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SPER ORT NT eR Te “ToiNights Weather—FAtRy AIL PEAC ah dele COOLER. _vor Iam. NO. 22,131—DATLY. Copyright (New Douglas Story a ‘Letter Pablixting Company, 192%, Yorke Wortd) by Press HARDING APPROVES|°“*** BORAH BILL FOR COAL COMMISSION Will Suggest Changes in the Number and Personnel. IT CARRIED Provides for Investigation and Report On All, @ Phases of indust!™ HIS IDEA. ely8 WASHINGTON, Aug. 20bT°4 ogi. dent Harding to-day not; PO’ Snator Mt "the lat Borah of his aceeptanc ter's coal commission bill as carrying to Congre slation. Mr. out his recommendation esterday for such le Gircine said with Mr. Borah amendments bill relating to the size and personnel discuss to the wished to of the commission The two probably will confer on the question wext week Borah’s bill ates a commission tonal 1 by the and a third of three, one selected by th Coal Association, a sec United Mine Workers, representing the publi the latter to be in no way interested in the coal business. The commission is to exi for u year only unless Congress other- wise orders, ‘The commission is instructed by the bill to report to Congress the owner ship and title of coal mines, cost of production, profits durin last ten years, labor costs, Wages paid, irregu~ remedies lar production and to sugges for irregularity of produet It is seted to recommend also di gislation on sgandardizing mines mon a basis of production; standard | ting cost o. living for mine workers advisability of nationalizing the coul industry and the feasibility and need of Government regulation U. S. NEGOTIATING FOR 12-MILE LIMIT Bering Tells Senate of Dicker With Britain. WASHINGTON, ‘Aug. 19.—Negotia- tions are under way between the United States and Great Britain to extend to twelve mites the limit in nd fov South which vessels can bes liquor, Senator Sterling, kota told the Senate to- Sterling said he would not press his amomdment to the tariff bill, which would extend t limit to twelve miles, pending the negotiations being carried on by ry Hughes. “As long 3 s any hope that Great Britain by international agree ment will withdraw protection from rum smuggling vessels, it may be th best policy to wa aid. STOCK TRADER FAILS, 100,80: Gumpe OWING Chester A Btreet, a trader in stocks, filed a Yoluntary petition In bankruptey to-da giving his liabilities as $100,801.5 his assets as $100, on which he claims exemption. The principal creditors lated are: Eric & Dreyfus, No, 115 Broadwa $40,620; k Schwed, No, 20 Bron Street, ; and Sartorius & E stein, No. 20 Broad Street, $15,000. 50 and The World’s Readers Are Well Provided With Positions Unlike $ Claus, who makes many happy one day in the year, The World through its "Help Wanted" ads, makes thousands happy every day in the year by presenting them with the in- forrfation that leads to employment, 15 487 World “Help Wanted" ’ Ads. Last Week More Than the Next 12,530 Highest Newspaper ba! _ ), TheWorld’s ‘HelpWanted’ Ads. MOST FOR Workers BEST FOR Employers 4 ~~ > PHIL DOUGLAS 1 WORLD STARE Prove @nsmnem d Pitcher and Cardinal Who Denies Receiving Letter LESLIE MANN. “SHUFFLIN’ Pull,” | MANN OF ST. LOUIS DRUNK, KIDNAPPED) DENIES RECENMNG. |= BY cS, HESAYS) DOUGLAS LETTER Dragged to 133th § Street Sta- tion and to Sanitarium, Is His Claim. “Shufflin’ from Phil” Douglas, barred organized baseball because he offered to desert the Giants and injure of winning the National League pennant, said to-day that the letter which brought his banishment was written to.Leslie Mann, outfielder of the St. Louls Cardinals. He de- clared he was innocent of any inten- tional wrong and sure his name would be cleared. “I may never get back into organ- ized baseball," said Douglas, “but be- fore long I'll force them to admit that I was not guilty of any crookedness. I never threw a game in my life and my record during my years in base- 1 speaks for itself, McGraw gave me a dirty deal and the public will yon find out that I am innocent. Shortly after the game which 1 vitched against the pirates on July ), I went to the apartment of a friend and got drunk, While I was asleep about flve detectives broke into the apartment and attempted to drag me out. I resisted them, but they overpowered me and finally dragged me into a taxicab and took me to the g5th Street Police Station and from there to a sanitaylum, The banished pitcher declared that his clothes were taken from him and that he kept a prisoner in the anitarium from Tuesday, Aug. 1, to following Saturday. While he was their chanc he was finéd $100 and five by McGraw, according to rtion, n Saturday, Aug, 5, thinking t I had been dismissed from the team," said Douglas, “I went to the Polo Grounds and wrote the letter to Mann, Who was then in Boston with the St. Louis Club. Shortly after- ward McGraw called me into his office in the clubhouse and bawled me out, but said nothing about firing me. I then Pa! dd still to be re- tained on the club and that night 1 phoned to Mann in Boston and begged him to tear up the letter. I told him that I had made a bad mistake in writing tt and that I hadn't been fired from the Giants. Mann finally agreed to tear up the letter, but instead of that he turned it over to Branch Rickey, who immediately notified Mc- Graw. I heard nothing more of the letter until I was called into McGraw's room in the Schenley in Pittsburgh, “1 was desperate when I wrote the letter, 1 thought that I had been fired from the club when they sus- pended me, fined me and then tried to make me pay the bill for the sanatar- tum well for the tax! in which th took me there, I was sore at McGraw because he gave me a rot- (Continued on Second Page.) “Always on the sf His Seuaris” He Sa¥s of Ousted Giant Pitcher, ST. LOUIS ated Press: 19 (Assocl- outfielder Mo., Lesile Aug. Mann, for the St, Louis Cardinals, to-day added a new angle to the case of “Shufflin' Phil’ Douglas, New York Giants’ pitcher, who was barred from organized baseball for writing a let- ter toa player of a “contending team" offering to desert the Glants and thus hinder their,chances of winning the pennant, when he flatly denied he had received the létter, Douglas stated in New York last night he had writ- ten to Mann, Expressing surprise when told by a reporter that Douglas had named him as the player to whom he had written offering to ‘throw down" the ‘ew York team if It was “worth my while,’ Mann also denied that he held uny telephone conversation with the New York pitcher. Douglas sald in his New York statement he tele- Phoned Mann at ston and re- quested him to tear up the corre- spondence, Mann declared that he always had known Douglas to mn the square,” and expressed surprise that the Giant hurler had been found guilty of the act for which he was barred by Manager John J. McGraw, and K, Traseball Commis- sioner. NEW HIGH MARK MADE BY STOCKS ON STRIKE NEWS Rails Gain Two or More Points. Spread of the belief road and coal strikes will a matter of history was responsible for M, Landis, Some that the rail- soon become a@-wave of buying in to-day's two- sion of the stuck market, and erage of prices touched a new high mark for the last two years Railorad shares were in vigorous de- Mand from the outset of business un- til the close and numerous shares in this group were able to reg gains of two points or of equal extent were seo: ing industrials. Among the more important advances were: Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul, preferred, 2 3-4; Union lacifie, 2 1-2; Chicago and Eastern [lin 1-4: Atchison, 1 8-4; Canadian yuthern Railway, pr ins lead- more ed by ; Baltimore and Ohio, New York Central, 1 1-2; Cluett Peabody, 3; while United States Steet equalled its high mar the last three years when it rose to 104 1-4 | NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922. SEIZE $100,000 RUM, 15 PRISONERS TRUCKS A AND YACH 4 Midnight Rald at at New Rochelle Nets Big Haul With- out Fight. Mayor’sGrand-Kid Has TwoTeeth! His Honor Megaphones It Across TheSea toHomecoming Ma and Pa Hylan’s Wife Returns From Trip Abroad—Says She Saw Nothing as Beautiful Abroad as the Statue of Liberty. ‘ The reunion vf thivteen-months-old® John Hylan Sinnott, grandson to the Mayor, und his parents, Mr. and Mrs. dobn F, Sinnott, and his grandmother, Mrs, John F. Hylan, was accomplished to-day by Mr, Hylan at the French Line pier when the Paris bringing the Sinnotts and Mrs. Hylan arrived. The Mayor learned somewhat. to his surprise that his authority as a grand- father doesn't get the consideration which accrues to him publicly, as Mayor; he was goodnaturedly indig- nant about it GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK (@ ptain of Bootlegging Yacht capes—Got Liquor Off Montauk. Contraband lquor, worth $100,000, was captured by the said to be New Rochelle police in a midnight raid last night on the docks of the} The Mayor went down the bay to Huguenot Coal Company on Water |meet the Paris on the Macom, which Street, Fifteen prisoners, a motor-|W2% Once the police boat Patrol. driven yacht and three automobite| With bim went Commissioner Grover trucks were taken at the same time. | Whalen. He found that as an indi- vidual grandfather he had to sign 1 blank when taken aboard the revenu cutter for transfer to the Par which would not have been required of him on an offictal visit as Mayo “Humph,” said the Mayor, signiay on the dotted line. ‘Being a grand- father is a much more important job than being a Mayor. I suppose that's The crew of the yacht and others were in the act of transferring 600 cases of fine Scotch whiskies to the motor trucks when eight members of the New Rochelle police force, acting on a tip to Police Headquarters, swooped down upon the place. The prisoners were taken after a grim] why they told me not to bring Baby game of hide-and-seek in the coal}John down; he™ couldn't sign his THOM OF the dock, the arrival orpmaeme: | Redvtapertimtes att" As the cutter neared the Paris Mr the police having been the stgnal for} iyian made out his wife and lil 4 general flight daughter and his secretary at the ri ‘The captain of the yacht escaped. |He grabbed for at megaphone. " yhn’s got two teeth,” he @ yac s the Bat. Three B 5 TD PYRCHES SRLS Bees : “Found ‘em yesterday. | men, , were ring- age.) who, the police the rum running scheme, themselves as James Mur sworth William Bald- Conn.; John leaders of described phy, Avenue, win, inventor, Johnson, nut Street, Philadelphia. Members of the said her home port was Washington, D, C. The cargo of liquor, they said had been transferred to the yacht from a three-masted schooner off Montauk Point. , All the prisoners were held in $500 cash bail each by City Magistrate Swinburne of New Rochelle. (Continued on Second BABY SINNOTT. salesman, No. Larchmont; Darien, real estate, No. DEMPSEY BRENNAN|TWO CAR STRIKERS BOUT PRIZE FIGHT, | ARE ARRESTED IN SAYS GOV. MPCRAY} TRAIN DYNAMITING Writes crew of the yacht Sheriff for That Re -|Had 500 Sticks of Explosive The police were unable to. teart son It Is Prohibited in Auto, Detective Chiet either the ownership of the yacht or by Law. Charges. trucks or the destination of the liquor ————— The license plates on the trucks, it INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 1%.—Gov BUFFALO, N., Y., Aug. 19.—Two was said, had been changed with a view to conceal the ownership. It is belleved that the Bat is a rum runner for which revenue officers have McCray to-day sent a letter to Sheriff Willlam B, County, striking street car conductors, Antiss, Sheriff of Laporte ie tear conductor haa in whichaghe Executive de- clared that he is convinced the Demp alleged to have possession in their sticks of dynamite, were arrested by been looking for months and which sey-Brennan bout is a prize fight and] Detective Chief Zimmerman this as been a link between deep water | ;, re prohibited ie Ad He Detective hief Zimmerman — this ships and an important group of la vernor prepared the letter several] #fternoon, ‘The prisoners are Bort scale bootleggers on shore. days ago. e request of] Wibson a Heh nine. The otlier prisoners described them- |i", NO. Rub ae the reduest of! Wijson and John W. Simm: selves as follows: Raymond Larsen, |) 0800 UY 1 Ee Gals y Ge: Aan Chief Zimmerman and a tore of sallor, No, 111 Pioneer Stre lyn; Fred Saunders, salle t, Brook » No, 242 In a revision of the letter w made to-day be! ich the | detectives had be nm working Main Street, Port Chester; Samucl or re MAND) dynamiting of the International Rail- Harris, laborer, No, 1001 Bast 180th }!t he sald: (o} * Birest, | New fork: John O'brion, To my mind it is clear it either] ¥4¥ Company's high speed line early salesman, No, 440 East 137th Street, | is intended that the affair is to be al] yesterday morning which resulted in New York; Charles Bernard, laborer, | prize Might or the public is to be} the derailment of a three-car trolley No. 1453 Amsterdam Avenue, New | badly disappointed, if not defrauded. nm an WE nd the injury of fifty pe York; red Mayenhoff, laborer, No. | In any event, there would be a viola-] o Wo aa : : ' 464 Riverside Avenue, Lyndhurst, N. | tion either of the written law of the] ‘TO™ ashintgon, Bultime ond. J.; Olaf Jansen, cook, No. 170 14th | state, or the unwritten law of com-| Philadelphia Street, Brooklyn; Nick Nielson, <allor, | mou fairness and equity.’ Wilson 8 Ney 0 sath Street, Broottlyn Ife Ss home in Woodlawn Avenut y Liska, machinist, No. 53 Ver TT ; milyea Street, New York; Carl Kos SHER AWAITS LETTE Cold Spring car barns. In the aute chowitz, engineer, No. 182 Lawrence FROM GOV. McCRAY | mobiis in which he was seat Street, New Yor Charles Br am mer laborer, No. 174 Westchester Avenu LA PORTE, Ind, 19,—"Until 1 get Bronx, and John Miller, laborer, No. | the Governor's letter L will do nothing 811 East 152d Street, New York I do not even know he has man says, he found five box ite, each containing | c was in the dyng simme house wl The Bat tied up at the dock at 11.15] , After [get the lettter Pl decile |™M@PMan arrested Wilson and he was last pight ‘ording to the police, and | vit to do about the matter’ declared |t#ken along to a police station the raid was ‘on’ within the hour. |<). rif Willam B, Anstiss of La Port ee addiaional arres il by One of the prisoners, the police 1] eounty this morning when questioned! offered one made, it was reported make a (1 sa KINSEY BROTHERS WIN DOUBLES FINAL Defeat R. N. Williams 24, and Washburn, 5—7, 6 raider “getaway. him | on probable topping the Dy Michigan City, action in mpsey-Brennan Labor Day THE AMERICAN LEGION WITHDRAWS FROM BOUT NDIANAPOLI Post of th gard to $3,000 to let HEIRESS GIVES UP $500,000 TO PREACH Autos and Social Lit AUB) Ui The dish booed for Ministry American | 8, 6B—2, 2—6, 68 whose auspices the Jack Dery ANN ARBOR, Mich., A ; chs Hill Urennan bout was to have Giving up jewels, motor « CASINO, NEWPORT, R. 1, A f Day,, informed Gov, Mv‘ gid Gal ee ee he Kinsey brothers, Va day that 4 “would withdrs a ee ae , s, xhinit puncement of the wili-] Sehleicher, hetress here Coast doubles champions, won elved from Barl | nounced she will than final match of the Casino doubles| | Whalmoan ef She: Boats Boring : megs Sein tennis tournament, defeating th | mas te ationalists, Ro N. Williams 2d F Suis Pay , W. M. Washburn, The scores of s0END At Ved in exsenm of a cu five-set encounter that waa finisivd| Mt Werld’s Hesurts Anoval| million dollars, Her n : p Ans World Off by mall tue in rain were 5-7, 6-3, 6-2, 2-6. 6-8 Get a copy of leave her that much more — Ay Seonmlt Post Office, Denied by Mann of Cardinals ryEntNt EXTRA (tne sHsshehe THREE CENTS 4 Mutter New Pa END OF RAIL STRIKE NEARER, BUT BY NO MEANS ARRANGED mse BY CONFERENCES THUS FAR Greater Experience ai Brotherhood Chiefs in Negotiating Labor Settlements and Clever Propaganda Said to Put Any Blame for Fail- ure of Mediation on Executives. From the best information obtainable to-day, the situation in the strike of the railroad shopmen has by no means been cleared up. The close of the strike is nearer, but it has not been appreciably shortened by the con ferences which took place at No. 61 Broadway on Thursday and yesterday It appears that the five brotherhood chiefs, more experienced in handling questions such as were before the conferees than the railroad executives succeeded in jockeying the presidents into a position where they can be charged with the responsibility for not coming to an agreement with th. strikers. Propaganda on the strikers’ side has been cleverly handled ‘} Some of the executives are of the opinion that their HARD COAL STRIKE tactical mistake in SETTLED, IS REPORT|« esting ar ait coe een executives to consider @ plan put up by the medi committee made a Announcement Next Week. ators, It would seem that all propo- Wall Strect Tears s Us. sitions looking téhan agreement ha Settlement of the. strike in the | come from the unton side, anthracite coal field, following When the executives meet here on similar action In the bituminous | Wednesday, at the Yale Club, it will Nelds, was reported to-day in” | be up to them to accept the strikers’ Wall Street. offer ov turn it down—at least, the he report sald, however, no [Union leaders betleve that to be the announcement would be ma case. The union men think they have until next week scored a tactical victory It may be said that the vaiiroad exvcutives have not agreed ty rotain the seniority of the strikers and the strikers have not asked the railroads that their se retained. If question of wages can be seniority The situation is complicated by the fact that the railroads in the East, with a flooded labor market, ha ih been able to replace from 60 to per cent, of the strikers, while w of Chicago and south of Washington the machine shops and repair shops Father Thrown Clear as Auto}or the oads generally are closed Takes Leap in Front of tight as a drum. ‘he railroad exe- tority be settled, take care cutives of the East assert they have Zillie ke Plac won the strike The strikers assert Billie Burke Place, they have won fn the West and South — From unauthorized sources comes Adrian Grasselly of No. 41 Villard|the report that the committee of ex- ceutives has ag! Avenel ed to consider a plan Hastings-on-Hudson, was by which seniority would be taken care painfully hurt and his daughter Bula,| of “under a. gentlemen's agreement, seventeen, 80 seriously Injured that|‘The strike leaders grin when they she may die in an aceldent to their] hear this. car on Broadagy, Just north of the] Under this agreement neither sige tess will score a clean cut victory, because Hastings line, at 9 o'clock this bi f lock this} the men will return at the very same morning wages against which they struck The car went over w seventy-five}'They will do so. howe with the understanding that plication shail be made for a rehear ing of the wage question by the Rail- way Labor Board with a view to ob- taining for the men something mid foot embankment and rolled to the an immedinte ap tom. "Mr. Grasselly was thrown ar the first time tt turned over, but the girl was unable to get out and was pinned under the wreck at the bot-]Way between the old scale and the tom of the slope. PSY. One he aaa In other words, it was sald to-day ie neeldent was reported to the} the men will get what was offered Hastings police by Arthur W, Roberts |them in the first peace terms pro of No, 559 Palisade Avenue, who said] posed by President’ Harding, which the steering wheel of his own auto-| they were willing to accept but which mobile had broken just opposite the] the roads rejecte Rillie Burke estate and he was fixing] The call for the meeting of e: it when the Grasselly ear came along.|tiyes next week devolves upon T, He said Mr, Grasselly was driving at] Witt Cuyler, and it {gs assumed from a high rate of speed and seemed to| the decision of his committee to cal ose control of his car suddenly, Police Capt. Quirk of Yonkers is viding the Hastings police in making the other executives from all over the ecuntry that they approve of the plr and believe the others will, reful investigation of the union leaders sa Policemen McQuade and Hogan aid-|* whol matter is simple ne ed by workmen from the Billie Burke |The roads and the unions underst place were half an hour in getting|where the other stands. The m Miss Grasselly from. under the} want to go buck to work under the wrecked car, terms of July 31, and the roads want Hoth the girl and her father were] them bac The dispu over sento sent to Dobbs Ferry Hospital, Mr. ity, which never was a strike iss Grasselly had a deep sealp wound and|/and should never have a nm, is the many bruises, Miss asselly was ap-;only stumbling block. Yet it is easy purently seriously inju Internally, Jof setrlement and the unions are try MATHILDE M’CORMICK "on SAID TO BE IN BASLE Instead of las 15 until tate evening, as | been expected tr pose of the itter without going into a Has Seelishers Where Oser| event of anythin: resembling a dead Called Several Times, lock, the gathering broke up at about Sw riand, Aug. 19.] 6 o'clock, About two hours before MoCormick, grand-daughter} that tlme the five mediators, Warren Rockefeller eft. hera| 5: Stone of the engineers, L, B, Shep 4 stay 1 4{Ppard of the conductor WwW, H ; Doak. representing President lear of the trainmen;, EB. HP w iss M ertsor the firemen and T c c accompaniod by her} Cashen of the switchmen left the as sociation rooms to go to the Hote }