Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 68, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1922 — Page 9

JUIA 29, 1922

MELLON. OBJECT OF UNI DRIVE. • VERY POWERFUL Secretary of U. S. Treasury of; Great Influence in Coal Industry. HOLDINGS WORTH MILLIONS Family Figures in Many Big Corporations of Pennsylvania. Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. July 29.—1 t may 1 be said on high authority that the coal, j steel, railroad and public utility con- i nections of Andrew W. Mellon. Sec- , retary of the United States Treasury, j are now under the closest scrutiny by j friends of the striking coal miners Who j want the United States Senate to call Mellon on the "carpet,” The Pittsburgh Coal Company, an j sso.ooo.*>of' rnncor" is the backbone ? of the soft-coal operators in Fennsyl- j vania. The Mellons of Pittsburgh are 1 powerful figures in the Pittsburgh j Coal Company. Secretary Mellon was I one of Its directors until he entered the Cabinet. His place was taken by his brother, R chard B. Other Large Holdings B. Mellon also succeeded Secretary as ad rector of the Pittsburgh By-Products Coke Company, a 10,000jpo0 concern; also the Electric Carbon Company; the Minnesota By-Products Coke Company, , capitalized for 1.000,000; the Pennsyl- j vania Water Company; the Carborun- ✓ dum Company; the Aluminum Company of America, 20,000,000; the 1 Stanßard Steel Car Company, 5,000,000; the Steel Car Forge Company, j 1,500,000; the Tri-Cities Water Com- j pany, 700,000. Through their string of banks and trust companies, the Mellons control hundreds of millions of capital, much of which represents investments in j coal, steel and allied industr.es. Their Union Trust Company has total assets of $143,000,000 and the Mellon Na- j tional Bank, $125,000,000. LEAGUE AGAINST TOBACCO MEETS % President of Kentucky W. C. T. U. on Program at Bethany Park. By FLORENCE HA.eKLEUA.TI Tim e* Staff Correspondent BETH AX Y PARK. Ind., July 29. The Xo-Tobacco League goes into con•tuion here Monday, July 31. Mrs. anees E. Beauchamp. State presi- J dent of the Kentucky W. C. T. U., j will l .-cture at 11 o'clock. Prof. E. E. | lia’-v of Bloomington. Ind., will I have charge of the afternoon cam!>a:g.i ugains tthe weed. The Epworth League sessions close 1 tomorrow. The classes have been large i and well organized. The Life-Service program will be held Sunday morning. The Disciples of Christ are also holding their convocation here. Indianapolis people who have registered here recently are George Con- j ner, Melvin Spencer, Earl Springer ! ~ and Velma Root. GIFT APPRECIATED . Mme. Foch Thanks American Legion for §5,000 Donation. National officials of the American Legion offices hefce have received a letter from Mine. Foch. wife of the j French general, expressing apprecia tlon for the legion gift of $5,000 for j relief purposes in France. Five French war orphans will be ■ geared and educated with the money, the letter said. Marshall Foch was presented with the donation during his tour of America last December. SUES ON OLD INJURIES Joseph J. Cole Jr. Asks $75,000 From Wreck 17 Years Ago. MA uit to recover $75,000 for damage® Tmeged to have been caused in a rail road wreck seventeen years ago has been filed in Circuit Court by Joseph J. Cole, Jr. The action is directed against James E. Davis. - director gen eral of railroads of the United States the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis; the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, and the Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western Railroads.

BOUND TO GRAND JURY Six Etwood Men Face Federal Booze Charges. Six residents of Elwood, arrested in raids on soft-drink places by Fed- j oral prohibition officers, were bound 1 over to the Federal grand jury at a hearing before Charles W, Moores, United States commissioner, yesterday. 1 Five defendants, Marshall Laub, l John Stroud, Ed Kelley, Ralph Case k and Lawrence Gaunt were released I on bonds of SSOO. Raymond Taylor i * went to jail in default of bond. CO RONE RESTARTS PROBE B. R. Vance, 62, Dead as Result of Auto Accident. The coroner today started an inves-1 tigation into the death yesterday of j B. R. Vance, 62, Hancock and Belle- j fontaine St. Vance was struck by a I Sanitary Laundry truck. Arthur j {Cranes, Sixty-Seventh St., and Essex j Ave., driver of the truck, was ordered j laimii until the coroner could complete investigation. "Where There Are Wild Men” t CHICAGO, July 29.—" Wiles of Wil-1 \ ton Ave. wild women” broke up her j \ some. Mrs. Adeline Mackett declare! j jn a divorce suit. Her husband | leuldn’t resist them, she said. Automobile Stolen Elza Roving, Greenwood, Ind., Eked bis automobile at Morris St. [ Kentucky Ave. A thief took it.

OMELET By United News NEW YORK, July 29.—1f the crow left any eggs in the crow's nest of the American liner Samland, they're a crow's egg omelet now. The foretopmast was struck by lightning and destroyed. Xo man was touching the mast at the time and crow’s nest was empty. INFANTRY MOVES TO RIFLE RANGE 151st Regiment, Under Col. Wpay De Prez, to Spend Week on Marksmanship. Times Staff Correspondent CAMP KNOX. Ky.. July 29.—The | 151st Infantry, Col. Wray De Prez of j i Shelbyville commanding, will move tc j ! the rifle range at Muldraugh tomor | row, where it will encamp for one week to receive practical instruction j in the use of the rifle. The men will | be allowed to shoot all the courses in ’ order tha* they may exempt to qual i ify as marksman, sharpshooter or ex | pert riifeman. The 152d, sister regiment in the j Tfith Infantry Brigade, is scheduled jto arrive here tomorrow. It will bt | given a one-week intensive training course and then sent to the range. Brig. Gen. William Everson, com manding the brigade, will remain in camp at least one week longer, he j said. Both artillery regiments will begin j firing Monday. Passes to Louisville were issued tc j the men today. They must report j back to camp, however, at midnight | tonight. Religious services will bo held to • morrow for the artillerymen in camp ; The Infantry outfit will hold chapel at the range after camp is made. GASOLINE PROBE ONLYSLUMBERiNG Senate Committee Plans to Resume Hearing Soon, k Is I , . Announced. Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 29—That j Senate investigation to find out why j the prices of gasoline was boosted sky- ; ward so abruptly just as good weather | began is still very much alive, although It has been extremely quiet during the last few weeks. Before the end of a month open hearings will begin,, according to Senator McNary. vice chairman 6t the La Follette sub committee appointed to probe the Industry. A drop in the price of oil, followed ! by a reduction in gasoline prices in , some cities, has taken place since the 1 committee undertook its work. A genI oral reduction by which the whole | country will benefit should follow. Senators believe. The questionnaire answers give the I Government facts which will serve as the basis for the most exhaustive study of the oil industry ever made.

WOMAN IS HURT Street Car Hits Auto and Forces Truc k Into Pole. A street car last night hit an autoj mobile driven by S. S. Willoughby, 57, I 5703 Rawles Ave., and knocked the machine across the street in such a ■ way that Ebert Gardener, 21, of 1831 Highland PL, was forced to drive his i truck into a telephone pole to avoid ' collision with the auto. The accident j occurred at Hamilton Ave. and Washj ington St. Mrs. Willoughby was bruised and ; suffered a severe nervous shock. ‘COP-ETTE’ ENDS BRAWL Murderous Family Carries Fracas to Courtroom. By United Xew* NEW YORK. July 29—Fist fights waged with primitive fury kept police busy when Mrs. Minnie Reisler, wife of "John the Barber,” two of her sons and her brother, Max Katz, burst into the home of Mrs. Reisler’s sister Bertha Katz, and left her on the floor dead with five bullets in her body. As the four were brought Into j Kings County Court the rival factions charged. A policewoman named Ma hon knocked some heads together and stopped the war. FACES THREE CHARGES Motorist Arrested Following Accident —Y'outh Run Down. Following an accident Ben E. Flatt, 447 N. Alabama St., was arrested last night on*a charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor, assault and battery and driving on the left side of the street. Flatt's automobile struck Willard Robinson, 15, of 6933 E. Washington St. Find Abandoned Auto. The police last night found an automobile owned by Elva Roving of Greenwood, abandoned, east of the city on the Brookville road. The car was reported stolen from Morris 6t. and Kentucky Ave. Thursday,

Effect of High Altitude on Body Matter of Adaptation, Says Doctor

Interest in the effects of higher al- , titudes on the human system has been aroused in Indianapolis following the death at Dr. Frank T. Wynn In a fall from a cliff on Mt. Siyeh in Glacier National Park Thursday. According to Dr. Herbert T. Wagner. an Indianapolis physician, these effects depend largely upon the de gree to which an individual is accus tomed to higher altitudes. "Many persons believe that higher altitudes necessarily are injurious and, are certain to affect the heart or otheiJ organs," Dr. Wagner said. “This iJ untrue, as thousands of persons liw

TREATY OF PEAGE IN RAIL STRIKE - BEINGWRITTEN President Believes Both Sides Will Accept His Suggestions. CONTENTS OF DOCUMENT Executive to Ask Congress to Put Teeth in Law on Labor Board. By ROBERT J. BENDER United News Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, July 29.—Four or five more days and the present rail j strike probably will be over. Fresi- | dent Harding and spokesmen of the shopmen are equally confident. The "basis for compromise and settlement of the strike,” which Harding outlined in his conference with T. De Witt Cu/ler. chairman of the Association of Railway Executives, is j now being put Into a formal written j proposal. This will be submitted Tues- j day to a conference of 148 rail execu- j tives called at New York by Cuyler and to a conference of ninety shopcraft leaders called at Chicago by Bert M. Jewell the same day. Terms of Settlement It embodies: 1. The shopmen are to return to work immediately under the wage scale and working conditions decided by the Railway Labor Board July 1. j pending a rehearing by the board. 2. The railway executives are to stop the practice of "farming out” shopwork contracts. 3. As to seniority rights; (A) The shopmen to return to work with restored seniority rights, except as in the case of shopmen on the seniority lists at the time the strike was called and remaining at their j posts during the strike. (B) The shopmen to bring a test 1 case on the question of seniority ! rights before the railway boaru with assurances that the executives will abide by the decision of the board. Purpose of Proposal The second of the seniority proposals is said by authorities to be included in the President's formal suggestion to cover the possibility of the rail executives positively refusing to agree upon the first named basis. Whether the formal proposal will include an agreement by executives, to abide by decisions of the labor board and drop pending litigation contesting those decisions, had not been finally decided late Fiiday. Whether It Is embodied or not, it is the intention of the President to “put teeth” into jhe act at the next session of Con gress. VOTE IS CLOSE Community Clubs .Against Removal of Butler College. A resolution favoring the removal j of Butler College from Irvington to | Fairview Park was defeated by delegates to the Indianapolis Federation : of Community Clubs at the Chamber j of Commerce last night. It took two ballots to decide the question, the second ballot standing twelve to eleven against removal. The resolution was introduced by A. E. Calland, president of the Mapleton Civic Association, and the opposition j was led by William T. Quillin of the Englewood Hustling Hundred.

HUGHES OPPOSES BILL Secretary of State Against German Claims Measurs. By United Sews / WASHINGTON, July 29 Secre tary of State Hughes is preparing a letter to the Senate opposing the Un derwood German claims bill. The measure, creating an all-Amer-ican commission to settle war claims against Germany and Austria, is regarded by the Executive Department as inopportune. Interference of Congress in the satisfactory work now going forward, Hughes is expected to say, would only hamper progress. SPENCER RULES COAL Government Work of Distribution by priorities Under Way. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 29.—With the selection of Henry B. Spencer, general purchasing agent for the railroad Adminisy-ation during the war, as administrator for the presidential j coai committee, the actual work of | allocating coal cars, distributing coal and exercise of priorities is under way. GOOD WILL INVIOLATE Judge Hand Rules On Sale* Affecting Alien Owned Property, By United News NEW YORK, July 29.-—Judge Augustus N. Hand in Federal Court | ruled the alien property custodian, in | deeding away seized property, had 1 no authority to sign over the good will of a corporation. Optimists Plan Picnic * Arrangements for its annual August picnic were made at the weekly luncheon of the Optimists' Club at the Lincoln HoteL

in high altitudes all their lives and are perfectly healthy In every respect "The truth is that it is largely a question of becoming acclimated Mountain climbers can accustom themselves to the rarer atmosphere of the heiebts and in time are able tc stand il HLlos without danger or in corveryVEfe "GaflSJiJgfcealth does not necessar ily ' JgjKjjjleat deal to do with the P ersons of only mod stand heights which ijt£9@3gg|l(uU<.lmcsl unbearable to oth jHKHHb, far stronger physique a matter of adapting altitude.”

(Paid Advertisement) The Right to .Work Being the first of six messages to the Public, based on resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Associated Employers of Indianapolis, and having for their purpose the awakening of the Public to its interest and its responsibility in obtaining just settlement of the present railroad and miners’ strikes. 0 I V * * The Public can not afford to have the railroad and miners’ strikes settled “at any price.” A settlement that does not definitely preserve the of individuals to work, will eventually be too .costly. There is at stake in the present disputes an outstanding American principle which is of far greater importance to our citizenship at large than the wages of a few-'or the hours they shall work. * This principle was clearly reiterated by President Harding in a public address on July 4, when he said—“A free American has the right to labor without any other’s leave. It would be no less an abridgment to deny men to bargain collectively. Government can not tolerate any class or group domination through force. It will be a sorry day when any group denomination is reflected in our laws. Government and the laws which Government is charged with enforcement, must be for all the people, ever aiming at the common good. * * * Liberty is gone in America when any man is denied by anybody the right to work and live by that work, it does not matter who denies.” It is because independent workmen have been willing to take jobs in mines and railroad shops when other men quit these jobs, that the wheels of American industry have been kept turning. The Independent operator and miner are the sole source of tfye nation’s fuel sup-J-odpi’ But for thpir uninterrupted and steadily increasing production, a union monopoly would establish complete control of the coal fields, and the public would pay the artificial and uneconomic burden which an unconditional surrender of the operators would impose on the industry. Any settlement of the miners’ strike that would establish a monopoly control of coai production would make possible the closing of every factory door, the suspension of every public utility and the driving of every worker from his job. It would make possible a lockout of the farmer and the factory worker and a boycott of the public. Such monopoly control means a stagnant fuel industry, inefficient production and artificial fuel costs. , \ This is the price that every fuel buyer would pay if the strike is settled on terms that do not guarantee to every man the right to work in the mines, regardless of membership in labor organization, church or political party. One of the conditions which the striking railroad men impose, in considering terms of settlement, is that all non-union workmen shall be discharged. “Liberty is gone in America when any man is denied by anybody the right to work and live by that work,” says the President of the United States. A settlement of this strike which penalizes the independent workman who has accepted the job that the striker has abandoned will be un-American and ought not be tolerated by the public. The miners’ union demands the perpetuation of the “check-off” system, which provides that the operating companies shall deduct from each miner’s wages his dues to the union, thus making membership in the union compulsory to every man employed in the mines. This system flatly denies to independent workmen the right to labor and is therefore unAmerican and should not he tolerated by the public. Let every man and woman in Indianapolis stand pledged to the President of the United States, to the Governor of Indiana, and to all Federal, State, County and City officials and public peace officers, in giving their full aid and support in behalf of law enforcement for the perpetuation of public rights and for the absolute freedom of every citizen to work at any lawful occupation without let or hindrance from any source whatever. The Associated Employers of Indianapolis, Inc: 1406-1407 Merchants Bank Building.

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