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CONTROL OUTPUT
OF ANTHRACITE
"Senator Vardaman Inserts
; Statement in Congressional
Record; Committee Unable
to Report at This Time.
Washington, March 3. Senator
Vardaman of Mississippi, chairman
of the senate manufactures com
mittee, today inserted in the con
gressional record a statement on the
committee's investigation of the an
thracite situation, charging that pro.
unction of anthracite coal in the
United States is controlled by eight
large transportation companies
winch were able to tix prices and de
termine the rate of production.
Chairman Vardaman explained
that the committee was unahle to
present its report at this time, as
not all of the testimony had been
printed, ile added, however, that he
had gathered together certain
facts" which he trusted would be of
help to the next congress in dealing
with the anthracite coal question.
Testimony before the committee
he asserted in his statement, had (lis
closed, in his opinion, "that there is
not commodity in common use that
is so absolutely monopolized as the
anthracite coal production. Niort
age of anthracite during the war and
the existing high prices for the com
modity, he said, were due almost en
tirely to this monopolistic control.
Transportation corporations con
trolling production in the Pennsyl
vania field the only source of mar
ketable anthracite in North Ameri
ca were named in Senator Varda
man's statement as follows:
"The Reading (the holding conv
nany of the l'hiladelphia and Read
ing Coal and Iron company); the
Jersey Central, (which in turn owns
all of the stock of the Lehigh and
N Wilksbarre company), the Lehigh
Valley, the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western; the Delaware and
Hudson; the Lehigh Coal and Navi
gation company, (which owns and
controls the Lehigh and New hng
land); the Erie, and the New York,
Ontario' and Western.
"Notwithstanding the fact," said
the statement, "that the constitu
tion of Pennsylvania prohibits
transportation company trom en
gaging in mining, these transporta
tion companies are in this business
of not only transporting this coal,
but of mining it. ,
Former Head of Police
in New York Named to
Get Work for Soldiers
Washington, March 3. With the
appointment today of Arthur
Woods, former police commissioner
of New York City, as a special as
sistant to Secretary Baker, the War
department embarked upon a na
tion-wide campaign to obtain em
ployment for discharged soldiers.
Mr. Woodi will serve as the War
department representative in the
conferences with the Department of
Labor and the Council of National
Defense, as well aS with other
agencies of the government which
are seeking to restore normal con
ditions of employment for both sol
diers and the civilians who came
into the government service during
the war. 1 he War department will
direct its attention only to aiding
in obtaining employment for dis
charged soldiers. "
Mr. Woodi plans to organize the
Chambers of Commerce, state pub
lic works officials and all similar
agencies interested in the subject
It may be, it was said today, that
the machinery of the .selective serv
ice system can be found useful in
returning the troops to civil life.
Espionage Sentences
Sustained by High Court
Washington, March 3. Without
passing specifically on the constitu
tionality of the espionage act, the
supreme court today, in effect, sus
tained federal court decrees convict
ing Abraham L. Sugerman of Min
- neapolis, under the act.
Sugerman was sentenced to three
years' imprisonment because of
statements made in a speech. Justice
Urandeis, who rendered the opinion
held that no constitutional questions
were involved in the appeal and for
that reason the court had no juris
diction.
Conviction in North Dakota of
Kate Richards O'Hare because of a
speech in which she was quoted as
saying, any person who enlisted m
' the army for service in France would
be used for fertilizer," was also, in
effect, sustained by the supreme
"Court, which denied her petition fr
a review. The lower court gave her
a five-year sentence;
President Receives New
Argentine Ambassador
Washington, March 3. President
.Wilson's engagement list today was
left almost vacant in order to allow
him to address the conference of
governors and mavors and cleaf
away the mass of accumulated busi
ness before he leaves tomorrow on
his return trip to Paris.
The president received the new
Ambassador from Argentina,- Tomas
A. LeBreton, who presented his
credentials. Later he had an engage
men with the representatives of
several, farmers' organizations.
Many bills are awaiting the presi
dent's signature, including the new
Victory l iberty" loan bill.
, , JVill Take No Action to
Enforce Prohibition Law
Washington, March 3.Agreement
j was reached today by the senate
iudiciary committee to take no ac-f--tion
on legislation to enforce war-
lime prohibition, which becomes ef-
r fective July 1. The committee de
. cided there was no chance for pas
i sage of the pending bill at this ses
Vsion. ::v Salesmen Must Pay Tax
"v on Per Diem Allowances
"Washington, March 3. Salesmen
. jno other employes receiving per
iitm allowances in addition to regu-
-Jar salaries are required to report
. these allowances in income tax re
turns, the internal revenue bureau
announced today v
American
Casualty List
The following Omaha man is
named in the casualty list sent out
by the government for Tuesday
morning, March 4:
RETURNED TO DUTY: PREVI
OUSLY REPORTED DIED OF
WOUNDS.
John W. Berlage, 2830 Capitol ave
nue, Omaha, Neb.
Th following low mrn r named In
the rmtunltj lint nnt nut by the guirru
nicnt for Turluy morning, March 4:
HIED OF WOINDS:
Jowph Fillpl. Cedar IU.1U. Ia,
(iarenre M. Rrmy, Dulimiur, la.
Illinois Runner Sets
New Mark in Winning
Boston A. Mile Event
Mechanics Hall, Boston, March 2.
Running in matchless torm, Joie
W. Ray of the Illinois Athletic club,
Saturday, repeated his victory of
last year, ih the Hunter mile event
of the ailnual Boston Athletic as
sociation games. His tune ot 4
minutes 22 1-5 seconds was a new
record for the event, displacing the
mark of 4 minutes 23 3-5 seconds,
made by Oscar Hedlund of the Bos
ton A. A. The olJ record had stood
seven years.
Defeat of Lt. Robert Simpson,
44th infantry, U. S. A., holder of the
world's records in the 120 and 220
yard hurdles events, by Karl J.
Thompson, Dartmouth student,
marked the 45 yards high hurdles.
Thompson, who is the present na
tional 120-yard hurdles champion,
took the lead at the start and held it
easily. His time was 6 1-5 seconds.
Loren Murchison, the St. Louis A.
A. youngster, who came out of the
west to springing success in New
York in the Millrose A. A. meet,
continued his victories tonight by
winning the 40-yard dash. Tie out
stripped his opponents easily by a
lightning start, winning in 4 4-5
seconds.
The 1,000-yard run handicap was
won by Tom Campbell, University
of Chicago, in 2 minutes and 25 2-5
seconds.
Berlin Crowd Shakes
Fists at - Americans
at Army Homecoming
Berlin, March 3. (By The Asso
ciated Press.) During a demonstra
tion on the return of General von
Lettow-Voerbeck and some of his
East African troops this afternoon, a
crowd of enthusiasts shook fists and
sticks at a number of American offi
cers sitting in the windows of the
hotel where the American mission is
quartered.
Others in the crowd countered Dy
clapping their hands and cheering
the Americans. The officers prompt
ly withdrew when they saw thit
their presence might provoke trouble.
The hostile crowd hung around
the hotel for a long time and made
offensive remarks about the French
mission, which has its headquar
ters in the same hotel, because of
an unfounded report that the French
had hissed the German procession.
Finally, German troops were lined
up in front of the hotel to prevent
possible violence.
The reception to the former Ger
man commander in East Africa sav
orecL of the old regime. The im
perial flags' fluttered everywhere in
stead of the, banners of the Germm
republic. Patriotic songs of the old
regime rang out in quite the old
way.
Scores of Measures
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win uie on uiienaar
as Congress Adjourns
Washington, March 3. With the
Victory loan bill out of the way,
both branches of congress went to
work early today with the hope of
clearing up a mass of bills.
Democratic leaders predicted that
while the army and navy appropria
tion measures would not be passed.
the $I,UUU.UUO,UW wheat guarantee
bill and the general deficiency ao
propriation measure, carrying $750.
000,000 additional for the railroad
administration, would be enacted be
fore sine die adjournment at noon
tomorrow.
There seemed little chance of Bet
ting through nearly a dozen bills, in
cluding the agricultural bill, with a
rider to repeal the daylight saving
act: the sundry civil bill carrvine
$000,000,000 for the shipping board.
omnibus building bills, and the
measure providing for federal con
trol and regulation of the meat pack'
ing industry. These are only a few
of the measures that are expected to
die ou the calendar.
Hope virtually was abandoned by
suffrage leaders of preventing a fili
buster on the equal suffrage consti
tutional amendment, which Senator
Jones of New Mexico expected to
call up.
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