"“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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♦ 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
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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.