Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-08-30

The threat of The I. w. w. to tie up
the Industries of the West, including
the harvest, ii their leaders We're not |
released was met promptly by the ar
rest of n lot more of the gang, and the
great strike tiZZled out miserably. No |
sooner WAS this trouble passed than the |
maclllnists and boilermallerS, Employed
in the Atlantic coast shipyards, were
called on to quit. This of course would
put stop to vast amounts of govern
mcnt naval work, and the United
STATES mediators got busy at once. Sew
eral thousand men stopped work, but
most of them either pledged Secretary
Daniels That they would not quit or
delayed action until vote could be
taken
President Cuts Coal Prices.
having started Mr.. Hoover we'll on
the food conservation campaign, Pres.
idcnt Wilson last week turned to the
almost equally pressing coal problem,
which for several weeks had been ex
crcsing the wits of various state ad.
ministlations. Having studied the pro-
duclion cost figures supplied him by
the trade commission, the president is.
sued an executive order fixing II tcnta-
tive scale of prices for bitluninous coal
at the mines i'm nearly all coal produc-
!. ing districts of the country. These
prices In some instances are more than
ST Il ton below the voluntary prices
al t1io frI l,e,f I'm
scale is subject TO change when meth
cd of administering the fuel supplies
of the country has been determined
and put into operation.
Later in the week the president
named DR.. Harry Garfield fuel admin
istrator, fixed anthracite prices for
producers and jobbers and set n limit
cn profits to be made by bituminous
wholesalers
The senate spent most of the week
IN consideration of the revenue bill.
Among other things it increased the
finance committees income tax pro-
visions by total return to the treas
uiy of 73,00000O, adopting unanimous
ly the Gerry amendment, which adds
comes of half million and over.
Japan's Mission in Washington.
The imperial japanese mission was
formally received i'm Washington by
Secretary Lansing and other govern
ment officials on Wednesday. Its head,
NiScount IShii, made it clear that the
mission has come not on commercial
or political errand, but to decide on
! how the two nations can best coop
crate, in both a military and an eco.
; nomic sense, in carrying on the war.
The neutral countries Of llurope-so.
called, though no country there is any
longer really neutral-are still trying
i to get around the American embargo
that is 50 painful to their pocketbooks
and their stomachs; but the indica-
tions are that unless they quit supply
ing Germany with foodstuffs, their suf-
! fcrins will only increase. Switzerland
and Holland, which depend on Ger.
many for coal, have contracted to lend
the kaiser large sums in return for the
| privilege of continuing to buy their fuel
| from his country.
Hungary took real step toward
! demOcratiZation and freedom from Ger.
! man and Austrian influence in the APP
pointment Of DIR. Alexander Wekerle
us Hungarian premier, to succeed Es.
/ terhazy. The new premier is popular,
! Democratic, financial genius and is
! known to be no friend of Germany
The new nationalist movement in Hun
i gary has attained great strength, and it
/ is said King Charles is in complete har.
! mony with the desires of the nation.
! German aviators distinguished them.
\ selves last week by another raid on
/ English coast towns in which III per.
! sons We're killed, and by deliberately
| bombing two French hospitals behind
! the Verdun lines and then shooting
down the doctors and nurses, who were
trying TO rescue the wounded soldiers
| from the resulting conhagration. ~
| would seem that the chivalry of avi
ators is One-sided.
Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth
| United States infantry, stationed at
Houston, Tex. as guards during the
construction of Camp Logan, started a
serious race riot, in which dozen
white civilians, police officers and Ma
tional Guardsmen, and number of ne
groes were killed, and more than q
score wounded. Among the dead was
i Capt. J. w. Mates, Battery A, Second
Illinois field artillery, who was trying
j to restore order.