Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 4, 1916, Page 1

' ONE oF & Al Lights Dimmed So That i 3 It Pays to Ad Advertising pays the advertiser who makes it pay, and the surest way of making it pay is to put the advertisement in THE BEE. VOL. XLVI—NO. 72. THIRTEEN ZEPS - DROP BOMBS ON BRITISH ISLE Most Formidable Air Raid Vet Undertaken by Big German- | Airships Leaves Wake of Destruction. W THEM SHOT DOWN Zeppelins Have Difficulty Finding Targets. THREE APPROACH LONDON London, Sept. ‘3.—Thirteen Zep- pelin airships took part in the raid over the eastern counties last night, afternoon says it was the most formi- dable attack by air -ever made on England. Only three of the Zeppelins were able to approach the outskirts of London. One of these was shot down and the other-two were driven off by anti-aircraft guns and aero- planes. Reports re‘?zrding the number of casualties and the damage caused by the great number of bombs dropped had not been completed this after- noon, but it was stated that the dam- age and-loss of life were not heavy, “consi\'i'cring the number of ships en- ] ‘dhe text of the official statement Fsaid: “Last night's raid was carried out . by thirteen airships, and thus was the ' most formidable attack that has been made on this country., The principal theater of operation was the eastern counties and the objectives seem to have been London and certain indus- trial centers in the midlands. Lights Are Dimmed. “Reduction or obscuration of lights proved most efficacious, for the raid- ing squadrons, instead of steering a steady ‘course, as in the raids of the spring_and of Jast autumn, groped about in darkness looking for a safe avenué to approach their objectives. “Three airships only were able to approach the outskirts of London. One - of them lpgeared over the northern district about 2:15 in the morning, where she was apicked up by searchlights and engaged by anti-air- craft guns and aeroplanes. Soon the airship was seen to burst into flames and fall to earth, “The - ship. was destroyed, ' the wncl?‘p? ines::. ‘half-burned bodies of the crew being found’at Cufley, near Enfield.s “The large amount of wood em- ployed in the framework of ‘the ‘Zep- pelins is startling and ‘would seem’to point to a shortage. of aluminum in Gérmany. 4 2 “The other two ships which ap- proached London were driven off without being able to approach the center of the city. “A great numbér of bombs were dropped Jromiscuously over the east Anglian and southeastern counties. Reports in hand indicate that the damage and loss of life will not be heavy, a great number of bombs hay- ing {allen either iinto the sea or in remote country districts.” Heads of Ladies’ Auxiliary of War Vets Entertained National. officers of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Spanish-American War Veterans were entertained in Omaha yesterday by General Henry W. Lawton lodge, the Omaha chapter of the order, Mrs. Mary B. Hamil- ton, president-general; Mrs: Clara Levy, treasurer-general,” and Miss Raye I. Leventhal, secretary-general, were the officers. They . passed thrm;igh Omaha on their way from San Francisco to Chicago, where they will: attend the national convention, and spent two hours here. A lunch- eon and automobile ride about the city included the entertainment. Two Motorists Wreck Horse-Drawn Vehicles Two autoists who, by reckless driv- ing, wrecked horse-drawn vehicles last night, are being sought by the police. A At Fourteenth and Capitol avenue an auto smashed into a horse and buggy, wrecking the lighter vehicle and injuring the animal. The autoist rscafi)ed. The buggi/ was occupied by R. B. Rhoades, 2112 North Twenty- fourth. At Fifteenth and Davenport, a few moments later, Mrs. J. J. Greshen, 619 North Nineteenth, who was driv- ing south, suffered in a similar man- ner. In both cases the jmotorist drove on without stopping to help his victim. -~ The Weather For Nebraska—Unsettled; colder. Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday. Hour., . = = Compargtive Local Reco 1916. 1915, Highest yesterd: 86 A4 Lowest yesterda Mean temperatur Precipitation rd, 1914, 1913, 81 ” 57 69 00 . .0 .00 . 0.0 d precipitation departures 3 | ville, Pa. .12.41 Inches 9.73 Inches -0 inch Total rainfall since March 1. Deflolency since March 1. Excess for cor. perlod, 1915,. “HERO OF THE LAKES” in full command. Kaiser has re- moved General Erich yon Falken- hayn, chief of the German ge: staff, and has appointed General von Hindenburg to his place. Von Hindenburg, the new chief, estab- lished himself through his brilliant Russian campaigns, ; | hence. s 'TEUTONS CHECK MULLEN ASKED BIG TEXAS FARMERSIN ~ RUSSIAN DRIVE UPON LEMBERG Repulse With vs Advancing 13t Upon Oap- ital of Galicia. iolxmns LOSE IN HEIGHTS ;:nepes.ted Attacks of Russians in Oarpathians Finally i o Succeed. and an official statement issued this | MEN ARE RESGUED BY SHACKLETON Members of, Antarctic Expedi- “tion, THought Lost on Ele- phant Island, Saved. BACK TO PUNTA ARENAS | Punta Arenas, Chile, Sept. 3—| Lieutenant Sir Ernest H. Shackleton | has rescued the members of his| Antarctic expedition who were ma- rooned on Elephant island. Shackle- ton returned here today with his men safe and well on beard the rescue ship Yelcho. Local Officials 0f Brotherhood Get | NewsFrom Capital “I'm exceedingly happy, that the’ crisis is past,” was.the comment oi‘ Charles Bogue, general chairman of | the Brotherhood .of Railway Train- men for the Union Pacific, last night, | at the Carlton hotel: when a Bee re- porter called to tell him of the latest strike news from Washington, A few minutes later a messenger boy en- tered the hotel and handed the brotherhood official a batch ‘of tele- grams. o £ “Wait until I read these,” he said, eagerly tearing open the yellow en- velopes. He read through half a dozen mes- sages,. each of which apparently contained much information. “Yes, you're right, the strike is off” *he exclaimed, when he had fin- ished. “It says so here.” : He would not say whether his of- ficial fiotification carried anything fur- ther than ‘the information embodied in the press dispatches. “I will notify all the members of | the brotherhood immediately., These | messages describe the situation | briefly, so I do not wish to say any-| thing for publication at this time.. I expect ' correspondence tomorrow morning which might make interest- ing reading.” Only Two More Nights to See King Tartarrax at Den Only two more chances to confer with the gigantic goose at Ak-Sar- Ben Den, or to witness the cdifying sight of King Tartaraax devouring a stewed mongrel. s - For the Den. show and initiation is to close for the season one week| The show tonisht, when .the editors of Nebraska and Iowa are to be initiated, and the show a week Hence, when the closing night of the season is to be given over as Omaha night, will end the 'season’s pranks at this house of fun. 8, W. Pennypacker, Ex-Governor, Is Dead \ Philadelphia, Sept. 3.—Samuel W. Pennypacker, former governor of o | Pennsylanvia, died today of uraemic poisoning at his home at Schwenks- He was 73 yeass old. Gov- ernor Pennypacker wrote many books on legal and historical subjécts. He was president of the historical society of Pennsylvania and ‘a trustee of the I Tnivarsitv af Paonsvivania. | 38-caliber revolver. | approaching the corner Officer Gard- ALLIES GAIN ON THE WEST Berlin (Via London), Sept. 3.— Strong Russian attacks made against the Austro-German forces north of Zeborow, east of Lemberg, were re- pulsed in bayonet fighting, says the official statement issued today. In the Carpathians, the statement adds, Teuton positions on the Ploska heights, soutli of Zielona, were taken by the Russians after many fruitless stormings. Fighting Near Riga. Petrograd, Sept. 3—The text of the Russian offi¢ial statement says: “Western (Russian) front: In the region of Riga, Germans attacked our Lettish battalions, who drove the enemy back and inflicted losses. “In the directions of Zlotchoff and Halicz battles are raging. “In the region of Kaput mountain, and also in the region of Doiranvanta our troops captured several heights. The enemy's counter-attack was re- pulsed by our fire. Here we eap- tured 300 prisoners. Turks in Flight, “Caucasian front: In the region of Ognott fierce fighting continues. The enemy has been put to flight at some points. | “Turkish attacks in the region of Tchoruk were repelled” by our fire. In the bdttle around this village we captured another gun.” Germans Lose Ground. Paris, Sept. 4—The villages of Forest and Clery-Sur-Somme and all the. German positions. between these two points have been captured by the French and British in a joint attack after intense artillery preparation. More than 2,000 prisoners, as well as twelve cannon ‘and fifty machine guns, were t,um._..‘ 5 Eh&@ifif nt issued by ‘the. war.“office tonight making tlu’; announcement, also repofted progress | for, the. French troops in the neigh- sborhood of . Fleury, with the capture of ‘300 prisoners. MoMillen's Body To Be Sent to Perry, Iowa, for Burial (From a Staft Correspondent,) Lincoln, Sept. 3.—(Special.)—A treacherous Kansas wind was respon- sible for the death of Captain Ralph McMillan, Nebraska Guard aviator, at St. Francis yesterday, according Guard headquarters this afternoon. According to Major Haysel, Cap- tain McMillan got away in good nearly turned his machine over. the captain was dead when spectators reached* the wreck, in appearance nearly every bone broken in his body. He was a member of both the Ma- uneral services. He was about 27 years of age. Woman Carries Gun ception probably averted a tragedy Saturday night when he arrested Mat- tie Larrimore, 2901 Farnam street. The Larrimore girl's younger sister had been keeping company with Hen- ry Whitland, 523 South Twenty- fourth street, and when the latter made a date to meet her at Twenty- fourth and Farnam street, Mattie kept the engagement armed with a As Whitland was ner saw ‘the girl reach beneath her coat and grasp the handle of the se- volver. He stepped to the corner, took the weapon, and brought her to the station. Whether or not would have shot her sister's admirer morning. Senate Passes Last 0f Big Supply Bills Washington, Sept. 3.—Last night the senate passed the general deficiency appropriation bill carrying approxi- mately $15,000,000," the fast of the big supply measures, and cleared the way for passage of the revenue bill early next week and for adjournment of congress Wednesday or Thursday. The bill carries a provision for pay- ment of salary to George Rublee, fed- eral trade commissioner, for his fif- teen months of service before his nomination was rejected by the sen- ate. It appropriates $3,000,000 for payment to Nicaragua of the money authorized in the cahal treaty and | contains various deficiencies for the army and navy and $100,000 for the Farm Loan board Beneath Her Coat she | will be threshed out in court this| OMAH A DALY BEE | OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, to information received by National |guarantee fund or | | | | | | | | I'State bank crowd, whi¢h was also or- | | from these two states are res, FEE FOR A CHARTER Albert 8. White S8ays He Was Recommended to Employ the Able Democrat, STORY OF A BANE DEAL Another chapter in the story of how Arthur F. Mullen prevailed upon Gov- ernor Morehead and the State Bank- ing board to revive the charter of the liquidated German-American State bank of Omaha, and permit the op- eration of a new bank under the old ;chartcr is told by Albert 8. White, | secretary of the organization commit- | tee of the Omaha, which was refused a charter. | Mr. ‘White says that he was recom- | Central State bank mended to employ “Arthur F. Mullen as his attorney, because of Mr, Mul- len's influence with the governor and the banking board. Also, that Mr, Mullen asked a fee of $2,500 for his services in extracting a charter for the ropgscd bank from the reluctant oard. Mr. White's Qwn Versian. But here is Mr, White's version of the transaction: “Omaha, Neb, Sept. 1.—To the Editor of The Beé: Returing to Omabha, after a brief absence from the state, my attention has been ealled to an article by Governor flJohn . More- head, which appeared recently in varjous daily papers, in which he asks the writer to name who it was who suggested to us that wexemploy severe | Arthur Mullen to procure & charter for the Central State bank, . If Gov- | ernor Morehead wants this #nforma- tion made public, I will ¢o 80. The | party in question was an Omaha at- recently appointed to office | d.. About| torne{, here by Governor Morehea the time we were preparing o apply | for a’charter, this attorney @alled at| our office, without solicitatiofi on our part and said he was going t@'Lincoln the next day and thijt as he to the governor and AttorneyfGeneral Reed, he _would find out hgw these gentlemen stood about isswing our charter. On his return frof incoln, he again called at our officey and in- formed us that Morehead ahd Reed were opposed to issuing a chirter, but that if we would emglo Arthur Mul- len, the deal could e’;ixed; At his requdgt, we went together 06 Arthur Mullen’s office and after séme pre- liminary discussion, Mullen said he would undertake to handle pur matter for $2,500. I told him the amount was too large and that our petzxfe would not pay it. Finally, he said’he would take $2,000 and not a dollar less. As we felt both of these amounts entirely excessive and unreasonable, we drop- d further negotiations gith r, ullen. g o Mullen Employed Here. YA little later, the Commercial ganizing here, employed Mr, Mullen to get its charter, with the result that the banking board, consisting of Gov- ernor Morehead, Attorney General Reed and - Auditor Smith, withont authority of lawy pretended to revive the charter of the German-American State bank, a bank which had been fully. liquidated over a year before, and the stockholders all paid back their money. Fred R. Baker, the president, paid every stockholder his pro-rata claim in the guarantee fund of $8,000. Baker thereby became the who was killed while making a flight j only individual (other than the state), | whatever in the to the bank's charter, Baker employed Mr. Mullen to secure the return of the $8,000 in having any claim good ' the guarantee fund, When Mr, Mul- shape, but when he reached thie height | len had the old charter revived, he ap-| Twentieth streets of about 200 feet he appeared to!parently earned two fees, one for get: | he strike a ‘heavy cprrent of wind which | ting the Commercial bank a charter, | i In | the other from | an_attempt to right the machine it | back the 58.0&1 appears that the nose of the aeroplane | action in this matter, was turned toward the ground and ' board has since issued a statement he Game down at a tremendous gait. | that under the law, the board could The machine was broken badly and |haye pursued n Baker for getting him In justification of its the banking 3 other course. The opinion of severa in Omaha'is, that as there is no law in our statutes providing for the re- vival of the charter of a liquidated sons and Elks and the body will be|bank, this action of the board is il- sent to Perry, la, where those or-| legal, wholly without anizations will have charge of the | law, and therefore void. “Governor Morehead turther states that the: writer sent a telegram mak- ing serious charges against Secretary Royse and afterwards, in the presence of the board and others, admitted that these charges were false in every respect. ‘While the writer did apologize for sending the telegram Officer E. R. Gardner's quick per- and also withdrew any complaints he | had to make against Mr. Royse, he | made no admissicns that he was a liar and Governor Morehead is fully aware of this fact. I am perfectly willing to let my reputation for truth (and veracity stand alongside that of | Slater, Mo, Jennio, Woods, Governor Morehead. People who have had previous dealings with both of us will arrive at a just conclusion, | 9. O Yours very truly, “ALBERT S, WHITE.” Ink Slingers to Be Omaha Guests Today The ink slingers of Iowa and Ne- braska are to be Omaha’s guests to- day. The eidtors and their wives 2 onding to the invitation extended tfuem by the bureau of publicity to visit the metropolis. Special features of en- tertainment, including luncheons, dinner parties, ‘theater and dancing arties, a trip to the baseball game etween Sioux City and Omaha, and, finally the initiation at Ak-Sar-Ben Den, are among the features of the program. One hundred and fifty or more have already definitely written in that they are coming. Winter Schedule at Omaha Public Library On Tuesday the winter schedule of hours will be in force at the Omaha Public library. A twist in the types made this announcement in The Bee last week read “September 25" in- ! stead of Sevtember 3, e of s close | leading attorneys | authority of | 1916, ' PROTEST AGAINST AID TO TRAINMEN | President Pope of Farmers'| | Union Says Nation Has Witnessed Its Humilia- tion by Unions. SOUTH'S OLAIMS REJEOTED| |When Cotton Growers Made | Appeal, They Were Turned | Down. DEAF EAR GIVEN TO PLEA Fort Worth, Tex, Sept. 3.—(Spe- cial Telegram,)—H. N. Pope, presi- dent of the Texas Farmers' union, | has given out the following state- ment comnjenting on the eight-hour [ law passed by congress Saturday: “The people of this nation have during the last week passed through | the most humiliating experience this government has €ver endured. A few | 1abor union leaders have stood at the {portals of * congress demanding that the government give them a ransom or they wox_xld wreck society, “This nation instead of meeting the situation bravely has delivered the | goods in fear and trembling, H "Our American congress has stood within the shadow of the goddess of justice and voted an increase in wages to 400,000 trainmen, who are the highest paid laborers in the world, and never at any time men- tioned the 350,000 trackmen, who are | perhaps the poorest paid workmen in the world and who must subsist al- | most wholly upon the crumbs that | the trainmen leave upon the table. “When cotton” was selling for 6 cents per pound two years ago and poverty stalked over the southland, | causing a greater financial loss to the southern plowmen than the freeing pf the slaves, congress confessed inabil ity to cope with the situatoin and stepped aside, letting this awful bur- den fall uTon the backs of the tillers of the soil. The organized plowmen pleaded with congress for relief, but we were told that it would not be constitutional for the government to undertake to fix the price of cotton or to advance money on cotton in storage and that congress was a slow moving body and could not meet emergencies.” Autos Must Not Interfere With the | I Arrangements have been made to| {admit street cars through the Labor day parade at intervals, but auto- mobiles or other vehicles will not be allowed to intersect the procession, Acting Chief of Police Dempsey has issued orders to that effect. The parade will start at 9:30 from | Nineteenth and Farnam streets and | will traverse the following route; ! South on Nineteenth to Harney, castf on Harney to Fourteenth, north on| | Fourteenth to Farnam, west on Far- |nam to Sixteenth and north on Six- teenth to Cuming, where the paraders} will disband and proceed to Krug | ] | Parking of automobiles will not be lowed on Nineteenth, Douglas to| Eighteenth, Harney to| Douglas, Eighteenth to | al : Howard; | Howard; Speakers of the da{ at Krug park ill be Colonel T. W. McCullough, | managing cditor of The Bee; Carl| Minkley, Milwaukee alderman and | member of the Wisconsin legisla- ture; Miss Gladys Shamp, who will soon be graduated from Creishton law school; Henry Beal, South Omaha, member of the Typographi- cal union and recently admitted to the bar. Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem Elect Officers The Sons and Daughters of Jerusa- lem closed their meetings by selecting Kansas City as the place for holding the next convention, Officers as fol- lows were elected: Harry R, Oraham, 8. G Cavens, 8. G. Q. Kansas City 8, G. V. @, Omaha; Samuel D K., T. B. Robinson, & G. 5 | Ada Woodson, 8. G. R, O | Woods, 8, G. T., Kansas old, §. G. H. Ps., Ros | won, ‘8. 'G. 'H, 'Ps.,’ Oma | 8. G. M., Kansas City; | G. R. 8. Janfe Cook, 8.°G. L. 8, Omaha; B, F. Gatewood, 8. G. I G., Richard Gray, |8 G 0. G, Kansas Cliy; "Amanda_Davis, | wecretary of' tinancial hoard; Leah Walker, Kansas City: 0., chiet, C. M, John- @, 0., Jen- A. Wagoner, 8, 8. G, O., Irene Faulk- Omaha; Mattie Burns, 8. ty; Della_Griffin, 8, K. finance, Omaha; Albert C. Price, 8. G. F, guardian, Leavenworth; Emma Rrown, §. G. . Kansas City; Dr, 1da Wheeler, 8. G L ¢, Omana; Dr. Jennle Malone; 8. G , Kansas City. an Sued by Girl f 0f Omaha Is Married Chicago, Sept. = 3. —-/Professor Charles Rose Rines of Dartmouth college, who was sued for breach of promise yesterday by Miss Edna May Grove of Omaha, was married this evening to Miss Charlotte Everett of Chicago. His bride said she refused to let a breach of promise suit inter- fere with her happiness. ool e 4 K., Nellie Robinson won, 8, 0. Tonodeo, 8. Rev. Labor Day Parade| ’ tive mood. - | said. ] .| being under this constant bombard- Young Girl Drowned As Falls in Deep Water Crete, Neb., Sept. 3.—(Special Telegram.)—Vilna Vavra, 13 “ear-old granddaughter of Anton Vavra, own- er of a park on the Blue river, was drowned here at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. She was swinging over the river on a diving swing when, losing her grip, she plunged into deep water, Her grandfather dove after her, but was himself nearly drowned without rescuing her. Her body was recovered, On Trains, at tlotely, News Stands, eto,, do. MRS. FRANK M. ROESSING, first vice president of the Na- tional American Woman's Suf- fra ociation; Miss Hannah J. Pat n, corresponding secre- tary, and Mrs mes W. Morri- son, recording secretary, have nounced they will resign. is no friction back of the resigna- tions. LEADERS ARE GLAD TROUBLE 1§ NDED SAY MEN READY T0 STRIKE “The little camp of brotherhood officials of the Union Pacific lines maintained at the Carltorf hotel: dur- ing the past week, will now ‘gradual- ly break up. Charles Friday, gen- eral chairman of the Union Pacific conductors, the man who . for two days was under a restraining order to prevent him from ordering a strike locally, is pow to,go back to his home in Cheyenne probably today. Charles Bogue, general chairman of the railway trainmen of the Union Pacific, and D, W. Smith, general chairman of the firemen, and engin- cers of the Union Pacific, are to re- main a few days longer receiving correspondence, and picking up the loose ends of a rather exciting week's business here while the strike situa- tion was pending. 1t was midnight Saturday night when these men received .their offi-, cial telegrams from headquarters of the brotherhoods ‘telling ‘them that the strike was off and ordermf them to cancel the strike order all ‘along the fini. Notify Trainmen. “We were busy most of the night after that sending out telegrams,” said Mr. Bogue, “cancelling, the order along the lipe, I didn’t get to bed until way after 3 o'clock. The men who did" not receive their telegrams . | Saturday night will all receive them }f'; this morning (Sunday).” Mr. Bogue was in a pleasant talka- “It is a great relief,” he “I'Il tell' you the strain of ment for months is* awfully .tough. T've been at this now since early in June, and it's” beginning to tell' on me. Mr. Bogue reviewed some of his experiences in Washington with the committee and the conferences with President Wilson, He was greatly impressed with President Wilson's simplicity of manner, and ready grasp of the intricate details of the con- troversy as it was laid before him. He was impressed too by the fact that when meeting hundreds of men in-the conferences Wilson entered the room alone unattended by detectives and secret service men. On Record to Strike. Mr~Bogue does not believe that the canvas made by the railroads of .the number of men that would have staid with the road in case of a strike was entirely reliable. “I am sure that many of the men who told the company they would not strike, were still on record with the brotherhoods as having voted for the strike. The ballots with the names of the voters are not public property. We had no objection to having Judge Day look them over and count them in court in that injunction case, but we wauld not have them turned over to the railroads, That is a sercret ballot. { “The fact that a man told the rail- road companies he would not strike, when they asked him directly, is no indication that that man would have one out and ‘scabbed,’ if there had een a strike, THE WEATHER UNSETTLED SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. IPRESIDENT SIGNS ' EIGHT - HOUR BILL N PRIVATE CAR |Returns From Long ‘Branch, Makes Measure Law and Hastens "on Trip .to Make Speech.® {ONE MANAGER IS DEAD iGeneml Executive of Sante | Fe's Eastern Lines Dies { Suddenly. OODE MESSAGE ASTRAY Bulletin, Washington, - Sept. 3. — President Wilson returned to Washington at 7 o'clock this morning from Lqng Branch, N. J, signed the eight-hour bill for railway employes, and left again immediately for Hodgenville, Ky, to accept the Lincoln homestead memorial. He signed the bill in his private car at the station, / Buetin, i Houston, Tex., Sept. 3—~J. L. Mor- gan, general chairman for the Broth- erhood of Railway Trainmen’ for the, Southern' Pacific line in Texas and Louisiana, announced here today . that the code message which he had re- ceived from General Chgirman Lee in Washington did not capcel his strike order and that unless e received his strike cancellation order by 6 o'elock, tomorrow morning | his © strike as scheduled. Bulletin. Topeka, Kan., Sept. 3—Charles W. Kouns, general manager of the Atchi- son, Topeka & ‘Santa ‘Fe' railway's eastern lines, died at his home here today. His death came shortly after his return from Washingfon, whére he had participated in the railroa wage controversy. P Goes Through Bmh‘gm. Washington, - Sept.. 3—Thé threat of a general railroad strike which has been hanging - like a, pall, over the country * for a month, wis liftéd | last night. ey Three hours aftér the s passed ' without amendme Adamson’ eight-hour day bill,: the house Ftifl’{, the he: the !ouurut railroad e brotherhoods | telor‘flml code mel{:fiel to 1‘ ir general P s ofithe. y n s g . The legislative expe the strike yas pa; by, a voteof 43 to 28—almost a strict party vote—amid -stirting: scenes, ‘aft- ¢r many senators, democrats and re- publicans, had ,fought desperately. ta amend the measure by provisions, de- signed to prevent industrial disasters * in the future. Some senators, thor- oughly ~aroused, declared congress was being coerced into enactment of legislation that it did not desire and that it knew would return to plague it in the future. / 2y Change Their Minds. . Officials of the brotherhoods, who witnessed the final passage the bill, had announced early in the hight . that cancellation of the strike would not be ordered until the bill had been signed by the president and actually had become law. But later they con- ferred, changed their minds, and flashed ‘the code messages, signaling to the waitini i f thi try, through r chairmen, the mes- sage that a satisfactory settlement e had been secured. y The bill that_stopped the provides that after January 1 eight hours shall be renlzdéd basis of reckoning for & day’s pay. of men engaged in operation of trains in" interstate commerce . ( cepting roads less than 100 \;fiep long. and electric lines), that they shall ré- ceive pro-rata gny for work 'in ex- cess of eight hours and that their rate of compensation shall not be changed pending an investigation for. six to nine months of the effect of the eight-hour day upon the.railroads by a:. commission to be. appointed by the president. 2 Two Demos Againat It. Efforts to amend the bill ini'the senate were futile, the supreme ef- fort to alter it having been led by Senator Underwood, who sought' to provide that the Interstate Commerce commission should have power to fix railroad wages and hours of service in the future. This amendment was defeated by a vote of 57 toi14. Only two democrats, Senators Hardwick of Georgia and Clarke of Arkansas, voted against the bill, and one repub- ‘;ic”!' La Follette of Wisconsin, voted or it, Railroad officials have declared that the action of congress will cost them $60,000,000 a year in increased wages to the trainmen. Brotherhood g it (Continued on Pags Two, Column One.) e Conclusive Evidence of the great po of Bee Waut-wz shown in the wonderful record of increase they are making every week. 1369 More. PAID WANT - ADS Last week than the same period a year ago. men will | | § |