Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. | Cloudy * tonight; tomorrow ' partly ° cloudy and slightly warmer. | Temperature for twenty-four tndodp:( 2 p.m. today: Highest, 1 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 67, at Closing N. Y. Stecks dnd Bonds, Fage 21 Entersd as secord-class matter post office Washington, C. TRACKMEN A . TO JOIN SHOPMEN IN RAIL STRIKE: U. S. ACTS TO AVERT DISASTER Strikes at Glance|Fuel Priority Order ‘ of I C. C. Aims to Save Industries. No. - 28,3T7. “Company Unions” Brings Renewal of Threats. ACTION OF GUARDS ALSO IS PROTESTED By the Assoclated Press. Coal trains moved under the Kovernment's emergency priority orders. President Harding conferred with Seeretary Hoover and W. W. Atter- bury, viee president of the Penn- sylvania system. California fruit growers repre- msent to President that crops are ger unlens 45000 to 50,000 refrigerator cars are provided dur- ing the mext three months. Santa Fe and Southern Pacific motify Rallroad Labor Board they have 18,000 shopmen at work whose seniority rights they can- IMAJORITY OF ROADS TO BE UNAFFECTED Plenty of Coal and Cars; Problem Is Traffic, Declares Hoover. BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, July 26— Announcement was made here to- day by Charles J. Albasin, weere- tary of the Pittsburgh Vein Opera- tora’ Association, that the associa- tion now stands ready to emter conferences with officials of the United Mine Workers either for the state of Ohio or for the central competitive field, with a view to terminating the strike. This is the first definite am- mouncement of this assoclation of operators which produce more than ome-third of the enmtire coal output in Ohio, that it was willing to emter conferences with the miners om thin bi The asso- ciation employs 20,000 of the 50, 000 engaged in the industry in this state. Men Fear Careless Use of Weapons—Grable Denies Reports. By the Assoclated Press. . DETROIT, July 26.—A threat that the 400,000 maintenance men em- ployed on the nation’s railroads Wil %0 on strike because of alleged ac- tion of certain eastern roads In at- tempting to form company organiza- tions to take the place of interna- tional railroad brotherhoods and the action of guards employed by the railroads, was made here today at headquarters of the International Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Railway Shop Labor- ers. E. F. Grable, president of the union, is in Chicago conferring With the United States Railroad Labor Board nd s prepared to demand, It was ated authoritatively today, that cer- tain practices of the railroads be abandoned. Unless grievances of the maintenance men are settled, it was stated at union headquarters here, a| strike is inevitable. The brotherhood . officlals _here charge the Lehigh Valley and Dela- ware, Lackawanna and Western and other eastern railroads are attempt- ing to organize company unions to take the place of the present labor organizations. The maintenance men also protest against use of guards by the rail- roads. They assert lives of all rail- road employes who remain at work are imperiled by promiscuous shoot- ing on the part of guards charged with protecting railroad property dur- ing the shopmen's strike. Specific instances cited are those in Saginaw, Mich., at Tucumcarl, N, M. Fifty maintenance men quit work in the Pere Marquette shops at Saginaw yesterday, saying they feared they would be wounded owing to careless handling of firearms by the N Tex., rail shops placed mnder guard of troops. Forty women attack men at Toledo shops. Two pickets shot by guard at Creaton, Iowa. Troops mebilized at Birmingham, Ala., for possible IMP duty. Conferences between Baltimore d Ohie eficials and strikers coi tinue. Government plans to establish priority orders for the movement of coal went into effect today. Iowa miners refused to enter & separate ‘state conferemee. Southwestera miners drafted “qualified refusal” to the invitation of operaters to hold a district con- ferénmce. Jokn L. Lewls, prealdent of th mine workers, d Pennsylvanli bdistrict presidents met to con- sider the strike situation. Illinols miners’ board met at St. Louis, but discussions not revealed. Move Ilonis governor's office to reopen mines at old wages. Troops sent to Kemtucky-Ten- nessee mines at Fonde. ALTERNATEPLANS READY IF SUPPLY OF COAL GIVES OUT SEEIN’ THINGS. Canon Talbot Accepts Pastorate Of Epiphany Church at Rocheste Work for *Cathedral Here Will End October 1. FATHER OF RYAN MAY SAVE BROKER Bankruptecy of Finance Wiz- ard Likely to End Fam- ily Row. r With its emergency forces mob- ilized to protect the public and the in- idunrlet of the nation from the dis- astrous possibility of stoppage of in- dustry caused by the coal and rail | strikes, the government today |awaited the results of the coal pri- ority orders issued yesterday by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which became effective at midnight | l1ast night on railroads east of the |AUCTION SET FOR AUG. 2 Overseas Chaplain Decorated Twice By France. Canon Henry Russell Talbot of the Episcopal Catherdral of St Peter and St. Paul has accepted a call to the Mississippi river. Meanwhile a com- | mission to supervise allocation and priority in movement of coal, to be composed of representatves of the government and the railroads and coal operators concerned, which will also safeguard the public from pro- fiteering In coal, was in process of Parent May Bid In Securities and Aid Beorganization of Tangled Wall Street Firm. guards. pastorate of urch of han; At _the New Mexico city, it is al- lformutlon. The personnel of the at Rocheulerm;al" ‘H;:Ie o Y: leged, thirty-five Mexicans were commission was expected to be an- |Special Dispatch to The Star. . N. Y., according to wor + brought across the border into the | " NEW YORK, July 26—Whether |Teceived from him today at the ca- Unlited States, deputized and given % jacunced‘Bome timajtoduy.7 Bectetary e Fortune Ryan, veteran finan- |thedral. He will assume his new duties firearms. | Maintenance men there | Hoover sald as he left the White Thomas Fortune Ryan. T cler ana fighter of | October 1. protested to President Grable, saying they refused to work as long as the Mexicans were permitted to guns. The report here said member: of other railroad brotherhoods em- ployed at Tucumcari had protested in «fl;xmn-r manner to thelr brotherhood offic House just before noon. Gen. W. W. Atterbury, operating vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad, and Director General of Rall- roads Davis were also st the White House today, discussing the coal- rail strike situation. Secretary Hoover _explained today | that the priority orders would make no change in the railway trafiic of large: sections of the country eust of the Mississippi, where a grest ma- jority of.the mileagé can handle its own freight eftectively. Th priorluohl‘ ral Canon Talbot was born in Massa- chusetts and is a graduate of Harvard University and the Episcopal Divinity School at Cambridge, Mass. He was con- nected with the cathedral at Albany, N. Y., for a time, later at a parish in Portland, Ore., and also did missionary work under Bishop Brent in the Philip- pines. He came here in’ March 1919. He went to France before the Uhited States entered the war and served with the French forces. When the soldiers of this country went to France he be- came chaplain of the 1st Division, A. E. F. For his services during the war, in which he risked his life on numerous occasions, attending woynded soldiers in the field, the French government dec- orated him with the croix de guerre and the Chevalier legion of honor medal. Canon Talbot returned here at the Virginia and New York, will come at last to the finan- cial rescue of his son, Allan A. Ry- an, was a probe lem of intense in- terest in local business clrcles today. Allan Ry- an is a voluntary bankrupt, follow- ing his spectac- ular battle with the governing New York Stock Ex- Stuts Motors. Peter B. s receiver, plans to Ryan securities at auction f he wants to do 8o, 1y can bid them in and to reorganize his tangled finance; Overshagdowing ° the spectacular features of this failure, one of the greatest in New York’s financial his tory, is the question whether it even- tually will result in young Ryan and his father forgetting their personal differences. ‘Their estrangement dates from October 29, 1917, when the elder Ryan, a few days after the death of his first wife, Allan’s moth married Mrs. Cornelius C. Cuyler. The marriage, however, was fol- lowed by & bitter personal verbal at- tack by the aon on the father because the latter had failed to wait at least a vear before taking another wife. Since then, so far as is_known, the two have not spoken. However, at the time Allan Ryan manipulated his historic corner in Stutz Motor stocks, Speedy Rise om Wall Street. Allan Ryan had moved rapidly to the front following his advent in Wall street. Behind him was the prestige of his father, the one man who was both hated and feared by | premier Poincare, now tentatively fixed the manipulators of securities. The |gor the first week in August, will hinge offices of Allan A. Ryan & Co.linevitably on the attitude of the United were crowded almost from the outset. | geates toward European debts and loans New. corporations which had a future |if the program now belng sketched in but which had been unaMle to secure |1ondon and Paris is not greatiy modi- needed funds to carry on were taken | fed. under his wing and soon became well | The maximum British program with known. Always young Ryan domi- |regard-to reparations contemplates the nated. % aas remission of the total wsr debt of “I must sit at the head of the|France to Great Britain plus the re- table,” he frequently declared, and, 2 bl mran oF the board or ‘presi- | nunciation of Great Britain's share in dent of the various corporations, he |the reparations total. This program is dominated their course. Older men |to be carried out in return for French readily gave way to him. Always it |consent to complete the . reparations settlement on the basis suggested at the was plain that he had inherited rare gifts a8 a keen and resourceful trader meeting of the international bankers in Paris early in June. and he never wanted for financial aid to_back his various undertakings. Balks at U. 8. Debt. M. Poincare's p the detalls In 1913 he was the leader of the younger clique of Wall street opera- tors 'hlol !eddlhe m;rkal up from the valley of lespondent to_ the Meights of Inflated valuations. Early |of Which are now fairly well known, in the following year Ryan began to |is however, more uncompromising than buy into the Stuts Motor Car Com- |before. Ten days ago the semi-offclal ny. lefore 0! got well s - D8 e was stricken with Miness and | Temps bluntly urged FTance to mnotify the bears engineered a raid on his|the British that she would not pay holdings, sending the price down |her debt until she recelved complete from $134 on February 14 to $113 on | compensation from Germany for the de- vastated reglons—which at best would attorneys deny their client pro- not be in less than ten. years. posed to Mile. Porquet in Yesterday M. Peret, president of the | that she came here under such French chamber of deputies, extend- | . ed this information i veiled terms March 1. Leaving his sick bed, he Continued on Page 3, Column 1) on Problem Despite Seem- ing Inactivity. DAV \'WRENCBE. eral eastern roads, where the | RE DAVID RN practice of forming company organi-| “The government ia doing all in its ations s axid toshaveibesmnat iaieawer gnd is working day and night effect, e maintenance men Vi " aniked permission to QUIC work, it was | 10 DEfRE sbout a ssttlement of the gaid at the unfon headquarters here. | strikes—just because we cannot talk = about 1t is no reason to suppose we are NEGOTIATIONS PROCEEDING. |gaoing nothing.” Thus did a spokesman of the ad- ministration describe the policy of the government, which at the mo- ment has not reached the point where CANON HENRY u}m TALBOT. close of the war and took up hie duties at the cathedral. His principal work was in traveling over the country, organiz- ing branches of the National Cathedral Association in the various cities, in an effort to secure funds for the comple- tion of the cathedral. He left Washington or a vacation June 1 and has been visiting friends and traveling since. He will continue his work for Washington Cathedral until October 1. LS EBISISSUE _ [ROTHSEALDSUED TO SWAY PARLEY| FOR SSDDJD BALM British and French Hint Strongly at Scrapping of Huge War Loans. BY. HIRAM K. MODERWELL. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. C. t, 1922. LONDON, July 26.—The London meet- ing of Prime Minister Lloyd George and he added, would affect chiefly th Alian A. Ryss. body of the which cannot now handle their adequately. Some Ald in Imports. The difficulty in the present situa- tion. Mr. Hoover added, is in the whole working machine of the railroads. There are. he sald, thousands of cars loaded with coal and thousands of empties on the sidings, but the diffi- culty is to get the men to move the traffle. Ordinary buyers of coal, Mr. Hoover asserted, were under no great pressure for the present and should not feel the pressure for at least thirty days. Coal imports, he declar- ed, should help the situation, and a step in_this direction was taken yes- terday by representatives of the publ utilities of New York, who, at his sug- gestion, took up with the Shipping Board the matter of obtaining coal im- ports for New York utilities. The order of the Interstate Com- merce Commission directing railroads to give priority to coal shipments, after foodstuffs for human consump- tion and foodstuffs for animals, is the first peace-time use of the emergency powers of the commission. It directs carriers to expedite as fully as possi- ble not only movement of cars loaded with coal, but also empties which are on their way/to mines to be load- ed, and in this sense affects y railroad In the east, not only the jor coal-hauling roads, but those which deliver coa! to industries and utilities. Ceal Roads Mot Affected. Naturally, howevar, the roads most vitally affected will be those which run through the ‘regions of Ken- tucky and West Virginia,.among them the Chesapeake and Ohlo, Norfolk and ‘Western, Louisville and Nashville and Southern. ‘The commission’s order directs non- coal-loading carriers to deliver daily to a common coal-loading carrier empty coal ears up to the maximum ability of each such non-coal-loading carrier and also directs carriers to discontinue use of coal cars for load- ing sand, gravel or for any other ex- traneous use fhan hauling of coal. In the meantime, it was reliably re- ported in officfal circles, that direct are taking place be- ners and oberators, and th hope was held out that in some sca tered districts coal may n mined in small quantities at least. The West Virginia non-union mines, where production has dropped off during the past two weeks owing to inability to move coal, are expec! to show a great increase in produc- tion through ability to move coal cars under the commission’s order. Two orders, the Associated Press reported both based on its declar: tion that an emergency in transporta- tion existed, were issued by the com- mission yes! ay. The first directed rajlroads all over the United States to aisr d usual or requested routing of shipments in favor of such routin as would expedite movement ant Progress Satisfactory, Declares Grable, Denying Threat. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, July 26—T. F. Grabls, president of the International Brother- hood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Railway Shop Labgrers, denied to- day reports emanating from his head- quarters at Detroit that the 400,000 members of the union were threatening again to strike. Mr. Grable said negotiations were proceeding satisfactorily before the United States Railway Labor Board. “We are flling our cases before the railroad board and expect an - early hearing,” Mr. Grable said. “Any new strike threat is news to me, and I just left Detroit last night. Som: ly up there must have had a dream. Mr. Grable also denfed that members of his union in Canada were voting on the question of forming a separate union under Canadian management. He had never heard of T. Y. Geekie of Win- nipeg. Manitoba, who made that an- Touncement, he said. “Our men up there are going ahead just as we are here” he said. “They have a labor board and are taking their grievances to it, just as we are doing. ' WOMAN, USING GUN, FOILS FIVE WOULD-BE ROBBERS Mrs. Montrand Fires on Intruders After Husband Is Felled. Arrests Made. TAUNTON, Mass, July 26.—Five men were in cusfody here today chiefly because of the coolness and quick eye of Mrs. John P. Mortrand, ‘whose husband was held up by a gang in the yard of his home. ‘When Montrand returned to the house last ‘evening after ‘a wood- chuck hunt he saw an automobile|canvassed in vain when the last con- standing in the yard. Five men were|ference was held, and the net e k 2 wife. Upon seeing |fect, they say, would 'be to stop pro- Montrand they ordered him to hold/ duction whi the conference was up hig hands and then knocked him drifting along in Washington without - unconbcious with a blow from ajhope of.a compromise. Neverthe- blackjack. less the suggestion that President Mrs. Montrand promptly seized her | Harding keep on-trying and that he husband's shotgun and into the call John L. Lewis to Washington wounding one of the men in|for further discussion of the situ- g.. The five jumped into their|ation s being advanced fervently machine and escaped. by those who believe the public gen- The woman was able to give the po- erally wilt t? to critiolsé an ad- lice such a careful description of the ministration which accepts anythin ¢ men that officers later arrested five | the ncipals say as .hopeless an persons, who were charged with as- | d try to force a compromise sault with intent to rob. through the heilp bt public opinion. Expect Break Shortly. VETERANS’ PLIGHT LAID The White House has had little to DIRECTLY TO SAWYER road: traffic its details can be disclosed. In a nutshell, however, this may be id to be the latest phases of the strike situation: President Harding will wait a rea- sonable length of time, perhaps a week, to determine whether the coun- wy's needs will be satisfied by the production of coal under the emer- gency arrangements made by the opefitors since the invitation to open the mines was extended by the White House. Alternative Plans Ready. The alternative measures in the event that the nation’s fuel supply is inadequate cannot be revealed, but they contemplate in a broad sense a definite program of co-operation with the governors of states whereby in- dividual agreements can be made with the striking miners. The effort is to establish a sort of status quo which will not prejudice the case of either side, while a commission soon to be appointed by the President makes an exhaustive inquiry into the coal industry and presents its recom- mendation; As for the rail strike, President Hard- ing wants the United States Railroad Labor to e the moves that will bring the disputants together. This involves, all the issues that have arisen since the strike was called and here, too, the tendency is to ask both sides to accept a settiement on the basis of the points they are agreed upon and leave the question of sepiority rights. to be settled by an impartial tribunal or arbitral body. ‘Want Further Parley. Informal overtures are going on all the time In both rdil and. coal strikes and pressure just now is be- ing exerted upon the sPrebident to take the .nitiative and call a con- ference of mimers and operators. Some adminjstration officlals feel that such a oonference would be tutile, as every possible solution was { ! | | French Girl Claims Wealthy Nobleman Failed to Keep Promise to Marry. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, July 26.—James Henr! de Rochschild, son of Baron de Roths- child, head of the famous Rothschild | family of France, was sued for $500,- | 000 damages in state supreme court today by Marle Porquet, a French girl, who alleged she came here last spring upon his promise to marry ber and that he has since refeused to fix a date for the marriage. +A statement issued by the Roths- child’s counsel, Edgar T. Brackett, de- clared the French nobleman “denies most strenuously the statements of | the plaintiff and says that the clllm! that he ever promised or contemplated | marrying her is absurd and without the slightest foundation.” De Rothschild now is in Paris. The complaint was served on him here at 375 Park avenue June 27. In her complaint, Mile. Porquet alleg- ‘|e¢ aé Rothschid promised her in France last April 22 that he would wed her within a reasonable time if she would come to the United States. She agreed to become his wife and arrived here about May 15, the papers said. She de- clared the baron has refused to agree | on any date for the marriage, though more than a reasonable time has elapsed since her arrival. mfimwefin‘ the complaint, de Roths- 's ) { i ! ! ! or & prom- ““This is one of those cases where a man is confronted with the altérnative of either paying a large sum of money or fighting' out the issue regardiess of | publicity,” said the statement by Brack- att. $5,000. " ANl rights ispaietes * GERMAN FIRING SCHOOL . ON KIEL CANAL. BRINGS SHARP ALLIED NOTE By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 26.—The council of ambassadors decided today to send a sharp note to the German gov- ernment demanding the immediate destruction of the fire-control and range-finding school, whic the German naval authorities have quietly established at a strategic point on the Kiel canal. Allied ex- pert opinion has declared the school convertible into a fort commanding the entrance to the canal. Allied_control officers who' re- ported the school to the council, termed it the most flugrant of the long series of violations of the naval terms of the treaty of Ver- sailles on the part of Germany. Experts reported these violations to have extended over a period of two months-and strongly urged ac- tion by the council. Among other charges made against Germany was that of attempting ‘enlistments for . the German navy far beyond the quota allowed by the treaty. Fall- ure of the Germans to destroy the coast defense guns was also among the complaints. WANTSI. . BUDGET TENS EQUALEED Oyster to Oppose District Paying Full Cost of Some Departments. DENIES EXPENSE IS ISSUE Fears Precedent Will Lead to Con- gress Shifting Entire Expendi- tures Upon City. When the next District appropria- tion bill is being drafted an effort may be made to convince Congress that it is unfair to charge the expenses of certain municipal departments en- tirely to the taxpayers of the city. Commissioner James F. Oyster, act- ing chairman of the board, said today that he would advocate putting all District activities on an equal footing. In the current appropriation act Congress singled out the playgrounds, minimum wage board and community center departments, and stipulated that the allowances for these offices are to be paid “wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.” The amounts appropriated for these three departments for this year are: For playgrounds, $134.220; community centers, $35,000, and wage board, U. S. Saves $89,688. If these allotments were made on the 60-40 basis applied to other mu- nicipal activities the federal govern- share of 4 per cent would be $69.88 e District is not large, i rison to the appropriation aet as & whole, and the financi burden involved s not the primary reasan which causes the people of the Dis- trict to lopk with uneasiness upon those three items. What the civic- leaders of the city fear in that if this rule of appopria: ing for playgrounds, community ce: ters and the wage board is allowed to go on unnoticed it could easily become the entering wedge in making the Di: trict wholly responsible for the e: penditures of other municipal offices. In the case of the playground partment, for instance, some officla at the District building feel that the is no more reason for making that ap- propriation wholly chnr:ublu to the District than there would be to charge the city with the entire cost of the school system or the police and fire departments. $200,000 for Playgrounds. It is understood that the estimates for the playground department for the next fiscal year, as submitted to the Commissioners, total substantially more than $200,000. This figure, it is reported, includes a request for the purchase of a number of additional sites for recreation centers. The fire department estimates, which also are ready for the scrutiny of the commissioners, are said to con- tain a liberal request for more motor apparatus. This particular item may run over $500,000. As soon as all of the departments ave been heard from the Commis. sioners will forward to the budget bu- reau a preliminary report, giving what they estimate will be total of the city's budget for next year. VARDAMAN JOLTED INWILSON LETTER Return to Senate Would Be Detriment, Says Former President. By the Assoclated Press. JACKSON, Miss., July 26.—Former President Woodrow Wilson would consider .the re- turn of James K. Vardaman to the United States Sen- ate as a detriment to his home state as well as the coumtry as a whole, according to a letter re- ceived from Mr. Wilson by Dr. James F. McCalb ot Carlisie, Clay- borne county, and last night. Mr. Vardaman is one went to his office and started a buy- STOLE BRICK FOR CHURCH ing campaign. The result was that on March 25 Stutz was quoted at 3282 Bobert Baylor Fined $50 and Sen- tenced to Bixty Days in Jail. & share, only to g0 to §391 ithin: thi next few days. Ousted From Exchange. Investigation showed that of the 100,000 shares outstanding Ryan held 20,000, and the shorts awoke to the faot they could not meet their obli- gations to deliver stock they had red to settle at $700 a share Robert Baylor, coloredl, charged tin- der three informations with the lag- ceny of 1,540 buliding brick, was fined $50 and given sixty days in jail by Judge Mattingly in the, Unfted States branch of Police Court today. Evidence showed that the brick were stored of a vacant lot at 19th and E treets southeast, and were the prop- oftd .:i' the ernors of the stock ex- change him in secret, found him erty of Warren F. Breniser Company, Tt was shown by the evidence that ity of, “conduct and Droceedin fl:‘mmt with just ‘and equitable trade,”, 1 ‘Thim lor took the and turned them church e sxonaigs ad old Wie sens [ M‘-‘fi. IMDIS; This was the overito ‘builder of & colorsd. Ttar sgvotion in he Horthesat avoid congestion, while the second established a system %of Dl".(m and priorities in shipments over all - SEEK RUM SMUGGLERS. Machine Guns Used in Warfare Along Canada Border. OGENSBURG, N. Y., July 26.—The war against boose smugglers along the Canadian border in northern New York is on_in earnest. Two light Army trucks with machine guns mounted on their platforms, part of a fleet of twenty-four, have arrived here for use in patrolling the border. ‘There will_be. abopt thirty federal agents woi with 5 agents. agen! guns, say, since on the strike situation this ‘week, the impression being given that more progress. can be made if ‘the. roblem is not - ST. LOUIS, Mo, July 36—Chaiges | s oy that Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, ehief co-ordinator of the federal bo of hospitalization, was directly re- tinued flow of ne > ot ewvug ::n-ut:‘ east'of the sponsible for alleged inadequate care ‘of the wiir veterans in the Sth distriet, the iting_orde routing rs, applying the men; nunciam From Dot sides which cante nring | the s Ay ‘were msde in & report of the American Leglon rehabilitation committes of vernment say will |l e 4 only. make re- {1 the district made public here today. cession more % wettie: .The -distrigt compri: Missourf, Ne- - In over the commiasion re- @ agreements apply- relght revenue Qivisoins. ere made effect “from and atter July 26, ud,m based on authority delegated 'to.the commission by the transportation act. ‘was declared i mert,and the administration- fow aore days will see & s?-'.'k.fl: coal situstions. both the: rail ler. and Broadly speaking the view of career, and since then he has bee: give way before there can be turning point of his n turn, with the days Te- ‘bras| ‘The present emergency in arder No. 23 to arise of such carriers, b: of three candi- dates for seat oc- cupled by John Sharp Williams, who has announced he will retire soon from the senate. Mr. letter, which bears the date of July 8, follows: “My Dear Mr. McCalb: haye your letter of July 5. In reply, Jet me say that I am not in a position to review Mr. Vardaman's record in Washington, in detail, but sum up my impression of him in & &l sentencs: I think that he is throughly false and untrustworthy, and that it would be a great detri- ment 1_and tire nation shoy be returned to the Senate. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 84,634 The actual cost of this to the taZe payers of th o compa made public here of publication of epectal bereln are also reserfed. TWO CENTS. SEE PRICE RISE ON STRIKE PLEA, DESPITE PLENTY Department of Justice Told of Gouging Efforts by Dealers. NO DELAY OF FREIGHT AT ALL, BURNS LEARNS Chief of Investigation Finds Mar- ket Literally Flooded With Foods. With the Washington market liter- ally flooded with perishable foodstuffs and other commodities, several retail- ers have taken advantage of the rail- road strike as an excuse to boost prices, according to reports made to- day to the Department of Justice. William J. Burns, chief of the bureau of investigation of the department has been informed of these instances for investigation. . One specific case called to the at- tention of the department concerned a delicatessen store proprietor i northeast Washington, who is selling watermelons at §1 apiece, or 50 cents more than he charged for the same truit last week. When questioned as to the cause of the sudden price in- crease, this dealer claimed that he had been unable to buy melons on the wholesale market because of the in- ability of the railroads to get food- stuffs into the city. “No Delay Whatever.” On the other hand, freight agents of the big railroads operating into Washington claim that there has been no delay whatever in the arrival of commodities of any kind and that in- creases in the price of foodstuffs on the grounds that shipments are not reaching the city are unreasonable and_unjustifiable. 4 Bowle, freight agent of the Pennsylvania railroad and local rep- resentative for the Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard, Southern, Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac and the Chesapeake and Ohio_railroads, said that_more foodstuffs have arrived in the District over the roads he repre- sents in the last three weeks than in many years. Shipments of perishable foodstuffs from the south, he said, “are very heavy. ““The: been no delay in the shipment & ‘Washi) f com- of modities of any description,” declared Mr. Bowie, “and I think the public should know it.” Commodities on Schedule. D. M. Fisher, freight agent of the Bal- timore and Ohio railroad, also said that there has been no noticeable delay in the consignments of foodstuffs to Wash- ington over this roed. W':;{ west, schedule. “Of course,” he said. “thére a delay of one or two hours, we attach no importance ta this, and it can_hardly be attributed to the rail- road strike,” Summing tp the local freight conditions, Mr. Fisher declared that the “shipments are coming in nicely.” Meat. fruits, canned goods and sugar, Mr. Fisher emphasized. are coming into ‘Washington on all trains. The freight yards he said, are now filled with cars containing fruit. Wholesale merchants at the Center market likewise said they has perienced no delay in receiving ship- ments of foodstuffs, and positively de- clared that their prices have not been raised. A survey of the wholesale market showed an abundance of peaches, watermelons, tomatoes, corn and other seasonable vegetables. Complains of Dificulty. One large retailer, however, sald that the effect of the railroad strike was being felt by him, and he was having difficulty in obtaining -hIY- of commodities, especially ler claimed that con- sumers who “good stuff” would undoubtedly “have to pay a premium for it,” although he emphasized that there is no justification for big in- creases in the price of foodstuff Vegetables, he declared, are “not 8o hard to get from the north and south,” but shipments of meat from centers are belated and mine and railroad Jocal railroad freight is ar riving in Washington. Mr. Bow said that “a good deal” of bituminous coal for Washington pro had ar- rived recently over the roads he rep- resents, and between twenty-five and thirty cars of “river wash” or pea coal had .come into the city from Pennsylvania. MEAT AT WAR PRICES. Declared to be due to the prevailing ‘industrial condition, choice steaks and high-grade roasts have reacheu a peak price, comparable with those in vogue during the war period. it was discovered today after making a round of representative wholesale and retail meat dealers. Milady, if she has marketed this week, will agree that for a porter- house steak she must pay 55 or 60 cents & pound, depending on the trim, while a roast ranges from 25 to 30 cents the pound, with a decided lea: ing to the latter rate. These prices are from 5 to 10 cents higher than those she had been paving. C.' V. Whalen, one of the corps of the bureau of markets experts, in commenting on the increased cost of high-grade meats today, said he had noticed the upward trend for the past- six days and that he believed the market would be controlled from now on by the developments in the strike situation. Lamb Chops at 90 Cents. “1 have noticed uptown,” Mr. Whalen sald, “that lamb chops are In some cases selling as high as 90 cents the pound. However, these are exceptionally well trimmed and the average price, [ would say, is 70 cents, “It is noteworthy that the present peak prices of high grade cuts have hit Washington and Boston practically {to the rexclusion of other cities.” Commenting on this situstion, one of ithe largest meat refailers in the city | called atténtion to the natural results Which must follow the increase of low grade coal’'from $2 the ton to $9 and {$10 1. 0. b. as it is quoted today. The sharp price upiurn on ;um;, choice and prime beef steers, accor ing to the latest report of t partment of Agriculture on the sul ject, is the outstanding event of live-stock trade during the week end- ing July 15. The-result has been, the report con-. tinues, that new high marks for the year were scored a f the pri- ‘mary markets and seve: g:'n The strike of railway work- ers has apparently had’ little strikes, ~ the agents pointed out that coal _interest in the outcome of which you speak, ROW WITRON.", A s o ppre- clable effect on the market:vard move- ment. of live stock or dressed meat to laete it was stated officially. —_ .