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By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 4.—Illinois, re- |stricted to its own supply of coal, faces the most critical situation of the mine strike, according to Robert M. Medill, state fuel director. The only protection that is to be assured is to the twenty-six penal, reformatory and charitable institu- tions, and possibly to the University of Illinois and the state normal schools, he said. | Mr. Medill, in Springfield today, will confer with ‘Acting Gov. Sterling. Be- fore he left Chicago, he said, “Illinois now is absolutely up against it. am going to the capital to arrange, if possible, with Acting Gov. Sterling some plan of action. Mr. Sterling in- formed me by telephone that there are no funds avaiiable for action that |is inevitable and highly necessary in producing the 1llinois coal and deliv- cring it to the cities that are in the {Ereater distress.” |” The fuel director declared orders received yesterday afternoon from Henry B. Spencer, national fuel administrator, meant elimination of any shipments of coal from the Ken- tucky and Tennessce fields that have been relied on for operation of street i cars, gas, electric and water plants! throughout the state. He suggested | that final decision as to what may be | expected in the way of getting out Ilinois coal will be reached at Springfield Monday or Tuesday. MAY ASK RAIL SEIZURE. ' that Minnesota to Request U. S. Action if Shortage Comes. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn., August 4.—Unless the threatened coal famine in the northwest is averted the federal gov- | ernment will be asked to take over four of the main coal carriers of the middle eastern states, Gov. J. A. O. Prous declared in an address here last night. Speaking before a gathering of rail-| road officials, Gov. Preus said: “If no other plan of getting coal to the northwest succeeds, then we will appeal to.the national administration | in an effort to have these four rail- roads—the Baltimore and Ohio. Chesa- | peake and Ohio, Louisville and Nash {ville and Norfolk and Western— {taken over by the government. “These lines, carrying coal to the Lake Erle ports, can supply the north- | west with enough fuel to keep alive | our industries and to ward off an im- | pending crisis in the situation. “If the government cannot under- | take this move under present laws, Congress will be asked to provide necessary emergency regulations by ! { which it can be done.” | i | THE WEATHER | District of Columbia, Maryland ahnd | Virginia—Fair tonight and tomorrow; moderate temperature; gentle west!| jand northwest winds. | West Virginta—Fair tonight and to- ! morrow: no change in temperatuge. Records for Twenty-Four Hours. 12 midnight, 68; 4 a.m. | Barometer—4 p.m. 129.75; 12 midnight, 29. § am., 20.84. | Temperature same date last year— Highest, $1; lowest, 61. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of the | water at $ a.m.: Great Falls, tempera- ture, 74; condition slightly muddy. Weather in Varlous Citles. b g R £/ Terpenatiy o g 22 EF g H § 25 23 8% : g3 J& B Statlons. & Sz 2% 37 S e e S om = R & = B Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Pt.cloudy { Albany | Asbury 3 ntie City 2078 b lear | Bismarck Pt.cloudy Boston Rain Buffalo Pt.cloudy 4 Charlest Chicago ! Cincinna i Cleveland. Denver Detroit | ¥l Paso Clear Pt._cloudy Clear, | Jackson i Kaosas City. | Los Angeles, Lousrilie .. PER TR b AT A ST 3 Phoenix,Arlz 29.82 | Pittsburgh... 20.60 80 Pt.cloudy | Portland.Me. 20.80 72 64 Pt.cloudy | Portland.Ore 30.08 82 33 Clear 8. Lake City 30.04 81 68 Cloudy | San_ Antonio, 100 74 Cloudy ego. . 72 68 Cloudy Franciseo 30.04 62 52 Cloudy St. Louis... 20.88 8% 74 Clear |St. Paul..] 3004 92 a8 Clear iReattle .....30.12 T4 58 Pt.cloudy | WASH.DC 2081 84 & Clear Ferelgn. (8 a.m., Greenwich time, today.) Stations. Temperature. Weather. London, England. . 54 Raining Parl ince. 80 lou Vienna, a2 Cloudy Copenhage: 58 Clear Rtockholm, Swede: 58 Clear Part cloudy Part cloudy Clear Cloudy RUSS STAMPS COSTLY. 200 Pounds of Ruble Notes Pay Peostage on Ounce Letter. ‘The numerals of the latest postal rate list from soviet Russia to ‘the United States read like a national bank statement. Under the new rates a resident of Russia can send a letter weighing less than an ounce to this country for only 200.000 rubles and the revenue on a post card is placed at 120,000 rubles. Other arti- cles may be malled at “the reduced rates,” for 40,000 rubles per two ounces. This new schedule has been received at the Post Office Depart- ment from the Universal Postal Union with the explanation that the rates represent the equivalent of 50, 30 and 10 centimes gold, respectively. Temporarily. the old postage stam with the value stated copecks gold are put into -circulation under the following conditions: 3 Po-u{e stamps with the nominal value of one copeck up to 14 copecks are increased in value a million times. For example, the actual value of a seven-copeck postage stamp is equal to. 70,000 rubles. Fostage stamps with the nominal value of one ruble up to_ ten rubles are increased in value 10,000 times, making the actual value of ‘a ‘five-ruble stamp, 50,000 rubles. A ruble normaMy corresponds to an American half dollar.and was the old standard currency unit in Russia. Today it would take nearly 200 unds of one-ruble mnotes to mail a ter to America. R Cuba, Colon, Cana), Zone, Havana, Th’ girl in a gingham dress needn’ worry about not havin any swell clothes as fer as we’re concerned. Cantaloupes are jest like women—we kin thump ’em, an’ lift ’em, an’ squeeze ’em, but we can't tell a blamed thing about ’em till it’s too late. (Copyright National Newspaper Service.) MAL UNIDKS VAT PRESDENTS REPLY Speculation Rife as to Next Move for Peace—Both Sides Firm. . By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 4.—Developments in the railroad strike were confined to speculation as to what the next peace move would be and reports of violence from various points during the past twenty-four hours. Union officials here today were await- ing word from President Harding with regard to their message accepting his proposals for ending the walkout. Railroad executives and strike leaders still maintained their attitudes on the question of seniority, the executlves in- sisting that rights of the men who stayed at work and new men be re- spected. and union chiefs holding out for restoration of rights to strikers. Tvo deaths resulted from violence: one in Edgemony, S. Dak., where a switchman of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy was shot, and the other in Chicago, where a carpenter em- ployed in the Illinols Central shops was | beaten to death. A repairman In the Illinois Central shops in Chicago was beaten into in- sensibility because he refused to join the strikers. At Waco. Tex., a guard In the Mis- souri, Kansas and Texas shops was shot through the groin during an ar- gument with a fireman. Women Attack Wife, A Unlon Pacific trainmaster was seized on the main street of Las Ve- gas, Nev., taken several miles into the desert and given a coat of tar and excelsior. At the same town four women attacked the wife of a Union i Pacific roundhouse foreman as she was carrying dinner to her husband. She was beaten severely. Two men were injured and half a {dozen windows in a passenger coach {were broken when a cfowd of men stoned an Illinois Central train at New Orleans, La. At Birmingham. Ala., men and two negro women were wounded in a clash between non- unfon workers and striking shopmen of the St. Louis-San Francisco rafl- road, police reports said. The white men and one of the negro women were shot. One of the men was seri- ously wounded. Barbers Lose Licerscs. Mayor Cowart of Waycross, Ga., revoked the licenses of two barber shops where barbers refused to shave non-union men. The shops continued to operate, but the proprietors and barbers were summoned to appear in court to answer charges of doing business without licenses. At Richmond, Va. striking shop- men of the Southern railway were to meet late today to discuss the company’s proposition to reinstate strikers without prejudice to their senlority rights. No action would be taken, however, it was said, until word ' was received from Chicago headquarters. The Atlantic Coast Line rallway yesterday obtained a temporary order at Pensacola, Fla., restraining strikers of the federated shop crafts from interfering with that com- pany’s employes or property, other than picketing by peaceful means. The order was directed particularly at shopmen on strike at River Junc- tion and High Springs, Fla. Oppose “Standing Army.” The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, Seaboard Air Line and the Western and Atlantic railroads were charged with maintaining a “stand- ing army” to suppress the strike of railway shopmen in a lengthy answer fiied at Atlanta, Ga., by union officials to the petition of the roads for con- tinuance of a temporary restraining order against the strikers. / In their answer to the petition the strikers requested the court to pro- hibit the rallroads from “maintaining more than two members of their standing army at any one garrison.” Western railroads with headquar- ters in Chicago added 15,259 shopmen to their forces between July 25 and August 2, a statement issued today by the western presidents’ committee on public relations of the Association of Rallway Executives said. On July 25, according to the statement, west- ern roads had 44,501 men in their shops and on August 2 the number was 59,760. The daily increase of men returning to work or being hired, the statement indicated, ranged between 1,600 and 2.000 men. Arrested After Threat. One man and one woman were ar- rested Lincoln, Nebr., as a result of the rioting by forty or fifty strike sympathizers when, it is said, they tried to preyent a squad of workmen from going to work in the round- house of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy this morning. / ‘This is the first serious trouble re- ported from Lincoln, but yesterday Mrs. Louis Drill, wife of a non-union shop worker, was made {11 by fumes from gasoline and tar thrown at her home. Strike ballots were distributed among the railway clerks of the Springfield division of the Illinols Central today by R. J. Conroy, presi- dent of the division branch. The strike. it was said, would cover the entire Illinois Central system and the Yazoo and Mississippi valley lines. _—— Bangkok, capital of Siam, is a float- ing city, containing 70,000 honlo’ each of which floats on & raft of bamboo. A two white THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, _{CRITICAL SHORTAGE| Abe Martin Says=: TEQRD SHOALS BID URGED ON SENATE Minority Committee Mem- bers Oppose Government * Ownership Plan. WOULD AID FUEL $UPPLY Development of Power Seen by Senators as Provision Against Coal Shortage. By the Assoclated Press. /Acceptance of Henry Ford's ofter for purchase and lease of the govern- ment's vast nitrate and water power projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala., was urged by republican and democratic senators comprising a minority of the Senate agriculture committee In a report submitted today to the Senate. Strong protest was entered by the senators against tne acceptance of the government ownership and opera- tion plan proposed py Senator Norris of Nebraska, the committee's chair- man. The report was presented by Sena- tor Ladd, republican, North Dakota, | and was signed by Senators Capper, republican, Kansas, and Harrison, Mississippl; Caraway, Arkansas; Ransdell, Louisiana; Smith, South Carolina, and Heflin, Alabama, demo- crats. It estimated that the govern- ment had lost $3.000,000 at Muscle Shoals since the armistice by failure to develop and operate the project, and declared the quickest way to stop these “losses is to accept Henry Ford's offer for tne purchase and lease of the government's Muscle Shoals properties.” “Certain objections to the Ford of- fer seem apparent” the report said, “but we insist without fear of suc- cessful contradiction that mnone of the objections to the Ford offer can be remedied or solved by government ownership and operation—by the government going into the power business or entering the uncharted and hazardous fleld of operating nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals in the production of nitrogenous and other commercial fertilizers using electro chemical processes, the commercial success of which is yet controver- sial. Rellef for Industry. “For Congress to adopt such @ pol- icy when Henry Ford's offer makes it unnecessary for the government to do 50" it continued, “would subject Con- gress to the just condemnation and reproach of all sober-minded people.” The belief was expressed that every member of the Senate would agree with the committee minority with reference . to the acceptance of Mr. Ford's proposal when they consider the “present fuel and transportation emergencies” in the light of “develop- ment of such great hydro-electric power as Is found at Muscle Shoals. adding that it “is the only certain and permanent relief in the future from the present paralysis of American in- dustry.” The report called attention to charges that acceptance of Mr. Ford's tender would give him a government subsidy in the development of power and the manufacture of fertilizer, and said: “It has been claimed th=' the Ford offer constitutes a sub Ford. If it is a subsidy, it a subsidy as is proposed Ly the ad- ministration in the ship subsidy bill. The report then cited a comparison between the Ladd bill and that pro- posing federal relief for the merchant marine, showing that the former called for an expenditure of $42.000.- 000, while the latter ;zfiulred an ex- re of $125,000,000. ux“tdl;:un: al!c‘ argued that the Ladd bill would cost the government ' proximately nothing” a year., while the “ship subsidy bill” would necessi- tate an annual expenditure of §41.- .000. 0t the Ford proposal is not to be supported on the grounds of sub- sidy,” the report asked. “how can the American people support such a subsidy to ship operators as is here osed”" plflogf:rfln‘ to _the relationship claimed between Muscle Shoals de- Velopment and the fuel and trans- portation emergencies, the report id: ®No electrified rallway and no in- dustry eerved by water power can suffer suspension on account of a fuel supply, because hydroelectric power, both in its production and distribution, is practically free of all labor troubles. Fuel and trans- portation are the big national prob- jems which noWw distress our people. Muscle Shoals, with the Ford offer accepted, may furnish an opportunity for the Senate to discover how such fuel and transportation emergencies can be, at least, in part, avoided in re.” m’leh:m;‘epon stated that from the present fertilizer industry the farmer might expect but little in the reduc- rices. “f’u'r'y.%'.e" interests even declined the opportunity to use the government's nitrate plants free of cost to them, and to be allowed without paying the government a penny for the use of them to earn 9 per cent on their in- vested operating capital before pay- ing the government anything, and after 9 per cent was earned, addi- tional profits were to be equally di- vided between these interests and the government,” it said. ‘How can these interests justly ~complain against _the acceptance by Congress of the Ford offer when he proposes to pay $5,000,000 for the same ni- trate plants that these interests de- clined to run free of any purchase or rental cost, Mr. Ford agreeing to Sel] fertilizer at no more than 8 per cent profit.” 100-Year Lease Urged. “Mr. d's offer will result in a de- velg‘b‘;n:‘:{ whose national value can only be compared with the aocom- plishment at Niagara Falls.” the re- port continued. “The applications of st and _electrometal- ?:Izmm;‘:rx:‘ ml;yde the Niagara Falls eloctrio developments _success- fol, and In the same way it will take the skill of the chemist and the metalurgist, together ‘with that of the hydroelectric, engineers, with ample capital to develop the full possibilities at Muscle Bhoals, where, due to the fluctuating flow of the stream, the problems are ter_than those en- countered ‘at Niagara Falls. The senators also declared their willingness to agree with Mr. Ford's request that the lease on the power projcts be for 100 years rather than for fifty years, as prescribed by the federal water power act. They as- perted that the operations proposed ! . Ford are on a scale without Eynl‘:rfllel and call for an expenditure by _him of $50,000,000. report concluded with an ex- pression of opinion on the question of including the steam power_ plant at Gorgas in the Muscle Shoals prop- erties be disposed of as requested by M o reference to the contention ::le?md plant,” it , Mr. Ford vised our com- :l‘i‘tdtaouthu. ‘it my revised offer for Gorgas is rejected, then I must un- derstand that the acceptance of my offer for M\;lcll'fl?bo;ll as a whole and 1 rt is refuses no‘s'l‘;:eg:lore. belleving, as we do, that the United States has every right in the world to aoccept Mr. Ford's offer for Gorgas, and since Mr. Ford's offer will stand rejected uuless his pro- posal for Gorgas s accepted, we have no difficulty in decidihg what ought done.” to be FRENCH TO OPEN U. S. RADIO. ARIS, August 4—1It is officially an- n&ncs‘ that the new French wire- less. station at Sainte Assi: in - t of Seine-et-Marne, will be Z;::“t:r “service with the United States Y. U. S. INTERVENTION HALTS WALKOUT OF SEAMEN Department of Labor Conciliator Averts Tie-Up of Great Lakes Vessels. By the Associated Pre DETROIT, August 4.—Federal in- tervention has averted a strike of union vesselmen on the great lakes, the district executive committee of the International Seamens' Union, voting to withhold the strike order until the Department of Labor had made arn effort to adjust the wage differences which caused the strike movement. The board acted after Oscar F. Nel- son, a conciliator of the Department of Labor from Chicago, appeared at the board session, at which it had been announced the strike call would be issued. and asked for a delay, pending federal efforts at concilia- tion. 5 According to a statement issued after the meeting the executive board by unanimous vote instructed the secretaries of the sailors’ and fire- mens’ unions to call a strike, with the recommendation that a reasonable length of time be allowed the De- partment of Labor to adjust the wage dispute. ‘There was no information forth- coming as to what would be consid- ered “a reasonable length of time.” The government desires to avert the strike in order to keep coal moving to the northwest, according to the statement, which sald also that while agreeing to a delay, the executive committee felt “it would be Impos- sible to get the Lake Carriers’ As- soclation to adjust our grievances. FORD'S ROAD TO AID MICHIGAN GET COAL Manufacturer’s Offer Accept- ed by Fuel Director as In- dustries Face Shutdown. NON-UNION SOURCE OPEN Lounisville and Nashville Agrees to “Feed” Detroit, Toledo and Ironton. By the Assoclated Press. LANSING, Mich.,, August 4.—With requests for priority in coal distribu- tion pouring into the office of State Fuel Administrator Willlam W. Pot- ter, the state today shaped its plans to take advantage of Henry Ford's offer and bring coal Into Michigan over the Louisville and Nashville and Detrolt, Toledo and Ironton railroads, the latter controlled by Mr. Ford. State officials today sent official word to the Detroit manufacturer that the Louisville and Nashville had consented to use of it3 lines as "feed- ers” of the Detrolt, Toledo and Iron- ton. The Louisville and Nashville taps the non-unfon producing coal flelds. The statement was made by Ford officials at Detroit yesterday that as 200n as arrangements could be made movement of coal would begin. Reports to the state public utilities commission here today emphasized the seriousnes of the coal shortage. Industries in all parts of the state face shut-downs, while the coal sup- ply of hospitals and many public utilities has become short. FORCES NEAR NORMAL. Pennsy and Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Lack But 25 Per Cent. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, 4.—The Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroads today announced that their shop forces were within 25 per cent of normal, and that traflic was unaffected by .the strike. Additional men are being put to work daily, it was added. A statement from the Baltimore and Ohlo railroad said the situation waws 50 reassuring that the road, instead of contracting work from the back shops, would make repairs with its own men. Forty men, it was said, went to work in the back ‘shop here yesterday, and additional workers will be put on from time to ttme. These men, road officials declared, would be housed and fed at the shops. A “good freight movement” and “im- provement in passenger service” was noted in the statemen August Women- Men-~ MEN’S STRAW HATS up to $6 value. Plenty $1-65 of large sizes. all colors and sizes. Children— Boys' $2.50 and $3 Nowiiioadsdicin sla fodvmicassosmomionsaiss Boys’ $5.00 Low hoes Sneake white or blue. D. U. FRIDAY, AUGUST 4 1922, Girls’ $1.50 to $2.50 Middy Skirts; SEE LITTLE HOPE INLEWIS PARLEY Only Small Group of Central Competitive Operators to Attend, Says Report. UNION CHIEF OPTIMISTIC Pittsburgh Vein Association Wires Lewis of Intention to Be at Cleveland Conference. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 4.—A canvass of coal operators in the central com- petitive fleld, according to an an- nouncement made today by represen- tatives of lllinois operators, indicates that only district No. 8 of Ohio, com- prising about b per cent of the ton- nage of the entire fleld, will be pres- ent at the wage conference called for next Monday, in Cleveland, by John L. Lewis, international presi- dent of the miners. Local coal circles see little hope of a wage agreement for the central competitive fleld, declaring that set- tlement of the strike must come through separate state agreements. Representatives of Illinois coal operators met here today to decide whether or not they would be pres- ent Monday at the Cleveland con- ference. Ilinols operators have several times indicated that it was extremely un- likely that they would again enter a central competitive fleld wage confer- ence, but have favored state agree- ments. DIFFER ON PROSPECTS. Success of Cleveland Parley Scout- ed by Operators; Predicted by Men. |xy the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH, August 4.—Pitts- burgh coal operators and union lead- ers differed somewhat In their fore- casts regarding the fate of the four- state conference to be held at Cleve- land Monday. “There is no possible chance of it being successful,’ announced the Pittsburgh Coal Producers’ Assocla- tion, which declined to attend. ““There {8 no chance that it will fail,” sald Vice President Philip Murray of the United Mine Workers. Local Interest was centered upon the meeting here today of the Freeport Thick Vein Operators’ Assoclation. ‘The operators will take action upon the invitation of President Lewis of the United Mine Workers to attend the conference. Leading operators the Freeport Operators’ Association jprobably would reject Lewis' invita- ,tlon. but sald it was uncertain ! whether the operators would take steps to reopen their mines. WILL BE AT PARLEY. Pittsburgh Vein Operators to At- tend Interstate Conference. 1 By the Ansociated Press. CLEVELAND, August 4.—Members of the Pittsburgh Vein Operators’ As- sociation of Ohio held a meeting here j Yesterday and accepted an invitation | from John L. Lewis, presidert of the ! United Mine Workers of America to in an interstate conference here on | August 7. Michael Gallagher, president of the assoclation, which is part of the cen- tral competitive fleld, sent Mr. Lewis the following telegram: “We are in receipt of your telegram of August 1 calling 2 meeting of op- erators and miners to be held in Cleveland on Monday, August 7. The Pittsburgh Vein Operators’ Associa- tion will have representation at this meeting and will joln with you in every proper effort to bring about the wage scale that will be fair in fts terms and assure the public coal.” AWAIT PARLEY OUTCOME. Governors to Act Should Peace Ef- forts Pail at Cleveland. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, August 4— Unless an agreement ending the results from MEYER’S SHOP Week End Semi-Annual Clearance ecials Women's $6 to $12 Hats.....$2.95 Women's $6 to $10 Shoes.- - -.$2.95 Mew's $8 and $9 LOW SHOES, black, white ond tan: all siges and wndths. 34.95 Now 35¢ MEN’S HOSIERY ; Gym Bals $1.95 $1.95 95¢ 49¢ MEYER’S SHOP. 1331 F STREET 1 the wage negotiations set to harln' between operators and union leaders next Monday at Cleveland, the gov- ernors of all coal-producing states are to be called on to lay plans for the resumption of coal mining, which was stopped generally by union miners t April 1. This decislon was reached here at of officfals of four a " conterence states, including Governor McCray of Indiana, Governor (iroesbeck of Michigan, ‘Governor Davis of Ohfo and Lieut. Governor Bsllard of Ken- tucky. : No specific plan was ad- vanced for bringing about a re- sumption of coal production, but the conferees indicated that efforts might be made to open the mines under military protection. U. S.-GERMAN SHIP PACT. Members of the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation con- ferred yesterday with A. V. Moore, F. J. McCormack, Kermit Roosevelt, Al- fred E. Clegg and C. H. Rossbottom, representing the United States lines, concerning the tentative contract ne- ::uuated by Vice President Love of the 'mergency Fleet wi h = man " Lioya for " handiing Shipors Board vessel at German ports. The United States lines operat i th%ch” nftmde. perate vessels ir tails of the contract have been made public, but if ratified h;e:h‘: Shipping Board it will hippi will run for ten 17763 A 8 Here’s Health! WOTTLLD AT The Gro WHITE UL SPRINGS, W. V Washington Wholesale Drug Co. Washington Distributor. 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