Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1920 — WILL QUIZ PALMER [ARTICLE]

WILL QUIZ PALMER

U. S. Judge to Probe Attorney General’s Acts in Coal Case. Investigation Into Cabinet Member's Connection With Affair to Be Made at Indianapolis November 8. - Indianapolis, N'ov. s.—Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer was advised in a telegram from 'United States District Judge A. B. Anderson today that an investigation of the attorney genteral's connection with the case against 125 coal mine operators and miners will be made when the case is called for trial in federal court here on November 8. Mr. Palmer was invited to be present on that date. Washington, Nov. s.—Limitations on the export of coal to Insure an adequate supply for home industries and to direct the trade to countries that are natural markets for American goods and to those to which American ships sail in ballast were advocated by Secretary of Commerce Alexander in a discussion of a national coal export policy. When conditions return to normal, the secretary said, there is little possibility of American producers obtaining a permanent foothold in Europe and, competing with the mines of England, Germany and France. For South American countries, however; he, declared, the United States is the logical and natural source of supply. , “Our national prestige in these countries would be increased,” Mr. Alexander continued, “if the United States were looked to as a friendly and certain source for such indispensable raw material, and our influence would be correspondingly injured if any drastic action was taken, designed to hinder the free movement of coal to these countries.” Coal can be exported advantageously to countries on trade routes where American ships lack cargoes for the outward voyage, the secretary assert ed. He urged producers and shipping interests to co-operate to this end. Coal supply for home Industry, however, should first be assured, the secre tary declared, before any determined effort is made to obtain foreign mar kets.