THE STJMTER WATCHMAN, Esta CONSOLIDATED AUG, 2,1 THE FEAR OF COAL FAMINE J GROWS STRONG Secretary Hoover Formulating Plan . lo Divert Fuel to Es ? sential Industries ? Washington, July 20?^Develop ment of plans for stretching out the. nation's coal supply, now "dwindling under continued impact . of ;the mine and rail strikes, was the immediate concern today of federal * officials acting in the industrial sit- j nation. Secretary Hoover an- j nounced that within a day or two the interstate commerce commis sion and the commerce depart " ment would put into operation a! scheme of diverting to. essential transportation lines the coal com ing from non-union mines and those that may be opened up in tinion territory, by use of priority orders, governing transportation. $he object will be the maintenance . of'the transportation machine. "Next in order for coal supply from the diminished output, it was indicated, would be the Northern t Great Lake ports and should it "be found impossible to avert a s}iortage,\ the coal distribution plan might be expanded to be come a complete rationing of sup plies to other industries and ter ritories as their necessities might appear. Attorney General Daugherty commented in connection with this ? plan that the strike disruptions had already made it certain that there would be a coal shortage next winter. Replies of governor^ to President Harding's invitation that they guarantee protection to mine oper v ation in spite of strike continua tion continued to come to the White House. Governor Groesbeck of Michigan outlined plans for opening mines * there under state control with fed eral .. sanction, but comment was "withheld. /'In connection with a message - from. Governor Morrison of North Carolina questioning the president's policy in asking that the mines be opened even. if force ~ was nec essarv to protect workers, " high **a*mini8tration officials pointed out that responsibility for coal pro duction in that state was small. Report? to government depart ments indicated that while trains} are still being withdrawn by rail roads, the movement of the mails ? and likewise of all necessities of life ? continuing throughout the coun try. Mail cars are being attached to trains still kept running, with motor trucks in readiness to sup plement this service. Secretary Hoover in discussing the. possibility of coal rationing to * day indicated that imports of coal from abroad might h?lp tne. sit uation, particularly in New Eng land, where the pom are equip " ped for unloading coal from ships. He pointed out that a con siderable number of cargoes had "been coming to Atlantic harbors from England since the American . strike began. Prices for bituminous, it was said, have risen to leveis higher thaii those set by voluntary agree ment between the non-union pro ducers and the commerce depart ment -some weeks ago. Unofficial reports from the West Virginia coal fields, where the bulk of East - era non-union coal ha3 been pro duced indicated a steady decrease ir: production, due to railroad ser- J vice disabilities. Officials considered it significant evidence of the relationship between the coal and railroad strikes that clerks and freight handlers on the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Nor " folk & Western roads should be called out since these two roads . serve the greater non-union coal fields. Some West Virginia mines have not had more than a day's supply of coal cars in the four . working days of the present week. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, today trans ferred the union's temporary coal strike headouarters to New York but left here reiterating the deter mination of the union miners' lead ers to carry on the stoppage of the industry until they obtained suc * ces~fu! vregctmtlons for a satisfac tory wage scale on a national ba sis. ?"M Up to the time of his leaving, i * attempts of Ohio coal operators, i who are willing to grant the union J demands, to secure association; with them of enough operators in ether states to satisfy the union's' requirement were unsuccessful, j Since last Saturday, when thel union chiefs refused ^the govern ment's arbitration offer, there has been no communication between * them and the government though Mr. Lewis has been continuously at I hand. Attorney General Daugberfy in discussing the rail strike took oc-1 * casion to renew the statement that I while department of justice agents] , would make sure that the laws were obeyed, there was no disposition to interfere with lawful union ac tivities. New. outbreaks of rail road disturb*nee.; in Montana and Idaho were reported to him. Mr. ^"Daugberty said, but at Dennison. J Texas, and Rocky Mount. X. C, i conditions had become safisfac- ! ton'. Effects of industrial disorder had j been noticed in a slowing up of j th?s business situation in recent j weeks, the commerce department noted in a periodic review, though i ibllshed April, 1850. 881._ THE HAGUE CONFERENCE AFAIL?RE Meeting Adjourn ed Without Having Accomplished Any-1 thing of Importance ? L i The Hague, July 20 (By the As- ! sociated Press). ? The United j States government figured in the I j closing scene of The Hague con- j j ference which today passed into j. listory without accomplishing its) 'aim?the reaching of an economic! I accord with Soviet Russia. M. j Cattier of Belgium made the state-! ment at the final session at the peace palace that he was author ized by the American charge d'affaires to say that the American government would adhere to the! resolution which had just been adopted, whereby the governments! engaged not to assist any of their j [Citizens :'n attempts to acquire! : property in Russia which belonged I I to citizens of other countries and I was confiscated since November, 1517. .. . I The United States, he added, j had no intention of departing from! its, line of-conduct with regard to j property^'expropriated in Russia, j The resolution itself gave rise to J some debate. France, through M. j AlphandXmoved to amend the resolution sfo* ~that the word "be-, longed" would become "belongs." France's idea was that although the property had been seized by the Bolsheviki, it was legally left in the possession of foreigners and that in the resolution the use of the! present tense, of the verb should i clearly record this fact. The j amendment was rejected. The Baltic states did not succeed j in their efforts to have set up some j machinery for possible continuance of the work of The Hague. Be lieving the Russian project for the recognition of debts and the right of compensation for confiscated property was a logical basis for an eventual accord with Russia, the Balticm states wanted to create some organization for receiving the Moscow go\'ernment's reply as to j whether the newest , proposal or its) Hague delegates was officially rat ified. Through this organization the Netherlands government, for in stanccti it' was pointed out. could then transmit the reply to all the other governments, and, if favor able, it could serve as the foun- j dation for renewed negotiations, i and perhaps another conference, j The Baltic delegates were firmly { convinced of the necessity of io'sing j no opportunity, to provide for the; regeneration of Russia. Thej- were. induced, however, not to push j their point and the matter did not i arise at the closing session of the j conference which adjourned after J the property resolution and a se ries of leports were adopted. . ! Three separate documents ex- j plained why the subcommissions J on private property, credits and j debts failed to reach any conclu- j sions which would serve as a basis 1 for a general agreement with Rus sia were among the reports. The fourth document, a general survey, declared the new Russian proposal j could not form the foundation for j an agreement because it did not j embody any working rule or ma chinery of any guarantees which could insure the effective discharge of the obligations the Russians proposed td undertake. The end of the conference means that when one month has passed, the powers are free to make sepa rate agreements with Russia and that Premier .Lloyd George'-s non aggression pact lapses. This was the arrangement made at Genoa. It permitted The Hague confer ence to be held without the men ace of war arising between Soviet Russia and the other European nations during the period of ne gotiations. ? ? ? Washington, July 21.?The per capita circulations July 1st was $39.87. compared with $44.78 a year ago. according to a treasury statement made today. actual ccal shortage has not been occasioned. "The leason for this lies in the; very heavy stocks which were built | up in the eariy month's of the year." the statement said. "As a matter of fact bituminous production for the first half of the present calendar year has been less than 5 per cent, below the out put in the corresponding period a year ago. In recent weeks some have begun to experience a fuel shortage. Thi:-. together with the] realization that even after mining has begun it will be some time be fore an even distribution can 1"' established, has bad a deterring influence on industry." A resolution di manding a feder I al investigation of the events at Herrin, ill.-, where a number of non-union workmen were killed last month in mob assaults, was made public today by operators who at tended th<- executive conferences in Washington called by President Harding. Though men "treach erously betrayed after having sur-i rendered" were tortured and inarm ed, the appeal 8aid. "himI shot down in their tracks prompt, vigorous or fax reaching efforts "had been made by local or state authority in Illinois to ascertain the true extenl of the massacre and t<> apprehend or bring to justice the persons #uDty." "Be Just and Fear 3 ANOTHER COAL STRIKE CONFERENCE Chairman Hooper of /the Federal Labor 'Board Called to Washington For Consultation With Cabinet Washington, July 21 (By the As sociated Press).?Determined to obtain a first hand view of the railroad strike, President Harding today called Chairman Hooper of the railroad labor board here from Chicago for a personal" interview tomorrow. Prior to summoning the labor board head, the president received Chairman Cummins and Senators Kellogg and Watson of the senate interstate commerce committee who reported on their conference last night with Eastern railroad executives and later the whole question was taken up for discussion in a prolonged cabi net session. The president was represented as desirous of hearing from Mr. Hooper an account of the positions taken by the leaders of striking shopman, the railroad executives and the board itself during the ne gotiations aimed at a strike set tlement but which now have been broken off. Some conflicting re ports in the matter have been re ceived at the White House espe cially since.the conference held last night by the three iterstate com merce committeemen and the executives of the larger Eastern trunk lines. With Mr. Cummins he went over the entire legal situation as it concerns both the railroad and th6 coal strikes, the result being, Mr. Daugherty said, that he and Mr. Cummins were in agreement as to the government s power to act in both cases.' "I haven't any doubt." the at torney general said later, "that the government has as much power and. authority to protect men who are engaged in the production of coal which is indispensable to transportation as it has to protect the men engaged in transporting the mails and interstate com merce. The government has full power and authoritg to see that the production incident to transporta^ j tion is not interfered with." All Phases Gone Over. Asked whether legal proceed ings, including writs of injunction, were discussed with Senator Cum mins. Mr. Daugherty replied that all phases of possible action which might be necessary had been gone over^. including, he added, "the right of a man to work and the j rigrht of a man to quit'work." The attorney general said no | papers were now in course of j preparation in connection with the j strike, but declared that the ad- j ministration's plan involves con sideration of all possibilities. "The coal situation." he contin ued, "is more or less involved in the railway situation, whether p?r- j posely. I don't know. A good many j railroads are reporting serious j shortages of coal. Several I havej noticed, in going over the reports have only about ten days supply." j Regarding the railway strike sit- j uation in the West the'.} attorney general said "it was about the i same as yesterday, except that in Montana and Idaho trains are being interfered with more than heretofore." In these states and in Montana particularly, he declared, "there has been cruelty to men working j on the trains." Some of the rail- | way workers, he said, had been j taken forcibly off trains, and some whipped and thrown in streams. J The attorney general indicated that the government contemplated measures to curb such acts of vio lence and do all in its power to af ford full protection to railway workers. No Immediate Legislation. It appeared to be his view, in which Senator Cummins and other senators have said they shared, that there was no immediate leg islation practicable ? to deal with the present situation and that leg islative action would have to be confined to coping with future emergencies. During the day Samuel Gompers president of the American Federa tion of Labor, issued a statement calling upon the government to open "direct negotiations'* between union chiefs and employing cor poration and coal mining, and sug gesting that the "helpless ami all hut defun?-? railroad labor board" be set aside in the matter. Senators Cummins, Watson and Kellogg, during their visit to the White House today. told the president they had found th<> sen iority issue t h t* chief obstacle to settlement of the railroad strike. luM indicated that the leaders of the striking shopmen were also de manding that a new federal hoard of mediation !??? set ui? to consider transportation labor controversies. Railroad executives, th?- senators reported, would not reinstate re turning shopmen in the positions they formerly held, even should the strikv be called off. because thej claimed a total of nearly 240,000 men ha?' been employed to flil the places of 400,000 strikers. These Sot?Let all the ends Thon Ainis't f Sumter, S. C, Wed Richard O'Neil, New York stat helping his baddies fight for bette] when wedded last year. ? So he rx Veterans met in San Franciaea , ! Germans O'Neil, single-handed, killet JEFFORDS PERFECTS APPEAL j . 'One of the Confessed Murders of J. C. Ar nette Using Techni calities of Local Procedure to Cheat Justice i -_ Columbia. July 21.?F. M. Jef I fords, one of the trio convicted of ; the murder of J. C. Arnette. Co ! lumbia filling station proprietor, j and sentenced to die on June 15th, J but whose notice of appeal stayed j his execution, today perfected the | j appeal when he served on Solicitor j Spigner; of Columbia, the papers setting forth the grounds of his ap peal. L. G. Southard, of Spartan- j burg, ana Barron. Barren & Bar ron, of Union, represent Jeffords, j The appeal contains eleven excep ! tions to the rulings of Judge j Townsend in the case. The appeal I also alleges that the trial started on May 15 when, the crime was j committed on the 9th. there was in j tense public feeling against the de ! fendant. The appeal also sets forth that the trial judge erred in deny i ing separate trials for the three I men. Je?ords. Harrison and Treece. ARREST THREE AT GREENWOOD jMen Alleged to Be Implicated in Beating of Girl Greenwood, July 21. ? Three white men. alleged to be implicated in the beating of Irene Fisher, an j eighteen-year-old negro girl, here j Tuesday night, were arrested late (yesterday afternoon on warrants j issued by the city recorder. They I are J. C. Deal, a member of the I Greenwood lire department: E. C ! Johnson, an automobile salesman. I and Claiborne McDov. ell. an auto j mobile mechanic, j The girl alleges that her assaxl | ants accused her of taking a $10 I gold piei-e from one of them and ! then beat her with sticks until her body was lacerated. She claims that the gold piece was later found j in the pocket of one of the men. ! The men were arrested on a ! warrant issued under a city ordi ; nance charging fighting. They 'were released under $1.00 bonds, i No charges have been preferred by county officers. - 'I'he case will not come to trial until the girl, who is alleged fn have been beaten .:lmen at s<-a can go there now. One funny thing is a woman talking back to a radio set. new men. it was said, had been promised permanent employment if they developed efficiency. W. VV. Atterbury of the Pennsyl vania railroad, it was said, esti mated that "tit of 18.000 employees who walked out July I, 9.000 had had their place filled by new men who. he juid, would be retained. X be thy Country's, Thy God's and nesday, July 26, 1922 red Honeymoon >*s greatest war hero," was too busy ? conditions to go on a-honeymoon ?tponed it until the Disabled War Here he is with his bride. ... Of 2S I five, wounded four and captured 10?' WATCHFUL WAITING _P0UCY Harding Looking For Something, to Tum Up in Coal Strike Washington. July 21 (By the Associated Press).?The govern ment is prepared to "stand pat" for a period of ten days to two weeks in its attitude toward the coal strike, it wa-; indicated today, in order to ascenain . whether suf ficient production will be obtained through the reopening of bitumin ous mines under guarantee of fed eral protection to assure the fuel requirements of essential industries. In the meantime, however, plans for distribution of vthe cur tailed supply of coal are to be push ed, it was said. Secretary Hoover announced tonight that he called a meeting here next Monday of rep resentatives of producing districts in Pennsylvania. West Virginia. Tennessee. Kentucky, Alabama and Virginia to discuss the proposed "rationing" plan and to formulate a policy designed to restrain profi teering. While all three parties to the recent conferences in Washington ?the government, operators and union?seemed satisfied that the situation as it now stands was hopelessly deadlocked. a new move for restoration of peace in the coal fields was 'seen in the res olution introduced in the senate to day by Senator King (Democrat) of Utah, who proposed creation of a commi-sion of five to investigate both sides of the controversy and report its findings. No provision was made in the resolution for enforcing the findings. A "survey of remaining coal stocks was said to have convinced admin istration officials that these were sufficient to permit a fortnight of waiting to develop th^ response to the president's "invitation" to the operators to resume operation with out adding unduly to the danger of an industrial shutdown through lack of fuel. Secretary Hoover's program for emergency distribution was said to contemplate the organization of a central committee here which would act through local commit tees in the principal coal produc ing sections. "Plans have been formulated." Mr. Hoover said, "for cooperation of the department of commerce and tiit* interstate commerce commis sion and tli" department of justice by which the cooperation of re sponsible operators the control of price and distribution fan be ef fected. It involves the pooling of coal in each district and the distribu tion of cars under the authority and direction of the government with ?!?.?? cooperation of the opei*a tors' committees. Anderson. July 21 .lehn Porter, aged nineteen, lineman of the Piedmont and Northern Railway, was instantly killed this afternoon when a guy wir. attached to a Ijosl fell across th" trolley wire, sending fifteen hundred volts through his body. Physicians worked hard with the pulmotor bill were unable to revive him. Porter came t?> .Anderson this year from Iiis home in Lancaster. Truth's." RAILROAD TRIE LONG i^ECTED Preparations Begun By Men Over Year Ago?Awaited Best Time I Washington, July 23.?That the railroad shopmen have been pre paring for the strike now in prog ress since April. 1921, and waited 15 months because of a desire to "accumulate enough grievances to support a demand for a nation wide strike" were statements made today by P. J. Conlon, vice presi dent of the International Associa tion of Mechanists, at a public mass meeting here. Union officials learned April 8, 1021. Mr. Conlon said, that the na tional agreement with the railroads was to be abolished, although the roalroad labor board did not act until April 14. When individual agreements were sought, he declar ed the unions "ran into identical demands from every road we ap proached which indicated to us there was some central agency or authority directing the fight against us." "Then we realized." Vice Presi dent Colon continued, "that we would have to sit tight and suffer in silence until enough grievances had been accumulated to support a demand for,a nation-wide strike." Of the 1.100' decisions handed down by the labor board, the speaker listed 700 as favorable to the railroads and 400 as "nomi nally in favor of our side/' but of the latter, he said, at least 300 were put into effect by the roads and therefore "didn't mean anything-." Asserting that the strike leaders were well satisfied with the situ ation. Mr. Conlon said: "It generally takes from SO to ?0 days to make a shop strike ef fective but before this one had been on ten days more than 250 trains had been cancelled out of Chicago, the West Virginia non union coal mines were bottled up. and the iron and steel industries were crying for help. And we have hardly started yet." ,-?? JURY RETURNS MURDER CHARGE W. A. BJackwell Claims Splf Defense. B. B. Glover Kill ed Spartanburg. July 28.?W. A. Blackwell was held by the coron j er's jury this morning for the mur [ der of I>. B. Glover last night. The shooting occurred at the home of Mr. Glover on the Howard Gap road, just out of the city limits, \ From the testimony of Mrs. Glover, j who was the only eyewitness ex- j amined by the coroner's jury, i j Blackwell, who married Mr. Glov- ! er's sister, went to the house yes- j terday between 12 and 1 o'clock in, a drunken condition and she put j him to bed. Last night at bed j time she went to bed herself in an- j other room. Her husband was away. After.,she had been asleep! for some tint* she heard her hus band at the door and got up and ; let him in. telling him that Bleak- ! well was in the other room and not to bother him as he was drunk. Mrs. Glover testified that her husband came in and started into the room where Blackwell was in; bed and as he got to the door she saw Blackwell get up and flash a pistol. She saw the pistol and told' him not to shoot but just then he shot and her husband fell in the doorway. She went for a physi ! cian. Black well claims that he was at \ tacked by Mr. Glover and shot in self-defense. Mr. Glover was shot in the leg when officers of the law raided a distillery in the lower part of the county two years ago. and as a consequence one leg was about two j inches shorter than the other, j When the officers searched the house last night they found a small distillery such as is some times used on the cockstove. th*w said. . v, - Railroad Employee Kidnaped in City [Nephew of Judge Carried to i Woods and Beaten?Two Strikers Caught Chattanooga. .July 23.?Ward : Draper, 12. employed in the yards j of the Nashville; Chattanooga and 1st. Louis railroad, was kidnaped j in the down tow4? section of the city this afternoon while on the way to work, was shoved into an I automobile and taken to the coun j try and badly handled. I Draper said he was beaten by the j nn u in the car the entire time dur i ing a five mile ride to the woods. I Then he was thrown from the ma il bine, returning to the city on a j street ar to enter a hospital. Draper did not know any ?>f his as sailants but says (hat he will be able to ?dentify all of them. Draper is a nephew of Judge W. W*. Draper, assistant attorney gen eral. wh" ? rupt today, listing liabihjtjea 532,435,477. of which $27,$0e>S4- ' are secured claims, and his risers; at $643.533. r His voluntary petition in baak ruptcy, which comes ?s .a startling:; climax to one of the stormiest fia>,,^ ancial careers of the present ge^'* eration, indicates the wiping out of a fortune variously estimated froal $5,000.000 to $30,000,000. ,Waai__. street, which began to count young " Ryan out as soon as he was^.ex pelled from the New York Stocfc exchange June 23, 1320. following . his sensational "corner" of?&8tz\ motor stock, was nevertheless'. ~ shocked by the immense am?^" of .liabilities which the yoking finr ancier had assumed. Neither Ryan uor his attorney; George F. Lewis, would make iny * comment on the bankruptcy pro ceedings beyond stating ^hat "the schedule- tells - the story." ^ T^je., schedule " lists the assets and^ lia- ~ bilities of Allan A. Ryan, person- "\ ally, and the firm of Allan Ai' Bvan fe Co., of which he was president. Ryan's greatest expfoit was hk sensational corner of Stutz mot?r^ stock which, with his resultant-ex-^ pulsion from the? stock exchange - is held by his friends to* hajv^/bfeeja. ' directly responsible for his -fina?^?i ruin. ' ' A:j*r Ryan and his associates are ^ * (leged to have bought 3*,0Q0 sb'$J?te 4 of the stock .for themselves dt*ri?g the month of March and. to3&v*e - used the alleged corner- tor forest up the price of the stock until: it had reached >391 a share on March 31. Trading in Stutz rao^ers^^ss; suspended and an indefinite torium was declared, "* in . there could be no calls for delivery ' of sh?resr LafeA"?t the.reque? . of Mr. Ryant the stock was sf?c& en from the list. Governors of, the stock exchange after an investigation declared tnS"t__ a "corner'? existed, but Mr." -Ryan defied them and is said to hajrai made ? the ashorts" settle for " $551.25 a share, netting him a profit estimated at $1,650.000. Mr. Ryan was then summoned before the governors .on charges that he was "guilty' of conduct? tii-i consistent with equitable principles of trade."' He refused to appear; and the governors, after ^deliberatf : ing five hours, expelled him. His' seat on the exchange, wMchh}? f father had purchased on October j 29, 1S74. for about $4.500- ar^h-s^; later transfer to him. was sold ftttl ' $98,000 to Arthur Gwynn. The proceeds of this sale, which have been held in trust, are among his listed assets. . .. ' Shortly after his expulsion. Mr: Ryan brought suit for $1,000,600 against William H. Remicjfc, the president of the exchange, -aacL members of the board of goverAr? ors. several of whom, he alleged, had sold Stutz, motor shares ?'Short." The suit is pending, no date ever having been set for a trial. Ryan*s eipulsicn from the ex change was a heavy blow, to his prospects^ the socalled "wiseacre^c generally predicting that his n^xaifc-? cial career would be brief. His father, rated . as one of the coun try's wealthiest men, was reported to have privately expressed admir ation for his-son's courageous fighi and to have offered to help hini'; but no- public announcement of the father's attitude v. as ever made ani& apparently no help was forth coming. Father and son had been .estranged for years, the rift be tween them . growing wider when the father married a second timV only a comparatively few days after the death of the first wife, the* young financier's mother. B. & 0. OFFICIALS WORK FOR SEP ARATE PEACE I Chicago, July 24.?With govero j ment officials maintaining silence in regard to the raihoad strike except I for an announcement by Chairman Hooper that the labor board would make no further move at the present, interest today was center^ ed in the separate peace efforts of ofiicials of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad in their meeting at Balti more, with representatives of the striking shopmen. B. M. Jewell, strikers' ieader, refused to comment on the I-altinvore parley. Few dis turbances were reported over Sun day. Sun Yat Sen Claims Another Victory Canton. July 24.?Sun Yat Sen, i the deposed president of . tfce\ I South China government announc ed that his forces had captured several i;undred troops of Chen Chiung Ming, sixty miles north of Canton. At Chen's neadquarters? however, it was stated that the engagement was unimportant.