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proper for consideration ct
the conference rather than a.
subjects Of commitment in
advance. am hopeful Of this
because Icredit both operators
and miners with a sincere de-
sire to resume anthracite pro-
duction and ! am sure that
neither will place any unneces-
sary obstacles in the way OF
fair adjustment.
No Time to Be Lost.
As to time, I hope that the
conference will take place in
the immediate future.
No time is to be lost. Even
If production Is resumed at
once the future consequences
of past delays must necessarily
be serious. but. il there is any
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senger trains stranded In the desert.
He declared that every report re-
ceived shows that the trains were
taken into terminal points and were
not left standing in the desert.
Arranged BY Secretary Davis.
In the conference yesterday be-
sides Sheppard were w. s. Stone.
head OF the locomotive engineers;
E. F.. Cradle. head of the main
tenarce of way men; J. G. Luhrsen'
head Of the train dispatchers; D. w
Helt Of the signalmen; z. J. Manion
Of the telegraphers; w. D. Deak
Of the trainmen: D. B. Robertson Of
the firemen and enginemen. ane
r. c. cashen of the switchmen.
The conference was arranged oy
Secretary of Labor Davis.
FAIRFAX Harrison. president oi
the Southern Railway system an.
nounced yesterday a policy OF
flight to a finish on the part OF
his road in the strike"
Tr.inmen Threaten strike.
NEW YORK. Aug. IA strike
Of $4,000 maintenance OF way men
in the Eastern district may occur
within 4s hours according TO union
e F. Cradle, national president
of the organization, now In WASH
inston. has been asked to issue the
necessary orders.
members of our organization
are convinced that the railroad ex'
ecutives are out to crush tne
unions" said william Parker. chair
man of the Eastern district OF ths
| union.
The maintenance men recently
authorized a strike by a genera
vote, but il was not called when ar
adjustment a of grievances was prom
ised by the Railway Labor Board
The men, according to Parker, are
impatient and cannot longer be hello
in check. The demand for strike
II was said, was national and pre-.
dictions were made that a genera
walkout throughout the country
might occur.
Probe Train Bombing.
Acting Independently, mainte'
nance unions of the Erie and Penn
sylvania have wired Cradle directly
asking that a strike be called.
Railroad executives said the
unions are "bluffing." L. F. Loree
chairman of the Eastern conference
Of the National Association Of Rail
way Executives, summoned a meet.
ing of executives at his ONCE. late
today. Plans to strengthen shor
forces were discussed.
Investigations Of the bombing OF
a fve-car West Shore passenger
train got under way today. Officials
Of the railroad said they were con-
WINGED that a deliberate attempt
had been made either to throw the
train from a trestle over which II
was passing. or to blow up the tres
tie just before the train arrived.
Scores of passengers were injured
by the explosion. a dozen Of wb ON
required surgical attention.
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What's Going
On Today

Lnnchsos-zoata Club, City Club, 1850
D. m.
Lawn Fete-Benent Holy Rosary Church
building fund. church grounds
Lawn fete-EAdies' Auxiliary. limited
Spanish American War veterans, Oh Naval
svenue southeast, 8 p. m.
Asettns. Myrtle Lodge. No. e.. x. Of
p. slea, PDnnsyivsnis savspas. southeast.
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Germany viii be Obliged to pay within
the next four weeks the $1,000. 900
due tomorrow. The payments are In
satisfaction of private claims.
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Prices realised on swift q Company sales
Of carcass beef IN Washing ton, d. C., for
week ending Saturday, August II, on ship
msnts sold out. ranged from 500 cents to
7.t0 esr1s,pec spspnd and. srer9ged ll.s1,
sehts p<r Dconds-A1n ? ssF5p q, "a
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don tonight reflect the seriousness
Of the situation.
Following the adjournment Of the
conference over the weekend with
q state of complete deadlock. re-
peated efforts for a compromise
failed when sessions were resumed
today.
Lloyd George insisted upon the
granting of an unconditional mora
torium. Poincare followed the
usual French policy Of holding out
for guarantees" these to take the
form of supervision Of Ruhr mines
or other measures.
Lloyd George would not agree to
such a program. The result was
that for the frst time since the
war an allied conference broke up
without some sort Of patched up
compromise being evolved
The question of granting Ger
many a moratorium automatically
goes to the reparations commission.
The reparation commissioners. with
the exception OF the French. VIII
vote to grant Germany a postpone
ment Of her payments.
schanIer Effort Futile.
Premier Poincare. II Is understood
will announce that he will place
the entire situation before his gov
ernment for action.
Foreign Minister schanzer. OF
Italy, today made an eleventh hour
! effort to cause an adjournment un.
ri after the allies have concluded
their funding negotiations with the
United States. He proposed that a
new conference be held In the fall'
leaving the Implication that there
might be a chance Of bringing up
The question Of war debts at mat
time.
premier Poincare said he wouid
agree to this proposal. providing
no moratorium was granted Ger
many in the interim. Lloyd George
declined. Schanzer then proposed
a two months moratorium. POM
care replied he would not accept an
unconditional moratorium OF any
kind. but would agree to some form
OF respite provided guarantees were
imposed.
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hoth-proof wool b claimed by firm In
Germany. who simply place the material in
cold solution Of q new chemical
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Pre.Iaent Cable. syup.th,.

President, Harding and Secretary
Hughes yesterday cabled Ambas-
sador Harvey at London to express
to Lady Northcliffe. widow OF the
publisher expressions of sympathy.
The message read: The President
desires that you express. to LADY
Northcliffe the heartfelt sympathy
OF Mrs Harding and himself ON
the death of Lord Northcliffe
The President fully appreciates the
high quality OF her distinguished
husband with exceptional abilities
and dominant personality and his
devotion to the service of man.
kind. He deeply depiores Lord
Northcliffe's untimely death.
viii you also express to Lady
Northciiffe my personal. sympathy
and grief.
CHARLES z. HUGHES,
: Secretary Of State"
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COnttuued from rage OHc-
road discontinued nifty trains today.
The Joliet division of the Elgin.
Joliet and Eastern, supplying the
Gary steel district with coal, is still
without trains due to a strike of all
trainmen and switchmen.
Engineers and fremen walked out
at Iron River. Mich. claiming their
engines unit to take OUT.
While these sporadic strikes were
in progress. outbreaks in shop dis
tricts continued.
Fire ON strikesbreakers.
Two Burlington system guards
were severely beaten by strike SYM
pathizers at Galesburg. Ill. A Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul round
house at Claiming, Mich, was de-
serted. following firing Of volleys
into the living quarters of strike
breakers. H. b. Harris, a machinist,
was wounded and may die. Twen-
ty-five or more arrests will be made
at Newton. kans., it was announced
by Gov. Allen because Of shop dis
orders. Fifteen men were arrested
at Las Vegas, N. Mex. following
an outbreak of rifle firing there.
Santa Fe trains taken to Los
Angeles, after being legt in the
desert by striking trainmen. pro-
ceeded with armed guards.
Numerous wrecks occurred
throughout the day, ranging from
collisions of switch engines to the
crash of the North Coast Limited
into a freight train near Durant.
Mont. The express messenger was
killed and others hurt.
Bridge Blast Halts Train.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo, Aug. IL
Train service on the Frisco over
the Sac river I, bridge. Is miles
northwest OF here. was temporarily
suspended today following dyna-
hitting of the bridge last night.
Although the steel structure was
not shattered. some of the supports
were torn away and engineers esti-
mated 1t would take at least twelve
hours before the bridge could be
made safe.
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Ar~f--ii- $3.50 -~.i --9-- rio-a- ~ -..tv.
soil until II imported humble sses to fsrtiiiss
.s-s D-sIsolns.
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the disposition. of his immense
newspaper and other properties. lie
left no heir to his title. He left a
widow and four brothers. viscount
Rothermere, Sir Leicester Harms
worth, Cecil Harmsworth and Sir
Hildebrand Harmsworth, but it is
said no one knows the contents of
his will.
The future of the Times is in
doubt owing to the strange terms
OF the contract by which he OBJ
tained control. Under this he re-
tained control while the interest
on debentures and preferred shares
were paid. He has been paying these
out OF his own pocket, although the
Times is losing money. II hts sue
cessors do not carry on this policy
the Times will revert to the Walter
family. There is also some doubt
about. the purchase of a heavy
block of Walter shares just before
his breakdown. and 1t is said, that
this may be set aside.
The dean of Westminster Abbey
has offered to hold funeral serv-
ices there on Thursday before the
lnterment in Marylebone Gene
terry and his widow has accepted
Ts-7 s<a--
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Too Late to Classify.
AUTOS FOR SALE

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HUDSON Super-Six; Al con-
dition; sacrifice; must sell.
sos Ninth st. NV. 256 o
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FRANCE TO ACT
AGAINST BERLIN
ALONE, IS BELIEF

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WRECKS, VIOLENCE
AND ROAD TIE-UPS
MARK RAIL STRIKE

Continued From Page One.
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Bridge Blast HaIts Train.
Penna. Main Line Blocked.

PITTSBURGH. Pa. Aug. 14.-The
main line of the Pennsylvania
railroad near Bucyrus. Ohio. was
blocked today following a collision
between two freight trains, accord
ng to word received here.
Four freight cars were reported
wrecked. While one of the trains
was pulling OF a siding, another
freight on the main line crashed into
1t at the junction. it was stated.
Killed in seaboard Crash.
COLUMBIA. S. c., Aug. II. - A
passenger train on the Seaboard Air
Line. northbound from Jacksonville,
Fla. to Washington. D. c., jumped
the track half a mile from Dixiana
last evening. resulting in one death
and three injuries. The engine and
three cars were derailed.
Engineman John w. Preacher. Sa-
vannah. Ca, was scalded to death at
HIS post
J. H. Walters. passenger. of Ham
let, N. c., was badly scalded in ex-
Treating the body of the engineman.
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I,oyd Georges Proposals.

IJoyd George again demurred'
and then advised four proposals as
his final effort. These proposals
were: -,
First. adjourn until the END OF
the year. x,,,
Second. refer the moratorlum
question to the reparat'ons eo"
mission. 4.
Third. accept any safeguards 10
which Germany had already agreed
with che commission as guarantees
under the moratorium.
Fourth. that Great Britain would
make no claim either for interest,"
or principal upon any Of her allied
debtors. pending another meeting AT
the end of the year.
Poincare continued to insist. how
ever, that France must have tresh
guarantees in addition to those al,
ready accepted. Whereupon Lloso
George refused such an ADJOURN
nent as was proposed without a
moratorium.
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ALL ENGLAND
MOURNS DEATH
OF NORTHCLIFFE

Continued From Page One.
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ANOTHER RAIL
PARLEY ASKED
BY BROTHERHOODS

Continued From Page Ono.
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aAeree to Disagree.


IIoyd George declared that new
Guarantees would defeat the ooJect
of a moratorium as well as react
badly on Germany's political and eco
nomic condition.
When his argument left foinca,ee Z
unchanged. Lloyd George finally toio
the conference:
"As all proposals have failed TO
secure assent, I am afraid We must
agree to disagree"
Lloyd Georges steadfast REFUSAL 10
compromise plainly meant that Great
Britain had decided to call for a
showdown Of the whole Anglo-French
and reparations issue. She is now
waiting to see whether the Poincare
government will make good Its Oft
repeated threats against Germany's
default Of payments. This policy.
Great Britain is convinced. will have
the merit Of bringing the reparations
issue to a head after three years OF
compromise. evasion and postpone
ment.
Following the unanimous recon-
rhendation of the experts. the confer
ence adopted a plan for Germany's
clearing house payments. under which
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Clothes Problem Solved.

OfOtheH FrobIem S0IVeu.
New and modish clothes will be
necessary IL Miss Washington is
70 appear at her best when she
fnvades Atlantic City, September
g This problem. which might of
itself eliminate some of the most
attractive candidates, has been
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-04-01

rand the Alexandria County Llght'hgg
Company. The said contract shal!
| further provide that all such I@MpS
so installed shall burn from DUSK 70
midnight. and from and after mlo-
NIGHT until dawn two alternate lamps
on each corner only shall burn. Inc
said contract shall further provide
for the payment by the City CouncN
~ Alexandria, a sum of seyenty-tWS0
| 1870 OOO) dollars per annum Tor each
! IF sqid lights so burning from DUSK 10
dawn. and for the payment oil MY
two S25.OO) dollars per annum Tor
! eaCb of said lamps burning from
dusk to midnight. Ire street lIGHIlils
rate herein providoa for shau coii-
tinue in force and effect untII suciI
tlr,e as chere shall be an adjustment
or change of any or all street iIghl-
ira rates between the parties hereto
rs provided for in the original contract
berls.en the City Council OF AieNan-
dria. Edward f. Vaudeville and the
Alexandria Electric Company; (the
eaid contract bearing date OF the YIN
day oil August, 1865, and any amend
ments thereto; it beng the intention
If This clause to place this contract
for street lighting on the same basis
AZ that OF all other street lighting III
the City OF Alexandria.
section ,: The said Alexandra Couh-
Nv lighting Company is hereby au-
,norized and empowered to remove
I'm If the poles belonging to the SAID
company located on King street oe-
tween + airfaX ana Patrick Streets TO-
gr.her with the equipment thereon pc
longing to it, including all trans .
formers now located ON King street
between the said streets, and to re-
Mace aL present two and three wire
services with twin and tiipie con
dprtors. and 10 replace the sand PoieS9
vim forty-tWo l2) ornamental steer
noles thirty-fye feet high, to be To-
'.,ted one ON each corner OF hing
and each iutcrsecting street i-om
|rrfax to Patricl, street and one IN
tbn ccnter of each block within the
sid area on both sides Of King Street
ANY previous lighting ordinance part
" 0r wholly in conflict with the au-
thority herein given is hereby re-
pclled ,,.l.;a (
County Lighting Company, with the
consent and approval of the CITY
Council first had hereby aulG -.l-l----!
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AN ORDINANCE

AN ORDINANCE authorizing and
empowering the Alexandria County
Lighting Company, the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Company, the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
and the Washington-Virginia Rail
way Company, TO remove such poles
and wires as belong to said companies
as are now located or erected on King
Street, from Fairfax to Patrick
Street, in the City of Alexandria,
Virginia, and to replace the wires
belonging to them now located on
poles on King Street on the poles
erected by the Alexandria County
Lighting Company. with the consent
of the said Alexandria County Light
ing Company, and regulating the use
or sale of such poles.
Be it ordained by the City Council
of Alexandria, Virginia:
Section /: That the Alexandria
County Lighting Company, the Ches-
apeake and Potomac Telephone Com
pany, the Western Union Telegraph
Company, and the Westinghouse
ginia Railway Company. be. and they
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and empowered to permit any tele-
phone, telegraph, Electric Street Rail
way COMPANY or any other utility,
the conduct of whose business requires
the use of such poles, to use the same
upon such rentals, terms and con-
ditions as shall be mutually satlstac-
tory to those interested in the use
thereof. and to the Alexandria Coun-
ty Lighting Company The SAID Al
exandria County Lighting Company
is further authorized to sell such
poles or any interests therein as may
be necessary to the Washington r.
ginia Railway Company, for the
proper condIct Of its business, upon
such terms and conditions as may be
mutually satisfactory to the Com
panies. The City Council OF AleXan-
dria expressly reserves the right to
use such poles for such purposes as
may be necessary in installing ire
alarm system, or police alarm sys-
TEN, or for other purposes without
cost.
Section 4: The installation OF the
said new system shall be in accordance
with plans prepared by the AleXan-
dria County Lighting Company, ap-
proved by the Committee on Streets
and the City Engineer.
Section 5: The said Alexandria
County Lighting Company is hereby
permitted and authorized and directed
TO remove the street lights on King
Street from Fairfax to Patrick Street,
as now located, at such time as the
lights provided for in this contract
hall be ready for service.
Section G: All ordinances or parts |
If ordinances in conflict with this or
finance are hereby repealed.
Section 7; This ordinace shall be |
N force from its passage.
Passed the Common Council, March |
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If Women Only Knew

What a Heap of Happiness 1t Would
Bring TO Alexandria Homes.
Hard to do homework with an
aching back.
Brings you hours of misery at lei
sure or at work.
If women only knew the cause
that
Bachache pains often come from
weak kidneys.
'Twould save much needless woe.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak
kidneys. Ask your neighbor!
Read what an Alexandria citizen
says:
Mrs. T. NJ. Entwisle, 1907 Gibbon
ST., says: "The pains in my back
were something awful and no matter
how | turned | couldn't get rid of
them. There was a sore and lame
feeling and heavy, bearing-down
ache in my back all the time. My
head felt as though somebody were
pounding it and | became very ner-
vous. / had dizzy spells, too. Tde
way my kidneys acted bothered me
lot and caused me no little pain. The
first box of DOan's Kidney Pills gave
me relief and by the time ! had fin
ished the second box all my kidney
trouble had left me; L was entirely
cured" ,,,,
6Oc, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, n. Y.
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are hereby authorized and empowered
to remove all poles and wires erected
thereon belonging to each of said ccm-
panies, located on King Street, from
Fairfax to Patrick Street, in the City
Of Alexandria, Virginia, and to re-
place such wires as are now located
on said King street on the poles to be
erected thereon by the Alexandria
County Lighting Company, upon such
rentals, terms and conditions as shall
be mutually satisfactory to each of
said companies and the Alexandria
County Lighting Company, or in case
of joint ownership of such poles, as
may be mutually satisfactory to the
said Alexandria County Lighting
Company and the Washington-Vir-
ginia Railway Company.
Section 2: Nothing herein con-
tanned shall be constructed to in any
way amend, alter, abridge, modify or
change any rights, powers or privi-
ieges conferred upon the public utili-
ty companies herein mentioned under
the franchise which they now possess.
or the rights which they now enioy
under the laws of the State of Viz
ginia.
Section 3:-The said Alexandria
County Lighting Company, is hereby
to sell, and the Washing
Railway Company is
authorized to buy such poles or any
interest therein as may be necessary
to the Observation-Disclosures Railway
Company, for the proper conduct of
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AN ORDINANCE

AN ORDINANCE empowering ano
instructing the Mayor OF the CITY o.
Alexandria, to execute a contract OF
behalf Of the City Council OF Alexan-
dria, Virginia, with the Alexandra
County Lighting Company, its sue
eessors or assigns, in reference to the
furnishing to the City Of Alexandria
of additional lamps for street light
ing purposes; to permit the removal
of certain poles and equipment, and
the erection of certain poles and the
stringing Of wires thereon, and to
permit the removal Of certain street
lights as at present located, and re
eulating the use and sale of said
poles.
Be it ordained by the City Council
of Alexandria, Virginia:
Section /: That the Mayor of this
City be, and he is hereby empowered
and instructed to execute a contract
with the Alexandria County lighting
Company, it's successors or assigns,
which said contract shall provide that
the said Alexandria County Lighting
Company, it's successors or assigns,
shall furnish for a term of fourteen
Q4) years, expiring July 25th, 1886,
forty-two (42) lamps G.. Z. Form =,
NovaIux units of 900 candle power
rating each, the said lamps to be 10
Gated on both sides of King Street
from Fairfax to Patrick Streets, SIX
lamps to bc located on each of said
blocks and the same 70 be equally
spaced, three on one side of block
and three on the other side opposite
each other. so that there Will be four
lamps at each corner of King Street
and the interSecting street, except
Fairfax and Patrick Streets, where
there shall be two, it being understood
and agreed that work shall not be
commenced on this installation until
the Chamber Of Commerce shall have
raised its share of the Installation
cost and until the necessary agree
ments covering said contribution to
the total cost shall have been executed
between the Chamber of Commerce
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81 VIRTUE o, = 60 o. tru ,,I
executed by Adolph +. Koch ana
wife, TO the undersigned Trustee , re-
corded in Deed Book Y. page 4oz::
# the land records Of the CITY OF
Alexandria, Virginia, default having
been made in the payment OF certain
installnents of a note thereby Sc
cured. the Undersigned trustee. VIII,
nj the request of the holder or Sa!d
note, offer for sale at public aucuoh,
before the Royal Street entrance 10
he Market Building, in the City, o.
Alexandria, Virginia, on TUESDAY
the lth day Of April, 1922, at tweiye
o'clock noon, the property, with the
buildings and improvements thereon,
mentioned and described in said deed
of trust. as follows, to wit:
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND,
with the buildings and Improvements
thereon. in the City of Alexandria,
Virginia. known and designated as
all Of Lot numbered Twelve Q2),
in Section numbered Five (5), of
the Subdivision of Rosemont, as the
same is shown or a plat thereof.
duly recorded in Deed Book 68, page
500, together with the right Of way
over the alley ten feet wide, on the
rear portion of Lots numbered
Eight (S) to Twelve U2) inclusive.
RUM ng north to the Street north of
said premises. in common with
other entitled to the use thereof.
THIS SALE will be- subject TO
the lien Of deed Of trust Of $4,000.
90, recorded in Deed Book 20, page
3& Terms Of sale CASH, conveyan>
cling and revenue stamps at the
cost of purchaser.
/ 72-Sc Howard W. Smith, Trustee.
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its business, upon such terms and con-
ditions as may be mutually satisfac-
tory to the said companies.
Section 4: This ordnance shall be
in force from its passage.
Passed the Common Council, March
%. 1922,
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II. Z. Burke. President.

H. r. Burke, President.
Passed the Board of Aldermen,
March IS. 1922
f. F. Marbury, President.
Teste. Daniel R. Stansbury.
Approved, March go, 1922.
Jas. NJ. Duncan, Mayor.