North Carolina Newspapers

FTr Weather Cloudy Local Coltcn 21i2 CENTS Vol. xliii. no. 220 GASTONIA, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPT. 14, 1922 SINGLE COPY S CENTS A OA E ON III iW II im LINDSAY PATTERSOn GETTING READY TO RIDE RIGHT INTO CONGRESS Winston-Salem Woman Has Announced Her Candi dacy for Congress. - OPPOSES MA J. STEDMAN Has Named Her Car the "Washington Special," She Says. GREENSBORO, Sept.. 14. "I have -named my old car 'the Washington B pedal' and. if.tuey don't pull me for exceeding the sieed limits. I am going to ride; right on into Congress," said Mrs Lindsay Patterson, of Winston Salem, 'candidate against Major Charles M. Btedmau, democratic incumbent, for .a seat in Congress from th'J filth dis trict,. -... ' ' Mrs.' Patterson is, the first' woman front North Carolina to announce her self a candidate for the office, and the eampaigu is creating interest in both republican and democratic circles. She was hero Tuesduy at the O. Henry ho ' tel to 'meet with the republican leaders frnm Imanlif m-ow ammfo in vlna nia. trict, ' K. E. Kit ore, chairnian of the fifth district committee, presided. . C. M. Bernard, old time wheel horse of the party, started the bull rolling by making a motion that the chairman ap point a mau and a woman from each Drecinet in the district to eo-oiierate with the county chairman in bringing their candidates to victory. The, mo- , tiou met wit a some discussion at nrst, Cut the, conference finally came around to the original suggestion and it car- t Tied unanimously. Other plans were greed upon by which it was hoped the democrats could be defeated, and an , intensive campaign for Mrs. Pat tersou was mapped out , . -Mrs. Patterson said yesterday after noon that she didn't care who knew she wauted the office and if she were elect ed she would be "highly pleased," but that if she were defeated she would thank the republican jwrty for giving her the happiest sis mouths of her life. She is' thoroughly interested iu her race, and is filled with the things she will attempt to do if elected. ''But let me say one word about Major Stedman,' the woman candidate added. "He has always been noted for his charming manners and mine would take a bjue ribbon at any county fair.", Mrs. Patterson said she did not in the least mind praising her own manners because she "naturally had none at all at .first and they were ac quired iu youth uuder great difficulty." , It is the present plan of the woman candidate to - sweep the imperial fifth district with siieechcs and she is even ' Iiihh!iiw 4 iLa tlriii s fnn u jlntr JT1 lining v awta aw v s v -m.mj Without any prompting from a re porter, Mrs. Patterson began telling what she thought of the league of na tions.' At first, she aaid, it looked like the salvation of the world, aud then after --she began traveling over Eurojie and looking into the situation she be gan finding flaws in the proposal. And in connection with that statement she raid there ought to be "zones of safe ty where great questions concerning world problems could be discussed with the joint effort of both parties. She does not believe that such questions as the league of nations should be tied up in politics. ' With a burst' of laughter she began telling what one man from her own . ftmititv Buirl ul.fiiif hnr nut Inner nirfi The man declared that Mrs. Patterson Was the best Presbyterian and the worst politician he had ever seen. She heartily agreed with the statemeut, say- Inn nlia u.lii.ltln.l tka .... liu alia nil a bum politician, but she also admitted that there was no better Presbyterian anywhere than she. . Mrs. Patterson ia taking the heat of the eampaigu in a light-hearted manner, And she is finding many amusing in stances in being in the political lime fabf. "If I .am elected," i lie 1 laughed again, "one of the first things I-will ao is to give myseii mo pleasure or working for a new postoffice for Greens boro. " .- . ; CIVITAN CLUB POSTPONES Y. M. C. A. PROPOSITION Too Many Church Obligations In Gastonia Now for Gen eral Canvass - To Keep Boys and Girls In High School. . The Civitan Club held its regular Innchenu Tuesday, Several interesting talks were made by members and guests. ' Frank Boouicrshine made an especially good talk on industrial in surance. - t The. club after an investigation has decided that the first objective towards muring a Y. M. C. A. for Gastonia, is to secure a lot. It seems to be the consensus of .opinion of a great many of our business people people that in view of the church buildiug activities that it would be uaic just now to undertake a general canvass of the city. , The question of the elub fostering a movement to keep the boys and girls of Gaston ' eounty in high school was discussed and the matter referred to The-committee on education-. THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight tnd , Friday; inoderate tempers tuxe. . . PAINTED BODIES OF IRISH YOUNG WOMEN GREEN BELFAST, Sept 14. South. Iriih advices today assert that the homes of six young women of Killar ney, known to be ia sympathy with the Republicans were visited by arm ed and masked men who found the young women in their beds and painted their bodies green. Brigadier General O'Dalf, who is in charge of the National Army forces in the town is investigating the incident and has 'promised to take extreme measures with the culprits when they are found. Mecklenburg coming in force to gaston fair 5,000 Is Goal Set for Meek-lenburg-Charlotte Day at Big Gaston Fair Jersey Cattle , Coming Mecklenburg county is coming in full force to the Rjff Gaston County Fuir October 10 to 14: ' . .''." "We're setting five thousand people from Mecklenburg as tho goal for Mecklenburg -Charlotte Day that's what we've decided to tall it," said Booster Keuser, the manager of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, to Executive Secretary Fred M. Allen of the Big Gaston Fair Tuesday while in Char lotte. "We're going to send out a bombardment of advertising blotters in a, few days featuring our day for Thursday, October 12, so peeple gen erally will have the date before them. And then we're going to follow this up. We're coming at you strong." At a meeting held Saturday the Mecklenburg cattle breeders made final plans fo( exhibits at the fair. More fine Jerseys have been selected than were shown last year so that the exhib its from this source alone will consti tute a magnificent cuttle show. Be sides the Jerseys six Guernseys from the herds owned by Dr. Whisnunt and J, E. Mcllvane will be shown here. R, C. Basiuger, cattle tester for Mecklenburg, will u,gain be in . charge of the stock while ou show here. The committee from Mecklenburg will be coinposd of K. E. McDowll, of Char lotte, P. A. Irwin, of Matthews, nuti N. B. Harris, of Newells. J cottonTonsumption - - SHOWED AN INCREASE Spindles ' Active In August Showed an Increase Over July More . Cotton Used During August. ' WASHINGTON". Sept. 14. Cotton consumed during August amounted to 0117.4044 bales of Hat and 60,825 bales of linters, compared -with . 458,548 af lint and 55.424 of linters in July this vcar aud 4667.05!) of lint and 02,106 or linters in August last year, tne eensus bureau announced today. - , Cotton on hand August 31, was as follows? Held in consuming establish incuts. 1.024.95)4 bales of lint and 116, 891 of linteM, comimred with 1,215,10a of lint and 134.597 of linters on July 31 this year aud 1,006,066 of lint and 190,623 of linters on August ol last year. Held in public storage and at com nrosses. 1.549.789 bales of lint aud 30,- 5343 of linters, compared with 1,488, 083 of lint and 54,587, of linters on July 31 this year and 3,463,964 of lint and 241,140 of linters ou August 34 last year. ' . ' ; .'. Exports totalled 273.308 bales, includ ing 4.490 bale of linters, compared with 373,742 iucludiug 9,100 or linters in July this year and 423,4491 includ ing 7,888 of linters in August last year. Cotton spindles active during August numbered 32.499.324 compared, with 31,- 975,269 in July this year aud 32,930,755 iu August last year. Statistics for cotton growing states follows: , ' Cotton consumed during August 338,- 6628 bales, compared with 304,9.j6 in July this year and 277,608 in August last year, - Cotton on hand August ol was helil us follows; In consuming - establishments 408,961 bales, compared with 529,368 on July 31 this year and 396,899 ou August 31 last year. In t'ublic storage and ut compresses, 1.277.735 bales, compared with 1,123,- Slt on July 31 this year aud 3,062,277 on August 31 last year. Cotton spindles active during August numbered 15,613,632 compared with 15,- )H3,90. during July this year and 14,4- 754,822 during August last year. MORE THAN A THOUSAND WANT TO SEE ELECTROCUTION RALEIGH. X. a. Sept. 14. More than a thousand jtersous have applied to Warden Ham Busbee for tickets to witness the electrocution tomorrow of Angus Murphy and Joseph Thomas, ne groes, convicted of charges growing out of the attack on Mr. aud Mrs. A. E. Kctchen, of Miami, Fla., near Southern Pines, about Six weeks ago. :' Wardn Busljee said today .he would issue about fifty tickets -to each execution. Baptismal rites were administered to Murphy and Thomas yesterday. Both were in good spirits this morning and declared they were ready for death. Thomas continues to protest innocence of attacking Mr. and Mrs. Ketcheu, but admits he was with Murphy and John Lee, another negro, when the attack Was made. - Lee ' submitted to a charge of secret assault and is serving a 12year sen tence. , The execution of Murphy and Thomas tomorrow will make the fourth double electrocution since the electric chair has been used in this State. Eastern Situation Is Near The Danger Point And Grave Crisis Is Near Say British Newspapers AH the Elements Are Present Must Act at Once If They 'Miracle Can Avert Disaster -LONDON, Sept. 14. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The Eastern situation is causing considerable concern here. This is reflected in. the editorial col umns of the morning newspapers, some of which adopt a distinctly alarmist tone . ' "A grave crisis" confronts the pow. ers, says one, while another declares "the situation is drifting to the danger poiut," that "all the elements are present for auother flare-up of war," and that "the powers must act at once, and iu agreement; if they fail to ngrce, nothing but a miracle ean avert disaster. " ". ' j . - The one sentiment , which dominates all is fear lest France, although agree ing to maintenance of the neutrality of Constantinople and the Straits of Dar danelles, may interpret tho "legitimate aspirations" of the Turks in such a manner as to prevent the co-operation of Great Britain.. ' , Those paers which are habitually suspicious of France comment strongly on her tenderness for the' Turks and insist that the latter cannot bo allowed to recover Thrace and Adriauople, which thye believe France is willing to give them. ' Elsewhere the fairly confident hoi i expressed that France eventually will agree to co-operate with Great Britain, which is generally credited with uphold ing the letter of the Treaty of Sevres. Declaration of the French view is ex jiectcd hourly, and awaited with the greatest eagerness. If the fear regarding the French, po sition is removed, the other fears will be immediately lessened, but at present fhey are acute. Turkish military ag gression is feared, military activity in the Balkan countries is feared, incur sion of the Russian Soviets into troubled arena is feared, while behind all is the restless ' menace of the immense Moslem population of India and the other Mussleman countries, v Each day brings fresh reports of the intense feeling aroused in the Mo hammedan countries by the Turkish vic tories in -Anatolia, - with indication of ueterminntion to support the Turkish elaims with whatever means lie at their disposal. Reports from British India especially represent the' Moslems there as greatly excited.. The Daily Express today published a Cairo dispatch quoting information just received of equally intense excite ment in Palestine. News of tho Rus sian Soviet's note of protest against the allied.actlou in Constantinople had not reached there when the dispatch was filed, but it will fall on soil prepared to receive it and add to the prevailing alarm, ' , ' Fear of an attack on Constantinople by the Turkish nationalists before the allies can reach an agreement has brought to the front the quention of the whereabouts of the main Kemalist army, which . apparently never entered Smyrna. Is this army on its way to the Straits by secret forced murches, it is asked. The urgeut need of the quickest pos sible agreement of the allies ' is situ by even theealmest of the commenta tors, and a suggestion for an immediate conference is conspicuously put forward. It is stated that the Britisln cabinet will meet to discuss the critical situa tion tomorrow-, by which time it is hoped France's position will have been made clear. MOUNT BEULAH FAIR TO BE OF THE BEST L. A. Bar bee Is President of Community Fair Plan a Meeting Friday Night Complete Arrangements. to Mount Beulah community fair is go ing to be a live one, according to inter est foil ml iu that section by one of the officials of the Big Gaston County Fuir Wednesday. The iieoplo there are going, to hold a meeting at the school house bn the Cherry vi lie-Dallas Toad Friday night, the 22nd, to wiud up plans for the community fair. Li.-- A. Barbee l president of this fair, Henderson Clark vice president and David Froneberger secretary and treasurer. They have a live committee list and the lteople are planning to make their first fair a real one and one eapable of giving the other Gaston community fairs and those from Cleve. liMid a close run for the iiampiouship. FIRE DAMAGED M0DENA . MILL WASTE HOUSE Firevabout 1 o'clock yesterday morn ing in the waste house of the Modena Mill did considerable dauiage. Accord ington to Supt. W. T, Storey of the Modena mill, delay in securing the fire department wag caused by his inability to get phone connection. A patrolman up town saw the blage and notified the fire department which arrived on the scene while people at the-mill were still making frantic efforts to get central. The same night there whs a blaze in a brick store room on North York- street belonging to .J. V. Harper, The dauiage here was nominal L. for Another Flare-up Powers Fail to Agree, Nothing But a Turkish Situation Is Menacing. HOPE TO REACH ENTOMBED MINERS FRIDAY JACKSON, CALIF., Sept. 14. Despite disheartening progress after seventeen days effort to burrow through dirt, muck and rock to forty seven men imprisoned in the burning Argonaut mine, grim mine worker, emerging from the ground today, af ter their exhausting grind, predicted they would smash through to their en tombed fellows by late Friday night Meanwhile, on the assumption that many, if not all the entrapped miners have perished, preparations went for ward to care for the bodies expected to be recovered. ' PICRIC ACID AVAILABLE FOR FARMERS OF GASTON Explosive Which Is Good Sub stitute for Dynamite Can Be Obtained From Government at 10 Cents Per Pound. Picric 'acid, a valuable substitute for dynamite, in blasting stumps and pre paring land, is available for Gaston county farmers, according to announce ment by County Agent L. B. Alt man. It run be bought for 10 cents a pound. "Mr. George It. Boyd, .representa tive of the federal department, was in my office in the interest of selling pic ric acid," said Mr. Altmau. "This material is now stored at Edgewood, Md., and is sold direct to farmers or landowners for agricultural purposes only. This, material is a high explosive and was used in large quantities by this and other countries during the world war. This is now classed as a salvaged war material and is recommended to lake tlie place" of dynamite for agri cultural purposes. "There arc some 12, 500,000 pounds on luiud at present. ."Picric acid ia comparatively safe and has less toxic effects than ordinary dynamite. Consequently, the use of this will not cause the usual headache in use that the other explosives do. This material is put up in six ounce cartridges and this cartridge is used ui the place of an eight ounce chnrge of dynamite. Temperatures and moisture do not seriously uffect this .material. If stored for future use precautions should be taken in storing in a dry place, but tho material will remain in the soil several hours without interfering with the . sensitiveness of the material. "This material can lie laid down in Gastonia at ten cents lier ikmiik! in car- loud lots. A carload is 16,000 pounds of neid or a gross weight of 20,000 pounds. We are liow receiving orders for this material and must complete this by October 1. If anyone desires , to place an order this will ,be accepted at the county agent's office up to the above mentioned date." . FURTHER IMPROVEMENT IN MRS. HARDING'S CONDITION WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. Further improvement iu tho condition of Mrs. Harding was reported today by Briga dier General C. E. JSawycr, White House physician. ' The President 's wife, he said, Bpent an excellent night the best since her iflnesg became critical. Satis factory recuperative progress, he added, is being made. Announcement was made lust night at the White House that in view of the steady improvement in Mrs. Hardin's no more formal bulletins would be is sued to the press. Dr. George T. Harding, Jr., brother of tho President, who has been lit at t in la nee, returned today to Columbus, Ohio. Clifford Kliug, a brother of Mrs. Harding, also hug left for his home in Marion, Ohio. POLITICAL ARGUMENT CAUSE OF MURDER ATHENS, CA, Sept. 14. Walter A. Ayres, of , Hartwell, is in the Hart jail eharged with murder in connection with the death of Earl Sunders, prominent HastCounty farmer, whom he is said to have shot and instantly killed in the public square ut Hartwell last night fol lowing a heated argument about politics, according to reports received here this morning. It is declared tliat Mr. Ayres whip ed out his revolver, and shot Mr. San ders, who reeled, tried to grasp an auto mibile, and then fell dead. Ayres turn ed himself over to the officers and for a while there was general pandemonium at Hartwell, the large crowd having assem bled for election returns and somewhat Excited on this account, becoming much more excited. COTTON MARKET CLOSING BIDS ON THE NEW YORK MARKET NEW YORK, Sept. 14. Cotton fu tures closed steady. October 21.30; De cember 21.78; January 21.bV; March 21.76; May 21.67; July 21.45. Spots eloped quiet. 21. 7j, 50 points down. GASTONIA COTTON. Y J Reported by F. A. Costner.) Receipts . 13 Bales Price ..... Cents (Strict to Good Middling.) MEMBERS OF SHOP CRAFT POLICY. COMMITTEE SCATTER TO DISTRICTS TO, BEGIN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS ENDDF RAIL STRIKE MAY BRING RELIEF OF COAL SHORTAGE IN THE SOUTH Cotton Mill Plants Are Threatened With Shutdown for Lack of Coal. NOT ENOUGH STEAM Southern Power Company Had Threatened to Curtail Elec tric Current to Industries. CHARLOTTE, Kept. 14. Settlement of the rail strike, with the resultant re sumption of traflic movement approach ing noriuul, is expected to relieve the situation for the Southern Power com pany, which sent out uoticcs yesterday morning to industrial users of power that it might be necessary to shut off the current one day a week to conserve com I. While the power company has coal to lust only about a week, due to irregu lar deliveries during the past few weeks when it wa necessary to use tho four steam plants to produce current to sup plement the water produced power, be cause of unusually low water for several weeks, sporadic receipts of coal may bo sufficient to tide over until coal begins to move over the ruin Is in normal amounts. ' : Efforts" are being made to avoid clos ing down one day in the week and the sttlement of the strike yesterday may ullow a sufficient movement of coal in time to provide fuel enough to keep the steam auxiliary plants operuting, al though this is not assured, a high of ficial of the coinpuny said hist night. . Use Four Steam Plants, Four steam plunts at Eno, near Chapel Hill, Greensboro, Mount Holly and Greenville, B. C, have- been burning from 80 to 100 ear loads of coal each week for several weeks, with only eight or 10 car loads coming in during the past six weeks, as a result of which the bunkers, full ut the beginning of the period, are now beginning to show the bottom, the ofliciuls said last night. The power company has out orders for 20,000 tolls of eoul that is supposed to be moving or tied up in transit, it was stated. However, the movement has been so slow that the company has paid three times the contract price from coal " boofleggers " to get all that it was possible to secure. Company men have been riding the railroads for several weeks, locating coal purchased on sidings and doing everything possible to get it moving and keep it headed this way, it was stated. Hopes are to have enough coal to con tinue operation until movement approxi mating normul is restored, or rains serve to increase the volume of 'the waters', allowing greater hydroelectric production. ' . Company ofliciuls fear that domestic users will begin calling for coal at a rate that will further congest traffic and, with priority, take most of the avail able supply, thus further depriving the company of its needed supply. Domestic users can get their winter supplies as well later, when the congestion is re lieved, ofliciuls believe. Roads are cluttered up now and it will j take probably a month or six weeks for rollinir stock to lie brouaht to a proper : state of repair, the congestion ou tlie lines relieved and anything like normal traflic restored, it is believed. Increase Use Of Power. Customers arc inclined to increase the amounts of electric power; partially as a result of having to do extra work to supply the demands' made on electrically supplied industries, because many steam plants are restricted in their operauous, it was stated. The Southern Power company sup plies 300,000 horsepower daily to the electricaly oieratel industries in North und South Carolina, including 300 tex tile mills with 5,000,000 spindles which would be affected by the closing order, should it become effective. Electric lighting in several North and South Carolina cities, 'along with street railway systems operated by (he South ern Power company und related organiza tions, are not included in the notices sent out, only the iudiisctrial plants be ing notified of the possibly need of closing down a .lay each week at an early date, unless relief is provided at once. The company has 60 car loads of coal in transit that it hojas to get to the city soon, it was stated. Meanwhile, coal is being bought wherever and at what ever prices it can be secured, in order to continue the Oerution of the' auxiliary steam plants, the ofliclal said lust night. KU KLUX KLAN SENDS THREATENING NOTE TO MAIUK MONROE. LA.. Sept. 14. Mayor "Bob" Dade, of Mer Bouge; La, where a maskeit oanu nevtrm napped five men of that place, two or i.i..K .fill rp missiiiir. has received kn..n;,i l-tpni warninc him that mi les lie vacates his office and leaves the town he will face a similar fate, accoru ing to friends here of the town 'b execu- i The first of these letters, written by an ( unidentified person, was received several . davs ago, according to the Mayor 4 friends and were dated at Rayville, La., in Richland Parish. . Dade is said to have received another . .. . l ' L VM - lliMufon. letter vesierrray in wmca ire o i.... - , ed with death uuless he vacated his office and left town. j NEGOTIATIONS TO" END STRIKE ON SOUTHERN WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. Di rect negotiations to end the shop men's strike on the Southern Rail way on the basil of the agreement adopted by the shop crafts' gen. eral policy committee will be in-, augurated at conferences to be held here beginning Saturday, Henry W. Miller, vice president of the Southern in charge of op erations, in making this announce ment today expressed confidence that details of the pis whereby shop employes of the Southern on strike would return to work would be worked out without difficulty at the conferences. He said th con ferences were arranged upon re ceipt of a telegram from shoft craft representatives. 33 PER CENT OF ROADS TO END SHOPMEN'S STRIKE (By The Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. Advices to the labor department today from, its representatives in Chicago said that railroads representing approximately 35 per cent of the country 'a mileage hud signified their intention of ending thu shopmen 's strike on . the basis of the agreement accepted yesterday by tho shop crafts' general policy coin ui it tee, aud that roads - representing an addi tional 30 per cent were ready to end the strike. The commission decided upon to ad judicate the differences between the strikers and rail hcu4s, as provided under tho agreement, 'labor department officials were informed, will bo com posed of six shop crafts representa tives, and not officials of the railroad brotherhoods, us originally provided. Sectin four of the -agreement, the ad vices further explained, was interpreted iu Chicago by union workers to mean that the railroads signatory to tho agreement will meet union representa tives on wage questions ami all other matters growing out of the strike and upon failure to agree on points at issue, the questions under dispute -will be re ferred to tho commission provided for in section five. : The new development in the strike situation was received with satisfaction by all administration officials, including President Harding. Many would not comment for publication, preferring to wait until an actual settlement had been reached, but ut tho treasury it was said that Secretary Mellon, who, because 'of his life-time experience iu dealing with industrial and financial affairs and because of his present du ties watches the bmriness situation closely, took the view that with an end to industrial troubles the outlook for business was ' very good.' ' Mr. Mellon wus said, however, to see limitations upon the truusportatiou fa cilities of the rnilroads, which would prohibit uny enormous expansion of business activity in the immediate fu ture. Shortage of equipment and pos sible labor shortages are the limiting factors, iu Mr.'.-Motion's, opinion. Normally the railroads of the coun try require about 100,000 cars a year added to their rolling stock equipment, it wus explained, and as litis replace ment of rolling stock has not been kept up the carriers' ability' to handle traf fic would lie limited for the present to that extent. Also the posflbility of labor being largely employed iu other lines might affect the railroads' supply of workers. Nevertheless Mr. Mellon was repre sented as seeing no difficulty ahead for the carriers in supplying tho needs and requirements of the country over tho winter, particularly in the matter of coal. Some commercial projects have been deferred until next year as a result of the labor disputes in the coul aud rail industries, according to reports to the treasury, which would lessen to some extent the national coal requirements while the receutly increased use of oil as fuel is expected to diminish the de mand for coal by approximately 200,000 tons of coal weekly. INJUNCTION FIGHT AGAINST WILKERSON IS CONTINUED CHICAGO, Sept. 14. Despite) the partial settlement of thu railway shop men's strike, the injunction fight in Sudge James H. Wilkcrxon's court on Attorney General Daugherty 's : applica-' Hon for a preliminary restraining order against rail strikes was continued to day, ' ' . Peace settlements would not alter the government 's determination to finish its case, spokesmen for the, attorney gen eral said. The government attorneys continued presentation of evidence in supjKirt of their charges that a -widespread con spiracy of violence and intimidation ex isted iu connection with the shopmeu's strike. ' AMUNDSEN NOT TO TRY : FLIGHT TO GREENLAND NOME, ALASKA; Sept. 13. - Inform matiou from a reliable source received here today was to the effect that Captain K o;i Id Amundsen would not attempt this year his proposed flight across the North Pole to Greenland as was reported re cently from CxiK"iiluigen. Amundsen, who was lust reported at Wainwright, 100 miles southwest of Point Barrow, Alaska, plans to spend the winter there, according to tihs information . S. A. L. MANAGEMENT AND ' SHOPMEN TO CONFER NOKFOLK, Va., Sept. 14. A meet ing - between the management of the Seaboard Air Line Railway and repre sentatives of the shop crafts will lie held here Saturday at which resumption of work will be idrt-ussed on the basis of the Chicago settlement, it was an nounced today i - ' t ''. " - - TEXT OF INSTRUCTIONS SENT TO RAIL SYSTEMS WILL BE KEPT SECRET About 50 of the 202 Class On - , Roads Are Expected to Sign Agreement. INSTRUCTIONS SENT OUT Mileage Affected Is About 55,000 of the 250,000 -Miles In Country. CHICAGO, Sept. 14. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Leaders of the Fed erated IJailwny Shop Crafts who today began negotiating separate settlements of tho shopmen's strike in accordance with the agreement adopted by the unions' general policy committee, an. nouueed that neve I r.i;ir,,o,u i,a graphed union headquarters indicating ....Mtn,-, lu KO ,nr0 run lieirnlintinn. ihese, the leaders said, were in addi tion to about 50 roads which previously had agreed to separate settlements: v Among the roadsw hich union offi; eials said hud communicated with them, the only one named was the Elgin, Joliet aud Eastern, which operates as an out belt line in the Chicago awitch ing district and feeds the steel plant of the Calumet anj adjacent industrial districts. CHICAGO, Sept. 14. (By The As- Soclateil 1'n-HH 1 M...ni.-.. ' . crafts policy committee who yesterday approved peace plans for ending the railway strike through separate agree ments with individual roads, today be gan sepnrate negotiations under terms of tho agreement. Insctructions to various system Feder ation otlicuils to sigu negoations and ar range agreements with their roads were sent out f rem union headquarters br pert m. Jewell, chief strike leader and head of the Railway tiupioyes' Depart ment of the American Federation of Labor. :'",- Although the shop 'crafts executive council remaiiied here wUh Mr. Jewell to direct the affairs of the railway shop u...Ui.a ,u miming me swike, policy com mittee members scattere to their respee tive' districts woon after, the settlement plan was adopted. Railway systems couiiteu among those exacted to sign the ngreoment imme diately or soon were said to number -bout fifty of the 202 class one roads of the country. ; teome of the larger systems were counted among those willing ta sigu for immediate peace. . : The mileage affected today was esti-' mated at about 55,000 of the 230,00ft miles iu tho United States. t The text of instructions to officials of system Federations, would remain secret,' Mr. Jewell gaid. Ho said also that union leaders would not make public at this time a list of the rnul hi, l. parties to the agreement. The reason tor retaining the list, he said, was be cause it will probably be augmented by new signers as the result of a continu ous series of conferences with roads not already in the agreement. . Any lists made miblie Mr -Towoii said, would have to come from the rail roans tnemseives. i W. H. Finlev. nrcsident of tlin riial go and Northwestern Railway, was one or me most outsponen of tlie executive who announced acceptance of the plan. "Our shopmen have asked us to meet their shopmen here today. aud we will proceed to make ua iudiviiliml nettle. ment with our men" he said. "1 thin it is it good thimr that the rnaii urn tin making individual settlements instead oft vvanonai agreements. : "It Ullts these mutters hni-k wW they belong, bet wen the persons most di rectly interested, the roads and the med who work for them, " ' Efforts to verifv nuhlinhnd lists nt roads Hcrent inw tlie itett lemenf drnw .U Ilia is from thu Erie. RnrliiiD-f mi. CVu-ann Great-Western, Southern Pacific, Illinois Central and a large number of other roads. - - . The New York Central crronn a. on of the largest generally eredited witl " phi nuing to sign the agreement. Under the terms of the peace plan 'shopmen are to return to work under wage 'scales prescribed by the ; United States Railrond , Labor Board effective July 1, the date the strike begau itf protest 'against the board 's decisions. . The question of seuiority, which arose after the strike began and proved to be the chief barrier to an earlier settlement, was not specifically mentioned in the agreement,-which provides that the shop men shall return to work in "posi tions of tho class" they occupied before the strike. The agreement made no mention either of working, conditions or the contract system for "farming out" shop work, which, with the wage controversy, were the original issues in the strike. Disputes .over the "relative standing' of employes, and new disputes whi h might arine us outgrowths of the striker shall, under the peace terms, be referred to adjustment boards composed of six representatives of tlie carriers and an equal number of employes, if the ih pules cannot be settled as an in iivi : matter. The agreement reqiiing t'- (.', . ' road to find place fr ;l r strikers within thirty ,- i:i r ' eouief effective. - P..!4 me i (Continued ou i , 3 : , ;