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Evening star., 1922-09-18
COAL PRICE CHECK
us. CHAMBER GOAL
Nationwide Cooperation of
Business Organization
Definitely Planned.

Machinery that is expected to
stabilize the coal situation until the
railroads are able to deliver suffi-
cfent quantities of fuel to meet in
dustry's demand will be set in motion
throughout the country tomorrow by
tho Chamber Of Commerce of the
United States.
The chambers program is based
upon cooperation on the part of
national business associations, local
chambers of commerce., individual
corporations and firms and house.
holders.
II hearty assistance is given by
these agencies, the chamber feels
situation satisfactorily and prevent
fuel prices from soaring further. 1t
will also be a definite indication to
the government that business has
again reached that stage Of equili-
briurn which enables it to overcome
its own obstacles without the ne
cessity> Of governmental regulation.
:, Problem Of Transportation.
The fuel problem now is purely
one of transportation, the chamber
declared The mines are in a posi-
tion to supply coal as quickly as
the railroads can haul it to the vari-
GUS centers of industry. Until the
time arrives however, when the
conservation will be essential 70
this end the chamber has address
ed q. letter to industries throughout
tho United States asking them to
observe the following rules:
Confine purchases Of coal to cur
rent needs as safety permits.
Q,lSnond nj q nS
stocks until the emergency is re-
1ieved. This applies to those who
hold contracts for immediate de-
Unload cars Immediately SO they
may be returned to service without
Furnish promptly articles ordered
for repairing old or building new
railroad equipment.t
Local Plans Urged.
simultaneously tho chamber mailed
another letter to LEGAL commercial
organizations throughout the .coun-
try, asking them to have administra-
tive committees assist in carrying
out the Organizations request Of in
They are asked to have these COM
n1ittees visit the heads of the in
dustries and impress upon them the
needs for observance Of the requests,
particularly that one regarding the
acoumu19t tion Of reserve stocks
The commercial organisations have
then been requested to broaden the
scope Of their fuel activities and
enlist the aid Of their local coal
dealers in the campaign to sell coa1
on a fair margin Of profit. House
holders will be requested to use un.
accustomed grades of fuel, or even
substitutes, In cases Of local scarcity.
Evening star., 1922-09-18
UNION ATTORNEY
HITS IS. EVIDENCE
Attacks Affidavits Presented
/ in Daugherty's Plea for
Strike Injunction.
SEES SOME AS PERJURY
Describes Charge of Conspiracy
Against Shop Craft Leaders
as an "Absurdity."
SEES SOME AS PERJURY
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PRESS. :.
CHICAGO. September 1S.-Attor-
neys for the striking railcraft lead
ers today renewed their motion Tor
dismissal of Attorney General Daugh-
erty's injunction bill. Judge James
H. Wilkerson said he was ready to
hear the argument.
Donald r. Richberg, attorney for
B. NJ. Jewell, and John Scott, presi-
dent and secretary-treasurer, respec-
lively. Of the shopcrafts, declared IN
his opening statement that many OF
the affidavits of violence produced
last week by the government are
''hearsay. rumors. speculation and
even perjury"
Without proof the affidavits charge
to the strikers acts Of sabotage. he
said, whereas the acts may as well
be- charged to defective equipment.
The government has not produced a
scintilla of evidence to connect the
charged. Mr.. Richberg said. The de-
fense attorney said the government
was. laboring under fundamental
misccnception" Of the purposes OF the
shopcrafts, and read from the consti-
tuition Of the railway employees de-
partment. American Federation Of La
Dor, to show what he called the "ab-
surdity" of trying to charge its lead
ers with conspiracy.
Must Obey Members.
Tho officers have no power to call
strike, he said, and can only carry out
the expressed will Of the membership
when Il has voted to suspend work.
conspiracy to persecute these officers
and prevent their doing anything they
lawfully can to prosecute this strike"
Mr. Richberg said.
Discussing lawful and unlawful
rights Of railroad strikers. the defense
court. said it was absolutely unlaw-
fur' for train service employees to
abandon trains and passengers with
out bringing them into the terminal.
He denied, however, that the "so-called
desert abandonment" in the southwest
right of all rail workers to bring
about an absolute cessation Of trans
portation by simultaneous strike is
one for Congress to consider, he
added =
Questions Courts Jurisdiction.
Mr.. Richberg read from section 20
Of the Clayton act the clauses def1n-
ing the rights OF employees. Judge
Wilkerson declared he did not believe
assumed the government had shown
the dominant purpose of the rail
strike was destruction Of interstate
commerce. Mr.. Richberg agreed, but
declared If such a dominant purpose
was shown. then he could not admit
the courts jurisdiction, as it would
plainly be a matter for indictment
and criminal prosecution instead Of
injunction proceedings in court OF
equity.
Evening star., 1922-09-18
SEEK $10Q,0DOFUND
FOR D, C. OFFICIALS.
- :
Board of Trade Plans Fight
for Money to Pay Way
to Conventions.

A concerted drive for appropria-
tions from Congress\to enable repre-
sentatives of the District government
to attend conventions in other cities
will be made this fall by the WASH
Nington Board Of Trade. An annual
fund of 100000, to be placed at the
disposal Of the Commissioners OF the
District. will be urged SO that WASH
ington representatives will be able to
be present at conventions
The board feels that not only win
the idea advanced at these gaenslhniks srhnia
be beneficial to the city as wnoie'
but that attendance at the conven-
tions will serve to broaden the ideas
of the delegates:
sullivan's Way Psid.
The police chiefs convention In san
Francisco recently. which MAI. Suih-
van Of this city attended at the e1.
pense Of the Washington ChamDer OF
Commerce., Is cited to show that sucn
an appropriation Is vitally needed IN
this city.
'Why doesn't the District Of Column
bia have a fund from which to pay
the EXPENSES of its own representa-
tives to conventions" asks the cur
rent issue of the Board OF Trade Bull
1etin.
"Other cities have such a fund
why not the nations capital! FROM
time to time many conventions arc
held at which representatives OF our
local government should % IN at,
tendance. Much good can pc derived
from these conventions which Will De
Of material benefit to both the dele
gates and to the CITY,.
Ask 100000 Fund.
"It is hardly fair to ask these Of
f1cials to attend conventions as rep
resentatives Of the District government
at their own expense. Yet such sit
uation really exists. If they go tney
paw their own way. There are no
funds with which the Commissioners
can defray their expenses.
"If such a condition continues to
exist it will undoubtedly AFFECT the
advancement of the city. Many ex-
cellent ideas and projects are
launched at conventions which could
be put in force in Washington ano
thus add. to its attractiveness ana
prosperity.
Of the District ask Tor
an appropriation Of at least $100;oo0
for this purpose. We feel that when
the proposition is placed fairly ana
sauarely before an appropriate COM
mittee Of Congress that 1t Will take
favorable action"
Evening star., 1922-09-18


money, but will pay sone in timber
and forest production" Mr.. Pack
said There is the great lesson for
this country. The other day the
French premier said a moratorium
would be granted If tho mines and
the forests Of Germany were placed
in allied hands. With her once splen-
did forests. France knows the value
Of timber and forest products.
do the American people need any
greater lesson as to the value Of
having q timber crop every year
close to the point Of consumption than
tho fact that France considers Ger
man forests good security for Ger
many's war debts2 There are s1,oo0,-
600 acres Of idle land in th1.
middle west-goode for nothing bot
growing trees. Idle land is as great
. chain. on prosperity as Idle men.
Forest producing land is our great
est asset and the best assurance Of
national security in the future"
Evening star., 1922-09-18
| |KIDNAPERS SEIZE
FRENCH NOVELIST
FOR SECOND TIME
PARIS, September 1s-Pierre Benoit

PARIS. September 1S.-Pierre Benoit,
author of Frances modern best
sellers" was kidnapped Saturday in
downtown Paris and is now held pris-
oner somewhere in the heart of the
city, according to a letter received by
his fiancee, which she has turned over
to the police.
The young woman also produced
previous messages from Benoit to
prove the romantic story that he was
kidnapped in the Place Vendome a
week ago and taken to q Norman
monastery, where he was held pris-
oner several days. being released only
last Friday. He did not complain to
the police after his first experience.
she explained, because he feared ridi-
cule.
The authorities are making strenu-
Gus efforts to locate the novelist, but
the newspapers find much amuse-
ment in the story. one describing 1t as
"Benoit's latest romance"
Evening star., 1922-09-18
CHANGES IN WHOLESALE
PRICES in AUGUST FEW
General Level Virtually Same as
in July-Farm Products and
Foodstuffs Lower.
By tlle Associa ted Press.

By tire Associated Press
The general level Of wholesale
prices showed practically no change
in August from that Of July. accord
ing to reports gathered by the bureau
Of labor statistics Of the Department
of Labor. The bureaus "weighted
index number again registered lob
in August, a repetition of the July
In the group Of fuel and lighting
materials the index number. com
puted in part from estimated prices.
rose nearly 81 per cent Metals and
metal products, due to Increased cost
of fuel, advanced over per cent.
Building materials, clothing. chem
icals and drugs and miscellaneous
commodities all showed some advance
over July prices
On the other hand, decreases Of
nearly, 3 pen. cent took plaoe in
the two important group9 OF farm
products and foodstuffA No change
in the general price level was re-
ported for the group Of house-fur-
nishing goods
OF the 404 commodities. or prfoe
series, for which comparable data
for July and August were obtained.
increases were found to have oc-
CURED for 135 commodities and de-
creases for 112 commodities In the
case Of. 157 commodities no change
In average prizes was reported.
Evening star., 1922-09-18
POLICE ASK ARREST
OF BANK SWINDLER
Well Dressed Young Man Has OBJ
tanned About 5000 in
Washington.

Arrest Of well dressed young man
for swindling local banks out of sums
totaling approximately $4,000 is asked
by Inspector Clifford L. Grant. chief
Of detectives. in a bulletin sent to the
police of other cities.
Some time ago the man is alleged
to have deposited worthless checks
In a number of banks and to have
drawn on the accounts before bank
officials learned the checks were
worthless.
More recently, it is stated. his plan
was to present checks bearing forged
Endorsements Of merchants with a re-
ported request from the merchants
that they be cashed, taking care to
present them at times when he knew
the particular merchants could not
be reached by bank oficials to be
asked If they had really sent the
checks.
Inspector Grant said the largest
sum obtained at any bank was 500.
The swindler, he said. appeared on
several occasions at irregular inter-
walls. according to complaints made
against him, and the chief Of detec-
tives said it was not until he had OBJ
tanned the money and departed that
the police were notified of his visits
Evening star., 1922-09-18
ALIEN TRADE TIPS
ARE BROADCAST BY
GOVERNMENT RADIO

Foreign trade tips by radio to
enable American business men to
get the jump on their overseas COM
petitors are now being broadcast
by the government
Inquiries for American goods COM
ing into the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce from it's foreign
representatives, Director Klein said
today, are distributed to New Eng
through the air by the bureaus Bos-
ton office in collaboration with the
broadcastinE station at Medford,
Mass. Similar arrangements; may be
lnaLe for the thrifty four field offices
in different parts of the country
maintained by the bureau.
Evening star., 1922-09-18
WAR DEBT TALK SHOWS.
VALUE OF E0RESTATl0N
American Association Head Says
There Are 81, 200, 900 Acres Of
Land Idle in United States.

America is getting something out
of tho discussions in Europe over war
debts and that is the realisation Of
the value of forests to q nation.
Charles Lathrcp Pack, president Of
the American ForestEy Association.
said today, prior to departing for
New York city to attend, the meeting
Of the board OF directors OF the as
sociaxion.
I'm the discussion over war in
IDENTITIES to be paid by Germany We
flnd her saying she cannot pay al in
Evening star., 1922-09-18

A novel method Of evading the un-
certainties caused by the fluctuations
of the mark has been adopted by a
woman farmer in the East Frisian
town Of Marienkirche. She leased thir-
ty-five acres Of pasture to another
farmer for a yearly rent of $500
pounds Of butter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01
aei y cans Son, Dragged
oSerDoard by Fish, Saved
lam s, :, Leaps From Washing
IS. newspaper Publishers
taelst to Saye Rav nc S;x
sFtfsl9l Dstpof,s !, =,

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oysf5,.sss sS ssSs'ssisORs s. Me-, Aug. 31.-pulIed
a bsg rem his fathers yacht by
gaeo.d 80 wnen fshline became =
Joha Nj saaoand round his wrist, six-year-old
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lisser asnlngton newspaner mn ~,
Breedsss rescued by a servant ,.psaJ paD
|bov ~. was learned to.dsv 4tss M : :
Nogs 'esiVeo after half an bonv,s
viss ssssasn zen. iumped into rougb =. !. !,
clsse s,sas ssa aiihculty brought ths ua ana = :
othsrs aSSgh % be pulled ahoara s 10 -,
saoslsn .nc bog, with = : n,,res ,,roaiu ~ oy
insao s.s aaa 2 chauffeur ran,aa , =, Mlss
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wrabbss ssa. asa The line , hsse ,ne !, :
DC Ssl;S''1a algeuad the boys wrist sssame ;sst
yon& bs.ss sspput seized the baak @ Just r., as :
oys,as e.sssla gave out rha, sne lsn until his
Biesdsh ss saw sa .as choppy sea.
seizE H. t1s plunged into tbe ss rs e oysT-
yaslt Dss and yelled to s, stan +he he
saisss' 'a;s rescue Bre.d.,,
II + s's nass been a,,ast ssasn sysFtsd what
nst's years a. il vingon Mel a.n z
boy s. wss sssassenobilA four m vssrs J @ssaisgT m
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01

including the taking of testimony and
evidence in support Of the complaint
andson behalf Of the respondents. The
datesof hearing will be announced later
1Ehe complaint recites that on or
about June z, 1922, the respondents en-
tered into an agreement to merge their
respective properties, businesses and
interests into a common enterprise, and
that this merger is being carried out,
Ihe merger agreement provides that
the -Midvale and Inland companies are
to merge into one corporation under
the laws of Delaware, the resulting cor
poratlon to obtain all the properties,
assets and businesses, including stock,
OF ether companies held or controlled
by each of them. The new corporation
thus formed is then to acquire the
properties, assets and businesses of the
Republic Iron and Steel Comp any, in
Guiding the stock of other companies
held or controlled by the Republic com.
pany.
The Midvale Steel and Ordnance Co
is q Delaware corporation having out
standing stock of 100000 900, ane
operates plants at Nicetown ane
Coate sville, Pa, and at Wilmington
Dell. for the manufacture of crude
seml-tin:shed and finished products.
The Republic Iron and Steel Co. is {
New Jersey corporation, with out
standing common stock Of 100000 ,OO(
(Continued on nost usao,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01
Jews, Aroused Tube Motornaan
By Sligghts, Will Blamed i'm Crash
Appeal to Court That Injured 35
Failure to Obey Rules Cause
of Rear-Es1d Collision in
Fog ON Jersey Meadows,
Official of P. R. R. Saws
Four Inquiries Begun
Passengers Showered With
Broken Glass, but Steel
Plate Averts Telescoping

Four investiga lions are being made
Ito determine the precise cause of the
rear-end collsion of two New York
bound tabe trains of the Hudson &
Manhsttan Railroad yesterday morning
IN which thnty-ayel persons were %fn@
jufed, The crash occurred In a dense
leg bank on The Kearny meadows,
about a quarter of mile east of Man
haitian Transfer.
An ofiic:allof the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, which has charge of the tube
trains while they are west of Summit
Avenue station. said a strict compli-
ance with operating rules by the mo-
{orman of the offending train would
have prevented the accident. This
man. M. Burke, was cut severely as the
result of being hurled through the
,, glass window in his cab and was re-
ported unable to talk last night.
Passengers jam IL Cars
The trains involved were one that
left Park Place, Newark, at s o'clock
a. m, standard time, and another that
left the same station at 8:07. Both
contained six cars, all crowded with
passengers on their way to New York
Offices. The motorman Of the first
train, running into thick and ragged
fog, proceeded cautiously
AS this train passed Manhattan
/ Transfer an automatic signal flashed
a red warning to other trains ap-
pronching from the rear that the block
| Of track ahead was not clear, Still
moving cautiously, the train came
upon fuse fiaring in the cen
ter of the track. A third train just
ahead had halted because of the fog,
and one of the guards had tossed this
blazing signal onto the right IF way.
In the mean time the train that left
Park Place at s:07 had reached the
automatic stop signal. Motormen are
instructed to stop when the lights
shine against them. MotoNinsn Burke
stopped. All of his passengers were
agreed on that. The rule book also
says that after stopping a notorman
should on resuming proceed With eau
I'tion, SO shat at any time he c&n stop
his train within range of his visiol..
Burke proceeded, alternating the
speed of his train from time to time
as it plunged into or out of curtain
of gray mist from the meadows. Burke
had throttled down to about fifteen
miles, according to his passengers,
when the crash came. The rear car of
the motionless train and the front car
of Burke's train received most of the
shock. The steel vestibules in con
tact were blunted; the concrete floor
ing buckled and cracked; all windows
| were shattered, and the passengers in
these ears. were thrown forward with
A .1lt
WAS said by investigators to be due to
the steel construction Of the cars, plus
a patent vestibule plate conceived by
Frank Hedley, Of the marlborough
This is ridged plate of steel devised
| to prevent the bed of one ear from
| mounting and sliding along the bed Of
another. Whcn this happened in, colli-
sicns of old type wooden cars they
tConttnasd on paas thrra,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01
Senate Names Conferees
and Leaders Promise
Measure VIII Go TO the
White House Next Week
Party Lines Broken
AS Roll Is Called
Land Reclamation and
Foreign Debt Amend
1neilts To Be Insisted On


From The Trfbane'a pTashinGtott Bureau
WASHINGTON Aug. 31.--Anaiy-
sis Of the vote on the soldier bonus
bill, passed to-day by the Senate By
a vote of Al to %, shows that it can
not be passed over the Presidents
expected veto. The estimated cost
Of the bill, as given by Senator Me-
Cumber, chairman Of the Finance
Committee, is slightly less than
s4,o0o,0oo.000, not including the
Smith McNary land reclamation
project which was incorporated in
the bill and which will cost $780,
100000.
Those voting for the bill included
twenty-seyen Republicans and twenty
Democrats, and fifteen Republicans and
seven Democrats voted against Il.
Apart from the twenty-five voting
against the bill ten Senator's were
paired against it and two who were
absent and impaired are against It,
This makes total Of thirty-four, or
one more than enough to sustain a
veto. Under the circum stances there
is no doubt that if the President
vetoes the bill the veto will be upheld.
Moreover, two or three OF the Sena-
tors who voted for the bill to-day
would not vote to override veto. The
roll call follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01
SPY Steel Merger Violates
LaaU, Trade Commission Says
Consolidation Means I'm.
1air competition and Tends TO Create Monopoly,
Ayers report; Corporations Go On With Plans
From The rrtbuns.s Washington Bureau

From The Tribuac's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-T'he PRO-
posed Midyale- Republic Inland steel
merger is all unfair method of compcti-
ton In violation OF Section 5 of the
Faderal Trade Commission Act, accord
ing to a formal complaint issued by
the Federal Trade Commission to-day.
Attorney General Daugherty some
time ago advised the Senate that the
companies involved were not acting in
violation of the Sherman law. Ii. a
memorandum given out i'll connection
with the complaint, Commissioner
Gaskill calls attention to. the fact that
there is broad distinction between
the Sherman law and the Trade Com
mission Act
In announcing the complaint, the
Trade Commission said:
1.-THE Midvale Steel and Ordnance
Company Philadelphia, the Republic
Iron and Steel Company, New York
City, and the Inland Steel Company.
Chicago, are named as responsible in
the complaint and are given thirty days
within which to file answers The an
swers will determine the issues which
will be tried out in formal manner.