The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 28, 1922, Page 1

THE WEATHER . FAIR ESTABLISHED 1873 PRESIDEN KANSAS EDITOR AND HIS DEFI SUIT 10 HALT BRIDGE ROAD | IS DISMISSED renyoneny Judge Nuessle Dismisses Ac- tion on Petition of the Parties Plaintiff STATEMENTS ARE MADE Did Not Realize Effect, Plain- tiffs Say. — Attorneys Speak Upon Matter Suit which was started in Bur- leigh county district court to enjoin completion of the Federal Aid pro- ject No. 136 (Main street road) to the new bridge was dismissed with prejudice in district court today by Judge W. L. Nuessle. Stipulation was entered into in open court between the attorneys for dismissal of the suit. The stipulation was based upon an application made by the'parties who instituted the suit. The formal re- quest for dismissal of the complaint read as follows: “H. P. Hanson, Victor Meyer, E, J. Anderson, A. O. Krogan and E. C. Ruble, plaintiffs in the above entitled action first being duly sworn deposes and says each for himself that they hereby with- draw as plaintiffs in said action and asks that the same be dismissed.” Attorney’s Statement ‘Attorneys were asked for state- ments of the action. Alfred Zuger, attorney for the county, said: “he dismissal of the tax payers’ suit to enjoin the construction of the highway connecting the east ap- proach of the Bismarck Mandan Mis- souri River Bridge with the west end of Main street\should end the controversy over the route to the bridge. The completion of the bridge . and connecting highways ought to be accomplished without further attempt to obstruct it and to delay the opening and use of Yt, which mean so much to the people of the state, Burleigh county and the city of Bismarck. i “The route which was adopted and is in course of improvement was} selected by the Bureau of Public Roads of the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, having charge of the distribution of federal aid over the entire United States and supervision of the. construction ot” highways receiving benefit thereof, after thorough investigation and in- Spection of several proposed roads, including the; propsed extension of Rosser Street, solely on the merits of the case, particular regard being had for the elimination of a railroad | (Continued on Page 3) EXPLOSION AIDS. ESCAPE (By the Associated Press) Belfast, July 28.—Through a hole blown in the wall by a mine, 105} prisoners escaped from the Dundalk jail, county Louth. The shock of the explosion shook: the town shattering windows of the county hospital and the dwellings of the town’s best residential district. INSANE MAN SURRENDERS (By the Associated Press) Hinton, W. Va, July 28—John} Fredeking, the insane man who bar-) ricaded himself in his home for thir- teen days, resisted the efforts of deputy sheriffs and state police to arrest him after he had killed one man and wounded four other, ap- peared at the front door, threw up his hands and asked for a drink of water. e Two troopers, who with other offi- cers have “resorted to every known means short of firing the house to. dislodge Fredeking, stepped to the door, got him water he craved and then led him to the county jail. He refused to answer their questions and appeared to be dazed. Physici- ans were summoned fgom the Hinton hospital where they had been treat- ing the man wounded in the firing of the past days and dressed a bul- let wound in Fredeking’s right arm| and another injury in his right! shoulder. BRITISH LAUNCH - ‘IS FIRED ON. i | (By the Associated Press) * Canton, China, July 28—A motor launch belonging to the Asiatic Petro- | leum company, flying the British flag, was fired on today by soldiers of tiv | Merchants Defense Corps at Shikiaj twenty miles from Canton and a Chi-; nese coxswain aboard killed. WANTS INFORMATION Governor R. A. Nestos had about the first evidence ~that the letter writing campaign he has advocated was bearing results when he received letters from Mason City, Iowa, asking specific questions concerning getting into North Dakota. The governor also has received other letters from peo- ple who had been interested in the harvest work proposal by letter writ- ers. At the same time the Governor has received notice that the Inter- state Commerce Commission has waived the usual thirty day notice necessary for the changing of rates, and that the roads have been inform- ed they can publish the rates of $5.00 from the Twin Cities and Du- luth-Superior immediately. ‘TWIN CITY jwith the BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1922 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE LAST EDITION | (Leased Wire of Associated Press) By NEA Service Emporia, Kas., July 28.—Because William Allen White, newspaper editor and author, whose picture is shown above, posted in the window of his paper, the Emporia, Kas., Gazette, a card, also shown, ex- pressing a percentage of sympathy with the railroad strikers, he has been arrested and must answer in the courts for his defiance of the Kansas industrial tribunal to a charge of contempt of the latter body, on the ground that he had no right to lend encouragement to one side or the other in a controversy which it is the sndustril court’s business to adjudicate. Gov. Henry J. Allen, father of the industrial court, is pressing the case, and the governor and the newspaper man are lifelong friends. ‘ASK FUNDS TO HELP MARKET DAKOTA CROPS War Finance Association Ap- pealed to by the Wheat Growers’ Association Washington, July 28—Application of the Kansas Wheat Growers’ asso- ciation for an advance of not to exceed $2,500,000 to assist in finan- cing the ‘érderly marketing of wifeat during the coming season was an- nounced today by the war finance, corporation. The corporation also announced that representative: of the Wash- ington, Idaho, Montana Dakota wheat growers’ associations would appear before it August 9 in connection with pending applica tions from those organizations as | follows: North Dakota, $3,000,000 to $5,000,- 000; Washington, $2,000,000; Idaho, $1,000,000 and Montana, $3,000,000. Advances made to co-operative marketing associations so far for the purpose of assisting in financing the orderly marketing of agriculture! products, the corporation stated, to- tals $87,000,000 distributed in part as follows: Kansas wheat growers’ association, $2,500,000; Texas Wheat Growers’ as- sociation, $600,000 and Kansas Wheat Growers’ association, $2,000,000. “It is pointed out,” the corpora- tion said, in connection with the announcements regarding these ad- vices, “that only a portion of the amounts’ approved will be actually | advanced by the corporation, and that as was the case during the past sea- son, the banks in the interested dis- triets will do the major pert of the financing for the associations. ‘Furthermore, the large eastern financials centers are showing a de- cided interest this year in the finan- cinb of the co-operative marketing associations and it is probable that considerable amounts will be made availabe from: these cefiters in ac- cordance to the advances provided by the ocal banks.” MEN BEING HELD BY MINOT POLICE (By the Associated Press) Minot, N. D., July 28—Six Twin City men are booked up at the police station here today, five charged with disorderly conduct, and the sixth is charged with carrying concealed weapons, following their arrest on Great Northern train number 27. Abe Pereansky is charged concealed weapon of- fense and Lester Ward, R. J. Bow- man, Vernon McKeavy, Phillip Kitz- ler and William Stauffer are charged with disorderly conduct. They were arrested by a special agent who was | in charge of four carloads of men which the Great Northern railway was shipping to western points to work. Great Northern officials said here today that the men were not in theemploy of the company. RAW GREEN PEAS CAUSE OF DEATH (By the Associated Press) Huron, 8. D., July 28—Miss Eva Ketelson, 17, of this city, died after an illness of a week ,caused by eating raw green peas. She ato the peas and soon afterwards be- came violently ill, being unable to retain any food in her stomach. However feeling slightly better to- day she asked to be taken for an au- tomobile ride, and while her aunt was making arrangements, for the ride, she passed away. It is of, and) North; his own and the governor's adven-! ture that White tells in, his book,! “Henry and Me.” Whether or not, they'll still be friends after this, re-| mains to be seen. . White says Allen’s interpretation of the law is in disregard of the con-| stitution’s guarantees of a free press/{ and free speech. SAYS THRESHING OF | GRAIN ENDANGERED |Seee e (By the Associated Press) Duluth, inn, July = 28.— Threshing of the northwest’s small grain crop and the opera- tion of essential industries will be hampered‘unless shipments of coal are received at the head of the lakes: immediately, Governor J. A. O. Preus declared here to- day in an address before the opening session of the Minnesota Historical Society. AMIDON HEARS ‘RAILROAD CASE (Ry' the Associated Press) Fargo, N. D,,. July 28—Hearing as | to whether a temporary restraining! | order aimed at striking employes of | the Great Northern railroad in | North Dakota shall be made perma-; nent was in. progress in federal dis- i trict court before Judge C. F. Ami- don today. Affidavits specifying in-| stances of. alleged violence, assaults and abusive threats were presented from workTag employed at Minot, Williston, Devils Lake and New; Rockford. . Employes at New Kock-| ford were violently removed. from the roundhoyse and.» threatened, these said. ~~ 5 Strikers in exercising their right of peaceful persuasion must not tres- pass against either “the person or the property of the plaintiff or its! employes or agents,” the judge said} today in a formal statement, MAIN TOWNS IN OF INSURGENTS (Ry the Associated Press) Dublin, July 28-—All the main! towns in the Connemara district) have now been cleared of insurgeni| troops and rapid progress is being made by the national forces in the west andi the Munster province, says an official report issued today. * The report says there is good ground for hoping that within the} next fortnight the organized resist- ance of the Republican irregulars will have been so broken that further postponement of the Irish parliament will be unnecessary. At present five members of the provisional govern- ment cabinet and 16 other members} of the Dail are ectively engaged in the suppression of disorders. UNCTION © IS ISSUED j of Adjutant General G. A. Fras | the supreme court in regard to the} | the state auditor to pay the amount) | due thé note, when the soldier’s claim SEE PLOT T0 AREA CLEARED ‘+: SUBMITS PL OUTRIGHT SALE OF STATE BONUS CLAIMS BANNED May Be Used as Collateral for Loans but Not Assigned for Sale, Ruling INTEREST LIMIT FIXED 10 Per Cent Maximum to Be Allowed by the Office of Adjutant General The outright sale of soldiers’ com- ign claims is not to be permit ted in the future, under a new ruling eh based upon the recent decision ol| bonus sales agreement, which had! been proposed. “Under the recent decision of the supreme court, as this j,office con-} strues it,” said General Fraser in a! letter rejecting a request for assign-| ment of a soldiers’ compensation claim on assignment, “the sale of compensation claims is not permit- ted. “If a claimant desires to secure funds on the strength of his claim, we will accept an assignment as col-| lateral security, but the amount re-| ceived by the assignor must be stat ed and the agreed rate of interest and when due. When the claim is then reached for payment, the amount due on the note will be computed by this, office and remitted to the as- signee, the balance, if any, to the as- signor.” The maximum -rate of interest which may be charged a man using a North Dakota soldiers’ certificate as) collateral is 10 per cent, the adju- tant general’s office has decided. When a soldier desires to ‘negotiate a loan the adjutant’s office will lend its services in computing the proba- ble time when the certificate will be paid, and on this basis a loan may be made in fairly definite manner) as to time of maturity. A new form for the assignment of a claim against the state of North Dakota, under the provisions of the returned soldiers’ statute, has been adopted by the adjutant general’s of-| fice. The assignment requires the information as to-the-loan which he is making and assignment of the cer- tificate as collateral. The amount of the loan and the rate of interest must be stated, together with a request to against the state is certified for pay- ment. Officials here do not expect any general contract to be concluded whereby the soldiers’ bonus claims, which will not be paid, on the aver- age for three years, may be'sold. The decision of the supreme court, they hold, necessitates new legislation be- fore such an arfangement can be consummated. KILL POINCARE (By the Associated Press) Paris, July 28.—The French govern- ment it was made known today, has receixed what it considers absolute-| ly trustworthy information that an attempt against the life of Premier Poincare is being plotted in German monarchist circles. CROP PROSPECTS GENERALLY GOOD SAYS JOHN RICH (By the Associated Press) | Minneapolis, July 28—Crop condi-; tions and prospective grain yields in the four northwest states are char- acterized as generally good in the monthly report of crop and business condition issued today by John H.| Rich, agent. of the Minneapolis fed-| eral reserve bank. Causes of damage in various sec- tions have differed, the report says, lack of rain has caused the greatest damage, the report says, with dam- (By the Associated Fress) Minneapolis, Minn., July 28.—Judge, Wilbur F. Booth in United States, district court granted the Chicago, and Northwestern railway company; a temporary injunction today against | striking shopmen at Waseca and | Tracy, but refused to make the order | applicable to striking employes of| the company at Mankato, Sleepy Eye) and New Ulm. The court held, that; at these latter places there had not been sufficient interference to ne-/ cessitate an injunction. Hearings on, the restraining orders granted to five railroads were continued by Judge Booth until 10 a, m. next Wed- nesday. The railroads concerned are the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Soo Line, Chicago and Great Western, the Omaha and Northern Pacific. DIES FROM INJURIES (ity the Associated Press) Minneapolis, July 28—Mercilessly beaten by a thief whom he had caught in the act of robbing the plant where he was employed about eight years ago, Joseph Belair, watchman died today as a result of his injuries. gHe had been entirely incapacitated since that time. Mr. Belair was 72 years old. age by hail second, followed by grasshoppers and rust. GIRL DIRECTS LIQUOR BOATS New York, July 28—A romantic story of liquor smugglers loading their cargo in Bermuda under direc- tion of a girl and making runs to the shores of Long Island Sound, gun fights and seizures by federal agents has been revealed in the arraignment of Mrs. Edith Stevens, 19, in Brook- lyn on an indictment charging con- spiracy to smuggle liquor into New | season, it is said in marine circles. soldier claimant to include definite’ ° TOUR INTERRUPTED WHEN BABY IS BORN ae Jamestown, N. D., July 28.— Touring from Twin Falls, Idaho, the family of George Meyer stop- ped here Wednesday. Today the eleven children of the family welcomed the twelfth, an eight pound daughter, The party, which was composed of three adults and eleven children when it reached here overflowed the well known make of touring car in which they traveled, and seats for some of the children were fixed on the running board. Meyer and his wife formerly lived here. WEST CHESTER LEAVES WITH GRAIN CARGO | | > Is Towing Barges U.S. 212) and: 217 Filled with Grain (By the Associated Press) Toledo, July '28.—The canal barge steamer West Chester towing the barges U. S. 212 and 217 with a cargo of 46,000 bushels of grain left this port late yesterday for Buffalo en-| route to New York, From Buffalo; the boats will go through the’ New York state barge canal to their des-| tination, The trip is being made in an effort to establish a regular grain freight service between Great Lake ports and the seaboard and should the initial trip prove successful a regualr schedule of service will be! adopted during the remainder of the! The service has been contemplated for, some time and is not one arising; from the circumstances of the rail- road and coal strikes, it is said. BROTHERS ARE SHOT-BY POLICE | One Killed and Other Probably | thousands of dollars were re-engaged Fatally Wounded | Swift, of Ruso, on the charge of em- FUNDS LOOTED IN STOCK SALE U. L. Burdick, Attorney for the Company, Says Over $30,000 Embezzled WARRANT SWORN OUT M. 'T. Swift Is Charged with Embezzling $3,000 of Packing Plant Funds Fargo, N. D,, July 28.—A warrant was issued at Grand Forks on com- plaint of President C. W. Reichert of the Equity Co-operative Packing company, for the arrest of M. T. bezzling $3,000 of the packing com- pany’s funds, Swith was employed as capital stock salesman by the old management of the packing company in 1920, during which time it is alleged the embez- | zlement was committed. First of Several Actions. This criminal action is the first} of several which will be brought against a number of persons con- nected with the company during the! old regime, it was announced at the| office of the company. Usher L.-! Burdick, director and attorney for | the~company, said that an investiga- | tion has revealed that more than stock salesmen, one man alone get- ing away with more than $16,000. “It is the purpose of the present officers of the company to go right; down the line in these cases,” said Mr. Burdick. “Criminal proceedings are being instituted and those guilty will be brought to justice.” Near Wholesaie Looting. What borders on wholesale loot- ing of the Equity Co-operative Pack- ing company has been uncarthed in this investigation. Mr. Burdick as serts. It has been discovered that men who had been caught in embezzling and continued their defaleations. In at least one case the former manage- ment settled with the man who had (By the, Associated Press) Rhinelander, Wis., July 28.—Julius! Breitkreitz was shot and killed and! his brother Frank Breitkreitz, was probably fatally wounded when po- liceman Marty McGlynn of Crandon and Constable Wright of Hiles at- tempted to arrest them on a charge of disturbing the peace. The shooting occurred late yester- day at the Breitkreitz farm near Hiles, east of here, The brothers were charged with causing trouble among the people of their locality and war- rants, were issued for their arrest. When McGlynn and Wright arriv- ed atthe farm they found the men in a hayfield and armed with a rake and pitchforks. They are alleged to have attacked the officers who de- clared they shot in self-defense. MAN, THOUGHT OF JAMESTOWN, FOUND ROBBED (By the Assoclated Press) St. Paul, July 28.—Unconscious and seriously gashed about the head and face, a man believed to be William Rand of Jamestown was found in thé street here early today. Police be- lieve the man had been robbed. No{ money nor valyables were found on him, but an American Legion card, issued by a Jamestown post bore the name of Rand. The man was about 33 years old. CANNOT LOCATE}MAN Jamestown, N. D., July; 28.—Search of the records of the American Le- gion here failed to disclose | While men of that name live here, none have been members of the Le- gion. It is thought the man may pos- sibly. have been a William Ryan, who,was a member of the Legion here a year or two ago while he was an attendant at the State Hospital for the Insane here. SHIPBUILDERS REFUSE WORK ON RAIL CARS Superior, Wis., July 28.—Workers at the Superior Shipbuilding company yards have refused to work on cars and locomotives brought here for re- pairs by the Great Northern rail- road, according to reports at strik- ers headquarters. According to reports from the headquarters a small crew of men had been employed in the construc- tion of a barge. When the work was completed they were allowed an op- tion between working on the railroad jobs and going home. They chose to go home. York from Bermuda, BIGAMY CHARGED TO SALESMAN Fargo, N. D., July 28.—Fargo police today were expecting the arrival of A. W. Ellingson, Fargo shoe sales- man, who was arrested at Portland, Oregon, on a charge of bigamy. EI- lingson is alleged to have deserted his wife and three children in Fargo and married a widow in Huron, S. D. IN NEW MEXICO (By the Assoclated Press) Estancia, New Mexico, July 28.— Three men were hanged here at 7 o'clock this morning for the murder of Anton Coury, a merchant of Du- ran, New Mexico. last September. A fourth man who was convicted was granted a reprieve at the last min- ute pending an appeal of his case to the supreme court, — membership of a man named Rand. appropriated money collected from stockholders for his own use by ac- cepting his note for several thousand dollars. According to President Reichert this investigation has been conduct- ed for several months past, during which the records of the stock sales- men under suspicion have been in- vestigated. It is intimated that sea- sational disclosures will result from these cases which may involve the management of the concern which re- Wreck . Victim “Smoke from forest fires is #0 1 $30,000 was embezzled by former} @ensq that navigation in Puget Sound is dangerous. Here Mrs. Li H. Kirkpatrick is shown after she was rescued from tho sea after the freighter Harry Luchenbach rammed the schooner Henry J. Scott when _samoke_ obscured, vessels. EARLY END OF COAL STRIKE IS UNLIKELY Operators Continue to Deny Knowledge of Any Scheduled Peace Meeting : REJECT CONFERENCE (By the Assocnited Press) ——Hazleton, Pa. July 28.—An- thracite miners' are prepared either to continue the present status for an indefinite period or are ready to enter into con- ference looking toward a settle- ment “based on progress”, as suggested to the operators and sulted in the closing of the pack- ing plant more than a year ago. GOLFERS IN FINAL PLAY (By the Associated Press) Fargo, N. D., July 28,—C. E. Bris- tol, Fargo, was two up on R. T. Barn- ard at the end of the first 18 holes of the’36 hole match for the amateur state golf championship at noon to- day. ashe next state tournament will be at Grand Forks it was decided at the annual meeting of the state associa- tion. ©. J. Murphy, Grand Forks, was chosen president, and W. J. Hewitt, Grand Forks, secretary by the newly elected directors who are: R. T. Barnard, Fargo; Mr. Murphy, FE. B. Cox, Bismarck; Louis Knudson, Kenmare, and Louis Kostelecy, Dick- inson, EVANGELIST IN DIVORCE SUIT Grand Rapids, Mich. July 28.— Testifying as a defense witness in the separate maintenance suit brought by Mrs. Lottie M. Trotter against her husband, Melvin E. Trot- ter, prominent evangelist, Miss Flor- ence Moody, his former secretary, de- nied on the witness stand today that the evangelist was the father of u child born to her in 1917. Miss Moody also denied there ever had been anything improper in her relations with Rev. Trotter. The charge that the evangelist was the father of Miss Moody’s child was made by Mrs. Trotter in filing her suit and also reiterated in her tes- timony last week. Mrs. Trotter as- serted her husband and Miss Moody had confessed the parentage to her NEW RECORD FOR ROPING Cheyenne, Wyo., July 28.—A new world’s record for roping and hog- tying a steer was established during the second day of Cheyenne’s fron- tier day celebration, by Ben John- son, Oklahoma horseman, officials of the contest announced. Johnson accomplished the feat in 20 4-5 seconds, one-fifth of a second faster than the former record. made here in 1921 by Fred Lowery, also of Oklahoma, President » Harding, Thomas J. Kennedy, chairman of the union scale committee said today. (By the Associated Press) Chicago, July 28.—Coal operators today were continuing to deny knowledge of any scheduled peace meeting such as mentioned by John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers and the strike seemed lit- tle nearer a settlement. Mr. Lewis’ statement that he had “every reason to believe that an in- terstate joint conference of the cen- tral comp e field. would be ar- ranged within a few days,” was dis- counted by officiats of the National Coal Association at Washington. They said the decision had been reached to make no move in the cen- tral field. An early agreement in Illinois was said to be a “dead issue” following adjournment of the miners state ex- ecutive board at St. Louis. Hlinois operators again refused to enter into any sectional or national wage con- ference. Meanwhile Secretary Hoover was receiving assurance from the gover- nors of various states that the fed- eral government would: receive every aid from them in preventing retail profiteering in coal during the strike emergency. Governor Shoup of Col- orado indicated that he would today add his assurance to that of the gov- ernors of Iowa, West Virginia, Penn- sylvania, Minnesota and Kansas, al- ready received by the secretary of commerce, It was expected that the presi- dent’s coal committee which has been working to perfect! an organ- jzation to carry out the coal con- trol program would be ready to func- tion by the first of next week, The name of the fifth member of the committee was expected to be an- nounced today. TWO ALLEGED . RUM RUNNERS ARE KILLED ille, Ky., July 28,—Federal agents killed Harry Baker, former lieutenant of police and wounded an. other alleged rum-runner during a gun fight here early this morning at a distillery near the business section of the city. One of the alleged rum runners escaped. Baker was recent- ly discharged from the police force. The alleged rum = runners inten- tionally drove their truck laden with 5 barrels of whiskey into a federal agent’s automobile, then opened fire with pistols, it was id. The ten government agents returned the fire, killing Baker and wounding another. A third man w: ptured, ‘The fourth escaped. Baker's accomplice, it was reported by hospital attaches, will probably die, % PRICE FIVE CENTS AN TO END STRIKE SAYS EOUITY’S 3 PLANS ARE 10 GO BEFORE STRIKE HEADS All Hinge on Seniority Rights, It is Said by Persons Con- ferring with Harding SENIORITY QUESTION All Proposals Said to Hinge on Various Methods of Set- tling This Matter (By the Associated Press) Washington, July 28.—Proposals for immediate ending of the railroad strike have been submitted to rep- jTesentatives of the railroad execu- tives and labor unions by President Harding, according to information obtained today from administration advisers, who talked with the execu- tive. Three proposals, all hinging on va- rious plans for adjusting the em- ployes seniority rights, will be sub- mitted, it was said, to be executives meeting In New York Tuesday, ana to an employes conference in Chicag> to be arranged by B. M. Jewell, the shopmen’s leader. Outside railroad contracting, would be abandoned by the railroads un- der each of the three proposals, One of the proposals, according to those claiming to have informa- tion of the president’s suggestion, would be for the railroads to waive the seniority question and take all strikers back to work. Another was said to bé&to give “loyal” men who have remained at work prior senior- ity rights over strikers and the third was for separate adjustment of the seniority dispute by each road with its own employes through joint com- mittees to be appointed. President Sees Hope The president was said by his ad- visers to believe that the three pro- posals promised considerable hope of a strike settlement to have declared that “more clouds had | passed away” in the railway situa- tion within the past few hours than for several weeks, \ All administration officials ac- | quainted with the proposals appear- ed to share the president’s view that a basis upon which the strikers ; might return to work had been worked out. Jewell at White House Soon 4fter the nature of the pres- ident’s proposals had become knowa and after the cabinet session at which it was presumed the execu- tive had outlined them to his ad- visers, Mr. Jewell appeared at the white house for another conference with Mr. Harding. The strike leader who was unaccompanied, refused to discuss the situation declaring “this thing has come to the point where we all can do good if we keep quiet: for a couple of days.” The belief was expressed that if further dis- | cussion between Mr. Jewell and the president proved satisfactory, the striking organization would convene immediately a general convention in which a representative of each craft on each of the railroads where the strike is in force would be settled. PEACE PLANS ADVANCED Chicago, July 28.—Plans for peace in the railway strike again today seemed to be assuming a more tangi- ble form and the hope was expressed that the 300,000 union shopmen soon would resume work and submit their grievances to the United States rail- road labor board. The announcement that a plan for settlement of the walkout will be put before the meeting in New York Tuesday of executives of 148 of the largest railroads, made by T. DeWitt Cuyler, chairman of the association of railway executives, after a con- ference with President Harding to- gether with the president’s state- ment indicating he would ask the la- bor bourd to grant the shopmen a re- hearing was taken here to mean the rail chiefs would be asked to leave settlement of the issues involved to the board. While the conference at Baltimore of Baltimore and Ohio officials with their striking workmen was reported to have progressed smoothly toward an agreement, B. M. Jewell, head of the shop crafts workers was withhold- ing approval of a separate peace un- til plans for a national settlement had been thoroughly discussed. Mr. ‘Jewell would say nothing of his con- ferences with President Harding, ex- cept that “we continued statements of our views of the situation.” It was expected further conferences would be held by the president with rail executives and with representa- tives of the strikers. Seniority Denied In view of statements made by some rail heads that striking shop- men must return as new employes, it was pointed out that in case the rail- way executives failed to agree on the seniority question the men going back to work could, if denied their old places, take the dispute to the labor board, Twenty-six disputes involving wag- es and working conditions on various railroads were filed with the rail board by E. F. Grable, chief of the maintenance men’s union, A statement issued by the western railroad presidents committee on pub- lic relations declared rights of new men must be respected. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul has established employment of- fices at a number of points along its various lines and opened an employ- ment headquarters in Milwaukee. Shops of the Chesapeake and Ohio (Continued on Page 3)