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WITH ARBlTRATI[lN First Big Case Well Started and Members Tackle Lesser Disputes. Having started its first big case on theyway to arbitration, the new Board of Mediation, set up to-handle railroad labor disputes, has scattered its activities out over the country in a move to terminate dozens of smaller controversies on individual lines. Members of the board are elated over the spirit of co-operation which, they sald, was exhibited between the representatives of Eastern railroads and the trainmen’s brotherhood in agreeing to arbitrate the demand for lar-a-day wage increase. They success of the new railyoad labor law depends almost entirely on such a willingness on both sides to come to an agreement. With no cases before it requiring the attention of the entire board, Chairman Winslow has' returned to Washington to assume a directing hand for the four other members in their efforts toward mediation of minor troubles throughout the coun- try Edwin P. Morrow has gone to Pitts- burgh to help straighten out the con- troversy between the Pittsburgh and Shawmut Railroad and its telegra- phers. carl Williams Hywell Davies have started stward pple with three tes between the Southern Pacific and its clerks and signalmen and cooks and waiters on its ferry boats. On their return East these two will stop off at Kansas City to take up a controversy between the Kansas City Southern and its clerks. G. Wallac today for Na are awaiting ville, Chattanooga and St. Hanger expects to leave ville, where two cases ttention on the h- Lou volving the engineers, firemen, train- men and clerks. He then will g0 to Portland, M *hiladelphia, ~New York and oth stern points. MAN, ILL, DROPS LAMP, CAUSING $3,000 DAMAGE Francis 1. Ruppert. 76, Stricken While Alone—Son-in-Law Rescues’ Him. Stricken with a heart attack as he was alone on the second floor of 2427 Irving street last night, Francis 1, Rupper old, drop: ped a lamp. startin fire which caused $3,000 damage to the resi- - Ruppert was treated by 1 Bowne for, minor burns nd hands. Schnopp, of the w of Mr. Ruppert, @ceble cries for help and managed to get him to the porch without serious misha Mrs. Rup- pert, an invalid, was sitting on the front porch when the fire broke out. Sergt. R. E. S. Boss of the rescue squad, according to the police report, who lives in the neighborhood, re.! bhut found the couple safe. owner ity post office and goes to work at midnight, was taking a he heard his father-in-law help. MAJ, HOLCOMBE LEAVES. Assistant Enginetr Commissioner Off for New Post. Maj. W. H. Holcombe. Assistant| Engineer Commissioner for more lhfln ‘ two years, left last night for War Department assignmen Orleans. Before leaving the and Mrs. Holcombe were Engineer Commissioner Bell eon at the Army a cries for Commissioner and Mr dolph also attended st | EVIDENCE SOUGHT 10 DEPORT ‘KRUPP', 'Self-Sterd Baron Wanted on Bad-Check Charge Will Return East. Y PR By the, Assoclated Pres ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., August ¥ |27.—Federal immigration officials plan- Speakin’ o’ history bein' bunk, it has jest come t’ light, after 50 years, that Settin’ Bull wuz a doctor an’ out o’ town on an operation th’ day Gen. Custer an’ his gallant comand wuz wiped_out. Toronto, with a population o’ 600,- 000, has only three murders a year, an’ you've got t' get your name in six months ahead if you want t’ kill some one. (Copyright, John Dille Co.) P Canadian Flyers Coming on Visit. s, director of the ir Force, accom- i. Garrod ott, panied by Wi #nd E. L. Gos: will visit Langle week and will be accorded the usuar honors. ned today to question further the young man_under arrest here who claims to be Baron George ,Exter Frederich von Krupp. jr., a disowned son of the head of the Krupp arms factory in Germany. He admits using the name George Adorjan Gabor in the Eastern United States. where he is wanted on bad check charges. In connection with his story that he was disowned four years ago, went to Hungary and became a Hungarian citizen, under the name of Gabor, and then came to this country as a col- lege student, immigration officials hope to learn whether there may be grounds for @eporting him as an un- desirable alien, i he has broken Amer- ican laws, as charged. ‘Will Waive Extradition. The young ‘man said last night he would/ waive extradition to return to Wilmington, Deél.. to face a charge of issuing a bad check. over having cashed a check there or in Pittsburgh. wher: he also is want- ed. Orfginally he w arrested in connection with a bad check com- plaint from Denver, but the complain. ant, an automobile agency offfcial, later refused to press the charges. Inve said, 0 place more credence in the EISEMAN’S CREDI 7th & F Sts. T SlES MGROROND: | SA T E18 SEMAN'’S OPEN ALL DAY SATURDAY The New Fall Suits are Here Any $25 or $30 Hot-Weather Suit |, You can buy them on Our Liberal Credit Plan Hundreds of . F all Suits $25 On the Most Liberal Terms Pick out vour Fall Suit now and have it charged. We'll arrange the terms to your satisfaction—without any additional cost. g We're showing a wonderful line of suits at $25, jn both single or double breasted models. Any § 14 Firrest Summer Suits. trimmed nels, Gabardines. Tropical \\orsted. Flan- Final Beach, Nearly all s ANl silk reduction. Mohair, 15—$16.75—$20 Hot-Weather Suit $0.% Genuine Palm Tropical Crashes. izes. He denied || stigators here are inclined, they || story told by Gabor’s companion, Charles Taetsch, a Brown University student, who declares Gabor cashed checks in both Wilmington and Pitts- who was engaged by the a traveling companion, suspicious of the young man’s identity, but his suspicions were allayed by the ready reception given him by Henry Ford and other nl‘ami nent men. . Stopped at Car Agencies. Taetsch said his companion, on reaching a Ford branch along their transcontinental tour route would pre- sent his alleged credentials and dic- tate to the agency stenographer a letter to Mr. Ford, in which he would report favorably .gn. an inspection of the -agency and. courtesy of its manager. He would then take the letter, according. Taetsch, explain- ing he would it himself, to be sure it went immediately, but Taetsch said the letters never were mailed. The youth’s claim to relationship with the famous German family h; been repeatedly denied by those a thorized to speak for tha family. Hans von Wuelfing, commercial attache of the German consulate in New York, yesterday saild the youth -was not a sen of the arms works head, while the Krupp secretariat in Berlin has denied is in America. PRINTERS PLAN SCHOOL. ’ NASHVILLE, Tenn., August 27 (®). —The first school in the United States to be built, maintained and operated by printers and publishers for the pur- pose of training men and women in the various trades of the printing in- dustry will be opened‘here Decem- ber 1. Costing between $20,000 and $30,000, the building, which will also house the general offices of the Southern Master Printers’ Federation, will be con- structed of brick and concrete. ' Funds for the erection of the building ough donations and sul ny of -the family BOOM FOR BERRY GAINING HEADWAY Democratic Labor Leaders Back Pressmen’s Chief for Vice President. By the Associated Press. . PRESSMEN'S HOME, Tenn., Au- gust 27.—Aside from the convention of the International Pressmen an Assistants’ Union of North America, in session here, informal conferences have been held dealing with a pro- posal of Democratic labor leaders here er the.name of Maj. Berry, president of the Pressmen’s Union, for consideration as a candi- date for the vice presidential nomina- tion at the Democratic national con- vention in 1928, Among the Democratic labor leaders who are talking “Berry” are William of Colorado, Villiam H. Mc! Joseph A. Dart of Mas- sachuse! cob B. Boscoe of Wagh- ington, ‘James Brooks of Oregon. Frank White of Georgia and Shuford B. Marks of Illinois. party can win dech\led a state- Pennsyl with ment issued today behalf of the Democ “The South, the West, the North and the East can agree upon this man, and the party can draw to its stand- ards millions of people who have here- tofore divided their party affiliation. “The background of Maj. Berry is filled with romance that ‘parallels easily that of Abraham Lincoln, and, speaking in behalf of the men wh have conferred, we propofe to pr for f: ation of na.me as a candidate for Vice Presl. § dent at the next Democratic national convention.” Holding ink iR stick form, now being made needs only dipped in er for writing. GINGER A. G. HERRMANN Lincoln 1981 750 Tenth St. S.E. a pen to be Flowers for the Ladies Coming. Free! Everyboty's GRAND OPENING POTOMAC DRUG STORE Wisconsin Ave. at Que St. The opening of the Potomac Drug Store in this locality is designed to serve all the folks for blocks and blocks around Have your prescriptions fillcd here with new, fresh drugs and at great savings, with Superior Drig too. Toilet Goods Depart your convenience. tasted! COLD DRINKS. 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