Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1922, Page 1

Generally fair todiy and to-mv: vlnrgwr tzdly; modersts - southerly wini ‘Temperature for twenty-two hours * ended at 10 p.m. last night: Highest, 80; lowest, 64. Full report on page 20. ' second. ‘Washington, - D. No. 903.—' No. 28,567. Entered sy e FLATLY HARDING PLAN| r TO ARBITRATE STRIKE President Wérns Workers of Responsibility They Assume. Operators Accept Partially. DEFINITION OF PROPOSAL FAILS TO CHANGE POSITION OF UNIONSi Lewis Scheme to Turn Down Offer Goes Forward Like Clockwork—Reply Carried to White House. By the Aasociated Press Coal mine workers whose walkout in the anthracite region and strike in the unionized bituminous ficlds has crippled the nation's coal produc- tion since April flatly refused yesterday, through their officers and com- mitteemen of their union, to submit their grievances to arbitration under terms suggested by President Harding. They notified the President of their determination, received a response mentioning the responsibility they had assumed, and adjourned the session of their central controlling committee, holding its members in the city, however, until tomorrow. Operators Expected to Accept. Only a White House statement to the effect that nothing would be done until.tomorrow, when the bituminous employes are expected to re- spond to the same arbitration proposal, was available to indicate the government’s future policy. Anthracite operators have formally accepted the President’s plan, but bituminous employers are known to be divided. Tt was intimated last night that at least one section of them would, in addition to accepting conditionally the arbitration proposal, tender their mines to the government for operation, control, or -other disposition. One group in Pennsylvania is expected to refuse the arbitration pro- posal, and to continue to attempt to operate mines notwithstanding the strike, while the Ohio., Illinois and Indiana operators are still discussing their plans. The last general meeting of the employers in the bituminous industry will be held here this evening at 7 p.m. Lewjs Plan Prevails. the President and cabinet members, s having openly -demanded during the Yesterday's proceedings of _the pelicy committee of the United Mine | P25t week that semi-unlonized fields Workers of America, with 150-cid|!" West Virsinla, partially producing unfon dpokéesmen attending, went | '™ SPite of the strike, and former non- forward like clockwork on the. plan|URioR districts in Pennsylvania, par- Mid down by John L. Lewis, presi-, Uy closed down by the strik T well dent of the union, and other natlonal """‘m:':‘:'::n"‘:‘fl:‘;‘;:‘"y L" ‘rv. officers, and plainly forecast on pre- Sme e roxcad Vious days. Recounting the history :’J’ ‘”’T:"V""menl to take arbitrd- ¢ bis negotiations with the goverm=| o™ . President has been unde¢ L 5t00d to have responded that the ga¥- ment and the employers, expressing| .= ¢ e - his ‘dissatisfaction with the terms of u:‘ could not force suph & odis the arbitration offer, Mr. Lewls in - { executive session offered a lengthy Commission Plan Pleases, letter of refusal of the arbitration{ In the rest of the lengthy and moved its ®doption. the President the union lea 3 Delegate after delegste behind the | pressed satisfaction with his pFopesal closed doors of the executive session |to establish a commission to"inyesti- gave his views, and James L. Lord, | gate alleged irregularity of operiitions vice president of the American|in ' the bituminous industry, along Federation of Labor, in charge of the! with production and selling costs. In- mining division of the central unmion | cidentally they claimed the report of body, sat with them. The vote in the such & body was necessary to any arhi- | end for the adoption of the letter | tration proceeding. was unanimous. - The anthracite . industry, 1t wes charged, had “indefensible monopoly. Warsed of Responsibdility. A committee then took the letter to the White House, and saw’ the T'resident briefly.-The following state- ent. was given out after they lef “The President met the policy com- mittee of the United Mine Workers) and received the written declination = B rere the votuntary plan proposed | 1dnd: Was alsolasucd a coby of & B D e vent ot the. dlapute | 0N letter. which the President had which is responsible for Suspending | "TitteR to Mr. Lewis and A. M. Ogle, mining activities. There will be no|Chairmian of thé bitaminous ehployers announcement of any government group of the union flelds, further in- tors in the determination of price of anthracite coal to consumers.” These facts, it was added “must be known it justice is to be done the anthra- cite workers and the public” From the White House after the final response of the miners was at MUST BE OBEYED, PRESIDENT WARNS Tells Trackmen’s Officials "Remedy -for Wrongs Lies in Congress. SITUATION DISCUSSED IN TWO-HOUR HEAHING Result of Intervention in Doubt Till Meeting in Detroit to Settle Strike Policy. Strike at a Glance. Peace negotiations to end the shopmen’s strike were tem- _ porarily at a standstiil fol Ing jesterday’s separate come feremces between shop erafts leaders, raflway executives and Raiiroad Labor Board members. Executives of western roads deciared they would mot agree to any plan inconsistent with the Labor Board's decision but are willing to attend any meet- ing or hearing to effect a me tlement in line with the board's ruling, E. F. Grable, head of the maintenance of way organisa- tien, after a conference with haid there commerce -cummittee be ntarted a revision soon of the transporta: Tro. By the Associated Press. President Harding personally inter- vened yesterday In the railroad strike | situation, but the success of his ef- forts to remedy conditions, now ad- | mitted generally by government offi- cials to be serious, will remain unde- termined until early this week, when the officers of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Shop Laborers meet in Detroit. Fhe President for two hours dis- cussed the strike situation with E. F. Grable, chief of the maintenance of way employes' organisation. who came to Washington from Chicago for the conference, and, with Fred L. Felck, legislative representative of the same organization. The results of this conference. as announced.in & White House state- | ment, were that the President received tor the first time direct information as to the workers’ side of the controversy and was afforded for the first time an opportunity to present direct to a recognised representative of the em- ployes ‘the position of the govern: ment. Wil Settle Course in Detroit. Another result, announced after the conference by Mr. Grable, con- s of a call for a meeting the first of this week in, Detroit of the grand officers of the Maintenance of Way Brotherhood, to decide on 2 polley, presumably on whether that organi- zation shall continue to withhold the authorized strike order or whether it all allow its members. to join the striking shop-craft workers. ‘While the .conference between the President and Messrs. Grable and Feick was 'in progress Senator Cum- mins, republican, Iowa, announced profits which are the significant fae- 1 Slan to selieve the situatios watil thel| = ounnsed o Luge 3 Colsmn L} response of the bituminous operators BOTH SIDES s received. It is expected to have their report Monday morning. The President did not comment to the mine workers’ committee on the de- clsion reported, except to say that he hoped they fully appraised the responsibility. they assumed in de- clining the government's offer of a 1s of instant adjustment and the resumption of mining.” mea Attack Owmers’ Representative. | The scale committee of the union for the anthracite meeting at an earlier meeting refused for them- selves to accept the arbitration offer, but joined with the general policy’ committee deliberations. “For substantial reasons, the repre- sentatives of the United Mine Work- ers are compelled to withhold their acceptance of the arbitration pro- posals submitted by ybu.” the letter to the President sald. “¢ ¢ ¢ The mine workers desire to point out that the coal operators who have been in attendance at the recent conferences assembled by you, and to whem you have submitted the plan for arbitra- tion of the coal strike, are only par- tially representative of the ‘producing interests affected by the present sus- pension of mining. Operators repre- senting nearly 50 per cent of the ton- nage in strike flelds where production is stopped have not been in attend- an ® * * and we have no in- To Work—Strikers By the Assoclated Press. -~ CHICAGO, July 15.—The third week of the railway shopmen's 'strike opened today with peace negotiatfons virtually at » standstill, following yesterday's separate conferences be- tween rail executives, union heads and railroads board members, when the differences were described as “fundamental” Western carriers tonight lssued a virtual ultimatum to the strikers, as- serting that they will not agree to any ‘plan inconsistent with' decisions. of the labor board and will mot con- fer with the strikers while the walk- out continues. -The statement, issued by the western presidents’ committee on public velatio; placed responsi- bility for tHe: continuance of . the formation that the proposed plan of{ striks on.sjrike leaders, and oF arbitration has been submitted to| entiy mq;:g o:o’ urse .op:n for them by any governmental agency. i 3 s i e} “YWe-are further advised that the nterests have no intention of comin; es. the statement . oc willing to attend mieeting or participate in any IN RAILROAD DEADLOCK ’ Executives Refuse to Confer Till Men Return Wages and Rulés Are Settled. (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) ADAMANT Won’t Give In Till termined-to maintain traffic as nearly normal as possible, the ranks of the strikers were expected to be aug- mented Monday by a walkout of fire- men and oilers, while at Cleveland the American Federation of Railroad Workers has voted to walk out the first of the week. Chicago, the hub of the strike, was quiet. Mr. Jewell announced he would have nothing to say over the weel end, while Labor Board mediators ap- parently “were nonplussed by the #fyndamental differences.’ Meore Injunctions Granted. Federal court orders restraining stfikers ‘from interfering with the petitioners continued. to be granted’ Thé Virginian railroad wecured.a re- straining . order ‘at Roanoke, Va., while the Erie obtained an injunction at Cl ‘and_ the Pennsylvania railroad obtained an injunction there to;cover its shops at Toledo.. The Bal- | | | l AN \‘x\) WON| 0.9 1DG @_k\;%rmm’ N:AP.S SQUASH CENT GENE SARAZEN, 21, WINS GOLF CROWN Pittsburgh . Pro Takes Na- tional Open Title With 288 for 72 Holes. JONES TIES FOR SECOND Only Amateur “in the Money” Equals Black's 289—01d Guard Is Swept Aside. SKOKIE COUNTRY CLUB, GLEN- COE. M., July 15.—Gene Sarazen of Pittsburgh, 3 little twenty-one-year- old native-born American of Italian descent, today pushed his way out in front of the world’s greatest golfers, many of them old enough to be his father, and won the national open golf champlonship With a score of 288 for seventy-two holes of play, lusting two days. A hooked drive out of bounds on the seventy-first hole, followed a moment later by a wild spoon shot, cost John Black, Oakland, Calif., pro- fessional, a tle for first, and these strokes, with a missed putt & few greens earlier, kept him from win- ning the title. He finished a stroke behind Sarazen in a tie with Bobby Jones, youthful Atlanta, Ga., amateur, for second, while Willlam Mehlhorn of Shreveport, La. was fourth with 290, and Walter Hagen of Detroit, British open champfon, fifth with 281. Jim Barnes of Pelham Manor, N. Y., defending his title, was hopelessly out of the running, finishing well down the list. . Only one of the three Britons fin- ished among the first twelve, George Duncan tying for sixth with Leo Diegel of New Orleans. Jones was the only amateur in this list. Typleal American Vietory. Sarazen's victory came in typical American faghion, for he was hardly (Continued on Page 13, Column 4.) NEW ALLIED MOVE MAY REVIVE HAGUE Russians Are Given Cha{nce to Modify Declarations ' Blocking Negotiations. By the Assoclated Press. ‘THE HAGUE, July 15—The cen- tral, or non-Ruspgian, commission offi- cially tgok a new conciliatory step tonight, paving the way for the re- opening of the conference, when M. Patvn, president of the commission, sent 'z lette} fo Maim~ Litvinoff, head of the Russian delegation, declaring that it was the unanimous opin of the ppésidents and bers’ of. the three subcommissions that if M. Lit- vinoft wished to make a staf t moditying his pnvou “declarations, the npw. statemen} -would be takenm into’ gopsideration. In much event it would'be possible to cantinub the gotiations. LA R M. Litvinof conferred with Bdward F. Wise of the British fe day, after which rumo lated that the negot be resumed. ns were to e other thetr JAPANESE EXCITED OVER MORALITY OF WESTERN DANCES By the Associated Pres TOKIO, Japan, July 15.—The question whether’ western dances are immoral is the subject of a lively debate in the Japanese newspapers at present. In the last few years western dancing has grown popular among Japanese women, especialy those who have lived abroad, although it is by no means general as yet. They dance very gracefully in their native costume and heelless slippers, but the older and less modernized Japanese frown on the growing custom. The geisha declare that the mod- ern dance is fmmoral, but it is ex- plained that they may be influ- enced by the loss of custom that the Jatést western invasion is sing them. The voung Japa:i- ese man would much rather dance himself than watch geislia danc- ing. DETECTIVE BUREAU i | Oyster Says Police Ignore Big Cases for “Haif- | Pint” Violators. | That a shake-up In the detective bureau is likely to follow the trans- fer of fifty Washington policemen, ef- fective yesterday, was intimated last ment comes, ~This shake-up is due, he said, upon the return of Inspector Grant, who s in California. Too much attention to what he terms “half-pint” cases, while the big bootleggers and serious offenders against the prohibition enforcement act go unmolested, is ascribed by Commissioner Oyster as one ‘of the reasons for the transfers just made. “Snappy and on the job” is the way the Commissioner wants the Wash- gton policemen to be, and he be- | tieves that the shift in the force will help along the reformation. this time of the year were “ status of the men” intended to-speed up work in the po- lice departiment. Commissioner Oyster further stated that Maj. Sullivan, chief of police, had the trapsfers'in mind befors leav- ing Washington for the convention of police chiefs in San Francisco. but it was thought better to poktpone action until his return. He called the captains together one regarding the changes. Several sug- gestions were made. Some wei upon.. ° DISTRICT GIRL POISONED " ON COLONIAL LIMITED ‘STAMFORD, Conn., July15—The Cplonlal, axpress from over, the New York, New lats today snd Miss Margaret. Upper- cue, elghteen years .old, of - 1563 Ran-| doiph- place -northwest, Washington, | D. €., was removed from it and taken to the Nospital suffering from poison. Wi hie owss Mva Tiohe Briinman of 3037 West North avenue, Baltimors, SHAKE-UP 1S HINTED TARIFF | 1 i night by Commissioner Oyster, under : wiiose SEDRERIEIDA the DOYCRMIRNEL- | LS008 Wafore Linlted States Com- | Besides stating that transfers at|ment official and three former assis- ealthy | tant district attorneys, it was said, and conducive to the better physical would be named in evidence to be Commissioner | submitted to a special grand jury. Oyster admitted that the change was | Explanations also will bé sought from acted | ha |cago and Omaha for shipments of TO DATE TAKEN NS00 LQUOR BRAFT QU Ex-Legislator and Former.E Revenue Collector Ar- |“DRY” AGENTS, ALOFT, rested in Chicago. MANY OTHERS ON LIST Extortion and Conspiracy Charged Following Two-Year Probe. By, the Axociated Press. = ; CHICAGO; July 15.—Harry' W. u.' ger, former dollector of interiml re: enue at Chicgo, and Benfatin Mitc ell. former member of the state leg- | islature and widely known figure in state politics, were taken into cus-| tody tonight by government agents| in connection with an investigation ! of a “booze graft” totaling more.than $500,000, Warrants served on the two charged extortion and conspiracy to extort. Federal agents said that investiga- tion was begun when it was found that the same notary public stamp had been used on permits illegally is- sued in New York, Philadelphia, Chi- whisky. Further examination was said to have shown that the names of the directors of prohibition in the| various states for these permits had been forged by one person. Provide $5,000 Bond Each. Mager and Mitchell were released on $5,000 bonds after having been ar- missioner Mason. Both denied con- ducting any illegal practices on their part or of friends. Based on & two-year investigation conducted by Col. Artbur C. Earn- shaw, chief of the special intelligence unit, and two special intelligence agents, it wag declared that evidence | was obtained to phow that thousands | of dollars had been collected in con- | nection with the enforcement of the | prohibition law. " Mamy Drr Ageats in Lint. Fiftoen prohibition agents and for- | mer agents, a former high govern- two former. congressmen, according to a government agent. The investigation, federal agents asserted, broke up a ring that has collected hundreds of .thousands of dollars. in conngction” with the en- forcement, - of the prohibition law. One prohibition agent,”it was said, répeived $100 a month from a group of Chicago bootleggers to. inform dey last week, it was stated, and gave | them of the workingy of the prohi- them a chance to make suggeéstions i bition offjces. An owner of a cafe was-said to paid $10,000 to have a liquor violation case “fixed.” In other cases shipments of seized .liquor were de- liberately s0ld back to the owners from whom they had been taken. ARAB STRIKE CAYSES * : CJ:IS.’M PXLESTIIIE ¢1league, was much favored as the ‘Union, which, Is to_approve.the pro- SPOT 12 STILLS; RUM PARTY WAVES HOWDY Having used feet, motor cyclgs, ard automobiles as means of chas- ing bootleggers and locating stills, Revenue Agents Evans and Ruby of the general operatives' section here yesterday brought into service an airplane. Shortly before noon they stepped ' into a plane at Bolling Field, and took the air in the first aerial scout for stills in the lower Maryland-and Virginia section. They found a round dozen of stills. Flying over Waldorf, Mor- gantown and other cities down country, trails of smoke ascending toward the plane betrayed the moonshiners. Today the agents will go back to ‘the automobile method of hunting bootleggers and moonshiners. One group, beligved surely to have been turning corn mash into “white lightning,” waved to the alrplaning party and recelved similar greetings. The prohibition agents hope to make a closer ac- quaintance of the group today. URGES AMERICAN LEAGUE OF NATIONS : Uruguay Proposes Action on| Matter at Santiago Conference. A G | MUTUAL DEFENSE SOUGHT |z Plan Involves Unity of Imterna- tional Affairs by Twenty-One Western Republics. By the Associated Press. i The government of Uruguay has proposed as a principle to be adopted by the nations attending the fifth Pan-American conference in Santiago, Chile, next March, “that all countries of the American continent will con- sider as an encroachment upon their rights an encroachment upon the rights of any of them inflicted by non-American power” and that “such encroachment would give rise to a common and uniform attitude of all nations of America.” Uruguay also has proposed that an American league of nations be formed to bring about the observance of the principle. This policy, which would involve & unity. in_international affaits of the | twenty-one republics of the Ameri- can continent, was first proposed and initiated by Uruguay during the world war and was intended to bring ahout the entrance of all the Latin American countries in the war as an expression of solidarity with the United States. The “Brum doctrine,” as it is called in South America, was launched by President Baltasar Brum of Uruguay, June’17, 1917, when he proclaimed the benevolent neutrality toward the United States, and it con- stituted the basis on which Uruguay severed its diplomatic relations with Germany on October 7, 1917. Statement of Doetrine. President Brum then declared that ! no American nation could be or| should be hostile or even meutral | when one of them wa# in war against | a non-American power and ‘that an | act of aggression committed against one of them shonld be regarded as committed gainst all. Several other | countries of Latin America adopted thereafter that policy and followed Uruguay in severing its diplomatic relations with Germany as an act of solidarity with the United States. As understood here, this principle is only 'a part of a broader plan to be submitted by Uruguay to the San- tiago conference, it belng ‘contem- plated by the proposal that an Amer- { ican league “based upon complete equality of all countries associated” be formed and that “all controversies of whatever nature and which for| whatever reason arise between the American countries shai! be submit- | ted to the arbitrable judgment of ‘the | American league, when such Ques- tions cannot be settled directly or by amicable. mediation.” Favers World League. FIVE CENTS. ~ LODGE'S VICTORY 10 BE WALKOVER, SAY SUPPORTERS “Opponent for Senate Will Hardly Know He Was in the Race.” THREE DEMOCRATS COMPETE FOR TOGA Lively Interest in State and Na- tional Primary and Gen- eral Elections. BY N. O, MESSENGER. (Btagy it of The Btar.) BOSTON, July 15.—Well, here is one neck of the woods where politics is lively enough, even in midsummer, to suit the most exacting. Ma: . chusetts has a real campaign for nomination to federal and state of- ces. The primaries will be held September 12, and the candidates are alréady hard at work. aturally, Washingtonians will be more interested in the case of Senator lodge. who is before the voters for re-nomination. The unanimous judg- ment of politicians here, whose opin- ion, The Star’s correspondent learned to value In the past, is that Senator Lodge will win the nomination hands own. Some of them think that his opponent will hardly know that he has been In a race. They also be- lieve that by the time election day rolls around, the disgruntiement to- ward Senator Lodge among certain republicans admitted to exist at this time will have vented itself in grumbling and that, confronted by the alternative of voting for a democrat. they will march dutifully to the polis and assure the election of Senator Lodge. But such is ot the opinion of the supporters of the man who is oppos- ing Senator Lodge for the nomination, nor of democrats, who believe that the republicans have fallen on evil days and that the time is propitious to the possibility of giving the present democratic semator from Massachusetts. Senator Wailsh, a democratic colleague. Walker ex-Representative. Joseph Walker, who 4§ contesting for the nomination with . Senator Lodge. is a son of former Bapresents - tive Walker, also was loAg time in the House and something of & char- acter. Mr. Walker, today’s candidate, was an ardent Bull Mooser. and he has not shed his horns. He is a wealthy manufacturer, but rather a dilletante in practical politics. He stands for almost everything in political policies which Senator Lodge does not ap- prove. Whatever Senator Lodge for, he is likely to be “agin.” He did not want to go in for the nomination, but when he found that no one else was willing to tackle Senator Lodge. he seid he would take him on. Mr. Walker's theory is that this is {a bad period for standpatters and the open season for progressives— the more progressive the better. He contends' that political events in In- diana, Pennsylvania and lowa sup- port his. theory and that conditions prevailing in those states must exist in Massachusetts. S That is taking a . long shot, of course, but that is the kind of a'bet Mr. Walker is laying down. “Reac- tionism must go,” is his watchword and he .is making his campaign on that slogan. At present he is ad- dressing non-partisan groups and is making a vigorous talking campaign. Three Demeocratic Aspirants. ‘With the trend of judgment lean- ing toward Senator Lodge's probable nomination, interest attaches to his probable democratic adversary at the polls in November., There are three aspirants for the demccratic candi- dacy—Col. William A. Gaston, Sher- man L. Whipple and John Jackson ‘Walsh, the latter not related to Sen- ator id 1. Walsh, however. It is a fair Aght among these threr ‘with the favorite not yet in sight, but Although it is stated in the Uru- guayan proposal that the proposed American league would not prevent the adherefice of any nation of the American continent to the league Walsh looming up strong in the background. Col. Gaston, son of =z former governor, head of & prominent law firm, banker and aristocrat, is nations, it is understood that the Amierican league is intended to pro- tect the Monroe doctrine . and thus clarify the reach of the provision of which treated of that’ American doc- trine. The American league also was sug- gested informally by President Hard- ing during his electoral campaign, when, in his speech of August 25, 1920, he declared that the interna- tional policy of the United States should be directed toward solidarity in international affairs with . the American republics rather than with Europe. That plan iwas then dis- cussed with keen interest in Latin Amerjca, and the Brum doctrine, which already contemplated . that proper means of resolving the situa- tion. created by the absention of the Tnited' States from the league of nations. Sy The Uruguayan proposal has been referred to the members of the Pan: American conference and a final re- ‘port. will be" made on it when the recognized as a type of the conserva- tive democrat. He has been unsuc- cessful at thy polls before, Lowever, falling election to the governorship. Sherman hipple is one of the most brilllant jawyers in the state, an attractive persomality,. popplar and & most engaging talker. He never ran for ' office before, but 's widely known nevertheless. He s backed by Mayor Curley of Boston He is going out as & friend of the plain people and opposed to he “in- ~ terests.” He Is regarded as a very formidable candidate. John Jackson Walsh will find his masisi stréngth among the rask and file 6f the democrat'c voters outside the machine managers, whp will be tied up .with gither Gaston or Whip- ple.” He is very popular, having made & brilliant thougt unsuccessful run for_the governcrship in 1920. As the majority of the democratic vote in this state of the same religious tenet as Mr: Walsh, he is calculated, it is thought, to give his two oppo- ments & tight rub in the primaries. The governorship contest is more ship, however. ublican nomination i ‘and Attorney Geneéral Allen. Y contestants 'are for- " John ‘F. Fitagerald and -