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t. et it ‘ of rir bt. HAPPENS IN FIREMAN DEAD, To-Night’s Weather-—LOCAL SHOWERS. | WALL | STREET WORLD VOL. LXIII. NO. 22,103—DAILY. If States Cannot Furnish Adequate Forces to! Prevent D Support of Polic Pr WASHINGTON taneous teleg July 18 CLOSING TABLES. -+= dent Harding late to-day will si ams directing the operators of al! bituminou: x; WRECKING ¢ = ve << =f “ Circulation Books Open to All.” | Copyright v HARDING ORDERS COAL MINES REOPENED AT ONCE AND TELLS GOVERNORS 10 PROTECT THEM turbances Federal Troops Will Supplement Them—Cabinet Unanimous in 1 simu blishing Company, ew York Press World) by 1922. 2-GUN MAN SHUT, TWO OTHERS HIT, IN HARLEM CHASE Alleged Auto Thief Seizes Faxi and Fights Police Pursuit. POLICEMAN WOUNDED. Chauffeur, Pistol at Back, Sits Floor He Drives. on as mines shut down ea A two-gun man found early to-di® deca of strike conditions to resume operation at once kt It tacnot as eany aa he had heard He 1 also request the Governors of those States in which the mine to steal an automobile in New York operate to furnis: such military protection as may be needed WB WE SN Uy 2 Qc neluded the” shooting of the car If State troops find it impossible to cope with the situation, Fed ‘ u sner, a poileeman and the gunman; ‘oops, it Was understood, may eventually be employed , troops, it Was understood, may atually be employed the seizure of a taxicab: a wild chase Plans for such action by the President were understood to have received | of more than a mile and a running the unanimous support of the Cabinet at to-day’s meeting of that body, at | revolver battle in which half a dozen which the industrial observed in the execution of the plan. HARDING CAN END COAL STRIKE NOW, MINERS CLAIM Get All Interests Together, Instead of Part, They Ask. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, July 18 (Copy- right).—President Harding still has an opportunity to settle the coal strike ‘by personal intervention. This correspondent. he an autho been given tative outline of the miners’ position, which would seem to indicate that if Mr. Harding will assemble a joint conference of miners’ represen- tatives and operators of the old cen- tral competitive fleld and propose as he did once before that the miners return to work on the old wage scale @ntil next April, or thereabouts, pend- ing a commission's inquiry, the posal would be immediately accepted by the miners. ‘ Miners’ officials, who did not to be quoted at this time, but whose pro- wish views are absolutely final in thelr own headquarters, pointed out that the President in reality has never brought to Washington enough oper- ators to embrace the union fields and that In dealing with A. M. Ogle, President of the National Coal Asso ciation, Mr. Harding in contact only with a small who reflect the of the non-union coal fields, Mr. Ogle, it contended elected President of the Coal Assocla was in reality roup of operators, viewpoint is was tion on the platform of no-interstate conferences and that when Mr. Hard- ing telegraphed him to bring opera tors to Washington he brought the men who believed in that platform, dominated by arising in the non-union, rather than the union flelds The miners group considerations state positively that President Harding has really had no with the majority of the operators of the union fields who de- sire to negotiate for an immediate re- turn of the minerg on the old scale of wages, The arbitration proposal was rejected chiefly because it did not em- brace enough of the operators from unton fields let alone the non-union districts, What is sought to-day by the min ers Is a conference of operators from: the central competitive field or a na- tional conference of all the operators. Mr. Harding, they say, has received acceptances of his arbitration propos- contact (Continons on Fourteenth Page.) uaMon was discussed in al The advices to the mine operators and the Governor will point out the imperative necessity for early resumption of the mining industry in the interest of the public and will also briefly urge that orderly procedure be its ramifications PEN WAGE SCALE WITH Win Demands by New Agreement. PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylva July 18 nia Railroad announced negotiated between representatives of the shopmen still company by of employed and representatives management, affecting 40,000 men. more The company nounced wage agreements resentatives of maintenance of signal department and dd previously ks miscellancous forces.}at him and he fired back, Then affecting, including the — shopmen,fCohen comn jeored passing car 140,000 men on the system. The newland start it up Fitth rates of pay in each case are effective] Avenue. as of July 16 instead of July 1, as] at asth Street Policeman Joseph previously announced Giawlayiot st 104th Street Sta- The new schedule of waxes differs|tion stepped into the street. 3lo1k in’ some respects from the rate: | shot him in the knee before the police- established by the Labor Board fo | man could get his revolver into ae. other railroads,’ the announcemen |tion, The taxicab turned east to Mad said, “but the difference is in favor o [eon Ave the Pennsylvania employees. For th ty this time more than halt a part, the Pennsylvania systenifdogen policemen were In pursuit, and Are garded in accordance with | men on post added to the din of bat nd experience, required and the|tle by firing as the tax! shot past prevailing rates are (Continued on Fourteenth P; Special Police Guard Watching Home of Enright in Brooklyn It was learned to-day been assigned to watch the residence right at No. 897 trict of Brooklyn. A neigh two men acting & —————— a suspiciously in the vicinity of the{ guard at the house Enright house last Friday, accord-| At the Enright house to-day, the Ing to the story, and telephoned to| bell was answered by an elderly man, the police of the Atlantic Avenue] Wo said f lative of ¢h Gommaixsioner, and had come to tn Station. Detectives ‘and unituimed] joins ta dust oft He denied officers were despatched to houar that the was an off r stationed at Tho two men, however, had disap-|the house, bnt sald, that a Manbat- tun policeman does call at the house eared, all the doors of tho house ba if the house} cour times, having a key, and going were intact. Since then, it is said, although the house from top to bottom [Manhattan patrolman has been on 40,000 SHOPMEN Men Who Stayed on Jobs 4 The to- day that.a wage agreement has been the the than an with rep- men enerally highe on good authority . Marks Avenue, Brooklyn. building near Kingston Avenue, in the fashionable St. Marks residence dis- Commissioner Enright is in Europe with his wife. or more policenin part. Lows Salowey, forty-four years old, of No. 100 West £19th Street, a res- taurant owner, left his automobile tn front of No. 29 West 111th Street shortly after midnight and went to the second floor to visit friends. He was sitting at a front window when he men and begin tampering with his car, He ran down and two of the men fled. The third, who later described him- self as Cl twenty-five, No, 542 Second Avenue, was on the at trying to start the car. him and saw three stop les Clark, Saloway him out, a revolver and shot Saloway in the right shoulder, right knee and left grabbed yanked and Clark drew and as his victtm sank unconscious ran to Fifth Ave- nue, Police Sergeant Abraham Cohen, In a police automobile at 118th Street and Lenox Avenue, heard the shots. His c ur, Policeman John Web- er, was in a restaurant getting water for the car, and Cohen got out and raced on foot for Fifth Avenue, At 1llth Street Clark had jumped to the running board of a taxicab driven by James De Silvio, of No. 1011 East 178th Street, and poking one of his guns under De Silvio’ ear said; “Drive like hell you, or I'll fill yo Sergt. Cohen saw the he reached I to the chant and do like I tell full of lead." taxicab when fth Avenue, and shouted Clark firea ir to stop. '] Persons in the street said the map in (Continued on Pourteenth Page.) that a police guard had of Police Commissioner Richard E, E It is a three-story gray brick making his last visit about midnight, NEW YORK IT'S IN THE EVENING WORLD” 0 HURT IN EXPLOSIONS JANE STREET WAREHOUSE Fireman 219 ation mol of his cor lyn, morning. in Brook! at a ternal accident Engin quarters hill tion Aven of Street ne White. tension in left wheel the curb. ing heavil move aft Ca Capt Brooklyn hospital. Malor Place, June, 190: LON DC Balfour te ell of the plete agre tween thi Britain Palestine. gine the depresste The machine Ho has U. S. AND n James was W instantly being thrown from the heavy combir Extension and Johnson Malone of Kil Ire, tor pump and hose mpany at Flatbush Ave treet, little after 9 o'clocl Fireman ‘iremen nto of the nof Malo ly er on his he Hospital lived at 8, IN, July peday i 207 which had been eall tan by the fifth alarm for the fir the struck ‘oll fell on top of ‘Tennis took 1 in which pulled up beside lone was dead when they No. Joseph Cart explosion in Jane Street. Capt ence Tennis was seated beside driver of the engine, Fireman Malone and ( were on the rear step Turning from Flatbush Avenue Johnson Street t machine slip! sewer idded violently was pitched off ad and the Maton he two 244 St. M been a fireman Se ENGLAND | AGREE ON MANDATE 2,998 The Ba nbouneced in the r yn Hospital at the point death with a fractured skull and injuries recelyed in the sur No, 219, which has lene at Dean Street and Und was moying to the s Engine No, 207 in ar Johnson to replac Vito M n AULOHOL 1 4 of Nations that ement had been reach © United ates and Crea regarding a mandate NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 18, BROUGHT 10 BAY COMMIT SUICIDE —— “Cowards” to Pur- suers, Then Fire Bullets Into Own Brains. LI cher and July Edwin 18.—Herman the Fis sins Kern, of Dr. Walter Rathenau, Foreign Min ister, committed suicide to-day as po lice Were about to arrest them at Bad Koesen, Thuringia The two were traded to Bad Koesen ere they had barrica them elves In the tower of Sualeek Castle on top of a mountain. Volley after volley of shot was fired upon the mur levers by the police, As they were heing closed in upon, police beard them shout "You coward This wa lowed by two shots within tronghold Kern and Miseher were dead lice found them. ‘1 hati themselves throug en Man’s Best Medicines Are Exercise, Sunshine«nd Fresh Air following exercise out 1 is clearer, the nerv reased and the blood oxyg tific tests have shown, cian, that respirat nd digestion are aided by sitting or wall open The way to he fulness and the reter youthful spirit is throu the fresh air.” World Resorts’ “On the day suitable n “Summer Last Week. More than any other New York newspaper 1,615 | For the Best Place to | Spend a Vacation, Read World “Summer Resort’’ Ads. 1922, Tarlo, “Cirontation Book: 3 Open to All.” Firemen Fighting Flames in Jane Street Warehouse Wrecked, by Terrific Explosions FIREMAN KILLED, |RATHENAU SLAYERSIWOMAN KILLS SELF ANOTHER DYING, AS ENGINE SID Accident in Brooklyn as Com-| Shout pany Changes Quarters Be “cause of Jane St. I UNDER | R.7. TRAIN AT ASTOR PLACE oe Believed to Be Mrs. Becky Lodloey of Bronx— Traffic Tied Up. A woman who fs supposed to have been Mrs. Be Stebbins y Lodloey of No, 1420 Avenue, the Bronx, com mitted suicide by jumpin in front « 4 northbound local train in the Astor Place Station of the east side subway ut 1.10 o'clock this afternoon, Mer body was so tightly wedged in the forward truck of the seeund cur th firemen were summoned to extricate lt. Northbound 1 wid express traffic was delayed uly half an hour The woman entered the station shortly after 1 o'clock and walked to the north end of the plutforf. On two or three persor mp She waited until the tra wee slowing down for the st toy within five feet of he The train that struck th and the trains following it were well filled, but as the road was operating under the non-rush hour schedule t trains were far enough apart tot stopped at Blatlona, Aang or tne passengers on th woman left ttand hurried to the out sir when they learned of t hed _— WILSON ASSASSINS SENTENCED TO DIE Dunn and O'Sullivan Con victed of Murder of Late Marshal LONDON, July 18 (As: Press).—Reginald Dunn and Tosen! O'Sullivan were found guilty to-da after trial in the Old Builey t « murder of the late Field Ma Henry Hughes Wilson, w « chot down in front of his hom nk n Place last month Both the convicted tenced to death, men were sen- of Chemicals To-Morrow's WALL STREE PID Entered as Second-Class Matter Post Office, New York, N. ¥ ONC K IN FIRE; Weather—FAIR; COOLER. AL At TION Lei PRICE THREE CENTS D, 30 INIURED CHEMICAL BLASTS TEAR ROOF OFF BUILDING eee NUS Under Debris choppmeyer, Engine Company 13, Crushed —Six Firemen Hurled to Cop- ing of Roof Miraculously Escape Death— Windows Broken Two Blocks From Scene.— 500 Families Driven From Homes. One fireman was killed, many 1 fire and serie irers’ Transit Company, at No. Avenue Assistant District tie building cot DEAD AND INJURED DEAD. SCHOPPMEYER, Lieut. J. J.; Fire Department, Engine No. 13. INJURED. PHILLIP J., 14; cuts: ALEXANDER gine Company No BROWN, HARRY, firem and Ladder Truck No. 6, to St cent's Hospital BURKE, ANTHONY E., Hook and uadder No. Jacerations of left les. BUTTS, WILLIAM; fireman, En- gine Company 38; cuts, CALAMARI, MICHAEL, Hook Vin- Fire Pa- tro! No. both hands badly burned. COLEMAN, P. J,; Policeman, Charles Street tion; bruises, CORKERY, EDWARD, fireman, Engine No. 38; cut and bruised, DONLIN, JOHN, Hook and Lad- der No. 3, blown through a roof scuttle by explosion DOUGHTY, THOMAS, Hook and Ladder No, 3; both legs erushe: FREID, MARTIN, sixteen y old, No West 107th Street; cuts. FURMAN, MARGARET, Cincin nati, O., visiting her daughter-in- wat No. 9 Jane Street; bruises. HAVILANE, RUDOLPH, No, 72; vyes affecte Company moke and chemieals; taken to Belle vue Hospital KAHN, MORRIS, Engine Company No lacerations LEW JOSHUA, Engine Com pany No cuts LYNT, Ro oD, flreman, Engine No. 14; cut and bruised MeCAFEREY, MICHAEL, Lieuten- unt Pire Department; t cent's Hospital 7 McCONVILLE, flook and Ladder ‘ St. Vincents Hospital MARTIN, JOSEPH, Acting Chief, Fire Department; cut and bruised MEEHAN, ESTHER, No, 119 Greenwich Avenue; cuts on head, MULLALY, Engine of left pital O'BRIEN pany No, 31 ken to B O'CONNOR, SDWARD, Captain of No. 24; lacerations en to Bellevue Hos Comp foot; ts JAME overcome Hospital CAPT. 1 Engine ¢ by ‘om mok ve Depart ment, Engine No. 18; ¢ REILLY, PATRICK, fireman, Truck ) to St. Vincent's Hospital REYNOLDS, PRT fireman Engine No. 14; overcome by smoke; Hellevue Hospital ROGENKAMP, CHARLES, Rescue No. 1 O, SALVATORE, Engine kn and hand injured MRS ANNIE, No, S11 Fast 19th Street; shock WEST, MI RO Greenwich Street; bruises WILLIAMS, Engine 83; cut and bruise YONHOLTZ, CHARL fireman, Hook and Ladder Truck No, 6; to Bt, Vincenjs Hospital, Company injured hand ROTUN Co. N SMITH and che STEPHEN, fireman, policemen, firemen and spectators and scores of others had remarkable escapes this morning in s of explosions in the six-story warehouse of the Manu- 10 Jane street, near Greenwich I ge lire was discovered shortly after 8 o'clock. Attorney Morgan Jones said he had learned that ned large quantities of magnesium, sulphur and potash, omibination of these makes the flashlight powder used by phot: ographers, There was also a quantity of cellu- loid and a shipment of German toys belonging to the New York Merchan- dize Company, and there was much rubber. Frederick Francis, Treasurer of the company that operates the ware- house, first refused to say what chemicals were stored there, saying he would have to see his lawyer first. The owner of the building is Edgar Bluxton, who lives at the San Remo Hotel. A ro perty loss Is $1,000,000, Including the value of the butlding as about $300,000, print paper of the Star Publishing Company at about $300,000, and paper belonging to the Tribune Com- pany, at $30,000. Mayor Hylan arrived early at the scene and wading through puddles of water, in some spots half way to his knees, crossed over to the west side of Fourth Street and plunged into the heavy pall of smoke in search of “Smoky Joe" Martin, The Assistant Chief came out of the building and shaking hands with the Mayor, sald “Mr, Mayor, this is thé toughest and worst fires I'v witnessed in all my career in the department.’* is ever Going closer to the fire than any. one except the flremen had been al- lowed, Mayor Hylan made a sury and then announced he would order «4 full investigation as soon as he re- turned to City Hall Fire Commissioner Thomas J Drenan declared there was ‘some- thing to be called to the attention of the District Attorney’ regarding the An early report that an engine company had been lost entirely in on mn that tore off part of the roof proved to be erroneous, but the real story of the incident is remark able, The men concerned in it were six members of Rescue Squad No, 1, unded [ieut. Kilbride, They were playing a hose down into the flames Kilbride and Fireman Charles Rogen - camp were at the nozzle, When the explosion came these two and their four helpers were blown back across roof to the edge of the coping, where they lost thelr Hose and scrambled to their feet A part of coping dropped to the f of swory tenement at No. 16 Jane Street, and there Was another explesion at once which wrecked the two upper floors—from which, fortunately, all tenants had been removed a few minutes before. The members of the Re: Squad nd themselves stunned by this nd explosion, but recovered and their way down the fire-escape. Acting Chie¢ “Smoky Joe"? Martia, who was blown through a door and slightly injured, said the building ap~ parently contained quantities of mag- nesium and phosphorus, which added to the difficulties, Water poured on burning phosphorus accomplished nothing, At 8 o'clock this afternoon hor attached to high pressure hydrant were forcing 48,000 gallons of sal ee