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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-01-18
PLANS FORBOYS'
WORKD|SCUSSED
Report Of Boys Work
Given at Meeting Last
Night

Community boys work was dis
cussed, and new plans for, the. work
Outlined, al the meeting Off
EEB6y, y1rlr ctottiIriftte last night IL
he y. M. e. A. u. Blaine Wtthee,
state, boys work secretary Of the
Y. NJ. G. A. was present at the
meeting.
Three new members have been
appointed to the boys work com
m,ttee and they are: g, H. Cole
bank; 1. w. HimeIick; and R. U.
Jackson. The following are mem
bers Of the committee: ]. Floyd
Cole, chairman; H. L. Satterfleld; {;
r. A, Johnston E. E. Church.
Ward Lanham, Al. Garrett, Ensel
Hawkins.
The, Boy'sFWork Department is
the bus est corner in the "Y". The
average daily attendance is 125.
Over 400 boys are reached through
this department, while two hum
dred are reached through the COM
munity clubs, which are doing a
splendid work. -
The "order of Commanders ),
made up of BelIview boys, meets
in the Highland avenue church,
Bellview, every Thursday night. D.
G. Harkins, of the Fairmont High
school, meets with the club.
The Woodcraft league Of the
Butcher school meets each Wednes
day afternoon. George Turley, as
slstant, boys work secretary Is In
charge Of these meetings.
The boys work secretary is as
ststlng Napoleon Gheddin, with a
group Of older Italian boys on the
South Side.
A series Of ,.sclubs called the
"Triangles" which was started re-
Gently, will soon be standardized
under thes" Christian citizenship
Training Programh
The First Baptist church has a
Triangle club in connection with
it's Sunday school-work. j. Floyd
tCoatInaed. on paEs tourl e; :Sy /. Y
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-01-18
Monongah Glass Co. is
Producing Its Own
Gas at Big Industry
GREAT 81. .G-GESS
Manufactured Gas Good;
Cheaper Than Natural
Product

The Monongah Glass Company.
one of Fairmont's largest and most
progressive manufacturing con-
Germs is today and has been for
several days operating Its huge
plant, south east Of the city, en-.
ttrely upon artificial gas manufac.
tured and produced in its own
plant. The company not only finds
the gas highly satisfactory for Its
use but officials Of the company
declare that the manufactured gas
is 40 per cent cheaper than the
natural gas and that the supply Ii
inexhaustable as long as coal ex'
lists.
Gas producers. OF the most med
ern type obtainable. manufactured
by the R. D. Wood Company Of
Philadelphia and sold by the H.
L. Dixon Company OF Pittsburgh
were purchased and the work Of
construction started under the
guidance Of expert engineers IN
that line Of work. The work Of in,
5stillation was finally completed
and last Thursday Ben L Launsteil
OF Pittsburgh, technical engineer
for the Dixon Company came here
and started the big producer, and
from that time on 1t has been in
continuous operation, with the ex
ception OF q half hour stop made
by the operating engineer to ex
plain to employees Of the glass com
pany who are to operate the pro
ducer the methd o fcleaning out
the pipe line and valves. Z
Forty eight tons OF crushed Goa
! listed through the producer ever
FF.e4 hours pro- oducing the equtvhten,
of 100000 feet OF natural gas. Twt
tons Of coal passes through the
producer every hour and a ton Of
gasified coal is equivalent to 90.
600 feet of natural gas. At the
present price OF coal and labor, II
is possible to produce gas at q
saving Of 40 per cent over the
present price of natural gus.
. The coal used by the company
is supplied from the Morgan
mine Of the West VirginiN and
Continued or, Page -Four
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America's Representative
| Pins Congressional
Medal Upon Bier
SPEAKS
Italian Warrior Laid to
Rest B Beneath Nations
Shrine in Rome
f;By Assoc ociated press1


ROME, Jan. 1S.-America today
lpaid tribute to the Italian unknown
Soldier. who sleeps beneath the
don,s shrine in this city. Amer.
soldiers. forming a composite
ttalion, participated In the
eeremonie ies Incident TO the bestoY
tai OF the Congressional Medal Of
Honor upon, the italian warrior.
RichaFd Washburn Child, United
States Ambassador to Italy, de-
tyered the grafton at the tomb.
we come to do honor to one
|Fho, though nameless, shall glor.
,fy through the ages. the nation
That gave him BIRTH" said Mr..
Child BY the. honor we do him.
Te honor his country and his
ting. BY this tribute we lay upon
ais altar, we hope in some meas:
ire To add 10 the tokens OF love,
Faith and trust flowing from the
people OF the United States to the
people ot italy"
1T IS proper at this moment,
lint we who are living. should
pledge to each other the fulillmeui
ht the high purposes held in com
mon by our two governments and
pur two peoples. It is fitting we
should pledge to each other devo-
lion and tolerance; faithful labor
and unse1fish truth In all our
words; loyalty in our lives and
heeds. s
ut Is for us TO keep always in
bur hearts the memory OF the hast
moment of this soldiers life
|hat sudden spasm of pain, that
twisting body. that tightening, OF
khe muscles; !; that last agony, that
last moment, before he who gave
hH to his country and to his fel-
low MEN fen into the eternal peace
pf death and req qeiyed from the
band Of God this me aS1re % .infln-
to mercy. J. 4 /,
ITO the honor brought %, this
Epot by the 4unltn 6ssn WARRIOR him.
eif, my goyeTnIne and my peo.
bic and we who repf ssnt them;
an today add sltttIe we have
afth however. that we can bring
iere O high resolve. with the
heaTts and minds of our two ma
dons IN accord, we may together
Continued on Page -Four
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MORE WITNESSES
before SENATORS
More Spicy Testimony in
Investigations About
Hangings
.EBy Associated Press1

WASHINGTON, Jan. IS. = Four
of the ten witnesses summoned to
appear today before a senate con-
mittee investigating charges that
AmericanS soldiers were hanged
without trial in France failed to ap:
pear and the sergeant at arms OF
the senate reported TO the commit.
tee that 1t had been found impos-
s:ble to locate them. Those so
listed were ]. j. Brown, East Point,
Georgia; Ivy P. Frieley, New York
city; Arthur @. Burlington, Detroit.
and Ernest Farmer, Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Champ 3. Martin, of Seneca, s.
C., told Of the shooting Of Frank
Ahenok, a prisoner, by a sentry in
France. The prisonerI he said, was
lying down aud was shot as he
started to turn over. An order to
shoot the prisoner IL he moved was
given, the witness said, by Sergeant
William u Born. NJ
When Bruce sBennear; Of Elk Car
tisu. West Virginia, took tho stand;
Senator 0yerrlnn I'D Democrat, North
CAROLINA, asked his business IS
II am a bum" Bennear sald, but
the senator did not understand. /
1T said j was q bum, the wit.
nessarepeated.
THAT means j am out of employ:
yna1f haSa M 3n14 ~ NIIfiefA'
His situation was not from
choice, he explained,
A telegram to the committee
signed by Bennear stated he had
seen three men killed in France,
but he disavowed this message to.
aThat was wrong" the witness
declared. 81 said had heard of
three killings, but the telegraph
operator made the change in cut.
ting down the telegram to save
some money"
well you sent two kilograms 10
Senator Watson, saying you saw
men killed." said Senator Shields,
Tennessee.
"Idid not write It that way"
"In the strength Of your tele-
gram" said Senator Shields, I'VE
bring you here, and now you say
you know nothing. that's ALL"
He said all he knew about kill
ings was camp talk.
ut was shame the way men
were treated at the guard house
at Camp Merritt" said George g.
Walters, of Dunkirk, N. Y, who
enlisted at Pittsburgh. AS he was
proceeding 10 tell Of the brutal.
ties Senator Shields directed him
to "get down to killings"
II saw Sergeants Stanley and
Smith beat men over the head with
a pick az handle,s he said.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-01-18
PART OF
AMERICAN PLAN
REDEEMED Open Door
Policy Before Confer
ence Session Today
fBy the Associated Press. !

Aoy I10 fb60GldLCA EAOoosl
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-The
American proposal to re-deflne the
open door policy In China and to
create IN international board to
examine both existing and future
concessions which appear to CON
flict with 1t was adopted in part
today by the far eastern commit
tee of the Washington conference
The portions adopted included
the general statement as to equal.
ity Of opportunity in China for
trade OF all nations.
Action was deferred pending
further discussion on the fourth
and final paragraph Of the resolu-
tion by which the nine powers, in
Guiding China, agree that any pro
vision of any existing concession
appearing inconsistent with those
Of another concession or with the
principles OF the. open door may
be submitted by tho powers con.
cerned to the international refer
ence board. ls & 1
The japanese ana French dele.
cations were understood to have
interposed objections to; the fourth
paragraph Of the resolution, the
latter suggesting its amendment L
prevent possible interference with
existing concessions by the board
Definite agreement to take the
paragraph up later was not reach
ed, 1t was said, although the
Chinese delegation gave notice OF
its intention to press later for Its
adoption.
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Goes to Secretary of La
Dor Davis as Part of
Investigation
.MIANl3Y Dl|IE|NIALS 5
Many Companies Deny
Serving Eviction
Il. Notices
(By the AsBociated praa,

.
CHARLESTON jan 1s.--Dis-
Chalmers BY various eoal companies
to work hardship on. their former
employees, denial IN most cases
that eviction NOTICES had btun
served and representation that the
companies are seeking to regain
possession Of houses nom men who
refuse to work in order to provide
for applicants for employment wore
included in a report On conditions
In West Virginia coaisfields sent by
Governor Morgan today to Stem.
tary Of Labor Davis.
In the letter Governor Morean
quotes from reports made 10 him
from coal mining companies as an
answer to the labor departnentis 4,
request for Information is 10 eric-
tons Of miners from company
houses. Among the cases men.
TONED g g report from the New
River Coal Compny on the pro.
posed eviction 81. the family OF Ms
Alice Underwood OF aIabscott. who
appeared gefore President Hardinr.
Monday as d member of a commit. :
tee to ask government aid.
The company's report. after say-
ing that no eviction notices have
been served at lis Mabscott mine
continues:
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-01-18
Boyd Posey Sent
To Penite entiary

Boyd Posey confessed in Grim.
inat court today to- breaking into
and robbing a railroad camp car
near Colfax about a year ago and
was sentenced by Judge Ell M.
Showalter to serve from q % 10
years in the state; penitentiarys
! Ralph Fayer. who was with Posey
at the time the robbery occurred
but who did not enter the car con.
fessed to a misdeI1eanor. indict-
ment and was sentenced to serve go
days in the county Jail.
Walter Wood. a third member
OF the party who acted as a look:
out for the other two confessed to
a misdemeanor and was sentenced
to serve 10 days,in all.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-01-18
Freight. Survey !:
Now Completed

The special committee Of the
iMonongahela Valley Association.
which has been! IN session at Elk
ings for several days working on
a survey of freight rates IN the
valley have completed its work ac-
scoriing to an ansannolncemen mnde
today by 4. D. connen, secretary
F. OF. the chamber of commerce upon
his tetdurnw from the Randolph
county city.
The committee have prepared Il
proposal to he presented TO the
railroad company and il present
plans are carried out The proposal
will be submitted 10 a representa-
tive Of the railroad company at
Grafton at 10 O'clock Tuesday
morning. January n.
Ira al. Akin. traffic manager OF
the gMonongah Glass Company OF
this city BENJAMIN Dowdell. I. X
Dye. r Darden and Mr.. Connell
made up the COMMITTEES which Ia
bored over the work at Eiltins un-
til Il was finished.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-01-18

SOFIA, Jan. 1s.-KIng Boris, Of
Bulgaria, ID the modern i'man with
an elephant on his hands," and he
wants to sell part of his private
menagarie to an American Soologi.
cal association, garden or circus. Ia
particular he would like to dispose
of two elephants and several fln9
buffaloes which are now in thn
grounds of.the sumper palace near
Sofia.
The menagerle was established
by former Emperor Ferdinand, and
the appetites Of the elephants and
buffaloes are so great that King
Boris Is hard pressed to feed them
out Of his slender income. The ele.
plants alone consume grain and
hay which costs more than the out.
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.LARGECROWDAT
SAFETY|NEE:T|NG
Standing Room Only at
CaroIina-Ida May
Tonight

Packed to full capacity, there
were $50 people in the Carolina
recreation house Of the Colsolida.
ton Coal Company last night when
ia safety meeting was held under
the direction of the safety depart.
ment OF that company. Fifty peo.
pie stood Several motion pictures
were shown. X ~ =-', .,.'l
A demonstration was given by a
picked team from the three first
aid organizations at Carolina com.
posed % Thomas Davies, captain,
Harrison Green, patient Charles
Gllls, Elliott Carpenter, Howard
Dool and Elya Wallace. The dem
onstratiof dealt with broken arms
and injured legs most likely to be
caused in the mines chiefly by
haulage accidents or perhaps slate
falls in the case Of injured legs.
First aid Is a live subject in
Carolina these days and on Sat
,urday the three teams at that
place will stage local contest
between the three teams.
The, speaker Of the evening was
u. w. Red. the director Of the
safety department, Consolidation
Coal Company. Mr.. Reed drew the
distinction between education and
educational knowledge, in other
words the miner at the working
face knows what TO do frequently
In case Of accident but he fre.
quently at the spur Of the moment
forgets to apply the knowledge
that he has attained He demon.
strated the point by saying that
often times we know a mans name
but cannot recall It when desired
but perhaps several days after
wards he wildly recalls the mans
name. He felt sure that often
times the miner does this and only
by careful and constant training
can the subject OF safety and first
aid be effectively administered by
the miner.
Tonight a safety meetin gwill be
held at Ida May at O'Clock when
four reels OF motion pictures win
be shown free to miners. Evan l..
;Grifftths, state mining inspector
SClarksburg, and y w. Reed, Fair.
s.s,s will Ia tha spaa1tara iss
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-01-18
R AII5WAY MEN
| DECLINE CUT
transportation Department of
western Maryland win Not
Accept 10 Per Cent. Cut

4 CUMBERLAND, Md. Jan. .1S.-
,hnirman of the railway brother
FOODS tentatively declined to &C.
lept q suggested wage reduction
b the transportation department
II about ten percent, at yesterday
onferenc with the wage bureau oi
he western Maryland railway. Il
as announced today.
The railroad management also
ecllne To- agree to an increase in
Fnges ot about ten percent over
'he PRESENT. scale, asked by en-
I;ineers and flremen.
Memhers Of the maintenance Of
Fay department will confer with
1he officials Thursday and the sig
Pal department. chairmen next
week. si5
Both sides admit the question
kiil 10 before the United States
labcr boatd for final adjudication.
|
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Fairmonters Going to
Lower Freight Rate
Hearing
DEAD loads Dropping
Quite a Few Coal Trades
Men in Region are
Travelling

Communication by telephone Is
about normal again in coal circles
The Consolidation Coal company
mas all OF its lines in trim. othe:
coal companies are also in touch
with their mines.
Personal Mention. E
G. n. jenkins, secretary and
treasurer and ]. B. Moore, auditor,
Hutchinson Coal company, and
George s. Bracket, secretary OF
the Northern West Virginia Coal
Operators association, leave this
evening for Washington, D. @. They
will attend the session OF the In.
ter.State Commerce commission
there on Thursday when the coal
industry will submit its side in the
necessity in a reduction OF coal
carrying rates. Messrs. Jenkins
and Moore will look up tax matters
while in the national capital.
Harry B. Clark, OF Clark coal In.
terests, is expected to return tc
Fairmont on Sunday, after being tc
Texas on a several weeks business
trip. He is in Houston, Tex, to
day, according to the itinerary,
A. j. salzer, sales manager
Southern Coal corporation, is in
Weston today.
Fewer Unconstened.
iTndoI,s tbara orn Fou,or ,,nanu
signed loads on the Monongah di
vision, D. & O., than for some time
Only SS coal loads are marked uF
as unconsigned.
There has been some few in
Quiries for coal recently, but the
orders generally have been limitd
and small in size.
I MoraantoWn Notes, ,sf
George Rodgers, Monn-S Scott FueI
Co. M0TgantoWu, was:fn7P lttsburgf
on ,Tuesda day. -. ~ Fg
a. Qs'Davis. Hess G. & G. Co.
Uniontown, Pa, was in Morgan
town today.
s. F. Elkins, Elkins Fuel Co.
Morgantown, left on Monday for a
business trip. to Cleveland and 9th
er Ohio points. fE,E ]
]. R. Blackburg, W. H. Bradford
& Co.. Morgantown, went to Som
erset, Pa, this week to visit the
company's operation in. that field
He was there last week also. Z.
F. E. Strickler, Eastern Goa
Mining Co., Kingwood, was a bust
ness visitor to Morgantown or
Monday.
NJ. L. Taylor, Morgantown Goa
Co., left Tuesday night for a bus!
~ Continued on page four)
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Yo'u:.ngWo,1ia!l;n
Ca Fool
This.Copper

CINCINNATI. Jam 1s.-Anna
Bragg, 10, pretty, in mems at.
tire and showing a rather inar.
( tlstic result OF trying to bob her
own hair so. that 1t would more
closely resemble a boy, reached,
Cincinnati 4 from Charleston,
West Virginia, early today. But
a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
detective penetrated her dis.
gguise en- route, and gave her into
police hands. Miss Bragg said
she tried to be a mauicurist, but
made a failure. She was turned
over to social workers and by
night will have employment and
a dress and other things. In.
her oyeralls she carried a pow.
der pun and rouge, and on the
train she tried to smoke a
cigarette to heighten the ap.
pearance OF mascullnity. Her
father, now dead. was a minis.
ter in Cabin Creek, West Wiz.
ginia, she said.
r
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INCREASE RATES

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.-Ratel
charged by electric railroads ant
short line steamer In Illinois for
transportation Of freight and O.
milk and cream wholly within thl
state must be increased, the in.
terstate commerce commission de
cided today. to conform with the
levels OF interstate rates on the
same product. The commission de
cided that the existence Of state
rate on a lower basis than the In.
terstate constituted discrimination
against interstate traffic.
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.Masons Will Hold
Several Meetings

Fairmont Lodge o AZ. y. =! a.
"A. NJ. will hold d tspe ecials meeting,
at Masonic Temple this evening at
1880 o'clock to confer the first de.
gree. 81
I On Friday afternoon at o'clock
q special meeting win be heidIto
confer the third degree on five
candi didates. Luncheon will be sery.,
ed at 6 O'Clock. The lodge wilI7re-
sumo It's meeting at O'clock.
A third special meeting d the,
lodge viii sbesheid IN the temple 81,
Friday evening, January eth at
7.an o;clocls
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CANCEL DATE

Attention is called to the cancel
lation OF the zoeiiener string quar-
tette for Its appearance here this
week, tho event having been sched.
snIed for tonight the 18th and latcf
announced. Tor the following night,
CThurs day The cancellation was
made earlier IN the week on ac-
count Of the illness OF q member o,
tie Organization. The qnartette
was ore the three number con-
cert course by the Music depart
tnent oE the Wonian'H Club and au'
n0uncement VIII be made later Tor
another daaa Of suhstitsta
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-01-18
MYSTERIOUS FIREs

NEW YORK, Jan. 1s-Myster-
ious fires in two public schools in
Manhattan, which endangered the
lives Of hundreds Of pupils, have
led to the arrest OF three boys,
after investigation showed that
the fires started in waste paper
baskets in empty class rooms.
Detectives today were seeking
other boys thought to be respon-
sible for two other school fires.
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PRospEcrlvE RuYER.

CINCINNATI, Jan. Is. - When
Sol Stephan, manager OF the Gin.
cinnau Zoo, was shown the dis.
patch today, stating that Boris,
King OF Bulgaria, wishes to sell his
priyite menagerie because OF the
expense Of its upkeep, Stephan
sent a cablegram to. the king say.
ing that he will buy the elephants
and buffaloes IL their safe landing
in New York Is guaranteed.
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earlier Girl Has
Chance TO Recover,

Reports from Cook Hospital late
this afternoon were TO the effect
that Teresa Cartier, the is-year-old
girl who was horribly Inutilated by
Simon Delsemme az their homo at
the Old County Poor House, near
the city, Monday was ri sting easy
and had a chance 20 orecover. The
girl, while still lii d crttical condl-
tion, Is making q game fight for
her life and the tact that she has
lived so long gives the attending
physicians hope that she may ra-
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ETRsT p:AymENT.

PARIS, Jan. s1S.A Germany made
her first payment today OF 81, ,0o0..
900 gold marks, In accordance with
the recent decision Of the reparas
tons commission at Cannes pro.
viding for such payment every ten
days pending a decision on the
whole 5repafations Yissua. -,
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EL EPHAlNTS EAT
TOO MUCH 10 BE SOLD.
Bulgarian Leader Finds That "Pets'' Work Havoc
With His Rather Slender But Kingly
Income

lay for food for the, young sover-
eign's own table.
The king Is much attached to the
elephants and calls them his little
pets" but Bulgaria's purse Is empty
and SO Is the kings, and he cannot
afford to keep them.
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NO. So ,DERAHED

CUMBERLAND, Md, Jan. 1s.
Baltimore and Ohio passenger
train No. So, running houble
header, was derailed at the foot
of the 17:mile grade west Of
Piedmont, W. Va, early today,
Both engines, an, express car
and a Pullman left the tracks.
No passenger was reported In.
1ured. j. w. Clark, engineer /
was slightly hurt about the head,
and q. 3: Ryan, fireman, sua.
tanned a fractured arm. The
cause is determined
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THE WEATHER

Probably rain tonight and Thurs-
day; no Change in Temperature
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-11-09
PROGRESS CLUB

Progress Club met October 26 at
the home of Mrs. John Herndon in
the country.
The response to the roll call was Q
Halloween quotation.
Mrs. Elmer Moore and Mrs. Hern-
don, ST., gave interesting reports OF
the district convention at Danville.
Mrs. Matheny read an interesting
paper on "The Origin Of Halloween.
This paper was written by Mrs. Geo.
Moore, but she was unable to be
with US at this meeting.
We were glad to welcome as
guests Mrs. Coy, Misses Rankin,
Lackey, Gibbs and Mrs. Moody.
All greatly enjoyed the bountiful
refreshments served and report a
very enjoyable occasion. It Is al
ways a great treat to 60 to the coun-
try homes of our club members.