THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Ests CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 HARDING'S i MOVE EXCITES! ft % COMMENT /_ j Act Seen as First Step ; in Alleged War 1 Fraud Cases?Came; f as Surprise ;f -- % Washington, July 2.?The movei of the Harding administration j against the Chemical Foundation,; Inc., was the chief topic of discus- j sion cf official Washington on this sizzling hot Sunday. The determination of the admin- I istration to take steps against the] foundation, which was organized i by Francis P. Garvan and several! of his associates in the alien prop erty custodian's office under the Wilson administration, was reveal ed in a letter made public yester day at the White House, in which President Harding instructed Thus. W. Miller, the present alien prop erty custodian, to demand return of all patents, copyrights and other j property transferred to the foun dation. The move came as a com plete surprise to a great proportion j of official Washington and for this j reason it was a subject of conver- ( sation today whenever officials met. Officials closely connected with the administration's move declined to supplement what w^s cqntained in the presidents letterand the ac companying statement by Attorney Generai Daugherty, saying that the transfer of patents to the founda tion had been under investigation for some months by the depart ment of justice and that the presi-. dent's instructions would be promptly carried out. Alien Property Custodian Miller, as well as Mr. Daugherty, was out of the city and A. Mitchell Palm er, who preceded Mr. Garvan as *2ien property custodian and under? 'whose afiministration of that cf-j .fice many of the German patents in question were, seized, could not be found in the capital. Other officials, while not ac quainted with the details of the move, saw in it one of the steps in the administration's announced al leged war frauds prosecutions. They also saw the prospects of consider able discussion of the matter in the ~~$*nate, where the. -ChemicalFoun dation often has been the subject of fire from the Republicans and has been as warmly .defended by Dem ocratic members. Most house members had left the capital, due to the six weeks' ad journment taken Friday, but amoDg the Republicans still here Repre sentative Woodruff (Republican) of Michigan, was about the only one who would comment. Mr. Woodruff, who has attacked the department of justice on the grounds that it had been remiss in prosecution of war frauds, describ ed the president's action -as "splen did" and added that the course was fully justified in view of the charges made in congress at various times that the foundation had acquired from the alien property custodian's office German patents worth from $15,000,000 to $20.000,000 for ap proximately $250.000. Democratic members generally have pointed to Mr. Garvan's testi mony before the senate dyestuffs lobby investigating committee as an answer to these charges. Mr. Garvan before that committee said the foundation acquired its patents coyprights and other similar prop erty through a sale made under an executive order issued by Acting Secretary of State Polk aff the direction of President Wilson. Authority for the sale, he told the committee, was contained in an amendment to the trading with the enemy act. Stock of the foundation. Mr. Garvan's statement showed, was held by five trustees, who elect the officers and directors. These trus tees are: Cleveland H. Dodge, of New York. Otto T. Bannard, presi dent of the Xew York Trust com pany: Judge Gedrge L. Ingraham, presiding justice of the appellate division of Xew York: Benjamin H. Griswold. Jr., president of Brown Brothers of Baltimore, and { Ralph Stone, president of the De troit Trust company. Stroudsburg. Pa.. July 2.?A. j Mitchell Palmer, attorney general j and alien property custodian under) President Wilson, in a formal i statement tonight said that if the 1 patents, trade marks and other j property transferred to the Chemi- j cal Foundation. Inc.. during the j Wilson administration were re turned to the government as de manded by President Harding.' America would again "be at the! mercy of the German dye trust." j Palmer's statement, in pan. says: ! "These patents were seized by J the alien property custodian underj the authority of the trading with j the enemy act. We had no means of determining their actual money value. If we had sold them to j private interests we might have sold | them for less than their value and) got nothing but a new American ! monopoly to take the place of the I German trust. i '?We formed the Chemical Foun dation, sold the sto7 miles from j here, and rolled down an embank-i men*. the development of tin- chemical j science. "Francis 1'. Qarvau was made) president < he is not a stockholder) i because lie was so circumstanced : that he could and would work I without compensation for services or personal expenses. We then sold | all the patents-?about 4.r? negro is being carefully guarded in the Birmingham jail and will he turned over to Cullman authorities tomorrow. The young woman stated that she will appear to push charges against Hayes. Baltimore, July 5.?The fire which swept Locust Point rivet front of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad last night caused dama^* estimated at four million ^ipM hundred thousand dollars and ser iously threatened the Public Health Service Hospital at Foil McHeury. Sot?Let all the ends Thou Aims't a Sumter, S- C, Sat RAILWAY EMPLOYEES DEFER STRIKE Have Abandoned the Idea of Striking at This Time?Signal Men Are Still on Fence Chicago, July 4 (By the Asso-j ciated Pres3).?The threatened ex- j tension of the strike of railway; employees to 400.000 trackmen was! averted today through the efforts j of members of the United States railroad labor board and officials! j of the United Maintenance of Way j j employees and railroad shop labor- I ' ers. ? - Postponement of the strike was j announced tonight by E. F. Oracle. i president of the maintenance or-1 j ganization. after he and his execu- I tive council had conferred through- 1 out the day with Chairman Ben I W. Hooper of the labor board and! W. L. McMenimen, labor member of the board. - j Maintenance of Way chairmen! were instructed to proceed to take ! up Maintenance of Way disputes j ; with the individual roads, and in i j case an agreement is not reached i j to refer the matter to the labor j j board. These disputes include the : j wage cut recently authorized b*y the ! j board for Maintenance of Way em ; ployees, changes in maintenance of ! way rules and the contracting out j of track work. * ' Members were directed to con' tinue work under the cut. wagNss ordered by the labor board,' Ef fective July 1. but to make any revision of rates retroactive' to July l..and to withhold strike or j ders, pending the carrying out of i these matters. It was also announced that an immediate ruling from the labor board would be sought absolving members from doing any work j formerly done by members of oth I er organizations on strike. One of the conditions to post ! ponement of the strike was that j the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad j cancel its contracts with an out I side agency to do track work and j officials of the road were summon !-ed before the meeting and' agreed j to do this, maintaining, however, j that such contracting was lawful. With this crisis safely past both railroad executives and officers of ? the shop crafts now on strike ad j mitted tonight that the first real I test of strength of the striking I shopmen will occur tomorrow i niorning when the whistles blow, j ? B. M. Jewell, head of the rail ! way employees department of the I American Federation of Labor, has , contended that practically 100 per ?cent, of his 400,000 members had j obeyed the strike call. The carriers have asserted that i many men who walked out last Sat urday were merely going for a hol ! iday over the Fourth of July and will be back on the job tomorrow. Mr. Jewell today replied to the j pronouncement of the labor board of yesterday "outlawing" his or ganization by asserting that it was not the shopmen but the board it self that had been "outlawed." Mr. j Jewell, in his letter to the board. I asserted that the body had failed I to negotiate a settlement between ? the shopmen and the carriers and I reiterated his intention of dealing I only with the roads in making a I settlement. j President Harding, in an address iat Marion, Ohio, today took cog nizance of the labor situation when he declared that a man has a right to labor without any other's per mission and that men also have the right to bargain collectively. "Governments," he added, "can not tolerate any class or group domi I nation through force." J The fourth day of the shopmen's istrike passed quietly. The head quarters of the organization here was practically deserted and the holiday's effect was felt on the strike situation everywhere. Several of the railroads main tained that their shop forces were being augmented by the strikers themselves who were returning to work. These statements were de nied by the union men. { Violence in connection with the j strike was confined today to a few scattered clashes between strike sympathizers and workers, although a number of railroads established extra guards about their shops in a number of instances and took other added precautions, j _ j Jacksonville. Fla.. July 4. ? ; Maintenance of way men employed l by the Florida East Coast railroad ? have withdrawn from their nation I al organization and formed an or j ganization of their own, according j to a statement issued from the of fice of J. P. Brekwith. vice pres ident of the road, today. The men i have signed a contract with the (road, the statement said, based on i the wage srale fixed by the railroad j labor board. ! The announcement was contain ed in a brief statement and offi : rials would not elaborate on it. [The statement was made bet?re it (was known, it was asserted, that j national olficres of the maintenance I of way organization had ordered a strike call held in abeyance under an agreement readied with the j railway labor board. It is known that negotiations; looking to th?- forming of a system) organization have been under way , for some time hut officials of the ! road and men concerned in the or ' ganization have refused to discuss t be thy Country's, Thy God's and I urday, July 8, 1922 MAINTENANCE OF WAY MEN NOT TOSTRIKE Maintenance of Way Men Continue at Work, Walkout is Averted For Time at Least Chicago. July 5.?The striking railway shopmen who walked out here Saturday were reported to be drifting back to work today in groups of uncertain size. Today was considered the turning point in the strike. Small disorders appeared at several points, mostly in the south. Chicago, July 5.?The railway shopmen who walked off their jobs last Saturday played a lone hand in the rail strike today. Fears that other unions would join the strik ing shopmen is virtually dispelled. The first wide rift in the strike clouds passed yesterday when the maintenance of way employee*, who include track workers and other common labor definitely abandoned the idea of-walking out at this time. The signal men are still "on the. fence." but their pres ident usually has followed the lead of the maintenance of way union. The maintenance union was giv en the sympathy and congratula tions of the strkiing shopmen today by Jewell, the shopmen's leader. He declared that the maintenance un ion's action was not a surprise; and added that if "they can find a way out of their difficulties they are to be congratulated. He said the de cision of track lahorers didn't weak en the position of shopmen in the least, that each organization was autonomous. SPARTANBURG MAN RECEIVES APPOINTMENT B. C. Getsinger Will Head Commerce Bureau For South Atlantic States "."Washington, July 6.?The ap pointment of B. C. Getsinger. Spar tanburg. S. C. as manager of the new Atlanta office of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce was announced today by Secretary Hoover. The territorj" to .be served includes South Carolina, Georgia. Alabama. Florida and probably North Carolina. Bidders May Modify Proposals "Washington. July 6.?A final op portunity will be given all bidders to offer further modification of their proposals for Muscle Shoals. Chairman Norris, of the senate ag riculture committee, announced today. them. Meetings of the employees'1 have been held at several points on the road, which extends from South Jacksonville to Key West. Employees attending these meet ing's were given free transportation to and from their homes and other means of encouragement were of fered by the road, it was said. Officials of the independent or ganization were not announced and it was impossible to learn from the workers' viewpoint whether the organization would supplant in whole the former union or whether it would be combatted by the lat ter. Chicago. July 4.?"After most careful consideration of the entire situation, we have reached the con clusion that it is not wise for our membership to leave the service of the carriers until every resource has been exhausted that affords a hope of a peaceful adjustment," said the announcement which was signed by Mr. Grable. three vice presidents of the union and a quorum of the executive board constituting a subcommittee of the executive board of grand lodge of ficers. Atlanta. July 4.?Armed guards have been stationed at its bridges between At'anta and Chattanooga, the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railway announced here to day. I hattanooga, July 4.?An al leged attempt to wreck a coal ^elevator in the southern railway yards here and the cutting of air hose on a train being made up for Cincinnati was reported at the local railroad late today. One arrest was j made in the reported attempt to: destroy the elevator winch, it was announced, was frustrated. Macon. Ga.. July 4.?J. O. Ualey. president of the Order of Skilled Railway Maintenance of Way Em ployees, announced tonight that he has received a letter of recognition from the management of the Cen tral of Georgia railroad. He also stated that tile new order has a majority of maintenance of way men oti a number of Southern railroads and that negotiations are under way for contracts. A con ference with the New Orleans Sz North Eastern and the New Or leans terminals, where lie says he has 90 per cent, of the maintenance of way men, has been arranged. Raley stated. rrntb/s." HEAVY GUNS ARE USED IN DUBUNBATTLEj Remnants of Rebel I Stronghold Under j Bombardment andj Prisoners Are Cap-j tured London. July 4.?A Dublin dis-1 patch to the Times says: "Tonight the remnants of the ir- } regular stronghold in Upper Sack- j ville street is being bombarded j with heavy guns."" The Dublin correspondent of j the press association says the na tional forces are making steady progress. The battle in O'Connell | street continued with varying in- j tensity throughout the day, ;the; firing on the whole being much J heavier than yesterday. The postofRce ^was rushed and captured by a bombing party, j twenty irregulars being taken. The correspondent says it is per- | sistently rumored that De Valera; has" left Tlamnmn's Hotel. Fifteen irregular? are believed to have 'surrendered under the white j flag at this hotel and it .is rumored j that Countess Markieyiecz was,cap-j tured while sniping. During the-* course ?of the day,; continues the correspondent, .there ! have been fierce duels between na- j tional troops lying in the road be- j hind light barricades and shipers j from windows a n^t roofs. There are several indicatinos of the dimin ished strength of 9 the ^-irregular forces and that they will no longer j attempt to fight all their positions simultaneously. The irregulars concentrate their attention especially on threatened points, moving about in under ground tunnels. A large number of irregulars arc known to have left i the O'Connell area, either tired by j the Struggle or under orders from the leaders. Crowds in the city still watched j the fighting. Prisoners Taken. Dublin. July 4 (By the Asso- j ciated Press).?Hamman's Hotel j on Sackville street, one of the main j positions of the insurgents, was; captured..by the .-.national army; forces this afternoon. The hostelry j with its garrison of thirty men; was surrendered to the Free State! troops after the b?iling had taken; fire. i Y. M. C. A. Burns. Dublin, July 4.?The enveloping movement by the Free State forces j in the Sackville street area is coni-j plete and the final defeat of the rebels is in sight, says a commu nique issued from general head quarters in the Beggars Bush bar racks today. The insurgents have been driven out of the positions in Earl Street so that their comrades in the Gresham Ho/tel arid adjoniingr buildings in Sackville street are en tirely surrounded. Thirty-two rebels were captured when ? the national troops rushed j the Earl street positions and the \ Catholic club, opposite the Gresh-1 am Hotel. The Young Men's Christian As- i sociation building in Sackville1 street, which has been occupied by in'surgents, was burned during the night after an attack by the Free Staters. Yesterday's casualties were threo j killed and twenty-seven wounded. The lull since the termination of | the fierce attack on the insurgents' position early this morning had been broken up to 9 o'clock only j by activities of snipers. } The government forces now hold all ?the positions dominating the buildings in Sackville street occu- j pied by the rebels. Barricades at I the Liffey bridge and across the. principal thoroughfares leading to the center of the city prevent the Republicans from escaping or re inforcements from reaching them. London. July 5?Colonial Secre tary Winston Churchill anounced in the House of Commons this af ternoon that the attack by the Irish National army in the Sackville Street area in Dublin is still in progress at 3:45 o'clock. The where abouts of DeValera are unknown, he said. "It is uncertain whether he is within the cordon of national troops, or has deserted his com mand and escaped." he added Dublin. July 5?It is learned on I excellent authority, says the pre*sj associat'on this afternoon, t.h-j Iri^hj provisional government intends to1 issue a national call to ~?;;>s to morrow, j i ? Ii. ? Dublin, July 5.?An official com- ; munique issued early this morn-! ing says: "The attacks on the irregular! position continued intermittently I during the night: a number of] eighteen-pounder shots were fired into the buildings they hold in O'Connell street. The Free Stat ? troops captured twenty-one irreg ulars with arms and ammunition; at Ballingers." Shipping Board Violates Lawj Washington. July G.?Senator Caraway, in the senate charged j President Harding and Chairman Lasker of the shipping board with flagrant violation of the prohibition i act. in permitting the sale of liquor! on the vessels. 1 THE TRUE SOW. BUILDINGS DESTROYED INDUBLIN Practically All the Strongholds of In surgent Irish Forces Captured as Pris oners Surrender Dublin, July 5.?The siege of the strongholds of the insurgent Irish forces was virtually ended to night with the surrender of small groups of the men who had been fighting for the past week behind the barricade* and the character of one of the principal leaders, Cathal Brugha. former minister of defense. But the score of the na tional cause has been purchased at the cost of blazing buildings and terrible destruction ia O'Connell to say nothing of the loss of life and the many seriously wounded. There is still no information as to the whereabouts of Eamonn de Valera, who has apparently escaped from the Free Staters' net. In the afternoon, when tea buildings, including three hotels, were aflame, the remainder of the irregulars, driven into the Gran ville Hotel, with Are on all sides, still maintained a desperate resis tance with automatics and rifles, but it was already, seen that they could not long delay the inevi table end. The final attack by the Free State troops commenced at midday after a lull during which the firing slackened greatly. The regulars then began a desperate plan of bombing the insurgents. A bomb was hurled into Hamma Ho tel and soon faint wisps of smol:e crept through the shattered win dows and suddenly a burst of flame in front, followed by dense volumes of smoke. The flames spread swift ly, and the fire brigade hurried to the scene. But a fusillade from the irregulars in the Gr?nville Ho tel compelled them to retreat. The fire attacked the shops, .adjoining the Kamma, and in less'than two hours the roofs iiad ..collapsed. Three buildings were completely destroyed, their ruin being has tened through the flames reaching stores, of the bombs and ammuni tion, causing: numerous explosions and throwing up great clouds of smoke. Still the battle raged, the ir regulars firing fusillades from the windows of both the Gresham and the Granviile, while the national rifllemen replied vigorously from their positions opposite and from armored cars. Shortly after 1 o'clock an armored car took up a position op posite the Gresham and poured machine gun fire into the hotel windows. Smoke belched** forth, quickly followed by a muffled ex plosion and tongues of flame from windows, and within half an hour the front of the bui'ding was a flaming furnace. / Even while the lower floors of this hotel were burning, the irreg ulars continued to fire from the up per windows, but by 3 o'clock, the remnant of the garrison, five men, weary eyed and blackened, emerged from the rear of the building un der the white flag and surrendered. Other irregulars driven from place to place by the flames took up a position in the Granviile, and from points of vantage they di rected a brisk fire against the na tionals. In the meantime fire broke out opposite in the store next door to the Edinburgh Hotel; presently a white flag was seen protruding from the door of the Edinburgh and a man stepped forth, holding a flag in one hand and a suitcase in the other. Be hind him walked a curious and pitiful procession of between twenty and thirty persons, mostly women, a white haired woman of seventy bringing up the rear, all carrying small quantities of lug gage. . * They explained that they had been living in tire Edinburgh a whole week, chiefly taking refuge in the cellars, but were forced to leave by the flames in the adjacent store. These unfortunate civilians were escorted to a place of safety, by members of the Red Cross. BIG FIRE IN DUBLIN Twenty Buildings on Main Street Destroyed by Insur gents Dublin. July 6.?Twenty build ings in O'Connell street. Dublin's main thoroughfare, were destroyed by fire after the surrender of the insurgent republicans, who had turned the buildings into fortresses in their resistance to the Free State troops. Four snipers were shot dead during the night. It is believed the damage will reach several hundred thousand pounds. TWO MINES TO BE OPERATED Striking Miners Accept Wage Scale Offered by Operators Pittsburgh, July 6.?The women today be;;an cleaning up two mines in this divtrict preparatory to op erations under the scale which the Pittsburgh coal producers associa tion offered to the miners and which the miners rejected before the strike became effective on April first, last. FHROX, Established June 1, 1S66. , VOL. LH. NO, 42 BOARD GIVES OUT WAGE STATBTIGS Pay of Railroad Men Are Higher Than m December, 1917. The High Buying Pow er Accounts For Fact Chicago, July 2.?The cut of about $135,000,000 in the wages of. some 1.200,000 railroad employees, which became effective at the same time that a 10 per cent, cut .in freiglit rates amounting to abous $400,000,000 went into effect, stilt leaves hourly wages measure** hv actual buying power above the wages of December. 1917, just be fore governmental control accord ing to figures* compiled by the United States railroad labor board. Machinists, who are among- the shop crafts employees on strike, ,were cut 7 cents an hour. They averaged 77.3 xrents and now aver age 70.3 cents. In 1917 the rate wag 50.5. the new hourly rate be ing 39 per cent higher. Cost -of living, according to board figu30es?' is 17 per "Sent, higher than i? De cember, 1917. The board " figures the new hourly rate for machin ists 19 per cent, greater in-real purchasing power than in Decem ber, 1917. Car men. cut 9 cents an hour, now ha\-e an average hourly wage of 64.4 cents as compared with 32.7 cents in December, 1917, the board figures show.. This represents a net - increase of 71-per cent, in coin, an advance Of 45t7 per cent.:in actaki* purchasing power of the hourly ~* wage, the board maintains. / Average hourly earnings of ^ma chinists, according to the boaritfav figures, are 15'cents an hour .less than under the peak rate esta-blish ed by the board in May, 1920, but the real value is .figured as 7 p&f cent, greater due to the drop, in ?tS* cost of .living. Average earnings of car men are figured as 1616 cents an hour less than in .May, *92G, but buyiasr power i3 given as 3.2 per ce^rB. greater fcr the, same reason,. According to labor statistics coxa { mon. jajb'or in? maintenance of ^war J in nTT^vefaVea'*'" 19.3 cents aV hour.. It was chopped 5 centsani now averages 32.7 cents, an 1^ j crease of about 70 percent, incite and 45 per cent, in buying powsr over the IUI7 wage scale. Cler&s in 1917, the board's table show, ceived 34.5 cents an hour averages: . Most of ; them are cut 3 cents a&& now get 58.5 cents an hour, titna representing 70 percent, more thrift the hourly rate 0^1917 and. a pur chasing value of 44.7 per cent . higher. .. ?? ~ Common labor around stations average 22.4 cents an hour in 191? rose to 52.1 cents in 1920, was cut to 43.6 -cents in 1921 and the ne*F rates 39.6 cents an tour. This, the board contends, is 77.5 per cent, higher than in 1917 and the pur chasing t-alue is 51.5 per cent, higher. Signal men and assistants aver aged 39.2 in 1917. Yesterday's" 5 cent cut puts the average at 64;S cents- an hour, the board says, this - representing a wage figured .In ac tual money, 96 per cent, higher than in 1917 and having a pur chasing power 67 per cent, higher1. Stationary firemen and engine room oilers averaged 21.S cents an hour in 1917 and the latest cut leaves their earnings at 49.6 cents. This is an increase of 127 per cent, in com and is 94 per cent, greater in buying power, the board main tains. The-, national industrial confer J ence board has made a compar?" ? son of the new wage rates witn those in 1914, using its own cost or living index. It placed the aver age earnings of the four main ;f group* which had their wages out at about 19 per cent higher than in" > 1914, measured in buying power. Below, is given a comparison, of the rates of pay for the groups. which had their' wages cut yester day, the. figures being from^the United States railroad labor board. ; The first date. December. 1917, is just prior to federal control: Janu ary. 1920, just before termination of federal control; May, 1920. when . the wage increase' of the board be- * came effective: July. 1921, when ; last ye.ar'8 decrease became ef fective, and July.. 1922. the latest 'decrease. The figures represent the average cents per hour: - Dec. Jan. May 3aly July 1917 1920 192? 1921 1922 Machinists.30.5 72.3 83.S . 77.S TJQ-S Tannen .- J...S7.7 -6S.0 81.0 73.0 ?4.4 Common la bor, mainte nance or * war .-19.S S7.7 46.3 37.7 32.7 Clerks . ?84.5 54.3 67.5 61.$ 38^5 ..J2.S 43.6 52.1 4S.6 .S9.6 <'omni on la bor around stations. Signalmen. . niaintainers' j assistants _ .. -32.S 64 S 77.S 69.S 61.$ Stationary ? - firemen and **. engine room oilers .21.S 46.6 59.6 51.6 49.6 VATICAN GENDARMES .MUTINY' London, July 6.?A Central News dispatch from Rome says that gendarmes serving in an honorary capacity in policing the Vatican, mutinied this morning, crying, "Long live the pope," and "death, to the commandant." They were disarmed and the barracks occu pied by Swiss guards.