Evening star., 1925-07-21
PRESIDENT assure
COAL STRIKE CRISIS
WILL Be AVERTED
Coolidge Sees Little Prospect
of Tie-Up and No Cause
for Alarm.
HALE OUTLINES PLANS
FOR PACIFIC DEFENSES
Pearl Harbor Fertilization and
Huge Base at Alameda, Calf,
Are Senator's Projects.
BY i. RUSSELL YOUNG.
staff Core espondent of The Star,

SUMMER WHITE HOUSE. Swamp.
scott. Mass, July 21.-Pre sident
Coolidge does not believe there is any
need for the country to be greatly
concerned about a possible coal strike
in the Fall. The President was repre-
sented today as gaining the impress
sion. after talking with Secretary of
Labor Davis the other day. that there
is no particular danger of a strike. He
feels certain that the miners and oper-
ators in conference at Atlantic City.
will compose their differences.
While discussing the matter with
newspaper correspondents in his study
at White Court today the President
stated that during his talk with Sec
retary Davis the latter, while not go
Ing into any great detail, presented
the facts in the case, and told what
his department is doing in the way of
media tion.
No Cause for Alarm.
When asked what he based his be
lief upon that there is little prospect
of strike, the President said he could
not at this time discuss this point, but
he saw no cause for alarm.
1t is thought by some of those very
close to the President that the Presi
dent has heard directly from heads of
the miners and the operators and, with
what Secretary Davis reported to him,
that he has come to the conclusion
that the controversy will be worked
out satisfactorily and that there will
be no suffering and inconvenience to
the public such as would be brought
about il there were strike.
The President was represented as
having discussed the matter briefly
with Senator Charles Curtis of
Kansas, Republican leader of the SEN
ate, who is a guest at White Court
for several days. Mr.. Coolidge stated
they have talked over a variety Of
subjects and intimated that tenta
tive legislative program to be car
ried out by the administration at the
next Congress was discussed in a
general way. The President did not
consider this as being of any great
significance, stating that legislation
in a general way is discussed by him
with many of his callers from time to
time throughout the year.
No Extra Session.
The President made 1t plain. though,
that there is no prospect at this time
for the calling of an extra session.
He certainly has no ideas in this
respect regarding the coal situation,
and there is nothing else of sufficient
Importance to even suggest an early
meeting of Congress, in the opinion
of President Coolidge.
President Coolidge stated in very
clear language today that Secretary
of War Weeks has not resigned and
has not given the slightest intention
of retiring to private life. The Pres
ident stated that when he called upon
Mr.. Weeks last Saturday he found
the latter looking surprisingly we'll
and he was delighted to note this, and
also the fact that Mr.. Weeks would
continue in office.
A trip to Pemberton, one of the nu-
merous beach colonies situated on
Boston Bay, has been arranged by the
President for tomorrow. He has not
determined yet whether he will go by
motor or aboard the Mayfower. The
President and Mrs. Coolidge, with their
two boys, lived in a modest little frame
cottage at Pemberton one Summer
while he was lieutenant governor.
Senator Hale Visitor.
Senator Hale of Maine. chairman of
the naval affairs committee, who has
just returned from an inspection of the
West coast and Hawaiian naval bases,
afternoon on his way to Maine, and
gave the President an interesting ac-
count of his observations. He placed
before the Executive his ideas for
STRENGTHENING naval defenses in the
Pacific, and discussed with the Presi-
dent new navy program, which is
to be pushed in Congress next Winter,
and which he said will be designed to
relieve the Pacific States from the dan
ger of naval attack.
According to Senator Hale, the plan
calls for the esta blishment of a naval
base OF the first rank at Alameda, in
San Francisco Bay, comparable with
the big base now at Norfolk, Va, and
for the establishment of an adequate
base at Pearl Harbor, dredging the
channel and permitting ingress to the
largest battleships. Under the new
program, Pearl Harbor is to become
the key to the Pacific defenses, and is
to he given facilities and strength
which will amply assure the Pac.dc
States that there is no need for fear.
Senator Hale stated that this new
program will involve an outlay of
$50 100000. He added, though, that
while he appreciated the need for
economy in the Navy, he felt that
the rock bottom had been reached
and that the country could not afford
in safety to curtail any more.
1t was pointed out by Senator Hale
that aviation is entering into all naval