Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Mostly cloudy tonight row: little change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four Hours Highest, 85, 2 pm. today: lowest, 71, at 6 | | ended at 2 p.m. today: | probubly occasional Full report on page 7. and tomor- showers; Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 18 No. 28,562. —| Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. Wekas, Wy ’ WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESBAY, JULY 11, 1922—-TWENTY-'EIGH.T PAGES. TROOPS POUR SHOTS |BRITAINMAY CALL INTO RAIL SNIPERS; | TIE-UP CALLED ACUTE 300 Bullets Fired Without Harm at ! Bloomington, I11. ADDITIONAL TRAINS FAIL TO OPERATE Signalmen Refuse to Go Out—Disorders Occur ! in Many Places. B the Associated Press. BLOOMINGTON, 111, July 11.—More dhan 300 shots exchanged by state puardsmen and snipers marked the first night's control of the Chicago and Alton shops by troops. Two men Tidden In a gulley north of the shops yired twice at sentries shortly be- fore 3 am. Three hundred rounds from automatic rifles were poured §nto the gulley. At daylight the place ~was searched, but no trace of the #nipers found. Shooting was resumed @t 7:15 this morning, when snipers fired on a sentry at the northeast edge uf the shop vards. No one was wounded on the sol- diers’ side during the night. Tt was unofficially reported at the uard camp this morning that two nore companies of troops would ar- rive today. It is also understood that non-union workers will arrive from Chicago today. Arrangements have been made to gmeet their train with two companies ©f troops to escort them to work. Four Companies in Shops. Four companfes, including the Dele- ~an and Danville machine gunners, Avere statloned in the shops last night, shile the Springfield company patrol- &d the Union depot district. The entire night was a succession of alarms. At midnight, three shots were fired at sentries near the north end of the plant. A lieutenant and 2 detall investigated and set up a ma- chine gun covering a grocery store where fifteen to twenty-five strike pickets were congregated. The lleu- tenant then told the pickets the gun was trained on them and advised them to leave. Several shots were fired at 1 o'clock from the direction of an elevated roadway a block north of Seminary avenue, which bounds the northern side of the shops. The sentries re- sponded with no indication that any one was hurt. Spies Elude Sentries. At 2:45 Maj. L. W. Roszell re- €cived a report that four men had Eucceeded In slipping_past the sentry Jine into the shops 6n a spying ex- edition and had made their escape. rhe north end of the shops is a 1ast open trail, filled with piles of Jumber, freight cars and small build- The strikers, knowing every Situation Is Serious, Cabinet Officials Say at Meeting. MORE MAIL TRAINS REPORTED HALTED Dr. Work Lays Issue Be- fore President—Action May Be Taken. The “only acute situation before the country today” was the Characteriza- tion given the railroad problem by of- ficials high in the administration to- day. This became known following the cabinet meeting, at which the | main topic of discussion was the rail- way strike. The President and the administra- tion determined the government's pol- icy, it was stated, after hearing from Postmaster General Work that the strike was slowing up or stopping the mails, despite the government's warn- ing. The official stand of the government. it was learned, will be made known in a formal statement from the White House later In the day. Mail Interfered With. Reports continued to come to Post- master General Work today of interfer- ences by strikers with the United States malls. Three thousand miles of railway mail service on the Wabash railway are out of operation, according to telegrams received by S. H. Cisler, superintendent of railway mails at St Louls. Supt. Cisler stated that the fuél sit- | uation is very serious because of the impossibility of getting coal moved over foreign lines from the mines. _Cisler said that no trouble was reported at Springfield and other points in Missourl yesterday, and the situation in Kansas City is _good. The Frisco system, in telegrams to the Postmaster General, announced that it has no intention of withdrawing trains. B. & O. Train Held Up. C. W. Galloway, vice president of the Baltimere and Ohio, wired Post- master General Work from Baltimore, | as follows: | “The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company was obliged to annul the operation of its train, number 46, from Flora, Iil, to Shawneetown, 1L yesterday morning, and on that ac count was unable to perform United States mail service between these points on account of action of strik- ers, who would not permit our officers and employes, who were on the ground at Flora to make up train. This has been brought to the atten- tion of Post Office Department au- FRANCE T0 CONFER ON GERMAN CRISIS Lloyd George Reported About to Invite Poincare to Lon- don Conference. BERLIN EXPERTS READY TO ASK MORATORIUM France Opposes Meeting of Allied Powers—Reparation Commis- sion Sees Peril. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 11.—Premier Poin- care of France will probably be in- vited to London immediately for dis- cussions with Prime Minister Lloyd George on the geparations question as affected by present conditions in Ger- many. according to official circles here. The date of his arrival, however, will not be fixed until the report of the allied committes on guarantees now sitting in Berlin Is recelved and considered. The report is expected some time this week. The International financial situation came before the British cabinet at 2 meeting today, especially in its rela- tion ta the collapse of the .German mark. Among the data available to the ministers were special dispatches from the British ambassador in Ber- lin outlining conditions in Germany. Britain Holds Key. The Times today began publication of a smeries of special articles dis- cussing “the economic morass in which the world is floundering” and aiming to point the road to recovery. The writer says the latest collapse of the mark merely adds an alarming symptom to the other symptoms long noticeable. “Great Britain alone holds t! to the whole position,” he!deh:ll‘:::. The only gateway to the path to safety is through firm, courageous Lreatment of the reparations problem. In order' to unlock the gate (x]r;zt::::;lo? ot’h the British war in- s to J e seuled."e United States must MORATORIUM PROBABLE. Reparation Commission Convinced This Is Only Solution. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 11.—A moratorium on Germany’s cash payments for the remainder of this year was thought in circles close to the reparations commission to be quite probable as Foen e o WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION -_ ——— ——__ ME ToB =——————_ ASTRIKE \Efi?\i;fifim A) 7 W oy GARVAN GIVES UP GERMAN DYE DATA Chemical Books and Records Laid Before Grand Jury on U. S. Demand. Books and records of the Chemical Foundation, Inc., against which the government has decided to Institute proceedings for return of patents, were placed today by Francis P. Gar- van, ailen property custodian in the Wilson administration and now head of the foundation, before the special grand jury recently impaneled to in- vestigate alleged war frauds. Mr.| Garvan appeared in response to a sub- poena. Reiterating his charge that the De- partment of Justice is acting in the Chemical- Foundation matter under Q@ermanic Influences, Mr. Garvan, pre- viously president of the foundation, refused a request of Assistant United States Atftorney General Crim that he surrender to him the papers D. C Engineer to Be : Assigned New Post DOVER REPORTED OUT OF TREASURY Resignation of Assistant Secretary, in Controversy, Effective July 15. By the Associated Press. Information was recefved at the Capitol from Treasury officlals today that Elmer Dover of Tacoma, Wash., assistant secretary of the Treasury| in charge of customs and internal rev- | enue, and one of the principals in the | Blair-Dover controversy, had submit- | ted his resignation, effective July 15. Secretary Mellon at the time was | attending the cabinet meeting and | Mr. Bover was not at his office. The | information, which was regarded as fairly authoritative, was that, although Mr. Dover ask§d to be relieved of his post July 15, efforts were being made | to have him remain for an additional | sixty or ninety days. i At the Treadury, later, it was said | the matter was one between Mr. Do- TWO CENTS. EUNUCHS AND OTHERS IN HAREMS ON STRIKE ASKING MORE MONEY By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 11— Constantinople's harem attendants have gone on strike for more money and shorter hours. Many of the capital's finest harems have been left unguarded and thelr owners are trying distractedly to find sultable substitutes for the strikers. Numbers of Russian refugees have volunteered their services, but it was found they were not fitted for the job. The strikers insist that their “twenty-four-hour day” and the unceasing vigil they are required to keep on the women of the harems justify better remunera- tion, especially during the pres- ent "hard times. Many of them protest that their wages have not been paid for more than a year, and in several instances they have appealed to the American Com- mittee on.Relief in the Near East for aid. The fact is that their masters, who in most cases are officials or employes of the gov- ernment, have not drawn any salaries for months. The strikers include the eunuchs ang other attendant PRESIDENGY MAY SHING ON RACE FORNL Y GOVERNOR Greatest Interest in Loom- ing Contest on Demo- cratic Side. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. NEW YORK, July 11.—The Empire state’s influence upon presidential candidates through its guberpatorial elections, far in advance of presiden- tial campaigns, may be exemplified again this year as it has been s0 potentially in the past. 1t is this consideration which ren- ders the approaching contest for the | governorship in New York of national importance. It is on the democratic side of the political fence that the greatest in- terest liea The republican prospect is practically cut and dried. The present governor probably will be renominated by acclamation the lat-| ter part of September at Albany. Bar- | ring the nomination of an exception- | ally strong man on tre democratic ticket and except for a gigantic dem- ocratic landslide to be started by con- | ha, ditions not now in evidence, the odds would be in favor of his re-election, but he is not looking to the presi- dency in 1924, as no one contemplates failure of the republicans to renomi- nate President Harding. Wide Open Field. nit Mi: upon the IRESULT UNCERTAIN INMINERS, DISPUTE: U, AWAITS REPLY Dissatisfaction Shows on Both Sides Over Presi- dent Harding’s Offer. FINAL ANSWER EXPECTED BY CLOSE OF WEEK Question of Non-Union Labor En- ters in Settlement of Trouble Through Arbitration. President Satisfied | With Codl Situation, Seeing Some Way Out Although no replies have been received by President Harding from either the miners or ope- rators to the government’s pro- Pposal for settlement of the coal strike, it was indicated at the White House today that the ad- ministration s perfectly satis- fied with the coal situation. President Harding was rep- renented as feeling that there would be found a way out and he was sald to feel confident that the country would be am- ply supplied with coal. Leaders of the mine workers’ union and operators of anthracite and bitu- minous mines, who got President Harding’s offer of arbitration yester- day as the government solution of the suspension of operations in union fields, were still in the throes of de- cision today over acceptance or re- |fusal, but semi-officially it w stated the government expected to have answers Saturday. In spite of a careful guarding of statements, dissatisfaction with the terms of the President's offer on both some question as to the eventual outcome. there was a degree of sides, and The union officials had defi- ely postponed their decision prob- lem until Saturday, when the gen- eral policy committee of the United ne Workers will meet to pass issue, but the employers d committees actually at work in Washington. Northwest Supply Worrles. The government's first concern is the northwestern coal supply, it was indicated, over the rail-and-water route the great lakes forcing the ings. MAJ. CARY H. BROWN, thorities in that section, The Balti-|@ Tesult of a conference this fore- ver and President Harding and that transport of coal in the summer or foot of the ground, are able to slip ihrough by-paths undetected. Sen- tries were doubled and a second ma- chine gun company called out to re- dnforce the one on duty. Then, just before 3 o'clock, two ghots hummed past a sentry’s ears. fihey apparently came from a weed patch in a little gulley just north of Seminary avenue. hree automatic rifles sprayed the patch with 300 rounds of bullets and there was no further firing from there during the night. Daylight failed to reveal any trace that any ©ne had been hit. Lieut. Col. Charles W. Nunan, who js in charge of the guards in the shops, predicted this morning that today will be the decisive day. After ® round of the sentry posts at 7 a.m. he said last night's sniping was merely to test out the mettle of the goldiers and see what they would do under fire. Prepare for Attack. With non-union workers expected oday, the troops are preparing to i—»uu an attack in force. Col. Albert L. Culbertson, command- gng the 130th Infantry, spent the % ight at his headquarters in the Union depot. Crowds which gathered around the £hops and depot early last night and appeared threatening, were driven @way at 10 o'clock by a heavy down- pour of rain. Only the shower, offi- cers said, prevented serious disorders last night. At 9 o'clock last night there were more than 2.000 people along the Swest and north sides of the shops, and geveral hundred more around the gepot. The crowds jeered and hoot- ®d the sentries, and at the west en- drance to the shops, where a mob en- ered last Friday night and ran non- inion workers off the property, the ituation became tense. The ' crowd packed the deadline, and as fast as he sentries passed overflowed onto the company property. At every Rurn of their beats the sentries were orced to bring their rifles into play, Jield horizontally to force the jeering $hrong. Strikebreakers Arrive. Ninety-four non-union workmen ar- ived this morning. They were earched by the troops and a gun was found sticking out of one man's sock. 3t was confiscated. Col. Culbertson has issued orders that all workmen going into the ghops be searched for weapons and Jiquor. “If there is any fighting to be done ~ve will do it.” the colonel said. Crowds of strikers and strike sym- Pathizers began crowding around the Fops this morning and st 19 o-cleck rders were issued to set up machine uns covering every entrance. Report Three Shots Fired. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, July 11.—Col. Albert L. Culbertson, in command of %he state troops at Bloomington, 1L, an official report to Adjt. Gen. glack this l'!ml'lllllg,e said that only three shots have en fired at the {mc-to and Alton shops at Bloom- ngton, one from outside the military ines and two from inside, Qhich was accldental. SIGNAL MEN NOT TO QUIT. Will one of Take Up Disagreements With Roads Separately. B the Associated Press.” S CHICAGO, July 11.—The Brother- $o0d of Railroad Signalmen will not ktrike, for the present at least, ac- cording to a statement issued this morning by D. W. Helt, president of the organization. The decision was : ;rlvtd at lnne; a conference .between e executive board of the unio: thi~ Railroad Labor Board. . 0" %84 Mr. Helt's statement sald that th. #ignalmen would take up all que: tions of disagreement with the roads rpnnuly, and in case an understand- i ng could not be arrived at the mat- er would be taken up again with the ¥'nited States Railroad Labor Board. Increasing disorders, curtailment of ‘rfln service and additional troops on 1 {Continued on Page 3, Column §) more and Ohio Railroad Company had equipment in proper condition and forces necessary to operate this serv- ice, but was prevented from doing so by failure of local authorities to maintain order and provide protec- | tion for our employes. Am bringing this to your personal attention i view oOf possibility of more extensive Illld serious difficulties in that sec- tion.” Mail Se; ice Discontinued. | Z. V. Rawl§, attorney for Pamlico | county, Bay§oro, N. C. wired the Postmaster eGenral yesterday after- | noon: “The Norfolk Southern Railroad Company has discontinued passenger trains 55 and 56, Newbern to Oriental, completely paralyzing mail service. | Large portion of mail is now re- | quired to be held over in Newbern | from sixteen to forty hours. Mail in | Oriental section required to lis over from twenty-four to forty-eight | hours. A prompt investigation is re- quested.” | _Post office officials at Newbern and Oriental have been directed to report on the feasibility of installing tempo- ! rary mail truck service between the two places, which are but thirty miles apart. Telegrams recelved from the super- intendent of the railway mail service at Fort Worth, Tex., state that twen- ty-six trains have been withdrawn on different branches of the Missour, {Kaneas and Texas railroad, all of them being railway post office trains, with the exception of two, which carry closed pouches. Officials Are Cool. Despite these instances of inter- ference with the mails, there was a disposition on the part of Post Office Department officials today to take the situation coolly. Some hold the opinion that the strikers, in seeking to interfere with the United States mails, are attempt- ing to bring about a situation which would lead the government on to take over the roads. Just how far this option is shared is difficult to state. Postmaster General Work sald he had instructed the superintendent of the railway mail service here in Washington to have divisional in- spectors sent to all points where | railroads had reported disorders by strikers and to make reports to Wash- ington at once. In many instances, it was said, postal inspectors had fafled to verify reports sent to the department by railway officials. In Missouri and Louisiana, it was ex- plained, inspectors had found a less serious situation than had been re- ported to them. President to Kmow Facts. The Post Office Department will not, it was sald,. recommend drastic action by federal or state forces at any point until inspectors have made certain of the facts as reported. It was intimated at the Post Office Department _early today that the Postmaster General was prepared to lay before the President at today's cabinet_ meeting a complete rt covering the entire sifuation relating. to alleged iInterference with rail- way mall trains throughout the coun- try, as reported to the department by both railway officials and postal. in- spectors. A conference between Post- master General Work and Attorney General Daugherty may possibly be arranged later in the day if it is found that the activities of striking railway workers are seriously menac- ing the railway mall service of the government. SIGNS UP WITH DEMPSEY. Harry Wills Engages to Box World’s Heavyweight Champion. NEW_ YORK, July 11.—Cham) 1Jack Dempsey nn: Harry ll‘l,l“. through their managers, today signed :;eout:?‘cl:i to box for m:l world's #nd place ‘to pe named % 5 L noon between Dr. Fischer, chairman of the German war debts commis- z:,erl"!, 1-!l'l‘d l{l thls‘ members of the mmission in a hurri E ormal_session. e e French government is oppo: to an immediate meeting of thoepll,ll.l:g powers to discuss the reparations sit- uation and 1t will only consent to such a meeting as a final step. This was made plain in official circles to- day :d;;rbz‘con;er:‘m:e between Pres- ident Dubols of the commissi: Premier Polincare. Isstonfand Roland W. Boyden, the United States representative with the com- mission, took part in the conference. Dr. Fischer told the commission the Germans would present a formal re- quest for a moratorium at a meeting cnued by the commission for tomor- row. This request, it was indicatea in commission circles, will likely be acted upon by the commission with- out waiting to refer the matter to the various governments. See No Other Way. The letter asking for the morator- jum, which Dr. Fischer and Herr Schroeder, understoretary for finance, Who is with the war debt commi sioner in Paris, were drafting today, is expected to suggest the cancella- tion of all the remaining payments this year, leaving the hmatter of a moratorium therefater open for -the time being. Under this arrangement the question of the further morator- ium will be decided later, upon fulfer consideration and in view of what may happen'in Germany in the next few weeks. Tt is understood that the majority of the commission sees no other way out of the present crisis and is therefore prepared to vote a temporary mora- torium, particularly because there is general realization that no loan to Germany is immediately possible and that rellef for present conditions must come quickly. Dr. Fischer told the commission that Germany had succeeded in, getting together sufficient forelgn exchange to meet the payment of 50,000,000 gold marks due July 16, but whether this payment will be exacted has not yet been decided. Formula to Be Evolved. ‘The exact form of the possible moratorium would be evolved during this afternoon, it was thought, as both Dr. Fischer and Herr Schroeder again will have separate conyersa- tions with the members of the com- mission during the day in the effort to put their request into s shape that will meet with the commission’s approval. France is not yet ready to approve of Germany's admission to member- ship in ¢he league of nations, it was intimated in official circles this after- noon, in connection with recent deo- larations of Prime Mihister Lloyd George and other prominent British statesmen in favor of such a plan. _*It would be best in many ways for Germany to belong to the league,” said a high official, “but the moment does not appear to have come, since she has not yet showed a willingness to execute her obligations, which, un- der the treaty of Versailles, is a x:iond'l.uon necessary to her admis- sion.’ . SUCCESSOR TO LANDIS. President Names J. H. Wilkerson to Illinois Bench. James H. Wflkpr;on was nominated today by President Harding to be fed- eral judge for the northern Illinois district, nmodhs former Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, who ' resigned several months ago to be 8f organised base ball. come ‘(ir' and books brought from New York in response to a subpoena from the spe- cial grand jury which is investigat- ing war frauds. Mr. Garvan was ac- companied by former United States Attorney Clarence R. Wilson and Col. R. S. Huidekoper, former assistant United States attorney. Mr. Garvan said that Mr. Crim had requested the surrender of the books | of the corporation, stating that he| might not be able to reach the case | before the grand jury for some time. ! Mr. Garvan and his attorneys declined to accede to the request, telling Mr. Crim they would surrender the books into the custody of the grand jury only in response to the subpoena. The former alien property custodian stated that he is unwilling to trust e persons in charge of the Department of Justice investigation because they ‘“represented Germanic influences” and because the government had threatened a civil pro- ceeding, and he was not willing they should use the books in aid-of such action. “I am willing, however,” s=said Mr. Garvan, “to trust an American grand jury.” Calied Before Grand Jurors. ‘When Mr. Garvan and his counsel ar- rived at the door of the grand jury room Mr. Crim was engaged inside. He left the session of the grand jury and, com- ing into the hall, shook hands with Mr. Garvan and his lawyers. In the course of a short conversation the request for the surrender and the refusal were made (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) THEATER ON SITE OF KNICKERBOCKER Mr. Crandall Will Build New House Because of Demand. Harry M. Crandall this afternoon announced his decision to build an- nother motlon picture theater, to be named the Ambassador, on the site of the ill-fated Knickerbocker Thea- ter, following the presentation of a petition signed by 1,500 persons lving in the vicinity of 18th street and Co- lumbia road. The new theater, plans for which are being drawn up by Thomas E. Lamb of New York, will be-opened not later than Thanksgiving, Mr. Crandall told a committee from the Eighteenth Street and Columbia Road Business Men's Association, which presented the petition. 4 building operations will begin this week, Mr. Crandall said, as his company is now in & position to start rebuilding immediately. The will of the people of the neighborhood, he said, was what he was waiting for and the gsfltlon seemed conclusive. He sald he had not minimized th disaster and had waited this long in order to find out what' the people ‘wanted. Mr. Crandall said that he had re- ceived a petitfon bearing 263 names opposing the rebuilding and thirty- one letters from persons opposed to another motion picture theater on 'ker site. He also has I of rebuilding now came the pe- tion of 1,600 names. . . It is understood that the theater owners have received a letter from|at the fromt with the the Hn Commissioner stati: that some action, either towar clearing away the debris or rebuild- ing, would have to be taken in re- Jation tz the nd_Coium- i Toad aite, & "% Asgistant engineer commissioner, ex- pected to go to Camp Humphreys. BROWNTO LEAVE DISTRICT SERVICE Assistant Engineer Commis- sioner Assigned to' Camp Humphreys School. Maj. Cary H. Brown, assistant en- gineering commissioner of the District, will be relleved from duty at the Muni- cipal building in the near future, it was reliably learned today in Army circles. The major's new assignment, it is un- derstood, will take him to the engineer school at Camp Humphreys, Va. The War Department has not made known the name of the new assistant engineer, but the announcement prob- ably will be made before Maj. Brown leaves. 3 The retiring officer will take with him to his new station the good wishes, not only of the District officials with whom he has worked, but also of scores of residents of the District who have bad occasion to meet him on civic problems. Maj. Brown has had a busy three years in the service of the National Cap- ital. In addition to drafting the regu- lations under which Washington's new zoning law has been enforced, the major has had direct supervision over large school building program, - which has been in progress during the past two years. Ansigned in 1919. Returning from war-torn France, Maj. Brown was assigned to the Dis- trict building on March 1, 1919. H took charge of the sewer, water and electrical departments and the build- ing inspector’s office. Because of the knowledge he gain- ed of conditions in the building de- partment, Maj. Brown was selected to prepare the rules for enforcement of the zoning law. When the zoning commission came into being by act of Congress about two years ago, the major became its executive officer and is still in that position. With the close of the war Congress began to turn_ attention to the ac- cumulated needs of the local school system and made substantial appro- priations for new buildings. As super- visor aver the municipal architect, Maj. Brown has directed the prepa- ration of plans and the actual con- struction of the new schoolhouses. Another Assistant Named. Adout a year ago the work of the city engineer department became so heavy that the War Department de- talled Capt. John E. Wood of the Ccrps of Engineers to be another assistant engineer commissioner. The latter officer relieved Maj. Brown from control of the sewer, water and electrical departments. ¢ Capt. Wood also has kept in touch with the operations of the zoning commission and it is possible that he nicker] he said, 400 letters in favor |may succeed Maj. Brown as executive o&ar t;. the commission when the change is made. . Brown was ‘While in France lnzld B a lieutenant colonel. * The city has one other assistant engineer commissioner, Maj. . Bésson, In charge of highway £arveyor's offce and the st clg ing and refuss department, Secretary Mglion had no statement to make in connection with the reports of the assistant secretary’s resigna- tion. ‘When President Harding lnpolnl-' ed Mr. Dover assistant secretary it was generally believed that he was to act as Mr. Harding's personal representative in patronage matters, because of his long experience in politics as private secretary to Mark Hanna. Assistant Secretary Dover started into “Hardingize” the service. It is claimed that the dfintle reorganiza- tion attempted by Mr. Dover aroused the antagonism of D. H. Blair, com- missioner of internal revenue, and these two officlals have for months been the storm center of a patronage controversy and an attempt to purge the department of reported “demo- cratic dominance.” BOMB MAKER’S REVENGE. Arrested, Mayor Blows Up Court- house, Killing Occupants. ROME, July 11.—Arrested on a charge of manufacturing bombs, Filadelfo Cas- tro, mayor of Lentini, Sicfly, blew up the courthouse, killing all the occu- pants, says a dispatch to the Central News. Numerous bombs were found in the home of the mayor, who was declared to have made them for the socialist members of the municipal council. FIGHTS SEA ON BARREL. Man Ashore After 48 Hours Be- lieved Sole Survivor of Ship. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, July 11.— After keeping afloat for forty-eight '® \ hours with the aid of an empty barrel, Alfredo Mendoza reached shore near Fajado, one the east coast of Porto Rico, telling of the capsizsing Thursday of a small vessel on which he and seven companions and a crew were on their way to Culebra, one of the small islands off the east coast of Porto Rico. Mendoza collapsed shortly afier gain- ing shore and is still unconscious. It is believed he is the sole survivor. —_— REPAIR SHOPS CLOSED. ONEONTA, N. Y, July 11.—The Delawars and Hudson railroad has closed permanently the locomotive re- pair shops here, &s a result of the strike of shopmen, over the protests of business men and city officials. About 176 men are 'wan out of work. Today’s News in Brief. Little change seen in local strike situ- presidential candidacies, -and no in- dividual has a call on the nomination at this time. Pomerene; Cox and Mc- Adoo are talked about. If Senator Pomerene wins re-elgction to the Senate, Ohio is expected to again de- mand the right to supply the presi- dential nominee. If a democrat can be elcted Governor of New York next November, this state would insist upon providing_the party’s candidate for President. For months past, many of the most prominent democratic leaders in Congress and the national committee have felt that the solu- tion of their might be furnished by the state and senatorial elections this fall, governor or senator flashing sud- But with the democrats it is differ- | ent. Theirs is a wide-open field for candidacy problems in a brilliant victory by some democratic denly into nation-wide proi..inence and instilling the minority party with (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) EFFORT TO AVERT na HIGHER COAL PRICE Secretary Hoover Says Meeting Will Plan Protec- tion Against Raises. Representiatives of non-union coal operators will be called together the end of this week to consider means of dealing with smaller operators who are selling coal at prices in ad- vance of the maximum recently reached by voluntary agreement, Secretary Hoover said today. Secretary Hoover said the larger non-union operators had been abid- ing by the price agreements faith- fully, but the smaller operators were “getting entirely out of hand,” and in some places were raising prices as much as 50 cents each week. Small operators in western Kentucky and one Pennsylvania district, he said, were the worst offenders against the fair price maximum. Far Over Limitations. Attraction of the open market, he asserted,’ has proved too much for the smaller non-union operators, and while the larger operators are hold- ing prices at the mine to from $2.90 to $3, although being offered as high ut $4¢ a ton, smaller operators are city of ha By Pennsylvania under not at all. A work resumption with- in two weeks, however, it was indi- cated, might solve this without diffi- but if not, priority orders gh _ the Interstate Commerce Commission might be used to direct shipments of non-union coal prefer- {entially to the territory concerned. This constituted a policy question held in suspension. | Mine operators in the union fields, | who have kept mines closed down three { months, in the belief that a wage reduc- tion was necessary to lower production {costs and coal prices to meet levels of | other commodities, found most difficulty in accepting the sections of the Presi- dent’s arbitration offer which would continue the war-time mining wage scales for what they regard as indefinite period. Using the union day laborer's wage underground of $7.50 to illus- trate their argument, they point out that non-union fields, ‘with a day labor wage rate of around $5, have continued expanding operations for all of the period. In the union circles the disposition is to question where the arbitration would_leave the union districts in West Virginia, Washington state and the southwest, which have more or less relapsed to non-union operations. There also is a disposition to consider what the arbitration would do for the new unions which succesfully came into be- ing in certain non-union territory of the impulse of & It is the union view tional strike. that the wage scale fight under the arbitration offer is more or less won. The net result was to give both elements in the conference considera- ble room for thinking. Regarded “Fairest W After discussing the proposal with his associates yesterday, Ogle. chairman of the bituminous op- erators’ conxlder\? districts bff .8 “the best and fairest way” to settle the controversy. John L. Lewis, pres- ident of the union, however, classed this “as obsolete in the light of the President’s proposals.” Alfred M. group, ' indicated that they a plan for arbitration by ered by them last week as The anthra- tained silence on e operators m the proposal, although they have be- fnreplen?iered arbitration at the hands the President. Mr. Ogle declared he considered it “utterly impossible” for one board to deal comprehensively with conditions over the vast area of the nation’s bi- tuminous fields and to “make up a wage scale in any reasonable time. That was why, he said, the operator: d proposed several boards of ar- bitration. URDER SUSPECT DIES IN CELL, CAUSE UNKNOWN Alleged Slayer of Rose Brady at Camp Eustis May Have Taken Poison. the Associated Press. NEWPORT NEWS, Va, July 11— Russell A. Van Arsdale, charged with charging as high as $3.75 a ton, and | the murder of Miss Rose Brady. at ation. Page 2 Falls Church citisen and school asso- clations may unite. Page 2 District Commissioners to decide fu- ture of Industrial Home School. Page 2 issioners ‘would unite sewer c:g.l,?aml to end Rock creek pollution. N ~ Page 2 it stand h Ire: Page 3 Bum| crops predicted by Depart- mog:rot Agriculture. Page 3 Méxican court to question Bielaski in kidnaping inquiry. Page 6 Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- surgents plan to make I mnnlfut Free Staters in So land. ets pen President used to :}::l“: -check law. g:. 7 ties Commission approves George- ua}:m bridge street car and track re- quest. - Page 7 Fdge opposes pending tarifft s.b‘llllul,: Ats present form. h‘uo 14 Court of Claims dis- invol?ing more than Page i3 i poses $25,01 N Kentucky and Penn-!Camp hod B e % cell here in the ci sylvania flelds as high as $5 or $6 a ton. The arrangements made with the aon-union operators, Mr. Hoover stated, were purely voluntary agree- ments and representatives of 'lhelr associations will be called to Wash- ington to see if they cannot hold the smaller operators in line or whether the government will have to take some action to protect the public. Moral Suasion Weapon. Asked as to the means at the gov- B ernment's hands for protecting thetn public, Mr. Hoover -explained: “More moral suasion. That's all I've got. But it's been some stunt to hold ‘the situation for six weeks.” |, - Definite date for the meeting with | fa. the non-union operators has not been | fo! ot 80 ot Mr. Hoover said, 8ading they would be culled togethep the oalky union officers, found dead in his ty jail this morn- Rusti: ng. lghyflcllnl are undecided whether Van Arsdale died of heart failure or whether he took poison. probably will be performed some time today, morning declined to say just what ac- tion he will tak Van Arsdale was found dead in his bunk by other prisoners in the cell They tried to awaken him about o'clock, but found him dead. He ap- parentiy An autopsy although the coroner this was in good health and irits about 10 o'clock last night, e prisoners and jailer declared. 14,000 VOTE STRIKE. CHICAGO, July 11.—Approximately loyes of the Chicago sur- »-Wll;aph.'va voted !m:‘l.; c.:dlulg , it was anni FF e ‘(allowln‘ a vote emn g;c company’s proposal of a.wage e~ latter part of this wi