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WANTS ABOLITION OF 12-IIOUR DAY LEADERS OF INDUSTRY APPROVE HARDING'S SUGGESTION ON LONG WORK HOURS COMMITTEE TOJNVESTIGATE Resolution Adopted Provides Commit tee To Investigate Problem And Report Findings To Industry Washington. Steel manufacturers In conference at the white house with president Harding approved in prin ciple the president's suggestion for the abolition of the 12-hour work day, The forty-one representative leaders of the Industry who were present un animously adopted a resolution au thorizing the president of the Ameri can Steel and Iron institute to name a committee of five from the steel Industry to make a scientific and careful investigation of the matter and to report their conclusions to the industry. Judge Elbert H. Gray, chairman of the board of the United States Steel corporation, and president of the in stitute, will name the committee which will make the investigation. The steel manufacturers were in vited to the white house, according to an official statement issued earlier in the evening, to discuss a sugges tion of the president that the 12-hour day be abolished for the good of Indus' trial America. Judge Gary, acting as spokesman for the guests when the party dispersed, said the sole pur pose of the conference was to consid er the question "whether or not it Is practicable and desirable to abolish the 12-hour work' day." ' "The president stated," Judge Gary said, "that he did not desire to in terfere with the natural and legiti . mate progress of business nor to do anythins except to assist the industry to meet If possible what is apparently a strong public sentiment. He gave opportunity to all present to express their' views of the subject under in quiry and advantage was fresly taken of the invitation." GOLD RESERVES SHOW SLIGHT DROP Washington. Total gold reserves as reported by the twelve federal reserve banks for the week ending May 17, were $3,005,143,000. For the last week they totaled $3,005,294,000. For the corresponding week in 1921 ending May 18, they were $2,378,906,000. The largest reserves were reported by New York of $1,164,323,000. Chicago was second, with $453,659,000; San Fran cisco wa3 third, $256,414,000, and Cleveland fourth, $236,573,000. Re maining reserves were reported in the following order: Philadelphia, $216, 500,000; Boston, $184,942,000; Atlanta, $133,905,000: Richmond, $87,341,000; St. Louis, $83,998,000; Kansas City, $79,735,000; Minneapolis, $65,668,000, and Dallas, $42,185,000. Shifting of gold reserves through the gold settle ment fund affected chiefly the gold reserves of the New York bank, which show an increase of $34,300,000 for the week, and those of San Francisco and Cleveland, which show decreases of $16,800,000, and $12,000,000, respect ively. Father Charges Heiress With Bigamy Houston, Texas A warrant from Ok lahoma, charging Ludie E. Kinney with bigamy was served recently by form er Sheriff Buck Garrett, of Carter county, Okla. His wife, . Mrs, Opal Delana Kinney, better known as Opal Roxroat, heiress, who mysteriously dis appeared from her Jiome m Ardmore last January, was unable to stand when the warrant was served. She was still suffering from injuries receiv ed in an automobile accident about two weeks ago. To Reopen Mine On Coal Demands Chattanooga, Tenn. The Durham Coal and Iron company announces that the mines at Graysville, Tenn., which had been idle for the past year, will be placed in operation at once in or der to meet demands for coal from northern and eastern points. It was at the same time announced that another mine near Soddy, Tenn., would be re opened as soon as sufficient miners could be secured. Hard Coal Miners Refuse Wage Cut New York. Representatives of the anthracite coal operators recently pro posed that the miners accept wage re ductions averaging 21 per cent in set tlement of the strike called last April 1. The offer was refused point blank by leaders of the miners' organiza tion, headed by Philip Murray, vice president of the United Mine Work ers of America. The hard coal diggers will remain on strike until, they are granted the 20 per cent increase in cluded in the 19 demands made nine weeks ago, Mr. Murray declared. j Urge U. 8. Presence On Reparations Washington. Representation of the United States on the reparations com mission was urged by the chamber of commerce of the United States in a resolution adopted the other day at its tenth annual meeting. The resolution declared "that all necessary measures, Including approval by congress, should be taken speedily." The chamber also adopted a resolution urging "that our government promptly take its place with the other nations of the world in the international court of Justice," r9 mci'.r.g then adjourned. CHILD LABORJAX INVALID Antl-Chlld Labor Advocates See Only Hope In Constitutional Amendment ' Washington. Any federal ban on child labor appears to be impossible for years to come, as a result of the Supreme court's action m holding m valid the federal tat on child labor products that enter imumato com merce. This tax constituted the second at tempt of congress to outlaw child labor, Previously the court held unconstitu tional a law which directly prohibited employment of minors in the manufac ture of any products entering inter state commerce. Advocates of anti-child labor legis lation fear now that the only possible way of establishing any federal bar rier against the employment of chil dren in Industry would be through amendment of the constitution. Such an amendment, it is agreed, could not be passed and ratified by three-fourths of the states for several years. Nevertheless, advocates of such leg islation are studying the decisions of the court in the hope of finding some loophole which will enable them to attempt again to establish an effective prohibitory law. This last decision, as did the court's first decree several years ago, knocked out the anti-child labor law on the ground that it was an invasion of states' rights. Many of the states have effective laws of their own in this respect. The federal legislation was directed primarily at the cotton mill districts of the South and some mining regions. These opinions were handed down on the question by the court. The first dodged the question of the valid ity of the law . by declaring that it was a moot question whether or not the act was constitutional, because the children involved in this particular case had become of age due to the long pendency of the case in the Su preme court. In the second case, the court said it had not been properly appealed. Mumps Attack "Child Crusaders" Washington. Child crusaders seek ing the ear of President Harding with a plea for their political prisoner fa thers, are now confronted with an in ternal foe. Mumps has broken out in the crusaders' camp. The health department first learned that one of the children had become afflicted with the familiar ailment and Mrs. Kate R. O'Hare, leader of tbe juvenile expedi tion, called at the health department to report eignt more cases in her ranks. It is stated that all the stricken chil dren are to be cared for In a Washing ton hospital, . . Flood Drives 5,000 More From Homes New Orleans. La. Probahlv B.non homeless refugees will be added to the 60,000 already made homeless, or oth erwise seriously affected by the floods, as a result of the hrenlra In the levee on Bayou Des Glaises, near Hamburg, La., according to estimates by Red Cross refueee workers. The recent break Increases the total area flooded to more than E.500 snnara miles in Louisiana and Mississippi. Narcotics Bill Walts On President Washington. Passed unanimously in the House and Senate, the narcotic bill, putting additional "teeth" in the Harrison act, recently awaited the sig nature of President Hardinn to become effective. A federal commission, com prising the Secretaries of State. Treas ury and Commerce, and to be known as the Federal Narcotic Control Board, was created by the bill to carry into effect prohibitory provisions of the Rulings Favor Foreign Oil Interest Mexico City, Mex. The fourth and fifth decisions against the retro-activity of article 27, were rendered re cently, establishing a precedent and giving security to property rights ac quired previous to the Constitution in 1917. As in two previous decisions this week, the vote was 9 to 1, Justice Sabido alone dissenting. . Self-Defense Will Be Plea Of Student Stilwater, Okla. Self defense will be the plea ot Earl Gordon, Miami, Okla., who shot and killed Beckham Cobb, Birmingham, Ala., at the Okla homa A. & M. college, where both were vocational students, according to announcement by the former's at torneys. Gordon's preliminary hear ing on a charge of murder will be held May 13. Lady Astor Scores Society Climbers Chicago. "The woman who attends prize fights, the : woman who keeps her husband's nose to the erindatone because of her personal demands and vulgar ambitions to outshine and out- ao ner next-door neighbor are just as hamnerlne to real civilization nm thn old-fashioned and - now out-of-fashlon barroom loafer and more so," Lady Astor said in an address to some so ciety women here. The ears of the women burned and turned red when she told them some of them worked their husbands overtime. ' U. S. Declines Invitation To Parley Washington. America has declined invitation to participate in The Hague conference on Russia. The note to the powers assembled at Genoa, by Secretary Hughes, declares: "This gor ernment Is unable to conclude that it can helpfully participate in the meet ing of The Hague as this would ap pear to be a continuance under a dif ferent nomenclature of the Genoa con ference and destined to encounter the same difficulties if the attitude dis closed in the Russian memorandum of Kay 11 irTrtr-i cacLcrri" TRUCE AND SECOilD PARLEY AGREED TO NON-AGGRESSION TRUCE PACT UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED AT PLENARY MEETING U. S. NOT TOJNTER HAGUE Agenda Of Two Commissions Are Out lined In Agreement Six Clause Are In Agreement Genoa. The non-aggression true pact at the plenary meeting of the political subcommlssion of the Genoa conference was not signed, but wai adopted in the form of a resolution, each state pledging itself to respect it The agreement for a truce, or tem porary pact of non-aggression, con tains six clauses, summarized as fol lows: Clause 1 Provides for the appoint ment of a commission by the powers to examine again the divergencies exist lng between the soviet and other gov ernments, and with a view to meeting a Russian commmlsslon having the same- mandate. Clause 2 Not later than June 30, the names of the powers represented on the non-Russian commission, and the names of the members of this commission will be transmitted to the soviet government, and reciprocally, the names of the members of the Rus sian commission will be communicated to the other governments. Clause 3 The questions to be treat ed by these commissions will com prise debts, private properties ' and credits. Clause 4 The members of the twc commissions must be at The Hague on June 26. ' Clause 5 The two commissions will strive to reach joint resolutions on the questions mentioned in clause three. Clause 6 To permit the commis sions to work peacefully, and also tc re-establish mutual confidence, the so viet government and its allied repub lics, on the one side, and the other governments ,on the other, pledge themselves to abstain from any act ot aggression and subversive propaganda. The. pledge for abstaining from any act of aggression will be based upon the present status quo and will re main in force for a period of foui months after the conclusion of the work of the commissions. . The pledge concerning prppaganda will oblige the governments not tc interfere in any way in the internal affairs of other states, and not to as sist financially or by any other meant political organizations in other coun tries, and will oblige them to suppress in their territory "any attempt to com mit acts of violence in other states oi aiming to disturb the territorial oi political status quo." : Sir Edward Grigg announced on be half of the British delegation that further advices had been received from the United States government and thai it did not seem likely the United States would participate in The Hague meeting, at least until the scope oi the meeting was better understood. UNIFICATION OF TWO ; CHURCHES IS VOTED Commission. Is Authorized "To Go All The Way" . On Uniting With Northern Methodism Hot Springs, Ark. The general con ference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in session here, recent ly, voted, after sfiarp debate, to "go all the way" in the matter of proposed unification with the Methodist Epis copal church, and authorized the ap pointment of a commission, with liber ty ot action, to negotiate with a sim ilar commission of -the northern branch. In authorizing previous com missions the church has always stip ulated certain restrictions as to the limits of their powers. Recent action came when the con ference adopted a majority committee report providing for appointment of a negotiations commission, with the possibility of calling a special session of the southern branch's general con ference in the event plana worked out by the joint commission should be ratified by the northern commission and conference. Celebrated Confederate Woman Dead Asbury Park, N. J. Mrs. Jane Bow ly, who serve the Confederacy during the Civil war as a dispatch bearer, died at her summer home here in her 93rd year the other day. Mrs. Bowly who was the friend of Gen. R, E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Longstreet for merly ot Baltimore, was born In Charleston, S. C, and her body will be taken there and intered In Magno lia cemetery, where the remains of many celebrated historic characters repose. : She is survived by three chil dren. "" Glfford Pinchot Wins Decisive Victory Philadelphia. Returns received on the vote ast at the recent primary for the Republican nomination for gov ernor, gave Glfford Pinchot a lead of 9,456, with 285 district missing. Fig ures received from 7,649 out of 7,934 in the state gave: Pinchot 499,647 and George E. Alter 490,191. These figures include the complete vote ot Philadel phia and Allegheny counties, which were carried by Alte,r. The new nomi nee la one of tie best known charac ters In the whole country, and is cl the F.oe-,wr,;'"n txpe. FIVE. BISEOPSJRE ELECTED Methodists Chose Hay, Beauchamp, Dickey, Dobbs And Boas For ' Their New Prelates ; Hot Springs, Ark. After taking flv ballots which resulted in the election of tour of the five bishops to be nam ed at the time, the nineteenth quad rennial conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, here, recess ed for a few hours, after which the next ballot ot the Episcopal electioni will take place. These men were elected bishops al the recent session: Dr. J. E. Dickey, Griffin, Ga.j Dr. W. H. Beachamp, Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. Sam R. Hay, Houston, Texas, and Dr. H. M. Dobbs, Anniston, Ala. Doctors Dickey and Beauchamp went over on the second ballot, re ceiving 194 and 209 votes, respective ly. Dr. Hay was elected on the third ballot with 191 votes, while Dr. Dobbs won on the fourth with 256 votes. The first and fifth ballots were de clared "no elections" as none of the candidates received the required ma jority of 189 votes. . The fifth ballot was not completed until recently. Dr. H. A. Boas, presi dent of Southern, Methodist univer sity, Dallas, Texas, was high with 143 votes and O. E. Goddard, ot Nashville, was second with 140. Dr. Goddard is home mission secretary. The elec tion of Dr. Dobbs was a surprise to the large number of workers who had been active in the support of others. His friends said they had made no active campaign in his behalf and the bishop-elect declared that his election-was entirely a surprise to him. He is pastor of the First Methodist church of Anniston. Dr. Dickey has been in church- edu cational . work many years and for merly, was president of the Emory uni versity at Atlanta. , Dr. Beauchamp acted as director of the missionary centenary and has long been a figure in the church. Dr Hay also has been prominent in the work of the church many years and is pastor of the first church, of Houston. COTTON IS AGAIN AT A NEW HIGH RECORD New York. Longs again stepped on accelerator as the New York cotton exchange opened and boosted values, recently, to a new high level for 1922, sending May above 21 cents, and new crop months to a new crest for the movement, the net gain over the pre vious close being from 12 to 27 says a correspondent The opening quotations were May 21.20; July 20.45; October 20.48, and Decemebr 20.43.. As the record figures were reached there was a general scramble to un load and some short selling. When the reaction had spent itself, a new buying movement set in with trade houses, outsiders, the South and Eu ropean contests clamoring for cotton, and' prices soon were moving back towards the high. v The new "high" showed an advance of more than $8 a bale over the pre vious close a week ago, and from $21 to $25 a bale over .the low levels of last March. Boaz Is Elected To Fifth Bishopric Hot Springs. The general confer ence ot the Methodist Episcopal church, south, In session here, com pleted its Episcopal elections by nam ing Dr. Hiram A. Boaz, of Dallas, Texas, as the fifth bishop to be chosen at this session; revised the machinery of Its board of missions and began the election of general board secretaries over which the conference has direct supervision. Suzanne Lenglen Again Wins Easily Brussels Both Miss Elizabeth Ryan of California, and Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, .the world's woman tennis champion, survived recent rounds ol the International hard court cham pionship tournament here, the French star sweeping through two love seta against her opponent, Mrs. Dupont. pont. '- '.y. Chinese Warfar Breaks Out Again Honolulu, Hawaii. Hostilities be tween the Chinese armies of Gen. Wu Pel Fu and General Chang Tso Lin have begun all over again, according to a dispatch received at Tokio and forwarded to the JUi, Japanese lan guage newspaper here. The report declares - that It is anticipated that fighting will continue with increasing vigor. . . - Four Were. Killed As Bridge Fell Marlln, Texas. Four persons are known to have been drowned and four others Were reported missing' follow-: lng the collapse, the other day, ot the Marlin-Belton bridge, five miles west of here over the Brazos river. The structure gave, way while under re pair. Four bodies had been ; taken out of th- river. Two persons were seen clinging to a raft several miles, down stream, a report says. The high water three weeks ago cut Into the approach on the west . side ot the bridge, and finally gave way. Approves Additional Vets' Hospital Washington. Director , ' Forbes ol the veterans' bureau announces that President Harding has approved bu reau plans for construction of new hospitals for former service men at Northampton, Mass. ; . Llvermore, Calif.; Camp Lewis, Wash. r In New York state one' within fifty miles of New , York City and another in the Adirondack section; Gulf port, MJss, and one in the tenth .veterans" bu reau district, which includes Minne sota, the Dakotas and Montana. The " ?-ctor la rr."-i r -"ei WARNING! Say "Bayer" when you buy Asplrht t Unless you see the name "Bayer" on tablets, you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians over 22 years and proved safe by minions for Headache Colds ' Rheumatism Toothache Neuralgia' Neuritis Earache , Lumbago . 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