Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 139, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Fair and warmer tonight and Saturday.

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U. S. ACTS TO PREVENT RAIL STRIKE

GALVESTON A CENTER OF COMMERCE Size Considered, It Is One of World’s Noted Cities. TRADE ENORMOUS Shipping Values Average $13,000 for Each Inhabitant. Specie-! to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By RICHARD SPILLANE. GALVESTON, Texas, Oct 21. Considering its size Galveston is one of the most remarkable cities of the world. In population it has only 40,000 or 45,000, yet over its wharves and piers there flows a tremendous volume of commerce. In the last fiscal year this aggregated $550,033,922 in exports and $26,656,409 of imports, or a total of about $13,000 for every man, woman and child in the city. Its province has widened greatly. Once it boasted only of being tha world's greatest cotton port. It still retains that position, but now it asks consideration as the world's greatest grain port and it hopes to be the greatest oil port, too. There never was and probably there never will be much or h general industrial establishment in Galveston. Physical conditions do not warrant it. The city is at the eastern end of Galveston Island—a sand pit two miles off the mainland. Equinoxial storms have done serious damage several times, particularly in 1900, but the raising of the city j level, together with the building of a sea wall, are believed to have put it beyond danger in that regard. JETTIES EXTEND FIVE MILES INTO Gl tF. The island is long and narrow. From the eastern end, and also from Bolivar Point, the Government has built Jetties five miles out into the gnlf. The tide has scoured out* the bar that once im- | peded shipping and now the deepest draft j vessels of the world can enter at low I tide. To the north of Galveston is a \ broad bay. with plenty of deep water, and Immediately opposite and close to ! Galveston in this bay is Pelican Island, once a marsh, but now filled to a fair height. On Pelican Isiahd ship repair yards, storage warehouses and other port adjuncts have sprouted in number. For several miles along the bay front Galveston is lined with great piers and wharves, grain elevators, coal elevators, mammoth oil stations and refineries, cot(Continued on Page Ten.) WAR MOTHERS SPUR BOARD TO HASTEN WORK

Buildings for ex-Service Men at Sunnyside Not Completed. ONE PAINTER AT WORK The Marion County commissioners today were spurred into hastening work on the two portable buildings being erected at Sunnyside to care for ex-service men suffering from tuberculosis, by Mrs. Ells Aker, president of the Marion County War Mothers and a committee of War Mothers, who called upon the commissioners. As the result of their visit, commisslOi4STg promised to hasten work on the buildings, construction of which has been delayed because of poor management and delay on part of the board. Mrs. Aker said a committee had visited Sunnyside Thursday to see what was being done. “We foynd only one painter at work on the buildings,” she said. Several days ago, Carlin Shank, president of the board of commissioners, said extra men would be put to work to hasten tho completion of the structures. The War Mothers asked that jail prisoners, who have been doing some work on the buildings, be removed and that ex-service men, who are out of employment, be put on the job. Tha following committee of war mothers accompanied Mrs. Aker to the commissioners: Mrs. Alice Blerhaus, 408 North Delaware street; Mrs. Emma Hick, 1509 Barth avenue; Mrs. A, M. Fitch, 561 North Jefferson avenue: Mrs. Mary Frick, 1419 Columbia avenue; Mrs. C. H. Regula, 2062 Ashland avenue; Mrs. C. M. Kyle, 912 East Fourteenth street. Mrs. Hugh Middleworth, 2424 North New Jersey street; Mrs. Frank Gallon, 3145 Broadway: Mrs". Olive Sanderson. 2807 Indianapolis avenue; Mrs. W. M. Swain, 2537 Parkway boulevard. .ARRESTED FOR DESERTION. Helen Sapkaric, 25, was arested at 431 East Louisiana street today by detectives on the charge of being a fugitive from Justice. She Is wanted in Bedford to answer the charge of child desertion. Her husband, Gus Sapkaric, proprietor of a restaurant In Bedford, found her in this city. | WEATQER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinitv for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., Oct. 22, 1921: Fair and warmer tonight and Saturday. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. in 38 7 a. m 39 8 a. m 43 9 a. m. 48 10 a. ra 53 11 a. m ... 54 12 (noon) 56 lp.m. 58 2 p. m. 59

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J. H. HOLLIDAY DIES AT HOME NEAR THE CITY y Leader in Business and Philanthropic Circles. ILL (SHORT TIME John H. Holliday, financier and philanthropist of Indianapolis, died last night near midnight, at his country home north of the city on the Spring Mill road. Heart trouble was given as the cause of the death. Mr. Holliday had been seriously ill for only a few days. Mr. Holliday had been connected with financial and charitable Institutions of the city for many yars. At the time of hla death he was chairman of the board of directors of Union Trust Company, of which he was one of the organizers about twenty-eight years ago. He was president of the institution until 191d, with the excejitlon of the period luring which he and Major Richards were associated on the Indianapolis Press. Since 1916 he hod been chairman of the board of directors of the company. ® He was also a director of the Indiana National Batik. He was president of the Indiana Pioneers’ Society, one of the organizers of the Imi grants’ Aid Association, a member of the State board of charities, and treasurer of the Red Cross of this city, besides his many other activities. For many years he was a member of ! the First Presbyterian Church, during I which time he served in various official (Continued on Page Nineteen.)

Teachers’ Election and Vote Upon Amendment CloseAnnual Convention Here The nominating committee this afternoon recommended Dr, H. L. Smith, dean of the school of education of Indiana University, for the post of president of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association. Miss Cora Steele of Terre Haute wa3 recommended for recording secretary. With the election of officers and action on tho proposed changes in the constitution of the organization this afternoon at Tomlinson Hall the business sessions of the sixty-eighth convention of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association came to an end. However, four general meetings scheduled for tonight and the address of Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt-Robinson, sister of the late Theodore Roosevelt, to be delivered at Tomlinson hall tomorrow morning, will result in practically all of the 15,000 teachers in the city for the.convention remaining over until Saturday.

Following the selection of members of the nominating committee at district meeting of members of the State Teachers’ Association yesterday. It was freely predicted that control of the association for the coming year will remain in the hands of adherents of Donald Du Shane, new president of the association. It was claimed that seven, and possibly eight, out of the thirteen members of the nominating committee, are favorable to the element now in control. This test in strength also would indicate that the control of the session Is in the hands of those opposed to the proposed change in the constitution which would do away with the transaction of business and the election of officers by the association as a whole and turn It over to delegates selected by the county units. REGARD OPPONENTS OF CHANGE VIC TORS. Xhe election or the nominating committee was regarded generally as a vie tory for the federation of teachers, opponents of the proposed change in the constitution and adherents of the present regime. The nominating committee which will meet at 1:30 o'clock, will report at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon to the associa tion at a general meeting at Tomlinson hall. Miss Georgia Alexander, supervising principal of Indianapolis, and Miss Cora Steele, principal of Terre Haute, are regarded as the leading candidates for the presidency under present condition#. In audition to these the names of W. A. Vi irt, superintendent of schools st Clary; Edward Haskins, superintendent of schools at Vincennes; Emma Colbert, head of the Teachers' College, Indtajsapolis, and L. X. Hines, president o$ the State Normal School and former State superintendent of public instruction, have been mentioned. However, Mr. Wirt is not a member of the State association, aai did dot join.

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G. 0. P. TAKES WILMETR AS ITS CANDIDATE Board Accepts Him in Place of J. Herbert Hartman. COMMITTEE ACTS Chairman, in Statement, Says Action ‘Mandatory.’ Delbert O. Wilmeth today was on the Republican ticket as the city committee’s candidate for city judge, following approval by the city board of election commissioners of a request for the removal of J. Herbert Hartman and certification of Mr. Wilmeth as the nominee by Irving W. Lemaux, Republican city chairman. The action followed adoption of a resolution by the 166 Republican precinct committeemen last night, when Hartman was removed and Mr. Lemaux directed to select his successor and certify him to the board. Maurice Tennant, George O. and Thomas D. McGee, election commissioners, unanimously accepted the Hartman ouster and Wilmeth "ertifiratlon. Mr. Tennant, chairman of the board, issued the following statement which was concurred in by the other members: "Tli® Republican city chairman has mad®, and duly certified to the board of city election commissioners, the nomination of Delbert O. Wilmeth as city judge on the Republican ticket at the approaching city election. It Is understood that this nomination Is to fill tli® vacancy created by the action of the Republican precinct committeemen last night. "The laiv provides that the city chairman has the right to make such n nomination In ruse of a vacancy, and tlie election commissioners, sitting as an administrative board, have acarpted tills certificate of nomination and will place Mr. WUmeth's name upon the Republican ticket as t-he nominee for city judge. It l* believed that the duty imposed on ilte board to take this action is mandatory." Mc<i EE, DEMOCRAT, ALSO CONCURS. Mr. McGee, Democratic member, raised a question as to the legality of the action of the Republican committeemen, but concurred in the board's action in approving it. "I raised a qnestion of the legality of the removal of Hartman by the committee,” said Mr. McGee, “but upon being told by Mr. Tennant that the board has been advised by Mr. Hugg. Mr. Cavin and Mr. Cox of the Republican legal committee, who had looked Into the question, that the board is within its legal rights in acknowledging the certification of Wilmeth and the removal of Hartman by City Chairman Irving Umani, I concur in Mr. Tennant'* statement.’’ What J. Herbert Hartman would do also was widely speculated upon. Mr. (Continued on Fnge Twelve.)

so it is sa’d, Lecause he did not wish to be elected president. ATWOOD SPEAKS FOR WORLD-WIDE VIEWPOINT World wide appropriation of natural resources, advancement in sciences and technology, extensive development of industries Interweaving the nations of the world, togetler with the lato war are factors responsible lor the renewed or awakened interest in this country’s geography, according to Dr. W. W. Atwood of Worcester, Mass., president of Clark University, who talked on tho “New Meaning oi Geography in American Education” this mprning at the general meeting of the Indiana State teachers’ annual session held in Tomlinson hall. Dr. Atwood stressed the conditions the American people are facing today. “Asa geographer,” he said, "I feel as American- citizens we have a responsibility that we have not had at any other time in history, namely, the widening of our point of view, not to a national point of view, but to an international viewpoint, without prejudice against race, religion or color, for never will there be a national election again without international questions being Involved. SAYS WORLD LESS SAFE THAN IN' 1917. “I think the world is less safe today than in 1917. Unless Japan, Great Britain and the United States agree on bow we will deal with problems of the Pacific, the disarmament conference will be a flimsy sham. “That is one reason why I believe in the practical study of geography, which is the study of peoples throughout the world in their own environment. In political and diplomatic matters, the natures of the peoples must beNinderstood for (Jiere to be any sympathetic working together. “We also are facing a serious economic condition, .the condition for existence. (Co-Ylnued on Fag* Eleven.)

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1921.

Oklahoma Roads Must Operate , Says Governor of State OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Oct. 21. ‘‘Railroads in Oklahoma mupt operate regardless of a strike.” Governor J. B. A. Robertson delivered this ultimatum to railroad brotherhood officials hero today in a statement addressed to all mayors and heads of Chambers of Commerce in Oklahoma. The Governor requested those officials to ascevt t the names and present address A all engineers and firemen who would be willing to volunteer and serve the State in operating necessary trails, in the event of a strike.

HERRICu HOME IN PARIS NOW UNDER GUARD 1,000 Policemen Used to Protect American Embassy. PARIS, Oct. 21.—One thousand policemen will guard the American embassy and the residence of Ambassador Herrick tonight to prevent a threatened march of communism and a demonstration against the United States in favor of the release of Sacco and Vanzetti, communists, convicted of murder In Massachusetts. Steel blinds will be drawn at the embassy and Herrick's Rue de MessLnc* home and armed guards will prevent communists who are to hold a monster mass meeting at the Salle Wagram from approaching either building. THREATENING LITTERS ARE RECEIVED. Hundred* of threatening letters of protest against the sentence passed upon the convicted communists continued (o pour in through the embassy mail*. Blowing up of the building where the passport office and tha reparations commission are housed was threatened in one letter and extraordinary precautions were taken. Deteotires working on clews connected with the bomb -outrage at Ambassador Herr It’s residence Wed.nrdjy e-.elites' have traced the package In, which the bomb was mailed to a Baris postoffice. A clerk there, remembers receiving It, but was unable to recall the appearance of the person leaving It. The police announced they believe an American was responsible for the attempted assassination of the ambassadrr A letter, four newspaper columns lu length, addressed to President Harding regarding the Sacco and Vanzetti trial, was published in the Journal De Peuplo. The police are actively searching for communist friends of Niceolo Sacco and Bartelemeo Vanzetti, the two Italian* whose conviction for murder in Massachusetts inspired the communist anti-Ameri-can activities in Europo. It is reported several friends of Sacco and Yanaettl arrived in Baris a few days ago an 1 they are believed to be In eommunlcatlc i with the leaders of the French wing c f the communist party.

HARVEY RECEIVES THREAT LETTERS LONDON, Oct. 21.—Threatening letter*, purporting to come from Communists, demanding the release of Sacco and Vanzettl, convicted of the murder of a paymaster in Massachusetts were received today by Ambassador Harvey. COMMUNISTS IN BRUSSELS ARRESTED BRUSSELS, Oct. 21.—Police today dispersed a Communist gathering in _front of the American embassy here aad made several arrests after the demonstrators had become noisy. s The disturbance was part of the International communist effort to secure the release of Sacco and Vanzetti. convleted of murder in Massachusetts. RUTH GUSSMAN AT MURDER TRIAL Daughter of Accused Minister Returns to Court. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. all evidence had been submitted ahd arguments begun, Mrs. Ruth Stepheuson-Guss-rnun today attended the trial of her father. the Rev. Edwin R. Stephenson. He is being tried for the killing of Father James E. Coyle because the priest married Ruth to Pedro Gusamann, a Porto Rican Catholic. When Iluth entered the courtroom she ignored her parents. She w-as accompanied by a woman friend and refused to explain her eleventh hour return. Strange Method of Identifying Reputed Tlilef Orville Klnnaman, 17, 2810 Clifton street, is under arrest on the charge of vagrancy. Detectives say he is held for “investigation.” In the pocket of a piece of coat torn from one of the two men, who attempted to steal an automobile from W. H. Thompson, 522 North Pennsylvania street, was a picture and an address written on the back of U. The picture, it is said, was a photograph of Klnnaman. and the address was his homo in Clifton street. When detectives arrested Kinnaman they found the torn coat at his home, they *ay. Thompson looked from the window of his home on North Pennsylvania street late Thursday and saw' two young men climb into his automobile. Thompson ran after the car and jumped onto the running board as the ear w-as being driven away. The men tried to push him off and a light followed. Thompson clung to the side of the car and struck at the men with one hand. The struggle lasted for two blocks and then as Thompson was forced off of the automobile he grabbed the coat ot one of the men and It tore.

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WAR FORCES MAY BE USED BY HARDING Army Reserves Can Be Called to Run Trains. FOOD TO BE MOVED Cabinet, Optimistic, Believes Walkout Can Be Halted. WASHINGTON, Oct 21.—Resort ito the war powers of the Federal Government as a means of keeping the Nation’s transportation system In operation in the event of a rail strike was considered by President Harding and his Cabinet today, it was learned on high authority. The President was advised by cabinet officials that under the national defense act which does not expire until a formal r reclamation of peace Is Issued, Armyreserves could be nulled out to operate the trains. Secretary of War Weeks reported to the cabinet that he has a complete •ibulation of reservists throughout the country who are skilled in various braiichen of railroading. This force, together with volunteers who have already offered their services In largo numbers won!.i tie sufficient, officials believe to operate enough trains to carry food and fuel into the large centers. Secretary of Commerce Hoover presented to the cabinet his plan of crganixlng an extensive motor truck system for emergency transportation of necessities. Cabinet officials, it was stated taka tb view that although anybody of labor may have tU right to str.U*, it du-oe not L.'to sh right to cut off the food supply of the nation. ‘‘Movement of food and fuel are absolutely essentia! to the Nation’s welfare,” one Cabinet official said, and “we intend to see that they are moved.” Cabinet officials differed in their Judgment as to whether the men would actually strike, sums believing the strike is nearer than tt ever has been, while others doubt if the men will waik out, oven though their leaders Insist upon it. The force of public opinion already ha* led thousands of railroad employes to change their minds about striking and the pressure on labor leaders to call off the strike is coming from their own ranks in larger volume every day, some members of the ■Cublcet believed.

ILLICIT CARGO WORTH FORTUNE SEIZED AT N. Y. Paradise Plumes, Drugs and Booze Taken After Battle. NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—A quarter of a million dollar* worth of drugs and whisky was seized after a battle, when Ore Whit® Star Uner Cretic docked here toda?-. Three arrests were made by the ; customs searching squad which boarded the ve*eeL A lively running fight with some Italians, in which revolver shots were exchanged and chairs and boots used as weapons resulted in tho complete wrecking of tho interior of a section of the liner and the discovery of morphine, heroin, opium and cocaine and a quantity of whisky. The Cretic arrived here from Italian ports. Illicit cargo was found stowed away behind false panels and sixty bottles were said to have teen found in the captain’s cable. One hundred bird of paradise plumes were among the loot seized by the custom* men. A search party sprang a surprise raid, following cable advices from secret service agents in Italy. WADSWORTH IS KNOX SUCCESSOR Becomes Member of Foreign Relations Committee. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Senator Wadsworth, Republican (New York), was chosen a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Knox of Pennsylvania. Senator Curtis, Republican (Kansas), was selected chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, a post also held by Senator Knox Curtis relinquished the chairmanship of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and may retire a* a member of the Senate Finance Committee. Political Worker Sues for His Pay Judgment of SSOO is asked In a suit filed in Superior Court. Room 1, by William McGee against Thomas S. Meeker, both as an individual and as chairman of the Democratic city committee; Grace Bodeumlller, director of women's o’-gnnl-zation of the Democratic city committee; Joel Baker, secretary of the committee, and Mrs John W*. Kern, vice chairman of the committee. McGee claims in his complaint that he wag employed by Mr. Meeker on July 1 to arrange meetings and poll the colored vote and for other legitimate work. lie says he worked 101 days and that $5 a day is fair compensation. He claim* ho has not bocn paid ior Ms service*. '

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CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 21.—“ The trike will go on.” This is the view expressed today by the heads of three of the five brotherhoods nvolved the proposed nation-wide strike scheduled to begin on Oct. 30, upon their eturn from an abortive conference with he railway labor board in Chicago. The three executives of the unions already on the ground will bo Joined here tomorrow by L. E. Sheppard, president of the Order of Railway Conductors, who will remove his headquarters temporarily from Cedar Rapids, lowa. T. C. Cashen, president of the switchmen’s union, with his office and field staff, is expected to arrive in Cleveland before Monday, when a general conference of the leaders will be held, it was announced. “I have nothing to give out," said Warren S. Stone, general chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. "The situation is unchanged, i “We are going ahead.” LEE EXPRESSES SAME SENTIMENT. This sentiment also was expressed by W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, who said: “The situation is exactly the same as It was on Tuesday when wo were called to Chicago. Nothing ’am® out of the conference.” Other than to say that his oragnization was “going ahead” with Its plans, W. S. Carter, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive J'iremen and Englnemen, known as the “Sphinx” of labor leaders, refused to comment. From sources within the brotherhood organizations it was learned the railway labor board presented no plan of settlenent whatever, but asked the brotherhood eaders to postpone the strike, pending possible developments. This the leaders declined to do.

ORDINANCE ON JITNEY BUSSES WILL BE TESTED Owner Files Suit Asking City Bb Restrained From Enforcement. Contending that the ordinance recently passed by the city council regulating Jitney busses is to. violation of the Constitution, George I. Ware, a Jitney drlTer, filed suit today in Superior Court, Room 3, asking for a temporary restraining order and injunction to prevent its enforcement. The ordinance will become effective tomorrow. The defendants named In the suit are Mayor Charles W. Jewett, Robert H. Bryson, city controller; Jerry Kinney, chief of police; the members of the board of safety and of the city legal department. HELD VIOLATION OF CONSTITUTION, j The complaint contends the. Jitney ordinance is in violation of the Constitution for the following reasons: 1. That It makes an unjust and arbitrary discrimination between operators of motor propelled vehicles charging a uniform fare of 5 cents and operators of motor vehicles charging 25 cents or more. 2. That It requires a license and bond from Jitneys and not from other motor propelled vehicles engaged in a similar business. 3. That it requires physical and moral requirements of the operators of Jitneys and does not require the same requirements from operators of other motor propelled vehicles en-i paged in transporting passengers for hire. 4. That it requires operators of Jltnoys to be 18 years of age and does not put the same requirements on operators of other motor propelled vehicles engaged in transporting passengers for hire. 5. That it requires a license and bond from Jitneys and not from other motor propelled vehicles engaged in similar business, 6. That it divests and takes away from Jitney drivers the right to operate and conduct business on the streets of the city in accordance with the terms of licenses already granted. LICENSE FEE CALLED EXCESSIVE. 7. That it requires an excessive license fee and is confiscatory of property rights. 8. That it requires the continuous operation of Jitneys for ten hours each day and makes no Such requirement of persons in a similar business charging 25 cents or more. 9. That it prohibits persons from riding on the running boards of Jitneys while it makes no similar prohibition in respect to motor vehicles for which 25 cents or more Is charged. 10. That it prohibits the Jitney drivers from conducting a lawful occupation on the streets of tho city. Consideration was expected to be given the suit immediately because of the fact that the ordinance becomes effective tomorrow. Stillman Summontd Over Rights of Guy WHITE ri.AINS, N. Y., Oct. 21.— Mrs. Anna U. Stillman andn James Stillman were summoned to appear before Justice Morsohauser here today to show cause why the boy, Guy, should not share in the $37,394,000 trust fund of the late Senior James Stillman. Union Soap Company Charges Unfairness WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Charges ot nnfair practices in the sale of soap were lodged today against the Soap Company of Indianapolis, in a formal complaint issued by the Federal Trade Commission,

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( “The cards were laid on the table. We I had a full and frank discussion of the situation, but got nowhere,” said one of the officials in the conference. EXECUTIVE BOARD IS CALLED. A call was sent by telegraph this morning to the general executive board of the Brotherhood of Trainmen summoning them to meet here at once. Included in the men summoned are those upon systems where the strike becomes effective Oct. 3d Though the object of this meet--1 ng was not stated, it was understood to be for the purpose of giving first band sej cret instructions to the men who will be in active charge of the strike, if one comes. i The advisory board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the executive board of the Brotherhood of Trainmen are in session again, working out strike details. FEDERA TION GROUP HOPES FOR PEA CE j CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—Announcement of the program to be followed by the railroad unions tn the American Federation of Labor, representing more than twottiirda of the 2,500,000 organized-workers, r n the event the 6trike order of the “big four” brotherhoods goes into effect may not be made for several days, according o W. IL Johnson, president of the Internationa* Association of Machinists. Johnson said it was likely the federation unions would await developments from Washington. “I am of the opinion the Administration will make every effort toward peaceful settlement before the strike goes into effect,” Johnson said. "However, what action we take will be regardless of W ashington or the brotherhoods.”

FIRST STRIKE CALL ON TEXAS ROAD SATURDAY Lee Says Walkout Tomorrow Will Serve as Warning Unions Are Not Blurting. CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—The United States railroad labor board looked to President Harding today for the next move to stop the Oct. 30 railroad strike. The board, whose litres for immediate peace were blasted when the five brotherhood chief* spurned the peace proposals of the Government, were left dazed by the unexpected turn of events. As the mediation body looked to Washington for answer to Its call for further instructions. tho official sanction to the walkont tomorrow on the International A treat Northern Railroad, a Texas carrier, was given at Chicago strike headquarters. According to plans of leaders the walkout on this road scheduled a week before the general strike, will serve as a “warning” that the brotherhoods are not bluffing. “Go ahead. No change In plans,” was the wire that went out from here over the signature of W. G. Lee, chief of the trainmen, to W. G. Fiatne, San Antonio system chairman of the road. BETWEEN 600 AND 700 TO WALK OUT SAN . ANTONIO, Texas, 0"t. 21—The opening gun of the threatened countrywide railroad strike will be fired here tomorrow, when between 600 and 700 employes of the International Great Northern Railroad will walk out at noon. A telegram \*rom railroad strike headquarters was received by Chairman R. D. Frame, representing the employes, giving official sanction for the strike. The men who will walk out are members of the Brotherhood of Railwny Trainmen.

TRAINMEN FAVOR STRIKE IN TEXAS PALESTINE, Texas, Oct. 21.—Indications today were that trainmen on the International & Great Northern, tWb first road scheduled to be affected by the railroad strike, will waik out here at noon tomorrow. Although union leader* had not completed their plans for the strike today, they claimed all of the trainmen were in sympathy with the strike order and would quit their Jobs at noon. Members of the other labor organizations on the I. & G. N. will remain at work until 6 p. m. Oct. 30. SEVEN PRISONERS ESCAPE. MENARD, 111., Oct. 21.—Seven prisoners sawed their way to freedom from the asylum for criminal insane today. After sawing the bars of their cell the convicts crossed the river into Missouri in boats and escaped.

Stone Is Counting on Going to Heaven CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—Newspaper reporters have been the worry of Warren S. Stone's life In the last few weeks. The grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers says he even expects to see them in Heaven. After the failure of the “peace conference” with the United States Rail Labor Board, Stone was besieged for signed statements concerning the situation. For days the reporters had been trying to make him talk. In desperation, Stone penciled this statement: “The situation is unchanged, ' and I suppose I might odd that I don’t expeot one angle of it to be changed even in Heaven, for If I get there I expect to still hare a hundred reporters chasing me around for signed statements.” %

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PRESENT WAGE STATUS TO BE MAINTAINED Body Also Orders Brotherhoods to Operate Roads. MEET WEDNESDAY Stone Declares ‘Big Five’ Leaders Will 1 Attend. CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—" We are going ahead with the strike if vre have to go to Jail,” Timothy Healy, president of tha Stationary Engineers, Firemen and Oilers, said after he heard of the railroad board's citation. “Nothing can stop us from striking. If the public knew of the list of grievances we are having against the roads, it would be solidly with us.” Ilealy, who spoke for 40,000 men, said formal announcement of the strike of his organization would be made tomorrow noon. CHICAGO, Oct" 2L Railroad executives and union chiefs were ordered to appear before the United States railroad labor board next Wednesday in an effort to avoid the rail strike called for Oct, 30, in an order issue by the board today. The board, whose efforts to prevent the strike through a conference with the union heads alone announced it took this step under the transportation act on the grounds | tbiJt tfee walkout threatened to tie up commerce. The board stated strike orders issued by the brotherhood chiefs were in violation of its ruling of July 1, which cut wages 12 per cent. The strike vote cf the railroad employes was taken on the July 1 decision. Brotherhood chiefs were told they would have to explain at the Wednesday hearing why they should not be held in violation of the board decrees for calling the strike. The board’s statement said the whole matter of the dispute was thrown before it when the broth-rhood chiefs and a comrairtee of executives were unable to agree at a Joint conference last week. MEN DIRECTED TO KEEP WORKING.

The men were directed to stay at their posts until after the conference. This, It was believed, was aimed at the strike on the International & Great Northern Railroad of Texas, the employes of which had been ordered to walk out tomorrow on instructions from the brotherhoods. The carriers also were told to maintain their present status wages of their roads and keep In normal operation. Each brotherhood chief and railroad executive will be ordered, to attend the conference In a telegram which will be followed by a copy of the board’s resolution. Closely following the action of the railroad board, U. H. Grable, president of the maintenance of way workers announced that strike plans had been completed and that his organization would issue a statement to the public late in the day. BOARD HAS COMPLETE STRIKE INFORMATION. The order of the board was issued after an executive session of the member*. It was determined upon as a result of the futile conference with the labor leaders yesterday. At this session the board obtained complete information regarding the strike plans of the brotherhoods and its order was based on this information. Tlo>itext of the order: “Insofar as said threatened strike is in opposition to and a violation of decision No. 147 of this board ithe per cent wage cut order issued July 1), the labor organizations of each of said carriers be and are hereby cited to appear before (his board for hearing as to the question whether or not they have violated or are violating decisiou No 147. “Second—That insofar as said threatened strike is the rostilt of a dispute between said oarrie”s and their said organizations of employes concerning wages and rules and working conditions, this board hereby assumes Jurisdiction of said dispute on the statutory grounds that it is ‘likely to substantially interrupt commerce’ and said carriers and said organizations of employes are hereby cited to appear before this board 3ft Chicago for the hearing of said dispute. The hearing on both foregog matters is set for Wednesday. Oct. 2(5. 1921. at 10 a. m. “Both parties to said dispnte are hereby directed to maintain the status quo on the properties of the said carriers until said hearing and decision.’’ BROTHERHOODS TO ATTEND MEETING CLEVELAND, Oct 2L—The brotherhood chiefs will attend the Joint confer, ence with railway executives and the Railway Labor Board in Chicago on Wednesday. This announcement was made by WaTren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, when shown a dispatch describing tha board's resolution, ordering the meeting. Approve One Bond Issue; Refuse Two One bond issue was approved and two were denied by the State Board of tax commissioners today. The Issue approved was for $23,600 for a school building la Spice Valley Township, Lawrence County. The ones denied were for $22,300 for a road In Jefferson Township, Carroll. County, and $32,000 for a road la Mariqj\' Township, Headricks County. '