Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 142, 15 June 1922 — Page 1

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FRAZIER BUSY AS f.TCUf.lBER STAYS AT JOB ii -,,ni.- -

Bonus Bill Daddy

TRY TO BRING MINORITY GOAL MEN INTO LINE Coal Operators and Dealers Complying with Administration Plan to Keep Prices Down Meet Hoover.

Opera Star Back

EUROPE'S HOPE IS CENTERED IN HAGUE PARLEY Open International Conference Dedicated to Task of Making Practical Arrangements of Russian Action.

LIQUOR SALES .ON -OX SHIPS . Rep. Bankhead Presents Amendment to Merchant Marine Bill to Cut Off Aid to Ships Carrying Booze. laskerTHll FIRM

BULLETIN WASHINGTON, June 15. Definite step through legislation to stop the sale of liquor on American ships were started today through the presentation by Representative Bankhead, Democrat, of Alabama, of an amendment to the merchants marine bill which would cut off the government aid provided in the measure for any ships carrying Intoxicating liquors or beverages.

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Judge Florence E.

Second Bonus Bill is Drifting

Into Situation Where it Can Do North Dakota Senator Little Good.

TARIFF MEASURE HELPS

Br MiHK SI7t,L,IVA?f WASHINGTON, June 15 Things are breaking badly for Senator McCumber, of North Dakota. The primary which determines his fate occurs one week from next Tuesday. McCumber has relied upon the same

method of campaigning as Senator

Allen, the first New, of Indiana. He has stayed here

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NEEDS SUPPORT OF ALL

WASHINGTON, June 16. With Chairman Lasker adhering to his stand that the sale of liquor on shipping board vessels at sea will continue until he "has been convinced of

Its illegality" any action in the matter apparently was left today to prohibition leaders in congress. While the correspondence exchanged on the subject between Mr. Lasker find Adolphus Busch. III. vice-Dresi-

dent of the Anheuser Busch brewery j company, St. Louis continued to provoke discussion among the dry members it was reported that their first move to stop the sale of liquor on American vessels would be an attempt to secure an amendment to the subsidy bill before the merchant marine committee. It was rumored that this probably would be made today although its defeat there was generally predicted. Up In Ship Bill. That the issue would have to be met when the subsidy bill is taken up in the house, however, was said by friends of the measure to seem certain, unless it is considered under a rule barring from consideration all amendments except those offered by the reporting committee. Representative ' Upshaw, Democrat, Georgia, has publicly announced that he will offer an amendment providing that no part of the federal subsidy fund shall be used by steamship lines on whose ships liquor is sold. After a conference with Attorney General Daugherty late yestfday in which the matter of liquor sales at sea was said to have been discussed,

only incidentally. Chairman Lasker

said he would not ask the department of Justice for a new opinion on the question being entirely satisfied with that rendered by General Counsel Schlesinger of the shipping board, upon which he informed Mr. 'Busch in their correspondence the board had taken its stand in the matter.

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partisan candidate for judge of the duties as

supreme court of Ohio. ' If elected she will be the first woman to win such distinction. Judge Allen said that the administration of the courts of the country is a disgrace to the nation and that the main fault is public indifference.

K0K0M0 PRESIDENT

OF STONE COMPANY EXPLAINS CHARGES

KOKOMO, Ind.. June 15. Leonard

Hodgin, president of the Kokomo Stone company, replying to the charge

of field examiners of the state board of accounts that the company had been

paid $18,747.84 excess for stone furnished for Grant county road improvement, explained it by saying it had been the practice in years past to load cars heavily and bill them to the

traction company light. This practice, he said, had been stopped about a year ago.

"The bill filed with the Grant county commissioners show that the tonnage actually delivered to Grant county while the bills filed with the I. R. and L company show only the tonnage on which we were charged," he said. The stone company officers are also officials of the traction company, it is said.

MODERNISTS TRYING TO KEEP CONTROL OF BAPTIST CONVENTION

ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 15. The An-

liauser Busch Brewing company is wil

ling to produce witnesses to support charges made in the letters of August

A. Busch and his son, Adolphus Busch

III. to President Harding, and which

were turned over to Chairman A. D,

Lasker, of the shipping board, that the ITnited States shipping board Is violating the prohibition law and the Volstead act, in the event of a congressional inquiry, it was made known here today through representatives of ihe firm. The local company has made numerous requests for a congressional investigation into violations of the prohibition act, O. A. Remmers, general counsel," said, and is prepared to produce witnesses to support their charges. Adolphus Busch III today was waiting to receive the letter of Chairman Lasker of the shipping board, in answer to his first letter which accompanied that of his father, written aboard the steamship George Washington, and later sent to the president. Mr. Busch last night gave to the Associated Press his answer to Mr. Lasker's letter, taking it for granted that Lasker's letter had been printed correctly in newspapers here. Whether

or not Mr. Las ker will reply to the

second letter of Adolphus Busch III

early today, was unknown here. A

reply, however, representatives of the , firm here announced, was anticipated, although no controversy is being sought with Mr. Lasker. Mailed to Papers The original letter of August A. Busch, with that of Adolphus Busch III, was printed in circular form and mailed to various newspapers throughout the country last week. On the first page a cartoon of Uncle Sam with a club in hand, held In front of him and labelled "prohibition enyircement," was shown. In the other, behind him. Uncle Sam held a bottle to which was attached a tag with the label "shipping board hootch for sale. The cartoon was titled "Versatility." The first and second pages of the folder carried the letter of August A.

Busch, written aboard the Georgo

Washington, in which he said the United States was incomparably the "biggest bootlegger in the world." and the letter of his son, Adolphus Busch III. who declared a it violation of the prohibition laws and Volstead act for shipping board officials to sell liquor while flying the United States flag. Other pages of the folder display an editorial of the Chicago Tribune, which was mentioned in the letters of Busch and Lasker, and the facsimile of the United States steamship George Washington in which a number of German wines and beers are listed, "with American moonshine whiskey," at 30 cents a pony. Letters from the Munson steamship

company answering queries that their

South American passenger steamers

carry the American flag and serve liquors, together with a letter from Prohibition Commissioner Haynes to

Oliver T. Remmers, counsel for An

heuser-Busch, occupy two other pages of the folder. The back page is taken bd with the open letter to congress

renewing the request of the brewing company for an Investigation of the

i violations of the prohibition law.

(By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, June" 15. Mar

shaling of forces by the fundamentalists faction of the Northern Baptists, in session here, to gain control of the fifteenth annual convention was seen today by the modernists, who are rallying their forces to keep control of the convention within their ranks.

The fundamentalists at a meeting

organized a "steering" committee which will have charge of all the res

olutions, nominations and other busi

ness presented to the convention by

their faction. Modernists, at a meeting, also organized a committee to handle work presented by their delegates. The modernists' committee is composed of Dr. C. Wolfgand of New York, Dr. C. W. Petty of Pittsburg, Pa.; Dr. C. N. Arbuckle of Newton, Mass,; Layman William McKercher of Sioux City, la., and Charles W. Gilkey of Chicago. The fundamentalists declined to make public the names of their committee.

The first fundamentalist victories

came yesterday when the nominations of convention committeemen were or

dered printed and laid open to discussion on the floor of the convention, when Dr. J. C. Massee of Brooklyn,

N. Y., succeeded in having his resolu

tion passed by the convention. The

day for the election of officers also

was changed on the motion of Dr,

Massee. It was orginally planned to

hold the election of officers on Mon

day but this was changed to Friday or Saturday by the vote of the fundamentalists. According to Dr. Wolfgand the modernists would not oppose a statement concerning the history of the Baptist church, while the fundamentalists believe that the convention should go on record as favoring a creed or statement of faith for all Baptists.

BEGIN DIGGING FOR BURIED TREASURE

PENETANGUISHENE, Ont., June 15. The treasure seeking dredere Baltic started off today to begin digging away the silt on the bottom of the Wye river to what is believed to be

the resting place for SO0 years of an

iron chest holding golden altar vessels and documents telling of the early struggles of Jesuit missionaries among the Indians in what was then New France. Tradition says that, alarmed by the gathering of the Huron warriors thought to be preparing to slaughter them, the little band of soldiers and blackfrocked missionaries packed into chests their valuables including gold

altar vessels given by the court of France to the Mission at Fort Sainte Marie the First, placed them in canoes and fled down the Wye. Early historical documents of the Society of Jesus described the overturning of a canoe and the sinking of the chest it bore, lost in the spot now being searched by diver Captain Carson. The treasure seekers think only of the gold. Church historians, however, eagerly await the appearance of the chest because they hope to find manuscripts which will give more light on the brave deeds of the early Christians.

chairman , of the finance

committee, while his opponent is busy

on the ground. One of the things which McCumber undoubtedly must have believed would help him is his soldiers' bonus bill. It was McCumber who first introduced that proposal a little over a year ago and who pressed it to such a point that the other Republican leaders who were opposed to It became a little - panicky.. In order to

head off this old McCumber soldier! bonus bill at that time, the other leaders appealed to Secretary Mellon and got from him a letter In which he said that the treasury was not in a po

sition to pay the money. This letter, however, proved insufficient, and within a few days the senate leaders were obliged to ask President Harding to come to the senate in person. He did so, and delivered a public address, in which he said that the state of the treasury would not permit of a soldiers' bonus bill at that time. It iwas this action that killed McCumber's first bonus bill 11

months ago. That it was deeply dis

appointing to McCumber was apparent at the time. Hsrd Fight Ahead

Now, within two weeks of his pri

mary election, McCumber's second bonus bill is drifting into a situation where it must be equally disappointing to him and cannot do him much good in the primary. It has been made known that President Harding does not wish the bonus bill to be considered ahead of the tariff bill. That means, of course, that it cannot be passed in time to aid McCumber in the North Dakota primary. Even if President Harding had not taken this position the bonus bill could not possibly be passed during

the next 10 days. The number of

senators who are opposed to it has increased constantly.

Most of the senators who are op

posed to the bill want to debate it

thoroughly. The aggregate of the time they will take would alone be enough to make it safe to predict not only that the soldiers' bonus bill will not pass before the North Dakota primaries are held, but also that it is

not likely to pass during the present session of Congress. But the worst blow to McCumber's bonus bill, as an aid to his renomination in North Dakota, comes from his own colleague in the senate. Senator Ladd has cried down the McCumber bonus bill In derogatory terms and has proposed an alternative measure of an altogether different nature. It may reasonably be assumed that in Ladd's almost contemptuous .decrying of the bonus bill fathered by his colleague from his own state, there is a certain amount of local North Dakota politics. Straight Fight McCumber's fight in North Dakota is a clear one, in which he, as a conservative Republican, is opposed by a representative of the Non-Partisan league. This opponent is ex-Governor Lynn Frazier. Frazier was once made

governor of the state by the same

forces that are now backing him for the senate. It is a straight fight beween a conservative Republican and

a radical one. The success of Frazier against McCumber in North Dakota would be more damaging to the conservative wings of the Republican party than was the triumph of Brookhart in Iowa. Frazier, in a political sense, is much the same kind of man as Brookhart, only more so. Frazier represents the thorough-going radical though, which believes in extreme forms of state control and state ownership of industry, even including mills and elevators. One aspect of Senator McCumber's recent activity in the senate will probably help him. The tariff bill, which he fathers, and which at the moment is very much to the front in public interest, is satisfactory to tbe farming committees of North Dakota. However much the McCumber tariff

bill may be disliked by the consum

ing communities of the eastern cities,

it was framed to meet the favor of just such a farming state as North Dakota. Also, the mere fact that McCumber has so Important a position as chair

man of the finance committee will

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 15. Coal operators and dealers complying with the

senator J. MccumDer. I . . . K . I price restraint during the present

WASHINGTON, June 15. The sol- strike were here today to confer with

dier bonus bill of Senator P. J. Mc- secretary Hoover on steps for bnng-

Cumber is due to pass the senate byjing into line the minority in the proan overwhelmin majority, according '.ducing and distributing branches of the

to a poll recently completed. industry who have failed to co-operate

The maximum number of votes the I'm the plan

ODDOsition will be able to muster is Because of the non-compliance of the

24, according to this canvass, and it. dealers and operators in some districts,

wr. Hoover said, in explaining the ne-

is believed that this number will drop

i below 20.

Only 18 senators are unalterably opposed to the bonus measure. They are Borah, Edge, Keyes, McLean, Moses, Nelson, Pepper, Sterling, Warren and Wadsworth, Republicans, and Glass, King, Myers, Shields, Swanson, Underwood and Williams, Democrats. Opponents of bonus legislation have abandoned any hope of defeating the measure on the floor of the senate, but they still hope to be able to kill

It if the president vetoes the bill and its supporters try to pass it over the veto. The opposition must be able to muster 36 votes to do this and it is believed impossible. No definite day has been set for calling up the bill in the senate, but it is believed that it will be acted upon within the next two weeks.

PEKING WAITS WORD FROM FIGHTING AREA IN NORTH AND SOUTH

(By Associated Press)

PEKING, June 15. Peking today."

awaited word from the fighting areas In both north and south to see what new turn would be taken by difficult circumstances surrounding the new administration of Li Yuan-Hung. In the north Chang Tao-Lin, whose

aspirations for an independent Man- j churia, with himself as its lord have ;

caused him to resume armed attacks on the central China forces under General Wu Pei-Fu. is reported defeated again. But Chang himself has shown such wiles and his troops have shown so great a readiness to return to battle after smashing defeats, that very substantial evidence will be recuired to induce belief that he is def:nitely and finally disposed of. Chang last was reported hard pressed by Wu's forces near Shanhaikwan. What is developing in the south, where at last reports the forces of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. head of the Canton government were driving northward at

a great rate, is obscure. Wealthy Chinese were said to be fleeing from Nanchang, capital of Kiangsi province, in fear of a successful thrust by Dr. Sun's troops against the town.

cessity for the conference the average

spot prices for bituminous coal after declining from $3.67 to $3.08 a ton when the voluntary plan was put out,

had increased again on June 12 to

$3.44.

This was due to the fact, he said,

that these operators and dealers, en

couraged by the "criticism of the plan

to believe it may be broken down, and

that the alternative of legislation will

give them great delays, are making all

they can in the meantime.' Price Goes Up

In some- districts which have refused to accept the voluntary program, the secretary said the price has risen as

much as $5 a ton.

The conference also, Mr. Hoover said, will consider the use by some operators of the maximum prices established under the administrator's

plan where this is not warranted by

cost of the production. In addition

it win advise wun tne secretary in

regard to advancing prices of anthra

cite coal in some localities

SPRINGFIELD, 111., June 15 The state of the coal supplies above ground "demand a conference of min

ers and operators in the very near fu-!

ture," John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, said here today. "The nation faces a coal shortage of unparalleled intensity," Mr. Lewis declared, adding that "only the sultryness of summer weather was keeping the public from realizing the peril of the situation."

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j Mme. Alma Gluck Alma Gluck, noted songbird, re

cently arrived on the Aquitania all

ready for the fall musical season after her vacation abroad. The star had two good reasons for coming back, her two children. Her husband, Efram Zimbalist, is expected back soon from a Chinese tour.

BREAK IN MINE WAGE NEGOTIATIONS SEEMS IRREPARABLE TODAY

ASKS SPEEDY ACTION ON MUSCLE SHOALS

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 15. An appeal to Republican leaders to bring in a special ruling by which speedy action made be had on the proposals of Henry Ford to develop the Muscles shoals project in Alabama was made oday in a brief speech by Representative Aloman, Democrat, Alabama. He declared the issue was clear "with the great masses of people appealing to congress for acceptance of the offer, on one side, and the fertilizer trust p.nd directive insiduous lobbyists and

other selfish interests on the other."

RAIL UNION HEADS NOT TO INTERFERE IF WALKOUT VOTED

(By Associated Press) CINCINNATI, June 15. Officers of the rail union will not interfere with a strike of the 1,225,000 shop craft and maintenance of way workers, B. M. Jewel declared today in addressing the convention of the American Federation of Labor. Mr. Jewel is president of the railway employes division of the federation.

(By Associated Press)

NEW YORK. June 15. The break

in the wage scale negotiations between

the United Mine Workers and the an

thracite operators appeared irreparable today as the union members pre

pared to leave for their homes. That

the suspension of the hearings means a strike was the opinion of both sides

of the controversy

"There is no prospect of another meeting between our people and the operators," Baid Thoma3 Kennedy,

president of District No. 7 of the United Mine Workers at Hazleton, Pa. "I am leaving for home today and the other union men here will be gone by tonight."

Mr. Kennedy said the next move was up to the coal operators but that he did not expect any more proposals from that end. ' "We will await the outcome of the strike vote which" win be completed the 22nd of this month," Mr. Kennedy added, "and report on the vote on the Wilkesbarre on the 26th." Between 150,000 and 175,000 miners are out now. The strike of maintenance men, 5,000 of whom are on duty protecting the mining properties, would place millions of dollars worth of coal properties in jeopardy through water seepage and other dangers. The union delegates at the meeting yesterday refused to entertain a proposal from the operators that the entire wage controversy be submitted to arbitration of a committee appointed by President Harding. The conference then adjourned without

future date wnen tne operators re-

Prnsnprts wprs thf crinvpntion would

be called on to settle wether a spe- fused to negotiate further except upon

cial policy committee vested with au-the arbitration basis.

thority to frame a program designed

Weather Forecast

FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY By W. E. Moore

Unsettled and continued warm to

night and Friday. Conditions are favorable for local

thundershowers. Barometric pressures being low over the plain states indicates partly cloudy and unsettled weather for the next 36 hours. High temperatures will prevail. Temperatures Yesterday. Maximum ...83 Minimum 57 Today. Noon !..85 Weather Conditions The warm wave covers all the states east of the Rocky mountains. The hottest portion of the United States is over Kansas and Nebraska, ranging from 97 to 104 degrees in the shade. It is considerably cooler in the far west where temperatures range from 42 to 68 and

to overcome court decisions averse to labor should center attention only on formulating a plan for obtaining enactment of a valid child labor law.

James Duncan, of Quincy, Mass.,

chairman of the resolutions commit

tee was ready to ask that the special committee's authority be limited for he contended that its work would conflict with standing committees already engaged in considering questions linked with the convention's manifest intent favoring a constitutional amendment for a congressional veto of supreme court decisions. Pending settlement of the question. President Samuel Gompers withheld appointment of the special committee. For practical purposes, the only result of a change would be to shift the committte originating the plan for

combatting court rulings, regarded by organized labor as infringing on its rights. Delegates today continued discussion of the constitutional amendment, which was brought before the convention yesterday by Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, and met with a storm of applause. The proposal, delegates said, repeated a plank of the federation's reconstruction pro

gram that was approved by the convention two years ago. In addition, the former declaration by the Federation called for similar amendment of state constitutions. After completing their work at the forenoon session the delegates planned to attend a barbecue, staged on an island in the Miami river, twenty miles from this city.

CINCINNATI, O.. June 15. Asserting the Illinois coal operators had not

been treated fairly in negotiations

looking to setlement of the coal strike.

Frank Farrington, president of the

United Mine Workers of Illinois, In a

statement last night expressed the belief that mine owners of his state "would go along with any reasonable

plan for settlement of the strike." His

statement followed receipt of a report from Chicago stating that the Illinois operators had refused to enter into conference with operators of other

states.

HARMONY IS SOUGHT

(By Associated Press) THE HAGUE. June 15. All Europe centered its hope today In the opening of the international conference which is dedicated to the task of making practical arrangements for the reentry of Russia Into the concert of nations. The at least temporary failure of the efforts at Paris to organize an international loan for the restoration of Germany has undoubtedly served to

augment the pessimism obtaining in many countries concerning the pros

pects of making definite agreements with communistic Russia on such matters as credits, the treatment to be accorded to property held by foreigners, and the payment of the Russian debts.

Nevertheless determination was evident among the delegates gathered here for the preliminary meetings to make every conceivable effort to reach the results which the Genoa conference did not succeed in achieving. The representatives of the principal countries, excepting Russia, were scheduled to assemble in the peace palace at 2:20 o'clock this afternoon and their begin their labors of study ing the program which would be presented to the Russian delegation at the joint meetings, to open June 26. To Welcome Delegates Although Holland disclaims any intention or desire of directing the conference, Foreign Minister VanKarnebeek will deliver the opening address a3 temporary president, welcoming the delegates to The Netherlands and voicing Holland's sincere wishes for the success of the conference. ' Chief interest centers in the harmonization of the attitudes of England,

France and Italy on how to approach the soviet delegation officially, for France Bhows a disposition to adhere tenaciously to her Genoa demand for suitable guarantees from the Bolshevikl before undertaking to renew official regulations with Russia. France objects to the soviet memorandum, submitted to the Genoa confer

ence on May 11, which attacked the capitalist system of the countries and charged these nations with doing many things confiscating property, for ex

ample equally drastic with the Bolshevik measures to which they object

ed. The French would like to see this memorandum withdrawn by the sovists before official pour parlers with the

Russian delegates again are Inaugurated.

Conciliatory Policy Great Britain and Italy apparently

are ready to pursue a more conciliatory policy. The preliminary meetings

beginning today, therefore, promise to be most important, As the delegates enter the peace palace one of the first objects to greet them is a simple marble bust of Andrew Carnegie in a niche at the head of the grand staircase and in the balcony is a striking bronze statue of Christ, an emblem of peace and good will among men. This impressive figure is a duplicate of the famous Christ of the Andes and was presented by Argentine. When the Bolsheviki arrive they will find near the main portal a reminder of the regime they overthrew in the form of a great marble vase which was presented to the peace palace by , the later Czar Nicholas. M. Van Karnebeek called the conference together in the hall used by the international court of justice, which the court graciously turned over to the use of the conference. ,

HARRISBURG, June 15. Coal mln

ers and operators of Pennsylvania are

estimated to have lost $145,080,232 by the present coal strike in figures

today by Dr. C. B. Connelly, stata com

PArJS, June 15. The Belgian foreign minister, M. Jasper, had a long interview with Premier Poincare last night which resulted according to the

Echo de Paris in a complete agree-

missioner of labor and industry after "Ta as l" .lne slfn" IO e TaKen ,r

ence.

Flagstaff, Ariz., reports a minimum

4 1 l. i . v 1 1 iii' iiiiuin u v villi ill ii i rr mil i . - r i T . , bring him the favor of a good deal of &eL ? It "lffi

pride

Walter F. Ward Indicted For Slaying of Peters

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., June 15.

Walter F. Ward, millionaire baker's

a study of reports to the department's

mediation bureau. The figures date from, April 1, and are from original sources. They are based on an average daily wage of $5 for each miner and an average cost of maintaining the mines while idle to the operators of $910,000 a day counting 57 working days during April, May and June.

Three Railroad Unions Prepare Strike Vote; Three Now Voting (Bv Associated Tress) CHICAGO, June 15. While three sets of strike ballots ' rolled into Chi

cago headquarters of the six railway shop crafts unions, three other rail

way labor organizations were preparing today to call' for atrike vote fol

lowing an anticipated wage reduction ! i :t j ii i a

son, today was indicted by the West expected from the railroad labor board

local Ftate pride. It is a most unusual thing and a sign of the trend of American politics that this most im

portant position in the senate should be held by a man from west of the

Mississippi river. (Copyright, 1922 by The New York Evening Post, Inc.)

Japanese Premier Pledges To Work For Arms Cut (By Associated Press) TOKIO, June 15. Admirable Comosabura Kato, Japan's new premier, today pledged Japan to co-operate with

the world powers for a further reduction of armament and the maintenance of peace furthered by the Washington conference.

ed in the west and also over the middle Mississippi valley states and more

general rains over the Atlantic coast and over Tennessee, Knoxville reporting 1.40 inches in 24 hours. The drought is very severe in Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri.

For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight and Friday continued warm.

Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11,643 ,

Chester grand jury on a charge of killing Clarence Peters, a sailor, last May.

Committee to Complete Fourth of July Plans The general committee of the Fourth of July celebration will meet Friday noon-in the Y. M. C. A. to complete plans for the celebration. Every member is urged to be present. "Rube" Dalroy visited several of the neighboring towns Wednesday and told theinhahitants of the big Fourth of Julv celebration which will be held i liichmond.

CITY MANAGEMENT PLAN -IS DEFEATED AT PERU PERU, Ind., June 15. The city-man

agement form of government was de

feated at an election held here yester

day. The vote, as announced today,

was 2,413 to 371.

tomorroV.

The new decision which is expected

to lop from $30,000,000 to $40,000,000

from the pay of 325.000 clerks, signalmen and stationary firemen and oilers, will compete a series 'of three wage reduction orders, all effective June 1. Pay cuts reaching $110,000,000 already have been ordered for 400,000 shopmen and , 500,000 maintenance of way laborers. Ballots for the shop men and track laborers are being marked all over the country and by next week three other groups will have joined in the ballotmarking, if the plans of union executives are carried out.

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CUT DISCOUNT RATE (By Associatd Pess) LONDON, June 15. The Bank

England today lowered its discount rate to three and one-half per cent, a reduction of one-half per cent from the figure established on May 13 last.

Belgium, it was added, will maintain

the attitude she adopted at the Geno.i conference regarding the return of

private property in Russia,' taken un-

tler the Soviet government's nationali

zation program. It is stated in some quarters that, should France decide that her delegates shall not meet the Russians when the joint conference begins at the Hague, June 26, Belgium will follow suit. . . - MOSCOW, June 14. On the eve of the Hague conference, officials of the Russian Soviet government inform the Associated Press that the Russian attitude at the new meeting, will be the same as that adopted at the Genoa conference. The only concessions to foreign capital possible, it is added, will bo on the basis of the recently enacted laws governing private property. Karl Radek, soviet chief of publicity declared: "The Hague conference

of experts will be rather a hindrance than a help because it will not be a mutual cvscussion of problems but merely create a new united front of capital. "If we are not to consider the declarations of Hoover and Hughes and the memorandum of Poincare as empty threats, then what they ask before the pour parlers with Russia, is Russia's withdrawal of the memoran

dum of the eleventh of May in which

the principal position of Russia wa3 expressed. Demands Esteem. "The Russian government is not in such a low position as to allow itself to be treated with contempt, either by France or even America, without whose economic co-operation the economics of the Russian state can not be re-established. Ey her famine re (Continued on Page Fourteen)