The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 24, 1919, Page 1

j} ~ .” Temperature at ...... HE BI TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA FRIDAY, OCT. 24, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 244. IX INCHES OF SNOWFALL HERE:| ‘STORM GENERAL First Baby Blizzard of Season Covers Whole Country With Mantle of White WILL BE COLDER TONIGHT Ducks Keep Minnesota People Awake as They Head South- ward to Warmer Climes Snow which started falling early “Thursday morning continued through- out the day and did not cease until this morning. The weather bureau esti- mated that six inches of snow fell dur- ing this time, and while not a record or anything particularly unusual for this time of the year, yet it is earlier and heavier than the average snow fall for late October. O. W. Roberts, the weather bureau chief, stated this morning that the tem- perature would drop as low as 10 de- grees above zero tonight,’ The lowest temperature during the past 24 hours was 14 degrees this morning, It will be warmer tomorrow, Mr. Roberts be- Neves, and by Tuesday or Wednesday all of the snow will be gone. The storm did not hamper railroad traffic, according to reports received here by the Soo and, Northern Pacific roads. Some of the roads in the county are in poor condition, but automobilists report that it is possible to drive over the main highways without any great. trouble. The Missouri river is starting to rise again, after being at the lowest point since the records of the river stage were compiled. From now on, it is ex- pected that the river will continue to rise as the snow starts to melt and this - will continne until the end of. next spring. “Whenever the river is very very high the following winter and _Svring,” said one old-timer today. * fact that fur-bearing animals are ex- tremely heavily coated this.season and that. wild game is covered with thick down. Hunters and trappers say this is a positive sign that the coming win- ter will be very cold. DUCKS ANNOY SLEEPERS Duluth, Minn.,.Oct. 24.—The first >® snow, half an inch of it, fell here last night. fs The stotm brought down from the northern breeding grounds the major flight of wild ducks, unusually large flocks being reported; passing over northeastern » Minnesota: Brainard’ ‘re- ports wild ducks so ‘numierous, over Hackensack. last. . night. .that their quacking and wing beating kept the people there awake, s GRAND FORKS COVERED Grand Forks, Oct. 24.—Four inches of snow fell here during the night and a light fall is continuing this morning. The snow is general throughout the northern part of North Dakota. Crookston, Minn., is also covered with a blanket of snow four inches in depth, $ FOUR-INCH FALL.AT FARGO Fargo, N. D., Oct, 24—A blanket of} four inches of snow covered eastern North Dakota today and it was still snowing this morning. The tempera: ture is mild. j Weather Report i Lowest, 24 hours ending at noon.. Temperature at noon . Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night -. Precipitation , . . Highest wind velocity Forecast for North’ Dakota: Gen- erally fair and colder tonight preceded by snow in east portion; Saturday fair with slowly rising: temperature, TEMPERATURES Fargo... eee . 4 Williston... . » 12 St. Paul... 38 Winnipeg < 16 Helena... . 2 Chicago... . . 568 Swift Current . 8 Kansas City .. .. 62 ORRIS W. RC Ss, Meteorologist. TEACHERS TO MEET >: TONIGHT FOR $100 SALARY INCREASE ‘Session Will Be Held in High School and Women Expect Demands to Be Granted The committee consisting ‘of mem- ters of the school board and teachers in the city schools will meet tonight at a 8 o'clock to thresh out the latter’s re- ~ guest for an increase in pay of $100 a year. The meeting will be held at the high school and all taxpayers and par- ents of school children who are inter- ested in the discussion are requested to attend the meeting. The committee, ‘consisting of A. P. Lenhart, Cecil Burton, Miss Hazel Tib- bietts, Miss Marie Huber, Miss Fran- ces Mallory, Miss Vivien Irish and Miss Mathilda Williams. The first two men. tioned represent the school board and the women represent the 26 teachers -who petitioned the*board for the in- 4 crease in pay. The teachers’ salaries average about $85 a month and they claim it is im- possible for them to meet the high liv- Ing costs, continue their training dur- » ing the summer months and keep up the standard required by. the city Schools on this’ ‘salary, In all ‘ prob- ad the board will grant the request nl the low in the summer it is bound to be! Evidences that this is going to be a! yery severe winter are shown by the! d , Purkestan. ier hee VISCOUNTESS ASTOR HUSBAND IN HOUSE Plymouth, England, Oct. 24.—The conservatives have decided to invite Viscountess Astor to become the coull- tion-unionist candidate to succeed her husband as a member of the house of commons. The viscount’s ascension to the peerage caused the seat to become vacant, CITY IS FACING COAL SHORTAGE REPORT DEALERS Car Shortage and Demand Fol- lowing Cold Weather Mate- rially Reduces Supply A combination of car shortage and cold weather endangers Bismarck’s coal supply to such an extend that if the demand keeps up the way it has for the past two days and the number of cars shipped into this city does not increase there will be very little coal left by the end of next week. Several of the lumber companies which handle coal in this city reported today that the situation was serious unless, the thermometer started to rise and coal was shipped’ into the city faster... With:the recent cold\snap and ;the snow storm of yesterday orders have piled into the offices of coal deal- ers here until they are literally swamped. The railroads are having difficulty in supplying cars rapidly enough for the shipment from mines in this state. There is and has been for some time a crippling car shortage on practical- ly every railroad in the country and ‘both the Northern Pacific and the ;Soo roads here feel the effect of this {shortage. It is not the shipment of coal alone that is held up but. stock jand grain and other commodities raised and grown in this vicinity. On top of the shortage of coal due to these causes, the, possibility of a nation wide coal strike also looms up {to complicate the situation. Press reports from the eastern cities state that the strike is scheduled to be called November 1 and if this is done, mines all over the country, as well as in North Dakota will probably have to suspend activities. The Washburn {Coal Co. mines, it is understood, is thoroughly organized by the United, |Mine Workers of America, which or- (ganization\is calling . the - proposed ‘strike and some of the other mines in the, state may be affected by this action, BOLSHEVIKI MAY RUSSIA, REPORT Lenine, the Terrorist Premier, Is Captured According to Wireless London, Oct. 24—The Bolsheviki are considering the evacaution of Soviet Russia according to reports reaching General Denekine a wireless dispatch received today from his headquarters says. The reported plan is for the remov- al of the cabinet to Tashkend after the abandonment of ‘Moscow and with- drawal of the troops on all fronts to Lenine Captured? ‘Honolulu, Oct. 24—Nichola Lenine Bolsheviki premeir of Russia has been (S—N.| captured by anti-Bosheviki’ forces, ac- cording to a wireless messange picked up by the Japanese steamship Tenyo Maru in the harbor here. The mes- sage gave no further details of the reported capture of Lenine. PETERSON MADE LEAGUE ENTRY: Former Nonpartisan - ‘House Leader Will Be Opposed in Towner by Beisel Cando, N, D., Oct, 24.—As the result. of two county political conventions held Yesterday C. P. Peterson of Bisbee and D. J. Beisel of Egeland will be rival candidates for. the. state senate in the special Towner county electiou Novem- ber 25, j Peterson was nominated at the Non- rartisan league\convention in Bisbee snd Belsel was selected in Cando, suc- ceeding Paul Higgins of Cando, the original choice. Higgins retired be- cause he considered a change in resi- dence recently sealers voting precinct to another furtiished ground for ‘a’ pos- sible contest in the legislature should he be elected: PRESIDENT GAINING Washingtaon, Oct, 24.— President Wilson continues slowly to gain strength, says the bulletin issued today by: his physicians, NO NOBEL PEACH ‘ PRIZES THIS YEAR Stockholm, Oct. 24.—For the second. time, the presentation of the annual Nobel peace prizes will be postponed. ‘The. prizes for, 1918 and1919, are, still to be. awarded, ASKED TO SUCCEED). GIVE UP SOVIET, HIGGENS QUITS|* LEWIS PRESENTS DIGGERS’ UNION Mine Workers’ President Asserts “Wages Are Too Low to Let Men Live BY JOHN LEWIS President United Mine Workers of America Figures officially \ collected’ show that the average income for the Il- linois mine workers for 1918 was $1434.00; for Indiana mine workers, '$1400.00; for Ohio mine workers, $1250.00, ‘and for Western Pennsyl- vania mine workers, $1200.00. The output of coal in 1918 was the largest in the,history of the coal in- dustry, and the miners worked—more jdays that year: and produced more ;coal per man than ever before; there- fore, the wages which they earned in 1918 represent the extreme peak of i their earning records, |. These -figures should be a complete ‘answer to the statement of the opera~ tors that the ccal miners of the.coun- try-have: enjoyed enormous: incomes. State and governement statistics for the. years from 1918 to 1919 show also that the average mcomes of the ‘mine Workers in these four states for all-of those years was approximately as follows: Illinois, $800 to $850; In- digna, $800; Ohio, $700; Western ‘ Pennsylvania,’ $700. i The government recently issued a bulletin from the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Labor in which it was’stated that after a careful and exhaustive survey of the country ‘the bureau had concluded that the average American family of four required an income of $2500.a year in. order. .to maintain a decent standard of living. We contend that the wages of the miners under the Washington agree- ment would not permit the miner to jit is entitled to. We cite these facts in order that the public may know ex- actly the reason why the miners de- cline to continue to work under the Washington agreement until March 31, 1920. That the public is about to be gouged by coal operators because of the coming strike of miners is evident from statements credited to operators and published in the newspapers. Some are quoted as predicting that the price of coal will rise one dollar on the ton by the end’of‘the week. The public has a right to know that there is no reason in the world why the price of coal should advance at this time except that some one wishes to make an enormous profit. Any concern that increases the price of coal to the customer at this time is a plain, every-day profiteer, and if there is any way under the law by which profiteers may be pro- secuted, the profiteer who seeks to gouge the public by advancing coal Prices at this time merits the undivid- attention of the authorities. The strike that has been called by the United Mine Workers does not take effect until November first, and there will be no suspension of work until that date.. Therefore, there pill before November first. Coal operators never made as much money in their lives as they have made i nthd past two years,-and yet they come forth now with a state- ment that the price of coal is to be advanced another dollar per ton. Frenchman Executed for Aiding Germany Pierre Lenoir Faced Firing Squad This Morning for Be- ing Disloyal to Country Paris, Oct, 24.—Pierre Lenoir, con- victed. of a. charge of having held -in- telligence with the enemy, was exe- ented at Sunta prison at 7 o’clock this morning, Pierre Lenoir was the third person to be executed on: Charges arising out of the attempt made by German agents to conduct a “defeatist” campaign in France in 1915 and 1916. “The others who met death as a result of the'revel- ations made against them were Bolo Pasha, executed’ April 17, 1918, and M. Duval, who faced the firing squad the..Germanophile newspapers, Bonnet ‘Rouge. \ VIEWS OF COAL’ give-his family the kind of living that* be no interruption of coal production | July 17, 1918. -Both were directors of Portugal had granted the United States _ tgtation,, : DEBATING DEMANDS OF ORGANIZED MINERS Operators and men meet—at Washington, D. C., in last minute effort to avoid coal strike. T. T. Brewster, president of Coal Operators’ Association (at left), Secretary of Labor W. B. Wilson (in center), and John L. Lewis, president United Mine Workers of America. pare eae ’ Clocks Go Back ‘ An Hour Sunday Morning at Two | Back, turn back, O ‘Time in | thy flight, or whatever it was the poet once said, but | prophet that he was he did | not know . anything! about daylight saving. And that is what the United States is going to do Sunday morning for at 2.a. m. it will be 1 a. m. | , .You’can go to bed at 11 | o’clock Saturday night, or | later if the business you are transacting at the time necessitates, and get up at 7 | o’clock Sunday morning “old | time” ‘and instead of having | our usual eight:hours sleep, you will be blessed with an extra hour of magnificent | | slumber. ‘Congress thought | | wisely when it made the | switch from “new time” back to “old time” occur on Satur- | day night. ~ * oe LIGGETT LATEST 10 FEEL AXB OF NONPARTY CHIEF Head of Townley Newspaper Trust Receives the Knife at Fargo Meeting | DISAGREED WITH BRINTON ;Was Unfortunate Enough to Differ With Bosom Friend of His Master | Reports from Fargo are to the effect C.. Townley has broken with i Th that A. ‘another of his loyal lieutenants. man whe is-said to have been t into the large and constantly grow {discard on this occasion is Walter W. 'Tiggett, a former St. Paul newspaper man who came to North Dakota’ to be editor of .the. Courier-News and who since-the Close of the last legislative ussembly had filled J. W. Brinton’s pface as manager of the Publishers’ National Service bureau, through which the league has been organizing a string of country newspapers. Liggett’s error. 'it:is said. was a dis- agreement with the man whom he suc ceeded. Although Brinton has beenire- ported time and again to be no longer within the inner circle of the league organization, and while recently he has apparently devoted all of his time to the United States Sisal trust, in which he ‘is interested with number of Jeague state officials. he is said to be yet close enough to Townley to secure the dismissal of anyone with whom {Brinton differs. Liggett is alleged to have discovered certain conditions in the ~ publishers’ service bureau which did not appeal to lim and it is Said that he insisted that Frinton had been too liberally paid for his services.” Liggett, so the story goes, carried on a quiet campaign against Brinton and at the same time devel- element which was in favor of injecting ore democracy into the league organ- ization, Townley, apprised of this situation, took, Liggett to task and promised him a “bawling out” at the mass meeting held in Fargo last Tuesday. . Townley is said to have thought better of his original resolution in this regard, how- eyer, and. for the sake of harmony. he did not attempt to castigate Liggett in open meeting. Townley and Brinton, instead, it is said, rounded up the di- rectors -in the publishers’ service jbureau, convinced all but one of these directors that Liggett must be elimin- ated and proceeded without Liggett’s knowledge. to apply the “eliminator.” Q. T. Rishoff, formerly in charge of the publishers’ service in North Da- kota and before that editor of the Bot- tineau Courant, succeeds Liggett. Lig: gett, it is said, intends to devote the iinmediate future to a series’ of meet- ings in which we will tell league farmer friends why, he was forced to disgree with Brinton, It is alSo said that Lig- yett hopes to organize the progressives.| within the lengue in a campaign for ue democratization of the organiza- in, ) AZORES, London, Oct, 24.—It was reported to- day in dispatches. from Lisbon’ ‘that j tro]. ilines of well-filled garages which he| oped an insurgent following among the! MINE WAGES NOW HIGHEST KNOWN, ASSERTS WRITER Editor of Coal Age Gives “Other : Side” of Present Indus- trial Crisis BY R. DAWSON HALL Editor of “Coal Age,” Organ of the Coal Trades | On the sentiment and action of the} public depends the issue whether the price of bituminous coal is increased by $2 on and after November 1, and whether the price of anthracite coal rises. in proportion after April 1 of next year. The mine workers at the coal mines have demanded that their pay be in- creased 60 per cent above the wages fixed by the Washington agreement, made with the approval of the United | States Fuel Administration, Nov. 1, 1917: This increase will raise the! hourly wages of outside day workers to a level 4 1-7 times as high as in 1914, and of inside day workers to a level, 3 8-4 times as high as in that same year. : This statement is based solely on| the 60 per cent increase in wage, rate, and the decrease in the number of hours per day from eight to six. The coal industry is in general well unionized. The Connellsville region in Pennsylvania, the Pocahontas, Thacker and Guyan regions in West Virginia, part of western Kentucky and the state of Utah are not, how- ever, yet unionized. But all the rest of the coal mines of the country are, more or less, entirely under union con- The last published reports show that there were: 424,674 fully paid or; exonerated members of the United) Mine Workers of America. There are; ir; all about 760.000 coal mine work- ers in the United States. The mine workers have deliberately | chosen Nov. 1 for their strike because | it is the ideal time to start a panic. They would have the contract-making date removed from April 1—that hitherto chosen—because at that date the demand for coal reaches a mini- mum. The mine workers hope that the public will say that.'though it dreads government ownership. it fears the! continuance of: the strike still more. The operators haye no loss to anti- cipate from a concession of an in-| creased wage. their contract prices be- ing all conditioned on the wage grant- | ed and all increasing with the wag increase. Operators like to see thei men doing well, and every operator | takes a degree of credit for the long has built for the mine workers at his, plants. Tre increased wage will add at least $300,000.000 a year to the cost} of running the railroads, and this} sum will have to be added to the cost of everything, the cost of coal to the | consumer—like the cost everything else—being increased by the enhanced ; price of transportation. The striking mine workers will need public approval badly because the} union has no funds. It prides itself, neverthless, on the $1,728,906.12 it had on July 31, though the nest egg amounted to only $3.82 per member. This figure. however, overlooks state and local funds, which are perhaps each equally large. The whole funds of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica if distributed would probably not pay two full day’s wages to all its members. LANGER ASKED TO TELL ABOUT BANK SCANDAL Attorney General Receives Invi- tation to Address Steele County Farmers Attorney General Langer has been invited by Steele county farmers to address a gathering at Finley on Sat- urday evening. Among other things the attorney general has been asked to discuss is the Scandinavian-American bank matter. The attorney general, as a member of the state banking hoard, ‘directed the examination of the Scan- dinayian-American bank which re- sulted in a report which caused the hoard to feel justified in closing the doors of the institution and placing it jn the hands of a temporary receiver. His course in this matter has been bit- a. concession: ia, .the Azores. for @-naval terly assailed by league leaders und BOLSHEVIKI CLAIM RECAPTURE OF TWO IMPORTANT TOWNS London, Oct The Bolsheviki of- ficial report received by wireless claims that their troops have recaptured Pey- losk and Tsarskoe-Selo, south of Petro- grad, by a dashing attack, Many pris- oners Were taken, the advises continue. The report further states that the Bolsheviki have recaptured Tobolsk on the Siberian front, from the army of Admiral Kolchak. ROADS WORKING 10 PREVENT ANY ACCIDENTS HERE Northern Pacific and Soo Trying to Keep Record Clean During Safety First Drive The Dakota branch of the Northern Pacific which includes Bismarck and all the territory east of Mandan’ and the Missouri river division of the Soo which includes the north and south lines still have a perfect record as} far as death and injuries during the two week accident prevention drive which started last Saturday night. The death that occured in the Man- dan yards of the Northern Pacific the beginning of this week is the only fa- tality on that road up to the present time. This includes every mile of the gigantic system. The Northern Pac- ific has six injuries recorded since the! drive started and if the other roads in the northwestern region have the saine records that they have had in the Jast accident prevention drive it is understood that this road will be out of the running for the honors. The Soo railroad over its entire system has had no deaths and six in- juries since the inauguration of the drive. An extra effort has been re- quested of every employe of the road mainder of the drive which ends Oc- tober 31. If this is done, the Soo will either win the highest honor, or come close to it. Every piece of mail and other writ- ten and printed notice that the rail- roads send out bearing the inscription ; “Be Carefuy Today” and the drive is constantly kept before the railroad employes in other ways. Daily bul- letins of the standing of each railroad and the daily accidents and deaths on each road are furnished every station on the Northern Pacific and Soo. Green of Minneapolis, in charge of the safety first drive on! that road, telegraphed the local Soo offices as follows today: “Fifty-two roads in the northwestern region have clean. records, ..R.. H. Aijshton, regions. al director, is offering reward of safe- ty banner to road making best show- ing. We are still in the running if we can remain clear the balance of | the drive. Cooperation and. inten- sified supervision will accomplish it.” STATEOFFICERS | READY TO HELP TOWNER COUNTY Insurgent Leaguers Will Cam- paign for. Independent If 3 They’re Needed If their services are desired, insur- gent Nonpartisan state officials at the! capitol are prepared to go to Towner ccunty to campaign for D, J. Beisel, f Cando, judependent candidate for the state senate, who is opposing C. Py Peterson of Bisbee, former league leader in the house, and who is ex-| ected to be the Townley candidate for ne seat left vacant by the death of Senator A. S, Gibbens, who was an in- county, which comprises the Twenty-second legislative district, nor- mally is strongly Nonpartisan. The; late Senator Gibbens, one of the oldes' men in point of service in the state; legislature, won by a small majority | over Peterson, the league candidate, | last fall because of the former’s great| rson2l following. Beisel, it-is said, has been prevailed upon to run by a committee of farmers which inchides many leaguers who supported Gibbens lxst fall and who are said to be op- ‘ed to Peterson because of the rad- icalism which he is alleged to have dis- played as a member of the house. Inasmuch us the league needs every seat which it can muster in the upper house if it proposes to attempt the impeachment of Olson, Hall, Langer 1d Kositzky, state treasurer, secre- tary of state, attorney general and auditor, respectively, the battle.in the ‘Twenty-second district is expected to Le a Warm one. It will bé followed with interest throughout the state as a barometer showing whether Townley’s hold on the league has slipped to any extent as a result-of disclosures in the Scandinavian-American bank matter. GREAT NORTHERN BRAKEMAN DIES No Accident Record Ruined by Fatality at Stanley Stanley, N. D., Oct. 24.—L, H. Lar- sen, Great Northern brakeman, was crushed to death between two passen- ger coaches while making up a train in the local railroad yards last night. It was the first “no-accident week” acci- dent on this division. FRESH CO-EDS MUST ~ FURNISH THE PUFFS Philadelphia, ( Oct. 24.— Freshman co-edS must keep a powder puff avail- eble at all times. The sophomore their, press.organs, Steele. county. is.a {Nonpartisan stronghold. girls demand it... They. must wear. green hair ribbons, too. - to keep the record clean for the re-|} (GRONNA ASSAILS PEACE TREATY IN BITTER TIRADE Declares Ill-Famed Holy Alli- ance of 1815 Far Superior to New : Pact CALLS WILSON AUTOCRAT Asserts President Forced Amer- ica Into War Without Adequate Debate ‘ , Oct. 24--The peace treaty was assailed in the senate to- day ‘by Senator Gronna, repubican of North ‘Dakota as a violation of Presi- dent Wilson's fourteen points and ar- rangement likely to involve the Uni- ted States in many wars. The league of nations he characterized as an “un holy alliance” which would make this the pack horse for the gov- ernments of Europe, Asia an Africa. ‘The ill-fated holy alliance of 1815, he asserted, was “as much ):superior both in spirit and form to this pro- posed covenant as is the Master's ser- mon on the mount to the book of Tal- wud or the Koran.” Recalling that he was one of the six senators who voted against the declar- ation of war with Germany, the North Dakota senator said that some of those who now wanted the league conducted themselves at that time like “demons of war. : WHEN WE WENT TO WAR Speaking of the ~-situation when President Wilson asked for the war declaration he continued : “No one was permitted to discuss it. The freedom of speech was not only limited but prohibited and unless you were in a position and willing to say ‘So sayeth the king.’ you were de- wounced as pro-German and a traitor. iven before the war was declared it was treason to express an honest opin- ion. I felt that sufficient information not. given by the administration to ant this sudden change. “T well remember how some of you who are now clamoring for this covey: ant, which you say will give an imme- diate peace, were then acting as de- mons of war. We had to take orders from the chief executive and regard- of whether we thought honest my kes were made or not, no one would be allowed to correct them.But now you say, ‘Yes you hate war and you beleive in pei You know as well as I do that tl covenant will not be a promoter of lasting peace.” TRIBUTE TO FOREIGN-BORN Asserting that he had done his full shuty. during. the, wax, Mr. ‘Gxnnna went, ‘on to pay a tribute to the loyalty of citizens of forelgn blood, although he d many believed that “we should her have entered the war at an early time Ise stayed out altogether.” He dl wanted to remind “char- acter assassins” that the success of the war was not to be attributed to those who spoke longest and loudest. -He added that of the general element who “advocated destruction of government” or refuse ta obey the law should be re- turned to their mother country. The league of nations, the senator said, would set u pa super-government while the treaty’s Shantung provision would make the United States a party tu “robbery and theft.” ‘ STRIKE OF MINERS PRACTICALLY SURE Washington, Oct. 24.—Final appeal was made direct to President Wilson to prevent the strike of half a million soft coal miners called for November 1, after miners and operators meeting jointly. with Secretary Wilson had turned down, two propositions to nego- tiate a new wage.agreement. While on the point of breaking up the two groups heeding the plea of Secretary Wilson agreed to return at 4 o’clock this afternoon to receive the message the secretary hopes to bring from the president. OUTLOOK LESS HOPEFUL Coming out of the meeting, John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America said: “The outlook is less hopeful than last it. We are returning to hear what the president and secretary might say, lt there seems little chance of reach- ing an agreement.” Washington, Oct, 24—Operators and miners today rejected a proposal of Secretary Wilson that they negotiate n new Wage agreement calculated to avert. the strike of soft coal miners called for November 1 Washington, Oct. 24.—Immediate dissolution of the public group the remaining element of the national in- dustrial conference is “proposed in a recommendation of the committee of five which will be made to the group this afternoon. Should the recom- mendation be adopted the: conference would end tonight. ARMED INVASION FEARED Charleston, W. Va., Oct. 24.—Gov- ernor John J. Cornwell today sent a message to John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of Ameri- ea, in which he charged that a second armed invasion of the Guyan valley coal district was being planned by the miners of the Cabin creek coal section. . The governor also charged that arms and ammunition had been dis- tributed among the miners and there had. been much talk of shooting public officials and taking control of the gov- ernment. ‘ C. J. MADDUX. WELL KNOWN ATTORNEY, PARALYSIS VICTIM New Rockford, ‘N. Oct. 24.— Charles J. Maddux of g0, widely. known pioneer attorney of North Da- kota, died here last night of paralysis. He was the partner of William Lemke, wice. president of the: league,‘ nae x