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CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 GOVERNMENT OPERATION PROPOSED Bill Introduced in Congress for Fed eral Government to r Again Take Over Railroads v; ?_ ! Washington. Aug. 24 (By the As sociated Press)?-Government oper ation of the coal mines and feder al control of coal distribution in such a manner a3 to prevent pro ; nteering were proposen in measures ' introduced today in the senate, j Other developments in the coal ! I and rail situations included: Dec* ion by the senate labor com- j < mittee to substitute the' Borah coa!! commission bill for the Winslow ^committee bill, passed yesterday by the house. ? ; Demands ' in the senate for prompt and drastic government ac tion to end both the coal and rail strikes. j Announcement by Secretary. Hoover that within a week daily bituminous coal production would be sufficient for the nation's needs, but that the country faced a shortage of freight cara, which would be acute within a month. A suggestion by Chairman Borah of the senate labor committee, that the authorities of other states fol low the lead of governor Miller of New York in ?ealing with their local coal situations. - -A declaration by Chairman Cum mins of the senate interstate commerce committee, that congress at its next session would take up industrial problems with a view to determining "what place unionism should occupy in the civilization of ? the United States." A resolution empowering the president to fake over and operate the mines was introduced by Sen ator Walsh"'(Democrat)' of Massa chusetts after " a long and heated senate debate, and was referred to the interstate commerce commit tee. To this same committee was 'Sent an arbitration bill ottered by Senator Cummins, proposing to cre ate a federal, coal distribution agency, which, working through the interstate commerce commission, would control not' onljr. distribution of, but profiteering in coal. Chair man Cummins called a meeting of his committee for Saturday to con sider the administration measure. The senate is expected to act first on the Borah substitute for the Winslow bill, which Senator Borah plans to call up tomorrow. It pro poses ,a commission of five mem bers to investigate the whole coal 'industry and make recommenda tions to congress. As sehate debate proceeded with predictions by some senators of dire stress over the country this winter, Secretary Hoover predict ed a sharp increase in bitumin ous production next week, placing the probable outpuf at 7,000,000 tons, as compared with 4,000,000 tons last week. He indicated, howV ever, that serious transportation difficulties would be encountered! in the movement of coal with the j crisis reached within a month unless there should be a settlement! meantime of the railroad strike. The anthracite situation was re garded by the secretary of the! commerce as serious. With the mines tied up and little prospect of an , immediate settlement of the strike, he advised anthracite users to be prepared to burn substitutes next - winter, asserting that pro visions probably would be made for the priority mpvement of such substitutes to householders over industries. PLANS VISIT TO AMERICA Soviet Minister May Come to United States Riga, Aug. 25 (By the Associat ed Press).?George Tchitcherin. the Soviet minister of foreign af fairs, is to undertake a special mis sion to the United States, accord ing to reports received here from sources in Moscow. It is officially announced in Moscow that the So viet government has signed a con tract with the big Siemens-Schuck ert firm in Berlin in which the Germans will supply goods and credits to the soviet. Attention is called by the Soviets that this is the first case of a foreign firm granting Russia credit. Parole of York Convict Revoked Columbia, Aug. 26.?Governor Harvey yesterday revoked the pa-1 role of Andrew Adams of York county and directed the county! officials to recommit Adams to the 1 county chaingang to complete his' sentence. Adams was paroled during good; behavior on November 1. 1921. by j Governor Cooper He was convict ed in York county in July of 1920; of grand larceny and sentenced to j serve two years. Governor Harvey recently be gan to check up the paroles. An investigation revealed that Adams had violated his parole, and yester day the chife executive revoked it. The governor was advised that Adams has been convicted of another crime since he was parol ed. ?Llished April, 1850. im._ 'government operation considered ?. ; ? ?_- - i White House Confer-! ence Discusses Fed-! era! Control of I Mines and Rail roads ~ ? Washington, Aug. 25.?Federal operation of anthraetie coal mines, and some of thfc railroads was con sidered at a White House confer ence tonight between President Harding and Chairman Cummins "of the senate interstate commerce Committee and Attorney Generali Daugherty. . Senator Cummins said after the conference that the anthracite ; cperators and miners would bej given one more opportunity to set- j tie their differences. *Tf there isn't a settlement in a ; .few days," he said. "I will intro-j duce a bill authorizing the govern-? ment to operate the mines." Likewise, he said, the railroads j would be given a "reasonable" time in which to demonstrate their ability to furnish adequate service and that those unable to do so would be taken over. Senator Cummins expressed con-; fidence that legislation for both j purposes could be rushed through ! congress without delay. It was in- I dicated that consideration of these j steps would not .operate to inter-j fere with proposed legislation now j pending and designed to curb pro- j fiteering in coal. The White House conference fol- J lowed a survey of the whole sit-! nation at the regular cabinet meet-j ing and the termination .without; result of the conference at Xew York between railroad executives and union officials. It was stated that the conference would be re sumed tomorrow. Before tonight's conference the ' groundwork had been laid through j administration overtures for a fur- I ther meeting between the parties j to the anthracite dispute, to be! held next week at some point in j Pennsylvania. It was indicated j that certain proposals would be i made, which it was hoped would bring about an. adjustment of the difficulty which disrupted the ses sions at Philadelphia earlier this' i week. While no detailed explanation j was given as to how the govern ment would operate anthracite I mines in the-event of their seizure [ it was indicated that the first step J would be to fix a wage scale and then request or direct the miners to return to work. Coal mined, it was stated, would be marketed through the regular commerces channels, the government taking steps to prevent possible profiteer ing. The bituminous situation not enter into the discussion, the conferees agreeing that this indus try gradually was getting back to normal. The ability of the roads to move coal from the mines, in the view of the officials, constitutes an important element in this connec tion, however, and may prove a determining factor as to the nec essity for federal operation of car riers. TROUBLE ON YANGTSE RIVER Foreign Gunboats Ordered to Exterminate Disorderly Chinese Soldiers Peking, Aug. 26.?Gunboats of foreign powers, including the flag ship of Rear Admiral Bullard, commanding the Yangtse river American patrol, have been ordered to the Yangtse Gorde district, with instruction to exterminate bands of disorderly soldiers who are fight ing on foreign merchant craft. AMERICAN IS SHOT DEAD While Guarding Garage of General Allan in Coblenz j Coblenz. Aug. 25.?(By the As sociated Press.)?Private Lester j Irons, of Tom River. X. J.. a mem j ber of a provisional military po , hce company, was found today in La pool of blood with part of his head shot away, outside the garage of Major Gen. Henry T. Allen, in j command of the American forces on the Rhine. Private Irons had been in guard duty at this post last i night. Tw?? German girls are being held for investigation. . ? * m Former Kaiser to Wed Betrothed to Widow of Ger man Aristocrat London. Aug. 25.?Former Em peror William is betrothed to the widow of a German aristocrat, ac cording to a report received by the Times. The woman is said to be almost of royal rank, and the mother of three children. She and the children recently visited the former emperor at Doom, Rolland. It is said the marriage will take place during the coming winter. The report adds that this is not the woman to whom the one-time emperor was reported some time ago to be betrothed. "Be Jost and Fear NO AGREEMENT POSSIBLE WITH THE ?MEN Leader of Shop Crafts' Union Rejects Prop-; osition Made by the Railway Executives * New York. Aug. 25 (By the As sociated Press).?The rail strike today developed into a fight to the finish when peace negotiations were ?blown sky high. Heads of the Big Five railroad I brotherhoods, acting as media-j tors between the executives and j striking shopmen in a final effort to effect separate settlement with j individual roads after the Asso-| ciation of Railway Executives as \ a whole had rejected the running; trades first peace overtures, re-! ported to the representatives of 77 I roads at the Yale Club this morn-; ing that the shop crafts had j turned down a proposition made j to them yesterday by the carriers-; Negotiations then were sharply ; broken off and executives, strike | leaders and brotherhood chiefs | packed up their bags and began; leaving town prepared for a test] of endurance. Before he departed for his; headquarters in Chicago, Bert 31., Jewell, official spokesman for the strikers, asserted he believed the j executives who had lingered for; the parley on individual settlements soon would be enabled "to bring home to their hard shelled col leagues the railroad situation in its grim reality." "\Ye shall be content to let the condition of equipment prove that the railroads can not operate with unskilled^ workmen," declared ! Mr. Jewell, adding later that "we can and we will fight for our terms and for a nationwide settlement.'' Labor leaders then dispatched ! telegrams to all parts of the coun j try, calling upon strikers to re | new the struggle with redoubled I vigor. ! The latest peace proposal, cen i tering as was the case .with all I the others on the question of se I niority, briefly was that roads in | terested in individual settlements j would pledge themselves to find employment for all strkers not. convicted of acts of violence: I would not curtali pension rights "or other privileges;" and would agree to submit to a commission J of ten brotherhood leaders and j executives all disputes which could not be settled by direct conference, j The strikers who have maintain? ? ed that they had not authorized ;the Big Five to suggest individual j settlements.. rejected this proposal j with the explanation that it did j not guarantee seniority to the men who might return on one j third of the country's roads and at j the same time would destroy the j effectiveness of the strike being j carried on on the other two-thirds. Then from the mediating broth j erhoods came the statement that j they reluctantly notified all con J cerned that they considered fur j ther peace efforts futile and had I nothing more to suggest. ' j REPARATIONS STILL DISCUSSED ! Committee Returns From Berlin to Paris Paris. Aug. (By Associated I. . j Press).?The reparations commit j tee will hold a session tomorrow ?afternoon. immediately following ! the return to Paris of the repre ! sentatives of the commission who j have been in Eerlin endeavoring to j arrange with the German govern ment for further guarantee for a moratorium to Germany. The members of the delegation will arrive shortly after noon and report to the commission. Al though both official circles and French reparations officials regard ed the Eerlin negotiations as" hav I ing been a complete failure. Sir jJohn Bradbury and M. Mauelere I are bringing with them the llth ?hour counter proposals submitted ? by Dr. Wirth. the German chan cellor, and which the British are j hoping will prove acceptable. The details of these proposals are being withheld by Sir John Brad bury and M. Mauelere. An out line will be given to the commis sion by M. Mauelere. of the situa i tion as it was found to exist in j Berlin. He also will make known jthe other proposals made by Ger jmany which were tentatively de ; clined by the delegation, j The British will make every ef fort to avoid a direct \?>tc by the reparations commission on the question of granting a moratorium to Germany and may propose a j further postponement of the de cision, hoping in the delay thnt j some solution will be arrived at to prevent independent action by j France against Germany. Xo of ; ficial statement has yet been vouchsafed as to what the inde . pendant action of France mav be j but generally it is the belief that Jit will be the occupation of the Ruhr region. Los Angeles. Aug. 25.?The [alleged members of the Ku Klux ; Klan, tried on felony charges grow j ing out of the Inglewood raid April j 22, were acquitted tonight by a ?jury in the superior court. Not?Let all the ends Thou Aims't j Sumler, S. C, Wednesday REAL FIGHT "~ IN RAIL STRIKE I NOW BEGINS i _V j j Failure of Peace Ef-j I fort by Brother-1 hoods Leaves Rail-1 I roads and Strikfrigl Shopmen to Figfrtj ! it Out j j New Tork. Aug. 26.?With the' j peace effort, launched by the Big j iFive Broiherhood, definitely abapr jdoned. the rail executives and. shop ! i crafts leaders today are lined..,up' I for a fight, in which both sides j predicted an early victory. ... "We are going home to start a : l real fight," declared W. F; ?MyB.tk?! ! head of the carmen's brotherhood, ' j expressing the attitude of the ? worker?. ? , ? j i I)i rail executive circles the views I of the disruption of the parleys. I was given a varied reception, j I "We will break the strike wifhin j a week" was the general prediction.! ? m ? RAILWAY STRIKE ! I INVESTIGATION District Attorney Seefeng' j Facts at Spencer i - ? Spencer. N. C. Aug. 25 ? United ! States District Attorney Frank,I I Linney of the Western North ,Caro i lina district arrived here today( and j began an investigation of receptor j leged beatings administered to.jnen" 'taking the places of the strikers.in : the Southern railway shops, alleged j kidnapings and other infractions of the law in connection with the 1 strike. He would not discuss his ] mission here except to say tl\at he would report his findings to At ;torney General Daugherty. . p. The presence of the federal, atr : torney has created an atmosphere i of expectancy. It is^ understood ! Southern railway officials are co ; operating with Mr. Linney, who i this afternoon was busy interview I ing various interests, taking notes ?and listing names. i A .movement has been, started here, it was announced today, to j enlist all local members of the ' brotherhoods and other union j railroad men not ,on strike in ? : plan to contribute one day's wages ' each week to the benefit of the ; families of the shopmen on strike. I Officials of the Southern railway ! announced today that 600 men are j now working in tne shops, while i 1,700 are on strike. Union oflS j cials say that there has been no , breaks in the ranks of the strik ! ers. Salisbury, X. C., Aug. 25.?"I am ; here to prevent trouble, not to sit ! Idly by until something bad has ! happened," said Col. Don Scott, in ! command of the nine units of state j troops here, in explanation of his action in placing machine guns, in ! fantry and cavalry about the Row Ian county court house this rnorn j ing just prior to the time set for j the hearing of the case against j Charles F. Barrett, charged with j being drunk and disorderly and ! carrying a pistol here early this ! week. At the request of R. Lee j Wright, counsel for Barrett, on j the ground that the defense was ; not ready for trial, the case was ! continued by Judge Furr of' coun j ty court until September 22. The j postponement was not opposed by Prosecuting Attorney McCubbins. though he announced that the state was ready to proceed. Bar rett was formerly president-of the ] State Federation of Labor and is i publisher of a labor paper in Char i lotte. { When the case was disposed of j the large crowd in the court I house quickly dispersed and the j troops were withdrawn to Camp ! Morrison, a mile away. Machine guns had been trained on the I court house entrance from both sides, while infantry and cavalry rpatroled the streets about the j squa re. I "Mr. Barrett has been prominent in labor circles.'* said Col. Scott's {statement- "A large crowd was ex ipected for the trial and naturally where a large crowd assembles there is possibility of an outbreak. ! For that reason I placed more men around the court house this morn ling. City and county officials con cur in my viewpoint. Local strike headquarters in .Salisbury tonight were entertaining j 20 men who came here to take [the place.? of strikers and have J been wot king in the Spencer shops. They left their work today and said they would return to their home in Baltimore. Richmond, Va.. Aug. 25.?Train men in the employ of railroads en tering this city will n?- asked to protest against the use of armed guards at the yards of the South ern railway in South Richmond. At a meeting late today of strik ing shopmen of the Southern and Atlantic Coasi Line railroad, it was voted to call to the attention of the Brotherhood o* Railway Train men the fact that the Southern has placed armed guards at the entrances and exits of its shops he; e. Swell-head is just the conviction that the opinion of the first per son singular makes it unanimous. it be thy Country's, Thy Coda and , August 30, 1922 HENRY FORD PREDICTS GREM CRISIS Coal and Rail Strikes Paralyze Business ?Charges That ; Wall Street is Re sponsible Detroit. August 26?Industry the country over "must throw up its hands in surrender" within a few weeks, it the rail and eoal strikes continue, Henry Ford declared *o day in announcing the decision of the Ford Motor Company to close its plants here and in many other cities September 16 because of the fuel famine. Mr. Ford held financial interests responsible for the industrial tieup, declaring the "money barons"-' were j manipulating the labor unions and the public officials, state and na tional, were impotent in the crisis. ? The strikes would end, he con tinued, "when the majority of the people are cold and hungry enough to resort to drastic action." "Continuance of these disturb ances to the economic life of the nation is due simply to the greed and avarice of Wall Street," Mr. Ford asserted, adding that these . interests "dominated the railroads, coal mines and public utilities of the country." The deadlock in strike negotia tions indicated, he declared, the existence of a "plot to unload the demoralized and rundown railroads on the government at their own price and to mulch the people through excessive prices." Employees of the Ford Motor company throughout the country to be without jobs' after Septem ber-16. will number 105.000. In addition, several hundred thousand other workers employed in industries furnishing materials for the Ford plants will be affect ed. Henry Ford gave these figures to day in anouncing that his three big motor plants located in De troit suburbs and his assembling plants throughout the country would be closed on that date, be cause of the coal shortage. Blow to Detroit The announcement was the most severe blow that industrial Detroit has sustained since the industrial depression of two years ago. It means, according to Mr. Ford, that 75,000 men employed in the High land Park. River Rouge and Dear born plants of the company here will be without work. Thirty thou sand others now working in the various assembling plants scatter ed throughout the country also will j be thrown out of work. ; How long the machinery in the ; Ford plants is to be stilled will de j pend entirely upon the coal supply j of the future, the Detroit mantffac j tu're said. The statement issued by ,Mr. Ford proposing the shut down j was the story of his losing fight ? during the last months to insure a : fuel supply sufficient to keep his ' workers at their machines.\ ! Mr. Ford declared he "had not ! the remotest idea" when the plants I could be reopened. It was announc j ed that the normal consumption of j coal in the Ford industries is 3.S00 j tons and although.declining to state the amount on hand at this time i officials said it would be impossible j to do more "than keep the furnaces j and ovens warm/' Statement by Ford I Only a comparatively small num j her of employes of the Ford plants j will be continued during the shut i down, it was announced. Crews j sufficient to keep the furnaces warm j will be held, however. Mr. Ford's I statement in part follows: I "The coal situation has become impossible. For the last several weeks we have seen a situation ap | broaching that we feared would I force us to close. We greatly re ! gret to take that step. [ . . ."We wish to keep enough I coal on hand to keep our furnaces i and coke ovens warm: to let them get cold would cause us a loss of I hundreds of thousands of dollars. At the rate we are geting coal now, j September 16 will mark the time when we will have only enough ! coal left to keep our furnaces and ov^ns warm. j "Our reserve stock by that time [will have been completely exhaust led. We therefore, will close down the entire plant on September 16. "Last night we wired 900 houses that supplied us with material to 'stop shipment and this morning ! letters and ^telegrams were sent out to about 1.000 more. "We appreciate the great ioss it will mean to these hundreds of sup ply houses, but it will also mean a j tremendous loss to us. At present we are producing 5.200 cars a day and we can sell 5,300 a day. We have to close down at a time when we are doing a greater business than ever before in our history." Effects of the Ford shut down will be felt in industry in every parr of the country, according to officials of the company. The num-1 her of workers employed by firms! supplying parts and raw materials, including iron and steel, was va- j riously estimated at from "several j hundred thousand to 3.000,000/' ! Announcement was made recent ly that Mr. Ford has installed oil burning furnaces at one of his plants as an experiment and hope was held by workmen that the Ford company would weather the coal shortage. It developed to day, however, that only the fur naces in the machine shops had 4 Truth's." A MO VE TO I SETTLESTRIKE BY CONGRESS President and Advis-l ers Trying to Form-! ulate Plan to Endj Individual Strike Washington, August 27?The ex act scope of the administration's j policy in dealing with the rail and j coal strikes is expected to reveal I itself within the next few days as j a result of preparations which ap- ? peared tonight to he nearing com pletion. J Whether the emergency legisla-j tion to be definitely urged upon \ congress will include a presidential j authorization to take over and op- I erate rail and coal properties was j a question that still remained un-1 answered, but it was indicated that j administration officials probably would make a final decision on the point in the very near future. j In some quarters it was believed that the proposal to arm the execu- 1 tive with these emergency powers would be finally threshed over amon the leaders who are with President Harding on his weekend cruise down the Potomac, and that a definite announcement of policy j would follow the return here of, the presidential yacht Mayflower tomorrow morning. Those in the president's confi dence said before he left for the cruise last night that although he: still believed mrdustrial peace would \ be restored without resort to a gov- j ernment operation, he was inclined to feel that as a precautionary mea- i sure he should be given full au thority to act^hefore congress be-! gins its contemplated recess. In addition to Secretary Hoover and Attorney General Daugherty, two of the cabinet members who have been particularly active in shaping the government's course during the strike period, the pres ident was accompanied on the Mayflower by Chairman Cummins of the senate interstate commerce commission, who already has draft ed for introduction in the senate a bill authorizing the executive to take over and operate any indi vidual railroad which does not ade-i quately perform mr-functions as a common carrier. Before he went aboard the Mayflower Senator Cummins had indicated that his measure and a similar one relating to coal miners would be formally introduced early this week. Majority leaders say they are confident that such legislation could be passed through both senate and house, if the president definitely requested it.. but at the same time they conceded that congressional approval would be by no means unanimous. Although many mem bers in both houses are demanding that the government take charge of the situation in most emphatic manner possible, there is a recog nized element of strength ranged against any movement that might approximate a return of the war ! time government railroad adminis tration. Particular attention was given in congressional circles today to the public statement made last night by Chairman Winslow of the house interstate commerce committee, de claring that, in his opinion, the coal fact finding and distribution bills already pending would serve as sufficient warning to the industries involved and that more drastic leg islation could safely he withheld for the present. It was pointed out that President Harding's recom mendation for a coal purchasing and selling agency had thus far not even resulted in any effort to bring in bills for carrying it into ef fect, and that even the fact find ing and distribution bills had not encountered perfect sailing weather either in the senate or house. The senate having laid aside the Borah fact finding bill entirely un til the.middle of the week because of prolonged attacks upon it. the efforts to deal with the strike problem at both ends of The capitol tomorrow will be confined to com mittee consideration of the respec tive distribution bills introduced by Chairman Cummins and Chairman Winslow. In the house committee the Win slow bill will be the subject of a five hour public hearing, at which all persons interested will be per mitted to present their views. House leaders plan to call it up in the house on Tuesday. The senate' committee with the Cummins distribution measure be fore it has adopted n definite pro gram of procedure, but it is expect ed an effort $'ill be made by some members to delay action and hold hearings before it votes its approv al or disapproval. .Marion, 111.. August 2S?More than two months after 26 non-un ion mine workers at Lester Strip Pit were killed, what has come to l>e known as the "Herrin Massacre" today was the subject of an official investigation. Attorney General Brundage announced that neither miner, nor coal operator has been placed on the special grand jury. been converted into oil burners. ; The Kord plants, in the aggre gate, constitute Michigans great est industry, from the standpoint of employment, and as such are among the largest in the country. Business men and manufacturers here were unanimous that the clos ing of these plants might have far reaching effects on the national ecc- j nomic situation. _ 1 THE TRUE SOU LABOR DRIVE I AGAINST THE ! RAIL MAGNATES ! \ ^Chairman oi; Central Strike Committee Demands Inves tigation of Assassi nation of Railroad i Executives - New York. August 27?Investi ! gation of the Association of Rail ! way Executives by the United [ States senate as directly responsi | ble for the failure to end the rail ! road sl oiimen's strike was suggest i ed in a telegram sent today by Jno. ; J. Dowd, chairman of the central I strike committee for the Metropol j itan district, to Albert B. Cum ; mins, chairman of the interstate commerce commission committee of the senate. After suggesting that the com mittee investigate the association i "in its relation to the present shop men's strike and to its organiza-' j tion and activities in general," the telegram continued: ! "This group of individuals has ; effectually prevented a settlement j of the railroad strike even when such a settlement was urgently re ' quested by the president of the ! United States and agreed upon by I the union -involved." j Asserting that the rejection of ; mediation proposals by the rail j way executives did not represent i the opinion of a majority of the j members of the association the j telegram added: j "The evidence is overwhelming I that the proceedings of this asso ciation have for the past year been ; manipulated and controlled con j trary to the best interests of the 'railroads and the public by T. De= i Witt Cuyler and L. F. Loree- An ; examination of individual members :of this association on the witness j stand would reveal a situation that i would startle the country ancl prove ? of inestimable benefit both to the ! American railroad industry and : to the public at large." Commencing upon the telegram Chairman Dowd said: "There can not be peace in the railroad . industry while the As ! sociation of Railway Executives j continues to exist. "Here is a union more danger ! ous than any Labor union could, i ever be. This association is a uri , ion of 100 or more men, clothed j with prodigious power, and. abso ? lutely controls, by its small inner ! circle of a half a dozen men, more j power than all 'the other members j put together. i "The members of this inner cir I cle are out to establish the open j shop on American railroads, j "It is four weeks now since this i union defied the nation. Since then j it has closed the door upon any j possibility of peace. It is this one ? union that is beyond all public con I trol." j Railroad executives who were ! seen following the filing of chair i man Dowd's telegram declined to : make anv comment, i m ?COAL STRIKE I CONFERENCE _ I Renewal of Effort to Reach j Agreement to Be Made at i Philadelphia j Philadelphia. Aug. 27.?Samuel ! D. Warriner. president of the ! Lehigh Coal and Navigation com j party and chairman of the Anthra jcite Operators' policies committee, arrived here tonight from his sum I mer home in Montrose, Pa. Sim I ultaneously it was learned that (United States Senator Pepper of i Pennsylvania had come from : Devon. Pa., to meet the spokes \ man of the employers to discuss ? methods of bringing peace in the I hard coal region. The meeting place was kept j secret and early tonight there j seemed little likelihood of an of ficial statement being issued before ! tomorrow if at all. concerning the ! matters considered. However, it was understood that the question of government seizure of the j mines would be discussed, although i Senatro Pepper has been described ? as opposed to any such action. Meanwhile John L. Lewis and i Philip J. Murray, president and ; vice president, respectively, of the [United Mine Workers, remained in I Philadelphia over Sunday and will j ; stay through tomorrow, acoord i ing to the latter. In some quar ? ters the optimistic view was taken 'that they had tarried because there \ was a chance of early resumption ; of the negotiations between ope rators and miners, broken off abruptly last week when the min ers flatly refused to consider ar I nitration in any form. TRAPPED IN DEEP MINE San Francisco. August 28.?Sev* j enty-five men. comprising entire i night force of the Argonaut mine. ! at Jackson. Amador county, are i entombed in the mine as a result of j a fire which broke out at midnight, ? according to a report to the state i bureau of mines. A rescue crew, '. headed by a. Oabarini. manager of the mine, has entered the mine j shaft in an effort to smother out j the flames. The men are held be I low the three thousand foot mark. THRON, Established June 1, VOL. Lin. 1*0. 5 MARKETS OPENING WITH BIG SAL ^-operative Machine Gets Under Way in North Carolina To^ bacco Centers Goldsboro, Aug. 24.?Cldie to 750,000 pounds of tobacco were delivered to the cooperative ware houses of eastern North^ Carolina. at their opening today and thou sands of members Of"-the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative * association who witnessed the starting up o$ the marketing machinery of the giant organization went home, sat isfied of its certain success. Admiration for the fairoes? speed and accuracy of the "new method of grading, weighing and paying for tobacco was express ed by growers en every market visited today by. T. C. Watkinsr Jr., manager of warehouses, and C.*B Cheatbam, :i?8istant manager of the leaf department, who were at Goldsboro, Smithfield, Bailey, Wen dell, Zebulon and Fremont. Mr. Gheatham assisted personal ly with the grading at each of these, markets and congratulated the. graders on their w<0k and; the high quality of tobaccos whioh passed through their hands. The. new schedule of cash advances with slightly higher levels than the. first schedules issued in South Carolina gave entire satisfaction tip most of the growers*. These sched ules posted conspicuously in each warehouse named cash advances from $2S to $120." Although prac-i tically no wrapper grades were de--, livered today there were many cutters which brought from $18 t^ $20 as the first cash advance lor which the member growers recejv-* ed both checks and participation, receipts.^ The fact that the pres ent payments are only ^ conserva tive cash value was made clear to most of the growers, who will re.-; ceive second and third payments when the tobacco is sold m suffi cient quantities. These payment^' according to Aaron Sapiro, attorn ey for the association, will amount to qyer_ three times the first c?kh advanT^'xf'"ThV'successful. sales of the association continue. Great gat herings of farmers and townspeople met at the principal cooperative centers today and a hoilday' spirit on swollen marke*? was emphasized by the presence of ladies with amjlle supplies of bar becued mept, sandwiches and cool drinks. ' .. ' . -7 Federal Control Of Fuel Will Go Volunteer Organization t& Disband as Production1 In^ creases ? Washington, Aug. 25.?The, vol unteer 'federal fuel distributior^cr- J ganization will cease to? func?ori n?-xt week, it was indicated to night by coal committee officials. Increased bituminous coal pro duction, it;was said, will make use of the super-priority system ;of fuel- distribution unnecessary after next Monday. With - the discontinuance of I this method of emergency coal ' handling fuel movement will he ; left to the regular priority classi | fication.of the Interstate Commerce ; Commis?n pending the enactment [ of legislation by congress to meet the fuel supply situation. Federal Fuel Distributor Spencer, it is be j lieved, will retain a skeleton or S ganization for a time to provide *a. ; nucleus to build up any distribu-. ! tion agency which may be created I by congress but the advisory com mittee of coal operators, of-which C. E. Bock us. of New York, is chairman, and the district commit r ! tees which have represented th<T I federal c?ai committee in West ! Virginia, Kentucky. Tennessee. Alabama and Virginia will be dis-' i banded in the course of the week, 3 The effect of a sharply increas-, j ed coal production from fields re cently reopened, according to com ! mittee officials, is manifested in the decreasing number of appli cations for emergency coal receiv ed by Mr. Spencer. Whfle at-the j beginning of the week, officials de I dared, applications were receivi&d in great numbers, with the reopen ing of various coal fields, many of these applications have been re turned with the advice that the. applicant's fuel requirements can no doubt best be taken care of in their own states. The major fuel distribution prob lem now before the central com mittee, officials asserted, was the question of coal supply for the northwest and a definite program for facilitating the movement o? the required tonnagevto that sec tion, it was indicated, probably will be relied upon, pending legis lation. ARCTIC EXPLORER RETURNS Freeport, Maine, Aug. 26.?The Baffin land expedition in command of Ronald M. MacMillan, . which left Boston a year ago on the schooner Bowdoin is on the way home, according to a message from the explorer received by his sister today. The message said they had a fine trip and all were welL