Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-08-30

the industries of the West, including
the harvest, If their leaders were not
released was met promptly by the ar
rest of a lot more Of the gang, and the
great strike fzzled out miserably. No
sooner was this trouble passed than the
machinists and boilermakers, employed
|, in the Atlantic coast shipyards, We're
called on TO quit. This of course would
put stop to vast amounts of govern
ment 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 well on
the food conservation campaign. Pres
I ident Wilson last week turned to the
almost equally pressing coal problem,
which for several weeks had been sex-
erclsIng the wits of various state. ad,
rninistrations. Having studied the pro-
Z
duction cost figures supplied him by
the trade commission, the president Is
sued an executive order fixing tenta-
tive scale of prices for bituminous coal
at the mines In nearly all coal produc-
ing districts of the country. These
prices in some instances are more than
| 81 ton below the voluntary prices
! fixed ut the conference last June The
scale Is subject to change when II meth
cd Of administering the fuel supplies
! of the country has been determined
and put into operation.
Later in the week the president
named Or. Harry Garfield fuel admin
istrator, fixed anthracite prices for
producers and jobherS and set limit
on 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
ury of S73,000000, adopting unanimous
IS the Gerry amendment, which adds
Si0000000 to the returns from in.
comes of half million and over.
Japan's Mission in Washington.
The imperial Japanese mission was
formally received in Washington by
Secretary Lansing and other govern
mcnt officials on Wednesday. Its head
NiScount Ishii, made 1t clear that the
mission has come not on commercial
or political errand hut to decide on
how the two nations can best coop
crate, in both n military and an eco
nomlc sense, In carrying on the war
The neutral countries of EurOpe-so
called, though no country there Is any
longer really neutrul-are still trying
to get around the American embargo
that is so painful to their pocketbook'
and their stOmnchs; but the indlca
tions are that unless they quit supply
ing Germany with foodstuifS, their sut
fering will only increase. Switzerland
aud Holland. which depend on Ger
many for coal, have contracted to lent
the kaiser large sums IN return for tn,
privilege of continuing to buy their fue
from his country.
Hungary took real step towar,
. dcmOcralizatlon and freedom from Ger
man and Austrian influence In the ap
polntment of Dr. Alexander Wekerl
. as Hungarian premier, to succeed rs
terha2y. The new premier Is popular
= Democratic. Il financial genius and |
! known to he no friend of Germany
: The new nationalist movement in Hun
: gary has attained great strength, and
: is said King Charles Is In complete hal
> mony with the desires of the nation.
German aviatorS distinguished then
+. selves luSt week by another raid u
English coast towns In which IL pei
:. sons were killed, and by dellheratel
= bombing two French hospitals behln
the Verdun lines and then shootln
,s4 down the doctors and nurses, who wer
, trying to rescue the wounded soldier
- from the resulting connagraton,
. would seem that the chivalry OF av
utors Is one-Slded.
:. Negro soldiers Of the Twenty-fourt
United States infantry, stationed d
Houston, Tex. MS guards during III
construction OF Camp Logan, started
:. serious race riot in which a doZe
j, white civilians. police officers and NJ
!, tional Guardsmen, and II number OF n
+ groes We're kllleY and more than
n score wounded, Among the dead ",
~ "NpA ]. w, MatNs, Battery A, Secor
lllln2is field artillery, who was trylr
TO restore .Or,ler.e