Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 205, 29 August 1922 — Page 1
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THE BIC AJDIUl AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XCIL, No. 205 Palladium. Kst. 1831. Consolidated With Sun-Telegram. 1907. RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, AUG. 29, 1922. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS
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COAL RELIEF BILL BEFORE CONGRESS Hoover Warns Roads Cannot Transport Requirements
Hundreds of Crew Are Drowned When French Dreadnaught Sinks FIVE CHARGES WITH MURDER OF TRAMKN Appears Before Board G WAGE
LIVi
RULE LARO
BEYOND R BOARD
I tA ,r' : : 1 ft '
Since Fuel Reserves Have
Been Exhausted.
HARD COAL PEACE SEEN BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. President Harding still believes that congress should grant him immediate authority to take over the railroad and mining properties, it was said today at the White House, but he has assured congressional spokesmen that only the grimmest public necessity would move him to exercise such power if . granted. If congress indicates unwillingness to enact the legislation today the president does not intend to push his opinion, or to make a formal public demand for the powers. It was said,
J officials adding that he does not belip.VA that thprp is nnv rkrceTit nppps.
sity for action under such a grant. Believes Coal Crisis Over. In the light of facts presented to today's cabinet meeting the president was said to believe that the bituminous coal producing situation had cleared itself up and that there would be an anthracite settlement in a very short time leaving the condition of the rail strike as the only big industrial problem. , It is declared that the president had no doubt but that by a stretch of the present established and recognized administrative powers the federal government could in an emergency move and control the essential public service without additional authorization although for the purpose of allaying public excitement and clearing the atmosphere 'e was said to feel that congress ought to make the power definite and certain by an act.
Men Held Responsible For
Wreck of "Million Dollar Express" in Which Two
Were Killed.
Practically "all hands" were lost when the French dreadnaught "France" struck a rock in Quiberon Bay, off the coast of France, capsized and sank. The vessel carried a complement of 1,108 men. The "France" was built in 1912 and was in service during the World war. She was 544 feet in length and cost more than $12,000,000 to build and arm.
WASHINGTON', Aug. 29. Warned by Secretary of Commerce Hoover that the railroads can not move the country's requirements of 13,000,000 tons of coal weekly, President Hard
ing and his cabinet today considered
plans for insuring domestic consumers and industry, against suffering and shut-down. Due to the exhaustion of coal reserves during ahe period of the bituminous strike, the country now is on a hand to mouth basis. Domestic and industrial requirements can be shaved down to 8.500,000 tons weekly, Hoover
estimated, but the primary problem
is that of hauling.
Mr. Harding has been told by Hoo
ver that the task or moving s.ouu.uou tons of coal weekly is too big for the
railroads in their present crippled con
dition due to the strike of the shop
men.
Large Percentage
of Richmond Boys Make Own Living PALLADIITM NEWS BUREAU WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. Fourteen
per cent of the boys between the ages of 10 and 15 years living in Richmond, Ind., at the time the last census was
taken, two years ago, were engaged in
gainful occupations, according to sta
tistics on child labor in the United States just released by the census
bureau. The report shows that 169 of
the 1,211 Richmond youths of the ages mentioned 'were working for a living
in 1920.
Only 15 of 219 American cities hav
ing from 25,000 to 100,000 inhabitants
are shown to have a higher "percentage of boy workers, less than 16 years
of age, than Richmond, Pawtucket, R. -1., leading with a percentage of 18.4.
The percentage of male youths en
gaged in gainful occupations in the
United States is 11.3.
Only 6.1 per cent of the girls be
tween the ages of 10 and 15 years.
living in Richmond, were working for
living at the time the last census.
was taken. The census bureau s re
port shows that there were 1,239 girU of the ages mentioned living in Richmond, of which 76 were in gainful occupations. I
The percentage of girls less than it
years of age engaged in gainful occupations in the United States is 5.6.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. Consid
eration in the house today of its
emergency coal distribution bill under
a rule providing for six hours or debate appeared to insure a vote on the
measure before adjournment tomor
row.
President Harding had been assured
by Republican Leader Mondell, that the bill reported out of committee yes
terday and designed to strengthen the
administration's hand in controlling coal distribution by creating a federal
distributing agency and extending the
powers of the Interstate Commerce
Commission over priority of shipments
would be passed before tomorrow
nierht.
Meanwhile a more complicated leg
islative situation in the senate was de
ferring action on the companion meas
ure pending there, also reported out yesterday but leaders predicted that it
would receive favorable action with
out much delay. Regulation Needed.
Secretary Hoover, in appearing at hearings yesterday on the house bill asserted that some legal method, such
as contained in the bill, of restrainin
extortionate prices in coal would be
necessary and Commissioner Aitchi son of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission concurred in this view. Opposition was expressed however, by representatives of both operators and
labor in the industry-
With administration leaders appar
ently confident that the difficulty threatened in moving the increasing quantity of coal being mined due to
transportation conditions can be mate
rially relieved under priority authority already possessed or to be conferred by
pending legislation, the proposal for government operation of rail properties, as well as those of the anthracite coal industry, had been put aside to
day.
The president was understood to be not disposed to ask for the nece;ary
congressional authority at least at thi
time. As to the anthracite situation
reports reached the White House were
so reassuring that it was indicated an
agreement for reopening of the mine
was expected within a very short
time.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29. Definit
statement that there would be no gov
ernment intervention or , seizure of
mines, remained the outstanding feat
ure of the anthracite situation here
early today- The statement cam
from an authoritative but confidential
source last night.
Within a short time, according to the source of information and prob
ably within a week, representatives o
the miners and hard coal opeiators
will sign a peace pact and 155,000 workers soon thereafter will ;eturn
to their iabs.
This agreement, it was declared, will overcome the stumbling blocks which presented themselves last week when the 1oint peace conference of miners
and operators came to a deadlock In the
off ce of Samuel V. warriner. presi
dent of the Lehigh Coal and Naviga
tion company and chairman of be op
erators' Dolicies committee. Neither
side, It was further said, would have
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HARDING AUTHORIZES USE OF $600,000 ON MUSCLE SHOALS DAM
Senator "Bob" La Follette, r.fter a
flying trip to Washington to vote in favor of the bonus bill is hurrying back to Wisconsin to resume hostilities in the primary election campaign, which comes to a close Sept. 5. La-
Follette is a veteran of many a hard
fought political contest, but, according
to reports which have reached Wash
ington, he has never engaged in a harder fight than the one he now has
on his hands. His renominatlon on the Republican ticket appears to be assured, however. Washington i3 commenting on the fact that if he is re
elected the Socialists will have 'or the first time in the history of that party a claim on a member sitting in the upper house of congress.
The Socialists of Wisconsin have
entered no candidate tor the senate.
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(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. Funds totalling $600,000 have been authorized by President Harding to enable army engineers to begin construction work on the Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals, Ala., on an extensive scale, pending use of the' $7,500,000 appropriated by congress which becomes available Oct. 1, it was officially announced today. Brig, General Taylor, assistant chief of engineers, explained that the $600,000 was authorized from an old appropriation ,.of. which an unexpended balance of about $900,000 remained subject to presidential disposal. Secretary Weeks, acting at the suggestion of Major General Beach, chief of army engineers, recently asked the president for a decision which would have permitted the $900,000 to be used at Muscle Shoals. Other Use For Money.
The remaining $300,000, it was explained, was reserved and probably would be allowed the agriculture de
partment tor use in making exr-eri-ments with nitrogen . for fertilizer
: Army engineers estimated that they would be ablewith the $600,000 allotted them "to increase operations at Muscle Shoals on an extensive scale and continue until the $7,500,000 became availablp in October. They said Col. William Harden, commanding the Muscle Shoals district, probably would employ additional laborers and put machinery in use to the maximum extent possible under the funds now at his disposal.
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MOTOR BANDITS GET
$82,000 FROM BANK
, (By Associated Press)
LETHRIDGE. Ala.. Aug. 29 Five
motor bandits invadod the town of
Formesot today, bound and gagged
employes of the Union bank, blew open the safe and escaped with $82,-
000 in cash and negotiable securities.
The bandits found several of the
employes asleep on the second floor
of the building. They bound and ga
sed all except the junior clerk, whom
they forced at the point of a pistol to open the outer door of the vault, and then blew open the inner door and
rifled the vault of money and securities.
FARMERS WILL SAVE HUGE SUMS BY USE
OF WAR EXPLOSIVES
NEW YORK CENTRAL CAREFULLY GUARDED
(By Associated Press) ELKHART. Ind., Aug. 29. Every foot of track of the New York Central right of way is being closely guarded dav and night. John Kuesport, captain
of the New York Central police depart-
ment here, said today, referring to con
fessions of Gary prisoners that they plotted wrecking the Twentieth Century Limited near Elkhart. "Our men are closely on guard and all suspicious looking characters found near - the
track are taken into custody," he
added.
(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. Farmers of the country this fall will be able to save hundreds of thousands of dollars in clearing their land of stumps, in drainage work and in other ways requiring blasting through Jhe use of picric acid salvaged from surplus war explosives which will be distributed by the United States Bureau of Roads, it was announced today. The only cost to the farmers who may obtain supplies of the explosive through any state agricultural college
or agricultural state extension service
will be a charge of six cents a pound
for drying the acid and placing it in cartridges and in addition the small
expense of transportation.
Picric acid in cartridge form is the
safest, "most powerful and m other re
spects the best explosive known for
use by farmers m blasting, accordin
to reports just made to the bureau of mines and the national research council by Dr. Charles E. Munroe, chair
man of the council's explosives committee, chief explosive chemist of the United States bureau of mines, and consulting explosive expert of the war and navy departments. He originated the plan for salvaging the millions of dollars worth of explosives left over from the war and approximately 5,000,000 pounds of picric acid is available for distribution o farmers.
Hope Still He d For Trapped Men in Burning Mine (By Associated Press) JACKSON, Calif., Aug. 29. in the grim grip of despair as hour follows hour in their vigil families and fellow workers of the 48 . gold miners imprisoned since midnight Sunday nearly a mile below the earth's surface in
the Argonaut mine today clung stub
bornly to the shred of hope that their husbands, fathers and buddies still live, although the most optimistic hope
was to reach the men within 18 hours. Dawn today found the tense group still waiting. The pink tints of sun rise touched into gentle colors a serene rolling landscape, typical of the Sierra foothills and the region of the mother lode. Light of a new day chased long shadows westward at he mouth of the black pit but one it could not dispel. The shadow of death still hung over those who worked and . those who waited.
- No Hope Token '"From the mouth of the pit from which these men have helped to take fortunes in gold at an average of a million dollars a year came no token
of hope. 'From it came no sign of the hell of flame and smoke and poisoned air that raged between the imprisoned miners on the levels below 4,000 feet and the workers who vainly struggles to reach them. During the night men attempted in "mine skips" to ride down through the flaming levels were dragged back to the surface, their faces blackened. They came to gasp eagerly for fresh air and to tell of the hopelessness of the trip below. The tracks on which the skips run were warped and distorted with the heat, in some places
even meitea away.
Flames which started yesterday
morning at the 3,000 foot level today had worked above the 2,400 foot level. A half mile below the earth's surface
working frantically with drills and picks to break through a concrete barrier which long has sealed the shaft of the Argonaut from the shaft of a neighboring mine the Kennedy, other miners sought to make a possible
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REVEAL OTHER PLOTS
(By Associated Press)
CHICAGO. Aug. 29. Five men were
charged with murder today, accused
of wrecking the "million dollar ex
press" on the Michigan Central near
Gary, Ind., Aug. 20. when two of the
train crew were killed.
Five others were held in connection
with the wTeck investigation and at
least two more who are known, were
sought, according to the police. Confessions obtained from some of the prisoners not only solved the wreck of the express, but bared a plot to wreck the Twentieth Century Limited, crack New York Chicago train, near Elkhart. Ind,, the police said. ; The five who face murder charges are: Joseph Papourvitch, Charles Uselis, John Petrowski, Albino Alescio, End James Prohetah. All are said to be striking shopmen. Uselis, Petrowski and Papourvitch were said to have confessed the wreck plot. "The men are Russians, and before the strike were employed in New York Central shops. They named Alscio in aheir conferences, and he admitted knowledge of the plot according to the police, but maintains that
Petrowski, Uselis and Papourvitch were responsible for the wreck. Descrbes Wreck Work Taken to the scene of the wreck, Uselis, the police said, described the work of the wreckers in pulling spikes and loosening rails. According to the story cf Uselis' confession he and his companions had attended a meeting of strikers and rad
icals in Chicago the day before the Gary wreck. A speaker, whose name the police said they have, admonished Uselis and his friends because they had not "done much to help the strike along." Uselis and his companions, the alleged confession went on, talked with the speaker after the meeting, scheduled the wreck of the express train,
went to Gary that night, and upon their return were congratulated for the work they had done. The plot to wreck the Twentieth Century Limited then was hatched, according to Uselis' alleged confession, with the idea that a disaster of that magnitude would cause travelers to fear to ride trains.
E. F. Grable The contention of the maintenance of way men is being presented to the labor board by E. F. Grable, their president.
SOLICIT FAIR FUNDS; DRIVE WILL CONTINUE TILL AMOUNT RAISED
EYE-WITNESSES TELL
HERRIN TRAGEDY TO JURY INVESTIGATORS
Daylight Saving Continues
In Richmond Until Octl Daylight savings time'Jn Richmond will continue until Oct. 1, and not end Sept. 1, as believed by many local citizens, according to city officials. The ordinance passed by council sets the time for the arrangement to end on the first date named.
Weather Forecast
Lloyd George Tells House Britain Will Pay Debts (By Associated Press) LONDON, Aug. 29. Prime Minister Lloyd George, in conversation- with Col. E. M. House, who breakfasted with the premier this morning reiterated Great Britain's intention to discharge her present debt to the United States to the last farthing, Col. House told The Associated Press. Col. House said the premier begged him to tell those at home that Great Britain was not seeking financial assistance from the United States, but desired very earnestly her continued moral support
Ohio Fuel Commission To Propose Fair Price For State Mined Coal (By United Press)1 COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 29. Fair prices for Ohio mined coal, based upon production costs in the various fields, will be proposed when the state fuel commission meets here again Thursday, according to Fuel Administrator Poor. Operators will be asked to observe this price, but, as Poor points out, the state has not power to compel compliance. Majority of the producers, officials believe, will co-operate with the commission, although they say they are unable to enter any price agreement. Poor said today that the commission ha3 a "pretty clear idea" of what the price should be, but that they want to investigate further before acting.
"We have no way to enforce a fair
price," he explained, "except through weight of public opinion. For that reason, we want to be sure of our ground and propose a price which will be really fair."
FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY By W. E. M.oore Occosional rains and probably thunder showers this afternoon or tonight; Wednesday partly cloudy.
The slow eastward movement of the
storm across the Great Lakes indi
cates unsettled weather and occasion
al rains, with fair at intervals,' during
the next z4 hours. Temperatures-Yesterday
Maximum 77 Minimum 50
Today Noon 7
Weather Conditions: Local rains continue over the lake region and
states adjacent thereto. It is gener
ally fair in the northwest, but another storm is developing over the Rocky mountains. It is quite cool in southern Canada, but it remains hot over the southwest and moderate over the central states. The tropical storm which was southwest of Jamaica Saturday night is evidently over the Gulf of Mexico, causing increasing rains and wind blusters over portions of the gulf states. The hot weather continues over Arizona and southern California, with 110 degrees in the shade at Phoenix, Ariz., and 94 at Los Angeles.
(By Associated Press)
MARION, 111., Aug. 29. Witnesses summoned for today, the second of a special grand jury investigation of the Herrin mine Avar, were expected to bring before the jurors vivid eye witness descriptions of what happened around the Lester strip mine on June 22, when 19 employes of the Southern
Coal company were slain or fatally wounded, and of the happenings of the previous day resulting in the death cf 3 union miners. According to the instructions given the jury yesterday the investigation will assume two distinct phases, the
slaying of the union miners and the
massacre on the employes of the illfated strip mine.-
Asked To Be Fair In charging the jury, the judge ap
pealed to the investigators to use fairness and justice and to make every ef
fort to counteract the charges of lawlessness that have been made openly against Williamson county's citizens
and officials by bringing before the
bar of justice those upon whom rests
the blame for the 22 fatalities. Employes of an electrical railway line running between here and Herrin, said to have been eye witnesses, are on the list of those called before the grand jury as are the survivors of the battle. While comparatively little-interest was shown in the investigation on the first day, precaution has been taken to prevent any unforeseen disturbance.
Solicitation of funds for the Wayne
county fair continued until late Tuesday and N. H. Johnson, chairman of the finance committee, said that he
could not make an estimate of the
total amount which would be raised as
a number of the most important committees were still at work. He said that a number of subscrip
tions had been disappointing in the amount, and he did not believe that some of the subscribers realized the
magnitude of the fair.
"The solicitation will continue until
all the territory has been covered,"
he further stated, "and we will keep on with our work until enough money is raised to put this fair on right. We
have always done things right and we
are going to see that people are prop
erly entertained and this is made the
biggest thing Richmond ever had. Names To Be Printed
At a meeting of the finance committee held Monday night at the council
chamber it was unanimously voted to publish the name and amount of each
subscriber to the fair and also to pub
lish an itemized 'list of the expend!
tures immediately following the fair,
About 60 business men were out on
the soliciting committees Tuesday.
Inquiry among breeders of Wayne
and nearby counties indicates a wide
spread intention to exhibit. A large Guernsey cattle exhibit is assured by the several breeders who have been
developing this breed during the last
few years, W. B. Strong and Ivan
Thurston of Fountain City, and D. R. Funk of Richmond being listed among
them. Mr. Strongs son Frank, one of the pig club members last year, .s well as this year, is able this time to compete with veteran breeders and has announced his intention of entering gilts and boars reared this year by a sow which as a pig won a county
championship last year. Other Exhibitors Caldwell and Sons of Milton, Angus and Duroc Jersey breeders; Baker and Bertsch of Cambridge City, well known Spotted Poland China breeders and extensive prize winners at the Muncie and Newcastle fairs and prob(Continued on Page Two)
Informs Maintenance Men of Inability To Define Principle of Living Wage Under Esch Act. WILL MEETWEDNESDAY (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Aug. ( 29. The railroad labor board today denied the motion of W. J. Lock, labor statistician, that
the board immediately define the
principle of a living wage" in the
case of the maintenance of way em
ployes, who are seeking an increase of minimum rates of pay.
At the request of E. F. Grable, presi
dent of the maintenance organization, the hearing was adjourned until to
morrow morning.
President Grable announced that he
had telegraphed President Harding and Senator Cummins, one of the authors of the transportation act, at Washington today, asking them to pre
sent to congress an amendment to th3 act which would make it mandatory for the labor board to enunciate the principle of the living wage.
Limited by Act The board in its ruling on Lock's re
quest said it could not go beyond the transportation act, which prescribed
just and reasonable wages. The
board's ruling as announced by Chairman Ben W. Hooper follows: "On the motion submitted yesterday on he-
half of employes by Mr. Lock the
board announces as follows: It is
superfluous for the board to announce in advance the principle on which it
will fix wages in the pending dispute."
This question was raised when the
hearing began yesterday. The board was asked by E. F. Grable, president of the Maintenance union and W. Jett
Louck, the track men's statistician, to define a "living wage," it is according to union leaders, nothing less than 48 cents an hour, the minimum of the wage scale which the maintenance men have asked the board to establish. Roads' Object Ten roads whose trackmen have been on strike since the shopcrafts threw down their tool3 July 1, joined in the protest against permitting the strikers to have representation in the case. When the protest was made Ben W. Hooper, chairman of the board, recalled that the board refused to recognize striking switchmen in 1920 pending their determination to work. Representatives of the carriers also contended the case was not properly before the board because no mention of a 4S-cent minimum had been made in joint conference at which rail officials and union chiefs failed to agree on wages. The wage scale for maintenance of way workers prescribed by the board
in its decision effective July l ana against which the trackmen voted to strike ranged from 23 to 35 cents an hour. President Grable, who held tho
strike of his organization in abeyance pending the present hearing, declared that wages on some roads have been forced down as low as 17 cents.
For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; somewhat cooler southwest portion tonight.
Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11,666 '
ALLIES MAY ASK U. S. TO BE ARBITRATOR
(By United Press) 4 - WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. With the allies apparently deadlocked and Germany and other countries of central Europe as well plunging further into financial and economic chaos, the United States may be asked in the
near future to settle the German reparations problem. Should such a request come from Europe, it probably would be with a view of having the United States act as a sort of arbitrator, according to a belief here. It is not expected that an appeal from Europe would be for this country to participate directly in negotiations to. settle the central European problem or to lend any material government aid in the situation, for it is thought that the American government would reject any uch proposal.
ARMS PLAN SCOPE MAY BE WIDENED
(By Associated Press) GENEVA, Aug. 29. Extension of the Washington agreement for reduction of naval armaments to include countries not parties to that accord, is one of the questions to come before the council of the League of Nations, assembling here today to begin preparations for the third assembly. This probably will be recommended
in a report (to the council by the dis
armament commission, wnicn was charged by the assembly with the preparation of a treaty or reciprocal agreement between nations, tending
not only toward naval disarmament, but military as well. The commission
is expected to finish its work this week.
The committee on finances has prepared a report on the position of Austria, suggesting means for her relief, and the committee on committee on
communications and transit will present suggestions for applications of the recommendations made my . the Barcelona conference conference last
year.
Guard Lloyd George Trip With Official Secrecy (By United Press) LONDON, Aug. 29. As a precaution against Irish extremists who are known to have threatened members of the government, -the destination of Lloyd George was kept secret as he made ready to depart on a vacation trip today. It was merely announce! the premier was to spend a "holiday" in the country.
222 LOST ON BOAT
OFF CHILEAN COAST
(By Associated Press)
SANTIAGO, Chile, - Aug.- 29. The Chilean . steamship .Italia, 2,200 tons, sank today off the Chilean coast near Coquimbo. All the passengers, numbering 150, .and, the, crew, of -72, were lost. -
The Italia was built in 1920 and registered by Lloyd-Nacional of Brazil. The ship was of 2,200 tons. The Chorus islands are off Coquimbo, which is a seaport half way down the coast ' Chile. The latitude of the islands is 29.15s. and longitude 71.35w.
REDS MENACING VLADIVOSTOK . (By Associated Press) TOKIO, Aug.. 29 The Japanese have evacuated the Suchang mines which the Red troops immediately occupied thus menacing Vlpdivostok sconomically and financially according to a dispatch published today by the Jiji Shimpo.
PASCO. Wash., Aug. 2?. Twenty-
eight striking Northern Pacific shopmen here are starting suits for $1,000 each against the railroad because they have lost their jobs.
This Is how it happened: After the strike - was declared the
railroad management decided to buiH
a fence around the shops as a protection to the property and the workers. The contract for building the fenco was let to a construction concern. The
28 idle shopmen immediately applied for jobs helping put up the fence, and got them.
- When the Northern Pacific found it
out, the 28 alleged in the law suit, they lost their new jobs. Boycott and blacklisting are charged. ,
DANVILLE, Ills., Aug. 29. A series of four explosions early this morning shattered windows and . demolished long strips of yard trackage in the shops of the Chicago and Eatern Illinois road here. It wa3 believed that an attempt had been made to destroy the entire shops. One bomb had been, planted near the main entrance of tho yard. CHICAGO, Aug. 29. The walkout of Chicago & Alton trainmen at Rood-
house, 111., is ever. Striking engine-
men and company ofScials met at Slater, Mo., In a move to end the C. & A. tie-up there. Five men were held cn charges of murder in connection with the Michigan Central wreck at Gary, Ind., Aug. 20, when two of the train crew were killed. These were important developments in the railroad situation today following bomb outrages, shootings, wreck plots and investigations by federal, state and private operatives during the last 24 hours. The Chicago & Alton, which has been one of the chief sufferers from strike complications since the shopmen's walkout. July 1, prepared to unravel the traffic tangles of its western lines.
Starts Schedule With the settlement at Roodhouse the road began arrangements for a daylight schedule for its trains. The unauthorized strikes by train service unions virtually had paralyzed the Chicago & Alton since last Friday. While Chicago and Gary police, federal operatives and railroad detectives dug into their investigations of the Gary wreck and other alleged sabotage plots in which train wrecks were a part of a program of terrorism, separate inquiries were in progress into an attempt to ditch the California-Florida flyer on the Frisco system at Capleville, Tenn., and the dynamiting of Chicago & Alton railroad bridges at Drake and Wbiteshall. III. . Bombing of the homes of railroad employes at. Bloomington, 111., and Montgomery, Ala., the shooting of a Chicago & Alton watchman in Chicago a gun fight betwen railroad guards ana (Continued on Page Fourteen)