Evening Star Newspaper, July 10, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and warmer tonlght; tomorrow partly cloudy, probably local thunder- shownrs tomo¥row afternoon or night. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended At 2 p.m. today: Highest, 85, at lowest, 68, 6 p.m. yesterday; a.m. today. at 1:30 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 16 28,561. No. post office RESIDENT PROP Entered as second-class matter ‘Washington, D.. C. N OSES MINERS RESUME JOBS TILL BOARD CAN ACT Urges Commission to Negotiate New Scale._ BOTH SIDES LIKELY TO ACCEPT PLAN Arbitrators Would Be Expected to Act by August 10. Peace in the coal industry was made possibld today through government {ntervention in the nation-wide coal strike which has tied up the mines.of the nation for fifteen weeks. President Harding -submitted joint conference of operators miners a definite proposal thatsthe miners return to work at the wage scale existence when work was suspengd on April 1 and continue to to a work on that scale until August 10.} Meanwhile an arbitration commission would be appointed to negotiate a new wage scale. The commission, as outlined by the President will con- mist of thres members appointed by the United Mine Workers of America, three appointed by the mine oper- ators and flve to represent the pub- lic, named by the President. Expected to Accept. Operators and miners met in differ- ent sections of the city this after- noon to consider the proposal of the President, with every indication that| the government proposal would be accepted. Miners met at the Red Cross building. while opérators met at the bureau of mines. Their answer, it was understood, must be given by to- night. The arbitration commission would be expected to have its award ready by August 16, but if unable to ar- range a new scale by that date. the wage scale which expired April 1 ‘would be continued, under the terms of the government proposal, from August 16 to April 1, 1923, The government proposal followed a general conference between opera- | fors and miners, with Secretary Hoo- ver and Secretary Davis represent- | ing the government, at the Red Cross | buflding, which was understood to have heen fruitless of results. The ! conference . then adjourned to the ! White House, where, after a wait of | a few minutes, the entire group of | operators and minérs was" ushered into the exscutiveé office, where the President made his proposal, In the form of a letter. Secretaries Davis, Hoover and Fall were in conference with the President. before the other members of the conference Were ush- ered into the offices of the President. ©On behalf of the government, Secre- tary Davis, it was learned, read to the joint conference ‘at the Red Cross a proposal that a committee of six operators and six miners be ap- pointed to outline districts in the Wltuminous coal area in which ne- otiations could be held between the miners and opermtors. the govern- ! ment to assume responsibility for differences which could not be negoti- ated. Both sides were declared to have found the proposition unaccept- able. 600,008 Miners May Resume Jobs. If the tarms of the President’s pro- posal are accepted by both sides, in the neighborhood of 600,000 miners | will return to work as word is receiv- ed from union headquarters. Imme- diate resumption of Work in the coal mines of the nation will bring to a close the strike which began on April 1. and which has continued uninter- ruptedly since, with the nation com- ing closer and closer to a menacing siortage of coal. The action of the President was wed in some quarters as constitut- ing a virtual ultimatum to both sides to bring about peace in the coal in- dustry as a measure of safety to the nation. Coal stocks have been rapid- 1y depieted within the past few weeks and. according to government officials, industry is rapidly approaching a point where an actual shortage would exist. Railroads were declared to have practically the only coal surplus in existence on a major utility, while the situation in the northwest was said to have been assuming “sericus proportions, with a_ practical absolute <hutdown of coal shipments via the Great Lakes. TWO STRIKERS SHOT DEAD. Br the Associated Press. UNIONTOWN, Pa.. July 10.—Two striking miners were killed and a third fatally wounded late last night by shots fired by two deputy sheriffs on the property of the Atlantic Coal t‘ompany at New Geneva, according" to word reaching here. The dead are Andy Bobjack and another man whose last name is unknown. He was known as Bob. The injured man 1s Alex Kosky. The latter was shot through the neck and spinal column and will die, according to physicians. It is reported that two deputy sheriffs, crossing the property on which a miners’ tent colony is lo¢at- ed, were fired on and returned: the shots. Kosky is said to have been asleep in a tent when the shooting started and as he went to ‘the door of his tent to leard the cause of the outbreak was twicé struck by shots. Authorities are investigating. Two deputy sheriffs, a man who accompanied them. and three strik- ing miners were later brought to the jail here and are being held in connection with a shooting at New Geneva last night. After the shooting other deputies arrested their brother officers and ‘Watson Cawlischak, Steve Youhas and John Novotney. They searched tents and Sheriff Shaw reported they found about fifteen feet of fuse and some dynamite caps. \ COAL MINING RESUMED.\ B the Associated Preds. PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 10.—Coal is being cut in two'important pits in the Pittsburgh bituminous district, the first serious attempt on the part of the Pittsburgh Coal Producers’ As- sociation to break the strike which for fourteen weeks has kept ldle every union . mine in the region. Deputy sheriffs are on guard, The work of cleaning-up the mines began last Wednesday and had reach- ed a point Saturday where the cut- ters were put to work. Several days will be required before enough coal will be available to. warrant opera- tion of the hoisting machinery. Rail- road switches have been filled with j empty cars it was stated at the ~mines Shipmént re. expected ana | { PROPOSAL MADE BY PRESIDENT TO END STRIKE In addressing \his proposal to the conference of miners and op- erators at the White House today, the President said: Gentlemen: The information has come to me that your conference is deadlocked, or, at the best, at- tempting to agtee on plans which will require extended time to work out. I have said heretofore that the government prefers you who are parties to the dispute should settle it among yourselves, be- cause you best understand all the problems involved. The govern- ment cannot settle it for you. It will force no man to work against his free will, it will force no man to employ men against the free oxercise of an employer's rights. The government will not be parti- san, but the government is con- cerned with coal production suffi- clent to meet the industrial and transportation requirements of the country and to safeguard against a fuel famine when winter come again, and it is desired to have production resumed at once. Your government does desire to be helpful. With such a thought, therefore, I submit to you the fol- lowing proposal: Mine workers are to return to work on the scale of wages which expired last March 31 and mines now idle because of strike or sus- pended operation to resume activi- ties, without interference with ac- tivities of mines now working. The 1922 acale to be effective until August 10, 1922. A coal commission to be created at once, consisting of three mem- vers ‘selected by the mine workers, three members selected by the mine operators and five members to be named by the President. All , decisions by this commission shall be accepted as final. This commission to determine, if possible, within- thirty days from to- day, for the miners on strike, a tem- porary basic wage scale. which scale shall be effective until March 1, 1923. In event that the commission is un- able to report its scale by. .August 10, it shall have power to direct con- tinued work .on -1922 scale, until superseding scale is ready. The commission snall investiggte exhaustively every phase of the caal industry. President will ask Congress to eon- fer autHority for the most thorough investigation, and make appropria- tions necessary to do.such work. The commission shall make recommenda- tions looking to the establishment and maintenance of Industrial peace in the coal industry, the elimination of waste due to_intermittency and instability, and suggest plans for de- pendable fuel supply. 1 have taken this short cut to a resumption of operations because 1 believe it to be-in the interest of the public welfare. It is that sim- ple form of 'adjusting disputes which answers the call of good conscience and a just _civilization. When two great forces do not agree there must be a peaceful way to ad- justment, and such an arbitration opens the way. I do not expect reply without due consideration. Please take the pro- posal to separate conferences. 1 wish you to appraise the situation, weigh your responsibilities, and then answer this proposal as you wish to be ap- praised by American public opinion. 1 am speaking first of all for the pub- lic interest, but I am-likewise mind- ful of the Tights of both workers and operators. You are also an insepara- ble part of that public interest. With due regard for all concerned, it ought to be easy to find a way to resume activities and command the approval of the American public. THREAT TOBLOW UP MEXICAN OIL LINES Bandit Gorozave Backs De- mand for 15,000 Pesos by Issuing Ultimatum. Gorozave, the Mexican bandit active recently in the Tampico oil region, has threatened to begin blowing up oil pipe lines and pumping stations unless he received a payment of 15,- 000 pesos by today, July 10, according to a message from Consul Shaw at Tampico to the State Department to- day, reporting information, received from the British-owned La Corona company The company said that Go- rozave was making his headquarters at its Pecera camp. S Where Camp Is Loeated. The Pecera camp is located about twelve miles from ‘the Aguada camp of the Cortez Oil Company, an Amer- ican company, where Gorozave made his first appearance and held forty American employes on demand for ansom. Mexican federal troops, the corisul said, are now encamped on the Aguada property, but the message said that the bandit leader's attitude was becoming more ugly, and that his latest mitimatum included 'the threat to begin blowing up pipe lines and pumping stations. Consul Shaw has not up to date ad- vised the State Department as to whether ary of, the ransoms demand- ed by the bandits at the several oil properties they have visited have been paid. In each caae the employes held temporarily by the bandits were released and this fact was.reported by the consul, a caused the bandits to withdraw. Federals Clask With Bandits. Recently federal troops were in contact with bandits in the ofl terri. tory and reported' that the outlaws had been put to flight with serfous casuaities and ‘the loss of most of their horses and other animals. The original report ©f -the occupation of the in @hnp by the bandits /then had. 246 well WASHINGTON, D. C, CONSIDERING SALE { Noteholders’ Committee Dis- cusses Dispesing of 27,500 Shares Common. A meeting of the Washington Utilities noteholders protective com- mittee was, held this morning to discuss an indefinite proposition for the sale of the 27,500 shares of the common’ stock of the: Washington Railway and Electric Company. No_information was given out as to the sentiment of the ‘committee. but the members will be better pre- pared should a definité offer be made for the stock. g It was reported that two or three flald .for .the purchase. of -the mtock, | and, while no positive bid was’'madi $60 a share was the reported price that could be obtained by tha com- mittee. The protective committee includes representatives of the Na- tional Metropolitan, American Na- tional, Federal National and District National banks and Continental Trust Company. Each representative is a director of the Washington Railway and Electric Company. There are other banks and interests that de- posited their motes with the commit- tee, but are not on the railway board. The name most mentioned in con- nection with the reported desire to York. 65,000 Shares Outstanding. There are outstanding 65,000 shares of Railway common, so but fhis large block of stock, with the widely scattered 37,500 shares, would be practically in control. stock held outright by the protective committee for the noteholders would more than let the noteholders out whole and allow them something over $7 a share for interest. Some of the members of the pro- tective committee are known to op- pose the sale at this time for the reason that they consider the actual value of the stock as above the re- ported tentative price. No Dividends Paid. The common stock of the Waahing- ton Raflway and Electric Company has not paid dividends for some years, while the preferred shares have met | all dividend payments. Much interest cemters among rail- way shareholders in the probable outcome of the suit in connection with the Potomac Electric Company and the District, in which the latter appealed to the United States Su- preme Court in the matter of reduc- ing the price for electric light, and the appraisement of the physical roperty of the company. IS PBeptwezn $2,000.000 -and $3,000,000 is now imppunded by the company— held in:liberty bonds, subject to the ruling of thé court. The officials of the railway .company - consider it practically certain, in view of the ruling of the lower court, that these (Continucd on Page 2, Column 1.) Family parties or other groups of persons bent on enjoyment Of night scenic wonders of Rock Creek Park will find: that' the re- cent War Department order pro- hibiting parking at night there will not affect them when it be- comes an - official regulation- on July 24. Col.-C. O.: Sherrill, ~officer in charge ‘of public buildings and grounds, has instructed Capt. W. L. McMorris, U. S. A., superin- ten t-of park .police, to use dis: cretion'in administering the orde; ‘which-.{s aimed, solely at persons parking.at late hours of the night and. early. hours of the morning for immoral purpos it was an- nounced today. < The regulation will enable what the police in charge of &he park heretofors have been unsble to do, lawfully—order Buspicious partie: to ‘move on ‘before they get into trouble. Desirous of avolding the necessity for spying on parked.au- tomobiles whose occupants are WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION OFW.R &E STOEK acquire the big block of stock I8 that | construed of Bertron, Griscom & Co. of New|p,uges of more than four families. families. It is understood that an actual oneri Hacker will .be. able to. continue. to of $60 a share for the big block of: THeY ALL SEEM To BE LOOKING AFTERKE’?T! Lightning Kills Child in Grandmother’s Lap, Latter Hurt Slightly By the Associated Press. HARTWELL, Ga., July 10— ‘While sented in her grand- mother’s Iap yesterday after- moom L. T. Gllbert, xeven-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Gilbert, was struck by a | bolt of lightning and inxtantly | | killed. Her grandmother was not hurt seriously. NEW ASHRULNG FOR APARTHENTS !Street Cleaning Department Not to Empty Cans. Scores of families living in small apartment houses will set their ash and trash cans out in vain from now on, for the new District appropriation act prohibits the city government from collecting these two classes of refuse from any apartment house. Heretofore, the law has provided that the street cleaning department should not collect ashes and trash from “large” apartment houses. Mor- ris Hacker, superintendent, this to mean apartment large. financial .interests were in the[ * But the -wording of the law this year means that even in buildings where three and four famii*ts live &, books and papers of the Chemical |rations commission, will return to the private trash man will have to be : that the|employed to haul ashes and rubbish 27,500' shares would not give actual|away. c control through majority holdings, | living for such families. This will increase the cost of Apartment House Defined. The definition of an apartment would mean that the owner of the|p,uge in the building regulations is collateral back of the utilities notes |, yuilging occupied by more than two Under this definition Mr. trash from two- collect ashes and family flats. Tt Is believed at the District build- ing, however, that there are a great many apartment houses of three and four apartments that will’ be cut off from collection service by the new law. The change in the law does not affect garbage service, which the city collects trom all classes of buildings as a sanitary measure, The new appropriation act also prohibits the street cleaning depart- ment from entering into contract with 1 private concern to remove dead animals from the streets. .The act authorizes Mr. Hacker to purchase & dead-animal wagon. Heretofore the contractor who re- moved them from the streets also provided for their disposal. City officials have not definitely decided how they will dispose of the car- casses, but it is pilhctically certain that the bodies of dead animals will not be shipped with garbage to the disposal plant at Cherry Hill, Va. The city, in all probability, will concern that 'has made a business. of disposing of them in.the phst. NIGHT PARKING PROHIBITION RULE IN ROCK CREEK EXEMPTS FAMILIES es of the law rather than wait- ing to make arrests’ after infrac- tions have'occurred was consider- ed-a better way to protect the law- ‘abiding public from nuisance and young girls’ from waywardne: it was pointed out. Lieut. P. J. Carroll’ of the park police emphasized today his inten- tion; not to disturb motorists who may be parked at reasonable hours of the night along Rock creek, providing. they appear to be re- specting the law. : “We are going to use good com- mon sense in enforcing Col. Sher- rill's order,” he said, “Plcnickers or others who may desire to re- main in the park after sunset will not be molested by our men unless they, commit, offenses. It is the “parties of young men and women. giving -no thought of the beautie: of the park, and who remain parked, sometimes without- lights, at midnight and early in the. morning, whom we will remind of this_regulation. . “We do.not Intend to make any arrests for violation of the order. ‘We_ will merely ask suspicious parties if they know they are breaking the regulations and tell them to move along, That th announcement of the order ha had a beneficial result already is " evidenced the fact that not a. utomobil 5 Ba always | have to turn the bodies over .to some | “|-whoss whaol S DEMANDS RETURN | OF DYE PATENTS :Government Takes Formal Action Against Chemical Foundation. The government today served its (formal demand upon the Chemical | Foundation for return of former Ger- man patents and other property sold to son’s administration. | The papers were presented at {New York to Francis P. Garvan, pres- {esa alien property custodian, by Fred H. Wilson, acting for Alien Property cials at Wilmington, Del., of the Corporation Trust Company of Amer- ica, the foundation's resident cor- poration in Delaware, where the foundation is incorporated. A formal text of the demand was expected to be made public late this afternoon by Col. Miller, revealing the government's actual purpose in |asking for the return of former alien {owned property which ‘the President directed to be taken back by the gov- ernment. Officials Here Silent. Regarding the criminal proceedings instituted in New York against Mr. Garvan, according to Mr. Garvan's statement yesterday that a subpoena had been served' “for the production }bpfore the grand jury of all the Foundation,” there was no comment | forthcoming at the Department of [ Justice. | Attorney General Daugherty. who {returned “today from- a week's ab- sence from Washington, it was said, would not see the press or issue & statement today regarding the situa- {tion. According to Mr. Garvan's state- ment, however, the government was said to be planning a criminal suit against the foundation for trial in the District of Columbia, much to the surprise of Mr. Garvan, who had ex- pected only a civil suit. CALLS STATEMENT FALSE. \ to Francis P. Garvan Replies Department of Justice. NEW YORK, July 10.—The Chem- ical Foundation has been subpoenaed to appear with all its books and rec- ords ' Tuesday before the federal grand jury in Washington. The sub- poena was served at the office of the foundation here, according to a state- ment issued by Francis P. Garvan, its president, and former alien property custodian, who said that the concern's offices were kept open until 7 o'clock Saturday night awaiting an order to produce, which did not appear. Garvan replied to the statement is- sued in Washington by the Depart- ment of Justice in reference to the controversy between the department and the foundation over the owner- ship of certain chemical patents seiz- ed. by the allen property custodian during the war. . Mr. Garvan's Reply. “Each paragraph in that statement is a falsehood,” Mr, Garvan charged in_ his formal reply, and alleged that the only .investigation made by the department fnto the transaction be- tween the alien property custodian and the-Chemical Foundation, which the, statement of the department said “had " been under way for many been under the direc- tion of Gaston B. Means, whom he ac- ‘cused of having “served Germany" prior- to this country’s entrance into the war, < Mr. Garvan characterizes the grand General's office is planning to in gainst- the Chemical P‘ound-llo?xe‘. ither an attempt to. frighten us Wwith a threat of indlctment into a be- rayal of our trust,” or a beliet that they can extricate themscives from the position in which thg discovery of the influence of the Oppenheim com- mission “has ‘left them, -by. imposing upon the grand jury -ahd Inducing it to flle an indictment which they will never dare bring to trial. ‘The: only *inyestigation,” Mr. Gar- van's statement éontinues, “made by the Department of Justice was in- itiated and has been under the direc- tion of Gaston B. Means—Z2-13, as he was known during the period when ‘| he merved Germany under Capt. Boy- ed, to the time we went into th ut a* salary of $1,000 a Week and in producing jurious afdavits and sssistin T S i N ks fully 'n 1o * 3 ore, ’.mmm- it under former President Wil-| ident of the foundation and former | Custodian Miller, and also upon offi- ! jury procesdings which the: Attorney | MONDAY, JULY 10, 1922 -TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. d GERMANS PROPOSE MORATORIN FO THEYEAR PEROD Promise to Pay Instaliments Due This Year If Granted. WAR DEBT AGAIN HELD TO BE IMPOSSIBLY HIGH Present Financial Chaos Declared | Due to 132,000,000,000 Gold Mark Demand. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 10.—A proposal provid- ing for the payment of all the re- maining cash installments due this vear, provided Germany is granted a moratorium of at least two years, was brought to Paris today by Ger- man representatives, according to unofficial information which reached the reparations commission. Dr. Rischer, chairman of the Ger- man war debts commission, and Herr Schroeder, undersecretary of the min- istry of finance, arrived from Berlin today to confer with the reparations commission concerning Germany's financial, position. Calls on Commission Members. After a visit to President Dubois of | the reparations commission this aft- ernoon Herr Schroeder expected to call upon each member of the com-| | mission separately, outline the demllai of the plan and set forth rexsons why | Germany regards a long moratorium | as absolutely necessary. It is not ex- | | Pected the proposals will be laid be- fore the full meeting of the commis- | sion until Friday. { Members of the commission have indicated that they feel the imme- diate reason for the present financial | situation in Germany is the failure of | | Germany to put an end to the whole- | sale printing of paper marks and the | | widespread exportation of capital | | from the country. ¢ | | Reparations Blamed for Chaos. In reparation circles, however, the opinion seems daily to be gaining !ground that the fundamental reason | for the German financial chaos lies in | ithe total' of reparations required, ! 132,000,000.000 gold marks, which is regarded in many quarters as impos- ibly high. 1t is further being made clear that| no adjustment of the total indemnity | to what would be regarded as a rea- ! | senable figure can be made with the |cogMne of France unul there iz » | definite settlement of the whole ques- ition of the interallied debts, which | would either fesult in cancellation ior very indefinite postponement of | payments. It is explained in French | | quarters that France cannot possibly | pay her debt to the United States under the present conditions. | Beyden Coming to United States. | Prance, it is declared, would prob- iahly agree to a material reduction of | the German indemnity if there should be such a readjustment of the inter- | allied obligation, and the opinion was | expressed that sooner or later- this |idea must be laid before the American | | government. Roland W. Boyden, the | American representative on the repa- | | United States next Saturday, unless {he is expected to remain during the | present crisis, and will explain the { whole situation to Secretary of State | Hughes before returning to Paris. DANGER TO EUROPE SEEN. i | British Press Alarmed Over Ger- man Financial Situation. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 10.—Germany’s finan- cial crisis continues to be a subject of paramount concern in the British press, which today discusses the ques- tion exhaustively, stressing the dan- ger confronting the whole of Europe. According to the Daily Telegraph's diplomatic expert, a committee of the cabinet 18 considering the situation, which, it is understood, comes before the full cabinet tomorrow. Conference Likely. This writer 'says it is difficult to see how, failing a meeting of the su- preme council, an early conference of the allied finance ministers and reparations experts ‘can be avoided and thinks it might conceivably be | advisable to invite the collaboration of the other signatories to the Ver- sailles treaty besides those generally represented on the supreme council. He also believes the ‘allies may de- cide to invite an immediate reas- sembling of the international bank- ers’ committee, which met recently in Paris, granting it the fullest powers of recommendation on all aspects of the reparations problem. | Efforts to Make Loan. | The Daily Mail's political corre- | spondent says British representatives ot international financial houses are sending demands of extreme urgency to the British government that ‘it take steps to help Germany, Efforts are being made to secure a big loan for Germany, he declares. - The editorial comment follows the usual two lines, one dictated by, an incurable distrust and suspicion of | Germany and - the otner tinctured | | with the view that France is guilty of rapacious folly in insisting upon enforcement of the whole Versailles | treaty. | | 1 |GREEKS TO MAKE ATTACK ~ ON CONSTANTINOPLE | Couneil Also Orders Martial Law _ “and Will' Raise Additional Army-of 100,000. LONDON, July 9.—Decision 'to march the Greek army on Constgntinople was taken June' 29 by the Greek: council, according to Information recelved by the Dally: Mail's Athens correspondent. 1t was also decided, the correspondent Jesrns, :to proclslm martlal law in | place throus The Associated oaper and siso HUNDREDS Member - of the Associated Press the ‘use - for republication of all mews dispatches redited to it or not otherwise credited in tais All rights of publication of speeial Sispatebes berefs ‘are also reserved. Press ir exelusively entitled to | tne local news published hefein “Saturday's Net Circulation, 74,994 Sunday's Net- Circulation, 86,127 TWO CENTS. OF TROOPS GUARD RAIL SHOPS AS TROUBLE STILL BREWS RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS. FORCIBLY TAKEN FROM TRAIN; STRIKERS BLAMED Postmaster General Work has been notified of serious interfer ence with the movement of mail by strikers in a telegram from J. E. Tausig, president of the Wabash railroad. Wiring from St. Louis, President Tausig stated that Satur- day night strikers at Moberly, Mo., stoppd a mail train, surrounded the cars, cut the.air hose and threw rocks through the windows. Eighteen railway mail clerks being faken to Peru, Ind., were forcibly taken from the train and marched to the strikers’ hall, according to the dispatch. Several engines in the roundhouse at - Hannibal, the dis- patch states, were put out of service by the strikers. President Tausig, in his message to the Postmaster General, said that he had wired twice to the governor of the state, but has received no reply. President Tausig said he be- lieved the Department of Justice should authorize the appointment of deputy marshals to handle the sit- uation. Postmaster General Work and his assistants were in conference today as to what steps to take to meet this and. other situations, it being the decided opinion that the mails must and will be kept moving. FEDERAL OFFIGERS 0 PRESERVE LAW, SAYS DAUGHERTY Declares No Interference; % With Mails or Commerce -Will Be Permitted. The goverpment will preserve law and order in the railroad situation, Attorney iGeneral Daugherty deciared in a formal -statement following a conference with thé President toda: A number of deputy-United States marshals in the west and southwest | have been appointed. he said, “to pro- | | tect property and life, and.to prevent interference with the transportation of the mails and interstate com- merce.” His statement in full said: “After investigation and upon re- quest of federal judges, district at- torneys ‘and United States marsha 1 have in the last few days author- ized the appointment of a number of | deputy United States marshals at va- ! i rious places from Chicago west and southwest, to protect preperty and | life and to prevent interference with | the transportation of mails and inter- state commerce. “This pelicy -will be continued wherever justified and required. “Law and order must be preserved, property and life protected, trans- portation .of the mails must not be interfered with. interstate commerce must not be interrupted. “The President is fully advised and kas the situation in hafd.” On his ‘return to Washington this morning, Mr. Daugherty took up con- sideration of the railroad strike with Alfred P. Thom, general counsel of the Association of Rallway Execu- tives. After the conference with Mr. Thom, lasting more than an hour and a half, Mr. Daugherty left the Department of Justice for the White House to see President Harding. Mr. Thom re- mained at the department in confer- ence with Assistant to the Attorney General Goff. —_— “UNCLE JOHNNY” SHELL, 134 YEARS OF AGE, DIES | Kentucky Mountaineer Said by His Relatives to Have Been' World’s Oldest Man. GREASY CREEK, Ky. “July’ '10.— ‘ncle Johnny” Shell, Kentucky's old- est citizen, said to have been 134 years oid, is dead here rmities of age. ShéN, a mountaineer, was claimed by his relatives to have been the oldest the world. ““Ar:n:;v‘\g the many mourners at Shell's funeral were his twosmons, William, aged ninety, and Albert, seven. It b came known here today. when news was Toceived that oldest white man in the world had died July &, at his home at Greasy creek. Albert is the offspring of a second marriage, “Uncle” John's first wife, who is sald to have been two vears his sentor, having died about ten e i man retainéd full possession aged mal of‘l‘lhl: ll‘c’ullhl to the last and discussed rangements with Mr. and e T 1" Crecen, with whom e had made his home since he lost his own gh the :\:recloflire of & mort- veral months ago. e Soas sald to have been born ifi Ten- September. 3, 1788; the son of aker. She 2 Eehe was “discovered.” Samuel uel Up until the time he was “dis g ears ago, “Uncie’” John, it Dot Lo & 6a o, secluded life in the ‘mountain country, but since then he had Traveled considerably, exhibiting him: self at-state fairs. his first airplane ride T e foeitics, “Uncle John toid to cities, On hie vl erviewers that he remem- intervi m‘:& having seen Daniel Boone, and that he recalied the general mourn- ing that _followed the death of George Washington. He sald he was too old to enlist in the Mexican war. - WADSWORTH TO WED. Assistant - Secretary ' of Treasury Gets License. e ‘HEMPSTEAD, N. Y., July 10.—Eliot Wadsworth, assistant secretary of the Treasury, today obtained a license to i “Whitman Seul . “Seull sl M. g s i S.Marshals Acting in Several States to Guard Mails. |REGIMENT ORDERED TO BLOOMINGTON Whistles Calling Men to Work Cause Many Forebodings. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 10.—Under tection of state troops and federal marshals, rallroad shops at several troublesome points beganédetermined efforts today to break the railwa shopmen's strike, while the ranks of the strikers’ apparently held solidly and peace overtures were still unseen Notified by the Chicago and Alton that it intended to reopen the Bloom- ington, I, shops, Mayor E Jones and Sherifft J. E. Morrison sent new appeals for troops to Lieut. Gov Sterling, with the result that state the pro- troops from Springfield and Dan- ville, L, were ordered to entran today. Three companies now patrol- ing.the lilinois Central yards at Cli ton, 1lL, may be moved to Blooming- ton. Both places were quiet today, how- ever, with .thaffic at the two terminals near a standstill. Kansas national _gurdsmen guard in a drizzling rain, while 15 _men went to work at the Missou Kansas and Texas shops in Parsons. Kans. There was no trouble. Deputy United States marshals took charge of the Burlington shops at Aurora, I, while a cordon of 1.8 strikers formed a slow moving ci cle around the shops. The Burling- ton obtained injunctions to restrain strikers from interfering with op- eration of the road in Nebraska, after obtaining similar writg Saturday in Towa and Illinois. Srop and _roundhouse whistles shricked the final notes of railroad ultimatums canceling seniority and pension rights of strikers. who re- fused to return to the shops today. The day brought ominous forebod- ings of an impending crisis at many points as trouble brewed among the strikers. New acts of violence occur- red at scattered points and other: | stood a were feared as the situation grew tenser. The tenth day of the strike was marked by the apparent determina- tion of both -sides to stand by their positions takén at the outset and indications poinded.io a feverish dead- lock. Y Railroads ily prepared to open their sheps’ with what bor was available, -accepting returned strikers and filllng“vu:lm jobs as far as possible with fmported workers. U. S. Marshaly Add to Forces. United States marshals increased their forces as they prepared to take chhirge of law enforcement at points in several states where situations were critical. Several deputies. working under Marshal 1. K. Pearshall of Kansas City, were sent to Slater, Mo.. where strikers for several days had been in virtual control of the Chicago and Alton shops and the town. Marshal Pearshall said he was prepared (o have deputies at all of ihe thirteen division points in his district. Marshals Protect Ma Mobilization of special deputies un- der federal marshals was made for the additional purpose of protecting mails and property of railroads in the hands of receivers appointed by Unit- ed States courts. 3. A. Baggett, marshal for the north- ern Texas district, was guarding mails on the Texas and Pacific, and Mis- souri, Kansas and Texas, and the International and Great Northern railroads. Slater spent a comparatively quiet Sunday with Marshal Pearshali’s men in charge of the situation, but i ported strikebreakers experienced dif- ficulty in obtaining supplies from the |union-controlled town zad a number of them quit. 30 Trains canceled. Omficials of the Missouri Pacific an- nounced the annulment of thirty pas- senger trains on the company ern division, adding that trains other divisions probably would be dis- continued at the same time. The west- ern division embraces Nebraska, Kan- sas and Western Missouri. Cancel- lations on the road included twcive local passenger and mixed trains be- tween Poular Bluff, Mo., and Little Rock, Ark. All train service on the Interna- tional and Great - Northern from | Georgetown to Roundrack, Tex., was suspended. Gov. Alf Taylor of Tennessee re- ceived appeals to send troops to Memphis 1o protect properties and employes of the Frisco lines. Four special ugents for the Frisco were arrested by Memphis police for carrying concealed weapons while off railroad property. Investigations by state authorities in Kansas of the wreck of the Golden State llmited on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific at Topeka were under way. The state also took part in the investigation of a wreck at Burrton Saturday. Announcement’ was made that the Kansas _industrial court probably would order an investigation of the attack upon i nhegro porter at Her- rington, Kans. Four men, two of them said by officers to be strikers. were jalled as members of the party which assaulted the negro. ‘Weorkers' Homes Bombed. Disorders spread to the east when the homes of two Baltimore and Ohio employes who refused to join the strike were bombed at New Castle, Pa. A striker. was shot at New Castle. Two workmen for the Missouri Pa- cific at Monroe, La, were fired upon nd wounded. A former employe was arrested, charged with the shooting. At that and in numerous other In- stances of disturbances in conngction with - the strike, union leaders de- plored. acts of violence. In most places where appeals for troops- were made, -the strikers said all possible efforts would be made to preserve order and -they denounced the calls for troops., - . At Knoxville, Tenn, a policeman apd a negro striker exchanged thirty shots in a running pistol Aght which resulted in no easualties. The negro surrendered when his ammunition ran out. City Pelice Gumard Shops. Spocial details ‘of poifce were as- signed to railroad shop and yard dis- ew Yori