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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-04
STRIKE. Spreading
IN COKE [. X. REGION ]
Hepotss liidicate THAT More.
Than Half Of Non.Union
Men Quit Z

o. .
Reports received here from the
Brownsville, Pa, section indicate
that the general coal miners strike
is spreading in the non.union coke
belt. This morning it was report
cd that from so to rs per cent OF
the non-union coal miners In that
section had Joined the strikers and
that coal production has been re-
duced to 20 per cent. Ono report
received was to the effect that 25
mines that had formerly worked
non-union had been closed owing
to the miners striking.
Fifty-two coal cars were said to
have been placed in the Pennsyl-
vanla end Of the Monongahela
Railway, which appears to have
also felt the sweeping effect Of the
strike. Normal coke production
was expected as 174 coke cars wers
placed. Yesterday 175 cars Of coal
were loaded in the Pennsylvania
end OF the Monongahela Railway.
At the office Of the United
Mine Workers OF America in Fair
mont today Nick Aiello, president
of sub district, 4, said that SINH
liar reports were received here.
but they were not Of an official
character. but he had reason to.
believe that the strike was spread
ing.
1t is understood that for some,
time there has been quite a little
missionary work going on in ths
coke belt on the part Of the United
Mine Workers Of. America, but no
effort TO effect an organization
was apparent. ,Dissastisfaetio
over lower wages and less fear OF
other miners taking their job while
a general strike is on are reasphs
ascribed for the general growth OF
the strike. q
The strike in the coke belt lisa
surprise, as the H @ !. FricIs Coke
Co. has always crush ed strikes in.
the past very effectively and has
had very few OF them to contend
with. \,
There was O rumor aflost that
the company offered to give the
miners a fifteen per cent increase
in the event they worked but this
could not be verified. h,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-04
FIRE THREATENS
TRANSPORT SHIP
Hundreds Of Workers Driven
Ashore by Blaze Over
Large oil Tanks.

HOBOKEN, N. j., April 4.-Fire
today broke on the former trans
port Mongolia at a dry dock, driv'
ing hundreds OF workers ashore
The ship is being converted into a
passenger and freight liner. The
fire was under control at 1880 q,
m. Officials said the damage would
not be heavy.
The fire started in a refrigerat,
ing plant directly above tanks con-
tanning more than 100000 gallons
of oil,
The Mongolia's sister ship, the
ManchurIa, which has Just been re
paired, is also in the same drg
dock,
The New York City Sire boats
and two Lackawanna Railroad fire
boats assisted the local fire fight
ers. Reports said the fire started
from spark from gas burner
falling into a pile of rubbish.
On account ol the dense clouds
Of smoke, the firemen were unable
to enter the hold for near half an
hour.
An electrician ran into the holu
and managed to string up a line oil
electric lights which enabled the
firemen to fight the blaze to bet,
ter advantage.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-04
OAR DEMAND WATTS TO
SPEAK AT Big q LuNcHEoN

HH A
r. Darder, president OF the 40.
nongahela Valley a Association, and
George 7. Watson, president ofithe
Fairmont Chamber of Commerce,
will be the principal speakers at
the luncheon to be given at the
Fairmont Hotel under the auspic.
es Of the! Chamber OF Commerce
for the delegates Of the association
who will be here for a meeting on
April IL. T. d. Connell, secretary
Of. the Chamber OF Commere has
sent out letters TO the membership
OF the Monongaheia Valley Assoia.
ton and also the membership OF
the Fairmont Chamber OF Com.
merce, asking that they attend
this luncheon.s In the evening OF
the same day, Waiting Williams
will lecture under the auspices OF
the Chamber Of Commerce In the
ballroom ut the hotel. His lecture
will start promptly at $40 o'clock.
and Is free 70 thespuhlic.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-04
UNION LEADERS CONFER
WITH JACKSON ARNOLD

CHARLESTON, April "A con.
ference between union officials
and Jackson Arnold, head OF the
state police, today considered
complaints Of abusive treatment Of
striking miners at Sharlow and re.
suited in Colonel Arnold's assur-
ance that an investigation would
be made and that no abuse would
be tolerated in the department.
A. c. Porter, vice.president OF
sub.district No. 2, and R. P. Toney,
secretary OF the sub.distrtct, com.
planned that two state troopers
had been abusive In their language
while ordering strikers off a rail
road track. ,as3
Mr.. Portep and Mr.. Toney as
sured him, Colonel Arnold said,
that the state police as a whole In
the Coal River area had been
working without partially or
discrimination"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-04
CIDER is CALLED. AN
INTOXICATING DRINK
Italian Held for Federal,
Court for Offering II
for Sale

Domenick Pallatto, one of the
men arrested by federal prohibit
tion officers in their raid yester-
day, was given a preliminary hear
ing before United States Com.
missioner J. P. Kirby at 10 o'clock
today and was held for the action
Of the next federal court grand
jury at Wheeling which meets May
2. His bond was set at $500, and
he furnished bond with Domenick
Romano as surety.
Pallatto is charged with a viola
tion Of the National Prohibition
Act for selling intoxicant liquors.
The accused was selling cider,
which according to the federal men
was too powerful, being doctored
to such an extent that II caused
persons who drank 1t, to become
intoxicated.
In connection with the arrests
made yesterday, Wilkinson and
Doerr, the federal agents. conEis.
Gated seventeen barrels Of cider.
The seventeen barrels contained
$50 gallons OF the drink.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-04
TAEBOTTCONCERN
|. ERECTSCONVEYOR.
Curtis Bay Shipments Better
Last Week. -!.other Coal
News In Region

Within the past few days an
other upple, conveyor and equip
ment have been installed at a
plant along the Monongahela Rail-
way. this being at Robert Talbot
q Co.'s Agnes mine near Lowea-
Vile, Monongalia County. The
improvements approximate s15,-
The conveyor. which extends
22e feet down the hillside, IL Of
wooden frame, but otherwise OF
steel structure. The plant has a
capacity of $50 tons an hour, with
the maximum tonnage Of 400 tons
an hour, when the conyeyor belt
is regulated to travel so feet a
minute. The conveyer is driven by
a fifteen horse power direct cur
rent motor. The conveyer is
mounted on concrete PIERS and the
plant Is complete with head
house, scales, dump and feeders In
cluded.
The conyeyer is of the standard
rope and button type and was
furnished by the Fairmont Mining
Machinery Co., although Samuel
Kaiser, Fairmont, contractor,
erected the conveycr. 1t is equip
ed with a kick-back dump which
puts the coal on an osclllating
feeder.
At the end Of the. conveyer is the
tipple and the bar screens provide
for one and a half inch, three
quarters. mine run and slack to
be turned into the cars at the bot
tom OF the tlpple. BY this ar
rangement, slack and three.quar-
ters can be turned out simultane-
ously.
u, c. Geological Survey
Figures OF the United States
Geological Survey for the week
ending March IS shows the mines
in the Fairmont region operated
44.5 per cent OF full time produc-
tlon. Other West Virginia fields
that, week produced as follows.
Cumberland-Pi Piedmont, 56.S per
cent; Panhandle, $50 per cent;
Winding Gulf, 70.3 per cent; New
River. 29.s per cent; Pocahontas,
Sis per cent; Tug River, 71.6
per cent: Kanawha 9,6 per cent;
Logan 69.5 per cent; Kenova.
.Thacker, 56.1 per cent.
It3is Curtis Bay Gained s,j
Pre;strlks Ahipnepts to Curtis
pas last FtekiI ttfl on6 q b
Division. B. & so., showed coma
siderable strength. With 304 car
/ loads Of coal moving to Curtis Bay
of the division last week, the
best showing was made than for
any period for five weeks. Last
weeks consignment made a gain
OF 1873 cars over the previous week
and 80 cars more than two weeks
ago. Arlington Pier shipments
were flat last week and as result
no coal went to that pier. No lake
coal was moving last week off the
division.
Eastern Loading
Eastern coal loading during the
past two weeks showed consider
able strength off the Monongah
Division B. & o., but last weeks
total at 24S6 carloads was ] ,220
cars lighter than the previous
week, which proved to have been
the strongest movement in that
direction since early last fall. Wes.
tern coal loading last week aGgre-
Continued on Page Four)
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-04
SHOT BY
NEGROATN0RNAY
Miner Disturbs Negro's Sleep
and He Shoots Him in
the Legs

Five and one.half hours after he
had shot and painfully II not seri-
ously injured Charley Pukey. %
years old, an Italian miner, I.arrIe
Young. negro was arrested by
Charles Rartholow, a deputy sher-
III as he was seated at the break
fast table in his home at Norway. {.
Young had Just finished his morn
ing meal and was ready to go
with the officers when they arriv.
ed. After the officers placed Young
under arrest, he secured the gun
which he had used earlier in the
morning against Pukey and a box
Of ammunition and turned them
over to the officer.
Young Is secretary treasurer of
the Norway local Of the United
Mine, Workers ;of America md : 2
.tlls ettsies ct de sSsdSs.s ltlEtns'
out a union due card for a fellow
member OF the local.
When the news Of the shooting
reached the city this morning,
rumors flew thick and fast for a
time, and idle tongues tried to
connect up the shooting with the
coal strike in progress. but prompt
work by the county officers in in
vestigating tho affair and bringing
the victim Of the shooting to the
hospital and the accused man to
the county jail soon ended the
false rumors.
Officers who visited the scene
OF the shooting early this morning.
made an Investigation and arrested
Young, say that the shooting re-
suited from an argument between
the two men over a whiskey trans
action.
Young says that Pukey was
drinking and that he came to his
house at 8 o'clock this morning
and knocked on the door wanting
in. He ordered him away and the
Italian refused 10 go. After being
disturbed for some time by the
pounding on the door and the noise
made by the Italian, he drew his
gun and shot through the door in
an effort to scare him away. The
bullet passed through the door
near the lower hinge, passed
through Pukey's right knee anu
lodged in his left knee.
Pukey's story, while in the whole
similar to Young's. differs in ths
respect that he tells why he went
to the negrO's home. Pukey says
he had purchased some whiskey
from Young earlier in the night
and after drinking 1t all up, he re-
turned to Young's house and
wanted some more whiskey. He
says Young refuse dto sell him any
more, because he had not paid for
tho last he had bought and told
him to come back in the morning
and pay him the S. he owed him.
After trying to gain an entrance
for few minutes, Pukey says he
heaertl shot fired and felt a pain
In first his right knee and then in
his left knee. He left Young's
home and went to his own house
where he remained until the Off
GERS went out this morning and
brought him in to the hospital.
He walked from his home to tho
Clarksburg interurban car line and
arrived at the local station at 10
o'clock. From there he was taken
in an ambulance to the hospital.
After first aid had been rendered,
attending physicians decided to
take an X-ray picture Of the left
knee and try and locate the bull
let. His condition however is not
thought to be serious.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-04
UNION makes MORE INR0ADS0N
N0N-UNI0N MINING STRONGHOLD
N FAYEITE I! /. COUNTY COAL FIELDS
Lip Stick Case
Set for Thursday

CORNING, Ark, April a.
The lip stick" case of Knobel,
Ark, in which Miss Pearl Pugs-
ley, IS years old seeks q writ
Of mandamus to sat aside rules
Of the Knobel school board, for
bidding students to use cos.
metics, wear low and peek-a-
boo waists and short skirts, is
set to come up before Judge W.
w. Bandy in Clay County Cir
cult Court hero Thursday.
Miss Pugsley wa sdismEssed
from the elementary school at
Knobel because she violated the
rules, according TO N. E.
Hicks. principal. The girl and
her friends claim that she had
only talcum powder on her
face.
National notoriety has been
given the case, and Miss Pugs-
ley says she has received thou.
sands OF letters from all parts
OF the country and from per-
sons in all walks OF life sympa-
thiztng with her on the ques-
tion.
The rules were promulgated
by the school board last August
at the beginning OF the public
school term at Knobel, and the
case has been called up severat
times but each time something
delayed It.
1t is reported that the school
board would contend in court
that the question is not for the
courts to decide but Is solely
under the Jurisdiction OF the
board.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-04
Mary Garden Gets Offer of
$3.50, 900 for Next Season

Z 4 y "a. y 10
SAN FRANCISCO. April -
Mary Garden, director and. prima
donna Of the Chicago Grand Opera
Co. which is appearing Here, has
received from Charles i. Wagner.
her former n1anag ger, an offer, of
;$260,000 for a seasoti's concert
tour, and II the opera company
would keep her iit must me that
.figure, according TO a. statement
;hyi iss Gard EMS eeretalsS 70 the
Chronicle q today
Miss 5ard en- VII sail for Monte
Carlo Ia June ant viii he gone
5tinttI September Upoh Her return
to- Auiertea she win announce iicr
plans deinitely
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-04
INANERSGLAN...
! ITIE-uPg0|.|NPL|..E|.I.E ! 4.
; I'm L0GA..'F+.IIE=LDS. !
INlHety-one Cars Of Coal.
Loaded Monday.ln
District
SMALL MINES WORK
Apparently Few Large Sized
Plants Ave Operating
SMALL MINES WORK

Mining villages continued to re-
main quiet on this: the third work.
ing dayo of the general; coal strike.
IsFsctfeally no new development
,has apparent except In local points
here AMI there in the region.
Judging from the limited amount
Of soai production from mines, the
srike y 400 per cent efficient.
= 3lne; tti Northern West Virginia
- t6nda loaded OIL cars OF coal,
off IL i We cars more than yon Sat
ufda Motet. wa look kod upon as
[ jt9s fltat feal test 3of strength. AS
a matter q fact, the vast majority
lof operators are using grey matter
5ni not attempting to- work the
mines 5ecatse theer Isl business
anyway aud they believe for the
present az least that .watchful
waiting Is D. very timely slogan.
IIhe COST o. prodpc cling coal at this
time IN most insiances does not
prove profitable; they say, as the
fsoit coai market ceases TO exist.
Ebnsidering the hazards, the
,tnines ARE being closed down.
The production ot Monday by
divisions was seal cred as follows:
NJ a 0 Monongali IL cars;
| lCharleston 30 cars Eonnellsville,
3 cars; Cumberland is cars I: Wes-
TERN Maryland BeIingto a Weaver
|0i wyatt Helen.s Run q Monon.
lgahela cars; & H, IS cars;
NJ. q VI q; Mines along the Mon
,ongahela railway iii pennsylya0sa
on MondAy loaded n cars Of coal,
A total u s5 cars Of coke were
iloaded on the Monong gah Division,
lB, q o yestefday
Patrick Buckley FsatrInnnt, vice
president 81 sub district q who had
|heen Al the Mefgatit own ectiorl
ma lsitiga survey ~ ropd Itipps toa
laay rep6tted thRt the nining actfg
ities n That section were practical
lly srspe1dels he said the %. L.
q W Coal 60. mine was now
!ciosed and that the River Seam.
Coal 90. plant had two men and
Three boys AZ Syorls but that Meth
|ar Il MOI tie sttfrm Coal Co. were
Producing any GOA of any account
3fany N IN. COX q ovens at Beech
WOOD were reported to- be at work
while prpbatSly nine men were at
Work 50 d plant near 5opekiska
6hat according 70 Buckley, ap-
leared to he the extent Of the min.
ing that was being done In the Nor.
Eanto,yn section: Everything ap-
|peared e be quiet In the SCOTS
Hum fection. Il S.' n s5 /,
RaMlJ Aiel1o. Grafton, distric:.
Ihoafd member sub district 8, was
IN Faifmont Id day Mining con.
|ditions Ia that sub district are also
Ftiad I'M. according to Aiello. Mine
no ) of the Penn: Mary Coal Co.
land Rock Forge Coal Co. plants
lbn the NJ g 4, RI ailwaxs he claims,
are wofking only with 50 per cent
Inaan.pcwsIs and coke ovens at Gas.
cade we're also reported to have
teen al woE iello also claims
aat all ot the ten on more mines
I kftfe West Virginia Northern road
Continued ON rage Tourl
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Middleton Children Now
Well on Way to Recovery

The four children o: Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Resock and Mr., and
Mrs. Steven Meholena, Polish rest
dents OF Middleton, who were be
lteved to be poisoned from eating
spoiled oranges last night, were
reported to be out OF danger this
afternoon by DR.. ]. M. Barr, one o.
the attending physicians.
I'm my opinion" stated Or. Barr,
the children did not suffer from
ptomaine poisoning at all, but
merely from acute indigestion, re-
sulting from the eating Of decayed
fruit. Acute indigestion is seldom
fatal, though very painful"
DR.. H. L. Keister OF this city was
the other physician called.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-04
SoN-lN-LAW OF MADDEN
SELECTED POSTMASTER

WASHINGTON, April 4-Presi-
dent Harding will send to the Sen
ate soon the nomination OF Paul
Henderson Of Chicago, to be sec.
ond assistant postmaster general
1t was learned definitely today at
the White House. Mr.. Henderson
is a son-in-law of Chairman. Mad
den of the House appropriation
committee and succeeds to the
post left vacant by the death OF
Edward H. Shaughnessy, also OF
Chicago, who died from Injuries
received in the Knickerboc ocket
,Theater disaster.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-04
LOCAL PARTY 10 ATTEND E.
sMEETlNGiN PARK KERSBURc

IA party Of local people will
leave here Thufsday morning for;
Parkersburg where, on that } eve
Ming, they will attend an OPEN
forum OF the Parkersburg Chain.
ber OF Commerce. Those in the
party viii be 3. Blaine Moore, gen.
,eral manager Of the Monongahe.
ia Power & Railway Co, Ord
Ioughs auditor, and Ma. Earl Il, !,
Smith, public relations officer OF
,the Same concern, and Z D. Con.
nell, secretary OF tie Fairmont'
Chamber Of Commerce. II Is said
That u y airmnnt Is called upon for,
q sprandial parti icipation in the
pro ugrain in speaking way, Mr..
ocnpelI VIII do the honors in this
respect. :1S NJ. =.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-04
MINER CRUSHED BY
FALL OF ROCK TODAY

Pinned down to earth by a rock
weighing between 800 and 40H
pounds, John Knezecwick. who
halls from the Horvat section OF
Austria, was crushed to death in a
slate fall at the mine Of the Sham
rock Coal Co. at Hoult this morn
ing at 9:40 o'clock. The boulder
struck the unfortunate miner In the
head and crushed the head and
the greater portion OF the body.
He was 2S years old and was sin
gle man.
The remains will he prepared for
burial by a Morgantown undertak.
er.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-04
JAPANESE TROOPS IN
CLASH WITH CHITIANS

TOXIC, April 4.-(By The Asso.
ciated ss.)-Special dispatches
from Vladivostok today report a
clash between Japanese troops and
forces OF the Chita government,
when 500 OF the latter attacked the
Japanese, about 100 miles from
Vladivostok, following a demand by
the Japanese to disarm.
Eighty Of the Chita soldiers were
reported killed.
Later the Chita troops attacked
In force with field guns and fight.
Ing is continuing along the UssurI
Railway, reports state.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-04
BOMB KILLS THREE

VIENNA, April 4.-(By the As
sociated Press.)-A concealed
bomb exploded. at a business mems
banquet in. Budapest last night
which killed three and injured
thirty. The bomb is believed to
have exploded prematurely. how
ever, as the principal speakers had
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-04
Mononpallla Mine lals

n MoRGAfvToWlS, April 4.-wlth 4
the exception Of the non union
mines along the Moreantogn &
Ktngwood Railroad IN Mononsalla
and Preston Counties, coal pfoduc-
ton was completely shut or In
Northern West Virginia today
Not d cpr WAS Loaded yesterday
Continued on Page Fourl
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MRS. AMELIA WHANN AMI
EUGENE SAM (inset), CHARGED
WITH C0NsPERING TO Kill
MRS. WHANN'S HUSBAND, DR.
JOHN WHANN.
KITTANN1NG, Pa, April A..
DR.. John Whann's wife, Amelia, il
on trial here. The state charges
she plotted with Eugene Sanz, Gu
ban, to kill Whann.
Whann has heard the evidence
But
II have the fullest confidence II
my wife" he says. I'm certain
she's always been faithful to me
and | know she would never cor
spire to injure me in any way"
SAM, who formerly lived at the
Whann home, testified in court,here
that he loved Mrs. SWhann and that
his Affection was returned. v
fltaapt tapel
older; 81 19gl. s.
z The Cuban declared he and Mrs
Whann laid plans to take Whann'i
life.
Mrs. Whann denies all this. The
defense declares Sanz's testimon!
is intended only TO blacken Mrs
Whann's reputation-that advances
OF Sanz 10 Mrs. Whann were re
pulsed and he now is seeking re-
venge.
Testimony OF Philadelphia detec
tives has strengthened the defense
case. They say when Sanz was ar
rested in Philadelphia he confessed
he attacked Whann in selt-defense
and that no one else was impllcat
ed.