The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 12, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST — Gener- ally fair tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature, ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BIS BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922 (Leased Wire of Associated Press CK TRIBUNE === PRICE FIVE CEN UNION RAIL LEADERS TURN DOWN U.S. ~IS‘ARRSTED FOR SPEEDING Trys Out Men Charged with Catching Speeders and Finds They Are on Job MANDAN HAS CAMPAIGN Chief of Police There Says that Campaign on Speeders Is to Be Made Chief of Police’C. J, Martineson en- listed the aid of an accommodating friend last night to find out if the officers who are charged with the duty of stopping speeders in Bismarck were really on the job. They were. The chief with O. E. Anderson, in the latter’s car, drove out the prison road, increasing their speed as they went. They were going about 3v' miles an hour ,when they heard the skout of a policeman to stop. They did, and the chief and Mr. Anderson were arrebted—at least they were’ caught—speedjn; About 10 moré ‘persons were nabbed for speeding last Might, the third day of the clean-up campaign-in the city. They were found speeding in various parts of the city. One young lady from Mandan who had been loaned the ear or a friena was ‘hitting ‘er up” a little too fast, and the. license number was taken. The owner of the car was notified. Mandan police, it is announced, also have embarked on a campaign against speeding, and the police on both sides of the river declare they'll keep it up. Signsgiving the speed limit of Bis- ymarck as 20 miles an hour except in the congested district have been placed at the outskirts of town, Another matter emphasized by po- lice is that accidents must be report- ed to the police. Some of them re- cently have not been. WON'T LEASE |.» POLICE CHIEF Receiver to Operate It, Judge Denying Order ae A meeting of creditors of the Lucky Strike Coal company of Za} was held before Judge H, L. Berry in Mandan yesterday when an appli- cation to lease the Lucky Strike prop- erty to the Zap Collieres company was considered. Judge Berry denied the application when P. J. Cahill, re- ceiver for the mine, maintained in court that he could make more money operatig tne mine as receiver. Mr. Cahill said tuat, he already had powder and dynamite on hand with which .to begin operating the mine and said that. production could be doubled. The- Northern Pacific Railruad company, he said, had built ;a new spur track. The receiver said there would be no lack of orders in view of the coal shortage. WEATHER, REPORT, . For ‘twenty-four.,hours ending at noon teday: ~ Temperature at 7 a. m, Temperature at noo! Highest yesterday. 93 Lowest ‘yesterday 58 Lowest lasti night. 67 Precipitation .......... se 0 * Highest wind velocity oe 20 Weather, Forecasts For Bismarek and vicinity: Gen- erally fairtonight,and, Sunday; not much change .in temperature. For North Dakota: Generally fair tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature. General Weather Conditions Light precipitation has occurred in parts of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas, and in the ex- treme Northwest, but elsewhere the weather is generally fair. The Low north of the Plains States has caused high temperatures in the Dakotas and Minnesota. H L In W Amenia .. .. ..96 57 00 pe Bismarck. 60 .00 cl’r Bottineau . 57) 00 pee. Bowbells. .. ..89 60 .00 p.c. Devils Lake. 60 .00 cl’r Dickinson .. .. 61 00 pc Dunn Center 60 .00 cl’r Ellendale. .. ..95 | 58 .00 cl’r Fessenden .. ..92 55 .00 cl’'r Grand Forks ..94 59. .00 cl’r Jamestown . ..91 64 .00 cl’r * Langdon. 57 = 00s cl’r Larimore. 56.00 cl’r Lisbon. .. 56.00 cl’r Minot... 51.00 cl’r Napoleon. 55.00 cl’r Pembina. 52.00 «cl’'r Williston. 62 .00 cldy Moorhead. .. ..94 62 .00 fogy Orris W. Roberts, Meteorologist. WILTON LABOR CELEBRATION BEING PLANNED A Labor Day celebration of unusual importance is being planned for Wil- ton labor men there will be repre- sentatives of labor from various parts dan will be invited to join in. invited to deliver an address, LUCKY STRIKE’ vice 270 b. D. each. It THRESHERS MANAGED BY © _ PREACHER Manages Them, Keeps Books, | * Acts as Timekeeper and Man of All Jobs (By the Associated Fress) Stanford, Ill, Aug. 12—A preacher | who took hold of a threshing crew, managed it, kept books, acted as timekeeper and man of all work about the job, has given farmers in this section of the state an exafnple the usual’ haphazard business of threshing. is the Idw cost of 20 cents a minute. The preacher-manager is Rev. N. B. Crabtree, who has a church south- east of Stanford. Under. Rev. Mr. Crabtree’s direction, a “ring” of farmers was organized to cooperate in threshing the grain of the neigh- borhood. Under Rev. Mr. Crabtree’s. manage- ment this year the ring saved three days’ time by “watching the corners. One method by which he saved time was by dividing the crew into relays for dinner, one group going to din- ner while the other group’ kept the machine going. In this way each ner and the machine was not idle more than.half an hour. The “board- ing house scramble” for the first table also was eliminated since there was always room for each group at one sitting. Keeps Eye'on Feeder / It_also was Rev. Mr. Crabtree’s job to keep an eye on the feeder to see that no grain was wasted. He also cleaned up under the feeder when- ever a job was finished, placed feed !and hay handy for the horses, ar- ranged with the women as to the ex- act time for dinner and, according to the farmers concerned made himself useful in many other ways besides as general manager. The order in which’ the fields were to be threshed and the approximate amount of labor each man was to furnish were determined at a pre- liminary meeting. On the basis of the labor cost the previous years the | basis of pay was decided at $3 a day for each man, $4.50 a day for a man ‘and a team, 25 cents a head for horse feed and 74 cents for each man’s dinner. plied to and by each farmer, and whether he was debtor, or creditor of the ring. At the end of the threshing season the riag met in the schoolhouse, and on the blackboard Rev. Mr. Crabtree explained every item of expense. Every farmer had | his check book with him and a settle: mept was made on the spot. JUDGING TEAM TO ATTEND SHOW Fargo, N. D., Aug. 12—The state agricultural college will send a dairy {stock judging team to two annua! dairying: events of the country this year for the first time, J. R. Dice, | Professor of dairying, announced to- j day. saa One is the National Dairy show, Minnesota fair grounds, where the jcontest will take place October 9th |dairy congress, the contest of which jis set for September 25. Most of the agricultural colleges of the mid- dle west will be represented. The team is composed of Bert Ogerkirk, Fargo; Harper J. Brush, Lisbon; Obert S. Kree,Glydon, Minn., and G, A. Gregory, Fargo. r HOME BUILDING APPEAL SOON William Langer, ‘attorney for George E, Wallace, and George Sha- fer, assistant attorney general, rep- resenting the state, have agreed upon a findings of fact and conclusions of law in accordance with Judge Pugi’s memorandum opinjon in the Wallace home building case, and forwarded the document to Judge Pugh for ap- of the state and Bismarck and Man- proval. The case will be appeaied by 1 Wil-| the state, probably in time to go 01 liam Langer of Bismarck has been} the September calendar of the su- preme court. of system.and cooperative effort in} He operated his crew at| man was given a full hour for'din-| Rev. Mr. Crabtree’s records show-! ed the labor, meals and fodder sup-, {and the other the Waterloo (Iowa),| | Largest Hydroplane Ready for International Mail tried out at Raphael, France, this monster four-winged hydroplane will be used to inaugu: between Marseilles and Algiers, Africa. The plane is the largest in the world, ha' 89 feet long and 20 feet high, (By the Associated Press) Superior, Wis., Aug. 12.—Pat- rick Whalen, 32, was arrested at noon today in connection with the shooting of George Braue, Great Northern guard, at Saund- ers, this morning. Whalen was taken to the hospital where Braue lays: witha bullet wound in his breast and identified by Braue as the man who shot him, He is being held without charge until the outcome of Braue’s in- juries are known. Whalen is a member of one of the unions involved in the strike but is not himself a striker, not having been employed in the lo- cal railway shops for a long time. An’ operation to remove the bullet from Braue’s body will be performed at ‘2 o'clock. His condition is regarded as serious. (By the Associated Press) Superior, Wis., Aug. 12,—One Great Northern special agent was shot and seriously. wounded, another severely beaten and four others bruised: at ; Saunders, Wisconsin, seven miles from here shortly before 6 a. m.’to- day when a. mob of: strike sympath- izers intercepted a car load of -non- union ‘employes enroute from Minne- apolis to Superior. The non-union employes, said to | number about 30, were then kidnaped and taken into, the woods nearby, A jdetachment of’ police and deputy sheriffs are searching the woods for ‘the men. George Braue, 27, of Minneapolis, |who who with another guard ac- companied the train from Minneap- | olis, was shot through the breast. George Ihrig, of Superior, formerly district. federal prohibition chief here was the guard severely beaten. The men were brought to the local \ hospital for treatment. Kidnaped Accounted For Special agents of the Great North- ~~. (COURTHOUSE WORK GOES ON i Judgment Drawn Dissolving i Injunction | Stanton, N. D., Aug. 12.—Work on the addition to the Mercer county court house at Stanton aro continu- ing following. the dissolution of the injunction issued against the commis- sioners of that. county. “Judgment has just been entered in the matter, according to David Schwartz, special assistant state’s attorney, who suc- cessfully represented the commis- | sioners, The injunction action was brought jby P. S. Chaffee of Beulah, an in- {junction being granted by Judge H. |L. Berry in Mandan. The case was heard on its merits in Stanton by | Judge Nucssle, the court holding that | the proceedings were valid and deny- Ling the prayer of the plaintiffs for a ! permanent injunction. the temporary | injunction of Judge Berry being dis- solved. iSUES WHITNEY FOR A MILLION Saratoga Springs, Aug. 12—Onc million dollars damage is sought by Evan Burrowes Fontaine, a dancer, in | suit for breach of promise against Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, son of Harry Payne Whitney, according to the statement of Miss Fontaine’s at- torney, Charles Firestone, during the argument of a motion in the case be- fore Justice Henry V. Borst here to- day. eo et HAZELTON OLD TIMER DIES IN MINNESOTA, Linton, N. D., Aug. 12.—David S. | Weaver for many years a resident of | Hazelton, who moved to Milaco, Minn., two years ago, passed away at his Minnesota home on July 3ist, as a result of cancer of the stomach. He first suffered from stomach trouble {a year ago last spring. All members of his family wert with him at the time of his death except his son, Charles Weaver, and son-in-law, F. H. Webert, also of Hazelton, NON-UNION MEN MOBBED; ONE SHOT, OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED NEAR SUPERIOR, WIS. ‘shot while he ay face downward.! GRIFFITH, HEAD, OF IRISH DAIL, DIES SUDDENLY Leader Passes Away Aften Ten Days’ Illness—Was Due to Operation (By the Associated Press) Belfast, Aug. 12.—Arthur Griffith, | president of the Dail Eireann, died in Dublin today of influenza, it has been learned in Belfast. Mr, Griffith was ill only ten days and his illness was not considered seripus. Yesterday, however, he suf- fered a sudden relapse and died eariy this morning. His death occurred at his residence in St. Lawrence Road, Clontarf, a suburb of Dublin. His death occurred at 9:45 o'clock ;|this. morning in Vincent’s hospital. ‘| Dublin, which he entered ten days ago for an operation for tonsilitis. He was recovering from the oper: i tion and apparently. regaining his Rormal strength during the last few *l days. In fact, Mr, Griffith had responded to his treatment so well that he was able to leave the hospital daily fo his official i i ern reported to Superintendent Keld! ietitation Che ee oe sey at 10:30 that six of the ten non-| This morning, he ate a hearty union workers kidnaped had been ac-| breakfast and was going upstairs counted for. Four of these had been | When he suddenly collapsed. He was I carried into his room and a doctor beaten.’ One of the workers WAS’ 4 immediately summoned. He said found six miles from Saunders. He Mr. Griffith was suffering from a had ran all the way carrying a suit-| cordbral hemorrhage., A priest was case, He ‘refused to give his name./then sent for and he had just fin- All of the workers are from Minne-| ished administering the last rites of apolis. Police deputy sheriffs and’ the church when Mr. Griffith expired, special agents still are searching for| 1» Qetober, 1919, Griffith was the four missing workers. elected presiding officer for the open- The attackers said to. number be-| ing of the Sinn Fein conference in tween 40 and 50 armed men, fired! Dublin. He was later nominated as four shots at the guards when they| Sinn Fein delegates from east Cavin. stepped from the coach and at-/ In July, 1919, Griffith was elected tempted to prevent the raiders from acting president of the Irish nation- entering the coaches, according to; ) assembly in the absence of Eamon information received by Frank D. pe Valera who was in the United Kelsey, district superintendent of ' states, In Oetober of the same year the Great Northern. The guards: 1 was elected one of the permanent did not return the fire, it is reported. | yic¢.presidents of the Sinn Fein or- No arrests have been made. Guards nization. said Braue was first slugged over, © : the head, knocked to the ground and) November, 1920, and spent seven months in Mount Joy prison. Dur- ing his imprisonment he issyed a message to the Irish people as to the conduct of the Sinn Fein organiza- “tion.” An unsuccessful attempt -was made to rescue him from Mount Joy rison. 1 The bullet entered his back, pass. ing through his chest. The shoot- ing and kidnaping took place in full} view of the passengers. on. the.’ Northern passenger train from Min neapolis, Griffith was arrested in Dublin in, The mob is reported to have forced | P the crew of the train waiting to; transport the workers to the Allouez | shops, to abandon the train while the ; attack occurred. After Braue was} shot, however, the engineer was ord- ered to proceed to Superior with the wounded man, Authorities are making a special effort to locate the leader of the ‘mob who is said to have been the leader of the mob which attacked and beat up several non-union workers in a fight in the downtown ‘streets of Superior last Tuesday. He is also said to have been the instigator of several other disturbances occurring here since the strike of shopmen. WOMAN THROWN FROM AN. AUTO When some tourfsts in ‘a Ford from Towa, were traveling on the Mandan- Bismarck road yesterday evening, one woman was thrown from the car when it went into the ditch about a mile cast of Mandan. All the oc-| cupants of the car were badly shaken up and bruised but were were in- jured. The car was lifted up and put back.on the road and traveled merrily on. PRODUCTION OF COAL BOOSTED Washington, Aug. 12,—Production of bituminous coal’ during the week ending today is estemated by the geo- logical survey at approximately 4,- 800,000 net tons or 500,000 tons more than the output for the previous week. PROFIT SMALL FOR FARMERS DURING 1921 Fargo, N. D., Aug. 12—Very few farmers made money in North Da-! kota during 1921, according to Rex E. Willard, Farm Accounts specialist of the Agricultural College, who is working over records from 136 farms in 35 counties in order to calculate the cost of production of wheat and other grain crops per acre and the cost of producing live stock. “I have finished working over 100 individual farm records of the busi ness for the year and have thirty-si left before they are complted,” s Mr. Willard. “When these finished we will tabulate the results, which will give us the cost of pro- duction of live stock on the farm. Records examined so far show that few farmers made money on their 1921 operationsL. A few realized a. return on their labor on live stock, after paying expenses, despite the fall in prices between the first and last of the year. Potatoes were gen- erally profitable, particularly when marketed early, but very few farm- ers made money on wheat. | 1 are The return of Mr. De Valera from America was atributed to Griffith's imprisonment, as Mr. De Valera up- on his return resumed the active di- rection of the’Sinn Fein affairs. Early in June, 1921, there were re- ports of a London conference, at which Irish leaders woult be invit- f to consult with members ‘of the! ritish cabinet. Griffith was men- tioned among the probable delegates. His release from Mount Joy prison/ followed later in the same month. The death of Arthur Griffith marks the passing /of one of the foremost figures in modern Ireland. He was ne of the most conspicuous leaders {n the creation of the new Irish Free .State. He was one of the founders of the Sinn Fein movement in Ireland and from the, beginning has been among the foremost leaders directing | its activities. Mr. Griffith was formerly an edi- tor of Dublin and later established the newspaper United Irishmen, fol- lowed by the Sinn Fein and then the Nationality, He first attracted attention by his uncompromising attitude for absten- tion by Irish members from attend- ance of the sessions of the British) parliament at West Minister. This ideal gradually formed the nucleus of the Sinn Fein organization, which took the place of the Irish nationalist movement. ENGINEERS IN MEETING TALK LIGNITE COAL The regular monthly meeting of the) North Dakota chapter of the Ameri-/ [ean Association of Engineers took place last evening at the McKenzie hotel. Supper was served to 22 and} their friends. “Lignite” was the topic of the evening. J. N. Roherty reviewed the presend coal situation with special) reference to the development of the lignite industry in North Dakota. Other speakers on the subject in- cluding Prof E. F. Chandler of Grand Forks, were unavoidably absent, O. T. Peterson, assistant registrar of the American Extension university | of Los Angeles, gave a talk on “Serv- ice,” urging the engineers of the state to, undertake a campaign of educa- tion especially ‘among the small com- munities of the state as regards the installation of pure water supplies and sanitary sewer systems. f E. A. Williams also made some in- teresting remarks relative to the agi- tation for irrigation as a cause for rain in the state and to the early history of North Dakota. 3 The next meeting of the engineers will be the Bismarck A. A. E. club meeting to take place, Aug. 25. + WEEK’S WEATHER REPORT (By the Associated Press) Washington, Aug. 12.—Weather outlook for the weck beginning monday: Region|of the Great Lakes and Up- per Mississippi Valleys, considerable cloudiness; normal temperature; scattered local showers. | telegram from COMPLETE RAIL TIEUP SEEN IN BIGFOUR ACTION May Join Trainmen’s Walkout as Result of Meetings Called Over Nation EMBARGO ON FRUIT Trains Held Up in Desert While Women and Children Suffer from Delay (By the Associated Press) Chicago, Aug. 12, — Nation-wide paralysis of railroad transportation threatened today. as “Big Four” brotherhood men in various parts of the country called meetings .to con- sider joining the trainmen’s walkout which started when crews tied up transcontinental Santa Fe trains in the California and Arizona deserts and freight traffic on the Elgin, ‘ Joliet and Eastern outer-belt line for the Chicago steel and shipping dis- t | tricts, The walkout of trainment spread to other sections during the last 24 | hours. Switchmen joined engineers, firemen, conductors and brakemen in protests against working where troops, deputy United States mar- shals and other gyards were on strike duty at former trouble cen- ters. Clerks on the Santa Fe coast lines were authorized to walk off their jobs if they considered condi- tions unsatisfactory. Although several Santa Fe passen- | ger trains held up by the strike at | California points were backed into j Los Angeles, other transcontinental j trains were stranded in the desert. Passengers marooned at Seligman, Arizona, appealed to Santa Fe offi; cials to relieve them from their plight declaring that women and children were suffering. The plea ; was passed on to the brotherhood of- ! ficials at Needles, California. They {were urged to consider the situa- tion from a “humanitarian” stand- point by the company. ‘ Passengers on the stranded trains sweltered in the heat of the desert | but many accepted their fate philo- sophically and some wore blue bands. on their sleeves signifying their sym- ‘pathy for the strikers. Southern Pacific firemen joined the walkout, tying up limited passenger i trains at Ogden, Utah. | Embargoes on fruit, livestock and | other perishable freight were an- ' nounced by. the Southern Pacific and Western Pacific. Early today the trainmen’s strike had spread until it affected among other roads the Illinois Central at Memphis, the, Louisville and Nash- ville at Evansville, Indiana, and Mad- isonville, Kentucky, the Denver and Rio Grande, the Wabash at Moberly, Missouri, the Union Pacific and Ore- gon short line. at Pocatello, Idaho, and Salt Lake City and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas. M. K. and T. trainmen and switch- men called a meeting at Waco, Tex- as, for tomorrow to consider a strike on the road. Sporadic outbreaks Thursday in connection with the rail strike were followed by a lull, but Bloomington, Illinois, where troops are still on guard, returned to the trouble m’p when C. J. Krause, a foreman in the Chicago and Alton shops, was seized by masked men, taken to th eout- skirts of the city, beaten into uncon- sciousness and left by the roadside. MERCURY GOES TO HIGH POINT i i | Season’s Record of 97 Estab- lished at 3 o’Clock The thermometer ascended to its high point of the summer at 3 o'clock this efternoon, when the instrument at the U. S. weather bureau reported a temperature of 97. The mercury had steadily been climbing through the day. It was possible that the | high mark for \ae day would be above 97, The day, while the hottest of the summer, was not near the record fo. August. It was accompanied by hot breezes which will do some damage to corn and pastures. There was nothing clse insight this afternoon except continued heat, the weather bureau reported. OFFER $250,000 FOR RAILROAD Duluth, Minn. Aug. 12,—Duluth and Minneapolis men today offered $250,000 for the Duluth and Northern Minnesota railroad, agreeing to build 8 line from Duluth to Port Arthur. Shortly after federal court con- vened this morning, attorneys for the state and Lake county settlers op- posed the abandonment of the rail road for a lack of a responsible pur- chaser, Judge Page Morris received a Robert Waldron of Minneapolis, offering to buy the road, MAY USE CABLE. Washington, Aug, 12.—The request of the Western Union. company to open the Miami-Barbadoes cable for emergency use for transmission of messages to urope was granted to- day by President Harding. Lorraine’s Beauty Mile. M. Forrest, just declared “queen of queens” Metz, That means she’s the prettiest girl in Lorraine. : COAL PARLEYS DELAYED OVER Operators Differ as to the Plan to Be Taken for Future Negotiations (By the Associated Press) Cleveland, Aug. 12, — Division among the coal operators, as to the form of their proposal for future ne- gotiations with the miners developed today and temporarily delayed the work of the joint sub-scale commit- tee of operators and minors that had been created to consider an agree- ment that might effect a partical set- tlement of the soft coal srike. After a long caucus among them- selves, the operators, went directly into the afternoon meeting with the miners refusing to announce wheth- er they had reached any decision as to their demand. the committee, however, were under- stood to have demanded that any agreement. should provide for arbi- tration in the future. Before they held their cause the operators had been told by President John L. Lewis | that the miners would not accept ar- bitration. % CABINET BACKS LLOYD GEORGE ON MORATORIUM Leaves Matter of Negotiations with Germany Entirely in His Hands (By the Associated Press) London, Aug. 12—The British cab- inet today unanimously accorded its full support to Prime Minister Lloyd George with regard to the ‘negotia- tions concerning a moratorium for Germany and decided to leave the matter entirely in his hands, _The allied experts who are study- ing the British proposals on the rep- arations question continued sessions this afternoon and expected to con- clude their report to the allied pre- miers tonight. It is understood, how- ever, that there will be no further meeting of the full conference’ until Monday. THREE SUSPECTS TAKEN AFTER A PISTOL BATTLE Fargo, N. D., Aug. 12.—Three men suspected of being members of @ gang that entered stores at Oriska and Tower City recently were cap- ‘tured by deputy sheriffs after an exchange of bullets when they failed to heed a warning to submit to ar- rest. According to information here dep- uties were station three miles west of Tower City to watch for the burg- lars who were believed to have hid- den loot nearby. John Milloy, who was arrested by Fargo police, was found to have articles identified as stolen in Tower City. According to deputies six men rode up in a car at night and at- tempted to remove the loot hidden near Tower City. A call to surren- der was answered with a volley of shots. The men taken in custody gave the names of Frank Koss, 42; Fred Alkire, 33, and James Martin, 37. TOWN PLACED UNDER OPEN PORT LAW Austin, Tex., Aug. 12,—The town 9f Palestine was placed under the pro- visions of the open port law by Gov- ernor Neff this morning. The procla- mation became effective at 9 o'clock. Ranger Captain Jerry Gary has been ordered there to take charge. Governor Neff in his proclamation specified the same reasons for invok- ing the law as in his other proclama- tions. PROPOSAL FORM Some operators on; PLAN REJECTION OF U.S. PEACE PLAN IS COMPLETE Message Forwarded to White House Shortly After 1 O’clock This Afternoon SPORADIC WALKOUTS Continued “Piece Meal’ Strikes Are Reported from Various Sections DEMAND THEIR TERMS Washingon, Aug. 12. — The striking unions in a written re- Sponse sent to the white house were said to have told the pres- ident they could not call off the strike unless a guarantee was given that all of their men would be reinatated in service with sen- fority rights unimpaired. The president had proposed. that the seniority status of the return- ing strikers be left to adjudica- tion by the railroad labor board. (By the Associated Presa) Washington, Aug. 12.—H the seven railroad orga on strike -were declared b¥ @ne of their chief’ officials today aster o final conference to have decidea to reject completely the last strike set- tlement proposal put forward by President Harding. It was announced shortly after one o'clock this afternoon announced that they agreed on a response to President Harding’s latest strike set- tlement proposal. The response was understood to be a rejection of the proposition to | leave seniority of srikers to the de- | cision of the railroad labor board, but on statement was made. The decision of the union leaders, it was announced, had been forward- ed to the white house by messenger. Won't Ask Legislation President Harding was said by ad- ministration advisers today to have abandoned, temporarily at least, his plan for asking legislation of con- | gress to deal with the railroad | strike situation. Early Answer Promise of an early answer by the ! seven striking shopmen’s unions to | President Harding's latest and “final” strike settlement proposal was seen .in an announcement fron the white house thit thé railroad union leaders | had made an engagement to call at ! two-thirty o’clock this afternoon om the president. Answer of the striking shopmen to the peysident's “finalproposal” for a settlement was expected to emerge today from the general conference of railroad labor here. With it, ac- cording to Warren S, Stone, chief of the engineers brotherhood and pre- siding officer of the conference, will come a statement to the public ex- plaining the attitude of the non- striking rail unions and the protest walkouts of train service employes over the country which have further complicated the situation. To Go To White House Presumably the shopmen’s an- swer will be transmitted promptly to the White House where a committee of railway executives from the meet- ing yesterday in New York, repre- senting 148 railroads, was due dur- ing the day to present the “condi- tional acceptance” of the president’s plan voted yesterday by the general meéting’ of railroad heads im New York. : With both ‘communications before him President Harding will be in a position to decide’ the course the gov- ernment will pursue to protect the interests of the nation in the serious transportation crisis resulting, from the rail strike. Several hours’ of discussion by the railroad labor heads yesterday brought out no anthoritative state- ment but noone challenged the re- iterated prediction that the pres- ident’s suggestion that the shopmen return to work and leave phe ques- tion of their seniority rating to the railroad. labor board would be re- jected. ORDERED BACK TO WORK. Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 12.—Mem- bers of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, who went on strike on the Santa Fe railroad, have been ordered to return to work, President W. G. Lee announced tyday in declaring that their walkout was unauthorized inasmuch as the regular proceedings in settling disputes had not been car- ried out. Telegrams to this effect were sent to General Chairman Dutfy and General Secretary Hascott of the Santa Fe system ut Los Angeles. In explaining his position to a rep- resentative of the Associated Press, Mr, Lee said messages similar to those he sent to general chairmen or the Illinois Central, Chicago an: Northwestern, the Chicago, Rock Is land and Pacific and the Missouy Pacific railroads are being forwarde: to all general committees forwarding complaints, TWO TRAINS STALLED. San Francisco, Aug. 12—A strike of employes belonging to the four brotherhoods on the Western Pacific Railroad company system at Oakland and Stockton early today stalled two overland trains of the system at Stockton and forced the company to declare an absolute embargo on. per- ishable and ‘livestock from all Cali- fornia points. TRAINS DELAYED. Los Angeles, Aug. 12.—Passenger trains due to arrive here today over (Continued on Page 3)