Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 215, 9 September 1922 — Page 1

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MRS. HARDING SHOWS SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT Grave Concern, However, Is Felt for President's Wife

Dr. Charles Mayo on Way to White House. VISITORS ARE BARRED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept 9. The con dition of Mrs. Harding, wife of the president, continued today a source of anxiety to those in attendance at her bedside, although it was stated of ficially that the complications noted yesterday were "less threatening." Arlse ia the patient's temperature was recorded during the forenoon, but this was not unexpected on the part of the physicians, who did not -view it as necessarily a dangerous symptom. Brigadier General C..E. Sawyer in formed newspaper men at noon that statements issued from the White House this morning would be the last until about 6 o'clock tonight, unless there was a radical change. (By United Press) WASHINGTON. Sept. 9. Mrs. Har ding passed a fairly good night and her condition ia as favorable as can be expected at this time, an official bulletin from the White House stated today. The official statement paid: "Nine a. m. Mrs. Harding had a fairly god night "The complications of yesterday are les prevalent this morning. "On the whole her condition is favorable as can be expected at this time. (Signed) "Sawyer." -This announcement was accompanied by an order closing the White House and grounds to visitors and by the cancellation of President Harding's engagements for the day. Nature of Malady Hydro-nephrosis, the malady from which Mrs. Harding is suffering, is an affection of the kidneys. In the present Instance it is complicated by a severe cold. Opiates were administered to the patient during the night to relieve her pain. Chairman Lasker of the shipping board, said today. Lasker said the doctors expected the crisis within 24 hours and were exerting every effort to prevent poisonous secretions from accumulating. If these efforts are successful, Lasker said, the physicians hope that Mrs. Harding' strong will power will see her though. Secretary of War Weeks, who called at the White House today, said Mrs. Harding seemed better this morning than yesterday. Seems Stronger. "Mrs. Harding's temperature is somewhat lower today and she seems Btronger," said Weeks. In attendance with Dr. Sawyer were his son, Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, Dr. Joel T. Boone, medical adviser of the presidential yacht, Mayflower, and Dr. John Fanney, of Baltimore, wh wa3 hastily called in last night. Mayo is due in Washington early Sunday. President' Harding was up at daybreak, having been sent to bed by Dr. Sawyer at 3 a. m. . m The news that Mrs. Harding's life was actually in danger startled Wash ington last night even though an earl ier anoun cement from the White House had stated that her condition was causing much concern. Issues Statement. Following the arrival from Balti more of Dr. Finney, shortly after the following official statement was issued. "Mrs. Harding whose illness is a recurrence of attack experienced before coming to the White House developed complications Thursday and Friday night which make her condition critical. "These complications are so serious that recovery is not yet assured. "Dr. John Finney of Baltimore was called in consultation today and Dr. Charles Mayo is en route from Rochester, Minn. Dr. Carl W. Sawyer and Dr. Joel T. Boone have joined in attendance on Mrs. Harding today." (Signed) ' C. E. Sawyer. M. D." Seemed Better Friday. Early Friday morning the White House apparently not seriously alarmed said Mrs. Harding appeared to be "recovering" from an illness which forced her to take to her bed, following a short cruise with the president on the Mayflower. At that time Mrs. Harding was slightly ill and contracted a cold. This brought on a recurrence of the hydro-nephrosis which first attacked Mrs. Harding in 1913. At that time she underwent a surgical operation. Another attack in 1916 seemed likely for a time to prove fatal. For four days Mrs. Harding's life was despaired of, but her fighting spirit carried her through then and that is what her friends are counting on the present crisis to bring her safely past the danger point. Mrs. Hard ing now carries, however, the handicap of six additional years. She is more than 60 years oldShows Anxiety All during Friday President Harding though plainly showing in his Increas ed gravity and by his worried look, the deep anxiety Mrs. Harding's ill ness caused him, forced himself to at tend to his official duties. He cut the cabinet meeting to a scant -'wenty minutes however, and when he ippear ed at his semi-weekly conference with newspaper men late in the afternoon, was pale and drawn. The pre? dent himself, ministered to his wife's wants as much as the doctors and nurses would let him and last night refused to go to bed until Dr. Sawyer finally or dered him for the sake of his own health to seek some rest. The arrival of Dr. Finney from Bal timore, caused a flurry of excitement among the watchers at the White House. Finney rushed from hi taxi cab Into the executive mansion, brush(Please Turn to Page Three)

Majority in Maine

For Republicans is Likely to Be Cut By MARK Sl'UIVAX WASHINGTON. Sept 9. The Interest in the Maine election today lies in its traditional role as an Index to the political state of mind of the country as a whole. In this light the tendency will be to Interpret the vote in Maine today by comparison with the rote for president in the same state in 1920. That, however, would lead to seriously false inferences. The 1920 situation was . abnormal The league of nations Issue twisted the result Into such a shape that It Is no basis for . comparison whatever. In that year there were at least 12,000 Maine Democrats who went to the polls and voted for their party can didate for governor, but refrained from voting for Cox. There were mny other thousands of Democrats who went further and actually voted for Harding. Obtained 70 Per Cent. The result was that in that year, out of a total vote of about 200,000, Harding got close to 70 per cent of the total, and had the immense ma jority of roughly 78,000. Nothing like that will happen this year. ' A careful calculation based on more nominal years and making reasonable allowance for the increase in the total vote caused by woman suffrage, would lead to the judgment that if the Republicans carry Maine this year by as much as 20,000, they will be doing well indeed, and will be justified In inferring from such a result that they will carry the country comfortably in November. On the other hand if the Republican majority should fall below 10,000, the lessons of past experience will cause .politicians to Infer that the country (Please Turn to Page Five) LIGHT REGISTRATION RECORDED EARLY IN MOST OF PRECINCTS Light registration seemed to be the rule in precincts Saturday, judging from a survey of registration booths. Up to noon, only five and threefourths per cent of the vote had reg istered in seven precincts containing 2,8(10 voters. Registration seemed a little heavier in the downtown districts than in the residential and factory districts. At the courthouse the largest number of votes in any one precinct had regisistered for the sixth precinct. The number was 36. Twenty-seven had registered in the eleventh precinct In the twenty-first precinct 13 voters out of 270 had registered by noon. In the seventeenth, 18 had reg istered. Other Registrations. Other precincts visited, and the number registered were: TwentTKhird precinct, 28 voters twenty-fourth precinct. 22 voters; thir ty-sixth precinct, 24 voters; seventh precinct, 19 voters; tenth precinct, 12 voters; thirteenth precinct, 17 voters - Percentage of women registering was small, only one precinct, the thirty-sixth showing an equal number of men and women voters. At the twenty-fourth, 19 men and three women, at the city building, eleventh precinct, 16 men and nine women. The registration rush was expected about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Registration is uniformly reported lighter than that of two years ago. Receives Returns. Returns will be received by County Auditor Howard Brooks in his oe at the courthouse until 11 o'clock t-'.it-urday night, and until noon, Sunday, it was announced. Registration booths will close at 9 o'clock, old time, Saturday evening. The two registration dates. Sept 9 and Oct. 9 will provide Indianians their last opportunity for a general registration, for under a law passed by the last legislature the voters roll will become permanent. It is estimated that more than 1,500,000 men and women, approximately one half of the states population, are expected to be enrolled at the two registrations. Registration Final Under the law making this year's registration final, never again as long as the present law remains on the statute books will all the voters be required to register, but those changing address and new voters will have the opportunity of correcting the perma nent enrollment. The permanent roll, it has been es timated, will mean a saving to Indiana counties, for each of the registrations of the .past have cost between twenty and twenty-five cents for each vote registered. The total cost has been approximately $300,000. According to the last registrationthat of 1920 there were 1,446, 374 voters, of whom 719,641 were men and 600,332 were women. This registra tion cost $303,466, according to reports made to the Legislative Reference Bureau, or approximately 21 cents a vote. A general election, however, such as that of next November, usually costs twice as much for each vote, the state bureau reporting the cost of the 1920 contest as $567,599, with 1.249,762 votes being cast for secretary of state. In the 1920 primary, there were 317,334 votes cast at a total of $313,427, or 99 cents a vote. County W. C. T. U. Session To Be Held Here Sept. 22 The county convention of the W. C. T. U. will be held at the East Main Street Friends church, Sept. 22. Mrs. Sophia B. Huff, of Fountain City, will preside. Between 50 and 75 representatives from the county unions are expected to attend. Further announcement will not be made until after the executive session. Viewers Of Cotvin Road Named By Commissioners Albert Albertson, of Green's Fork, former county treasurer, Frank Hodgins, of Franklin, and Charles Gifford, of New Garden, were appointed viewers on the Colvin road, when the county commissioners met Saturday. They will report in a week's time.

SMYRNA UNDER

BOMBARDMENT OF TURK GUNS Evacuation Proceeds With Great Disorder Greek . Fleet Leaves Harbor Turk Cavalry Patrols Near City. FLYERS REACH OTHERS (By Associated Press) ATHENS, Sept .9. Smyrna Is being bombarded by the Turkish . Nationalists. Nine airplanes from the Greek naval base -there arrived here this morning, the airmen telling of their departure from, the city under artillery fire. As they left the Smyrna airdome an enemy shell damaged a tenth plane which was just leaving the grounds. The machine was unable to continue and the aviators were ignorant of the fate of their comrades. Smyrna Is being evacuated amidst scenes of great disorder according to refugees 2,200 of whom have arrived here. Panic reigns as the Turks approach the town, it is declared and Greek soldiers are contending with the civilians for places on the outgoing ships. . , Rioting is reported among the troops in the Brusa sector, in the North, where the" Greeks are embarking at Mubania on the sea of Marmora. N. Kelogeropoules, the premier, designate, is expected to present the names of his ministers to King Constantino tonight The only program we have is to try to extricate the country from the present critical situation he declares. SMYRNA, Sept 9. The Greek fleet left Smyrna harbor this afternoon. The Greek commissioner of police planned to embark tonight The allies probably will occupy the town tomorrow. Allied and American attachments were landed at noon today from the warships for the protection of the foreign population. Naturalized Americans have been instructed to leave the town. , Turkish nationalist vanguards have been reported fifty mile of the city. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept 9 Turk ish cavalry units have penetrated to within 25 miles of Smyrna after breaking through the Greek front at Alashehr, the ancient Philadelphia, say dispatches received here.- - An Adana dispatch last night said Turkish forces had reached Manissa which is about 25 miles northeast of Smyrna. . Gen. Dousmanis has been appointed commander-in-chief of the Greek forces to succeed Gen. Polymenakos LONDON, Sept. 9. A dispatch to the Express from Berlin says the Countess VonBluecher, formerly Alma Loeb, of New York, has been robbed at . a hotel in Kreuznach, Rhenish Prussia. Thieves broke into her room, chloroformed her and took 1.2o0. A dispatch to the Daily Mail says the countess was found in bed uncon scious from chloroform and that her jewels had been stolen from beneath her pillow. LONDON, Sept. 9. The occupation of Smyrna by the Turkish nationalists is forecast for today in dispatches received here efrom Constantinople. It Is stated the commander of the Turkish advance guard already has damanded the surrender of the Greek forces within the town, promising safety to the civilian population. Gen, Polymenakos has declared his deter mination to hold the place, but it is believed he will be forced to yield. The Times publishes a Constantino ple report to the effect that Gen. Polymenakos already has been superseded as commander in chief by Gen. Dousmanis, which would take the decision away from the former and thu-3'save his face. Allied Troops Ashore Details of the landing of allied marines at Smyrna have not been received, but some dispatches state small parties were put ashore merely for guarding consulates, allied prf perty and subjects. The number of refugees who have arrived from the interior at v.irlous ports In Asia Minor, including Siryrna, is estimated at 500,000, according to Reuter. The condition of the refugees Is described as pitiful. Mustapha Kemal Pasha's rer-ly to the proposal for an armistice has not yet proposal for an armistice has not known but It is believed there, according to the Daily Express correspond ent, that the nationalist leader will refuse to call off his troops except on his own terms, including the Greek evacuation of both Asia Minor and Thrace, surrender of all Greek arms and supplies in Asia Minor anl payment of the cost of the Turkish campaign. Little is known as to what is actually happening lnthe Greek capital, and many rumors are afloat. King Constantine is said to have hurridly summoned crown prince George from Bucharest and the inference in some quarters is that he may be contemplating abdication. Arrest Governor's Daughter; Reckless Driving Alleged (Bv Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9. Alleged reckless motor driving.Jt was said to day, was the casue of Gov. Sprours daughter. Mrs. J. H Ward Sinkson, falling into the hands of the Philadelphia police last night, along with another young woman and a youn; man. The governor arrived at the olicfe! station after his daughter ar..i the young woman had departed. The young man did not leave the police station until later. His identify or that of the other young woman was not disclosed by the governor. The police were reticient.

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backer are pictured above. LEAGUE WILL ENDURE SPANIARD DECLARES; SURVIVES CRITICISM (By Associated Press) GENEVA, Sept. 9. In the resump tion of the general debate on the work of the league of nations today Amalio Gimenoy Cahanas of Spain told the league assembly tnat the league was young but that already its underlying principles were deeply rooted and the league must endure. It had already outlived many adverse predictions. It was forecast that the Genoa confer ence would produce an organization to supersede the league, said the speaker, but this. had not been the case. Conferences come and go, he added, but the league continues to live. Paul Hymans of Belgium deplored. the war-like atmosphere which exists in many countries. "We signed peace," he said, "but we did not make peace. War like senti ments survive in many states and anxiety for their own security in others. I am not pessimistic however. The league . will do its work nd through the league peace will finally come." . Regis de Oliviera, of Brazil, who followed H. Hymans, assured the assembly that not only Brazil but all South America was in full sympathy with the effort of the league to relieve Austria. "The league," he said, "will earn well merited gratitude from humanity if it saves this old source of refined civilization." Ambushed Nationals Hold Out Against Irregulars (By Associated Press , DUBLIN, Sept. 9. A patrol of four national army men proceeding toward Ballinaboy Bridge near the CUfton wireless station County Galway, was ambushed yesterday by 40 irregulars, whose Intention it apparently was to cut off the Marconi station garrison from its base. The patrol, however, took cover and held its position until reinforcements arrived when the irregulars took flight. Weather Forecast FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY Thunder storms this afternoon or tonight; cooler tonight; Sunday gen erally fair and cool. Continued cool Sunday night. The persistent high barometric pressure which covered the states east of the Mississippi river for several days, resulting in high temperature?. will be followed by a cool wave during the next 36 hours, attended by thunder storms. This will be the last of the heated spell. A short period of cool weather will follow. . Temperatures Yesterday Maximum 83 Minimum 64 Today Noon 85 Weather Conditions: The hot wave continues slowly to break up over tho Mississippi valley states, but remains unchanged over the eastern -central states. Temperatures continue to be from 94 to 100 degrees in the shade south of the Great Lakes, while the coolest wave of the season covers the northwest The first snow of the season occurred in we?tern Montana yesterday. while killing frosts, with temperatures of 26 degrees above zero, occurred in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. The storm centers over the northern states have turned southward in the shape of a letter "V." For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau: Partly cloudy weather with local thunder showers - thi3 afternoon or tonight; east and south portions cooler tonight. Sunday generally fair; cooler south portion. Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11,766

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Body Of Old Miner Found With Will, Coffin Prepared , (By Associated Press) YREKA, Calif., Sept. 9. George Baines, an elderly miner, was found alone in his shack near Sawyer's Bar, with one wrist slashed, lying along side a home-made coffin lined with flour sacks. Nearby was a will, burial garments and an empty poison bottle. A grave, evidently dug with hte own pick and shovel, was outside the shack. The miners declared 3aines had waged a long, unsuccessful search for gold. RAY WEISBROD NAMED POSTMASTER OF CITY BY REP. ELLIOTT TODAY PAIXADIVM NEWS BtREAU WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 Ray H. Weisbrod was today recom mended by Representative Rich ard N. Elliott for appointment as postmaster at Richmond Ind., to succeed Charles B. Beck Democrat, whose, term expired last Tuesday. Weisbrod will as surne his duties as ' soon as his appointment has been conf irme' by the senate, within the nex few days. . Representative Elliott announced his selection of Weisbrod for the Rich mond postmastership on receipt of the eligible list for the office from th United States civil service commis sion. Weisbrod was the highest eligible. Clarence W. Foreman, superin tendent of mails at the Richmond postoffice was second on the eligible list, and Lewis C. Niewoehner, president of a Richmond coal company and a former postal employe, was the third eligible. All three eligibles are Republicans. Weisbrod is manager of the Weisbrod Music company; He is a former service man, having served in the marine corps during the world war. He-was at one time- secretary of the Richmond Kiwanis club. . Charles B. Beck, retiring postmaster at Richmond, held the office for eight years. GOVERNMENT . SEEKS DISMISSAL OF. WRIT BY UNION WORKERS (By 'Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. The government, through its local legal representatives, today moved the dismissal of the petition for an injunction brought by the International Brotherhood of Elecerical Workers, seeking to prevent enforcement of the restraining order issued by Judge Wilkerson at Chicago. The supreme court of the District of Columbia has no authority to review or modify the Chicago order, it was contended, and the plaintiffs here will have every opportunity to seek relief before the Chicago tribunal; Other Reasons The motion to dismiss also assigned in support the contention that the electrical workers' suit is in effect against the United States which un der law cannot be sued without its consent and that no facts were alleged showing the Chicago court was- without jurisdiction to enter the tempor ary rest-aimng order. Finally, the motion declared there are no facts set up in the bill to show that the alleged threatened acts of the district attorney and United States marshal will interfere with any prop erty or pecuniary rights of the plain tiff. Justice Bailey, before whom the case was brought, decided however, that he would hear the application of the strikers. WOULD SAFEGUARD AUTOISTS TOLEDO, Ohio, Sept. 9. The state legislature will be asked to enact leg islation compelling automobiles to come to a full stop before crossing railroads, by the Toledo Automobile club; it has announced.

Entombed Miners

May Yet Be Alive According to Test (By Associated Press) JACKSON, Calif., Sept 9. Science, through one of its delicate instruments, had turned despair into hope when crews of diggers today resumed their hectic task of reaching the spot walled in by rock and debris and flame where 47 workers in the Argonaut gold mine have been imprisoned for 12 days. It seemed yesterday that the res cuers would release only corpses. An official of. the company had expressed the belief that all the entombed miners were dead and every evidence apparently pointed to that Yet, late last night came the astonishing an nouncement that chemical tests had demonstrated that the. men all were alive. Argonaut officials said they were preparing a formal statement declar ing it their opinion that none of the miners had perished. The officials backed up their assertion wiyi the ofrer or a rewara oi j&.uiw to tne iirst crew reaching the miners. Indicate No Gases. A delicate instrument, it was ex plained, had been lowered Into the fiery and gaseous shaft through which the men had gone. It had recorded no gases recording the presence of a single dead body. Moreover, It was reported to show that noxious gases have not penetrated to the region where the men are entombed, but that the air in the lower levels was pure enough to sustain life. An analysis of air currents in the shaft Indicated that there was no car bon monoxide below the 2,400 foot level. Previously it had been believed that poisonous gases had permeated levels far below that. . A recheck of progress made by tho rescue crews showed that on the 3,600 foot level, 245 feet of muck must be cleared before the solid 75 feet of solid rock remaining could be penetrated.. On the 3,900 foot level there remained 130 feet of soft substance and 142 feet,iOf rock. ATTORNEYS ATTEMPT TO SECURE MINERS' RELEASE UNDER BOND (By Associated Press) MARION, 111., Sept. 9. Wltn the grand jury resting until Sept 18, at torneys for the union miners Indicted in connection with the Henin mass acre of June 21 and 22 last, today were prepared to make an effort to have the 11 men wno are held in jail re leased on bond. ' A motion for the release o? Otis Clark, the first man indicted atd ar rested on a charge of murder, has been pending since the day of his arrest and since the grand jury has suspended its work it is thought prob able the hearing on this motion will soon be held before circuit Judge D. T. Hartwell. Clark was originally charged with the slaying of C. K. McDowell, superinten'dent of the Lester strip mine round which the battle was fought and it was in this indictment that A. W Kerr, chief counsel of the Illinois mine workers, filed the motion for the prisoner's release on bond. Charged With Murder In addition, Clark was charged with the killing of John Shoemaker, assist ant superintendent of the mine. In all, 58 men have been indicted thus far. Of these, 37 are charged with murder and 21 others are accused of conspir acy to kill, and rioting. The 37 named in the murder Indictments also are named in the conspiracy and rioting Indictments. Attorney General Brundage and state's Attorney Iuty, who with Assist ant United States Attorney General Middlekauff, have been conducing the investigation, have already made known that they will resist any attempt to release on bonds men who have been charged with murder. Expect Legal Battle A long and intricate legal battle is expected to develop from these trials, it is indicated by the preparations being made by the miners' -attorneys. The pledge of a sum approximately $250,000 by the miners' executive board at Peoria, 111., yesterday. Is expected to be augmented. That this investigation will be thor ough and complete was made known by the grand Jurors themselves yester day, when through their foreman, John Stewart, the investigation announced that the following phases were yet subject to investigation: The killing of the three union miners whore death precipitated the rioting on the following day, the action of the heads of the southern Illinois coal company prior to and after the reopening of the Lester strip mine and also the reported theft of the mine equipment IRISH PROVISIONAL PARLIAMENT MEETS (By Associated Pre;,s) DUBLIN, Sept. 9. The provision parliament for southern Ireland provided for under the Anglo Irish trea ty, met today in the new semi-circular parliamentary chamber in Leinster house. The program called for formal organization with the election of a speaker and other officers. . The only anti-treaty member present when the session began was Lawrence Ginnell. The various military chiefs, including Richard Mulcahy and Owen O'Duffy, were in civilian clothes, the only uniform seen being worn by Capt. Sean McGarry. Nearly every pro-treaty, independent and labor member was present. Prof. Michael Hayes was elected speaker without opposition. Lawrence Ginnell, having refused to sign the roll of what he called a "foreign" parliament, and having shouted several times his objections to the proceedings, was on motion of William Cosgrave voted excluded from the house. After the adoption of this motion three men forcibly removed Ginnell.

WANT JEWELL EXCUSED FROM FEDERAlWRIT Counsel for Railway Employes Says Government Failed To Make Case Alleges Mis

representations Made. CITES CLAYTON ACT (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Sept 9. A . motion to vacate the government's temporary restraining order against the staking shopcraft unions so far as it applies to B. M. Jewell, head of the railway employes' department of the American Federation of Labor, and John Soott. secretary, was filed In United States district court here today The action was begun by Attorney Donald R. Rlchberk on behalf of the railway em ployes' department, and was based on three general allegations: That the government had failed to make a case. That the relief asked and obtained on a temporary order was prohibited by the Clayton act That the relief was sought and ob tained with ulterior objects and under misrepresentation. rBy Associated Press) . CHICAGO, Sept 9. "Nothing to say" was the brief reply of union leaders and railroad heads alike to in quiries concerning the strike situation today pending developments next Monday when Judge James IL Wilkin son is due to hear Attorney General Daugherty's application to make the government's strike injunction perma nent The policy committee of the six striking shop crafts is summoned to meet the same day. Both sides in the strike controversy had apparently adopted a waiting policy until then. S. Davies Warfield, president of the Seaboard Airline, who with Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio, is included in the group of executives said to be leaning toward a plan for separate agreements for settling the strike on individual road. was expected here today. Willard Secretive Mr. Willard, who met with other rail heads here yesterday, was even more secretive than his associates when questioned concerning the new peace moves. The shopmen's strike entered its eleventh week today with conditions generally quiet throughout the country. A fifth man was arrested at Tulsa, Okla., on charges of setting fire to a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad bridge near El Reno, Okla, on Aug. 17. ' Murder Charges Brought Four men faced murder charges at Memphis, Tenn., for the killing of Charles Lanier, Jr., a non-union employe of the Frisco 6ystem. Police said the men confessed to virtually all crimes and disorders since the railroad strike in that section of Tennessee. Three men. were reported to be in the custody of United States deputy marshals in connection with the dynamiting of a section of track of tho Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul at Perry, Ia. Military and federal authorities were without clews to the identity of bomb throwers who wrecked th3 homes of two Missouri, Kansas & Tex as railroad shop employes at Parsons, Kas. Invited Back. A. F. Banks, president of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern raiload outer belt line to the Chicago steel and shipping district announced that striking employes of the road had been invited to return Monday to their former positions and rating with the company, including seniority rights. He said he expected the men to return Monday. Strike leaders, on the other hand declared there was no break in their ranks and that strikers would not return to work until the strike was terminated on a national basis or until some other satisfactory arrangement had been made. Officials of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy announced that west of the Missouri river the system has 101 percent of a normal shop force. Although the Burlington made no an-, nouncement such as that of the Union Pacific restoring pension rights to former employes who return to work, C. D. Gray, assistant to W. F. Thiehoff, general manager said. RICHMOND,. Va.. Sept. 9. Federal Judge - Groner dismissed charges against two railroad shop strikers here yesterday because he said, ha did not wish to "mar the spotless r ord of the railroad workers who walked out in the eastern district of Virginia. He told the men, however to leave the state. O. F. Edward and O. C. Lyons, former Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad mechanics were charged with violating an injunction issued by Judge Croner. He asserted the evidence showed they were "guilty only of using improper language against other employes."

134th Field Artillery Reunion Set For Sept. 10 (By Associated Press) COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept" 9. A reunion of the 134th Field Artillery, will be held in conjunction with the American Legion convention at the 37th division reunion in Dayton, Sept. 10 and 11. it has been announced Lere. At this time, efforts will be made to form some permanent organization for an annual reunion of the three-organizations. Brigadier General H. H. Bush, former colonel of the 134th, will act as president of the reunion committee, until a permanent organization is perfected.