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Omaha daily bee., 1922-01-24
still in Infancy.
By HOLLAND,

With considerably more than 81 ,00o. 00o.-
Gao now available for improved roads and
city streets and with the certainty that
the American public now warmly approves
every reasonable plan whereby our high
ways may be made as serviceHble In their
way as are the railroads. 1t is. now stated
that the year 1872: is to he the greatest
year, UP 10 this time. in road building in
tho United states, although succeeding
years may be greater. In fact highway
construction has already become one of
the countries leading industries. Yet all
who have given careful study 20 this in
dustry arc now persuaded that Il is just
emerging from its infancy. They look
ahead and heirsforecast tpstifies them in
predicting that fye or six years, hence the
adequate highway system and that it will
be possible to travel over perfectly con-
structed highways by various routes across
the continent or from the Gulf OF Mexico
TO the Canadian boundary.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-01-24

ItIDES AND W-N1JT-.. : nm
Beef hides: Green sailed, No. l.. late
take off. per h.. 607c; green sailed, No
., late take off. per h.. 6@6c; green. No.
l, late take of, per h., 495c; green. No.
salted, old stock, per. H.. s@5c; green
sailed bull hides, No. /. per lb.. 4c; green
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BIG CELEBRATION
PLANNED AT PARK

Under the auspices OF the Fra
terna1 Building Association com
posed of Mt. City lodgeHG. q. o. OF
o. F., Meridian lodge A. F. & A NJ.
and Marion lodge No. 40 x of p.
the fifty-seventh annual emancipa-
ton celebration and basket picnic
will be held at Traction Park on
September 90. The reading of Lin.
coins emancipation proclamation
will open the program in the after
noon and following there will be 4
series OF speeches by prominent
Negro leaders.
The Fairmont Giants and the
Homestead ,Grays will play at base
ball at 8 o'clock.
Following the ball game there will
be athletic contests Of all kinds, and
prizes will be awarded to the win
ners. A race for old men and 4
nail driving contest for r.wom en- Will
be special features. The grand ball
starting at S O'Clock. will be the
feature of the evening program.
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CURTA|LMENT0|
TRAFFIC MAY Be
NEX,TST'E!:P| | |: TAKEN N. !. Il
Week End Conference on May
flower Brings No New
Move in Strike.
OUTLOOK IMPROVING
Senate committee Votes Fav--
orabIe Report Today on
Cumn1iils Bill.
OUTLOOK IMPROVING

WASHINGTON. Aug. 2s.-CBy
the Associated Press.)-While
committees Of the Senate and
House were at work toda2 to per
fleet coal distribution legislation
by the administra-
|tion. President Harding and his
advisors prepared to bring to bear
all the power they now possess
for improvement of fuel transPor-
tation facilities.
AS a result OF the Presidents
weekend conferences, it was in-
dIcated that he still believed 1T
would be possible to restore nor
NAL conditions without res sorting
to government operation Of rail
and coal properties affected by the
strike situation and that he felt
much could be done in that direc-
ton even before Congress acts 70
create fuel distribution agency
and to clothe the Interstate :erm-
merce Comms ssion with additional
powers over priority.
At the. same time. however. both
the Senate and the House inter
state commerce committees were
|redoubling their efforts to com
plete the distribution and priority
bills and steps to authorize the
executive. toSStake over roads and
min es remained insaIhe offtng with
[congressional. opinion divideiiis8 81 as as
[toS tn sadXisability OF such a course
at the present moment.
With the Presidents return to
Washington this morning from a
weekend cruise on the yacht May
flower. Secretary Hoover Attorne'
General Daugherty and Chairman
4 . = -, &Do fxan
were among his guests and confer
ees. 1t was indicated that for the
time being the attention of execu-
tive officials would be ceEtered
with increased vigor upon what is
said to be regarded by Mr. Hard
ing as the crucial moment Of the
whole industrial situatI Ion-the e
movement of coal
AS outlined in an authoritative
quarter, the Mayflower confer
(CoE .inued on Page FouD
/ n #
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e TRAINS MOVED
OVER E|:|R}. WEEKEND
Accumulated Loads on Mon.
ongah Division Only SOB
at Midnight.

Although the B. & 0. Railroad
succeeded in moving twenty-three
trains over the mountains east of
Grafton over Saturday and Sunday
and rem owing 624 accumulated east
bound coal loads, there was at mid
night 1906 accumulated loads on
the Monongah Division. OF that
number there were 1850 unmoved
eastbound freight 1oadsf of which
1,1OO were east bound coal loads.
On Saturday therewere eleven
trains moved, in which $50 loads
Of freight drawn, of which 314 were
coal. To the west there were rs
loads of freight moved Saturday.
of which all were coal. On Sunday
twelve trains drew AIS freight loads
over the mountains, of which 80
were coal. Westward off the Monon
gah Division division, there We're
172 loads of freight moved, of
which $50 were coal
Daily Shipments
Lake shipments off the Monon-
gah Division, iB. & O., on Saturday
totaled eightyone cars: There We're
2S6 cars OF coal loaded east and
(Continueds on Page Four)
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RECKLESS DRIVING
CASE CONTINUED
Dominick MaIIamo Denies All
Charges of SPEEDING
When Car Hit Boy

Dominick Ma1lamo will be given
a hearing before acting Mayor w.
E. Arnett tomorrow morning at 8
o'clock on a. charge of reckless
driving, resulting in serious inJur-
les to- Daniel Miller, the 14-year-
old son OF Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Miller Of liz Locust avenue. q he
defendant: appeared atspoliceScourt
thisSm orning a. nd asked for a CON
!tinuance in the case until Etomorrow
morning, and his request was grant
ed
IIa1lamo is charged with speed
ing down Jackson street at the rate
Of 35 miles an hour when his car
struck the Miller boy. who was try
ing to cross the street in front OF
the STANDARD Garage. The youth
was knocked to the ground and
badly bruised. He was taken to the
Cook Hospital where today he was
reported to be doing nicely.
The driver of the car denies all
charges of speeding. He contends
that he was not even driving fast
but was going unusually slow. Ac-
cording to his story of the accident
he was going slowly down Jackson
street when he saw the boy stand
ing on one side of the street. See
inS that the boy was not going to
try to cross he stepved on the gas.
The boy. evidently OF the opinion
that he could get across the street
before the car got to him. darted
in front of the car but was struck
and knocked to the pavement.
The defendant conducrs a barber
shop at t07 Madison street. Jacob
Miller, the father of the injured boy
is the proprietor of the Jackson
street market.
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FEW ARRESTS MADE
DURING WEEK- END

Few arrests were made by the
city officers over Sunday and the
weekend receipts of the police de.
partment showed a decided slump
when acting Mayor W. E. Arnett
ended the regular Monday morn
ing police court program today
Nick Benani managed to get his
name on police court records
again over the weekend. This
time the charge was not for d
traffic violation, as is genera1ly
the case with Benani. but for get
ting too much moonshine whisky
He was picked up in Cleveland
avenue and taken to police head
quarters, but later released on a
forfeit.
He failed to appear. for hear.
ing today and his SIS forfeit went
to the city treasury. John
sC"Dad',0 Hughes was also arrest.
ed for being intoxicated and was
fined S
5.la7 "A couple was arrested in the rear
Of Mount Vernon avenue about
lIO.3O p. m. Saturday night on
charges ofaloitering. They gave
the names Of Katherine Currey
and Lindsay Fawcett- When they
failed to appear in court for a
hearing today, forfeits OF $40
were collected. !
Fred Venda TIL was arrested fol
speeding at the rate Of thirty-f1ve
miles an hour. He did not appear
in court this morning for trial,
ana the officers We're directed to
make sure that he did appear for
trial tomorrow morning.
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QUARREL END S
BOTH BEN GEF;I,N'!E|:!D!||l NED

I. Mary Petro and MaryEBndrickad
Morgan Mines had each EothsTa11s
rested on charges of8assalltsand!l IND!
battery today; and aeachs semployed
an attorney;to make sure Sthatthsy
were. successful in their sui 81 The s1ssI
case came before Justice Ra y
Musgrove at III o'clock thismorn!ss; or!s;
ing. "A number of witnessesyWsra
examined for 10Th side and quite
bit ofstimes takensups1 s1nsntseaE;I
ing evidence as to Ejustswhz stated
the trouble. / After all the idencaI
had been heard Justice MusgToye|
announced that sheasIsas ssssss @ stnssa
opinion that tn were othIseqna.s
w guilty and ndsfmposedsa SfinezoIsSS
and costs in each case
Duncan McDermitt Detyians
Kerths and Jose eph MI illers;WeIAShes
fore Justice J BlocheIsthis
morning on charges ofS disnrdsgty1
conduct at the Wise min beloY
this city Saturda DermIt
fined $40 while MilleTS and kertk
were each fined $40 sa9a Ecostgs
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Federal AGENTS
TAKE CHARGE OF
COALSH|I.P MENT:S !:
Railroad Officials Here for
First Conference of Lo-
cal Fuel Committee
TAKE. !' CHARGE ] A HE R T
Hoover Machinery for Distri-
button of Coal Begins
to Function.
TAKE CHARGE HE R E.

Hoover machinery for the distri'
button of fuel out of the coal fields
Of Northern West Virginia began
to function today
j. w. Paul, Pittsburgh, the repre-
sentative of the federal fuel distri-
butor. and T.F. Sullivan; Washing
ton,t D. c., representing the Inter
state Commerce Commission, ar
rived in the city today and assumed
charge of the work here.
All morning these officials were
in consultation with two members
+ OF the local fuel committee, George
L S. Brackett, who is secretary of
the Northern West Virginia Coal
Operators Association, and Floyd
j.. Patton, president OF the Patton
Coal CO., w. =. Fene, Washington,
D. c., representing the United
States Bureau of Mines; S. H.
Wells, Clarksburg, representing the
b. & o. Railroad: George Reith,
Kingwood, West Virginia Northern
Railway; and G. X. Orr; Browns
vile, Pa, superintendent of the
Monongahela Railway, also attend
ed the conference
The fuel distribution officials con
ferred with railroad representative
for the purpose of discussing the
most feasible plans for the move
nlent of coal owing to 5cond t1tons
on some of the: roads specially the
b. & o., railroad, this evolves quite
problem.
The fuel distributing officials had
no comment to make on the pro-
portion of coal to be shipped to the
lakes as the Inter state Commerce
Commission deals direct with the
car distributor of each railroad
which naturally means that this de-
tail is out of their sphere of activi-
ty.
The first priority was received in
Northern West Virginia on Satur-
day afternoon when the office of
Henry b. Spencer. Washington, D.
c.. federal fuel distributor, at the
request of w. w. Potter, state fuel
administrator of Michigan, directed
that $4,000 tons of coal be Shipped,
1850 tons. to Jackson and an equal
tonnage to Detroit. Two-thirds OF
the order is to be steam coal, while
thesremaining third is gas coal. No
coal is stocked in Michigan accord
ing to reports received. 1t was
learned that the coal has not as yet
been shipped
The Hoover. committee will have
its headquarters at the rooms of
the Northern West Virginia Coal
Operators Association where suit
able desks and supplies will be
placed in position.
At the present time the vast ma
jority o the coal being loaded is
for public utilities and railroads.
Coal operators loading preferred
classifications receive first whack
at the car supply.
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FORD T0-F|.IGH:T| =
PROF|TEERS in
COAL INDUSTRY
Claims Closing of His Plants
Next Month First Step
in Big Contest.

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 2s.----
l(By the Associated Press) =
Henry Fordain announcing Satur-
day that his5plants would be clos
ed September 16 because of con
iditionsS Sin3the coal Il eld,ssbegan@a
.fghtE tEEfor what = he sbeieves isssa
greatssprinciple, the Associated
! Press was Informed today in
sources close to the manufacturer.
Mr.. Ford, it was said, has
started what he declares is a
fight against alleged profiteering
in coal and that he believed he is
in a better position perhaps to
| do so than anyone else. He feels,
Fit was said, that by taking up the
fight he is doing every other
manufactured. as well as working
imen throughout the country, real
service
Mr.. Ford denies there is a coal
| shortage. The investigation OF
his representatives has convinced
ihina that coal brokers of the
country have an enormous sup
lply of coal on hand. The Ford
Motor Co., could obtain enough
coal to cover a field ten acres
lsquare if it-would submit to be
ing victimized by profiteers, it was
declared
For several weeks, it was as
serted. the Ford offices at Dear
born have been flooded with Of
| fers of coal with deliveries guar
anteed- 1t was declared the prices
asked ranged from 100 to 500 per
cent above the normal cost. The
manufacturer believes that if he
yields to what he terms the hold
! up Of the coal brokers every
other manufacturer will follow
/ suit and this would cause prices
! Of coal to reach an unprecendent-
i ed figure.
The Ford company recently has
received a large number of Of
tfers on the part of coal opera
itors to sell mines. None of these
offers have been seriously con-
sidered, however,, because of the
present transportation conditions.
lit was explained by persons close
to Mr.. Ford today that the offer
ling of mines mean but little as
they can be purchased now for
almost nothing because of the
large stocks OF coal held by
brokers'"
The manufacturer still believes
linking of the Louisville and
Nashville and the Detroit, Toledo
and Ironton Railroads, the latter
his own. property, would so1veSnoi
only the Ford company problems
but these Of every other Goa
users in. the lakes region.
Coal for shipment is available
lin Kentucky Its$onlyE awaits a
way to bring it out, according tc
lMr. Ford. :
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DEMANDS HEARD
BY LABOR BOARD ;|'.|:|
Track Workers and FIagmen
Ask Increase From %
to 48 Gents.

CHICAGO, Aug. 2S-Railway
maintenance OF way employees,
comprising approximately 100000
track workers and crossing flag
men, whose threatened strike with
the shop crafts last month was
|heidgin a abeyance pendingEn wage
hearings placed their demands for
pay before sthe United
States Labor Board here today.
One hundred and five. roads are
PARTIES to:the dispute.
The hearing was on petition IT
the United Brotherhood'of Mainten.
ance of Way Employers and Shop
Laborers. more than 100 railroads
asking an increase OF minimum
wages from % cents to4S cents an
hour, virtual demand for recogni-
!tion of basic elght-hour day with
time and a'half for overtime.
E. F. Cradle, president of the
brotherhood; refused to affirm or
deny the reported plan to include a
minimum cost of living base in
proposals to amend the transporta.
ltion act.
The unions position in its effort
Ito increase the minimum wage OF
% cents an hour for track men to
rs cents an hour was to be develop
led in the testimony Of w. Jet.
Lauck, labor statistian
Mr.. Cradle had prepared a long
statement for presentation to the
labor board. John G. WaIber, rep
resenting eastern railroads, and
John Higgins, representing western
railroads, represented the roads.
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MONONGAHEIA TO
REPLACE TRAINS
Both B. & O. and P. & [. E
Run Excursions to Canada
From Here Tomorrow.

IT was learned today officially
that the Monongahela Railway VIII
replace the two local trains be
tween Fairmont and Brownsville
one northward and one southward,
lust as soon as business picks UP
sufficiently to, warrant the replac'
ing of them. The exact date when
the trains will be replaced has not
been learned as yet.
) Express Increasing
4 Express matter from New York
and Baltimore receiY'
ed in Fairmont this morning was
heavier thanit had been for a year
according to James Lang, Fairmont
agent of the American Railway Elk
press Co. Merchants are buying
clothing and other merchandise and
are getting set for the miners first
pay day after the coal strike.
p. X. Orr Here
D. X. Orr Brownsville, Pa.
superintendent of the Monon gahela
Railway, was in Fairmont today on
a. business trip.
Several Excursions
Both the B. & o. and p. & L. E
Railroad will run weekly excur
sions tomorrow to Niagara Falls
and Toronto, Can. The B. & O.
round trip will. be $1T57 to Ma
CARA Falls and s19.75 to Toronto
The z. n. & L.S5E e. rate ito Niagara
Falls will be $17-57 also. Both are
sixteen-day excursions.
ls The Pennsylvania Railroad will
run its next excursion to Atlantic
City and other seashore points on
Wednesday. It will be sixteen
day excursion, and the round trip
fare will be $3.50.
Pittsburgh Excursion
Yesterday the. B. & o. Railroad
ran a sunday excursion to Pitts
burgh, which was patronized by
thirty-six people out of Fairmont.
This is probably the largest Sunday
excursion that the b. & Q. run to
Pittsburgh this year out Of Fair,
mont "a
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TRAFFIc AT STANpsT4LL

ST. LOUIS, MO. Aug. 2S-(By
the Associated Press)-Passenger
and freight service on the western
division OF the Chicago & Alton
Railroad vas at complete stand
still today as the result OF the
walkout OF engineers, firemen, CON
ductors and switchme en- in protest
against armed guards at Slater,
MO, and Roodhouse, Ill, it was an
nounced here today.
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CAR
SUPPLY REPORTED
IN REGION TODAY D
aonongah and Charleston Di-
visions Get Less Than
One-Third Ordered
4l24 MINES WORKING
Proc duction Saturday Shows
Gain Despite Shortage of
Empties Here.

Car Shortage OF very serious pro
lprtions struck the coal mines OF
West Virginia to start
zs5Rhatssis practically the starting OF
week since the coal
Arike was concluded.
ii b. e. o.. Hard Hit
'NSTheS4 424 active mines in Northern
;Aest Virginia today ordered 2,949
while the railroads were
nots able to place more than 1870
this morning when the
snines began work. The Baltimore
Railroad is the chief Of
sSfender in the car shortage because
there is not "a road in the region
n thatsis SO badly paralyzed by the
ssshopmen's strike than the B. & o.
;SSsssas Placements Shy
Plants on the Monongah Division
tS.& Og today ordered 1854 cars.
Ebutath operators requests were
met with the meagre supply of
}21Gwere placed at the mines at
although the railroad Off
ssciaIs expected the greater portion
;8Of 243 cars to be
ssiiplacedA time for today's loading
THE mines along the Charleston
ssDfYision, b. & O.sran into car short
SageEagain butHnot as acute as sus-
ytained by Monongah Division oper-
Esatnrs. On the Charleston Division
lSaSQ Qscarswere ordered while Is
Aswefe placed or 41$per cent car
lsapply against &c per cent sup-
s5ryf on5 the Monongah Division
recRonsd on actual placements.
81 90 Per Cent Supply
!yfe Monongahela Morgantown &
sVvhAe1ing 5Morgantown & Kingwood
s@hoth branches of the Western Mary
Il land and sS5s the Connellsville, and
divisions B. & o. are
to-day enjoying 100 per cent car
supply
Saturdays Loading
On Saturday the mines of North
lsern&West Virginia loaded ISIS cars
OF coal, which proved to be one of
Sfne heaviest. daily tonnage since
k& strike ended. This was twenty
3SxNeu cars stronger than Fridays
which was 1851 cars. The
for daily loading since the
sSstrike was last Tuesday when 1862
s%cars Of coal were loaded
STheS loading on the various div
as follows on Saturday:
and d#O.-Monongah 461 cars;
CharIeston Al cars: Connellsville,
Cumberland. 124 cars;
Monongahela,4S cars; NJ. & X, Sc
cars: NJ. & w. 213 cars; Western
& w. % cars; w.
B%8s 122 cars.
M ore Mines Work
sISwith 424 mines at work today in
/ Srthern West Virginia, there are
Smoreplants active than any time
SSsince the strike ended. This is due
81 to.more mines. working on roads
having a full car supply, or plants
8 working with a partial supply on
the q. & o. railroad.
Today the emptfes ordered agSre
gated 2,949, which was the strong
EST order for cars since the strike
] sgwasNconc1uded. The former high
s9sdaiSy figure for empties was reach
sed5on Saturday at 2.736.
In The Coke Belt
Mines on the Monongahela Rail
9waysin Pennsylvania. on Saturday
loaded s 81 cars of coal, which prov
ed sto be the least of any day last
weekfa falling IS cars shy of Fridays
daily total. Today there were 2l
out OF los mines at work on the
& $50 Continued on Page Four)
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May ASK Anendlment

CHICAGO, Aug. 2S-ConSress
may be asked to amend the Esch-
Cummins Transportation Act to
include a definition or basis for
computing the minimum cost OF
living for railroad employees, il
was reported today in Railroad
Labor Board circles. as prepara-
tons were begun for opening OF
the hearing on pleas for. a wage
increase for maintenance of way
men.
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ET0UR WANTED
BY YM0.R.GA||N|'''T:|'OIW|N ! I "
AVENUE CITIZENS /. Z'!!''||::.
z F.Davis Presides at Weekly
Meeting of City Board of
Directors Today.

Y. F. Davis, city director of I'm
ance. presided at the weekly meet
ling of the City Board of Direc-
tors s-this~morningz owfsgr:te TIE alb
sence from the city of Mayor2W.ENV
Conaway.w who is taking his yaca-
tion in Ohio, while City Attorney
Albert j. Kerns acted as city clerk
in the absence of City Clerk Luke
c. Arnett who lefty esterday on a
fishing trip in Pendleton County.
Residents of Morgantown ave
nue. appeared before the board of
directors and asked that action
be taken. to prevent business from
being impeded and to provide resi-
dents of that avenue some way of
getting into and out of their resi-
dences during the progress of the
improvements to that thorough
fare.
Attorney NJ. w. Ogden and DR..
j. A. Graham were the spokesmen
for the residents of the avenue.
The work of grading the avenus
and getting it ready for the paw
| ing has progressed to some extent
but owing to the scarcity of labor
ers the work is now moving slowly
and the residents there fear that
| with the approach of the rainy
seacon and the slow progress of
the work they will be entirely Gu,
off from direct communication
with the rest of the world.
Morgantown avenue is the only
way residents of Winfield District
have of getting into the city and a
part of Union District also uses this
thoroughfare in coming to and 60
ing out of the city.
The board considered the matter
and Director of Highways w. E.
Arnett will meet with the contrac-
tors, the residents and members of
the County Court at 10 O'Clock to-
morrow morning at the Reeves
garage on Morgantown avenue t.
ascertain what steps may be taken
to relieve the situation.
To Ask For Bids
Ordinance No. Ga pertaining to
the paving of Hamilton street was
read for the third time and passed.
Bids will at once be asked for and
work commenced as soon as poss-
ible. Several of the property own
ers OF this street appeared at the
meeting today to ascertain what
action had been taken.
An ordnance for the suppression
of prostitution lewdness and as
signation was also read for the
second time and passed to third
reading.
The delinquent tax sist was
presented to the board and GER
fed.
Want Avenue Opened.
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INQUIRY STARTED

MARION, ILL.,, Aug. 2S-CBy the
Asso ciated Press s)-More than two
months after non-union workers at
the Lester strip pit, which n ad
been deserted byt union bituminous
coal diggers, were killed, what has
come TO besknown as the erin
Massacre today was the subject
of official nquqi isition. Twenty
six lost their lives in riot June
21 and 22.e