Weather
Fair
VOL. XLIIL NO. 209
AITORPIEY
TO ME
THIS YEAR'S COTTON CROP FORECAST AT
BASED ON ESTIMATE OF AUG. 25 -CONDITION,
57 PER CENT NORMAL;
NORTH CAROLINA, 65; 75,000 BALES
Reduction Of 874,000 Bales Is
Made Since Forecast Of
Month Ago. '
DECLINED 13 IN AUGUST
Government ' Issues " Cotton
Forecast As Of Con
dition Aug. 25.
' WASHINGTON', Sept. l.A rcdue-
tiou of .874,000 bales in the prospective
cotton crop of thin year siueo the fore-
- cast of a month ago was shown in. the
.Department of Agriculture's September
cotton report, issued today forecasting
the total crop at , 10,575,000 bales. ; The
condition of the crop r declined 13.8
points during August s compared with
an average decline of 7.7 points in the
previous teu years, the condition having
been 57.0 per cent of a uornial on
August 25.
"As the condition figure of the regu
lar September 1 cotton report is affected
by the acreage abandonment," said the
department's statement,' "no additional
reduction for the abandonment here
shown ueed be made from the present
- forecast of 10,575,000 bales based upon
the August "" condition figure and the
- acreage in cultivation on June 25."
. la a . 8jH,'cini . report,, in response , to J
a senate resolution, tne Department or
Agriculture announced the acj-eage of
cotton abandoned between June 25 and
August 25 as amounting to 367,000
j acres ' or 1 . 1 per cent of the area in
cultivation June 25, leaving 34,485,000
aeres in cultivation on August 25.
. fTlio conditiou of tho crop on August
"5 and the forecast of production by
states follows:
.- Virginia, condition CS; forecast 23,
000 bales.
North Caroliua, 6, and 750,000.
ISouth Carolina 48 and 687,000.
Georgia, 41 and-008,000 . . ,k
Florila, 60 and 24,000. ,
Alabama, 60 and 826,000. ,
Mississippi, 60 and 1,003,000. '
Louisiana, 60 and 414,000, '
Texas, 50 and 3,644,000.
Arkansas, 83 and 060,000,
Tennessee, 65 and 278,000. "
FEAR HELP WILL COME
TOO LATE FOR MINERS
Fire Has Been Subdued But
Immense Timbers Are Still
Smouldering Many Chil
dren May Be Fatherless.
JACKSON, CALIF., Sept. 1.
Fear that rescue crews would pierce
the depths- of the Argonaut gW
mine too late to save 47 entombed
miners was growing this morning on
the fifth day of the nrve wracking
task of tunneling .through several
hundred feet of rock and earth. Of
ficials agreed that tho workings
could not be penetrated before next
w-eek. The fire in the Argonaut
shaft which imprisoned the mluers
lust Sunday is believed to. be virtu
ally out, but hngo timbers, saturated
with oil, still smoulder, and the heat
below the. 2,500 level... is intense.
The boring operations to open a
tunnel to the miners are in prog
ress from the Kennedy adjoining
the Argonaut. , '.
In response to an appeal for res
cue workers to take the place of men
exhausted from their labors of the
past four, days, six hlmet men and ;
equipment of the United Comstoek
Mines Company are being sent from
Virginia City, Nov., to Jaekson, ac
cording to word from Reno.
The number of entombed men was .
fixed at 47 when mine officials today
made public 'a corrected list sup
plementing an earlier one which con
tained 43 names. Twelve of v the
imprisoned miners are married and
if thpy perish, 26 children will be
left fatherless. There are two
brothers, A. Leon and L. Leon, and
a father and son, Charles Oberg and
and Arthur Oberg. ' . .
COTTON MARKET
CLOSING BIDS ON THE
NEW YORK MARKET
NEW YORK, Sept 1. Cotton fu
tures closed easy; Bpots quiet, 45 points
down.
October 22.02 ; December 22.25 ; Jan
nary 22.13; March 22.15; May 22.10;
Spots 22.2u.
. Receipts
frice-...
IS Bales
...22 1-2 Cents
- GENEKAl :
DRIVE AGIST THE R
win m I iw m "ni rnuUm i n ,1 , i.y.i.n n... I nil
Suit Seeks to Restrain All The
Strikers From Interfering With
The Operations of Railroads
All the Railroad Labor Officials Of American Federation Of
Labor, Together With Heads Of Shop Crafts and 120 Fed
erated Systems Are Included In Suit Johnston Says It Is
Another Blunder Of the Administration.
CHICAGO, Bept. 7. Suit for an in
junction against all striking employes of
the railroads of the United States and
thutr union officials was filed in United
States district court by Attorney General
Harry M. Daugherty here today . '. ' '
The action named the individual
unions now on strike as well as the rail
way employes' department of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor. The suit
also was directed against the presidents
of the union.
Beside the railway employes depart
ment, the six international unions, inter
national Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, in
ternational Associatid of Amalgamated
Sheet Metal Workers, Brotherhood of
Railway Car Men, International Brother
hood of Boilmakers, and Iron temp xsmia
ers, , International Association
,:of M4 -
chinists, as well as 120 system federa-
tions were named as the objects of the
injunction.
The suit was filed shortly after the ar
rival of Attorney General Daugherty in
Chicago this morning. The plea lor in
junction named, the railway employes de
partment Of the American Federation of
Labor, tho six striking Bhop crafts and
120 systemvFederations.
r Tim unit seeks to restrain all strikers
from interferring in any way with the
operation ,of the , railroads; i It was
filed before United States District Judge
Wilkerson! ' ; ; ; t
Soon after the arrival of Attorney
General Daugherty, Blackburn Easterlin,
assistant Attorney General, appeared be
fore District Judge Wilkerson and be
gan reading a copy of the petition for a
restraining order. The application was
far embracing in character and sought
to prevent all interference with opera
tions of trains or with Yailroad property
in any way. . -
The application for injunction specifi
cally named the presidents of the Various
union organizations involved in the pres
et strike, which started July I last, fol
lowing a wage decision of the Railroad
Labor Board reducing wages of certain
railway employes throughout the coun
try. '
The suit seeks to enjoin all railway
employes, attorneys, servants, union
agents, associates and members and all
persons acting in aid or in conjunction
House Leaders Plan to Limit
Debate on Soldier Bonus Bill
Both Friends and Foes Of Measure Claim To Find Satisfaction
-In Senate LineupVote In Senate Was 47 to 22 Sent
To Conference Today. -
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. Approved
by the senate, 47 to 22, the soldiers'
bonus bill was scut back today to the
house, ' which passed it last March by
an even greater proportionate majority.
House leaders planned to send the meas
ure to conference today under a special
rule which would limit debate sharply.
Senate and bouse conferees will be
the same as those on the tariff measure,
'but since there are few points of dif
ference between the two houses on the
bonus the managers are expectd to lay
asid the tariff long enough to frame a
rejwrt on the compensation measure.
With favorable action on this report by
Congress the bill would be ready for
the president, .
Both friends and foes of the bonus
claimed to find satisfaction in the sen
ate lineup. Foes pointed out that this
showed 33 seuators against the bonus,
or enough to prevent passage over the
president's veto, should he disapprove
it as they confidently expect he will.
On the other hand friends pointed to
the fact that the number ef senators
supporting the bonus on the roll call
yesterday exceeded by one the necessary
two-thirds majority of those present and
voting to override a veto.
WASHINGTON. Aunust
31. As
amended by the Senate, the
soldiers '
'bonus bill would become effective Jan
ON
A
GASTONIA,
DABGHERTY ENJOIS
with , them, primarily, until, filial hear
ing, and permanetly thereafter, from in
any manner, interferring with, hinder
ing or obstructing railway' companies,
their agents, servants, or employes in
the operation of their Respective rail
roads and systems of transportation or
the performance of their public duties
and obligations in the transportation of
passe ngers and property in interstate
commerce and the carriage of the mails,
and from in any manner interferring
with, hindering or obstructing the agents,'
servats and employes of said railway
eonipaies or any of them, engaged in
inspection, repair, operation and use of
trains, locomotives, cars and other
equipment of said railway companies or
any of them, and from preventing or at
tempting to prevent any person or per-
lsQns from freely entering into or fromjwst, routers you nave yet run across."
cotinuiug in tho employe of said ran -
war companies for the purpose of in
pection and repairing of locomotives and
can or otherwise. ;..
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. (By The,'
Associated Press.) Leaders of the strik
ing shopmen will not abate their at
tempts to make their trike effective what
ever action is taken by the court in-Chi-
cago as a result of injunction proceed
ings lnstltutcu uy Attorney, .wenera i
Daugherty it was said today . by, W. 11.
Johnston, presideiit of the International
Association of Machinists, one or mo
largest striking groups. v
Members of the Senate and Ilou.no
were slow to-comment, but Chairman
Cummins, of the Senate Interstate Com- i
merce Committee, said ho was one of
those who had been consulted about the
move. He said that in the present cir
cumstances "any move that will help
keep the railroads in operation has my
approval. "
"The filing of this suit is just an
other biundcj to be added to the large
list which the administration Iihs already
made in dealing with the railroad situa
tion," Mr. Johnston said. ?' I am sur
prised Mr. Daugherty isn't attempting
to restrain the railroads instead of the
men. The . Ailnunist ration ) nas done
everything it could td help the railroad
management. "
Word of the court action legun in
(Continued on page six.)
uary I, 1923, and would provide three
optional plana for veterans of the world
war, other than thoso whose adjusted
services pay would not exceed $30.
These woukl bo paid in cash. The op
tions are:
Adjusted service certificates payable
in 20 years or sooner at death and con
taining loan provisions.
Vocational training aid at the rate
of $1.75 a day up to a total of 140 per
cent of the adjusted aerviee credit.
Aid in purchasing a farm or home,
the total amount to range from 100 per
eent of the adjusted service red it if
the money were advanced in 1923 to
140 per eent of the adjusted service
credit if the payment was made in 192S
or thereafter .
Adjusted service paymeiit or adjusted j
service credit, would be figured on the
basis -of fl a day for domestic service
and $1.25 a day for foreign service,
less the $60 paid at discharge. But
in no event could the amount of the
credit of the veteran who performed no
overseas service exceed SoPO and the
amount of the credit of the veteran
who performed any overseas service es
eeed $625.
Adjusted service certificates would
have a face value equal to the sum of
the adjusted service-credit of the vtir
an increased by 25 per cent, plus in-
(Continued on page three.)
DAILY
N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON,
LS RESPONSIBLE
ICE TEA, BUTTER MILK
SWEET MILK, APPLE CIDER,
ALL SERVED AT UNION
Rotary Club 133 Strong Take
Supper, With Good Folks
Of Union.
ARRAY OF GOOD THINGS
Mrs. Parks Huffstetler Helps
Thank Women Of Union
For the Supper.
Historic old Union church, beautiful
in its setting of large shade trees and
grassy lawn, famed for its staunch and
Bturdy Prosbyteriun stock, was tho scene
of Kotary's fifjih country picnic .Thurs
day evening when 133 city folks, ltota
fians, Rotary Anns and - guests, went
down to spend an hour and a half with
the Hendersons, Sparrows, Kiddles, Wil
sons, Craigs, ' lluffstetlcrs, Biggers,
Ratehfords, etc., etc. , ;
Lucius Henderson ' bespoke tho hospi
tality of the Union people when he de
clared that there was no latchstring to
the doors of the Union -homes, "Just
push open the door, and make yourselves
at home," was the closing injunction
of this man to the Kotanansv Tom
Hparrow, dayman par excellence, said
the same thing in substance when Culled
on to welcome the visitors. " Wa are
no so interested in giving you the? big
gest feed you have had, as we afe in
establishing the fait that we are the
best mixers you have yet run aeross."
j "v, rwo "peccnes iroin-wcse Typicar
Uniou fanners were characteristic of
the , spirit prevailing throughout tho
evening. " There was aWamaradcrie be
tween the hosts and visitors that was
good to .see. It was a good sign of
the breaking down of the imaginary line
of cleavage that some one has said ex.
isted between country and city folks.
Rather the Union spirit showed the utter
absence of any such barrier.
Never has the supier prepared by the
women of tlio Union church been sur
passed. There may have been others
just as good, but none ,beat the feed
the ltotarians found . themselves ' con
fronting as. they .'arrived at the church
Thursday evening. Hpread on snowy
cloths tho length of a long picnic tablo
was such an array of good things as is
seldom seen in Gaston county. There
was as much left as, was eaten, but it
was the quality that sike the loudest.
Beautifully browned fried chicken and
country ham, sandwiches, cakes, pies,
- custards, etc., of all descriptions were
there 'in delicious abundance. The ar
ray of cakes was superb. The ladies
of Union have a county-wide reputation
as bakers of cake, and Thursday 's sup
per upheld their reputation. Chocolate
cake, eoeoanut cake, banana cake, pound
cake," angel's food and devil's food cake,
plain cake and caramel cake all the
different sorts of cakes were there.
Ranged along the sides of the table us
the Rotarians arranged themscvles in
order were delightfully cold glasses of
iced tea, already filled. Along about
the time the guests were passing from
ham and chicken to sandwiches and
pickles on Hie menu, 'here came a bevy
of beautiful girls bearing trays of ice
cold buttermilk. The Rotes, surprised,
but none the less delighted, each took
a glass of buttermilk and added it to
his already varied collection. A few
minutes later as they were emerging
from the sandwiches and pickles, and
were tackling the damson, peach and
apple pies, lemon and chocolate cus
tards, here came another delegation of
still more beautiful young ladies dis
pensing fresh, ice-cold Jersey sweet
milk. The Rotes gasped and looked
surprised, but added another glass of
beverages to their quota. A ew min
utes later as they were chewing their
way to the cakes, along came more
young ladies with trays of apple cider.
It was enough. The Rotarians capitu
lated and cried '"enough." The
Union folks had fed 'em to a fare-you-well.
Another outstanding fea
ture of the 'menu was com on the
cob, piping hot and sweet, with but
ter and Kilt, served from an improvised
kitchen on the church grounds. Hot
rolls fresh from the ovens of the
neighboring kitchens were also a fea
ture of the supper. After a - half
hour or more of feasting on the
good things prepared by these folks,
the crowd repaired to the lawn whero
from the church steps a few speeches
were made. The Rotarians, sang a
four swui trtt tin A I W f rlUinsI u )
for a few 8,lort ,"alkg- Prof H- G
Steele, the supervisor of public
school music in the city schools, made
an appeal fdr co-o)eration along musi
cal lines and promised to help deve
lop musical entertainments and glee
club numbers in Gastouia. Other talks
were made bv A. G.- Myers. L. N.
Glenn. T. L. Craig. W. T. LoVe, R.
G. Raukin. B. Altman, K. T.
Switzer and Dr. J. H. Henderlite.
The hit of the evening in the talk
ing Hue was that made by Mrs.
Parks R. Huffstetler, whom every
body in Gaston county knows as Bess
(Continued on page six.)
SEPTEMBER 1, 1922
S1MERS
FEDERAL AGENTS UNEARTH PLOT
TO KILL THREE RAILROAD HEADS
REDS INSPIRE WRECKS AND BOMBS
Hundreds of Atlanta Women
Praying For DuPre, "Peachtree
Bandit' -Sentenced to Die Today
" ? 1 " ! ' '
Young Bandit Murdered Irby C. Walker Last Winter Attor
neys Are Exhausting Every Effort To Obtain New . Trial
Scaffold and Rope Ready To Send Young Bandit To Death.
6,046 BALES COTTON WERE'
SOLD HERE GORING YEAR
Local Cotton Year Closed Au
gust 31 Highest Price Paid
Was 22 Cents Cotton
From' York. '
Mr. Frank Costuer, cotton weigher at
the city platform said that for tho year
ending August 31, there were 8,040 bales
of cotton sold on tho local market. Most
of the cotton was grown iu Gaston coun
ty, with several bates' coming in from
York county, South Carolina. Frkies for
the year were paid, ranging froin 17 to
22 1-2' cents. The year has been con
siderably better than last year, which
was a rather poor year for the crop. The
highest number of bales ever sold our
ing a local season Was well over 7,000,
which was during, the year the country's
crop tan into.16,000,000. bahy. 1
The year opened last tlcptembcr with
cotton bringing around nineteen and
twenty cents through December, During
the month of January, 1922, the best cot
ton on the local market brought eighteen
wiits. M.iirh Mils a poor month, prices
dropping as low as 16 1-2 cents. April
paid 17 cents with very few bales offer
ed. May settled around twenty cents,
with Mr. J. D. B. McLeun getting tho
highest price which was, twenty-two and
one-fourth cents. July of this year
showed very little cotton with prices as
high as 22 3-4 cents. The average price
paid during August was 221-3 cents.
York county sent up sonio good grade
short staple cotton, hist year and outside
of Gaston offered more than any other
county.
2,422 PUPILS REPORT
- AT SCHOOL TODAY
Every Building In City System
Is Crowded More Than
800 At Loray 320 Enrolled
' In High School.
Nearly two thousand and fivejhundred
young Americans answered'the call of
the city school bells this morning, some
glad that the doors to a high place in
life arc swinging freely, while others
still eon.sider tho trail to the little Ted
m-hoolhousc a Kid and weary one. With
over ninety tutors emptoyed by the local
board it was resuzed this morning that
there was plenty of raw material on
hand with whichxare to be made: presi
dents, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and
many other professional men and women.
A total of 2,422 pupils reported for
work at S:4o a. m. Divided by sections
of tho city, the figures are ax follows:
Clara, 13; Central Graded, 429; High
School, 320; East. 290; West, 844;. and
iIlow-. 401. This is the count of the
first day's attendance, which is about
100 more than last year.
The West graded, building was taxed
to capacity with over eight hundred
pupils. The auditorium has been divid
ed into class rooms to help meet the
demand. Importation of outside labor
by the Loray Mills has brought several
hundred new pupils to west school.
. The high school reports 320 pupils
registered for work, with a few more
probably to come in later. This is
twenty-five or thirty more pupils than
the number that finished their grade in
high school last spring.
New ideas and most modern plans are
bHng tried out by the board this year.
These will receive their acid tests ia
the next month or so and will show
whether or not they are eapable of i
meeting the local situation.
THE WEATHER
Generally fair tonight u4 Saturday.
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FOR TRAIN
10,575,000 BALES
ATLANTA, GA., Sept. 1. Auxious
ly expectant, and with immovable faith,
hundreds of Atlanta women today uni
ted in prayer for Frank B. Dupre,
f'l'eachtree bandit," who was to go to
gallows shortly after 1:30 o'clock this
afternoon for the murder of Irby C.
Walker, which occurred here last Decem
ber. - : "., ,
Calmly awaiting the end, clinging still
to the faint hope that a Just minute cir
cumstance might arise to stay th e exe
cutioner's hand, Dupre prayed with the
women who have befriended him .
Hard by, in the Fulton county tower,
the gallows and the sixteen feet of new
hemp rope with tho death knot tied,
were in readiness. In accordance with
the wished of tho condemned youth ami
tho wishes of his father, F. A. Dupre,
tho trap was to be sprung not before
1:30 this afternoon.
Meanwhile, H. A. Allen, and Louis
Foster, Dupre attorneys, were investi
gating a report' that one of the triiil
jurors in Dupre 's ease was distantly re
lated to Mrs. Walker, wife of tho
youth's victim, Thcy admitted it was
nothings moro than a report, and said
they hoped to get something tangiblo on
it fron Montgomery, Ala. The attor
neys coiiiftiunicated the report to Gover
nor Harwick late yesterday, but the
Governor refused to aet until assured of
theHruth in tho matter. ' s
Mr. Allen admitted that if this hope
failed, there was nothing inore ho could
do to prevent tho trap from beinjr
sprung "sometime between the hours of
9 a. in. and 4 p. m.,"in accordance
with the sentence pronounced by the Ful
ton Superior Court.
ATLANTA, Sept. 1. The crime for
which Frank B. DuPre was convicted
was described by Atlanta police officials
as one of the most daring and sensation
al hold ups in the history of the city.
Entering the jewelry store of Nat Kais
er, in the downtown section of Peach
tree street, in the heart of the business
quarter when the 'streets wre crowded
with , Christmas shoppers on . tho after
noon of December 21, 1921, the debonair
youth asked to see u tray of diamonds.
Selecting a gem valued by the jeweler
at $2,500, Dul're, the inexperienced boy,
appearing much younger than his 1H
years, shot his way out of the store, kill
ing Irby C. Walker, a private detective
who attempted to block his exit;
Dashing down the busy sidewalk an I
into the corridor of a hotel a few doors
away, just as many of tho luncheon
guests were leaving, he encountered B.
Graham West, city comptroller of Atlan
ta, who unaware of 'the reason for the
boy's haste, attempted to stop the flee-
ing Daiidii, mt. west was snot in ine
neck and lingered 4 between life and
death for weeks bfore recovering.
After shooting the city official Dti
Pro vanished, and escaped to Chattanoo
ga in an automobile. There ho pawned
the diamond stolen in Atlanta for less
than a third of its value, and started on
(Continued on page 3.)
BABE RUTH SUSPENDED
FOR THIRD TIME
(By The Associates frees.)
CHICAGO, Sept. 1. (By The Asso
ciated Press. ) Babe Ruth, of tho
New York Yankees, was suspended for
the third time this season by President
Johnson, of the American League, to
day. The suspension is for three days.
He will be iligible to return to the game
Labor Day.;
The three day suspension is punish
ment for Ruth's language to Umpire
Connelly at New Y'ork last Wednesday.
Ruth was put out of the game after pro
testing Connoly's decision. Reports to
President Johnson said that Ruth's re
marks to the umpire were vulgar and vici
ous.
GARY, IND.,6ept. 1. . (By The As
sociated Press.) . John Petrowski, one
of four men held on a charge of murder
as a result of the wrecking of a Michi
gan Central express train August 20,
with a loss of two lives, today was bound
over to the criminal court without bond
to await the findings of the grand jury
next week. The prisoner was charged
with murder and taken to jail at Crown J
Point,
Local Cotton
22V2 Cents
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS $
DISORDE
Deportation Proceedings Will
Be Instituted Against
Aliens .Arrested.
24 HOURS OF DISORDERS
Bridge Burnings and DynamiU
ing Reported From Many
Sections.
CHICAGO, Sept. 1. police and
Federal ojcratives here were under or
ders today to start a vigorous" drive
against radicals and agitators believer
to be behind railroad wreck and bomb
plots. ' ' . . ..
Activities here followed 24 hours of
increasing disorders, bridge burnings
and dynamiting , of railroad property
throughout the country.
Disclosures of an alleged plot to kill
three railroad presidents or kidnay mem
bers of their families were made during
tho investigation of radical plots, ac
cording to the Chicago Herald and Ex
aminer; today. Tho. three rail heads
against whom the alleged plot was made
were said to be the presidents - of tho
New York Central lines, the Pennsylva
nia System and the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific. The home here of tho ring
leader was said to bo under surveiUanco '
and his arrest was expected. .
Deportation proceedings against Milieus
arrested in connection with plots against
the railroads are probable authorities
said. , -, , j.-- .
Governor Small, of Illinois, granted a
requisition to extradite William Z. Fos.
ter, radical leader, and head of tho trades
union educationul league, to Michigan,
whero ho is wanted on charges of crimi
nal syndicalism growing out of the al
leged communist meeting in the Berrien
county wood.
Among numerous plots and actibas 'a
gainst various railroad properties in the
past 24 hours were these:
W. P. Seyfred, president of the fccw
Mexico State Federation of Labor, and
Andrew Bruno, u plumber, were held at
Albuquerque, following their arrest on
a tianta Fe train and tho discovery of
bombs, fuses and caps in their grips,
foearching Seyfred's room, police said
they found more bombs.'
Road oflicials said they believed tsey
fred and Bruno planned to blow up the
Raton tunnel. The officers said they
had information of plans to dynamite a
bank building and hotel under construc
tion by non-union labor at Albuquerque.
Several bridges on the St. Louis South
western railway in Arkansas and Texas
were burned and telephone wires were
cut. The road offered a reward . of
$1,000 for the arrest of Minna rn.
sponsible 'for the fires.
Track walkers discovered a loose rail
near the junction of the Cotton Belt and
the Missouri Pucifie at North Little
Rock, Ark. Spikes had been pulled
from the ties.
Bridge burners fired 8 Santa Fe trestle
near Teeumseh, Okla, after saturating
it 'with gero8ene. Posses were in pursuit
of three men said to have started the
fire.
Homes of three of the Illinois Cen
tral at Fad ilea h, Ky., were dynamite.!.
The explosioss occurred in different
parts of the city. , .
Five men, including the chairmen of
two striking shop crafts, were arrested
at Slater, Mo., by deputy United States
marshals-and taken to Kansas City,
charged with interferring with the mails.
The charges included the alleged beating
of a volunteer fireman on the Chicago Ss
Alton, who was dragged from an engina
cab by a mob at Marshall, Mo.
Other developments included threats
against railroad officials at Memphis, the
dynamiting of a Pennsylvania bridge nt
Wilmington, DeL. a clash between atrik
insr shopmen and workers at Lacrosse,
Wis., and the slugging of a Missouri
Pacific shop foreman at Sedaiia, Mo.
WAR DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES
MOVEMENT OF TROOPS
WASHINGTON. Sept. 1. Movement
of troops in the second, fourth and sixth
to uinth army corps area, inclusie,
from cantonments and temiwrary sta
tions to permanent posts selected be
cauf of the reduction of enlisted
strength to 123,000, were announce! to
day by the War Department. The or
ders show a general scattering of small
commands through the sreas affected
and a decided reduction in strength of
units as emnpatwl to last year.
In the fourth area, the first battalion
of the sixth infantry was ordered from
Camp McClcllan, Alabama, to Fort M
Pherson, Georgia ; the nucleus of tfm
cixth infantry from Mt-Clellan and Yi tx,
MePbcrnoa to Jefferson Barracks, JI ...
souri, .eniiieeriiig training . compii
umler four at McCkilaii was or i '- i
to For Dupou. 1 '."!.., hp, and r..i
butt-r.v n. 4, sf tn same
left Lk'S M .iif, l-.-a.
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