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perature tonight and’tom: 6 am. today. Full report on page 7. WEATHER. Generally fair and moderate tem- Temperature for twenty-four aours ended at 3 p.m. today—Highes at 4 p:m. yesterday; lowest, 67, at orrow. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 No. 28,584. Senator’s Victory Over Long Still Uncertain. MANY RETURNED TO CONGRESS SEATS Swanson Victor in Vir- ginia; Woods Runs Behind. nited States Senator Reed was running approximately 14,000 ahead of Breckenridge Long today on returns from about 70 per cent of the precincts in the Missouri democratic senatorial race, while Willlam_ Sacks, beer and light wine candidate, was leading R R. Brewster, indorsed by the old s nomination by 4,407 on returns frofa 1,888 precincts from yesterday's elec- tion. In Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Mayor Walton of precincts in. Mixs Alice Well Ahead. Miss Alice Robertson, only woman! er in Congress, was well ahead In her ne the s race for renomination by district Oklahoma republicans, and Manuel Herrick, self-styled- “aerial Qare devil of Congress,” was running & poor third in the elghth Oklahoma distriet. In Kansas, W. Y. Morgan, Hutchi- son newspaper man, was leading W. R. Stubb, former governor, by a nar- Tow margin for the republican guber- natorial renomination. Representative Campbell, chairman of the House rules committee, was defeated for renomina- tion. Elizabeth Lorraine Wooster, who created a state stir by opposing dancing use of cosmetics in the schools, 5.000 behind her leading male oppo- nont in her rage for renomination as Kensas superintendent of public 1n- struction. In West Virginia Senator Suther- land, republican, apparently had a trom about half the pre- Mrs. Izetta Brown was run- 000 behind M. M. Neely for the atic senatorfal nomination. Senator Swanson, democrat, Vir- ginia. had a lead of about 3 to 1 in his race for renomination on returns from 75 out of the 100 counties. ' CAMPBELL DEFEATED. returns PITTSBURG. Kan., August 2.— Representative Philip Campbell, repub- lican chalrman of the rules com- mittee of the House of Representa- tives and In Congress_from the third Kansas district for twenty year, was | defeated In yesterday's primary, ac-| cording to available returns today. W. H. Sproul of Nedan has been nomi- nated by at least 2,000 votes, C. N. Price, manager for many years of the ' Campbell campalgns, conceded this . Morgan, Hutchinson new: per man, and former lieutenant go ernor, led the closest of his six oppo- nents' for the republican gubernatorial Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. REED IN LEAD 14,000, WITH COUNT NEARING FINISH IN MISSOURI rd. for the republican senatorial| anti-Ku Klux Klan candidate, was leading R. H. Wilson’ * by 8,000, with less than a third of the, gafe lead for renomination, while on} Primary Summaries MISSOURI. Senate—Reed leads Long by 14,000 in_democratic race; Sacks, Brewster, Barrett, Proctor, McKinley running in order named for republi- can nomination. Congress—Fourteen renomi- nated (13 republicans) with- out opposition. Lozier leads Rucker (democrat) in sec- ond district. Bennett (re- publican) receiving nomina- tion in place of Shelton, not running. Four women can- didates apparently defeated. KANSAS. Governor— M organ leading Stubbs, McNeal, Lamberton, Knapp, Miss Mowry and Miss Pettigrew in order named, for republican nomi- nation; Davis leading Mar- tm and Hunt in order named for democratic nomination. Congress—Campbell concedes | defeat to Sproul; Hoch, Tincher and Bard (unop- posed) and other republi- can candidates renominated. Democratic figures unavail- able. VIRGINIA. Senate—Swanson (democrat) has strong lead over former Gov. Davis. Congress—Deal leads Hank in second district democratic race, and Woodrum leads Woods in sixth. OKLAHOMA. Governor—Walton (democrat) leads Wilson and Owen in order named. Fields seven to one ahead of Healy in republican race. Congress—Miss Alice Robert- son and other candidates for renomination, except Her- rick and Chandler, apparent- ly victorious. WEST VIRGINIA. Senate—Sutherland has big lead over Ogden in republi- can race; Lilly, Edwards and . Jones running in order. Neely leads Mrs. Brown in democratic race. Congress—Republicans renom- inated in six districts. Sev- eral democratic contests are in doubt. big citles and .1200 from the eoyn- o7 districts, where the Long stremgth ies. The Reed-Long race overshadowed all otheg issues in the primary cam- paign. . The senator, grizzled veteran of many campaigns, was bitterly as- sailed by followers of Woodrow Wil- son, by those who.6bjected to his war stand, by friends of the league of na- tions., prohibition. suffrage and federal maternity bills, by woman organiza- tions and’by those democrats of Mis- souri who assisted in reading him out of the party in 1920, when the action of his home district in electing him a delegate to the national convention nomination, W. R. Stubbs, former gov- ernor, by 1,735 on returns from forty seven of 105 counties. Fred W. Knapp. ed by labor unions was fifth, Mrs. Mowry and Miss Helen Pettl- grew, the latter running on a beer and light wines platform, polled few- er votes than had been expected. 13.816; Lambert, A 6771; Returns from the democratic guber- | natorial contest were meager. They indicated a close three-cornered con test. The few figures avallable gave Jonathan Davis, 1311: Henderson Martin, former vice governor of the Phillipines, 1,166; Leigh Hunt, 666, The only other contests on the democratic ticket were for superin- tendent of public instruction and con- gressional nominations in six of the eight districts. No figures were avail- mble on any of these contests early today. In only one congressional dis- trict was there any contest on social- 1st tickets. Perhaps the closest race was that between Justice Silas Porter of the supreme bench seeking renominatior on the republican ticket, and Richard J. Hopkins, Attorney General, whose candidacy was opposed by labor or- ganizations because of his attitude on the Kansas industrial court law. Returns from 47 of the 105 counties save Hopkins, 14,073; Porter, 14,030. Besides Campbell, republican Con- gressmen were leading for renomina- tion on the face of incomplete returns. Homer Hoch in the fourth district,: J. N. Tincher in-:the seventh and Richard E. Bard in the eighth were without opposition. REED’S LEAD CUT DOWN. l | By the Associated Press. 1 ST. LOUIS, Mo., August 2.—Senator ! James A. Reed's lead over Breckin-! ridge Long in the race for the demo- | cratic nomination for United States. senator receded at noon today to| about 14,000, as additional country precincts. favorable to the former as- sistant secretary of state. reported from yesterday's primary election. With the count 70 per cent complete | Reed had 166,532 and Long 152,518. 1 This shows a continued gain by Long. In the republican senatorial' race, Willlam Sacks, advocate of light wines and beer, led R. R. Brewster, ~Old Guard” candidate, by 2,779, on re- | turns from 2,007 out of 3,848 pre- | cinct Practically all of St. Louis, Sacks’ | stronghold, had reported, while more | than 1,700 country precincts where | Brewster was strong were still out. | The Reed-Long race has_eclipsed | everything else in_interest. Reed,: running behind in the early hours of | tha count, took the Jead early this: morning when St. Louls and Kansas City, two strongholds, came in with their thousands of voters. Hi lead, at its'Deak, reached nearly 24, 000, but,” with the two big cities practicallly complete and ditional country returns coming in, Long be- gan overhauling him. See Chance for Long. | tive at San Francisco was twice overruled. Condemneq by Wilson. Ex-President Wilson took a hand, and in letters to friends in Missouri condemned Reed as & “marplot.” His opponents formed “Rid-us-of-Reed" clubs and attacked his record for party regularity. 7] On the republican side, the sena- torial nomination apparently has gone to R. R. Brewster of Kansas City, who carried the indorsement of the “aldl guard” republicans, as well as that of | Gov. Hyde’s administration. Running | in a six-cornered race, Brewster piled | up a comfortable lead on early returns, while three avowed progressives and two advocates of the return of light| wine an vote. William Sacks, wealthy oll man | and one time sixty-dollar-a-month pos: tal clerk, is running second to Brewster | nd far head of the three progressives, | as a result of strong support in St. Louls for his light-wines-and-beer platform. 1 Tabulations Slow. With the interest in the senatorial | contests, particularly that between | Reed and Long, overshadowing every- | thing else, the count on other offices was slow. Incomplete unofficial re- turns, however, indicated that four- teen of the present representatives, thirteen of them republicans and one a democrat, have been renominated. Most of them had no opposition. | In the second district Representa- | W. W. Rucker, democrat, was running behind Ralph F. Lozier. In the sixteenth district, lwhere Repre- | sentative Samuel A. Shelton, repub- lican, was not a candidate for re- | election, the party nomination ap- parently will go to Phil A. Bennett. All_four of the woman candidate: for Congress apparently have been defeated, although returns from the eleventh’ district, where two women | were in the republican race, and the twelfth, where one woman was a| democratic candidate, are as yvet too ! meager to make a decisive statement. Both districts are in St. Louis. In ghth district, E. M. Zevely of classed as a wet, is laading of Christian Col- lege, Columbia. Mo., and Charles. E. Dewey of Jefterson City for the democratic nomination. SUTHERLAND AHEAD. S By the Associated Press, - CHARLESTON, W. Va.,, August 2. Senator Howard Sutherland today kep! the lead in the republican United States senatorial contest as returns came slow- ly from yesterday's general primary. ! His vote in 1,107 of the 2,093 precincts | was 37,731 to 30,013 for H. C. Ogden, hl-u principal opponent. 4 . Neely, former representative, was first in the democratic race, hell vote being 30,671 to 21,315 for Mrs. Isetta Jewell Brown, hi Mrs. Bro g : I walit until ! Dr. ! who was Marion Bell, d beer divided the rest of the |3 {AMERICAN RUM RUNNERS DR. BELL, INVENTOR OF TELEPHONE, DIES AT CANADIAN HOME Death Shocks Friends Here, Although His Health Had Not Been Good. PHONE SYSTEM ORDERS FLAGS PUT AT HALF-STAFF Scientist Was Founder of National Geographic Society—His Patent World’s Most Valuable. By the Associated Press. SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, August 2.— Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, died at 2 o'clock this morning at Beinn Bhreagh, his es- tate near Baddeck. He was seventy- five years old. Although the inventor had been 1n failing health for several months, he had not been confined to bed and the end was unexpected. Late yester- day afternoon, however, his condi- tion became serious and Dr. Ker of Washington, a cousin of Mrs. Bell, who was a house guest, and a Sydney physician attended him. With Mr. Bell when he died were Mrs. Bell, a daughter, Mrs. Marlan Hubbard Fairchild, and her husband, David G. Fairchild of Washington. The inventor leaves another daugh- ter, Mrs. Elise M. Grosvenor, wife of the editor of the National Geographic{ Magazine, in Washington. Dr. Bell will be buried on top of Mount Beinn Bhreagh, a spot chosen by himself. News of the death of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell at his summer place and laboratories, at Baddeck, Nova Sco-| tia, came as a shock to scientists, his | many friends and assoclates in Wash- ington, although they knew he had been failing for several months. Ata birthday luncheon some months ago Bell's friends were surprised to see that he had become feeble from age during the last vear and that his remarkable vigor was fast disappear- ng. Officials of the Natlonal Geographic Society, of which Dr. Bell was the founder, received word of his death in private advices from Baddeck. Dr. Bell's home here is closed for the summer. President Sends Telegram. President Harding, immediately upon hearing of Mr. Bell's death, sent the following telegram to Mrs. Bell: “The announcement of your eminent husband’s death comes as a great shock to me. In common with ail of his countrymen, I have learned to re- verd him as one of the great bene- factors of the race, and among the foremost Americans of all generations. Hé wiil be mowrned and. by hu- man everywhere as ofie who sérv- ed it greatly, untiringly and unselfishly. (Bigned) “WARREN G. HARDING."” President Thayer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company or- dered all the subsidiary corporations of the Bell system throughout the United States to half staff flags on their build- ings. David 8. Fairchild, the agricultural explorer, one of Dr. Bell's sons-in-law, telegraphed the Geographic Society that the famous inventor died at 2 o'clock this morning of anemia. Mrs. Fairchild, and Mrs. Bell were with Dr. Bell when the end came. Dr. Bell's other daughter—Mrs. Gilbert H. Grosvenor of Washington—is with her husband en route to Brazil. Dr. Bell, Born in Scotland, Built First Phone Line in His Father’s Home Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inven- tor of the telephone and founder of the National Geographic Society, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, March . 1847, His father, Alexander Melville Bell, was a lecturer on elocution in Edin- burgh University and author of the (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) KILL CUBANS IN LAUNCH Owner and Engineer of Boat Shot on Refusal to Carry Pas- sengers Further, By the Associated Press, HAVANA, Cuba, August 2.—Two unidentified men, believed to be Americans, connected with a rum- running conspiracy, shot down the owner of a Cuban launch and his engineer and then made a dash for the open sea in their boat. The men hired a large gasoline launch and ordered the captain to take them to Mariano, a nearby seaside resort. Arriving off Mariano the passengers ordered the captain to proceed. When { he refused he was shot down. The | engineer leaped overboard, but as he was paddling toward shore was shot and sank. Another member of the crew swam ashore and reported the attack. SOVIET SENTEMCES TEN TO DEATH FOR SPYING! Members and Employes of Estho- nian Mission—18 Imprisoned for Smuggling—13 Acquitted. By the Assaciated Press. PETROGRAD, August 2.—The revo- lutionary tribunai has sentenced to death ten members and employes of the Esthonian Repatriation Mission after conviction upon charges of espionage. Eighteen others, accused of systematic smuggling of valuable; saccharine and other goods into Rus. -1:[ . were given prison ntences while \ \ THE OBSTACLE. L. P PADGETT DIES; 22 YEARS IN HOUSE Representative Tennessee Headed Naval Affairs Dur- ing War Time. REPRESENTATIVE L. P. PADGETT. Representative Lemuel P. Padgett of Tennessee, democrat, war-time chair- man of the House naval affairs commit- tee, who has sgrved continuously fdr twenty-two vears, died at 5:30 o'clock this morning in his residence, 1851 Mintwood place northwest. He had been confined to his residence by a compli- cation of aflments for about two months, Joseph G. Rodgers, sergeant-at-arms of { the House, is making arrangments for the funeral. Burial will be at Repre- sentative Padgett's birthplace, in Colum- bia, Tenn., where he made his home. Representative Padgett was dean of the Tennessee delegation. Because % <=3 illness he had been unable to return to his home to conduct his campaign for renomination in_ the state primary set for tomorrow. While | he had opposition, his friends believed there was little danger of his @efeat. In the recent House fight over the naval appropriation bill Mr. Padgett attracted _attention by standing firm against_efforts to reduce the personnel of the Navy below the figure which the President and the department regarded as unwise. Although most members of his party voted to cut the enlisted force, Mr. Padgett opposed it, declaring his experience as former head of the naval committee convinced him the country could not afford to “go as low" as the framers of the bill had contem- plated. Representative Padgett graduated from Erskine College, Due West, 8. C., in 1876, and from that college 'he re- ceived the degree of LL. D. in 1916. He| is a lawyer by profession and before coming to Congress had an extensive practice. ,He was a presidential elector in 1884, was elected to the state senate in 1898, was a member of the National Monetary Commission and a regent of the Smithsonian Institution. {Us S. EXPECTED TO CALL REPARATIONS PARLEY BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. 8t nd Chicago Dally News. By Cable to Thzc‘m;rfl:h PARIS, August 2.—The Balfour note proposing a general and equal cancel- lation of reparations and war debts,on pain of Great Britain's exacting from its allies a sum equivalent to the Brit- ish debt to the United States in case of refusal is interpreted by some ob- re as a discreet suggestion e e United States should take the initiative and call an Iinternational financial conference to be held in Washington before the end of the year. ‘s the United States holds the whip hand in the whole vast financial situa- tion, it Is—recognized here that an in- vitation to m-lfxe a ‘v:'ne'ml l::l:.loment emanate from ‘ashing! . s (Gopyright, 1022.) In French By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, August 2—The British note on the interallied debt question has removed all possibility of France con- senting to a moratorium for Ger- many, in the view of official circles expressed here today. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 2—The bulk of the criticism directed at the British {cerning war debts is adverse, though based on varying grounds. It is con- {ceded that the document framed by | the Earl of Balfour, Is masterly In Its lucidness, suavity and logic, but here { unanimity ends. Foremost among the causes of dis- i sent Is the fear that the note will be | regarded across the Atlantic as being addressed to America rather than to any European country, and where | this view is taken its probable effect is estimated almost solely in. respect the impression it is likely to make The Times, which understands that 1 the note embodies was reasury and authorised |representatives, fears that the pros- pect of settlement is not improved by the note. The Morning Post says: “Behind its logic and appeal to abstract justice CROW LOSES LONG BATTLE FOR LIFE Pennsylvania Senior-Senator Dies at Home in Mountains. UNIONTOWN, Pa., August 2.— United States Senator William E. Crow died at his country home in the mountains nesr here this morn- ing. G Senator Crow was taken ill three yeasr ago, and, although under the care of eminent physicians, was never afterward considered physically ft. He was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital last December, but not until a tew months ago did his physiclans announce that he was suffering from pernicious anemia and that it had been neflessary to resort to blood transfusion on a number of occasions to prolong his life. He had so far recovered in May that he was re- moved to his summer home, Chalf Cliff, in the Allegheny mountains near here. Improvement, however, was only temporary, and additional transfusions of' blood were of mno avail. Born om Farm. William Evans Crow was born on a farm in Fayette county, afterward the center of the’ Pennsylvania coke in- dustry, March, 10, 1870. He was educated lin the county schools and at the Penn- sylvania State Normal School at Cali- fornia, Pa. After serving as a teacher for two years he became a newspaper reported in Pittsburgh. He abandoned this fleld for Uniontown, where he be- came editor of the Uniontown Standard in 1804. During his spare time heg studied law and in 1895 was admitted: to the Fayette county bar. He had always been interestsd in county politics, and a month after his admission to the bar was appointed an assistant district attorney. ithin three years was elected district attorney, perhaps the youngest man ever chosen to that office in western Pennsylvania. Record in Polities. Always a republican in politics, Mr. Crow in i85 was made secre- tary of the republican county com- { government's note to the allles con- | mittee and elevated to the chairman- |’ German Moratorium Opposed Official Circles is a distinct threat to the United| | States. * * ¢ The ordinary Ameri- can will see in it merely an attemp! by Great Britain to escape her debt and place upon America a burden ich America is unwilling and un- able to bear. * * ¢ We deeply deplore the note. We ought to have expressed to Ameri our unconditional readiness to rep: the debt, and at the same time to have notified the allies we were pre- pared to offer them, if not complete remission, at least very generous in- dulgence.” The Westminster Gazette empha- sizes the intimate connection of Amer- ica’s attitude with the whole problem: “If America does not cancel our bond, we shall pay,” it says. “but there is no semse in pretending we do not wish her to cancel our hond. The practical question, therefore, is how best to persuade her to take that S. Debt Crux of Matté: The_note in its preamble explains that Phere has been no formal discus- sion between the French and British guvernments and that the Bri s" not anxious to raise the discussion, but that recent events ieave littie choice-iri-the matter. Declaring 1t i straigied to raque: oV ernmént to maké arrangements for dealihg to the best of its ability with the Anglo-French lo: the British government saya !t d " (Continued on Page 7, Column 1.) Defeat Blasts Campbell Hope of Speakership REPRESENTATIVE CAMPBELL. Defeat of Representatiye Campbell of the House rules committee, in the third Kansas district, was the big primary surprise in congressional circles here. For some time his friends, especially among the western group of House republicans, had been grooming him as a candidate for Speaker next year against Spesker Gillett. Al‘hougn he had never permitted a campaign to be formally launched, it was gener- ally understood that he would be put up as @ western candidate In the party conference. As chairman of the rules committee, Mr. Campbell often had found oppo- sition among certain elements in his party to special rules which gave privileged status to important bills. Chief among them was the bonus bill. Under the senlority system the chairmanship of the all-powerful com- mittee will pass from Kansas to New York, In event Representative Snell, ranking republican, is ect and the republicans continue in control. SHIDEHARA IMPROVES. Yesterday's * | Net Circulation, 84,210 TWO CENTS. UNIONS ACCEPT TERMS TO END RAIL STRIKE; WAY OUT IS NOW SEEN Vote to Approve Harding Plan. STATIONARY MEN TO FOLLOW LEAD By the Ansociated Press. CHICAGO, August 2.—Chiefs of the striking rail employes today voted to accept President Harding’s proposals for ending the railroad strike, and appointed a committee to draft the text of the acceptance and forward it to the President immediately. The actual vote was taken among the more than 100 chiefs of the six federated shop crafts under B. M. Jewell. Timothy Healy, president of the Stationary Firemen and Ollers’ Union, the only other organization on strike, announced that his organizatio would concur in the shop crafts action. ¢ Outstanding Event Today. The proposals were understood to be the same as those which the railroad executives considered at their New York meeting, the exec- utives rejecting the proposal that strikers be restored to their seniority standing if they return to work. Union leaders refused to specu. late as to what effect their action might have on peace prospects. ‘The action of the union heads was the only outstanding event in the rall strike situation today. The New York Central railroad announced that the action of the executives yei terday concerning senlority had re- sulted in many strikers applying for work, while many roads posted no- tices to their new men that their ;elfilorlty rights would be protected ully. President Harding was said by Sec- | retary of Commerce -Hoover to be | contemplating no action today con- cerning the strike, and there was no indication as to when or where the next peace move might arise; Minor disorders were reported in several sections, but generally the situation was quiet. Believe Action Not Final. However, although chiefs of 148 railroads at their meeting yesterday In New York voted to reject the senlority proposal, the belief wés current here that ‘this did not con- stitute the executives' final word in the matter. L. McMenimen, ‘labor group member of the United States Baliroad Labor Board, who has been general- ly credited with having done much to prevent the spread of the rail strike addition to the shopmen, today de- HoDllmlulu for a vacation. scussion of the points of the présidéntial peace program yester- day followéd the reading of his com- munication to B. M. Jewell, president of the federated shop crafts, who came direct from a conference with his executive council, Chairman Ben 'W. Hooper of the Labor Board and A. 0. Wharton, one of the board's labor members. Mr. Wharton, who former- 1y held Mr. Jewell's present position, was understood to have attended the conference, and later the meeting of the policy committee, at the sugges- tion of the President. Chairman Hooper, who was invited to attend the policy committee meeting, also suggested the attendance of Mr. Wharton, but agreed he would be glad to attend later if he could be of any service. Some Opposition Over Wages. Some¢ opposition to President Har- | ding’s peace program was raised by | members of the policy committee, their complaint being on account of absence of any provision on wages. Answering these complaints, union leaders salid that a rehearing by the Labor Board, which was to be gained nder the peace program, would ubtless result in wage advances. The discussion also brought out the belief of the union leaders that the creation of adjustment boards to set- tle disputes between roads and work- ers might be required of the roads by the Labor Board. The union chiefs also were said to have informed the meeting that should the board feel that it coald not force the establish- ment of the adjustment board they had reason to believe that Congress would be asked to amend the trans- portation law in this respect. MANY SEEK WORK. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 2—The New York Central lines today announced that more applications' for positions in their shops had been received with- morning than for many days t. country would e Harding's settlement plan President Harad! proposals ployment ing of the more than 180 executive: act 28 & unit. Accept Two Proposals. suggestions put forward by by wage decisio f the Labor clared emphatically yesterda: with-unimpaired seniority rights, th third provision in the President’ | Lov ‘was no moral or budging from eir . position, to over a half million workmen in parted for California on his way to in three hours at division points this According to the announcement many applicants were strikers who stated they had been waiting to see what action the railway executives of. the on President In_rejecting the third section of for ending the shopmen's strike the rail- roads are standing behind the Rail- road Labor Board, according to rail executives, who pointed out today that the board had told the men who re- fused to strike that they would have senlority rights and permanent em- Spokesmen for the rallroads stated that the program adopted at the meet- was final and that the roads would ‘Willing to accept conditionally two the White House—that both sides abide Rajlroad o Board and that law suits springing out of the strike be with- drawn—the heads of 148 roads de- that it was impossible to reinstate strikers; lan. PlAfter being_ told by Robert S. tt of the Union Pacific that there ractical reason ::r e |Shop Ciaft Leaders|Labor Board Power, Recognized, Opens Path to Peace. SENIORITY DECISION WOULD BE BINDING President Has Leverage in Executives’ Pledge to Gain Submis: BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Harding does not consider the reply of the railway executives an insuperable barrier to a settlement of the strike. The important fact to be torne in mind is that the railroads bhave agreed to the first point in the compromise, namely that they will recognize and obey the decisions of the United States Rallroad Labor Board. Bound by that pledge they cannot therefore refuse to obey such Cecision as the board may make in the future on the mooted question of seniority rights. In other words the President has the |leverage now to require the railroads to submit to the labor board the settlement of the senlority problem. T. De Witt Cuyler, head of the rail- road executives, would have preferred that procedure and so told Mr. Hard- ing last week at the White House. Mr. Cuyler didn't see how the rail- roads publicly could reverse them- selves. Mr. Harding_insisted, how- ever, on making the effort to persuade them and believed public opinion would compel the executives to an- nounce their acceptance. Mr. Cuyler promised to outline the President’s viewpoint. Situation Not Hopeless. Most unexpected, therefore, to Mr. Harding, is the answer which the railroads have made, but it cannot be called discouraging. The situa- tion is by no means as hopeless as it may appear on the surface. For one thing, the President eannot conceive that the rallroads, who have been s0 severely criticising the shop crafts men for striking againet the -gov- ernment, can turn around now and ignore the government's proposal for a settlement. Wouldn't they be strik- ing against the government, too? is the question asked in official quarters. But to understand what is coming one must read carefully the text of the reply of the railroad executives. It will be noted that, while the chair- man of the United States Railroad Labor Board is quoted extensively as having contended that the strikers had forfeited their seniority rights. the labor board itself did not pledge itself irrevocably to that position: ‘Way Out Still Open. All that the resolution of the labor board embraces is a Statement that strikebreakers are entitled to protec- tion and have the right to work. Nowhere is there a definite decision of the board that the strikebreakers shall be given seniority rights over the strikers or that the latter had forfeited them. This paves the way for consideration without prejudice of the whole problem by the labor board. Mr. Harding, of course, expected & complete acceptance by the raflroad workers who have been on strike, and until he had that his strategy was_necessarily one of silence. It the White House modified its position on _seniority before the workers icould take formal action on the com- promise proposal laid before them by President Harding such a course | might interfere with the acoceptance Dby the union representatives of the plan itself and further complicate the situation. An acceptance from one party is a powerful infleunce in any strike crisis. If it should be- come necessary to modify the third point in the proposal to the effect that the seniority question be left {o a national arbitration board or some other impartial tribunal. so as to afford the railroads a graceful way to recede, the government's position as & mediator would be strengthened. Men May Go Back Soon. The rafl strike may therefore be said to be near an end, and even though the maneuvers by which it is to be terminated are taking a much Jonger time than was anticipated by the chief executive and his associates, there is every reason to be confident i that presidential influence will settle the strike and send the men back to work before many days have passed. The railroads are really sparring for position in the future. The ofcial view here is that they have made a mountain out of a mole hill. It is realized, too. that the interviews given by officials of the Rallway Labor Board in the heat of the con- troversy were dvised. and that but for some of tho: utterances a gormula of settlement through the board itself now would be a matter of histor: The President knows that While the seniority question has al- ways been troublesome in strikes, it rarely has happened that the strik- ers forfeited those rights in the last analysi The strikers are experienced work- ers and they are more numerous than those who have remained at work By the usual processes of elimination they come to the top notwithstand- ing their participation in a strike. Both to Obey Board. The guestion narrows down to this: The labor board chairman, aroused by the refusal of the workmen to obey a summons from him and to recognize a decision of the board, ade a public statement saying the strikebreakers would have which could not be ignored board. however. strikers are ready to recognize the labor board’'s decision: should the penalty of their earlier refu made permanent? No such severe punishment was handed the railroads for violating labor board decisions, and that's why the government here, | through President Harding. wan bygones to be considered a8 bygon and the main issue kept in mind— the workers have agreed to obey the future decisions of the board and the managers have pledged them- selves to do likewise. Political writers here estimate the P contest will be "settled by 2,000 to way. It {s certain practically complete returns to pick the winner. Five counties, four of th in_the Ozark mountains, have not been heard from &t all. Mr. Long was still confident at moon today that he would win, rel; ing on the missing rural vote to over- come the Reed lead. Senator Reed d! ;ar‘:mhnmfoflyotm-ut:n “Pign and Mr. Losg bis had &n wp- gD, 3 an ap- Praciable edge in_those districts. " The mii precincts include more }a; 3ban 300 in Reed centers In the two. p! more complete figures a: fore making a statement I am very well pleased rribet s with the result the returns thus far in, teful.” > ngressmen in the six renominated by All had ion_ex- the Afth. contests were' districts. were = ble pluralities. cept Wells Several of the c in_doubt early today. " Most of the ities lities to for publication. | NEW ITALIAN CABINET- " HEADED BY DE FACTA ship four years later. He met his political reverse in 1903, when he was defeated for state sen- ator. This he rcame in :906. and from that time until his. appoint- ment by Gov. Sproul to ‘sucteci the late Philander C. Knox in the United States Sena! thirteen were acquitted. Th trials lasted & week. 'om e moment peace was si with Eathonia, the. Court deciared the Esthonian Repatriation Mission bmn‘ 1.““ ;rn?llnflm,r finr espionage and- for smu; ng. le court has Aasoc] Press. asked the foreign ofice to demand ot |, ey et the Esthonian government, through 3901 it 1011 1 diplomatic- channels, the prosecution | Facta cabinet, as revised follows. of higher officials in the Reval for.| Premier, Luigl de Facta: minlster o eign office and war ministry who are | the interior, Senator ‘Taddel; navy, 10 have engaged in the plot| Roberto de yita; war, Marqu! from the other end: 2”1 Soloert: agricuiture, Giovanni Ber- s Ihirty-Ave Esthonians and Russiaus | tinl; ingustry, Teoflo Flosi Bove and i Laj, of; s otg:: gl e “"““‘5‘ Giovanni _A-ur:: i executives disbanded, caught the first trains for their respective headquar- ters, and indicated that they were going ahead and would operate their ads with the forces they had as- ymbled since the shopmen walked out/on July 1. The decision not to yield on the question - of senlority ~ was made known to the White House by tele- graph after the rail heads had listen- ed to & twenty-minute address by Secretary of Commerce Hoover, who, as direct representative of the Pres dent, told them, in effect, that the ‘minfstration held_the seniority qu tion of minor importance in com parison with that ot' uphaldihg the Railrord Labor Board (Copyright, 1922.) White House Silent at Refusal of Roads ‘to Agree on Seniority The White House today was silent regarding the refusal on the part of the railroad executives meeting yes- iterday in New York to agree in:full 2| to President Harding's plan to settle the rafiroad strike. Up to a late hour thére was no{ the ghest Intimation a® to what “the (Coalinued on Psge & Column 4.3 IJ’-p-non Ambastador, However, May Not Return to U. 8. te HONOLULU. T. H., Auk. 2.—A cable te, he ‘was continuously {from Toklo to Nippu Jijl, a Japan- ber of the Pennsylvania luv:artm “vernacular newspaper here, e body. So s 3. a poll!le:l leader that in 1909 | states that Baron Shidehara, Japan- ese ambassador to ‘Washington, who i . . —The new “de a me; legislal he as {Alo Was m::. ewr‘?‘:n of l:he repul can - state committee. . He was & |y in Japan on an extended sick leave, | m’o.w-'rl’ll .mr in the Wfl.nflll of is fmproving rapidly. Senator Crow became 3o ill after| It states that he probably will not his .mguum to the United Sta te8 | return to the United States, however, at his only SPPeaTABos I | fearing that his restored good health ... might suffer.