Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1922 — Page 1

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MORATORIUM IS ASKED, GERMAN NATION ‘BROKE 1 Payment of July 15 Reparation Sum Can’t Be Met by Republic. MONEY PANIC AT HAND Fear That Wirth Government Will Not Withstand Strain Expressed. By CARL D. GROAT. I'nJted Press Staff Correspondent. BERLIN, July 8.- —Germany today asked the reparation# commission to grant a moratorium. The government stated it cannot meet ehe next payment. due July 15. Republican German may be crashing to ruin on the heels of a shattered financial system, foreign obi servers believe. Money Disaster Cause Complete political collapse may follow the monetary disaster which has overtaken the republic. A restored monarchy or extreme communist government axe the alternatives if the republic comes to an abrupt end. Berlin is afire with rumors. Absence of newspapers helps keep alive the wildest reports. The capitol is kept orderly but the surface quiet is ominous, covering a seething volcano of unrest. Future History in Balance The next week will write republican Germany's future history, for then it will be decided whether the govern ment can pay the 6,000,000,000 In marks due July 15. Payment of this sum will mean final, complete collapse of the mark, it is said in banking quarters. Industrial breakdown will follow, then political chaos. WILL COME THROUGH Gerard Belies es Ge-many Will Stand Present otrain. NEW YORK. July B.—That Germany will weather the terrific political and financial storm through which ehe Is now passing was the belief expressed by James W. Gerard, former American Ambassador to Germany, who arrived from Europe today on the Cunard Liner Berengaria. SITUATION DESPERATE Wirth Cabinet Cannot Last Week, Dispatch Says. AMSTERDAM, July B.—The political and financial position of Germany has beoome so desperate that the Wirth cabinet cannot last another week, said a dispatch from Germany today. If the ministry fails a coalition government may be formed. HITS NEW LOW LEVEL German Mark Now Worth S.OOIB In U. S. Money. NEW TORK. July B.—The German mark fell to the lowest price in lta history, selling at .0018, today. More than 550 German marks can be bought for a dollar. The pre-war value of the mark was 23.8 cents. Less than $2,000 now will make an American traveler a millionaire In Germany. BRITISH LEADER WORIED Lloyd George Fears German-French Trouble Impends. LONDON, July B.—Political and economical crisis throughout Europe is feared by Lloyd George as a result of the threatened financial collapse of Germany, it was learned authoritatively today. He believes the situation probably would result in dangerous Franco-German complications. The moratorium demand is making the situation worse, according to his view. The British premier is more concerned regarding Germany than over any other European situation, including that in Ireland. BOY’S LEG BROKEN BY CAR •John Davis, 8. Injured in Accident With Clirisnian’s Machine. W. R. Chrisman, 2134 Brookside Ave., reported to the police that while he was driving his car on Brookside Ave., John Davis, 8, 2401 Brookside Ave., jumped from a motor truck, and ran into the side of Chrisman's car. Dr. Roy Egbert, 2601 Roosevelt Ave., who examined the hoy said he believed a leg was broken. SAFETY SIGN PROMISED Shank Will Distribute Slogans Over City Soon, He Says. "Look and Live” will blossom forth from every telephone pole, police semaphore and barn wall in town ere long. Mayor Shank promised today. He said appearance of the signs bearing the slogan, which is part of his crusade to keep children out of streets, has been delayed because they have not been printed.

LET’S GO SWIMMING!

The weather man indicated today it will be safe to plan swimming or motoring or picnicking tomorrow. The prediction was for fair and warmer. Roads were reported good in most places after the rain yesterday. Roseburg. Ore., took honors away from Bismarck. N. D., for the coldest weather at 7 o’clock with a temperature of 50 degrees. The warmest was SO degrees in Tampa, Fla.. Jacksonville, Fla., and New Orleans. Tn Indianapolis the" thermometer stood at 63. but the temperature was rising rapidly.

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TOM SIMS SAYS: "'V 1 ' Business men have quit shaking heads and started shaking hands. Sometimes we think a Pessimist is a man whose name is Babe SIMS A woman is as young as he thinks. “Ex” always marks the spot where a public official falls. The world is better than it was. Lenine once lived in New York. The only thing funnier than a woman in knickerbockers is a man in knickerbockers. According to reformers, sheer hosiery is sheer nonsense. Best guide book is a check book. Most self-made men need alterations. Talking in your sleep isn't so bad. That's the only time some fellows tell the truth. Women will not be men's equals until they start following men whose trousers are cut too short. Tariff on sugar will cost us $60,000,000 a year unless we raise a little more cain. American arms are used In Ireland. It is understood some *yre guaranteed for forty years. When Wiener, the young tennis flash, appears on the scene, his opponents say “The Wurst has come.” People go to Canada for a change of climate. The United Slates is too dry. Every dog has his day and every dog has his knight. When a speeder goes into a ditch some pedestrian is lucky. They say the shimmy originated in Russia. Get a country down and everybody cusses it. Paper in Miami, Fla., has a broadcasting station. It competes with the other station W. J. B. “Auto and Airplane Collide”— headline. And It happened in Los Angeles where they are supposed to have good roads.

GONE AGAIN Richmond Man Fails to Reach Sister After Having Been ‘Lost’ Before. John Schroeder, 46, of Richmond, who disappeared Thursday and was found yesterday, is missing again today. Schroeder entered the Felt man shoe store. 38 E. Washington St., at 2 p. m. yesterday, and asked to see Mr. Feltman. He was told Mr. Feitman was In Chicago. Schroeder said he was lost and wished to talk to his sister, Mrs. Edwin Kemper, 205 E. ThirtyThird St. He started to Mrs. Kemper’s home in a taxi, but failed to arrive there. STATE MAY INTEREVNE Mayor Thompson Anticipates Strike of Street Car Men. CHICAGO, July 8. —State intervention to prevent the threatened street car strike in Chicago became a probability this afternoon, when Mayor William Hale Thompson for- j mally caled attention of the State board of arbitration to the situation. Unless adjustment is reached a strike is probable next week. TRACY ELLIOTT MISSING Life Insurance Agent Gone Since Last Sunday. Tracy R. Elliott, 31, 2425 Ashland ; Ave., has been missing since last 1 Sunday, relatives say. He left the home of his father-in-law, John Keesling, near Castleton, in his automobile, which was found later at the garage of Otto Huff, 322 E. Market St*l Elliott was agent for the Reliance ! Life Insurance Company. His wife. said he had been in poor health recently. ‘INSIDIOUS PROPAGANDA’ Trying to Tear Down United States, \ Says Secretary Wainwright. LEEBURG, Va., July B.—lnsidi- j ous propaganda Is being directed! against the fundamentals of American I Government and pacifists are seeking to render the United States a weak ! ling among the nations of the world by destroying the Army and Navy, Acting Secretary of War Wainwright declared in an address here today. j Speaking at the dedication of a me- i morial to Loudon County men, who died in the World War, Wainwright: declared that groups of “fanatics'' throughout the country were trying to destroy from within institutions which no enemy was able to destroy from without.

Boys and Their Dogs Still Best Pals in World Despite Parade Fizzle at Emporia, Experts Say

By United News NEW YORK. July B.—'William Allen White, the Emporia sage, has got modern boys all wrong. Just because Emporia kids refused to drag their dogs out on a Fourth of July parade and make a public spectacle of their devoted pals, is no reason for saying that boys are not what they used to be. That’s the answer of big Bill Edwards, former collector of internal revenue, and the biggest Boy Scout in the

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Today was pay day on the Big Four Railroad. The picture shows a crowd of striking shopmen gathered around a pay car in the local yards waiting for the money due them for services before they walked out. C., I. & W. strikers were paid off at the Mooresfleld shops. The Railroad Service Corporation paid its Beech Grove strikers at the Aetna Trust building. Belt employes were paid at the Union station. Penn-* sylvania strikers will be paid Monday.

BAN ON SIGNS Park Board to Rid Boulevards of Advertising. Rid the boulevards of advertising signs, voted the park board today. Permission to erect a 3 00-foot sign near Thirty-Eighth and Meridian Sts. was refused a real estate company. Vice President Cline's motion to refuse all such requests in the future and order all present signs down, was carried. The park hoard has jurisdiction within 500 feet of boulevards.

FRESH PRODUCE j Soda Water, Patent Medicine and Chewing Gum on Market Stands, Standholders occupying county 1 ground were allowed to set up their ' ; stands at the east and west entrances ; of the courthouse today, by the county 1 commissioners. Last Saturday they were ordered away to make room foe • producers. 1 ; A survey showed that out of the i: 106 around the courthouse square, 25 were occupied by fruit peddlers, •! 10 by soda pop, lemonade and cider stands, 4 by sellers of patent medi- ■ cines, 2 by venders of belts, monkeys !on ladders and other “gim-racks.” | Other stands carried among their ' wares chewing gum, rubbers for canning, and one had combs and garters. FLIER DELAYED Mechanical Trouble Holds British Airman at Aboukir. CAIRO, Egypt, July B.—-MaJ. W. T. Blake, British airman who set out from London May 24 to fly around : the world, has arrived at Aboukir, said a dispatch from that place today. He leaves Monday. He Ls de- : layed by mechanical trouble. SEEK DEAD MAN’S WIFE . Police Search for Wife of Bottoroff, Killed in Auto Accident. The police today are trying to find | the wife of M. u. Bottoroff, who formerly lived at 108 S. Rurul St. Bottoroff was killed yesterday when ’| his automobile went off a bridge and ! fell fifteen feet near Henryville. Mrs. j Martha Sandlfer of Indianapolis, who was in the car, was seriously injured. Bottoroff's 12-year-old son escaped injury. TORPEDO PLANES FLUKE Experiments of British Prove to Be Failures. LONDON, July 8. —Secret tests have j proved "torpedo planes" unsuccessful, : acording to a report printed by the | Daily Express today. The Bea airplanes received a trial during the recent maneuvers of the British Atlantic j fleet. Muncle to Appeal MUNCTE; Ind., July B.—The Muncie city council has decided to appeal within two weeks from the recent decision of the public service commission Increasing telephone rates in the j city.

world, to the Emporia editor who announced a big boy and dog parade for the Fourth of July and couldn't stage it because no kids showed up. Berton Braley, who has written a lot of poetry about boys, votes with big Bill, too. "There is something wrong with Mr. White’s experiment if it didn't prove that boys and dogs are still the chummiest pals in the world,” big Bill said. "Perhaps it was the parade. Boys aren’t always willing to parade their dogs. And perhaps the Fourth

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1922

Strikers Gather for ‘Ghost Walk ’

FALL KILLS BABY Concussion of Brain Fatal to Child Who Tumbled From Auto. Jackson D. Shafer. 19 months old, died at the Methodist Hospital from cerebral concussions last night. The injuries resulting in the death of the child were sustained July 4, when Walter D. Shafer of Detroit, Mich., the father, stopped his automobile on Brookside Ave. The child grasped the handle of the front door of the car, which opened suddenly. Mr. Shafer was visiting his mother, Mrs. Eva Shafer, 922 Greer St.

‘I’LL SHOW ’EM' Mayor Says, a3 He Adds 700 Names to Open-Air Theater List. Seven hundred names were added to the list favoring open-air theaters in the parks by people at the Brookside and Garfield Theaters last night. Mayor Shank said today. "I’ll show that council, I’ll show them.” said the mayor. The council p&esed an ordinance prohibiting expenditure of public money on professional park theatricals, which the mayor will veto. The mayor is getting signatures to show the council it ought not pass the measure over his veto. KILLED BY PIT CAVE-IN Airman Die* in Gravel Shaft—Three Others Badly Injured. LAWTON, Okla., July B.—Private C. Maresch, Moulton, Texas, member of the air service. Post Field, was killed and three other men seriously Injured today when a gravel pit near Ft. Sill, Okla., caved in, burying the workmen. COURT FREES FLANNERY Man Acquitted of Wife Killing After Jury Is Out Fifteen Days. PITS BURGH, Pa., July B.—James J. Flannery, charged with the murder of h!s young wife, was acquitted today after the jury had deliberated fifteen nights and fourteen days and one hour. Flannery’s defense was that he mistook hia wife for a burglar and shot a shadowy form In their home just after midnight. CIGAR DEMAND INCREASES Five-Centers Feel Sharp Raise Is Report of Local Dealers. A sharp increase in the demand for 5-cent cigars is being felt by local tobacco dealers. No reduction in prices of cigars made of clear Havana has been made, nor are they likely to be made in the near future, dealers said.

IN AND OUT By United Press NEWCASTLE, Ind., July B.—The railway shopmen's strike reduced to 50 per cent effectiveness here yesterday, was 100 per cent effective, again today. One of the two car repairers stationed here, who returned to work yesterday morning, joined his fellow striker in idleness again today.

of July had something to do with it Kids aren’t easily lured from firecrackers to march In a parade, and to get their faces washed. “But get a boy and a dog out In the woods where they can sort of talk to each other, and you will find that their friendship is still a vital thing. “It Isn’t so true In the city, naturally. There isn’t room for dogs in city apartments, but it is still true out In the country.” "Boys haven't changed muon—-

NOT MOLESTED Strikebreakers Allowed to Pass Quietly—Sheriff Gets Futile Call. Sheriff George Snider and a number of deputies who rushed to Beech Grove today on a report from railroad detectives that strikers had gathered to attack workmen as they left tlio Big Four shops, found no signs of violence. The call for help came, it was explained, when the detectives were told the strikers planned to attack the workmen as they passed through a tunnel.

HOMES STONED Bricks, Clubs and Yellow Paint Are Applied to NonStrikers. By United Press FT. WAYNE. Ind., July B.—While walking from his home toward the Pennsylvania shops, where he has been employed for fifteen years, Charles Judt was ser. upon by eight men, all foreigners, he reported to police. He was taken to the hospital. The home of Philip Wagner was attacked by a large crowd of men with stones, it ls said, and a bucket of yellow paint was hurled against the house, breaking the windows and damaging property. JOHN D. 83 YEARS OLD Cake, Golf and Auto Ride Mark Day of Celebration for Millionaire. By United Press NEW YORK, July B.—John D. Rockefeller is 83 today. A birthday cake, a round of golf in the morning and an automobile ride in the after- j noon comprises his simple annlver- \ e&ry celebration. ROOMERS FIND BURGLAR ! But ne Gets Away With Dress, Coats, Razor, Shirts and Suit Case. Roomers at the home of Mrs. L. D. j Brooks, 903 N. Capitol Ave., discov- | ered a thief in the house early today, j He escaped with two coats and a dress j belonging to Mrs. Brooks, a suit case, razor and shirt belonging to Howard 1 Brooks and a shirt belonging to Evan Hinebrook. HARVEST HANDS FOR WEST Wages of 20,000 Are $4 Per Day, Says Ticker. By United Press WASHINGTON. July B.—Wages for harvest hands are $4 a day this j year, according to George E. Ticker, director of the United States Farm Labor Bureau. More than 20,000 men have already j been rushed Into Kansas and Nebraska. FOREST FIRES RAGING Destroy $1,000,000 a Day in Property of Pacific Northwest. By United Press SEATTLE, July 8. —Forest fires throughout the Pacific Northwest are taking a toll amounting to nearly $1,000,000 a day in timber, sawmill property and settlements.

they are still Huck Finns and Tom Sawyers at heart. The man who said Tom Sawyer would be a backnumber in a modern crowd of boys, doesn’t know much about them.” “X don’t know what happened to Mr. White’s parade.” Braley said, “But you can’t judge boys on their failure t< make a public display of their pals. It’s when they are just boys and dogs that the real friendship is shown—not when they are parading down Main street.’’

MINE SEIZURE TO MAKE SURE * SUPPLY OF COAL Government Advised to Take Drastic Step to Get Fuel. SITUATION IS DESPERATE Harding Against Use of Force in Securing Production. WASHINGTON, July B.—Ultimate seizure of key mines to guarantee a supply of fuel for next winter ha3 virtually been decided upon by the Harding Administration as a final drastic step to end the Nation-wide coal strike, it was learned on reliable authority today. The President is said to have held out for postponement of this action until he had exhausted all efforts to achieve a peaceful settlement of the strike through arbitration. His advisers, however, are urging him to end the strike on Monday with an executive proclamation ordering temporary Government operation of “key” mines to meet the national emergency. Await Return of Harding With operators and miners nearly as far apart today as at the beginning of their conferences to settle the coal strike, the return of President Harding was awaited with the hope that he would have a solution to the controversy. Harding is expected here tonight, and the situation will be placed before him tomorrow so that he may outline a course of action for Monday, when both bituminous and anthracite sections resume their meetings. Gen. Daugherty Figures Attorney General Daugherty * it was said today, practically won the President's consent to the proposed action while on his visit, to Ohio this week. The President’s "last hope” for arbitration was to offer a plan to the operators under which they were to agree to return the miners to work under the old wage scale pending a rehearing of the wage scale case and a thorough investigation of the mining industry.

TO FT. WAYNE Governor Sends Smith in Anticipation of Strike Trouble. ! Adjt. Gen. Harry B. Smith went to ; Ft. Wayne today on direction of Governor McCray to investigate the railroad strike situation in that city. Governor McCray said he had received no call for troops from Ft. Wayne, but in view of newspaper rei ports he thought it advisable to have Adjt. Gen. Smith make the trip. | Gen. Smith was in his office this I morning following his investigation of the situation at Logansport, where troops w r ero requested. He said the i request has been withdrawn. LENGLEN BEATS MALLORY Tennis Fans Hear Report of Match at Wimbledon, England. Participants and visitors to the nai tional clay court tennis tournament, j now being held in Indianapolis, were I much interested in the defeat of Mrs. Molla B. Mallory, world's woman tennis champion, by Mile. Suzanne Lengi len, champion of France. Mrs. Mai--1 lory W'as defeated in straight sets 6-2 I and 6-0 in the contest at Wimbledon, | England. YOUTHFUL BURGL'' HOT One of Two Detected and Killed Robbing Grocery Store Safe. | WASHINGTON, July B.—Wilfred ! Michaud, 18, was shot and killed by i police today when he and a confed- | erate were trapped robbing a grocery ! safe. Bernard F| Casson, 19, surrendered. CHARGES DISCRIMINATION Congressman Britton Says Rritish Ships Get Preference in Port. NEW YORK. July B.—Charges that American medical officials at Quaranj tine discriminate between American and British vessels in favor of the j ships flying the British flag were made | today by Congressman Frederick A • Britton, Chicago. He said he woujd demand congressional investigation. POSTAL RECEIPTS HIGHER Department Figures for June Show Substantial Gain. WASHINGTON, July B.—Postal receipts for fifty largest cities of the United Staes, the Postoffice Department today announced for June, were $22,168,820, an Increase of $2,417,139 over June, 1921. Robbed at Auction S. H. Moore, Hllllsburg, -told the police today he was robbed of S3O by a pickpocket in Shank’s auction room, 227 N. New Jersey St. Stole Purse from Office Miss Cecelia Egeston, 3921 Hall PI., told the police a/thief stole her purse containing $4 tfom the office of J. L. Murray, 302 /American Central Life building, wMre she is employed. Trains Discontinued. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July B.—Thirty passeriger trains on thy, Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad will be discontinued temporarily/ effective today. /

ORDERS By United News CHICAGO. July 8. —Railroads have no right to require other classes of employes to perform the work of striking shopmen, according to a resolution adopted by the railroad labor board Friday. If employes in other classes volunteer to do shop work, this will be sanctioned, but carriers cannot compel It, it was stated. The ruling was handed down on request of E. F. Grable, head of the maintenance of way men.

WOMEN INSIST ON BEING USED AS ‘OBSERVERS’ Strike Leader Hart Says Union Officials Are Against Idea. MIGHT INVITE INSULTS Every Effort Being Made to Secure Support for Cause. Wives and other women relatives of striking shopmen in Indianapolis are Insisting that they be used as "observers” at the Bhop3, L. V. Hart, strike leader, said today. Hart said union officials are not inclined to use them and they do not wish to subject women to insult. Fed Inside Grounds Men still at work in Big Four shops both here and elsewhere are being fed | inside the company grounds in Pull- ! man diners. For those who want i them, beds are furnished, the local headquarters said. Guards are patrolling practically all i abroad property. Union men said they are stationed at intervals of ten ! feet at some places. Officials said ! they are .lot so numerous. L. V. Hart, strike leader, said he heard ail but two or three of the union blacksmiths remaining on duty at Beech Grove walked out to- | day. Pierce Without Information. i Edwin S. Pierce, general manager of the Railroad Service Corporation, said he had no information any more men had left. Hart declared reports to him show there is not a Big Four shop with more than six or seven mechanics on duty at a time. The office of the superintendent of motive power I announced more men are being hired every day, and no trains aro deI layed. Men at Moorefleld Shops B. A. Worthington, president of the j C., I. & W.. said the Moorefleld shops I have a 47 per cent force of men in the ! car department and 41 per cent In the ! locomotive department. Normal conditions prevail elsewhere on the system, he said. The general office of the Pennsylvania said it has a little more than half a working force in local shops. It ■was reported 104 former employes j have returned on the Indiana general division and 150 new men hired. ARRESTED IN R. R. YARDS Two Men Taken on Big Four Property Released by City Court. Two men arrested by Charles Ford, a rallrcad detective, in the Big Four yards last night were released in city i court today. The men are William M. Bullock, 40, 323 N. Illinois St., charged with ; drunkenness and trespass, and Sam ; Dillon, 21, Rochester, N. Y., charged with trespass and vagrancy. Receive Trouble Call A "trouble call" early today sent a riot squad of police to the Pennsylvania Railroad shops, 2200 E. Wash-1 ington St. The squad reported it found no trouble. Five strikers walked back and forth on the north side of Washing- I ton St. COUNTY ASSESSOR FLOORED Police Chief Resents Comments on Bar Wrecking Crew. By United Press SOUTH BEND. July B.—Chief of Police Laurence J. Lane stretched Roscoe Truax county assessor upon the floor of the police station, following the assessor's comments on activities of the chief's “barr wrecking” crew. • Negro Lad Injured. James Johnson. 13. negro. 227 W. Fifteenth St., was injured slightly when he was knocked from a bicycle at Capitol Ave. and Fourteenth St. by a car belonging to William Holliday, 733 E. Fortieth St. Lost Her Dross Mrs. Sarah Harris, 227 Perry St., bought a dress for $18.60 and then left the package lying on a stand in the city market. She asked the police to look for it. Boat Upsets; Boy Drowns By United yews VALPARAISO. Ind., July 7.—Roland Hendrickson, 16. Chicago, was drowned at Waverly, near here today, when a rowboat was swamped.

Ice Cream and Dainties Being Served in Shops?

TERRE HAUTE. Ind., July B.—lce cream and other dainties, along with "smokes.” overalls, gloves and hip boots are being supplied the workers at the east yard shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad, rail strikers were told here today by pioket men. According to the picket men. Ice

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WIVES VS. WIVES IN STRIKE OF R. R. SHOPMEN Employment Agencies Try to Replace Idlers as During War. STORM WORKERS' HOME Seven Men Beaten and Left Unconscious Following Attack on Cars. BY CHARLES R. LYNCH United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, July B.—-Women battled against women In the railroad shopmen’s strike war today. Railroad employment agencies sought to hire strikebreakers and wives to combat picketing by wives of strikers. The women strikebreakers were given work which they handled during the war with war time wages. Mob Storms House A mob of strike sympathizers here, Including women, stormed the home of Michael Lieupevich, who with his wife were alleged to have worked in the Pullman repair shops. Windows were broken and the couple were threatened with further violence unless they quit work. Early today a crowd of more than 100 strike sympathizers gathered along the street car line leading from the Baltimore & Ohio shops. Trolleys Pulled Off As cars carrying strikebreakers leaving on the midnight shift, attempted to pass, trolleys were pulled off and "spotters” pointed out the men who were working. The crowd stormed the darkened cars and dragged the strike breakers to the street, beat them and left tfcem. Seven men, one unconsc.ous were reported taken to railroad hospitals. BLACKJACKS AND DYNAMITE One Stabbed Six Times in Disturbance Near Burnside Shops. CHICAGO, July B.—One man was stabbed six times and another was beaten with “blackjacks” today in a new outbreak near the Illinois Central Burnside shops. The victims were Andrew Polish and Michael Kukyno. Six sticks of dynamite were found in coal in the yards of the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe railroad. All coal ls berng screened. PROTEST JAPANESE LABOR Labor Council Appeals to Governor of California. BARSTOW, Cal., July B.—An appeal to Governor W. D. Stephens to take action to halt the use of Jafb anese strikebreakers in this section has been made by the Bars tow Labor Council, it was learned today. The local labor council declared continued use of Japanese mechanics to replace American shop workers might result in trouble.

Strikers in Battle. BUFFALO, July B.—Twenty striking railroad car men were routed to- , day in a battle with State troops and ! deputy sheriffs at Sloan, near here. Four were arrested. No Fruit Being Shipped ROSEVILLE, Cal., July B.—Despite the ultimatum of Governor Stephens that perishable fruit shipments must not be interrupted, not a single re. frigerator car had been loaded here since the Governor's order was issued yesterday. PLAN OVERSEAS FLIGHT British Aviators Prepare Trip Across Pacific From America to Australia. By United News LONDON, July 8. —British aviators are preparing for a trans-Pacifio flight, according to the Central News. They plan to fly from the western coast of America to Australia, the report states. Sheriff Is Avenged SALEM, Ore., July 7. —John Rathie and Elvie D. Kirby were hanged at the State penitentiary here today for complicity in the murder of Sheriff Taylor at Pendleton in July, 1920. WHAT DID YOU SEE? C. R. saw a man walk Into a If. Delaware St- shoe shop, remove his shoes and socks, and trim hi* toe nails. W. L. B. saw a man drive into a filling station and ask the attendant if his tail light was burning. C. J. saw a jazz orchestra playing Jazz music in a West Indianapolis Baptist church. S. E. saw a 1922 flapper kid an oldtimer into the belief that the square dance was all the rage. D. D. saw a man wearing a wrist watch taken another watch from hia pocket to learn the time.

cream Is served to them all during the day. “Smokes" are passed around through the shops and yards several times a day. Stacks of gloves and overalls are being handed out dally to the men working, the pickets said.