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TONIA DAILY OA Weather - Unsettled Local Cotton 22 Cents VOL. XLIII. NO. 168 GASTONIA, N. C.f SATURDAY AFTFERNOON, JULY 15, 1922 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS i GAS u-4 1 BIG CROWD OF FARMERS HEAR JERSEY CATTLE EXPERTS LECTURE HERE Crowd Numbered .130, All of hom But Half Dozen Were Farmer. PICTURES ARE SHOWN Leonard Dunk and' Prof. Ruff- ner Speak On the Jer sey Breed. .LieouaM uunk, nem extension mnn for the American Jersey Breeders Club, ana vrol. it. ll. Ruffner of the A. & M. College at Raleigh, were Leard by a crowd of 130, all but la If a dozen of ; whom- were farmers from various sec tions of the county, Friday night at the Gastonia Chamber of Commerce audi toriutn when they spoke on the Jersey cow. Ihrough the courtesy of Man ager bstridge, of tho Gastonian thea ter, two reels of moving pictures brought with them were shown in the hall. Prof. Ruffner, who is well known in Gaston as he has spoken in tho county : before, and vps be judged tho dairy stock at tho Big Gaston County Fair in 1921, was tho first speaker, being presented by Chairman V. T. Rankin of the farm relations committee of the Chamber of Commerce, under whose auspices the meeting was held. Prof, Kuffner gave a very interesting address on the Jersey breed iu North Carolina as well -as in general. Ho referred to the wonderful results of the work in this lino at the college, resulting-now in tho fact that out of six gold medal cows in America owned by similar colleges, thrco arc owned by the North Carolina institution. His ad dress was illustrated by forty slides, all of which pictured Jerseys giving their weight or over in butter fat in a year. His talk. was very greatly ap preciated. Mr. Dunk spoke before tho showing of the movies, explained some of the pictures as they were shown, and spoke briefly afterward. His address dealt wtih the extensive work of the Ameri can Jersey Breeders Club in promoting the breed over tho country nnd then stressed - Jersey superiority, weight for weight. His address was very interest ing and was listened to with deep in terest: Both speakers iwid high tribute to the high standing of the live stock department .of ho liig (Jasou County Fair. - Chairman Rankin, presented at the first by Executive Secretary Fred M. Allen, who explained the functioning of the new farm relations committee, spoke briefly of the Chamber of Commerce, of its efforts to build up tho county at well as the city and urged that the fatmers ' use',' tho organization, calling upon it for 'cooperation when any need arises. Ho then referred to the boll weevil fight and the fact that tho com mittee will secure the munitions or war for the farmer at', wholesale; eost if the farmers' merely indicate that they want it and will' take it ouT promptly. Upon behalf of the gathering Air. Rankin expressed appreciation for the splendid addresses-given by the visitors. Mr. C. Craig Kiser, president of the Gaston County Jersey Breeders Asso ciation, and Mr. Thomas Sparrow, vice president, were each introduced to the audience. Cigars were enjoyed by the crowd. Mr. John Arey, who is making the schedule over tho state as a member of the party, could not be in Gastonia ow ing to tho fact that ho was called back to Raleigh Friday. LOCAL FIRMS GET BIG r OHTRACTS IN VIRGINIA A. H. Guion & Company and Michael & Bivens Land 'Jobs In South Hill, Va. .$90,000 Job. A, 1L, Guion and Company, loeai plumbing contractors, have been award ed the contract recently for the installa tion of va complete sewer, water, and light plant in the city of South Hill, Virginia. The entire cost will be be tween ninety and ninety-five thousand dollars. Five miles of sewer line will be laid, four miles of water mains, and an up to date lighting plant is to be erected. A. H. Guion and Company have sublet the lighting job to Michael and Bivens, local' electrical engineers. Work at South Hill has already got ten under way and the contractors expect to have it finished by Oetolier 15, 1922. The money for the installment of the system was raised by a bond issue float ed by the city of South Hill. South Hill is located seventy miles northeast of Danville, on the Danville-Norfolk branch of the Southern Railway. Several flour and planing mills arc iu the city. It is also ? large tobacco market. COTTON MARKET CLOSING BIDS ON THE , NEW YORK MARKET yu;y io. coiton iu- tures ciosed steady; sjiots quiet, un-J changed. July 22.38; October 22.4fi; December 22.30; January 22.00 i March 21.90; ; May 21.65; spots 22.65 TODAY'S COTTOK MARKET Receipts . . -. none Price ottered 22 rents A""-?- -s '- : Mrs, Albert Meadows, A Pretty - - Youny Widow, Victim Of Brutal Murder Caused By Jealousy Mrs. Clara Phillips Used Ham mer to eBat Life Out of Victim. WHERE WAS PHILLIPS? Mrs. Peggy Coffee's Testimony to Grand Jury Is Enough for Warrant. (By The Associate! Press.) LOS ANGELES, July 15. Wherea bouts of Mrs. Albert A. Meadows, on the night before she was the victim of what has become known locally as the "Stone Age Murder" because is was accomplish ed with a hammer and a rock, and where A. L. Philips, husband of the woman ac cused of the crime, spent the night, were subjects of inquiry today, according to announcement by Deputy Sheriffs work ing on tho case. Mrs. l eggy Caffee, upon whose testi mony tho Los Angeles county grand jury returned an indictment charging murder against Mrs. tiara Phillips, now held at Tucson, Ariz., declared that the night before she accompanied Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Meadows on a ride in Mrs. Meadow's automobile to the lonely hpot, where the young widow's body was found Wednesday evening, she and Mrs. Phillips made a secret visit to Mrs. Mea dows apartment and that Mrs. Meadows, was not at home. Mrs is said by her husband to have told him before her hurried departure on the trip to El Paso that ended in her being taken from the train at Tucson, that sho killed Mrs. Meadows because of jealousy, which he asserted, was unwar ranted. And, according to the story of Mrs. Caffee, who was present during the alleg. ed slaying, Mrs. Phillips accused Mrs. Meadows of having been intimate with her husband, and of having accepted presents from the oil promoter. Phillips has declined to say whero be spent last Tuesday night. Relatives and friends of the dead wo man, wht) was only twenty years old, and had' been a widow only a few months, rallied to her defense and as serted that any aspersions on her char acter and reputation had basis only on "idle gossip." The coroner announced tho inquest over Mrs. Meadows' body would be held Monday. Phillips has been detained as a materi al witness and will be held as such, ac cording to the sheriff's office, at loasi until his wife is brought back to Ca fornia. Mrs. Caffee was permitted to go affc she had testified before thOMjrand jury Mrs. Phillips, who is 23 years old, is said to have, hud a brief experienco with a comedy motion picture company as "a bathing girl." She also has been employ ed as a chorus girl. Mrs. Caffee said she was also a former chorus girl. Mrs. Caffee went to tho scenes of the slayins yesterday and shoyed officers ex act spots where she said the argument and ensuing struggle between the two women took place. "After Mrs. rhillirs began ' striking Mrs. Meadows with the hammer," said Mrs. Caffee, "the girl was asking me to help her out and I went toward her. I was right infront of the girl. And Mrs. Phillips came toward me. I don't know whether alio was meaning to hit me but 6he called out to me 'Get out of my way. AH this girl said was 'i,a(iy save me.' I didn't hear her say any thing else. That was gefore sho fell down. I started down the hill. And when I got down there I looked back and I saw, Mrs. Phillips hitting her then and the blood on this hammer and on her arm I haw the blood saf her hitting, and I sort of cried out 'Oh! ' to myself, Oh, Clara.' "Sho didn't say much when I got back in the girl's car. I saw the blood on her arms and sho said: 'Wipe my faco off,' and I took my handkerchief and did it. " ' Mrs. Phillips said anybody that can take my husband away from me." and sho said I can do that again.' And then she calmed down and pretended to mo she wasn't afraid of anything. But I was pretty afraid of her. ' "She had the hammer in the car. And her silk, white gloves, were all full of blood and she took mine and put them ou her arms. And there was blood all over her face, and arms and dress and shoes and stockings fV V U:u:e1"- 1 ir'ZS.Zl .. i , w -r.l - ' uuv n ai n-r out; nut. iiio au onv i n it and went as fast as ever she could down the hill and way down along the car line on the street there, and kept on until she came to her. hnmf. She I 0I lidn t brig me home. She let me at Fignroa and Pico streets.' "What did she wr to you before she let you out anything f 'T asked W. C Doran, chief denutv district attornev. "Before," answered Mrs.. Caffee, when I was up there and started down the hill, she said she was hollering- to me 'If you say any'thine I will kill you.' That was when I was running dowa ine inn, oecause 1 got sick frnt Hli'lr ' ftt-in.lincr there and sort of fell over against a wall." Mrs. Caffee told the grand jury hei parents, whose names were not stated, lived "in the east, near Philadelphia," The foreesof Collins, as we under stand it, are pledged to the cause, of Irish freedom. Under these circum stances, a clash with the O'Connor fac tion, which stands for the freedom of Ireland, was inevitable. New Yrk Tribune. Passage of Bonus to Follow the Tariff ABERDDEEN, Wash., July 15. The tariff bill pending in the senate will pass when Congress resumei work after the recess and its pas sage will be followed by the adop tion of tht soldiers' bonus bill, ' ac cording to Representative J. W. Fordney, of tho bouse ways and means committee, who is here on business and to visit relatives. The tariff bill will not be greatly modi fied by the senate, Mr Fordney predicted. He expressed confidence that President Harding would end the 'railroad strike in quick fashion. He reaffirmed' his intention to retire from Congress at the close of the present session. HONEYWELL WILL FLY LOW IN BIG AIR RACE Hopes to Win International Balloon Race Starting From Geneva, Switzerland, By Hugging the Earth. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 14. II. E. Honeywell, pilot of tho "Uncle Sam," one of the thrco American entrants in tin. International balloon race for tho Goi don Ben net Cup, starting from Geneva, Switzerland, August 6, hopes to win first honors by flying as low as possible and staying in tho air longer than other en trants, tehreby making moro distance. Expecting to . land in Russia, Capt. Honeywell said his plan of flight proba bly would be different from that of most of his opponents iu the race, which is the fourth international event he has entered. "Othei entrants probably will, fly over the Alps," he continued, "and the altitude necessary to accomplish this will greatly shorten their time in the air, and their distance. A balloon which flics over the Alps cannot stay in the air more than 24 hours. "I expect to get out of Switzerland either through tho Rhone Valley to the South or through the Rhine Valley on the Xortb. I want to fly as low as pos sible keeping always below 8,001) feet if I can manage it and will be able therefore to remain in the uir perhaps as long as 48 hours. "If I find it necessary to cross any mountains, I may have to rise to 18000 feet or more, but this 1 hope to avoid If my plans go as I expect, I will lanu in Russia." 'During his career aa a balloonist, Honeywell declared ho lias made nearlly 600 flights, having participated in moro than a score of races in. which he al ways has ranked high in honors. He holds many distance and endurance trophies, and probably has the experience of flying in more parts of the world than any other balloonist. Probably his most adventcrous flight was in tho international race from Stutt gart, Germany in 11)12. Ho flew l,:55o miles and lauded in Russia, 10 miles west of Moscow. His balloon was torn to pieces and used for clothing by the peasants and be was held by the Russian authorities for almost a week suspected of being a spy. Tho American consul effected his release. Then, again in 1920 ho covered moro than 1,000 miles winning the American race from Birm ingham. Ho landed in Canada. If Honeywell should be successful in winning the race from Geneva he will ob tain possession of the Gordon Bennett Cup, a silver trophy, which lie retains until tho next international race. Tho country whose entrant wins has tho priv ilege of fixing tho place and date of the race for tho following year. Honeywell is 4!) years old and served in both the Spanish American and the world war. He was an official of a bal loon manufacturing concern until the United States government took over the manufacture of balloons and the com pany went out of business. His wife ami daughter aecompanieu nioi to ueneva to see th start of the race. SALVATION ARMY OFFICERS HERE FOR THE WEEK-END The Salvation Army of Gastonia is !WI favored over the week-end with the presence of their divisional commander, Col. Joseph Atkinson, of Atlanta, ami Ensign Satterfield, of Spartanburg, S. C. Colonel Atkinson will conduct the fol lowing meetings: Saturday 7' I. M. at the depot, at P. M. corner Main and Marietta; Sunday 11, A. M. holiness meeting in the army hall, at 4 P. M. fct the depot, at 8 P. M. a meeting will be held in the Salvation Army hall. Everybody is cordially invited to at tend all of these meetings. Especial emphasis is laid on the 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. services Sundayl NEXT WEEK'S WEATHER. WASHINGTON'. July 13. Weather outlook for the wek bginning Monday: Middle Atlantic States: Generally" fair weather with temperature of some what above normal, but with a proba bility of scattered thundcrshowerg the Utter part of the week. South Atlantic and East Gulf Statsi Scattered showers and thundershowers and normal temperature. There are no indications at this time of a disturbance in the Wj?t Indies, I s Daredevil Duke lb. -7 Y : The' Duker LeinstwTwW"" 115.000 bet last week by driving aa auto from London to Aberdeen In record time. Now he says he it ioo a to engage in " a ' novel . rara as the Atlantic." COMMUNITY SERVICE ' .WANTS DRAMATIC TALENT y. - .. : All Thoe Who Have Ability Along Dramatic Lines Are Requested to Report to Mr. Mahaffey for Directions. Girls an.l boys, here is your chanco t develop into a Sarah Bernhardt or a Mary Pickford to say nothing of Rich ard Mansfield or Doug 1'aribanks. Have you talent along any lino that would amuse or entertain other people. If so report at tho earliest .possible mo ment toiMr. J. P. Mehaffy, the Com munity Organizer, at tlio Chamber of Commerce rooms and tell him what it is you can do pr hero in your chance to help entertain a lot of folks and have a fine time yourself by getting into the Community Service Dramatic Festival which Is to be held nt t lie open air Theater:', on the Playground ou tho even ing of Thursday July 27th with real scenery, a front curtain, footlights, grease paint and all the rest of it. Here is just a suggestion as to some of tho things that you might be able, to do by yourself : sing a song, tell u story, give a monologue, 'play a musical instru ment, Clog ' dance, recite, Polk dance, gymnastics, or just plain act. There will also bo plenty of chances for groups of youngsters to help in this big comuuity entertainment. If you aro a member of some club or organization or 'have a few particular friends who can all do something with you, such as sing or dance or play different musical instruments or can work up some little dranintie, '.now-is tho time to come for ward ami let other folks" enjoy .is as well as yourselves lor this- is going to be a niglit anil it is going to belong to tho children of Gastonia and their friends no one else admitted. If you cannot act or liavo no ability along other lines we can use you if you want to help as wo need everyone we can get to lieln us in tho painting of scenery, electrical work, poster making, decorat ing the grounds, making and designing of costumes, etc. ect. Do not be afraid that everyone ewo on the program will In- better than you are because everyone else will be trying just as hard as you are to entertain. Everyone will be accorded the same chance to make good, and the same help from Mr. George Junkin, the dramatic coach, who is down here to help you make as god an impression us possible. A "trv-out" or preliminary rehearsal will lie announced later. Henry Ford's By Senate Committee 9 to 7 (By The Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, July 15. Henry Fords offer for purchase and lease of the Government's projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala., was rejected by the Senate Agrt- ultural Committee today by a vote or 9 to 7. Those voting for rejection were Sena tors oms. l'ace, (by proxy), AlOary, Keyes, Gooding, Norbeck, Harreld Mc- j Kinlev all IScpublicnns, and feenutor Kendrick, Dcmoerat, Wyoming. Those oting for favorable rejwirt were Senator Capper, and Ladd, IJepublicanl, ami Smith, R.tndell, Harrison, Heflin and Caraway, Democrats. The bill introduced by Chairman Xor- ris calling for operation of the projects owned ami controlled crporatin also was rejected, the vote being 9 to 5. Voting for rejection were Senators Capper, Keves, Ladd, Smith, Ransdell, Kandrick, Harrison,, Heflin. and Caraway, and fot aeci-ptenee were Xoris, McXary, Gooding Norbeck and McKinley. The other offers including thosp of the Alabama Power Company, Frederick L'. Engstrum, and Charles) L. Parsons, a?so were rejected without a record vote. The committe a'xo voted down without a se- cord vote the bill introduced by Senator! Norrig at request of former Representos tive Lloyd, f Missouri, proposing a semi governmental corporation. Despite the adverse votes the propo sals of Hnry Fori and Senator Norri will be repn'-niCtl to the Senate for final decision through minority report, it was explained by Chairman Xorris. Senator Ladd, Republican, North Da kota, who introduced the Wright bill calling for unconditional acceptance of the lord offer, was authoriied by the lomuuttre t.9 submit peg puuority n- STRIKE SITUATION GIVES PROMISE OF APPROACH TO SETTLEMENT IF " BOTH SIDES WOULD YIELD LITTLE Work Authorizes Use Trucks For Transportation Mails Motor Transportation to Be Used Between Bedford Switzer City, Indiana Mail Trains Are Annulled. WASniXGTOX, July 15. Inaugu-1 ration of tho use of motor trucks to transport the mails due to tho inability ' of railroads to move mail matter on ac-1 count of the shopmen's strike was an-! nounced . today by Postmaster General J Work, who said it had been determined j to uso motor transportation between i Bedford 'and 8witz City, Indiana, be-j tween which two points nj mail trains ! had been annulled. Postal Inspector Harris at Atlanta,! notified tho department today that trains 15 and 16 operating between i Savannah and Montgomery and trains 17 and 18 running betweeu Columbus and Albany would bo discontinued to day to conserve power, but that trains generally throughout tho division in that section of tho country wcra operating without interference. CAR REPAIRERS ATTACKED BY BAND OF MEN (By The Associated Press.) AUGUSTA Ga., July 15 William, Quinti, car rcparicr at Campania, 21 miles from here on the Georgia Kailroad, is in Augusta today to try to locate a band of men whom he said attacked him while he was at work at Campania yesterday. Quitiii told Sheriff J. T. rilunkett. that two automobile loads of men, whom ho beleived to be striking shopmen, from Augusta, visited him at Campania wliilo he was nt work, and that after he had held four of them off with a pistol the men returned to their cars and began firing nt him. with pistols. The Georgia Railroad, nccordtng to Qninn, has cmploytl nil men to guard him day and night, thn guard working eight hour shifts in pairs. ONE MANSHOT. 'Bv The Associated I'ress.) SCHANTO.V, PA., July 15. One mnn was shet nnd slightly injured in connection with tho shopmen's strike at Carbondale, sixteen miles north of hero, early today. He is Joseph Walker, a citizen, who was on his way homo when ho was fired upon, it is alleged, by new workmen quartered in n foundry of tho Delaware & Hudson Kail road Com pany. The police claim 14 allots were fired at Walker and eight other young men. An hour later a crowd gathered and nttempted to break into tho state armory to get guns. Ono door had been forced ojon when polico arrived and di sin-rued tho crowd'. Later tho situation was such that deputies were rounded up and sent to the scene of tho trouble. MINERS'S UNION REJECT PRES. HARDING'S OFFER (By Tho Associated I'ress) WASHINGTON, July 15. (By The Associated I'ress.) Members of the general 'policy committee of the miners' union, the body haying full power to decide for till of the coal workers now on strike in the bituminous fields and on work suspension in the anthracite fields, held a two hour ses sion today, during which John L. Lewis, president of tho organization, recommended that President Harding's arbitration propositi fur strike settle ment bo unqualifiedly rejected. . Offer Rejected port urging the Senate's acceptaneo of the Ford propositi. The second minority report will bo Ira f ted for tho Senate by Senator Norris proposing his bill for develop ment of tho shoais properties' by the proposed government owned and con trolled corporation. Senator Ladd taid he would begin preparation of his report at once and he believed it would be endorsed by Senator Capper, and all Democratic members with the exception of Senator Kendrick. HARDWARERS BEAT GASTONIA SCORE, 7-2 The fast Standard Hardware ball club defated the net Gastonia nine yesterday afternono at Lonty Ball Park .by a score of 7 'to 2. The game proved to bo snappy and interesting to the small crowd that assembled inside the pales of the orchard to pay homago to their favorite. The features of the game was a home run by Robinson, same being poled oat on the first pitched ball of the game. Boyd, on -the mound for the winners, pitched good ball, allowing the Bi State leaugers but four well scattered binglcs. Only seven scenes were held, by agree mnt. Ccce by innings: R H E Standard Hdw 302 000 27 9 2 Gastonia ...... OJl) 000 02 4 3 Butterii'8--Boyd and Clemmer; Willi ams, Bumgardiirr and Harrell. Strawberries arrive on the New York market at the rate of two to three hun. dred cars a week during May, the Uni ted States Department of Agriculture reports. The shipments from all pro-j From what wejiear of the ex-kaiser's-ducing sections filled alwwt 3.000 cars u jbook, he knows more about fighting than week. and May Issue Strike Order to Maintenance of Way Employes NEW YORK, July IS. Prediction that E F Grable, president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Wsy Employes and Railway Shop Workers, would issue a strike order to the 400,000 men of his union "at any hour" was made today by Wil liam Parker, leader of the New York Central maintenance of way men, and president of the union's asso ciation of eastern chairmen. BUDGET OF LIVE NEWS ITEMS FROM BELMONT (By Mrs. Adelaide 8. Beard.) Presiding Elder Jordan To Open East Belmont Church Sunday. Revival Ser cvies will Feature Week In Life Ol New Church. Rev. Reinhard and Mrs. Steidley To Preach. Rev. H. II, Jordan, presiding elder ot tho Shelby District, will conduct the opening services at the East Belmont Methodist church Sunday morning when the handsome rrew church will be used for tho first time. Mr. Jordan will preach at tho 11 o'clock kervice in the morning- and also at the cvning service at H o'clock. Rev. C. L. WSlkinson, pastor of tho church, expects to begin tho work in his new house of worship by conducting a revival service the first week that it Is in use. Rev. D. H. Reihn&rdt, of Bostic, and Mrs. C. L. Steidley, of Gastonia, will 'both Ims here to do the preaching and Mrs. Steidley will also have charge of the music. Services will bo hold twice daily, at 7:.'10 in the morning for the benefit of t lie night hands in tho mills nnd at eight each evening. Quarterly Conference At Main Street Church Sunday Afternoon Rev. Thompson To Begin Vacation Next Week Rev. II. II. Jordan will conduct Union Quarterly Conference for the Main street and tiust Belmont Methodist Churches Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock ut tho Main Street Church. Thero will bo no night service at this church. The congregation will worship at tho East Belmont Church Sunday night. Rev. J. E. Thompson will leave next week to spend his vacation of two weeks and there will be no services at this church until the first Sunday in Auguht. Mr. Thompson will go to Luko Juna- luska ami will also visit a daughter in High Point and a sister in Greensboro during his absenco from town. Mad Dog Still at Large All Dogs Ordered to Be Kept Up. Tho mad dog that created such an excitement here Thursday night has so far eluded tho eoplc out after it aud has not as yet been killed. Tho dog went all over all tho mill villages, ac cording to tho reports given the police and a number of dogs were bitten. Fifteen or more animals havo already Wen killed that were thought to have lieen expose dand requests have como in to th polico for them t otake a good many more. A warning has been issued to all dog owners to keep them up until the danger of their going mad has passed. Belmont needs aa ordinance prohibiting all dogs from running loose o the streets and especially at this time of year when the danger from mad dogs is so great, as large numbers of dogs are allowed to run wild on tho streets, When last seen the mad dog had crossed over into Mecklenburg about eBatie's Ford, and thus got away from the police and others hunting it. The report was current Friday that it came back over ho river about noon, bnt so far nodefinito word of its last where abouts has been given the officers. Fire Department Makes Record Run. Trial Call. The firr deportment was given a trial call Thursday evening and resiondcd in record time. A bonfire was started on the outskirts of town and the alarm turned'iu without the knowledge of the inemliers of tho firo department to give the boys a tryout with the new firo engine. The firemen were on the scene of the fire in five minutes and as the boys all had to gather from their Jiomes this is considered splendid time. Some difficulty was experienced in getting the hose to work right, but such prac tice as this will soon get the boys fa miliar with all their hre figting appa ratus. Belmont Boys at Pike's Peak. Cards from Henry Lineberger and F. P. Hall, Jr., from Pike's Peak have lieen received, the boys having climbed the famous hill during their sojourn at Colorado Springs, They spent the past week at this famous resort, having taken a cottage for a stay there to break the trip they are taking to Cali fornia. According to last reports they expected ' to leave there Tuesday and to make the trip to Los Angeles in 14 days. Jwrifing. -And b lt the wr4 Rail Executives and , Strike) Leaders Move to Opposite j Rooms at Hotel. - ' PEACE OFFER WILTED Postal Authorities Take Steps to Transport Mails By Aircraft. -1 CHICAGO, July 15. (By tho Asso ciated i'ress.) The peace dove, which yesterday flitted between separato gath ering fo railroad executives and lead ers of the striking shop crafts, today bore a somewhat wilted olive branch which Ben W. Hooper, chairman 'of tho Railroad Labor Board, hopefully tried, to freshen. Mr. Hooper announced he had en countered "fundamental" difficulties in his efforts to bring about peace, bnt, j with more parleys in prospect, tho sit- uuwuu Knv promise oi a new approacn to a settlement, or to at least ncgoia tions through which an agreement might be reached to meet on common ground. Rail execuives and strike leaders moved close enough together to meet in opposite rooms at a hotel, where Mr. Hooper was inconvenienced in his peace mission, Neither side, however, nutdo enough concessions to provide substan tial optimism. E. F. Grable, president of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Railway Shop Laborers, who faced rebellion in the Tanks of his organization, left Chicago for Washing ton with the avowed intention of fight ing every move of the "red flag" ele ment in the ranks. Ho declared that no striko action by maintenance men would bo sanctioned by him unless the mo aro "coerced" into it by railroads attempting to force maintenance men to perforin duties usually dono by shop men now on strike. Mr. Grable went to Washington to confer with Presi dent Harding on the threatened walkout by common labor on the roads. , The encouragement in Mr, Grable'a attitude was partly offset, however, by tho strike call for stationary firemen," engineers and oilers who were author ized by thexr international president, Timothy Healy, to walk off thebr jobs next Monday. Disorders in connection with the striko were largely confined to the south aud southwest. While President Harding and his cabinet discussed tho rail and coal ' strikes, iwstal authorities took prelimi- nary steps to transport mail by com mercial aircraft, power bouts and motor cars if rail sevico becomes hampered (to the point that the mails are seriously threatened. i Samuel Gompers, at Washington, de clared tho American Federation Of La bor stands squarely behind the striking railway shopmen. i Congressman Ciddick, at Livingston, Mont., declared to newspapermen tha Congerss ultimately will intervene in tho rail strike. "Chen tho striko starts to tie up traffic, Congress will bo forced to in-' tervene, " he assorted . Members of tho American Federation of Railroad Workers at Cleveland voted to join tho shopmen's strike next Mon day, according to officials of the union. The organization, it was said, has no connection with the American Federa tion of Labor, but has a membership of 90,000. Approximately 1,200 pipe fitters, coach and car repairers, painters,, and inspectors will bo affected, it was said. . ' United States mails in New Jersey wero transported under protection of federal marshals. New workers employed in the Mis souri Pacific shops at Wichita, Kans., notified President Harding and the Railroad Labor Board that the work men had formed a new union and asked for recognition by the government. Additional injunctions restraining strikers from interfering wtih railroad operations wero granted to oads at va rious point shy federal courts. Several trains on the Sealtoard Air Line were added to the growing list of annullmcnts. Pock oierator9 at Cleveland predicted a tie-up of some of the Great Lakes shipping within tlie next few days be cause of tho rail strike and a shortage of coal for lake Rteamers. Railroads have begun to withdraw their solicitors from from the peach an melon districts of Georgia, accord ing to reports from Macon. Shippers declared that in their opinion there would Ik? no melons shipped outside of Georgia by the end of another week, if the strikes continues. Wrecks increased railroad troubles. Jake Herman, an expressman, wna kill ed and seven passengers were injured when a Goulf, Colorado and Santa Fe passenger train was wn-ckod near Wharton. Texas. Spreading rails are believed to have caused the wn-k. C. J Stoner, a fireman, was killed and five other trainmen were injured when two freights on the St. Louis San Francisco system crashed bo.vloa at a bridge over Center Creek, urar Joplin, ' Mo. Confused orders, rail officials de clared was responsible. Fire iasengers and the bggniastr were injured in a wreck n-ar Saluda, N". C. A runaway "helper" locomo tive, used on the Saludj mountain t L in, ma hcadon into a pam-cngt-r train. THE WEATHER i Mostly cloudy wit Wt -V niht r .Siinil