The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-09-06
Federal Force
Brings Peace In
West Virginia
General Bandholtz Announces
He Is Considering With
drawing Some Units; Ma
tional Guard Goes Home.
ASSOCIATED PRESS

| storation of order in the West Virgil
mia coal fields is near at hand General
| Bandholtz says that he is considering
| recommending the withdrawal of
some of the Federal units. This an
nouncement followed a tour which he
made through the region where the
disturbances have ragged which he
| made in a special train. He found
| no remnants of disorder.
Dispatches from Logan said that
Col. Eubanks commanding the nation
al guard has disbanded all units and
| left the federal forces in control.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Sept. s.
All was reported quiet today in the
| coal mine strike area patrolled by fed
| eral regular troops.
Large numbers of persons who ha1
been causing trouble gave up their
arms yesterday, leaders of the United
| Mine Workers of America assisting
| federal troops in sending the men
home, but army headquarters announc
ed that not all the arms in the hands
of the strikers had been surrendered
as yet.
Governor Morgan issued state
ment declaring that all the forces of
the state would be employed to assist
the county in furnishing those found
guilty of causing the disturbances,
which constituted an insurrection
against the state and the government
of the United States" he said.
Some shooting was reported to have
bee nheard in the Tug river region
last night, but the authorities did not
In G,,in Mai
General Bandholtz announced today
that he was considering ordering back
to their barracks the troops which
came from Camp Dix, provided the
situation continues quiet throughout
today.
Three of the five missing army fiiers
whose bombing plane was seen fall
ing Saturday were found dead on
Twenty Mile Creek this morning, ac-
cording to a report made to aviation
headquarters here. The fourth avia-
tor was reported injured and no refer
ence was made to the fifth occupant
of the plane.
HARRISBURG, H., Sept. 5-Stfiil-
ing coal miners at the Rose Clare
captured ]. c. Swanson, superintend-
ent of the mine, his wife and three
children, Saturday and are holding
them prisoners, according to inforna-
ton reaching here today. Mine guards
have driven the strikers and their
| families from Rose Glare.
HARRISBURGH, ILL.,, Sept. 6-Un-
confirmed reports reaching here say
there have been fresh outbreaks OF
violence and clashes between mine
| guards and mine workers in the llll-
nois coal districts.
| WASHINGTON, D. c.. Sept. s.
| Troops entered the disturbed area in
| West Virginia today. Yesterday there
| were started for the coal fields 21OO
| troops equipped with machine guns,
| howitzers, one Founders, radio out
| fits, and included gas specialists. Bri-
| gadier General Bandholtz, in COM
| mand of the air forces has arrived at
| the disturbed area. Two hundred
| troops, which arrived at Fairmount
| last evening started this morning to-
| ward Little Coal River and 200 more
| reached st. Adams and the same num-
| Der reached Madison and started in
| the same direction. Other trainloads
| were expected to reach Logan, Fair
mount and st. Albans before mid
night.
| Called lnsurrection
| Secretary of War Weeks announces
| that 2000 more troops are ready for
| entrainment. Commenting on the sit
| uation he said: when railroads are
| closed and armed men march to and
Il
| insurrection." He added that union
officials apparently favored the send
| ing of troops. He added that General
| BandholtZ had reported that Philip
| Murray, international vice-president
of the miners union had joined him
| in the request for troops.
| Reports from Logan say there is
heavy fighting in progress in the
Spruce Fork Ridge line, some fighting
on the center of the line and the quiet
| est zone is at the east end near Blair
| mountain.
| Fairmount reports that an airplane
was caught in storm and fell while
| attempting a landing, but no one was
| injured.
| Speaking to President Harding,
| Samuel Gompers today said the people
| of West Virginia cannot and must
not stand in a hostile army against
the authority of the United States"
| Ready to Retire
| In dispatches from Madison, Will
liam Blizzard, sub-district president OF
the United Mine Workers, is quoted
as saying on his return from the dis
turbed area that shooting was contin,
ing but that the miners were anxious