The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1924, Page 2

a Page Two COOLIDGE SUITS FRENCH RULERS AS MORGAN MAN N. Y. Speech Shows That Calvin Is Safe (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, April 24.—Coolidge is still the favorite presidential possibility as far as Poincare diplomats are con- cerned. His New York speech has convinced them that*the cautious New Englander is a 100 per cent J. P. Mor- gan man. J. P. Morgan is the power behind the present French government, and it is regarded as highly important here that a Morgan man again occupy the White House in order that the United States co-ordinate its activities with those of France. ORGANIZE ILLINOIS! FARMER-LABORITE SUPPORT JUNE 17 (Continued from page 1) men in endorsing candidates on the Republican tickets, thus deserting the principle of independent political ac- tion by Labor. The forces of farmers and industrial workers of the State of Illinois must be united to be represented effective ly at the June 17th Convention. This is the only hope for success in the No- vember elections. For this purpose the undersigned Provisional Confmittee hereby issues a Call for a State Farmer-Labor Con- vention to be held at LABOR TEM- PLE, PEORIA, ILL., ON MAY 18, 1924, AT 9:00 A .M. Goolidge’s unqualified indorsement Dawes-Morgan reparations plan xpected, of course. Officially the French government claims that the Dawes plan is not drastic enough, but p¥ivately they realize that it puts the Jasts.ounce of pressure on Germany compatible with her continued ability to pay. Think Cal Was Kidding. As for the Coolidge implication that the Ruhr will have to be abandoned Seon, the French do not take that too Seriously. They believe that certain parts of his speech, as certain phrases in the wording of the Dawes report, are for political purposes only. Not Alarmed by Disarmament. There is official objection also to the disarmament talk Coolidge in- dulged in, but that again is felt to be} for political propaganda purposes only, It is realized that an anti-mili- taristic sentiment exists in the United States, largely as a reaction against the last war, in spite of the noisy demonstrations and publicity of, the militarists. Knowing the necessity of a politician blowing hot and cold, the Poincare government does not look with much unkindness on this. Disarmament Wouldn't Do. If Coolidge were sincerely in favor of disarmament it would be a horse of another color. France maintains her European hegemony by force of arms. She occupied the Ruhr by force of arms and by the menace of her thou- sands of warplanes she prevents Great Britain from kicking too far over the traces, And Coolidge’s emphasis on “capi- tal,” “finance” and “business,” with his significant silence on the all-press- ing issue of labor, delights the heart of the statesmen connected with the] ° most reactionary government in Bu- Tope. ‘ 28 German Capitalists Greet Loan. BERLIN, April 24.—German capital- ists today greeted President Cool- idge’s speech as expressing full ap- proval of the Dawes plan for a repara- tions settlement and at the same time @ broad hint to France that America will disapprove any effort to sabotage the plan. ‘ The speech heartened the govern- ment, especiall Mr. Coolidge’s declar- ation in favor of the loan to Germany. Government officials felt the Presi- dent's public approval of the proposed Joan will assure its full subscription. Inasmuch as the government has re- garded the proposed loan as recom- mended in the Dawes report as the first prerequisite for adjustment of reparations, it is felt that the move- ment for a settlement of the involved problem is advanced considerably. aS ee Imperialist France Peevish. PARIS, April 24—President Cool- idge’s address in New York yesterday closes the door to French hopes for discussion of war debts in connection with the experts’ plan for a reparation settlement, in the opinion of authori- tative French sources here today. “Mr. Coolidge's statements mean the total of Germany’s debt cannot be veduced because France must demand 27 billion gold marks additional to be able to pay the United States and Eng- land,” the Petit Journal said in dis- cussing the address. French authorities unanimously be- lieved the President's speech will have @ definite effect upon development of the experts’ plan, because it dispels Burope’s constant hope that the Unit- ed States would consent to a discus- sion of war debts in connection with her participation in a reparations set- tlement along the lines laid down in the Dawes report. ' Pertinax, well-informed political writer, saw the force of domestic po- litical pressure in the President's re- marks on the foreign situation, say- Rin. United States already has started its presidential campaign bat- tle, and it is apparent the Japanese @re not the only people who are going to suffer hard knocks as a result.” All in all France felt today that ‘there has been no essential change in the American position and that the Possibility of at least getting a reduc tion in her debt to America in connec. tion with the reparations settlement still is as remote as ever. _ Gives MacDonald a Few Weeks. LONDON, April 24—The Labor Gov- ernment has only a few more weeks in office before a vital division comes that will necessitate its resignation and a general election, Sir Kingsley ‘Wood, M. P., writing in the “Wesleyan Methodist,” declares. Invited to send delegates to this Convention are: All existing work- ing-class groups, political or indus- trial; local unions; central labor bodies; co-operative, fraternal and farmers organizations and others, who endorse the principles as set forth. The purpose of this Convention will be to create an organization in the State of Illinois which will be repre- sented at the June 17th Convention at) St. Paul, Minn., to adopt a State plat- form and to nominate a full ticket for the State elections in November, 1924. Name of this organization as well as national affiliation to be left open for decision by the Convention. This Convention will entail some financial expenditures. But it will be money well spent and each organiza- tion sending delegates to these con- ventions are urged to contribute finan- cially as liberally as possible to help defray the expenses. United action of the Illinois farm- ers and industrial workers is the need of the hour. Fraternally yours, PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF ILLINOIS STATE FARMER-LA- BOR CONVENTION. Mail all remittances to the Secre- tary, Pro tem: DUNCAN MacDONALD, 727 East Adams St., Springfield, IN. Down State-—-United Mine Workers. Tom Parry, Box 409, Divernon, I1l.; Joe Grant, Peoria, Ill; Walter Frie- derich, 1808 N. Illinois St., Belleville, l.; Joseph McCallum, West Frank- fort, IIL; Dick Swift, Box 313, Valier, OL; A. M. Young, Box 122, O'Fallon, M. Somardich, Box 148, Coello, Ross White, Sessor, Ill.; John S. Wood, Johnston City, Ill.; Joe Hardy, Orient, I1l.; E. B. Hewlet, West Frank- fort, Ill.; Freeman Thompson, Spring- ‘eld, Ill.; John Watt, Springfield, Ill.; Joe Tumulty, Springfield, IL; Hd. Johnson, Christopher, Ill.; Dan Sling- er, Marissa, Il; Harry Corbishly, Ziegler, Ill.; Matt Chernovich, Ziegler, fl; Tony Shragil, Johnston City, Il; F. Burman, V. Pres. Carp. Local 448, Waukegan, Ill.; Martin P. Morrisey, Joliet, I1.; Duncan McDonald, Spring- field, Chicago. Sam Hammersmark, Retail Clerks, Former Secretary, F.-L. P. Cook Co. Branch; Phil Aronberg, Amalgamated Clothiig Workers’ Local No. 39; Mor- ton L. Johnson, Electrical Workers No. 134, Former Nat. Sec. F.-L. P. of U. §.; Louis Locke, Pres. Machinist Dis. Council No. 8; J. W. Johnstone, Painters 147, Former Secy. Stock- yards Gouncil; J. H. Schuessler, Pho- to Engravers Local No. 5; Harry An- derson, Secy. Janitors Local No. 16; Joseph Manley, Secy. Fed. Farmer- Labor Party; John Werlik, Metal Pol- ishers No. 6, Menfber Metal Trades Council; Hans Peterson, Patternmak- ers Association, Member Metal Trades Council; Jacob Weydert, Former Pres. Machinist Local 390; A. Sum- mer, Pres. Carpenters Local No. 1484, 1234 Etta St., Chicago, Ill.; Arne Swa- beck, Chicago, Ill. SUB-DISTRICT 4 HAS CONVENTION IN AUBURN, ILL. (Continued from page 1) Watt continued the interrogation of Young, and called a local union presi- dent to show that a conspiracy was on tap to break up Sub-district 4, It seemed much like “wearing the shoe” when Young, the “Joker,” produced a letter, under date of April 7, and stat- ed that Mine Superintendent Bren- nan, whose name had been drawn into the controversy, had told him of the letter on April 5. This brought a hearty laugh from the delegates and removed from everybody's. mind the wonder why Young had failed to be elected a delegate, and strengthened the wonderment as te how he was elected board member, In all his answers Young, who is an administration supporter, showed that his strongest points were inconsist- ency and evasion. The whole discus- sion on “docking” brought forth the disgusting truth of the situation, showing clearly how the operators take advantage of the existing deter- mination of the “machine” in the min- ers’ union to rid themselves of the radicals, THE DAILY WORKER LET SULLIVAN AND FOELL REMEMBER JUDGE JENKINS The two injunction judges, “Dennie” Sullivan and “Charley” Foell, have slowed up in their attack on the gar- ment strike. Judge Charles M. Foell, on Monday, postponed until next week the cases of the strikers brought before him. Judge Dennis Sullivan, on Tuesday, did the same thing, but the postponement was made until May 6th. This in spite of the fact that “Dennie" had been away on a vacation, and was supposed to fave recuperated sufficiently to renew his unscrupulous attack on the garment strike. * There is only one conclusion that can be drawn from this development in the heroic struggle of the garment work- ers. The injunction judges, Sullivan, first, and then Foell, have been nonplussed by the courageous front presented by the strike pickets. « It is, therefore, a good time to ask Sullivan and Foell to remember another injunction judge, Jenkins by name. Jenkins in a famous Northern Pacific Railroad case, in an injunction that has since become notorious, directly pro- hibited the quitting of work. This Jenkins’ injunction was bitterly fought by the workers with the result that even the capitalist courts were forced to acknowledge that the quitting of work may not be enjoined. Another infamous injunction was that the Judges Taft (“Bill the Fat"—now on the supreme court) and Ricks, in 1893, which directed the engineers who were employed by connecting railways to handle the cars of the Ann Arbor and Michigan railway, whose engineers were on strike. * * * We cite these things for ‘ the benefit of the Injunction Judges, Foell and Sullivan, of the vintage of 1924. Foell and Sullivan claim that they know the law. They have tried to tell the strike pickets what the law is. They have tried to do it with dark threats, and very apparent efforts at intimidation. Jenkins thought he knew what the law was in the Northern Pacific Case when he ordered the men not to quit work. But the determined spirit of workers, struggling for their rights, made a joke of Taft and Ricks. the legal outlook of Jenkins, Foell and Sullivan didn't try to stop the garment workers from going out on the strike in which th are now engaged. Foell and Sullivan have not tried to force other workers to take the places of those who are out on strike. If they tried to do these things, that judges tried to do twenty and thirty years ago, they would be laughed at. * * But they think i from picketing their jobs in breakers to join them. is safe and “legal” to stop the strikers an effort to get the strike- At least they made the effort on behalf of the struck garment bosses, They recognized the scores of arrests that were made. They listened to the silly attacks, the lies and the misrepresentations, of the bosses’ lawyers. They listened to this in all seriousness, scowled at the strike pickets and threatened direful things to the strikers before him, if they went back on the picket line while their cases were pending. * * But Judges Foell and Sullivan have postponed the cases, perhaps indefinitely. Perhaps the fighting spirit of the strikers has forced them to think things over. in any event, their efforts to stop picketing, in the year 1924, will strike, and the attempt of Ta’ e just as laughable, in the years to come, as were the efforts of Jenkins to toon workers from going on the and Ricks to force the work- ers, not on strike, to scab on their fellows who had walked off their jobs. i Foell and Sullivan, like Jenkins, Taft and Ricks, will learn that laws change from time to time. Even laws made to protect property change as the years go on, And when the workers finally come into power the law books of the Foells, the Sullivans and the Tafts will be put away in museums for curiosities, and looked upon as the joke books of the ages. MOSCOW BLAMED BY DAUGHERTY FOR ALL HIS MISDEEDS (Continued from page 1) ing, rather than surrender the in the keeping of the departmen' justice. I gladly gave up a post of honor rather than contribute to a treasonable cause.” Mr. Daugherty charged that “‘pil- grimages to Moscow by United States senators” had been arrdnged for by the Communist authorities af- ter their efforts to capture American labor organizations had failed. “There (in Russia), no doubt, new inspirations were advanced,” he con- tinued, “as to what steps should be; taken to cripple the government of the United States and crumble the columns that support it. “It may fairly be inferred that one step in this direction was to capture, by deceit and design, as many mem- bers of the senate of the United States as possible and to spread thru- out Washington city and in the cloak- rooms of Congress a poison gas as deadly as that which sapped and de- stroyed brave soldiers in the late war.” s Records Give Proof. Mr. Daugherty said department of justice records showed that a com- munist movement began in the Unit- ed States three years ago to destroy confidence “in our form of govern- ment “To this end,” he continued, “con- fidence in men of both political par- ties had to be destroyed, when they could not be dominated by the direc- tors of the movement, At any cost, by any conceivable method, cruel, criminal, or murderous, the charac- ter of men in authority had of neces. sity. to be assassinated.” The former attorney general declar- ‘ d) ed that official government records, obtained from official Russian sourc- es, “contribute indisputable proof” of the assertions he made. The former attorney general then paid his respects to the Daugherty committee. He declared it was well known that a majority of this commit- tee “would make an adverse report without charges and without evi- dence.” ato a Daugherty Makes Bolsheviks. WASHINGTON, April 24.— “Such unfaithful servants as Daugherty and Fall have made more bolsheviks in America in a few weeks than a thou- sand Soviet agents could make in a decade,” Senator Wheeler, Montana, declared today, in replying to former Attorney General Daugherty’s “de- fense speech” in Columbus last night. Wheeler's statement to the press was provoked by what he termed “Daugherty’s cunning, but baseless insinuation,” that he and Senator Brookhart, Iowa, were “in- spired” by Soviet officials to investi- gate the Department of Justice, “In his array of distorted truths,” said Wheeler, “Daugherty has taken refuge behind the last resort of mod- ern knaves striving desperately to divert the public mind from their own corruption. When all else fatls, they trot out the ‘Red peril’ bugaboo. His pitifully absurd smoke screen will only meet with ridicule. “But this discredited official does not exaggerate the dangers that threaten the republic if the Daugh- ertys and the Falls are not driven from office, That is the danger the senate committee, by baring the cor- ruption in the Department of Justice, is seeking to avert. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. MORMON SMOOT RUSHING MELLON TAX REDUCTIONS Bonus Payments Put Off Until 1925 WASHINGTON, April 24— With the bonus bill safely upon its way to becoming a law, Chairman Reed Smoot prepared to call up the Mel- Jon bill as reported by his finance committee, The bill makes drastic cuts in surtaxes on the rich. The bonus bill in its passage dis- played potential strength enough to become a law even tho President Coolidge affixes his veto, as congress- ional leaders expect. No Payments Until 1925, By amending the bill, they provided that no payments can be made to a soldier until after July 1, 1925. By that time, the administration and Congress elected next November, will have taken office and will have had plenty of time to put over a cash measure, The bonus will go to conference be- fore Friday, when slight defferences between the Senate and house bills will be ironed out. It will get to President Coolidge by the first of next week. Terms of Bonus Bill. Here is what the bonus bill, as passed by the Senate and House, provides: Compensation to veterans on the basis of $1 a day for home service and $1.26 a day for overseas serv- ice, with maximum basic compensa- tion of $500 and $625 respectively for the two classes of service. The first sixty days of service are not counted in computing basic compen- sation. To veterans to whom $50 or less is due, payment in cash. To veterans due $50 or more, the issuance of 20-year paid up endow- ment insurance policies. The face value of the policies is figured by increasing the basic compensation due the veteran by 25 per cent plus compound interest on the figure so obtained at the rate of 4% per cent for 20 years. The resulting figure is multiplied by an arbitrary number derived from accepted actuarial principles. For example, the multiplying figure for a veteran 32 years old, the aver- age veteran’s age is 23.17. The maximum value of a policy obtainable for an overseas veteran of long service is between $1600 and $1800, Policy holders may borrow up to 90 per cent of the value of their policies from banks after three years. Denver Nurses Militant. ‘ Denver, Colo., April 24.—A strike of nurses employed in Denver hospitals, where the basic working day exceeds twelve hours, was threatened here to- day, when the Denver Nnrses Associa- tion, at a special meeting, decided not to work in hospitals that demanded more than a 12-hour day. (Continued from Page One) “Thus Germany becomes a vassal state and German industry pays an annual tribute to allied industry that will hold it in a position of inferiority for generations to come. The treaty began the work of subjugating Ger- man industry; the Dawes report caps the climax. There is nothing more to do except to collect. Busy Business Men. “General Dawes and his associates are business men and economic ex- perts. They make this clear in the first paragraph of the report: “We have approached our task as business men anxious to obtain effective re- sults.” Consequently there is nothing in the report that reflects any interest in the human problems involved, It is exactly such a document as might be penned by a reorganization com- mittee in charge of a bankrupt rail- road. The one great object of the re- organizers is to get the concern back on a dividend paying basis. “How is this end to be accomplished in the case of Germany? “The Dawes report makes two gen- eral recommendations—one dealing with the sources from which Germany might draw the funds with which to meet her treaty obligations, and the other dealing with the stabilization of German finance, Both of these recom- mendations are made on the supposi- tion that the German people will con- tinue to meet the obligations imposed by the treaty during at least fifty years. The New German Bank. “The Dawes plan centers around the creation of a new German bank, with a capital of 400,000,000 gold marks, and a board of directors, supervised by a general board consisting of seven Germans and seven foreigners, one from each of the following countries: Belgium, France, Italy, Britain, Hol- land, Switzerland and the United States. The new bank is to be ad- ministered by a German president, who will act as general manager, but the final authority will rest with one of the foreign members of the gen- eral board, who is to be known as the commissioner. Altho a vote of ten out of the fourteen members of the general board is necessary for a de- cision, the real key to the German banking situation will rest outside of Germany. “The capital of the new bank is to be subscribed partly in Germany and partly abroad. The relative amounts are left to the determination of the general board. “There are two significant things about this bank—characteristics that earmark the entire Dawes report: it’ is to have entire charge of the issue of paper money in Germany for the next fifty years, and it is to be a pri- vate bank, or, as the report calls it, @ ‘bankers’ bank.’ “The right to issue money, in any modern community, is so vital to pub- lic affairs and to private business that it is the real pivotal in the economic system. In modern times this right has been generally regarded as a func- tion of government. Sometimes. the right to issue money has been dele- gated to private banks, as it is in the United States, but only under the most stringent restrictions. In the case of the Dawes bank, however, ‘the German government is to participate STRIKERS UNCOWED BY GUNMEN (Continued From Page One) him a pension, They finally gave him only $18 a month. I have lived in the town of Pullman all my life, and I know what the Pullman Company is. I am in this strike with you to < finish.” Shops Are Idle. No work was done yesterday at the steel shops. Before the week is out, several thousand men are expected to he standing idle, Already the entir plant has been slowed up, The mat rial is being piled up, but not a rivet is being driven, and not a car ha: been assembled since the strike. There were no scabs observed at work to- day. A rumor has reached the strikers that Francis Gunn overstepped him- self in his high handed attitude to ward the strikers. It is said by some of the foremen working in the shops that the Pullman Company would be glad of a compromise. But the strik- ers refuse to compromise, J. P. McCarthy, of the DAILY WORKER, adressed the strikers yes- terday, “If you have any self-respect and regard for your class you will not only join the union, but will see to it that it is a live local. The time has come when the workers of the Pull- man car shops have got to stand up and fight for a decent living wage,” Organizer John Holmgren told the strikers that the business men live by selling merchandise, and the only way the worker can live under capitalism is by selling himself. “You are sell- ing your labor power for yourself and your family,” said Holmgren, “But unless you have @ union you have nothing to say about the wages and conditions that will govern your work. When you have an organization be- hind you, you can make the bosses recognize you. You can stand up and be real men. When workers belong to a uninon, when they think, then they have begun to tear the shac! off their bodies and become free men.” eerie bills were distributed before acting captain Wheeler suppressed them. The handbills declare: COUNTERFEIT WAGES! “The company said that one reason for the cut was because the value of the dollar has increased about 10 per cent. -Try that on the landlord boys, and get 10 per cent cut off your rent. If YOUR dollar is worth 10 per cent more so is- the company’s dollar, which would make 20 per cent profit for the company on a 10 per cent cut. But when the cut'runs from 10 per to 40 per cent on each man’s dollar some figuring is necessary to show the millions robbed from your families. The company offered to put speed checkers and stop-watches on the men to destroy if possible any chance of working like human beings. Pullman today is the highest speeded car shop in the world. Speed, speed and more speed. Overwork, wage-cuts, sick- ness, despondency and death. “EVERY PULLMAN CAR SHOP EMPLOYEE IS INVITED TO AT- TEND THE DAILY MEETINGS AT 10 A. M. IN STANCIKS HALL, 205 E. 115th STREET. “LEND A HAND! OWN CAUSE” The strikers declare they will con- tinue to picket, They have been in- structed to picket peacefully, and not to congregate in large groups. “We don’t want any rough stuff,” a striker told the DAILY WORKER. "We're not going to give the Pullman Com- pany a chance to start any distur. bance, We will act like gentlemen, but no matter how many policemen the Pullman Company secures to in- timidate us we are going to win the strike, HELP YOUR Blessing of British Rule. ALLAHAD, India, April 24—More than 17,000 persons have died of the plague, which has been ravaging the Punjab since the first of the year, dur- ing the past fortnight, according to statistics made public Wednesday. 70,000 cases reported since January Several thousand copies of the hand-}1, 54,000 have been fatal, MORGAN-DAWES PLAN Friday, April 25, 1924 in the profits of the bank, but the bank is to be entirely free from gov- ermmental control or interference.’ Thus a private financial institution, under the direction of foreigners, is given charge of the financial affairs of Germany for a half century. Sources of Treaty Payments. “There are three sources from which the treaty payments are to be derived. With the stabilization of German economic life under the new fiscal system, the German state budget, by 1928-9, will be able to yield 1,250 million gold marks per year. The railroads, recapitalized, and in private hands, will yield 660,000,000 gold marks per year. Another con- siderable sum will be provided by a bonded debt of 5,000 million gold marks to be placed on the industries of Germany. After 1929 these three Sources are counted upon for 2,500 million gold marks per year. The pe- riod during which these amounts are to be paid is left indeterminate, but is presumably 50 years at the least, as that is the length of time during which the bank charter will run. “As an immediate source of reve- nue, the sales of bank stock, of rail- way stock and of industrial bonds would provide ready capital for the organization of the bank and for the deliveries in kind that are to be made as heretofore under the conditions of the treaty. Currency Stabilization, “German expenses can be met un- der next year’s budget, provided that the necessity for reparation payments can be suspended for one year, and provided that they can then be re- sumed gradually during the years up to 1929. This plan is suggested. “The new bank will meanwhile have provided a stable currency, backed by a 331-3 per cent gold reserve, and Germany ‘ought, in 1926, to be mak- ing rapid strides toward complete re- covery and should in three years, by 1928, reach a normal economic con- dition.’ When that point is attained, the Allies should ‘share in the in- creased prosperity of Germany.’ A Set of Harness. “This Dawes report was drafted by the leading eonomic and financial ex- perts of the allied countries. It may, therefore, be taken as representing a plan which has the approval of busi- ness men who are dealing with the Problem, not in the heat of passion, but in the calm of committee room. The result is a masterpiece, “No more effective set of social har- ness has ever been built by modern imperialists. The defeated imperial rival is not only to be saddled with a heavy indemnity as’ was France in 1871, but the railroads, the industrials and the financial institutions of the vanquished country are to be placed under the control of the victor, until, in the opinion of the latter, the van- quished have paid ‘enough.’ By the terms of the document, this will be, at the least, a half century. During that entire period the workers of Ger- many are to carry on their backs not only the private business interests of Germany (made secure against revo- lution by having part of the internal economic control of the country under foreign domination), but the ruling classes of seven capitalist govern- ments, who will suck Germany dry of any surplus that may accumulate out of the proceeds of German industry.” NEW ARRESTS OF GARMENT PICKETS BARES BOSS PANIC (Continued From Page One) and that they are likely to complete their victory over the garment bosses sooner than some had expected. If DAILY WORKER calculations are correct, the dress manufacturers have had to spend nearly $80,000 to hold out this long against the union. Even with the help of the Employers’ Association, this is a severe loss to the garment bosses, as they must bear the brunt of the finanical burden themselves, : Expelled to Attend Convention. Representatives of the expelled Chicago garment workers are plan- ing to attend the Boston convention of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, begining May bth. The Prade Union Educational League will raffle a $50 radio set to help the militant Chicago workers in their fight for reinstatement into the union. The raffle will take place at the T. U. E. L, picnic on May 30th, place to be announced later, German Nationalist Head Killed, BERLIN, April 24.—Dr, Helfferich, leader of the German Nationalist party, was among a score of persons killed when the Zurich and Milan ex- presses collided near the St. Gothard tunnel, in Switzerland, Wednesday morning. Herr Schact, director of the Reichsbank, who had been in confer- ence with the Dawes experts during the drawing up of their report, was reported to have been a passenger. 3 Trappers Murdered. BEND, Ore., April 24—Bodiles of three trappers missing since January 15, were found in Lake Lava last night. Each had been slain with @ bullet thru the head. t