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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-19

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limited supply in such emergencies as that
through which we have just been passing
and that existing during the World War.
This reclaimed coal has the same value
for fuel purposes as fresh-nined coal OF the
same sizes.
Less than one per cent that is, less than
one ton in every hundred tons Of domestic
size coal comes from banks
Separation Of anthracite from the non
combustible material is just as necessary
when it comes from the mines as when it
comes from the banks The methods of
preparation are Identical
A car Of anthracite shipped by RESPONSE
bic operators is Of the same quality whether
It originates in the mines or in the banks.
Before shipment it has been subjected
to rigid inspection, and any coal which does
not pass inspection is again run through the
breaker or washery.
The workmen who in earlier years dug
and dumped the coal in these banks were
paid for their labor.
The money paid them by the operator
for the mining and dumping Of this material
is not returned to the operators until the
coal contained in the banks is reclaimed and
sold
The responsible anthracite operators
have sold only good coal to the public. The
sale of worthless material by few outlaws
unjustly reacts upon the legitimate oper-
ator, as we'll as inficting injury upon the
consumer.
These anthracite operators have been
cooperating with State and Federal Off
Gals in their efforts to stop the sale and ship
ment of worthless material from the anthra-
cite region.
The producers of anthracite resent the
charges made against them, and adopt this
method of setting forth the facts with
respect to the matters dealt with in the
Herald's articles.
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record war year, 1918.

Preference has been given to the trans
portation of anthracite by the railroads, and
except for blockades caused by storm this
extraordinary output of fresh-mined coal
has been promptly carried to the consumer.
The charges that responsible anthracite
operators are shipping "freproof coal" from
banks are without foundation.
In the earlier days of anthracite mining
no market existed or could be found for any
part of the product smaller than Chestnut
and even all of that could not always be Sold
The result of this was the accumulation of
the heaps or thanks" familiar sights in the
anthracite region containing large quaint
ties of fuel. In more recent years, modern
methods of preparation and combustion
have gradually made this coal available for
use.
It has suffered no appreciate deteri-
grafton by this storage, but on the other
hand has provided storage reservoir of
reserve fuel which has served to exc out the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-19

Sensational statements in The Washing
ton Herald declare that anthracite operators
are swindling the American public by ship
ping material from rubbish heaps;
That this colossal fraud is carried to such
an extent that the production and shipment
of fresh-mined anthracite is held up;
That railroad cars are so absorbed In the
transportation Of refuse that there are not
enough available to serve the mines.
These statements are not only mislead-
ing, but grossly false. The facts are as fol-
loWsi
Since the termination Of the strike on
September Il, 1922, which cost the public
100000 tons of anthracite, or about 40 per
cent of the annual output, the mines have
been running at their fullest capacity in the
production of fresh-mined anthracite, and
the amount produced and shipped each
month has practically equalled that Of the
,.ocnrd uor voov 1O17-1Q
Evening star., 1923-08-12

4 complete music beginners
sutAt will b included In cur
club agreement on uprtEhts and
gr1nds. This ts big Advantags
to the beginner or student.
Evening star., 1923-08-12
RAIL CONSOLIDATION
PASSES CUBAN HOUSE
All Roads on Island Must Join
Under Terms of Measure.
Senate to Act Soon.
BY the Associated Press.


HAVANA. Cuba, August 1.-THE
Tarafa bill. passed by the lower house
of the Cuban congress after an all
night session yesterday, provides for
the consolidation of all the railroads
In the island. 1t is specified that all
new railroad construction must join the
consolidation unless the new lines
make a network joining at least four
provinces together.
The chief opposition to the bill from
the sugar industry rests on article 2,
which provides in it's first section that
any one using private docks which
have been erected without the ma
terial for their construction having
been conveyed over public utility lines
shall pay cents for every hundred
pounds OF sugar shipped, 10 per cent
ad valorem on molasseS and 26 cents
on minerals, tobacco and other prod
uctS.
Section 2 provides that any future
industry using private shipping points
where the railroads are not available
shall pay Is cents per hundred pounds
on sugar shipments. but there will be
no advance in the rates mentioned in
section / for other exports. Section 3
specifies that industries that have at
any time used the public railroad
utilities and have abandoned them for
private shipping points shall pay 20
cents per hundred pounds for the
privilege of using private port.
In case the price of sugar falls be-
low 21. cents a pound the imposts will
be reduced 25 per cent. A fine of
1000 is specified for any owner or
manager using private railroads or
otherwise infringing the law.
The bill will be taken IN as the
first order of business in the senate
Monday
Evening star., 1923-08-12
SUE TO SET ASIDE
S10D,o)O,0)D DEAL
New York Interests Would
Block Sale of Steel and
Tube Concern, Chicago.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. August 11.-Seeking to
set aside the terms of sale of the stock
OF the Steel and Tube Company OF
America. a $1oO.oO0.o0o corporation. to
the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Com
pany, and to restrain the majority
stockholders from distributing the
proceeds of the sale to the stock
holders, the Allied Chemical and Dye
Corporation Of New York. filed suit
in the circuit court here today
The petition also requests that a re-
ceiver be appointed to function during
the tendency of the litigation begun
today.
Among the defendants named are
Clarence Dillon and William A. Read,
members of the Arm of Dillon. Read
and Company, bankers, and Armin A.
Schlesinger. Milwaukee.
The petition alleges that the Allied
Chemical Company owns through its
subsidiary, the Semet Solvay Com
pany, 161. 1854 shares of the common
stock of the Steel and Tube Company
of America, and If the sale made by
the defendants is allowed to stand. a
loss of about $4,000.009 will ensue.
Previous Control.
The petition further alleges that
previous to May. 1919. the Steel and
Evening star., 1923-08-12

She soon discovered, she claims. that
1t belonged to her mother. She spoke
of other possessions. They, too, she
says. belonged to mother or sister:
Mary called the roll. Everything had
been taken, the actress has asserted.
What have l got?" asked Mary In
desperation.
why, my dear. you have your
health is the purported reply.
Mary declares that her last con-
tract alone yielded $1.300,000, and she
says that, although she started out
at five as the family bread winner.
she never has known what 1t was to
have a dollar she could truly call her
own.
II have been in touch with the
hospital" said Mary today. Il have
been reliably informed that Mrs.
Shelby Is not near death, or anything
like 1t. She and Margaret (Mary's
sister) were far from kind to me.
Now I want what is mine-what I
earned. My real name Is Juliet
OReilly. When I start a thing l go
through with It,"
Evening star., 1923-08-12

Tube Company of America was con-
trolled by Clayton and Anson Mark
of Chicago, and Schlesinger. At that
time, 1t continues, the company went
through a reorganization and Dillon
and his associates purchased pre-
ferred stock Of a par value of seven
teen and one-half million dollars. pay
Ing, according to the petition, $50
share and later disposing of the stock
at from $93 to S9S a share.
The common stock purchased by the
Semet Solvay Company. 1t Is alleged,
cost $40 a. share and under the con-
tract for the sale of the Youngstown
concern. the preferred stockholders
are to receive $110 a share, while the
common stockholders will receive only
SIS a share.
4OO.OOO Shares Purchased.
The Dillon-Read interests purchas-
ed from the estate of Ferdinand
shis sehiesinser. 4ocoeo oeo Shares sh Ar%p OF the he
common stock in April. 1929. 1t Is
alleged. paying for # $40 a share.
Dillon then appointed directors
declares. and succeeded in ratifying
the sale of the many plants of the
steel and tube company to the
Youngstown concern. This was jan
protest of the Allied Chemical and
Dye Corporation. the bill continues.
adding that the Allied Chemical Com
pany's holdings constitute 29 per cent
of the common stock
The plaintiff contends that the
common stock has an intrinsic value
of at least $40 and that the sale of 1t
at SIS share represents an actual
loss to those who purchased at the
former figure. On the other hand. the
value of the preferred. which Is sold
in the contract at $11o a share, is ac-
tually about SS6, according to the
bill. Dillon and associates will gain
from $12 to $50 a share on the pre-
ferred stock and IS a share on the
common stock bought from the
Schlesinger estate, while the minor
ity stockholders will sustain all the
loss If the sale is allowed to stand.
the petition alleges. Assets of the
Steel and Tube Company of America
are given as in excess of $10S.000,
December 81, 1922. 1t is a Delaware
corporation. and 1T was said that a
similar suit to set aside the sale has
been filed in the courts of that state.
Evening star., 1923-08-12

wiser to the peace commission and
undersecretary Of state in the Wilson
administration. declared today on his
arrival on the Paris from tour
abroad.
Europeans, he said, thought Ameri-
cans would wake UP when their pur-
chasing power is completely ex-
hausted and their farmers see their
product stacked up in field and ware
house unsold."
Unless the entire situation is dealt
with constructively, Mr.. Davis said,
the United States, particularly the
American farmer. would feel the ef-
fects of 1t. In Europe, he asserted
the feeling was that America would
be forced to cooperate in the set
tlement of world problems from a
selfish, If from no other purpose. Eu
Evening star., 1923-08-12
WHERE'S MY MONEY
MARY M|NTER ASKS
Movie Star Threatens to Sue
Foster Mother for Millions
She Has Earned.
Nnacial nisnn tch fn The Star

Special Dispatch to The star.
LOS ANGELES, August 11.-Juliet
O'Reilly wants to know what's be-
come of her s3.O00,000. So she has
publicly announced that she is going
to bring suit against Mrs. Charlotte
Shelby for an accounting of the sum
in question-money earned as salary
by the fair Juliet, but collected by
Mrs. Shelby.
A nice little stipend for one so
young-twenty-on according to her
own reckoning-but the secret is that
Juliet O'Reilly and the leading lady,
Mary Miles Minter. famed to the
screen. are identical under the skin.
And Mrs. Shelby has quite a reputa-
tion of her own as the mother of
Mary Miles Minter, although Miss
Minter enters a denial and declares
she was an adopted daughter. and
that Mrs Shelby isn't her real mother
after all.
Fear Public Scandal.
Behind the threatened law suit is
a real life situation that has kept
some of the big figures of Hollywood
at high tension for several months.
They fear another outburst that may
again focus public attention on the
screen colony.
More than two years ago Mary de-
clared she would like to know some
thing about her financial status. but
she didn't get satisfaction.
1t Is again reported that Miss Min
ter is missing. The latest report to
this effect was broadcast from a hos
pital where Mrs. Shelby is said to be
critically Ill. This report pictured
Mrs.. Shelby as praying that her little
rtIl might return. But, as on other
oc<asions, Mary Miles Minter wasn't
missing at all. She was easily To-
Gated at the home of friends in Pasa-
dena, and she connected the story of
her DISAPPEARANCE with the suit she
says she will bring against Mrs
Shelby.
Calls Self Meal Ticket.
II have been the family meal ticket
fo- years" explained Mary. "And
now 1 don't purpose to let them prey
on my sympathies to call off the suit
/ am preparing against my mother
and sister to make them give an ac-
counting OF the money l have earned. .
The situation in which Mary found
herself when she first made inquiry
of her mother and sister about the
condition OF her worldly affairs has
been revealed. Mary, 1t appears, in
advertently referred TO her home"
Evening star., 1923-08-12

Privilsgs 10 gfvea 70 exehangs
any instrument for its full valus
within one yoar.
Evening star., 1923-08-12
AMERICAN COLLAPSE
PREDICTED ABROAD
Norman Davis Finds Europe
Thinks U. S. Living in
FOOLS Paradise.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. August 11.-Europeans
think Americans are living in
fools paradise" and that they will
wake up to face severe times, Nor
man H. Davis, formerly financial ad-
Evening star., 1923-08-12
Reason for Twins,

From the Boston Transcript
Twin brothers having arrived at
Dorothy's home. playmate asked her
why the doctor had left two babies.
well. you see," said Dorothy. they
were the last he had left and he was
in a rush to get home.''
Evening star., 1923-08-12

rope, he added. was comforted by this
belief in all her harassing moments.
Mr.. Davis said he found the general
economic situation of Europe i'm
proved.
Evening star., 1923-08-12

Tattooing the lovers name on the
wrist is said to have supplanted the
wrist-watch as n fad among English
girls.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-09-13
POTATO SITUATION FOR 1928
Continued from page l

doctors; all public officials ar,
watched because there are dishones
men in politics, and members of thu
Commercial club need not be sur
prised and discouraged if potato
growers take nights sleep before
signing the potato contract, ever
when the crop reports show a big
yield and a good chance for a dis
ordered market by each man selling
for himself in competition with all
his neighbors. The Commercial clut
men went on carrying their message
and the contracts to the growers, act
ing the part of chore boys for the
farm bureau and the growers who
see the one big chance for fair prices
thru orderly marketing. They were
doing it for the potato growers
directly and for the interest of the
whole public and themselves in
directly, and they leave it with tn
grower to decide and take the conse-
quences of his dcision. Nobody want
growers to sign unless they them
selves wish to. Nobody has been
able to suggest anything else so
good as the Sipero plan, and nobody
could suggest a worse plan than we
followed last year if he tried
If organizing goes on for few
months at the present rate, the
majority of the potato supply of the
United States will be selling at fair
prices thru one central office and not
a market in any state overstocked |
If the organization should disband
and quit, the hurried movement of
10 per cent of this years crop into
the markets on the hit and miss plan
would break the price and keep it !
broken till next spring if vigorous
shipment were continued and the
kept well loaded
These are facts well known to
those who have studied matters
closely. AS growers learn these
facts, they hunt up potato contracts
and sign to place their potatoes on
the side of orderly marketing Grow
ers who do not possess the facts or
who have listened and still have
doubts, are looking about to see if
hey can cash their crop on the old
plan. A small percentage of the
growers acting on this plan can break
he market, and probably WILL but !
lfter they have unloaded theirs, the
organized growers will move theirs
IN the orderly marketing plan and
ret fair prices. The more growers
here are who go into the organiza-
ion, the sooner the market will be
tabilized. A small fraction Of the
rop dumped on the market will
reak the price; the same fraction j
moved in an orderly manner will |
ring money and keep the price I
teady. A majority of the crop held {
nd moved in orderly manner will {
ommand fafr prices and stabilize
he demand and the market. The
onsumers paid enough last year to
ave enriched the growers IL they
ould only have gotten their rightful d
hare of 1t, and the Sipero plan /
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brings the consumers and growers as
close together as is now considered
possible.
Men of mature years and good
judgment, men who have been emin-
emily successful in farming and bust
ness, men who made fair fortunes
in bygOne years by operating farms
on the old plans, say of the potato
exchange that they would not under
any circumstances sign their crops
away to any sales agency, even one
of their own management for a
period of five years to come. Those
are serious words well spoken, but
they did not make their money under
conditions confronting the farmers
Of today They made their money
when the grain cradle, the Marsh
harvester and the self binder were
the king of instruments. They made
their money under different sys-
TEN, in the days of unlimited free
government land, before the days of ,
the great combinations on land and
sea and prior to the use of instant
Nmmunication. They succeeded in
the days when the farmer was not
organized and neither was anybody
else, but with the changes of time
and especially since the world war,
every other industry has organized
and adopted orderly marketing Of
their goods or service, the farmer
being the only one of all who had no
chance to name the price of his
product.
The marketing season is on, and
election of directors and officers will
be held next week. Every member
will have one vote, and caucus or
of members will be held
n each county, and every member
AN vote at the convention or by mail /
light afterwards. None but grow ]
RS of potatoes can join or serve on !
he board, and those who sign con- t
racts after the election will get the {
benefit of the selling agency, but will t
Ose the chance to vote in the selec- I
ion of directors this year. Every I
'otato grower who has expressed re- I
ret that the farmer was not per- {
litted to name the price of his pro- i
uct, has his opportunity now, to {
DIN a movement having for it's pur- a
ose the better sorting, grading and t
andling of his own product so that l.
e will have the chance to refuse the e
rice offered him if it is not salts s
actory. 1t is not the purpose of the
rganization to corner the marke |,
nd fix prices, but to furnish better v
roduct and to deliver it when 1t is o
yanted, where it is needed, in condi- s
ion to please the consumer and with r
he guarantee of the exchange that 1t a
J as represented. e.
Each of these purposes is COM a
lendable and will endure because 1t a
right. Each one will command II
he respect Of dealers and consum- W
rs, and as soon as 1t is put into OPP tt
ration will receive their support. N
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-09-13

Quebec and we suffered the loss of
half our wheat at one stroke. There
was no attempt at legislation to
protect people against such calam-
ity, but the credit of great govern
ment could avert such losses and
panics that are the outgrowth of such
unstable conditions of the markets.
At the close of the present war we
shall need master minds in our ma
tional capital to deal with them and
to do 1t in advance of the crash. The
individual cannot tide himself over
such things, but a great nation using
its credit based on the wealth and
the prospective wealth of the country
can tide itself and the individuals
over them. When the Civil war be-
gan, the Union had no money and no
credit. The credit nations of the
world thought we were going to
pieces as a nation and would not loan
us money at ordinary rates of inter-
est, and Wall street would not, so
Lincoln met the problem by issuing
enbacks, using the credit of the
nation, and the people accepted the
paper money and fought the war on
1t. What we must do at the close
of this war is to use the credit of the
nation to tide over the rough places
caused by the adjustment to the new
conditions. We must keep up the
right relations of production and
consumption. If everybody devotes
their energies to production and
there are no constructive enterprises
kept going to consume labor and pro-
ducts, then there will be slowing
down of all work and stagnation will
be certain. There must be legisla-
ton providing the means to keep
great enterprises going and to stabN-
re the money flow and to stabilize
production and consumption"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-09-13

close of the war, provision is made
to keep business going and let the
debts stand, merely paying of one
| fiftieth part of the principal each
year, the constant production of
wealth thru industry-the increased
wealth of the nation will pay off the
debt and we shall hardly feel it.
Where l used to live in Iowa, our lit
tie county got in debt 100000, and
things looked so desperate it seemed
', as if we could never pay it off, but
we arranged to distribute the pay
ments over long period of time and
we paid it and never felt it. We
were astonished at the results; the
increased wealth of the county
coupled with speedy prosperity and
unfolding of every enterprise in
good healthy condition wiped out the
debt almost unobserved.
Australia war wheat is piled
high along the open country by the
railroad tracks. Other countries are
starving for wheat and Australia
panicky because they have too much
wheat. Argentine is in the same
condition and they are burning corn
for fuel, unable to sell grain or ship
in coal. Their livestock has doubled
in numbers during the war and
other countries are starving for meat
products. When the war is over and
shipping is released so that vessels
can go to those countries and bring
their surplus stocks and pour them
into the markets of the world, some
things is going to happen. 1t will dis
turb our own farmers and farm
prices, and it will be time when we
shall need the greatest minds in our
legislative halls to meet the greatest
the world has ever known.
We shall need to keep enterprises
as nearly balanced as possible, dis
turb the flow of money as little as
possible, and make careful adjust
ment to the times of peace and unre-
stricted trade.
Il remember very we'll when the
Cirmean war was on. We had not
been shipping so much OF our farm
produvts to Europe then, and Russia
was feeding more of the European
During the war the porte
3f the Black sea were blocked, and
Russia piled her wheat up and
Europe bought from their countries
was living In Canada and wheat ,
vent up to $500. Just at the time /
he war came to an end Unexpectedly,
he price of wheat dropped to $500
While our wagon was on the way toIs