Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 213, 7 September 1922 — Page 1

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UNION CHIEF DENIES RAIL PEAK PLAN J. P. Noonan Says Policy Committee to Discuss Handling of Strike and Attitude on Daugherty Injunction. HOPE FORSETTLEMENT

I BULLETIN CHICAGO. Sept. 7. Pending the meeting of the policy committee of the railroad shop crafts union, to bo held here Monday, the same day as the hearing on the government's application for a permanent injunction against the strikers and their leaders, union headquarters withheld any further statements concerning their hopes for a settlement said to involve 52 railroads. Legal representatives of the government and union were prepared for the court fight -Mondy. While the government is expected to pursue its course of seeking to enjoin perma-

k nently against any interference with railway operation or with railroad property the union's counsel will ask

that the temporary injunction be set aside, and propose to oppose a per manent restraining order. Blackburn Easterline, assistant solicitor general, is expected to arrive Saturday to take charge of the government's case, (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. There are no conferences now in progress be tween leaders of the railroad strike and railroad presidents, and none have been held since the formal gathering in New York last month, it was as serted today by J. P. Noonan, ehief of the Brotherhood of Electrical Work . ers, which, is one of. the seven rail unions on national strike. The meeting of the strikers' policy committee called for next week ai Chicago is to consider the general strike policy and also is to consider what shall be done in view tof the injunction application of the attorney general, Mr. Noonan said. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 7. John X Wall, member of the national policy committee of the federated shopcrafts today expressed his belief that the meeting of the -policy committee in Chicago Monday - would be for tho purpose of discussing "means and terms of a general settlement" but refused to disclose his basis for such a belief. Mr. Wall said that from indications he believed that a settlement was imminent. Local officials of the B. & O. railroad striking . shopcraft

union also concurred in this belief. CHICAGO, Sept. 7. With the railway shop 'crafts policy committee of 1 90 summoned to meet in Chicago next - Monday, hope of an early or partial settlement of the rail strike was renewed today, for the first time since the railroad executives and the union chiefs broke off peace negotiations in New York. These hopes were founded principally on the call for the unions' policy committee meeting and statements by strike leaders of the possibility of separate agreements with 52 of tho

Class 1 roads representing approxi mately 85,000 miles Railroad executives generally either denied that peace overtures had been copsidered in conferences with union leaders, or declined to comment upon rumors of an impending settlement. Some insisted that the strike was broken and that peace parleys had ended with the ,break-up of tho New York conferences. Call Sent Out The call for the policy committee meeting issued at Chicago strike head

quarters by John Scott, secretary oHseptexaber sixth in the history of Chi-

the Railway Employes department of the American Federation of Labor, went out to the general chairmen ot the shopcrafts organizations over tho name of B. M. Jewell, head of the department, whose whereabouts had remained publicly unknown since the government's strike injunction was granted to Attorney General Daugherty by federal Judge James H. Wilkerson last Friday. Officials of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad of which Daniel W'illard is president, and which is included in the group of roads from which strike leaders hope to obtain separate agreements, denied knowledge of any conference with Jewell or his associates. Meeting Important With the issuance of the call for the policy committee meeting Mr. Jewell was reported to be enroute to Chi-; cago. The call informed the genera! chairmen that the meeting was "very important." The meeting of shopcraft leaders was called for the same day which Judge Wilkerson set for hearing the government's application to make the Daugherty injunction permanent. Attorney General Daugherty announced at Washington that the government would "consider in due time what proceedings wcV.d be taken against the few misguiaed labor leaders who have made incendiary speeches" in connection with the industrial situation. He said the government had been "somewhat hampered" by the difficulty process servers had experienced in locating leading officials of the shopcrafts organizations. Union leaders denied that Jewell and his associates had been purposely avoiding the service of writs. Ask Impeachment. M-eanwhile labor leaders in the east joined in demands for the impeachment of Attorney General Daugherty and Judge Wilkeson because of the injunction. At the same time Samuel Gompers. pr?sident of the American Federation of Labor and his executive council meeting at Atlantic City prepared for a court battle to vacate the injunction. T. DeWitt Cuyler, president of the Railway Executives association, with other railroad heads said the roads, were pleased with the way striking employes were, coming back to work.

Progress of Friends9 Mission Field Work is Told in Report

Activities of Friends in foreign mission fields were discussed when the members of the Board of Foreign Missions made their reports at the Five Years Meeting of Friends in America here Thursday. The presen tation of the report was made by George H. Moore, president of the board, and he was followed to the plat form by B. Willis Beede, acting execu tive secretary, Millo S. Hinckle and Mary Miars Harold. The report of the nominating committee of the American Friends Board of Foreign Missions also was received following the speaking session of the meeting. George H. Moore, president of the board, in presenting the report, noted the fact that when the greate amount of activities was being carried on in foreign mission fields we were in a period of financial inflation. Friends gave freely at this time, enabling the work in foreign fields to go forward at a rapid rate. He stated that with the period of financial relapse the board did not have the money necessary to'carry on the work as it had been, and that it had gone into debt. This debt, he stated, had been somewhat liquidated, but the burden still is heavy. B. Willis Beede, executive secretary of the board, gave in detail the work of the members of the board In for eign mission fields and introduced to the meeting some of the missionaries who have been and who will soon de part for the work in foreign fields. He first took up the work of the mission in Africa stating that within the last five years the number of mis sion schools in Africa had increased from 36 to 85 and the number of pupils from 100 to 10,910. He stated also that five years ago there were practically no girls in these schools, and that at present of the number of pupils, about 40 per cent are girls He stated that approximately 6,000 of these African pupils are being sup ported in the schools by native funds. In reviewing the work of the mis sionaries in Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico Palestine and China, Mr. Beede stated that the missionaries are developin native evangelistic workers to broaden the work already started by the (Please Turn to Page Three) PRESENT HOT WAVE EXCEEDED IN FORMER YEARS, REPORTS SHOW People who say we are experiencing the hottest weather in years for September are discovered to be approaching old age by the sure sign, a failing memory. The proof is that in 1919, according to pumping station figures, the Sep tember heat wave of six days from the sixth to eleventh averaged one degree more than that through which the city has been passing during the first six days of this month. The average in 1919 being 86 degrees as compared with 85 degrees for the first six days of September this year. Following is a tabulation showing the September heat for 1922, 1919 and 1921. . 1922 Sept. 1, 86; Sept. 2, 89; Sept. 3, 82; Sept. . 4, 85; Sept., 5, 85; Sept. 6, 86. 1921 Sept. 1, 87; Sept. 2. 87; Sept. 3, 81; Sept. 4, 79; Sept. 5, 80; Sept 6, 75. 1919 Sept. 6, 86; Sept. 7, 86; Sept. 8, 88; Sept. 9, 89; Sept. 10, 89; Sept 11, 81. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 7. Intense heat of the last few days caused many prostrations at the state fair, bulged asphalt streets, killed one cow on exhibition at the fair, and did other damage. The mercury has hovered between 91 and 100 for a week. Cliff dwellers in apartment houses seek cool places to sleep on the lawns. rmrAfin. Rprit- 7. The hottest cago claimed four lives. Tne tnermometer registered 96 degrees. Three were killed by the Intense heat and one by a cyclonic disturbance caused by the weather. Several schools were closed early in the day because of the heat. The year's heat records were broken in practically every state of the middlewest yesterday and threatened to fall again today. Weather Forecast FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY By W. E. Moora Fair tonight and Friday, except for possible local thunderstorms. Con tinued warm. The high barometric pressure, per sists east of the Mississippi river, which will cause continued warm weather for the nest 36 hours. Fair weather will prevail. The only chance for rain is in the possibility of a lo cal heat storm. Temperatures Yesterday at Pumping Station. Maximum 86 Minimum 61 Today. Noon 84 Weather conditions The hot wave continues intense over the central and southern sections cooler in the northwest. Local thunderstorms are reported in various parts of the country, elsewhere it is generally fair. Recordbreaking heat for this time of the year over South Dakota and Wisconsin. Sioux Falls, S. D.. had a temperature of 104, LaCross, Wis., had a mark of 100 degrees, breaking the record for 44 years. For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Continued warm today and Friday with exception of probable thnndershowers Friday afternoon near Lake Michigan. Si Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11,698

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President's Strike Course Lowers His Prestige-Sullivan ' By MARK Sl'LUVAS NEW YORK, Sept. 7. Any survey of current political feeling throughout the country is sure to result in a report that President Harding has lost ground wfith the public rather conspicuously during the past . ten weeks. This impression is deepened by travel to points distant from Washington. In ouarters where President Hard ing as late as last May was still at the height of his popularity Dy contrast presented by the present state of feeling is unmistakable. The rea son universally given for the change Is the course of the administration in regard to the strikes. It is held that the president's course as a whole did not end or shorten the strikes, that i-ome specific things he did were unfortunate, and that Xhe strikes night have had an outcome quicker in time and more satisfactory to the public if Mr. Harding had never touched them. This feeling about Harding is not in any degree malevolent. One could say that personally he is still liked. He is universally credited with having had (Please Turn to Page Two) DESERTED WIFE STEP NEARER GETTING PART OF HUSBAND'S GOLD (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Sept. 7. Mrs. Lottie Bock, mate of John Bock, wealthy Californian, in the days of his poverty in Chicago today was a step nearer a share of his fortune wrested from the gold fields of. Alaska after he deserted her to later bestow the com forts of wealth on a new wife, Eleanor. Sought by wife No. 2, who insisted that the woman whose place she took share in Bock's fortune, the first wife, found after a wide search in the obscure village of Dresser Junction, Wis., was with her hearthstone successor. Wives Meet. The two wives met, according to Attorney John T. Duffy in his offices where preliminary arrangements for dividing the Bock fortune were made. With her search ended, Mrs. Eleanor Bock now shares the publicity upon which she depended to find the companion of John Bock's lean years. The two wives came to Chicago together, Attorney Duffy said, and after the first conference in his office, went into hiding until another meeting to day. Bock readily agreed to Eleanor s plan and as far as Alaska gold will do it, is ready to pay his debt to the girl he left behind when he staked his claims in Klondike, years ago. MEREDITH NOMINATED FOR U. S. MARSHAL (By Associated Press) x WASHINGTON. D. C, Sept. 7. Nomination of Linus T. Meredith as United States marshal for the d' strict of Indiana, was sent to the senate by President Harding, Thursday. No statement could be obtained from Linus Meredith, county clerk, Thursday concerning the report from Washington that his name had been sent to the senate for the office of United States marshal. Shipping Board Steamer Is Burned To Total Loss (By Associated Press) PENSACOLA, Fla.. Sept. 7. The Lshipping board steamer Colthraps, which caflght fire in her oil bunkerage tanks early Tuesday and burned un til last night, is practically a total loss local agents of the boat said today. The cargo was saved. it Flying Parson" Killed In Flight At Jutland (By Associated Press) ' RUTLAND, Vt., Sept. 7. Lieut. Bel vin W. Maynard, known as "the flying parson was killed while flying at the Rutlasd Fair today.

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TURK ADVANCES NEAR SMYRNA, ONLY OUTLET OPEN FOR REFUGEES (By Associated Press) PARIS. Sept. 7. The Turkish ad. vance guard is now less than 30 milej from Smyrna, according to the latest official advices reaching Paris from Angora. The Nationalist cavalry is reoprted making a dash for the coast at Smyrna The Greek losses since the ,pehing of the campaign are estimated in the Angora advises at 50,000. Of these, 15,000 represent prisoners, and the remainder killed and wound ed. Angora also reports the capture of an entire Greek army corps of the southern group which was encircled in the region of Salihi and surren dered. The cities of Bilikesri and Sahdirdbi have been occupied by the Nationalists. Smyrna Is the only remaining outlet for the stream of refugees fleeing before the enemy. LONDON Spt. 7. The British cabinet at its meeting today had up for discusbion among other things the situation in Asia Minor which is causing serious anxiety to the entente powers. The position arising out of the victorious Tudkish offensive has given rise to active exchanges between tho allied capitals both in regard to the possibility of an armistice and the question of safeguarding the Chris tian population in the districts evacuated by the Greeks. The problem of removing the refugees from Smyrna presents serious difficulties as the vessels for their transportation in the event, of a sudden emergency are not available at this time. . ' : As regards an armistice neither belligerent, so far as is known, has taken any definite step, although the Greeks are reported most willing to end hostilities. Military Situation Not Clear. Meanwhile the actual military sit uation is far from clear. Turkish sources generally report victorious progress by the Kemalists, while it is' alleged that the capture of Sokia is imminent, which would bring them very close to Smyrna. On the other hand, a late Constantinople dispatch reports "the provisional suspension of the Turkish offensive in the southern section." while Greek sources represent the situation as improving for their forces, which are reported to have sufficient confidence to announce their determination not to . evacuate Smyrna. . Among the morning reports is one that. King Constantine has quit Athens. Further details are lacking, and whether if the report is accurate, the king has gone to the front to encourage his troops or hs left for political reasons, is , merely, conjecturable. Rumors of the resignation of the Greek cabinet and. the return of former Premier Venzelos has been current for the last two days.

REGISTER SATURDAY The first day for the permanent registration, made obligatory by Indiana law, will be next Saturday, Sept. 9., Every person,, no matter if he has registered before, must register Saturday or on Oct. 9 to vote in the November election. To; avoid, the rush and confusion of the last registration day, county officials and. party leaders urge voters to register on Saturday in the precinct voting places. The booths will be open from 8 a. m. to 9 p. m. - - Register early.

Young Recommended For Postal Job at

Shelby ville Office PALUiDIUM NEWS BIHEAIT WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. The live liest postmastership contest which has held the Sixth Indiana congressional district since the advent of the pres ent administration at Shelbyvllle. end ed today when Representative Richard N. Elliott recommended the appointment of George E. Young, who was high man on the list of eligibles sub mitted by the civil service commission. The president is expected to send his appointment to the senate immediately and as soon as it is confirmed, Young will assume his duties succeeding Allen P. Green, Democrat, whose term expired last Tuesday. Young is a Republican and a merchant. Second place on the eligible list went to Earl L. Hayes, a clerk in the postoffice, and the third eligible was Sherman H. Marshall, a merchant. Both Hayes and Marshall ar Republicans. Otto A. Lee, Republican, chairman of Shelby county, was an active candidate for the appointment and was generally supported by the party organization but his candidacy could not be considered owing to the fact that he failed to make the eligible iist. The civil service commission expects to submit the eligible Hat for the postmastership at Richmond just as soon as it receives a report on the candidates from its field examiners. JURY TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGED DISCREPANCY IN MASSACRE FACTS (By Associated Freas MARION, 111., Sept 7. Correction of a conflict in descriptions of the un identified victims of the Herrin mas sacre buried in potters field, and of a discrepancy in the number of victims will be attempted in today's session of the grand jury investigating the Herrin massacre of June 21 and 2 While the records of the undertakers who prepared the bodies of the victims for burial indicate that 19 non union men and three union miners met death during the two days, the coroner's record indicates the number to be 23, showing one non-union miner more. Coroner William McCown, one of the first witnesses on the day the in vestigation begun Aug. 28, has been recalled and will be questioned today principally in regard to the descrip tion of the unidentnied. Need Description In view of the fact that the names are not known, prosecuting officials said it would be of importance to have an accurate cescnption or the un identified. Significance has been attached here to the request sent by Attorney Gen eral Brundage who is conducting the inquiry to Thomas Marshall, indict ment expert of states attorney's of fice in Chicago to come to Marion. It is generally believed here Mr. Marshall will assist in the drafting of indictments which are expected to be made known before the week ends. Additional indictments have been issued. The number could not "be learned.

UNION FILES PETITION TO

RESTRAIN U.S. Electrical Workers in Wash ington Ask Injunction Restraining . Enforcement of Daugherty s Chicago Order. HEARING ON SATURDAY BULLETIN WASHINGTON. Sept 7. Attorney General Daugherty today sent for Sen ator Borah. Republican of Idaho, chair man of the senate . labor committee, and after a conference regarding the injunction issued against the striking railway shopmen, it was indicated that the government would not insist at next Monday's hearing on the permanent injunction on the provisions alleged to curb freedom of speech. WASHINGTON, Sept 7. With ev ery public statement from officials and labor circles tending to discredit re ports of negotiations between railway strikers and executives looking to separate settlements of the shopmen's strike, one important group of strikers today struck to prevent enforcement of the government's sweeping restraining order issued in Chicago last Saturday. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, through J. P. Noonan, president, and Charles P. Ford, secretary, filed a petition in the supreme court of the District of Columbia for a permanent injunction restraining local federal officials from proceeding under the Chicago order, and for a temporary injunction to the same effect pending decision on tho first application. Hearing on Saturday. Hearing on the temporary order was set 'for Saturday before Judge Bailey. The petition declared that, neither the organization as a body its members, nor Its officials had been guilty of any of the illegal acts charged by the government and asserted that the Chicago order was without authority of law and unenforceable in the District of Columbia. Mr. Noonan declared the electrical workers were proceeding on their own initiative in seeking the injunction. but added that if granted, they ex pected it to apply to members of their union throughout tne country. We don't particularly like govern ment by injunction," Mr. Noonan declared in discussing the eceltrical orkers "application but if the ad ministration desires to proceed that way we can do so as well. While I have not been served with any copies of the Chicago restraining order the district attorney and the United states marshal in Washington notified me and all the members of our organization through the newspapers that we couldn't hold meetings or even discuss the strike. "We think as a law-abiding union. that we are entitled to do that and to conduct our organization's affairs along regular lines and have consequently put it up to the court to determine." WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. James P. Noonan, president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, a leader in the strike, today was served formally with a copy of the restraining order obtained by the government from a Chicago federal court. Service was effected by United States Marshal E. C. Snyder, who was under stood to have received his instructions prior to the filing of a petition in the courts of the District of Columbia, by Noonan's organization for an order restraining the federal authorities from enforcing the provision of the Chicago order. NEW YORK, Sept. 7. The support of the American Federation of Labor in its effort to bring about tho impeachment of Attorney General Daugherty and Federal Judge Wijkerson, of Chicago, for their part in the issuance of the rail Injunction was pledged by Samuel Gompers, federation president, in a telegarm received today from Atlantic City by the Central Trades and Labor council. - ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. Sept 7. American Federation of Labor chief led by President Samuel Gompers t day prepared to draft a plan of attack upon Attorney General Daughc-rty's injunction against the railroad shopcrafts strikers. - Following a series or secret conferences, which lasted until late last night it was unofficially announced at labor headquarters in the Ambassador hotel, that it had been almost definitely decided to attempt through the courts to have the Daugherty act vacated. ' , No fixed plan for a legal campaign has been evolved so far, it was said by the labor leaders. They expect, however, to have such a plan in shape to be submitted to the executive council of the American Federation of Labor when it convenes in formal -session Saturday.' A score of the labor crafts were also on the scene as today's program got under way. Besides the 10 vice-presidents for whom reservations had been made at the Ambassador and Richmond hotels, several non-members of the American Federation of Labor executive council arrived in time to participate in last hight's deliberations. Leaders Present These included; George W. Perkins, head of the Cigar Makers 'International, of which Mr. Gompers was for many years president Jacob Fischer, president of International. Barbers Union: John J. Manning, chief of the Union Label Trades, and John McPharland president of the International Typographical Union. The last named it was said cams here to gain the support of Mr. Gompers and his aides in a program which be expects to introduce before the annual convention of his organization tieginning at Atlantic Citv next Monday.