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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-05-31
GROUP 6BANKERS
WILL MEET HERE
Annual Session for Thirteen
Counties to BE Held
on June 8.

One hundred fifty or more mem
bers of group sicSS' West Virginia
Bankers Association, will attend
the annual meeting of the group
to be held THURSDAY, June s, in
this city.
The entire program beginning
at $3.50 in the afternoon, viii be
carried out at the Fairmont Coun-
try Club, which is one of the
beauty spots of Marion County.
Delegates and others will assemble
at ] 80 at the Fairm ont Hotel and
special cars Will be provided to
transport all to the CLUB. Dinner
will be served at the club at $3.50
in the evening.
An interesting program is being
worked out and will probably be
completed within the next day OF
two. Arrangements are in charge
of James H. Thomas, chairman OF
the group. Clyde Cole is secretary
treasurer of the group. Mr.. Tho
mas is cashier CT the National
Bank of Fairmo1sS, while MIR. Cole
is a member of the First National
Bank at Shinnston.
Group six" includes the banks
located in the following counties:
Barbour, Harrison Marion, Ran
dolph, Braxton, y-imer, Monon
gala, Taylor, Doddridge, Lewis.
Preston. Upshurz and Webster, or
thirteen counties in all.
The bankers of Fairmont have
banded themselves together to
provide first class entertainment
for the visitors. Invitations have
been mailed out and from indica-
tions at present, q large attend
ance is expected
The following names were sign
ed to invitations mailed out: ".
A. Fletcher, treasurer OF the Fair
mont Trust Co.; NJ. L. Brown.
cashier of the Fairmont State
Bank; J. c. Hall, cashier OF the
Home Savings Bank; Hugh F.
Smith, cashier of the Monongahela
Bank of Fairmont; C. r. Hall,
cashier, of the Peoples National
Bank, and James a. Thomas,
cashier of the National Bank of
Fairmont-
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OPERATOR AGREE TO SET FAIR PRICES on {
1lsh Republic VIII Not Be Tolerated By Great =
Can You Lend a Car
to Take Kid dies to
S. A. Summer Camp?

White Rock Camp, establish
ed by the Salvation Army for
Fairmont children, will be
opened tomorrow morning.
Cars carrying from sixty-fve to
seventy-fve children will leave
the army headquarters at 10
O'Clock in the morning. a big
picnic is on the program.
Persons having cars which
they can lend to the Army for
the day have been requested to
CALI Captain Alfred Carr at
'phose No. 933. About twenty
or thirty of the children will be
able to stay at the camp but
others will have to return to
the city until some later occa-.
sion. The return trip is sche-
duled for 4 o'clock in the
afternoon.
White Rock Camp. near
Monongah, is rapidly establish
ing itself as an annual Fair
mont institution. Last year the
Army did especially good work
for the poor children of the city
and it expects TO accomplish
even more for them this sum-
mer'
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COAL OPERATORS
AT CONFERENCE RI
IN WASHINGTON
Meeting of Association to Be
Held Here on Next Satur-
day Morning.

Northern West Virginia Coal Op-,
orators Association is represented
today at the conference in Wash
ington, D. c., called by Secretary of
Commerce Hoover to keep down
the price of coal. At least three op-
orators are attending this confer
crnce. A. Lisle White, ClarksburS
president of the association George
S. Bracket, secretary of the asso-
citation, and c. H. jenkins Fairmont
director of the National Coal Asso-
cation from Northern West Fir-
GINA.
The efforts OF Secretary Hoover
have already been felt in this conl
industry and right here in West
Virginia the price level of coal, has
experienced a sharp decline COM
pared to a week ago. The increased
production may also be factor as
well as the announcement of re-
duced freight rates.
Operators Meeting
Members of the Northern West
Virginia Coal Operators association
Will hold 4 meeting at the offices
in the Jacobs Building at 10 o'clock
Saturday morning. 1t is expected
that White, Brackett and jenkins
will report on the outcome of the
Hoover conference at that session.
Daily Shipments
Off the Monongah Division, B. d
O., on Monday there were fifty-flVe
cars of coal loaded east while on
Tuesday there were nine cars load
ed east, to the west there were, five
cars loaded Monday and ten cars
Tuesday.
Coke shipments on Monday con-
sisted of twelve cars to the east,
all OF the coke tonnage going that
way Monday. No coke was loaded
on Tuesday.
Eastern coal shipments off the
Charleston Division, 3. & o. on
Monday were sixty-four cars, while
those OF Tuesday were twenty.
Railroad Fuel
Railroad fuel shipments on Mon
day were nineteen cars off the MON
ongah Division, B. & O., all of
which the B. & o. secured. No rail
road fuel was shipped Tuesday
Off the Charleston Division b. d
O., there were ten cars loaded
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OUTPUT GAINS 800
PER CENT SINCE
FIRST OF STRIKE
>Pfoduction on Monday Set An
other New Record in
Fairmont Region.
ONION MINERS MEET
President keeney Expected in
City Before Resumption
Of Miners Trial.

tTodayswill mark the close of two
issolid months of the coal strike in
Northern West Virginia. There
has been gradual increase in the
|sproduction of coal. This is not con-
fined to any particular division &c
sfSorthern West Virginia, but ap-
@pears to be general.
Corrected railroad figures show
fEthat last week the mines that
worked non-union in Northern West
Virginia loaded 2,2oS cars or no.
400 tons of coal. This is gain OF
& 1,557s cars since the, first week OF
sths strike, when the weekly load
#ing figure was 651 cars, which
shows a gain of nearly 500 per cent,
Observers believe that the region
IS automatically drifting into the
snon.union column inasmuch as the
stonnage continues to show gain
Eofsfroms $50 to 200 cars every week.
They contend in some instances
: that the time is past when dis
trict agreement is,seven attractive
Sbecause much of the business they
2fieouid have secured has gone into
|Snonzlnion fields permanently and
Scanno6 68be save ti.-z.-rs-i
Claims Union Firm.
ION the other hand, the officials
4ofi the United Mine Workers of
SAmerica do not share that opinion.
let they contend just the oppo-
site.
$sharIes H. Bailey, Fairmont. In
EnAtional representative today
sssssd :ast5"The strike is as solid in
Sfliis district. This is 2 thoroughly
ofganfzede district. Many of the
plants at work are little country
sfnines4stllat work three and four
men. The recent increase in ton
mage has been due to the loading
sSofscars from stock coal. In sub dis
tricts 3 and q, 9S per cent OF the
miners are as firm as the rocks OF
%GibraItar with the full intention OF
continuing this strike until basic
agreement is made in the Central
Comp Field. The strike will
wind up whenever we get that
agreement. The membership OF
atne United Mine. Workers of Amer
W "a In the Northern West Virgin a
fisId lis standing firm to the extent
filat none of our members nave
broke away to work in open shop
mines, according to reports | re-
ceiVe fromfthe local unions. Wher-
ever they have men they nave
Drought them from the non-unlon
fields into this district.
"a kecney May Come.
IS 4. It was reported at the Fairmont
rT9Eice of. the United Mine Workers
sSfsAmerfca that it expects a brief
5yhisit from President c. Frank
sSeenev. He was in Washington.
ss5s3.FE CContinued on Page Eight)
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COMMIT TTEEFQR
NORTHERN WEST
VIRGINIA NAMED. 1 |.
Producers Called Upon TO Re-
port Cases of Unfair
Prices in Region
REPORT TO HOOVER 1: r
Production Now 5000 600
Tons a Week Less Than
Consumption
REPORT 7 o HOOVER

. ~ 6
WASHINGTON May 8 Secrs-
tary Hoover today assumed ithe
responsibility for fixing areasons
able price on spot coal during tho
continuance of the present coal
strike.
Opening the conference here tor
day OF union and nonunion operator
in the producing fields, NJ Nr.H ooyerH
declared that any agreement be-
tween. the operators looking toward
the fixing of the price of coal, even
though in the. interest of the pub
lie. would be Illegal. and therefore
he asked the individual operators
to agree with him on areasonabIes
price for coal in their respective
districts
The secretary suggested appoint
ment of committees Representing
each: producing districts to advise
with him on fairgprice forse coal ins
their respective districts Hes also
asked that$these comnliS Ssees should
continue in. existencs anffsreport tp
him, after the deterfnfn at ion of 81.
fair price. cases of unfairSpriees In
their districts and act a e Ris re-
quest as might be necessary to
meet such cases.
Mr.. Hoover told the several hun
dred operators assembled ar the
meeting that the conferences had
been called by h i'm a til q Feau
of President Harding to consult as
to what means might properly be-
taken to restrain runaway coal
prizes due to the strike. Hesexp1ain-
ed that the conference was notscon
cerned with wages or.sotber ques
tons but solely to the question
price and distribution of coal nov
being produced. Speaking of pres
ent conditions throug ghout tho
country. he said that Production
was now about $1,000 000gtcts
week and consumption bstween 8,
100000 and s,5000,000 thus neces
stating withdrawal from saock
amounting to between Z; % 90 900 and
3, 100000 tons a week. Production
will Increase slightly as time goes
on, he added.
.'The time has arrived. e iT-sSs
Hoover said, when th he unWisess
virgins who did not heed my re-
commentator to stock u p WI
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ACTION ON BILL
BEFORE VOTE ON
TARIFF OPPOSED
Measure Will Become Effec-
tive Next January as Re-
suit of Change Made.

WASHINGTON, May 31.-The
com monty known McCumber sol
dier bonus plan was ordered fav-
orably reported today by the
Senate finance committee. The
vote was nine to four.
The effective of the Dill was
changed, however, from next Oc-
tober l to January L, 1928, after
Senator Walsh, Democrat, told the
majority that it would take six
months. to get the bonus machin-
cry in operation.
The Smoot plan providing for
paid up life insurance in lieu Of
all other forms of compensation
was defeated by a vote of eight to
five. the three Democrats present,
Simons, Walsh and Gerry, voting
against it, Joined by McCumber,
Curtis, Watson, Sutherland and
La Toilette. Republicans.
Several of the majority mem
berS of the committe gave notice
to Chairman McCumbe that they
would oppose laying aside the
tariff 4bt Il forsSenateIeonsid degaat193n; a
I - - he onusS3at an ~ timeSEila &tfte
near future. Chairman McCum-
Der repliedathat he intended to
get as prompt consideration of the
bonus bill aszcould be worked out,
but did not state whether the
tariff measure would be laid aside.
The committee before approv-
ing the McCumber plan eliminat-
ed the forfeiture provision as con-
tanned in the House measure,
under which veterans failing to
pay loans to banks or to the gov
ernment would have forfeited
their adjusted service certificates.
In such cases the secretary of the
treasury would restore the certi-
ticates to the veteran in whose
name it was issued at any time
prior to its maturity upon re-
ceipt from him of the amount
paid by the government to the
bank plus interest at the rate of
4 1-2 per cent, compounded an
nually.
Under another amendment ap-
proved by the committee, veter-,
ans could make application for
adjusted service compensation IT
any time after the passage of the
law. The House measure would
have limited the time to July L,
1928.
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C. B. MITCHELL TO BE
ELKS' FLAG DAY SPEAKER

The annual Flag, Day service OF
Fairmont lodge No. 294, Benevolent
and Protective Order OF Elks, will
be held at O'Clock, Wednesday
evening, June; II, at Loop Park
The Rev. Charles Baird Mitchell
D. ID, has been chosen as orator
for the services.
Veterans of the Foreign Wars
who will be having their conyen'
ton in this city at that time have
been invited to take part in. the ser
vices, as well as fraternal and 9th:
er organizations and all the school
children of the city.
The hour. for the services has
been set at o'clock SO that 1t viii
not conflict with any of the actiyi:
ties of the veterans convention and
at the same time will be convenient
for a large number OF local per
sons to attend at that time.
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CAPTAIN cUTTLE WINS DERBY Re y
EPSON DOWN. England, May
81 .-(By the Associated Press-9---
Captain Cutie won the Derby run
here today Captain Cutie. s time
was minutes "a So seconds.
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Three Buildings Destroyed
bu Fire at Pr411tyfolU1l Today
Boy Who Causes $50, 900 Fire
Escapes During Excite
ment at School.

GRAFTON, W. Va, May 81
Three buildings of the West Vir'
ginia Industrial School for boys at
Pruntytown were destroyed today
by fire with an estimated loss oi
$4,000. The fire was said by the
authorities to have been caused by
incendiaries.
The loss Is fully covered by in
surance, according to the SuDerin-
tendent. He declared he had had
trouble handling a boy named sClar-
ence Basham, who refused tc stay
at the school, saying he wanted to
be sent to the state penitent1ary at
Moundsville. He became so unruly
that four other boys, known as
t'trusties," were appointed to guard
him day and night. Early this
morning the TRUSTEES, and their
charge went to the big barn on the
school farm, and the guards report
ed that before they could stop him,
Basham struck a match and threw
it into a hay NOV. the flames
soon .enveloped the entire barn.
and the fire fighting brigade of the
institution and the village fire de
partment were summoned. The
flames spread quickly and within
a short time had destroyed the bar1
and two other buildings which
housed the blacksmith shop. carpen-
ter shop and plumbing plant Ma
ci1inery was destroyed.
During the excitement, Bashan1
escaped. 1t is believed he made
his way into nearby hills and q
POSSE had been sent out to search
for him.
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Member of Parliament Die;

DUBLIN, May 31.-(By The As
sociated Press.)-JoSeph McGuin-
ness, member of the Imeprial Par
lament for the southern division
of. County Longford, died today.
his election to Parliament lin 1917,
while ne was serving d three, year
sentence for his connection with
the Easter rising of 1916 helped
pave the way for the Sim Fein's
subsequent sweep of the country
He was q strong advocate of the
Anglo-Irish Treaty and member
CONTINUED on page fvc)
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MINE P|CKETING
is DECLARED TO
Be DISORDERLY
Superintendent Of Betty Mine
Charges ntiH1ida atioH
Group of ESQ Men.

Picketing at the Betty mine of
the Stone & Scott Coal Co, three
miles south of the city, Monday, by
about 250 men and boys was de-
clared to. be anything but ORDERLY
in statement issued this morning
by H. I. Gonnor, superintendent OF
the Betty mine.
No coal is being loaded at the
Betty mine today, Mr.. Connor says,
because the company has too high
4 regard for the safety OF its men
to start up work in the face of such
dangerous conditions. The picket
ers did not return this morning.
when we came out to work
Monday morning there were some
thing like $50 men assembled
around the tipple," said Mr. Con
nor this morning. They didn't dc
us any violence but the only rea-
son was that we gave them no eS-
cuse for it.
One Rifle in Office.
There were only about ten of
us, and they were just waiting for
some excuse to attack US. We
weren't armed-thel only means or
protection we. had was one rifle n
the office which we left there. We
might have and it was too danger
GUS to. investigate. }f
They didn't make any actua'
threats in words. against Ils SO StaI'
as 1 heard-that is, not any conc!-
tional threats of what they would
do if we started working: Their at
titude was anything but: orderly
and peaceful, however.
They were disorderly. One for
eigner jumped up. and down and
tried to get our watchman, to come
down on the railroad. Another one
acted pretty mean about young
man wfTc wasn't ever working
here. The man yelled up, We've
got your NUMBER and we'll set
YOU They wanted him to come
down with the crowd, but he
wouldn't, do it.
'.As for our men cursing any of
the men on the ground, they did
not, sor far as I know. 1t would
have been dangerous experiment,
even if we had wanted to-
Not Betty Mine Men.
"None of the men in the crowd
were Betty mine men. Most o.
them were from Monongah. Some
of them were from Norway. bat
those didn't take much part in the
demonstration. Most OF me men
were foreigners-I saw only few
Americans among them.
Statements that Officers inves.
tigated the situation by coming 20
the mine are erroneous, so Tar as l
know. Perry Burton, deputy sher-
iff. came out and stayed about
twenty minutes. He talked to the
miners +but I did not hear what he
,a;d 10 tIern ASEfor the prOSeCut-
ing attorney coming on the scene.
if he did so, he did not come near
enough to make himself known to
us. The only officer we saw was
Mr. Burton and one: man could
have offered us no protection had
it been needed
Kelly Makes Statement.
H. Tt Kelly, the mine foreman,
who was instrumental in calling for
help from the county, also made "a
statement this morning, as follows.
81 was driving ont to worksfrom
Fairmont when the picketersjui
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Harry Shaw and Buckley
to Speak at MeadoWdale

Attorney Harry Shaw and the
Rev. j.. G. Buckley will be the
speakers at the annual Memorial
Day services to be observed at 2
o'clock next Sunday at the Meadow
dale emetery. The program, which
VIII be a splendid one. .5issin charge
ofsthe Sunday school ofEthe Mead
owdale hurch: The public IS in
.vited to attend the services.
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THE WEATHER

Increasing cIoudfness tonight
followed BY showers thursday
sceoler i1nrsda 4, west ion
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H. Tt Kelly, the mine foreman,
who was instrumental in calling for
help from the county, also made
statement this morning, as follows:
Twas driving ont to work from
.Fairmont when the picketersEriedl
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NEW AGREEMENT
CLAIMED HOSTILE
TO ANGLO TREATY
British Intend to Hold Dublin
for Military Base to
Oppose Republic.
TENSION INCREASING
Secretary of Colonies Shows
How Agreement Strikes
at British Pact.

LONDON. May 31.-(By The
Associated Press)-Secretary Win
ston Churchill in the course of the
debate following his statement on
the Irish situation, reiterated that
Great Britain would not tolerate
the establishment of republic III
Ireland He said the British troops
remaining in Dublin were militaT-
lily secure and were awaiting even
tualties.
in the event of a republic is set
up" added the colonial secretary,
lit is the intention of the British
government to hold Dublin as one
of the esentiall steps OF military
opera tions.t
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-09-23

| that there is in effect no division lin,
! between the two.
This district is rapidly increasing
IS present heavy population. Some
of the perfect logical reasons why peo-
pie are led to come here and then to
stay and make homes is the fact that
the altitude is l,O10 feet and the rain
fall is eighteen inches, both just right
70 make it correct to say High and
1ry'-that combination which is pop
ular with an ever-increasing number
of people.
Facilities for educating children
are always required where happy
homes are the rule, and to prove that
this particular section of Umatilla
County is amply provided for in this
respect, and also to show how dem
Sely populated the valley is it is of in
tcrest to note that within Il radius of
5 X miles from either town there are
thirteen schools, employing fifty-ninc
teachers. The school enumeration of
this same district is 909, with an ac-
tual daily attendance of more than L.
400 children. Besides the excellent !
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-09-23

mos and grounds VALUED at $4,000,
$2',Oe0 city hall, munictpally-own
td show house, and a branch of the
matilda County Library. There ar.
two lodge buildings. one owned by the
Masonic order and one by the Odd
Fellows. Two church organizations
have buildings here and two other
examinations hold services regularly,
but have not vet erected buildings.
MIton- FrCcWatCr
Nesting beneath the protecting
shelter of the lofty Blue Mountains in
the eastern part of Umatilla County,
lie the twin cit cs, Milton and Free
water tn" most populous urban settle
ment in the county outside of Pendle-
ton and the trading center for a popu-
lation of sCme six thousand peoDle,
The 1920 census gives Milton a popu-
lation of 1,760, and. according to the
same authority, there are $50 inhabr
ants in Freewater.
The two towns are distinctly one
community and whatever affects one
affects both. Their municipal limits
overlap each other to such an extent
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-09-23

teal, banded September "a, 1920
and killed two months and sever
days later in a swamp near Port OF
Spain, on the Island of Trinidad
The shortest possible flight the bird
could have taken to reach this point,
which is off the ocean of Venezuela,
is 5000 miles.
In tracing their routes it seemed
apparent that the mallards and black
duck travelled together and their
course from Lake ScugoE was south
ward along the shores of Lake Erie
by way of the st. Clair flats. Here
the routee divided the majority con-
tinuing southwest. crossing the Ohio,
and then to the Mississippi Valley
where the majority wintered.
The others took southeastcrly
route, crossing the Alleghenies and
reaching the Atlantic coast by way
of chesapeake and Delaware Bays.
None of the banded birds were
taken.
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HOW FAR WILL BIRD TRAVEL
Nv MIGRATORY FLIGHT? 5000
MILES SAYS OFFICIAL REPORT

WASHINGTON, Sept. ETA. r.
How far will a migratory birC
travel in its fall and spring flights
The Biographical Survey has deter
mined that they make flights of at
least 5000 miles.
An investigation has been conduct
ed for several years by the survey
by trapping ducks and other strong
winged fowl in northern sections,
and marking them with light bands
bearing serial number and the le-
gend, Biol. Surv., Wash, ID. c., The
numbers on the fowl are recorded
and from time to time, hunters bag
ging some. of those marked, report
where and when the bird was
brought down.
More than two hundred such birds
we're looSed with the bands from
lake Scugog, in Ontario, about 30
niles north of Toronto, and many re-
1orts have been received. SO far, the
ccord flight is that of a blue-wingcd