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The Washington times., 1923-07-06
COAL Men
MEET On
WAGES
Miners and Operators Begin
Farley in Atlantic City on
New Agreement.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., July +
The question: of peace or war il
the coal fields hangs in the bal
ance as the anthracite joint 'wagt
conference prepares to begin what
promises to be a long series of ne.
gotiations in an effort to draft g
wage scale to take the place of tho
present agreement which expires
August 81. The first session of the
conference will be held this after
noon. Unless an agreement is
reached it seems inevitable that a
strike will be called for Septem-
Der 1.
Wants Reporters Admitted.
John L.. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, announced
when the conference met he would
move that representatives of the
press be permitted to sit in the
council chamber during all negotia-
tions. Representatives of the oper-
ators now here for what is regard
ed as the most important industrial
conference in years. declined to say
whether they would support the
movement for "open covenants
openly arrived at" It is believed,
however, that they will insist on
secret sessions.
AS the hour Of the conference ap.
preached there was every indication
that both sides expected it would
be a long drawn out affair, with an
agreement, If one is to be reached
commencing only after days of
tedious negotiations.
Little was expected to be accom-
plished at the opening session be.
yond affecting preliminaries, organ
ization and the formal presentation
of the miners demands. These de-
mands as formulated at the Scran.
ton meeting of the workers last
week embrace eleven specific points
summarized as follows:
/. Complete recognition Of the
mine workers of America, with q
two-year contract beginning Septem
Der /, 1928.
g. Twenty per cent increase In
contract wage scales, all men to be
granted an increase of 81 per day
3. Uniformity and equalization Of
all day rates to skilled mechanics
with 80 cents an hour as q basis.
4. Eight hour day for all ner
employed in and around collieries if
respective of their occupation.
5. Where coal is paid for by the
car, the ton basis shall be 22A(
pounds.
6. That the consideration rate fol
work under abnormal conditions anG
| for dead work equal the average
earnings Of contract miners under
normal conditions.
Tools Furnished Free.
7. That jack hammers and other
of charge.
8. Minimum rate Of 90 cents pei
inch for refuse and 80 cents pei
inch for blasting top and bottom
| rock.
8. That umpire shall render deci
sions within 80 days after disposa
of cases by Cancellation boards.
10. That wage schedules he
brought up to date and that agree
ment on rates for new work be
made before starting such work.
II. That employees of strippine
contractors be brought under same
scale Of wages as demanded bS
miners.
In addition the negotiators for the
miners are urged to secure ar
agreement regarding the price OF
coal and rent to be charged em
ployes.
The Washington times., 1923-07-06
EVERYBODY

every man-eVery woman
every child-all have wants
and needs to satisfy.
In nearly all the homes in
Washington where The Morn
ing Herald and The Evening
Times and The Sunday Herald
goes each day. everybody
has one, two, three, four or
more requirements that The
Times Herald Want Ads may
help to fill.
The Morning Herald, The
Evening Times and The Sun
day Herald Want AID Pages
are daily reference catalogs
that are scanned each day by
nearly every home in Wash
ington and the surrounding
country - these Want AID
Pages are filled with the Of
fers of everybody in Wash
ington. Through this wonder
full combination you can rent
the room. the house, sell the
automobile; in fact, you IAN
buy. sell or exchange at q
minimum cost with maximum
results.
thine Want Ads in Two
Papers. Is cents per line.
Phone your Wants to
Main $500
The Washington times., 1923-07-06
THREAT TQ-PULL.
GUN MADE BY
ASHER
Dry Agent Becomes Riled
When Photographer Snaps
His Picture.

The violent antipathy Of J. L..
Asher. known in prohibition en-
forcement circles and among the
bootleggers he relentlessly harries
as 'The Lone Wolf" to being pho
tographed was strongly evidenced
today when he is alleged to have
threatened to pull a gun on the
intrepid Joe Roberts, Washington
Times cameraman if Joe did not
cease trying to snap him.
The alteration occurred in the
very shadow of the city hall, where
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
The Washington times., 1923-07-06
BALDWIN IS
STUM|PED
BY DEBT
Berlin Won't Negotiate Sepa-
rately Unless Insured
Against Invasion.
Rv International News Service.

LONDON, July 6. Premier
Baldwin found himself in a guam
dry to-day in the reparations
tangle.
Preliminary inquiries of Ger
many, it was reported, indicated
Germony is not willing to enter
separate negotiations with Eng
land on reparations unless Eng
land is prepared to guarantee
there will be no further occupa-
ton Of German territory.
Await Next Move by France.
England is unable to give such a
guarantee and, with progress cut
off in that direction, is awaiting
the next move by France.
Written replies will be presented
tonight by Belgium and France to
the British QUESTIONABLE on their
Ruhr and reparations policies, it was
announced today at the foreign Of
flee
At the same time the foreign Of
flee officially denied reports that
England was using the French war
debt to England as a pressure on
France in the reparations negotia.
tons.
Such an Interpretation had been
placed upon statements by Premier
Stanley Baldwin in the House of
Commons last night.
II is thought likely that this re-
ply will suggest that Baldwin go to
Paris to confer with Poincare With
Premier Theunis of Belgium already
reported planning to go to Paris,
there Is some hope that an agree
ment may be reached.
Negotiations Reported.
The Daily Mail today said that
CurZon had taken up the French
debt with Count de Saint Aulaire in
the conversations earlier in the
week. According to the Mail, the
French ambas sador asked a modi
fication Of the January terms and
presented Frances claims for the
first of the PREPARATIONS payments
against her costs of occupation.
The remaining sum, the Mail
said. France was willing to apply Il
the debt to England.
The Washington times., 1923-07-06
GOLLAN BEATS CANADIAN
FOR THE DIAMOND SOULS

HENLY ON THAMES, England,
July Sd. H. L. Gollan, English
sculler, won his third race in the
elimination rounds for the Diamond
SOULS trophy, defeating Hilton
Belyea, the Canadian champion, by
quarter of a length
Gollan had previously eliminated
Walter NJ. Hoover, of Duluth, win.
ner Of the trophy last year, and
Russell Goldman, jr., of Boston.
The Washington times., 1923-07-06
Britain and France Near Break.
BY International News Service.

BRUSSELS, July with rela-
lions between France and England
strained almost to the breaking
point, the Belgian cabinet today was
at work on plans that may ease the
critical situation. The cabinet feels
jts offices in mediation may show
the way out of a dangerous impasse
that apparently has been reached in
the negotiations between Paris and
London.
Premier Theunis, it is understood.
plans to go to Paris Immediately and
confer with Premier Poincare. He
10 said to be anxious for a solution
that will hasten the settlement of
the reparations issue.
Belgium has already presented a
tentative plan for a conference be-
tween France, England and Bel
GUM with the prime ministers and
foreign secretaries of the three coun-
tries seeking a way around the pres
ent obstacles.
The Washington times., 1923-07-06
IS
SPLIT On
alaska
President Must Settle Contro-
.versy Between interior and
Agriculture Depts.
Hy GEORGE r.. HOLMES,
International News Service Staff
Corrosuondenf. ssts
Copyright. 1923. by International
News SerVice.)

News Service.l
| ABOARD u. 8. 8, HENDER
SON EN- ROUTE TO ALASKA
WITH PRESIDENT HARDING
July 6.-President Harding il
Alaska-bound today with sharl
conflict existing within his Cabinet
over the policies that should be
adopted in governing the vast
Northern Territory.
Subject of Conferences.
How serious this Cabinet division
may be remains to be determined
but it prevails and the controversy
likely will be the subject of a great
many conferences between the
President and his Cabinet aides
who are accompanying him into the
far North.
The Cabinet split hinges about
Work, Secretary of the Interior, be-
lieves that the whole of the Terri
tory, equal in area to one-fifth OF
continental United States and with
it's natural resources yet virtually
untouched, should be placed under
the administrative control of a sin.
gle department at Washington
preferably the Department of the In.
terror.
Subject of Dispute.
Henry G. Wallace, Secretary of
Agriculture, does not agree, and
there are indications that ne will
resist strongly any attempts that
may be made to take away from
his department control Of the vast
forestry reserves in the territory.
In some respects the controversy
Is a repercussion of the old Bal
linger-Pinchot row over forestry
conservation.
More recently the question of
which department should control
the public lands was the subject
of dispute between Wallace and
Albert S. Fall, who resigned as
Secretary of the Interior last
March. Falls retirement tenn
porarily smoothed over the diff
Guilty, but with the advent Of Presi
dent Harding's Alaska trip it has
again come to the fore in such g
way that it may embarrass Mr.
Harding IN his attempts to reach
a solution Of the Alaska problem.
Control of Alaska Is now vesteC
in thirty-five separate department!
and bureaus in Washington, Secre
tary Work told international New;
Service. II do not think there i.
| any question but that this division
Of authority with it's inevitable de
lay and red tape Is responsible FOL
| the backwardness Of the territory IL
| commercial and agricultural develop
ment.
II favor putting control O.
Alaska, and when I say control,
mean everything from trees t.
bears under one department--if no
under the Interior then under some
other department. The prasen
| system is intOlerable and canno
continue. There must be one cen
| trail authority over the territory 81
that when a settler or miner or {
| pioneer wants to obtain an Oppor
| tunity to help develop the TERRITORY
he can do SO expeditously and With
out going through thirty five differ
ent bureaus in Washington.
Would Control Reserves.
my own opinion is that this con
troll should be vested in the interior
Department for the reason that it i,
the great holding company, so t.
speak. for Government lands"
Secretary Work said he did mo-
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column A.
The Washington times., 1923-07-06
German Metal Trades
Strike For $4,000
Marks a Day
M:::sss%N
International News Service.

BERLIN, July 6.-Sixty thou
sand metal workers went on
strike here today for a daily
wage of $1,000 marks a day
slightly more than 80 cents in
American money.
The increase demanded was to
cover the recent decline in the
value of the mark and 1.-The con
sequent increase in living COSTS
The Washington times., 1923-07-06
Would Control Reserves.

my own opinion is that this con-
troll should be vested in the Interior
Department for the reason that it is
the great holding company, so to
speak. for Government lands"
Secretary Work said he did not
Continued on Page 2, Column A.
The Washington times., 1923-07-06
THE WEATHER.

Partly cloudy tonight and
Saturday; probably local
thunder showers; no change
in temperature; light to
gentle variable winds.
The Raymer enterprise., 1923-06-14
Moffat Tunnel Act 10 Legal

washington.-The act Of the Colo
RADIO Legislature creating the Moffat
tunnel Improvement district for the
construction Of q tunnel through the
continental divide was declared valid
by the Supreme Court. II had been
attacked In q case brought by Mary L.
Mllheim and other taxpayers, who
complained that 1t proposed to tax
them for q tunnel not Intended for
public use, taking their property with
out due process Of law. They alleged
also that the time allowed for the
presentation Of protests was unreason-
able, In that 1t deprived them Of q
hearing.
The Raymer enterprise., 1923-06-14
Excellent Record.

Ten mistakes in 1,0O0,O0O,O0O
chances Is the excellent record Of the
Newark IN. J.) post Office for dis
tribution Of mail. Newark postal EN-.
ployees handle approximately 100000
pieces Of mail daily. This record Is
typical Of the care and efficiency Of
postal employees Of the nation" said
Postmaster General Harry S. New.
The minimum distribution efficiency
demanded Of postal distributors Is 95
per cent.
The Raymer enterprise., 1923-06-14
Running A.Moke.

Mandy-Howdy, slstah; l saw yo'
husban' down de road ways an he
was all tore up! What happened to
him?
Liza-I happened to him. OATS
what! He amt done stroke Of work
TO- six months an he came into de
house a-singing a chune an VIII a
flower In his buttonhole an wanted to
know why de debbll his dinnah wasn't
ready! De worm will turn, slstah! De
worm will turn.-Life,
The Raymer enterprise., 1923-06-14
MANY DEAD IN
KANSAS FLOODS
THoUeANDS HON ESS IN
FLOODS IN KANSAS AND
OKLAHOMA
PROPERTY LOSS HEAVY
GUARpsMEN PATROL pEvASTAT.
Ed AREA-REo CROSS WORK.
ERs HASTEN RELIEF

Kansas City, Mo.-Seven dead. many
reported missing. thousands homeless
and property loss exceeding 100000
was the known toll Of floods. which
sent virtually every stream in Kansas
to the highest stage In years.
In southern Kansas the valleys OF
the yerdigris, Neosho. Walnut and
other streams were inundated. Thou
sands Of acres Of rich farm lands were
covered with water.
Arkansas City and Winfield, In
south central Kansas, the cities hard
est hit, were under patrol Of Ameri-
can Legion and Kansas National
Guardsmen, Red Cross and other agen-
cies took care Of the homeless.
The chamber OF commerce at Arkan-
sas City appealed to other cities for
10000 to aid the flood sufferers
The chamber estimated the damage
there at more than $3O0OO00. At
Winfield the damage was estimated
between one and one and One-half mil
lion.
At Wichita, where damage In excess
Of 100000 was caused by flooding
Of four square miles In the east sec
ton Of the city, the situation was re-
ported greatly Improved Hundreds Of
men were working to prevent further
breaks In the dams.
At Garden City the crest Of the
flood waters in the Big Arkansas was
reported past and danger Of floods
west Of Hutchinson seemed removed.
Although many were reported miss
Ing at Arkansas City and 5000 were
homeless, only one person is known
to have perished.
The Little Arkansas broke through
Its banks north Of Wichita and inun-
dated several miles Of territory, with
the subsequent flooding Of homes.
Hundreds Of American Legion men
and city employees worked feverishly
to prevent further breaks In the dikes.
In Winfield the scenes Of havoc and
ruin were said to surpass those Of any
other disaster In the city's fifty years
Of existence.
The Kansas river stood at nineteen
and thne-tenths feet ut Topeka, and
was slowly falling.
The Smoky Hill and Solomon rivers
were reported to be out Of their banks
at low points
Oklahoma City. 0kla.-Flood dam
age running into millions Of dollars
was reported from northern Oklahoma
as a rush OF water swept down from
southern Kansas. Hundreds Of persons
are homeless ut various points along
flooded rivers, but there. were no con-
frmed reports Of loss OF life.
Train service was interrupted as the
result of the washing out Of important
main line bridges, both In northern and
western Oklahoma. Damage to state
highways will run to nearly $1,OOO,0OO,
officials estimated.
The Arkansas river was out Of its
banks from the Kansas border to the
eastern end Of the state, where 1t
flows into Arkansas, flooding thous-
ands of acres Of farm lands.
The Raymer enterprise., 1923-06-14
c. r. L /. Profits by s.Hour Day

New York.-Stockholders and en-
ployees Of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company have benefited since the
eight-hour day was inaugurated by the
company five years ago, according to
letter from Its president, J. +. Wei
born, made public by the Federal
Council Of Churches, which has taken
exception to the Iron and Steel Insti-
tute's recent report unfavOrable to
elimination Of the twelve-hour day
from the steel industry. The eight-hour
day on the whole has brought results
that have only begun to be realized.
The Raymer enterprise., 1923-06-14
Power Of Kansas Industrial Court

Washington.-The challenge Of the
Kansas Court Of Industrial Relations
made by the Charles Wolfe Packing
Company Of Topeka, subsidiary Of
the allied packers was sustained by
the Supreme Court on the ground that
the business Of the company was not
clothed with such public interest as
to give the state the authority to regu-
late the wages paid by the company.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-17
Another Conference ADVISED.

'In family" said Uncle Eben.
where de old folks thinks young folks
La too fur ahead of de times an where
de young folks thinks de old folks Is
too fur behind de times, it looks to- me
like dar ought to be some kind Of .
conference Wit view to compromise
Washington Evening Star.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-17

When Dicks uncle was married the
second time he came to Dicks home
On his honeymoon. Seeing that con-
gratulations were in order. the boy
stepped up to his uncle and. extending
his hand, said with great earnestness:
Hello, Uncle Frank You must like
to get married awful well, don't your
Chicago Tribune.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-17
And the Last j the a-sa,est.

Five great intellectual professions
have hitherto existed in every civilized
nation; the soldiers, to defend it; the
pastors, to teach it; the physicians.
TO keep 1t In health; the lawyers, to
enforce justice. and the merchants to
provide, and all these men. on due
occasion, to die for it.-John Ruskin.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-17
Historic l4erb House,

It Is not widely known, except to
the trade. that Madison, Ind, has the
largest and perhaps the oldest herb
house In the United States, which has
existed since 1854. 1t collects from
various parts OF the country and
distributes to many parts of the
world approximately 100 varieties OF
leaves and roots known in the bush
ness as crude drugs.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-17
EKElHTO 0UNNE POMADE


Georges Jacques Danton (1759-1794)
was one Of the leaders Of the French
Revolution and foremost In organic
ing and conducting the attack on the
Tuileries, and bringing. together with
RObespierre. royalty to the scaffold.
He aftsrward was condemned by the
revolutionary tribunal as an accom-
plice in a conspiracy for the restOra-
ton Of the monarchy and was exc.
cuted.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-17
4Ioh Civilization N Yucatan.

Xucatan Is ''the Egypt Of America"
As early as the beginning Of the Chris
tian era the people there built stone
structures Of excellent masonry, true
angles and smooth, vertical faces.
They had astronomical observatories,
an accurate calendar and better syS-
TEN of numerals than the Romans.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-17
NORTHWEST

Art Iona Novelty & CIT
Company,
1903 Mllwaukse Ave.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-17

Electric pyrometry. as the measure
ment of temperature by electric means
IL called, has been so far perfected that
1t Is applicable from near the absolute
xero-about 800 degrees Fahrenheit
below the ordinary zero-tO the tenn
perature of melting platinum. more
than 5000 degrees above zero.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-17
WEST SIDE

Balxek q Baza.
35l4 W. 26th St.
Bridgeport Electric Co.,
1913 w. A7th 81.
city Electric Co.,
AIS w. 26th st.
Cody Electric Co..
ISIS w. Madison st.
Do Luxe Light Co.,
l7A5 w. Madison %.
DeTambIe's Flee. Shop,
25l9 W. North Ave.
Fritzshal Electric Co.,
5657 w. madison Ut.
Robert B. Garth,
SOIL w. lake 81.
Home Electric Appliance
Company,
53S9 w. Chlcapo Ave.
Lexington Electric Co.,
7I9 8. Western Ave.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-17

In 1892, the Santa Maria, Spanish
vessel under the command of Chris
topher Columbus, traversed the ocean
In 20 days. Some historians say that
the Atlantic between Norway and
Greenland was crossed by Norwegian
sailors before the year 1000.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-17
cannot Prex on smaII ISL.

The big whalebone whale has 80
small throat that it cannot swallow
fish Of ordinary size. Its food consists
OF little life forms found in the sea.
The tOothed whales eat any living
thing they can catch.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-17

French Have Discarded Word.
Encore, while French word mean
Ing again, and used by English and
American audiences. is not employed
by the French In the same sense, they
saying bis, which means twice.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-17
SOUTH SIDE

Berry q Co..
$40 6. Attn ST.
Beverly Electric shop,
1882 w. 95th ST.
Brighton Lighting Fix
ture Co.,
1882 Archer Ave.
Bruokline Electric Shop.
ID 7I33 So. chIcauo Ave.
Calumet Electric shop.
HIS Michigan Ave.
Chatham Electric FIX
ture Co..
72l e. 18th 81.
Coliseum Electric Co.,
N22 s. Halsted St.
O. 8. Dawson,
1854 e. 47th 81.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-17
Wanted
Advertising Solicitor

"A live or wide awake newspaper
man or solicitor can earn some easy
money by calling on or addressing
the undersigned.
Julius F. Taylor. 6206 S. Elizabeth
street Phone Wentworth 25o7.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-17
The Commonwealth Edison COMPANY
" w. ADAMS STREET
PHONE RANDOLPH 1880
PHONE RANDOLPH 1880

following Electric Shops Electrical An
pliances and sell the Federal Washer on Easy Terms:
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-17

- 'hN91s
Sir Robert Hatfield says the world
loses about 2.5OO,OOU.OOO year By
the rusting and dee.aying of iron and
steel.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-05-20
51 Observation-Disclosures
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.Oh. hut they could not dance any
way" gisgled the sugar bowl. "they
haven't any legs"
Sugar bowl stopped suddenly as Mrs
Teapot and the cream jug looked at
her, for her legs were much shorter
than theirs and often they had called
her "stubby."
well. mine are better than none at
ALL" she said. but how about the tea
plates: they have no legs either"
"Oh, but they do look so graceful
rolling about" said the cream jug.
land they live here on our shelf so we
must ask them, whether they rcD o.
just watch rs dance"
That night when all was still in tho
house and the ups and saucers had
fallen into a doze on their upper shelf
they were suddenly awakened by hear
ing a clatter and jingle on the shelf
below.
THAT sounds like Miss Teaspoon.
but how could she jingle without usY'
whispered one cup and saucer.
"Why 1t sounds like a party" said
another, but how could there be a
party without us?"
But as they listened they became
sure that something was really going
IN without them and to the edge OF
the shelf they slipped and tried to look
over, but not a thing could they see.
BY and by the jingling and the clat-
tering became too much for them and
far over the edge they all leaned to
peek at what was taking place on the
shelf below.
But alas, for all their Dragging about
being far above the other china, their
curiosity was their undoing, for no n
well bred eyer peeks. The cups and
saucers leaned too far over the edge OF
their shelf and down they fell With a
crash on the floor.
Mrs. Teapot and her friends ran to
the edge of their shelf but were care
full not to get too close and the plates.
being very wise, remained in the back
ground.
poor things" said Mrs. Teapot, I
am really sorry. l only intended to
show them we could get along without
them and now they are all broken.
Let MS all remember that the high
er we hold ourselves above others In
this world the longer and harder the
fall and II n is as easily crushed as
the cups and saucers the more careful
we should be not TO hurt the feelings
Of Others"
&c. 1924. by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)