Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1921, Page 7

TELLS OF SLAYING " MINE DETECTIVES i Sid Hatfield Relates Details }of Mingo Fight to Sen- ate Committee. investigating Kirife in the West Virginia coal flelds a "d account of the gun fight in Matewan with Baldwin-Felts de- tectives, in which he tock part, with the result that six charges of homi- cide are still pending against him. Counsel for the miners at the hear- ing waived immunicy for the witness, bul the cross-éxamination by operd- * tors' counsel was, frequently inter- rupted when Chairman Kenyon ruled out questions because of the legal Etatus. . The committee adjourned uniil to- morrow without geciding whether a trip to the Mingo coal region in West Virginia would be necessary to con- clude tts work 5 Mayor Insued Warrants. arrest of all the Bald tives who came to ev ilies from thelr house: of the battle.’ \arrants and arrest the men. Albert Felts, the leader, turned the compli- ment on me and said he had a war- rant for me."” There were thirteen men in the ‘ts party. Hatfield said, and seven Were Killed. He explained that he was ! acquitted of one -homicide charg Lut that “six more are awaiting trial. “ asked the mayor for Warrants, Mattield _explained, “because they violating the town ordinances ing guns. We had been in- alxo that the warrants for & these peonle out of their were illegal . uns in Store. 3 operators, not_been ¢ “instrumental ‘in _bringing in rifles” 10 the Mingo field. The witness said he was now runnihg a store which sold guns. . . “I don’t pose as a gunman,” Hatfleld sdded. 5 . The cost of his legal defense was being paid. the witness said, by the United Mine Workers. 3 Denles tnions Bought Arms. Denial that any of the $2.500.000 spent by the national miners' union in <connection with the Mingo coal.strike troubles went for arms was made by C. F. Keeney. union president, who ~was under cross-examination by S. B. Avis, counsel for the operators. The money was spent, Keeney insist- ed, to support tent colonies in Whick 11,000 miners and their families were housed. - ) - Mr.. Avis pressed the witness re- reatedly to say that the mine worker: urion habitually broke its contracts, if operators dealt 'with it. ' Keeney would make no. such . Aadmission. Counsel cited sixty-three .strikes ul- Jeged to have been called by Keeney in one union fleld:’ - 5 fany of those iwere bred by your ret service men in the.mines, hut my records aren't here, though your | figure is probably replied. . °" Mme Guards Called Gunmen. Keeney used the terms “vigilanfes and “gunmen” frequent'y. He defined the first as members of the citizens volunieer state police apd the second as miné guards. He sald-some of the _volunteer police were “thugs,” Avisisaid they were “dentists, doctors, bank officals, merchants” and mostly ex-service men. Senator Sterling, republican, South Dakota, asked if the union’ men did not use “violence, intimidation and threats to get non-union men to join union.” the " Keeney. said, “That is not the policy of the mine workers.' | “What would you do to a local union which resorted to such tactics?” Senator Sterling persisted. “I'd expel them." Deputy System Ended. The committee looked into the sys- tem in Mingo .by which . deputy too high," Keeney sheriffs have been émployed by private | concerns, James Kirkpatrick, a deput testified that he had received a salary - from the union as well as his official pay and named a half dozen men he d the coal operators employed. The system was no longer in eifect, he said. > hat do- you mean by saying that ‘mine workers are entitled to the full social value of coal they produce” Chairman Kenyon asked the witness. “It afeans that w man should re- ceive all the wcalth that he created #fter “payment of the running ex- penses, transportation and @ fair Te- turn to the men who own the prop- erty.” Keeney answered. "It does not mean taking the. Lroperty aw He agreed with Chairman’ Kenyon that the urifon was endeavoring “to get the method of compensation adopted, rather than the present system.” STATE TO PROTECT MILITIA FOR KILLING —_ Former Mayor to Defend 'Machinei Gun Company That Shielded Negroes. RALEIGH. N. C., July 16—W. J. Brogden. former mayor of Durham, was designated by Gov. Cameron Morrison today to a&sist* Attorney Ge S. Manning to @efend the Durham Machine Gun Company from civil action growing out of an attack on the Alamance county jail last sum- mer by 2 mob hent on lynching three negroes guarded there by" Bearoes ere by“the Durham “The state will ba o e ck up its militia former Gov. T. W. Blckett & ussault on the jail, ‘A’hlch";lol‘lx;\\l‘:; ileir arrival, James Ray -tas kil The aetion is brought by the.widow #nd is directed against the officers -and men of the company. v"’:;‘C:’ll()fwil’lx :f’\? shoting, rom citizens G pointed a commission which: tnyel. tigated the circumstances surrou; ;- ing the attack on the Jail; ‘and sy vitted a report rellevin tion With the amair. : e BOOTLEGGERS IN PLAINT. Insist fllgifitntel in .A.uesxing‘ Fines “Impose on Good Nature. Special Dispateh to The Star. - WINCHESTER, Va. July 16.—Boot- leggers In the Shenandoah valley afe reported to have formed an agree- ment with those east of ‘the Biue Ridge to appeal all cases decided against them by county istrates, in whose courts, it is sald, the fees y nd costs usually are greatly -in ex- cess of the fines. It is the Intention of the blockade runners' to ca: rr their cases to the circuit court un have trial by a jury. They say. the ;:Iu;?mirxies and constables are "im- osing upon their good nat L assessing what they o SXorbie tant fines, costs and €1 upon de- The bootleggers say they are en~v &uxed in an industry which is Sup- Plying a “fong-felt want.,” and that they should not: be so treated in the Jower courts. They believe must Juries will show more of the spirit of human kindness in dealing with their cases, one of the chief spokesmen said today, and, so far as the bootleggers nre concerned, they are done with the country magistrates and cofistables. . Oné of the earliest unions of wom- an workers in America, if not the very first. was that organized by the mill .girls of Dover, N. H., ig, 1823. ‘. “1 went to serve the: .| that the authorities should use strong .| wholesalo inocularion of the people _said Gov. Morrtson. ! troops were ‘ordered to Alamance he | Fire Meant for Snake Starts Blaze in Field dnd Threatens City By the Asseclated Press. -AUGUSTA, Ky. July 16—A x-foot blacksnake refused to udge from his under am d 'atump today. W. H. Winter, farmer n declded to Fire miles around Lur- ried to the seenc, and with the of a thnely whower of rain wave the city, The snake escaped. | 110,000,000 STARVING . IN RUSSIAN FAMINE; CHOLERA SPREADS (Continued from First Page.) descriptions of the situation and the measures for relief. Crops Almost Complete Fallure. In the broad belt, whose center is Samara, 'running southeast and north- {West through Saratov. Tsaritsyn, Don, Astrakhan, Simbirsk, - Pens; 2 parts of the adjacent districts, the crops are almost a complete failure on account of an unusual droyght and also in some places because of the ravages of locusts. The provinces of Samara and saratov, with u population of 7,000,000, need at least 150,000,080 poods (6.000.- 000,000 pounds) of graln, but are !likely to. get'not over 30,000,000. poods (1,200,000.000 pounds). The yield in some of the other distriéts is higher. but it will be far below the scantiest | 1iving minimum. The inhabitants of |tm- reglon are in a panicky state. The peasants are leaving their homes In groups and in some cases whole vil- lages are deserted. The people do not know in what direction to go and the common saying is that they are going to the “King of India." Those whq cannot leave are eating the bark of trees and sorrel stalks. The cattle are perishing. What ajd Russia in her present state can render the stricken dis- trictg is problematical. The soviet authoritics have few. if any, supplies of grain to spare. It is proposed measures to bring about the redis- tribution: of seeds for winter plant- ing, that the cattle be driven to other districts and that the peasants be transported tq Siberia, the cotton fields of Turkestan and to factories needing labor. | Sftuation Made Worse. | In the meantime the situation is being aggravated by the outbreak of cholera. Accerding to N. A. Samash- {ko. commisar of public health, the | epidemic has invaded the Volga re- gion, Rostov-on-Don, Voronezii and Orel. Ta quote Samhashko: “The insanitary .condition of the | {country is alarming.. The mud and idict in the citles are such that -even |in dry weather those having goloshes put them on when working in the istreets. The waterworks in fome of jthe cities have been destroyed and the mass emligration of the people has carried the infection for thou- {sands of miles.” 5 The commissar urges the immedi- ate cleaning of the citles ‘and the in the infected districts. It is not thought possible that these measures will prove sufficient, and it seems as i lhi_s thickly populated region is kituation in 1573. Then the hunger- cenes of 1891 and of the even worse | situation in 1 Then the hunger stricken cougtry’ aroused the svm- wathies of the world, and especially e United States, 1 eSpecially of} |CAPT. EEW' CONVICTED; | SENTENCE, SEVEN YEARS S Washingtenian Found Guilty of Forgery and Impersonation of Eellow Officers. NEW YORK, July 16.—After the! longest court-martial proceedings on ' regord at Governors Island, Capt. Bev- | erly Grayson Chew of ‘Washington, i D. ¢, was convicted tonight of con- | duct unbecoming an officer, forgery | and impersonation of fellow officers. ! He was centenced te dismissal from | the service and seven vears at hard i 1abor in a military prison, to be desig- nated later. The trial consumed eight weeks. | \E\‘ery effort-was made l{y the defense I to prove that the accused officer was) Insane as a-result of gas and wounds; received in France, «nd that he was not responsible for his acts when, in Octeber, 1920, he visited Washington, Baltimore and other cities with a woman,- registering at prpminent| hotels in the names of fellow officers | and forging their signatures checks.” ' i The captain will retain his status in the service, it was said at Gov-| ernors Island, until the case has been reviewed and the findings finally acted | upon by officials in Washington. . Mount the United States. and Japan Drier. - the life loi —are ‘put up in cans only preserve you h Home of George Washington —is .one of the best_preserved homes in This is due to highest quality paints being used, containing 100 per cent Pure Lead—Pure Linseed Oil—Pure Turpentine “Murco” Liquid Paints THE SUNDAY STAR, ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 17, 1921—-PART 1. MINGO LEADERS 10 BE REPLAGED Organizers Will Fill Places of Mine Officials Banned Frem State. Ity the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, W. Va. July 16 Orgunizers of the United Mine Work- ers from other states will be sent into the Mingo county mining region im- mediately to take up the duties of David Kobb, ‘international mmnclal| agent, and his assoclates. who have agreed to leave West Virginia by Monday night, Phillip Murray. inter- | national vice president of the union said tonight. Robb and other union leaders yesterday were given the al ternative of leaving the state or re- turning to jail for alleged violation g of the proclamation of martial law (n‘ Mingo, after the state supreme court had refused to grant writs of habeas ! corpus in their cases. Murray sald that Robb would re- turn to his home at Terre Haute. Ind..| @ while John Brown and Robert Gil-| more, international organizers, who, | are to leave with Robb, will be as signed to other duties. = Brown wi take charge of district No. 19, United Mine Workers, and Gilmore will go; to_Colorado, Murray said. { Notice that the cases will_be ap-, pealed to the United States Supreme Court has been filed, Murray said, and ; they will be prepared as soon as Har- old W. Houston, aiding union counsel ; in the senatorial investigation iato' the Mingo industrial situation here, | returns from Washington. Defended by Mincrs' President. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 16— President John L. Lewis of the: Ugited Mine Workers of America, in a statement 1szucd here today de- clarcd David Robb and other repre- | sentatives of the union “have com- mitted no crime. And yet the were arrested. imprisoned in jail and then ordered fo leave the state, mere- 1y because they are representatives of the United Mine Workers of America. It Ia extraoruinary, indecd. that there | is a state in this country in which the military can invade the private office of a peaceful, Luw-abiding. lawful in- stitution like the United Mine Work: ers and cart our representatives to prison. And it is more than strange that there is a ate supreme court that will sanction ,such brutal work. Our men were in’ the oflice of the union, issuing food relief to miners to keep their families from ’starvation. | The only purpose the militia could have in arresting these men was to keep us from supplying food to these poor, suffering people. 1 _do not be- lieve the American public will ap- prove the action of the West Virginia authorities in joining hands with the coal operators to starve those people to death. Says Only Miners Were Attacked “One very significant feature of thi case is that the militia has attacked only the miners. It has not interfered with the coal operators’ association, although that association maintains an office just as do the miners, and operators assemble there every day in connection with the strike. The coal gnerators are as deeply interested in this strike as are the miners. Cer- tainly the military authorities should treat both sides aiike. If the operators are allowed to assemble without in- terference the miners ought to hav the same right.” In India lizards are hunted for their skins, The skins when tanned are made into women's and children’s sho purses and_handbags. and are -xmmmi prdes Andibandbags:.and are exported. —Painting —Paperbanging —Upholstering Quality work at moderate cost. Geo. Plitt Co.. Inc. - put®3 '42" A\ o Fixtures for Sale Drug. cigar and general mer- chandizing mahogany fixtures. with plate glass sliding doors. Electric drug signs and fans, chow cases, wgll cases, wrap- ping counters, prescription ecounter, scales and working ma- terial for sale cheap. sold within 10 days. got to get out. Apply Drog Store, Cormer 15th and ¥ sts. Open for inspection. Must be We have The Brighton Apartment—Hotel 2123 Californfa Strast. At Connecticut Avenus. 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