Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 25, 10 December 1919 — Page 1

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BLIZZARDS, ZERO VJItlDS,

SWEEP U.S.

Coal Shortage is Emphasized in Country by Terrific

Storm Conditions--U be

low in Montana.

EVEN N. Y. RESTRICTED

1 (By Associated Press)

CHICAGO, Dee. 10. Below zero temperatures prevailed today In vir

tually all sections from the Mississippi valley to the Sierra Nevada mountain

ration, and the cold wave began Its

eastern Invasion with sub-normal tern-

Mratnrea of 20 to E0 decrees. In narts

- .. .I.... I Representative Joshua W. Alexan-

L7. vTk rT v V v iT. der of Missouri, has been appointed by est nit by the fuel shortage brought prudent Wilson to succeed William about by the strike of bituminous coal o. Redfield. who resigned to enter turners, many small cities and towns private business. Mr. Alexander has

wetv destitute of coal and Buffering represented his district in congress for

was reported. : Montana and northern w

Joshua W. Alexander.

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Idaho were the chief sufferers.

That condition served to heighten

interest in the action of the miners'

Vwage scale committee meeting at In-

aianapous to consider President Wil

son's proposal for settling the strike after, failing to reach an agreement

yesterday.

As a further coal conservation meas

ure the moat severe curtailment of

passenger train service ever undertak

en waa effective today with extension

of the federal railroad administration's saving order to the eastern region . The order already was operative in the other railroad regions. It waa estimated 15,000 tons of coal would be saved daily by it and that until the end of the present week It

would be necessary to save an addi

tional 200,000 train miles dally. Rain and 6now Fall.

Presaging extension of the cold

wave Into east and southeast heavy

rainstorms were prevalent through

those sections yesterday with exten

sive property damage in Georgia, Ala

bama and Mississippi and loss of 3

lives near Atlanta, Ga., In flood wa-

DULY DANSEY DIED

BY ACCIDENT, CLAIM

(By Associated Press)

HAMMONTON. N. J., Dec. 10.

James L. White, husband of Mrs-

Susan White. Is authority for the

statement that a warrant has been issued for his wife's arrest In the Billy

Dansey case. He said It had not been

served because of her illness.

Prosecutor Oaskill eald be Is con

vinced little Billy's death was due to accident: that he believed that he

either had been kicked or shot by

person who was Inflicting injuries on his dog and that every effort was

made to save the boy's life in a hid

ing place, where he eventually died.

Then the prosecutor added, the per

son responsible for the child's death

became frightened and carried it to

the swamp where it was found by

hunters on Nov. 21.

ters. Railroad Service was seriously

handicapped and city streets lnundat-

ed by the almost unprecedented rain-tmmediate Ratification

In the western country where al- Of rCOCe 1 reatV UT2ed O V

nun return aoow tans accompanied the unseasonable cold, rail and wire

communication also was handicapped.

worst snow storms in a decade was

recorded.'''' -vt '.'

About Redding. Calif 5 inches of I

enow had fallen today an unusual

amount for .that region. It was arad-t

nauy deepened northward to Bend. I

California Republicans

(By Associated Press)

SAN FRANCISCO, Cat, Dec. 10.

Nearly 40 prominent California Re

publicans have telegraphed Will H.

Hays, chairman of the Republican na-

tioaal committee, a joint appeal to urge Republican senators to ratlfr.he

Oregon, where 28 laches, the heaviest! peace treaty Immediately w

YttyUSt.----mui Astoria Oresou I ervatlona or amendments which would

lriss camDe were forced to close lreaulre its re-submission. The tele

fcy tit heaviest anow in 25 years. I gram made public here by the Call

i( A heavy storm was off the northern fornia branch, of the League to En-

l Pacific coast and storm warnings have I xorce reace, xouows:

FACTORIES HERE

DECIDE TO RUN 5 DAYS A WEEK

Factories . will be - furnished power

by the city light plant from the hours of T" a. m. to 4 p. m. 5 days a week, a meeting of manufacturers decided at

the Commercial club Wednesday morn

ing. This will allow the factories to run Friday, but they must be closed

Saturday and Sunday. ,

All other stores, picture shows.

bowling alleys and business - houses will run as they have been run, in

accordance with the mayor's procla

mation issued Monday.

In case the coal situation is not

settled toy the end of the week, a

meeting may be held Monday, at which

action will . probably be taken on three day week for factories.

About . 30 manufacturers were rep

resented.

In answer to rumors that county

towns and others supplied with power and light by the Libebrty Light. Heat

and power company, which is supplied by the Richmond light plant.

were not complying with the regula

tions which Richmond must observe.

Robert Ashe, president of the Liberty

company, said Wednesday that he had issued orders to all his customers that they must comply with the local regulations, and that so far as he knew they had done so.

Jenkins Not Kidnapped

Says Letter Alleged to Have Come from Captor (By Associated Press) SAN ANTONJO, Tex.. Dec. 10. El Democrats, a newspaper of Mexico

City, a copy of which was received here today, prints what purports to be a letter signed by Rebed Cordova, the man who captured W. O. Jenkins, American consular agent at Puebla, in which he asserted that Jenkins desired to be kidnapped. The letter says that Jenkins wanted to be kidnapped for the purpose of proving that President

Carranza was unable to afford personal protection to foreigners. The letter, which is displayed on the front page of El Democrata, in part says: "There was no kidnapping In the case of Consul Jenkins, because he was his own desire, and he volunteered to' come with me. We would not accept the money which some one sent to us. This will prove that it was not

a case of kidnapping, and holding for

reward on my part. "I protested' all that the consul said

to me because it was not legal. I be

lieve that it is my duty to make this

act clear, and I want it understood that I don't want to surrender to Carrana, because I am a revolutionist by conviction."

. . ... ; Vienna Folk Beg for Hours to Get Few Pounds of Coal " ; tiiiiiiriiii)i!iri,w &m '.

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A common sight at one of the Vienna coal stations.

While people in many parts of the United States are feeling the present coal shortage, we cannot begin to realize the coal conditions In many parts of Europe. According to recent reports from Vienna, each family there is allowed

only 14 pounds of coal a week. They must wait at one end of the coal station for hours to get this. Mothers and children beg officials to give them coal.

been displayed up and down the coast

today.

No general moderation was forecast for today, although in some sections of the west weather bureaus said that thermometers would rise by tomorrow.

The wide range of the cold weather

was Indicated , by reports of sub-zero

readings from these places

Lander, Wyo., 34 below; Harvey, Mont- 30: Helena and Miles City,

Mont., and Cheyenne, Wyo., 28: Dev

il's Lake. Minn.. 26; North Platte,

Neb., 22; Pueblo and Denver, Colo.,

20: Minneapolis, Minn., and Spokane,

Wash., 8; Omaha, Neb., Concordia, Kans., and Chicago, 3. In New York city, Lewis . Wilson, public service commissioner, said he would take steps to enforce the fuel caving order and It would be put into f ffect Immediately. New York's white ight district was ablaze with almost Its normal glow and the retail Btores and shops lights were not dimmed to a noticeable degree.

In Chicago, downtown streets were In eml-darkne&s, lighted only by the street lights and lights in stores and restaurants where business was not curtailed by fuel- restrictions. Patrons rode in street cars that were unheated despite a temperature that hovered ; about zero. Pittsburgh . felt its first lightless night due to the miners' strike, last Bight when all electric signs were cut Off. 4 ' . stranaaa Cltv's amusements todav

rfwere permitted to open for 4 hours a

by the , coal committee which had closed such places since Dec. 1. It was said the fuel situation there was slightly Improved. Still Getting Out Coal. ;

; while optimistic regarding settlement today of the strike by the Indianapolis conference there was no let up in efforts to have coal brought out by volunteer miners in states where ' that sybtem of. production-had been

resorted to. The swoop or low tem

perature found western Kansas, where many places have exhausted thier fuel supply several days ago, fortified by stocks of volunteer mined coal. Some

places in Montana and Wyoming are

similarly 2 provioea ior.

At the other mines the most Imnressive improvement was noted in

' the ' ununionized Kanawha fields of

. West Virginia, where it was reported

; SB mines were operated yesterday, a

gain of 10 in 24 hours. .'A'-''- :; 'tltonkey Gland" is Favorite

Drink With English Women

J (By Associated Press) LONDON, Dec 10. The new woman's cub In Grosvener place, the Forum, has an American bar with one of the best list of cocktails in the west end of London. t

"Gloom-raiser," "elephant's kick,'

'mnnkv's feland

The undersigned - Republicans of

California concerned for their party and their country, respectfully urge upon you and the other members of the Republican national committee the necessity for the Immediate ratification of the peace treaty and the duty which rests upon you as the present official representatives of our party to urge the Republican senators to recede from their refusal to pass the treaty without amendments or reservations of sqch character as substantially to alter its character and to require its re-submission to our allies and to Germany. "The defeat of the treaty and a sep

arate, peace with Germany will be a betrayal of our allies and a victory for Germany. It will mean a continuance of the present chaotic conditions in Europe with indescribable suffering there and certain reaction there. The

responsibility for this if the treaty

fails cannot be shifted or concealed.

It will rest upon the majority of the

Republican senators and through

them upon the treaty, and the issue,

which should not be a party one, will

be made so.

We are confident that the vast ma

jority of the Republicans in this state at least, are in favor of the treaty.

and that the position of the Republi

can senators will seriously , damage the

party."

Malcolm Dill Starts

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 10 For

the1 first time in the history of Har

vard College an election campaign has

been initiated by a candidate for class

office. M. H. Dill, a prominent Rich

mond boy, started hie campaign for senior class chorister this morning-

More interest is manifested in the senior election at Harvard than any that has been held at the local college for

some time, especially since the world war.

U.S. WAITS WORD

ON JENKINS CASE

(By Associate" iPress) WASHINGTON.Twc. 10. Additional Information regarding the transfer of the case of American Consu'ar Agent Jenkins from the Puebla stAe court to the federal supreme court was expected today by state department officials. A brief dispatch yesterday from

the American embassy at Mexico City

said simply that the transfer had been

made on motion of Jenkins counsel. Officials also were awaiting with growing Impatience the reply of President Carranza to the last Am "can note, in which the United State took the position that only the supreme court had Jurisdiction under the Mexican constitution over foreign consular representatives in Mexico. Meantime Jenkikns is at liberty on 1,000 pesos bond furnished by J. Sal

ter Hansen without the consular agent's knowledge and is now in Mexico City, conferring with American Charge George Summerlin regarding his case. He still is under charges of giving false evidence to the Puebla court In connection with his kidnap-

Siberia Not Ready for Democracy, Says Fanch (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 10 A democratic form of government is not practicable for Siberia at present, is the opinion of Harold Funch, special commissioner of the Swedish government, who left for home today on the steamship Stockholm, after a visit to Siberia. 1

i He was sent to Sieria to study

conditions among Swedish resi"nts

He w through the territory occupied byS Admiral Colchak's forces and

those of the allies.

Except for 'giving his opinion that the people must be ruled by some

other forme of government than ' a democracy, he would make no comment, saying that he would make a report to his government.

BOLSHEVIKI THROWN

BACK; LOSSES HEAVY

(By Associated Press)

REVAL. Esthonia. Dec. 10. The

GOAL STRIKE

iS ENDED BY

LIES' HEADS

General Committee of United

Mine Workers Decides to Call Off Great Walkout at Indianapolis, Late Today.

GO DACK TO WORK S00I1

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec 10 The strike of 400,000 bituminous coal miners of the country was settled here today when the general committee of the United Mine Workers of America agreed to accept the plan offered by President Wilson. ; The members voted to accept the proposal of President Wilson shortly before 3 o'clock this afternoon. At that time. It was said, no vote had been taken on the question of hold tag a convention of the union. The committee was still in session at that hour. The terms of the settlement as agreed to by the miners, provide for immediate return to work at 14 per cent Increase in wages over the wartime scale, against continuation of which the miners struck. Operations of the mines will be resumed, except as to wages, on the same basis which obtained prior to the strike. Immediately following return of the mtnOH tTtA rtWAffjlA.. will mkaIk,

Bolshevik! have begun a new of fens- commission of tbrr men, including

ive on the Narva front. After terrific one practical mine. nd one operator

rtillery fire, 10 assaults were deliver-

To Be New Trial for

Krueger? StUl Undecided

No new action developed In the Krueger trial Wednesday, as a result of the dismissal of the jury after disagreement Prosecutor Freeman would not say what action he Intended to to take, v Judge Fred Oause, of the Henry circuit court, who was on the bench during the trial, has returned to Newcastle.

New Paris Service lien

' Plan Post in Legion

NEW PARIS. O., Nov. 10. Plans are

being made for the formation of a

local post of the American Legion here. Full information coateerning the legion, and the organization of a post has been received by Douglas Lawder, and a meeting of all service men in the community will be called soon to complete the organization. Service men are asked to communicate with Lawder, and leave application for membership with him. Although no name for the local post has been determined, the name of "Clarence Teaford post". In honor of the only New Paris man to give his life in service seems to be generally favored.

mnnkiiv's fcland" and "pussyfoot" are

the names of some of the drinks, says the Globe, while "sliver fiz," "horse's neck", "widow's kiss," "rainbow," "clover club," also are available.

BRITISH MAY DISCARD ROBES. (By Associated Press)

LONDON, Dec. 10. Many labor mayors who will be at the heaVs of London boroughs regard the regalia of office as undemocratic and have expressed their Intention of discarding

them. R. M. Gentry, the Labor mayor-

elect of Fulham, says he will go to chapel without the robes and cocked

hat, but will wear the chain fo office. BIG HOTEL TO HEAT WITH

OIL INSTEAD OF COAL

(By Associated Press)

NEW YORK. Dec 10. Oil instead

of coal will be used by the hotel Astor

in its heating and lighting plant If the

city' department of buildings permits

the change, the hotel management an

nounced today. The transformation which could be made Immediately,

would save 30 tons of coal daily.

Germany Unable to Repair Engines, Material Lacking (By Associated Press) COBLENZ, Dec. 10. Ten thousand

locomotives are idle in the repair

shops of Germany, according to rail

road men" who conferred recently in Coblenz with Pierrepont B. Noyes, the American representative on the InterAllied Rhlneland High Commission. The meeting was called for the purpose of discussing the coal shortage In Germany and the part the railroads

are to play in distributing fuel this

winter.

The labor representative at the con

ference, contended that the German workmen are not holding back in efforts being made to meet the economic difficulties facing the country. The

chief trouble in repairing the locomotives, the railroad men asserted, was lack ' of proper raw matreial which Germany had been unable to secure since the armistice. The railroad men asserted that the men in the railroad shops realized the responsibilities placed upon them to repair locomotives and that there was no desire on the part of these workmen to slow up on this work. The average wage In the railri Sd shops is 16 marks a day. The nwlc at the present rate of exchange at the army headquarters in Coblenz is valued at a fraction less than 3Vi cents.

City Shakes in Grip of Winter; Still To Be Cold Tonight, Tomorrow Richmond shivered and shook Wednesday morning when the mercury hovered around the zero mark for the first time this season. The lowest mark was reached at 1 o'clock when the - government thermometer registered 4 above zero. Automobile owners experienced great trouble from frozen radiators

and carburetors, the cold snap coming sooner than was anticipated. A labor

er on the Main street bridge was reported to have suffered a frozen hand.

and many persons reported frosted ears, hands and noses. . The coldest weather before this per

iod was on December 4, when the temperature was 14 above. According to Weatherman Moore the center of this cold wave has pot passed and temperature probably will be zero or below Wednesday evening with moderating temperature Friday and Saturday.

SALESMAN DROPS

DEAD IfJ WESTCOTT

led upon the Esthonia positions. All

the attacks were repulsed, tne reports state, with heavy losses to the Bol-

Uhevik forces.

Although negotiations between the Esthonians and the Russian Soviet government looking to the making of peace, are in progress at Dorpat, no

armistice between the opposing iorces has been arranged.

A Dorpat dispatch, under Mondays

date announced that the Bolshevik!

authorities however had acceded to the demands of the Esthonians for the

discussion- of an armistice. Consid

eration 'of the military terms, it was stated, was to be gun Tuesday.

Joseph Millenjof f-bicago, a sales

man, for jthe HI tnher Schlemmer

company, a new4 wfc piano company, dropped dead in the lobby of the Westcott hotel Wednesday morning. Death was due to heart failure. ' Miller has been travelling for the same company and visiting the Starr Piano company here for the last 25 years. , The body was taken to a local morgue, awaiting word from relatives in Chicago. According to the hotel clerk, Miller had just come to the desk to settle his account when he dropped over, apparently dead. The coroner was called and declared that death was practically Instantaneous. .

or mine owner in active business.

which will consider further questions of wages and working conditions as well as profits of operators and proper prices for coal. To Readjust Wages. The duties of this commission will include readjustment of both wages and coal prices, if it decides advisable the readjustment to include differential and internal conditions within and between the districts. The commission report, under the agreement, will be made within 60

uays ii posBioie, ana win De accepted as the basis of a new wage agreement, the date of . its effectiveness and its duration also to be decided by the commission.As the committee, which consists of international and district officers, and members of the executive board and

Mjtdah for Heroic-WaddtaL,- tth imauiiaij mm

nuns was rue. wun veryrew excep

tions, nowever,

English Land Girls Het

British Aviator Flies to Australia; Wins $50,000 (By Associated Press) PORT DARWIN. Australia. Dec. 10. Captain Ross Smith, the Australian aviator, arrived here today from Eng land, thus winning a prize of 10,000 pounds sterling offered for the first aviator to make the voyage. Captain Ross Smith left the Hounslow aviation field near London at 9 o'clock, Nov. 12, on his flight to Aus

tralia. On Nov. 18 he reached Cairo,

and on the next day he continued his flight, reaching Delhi, Indlv on Nov. 23. From there he continued east until he reached Rangoon, turning southward at that city, making a number of stops along f k Malay peninsula and in the islands Oceanica. He stopped

at Bims, on Sunbawa island near Java

Monday night. Port Darwin is close to the northernmost tip of Australia,

being near the town of Palmerson.

CYCLE OF INFLUENZA IS 33 WEEKS, 8AY ENGLISH EXPERTS (By Associated Press)

LONDON. Dec. 10. Influenza mi

crobes have a regular program by

which they recur in cycles of 33 weeks accoridng to the medical research

committee., The next call is expected

in January and February, it is said.

STEEL STRIKERS PREPARE DATA.

(By Associated Press)

PITTSBURG. Pa- Dec. 10. Clerks

in the headquarters of the national

steel-' strike committee were busy to

day preparing data on the status of the strike. It will be placed before

the committee Which is to meet In

Dutch Have Difficulties

With Undesirable Aliens

(By Associated Press)

HARDER WIJK. Holland, Dec. 10. Hundreds of men and women of all

nationalities, considered urJ-sirable, but accorded refuge aSd hospitality by The Netherlands, are still confined behind barbed-wire fences in the-Kg war internment camp here. They still are

sources of trouble to the Dutch government. Many of them are war refugees, escaped from Germany, or Beleium: and

to their number, since the war, have 1 Baron Beavebrook, owner of the Daily

Deen added several scores of Russiaps I "Press, was Miss urury or Halirax,

or Bolshevik tendencies, whom , .he government has confined here for safekeeping. The Russians have been particularly troublesome, but the me? is taken by one of the Dutch military officers ia charge of the camp to control thr actions are reported in the Dutch pre?s to have been so severe that rV -cettly a number of Dutch soldiers are said to have mutinied rather than obey the orders.

, (By A" Mated . Press) TJCKFIELD, England, Dec. 10 Peggy Fisher, a young land-girl, who recently saved the life of a young farmer who was being gored by an infuriated ?11. now is the wife of the man she rescued." Peggy attacked the bull and kicked It with such force on the head that it cleared off in time for the young man to escape. For this deed, she received the Land Distinguished Service bar. Other land-girls, as the English girl farmers are called, have shown their pluck in many ways and 6 more distinguished service bars have recently been awarded. Miss Chapman of Essex stopped a runaway horse which had bolted with a load of hay. Miss F. E: Henlay swam a river and roped a stranded cow on a mudbank in midstream and brought it to the bank. Miss A. Bohills and Miss M. Harrison

extricated 16 head of cattle - which were buried under the roof of a shed which had collapsed under the weight of a heavy snow.

LADY BEAVERBROOK DECLINES TO FOLLOW LADY ASTOR (By Associated Press) LONDON, Dec. 10. Lady Beaver-

brook, who before her marriage to

GERMAN SHIPPERS INDEMNIFIED

FOR SURRENDERED VESSELS (By Associated Press) BERSJN, Dec. 10 Indemnification

for surrendered 6hips amounting to

1.600.000.000 marks has been received

from the German government by the German shipping association,- accord

ing to the New Berlin Gazette. Shippers are said to have already paid out the most of this sum, partially in connection with undertakings in no wise concerned with shipping, and now are alleged to be demanding between 10.000.000,000 and 11.000,000,000 marks more, besides additional funds for building vessels. ' BUT ALASKA'S WARM SEATTLE. Wash., Dec. 10. Thermometers in Ketchikan, Alaska, registered 22 degrees above zero today, the coldest day of this season, according to a dispatch receiver here. Alaska regrets, said the message, the cold being endured by the people In north

western states, "who have not such a

sunny clime."

CUDAHY, ONCE KIDNAPPED, ' ' NOW ABDUCTED BY CUPID (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Dec. 10. Edward A. Cudahy, Jr., who was kidnapped from his home in Omaha 19 years ago by Pat Crowe, and ransomed for $25,000 is engaged to be married, K was announced h) re today. Cudahy now .a

vice president of the Cudahy Packing Company, of which his father is president. He served in the world war as a captain of coast . artillery. His

fiancee Is Miss Margaret Carry, daugh

ter of Edward F. Carry, who was one

of the principal aides to E. N. Hurley of the ; United States ' shipping board

during the war.

FERdInaND TO FACE COURT, SAYS PREMIER (By Associated Press) GENEVA, Dec. 10. Determination to bring former king Ferdinand of Bulgaria to trial, was expressed by M. StambuUwsky, the Bulgarian premier, In passing through here on his way to Sofia, from the Paris peace conference. - - - '

N. S.. has declined the invitation of

the Unionist committee for Ashton-

Under-Lyne to become a candidate for a seat in the House of Commons.

Weather Forecast

UNFILLED ORDERS GROW. (By Associated Press) . NEW' YORK. Dec. 10. Unfilled Orders of the United States steel corporation on November 30 were 7,128.330 tons, according to the corporations monthly,' statement, issued today.. This is an Increase of 645,662 tons compared with the orders on October 31. - -i

For IndiaC i, by the United States Weather Bureau Fair and continued cold tonight. Thursday fair and not so cold. Today's Temperature

Noon 12

Yesterday Maximum 38 Minimum 9 For Wayne County, by W. E. Moore. Fair tonight and Thursday. Below zero tonight. Moderate temperatures the lastf the week. General Conditions The severe cold wave overspread the United States east of the Rockies except on the Atlantic coast, where It is still warm. Two storms, one over the east and another over the gulf, caused general rains and snows from Canada south

ward. The first zero weather was recorded in tchnond . last night and since the cenier of the cold wave has not passed, it will remain cold tonight

with temperatures at zero and below.

The area of low, barometric pressure is moving' eastward from the north

I Pacific coast, which is expected to

cause moderating temperatures Friday; or Saturday. It is snowing in Portland, Ore, which is very unusual for this time of year. The coldest place yesterday - was at JMllings, " Mont, where it was 36 below zero,, and 34 below at Landers. Wyo. Snow covered the ground Monday evening In varying parts from the lake region westward to the Rockies and plateau region as far south as Kansas and the north portions of Arizona and New Mexico. The line is 'pushed eastward and is over the esjstern states. Its -depth ranges from to 14 inches, the latter reported at Des Moines. Ia. . ,S 1 , -

all agreed that

President Wilson's proposal would be

accepted some time today;r One high official in the miners' organization who asked that his name be withheld, said most of the argumentyesterday was on the request of Illinois miners that the Cleveland convention be reconvened to act on the proposal of President Wilson. Another rumor stated that the members of the general committee from Illinois, in caucus late last night, agreed to accept the proposal today. j Comment was heard on all sides of the valiant fight being wages by Acting President John L. Lewis, and Secretary-treasurer William Green, of the miners, on behalf of the proposal, to which they agreed in conference with Attorney-General Palmer in Washing

ton, last Saturday. Victory is Foreshadowed. Acting President John L. Lewis and Secretary Treasurer William Green, who approved the proposal when It was submitted to them In Washington last Saturday night by Attorney General Palmer, made a strong fight for ending the strike on the basis suggested by the president, and their supporters voted down a proposition, it was said, to take the. plan from consideration of the general committee and refer it to the locals of the organization for a vote. This action was believed to, reflect the strength of the advocates of settlement and to fore

shadow final victory for them.

At yesterday s meeting, it Is under

stood the committee members were divided into two or more factions, one of which strongly favored adoption of the new proposal and another of which opposed any settlement other than that embodied In the miner's early demands. A third division, it was said.

took the position that as a general con

vention of the miners had formulated

the demands and ordered the strike In the event the operators refused to grant them, a general session would be required to call off the strike. Meantime Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, who came to Indianapolis Monday to direct attorneys for the government in their handling of court proceedings against the miners. Is waiting for final decision ' of the miners. It was stated last night that Mr. Palmer would remain in the city until the miners' meeting was adjourned. Before the session of the miners' general committee began yesterday morning, hearing of charges of criminal contempt against the entire personnel of the committee was postponed . yntil next Tuesday morning at the request of C. B. Ames, of Washington, assistant to the attorney-general. On

motion of United States District Attorney L. Ert Slack empanneling of a federal, grand jury o Investigate the charges against both - operators and miners of violation of the Lever fuel control act and anti-trust laws, was postponed until Wednesday. Dec. 17. ; Judge Anderson made no comment on the-contempt cases or Investigation which has been ordered. He was explicit in Instructing the defendants in the contempt cases and the grand jurors already summoned,- to report promptly at the time set tor reopening the proceedings. Attorneys for the government would not discuss reports that proceedings may t dismissed it the miners return to work.

Washington next Saturday. - . 1. W : - '

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