Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 23, 1923, Page 2

FAGE TWU’ RAILROADS OF So Says Carl R. Gray, President of Union Pacific, In Address Pointing Out Mistakes of the Past and Future Salvation. Declaring that all the railroads want {fs a “fair deal” and pointing to mistakes of the past through legislation and otherwise which are on ly now being corrected by a government policy which will put the carriers on their feet and maintain service at Gray, presid Wumir ent of the Union at address before the Wyo- 8 asgociation conven gias Inst that car ad explanation of the prob ave beset the raflron history of the rall- p to and through the period r he called at- ized condition h equipment and per- yonnel in which they were turned back to thefr owners. “Strangula- Mon" of the ro: had practically destroyed raflroad credit at the be- ginning of the war and the 26 months that followed, justified only by an emergency required during wart led up to provisions for earning “guarantees of six months unéer the Esch-Cummins law, under which the roads were returned. This ee continued until September slowed a period of cars, general demor asiness and financial and then the coal and railroad strikes in 1922. The Dsch-Cummins law, however, it was stated by the speaker, “took an entirely aption of the obligation of the government to the railrond situation, with the result that, the new law placed a mandate upon the Interstate Commerce com- mission in the fixing of rates to so adjust them that it would, where practicable, give a return to the rail- roads of five and one half per cent upon the valve of their properties devoted to the public use, “I want to call attention in pass- ing to the fact that this fair return, this five and one half per cent was fixed upon the value of the proper- tles, that ‘value to be determined by thé Interstate Commerce commis- sion, and to not take into consider- ation the stocks and the bonds of of these properties; and so there cou'd| be no valld claim that in the consid- eration given by the commission there was anything allowed for so- called watered stock. One half of one per cent was add- e4 to this amount, presumably to be used by the railroad in actual expenditures; and then all earnings of any character in excess of six per cent; being the five and one half per cent and one half per cent, was to be equally divided under the so- called recapture clause, Now some railroads felt;ours among them, that that particular feature was a very unfalr thing; that when the earning was predicated upon rates in them selves fair and rensonable, that the fruits of management and foresight and large investment should not b taken away; but that ie a part of the law. Railroad credit is a very real thing. It disappears very quickly—it omnes back very slowly. And so it perhaps is well to consider what has resulted from the Httle over three years of operation which the rnail- roads have had under this law. In the year 1920 the return was .72 of 1 per cent upon the value fixed by the Interstate Commerce comr sion, In the year 1921 it wag 3.37 per cent; in the year 1922 it was 4.14 per cont; not a very large re- turn as you can appreciate, but a steadily increasing condition. “Now what has been the direct and immediate result of that. <A purchase of equipment both as to been known ‘operties on a scale unr cent years: an {investment in stocks of the dlf- erent railroads aggregating $1,100,- 000,000 of new money; and it a significant thing when considering that result to remember that dur- Ing that three years there has not been a passed ¢ or by any state leg! “So, as a result of three years of from attacks from legis- from any evidence of a have told you to a point where vestors are beginning to take new raflroad securitie nd are getting back into the older securities; 0 that the market ranges at a very much highér level than it has for years, “There are two things about a rafiroad which directly affect the publiq. first and fundamentally the most important {s service; second, the rate ged for that service. © railroads kre earning’ unfat it is correct and fair to point out the fact that In the three years which I have en- umernteg the return upon railroad Investment, as found by the com- jon itself, been only what would ordinarily expect tt y In any other business. ice which the raflronds promptly started out to arrange re- Intes of course intimately with their Nnar to quipmént cumted a concert ated movement to 1 standard of effic- thereby offering better pery- public, to reach a aumber of miles per car p dny hereby automatically increasing the | tumber of cars available, to store } lange amount of oo fo as to re. pase the cara in tho crowed per. bd for use by the publia All of these things cost money, reflected rectly in operating expenses. “When one considers the fret jatos and the passenger rates, hittedly high, one has to rerr a hat there are two cond nt with the rafirc fou suffer with w one the other of es and cars exceeding any- | to Interfere in the | its highest efficiency, Carl R. Pacific railroad, delivered an | which we have to In a greater de- gree meet alone. The first is the tax question, something that has been touched on here today, which |hae been a very serious question with the raflrods; and they haye increased upon the Union Pacific raflroad since 1918 considerably over 100 per cent. And when one remembers that the taxes paid by this single railroad aggregate over » you realize what it ns, The other ts that railroad ex- es are as high as they have been; that the cost of coal is more than {t has ever been; that the tie which we would buy for 60 cents when we went into this war now costs us $1.90, and we use 8,000,000 of them every year; that the steel rail costs no about 60 per cent more than it did in prewar times; and that all the other things which we use have that relationship, with tho ingle exception of fuel ofl, which nly a few raflroads use. “Expenses in these ofrcumstances can only be reduced by the intro. duction of economies other than on materials and labor; through pur- chases of larger locomotives and |larger cara, and in improvements | which reduce grades and give better cilities for handling business ex- Mitiously, The reductions which have been mado in the rates on live stock and grain, and upon all com- modities, have very greatly in- creased in the last eighteen months. But no raflrond man would be can ald, nor would he be fair with him self, if he let anyone think that there are material reductions pos: sible until these expenses can be gotten into lino, “All that we want in the rafiroad business is a fafr deal. During the |war there was a good story camo into Washington, and I am going to close with that story. There was a | dar and his wife «down at Savannah, and they were well known, and they fought a great deal, and about half of the time Mandy Icked Eph, and the other | half of the time Eph licked Mandy Eph was drafted and aent overseas, |and after he got over to France he |wrote a letter to Mandy, and he jeaid: ‘Dear Mandy: They shoot |atuff in your arm over here that is | calculated to make @ negro fight a am chuck full of it, cannibal. I and when I come home, if you 54 SALOONS IN CHICAGO ARE CLOSED TIGHT CHICAGO, Sept. 22—(United Press —Fiftty-four ‘oons were closed and 881 arrests were made by police here today !n response to Mayor Willem Devers command to clamp the lid on the beer traffic and put a stop to killings and violence in connection with bootlegging. The clean-up was ordered follow. ing recent beer syndicate rivalry resulting in the killing of six gang- stera. AILROADER [9 ACQUITTED OF NEGRO KILLING State Without Evidence To Hold Brakeman On C. & S. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. 22. — (Special to The Tribune) — W. B. Houck, Colorado and Southern brakeman residing here will not be prosecuted on the charge of respon sibility for the death of “Slick!* Henderson of Pawhuskey, Okla., colored, who was fatally shot while getting off a Colorado and Southern freight train near Uva. Houck re turned to Cheyenne after a prelim- Inary hearing at Wheatland which resulted in his discharge from cus tody. The presiding justice ruled that there was not sufficient evi- dence to justify holding Houck for trial, Henderson and Dorris Cannon. andther colored trespasser on a Colorado and Southern train, were getting off the rain at the order of Houck and O, D. Stout, another brakeman, when Henderson shot. The train proceeded and the negro died in the ditch while his companion was seeking help. At the preliminary hearing Houck tenmtified that he did not fire the shot that killed Henderson and there was no testimony indicating who did fire it. TWO WOUNDED IN GUN FIGHT CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—(United Press.—A blackhand plot planned to net the plotters $5,000 was frus- trated by the police here tonight after a gun battle in which two men were wounded one probably fatally. |haven't been behaving yourself, I }am going to treat you rough.’ And Mandy was a little worrled over . | that letter, and mhe went to an at torney and she showed him the let- ter, and eince he knew both of the parties, and he sald: ‘Well Mandy, what do you want to do? And she said: “There is one of two things got tobe done. Either I got to have a divorce from that nigger, or somo of that jutce.’ “Personally I only wish that of the 48,000 employes of tho Union 1 all of them could be stock- Where they are making orts to have their men becomo | interested in their proposition they eem to be making a great success. | “It ts certainly plain to each and jevery one that the transportation jsvstem has vastly improved over a jyear ago. We notice this, because |passenger trains are on time, and | because we recelve our stock cars on the dates that we expect them; jand furthermore all the railroad employes, from brakemen on up jendeavor to treat customers with courtesy and consideration. I think that Is one of the big factors in any business, to get that real spirit of service, from the highest to the lowest." S000 HAULIN OPE id MABE ik iu it (Continued from Page One.) there was also found a large amount of clally imported co- eaine from rmany, the first of the itmported stuff that has been found here, Pete Mayes is a negro about 25 years of age. A lone wolf in the me ch he has been carryt: on 80 extensively in Casper for the past few weeks, he stands out as the premier salesman of his class. He !s not considered a ring leader, nor in any way neoted with the other dope peddlers | who have been picked up, but his {activities have been upon a much larger scale and his daring has) been greater, consequently his ar rest is all the more important, Tt js eald that there is plenty of lable in connection having sold dope in c er, He has not been working in this ylcinity except over a very| short period {t 1s understood. Following the arraignment fore U. §. Commissioner M. P.| Wheeler of Ma and four other dope peddlers Friday afternoon and | their retention by federal author!- tes when they were unable to give the bonds required of them, three other alleged peddlers were ar raigned Saturday. Maggie Mack was bound over on a bond of $4,- 000, Olle Walker on a bond of $4, 000, and Conrad Stauch on a bond of $2,000. Thoy were unable to fur- nish bonds. — Whitman's Smakehouso, Chocolates at the particularly con-} ‘within t Joseph Albino, business man in “Little Italy," reported to police that he had received threatening letters and had promised to meet the “black-handers” tonight to pay them the sum demanded. On advice of police, Albino took several hundred dollars in marked bills to the appointed place while two detectives were posted nearby. After two men had received the money from Albino, the detectives attempted to place them under arrest. The men drew revolvers and began firing. In the exchange of shots that followed, both men fell. They gave their names as Dominio Lario and Erico Manaco. Manaco will probably die, Parents Blamed For Flappers Of The Present Day CHICAGO, Sept, 23.—(United Pross,.)—It is no longer e question of ‘what are the children of today coming to?” but a question of “what are the parenta coming to?” This was the assertion of William Math@w Holderly, director of tho Christian family crusade-of St. An- drew, before the crusade convention here toda: “The fathers of Amreica, even more than the mothers, are respons: ble for that twentieth century uct—the flapper," Holderly declared. “The perpetual Joy ride of modern parents should be ended. “The old-fashioned American family life, with its grace before meals, its Bible reading and its family prayers is as neo Qs ever, “The solution of our economio, social and political problems must bo a moral one, but this solution will come only when households make a spiritual interpretation of life. — SLAYER GIVEN LIFE IN PEN MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 22—(Unit- ed Press.)}—WiMiam Stauffer, tax! driver, son of a former resident of Peoria, Ill, was sentenced to life imprisonment at the state peniten- tiary today for the murder of Patrol- be-| man Emi! Engstrom, The murder was committed when tho policeman attempted to arrest Stauffer on a charge of robbéry, Tn W. Taylor, employer of the conyict- ed man wounded at the time of the murder, Stauffer efonse was that he was insan the time of the shooting. When the verlict was pronounced uffer’s wifo fainted and was car- ried to a hospital, where it was aald 1er condition is oritical, Attorneys f: 2 man will file an appeal wit supreme court nty daya, thi was | from lquor and narcotics at | | | The 8. 8. Tyndareus, fi |. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sept. ; |22,—(United Press.)—Mrs. Jack Wal- jton has postponed her vacation in | Maryland and will stand by her hus- band until the Oldahoma governor's | jright to destroy the Ku Klux Klan |is fought through to the end. “Il stick by John to the finish,” the first lady of Oklahoma told the |United Prees tonight. “I had planned to visit relatives in Mary-| land, but that will have to wait now. | I couldn't think of leaving John at | this tim: While politicians, newspapermen |and pardon and parole seekers were |swarming about the executive man- |sion, seeking conferences with the | governor, Mra. Walton went quietly jabout her house work. She was disturbed, however, by |the constant shuffle in and out of the governor's office and the inces- sant movements of guards and con- | | | ship carryin; Jeave America, being loaded at Statt! MRS. WALTON WILL STAND BY HUSBAND g relief supplies for Japan to! ‘Washy ference seekers which had made a virtual state capitol of her home. “The house is nothing now but an annex to the capitol,” she said. “I certainly have a time keeping the floors clean—I believe politi- |clans and newspapermen are the champion smokers of the world. Look at that floor,” and she pointed to the conference room, littered with cigarette stubs and cigar ashes, Despite the confusion, the first lady of the state was performing like a model housewife. She spent part of the day marketing for the week-end. She devotes considerable time also |to caring for her husband's health during the trying ordeals of stato. “I don’ really think John’ health has suffered much,” she said. “And the loss of sleep has improved the lines of his figure, There’ nothing Ike politics for reducing, she remarked laughingly. | GERMANY WILL FLOWN AUER (Continued from Page One.) committee are designed chiefly. to protect the government by getting these groups to asume at least part responsibility for the move. If this can be done the government hopes that it will have spiked the game of the extreme nationalists, who already are accusing Chancellor Stresemann of “cowardly capitala- tion.” The government today was re ported to have discovered tho loca- tion of several large supplies of railway workers who are tmpris- oned. Milltary—Strength of the army In the Ruhr district 88,000 men—81,000 French and 7,000 Belgians with in- fantry, artillery, cavalry, tanks, avi- ators and engineer battalions, In ad- dition there were in the ol occu- pled territory 103,000 French and 17,000 Belgians and in the Kehl bridgehead, 1.000 French and 2,000 Belgian railway workers. Intellectual blockade, newspapers suppressed in the old and new terri. tory 173. War against ohfldren—Ola and new occupted area 209 schools with 2,313 classes for 127,900 pupils con- fiscated, ee arc arms, presumably for use in anti- government plots. Police were instructed to carry out extensive raids against the plotters tomorrow. Meantime offictal fears of renewed communist outbreaks were partly realized by reports from Dresden which sald that several thousand food demonstrators <! ed with po- lice there today !n the market place and later in the post platz. ny persons were arrested and tores of the inner city tmmed- y closed. Disorders were con- tinuing when the last messages were recotved at 7 p. m, Unemployed were demanding food kitchens to feed the workless and immediate payment of an unemploy- nent bonus equal to three dollars as BANK DEPOSITS TAKE BIG JUMP (Continued From Page One) more responstve to local conditions than are the banks, “Judging by the bank statements just published by all the Casper banks community may well con- sider itself fortunate. No city of the s!me of Casper, or for that mat- ter, hardly a city of any size in the entire country, has been more pros- perous or shown more advancement in the past three years. “The erection of new residential well as an advance payment of one week on the usual unemployment dole. The demonstrators announced they were resolyed tq visit food distribu- tors in a body demanding immediate rations. Unofficial quotations on the dollar here today reached 195,000,000 | marks, buildings, new business blocks, and the establishment of new lnes of business has progressed untnterrupt- edly during this time. “Many people have the idea that merchandise prices are higher here than in the east, but I believe the favorable conditions here have al- lowed our merchants to get bargains by paying cash, and the large vol- | DECISION ENDS | DISASTEROUS CAMPAIGN. (Copyright 1923 by United Press Assoctations.$ | BERLIN, Sept. ‘Tho ésctston jof the German government to aban- don passive resistance in the Ruhr, without condition, ends one of the most disagtrous and expensive of |Germany’s post-war campaigns, Resistance starte4 in the middle last January, following the Franco-Belgian occupation. Since | that time {t has cost Germany moro than 100 lives, ten death sentences, jail sentences approximating 1,500 |years, money penalties exceeding one quadrillion marks and 150,000 persons driven from house and home. Besides this luminous record of the havoc wrought by the so-called peaceful opposition to the Franco- | Belgian armed forces, the German reich {8 poorer by an estimated to- tal of ovér 500 trillion marks as a result of its financial support of the action. The end of the Ruhr program wil mark conclusion of the most. exten- sive passive realstance undertaking known in history. ‘The results are obtained in the following statistics obtained by the United Press from the German gov- | ernment. Dead 121. Condemned to death ten (one exe | cuteds) Total penalties about 1,500 years, | Including five persons condemned to! Ufe long imprisonment | Total money penalties—One quad- | }ritlion, 652,000,000 marks and 11,759 | | francs | ' 2 ed—145,604 persons, includ-| ing 65,000 rafhway workera and! ume they are handling in propor tion to their stock has permitted them to offer better bargains than the eastern retallers, “The recent reductions tn the prices of crude may retam oi! field! i wre ps APHIG. STORY OF DESTROYER TRAGEDY SEE Officer Who Ordered Change of Course to Tals Sand: SAN Calif., Sept. 23.— (United Press.}—The graphic story of how seven destroyers went on the -rocks- at Point Arguelio will be heard Monday from the lips of the officer who ordered the change of course which ended in the dij aster. Captain Edward H. Watson, com- manding the destroyer flotilla, and “who assumed full responsibil: for the navigation of the flotilla, according to his counsel, will take the stand before the naval board of inquiry afd tell fully why ‘he changed the course of the fleet. It was on Captain Watson’ orders, according to testimony al- ready given, that radio compass bearings from the Point Arguello station were disregarded and the course changed. " The destroyers were navigating according to their own reckonings, taken from the logs. Because of the confusion in the air due to another shipwreck, and due to interference, the destroyer oficers, according to testimony al- ready given, believed the radio po- sitions must be wrong. The radio bearings were at radical variance with the readings of the logs, ac cording to the testimony, The radio wrned the vessels they were close to Point Arguello and that dangerous rocks were ahead, whereas the navigating of- ficers believed they were anywhere from eight to 20 miles off shore. Testimony has been introduced in the hearing thus far by counsel for the officers tn an attempt to show that the Arguello radio bear- ings were frequently wrong, which would tend to justify navigation officers in disregarding them in view of the confusion of the air. ‘The naval prosecution introduced testimony to show that the Point Arguello station was regarded as being highly accurate, Captain Watson and the com- manding officers of the) individual destroyers will all take the stand and tell the parts they played in the catastrophe, it was indicated at the conclusion of the hearing today, ZR-1 VISITS U.S. CAPITAL LAKEHURST, N, J., Sept. 22— The ZR-1 monster rigid dirigible a: rived at the naval alr station at 6:50 o'clock tonight (eastern daylight time) after completing a successful flight to Washington, D, C, and re-| turn, The Leviathan of the skies glided gracefully from banks of low clouds just as dusk was falling. The alr- ship was then hauled to thp earth and shunted into tts immense hangar for the night. The trip to the national capito!, the longest flight the dirigible ha, made since being launched, was a complete success. Earthquake Is Predicted For Valley Region NEW YORK, Sept. 22,—(United Press.}—Professor Milton A. Nobles, Philadelphia, who predicted the Jap- anese earthquake and minor shocks that followed in Calcutta, Cyrus and Sicily, the tidal waves on the Pacific coast and some time previous the Dayton floods, t ht sent a warn- ing through the United Press to all valley tributaries of the Misstep! river, t “The great earth work Gam ts work in some instances, but I be-j liable to go out,” Professor Nobles eve it will have little direct effect| telegraphed “caution all the valley upon Casper. affected to some extent, Casper may Indeed cons!der herself fortunate when yiewing the general conditions of the past three years.” A. J, Cunningham, president of the Casper National bank gays. “Business today has reached a high peak in Casper from the mer- chandising and banking stondpoint. More labor !s being employed and at higher wage scales than at any other time in Casper. To all ap- pearances {it looks as though the present prosperity were going to continue, yet it fq well to be a little cautions.” Bryant B, Brooks, president of the Wyoming National bank declares that, “Conditions are exceptionally good at this time. The increase in de- posits as noted on bank statements ot tho last call indicate that Casper is growing rapidly, Cattle and lambs are bringing higher prices than had been anticipated. Large numbers of men are employed and the prospects for this city are con- stantly growing brighter.” —— Whitman's Chocolates at the Smokehouse. ————__ Mr. and Mrs, M. H. Cribbs are visiting with friends here for the week-end from Teapot. —_——_—_—__. Expert watch and jewelry repair ing. Carper Jewelry Co., O. 8 Bldg. phat lar li Bena your automobile news to ey announced, their families and. more than 3,000 “Spark Plug.”"—Care Tribune, Even should it be/| tributaries.” NO CLUE FOUND TO ABDUGTORS DENVER WOMAN DENVER, Colo., Sept. 22—(Unit- © Press}—Soarchers for the abduc- tor last night of Mrs. J. Foster Symes, wife of Federal Judge Symes scoured Denver today with scarcely @ clue to work on. Bellet was expressed tn police ofr cles that a @runken tramp boarded the car, with robbery his only mo- tives. That Mrs, Symes was the vio- tim was probably only a chance cir- cumstance, Mrs. Symes had recovered her compormure tonight and appeared not to be suffering from tho shock as it was at first feared sho might, Judge Symes, with police and de tectives, is following every possible clue to find the gullty party. All suspiclous looking persona aro be- ing closely watched, with hope cen- tering in a chance “pick-up. Mrs. Symes was formerly a Mem- phiq, Tenn. social favorite, a OE a eee er eee U.$, NOWSTAGING COMEBACK, WANT AFAR DEAL Leg Repair Is Asked Before Quitting Jail DENVER, Colo, Sept. 22, — Jesus Perez refused to leave the Denver county jail until his ‘wooden leg was repaired. He had broken it in a fall down the jail the day before his thirty- day sentence expired. How to get rid of the prisoner without paying the necessary $1 for repairs kept jailers in a quan- dary, while Peres unconcernedly awaited the verdict. An assistant, with {deas that rankel with a water's concelved ¢ winning—icen—end Pere leftz tho Jail in a whee-oerrcw. Peroz was taken to the city shops for the necessary surgical operation and went his way re- fotcing, a dollar ahend of thé county. MODEL PUPIL GONEESSES TH BANK ROBBERY Holdup of Kansas City Bank Is Solved in Late Arrest. MEXICO, Mo., Sept. 22.-—(United Preas.)\—Paul Burgett, model stu- dent at the military academy here, admitted tonight he was the robber who staged the daring $5,000 hold- up of tho Qiindaro State bank at Kansas City. Burgett was arrested here while driving down Main street in a new automobile recently acquired. A thousand sflver dollars were found by authorities at his rooming house. The Quindaro bank was robbed a week ago. The bandit backed six emloyes in a vault and ran the bank for 15 minutes while he gathered up all the cash in sight. He answered telephone calls and cashed checks for ctistomers. Then he put the money fn a sack, threw it over his shoulders and walked out. YOUTH 19 GIVEN LONG TERM FOR REGENT KILLING Murder of Brother Con- fessed by Young Man In Denver Court. DENVER, Colo., Sept. 22—Cyril Bishop, 18, today confessed in di trict court here to the slaying of his brother, Fred, 22, at his ranch home near Lamar on August 27, and was sentenced by Judge A. F. Hollen- beck of the district court to serve from 20 to 25 years in the state penitentiary at Canon City. Cyril, in his confession, admitted that a love triangle in which he had gained the affections of his brother's wife, led to the killing, An en tangling battle of hearts, in which he had on two occasions taken his brother's wife from her home was disclosed. Fratricide was committed just prior to execution of a third “development.” Leniency was shown the confessed murderer because of his youth. He was taken to the penitentiary this afternoon to commence serving his time. Tanker Blaze On West Coast SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22—A fire guard was maintained tonight around the Associated Oil company’s tanker Willlam F. Herrin which throughout the morning burned and threatened momentarily to explode, as it lay at anchor in Sulsan bay, The marine department of the com- pany here said the fire was con- trolled and rapidly smothering it- self entirely out. The Herrin took fire while at its dock at Avon, in Carquinez straits where the Associated oll refinery is located. Aboard the vessel was 45,000 barrels of distillate, poh th \Governor Seeks To Block Probe Of Floggings BIRMINGHAM, Aln., Sept. 22— |(United Press)}—Governor. W. W: | Brandon tonight precipitated a fight with county officials conducting an investigation of floggings and alleged brutalities to convicts working in the Banner mine under tho state leasing system, Determined to prevent the probe, the state executive through L. A. Boyd, head of the Alabama convict board, secured a writ tonight from Judge Luofeon A. Gardner, of the state supreme court prohibiting so- Ucltor James D, Davin from s moning state convicts to testify be- tore the Jefferson county grand jury, Under Control} NEE | SUNDAY PAPERS IN NY, APPEAR IN COMBINATION Precautions Taken to. Prevent Violence | ' At Offices. NEW YORK, Sept. 22. tion of possible attempts of violence! on the ocean of the printing and) distribution of Sunday papers led) to extra police guards and special. precautions at offices where New, York’s ‘combined newspapers” wera) run off tonight, 1 Most of the Sunday eftttions with) the exception of the late news and} sporting sections had been printed) out of town and shipped in, The strike situation was left 0) nitely up to the Tocal unfon men! Tho publishers reached an agree.) ment and signed a contract with Major George Berry, president of) the International Web Pressmen. In, calls for more wages and shorter hours. If the strikers, whose chars ter has been taken away, want td go back to work they can apply for™ jobs end union cards to Major Berry. If not, new pressmen will be found to take their places. Not Underwood Enemy of The Nations League WASHINGTON, Sept 22—Senator Oscar Underwood of Alabama, one of the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for preal- dent, returning to Washington to- day declared that his attitude upon the league of nations had not “es sentially changed.” Senator Underwod was quoted tn Chicago dispatches as saying he had changed his mind about the league because of its failure to act in the Greek-Italinn crisis. ‘I am as unalterably opposed; ever,” said Underwood, “to the Re publican do-nothing policy in inter. national affairs, I have nothing te say about the league of nations in its operations. My position in the future will be as tn the past, critical of those who refuse to do anything towards American co-operation for, maintaining the world peace,” 4 As he was here but a short ‘time, en route to North Carolina, Under wood declined to go into detalls or issue @ formal statement on the sub- ject. Missing Club ~ Man Believed Found, Report —, PHILLIPS, Wis., Sept. 22,— A man whose description tallies ‘with! that of Charles Rockwood, 34 Des Moines Iowa, club man, who disap peared from his camp at Masot Lake, near here Friday and has not been heard of since, boarded a train at Cou De Ray, Wis, after purchas- ing a ticket for Duluth, Minn., two days after his dieappearance, ao cording to C. M. Olson, ticket agent at Cou De Ray. Olson said the man came in on foot and asked about freight con- nections. He was told to wait for the evening passenger train and waa given several magatznes to ream ‘The men, Olson said, later pur chased a ticket for Duluth and left on the afternoon train. He wore a cap and the description Olson is Sdenticat with that ee Rook wond. Rockwood arrtved here last week with George Roach, Indianapolis, his father-imlaw, for a fishing trip. The first day he decided to go out alone and has never been seen since, NTE PLAN IS DRAFTED T0 ASSIST. FARMER By FRASER EDWARDS (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 22—Preai- dent Coolidge tonight was consider- ing the first definite plan yet offered for the relief of hard hit wheat farmers—a proposal to increase the duty on wheat under the fiexible provisions of the tariff act. ‘The proposal was taken to the White House today by Representa- tive Anderson of Minnesota, former chairman of the joint agricultural commission, which last year mado exhaustive inquiry into the Mls of, the farming regions. While no intimation of the pres!- dent's attitude toward the sugges tion was made at the White House, Anderson, following his conference with Mr, Coolidge announced that he would at once lay the plan be- tore the tariff commission. Anderson proposed to increase the present duty of 80 cents a bushel on wheat by 50 per cent—the limit under the law. The added 15 cents & bushel, he declared, would tmme- dintely be reflected on the Minne- apolis wheat market. ——_—___—. 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