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' 1 r A 'Weather Fair - Local Co lien 22 Cents VOL. XLIII. NO. 206 GASTONIA, N. C, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 29, 1922 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS 1 Cole Blease is Center of South Carolina Political Fight Today Largest . Number Of ' Voter South Carolina Ha Ever Sent . To tho Polls. HOLDING FIRST PRIMARY 200,000 Votes Expected, Of .Which One-Third Will Be the Votes Of Women. COLUMBIA, 8. C, Aug. 29. With the largest number of voter South Caro lina has ever Been at the polls, with weather Ideal, and with issues tightly drawn and force in battle array, South Carolina today is voting in its first , Democratic primary, for governor and state and county officers. The race of ; Cola L. Blease, former governor, in his effort to reach tha executive chair for the third time, is the main contest of the day The enrollment for tho pruiiary is 226,581, and more than two hundred thousand votes - are expected, of which about a third will be tho women's vote, accordnig to estimates made by party ' officials. Women are going to the polls in large numbers. ' ' Agaiust former Governor Blease are aligned five candidates and a second race is considered inevitable. The - strongest opponent of the former Gov ernor are state Senator George K. La ey, of Chesterfield, and Thomas U . McLeod, of Bishopville. The race next in interest is that for state superintendent of education. John . Swcaringen, the "blind superintend' ent," is opposed for re-election by five aspirants, two of whom are women, Mrs. Bessie Rogers Drake, of Bennetts ville, and Mrs. f-E. B. Wallace, of Columbia, both of whom have made strong campaigns and, will receive hand some votes, according to indicatoinsr J. H; Hye, of Union; O. D." Seny, of Columbia, and Cecil H . Seiglcr, of Aiken, are tho other candidates. There is also a heated contest for the office of attorney general, with.D. M. Winter and Harold Eubauks, two young lawyers of Columbia, opposing Attorney Oeucral Bam Wolfe for re election. Robert EOraig and Thomas B. Mar- iball, both of Columbia, and both for mer "warld war , company commanders, are. socking tflo bffico of adjutant gcu " eral. B. Harris, commissioner of agri culture, is opposed for re-election by George YYY Wightnian, of Saluda. LIGHT DOCKET IN TUESDAY'S CITY COURT Only ' Five Cases Heard By Recorder Jones- One Lar ,. '' ceny, One Drunk, and Three Gambler; This morning's session of city court, presided over by Judge Arthur C. Jones, was rather light, there being only five cases on the docket. ' John Johnston, negro, was charged with larceny. On last Saturday after noon it seems that the defendant found a Ford somewhere in the city and do eided that he could use it as much as the owner. He took it with him into the tall timbers of South Carolina. Nothing was heard of negro or machine untii Monday t Two white men had in tho meantime taken the Ford from the thief and brought it to Gastonia with the purpose of finding the owner. The owner was found shortly and the negro was brought back for trial.. Judge Jones bound him over to Gaston Supe rior Court. ' Unable to meet a bond of $500, the negro was placed In the Gaston jail to await trial. 'Son" Jackson, known about town as a bird dog keeper, and at times em ployed as a cook and chauffeur, got drunk last night and was the boss of Happy Hill until a local officer came along. For bis short rule the defend ant was fined $10 and costs. Three youths, engaging in a put and take contest were ,4put" by Sgt. Tom Rankin. Judgment was suspended on payment of costs in each .case. . MORE WITNESSES IN HERRIN MASSACRE MARION, ILLS., Aug. 29. (By-The Associated Press.) Witnesses sum moned for today, the second of a special grand jury's investigation of the Herrin mine war, were expected to bring before the jurors vivid eye witness descriptions ef what happened around the Lester strip mine on Juno 22, when 19 employes cf the Southern Coal Company were slain r fatally wounded, and of the happen, ingsof fhe previous day resulting in the death of three union miners. In charging the jury yesterday the j judge appealed to the investigators to use fairness and justice and to make every effort to counteract the charges of law lessness that hare been made openly against Williamson county 's citizens and officials by brijiginz before the bar of justice "those upon wuom Tests the blame for the - fatalities. COTTON MARKET CLOSING BIDS ON THE NEW YORK MARKET : NEW YORK, Aug. 29. Cotton fu tures closed easy; fcpots quiet, 30 points up. October 22.60; December 22.70; Jan nary 22.57; March 22.62; May 22-35; Spots 22.95. ' I receipts 2, Bales J 22 Centa COLORED SCHOOL OPED : . WEDNESDAY KIGHT Handsome New' Colored Grad ed School Building To Be Opened With Appropriate Exercises Address By For mer Principal. On Wednesday night of this week, August 30. bCKinnins at eight o'clock appropriate exercises will be held at the new colored irraded school building on North York street, known as the High land School, in the nature of a formal opening and dedication of the new build iug, which has just been completed. Principal J. A. Rollins will ' be in charge of the program. .Talks will be made by Mr. A. G. Myers, president of the City School Board. Sunt. t . r. aau of the County Board of Education, Mayor Cherry, and Mildred Wellman, of the faculty, prof. C. H. Shute, now a member of the faculty of Biddle Univer sity, Charlotte, who was the first pnnci pal of Gastonia 's colored schools, will also deliver an address, . A feature of the evening will be a musical program under the direction of JJuicina Adams. The completion of the new graded school building for colored pupils, which is to be formally opened Wednesday night meets a very great need' in the city school system. For several years it has been necessary for a number of the grades to go only , half of each day and the rooms have been overcrowded. There is now ample room not only for present needs, but sufficient to take care ol considerable increase in attendance ovei lust years' figures. The number, of teachers for colored pupils has. been in creased accordingly and the work is ex pected to proceed in a most satisfactory manner during the coming school year. SAYS COTTON CROP IN DELTA IS RECORD ONE W. G. Caldwell, of Mecklen burg, Manager Of Big Mis sissippi Plantation, jells.Ut Successful Fight Against Boll Weevil On Largest Farm In United , States. (Charlotte Observer.) W. C Caldwell, plantation manager for one of the 18 plantations owned and operated bv the Delta and Pine Land company of Mississippi located on the delta, who is spending a few days , with his , father, 8. T. Caldwell, at 5. Hunters- villo. reports thai this company expects a record crop of cotton this year, despite tho activities of the boll weevil. This company is said to be the largest farm owning and operating organization in America, having 37,000 acres of land in one tract in the delta. Of this tract, 23,500 acres are under cultivation, while 14,300 of this amount is planted in cot ton. ' The last estimate placed the cotton that would be produced at 10,682 bales, Ur. Caldwell said, adding that the condi tions have been very favorable since tho estimate was made a few weeks ago and the number would probably reach 11,000 bales. The syndicate, which Is composed largely of English people, is expecting a record crop this year, the largest yet raised in the 12 years jt has been in operation. Althoughthe boll weevil has infested te land, its ravages have been controlled through the use of calcium ar senate, placed on the plants at night in powered form by the use of the two wheel cart. Mr. Caldwell reports that in one tract of 62 acres of land, as many as eight live weevils were found when the cotton plants had reached a height of only six, or eight inches, before a single square had anueared. That tract as been spray ed 14 times, because of nnnsual rain con ditions, and almost a full crop of cotton is expected from it. Mr. Caldwell said. The estimates of the damage from the boll weevil to the cotton crops of the syndicate are placed at from 10 to 15 per cent, the belief being that 85 to 90 per cent of a full erop will be picked, with a record stand and prospects. During the flood on the , Mississippi river in the late spring, J.0O0 men en ployed by the company worked for three weeks building up the levees about two feet with sand bags, in order to keep the high water from the low bottom lands. The Mississippi was about inches higher during the flood period than it had ever been' known to reach at any previous time, Mr. Caldwell said.. How- ever, within a year the entire river will be arranged with levees that come up to government requirements, which raise the leves an average of two feet higher than they have been. In places, they are al ready up to specifications, while at others they have to be raised several feet. Mr. Caldwell was plantation manager in Arkansas for three years and latei held. a similar position with a eomapay in Jones county, Mississippi, before go ing with his present employers. The offices of the company are at Scott, Miss., and most of the land owned by the syn dicate is en the delta. WARRENTON. GA Aug. 29. Sheriff Hogan said this morning that W. T. Hall, charged with killing Dan and Bailey Lattimore. brother, at Camak, Ga, early yesterday morning, bad been carried to a jail outside of Varren eoun tT f0r jafeieeping but declined to say wete tha prisoner bad been tiien. LOVaL PEOPLE HURT CI AUTO ACCIDENT Attended "Cyclone Mack's" Meeting, Took Short Cut Home and Landed In Hole ' A f II Are in noipiiai, ' LINCOLNTOX, Aug. 28. Mrs. J. B. Cochrane, of Huutersville, Miss Rita Lowry, daughter of Mrs, J. W. Lowry, of Lowell, Gaston county, and - Grady Rhodes, s young business man of this city, are in the Lincoln Hospital with serious injuries, the result of having fallen into a part of the excavation for the new high school building in the southern part of town last night. The, entire party, including Mrs. Cochrane 'a daughter, Grace, were en route home, after attending the "Cy clone Mack ' ' meeting, and had taken a short cut through the school property to dodge a muddy street, when without warning they were precipitated into the seven-foot hole. Mr. Rhodes is perhaps more seriously injured than any of the rest, he suffering a broken ankle, the foot only being connected with a par ticle of skin. It is just possible that he may lose the foot, though tho sur geons have hopes. Miss Lowry suffered a spinal injury, the seriousness of"it being problematical. She was here at tending the ' summer school . Mrs . Cochrane had one arm broken and a wrist sprained. Her daughter, who was a member of the party, escaped injury. . The evangelist's tent is located on a part of the school property and tho ac cident happened within two hundred feet of the immense congregation, who were going their vaTioua ways home after the services, their , cries being heard and many gathered to give relief. GENERAL MOVEMENT OF TROOPS TO POSTS Army Strength To Be Reduced From 150,000 to 125,000 Many Posts and Forts Are Affected By Federal Order. WASHINGTON, Aug.-29. The first general movement of troops incident to the army reorganisation from 150,000 enlisted strength to 125,000, made in accordance with congressional directions, was announced ' today by tho war de partment.' The 10th infantry brigade headquarters, -'tho thixtj. iioid , artillery tress one battalion), the. 11th infantry and tank platoon No. 5, all stationed at Camp Knot, Kentucky, were ordered to tort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Other . organizations at Camp Knox ordered to new stations included tho chaplains' school to Port Wayne, Mich.; engineering training company number 5 to Camp Travis, Texas; the 88th aero squadron and photographers section No. 7 to Wilbur Wright field, Ohio; troon "L," training center squadron, to Port Oglethrppe, Georgia, and the lot h in fantry ; (less oho battalion) to Port Thomas, Kentucky. -While these movements all 'originate in the fifth corps area, it was explained, other general, transfers of troops will be authorized soon affecting the remain ing corps areas. They are, being de layed by the department so as not to interfere with the activities of tho citi zens' training centers, practically all of which will conclude their summer courses next week. Regular army personnel stationed at the citizen camps and at other points in tho various areas will then be involved in the reassignment of posts. - CHARLOTTE LABOR HERALD IN RECEIVERS' HANDS Action Voluntary and Taken ' For Purpose Of Reorganiza tion,' It Is Stated. ' ' (Charlotte Observer.) E. R. Preston, Charlotte attorney, and D. I. Bell, representative of the Char lotte Herald Publishing company, have been named by Judge James L. Webb as receivers for The Charlotte Herald, which has been published at '42 South College street since last spring. . The receivership is voluntary, it is stated, and the action is being taken principally for the purpose of re-organization. The company will continue to operate, the receivers having the super vision of the paper. The exact financial status could not be stated by Frank Flowers, attorney for the company, yesterday, but he said that it would experience no difficulty in oper ating. Mr. Flowers stated that the company has been handicapped recently by the illness ef James F. Barrett, president of the publishing; company, who has only re cently been dismissed from the hospital. 'ilt. Barrett s inability to give his ime to the business while he was presi dent of the North Carolina Federation of Labor has also been a disadvantage to the company," Mr. Flowers said. 'How that Mr. Barrett is regaining his health; be expects to give more of his per sonal attention to the conduct of the paper." The Herald was founded in 1919 and was published in - Aseville for some time, the papers being sent t oCharlotte for distribution. It was first christenej , "The Charlotte Labor Herald" but the name was changed to 'The Charlotte Herald", after the publication was re moved from Asbeville to the plant on South College street. Tackle which enables one man to load legs ix a motor truck with the aid of i' power has been patented by an Arkaa- sas iimator. Watch .Out! r v v if 1 u W 4 i Underneath the letter "Z" on this typewriter la hidden a small, tout powerful dictaphone. London fdetectives are uslnif them to listen fin on office conversations. Sore divorce sleuths. - CROSS COUNTRY FACE SCHEDULED NEXT WEEK Race Between Army Dirigible and DeHaviland Plane Leave Pablo Beach Septem- ' . ber 5. .' : SAN DIEGO, Cal., Aug. 29. The siiectacle of a race across the country between an army dirigible and a recon structed Deavilaud airplane will be wit nessed on September 5 and 6, according to plans outlined in a letter received by Lieutenant . John McCullough, adjutant of Rockwell Field, 'today. The letter came from Lieutenant James Doolittle, army flyer, who recently started to make a one-stop night from Pablo Beach, Fla., to San Diego, Cal., but met with an accident. He plans now to take "wing from Pablo Beach at 9:30 p. in. September 5. On the same day, according to plans, the big dirigible C-2 will leave Langley field, Hampton lioads, for a night to ltoss field, Ar cadia, near Los Angeles. Lieutenant Doolittle wrote that ho planned to arrive at Kelly field, San Antonio, at 7 a .m.' September 6, to take on gas and leave at 7:30 a. ni for San Diego, which he hopes to reach between S and S:sO p. m. HARDING THINKS HE SHOULD HAVE POWER TO TAKE OVER ROADS WASHINGTON',' Aug: M. (By the Associated Press.) President Harding still believes that .Congress should grant him immediate authority to take over railroads and mining properties, it was said today at the White House, but lie assured coiiKret'sional spokesmen that only the grimmest public necessity would move him to exercise such powers if granted. , Definite abandonment of President Harding s proposal to Congress for a federal coal agency, with capital to buy, sell and distribute coal, was announced to the House today by Chairman Wins- low, of the Interstate Commerce Com mittee, st the beginning of a debate on the bill to create machinery to super vise distribution only. The change in plans, Mr. Winslow said, had been acquiesced in by the presideut, whose suggestion for a pur- chiising and selling agency had been thrust into the background of congres sional consideration almost as soon as it was submitted. Quoting tM recommendation as con tained in tlie president 'a address to Con gress on the rail and coal situation, the committee chairman said in his report on the distribution bill: "Since the utterance of the foregoing suggestion by the president, his advisers, including members of the voluntary com mittee appointed by the president, and those also who ha ye advised and assisted in the preparation of this bill, have de termined and agreed that the possible plan suggested by the president could be well set aside, and another method fol lowe in working out the problem. "The president is in accord with this conclusion. This bill is tha out growth of Huch determination and as such has been considered ' and reported favorably by the Interstate Commerce Committee. " NEGRO CHARGED WITH STABBING WHITE MAN (By Associated Press.) TUSKEGEE, ALA, Aug. 29. Aaron Howard, negro, was in Lee coun ty '"! at Opelika today, charged writh stabbing to death Frank Bagley, 20, son of a local minister, and Lip Howard, the negro's uncle, was not expected to sur vive the day. Mr. Bagley was stabbed by the negro in a dispute over money matters.. The negro's uncle was shot by officers, when he is alleged t o have at tempted to interfere with them arresting Aaron. - SANTIAGO, CWU, Aug. 29, (By the Associated Press.) The Chilean steauialiip I lata, l',2UO tons, sank today off the Chilean coast near Coqaimbo. All the passengers, numbering 150, and the ere.w of 72 were lost. FIRST TRAIN IN 72 HOURS MOVES ' OVER CHICAGO AND ALTON TODAY No Chance to Reach Entombed Miners For at Least 18 Hours Men Are Trapped a Half-Mile Below the Surface Of the Earth With No Chance To Escape Everything Humanly Possible Is Being Done For Imprisoned Miners, JACKSON, CALIF., Aug. 29. (By The Associated Press.) Held in the grim grip of despair as hour follows hour in their vigil, families and fellow1 workers of the forty-eight gold miners imprisoned since midnight Sunday near ly a mile below the earth's surface in the Argonnut mine today clung stub bornly to the shred of hope that their husbands, fathers and buddies still live, altough the most optimistic hope was to reach the men within 18 hours. Dawn today found that tense group still waiting. From tho mouth of the pit from which these men have clued to take fortunes in gold at an average of a million dollars a year came no token of ope. From it camo no sign of the hell of flamo and smoke and poisoned air that raged between the imprisoned min ers on tho levels, below 4,000 feet and the workers who vainly struggled to reach them. During the night men attempting- in mine "skips" to ride down through the flaming levels were dragged back to the surface, their faces - blackened,, ' They came to gasp eagerly for fresh air and to tell of the hopelessness of tho trip below. The tracks on which the skips AUTHORIZE $600,000 FOR MUSCLE SHOALS PUNT Appropriation Comes From , Old Fund Army Engineers Are Expected To Begin Work At Once. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. Fundi totalling $000,000 have been authorized by President Harding to enable army engineers to begin construction work on the Wilson da in, at Musclo Shoals, Ala., on an extensive scale, tending use of the $7,500,000 appropriated by Con gress which becomes available October 1 it was officially announced today. Brigadier General Taylor, assistant chief of engineers, explained that the $600,000 was authorized from an old appropriation of which an unexpended balance of about $900,000 remained sub ject to presidential disposal. Engineers here said Colonel William Burden, commanding the Muscle Shoals district, probably would employ . addi tional laborers and put machinery in use to the maximum extent possible uu dcr the funds now at his disposal. SOLDIER BONUS BILL WILL COME TO VOTE . WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. Senate consideration of the soldiers' bonus bill nea red an end today but some Senator doubted that the hope of those in charge of the measure for a final vote before adjournment tonight would be realized. Half a dozen or more amendments re mained to bo acted upon and, in addi tion, a number of senators desired to deliver addresses on the bill itself as well as the various changes prooscd. Announcing his support of the sol diers' bonus as "nothing more than a square deal for the boys who did the fighting," Senator Cupper, republican. Kansas, told the senate that the "war profiteers and the peace profiteers owe a bonus to the soldiers of the world war." "There is no better guarantee against militarism than to require the men who profit out of war to jay for it," he said. ''Those who remained at home made enough here in the Uuited States to enable us to pay many times over the debt we owe to the men who fought our battles. Wall Street wants to pay it with a sales tax which would be paid largely by the farmers, the laboring ico ple and others in the form of a tax on food and clothing and other necessi ties.. Profiteering, during the war pro- tuced one American millionaire for every three American soldiers killed in r ranee. I would like to see the gov ernment recover the hundreds of mil lions of dollars stolen from the treasury by the crooks and grafters who profi teered off the government in war con tracts and tlwn use that money to pay the soldiers' bonus." Under an amendment presented by Senator Simmons, democrat, oNrth Caro lina, the bonus would be made a spe cific charge against the interest on the foreign debt. In the event that should L prove insufficient, at the start, theTe treasury would he authorized to issue certificates of indebtedness to be re deemed out of future interest payments or from the sale of the refunded securi ties received from the allied govern ments. TWO COTTON MILLS CLOSED FOR LACK OF COAL (By The Associate Press.) GREENVILLE, S. C, Aug. 29. Two cotton mills rlose.1 in this virinity oa account of lack or probably will follow, s couL Others THE WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Wednesday, warmer is interior tonight, run were warped and distorted with tho heat, in some, places even melted away. The flumes which started yesterday morning at the ;i,000 foot level, today had worked up above the 2,400 foot level. A half mile below, the earth's surface, working frantically with drills and picks to break through a ebnerete barrier which long has scaled the shaft of the Argonaut from the shaft of a neighbor ing miue, the Kennedy, other miners sought to make a possible channel of es cape for their trapped eomradess. It was a slim hope. One miner at the mouth of the pit, his face showing pale beneath the pallor of years under ground, spoke with the knowledge of a worker from the mine drifts when he said: "The boys can't get through that wall in a month." Suiterintendont Virilio Gabarini said everything humanly possible was being done toward the rescue of the entombed men. He said that workers expected to establish communication with tho miners, if any still are alive, within 118 hours. Until their bodies are brought out, tho hope thut some of the forty eight still live will endure. , FREE OPEN AIR CONCERT AT 8 THIS EVENING Popular Music Will Feature Seventh In Series Of Sum mer Concerts By Pythian Band Public Is Cordially Invited., Popular music will feature the pro gram of tonight's open air concert at Community Service Park, comer Bouth street and tjecond avenue. The concert will commence at 8 o'clock. In addi tion to the popular numbers there, will be several overtures. This is the seventh of the scries ot ten summer concerts which the Pythian Band was to give at the park. The pub lic 'has manifested a keen appreciation of the splendid entertainment which Man ager Todd and his musicians have render ed. It is hoped that a large audience will gather at the jmrk this evening. Seats have been provided for several hundred and the park is so arranged that several hundred others can remain in their cars parked around the band stand and enjoy ths music in comfort. GOVERNOR REFUSES PARDON TO DUPRE ATLANTA, OA., Aug. 29. Cover nor Thomas W. Hard wick today refused to commute the death sentence of Frank B. Dupre, Atlanta, youth, convicted of the murder of Irby C Walker, private detective. Dupre is under sentence to be hanged next Friday. The Governor's action followed re fusal of the State prison commission to recommend clemency after the btate Supreme Court bad twice rejected ap Icals for a new trial. . Dupre 'i only bone of a stay of execution now is in having the Federal court assume juris diction. The appeal to the Governo r was sup ported, it was stated, at the hearing be fore the executive, by a petition signed by 15,000 persons who asked that the death sentence be commuted because of alleged extenuating circumstances lead ing up to the crime. Dvpre, the Gover nor was told, was driven to desperation by unemployment, while phychologists that the youth was "mentally deficient." Oa the other hand, persons opposed to executive clemency urged Mr. Hardwick to let the death sentence stand "in the interest of law enforcement" and pro tection of society. Among those opposing commmutation of sentence were the Detective's widow and B. E. Graham West,, city comp troller,' who was shot and seriously wounded by Dupre in his dash from a jewelry) store here which he had at tempted to rob during the olnlay rus on December 15 last. Walker was shot and killed when he tried to stop Dupre after he had snatched a diamond from a tray in the store. The youth escaped to De troit after te robbery and shooting, but was arrested two weeks later when he telegraphed for additional funds from paw broker in Chattanooga, to whom awned ,ne diamond- Since his incarceration here, Dupre bus joined a church and says his only denirt in having his sentence commuted is that he may "teach other boys to go straigt." H. A. Allen, of counsel for Dupre, an nounced after the Governor's decision was made known, that "we have no plana for a further appeal." It is God's will and I am ready to lg0t was the prisoner's comment. At the same time he auuooced bis de cision in the Dupre caste, Mr. HardwU-k stated that he had refused to iutcrfere in the case of Luke McDowell, negro, sen tenced to die Friday for the murder hers of a nejrro woman. Tho two executions are scheduled to taka place between 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. Titus Offers To Give Striking Trainmen Everything But the Road. DISORDERS ARE REPORTED C. & A. Lines Had Been Vir tually Paralyzed Since Last Friday. ROODIIOUSE, ILLS., Aug. 20. . (By The Associated Press.) After promising trainmen who had quit. work last Friday that he would "give them everything but the railroad," Vice President A. T. Titus, of the Chicago k Alton railroad company, at 7:30 o'clock this morning had the satisfaction of see ing the first train in sirty hours leave Roodhouse, bearing two passengers to SU Louis. It came through from Jackson ville. CHICAGO, Aug. 29. (By The As sociated Press.) The walkout of Chicago & Alton trainmen at Roodhouse, Ills., is over. - Striking enginemcn and company oflielals met ut Slater, Mo., in a move to end the C. k A. tie-up thero. The United States Railroad Labor Board continued its hearing on tho appli cation of maintenance of way employes for increases in wages. Five men were held on charges of murder in connection with the Michigan Central wreck at Gary, Ind., August 20, when two of the train crew wero killed.' There were important developments in tho railroad situation today folowing bomb outrages, Bhootings, wreck plots and investigations by Federal, State and" private operatives during the last 21 hours. . Tho Chicago k Alton, whic h has been one of the chief sufferers from strike complications since the shopmen's walk out July 1, prepared to unravel the traf fic tangles on its western lines. With the settlement at Roodhouse the road be gan arrangements for a daylight schedule for its trains. The unauthorized strikes by train service unions virtually had paralyzed the C k A. since lust Friday. While Chicago and Gary, police, Fed eral operatives and railroad detectives dug into their investigations of the (jury wreck, and other alleged sabotage plots in which trainwreeks were a part of a program of terrorism, separate in quiries were being made into an attempt to ditch the California-Floriida flyer on the Frisco system at Caplcville, Tenu., and the dynamiting of Chicago k Alton railroad bndges at Drake and White Hull, Ills. Bombing of tho homes of railroad em ployes at Bloomington, Ills., and Mont gomery, Ala., the shooting of a Chicago & Alton watchman in Chicago; 'a -gun fight between railroad guards and a sniper at Moline, Ills., and the dyitaml- tine of a bridge at (spuds, Florida, Were among strike disorders reported ,: from different sections of the country. ' Discovery of an inflammable bomb near a gasoline storage tank at Flint, Mich., increased the rapidly growing list of reports of violence. Big Four transportation brotherboon men on the rnsco at Liiaic, iio.. threatened to strikek, but a number of maintenance of way employes of the Missouri, Pacific, who joined a sympa thetic strike at Jefferson City, Mo., re turned to work. ... Federal agents at Hammond, Louisi ana, arrested Oscar H. Joiner, chief of the city police, and his assistant, Thomas II. Gillan. on charges of violat ing injunctions granted to the Illinois Central railroad. The arrests were made in connection with the arTest of a de puty sheriff of Pike eounty, Mississippi, by the Hammond police. BOARD REFUSES TO DEFINE PRINCIPLE OF LIVING WAGE CHICAGO, Aug. 20. - (By The As sociated 1'ress.) - The Railroad Labor Board today denied the motion of W. Jett La k. labor statistician, that the board immediately define the principle of a living wage, in case of the maintenance of way empolyes who are socking increas ed minimum rates of pay. A the re quest of E. F. Grable, president of the maintenance organization, the hear ing then was adjourned until tomorrow morning. Mr. Grable announced he was telegra phing President Harding and .fccnator Cummins, one of the authors of the transportation act, at Washington today, asking them to present to Congress an amendment to the act which would make it mandatory on the" Labor board to "nnnriate the principle of the living wage." The Board, in its ruling on Lauck'S request, declared it could not go be- Jyond the transportation act, which pre- scribed the establishment of "just and reasonable" wages. The board's ruling as announced by Chairman Ben W. Hooper, follows: "On the motion submitted yesterday on behalf of the employes by Mr. Lauck the board announces as follows: "It would be superflous for the board to announce in advance the principle or tbory on which it will fix wages in the pending dispute. It may be asMawd hy the parties in this ae that the bonri will give ful I consideration to every cir cumstance set out in the statute for its guidance but it will not go beyond that. "The transportation act requires th board to establish wages that are 'jjst and reasonable ". It i within the prov ince of the parties herein to mak su h contention as tiff may resp -tivf '!y It a to what will constitute a jit ! I reasonable wage. If the w .;.' t - tenance of way orsan-it '.. t living wage' and it !.- .'-I ! st rated to be h 'j - -I waire, the l-'.ird i' ; it w- I I ',
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