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6I a7 1-Anerlean schy41 bo'ys, toura hiondell of 'yomring. d : in:. t 8-Pennsylvaila state tr(Ips min r NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Railway Executives Refuse to Accept President's Plan as to Seniority. STRIKE SETLEMENT FAILS Federal and State Control of Coal Dis tribution Gets Under Way-Chicago Traction Workers Quit-Resu;'s of Some Interesting Primaries France Warns Germany. By EDWARD W. PICKARD N EGOTIJATIONS for the end thie railrod strike were! at tempr.-arily halte!d again lai b1,ei the pla of. Presidnt:A Ii.. fa!1ed of compij1le]tc alc(etJ'tne were confounded. Ab er:'e':d by h!mself, t .- P Mdet's plancrrri-dtee Stions: First-Itilway i mar.a ers - men are to agree to re -. validity of all dee. ions '1' - road labor bear) r t - carry rout uhj ew:j pflated by .0 w all lawsuits iand railroaidl %hich !.ave - - faa:" !: !- 4:% o Third-A: 2 -: rR to te ret. e s :!.-- r r r - strike. The rrijway 'eeutiv-s we h first to att ona :>.se pr. p;-s:.:s. Te acteI!pted the firs: aree.-K to) the .e ond with :he umb!: td:r:: that the strike be first .r l.! ,f!" a r.d. that the V'reresentat'. of . r- the izwes leg. no0w at work a:. th- :..* r-r(r of the carriers ; der ' I. 1 :w imposs.E for them to cze t he. :Irst sen-rtence of the thirdl' . ;.-:1 Hauving, p~. ed~ ::.-zls'.lves ins a strategicr . p .:~ by awailtint: action by the executiv ., the repirstatives of the strikingr shopunenl met inl Chica go and] vo'tedl, thugh with exiere'se reluctance, ti acvcept the? Presidenst prop.osalIs. This was cond(itlined ul:y on rec' ;.mi~ tin of the unlion inte"rpre }tation of '~he plan, which, litnonig other thin ;'s,"would re~iuire the~ Permi:y . V.anla railroad to abandon its tfi;:ht for the openCf ihop. Thesho Sl( ra(1".fts al! insist on the stalli shmnat of a a tio l bardt ,f adujustm--n~ .rt whb ' would relieve the labor bi :ard 4)f i: disputes except 'J1.s. invlvi:u w;'.. -, Some roads have a::ri'l t*ri. a boards, but prob'ahfly I u !f them aru opposed to one rs 1ti4onal er.! wIed wou1ld psrescribue unIrirm <U..tin . * gardless of no'e is (f va:r~ s l,..; .Seemuingly the! rail ex.:utiveSs ar. i dead earnsest inu their refusal to. abi don their stand onl serniority b:s SThey notified their local empalIye"" andi other workers thant the'y wou~l b protectedl anid gua ranrteo.l prmarssisn!n employmernt, arnd went ashead with the. task of filling the plances of the strik ers. In New York it waIs said( their deeisive stand resulted in a rtush oft applicants for jobs. Public opInIon Is widely divided concerning this attitude of the railway executives. Alany per song feel that it is only juistkee to the *. men who have remained at work and those who have respondedl to the call for workers to take up the tools the strIkers laid (lawn. Those who sym-l pathize strongly with the demands of organized labor take the posltion that Sthe action of the ratilway heads is a part of a campaign to dlestroy the tnions. It was predicted in Washington that resident Harding would do nothing Dore in the mratter at present, giving 6the railrotids an opportunity to prove that they could operate effectively ai Jin:; order at Cak~eburg nr t!.e ..-rt taken over t.rA ';-erat'f t e tt - - . .~ * - -.j' *-!:e - -* b4w h :.-:. Mr. .Jera 8:-.. "al.-d a en e-.zr.r:e of ihe ens.r:...rs C.! I-e Asyva. :1he N.orthwest is mnre thr-a'.era. than.r e-ver, aind Ihe has a~'I the gv-. e-rnc.rs cf Jo-.wa. W'iscon-:in and' Ncrth the b~ottom o-f the ec-a! bin is~ ina si'1b and, at tbe reque-t rof the state f-::: C. mn.sb-5n . all Frnarnetal andA dia. p ay' eetrie li;;Lting h.as been diLsc-m IICG(, see'4 ear str-1e -are (levated lines qu4'it '.arly Tu:e'Liy rha'rninr atn] no a ttempn;t was inade to ta?ke the ears ':ut of the yards. Moto.r vehleies '.f all descripti. ns w ere cal!e-d inito serFvice aind Cyn the frsrt day there* w ~as a terrlfic conrgesition of trattie. Ily WV-'ednerday the polic. .tr club's anid iv~idfual iru(t.rts~s had! wo(rked' Iu *i .systemn that bire ughit the, r iat i' ' ..ol(st tob normial. and) many~: a Chia! an b'egan to wond'elr if th !.. city ':hi!r't Lvt atl'':~ with.'t the noisy Arr.e'] t he worth oasf on'e- .a'y r-re 'ajre -.ithnt in th'* hu'e-s ntlr. h Towa..r the end fr tewa eace]~ mnt. Th!e I:J-! a re- .:h tin: ot on ly a p'roposed wage- reduction, but at nine huir dIay. Char i-es of an o'rder by the state paubile utilities boeard reduciing fares an.! polities enater int) the Ci-. (:aga situation, andl it w-as frequently and openly asserted that the st rIke rad a."put upj !'ob" to prevent the fare rdcion aid to deal a blow to M yor Thomrpsonm and huis organiza tion.r Thue imayor hius long pbrotnised ai 5-cent fare and last week tried to take steps to. wa rd the establishing of ai municipial bus line to suppliant the street cars. A T THISwriting it appears prob able that U'nited Staites Senato~r .Jamues A. Rleed) has been renomtina ted by the Democrats of Missouri. defeat lng Breck-inridige Long in a fight that was hot and even hitter. Mr. Long had the support of former Presliet Wil son, during whose administ ratioun he was assistant secretary .'f state. The dislike that Mr. Wilson anti manny oth ers have for Reed (lates frorn the years of the World war. rfhe Republicans of Missouri pominated R. R. Brewster of Kansas City for the senate. II. E.:2.W. Y. Mrran. Hfute : n W.4- on- r e ub - r. turns w ri. p 'ht. ons . -in Gy.'r.de. s.-. A .v(: 1i. lz~rirl - t' - u t - r''*x 6:~ A. t r wI - afl 'I ''inle terj*. '~ . I -a-n t.-h. r T A e- rn. It Sinds-tie in Ifl "upied1 .be sei7' d A .stll more - m .wa prrop.sedc by - - rar . n of .. I; .n:a ny ~e0::-4.Ai 1 r.:s'an Gr P rti .e:i a oei ll the - ry I r;.>in e'e fr.-m! her deb.:'nes 19 ranele. The ether F .r.(-dn na~tionrs .int:rreted this as td '-:1-fly :co A:!nerica, hn~d in no'te veld~~ ea~s Y. .?bange ins the Va! tyo the U:.ited' States towar~d its P'r.mier Poednrare nrA d embers of the! date of tI.- 'onnf.rence with L'-.yd m:1a-r Theu :As and ot:hers of Belg!umn of reaain and war dietts will be D'"f t*' "ro"1 'n Turkey grntly dIs~trf'j the allies. Firs~t. mrissionl to (rdr:-:p.y Constantinope. TLh:s was proAbs!y "for h':mre ren Isumsptiony." but the allie-s. much ex' it edi. refusedI the requ.=t and sent a lolt I f tr.'yps into Thrace, f rcing the G;reeks tin withdlraw to 5ix miles fromi the Chartalja ]in'os. Then Cohnstan. its hinterluan i an autonmous~ etate un der p'r.tecion of the G;reek armay, de elatring' the heeuind-~ rerzions in Asia Mino~r -sht ubu not he returned to Ts:r k:'y. Hie thus upse~(t the plans of the al!sfor a pear-e se(ttlemend-t betwee. n 4 re-..e. and Tuirkey. possibl.y be!!2-.-in. that in this way ..ly (-an he keep the --ekO! ppI-''e' from' again drnivinsg him from th.e thrrte. O ' "NE """" a' itr the 5!rnaho' ofteIrish rebels .in the sot are be.irng taken-r ly th.e natirnals, and' the irregulars 5.0 far hav. n.'t mad'e a de'terlaine-d s'tand. 'de-pite. the reported1 plea:s of De \'aVlerai. Harry Iiolanj-l, one of De \'alira's closest frienids and1( whof wa with hIm in Amnerioa, die-I of a biullet wounid. Liam Mellowes. Sean O'Malley. Wory O'Conri. G;eneral IQuInn and other Sinn leaders are p'ris oners. The final triumph of the pro visional government seems inear. F " O """ m'""te 'a rid'any every ment in Amerien was silent. This was the imp'ressiv-e tribaute to the memory of Dr. Ale-xander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephnane, whoii (lied in Haddeck, Nova Scotia, itt the age( of seventy five years. The great seientIst perfeet edI mainy oIther n)otable Inventions, and htlso was unntiring In his elforts to aid the deaf. United States Senator William E. Crowe of IPen nsyl van Ia, who succeed ed Senator Knox, (died at hIg home after an illness that Ilegan last De ember. lHe appeared In the senate only twice beore that\ ie. BRIEF NEWS NOTES WHAT HAS OCCURhED DURING WEEK THROUGHOUT COMUf. TRY AND ABROAD EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE Gatheis.d From All Parts Of The Globe And Told In Short Paragraphs Foreign Di'patch.s fi.rn South Africa r ;.ort the discer.ry f a nw ;'old br-lt In the- Tran-vaad.l . S*trtchigr from thec: ljordt:r of J, .*raar~d to Nyl rou. The f'r dr:eral :tri': wa '.aaa pro:'.:-ay The~ Grnl..e I.'ltalia. whirb : .;heri for the~ first new-raper aribut the fa:Ilure to the wan. of ary prattial reason for a strike dsay.; th- mr vemnt was -iter-ded ol :*ro the poli-ical and par c'' "r. ambiton of a ser cialist r':P anxiou-s to gain powcr. In ItalY. n wtzer.end. En:. land. one hears no talk r.f war. past or future. Th- war is of the past-a hideous :r'n'y. Put in one hour in Germar-y o: hers talk In which the word V.ar. 'vr. wa or.curs and r' occurs. Vor- D-m Kreiz Nach Dem Kreig. Zit D' Krei. Pictures;c..: Hiiare Guerin. naycr of LaPrair". whr;e pralses are beinu sung along the St. Lawrpnce. for his daring lea ershi; i the rescue of 47, passengers of the Rapid; Pr!nce. which went on the rocks in the lower Lachine rapids. gave this recipe for the making of a hero: "Whisky blanc. pea soup and lots of hard work." Twelve detectives are stationed about the United States embassy to guard the movements of A. Bruce Belaski, who with his wife have been the guests of George T. Surnrnerlin. the Americar. charged dr1'affaires. for Cver a w-e:. Chei Chiung Ming's forces. who are favcrable to the Pc4:Irg republic. have defeatcd the troops of Sun Yat Sen.. the dpoe p;rc-sident of the Canton repuc. Cand driven them from Shiu Chow. 130 iles r.crth of Canton. te a po.nt beyond Chihing. more than 40 mnle- norrheast cf Shiuchow. accord ing to a :n iiven, out at General C "sCantn headquarters. Some -taternent of the American government dealin with the note of the Earl of Bafour. acting . Ertish !ore.2n secretaries concerning allied war debts. is anxiously awaited in reP arations commission circles. where It was said that 'he British cor'm:nica tion ca inte-r-nllied debts would not have the effect of preventine a Fran. Co-British reparation settlement. Washington The attempt to fix by unanimous consent a date for a a voe on the adrninistratior tariff bil! appear d to have been efinitely abandone!. but private negotitI:ons were under way loo'king to at least some cur-.ailment of discussion. Sorre -e. ':cans be lieved these might lead to results but certain democratic senators were un derstood to object to lImitation of de hate until after the sections of the bill dealing with duties on sugar and hides had beer. dispojsed of. woery citizen of the UnitedI States oudhave received 112 ::ers last year of the aggreg ate letter mail which pased thrt-ugh the ;os toffice department was div!ded on a per eapita basis. A statistician in the de. partrgent has estimated that 11.335. 00.000 letters went through the mails last year. Railroad rates on rought rice nmov :ng from Louisiana producing points to TAke CharlEs. Bellevue. Crowley and Iota are unreasonably high as com pared with sirailar rates to New Or leans, the Interstate Commerce comn mission held in ordering the railroad to reduce them by October 23. Acceptance of H:-nry Ford's offer for purchase and lease of the govern. men's vast nitrate and water power projects at M1uscle Shoals. Ala.. was ::reed by reputblican and democratic Senators comprising a minority of the senate arricult!:ral committee in n re rcrt submtitted to the senate. Strong prost was ent red by the sanators againt the acceptance of the cevern mter.: owrorship and o'peration plar. propcosAM by Senator Norris. of No braska. th'a committe.'s chairman. .The renppointment of W. P. G. Hard :ng as envernor of tho federa! reset-ve board will ho announce-i wf-hin a frew days. accc'rdine to authoritativo infor. mnation. At the Camne time the~ -icht> or "dirt farmer" member of th. boardl will be apnointedl. Preser. ntl y&::o favor John M1. Howard. pr.'-< i-n of the An-orican Farm Bureau f'o !-rt an, althotuch former Secretary sf Azricuil ture Houston and Mtilo P. capo) head of the Mfichiran State Da r. men's association, have leen .rromnir. ently mentioned. A reduction of $6.000.000 in the lie dlebt during July was ann -r by the treasury. On July 31. the public dlebt stood at $22. t7 . .t: compared with $22.963.351.7 S cr. J 30, and with S23.771.23;,it "a enJul 31 a year ago. A fleevt of eight coast gu:ard cutters. carrying a personnel of approximatelv~ 600 officers and men. wi:l assemble August 12 at Cold Spring Inlet. N. 3.. a few miles north of Cape M1a'. for. inspection, target practice, drills and exercises which will co'ntinue for a : nleriod of ten dna.I Further go.rnmen01it aci,Ion 'in tbe railroad utrlke wai held in abeyance lhouy'h rail road 'executivesj who refuts. ("! Prieldent Ifarding's Huggestious iror t ir it, vere understood to ha-.-: -(!rI adm1ini1jistratoi agents th t. elorr.ej %%,,:; w itill oliajrn for nego. t :j .in -. it prote.ctlon in Hoeniority st *- i ; - rr-d Iy shopmen who have t work In spit(e of the t ikt r - i b: . :trant':r.d, any basis >r thr! pre ifdent iight find I;air wm(jln t .- i'torably :;nS id by th: uiar:j ?-m' j . it was aild. Tenta tive J';ewJtjia d( ' !,irlng thre day it was add.ed. L d bro ht ,,o innrodiate tan Thr' : tiiil "'erl: situation noW facilng EuroI. d'~; to tlhe furthu:I tum bling of Gct:iar; :nark,', the repara tions aind w!r ribt prob!emns is :Irng studirn2 by P'r::d'r-nt Hlardinig andA Sec The Ladd minrrity re:1.ort upon Muis ce Shoals, recommndjing at'crptance f Henry Ford's offer. in its enirely. will .e suimrit'ed t the sefnate in a few days. Senator Lard announces. C. E. Guice, se-retary of the .nited States section of the inter-Anerica high co'jmmissicn, says Euroi.caa interests are realizing the imxortance of Vene zuela as an oil .enter. Domestic Estimated daily average gTos crude oil production Increased 1.5 barrels. totaling 1.509.150 barrels for the week ended. July 29. compared with 1.4.4.500 barrels for the previous week. accordin !c the weekly sum mary of the American Petroleum In. st!tu te. The Stan-'ard Oil company. of New Jcrsey. anrourced a reduction of two cerits a gallon -in the lrice of gaso !r One of the largest sprees in his tory was attributed to a former bar tender. Auust De'.erinz. by his wife. Rose. who tcld a Broo':lyn magistrate her husband cot drunk the day pro hibicmo. went ir.to effect and had bpen drunk ever since. Mrs. Mary Catherine Clark who, accordinL- to a .olice announcement. AS cor.-S-ei that she shot and fatal. ly -:rder her husband. Edward Ck '.ieman, wIll be called to arcs :c- a charze of murder in po. hice r:-7. mphis. Tenn.. Is was W-------:--ace efforts npp-rently ale. h third day of street car :nrkc fou nd Chicago's erstwhile strap. aners still good naturedly perched :n pack!nz boxes in solid tired motor trucks. crowded into "jitneys" or walk ing long distances to steam :rains The crowding, waiting and inconven lence seemed to grow less as the pub lie became more and more accustomed to doing without electric transporta tion. Seven secreta indictment involvln! six rr.-ente of Jackson county wer< returr.d in the circuit court at Jac' sonville b:. the secial and j.ury se ilcted to investigate alle:d Ku Kiu: Klan otmraZes in southern Orezon. M'ddlc. and northwest statec will b, practically without coal within thirt: days unless prevailing condition change. This is the gist of repor to the UnIted States News from Mir nesota. Wisconsin. Michigan. Indiana Illinois and Iowa. The controlling interest in the Sttt Motor Car company was obtained b: Georse L. Burr of the Guaran:y Trus company when he bought 111.614. shares at $2(n a share at the auctio: of Alle-- A. Ryan comparny's collatera, Businese failures for July totalle, 1.6 a drop of 5.3 per cer.: from th Jume fizures an-d 42 per cernt fror: those for the peak month of Januarys Th22. Bradstreet's retported. United States Senator William F Crow died at his country home in thI m~ountains near Uniontown, Pa.. rc cent Iy. The American Terhon~e a.nd TeIa graph cornanv announced tha: ever orne of i:s 13.:n0.000 telepho~nes in United States~ and Canada woutld c a. f0. o.;r mute, when the bcr ov Alexanqler Graham ll. inven.tor c' the t e ph 'no, will se 1t-wore t t the grave h--- selected on the cre- r Beinn Breash muountape. Nova S ce-l Heavy price re-hiection on Stude baker. Chandle-r. ar.d Nash mo:or car: have been arnnounc.:.d. The New York Mlasonic grand lodgs has sent representatives to Finland 't< constitute the first Masonic lodge I, the h'erublic of Finland. Enoch W. Hansen and family of 4: -children. .grarndchildre-n and sreat erandlchilren-from~ Plaec:o. I .he are camping in Yelows:orne Nat'cera park. It tooek eight atutomobi>es convey the famtilf. flailwav exerttivct of the r.a:tcr In s'ession in New Yo--rk'5. c*r deut's anfrryr.:-dth pseoi Hoo~ver. the prespir.'s er : tv the'. veted. 'r icl' uv.......'y. to reject the t:r.ajunedt and went home. they sd. to run th railroads. Full acce:tance of the p-ace pra. posals subt.te cd by Pres i lent Hlarding was voted ly Iealers of thc striking railway shopn: r., who, however gave heir own int'-rrretation of each of 'sthree s':czestions. Joahn Tay:: r. claim agent for the -nhhville. Chattanooga and St. Loir~s - iroad is dead. and Dr. B A Deak 3.former county phys ician, and Billy .nrks, wel2-known citizen. are at the hospitals in a serio~ls condItion, as the result of a sensational gun battle In East Chattanooga. With only a tiny photograph to back der great determination.. Miss Mary stapleton. from Liverpool. England, 16 years old, has started to comb the L'nited States in an effort to locate 'er father who has been missing four 'ears. 1Pat.Procfes0 140hic Baby Carrages &rprniture Ask 'our Local Dealer Write Now for 32-Page Illustrated Booklet The IJoyd Manufacturing Company (Heywood-wM eu Co.) Dept. E Menominee, Michigan (19) arettes They are GOOD! 10* 4 Buy this Cigaretft andSave Money Qualified Criticism. Btty iS a tltbe suithrn b-a.uty in spirit as well as in b"ody. . .way sh fn is i t - i lvalile in ever t. i and everyb!y !Tnd if !-he carj.nbt Say kindi thins sh siwaks nt at al. It wae ld ,nd r,%w- wh n sie visie il n.. go rer-titly. Vith her aunt an] Tm'th er shie sit at a luia-heoi tahb: in the 1oo11. *My iir.ds are terrilbly eaid.'' said mother. "It's tln 1.ad the weather sh-'ui'd 1t, so hily."thenunt agretel. Ptt.with uvten a v4..1 w,,rd for Z, hAd Chi-aga Iy'. Lelp u; her hiandl. at smil.e. Tfheni hot,'iy con;..-!!M. hen tii ad-"jel~t a little ariund the "Touching." The miniter .reahod tilIe moef touohilng serm.n I wver board.' - "Hw ur1111h di he rai. A TRUE RAT STORY Stea-r.. E:eti .. C. Ch~c &ago. 111. Mr. R obert T. Do.e:! Cf Auburr~ew-n. Ter.r... c& .e :in ourtt si :e thi- cL~he dar a~aan' t ed : thingi o~ '-:.: ri.:s, so 'I sold~ hi.rn a bo Stea,:-s Ra.i Poe. And h e put some pate c-. s~ heu:- that he iutso~ut four n-.:re ris:u:t'. w.th paste con them, and the s'rn cr:n he fourd sever.t,-r. m~e rr.is. marr.g a total of eve~ty-.~e a~s:ntwo r.gh . andi thee were 3:.'.s rr.:re :hat he d: no.t Erd This is e:::;e bi rat tae bur.vr the aar. it as -:. 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