Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, October 27, 1922, Page 4

RATLWAY EMPLOYES GRANTED WAGE RISE Pay of 451,911 Men Lifted 2 Cents an Hour by Rail- road Labor Board. Chicago.—The wage bill of the na- tlon’s railroads was increased an ésti- mated $22,125,000 by a decision of the United States railroad labor board granting increased pay of 2 cents an hour to 451,911 maintenance cf way employes. Four of nine groups of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Railroad Shop Work- ers were affected by the raise, the largest single gronp being common | laborers. The decision raised mini-| mum rates of pay for the affected from the present 23 and 35 | cents to 26 and 37 cents. Chairman Hooper of the labor board fn a statement following the decision | classes said that the board based tts find ing on 2 general upward trend in| wages since the board's decision of | last July reducing wages for this and other groups of workmen and not on any pronounced change in living costs | The decision marked a victory for the public group of the board which proposed the 2-cent increase, the pro posal being rejected at first by the three members of the railroad group, whe favored no change, and the three members of the labor group, who fav- | ored a much larger increase. U. . BOND OFFERING IS OVER SUBSCRIBED Washington, D. C.—The treasury’s new offering of $500,000,000 of 4% per cent 30-year bonds has been over- subscribed approximately $1,000,000,- 00, it was announced by Secretary Mellon. - Books for cash offerings closed at noon October 14. Subscriptions for which 4% per cent victory notes or December 16 treasury certificates are tendered in payment will be received and allotments will be made in full until November 1. Approximately $150,000,000 of such subscriptions already have been allot- ted in full under the terms of tho of- fering. Subscriptions received to date, ac- cording to reports in hand, were said to aggregate more than $1,550,000,000, | of which about $1,400,000,000 represent cash subscriptions. Of the cash sub- | scriptions more than $325,000,000 was in amounts not exceeding $10,000 for any one subscriber. LAND TRUST IS HELD VOID Washington State Anti-Alien Prevents Any Circumvention. Olympia, Wash.—The supreme court upheld the antl-alien land law pass- ed by the 1921 legislature, construing it as a bar to the holding of prop- erty in Washington by citizens for aliens under a declaration of trust The decision was in the case of the state against E. J. O'Connell and wife, , J. D. O'Connell and Pierce Lonergan, and reversed Judge Gilliam of King county, who sustained a demurrer In the complaint. The state sued to escheat to itself lands held by J. D. O'Connell and Lonergan for E. J. O'Connell and wife end D. P. O'Connell, a minor, all British subjects, under a declaration of trust executed after the passage of the anti-alfen land law. Law Britain Baiks At “Dry” Navy. Washington, D. C.—Great Britain, in a communication delivered to the state department, is understood to have declined to agree to the sugges- tion of Secretary Hughes for a recipro- cal agreement for the axtension of the rights of search and seizure so as to give the American prohibition “navy” jurisdiction outside the three mile limit. Gold Found in Itinois. Joliet, Ill—Discovery of gold de- posits on the farm of Bradford Green, six miles west of Joliet, was announc- ed by J. V. Freeman, local chemist, after a chemical analysis of the ore. In five test pits already dug the assay showed from $3 to $33 of gold to the ton of concentrate, he added. Press Rate Rise Denied. Olympia, Wash.—The department of public works refused to grant a pro posed 15 per cent increase in press rates intrastate to the Western Union Telegraph company on the ground that no valuation of the company’s property in this stale was available ou which to base a rate. Milwaukee Gets Mining Congress, | Cleveland, O.—Sidney J. Jennings of New York was elected president of | the American Mining congress by the board of directors here. Milwaukee | was selected as the next meeting place Se 7 ee we E, M. ARMSTRONG | | Edwin M. Armstrong, whose name is familiar to all radio amateurs be- cause of hig invention of the regen- erator and super-regenerator, 5-YEAR MORATORIUM ASKED FOR GERMANY moratorium on Ger- ations payments for five not only on cash payments, but on deliveries in kind—is the sub- stance of the scheme presented to the reparations commission by Sir John Bradbury, British member of the com- mission. The aim of the plan, as conceived by the British minister, is thus to re- store the mark to a value that would make the balancing of the German budget possible. He is in favor of the entire reorganization of the repara tions commiagion, with an American as one of the active members and a change of the seat of the commission to Berlin. ° The Bradbury plan provides for the continuance by Germany of deliveries in kind, but under an arrangement by which the country receiving the goods would guarantee aa equivalent sum in German bonds, the bonds to be nego- tiable by Germany. BRIEF GENERAL NEWS Paris.—Total man reps years General Charles Dawes, in a speech in New York, described congress as a “conglomeration of peewees.” The veteran United States army transport Thomas brought to San Francisco 261 passengers and mem- bers of the crew of the liner City of | Honolulu, which burned at sea. The Unitel States should have 2400 airplanes in the army and navy air branches for adequate defense, in the opinion of Brigadier General William Mitchell, assistant chief of the army air service. J. Ogden Armour, meat packer and capitalist, declined to reveal to the federal trade commission the extent of his speculations in wheat and corn during the period from July 15, 1920 to May 31, 1922. Hungry Greeks Evacuate Thrace. Constantinople. -- Thousands of Christians, many hungry and with all their earthly belongings packed on their backs, trudged out of Thrace, as the Cross made way for the Crescent. Aged men and women, many carrying children, walked toward the Balkan peninsula, leaving forever the homes they have occupied for years. Some loaded their household goods in carts; others left everything behind and fled in order to be out of Thrace in TS days, the time limit set by the allied generals and Turkish representatives at the Mudania conference Tacoma Theatre Robbed of $1660. Tacoma.—-Every police department *n the Northwest was on the lookout for the two daring bandits who late Sunday night walked into the office of the Colonial theatre, forced Manager Ralph Winsor at the point of a gun to open the safe, bound him to a chair, and then walked away with $1650.61 in cash. Neither of the pair was masked and according to Winsor were as cool as if they were buying tickets. U. S. Aloof from Brussels Meeting. Washington, D. C. — The United States will stand aloof from the forth- coming international conference at Brussels, it was seml-ofticially stated here. The Brussels meeting, while osten- sibly for the purpose of stablizing af- fairs in Europe, is almost certain to become involved with political and ter- ritorial questions, in the opinion of otficials here. Immigration Is On Increase. New York.—-More immigrants are arriving and more aliens are being de- ported now than at any previous time since the three per cent restrictive iw was passed, according to official reports of the bureau of immigration copebved ot Wilts Tens. tn! LIE SAREE ERE 5 FS TTI 3400 CARS ORDERED FOR WESTERN FRUIT Interstate Commerce Commis- sion Acts to Prevent Heavy Loss on Apple Crop. Washington, D. C. — Orders have been issued to eastern roads to deliver the next 10 days 2400 refrigerator cars to aid in the transportation of the northwestern fruit crop. followed urgent telegrams received mainly from. the Washington state senators and representatives, who told the commission that it was vitally of refrigerator cars to the northwest at once to prevent a loss of millions of dollars on the apple crops of the Yakima, Wenatchee and Okanogan valleys. It was admitted at the offices of the interstate commerce commission Ge that the movement of the parishable fruit crop of the country is one of the® Sp | te ii 2 5 in i P| to western carriers at Chicago within Fa ins This action | = Ln ite Al Pi} es necessary to get a very large number ue most serious problems confronting the up car service division, which is under | aT Commissioner Aitchison. mands are coming from all sections of the country, northwest, it was said. To meet all demands from every section there is a total of only 60,- 000 cars in the United States, and Oregon, Washington and Idaho com bined could give one eastbound haul ue i <4: to each of these cars this year, an of fi fi Remember, this 1s the Original Hot Blest heater— ficial of the commission declared. At a guaranteed to save one-third your fuel. There are the same time, however, he said the | 5h many imitations, ues only one Cole's frantic demand for ventilated cars is U: ginal = 7 coming from Michigan, New York, te Ori Hot Blast West Virginia, Colorado and a dozen ae Come in today while our stock other states, just at a time when the | = is complete. commission has finally satisfied the same sort of an appeal from Cali- fornia, where the movement of the grape crop was for a time equally as serious a problem as the apple crop has lately become. RECALL OF AMERICAN TROOPS IS POSSIBLE Washington, D. C.—There were In timations Saturday in government cir cles that a project for complete with- drawal of American troops from the Rhine was again under consideration, but no decision was expected for sev- eral days. No authorized statement as to the reasons prompting renewed discussion of the subject at this time was available, nor would any respon sible official forecast what £ourse would be adopted. The United States now has about 1000 officers and men in the occupied area. Ji FERDINAND CROWNED KING Queen Marie Aliso is Acclaimed by Thousands. Albajulia, Roumania.—King Ferdin- and and Queen Marie were solemnly crowned Sunday in the vast public square amid the plaudits of thousands of picturesquely dressed Roumanians. Promptly on the conclusion of the church service, a precession was’ form- ed and the sovereigns, escorted by the duke of York, Prince Paul of Jugo Slavia, the duke of Genoa, the infante Alfonso, Marshal Foch and the foreign delegations, marched from the church to the richly decorated dais in the center of the square, dense with spec- tators. 14 on Teial Under Syndicalist Law. Montesano, Wash.—The trial of 14 alleged violators of the criminal syn dicalist act is in progress here before Judge George D. Abel. Defendants are: Matt Reco, Thomas Nicholos, Gust Vasilakis, Fred G. Miller, Jack Connors, Vaino Aho, Gust Tsoostes, Bob Pease, Ernest Erickson, Richard Skoglund, Alex Ajouloma, Solomon Anainen, John Johnson and Claude McAlpin Cunard Will Fight Liquor Ban, New York.—Officials of the Cunard line announced that they had taken steps to bring a test case in the Uni- ted States supreme court of the ruling of Attorney-General Daugherty that ships flying a foreign flag could not | bring liquor for passengers within. the three-mile limit. | Hindenburg Would Run For President. Berlin.—Field Marshal von Hinden- berg has expressed his willingness to offer himself as a candidate for elec tion to the German presidency, the Vossische Zeitung states. The field marshal’s acceptance, it declares, was at the request of the German national peoples’ party. Slayers of Rathenau Sentenced. Leipsic, Germany.—Sentences up to | 15 years’ penal servitude were impos- | ed on the men who have been on tria! in the political court on the charge of complicity tm the murder of Walter | Rathenau, late foreign minister. -aeee e The de-| te 5 particularly from the | 5 uc ru pet) - ' Health—Comfort— Economy Sefeguard the health of your family—keep your home always warm and cosy with OLE'S ORIGINAL HOT BLAST HEATER Gives even steady heat day and night. Gusranteed to hold fire 36 hours, and will burn any fuel. Hoene Hardware PUBLIC EN UE cite (a ls a f= == iP Jon US US US UCUSS eU= ie Srisalaanentatonan =s ALE. 3 head of cattle TWO COWS—EXTRA GOOD MILKERS, ONE YEARLING HEIFER One dise One 3-section harrow One 38-inch wagon One set of wagon springs One set of harness Seven sacks of potatoes One washing machine One kitchen table HAVING DISPOSED OF THE REMAIN SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION AT THE HUSSMAN LUMBER YARD IN COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, COMMENCING AT 1:30 P. M. ON Saturday, Oct. 28 NG PORTION OF MY REAL ESTATE I WILL Other livestock TWO EXTRA GOOD HORSES TWO HEAD OF SHEEP Household Goods Farm Machinery One kitchen cabinet Two chairs 1 bed spring One rocking chair One sanitary couch One Columbia range Chains, axes, saws, forks Other articles too numerous to mention TEMS: Cash at time of purchase S. A. Hazen, Owner Albert Zodrow, Auctioneer Hepa ad ie jas Us td jad US If You Want to Vote Election Cay You Must Register