The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-04-25

Olympia - IA P) - Loggers are
focking into the city today from the
camps, as a result of a general walk
out, said to have been called by the
1. w. w. leaders in protest of the
holding of so-called political prison
ers. The Mason County Logging com
pany, at Bordeaux, and the Simpson
Logging company, at Shelton, both re-
ported today that large number of
their workers had gone on strike and
that some of the camps may be forced
to shut down, while others will Oper-
ate short handed. 1t is estimated
that between 25 and SO per cent of
the men are leaving their jobs this
morning.
Grays Harbor LOggers Strike
Aberdeen-(A. P)-Obeying the
camps of the Grays Harbor district
walked out on strike this morning.
I. w. w. leaders say that 1000 men
have quit and that another thousand
will quit tomorrow. These figures
are yet unconfirmed Between sixty
and one hundred longshoremen, about
thirty per cent of the water front
workers, are also out
Free State Deserters Executed
Tralee Ireland-(A. P.)-Richard
Hathaway, James McEnry, and John
Greaney were executed here today by
Free State authorities. Hathaway
was a deserter from a British regi-
ment, captured in a cave in which a
band of irregu1ars was holding out
on Kerry Cliffs.
Sell Mileage Books January 1
WashingtOn-(A. P)-lnterState
commerce commission orders requir
ing railroads to begin the sale of in
terchangeable mileage books at % per
cent reduction on regular passenger
fare rates May Is, was revoked today
and the effective date of the mileage
books sale postponed until January
/, 1924.
President at White House
Washington - CA. P.) = President
here from New York on a special
They remained aboard the train for
some time before going to the White
House.
COnfesses Staying Rabbi
Phoenix, Arizona-(A. P.)-Glad-
well G. Richardson, 19, confessed this
morning to Staying Rabbi Alfred G.
Lafee in a San Francisco hotel, April
4, in a statement made to Assistant
County Attorney Louis Hart and Pol
ice Chief Oscar Roberts and Chief
Of Detectives j. J. McGrath. The con-
fession was taken by the district
attorneys stenographer, and follows
out the diary found on Richardson's
person when he was arrested last
Monday
AlIOt Rivers, HarbOrs Cash
Washing gton-(A. P)-About $4O,-
700, 900 of the $56,589,000 appropri-
tied by congress, under protest of
he budget bureau, for the improve
nent of rivers and harbors, has al
eady been allotted by Secretary |
Weeks and the remainder will be dis /
ributed among various projects later. /
'he budget director recommended an
appropriation of only $27,000,000 and
t has been intimated that the adj |
might hold the expendi-
u9es to that figure. The allotments
include Puget Sound and tributary
vaters, $4,000.
]. w. w. Strike Extensive
New York-(A. P.)-While the pol
sc today patroled the water front,
reserving comparative quiet, which
shered in the strike called by the
larine transport workers division of
be I. w. W., organization officials,
1hich claim 10000 members, reported
eceiving messages from other seaport
,cals, saying that the strike is highly
ffective at Boston, San Pedro, Cali
,rnia, Seattle, San Francisco, Port
ind, Oregon, and New Orleans.
Stop Work at Everett
Everett - Ca P) Long gshoremen
id not go to work this morning, but
0 special demands were presented.
roups of loggers are also participat- |
lg in similar demonstration, de-
ared to be fostered by the I. w. W. (
I behalf of the so-called political
'isoners. One logging concern closed
S camp and others claim that they
"a short handed