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THE ROCKY NEWS
l II EMPLOYEES
VOTE SfRIKE VOTE
OFFICIALS SAY MEN ARE
ALMOST ALL FAVOR-
ING A STRIKE
THE LEADERS WORN OF DANGER
President Lee Of Trainmen’s Organ-
ization Gives Many Reasons
Against Going Out But
Is Ignored
Chicago.—leaders of the big four
brotherhoods and affiliated railroad
unions declared that they had little
doubt that the railway employees had
voted for a general strike rather than
accept a wage reduction, but announc-
ed that the conservative counsel of
the leaders might prevail against a
walk-out.
General chairmen of the brother-
'hood of railway trainmen began count-
ing the 186,000 strike ballots of their
men, but admitted before the envel-
ope was opened that judging from the
known temper of the men, the result ,
will be overwhelmingly in favor of a ,
Strike. Pressed for an estimate as to j
what the majority might be. Vice !
President James Murdock said:
"Our past experience has been that
•8 percent of the men will alw. ysvcte
to strike."
Officials of the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotive Engineers, Order of Railway
Conductors, Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen and Enginemen and
Switchmen’s union of North America,
will meet to count the strike votes of
their 259,000 members. Railroad union
leaders here expect all the brother-
hoods and the switchmen's union to
cast substantial majorities lor a
strike.
Shop Crsfts To Strike
The affiliated shop crafts have al-
ready voted by a majority of approxi-
mately 325,000 to 48,000 to walkout,
and are oniy waiting to see what ac-
tion the other unions will take and
for the United States railroad labor
board to dispose of the pending work-
ing rules agreements.
Reports of the general chairmen of
the trainmen when they assembled
were plainly disappointing to the
union leaders. The trainmen had vot-
MAH CULM
NEAROKLA. CITY
SIX BANDITS TAKE PART
IN DARING NIGHT
ROBBERY
5 REGISTERED POUCHES TAKEN
Put Dynamite Under Mail Car Door
Which Blew It Off and Gave
Them Admittance to
the Car
Syngman Rhee, president of the pro-
visional government of Korea, who
hopes to plead for self determination
for his country before the delegates
to the conference on limitation of
armaments.
FOUR MILLIONJIT OF WORK
ARE TO GET STATISTICS ON
LABOR AT ONCE
The Unemployment Conference Places
the Number Between 3,7G0,0GO
and 4,000,000
Washington.—Ground work for an
emeigency program to meet the
needs oi the country’s involuntary
idle, found to number between 3,
700,000 and 4,000,000, exclusive of
agriculture, was completed recently
by the national comerence on unem-
ployment. Adoption ol a final report
by the committee on emergency
measure by manuiacturers was an-
nounced.
The report, which is said to con-
tain the core of the unemployment
problem because of the effect of the
manuiactunng industry upon eco-
| ncmic conditions generally, is under-
stood to recommend the use of rota-
lion of labor, the shortened week,
partial employment, completion of re-
pair and cleanup as some of the
. , means of increasing employment. In
ed on a separate ballot because their addltlon the coramiUee was said to
; favor an.appeal to the patriotic co-
| operation ol producers, manufactur-
ers, wholesalers and retailers in pass-
ing along as rapidly as possible any
price changes arising in order to has-
ten business revival.
Recommendations of the construc-
tion committee were understood to
regard the construction problem in
a great measure us one for local ac-
tion because of the different factors
leaders did not approve of the joint
ballot prepared by the other unions.
On September 12, President W. G. Lee,
who has been ill at his home in Cleve-
land addressed a circular letter to tho
men, who were in the midst of the
balloting, in which he pointed ,'Ut five
reasons why he thought a striae would
be unwise at this time and why the
men might expect to accept some
wage reductions.
The executive of a labor organiza-
tion that fears to tell the truth or
point out dangerous places ahead to
the memfce.ship of his organization
is not worthy of the title of leader,”
Mr. Lee said.
* Wages War Result
He then asked the men to consider
the fact that wages and working con-
ditions of all classes established since
1918 were "the result of a world war
such as never before known; that 5.-
000.000 men are now unemployed, that
nearly all classes of labor have been
forced by mediation, arbitration,
strikes or lockouts to accept reduced
rates of pay during the past year; that
the Incs eased wages granted railroad
men last year were based on increased
cost of living; and that government
reports indicate a 16 percent cut in
living costs since July 1, 1920. Mr.
Lee's letter, however, apparently has
failed to influence the voting, the gen-
eral chairmen re|>orted.
MEXICO OIL DECREE READY
6upreme Court Will Sign Non-Retroac-
tive Rule Justice Says
Mexico City.—The non retroactivity
of Article 27 of the constitution is def-
initely established and the teasons for
tta non retioactivity are specifically
laid down in the supreme court’s de-
cision in the Texas company, amiiaro
case, the final text of which was ap-
proved Saturday according to Justice
Benito Flores of t^e supreme court.
Baby Rides River’s Crest
8t. Charles. Ills.—A 10 months old
baby floated 300 feet down the Fox
river here recently and escaped un-
hurt. The baby was caught near
the shore by Mrs. Edward Left, wife
of a policeman. The child was borne
down the stream on the crest of waves
which are created at a point where
the river falls over a dam several
hundred feet wide
I existing in various localities.
Accelerate Public Works
Acceleration of public works was
said to be urged by the committee
on municipal measures.
Discussion of the pending railway
i funding bill for providing financial
i relief for the railroads was said to
have consumed much of the transpor-
tation committee's deliberations in
the light of the carriers’ ability to
] employ more men. The committee on
mining and shipping, it was learned,
were inclined to believe that no emer-
gency measures could be suggested
for those industries in view of their
dependency upon general business
conditions.
To provide the machinery for mak-
ing effective the emergency measure
adopted by the conference the civic
committee was asked to advise ap-
pointment of special committees by
i the* mayors of all cities, which would
j handle the local unemployment prob-
i tern as presented in each locality.
In making public, its estimate of
the countiy's unemployed the com-
mittee on statistics declared that the
steady improvement which had taken
place the last two months necessitat-
ed a revision of the estimates sub-
mitted to congress last montu by the
labor department.
Oklahoma City,— Six masked men
dressed in black, heavily armed,board-
ed Santa Fe train No. 5 three miles
south of Edmond early Thursday
morning, forced the engineer to stop
the train, dynamited the door from
the mail car, seized five bags of regis-
tered mail, then disappeared in an au-
tomobile with a parting injunction to
trainmen to “beat it.’’ Passengers of
the train were not molested.
Train No. 5 was due in Oklahoma
City at 12:01 a. m. It was running
between one-half of an hour late. The
sheriff's force of Oklahoma county
immediately sent out a force of depu-
ties to search for the robbers.
A robber got into the engine cab
at Edmond and two other robbers got
on the rods under the mail car, ac-
cording to C. P. Johnson, postoffice
inspector. The robber in the cab held
a gun on the engineer and when the
train was three miles south of Ed-
mond, seeing a campfire, he ordered
the engineer to stop. Just as the
train stopped a charge of dynamite
placed by them in under the mail j
car blew the door off that car. As
the train stopped, three other robbers
ran up.
The mail clerks in the car, turned
off the lights and hid in the corners
I of the car.
! for chances to fire at the robbers, the
j latter were careful to keep out of the
I clerk’s sight. The robbers called for
1 the clerks who failed to answer. Then
; they found the conductor, had him
1 call the clerks from the hiding places
, and warned the whole group ”il any-
thing happens, we won't forget it.”
Five bags, one of which was a
transfer bag of registered mail and
the other four of which contained let-
ters, were taken, according to the in-
spector. Johnson has no idea as to
what the bags contained, and said a
check of flie loss would have to be
made from the places trout which mail
was sent.
The mail car was set off at Okla-
homa City, anu Johnson made an ex-
amination of it.
Getting into an automobile, the rob-
bers dashed away’, although nobody
on the train was able to determine
the direction in which they went.
Declaring that he knows five of the
six men who held up Santa Fe pas-
senger train No. 5 three miles south
of Edmond and robbed the railway
postoffice of one pouch of registered
mail and four sacks of letter mail,
an Oklahoma City officer, who has
been investigating the case, expressed
the opinion that arrests will be made.
—r—“itrr-^^li’i i« w——
Joseph Wardle, eighty-seven years
of age, who since Grant’s administra-
tion haa collected discarded flowers at
the White House. These flowers aro
carefully pressed and sold by him.
STANDING IS BOOSTED BY
PRODUCTION INCREASE
Arkansas Sensational Wells May Put
It Ahead of Louisiana
is Reported
Washington,—Oklahoma led all the
the states in production of petroleum
in August, according to figures ob-
tained by the United States geological
survey.
California before had been the
greatest producer among the states,
--— — but in August the production of that - ,
Although they watched state decreased 221,000 barrels, while I-eon Trotzky informed the workers
C0NCI8E REVIEW
OF WEEK’8 NEW8
Peace Note«.
An act of congress empowering tho
President to appoint an official Amer-
ican representative on the reparations
commission, created by the Versailles
treaty is likely to be urged by the
administration following ratification
of the German, Austrian and Hunga-
rian peace treaties.
+ + +
Gen. John J. Pershing recently
visited Chaumont, France, his head-
quarters during the World War, and
received an enthusiastic welcome.
The city was decorated in honor of
the American commander.
+ <• +
Hungary must, in the near future,
completely withdraw from Burgenland,
or West Hungary, awarded to Austria
by the treaty of Trianon, or be force-
fully expelled by the allies, she was
notified recently by the council of am-
bassadors there.
t + ♦
Lord Robert Cecil’s resolution for
immediate definition of the terms of
the class A and class B mandates
has been killed by the League of Na-
tions assembly. Instead, the assem-
bly adopted the report of the man-
dates committee.
+ + +
In a solemn act of atonement, Ger-
many has given satisfaction to Argen-
tina for the sinking in the World War
ot the Argentine steamers Monte Pro-
tegido and Toro. Dr. Luis B. Molina,
minister for Argentina, and his staff,
were ceremoniously received on board
the battle ship Hannover. Aftenvards
the Argentina flag was hoisted and
| flown from the main staff of the bat-
tle ship.
+ i- *
In an address to the plenary soviet
Just before his departure for Odessa
conL-
that of Oklahoma increased 12,000
barrels, advancing Oklahoma to the
Read of the list.
Texas, which had been second for
a long time, some time ago dropped
to third place, which it still remains.
Kansas is still fourth, and while pre-
liminary figures show Louisiana
fifth, the geological survey states that
corrected figures may place Arkansas
ahead of Louisiana, so great has been
its advance in production.
representatives that the government
i had received an ultimatum from Po-
i land, demanding immediate execution
of the treaty of Riga, including the
j release of all Polish prisoners before
October 5.
♦ + ♦
Because of his “enmity for Germany
since 1914, as shown by his activities
in the American anti-German cru-
sade,” the Rev. Dr. Charles P. Fag-
nani, professor in the Union Theolog-
ical seminary, New York, has been
Oklahoma and Calitornia alone pro- expelled from Germany, with Mrs
duced within a few barrels of half
the entire output of the United States j
Oklahoma was 10,217.000 barrels, an
in August. The August production of
to
as-
average of 329.581 barrels a day, com-
pared with 10,204,000 barrels in July,
and an average of 329.194 barrels a
day. Oklahoma’s production for Aug-
ust, 1920, was 9,371,000 barrels or 302,-
290 barrels a day.
California’s production lor August,
1921, was 10,026,000 barrels or 22,419
barrels a day. Compared with 10,247,
000 barrels in July or 330,548 barrels a
day. Texas produced but 8.105,000
barrels in August compared with 8,-
080/00 in July and 8,412,000 in Aug-
ust, 1920.
The total United States production
of petroleum increased 636.000 bar- -
rels in August, but a decrease of 4,-
500,000 barrels in imports and an in-
SIM M0NS ASKS FOR PROBE crease of 1.250.000 barrels in con
- sumption checked the accumulation
ot stocks till the August increase was
but 671/00 barrels.
Imperial Wizard of Klan In Letter
Invites Harding to Investigate
SELECT SHRINE HOSPITALS
More Than Two Mill.on To Be Spent
In United States
Atlanta, Ga.—Locations of six of
the nine free hospitals for crippled
children which the nobles of the My-
stic Shrine are to establish at a cost
of 12.000.000 have been decided upon
by the trustees. A hospital to cost
ISPO.OCK) to be built in St. I-ouis, and
institutions costing 1200.000 each will
be erected tn Shreveport. San Fran-
cisco. Portland. Ore., the twin cities
cf SL Paul and Minneapolis, and Mon-
! teal.
Atlanta, Ga.—Letters have been
sent to President Harding and Attorn-
ey General Daugherty by William Jos-
eph Sifmons, head of the Ku Kluk
Klan. requesting an immediate and
thorough investigation by the govern-
ment in the activities of the organiza-
tion. according to a statement issued
at klan headquarters.
Both letters were signed by Mr.
Simmons, it was stated, but were giv.
en out by officials of the klan. It was
said Mr. Simmons was ill with tensi-
lities anJ no action had yet been tak-
en on the demand of E. Y. Clarke,
impearial kleagle of the order, tc# t-e
relieved of his office.
in his letter to the president. Mr.
Simmons declared the klan would
welcome a sweeping investigation by
the government into ail its activities
throughout the country, while in the
letter to the attorney general he said
all records, books and files of the "in
visible empire" would be at the gov-
ernment's disposal.
SHIP PRICE CUT ADVISED
Senator Curtis Says Buyers Unable to
Pay Prices Askd
Waehingtdh.—The shipinc board
would be authorized to modify the sel-
ling prices of vessels bought during
the war under a resolution introduced
by Senator Curtis, republican, Kan-
sas. Reduction of the purchase price
only to pioneer buyers from the ship-
ping board is proposed
Senator Curtis said many vessels
had been sold during the war to pri-
vate owners at as high as 8380 a ton
while the present price was around
8120. A .number of purchasers, he
said, had found themselves unable to
pay war prices and were seeking a re-
duction which would enable them to
remain In the shipping business.
2000 Tb. Bomb Sinks Alabama
Norfolk. Ya.—A 2>KK) pound bomb
ended the career of ’.he old battleship ,
Alabama A Martin bomber living ov-
er the old warship anchored off Tan-
gier island in Chesapeake bay. tore
off S r mast, destroyed super*trur'
f :t and turned her over on her s de
,c shallow water. Six other planes
almost simultaneously rained 1.000 an 1
2.000 pound bombs on the hulk as she
w»nt dow-c Four hit the m»l as she
turned over and the remainder landed
tn the water within twenty to thirty
tccL
Buying Pc**«r Nears Normal
iwer of the peo-
>s will advance,
mal but not a
months, in
»ce Meyer Jr.,
finance corform-
tion Mr Meyer conferred with the
representatives of eight states called
by the farm bureau led**ration He
is returning to Washington from a
trip extending to the western coast.
Industrial enterprise, the financing of
which are be.ng i .anted
4.000 Pound Aerial Bomb Tested
Washington.—Tests of a new 4.000-
pound aerial bomb, said to be the
heaviest and probably the most de-
structive ever constructed, was held
at Aberdeen proving grounds. Mary-
land. Measuring fourteen feet in
length and about two feet in diame
ter. the projectile Is designed to carry
2.400 pounds of T N T. Only ma-
chines of great lifting ability are
adaptable tor-handling the new bomb.
Chicago Paying for 1894 Strike
Chicago,— The riots of 1894, when
Eugene V. Debs, now in Atlanta pen-
itentiary/ called his American Rail-
way union strike, were wiped off the
city's books with the payment of
8180.000 damages to the Pennsylvania ‘
railroad. The railroad obtained a
verdict of 8105.0OO against the city in
19i«5 for damages to its property dur-
ing the strike. The case was appeal-
ed and lost again by the city, while
the interest continued to amount until
8180.000 was required to settle
Chicago
,— Buying pot
pie ot the
United State
and may
reach a nor
post-war
level within
the opini
co of Euce:
chairman
of the war S
Bandits Loot
Cartersville. Ill —
Mine Payroll
Two band
held
up and robbed a substitute rural mall
carrier between Carters' file and
Bush of 841.500. the payroll of the
Western Coal and Mining company
at Bush, it has been learned here.
The bandits accompanied Lawrence
J«rard. tbe driver, as passengers m
the taxicab used to fcaui tbe nail
in. m Bush.
Hoover Commission Returns
Paris- Frank Ccnnes and Albert A.
Johnson, two members of tbe com-
mission of five sent into Russia to
squire into and report on conditions
there to Herbert Hoover, as head of
the American relief administration,
are in Fans on the way to Washing-
ton
Fagnani.
+ + ♦
Pope Benedict has addressed
President Van Karnebeek of the
sembly of the League of Nations an
appeal for the famine sufferers of
Russia.
+ + +
Washington.
Considerable surprise has been
caused in Washington by the state
ment of Senator Lodge in the senate
that he thought he was “at liberty
to say” that the American troops on
the Rhine would begin to return
once.
+ + +
Appointment of Harry Kithball
New York City to be financial vice-
president of the shipping board has
been announced by Chairman Lasker
The appointment completes the list of
Bix vice-presidents and cothbines the
offices of treasurer, comptroller and
auditor under one head.
♦ ♦ ♦
Emergency officers of the army,
disabled in the war, “don’t belong" on
the retired list of the regular army,
although deserving of every consider-
ation at the hands of congress. Secre-
tary Weeks said recently, referring
to his attitude on the retirement pro-
posal for such officers fostered by of-
ficials of the American Legion.
■f + ♦
A women's “bill of rights” propose!
for enactment by the federal and t'J
state governments to remove all legal
discriminations against women was
outlined recently in a statement by
the National Woman's party.
♦ ♦ ♦
Despite the world-wide trade de-
pression, which held throughout the
fiscal year 1921, a new high record
was established for American tonnage
passing through the Panama Canal,
according to official reports received
in Washington.
♦ ♦ ♦
Mail robberies have been reduced
88 per cent since the postoffice de-
partment promulgated an o'uer arm-
ing its employees and offering a re-
ward of 85.000 for a mail robber "dead
or alive.” Postmaster General Hays
said the other day.
♦ ♦ ♦
Domestic.
The bodies of three murdered men
were found within a few miles of
each other in Southern Illinois the
other evening by crews of Missouri
Pacific trains. Two of the men are
believed to have been former soldiers.
Both wore uniforma
♦ ♦ ♦
John Barleycorn s gnost cinae back
Picturing Washington as a plac®
where organizations make war upois
each other for selfish legislative pur-
poses, Senator A. B. Cummins, in a.
speech at Des Moines declared the-
present tendency toward overorganiz—
ation in the country has created “a-
very difficult and alarming situation.’”
♦ ♦ ♦
Miss Mildred Hanan, daughter of
the late Alfred P. Hanan, shoe manu-
facturer, is dead in the Long Island
College hospital without having ad-
vanced any explanation, why she had
been shot by her erstwhile chum,
Mrs. Grace Lawes, who later
mitted suicide.
+ ♦ ♦ ‘
Delegates to the cjnivwntloir of ther
United Mine 'Workers of America at.
Indianapolis were called on by Presi-
dent John L. Lewis to take suck
action in two Kansas strike cases as
would declare the union holds its merit
to the fulfillment of their contracts
with operators.
+ + +
A man believed to be Leroy Bennett
of Rushing, Ark., dressed roughly, but
with 81,193 in currency in his clothes,
was found by five tramps crushed to»
death in a freight car of lumber at Al-
liance, Neb., recently.
* + *
John Memmer, a German, Ascribed’
in court as a “commercial pirate, ”
was convicted by a jury in Brooklyn
the other day of grand larceny for
stealing shoe uppers from a Brooklyn
factory and shipping them to Ger-
many to be copied for future compe-
tition with American shoes.
+ + *
The new undertow which has been
running strong through official movie-
land has swept “Fatty” Arbuckle out
of the ranks of stars. In the quiet
of the night the ties holding "Fatty”
to Paramount were broken by the ser-
vice of a notice to that effect on hiw
attorney.
* * ■*•
Southwest
Prompt and active work for the re-
lief of conditions in the livestock in-
dustry is expected from the Kansas
City committee in charge of the ac-
tivities of the war finance corporation
in Kansas City. Eugene Meyer, jr.,
chairman of the corporation, said thab
the committee was ready now to en-
ter the field.
* + ♦
Placing a drug tablet of one-eightt»
grain beneath each stamp of twenty-
five picture postcards addressed to-
prisoners in the Oklahoma state prison
at McAlester is said to be the in-
genious scheme of Jesse Wilson
whose arrest in Wichita, Kan., was
announced by postal authorities.
♦ ♦ ♦
Claiming that he got but 10 cents
out of a highway robbery on a charge
of which he pleaded guilty, George
McCoy was sentenced to ten years in
the state penitentiary at Ponca City,
Okla., recently.
+ + +
On the eve of the departure of the
Dallas delegation to the state conven
tion of the American Legion at El
Paso, the Ku Klux Klan presented
the Dallas post with a fine silk Amer-
ican flag and a Texas state flag.
+ + + ,
The election ot Holm O. Bursum
ot Socorro as Uniited States senator
from New Mexico was indicated by
a plurality of more than seven thou-
sand, based upon comprehensive but
incomplete returns from every county
in the state.
+ * +
Foreign.
The note of the council of ambas-
sadors to Hungary, demanding evacu
ation of Burgenland, which was
awarded to Austria by the treaty of
Trianon, is regarded in Budapest as
lenient because it grants a 10-day
respite pending which it is hoped a.
compromise can be reached with
Austria.
* * ♦
The church and state in Prussia,
are now separate. The chief of state,
who up to the present has been head
of the Protestant Church, now hast
been replaced as church head by an
assembly of 192 delegates from all
the provinces, including sixty-four
clergymen. •
♦ ♦ ♦
An attempt on the lives of Count
Julius Andrassy, formerly minister
of affaits. and ex-President Rakovsky
of the national assembly was made
from the galleries of the assembly
chamber at Budapest recently, five
shots being directed at tbe pair.
Neither was injured.
* + ♦
Fighting between the Serbians and
the Albanians continues between the
Drin and Matia rivers, thirty-five
miles from Tirana
♦ ♦ ♦
A dispatch to the Ahendbiatt from
Riga says Adolph Joffe and compan-
ions were taken from a train bound
from Odessa to Kiev and shot to
death by Ukrainian insurgents. Joffe
has at various times been Russian
ambassador to Germany and cotnmls-
aioner of foreign affairs in Petrograd.
♦ ♦ ♦
Sharp fighting la occurring between
15.000 Pencl a Found
FVr»!*r Bluff. Mo—A pearl weigh-
ing thirty five and one ha it grains, and
declared tc be worth 85 808 waa found i They have :e turned to Washington,
in tbe BL.ck riveff here.
to haunt congress upon its re-asaem- the Albanians and Jugo-Slavs in Al-
bling after the summer vacation, when bania near the frontier, according to
the anti-beer bill bobbed up again in dispatches received by Bishop Noli,
tbe senate. It met the same opposl- the Albanian delegate to the League*
tion over the eearch and seizura pro- of Nations acaambly nt Geneva. S» itx-
rtsion as before the recent end again eriand.
was shunted aside. ♦ ♦ ♦
+ + + Eleven fcmdred ie d and four ibtns-
The senate investigating com.nittee sand injured is the latest estimate of
has finished Its shirtsleeve inquiry the disaster st Oppau. Germany,
concern.ng tbe West Virginia mine '•hich canned a greater number of
war with conferences with Governor casualties in the Mannbeim-Ludwtg-
Morgan and oU.tr state officials, hater district than the four years off
, ike war.
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