Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair weather and moderate temper- | ature tonight and tomorro Temperature for twenty- ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 73, at 4:20 p.am. today 1l rgort on page 7. ¥ sterday. Lowest, 53, at 4 w. -four hours Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 16 ch No. 28969, post office Was Entered us second-class matter hington, D C. PART OF GERMANY'S ECONOMIC SYSTEM OFFEREDASPLEDGE Stresemann Says Solution Can Be Reached if French Want One. REFUSES TO SEPARATE RUHR OR RHINELAND Makes It Plain No Distinction Can | Be Made From Rest of Nation. By the Assoct BERLIN, August 24—The present German government stands by the of- fer made by the recent Cuno govern- ment for the meeting of Germany's reparation obligations, Chancellor Stresemann told the German Indus- trial Commerce Club in addressing it t ted Press “For the liberation o} German soil, for the maintenance of our Sov- ereignty and for the consolidation of our situation.” the chancellor declar- ed, would not be too great a te offer part of the Geramn system as a productive for rrying iration obligations. French government sincere- | to receive positive pledgflsi for deliveries after the e piration of the moratorium, we can find a way of reaching an understand- fne. But no differentiation must be « out Germany Iy made between the Rhineland and Ruhr on one hand and the German the other. reich on “Germany cannot accept as a basis | for a solution of the reparation ques- tion even a temporary pledging of | the Ruhr or a transfer of the Rhine- railways and collieries, or other erty in the Rhineland or Ruhr. as suggested by documents 23 and 25 of the French vellow hook. Chancellor Cuno's reparation offe made on May 2 last, proposed the p. t of a total indemnity of 30.000. 000.000 gold marks, or $7,500.000.000. by Germany, this amount to be paid Ly 1931 with the aid of international | loans. This offer proved unacceptable | to any of the allies. and in an amend- | atory mnote forwarded June the ! chancellor proposed a system of an-| nual payments by Germany of 1.200.- | 000,000 marks, be ning in 1927 if | n international loan were not avail- | ible for immediate capital payment. | The number of th annuities was left undetermined As a guarantee for the annuities | Germany proposed the pledging of | the federal raflway system, capital- " ized at 10.000.000,000 marks, while 2 further 10,000,000,000 marks would be guaranteed by a gold 5 per cent mort- gage on the entire business, industry, banking, trade, traffic and agriculture of the country. Certain customs and excise duties also were proposed as pled This 1 offer never has been formally acted upon by the allies, but France and Belgivm have made it clear that| they would enter into no negotiations | with Germany under present condi-| he agreed to| istance in the | Rubr. Great B up a tenta- tive to the nan offer, and| proposed reply that was| the other aliles by the | ernment on July 21, draw- | from France and Bei-| reat Brit British g answer: to which second note. The ider to this_note w s week and Belgium over the week end. DECISION ON FIUME DEMANDEDBY [TALY Mussolini Denies His Request to Commission Is an French re- submitted | is expe Ultimat ed ratifications fn Washington. The i aval treaty was a_consummation in um which Baron Kato was deeply inter- ested, and he had sald repeatedly By the Associated Press. ROME. August ~—Impatient over the delay in settling the status of Fiume, Premier Mussolini has asked | the joint commission dealing with | the question to reach a decision be- | fore September 1. The newspape today sald that an ultimatum had been sent by Tta to Jugoslavia asking a definite de- cision concerning Fiume, it being al- leged the Belgrade government con- stantly had been delaying final ac. tion. Semi-offictal communique, however, stated that the word “ulti- matum” used by the press was un- arranted. As to the character of the wunication sent the statement | ded: | It was only an invitation address- ed by Premier Mussolini to the mix- ed Italo-Jugoslay commission dealing | with the Flume question to conclude its work within the present month.” The newspapers say Mussolinl pro- posed that Fiume be governed by a mixed Italo-Jugoslav commission and that this commission sintrust the Italian government with the po- litical administration and manage- ment of Fiume. co Flume, an independent state, created v the treaty of Rapallo between y' and Jugoslavia in 1920, has been a constant source of trouble be- tween the two nations. Carrying out of the terms of the treaty was re- sisted by Italian naticnalists under Gabriele d’Annunzio, and after months of disorders a_quasi-solution of the difficulty was found through another agreement reached at Santa Mar- kherita between Italy and Jugoslavia and the officials of the state of Fiume, settling the trouble over the port of Barros, adjacent to Flume. Internal troubles continued in Fiume, however, and the nationalistic feeling aroused by the mingling of the mixed populations of this border area have had to be dealt with, as well as administrative questions aris- ing out of the application of the J:apallo treaty and the Santa Marghe- rita agreement. These matters have been under consideration by a mixed commission, sitting first in Albania and later in Rome, a speedy decision from which Premier Mussolini now ig |1 the country, Mr. Rodgers today, 1Pging. | patien then will resign and a new n replied ,:'H d ted | POSLS. duration, could Until today, however, it was not gen- erall danger. long career of public service recorded formally subscribing to the treaty for the re- duction of naval armaments exchang- Inew the Washington arms conference, he 1oy Leviatfian_Beats Olympic by More Than 12 Hours By the Associated Press. SOUTHAMPTON. August 24— The glant American steamship Leviathan arrived here from New York at 12:55 p.m. today, Green-' wich time. At that hour the White Star liner Olymple, which left New York about the same time as the Leviathan last Sunday, had not yet reached Cherbourg, her first port of call on this side, at which the big American passenger ship arrived at 5 o'clock this morning. It was estimated by oflicials of the United tates lines that the Leviathan had beaten the Olympic #in by at least twelve hours, as the reports indicated the British liner was not likely to reach Cherbourg ;m!!l around 6 o'clock this even- ni. PREVIER ATO DS OF EART DISEASE Four Are Mentioned Promi- nently to Succeed to Head Japan’s Government. By the Assocfated Press. TOKIO, August 24—Premier Te- mosaburo Kato dled this afternoon, from a complication of maladies that weakened his| heart beyona re- pair. R Admiral {xato was born! in 1859 and had a | distinguished ca-{ reer in ihe naval, § .ministrative and {aiplomatic _ serv- ices before he was | evated to the premiership last | year, apparently Baron | | pital effects of a mysterious illness which seized him Tuesday afternoon, on the eve of the day of his wedding to Mrs. R. | ington. WASHINGTON D. C. NAVY OFFICER BELIEVED DRUGGED ON WEDDING EVE Found in State of Coma in Alexandria—License Re- veals Identity. D. C, FORMER WIFE LEAPED FIVE STORIES TO DEATH Mrs. Dorothy R. Bayliss, Fiancee of Lieut. Lewis, Gives Nar- cotic Theory. Frank Lewl is at the Na: today, recovering Pay Corps. General Hos- from the Dorothy Bayliss of the Cairo apartments. Lieut. Lewls was dis- covered yesterday in Alexandria, ap- parently in a coma. Kenneth W. Ogden, real estate man of Alexandria, a member of the same fraternal order as Mr. Lewls, met him and took him to his home. There he found the marriage license, issued on | August 13. in his possession and identified the naval officer. ‘ Two brother officers went to Alex andria nmediately upon the receipt of | the news of the ry and met| wis. to bring him k to Wash- | He failed to recognize either | of these men. although he had been | aboard ship with one ve: and was his ntimate friend. Marringe Postponed. Bayliss said today that the rlage was postponed indefinitely, pending the recovery of Lieut. Lewis. | While the report was current early this afternoon | that Japan's pre- | mier had died at PREMIER KATO, 1:20 pm. official| confirmation was | withheld until shortly before 3! o'clock. The exact cause of death | was not announced. but the Japanese | top ¥+ | el pi with some show of authority h n stating that Baron Kato was | suffering from cancer. The attendipg | physicians, however, reported stom- ach trouble and hemorrhoids, and h‘»‘ sued reassuring bulletins to the last, | even that of noon today ing sim- ply that his condition had grown worse since midnight. with some gns of exhaustion. It was added. | though. that little improvement had been shown since midnight and the heart was causing anxie Cabinet Is Informed. Later the cabinet, which was con- | sidering British proposals for a new | railway guard in China, received an | vrgent message. It was sald that| oxygen h@d been administered. but that the premier was in a comatose | state and death was expected momen- | tarily. It is understood that Foreign Minis- ter Uchida will act as premler until} after the funeral. The entire cabinet one will | be chosen under whoever is appointed premier. Among those mentioned minently for the premiership are ount Gombel Yamamoto, an premier and retired adm Den of Formosa, i Baron Nobuaki Makino, a mem of the house of peers, who has held cabinet portfolios and diplomatic Premier Kato's fllness ws but until recent! it was arded as serious. It was said | that his health would not| sitate his retirement, but a few vs ago it was learned authorita- that his condition was such he | not continue in office long of long | believed that his life was in Devoted to Naval Treaty. One culmination of the premier's was | but a few days be- | fore his death—when the five powers that he regarded it as establishing a era of peace. As a delegate to| had b vocate Pren en_one of the foremost ad- of the pact. r Kato first came into prom- | but made it emphatically clear t From 2:30 Tuesday yeBtooihy the \\hfi:zflflf-::t:n%(fnx‘;:-:‘l‘ one trip. We made poor time from |met. as or whom he| cause of shallow water, Engin arangements had not been called off. “I am of the oplnlon. and many | of my friends share the same view, | that Lieut. Lewls had been drugged,” Mrs. Bayliss said today. “The pupils of his eyes were dilated -n he was met in Alexandria yes- and he did not ‘recognize est friends. | e s 111 tod. w & = s Eskimos, fostered !y a missionary; | v at the Naval Hos- | pital. 1 ‘e heard that he passed | a comfortable night and 1 am' going to see him thix afternoon.” i Flancee Became Alarmed. Arrangements had been made for T the wedding on Wednesday night. | BY HAROLD NOICE. The last heard from Lieut Lewis | POINT HOPE, Alaska, August 9 (via at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon. when he! Nome, August 22)—We a leaving | telephoned to Mrs. Bayliss, making an | Point Hope immediately for the last| appointment for dinner that night.| run to Wrangel Island. When he did not appear, Mrs. Bayl At ve w ! aid, she believed that there had been Augu:( 5 ST e Alaska, 400 miles by sail north of two days’ voyage from W'rangel. a mistake made as to the engine drouble developed Place of the appointment . When “a0 | Within a few hours, and there was| galled the Army and Navy Club. Lieut. [ much delay 1l the way to Cape Prince | ; nes, s : however, AR fourampay morning | of Wales, where we spoke to the been there the preceding night. sne| Bnited States survey schooner Hazel. became alarmed and a search was in- stituted. We remained at W les three hours | and took on’ five E: mo hunters for net. " The happy chance of the mar. riage license being carried on his per- son was the means of {dentification. win it Hompl: Mrs. Bayliss sald today that she | plans to visit Lieut. Lewls at the hos- pital this afternoon. By that time, it is expected by physicians, he will be sufficiently recovered to receive | b | and complete equipment. Naval intelligence officers also, Mrs. | tatiron Lot and the Fokimos were Bayli: said, are to take up an imme- | due to leave shore in their skin boat diate investigation as to the supposed | 1 suddenly found that I had an ON ISLAND PARK police investigation into this angle inasmuch as the naval intelligence was In charge of it. Protecting Levee Built Around New Land in River, Engineer Announces. nd I rowed eight mile into Kotzebue and secured compiete equipment to repair engine parts.| paying an Eskimo family and two young married Eskimos, who took on | a large quantity of additional sup-| plies, guns, etc., to insure the entire | party in the event of being compelled to winter and establish camps for a sojourn of two years. We secured eleven fine dogs. with fine harness Joseph Earl Mrs. Bayliss sald today that when he learned that Rev. Earle Wilfley, pastor of the Vermont Avenue - tion Church, could mot perfore e ceremony, Lieut. Lewis, on Tuesday morning, ‘went to the marriage license desk at the courthouse and had the officiating pastor's name changed to that of Rev. Carroll Q. Wright of 1739 Chufch street, a Navy chaplain, and a friend of long standing of ~Lieut. Lewis. In making application for the license, it is shown that both con- tracting parties had been previously married. Lieut. Lewls' age was glven at fifty-one, and Mrs. Bayliss le thirty-four. Mrs. Bayliss is a widew. Mrs. Mare jorie Manuel Lewis, late wife, of Lieut, Development of Columbia Island into a public park and deepening of nued on Page 5, Column 2.) Capitol “Guide Trust’ to Be Broken S. May Make ‘Seeing’ Free Up;U Capitol “guides” soon will be shown one of the most historic land- marks in American, familiarly known as the “gate.” The *old-fashloned system, which for years has allowed a coterle of a few men to charge practically an “ad- mission fee” to the American people for the privilege of seeing their own National Capitol, has been destined to pass through the gateway of abolition into the limbo of the past. It is too much to charge the tax- payers of the country to see thelr own building, according to the con- census of opinion of officialdom, and plans have already been started for ousting the present guide system, and replacing it with one cverated by the federal government, fres ‘ Sergeant-at-arms Je gers of the House of R.presentatives, today made the announcement. He had recently been in conference with Sergeant-at-arms David Barry of the Senate. They had agreed, he said, that the present guide system was un- democratic, and an unsatisfactory ar- rangement) to_all concerned, except the guides,Mthemselves. The matter will be placed before appropriation committees of Congress the two sergeants-at-arms, Mr. Rodgers said, and the proposal made that funds be appropriated by Con- gress to replace the unofficial outfit| now in command of the situation,! with an official system of guides in | the pay of the government, and under official supervision of a government official. System Is Unusual. “There is no other public bullding so far as I know,” sald where t? Ppeople |now in vogue at the Capitol was out- the Virginia channel between the Highway bridge and Georgetown were the principal improvements made to the Potomac river in this vicinity during the fiscal year just ended. Columbia Island is located opposite West Potomac Park and is separated from the Arlington reservation on the south and from Analostan Island on the west by a channel not less than fifty feet wide and five feet deep. It has an area of 172 acres and was created entirely by deposits of mud and other material dredged from the Virginia channel. At present it is unimproved except by the con- struction of a protecting levee and three waste weirs along the water front. Nearly 1,300 linear feet of the levee already have been completed. Bridge to Cross. The new island park eventually will be easily accessible from the proposed memorial bridge from the Lincoln Memorial to the Arlington reseryation, which, as planned, will cross the island at its upper end and provide direct connection with it. The development of the new-made land into a public park and play- ground will follow the methods S0 successfully employed in the case of Potomac rark, which, like it, was created by material dredged from the channels of the river to improve nav- tion. 188 eails of recent operations on the island and in dredging the Virginia channel are contained fn the annual Teport of Maj. James A. O'Connor, the engineer officer in charge, just sub- mitted to Gen. Beach, chief of engi- Meers. During the last fiscal year about 300,000 cubic vards of material Were dredged from the channel and Jeposited on the lower end of Colum- bia Island. When the dredging be- gan last April the channel had a depth of but seventeen feet. The project calls for a ruling depth of twenty feet, and Maj. O'Connor says that operations to that end will (Contimied on Pagy 2, Column 7.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) are charged a fee. Even here in Washington, guldes are furnished by the government—in the bureau of en- graving and printing, for instance. “The Washington Monument is N nished with elevator operators In‘:nrd watchmen, and the public carried free of charge. Even state capitols make no charge for admission and sightseeing tours. At Harrisburg, Pa.” he continued, the state furnishes guides to conduct the public throush the state capitol, and it is my understanding that other states provide the same facilities.” Following a study of the situation, and comparison with the custom pre- valling in other public buildings of the nation, the two sergeants-at- arms_came to the same conclusion, Mr. Rodgers sald, that the system | worn and unfair, and should be sup- planted by a regular force of govern- ment employes under control of fed- eral officials. See Approprintion Grant. Sufficlent sentiment has been aroused among members of Congress, Mr. Rodgers feels, to pass the neces- sary appropriation. One chief guide, and perhaps eight guides, will be ask- ed, Mr. Rodgers indicated. The sal- ary he would recommend for an offi- cial guide had not been determined definitely, but Mr. Rodgers intimated that $1,200 would be about the right salary. No one knows how much the guldes who now conduct one huge party after another through the Capitol. gb the regular rate. :nake in a yea forts have been made to determine how much they have been earning, but there is no provision in the regula- tions or laws at present for checking their income. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1923—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 88,618 TWO CENTS. Noice Reaches Tip of Alaska On His Dash to Wrangel Island iResignation of Shipmaster, Strike of Eskimos and Engine Trouble Overcome and Trip of Rescue Is Under Way 3 Harold Noice, leader of the Wrangel Island relief expedition, is on the la:t leg of his dash from Nome into the arctic or may actually have reached the bleak, :trategic island on which four white men and a native woman have been marooned for two years. A mutiny of engine trouble; the resignation of his shipma:ter—these handicaps have been added to the threat of seizure by the Rursian government and the menace of tides of ice, but Noice has overcome his difficulties, according to the following dispatch. Point Hope is a tiny slip on the most northwestern projection of Nome and under right conditions kimo strike on my hands, due to the influence of a missiona who not only told them that they would be without Christian influence, but that the chanc I would leave them marooned Island, and therefore they would never get back to their familic friends. I thereupon proceeded to the mis- onary’s house with all the natives, where a serious, earnest and at times strenuous conversation ensued, in which I told the.missionary that he, as a Christian, fostering the spirituai welfare of the natives, certainly ought to permit them to g '» the rescue of those in dire strails or worse, and who, if alive, must be famished to see their families and friends. The mis- stonary In his nightgowneand I in work clothes, surrounded by twenty Eskimos, made indeed a primitive and victuresque conference. Making no notified the dway, 1 retired apd imos that T was leav- ing at once. and that if they failed me I would select my crew from points farther north, whereupon I proceeded to the beach, only to be followed in a few minutes by the en- tire party of Eskimos, who came pell- mell, informing me that they would follow me I was doomed for further difficul- ties the day, and reaching the ship at 9 am pt. Hansen, for reasons best known only to himself, objected (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) SENATOR RENEWS MEREDITH ATTACK Brookhart Offers to Swap Profits on Farm for Possi- ble 30-Cent Verdict. By the Associated Pres . JEWELL, Iowa. August 24.—De- claring that he would be “only too glad” to go under oath to “tell the farmers of lowa and the United States what I have learned about the financial schemes to drive them back to peasantry,” United States Senator Smith W. Brookhart, addressing an American Legion picnic here today renewed his attack on E. T. Meredith, former Secretary of Agriculture, with whom he has taken issue on the financial condition of the farmer. It was Brookhart's first public reference to Mr. Meredith since the latter an- nounced his intention to file a suit for alleged libel against the senator. Mr. Meredith, too, would be under oath, sald the senator, and “we well find out from his own mouth whether he made a fight against the deflation of the farmers, or whether he sat mum in the Wall street game.” Senator Brookhart attacked Mr. Meredith’s figures and statements on war finance corporation loans to Jowa formers, and told his audience that “the time has come when the farmers should kick the Merediths over the dashboard and figure their own business for themselves.” The senator declared he would like to offer Mr. Meredith the profits from his 240-acre farm in settlement of the proposed 30-cent libel damage sult. “If Mr. Meredith should accept, under the condition that he pay the operating_costs, interest and taxes, said Mr. Brookhart, “I would be sev- eral hundred dollars ahead.” “I am glad that he has been so con- slderate in the amount of damages sought,” said Senator Brookhart, “for if he beats me, that is about all I can save out of my salary after pay- ing this year's deficit on my farm. “The most amazing part of Mr. Meredith’'s statement is the War Finance Corporation’s figures. He says the farmers of Iowa borrowed $24,000,000 two years ago from the War Finance Corporation. The farm- ers of Jowa did not borrow one cent from this corporation. The War Finance Corporation is a Wall street controlled 1 tution that lends only to banks and¥selected co-operatives. These lowa loags were @il 1o banks. MAIL PILOT BEATS CROSS U. . REGORD Smith Lands in New York After 26 Hours 14 Minutes From San Francisco. By the Associated Pres: HEMPSTEAD, N. Y. August 24— { All records for a filght across the continent were broken today when Pllot Wesley L. Smith of the air mail service landed here at 11:14 o'clock, | eastern standard time, completing a relay mail flight from San Francisco in twenty-six hours and fourteen minutes. The best previous record was held | by Lieuts. Kelley and Macready | the Army alr forces, who made a non- stop flight recently from New York to | San Diego in twenty-six hours and fifty minutes. The route taken by the mail plane was longer than that covered by the Army fliers Reat Schedule Four Hours. The mail flight concluded by Pilot | smith was completed |ana one minute less than the sched- i uled thirty hours and fifteen minutes. | The last lap of the flight, from Cleve- | land, was covered in three hours and | | twenty-six minutes, despite a brisk | wind, which the pilot fizured asded lat least ten minutes > his ilying time. The San Francisco mail biought by Pilot Smith was the third batch to arrive here in the tests th: Post Of- fice Department has been conducting | this week. The pouches left San | Francisco yesterday morning at 6 {o'clock Pacific time. . Pilot Paul S. Collins left Hazel- {hurst Field at 11:04 o'clock eastern | standard time today on the iast west- i{bound transcontinental flight of the } present air mail schedule. STARTS ON FOURTH FLIGHT. { Pilot Vance Leaves San Francisco ! for New York. By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., August 24. —Pilot C. K. Vance took off from Crissy Field here at 5:28 o'clock this morning with seven pouches of mail weighing 117 pounds. He began the fourth of the daily test flights from San Francisco to New York. " VANCE ARRIVES AT RENO. | Eastbound Pilot’s Flight Taken Up by Blanchfleld. By the Assoclated Press. RENO. Nev., August 24—Pilot C. K. Vance landed here from San Francisco at 9 am. today with the fourth day’s mafl in the transcontinental test (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) TURKEY RATIFIES |AUSANNE TREATY Allied Troops Being Removed From Turkish Territory as Pact Is Approved. By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 24— Adran Bey, representing foreign min- ister Ismet Pasha, handed to the allled high commissioners here Jlast night two notes, one notifying them of the ratification of the Lausanne treaty by thé national assembly and the other asking evacuation of the occupied Turkish territories by the allies and of Karagatch and the Islands of Imbros and Tenedvs by Greece. The allled evacuation was officially started at midnight. The Turkish government has de- cided to issue a serles of new stamps in commemoration of the signing of peace. Evacuation Soon. LONDON, August 24—A Reuter's dispatch from Constantinople says the British evacuation of Turkish territory in consequence of the rati- flc‘tlon of the Lausanne treaty will begin tonight wigh the salling of three transports loaded with troops. of i in four Lours| if that occurs—was fully stated selected by President Coolidge t ference leading to adjustment o the next move themselves. Second, the government has Fourth, the government ha not be advanced beyond a point winter. | 1 SOFT COAL STRIKE SCOUTEDBY LEWIS By the Associated Press. i | ATLANTIC CITY, ¥. J, August 24.} —Necessity for completing arrange- | ments that will prevent anthracite | mines from permanent injury through flooding and cave-ins after September 1, in the event of a strike, was sald | to be a chief factor in holding rep- resentatives of anthracite mine work- ers and officials of the miners’ union in Atlatic City today. No joint dis- | cussion of the terms on which the unfon would allow pumpmen, engi- | neers and maintenance men to con- tinue in service had been entered | upon, but both groups were known to | have the matter in mind | On cther than this point there was held to be today no prospect of any renewal of the negotiations between | the employers' contingent and the union leaders. The provision for maintenance work, it was said, would | be the only final tndication that lines | had been drawn for the endurance test of a strike. Employers, offering arbitration of every disputed point, were sald to be solld in the determination to al- low no wage increases except by the possible arbitration award. John L. Lewls, the unfon’s president, stood | pat on the assertion that the men would not work unless glven & wage increase and a negotiated contract. The government, it was known, would not again seek to bring a settlement by representation to elther party. No Smypathy Strike. Speculation as to possibility of a bituminous strike in sympathy with the anthracite suspension, was given | no countenance by Mr. Lewis. Though unwilling to make a_ statement for publication on the subject the miners' President in discussion pointed out fhat every principle of the union called for maintenance by its mem- bers of contract obligations, and that contracts in the unionized bituminous fields now exist which require men to stay in employment until next April. Further, it was pointed out. the soft coal flelds, which have a | product” sultable for anthracite sub- Dtitute, are practically non-unfon, and are In West Virginia. “the full membership of the union scale committee was assembling here fodhy. *"This body was expected to bass upon the maintenance arranse- Prants. and likewise get a report from International officers upon thelr con- uct of affairs. A o eriner, chajrman of the op- erators' policy committee, and his as- Shelates, were still on hand, but had Sothing to say concerning the main- Tonince situation. There was a pros- M that the operators would leave Peet oty before night, and let the i unifon issue any Dr(}{ers it desired as ntenance work. ‘uN!A;\(‘:\l'llhstnndlnz the attitude of Mr. ‘s on the question of contracts, L officlals continued today to seek newspaper publicity for the smypa- thetic strike suggestion as a matter of galning attention for the anthra- cite suspension. —_— | TWO CHILDREN IN AUTO TAKEN BY THIEVES PITTSBURGH, Pa., August 24.—Ja- cob Goldblum and his wife left their automobile and two children at the entrance to a department store for a few minutes this afternoon while they made a purchase. i | When they came back the cdr with its occupants was gone. A general alarm was sent out by the police, and motor _cycle policemen were soon Watching all roads leading out of ts: city. The opinion was expressed that thieves had @eliberately stolen the children, as well as the car, as the Goldblums are well-to-do. l U.S. OUTLINES METHOD IT WILL FOLLOW TO PROVIDE NATION FUEL Definite Plans Announced,Every Step Taken Against Suffering in Case of Strike, Hammond Says. SEES MINOR CHANGEINAGREEMENT FOR PEACE IN ANTHRACITE FIELD Holds No Occasion for Panic Exists—Soft Coal and Coke Prices Will Be Ap- proved by Government, Is Said. The government’s policy regarding the anthracite situation —as it exists today and until an actual shutdown of the mines, today by Chairman John Hays Hammond of the United States Coal Commission, the agency o deal with the situation. First, the government, having done all it could through the Coal Commission to bring the miners and operators into con- f their differences, will take no further steps at this time. The miners and operators must make taken and is taking every pos- sible step to prevent suffering in anthracite-using states in the event of a strike. It has prepared for eventualities. Third, the government is relying on the element of self-in- terest to bring both the miners and operators to a realization that their differences must be adjusted. s obtained promises from the bituminous operators that the prices of soft coal and coke shall satisfactory to the governmemt in the event of a shutdown of the hard coal mines this fall and Fifth, the government believes there is no occasion for panic on the part of anthracite users in the event of a shutdown of the mines. Ample fuel will be prov veyed to the public in every possible way ided. This word is being con- No New Peace Plans. While the attitude of the govern- ment today is one of preparedness. and all plans to that end are going forward rapldly, there has as yet been no statement of the government's further plans to bring about peace in the anthracite field after a strike has actually taken place. The government does not belleve that a sympathetic strike will close the bituminous mines if the anthra- cite mines shut down. Such a strike, it was intimated today, might be con- sidered a conspiracy in restraint of trade and might be dealt with under the terms of the anti-trust laws. This Was not given, however, as an expres- sion of opinfon of the coal commis- sion. No recommendations to the Presi- dent have been made by the Coal Commission for action by the Presi- dent in the event of a strike, Chal man Hammond said. He added, “yet.” Government Ready. “During the last week,” Mr. Ham- mond said, “there has been a mreat deal of activity on the part of the government to meet the anthracite situation. These moves by the gov- ernment have been in line of pre- paredness to meet all eventualities. The best way to prevent a strike is to frustrate the prospect of serious effects, The commission’s attitude was to bring strongly to the miners and operators the views of the public. The commission has considered that it was not to the public interest to, intervene it Atlantic City (where the operators and miners met in confer ence) ’ “The situation it this: A tie-up would involve discomfort to some consumers of anthracite, but there i3 nothing to justify a panic on the part of the consumers. Those who would suffer would be the poorer people. This would be true even of those in the anthracite field. The fellow- workers of the miners will be the sufferers, and that fact, I think. should have some influence on the action to be taken by !Y&: minérs’ representatives at Atlantic City. “The situation with regard to pre- paredness of the government and country to meet a shutdown of the anthracite mines is this: On August 1 there were 25,000,000 tons of an- thracite coal in the bins of the con- sumers. Unfortunately this coal is not uniformly distributed. Substitutes Needcd. “Those who lack anthracite would have to depend on substitute fuels. coke and bituminous coal. The com- mission is confident there will be no trouble in supplying all the bitu- minous coal necessary. As a matter of fact, many of the bituminous mines today are running on part time or are shut down because of an over- production of coal today. One million tons of bituminous coal a week over the regular production would take care of all domestic users of anthra- clte this winter, it is estimated. “The situation’ Is not staggering to the public. We have been assured by representatives of the bituminous mines there will be no exorbitant prices charged, but that the operators have pledged themselves to set a price leyel satisfactory to the government this winter. Price Not an Issue. “The commission did not ask what would bo the price charged another year it bituminous coal should be- come a permanent substitute for an- thracite in part of the ‘market now belonging to the hard coal operators. That can be regulated by competi- tion. “The report of the commission on anthracite to the President in Juls declared that the buflding up of sub- Stitutes for anthracite coal would be an insurance against the rising prices of hard coal. “The use of substitutes for an- thracite has been carefully studied by the fuel distributor of Massa- chusetts and other officials. There 13 no real serious inconvenience, though |some discomfort perhaps in 'the use of substitutes. But the lower prices charged for the substitutes may be a recompense for their use.” Is Optimistic. Mr. Hammond declared that he himself felt optimistic that an agree- (Continued on F'age 2, Column 2. ”