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San Frannsean many of them, got where they wanted to go, rir pite the *nke of trolley and bus men. and at left you see a bicyclist, a roller k. '< r and pedestrian doing their stuff. Hungry and tired.

FRISCO STRIKE NEAR COLLAPSE Hugh Johnson Sits Firm in Saddle; Walkout to End Quickly. (Continued From Page One)

that barbrr shops would reopen, laundries would resume and miscellaneous unions would return to work within twenty-four hours at the latest. The first blow at the strikers ranie yesterday when Johnson fired the first blast. '•The federal government can not act under the continued coercion of the general strike,” he announced. Tlie first step to peace and agreement is to lift that strike order. Until that is done I have nothing to offer.” Programs Are Altered Word went around that public organizations were prepared to supporta large scale movement to resume the movement of goods, not only from the piers—where thousands of tons of freight have been heaped due to the maritime strike — but through all other normal channels. Reports, in no way denied, were circulated that fleets of trucks were ready, manned and in order, to begin a major offensive against the freighting embargo. Seizing the psychology of the moment there was a rush from both employers and strikers to alter their programs and convert as much of the situation as possible into victory. Prom the labor temple, where sat the general strike committee which for three days had ruled the economic and even the home life of thp citizens with startling strength, came the announcements that the city's 2.000 unionized restaurants would be permitted to reopen, that butcher shops, which had been selling what meat they could get dur.ng the day under a twenty-four-hour dispensation, would be allowed to remain open; that gasoline deliveries would not be interfered with; and several minor orders. Employers Strike Bark They represented the efforts of conservative labor leaders, never favorable to the strike and always cognizant of its danger to the labor movement, to save their cause from being wrecked by public defiance. Then, during the evening, employers. definitely on the offensive for the first time since May 9. struck at the maritime unions. "We have radioed all our captains afloat.” came a laconic statement from R. Stanley Dollar of the Dollar Lines, "to lay a course for San Francisco. “San Francisco has met and answered the threat of insurrection. This is our home port and it is going to be.” Almost simultaneously William P. Roth, president of the Matson company. announced: * We have radioed our captains to alter courses for San Francisco. Our vessels wil be brought to berth immediately. The citizens of San Francisco have again shown us a city that knows how. Our home port will be happily welcomed by our passengers, crews and staff.” Seen As Challenge Mr. Dollar indicated these announcements foreshadowed a rush of shipping to the port. A concentration of all available bottoms, he said, will be necessary to move vast quantities of cargo stagnating on piers and in warehouses awaiting the end of the strike. Just before these statements were issued. Harry Bridges, left wing militant leader of the marine strike, had indicated that his unidns—ten in number—might ignore entirely the proposal of the general strike committee that they accept arbitration of their disputes with shipowners and with employing stevedores. He indicated they would continue the port blockade even if the general strike ended and they were cut adrift by the more conservative wings of union labor. Hence, the announcements by the steamship owners that they consider the port open to commerce once more, was a direct challenge. It is understood to be backed by determination if not by actual force. While union leaders fought in the labor temple the meditation board held a constant succession of meetings and conferences. “If the general strike is called off and the threat of marshal law removed. I can settle this thing in twenty-four hours.” General Johnson said. The board not only demanded the general strike be ended, but that the maritime unions submit all grievances, including the question of control of longshoremen’s hiring halls, to arbitration.

San Francisco Makes the Best of a Troublesome Situation

FRISCO IS JUBILANT: NOW CAN BUY MEAT AND GAS FOR AUTOS

If ft I nitrd Press BAN FRANCISCO. July 19. Here are some things you can do today in San Francisco you couldn't do yesterday. Buy a ticket for an ocean trip leaving San Francisco. Ride a Market street railway car 'maybe—and if you want too). Eat in your favorite restaurant. Fill the gas tank of your car. Buy meat. Obtain fresh fruit and vegetables and many staple groceries. But you still can't: Call a taxi. Get a haircut. Get laundry done. Get freight hauled. Ride a key-route ferryboat. Get your pants pressed. Buy a good many things you’d like to have.

5 HURT HERE IN AUTO ACCIDENTS Three of Victims Receive Serious Injuries in Mishaps. Five persons were injured, three seriously, in motor car accidents yesterday and last night. Mrs. Charlotte May Miller, 51, of 219 Cosscll drive, suffered a fractured collar bone and head lacerations last night when the car in which she was riding collided with a machine driven by R. S. Mitchell. 27, of 310 North Illinois street, at. the intersection of the Franklin and National roads. Mrs Miller was taken to city hospital. She was in a car driven by Earl Miller. 44, of the Cossell drive address. Others injured in accidents were: David Edwards, 38, of 1239 Pasadena street, head lacerations; Harry Thompson. 22. of 1231 Roache street, bruises; W. D. Decker, 69, of 1621 Hall place, possible internal injuries; Joseph Lebraico, 77, of 2345 North Illinois street, bruises and lacerations. MORE TROOPS MOVE INTO STRIKE REGION Governor Responds to Call of Coast Cities. P’l United Pnwt SACRAMENTO, Cal.. July 19.Governor Frank F. Merriam directed fresh troop movements into the strike-swept San Francisco bay region today. He sent a Sacramento company of the California national guard to Alameda county at the request of Hollis Thompson, spokesman for the county waterfront cities, Alameda. Oakland and Berkeley. Mr. Thompson said reinforcements were needed to keep order at the docks.

NURSE DESCRIBES WORK IN TUBERCULOSIS DRIVE Exeutive Committee Hears of Care for Infants. Work of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association in its efforts to build stronger and healthier babies was described yesterday by Miss Alma Taylor, public health nurse, in her annual report to the executive committee of the association at a meeting in the Lincoln. ‘The infant welfare clinic in Wayne township has had its most successful year, - ’ Miss Taylor said. • Three hundred babies and children have been examined during the \ear.“ Miss Taylor's territory includes Center township outside of Indianapolis. Warren township and part of Wayne township. The other twothirds of the countv is served bv the two nurses employed by the county commissioners: Miss Bernice Mutphy and Miss Clara Morrison. SHOOTS GASOLINE THIEF Negro Fires at Man Caught Stealing From Car. Police today were searching for a wounded gas thief who was shot early this morning by Thomas Willett. Negro, of 2933 Indianapolis avenue. Willett saw the man syphoning gas from his car. He called to him and when the man did not move he shot at him from an upstairs window. The man screamed. Willett believes the bullet from his gun struck the thief.

citizens lined up behind stools in the few restaurants permitted by the unions to remain open and waited their turn to get whatever food was left by the lime their turn came. The restaurant's union "permit'’ is shown in the inset.

SPECIAL POLICE FIRE ON WAGNER Senator Escapes Injury at Portland; Situation Is Still Ominous. (Continued From Page One)

derstanding. but this did not eliminate the fact that a tragedy almost resulted. A bullet struck within a foot of Ernest Marsh, conciliator of the United States department of labor, riding in the rear seat of the second car in Senator Wagner’s party. The four guards were arrested, questioned and then released. They claimed the two automobiles did not slacken speed w r hen ordered to halt. Drivers of the cars and others in the machines declared they heard no such command. “We heard someone yell, ‘Fire!’ so we did,” one of the guards told police. Guards Are Denounced The guards w r ere denounced by D. E. Nickerson, chairman of Portland's strike committee, w r ho said, “You never can tell what a special policeman will do when he gets a gun into his hands.” The shooting was termed a “monstrous stupidity.” by B. A. Green, local I. L. A. attorney, driving Senator Wagner's car. Max Stern, Washington newspaper man with Senator Wagner’s party, said that what he saw of the guards revealed that most of them "are too young to be going around shooting pistols promiscuously!” Seattle looked forward with apprehension to possible recurrence of two riots on its waterfront yesterday. Strikers regained their old post at Pier 41, Smith Grove, at the expense of lungs filled with tear gas, a few cracked heads, and arrest of half a dozen of their number. Deputy Sheriff Beaten Later, Deputy Sheriff L. W. Pedersen was beaten badly by a half dozen alleged Communists. Three were arrested, including a marine workers’ industrial union organizer, who also edited a Seattle “radical” newspaper. Admittedly, the presence of Senator Wagner in the northwest was all that kept the situation in hand. The Portland strike committee stated it would not proceed further with general strike plans until after conferring with him. A meeting yesterday yielded no statements from either the senator or the Portland unionists. Senator Wagner held a lengthy conference with Franklin T. Griffith, member of Governor Meier's strike settlement committee.

DON IRWIN TO MEET WITH G. 0. P. LEADERS Series of Conferences in State to Sound Sentiment. Don B. Irwin, Republican state chairman, was to meet today at the Claypool with chairmen and vicechairmen of Benton, Tippecanoe, Cass, Porter, Kociusko and Newton counties of the Second district. Remaining counties of the district will be presented at the meeting tomorrow. The meetings are part of a series being conducted by Mr. Irwin to learn the sentiment throughout the state in preparation for the fall campaign. He met Ninth district leaders here yesterday. 60 C. M. T. C. CADETS APPOINTED -NONCOMS’ Promotions Made for Excellence at Fort Harrison. More than sixty third and fourthyear Indiana cadets at Fort Benjamin Harrison Citizens Military Training Camp received appointments to noncommissioned officer rank yesterday. Advancement was made on the basis of military excellence and successful candidates will hold their ranks until the close of camp. Aug. 3. —A number of citations for ability and leadership also were made. Parade awards yesterday went to Company C and Company E. JOINT SESSION CALLED Seventh Ward Negro Democratic Clubs to Meet. For the first time on record all Democratic Negro social clubs of the Seventh ward will hold a joint meeting at 8 the evening of Aug. 11 at 1230 North West street, it was announced’today by W. M. King, president of the organization. Deputy Coroner Wilson Is 111 Dr. E. R. Wilson, deputy coroner, is in the Methodist hospital for observation. His condition today was reported as fair.

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Frisco Food Problem Solved, Writer Enjoys Berries for Breakfast; Hopes for Haircut

BY JAMES P. SULLIVAN United Press Staff Correspondent FRANCISCO, July 19. We have strawberries for breakfast and there’s a steak in the icebox. So life is coming back to normal —with the permission of the general strike committee—and perhaps soon I can get a haircut. The strawberries were the first fresh fruit our neighborhood grocer has had for a week. He drove down to the wholesale produce center in his own car to get them. The crate he brought back didn't last long. Word spread from

MURDER SUSPECT IS GRILLED AT TRIAL Engineer Badly Shaken as Attorneys Probe for Tragic Details. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, July 19.—Attorneys were confident today they would place the fate of Millard Hickman, shipping engineer accused of murder, in the hands of the jury by tomorrow night. Further cross-examination of the badly shaken defendant and presentation of rebuttal witneses remained for today’s session. Hickman lost his poise for the first time in the trial when Peter Mullins, deputy district attorney, grilled the engineer on details of his association with 23-year-old Louise Jeppesen, Utah girl, for whose slaying Hickman was indicted.

Hwfdm '} rJ'oUvfi'iil ’H INDIANAPOLIS vithin a year after ing a great power plant. It has \ ers built their log circled the city with a high-tension \ lianapolis, a com- transmission line at a cost of $25,000 \ mended that it be per mile. In these constructions the \ ics. They prompt- PROSPECTIVE industries are atd industries saw tracted to Indianapolis by unsur- j , j o st * n 1821, a passed electrical service at very low I '' ' -~rrr—r. v\ o<nun mill in 1823, a packing rates. A factory can get a horse / plant in 1835. The first railroad power of electricity for a day for less j entered the city in 1847; public than the (ax on a package of dg . / \ water works were introduced A . . , / \ arettes. A man can sit in the cooling f \ in electric lights in 1888. , ........ . / \ ° breeze of an electric fan for an entire / \ THE Indianapolis Power & Light Company be- evening and read by a 60-watt elec- / \ lieves that the future of Indianapolis will be worthy trie light with a cost for electricity / of its past. It has backed its belief by spending mil- less than the taxes on a single gallon / lions of dollars during the depression in construct- of gasoline.

If you wanted a trunk moved, you moved it yourself, as the man at left found out. Even the striking longshoremen found some inconveniences, as food was running short in the emergency soup kitchen.

house to house. And peaches. And plums. And bananas. But particularly strawberries. Produce trucks are rolling over the roads from the fruitful valleys of California in a steady stream. Some have escorts of police. Others are running an apathetic blockade of strike pickets. National guardsmen tore the placards reading ‘‘operating by permission of the strike committee” from many of the trucks. Their defiance represented the spirit of the entire community against the super-government of the unionists.

3 KILLED AS STORM LASHES TENNESSEE Bolts Kill Victims, Score of Others Hurt. By United Press NASHVILLE. Tenn., July 19. Thre persons were killetf and nearly a score injured in severe electrical and rain storms that whipped through Tennessee late yesterday. The dead, struck by lightning, were: Clarence Summers, 30, farm tenant, living near Decherd; William Conley Simmons, 23, farmer living near Chattanooga; Thomas Thompson, 13, Petersburg. U. S. REWARDS HOQSIER Silver Star Awarded Veteran for Gallantry. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 19.—The war department today announced the award of the silver star to John S. Farren, La Porte, Ind., for gallantry in action at Bois du bel Orme, France, Sept. 27. 1913. He served in the One hundred twelfth infantry, Twenty-eighth division.

TOUT it was by the permission •*-* of the union permit committee that I brought home a thick red sirloin steak from the butcher’s. The strongly organized meatcutters said they had stocks in their refrigerators since their closing Saturday that they would like to dispose of. The unions said. ‘‘Go ahead, dispose of them Wednesday.” The one-day opening brought swarms of customers. Like me they were tired of ham and canned meats.

GREEN BACKS STRIKE AS LABOR WEAPON Barrier to Exploitation, Leader Says. By United Press RACINE, Wis., July 19.—American labor was urged last night by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, to hold fast to the strike as its most effective weapon against exploitation. The veteran labor leader described opponents of the aims of striking unions in San Francisco as “people determined to exploit labor.” “When men are denied the privilege of exercising their rights,” he said at the annual convention of the Wisconsin Federation of Labor, “they must strike. May labor never become so complacent as to refuse to strike.”

center, operated for their members, who do not look especially happy about it as they pass down the line.. Meanwhile at the edges of the barricaded wholesale district, national guardsmen waited with rifles and bayonets to prevent unauthorized entrance.

The three-day vacation the butchers had apparently improved their dispositions The man who sold me the steak cut off a thick piece of fat without weighing it. Now the butcher shops are open indefinitely. The permit committee modified its one-day order to let the meat business resume on a normal basis. With the food problem solved, the only essential services still stagnated by the strike are barbering. cleaning and pressing, and laundrv work.

FARMER PREPARES SUIT ATTACKING COTTON ACT Contends Crop Reduction Law Is Unconstitutional. By United Press JACKSON, Miss., July 19.—Contending the Bankhead cotton control act confiscates property without due process of law, a suit attacking the constitutionality of the act was prepared teday for filing in federal district court at Meridian. ' Gaston Therrell, Lowndes county cotton farmer, said he will contest all regulations passed under the government’s first compulsory crop reduction law. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: South wind, twelve miles an hour; barometric pressure, 29.93 at sea level, temperature. 75; general conditions, high, overcast, low scattered clouds, sprinkling; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, eight miles.

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REDS BATTERED IN DOCK AREA Organized Vigilantes Raid Headquarters; Hundreds Are Arrested. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, July 19.—Police today struck slashing blows at Communists involved in strike machinations in Pacific coast ports. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins backed up state and city officials in the greatest drive against fomenterg of violence since the troubled days that followed the World war. Conservative union leaders continued their own efforts to purge their ranks. Young union men, organized into vigilante groups similar to the citizen committees of old California, raided Communist headquarters, beat suspected “reds” and smashed their equipment. Jails were crowded with prisoners in San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. Judges promised fair trails, but stern sentences. Immigration authorities working under labor department orders scrutinized the police records of aliens for possible deportation. Nearly 400 alleged Communists were in custody in the three cities, and in agricultural communities of California. Governor Frank F. Merriam of California wired Secretary Perkins for support and received her promise of prompt action against departable aliens. Balbo Back in Tripoli By United I’rcss TRIPOLI, July 19.—Air Marshal Italo Balbo. governor of Tripolitania, returned today by airplane from Rome to resume his post after the celebration of the Chicago mass seaplane flight anniversary.