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The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30

monthly payments" In order that the
employees may know tho oxnct
amount Of thosc back payments"
Inconsistencies In Rules
ono more illustration OF the condi-
tions that nfflict tho roads today.
This happened on u Western road,
II might havo happened In Now Eng
land. for the same rulo binds nll the
roads. Tho list OF roads runs right
through the alphabet from tho Ala
bama \ vicksburg to tho zonosville
\ Western. II ofton happens that
when Now England line wants to
know how the rules interpret tho case
of a Maine machinist, or Now
Hampshire blacksmith, or Massa-
chusctts shoot metal worker. they
find tho rule In somo decision in an
Oregon, or an Arizona or a Mlnnc-
sofa case. Local conditions. like tho
Flowers that bloom In the spring"
have nothing to do with tho case"
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30

United States. The forces OF the timo'
keepers have been devoted for almost
two years here in New England and
in all other sections OF the country
TO figuring out how much back pay
the mon are entitled to under the
terms imposed by the railroad admin
!stration. On May 25, 1913. the direc.
tor-genoral issued General order 81.
One section provides that the wage
increases granted therein are effec.
tive as OF Jan. preceding. Thus at
the end OF May two years ago the
clerks who keep the time Of the
thousands of railway workers start
ed on the back pay task.
They are still figuring with all
their might. or course, the back dues
include the difference between the
old wages and the new and the add.
tional amounts assessed for overtime.
and the timekeepers are enmeshed
In a great web OF rules and interpre.
tations trying to figure out how the
overtime is to be reckoned. Tho
whole problem is about as complicat-
ed as the Versailles treaty.
There are fifty-seven kinds OF ON
gine service wages, fourteen kinds OF
train service rates. and five kinds OF
passenger train service rates-and II
is said to be possible for one man TO
get all five under the rules" The
old boards OF adjustment went out
OF existence when the roads came
back to private ownership. but their
decisions remain In effect. Board No.
3 made 1851 decisions. Board No. 2
made 2039 decisions. Board No. !
made 2276--in all $3.50 decisions.
Are these decisions harmonious. all
fitting together? They are not. Later
docisi9Ls conflict with earlier ones,
some decisions conflict with orders
OF the directortgeneral, some with
the wage awards, and in some In
stances decisions on the same ques-
tion do not Jlbe. No wonder the time
keepers thus far have figured for
two years. They are required "as
promptly as possible to ASCERTAIN the
amount due in back pay" and they
must compute the payment due en-
ployes separately from tho regular
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30

Another case OF exactly the same
nature kept the empIoye away from
home thirty-two hours: one-sixteenth
OF the time, or two hours, sufficed to
fix the car; the workman under the
rules" got his expenses and s3s.25
for that task.
On New England roads also occur
red these cases: Afew months ago
repairman spent twenty-one hours,
away from his home station. He did
his work in four hours. He drew for
the. trip s23.76. Another man con.
sumed six hours In repairing n pump
and twenty hours in all away from
his base. The rules allowed him s2s.-
SO, Yet another workman received
s2s.oS for repairing a standpipe.
having been absent from the home
station twenty-seven hours and work
ed one day even, or eight hours.
Things like this abound not only
in New England, but all over the
land. Before the United States labor
hoard in Chicago some days ago a
Western line presented this case: A
man travelled to an outside terminal,
slept there. did some labor. and trav-
eled back. He claimed. under the
rules" time-and-a-half and double
time for overtime for the period OF
his absence from his home station.
He actually worked one hour: the
paid him $34.s4.
These sums are collected under
the agreement between the United
States railroad administration and
the railway employees department OF
the American Federation OF Labor" ]
Rule OF this agreement reads thus:
"All overtime outside Of bulletin !
hours. up to and including the six !
teenth hour OF service In any one
twenty-four hour period. computed
from the starting time OF the en-
ploye's regular shift. shall be paid
for at the rate OF time-and-a-half and
at the rate for double
time, up to the starting time for the
regular shift"
Big job 20 Calculate.
The computation OF overtime and
OF back pay has come to be colossal
Job in every railroad office in the
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30
Personal Mention

Douglas Il. Cadman, representing
u San Francisco electric supply
house, is hero visiting tho local
agency. the Electric shop, On his
previous visit he installed the cleo
tric ranges In the now Evans apart
monts.
The Union Taxi company reports
that one of their cars mado u trip
over the old Fort klamath road
yesterday, tho first car over the
road this soason. with the cxccp-
tion OF washouts the road was In
fair condition.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30

Mrs. Junius' opinion that hus1
band is an animal who knows that so
cents won't buy dollars worth of
cigars. but imagines that $40 worth
OF groceries ought to be bought for
IS.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30
A Song or silence.
BY YJUNIUS

A Song or silence.
can not sing the old songs,
The words ] don't recall;
I've never learned the new ones
So ! cannot sing at all.
I can not sing the old songs,
simply squeal or bawl
SO pass me by in silence
As I stand around and stall.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30

Then He Took His Hat and Left
she-And did you bring me back
any souvenir?
He-Yes. here's a German bullet
that the doctor took out of my leg.
she-oh. wish It had been a Ger
man helmet.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30
Some DOings On a Street Gar.
Dubuque (Iowa) News

VIII the person who took pair of
pants off Main ST. car Friday please
return to this office?
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30

We have Just received a copy OF
the Compressed Air Magazine" No,
not the Congressional Record"
That's the RELEASED air magazine.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30

One editor wants to know II wom-
en- are inferior to men. To decide that
question permanently. the editor
should get married.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30

Bert Thomas wants to know what
has become of the old-fashioned man
who used to own two pairs OF trous.
ers, both with suspenders.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30

Doc. Powell says that every once
in while you see a fellow with an
$4,000 touring car who the week be-
fore was borrowing money to pay his
house rent.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30
Two Great Periods

One OF the happiest periods in a
girls life is when she can say. "I
am engaged" and one of the han
piest. likewise. for some of them. ia
when they can say. well, got my
divorce today"
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30

Many q hero has transformed him
self into zero in the course OF a
three-minute banquet speech.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30

Tho French Government benefits
at II rate OF $4,000 day as It's
share OF the profits OF one popular
gambling casino,
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30

A woman can never understand
why man will stay up all night with
his friends and always be SO anxious
to go home early when she has him
out at a little party.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30

Special machines are now design
cd Ter testing the alortnoss and 9th
or abilities OF telephone operators.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30
just So.

Save daylight as we may, night al
ways arrives in dew time.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30
We Told Ours, But He's Hard OF
Hearing
Boston Globe)

Don't forget to tell your grocer
about that reduction of a cent a
pound in the wholesale price of sug-
ar over In New York.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30
Next
Buffalo News.

The man who used to spend all his
time perfecting perpetual motion has
a new diversion; he's trying to cross
aeroplanes so they'll lay eggs.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30
Bic WASTE IN
R. R. EXPENSE

At Z o'clock tomorrow morning a
short passenger train will start from
a certain small town in New England
TO make a leisurely run OF sixty
miles over a branch line to the point
where 1t joins the main stem OF the
system. The train will reach the junr-
tion at 10 o'clock. At that point the
cars and the crew will wait with
nothing to do until or 4 in the af-
ternoon, when the return trip will
start. At tomorrow evening the
train will pull into the same terminal
II left twelve hours before.
This train crew-conductor, bag
gagemaster and brakeman-will 'ac-
tually have worked six hours. The
spread of their day" will have been
twelve hours. But for making that
120 mile turnaround run every day
But Sunday. or twenty-six times
month-in February only twenty
four times-they each will receive
s255.5O.
Why Pay Is So Big
II works out this way: Under the
rules" there exists in the railway
passenger service a monthly guaran.
tee that gives these men a thirty-day
month no matter how many days they
may actually be on duty. Specifically
the rule is based upon some clauses
In an article in Supplement %" to
General Order 81" These employees
are entitled TO a wage OF 81 day.
Their guarantee OF a thirty-day
month brings them a minimum OF
$40. But their twelve-hour spread"
adds in overtime enough to make the
wage for each working day sS.75.
For their twenty-six working days
therefore they must have $227.50.
But-there is a difference OF four
days between the actual working
time and the thirty-day month OF the
guarantee. Add in then four times 81
for those days and you reach the
grand total OF $255.5O.
This is not an isolated. and It is
an actual, case. All OF the New Eng
land roads have such branch lines,
some OF them longer than sixty miles.
others shorter, upon which the rules
operate precisely in the manner des-
cribed. In the instance cited that
train crew in the present month of
February will receive 1852 each for
making that run twenty-four times.
Over SO an Hour.
Some weeks ago a railway repair
man made a trip over his line at a.
roads expense on an assignment to
repair motor car. He spent several
hours on the train, fixed the car.
and took another train back home.
In all he was away from his home sta
ton twenty-seyen hours, of which
three hours, or one ninth of the time,
were spent in actual labor. His pay
envelope contained s32.73 as his due
under the rules" for that Job.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30
Your Chest Is Sore

Your chest and lungs are sore and
fooi tight. This condition In benefi-
ciaily treated with Roxail Bronchial
Salyc. applied directly to tho Ghost.
placing u hot flannel over II and ieav-
ing II on over night. ono or two thor.
ough appiicatio does tho work. You
will save yourself suffering. tlme and
monsy by keeping those remedies In
your medicine chest and using whom
first symptoms OF cold appear.
Got OF us n box OF these Cold Tab.
let's today. Take them according to
directions the moment the first symp-
toms appear and you will obtain real
relief.
We guarantee them.
STAR DRUG co.
s7c t'a,scfG 1ts~
Klamath Falls Oregon.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30
hut No sky-scraper Speaking

second-story men are in demand at
dihners-providing their first stor-
les make hit.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30
They Like Punishment

A Terre Haute (Ind) man married
another fifteen minutes after being
granted a divorce.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-03-30
Big Job 20 Calculate.

The computation OF overtime and
OF back pay has come to be colossal
Job In every railroad office In the
New-York tribune., 1921-08-04
u. S. to Seize
Any Rum Ship
On High Seas S
Government VIII Order Ar
rest of smusglers Of
Liquor or Anything Else,
Federal Official Asserts
Marshall Grew American
No Action Will BE Taken in
Case Of Captured Boat
Until After Conference

"The United States government will
seize ships of Italian. French. British
OF any other nationality which NAV
and engage in the smuggling of liuuor.
drugs or anything else" it was said
in the office of United States District
Attorney William Hayward yesterday.
Furthermore, Colonel Hayward
added this government will order the
arrest of conspirators against the laws
OF this country in any port in the
world, providing the government agents
believe they have evidence sufficient
to convict"
The method Of procedure IL case of
a ship of foreign registry Will be first
to seize the suspected ship, arrest her
officers, and then notify the represent-
atlve in Washington of the govern
ment under which registry had been
made. This method was carried out
in the case of the two-masted, motor
converted schooner Henry L. Marshall.
flying the British flag. seized Tues
day With $4,000 worth of alleged con-
traband whisky outside the three e-mile
limit.
Prosecution in the case of the Henry
L. Marshall will be through the office OF
United States District Attorney Leroy
Ross, OF Brooklyn, because the Mar
shall is charged to have sold liquors
to customers in small boats off Mon
tauk. No action viii be taken in the
case, however, until after conferences
with the British embassy at Washing
ton and an investigative hearing being
conducted by the customs officials.
The crew of the Marshall, held as
New-York tribune., 1921-08-04
Woman Killed by Drug
May BE Murder Victif1

Opium poisoning is given as the cause
of death yesterday Of Mrs Mary Funk
twonty-four years old, of 214 Moffat
Street, Brooklyn. who was the wife of
Jacob c. Funk. The police believe Mrs
Funk did not take the poison knowing
ly, and they are investigating the case
which may be listed as q murder. should
the statements of small boy be veri-
fed.
The boy said he was playing in the
park at Eastern Parkway and Troy Ave
nue. when he saw man give woman
drink from a bottle Later he saw
the woman lie down on park bench
and notified policeman, who called
an ambulance. The woman died short
ly after being taken to the Swedish
Hospital. The police believe the drink
given to the woman by the man was
concoction of whisky and opium.
Mr.. Funk says his wife was not an
addict. He said she underwent an
operation recently and that a physician
prescribed medicine which bore
label stating it could not be refillcd at
a drug store. Funk missed his wife at
supper time. She had not been away
from home before without his knowl-
edge. He phoned to her relatives and
failing to find her at 1920 o'clock mott
fed the police who told him of the
woman found on the park bench He
identified the body.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-04

Whether it be a blue-ribbon
pet horse or one of the sturdy
workers that delivers ice, coal,
milk and other necessities, the
Knickerbocker Shops can be de-
pended upon to dress your
horse, smartly, sturdily, eco
nomically. The Knickerbocker
Ice Company makes the harness
for its horses. Makes it to look
we'll and wear we'll. The shops
now open for a limited number
of outside orders.
When yon place a haynes, order z.i.h
hn'ckerb0ckef, you get the benefit Of 10
gears o. experience, and the quality Of
maferlal end grade Of qrorkmanship
hord 10 find e*cep1 in 5hot run tri-
marty for its 072ners. Telephone Nevins
27fO. Shob--0t 4M and Bond Sks., R'kiyu.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-04
Harding Pushes Rail Bill
Senators Asked to Speed Cash
Advance Measure
oTl Ihe TrlbN1le's 5 Waahinoton Rurel

= ron The Tribuncs Washington Ruredu
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-Senators
nave been asked by the President to
expedite the railroad bill intended t.
bring about settlement of claims be-
tween the railroads and the govern
ment and TO open way for cash ad-
vance to the roads without an appro-
priation by the government.
Certain roads, by reason of slender
returns in recent months, are in nee /
OF 1he money which would go to then
under this plan of settlement.
Senator Townsend, who introduced
the bill, acting chairman of the Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee, has
called meeting for Tuesday next. BY
that time Senator Cummins, chairman,
hopes to be here. He is now in At
lantlc City recuperating from illness
and is improved. He advised Senator
Townsend to-day he hoped to be back
10 attend the meeting.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-04
Murphy Seeks to
Prevent Wallis
Opposing g Hylan
Will Offer Nomination for
Aldermanic Presidency Or
County Office; Fear Expo
sure of Mayors Weakness

Charles r. Murphy and his district
leaders, in order to keep Frederick A.
Wallis, immigration Commissioner
from running in the primaries against
Mayor Hylan, have decided to otfer him
nomination either for President of
the Board of Aldermen or for some
county ice-possibly County Clerk.
Word reached Tammany Hall yestcr-
day that Commissioner Wallis, who is
politically ambitious, is going to enter
the Democratic primaries as a candi-
date for Mayor. While there would be
lutte chance of his winning. the size
of his vote against Hylan would dis
close the weakness of Hylan among
the rank and file of the organization,
and this would damage the entire Tam
many city ticket. Hence the plan to
get Wells out of the way.
Smith, Deputy Comptroller for Presi-
dent of the BOARD of Aldermen, so that.
if Hylan should be removed from office
by Republican Governor, Tammany
would feel secure with Mr.. Smith in the
Mayors chair.
The information seeped out of the
Wigwam last night that Commis SIS on r
Wallis, Grover A. Whaien and Murray
Hubert, Dock Commissioner, as we'll as
Deputy Comptroller Smith, are on the
tentative slate for President of the
Board of Aldermen
Alderman William T. Collins, leader
of the Tammany majority in the board
is leading in +he race for the nomina-
tion for President of the Borough of
Manhattan
1t was announced in Tammany Hall
last night that there will be no meeting
of the executive committee, and there
fore no slate, until Monday next, at
which time all of the city, county and
borough nominations will be made
known.
Borough President Maurice E. Con-
tolly of Queens will be candidate for
reelection to his present position. This
was the Information given out at his
office in the Borough Hall in Long ISL
and City yesterday. At meeting of
the Queens County Democratic Com
mite, held in Flashing on Tuesday
night, resolution was passed di-
recting the appointment of commit
tee to request him to be a candidate
for the third time. This committee
VIII meet My. Connolly at the Borough
Hall this morning. He will then make
known his determination to run again.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-04
Hirshfeld Wants Libel
Indictment Dropped
Dismissal To Be Asked To-day;
uofion Alleges Grand Jury
Hos SmpD Drcsaed EncfS

David Hirshaeld, Commissioner Of
Accounts, Sled notice in the Supreme
Court yesterday through his attorneys,
olcott, Bonynge, McManus & Ernst,
mat he viii apply to Justice Burr to-
DAY for the dismissal Of an Indictment
pending agains, him in which he is
sa3afged with criminal libel. The in
aictment against the Commissioner Of
accounts was found last November by
sae extraordinary grand jury and grew
Ds' ,s. u certain Information which It was
aAsged Sir. Hrahaeld furnished news
pepss reporters @ith regard TO charges
TSsalnst James Z. Smith, then Assistant
District Attorney.
Ar. Hirshfeld in his motion papers
soss }haf ne grand jury deliberately
ssppfeased facts within their knowl-
sqSs. He aaga he has been ready at all
.Hnes y 70 70 tsiAl, but that the Dis
ne Attorney and the Attorney Gen
rasnt. R'-''A'D''N
New-York tribune., 1921-08-04
Swami Scores Dry
Agents. Methods i'm
Letter to Jud ge
Magistrate to Place
Charge Against Officer
Who Makes Raid for
Liquor Without Warrant

District Attorney Edward Swami yes
terday, in n letter to Chief City Magis-
trate William McAdoo, scored the
methods of police liquor enforcement
agents who search homes and baggage
of citizens without proper warrant.
The letter reads:
"Protests have been made to the Dis
trict Attorney that individual members
of the police force, in the course of
their efforts to locate violations of the
MullanG Gage Act, have trespassed up
on tho rights of innocent citizens by
forcibly opening travelling bags being
carried by the owners, and in some
instances by forcing the outer door of
premises to obtain admission without
a search warrant.
"When a clear case of this kind ap-
pears from the evidence before the
City Magistrate, it would advance the
cause of justice if the City Magistrate
would direct that CHARGE be made
then and there against the officer who
has so violated the law A resort to
lawlessness in the enforcement of the
law is not justified and should be dis
couraged."
George Peterson, who says hc is a
former service man and a student of
the vocational school at Spring and
Narick streets, Manhattan, appointed
himself an enforcement agent yester-
day and came to grief. He went to
the Greenpoint police station and told
the police he would take them to sew
eral places where intoxicants were
being sold
"Creenpoint is full of whisky he
said.
A policeman accompanied him to
Gfccnront. There Peterson purchased
liquor and the policeman made the ar
rests. Peterson had his pockets full
OF samples when he came into the
Bridge Plaza court with the policeman
to testify against the prisoners.
When Magistrate Louis Reynolds
learned Peterson was not a regularly
constituted officer of the law he had
him arrested for having the samples
OF evidence, the specific charge
being possession of one pint bottle of
whisky. The police succeeded in get
ting Peterson released, but the volun-
teer hootch detective is said to Nave
lost his ambition to be an enforcement
agent without pay. With the exception
of one, all of the men arrested with
the help of Peterson were DISCHARGED
b. the court
Federal Enforcement Agent Isadore
Elnsteln squad yesterday brought six
alleged Offenders before United States
Commissioner Samuel NJ. Hitchcock.
Each of the accused was held in 81 900
ball. Summonses were issued for six
teen bartenders by the court. One hun
dred quarts of whisky were seized with
an automobile on the Staten Island
Ferry by Patrolman John Crosson, Tot
tenville district. Three men in charge
OF the car we're arrested. One was
charged with CARVING q revnlvnr
New-York tribune., 1921-08-04
Congressman to Shun
Club If Volsiead Joins
Dread of Representative Saun.
tering Into Locker Room
Blights Membership
From The Tribune's Washin atom p,

From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Aug 3.-The organ
ling Of country club among Con-
gressmen at the Capitol is face to face
with an obstacle that threatens to
prove insurmountable. 1t all hinges on
whether Mr.. Volstead, the Representa-
tive from Minnesota, JOINS the club.
Prospective members have informed
the committee on membership that f
Mr. Nclstead is a member they may be
counted out
Representative Volstead, like every
ether member of Congress, received a
letter asking him to become a member
o. the proposed club. He has not indi-
Gated one way or the other what he
intends to do about it, Meanwhile
there is apprehension felt among the
other Congressman who would like to
join the club, but hesitate to do so
One application bore a reservation.
written by the applicant, which said
that his mem bership in the club de-
pended on whether Mr. Nolstead was
to be member. If so, then the appli-
cant wished his name withdrawn.