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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-22
v. F. W. COMMITTEE
PLANS STATE MEET
Makes Arrangements for Con-
vention Here.--state Com
mander to Aid

Plans for the state convention OF
the Veterans of Foreign Wars to
be held here June u to IA are BIZ
ing made by the convention com.
mittee Of the local post; headed by
Irvine Cunningham, who is assist
9 by Rollo J. Conley, S. D. Brady,
John Barr and E. L. Kinkead.'
Announcement was made today
that the state commander will he
in this city Thursday and will meet
with the convention committee on
that date, after which the commit.
tee members and other local yetcr.
ans will accompany the comman.
der to Clarksburg to take part in
the Grants Birthday Anniversary
celebration to be staged there.
Definite plans will be presented
before the Veterans post at It's
next meeting Tuesday evening. The
three delegates who will represent
the local post officially in the state
meeting will be chosen at the posts
session May 3.
State officers residing in this
city who will assist with the con.
vention work are John Barr, state
senior vice-post commander; Rollo
J. Conley, state judgeadvocate; W.
R. Ice, state color sergeant; Guv
Crigler, state historian, and H. E.
Woodward, member Of state execu.
tive committee.
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.R. C. CONFERENCE TO
OPEN HERE MONDAY
Nineteen Chapters and Eigh.
teen Counties Will Be
Represented at Meeting

Major M. M. Nicely will open the
regional conference Of the Red
Cross, which is to be held here
Monday In the Y. W. c. A. Build.
ing, by making an address on "The
Red Cross" at 1880 o'clock.
Other speakers on the program
will be Mrs. Joseph Roster Of the
local chapter; Mrs. Cecil Jarvis OF
the Harrison County chapter: Mrs.
Nellie Rider, secretary OF the ju.
nior American Red Cross, Monon.
gala chapter; Mrs. Tomlinson Of
the Wheeling chapter: Miss Virgi.
mia Wing of the Lake Division; Dr..
Phoebe Moore Of the Warrington
chapter; Ir. Claude Layman OF the
local chapter; A E. HAN of the
district office Of the Veterans
Bureau; Emmett o'Conor, com.
mander OF the American Legion in
Randolph County; ]. S. Alfriend of
the Lewis County chapter; R. H.
Haines OF the Taylor County chap.
ter; NJ. L. Brown, treasurer of the
local chapter, and Starr Cadwaller,
manager Of the Lake Division.
Mrs. Roster will speak on Home
Service" and DR.. Layman will
speak on Nursing and Health
Work, both appearing on the pro-
gram during the morning. "Budg.
cts and Their Value" will be the
subject OF M. L. Brown, who does
not speak until afternoon.
Nineteen chapters Of the Ameri-
can Red Cross and eighteen coun-
ties OF northern West Virginia will
be represented at the conference.
Everyone interested in the work
is invited to attend the meeting,
and luncheon reservations may be
made by calling Miss Florence
Kneisel at Red Cross headquarters.
A. G. Martin, chairman Of the
local chapter, will preside over the
meeting.
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Pan-AmerIcan Conference
Of Women Concluded Today

BALTIMORE, April 22.-Resolu-
tions embodying in concrete form
the work Of the Pan,American Con-
ference OF Women, which will end
officially this afternoon, will be
brought in at the closing session
by a committee. The session to-
day dealt entirely with the civil
and political status OF women in
the various countries OF the North
American continent. Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, assistant at.
torney general OF the United
States Department OF Justice, pre-.
sided.
Matters relating to the home
were taken up first, and the dele
gates summed up the conditions
prevailing in their various coun-
ties on marriage and divorce, joint.
guardianship, family property, and
other subjects.
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BRNCE TRIAL CONTINUED
UNTIL TUESDAY MORNING


Genesee Bruce. arrested by city
police on warrant charging him
with acting in a disorderly man
ner in an East Side store on Nor
gantown avenue, was not ready for
trial this morning and bis case
was laid over until 8 o'clock Tues
day morning. Bruce was arrested
upon complaint OF Miss Pearl Bar
tholow, an employe in the store
He furnished a SO bond for his ap.
pearance.
o. L. Archer. arrested III s;ls
o'clock this morning ON Water
street, was too intoxicated TO ba
tried this morning and will have
to walt until Monday morning for
trial. Archerwa arrested by Chief
Snider and Policeman Dignan and
Daugherty when a call came to the
station that a nlanSwith q suitcase
was offering liquor for salo on
Water street. The chief and po-.
lIcemen located Archer 10 few
minutes but found nothing on hls|
person nor IN his suitcse Of an ~
legal ,natnres
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-22
RAILROAD E|APL DYES DECIDE TO VOTE ON STR|kI
TO TRY AlLNGO "ARlNY" LEADERS

CHARLES TOWN, w. Va,
April 22.-ln the same courthouse
where John Brown, the abolition
ist, more than so years ago was
sentenced to death for treason.
several hundred miners will 20 to
trial Monday on charges ranging
from misdemenaors to murder and
treason.
These defendants are alleged to
be members OF the miners army
which marched on Mingo and Lo.
gan counties last August and en-
gagged in pitched battles with state
troops.
Heading the long list are c. F..
keeney, president OF District II Of
the United Mine Workers Of Amel-
lea: Fred Mooney, A. c. Porter,
William Buzzard Isaac Scott
Lawrence Dwyer and Frank v.
Snyder. editor OF a labor paper.
Against Conditions
The miners 'insurrection" was
the outgrowth OF a protest meeting
against alleged conditions In the
mine fields. Mob psychology got
into action and miners began as.
sembling at Marmet, w. Va. Lead
ers announced they would move on
to the Logan county coal fields,
carrying the banner OF unionism.
This move was abandoned when
War Department official held a
conference with Frank Keeney, Of
ficial Of the United Mine Workers
Of America, and Keeney ordered
the men to disband.
Mob Reoreanized
Later however, miners heard that
Captain j. r. Brockus of the state
constabulary had made raid and
disarmed some miners at Sharp
les, and rehabilitation occurred
Continued on Page Etght)
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COAL LOADINGS
,SHOW DECIDED
REGIONAL GAIN.
Seventy Operations Are Work.
ing in Northern West
Virginia
MINER s. MEETINGS
More Activity on the M. & K.
Railway Today Than for
Many Months
MINERS MEETINGS

More coal was loaded in North,
ern West Virginia on Friday than
any day since the strike broke. The
aggregate Of the tonnage produced
was 1855 carloads, according to rail-.
rad statistics Corrected figures
also place Thursdays loading at
t52 carloads instead of 129 cars.
The big gains during the past two
days were made along the Monon.
gah Division, B. & o. The tonnage
loaded there on Thursday was 4S
cars against IS cars on Friday.
The tonnage was produced as
follows by divisions yesterday:
b. q o! p Monongah, IS cars;
Charleston, 3S cars; Connellsville,
I'D cars; Cumberland, 25 cars:
Western Maryland = Belington &
Weaver, 4 cars; NJ. & K, 26 cars;
Monongahela, 5 cars.
20 Mines at Work.
Seventy mines were attempting
10 work today, which is six more
than on Friday, but three less than
"wednesday and Thursday, twelve
less than on Monday and the same
as TGasday. On the average this
week; ~ mines operated with sue
cess or limited success daily.
Mines at work today include elev-
Ien on the Monongah Division, B. {.
Ip.; aloss Of one compared TO yes.
Itetday. Twenty on the Charleston
.niylston, B. & O., were at work to-
day, or a gain or one compared to
Midday. Three mines continue TO
work on the Monongahela Railway
and -four on the Conuellsville Divi
sion, 3, 6 o. Thirteen operations
are today sat work on the CImber-
tland Division, B. & o. One mine
CONTINUES to work on the Weaver
u Belington branch OF the Western
Maryland Railway. The big strike
lisf on the M. & K. today where five
additional mines started today, COM
iRared to yesterday.
Mines Active,
Officials Of the miners contend
that the loading IS very limited
and scarcely would mean the total
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TRIAL JURY TO GET
CURRY CASE TODAY

The defense rested at noon IN
the case OF Viola Curry and others
VS.. the Buckhannon q Northern
Railroad Co. and the attirneys and
Special Judge L. s. Schwenck pre-.
pared the instructions for the Jury
during the noon hour in order that
the arguments could be started
when court reconvened at 1850
o'clock.
Harry Shaw OF counsel for the
plaintiff announced that theyfwant.
ed two hours in which TO present
their case TO the jury and as the
defendant is allowed the same time
1t is not likely that the Jury win
get the case much before 6 clock.
The case, which was started ear
ly In the week, is the largest dam
age suits that has been tried az
this term, there being $4,000 In
volved in the suit. It also has been
the longest and one of the hardest
fought cases from a legal stand
point Of the present term
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.BOD|ESOF MINERS
NOT Recovered
Rescue Crews Attempting to
Locate Bodies Of Men
at Almina

MoRGANTowN, Aprfl az
Rescue crews were working today
to reach the bodies of William
Mann, 40, and Albert Topley, 80,
who we're caught in fall of slate
at the mine Of the sturm Coal Co.
near Almina, near here, Friday.
Coal company officials said that
owing to the peculiar condition OF
the cave.in IT might be several
days before the bodies could be
reached. 1t is necessary to haul
all the fallen slate several hund-
red yards to the mine opening as it
is dug away. This makes the
rescue work slow and uncertain.
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FRUIT IS INJURED
BY SEVERE FROST
Local Damage Not Yet Esti.
mated.- Crop in Eastern
Panhandle Wiped Out

With the thermometer oscillat-
ing between OF and. 81, heavy
frost. following, yesterdays rains,
blanketed the entire county last
night, doing considerable damage
to fruits and flowers.
Experts have as yet been unable
to determine the exact extent OF
Jack Frost's ravlshes and are hop
ing oprmistically that a part Of
the fruit may have been unharm-
ed. Figures on the damage, ac-
cording to reports from the Office
of County Agricultural Agent W.
E. McComas, will not be available
for another day or two.
Fruit growers Of the county,
after two or three light frosts dur
ing the week. had hoped that no
heavy frosts were in store. Last
nights extreme chilli came as an
unpleasant surprise and caused
more than one farmer to spend an
uneasy night, The weather bureau
predicts frost for tonight also but
1t Is not expected to be so severe
as that Of last night.
Renorts Are MeaCer
Reports from the various parts
of the county are as yet meager.
w. E. Haggery, city clerk of Mon
ongah, states that his grapes have
been ruined and that he believes
his beans have been killed, also.
Other persons in the same section
have made similar reports.
The fruit belt in the Eastern
panhandle Of West Virginia and
the western portion OF Maryland
was wiped out, according to word
reaching this city today. Frame
Brothers large orchard near Han
cock. Md, which is one Of the
largest in that section, was COM
pletely destroyed.
E. c. Frame OF this city, who is
financially interested In the or
chard, was in communication with
his brother at Hancock this morn
ing, and he was told that it snow
ed there all yesterday afternoon
and then turned cold at night,
freezing the ground hard. The
first report says that not a single
bud in the orchard escaped the
killing frost.
Frost Damage Serious
L. A. Gather. circuit clerk. who
owns Sunnymont orchard in the
Martinsburg section, was trying to
get in touch with his place by
phone today but was not success:
full. However, Clerk Gather says,
II the frost was heavy enough to
kill the fruit In the Hancock sec
tion, 1t would more than likely
catch all the fruit in the Martins
burg section.
This fruit belt Is one OF the
largest in the United States and a
crop failure there means a great
shortage Of fruit In the whole
United States this fall. II early
reports are true and the entire
crop Is ruined, 1t will mean finan-
cial ruin to a large number OF per-
sons interested in the fruit bust
ness in that section as the frost
last year killed practically all the
fruit and 1t takes considerable
money to keep the thousands Of
trees in condition from year to
year.
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COTTON EXCHANGE MOVES
TO NEW LOCATION TODAY

NEW YORK, April 22.-The New
York Cotton Exchange was closed
today while scores Of workmen
moved its records and equipment
to temporary quarters at 80 Wal.
street.
The present building at so Bea.
yer street will be torn down and
replaced by a twenty-five story
building, the seventeenth floor OF
which will be devoted to cotton
trading. A farewell speech by E.
T. Hubbard, one Of the Oldest mem.
bers OF the exchange and the sing.
ing OF "Auld Lang Syne" featured
the closing of the old structure at
the end OF trading yesterday.
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Bright Lights, Joy
Rides and Movies
Make Hit in China

WASHINGTON, April a.
Bright lights, Joy rides and the
movies have made a hit in
China, Trade Commissioner L.
w. Meekins reported from
Shanghai today.
"The Chinese he said, "are
Just as fond OF the white lights
as the most exubrant Broadway
crowd. The Joy ride too, made
an immediate hit in China, and
motor cars are being multiplied.
The Chinese are so enthusiastic
over motion pictures that they
have begun producing films
themselves"
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M'C0RMICKs DENY PLANS
FOR MARRIAGE IN JUNE

CHICAGO, April 22.-The an
nouncement Of Max 0ser, former
cavalry officer, cabled from his
home in Switzerland. that he
would be welded to Miss Mathilde
Mccormick Of this city in June
was today met with a statement
that Miss Mccormick and her
father, Harold F. Mccormick, had
made mo plans Of any sort" re-
garding the date of their depar-
ture from Chicago. So far John
D. Rockefeller, grandfather OF
Miss Mccormick, is not known to
have given his consent to the
marriage.
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Turkish Woman Given Rank
of Lieutenant in Army

CoNsTANTINoPLE, April "a
A Turkish woman has been given
the rank OF lieutenant In the Ma
tionalIst army, earning her promo
ton in action against the Greeks,
says an Angora dispatch. This is
the highest rank ever held in the
Turkish army by woman.
Fatma, the lady in question, was
a corporal when she led a patrol
composed almost entirely Of women
in an attack on the enemy's rear
and retired with twenty-five pris'
oners, including an officer.
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MAS, EVANS FOUND GUILTY.

CHARLESTON, April 22.-Mrs.
F. e. Evans Of Fayette Station,
charged with killing Miss Dovie
Edds at Cinco, last October, was
found guilty OF voluntary man.
slaughter by a jury In Intermediate
Court today.
Sentence was deferred until the
court passes upon the motion for
a new trial on the ground OF i'm.
proper instructions to the Jury, &C.
cording to defense counsel. Ac.
tion on the motion will be taken
Monday. The jury was out twenty
minutes,
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PLANTATIONS FLOODED

NEW ORLEANS, April 22.-A
levee on the west bank Of the Mis-
sissippi at Myrtle Grove, about
thirty miles south of New orleans,
broke today and neighboring plan
tations are being flooded. About
sixty feet OF the embankment went
out and government barges with
menSand materials were sent from
here to the scene Of the break,
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NO COAL
SHORTAGE |NEAST
Shown TODAY
George S. Bracket Declares
That Present Stocks
Are Adequate

That the East suffers from no
soft coal shortage is borne out by
statement made TO that effect
today by George s. Bracket Fair,
mont, secretary Of the Northern
West Virginia Coal Operators As
sociation. who returned this morn
ing from a several days trip to
Baltimore and Washington, D. G.
From what can be gathered the
government will keep Its hands Oft
the coal strike until the public
starts to feel the effect OF coal
shortage. Just before the strike
broke. large volumes OF coal were
moved east and the bulk OF this Is
not yet consumed.
Some operators in the region de-
clare that they would have no de-
sire TO start operations at this
stage Of the game because there
is no business in sight. By some
persons sixty to ninety days sup.
ply Of coal Is believed to be in the
East. Others think 1t will run as
long as October before a market
is created for soft coal.
When the market will pick up
in the East depends largely on the
degree OF the inroads that the
strikers may in the non union
fields OF Westmoreland, Fay.
ette and Somerset counties IN
Pennsylvania. The strike espeI-
tally in the Connellsville region is
believed to have made far greater
inroads than is generally admitted.
II this supply Of coal Is shut off to
the East, the quicker the strike
will be over, some coal tradesmen
argue.
On Tuesday OF next week tae
National Coal Association will
start to present comprehensive
evidence before the congressional
labor committee.
Coal Shipments
Coal shipments to the east off
the Monongah Division. B. & q.
yesterday took on a new lease of
life when 1872 carloads went in that
direction. Nine cars Of coal were
loaded west. Coke loads TO the
west totaled nine cars.
Ninety one cars Of coal were
secured by the B. & o. as railroad
fuel yesterday. No foreign rail-
road has secured any coal in this
field for some time. OF the Cnas-
lesion Division B. & o. cars Of
railroad fuel were moved, the B.
& o. securing all OF 1t.
East of Grafton
Twelve trains on Friday drew
,, 1873 cars OF freight on the B. & o.
through the Grafton gateway, of
| which 1874 cars OF coal were in
cluded. West off the Monongah
! E!7lsion, 9. e o., there vc:e 294
cars OF freight loaded, OF which 90
cars were coal. At midnight there
were 351 loads OF east bound
freight unmoved, of which 1872 cars
were coal.
On Thursday, nine trains drew
S44 loads Of freight through the
Grafton gateway. OF which 109 cars
were coal. To the west, there was
355 loads OF freight moved. of
which 30 cars were coal.
Is In Pittsburgh
Il. NJ. Lambie, Charleston. chief
OF the state department OF mines,
accompanied by Robert Lilly,
Mount Hope, state mining inspec.
/; tor, are in Pittsburgh today In
specting new type OF breathing
oxygen apparatus which Is said to
CONTINUED on Page Eight
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Loss PLACED AT 100000

CHARLESTON, April 22.-Re-
vised estimates Of damage sus-
tanned by the Charleston Lumber
Co. by fire early today placed the
loss at approximately $50, 900.
The blaze OF undetermined origin
started In the carpenter shop and
destroyed much lumber before It
was extinguished.
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The largest gold fish hatchery
in the world is located at Toledo,
o. Twenty-Five carloads OF fish
and 20 carloads Of fish globes were
shipped from the hatchery last
year.
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TILE WEATHER

Eair weather and Slowly rising
Temperature tonight and sunday
ttess tshishs
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Fun Associated Press wire
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-05-24

here in a few days. We already have a
telephone and stenographer.
"You see, this is the general office
for us here. We are putting up five
new buildings at the same time, and ii
saves trouble both for the Kansas City
office and for US TO have a central head
quarters. ....-.
The building. which has attracted the
favorable attention of many passers-by. is
well lighted by eight good-sized windows
and has three rooms. There are two
large drafting tables, with drawers for
blue prints, a roll-top desk and swivel
chair, stenographer's desk, telephone in
a window between two rooms, in fact.
its just like an office in a skyscraper set
down between unpainied wood walls. The
structure is of Mr. Goodrich's own de-
sign. and he designed it TO be cool this
summer, for there is three-inch VEN
tiIaiing space between the roof and walls.
and a good-sized air vent just beneath the
crest Of the roof in each end.
well sell il TO anyone who comes
along when we're through with il" MIR.
Goodrich answered query.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-05-24
ROchebOt

Miss Gertrude Flaugher went TO Column
bia Monday.
Leo Smell was in Columbia on busi-
ness Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Lewis were in
Columbia Monday.
A. B. Lewis and his son, Conner, were
in Columbia Sunday.
Mrs. Matilda Colheir was the week
end guest Of her daughter.
Miss Trelles Dcnham Of Columbia was
the weekend guest of Miss Gertrude
Flaugher.
r. A. Jennings and his daughter, Miss
Glen Jennings, went to Columbia shop
ping Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James McCavock Of
BoOnville were the guests of Mrs. Nc
Cavock's mother, Mrs. S. ii. Moore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugo Dietrich, Miss
Elizabeth Ridgway and Miss Mildred
Jones were in Columbia Sunday even
ing.
The negro boys of Columbia and of
Boonville played ball at Rapp Park,
the score being OF 3 in favor of Co.
lumbia.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-05-24
Linden

James Bcuick purchased a new car last
week.
Esbert Pickering spent the weekend
with ]. L. Pickering.
Miller Douglass visited his family at
Valley Springs Sunday.
Ralph Baldwin and c. W. Wehmeyer
we're Columbia visitors Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Banndrent visited Clar-
ence Brown and his family one day last
week.
A large crowd of relatives and friends
gathered at George Baldwins Sunday
with well filled baskets and helped him
to celebrate his birthday with a picnic
dinner.
Miss Louise Hunt and Delmer Cole
man visited George Grant of Turner and
his family Sunday.
Miss Ruth Belcher returned TO her
home in Columbia Sunday after week.
visit with friends here.
Thomas Rice and his family of Colum-
bia spent Sunday with Robert Rice OF
Linden.
The Linden Rural Club will give an
ice cream supper on June 10. All are
invited.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-05-24
Ha.,LSMWe

Mrs. B. p. Austene shopped in Co
lumbia Tuesday.
! A. B. Elkin and his son Raymond
spent Sunday afternoon in Columbia.
Claud Asberry and his son, OF Colum
bia. we're here on business Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Rcwey McNlinn were
/ Columbia visitors the first Of the week
B. p. Austene has been doing car.
pcntcr work in Columbia since early
last week.
DIR. II. /. Robinson is attending the
American Medical Association in ST.
Louis this week.
Mrs. William Morgenthaler and Mrs.
L. p Lewis were shopping in Ccntralia
one day this week.
The Farm Club shipped two loads o!
hogs Monday. Fabian Powell shipped
one load Of yearling calves.
The Gospel team from Columbia gave
a very interesting program Sunday ev-
ening at the Methodist Church.
Mr.. and Mrs ". II. Winscott and
their children of Centralia were visitors
with Hallsville friends Sunday.
Mrs. Tom Strange was called to the
bedside Of her sick brother in Kansas
City last Saturday. She received a wire
that he was not expected to live.
Prof. E. A. Jones was in Ashland
last Friday and Saturday. He has been
employed as superintendent of the Ash
land Consolidated High School.
DR.. and Mrs. C. B. Lawrence left
Monday morning to attend the Ameri-
can Medical Association in St. Louis.
Mrs. George Robinson and Mrs. Cleve.
land Tucker took advantage of the ex.
cursion to ST. Louis last Saturday and
Sunday.
A. J. Archer finished a job of carpen.
ter work. which he has been doing in
Columbia, and is now working on the
new buildings here.
Prof. DeVolld, who taught in the Halls
vile High School year before last, visit.
ed friends here the first of the week.
He spent one night with Mr.. and Mrs.
William Points.
Miss Lucille Simmons of Iowa. who
lived in Centralia while her father was
pastor Of the Baptist Church there. sion.
ped in Hallsville Tuesday night for a
visit with Misses Ruth and Cwendolvn
Mitchell.