Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1922, Page 1

Member of the Associated Press The Associated Preas is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all sews @ispatches WEATHER. Showers and thunderstorms tonight, credited to It or not otherwise ereditéd in this Paper and also the local news published herein, : Al rights of publication of special tomozrow. Temperature ‘for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 87, 3:10 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 71, at & & . RAILROAD EXECUTIVES| ASKED TO REASSIGN MEN IN PEACE PLEA a.m. todey. { clearing tomofrow; cooler tonight and i Full repert on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 17 No. 28,589, Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. The WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1922 _ TWENTY-TWO PAGES. - dlspatches herein sre aiso reserves. Sunday’s Saturday’ Net Circulation, 73,665 Net Circulation, 85528 ] TWO CENTS. PRESIDENT IN FINAL PROPOSAL CALLS ON SHOPMEN 'TO RESUME JOBS AND SUBMIT SENIORITY TO BOARD Mr. Harding Reveals His Last Plan to End Strife After Con- ference With Jewell. ; EASTERN PRESIDENTS HURRIEDLY CALL MEETING TO DECIDE COURSE| White House Proposal Voices Disappoint- ment at Failure of Roads to Accept Former Appeal. ! President Harding today called upon striking railroad shop- | ted the railroads to assign them to work and asked both tie workmen and carriers to submit the disputed question of seniority to the Railroad Labor Board. | The President sent telegrams to B. M. Jewell. head of the ! { men to return to work, reque railroad shopmen’s union, and T. DeWitt Cuyler, chairman ofj the Association of Railway Es he hoped would result in Mr. Harding in his‘m by the Railroad Labor Board. The further statement was made by the President that he was | “mindful of the pledge of both the executives and the striking workmen to recognize the validity of all decisions by the Railroad { Labor Board.” He also pointed out that the question of seniority “which the executites rejected,” as outlined recently in a settle- ment plan proposed by him, “remains in dispute and bars a set- tlement.” In Last Appea " The statement was authoritatively made at the White House in connec- tion with the call issued by the Presi- dent that Mr. Harding regarded his proposals as a final proposal from the government for voluntary action by the railroads and employes to end the menace to the country's interests which the administration sees in the paralysis of transportation, particu- larly in coal fields. The proposals to- day were made without consultation with railroad executives. and the Fresident does not know what will be the attitude of the labor unions, it was ed. The President, it was stated, trusted that the new proposal will draw the support of public opinion and will bring | about a speedy énding of the strike now in its sixth week. Settlement” through the Railroad Labor Board, the President was said to believe, is the only practical course for the government to seek. The President, it was added, considers the suggestions just made as representing the judgment of one who has been standing in be- tween the parties to the controversy. Text of Telegrams. The text of the telegrams follow: “B. M. Jewell, . Chairman, railway employes, Chicago, . “I had your communication, in which you and: your associates, speaking for the striking railway shopmen, pledged your agree- ment to the proposals which I submitted to the railway execu- tives and your organizations for the settlement of the pending railroad strike. Inasmuch.as [ was acting as a voluntary medi- ator, seeking the earliest possible settlement, I confess to you the same disappointment which I have conveyed to the executives, that the terms were not unanimously accepted. As you are already aware, the executives of the car- riers declared their inability to restore seniority rights unim- paired. B It is exceedingly gratifying, how- ever, that in respending to the terms which were proposed that both the spokesmen for the car- riers and the spokesmen for the employes have pledged that they wili recognize the validity of all decisions by the Railroad _Labor board, and to faithfully carry out such decisions as contemplated by the law. Moreover, spokesmen for carriers and employes have ap- proved the second paragraph of th gropqnl and in their apgroval ave agreed that Railroad Lal Board decisions which have bee: involved in the strike may. taken, in the exercise of recognis-| ed rights, by either party, to the Railroad Labor Board for rehear- ing. Inasmuch as the employes have agreed to all the terms pro- posed and the executives have agreed to two of the bases of.set- tlement and rejected the third, there remains only the question seniority covered .in paragraph 3, in dispute, to bar a settlement. “Mindful of the pledge of both the executives and the striking workmen to recognize the validity of all decisions by the Raliroad Labor Board I am hereby calling . on the striking workmeén to re- turn to work, calling upon The carriers to assign them to work, calling upon both workmen an: carriers, under the law, to take the question In dispute to_the Railroad Labor Board for hear- ing and decision and a compliance both with the “dectsion - ren- sociation of Rallway Executives, 61 Broadway, New York city. “] had your communication, in which you conveyed to me the resolutions of your assotiation, agreeing to two paragraphs in proposal which I submitted for the- settlement of the pending strike of rallroad shop emplo; and ecutives, outlining the plan which| speedy termination of the strike. essages asked that both parties to lhc; dispute agree to comply with the decision rendered on seniority ( i H “| striking shopmen; { f i | declining to accept the third, Which provided for restored sen- | iority rights of the-workmen on strike: . Inasmuch as 1 was acting as ‘a’ yoluntary mediator, seeking the earliest - possible restoration of railway—transportation to full effjeiency, 1 confess a disappoint- “ment that the terms were not ac- cepted. e resolutions which you trans- ‘mit on behalf of the executives do pledge that the carriers ‘will recos- nize the validity of all decisions of the Railroad Labor Board. and to faithfully carry out such decisions | as contemplated by the law.” You convey the further agreement. as expressed in the second paragraph of the proposal, that ‘Railroad ! Labor* Board decisions which have | been involved in the strike may be | taken, in the exercise of recognized | rights, by either party, to the Rail- road Labor Board for rehearing. The striking employes agreed to all the terms proposed; therefore only the question of seniority, cov- ered in paragraph three, which the executives rejected, remains in dis- | pute'and bars a seftiement. Mind- ful of the pledge of both the ex- ecutives and the striking workmen to recognize the validity of all de- cisions by the Railroad Labor Board, I am hereby calling on the | striking workmen to return to work, and calling upon the car- | riers to assign them to work, and | calling upon both workmen and carriers, under the law, to take the question in_dispute to the Rail- road Labor Board for hearing and decision, and a compliance by both | with the decision rendered. “WARREN G. HARDING.” , President Harding made public his telegram following a conference to- day with B. M. Jewell, head of the W. "H. Johnstgn, head of the Machinists' Union, and J. ! P. Noonan. president of the Electrical Workers' Brotherhood. : \ . Meets With Cummins, The conference with the represent- atives of the striking shopmen fol-; lowed close on the heels of a long one between the President and Sena- tor Cummins, chairman of the Sen- ate interstate commerce committee, who has been prominent as an advis- er of the President in his dealings with the rail strike. \ Another angle of the strike grow- ing out of the President’s proposals was before representatives of - the management and ‘of the shopcraft groups of the Southern railway, who began meetings here today, on the company’s formal suggestion that its men return to work on the basis of the White House program. The Southern is acting Independently of |. the other carriers and accepted Mr. Harding’s plan in full, but whether the men will come back or hold omi for a nation-wide settlement was still to be disclosed. RAIL CHIEFS TO MEET. Heads of Eastern Roads Will ‘Dis- cuss’ Proposals. NEW YORK. August 7.—Railroad executives today evidenced keen -in- terest in dispatches outlining Pres! dent Harding’s latest proposal for settlement of the nation-wide rail i but asserted no communication een received from the White _ | House up to 2:30 p.m. At the same time announcement was made that Chairman Loree of fthe eastern presidents’ conference had called a meeting for 4 p.m. to_discuss the strike situation. Thé announce- ment did not mention today’'s confer- ence in Waushington, but it was gen- erally believed that consideration would be given the administration’s Pplan. N T. De Witt Cuyler, head of the As- sociation of Railway Executives, to whom the President’s message was addresed, was not in his office. It was Putnnrled he had gone to Bar Harbor, e. Robert 8. Binkerd, assistant to T. Dewitt Cuyler, chairman of the As- sociation of Rallway Executives, said this afternoon that every considera- tion would be given President Hard- ing’s latest proposal for settlement of the shopmen’s strik: declined to indicate how he believed it .would be received by~ PRENIERS BEGI PARLEY T0 NEET FUROPEAN CRS I Thirteenth Conference With- in Three Years.to Settle Tangled Affairs. N By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 7.—The leading representatives of the entente allies today gathered around the conference table once more to discuss war repara- tions, Germany's financial condition and related issues. The meeting, the thirteenth time within less than three years, was greeted by today's newspapers with- out enthusiasm, and in some cases with almost despairing skepticism. Preliminary Meeting. Prior to the meeting of prime min- isters, M. Poincare and his fimance minister, M. Delasteyrie, conferred with Premier Theunis of Belgium and they were reported to have reached a common understanding as to the necessary measures respecting Germany. All the allied delegates. Baron Hayashi, representing Japan, arrived in Downing street shortly before 11 o'clock and went immedia- ¥ to the conférence chamber. The including ed States was not represented. The delegates remained in confer- ence until shortly after 1 o’clock, when they adiourned their sitting with the announcement that the con- ference would reassemble at 4:30 p.m. } Large “Gallery” Prese Today is a bank holiday in England and hundreds of excursionists gath- ered in Downing street. The crowd included American tourists, and the confcrence had the largest “gallery” of any post-war meeting that has been held in London. By a ruse the several score news- paper men who were awaiting the arrival of the statesmen were taken to the rooin of the prime minister's secretary, while, unknown to them, the entire personnel of the foreign delegations entered the conference room. The incident caused sentment among the correspondents, - No Prepared Agenda. Laying of the-foundation for the important work facing tke allied gov- ernments was begun at a preliminary meeting of the principal representa- tives. No agenda for the conference, in which Prime Minister Lloyd George and Premier Poincare of France were the principal participants. had been prepared in advance and one of the first_concerns of the initial meeting, presided over by Mr. Lloyd George, was to decide the order in which the various subjects would be brought forward. No one, aside from the delegates, was admitted to the session. A state- ment from Sir Edward Grigg. the | British premier's private secretary, as to the course the proceedings had taken was at first promised for the early afternoon, but® later it was stated the announcement would not be forthcoming until evening. GOAL STRIKE PEACE WITHIN WEEK SEEN ABSENT TO BE INVITED Both Sides .Agree to Halt Action Pending Effort to Get Others in Conference. By the Associated Press. > CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 7.— Coal operators and union leaders, who hered Rere today for a wage conference looking toward ending thre soft coal strike, agreed in advance of their first loint meet- ing to adjourn until Wednesday with the expectation that Illinois and Indiana operators would be in attendance at that time. No for- mal call for the operators of thowe or other states being asked to join ‘the cqnference was expected to result from the opening comfer- ence. CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 7.—Coal operators and umion leaders, who met here today for a wage conference looking toward ending the soft coal strike, had virtually agreed to ask all absent operators, particularly those of Illinois and Indiana, to join in the conference here on Wednesday. Oper- (73 >3 < oy <, o v\\?f;( _,".' \‘S\)GF\QS« News Note: DPresident Harding ordered the destruction of three crows that kept singing: ffi THAT 5 & NOT THE KIND OF BIRD 3 birds out of the White House grounds. SRR _ BLADENSBURG PIKE IS ROUTE OF RUTS Main District Artery North| and East Badly in Need - of New Surface. Especially Near Viaduct, Fraught With Danger. Bladensburg road, the main artery of travel through Washington to pointy north and east, which has borne the traffic of years, has a road- bed now which will give visitors to the District by auto a shaking that they will remember long after they leave the National Capital. Like other main arteries, it has a car line running down the center, and, again like the other thoroughfares, there er the railroad paving is kept in con- dition. % This road carries a large volume of traffic, much of heavy traffic since the automobile truck has come into use as a means of transportation in long-distance hauling. The greater percentage of traffic into and out of the District to and from points north and east is carried over this thor- oughfare and this alone, it was point- ed out, should warrant the authoriza- tion of sufficient funds by Congress with which to construct a more solid foundation and resurface the road to provide a continuance. of the smooth road of Maryland _which brings the motorist up to the District line. ; Yesterday afternoon The Star's ob- server watched automobiles bounc- ing their way over the rut-filled thor- oughfare,~jogging their passengers continuously from the seats to the tops. and then again there could -be observed the apparent satisfaction registered on motorists’ faces as their vehicles reached the concrete road- way of Maryland. = Car Track Bumping. Rounding the traffic office at 15th and H streets northesat a reporter for The Star,ein an autuomobile, re- gistered his presence on tlie roadway leaMing to Baltimore by a good, big bump over the car track which crosses the street at this point lead- ing to a siding Observing that it might cost somebody some money by attempting to ride with one wheel on the car tracks because of the dan- tion of the brick paving, B O hereaticr KDt on the "gxet“no t six hundred yards north of the entrance to the thoroughfare the roadway on the east side of the track loomed up full of dangerous rats. Some effort apparently had been made by the District authorities to correct this/condition, but they were fruitiess. Several loads of large- sized crushed rock had been dumped into the roadbed dt this point, not even rolled, and having mo binder for (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) {Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) e e e ) Prohibition Favored in Germany,’ ! 'First Straw Balloting Indicates By the Associated Press. BIELEFELD, Germany, August: 7. —The results of the first straw. vote ever taken In Germany on the ques- tion of prohibition showed an ‘over- whelming majority today in favor of the abolition of alcohol, as prescribed in the United States. 3 This balloting was conducted in the first police precinct of Bielefeld, and of 14,069 qualified voters, 12,626 voted| for ‘prohibition, 416 against and 1,022 declined to vote. Five others were g’nmtc:.umod for The test was newl organ] campal committe~ jg¢ the German: prohil tlon movement, .-which “plans to take simflar votes in other parts of the ‘country. > ‘The '};ommmeo issued a_statement from its headquarters at Darmstadt, _asserting that Germany wastes an average of 3,500,000,000 gofd marks annually on aléohol . The statement says this sum would be sufficient “to. shake® off the. yoke of the repara- tions burden and all its bitter accom- nying effects.” s ?‘"G,Qfl:lny'l credit abroad,” it says, “would rise instantaneously if, like America, 8] owed her moral mio It is the same in public 1ite. - ‘The ' drinker has less credit than the total abstainant,” BUMPS GREET. VISITORS Travel Along Rail Tmcks Proves, | seems to be indifference as to wheth- | By the Associated Press. HONGKONG, August T7.—Casualties in the typhoon and tidal wave which last Wednesday swept the port of Swatow, 250 miles north of here, are now estimated at 10,000. Another British steamer, in addi- tion to the two previously reported ashore, was bound from Hengkong | to Shanghai, when it met the fury of the typhoon and was wrecked, but her passengers were saved. | Desolation hovers over the ruined | city ana horror haunts its streets. In the native quarters hundreds of corpses and the carcasses of animals are mingled with the debris. It is estimated that more than 75 per cent of the Tity's buildings was destroyed. including the silk knitting factories and the old German consulate. Bandits Rob Victims. The American consulate and the Standard Oil Company’'s warehouse | were slightly damaged. A Swatow-Chinese newspaper re- ports that lawless elements_raided houses of typhoon victims and held up passersby for plunder, but prompt action by police prevented wholesale looting. 0 WANTS NEW BRIDGE UNDER D.G.CONTROL iSecretary Weeks Makes Suggestion Regarding the Georgetown Struetul_'e. In anticipation of the opening of the new Georgetown bridge to gener- al traffic, New Year day, Secretary Weeks has suggested in & letter to the District Commissioners that ju- risdiction of the structure on its com- pletion be transferred to the District, so that the bridge thereafter will be in the same class as the present High- way bridge in Potomac Park. He has asked the Commissioners to join with him in obtaining the enactment of the necessary legislation. Open to Trafiic January 1. In his letter to them. Secretary Weeks /says. the Georgetown bridge probably will be completed and open- ed for traffic by January 1, 1923, and adds that the act of Congress approved May 18, 1916, authorising the construc- tioh. of the bridge provides for its use under conditions prescribed from time to time by the Secretdry of War. That act he said apparently contemplated that the bridge should remain under the jurisdiction of the Secretgry of War after its completion, “At the time that act was d, sald Secretary Weeks, “ihe. Highway bridge was being maintained and op- erated under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of War, ‘and it is assumed that Congress intended that the new bridge, which is to serve an-exactly. similar class of traffic.and in all other respects_will have status exacily mim- flar to the Highway bridge, should be under the same jurisdiction. “The District oefd Columbia tion “act approve el , 182 rovided, however, th-H"emlurl thlé jurisdiction and control of the way he i n‘: bridge across the appropriations and employes, shall under the Commissioners of the District ,afmc%\umx:::zd.m- indieates that it ia br}d(;e old!hlt lhc.h- ME be main- tained under jurisdiction of the District Commissioners. That is be- lieved to be advisable since the mainte- nance, which in the case of.the new bridge will consist principally in light- ing, maintenance of eleant: of roadways, sidewalks 11! gutters ane the regulatjon of traffic, i entirely sim- ilar to the duties whi siohers genferal pria- t| ich the: thy T e Typhoon Toll Is Now 10,000 In Stricken Chinese To_wnfM The police frustrated an attempt to | 120t the offices of the Banque Indus- { irielle de China, arresting two men. ‘The destruction was almost co plete. with the exception of the Ch nese post office. No building escaped damage. To all appearances Swatow is the scene of a’ war-ravaged town—a heap j of ruins. the bui height o erable dams 1ings. The British i mitted $10,000 Swatow and ai tribution amol e destitute. ThéWwatow™ mpu charitable: association is scriptions for a relief fund. Corpses Clog River. The captain of the steamer Hain- wah, arriving today from Swatow, told or 3 pality that his vessel, countered corpses and carcasses float- ing on the ebb tide. X On Double Island, the summer resort of Swatow’s foreign community, not a single house was intact. Inside Swatow harbor boats that took refuge there presented one mass of wreckage. Refugees had been (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) 3 BALLOONS LAND IN BENNETT PACE Spanish, English and Bel- gian Contenders Forced Down by Rains and Snow. By the Associated Press. B GENEVA, August 7—The first of the balloons competing in the James Gordon Bennett race to come to earth was the Spanish entry, Jesus Fer- nando Duro, piloted by E. Magdalena, which wes damaged and forced to land in Grand Sacconnex, near here, after one hour's flight. The leading balloons caught The tidal wave which swept ! the | the Associated Press correspondent; 1 fifteen miles before reaching Swatow from Shanghai, en-' MULE GIVES UP; WHEN HE HEARS {McADOO’S VOICE | By the Associated Prens. YOSEMITE, Calif., August 7/—The mule wherewith cartoonists for years {Fad represented the democratic party is not the only one that iz amenable sometimes 10 whispers from William | {G. McAdoo, for- g { mer Secretary of i the Treasury, un- ider President Wil- | son. Yesterday Mr. McAdoo, his wife and daughter lwere ascending jthe narrow Tenaya ilake trail on {horseback. They I met a pack train. headed by a giant i specimen of the itype that has {made Missouri famous and with | an apparently un- alterable deter- mination not to vield even half of \the road to any- { body. The guides pleaded in propriate to the ears of the ladies in | the McAdoo party, then descended by tarms ap- “mule talk,” calcu- | €asy stages into But lated to move mountains. this particular mule. Mr. McAdoo d from his saddle. He approached the mule, ! what mystic democratic password he used the guides didn’t hear and he jdidn’t tell. But the mule stood aside | land the party rode on past the pack train and up to the lake. whence they departed from Yosemite by automo- bile. JURY HOLDS THREE INWAR FRAUD CASE orse, Davis and Phillips Ac- cused of Conspiracy to { Rob Government. not 1 | | | Juggling of Bids in Sale of Power Plant Laid to De- =#~ fendants. $1,000,000 LOST BY U. S. Ernest C. Morse, former director of | COAL DSTRBUTION METHODS FORD. ARE AGREED UPON New Priority List Announced. Supply Limited to Two Weeks. SURTAX OF $2 A CARLOAD IS SET TO PAY EXPENSES Requests to Be Asked For as to Likely Needs for Winter Consumption. The District Commissioners today reached an agreement with the coal dealers of Washington on the meth- ods by which fuel is to be distributeil in Washington from now on. There were three outstanding points in the agreement, as follows: First. The fixing of a new prior- ity list, differing slightly from the tentative list published Saturday. Second. The fixing of a surtax not to exceed $2 per carload of coal to Jefray the expenses of the local fuel administration, which is to be in the hands of the Public Utilities Com- mission. Third. To limit all consumers to two weeks' supply at a time, based on currens consumption. These requirements relate almost entirely to_users of bituminous or soft coal. The Commissioners stated that as soon as blanks can be pre- pared users of coal in the Distri of Columbia will be called upon file with one coal dealer, at once requests for all coal, whether bitumi nous or anthracite. that is likely be needed for the period ending March 31, 1923. New Priority List. The new priority list, which is now to be in effect, follows: 1. Public utilities. s 2. Hospitals, asylums and chari- table institutions. 3. Bakeries and ice plants. 4. Laundries. 5. Residences, apartment houses, hotels, restaurants and lunchrooms. 6. Office buildings. mercantile es- tablishments and banks. sales of the War Department, now; 1- FPrivate “schoois. colleges and dent of the Foreign Sales Supply | Other educational institutions. (i v oreign Sales Supply |~ 5. All other consumers mnot listed | of the E. M. Davis Chemical Company, | | New York, and Alexander W. Phillips, said to be associated with Davis. who ! has an office in the Chemist building, | in New York city, were indicted today ! for alleged conspiracy in connection | with the sale of the Old Hickory Pow- | ier Plant, at Jackeonville, Tenn., by i the special grand jury which is inves- | tigating war frauds under a special | appropriation of $500,000 from Con- | jgress asked by Attorney General: ! Daugherty. It is charged that the | imen conspired to have Morse secure | ithe approval of Newton D. Baker, then | i Secretary of War, to the sale of the: jplant, which cost the government ! 1$80,000,000, to the Nashville Industrial : Corporation for $3.500,000 when other | | persons were willing to pay approxi- { mateiy $1,000,000 more for the prop. | erty. | Morse. who was recently indicted ' |in connection with the disposition of | {excess Iumber from cantonments, is: {said to be in Warsaw, Poland. The {two New York men will arrange to| | give bail, it is understood. Charges in Indictment. | The indictment sets forth that June | {28, 1920, the Old Hickory plant was jdeclared by the War Department to | ]be a surplus plant and its sale au-| thorized. Proposals were advertised | during August, 1920, in divers pub- | lications for sealed bids for the pur- chase of the plant, and the bids were | ! opened September 30, and among the | bidders were the Nashville Indus- i trial Corporation, the Buffalo House { Wrocking and Salvage Company and | jthe National Metals Company. At this time, it is stated, Morse was in | | the government employ, Davis was a | | manufacturer of chemicals and Phil- lips was associated with him in busi- i ness. + August 9, 1920, it is declared, the ! association. oo ;accepted as satisfactory and will isifE Sub-; Company; Everly M. Davis, president | above. This priority list, as well as the tax to cover the cost of the administration. was adopted during a two-hour session at the District building between Com- missioners Oysters and Keller and .J Maury Dove, jr., and Maynard C. Bur- rell, the latter two being members of a committee of the local coal dealers’ Mr. Dove stated that W. Griffith also is a member of the coal dealers’ committee. Statement by Commissioners. The Commissioners made it known that the coal dealers have agreed (o furpish information with respect to their operations for the last complete coal year, and also with respect 1o the current coal year to enable the Commissioners to arrive at a decision as to the fair price for the coming winter. The statement issued by tha Commissioners at the close of the con- ference follow: “The priorities letter presented by as amended the coal in the dealers be promulgated to the public. It is a agreed that the Commissioner: order to supervise the administration of these priorities, will create a_per- sonnel I the office of the Public Utilities Commission and that the ex- penses of this organization will be financed by a surtax not to exceed for the present $2 per carload. “It is further agreed that priori are to be honored in the order laid down in the list, but to an extent not to exceed a two weeks' supply. based upon current consumption. and that so far as concerns stocks now available in_transit dealers having these stocks will be notified to deliver from these stocks, coal to the limit of the priorities that are being honored at present by the fuel administration. but 10 an extent not to exceed two weeks' supply based on current consumption. Card System to Be Used. “It is further agreed that the or- ganization to be set up by the Public Utilities Commission will establish a strong upper current upon ascending | Nashville Industrial Corporation was | gystem of records on cards, giving in yesterdiy afternoon and rushed with express train speed toward Bern. Reports from that city say the first three, flying from 900 to 1,500 meters above - the earth, were seen at § o'clock last night and three others at 10 o'clock, traveling rapidly in a northeast direction, which would take them to the vicinity of Lake Con- stance. Other solitary bage were seen south of Bern later. Violent thunderstorms with heavy rains were experienced last night in’ many parts of Switzerland. The chief of. the weather bureau here believes that if the present winds continue the aeronauts will be driven in thé direction of Austria and Bul- garia. - The English balloon Bee, piloted by Griffith Brewer, landed at 1 o'clock this morning near’Zurich on. secount of heavy rains. v Amorig the experts the favorites to win ‘#re Capt. -Armbruster, Swiss; Maurice Bienaime, French, and Oscar Westover, American, in the order| named. b The other American pilots are H. E. Honeywell and W. R All the Ameri re prepared for . extreme taking hot drinks in icans temperaturel vacutm bottles and fur coats. They ar s0 equipped with rifles. Capt. George, pilot of the Belgiar ‘balloon Zellick, telegraphed to the committee that he had landed in a snowstorm in the forest northeast of Friedrichshafen at 8:30 o'clock this. 2 lndl::t hat bad 000 and two Vears' jorganized primarily for the purpose of submitting z bid for the Old Hic ory plant, and Davis and Phillips be- | came interested in a syndicate which purchased a large block of the stock. According to the scheme of the al- leged conspiracy, Davis and Phillips were to cause the Nashyille Industrial Corporation to bid a sum greatly in excess of any sum which any other bidder would be likely to make, but jto attach such conditions, deductions and reservations, not permitted by the printed instructions to bidders, as would make, in fact, the bid much less than any other bidder would submit. Baker's Approval Secured Morse is charged with knowing the character of the bid, and it was agreed, it is alleged, that in violation of his duty as a government official he would advise the Secretary of War to accept the Nashville company’s bid and thue bring about the sale of the plant for nearly $1,000.000 less than others stood willing to offer. In turtherance of the agreement, it is charged, Morse secured the approval of Secretary Baker when the latter was passing thfough' Washington Oc- tober 9 after a speaking campaign in ! New England. The government was represented in’ the presentation of the evidence to| the special grand jury by United | States Attorney Gordon, George P. Hoover and Oliver E. Pagan, as spe- cial_assistants to the Attorney Gen- d Heber H. Rice, 3 speclal a. t to Maj. Gordon. . Among. the witnesses heard was former Secretary Baker, who came from Ohlo to testify. The maximum penalty under the gonspiracy statute js.a fine of $10- prisonment 4in the penitentiary, , - | detail informat®n that is necessary in order to appraise correctly delivery and use of all coal coming into the District while the present coal control exists; and the dealers through their repre- sentatives agree that they wiil furnish dally reports in such details as may be called for to enable these records to be_kept. - “So far as concerns the financing of coal, it has been tentatively agreed that the coal dealers will work out a plan of finances in ac- cordance with the requirements of the fuel administration and will in- clude in such financing the surcharge previously mentioned. And they also undertake to protect the District Commissioners against any cost of administering the fuel in excess of the above-mentioned surcharge. Requests to Be Asked For. “The above relates principally to bituminous coal, but it has been agreed that ‘as soon as blanks can be prepared users of coal in the Dis- trict of-Columbia will be called upon to file with one coal dealer at once requests for all whether bitumi- «ous or .mnnef::\n is likely to be needed for the period ending March 31, 1923. “Coal dealers have agreed to fur- nish certain statistical information with respect to the current coal year, the last complete coal year, and aiso with respcet to the current coal year, such information to be furnished in- dividually and in confidence to the District Commissioners—all with the object of enabling the Commission- ers to arrive at a decision as to the fair price for co while under ad- ministration by the District Commi sioners.™ ~* -