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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-06-19
LOCAL SOCIAL EVENTS.

the church at the Fairmont Country
club last evening. The guests which
numbered thtrty.two were entertained
at dinner and following the serving OF
the dinner spent the remainder OF
the evening In delightful manner. The
dinner which was a four course al.
lair was served IN the private dining
room. The tables were prettily anu
artiaically embelished with baskets
Of red ramblers. Mr.. Hite is mem
Der Of the Music committee Of the
church and one Of the strong support
ers Of the choir. The guests incluc.
ed: Rev. Claude E. Goodwin, pastor
Of the church, and Mrs. Goodwin, Mrs.
T. 3. Johnson. directress Of the choir,
and Mr.. johnson; Mrs. Minor Durham
church organist, and Mr.. Durham:
DR.. and Mrs. E. W. Howard, Mrs. Hal
Hall. Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Helmick, DR..
and Mrs. ". K. Crane, Mrs. Pearl
Reed Wise, Mrs. z. Davis, Mrs. Clarke
Grose, Mrs. Ernest Fortney, the Miss.
es Margaret Arnett, Ruth Wilson,
Naomi Heffner, Katherine Troxell,
Mabel Toothmaa. Jessie Jacobs, Sadie
Crowl, Malissa Crowl, Messrs. Robert
Smith, Howard Mortified. c. F.
Crane, E. E. Mercer. Howard Hawkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hite and Miss Helen
Hite. A few OF the choir members
were out Of the city and unable to be
in attendance. The music committee
includes R. M. Hite, DR.. Z. W. Howard,
Dr. w. R. Crane, Mrs. Hal Hall ana
Mrs. Fred Helnick.
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Have New Daughter.

A fine baby daughter was boTn to
Nj. and Mrs. Jay Snoderly of Locust
avenue this morning at Cook Hospital.
Mrs. Snoderly was before her mar
rage Miss Ruth Phillips.
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Addressed Meeting,

Mrs. Harry L. Bond, Of Wheeling
addressed members Of the City MIS-.
gionary union at the First Baptist
church yesterday afternoon on mat
terS pertaining to the lntercnurcn
movement. Mrs. Bond Is pleasing
speaker and outlined clearly and iofcl'
bly, To her hearers the aims and meth
DDS Of those behind the movement; a
large number Of women representing
the various missionary societies OF
the city were present for the ADDRESS.
Reports OF the work Of the Union were
given and the reports were interesting
and showed that the union had done
effective work during the year.
Entertained Club.
Miss Louise Leonard was hostess
asst evening at her home in Fairmont
avenue to the members OF the HUT
Bridge club OF which she Is men,
Ser. The evening was delightfully."-
spent with bridge and refreshments
Enre served.
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At Club.

5, Mr.. and Mrs. +. N. Hite entertained
The members Of the choir Of the First
Methodist Episcopal church and the
members Of the Music committee Of
New-York tribune., 1920-05-19
Robbers Wuit on
Store Customers
Escape With $IOO After
Beating Ne,Uark Cigar
Clerk Unconscious

With traffic policemen a few feet
away and hundreds of persons passing,
two men entered United Cigar store
at Broad and Orange streets, Newark,
about 1880 o'clock yesterday morning,
beat the clerk into unconsciousness,
waited on customers, then robbed the
till of about s1oo. The clerk, Louis
Solder, forty-ive years old, is in New
ARK Hospital in a serious condition
The men entered the store separately
One of them purchased a cigar and
whlle the clerk was making change tie
other seized him from behind. He
dragged the clerk to a rear room, where
he bound him. Later the hold-up man
struck the clerk heavily over the head
with the butt end of his revolver.
Meanwhile, two customers entered
the store. One of the hold-up men
dofed his hat and, going behind the
counter, served them The robbers
then emptied the till and escaped.
Seidler freed his hands and raped
on the walls. attracting persons from
q barber shop next door
The police believe the robbers were
the same who held up and assaulted
William Ulman, a jewelry salesman, OF
2O4 Lafayette Street, early yesterday
morning. Ulman was robbed of $4,000
in ieWelrv
New-York tribune., 1920-05-19
Anti-W ilson Coalition
Ut Democrats Reported

That the forces behind Governor
James +. Cox, of Ohio, and Governor
Edward |. Edwards, Of New Jersey, had
formed coalition to defeat the Viii
son-McAdoo combination at the San
francisco convention was the report in
Democratic circles last night
he move to combine ~orces, it was
said, was determined upon at a confer
ence attended by Charles f. Murphy,
Tammany leader; Thomas Taggart,
Democratic leader Of Indiana, and the
national committeeman from Tennes-
see. Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio.
William T. McCombs, former chair
man OF the Democratic National Com
mittee, who attended the conference.
which was held at French Lick Springs.
Ind, said he was ready to work for
Cox, who, it is declared is the choice
of Murphy, Taggart and other anti
Wilson leaders for President
McCombs, who managed the success
full 7re-convention fght IL 1912 for Mr..
Wilson, already has begun to line up
the anti-Wilson strength.
Edwards, who is said to have re-
ceived word that he could have the
Vice Presidential nomination, said last
night ne was & candidate for the Presi-
Dental nomination and nothing else.
Nevertheless, there are those who be-
lieve that when the time comes Ed
wards will consent to accept second
place if It comes his away, should he
fail to achieve first place.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-19
Plea of Socialists
TO Free Objectors
Is Denied by Baker
Secretary Says Men Are Held
in Alcatraz Prison for In
fractions of Army Rules,
Not Conscience Scruples

From The Trib1mes Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May 8-Secretary
of War Baker to-day declined to re-
lease conscientious objectors held in
the army prison at Alca trez, Cal, when
appealed to by committee represent
ing the Socialist party. Elvina S.
Beals, of California, headed the dele
cation. memorial in favor of am
nesty to political prisoners was sub
mitted to the Secretary.
Secretary Baker assured the commit
tee that the War Department would
not hold the prisoners when it was
convinced that they would be useful
w-abiding citizens on release" He
promised to have a review made Of the
case Of Carl Hessler, q former college
professor. for whom a special appeal
= $ advanced.
The memorial left with Secretary
Baker cited President Wilson's mes
sage to Congress in November, 1918,
which said, Thus the war comes to an
end" 1t added that the continued con-
tinement OF conscientious objectors
was "manifestly unjust"
"Ihe reasons for their confinement,
I if any there were" the memorial con-
tinued, ceased one and half years
ago. These young men. in an attempt
hto follow the dictates of their con-
I SClSuCcS, IeluSeu 10 accept mllltdry
service-many of them because Of re
ligious scruples. Conscientious objec-
tors to war are and should be classified
as political offenders. We are proud
/ Of the fact that freedom of conscience
is a cardinal principle Of american in
stitutions.
Hundreds of our conscientious OBJ
jectors have been released since the
a:rmistice. 1t is unjust to keep others
in prison"
Secretary Baker informed the COM
mittee that there were not and had
never been any political prisoners in
the army and that there were no per
sons in custody whose conscientious
objections to war are based upon re-
lgious grounds.
The Secretary said that the so-called
conscientious objectors" were neither
tried nor imprisoned for the express
sion of opinion or the entertainment
OF belief, but were imprisoned because
of definite infractions of military laws.
There are tifty-seven conscientious
objectors" in army prisons
New-York tribune., 1920-05-19

atiye of dishonesty, dissatisfaction and
unhappiness.
The desperate need of housing in
New York City needs no emphasis to
be understood. Yet when Mayor Hylan
recently proposed to raise 100000, 900
tor building new residences and asked
for cooperation by capital and labor,
union labor responded by requiring
S1.25 an hour and the destruction OF all
partially completed non-unon CON
struction before union reconstruction
would be commenced.
The destruction of perfectly good
completed work to induce union lahor
to reconstruct is an act of imbecili ty
and financial crime that should be
made legally punishable.
1T must be apparent that the inter
est of employers and union officials
are absolutely incompatible and thai
tNrther effort to cooperate with these
officials is not only impossible but un-
welcome to them.
are going to appeal to the public fol
whom they have no compassion whe1
striking to gain their ends
"Wh this country now needs is one
Of our way drives-a national cam
paign for industriousness, thrift ant
common sense A work Stacker is nc
better than a soldier Stacker.
An honest days pay for an homes
days work, and an honest days worl
for an honest days pay, ) TIE simples
and best platform for employer, EN-
ployee and the public alike.
THE place to begin this campaign i.
/ in your own plant. If you treat YOU
( employees in manner to gain theil
confidence and respect they viii lister
to you instead of to outside Influences.
The principle of workmen's compen.
sation is approved, although none OF
/ the systems at present in vogue in the
several states, is endorsed. The re
New-York tribune., 1920-05-19
Commodore Hotel
Sued for S25O,O00
Bv Horace s. Chase
Broker Committed TO Ward 5
Island Alleges False Ar
rest and Believes Family
in Conspiracy Against Him

Horace Stanley Chase, a stock
broker, formerly of Chicago. ara mem
Der Of the Yale Club and Lawyers
Club, has filed q suit for S25O,0O0 dam
ages in the Supreme Court against the
Bowman Hotel Corporation, owner OF
the Hotel Commodore, for alleged false
arrest Chase's wife is Mrs. Gertrude
NJ. Chase. an actress, who brought
habeas corpus proceedings last Novem-
ber for the return Of her two children
whom Mr.. Chase took from the home
OF her mother while Mrs Chase was
playing in Boston
Iir. Chase complains that he was
arrested November II by a detective
on the complaint of the manager OF
the Hotel Commodore, who charged him
with the larceny of $1,000. This was
the amount Of a check that Mr.. Chase
gave the hotel in payment for a party
he and some friends gave after the
4ale-Princeton football game last fall
The check. it was said, came back
marked NO funds
Mr.. Chase says that while he may
have had no funds to his credit at the
Guaranty Trust Company at the time
he drew the check, the hotel people
knew there was $1,000 on the way from
Chicago for him. He alleges that he
gave the check with the understanding
that it was to be held for collection
and his receipt so reads.
Through his arrest, says Mr.. Chase
he has suffered financial loss, he was
threatened with removal as trustee OF
the estate of his father, who was a Chi
eago trust company president, and has
been excluded from his clubs.
The hotel company has denied all the
allegations Of Mr.. Chase except that he
wss q guest at the Commodore from
October II, 1919. 20 November Il. 1919
" hen Mr.. Chase was arraigned in the
magistrates court the hotel manage
meat did not press the larceny charge
but the magistrate committed the
broker 10 Bellevue Hospital for oh
servation. On November 20, on the
certificate Of two physicians, Justice
Donneily committed Mr., Chase to the
Manhattan State Hospital on Ware
Island. He vas released on February
by Justice Platzek in habeas corNu
proceedings.
NJ Chase thinks his commitmen.
Vas due to a conspiracy planned by Ger
tain relatives, and his attorney, Waite
Bathbone, has received an assurance
frov Governor Smith, to whom he com
pla ned, that there would be an in
vesugation OF the means used TO hav'
Mr. Chase committed TO Wards Island
New-York tribune., 1920-05-19

"empties" in sight. Large foundries,
steel mills and factories along the
route had smoke issuing from about
half their stacks. Pullman car smok
ing room conversation with several per-
sons who knew the various districts
brought forth information that most
foundries, mills and factories were op-
Grating at reduced time, while the
MINES are equally inactive. Mines we're
said to have the labor and the coal,
but few cars in which to market the
product. The industries were described
as having the tools and the men, but
insufficient coal and raw materials to
operate at normal capacity. The entire
situation is boiled down to car short
age, due to traffic congestion, which
situation is now drawing the attention
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, at Washington.
Oil Cars Tied Up
Possibly a typical example of how
this Middle West and Eastern conges-
tion along main traffic highways is af-
tecting more remote districts was heard
in the Pullman smoker. The example
was Tulsa, Okla, oil producer and
refiner:
1--WE got 800 oil tank cars that have
not been within 300 miles of my re-
tinery for three weeks" he said. 81
nave found few of my cars tied up on
siding in a small Texas town so long
that sapling cottonwood trees are grow
ing up through the runnings boards of
the cars. | can't stand the situation
much longer. I've got some oil wells,
too They have produced until the
reservoir tanks are overflowing. but
what good are oil wells and a refinery
unless you can ship the oil ?"
The Oklahoma oil magnate talked
labor predicting economic cataclysms
bread lines, soup kitchens and other
disasters for those he blamed for his
business predicament.
An autotruck salesman announced
that his company was able to overcome
the traffic situation by delivering its
trucks via the highways and hauling
raw materials from points of produc
ton in the same way. He doubted
whether the railways would ever ge
/ any more business from his particular
company.
Idle freight cars along the hundred
Of miles of railway, however, brandet
the Tulsa oil refiner as a typical victim
California fruit and citrus growers
whose refrigerator cars are standn!
to-day in the Eastern congestions, ar,
reported in desperate plight due t,
the inability to market the crop. The,
are reported to have piled their ware
houses full to the bursting point whil
waiting for cars to return home from
the East-cars that do not come.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-19
Freight Congestion Blight
Gripping Entire Mid-East
From New York to Chicago Long Lines Of Cars
Stand Idle ON Sidings; Factories ON Reduced
lime; Whole Country Suffers From Tie-Up

Railroad freight congestion, which is
beginning to have blighting effect
on industry, has become q simple mat
ter of ocular evidence to the traveller.
1t IS noticeable especially between Chi
cago and New York, territory travcrsed
by the main transportation arteries
1eeding the Eastern half of the United
States.
Following the main lines between
Chicago and New York, the traveller
sees railway sidings and railway yards,
large and small, filled, often from end
to end, with stagnated freight cars,
glares at the traveller from the outsi de
and it smites his ears in Pullman car
smoking rooms. 1t is the smoking car
topic uppermost in conversation.
While congestion between Chicago
and New York is reported far worse
than at railroad centers North, South
and in the Far West, the nationwide
influence of this Mid East congestion
is strikingly apparent.
Some Lines Affected
Freight cars far from their roads are
standing in the Mid-East, unable to
reach their destinations or to return
home. At one Of the less important
railway centers near the Pennsy ylvania
State line yesterday cars from rail
roads in every part of the United
States were observed shunted aside in
a long line which had neither engine
nor caboose. As jotted down from a
slowly passing car window, the follow
ing railroads or shipping companies
were represented:
Chicago " northwestern; Great
Northern, Missouri, Kansas & Texas;
Denver & Rio Grande; Southern; Hi
nois Central; New York Central & Hud
son River; Southern Pacific; Canadian
Pacific; Santa Fe; Baltimore G. Ohio;
Pennsylvania Union Pacific; Mobile
Ohio; Louisville & Nashville; Erie;
Central Railroad of Georgia: Chesa
peake & Ohio; Grand Trunk; New York
New Haven G. Hartford; Rock Isss nd
st. Louis & San Francisco; Lake Eric
&, Western; San Antonio e. Aransas
Pass; Interstate" numerous oil tanl
cars belonging to several companies
meat refrigerator cars, some ordinary
refrigerating cars and several of tn,
same type marked "Pacitic Fruit EX
! press" the latter being cars in which
. the Pacific Coast and California fru
and citrus crops come to Eastern
markets.
AS the passenger train rolled through
Eastern Ohio and Pennsylvania. Goa
mine sidings were noticed with string
: of cars loaded high with coal and n,
/
New-York tribune., 1920-05-19

habilitaton Of disabled service mem
and profit sharing by employees are
favored
The report opposes compulsory
health insurance and leaves Industrial
housing to local authorities.
The lifting of the bars against i'm
migration at this time. including modi-
flcation of the so-called literary test,
was urged by Senator Walter <. Edge,
of New Jersey, in an address before
the convention. Senator Edge made
his recommendation on the ground OF
the needs of American industry.
Senator Edge was supported in his
plea in an address by Louis Marshall.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-19
Fifth Nenire l. Called in
Chicago Communist Trial

CHICAGO. May 18.-A fifth venire Of
oua hundred men has been summoned
in the search for jury to try William
Bross Lloyd and twenty-three other
alleged Communist laborites charged
with conspiracy TO advocate the over
throw Of the government by force. Only
Two men have been selected. The trial
opened eight days ago Attorneys esti-
mate that six weeks viii be spent in
obtaining a Jury
New-York tribune., 1920-05-19

World War, affecting the foreign trade
Of the United States, is recommended.
To facilitate the reesta blishment of
foreign exchange and trade conditions
on a sound basis, the platform urges
"a definite and liberal policy toward
our allies, with respect to their in
debtedness to us"
The proposed general and indis-
criminate distribution of cash
bonus to soldiers is rejected as un-
justitiable. According to the platform
the bonus would tend to lessen the
inspiration and debase the motive of
national service" while ut would be
q positive harm TO many individuals
and at this critical time would dan
gerously overatrain our heavily bur
dened economic structure
A. F. of L. Is Attacked
An attack upon the American FEEDER
alton Of Labor on the ground that
many of its policies are inimical TO
the public good was made in the re-
port OF the committee on industrial
betterment and safety. The report
was presented by Augustine Davis,
chairman of the committee, and was
adopted and ordered Incorporated in
the record Of the convention.
w g are entering a Presidential and
Congress ssional campaign,' said the re-
port, "in which labor conditions will
be one of the most important features,
because organized labor, through the
American Federation of Labor, is
avoWing its intention TO dominate
legislation by electing a President and
Congress that viii do it's bidding.
Believing that many Of their poll
cies are inimical to the public good
We believe that the association should
present a definite platform or concise
declaration of principles to enable
voters to Judge intelligently whether
they will vote for candidates favorable
to the federation program.
"union, labor has defantly chsl-
lcnged all opponents to its ambitions
in the coming elections"
Many Of the leaders of organized
labor, the report asserts, urge violence
+ as means of settling industrial dis
putos, Tie entire federation is ar
raigped on its principles, and the re
port concludes that it is impossible for
leaders Of Industry 10 cooperate with
union officials because of the alleged
stubborn and dogmatic stand taken by
/ them.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-19
Blasts Snapped by Bridge;
Sailors Of Nereus Emperiled

The radio masts Of The United States
collier Ncreus were snapped yester-
day as the vessel passed under the
Brooklyn. Bridge on her Wy to the
NAVY Yard The ship had brought
bacs the bodies of 158 naval dead
trom overseas.
Several sailors were imperiled as
pieces Of tjmbers fell to the deck.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-19
Wants Unions Incorporated

The report demands the incorpora
ton of unions so that they may be held
to the same responsibility as industrial
and financial corporations.
The union policy of equal compen-
sation for classes, regardless of indi-
vidual ability, under the guise of com
mon Brotherhood and the restriction
of output" the report says. "is a blight
on the membership, destructive to 10y
atty, deteriorating to capacity and Gre
New-York tribune., 1920-05-19

nue., in the vestibule OF the apartment.
house Monday.
The body was wrapped in 3 copy. Of
"The Evening Journal of September
3, 1919. The head had been severea
from the body; the legs were missing
Medical Examiner Benjamin Schwarz.
who performed the autopsy, said the
child had lived long enough to breathe.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-19
Baby's Body Dismembered

The police of the West 123d Street
station have as yet obtained no clew tt
the identity Of the dismembered body
of a new born girl found by Mrs. Rae
Turner, janitress of 242l Eighth Ave
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1920-09-20
TNFORMACION
SOBRE EL MOTIN
De MAYAGUEz

FL viernes en- la noche hubo I'M serio
choque en- Mayaguez entire republica-
nos Y unionistas, que no ser por la
pronta y eficaz Intervention de la pO-
licia, hubiera tenido fatales consecuen-
cias 81.
FL suceso Sc desarrcll6. .--segun nos
informo un chauffeur'' que Sc hall4s
ba esa noche en- La Ciudad del oeste,
al encontrarse frente de La plaza prin-
cipal los dos bandos politicos, uno de
los cuales quiso romper la compacta
lasa del otro, que avanzaba, pasar
adelante todo &rance, 10 que los con-
trario no permitieron, levantandoso 81
ccnsiguiente alboroto. primero, v segni-
do, POGO despu6s, de pedradas pa!os,
Para. restablecer ell orden intervino in
mediatamente la policia, rotten en- mano.
Los tumultuosos lograron ponerse Wis
Wis.,; Y, entonces, menudearon mas
los estacazos y las pedradas entire los
grupos, a la vez que La policia, para re-
ducirles al orden, y en- vista de que,
pcr las buenas, no era possible cpnse-
guirlo, vi6se obligada a hacer algunos
disparOs al sire 81 tumulto dur6 por es-
pacio de media hora, al cabo de la cual
Sc restableci6, 81 orden eompletamente,
llevandose cabo los dos mitines.
FL Jefe de la Policia di6 6tdenes a.
sus subalternos para que levaran sus
carabinas y procedieran en- contra de
cualqmera tque intentara de estorbar
la celebration de cualquiera de los mi
tines, alterase ell orden.
.Segun informes son cerca de so pai-
sanos los que salieron heridos contu-
SOS de la refriega Cuatro guardias re-
sultaron con centusiones producidas por
palos Y piedras, iinicas arnas que usa-
ron los sediciosos. ass I'd Il u
Las autoridades han iniciado una mi
nuciosa investigation para averiguargy
castigar severamente. "a les promotolbs
del suceso, que desdicel grandemente, de
la cultura de Mayaguez.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1920-09-20
NuEvos vAPoREs DE cARGA


La conpaiia NaEiera "Societe Gene
rale de Transports Maritimes a Vapeur'
Ia cual durante un afo ha venido en-
viando sus barcos a este puerto para ha
Ger carbon solamente, ha iniciado un
servicio regularmente entire los puertos
del Mediteraneo, Ell Golfo de Mejico y
puertos del Pacifco, y ahora, Sc propo-
ne desarrollar ell trafico entire los puer-
tos de su ruta, habiendo va traido al
guna carga para este puerto en- Wales
anteriores. Ga
La empresa ha trazado un itinerario
que Sc propone cumplir con todos los
medios su alcance, el cual incluye al
puerto de Ponce (escala faeultatiya) y
al de San Juan, permanente; viniendo
I'm barco mensual " en- ocasiones dos
pues para clio cuenta con un graR nd'
nero de vapores de $500, 5000 v $500
toneladas, dotados, de los aparatos Dc
carga y descarga mas potentes y moder
nos que Sc conocen, con escotillas d.
grandes dimensiones que les permiter
aceptar cualuuier genera de carga.