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PARLEY TALKS:
HAROIKG TO ACT
ANY FEDERAL ACTION IN RAIL
STRIKE CAN’T USE WAR
BASIS ARMY
W LL also urge coal action
Secretary Obtains Legal Opinion Which
Eliminates Exercise of Draft or
Recruiting to Fighting
Strength
Washington.—President Harding is
said by administration advisers vir
tually to have decided to go before con
gress. in joint session, with his state
ment of the industrial situation. The
president felt, advisers said, that he
should delay no longer in presenting
the administration ease to congress
and the country because of the rail
road conference In New York.
Administration leaders,, including
Senator Lodge and Representative
Mondell. Republican, consulted with
the president, and Secretary Weeks
was closeted with him later for a study
of the message.
pefore going to the White house,
Secretary Weeks received from the
legal department of the army an opin
ion that the strike situation did not
constitute an emergency which would
authorize the recruiting of the army
to war strength, or to allow the draft
ing of men In time of pence. While
no such action was contemplated, Mr.
Weeks said the opinion was asked
from the judge advocate general to
settle any doubt in the minds of of
ficials and the public as to the power
of the government.
The president’s message, it is said,
will suggest need of legislation to
strengthen the government’s coal dis
tribution system, and to prevent
profiteering from the shortage brought
about by the coal and rail strikes. In
addition, it is understood he will
■sketch a history of his attempts to
settle the industrial tieups by negotia
lions and, it is believed, will assure
congress that the federal government
intends to give Its aid and protection
to the maintenance of rail operations.
It is doubtful whether there will be
any suggestion for legislation affect
ing the rail situation.
TWO TOWNS ARE BURNED:
TROOPS TO FIGHT FIRE
Graved Situation Since 1918 When 400
Lives Were Lost in Vast
Blazes
Duluth.—Whipped to sudden fury
by a brisk, shifting wind, numerous
forest fires in the wooded country
north of here wiped out two towns and
several smaller settlements, turned
hundreds of persons out of their homes,
and took a death toll variously placed
at from six to 11. It ts the worst con
flagration since 1918, when 400 persons
lost their Ilves.
Official reports were that Fairbanks,
Silver Creek and I’lmlo, all small set
tlements, had been destroyed, the ref
ugees mainly fleeing to Two Harbors.
Cotton and Central Lakes also were re
ported to have been destroyed.
Governor J. A. O. Preus personally
took charge of the situation, ordering
out national guardsmen here for relief
duty.
Reports from the various fire areas
indicate many farmers have lost their
homes. It is believed the loss to live
stock will he heavy. Fire Is reported
to be dangerously near several small
towns. Guards were working to pro
toot these towns.
Th? greatest loss to property and
livestock was reported to have been
caused by the Kelsey fire which
leveled Cotton and Central Lakes. The
fires near Eleveth also destroyed some
property.
Four Break Prison; Knife Deputy
Sioux Falls, S. D. —After severely
knifing Deputy Warden Arthur Mn
'•how, four prisoners escaped from the
South Dakota penitentiary here, taking
Warden George W. Jameson with
them. The prisoners fled In a motor
car parked by a tourist Just outside
the prison walls.
Several posses of state, county and
city officers, aided by members of tlie
local post of the American legion. Im
mediately starter) In pursuit.
The only trace of the fleeing men
was contained In a report from Ellis,
where they stopped and stole another
ear. presumably in hopes of avoiding
detection.
Compromise Upon Reparations
Paris.--A compromise settlement on
th»‘ German reparations problem ac
<■» ptable both to France and Great
Britain was regarded as probable by
reparations commission officials, fol
lowing two Informal meetings.
Army Plane to Carry Strike Mail
Quincy, Cal.—An army airplane
which arrived here recently, has been
requisitioned by the Quincy postmastpi
♦ • t'-pnu-pnrt to Sn cram on to first class
mail which has been held at the post
office here for several days.
GOAL MINING IS
AGAIN UNDER 1Y
Operators Sign Agreement Renewing
Wage Contracts Which Were In
Force Last March 31
Cleveland. lmmediate resumption
of coal production in bituminous mines
scattered over seven states lias been
ordered and in some places the cut
ting of coni has been started.
Orders for miners to return to work
were sent by district union officials
after operators had signed an agree
ment renewing the wage contracts that
were in force when the inei> quit the
mines last March 31.
The formal break in the strike came
when the scale agreement was adopted
by the unanimous vote of the miners
and operators at their joint conference.
The general agreement then was
signed by T. K. Maher of Cleveland,
an operator, as chairman of the confer
ence. and William Green, a miner,
as Its secretary. Supplemental agree
bents between operators and state
union officials then were executed and
the union chiefs wired local union?
that work might be renewed.
President John L. Lewis, of the min
ers. said that operators controlling an
annual output of approximately GO.-
(MM).OOO tons had signed the agreem°nt.
Their mines, he said, are in West Vir
ginia. Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana.
Michigan, Oklahoma and Washington.
Under the policy down by the
union, operators will be required to
accept the Interstate agreement, made
nt the general conference here, as the
base for their contracts with th? union.
Tills agreement provides for the re
establishment of the wage contracts,
which include the “check off” of union
dues, that were in force lest March 31,
with the new contract to run until
March 31, 1923. Further, the agree
ment provides for creation of. an ad
visory fact-finding commission, a meet
ing being called of all soft coal oper
ators for next October to effect the se
lection of the commission.
PRESIDENfoiEsW
ON UNSAFE EQUIPMENT
Head of Commerce Commission Re
ports On Investigation; Means
Serious Crippling
Washington.—-Motive power upon
“certain of the Important carriers of
the country,” because of the present
strike, “is progressively deteriorating.”
Chairman McChord, of the interstate
commerce commission, informed Presi
dent Harding and. in a letter of reply,
was told by the president “to insist
upon the full enforcement of the law.”
Inspection forces of the government
should exert themselves to the utmost,
the president said, because it is better
to have service diminish rather than
attempt any movement of trains on
which safety is not assured.
The commissioner informed the pres
ident that In enforcing the safety pro
visions of federal law, “we are- taking
steps and will be compelled to continue
to proceed in a manner which,must
bring about serious withdrawals of
motive power from service.”
The president responded that “the
growing menace to maintained trans
portation” had been called to his at
tention and notldng could be done ex
cept “to Insist upon the full enforce
ment of the law.”
GIANT GEYSER FORMS
IN NATIONAL PARK
Yellowstone Park. —A new geyser
has appeared In Yellowstone park.
Without preliminary manifestation,
a quiet mud pool near the head of Ob
sidian creek in Yellowstone park erupt
ed and sent a column of steaming hot
mud and rocks 300 feet into the air.
The eruption inundated the road be
tween Mammoth hot springs and (Tey
ser basin and covered the ground for
several acres. The eruption lasted
several minutes and was repeated nt
irregular intervals, each time sending
up a 300-foot column of mud and water
which is higher than any of the other
geysers In the park.
In 1915 tlie same pool threw water
15 or 20 feet high, but It has never been
regularly active.
The new geyser will be named the
“Semi-Centennial,” in observance of
the fiftieth anniversary this year of
the establishment of the park.
“The Virginian" Drops Dead
Los Angeles.—Edwin B. Trafton,
whose experiences in the Jackson Hole
country of, Wyoming, was said to have
formed the basis of Owen Wister’s
novel. “The Virginian.” dropped dead
while eating an ice cream soda in a
downtown establishment recently.
German Marks Strike Low
New York.—German marks are now
quoted by banks and foreign exchange
houses at 10 for a cent, tlie lowest
price ever recorded, and there are
few takers. The normal pre-war price
of the mark was 23.8 cents each.
Train Wreckers Pull Spikes
Chattanooga, Tenn.—A report reach
ing here states that an attempt was
made to wreck a train on the Nashville,
Chattanooga Ac St. Louis railway at
Chickamauga, spikes having been
I drawn from the rails.
DRAFTING COAL
STRIKE PEACE
DEAL AT CLEVELAND WILL SEND
SIXTH OF FUEL DIGGERS
BACK
NEXT BREAKT HARD FIELDS
Mine Walkout Os 450,000 Men Will Be
Broken By Agreement To Re
store Old Wages Until
Next April
Cleveland.—The strike has
been virtually broken, but prospects
are that the actual signing of an agree
ment between the United Mine Work
ers and operators, controlling an an
nual output of 60,000,000 tons will not
occur until later. The signing of the
contract will actually end the strike
In part.
All details of the agreement were ac
cepted In principle by both miners and
operators, ami tin* actual draft of the
contract was loft to a sub-committee.
The actual signing of the contract.
President John L. Lewis of the miners
said, is expected to follow a meeting
of the union's policy committee.
Drafting of the agreement was pre
ceded by the withdrawal of soft coat
operators representing a production of
from 5.000,090 to 15,000.0(X) tons an
Dually, because the miners refused to
accede to arbitration in the event of
future disputes.
The agreement, it was said, would
provide for re-estnblishir*nt of the
wage scales that were effective last
April 1, and th? r?w contract would
run until next March 31.
No exact estimate of the number of
miners who will be put back to work
under the settlement was .obtainable,
but varied between 60.000 and 75.0'0
men. Altogether th p ve are 450,000 soft
coal miners on strike, union officials
said. It is expected hy them that the
other operators will accept the settle
ment effected here, but meanwhile the
strike will continue at the mines.
Philadelphia.—Prospects of peace in
the anthracite coal mines of Pennsyl
vania appear brighter now than at any
time since tlie suspension became ef
fective on April 1. rendering idle ap
proximately 165,000 men.
fruitlrowfrsTmove
TRAINS TO SAVE BIG CROP
15,000 Cars Will Be Required To Move
Wenatchee District’s $25,000,000
, Fruit Crop
Wenatchee, Wash. Growers and
shippers of the four counties of north
central Washington stand ready tn help
man the trains to move the $25,000,000
fruit crop of the Wenatchee district to
market, it was resolved at a meeting
of representatives of fruit interests of
the, several .counties. The resolution
recites that 15.000 cars will be required
to move the crop.
A committee was appointed and em
powered to do everything possible to
get. action. s
Wires were sent by the committee to
all other fruit districts in the west,
urging them to co-operate, and urging
support of tlie president in full exer
cise of his authority in the emergency
declared to exist.
The committee also issued the fol
lowing statement;
“The people of this community feel
that drastic action Is necessary. There
are enough ex-railroad men In the dis
trict to take the fruit through to mar
ket if It can be got there In no other
way. The community stands ready to
protect them.
“We call upon pther communities of
the United States to join In putting
a stop to the continued squeezing of
the public Interest between tlie clash
ing of private interests of railroads
and railroad workers.”
34,000 Acres Burn in 868 Fires
Missoula—A total of 24,000 acres
of forest timber has been burned this
season by 808 forest fires in district
No. 1 of the forest service, which in
cludes Montana, northern Idaho and
eastern Washington, according to the
10-day fire report made public by for
est service officials here.
Tlie situation at present Is extreme
ly critical. A total of 293 fires have
burned during the last 10 days and
many of thlSTiumber are still burning.
Tills is the greatest number of fires
in any ten days since 1920.
The season of 1910, the worst in the
history of the west, and of 1914, 1919
and 1920 alone can compare with this
year.
Allied Parley Breaks Down
London. —The thirteenth allied con
ference on German reparations has
broken down, “agreeing to disagree”
as tlie spokesmen for both France and
Great Britain put it. there having been
a complete lack of unanimity.
One Killed; Six Hurt On N. P.
Butte, Mont.—Number 2, eastbound
North Coast Limited train over the
Northern Pacific, and a westbound
Northern Pacific freight train met in
collision one mile east of Durant, kill
ing one and injuring six.
TRAINS MAROONED
AT NEEDLES MOVED
Desert Agony On “Fireless Cookers”
Ends When Officials Man Trains
and Proceed Onward
Needles. Cal. —This desert railroad
town, which has been the resting place
of several hundred passengers on San
ta Fe trains inardbned by refusal of
the railroad brotherhoods to move
them, is back to something like its nor
ui! population.
The little parked spaces about the
railroad station and eating house lack
he complement of sleeping men, worn
•n and children they had had for sev
en 1 nights. The trains are gone. One,
•-.de up of eleven cars, carrying pas
engers, a railroad official’s private
ir and a carload of dressed poultry
hich had been held here by the walk
’it, proceeded westward carrying all
Im cared to go In that direction, even
hntigh their tickets may have rend for
n eastern point. The remainder,
nnethlng over 100, were taken east
n another train.
Kailroad officials and a regular con
uctor made up the crew of the west
kind train; just who manned the
•hound one was not announced.
The eastbound passenger included
hree funeral parties, each with Its pa
hetic accompaniment in a box in the
•mage car ahead.
Three prostrations among the pas
'• irers were’reported during the tieup
ere. One woman, aged 90, another
" and fl small child, were treated and
•ecovered.
'ML GRUND JURY
ACliO'l TO BE TAKEN
Jnited States Attorney Orders Com
plete Investigation Into Maroon
ing of Passengers
Los Angeles—United States At
•rney Joseph Burke, upon orders
"rom Attorney General Daugherty
inferred with the head of the depart
ment of justice special agents here and
•rdefed a complete investigation into
he marooning of passengers in con
nection with the railroad strike, de
larlng that if a conspiracy was found,
s parties would be prosecuted to the
’mit.
The attorney announced that the ln
estlgatlon was with a view of lay
•g the whole matter before a federal
rand jury.
“In the event that evidence is found
•instantiating charges of conspiracy
gainst the union trainmen, drastic
rosecution will follow,” Burke said.
T have already ordered the depart
ient of justice agents to sift this
•atter to the bottom, but until I have
mre information, I am not In a post
‘on to stjite what action will take
•face.
“However, the public must and will
e protected at nil costs. Not only
mx passenger traffic been greatly In
‘H'erreil with, but the farmers of this
rate are faced with losses totalling
illlions through the liability to mar
ket their crops.”
Train Bombed; 10 Injured
North Bergen, N. J. —Three bombs
’ urled nt the Weehawken local of the
’Vest Shore railroad as it crossed a
•idvert near Granton Junction, shat
tered the windows of three conches
nd Injured 10 persons. 5 seriously,
officials of the road reported.
Filled with passengers returning
home after the week-end holidays, the
■rain was rumbling slowly across the
• ridge when it was shaken by three
•xploslons. The passengers wore
thrown into a panic as they were
-howered by flying glass.
The ambulance and police reserves
wore rushed to the scene from here.
The police learned that shortly be
fore the Weehawken local was due at
Granton, an automobile, said to have
carried three men, was seen standing
by the side of the ihllroad right-of
way.
Lord Northcliffe Dies
London. —Viscount Northcliffe, noted
British publicist, is dead. The death
•f no other unofficial person could
have made a deeper impression In
England «thnn that of Lord North
'liffe. The news was not a surprise,
s the bulletins issued by the doctors
'or the last week plainly indicated that
•heir patient was dying.
Lord Northcliffe was by far the most
note* figure in British Journalism, and
*he first question on everyone’s lips
was as to what effect his death will
have on the policies of the Times and
his other newspapers which, since the
end of the war, have strongly opposed
•he Lloyd George administration and
Hs principles, with the notable excep
tion of Its dealings with Ireland, which
;h o Northcliffe press supported
throughout.
Dublin Honors Griffith
Dublin. —A great crowd followed the
cortege which conveyed the body of
Arthur Griffith, president of the dal!
dreann cabinet, to the city hall where
it will He In state under guard of free
state troopers.
Germany Should Pay 2,000,000 Pounds
Paris—The allied financial experts
have agreed that Germany should pay
he 2,000.000 pounds due August 15
’ r pre-war debts to allied nationals,
ccordlng to a dispatch agency from
.'.andon.
SHORT
WYOMING
NEWS ITEMS
James Lindsay was drowned In the
Clarks Fork river near Cody after be
ing carried under by the swift waters
when attempting to ford the river.
Mike Yokel, the famovs wrestler,
whose home is at Wilson, in Jackson’s
Hole, has thrown his hat in the ring
for the office of sheriff of the newly
created Leton county.
Extension of the Custer Battlefield
highway from Omaha, Neb., to St.
Louis was urged by the Custer Battle
field Highway Association at its an
nual convention in Sheridan.
At a special meeting of the board
of trustees of the University of Wyo
ming, Dr. A. G. Crane, president of
the State Normal College at Edinboro,
Penn., was elected preslde-nt.
Grant Mavern, foreman at the Sho
shone dam, was taken to Cody suffer
ing from serious contusions about the
head as the result of the bursting of
a pipe near which he was working.
The Wyoming State Training School
has prepared a pageant to be present
ed during the summer school for teach
ers, Aug. 19, in Casper. C. T. Jones,
superintendent of the school, has been
assisted by citizens and clubs of the
town in preparing the pageant,
Paul Wilbur Nichols, 18, perished In
the waiters of the Big Wind river when
logs on which he was riding in the
big tie drive on the way to Riverton
from the Dubois country were swept
into a whirlpool and caused him to
lose his footing. His body was recov
ered an hour later by fellow employes.
A pretty blonde, who gave the name
of Ruth Moore and said she lived in
Chicago, is sought by Billings police in
connection with the recovery of an au
tomobile stolen in Chicago. A Billings
dealer charges that the girl sold him
the car. getting S2OO in cash, and u
check for S6OO, the latter being cashed
in Thermopolis.
An unusual exhibit in the form of
eight aquariums filled with all species
of fish common to Wyoming streams
is being prepared at I«oveH for the Big
Horn county fair and will be one of the
main attractions which that region
will contribute to the state fair at
Douglas. The fish will be secured from
the Paintruck hatchery and tlie Big
Horn river.
An unidentified rancher was killed
near Gillette, according to word re
ceived In Sheridan, calling for Charles
A. Champion, undertaker, to go to that
city to embalm the body. Witli only a
short time in Gillette to care for the
body, Champion was not given particu
lars of the case further than tliat the
man was a rancher and had been shot
in a quarrel with another man.
Tax exemptions granted former serv
ice men in Natrona county this year
will aggregate $116,000, according to
the report of County Assessor Lyle E.
Jay, which shows that 246 veterans
took advantage of the state law which
exempts all property of service men
to the amount of $2,000 from assess
ment for tax purposes. Os this num
ber 122 were men who enlisted from
this state and 124 came here from oth
er states.
The seventh annual convention of
the Wyoming Pharmaceutical Associ
ation, which met in Laramie, adopted
a resolution which the secretary was
asked to send to members of the Wyo
ming congressional delegation, asking
the Senate to include In the tariff bill
a provision for a protective feature for
American industries, by the shutting
out of drugs and dyestuffs which do
not curry American labels. The reso
lution carried an answer to the charge
that druggists have been profiteering
because of the cost of some of the
drugs, the fact being pointed to that
prices are lower than they were during
the war.
Park county, Wyoming, Is to have
the second herd of Karakul, or Rus
sian milk sheep in the United States.
The only sheep of this breed now in
the country are near Denver. The
Karakul sheep ranch will be located
near Powell, In the heart of the Sho
shone Irrigation system, which was
constructed by the United States gov
ernment. The movement to Import the
animals is headed by W. H. Edley, re
cently receiver of the United States
land office at Lander. * Plans are be
ing perfected to have Harry Hecht, a
Rumanian living on the project, jour
ney to his native hind and close the
deal for 200 head of the animals. The
purchase price will be SBO per head,
which is about one-tenth of the price
asked in this country. Senator Ken
drick and Congressman Mondell have
arranged through the United States
consular service for passports for
Hecht and also for the shipment of
the sheep from Rumania. The milk of
Karakul ewes Is used chiefly In the
manufacture of Roquefort cheese,
which Industry will be established at
the ranch. The sheep also have very
long, beautiful wool and produce mut
ton of high quality.
Stanley Lien, a soldier from Fort D.
A Russell, was shot by James Slames,
a barber, a few days ago nt Cheyenne,
when Slnmes found Mrs. Slames with
Lien at u theater. One ballot struck
Lien, inflicting three separate but not
serious flesh wounds In the back.
Slames was arrested a short distance
from the theater.
Aug. 11 was the thirty-second anni
versary of the establishment of the
Laramie Republican by W. E, Chaplin,
new secretary of state of the state of
Wyoming, who sold his interest in the
paper about three \ ears ago.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1922.
AMERICAN
©LEGION®
(Copy for Thio Department Supplied by
the American I.CKlon News Service.)
STARS ON MEMORIAL TREES
Living Monument, to 308 of Missouri',
Hero Dead Line the Famous
King's Highway.
•
T.lvlnir memorlnls, sheltering those
•vho come their way. always serving.
BCB pleasant simile trees along King's
highway In St. Louls"stan<l ns a mon
ument to 308 Missouri lads who gave
HibU lives during (•><> World war.
>
PRimE_
) 8 rs
In Memory v» «>cro Dead.
Each tree bears a geld star. A hero's
name, the name of the unit and
branch of service to which he was at
tached are engraved on each star.
The trees wore planted on Arbor
day by members of the American Le
gion. Many of the mothers of the men
in whose memory th/i trees stand
helped place the gold stars on the
European sycamores, sweet gums and
green oaks that line either side of the
pn rkway.
rankingwZstpoTnt cadet
Charles Barrett, Former “Buck” Pri
vate, Honor Man of Class of 1922
at Great Academy.
From a “buck private in the rear
rank” In 1917 to tlie highest ranking
cadet nt West
Point is the rec
ord of Charles J.
Barrett. “honor
man” of the 1922
class at the mili
tary academy.
Barrett went to
France ns n mem
ber of the 29th
division. With 184
other “h an <1
picked" soldiers
he was chosen to
taku the exam-
(nations for West Point. He took high
est honors.
At the academy, he was made regi
mental commander, editor of the
school magazine and chairman of the
board of governors. Despite his other
activities, he has found time to do
enough studying during his four years
to land him at the head of his class.
MARSHAL FOCH HAD THE TIME
Famous French Fighter Aids Blind
War Victim Seeking Wounded
Soldiers* Institute.
The splendid spirit of Marshal
Ferdinand Foch of France, who won
the hearts of the American people
when he toured this country as the
guest of the American Legion last
year is Illustrated by a story from
Paris.
A blind veteran tapped his way
along the sidewalk. “Excuse me, am
I near the wounded soldiers’ insti
tute?” he asked of a passing pedes
trian. “I’ve only been there twice
and I am not quite sure of the way.”
> “You are close to it now; let me
take you,” came the reply.
Arriving at the door of the Institute,
the guide said to the janitor: “Kind
ly take this man to the section for
the blind.”
“Take him yourself,” growled the
janitor. “Under the archway on the
other side of the courtyard.”
The civilian did take the veteran,
but on the way out he addressed the
Janitor again.
“Could you not be a little more
obliging to the blind?” he asked
gently.
“There are too many and I haven’t
the time,” wrts the surly response.
“It seems to me that It 1r your duty
to help them,” said the other. “I can
find time —and I nm Marshal Foch.”
Planta 530 Memorial Trees.
Memorial trees for 530 veterans who
gave their Ilves In the World war have
been planted by the Washington
(D. C.) post of the American Legion.
As a part of the Memorial day exer
cises each year, wreaths made up to
resemble the Legion insignia and
American flags will be placed on each
•res.