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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
Expected to Take No Action Until Advisers Survey COndi
tOns-May Drift to Finish Fight
SPREAD OF TROUBLE LIKELY
Southern Railway System Issues Statement Asking Men
to Return to Work Under Former Conditions

Washington, Aug. 8. President
Harding is uncertain what to do next
in the railroad strike situation, and
is likely to allow the situation to drift
for few days while his advisers sur
vey conditions.
1t may drift to a finish fight be-
tween the executives and the striking
shopmen, and spread, openly or under
the surface, to other branches of rail
road labor. Reports are current that
the big brotherhood indirectly will aid
the shopmen. That would rapidly in
tensify the evil effects of the tie-up.
Forty thousand maintenance-of-way
employees of the New York Central are
reported on the verge of joining the
strike.
Announcement by the Southern Rail
way system that it had invited its
striking employees to confer with the
management on a proposition to settle
the strike on the basis of President
Harding's proposal, which the rail
way executives turned down Tuesday,
was made late yesterday.
With no statement from the Presi-
dent as to his views or purposes, Sec
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03

Washington, Aug. 3.-Soldiers'
bonus legislation will proceed in the
Senate Immediately following dis
position of the pending tariff mea-
sure. The McCumber gill will be
considered and passed regardless Of
what attitude is assumed by the
President.
This determination was reached at
a conference of Republican leaders.
Lodge, McCumber, Watson, of In
diana; Curtis and others were pre-
sent.
The unanimous opinion prevailed
that the bonus bill must be taken up
and passed. All agreed the party was
committed TO such action.
Information reaching some Sena-
tors that President Harding proba-
bly, will veto any bonus bill that does
not provide revenues for payments
has had no effect on the Republican
leaders. They believe action prior to
the November election is imperative,
and they will carry out the program
as arranged at the last conference
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
Southern Railway in Accord
With Presidents Proposal
Hope Expressed That The Striking
Employees May Return to Work
Under Former Conditions

The management of the Southern
Railway has sent the following tel
egram to Mr.. Gardner l.. Boothe,
explaining the policy of the com
pany in regard to its dealings with
the strike situation.
Washington, D. D., Aug. 3.
Gardner l.. Boothe,
Alexandria, Va.
As you have heretofore been ad-
vised, the policy of the management
of the Southern Railway System
has been to create no conditions
pending termination of the strike
that would embarass the company,
its employees and the public, and
with this end in view no promises
have been made, no new men en-
ployed, and no writs of injunction
asked. The management was in
entire accord with the president in
his proposal, and still is, and there
is now no obstacle of the COM
pany's creation that prevents its
men returning as of their former
conditions. and it is the hope of
this company that its men may now
return to work on the basis of the
presidents proposal. You are at
liberty to give expression to the
position of the Management, and let
the reasons be known for the course
taken.
L. E. Jeffries,
Vice President and General Counsel
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
FEDERAL RECEIVERSHIPS FOR
ROADS AND MINES POSSIBILITY

ed to a performance of their duties,
it was pointed out in this connection,
and failure on their part to supply
transportation facilities for moving
coal and other necessaries of life.
would be sufficient ground for the gov
ernment to request the appointment OF
federal receivers in each instance.
Such receivers, however, would have
no power to force striking railroad
employees or miners to work, it was
said, neither would they be authorized
to deal with the question Of seniority
of employees, which is the stumbling
block in the way of a settlement OF the
differences between the rail eXecu-
tives and the strikers But the gov
ernment, in the appointment OF re
ceivers, could use any means at It's dis
posal to insure an uninterrupted trat-
fic throughout the country, leaving
questions of disputes between employ
ers and employees 60 be settled by
other tribunals.
Attorney General Daughertv re-
ceived requests today from
authorities in Louisiana, Texas,
Californi a for the assign
ment of additional deputy mar
shals to take care of some recent out
breaks on the part of the striking
railroad employees. These renuests
are now being investigated by officials
Of the Department of Justice and if
the situation warrants. the additional
help asked for will be sent into the
disturbed districts.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
Bonus Bill to Pass
Regardless OF The
Presidents S Attitude
G. o. p Leaders Agree to Ignore Harding in Following
Policy of Party-COnsideratO Will
Follow Tariff Bill

of Republican Senators.
1t was predicted yesterday that
not more than four days will be re-
ouired for disposal of the bonus bill.
1t is contended by its opponents that
much more tire will be necessary.
1t is said that Senators Reed, OF
Missouri, and La Toilette of Wlscon"
sin, will return and participate IN the
bonus fighl when it begins. Both are
strong ad' coates of soldiers compen-
sation.
1t is ,xpected that the Republican
leaders will make another effort TO
ascerta N the views of President
Harding before the bonus is taken up.
A conference will be held for the pur-
pose of determining whether or not a
measure can be formulated which Will
meet the various objections indicated
by the President to the pending NC
Cumber bill. The purpose in seeking
this adjustment of differences was to
avoid Presidential veto if the Nc
Cumber bill is passed as now written,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
TRACKMEN MAY
STRIKE SOON
New York Central Union
Head Sees "Grave
Situation"
Sore at Executives ActiOn-DOubt
Whether Walkout Can Be Prevent
ed.

New York, Aug. 3.-A strike OF
5000 maintenance-of-way men on the
New York Central within a week"
was predicted here yesterday by W.
NJ. Parker, chairman of the system or
ganization, as the result Of the roads
refusal to accept Presidents Hard
ing's plan for settlement Of the shop
crafts strike.
Conditions among workmen at the
Syracuse shops were reported very
grave" by Mr.. Parker, who asserted
he had dispatched several union offi,
cials there yesterday "to try to quei!iI
the uneasiness ard the desire to call
an immediate walkout, which became
manifest when the action of the Asso-
citation of Railway Executives became
known"
81 doubt whether we can prevent
our men along the whole New York
Central system from joining the
strikers" he declared. indications
are that all of our $4,000 men will be
on strike within week"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
DR.. BELL, PHONE
INVENTOR, DIES
I'm NOVA SCOTIA
Summons Sudden to Great
Man, Though Health
Was Failing
NATION IS SHOCKED
Harding. Edison and Others Hasten
TO Condole With Family.

DR.. Alexander Graham Bell, inven-
tor of the telephone, whose death at
Sydney, N. s., was announced in the
Gazette yesterday had been in failing
health for several months but had not
been confined to bed and the end yas
unexpected. Late Monday afternoon,
however. his condition became seri-
Gus and DR.. Ker, of Washington, q
cousin of Mrs Bell. a house guest,
and a Sydney physician attended him.
DR.. Bell will be buried on top of
Mount Benin Breagh, a spot chosen
By himself.
Alexander Graham Bell lived to see
experiments which he began with a
dead mans ear less than fifty years
ago result i'm a means of cOmmuni-
cation for millions of long-distance
telephone conversations daily in all
parts of the world. The possibility Of
talking over wire, ridiculed then as
n dream by almost everybody except
Bell. became during his lifetime a
reality commonplace and marvellous.
The Bell basic patent, known in the
records at Washington as No. 1T4465
has been called the most valuable
single patent ever issued in the whole
history of invention. There are to-
day over thirteen million telephone
Instruments. through which billions
of telephone conversations are car
ried on each year.
Means of communication had been
n hobby in the Bell family long before
the inventor of the telephone was
born. Two generations back AleXan-
der Bell became noted for inventlng
a system for overcoming stammerlng
speech. while his son, Alexander Mel
Vile Bell, father of the inventor OF
the telephone. perfected system OF
visible speech.
With this heritage the son, born
in Edinburgh, Scotland, in l64l, un-
dertoOk similar experiments While
still n lad. He constructed an arti-
fical skull of gutta percha and India
rubber that would pronounce several
words in weird tones when blown into
10y q hand bellows. At the age of 10
he became. gke his father, a teacher
of clocUtion and an instructor of deaf
muteS.
Bel reached a crisis in his life at
the age Of p, when he was threaten
cd with tuberculosis The white pla-
que caused the death of his two
brothers and the Bell family migrat-
cd to Brantford. Canada.
\ meeting at that time with Sir
Charles Wheatstone, the English in
ventor of the telegraph, fired the
young elocutioniSt with ambition to
invent musical or multiple telegraph
which eventually turned out to be
a telephone.
His first success came while test
ing his instruments in his new quar-
tiers in Boston. Thomas A. Watson
Bel'S assistant, had struck q clock
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03

spring at one end of the wire and
Bell was electrified to hear the sound
in another room. For 40 weeks the IN
strument struggled, as 1t were, for
human speech. Then, on March 10,
1876, Watson became almost insane
with Joy when he heard, over the
wire Bells voice saying:
"Mr. Watson, come here. | want
you" -,
On his twenty-ninth birthday Bell
received his patent. 1t was at the
Centennial Exposition, held at Phlla-
delphia two months later, where men
of science the world over who had
come to examine and study the num-
erous inventions exhibited, saw Pro-
fessor Bell. give a practical demon
stration of the transmission OF the
human voice by electricity.
As for Bell himself, he had not
planned to attend the Centennial at
all. He was poor and he had reor-
canized his classes in vocal speech,
Toward the end of June he went to the
station to see Miss Hubbard off for
Philadelphia. There had been some
talk of his going, hut he had put it
ouietly aside. She believed he was
going; when they reached the station
she pleaded with him and was refused.
AS he put her aboard the train and it
moved out, leaving him on the plat
form, she burst out crying. Bell
dashed after her and sprang aboard
the train, without baggage, ticket or
any other trifleS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
Refuse ExtraditiOn
Of G. w. MOrse's Son

Washington, Aug. 3.-Criminal
proceedings against Charles W.
Morse, his three sons, and eight
others indicted for conspiracy to
defraud the government, will pre-
cede trial of civil cases against
them.
U. S. District Attorney Peyton
Gordon today repudiated an agree
ment by special assistant Attorney
General Fletcher DQbbins, at Port
land, Me-, that civil cases should be
tried first, when he secured post
ponement until Tuesday, October 3,
of extradition proceedings against
Erwin A. Morse for his removal to
New York to answer charges of US
ing mails to defraud.
Gordon said he did this so the
District would not lose its jurisdic
ton. He said Attorney General
Daugherty agrees with him in re-
pudiating Dobbins' action
Morse is out on $4,000 bond.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
SIGNS REMOVED

Several Alexandria merchants hav-
ing signs on the right-of-way of roads
between here and Washington were
surprised to find their signs removed
during the past few days An investi-
cation was made and it was found
that all of the signs taken down had
lI>en removed to Arlington county
courthouse. 1t was later learned by
them that it is a violation of the laws
of Arlington county to erect signs on
the public roads, but they may, how
ever, be erected on private property.
Anyhow, the merchants, it is under
stood, will go to the county court
house and make arrangements for
the return of their signs and probably
find some other means of advertising.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
PLANS FOR new
CLUBHOUSE
ARE ADOPTED
Old Dominion Boat Club
VIII Soon Advertise
For Bids
COST ABOUT $4,000
Structure viii Be Two and One-Half
Stories High-Club is Now lncor-
pOrated.

Bids for the erection of a mod
ern boat club for the Old Dominion
Boat Club will be advertised for dur
ing the coming week. This was de-
cided upon by the club at a largely
attended meeting last night in the
old club house.
The plans for the clubhouse, pre-
pared by Bedford Brown, Washing
ton architect, have been competed,
and the only thing that remains to
be done in connection with them IS
the making of one or two minor
changes. These changes will be made
within the next few days.
The clubhouse will be erected at
the King street wharf property, form
erly the Alexandria Washington
ferry and will be two and one-half
stories high. 1t will cost between Sl5,-
600 and $1,000 and on the second
floor there will be a porch 140 feet
long by eleven feet wide, command
ing a fine view of the Potomac.
This club recently was incorporat-
ed and today deeds of conveyance
were placed on record in the office OF
the clerk of the court from George D.
Hopkins, E. E. Carver and j. L.
Preston, trustees of that club, con-
veying the King street property to
the corporation and also the prop
erty on the Strand north of Duke
street.
The work of cleaning the site for
the new clubhouse has been awarded
and this work will be completed with
in the next two weeks.
The actual work of building the
clubhouse will it is expected be start
ed September /.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
PRESIDENT TO LET THE
RAILWAY STRIKE DRIFT
Senator Swanson
Accepts Davis Offer

The following telegram today
was sent by Senator Claude A.
Swanson to Westmoreland Davis
in response to a telegram Of con-
gratiulation sent by Mr.. Davis:
Hon. Westmoreland Davis,
"Leesburg. Va.
"Your telegram Of congratula-
ton and offer of services in Novem-
Der election just received and l ap-
preciate it 1t will be a pleasure
to accept your offer made in COM
ing election. Kindest regards and
best wishes to you and Mrs. Davis.
Signed CLAUDE A. SWANSON.'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03

Company IN" 10th Regiment
Virginia National Guard will form
in Armory Hall Saturday evening
for the purpose of electing a first
lieutenant to take the place OF
Lieut.. Theron r. Hayden, whose res-
ignation has been accepted by the
Adjutant General of Virginia.
The race for this place is gath
ering momentum and three candi-
dates are already out for the office.
Those in the race are /. W. Cashatt.
Everette L. Taylor and James A.
Ludlow. The last two named have
been members of the company for
some time and the first is only a
recent recruit. Cashatt has had vari-
Gus and extensive military training,
having served for twenty-one
months with the American Expedi-
tionary Forces in France during the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
Asked to Close During
Prayer Meeting Monday

A committee of the railroad strik-
ers today waited on the merchants OF
the city and asked them to close their
places of business next Monday af-
ternoon from ! until o'clock during
the progress of the prayer meetings
which will be held in the various
churches of the city when the minis
ters and those attending will pray for
speedy and satisfactory settlement
of the rail strike which has been in
force since July lot.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
Railroad Executives
Attitude Summarized

New York. Aug. 3.-President l..
F. Loree, of the Delaware and Hud-
son Railroad, today summed up the
railway executives position in the
railway strike as follows
1--WE intend to fight this thing out,
not only if it takes all summer but
through other seasons of the year
also.
"The railroads intend to keep faith
with these loyal men (men who stay
ed on the job and strikebreakersl.
1--WE have determined to stick"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
ALEXANDRIA MACHINE GUN co.
WILL ELECT NEW LIEUTENANT

world war and prior to this was an
officer at the University of North
Carolina in the r. o. T. c. He is
graduate of the University Of North
Carolina and has also taken a post
graduate course in law. Ludlow was
first lieutenant of the company
when it was first organized, but la
ter resigned.
Tomorrow night a dance will be
given in Armory Hall The music
for the occasion is Of the best.
"Frenchy" LeGay has charge of ar
rangements and promises everyone
an enjoyable evening. LeGay has
only been in America a short time.
He served in the French Army dur
ing the war in which he lost nearly
all of his family, was wounded sew
eral times, and decorated for brav-
cry.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
MORE LAND FOR
MASONIC TEMPLE
Memorial Association Purchases
Property From r. F. and =.
Railroad

The George Washington Masonic
National Memorial Association has
purchased from the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail
road about seven acres of land on
the north side of Duke street west
of the union passenger railway sta
ton adjoining the property OF the
Masonic Association on which the
temple to cost S2,500,00O will be
erected to the memory of George
Washington the Mason.
This land was necessary in order
to complete the landscape surround
ing the temple. The work of pre-
pairing the foundation for this
temple is now in progress.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
Boiler On Boat
ExplOdes; 5 to 10 Dead

New York, Aug. 3.-From five to
ten men were killed yesterday when a
boiler exploded on a tug boat in East
River at the foot of Gold street.
The tug boat was owned by the
East River Towing Company.
Fire followed the explosion.
The boat was almost under Brook
lyn bridge at the time of the explosion
and scores of pedestrians on the bridge
heard the blast and saw the fire.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
Police Commissioners Meet

A special meeting of the board Of
police commissioners will be held
in the office Of Mayor j. NJ. Duncan
at 7:3O tomorrow evening for the
purpose of filling a vacancy on the
police force.
Applicants are required to appear
before the board in person.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
NO WORD FROM
UNION CHIEFS

Washington, d. c., Aug. 3.-No
word had been received in the capital
up to ! o'clock today as to whether or
not the union chiefs in Chicago would
consider the offer made yesterday by
Henry Miller of the Southern Railroad
and allow the employees of the South
ern system to make a separate
agreement.
1t is a matter of much speculation
as to the attitude of the several bodies
concerned as to the matter of separ-
ate agreements, and the outcome is
being awaited with great interest. 1t
is understood that Jewell is not in the
least in favor of these agreements
while the rail executives are anxious
to follow this program of settlement.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03

Insects which spend most of their
lives in a torpid or semi-torpid con-
dition are seldom injured and never
killed by being frozen.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
Bible Thought for Today

~ The grass withereth, the
AA flower fadeth: but the word
of God shall stand for ever.
Isaiah 40: s.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03
ESTABLISHED l7s4

Oldest Daily Newspaper In ths
United States and Best AdVertis-
ing Medium in Northern virginia
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-03

F0rary Of Congress, Partly cloudy.
.vltm r.~-- lpersture, to-
day and tomorrow, possibly local
thundeysEowers.
High tide tomorrow; 5:S5 a. m,
600 p. m.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-06-22
TWINS ENLIST

Nancy and Nick came to COP
coon's tree in Whispering Forest.
Cob lived IN the Oh OAK across the
way from Mapie-Tree Flats.
TAP. tap. tap went Nick with
cobs knocker on the basement
door.
But no answer.
Hes too sound asleep 70 hear
u.s." said Nancy. wen have to 20
70 his other door upstairs"
So they wished themselves up the
ola Oak Tree In their Green Shoes.
Cob had his second-story door open
for air and his bsd close 10 the
doorway. There he WIS. all cuddled
up and snoring like everything.
"Ahenr' went Nick loudly.
Cob woke right UP.
"Who's therey' ne called sharply
Just u.s." Laughed Nancy did
We scare your"
Sort Of" yawned Cobb. but
what's wrong. folks7''
We just came 10 ser II you'd seen
anything Of Pesrabout. the Man-in-
heMoon. He's lost" said Nick.
"Hee. hee. beeg' Riggied Cob,
oasping his hands joyfuliy. That's
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-06-22
ADVENTURES
or THE TWINS
b. CAi~s RobeSts Bwtes,
MOTHER AID
MOON-MAN

tnst finel Now I s'poss the nebby
Old Moon will 10 stored away in
camphor balls and not bother mo any
more.
why. look AT II tonight. Bright
az a sI<yrocketi And I'm most
starved 70 DEATH
Il can't 20 down TO Ripple Creek
70 fish az on dark nights because
Charlie Club and Slippery Sinner
and Mark Minnow will see me com
ing and escape. And it's too early
for corn m things. My I'm glad
the Moor. Mans lost"
"Oh. shame on you. Cob Coonr
said Nancy Grossly. Mr.. Peerabout's
az nice as he can be. He tries 70
please everybody. Goodness, he
leaves n dark for n whole week
each month. You shouldn't com.
plain"
Besides" said Nick. III there's
no Moon. there won't be any corn.
THE Moon helps the corn grow"
"goodnessF' gasped Cob. rs that
so7 That would be dreadful Just
wait TIL ! find my suspenders. and
IN help you hunt"
TO he Continued
Copyright, 1922. by Seattle Sta1
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-06-22

NV fKouaand yourself instead Of
leaving u IN court as cash bail. take
me TO the Inner Circle and get tho
soodsg'
Tho thought OF the hard.carned
cash settled Achillco. The man and
the girl are now there" he reported
as he left tie telephone. with hand
cuffs slipped.
carrsck's raid OF tho Inner Circle
was a nolssiess. II not painless.
affair. But II was only fifty per cent
auccessful Tho net closed on
Georges. rss I.arus was nowhere
about.
Georges shut ND like a clam. II
was more than evident, however,
that he was not the "man'at.ths'
top"
Thoroughly they searched, but
there was not trace OF Rae. Nor
was there a trace OF Ruth or tho
others.
"so--th- cellar r. on tho roof"
laughed Garrick, as they uncovered
the little concrete room they had
seen when they installed the dicta.
eraph aerial. Here's n small for.
tune alone. In these cases. When ]
pokod my head out thru the scutue.
| Dick. also saw your aerial AL
snaried up and tangled. wrecked
Dick did not appear 20 be inter
ested. Maybe they had a secret
exit over the roofs in case OF a raid
Anyway. Rae got away. Someone's
out fifty thousand In the cleanup"
This eliminates Georges" con-
sidered Garrick. except. OF course,
az an understrapper."
'Brock--curtis. repeated Dick
mechanically. setting his teeth as
the names suggested vira and Ruth
Garrick shook his head absenty.
"Ail the wild horses In Hades
wouldn't get n word out Of Georges
now" he observed. THANK the
Lord. Dick. you're an expert at ~
our only hope lies In wireIess--ip
some form or otherr'
CONTINUED Tomorrow