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The Omaha Morning Bee VOL 62 NO. 88. tfni m iMMeiHt aMw urn n, m, M OMAHA, TUESpAY, AUGUST 1. 1922. Mill (I H")t Bally . Ill . D M. Mala ". OnteM Ifta 41 MM tl toaaa lUi aal, M. TWO CENTS Woo Rates Approved L 1 by Senate Imposts Proposed on Blankets, .Wearing Apparel and Floor Covering Adopted With out Changes. Ends Long Controversy Washington. July 31. (By A. P.) Lonsmeration ot the wool ached uie. which has turmshed the one big fight in the administration tariff hill, was completed by the senate after the approval without change of im posts by the finance committee ma- jority on blankets, wearing apparel and floor coverings. The silk schedule then was taken up and lead crs were hopeful that committee amendments to this could be dis posed of Tuesday. After the silk schedule will come those dealing with paper and books and sundries, including lares, the free lint and the administration pro vision with the flexible tariff plan proposed by President Harding. When the senate winds Up work on these, it must go back over the en tire hill, paragraph by paragraph, for action on individual amendments. There was divided opinion as to when a final vote on the measure could be had, but republican leaders were unanimous in declaring that the senate would pass the bill. Taking cognizance of a report published in Washington that the senate would abandon the measure, Sienator Lodge of Massachusetts, the majority lead , er, made this statement: Bill Will Be Passed. "This bill is going to be passed by the senate and that at the first opportunity. We are going to stick to it and pass it as soon as we get a vote. Reports that it might be laid aside or allowed to fail are abso lutely without foundation. The bill will be passed and put on the statute bocks as soon as possible." As was the case Saturday, the sen ate had difficulty in keeping a quorum, with a result that the ser-geant-at-arms was directed to re quire the presence of absentees. After a quorum had been obtained, Senator McCumber, republican, North Dakota, in charge of the bill, said he wanted it understood that the order about absentees was to stand for the remainder of the present leg islative day how more than three months old-if that day lasted until March 4. Later telegrams were sent to absent senators urging their pres- ence, t N L Only One Controversy. While the split in, the republican ranks was noticeable, there was only One sizeable controversy over wool duties, some republicans and most of the democrats voting against the duties on clothing. Senator Smoot, republican, Utah, in charge of the schedule, said, and Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, conducting the fight for the minority, agreed that only novelties were imported: that the American ready-made clothing indus try could compete with the world. Senator Walsh argued, however, that the du.ties were an invitation to do mestic manufacturers to combine and ' increase their prices to the level of the tariff. Senator Smoot told the senate the duties would affect largely those Americans who sought to "ape the English dude" by wearing only clothes made in London. He said also there were Americans who de sired "to ape the prince of Wales, wearing baggy trousers when he wears them." , Added Funds Necessary. Opening debate on the silk sched ule, Senator McCumber said that since the government had lost $300, 000,000 in revenue yearly through the operation of the prohibition amendment, added funds had to bJ ' obtained from some source and th;t there was no better source, in his judgment, than luxuries, such as silk. He explained, however, that the duties proposed, ranging from, 35 per cent to 60 per cent ad valorem, were for protection of the domestic industry as well as for revenue. In considering the silk schedule, he continued, it would have to be borne in mind that since 1914 the manufacture of silk had been moved from the Occident to the orient, and that as a consequence the committee, in framing the rates, had to take into account the very cheap labor of Japan and China. Illustrating his argument. Senator McCumber said that in 1914 52 per cent of American silk importations were from France. 20 per cent from Switzerland, 25 per cent from Japan and 1 per cent from China: whereas, in 1921, ' Japan's contribution was 71 per cent, China't 6 per cent, France's 10 per cent and Switzerland's 5 per cent. German Mark Drops to 14'2 Cents a Hundred . . New York. July 31. The price of German marks dropped to 14 & cents a hundred, a new low record, in the early dealings in foreign exchange todav. but rallied later to 15 cents. Demand sterling and continental re mittances also eased slightly. Foreign exchange dealers report that little commercial business is being transacted in marks, German business firms for several weeks past having made all contracts on a dol lar basis. A largepercentage of the marks now being bought here are acquired by individual citizens for transmission to relatives and friends in Germany. Ship Cook Held for Murder. St. Augustine, Fla.. July 31. Wil liam Scott, negro cook aboard the United States army transport Tug Cuba, is in a local jail charged with the killing of H. L. Hovden, 37, sea man, on the high seas off this city today. The Cuba is lying outside the "bar awaiting orders to proceed on its trip from New York to Honolulu via Key West. , Harry Boland Shot by Troops, May Die Belfast. July 31.-(By A. P.)- Harry Boland. formerly representa live of the Dail Eireann in the United States, is in a critical condition in a Dublin hospital, says a Dublin mes sage today, as a result of wounds re ceived in attempting to evade cap ture by national army troops. Boland. the dispatch says, was wounded at Skerries, a fishing town to the north of Dublin. Boland and a friend were spending the week-end at the Grand hotel in Skerries. This morning at 2 o'clock troops surrounded he hostelry and entered Boland's roota to arrest him. In relisting arrest Boland drew . revolver and during the scuffle that followed, the messaoc adds, he was shot in the abdomen. Boland's companion also was ar rested. The incident caused a great commotion in the hotel, which was crowded with visitors. State Springs Surprise Witness in Labor Trial Man Assigned by Police to to Check Up on Labor Terrorists Testifies in Chicago Case. Omaha Bee Lowed Wlr. Chicago, July if. Springing a surprise" witness the state con nected "Big Tim" Murphy still closer with the murder of Police Lieutenant Lyons. Harry Paygman, formerly, a rail road detective, was the witness. He had a confidential relationship with Murphy and other labor leaders and had been secretly assigned by Chief of Police Fitzmorris to check up on the activities of the labor terrorists. He testified that he was in the of fices of the labor leaders several times each day. Just before the murder, Murphy sent Pavffman to a store to buy 50 rounds of cartridges for a special automatic pistol he always carried. On the afternoon of the murder, he said, Murphy asked him to look up the telephone number ot a saloon keeper on the south side. While he was doing so. Miller, the driver of the "death car," came in and went into conference with Murphy and the others. The state claims that Murphy forced the Building Trades council to accept "Frenchy" Mader as its president and immediately after Ma der was installed, Murphy became a frequent visitor to the Building Trades council offices. Ralph Mc Leod testified he had seen Murphy there frequently. McLeod was ar rested in the t general roundup after the murder of Lyons, but was later cleared of complicity of the crime. Judge Taylor declined to dismiss the jury, because one member resides across the. street from a home that was bombed. "Eat Carefully," Advice of Man Who Died at Age of 108 Chicago, July 31. Saule de Gross ky, aged 108, died here yesterday. "Eat carefully, drink only mod erately, let smoking and chewing alone; above all else be faithful to your religion." was the advice he was fond of offering to his seven children, 45 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. Ask Dr. Nowak to Be Premier. Warsaw, July 31. (By A. P.) The cabinet situation last night was regarded as virtually having been settled when President Pilsudsky at the request of the majority of the diet, asked Dr. Nowak, rector of the University of Gracow, to accept the premiership. That Big House of Yours should be filled up with room ers this summer or even that one vacant room. It will pay the rent and, at the same time, pro vide congenial company. Just run a "Room lor Rent" advertisement in the "Want" Ad column of The Omaha Bee, telling the strangers in the city that your house or flat, or suburban home, has a room or a number of rooms, vacant that they can occupy and you will soon have them filled and be get ting a neat little income each week which will help towards paying the rent, or the running expenses of your home. Omaha Bee "Want" Ads Bring Better Results at Lesser Cost. j to) i l Harry fiolat&', J Woman in Shot Down Ex-Farmer of Missouri Valley Is Being Sought as As sailant of Mrs. Bess Jones, 27. Victim Expected to Die Police and detectives searched the city last night for Fred Swan, 45, former Missouri Valley farmer, who is alleged to have shot Mrs. Bess Jones, 27, at her apartment, No. 4, 516 South Sixteenth street, at 3:45 ye.terday afternoon. He is alleged to have fired two shots through her lace and another into her brain. Mrs. Jones was taken to St. Joseph hospital. She is not expected to live. The shooting followed shortly after Mabel Johnson, Blanch Gaug ham and Winnie Fox, rooming across the hall, called her by phone and asked her to "come over." "I can't come because 'Swannie' is here," was Mrs. Jones' answer, they said. Saw Man Running. After hearing the shots the women looked out and saw a man running downstairs. Rushing into her apart ment they saw the woman lying on the back porch. Ted Jones, husband of the woman who was shot, fainted when he ar rived home and learned of the shooting. Jones ' denied having any knowl edge about any affair between his wife and Swan. "I have never seen the man,' he said. Women across the hall from the Jones apartment said they once heard Swan tell the Jones woman he would kill her some time. Sister Is Hysterical. Agnes, sister of Bess, arrived at the apartment shortly after thet shooting. She went into hvsterics James Perhall. 5107 South Twenty- first street, father of the woman, was called later and kept watch at the bedside of his daughter last night. In his orders to the police and detective force last night Chief of Detectives Charles H. Van Deusen stated that Swan is believed to have escaped from an insane asylum few months ago and was being sought here by Missouri Valley of ficials. He is said to have recently sold his farm and other properties at Missouri Valley. The chief notified authorities at Council Bluffs and Missouri Valley to be on the lookout for him. Witness Describes Shooting. Among those ' who saw the man believed to be Swan rush from the building was Edward Truitt. 816 South Twenty-fifth street, who fol lowed him for a distance and then lost him. Ruben A. Nelson, an ad-. vertisine man, witnessed the shoot ing from Seventeenth and Jackson streets. I chanced to look up, he said, "and saw a woman rush trom a door way. Then I saw four flashes from a gun. It looked like a man was do ing the shooting. Over 100 Iniured in Gas Explosion Entire Neighborhood Terror ized by Blast and Collapse of Huge Container. Chicago. July 31. More than a hundred persons were injured and an entire neighborhood terroriaed by the explosion of more than 4,000.000 feet of gas and the collapse of its con tainer. The loss was estimated at $50,000. The terrific blast, accompanied by towerinsr column of flame, came without warning and spread desola tion and fear through a district cov ering about six blocks and peopled mostly by foreign laborers. A group of boys playing baseball in a vacant lot more than 100 yards from the gas plant had their eye brows burned off and their hair singed and suffered' burns on their faces. The millions of feet of gas, gnited from some mysterious cause, which engineers have been unable to explain, lifted the top off the huge circular tank. After the explosion, which was heard for miles, flames shot up to a great height and. as they subsided, the huge tank, 153 feet high and 190 feet in diameter, buckled in and col lapsed a mass of glowing and twisted iron. Furs From Far North Bring Top Prices at Tacoma Sale Tacoma, Wash., July 31. Alaska trappers, whose catches have been on sale at auction here for the last few days, wrill receive nearly $150,- 000 for their furs. The wholesale house acting as agent for the trap pers said the sale was the most suc cessful ever held here, buyers irom all over the United States and Can ada being represented. Beaver and marten hides com prised the largest portion of the 500 lots on sale, but there were also many white fox, red fox, silver fox, muskrat, lynx, mink, otter, ermine and bear pelts that drew good prices. The furs were mostly taken north of the Arctic circle during the last year. Shortage in Bank Funds Oakland, Cal., July 31. A shorN age of $40,000 in its accounts was re ported by the CHcland branch of the Bank or Italy to the superintendent of banks and the Oakland police. The bank said it was endeavoring to trace the shortage. An arrest is expected according to District Attorney De coto, who is investigating S. P. Asks Rehearing in Central Pacific Case ington. July 31. The South- 'aeihc company filed in the su e court an application for re hearing of the famous Southern Pacific cae in which the rourt re cently handed down an opinion forc ing the company to divorce itself of ownership and control of the Central Pacific railroad. The company in its petition grouped the grounds advanced for the rehearing under five heads and among other things urged an appli ration of the Sherman act "in the light of the rule of reason," insisting that under the laws of California there was authority for the lease made by the Central i'acific in 18H5, which, if valid, construed the South ern Pacific proprietor of the Central Pacific for 99 years. The petition asserted that it was not the inten tion of the Sherman act to "subvert titles vested before its passage" and that congress in considering the re funding of the Central Pacific debt always looked "for a guaranty of its payment by the Southern Pacific." No action will be taken upon the petition until the court meets for us next term in ucioocr. U. S. Takes Over Distribution of Coal Over Nation Federal Board Starts Work to Supply Fuel Where Most Needed and Maintain Fair Prices. Washington, July, 31. The gov ernment machinery lor emergency distribution of coal swung into gear today, as the central committee rere, with Henry B. Spencer, federal fuel distributor, as administrative head, began active functioning under the program devised to supply coal to the industries and localities where it is most needed and to maintain fair price levels at the mines. The cen tral control organization was rapidly being perfected, it was said, with the organization of an adequate staff to handle the rush of reports and orders expected to now through Washing ton. Reported to Committee. Accepting only the responsibility of keeping the railroads and interstate public utilities supplied with coal and directing a proper distribution as be tween states, ' at the same time through car allocations holding mine prices at a fair level," the federal agency looked to the states tb con trol distribution and prices for con sumers within their borders. In many states creation of the necessary ad ministration for this work already has been reported to the central com mittee. As the distribution program we"nt into effect, slow recovery in produc tion was shown in reports of the geological survey for the week end ing Saturday, the estimated total be ing 3,900,000 tons, as compared with 3,700,000 tons the week previous. Production of arfthracite was said to remain at "practically zero." Stating there was "no indication of increased production in response to the invita tion to reopen mines in any of the strongly organized districts," the re port said more coal, however, was coming out of the former nonunion fields of Pennsylvania, with slight in creases in several other districts. Kansas Miners Defy Governor. Pittsburg, Kan., July 31. Howat miners here who several weeks ago adopted resolutions providing that followers of the deposed mine union leader return to work wherever they could find work, reversed that action by adopting resolutions yesterday asking that miners now employed in other than co-operative mines cease work. Leaders estimated that more than 1,500 were present. "We, the ex pelled miners and their sympathizers, refuse as true blooded Americans to work in the mines under the protec tion of troops or armed guards of any kind. This is our final answer to the coal operators and to Governor Al len in his attempt to induce us to re turn to work without a correction of reduced wages and under the protec tion of troops furnished by the gov ernor. "While many of us have been idle 10 months and expelled from the or ganization and will still be denied ad mission, we continue to stand with the miners of the country against lower wages," flie resolution asserted. Cardinal Logue Threatens to Excommunicate Dundalk Dundalk, July 31. (By A. P.) Cardinal Logue, primate of Ireland, in a letter to the Dundalk diocese, complained of the state of affairs of the past two weeks and said he was deliberating as to whether he should go to Dundalk and put the whc place under excommunication, ac cording to an announcement made by father McKeon. During the night the population was .disturbed by heavy firing from free state troops, provoked by an at tack of an unknown number of irreg ulars. Firing continued intermit tently, the irregulars extending it later over an apparently wider area. There is much activity in the streets, many arrests being made and searches perpetrated. It is""believed the irregulars' attack has failed. John Drew in Bucket Brigade at N. Y. lub Fire East Hampton. N. Y., July 31. Society leaders and theatrical folk became volunteer firemen, polo play ers dropped their mallets and tennis players scurried from the courts yes terday to fight a fire which destroyed the Maidstone Country club, entail ing a loss of $100,000. Feir that the names would spread tc the Maidstone inn recruited guests of the club in an impromptu depart ment John Drew, the actor, was a member of the bucket brigade, which passed water from tubs in the inn to the roof, City of Havelock Loses Suit to Ban Shop Searchlight Injunction Asked on Grounds That Rays Were Thrown Into Homes at Night ' Refused. Lincoln. July 31. (Special Tele- cram.) The Lancaster county dis trict court has refused to issue an injunction against the Burlington railroad forbidding it to operate a big searchlight on top of its carshop at Havelock. The city of Havelock filed a petition for the injunction. Five hundred strikers crowded the Lancaster county district court room when the hearing on the petition for the injunction opened. Several tirjes the judge threatened to clear the court room when remarks made by attorneys aroused the strikers to vo cal demonstrations. Attorneys Score Town. The Burlington attorneys declared Havelock, with its mayor a,, union man, three of its councihnen union men and its 10 special policemen strikers, was next door to Africa so far as protection to railroad property was concerned. The attorneys said strikers gathered around the shops and the searchlight kept tab of their whereabouts. They also pointed to painting of homes of employes yel low, the alleged throwing of stones by slingshots into yards, and the al leged kidnaping, beating and robbing of men who went to Havelock to work. Want Guards Removed. One affidavit by a striker was to the effect that the searchlight injured the health of a sick wife. Others declared the searchlight was thrown into their homes at night. While the strikers were attempting to force the Burlington to discon tinue the use of searchlights on its properties in the court, other strikers here today adopted resolutions ask ing the county attorney to force the Burlington to ' discontinue use of armed guards on its orooertv at Havelock. Official of Miners Union Arrested on Treason Charge Charleston, W. Va July 31. Wil liam Petrey. vice president of Dis trict 17, United Mine Workers, was arrested and taken to Logan, charged with treason. Charles Tucker and James Jones, said by tee police to be union miners, were arrested 'on the same charge. Petrey was indicted with other union officers on a charge of treason growing out of the march on Logan county a year ago, but did not sur render with them when they obtained a change of venue from Logan county to Jefferson county. Ice Causes Amundsen to Transfer from Maud Nome, July 31. (By A. P.) Heavy ice was the cause of the transfer of Capt. Amundsen, arctic explorer, from his ship Maud to the schooner Holmes, reported in meager radio advices, according to a further radio message. Bad weather was the cause of the postponement of Amundsen's pro posed airplane flight across the pole from Point Barrow until next year, the advices said. 4 Drop 3,000 Feet to Death. Berne, Switzerland. July 31. By a sheer drop of 3,000 feet into a crevasse, three men and one woman were killed while climbing the Jung frau yesterday. Guides are searching the abyss for their bodies. Getting Together Judge Will Hold Obenchain Jury Another Night Ballots Reported 7 to 5 Late in Afternoon Majority Express Possibility for Verdict. Los Angeles, July 31. Prepara tions to keep the jury out another night in the case of Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain, on trial for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy, were ordered when a majority of the 12 stated there was" a possibility of a verdict being reached. The jury, which has been divided 6 to 6 during most of its delibera tions since last Friday afternoon, had switched to 7 to 5 when Judge Shenk called it in to report shortly before 5.- The foreman stated that the num erical alignment without indicating whether the majority was for con viction or acquittal. The judge asked each member for an opinion as to whether there was a chance for a verdict. A majority replied in the affirmative. After sending the seven women and five men jurors to the jury room the judge directed that if they failed to reach a verdict during the evening they would be taken to a hotel for the night. They have passed the last three nights in two small rooms in the county Hall of Justice, where accomodations are meagre. Earlier, when the jury had a 6 to 6 division, one of its members as serted that the foreman had not per mitted a discussion of all the evi dence in the case. Wben the later report was made it was announced by the objecting juror that this al leged ban had been lifted and that "about half the evidence had been gone over." 225 Inmates Strike in Milwaukee Prison Milwaukee. Wis.. July 31. A sec-' ond strike with 225 prisoners refus ing to work began at the house of correction here today. The prisoners who struck two weeks ago for new potatoes instead of old issued an ultimatum yester day demanding the freedom of-the cell house and other privileges, de claring that if their demands were not met they would refuse to work. Prisoners employed on the farm usually start out at 7:50 each morn ing. When the overseers opened the cell room doors, with the com mand, "all out," practically every male prisoner kept his bunk. W. H. Momsen, superintendent, estimated that the number of men remaining in the cell rooms was 225. There are 464 prisoners, but many of them are federal prisoners, men and women, who are not required to work on the farm. Boilers of Nonunion Mines destroyed by Explosions Canton, 111., July 31. The boilers of two nonunion coal mines at Cuba, a few miles from here, were blown up Sunday night by unidentified per sons, it was reported here. Several other wagon mines in the same dis trict were closed when explosions wreckedthe openings. Tariff Duties on Blankets. Washington. July 31. Tariff du ties on woolen blankets ranging from 20 cents per pound and 30 per cent ad valorem to 40 cents per pound and 4(J per cent ad valorem were ap proved today by the senate by a vote of 33 to 24. The Underwood law rate was 13 per cent aa valorem, i Three Editorials May Be Submitted in Prize Contest A Gift for Writing May Be Discovered by Entering Competition Prizes - Are Attractive, JThe glowing sun is on its Sab bath jaunt along the fertile valley of the Platte. The voice of nature elo quently pleads forgetfulntfss of mo mentary qualms conoerning national longevity." "A tolling bell invites to early mass. The dangers that beset ma terial things distract from those be leaguering the soul." "We sense our dereliction just in time for early lunch. Its very sav our and variety awaken memories of mounting debits at the grocery store, the butcher's, baker's and confec tioner's." Written by Decqrator. These are three paragraphs ex tracted from an editorial sent in to The Omaha Bee's editorial writing contest. The measured phrases march as majestically as blank verse. The writer is by trade a sign painter and decorator. You, no matter what your occupa tion, may have gift for writing. This contest gives you a great oppor tunity to try yourself. You may submit one. two or three editorials, 100 to 500 words each, written on one side of the paper, with your name, address and occupation in the upper left corner of the first sheet. Contest closes August 10. Committee to Be Judge. A committee of the Nebraska Press association will judge the t&i torials. Winning editorials in The Umaha Bee contest will aret prizes of $25, $15 and $10. These will be entered also with winners on 23 other .Nebraska papers in competition for tnree errand orizes of $100. $50 and $25. The grand prize winners will also be brought to Omaha by The umana Bee to be guests of honor at the banquet of the Nebraska Press association. Newspaper employes may not en ter this contest. For newsoaoer men and women there is, however, a sep arate contest with prizes of 5100. S50 ana js. Professor Invents Film That Photographs Sound Urbana. 111.. July 31. fBv A. P.) Prof. Joseph T. Tvkociner of the University of Illinois, after 10 years' worn, nas constructed a machine which not only photographs the usual moving picture as seen on the screen but at the same time and on the same film photographs sound, it was announced by the university toaay. so tar nave the experiments gone that the ring of a bell, the slam of a door, and the human voice are reproduced in the laboratory tests, it was stated. THe Weather Forecast Tuesday, fair; not much change in temperature. Hourly Temperatures. S a. m 70 1 p. t p. P. p. P- P. a p. I 1. n 1 . m 7 S b. m 75 ' ra... a. 79 10 ft. m SS 11 a. m M It noon M ..SJ Highest Yesterday. Chtynn SIPnrblo . ... Davenport .. Rapid City Pnvr 8Salt Laka ., DodRC Cltf ifipnnta Fa ... ..... an 7 North piu uira IKFbrridan ..t2Sioux cur i Five Plans Proposed to End Strike Employes Who Remained on Job During Rail Shopmen's .Walkout Given Preference in Proposals of Harding. Wage Hearing Promised Cincinnati, July 31. (By A. T.) Five specific proposals for the set tlement of the railroad srike are contained in President Harding' plan, which will be submitted to rail road executives in New York and rail union heads in Chicago Tues day, it was learned here from an of ficial of the railroad shop crafts union. The official, who refused to permit the use of his name, stated that he had secured the information from rail union officials in Washing, ton Saturday. The five specific proposals, ac cording to the offcial, include: 1 That the employes will abide by the decisions of the United States railroad labor board in the future. ' 2 In the matter of seniority, the employes who remained on the job during the strike will receive prefer ential treatment. Men who have been on strike will return with their seniority rights subj'ect to those rights acquired during the strike by men who remained on the job and the seniority of the new employes will date from the time they entered the service. Rehearing Promised. 3 The men will accept the recent wage reductions of the railroad la for board, pending a further hear ing on the matter by the board. 4 "Farming out" of shop work by the railroads will be discontinued. 5 Discussion of the establishment of adjustment boards. Regarding the matter of adjust ment boards the official stated that the unions desire a national board of adjustment while the railroad execu tives seek either regional or system boards. It was stated that the matter of accepting the proposals of Presi dent Harding is entirely up to the policy committee of the railroad de partment of the American Federation of Labor, since this body was the one which sanctioned the strike of the shopmen. The policy commit tee is composed of 90 men, 30 from each of three districts, the dividing lines of which are - the Mississippi river and the Mason and Dixon line. Pressure Brought to Bear. Washington, July 31. Convinced that the railroad strike would be a matter of history within 24 hours after acceptance by railway shopmen and transportation chiefs of President Harding's compromise plan, all of the government's influence was mus tered behind the effort to obtain adoption by the employers meeting in New York and that of the em ployes jn Chicago Tuesday. Chairman Hooper of the railroad labor board, after a conference with President Harding, left for Chicago to be on hand when the meeting is called of the general policy commit tee of the striking shopcraft unions. Secretary Hoover left to attend the New York meeting of the executives. There was little doubt in admin istration circles concerning accept ance by the union leaders of the pro posed compromise settlement Sev eral railroad executives, however, are known to hold strong objections be cause of their belief that it would entail abandonment of loyal work men who have ' stuck through the strike, as well as new employes who ignored strong inducements not ta accept employment during the emer gency. Pin Hopes On Cuyler. Personal friends and senatorial ad visers of the president were strong in their conviction that this opposi tion would be more than offset by those executives who would accept (Torn to Pace Two, Column FIt.) Chicago Mail Order House Reports Record Business Chicago, July 31. Montgomery, Ward & Co., after operating at a de ficit for the last two years $9,887, 000 loss in 1921 and $7,855,000 loss in 1920 is again earning a profit, ac cording to a statement issued to stockholders by President Theodore i F. Merezeles. The statement says the company made a net profit of $1,241,117 in the first six months of 1922. The number of orders re ceived increased 35.03 per cent, and the total was the largest for the first six months of any year in the, history of the company. Head of Denver Gas Company Dies Suddenly in New York Denver, July 31; Frank W. Frueauff, first vice president of the Gty Service company, died in his apartments in New York city late Monday, according to a teleeram re ceived by relatives here. He was widely known as an operator of eas and electric companies and was president of the Denver Gas and Electric Light company. According to the telegram, Mr. Frueauff was stricken with acute in digestion in his office. He was taken home and died two hours later. He was 58 years old. Judge Grants Divorce to Marine Wed While Drunk Detroit. July 31. Seret. . Henrv Brown testified he had married Pearl recruiting office, has received an hon orable discharge from matrimony. Judge Jayne granted him an uncon tested divorce from Pearl Brown. Brown testified he had maried Pearl during a wild party at El Paso in 1VIO. I awoke one morninir with a headache and a wife," he said. "We lived together three months and then she ran away. I haven't seen her since.'