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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-05-28
DIVISION
CHIEFS HOLDING
CDNFERENCERERE
University Announces Pro.
gram for Annual Miners
Short Course.

Managers of operations OF the var.
ious fields OF The Consolidation Coal
Company are meeting today at the of.
flee of Frank R. Lyons, vice presi.
dent of The Consolidation Coal Com.
pany in charge of operations, in the
Watson building. They were also in
the city yesterday. The regular mat.
ters are taken up at the gathering.
Those present include; j. G. Smith,
manager Of the Kentucky operations
at Jenkins, Ky; ]. NJ. Gilbert, man.
aSer OF the Maryland division, VIII.
headquarters at Frostburg, Md; Sam
slelnpach. manager of the Pennsyl.
yania division, with headquarters at
Somerset, Pa. and Z. X rico. mo-
ger OF the Miller Creek division, with
headquarters at Van Leer, KY.
Yesterdays Loading.
Yesterdays loading on the Moir
ongah Division Of the Baltimore ana
Ohio railroad totaled ia loads. This
is Ill cars less than Mondays big
total, but AZ cars more than the load.
ing of Tuesday of last week.
mOfdIuSut VI COdl yesterday tOtal-
ed 774 loads. No coke was loaded.
There were $50 cars of coal loaded
east and PA cars OF coal loaded wea.
Railroad Fuel.
Railroad fuel on the Monongah div.
ision yesterday aggregated 27s cars.
This is the largest loading OF rail-
road fuel since May 16 when the
tonnage was 2S3 cars. The railroad
fuel for the first two days of this
week totals 537 cars, which is 26
cars more than the first two days OF
last week.
Railroad fuel figures have been
firm and were over the 200 car mark
daily since May 16, when the total
number of cars was 1876.
Lake Business.
Shipments to the lakes continue
to be firm. Yesterday there were
165 cars loaded on the Monongah
division for the lakes.
Curtis Bay shipments yesterday
totaled 50 cars. .otIier shipments in.
cluded the following: Ohio points, s.;
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Also Rejects Claim
of Poles to East
Prussia
WANTS SHIPS BACK
Offers to Pay Total Indem-
nifty of 100000 100000
Marks in Gold
lRy Associated Press }


y BERLIN, May 2S.-Germany's coun-
ter proposals to the terms of the peace
treaty presented to her delegates at
VerSailes includes the following
points, according to an unofficial
summary available today:
Germany offers to disarm all of her
battleships on condition that q part
of her mercantile fleet be destored to
her.
"She proposes that there be no ter
ritorial changes without consultation
of the population affected.
"The sessions of upper Silesia and
the claim to East Prussie, West Prus-
sia and Mummel are emphatically re-
jected.
1t is stipulated Danzig shall become
a free port and the river Vtstula neu.
tralized.
Occupied territory is to be evacuat'
ed within six months.
II the League of Natiops is estab-
lished with Germany as member
Germany shall continue to administer
her colonies in accordance with the
principals of the league as its manda-
tory.
Germany offers to pay 10000, 100000
marks in gold by the year 1926 as in
demnity and to make annual pay
ments from 1927 onward to! a total not
in excess of 100,000,000,000 marks in
gold.
1t was expected today that the coun-
tel, proposals would be officially made
known on Wednesday.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-05-28
unknown NEGRO
HOLDS UP GAR ON
THE N|LARN LINE
Was Alone With Motor7nan
Who Was the Only
Victim.

Held up at the point of a revolver.
Benjamin Skinner who operates the
gasoline motor car owned by A. r.
Watkins of this city, and between
Everson and Kilarm had to stop his
car and hand over his pocketbook to
a colored man as the motor car was
about one-fourth a nile out OF Ever
son shrtiy after O'clock this morn
ing. Skinner had about s17 in his
pocketbook in bills and about Sc in
change all of which was taken by the
unknown negro.
The two were. alone in the car when
the hold.up occurred. Skinner sitting
in the front of the car with his back
TO the colored man. The car had al
most reached Eyerson when skinner
felt some one punch bin in the ribs.
and turning, found pistol staring him
in the face. The negrv demanded thar
the car be stopped and that Skinner
had over the pocketbook which he
Sat4ASu III his MP FJchcts 4--tII u-
had got the money the colored man
got out of the car and stood with bis
pistol still in his hand demanding that
the car go on.
Z Having some papers in his pocket
book which were OF personal value.
Skinner asked that the papers be .re-
turned. "I'll take care OF the papers"
was the reply Upon arriving in Ever.
son the hold=up was reported and the
county officers notified Deputy Sher-
iffs Beatty and Glover went to Ever
SON, but having no clues whatever.
were unable to make any arrests.
The negro was never seen IN that
section before. Earlier IN the morn.
ing before the hold-up he rode from
Eyerson TO Kilarm with Carl McEl-
fresh, a clerk in the coal office At
Kilarm There he boarded the ga1o.
line car and rode 10 Evorson.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-05-28
BIG PARADE TO
Be REVIEWED At
THE COURT HOUSE
Increased Effort Being
Made to Get Out the
Service Men.

Hon. William H. King, United States
Senator from Utah who will deliver
the welcome address TO the returned
soldiers and sailors of Marion county
on Friday, May 80, together with mem
bers of the general committee headed
by ]. Walter Barnes, chairman of the
committee and chairman of the Ma
rion County Council of Defense, will
occupy the reviewing stand at the
court house during the parade and will
from this point review the troops as
they pass up and down Main street.
Following the parade when the sol.
diers assemble in front of the court
house and break ranks, hundreds OF
school children will raise their voices
in patriotic airs under the leadership
of w. D. harrington after which the
program of the afternoon will be fol-
lowed out and Senator King will de-
liver the address of welcome to the
returned service men.
Lieutenant Homer Toothman in
charge of the assemblage of service
men announces that he secured five
hundred cards and mailed them to as
many service men requesting their
presence here and found this did not
cover the ground and had made plans
toSreach the others in various ways.
Many replies are coming in from ser.
Vice men who will participate in the
parade though there are still large
number to be heard from. 1t is urged
by the committee that no soldier or
sailor through timidity or indifference
fail to participate in this parade which
is being staged to do honor to them
as we'll as to their comrades who have
fallen in the service OF their country.
A meeting Will be held tonight at
eight o'clock In the offices OF Mr..
Toothman at which time plans will
be made for naming the officers Of the
day and those who will be In com.
mand of the service men. 1t is prob
able that the men will be formed into
marching columns platoon front or in
column squads and Will proceed thus
in the parade. The manner in which
the men will be formed into line will
depend on the number Of men who
(Continned on page four.)
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-05-28
'MOUnTA|NEER> >ARTI[LERYMEN GEl
VARlkWElCOME AT NEWPORT NEWS
Hundreds of West virginia People Were on the Dock
\ When the Big Transport Zeppelin Swung Up to
IttThis Morning.
BOYS we're SEM FIRST 10 CAMP STUART
From There They Are Expected to Go to Camp Lee
Where They Will Go Through the Process of
Being Let Quo of the Army.

Especial Dispatch to West Virginian)
NEWPORT ,NEWSk Va, May 2s-
West Virginia artillerymen who hurl
ed millions OF shells into, the Argonne
Forest, blasting path for the infan.
try through that heavily fortified bar
rier to Sedan, came home today after
nearly years service in France and
what home coming 1t was!
Without doubt the happiest men In
the United States are the boys of the
Three Hundred and Thirteenth, Four.
teenth and Fifteenth Field artillery
regiments of the Blghtieth division,
who are Camp Stuart, five miles fEom
here, this afternoon awaiting transpor-
taation to Camp Lee for demobiliza-
tion and then home.
"Howdy Boy when do we eat?''
These were the first words heard from
the transport Zeppelin as tug bear.
ing war workers, relatives and news.
paper men drew alongside the liner
three miles out from the dock. When
the Zeppelin was yet mile away from
the tug persons on the latter ship
heard faint mufned roar. The sound
grew in volume as the Zeppelin came
nearer until It became like the roar
Of the guns which the boys had han
died. They. were cheering like mad
men at the sight OF their native land,
The decks were swarming mass OF kha
d and at every port hole was q smil-
ing face.
A naval seaplane flying above came
down low and whizzed by the transport
tre aIrman waving his greetings to the
boys on board. High above Eddie
Stinson, an American ace who has
Just returned from France was doing
all the daredevil feats known to avia-
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-05-28
Voting Today for
Greater Rivesville

To be or not to be-that is the ques-
tion at Rivesville today. for today the
citizens of that place are balloting on
the proposition of Greater Rivesville
Rivesville has grown with remark
able speed in the past three years and
it is desired by authority of the vot-
ers to enlarge the town to embrace a
number of additions which belong to
the Rivesville unit but which have in
the past been withoutthe limits of the
city.
It is intended. with the approval OF
the voters at the polls today, immedf,
ately to start program of develop.
ment which will give Rtvesville the
civic improvements demanded by the
number Of her inhabitants. AtSnoon
the indications were that theSpropo.
sition had carried. II
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-05-28

ftion. A way off towards the ocean a
big blimp coasted lazily.
The artillery men were Just about an
hour in getting off the transport on
the pier they were met by mothers.
fathers, wives, brothers and sisters
and by Red Cross workers who had
cooirie. a package Of cigarettes and u
bar OF chocolate for every man. Az
ter debarking the artillerymen march
ed through lanes OF cheering thdus.
ands in the streets OF Newport News
and out to Camp Stuart.
Marion Co. Arrivals
Marion county boys on tie Zeppelin
were Jacob H. Deitz Fairmont. Jam
les G. s. Knox, Faimnont: Clyde Hay,
Worthington; Wm R. Wright, Man
nington; w. Allen, Mannington; Fred
II. Hood, Fairmont; Luther Garnet.
Fairmont: Howard L. Hough. Worth
ington; Thomas II. Boggs, Frametown
VIM. H. Lokga, Frametown; Leslie 4,
McWhorter, Fairmont: Oryille i. Nay,
Fairmont; Lawrence Wilson, Mln-
nington; Samuel Lough. Fairyiew;
Wilbur Lyon Harrington, Carl viii
liam, Harrington; Homer Tennant,
Rlvesyille; Ralph Hunsaker, Watson;
Leroy Spencer, Fatrmont: Clark Gross
Fairmont: Oscar Riggs Rivosviile:
Angelo Barr. Falrmont Clyde IauRhs,
Frairview: Hershel Tetriclt, Worthing-
ton; Clyde satterfield Fairmont; Fred
Jamison, Fairmont; Fay Dunham, Fair
mont; Jessie Brown, Fairrnont: Pat
rick McDopald, Monongah: Russell
Swlger. Fairmont; Ralph Douglas
Worthington; Arch Adams, F'airmont:
George Saulsberry, Fairview; Arthur
Pitzer. Fairmont; Harry Clemens,
Fairmont.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-05-28
NAVAL AV|ATORS
COMPLETE FLIGHT
ACROSS ATLANTIC
Portuguese Government
Confers Cross of Tower
and Sword on Them.
CBy Associated Press. ,

WASHINGTON, May 2S-No word
had reached the Navy department this
morning as to whether the sesolane
NC 4 had left Lisbon Spain on the
last leg of the flight from Rockawa,
Beach. Long Island to Plymouth, Eng.
The last message from Lisbon was
received last night and it indicated
that Lieutenant Commander Albert C.
Read would start II weather conditions
were favorable.
Officers said communication with
Lisbon was exceedingly slow as was
evident by the fact that the message
reporting the arrival OF the NC at
the capital of Portugal was delayed
several hours.
LONDON, May 2S-The crew OF
the American seaplane NC which
made the first transatlantic air pas.
sage, landing at Lisbon last evening
from the Azores has been decorated
with the Grand Cross of the Order of
Tower and Sword, says a message to
the wireless press from Lisbon. The
decoration was presented by the Por-
tugese foreign minister.
WASHINGTON, May 27-The Amer
lean Naval seaplane NC arrived at
Lisbon Portugal, at SOL, p. m wash
ington time, completing the first trans
atlantic flight. The ship made the
distance from Lisbon In nine hours and
A minutes, making her actual flying
time in crossing the Atlantic from
Newfoundland 26 hours and Il minutes
The transatlantic flight started from
Trepassey. N. F.. on May 16, the NC
4 being the only survivor Of the three
that essayed the trip.
The United States naval seaplanes
NC 1. NC 3, NC started from Rock
away Point, N. Y, on May 8 on the
preliminary leg Of their flight across
the Atlantic. The NC and NC q
made continuous flight to Halifax
reaching there in safety. The NC 4
however encountered engine trouble
and was forced to ahght on the sea
of Chatham, Mass. II was towed In
to the harbor and repairs were rushed
up there and the machine was put In
shape to continue the voyage.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-05-28
HAWKER AND GR|EVE
GET FIRST AIR MEDAL
Honors Were Conferred
This Morning Personally
By King George.
(By Associated Press)

LONDON. May 2s.-Harry G. Haw-
ker and Lieutenant Commander Mac
Kenzie Grieve, who reached here yes.
terday from Thurso. Scotland. after
being rescued in mid-ocean when their
alrpla6e, in which they were at
tempting to cross the Atlantic, alight.
ed near the Danish steamer Mary were
received by King George at the palace
this morning.
King George bestowed on Hawker
and Grieve the insignia of the air
force cross. They are the first actual
recipients of this order.
A great crowd gathered in front of
the palace to witness the arrival OF
Hawker and Grieve who were loudly
cheered when they made their ap.
pearance. They were also given an
ovation on leaving.
The air force cross with which King
George decorated them, is new honor
which is bestowed for devotion to
duty"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-05-28
LIE CAL oE LIE CHURCH

The call Of Nature Is strong. She
beckons in these charming days to
her mountains clothed with whis-
pering trees; to her purling stream
breaking here and there into the
music of plunging cascades; to her
fields of spreading green; 10 her
lakes where islands lay like emer-
aids in setting OF turquois. She
lures away from the busy haunts
Of men in the smoke laden atmos-
phere to the clear and refreshing
air OF the country side. She speaks
In a most beautiful language. She
weaves charming spell. She
needs no interpreter because her
message Is SO clear and specific.
She IS herself revelation; the
expression Of q mighty and benetl-
cent intelligence, the display or
creative power. Men called Him
God. The soul that revels In the
oeauty of Nature and worships not
Him who created her sins against
his soul and denies his Lord. "The
Lord is in his Holy Temple let all
the earth keep silence before Him"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-05-28
THE WEATHER

FAIR tonIGht and Thursday.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-05-28
Are Here to Sell Stock
in the Brass Plant

The following stock statesmen have
arrived from Cleveland, Ohio, to inaug
urate the stock selling campaign for
the West Virginia Metal Products
Company. Offices will be opened in
several cities OF the state. The sales
men now here are E. w. Sullivan, H.
W. Garberson, Arthur Decham j. F.
oDonnell, L. N. Abbe. ]. A. Gala
Cher, L. S. Van Guns. Harry S. Price.
N. L. Chew, H. S. Ingrams, G. S. King
and S. A. Lynch. y
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-10-03
WIN
Why Should Housewives Be
Denied Sugar During Can
ming Season. While Packers
Get All They Want?

The Seattle Star of September 26
asks the following pertinent Ques-
lions.
Thousands of Seattle housewives
cannot obtain any sugar for can
ming purposes, while Armour's, Lib
by, Mcneil & Libby and the other
big packers have all they can use.
The excuse offered by the whole
salers that the strike of San Fran
cisco longshoremen is responsible
for the shortage, utterly false, be-
cause the shortage has been serious
for several weeks, while the long
shoremen did not walk out until
long after the shortage became eff
fective.
These charges are made by West
lake market grocers. D. McKen-
zie, manager of the market de-
clared that although he had been
able to buy only two sacks a day
since the 2Sth of August, his al
lowance for the market had been
cut to one sack Thursday morning,
Fruit is spelling in large guam
titles in Seattle because the big
packers have hogged the sugar. and
during the coming winter the pack
ers will be able to sell their canned
GOODS because the housewives were
unable this summer to get sugar for
canning, Manager Mckenzie as
serts.
Packers Buying Up State Canneries
THE talk about the longshore-
mems strike in Frisco being the
cause is all bunk declared McKen-
zie THE shortage has existed
since August, and the strike start
ed long after the sugar gave out.
Il claim that the packers have
hogged the sugar. 1t is reported
everywhere that the packers have
bought up the little canneries
around over the State That means
we will have to eat the packers
canned goods this winter because
the women couldn't get sugar for
canning"
Market men reported farmers are
cutting down their fruit shipments
because of the sugar shortage and
much of the best fruit which Ordi-
narily would be sold in the cities is
beng sent to the canneries operat-
ed by the packers. where the price
is cut. Sales of fruit for canning
were cut down heavily because OF
the sugar shortage, it was stated.
Efforts to locate the representa-
tive of the sugar refiners in Seattle
failed, and wholesale grocery houses
informed The Star reporter chat
there had been no shortage until
September /, and the shortage
which followed was due to the
strike of the San Francisco long
shoremen.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-10-03
VALUABLE PAMPHLET
ON Fish CULTURE''

State Fish Commissioner H. II.
Darwin has just published a pam
phlet entitled Fish Culture Meth
DDS in the Hatcheries of the State
of Washington, which has been
prepared by Professor e. Victor
Smith, of the University of Wash
ington. Professor Smith has been
connected with the fisheries work
in the State University for several
years, and for the past three seasons
has been observing the work of the
State hatcheries gathering data.
During the past six and one-half
years fish propagation work in the
Washington State Hatcheries has
made rapid strides. Many things,
which a few years ago were con
sidered Impractical or impossible,
are now but part of the daily
hatchery work. The State of
Washington has the greatest fishery
resource of any State in the Union,
and has thirty-eight hatcheries,
much greater number than any 9TH
er state; therefore, the necessity for
continual improvements in hatchery
methods
Interested parties may secure a
pamphlet by addressing l.. II. Oar
win. State Fish Commissioner. p. o.
Box 3S4. Seattle, Washington.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-10-03
DID NOT EXPECT TO
FIND SLAVERY IN
STEEL INDUSTRY

Fo1lovine sam Gonrers. who be
fore tha Senate COMMITTEES astouDd-
Cd The mombcrs with the conditions
If absolute industrial slavery to
which workers vero subjected in
Tho staol ministry sent 25 John
ri+znatricIl and the chairman Of
+bo c+ril,are, Committee and Comm
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-10-03
SOARING PRICES MAKE
US A LITTLE BIT SORE

Second and third grade apples
will sell for $4 and more the com
ing winter.
Eggs promise to fly much higher
than the hens that lay them.
Butter has slipped up the pole.
and no matter how well the pole is
fabricated, it viii not slide down.
Nearly all food products have
contracted the aviation fever-the
epidemic is general.
The bulls have gorod the bears to
death
Speaking Of bulls, even bull beef
has jumped up out OF sight.
An Eastern poet realizing all
this, has written the following
verses, showing why prices are SO
high:
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-10-03

This opportunity leads to my sec
ond point-upOn what principles
must industry be organized to en-
able each plant to develop co-opera-
tion for increased production This
is the problem of personal relation
ships between arrangements and
workers. Workers are not an i'm
personal factor in production as the
term Labor" is usually interpret
ed-workers are human beings
whose characteristics, impulses, am
billions are exactly like those of all
other human beings.
Cooperation for production de-
ponds fundamentally upon good
will. Goodwill cannot be forced
it must be earned.
Cooperation of workers can be
earned only by those employers
who determine with workers the
terms and conditions under which
/ / y
work is just as big a thing in the
life of the wage Garner as it is in
the life of the employer. As a free
man, he feels the same right to a
voice in deciding conditions and de-
termining them. The only way in
which the workers in industry may
express and defend their rights and
interests is through organization
and responsible representatives.
This method insures a feeling of
. justice and constructive considera-
tion of industrial problems.
Organization leads to progress.
Through orderly organization we
open the way to consideration of
difficulties and reduce the possibil-
tiles for industrial disruption. In
addition to providing for negotia-
tions between arrangements and or
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-10-03

"Show me country where the
right to strike is denied, and l will
show YOU a country where there is
a low state of freedom, said Sam
Gompers, when testifying before
the Senate Committee on Interstate
Commerce, sitting in investigation
of the United States Steel Corpora
ton.