WAGEDEMAND COMPLICATES * NEGOTIATIONS _ I Miners Will Strike Septem* ber 1, Is General View Among Observers Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 20.—With Teratives of the United States de partment of justice on the scene in quest of Information regarding the probbility of a strike in the hard coal fields September 1, the anthra cite wage conference struck another snag Monday, and dedspite the gov ernment interfention which brought miners and operators together again, a suspension of mining appeared more imminent Monday than at any other time since the negotiations be gan. The question of Increased wages was added Monday to the growing list of items upon which the opera tors and miners not only fall to agree, but show an absolutely un- I yielding attitude. The miners have asked for an increase of 20 per cent, for contract miners and $2 a day for day workers. John L. Lewis, president' of the United Mine Workers, declared that not only could this increase be ab sorbed by the operators without ad ding it to the price of coal, but in sisted that for the past three years the operators have been collecting from the public $30,000,000 a year which was added to the price of coal in 1920 for the purpose of paying a greater increase in wages than was granted in that year. Present View of Operators Samuel D. Warriner, spokesman for the operators, indignantly denied that the operators increased the price of coal in 192P sufficiently to meet the wage increases granted that year. He insisted that to grant the present demand of the miners on the matter of wage increases alone would *dd at least $2 per ton to the mine ■cost of coal. “The question of an increase in price should not be thought of at this time,” the head of the operators de clared. “The public believes, and the ■operators believe with them, that an tracite coal is now selling for a price which is high enough or even too high.” During Monday’s conference, which lasted until long after the dinner hour Monday night, Mr. Lewis in sisted that the miners must be grant ed a Substantial pay increase in or -der to meet the increasing cost of liv ing, and also equalize pay in the an thracite and bituminous fields. Check-Off Not Mentioned The much discussed question of the check-off, on which the miners and ■operators are now deadlocked, was not mentioned during Monday's con ference. Mr. Lewis indicated that this troublesome question also would have to be settled before an agree ment is reached. Contrary to expectations, the op erators Monday did not renew their request for a "no-strike agreement from the miners. Belief here Monday night seems to toe general that the conference will fail to agree and that a strike will be called September 1. Few believe however, that it will be of long dura tion. Conference Session Secret The renewal of the conference Weeid, director of the United States Chamber, and a banker of Boston, and Elliott H. Goodwin of Wash ington, resident vice president of the United States Chamber. Salesmen’s Representative Calls After the banker group had seen the president, Leon S. Fox, of New York, vice president of the National Council of Traveling Salesmen’s as sociations, called to pay his respects. He was accompanied by Former Hoke Smith, counsel for the travel ing men in their fight for inter changeable mileage, which the rail road^ ere resisting through the fed eral courts. Commissioner Fox, of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, also was a member of this party. “All the traveling men want” Fox said, "is for the merchants to begin to order more goods.” Bergdoll Kidnaper Gets Support Here J»aul J. Richards, acting command er of the Sioux City chapter of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War, announced Monday that the local post has been authorized from national headquarters to begin a fund here for use in the defense of Hooven Griffis, being held In Ger many on the charge of being implicat ed in the attempted kidnaping of Grover Bergdoll. Griffis was for mer post commander of the org&in zation at Hamilton, Ohio. A11 Iowa posts are engaged in as sembling a similar fund as are others in the country, according to Com mander Richards. Telegraphlo word has been sent to Secretary Hughes requesting that he do everything pos sible to give Griffis the proper fair and legal representation under the charges. Federal Agent Arrests Temp Bar Proprietor Hans Christensen, proprietor of a *oft drink parlor at 302V4 West Seventh street, was arrested Monday afternoon charged with maintaining a liquor nuisance and keeping a dis orderly house. William Striker, federal prohibition officer, alleged that Christenson was caught selling booze over the counter of the soda fountain. A small amount of liquor was found in the place, of ficers reported. ALPS MOTOR COACH FALLS INTO STREAM Pari*, Aug. 20—A motor coach on an Alps road fell into th# river Var near Guillanman, aays a dispatch from Nice. Six passengers were killed and 13 injured, all of them Americans who were travelling to the Riveria by coach. The cause of the accident is not known her*. McMASTER GAS CUT ATTACKED Magnus Johnson Says S. D. Governor’s Action Helped Standard Oil Austin, Minn., Aug. 20.—U. S. Sen ator-elect Magnus Johnson, address ed a gathering at the Christgau farm, 10 miles east of here, Monday, on the subject of co-operation, attacking the operation of the federal reserve bank system, declaring it favored the manufacturing interests to the deti fiment of the farmer. Johnson declared that the farmer, business man and laborer must co operate in policies as well as co-op erating in business undertakings. He branded as “lies” reports that he had misrepresented his policies and declared his intention to fight to the end for the system of cost plus reasonable profit for the farmers in marketing their product on the same basis as the business man. "Not more credit, but cheaper credit is wanted by the farmer of the northwest and this will soon be brought about,” he asserted. The reduction by Governor \V. H. McMaster of South Dakota in gaso line prices was deprecated by the speaker, who said that the cut should have been 3.3 cents a gallon Instead of 6.6 cents because “too radical an action permits the Standard Oil j Company to kill off the Independent dealers.” WALES TO VISIT RANCH IN CANADA Prince To Get Taste of Real Wild West “Roughing It” While inAlberta Winnipeg, Man.—The Prince of Wales is going to get a taste of roughing it when he visits his ranch in Alberta during the early Autumn. In the interests of privacy he will travel as the Duke of Cornwall. His stay will be comparatively short, and he will not accept official engagements of any kind, whatso ever while in Canada. Cattle, sheep and horses are raised upon the royal or E. P. Ranch, at Pekisko, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is conducted scientifically under the management of Prof. W. L. Carlyle. But there is enough of the old “wild West" left to give the Prince a good idea of the old days when the cow puncher was king. Bronco busting is not yet a lost art on the Western Canadian prai ries, although the cowboys are not so picturesque'—as they once were. The Prince will have an opportunity to see some fancy riding far differ ent from that on the bridle paths of London parks. There are several thousand acres of land in the Prince’s ranch, with about 200 under cultivation for sup plementary Winter feed. The Prince is keenly Interested in stock raising and sent a number of blooded horses and cows from his stock farm, in Cornwall, to Canada. He will inspect his ranch in detail and offer what assistance he can to foster stock raising in Canada. Carsen Arrives in New York Penniless Clara Phillips’ Escort on Wild Flight Admits Aid ing Her Escape New York, Aug. 20.—Jesse C. Car sen, red headed soldier of fortune, who upon his arrival here Sunday from Central America denied he had ever been in Honduras, admitted Monday night that he was the Car sen in the Clara Phillips, hammer murderess case. He made no attempt to deny that he had aided Clara In getting out of the United States after her escape from Jail. He denied taking any active part in the actual Jail breaking, but ad mitted that she was with him from December 23, 1922, until the time she wcs recaptured at Tegucigalpa after evading detectives several months. He admitted he was without funds, following his escape from Honduras, and that he had wired to Los An geles for money. He said he Intended to go there to aid Clara Phillips aa soon as he could get cash. Overpower Sheriff And Seize Jailbird _____________ — Eau Gallie, Fla., Aug. 20.—Five masked and robed men overpowered Deputy Sheriff Segul on the street here about 9:30 o’clock Sunday night took from him the keys to the Jail and removed G. A. Davis, held on a charge of non-support, placed him In an automobile and drove away. The kidnapers had not been located and so trace of DaWs had been found today Indian Heiress Asks Divorce From Boxer I i 1m ' i 1 Claiming that she was drugged and forced into a marriage in Kan sas City, the purpose of which was to gain possession of her fortune, Mary Elkins, beautiful Osage Indian maiden and richest girl of he? tribe, has filed suit for divorce from Bobby Corbett, a Kansas City box er. Mary Elkins has large land holdings in the Osage reservation and an income of $100,000 a year from her Oklahoma oil lands. In her divorce proceedings she alleges her cavern an husband has taken advantage of her tuberculosis to demonstrate his fistic prowess by beating her regu larly so as to weaken her constitution and cause her death, in an ef* fort to gain her fortune. Corbett d enies his wife's charges. MELLON IMPRESSED BY FRENCH PROSPERITY, ENGLISH FUMBLING AND *RED’ THREAT IN GERMANY ..- 1 Predicts Settlement of Rep arations Deadlock Be fore Winter BY GEORGE W. HINMAN, Jr., Universal Service Correspondent Washington, Aug. 20. — France prospers while England fears for the future and Germany faces ruin. Europe as a whole is fundamental ly sound, except for the Ruhr dispute. The reparations deadlock will be broken before winter. Such was the substance of the re port on old world conditions pre sented to President Coolidge in a long conference at the White House Monday by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, chairman of the American World War Foreign debt commis sion. Declares England Fearful Mr. Mellon's conclusions as the re sult of six weeks passed in studying conditions abroad may be summar ized as follows: 1. France is prosperous, although her policy is weakening her credit. 2. England fears for the future of world trade, upon which she relies for her economic existence, and blames the deadlock in the Ruhr. 3. Germany confronts the prospect of communistic uprisings and the dis integration of the empire, but could still function if permitted to do so. Nothing U. 8. Can Do 4. There is not a gleam of light looking toward a solution of the rep arations controversy, but the prob lem must be worked out. The set tlement of the Ruhr deadlock will remove the last obstacle in the way of a general improvement. 6. There is nothing the United States can do now, or could have done, to bring about a solution, which must be worked out by the people Immediately Involved. With regard to foreign debts owed the United States, Mr. Mellon feels that, officially, at least, candidates remain exactly as they were before he went abroad. No French official suggested steps to fund the obliga tion sof the Paris government. France Impresses Him The secretary was particularly im pressed by conditions in France, which he described as the best that have prevailed there in many years. The crops were good and the coun try was self-supporting, both funda mental conditions of prosperity. He found no unemployment, and work i in the devastated regions was going rapidly forward. Business was good. On reparations and the Ruhr, Mr. Mellon found the French most rigid in their stand, with the financial in terests strongly supporting the poli ticians in the government. Having failed to accomplish the ostensible purpose of the Ruhr Invasion, France, he learned, still maintains that she will be able to work out her own ; solution. There is no doubt, in Mr. Mellon’s opinion, that the policy of the Paris government is weakening French credit, as can be plainly seen in the depreciation of the franc and the French securities. The French, how ever, maintain that this condition is only temporary. THREE PRICE8 IN ABERDEEN Aberdeen, S. D. August 20.—Gaso line was selling at three prices here yesterday, the second Sunday of the gasoline war. The Standard still maintained its price at 16 cents, while the National Refining Company made a price of 19 cents for its product. Most of the other independents took the 20 cent price agreed to by Gover nor McMaster. Letters, photographs and little presents received from children ad mirers are the favorite mascots of many famous actresses. Grain Men Say Farmers Holding Up Wheat Crop Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 20—Investiga tions made by Lincoln millers and J grain men, announced Monday, are that Nebraska farmers are refus ing to sell their wheat. Nearly 8,000 bushels of wheat are required by one Lincoln mill dally, but none Is to be bad In Nebraska, ' It was reported. Automatic dial telephones are being Installed In the city of Montreal. * Andrew W, Mellon. Believe Hughes Plan Futile Mr. Mellon believes that the Frencl are favorably disposed toward th idea suggested by Secretary of State Hughes for a fact finding commis sion to determine Germany’s capac ity to pay. Paris, however, holds that this project in Itself will accom plish nothing, and that France can not afford to relinquish her hold on the Ruhr unless she receives in re turn something more tangible. The situation in Germany Is re garded by Mr. Mellon as most criti cal. He was informed that, unless the deadlock is broken, unemploy^ ment, hunggr and suffering will in crease until communistic uprisings in industrial centers threaten the dis integration of the empire into small socialistic states. Such a breakup, in the secretary's opinion, would fur nish no basis for reparations. Mr. Mellon does not believe that the German government intention ally drove down the mark in order to wipe out its debt and defeat repara tions. Germany, he feels, was in need of food and raw materials and was without funds to make purchasM abroad. The tendency of the mark was downward, and the government could not have stopped it. If reparations had been fixed in the beginning on a basis that Ger many could have paid,-Sn Mr. Mel lon’s opinion, the Berlin government would have made the payments. The difficulty was not only the great total of the reparations figure, but also the method and time of pay ment. Germany, he feels, still has property and productive capacity, and would function if the obstacles were cleared away. The secretary does not believe that, under present conditions it would be practical or appropriate to press France for payments on the debt owed the United States. He found no inclination to discuss the debt officially, but hopes that some results will come of negotiations later in the year. DISMISSED COP DRINKS, MAKES THREATS,SHOT Hammond, Ind., Aug. 20—John G. Kosmala, a former police of ficer, Monday was shot and killed by a posse of citizens af ter he had threatened to kill ev ery oity official of Hammond. Kosmala became infuriated upon being told that he had been discharged, and started drink ing. At the point of a revolver he held up the West Hammond nolice station and obtained a •ifI® and a large etook of am munition. His fellow officers at first thought it a joke. Kosmala was shot through the heart just as he raised his rifle and aimed it at Chief of Polios Nitz, who led the pursuit. BOYS, BEATEN, FLEE PRISON’ Floggings and “Musclo Grinding” Practiced, In vestigation Reveals Chicago, Aug. 20—Eighteen boys have mysteriously disappeared from the Chicago parental school, accord ing to charges made Monday during an investigation of the conduct of tho school. The investigation was held in criminal court before Judge Michael L. McKinley, chief Justice. It waa launched after James Wright, a 14 year-old inmate of the school, was found hanging in a cell. Whether the lad committed suicide or was killed and strung up is to be deter mined by the court. The information that 18 boys have mysteriously disappeared from the school was given by Alderman Bowler, who brought about the in quiry after the Weight boy was found dead. Undsr Education Board The gchool under Jurisdiction of the Chicago board of education. It is maintained as a place of pun ishment for boys between the ages of 10 and 10 who violate the rules of the public schools. Allen M. Kline, an instructor, testi fied that cries of boys being beat en in the night often awakened him. “At one time I heard many piti ful cries and pleadings at night when the boys were beaten in the guard room,’' Kline said. "On go ing up I found John Leonard, one of my pupils, who had been beaten so badly about the face that I could not recognize him." 8«t Up in Bed, Beaten Raymond Stefano, a 10-year-old boy, testified he had been beaten by Timothy Shea, a guard. “Mr. Shea beat me with a stick three times,” the child said. “The boys told him I sat up in bed.” Like in the Florida convict camps, the limit was 24 lashes, according to Frank Prusak. Frank Is a timid little fellow of 14 years. “Shea beat me because I was looking around talking,” the boy said. “You know they are not sup posed to give you more than 24 lashes, but Shea whipped me a lot more and my back was black and blue.” Describes Muscle Grinding Kline, the instructor, described punishment known as “muscle grind ing” and ducking.” In the muscle grinding the muscles are pinched until the limbs are numb. The ducking, according to Kline, consisted of putting a bey’s head under water "until the bubbles come.” CHIEF OF N. Y. FORCE AMONG MEN CAUGHT Charred Bodies Taken From Ruins of Burning Brook lyn Building New York, Aug. 21 (Tuesday)— Fifty firemen and a number of other persons were buried in the falling ruins of a burning building covering an entire block on Havemyer street, Brooklyn, early this morning. Fear was exi^essed that over 60 lives were lost. The building, known as the New Plaza hall, was used as a club and rooms. It was completely destroy ed. Damage was estimated at J250, 000. Among those known to be caught In the blazing ruins was Fire Chief O’Hara. Five bodies have been recovered, according to a report. A number of other charred bodies were reported to have been located In the ruins. A general call to all Brooklyn hos pitals has been sent out to rusb ambulances to the scene. German Catholics Plan To Form Peace Order Berlin, Aug. 20. — The Roman Catholic church in Germany intends to form its own peace organisation at the bishop’s congress at Fulda the latter part of August, it is learned. This decision is one of the results of the recent visit of Monsignor Tests to the Ruhr region, and follows closely upon the international pacifist congress at Frlborg. TELL FARMERS TO HOLD OATS Mitchell Bankers Go on Rec ord After Thorough Sur vey of the Situation Mitchell, S. D„ Aug. 17.—(Special.) —Mitchell banka, with one exception, say that the wisest thing for the farmers to do this year is to hold their oats. Opinion on the advisabil ity of holding wheat, however, is di vided. It is impossible to say at this time how much of the 1923 crop is be ing held on the farms, but it is be lieved a large percent of it will not be marketed for some time. Bankers point to the fact that at harvest last year oats sold in this aectlon for around 20 cents a bush el, and that this spring they went to between 40 and 60 cents. At husking time last year, they say, corn brought only 66 cents and now it is selling for IS cents. Basing their arguments on these figures the bankers believe that it would be wise for the farmer to sit tight for a time and see what devel opes. There is a general feeling that prices, in any event will not go any lower. While the advising the farmers to hold their o rops the bankers say they will not force sales of grain to care for notes. If the men, whose paper they hold, is good and if his credit, made by past performances is of good class, they declare they will carry the paper, as long as the farmer desires. Lions Club Marks Roads Leading to Mitchell. Mitchell, S. D., Aug. 17.—(Special.) —Standard black and white road signs bearing the words, Mitchell, Lions dub, and the number of miles to Mitchell are being erected this week by the Lions club of Mitchell at every turn of the Custer Battlefield highway between Rapid City and Chamberlain. The club expects to put up 200 similar signs on all roads leading to Mitchell as far as 300 miles from the city. In addition the club has set out 17 signs, advertising the corn palace along the Sunshine highway between Woonsocket and Redfleld and will set up a dozen more between here £nd Redfleld. Hog Cholera Is Taking Heavy Toll In Herds. Fedora, S. D., Aug. 17.—(Special.)— Hog cholera which broke out here again a few weeks ago has been tak ing a heavy toll from many of the farmers. , Aberdeen Man Invents A Truok Attachment. Aberdeen, S. D., Aug. 17.—(Spe lal.)—A new device, called a push truck attachment for a tractor, has been perfected by C. E. Gilbert of Aberdeen, president of the Gilbert Manufacturing company. Mr. Gil bert has applied for six different pat* ents on his invention. BASEBALL GROWS IN LATIN STATES Coonsul Report Increasing. Tendency For Sport To Replace Bull Fights t Washington.—Baseball bids fair to beoome the national sport of Latln American countries, displacing bull fights as a form of recreation and entertainment, according to reports from consuls In Latin countries to the Department of Commerce.^ Baseball al the present time Is the most popular sport In Cuba. A uni f