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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1922)
"“the frontier D. H. CRONIN, PUBLISHER. “ W. C. TEMPLETON, Editor and Business Manager. O'NETLL, NEBRASKA The department of the Vonne, Invest ed by vlpefs, offered 20 centimes a head as a bounty. Two enterprising farmers turned their land Into a snake farm, and had sold 4S.000 heads to the govern ment when their envious neighbors gave the game away, relates the Scientific American. A sentence of two years “for obtaining money on false pretenses” was reduced to 18 months, since It had to be admitted that the men had kept the letter of the agreement. Garrett Biblical Institute. Northwest ern university, in co-oporation with the Methodist board of home missions is instructing church pastors in rural church administration, methods and educational value of play, rural sociol ogy, tenantry and farm organizations, and lectures on the teaching pulpit and its message, life in the holy lands, com munity building, and the Sunday school. Ministers attend this summer session, hear theological experts, and at the same time enjoy a vacation at the email cost of $125 a day for meal* and * $3 a week for lodging. "Week-end" holidays, the custom in England, will become a law in Germany. With compulsory invalid, sick and acci dent insurance largely borne by em ployers already in fore*, and with lib eral municipal and state support for the unemployed of whom there are at pres ent but few, fho forthcoming legaliza tion of week-end holidays as provided in the labor law. is another move in tho direction of making Germany a paradise for the working man. Many Industries now have a 46-hour week or less, while ■hop councils determine who may or who may not be discharged. The average annual pay of rural post men using motor vehicles is $2,570, as compared with $1,830 for those using horse drawn vehicles, says the latest report of the postmaster general. With a stick to which was attached adhesive tape, a man tried to loot the “poor box” at St. Paul’s church, New York. When discovered he fled, but ran into the arms of two policemen. Bom* 1,300 Yakima mcuans nave re ceived the freedom of their reservation In Washington state, for 10 more years, without acceptance of any duties or privileges of American citizenship. Bobbed hair and abbreviated skirts are going out together, according to the president of the hair net association of America. "The arrival of the long iklrt may have brought no Joy to the hosiery manufacturers," said he, "hut It’a coming Is a boon to the hair net In dustry. The Incongruity of long skirts and bobbed hair Is so apparent that women have promptly resorted to the hair net In order to escape a ludicrous effect." ; The Jack Plckfords are spending a bathing suit honeymoon, splashing In the ornate swimming pool at the Doug las Fairbanks estate. They cancelled their honeymoon motor tour because "Mil" Flckford was anxious for Jack to finish a production In which he Is being starred. An expensive cast Is loafing when he docs not work. Two million club women throughout the United States have pledged them selves to boost the morale of former service men. Each of the 40,000 women's clubs will bo urged to check up on for •mer soldiers In their respective districts, give relief, and find Jobs for the needy. One of the artists who has Just ap peared at the Queen’s hall, the goal of all English Ringers, Is Miss Alice War wick, who until a short time ago, was a singer In the streets. One day a fam ous conductor heard her singing, and at once recognized the perfect quality of her voice. Ho took her to Ills study and trained her thoroughly. The smallest piece of privately owned real estate In New York was brought to attention when workmen completed lay ing yellow and black tile blocks 111 a space 24x 26 Inches at Varlck and Chris topher streets, forming letters to read, "Property of the Hess estate which has never been dedicated for public pur poses.” More than 2.000,000 person* nre volun tarily Idle through strikes, and since July 1 about 100,000,000 hours of work have been lost each week according to a review of industrial conditions mado by the national Industrial conference board, an employers' organization. The wage loss, at the rate of 60 cents an hour, Is $8,000,000 a day. A proposal to raise a campaign fund for oriental exclusion In Canada will t>e laid before the merchants of British Columbia when they meet hi convention In Victoria. Among other things the laundrymen will ask the merchants to endorse a resolution asking that oriental laundries t>« forced to operate under stringent regulations governing white laundries. Bolshevists are teaching a new re ligion, according to a Moscow dispatch to the Philadelphia Public Ledger, stat ing a communist university had been opened with 860 students. Besides the new Zion, the bolshevlsts teach the his tory of revolution, history of material ism, and economies of the Hussttin so viet republic. No details of the religion are given. Jua-rez, Mexico had what Is said to be the moat unusual "mob’’ In Its history when more than 100 small children vol untarily banded themselves together and stormed the city hall asking for the city schools to be opened. The children had tried to go to school but had found oil doors closed, the teachers being out on strike. For two months there had been little money In the city treasury so the teachers, some In dlro need, decided to oult teaching as a means to force city officials to pay and re-employ them. The French Princess Fauclgny-Luolgne has been sentenced by a Dresden court to i>ny a fine of $10 or serve nine days In Jail. The princess became highly In dignant when, crossing the border near Dresden, a Gorman customs offlelul pawed aver the beautiful lingerie In her baggage. She exploded with a tempera mental: "You are a boche." The Dres den court holds that this was an insult to a(i official of the German republic and has Invited the princess to come from Paris to serve the Jail sentence or send a check for the amount of the fine. Foremost medical authorities predict that In a few years the ancient custom of shaking hands will have gone the way of the roller towel, the family tooth brush and the insanitary drinking cup. It Is generally conceded by prominent physicians that hand shaking Is not only a carrier of disease germs, but Is ex tremely harmful to the nervous system. Flo Klegfeld, who spent a lot of money cabling his wife, Billie Burke, that II Marllynn Miller said things about him they were not so, has started from Paris for New York with 18 new hats foi Billie. Governor General Wood urges th« necessity of employing more Americar teachers in the Philippine islands to In struct native teachers In English, and believes there should be 1,600 instead ol <00 as at present. A New Jersey woman is seeking sep aration from her husband, a heavy weight blacksmith. She claims he usee her “like an anvil,,v but he Insists he’i so timid that he slept In the stable whei she told him to get out. SCBUTMflSTER HUD TOO MANY WIVES Jailed for Getting Money Wrongfully His Other Crimi nal Acts Gradually Come to Light. Alliance, Nob., Aug. 12 (Special).— Ben W. Keach, former scoutmaster, In Jail here for getting money undid' false pretences, is a much-mai-rled man, according to letters pouring into the office of Lee Basye, county attor ney. The latest wife to appear la a woman at Charleston, S. C., who claims he married her January 31, 1915 and left her July G, 1920. He was never divorced from -her. It ap pears. They have two children. The lawyer representing the Charleston woman declares Keach also married tho daughter ot a Mr. Shriek, at Beatrice, Neb. That this Mrs. Keach lives at Beatrice but believes she was divorced from Koach. Keach is said to have four chil dren, a 13-year-old daughter by the Beatrlco woman; two by tho Charles ton woman and a baby of less than a year by his present wife. The pres ent Mrs. Keach, who married him in South Dakota has been informed of only one of his previous marriages. She Is trying to secure his release from Jail and says she will remain true to him If he will get a divorce from hlB “former" wife. EXPL08I0N IN FILM VAULT CAUSES FIRE Omaha, Neb., Aug. 12.—Fire, which for a time threatened to destroy the entlro block between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets on the north side ■ot Farnam street Friday, caused dam age estimated at more than $125,000. The fire resulted from an explosion of films in the vaults of a film ex change in the Marblestone building at 2036 Farnum street. Flames shot hundreds of feet Into the air and the explosion shook buildings in the neighborhood. Losses sustained by the First Na tional and Educational Film ex changes were estimated at $100,000. • ABANDONED BABE HAS % NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED Arnold, Neb., Aug. 12 (Special).— A three-weeks-old baby boy left on the step of the local hotel has not been Identified, it was after a storm and the trail was immediately taken and followed to a point south of the Table store where the rain had stopped and the track was lost. The baby is healthy, weighs seven pounds, and had a full outfit of clothing. Some prepared food had been left with it. Prohibition. From New Orleans Tlmes-Picayune. A Misstssipplan says it is getting ao dry in his town he has to grease his lips with bacon rind every time he whistles for his dog. Zeppelins Next. From the Omaha Bee. As has been remarked on sundry othe;* occasions, it’s ft queer world. Only thf, other day Americans, Englishmen an<i other allied nationalities were vowing that never so long as the world lasted would they renew their old relationship with the Hermans. From London is announced the estab lishment on an airplane lino that will carry passengers from London to Berlin in seven hours. Can any better example of two lato foes rushing into each other's arms be found? All the post-war experiences have im pressed the independence’of nations and the impossibility of fencing off any unit of the world. How long will It be before Zeppelins again will fly from Germany to London freighted with goods aivl passen gers, instead of bombs. Governor Kendall’s Speech. Prom the Des Moines Tribune. Of the few reminders of the conven tion of the old days, the only one worth while, was Governor Kendall’s little speech. That was In the spirit of the days of Dolllver and Henderson, Hep burn, Cousins and others. The applause was spontaneous and reel, and one could almost Imagine himself back In one of the old conventions where real orators stirred real emotions. Governor Kendall was at his best and nobody Is better than Governor Kendall when he is at his best In a convention speech. The Illusion of the old days was on the convention while hts speech lasted, but it was speedily enough dispelled when Senator Trewln got up to read the platform in a voice that Senator “Jim’’ Heed of Missouri might envy in his most sarcastic moments, and with appropriate guestures and wags of the head brought out the real meaning of the various omissions of Hrookhart, and the various commitments of Hrookhart. If anybody had the slightest feeling that perhaps after all the old convention days were best, Senator Trewln dispelled them with his first breath. The ma chinations of the old convention were before the delegates stark and naked as Senator Trewln proceeded. But for Governor Kendall there would not have been a bright spot nor a re deeming feature in the whole proceed ing. Governor Kendall did recall old memories of real occasions when con structive men battled openly for control of the politics of the state. It Is often said that oratory is dead. We sometimes wonder If oratory is not the one supreme art of life. If the orator after all does not do more to inspire and direct human movements than anybody else. In any event, let everybody who paid his fare to Des Moines be thankful that he had one bright glimpse of what the old conventions used to be at their best, of what this might have been if so many of the troglodytes of Iowa politics had not come hack to life again. DOCTOR HELD ON CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER Omaha, Neb., Aug. 12.—Dr. M. A. Carriker, more than 30 years a prac ticing physician at Nebraska City was held on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the recent death of Mrs. Heba Dewey of that city, while the woman’s husband, Donald Dewey, Is held responsible with Carriker by a coroner’s jury which handed down a v or diet that her demise was duo to an Illegal operation, says a special dipatch received here from Nebraska city. % ABE HOLDING OFF Assert Present Prices Do Not Warrant Digging—Yields Reported Unusually Large. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 10 (Special).— Secretary Stuhr of the agricultural department, back from a trip to the potato growing section of the state, reports that in the Kearney district none of tho tubers are being dug be cause the market is now flooded, and prices are down from $1.50 a hundred last year to 80 and 85 cents at the present time. The growers claim there is no money in digging and shipping at thoso prices, and they will hold off in the hope that growers elsewhere will follow their example. Tho yields there are unusually large, w here digging has been done. *—♦— TO FIGHT RELEASE OF FORMER OMAHA BANKER Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 10 (Special).— Attorney General Davis intends to make W. V. Mathews, Omaha banker, now in prison as a result of his own plea of guilt, Jump all the legal hurdles possible before he can get out or* bond. After Mathews had served six months some attorney told him the legislature had blundered when it amended the embezzlement statute, wdth the result that it virtually re , leased from punishment all who had violated the original law. Mr. Davis makes the point that Mathews, having pleaded guilty, can not raise this defense on appeal be cause he did not raise it in the court below. He says that his only chance of getting into court is by the habeas corpus route, attacking his imprison ment as unlawful because under a void law. Mr. Davis says that there isn’t very much to the point raised. He says the statutes contain a gen eral saving clause statute, to the ef fect that when a statute is amended or repealed all rights and remedies shall remain as they existed under the old law. TWO BLOOMFIELD MEN MAKE MOTORCYCLE TRIP Bloomfield, Neb,, Aug. 10 (Special). •—Lee W. McCourt and Albert Manke, Jr., have started on a motorcycle trip to New York, their intention being to make short sightseeing stops along the way. The farmer is assistant cashier of the Citizens State bank and the latter is the Junior member of the firm of Manke & Son, imple ment dealers. Tney expect to be gone several weeks. —+— FRUIT JOBBERS HOLD SESSION AT LINCOLN Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 10.—More and better fruits at lower prices was the topic for discussion at a meeting pf the Nebraska fruit Jobbers held In the Lincoln hotel Wednesday. C. N. Palmer, advertising and publicity di rector of the Western Fruit Jobbers’ Association, addressed the meeting, which was attended by representa tives of 18 produce houses of the state. BASEBALL PLAYER IS KILLED BY PITCHED BALL Prudish, Neb., Aug. 10 (Special).— Leonard Green, of Albion, was almost instantly killed during a ball game here when a pitched ball struck him near the heart. He crumpled to the ground and died in a few moments. The ligaments around his heart were torn loose by the impact. Yes, From the Ground Up. From Ltnited Press. An American army officer on tho na tional guard rifle range at Peekskill, N. Y., the other day, asked MaJ. Gen. H. Haraguchl of the Japanese army if the commissioned personnel of the Nippon ese forces was well train^l “from the ground up." The major general answered an hour later, when he accompanied Adjt. Gen. Leslie Kincaid, New York national guard, down a line of Seventh regiment men at practice on the 500-yard range. Tho detachment of national guards men were prone; It was raining; the firing lino was a quagmire. In the cen ter of the line lay a private, mud smeared, and every time Wb fired a flag waved over tho target, informing him his shot had missed the mark. He missed again ami again, and the Japa nese general smiled. "May I take the soldier’s rifle?” he. asked the adjutant general. General Kincaid nodded. The private saluted, handed his rifle to the major general and moved to the rear. Into the muddy hole slid General Haraguchl, resplendent in his parade uniform. He fired 10 shots. Prom the pit under the target a sol dier telephoned: “Ten straight bull’s-eyes. Some shoot ing. buddy.’’ Haraguchl, covered with mud, smiled. “Prom the groundup, yes.” Perhaps a Niblick. Prom the Kansas City Star. We hear that the Washington admin istration is going to use Roosevelt’s big stick. Is it sure it can swing it? Good Ruler Wanted. From Good Hardware. Mr. Blimp—Remember, the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Don’t forget that, dear. »Vs. Blimp—Then you come right in and rule the W’orld a while. I’m tired. Governor Allen, of Kansas, thinks it wrong to restore seniority rights to strikers. Why is it wrong? When the strike ends, railroads will get back everything they had be fore, including equipment and capi tal. All that a railroad worker can accumulate is his seniority rights. To take them from him would be as unjust as taking the bank balances from the railroads in a strike settle ment. ^ The president knows it and will, it is hoped, stand by his original opinion. INSURANCE AGENT TO BEJJCENSED Commissioner Young of Ne braska Will Ask Legislature To Make Some New Regulations. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 14 (Special.)— State Insurance Commissioner Young is going to recommend to the state legislature that it pass an agent’s qualification law, under which life, fire, casualty and other kinds of in surance agents would have to pass an examination before they were licensed to do business. When he was going through college Mr. Young tried selling life Insurance as a side line, and found an insurance agent was lucky if he did not get run off every other farm he visited. His plan would require agents to know exactly what they are selling, so that they may be able to correctly inform those to whom they sell what they may expect if a loss occurs. SHORT COURTSHIP, AND NOW DIVORCE * Fremont, Neb., Aug. 14 (Special.)— The short wooing of a Fremont girl is regretted by her husband, Calvin A. Eaton, of Lais Angeles, who has filed suit for divorce, claiming she left him two days after the ceremonj’. His wife, formerly Marjorie Knapp, daughter of Frank B. Knapp, former president of the Fidelity Trust com pany, now serving a sentence in the Nebraska penitentiary, married him after six hours’ acquaintance, Eaton declares. He asserts they met at a gay party in which three couples par ticipated. Eaton charges she flirted with other meg after she was mar ried, and told him she did not love him. The judge said he would not be quite so hasty in granting the divorce as they were about marrying, and took 90 days to consider the case. DOG CAUSE OF FATAL ACCIDENT AND DAMAGE SUIT Ord, Neb., Aug. 14 (Special.)—A damage suit will be brought against Frank Hosek by Bert Trefron, as the result of the killing of Trefron’s 12 year-old son when the boy’s pony be came frightened at Hosek’s dog. The father immediately went to the Hosek home and killed the dog, and is also said to have threatened Hosek. Hosek Issued a complaint against Treffon, but dismissed it when he learned the boy was dead. STOVE EXPLODES, - HER BURNS FATAL Wife of Banker at Brewster, Minn., Dies In Worth ington Hospital. Worthington, Minn., Aug. 12 (Spe cial).—Mrs. Frank D. Mitchell, wife of the cashier of the state bank ol Brewster, Minn., died at a hospital here Friday morning from burns re ceived at her home Thursday, when a gasoline stove exploded. The cause of the explosion is un known, as Mrs. Mitchell was home alone at the time. After the explo sion, she carried the stove out of th6 house in an effort to save the home, and then rolled herself in a blanket tc extinguish the flames. Her hands, breast and upper part of the legs were deeply burned, while her face was also seared. Besides her husband, she is survived by three children, two sons, one a year and a half old and th« other 6 and a daughter of 10. TWO DEAD, ONE DYING IN CHURCH BATTLE Alleged Attempt to isreaK up Meeting Leads to Bloodshed In -“Wilds” of Kentucky. Somerset, Ky„ Aug. 12 (A. P.)— Two men are dead and another is be lieved to be dying in a hospital Jiero as the result of a gun figtR last night at the close of a religiou^ service at Mount Victoria, about 25 miles east of here. The dead are: Abe Nolen, lay pastor of the Mount Victory church, and earnest Dykes, farmer, Ellis Richardson, a farmer, was wounded. Officers were told today that Dkyea and Richardson with several other young men, went to church service, which was being conducted by Nolen, with the avowed intention of break ing up the meeting. They were un successful, however, and departed. One member of the congregation fearing trouble obtained a shotgun and gave it to the pastor. On his way home Nolen, it is reported, met the two men who are alleged to have fired on him. Nolen returned the fire. The pastor, who recently cattle here, had been active against moonshiners. BODY IS'IDENTIFIED. Washington, Aug. 12 (A. P.)—The body of a man found Thursday just across the Maryland line with a rope around the neck and a score of knife wounds was Identified Fridiay as Rernard A. McBride formerly of Muskogee, Okla. Thus far nothing has developed to indicate the cause of the murder. FIND OIL PROSPECT IN WELL AT NELIGH, NEB. Neligh, Neb., Aug. 12 (Special).— Men digging a well on the outskirts of the city struck oil which they believed is a rich deposit. Dr. Condra, of Lin coln, state geologist, has been invited to come here to make an investiga tion. The Neligh Chamber of Com merce is also making an investigation. At? attempt to popularize stenography is being made in Poland. TMer# Is an ever increasing demand for expert stenographers because of growth of Polish commercial interests. + ■•■ + ■+■*■■*■ + + +■*■ + + + + + *■?■■*■ + ♦ TOPEKA STRIKERS ; ♦ ADMIT READINESS ; FOR LAWLESSNESS ♦ 4 4 4 Universal Service. 4 4 Topeka, Kan., Aug. 15.— 4 4 Threats that striking shop- 4 4 men will no longer reqognize 4 4 the rights of state, city and 4 4 county law enforcement o£; 4 4 fleers are contained in an of- 4 4 ficial resolnti'ja adopted here 4 4 Monday nigh , by the execu- 4 4 tive committe i of the striking 4 4 shopmen crafts. The resolu- 4 4 tion says: 4 4 “We have tried to be peace- 4 4 ful and tried to keep down vi- 4 4 olence but we no longer can 4 4 or will attempt to do these 4 4 things." 4 4 Charging that the Santa Fe 4 4 controls ihe city, state and 4 4 county officers, the resolution 4 4 further states that if “any 4 4 ‘unfriendly' act is committed 4 4 toward any striking shopmen, 4 4 we will take what action we 4 4 deem necessary into our Own 4 4 hands." 4 4- 4 4444444444444444444 ALLIED PADLEY EIDSJjjUE League to Investigate Austrii as She Declares She’ll Col lapse Unless Given $80, 000,000 Credit. -Universal Service. Special Cable Dispatch. London, Aug. 16.—Hopelessly dead locked on the question of Germany’s ability to. continue reparations pay ment, the London conference broke up Monday without achieving any re sult. The delegations return to their re spective countries Tuesday with the understanding that the problem be referred back to the reparations com mission which will decide the "date and period for further moratorium for Germany. Monday night it is not believed^in ofifcial quarters that France will undertake any independent action against Germany. The final sessions of tlie confer ence were held Monday morning and evening, Lloyd George and Poincare continuing the duel they began at the opening meeting a week ago. The French premier insisted that he could not agree to any extension of the moratorium unless further guaran tees were obtained from Germany, and Lloyd George was equally em phatic that none of the major pro posals advanced by Poincare was callable of producing more money for the allies. The final break came on the French proposal that the allies administer the Ruhr basin coal mines and state forests. "We can only agree to disagree,” was the British premier’s despairing remark at the close of the confer ence. The British understanding is that the reparations commission will now deal with the indemnity and mora torium questions, but Poincare made it clear,that he could not agree to even that until he consulted his cabi net. Before dispersing the premiers en trusted the League of Nations with a Austria, the Austrian government having advised them that the collapse of the country is inevitable unless further credit of $80,000,000 is ad vanced. The premiers warned the League to bear in mind that no European na tion is capable of making further monetary advances. EVAN FILE^TOMAKE WHITNEY PAY MILLION Universal Service. Saratoga Wprings, N. Y„ Aug. 15.— Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, son of Air. and Mrs. Henry Uayne Whitney, was named defendant in the com plaint covering a $1,000,000 breach of promise suit filed Monday with the county clerk in Ballston Spa by coun sel for Evan Burrows Fontaine, in terpretive dancer. According to the complaint, which the defendant’s attorney has to date refused to accept, young Whitney made repeated offers of marriage to Miss'Fontaine. The final promise was made October 28, 1920, the complaint further alleges, and the date fixed as October 30. However, the plaintiff charges, the marriage was not performed, although Miss Fontaine was and is still willing to marry Whitney. Definite mention of the place whete the courtship took place is not made, but in the complaint Mis*S Fontaine’s counsel asserts Whitney made sev eral offers of marriage during week end parties in New Haven, while the young#man was a student at Yale. The complaint also alleges that Miss Fontaine became the mother of a son whose father is young Whitney. D’ANNUNZIO SLIGHTLY HURT. Home, Aug. 16.—Injuries sustained by Gabriel d’Annunzlo, Italy's fore most poet and soldier, in an accident Monday are not serious. D'Annunzio was reported to have suffered painful injuries in a fall in his garden. MAN LOSES LIFE IN CRASH ON N. P. Seattle, Aug. 15 (U. P.)—One per son was killed when the eastbound North Coast Limited Monday morn ing crashed headon into a freight train a mile from Durant, Mont., on the Northern Pacific railroad, ac cording to advices received in the offices here Monday. The man killed was an express messenger. No passengers were ser iously hurt, the railway announced. Doctors and nurses have been sen* RAIL UNIONS SEEK PEACE Harding Approves Decision Sirikers Take at Meeting With Him to Cali Parley, Bui Will Take No Part in It. Universal Service. Washington, Aug. 15.—First in dependent conferences of unions and the railroads started here Monday night between Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio and Warren S. Stone, chief of the engineers. Mr. Stone took up with Presi dent Willard the question of get ting certain executives to come into an independent joint confer ence to end the strike. Neither party would make an announce ment, but it is understood that N Mr. Willard favored the plan. Universal Service. New York, Aug. 15.—Coincident with the probability of a strike of 75,000 maintenance of way men on eastern railroads entering New York, the Metropolitan district committee on behalf of the 23,000 striking shopmen in this vicinity Monday night wired B. M. Jewell, head of the railway department of the American Federation of La bor that they were flatly opposed to a settlement on the basis con tained in the executive's reply to the president.. The situation, as a result is considered the most grave since the inception of the* strike with the probabilty of a “fight to the finish” unless un expected peace action is taken ir> va / ..-u; — Universal Service. Chicago, Aug. 15.—A strike of all railroad workers of the coun try will develop unless a speedy settlement of the shopmen’s strike is reached, according to transportation observers here No important change in the situ ation throughout the country is - expected until peace conferences have been finally concluded in Washington. However, the spontaneous walkout of engineers and firemen was believed checked Monday night. Until the Washington ne gotiations break down completely it was believed most of the men would stick to their posts. Because of the danger of en gineers deserting their posts the Chicago & Northwestern rail road placed an embargo on ship ments of livestock and perishable freight on the Iowa division of that road, according to a dis patch from Boone, la. Universal Service. Washington, Aug. 15.—At a confer ence with President Harding that lasted until after dark Monday night the railroad unions decided to call another conference with railroad ex ecutives in an effort to reach an in dependent settlement of the shop strike. The call Is to be issued immediate ly to a group of rail executives known to be liberal. Among them the minor ity have already offered acceptable concessions to the shopmen. Tile de cision of this conference is to be used as an opening wedge witli the entire body of executives, the unio.ns plan. President Harding, it was said, ap proved the new mave of the railroad brotherhoods, but will take no part in tlie deliberations. He feels that If anything can be accomplished now it can be clone with the opposing fac tions facing each other across the table and not through mediation. This Anti-Climax. This was the anti-climax to the situation that until late Monday was regarded as hopeless and even now rail and union officials are not cer tain it will be successful. Spokesmen for the unions declared they had not sounded out the executives and could only hope to get a sufficient repre sentation here to have weight. Rail officials declared the "incident is closed” unless the unions come to their way of seeing things. "We are trying to get someone to talk to us In a way that wiM be help ful," declared L. E. Sheppard, speak ing for the brotherhoods. "Wo hope that we will be able to get some rail road executives in conference that are not so tenacious on some questions as others arc. We will decide in the rnorning exactly what is to be done in tliis direction. "As long as we are mediating the case the executives will do nothing. The labor board takes the position, that men on strike are not entitled tc* consideration at the hands of the board. We contend that when men. go on strike their rights are only' suspended. Tills strike is a lawful Sheppard Stresses Point. Mr. Sheppard stressed the point that it is not the intention of the brotherhoods at this time to have are issue of unsafe equipment. Instruc tions have been sent to all of the men to make an honest effort to run the trains. ALAN BROOKS FINED $5 FOR HITTING “BOBBY’” Universal Service. Special Cable Dispatch. London, Aug. 15.—Alan Brooks. Broadway actor who is producing “The Broken Wing” here, was fined $5 in a London police court Monday for assaulting a policeman. Brooks was on his way home at 2 o’clock Monday morning with a bun dle under his arm. He*was stopped by a policeman, and aftqj an alterca tion he hitfhe "bobby" in the jaw.