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VOL. LXIV—NO. 185 RAIL EXECUTIVES UNAN TORESTORE SENORITY RIGHTS TOSTRI STRIKERS LIKELY T0 ACCEPT PROPOS! Two of the Proposals Made by Preident Haring for St T e e o oout,| CABLED PARAGRAPES by the Executives—That the Railroad Labor Board That Law Suits Resulting From the Strike Should be Withdrawn by Both Sides for Settlement by the Board —Acceptance of White House Peace Pan by the Strik- ing Shopmen is Practically Assured—Definite Action is Expected to be Taken Today. ew York. Aug. 1.—(By The A, P.)— Railway executives today rejected the proposals of President Harding that the striking shopmen be reinstated without forfeiting seniority rights. but accepted onditionally the other two suggestions made by the White House for set§ment of the nation-wide strike. This announce- ment was made by Fyesident Loree, of the Delaware and Hudson. ‘after the heads of 148 roads had met here today. considered Mr. Handing’s programme, drafted a reply and adjourned. The rep President Harding was put on the wire to the White House as ®oon as it had been drawn up by sub-committee headed by Robert S. ett. of he Union Paci unanimously by the goneral conference. The pronosals conaitionally accepted were that wage decisions rendered by the rellroad labor board should be accepted by all and that law suits resulting from the strike should be withdra®in by both sides for settlement by the board. The railroad heads balked on the niority question after Secretary Hoov- appearing before them earlier in the as the representative of President Harding, had told them the administra- tion considered that the issue of the au- thority of the rallroad labor board far anscended that of senfority. Referring to the cpal strike ax a com plieating factor in the rall situation, Mr. Fnover imolied that if, conditions were different, the adminis*-atidn would not have taken the poine of view it had as- med. and urged the toads fo cl-oper- with the govgriment in upholding the Jabor board. Mr. Hoover was [ llowed later in the aax by Jndge Love.l, who asserted flat- I+ that there was na moral or. practical reason for the roads 1o 5 ter their mand, This was tearned aiccr- Mr. Hoover. lowing & 20-minute address, took the ain back to Wochington Hoover indlcated to the executives while the adciinstiation did mot to belittle t.c importance they to seniorisy. it considered the the upho.ding of the labor the return of the men to Mr tnterd tached ssue and The to reject the vote of the railway executives to- aa programme outlined by | Fresident Harding for settlement of the { jon-wide strike first was announced | as_j.animous. This later was corrested to 265 to 2. 1. F. Loree. chairman of the eastern explaining he had cast tww against the reply sent the White because he did not thingk the had taken a strong enough against seninrity proposal. Loree, who voted for the Delawa and Hudson and Kansas City Southern, sdued that he was quite in sympathy his fellow executives as far as they gone. became nee. votes a Mr. a1 T spening apparent from the very today's conference that the question would be the wedge would divide administration and executives The only question which arose dur- ng the short period during which the resident's proposal was under disc don was how emphatically the reply rejecting his plan should be worded balloting. each road sn one vote for each 1,000 rack it operated. The reply he standing committee, was adopted by ote of 265 to = This resented unanimous sapproval of cne president's plan, the Pepr$-= oo Hudson and with the explanation senjority proposed vely. Presidents A, H. Smith, of the New k Central, apparently ecrystallized the wentiment of the rail chiefs when in the midst of the/r discussion. he thréw up- the cenference table a bundlie of 400 ams from foremen and supervis- of the road. announcing they would n. it the seniority ranking ers was returned Immediately others leaped to their feet testify to a similar condition among votes enting being cast by L. chairman of the eastern con- epresenting the Delaware and the Kansas City Southern, that he wished the turned down even o res sfficials on their roads. Resignations would be wholesale, from sub-foremen © general managers, if their personal Jiedges o protect present emploves could 10t be made good. they declarsd What we want the government to do » to let us aloneito let use settls this rike in our own way” declarad Mr. tmith Wa have ind are ge organized new shop forces img the roads hack to nor- pal Uniess the government ceases mterference. we wiil have a far worse erike on our hands. You must stand ¢ those who stand by you to main- ain disciplies, If strikers are reinstated with seniority rights it will be impossible © maintain discipline. Acceptance of President Harding's woposal would result in complete de- noralization of America’s transportation watem and the system of honorable co- peration between emplover and employe mon whish #t was founded.” Samuel Feliton, president of the Chi- ago and Great Western, understood to w the leading rit among representa- fves of mid-western roads. was strong his support of Mr. Smith and those Wage Decisions Rendered by Should be Accepted by All— 3, after the strike was called, set forth that the new men who entered the ser- vice of the roads were not strike-break- ers, but new emploves wno had a legal right to engage in such service to pre- vent interruption. of. rallway transpor- tation and were entitled to the pro- tection of the'government, RAIL/EXECUTIVES REFUSE TO ACCEPT PRESIDENT'S PLAN New York, Aug. 1.—(By the A P.)-— The unanimous Tefusal of the American Assoclation of Railway Executives to accept President aHrding’s plan for set- tlement of the rail shop crafts strike was contained In the following ‘message, | telegraphed to the White House tonight: “Resolved (1)—That we accept recom- mendation of the president, reading as follo “ ‘First, railway managers and ‘work- men are to agree: to recognize the valld- ity of all decisions of the railroad labor board, ‘and to faithfully carry out Such decisions as contemplated by .the law,’ with the’ understanding that this is not, intended to preclude any ~party to a controversy from proceeding by legal action to question the validity of any order of the board on the ground that jurisdiction and authority to make the order was mot conferred by the statutes creating the board and defining its au- thority. “(2)—That we accept the, second pro- posal or .. rresident, reading. as fol- 1ows: * ‘Second, the ‘carrlers will withdraw all law' suits- growing out of the strike, and railroad labor board decisions which have been involved in the strike may be taken in the _exercisa. of - recognized rights by eltRer party, to the railroad 14bor “board for re-hearing’ with the understanding that = the strike is first called off, and the representatives of the strikers pledge themselves and the strik- ers against violence In any form against the men now at work.and the property. of the carriers, since otherwise it- would be impossible to consider the dismissal of injunctions andother .legal -measures necessary to protect such presons and property from the violence -and - intimi- dation of the character restorted to' in many localities sifice the strike was call- ed. Reject Third Proposal *(3)—That it is impossible te)agree to the first sentence of the third proposal of the president, the whole of which reads as follows: ** “Third, all employes now on strike to be returned to work and to their form- er positions with seniority “and other rights unimpaired. The representatives of the carriers and the representatives of the organizations especially that there will be no discrimination by leitner party against the employes who jdid or did not strike.’ “The railroad executives and manag- ers agree entirely with the president's statement in his letter that it is ‘wholiv unthinkable that the railroad labor board can be made a useful .agency- -of -the government in maintaining industrial DPeace in the.railway service, unless em- ployers ‘and workers are both - prompt and unquestioning in in their acceptance of its decisions.. ‘I think it is more. de- i cause we must do things which are nec- suitable uathority to decide and end such disputes as menace the continuity of transportation.’ “By this language the president has expressed with great force and clearness the policy which we advocate. But, the decisions of the railroad labor - board were flouted and defied by the six or- ganizations comprising the Shop Crafis; take effect July 1, rallroad executives before board, after the strike was called and befort it took effect, was contemptu- ously ignored by the leaders of the the -public as common-carriers. them a&nd of the pePm have been added thousands of new men, who were employed and could be secur- ed only upon a definite promise all the rights appertaining to such em. vho echoed his statements. Those who framed the association’s re- Wy to the White House made it plain hat the mew emploves and those who leciined to join the strike had done nuch to uphoid the raliroad labor board. he fmportance of whose authority the resident had emphasized through Sec- etary Hoover. The committee set forth n the letter very distinctly that they felt hemseives bound morally and legally to ack up the pledges they had given to he workers now manning. the shops. The executives contended that, In tanding he present emploves. they were wut upholding the railroad labor board Mnlmmalub ployment, including - that of seniority i under the working rules and regulations | mandr wih rerernite House today.| Clneinnati, Ohio, Aug. 1.—(By the A nder the working rfules and regulations | provides with reference to the. big con| p)_Six dead, nine seriously injared; in- rw bolyfl pw ly“ e ‘rn 0ad ; troversial point. of seniority - that “all’ cluding two, who may die, and more than t:, b l;- 5 2! ::'ne]ldy Wn; out | emploves now on strike to be returned fifty bruised and shaken up, was the that & Tefusal to the old men who re-|to work and to thefr former positions toll today when & Cincinnati, Lebanon e service and to the New | with seniority and other rights . unim-)and’ Northern train collided - hendion men who accepted service of the rights & R of seniority incident to their employ: ment would have just the opposite ef- | fect to that desired by the president,! and would most seriously discredit the labor board. -The board itself prescrib. ed the rules of seniority-under which the men ‘referred to hayé secured their.-sen. fority rights, and the railroad companies have neither the legal nor meral right to deprive these men of those rights. By public utterances. since the strike began 1 agres | essary to bring about the recognition of Federated the strike was called to 1922, and even the summons of the board to appear with the the ~labor strikers, who refused to attend the hear- ing. Thereupon it became the plain duty of the railroads actively and vigorously to undertake to uphold the orderly pro- cesses for the adjustment of industrial disputes contemplated by the statute cre- ating the board and represented by the | decisions of that board against which the strike in question was directed, and at the same time continue to be the best of their ability to discharge their duty to “Many men in the service refused to Join the strike and in so doing were as- sured of the seniority rights accruing to anence ‘of their po- that their services would be retained regard- less of the settlement of‘the strike, with 40 Persons Killed ia Collision. Paris, Aug. 1 (By the A. P.)—-F‘o!j.y persons were killed and fifty others in- jured in a collision between two trains of pilgrims to the Grotto of Lourdes, one of the world’s most famous shrines, early today. The ocollision occurred near Villecomtal, Chinese Parllament Reassembles. Peking., Aug. 1 (By the A. P.)—The old republican parliament of China, dis- solved by the militarists in 1917, reas- sembled today with & quorum and im-| mediately began the ‘transactian of bus- iness. The opening of the parliament, it is believed, will weaken the cause of Sun Yat Sen, deposed president of. Solith China, who had attempted 'to prevent southern members attending its revival Drafting of a permanent constitution for the' country is expected ‘to be an early item on the program. ty of the labor board, overthrown lts rules and discredit its authorky. “The chairman of the labor board at the time the strike was called made the tollowing public statement: * ‘Upon one question, the striking em- ployes should not be deceived. - Their leader has said that the strikers are no longer eémployes of the railways, and they have thus automaticaly abandon- 1ed all the rights they possess under their agreements and under the decisions “of the board, ° including their seniority. This is not the boards action. It is their own. # ‘Many carriers are giving - tho former employes the -opportunity to re- enter the services within 2 limited ‘ime 1t must be understood now that men who remalned in the service and those wio are now entering it will have rights of seniority that the board could not ig- nore.’ ““The chairman of the board's state- ment that ‘this is an individual- utter- ance, but it expresses, in substacne, the sentiments of a large majority of the members of the railroad labor board.’ was justified by formal action of' the board- taken - in- its resolution_of -July 3, 1922, which stated, among other things, as follows: * ‘Be it further resolved. .That the employes remaining in the' service' and the /new ones-entering; same; be, gecord- ed the application and benefit of ~thu outstanding wage and. Tule decisions of the railroad labor board, until they ‘are iamended or modified by agreements with said employes, arrived at in’ conformity with the transportation act or by -deci- sion of the board, and, ** ‘B it further resolved. “That, if it be assumed that the employes who leave the service of the carrler because of their dissatisfaction with any decisions of the labor board are within their rights in"so doing, it must likewlse be conced- ed that the men who remain in the ser- vice and those who enter it anew are within thelr ‘rights in accepting such employment, ‘that they are riot strike- breakers seeking to impose the arbitrary will ‘of an empioyer or employes; " that they have the moral as well as the legal right to engage in such'service of the American public to avold interruption of indispensable railway - transportation, and that they are entitled to the pro- tection of every depariment and branch of the government, state and national.’ “It must be understood that any pro- posal that employes now. on strike shail be permitted to return to the service, without impairment of their seniority, is merely. anotaer that those men wno t 6. emp. this o promises of the railroads {o protect them a3 justified by the authoritative utterances of the labor board and thus have made possible the continued operation of the rairoads, shall now be sacrifized in vor.of men now on strike, 'Who mot oni brought about the crisis, but by eighth district, was running. third on sirable than 1 know how to express to|own action and declaration ar: n» lonz- |returns from 12 precincts oyt of 399, The have _established the wunchallenged au-|er emploves of the railways. under the |count was M. C. Garber, 205; Charles thority of the railroad labor.board, be- ! jurisdiction of the United States railroad . Swindall, 186, Herrick 133. labor board, of the_transportation act. “In addition to the necessity the pledges made by effec -on thorized to make, peated publication of rumors in days that the men are to be sacrificed to the strikers. collapse of the strike. present in the s olence to every fustice involved vice, without doing vi. in present in their service. not provide protection in their present sitions On some important -lines fifty | emuioyment, both to the. loyal employes per cent. or more, refused to join the |'vic remained in the service and to the strike. To these old loval employes [n=w employes entering it PRESIDENT'S PROPOSALS FOR' paired.” plan follows: all decisions of the railroad labor boar: - |ions as contemplated by la 2—The carriers will -withdraw all fi brated “Plumb _plan,” v | ation and_ownerehi lawsuits growing' out of the’ strike an rallroad labor board . decisions whic] have .been involved. in the strike ma: the board has recognized and emphasized these rights, and to deny: them. . now of_upholding- the suthori- - would, instead (Continued on Page 9, No..4.)! Wy of suggesting n sis in good fain, relying on the in their positions, these promises befng fa- their or subject to the application of up- holding the labor board, and. maintaining the roads to the men now at work, there is the practical the supervisory ofticers of a violation of the pledges they were. au- Their ‘discouragement and demoralization would be far more disastrous than this or any other strike. Much harm has already been done by re. Tecent loyal men and the new This has discouraged new men from ac- cepting emplovment in as great numbers as would come forward If certain that thé pledges given would be fulfilled. Such published rumors only délay the complete “In view of the above, it is submitted that the striking former employes can- imot be given preference to employes at principle of right and this manrer and without the grossest breach of faith on the part of the railroads to the men at Under ~ these circumstances, it becomes apparent that the railroads cannot consider any set- tlement of the present strike which does ENDING THE BAILL STRIKE Washington, Aug. 1.—President Hard- ing’s proposal for ending the rail strike, ' The basis of the. executive's settlement 1—Railway managers and workmen | are Lo agree to recognize the validity of| and to faithfully carry -out such decis- wun-—Reed s Strongholds to be Heard From. St. Louis, Aug. 1.—(By the A. P. With one-seventh of Missouri's 3,843 pre- cincts, heard from at 10 p. m. Senator James A. Reed is running 5.431 votes behind Brecekenridge Long, third as- sistant secretary of state in the Wilson cabine, . All by 24 of the 543 precincts reporting, however, are in rural com- munities concede to Long. Twenty-four of of 389 precincts in Reed's home town, Kansas City, gave Reed 3,940 to Long's 186. R. R. Brewster, of Kansas City, en- dorsed by the regular republican organ- ization, is leading a field of six for the republican senatorial nomination by al- most .as many votes as the next three men combined. Re turns from 294 out of 3,848 precincts gave Brewster 9,351 and John G. MéKinley his nearest oppon- ent, one of three running as progressives, 3431 William Sacks, advocate of light wines and beer is running fourth. Senator Reed _continued his big lead in Kansas City, with forty of the <389 precincts heard from. In these. forty he led Long by an average of 113 votes per precinct. In. the statet as a whole, including Kansas ;Clty precincts, Long has a lead of approximately 10 votes to the pre- cinet. to maintain BRECKENRIDGE LONG LEADS SENATOR REED BY 9,104 VOTSE Later—St. Louis, Aug. 1.—(By the A. P.)—With Reed stronghoids St. Louis and Kansas City, embracing more than one-quarter of all the' precincts in the state, virtuaily unheard from Brecek- enridge Long is leading Senator James A. Reed by 9,104 votes in the race for the democratic nomination - for United | States senator. Only 65 of the 1,007 pre- i cinets in the two big cities have re- ported. ‘The returns from 973 out of 3,848 pre- cincts in the entire state give’Long 64,- 067 and Reed 54,963. 3 R. R. Brewster, Kansas City, a regulaf republican, is-leading a field of six on returns from 610 precinus, win 18,343 votes for the republican senatorial nom- tnation. His nearest opponent, Jonn U. Me- Kinley, a progressive, mes v,01 votes. SENATOR SWANSON “RENOMINATIO: IN VIRGINIA Richmond, Va. Aug. 1—On the face of early unofficial returns from many parts of the. stite, Senator Claude A. Swanson “has -defeated “former Governor Westmoreland - Davis for -the democratic nomination f&r United . States senator. Senator-* Swanson. registered ~substantial majorities in .edch’ of the sections from which early. refyrns Were obtalned in the cities and rural communities. SEIATOR SUTHERLAND IS ‘LEADING IN WEST VIRGINIA Charlestown, W.-Va., —(By the A. P.y —Senator oward Sutherland at midnight maintainéd his lead for the_republican nomination for United “States senator in the statewide primaries, followed by H. C. Ogden, of Wheeling. Sutherland’s vote in 440 precincts out of 2,083, was 15,3, while Ogden had 11,864. M. Neely, ‘democrat, was leading Mrs. Brown with 11,354 to 10,326. M FARMER-LABOR CANDIDATE LEADING IN OKLAHOMA Oklahoma ,City, Aug. 1.—(By the A. P.)—With 282 Precincts out of . 2,837, heard from in today's statewide primary election, J. C. Walton, farmer-labor candldate for the democratic gubernator- ial nomination was leading his nearest opponent, R. H. Wilson, state superin- tendent of public instruction, by more than 2,000. votes. The count gave Walton 11,601; Wil- son 9,410; Thomas H. Owen, 7,068; Zis- ka 15; Finn 14, Miss Alice Robertson, republican rep- resentative in congress from the second Oklahoma congressional district, was leading. her - républican opponent, Gus Tinch- 111 to 15, in returns from nine precincts out of 264. Manuel Her- rick, republican congressman from the ARKANSAS MOB TOOK NEGRO Hot Springs, Ark. Aug. 1.—Battering its way into the city jail here today, a mob of about 500 men, forced a police guard. 1o surrender. Gilbert Harris; a negro. under arrest in connection with the fatal wounding of Maurice Connelly, an insurance .solicitor, and hanged him to an electric light pele. near the.center of the down-town business district. TO DRAFT CONSTITUTION TFOR IRISH FREF. STATE Philadelphia, Aug. 1.—Michael Franels Doyle, asked by Irish leaders to aid in drafting the constitution for the new Free State, snd will leave New. York for Dublin to- motrow aboard the President Polk. His wservices are sald to have been.request- ed hy ‘Arthur Griffith and Michael Col- tns. KILLED WMILE CROSIING TAILROAD TRALKS IN AUTO meri conn, Aug .—Jerry Cola- hcila a® Sour Norwaly was instantly killel ty a train on i New Canaan dvsien c? the N. Y., N. H. & H. rail- roal. here !aie today woer he attempt- od 0 cress {ie tracks ac a private cross. ing in an automobile at Springdale. The machine was wrecked. Colabella was an employe of the Saunders Rubber com pany and had just finished his day's ‘work. t SIX PERSONS KILLED IN WRECK ON C, L. & N. ROAD with a negro Sunday school excursion train at Lester station, a suburb of this city. OBITUARY "Glean E. Plumb. ‘Washington, Aug. 1.—Glenn E. Plumb, al Coal confer'enceuf‘ governors of Ohio, conference on the coal situation. FROM JAIL AND LYNCHED HIM; +| was all from the minority side. but Sen- attorney of this city, has heen | counsel for the ‘sixteen-larger railroad organizations and author of ' the cele- Governors Called| States to Meet in Indiana- polis Thursday. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 1.—Governor McCray. of Indiana today- invited- the Tllinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky and Pennsylvania to meet here Thursday, Aug. 3, for a Governor A. J. Groesbeck, it was an nounced this afternoon will accept the invitation of Governor McGray of In- diana to participate - in the five-stats’ governor's conference called to discuss| :xhe coal strike in Indianapolis Thurs- ay. HARD COAL OPERATORS READY TO REOPEN NEGOTIATIONS Philadelphia, Aug. 1—Anthracite op- erators are ‘“ready and willing” to re- open negotiations. with their employes’ committee at any time, according to a. statement issued tonight by S. D. War- riner, head of the operators’ committee, after a conference with the mayors:of six leading cities of the hard coal fields. The statement said the operators were ready either to continue negotiations for a new wage scale by direct conference or to refer the matter to unrestricted arbitration in accordance with the pro- posal made by the operators to the min- ers' representatives at a conferece on June 2. The mayors conferred today with John L. Lewis, international president of the. miners' union. They carried word to the operators' representatives that Mr. Lewis was willing to meet the anthra. cite operators to negotiate by direct con. ference for peace. COAL CONFERENCE I CLEVELAND NEXT MONDAY Philadelphia. Auz. 1L—(By The A. P.) —Governmental and financial influences arc being exerted it was leained here to- d.y to have bituminous ¢4l crerators en- t 1 the interstate join: wage conference calied for Cieveland next \endiy by Juhn L. Lewis, internatlonal president. of the miners’ union. to make possible the agoption of a basic wage scale. Mr. Lewis s:id he fulv_expected that the meeting will result in an . agres ment. FOR GOVERNMENT'S ~ EMERGENCY FUEL CONTROL PLAN Washington, Aug. 1—A plan of pro- cedure under which the government's emergency fuel control ‘machine will -be operated was completed today at a meet- ing of the ceutral coal committee with Fuel Distributor Henry- B, Spehicer pre- siding. It was understood that the plan would “be submitted to Secretary Hoover tomorrow and - that federal distfibution would thercupon bécome. actually. effec: tive: Mr. Spencer mane public the appoint- ment of the public utilitles commission, Hartford, as the fuel agency for Connec- ticut, WOULD PROBE INTERESTS OF SENATORS IN TARIFF RATES Washington, Aug.‘ 1.—Senator = Good- ing, ‘of ldaho, chairman of the republi- can agricultural-tariff bloc and one of the senators charged with having a fi- nancial interest-in the wool rates recent- ly ‘voted into the tariff bill, announced today in the senate that he would in- troduce a resolution proposing an inves- tigation of the interests, it any, of all senators in tariff schedules. He inti- mated that the inquiry might be extend. ed to Metropolitan papers opposing the tarift measure. 9 Senator Gooding charged that the Me- tropolitan newspapers had started a fight on the tariff bill just as.soon as they learned that for the first time ag- riculture was to get protection. He add- ed that “as long as we could be given schedule K. (the wool schedule of the Payne-Aldrich law) that was crooked and dishonest, not a single Metropolitan paper raised a voice against it.” Senators Harrison, Mississippi, and Hitchcock, Nebraska, democrats, said Senator Gooding had taken a courage- ous stand. The latter expressed the hope that Mr. Gooding would be able to remove the objection on the republican side to such an inquiry. The senate completed consideration of the silk schedule as re-written last week by the finance committee majority and took up the schedule dealing with pulp. paper and books. The controversy over the proposed five per cent duty on chem- Ic‘al wood pulp. the first in that sched- ule, was in progress when the senate recessed. Opponents of the duty claim- ed. and some advocates of it conceded. tha, tthey had the necessary votes to re- turn this pulp to the free list. The fight against the silk scheduie ators Lenroot, Wisconsin. and Kellogs, Minnesota, who opposed the wool duties, voted against several of the silk rates as did Senator Borah, republican, Tdaho. Senator Sheppard, democrat. Texas, sought to have each of the dutles pro- posed reduced to the level of the exist- ing law, but his amendments were re- ected. BELIEVE E. W. O'BRIEN TO BE AMONG LIVING New Haven, Aug. 1.—Edward W.-O- Brien, formerly of Hartford, but more recentiy of Simsbury, is still believed to be among the living, despite reports cir- culated early this morning that he had been cut in two by a train in the Cedar Hill yards of the New York, New Haven and ~ Hartford railroad. The report started when three employes of an un- dertaking establishment came to police headquarters here inquiring for the body of O'Brien, which they expested to find in the morgue. According fo Téports from Hartford, heard from him since his departure. the body. When the police nor the railroad officials had a report of a man having been killed but the insistence of their demands caused an investigation to be started. not until nearly noon that the police de- sky, aged 108, died. made arrangements for the return of the undertakers ar- rived here they were told that neither It was BRIEF TELEGRAMS Sunday, in_ Chicago, Samuel De Gros- Stephen Cushing . Smith, 87, Peter Lemezes, 45, committed suleide in New Britain by inhaling illuminating gas, American rellef work in Soviet Russia wlil continue for three or four months at’ least, Secretary Hoover announced. A distress signal made by a Boston fisherman’s burning ' shirt saved two fishermen ‘from belfig’ swept out to sea in a disabled dory. There Is a noticeable lull in the Amer- fcan demiand for British coal, due to the inability of the exporters to guarantee early delivery before September. \ : Japan is obsersing every detall of her obligations under the naval and four- power -treatles entered into at Wash- ington., Governor Cox of Massachusetts tele- graphed *Secretary Hoover that there was a total deficit in' Massachusetts of bituminous and anthracite coal this year up to date of. 3,000,000 tons. Harry Boland, formerly representative fiscal year fel';off in value by more than $500,000,000 a3 compared with the fis- cal year 1921. The Rev. Willlam Burgess, author, publicist ‘and “social reformer, died at his home in Des Plaines, in his 80th year, Electric ralleoad service in Concord, . H., suddenly ceased just before noon yesterday when electricians in the pow= er plant at Eastman's Falls, Franklin, went on strike and pulled the switches A National Guard sentry on duty at the Boston & Maine railroad shops in Concord, H., fired twice early at a man_ gdetected in the act of scaling the fence surrounding _the shop enclosure. Approximately 300 employes of sefen of thé principal outsole plants in Haver- hill, Mass., . were called out on- strike vesterday by the Shoe Workers': Protec- tive Heavy “ice was ‘the cause of the trans- fer of Captain Amuhdsen, - Arctic ex- plorer, -from his ship: Maud to the message received in ‘Nome, Alaska. Electric company, announced it has The General néctady, - N. Y., years or more. the country, “We want Henry' Henry tary E. F. Kelley announced. Brigadier General Oliver Spauiding, former Assistant of the Treasury and for many prominent in public affairs in Michigan. died at his home in Washington, 89 years. The police of Salem, Mass., have re ant arrest is expected. The shoe factory of 3. H. Winchel Co. Inc. Haverhill, Mass. was indefi the 500 employes in protect South -ales, About ‘ five million--acres ‘are infester with a loss in value of at least 250,00 Ppounds sterling. A Greclan maiden, bound hair, long draping and fiwoln; robes, and sandal-like footwear, wjll-be the stylish girl who will replac tion Hair ‘Dressers'. Association Louls. in S of colonization schemes in South Ame: ica was issued today by the commerc: | I moters- have .been. particularly active 1 the western states. representatives of - the Red ross societ tox and which resuited in the uncondi his_ home in Washington. tins, who -are ‘planning an " 8,506-mil will sail, the “Sampai cided that no accident had occurred. According to ford, O'Brien was desirous of having it appear that he was dead and caused the monthy. of ‘railroad oper- died tonjght.. Death be takem in the exercise ‘of .rarognized | Was due 'to an-“affection 6f the huart from which ‘he had suffered- for several man Conlon also disappeared. dividend due at this time. information from Hart- report of his death to be clrculated. The Directors of the Keystome Watch Case company have suspended the quarterly Brazil. Privates Harry Long of Logamiport, Indiana. and Fitzhugh Langston of Au- | burn, North Carolit renbreitsteln, - a3k a retired |- Providence, R. I, meréhant, died at his summer residence in Ashburnham, Mass. of The Dail Eircann in _the United|to request the French government to States, "is' in a critical condition in a|make arrangements for dealing to the Dublin . hospital. |best of its ability with the ~Anglo- {French loans, the British government Foodstuffs exports during the past|says it desires to explain that the . Governor Rebert Carey, ot Wyoming, felegraphéd to: President. Harding, pro- tésting against the séending of marines to Wyoming to-eject aHégéd squatters from ihe Téapot Dome naval ofl reserve. schooner Holmes, according to a radio Sche- paid $1,011,568 to_empleyes of its piants who have been in the.company’s service five Thousands of replies from all parts of without exception _ stating have been received n response to a circular sent out by the Ford for President club, Secre- Lyman Secretary years aged doubled their efforts to run down the & nitely closed as the result of a strike by azainst a The prickly pear pest is spreading at the rate of 20,000 acres a month in New agriculture authorities say. such the present “flapper” in the -opinion of some of the delegates who are attend- ing the.three day convéntion of the Na-| Warning against * unofeial promoters department, which addéd that such pro- A natlonwide search for a selon of former ‘Russian nobility. , ended when found Leon czarowitch-Gussell in Clin- tional surrénder of Lees army, dled ar Walter Hinton and Dr. E. Pinto Mar- flight from New York . to-Prasil, named the new hydroaeroplane in. which - they. o Correfa” in hon- ar of the president of the Aero club of ‘were killed at Eh.| Germany, - when' the ma-. chine gun truck in which they were rid- ing _dkiagar: isto.a m ‘pole and rangements to Deal to the Greece. London, Aug.-1. (By the A. P.)—The British government -cannot treat the Te- Ppayment of the Anglo-American loan as if it ‘were an isolated incident in which only the United States and Great Brit- ain had any concérn, xays a note, ad- dressed today by the Earl of Balfour, acting foreign secretary, to France, Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Rumania, . Portuzul and_Greece. This transaction, continues the note. is but one of A connected series im which. Great Britain appears sometimes as adebtor and sometimes as a creditor. M, it says, Great Britain’s undoubted obligations as a debtor are to be en- torced. her mot, less undoubted rights as a creditor cannot be left wholly in abey- ance. Declaring it* s regretfully constrained amount of interest and repayment . for which it asks depends less on what France and the other allles owe Great Britain than on what Great Britain has to pay to the United States. The .policy favored by his majesty. the note states is that of surrendering Great Britain's share of German reparations {and writing off through one great trans- action. the whole body of inter-allied in- debtedness. “But If this ix found to be mpossible of accomplishment,” the mote says. “we wish it to be understood that we do not in any event desire to make a profit out of any léss satisfactory arrangement. In no cifcumstances do we propose to a more from our debtors than is neces- xary to pay our creditors” And “while we do not ask more” it continues, -“all - will “admit that we can hardiv- be contémt with less: for 1t *hould-not be forgotten, though it some- tiiex is, -that - our liabilities were in- curred. for' pthars:-mot for urseives.” Pointing - out {n conclusion that it is 1168, because foPmer ‘enemy countries al- 50 ‘aré invelved. gnd the greatest debt- or is-Gérmiany; the note declares that the government does not suggest, éither as a mattdr of justice -or ~expediency that Germany should be relieved of her ob- T DUE AMERICA, GREAT BRITAIN T PAYMENT BY DEBTOR NATIONS Willing to Surrender Share in German Reparations If a Gene eral Cancellation of Inter-Allied Indebtedness Can be Effected—To Make Payment of Debt to America, Brit ain Feels Constrained to Call Upon France to Make Ar- ment of Anglo-French Loans—Similar Requests Are ta be Sent Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Rumania, Portugal and N6t mereh a “quedtion hetwean the al-|given them- for the purchase Best of Its. Ability With Pay: & et B - cured by any remedles that pregent likely to be applied?” Arguing that the policy Great Britain has pursued In refusing to make de- mands upon its debtors “is only toler- able 20 long as it is generally accepted.” the note continues that it cannot be right that one partner in a common en- terprise “should recover all she has lent and that another while recovering noth- ing should be required to pay all she has_borrowed.” “Such procedure,” savs the note, “is contrary to every principle of natutal Justice ‘and cannot be expected to com- mend itself to the people of this country. They are suffering from an unparal- leled burden of taxation, from an im- mense diminiuition in national wealth, from serious unemployment, and from a severe curtailment in useful expendi- ture. “These evils are courageously borne, but were they to be increased by an ar- rangement, which, however iegitimate, is obviously one-sided, the British taxpayer would inevitably sk why he should be singled out to bear a burden which others are bound to share. To such @ question there can be but one answer, and 1 am convinced all opimon all opinion will admit of 1t¢ justice. seem at Bt y BRITISH DEBT COMMISSION NOT COMING TILL SEPT. London, Aug. 1 (By the A. P)—Te meet the American government's cone venience, the British delegation to are range for the funding of the British debl to the United States will not arrive in Washington until the end of Sepiember, Sir Robert Horne, chancellor of the ex- chequer, stated in the house of commons today. CHARGES AGAINST BRIDGEPORT PARCEL POST CAREIERS Bridgeport. Aug. 1.—Charged wiith substituting cancelled postage stamps for unused ones and ret2ining momeyE of gaod stamps, six parcel post delivery carriers, the entire force of the main parcel station here were today arrested - am held in bonds of $500 on complaints sworn out by Postal Inspectors T. J. Rice and E. A. Courter. Jigations to--the - other alifed states. But Great PEritain would be prepared, subject fo the just claims of other parts of the empire. to' abandon all further rizchts to German reparations and all claims to repayment by the allies. pro- vided this remunciation should form a part of a general plan -whereby this great probiem could be dealt with ax a whols and ' ‘a satisfactory solution found. A meneral settlement. in the view of the British government, the note savs, would be of more value to mankind than any gains that could accrue even from the most successtul enforcement of le- gal obligations. The note, which was &ddressed to_six European powers, by the Earl of Bal- four, acting foreign secretary, advocates international settlement of debts and reparations on the basis of a general cancellation. The note in its preamble that there has been no formal discussion | between the French and British govern- ments rad that the British government expla slayer of 12-year-old Henry C. MeMa-}js not anxious to raise the discussion, hon, who was brutally murdered in a|pyt: (hat recent’ events leaves little pasture ten days ago.. Another import-|choice in the matter The note proceeds to state that no in- ternational discussion has yet occurred on “the unexampled situation partially disclosed by these figures.” and says if the British government hitherto silently ha€ abstained from making any pay- recent wage reduction by the state board|ments upon its allies for repavment of | S°45 this morn .’r‘fo";“;y”‘l::':";of.z,i of arbitration. t i i cause = . et 1) T Interest or capital, it is not because the| .. 1yrey Ferrandl, a fruit dealer, wha Sale government under-rates the evils of the to truck in Platt's garage. The “New Haven road yesterday re-|present state of affairs or because it is s a bullet hole in Mather's head rorted a continuance ‘of recruiting of a|reluctant to- make. large sacrifices to| 1no s Wad & Dulet RO U “permanent force. of shopmen to take|bring them to an end. On the wontrary, | 2"d 2 P o+ F. B. Bradeen views the places of the strikers. .More than|it is prepared as a part of an interna- || Jierical Bxaminer ¥. B. Bradeen ¥ew 150 mechanics. were added to-the com-| tional settlement to remit all debts dus [0 the body. tut e “NAd olie anys forces since Monday. 3 i ¢ the allies in res 1 pany xy Great ‘Britain by the allies in respect to | ¢ 1t beleved the mem ot Co e loans or by Germany in respect to rep- arations. a policy ~difficuit {the note proceeds: “With the most perfect courtesy of d 0 E[1919. on the Anglo-American debt, convert it from an unfunder debt and to | ing permit e | reply it by a sinking fund in twenty-five | following the deaths of three persons years. Such procedure Is clearly in ac-|Who had eaten huckieberry ple thers cordance with the original contract. Hia| yesterday. About 140 other persons . majesty’s government .makes no com-|were made ill by the pie. ] t.|plaint ‘of this. They recognize their| Investigation by the district attorney's obiligations and are prepared to fulfill [office during the day developed the fact them, but evidently they they would have wished to pursue.” % KILLED AT KELLY FIELD conceal the fact that it abandons the nipolicy of general cancellation of in-| San Antonio, Tex. Aug. 1—Lieuten- debtedness with the greatest’ reluctance, | ant Samuel M. Lunt. Kelly Field aviae the note explains that the British treas-{tor, met almost instant death here to- ury would be a large gainer If all debts | day when his plane fell 150 feet as he were pald, because Great Britain is owe. attempting to land. ] | more than: she.owes. He is survived by a widow here and! “But can the present world situation " " ¥ O'Brien left Simsbury six weeks ago and |ton, TIl, serving as a private in Com-|the note continucs. “be looked at omiv | oo’ Yo Tre moae el has mot been heard from since. Last|pany L, 132nd Light Artillery. from this narrow financlal standpoint”” |1 ashington for burlal in Arlingten midnight a man who gave his name as £ The noté then proceeds toargue that| cemetery. < . Conlon, " called at thlzd g-rll’nrd golgce 3 llrlr-hllar flen:fl Edward v‘v Whita-| the allied -and associated powers were | = —_—— headquarters and tol e story of '-| ker, -who as a nion officer is sald. to|pdrtners in the ‘eatest Intes - Drien's tupposed death. The famlly was | have carried the-message which haited|fort ever made in the eavee or frer. | PEATH OF HARRT 3. prere N communicated with and mot having; the prepared. Unfon charge ‘at Appomat-|dom and that they are still partners in | FORMER SINN FEIN AGENT IN U. i-1 dealing” with' some at least, of suits. its re “To generous minds” says the note; “it can never be agreeable, although for reasons. of state ft may perhaps be nec e torn from its historital borrow and capitalists who lend.” Then -reterring to the economic from which the world is suffering. includ. ing the weight of International Indebted | lwfiflnfiu mfll.lnlm it and exchange.”-the note asks Stating that recent events make such accomplishment, and in:the exercise of their undoubted rights the American government have required with * elasdeally this country to pay interest acrued since to cannot do =0 without profoundly modifying the course | Stating that the governmenit does not essary {o regard the monetary aspect of this great event as a thing apart, to be setting and be. treated as no more than an ordinary commercial dealing between traders who ins ness “with-all jts' happy effects upon low can normality be reached while 80 _abnormal are permitted to this mmmmhwmlfi Warrants in the cases state that the men would misappropriate money given them by patrons along their routes | which was to be used for the cost of mail handed to the men as outgoing matter without stamps. The men will be given a hearing Sat- urday before United States Commission- | er Hugh J.-Laverq. | AMERICAN SOCIALISTS SEND PROTEST TO SOVIET GOV'T Chicago, Ang. 1.—The national execus tive committee of the socialist party to= day adopted a resolution instructing the executive secretary to cable a protest the soviet government of Rassia the possible execution of the i | against social revolutionists now on trial. The protest read: The socialist party of the United States joins the protest against the pos- sible execution of the socialist revolu- tionaries now on trial. Their execution would be a disgrace to a_workers' gove ent and a crime agalnst the Tewo- nary workers of all countries’ VERNER E. MATHER, HARTFORD, COMMITTED SUICIDE IN ESSEX Essex, Conn.. Aug. 1.—Verner E. Ma< ther, of Hartford, an employe of the Connecticut Humane Soclety, was found Platt home. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Arthur M. Sweet of Essex and Miss Lil- lian Mather of Hartford. POISON PIE RESTAURANT OPERATING PERMIT REVOKED ew York, Auz. 1—The board of kealth late today rescinded the operate of the Shelburne restaurant, that the pie crust B coz-med arsenic, 1 ANOTHER MILITARY AVIATOR | - Dublin, Aug. 1—(By the A P)— Harry 'J. Boland, former repregentative of the Sinn Fein in the United States. died tonight in a hospital here of wounds received early Monday morning in the Grand hotel. in_Skerries, a fishing ¥il- | lage, north of Dublin, while attempting to evade capture by troops of the ma- tional army. o OBENCHAIN JURY FAILED OF Aallllq’ Los Angeles, T-'t in the case of iiadaiynme m, charged with the Kennedy. here. late