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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01
RECESS IS CALLED
INSTR|KE PARLEY
Miners and Operators Enter
New Year Far Apart in
Agreements.

b. fhr Associated Press.
NEW YORK. january The an
thracite strike, which began four
months ago. entered the new year
with the contending forces still far
apart
The miners and operators after
struggling for three days and nights
exhausted their arguments last night
in The endeavor Ia persuade each
other to concede something and send
The workers back to the mines \
recess was declared until Tuesday in
the hope that meanwhile something
may develop L. bring the two sides
together.
Miners Not t" Confer.
Maj. ". NJ Inglis, head OF the
operators grSiIp left 1or Scranton.
while John H. Lewis. president If the
miners union. remained in New York.
The miners made known that they
would not confer during the recess.
II is understood that the recess was
desired by the operators. From this
the inference was dawn that the rep
resentatives of the coal companies eX-
pected to confer before rejoining the
miners in conference.
The miners offered 20 agree TO a con
tract of one to five years, preferably
the longer term. on condition that a
definite wage scale and other specific
terms should be written into the con
tract.
Narkie Plan Discussed
The plan OF settlement offered 10y
Alyan Markle, chairman of the joint
conference. which came in for long
discussion during the last three days
provided that at the request Of either
side wages and working conditions
could he changed each year during the
contract period if found justified.
The operators presented arguments
for long term contract which would
assure continuity of production by
providing some form of arbitration to
prevent deadlocls. The mine owners
stated that they did not seek wage re-
ductions, but believed it was necessary
to provide for adjustments that
economic conditions might require in
the future.
The miners opposed the Markle plan
on the ground that in the last analysis
it amounted to arbitration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01
CHICAGO'S REVEL DAMP.
No VOlstead Act Arrests Made by
Nigilant Dry Agents.

CHICAGO. January 1 iPD.-The in
fant 1925 was greeted by a CHEEKY
and somewhat damp revel here despite
the efforts of 100 Federal prohibition
agents posted in night life centers
with instructions to arrest any man or
woman caught drinking in public.
No arrests We're made and no viola.
tions of the Volstead act We're -ob-
served, the enforcement squads re-
ported early today.
h. c. Yellowley. prohibition ad-
ministrator, augmented his force of
IS agents with men drafted from
Federal clerical forces. Undisguised
they sat in the corners and watched.
No hip pockets or packages We're
searched. No Intoxicated persons
were interfered with by the Federal
men. Uniformed police arrested some
twoscore inebriated revelers, but re-
leased those who had never been ar
rested before.
Some Drinking Done.
Federal and police authorities ad-
mitted that some drinking was done.
but said 1t was much less than last
New Year. In some downtown hotels
those who wished to drink engaged
rooms in advance and stored their
SupplieS tieIS, ply ill5 bel"eeH lHe
rooms and the dining rooms. In
cabarets, drinkers watched their
chance and poured when the two
agents assigned to each place We're
looking elsewhere.
Only one untoward incident marked
the plan of cooperation between
agents and hotel managers and cafe
proprietors. The house detective OF
downtown hotel refused to admit
two agents assigned 10 it's restau-
rants. They could not find the man
ager TO remind him of his promise
to assist in enforcement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01
JURY OF IL WOMEN ASKS
LIFE TERM FOR SLAYERS
Chicago Gunmen Convicted of
Flrst-Desree Murder for Killing
Officer in Gun Fight.
by The Associated Press

Los ANGELES, January Ed
ward Franta and Anthony Kaspar,
Chicago gurmen and bank robbers,
were convicted of tirst-degree murder
III Superior Court last night They
VIII escape the moose az the jury of
II women recommended life imprison-
ment
The men We're brought to trial in
Connection with the staying Of Traffic
OFFICER Wiley f.. Smith, who was killed
III gun battle following the robbery
OF branch of the Hellman Bank here
August -. t'ranta's brother, Louis.
was shot 20 death in the same fight
haspar was wounded. while Edward
Franta escaped unhUrt TO Chicago.
" here later he was arrested.
Sentence viii he passed Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01
JANUARY/f, 1926.
40 KILLED IN EXPLOSION.
so Hurt, 200 Missing in Chinese
Fireworks Factory Blast

LONDON. January GP).-Forty
persons haye been killed and 80 in
ured and zoo others are missing in
an explosion at a fireworks factory
at Macao, says a dispatch 10 the
Daily Mail from HongtunS. All of
the dead, injured and missing are
Chinese. and most Of them women.
Macao is a Portuguese dependency
50 miles West of Honkung.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01
No Lynching Year in Texas

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. January
tH0.-Last night closed the first year
since the Civil War in which no
lynchings took place inside the bor-
ders of Texas. 1t vas only three
years ago that this State led the Ma
tion in the number of mob slayings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01
Robbed of Leadership.

The President faces early victory on
his World Court proposal. He will
have no opposition worth mentioning,
and none at all that can be destructive.
when he formally asks Congress to
sanction American participation in the
League of Nations disarmament plans.
The Coolidge-Mellon-ke Kellogg series of
European debt settlements is equally
assured of ratification. The President
has faced Senator Borah for the first
time in the latter's capacity as chair
man of the foreign relations committee
and has not been vanquished. Under
Coolidge leadership. the United States
is rendering powerful aid in saving
China from herself.
The President seems to sense a grow
ing spirit among the American people
in the direction of world aid Quietly.
but in a manner they do not under
estimate, Mr.. Coolidge has pretty eff
fectually robbed the Democrats of
leadership in international ce-opera-
ton.
©right. 1e25.s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01
BOARD COMPLIES
SCHOOL NAME LIST
Local and National Figures,
Mostly Dead. Selected
for Future Use.

\ list oT - names of men and
women Of local and national i'm
poctance. most OF whom are dead,
has heen compiled by District school
officials as meritire perpetuation in
Washington school history.
Need for the list has arisen through
the fact that at present there are
one high school. four Junior high
schools and six GRADED schools await
ing names while numerous other
school buildings provided for annu-
ally in the tive-Year bHilding pro-
gram. or between now and 1890.
must be named
Two former District Commission
err. one United States Senator. three
men uI local distinction. three for
rner Presidents of the United States.
five local teachers and educators and
two former members Of the BOARD OF
Education are contained on the list.
Suggestion iS made that three
schools be named in compliment To
their geographical location.
Suggestions for Names
Explanation is made that the list
has been complied by rhe Board q,
Education following solicitation Of
suggestions from the District Com
misSioners. citizens associations. su-
pervising principals in the school
system, newspapers and the general
public.
1t IS the policy Of the Board of Edu-
cation u submit recomme ndations TO
the District Commissioners. who are
vested with the authority To name
schools III tho District. The Com
missoners, with few exceptions. ratify
the recommendations If the board re
garding the naming of the schools.
but they have reiterated their conviC-
ton that in the naming of schools
former District Commissioners and
outstanding local figures generally
should be given preference over ma
tional men or women.
The names of James Frederick
Oyster, late District Commissioner.
James Holsworth Gordon, former
president Of the Board of Education:
Joseph Rubin Keen. teacher in the
local schools; Job Barnard. late Asso-
ciate justice of the District Supreme
Court: John Grecnleaf Whittier, the
poet. and Margaret Murray Washing
ton. wife of Booker Washington, do
not appear on the list. as they already
have been submitted to the District
Commissioners as suitable for one
juno. high school, four schools and
the o street vocational school, which
must be promptly named.
Names on List.
Those on the list, just compiled,
follow:
Former District ofiicials-Commis-
sioners John Watkinson Douglass and
Garrett J. Leydecker.
Persons of local or national dis
tinction: Maj. Gen. I. I. Stevens,
Archibald White. Washington Irving,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Senator Tasker
Lowndes Oddie, Louis p Shoemaker,
Nathan Hale, John Marshall. Salmon
Portland Chase. Henry Wadsworth Ii
LongfelloW. James Russell Lowell,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Cul-
len Bryant, James Whitcomb Riley,
Joaquin Miller.
Locations-Brightw Manor Park
and Woodbridge.
Presidents of the United States
I'nntirI1e5 on Column,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01
No Explanation Offered.

Neither the King nor the govern
ment OF Rumania has seen hit To en-
tighten the public as IL the reason
why Carol desired to erase himself as
Rumanias : future ruler. The official
communication, issued. i'll Bucharest,
merely said that the crown prince
had written the monarch that his de
cision was irrevocabie. and thai F'erdi-
nand had felt himself compelled TO
acutliesce and request the people to
accept Prince Michael as heir.
Carols desire to get away from his
royal obligations, however, long has
been known in Europe, and the sur
prise over the present aspects OF the
situation attaches only to the fact that
King Ferdinand and Queen Marie at
length have given in his wishes.
Followed by Rumors.
Since Carol left England after the
funeral of Dowager Queen Alexandra
there had been little in his movements
to bring him into publicity. except
now and then Il whispering from lta
regarding his seeming attachment 10
a handsome Italian woman.
A suggestion comes from diplomatic
circles that Carol is in violent disagree.
ment with the Rumanian government
over it's military program.
Reports as to the friendliness OF the
prince for the charming Italian WON
an have drawn a semi-otficial state
rnent from Athens, the home of his
wife. Princess Helen, that no divorce
proceedings are pending between Caro-
and Helen.
No one has recounted the fact that
Carol has been seen since he visited
Milan. Turin and Venice recently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01

Politicians in both parties say IL is
too early to judge whether Mr.: Cool
idge has, or has not, arrested the
slump in his fortunes that is threat
ened by agricultural disaffection.
They are united in believing that the
President, faced by the first real rift
in the lutte of his popularity, will move
vigorously To mend it.
There is general agreement in both
political camps that the farm unrest
cuts more deeply into things than the
mere matter of Government help in
selling surplus crops. The ancient
issue of the tariff is involved. With
Stanch Republicans like Senator
Arthur Capper of Kansas, leader of
the farm bloc. predicting that tariff
revision in the agricultural interest
must come, G. o. p. managers concede
that the situation is urgent to the
point OF gravity. II is not widely un
derstood that the financial East may
soon he found marching shoulder to
shoulder with the farming West in
demanding tariff reform.
Europe, with its close financial al
liances in New York. is hammering at
American big business To effect a
sQuarer tariff deal for the outside
world lest the world be rendered moSe
and more incapable of liquidating its
debts 10 the United States, both public
and private.
If Calvin Coolidge enters upon the
new year facing "a troubled domestic
horizon, it can as faithfully be said
that the prestige of his administra-
tion. in the foreign realm, is higher
than at any previous time. The Tacna-
africa imbroglio is a cloud on the
United States interna tional horizon,
and the administration is more en-
barr-a ssed over il than is publicly ac-
knowledged. But in every other di-
rection the Coolidge governments for
eign stock is considered to stand very
high as 1925 fades into history.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01
Hip F'iasks Evident.

broadway. famous for its New
Ye,r celebrations of other days. was
damned with noisy merrymakers. and
there were many Indications Of the
uSe "f hip TASKS despite Federal
agents drives against them. There
were Iew arrests, kur as dawn Wore
on the streets became less orderly as
caharets and night clubs poured out
their thousands.
Caterers reported an unusual num-
Der of home parties. which they AS
crihed to threats Of dry raids on pub
lie places.
Chicago and san Francisco held
joyous celebrations, with moist spots
here aud there. but on the whole or
derIy.
Quebec. II, Juana ana Vancouver
We're focal points for caravans of
Americans seeking liquor oases.
The Lullins Of the Liberty bell in
Philadelphia announced the new year
and the beginning Of the seSquiceu-
tenrjal celebration. Although the bell
had not been rung since il was crack
ed 90 Years : 80, ii hoomed out Justify
under the strokes of d golden nam
mer Never in its halcyon days We're
its tones heard so far for the radio
spread its sound as this year began,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01
CAROL NO LONGER
IS HEIR TO THRONE
King Accents His RenunCia.
ton and Asks People to
Accept Grandson.

by the Associated Press
PARIS. January l.-CroWn Prince
Carol. who has renowned the throne
of Rumania. is presumably touring
the resorts of northern Italy incog.
nitp Whether his beautiful Italia n
inamorata is accompanying him a.
he travels is not known in social
circles.
Carol has declared himself no Ions
er IA member Of the reigniug house
hold.
King Ferdinand has accepted the
Pronunciation of Carol. michael, the
A-year-nid offspring from the union
OF Carol and Princess Helen of Greece.
is I" he proclaimed the new heir ap-
parent to the throne. Next Monday
Parliament is ~ bt. called into session
to give effect to this decision Of f'erdi-
nand
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01
COOLIDGE FIGHTS
TO REGAIN WEST
Rift in Agricultural Belt Has
loosened Grip of
President.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Another. the fourth, calendar year
in the presidency Of Calvin Coolidge
finds him still strongly intrenched in
public confidence. He is in almost the
exact middle of his executive period.
It is two years and five months since
he became President, and, assuming
that his term will end on March !.
1923. Mr.. Coolidge has another two
years and two months to serve.
Had it not been for the Nester n
farm revolt" over administration
agricultural policies, it would be cor
rect to say that Calvin Coolidge en-
ters 1926 at the zenith of his popu-
larity.
Six months ago the rural West, like
the industrial North. East and South,
was overwhelmingly pro-Coolidge.
None but the blindest Republican par
tisan today pretends to claim that
the President is as strong throughout
the country as he was at midyear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01

Among New Year greetings We're
statements by Vice President Dawes
that the year starts with the worlG
more peaceful than at any time since
the war; by Sir Eric Drummrnd, see
retary general of the League of Ma
tions, hailing the fort hcuming dis
armament and economic conferences
as of vital Importance 10 the world:
10y Premier BRAND Of France saving
that settlement of the debt Of France
10 the United States on an equitable
basis would be d long step toward re-
facilitating the troubled finances OF
his country.
Church services everywhere We're
largely attended
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01
DisaffectiOn on Farms.

Disaffection on the farms, plus
Western dlscontent with irrigation
and reclamation policies, has Sapped
Coolidge sentiment TO a considerable
degree. Nationally his hold on the
country is still firm. but it has ceased
to be a strangle hold. Coolidge econ
omy and Coolidge steadiness continue
TO be the Presidents s sheet anchors.
There Is no inclination at the White
House to view the situation through
rose tinted spectacles. Mr.. Coolidge
is worry-proof He js not easily
frightened by political bad weather.
But he has not been in politics for
the past % years-just half his life
without knowing when To run up
lightning rods. The readiness with
which he has decided within the past
week to fortify the administra ton
against flashes of political electricity
from the agricultural regions is char
acteristic of Calvin Coolidge'S tactics
His Democratic enemies are talking
about Coolidge'S "climb-down." They
pillory his reversal OF policy on farm
surplus legislation as an exhibition
of weakness" without many parallels
In recent White House history.
But the Presidents friends decline
to accept this construction of Mr..
Coolidge's strategy. They look upon
it as the latest proof of his political
shrewdness-of his readiness to stem
any tide that seems to be flowing
disaStIpusly in his direction. They
admit that the farm situation il full
of dynamite for the Republican party.
They point with pride-not shame
to the Spectacle of a leader who, oh
serving the trend of things, is not
afraid 10 tackle them in hammer-and-
tongs fashion in order that bad
political situation may not drift into
a worse one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01
WEATHER.

20. 2. Weather Bureau Forecast
Fair and not SO cold tonight; low
est temperature about 80 degrees; to-
morrow, partly cloudy
iemperatures--Hig highest, SO. occurred
at pm. yesterday: lowest. u, at Z
am. today. Full report on page Z
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-24
TSTEEL RAILS e. s; : 2G :: $sS= =: e: s:5$%s$$ $$ $$ s$;
On Plains to Momnn The Arrival ddy GoMds Utah g Northern MARQUEE mgeG h188O On
Plains to Montana.

river to the Pacific ocean and from the In
ternatiOnal boundary line. to the Gulf of
Mexico, was known only to the native In
dian tribes and that small, intrepid band
known as the brotherhood Of free trappers
and traders.
Today, as we scan this almost limitless
area with its millions Of population, its
agricultural, commercial and industrial de-
velOpment, we gain but a meager cOncep-
ton of the significance of the completion,
a few decades age, of the transcOntinental
railway lines that now span the continent.
Had a Worldwide Influence
True it may have been that those men
who engineered these projects, those in
dOmitable spirits who haZarded their
names, their wealth, and in many instances
their lives to develop the enterprises, may
have had in mind little else than the ac-
emulation of wealth. Yet, the browning
of their efforts with success deeply influ-
enced the economic and the political his
tory of this nation and the whole world.
Among the existing conditions due, eth
or directly or Indirectly to the completion
of the American transcOntinental railways
are: the opening up to settlement Of a vast,
productive area rich beyond measure in
agricultural, mineral and other natural re-
sources; a new Importance to the Pacific
Coast region, the Pacific ocean and border
ing countries in the affairs of the world
the political expansion of the United
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States: the increase to this country of i'm
migration from all other lands q more ra-
pid industrial and economic development
of the nation the evolution of the United
States as a world power; and the combined
effect of all these transformations upOn
the affairs of mankind iii general.
History of the Railroad
The story of the coming of the 'steel
rails" has often been told in a general way.
Like all other narratives which have to do
with the onward sweep of civilization, it
is wholly a story of the efforts of man
men who sought, either for wealth or fame,
to Edo the impossible.
The first railroad was built by the RO-
mans. The track was of cut stone.
The steam engine was invented by Watt,
in 1913.
Probably the first locomotive was invent
ed by Richard Trevethick. 1t was tried and
failed in London in 1904. George Stephen
son opened the KillingwOrth, a collier rail-
road in 1914.
The Stockton and Darlington, in Eng
land, II miles in length, was the first rail
road to carry passengers. 1t was opened
for freight on September q, 1925, and for
passenger traffic in October of the same
year.
Peter Cooper experimental with a little
engine of his own on the Baltimore and
Ohio in 1929, and claimed that on the trial
trip he ran away from a gay horse at
tached to another car.
The modern railroad was created by the
St~ephensOns, father and SON., when they
built the Rocket, the first locomotive
with a "blower", in 1880.
The first locomotive to run over In Am
%erican railroad was driven by HOratio Al
len in 1881.
The Birth of a Great Idea
Although the first transcOntinenta rail.
road was not completed until 1869, this
wonderful idea began to take form ia the
minds of far-sighted men and dreamers a!
early as 1919. In that year, Robert Mill
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when think of hOD the railroad has been pushed through this IN
luatered wilderness and haunt of savage tribes; hOU, at each stage of the
construction, roaring, inpromptu cities full of gold and lust and death
spranq up and then died GUay again, and are nO but WGyside stations in
the desert hoU in these uncouth places pigta1ed pirates WOrked side by
side uuh border rufians and broken men from Europe, talking together
in a mixed dialect mostly Oaths, gambling, quGrreing and numbering like
lOolUes; huO the pluned hereditary lord of all America heard in this last
fastness the scream of the Bad Medicine Wagon chaTiOing his foes; and
then uhen / 90 O N % remember that all this epicA turmoil wGs conducted
by gentlemen in frocked coats, and to nothing more extraordinary than a
fortune and a subsequent Ut to Paris 1t seems to me, 1 OWn, as if this
rGIUay uDere the n typical achievement of the age in Dhich zoe hUG as If
itbrought together into one plot all the ends of the UOrld and all the de-
grees of social rank. and offered the busiest, the most extended, and the
most varying subject for an enduring literary work. If it be romance, if
til contrast, if it be herosm that zoe require, Uhat was Troy to ths?"
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, in Across the Plains"
In this, Mr. Stevenson was referring moree explicitly to the Union Pacific and
Central Pacific rail lines, which were completed across the contnen in 1862
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Out in Northeastern Montana is a
group of counties constituting one of
the most fertile regions to be found
anywhere in the world. There crops
have been raised which astOnished the
statisticians and taxed the imagination.
NOwher ever has land produced such
tremendous returns as in this agricul-
tUraI treasure district of Eastern Mon
tana. Heretofore it has been but in
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adequately served by railway Transport
taCiOn. Now four great railway systems
have plans to penetrate to the heart of
the district, which all agree is one of
the richest virgin lands of the con-
tinent. The little town of Circle in the
valley of the Redwater river is the
center of this Eastern Montana empire
and hat place is the objective of four
railway extensions, two of which are
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under way and will undoubtedly be
completed.
Aside from the railroad rush for
Circle and the tremendous freight pos
sibilities of McCOne county and sur
rounding districts, Montana is the scene
in a twO-year period of greater rail
road expansion than any other state in
the Union.
The Northern Pacific and the Great
Continued on Agricultural Page)