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HARDING ASKS NEW COAL BODY BE IMPARTIAL President Lets It Be Known That He Wants Coal Board Made Up of Representatives or Public. HAS NO RAIL MOVE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. D. C. Aug. 22 While the senate labor committee was taking the first formal action towards the creation of a coal fact finding commision recommended by the president, the president let it be known today that he was disposed to insist that the investigating body be made up exclusively of impartial representatives of the public without special representation from the miners and operators. A bill for a commision in which the president would be free to choose representatives of the miners, operators or public a3 he saw fit was favorably reported by the senate committee. At the same time the public service interstate commerce committee work ing independently refused to strike from its tentative bills problems which would prohibit memberships of the commission to have interest ' in the coal industry. Delays Further Step. President Harding, although hopeful for success of the New York confer ence was said at the White House to day to be unwilling to take any further step than those made in address to congress. The declaration to -congress that the law would be enforced and the rights of workers to enter railroad service guaranteed it was added will remain as the final government state ment until there is a change in the situation. ' The cabinet devoted most of its session today to a discussion of the rail strike situation. After the meeting was over it was stated authoritatively that no additional steps were decided on and the government had no private report as to the attitude of the party to the railroad disputes in the negotia tions Deing conducted in New York be tween the executives and leaders of! the train service brotherhoods. v Effects of Strike The effect of the rail strike losses caused by inability to move crops particularly those of the fruit and potato regions of the west, was emphasized by Senator Borah yesterday in urging a conference with B. M. Jewell, leader of the striking shopmen and in a telegram to T. DeWitt Cuyler, chairman of the Association of Railway Executives that both sides hasten a solution of the controversy. Senator Borah, in his telegram said the situation was "fast becoming intolerable." Organized labor in all fields was urged to give "all the moral arid financial assistance to the strikers in an appeal issued last night over the signature of President Gompers and the entire membership of the executive council of the American Federation of

Labor. Asking a general contribution j "kely that the required 33 members of funds from labor organizations to'woul(1 be found who would sustain a assist the strikers, the message de- veto out that hope, it is said, was

ciarea ine struggle in wnicn tney are involved is one of importance, not only to themselves and their organizations, but to all organized workers and all Americans who love justice and fair .dealing." Sup rente Court of Ohio To Act on Amendment For Beer and Light Wine (By United Press) COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 22. The situation today relative to action in the supreme court to keep the proposed "beer and light wine" amendment off the November ballot, appeared to be badly muddled. Supreme court judges have been called back here for Wednesday to hear an application for a writ, to be filed by dry leaders, to prevent Secretary of State Smith from putting the proposal on the ballot. Chief Justice Marshall stated the court was advised such an application would be filed Wednesday. James A. White, superintendent of the AntiSaloon league, today said the application would not be filed until Secretary of State Smith makes his decision relative to the amendment, and then only of course if he rules that the amendment goes on the ballot. It i3 expected, . White added, Smith will make his decision this week. Secretary Smith said he had received no notice that the Anti-Saloon league intended asking hearing on the supreme sourt. Two Wyoming Candidates Contest for Nomination To Succeed Rep. Mondell (By Associated Press) CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 22 Wyoming voters went to the polls today to decide contests for nomination fo Governor and for Wyoming'? ono member of the National House of Representatives.

Although a United Sates Senator isiing the war, and fellow aviators say

to be elected in November, the contest has created little interest in the primary campaign, because there is only one candidate in each Republican and Demorcratic parties. The candidates are Senator Kendrick, Democrat, incumbent and Frank W. Mondell, present leader of the Republicans in the House. Marshall S. Reynolds, Internal revenue collector for this district and Charles E. Winter, former district judge, and once nominee of the Progressive party for congressman are contesting for the Republican nomination to suceed Mr. Mondell in congress. The successful candidate's opponent will be chosen by the Demo crata from Robert S. .Bose, oditor; James H. Camp and Charles O. Richardson.

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Veterans' Mascot 3 - 1 Miss Peggy Conway Miss Peggy Conway of San Francisco has been selected as mascot of the Disabled American Veterans of! the World -War for their convention to be held in Minneapolis in 1923. Soldic" Rpnus Bill Passage is Assured Senate Poll Shows PALLADIUM NEWS BUREAU WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. An adjournment of congress about Oct. 1 is anticipated. It is particularly desired by; the senate, the members of which are tired after their long struggle with the tariff throughout a tropical Washington summer.- Since the house reassembled last Tuesday after a six weeks' recess it has done nothing more than mark time and a bare quorum of its membership answers to the roll calls. The house will this week begin real ! work, however, the consideration of legislation ureed bv the nresident when he addressed congress last Fri day. The senate will take up the bonus hill Wrdnesf1v. Thorn will ho etiirrlv opposition to it, but it is only a question of time before it will be passed. The bill passed the house several j luuuuis ago. as soon as tne lanii ana bonus measures have emerged from conference and have been sent to the president, and the pending bill creating a commission to investigate the coal situation has been disposed of, congress will be ready to adjourn. A poll of the senate by senators opposed to the bonus bill is reported to have convinced them that even should the president veto it there will be sufficient votes to pass it over his veto. There is no question but that the house will override any presidential veto by a large vote. In the senate it had been thought abandoned by the opponents of the measure after they had taken their poll. Thirty seems the limit of votes that can be counted upon to sustain a veto of the measure. Former Hoosier Candidate. Ten years ago Carl W. Riddick was the editor of a small Indiana newspaper, at WTinamac. He is now a member of congress, representing the second Montana district, and a candidate for the Republican nomination for senator (Continued on Page Two) MISSINGAViATORS, PASSENGER RESCUED BY FISHING SMACK (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 22. One of the most elaborate searches ever devised ' to locate a missing airplane was called off early today when a fishing smack arrived at Long Beach, 40 miles from here, bringing W. T. Miller, pilot, Harold Thompson, mechanician, and the Jone passenger of the airplane, Ambassador II, which dropped from si?M Sunday morning. The fishing smack attempted to tow the battered hulk of the sky cruiser in which the three men had fou?ht a game fight for 43 hours against the chill waters of the Atlantic Drawn and haggard from exposure, with nothing to eat and only a little water, the three men refused to tell of their adventures until they recovered from the exhaustion caused by their experiences. The identity of the passenger was not learned, it being said that he did not desire to cause his family anxiety as he was supposed to have gone on a business trip. Have War Records. Both Miller and Thompson, who are in their twenties, saw air service durthat Miller had high rating as an aviator, and that he was singularly free from mishaps.. The search for the sightseeing plane started Sunday, aftef Miller failed to return from what was to have been a flight over the Fire Island lightship. Airplanes, sub-chasers and other craft started to comb the waters outside the harbor. The navy department also instructed the Atlantic fleet, which left Newport News yesterday on its way to Cuba to search for the machine. A division of scouting planes also was detailed to try and find the men and radio messages were broadcast to all vessels in the vicinity. All that Miller would say before he had had food and rest was: The plane dropped into the sea and will never be seen again."

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INDIANA MINE PEACE LACKS ONLY DETAILS Work on Re-establishment of Wage Contract Virtually Is Completed by Representatives of Miners, Operators. HARD COALlEADLOGK (By Associated Press) TERRE HAUTE. Aug. 22. Work of the joint sub-committee of the Indiana Coal Operators' association and tho union miners, centering around' the re-establishment of the wage contract that expired at the beginning of the strike almost five months ago. was virtually completed today, resulting in a meeting this afternoon of all members of the scale committee with a view of the final details of a settlement Announcement was withheld by the committee of any decisions still pending. The secretary of the operators association said a decision will be made as a whole, adding that the work today has been tentative. John Hessler, president of the miners, described the work on a new agreement as progressing with considerably clarified air. The sub-committee at work on a new contract, which is to run until next March 30, was composed of eight members and this number was doubled when the full membership assembled for the afternoon session. In addition, several operators and members of the executive board of miners district union attended the meeting. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 22 The anthracite peace seeking committee entered another day today with no sign of break in the deadlock between representatives of the mine workers and those of the operators. The fifth session of the conference was scheduled to begin at 3 p." m. Both sides were said to have agreed to restoration of the old wage rates until next April 1, but so far it has ap parently oeen impossible to agree upon a program for fixing wages after that date. Efforts to read into brief statements issued at the conclusion of yesterday's session a hope that settlement was near met with little encouragement from either side. As upon rrevious occasions the statements merely said that the conferees had met in an effort to reconcile views of the opposing sides upon the terms of a possible agreement to cover wages and working agreements and that thir wmiiii be another session today. , neports rrom the hard coal fields indicated that active preparations were being made for a resumption of production. Mine bosses, superintendents and other workers who remained on the rolls when the walkout began have been put to work, cleaning up runways in expectation of an early settlement of the strike. M'GRATH BLAMES POOR CONDITION OF ENGINE FOR BIGJARY WRECK (By Associated Press) CHICAGO. Aug. 22. J. F. McGrath, vice president of the Railway Employes' department of the American Federation of Labor (shop crafts workers) Issued a statement today declaring the real cause of the Michigan Central wreck at Gary, Ind., early Sunday "was clearly an unfit locomotive" and characterizing the railroad's charges that the wreck was due to plctters as a "hastily patched up explanation to place the blame for . loss of life upon the striking shopmen instead of on the railroad, where it belongs." He said the wTeck did not differ "a particle from wrecks reported each day from various parts of the country." "Reports are based on an investigation by comDanv officials and armpA guards;" he said. "What can thf imh. lie expect to get in the way of unmasea reports rrom men , who are hired to fight the employes on strike? What is more they are not railroad men and therefore can not be trusted to Investigate an accident which involved the death of the engine crew. An investigation of this kind should have been given over to an impartial body of mechanical experts. Blames Deterioration. "If all the derailments reported to us since the strike has occurred, as derailments at 60 miles an hour, the newspapers would have had no room for other news. Such wrecks result directly from the deteriorations of equipment which goes on increasing every day while the strike lasts. It is only when the wreck is serious enough to get into the papers that the real cause is covered over. As a matter of fact It is reported that this very train had experienced engine trouble after it left Detroit." Mr. McGrath's statement came on the heels of the verdict of the coroner's jury which found that the engineer and fireman of the wrecked express came to their death "as a result of a plot to wreck the train." It also follows an announcement by State's Attorney Crowe's office admit, aing failure to discover sabotage plots in the correspondence seized in raids upon the office of William Z. Foster, radical leader, and head of the Trades Union Educational league. Federal investigators asserted that Foster had been under close surveillance for a long time and declared they would have known if train wrecking was, to have played a part in the "one big union" program of Foster and his followers. Foster's activities, so far as federal and state investigators could learn, were confined to his efforts to convert trades unionists to hi3 "one big un- ... (Continued on Page Seven)

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IND., TUESDAY EVENING, Gets Treasury Post Col. Richard-. MeMahon in his office. President Harding has named Col Richard R. MeMahon, Harpers Ferry' ' W. Va.. solicitor of the United States treasury. Shop Strikers Insist On Seniority Rights As Basis of Return (By United Press) WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 22 Railroad executives must ---r.pnt Hefeat fin tht Rcnnn'tn u n. I

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out of shop workers is to be settled Spender, but was broken by arrival one of the leading labor figures in!0 Pf-,, Trainmen, switchmen the strike told the .Unfed PrlftoLv if?; d a meeting at which

Unless thp mi.!.m.nt. ueciaea 10 aeier moving trams Dared to onlol I ?ts &TG. i later today when another meetS 'tVeJl "pm . be held to decide whether

i.uiwiauuu Ul D'cL.lUI 1 1 J lights, the peace conference of the . wiu, UU11 Ul BBulUlUy Brotherhood leaders and railroad executives in New York tomorrow, will be iume. ne saia. This determined stand on the part of the strikers, demand of the eastern railway executives, for a fieht to thn -- uauui iur imaiiciiii "-" cuppyru oi iue snopmen Dy all organized labor, have caused administration leaders to lose the hope they had for an early settlement ot the dispute. Demand Seniority. All plans for settlement of the strikeat the New York conference between the executives and chiefs of the big four brotherhoods were advanced by the former, the strike leadpr oriar. I ed. The leaders of the shopmen and j brotherhod chiefs remained steadfast on me uemand for unimpaired seniority rights throughout all the secret sessions and are prepared to fight it ouu along that line indefinitely. "One thing is certain,'" thi.j leader stated, "We were through making proposals. Our final word was said in the reply to President Harding's last proposal that we cannot leturn unless we are given unimpaired seniority rights." The strikers, backed by other unions with ample funds decided more than a year aeo. that th fiVht wq coming and prepared themBPl cordinelv tht stride. imj . J Thousand., of 'tho inn nnn I f Rated. inousana8 Of the 400,000 Strikers have tiZl s temporarily to re

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Labor ipnrit.ro m.t , Laoor leaders make no secret of ,,; . 7 x. v.. 1 mpt vJt- , ra:lng equiP-'

o-v," v",1"if'l"e m .Ine stnk.;They left a box of dynamite and 40;of Earlham collesre will be comnlf-tPd

a urj u-eiitrve inai it ic nniv A.. - wuij tx luaiin : vi ume Derore the railroads will be reduced to a desperate state. Plane Stops in 50 Feet U ... oreaking All Records f AKMINGDALE, N. Y., Aug. 22. Using skids instead of wheels, an airplane piloted by Lawrence B. Sperry, one of the governors of the aeronautical chamber of commerce ctnnnot j within 50 feet of the place it struck The landing broke all records for ! quick stops, he declared. The plane was equipped with wheels for the take- : off but as soon as it got into the air dropped them automatically. Weather Forecast FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY By W. E. Moore unsettled conditions toniaht and (Wednesday; conditions favorable for local thunder showfrs- a i . - w - "i ntiiiyvu warm. A storm center over the Rocky mountains will cause continued warm weather for thp neTt Sfi hours t.h ;ably longer. It will be fair at inter vals, but local rains are probable as the storm moves slowly eastward. Temperatures Yesterday ! Maximum .' ' 7(;i

Minimum r.ipiosion. Mate ponce arrested 15 men! "rArfaV : after an attack on non-union miners. '

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rains occurred over Indiana and ad-'f, a k v,wiVu8 teaerai mjunc-; The water from me piug tiooaea a iacent states with heavv rain r,v Uona were Deun m various parts of second story apartment and a launtaJnffSi L1111 the trial.drv. Water in the upper apartment

1 far northwest RptipmIIv fnir ,0,v. lcu"a. r. BKinner,wa3 two reet aeep wnen policemen t." nSI:m3lyJTAtherot Moline, 111., on a charge of contemn w,r, hain it nV Th fir in

has prevailed during the last 36 hours. iue oeai wave inai movea eastward to western Pennsylvania and continues intense over the plain states is increasing in energy over the Mississippi valley. The principal storm center remains over the Rocky mountains. Another storm center is crossjing the Great Lakes. Temperatures range from 88 to 104 degrees within the limits of the hot wave. It is quite cool in the far northwest, where it has been very warm. For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; probably local thunder showers. Warmer northeast (portion tonight; continued warm Wedj nesday. Paid Circulation ; Yesterday, was 11M7

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RAIL TIE-UPS AND VIOLENCE MARK STRIKE Trainmen on Southern Rail road Quit Bombings and Beatings Are Reported In vestigate Alleged Plots. SITUATIONS TENSE (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Aug. 22. Walkouts by trainmen on the Southern railroad re sulting in tie-ups in North Carolina, bombings, beatings and investigations of alleged wreck plots, marked pro gress of the rail shopmen s strike 'l1 efforts to settl 5t hanS suspend ed pending the New York meeting to morrow of rail heads and leaders of the transportation brotherhoods, medi ators for the striking shopmen. Eight companies of state troops were on duty about the shops of the southern railway at Spencer, N. C, where 1,700 men are out and about the postoffioe at Salisbury, three miles from Spencer. The troops at the postoffice were requested by Post master A. E. Royden. w"o alleged that open threats had been made to lynch a postoffice clerk. Tenseness Prevails. Tenseness prevailed in the situation tna 7oIL-nii - V- i. i All trains arriving at Snencer after midnight over the Southern were tied up with the exception of No. 138, which left with Clyde Keever. general foreman of the Southern shops at tho thrcttle. At Atlanta. 35 extra United States marshals were on duty at the Southern railway Inman yards, where yesterday a negro man was perhaps tataiiy injured and nine others severely beaten. A party of men was reported to have attacked J. F. Feaster, a boiler maker, at Birmingham late last night near the Louisville & Nashville shops. Feaster. according to the report, was bound and severely beaten. Traffic on the Louisville-St Louis division of the Southern will be tied I up completely at 12:01 o'clock Thursday, morning, unless B. G. Fallis, general superintendent of the western division and representatives of the "big four" brotherhoods effect an agree ment on the road's, use of armed guards. Mr. Fallis today was in Princeton, Ind., where firemen walked out yesterday and was expected to confer with representatives of the Brotherhoods. Their action cut off the four trains from Louisville to St. Louis and trains in and out of Princeton. The general division walkout set for Thursday would take in all the "Bi ' "a Z Cst-. wA nvtsl mil 1 rtfffln i rn o J-io !"m"lcu' " cated at terminals at East St. Louij, Til T.rmisvillo PrinoPton. Tnrf . Huntington. Ind. At Huntington. W. : -iv, ,-. i. .1 rv.i ; i A v .j . U1U ianjuau uuu6c was frustrated when a track walker;

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frightened three men from the trestle. . , feet of fuse. Wreck is Averted Linemen for the Missouri and North Arkansas railway discovered an ob-! srrucuon on tne tracK3 near Harrison, i ai ii., a Liu remuvea il iu iuiuui.es ue- ' fore a train passed, on had been A l- " l , x 1 n . iron bar placed on them. P. D. Fought, an employe of the Missouri Pacific railroad shops at Lit tle Rock, Ark., told the police that he ! an a companion were kidnapped, : taken to a grove on a river bank and beaten by a Partv ' men- Fough; escaped after a struggle, but said he ; did not know the fate of his companion, who was receiving a terrific beating. San Bernardino, Calif., remained in a high state of excitement over renewed outbreaks in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.. A striking elec tncian was killed and another striker was fatally injured in a pistol fight trician was killed and another striker with a nearro waiter enmloved at the commissary inside the Santa Fe en - ! close. According to Dolice thp tip? o said hp pmntie.d a nistol at fivp topti who followed him from the shops.

i strcmS guard was thrown around the! Both vehicles were traveling at a ! Jail where the negro was held. ihigh rate of speed. The driver of the

Hotel Is Bombed. A hotel at Smithfield, Pa., where 25 railroad workers were Quartered was bombed early today. A miner's bunk - house was also damaged by an e. - i Ten men were injured in the fighting. Numerous prosecutions of persons or POnrt

EXCELLENT FACILITIES PROVIDED FOR STOCK AND FOR ACCOMMODATING ONLOOKERS AT FAIR

Facilities for exhibiting livestock ed to care for the exhibits, it is and for accomodating the onlookers at thought. Separate tents will be needed ths Wayne county fair to be held in! for cattle, horses and hogs. It is beGlen Miller park, accrding to plans! lieved provisions must be made for announced Tuesday. Only at Ccnners sheep and poultry, and for grains, ville, where the grounds have a nat- Another tent will be erected by the ural amphitheatre similiar to the one Automotive asociation for exhibits of

at the park, will they be equalled. A long runway built along tho base of Roosevelt hill will be for parading! the stock before the' crowds, which i will be on the hill. It is estimated! that 10.000 people can be accomodated if necessary and announcers with meg-1 aphones will keep the crowd informed of the program. A row of screened stalls at the east end of the field will be used to accommodate the animals, while they are being- judged. - Tents nearly as large and numerous as those of a big circus will be need-

Places Corner Stone

1 iil Miss Anne Morgan laying cornerstone of nurses' home. Miss Anne Morgan, head of the American goodwill delegation to France, laid the corner stone of the jucn uuiscs uutue at ooissons. iVIISS nr 1 1 . reparation of devastated France since the signing of the Versailles treaty. City Improvements For Year to Reach $200,009, Indication The biggest year in the way of city improvements ever seen by Richmond is gradually drawing to a close, with indications that the total expenditures for -city improvements will

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amount to over ?200,000 by the end of . way executives, where they will vote the year acording to Dell B. Davis,! their answers to measures proposei city engineer. Expenditures already! by 1116 brotherhoods as a practical amount to $174,368.55. means of settling the seniority quesOutstanding among the job3 . al 11011 and ending the strike, ready completed and under construe-! Tnis will mark the third rationtion are: the Randolph street sewer, I wi(1e assembling of rail chiefs within

costing $18,398, the Wrightland addition, costing $16,639, the South Seven th street sewer amounting to $5,439. paving of South Fifth street from A to E, $24,046, paving of North and South Third street, $21,230; Center street paving, $13,670; and ornamental lighting installation on South Seventh street, $2,144. The widenng of Peacock Road to a ' ... . - ,c"y "reet witn paving and installation or. cum ana gutters costing 5l3,dl0, wm be completed within about 10 days, a ., i .u, , " completed within the next month is le paving of North West Sixth and . ... ...... seventn streets ana seagwick streets t mst nf si? 9nn The Southwest sewer system, back i... within another week, Its cost is $18, - 000. Thirty five contracts for improve - ments, small and large have been let this year... JThey are divided into the folowing classes r Four small sewers; 13 concrete alleys; five sidewalk contracts; three cement curbs. . 2 HURT, FIRE ENGINE AND AUTO WRECKED; BUILDINGS DAMAGED (By Associated Press). NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 22. Two day, a fire engine and a touring auto - ""-V., tt "4C - ;"' .mobile were almost totally wrecked.; luu 4 uuuiuug vaiuauh ucmunueu ana two others nooaea as a result or a collision between the two motor vei hides while the fire apparatus was reAsPndiug to an alarm last night engine and a fireman were seriously 'injured. The automobile struck the engine ! broadside. It dragged the heavy ap - j paratus 75 feet when it hit a fire plug,

starting a geyser of water. The en- oi me noynsue fowaer company blew gine was thrown through the door of,uP' near Amherst, last evening. The

; a residence, tearing out a big hole in the brick wall. . I was. light-. its members, and aditional cnvM-in may be provided for industrial and - , . , , "'"J"'- - simua - tor s committee will visit the park and arrange the placing of tents.Excellent Program An excellent nrrs?ram r,r ontorain. ment to be presented in conection with the fair, is being worked out. In addition to well known speakers who may be Invited to address the crowds, a nationally known band will te ea(Continued on Pase Nine)

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LOREE FLAYED FOR DECLARING PEACEBUNK" Eastern Shop Committee oi Shopmen Allege Assertions : "Eleventh Hour Attempt to Scuttle Settlement. WILL ACT TOMORROW -' (By Associated Press) .- - NEW ; YORK. Aug. 22. Assertions of L. F. Lore.e chairman of the eastern president's conference who attacked peace in the rail strike as "all bunk," were attacked by the eastern shop committee of shopmen today in. a telegram to B. M. Jewell, president of their union at Washington. " "The Loree group of eastern railroad executives, of insignificant numbers, backed by the best powers of the Morgan-Gray open shop interests, is making desperate eleventh hour attempts to scuttle the strike settlement," said a telegram dispatched by John J. Dowd, chairman of the Metropolitan District strike committee. Both sides of the negotiations were pledged, as you know, by their respective mediation committees to refrain from comments that might embarrass the conferees. Claims Violation. "Mr. Loree deliberately violated the agreement, and arrogantly attempted i to block all the settlement nrosress. when he gave a statement to the press in which he called 'peace talk all bunk,' and openly belittled the efforts of the majority of the executives to reach an agreement with the union mediators. This move of the single die-hard majority show they will stop at nothing in their campaign to break the unions on their roads." The message concluded: "We urge you personally to bring this matter to the immediate attention of governmental authorities, in touch with the strike situation, and to the . union mediation committee of five for their information and guidance. Western Heads Arrive Rail presidents from western states began to arrive today for tomorroWiconference of the Association of ral'ine. iasi montn at which the problem ftf ef l itn aAn4M J , 1. . i : "'"""ii ocuiumj nguu uas risen to mock the path of settlement. At the first two meetings plans sub mitted by President Harding wers partly accepted, but with reservation? and conditions which eliminated them as a basis for calling off the strike. New Situation Tomorrow the railmen will race a new situation the entrance of the big j ",57 umimiuuuus inio negotiations j where as mediators, they have made nlnln their .Ht,, s i. nve Drotnerhooas into negotiations "Sts as applied to their fellow work- ; ers tne striking shop crafts men. The response of be carriers to tho call sent out by T. DeWitt Cuyler, head of the association, led officials today to predict that everv momhpr 1 road, including 201 class , . . ... ... - one lines, with over 300,000 miles of track. ! would be represented-when-the -con rerence began. - - Early arrivals would not comment on the situation, asserting that the pledge of secrecy exacted of both sides when the executive association's committee of nine concluded sessions with the Big Five brotherhood leader? Friday night had been so well maintained as to leave them uninformed of latest developments. Leaders to Reassemble Heads of the 16 railway workers' unions, Including the Big Five of the running trades and others of the stationary .crafts, were expected to reassemble here today. Although it has not been determined that the joint conference can be resumed before l nursaay, they agreed to be in tho 1 7 nyJT"v Z .Ze association of executives is in session uu 8 ism session POWDER MILL BLAST WRECKS 3 BUILDINGS (By United-Press) WARREN, Ohio, Aug. 22. Three buildings were destroyed and - nine 1 others were badly damaged when 2.600 I pounds of powder in the mixing room i explosion wrecked the plant, shattered glass in windows for a radius of two milEs, blowing open doors and starting fires in the vicinity of the blast. So far as known, no one was Injured, although several had narrow escapes." Two drivers for- the - Zilch Transfer company, of Amherst, were loading powder on a truck at the mixing house when one of them . sawflames through a crack in the loading platform. Both leaped into their truck and frantically drove away. They had traveled 200 yards when the powj der let go. The truck was overturned and the men landed in a field but escaped. Finland ot to Ratify Warsaw Convention (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 The Fin- ! i..!' ' fj J "c JU 5 a .T',;1 r- - u u ax vviMUiUUiwLLCU I IB , Hoiana. Latvia and Esthonia ha .tot. ed that because of the attitude of tho Finnish parliament it has not been possible for Finland to ratify the con- ! vention signed in Warsaw. March 12 J last- At the 6ame time the Finnish government announced that it was deeply conscious of the unity of tho ly had in one way or another belonged to Russia, and was prepared to continue co-operation with those states. -