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FTT A DAILY 'GAZETTE Local Cotton 21 CENTS VOL. XLIII. NO. 193 GASTONIA, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 15, 1922 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS Weather Cloudy - - . THE MANUFACTURE OF . FERTILIZER iS ONE OF FOSD'S BIGGEST AIMS . So Declares Cray Silver, Of American Farm Bureau, In Report To Congress. VOULD MAKE NITROGEN Silver Declares This Is One Of Most Important" Provis- ions In Ford Offer. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. Replying to criticism by Henator llarreld, of Oklahoma, and other members of Con gress, that Henry Ford in his proposed contract for taking, over the Muscle Shoals pro joe t, does not ' guarantee to manufacture ferlilizor, Cray Silver, .- Washington representative of tho Amcr icjin Farm Bureau, Federation, today wrote tln-m, callingutteiitiiiji to svetion 15 of tbo Ford offer, w'Jiich hi' iiotes as stating that "tho manufacture, sale and distribution of 'commercial ferti lizers constitute one of -the principal "considerations of tliU offer. V Mr, Bilver declared thin the .'most important provision in tlio contract and one the violation of .which: provides for the institution of proceedings ly tho "attorney general to cam-el the en I ire lease. ' "Not only does Mr,, Ford guarantee to manufacture fertilizer but ho states that he will make 40.0m tons of nitro gen, equal to one filth of Sntr total annual consumption in fertilizer, ami he will do no with "the most eeiioinicnl power available,'" continues Mr. Sil ver's letter. ;"The failure to make S per eeut profit, or the failure to make nay profit, or the inability to manufacture this' fer tilizer lit less than it is sold is not a 'cause Itcyond , ts control,' and would not give him the right t cease the manufacture of the full u mount of fer tilizer. "Mr. Ford's proposal is 'to nianu faeture nitrogen ana other coiumctt '.al . fertilizers, mixed fir unmixed, find with or without tiller, according to demand. ' , 'Other commercial fertilizers must' in clude phosphate or potasji fertilizer in gredients, as 'distinguished' from nitro gen commercial fertilisers..' Mr. .Ford will not fulfill, his contract- if he does not produce ther fer.fi I ii materials, suen as piasu aim- piiosi imtcs "The methods of proihieitig -pwisphale fertilizers are well known,'' tim letter concludes, "and the source of material is within 40 miles of the Muscle Shoals plant in the Tennessee phosphate fields, and there are great po,s,ibi lilies in the production of potash from pot ash shale by tho use of the elect rie furnace ami from other substances.'' FOUR-YEAR COilHSE F0.1 , HIGH SCHOOLS ADOPTED Minimum Requirement Of 15 , Units For Entrance To All ' N. C. Colleges Kow Given At County High Schools. At the lajjt inciting of flip county Jtij-h school ollicials, a four -.year our.se was is offered the girln in Home KVoitoieies. its equal must be-'jessed by every hiii school student who wishes to gradual-' .from schools in Gaston -county. As, fif teen units are required by all hiate col leges of students who wish to enter any college in North Carolina -"""the above schedule should be of tmn-h interest to nl students and their parents who 'de sire to finish their high school sourse i'.t a class A University or college. The state university has recognized the Gaston county high heboid .standards and Jias congratulated the principals and su perintendents upon the' high standing they ore taking in better ed. leaf i on. Gas ton pupils are accepted by the university and N. CV College for Women as the deans of theso inst itui ions kliow that lo u cal schools send'ont no pupil as a r.i Li ate unless he is well prepared to pursue a higher education. English is required of all student4. Four years of grammar, 'literaturt-, and composition are taught.- Hisiory must be studied m least, uiree years, witn a'coars-; in civics offered the fourth yt'v.r. AI-, gerjra mrougn progressions- is inc.nt iit years. . (Vooim-try, both s-ditl nu I jt'ane is offered th junior and sen iff e:irj of the high school. In modern languages French and Spanish is allowed to b substituted for l-atin. A two year cour.-w is offered the girlj n Home J-Vuimmu The boys are given a two year twiin-c: cial course. . . The following is the standard adopted and number of units each '"'course- U worth : Subject: English History European, American ...... Mathematics Foreign Language Science ........ i . Elect ites Geometry History Science Arithmetic 4 years, .'; .'t years, ,". .2".CcaA, -2 years, :.' U years, '' Latin or French or p.-' nif -a. COTTON MARKET Receipts Price 8 21 bilcs cents : CLOSING BIDS ON THE NEW, YORK MARKET NEW YORK. Aug. 1 .1. Ctt.S f j. turn 'close stea.lv t snt stead-,. 35 TKints up. Octt-n" 2". ".d; De.c-mbr 20. fill; ,T.11,l a ry : . 17 : Uy 20.33; Soft Coal Mines Probably Will Be Reopened Wednesday As A Result Of Monday's Meeting Miners Shall Be Returned To Work At Same Scale Of Wages That Were In Effect When They Went On Strike New Contract To Continue Until April 1. Advertise Taxi Service To All Parts Of U. S. COLUMBUS, 0., Aug. ' 15. A local taxicab company today adver tised airplane service to all parts of the United States. Business men wishing to make a quick trip to Chicago or New York or other parts are advised in the advertisement that they telephone the taxicab company, which will, send a cab to take them to a landing field. An - airplane "kept several miles Away will arrive at the, landing, field at approximately the same time. The airplane is pf five passenger ca pacity. ' MAGISTRATE DISMISSES HOWELL AND SIMMS Lack Of Evidence To Back Up Girl's Story Two Different Tales Told Solicitor May Bring Up New Indictment. .Squire Morris heard the case of tho slate against the two young men, Ever ut t Howell and Odell Sims Monthly a f teruoon. Tho magistrate dismissed the defendants on account of their being n lack of evidence to back up the young lady 's story. The youths were charged with giving intoxicating liquor to minor. In municipal court. Judge Gapps was forced to', dismiss the case for lack of jurisdiction. .'The crime was committed outside the city limits of Gastoniu. The first story, that the young ladyy told was almost entirely different from the one she J.0J1I., yesterday. afternoon,, before fcqiiiro .Morris. This fact kept evidence nut of the magistrate's reach' and it w;is impossible for him to find probabb cause. It Is" expected that Solicitor A. "E. Wolta of tho Fourteenth Judicial dis trict will bring up a new bill and that the case will have another trial at the tia:di.n Superior Court. The next term convenes August 21. The young lady. Nellie Wilson, testified th.-it the young men picked her up on franklin Avenue Saturday-night and and that they stayed out all night, bho admitted being drunk, but denies "any misconduct.- The boys sworo that they never saw the girl until Sunday morning when hhe accosted them on tho street and at.ked them to take her to a cafe and back; to the P. &X. station. It was i question of w.ho to believe and who to i-lisercdit. COLUMBUS BOMBING CASE ' HAS COME UP FOR TRIAL COLUMBUS, Ga., Aug. 15. Vigor ous attacks on the characters of Alma Nagel and Jesse Ward, star witnesses for the state iu the case of Rryant Toole, former taxi 'driver, charged with complicity in connection with the bomb ing of the homo of Mayor J. Homer Dimon, here, on the night of May 21, last, featured this morning's session of the second trial of Toole. The entire morning was spent in hear ing evidence and at noon the evidence was practically all in, and attorneys were ' expected to conclude their argu ments late in the afternoou. The case, in all probability will- go to the jury about nightfall. Mrs. W. Y. Warren and son, J. R., are spending the week in Durham as the guets of Mrs. Warren's mother, Mrs. Ellen C. Byan. . The Italian city of Florence .will nioV icrnire its telephone system within two years, placing most 'of the cables under ground. Entire West Coast Feels Effect Of Rail Transportation Tie-up -SAN FRANCISCO," Aug. 13. (By 11-e Associated Press From the Cana dian boundary lines smith r.lmn.t n th.i Uni's 1 Ml'l'a" border the Pacificcoast states j today felt a bitter jiinch from the rail Vn'U :'.?'.1 tll: lll'3 which have been developing I ;". UlS"UrK anl tramping- down again since I'l-iis I'h'Vv- night. rni'-i 'Passengers who had been marooned at L'ius':,,c ,0 -m '""ns which serve as terminal x'jt mc .-T.iiua.re lines, southwestern di visions, had-.been brought to -places of gnater comfort, but little -or nothing ha 1 i -en done for the fruit growers of Norta ern Washington, southern Oregon pr northern California, but bttle more being done for those, in San Joaquin valley of California, farther south. The strike of Union Pacific transporta tion employes at Pan Bernardino, Calif., was; ended, last night and. four trains mover . eastward over that route's Los Ange'es-tlat Lake City line. Freight embargoes continue in effect. Emir, growers and other directly affeeted tv 5'ie tie-ups' took up the cudgels in :reir own defense last nieht at meetino- ihud many vigorous appeajs to President lfardui for relief,- One gatheriag, as- CLEVELAND, Aug. 15. (y The Associated Press) Soft coal operators participating in conferen ce with miners on part settlement of the coal strike, announced today through their spokesman, T. K. Ma ker, of Cleveland, that they would sign the scale that waa agreed on in principal last night The operators decision was reach ed at their caucus and meanwhile the union's policy committee was in session to pass on the tenative scale agreement -. A sharp division was said to exist in the miner's com mittee, hut the majority seemed in favor of acceptance, according to members coming from their closed conference rom.. Actual signing of the agreement was set for an after noon joint meeting of both sides. CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 15. (By the Associated Fresg.) A wage scale was ready today for tho signatures of soft coal operators and miners, and prospects were that some mines would bo opened on Wednesday. Formal rati fication was set for this afternoon. All details of the scale were approved in principle by both sides before the drafting of a "tentative understand ing," which was described today by both sides as the entering wedgo in the soft coal ' strike that began twenty weeks ago.. Separate meetings of min ers and operators were held this morn ing for voting final approval. "It is all a matter of procedure," said President John L. Lewis, in refer ring to the .delaying of actual ratifica tion . ' 'The strike is now over," said Jo seph Pursglovc, an operator, who served on the sub-committee. In brief, tho settlement provides that tho miners shall be returned to work at the same scale of wages .that were in effect when they, went on strike; the new contract is to continue in force until next April 1; the agreement also provides for appointment of an advisory fact-finding commission, a part of its .duties being to consider future settle meats of disputes in tho coal industry.' Tho settlement ' came after a week spent in marking time here by opera tors and miners. Finally, the show down on- the issue of compujsory arbi tration came, resulting in three big operators withdrawing from the tonfer dice when President Lewis refused to accede to the demand. Then the con ference reorganized and threw the doors open, to all soft coal operators. A quick agreement in principle followed, with operators controlling production of 60,000,000 tons annually committed to its adoption. - The operators in the meeting have mines in Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsyl vania, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. ... . ..... miners, too, were connaent tast an early resumption of work at scattered mines would result in other operators flurrying their acceptance of the agree ment. BIG FOUR CHAIRMEN CONTINUE EFFORTS WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. Visible ac tivities here in the rail strike situation were confined today to a continuation of the mediation efforts of the chairmen of the B.ig Four brotherhood organiza tions in whose hands the striking shop crafts have placed their case. These chairmen who late yesterday spent more than two hours in conference with President Harding this morning went into conference with representative of the striking unions. The only hint as to what might be ex pected came from L. E. Sheppard, pre det of the conductor's brotherhood, and spokesman for the onion chiefs, who said one of the matters to be considered to day would be whether' the labor men would ask for a further conference with all the executives or to meet a committee. THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. serting that district's $23,000,000 fruit crop the product of a whole year's work was endangered, offered to sup ply and protect men to man trains to move the fruit. The Fresno meeting ap pealed to the President and the heads of the four great transportation brother hoods the engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmen to end the strike and avert what- appears to be imminent dis aster to the fruit growers, or failing that, to declare an armistace long enough to move the fruit crop. A new factor in the situation and on.' which experienced railroad men said might well be viewed wth apprehension was the refusal of pumping plant ent ployes along the Santa Fe lines to re main at work. An inspection by an As sociated Press correspondent disclosed that some of the water tanks at desert points along the road's lines, between Needles and San Bernardino, apparently were dry and others nearly so. . Should the tanks be unable to pro vide their usual supplies for loeomotiecs it was asserted by strikers that not even such trains as could be manned by of ficials would get through. ; Thirty. Feet Down y: hjf W '' pfi I-- - :' . ; - Iff. I I "4 ; Ik ' f -j - f -t"Vfl l.f ; - l-sv. '3J Iu. f - I ? I ' 1 .- . : ;n : Luciano AlberUnf, movie dare devil, leaps from one scaffold to another for a picture being made In Berlin. The scaffolds are 16 feet apart The vertical distance of the JumD is 30 feet - YOUTH WAS GUILTY OF RAISING MONEY ORDERS Defendant Used Fake Name Cashed Order Raised From $4 to $40 -Bound Over To Federal Court. John Sook, alias Jake Hefner, seven teen year, old youth and a nativo of Gaston county, was hailed before United States Commissioner S. S. Morris Mon day on' Charges of raising U. S. jiostoffice money orders. . tievcra! orders winch Jiad been issued at Gastoniu and Dallas werr raised and presented here and at Bel mont for the purpose of obtaining their new face value. When in the act of pro Renting a mone order at the local post office money order window, the defendant was taken in custody by Postmaster 1 Kin cis Slate and Inspector 8. W, 1'ardum M. C. Cohen, United States Deputy mar shal, was notified at Charlotte and come to Gastonia immediately to make the arrest. 1 In the trial before Commissioner Mor ns, young book submitted, an. I was bound over to the next term of Federal court, which convenes at Charlotte iu October. The bond was fixed at f 1,000. In default of the bond, the defendant was placed in the Gaston county jail to await the term at Charlotte. Among the money orders that were rais ed, which were found on book,-. was one raised from (i to $f0, and one from $7 to $70, and one from 9 to 9-'. The one that was cashed ut . Belmont was saiscd from $4 to 10. REPUBLICAN CLANS CALLED TO HOLD CONVENTION Saturday, August 26, the Date May Put Out County Ticket Eli Dixon May Be Candidate For State Senate. When the Republican clans of daston gather for their county cou vent ion hero in the court house on Saturday, August 2tb, there will likely be a "rattling of dry bones in the valhy" iu the parlance of the street, "a warm time.' Just . wat's goinjf' to happen, this pai-r knowelh not; but judging th future by the past going by Patrick Henry's infallible rule there'll surely Ik; sonu thing doing. Of course, there js a possi bility that it may turn out to be a love feast, but if to it will not be rtmuiug true to form. It in presumed that the convention will put out a full conty ticket for the fall election. All efforts, however, to n- certain who will 1 flu; probable can didates for the various offices has so far been futile. There is a rumor, how ever, to the effect that. Eli Dixon, leader of the revolt against the establishment by the county of a hospital for the treat ment of tuiiercular patients, will be the candidate -for the State senate. Chairman 11. T. tieorge has sent out an urgent call to all Republicans to be at the court house et 2:30 P. M. Satur day, August 26th. He promises them an address from some prominent speaker, nrobabhr Dick Shnford, of Hickory, Re publican candidate for Congress from this district. ...'-.' i SAMPLES RECEIVED FROM THE FIRST DELTA BALE Messrs. Tan A. Covington Co., loc-,1 cotton brokers, have received a consign ment of large samples from the first bate o Mississippi Delta staple cotton, which was sold at auction List Friday on the floor of the Memphis cotten exchange. This bale was bought by Pan.-ell & Company, who are reprcsfntate, here by the Covington Compaay. ' The cotton was grown from Express seed and is full one and three-si it cent h inches staple,. COUNTRY CHEERED BY COAL STRIKE GETS LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT FROM THE RAIL STRIKE SITUATION SOLDIERS ON GUARD AT CARTHAGE JAIL Sixty Soldiers and Many Depu ties Are On Guard Duty three Negroes Brought From Raleigh Under Guard. CARTHAGE, Aug. 15. At 7 P. M, when court recessed until Tuesday morn ing at D A. MH only two witnesses for the state had been examined in the case against Jasper Thomas and Angus Mur phy for the allegeit criminal assault on Mrs. A. E. Ketch-urn. The first witness was Mrs. Ketchuin who testified in de tail to the shooting of her husband, her escape from the building through a win dow, with her infant in her arms In an attempt to procure help, also how sua was overtaken by the negores and was struck down by a blow with a pistol after a struggle and tho assault by one of the negroes while tho other stood by. She identified a wrist watch, a pocket book and a pistol that were found on the negroes us tho property stolen by her assailants from her and her husband. She was unable to identify her assailant save by his voice and in this way identi fied Murphy as tho perpetrator of the alleged assault. Thomas was his alleged companion. . Mr. Cook wns the first person to ar rive at tho scene of the crime testified to finding evidences of the struggle at the scene of the alleged assault and to seeing tracks of three men going off from that point Ho testified to finding Mrs. Ketchuin with her baby trying to carry her unconscious husband to procure medi cal treatment when ho procured medical aid, and the oflieers also as to the capture and identification of the negroes. The case Solicitor Nash stated would consumo all of tomorrow. . CARTHAGE, Aug. 13. John Lee, Jasper Thomas and Angus Murphy ar rived here this morning from the state penitentiary under the guard of the Haleigh service compuny and a detach ment from the Durham machine gun com pany, commanded by Captain M. ' B. Fowler, They were immediately placed in jail under a guard or the soitliers and, although a very largo crowd from this and adjoining counties has a sse mo led, there is not the slightest indication of any disturbance. It is estimated that 11,500 pwp!e arc here. A true bill in each of the three ca. is was found against the threo defendenta about 3 o'clock and they were immediate ly arrigned. The charges against them is rape, burglary in tho first degree and secret assault, the first two cases beiug capital felony charges. The prisoners were brought into court in response to Judge Long's inquiry, stated they were not able to procuro counsel and the court appointed U. L. Sjk-iicc, It. L. Burns and J. T. Johnson, of the local bar, to defend them. A spec ial venire of 50 was ordered by the court, which Was summoned by. Sheriff Blue immediately. The state announced its readiness To trial and the men arc being tried first for the criminal assault upon Mrs. A. E. Ketchuni and wiil then be tried on tho burglary charge. Solicitor Nash announ cel he would take a nol proa with leave against John - Lee, tho 16-year-old boy who will lie used as a witness in the criminal assault case. He will be tried as a principal in the burglary and as sault cases. Mrs. Ketchum.the victim of the cri minal' assault, who is in court, has ap pa rently recovered from the effects of her harrowing eierience. Mr. Kctchuui if 111 IMC IlUBMltfl, UUl U A v recover. Jihlue Lonr announced that the trial of the men would continue without ad journment until the eases were flished. He. also admonished the crown againsi :inv demonstration and warned them not to congregate within 300 yards of the jail and gave orders to arrest any one violating the order. K,th Jasncr Thomas and John Lee are youthful looking but Angus Murphy, who apepars ro ue aooui o years uiu, of the typical negro criminal type. A large number of special deputies have been sworn in by Sheriff Blue and they have their hands-full in assisting in keeping the aisles and the doors of the planters warehouse, which is being used as a court room while the new court hou.e is being built, clear of the vast crowd that filled all of the available space in the court room and a large number j taxing the standing space available. The court finished the selection of the jury at 3:40. !. NEWSPAPER REPORTER TO BE FIRST WITNESS LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15. B. L. Knickerbocker, a newspaper reporter, who was said to have received an ad vance "tip" on the raid at Inglewood, a suburb, April 22, last, was expected to b the first witness today at the trial of 36 alleged members of the Ku Klux Klan on-felony charges growing out of the Tid. -Blake E. Shambeau, motorcycle of ficer of Inglewood, testified yesterday that the raid was planned at a meeting the night before April 22, following the initiation of a number of residents of that city into the Klaa. CHICAGO, Ang. 13. Chicago police today were asked to search for Lillian BurgWs 1. of Tampa, Fla., who is believed to be living here with friends. A letter from A. D. Williams, of the Tampa office of a bonding company, t0 Chief' of Detectives Hughes, Ban! that the young xwoman has fallen heir J to an estate left by Dr. Fred Kidder, J0f Tampa, . Former Premier- Briand, Of France Taken For a Common Chicken Thief ROUEN, France, Aug. 15. (By the Associated Press.) Police head quarters here, following an epidemic of petty chicken coop thefts, recently sent out instructions for all the com missaries of this district to be on the lookout for suspicious characters and to demand their papers of iden tity. A young ambitious gendarme, recently appointed, hailed a pedes trian along the high road today, who was not so armed. The gendarme escorted his pris oner to the nearest police station, two miles west of here, for further examination. - "You made a wonderful capture,' the prisoner told the youthful of ficer. "You are certain to receive a lot of credit for this arrest." Upon arriving at the station house, the prisoner waa allowed to tele phone to the public prosecutor here, who ordered his immediate release. He proved to be one Aristide Briand, seven times premier of France, who beaded the French delegation to the Washington conference last Novem ber, lie had forgotten his identity papers and was going fishing a few miles from' his summer home in a nearby Tillage. SOUTHERN RAILWAY TO FILL PLACES LEFT VACANT 'if It Means War To Run the - Southern, Then Let Us Have It Now," Says President Harrison. WASHINGTON. Aug. 11. Thj Southern Railway, which to dato has made no efforts to combat the shop men 's strike, announced today th:ough its president, Fairfax Harriso-.i, that it would employ any help available to keep trains in operation. Mr. Harrison in a formal statement said that tho Southern bad made every effort to scttlo with its men, even "to the extent of . offering the terms that they had previously agreed to accept," and without result, and that "if it means war to run the Southern Railway, then let us have it now not Inter." Officials of the company supplemented Mr. Harrison's statement only to the extent of pointing out that conferences between the railroad management and the strikers were held last week -without result and that the only course left open to tbo company was to employ such workers as could- bo obtained. The action of the Southern was gen erally regarded as significant in that it had heretofore made no effort to fill the places of the shopmen who went on strike and in that it, not being a mem ber of the Association of Railway Exec utives, had not participated in the two meetings held by that organization ia New York to consider otriko settlement projiosals put forward by President Harding. The statement issued by Mr. Harri son said: "Every effort has been made so to operate our property that our men eould honorably return to work. Every effort has been made to settle with our men. - We have gone to the extent of offffering the terms that they had pre viously agreed to accept. We have thus held out every reasonable inducement, without result. "We must now turn to employing omers, ior we roaa must bo run; we must give those wo employ protection, for it may be that those we have up to this time protected by keeping their jobs open may now turn against us, even to on attempt to prevent others from w'orking. "Call is now being made upon every employee, upon every patroil of this company, aud upon every citizen along its lines, to rally to the support of the road that has served you and protect your own interest in the maintenance of traniortation. "With your help we can run the road. and we pledge all the resources of the company to that end. If it means war to run the Southern Railway., then let us have it now not later." GASTON'S SINGERS MEET AT BETHANY THIS YEAR Saturday, August 26, Date For Annual "Family Reunion" Of American Tune Book Singers All Day Event. Preparations are in the makin for the annual gathering or 'family reunion ''i of all the old-time American Tune Book singers in Gaston eounty. This year's reunion which, as usual, will be in." tin shape of an all-ilay singing will be held at old Bethany Associate Reformed Ptci-' byterian church, just across the line in York' county. Saturday. Auirust 2fifn. tvery singer in the county is cordially invited to come and bring an American Tune Book, if possible, and a basket. Dinner will be served on the ground. Gaston eounty has a- large number of ; old-time singers and these annual ''sink--1 ings" are events of great importance i and interest to them. Efforts To Settle Shopmen's Strike and End Walkouts Bears Little, Fruit. decrease: in disorders Rail Strike Will Occupy At tention At Cabinet Meet ing Today. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. (By the Associated Press.) President Harding, having nbndoued all efforts at mediation of the rail strike, was declared today by his advisers to havo virtually decided to inform tho railroad .executives of the country that in tho operation of trains they will bo given tho full protection and aid of the government. The president, it was stated, was de termined that the only course the gov ernment, now fill. I tmruiin una tl.n t.otk it xuiiuneii in iiiu coai siriKe-exien.noa of an invitation to tho employers to , operate their properties and the federal government with the co-operation of the i Dm n-n, nvui.i di.iiiu oeuum vuciii in xneir 1 IV . - .. . . . vuoris so iar as mey aro mrectcd to the serving of tho public. Consideration is being given by the president, it was asserted, to the propo sition of going before Congress within tho next few days with a comprehensive statement of the whole rail strike situa tion, including the rebuffs that havo met the government's attempts at set tlement. This statement if made, it was said, would include no suggestions as to legis lation but be designed to place before Congress and tho country the facts in tho situation as viewed by the govern ment. .--.' Tlio president was described by one of his advisers as "having his back up" and fully determined that nothing further could be dono through nego tiation. . Endeavors at mediation, however, wero continued today by the leaders of tho brotherhoods of railroad operating employes and of the other railroad labor organizations whoso members have not been called out on strike. Tla'se leaders held another conference with B. M. Jewell, leader of the striking shop craft workers, and tho other chiefs of strik ing unions. Foremost among tho mat ters under consideration was understood to be tho proposal of the brotherhood leaders that attempts bo made to nego tiate a settlemen with tho railroads whose executives have shown an iuclina tion toward compromise, -j ( The wholo rail strike situation waa gone over by tho president and his cabi net tix lay. i t ' CHICAGO, Aug. 13. (By Toe AsstU dated Press) Few developments had changed the Nation's grave railroad situ ation today. Efforts to settle the shoumea's strike and end the sporadic walkouts by train crews bore little fruit. The country, cheered by the news of an apparent break in the coal strike, got little encourago meat in the rail crisis. Replies of the railroad unions to Presi dent Harding's latest-proposals for peace were deferred pending further conferen ces of union leaders at Washington. Al though the rail strike was expected to occupy considerable attention at today's cabinet meetiug. President Hardinz in. dicated no intention of going immediately iHUor congress with the situation. Although httlo progress was made to ward ending the walkout of "Big Four" transportation brotherhoods on the At- lison, Topeka & Santa Fe. tho strika of Union Pacific trainmen was called lt and four" east bound trains left immedia tely for Chicago. Santa Fe trains, stalled for several lays at desert towns, in California, and New Mexico, were moved westward. Al though movement of these trains brought relief to marooned jsassengers, Las VegaS Navada, remained isolated. An tiltim.-ition to "Big Four" brotherhood chiefs from A. G. Wells, vice president of the. Hanta Fe, inteu sitleil the situation on that railroad. Mr. Wells said that if the Santa Fe train crews refused t-i return to work the roads only alternative--Would be to employ others to fill the places of the striker. His demands for explicit answers on the attitude of brotherhood oflicials brought! a response from W. G. Lee, president of the 'Brotherhood of Trainmen, that Vica Presidents of the union bad been in structed to enforce working agreemnts with tb railroads. OtTfiials of the Ninthern railway sai l 1 immediate steiis Trould be taken to re open the company's sops at Kiioxville, Tenn. "P.'u: Four" brotherhood trainmen on four railroads t Muskogee, Ok la., threat ened to join the strike. Local chairmen at Mehphis, T'-nn. refined to authorize, a walkout of crews on roads entering that city. Iior.lers in connexion with the rail strike abated again during the hist i hours, but a non-union shop-worker of Tacoma, Wash., was stoned and beaten by a crowd said to have been strike hre.ikers from the Northern Pacific shops. , MAKE PUBLIC REJECTION ' OF JIARDING'S FINAL OFFER WASHINGTON, Ang. 13 (By tU Associated Press.) Leaders of the rail road labor organization to-liy ma. public, the rejrctioit of Fre-d-h-nt lbr t ing's final offer for wt'h-mn.t it :.. national strike of simp crafr'r - ) declared that fl'fen s !s to me . ' difficulties W i'.t T--.-iii;-. ! i - .' v. ... railrwd e " four hr-; p' - vr : .