
ALLIES_TOCETHEB
Great Britain Expects France To
Bid Gold Brick On
Reparations
London. Allied statesmen have
gathered in London for the opening of
what is unanimously regarded as the
most momentous conference since
pence was concluded.
The immediate concern of the con
ference is the question of reparations
and Germany’s request for a rorator
lum, but since the delivery of the note
of the Earl of Balfour, it is assumed
that the quest loir of interallied in
debtedness cannot be excluded from
the discussions, especially as Raymond
Poincare, the French prime minister,
is credited with bringing to London a
plan for the extinction of the German
reparations bonds in exchange for a
cancellation of the French debt to
Great Britain.
This plan meets with little sympathy
in England, because It is contended
that these German bonds, being admit
tedly worthless. Great Britain would
gain nothing, but, by forgiving the
French debt, would lose the last weap
on she possesses for bringing pressure
to bear upon France on the question of
armaments or on any policy in which
France might run counter to British
ideas. The situation is further compli
cated by the ultimatum delivered to
Germany concerning Germany’s pay
ments on account of clearing house
debts and the measure which France
already has ordered taken in this con
nection.
POBTER SAVES THIRTY
AS PULLMAN CM BURNS
Railroad Officials Say Loss Os Life
Averted By Prompt
Action
Seattle.—The lives of 30 passengers
were Imperilled, one man was seriously
injured and several other persons re
ceived cuts, burns and bruises when
the rear sleeper on the westbound
Columbian flyer on the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul railroad was de
stroyed by fire near Rye, 130 miles
east of here.
Railroad officials say loss of life
was averted by the prompt action of
William Wilson, the negro porter, who
ran through the car awakening the
sleeping passengers and helping them
to safely.
Wilson was given credit by the pas
sengers also for saving the remainder
of the train. Fighting his way through
the screaming, fear-stricken passen
gers, he reached the emergency cord.
Almost before the train.had come, to a
stop he was out and had uncoupled the
car. By this time, the flames were
sweeping the length of the coach.
The cause of th* fire Is not definite
ly known, but railroad officials say It
probably resulted from a defective
fuse. It started in the woman’s dress
ing room and had made great headway
before It was discovered.
British Gunboat To Protect Victims
Hongkong. The British gunboat,
Magnolia, has proceeded to Swatow on
the Chinese const, 250 miles northeast
of here, to protect, from pirates, steam
ers stranded in that vicinity ns a result
of a recent typhoon.
The typhoon was the worst in Swn
tow’s history. The harbor there Is
jammed with wreckage, amid which
there are several bodies. Ships were
washed ashore.
Plane Dives Into Atlantic
Jacksonville, Fla.—The plane in
which Lieut J. IL Doolittle planned to
attempt a transcontinental 24-hour
flight, ran into the surf at Pahlo Beach
here shortly after Che take-off. Lieut.
Doolittle took the air planning to go
to San Diego. A quarter of a mile
from the starting point, the machine
swerved downward and plunged into
the
Suspect Grave Hides Escape
San Francisco. —Because they believe
that “Big Joe” Furey, one time star
of the confidence workers’ firmament,
mny have deceived officials of the
Texas prison where he Is supposed to
have died recently, San Francisco of
ficials plan to open n grave here, to
ascertain whether a body therein is
that of Furey.
Fails To Heed Block Signal
Sulphur Springs, Mo. —Failure of En
gineer Matt Ginger Glonn to heed a
block signal caused the rear-end col
lision on the Mis-ouri Pacific here. In
which 30 persons wore killed nnd 138
Injured, 25 seriously, according to John
Cannon, assistant general manager of
the road.
Mathilde Is Chief Topic Paris Papers
Paris. —-The French newspapers are
devoting much space to stories nnd
pictures or Mathilde McCormick. She
Is called “the richest girl In the world,”
and there Is much comment on her
plain dress nnd modest deportment.
Cost Os Living Going Up
Washington.—Retail food prices In
15 out of 25 representative cities In
the United States showed an Increase
during the month from June 15 to July
15, the department of labor bureau of
labor statistics has announced.
SHORT
WYOMING
NEWS ITEMS
Edna Roll, 13-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F
Roll of Arvada, was killed when she
was caught under her horse.
The Wyoming Gas Company’s well
No. 1 was “spudded In’’ a few days
ago on the Nelber Dome structure,
twelve miles south of Worland. The
Midwest Refining Company has the
drilling contract.
The first carload of head lettuce
grown for export on the Laramie plain
was loaded recently for Denver, where
it may be diverted to St. Louis. It was
sent forward in one of the newest of
the Pacific Fruit Express cars.
W. I. Rehr, Jr., of Casper, won the
singles championship of Wyoming by
defeating Roderick Tower, 7-5, 6-3, 6-2,
in the finals of the state tennis tourna
ment. Rehr is a former Colorado
state and Denver city champion.
The first fatality of the chicken
hunting season was reported at Casper
when the body of John F. Ryan, 29
years old, of Casper, was returned
from Waltman, sixty miles west, where
he died from a wound received by the
accidental discharge of a shotgun In
the hands of Leo Flynn of Waltman, a
brother-in-law, at whose home he was
visiting.
That construction work on the
Guernsey dam will be started within a
short time —possibly less than ninety
days—is an assurance resulting from
a personal inspection of the proposed
project by congressman Mondell, Ar
thur P. D..vfs, director of the reclama
tion service, and Andrew Weiss, gov
ernment engineer, says the Wheatland
Times.
Goshen county should have a state
agricultural college. In the opinion of
E. O. Slnnard of Yoder, who Is a can
didate for state representative of
Goshen county, says tlie News. Sin
mini. who recently announced his cun
'didiicy for representative., has prom
ised, if elected, to work In'behalf of a
state agricultural college to be locuted
In Goshen county.
Four hundred and sixty thousand
ties cut during the winter at the for
est camps of the Wyoming Tie and
Timber Company are moving down the
Big Wind river at a point twenty
miles this side of Dubois in the annual
drive. They will be brought to the
rump al Riverton of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway Company for
treating before being put lo truck use.
Calvin Mathias, 32, operating en
gineer at the Casper plant of the Na
trona Power Company, wus electrocut
ed aDi lied Instantly when lie
grounded a strong current while mak-
Irg repairs on the switchboard. Math
ias, it was said by company officials,
neglected to throw off the switch
which world have protected him. His
widow and two smull children survive
him.
The Wyoming Wool Growers’ Asso
ciation, at its concluding session nt
Sheridan adopted the report of its mar
keting committee, recommending that
Wyoming sheepmen continue and de
velop their locul wool pools and that
the state association uppolnt a com
mittee to co-ordinate the work of the
local pools and study the situation in
relation to the eventual formation of a
statewide pool.
The period of stagnation thru which
the Rawlins wool market has passed
for the past month came to an end
recently, when practically the entlr®
unsold balance of the clip of 1922
passed from the growers’ hands to
those of the dealers or middleman,
says the Rawlins Republican. The av
erage price secured was far below th®
.June, this being due to a variety ol
conditions, local, eastern and financial.
Tumbling Into an abandoned well
while on a visit to his grandfather’i
place at Vaughan, Leonard Ray Hage
man, 2-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs
Ray Hageman, who reside north ol
Torrington, drowned before his ab
sence at the house was noticed. Th®
well has been fenced, but the babj
crawled thru.
All bids were rejected for the clips
offered at the sealed bld sale of the
Lincoln county wool pool at Cokeville.
The Hale was discontinued, because it
was seen that buyers and growers
were far apart in their ideas of values.
The committee in charge of the pool
is considering the proposition of con
signing the million pounds to some
eastern house to be graded and sold
when the market is more favorable.
Eight or ten of the eastern wool deal
ers had representatives at the Hale.
The high bid of 38% cents was made
by Jeremiah Williams & Company of
Boston. The high bld for the cheapest
clip was 25% cents. Tlie prices offered
averaged about one-half cent higher
tiian was bld for the same clips when
offered a month ago, nnd were about,
on a par with the current quotations
published In the Boston papers.
Bombarded with bullets as they sat
In a depot waiting room, two federal
prohibition agents, James Kukules and
Ralph E. Long, both of Cheyenne,
were seriously wounded at Fossil sta
tion, ten miles north of Kemmerer, n
few days ago. Orllnto Marcontl, pro
prietor of a hotel nt Kemmerer, la un
der surveillance In connection with the
affair, according to local officers, He
was observed recently auffering from
three bullet wounds, which, authori
ties declare, may have been inflicted
during the clash between the dry
agents nnd their assailants.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922.
Ty/ie
AMERICAN
•LEGIONS
(Copy for Thio Department Supplied by
the American Lesion News Service.)
WANT HERO MEDAL FOR HIM
Charles Crozier, New York, Plunged
Into River and Saved Seven-
Year-Old Boy.
A« Charles. J. Crozier of 518 Tully
street, Syracuse, N. Y., was driving a
truck across a
Syracuse bridge
he happened to
look at the river
below. Crozier’s
casual glance un
derwent a decid
ed change. He
saw something In
the water. A
small hand and
arm seemed to be
Just level with
the surface. Not
many seconds
elapsed until Crozier was beneath the
surface of the water to see who was
attached to the arm.
The next thing he really saw very
distinctly was the small wet body of
n seven-year-old boy silhouetted against
the white interior of an ambulance.
Crozier and William John Hazley, Jr.,
whose life he had Saved, were on their
way to the hospital.
For his act of heroism his buddies
of the American Legion are helping In
the movement to secure for him a
Uarnegle life-saving medal.
A FUTURE AUXILIARY WORKER
Bonnie Jean Kelly, Youngest Member
at Organization of North Dakota
State Department.
The youngest member present nt the
organization of the North Dakota
Rtate department of the American Le
gion auxiliary was a little Inssie only
four months old. Bonnie Jean Kelly
Df Tim Running post at Devil’s Lake-
Bonnie Jean Kelly.
was Immediately adopted by the en
tire state department when she was
presented as “one of the directors of
the auxiliary’s affairs tomorrow.”
Bonnie Jean's father, M. P. Kelly,
served as first lieutenant of the Nine
ty-third pursuit squadron of the First
army. f
ORIGINATED THE GOLD STAR
Medal Showing Appreciation of tho
Idea Is Presented to J. M.
Buck of Omaha, Neb.
A medal purchased with funds given
by the governors of many states, Gen
eral Pershing and a hundred notables
In civil and military circles, lias been
presented to J. M. Buck of Omaha,
Neb., who originated tlie gold star
which was placed on the caskets of all
war dead to be returned to this coun
try from European battlefields.
Omaha was a distributing point for
the United States graves registration
service. After the federal agency be
gan to return bodies from overseas,
thousands of caskets passed through
Omaha. Mr. Buck suggested to the
Omaha American Legion that a gold
star be placed on each soldier’s casket.
The Legion immediately accepted the
Idea and through the Legion’s organi
zation, the custom of placing the star
on all soldiers' caskets In all parts of
the United States was adopted.
Every contingent of soldier dead ar
riving at Omaha was met. at the rail
way station by a delegation from the
American Legion. Mr. Buck always
accompanied the Legionnaires and su
pervised the placing of tlie stars on
the caskets. The medal was presented
Mr. Buck as an expression of appreci
ation of his work.
Three Myths.
A man’s auto had broken down.
When he crawled under it no crowd
collected and attempted to advise him
how to fix it.
A miner was entombed for three
days and three -nights as the result
of a cave-in. When he was finally
rescued it was found that bls hair
had not turned snow white.
A soldier was on guard duty and
was approached by an officer who
naked him to give his genera! orders.
The sentinel reeled them off, making
many mistakes, and the officer cor
rected him, thus revealing the fact
that he knewjihexn himself.—American
Legion Weekly.