Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 13, 1922, Page 1

Cnflm.FwPuuConmefihCfinfofS&flnng’ ‘skirts of Kanses City. Shopmen—Claim Strike WnC-llededfinmeof Bo-rdundhsmbNotOneForConnderMBetween Carriers and Strikers—Jewell Refuses to Comment on Executives’ Answer-—Road Heads Agree Not to Require <nicago, July 12.—(By The A. P.)— ‘While flatly refusing to meet .the lead- ers of 400,000 striking.shopmen to dis- cuss peace proposals, rallway executives toniight left open the doof for a settle- ment of the strike through the United States railroad labor beard. Immediately after reaching an agree- ment with the heads of the "'Big' Four” brotherhoods not to require their them- bers to do any of the work of striking shopmen, the executives began consid- eration of a peace programme submitted to them by Ben W. Hodpér, chairman of the labor board, after a conference with B, M. Jewell, head of the striking shep- men. The agreement’ reached ‘at a con- ference- of representatives of the broth- hoods at the office of Samuel M. Fel- ton, president of the Chicago and Great Western -rafiway. He said the roads will be notified to Stop the practicis to which the brothet- hoods' objected. The eéxecutives’ answer asserted that the strike was-called in.defiance of the board and that, therefore, any conference ween the executives and the strik- s would not be' “permissible or. tolera- It means flatly, No,” declared Mr. Feiton when ‘asked regarding the deci- bibh reached by the executives as he left the conference room. “It may be final, but’it’s only final for. today, declared. Mr. Jewell when the’ iext of thé letter was read to him over the telephone. He refused further com- ment, declaring that he could not speak #ntil he had heard :from Mr. Hooper, - ®ho had opened negotiations with him. In railway circies the pellef was. ex- Ppréssed that the mere opening of negoti- &tlons was a long step toward a pehce- tul setlement and that the moves of the fay- he back iInto the lap of the labor board in the exact position in which it had rest- ed when Mrl Jewell allowes ‘= S atrike or- dér to go into effect on July 1, after ig- :vn:’. a ;uml:l‘or::‘m appear before the o8, lway cxm and expluln‘—ll “He later 0:&- however, m}. e was qye to :uu i too._ late fi) that the meeting was hel sllow him to_ withdraw hig strike order and that to have ‘attemped to do so would have resulted in chaos and - possi- ble bloodshed. Authoritative reports declare that the shopmen's programme for settiement of the stri clude an agreement to abol- ish the farming out of shop work to contraetors, the revizion of pay sched- ules in respect to overtime, permission for re-hearing of the whole. wage con- |- travétsy by the labor board and the ereation by the railways of boards of adjustment provided for in the transpor- tation Meanwhile, outbreaks between strike tympathizers, railway guards and feder- il marshals were reported In Increasing numbers and annullment of trains con- tinued in many. sections of the country. The letter, signed by Samuel M. Felton, President. of the Chicago and - Great Western railway, L. F. Loree, of the Dejagare and Hudson, B. F. Bush of'the Missouri Pacific and Whiteford R." Cole, of the Nashville, Chattanooga .and St. Louls, foliows in full: Replying to your inquiry of Messrs. Bush, .Cole, Loree and Feiton on the oc- tasion, of your call this morning, we beg % say that while we, chaXman of tonference committees relating to »uil- road mattérs In the several sections of the country, ‘are without authority to weak for individual companles, we have Do reason 'to believe that u meeting be- tween the rallroad companies and repre- sentatives of the striking employes -can bé arranged under present conditions. “This strike is a refusal to accapt the resuits of the arbitration of the United States railroad labor board, pursuant to law, after exhaustive hearings, in which ll parties concerned were fully heard. On Jane 30, last, the board, of which you are chairman, calied a public hear- ing by citation 10 the proper representa- tHves of carriers and organizations. na #d in the order of the board for the pu pose of an inquiry initiated by theboard under’ Section 313 of the transportation @act, 1920, - Notwithstanding the full re- sponse by carriers to this citatian, rep- esentatives of the organizations, mem- bers of which are now on strike, refus- &4 to attend, and persisted in their re- fusal to. do_ so and thereby, aid ‘the board in the performance of Its public duty in the further inquiry into the cir- cumstances relating to the strike then threatened. “After respectful consideration of your Inquiry, the conclusion seems . necessary to follow, because-of the strike thereaft- ér called in deflance of the decision and order of the United States railroad labor board—decisign No. 1,306—and the con- trolling proviions of the transportation act, that the {sste thus raised is not one for consideration between the carriers and representatives of the orginized srafts on strike except through further orderly processes before . the = United . Blates raliroad labor board as contem- plated by the transportation act. “This conclusion is confirmed by the statements which have appeared -in the public press to the efféct that these rep- resentatives are only willing fo abandon this strike and return to serviee on the eondition that they be relieved from ac- ceptance of the mature decision of the labor board. in. the' case ref. to. No tonference for that purpose is in our Judgment r!mmle mor. tolerabie, be- sause it would. place the ‘carriers par- teipating therein in' apparent. co-oper- tion with thome on strike in seekingto ind means to subvert the decision of the Jabbr board. “On the other hand a pru-tt recall st the strike order would hermit the re- sumption of former methods of confer- snce and pérmit the consideration of xny matters which tatives of employ- es might desire’ to submit. “However, it should be added, we have no reason todoubt the m l"l'DOnn by the carriers of the country to any _United: sut-,uurnu resuited in throwing the case |’ SAYS PROCLAMATION 3 OVERLOOKS FUNDAMENTALS ‘Washington, July 12—The executive proclamation warning against interfer- ence with movement of interstate trans- portation. in connection with the raflroad strike and particularly against inter- ference with the United States mails, was declared tonight by Samuel Gomp- ers, president of the American Kedera- tion of Labor, to be' “caleulated to make a fetish of the trunsportation act and of the raiiroad labor board.” Referring to the injunction against in- terference, Mr. Gompers' statement de- clared that' “railroad workers who with- {draw- thelr ‘services” necessarily affect “this movement of equipment.” “The president!s proclamation,” the statement continued, “implies that the workers haye mot proceeded in accord- ance with the law and that in stobping work they have gone outside the law. The fact is that the law specificaliy gives to; the workers the right to cease work in_the event that they cannot accept the award. of .the railroad labor board. The. findings of. the board are not deci- ons which ‘must be obeyed. They are awards which the board hopes both em- ployers and ‘employes will accept, but Which ‘neither is bound:to accept, * “The president's proclamation overlooks fundamentals, It is an effort to sanctify and crown ‘with power the railroad labor poard. 1t‘is a - denial ~of demiuvcratic methods. . It is an effort to perpetuate the impossible.© The one’way to operate the raflroads in safety {is to revive joint ne- gotiations, bring justice to the workers and thus make possible a condition of safety of railroad equipment.” RAILROAD MAN'S ‘HOUSE ATTACKED BY GANG Buftalo, N. Y., July 12—The home of Andrew Millet, a railroad man“in_ Gar- denvyille, near here, was: attacked:ear!y toddy by 2 gong. of men who huried bflck.l and stenel throurh windows and .down 3 door. . Several railroad f;v-e in the Millet home, one of them an in the Pennsylvania rallr e i car shops, who has been working since the. shopmen's strike began. The ‘sher- iff's office was notified but when depu- ties arrived at the scene, there was no} sign’ of the attacking party, which it was reported fied in automobiles. The home of George Gibbons, a Lehigh Valley railroad foreman in South Ogden street, was stoned last night. ORDERED TO CEASE LOCOMOTIVE BEPAIRS ‘Washington, July 12.—Members of all unions affiliated with .the metal trades department ‘of the American Federation of Labor were instructed in orders sent out today from the headgharters here that ne further repair work will be au- thorized on locomotives coming from rallroads on which strikes are in pro- gress to outside shops employing union labor. The, order, sent out by A. J. Berres, secretary-treasurer of the department, was to be effective at once. Identical copies went to the presidents of all inter- nationals affiliated with the metal trades group,” who were “instructed to motify their Jocals. P TEXAS MOB ATTACKS FIFTY-ONE MEN Denison; Texas, _July 12—Fifty-one men were attacked by a mob here early today. They. included forty-eight being brought to Denison to be sworn in. gs United States deputy marshals. and four railroad guards, according to_information | available here late today. First reports that some of the men attacked were com- ing to take the places of striking shop- men were incorrect. One guard was shot and wounded and sixteen other men beaten by the mob, alleged to have been composed - of ‘strikers and their sympa- thizers. The attack occurred while the men, - just arriving from Dallas, were marching from the station to the Mis- souri, Kansas and Texas railroad shops. ROADS WON'T TAKE STRIKING SHOPMEN BACK Boston, July 12.—Striking shopmen will not be re-employed on New England rail- roads except to fill vacancies, officials of | the three railroads with terminals in this city announced tonight. - Thousands of men, they said, had accepted offers of permanent employment since the strike began, and these would be retained no matter what settlement was relched with the shopmen. The New York, New Haven l.nd Hart- ford railroad hired 111 new men here today, bringing the total takon on by this road since the commencement of the strike to 1,639, HURRY CALL FOR TROOPS AT SAGINAW ¥ '!ulmw Mich., July 12—A reques! ‘sent ' to . Governor = Grossbeck al !Anl'h’l‘ late tonight for state troops to- maintain order here when a threat-|' ening crowd, estimated to number near: ly ' 1,000 persons, gathered about the Pere Marauette yards., One report, which officials could not at first confirm, ‘was that strike sympathizers had brok- en ‘into the Pere Marquette round house, seized strike-breakers brought here by the road, and marched them toward the !-clmw river, WILL -PULL OFF TEN CllclN!\A’l! MAIL TRBAINS . Cinclnnatl, 0., July 12.-R! N, Blerd, mperimendmt of mails in this territory, announced late today that 10 mail trains! out of .Cincinnati will be taken off ut once, according to notice served un him by raliroads aperating the trains, AVERT CLERES’ STRIKE - ° S ON NEW YORK CENTRAL Nw York, July-12.—Officials of the 4 l'w !ork Cem.n.l rallroad, after a oo _Kansas City, Mo., July 12--Five pn. sons were killed and forty. injured, m _of them seriously, when me,lfi::?u cific” Seenic Limited Flier, bound. from St. Louis. to - Califérhia, - colli head-on ‘withi a local freight. train. ngr here tonight. Persons who. were, in’ the- wn& be- ®ieved. other déad were under a:passeng- er eolmh which turnéd’ over at the side ‘track. €. L. ‘Curmm, of Kansas C}fid. ensinoer on the treight train, was was running an hmlr late on its schedule. It left St. Louls at nine oclock this morning, after gonnecting | Wwith a Pennsylvania fast train from Néw: |Yurk 2nd Philadelphia. Most of the | official said. * q Misundersiood orders are beieved to be the cause of the wreck. GERMANY UNABLE TO MEET JULY PAYMENT ¢ Paris, Jnly 12 (By the A. P.)—Ger- many served notice on the ajlied powers through the reparations commission {o- day that she could no longe obligations of any sort, W ing out of ‘the Versailles treal; tions, undertaken by acceptance, of the London ultimatum’ of May 5, 1921, or arfanged by the schedule of: payments drawn up by the reparations’ commis- =fon on ‘March 21, 1922. ¥R The depreciation of the mark on for- eign exchanges is given as the reason for the impossibiiity of Gérmany to pay, and for her request that she be re- Heved of cash engagemerts, including the payment of 42,000,000 gold marks on Saturday, as well as all subsequent payments in 1922, 1923, and 1924 The German riote submitted o the reparations commiission makes mno men- tion of Gérmany's cash payments after 1924, but asks that the negotiations for, a foreign loan, in- terrupted at Paris last month, which|jzeq Gérmany blames for the continued fall of the mark, be resumed at the earliest possible date, or a findncial, economic and ] catastrophe in Germany is evelop. The reparations commission swill de- cide tomorrow whether Germany must meet ghe July 15 payment, byt will 'make no ruling as :to a furthér moratorfum mittee The under for a years on« guarantees, now in Berlin. commission this afternoon took consideration Germany’s request moratorium of two and a halt on - cash 'reparation payments. which was contained _in - the German}, note. It is understood that.the comm! sion ' tentativeiy determn(d upen * the i‘l"""‘"‘ de; o | moratorium, will furnish- detals on the lflmnclql situation -in Germany.’ In rep- arations circles, however, the feeling is becoming . stronger that some rellef i the form of a moratorium on cash pay: ments will be granted Germany, ‘a m jority of the members of the commission seeming to favor such a step. The Germans asked to be relieved uf next Saturday’s payment on' the ground that thé money was badly ‘needed to pay for foreign cereal§ soon to be-pur- chased in order to insuré enough breaeé for the people. In the note, the text of which was publiished tonight, Germany points out that in May 1921, the rate of sixty pa- per marks - to the: dollar formed the basis of fulfillment of reparations pay- ment, while’ on July ‘6, last, the mark had declined to 500 for the doliar. In order . to. effect the payment ' of 720,000, 000 gold marks during this year® the sum - of = 80,000,000,000° paper . marks would ‘be necessary, the note held. TWO RESCUED FROM WRECKED HYDRO-AIRPLANE Atlantic -City, N. J,, July 12.—Racing across the ‘inlet in his motorboat. Frits Dayton today rescued Earl Beers, an avi- ator, of Union Hill, N. J., and his sister- in-law, Mrs. Anna Ciausen, from a wreck- ed bydro-afrplane a moment - before - it sank. Beers flew to the reson last night from Union Hill, bringing .two members of the Elks to the reunion of the grand lodge. This morning he gave a performaice of stunt flying. This afternoon he took his sister-in-law for .a snin. When they.were over. th center of the city the engine went dead. Beers made frantic efforts to start the motor, but his gasoline tank was empty. In landing, the plane struck the water with such force that it was wrecked and began to sink at once. g Dayton, seeing the plight of the couple, started down the inlet and reached’ the scene a moment before the waves closel over the plane. Neither ‘was injured. MURDER CBAiIGES AGAINST MINEBS ARE QUASHED Charleston, W.. Va., 'July 12.—Indiect- ments against members ‘and officers of the United. Mine Workers.. contamning counts of murder, arson and conspiracy, in connection - with indusrial ‘trouble :in Mingo county, were quashed by Judge R. D. Bailey of the Mingo ‘county - eireuit court, according to' word received -here tonight from Williamson. The action. was taken at the:request of the prosecuting at- torney, who claimed insufficient evidence." { A ference with representatives: of the clerks’: union, announced ' tonight - that they reached an agreement: which would avert a threatened strike..by the clerks, station-men ;nd freight-handlers-of - the road. The igeemem was aaid to_cover va- cations; ‘sick leave and wages and to provide that there would be no lreight hlndling by outside contractors. TIOOPB WITHDRAWN FROM BLOOMI‘\GTO‘( .SHOPS Bloomington, July 12— (By —DMcLean county today began puttin, ‘government back on a peacs time basis preparatory to trelievinz the Hlinois Na- tional Guard of the tuk of keeping or- der._here. . Sheriff Morrison, welth v deputies;’ 00k -over the-duty of guarding the Chi. i cago - and Alton 'yards, and the troop: swere withdrawn to the rallroad shops. Their withdrawal from the. yard -dis- trict staved ofl the threatensd walkout’ of engineers, firemen, trainmen and con- ‘ductors, who had refused: 1o také out the _trains under trpop protection. The' four brotherhoods ordered: their . members back to work and freight urv}co was re. sumed this afternoor = . .. . intention . regarding| until it receives the report of|the com-|g from ‘Germany fo: ltaly, for insist. 00.000 . gold 12}12 % ach _| something more nh-~ BI 71:35,«00 dt- m&m At 3 connty. i, for | ap;mxhutexy smqn 000, passengcrs were from the east, &' Tailroad | 3 eft $515,000. Applica- “tion for . judicial - sememem ‘was ' made Tugsday, o _Government declsion with respect .to the legality of.proposed.-merger of seven Breat steel. companies probably wili be made within the next few days it w learnéd -at: the department of justice. Effective ald .for the United States by Cuba, in case. of an attack on the United :States, is. provided..in-a bill m- troduced. in: tke -Cuban house . of repre- sentatives. Fifts four tralns. have been’ taken ‘of the Wabash Railway, it was announced, Officials said .the curtaiiment was due to lack ‘of coal.coming from ' Kentucky and net due.to. Lhe atrlke Attorney oenenl Npwisn of New York hastaken steps to test in the United States. tupreme eourt the constitution- ality of tht Pennsylvania statute impos- ing a tonnage tax ox anthfacite coal. — Federal investigation of the practica- bility’ of " the Columbia Basin, reclama- tion projéct, at” Washington, was author- 1Zed "by the senate today with a bill ap- prnpru.un; $100,000 to” defny the cost. The estate of Henry Clay Frick is re- Quired to-pay ‘an additional sum of 31,- .188,248.16 in inheritance ‘tax to the. state: of Penmylvnma in a court’ decls- ton.” luly _two ”rlm = Canada had n- an $1,000,000 in the paid taxes oh incomes of more than $1, 009,000, said & sia(ement made in the hcusé of commons, - An Imnm’tlnt Bt ment or gold bu'lion hich the. uop.nhn recrulting % I be resumed. . Sixfy- five thousand men will havé to’enlist or ré-enlist in the coming year to keep the Dy ‘up the 86,000 men »aufimx—lzed Jaries C. Wilson, allexed to be known in parts‘of Neéw England as'Dr. James C. Baker, was held for the federal grand jury at Portland, Me., on_ the charge of having nareotics - in <his possession. = He was unable to’ furnish nou bail, “Sunady goit puyl-, was put under the ban in Concord; N. H, by a letter sent by County Solicitor Herbert W. Rainis to officers: of the Beaver Meadow Golf| club, warning them that such Sunday employment was clearly unlawful, Deputy sheriffs resumed eviction op- erations at Lonsdalé, R. L, when the families of fivé “Strikers ~ formeér em- ployes of the' Lonsdale company, were turned out of.their homes and their fur- niture placed in‘the- yards. Grorge T. Plunkett, a direstdr of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company and retired textile manufdcturer, died:at his home in Pittsfield,. folldwing a paralyic utroke He was in his 77th yéar.. - et on the state nquor‘enffldbment act inf Massachusetts has’ “th? required numben.of signatures Suve’ it piace on the bnl]ot lnd whkmn.:e 'file t P M. nmmveu is h‘- udo-n condi~ tion and his wife s slightly injured ar- ter .an.attack upon them- ! a.-blnd of men at the Tesidence: of “ physle:an & | where they made !heir tmme at Birm- ingham, Al. R The !tlb.lrtl National Bllk has au- thorized an increéase of :$1,000,000 in its surplus by transferring that amount from. undivided profits. The Seaboard's capital and n\rmus now:amount to $10,- 000,000. . Bemewed activities by the rebels are reported in an official state- ment. A Spanish- convoy was attacked at Gorgues, in the Tetuan area, and ‘in the enaum‘ fight the Spanish lost eleveh killed and five wounded. - AMERICAN BALLOON TEAMS . < LEAVE FOR SWITZERLAND New York, July 12—Two of Ameri- Ca’s three 'international balloon teams left today for Switzeriand on the liner St. Paul, firm 4n the belief that one of the three American baloons will win the James Gordon- Benneétt international- loon ‘race cup.. The'two ‘teams, which went today, represent ‘the ‘army and navy, the civilian ‘créw. - having + gone from ‘Quebec last week. The'army- team is’made up of Major Westover, . pilot ; - Lieutenant C.. F. Bond, eutenant Willlam K. Conndlly, Pem nid, ; operations offi- cer and Lieutenant Wflum'i:' Huffman, Omaha, gound Officer. * The’ navy téam includes fhieutenant ‘Reed; pilot; Chief, Rigger - William . 'Shade, « New. _Jersey, ‘and..; Commander. J. ‘P. Norfleet, Washington, terndte: and - operations™ officer.” ‘The, clyillan team now at sea is made up. of H. E. Hunnewell, of. ,St. Louis- and “Thomas P. Wade of, Chicago. For. .Lientenant .Connolly the trip 1s than-a Journey ito an lntun;tlo\nlnnu “H¢ was married yes- New~ York.to Miss Mary . osoyh, of_Pittston, Pa., and is making 2 hbn‘echn trip of his voyage. Mrs. ‘Westover, Mrs. Reed and l@ru Norfleet are also, in .the party. onfilu lu N nqxl;movr DEAD Blnb\lry. cofm July 12.—Samue] Barnum, 93, o F‘“un sithofities ' took Tecelp: a: X Fontler,’ was ‘missed. after lieved to be ‘“dead.”™ s The children were playing mtl ‘in back yard.: The shell is belleved to have either been set -off by the hot sun or toc have been struck by one of the victims with a croquet mallet. Windows |/ ‘within ‘a _radius of ‘two blocks of ‘thef explosion were shattered. ~ ~Practically ail of the clothing was blown off the bodies of the children. Fragments of it lodged in trees and house tops. in the vicinity. The bodies were horribly mutilated, but identification Wu possible in every instance. = - One of ‘the first physicians on the scene was Dr. F. W. Jones. ‘Lifting a covecing which had been placed over oné of the forms, ‘he recognized the body of his 12 year ‘old daughter, Vivian, by means of an adhesive dressing he had placed on-a) cut on her leg barely a haif hour before. He-did not know his daughter was in the group and . was almost. overcome with srief. . The bod‘és of the children were found apparently at-places near where. they had | heen standing in their croquet game. Near ‘them lay fragments of the croquet mai- lets. Several of the balls used in the game ‘were blown'to.bits.and the wickets were !nm from the ground. = The - sheil ‘apparently - let .go without warning. Two carbenters ‘at work on a hiouse next ‘door to ‘the W n home said. that a second before the onation they had heard the voices of the children ‘at play. ‘The two men were the first to redch the scene, ‘They were greeted by a scene of utter desolation. . The Workman house is of concrete ‘and the concussion had reduced thé entire rear of the house to powder. ‘On the ground lay the eight bodies and ovee all a gray pall of concrete dust. was beginning to settle. Fragments of clothing were suspended | from trees and housetops. Two automo- bile tires which had ‘been on the back porch were blown to the roof of a build- ing two hundred fret away. Biocks of concrete were blown against!neighboring and into the streets: and surroun “asign of life.in ont t.\m “boy mmm being taken into ambu lers were in many cases stantiy and without suffering. ~ The shell was what'is commoniy known as a “dud.”” The projectile had been fired from one of ‘the six-inch howitzers during target practice of the 104th Field artiliery at Pine Plains reservation last summer. It had not exploded by fuse or contact and lay, in the sand, fully charged, when Mr. Workman found. it and brnugm it home as a souvenir. OF MONEY PAID FOR STOCKS ASKS RETURN Boston, July 12.—Restitution of $14,- 000,000 allegecto 'hawvs been ifuid fy more than 60,000 persons for stock in the H. V. Greene Company, the Commer- cial Finance corporation, the - Mutual Finance corporation and the First Peo- ples’ Trust, was asked in a bill in equity filed in supreme court today by coun- sel for the Boston Legal Aid society. The bill, which joined as defendants the directors and trustees of the com- paiiies, both as officers and individuals, asked -distribution of all the ilabe assets of the companies and appointment of recelvers for them. Surreme Court Justice Jenney granted temporary in- Junctions returnable next Tuesday re- straining ‘41l the defendants from dis-| posing of any of their assets, paying dividends, transferring stock or destroy- ing or concealingscorporate and trust records. The plaintiffs in a separate motion re- quested a speécial precept of attachment to the amount of $15,000,000 against de fendants and - defendant .companies. All the banks in Boston were named as trus- tees in order that -the -individual bank accounts might be reached. Writs. were also sought.attaching the real estate of the. various defendants. The court post- poned decision on this motion until to- morrow. ATLANTA ELKS’' CHOICE FOR 1923 CONVENTION Atlantie City, N. J., July 12 was selectéd as next year's place’ for the grand lodge of Elks at to- day’'s session of the annual rounlon of the organization. Other features of today's sesslon ‘were the arrival-of a congressional delegat on from Washington, the prize drill by the Elys patrols, and the adoption of the report of the Elks national memorial headquarters commission. The prize drill competition was held the ajrport. _First honors nt to the “Washingtdn Zouaves” from Lodge No. 285, Jackson, Mich. Milwaukee won second place, and the Buffalo team third. ‘The sixty-five senators and congress. men in the Washington delegation will take part in the big pageant tomorrow. k NEW HAVEN YOUTH i % DROWNED nt POND New Haven, July 12. :k cramps after & dive into the pond u ‘the old shipyard .at the foot of Water street, Lereto Ursinl, 17, wa$ drowned in sight of-a number of companions today. The youth- was’seen to disappear by his friends and when he failed to come up they summoned William Collier from a | lumber yatd nearby. Collier brought the ‘body to the surface but not before life was extinct. The lad ls survived by ‘his parents, ‘sevén brotYers and three sis ters: 2 EUBT !EBVE “TONG* literally -blown .to " pieces and died ~in- mina m mdsy submitted a response to the go rament’s offer of arbitratio in" the coll situation that Prelld! Harding was said to u:ud as a com- plete accepta: “Meanwhile nt.;i .miners’ union, and, to Ao the. s coal opera-. degree, “bitpminout tors, continued. to. pursue a policy which high officials decl. was intended to evade or delay an immediate response, and in which officials saw a disposition to reject the - government's settlement ,phcg it “public _opinion . would approve John L. Lewis, president of the Unit- ed Mine Workers of America, and other officials of that organization, called on Secretary Davis today and were under- | stood ‘to be endeavoring to induce the president to make the arbitration propi gals apply, to all the partly unfonized territory as well 25 the mining area shut down by -the bituminous strike. So far as the willingness of anthracite opera- ors to. fettle was concerned, Mr. Lewis said, “arbitration in the anthracite flelds would be ‘considered by the mine workers along, with' the bituminous arbi- tration proposals at ‘the general policy committee meeting Saturday. Responses from the bituminous indus- try, it Was evident, Would not be in the president’s before "Monday. Two s -were attached to the ant] ers’ acceptance of ar- bitration #§ 4 means of ending the sus- pension of operations in their territory, one’ that'a separaté commision .consider wage scales in that. industry, and a sec- ond _that .the * commission be required to' return ‘a ‘deeision about August 10. Meantime, théy- agreed to-the president's suggestion of . paying the wage rate of March 31, though protesting that th's “would. e'n'hl-rnu rather than assist the effort um- 18l copditions,”, be- cause’ public. nd “for decreased ‘prices of nthnciu is imperative.” Deelarlng that the “anthracite indus- try had no problems of part time em- m 12- ‘Brudway and le and Fifth and Park ave- thelr- best memorles today to find out who:the” Mrs. ‘Alice Sinclair, who becam. the second wife of ‘George J. Gould ia Paris last “week. ) . Cable djspatches bringing first news of the nuptials to this morning’s news- papers mentioned that she. was an act- ress, and had played. behind the foot- lights: here. With this for a clew, it fi- nally. was. established that she cama here in the cast of an English musical comedy some years - ago. and had there- after lived in West End avenue and at a country home on the island in Long Island sound, off Rye. She was a fa- miliar figure in that village, and resi- dents .there ‘said she was the mother of two children. She mlngle\‘LFseldom in the . society of . the place. 'or severai years; it :vu said, she and Mr. Gould had been friendly. Mr. Gould’s first wife, and the mother of his seven children, ®rs. Edith King- don Gould, died less than a vyear agn while golfing with him on their country eall , Georglan court, near Lakuw. . J. TIn her will she bequeathzd to Mr. Gmfld their splendid mansion in Fifth avenue and another residence in the six- ties “during his life and until he re- warries.” Now that he has re-married, these - properties valued at almost $3.- 000,000, go- into a trust fund in which the children share equally. Mrs. Carroll’ Livingston Wainwright, who was Edith C. Gould. confirmed the nnnnum:qmem. of her father's marriage, ded by I}u( Dol\e l,)f his children, Anthony rexel who”:u Marjorle - Gould. ther and overseas. Gould has leased a castle at Xmernes- shire, Scotland, where he and his b:’ide w11, spend their honeymoon until Nov- mber,. Barly in the fall Mrs. Wain- wright and her ‘husband will - visit them, N EABBI'S PLEA WINS FREEDOM FOR rmohzn Ph\l’ddpbll. July 12.—A versonal plea made today to Judge McCullen in quarter sessions’ court’ by Dr. Abr#am S. Ans- pacher, rabbi of the Congregation of Beth Israel, Hartford, Conn.. won the release o probation for one year of Ernest Wer- ner, who had had pleaded guilty to three indictments charging him with entering to steel. . . - Werner was arrested in this city in June, 1916, after a serie Aof apartment house and was released on bail Jmhw his bail, he-became-a' fugitive. was arrested later in Hartford and mtenead %o six years' imprisonment in the Connecticut state prison. After his re- lease he was returned here to answer the robbery. indictment Rabbl Anspacher toid the court that he had made an extendéd _investigation of ‘Wernee's past 1ife and that if paroled he Dbelleved he .wonld. “make .good.” ~The rabbi said he had a job for the prisoner ‘and should he misbehave ‘he would have him hldf. in his cell “very quickl: e 'nzr.fi FOUR MEN. ON CONSPIRACY CHARGES $L . . New H.ven. Jnly 12.—Charged with conspiracy on the alleration that they se- cured 6,000 pounds of brass by tampecing. wm: the scales at the Farrel Foundry and ‘Machine company, Ansonia, wh'le buying 2700 pounds of the metal, four men giw ing New York addresses were arrested -today after an. all-day search by detectives. < The: accused are Solo- ‘Nathan Schwartz, Samuel mon - Burued, - Lag-| laonll.";mf Nathan Taub, They were ‘over £o the Ansonia authocities. o T It s charged that whilé two of the men ‘digtracted. tht - aiteatlon of the|: ym-rmc thers mmpuuud the scales. ployment, but had entirely difféerent con- ditions of work and living than M the bituminous field, and-that a commission now appointed to operate should be re- quired to set up a permanent method “py which wages and working condi- tions in the future can be automatical- ly ad " the operdtors asked the, president to name three representatives of the public on the board, and only one miner and one operator. This, it was heid,” would assure a non-partisan adju- dication, A decision from such a com- missién, they declared, they would ac- cept “without reservation or qualifica- tion." Conditions which both operators and the unions of the bituminous = industry are asking 1o be attached to the pres- ident’s offer were viewed as seriously disturbing today by officials concerned. Mr. Lewis and union officials, who have professéd themselves powerless to an- swer the arbjtration tender without summoning their general policy commit- tee, today suggested that the govern- ment arrange to nlpply ml lr’olmuu: Proceedings in settlement of wages X practically a!l the territory which the unions claim as its own, in the mines of Washington state, and those of West Virginia and Pennsylvania, where some productlan has been accomplished, Min- Eo county, West Virginia, the scene of mine disturbances in recent imonths, and Somerset county, Pennsylvania, = where mines working for steei output were con- sidered non-unfon until the recent strike were included in Mr. Lewis' list. ‘ The bituminous operators’ objections to the proposal were said to attack the president’s proposal to put the men back at wage scales of '1920-22, when non- union mines, with 200,000 employes, had Leen steadily “working all through 1921 at wages practically identical with those of 1917. This not onply will force dis- turbances of .opération in non-union fer« ritory, in the view of the operators, but will leave them with, high cost coal to sell in competition with lower cost mon- union coal, The Hague, July 12—(By The A, P.) —Two stormy sessions of the conference on Russian, problems today disturbed the calm of .tie' Carnegie peace palace and apparently ended all chance of an agree- ment between the Russians and the oth- er powers. Another session will be h tomorrow which is generally expected by Russians and non-Russlans alike to con- demn’ The Hague conference to: absolute failure. 3 The chasm between the Russlans’and the other powers, ‘apparently. is far wid- er than at Genoa, and the non group is not divided, as it svas at”Gen- oa: The British and French are seting now in agreement on the demands con- cerning nationalized property. which the Russians say practically amount to in- sistence on absolute restitution. ¢ This position was developed at- the meeting of the sub-commission on. prop- erty, after which Maxim Litvinoffhead of the soviets, stated emphatically he believed that the conference had exhaust- ed -its usefulness and would end without results. This afternoon the sub-commis. sion on debts had equally unfavorable results. The Russians insisted on hav- ing the present conference fix the total amount of pre-war debts Russia would he expected to pay, but the non-Rus- sians stood out for fixing this sum through’ mixed commissions at a later date. At the conelusion of this meeting 3L Litvinoff granted an interview in which he declared that the non-Russian ‘@ele- ates had clearly agreed to malke ths onference a failure and were trying to pin the Russians down to answer ques- tions in order. to justify breaking up the meeting. E 3 = HEWITT'S WIDOW MARRIES BARON ROBERT D'ERLANGER Paris. July 12 (By the A. P.)—Mrs. Peter. Cooper Hewitt, formerly Marion Andrews Brugiere, widow of the late inventor, was married today to Baren Robert D'Erlanger, at Saint Roch's church. The ceremony was of the quietest sort, performed by Abbe Magnin, secre- tary to Cardinal Dubois, The groom belongs to the Englisk family of Slidell D'Erlanger. TURNED DOWN I'ROPOSALS FROM SHAH OF PERSIA New York, July 12.—It was only a few days ago that cabie dispatches from Paris bore a rumor that Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt had turned down 17 pro- posals of the Shah of Persia, that she share his throne. And so dispatches telling of her quiet marriage in Paris today to Baron Robers D'Erlanger gave a little thrill to New York soclety, which the widow of the electrical inven- tor is well known. Before her first marriage, she was Marion Andrews Brugiere. In 1918 she became the second wife of Peter Cooper Hewitt, inventor of the mercury arc lamp and many other . electrical - de- vices, who had been divorced from his first wife, the former Alice Work. The fnventor died in-Paris last August fol- lowing ‘an lrge-unnl operation. —_——— NEW ENGLAND FIRE CHIEFS ORGANIZE AT m", Boston, July 12 —Fire’ mm heads of fifty New England citles M towns meeting here todny New England Associstion of Fire m Chief John P. Doyle of Wellesley was elected president. Other . offizefs are: First vice president, Johl C, Moran, Hartford, Conn. ; second vice president, P. J. Hurley, Holyoke; secretary-treasurer, onnwn.wnmm-mm ‘oonsocket members of lho‘hni-‘ fim:: formec cgut R. D&gg:i‘;w and former ton.