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ciated Press.)--A scheduled meeting here to-day of the “Big Five” portation brotherhoods, thiy morning when the trans: rolled ive executiven were requested jy the Iroad Labor Board to meet with the hoard in Chi- cago Thureday at 2 P.M. W cee s Stone, President of the Rrother of Locomot Engineers, ann ‘Be message reached Mr Ris: office here during the He-deciared he had no intimation o: what the board wished to with the leaders of the raflroad work €rS, but said al! scheduled conferences ani here would be postponed until after the Chicago meeting. T..C. Cashen, President of t Switchmen’s Union of North America, and L. BE. Sheppard, President of the Order of Railway Conductors, are still in Chicago. They will be joined bere probably Wednesday night r. Stone, W. G. Lee, President of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men, and W. 8. Carter, head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen | “nd Enginemen. No ontline of what the conference Would discuss was announced, but it was said that new proposals would | be presented to the labor men in an effort to prevent an actual cessation of work on the roads. sCHICAGO, Oct. 18 (Associated Press).—Telegrams summoning the chiefs of the Big Four brotherhoods &ad the Switchmen's Union to a con-! ference with the United States Rail- road Labor Board, in an endeavor to forestall an actual walkout of the na- tion's railroads, were despatched by the labor leaders to-day, The conference was called for e'glock Thursday afternoon at the Labor Board headquarters here. All the members of the board are in the elty except the public group, which has been in conference with President Harding and the Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington. The pub- Me members will reach Chicago late today. HEADS OF 12 UNIONS “MEET TO DECIDE F ON STRIKE ACTION | hey Represent 1,500,000 Workers Train Despatchers Say They Will Not Go Out. HICAGO, Oct. 18.—Executive of- fidials and general Chairmen of a ddken unions of railroad employees, enting 1,500,000 workers, began @rtiving to-day for conferences be- signing to-morrow to determine wiitther they shall follow the leader- ship of the Big Five Railroad Brother- hoods in issuing a strike call, A joint conference at the end of th® week is in prospect. A Spirited comtroversy over the attitude of the Five Brotherhoods is indicated inthe statements of the Jeaders out- side the Big Five group. The train despatchers have declared will not go out at this time; the) fel@graphers and clerks announced théir decision was still unformed, and ot¥ers have indicated the question ‘wa still open, although some of the unions, notably the shopmen and Intenance of way employees, have rized a strike call by a referen- vote. BS. M. Jewell, President of the Rail. way Employees Department of the Aferican Federation of Labor, de- clajred to-day he was still hopeful that & trike could be averted. ‘Phe Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, mapeht Handlers, Express and Sta- Employees was the latest to issue ® gummons for a strike conference. Twenty-two Grand Officers and 200 General Chairmen were called to mwvet here Sunday by President KB. H. | | Fitzgerald, Union leaders here were watching closely the action of the Big Five Conference at Cleveland, representing nearly half a million ‘train service employees. RAIL MEN TRYING TO HOLD UP MORALE, SAY EXECUTIVES Declare This Was Motive in Pub. | lishing Strike Dates for Groups 1, 2 and 3 The Railway Executives’ Advisory Committee, in an interview to-day at a Stone in| morning. | ft discuss | by | ‘ssa MS LEARY DEFIES _ BANOF CHURCHTO ociety Girl Becomes Bride In Municipal Building of a | Virginis an. BARRED JIN CA’ THE DRAL, Dispensation Refused, So Civil Ceremony Was Substituted. | Secebeteses Daniel J. Leary of No. 876 Fifth Avenue declined to-day to discuse the marriage in t! ing chapel yesterday Miss Dorothy J. Leary, to Elmore D. Hotchkiss jr, of Richmond, Va., whose friends liad expected the cere- mony to take place in the rectory of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Mr. Leary Authorized the statement that he did not attend the ceremony or the re- ception that followed In the Vander- bilt Hotel. Neither did Misi Leary, a sister of the bride. Mrs. Hotchkiss {s well known in New York and in the summer colony at Southampton, L. I, The bridegroom is a son of Mr. and Mra. Elmore 1D. Hotchkiss of Richmond, and was pre- viously married and divorced. The engagement of Miss Leary and Mr. Hotchkiss was announced several wecks ago, and it was understood by their friends that the ceremony would take place In the Cathedral rectory, as mixed marriages are not allowed in the Cathedral or any Catholic church. Yesterday Miss Leary informed her friends 1t had been impossible to get a dispensation for the ceremony at all, and that she had taken her matri- monial affairs into her own hands. The ceremony at the Municipal Building was performed by City Clerk Cruise. According to despatches from Richmond, the bridegroom's parenta and brother attended. It is understood that George Leary, a rela- tive, gave the bride away, and that Miss Julia D. Shanley was maid of honor and Henry 8. Hotchkiss his brother's best man. There were 100 at the Vanderbilt reception, after which couple left for Richmond. Mr. Hotchkiss is widely known in dusiness and social circles of Rich- mond, He first married Miss Anna Belle Forbes, daughter of Whitme! S. Forbes, meat packer of Richmond, in April, 1905, at Tarrytown, N. Y., while Miss Forbes was studying singing in New York. They were divorced a few years ago and she is now the wife of Howard Cole, @ lumberman of Brook Lake, Madison N. J. Mr. Hotchkiss haa two sons by his first marriage. WHEAT AND COTTON PRICES TUMBLE ON | Municipal Build- of his daughter, THREAT OF STRIKE Canned Goods Market Slick and Sugar Men Say There Will Be No Famine. The rail strike cloud has had varied effects on the different “markets.” In the face of the strike threats and rumors, the cotton market somer- | |saulted and toboxganed yesterday and finally closed with net losses of from 70 to 80 points, While the cot- ton market was parachuting to lower levels, buying of canned goods was decidedly slack. The general belief among dealers in canned goods is that that but 100,000,000 bushels were on strike, it will not last more than a | week and stocks are sufficient to last out the period. Sugar trade authorities deciare the Atlantic seaboard is in no danger of @ pugar famine, providing there Is no sympathetic strike of barbor work- ers. Wheat broke yesterday 6 1-8 cents op the strike threats. A Government report was first interpreted to mean that but 100,000,000 bushels were op farm reserve. This gave the market + WEDDIVORCED MAN. _THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18,. Mrs. E. D. Hotchkiss Jr., Who Defied | Church Ban to Wed Divorced Man Mes £.0 HoTcHKISS DoPONT ATELIER, 2D “BLUE BOY” SOLD; MAY COME TONEW YORK: ‘STRIKE SITUATION FIRST ALREADY RE RESULT OF STRATEsY BY RR EXECUTIVES (Continued From First Page.) (Continued From Virst Page.) ined both this one and Durchased by Mr, Hew unable determine painted fi the canvas been | » hay to which was t Ie ar wages could be reduced because A number of Engli French and) (here was no way of knowing how Am ee artists have maintained tha: | far the Interstate Commerce Commis- r parn’s “B) joy” shows a treat- 0 i Mr. Hearn’s “Blue Hoy” shows a treat-leion thought it wise to go in reduc- ment that gives evidence of being a t i ing rates ° oar oi first painting, and that it should bel (DS "ates. The Labor Board has been held as such. On the other hand, w sandiing wages, the Interstate Com- known critics have declared that there _™Meree Commission has been handling will never be a certainty of determina- rates. President Harding has wisely tion as to which came first from the! brought the tw Dro two agencies together. brush of the master, Mr. Hearn him- * 5 They have practically adopted a pro- ff was of the belief that there would never be a determination, but he ex- 8!#Me which will be offered as the pressed himself, ai the time of nis, Combined judgment of the two in- purchase, ag belng cntircly satistied strumentalities which deal with Amer- with his possession eu railroad It is knows that Gainsborough fve-| op hal lie There are plenty tf tec cs quently painted replicas of his works}... ea ald and very often kept a record of such eure of chances for give and take repetitions, Four times he painted, ies eee ene to vera Of "The Girl aud Pigs," one of his Pe OEE Te Str me Oncor) Of AE ~lieast its indefnite suspension, while jthe whole con! y is further ex- This seems the most likely r cany and time and again he made copes of his best known por- ; faminod traits, t the mept 4 " mt ‘ he r pting in Ch The “Blue Boy” is a portrait Of/ine tateoad Lal i el ata ne Jonathan Huttall jr, the som Of 49/5, otneriood chiefs, ‘The 1 ? si thvent Ironmonger, who lived at the corner|(, atiie ie’ the Gee orice jto strike ls not the result of any of Greek and King Streets in Suho, a}; suburb of Birmingham, It was painted in Bath, in ali likelihood, and finishell In 1770, being exhibited in the Academy that ong-drawn-out negotlations in which both sides have exhausted their argu- vat | ment ve resources, It is as much ‘ |the result of an old-fashioned calling of a “bluff” as anythiag vlse, year 100,000 TRUCKS AVAILABLE HERE. _—‘TOCARRY Fn Markets Casriieionse Says City Is Independent of Rail- roads for Supplies. “New York never has been 60 well equipped to be independent of the railroads for its food and fuel sup- plies as it is to-day,” Commissioner | of Markets O'Malley said to-day after | having made a survey of the situa- tion, He finds there are 100,000 automobile trucks owned by the United States Government, the National Guard and commercial houses in the metropoll- tan district. While ordinarily only 6 per cent. of the city’s food supply is grown within trucking distance, the situation at this season of the year {fs different. The Long Island potato crop, all within 100 miles of New York, Is within trucking distance The sweet potato crop of Virginia can be trucked to tidewater and come up from Norfolk. In New Jersey there is plenty of lettuce and green vegetables which will be available, All the milk New York needs can be found within 200 miles of the city, and this run can be made in a day by a truck, according to the Commissioner. As to coal, the Commissioner says there is an abundant supply of coke to be had in New Jersey, and this can be moved in twelve hours to strategic points In the various bor- oughs. This coke Is to be had 83 1-3 per cent. less than coal, In hig statement the Commissioner scunds a note of warning against hoarding of food and says: | t is reasonable to suppose that while a strike may cripple the rail- | roads, it will not absolutely tie them up, and freight trains will soon moving under Government protection | on irregular schedule.” —— CURRAN TWITS HYLAN AS “PEOPLE’S FRIEND” Quotes Mayer te Ghow Failure to Give Children ef Poor Oppor- tunities of Rich. “We strive to give the children of the poor the same privileges and op- portunities as the children of the rich’," Major Henry H. Curran quoted Mayor Hylan to the New York Young Republican Club at a noonday meeting at No. 882 Broadwey to-day. “The children of the rich can go to Private schools,” said Mr. Curran, “where they can havo full time ses- sions. Under the Hylan Administra- tion the ohildren of the poor must go to the public edhools, where they have part time instruction in double ees- Yet Mr. Hylan prides himself | that he is ‘the friend of the people.’ “He said the same thing four years | ago. And all he has shown in fuiml- ment of his promise 1 that four chil- dren are on part time instruction where there was one four yeara ago. “Is the Mayor so blind that he thinks he can fool ull the people twice? The only performers who ever got away with sudh an enterprise were the Kins , and the Duke in ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ who gave their show to half the town one night, the other half the next and | then took’ to their heels the third night | without raising the curtain, From, this meeting the Fusian candi- | date went to a meeting of the Weils | College Club on the roof of the Hotel | Astor. Mr. Curran said he was greatly ene |B couraged by the fighting spirit of the} audiences whidh greeted him in the Bronx at thr ings last night Pe a LAUREL ENTRIES. LAUREL, Md., Oct. 18.—The entries for to-morrow’s races are as foliows: FIRST RACE Vor tyo-sear-oldy: selling: ait furlongs Se Commands Culin. 108" Craters Ue: stiles HOS. *Trowiter 110. Secon Sade Boe Ticket of Leave steal: son, nPop eae lds; gen tole, 180; Phowia 18: 9d 2 Must Tas; sehen 142, ents | bCoaden Mri ACE he Calvert for. Gro jear-ol one 101; Wesle ih. Sits Fy 108; iP 108; Memeat ott i nent Bailiog tal, ‘Breme Daye, 204; *Carment felon “Tacs, *Bodaneky, VENTE BACE— Fir three-rearolte and uD. Dlatming: one. tale and seventy umner 86>: "Delany i mt cer ye 101; omeo, G. King. 107; *Weod Violet, 99, e Baath, SE anowance clatmat, Weather c ear, rena. iat i Bates Wool re) ‘Track fast LABOR COSTS ALMOST | TRIPLED SINCE 1914 given the operating coste of Class 1 vatiroade for the facal year 1914 compared with those of the calender year 1920, showing the increased costs and tac decrease in return on investment: Fisoal year Calendar Year 1920, Below are It attracted in- Pe hehAniactare, No! 61 Br ,, {great inmpetus, but when the figure | , : pe vi Se cank 4 a seyasdway, Was corrected to show that $18,000,000 | S@At attention ; he labor leaders called on the ex- sald it was convinced that the pub- | bushels were on reserve Oct. 1 'things| 80 far as is known, the Prince of} ecutives to protest against the first lcation of the railroads in groups|rested easier. ‘Tho flour market was| Wales, afte rev IV. was the| wage cut. The execut ray -8:900'9) whowe emplovean wary) Sone yi arcvislone crane of wieny | tre One He soid| with an announcement hat he ; : or land general provisions were off many |" sha : With Ba Announcente at they in- to strike at 6 A. M. Oct. 80, Nov tg {Points becttune of the strike rumor,” }'" to Bis tri BAS aie * # NON tended to request a second cut, The and Nov. 4 respectively, was solely { fashion of the pe ind this | jabor leaders aaid they 1 : holster up the morale of the railroad | ATTERBURY T: TO START owner, becoming: tii obs | coves aumicinm ana cornice, workmen in group No. 4, which had| , rp] rassed, sold it with rest of hia ; “ ee en ue Li Asse, Mn “8l effect sal ro ahe e) e 7 not yoted the necessary two-thirds | ON tes 29 DAYS’ HUNT collection in May 180. I 7 ana t i eA not voted ea compelled to go aheai triise vote. mneylvanta Vice Prestdent Noe| It was bought in on benall of Nes- |, engih in a negotia- Thoee railroads are, according to a Worrying by Threat of Gene {Vit and held by John Hoppner, tho] x Ba it ir ‘ member = ¢ the committee The aeryieg. by PEAS GE's | Royal Academician, nt lis death 1h th sar nuead Pennsylvania Re‘Iroad System, the eral Strike. Jin 1810, when it was tran We ee the Sips uy Grand Trunk, the Canadian Pavi(i PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18 — Vice! the f Wales nw the tw pa len ie uss Mince In United States, the i3us- President W. W. Atterbury of the| it & when pute to goad each othor Into a free t ton and Maine, the Rutland Railroad, | pennsylyaala System feels so easy injing bis financial feet | power at the expense of the publi ite tne Lehigh and New England, \is mind about the strike situation) of it azain Now? BIODOEAIS GP aaltcceee tral Vermont, Buffalo and 6 that he has dropped work for ten| But Nesbit t hile att settlement ae anna, Bangor and Aroostook, (n-|days of duck hunting, more and in 182 ac Vt ee tans tee tral Railroad of Georgia, Maine Unis information was vouchsafed by | joy" to Willum Hall Lat a = os Hallroas Lalor Beare ris Beas St Peete Male: Cos - be Witt Cuyler, President Reet ee hich will permit cach side to recede J ihe Association of Radway Execu- gracefully while a programine of wage Chicago, Indlanapol's and Louisville, | tives wad a director of the Pennayl- | picture which the cuts on the one hand and feel end the Delaware and Hudson Pail- | vania Road, in answer toa question as|to hand thro: reductions on th ea and Srelght rate voads, These road¥ are included tn| . how thany execu t was purchase from OREO ip OR hee: te worked: out, Group No. 4, and th's group is fol Gn the jc . Willan H. Fulle ee making ae ra ee eu strike Nov, 6, at 6 A. M. Cu aid The “Blue Boy,” until recently bo-| snout the use of the inidecde een Thomas De Witt Cuyler, Chairman | Whcthe ewer ty [longing to the Duke of Westminster | estdent Hardinge Sherspayae ans cf the committee, who has his head- | %Mecials on the try Whom Mr liax hung for a great many ye allege NEU nee ¥ yp elie Atterbury could dikcnss the railroad ; . sly silent. Nothing ts being done quarters in ladelphia, arrived in} situation over the spoils of the chase, | Grosvenor House, And the quest Adm tion to avate this city to-day, and went into con-| = of whioh is which—the original ov} the situation, For th a ference immediately with other mem-|Afrplanes aud Tracks to Carry) ine replica we(tled : i Pine Robe or aaye bers of the committee. | Movie Films tm Event of strike, a by Pies anna of the United States se Hide’ Ginirenag or Gen. | iti plane and raptor, trucks probably | weve im New Zealand to Mae| OM ia Dor Hoard as an ayenoy eral Managers’ Association, Ravan -Hiatine Slias th tie Wada dalanae cos gto rellway dlswutas ws whom will devolve the task of pian-|rallroad strike, Representatives of the| YviiLLd Zu Oct. 1k Dro. Ne DAIAnOe, ts dt Seile Cope eeg ning {ood freight. movemenis, film companies met to-day at the, head: | ton would enforced Cook e to offe another re thet steps toward a plan zor tho ng ea ER ey fire ti gfo| lalands by Zealand Govera Hut the disposition here is to give vg nt of fi att jaa alveady | Broadway, to perfect Bee Tor; ment under # bili introduced in Parla. | board @ further opportunity to same tribution of Bins by m ment yesterday, pel respect for its decisions, “ eaten eieidiee aie alin Item. Labor... $1,887, ua ta3 $3,698,216,362 Fuel (o- i gomotive) 296,281,481 72,891,964 Loss an amag 42,001,908 122,031 bone 91,954,890 Ey 634 Insurance 7,498,087 15,884,079 Deprecta; on a | merits 91,284,670 | Tatecial, | ippiles & Iniso' nous 45$,111480 | ny Paxes.. 185,574,679 68,668 Hire of equipment 31, 60,751,014 veatment ture, ene [ayaa se | locomotive cab firing, as he did in the ReT nA 108: Meco, | yearealda, aad a it hai Toe | 1921. NATION-WIDE RAILWAY STRIKE | WOULD AFFECT A GRAND TOTAL OF 2,060,368 EMPLOYEES U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Gives Figures on Number of Mer. Employed and Wages Each Year Since 1915. The following table, compiled by the Bureau of Labor. Statistics of the Department of Labor, covering the years 1916 to 1921, shows the probable number of railroad employees that would be in- volved in a general strike, with their classifications and average yearly earnings, and also the successive wage increases in each classification and the average wages and increases of al] employees: Number of employees | Jan, 1. Yearly V ——— 1021. 1946. 1916. 1917. ise. 1920. Glerks $90) per annum and PWATA ss, + 243,965 $1,196 $1,190 $1,277 $1,445 $1,279 $1,758 Clerks below $900 1873 * "650 2 68h 9° 6 830 Measengers 1,083 ‘M. W. & 8, foremen 2335, Bection toremen 1.767 Gang foremen 21883 Machinists. 21297 Rollermakers 2:369 Blacksmiths . 2166 1,885 1911 2/210 2,442 Gar repairers 2,079 Other skilled laborers 2.178 Mechanics helpers ie Sectionm : 11182 Other unekitied’ laborers: 1.911 Construction men .... 2,367 Train dispatchers .. 81134 Telegraphers .. 1879 Agent telegraphers 1,971 Station agents 2,073 Station emploces 1.438 Yard engineere 2750 Yard firemen 21107 Yard conductors ....5 3,604 rd orakemen ... 21319 Frvlent onsives sea relight engineers ai Freight firemen 2/560 Freight conductors ... 3186 Freight brakemen 21458 Passenger engineers... 3.427 Passenger firemen ... 2/600 Passenger conductors 9,098 Passenger baggngemen 21359 Passenger brakemen ... 21213 Marine employeeos . 1,825 Average all employees. 1/908 *Total employees. CITIZENS PREPARE (PREMIER HOPES TO OPERATE TRAINS| TO COME TO U. S. Long Island and Jersey Roads ov Lloyd George Announces Personnel Call for Volunteers to of British Delegation to Arms Get Ready. Conference. Volunteer crews of commuters who! LONDON, Oct. 18 (Associated ran traing during the last railroa . strike are getting out the old overalls, | P'ess).—Premier Lloyd George stated shovel gloves and caps in preparation |!n the House of Commons upon the reassembling of that body to-day, for the threatened shutdown on Nov. 1. that he hoped to go to the Washing- Ralph Peters, President of the Long |ton conference on the limitation of Island Railroad, said that he would) srmaments and Far Eastern prob- call for volunteers to run commuting |iems ay soon as the Parliamentary trains as in the “outlaw” strike of! ang general situation renderd it pos- 1920, and would start at once to give] sine volunteers a technical training in 10-| ‘the other members of the British comotive cabs. delegation, the Premier said, would Charles H. Martens, Mayor of East pe A J. Balfour and Lord Lee of Orange, sald he had received offers Fareham, First Lord of the Admir- from residents of that town to oper- alty. Sir Auckland Geddes, the Brit- ate D. L. and W. trains should the iyh Ambassador at Washington, would strike materialize. The Mayor said act as a delegate, Mr. Lioyd George he was ready to take his place {n a added, in the absence of the Premter or any other delegate. The dominions, said the Premier, will be represented as follows: Can- ada, Sir Robert L,’Borden; Australia, strike last year, He is preparing, he said, to issue a cal! for a meeting of citizens to discuss the situation and to form volunteer crows to operate George Foster Pearce: New Zealand, trains. Str John Salmond; In Srinavana Peter 8. Duryee of the Mercantile ¢ustri: South Africa, by representa- Trust Company of No, 115 Broadway, tives of the British Government and Murray Oliphant of the U. Ss, Mortgage and Trust Company, both members of the Englewood commit-| ‘tee, said they were ready with others! | to enlist in the commuters’ service if the schedules are abandoned. Mayor Sheet of Rutherford, N. J., has begun an organization to man com- muters’ trains when the strike reaches the main line of the Drte. Three crews have already been completed with com: [Sieer engineers and firemen, ‘The con- actors ang tralnmen are former service Specht 1s In charge of two Rowe end Coke Ladd, who day similar rervice during the era of “white collar specials” during the so-called outlaw strike, {9 responsible for a third. ee LOU ISVILLE ENTRIES. LOUISVILLE, Ky,, Oct. 4 tries for to-morrow's races The senior British naval expert, the Premier announced, would be Admiral Earl Beatty, commander of the Grand Fleet, who would be succeeded ip due course by Admiral Chadwick. Lord Cavan, who was in charge of the British Army operations in Italy in the last year of the war, will be the principal military expert, and Sir Marshal! Higgins will be the aviation expert. Th retary of the delega- tion will be Sir Maurice Hankey, who has been secretary of the Cabinet since 1919. { gee FOCH TO BE ADVISER AT ARMS PARLEY al to Represent All Allies as | President of the Military | Conmi: PARIS, Oct. 18—Marslia! Foch's relations to the Conference on Lim- {tation of Armaments in Washington will be that of President of the Inter- Allled Military Commission, the suc- cessor of the Inter-Allied Military Council. This commission still main- tains a staff and offices at Versailles and is consulted by the Supreme Al- led Council when military questions come before it The Marsha! thus will be, in theory and in fact, military adviser to all the European Allies “taking part in| the Conference, these nations being France, Great Britain, Italy and Bel- gium. ‘He will also, by a loose con- struction, still be adviser tor the American forces in Germany, because they are a part of the Army of Occu- pation under the Versailles Treaty: The Inter-Allied Commission, how- ever, has never been consulted by Major Gen. H. T. Allen, who repre- Mar: low 80," *Gav'ner, ier 1444 *Aimdane® Tevok want 100: By Brow, ATH PACE OLS a nae jer | sents both the State and War De; wea alba end ye net ‘ene aaneh, eal, Is both the State a part aii stat TOL Himobes That Raale, Tig.) ments of United States Govern- eet IA, os, sed Ves hineland, RhOE 9) 0; Sag" gage | Ment in the Ri Gne land onewixteene — ‘BNTH em ee ay DEPUTY ATTACKS AIMS eer elt 10 OF ARMS CONFERENCE aan Sarr. bit Margaine Saya U. 8. In ating Under Weight of Gold. PARIS, Oct: 18.—The United States is suffocating benoath the weight of her own gold, Deputy Margaine declared in the Chamber to-day, launching » verbal attack on the Iimilation of arma- ments, conference, Margaine declared the scope of the Washington conference was gradu- ally shrinking, “There Is no Question now of qeneral | disarmainent, cried. The United | States, sufoeeng beneath the we of her gold, is ageking new warkets Aiming at the Kar East, where it meeting Japanese competition and TRANSPORT MINISTER GEDDES RESIGNS POST noe. 17 (Asrociated Press).—Sir Eric Geddes, Minister of Transport in the Cabinet, | has tendered his resignation from ULSTER 10 MOBILIZE AND ARM VOLUNTEERS; MORE CAMP RIOTING (Continued From First Page.) Volumes of smoke were observed ascending from the island where the interned men, it wns said, were burn- ing their sleeping kits. Four of the prisoners have been badly injured. LONDON, Oct. 18.—With Parlla- ment meeting to-day, and Premier Lloyd George busy, the Irish confer- ence is taking a recess, No date was fixed for the next meeting, but ru- mors of a hitch were promptly dented. The Irish question is not likely come up in Parliament in any way and nothing will be done to embarrass the negotiations. While London and Dublin are both optimistic regarding the outcome of the Irish conference, it is realized that the most critical point—the Ul- ster problem—must be disposed of next. Yesterday's session was de voted to this, and the British repre- sentatives were apparently greatly amazed at the evidence of Sinn Fein strength in the six counties under the Ulster Parliament. Although Ulster is at present the main difficulty, the suggestion of- fered in some quarters that Premier Lloyd George has Invited Premier Str James Craig to attend the conference ie unfounded. It is doubtful, even, whether Sir James's Saturday's speech was any more than a remind- er to the Government here that the Ulster six county section desires to be consulted. The Irish peace conference will re< sume its sessions next Thursday, tt was announced to-day. Dental that there had been a hitch in the negotia- tions was ued jointly by the Sinn Fein plentpotentiaries and the British Cabinet Committee. The Ulster issue was the subjec of consideration during a two-hour session on Monday on the following points: 1, Sinn Fein 4s insisting upon com. plete independence— 2. Unless Britain will accept Ire- land as a unit within the Britisi Commonwealth. In other words the visiting delega- tion is making coercion of Ulster a condition of her acceptance of the main British condition, that Ireland must retain its allegiance to the Crown. Sub-committees were to-day to continue this discussion. sn eee “OUTLAW” STRIKERS READY TO WORK NOW Mem Who Lost Jobs hy Walkent Are W! = to Return, A. U, Stahl, former foreman of the car shops of the Central Reliroad of New Jersey in Elizabeta, announced to day that several hundred men who lox their employment at the time of the voutiaw strike’ two yeans ago were ready and willing to go back to rail- road work in the places of those who tatled to support that sirike. In the cities and towns along the lines of the Central Railroad of New Jersey the local newspapers published idvertisements offering “guaranteed permanent employment’ as engineers, firemen, conductors, traimen and yard- men to men who “filled vacancies ss they occur because of men leaving the service." —___ KUROPATKIN POISONED BY BOLSHEVIST ORDER Famous General Stationed in Tark- jefased to Do Propa- wanda Work, PARIS, Oct. 18.—A dispatch to the Matin from Ruval declares Gen, Kuro patkin was poisoned by Bolshevist orders after he had refused to heed Red propaganda in Turkestan. Kuropatkin was born In 1848, and en- ered the army at the Nicholas Starr voliege in 1864. He gerved with the Freuch Foreign Legion in Algiers from 1870 to 1875, and then for a year waa employed in diplomatic work In Kash- warla and took part in the military operations in Turkestan, Kohan ena Samarkand, In the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78 he served as Chief of Staff to the famous Skobelev, and atteined the height of his fame in the Russe Japanese w: ee ——— Penney to Hire Baldwin Men. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18,—The Pennsylvania Railroad expects to re- cruit large numbers of workers from the Baldwin Locomotive Works if the strike comes. The Baldwin plant is running at only 30 per cent, capacity and the Pennsylvania management ie confident that the men laid off will be willing to work. \nere Cheese is one of the very | ew relishes that will “go” per-' ectly with any other foed en Ny occasion, New, Coated, Sanitary Wrapper _FUNERAL DIRECTORS, that office, it was learned to-day. Hiding with the Anglo-Japanese The resignation hay no great pollti. | ance.” | sal significance, It had been Bader. jie charged, that th ; he teal. reason way stood that he would g ve uy, rte ag gg folio thie autwnn, after having plloved Americe, had galled conference the Railwey Bil) through Par! iazaep!. Pacific Pa eee type? !