The Omaha Morning Bee
VOL. 52 NO. 52.
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TWO CENTS
Coal Miners
in Illinois
Stand Pat
President Farrington Declare
Men Will Not Return Un
less Operators Concede
Arbitration Unit.
More Contracts Signed
Spring fir! J, 111,, Aug, 16. (By A.
r,) t'nlrss Illinois operators re
ride from tlirir arbitration basis set
tlement stand and accept trruii sim
ilar made to thosej in recent wage
conrfrrnre ol Cleveland, Illinois
mines will remain on strike, Frank
Farriiton, president of the Illinois
miners,- declared on hit arrival from
Cleveland.
"There isn't a chance in (lie world
of ending the strike in Illinois"
President Harrington said, "unless II
lmoii operator abandon their pres
ent arbitration basis plan. The agrre
ment will have to follow along the
line of that signed, at Cleveland.
"In mjr opinion." added Vrrsidcnt
Farrmgton, "there won't he anv
f reat amount if rejoicing among ?
linoii miners at toon at they learn
the lerme of this Cleveland agree-
IJICITt.
When asked to predict the time
1 Union tninert would return to
wor, President Farrington said that
"it might be month unless terini
similar to those adopted at Cleve
land are accepted by Illinoii oper
ator." He was pessimistic hegarding
le end of the strike and the resump
tion of mining in Illinois at an early
date.
Mors Agreements Signed.
Cleveland. Aug. 16 -(By A. P.)
Before leaving for Philadelphia to
take part in the anthracite negotia
tions there Thursday, John L, Lewis,
president of the United Mine Work
era of America, announced that ad
ditional agreements mounting to ap
proximately 10,000,000 tons annual
soft coal production were executed
here in the settlement, in part, of the
bituminous coal strike.
"Acceptance of the approximately
60,000,000 tons annual production
represented in the conference of min
ers and operators Tuesday and the
execution of additional agreements
today involving something more than
10,000,000 tons production has given
the settlement impetus that will be ir
resistible." Mr. Lewis said in a state
ment today
He predicted that a generat ac
ceptance of agreements by practical
ly all operating units in the organized
sections of the hituminuous industry
would be in effect within a short
time.
Object Lesson.
"This constitutes an object lesson
that will be especially helpful in ad
justing the strike in the anthracite
fields," Mr, Lewis said.
"Despite unfavorable economic
conditions and with tremendous po
litical and financial influences raised
against us, we are emerging from the
conflict victorious," the statement
said.
He said the miners had won the
"three main and principle issues in
volved in the strike f 650.000 miners
in the anthracite and bituminous
mining industries."
"The miners have won their con
tention against the idea of single
slate settlements with their unions
split into 20 or more segregated
groups," the statement said.
Won Wage Fight.
"The miners have won their fight
against it reducfion of wages in the
mining industry.
'The miners have likewise won
their fight for retention of collective
bargaining as against substitution of
arbitration."
Asked regarding the policy of the
United Mine Workers regarding its
members in nonunion fields, Mr.
Lewis said:
"It is the Intention of the United
Mine Workers to evercise the full
moral and financial strei.gth of the
organization to sustain and protect
its members in their fight against
the powerful nonunion interests, who
may continue to tight the principles
of collective bargaining in the vari
ous prodocing fields, The same
policy will he applied as regards any
coal company, hitherto recognizing
the union, which may decline to ac
cept the basis of settlement as nego
tiated in the Cleveland conference."
To Meet on Monday.
Terre Haute, lnd.. Aug. 16.-Decision
to meet with miner' repre
sentatives here next Monday "for
the purpose I making a contract to
permit he mines in Indiana to re
sume operation" was reached by the
scale committee of the Indiana
IV.uminoui Coal Operators' aocu
tion. In announcing acceptance ci the
miners' invitation for the meeting,
tie operators gave no intwutcon
t then stand on the UeseUnd
agreement, 'this agreement wit
under d'teussion throughout the day
nd was repotted to hast caused a
sharp deSi at la advisability
ol accepting it for the basil id a
itatt agreem.
A number ot mines is Terr Hatitt
S strut wen reported to have bnn
piparstiiii f,r a resumption t
wvW lis anticipate f th ''"'
M a tfteemeat between the In bane
('jrVtt and minuet.
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She Is Prettiest Girl
in State of Maryland
us
Miss Msbells Griffith of Baltimore,
chosen prettiest girl in the stats of
Maryland and awarded $500 in gold,
will be the star model in Baltimore
Fashion show.
Osborne Urges
Appointment of
All Assessors
Charges Local Men Lax With
Friend Would Abolish
County Office Intan
gibles Decrease.
Lincoln, Aug. 1(5. (Special Trie-
gram.) Charging that a majority
of the 5,000 precinct assessors of
N'ebraska are not doing their duty
in forcing intangabte property j
the oncn for taxation purposes, W.
II. Ocbornc, state tax commissioner,
issued an appeal today for passage
of a law making precinct assessors
appointive offivcrs.
This followed issuance of a report
by Osborne showing that under the
law, which now calls for a tax on
intangibles equal to 25 per cent of
the tax placed on real property,
revenue derived is nearly $500,000
less this year than last year. The
intangibles assessed approximately
$85,000,000 last year against $141,
000,000 this year. Last year intang
ibles were taxed on full value.
Trouble in Precincts.
"There needed to be four times
as much intangible property on the
tax rolls under the new law to
equal the revenue derived under the
full value tangible taxation law,"
Osborne said. "In scvera other
states where assessors did their
work right the revenue law now in
effect in N'ebraska proved a success
and no revenue was lost.
"The trouble in this state lies in
the precincts assessors in small
towns, elected by 200 or .300 voters
in their precinct who are their per
sonal friends and neighbors and,
who havc'nt the heart to force them
to put all their intangibles out for
taxation purposes. The law should
be changed and assessors appointed
who are not lifelong friends of the
persons they asess.
Omaha Men Do Duty.
"Douglas county assessors did
their duty and intangibles listed in
Douglas county increased sufficient
ly ro the same revenue was derived
from Douglas county intangibles
this. year as last.
"In Lincoln an assessor vsijo real
ly went after intangibles IftsV'fl 10
times more (his year thart kifjk That
prove? it can be (Jone, H Isifcssors
will do it.
"Another thing I would advocate Is
abolishment of county assessors.
Their duties can be handled by
countv clerks. Thirty-five counties
now have no county assessors and
they are handling their tar problems
as efficiently as those with county
assessors."
Picture- Brides Arrive
New York. Aug. 16. One hun
dred and fifty more Greek picture
brides arrived on the Greek steam
ship Megali Hellas from Piraeus and
expected to meet their future hus
bands and he married at once. The
girls told the passengers that con
ditions were so had at home they
were glad to rome here and risk
marrying virtual strangers.
Household
Essentials
t Every day scores of popl
refer! to the "Household
Goods" column In Ihs "Wsnt"
Ad section of The Omaha He
to seeure diffrnt household
essentials-furniture, baby
buggies, eWtruj appliances,
etc-.
T, This eutumrs epns up
wonderful field throutfh which
ta Mil us!, but useful pieets
f furmturs. '
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yon, thy wtU absolutely
tie w trt somsen t!.
f N scrihs the different
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why yoti wis!) la d,po f
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Ann tilled
Lot Angeles Limited and Con
tinental Limited Ordered
Kemoed From Schedule
ly President Cray.
Strike Given as Cause
Four transcontinental trains on the
jlnion racific have been temporarily
1 annulled became of labor troubles at
I Lai Vegas, Nev , it was stated yet.
, tcrday at the oflurs of Larl Gray,
i president of the system.
J lie lour are the Lot Angclct
Limited, leaving Oma'na westbound
at 9.40 a. m. and rastbouud at 7:10
p. m., and the 'Continental Limited,
which formerly led here for the west
at 2.15 a. m. and for the east at 1:35
a. in.
H. n. Dickinson, general suiierill
tendrnt of Northwestern lines in
Omaha, said the Northwestern will
start the Los Angeles and Conti
nental Limited trains west from
Chicago tonight, bringing them at
lar ai Umaha.
General Passenger Agent Craig of
the Union I'acific said the Union Pa
cific will attempt to take the trains
on west as far as posnhlc. 1 ickets
are being sold to Los Angeles on
Union Pacific lines, subject to de
lay, another passenger official said.
This official alio said that tickets
were being sold to Los Angeles
over the Union Pacific as far as Ok-
den and over the Southern Pacific
the remainder of the way.
Mr. Craig said Union Pacific Loa
Angeles trains are running as far
west as Milford, Utah, thim lar.
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Who Ate Brown's
Pajamas? Ba-aa
Humane Officer Is Holding
Goats Till Travels Halted
or Appetites Curbed.
Who ate W. I Brown's pajamas?
"Ra-aaaaaa," says the Nannie goat.
"Ba-aa, ba-aaaa," echo her two
kids.
"Well, one of you afe them," de
clares Mrs. Brown, 3306 Fowler
avenue.
L. B. King, superintendent of the
animal shelter of the Nebraska Hu
mane society, seized the three goats
when Mrs. Brown complained.
"I nut my wash on the clothes
line," Mrs. Brown declared, ''and two
of these goats came over and one ate
up my husband s pajamas.
King said he would continue to
hold the goats until the owner, Mrs.
Emaline S. Wctmore, 3312 Fowler
avenue, devised some means 'to pre
vent their roaming or to curb their
appetites. ,
"The durned things might de
velop a taste for breeches," he said.
"Who knows?"
Tommy O'Connor
Believed in L. A.
Los Angeles, Aug. 16. Tommy
O'Connor, convicted murderer and
fugitive of Chicago, is believed to be
in Los Angeles, according to infor
mation received at the office of the
district attorney yesterday, it is
stated in a story the Los Angeles
Examiner published today.
Officers believe he has been as
sociated with bandits here as he was
known to have been a Chicago asso
ciate of Edwin Burton, shot and
killed here last week with two other
gunmen who attempted to rob the
Union Ice company.
Four' sheriff's deputies left Los
Angeles by automobile last night for
Calexico, Cal-, where today a man
thought by Imperial county officers
to be a member of the Burton gang,
was trying to sell an automobile in
which there were two bullet holes.
Inj
millions Against
Hail Strikers Granted
Asheville, X. C, Aug. 16. Tem
porary injunctions restraining all
striking employes, members of the
various craits, their officers or agents
from interfering with the movement
of interstate commerce. United
States mail or employes of the
Southern railroad at Spencer or Sal
isbury, was signed in United States
district court here bv Judge James
F. Boyd and K. lates elib of
Shelby.
In view ot conditions arouuj snon
at Salisbury and Spencer, Governor
Morrison will be aUd tu send state
troops to protect property and em
ployes at these point t, according to
attorneys who were granted the tiu
pfi.irv mnifution.
" three buinlicd or more strikers
and s mpathirers t-itid In ftlluw
special guards l'i leave the Imui
when they arrived at Salisbury lr
si-ec al duly t wi s !iy tvilit,' the at
torneys asserted.
It is tepoited that several of the
guards are h.i.hb I
S-fond Democrat I'riuurjf j
lApet ted 111 Mississippi
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I inC'imj'kU litems livitl ,, and nt'
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Masked Burglars Tie
Boys and Rifle Home
York. Neb.. Aug, In -(Special
i Tflrnt am ) Masked burglars enter.
ed the f arm home of John Sluhr,
kMgged and tied Haymond, lo yrar
old son, titled the house and made
away with $125. Mr. and Mrs, Stuhr
were attending a picture show.
The robbers gained entrance
through the bark door. Raymond
said be was awakened by rones be.
ing fed about his hand. He was
hound band and foot and lied to the
bed. His young brother, J, was alto
t.ed.
.Sheriff Miller visited the scene
shortly after the robbery and de
clares it was home talent. The money
was taken in rash by the boys for
wheat sold yesterday. The burglars
were familiar w itlt the house and sur
roundings as was evident, for, after
tiring the youth, they made straight
for the deposit closet where the
money was kept.
Omaha Guardsman
Scores High Mark
On Firing Range
Company L Has Holiest Av
erage Machine Gun and
Howitzer Outfits Are
Given Instruction.
1'l.ittsmouth, Neb., Aug. 16. (Spe
cial.) Although the results have not
been tabulated for all companies
which took part in the the 2X)-yard
range practice yesterday and today,
officers here are certain that Com
pany Omaha, with an average of
42 J-10, is easily in the lead. On
sharpshooter. Henry .alinski, from
Company K. also of Omaha, made
I he almost perfect score ot V) out
of a possible M.
Machine gun companies D, Fair
moot, and M, Seward, began firing
on the range today under the direc
tion of Cant. F. Colnin, who ar
rived today from tht Missouri Na
tional guard camp as a special in
structor. The machine gun com
panies will fire on the range every
morniim at 8.
The Howitzer company, Mitchell,
went on the range this afternoon,
nftcr the machine gun and infantry
companies mere taken off. The com
pay n fired 3.t-mm. shells, the third
one hitting the bulls eye. Two shots
were also fired with a trench mortar
at 300 and 450 yards, respectively,
Lieut. Col. Robert Douglas, Os
ceola, la., is in charge of the Howit
zer and trench mortar instruction
and will assign daily problems.
l he first regimental review was
held tonight in the stuhblefield ad
joining the camp. The field was- so
rough that Col. Thomas, command
ing oftierr of the camp, decided on
further reviews would be held. The
Plattsmouth Chamber of Commerce,
however, has decided to put the
grounds in shape and reviews will
be resumed Friday evening.
Humphreys Is Acting
Successor to Kinkaid
Washington, Aug. 16. ( Special
Telegram.) Maj. A. R. Humphreys
of O'Neill is in Washington, practi
cally acting congressman from the
district of the late Representative
Kinkaid and in effect, chairman of
the committee on irrigation of arid
lands. Mr. Humphreys will prepare
the measures before the committee
for its consideration and following
the election in November will be the
actual congressman from the district-
until March next. One of the most
important measures before the com
mittee is the Uouldcr dam project in
Colorado upon which much of the ir
rigation of the southwestern states,
including Death valley, will depend.
Brazil Blocks Plan to Open
New Cable to Barbados
Washington, Aug. 16. An objec
tion by the Brazilian government has
blocked the plan to open the new
Miami-Barbados Western Union
cable for emergency use in handling
messages to and from Kurope by
wav of l'rrnambuco.
The Iiraziliun officials are under
stood to have taken the position
that the cable line, which has
been sealed to await an agreement
regarding South American fran
chises, cannot be used unless it
permitted to handle business to
South America as well as to Kurope.
In the present stage of the franchise
negotiations the State department
does not appear disposed to let the
new cable operate as a South Ameri
can connection,
Son of Doctor I Injured
In Airplane Accident
Uiivir Citv, Nth., Aug. 16
Wayne rew iter, lo, son of Ur. F. A.
Urcwster of tins pUce, was seriously
injured in an airplane accident at
Almrna. Kan, late today, according
to word received here. UrUils are
Uckintf,
It is understood that young Iluw
ter and 1'ilot J. H, Smith wer cat
run passengers in a plane that lr
I'r. w slrr Uses in making professional
taitt.
Youth Fall 200 Fert to
Dentil, Lands Near Mother
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What the Cancellation of War
Father in Race
to Save Daughter
Lured to Omaha
Man Alleged to Have Trapped
Girl Through Her Love
for Husband Ar .
rested.
,Tho story of a young wife alleged
to have been trapped into the power
of another man through love of her
husband, and of her father's losing
race across Iowa to save her, was
revealed when Detectives Trapp and
Muncb yesterday morning arrested
Herman Wilson. Slate hotel, 13144
Douglas street, and restored the girl
to her father's arms.
Mrs. Mabel Hovee, 17, Marshall-
town, Ia whose husband disappear
ed three weeks ago, is the girl.
She was thrilled beyond measure
when she received a letter from Wil
son stating her husband was in
Omaha and that he had obtained a
job for him in a restaurant," Abe
Brooks, her father, declared after
he regained his daughter. "Wilson
wrote that Bovec wanted her to join
him here and telegraphed to his
father in Marshalltown to give her
$5, but she wouldn't accept it. My
wife gave her money to come to
Omaha and she left at 9:50 Monday
morning. When 1 learned of it I
raced toward Omaha in a motor
cycle driven by O, E. Thompson, a
friend, but we broke down near
Westsige, la., and were delayed."
Police found Mrs. Hovee at the
home of Margie Young, 209 North
Nineteenth -street.
"Holdovers" Cause of
Poor Postal Service
Burlcfon "holdovers" are respon
sible for unsatisfactory condition? in
the postal service, William M. .Col
lins of Washington, 1). C, national
president of the Kailway Mail asso
ciation, told UK) members of the lo
cal branch, Tuefdav night in the fed
eral building.
Curtailment of service to the pub-
lie, increase in the number of work
ing hours for clerks and laving oil
of old clerks on the "surplus list," he
enumerated as some of the griev
ances. Railway mail clerks work more
than rinht hours a d.iv and conce
advised local employes to arouse pub-1
be sentiment and rnlist the sul (,!
conrr in rri.ralimi recent orders
of ilie I'mtil department.
Former Judge Coutirted
of Rising Wife, Appeal br,' ,?'lt ' ,h ,im
: . l,.t-V,ir a,-. k i iierops m that ircthn constituted the
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robs.. co.ivH.ed ir.ently t.ibm ( h WFrk TlUv,
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was s.Mncrd ..i d'OH, filed notice
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Marshal Fined as
Reckless Driver
Officer From Craig Finds
Tables Turned on Him
in Omaha.
Tables were turned in Central po
lice court yesterday morning and
Kugene C, Chilstrom, marshal of
Craig, Neb., found himself before
the bar of justice.
He was charged with reckless
driving at 10:30 Tuerday f.ighl with
Carl Symons, Craig street commis
sioner, and Ralph Hannrmann, chief
engineer of the. light plant of Te
kamah, Neb., as his passengers.
"What would you do if this were
your court in Craig and I were in
your place?" Judge Charles E. Fos
ter asked Chilstrom.
"I 'sposc I'd fine you," Chilstrom
replied.
"Ten dollars," said the judge
"and that's letting you olf mighty
easy."
When Roy Flanagan, motorcycle
officer, arrested Chilstrom, he re
ported he found three gallons of
alcohol in the marshal's possession.
Senator Charges
Monopoly in Oil
Washington, Aug. 16. Tariff du
ties on crude petroleum and fuel oil
were advocated today in the senate
by Senator Harreld, republican,
Oklahoma, as the only means of pro
tecting the independent oil produc
ers of the United States against
what he described as a monopoly
by the SLindard, E, L, Dohcny and
Royal Dntch Shell Oil companies.
Renewing his charge of last Au
gust that the Standard, Doheny and
Royal Shell companies were seeking
to monopolize oil production in this
country. Senator Harreld said that
since that tune, the Royal Dutch
Shell had taken over thr t'nion Oil
company of Delaware, thus getting
control of $7MHH).(M)U worth of prop-
erties; that the Standard and l'o-
heny companies ftad acquired the
Teapot Dome, in Wyoming and oth
er valuable holdings in California
nnd that the Standard of Indiana had
acquired V9 per rent of the stock of
the Midwest Refinery company.
The Oklahoma senator also assert
ed that "during the last year when
oil prices were low the monopolists
dul succeed in purchasing the hold
ings oi s, great many independent
operators at practically forrrd sale
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Debts Means
Market Week in
Omaha Expected
to Revive Trade
Prospects Are for 1,000 Visit
ing Merchants During Event
Elaborate Program
Prepared.
Indications are that the Merchants
Market week program to be held in
Omaha beginning next Monday will
be a starter for g revival of big
business in Omaba, according to W.
A. tlln, secretary of the entertain
ment committee.
Advance reports from salesmen
throughout Nebraska and Iowa show
prospects of at least 1,000 merchants
coming to this city to prepare for
fall buying, Mr. Ellis said. The fol
lowing program has been arranged
for the' visiting merchants and their
wives and children:
Den Show for Men.
Monday Ak-Sar-Ben den show
for men; theater parties for women.
Tuesday: Picnic and outing at
Lake Manawa.
Wednesday: Entertainment and
dance at Peony park.
Thursday: Educational program
in Auditorium, A. Holmes, president
of Drake university, Des Moines, to
speak on "Business Conditions and
an Outlook to Prosperity;" drawing
ot prizes tor visitors.
Fashion Shows.
Merchant's week in Omaha, which
is held twice each 'year, costs job
bers from $6,000 to $10,000, accord
ing to figures of the past years.
Besides the entertainment planned
for the visiting merchants by the
Chamber of Commerce, various
manufacturers and jobbing houses
will stage fashion shows.
Woman Deaf and Dumb Since
Girlhood Hears and Talks
New York, Aug. 16. Although
Lena Stein, now 55 years old, had
bren deaf and dsmb ever since her
girlhood, today she talks and can
hear as well as the average person.
This remarkable recovery of speech
and hearing followed an attack of
pneumonia, complicated by inl'lu
emir, according physicians who
have observed the case in sn efiort
to trace the possihle effects of the
illness upon her eardrums and vocal
chords.
Two Women Killed When
Automobile Overturn
Hastings, Nch , Aug, 1A, (Special
telegram I -Ann and Adeline
Hoichki of Red Cloud were killed
at J this morning when the auto,
mobile in which they were ruling
overturned as the dnser missel t
turn in she road mar lilue Milt
R.br Spencer i this citv was
fata'ly injund. The drivrr, t'nie.t
W teller, and twt other pastingm
escaped with minor hurts.
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Rail Strike
Is Brighter
Harding I Kxperted to Delay
Mrifittfe to (lonprrn IV m!
inp Outcome of Confer
nice in New York. ,.
Union Stand Unchanged
Washington, Aug. In (fly A. P.)
Agrermrnt between raihojil r.
ecutivrs and railroad labor organisa
tion leaden to hold another confer,
eiue Thursday in New York to seek
a settlement of the shopmen's strike,
i was said, hsd resulted in President
Harding questioning thr desirability
of making his expected rrjKirt to
congress and the country on the
strike situation within the neat few
hours. Plans nude (or the recep
tion of his communication Thursday
at a joint session of the bouse and
sn.ite consequently were understood
to be on the verge of a revision, as
the president was represented as be
ing desirous of withholding hit stale
men t of the rase if the union chiefs
and the railroad president!, could
hold out any prospect of a mutually
satisfactory settlement.
Heads of the seven railroad laboi
organizations on strike met with the
officials of unions not involved in
the controversy and alter some delay
reached a decision to take almoid
the entire group to New York foi
the discussions with the executives.
Though offners of the five organi
zatioru of train service employes, the
engineers, conductors, firemen,
brukemen and switchmen, w ill be the
only ones actually to meet with the
committee of railway executives,
their chairman, Warren S. Stone, de
rlarcd they desired close at hand all
the strike leaders and the spokesmen
for all the other railroad unions.
Agreement Reached.
Some objection to this plan devel
oped among the strike leaders, but
they finally arranged to send most
of their group, including H. M. lew
ell, their chairman, to New York,
and to call in all concerned in use
any settlement proposals emerged
from the discussions.
Mr. Stone and the brotherhood of
ficials who will meet with the rail
executives declared they were not
taking any prepared proposition to
the meeting with the management.
L. E. Sheppard, president of thi
Order of Conductors, said the de
mand of the strikers for full seniority
status in rase of their return to work
could not be modified, and the views
of the strike leaders appeared to co
incidc fntirely wi'h this position.
The seniority question . has been the
crucial issue in the str,'- situation
ever since the organizations now out.,
of service agreed to order their men
back pending rehearings before the
railroad labor board of wage cuts
which went into effect July 1.
Harding and Lodge Confer.
President Harrison of the Southern
railway, who announced early this
week after unsuccessful attempts to
deal separately with the striking
unions on the basis of granting them t
the seniority demand, that the South
ern would proceed to employ ontside
men,- issued a statement declaring
that "people all over the south now
demand that this strike be fought
out."
President Harding, who was under
stood to be preparing his message to
congress, held discussions concern
ing it during the day with, Senator
Lodge, the republican leader in the
senate. It was considered certain,
advisers said, that he would not re
quest legislation to deal with the
rail strike, although it was regarded
as probable he would assure con
gress that such a request would be
made if the situation necessitated.
It was said to be his intention to
explain the whole industrial situa
tion in the light of steps taken by the
administration with reference to the
strikes, and it was considered prob-
able that he would express a deter-'
mination to give federal aid and pro-'
tection to efforts to keep the rail- '
roads running. This determination,
it was suggested, inclined him to
delay his pronouncements for a few
hours at least, lest they effect the
continued efTorts of nonstrikinr;
unions to mediate for the strikers.
Traffic Maintained.
Railroad trsftir is continuing to
maintain a fair volume, according to
reports to the Association of Rail
way Executives, during the week
ending Augut 5, 851,351 'cars being
loaded with freight. This was said
to be a reduction of ,.'8 can from
t,,,r"io,,, ,'k- fc"t an increase
of fi.S.U.! ears over the corresponding
week of l').'.
On Inly .11, the association aln
H theie were l,N.o;7 Urnlu
Ireignt cars in Bood fritiir Art Lnra
immediately available ,r ,frvjtfi
. a decrease of :SM ftr
from She number
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