The Omaha Sunday Bee
VOL. 52-NO. 8.
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Northwest
Scores Die
Efforts to
End Strike
Resumed
Boy, 5, Dies.Undei: Auto
of Next Door Neighbor
Is Facing
in Italian
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Outbreaks
Shutdown
August
Copyright, l:t
Minnesota Governor Appeals
to Hoover for Furl Relief
Many Plant and News
papers Must Close.
Price Control in Force
St. rul. Aug. 5.-(By A. P.)
Governor J. A. 0. Preus. in a tele
gram to Herbert Hoover, secretary
of commerce, today declared the coal
situation in the northwest is "desper
ate" and that manufacturing plants
Railway I'liion Leaders Hold
Further Conferr iut With
President To Urnew
Negotiation Monday.
Men in Cheerful Mood
net wren Fascist!
and (lotmniini-t Factions
During 1'aat Werk.
: Situation Still Is Tense
would De lorced to close. 1U0 news
papers suspend publication and many
men will be thrown out of work un
less relief is given at once.
Control Effective.
Washington. Aug. 5. Federal
prices for coal now are effective in 95
per cent of the producing fields, Sec
retary Hoover said today. Western
Kentucky operators, he added, have
come into line and accepted the
agreements "fixing a minimum of
$150 a ton at the mine with adjust
ments. Within a week or 10 days. Mr
Hoover, declared, all the coal pro
duced in the country will he flowing
through the federal fuel distributor's
office in Washington and price con
trol will operate 100 per cent at the
mines.
When coal reaches the states, how
ever, the secretary asserted, it will be
up to the governors to prevent spec
ulation by resale or profiteering by
letailers.
Peace in Sight.
Chicago, Aug. 5. With a possible
peace in sight in the coal strike fed
eral and state officials today were
withholding action calculated to
bring about a speedy resumption of
TOduction, but continued prepara
tions for such a contingency -should
he projected settlement plans fail. .
The meeting Monday in Cleveland,
"., of John L, Lewis, president of
he United Mine Workers, and other
i.nion chiefs with representatives of
:oi operators in the central com
petitive fields was looked upon as the
final independent peace effort of the
earring factions. It was believed
generally that should the Cleveland
conference fail President Harding
t-.ould take some drastic actioai
'toward ending the tieup of mines..
Drastic Action Planned.
, Washington, Aug. 5. Drastic ac
tion by the government to force the
' production of coal and avert, if pos
sible, the increasing menace of a coal
tianrine this winter will be taken by
President Harding next week, unless
in the meantime there are promising
ntiitations that a settlement of the
:oal strike can be effected through an
grecment between the mine workers
ind the operators.
At present there are no such in
timations. The president, however,
is willing to wait until after the con
ference between the representatives
of the mine workers and a few of the
operators at Cleveland on Monday.
If this produces no results which
promise the resumption of coal min
ing upon an extensive scale, the
president has decided, the time will
have come for the'intervention of the
government in the interest of the
general public.
May Seize Min's.
The president's plan, a., understood
by some of his advisers, will be to
take over a number of larger mines,
place United States troops in posses
sion of them and call upon miners,
" regardless of whether they are union
or nonunion men, to go to work for
the government, with full assurance
of adequate protection.
That this course will be pursued :s
now regarded as a certainty. It is
no secret among the president's close
friends and advisers that he has no
hope that the Cleveland conference
will advance the nation any closer to
an adequate fuel supply than it is at
present.
Injunction Is Asked to
Stop Payment of Warrants
West Point, Neb.. Aug. 5. (Spe
cial.) A petition was filed in the
district court of Cuming county en
joining the county treasurer from
paying a number of warrants ' that
had previously been registered, to the
amount of over $250,000, issued to
the Standard bridge company. It is
alleged in the petition that these
warrants were illegally issued on the
grounds that they were far in excess
of 85 per cent of the levy for the cur
rent year. No restraining order from
the court has been issued.
Man Cannot Drive or
Ride in Auto for 5 Years
Oakland Cal., Aug. 5. If any one
within the next five years drives up
to William Afflick in his automobile
and greets him with an invitation to
"hope in" Afflick will be compelled
to decline with regrets. He is un
der a court injunction not to drive
or even ride in a nautomobile for a
half decade, as a result of his con
viction on a charge of failing to
render aid to Fred Geyer, 70, whom
his car struck and killed.
Graham Alimony Reduced
by Judge to $200 a Month
Temporary alimony to be paid
by Howard B. Graham, ice cream
manufacturer, to his wife, Myrl,
pending his appeal of her divorce de
cree lo the supreme court, was re
duced from $250 a month to $200 a
month by District Judge Sears yes
terday. Senate Agreed on Vote
on Tariff This Month
Washington. A off. 5. An unani
mous consent agreement which re
publican and democratic leaden hope
will bring about a final vote on the
tariff bill, certainly before the end of
the month, was entered into today
by the senate.
Fifteen minutes after a picture like this one was taken of little Harold
Fchr, 5, only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Fchr, 5117 Cuming street, yester
day afternoon, he lay dead, his head crushed by wheel? of an automobile
driven by his next door neighbor and man-playmate, Charles B. Avers,
5115 Cuming street.
Hitched to the wagon shown in the picture was Harold's pet goat.
Ayers had been playing with Harold, tossing him in the air and romp
ing with him. He went to get his car. Harold chatted with a workman
on the job at a new house near by, then ran off the curbing toward his
home. He dashed between two parked automobiles and was knocked
down by Ayers' car.
The injured bojj was rushed to Methodist hospital, but died on the
way. His father exonerates his neighbor and friend from any blame for
the accident. Police booked Ayers for reckless driving.
Harold finished the kindergarten class at Dundee school Iat June.
He was the darling: of the neighborhood. Tlaymatc and pal of his comrades,
Harold loved to have the lads don bathing suits and play in the water
spray on the lawn of his home. He was' as much the pet of the Ayers
household, next-door, as he was at home.
The youngster adored animals and onlv 15 minutes before the arri-
dent he had his picture taken as shown
nis wagon.
Funeral services probably will be
at the Kountze Memorial church.
Thousands Killed
as Huge Typhoon
Sweeps Swatow
Dead Bodies Float Every-
where in Harbor Wreckage I
Nearly Every House in i
City Damaged.
Hongkong, Aug. 5. (By A. P.)
Wednesday night's typhoon at Swa
tow, 250 miles north of here, was the
worst in the history of that city.
Dead bodies are floating amid the
wreckage everywhere in the harbor.
Nearly every house in the city was
damaged. A flood following the
wind drove inhabitants from their
homes.
Telegraph lines between here and
Swatow are down, but details of the
disaster were brought here today by
steamer.
Storm Breaks.
The storm broke at 10:30 o'clock
Wednesday night and gathered force
until daybreak, when it subsided,
leaving death and destruction in the
city and harbor. The death list is
placed at 5,000. Hundreds of native
craft along the water front were
wrecked and their occupants drown
ed, while practically every house
ashore felt the effect of the terrific'
wind.
Several godowns. or warehouses,
were badly damaged and their stocks
of merchandise wholly or partially
ruined. Trees were torn up by the
roots, telegTaph poles were snapped
off, roofs were carried away and en
tire houses laid flat in the pathway
of thestorm.
Boats Picked Up by Wind.
Native boats in the harbor were
picked up as the wind and the water
linked forces and were carried far in
shore. Coasting steamers dragged
their anchors, some of them over dis
tances of two miles, and were pitched
on land, damaged. The light
houses at the ettrance of -the harbor,
despite their solid foundations and
sturdy construction, also show the
effect of the typhoon.
The water in the harbor rose rap
idly until several feet deep in the
shore-line warehouses, and as it con
tinued upwards inhabitants of the
houses left or retreated to their upper
stories.
WHERE TO FIND
THE BIG FEATURES OF
THE SUNDAY BEE
TART OXE.
Editorial Comment
F&ge 6.
PART TWO.
Sport wt and Features
Pace) 1 and 8.
Radio New Page 5.
Real Estate Activities Fare 5
Market and Financial Pace .
Want Ada PaffN 8 and (.
PART THREE.
Society and Sewn for Women
race 1, S, 3, 4 and .
Shopping With roily Page 4.
AmuMmentu Pages 5 and 6.
Of Etpeclal Interest to Motoriit
Page 7.
"The Married XII of Helen and
Warren" Page 8.
"Diary of a MoTie Fan," by Gladrt
Ball Page 8.
For Live Box of Omaha Page 8.
MAGAZINE SECTION.
The World Outride." opening Install,
ment of new novel by Harold Mar
ti rath I age 1.
"HappTland" Pe ).
The Teenle Weenie" Page 4,
Letters From Little Folks
Pages 4 and 8.
Cutout for the Kiddles Pago 6.
"Stranger Than Fiction." short storr
hj Mabel Elliott page .
"The Romance of a Million Dollars,"
final Installment of serial br Elis
abeth Dejeans Pago 7.
ROTOGRAVURE SfXTION.
Toothful Omaha Follies Beauties,
pnotos br Sat L. Dewell, Ml Ar
thur building Page 1.
"Coreaado la QoiTtra" Pag 8.
in the cut. A goat was hitched to
held at the family residence and later
1 4,500 Youngsters
j Get Day of Joy
at Elks Outing
Biggest Picnic of Kind Held
Here Provides Gamut for
Boyhood Joys at Elm-
WOod Park.
"Try and be the boy your mother
thinks you are," were the words on
cards worn by nearly 4.500 boys at
tending a picnic given yesterday
afternoon in Elmwood park bv Oma
ha lodge No. 39 of Elks.
Only one boy of the vast throng
of young Americans fell short of
maternal expectations. This lone
youngster, in an unguarded moment,
took from a smaller boy a mouth
organ won in a race. He said he
just wanted to see if the instrument
would make a noise.
It was a wonderful aggregation of
youthful enthusiasm and was the
largest outing of boys ever held in
Omaha.
Entertained by Taylor.
Thekiddies assembled in the audi
torium at noon and were entertained
by Charles W. Taylor of the Pathe
exchange with movies while street
cars were arriving. They also were
tagged at the City auditorium where
C. E. Black and John H. Killian at
tended to the sendoff. At the park
they were received by members of
the Elks, Boy Scouts and others who
volunteered to guide the celebrants
in the festivities.
The first event at the park was a
salute to the flag, led by Dr. M. J.
Ford, chairman of the social and
community welfare committee of the
Elks, under whose auspices the pic
nic arrangements had been made.
The boys raised right hands and
pledged loyalty to country and flag
and to be good citizens.
Hospital at Leisure.
The hospital department didt not
complain on account of overwork.
One chap stubbed his big toe and
another hurt his shin.
Rev. E. V. Graham, pastor of
Florence Presbyterian church,
brought 40 boys and stood on the
sidelines..
It was no place for girls. They
were not missed. There was a stir
when announcement was made that
Sheriff Mike Clark ami George A.
Roberts offered prizes to the boys
with most freckles and the reddest
hair. Clarence Whiserand. 2233
South Twentieth street, and Clarence
Dwyer, 2834 Parker street, won
(Turn to Page Four. Column One.)
William Howard Taft Goes
Through City on Way West
The book was "The Hound of the
Baskervilles," by A. Conan Doyle, a
blood-curdling detective yarn.
The reader was William Howard
Taft, chief justice of the United
States supreme court.
"Pretty good story, isn't it?" he
asked, laying the volume aside when
newspapermen entered his Pullman
stateroom at noon yesterday while
he was here a moment on his way to
San Francisco to address the Ameri
can Bar association.
The former president declined to
discuss politics, chatted about Omaha,
and asked that his regards be pre
sented to Maj. Gen. Francis Kernan,
John R. Webster and Gould and C
N. Dietz.
New Bavarian Government.
Berlin. Aug. ji. A Munich mes
sage to the Deutsche Tages Et'itung
announced the formation of a new
government coalition in Bavaria,
composed of the various Tightest par
ties. The correspondent remarks
that whereas all the other German
state governments contains a sprin
kling of socialists, Bavaria is the
first state to have a purely bour
geoise cabinet.
Rome. A tig. 5. (Hy A. I)-The
torm of violence between Italy's two
extreme political elements fascisti
and communis! which hat swept
the country throughout the week, be
tsan to show some signs of abate
ment, leaving in its wake scores of
killed and thousand of wounded.
Reports from various part of the
.country, however, indicated that both
I tactions wore maintaining a defiant
attitude and it is impossible to pre
dict whether this apparent let-up in
hostilities means only a temporary
lull or whether there is ground for
hoping for a real settlement of the
difficulty. The abyss separating the
extreme parties has undoubtedly
been widened as a result of the short
lived general strike proclaimed- early
in the week throughout the country
in protest against reprisals that had
been carried out hy the fascisti
acainst their communist adversaries.
The situation thus created, it is be
lieved, will make the government's
efforts at pacification even more dif
ficult. The government announced shortly
after noon that order has been re
stored in Milan, Genoa and Ancona,
after desperate fighting had raged
for more than 24 hours. But reports
from other parts of the country
showed that hostilities were far from
over. Premier Facta's new cabinet
addressed an appeal to the country.
urging tile cessation ot jacrionai
strife.
.
G. 0. P. Winners
Hold Love Feast
to Plan Campaign
Suggestions Are Made for
Planks in Platform Air
of Confidence and
Unity Prevails.
Lincoln, Aug. 5. (Special.) A
good-fellowship meeting was held
here today by republican candidates
for state and national offices. At the
call of C. A. McCloud of York, chair
man of the state republican central
committee, the victors in the recent
primary met to exchange ideas on
the most effective way to conduct
their campaign.
Each candidate was called upon to
suggest planks for the republocan
platform. Chairman McCloud ex
pressed the belief that these sugges
tions would be ot great service to tne
nlatform committee of the state con
vention, which will meet August 15.
An air of confidence and unity pre
vailed. Coming from every part of
the state, the candidates and the
guests whom mnay of them brought
were able to gauge public sentiment
as a whole. Judge W. G. Sears, can
didate for congress from the Omaha
district, sounded the keynote for an
aggresive campaign. He was fol
lowed by R. B. Howell .candidate for
senator, and Charles H. Randall, the
nominee for governor.
Mr. Howell, M. Randall, C. A.
Spillman, candidate for attorney gen
eral, and Charles Sundahl of York
were appointed to sift over the plat
form suggestions and report at an
other get-together meeting to be held
later.
Mother Burned t.o Death
in Attempt to Save Bahy
Spokane, Aug. 5. Mrs. Gay N.
Stroup was burned to death in her
home at Cheney, Wash., when she
braved the flames in a fruitless at
tempt to save the life of her 17-months-old
baby.
Mrs. Stroup was gathering corn
near the house when she discovered
it in flames. Neighbors with diffi
culty restrained her husband from
following her. Her body was found
with that of the baby clasped in her
arms.
Fatty Arbuckle Plans
to Go to China and Japan
Los Angeles. Aug. 5. Roscoe
C. ("Fatty") Arbuckle. motion pic
ture comedian, has applied to federal
officials here for passports for him
self and Harry Brand, his secretary,
for a business trip of indefinite length
to China, Japan and Korea. They
plan to sail from San Francisco Au
gust 16.
Why Worry About Things
that never happen?
H Buy a home now, move into it and enjoy life.
f You all know the man who won't buy today because it was
cheaper yesterday. And he won't buy tomorrow because it
will be cheaper next week. The result is that he keeps on
paying rent and reminisces about his lost opportunities the
balance of Ins days.-
Z The population of Omaha keeps increasing steadily and it is
this endless process in a big city that makes real estate
valuable. It is this very thing that is making real estate in
Omaha your best investment either from a financial stand
point or one of future happiness.
f There is no better time than the present to buy or build a
home, select a lot, buy acreage or make a paying real estate
investment. Turn to the "Want" Ads in the Sport Section of
today's Omaha Bee. The real estate advertisements there
will solve half of your problem with less than half of the
worry involved by any other known method.
Boys and Girls
Deny Themselves
ior Milk Fund
Norfolk Youngsters Forego
Ice Cream and Candy
to Give Food to Un
fortunate Babies.
Little children in three Sunday
schools have contributed their nick
els and dimes to help save the life
and health of the poor babies in des
perately poor homes of Omaha.
The little givers in the First Cen
tral Congregational Sunday school
are only 5 to 7 years old. In the
Xcrfolk Sunday school they saved
coins given them to buy ice cream
cones and candy.
Children of the 5723 Military, ave
nue neighborhood gave a play, "The
Soldiers Faire well," as the little
letter from Beulah Schmidt sending
the $2 says. Admission was 2
cents and it was worth it.
Previously arknowltdged $1.
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Mrs. W. H. Mitchener, Creston, la.
M. G. Colpetr.er
Dorothea and Marpory Mae IIer
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Omaha Jim a..
M. A. H., Council llluffs
Aunt Ann
A Friend, Shenandoah. Ia
Mrs. Poru Meier. Wayne. Neb....
Joan of Arc Class, Ft. Calhoun
Sunday School
Mrs. Frank Yoct, Bancroft, Neb..
Beginners Dept.. First Central
Congregational Sunday School..
Adrian M. Seb, llnwells, N'eh...,
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Russ Crops So Promising
Buying of Flour Stopped
Moscow, Aug. 5. (By A. P.) The
soviet government announced today
that owing to the excellent crop pros
pects the foreign trade department is
instructing its bureaus abroad to
cease buying flour and sugar.
Progress Made
in Fighting Fires
Rains and Cloudy Weather
Improve Situation in North
western States.
Missoula. Mont., Aug. S. Forest
fire conditions were more favorable
for the fighting of forest fires in this
district than for several days past,
according to word received at district
No. 1 headquarters here. There has
been rain on some forests and the
cool, cloudy weather is aiding the
fire fighters. The Kootenai forest in
northwest Montana is offering the
greatest problem to the fighters now.
This fire, on Star creek, is burning
over 100 acres only, but is in an al
most inaccessible country.
Ten miles of trench built on the
St. Joe forest reserve at the scene of
the homestead fire, south of Avery,
Idaho, has confined the fire there. The
fighters here, however, have a high
wind to combat and sparks are flying
to the Fohl creek section, where
there has been no rain.
In the Blackfoot forest, rain has
helped and the fire in the Glacier
National park is now small and soon
will be on a patrol basis.
Six-Foot Bandits
Rob Laundry Clerk
John Westberg, a clerk at the
Emerson laundry, 1301 North Twenty-fourth
street, was closing the laun
dry Saturday night near 6 when two
men walked in and started a mnrlr
quarrel over a package of laundry!
aeciarea to nave been Iett at the
place.
Without warning one of the men
knocked Westberg down and kicked
him and the other drew a revolver
and told the , prostrate man to lie
still. Then they rifled the cash reg
ister and took the contents, $100.
Westberg told police the men were
six-footers.
Governors Asked to Concur
in U. S. Rationing Plan
Washington, Aug. 5. Governors
of the various states were asked to
day by Federal Fuel Distributor
Spencer to concur in the steps out
lined by the federal government for
the emergency distribution of coal.
Governors' committees were re
quested by Mr. Spencer to apply for
coal produced in other states only
through the federal fuel distributors
at Washington and not to order any
coal from federal fuel district com
mittees nor producers outside of their
own state.
Hiram Johnson Says
Railroads Should Yield
San Francisco, Aug. 5. It is the
duty of the railroad executives act
ing for the carriers in the strike of j
railroad shopmen to accept the set- I
tlement plan proposed by President j
Harding, according to a statement i
made oublic today by Senator Hiram i
W. Johnson.
Conductor Drops Dead. !
Burlington. Ia., Aug. 5. Conductor j
Fred Washburn, a veteran employe!
of the Rock Island railroad, who!
made his last trip Friday and was:
placed on the pension list, having!
reached his 70th year, dropped dead '.
this morning. He apparently had i
been in good health.
Farmer, Grocer
and Housewives
Enter in Contest
Sign Painter, Shoemaker and
Carriage Repairer Also
Numbered Among Those
Who Try Hand. '
Among the writers of editorials
for The Omaha -Bee's editorial-writing
contest, received yesterday were
five housewives, three, teachers, three
farmers, three bookkeepers, two. man
agers of elevators, two students, a
shoemaker, a sign painter, a carpen
ter, a lumber dealer, a hotel clerk, a
secretary, a grocer, a merchant, a
stenographer, an insurance agent, a
lawyer, a musician and a carriage re
pairer. You. no matter what your occupa
tion, may have the ability to write
interesting, clear, concise, clever, con
vincing articles on subjects of hu
man interest.
Cash Prizes.
This contest offers you possible
fame and fortune. The Omaha Bee
offers prizes of S25, $15 and $10 for
the best three editorials. These win
ners with winners from 23 other Ne
braska papers will be judged to se
lect the three best ' which will be
awarded grand prizes of $100, $50
md $25 by The Omaha Bee. Be
sides, the writers of the big prize edi
torials will be brought to Omaha and
will be honor guests at a banquet to
be given by The Omaha Bee to the
Nebraska Press association Septem-
bcr 1
Any Subject.
The contest closes August 10. The
time grows short. Act now. Write
on any subject you please, write 100
to 500 words, write on one side of
the paper only, put your name, oc
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Newspaper employes are not al
lowed in this contest.
Home Folks to Celebrate
Nomination of Randall
Randolph, Neb., Aug. 5, (Spe
cial.) Monday night has been set as
the date for the celebration and cam
paign demonstration here in honor
of C. H. Randall, republican nomi
nee for governor. A band concert,
talks by men from surrounding
towns, and a pavement dance will
provide the features of the evening.
Northcliffe Sinking.
London, Aug. 5. (By A. P.) It
was announced today that Viscount
Northcliffe passed a poor night and
that his condition was somewhat
worse.
New Novel by
Harold MacGrath
The opening installment of
the new novel, "THE WORLD
OUTSIDE," by Harold Mac
Grath, author of best sellers,
is published in the Magazine
Section today. Succeeding
installments will appear each
week in The Omaha Sunday
Bee.
Waihington. Aujr. 5 (By A. T.)
Vcgotiatioiu to end the tnke of
railroad thopcratt men were re
timed by I'reiidrnt Harding and H.
M. Jewell, pretidint of (he railroad
employe' department of the Ameri
can Federation ol I.hr; W. 11.
Johnston, president of the inachin
mls, and J. I'. Knotun. head of the
electrical worker' brotherhood, who
left the White Houe after an hour
ot conference with the chief execu
tive, expecting to be recalled ou
Monday. ,
It v. an not disclosed whether t!te
president had communicated with
railroad heads again, whose refuial
this week to grant hit proposal to
give returning, strikers seniority
status terminated the first settlement
attempt, but the strike leaders, in
cheerful mood, said after the confer
ence that the proposals, at originally
outlined by the president, consti
tuted their' "irreducible minimum in
seeking honorable settlement."
Brotherhood Heads Call.
Likewise H. E. Wills, J. Paul
Stephens and Arthur J. Lovell, rep
resenting respectively the engineers,
trainmen and enginemen and firemen,
three of the four brotherhood organi
zations, saw the president at the in
stance of national chiefs of these
orders and of the switchmen's union
and presented the possibility that
grave prospects of further rail un
settlements were in sight unless the
shop situation was straightened out.
It was understood that while they did
not set up a possibility of sympa
thetic strikes hy their membership,
they declared that the conditions of
railroad equipment, locomotives par
ticularly, on many roads was grow
ing to be such that train crews might
refuse service.
No oublic statement of their report
i was made, other than that contained
j in the message from the brother
hoods' union under which they actee
; in ooinir to the White House, anc
nothing was given out officially. They
made it plain, however, that they
made no request of the president for
a conference with the brotherhood
chiefs.
Meeting Postponed.
The meeting between genera,
chairmen of shop workers on the
Southern railway and operating of
ficials was postponed until Monday
for the reason, sccording to union
leaders, that all the representatives
of the men had not arrived in
Washington.
The Southern has offered a sepa
rate settlement on the basis of Presi
dent Harding's proposals, without
reservation. Mr. Jewell said that the
question of whether the Southern
shopmen would go back was "en
tirely up 'to the men," that the gen
eral policy . committee of the shop
crafts federation had instructed gen
eral chairmen to meet officials of sin
gle railroads whenever such a meet
ing was desired.
Mr. Jewell and Mr. Johnston
called upon Samuel Gompers at the
American Federation of Labor after
the White House visit and some of
the 'representatives of shopmen on
strike in eastern territory were called
into Washington for the weekend to
discuss the strike with the national
officers. Mr. Gompers gave out a
stat2ient which charged that "or
ganized employing and financial in
terests were rallying to the support
of labor managements in order to
make 6i the railroad strike a unified,
union smashing campaign."
See Impending Victory.
New York, Aug. 5. Both sides -in
the rail controversy claimed to see
impending victory in the conference
of national officials of the engineers,
trainmen, enginemen and firemen's
unions and B. M. Jewell, head of the
shopcrafts, with federal executives al
Washington.
The eastern strike committee in
terpreted the conference as proof that
equipment of the railroad was be
coming so unserviceable a to justify
engineers, firemen and trainmen in
protesting that the lives of crews and
passengers were being endangered
by its continued use.
Rail chiefs, as represented by Rob
ert Binkerd, vice 'chairman of the
Association of Railway Executives,
characterized the Washington session
as "the workings of strike psychology.
ana labor politics.
York Appropriates Money
for Advertisement of City
York, Neb., Aug. 5. (Special.)
The appropriation levy for the city of
York, totaling mills, was passed
by the city council. The annual esti
mate for the ensuing year totaled
$70,000. The appropriation bill this
year provided $500 for advertising
the city and $1,000 for music and en
tertainments. Jap Prince 0. K.s Pacts.
Tokio, Aug. 5. (By A. P.)
Crown Prince Hirohito, regent, to
day officially sanctioned the treaties
to which Japan was a party at the
arms conference at Washington. This
completed Japan's action on the
treaties, with the formal exchange of
ratifications at Washington.
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