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TWO CENTS
McKelvie
Takes Hand
in Strike
I'rgn Official of Both Sides
to" Attend Parley at
Hit Office
Today.
Will Safeguard
Lincoln. July 3 (Special Tele
gram.) Governor McKelvie today
iook( articyi in an attempt to avert
trouble in Nebraska in the rait strike
when he lent a telegram this after
noon to mayor and labor unions
representatives in railroad centers in
Nebraska urging them to attend a
conference at the office at 10 Fri
day morning. The representatives
a'e to conic from Falls City. Platts
inouth, Fairhury, Omaha, Fremont,
Madison, North Platte, Grand Is
land. Lincoln. McCook, Hastings,
Alliance, Chadron and Dakota City.
The governor also sent telegrams
to the following railroads heads urg
ing them to be present at the meet
ing: V. F. Thieoff, Omaha, assistant
general manager, Burlington; Wil
liam M. letters, Omaha, general
manager, Union Pacific; H. E. Dick
inson, Omaha, general superinten
dent. Northwestern: v. F. Kirk,
Falls City, Superintendent, Missouri
facihc; t. N. Imsman, fairbury,
division superintendent.
Calls Labor Leaders.
An hour before these telegrams
were sent out Governor McKelvie
called the Havelock and Lincoln la
bor union leaders to his office and
obtained the names of representatives
of the striking shopmen from them
and assured these men the o.!ily ef
forts of the state weuld be Jo use
every resource and every cent, if
' necessary to protect the public.
Before the governor made any ar
rangements with mayors, railroad
and union representatives for a con
ference he ordered State Sheriff Gus
Hycrs to concentrate his force of
deputies at railroad centers in an ef
fort to curb drinking of fight-inspir
ing prohibition liquor.
Wires Trouble Instructions.
The governor also sent telegrams
to mayors, chiefs of police and sher
iffs in all towns and counties in
- which railroad shops are located,
urging them to notify him immedi
ately at any time they are unable to
cope with the men.
The governor made it plain that
rather than lose the life of a single
man or menace property he would
repeat his Nebraska City incident of
last winter and send either state sher
iffs or militia to the scene of trouble.
"There will be no Herrin affair in
1 Nebraska: .itHlecaHbWfiats will lake
advantage of my request to notify me
the minute they think the situation
is out of their hands," the governor
said.
Meantime, outside of Jibes and
threats, the situation is quiet at Lin
coln and Havelock. The office force
of E. Flyiin. general superintendent
of Burlington lines west, turned out
today and iced dining cars and did
other work left undone- by the
strikers. ' .
"Every man m this office is doing
everything possible to safeguard the
public and to keep from incon
veniencing it," Flynn said tonight.
Wife of American Slain
by Mexican Bandits
Wellington, July 3 Mrs. Thomas
Cheney, the Mexican-born wife of
. an American employed by an Amer
ican company operating in the Tani
pico oil region, was killed by Mexi
can bandits June 29, when she rec
ognized their leader, according to a
report today to the State department
from Consul Shaw at Tampico. As
Mrs. Cheney, an American citizen by
' marriage, the department made im
mediate representations to the Mex
ican government recommending that
the murderer be apprehended and
punished.
The consul's message, dated June
30, said that about a dozen armed
bandits who claimed to be followers
of Manuel Larrago, had appeared at
' Chocoy station, about 40 miles south
west of Tampico on the preceding
day. They dmanded a payment of
2.000 pesos. Mrs. Cheney, who recog
nized the leader of the band, was
killed.
When the report was received in
Washington, the State department
asked Consul Shaw for further in
formation as to the nationality of the
murdered woman. He replied im
mediately that she was a Mexican
by birth, but had married an Ameri
can employed by an American con
cern in the Tampico region.
The department instructed Consul
Shaw to make representation to the
Tampico authorities urging the cap
ture and punishment of the murder
ers and at the same time sent similar
instructions to Charge Summerlin in
Mexico City. "
SAirmen Make 1,543-Mile Trip
From El Paso to Portland
Portland, Ore., July 3. Lieut.
Alexander Pearson, jr., and Sergt- E.
F. Nendell.- who" left El Paso, Tex.,
at 4:15 yesterday morning arrived
" here at 9 this morning. They broke
their flight of 1,543 miles with brief
halts at Douglas, Ariz., and River
side and Sacramento, Cal.
Pearson expects to return to El
Paso, making the flight in one day.
He came to Portland to visit hia
parents.
lire Damages Baltimore .
River Front to $4,804,900
Baltimore. Md, July 3. The fire
which swept the Locust point river
front of the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road last night caused damage esti
mated by the company at $-5,804,900,
and seriously threatened the public
hearth service hospital at Fort Mc-Henry,
German Publicist
Victim of Assault
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Final Showdown
in Mine Strike
Expected Monday
Meeting at Washington Be
tween Operators and Union
Leaders Adjourns Without
Settlement Being Reached
Omaha Rt Leased Wire.
Washington, July 3. The meeting
of miners and operators of the union
ized bituminous coal fields, called by
the government in the hope of reach
ing a voluntary basis of bargaining,
was adjourned today until Monday
morning, without definite progress
toward as agreement.
President Harding will be back in
Washington by Monday and a show
down is expected at that time. It
is considered probable that arbitra
tion by a government commission
will be suggested if no other solution
is found by that time. Steps may
also be ordered to increase coal pro
duction by reopening some of the
mines now closed by the strike.
Reports were circulated that it had
been intended to place suggestions on
the part of the government before
the meeting today, but that the situ
ation faced was so tense that delay
was decjded upon. There has been
evidence of bad feeling between some
toward an agreement,
of the operators and leaders of the
miners, which might have resulted, in
an even more serious breach.
At today's meeting the operators
are reported to have submitted a pro
gram for regional wage conferences
which was. rejected by the miners
with scant consideration, the leaders
of the workers reiterating their asser
tions that they would agree to confer
only on the four-state or national
basis. The debate is said to have
been bitter at times, making it evi
dent that government intervention
would be necessary, unless there was
a distinct change of heart by one
side or the other.
McCumber Blames
Bi-Partisan Vote
Washington, July 3. Senator Mc
Cumber, republican, North Dakota,
in a letter made public by ruin today
ascribed his defeat for renomination
in the North Dakota primary to "the
bi-partisan combination which had
been made against me on the one side
and the nonpartisan organization,
which so loyally supported my op
ponent.
John D. Gives to Academy.
New" York, July 3. John D.
Rockefeller, jr., has given $200,000
to the American academy in Rome,
to be held as a permanent endow
ment, William Rutherford Mead, its
president, announced. The income is
to be available for any of the acad
emy s current needs. Mr. Rocke
feller, however, has agreed that the
whole or any portion of the princi
pal of the gift may be devoted to the
corporate purposes of the academy in
the judgment of the trustees.
Misleading Statement of
Omaha Bee Advertising Figures
In an advertisement on the front page of Sunday's
World-Herald the following statement was made
by that paper:
"Both the other Omaha papers lost in the
same comparison,"
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that is, in comparing paid advertising of June, 1922,
with June, 1921.
So far as The Omaha Bee is concerned, this is a mis
leading, if not actually untrue, statement. The
Omaha Bee carried 38,124 inches of paid advertising
(less legal) in June, 1921. Included in this was
4,316 inches of special advertising1 of the "Fiftieth
Anniversary" Special Edition. The Bee figures for
June, 1922, contained no such special advertising.
The actual figures of paid advertising (less legal) of
- The Omahajfeee for June, 1922, were 37,786, a gain
of 3,928 inches over June, 1921 (eliminating Fiftieth
Anniversary Special Advertising). This was a gain
in . regular paid - advertising of all kinds over
June, 1921, of 11.
The World-Herald was undoubtedly familiar with
these circumstances. K would have been "clean
advertising" if the World-Herald had so stated.
The Omaha Morning Bee
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T1arAfn Tli? s in Forests of
Washington Serious
A t 51 0 j I - ty uipU. W.h.. July J.-A form
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Assassins
Two Men Attempt to Slay
Noted German Editor
and Politiral Writer
Wounded Fiv e Times.
Assailants Are Arrested
Berlin, July 3.-1 By A. P.) Two
men attacked Maximilian Harden
editor and political writer, near his
home in the Gruncwald, a suburb of
Berlin, today. He was taken uncoil
scious into the house, where he was
found to be suffering from five
wounds in the head.
The assailants were arrested.
The attempt on the life of Max!
milian Harden, one of the most not
cd European publicists, conies just a
little more than a week after the as
sassination of Walter Rathenau, the
German foreign secretary.
Herr Harden, in the course of the
war, published many striking articles
in hit newspaper, Die Zukunft, most
ly denouncing the policy of the Ger
man government. He frequently
aroused the ire of the imperial au
thorities by his statements, and in
July, 1917, his publication was sup
pressed for the remainder of the war,
In one of his articles that attracted
much attention he eulogized Presi
dent Wilson; in another he appealed
tor German democracy.
Big Political
Upheaval Near
. Among Germans
Different Factions Meet in
Berlin to Arrange for
Change in Government
of Nation.
Copyright, lf2.
B?rlin, July 3. Txccutive com
mittees of several political parties
are meeting at the reichstag yester
day to arrange for a change in the
Germa.n government. If a compro
mise is reached it will probably in
clude the left wing, and will likely
result in upsetting the present cabi
net, with the formation of a pure
socialistic - government.
This expected political develop
ment is the result of the assassina
tion of Walter Rathenau and the
present wave of anti-monarchist pas
sion throughout the country.
The government coalition, which
is the minority coalition, officially
offered the independent socialists a
party government.
The independents answered with
a list of concessions, on which it is
reliably reported, is the place of for
eign minister for Rudolph Breit
scheid, who is the speaker of the in
dependents, a clever and strong
leader, bitterly opposed to the gov
ernment, and who could have gained
the foreign ministry had he belonged
to the other party.
While the independents are com
promising with the government they
are also dealing with the socialist
democrats which remains the biggest
of the seven political parties. Nego
tiations are under way for the amal
gamation of every socialist organiza
tion with the federation of labor, in
the hope of becoming strong enough
to upset the coalition and establish
a socialist government. Such an
event would put Germany exactly
where it was after the kaiser's flight.
Thus the assassination of Walter
Rathenau has ended years of battle
with the left wing parties which, at
times, were more bitter than their
fight with the reactionaries. It is
apparent the radical elements are
in ' complete possession of the
leadership of the social democrats,
while the independents, frightened
by the growth of monai'chism, are
now willing to deal with them.
Any success in the movement will
primarily affect Germany's relations
with' the entente.
the hiMory of the state i threaten
mg virtually every county in the
Utf, according to State Foremer
Fred K. Tape. Probably 40 or 30
new fires have started over Sunday,
he said, and practically all the old
fires are rehurning, many of thrm
into green timber.
It is marvrlou that no serious
damage i reported trout any partic
ular place, it was said, but a con
tinuation of the present warm
weather will put the blazes entirely
out of control. Men arc working
only to keep the fire from spread
ing into green timber.
The first fires in the Olympic na
tional forest of any consequence
were reported today. One serious
blaze is running into Rreen timber
along the DurRahush river, burning
out several railroad bridges of the
Webb Logging and Timber com
pany as well as one small camp and
some equipment.
Final Drive Is
Started Against
Rebels in Dublin
Devastating Machine Gun Fire
Sweeps Republican Positions
in Sackville Street De
fense Weakening.
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London, July 2. (2:15 p. m., by
A. P.) No word regarding the de
velopments of the fighting in Dublin
has reached London since the receipt
ot messages tiled at 11 a. m.. at which
time the national troops were direct
ing an intense machine gun fire
against the positions occupied by the
republicans in Sackville street. The
provisional government's military
censorship is assumed to be the cause
of the delay.
Dublin, July 3. The final assault
on the positions held by the repub
licans in Sackville street was begun
at f o'clock this morning and was
still continuing nearly an hour later.
The other areas held by the in
surgents in various parts of this city
were occupied by the free staters
during the night.
Heavy fighting is going on in
Sackville street, which is swept by
machine gun fire.. The national army
forces are operating from O'Conr.cl
bridge to the Parnell monument. The
return fire of the insurgents is feeble.
The machine gunners are main
taining a devastating fire against the
front of the buildings, particularly
pressing the attack on Hamman's
hotel, where Eamon de Valera is be
lieved to be holding out following his
flight from the Gresham hotel.
Watched by Large Crowd.
Desni'te "trie" creat danger from
stray bullets, a large crowd is watch
ing the fight from a distance.
Details ot the operations ot tne
national corns as revealed in the lat-i
est official communiques are regard
ed as pointing to impaired morale on
the part of the irregulars and to the
rapid crumbling of their defenses
when seriously attacked.
The rapidity with which the tree
stater's dislodged the insurgents
caused surprise. - j
Yesterdavs ODcrations in most
cases were carried out by the use of
armored cars and intense machine
gun fire. Apparently only in one
case-was artillery brought into ac
tion, and that was the attack on
Moran's hotel, in Talbot street.
Commanded by "Die Hards."
The wioinsr out of this hornet's
nest relieved considerably the diffi
culties confronting pedestrians in the
center of the city and reopened the
main approach to the great northern
railway station and the Central Tele-
kraph office in Amies street near by.
It is generally believed tne tasK ot
clearing the republicans out ot sack
ville street will prove extremely dif
ficult and involve heavy property
damage, particularly in view of the
report that they are, commanded by
such experienced fighters and "die
hards" as Eamon De Valera and
Cathal Brugha.
The casualties in Sundays light
ing in Dublin were 11 killed and 16
wounded.
The Stephens Green club, which
had been held by the irregulars
since Friday, was captured by na
tional army forces today, lhe ir
regulars had evacuated the position.
Captured Bank Robbers
Identified as Ex-Convicts
Diehton. Kan.. July 3. The three
alleged bandits captured by a Lane
county posse last luesday atter an
attempt to rob the First National
bank of Dighton, have been identic
fied as ex-convicts according to word
received from authorities of the fed
eral penitentiary at Leavenworth.
One of the bandit trio was slam
and two captured near here Thurs
day following the robbery of the
Dighton bank.
The dead bandit was identified as
Thomas Martin, who escaped from
the Oklahoma state prison, where
he was serving a 40-year sentence for
robbery. The two held are C. H.
Barston, who has served in the Kan
sas. Oklahoma and Texas prisons,
and Arthur Lang, who served a term
in Minnesota.
Two Omaha Youths Drive
Home From School in East
Leaving -Philadelphia Wednesday
morning, Nelson B. Updike, jr., and
Cornelius Clark of Omaha and Phil
Hardy of Lincoln, students at the
Hill school, Pottstown, Pa., arrived
in Umaha via automobile Sunday
night The party, driving Updike's
Twin-Six roadster, made a "non
stop trip between Chambersburg.
Pa., and Chicago in 36 hours, taking
turns at the wheel. '
The autoists drove over the Lin
coln highway, reporting much rain
en route. Following the close of
school, June 23, and before starting
on the western trrp. the three stu
dents drove to Atlantic City and New
York.
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Holiday Train
Wrecked in N. J.;
7 Known Dead
Camden-Atlantic City Express
Leaves1 Rails and Rolls
Down Embankment
Split Switch Cause.
Atlantic City, N. J., July- 3. At
least seven persons were killed and
about 75 others injured, half of them
seriously, early today when a
Camden-Atlantic City express train
left the rails at Winslow junction, 37
miles from here, and rolled down an
embankment. The actual number
killed will not be known until the
wreckage is thoroughly searched.
There were reports that nearly 20
persons were killed, but officiate; of
the Philadelphia and Reading an
nounced only seven.
The known dead are:
John T. Linehan, Philadelphia.
Walter Westcott, Gloucester, N.
J., engineer.
William T. Souder, Atlantic City,
fireman.
Joseph Diiiasuco, Plcasantville,
N. J.
Solomon Worth, Mays Landing,
N. J.
T. N. Selden, Pullman porter.
Francis Corbett.
The train split a switch at the
Cape May crossover and plunged per
haps 40 feet down a steep embank
ment. The engine and five coaches
were piled up at the bottom, a com
plete wreck.
Identified Dead.
The identified dead are Walter
Wescott, engineer; William Sound
ers, fireman; Sol Worth of Mays
Landing, N. J., a passenger.
Seven cars of a 12-car train were
reported to have gone over the rail
road embankment at Winslow Junc
tion. Summoned by telegraph and tele
phone calls for help over a radius of
20 miles, physicians, ambulances, po
lice and firemen equipped with relief
rJutfits, lanterns and torches were
hastening to the scene. A relief train
left here with scores of doctors and
nurses. Another had left Camden.
Both trains will pick up additional
rescue workers along the' route.
Special trains took the injured to
Camden and Atlantic City.
Loaded With Vacationists.
Philadelphia, Pa., June 3. Officials
of the Reading railway said the
Camden-Atlantic City express train
wrecked at Winslow junction was
northbound with Philadelphia vaca
tionists who had spent the day at the
shore.
One Hundred and
Forty-six Years Ago
the Declaration of Independ
ence was signed by our
forefathers.
Why not sign your "declara
tion of independence" and
buy a home of your own?
It's comparatively easy! All
you need do is watch the
"Real Estate" columns of
The Omaha Morning -Bee
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tually you will secure the
exact place that spells
h-o-m-e to you.
JULY
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Four Are Injured
as Auto Turns
Over on Q Street
John Schu, One of the Car's
Occupants, May Not Re
cover Woman Among
Those Hurt.
An automobile turned over twice
near Forty-eighth and Q streets yes
terday afternoon, injuring its four
occupants, one of them seriously
and perhaps fatally.
The car was being driven by John
A. Genaitix, 3416 T street, who had
with him as passengers Mr. and
Mrs. John Schu, 3362 T street, and
Michael Butkus, 3504 U street.
Schu suffered the severest injuries.
One of his ears was nearly severed,
a rib and collarbone ere broken and
he is thought to have received in
ternal injuries. Mrs. Schu was cut
in many places about the body and
Genaitix and Butkus were shaken
up a,;id bruised.
The injured persons were taken to
South Omaha hospital by Ralph Mal
lon, Forty-ninth and Q streets,
where their injuries were dressed. All
but Schu were sent home;
The car was being driven swiftly
west on Q street. At Forty-eighth
street the front wheels caught in the
car tracks and the machine turned
over twice, throwing the occupants
out. The car was wrecked.
More Stolen Omaha Autos
Identified at Sioux City
Six more automobiles have been
identified by Omaha detectives in the
22 cars recovered from a gang of
alleged motor car thieves in Sioux
Six more automobiles have been
City. Five men of this alleged gang
now are in jail at Jefferson, S. D.,
said to be their headquarters.
The six identified cars ar; a Ford
sedan, stolen from M. Mantel. 120
South Thirty-seventh street, March
23 from Fiftieth and Webster streets;
a Ford sedan stolen from Mrs. A. J.
Chapman, 720 South Twenty-second
street, March 2 from Thirteenth and
Vinton streets; a Ford sedan stolen
from K. Reed, 1614 Harney street,
February 23; a Ford coupe stolen
from W. P. O'Brien, 510 Peters Trust
building, April 7; a Ford coupe stolen
from 0. R. Oshel of Red Oak, la.,
April 15, and a Ford coupe stolen
from H. A. Robbins of Lincoln,
April 13.
Grain Elevator Workers
at Kansas City Walk Out
Kansas City, Mo., July 3. Union
grain elevator workers at 20 eleva
tors here walked out today, follow
ing a conference between union of
ficials and a committee of employers,
which was unable to reach an agree
ment as to wages and working con
ditions. Some of the elevator heads said
the strike appeared to be from "one
third to one-half effective", at their
plants. .Definite figures probably
will not be available until July 5,
after the holiday.
Taxi Driver Held in Murder.
Los Angeles, Cal., July 3. Wil
liam S. Acker, formerly a taxicab
driver of Phoenix, Ariz., was under
arrest here today for Arizona au
thorities who want to answer charges
of grand larceny and suspicion of
Strikebreakers at
Perry.'Ia., Stoned,
Driven From Town
20 Laborers Brought From
Chicago to Work at Milwau
kee & St. Paul Shops Flee
Police Overpowered.
Perry, la., July 3. Twenty labor
ers brought here from Chicago, pre
sumably to work in the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul shops were stoned
and chased out of town Saturday
night, by a band of strike sympathiz
ers.
There were numerous fist fights
between the Chicago laborers and
local strike sympathizers. Several of
the laborers were injured. One of
them was badly cut about the face
by flying glass. Windows in the pas
senger coach on which the men ar
rived from Chicago at 8:30 p. m. Sat
urday were stoned and broken.
The sheriff and several deputies
and local police officers were on hand
when the tram arrived and made
efforts to maintain order, but were
outnumbered. - '
The men were chased out of town
and when last seen they were run
ning through a cornfield.
According to Emmet Callahan,
chairman of the local federated com
mittee of the six shopmen's unions,
the disturbances were caused by boys
and by strike sympathizers. He says
the striking shopmen did not engage
in the fights.
Omahan to Present Wounded
Vets' Program to Harding
San Francisco. July 3. After a
conference here of present and former
high officers of the Disabled Veter
ans of the World War, it was an
nounced today that a special com
mittee, comprising Capt. C. Hamil
ton Cook, national commander;
James Hanberry, senior vice com
mander, and Capt. John.H. Dykes,
chairman of the rehabilitation com
mittee, had been appointed, to go to.
Washington to lay the organization's
full program before President Hard
ing and the veterans' bureau. Han
berry left for Washington 'yesterday.
Cook and Dykes were to leave today.
The trio of officials will lay their
case before the president in the hope
of speedier action in the administra
tion of the money appropriated for
builfling hospitals . for sick and
wounded ex-service men, it. was an
nounced. They also will appear before
congress to make a fight for the new
Sweet bill and will confer with Col.
Charles R. Forbes, national director
of the veterans' bureau.
James Hanberry
newspaper man.
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Strike of
Trackmen
Postponed
Maintenance of Way Iadcri
Delay Action Until After
Conference With Labor
liourd Today.
Kansas City Asks Troops
Detroit, July J.-(Hy A. P.)-The
threatened strike of maintenance of
way workrrs again was drfrrrcd to
day, when the executive board of
the United Brotherhood of Mainte
nance of Way Kmptoycs and Kail
way Shop Laborers announced, after
an all-day session, that no action
would be taken until after a con
ference with the L'nited States rail
road labor board in Chicago to
morrow.
The board, which was called to
canvass the strike vote oi tne or
ganization's 280.UOO members andv
12(I,(X)0 nonunion workers wnosc
wishes also were consulted, was in
session from early this afternoon
until 5 p. m. and indications had been
that a decision would be forthcom
ing at the conclusion of thej con
ference.
A statement given out by the
committee said: J tie executive
committee has been tabulating the
strike vote and perfecting the strike
machinery. They have been invited
to conrer with the united Mates rau
,nA lihnr l,nart and have accented
the invitation. The meeting win
take place in Chicago tomorrow.
State Troops Asked.
Kansas City, Mo., July 3. The
Chamber of Commerce, following a
meeting of a special committee, tele
graphed to uovernor nyac, 8kihk
him to call the National guard of
Missouri into active service at onre
. . . 'it. A I n:iMn,l e4.ll-
in connection witn mc i
The governor was asked to station
enough troops in Kansas City to
prevent loss of life and destruction
of property, which the Chamber of
Commerce saia in us ieicgriu ii -lieved
to be an imminent possibility.
Branded as "Outlaws."
Chicago, July 3. With striking
shopmen formally branded by the.
United States railroad labor board as '
"outlaws," the board tonight directed
its efforts toward the prevention of
an extension of the walkout by
400,000 maintenance of way men.
Following a meeting of the execu
tive council of the United Brother
hood of Maintenance of Way Em
ployes and Railway Shop Laborers
in Detroit today to canvas a strike
vote, it was announced that the
threatened walkout would be held up
nending a conference with the labor
board in Chicago tomorrow.
Members pf the board expressed
strong hopes tonight that the con
ference would avert a walkout. They
declared that the only question at is
sue was one of wages and that the
way already had been opened for a
reconsideration of wage reductions
which went into effect on July 1.
simultaneously with the shopmen s
walkout. May Avert Strike.
At that time Ben W. Hooper,
chairman of the board, announced
that government reports indicated
an increase in the cost of living since
the board rendered its wage reduc
tion decisions and that this could be
made the basis of an immediate ap
peal to the board by the employes for
wage increases. Union leaders were
quoted as demanding only that the
board hold up its wage cuts pending
the appeal. The difference, it was
declared, was slight and the belief
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Traveling Public
Feels First Effects
of Walk Out in West
San Francisco, July 3. The ulti
mate consumer" the traveling pub
lic had its first experience today of
the efforts of the railway shopmen's
strike in the Pacific coast region.
Passengers on the Overland Limited
of the Southern Pacific lines, coming
through the Sacramento vailey where
the thermometer registered 104 de
grees, were told the electric fans in
the cars could not be operated.
It was said the electricity must be
conserved for lighting the cars and
that no electricians were available
to make repairs which would have
permitted the fans to be operated.
Striking shopmen of the Southern
Pacific must return to work next
Thursday or their places will be de
clared vacant, J. H. Dyer, general
manager of the company announced.
Those returning at that time will
retain their seniority and other privi
leges, he said.
Station Man Electrocuted;
Shuts Off Power to Yuma
Brawley, Cal.. July 3 B. W. Miles,
substation tender of the Holton
Power company at Andrade, in
southeastern Imperial county, was
electrocuted last night it was learned
today, by stumbling against a high
voltage wire. His body acter as a
short circuit, carrying 13,000 volts
for two hours and shutting off elec
tric light and power from Yuma,
Ariz. His death was discovered bv
a party sent out to fnd him after
attempts to telephone his station ha l
failed.
Mrs. Siefken Will Attempt
to Identify Fred Brown
Mrs. Charles Siefken and her
daughter, Gertrude, who moved to
Chicago shortly after Charles Sief
ken and his son. Robert, were killed
by a lone bandit during an oil filling
station holdup, will return to Oma
ha July 8 to attempt to identify Fred
Brown, Benson chainman, as the
slayer.
Brown ViII be brought to Omaha
from the state prison shortlv after
the Fourth of July for other wit-
. ncsses to view him also. County At-
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