Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 164, 12 July 1922 — Page 1

AIXABIUM VOL. XCIL, No. 164 AiD SIX-TELEGRAM Vnt!Jtum. Est. 1851. Consolidated With Sun-Telegrram. 107. RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1922. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS

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COAL STRIKE PROPOSAL TO BE ACCEPTED Arbitration Plan Likely to Go

Merchant Prince Celebrates ; 84th Birthday

SEE WE TO TEST PUBLIC STRIKE STAfID High Government Officials Declare Mine Union Officials, Soft Coal Operators Seeking to Learn Attitude.

John D. Celebrates Birthday and Does Mission Work

DISAPPOINTED BY ATTITUDE OF RAIL HEADS Chairman Hooper, of Railroad Labor Board, Draws Up

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I By MRK SULIJVAW WASHINGTON. D. C, July 12 The 'better guesa is that President Harding proposal ' for arbitration of the coal strike -will be accepted, although one might not think so, it he were moving about in contact with the various parties to the controversy. All these parties are too close to the controversy to see the President's proposal for what it is namely, simple provision for an impartial tribunal to consider differences of two parties who are unable to agree upon their own initiative. All the parties to the controversy insist upon spending their time with their eyes glued to the telescope, looking for distant future possiiblities of the working out of the plan. And each of them finds possibilities which from the point of view of their distant future policies, are a menace. But the thing which all parties will be compelled to realize is that President Harding's proposal is in line with civilization in that it provides an unbiased tribunal for the consideration thTu;nTf force on both Fides. Before the final moment comes. every party to the controversy will I r . , v lls "uuu wueiuer , jr. wjinug io ucar uib oaium or naving . to su uinu ms cause 10 an impaniai tribunal What Do If Failure If there should be failure of the attempt at arbitration, the question arises, 'what next?" That is ,a difficult question, because the answer depends to some extent on which party Is responsible for the failure to arbitrate. Whichever party is resDonsible 'or failure, the other party will be like-! ly to line up with the government and ' with the public to help beat the resalcltrant one. Contrary to widespread predictions It is the judgment of your correspondent that the commandeering of the mines by the government Is not amons the probable immediate outcome of the present situation. .This particular remedy necessarily would be so re- ,-... . . '

u5Uttui iu mo mine owners mai iney todian when the sale was consumwpuld yield almost anything before let- mated, and now president of the purting things come to the point of gov- chasine comoanv. was declared au-

ernment seizure, with its inherent menace oi leaamg on to soraetning approaching permanent nationaliza tion of the mines. Moreover, from the point of view or the government, this remedy would be so drastic, so distinct a departure from the constitution and so full of difficulties In carrying it out, that it must be the last of the remedies that the government is likely to consider. Only Difficult Situation About the only place where the probability of a coal famine is so likely as to cause commandeering to be thought of is in the Lake states. Those states are affected not only by the coal stike, but also by the fact that they depend for getting their coal on lake transportation. It Is hardly possible that lake transportation, even if it should be hurried vigorously from now on, could give these states a sufficient coal supply for the winter. Due to the closing of the mines from which these states get their coal. It is said that in some of them there It not now more than 10 per cent of the quantity of coal commonly on hand at this season. The situation is such that in Minnesota measures have been taken looking to mobilizing wood fuel for the winter. But even if commandeering of the mines should be considered for a locality in which the conditions are so severe as this, the process would hardly stop there. Other communities, even though they were so badlv prepared for the winter, would never the lesa demand commandeerinar of their sources of supply, also, and the j government would be deluged with a quantity of demands such as would get it into the coal business to a degree very impracticable and disturbing to contemplate. For an administration which came in;o power with a pledge of "less government in business," commandeering the coal mines would be a most unlikely step. Might Call on Hoover If the attempt to arbitrate should not succeed, seizure of the coal mines would be the last of the possible remedies to be adopted rather than the first. The first step following failure of the attempt at arbitration might be any of several. Doubtless the management of the situation

would 'be turned over to Secretary Hoover, who is resourceful in such a field as this and has had successful experience in managing various similar situations involving scarcity of a commodity on a nation-wide scale. "Some things could be done without the direct or formal use by the government of the authority and force at its command. Through mere energy and skill in organization the situation might be handled in some such way as the unemployment crisis was handled last fall, or as the detail of the prjee of coal has been handled recently. Thero are districts where both the diners and the mine owners are so eager to get back to work that they undoubtedly would take any refusal of the heads of their organizations to arbitrate as an excuse for breaking away and going to work. Might Be Adequate. The energetic use of these resources together with the non-union mines already at work, with co-operation on the part of consumers, dealers, railroads, and others, under capable goveminent leadership, might readily be enough. If this sort of informal action , should be insufficient, the force and (Continued on Page Four)

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eignty - iourtn birthday. Wanamaker Kocneieuer, the oil king. WILL INVESTIGATE DYE ' CONCURRENTLY (By Associated Fress) WASHINGTON, July 12. Investigation hv thfl snppial fpdpral war fmnrls grand jury of the sale of hundreds of German dye patents by the alien prop erty custodian in 1919 to the Chemical Foundation, Inc., is expected to be j nnrtati ooepc al-paiv toVon n rv K-tr (ko t grand jury, it was said today The dye patent sale case, which was opened yesterday with the api pearance of Francis P. Garvan, custhoritatively to be the first step in a' 'sweeping inquiry into the entire hi.-H tory of the custodian's office since its inception. Mr. Garvan, refusing to open the records of the company to Assistant Attorney General Crim as representative of the department of justice, said he . had offered the entire record to the grand jury. His charge that "Germanic influence" was behind the move to force the return of the patent to the government brought a formal denial from Attorney General Daugherty and a statement that every American interest in those holdings would be protected. Lumber Cases Ready The government was said today to have practically completed presentation of the lumber case to the grand jury, whose findings were expected in PROCLAIM REPUBLIC AT CORK, SAYS RUMOR PRINTED IN ENGLAND - (By Associated Press) LONDON. July 12. A -rumor that an Irish republic has been proclaimed at Cork is printed by several . of today's newspapers under 'Belfast date lines. It is .not. confirmed from any any other source. ' -. The isolation ' of southwestern Ire lanH is nrartirnllv rnrrmlete anil hoth the Republicans and Free Staters are imposing censorship so that their of ficial statements comprise the only information reaching here. MAINTENANCE MEN MEET B. & 0. OFFICIAL (By Associated Press) WILKESBARRE, Pa., July 12. General chairmen of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way men,- representing 28 railroads in the middle states from the Ontario and Western on the north, to the Baltimore and Ohio on the Eouth, were here today for a conference with Vice-president E. D. Roberts and B. L. Erke of the brother hood's executive council. Mr. Roberts stated that action would be taken on a proposal to be made to the railroad executives that the wage cut ordered by the labor board be restored. He said the executives would be asked to waive the 30 days grace and to hear the argument of the men at once. Mr. Roberts expressed optimism as to the outcome. Rep. Elliott Will Address Republican Club Monday The first meeting of the Wayne county Republican club has been postponed from Friday of this week to Monday next. The meeting is to be held in the high school auditorium at 8 o'clock. . Congressman R. N. Elliott is expected to attend and make a talk. The membership of the club is now about 150 and with the membership drive now being conducted, is expected to reach 250 before the meeting Monday. The constitution and by-laws of the club have been printed and . will be ready for distribution at the Monday i meeting.

3 JiS JSff.W'S i 'X?s mam genera, and department store head. is Just a year older than John D. PATENT SALES WITH OTHER BIG GASES a few days;' The so-called "old hickory" case followed by the aviation contracts will be presented, according to present plans, as soon as the lumber case is out of the way. As a means of expedition of thp war frauda 1nvestigation. these cases will be inter J,; 1 ti ... . . . matters, it was said. The government's present program was said 'to contemplate operation of the grand jury -through July and Aug(Continued .on. Page Three) . ,4 MORATORIUM ASKED IN FORMAL GERMAN NOTE TO COMMISSION (By Associated Press) PARIS,. July 12. The German representatives today submitted to the reparations commission a formal note, requesting a moratorium on reparations payments for the remainder of the present year. The note stated that the 32.000,000 gold marks due on Saturday' were available" if "the" commission insisted on this payments but recommended that it also be waived. The German request did not specify an extension of this- moratorium throughout the next two,, as .had. been forecast in some quarters, but urged the commission to consider Germany's condition and make puhlic .as soon as. possible a complete plan for her relief. - . The commission will .hold a .special meeting probably this afternoon to discuss the German note, thS text 6f which will not be published .until the commission has had time to consider It. The commission meantime has Instructed the allied committee on guarantees to hasten its report by night, either sending it from Berlin as soon as possible or . returning submit its finding to the commission here. PARAMOUNT ISSUES OF STATE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN UNCERTAIN (Special to The Palladium) INDIANAPOLIS, July 12. Political leaders of both parties in Indiana are wondering what the paramount issues of the fall campaign will be. Generally on the eve f an important campaign the leading issues have been well developed, but such is not the case this year. , Both Republican and Democratic politicians expect the tariff to be the important national issue in the Indiana campaign, it is quite probable that the Democrats will try to make it bo. They profess to see in it great possibilities for embarrassing the Republicans. But reports from all parts of the state indicate a general apathy toward the tariff on the part of the public, notwithstanding the fact that it has been under debate in congress for over a year. In the event the tariff law is en acted before the elections in November, which now appears to be a certainty, leaders of both parties expect it to become a factor in the senatorial and congressional contests. If in its final form the new tariff act provides extremely high protection, the tariff will, undoubtedly, become the important national issue in Indiana. ' State for Protection Indiana is a protectionist state, but in 1912 it repudiated the Payne-Ald-rich tariff act, which went to the extremes of protection. The tariff bill now in the' making seemed to meet with the Indiana idea on protection, but the senate has been busily engaged since the bill was reported to that body last March, mak(Obntinaed on Page Four)

CRISIS IS THREATENED

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, July 12. High government officials declared today that in their opinion the United Mine Workers' officials and the bituminous coal operators "were delaying and evading action on President Harding's plan for arbitration on the coal strike in an effort to ascertain wheth er public opinion will permit a rejection of the settlement proposal. These officials declared that in the meantime a serious situation was likely to develop in the matter of a public coal supply. This was particularly true, it was added, because of the engagement of the railroads serving non-union territories, where output is continuing, and officials said they saw some indication that special efforts were being made by striking railroad workers to tie up strategic outlets from the nonunion mining districts, lying south of the Ohio. The anthracite operators were understood to be prepared to respond today to President Hardings proposals for arbitration to end the suspension of work in the unionized coal mining areas. Previous proposals for arbitration at the hands of the president by the anthracite employers afforded the only Indication of the probable nature of their reply. Several inconclusive sessions of the bituminous operators now here resulted in an adjournment of further meetings yesterday until Sunday, after A. M. Ogle, chairman of the operators' group and president of the National Coal association and a delegated committee of the operators had conferred with President Harding on various phases of his arbitration proposal brought up in the operators' conferences. Later Mr. Ogle said the oper - j ?unhr conslderauon and would have -'tn tak tim fnr tiiat ators felt they must give the proposal IO. Ui&e -lime IOT Wat Await Meeting The union officials today were still awaiting the meeting of the full policy committee of the United Mine Workers here Saturday before formulating , reply, and there were intimations that delay , might be expected in that quarter also. Meanwhile it was evident that neither side regarded the arbitration suggestion as outlined with entire approval. Among the operators the proposals for temporary continuance of the old wage scale and for national arbitration instead of district arbitration met with disfavor, while on th union side the issue was raised as to what areas would be included in the arbitration scope. This results from the fact that since the strike some fields have changed from a union to a non-union basis, -while some former non-union territory has been more or less closed down. 10 Persons Killed In Big German Factory Explosion BERLIN, July 12. Ten persons were killed in a terrific explosion in a factory at Zuersten, near Schank-Hede, where surplus war materials were being broken up. Many others were injured. Bandits Terrify Auto Parties By Many Raids PEORIA. 111., July 12. Five auto mobile bandits, armed with sawed oft shoteruns and 1 automatJb pistols, par alyzed motorists along the road be tween Peoria and Pekin, shooting through the windshield of an automobile and holding up several parties, it was learned today. Money obtained during the raids amounted to less than 100, ft was said. Weather Forecast FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY By W. E. Moore Heavy shower and thunderstorms this afternoon or tonight, possibly both: cooler tonight; Thursday gen erally fair with moderate temperatures. The storm center over the Great Lakes will cause thunderstorms throughout this district before night followed by cooler conditions with clearing. Temperature Yesterday Maximum 85 Minimum 67 Today Noon 85 Weather Condition Heavy rains have prevailed over considerable areas during the past 36 hours. It is cool over the upper Mississippi - valley states and also over the Great Lakes but warm and sultry conditions continued up until noon from central Ind iana southward ana eastward, a small iarea of high barometric pressure is following the storm which is bringing fair weather for a brief period. Severe electrical storms and wind squalls occured over the most of Indiana and adjacent states on Wednesday and Wednesday night. For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Unsettled and cooler tonight; showers and thunderstorms east and south portion; Thursday fair. Pa id ' Circulation Yesterday, was 11,631

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SLOW ACCEPTANCE OF. HUGHES' REQUEST TO "CLEAN HOUSE" IS SEEN IN EUROPE

(By Associated Tress) LONDON, July 12. The best In formed American opinion in London inclines to the view that the state of affairs in Europe is generally tendin toward betterment notwithstanding the ominous situation in Germany and the economic chaos in Russia. This is based mainly on multiplying signs that European statesmen are realizing that Secretary Hughes meant what he said when he declined their invitation to go to Genoa and plainly told them that they must "clean house before America can usefully co-operate." Slow acceptance of this fact is seen by American official observers here in recent utterances by the French premier Poincare, who is believed to be cautiously feeling his way toward the more conciliatory attitude respecting Germany and Russia taken sometime ago by Premier Lloyd George. M. Poincare was given a powerful lever with which he may be able to budge the French public from their "Search Germany's pockets" attitude when the franc began following the: mark on its downward path. See Clever Design. M. Poincare's recent statements are interpreted here as being carefully designed to keep the "make Germany pay" slogan in order to disarm his political opponents, but at the same time calculated to point out the dan gers of too intransigeant a policy as indicated by the depreciation of the franc. It is believed that the report of the FUNDING OF BRITISH WAR DEBT TO U, S. TALKED IN ENGLAND (By Associated Press LONDON, July 12. The question of funding the British war debt to the United States, reported to be under consideration by the British govern - ment, is given prominence by the newspapers. Overtures for the funding of the debt were made by the United States Usui, ncio xuauc tj iud UUllCU UlttLW some time ago according to the Times, accompanied by an invitation to a ronference in Washington. ThP Dailv Mail asserts that important communications are passing between the two governments, adding that a British mission will leave soon for the United States to discuss the question and while there, will talk of the possibility of an international economic conference in Washington. The Morning Post says: "Unquestionably this matter plays an important part in the whole problem of international indebtedness and it is very clear that America Is looking to Great Britain to give a strong lead to recognition of these external obligations." The writer in the Post ridicules the report that repayment of the debt to the United States in a lump sum in the near future is contemplated, adding: we must remember that apart from the question of beginning the liquidation of our large debt to the United States in the autumn we have smaller obligations to meet during the present year. It is understood that there is a liability of something like 3,000.000 due to Japan while there is a large line of three year British notes in America which will mature Nov. 1. amounting to about 50, 000,000. N. Y. Central Officials, Workers In Conference NEW YORK, July 12. In an effort to prevent a walkout of the 15,000 clerks and station employes of the New York Central lines between here and Chicago, officials of the company today entered into a conference with representatives of the men, who are now taking a strike vote on the question of wage reductions, loss of vacations, sick leave pay and contract labor, r

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HA if , ' .; making camera men attend church. the monarch of the oil world, has eighty-third birthday he consented on French expert commission which is soon to return to Paris from its in vestigations in Germany will reinforce the premier s arguments in favor of moderation. As this change of front is believed to show a French realiza tion of the fact that little progress can be made w-ithout getting the United btates once more actively at the na' tion's conference table, the first con dition made by Secretary Hughes, namely Anglo-French solidarity, may soon be a reality. Additional impetus (Continued on Page Twelve) PRESIDENT DIRECTS MAIL INTERFERENCE NOT BE TOLERATED (By Associated Press WASHINGTON, July 12. With continued reports of interference with mail trains by railroad strikers reaching the postoffice department in the last 24 houra, President Harding has issued a proclamation directing all persons to refrain from all interference with the lawful efforts to maintain interstate transportation and the carrying of the United States mails. Drawn up after the railroad strike situation, with particular reference to reports of interference by strikers with train operations had been discussed at length at yesterday's cabinet meeting, the presidential proclamation invited the co-operation of all public authorities, -state and municipal and the -"aid of all good citizens,' 'to uphold the laws and to "facilitate those operations in safety which are essential. to life and-liberty and the security of property and other common public welfare." . ' "The peaceful settlement of controversies between shop craft employes and carriers 'in, accordance with law !and dtue spect for the established agencies of such settlement are essen tial to the security and well-being of our people," the proclamation stated land added that men who choose to , . , . - v.f - 6 T, Ub,J C"dJL dec10n hl j?d l "e wal out have the same disputable right (Continued on Page Twelve) HAGUE CONFERENCE HINGES ON SOVIET REPLY TO ULTIMATUM BULLETIN THE HAGUE, July 12. The morning session of the conference on Russian affairs, which was devoted to the consideration of the private property question, broke up amid considerable confusion, many of the delegates declaring the Russian reply meant that the collapse of The Hague conference was inevitable. i By Associated " Press) THE HAGUE, July 12. Continuance of the conference on Russian affairs depends upon the answer of the soviet delegates to a virtual ultimatum which is to be handed to them today or tomorrow by the representatives of the powers. The ultimatum taking the form of a list of Questions alreadv unofficially communicated to Leonid Krassin of the Russian delegation, brings up for final disposition the problem of restitution of private property in Russia. The Russians are asked to state categorically to what extent and under what practical conditions they will re turn the seized property to its former owners. If the soviet will not admit the principle of restitution, the French and Belgian delegates are convinced that further prolongation of the negotiations is useless.

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DELAY THEIR ANSWER BULLETIN CHICAGO, July 12. No definite-re ply to the shopmen's strike settlement proposal was given Chairman HooDer of the railroad labor board by reprer sentauve or tne railway executives at a noon conference today. The executives said they would notify him of their answer "later." - Chairman Hooper said his chief nurpose in meeting with the executives was to arrange a conference between tne men and B. M. Jewll, leader of the Birnung snopmen, and hefc indicated that the attitude of the executives was disappointing. CHICAGO, m July 12. A program for solution of the railroad shopmen's strike was drawn up today by Chairman Ben Hooper, of the United Statea Railroad Labor board, after conference with leaders of the shopmen, and was submitted to representatives railway executives from four sections of the country. Chairmen Hooper's program, which Is said to represent the minimums acceptable to the striking shopmen, 13 to be carried to the heads today with the comments and counter-proposals of the executives. ? - -.- - When Chairman Hooper left the labor board office for the meeting with four executives he said he was confident some plan of settlement could bs reached quickly.- He said he expected to call President Harding on the telephone with a report of the success of his conference with the railroad presidents. . Fresh Disorders. Fresh disorders at scattered points while troops patrolled former trouble centers; arrangements for a conference today by the "big four" train service brotherhoods, and an announcement by B. M. Jewell, head of the striking shop crafts, that conferences were planned with representatives of 21 Northwestern roads, were among other important developments in me ran stnue today. Additional injunctions restraining strikers from interfering with railroal operations were granted to several roads. New appeals for troops were mad? to the governors of Mississippi. Texas and Tennessee while Governor Boyl? of Nevada, was asked by the Union Pacific for state intervention in the strike at Las Vegas. Disorders at Chicago, Milwaukee. Sayre, Pa., Orville, Ohio, Dennison, Texas, and at Roodhouse. 111. Bert Dickson, a roundhouse foreman for the Chicago and Alton, said to be a nephew of W. G. Bierd, president of the road, was tarred and feathered by a masked band. Two car repairers were reported to have been abducted at Marion, Ohio, and at Pana, III., a car man left town under threats of strikers. Negroes Fired Upon. At Algiers. La., four negroes working in the shops of the Southern Pacific were fired upon by a group of whites, 13 of whom were arrested for violating the federal Injunctions. Th prisoners denied that they were strikers. Clinton, 111.. New Franklin and Slater. Mo., - and Parsons, Kas., where troops were on duty remained comparatively quiet following several hectic days. ; The situation at Bloomington, 11!., remained tense, with troops holding the yards and shops. Frequent shootings and the general hostile attitude of-strikers and large crowds of sympathizers kept national guardsmen on constant vigil. Meanwhile, city and county authorities were attempting to re-establish civil government. Engineers, firemen, trainmen anJ conductors announced they would re fuse to enter the Alton yards at Bloomington to take out trains as long as machine guns bristled ia the shops. They voted to operate only mail trains unless the trains were delivered to them outside the shop dia? trict during the encampment of the troops in the yards. To Discuss Issues The meeting of the big four brotherhood chiefs was called for the purpose of discussing issues of the shopmen's strike. . - Among other developments of the last 24 hours was the announcement by D. W. Helt. president of the Railway Signalmen, that no strike would be called, and the failure of clerks, station employes and freight handlers on the Norfolk and Western to respond to an official authorization of a strike. Shopcrafts at Sayre, Pa., formed a peace committee, with the announced intention of preventing disorders as far as possible. Additional deputies were sworn in by United States Marshal Levy in Chicago to increase protection of the Chicago and Northwestern shops. Shop, crafts leaders expressed satisfaction over the success of the strike while most of the roads were non-com-mital.' The Santa Fe, Burlington and Missouri, Kansas & Texas announced that conditions were steadily improving on their lines. Santa Fe shopmen were reported by the road to be re- ! turning to work. At Galesburg, 111.,

300 men were reported to have returned. Moulders Return Forty-one moulders who joined the walkout at Parsons, Kas., reported back on their Jobs. - Police at Boston drove pickets away from employment agencies, where men were being accepted for railroads. Roseville, Calif., ojtficials were Investigating the dynamiting of one ol the largest water tanks on the South(Continued on Page Twelve) ';