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(N * CALIFORNIA CARS FOR HOUSEHOLD GOODS T0DEAD, 40 HURT IN TRAIN WRECK Express Crashed Into Auto Truck and Then Into Freight Cars. i DRIVER HAD BEEN WARNED | Disregards Cries of Crew and Goes on Tracks at Station at An- nandale, Minn. By the soc:ated Press. ANNANDALE, Minn.. August 14. Ten persons dead and more than two- score injured was the toll last night of the wreck on the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railway here when a \westbound passenger train crashed into a truck and then! plowed into a freight train standing | on a side track. The wreck occurred when Fred Lamar, driver of the truck, failed to| heed warnings of members of the freight crew and drove onto the track in front of the passenger train. The truck was hit squarely and’ hurled against the freight engine on a side | track. A switchstand was knocked | down and three coaches of the pas- senger train swung over to the side track into the freight train. The baggage car crashed over the over- turned freight engine. Several oth- er passenger cars were derailed. Smoker Toll Heaviest. Most of the dead and injured were in the smoker, which reared up into i i the air and toppled over. Part of the wreckage caught fire, but the blaze was soon extinguished. Homes in the neighborhood were opened and the most seriously injured were taken there. Women were called from all parts of the town to act as volunteer nurses and calls to nearby towns brought every available physician. According to Dr. A. G. Moffat, coro- ner, there will be no inquest. Lamar and a man who had asked him for a ride were inatantly killed. <Chris Wallace, engineer of the freight train, was scalded so severely that he died. His fireman, L. W. Johnson. was buried under an avalanche of but he managed to extricate elf and was only slightly bruised and cut. Injured Man Hero. Emil likangas of Annatidale was caught under the wreckage of the smoking car. Both his legs were crushed and it was several hours be- fore he was released. He directed the work of his rescuers. He later dred Wrecking crews late last night were still working on one overturned coach. but railroad officials said they did not believe any additional bodies would be found. TRAIN TO D. C. DERAILED. Engineer Killed in Crash of South- ern Express. COLUMBIA., S. C.. August 14 —Sea- board Air Line railroad train No. 3. northbound, Jacksonville to Wash- ingtor. jumped the track at 5:30 o'clock _vesterday afternoon, half a mile from Dixiana, S. C. killing Engineer John Preacher of Savannah, Ga. and injuring Firemen Dave Stevens of Savannah. One passenger | was taken to a Columbia hospital | Dbadly shaken up. but is not thought t0_be seriously hurt. | 3] Sand on the track, raflroad offi- cials say. caused the derailment of the locomotive. which practically buried itself beside the track. Three cars also were derailed. , The wreck occurred at a point where the track is crossed by the highway leading .nto Columbia. and the sand, it is believed, was thrown on the rails by the heavy traffic dur- ing the day. There are no indica- tions of foul play, the thought. —_— SPECIAL NOTICES. JAMES A. PURCELL. Atterney, 1410 H St. N.W. Washington, D. C. NOTICE OF SALE OF BUSINESS. Notice is_hereby given that the corporation known as Vegetarian Food & Nut Company. 3339 South Capitol st.. Washington, J. C.. ix about to be sold by the present awne AL persons having claims of any description against said corporation are hereby wi 1o present the same not later than the dey of August. 1022, attorney for purchaser. JAMES A. PURCELL. TANTED—PIANO PUPILS. half hour for first ten- | specialty. _Call Main 8312. Electric Wiring, Finjshed houses a specialty. All uar. anteed. E. R. \'Dl(lios.ew rn nw. 'flrnl z"{ NOTICE 1S HEREBY GIVEN OF THE DI iutlon of the partnership of Paul F. 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The President declared it was the obligation of the government to relieve the people “who are thas shamefully subjected to hard- ships.” The President's telegram follows: “I am informed that several pas- senger traing on the Santa Fe rajlway are marooned at junction points” in your state because of their abandonment by their crews. It is the oblization of the govern- ment to relieve the people who are thus shamefully subjected to hard- ships. If you have not facilities for the relief which I know you will gladly bestow, then any forces at the command of the federal gov- ernment will be promptly ordered to vour assistance. Kindly advise whether such assistance is needed.” MARK AL STRKE Many California Cities Lack Mail Service—Freight Service Halted. VIOLENCE IS INCREASING Train Dynamited in New Jersey. Bridge Blown Up in Missouri. Shops Are Fired. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, August paralysis of rail transportation in the far west and at least two in- stances of serious violence against railroad property marked the open- ing hours of the seventh week of the strike of rail shopcraft workers. Northern and central California today were without fast freight transpor- tation east, and indications were the sole remaining passenger route also would be abandoned. Upwards of 1,700 passengers were marooned on nineteen trains abandoned in Ari- zona, New Mexico and California deserts by members of the operating brotherhoods. Many cities of California’s San Joa quin valley were without mail serv- ice as a result of cessation of trans- eastern mail halted California Thursday Fruit growers sses at 14.—Further portation, and in_ southern still was unmoved. estimated their accruing $1.000,000 a day, and one shipper pro- tessed his loss reached $500.000 daily. President's Offer Accepted. President Harding's proffer of un- stinted federal fid for passengers suffering on trains stalled in the heated Arizona wastes met ready response, as Gov. Thomas E. Camp- bell, immedately upon receipt of the President's telegram. sent Col. Wal- ter S. Ingalls. adjutant general. to Seligman to report at “the earliest possible moment.” Passengers ma- rooned at Albuquerque had tele- graphed President Harding urging he take command of the situation. Reports . of instances of personal violence to non-union workers who have replaced the men who went on strike showed the usual Sabbatical in- frequency. but for the first time at- tacks of magnitude were made against railroad property. Ten Hurt by Explosion. Lives of passengers were endangered | and ten persons were injured when a passenger train, loaded principally with week end excursionists* was | dynamited at Granton Junction, N. J. Steel coaches. which were marked visibly by the explosions, served as veritable bombproofs in protecting the passengers. At _Ash Grove, Mo., the St. Louis ind San Francisco's 400-foot bridge over the Sac river was dynamhed.l The north abutment was destroyed. according to early and fragmentary { reports, and for quite a distance the tracks were raised a foot. = Fire of undetermined origin early today destroyed the Wichita Falls and Northwestern railway’s shops at Wichita . Falls, Tex., Three locomo- ives, numerous coaches and box cars were lost. A watchman found the fire in the oil-soaked interior of the building. and when fire-fighting ap- paratus arrived the shops and vards were a mass of flames. It was only with difficulty that several loaded oil trains were saved. Return to Jobs. Trainmen who tied up trafiic on the St. Louis and San Francisco out of Birmingham, Ala. returned -to their jobs, and road officials an- nounced immediate resumption of train service. - Mails which were de- layed were rerouteg over other lines. “Btg four” brotherhood men at Memphis, Tenn.. deferred action re- garding a suspension of - work be- cause of -alleged crippled rolling stock. Members of the “big fqur” at Par- sons. Kans., decided to continue work until after union officials conferred with rail heads at St. Louls today. Bombs _were thrown into the Southern Pacific yards at Roseville, Calif., early today. Members of the “big four” broth- erhoods at Topeka, Kans., were said to be unable to agree on strike action. 2 Officials of the Kansas City, Mex- ico and Orient railway announced at Wichita, Kans.. that any attempt to tie up traffic by striking train crews would result in immediate suspension of all operations on the Orient. Troops patrolled the Santa Fe shops at Newton, Kans, where several deputies and shopworkers were- beat- en by a crowd Saturday night. —_————— PLAN TO RESTORE HOSPITAL “SPIRIT” New Policy Inaugurated in Inter- S est of Fifty Veteran Institutions. To restore the “flagging spirits of 65 per cent of the tubercular and| mental cases in fifty hospitals now managed by the Veterans’ Bureau.” a new policy has /been"inaugurated, it was announced today, of putting nractjcal vocational training into the hospitals themselves. “Doctors and sclentists agree.” sald Col. 'Charles ‘R. Forbes, directo “that a system which revives phys) ca] functions at tne expense of éco- nomic usefulness has betrayed its trust. . The conception of a_hoapital's function as mere physical restora- }Ion is narrow, sectarian and ohso- lete. % “Some of ‘our hospitals.” the djrec- tor continued, “can be converted into combination sanitarfums and n- ing centers, where the men who have progressed - physically-. to the work- ing and planning stage will be.given ‘much to do in ‘their chosen véca- work as competent -officials find they are able to without danger of a relapse. This will result in a better and more contented mental state at once, -and. the | women and the crying of frightened { destroved in a fire here yesterday. TRAIN DYNAMITED; | RAL SHOPS BURNED Many Excursionists Are in- jured by Explosion in New lersey. BOMB THEORY PROBED Fifteen Locomotives Destroyed by Fire of Supposed Incendiary Origin in Maine. By the Assoclated Press. NORTH BERGEN. N. J. August 14—All of the passengers rushed | to the North Hudson Hospital lasti night, when three explosions jarred a local train on the West Shore Rall- road as it approached the vards a mile west of the Weehawken termi- nal, were able to go to their homeg today. Most of them had been cut by flylng glass hurled through the cars when the explosions broke win- dowpanes. Police £ald the most damaging ex- plosion ooccurred beneath the third car of the train of five cars, packed With passengers returning from Sun- day outings’ A tie was blown from the roadbed up through the floor of the car. Investigators, who at first belleved bomhs had been thrown at the train. sald today they were uncertain about this, adding that they were seeking to determine ! whether the blasts came from dyna- | mite plantec along the roadbed. Cause Being Probed. Experts from the bureau of com- bustibles agreed with other investi- gators put on the job by the Amerl- can Railway Association that the explosive which they thought was dynamite had been placed under the tracks and was detonated when the train crossed the mined area. Twenty . of track was wrenched f: roaibed by the blasts. S _The scene of the bombing is in an isolated corner of Hudson county. The high road which parallels the tracks is little used. As the train came to a grinding stop, the coaches echoed with the screams of the children. All of the windows were said to have been broken almost .s:lrmuhllaneousl)' with a deafening as] LARGE BRIDGE DYNAMITED. Rail Structure Over Sac River, in | Missouri, Damaged. ! SPRINGFIELD, Mo. August 14:—A dvnamite explosion late last night, damaged. the 400-foot St. Louis and n Francisco railroad bridge across the Sac river at Ashgrove, fifteen miles northwest of here. Reports received at the local offices of the railroad were that the north abutment of the structure had been destroyed, and that the track had been raiséd more than a foot for a considerable distance. Fast trains were routed by way of the Monett-Joplin branch after the' explosion, and officials said they did not know when traffic would be re- sumed. { No estimate of the loss caused by | the explosion could be made, officials said early today. Wrecking_ crew from here and from . Fort Scott, Kan. went to the scene. Deputy United States mar- shals and special railroad agents also went to Ashgrove to conduct an in- vestigation. 15 LOCOMOTIVES BURNED. Fire in Maine Shops Does| $1,000,000 Damage. PORTLAND, Me., August 14—Fif-| teen locomotives of the Maine Central, Boston and Maine and Portland Termi- | nal Company and a roundhouse were The damage is estimated at $1.000,000. The police said they suspected cendiarism. Just before the fire was dis covered by deputy sheriffs on guard two explosions were heard. SHOPS BURNED IN TEXAS. { i i { i Engines, Cars and Equipment Re- ported to Be Total Loss. WICHITA FALLS, Tex.. August 14.— Fire of undetermined origin completely destroyed the Wichita Falls and North- western railway shops at midnight last night. with an estimated loss in excess of $125,600. The 'buildings and all equipment, three locomotives, two passenger coaches and a number of box cars were total losses, while minor damage was sustained by other rolling stock in the yards. DEMPSEY AND BRENNAN POST $10,000 FOR MATCH By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. August 14. — Jack Kearns, manager of Jack Dempsey, and Leo Flynn, manager of Bill Brennan, today posted forfeits of $10,000 each for the appearance of their men for a boxing contest at Floyd Fitzsimmons’ arena in Michi- gan City, Ind, Labor day. Fitz- simmons posted $20,000 as a guaran- tee, and the fight, for several weeks in the scheduled class, thus was clinched. —_— ' COAL LOADING INCREASED. 13,258 Cars Today Record of Cen- tral Distribution. Increased loading. of coal cars was reported today, to the central coal" distribution committee. Loadings on Friday totaled 13,258 cars, an increase of 753 over the pre- vious Friday. Loadings for the first five days of last week numbered 69,000, which was 5,660 more than the loadings for the corresponding days of the previous week. Expedition of coal shipments to the great ‘lakes section, with the aim of increasing the flow of fuel to that region to 1,000,000 tons a week by September 1, was undertaken today by the committee. The lake section, officials said, requires 12,000,000 tons of coal before the close of navigation, about the middle of December. About 140,000 tons were moved to the lakes last week, and. officials hope to move 250,000 tons this week, 400,000 tons :1::: :xe::t.klnd to )n;/e the m‘nuon- -a-week program in operation b; the first of the month. 2 i Coal supply for the lakes region, officials asserted. is complicated by the production situation & Pennsyl- vania, and efforts will be made to in- duce the Pensylvania state fuel com- mission to permit shipment of coal from their state to the lakes to be replaced by tidewater coal. This would ‘save -time in .the transporta- tion of fuel to the northwest. Designation of the St. Lou am ber of Commerce as the fuel com ittee for that city was reported to the central committee today by Gov. Hyde of Missouri. The St. Louis com~ mittee requested an immediat ernment:'coal’ suppli ta ‘the col ttes. as bell 4 shape, especially. with rnp?ct to- atocks. g part: hip- | street southwest. ment of from 150 to 250 carloads of | Work and his assistants are coal ' for essential consumers. Gov- |to attend. ' The were reporte4 | qus actiyities of n good | othe Navy {be shown ~ - The reply of the railroad execu- tives to President ‘Hatding’s' pro- posals for settlement of the rail- road strike was announced in a statement yesterday authorized by Thomas De Witt Cuyler, chairman of -the - Assoclation of Railway Ex- ecutives. “At the meeting of the railroads in New York on Friday, August 11, 1922, they with practical unanimity responded favorably to the Presi- dent's call that the séniority ques- tion be left to the United States Rall- road Labor Board. “Approximately three-quarters of the mileage responded favorably to his call that all striking shop crafts- men be re-employed, and the balance that all such strikers be re-employed as far as practicable. “The resolutions acted on by the meeting have been submitted to the President. Resolutions Adopted. :.\!;:r:ted f:llowlndg r:'e!;)lutionl were e y roads having a 1 of 155624 miles: i “‘The telegram of the President. dated August 7, 1922, haviwg been considered, and in response to his call to the carriers and the striking workmen, the following resolutions were adopted: “ ‘Resolved. That the proposal of the President to the striking work- men to return to work, and to the carriers to assign them to work, leaving ‘the disputed question of scniority to the Labor Board under the provisions of the transportation act for decision, be accepted, under- ctanding as we do that such ac- ceptance involves no surrender of the principles with respect to senior- ity adopted by the carriers on Au- gust 1, 1922, but recognizes that the proppsal the .President invokes the jurisdiction of the Labor Board under the transportation act to pass upon the relative seniority of those loyal employes who have remained at work and those new employes who have since accepted service (the rights of both of which classes to senfority we feel bound in justice to defend before the Labor Board) with the strikers who may re-enter the WEST PARALYZED BY TRAIN TIE-UP (Continued from First Page.) \ ] . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922. ext of Rail Managers’ Reply . To President’s Peace Plan| service under the proposal of the! President. “eTherefors, be It further re- solved: . “*(a) All former employes who have not been gullty of proven vio. lence against the employes or prof erty of the rallroad shall be assign- ed to their former positions where vacanoles exist. 1 ““(b) Where the positions they for- | merly held have been filled, other employment of the same class will be found for such employes as have committed no acts of proven violence against the employes or the property of the railgoad. “i(c) If, after these men have been assigned, questions of seniority arise with them which cannot be settled locally, they will be referred to the United States Rallroad Labor Board for review. Conditions for Ending Strike. “ ‘Further Resolved, That the strike is to be called off, with the under- standing and agreement by all parties ; that no intimidation nor oppression | shall be practiced or permitted as| against any of the employes who have | remained or have taken service, or | 2gainst those who may return to service under the proposal of the President.’ “The foliowing minority report was supported by roads having a mileage of 57.222 miles: “‘Resolved, That the chairman be authorized to reply to the President's telegram of August 7 that the rail-| roads represented at this meeting are willing that: “*(a) All former employes who have not been gullty of violence against the employes or the property of the railroads. shall be assigned to their former positions where vacancies | oxist. “‘(b) If after these men have been assigned, questions of their seniority arise which cannot be settled locally they shall be referred to the United | States Railroad Labor Board for re- view. “(c) In agreeing to submit ques- tions of seniority as provided above to the United States Railroad Labor Board for review it is understood that neither the railroads nor the employes shall be deprived of the right of review by the courts of such decisions If they affect agreements in existence between any railroad and its employes.’ " PASSENGERS FIGHT DEATH IN DESERT City, was blocked completely by walk- outs at Oroville, Oakland and Stock- ton, Calif., and announced that traffic was “suspended indefinitely.” On the Santa Fe nineteen west- bound trains were marooned and one was feeling its way eastward from Needles, where it had been held three days, with officials doubtful as to how far it would get. Approxbmately 1,700 passengers were aboard these trains, six of which were at Albuguerque and the others at Seligman, Willlams and Ash Fork A tgJegram from President Harding to Gov. Campbell of Arizona offering aid for those aboard these trains re- mained unanswered because the gov- ernor was traveling and had not re- ceived it. The passengers marooned at Albuquerque telegraphed Presi- dent Harding urging that he take command of the situation. The Santa Fe planned to move two trains west from Seligman today. Probe Under Way. At Los Angeles preliminary steps were taken yesterday to make an in- vestigation into the origin of the walkouts on the Santa Fe to de- termine whether they were the result of a conspiracy. Attorney General Daugherty, instructed that evidence discovered be taken before a grand jury, if suffi- clent to warrant that step, and the {Los Angeles officials in charge of the investigation declared the “public must and shall be protected at all costs.” Gov. Boyle of Nevada was at Las Vegas today inquiring. according to a statement given the Associated Press, ' into apparent ‘discrepancies between statements made to him by railroad officials and by the civil officers at that place regarding the situation. About 150 guards and railroad employes virtually were prisoners at Las Vegas, the men on strike refusing to allow food to be taken to the inclosure where they were quartered. Fruit-Growers Hard Hit The Southern Pacific’s double em- bargo was a hard blow to the fruit- growing interests, already hard hit 1 by the tie-ups om the other lines. It meant that it would be impossible, because of the switchyard employes' strike .at Roseville, to give cars loaded with fruit even the necessary first icing before they were started on the roundabout journey east from northern California by way of Los Angeles and El Paso. The mdin icing plant for the whole northern Cali- fornia section is in the Roseville yards, and without switchmen work- ing there cars cannot be taken to it. Fruit men in the San Joaquin val- ley of California declared they were unable to estimate accurately the damage arising from their inability to make. shipments. Some declared it would reach a million dollars a day. Others placed the figure high- er. One fruit shipper declared his own loss was half a million dollars a day. Many cities of the San Joaquin val- ley, which are served by the Santa Fe, are without mail deliveri Mails Still Stalled. ‘Eastern , mail communication to southern California, cut off Thurs- day' afternoon with the walkout of the big four workers at Needles, has not been re-established. According to a statement ifsued by J. A. Harder, attorney for the strik- ers at"Roseville, the walkout was or- dered as a protest against “the con- dition of rolling stock and locomo- tive equipment, and against working surrounded by armed guards, whose promiscuous -shooting is endangering their lives.” 2 “They will not return to work until conditions complained of “are reme- died,” Harder added. General Strike Predicted. The -enginemen placed their engines in the roundhouse and walked out one by one. Local trainmen declared the walkout here would be signal for a general strike all over the division, extending from Sacramento ‘to Reno, Nev. 5 A check of the yards here showed approximately 300 cars of green fruit and several freight trains. B I. L. Hibbard, general manager of in a statement issued at described the situation Nave, now nineteen, westbound “We_have, now trains, with approximately 1,700 pas- Of these passengers, ligman, Ariz.; 188 236 at Ash Fork, 000 at Albyquerque sengers, held up. there are 297 at Sel at Williams, Ari Ariz., and about and Belen, N. M." N * POSTAL FILM EXHIBITED. A five-reel motion picture on postal activities will be shown to-officlals at 3:45 o'clock .tomorrow afternoon at he motion plcture laboratory of the ment -~ of Agrlwlture. 1358 B gstmaster General xpected film deplcts ¢! f carriers, clerks and handlers of mail. Later it will hroughout. the- country as a part of .Post.Office. Department publicity. oy & . - Let’ -e‘-: ‘what {s the past te;;u a ::]l:lh-mn king?—Akron Beacon-Jour: in ordering the inquiry.! (Continued from First Page.) I am sure their action saved Robert's life. The temperature in the Pullman cars registered 130 degrees during the day.” Mrs. Mary C. Howell of Columbus, Ohio, said the Santa Fe officials did everything in their power to aid the Stranded passengers. Picture ~a_broad. sandy, almost white plain. broken by little hills and | gullies or arroyos. Put sage brush| @and Jonathan trees on it. Run the: Colorado river sluggishly along one side, through a channel at present 2bout five sizes too large for water it Is carrying. String a few {2 very few—soung trees and green lawn here and there. Scatter a small | | western town over an area perhaps | |2 mile square when it might he com- | | Dressed into four of five blocks. Place |over it a brassy sky, an intense pen- jctrating heat and a hot breeze that dries the marrow, and a fair idea of | Needles will result. Probe Is Begun. PHOENIX, Ariz, August 14—An { official investigation of alleged suf- ! fering among passengers on an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train, marooned at Seligman. Ariz, as a result of the big four brotherhood strike, was under way today on or- ders of Gov. Thomas E. Campbell His directions for the inquiry fol- lowed receipt of a telegram from; President Harding. pledging assist- ance of the federal government in carrying relief to the marooned pas- | sengers. { | "'Col. Walter S. Ingalls, adjutant gen- | eral, was ordered by the governor to proceed immediately to Seligman and to make his report at “the earliest possible moment.” The investiga- tion was ordered, Gov. Campbell said. that he might learn the true facts {of the situation and take steps; necessary to relieve the situation. | “Until receipt of the President's message 1 had no intimation of suf- fering among the marooned passen- gers at any point in this siate” the governor said. ~-PRESIDENT WILL NOT RECEDE FROM FIRM RAIL STRIKE STAND (Continued from First Page.) | calculable damage to American busi- ness. Ub to this time he has dealt patiently with those who conferred with him. He is said to have developed a | fighting mood today. The shopmen are running a big risk in prolonging the strike. The President feels that the railway executives have accepted his| proposals. He counts on the shopmen to do the same because the points in dispute are left to the Railway Labor Board to decide after the men go back to work. Tt will take more persuation to make the shopmen agree to accept the President's proposal. At the mo- ment_their hesitation may be due to a feeling that the railway executives made a minority as well as majority report and that in the minority are, such roads as the Pennsylcania, which employs large numbers of men. The leaders of the shopmen want @ uniform acceptance.. Admin- istration officials say it is their un- derstanding that the majority report of the, railway executives binds the minorfty, for although the Associa- tion of Railway Executives is purely a voluntary_ organization, spokesmen for that association -have told this correspondent that it has never hap- pened that. the will of the majority was not followed by the minority. “If the shopmen are convinced on this_point, one of the obstacles to & settlement will be removed. .Natu- rally they are . insisting that the Preeident-revert to his original pro- posal, wherein he insisted that -all men be-returned to -their former positions “with seniority rights un- impaired. Mr. Harding made that proposal unofficially as a mediator. It was turned down unanimously by the executives. His next proposal 18 an official call to. the parties to the dispute to let the Railroad Labor Board decide the issue. The railroad ecutives have agreed to that point and have voluntarily agreed to take back all the men now on strike .ex- cept the few proven guilty of vio- lence. In taking them back the strik- ers- get: seniority over. the .so-called strikebreakers, but they would not rank gbove the old workers who re- mained on the job and who now have added to their record of employment the several weeks of the strike’s dura- tion. ' If the strikers on coming back insist that they should get senfority over these loyal workers, then Harding insists that they will get.a fair and unprejudiced hearing by the ni States Railroad Labor Board; whose decision would fovum Basically -the senlority question iz not. A{gmd. to prove . troublesomo ‘when the strike s over and th& men are hack to work. The strikebresak- ers are-expected to disappear anyway, and as for the men.who stayed on the-job; the number is not so large as to present an insuperable problem, for eniority means preference in certain }1s that ‘when the rt start opera- lr.lnnu in full again they will have need for more men -than they lwere d!mployin‘ ‘before’ tha strike. o6~ currcd. - i s 55 L. fcomnaht 1928 3 ~ ’ Very few folks kin ‘stand prosperity—'specially if its their neighbor’s. Th’ cooler a fat girl dresses th’ warmer she looks. A (Copyright tional Newspaper Service.) FILE FONTAINE SUIT AGAINST WHITNEY Attorneys for Dancer Lodge Action for Million Dol- lars’ Damages. BREACH OF PROMISE CASE Son of Harry Payne Whitney Call- ed Upon to Answer Plain- tifi’s Charges. By the Associated Press. BALLSTON SPA, N. Y., August 14— The complaint in an action for $1.000,000 for breach of promise against Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit- ney, son of Harry Payne Whitney, was filed here today by attorneys for Evan Burrows Fontaine, a dancer. The complaint briefly charges that Whitney began a courtship with 3Miss Fontaine on May 19, 1919, which con- tinued until October 2§, 1920, when. the plaintiff asserts, he promised to marry her three days later, but failed to keep the promise. No details of the alleged courtship were given. Seek to Compel Acceptance. The papers were filed following an application made Saturday to Judge Borst of Saratoga SPrings on an or- der to show cause why attornevs for | Whitney should not be compelied to accept service of the complaint. At that time decision was deferred until September 9 for the purpose of giv- ing attorneys for the defendant op- portunity to obtain affidavits from Texas., where Miss Fontaine formerly restded Affidavits relating to earlier efforts to settle the action were filed from former Senator Edgar T. Brackett, formerly connected with the case, and Charles Firestone of New York, attorney for the plaintiff. The latter asserted 'that arrange- ments for a settlement proceeded to a point where Miss Fontaine was asked to ‘sign an affidavit “which she could mot truthfully make. Senator Brackett in his afidavit said negotiations were under way for a long time, with the understanding by the attorneys that the defendant would accept service of the com- plaint if the proceedings failed. ROOF-RAISING SOON DONE. Work at Treasury Department to Afford Additional Rooms. Reconstruction work on the Treas- ury Department roof, which is adding thousands of square feet of, floor space in a number of additional rooms. will probably be finished the last of September, it was said today at the Treasury. It was expected at first that the coptract could be finished by the ist of July. Practically all of the root-raising to provide _additional space where formerly there were only storerooms with slanting roofs has been completed. and most of the remaining work remains to be done on the interior. e e Bituminous coal is mined in twenty- eight states; anthracite on but one— Pennsylvania. 1 1 ovens dries out the water, makes beans rich and mealy,andgives you the most real food value and real flavor: for your money. . BEANS | e —— l DEBATE ON TARIFFi Busy Six Days Entailed by Decision to Take Final Vote Saturday. NIGHT . SESSIONS IN VIEW it's toasted. This oneextra process Question of American Valuation in| - nlvelsl ‘a d&llghtlul b i 5 { quality that can ~ Lieu of Ad Valorem Duties | not be duplic: 4 Issue for Conferees. Safest and Best Way Let us, do your papering and :painling—!\‘o dirt or inconvenience | —No disappointments. | CORNELL WALL PAPER (0. — The Senate entered today upon its last week of wrestling with the ad- ministration tari¥f bill, an agreement having been made for a final vote next Saturday. With hundreds of amendments still undisposed of, sena- tors looked forward to a busy six days, with several night sessions in prospect. Job for Conterees. After Senate action the bill will be sent to conference, where representa- tives of the House and Senate will undertake to reach an agreement on the more than 2,000 Senate amend- | ments. The question of American valuation is the biggest issue before | the conferees, but Senate leaders be- lieve the House will accept the Sen- ate plan of assessing ad valorem | duties on the foreign valuation. with | authority for the President to in-! crease or decrease rates to meet changing conditions i Republican Senate leaders have not | vet decided who will be the third! majority manager to sit with Chair-/| man McCumber and Senator Smoot | of Utah, ranking republican on the finance committee. Heretofore, it has == been the practice to appoint the third | ranking republican on the committee, but as this place is held by Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, who is op- posed to the bill, it is understood that there will be a departure from the long established custom. Doubt Final Passage. There still is speculation at the Capitol as to whether the bill will be reported out of conference. Senate managers hope to have it ready for final action within a month or six weeks, but some senators, republi- cans as well as democrats, express doubt privately that the bill ever will reach the statute books. 1714 13th N.W. M. 5373-5374 Coal for 560 Homes Immediate action Monday or Tuesday necessary One ton FREE to the first five hundred consumers who join -our pool to buy 5.000 tons or more. Prompt deliveries. A ready burning, first qual- ity, run-of-mine anthracite guaranteed. Clark vein, very small percentage of ashes and equal or superior to White Ash, Red Ash or Lykens Valley Coal A deposit required Monday or Tuesdny National Coal Company Phone M. 7859 1100 K St. N.W. 2 a Distinctive Styles m Monogram and Summer Stationery BrEWED Engrovers for every Occasion TWELFTH STREET T e T betwoen Fard G TO RADIO REUNION NEWS. Gen. Brett Will Outline Plan for . Reunion From Pittsburgh Station. A message to veterans of the 80th Division during the world war by! Gen. 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