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tit X The Om ly Bee ) VOL. 50 NO. 52. THREE CENTS at SMmd-CliN Mattw Wlf M. IMS. at Onht r. 0. Uadar Act ! tUrck t, 117. OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1920. By Mall (I rl. Uildt 4th In. 0ll Srnioat. Ill 0M Only. U: 14. Outtldt 4th Zona (I mil Dili ana Suaaat H: Daily Ontr. til: Suaaao 0hr. IS. Ba AHA J RED TROOPS ENTER CITY OF WARSAW Dispatch to London Paper Says Staff of the Fourth Bol shevik Army Took Up Quar ters in Capital Sunday. SOVIETS TAKE TOWNS IN WESTERN PRUSSIA Armed Flotilla Patroling Vis tula River in Effort to Check Advance Cavalry Attempt s to Break Lines. Br Th AHSorlatrd I'rmi. London, Ang. 16. Russian so . viet troops have entered Warsaw, the Polish capital, according to the Kovno, Lithuania correspondent of the London Times. The dispatchsays the staff of the fourth bolshevik army entered Warsaw Sunday. Berlin, Aug. 16. The Russian advance continues, and the soviet has taken Lautenburg, Strasburg, Loefcau, Lucken, Renden, Grau I dens and Thorn, in west Prussia, according to Allenstein despatches to the M or gen Post Farther south the Russions are outside Novo-Minsk and the northern forts of Modlin. On the road to Novo-Minsk, they have pushed farther to the south and have taken the Polish forces on the Bug in the rear. Boats Patrol Vistula. Warsaw, Aug. 16. (By The Asso ciated Press.) An armored flotilla is patrolling the Vistula river be tween'. Warsaw and Thorn to pre vent the bolsheviki from crossing to encircle this city. Many of these boats saw service along the Prepita and Dnelper rivers, some having been captured from the bolsheviki. . Soviet cavalry is working west ; ward and was reported at several points west of Warsaw. These horse men are raiding districts, endeavor ing' to drive in behind the Polish lines, and are spreading consterna tion among the peasants. It is re ported there are several thousand of the in, f , - , - w ------... Reds Use Cavalry. . The bolsheviki have a cavalry di vision upon their extreme right that has been making headway and against which armored motorboats and other fighting craft are pre pared to battle'if the cavalry trying to force the Vistula sever the Warsaw-Danzig railway. ' Trains leaving the city continue crowded, but Warsaw is really quieter than a week ago. London, Aug. 16. The Russians are pushing their fight for Warsaw within a dozen miles of the capital 'on the northeast, it is indicated from Sunday's official statement from Moscow, i They reportOhe capture of Radzy min, in this sector, and the contnua tion of, battle along this front, and also near Novo Georgicvsk, to the northeast of Warsaw. Soldau is Captured. The capture of Soldau. 17' miles northeast n( Mhwa, also is an nounced. The statement reads: "We captured Soldau after fierce fighting. Fierce fighting is , pro- f-Aina a Inner the line of the River VKra anu mc iruiun. ji Georgievsk and Izscrzh. On August 13 we captured Radzymin. Fighting is continuing on the front of Radzy min, Oktmicw and Dyubo station." Advance at Grubiesgoff. In the Vladimir Volyhsky 'region, fighting s proceeding, the enemy having started an advance near Grnhiesgoff. "In the Brody region our cavalry advanced near Radzicchoff and Toporoff and occupied Radziechoff village. Along the Ditfiestcr and the shores of the Black Sea there is no change. ; "In the Crimean sector fighting continues on the south bank of the Dnieper." ' . i .i General Census Will Be Announced In September Washington. Aug. 16 The total population of the United States will te announced' about September . 1, according to a statement given out by Dr. Joseph H. Hill, chief statis tician of the census bureau. He said that during the intervening period population figures for all the towns cities, counties and states in the country will be made public. The agricultural census will "not be completed until after the population census, while the census of manufac tures will follow that ,of agriculture. The bureau has decided that de railed statistics covering the number of persons of different uationalties residing in the United States will not be made public until next year. Americans Rid Guayaquil of Yellow Fever Plague ; New York, Aug. 16.YelIow fever experiments conducted at Guayaquil, fcuador, by the Rockefeller Insti tute for Medical Research have rid that notorious seedbed of the dis east for the past 13 months.' Guay aquil had not been fretf of the men ace since 1842. - - The technique developed in hand ling the. scourge in, Ecuador willbe of world-wide benefit in reducing mortality Dr., Hildeyo Noguchi, institute bacteriologist, conducted . . i . ., uic rescarca ai uuayatjuv v , .V . ..... v, . AUTOISTS FACING GASOLINE FAMINE IN NEAR FUTURE Talk ' of Rationing System to Conserve. Fast Diminishing Reserve Supply. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee leaaed Wlr. Washington, Aug. 16. Unless joy riders curtail voluntarily before Sep tember IS their present immoderate use of gasoline, they will bring about a steadily rising price of more than 40 cents per. gallon or a sys tem of rationing which will be ap plied informally, but effectively, in every state in the union. This is a warning from officials here who are watching the diminishing supply. Ap proximately 18,000,000 owners of au tomobiles, power boats and airplanes would be affected by the rationing system. A tentative proposal of the refiners to cut down consumption through an informal system of rationing throughout the country, to be ap plied entirely by the refiners them selves, though with the moral back ing of the government, is now under consideration by government of ficials. The gas situation now is declared to be more serious than it has been for months. Consumption is reported as between 13,000,000 and 14.000,000 gallons daily. Production, however, is runnTng approximately 2,000,000 gallons below consumption. 'The difference represents the amount oy which the reserve supplies are being drawn off. Reserves are reported as lower than at this time last year, despite the fact that at the beginning of spring the stores were the biggest in years. . Crews of Two Boats Battle Over Bottles; Both Prove to Be Dry Detroit, Mich., Aug. 16. Two 10 gallon wine demijohns floating down the Detroit river, not fr from the foot of Woodward avenue, al most incited warfare between the United States government mail boat, C t. uieiman, jr., ana uie cuy u" Loat, James Battle. Bobbing their wayfmerrilv down the river, the two wickcr-covered demijohns were iar too conspicuous to escape notice. Which of the boats saw the bottles first is of no consequence. ' Only important is the fact that both boats, with full steam up and crews assembled on,the fore peaks, bore down on the bobbing fjohns." Twentv eallrns of wine was too precious flotsam to float by dry De troit. . ... The usual waterfront habitues shouted advice from the Jocks. Run 'em down Hook the botuel Grab it!". ,V - ' .' '. ; ''. The crews did ftrab. Boathooks flashed in 'all directions; The neck" of one demnohn was broken, rinaliy the two crews concentrated, each on a single bottle. The mail bo it land ed the johrf with thenroiten necK. The other was carried off in triumph by the fire-fighters. Although both beetles were empty. they bore a remarkably enticing odor. Arrest Party of Six In Car tot Throwing . Bottles In Street Rev Tenkins. Vincent, Neb., was fined '$15 and costs by Judge Foster in Central police court yesterday for reckless driving and breaking bottles qn a public street. Jenkins, with a party of friends, was arrested at Thirty-eighth and Farnam streets at 4 o'clock Sunday morning by Sergeant Emery. Henry Johnson, 2813 North Sixty thiid street, ; and Richard Budde, 2814 South Sixteenth street, were also each fined $5 for throwing six bottles into the street. Francis Coon. 538 South Twenty fourth street, Dora Thompson and Joan Valentine, other occupants of the car, were discharged , after a reprimand by Foster. Wilson Plans to Stay in Capital After -March 4 Washington, Aug. 16. It is quite possible that the president will make Washington hii permanent home after March 4. It is reported that he and Mrs. Wilson will occupy the charming colonial mansion known as the Noursemanse, north of "Friendship." the late John R. Mc Lean's show place. Noursemanse was purchased seveal months ago by Admiral Cary Grayson, the pres ident's physician, but was never oc cupied by him. At the time of the purchase it was reported that Grayson was merely an agent for the president. Germans Make Protest to Boundary Demarcation Berlin, Aug. 16. On receipt of a note addressed to the president of the German peace delegation m Paris regarding boundary demarca tion in the West Prussian plebiscite area the German government has in structed its representatives in Lon don, Paris and Rome to present a note to the supreme council and to the governments in the capitals named in which protest is made against cutting off East and West Frussia from the Vistula, according to a semi-official communique pub lished today. Negro Man and-Woman Shot In Illinois Race Riots St. Louis, Aug. 16. A race riot broke out today in Cutlerville, 111., a mining town 40 miles south of here, according to a report brought here by railroad men. A negro man and woman are re ported to have been shot and their house burned. --The trouble was caused by the importation of negroes to work in the mines, it was said. j.'t is reported negroes are leaving E TARIFF ISSUE Republican Leaders . To Force Old Quests Surface Give Figure Prove Statements. fn COMPARE REVENUES OF TWO ADMINISTRATIONS Point Out Increase of 100 Per Cent Since 191 3, But Declare Custom Duties Show Drop Of Twice That Amount. Washington, D. C, Aug. 16 Ever since Senator Harding declared that if elected president, he would call for the "saving Americanism" of the protective tariff policy, there has been a strong undercurrent of tariff reform talk, which some republican leaders are now seeking to force to the surface as one of the lively is sues of the campaign: I The republican publicity associa tion, following many informal boosts given to Senator Harding's tariff re vision upward, promises by various republican leaders of strong pro tection leanings, tooy the the lead to day in advocating, the tariff ias an issue and presented interesting fig ures on the subject.. Contrasting the reveinue results to the country under democratic and republican rule the republican pub licity association points out that seven years of American import trade under the democratic tariff law, 1914-1920 inclusive, brought in to this country goods aggregating nearly $20,000,000,000 in value and brought customs duties into the treasury in the sum of v$ 1,63 1,000,000. Under republican protection for seven years previous, 1907-1913 in clusive, the association discloses American imports aggregated $10. 000,000,000 in value, but boosted fed eral revenues by $2,200,000,000. Custom Duties. "While imports under democratic law," says Jonathan Bourne, jr., president of the republican publicity association, in comparing the two seven-year periods "increased near ly 100 per cent, custom duties fell off about 200 per cent. "During the last two years under republican y law the total imports came to $366,0O0,0O0: under demo cratic law, $8,334,000,0000. "The re publican years gave us $630,000,000 of revenue:- the democratic years. $50,OpQ,fm0O(t The average rate of duty on all imports under republican law was about 20 per cent; under democratic law is has sunk to 6 per cent " ; . , ' Had the reoubheah rate of duty been applied to the colossal imports under the democratic law during the last severt years our treasury would have realized 'nearly $4,000,000,000 instead of the'$1.600,000,000 actually received. In order that the demo cratic tariff policy I might produce customs revenues equal to the sums produced under the republican pol icy, this country would-be obliged to continue importations at a rate :n excess ot SMiuu.uuu.uuu a year, and in this connection' itis note worthy that our imports for the fiscal year ended June 30, last, val ued at $5,239,000,000, produced $323,- 000,000 of customs revenues, or just about the sum realized in the last republican year, on $1,813,000,000 worth of imports. Face Grave Question. "Having learned that, in order to equal republican tariff laws as rev enue producers, the democratic pol icy must provide for an import value of goods nearly three times our pre-war average, another phase of the situation remains to be dis cussed, namely: How long can thi3 country continue to import between $5,000,000,000 and $6,000,000,000 worth of goods annually and stitl remain industrially prosperous, keep rp a wage standard twice as great as before the war and pay enormous income taxes? "Nor should it be argued that high prices are mainly responsible for the large aggregate in money value of our imports today. Quite the reverse is true. As an able economic writer recently stated, in comment ing on our 1920 import trade,' yet even this figure is subject to seri ous modification because of the in fluence of foreign exchange. With the French franc worth less- than half its normal value, the Italian lire less than a third and the Ger man mark selling under one-eighth of its parity, it is necessary for us to import a much larger quantity of goods from countries of those low currencies to offset in value an equivalent tonnage, of our goods ex ported to them at high prices. "When Senator Harding asserted that we would be calling for the 'saving Americanism' of the protec tive tariff policy again, -he stated what every student of the subject knows to be the truth. Assuming a 40 per cent over pre-war imports as practically assimilable today we should count on $500,000,000 in port revenues annually." One Killed, Eleven Hurt In Big Fire in Chicago ..Chicago, Aug. 16. One woman was burned to death, her husband and a lieutenant of the fire depart ment were seriously burned and nine other persons :, narrowly escaped when a series of wooden buildings on North La Sal'e street were de stroyed by fire early today. The dead woman is Mrs. Arthur Danie. . Boost Trans-Pacific Bates. . Tokio, ' Aug. 16. Trans-Pacific passenger rates "will be raised 20 per cent September 15, it was announced here. The increase will make the cost of first-cabin passage from Ja pan to the United States $300. SEEK TOM All nr warn DENVER STRIKE -LEADERS GIVEN 90 DAYS IN JAIL Seven Officers of Union Con-Char8eofVi- " V.Y.: V Injunction. , . ,V -L a.. i".c cc: tne union, who called the strike .if tramwav trainman in l")iiivpr. were sentenced to 90 davs in iail fr contempt by Judge Greeley W. vvimiora in aisinci court. ine judge found them guilty 10 days' ago of calling the strike in viola tion of an injunction. The men will go to jail at once, under the court's ruling. The court denied them a stay of execution. A new trial also was de nied The court granted 20 days in which to file a bill of exceptions. The men also were ordered to pay court costs growing out of the case. The men sentenced were: Henry Silberg, president of the union. J. A. Parker, secretary of the union. . . S. H. Shoepflin. L. J. Siegrest. A. Coffeen. J. Barnett. J. McKiddie. t ' All are members of the executive committee of the union. The first court action in the tramway controversy, was taken Mav 29, when Judge Whitford granted the city a temporary re straining order prohibiting the com pany from ceasing service or reduc ing wages of employes and forbid ding the men to refuse to work. Later the court sustained the peti tion of the city that the injunction be made permanent. Mother Pawns Child As Security After Stealing Diamonds Chicago, Aug. 16. One of the most amazing stories of compelling mother love was revealed today when Mrs. Clara Walters admitted she had pawned her 2-year-old daughter to get money to supply the needs of the child s lite. s she sat on her cot in jail today she . told of the heartbreaking I struggle to obtain money for the baby s ransom, the desperate expe dient of forged checks and jail. "I was living at the home of Mrs. Maud Goodhue," sobbed the pretty stenographer. "The baby needed clothes and food. I saw two dia monds in Mrs. Goodhue's ring and Itook them. "Then she told me she would keep the baby until I paid her $200 for the diamonds and gave me a paper to sign. I signed it. ' "How else was I to get ttioney to tatisom my child?" she asked be tween tear storms and told bow she had forged checks at department stores. ", "My mother sent for, her," she wept.. "I want her to have the baby, not the other woman. , . They are taking my Catherine away from me." Mrs. Uoodhue appears to be just as anxious to keep the child. She is prepared to wage a bitter legal battle for the adoption of the child. She will be opposed by Joseph Kroll, the child's grandfather. Kroll said he had been paying $8 a week for the support of the child. Leroy Walters, the fatljer, is said to be in itJ.iJWtiun.cc. Cafe Man Shoots Stranger Who Tried To Enter His Home When a man. believed to be Chris tian Van Knutli, attempted to enter the home of Milton W. Armour. 139 North Thirtyrfifth avenue, Mr. Ar mour shot nd pcrhaos fatallv wounded th: intruder, according to he story told to police by Mr. Armour. The shooting occurred about 7 last niht. According to Mr. Armour, man ager of the grill room at the Hotel Conant, VaiKnuth followed him to Iiis home in an automobile. When he reached home Mr. Armour, sus picious of the stranger, who narked his car in front of his home, armed himself. He said that he shot when the man attempted to break into the rear door, of trir home. Mr. Van Knuth was taken to the St. Joseph hospital.. Government Prepares to Sell All Steel Vessels Washington, Aug. 16. Prepara tion tor the sale of government- owned steel merchant ships will be gin at once, Chairman Benson of the shipping board stated today. Plans for an extensive advertising campaign to place the vessels on the market 4s underway, he said, and actual disposal o5 them will start as soon as the' necessary details have been completed. It also was stated that an active campaign to sell the wooden ships would be launched. Definite plans, however, still are under considera tion. Key Pittman Will Direct Demos' Western Campaign New York, Aug. 16. Senator Key Pittman of Nevada will direct the democratic national campaign in states west of the Rocky mountains, it was announced at democratic na tional headquarters today. Senator Pittman, after settling with National Chairman George White the amount of territory under his jurisdiction, will leave for San Francisco to es tablish his headquarters. Former County Judge Is Held on Forgery Charge Abilene, Tex., Aug.. 16. After wandering for several years in for eign countries to escape charges of forging warrants of Taylor county, Texas, Tom Bledsoe, former county 4udge here, was in custody today. Bledsoe was arrested at Gordon, Tex.; in 1913 but escapei s : : : : ; ' AUTHORITIES CONTINUE PROBE OF PONZI'S WORK , . Exchange Wizard's Friends and Attorney Continue Ef fort to Secure Bondsman v , for His Release. ; "'--' - r Boston, Mass.,' Aug 16.-i-The in quiry into every ramification of Charles Ponzi's spectacular financial activities again -occupied the atten tion of state and federal officials, but they took up their task with the assurance that the discovery of fur ther damage to the financial fabric of New England was unlikely. Ponzi's counsel centered theit" ef forts today on attempts to obtain the bail necessary to effect his re lease from the East Cambridge jail. Should a bondsman be found, the sheriff was ready at the jail with a warrant upon which Ponzi would be rearrested for the state authorities on a charge of larceny. The bond required by the federal court is $25, 000. A heavy guard remained around Ponzi's home at Lexington and sev eral of them accompanied members of his family whenever they left the house. Threats are said to have been made against Ponzi by persons who were attracted by his offer of "50 per cent in 45 days." A search for possible hidden funds entrusted to the Old Colony Foreign Exchange company, which was compelled to close last week, was made today. Charles M. Bright well. Raymond Meyers and Fred Myers, three officers of the cqmpany, who were locked up on charges of larceny, have not procured bail. They are held in default of $50,000 bonds each. Bank Commissioner Allen an nounced that the audit of the liabili ties of the Hanover Trust company, which the commissioner closed last week, was almost completed. .. . McGraw Is Questioned About Purchase of Liquor at Club New York, Aug. 16. Federal pro hibition enforcement agents were ordered today to bring John J. Mc Graw, manager of tne New York Giants, to the United States district attorney s office to be questioned concerning a report credited to him during the Slavin investigation that he had purchased liquor at the Lambs club. K These agents were directed by their chief, James Shevlin, to pro ceed to the McGraw home, wljere the base balUman is recovering from a blow on the head. Mr. Shevlin declared that if McGraw refused voluntarily to accompany the fed eral agents he would take steps to wards having hint subpoenaed. Polish and Russian Peace Delegates Arrive at Minsk London, Aug 16. Announcement that the Polisii and Russian armis tice and peace delegates had met at Minsk was made by Earl Curzon, secretary lor foreign affairs, in the Horse of Lords today. Negotia tions were doubtless proceeding, he added. i Blowing of Whitles Will , Mark Opening of Elks' Drive Blowing of the giant Union Pa cific whistle, the Omaha Smelting works whistle and the Shrine siren at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning will mark the 'opening of the drive of the Omaha lodge of Elks for a member ship of 5,000. Lest We Forget EXPECT HARDING TO MAKE CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT Important Statement Likely to Be Made. Before Ohio Assembly. . i By PHILIP KINSLEY. Chicago Trlbune-Omatw Bee JLeaAed Wife. Marion, .0.,' Aug. 16. An impor tant campaign pronouncement is -expected from Senator Harding when he addresses the former and present members of. the Ohio general aJ sembly who come here in a delega tion next Thursday. Persons close to the candidate indicated that they 'believe his remarks will be both "in teresting and significant.'' The visit of the Ohio legislators will be the most important event of. the week at the Harding headquar ters, and it is likely that the candi date will consider the occasion suit able for answering some of the re cent declarations bv Governor Cox He will, however, nave one or .two other opportunities this week to dis cuss 'issues, the first being the meet ing of the Lumbermen's association of the Marion district, which is to picnic Wednesday in Lincoln park. Senator Harding has not a formal address scheduled for this affair, but it is considered probable that he will make an extemporaneous talk. A delegation of about 60 rep resentatives of the Society of Amer ican Indians also will call on the senator Wednesday. It was announced at, the head quarters that the senator's discus sion of the print paper and forestry situation in his address to tne Ohio republican and independent editors Friday brought an immediate tele gram of congratulations from the American Forestry association of Washington commending his policy. Suit Filed by Railroads To Prevent Two-Cent Fare Chicago, Aug. 16. Suit was filed in district court today by seven railroads to restrain the public utili ties commission and' Attorney Gen eral Brundage from enforcing, the 2-ccnt fare law. which is to become effective -ugnst '31, when govern ment control ceases. . The suit also asks thaV'State's At torney Hoyne be restrained from enforcing the intrastate fare law. Radzymin Again Captured From Bolsheviki by Poles Warsaw, Aug. 16. (By The As sociated Press.) Fighting at va rious points oit the Warsaw front is reported in last night's official communique. Radzymin, to the northeast of the capital, is again in Polish hnnds, after an all-day fight. The Russians attacked on both sides of Radzymin at Zegrezi and at Oku niew, less than IS miles due east of Warsaw. Mason City Bank Robbed Of Currency by Bandits Mason City, la., Aug. 16. Six armed bandit in two automobiles escaped with $4 000 in Liberty bonds , i ti A pnfrnr' Orfr lmtin or lip Ki rt ' National bank at Tnwnton, 20 miles southwest of here, early today. The Weather Forecast Nebraska: Fair warmer Tuesday. ' Honrljr Tmpert. id slightly 64 i2 04 ....,... ........74 " 1 ..M ..US ..T ..Hi . .us ..M ..it ..It m (12 3 7 n 9 a Id B m. m. :n. m. m. ix n. in. ... la noon ,.. FATHER OF MAN, 36, CHARGED WITH LPVINGJCHILD' Ctvil War Veteran Brought to N0maha From Dayton for Abandonment Is Given Freedom. J. T. Lucas, 2858 Brown street, 73 years old, -wv? brought back to Omaha from Dayton, O yesterday to answer a, charge of "wife and child abandonment," . but when Judge Sears heard Lucas' story he released him without bond. The child in the case, according to Lucas and hir attorney, is Fran. B. Wilson, 36 years old, a business man of Perry,' la., a son of Mrs. Lucas by a former marriage, Veteran of Civil War. Lucas is-a civil .war veteran and carries scars received at Gettys burg and the siege of Atlanta. He has been . active in G. A. R. work for many years, he says. Last March he went to the soldiers' home at Dayton, O., on business. When he and his wife disagreed, Lucas went to Excelsior Springs, Mo., from which place he mailed to Mrs. Lucas a deed to the property where they reside. Before leaving home, he said, he had given her all his other worldly possessions except what he could carry in a suitcase. He gave her the key to a safe de posit vault which contained his money and securities. Brought to Omaha. Then Lucas went to the soldiers' home at Dayton Jo live. Last Satur day a deputy "sheriff appeared and brought hirrh-here to face the charge of wife and child desertion." Mrs. Lucas has been employed as a saleswoman at the Brandeis stores, he says. He was employed there as u shipping clerk until the trouble came up and he decided to go to Dayton. Cox Denies That He Worked Against Suffrage in N. C. Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 16. Gov ernor James M.' Cox, the; democratic presidential Siominee, in a telegram to suffrage headquarters today em phatically denied reports that he had sent a private emissary" lure to work against ratification of the fed eral suffrage by the North Caro lina legislature. The governor's message, sent in response to queries sent him by suf frage leaders, reads: "There is not a word of truth in the report that I have sent a private emissary to work against ratifica tionfin North Carolina." 15,558 Vessels Cleared U. S. Ports in Six Months New York, Aug. 16. A total of 15,558 vessels, carrying 37,398,184 tons of cargo, entered and cleared United States ports during the six months ending June 30, the United States shipping board announced to day. , Among tnese were 9,530 ships ot tne American registry, which car- ried 60.8 per cent of the total cargo, as compared with 42 per cent during the same period last year. Man Admits He Hired Boy,s To Burn His Wheat Fields Salina, Kan., Aug. 16. Confessing that he employed two Arkansas youths at $100 each to set fire to his wheat field in Kiowa county in July, . A: N. Wilson is in jail at Greensburg, Kan. He had insured the wheat in two different firms, he says. The boys are under arrest. DEMANDS OF COAL MINERS ARE REFUSED Operators Decline to Grant Wage Increase of $2 Per Day Requested by Employes Promise to Equalize Pay. MEN UNANIMOUS IN REJECTION OF OFFER Owners Agree to Grant feoosf Ranging From 35 to 72 Cents Per Day Use the Hocking Field as Working Basis. ,r fly The AsHmiMed Tread. V Cleveland, O., Aug. 16. The bi tuminous coal operators of the cen tral competitive field in refusing the 1 miners' demand for a $2-a-day in crease for day and monthly men and 10 cents a ton for pick and machine mining today offered to correct the seeming inequality of the present contract by advancing the wages of the day and monthly men the equiv alent of the. coal commission's award to the pick njners, giving the day and monthly men an increase : estimated at from 35, to 72 cents a day. . The operators will consider no other demands made by the miners, including the 10 cents per ton asked for pick and machine mining, The miners received the opera tors' reply in a joint conference of the scale committee and unanimous ly rejected the proposition. t Will Continue Meeting. A subcommittee of two operators and two miners from each of the four states was then named "and went into a joint conference. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, and Wil liam Green, secretary-treasurer, at tended the meeting as exofficio members. The meeting was presid ed over by Michael Gallagher, a Cleveland operator, chairman oi the joint meeting, i Other members of the joint scale committee were to ' await the call of the subcommittee. Under the award of the bitu minous coal commission - the pick " mining rate was , advanced 27 per " cent over tHe then existing contract. The day and monthly men were ad-, vanced but 20 per cent. This ine quality the operators agree to cor rect bvjsfvancing the wages of the v day and monthly men the equiva lent of the pick miner. Vice President Miller of the Illi nois operators said the operators' ' offer ' would give day and monthly men an increase estimated at from 35 to 72 cents a day. Using the Hocking Valley field as a basing point, the operators' proposition would mean an incrase of an aver age of 50 cents a day to the day. and monthly men, he said. . Reply of Operators. . The operators' reply to the mirers' demands follows: . "The operators of the central com- petitive field 8t the request of the" president of the United States, have. met with you to consider and cor rec any inequalities which may be mutually agreed should be adjusted. that have been embodied in the ex isting contract; which contract was based upon thi award of the bituminous coal commission. " "The propositions presented to us by you have Deen carefully consid ered in accordance with the sugges tion of the president in his call for this meetirg. "The only contention made by the United Mine Workers of America (Continued on Pace Two, Column Three.) Farm Interests to Be : Served by Demos, Says Roosevelt in Speech Fargo, N. D., Aug. 16. Making his first address in North Dakota, Franklin D. Roosevelt, democratic candidate for vice president, today declared that the democratic party, if elected, pledges itself to "seek a solution of the problems that will serve the best interests of the pro-? tlucer and the great consuming bub lie." "I am particularly glad to read that the 'porch' campaign of the re-f publicans is breaking down," Mr Roosevelt said, "and that Senator Harding has now condescended to make five wholespeeches away from, home. ' "The theory of the democratic campaign is, of course, just the con trary. Our candidates are trying not merely to carry the campaign to the country, but to find out what the country is thinking. "This difference in attitude of mind extends to the way in which the leaders of the two parties handle all public questions." In discussing farm problems, Mr, Roosevelt said: "There is no question that the farmer does not get today what he ought to get, and there is no ques tion, also, but that thev consumer pays too much. Somewhere in be tween the two are steps which must be eliminated." Shortage of Harvest Hands Brings Out Girl Volunteers Hagerstown, Md., Aug. 16. Alarmed at the statement bv County Farm Agent Stanley E. Day that Washington county's peach crop might be lost on account of the farm labor shortage, young women and girls from miles around are rushing into the breach to help gather the crop. These include many high school girls and girls just home from college, who assert their willingness to go into the orchards and assist in picking, packing and shipping the crop .