Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1923, Page 2

LR STATE TRODPS ALT © AS TULSA POLIGE -Martial Law Proclaimed After Police Are Charged With Lawlessness. By the Associated Press, TULSA, Okla., August 14.—Martial law descended upon Tulsa at 6 am. by decree of Gov. J. C. Walton, as the result of recent cases of mob violence. Three companies of infantry, equipped with automatic rifies, will enforce the military rule under command of Adjt. Gen. B. 1. Markham. Only the police department and sheriff's force will be superceded, however, it is understood, courts and other civil agencies not being dis- s turbed Issuance the : martial law came yesterday fter representations made in Oklahoma City to Aldrich Blake, executive coun- . selor, by Nathan Hantaman, who was abducted here Friday night by a band of unmasked men, taken into the country and severely whipped. Hant- aman sald narcotic and llquor sales were mentioned to him before he w whipped, but thut he asserted inno- cence. Charges ges that th of proclamation of Against Police. Tulsa police werc nvolved in the abduction have been made by Hantaman Mrs. Mabel West, proprietress rooming house where Hantaman lived. Hantaman was seized on the street hin a block of the poliee station, after he had been held several hours on a vagrancy charge. He alleges ht was held by the police that his abductors could identify him. Denfal that the police were in any way involved in the affair has been made by ecity officlals, including Mayor Newblock and Police Chief Rees Moran. Whippings have been numerous in Tulsa for months. Hantaman declared that before ap- plying the lash his captors questioned him about sale of narcotics and whisky. He said he told he knew nothing about it. PARIS PRESS SEES DEFINITE BREAK and of a them French Believe They Now | Oppose Germany Support- ed by Britain. BY By Cavl PALL SCOTT to The Star aud ¢ Copyright, 1t MOWRER. PARIS of French all of opinfon confirms the first impres- sion that the British note on a repara- tions settlement is regarded here as :1 definite rupture of the enteute, with result that French henceforth will nd opposed, not to isolated nany, but to Germany .openly and strongly supported by Great Britain. he British note,” says Le Matin, s the equivalent of a rupture with ce. Echo abaudoned, even Britain let us puliey, for Gre fme” can not against it Urges Intensified Action. Journal says: “The only conelus may draw German crisis and the British is that France and Belgium intensify their action in the shades e Ger- “Lven Great de Paris says opposed by remain true to our t Britain for a long do anything effective log- tea from the note should Ruhr.” The Liberte our backs on this sordid egotism of people who were our allies and whose capital and commerce were covered by the heroism of our sol- diers. Let us watch what is happen- ing in_Berlin. Let us be unmoved Britain's hateful diatribe or new possibilities appearing in us turn he British thesis,” says the Petit Parisien, “is that Anglo-American capitalists have priority rights over the French and Belglan peasants whose homes and fields were ruined.” Callx Policy Montrous. The Liberal Oecuvre declares tue British policy monstrous. The Pixcelsior thinks the reason Great Britain pleads Geimany’'s cause so warmly against France is that Great Britain desires, clared clearly before mons last August +hould be counter #9 possible by & that the house of com- that French power alanced as quickly strong Germany.” The Intransigeant “On” the whole, these documents are a man- “ner of repudiating the entente cor- diale, which clearly indicates what attitude France must now take.” Scored by Communist. The Communist Humanite g diplomatic language cannot be harsher or more impertinent than the British note.” Le Temps says: “The most singular foature is that at the same moment swhen Great Britain denies the truth brutalizes Belglum, tries to bully «France, Injures Italy, excites Ger any and arouses America’s suspi cions, Great Britain finally consents fo state its pecunfary claims and for #the whole of its eredits demands merely the sum due the United States, “namely 14,200,000,000 gold marks." .. The newspaper of the French Metal- “lurgists declares: “The British note .3 a preparation for separate action which seems henceforth to be decided .upon. We must therefora consider not only the reparations payments, but eithe’ re-establishment of European y equilibrium.” 23 KILLED IN MOTOR say + PLUNGE iNTO RAVINE! Ry the Associated Pross. 4 LOURDES, France, August 14— Jwenty-three persous were killed and siven wers probably fatally injured “yesterday when a motor coach filled ith excursionists plunged down a 50-foot ravine in the Pyrennes .mountains near Saint Sauveur. The motor driver, in attempting to <avold striking a woman who stepped from the bushes, swerved his machine sharply and the coach overturned, crashing to the bottom of the ra- “vine, The woman who was the indirect “cause of the accident ran screaming to the nearest village, gave the alarm, and fainted. A rescue party extricated the bodies, All were terribly muti- lated and it was impossible to iden- tify any of them. POLICE SEIZE ALCOHOL. Fifteen gallons of alcohol and an automobile were selzed when Police- men Billman and Arrington of the 1hird precinot yesterday arrested John H. Parsons, twenty-eight old, “and Edward 'T. Parsons, twent: vears old, both of Camp Duke, V “wn alley between 25th ‘and 26th streets, Pennsylvania avenue and M ,street northwest, on charg: Jporting ..and 11 “Jitpuor. Bh 13 Lioyd George de- | Shot by Husband Who Also Kills Himself i | nns, Daughter of stable of Prince G GRUESOME EXHIBITS SHOWN AT KEPNER TRIAL First | " (Continued fron shaking nerves completely As Dr. MeCurdy got into his testimony he lifted parts of the skull off to show the court how thé zutopsy over -Mrs. Kepner, which he had characterized as “bungied.” had ded v this time the women and flappers general the clerk was for order several times and once the court itself wai until a score or more persons who had risen ximul- neously and departed. Dr. M- Curdy declared under direct examin- ation that the head of Mrs. Kepner had been terribly mutilated LY the autopsists and he created a sensation when he added that instead of g ing the brain back in the head af their_examination they had kept and filled the skull with newsy they found lying around the floor already shattered. exodus of m had become 80 sliged o rap it vers roof Destroyed. lieve 2 sputable Curdy asserted, “that which killed Mrs. Ke her head from the lef itopsy 1 pr “1a with not h can Dr bullet entered ad th 1y man in accuracy,” the r side: } erly en perfe an could have deter but job even a lay that point, that the solutely was s proo nd the « indisput destroyed sawed directly through. ihe hole on the right When a dispute Mr General Linds: helping the prosecution ad- missability of certain testimony. the former served notice fur the Arst that he may (N court to_azain have the Lody ef Mfs. Kepner cx- humed, -submitted to another exam- ination and prove*beyond the of & doubt: whether his medical perts_or those produced by the s are right. The defense began to spring iiseu prise witness: this morning with th calling of Dr. Joseph D. Rog Washingtan, D. €. former coroner of that ¢ At the however, Dr. Rogers' testimony hurt by the court refusing to let h discuss the previous testimony of Dr Maldics, Who performed over Mrs ner,and on th That they b agrecd ¥ discussio statements could I combat the side occurred’ by ant Att neer, w over the at Other Gruesome Like Dr. MeCurdy, brought with him suspici packages, the very sight turned the stomachs of spec er seeing the gruesome the previous half hour. ran around the room as h scalpel and showed how vould he used to remove part of the skull. produced saws. chains, forceps and scissors that are all part of a sur geon's tools. He described minut their uses, “It is my_ opi hadow of a doubt said Dr that the wound deseribed ight side of Mrs. Kepner's } caused by the bullet from matic entering from that point impress the court with this theo bits of bone were offered, » show how a pistol ball would shatter the skull of a human being at its point of ingress and at its point of egress Cross-examination hepner was completed at 9:55 o'clock this morn- ing, immediately before the defense began to call in its medical experis. As In yesterday's testimony, the pris- oner time and again corrected statements he had made before the coroner's jury. He could not remem ber having =aid on that occasion that he gave no instructions regarding the burning of his wife's clothes, nor tha he had said she had nagged him. Ktate’'s Attorney Ande howev read such statements to him from the official record takén at the inquest. tors aft- exhibits of A shudder held up a it on, bevond e ogers th an au Kepner Income $15,000. Asked as to his income, Mr. Kep: said it amounted to from £12,000 to $15,000 a year. Closely interrogated, however, he could not remember what amount he pald” income tax and later admitted it was possibly for about $4,000 or $5.000. When asked by Judge Edward C. Peter, one of the trial judges, whether he had paid by check Kepner could not remember, but sald he “guessed he did.”’ Just before Kepner left the stand Judge Peters again interrogated him, this time regarding his dead wife's {fowelry. ~When,” the furist deman jewelry?” Three or four times Kep ner gave what appeared to be evasi answers, but the judge persisted in a direct answer, and Kepner then said he thought it was the next morning. i Judge Peter also demanded to know why he had rented a room in Fred- erick for Lulu Ricketts, the clandes- tine affinity “Miss Ricketts called me up from Hagerstown,” was the response. “and told me she had had some trouble at ick. She asked me to find a room for her and I did so. name when I rented it, yes, sir.” Went to Town 1o Res Under further examination Kepner told the court that the reason he went to his town house the morning of the day his wife was murdered ‘was to take & nap after a painful ex- perience with his dentist in Balti- more. He sald he slept for about fifteen minutes between 12 and 1 o'clock, but admitted that it was not his habit to do that. Throughout his. ‘testimony he was considerably { more .composed than yesterday. al though he was extremely nervous and hesitated over many answers. The state also drew out that on June 24, less than a weck after Mrs. Kepner was shot to death, kad gone to Dr. McCurdy's and ob- tained a prescription for a nerve tonic and a “mild sedative.” - Both of the defense's medical wit- nessos, however, were obliged to rely upon the testimony of Dr. McCurdy as the basls for their assumptiens and Under cross-examiriation - Coréner shadow | :CABOTS OBJECT TO USE | “Kabotchnick™ to Spelling of His- the | ed, “did you search for your wife "I the place where she lived in Freder- | I gave my own/| Kepner ! /" THE EVENIN@’ The District Commissioners will take no definite steps to supervise the coal situation in Washington 13 winter until the national government | has concluded Its present efforts td avert a strike, it was learned at the District bullding today. Engineer Commissioner Bell said; however, that in the meantime 1} city heads would keep in closest pos- siblo touch with every development %0 that they will be prepared to act | intelligently and promptly should and | other Eency arise this yemr, Otiicials of the local governmen: ara Lopeful that the steps being taken by the federal government to bring De « and miners together | HUSBAND KILLS WIFE, | THEN TAKES OWN LIFE from First Page) - | ev fuel eme the atc could not tell whether her heart was beating or not 5 Rushed to Hospital. Mayor J presiding Prince Frank r Georges Rushe, who - was meeting of the County League, was the dying Hospital. Cartme ov a the hpspital Cirtmel lay | wite the First Hyattsville, viewed | Jury was William 1. Anglin, | of the. Peace Herbert Moffat, acting coroner. . - After viewing the remains of Cart- mel it was decided to hold an inquest th ng at 7 in the fire headquarters. the deal woman's artmel was attending the picture show “The Unconquerable Man,” with her *sister-in-law, Mrs. ard A nd the latter's children, Elva 1. Some during the pe nee Cartmel came in and’ sat his wife. It was| then that the -gun in his pocket and alarmed W hile 1al Bank of mdreds. A summoned Wit foreman, Justice 3 coroner's she felt became Arrested for Non-Sapport. Constable William T. Hyattsville is authority fo ment that, about three n Le took Cartmel ‘into _custod warrant sworn to by Cartmel’ charging und non- Conners t he brought C. mel befc of the Peace Brook: here for a heaging and that Hunter ordéred him | to pay $30 Ath alimony, placing | him under £1.500 bond ding to Conners, the ha en_ma about two Years agoe in Wael 1 and had been separated about thred months Cartmel was in th a ernmer monotype ope printing office and zler in Company F. 1st Mary- Infantry, stationed in Hyatts and formerly. it is stated, held a ilar rank the Regular Army Was an expert pistol shot, having Ained @ score of 86.7 over the plstol Wl in at Saunder's| en Bernie, Aune Arundel | d. last week. He returned | 1p Saturday morning with his | P coroner's jur ¢ m H. Anglin, foreman, and H ith, L. K. Livingston, W. Galt vworth inel E. - Tait, 0. W. Bowen, M, 1. Mer- A Ring, B°J. King th, These wit- summoned: John Dowden, George A, Garrisom,. Wil Fred Kolback, Charles H. T. Willis H e rents recently removed | {to Rounoke, v composed of iargas | Wiseman liam M. No. OF NAME BY FOREIGNERS! Couple Asks Court to Change toric U. S. Family. PHILADELPHIA. August 14 H. and Myrtle ¥ hotchnick pted petit the court eommon to thelr na changed Cabot,” objections were . for the Penn: ¢ty of the Order of Found- | ers and Patriots of America, and for everal members of the Cabgt famil Assumption of the name, it was argu- | ed, would “miglead persons as to the origin and ancesiry” of the petition- ers Objections were terest of Dr. Hu the medical school of Michigan; Philin St S 1, Jud »f Boston, i P, of huset name Cabot. it was explained. | had been associated with English] and American history from the time | of the discovery of the American con- tinent. tod Press When | pleus to made in the Cabot. dean of | f the University | . head of the | rt, 1 and George | Cabot, membe < Dbar. in- ‘the The allow petiticners of foreign | th to assume and to use well | known and, in many instances, his- torical proper names would mislead persons us to the origin and ancestry of those assuming the name,” satd Francis Chapman. attorney for the objectors. It would also constitute an unjust interference with the right of the persons now using the his- torical name.” The court held the petition under advisement 1 LOUISIANA REPUBLICANS PLAN FULL STATE TICKET Organization in Every Parish to Be Formed, Says National Committeeman. soclated Press. ORLEANS, Aug of Louisiana will have a complete stite tickat in the field at the next election, and will have can- didates from every parish for the | legislature, if plans now under way Emile Kuntz, national commitiee- 2 and leader of the republican or- | ganization in the state, are carried through, he announced toda Mr. Kuntz said an advisory commit- tee, with representatives from every parish, is being formed under direc tion of the state central committee, and as soon as the committee is or- | {ganized it will work with the state | executive committee in the selection lof state candidates. It the republicans place a full state i i | i | this time STAR,. -WASHINGTON, No D. C. Ceal Qonirol Pending U. S. Attempt to Avert Strike n for a settlement of th ferences will be fruftful. Should regulation of coal deliverics become necessary the Public Utilities Commission. in all’ probability, will be selected. to handle jt. Although the.commission has volum- inous records from Jast winter of the requirements of each. consumer, it was pointed out today that the com- mission -would have to gather new data for this vear. . Ofcials of the ¢ommission believe that there is much more coal already delivered to Washington homes for the coming winter than there was at last yéar. This fact, however, would not lessen the need for supervision over deli arles, because It would be necessary! to see that those who have not yet obtained coal received a fair propor- tion of the total tonnage shipped into | the city | FOES OF “TARAFA" 10 GAIN HEARING Cuban Senate to Delay Ac- tion on Bill Pending Pre- sentation of Opposition. i ! { i B3 the Asebeint@d Press HAVANA, August 14.—Secretary of | State Manuel de Cespedes, when shown the Associated Press story from Wash- ington, confirmed receipt of the request from the American capital for a hear- ing of all interests before action by the uban senate on the Tarafa bill. Sec- retary Cespedes assured the Associated Press that ample time to be heard will be given all interests before a vote is taken in the Senate. When President Zayas arrived at the palace from a week end on his farm, it was stated on good autbority that the executive immedlately commenced preparation of a communieation to the senate, asking delay in consideration of the Tarafa bill, giving as his reasons desire to study the claims presented by different corporations of the isiand. | No statement Ix. thus far obtainable rom any official source. Sce Plot Againat Zaya The Havana Telegram says: “Local POliticAl observers see signs that the action of congress in passing the lot- | tery law and the Tarafa bill is not dictated so much by admiration for measures as from a_desire to £et President Zayas ‘in bad’ with his untrymen “In the lottery case emphasis on Cuban sovereignty, as be reason the president's veto rridden. The same keynote warked the speeches in t representatives prior to of the Tarafa Pres hat is in the ring for is thought to be g part of peopl Yepresent him was ng was has Touse of the parsage nt Zayas re-election. 1t »0d politics on the opposed to him to cfore the country as being unde foreign contro! It is probable that President Zavas will veto the Tarafa bill after it has passed the senate, and that case it is prae- tically certain the measure will be passed over his veto. “Then the cry will go-to the coun- try to rally around congress that defies forejgn domination.” Legislator Attacks B . Spanish morning papers are silent on the Tarafa legislation, with the exception of a signed article in Kl M do, written by br. German Wal- ter zde] - Rio, member. of tha Cuban com@ress, und managing editor of Heraldo de Cuba; in which the repre. sentative says that if the Tarafa mearure had not been ratiroaded throu before its contents were wde public the bill would not have assed the h Dr. del Rio voted re and unhesitating Tarafa plan creates gerous lition sin of the Cuban republic. Th greatest recrecy was maintained during the consideration bf the bill, the representatives say, and very few knew of the conditions imposed until_the measure was approved. Dr. del Rio argued and voted against the urgency clause which ws attached to the bill, which. he says, wis re- sponsible for railroading the aect through the lower house. Dr. del Rio points out that the bill is specific in its plan of ‘railrpading consolida- | tion. gainst the meas- 1y says that the the “most dan- the foundation Oppondtl by Veterans. Assoclatfon of Cuban ans voted unanimously against the Tarafa bill, In a ‘speech of some length Gen.' Carlos Gafcla Velez con- denined the congress” for framing laws prejudical to the republic. Gen. Valez is Cuban minister to London, and expressed Lis willingnesd to re- sign his post i necesmary to . assist in carrying outthe views of the vet- erans. 5 A _commission ias appointed, he ed by Velez, r hefore con- gress with a that several | recently passed laws, . among them being the Tarafa bill; be annulled on the ground that they ure prejudicial to Cuba's future, Owing to the death in Washington of Senator Porto of Pinar del Rio, the Cuban senate did not meet vesterday. It was due to take up the Tarafa biil, which has been passed by the house. CONFERS WITH HUGHES. Veter- d- Crowder, Called Home From Cuba, Discusses Issues, * Conditions in Cuba were discussed y Secretad Hughes yesterday with Ambassador Crowder, who was called hbme from Havana for that purpose. The ambassador spent half an hour in Mr. Hughes' office, and no an- nouncement was forthcoming after- ward beyond the statement that the American government had requested the Cuban government to delay final action on the railway consolidation bil]*pending fh theé Cuban congress until the views of American interests involved could be presented. Assurance given in Havana yester- day by the Cuban forelgn minister that the bill would not be voted upon in the senate until such a hearing had been’given appeared to pave the way for a full discussion of the meass: ure's effect on American-owned prop- erties In Cuba. of While no detailed_information has been made available here as to the na- ture of protests received from Ameri- can citizens, the question of continued operation of the private ratlroads of American sugar interests is understood to be the.chief matter under dis sussion. It was said at the State Department iticket in the field it will be the first opposition to the democratic nom- inees from this source in many years. JOCKEY KILLED IN RACE. ! | |Two Others Hurt in Fall at Co- lumbus, Ohio, Race Track. COLUMBUS, Ohio. { Jockey ~Albert Arvin {Ky.. riding Mont Perri, owned by his father, J. G. Arvin, died a_few minutes after the horse had fallen in the fifth !tace at Beulah Park vesterday. -keys John Byrne of New York and Charles Eames were injured when their mounts, Edith K. and Don Jose, went down. Byrne.was taken to a hospital. Eames was hruised severely. August — Nevitt admitted” that his statements were purely such, There was a growing belief gthat the defense would _eventually “dphand that its medical ‘experts be givem an opportunity to study the Mrs. Kepner's headZ that the railway bill was- receiving “very careful consideratfon.” Presumably the contentions of Amer- ican sugar planters or others, who claim that the biil is confiscatory in its application to their property, will be fully examined before the State De- {mrlment takes further action. Should t be found that the proposed law viti- ates titles legally acquired, there is mmple ground to belleve that the Wash- ington government will itself take the of American interests are presented to the Cuban government. S e MISUSED RAZOR; JAILED. So far as Laura Thomas, colored. is concerned “safety razor” is a mis- nomer. She was slashed three times on the left. arm last night in a south- west alley. by Annie Williams, col- red, with ‘whom, she had a dispute. the United States branch of Police Court today Annie was given sixty days in ail by Judge MoMabon, who not “see” the plea. that: Annie SRly. nad o veatory " rasort In hey hand-at the time-of the-firht between SEWO- WORIBML - wm - sne e D.. PRESIDENT USES WHITE HOUSE AS WORKSHOP FOR FIRST TIME President Coolidge photographed at the executive offices yesterday as he left for luncheon with Secretary Christian. U. S. READY TO FIGHT ANTHRACITE STRIKE WITH SUBSTITUTES (Continued from First Page) The Pr as believing under the act had ent many expenditures. represented arrangement unting he governm of dollars, and his desire ald to be that a policy tending further curtallment should be . =0 long as effic of the inery was not imperiled A =pokesman for Mr. Coolidx iterated that it was the new Pr dent's desire that every one who serv. ed under Mr. Harding remain with he new administration, President Coolidge's tion is to stand on the position down Ly Secretary Hughes in speec New Haven last December in the matter of German rep: tions. The government. it wae declared, is ready to help in any way it out involving itself indirectly While it was sald that no offer had been made to assist, it could be ex- pected that the government would be Feady to respond to any request for help that bore the marks of merit Considers Immigration Vital. President Coolidge, according ernmental sie dent that budget work millic was th Si- inistra- laid to a important before the United States. He was said to believe this adminis- tration must take some decisive steps if the immigration situation satisfactorily met. He has expressed himself as believing that aside from other requirements of gration bureau the alien should con- Vince the authorities that he intends to make this country his future home and will recognize American stand- ards. He discussed the question briefly with Secretary of Labor Davis today and. is looking forward to a full re- port the latter will make within the | next few days as a result of his ob- servations on his recent trip in Europe. The budget is looked upon by Pres. ident Coolidge as one of tha most wonderful governmental instruments cstablished in modern times, and he was sald to have told Gen. Lord to- day that he doubts if it will be neces- sary to change this governmental agency in any particular for some time to come. - LITTLE HOPE OF PEACE SEEN BY OBSERVERS BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Observers who have closely followed he hegotiations between the anthra- e miners and operators at Atlantic | City are doubtful of the outcome of the called conference of miners and operators with the National Coal Com- mission. Preeident Coolidge has approved this first step looking to a settlement of the hard coal controversy, but the break between the miners and the operators is so wide it seems impos- sible that the mere presence of the coal commissioners can bring about an adjustment Tt I8 believed here today that only a personal appeal from the Fresident Bimself can be effective. In the end it is expected that Mr. Coolidge will have to bring the operators and the miners’ representatives straight to the White Hpuse and tell them just what he and the country want of them Coolidge Wants Truce, Mr. Cooltdge, acting through the Coal Commission at this time, is ex- tremely anxious that some sort of truce shall be patched up &0 as to prevent a suspension of mining in the anthracite fields at midnight on August 31. If this truce can be ar- ranged, he feels certain that longer negotiations, longer consideration of the various issues involved in the present deadlock, would bring about a settlement for a period of at least two years. But here is where the President and’ his_commission will strike their first and perhaps their greatest snag. The miners are in no mood to agree to continue work after August 31, on the assumption that a new wage scale and working agreement can be en- tered into later. The position the miners take is ab. solute. They say the wage agree- ment expires on August 31. They say there has been plenty of time, plenty of opportunity to agree upon a new scale. If there Is no new scale, no new agreement, there is nothing by which the workers can be guided, and therefore they will not work. At the very outset of the negotia- tions at Atlantic City, begun on July 9 last, the mine owners asked the miners to agree to continue work after August 31 even if no new agree- ment‘had been reached by that time. The owners even went 8o far as to say that it would be understood that 14— | matter up and not act merely as the|any agreement subsequently reached, of Louisville, | agency through which.the arguments | should be retroactive to September 1 of this year. It was argued that under such an arrangement the miners could not possibly lose any of thelr righfs or any of their pay under the mew scale which might be worked out. Refused Proposal. John L. Lewls, president of the min- ers, acting under instructions of the varlous presidents of the district or- ganizations, turned the operators’ pro- posals down with a bang. There are no mew arguments that the caal.com- ‘missioners..can -brinfite- bear upon is to be| the immi- | i | 1 f 1 { { ences. hite House authority, considers the| | immigration question one of the most | there is likely to be lis, they thought each side c | excuse to give ., TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1923. BOTH SIDES AGREE TO CONFERIN N. Y. By the Axsociated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Kust 14.—John L. Lew dent of the United M ers of America, hax ace ivitation of Commixxion to confer York tomorrow with the mission and anthracite opera- tors in an effort 1o avert a strike September 1. Although Mr. Lewis declined to make public hix reply to the communication, it wax learned today that it had heen forward- ed and that miners’ representa- tivex on the joint weale co mixsion had been notified to go b New York. Au- resi- Work- com- ADELPHIA w pan o general of the anthracite operntors, to dny unnounced that the opern- tors have accepted the Invita tion of the Federal Coal ¢ misston to attend the p New York with the coal miners tomorrow. this subject in the New York confer- Therefore it is safe to say upon this first essential point no agreement. President Coolidige may have to act and act drastically before the recal- citrant owners and operators ean be brought into line. It “is only stating truth to say that at City anthracite conferer report of the National « sion, was treated as “serap of paper.” Both operators insisted they « derstand _the report details. They sald the language confusing and ambiguous: that even | the figures had to be studied fr many angles before their n was~ apparent. Even then, operators and miners refused to view the report at any time from the same angle, there was no agreement tween them as to the commission's findings. Report Caused New Row. The report seemed another bone of conte negotiations. Both s and oper- ators thought the report might be useful for propaganda purposes. That uld. get to back that s apparent Atlantic the first vl Commis- | ble d | un- | its the it but to throw tion into the m out of the report someth up its contentions. President Lewis c! aims there is no the miners for asking them to work after August 31 with- out 4 new agreement. He sq the miners have been ready to negotiate for months, It was only at the re- quest and invitation of the miners that the meetings with the operators were begun at Atlantic City in July This was nearly eight weeks before the expiration of the old agreement. Mr. Lewis contended that i n ement could not be worked out at time there was small hope it ever would be worked out President Lewis also contends that if the miners agree not to suspend work the night of August 21 there will be no telling how long the neg tiations may be drawn out. There | would be no incentive for the opera- tors to hurry. The negotiations might run into next spring and then be broken off. The miners feel their best strategie position is at the be- ginning of the winter mining. They deny, however, that they are respon- sible’ for the agreement running out at this time. They wanted the new scale negotiated last spring. It was at the request of the operators that the expiration date was fixed ut the beginning of fall—a crucial time for the stoppage of coal production. The more he studies the coal sltua- tion. the more the new President will be convinced that he must act person- ally rather than through a commis- sion. He alone can avert a strike, {U. S. SUMMONS LEADERS TO MEETING TOMORRO Members of the Federal Coal Com- migsion today were completing plans for a mecting in New York tomorrow with representatiyes of union miners and operators ‘in “the authracite field, summoned by the commission to re- new negotiations in order to avert a shutdown of the anthracite mines on September 1. The summons was is- sued with the approval of President Coolldge after he had been informed of the situation in detail in conference with members of the commission. An agreement to insure continuance of production after expiration of the present wage contract, whether or not there has been a settlement by that date of the questions over which the two sides are now deadlocked, will be the first objective of the commission, it was said, in its efforts at concilia® tion. With such an agreement obtained, the commission then would be ex- pected to continue mediation in the dispute, concentrating first on the union demand for installation under the new wage contract of the “check- oft” system of collection of union dues. It was this demand that broke up the conference between union representatives and operators at At- lantic City ten days ago, before the wage Increase and other demands had even been discussed. Despite the present status of nego- tiations, there are several elements in_the situation ' which . government officials, ylew as having an important bearing "in welghing the possibllities of a-suspenston of-anthracite produc- ithe S, TODROPFIGHT ON RAIL MERCER . C. C. Sanction of Central and Southern Pacific Merg- er to Go Unopposed Further. The conta ent ship hy the upheld United further Inter- ment will authorlty Commer to the le the Central uthern %0 the not the Cemmission to con- se and stock owner Pacific railroad | railroad deciston of Paul the Pacific in a reeent States court Announcement of the end of Jong litigaticn whigh resulted Court decision requiring dis- ition of the two properties, Wwhose et was subsequently approved the Interstate Commerce Commis was made yesterday by Attor- v ‘General Daugherty after several couferences with President Coolidge the administration policics in- volved. The Attorney General, in a t, said that in his judgment itions attached to the com- upproval of the merger safeguarded the public interest, that Congress, in effect, by the of the transportation act, r which the approval was given sct up a new policy for the gov regard 1o such tran at the in Congress Gives Power. Taul to en- date, the that, in the transportation had given the comn to approve mer: visions of the Sherman anti- der ich the first suit The procecdings at St. Paul were to enfores mandate of the United preme Court requiring the ific to surrender its own- lease and stock of the tem. Judges San- s and_Kenyon decided, how- the transportation ae <sed subsequent to the the original suit by the gress had given the merce Commission pow- merger despite nerman anti-trust the first suit was ever! which such a the under which ght Attorney General Daugherty ate C ached def to poin Interst mme pproval id added conaiti complie th the lease und stock o f termination, tinued Ends Litization. of grea to the “and p. “The istrati was mport tinguished and the ymmnierce opinion of the cuit court judg erstate ¢ me, 1 reached is my d to end before abserve view of the f the Interstate and the opin and my as pecially imerce Commissior ved at by, mysclf tmen ted o & 1 careful and painstaging s in the states of California, Utah, Nevada and Oregon travereed Ly, the two great rail systemis; and the dentiment in those &tates for a termination of the long-drawn-out litigation " BALDWIN SEES DOOM | UNLESS U. S. HELPS, If Isolated From France, May to Win Over Italy and Belgium. Try o Press August 14 autho British publie by LONDON? to I footaote madt claimed “an tral News. “The ish emy statement, s in the Brit- any,” declares the government be- lieves that i is out to mai tain an indefinite strangichold Germ: thy complete overthrow the economis sit of Europe. not of the whols . is certain + than sus- policy is di- 1 of Great Bri British zovern isolation. but the France. 1f t#at fails Britain will try gam¢ N try to win over m from her ance the Ruhr andi line with her Holland, weden and Norway ring equally with ain from the e is re for Ger but the picion th rected ain in ment ix seekamg, co-operation of obviously « hand at the “Engla Ttaly. to support of to bring intc Switzerland who are su more than fects of the pediate aims the dom- is ulti- tween- Great world se ment. No immediate or sensatic response from the United States no e expected. but Premier Baldwin be- lieves Europe ed unless the American pe British in saving them _—————— DIES OF GAS POISONING. forty-five vears| t southwest, died to effects of illuminating | inhaled while on the address today. i Giscovered by S. C. Ogle., | A call was sent to Emergency Hos- pital and Dr. Pearlman, responding with the ambulance, pronounced hini | dead. Police are attempting to get in communication with the wife and daughter of the deccased, who are i Richmond, Va. S BIDS FOR NEW SCHOOL ‘ ALL EXCEED MAXIMUM Raymond She old. of 20 G st day from th gas._ which he third floor of that His body wii $147.000 Lowest Offer for 3130.000} Building North of Park i Eoad. ‘ When bids were opened at the Dis- trict bullding vesterday afternoon for constructlon of & Lew eight-room school between Georgla avenue and 16th street north of :Park road it was| found that all of them were in exces: of the available appropriation. Congress allottzd $130,000 for the | building, but ¢h: lowest bid was $147,000. There were a dozen other | proposals, ranging all the way to! $169,000. " The Commissioners will 4 cide at rly r(‘ulc whether to ask tion. One is the possibility of a large scale substitution:of bituminous coal by consumers, bituminous operators having offered to undertake to mak available suitable tgpes of bitumi- nous, and another is the unusually heavy prodyction of antl cite during B T oadBa e aihy Ta eiow Vin storag e " > men at the con | Bxe lers switched over along TALKS and TALES With and About CAPITAL’S GUESTS 1 local stan old, are stumped at present perplexing problems, it might be good {dea for them to drop into t Shoreham Hotel during the days and have out, for if pertaining to th, than 1 p collectors, Young ¢ over next fov matters straight there this b 0 deleg there for the annual conve Philatelic almost a moral certa any questio; ered by t interesting tin t canno ans more assemblod n of th American Sou then its , nt is unanswerable The terday, day, from ur philatelfsr the Unl the lobby of 15 on any bus ing the height of congress, wi convened nd will run through Has attrac 1 States, and last night the Lotel was as aliv night in winter d the season. . Fredérie Hes Dietre president of the society, and one the most-widely known stamp colle tors in this country, was an carly ar rival and d his hands full weltom ing his many associates. Mr. Heyer man possesses one of the finest col lcctions of stamps, especially those « the United States,’in the world. Adolph k. Kratz of Chicago, ing cditor of Chicaso tional Philate. and the ( Advertiser, is a guest ham, and ‘was one of the 1 epted deser Kritz is an a ail being developed in thi collection of 5 in i S especinlly saw serviee and Franc son is ‘It te in a stamp collector is an education in ‘ it ches the child the col tory and geography of then, too, the practice centive to save. Nta worth mon. is ips And speak of former member stopping at the N in the lieutenant ng newspaper a of the craft rd THotel pers Collin who is in = i o the De The fore the fow vs on i ZEs . Mr. the title for mer great conflict whil 151st Field Artiller; bow) Division “Little Louey™ ¢ s e known to his int he beir not ov. five feet in height, won a enviable reputation during the swor : the "Untted Maced advisedly, for a Min hay and luter with the He T the on ront Witk oft armer-lai: George Mall Heroes.” over the contest official did admit t corporal’ in front the ma- ernorship party’s one of While the retice Minnesota it was the name that csught ical fait used to con Johnson, wnd \'l‘ wish him gnod Tu Fe &nfd furglor greatly | with the @ memb Senato anot} vester Washington Harding's 1 fesstonal busi practice The Ohlo tressed at th in utive, w int the one of the He express the abil predicted for him. I today fe will ret th' & hipbullding today > pbuilding’s all right, but frois car building is much better This littlo greeting and harpened at the door of the cafe, just as C. J aging director Shipbuildir by Mrs. Heyer nothing work all durins 1tic present o how's respon, Ralcig (Steve) Heyer, n the Tampa T Compa oy ad finished breakfast. W hut that the un witl n- ok Cuba i both w asx m to making fre war, incr r 1d the line afty th. ing.” Asked if the recent had affected business. Mr. that it had not, that most modities out of Tampa went island, and that Tampa shippers would be the first to feel it The shipbuilder is also sec - o the Wooden Shipbullders’ having served in thai capacity many -vears. He is in Washing business with the Shipping Board flur 1o th ev. Roy ¢ . one of paper writers Zuesy the Hotel Washington for day, later going o stay With friend in the city. Dr. Can is “sky pilot” of the San Diege wanis Club, and is mak ing a tour of the south and east, ad: dressing Kiwanis_clubs in Ed_Pase New sOrleans, Washington, Boston and Philadelphia, and, ineidental ly, letting the people of thes places know of the newly con 4 Dleted southern raute, the San Diezo and Arizona extension of the South orn Pacific railroad, built by John I Sprec! which makes a direct lins from the caast through New Orlea: 1 Washington to the*Atlantic sea The peopie ‘of the west are t ing east today more thay the ever done before. said th ele man. “Californians have been nt to stay at home, but, a gétting ‘acquainted with the the country; especially is this so witl our folk San Diego sin this route went into operation. A versatile man is this Califo preacher, when not oceupyine pulpit or talking railroads he de his time to Mwepaper work, and ruv a special first-page column In the Sa Dicgo Evening Tribune three times a week. He will leave.on his tour. this afternoon. mpbell (ot e on have