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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, b. ) WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1927. MINE WAGE FAILUR MATTER CF DISPUT Bituminous Operators and; Employes Blame Each Other for Blocking Agreement. By the Assoclated Press MIAMI, Fla Febr iners and operator: bituminous field blame cach ot lure to ggree on a e contract which expi ary 23.-—Coa in the r for age to r meeting of the e committecs a formality and of \editled as the of A “secret Mine Workers <cribed nificance—was s sesture in th which failed to harmonize the separating those who 00,000 miners ser differ repre and f operators. » the committee had jurisdic tion over whatev ction the miners take, members said last night that a public statement was not to be ed. Delegates representing ors had quit the scene. indication was given arleys would be resumed. Walkout Set for March 31. Unless some agrecment is effected the miners will quit work on March 3 Last-m and ope they took in t Operators 1linois parted with formal dec will be impossible fc ge contrac competitive continuous scal ith non-union fields, they mu: machinery “to vid the public ace of strikes and shutdowns, and o do such other things for the in ustry as be o 1 upon.” This, they :d, would be accom shed by the commission diators. proposed in the plan, tted by the operators’ wage sc mmittee. that hio de larations that them to sign which do not scessiti competitive have the might decla ub Speaks for Indiana Operators. Phil H. Penna, T tors on the floor of the conference before ournment, said they wanted an a ment now or later, but would a none which would permit er officials to enferce one pretations,” through strikes pensions. 'Later he said the situation was Ty serious. Pennsylvania operators said their views coincided with those of Ohio operators. President John L. Lewis of the Tnited Mine Workers did not issue a statement after adjournment. Before the conference he specified that wage reductions were not sought by any one except “some of the operators,” and that, aside from being no cure for the industry’'s {ils, a revislon downward in wages would lower the living stand- ards of the miners, and was not in ac- cord with the feelings of the American people. SURVEY COAL SITUATION. Federal Departments Studying Effect of Impending Bituminous Strike. Anticipating a failure of unionized coal mine operators to reach an agree- ment with the miners’ unfon over a new wuge scale, several Government departments have tentatively begun a survey of the situation so far as it affects the publie. Although no official word was forth- coming yesterday, it was indicated that for the present the Federal Gov- ernment will refrain from interfering in the industry. Commerce Department estimates of stocks of bituminous coal on hand in- dicated early this month that consum. ers were in possession of more than the normal soft coal supply, and that stocks were going up. ZIHLMAN INTRODUCES - FREE BOOK MEASURE Would Supply Pupils in Junior and Senior Schools With Text Books. Chairman Zihlman of the House Dis- trict committee today introduced a bill to provide books and educational supplies free of charge to the pupils of_the public schoois of the District. He pointed out that text books and supplies have been furnished pupils in the elementary schools since 1891. Prior to that time, and practically ~ince the authorization of the public school system books and supplies were furnished free of charge to pupils whose parents were not financially able to purch: them. In 1891 the system of furnishing all pupils in the first four grades with books and other supplies was inaugu- rated and since then has been grad- ually extended until for many years all pupils attending the elementary Schools have been supplied out of public funds. The Zihiman bill tion to extend this system to pupils in the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades of junior and senior high ) proposes legisla- s estimated that cost of introducing and supplies for high schools will be something o $242,000, of which amount approximately § for supplies. After the troduction the unnual required to maintain would be npproximat which $45.000 would the original free text books original appropriation this system be for d nitary STAUNTGHN MAN ELECTED. Special Dispatch to The Sta STAUNTON, Va.. Approximately 1 nk employes in the ter: group 3 of the Virginia Bankers socla vention Yeste city risonburg was ¢ Price of Lurs Lext ye xmall ‘max 5.3 ed Mr and uary 23 ftic and covered by and next president Har year dent treasn 115 composed of on Genrry of Moun: Merchant” of Avli N. Berru of Harrison ims of Winchester Ninety-four yresented at the convention Kills Wife and Self. TOLEDO, Ohio, February Jtevenge for sending him to the work use beating her caused to s commit _ suicide 5b Henzler voman withdrew ht about his + sentence Bar. he ai¢ re. DO arges and fron o tened her WL deadl central place | s on Mareh | United | no sig- | i WASHINGTON ISIT hun- | the the including | * | tomorrow Ind., 000 will be | in- | replace- | As-| here | aldwell of this | banks | ). — Alex | her ' Lynchburg Police . Arrest Man for Stealing Own Auto Special Dispatch to The Star LYNCHBURG, Va., February 23. “A traveling salesman_reported his automobile stolen in Charlottes- ville several days ago. The in- | formation came to the local police | and within a few hours the auto | was found here. The occupant { parked it and went to a_movie. ‘ Upon returning to the machine he H He sald he was the owner, but the police wouldn't be- \| lieve him. He finally succeeded in | tdentitying himself as the traveling salesman, who sald he had recov- | ered the machine following Its theft at Charlottesville. was arrested MACHADO CANGELS Department of State An- nounges Permanent Aban- donment of Plan. State an- this after- Department of A officially early noon that the visit of President | Machado of Cuba to the United 1 been permanently though no reasor this announcement, | celed. | given i {dispatches from Havana earlier h {stated that the triphhad | poned because of ill health { The White House was informed {however, by Secretary of State Ke {logg that the Cuban government of- ficially had notified him that Presi- {dent Machado’s visit would have to nceled altogether. As a re- arrangements for his reception were dropped. . Guest of Nation. President Machado was to have rived in Key West tomorrow and have been entertained as a_guest of the Nation. In addition to heing re- celved at the White House, Presi- dent and Mrs. Coolidge were later ave returned President Machado's visit at the Cuban embassy. A | funcheon in his honor had been ar- nged at the Pan-American Union nd he was to have been the guest of the Gridiron Club at its dinner Saturday night. Despite the fact the cancella- tion, no change whatever, in plans for the reception that is to- be given at the Cuban Embassy to- morrow evening by the Ambassador of Cuba and Senora de Farrara. The reception is to begin at 10 o'clock and is expected to be one of the brilliant diplomatic affairs of the season, the day being the anniversary of the be- ginning of the revolution that culmi- nated in Cuba’s freedom. MELLON DENIES PARIS DEBT MOVE T0 BEGIN PAYMENT (Continued from First Page.) heen post- I be ez { sult of that negotiations have been going on at Washington respecting a provi- sional payment on the Mellon-Berenger accord and said that he hoped the proposition of the French government to make payments for 1927 on the “CRIBBING™ RUMOR Class Reported Alleged Ir- regularities in Tests. Rear Admiral Louis M. Nulton, su- | perintendent of the United States | Naval Academy, | that irregularities in the third class i mathematies examination of December have been in proc.ss of investigation for a month. In a formal statement the admiral { called atten that the irregularities had been 1 t to jhe the administration by the third class itself and nformation given ‘“‘was ordance with the darc and tradi ervice.” | | attention ¢ { members ¢ ithat the voluntary and | keeping of t { tions of the naval Student Reported Rumors. sl Louis M. Nulton, superin the Naval Academy yeste jonissued ihe “The stude body protect standards of the Academy and to maintain its integrity, {reported to the administration a belief jof the existence of sume irregularity | in accordance with the keeping of the ! mathematics examination of December 1926. {third class itself, was voluntary {in accardance with the keeping of the andards and tradition of the naval ‘“Immediate investigation was start- and thr frank and unreserved swers of ev midshipman_ inter- ated the following facts were e: ed { 1t o membér of the second clas; ia class senior to the third clas lthrough some unauthorized and from an unathori irce ob- tained information in connection with {the third class mathematics examina | tion for December and had disposed of this without disclosing its source or {its definite character to four or five {members of the third class for finan- | cial gain to himself. Source not Known. Che source of this information is not at present definitely known and is under further investigation. The character of the information is definitely established as being a por- tion of the December third class mathematics examination. The num ber of third classmen involved in these preliminary transactions not over five. They received the info mation as dope. The extent, if an to which they believed it was irregular or unlawful is in process of inves tigation. “It is customary during the month, as a matter of fundamental instru tion in all academic departments for various instructors, either under the direction of the head of their depar ment or on. their own initiative, to point out te.their classes what are considered the ,fundamental princi ples involved in the month’s work, but to avoid giving any definite in- formation as to what W examination, merely e fundamental prnciples. “This procedure, an authori desirable one, has been in e at the Naval Academy for years. It is known to the midship men and it is quite customary and proper for midshipmen to among themselves as to what various instructors have emphas cising the NULTON CONFIRMS firmed yvesterday ! v following | itself, desiring to vall This information came from the ! confer |+ d as being | the most important principles of the month’s work. This information is known as ‘dope,’ and the current method of putting a_ question for one midshipmz> to ask another, ‘Have you any deope? It appears t the same basis as the payments to Great Britain would be accepted. Washington Proposal Favorable. He reminded the committee that the debts in quéstion were payable at sight in their totality and that the ar. rangements made with London and proposed to Washington must conse. quently he considered favorable, since the; out abandoning the right to approve or reject them. It is exclusively an administrative prerogative to decide how money, available for foreign debts, shall be applied, the premier declared. He pointed out that payments already have been made to other nations under the same conditions as proposed to | Great Britain and the United Stat: “If we offered to pay amounts cor- responding to the first annuities under the debt settlements,” he said. *It is because we have never contested our debts, but have, on the contras always declared our intention to pay to the limit. Our creditors could, in the absence of agreements, demand immediate payment of the whole sum due, since they hold our paper pay- able at sight.’ Damper on Opposition. The premier’s statement ha a damper on elements in the chamber which had talked of opening an offen- sive against the government. Vin nt Auriol, leader of a group which had intended to challenge the govern- ment on the question today, an- nounced in the lobbies that he had no_intention of bringing the matter before the chamber. { The premier's proposal to the American Government, already agreed to with Great Britain, is that France pay the first installments under the Washington debt funding accord be- fore its ratification without militating against the right of the French Parlia- {ment to accept or reject the agree- | ment. S McDERMOTT RITES SET. | %F\meral Services Tomorrow for Hyattsville, Md., Man. February r George W i o died will be he resi- B Hall, followed b ome'’s C: i uneral h wott, 7 Monday night | held tomorrow morning ience of daughter, M No. 1 ficld avenue, equiem s at St. y i C the Rev. Andrew J. r, officiating Interment t Mount Olivet Cemeter' MceDermott, a native of Wash- H n, had resided in attsville 44 W .\ mb nd tinner. ter, X S MeDer- Washington MceDermott hiters and a "h are s. H. E. Crown of ton and Mrs. Mary E. Hall Mary C. Darnall, both of agd John R. McDermott burg. THIRD VSON IS KILLED. Virginia Mother Receives News of Kentucky Mine Fatality. | NORTON, Va., February 23 (®).— For the third time within a year Mrs. Beck Osborne, mother of 12, has lost -|a son in the coal mines. Yesterday she received a message stating that her son, Robert Lee Osborne, 21, was crushed to death by i|a fall of slate at Greasy Creek, Ky. Her other two sons were killed in the same manner. A month ago Mrs. | Osborne’s home was destroyed by fire. which consumed all the fam o) gave Parliament time to «on-| sider carefully both settlements with-} information disseminated by the sec- ond classman trickled out o a smail degree to a few miashipmen, received it in the customary tu specific information Such edge that it w: bearing on the examination. cases are without criminality. who | as l . ‘dope’ and who had no idea or knowl- | Recommended for Dismissal. | “The evidence as to the unwar- ranted source from which the second classman obtained his information is as yet only circumstantial. There is no doubt, however, as to the character of his information or of his intent, and he has been recommended for dis- missal. “A searching investigation into the entire situation, during which the mid- shipmen have co-operated with the administration to the fullest extent by frank and unreserved answers, has shown that the integrity of the stu dent body is excellent; that the situs tion in its serious phase is limited to bout six or eight midshipmen, in which the question of their intent is at present under investigation. “Attention is invited to the fact that the suspiclous circumstances were originally reported by the stu- dent body itself, and a most se h- ing examination, which has been in process for a month, has confirmed the superintendent’s belief in the in tegrity of the student body as a whole, that its standards high and that they @hemselves intly guard them. “Upon the completion of the details of the investigation a full report will be made to the department.” DOCTORS TO FIGHT FAITH-HEALING LAW More Than 200 Expected at An- napolis, Md., Tomorrow to | Oppose Legislation. Special Dispatch to The St BALTIMORE, Febr and sur; Doc- over sposed practice from all [ the 1 to the medical would make legal treatment “by spiritual | laws whic means or D More than 200 medical men are ex- j row to comt ate. The bill is sponsored chiefly b ientists. Under its pro- aith healing” could in the proposed from the stand has no interest mendment _except point of public health,” declared Di Frederic V. ier of this city, ch man of the legislative commitice. Tt is the opinion of the faculty that the public health would not be amendment were passed general public re is on through the enforcer of public health measures that epidemics h been stamped out and it has become possible for people to live together in comparative safety in large commu- I think the :nt medical practice law, tahich designates what qualifications on shall possess before he is given a lice e to practice medicine, Will be practically nullified by the pro: posed amendment if it becomes a law. Under its provisions any one could open an office and collect fees by law as long as he confines himself to healing by spiritual means or prayer.” ! i O | Nearly 5,000 square vards of lin- oleum made in America was sent to other parts of the world in the past “faith | if this | {bill, which is now before the Presi-| i the be on the | FARM BILL PLEAS SWAMP PRESIDENT Many Telegrams and Visitors| Received at White House For and Against Plan. As the time for the President to de- cide the fate of the McNary-Haugen | farm relief bill neared, lines were| drawn correspondingly tighter today in the vigorous campaign that is being waged to sway the President both to sign and to veto the measure. The bill's backers, especially the agricultural Interests of the Middle West and the Southwest, are leaving nothing undone to let President Cool- ifige know that the farme: want the bill to become a law. They sent their | farm organization officials to the White House to see the President; they i have kept a constant stream of call- {ers from the House of Reprsenta- i the Senate going to and ! o Executive offices, -and today they were smothering the President beneath avalanche of telegrams, | Backers Predict Approval. Both Senator McNary, author of the Lill on the Senate side, and Repre- sentative Cyrenus Cole, Republican, of whose district immediately ad-| that of Representative Haugen, co-author of the bill on the House side led at the White House today and : ng the President’s office pre- dicted that he would sign the meas- | uire. They both agreed that his mind is { absolutely open on the question either of approval or veto, and that he is only i g for the views of members of binet to whom the bill has been | ed ! Cole was in President Coolidge’s office with Senator Stewart, Repub-| lican, of lowa, for some time. Both | vid that they had told President Cool- idge that the farmers want the Mc- Nary-Haugen bill to become a law and pointed out that they need the relief it would provide. Mr. Cole added that although the President had not dis- closed what stand he would take in the end, he had shown “a real desire gn the bill. to the talk that has been going around in some circles that the Crisp measure might be rushed through as a substitute In the last hours of this Congress_if the President should veto the Me: Mr. Coie sald, “that is all foolish. There will be no farm legislation at this Congress it the McNary-Haugen bill fails, and I believé President Coolidge would like to see the farmers given relief. an Fee Is Dividing Point. ' “For that matter, the only real dif-| ence between the McNary-Haugen | dent, having been passed by both| tHouses of and the Crisp bill, which is in the committee room, is the equalization fee feature ¢ the former. It has been sald that this feature puts the Government in business of buying and selling | foodstuffs. If that is true the Su. preme Court will promptly nulli ture of the bill and it will then | ome virtually identical to the Crisp bill which some persons have said Uresident Coolidge would be friendly | toward. “I believe the President understand: this and I believe he will let the! Supreme Court decide. 1 would like to see him sign the bill, I know that the farmers of Towa want him to sign and 1 believe that his mind is ab. olutely open on the question. Fur rmore, 1 believe that President Coolidge, for many reasons, would like to sign the bill too.” Senate Stewart was standing near ¢ when Mr. Cole made this statment d later added his own wish to have he bill become a law. Both Senator stewart and Mr. Cola said, however, that they had not come to the White | House for the express purpose of dis. | sing the McNary-Haugen farm re- | bill, but sald that the matter had | heen brought up while they were in the President’s office. y Did Not Discuss Bill. Senator McNary said that he had not discussed the bill with President | oolidge. He was in the President’s | office only a short time, but upon leaving said that he was confident President Coolidge would give the measure his_approval in the end. Senator Mc said that there is nothing objectionable in the measure, and that its becoming a law is vital to one of the Nation’s greatest indu tries—agriculture. The farmers, Sena- tor McNary said, are looking to the White House for the word that will | give .them the help that they must have to go ahead. o In the meantime, no word what- ever has come from the President himself. The White House has been wrapt in characteristic silence on the matter. When newspaper men in quired as to whether or not Secretary of Agriculture Jardine had returned the bill to the White House with his comment as to its usefulness, they were told that there was mnothing to be said on the measure at this tim Presumably the Treasury, the Depart. ment of Commerce and the Depart- ment of Justice are also examining the various phases of the measure as they affect their particular viewpoints. FIVE NEWSPAPER MEN FREE AFTER DAY IN JAIL Baltimore Judge Says Action Had Been Forced by Emergency Grow- ing Out of Whittemore Case. By tho Associated Prese. BALTIMORE, February 23.—Three editors and two photographers emerged from the Baltimore city jafl vesterday after having served sen- tences of one day each for contempt of court in connection with the pub- lication_of pletures of the Richard Reese Whittemore murder trlal last Summer. They were Harold Elliston, former managing editor of the Balti more News; Harry Clark, formerly city editor of the News; Earl C. De- land, managing editor of the Balti- more American, and Willlam Sturm and William Klemm, photographers for the two papers. They had ap- pealed and lost. Judge Eugene posed the sentences in Criminal Court, said, in commenting on the ing of the sentences, that “these cases were thrust upon me in'a sud- den emergency arising out of the trial of the Whittemore case. It re. quired prompt and decisive action. Very able lawyers had grave doubts, oth as to the legality of the action and as to the right of appeal. “The Baltimore News and Amerl- can were honest in their desire to test both of these legal questions. They were given a full hearing and ac-| corded every opportunity to do so. ! They have done so. In so doing they | Iso have performed a service to the profession--their profession and ours.” Judge O'Dunne added that it was a egal controversy, not a personal is-| sue.” O'Dunne, who im- Peace Justice 25 Years Resigns. Special Dispatch 1o The Star. 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