The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-05-25
wage INCREASE T0TALING $4,500,000
ASKED BY $4,000 Rail signal MEN

Chicago-(A. P.)-Wage negotia-
tions involving additional expenditure
/ of approximately four million five
hundred thousand dollars and fifteen
thousand men have been requested
of seventy-five public carriers by the
Brotherhood of Railroad Signal Men
of America, President Helt announced
today. The request, sent to the rail
roads about May Is, is predicated on
the arguments that the cost of living
has increased since July 1, 1922, the
date of the last cut received by the
union men through the labor board
decision and that men in similar lines
of work outside the railroads have
received boosts in their pay.
POincare Receives Ovation
Paris-(A. P.)-The entire chamber
of deputies, excepting the communists,
gave Premier POincare great ova-
tion when he entered the chamber
today for continuation of yesterdays
Interpolation on the Ruhr question.
The communists hooted the premier,
but this seemed only to increase the
enthusiasm of the remainder.
Record Makers Flying to Washington
San Diego-(A. P.)-Lieutenants
Oakley Kelly and John MacReady,
army aviators who recently estab
lished a worlds record by flying from
New York to San Diego without a
stop, left Rockwell field today in the
famous monoplane T-2 for Ell Paso en-
route to Washington.
American Wins Tennis Match
st. Cloud-(A P.)-William John
ston, American. won from the French |
school boy, Lacoste, after hard |
the semi-final match today |
in the international hard court tennis I
lere.
The Baldwin Cabinet
London-(A. P.)-The official list |
If the new Baldwin cabinet, issued I
this afternoon, shows Lord Robert
Cecil lord of the privy seal, and j.
y T.. Davidson, Bonar Laws Secre-
ary, chancellor of the Duchy of Lam
.aster Premier Baldwin combines the
Premiership and chancellorship of the
Other members are prac-
ically the same as under former Pre-
nier Law.
Execute Is of Royal Blood
Moscow-(A. P.)-Fifteen persons,
ii princes, generals, or noblemen,
AVE been executed as result OF the
iscovery OF an active counter-revo1-
Itionary plot in the soviet republic
f Georgia, says a Tiflis dispatch to
'ravda today.
Steel Industry Stays by II Hours
New York-(A. P.)-The committee I
rom the Iron and Steel Institute, ap- :
ointed recently to Investigate the
sasibility of abandoning the 12-hour +
ay in the steel industry, reported f
3day, through Elbert H. Gary, chair
ian of the United States Steel cor
grafton, that it could not at this
me recommend such step.
Communist Bands Alarm Germany
London-(A. P.)-The German gov
rnment, alarmed at the report that
rmed communist bands are marching
n Essen, says a Central News dis
atch from Berlin this afternoon, has
sked permission OF the French au- :
1orities to send forces of German
Olice from the occupied districts to o
ssen and Gelsenkirchen. t
Aviators Fall to Death I
Washington-(A. P)-Major Thos- =,
roupp, civilian, were killed today 9
hen their airplane suddenly crashed Il
nd burst into flames near here. a
Agree on q. s. Repayment D
Paris=(A. P.)-Agreement between
le United States and the allied pow
s for the repayment of the costs OF 7
lie American army in the Rhineland, q
as signed today after a two-hours' Isl
sssion of delegaes. Some altera- :,
ons were made in the original text. :,
McKenna Exchequer Chancellor
London-(A. P.)-Reginald McKen- 81
!, chancellor of the exchequer dur tt
& the Asquith ministry, in 1915 and
16, has accepted the same chancel-
rship under the Baldwin ministry,
feetive upon his recovery from his B
esent illness, it was announced to- m
y. W
Robbers Steal Gold Bags e.
New York-(A. P.)-Two robbers al
is afternoon entered the office of NJ
e Solid Gold Mesh Bag Co., in the II
onx. covered the clerks with revol w
RS and fled in an automobile, with a
thousand dollars worth of gold bags. | dc