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Secton One eCion ne Pag esS. toCS A 9,g1922 SOXLIMANNING, S. 0G, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1922 -_ " lARDING TO ASK CONGRESS TO ACT INR. R. STRIKE Similar Steps to End Coal Walkout Likely If Dispute Ia Not Settled ION LEADERS BEGIN TO GATHER President Asks House to Continue in Session With Senate After It Reconvenes Washington, Aug. 8.-(By the As sociated Press.)--President Harding has asked Congressional leaders, in view of the menacing industrjal situa tid'n arising from coal and rail strikes to hold the House, no win recess, con Ktinuously in sesison along with the Senate, after the House reconvenes next Tuesday. The prospect was that, failing early settlement of the labor contro -versies, the administration might call for legislative action to enable 'the government to cope with condi tions which thus far have failed to react favorably to efforts on the part o fthe executive, Meanwhile, ' the leaders of all union organizations in the trans portation field began to gather in Washington for a conference to de termine the, response which shall be made to President Harding's latest offer of a settlement basis for the seven railroad unions now on strike, and to determine as well, ac cording to statements of those who will participate, what joint or co operative , action the labor forces shall take * in case the President's offer is rejected. Men Against Proposal B. M. Jewell, chairman of the group of officers of the striking unions, declared that he had re ceived hundreds of telegrams today !from locals of the shop crafts "telling us to reject the President's offer; and not a single one asking its acceptance." Separate conferences between the Southern Railway oficials and representatives of the striking shop men on its lines broke up finally today, when the men declared that only a- national settlement of the strike could be accepted by them, even though the railroad conceded seniority rights to returning strik ers, Fairfax Harrison, president of the railroad, late issued a general notice to all of its employes that the company considered it had "more than fulfilled its obligation to its striking employes," and that its duty was now to provide unim paired transportation service. "This we will perform," Mr. Harrison de clared. Suggestions were advanced that Congress might be asked to au thorize resumption of federal con trol over the railroad systems should President Harding find it im possible to terminate the strike sat isfactorily, with the further possi bility that direct legislation amend ing the Transportation Act might be sought to make the railroad labor board decisions In wage matters Riiding upon mnanagements and em ployes. There was also a proopsal in some quarters that the jurisdiction might be given the beard by law over differences which might arise - during a strike, as did the present seniority issue. Congress May Have to Act Some cabinet members considered it -lik'ely that the whole situation mig ht be put up to Congress in a c~ial presidential message should prevailing dificulties continue or multiply, but at the White House an administration spokesman said the President would not anticipate his course. Mr. Jewell and W. H. Johnston, president of the machinists' associa tion, in public statements todaiy in dicated that all the railroad uiion heads called to meet Friday would pass upon the answer the striking unions will make to the President's final proposal.- Giving out figures on the condition of the railroad equipment, Mr. Johnston asserted it "would take the railroads a year to get their equipment back into shape If the strike should stop right now." They further charged that strike breakers were being'"hired in Eu rope, particularly England," by some of the roads, naming the Ches apeake and Ohio as one such road. "We found at Huntington, W. Va., men who had been brought over for the purpose," Mr. Johnston assert ed. "and we have caedn..its Ia A Big bor organizations, asking them to spread the knowledge of these American advertisements, and in tend also to cite the cases to the immigration authorities as viola tion of the contract labor laws." E. F. Grable, head of the main tenance of-vay employes' organi zations; E. H. Fitzgerald, of the railroad and steamship clerks, and D. H. Helt, of the signal men, were the first chief officials of other road unions to arrive in Washington. During the day they conferred with Mr. Jewell and his associates -of the shop crafts division. Brotherhood to Meet It was understood that Mr. Fitz gerald, in a letter, had complained to President Harding that defestive railroad equipment and railroad guards, hired because of the shop men's strike, had created difficul ties for the employes under the ju risdiction of his union which might require it to take action. Arrangements were made for thq heads of the seven striking unions -machinists, boilermakers, black smiths, carmen, sheet metal work ers, electricians and stationary fire men and oilers-to meet with Mr. Jewell tomorrow. Though the President's final proposal-for strike settlement was addressed directly to them, it was uhderstood they would withhold their final response to it until Friday, when offfcialg of the four brotherhoods of train service employes, the switchmen and telegraphers will, hold joint conferences with the shop crafts. Warren S. Stone, chief of the en gineers has called the brotherhood spokesmen In. Mr. Jedell was as sured and the entire gathering will consider the policy to be adopted. BISHOP KILGO BETTER Charlotte, N. 6., Aug. 8.-Bishop John C. Kilgo's condition tonight was bett'er tan at any time during the last forty-eight ours. His heart action and ,respii tion espeelally showing improvement. Is Brooklyn Brid~ ~that largest suspcnsion span Brooklyn Bridge Mt New York, ha mering of traff ic and authorities I Itrians, Arrow points to slipping c Load For The O INTEREST CENTERS IN OHIO PRIMARY WifState Follow Trial Blazed by Progressives? WET AND DRY ISSUE UP Administration Forces Pin Faith in Thompson, Former U. S. Treasurer Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 7.-Whether Ohio's Republican voters in tomor row's State-wide primary will fol low the trail blaezd by Indiana, Pennsylvania and Iowa and nomi nate a progressive candidate over the organization's choice ,ror Gov ernor; whether they will repudiate the States' stand on prohibition and nominate a light wine and beer candidate and whether laboi's choice of candidates will prove to be popular ones, were the dominant subjects on the eve of the.balloting. With Congressman Charles L. Knight, of Akron, as their standard bearer; the progressive hope to swing Ohio into the list of pro gressive States. Administration forces have pinned their faith in the ability of Carmi A. Thompson, of Oveland, a for mer United States treasurer; to lead them to victory. With Thompson also, the drys, under the leadership o fthe Anti-Saloon League, hope to hold Ohio in the ranks of absolute prohibition. ,Wets for Durand The extreme wet, are expected to throw their support' to C. Homer Durand, Coshocton attorney, and a leader in former wet and dry fights, who is an out-and-out light wine and beer advocate. The conserva tive wvets, are expected to throw their support to Secretary of State Harvey C. Smith, of Zanesville, who has been classed as a wet by the Anti-Saloon League. Smith has con e Falling Down? an the famous old structure, -the a slipped under the constant ham. rave closed it to all except psedes ila :1 Horse . 'Qlr \ . 0 2 tended prohibition is not an issue and has advocated law enforcement On the eve of the balloting, there was filed with the Secretary of State, a petition calling for the submission of a light wine and beer amendment 'to the State Constitu tion to be voted upon at the No vember election. A statement given out by Major F. W. Marcolin, sec retary of the Ohio Division Asso ciation Against the Prohibition Amendment, said the petition con. tains 238,002 names. The statemeni said a particular feature of the pe. tition was the large number of vo. men signers. One feature of the campaign, en dorsement of Thompson, Hamiltor county (Cincinnati organization, has served as an anomoly. Hamilton county has been the bulwark of th( wet forces in previous campaigns and its endorsement of Thompson hat served to bring out caustic remarks from other avowedly dry candidates (luring the campaign. . The Senatorial contest in whici Senator Atlee Pomerene and Con. gressman S. D. Fess, former chair. man of the Republican Nationa Congressional committee, generally are admitted by political leaders to be the candidates, has been com. plicated by the endorsement o1 their opponents, particularly by the "big Four." While most of the incumbeht Con. gressmen have opposition, most po litical leaders expect them to b nominated. Only two districts, thi Seventh and Fourteenth, wher< Knight and Fess now are serving are to nominate new men. All thi candidates for renomination hav4 upheld the record of the administra. tion and few of their opponent have criticized it soverely. All Democratic Congressional can didates are newv mon, or 01(1 one: seeking a comosack. The presen Ohio dlelegation is solid Republicans All Democrat candidates have gon< dowvn in the Harding lanralide tw< years ago. The State ballots are the longes' in the State's history sixty-nini candidlates on both tickets making up) the entries. Besides these, h< Congressional andl county candli dates add to tho list. On acrount oi the large ballot, it is expected thai returns will be slow in coming in The polls close at 6:30 Contra standard time. AID AMERICAN MINERS Frankfort-on-Main, Aug. 8.--Tei thousand pounds sterling to ait American miners in the present coa strike, to be subscribed by the va rious national minors' unions, wat recommendled today in a resolutioi adoptedl by the congress of the in ternational minors' organization meeting hero. The resolution ox pressed sympathy for the aims 'o the American strfkers. The congress decided against re striction of thb coal shipments t< America, which was proyosed to ak the American minors iit their fight PROGRAM OF W. M. SOCIETY The Woman's Missionary Society will meet at the Methodist Church, Monday, August 14th, 5 p. m. Program Topic-The Coal Mines. Hymn. Bible Lesson-Favor and Disfavor, Mark VI, 1-6. Leader-Mrs. R. R. Jenkinson. Business. Missionary News-Bulletin. Hymn. Four four-minute women tell who, Why and What in the Coal Fields of Oklahoma and West Virginia: Mrs. A. T. Helms, Mrs. Dolph Brad ham, Mrs. W. P. Legg, Mrs. G. L. Dickson. Period of Intercession. Leader-Mrs. W. R. Gray. Hymn. CUBA REQUESTS ARREST Key West, Fla., Aug. 8.-Two men who gave their names as Fred Smith and James R. Burns, were arrested at Cape Rebecca light near here late today by Deputy United States Marshal Lopez, acting at the request of the Cuban authori ties through the American lega tion in Havana. The Havana po lice requested the detention of the men in connection with their in vestigation o fthe murder near that city recently of the captain and engineer o the Cuban motor boat Mugardos. According to information from Rebecca light the men were picked up at sea from a drifting boat on August 3, by a Spanish fishing smack commanded by Capt. Miguel Estebez. Estebez landed them at the light and they remained there until ther arrest. The Cuban authorities since the murder aboard, and thetf of the Mugardos have been searching for two men known in Havana as Duke Stevenson and John Rosen baum. Capt. Estebez, whose return to Havana several days ago with his report o the rescue of Smith and Burns resulted in the formal request for their detention, said the boat occupied by the men was painted in various colors in a hap hazard fashion, and that it bore no name. Certain characteristics in his description, however, have led the Havana police to believe the launch was the Mugardos. Smith and Burns were brought here to.night by Lopez aboard the coast guard cutter Cossack and lodged in the Monroe county jail. BENEFIT OF CIVILIANS Washington, Aug. 8.-The bill amending the civil service retirement act so as to provide annuities for civilian employes of the government who have become separated from the service through no fault of their own, before reaching the regular retire ment age, was reported favorably to the Senate today by Senator Sterling, of South Dakota, chairman of the civil service committee. As reported by the Senate com mittee the bill i samended so as to apply benelts to employes who have reached the age of fifty-five, instead o faixty, which was the minimum fixed in the bill as it re cently passed the House. Perhaps the largest class of em ployes affected by the bill are those discharged from navy yards, as a result o fthe reduction of the naval program. Senator Sterling hopes to get ac tion on the bill by the Senate at an early date. SOFT COAL STRIKE PLAN Cleveland, Aug. 8.--(By the Asso ciatedl Press.)-Exceptations of a settlement of the soft 'coal strike on a national scale vanished tonight among the union officials and op erators here for a point confer ence on p~eace plans with the re ceipt of reports of the failure of Indiana and Illinois operators' as sociations to agree to point the con ference. The hope, however, was held out that settlement effecting scatteredl mines in Illinois, Indliana, Ohio, andl Pensylvania andl possi bly West Virginia may result from Ithe conference, which reconvenes here I tomorrow afternoon. President John L. Lewis, of the miners, announced that the joint conferences wouldl reassemble to open negotiations. The question, however, o whether the miners would be willing to make a wage agreement whith the operators now hero was undlecidled, and indications were that a decision would be de ferred until after the meeting to lI morrow with the operators, most of whom own mines in Ohio. TWO MEN ARE KILLED AND IWO WOUNDED Shooting Affair in Shadow of Glassy Mountain EXACT CAUSE UNKNOWN One o Survivors in Critical Condition -Little Boy Hit in Shoulder Greenville, Aug. 8.-Two men are (lead, another probably fatally injured and -a young son of one of the de ceased suffering from a flesh wound as the result of a shooting affray in the shadow' of Glassy Mountain in the center of the "dark corner" section of the county this afternoon. The dead are Tom D. Scruggs, forty, and Will A. Howard, thirty five, both residents of Fingerville, while Alexander Suddeth, of the same be-lity, is in the generil hos pital al, Spartanburg suffering from four bullet wounds. Dallas Scruggs, ten-year-old sin of Tom Scruggs, sustained a bullet wound in the right shoulder. He is also at the hospital but his condition is ser ious. He is said to have been stand ing behind his father and one of the bullets which penetrated Tom Scruggs wounded Dallas Scruggs. The cause of the trouble has not been ascertained. Sheriff Rector was not notified until after 6 o'clock to night, although the shooting occurred about 1:30 o'clock. He and several deputies rushed to the slene and Sheriff Rector is obtaining a dying statement from Suddeth. Earlie Harrison, said to have been the only surviving eye-witness in addition to Suddeth and Dallas Scrugs is being sought by officers. The only story of the affair as learned tonight is that the two Scruggs, and Suddeth were riding towards Glassy mountain in a Ford car and came upon Howard and Harrison sitting by the roadside. The car stopped, it is said, and Harrison began looking in a crocus sack. Then, it is aid, Howard opeed fire wit a 30-30 rifle and Suddeth with a 25-caliber automa tic. Harrison is said to have fled to the woods immediately after the first shot. The sack is said to have contained four hot water bottles filled with corn liquor, but tonight no trace of the alleged liquor, sack or Suddeths' revolver could be found. Spartanburg, Aug. 8.-Shortly before midnight Sheriff Rector, of Greenville, and Coroner Vaughn came to Spartanburg and obtained from Alexander Sudduth a statement re garded as his death bed account of the affair in which the sheriff quotes Sudduth as saying: "Sudduth 'and Scruggs were sit ting by the side of the road, Scruggs had a sack containing several hot water bottles and several glass bottles full of liquor, all in the sack. Will 1Toward and Early Harrison came up. Early H-arrison dlemandedl thenm to halt, and Will Howard fired a rifle, shooting Sudd~uth in the boweis, and shot him several times. Sudduth, while falling returned the tire and killed Will Howvard. Other shots were fired after Will Howard was shot dIown and he thought that Early Hiar rison fired.'.' Trhis statement wvas 'given Slher iff Rector while Sudlduth was under going a blood transfusion. It is un dlerstoodl the boy has madle a state ment in which he involved Early Hiar rison. Sheriff Rector saidl here to night deputy officers had been sent to arrest Harrtson. CIVIC LEAGUE NEWS At the recent meeting of the Civic League a consideration of immediate aid t~o a number of families in the suburban sections that are eage rIy ap~pealing for food and clothing. One of these families, a father, mother and six children especially are making an app~eal. Th'le father is ill with con sumption and the family is without necessary food andl clothing. This invalid father should have at sepiarate room furnished. Probably in the at tic, or stored in an outhouse a bedl steadl andl mattress could be found and placed in the home of this family, or a fund may be raised to huy theo room furnishings. The members of the Civie IA'ague, any fanmdy who, can contribuite a mite, food, or even discarded clothing is ulrgedl to help these needy families. Mrs. S. 0. O'Blryan and Mrs. Archie Barron will give any information or receive any contribution for this charity fundl. A valuable contribution might be obtainedl from an entertainment from the talent of the young folk of the town.