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Entered as second-class matter Jan. 18. JD08, at postofflce at Indian a poll under the act of March 3, 1870. WEDNESDAY MORNING. A I 'GUST 192'.

ROADS TURN DOWN PEACE PLAN McCray Calls Meeting of Coal State Governors RETAIN SENIORITY RIGHTS Hopes to Bring United Action in Coal Famine LEADING OPERATORS' GROUPS FLATLY DECLINE LEWIS'S BID TO FOUR-STATE CONFERENCE CITY TO Rail Executives Turn Deaf Ear to President's Plea NEWS SUMMARY West Indianapolis Determined to Break With City Unless STRIKE SITUATION. KAIL. Railroad executives reject President Harding's peace propositi In far as it applies to restoration strikers' seniority rights. Acceptance of plan by striking shopmen Is forecast at meet lug of union lenders in Chfcngo. Next move by White Houne depends on developments after formal replies have been received from both sides.

CO A i. Governor MeCrny calls conference of roal slate governors to discuss plans for providing fuel de spite strike. Oprratora him down Invitation of Lewis, preaident of mine workers, to attend Interstate conference tn CMeveland Monday. Oovernor McCray refuses to hold tip plana for emergency mining on pica of District No. 11 union Ikem that Cleveland conference will Beltle strike.

Plan of procedure for emergency fuel control completed hy central conl committee. Chicago gels to work as best It can hy auto and on foot with ele vated and surface lines tied up by strike. White House Move in New Rail Crisis Remains in Doubt WASHINOTON'. Aug. 1.

on Fraal. dent Hardlm had the rail strike prob. lent back on his hands tonlfht as a re. of the refusal of the railway esecll lives, at Ihelr meetlns In New Tork, lo accept the administration settlement plan so far as the seniority Issue Is concerned. There was no Indication at the White House as to what move, If any, the government planned to make In the situation.

It waa considered probable that Mr. llardlni would study carefully th. text of the executives' reply and that expected from the labor leaders' MieetlnR In Chicago before reaching a decision. The tone of the replies and the cir cumstances under which- they wera insde, it ws Indicated at the White House, undoubtedly would guide Mr, larding to sotnn extent and there waa another Intimation that publicity could not always be helpful In the difficult and delicate negotiations Into which the ail' ministration has been drawn by the In ilustrlHl situation. Mint lit Federal Central.

Kroin the government point nf view. Ihe railroad elrlke Is regarded as Immediately serious only because of the exlsllnr Mlopi'Mge of coal production and there have been constant int imnunti that the administration would be pnsed to force a fjlllrk etllement the railroad dlfnculliea In order to cope with the rnsl stoppage, even at the cost of seme re-eMablishment of the former control of railroads. AlTZMXtX ihe contract bMw.n thrlr view nf the I "seniority Issur" and that taken by the roNTiN itii TrAor. tiibek. TEXT OF PROPOSAL MADE BY PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Aug.

I. I7P The text of President Harding's proposal for ending of the rail strike was made public nt the Whlto House today after the Cabinet session, after rallrond executives, In New Tork. and the striking shopmen's lenders, in fhlrugn, had begun consideration of It. The proposal provides with reference lo the hlg controversial point of seniority that "all employes now on strike to be returned to work and to their former position with fnlortiy ami other rights unimpaired." The White House announcement give ihe baslH of the President's settlement plans as follows: Railwuy managers anil work-, men nre. to ngreu to recognize the validity of all decisions of the railroad Uhor board, and to faithfully carry mtt such decisions as conteiu-plated by the law.

Tin; curriers wilt withdraw all lawsuit! growing out of the strike, and rallrond labor hoard decisions which have been Involved ln thu Mtrlke may be taken. In the exercise of recognized rights, by either party, to the railroad labor board for rehearing. All employes now on' strike to returned to work and to their former itosltioim with seniority anil other rights unimpaired. The representatives of the carriers and the representatives of the organizations especially agree that there will bo no discrimination by either party against the employes who did not strike." Union Acceptance of Plan Forecast at Chicago Session CHICAGO, Aug. I.

Acceptance nf President Harding's railroad pence plan by the striking shopmen was pnictlcallv assured tonight when the strikers" policy committee of ntm-ty adjourned until tomorrow when definite action Is ex-per ted to be taken. This was learned from untrm leaders after a four-hour session today In which th President's suggestions were fully discussed and explained to tho oommlt- tl-C. Following the meeting none of the union lenders would comment nn the left, as It wns. In midair with a very definite trend however, toward acceptance. flltent on Hnsd' Hland.

The rejection of the seniority proposal by the rallroml executives In New York and their qualified acceptance of the President's other two points were received without comment by the strikers. Discussion of the points of the presidential peace program followed the reading of his rommuulrntlon to it. M. Jewell, president of the federated shop crafts, who came direct from a con ference with his executive council, Chatriunn Hen Hooper of the labor hoard, ami A. O.

Wharton, one of the board's labor members. Some opposition to President Harding's peace program was raised by members' of the policy committee, their complaint helnr on account of absence of any provision on wages. Answering Iheae complaints, union leaders said that a rehearing hy the labor board which was to gained under the peace program, would doubtless result In wage advances. President Wires Jewell. President Harding In telegraphing his strike settlement proposals to B.

M. Jewell today said that he had changed them somewhat since he discussed them with Mr. Jewell. "I think It is only fair to jay that have changed the second condition (thHt dealing with lawsuits) from the original form In which It was discussed with said the President's telegram. "You will note that I have ruggcated (hat a ppeals for relma ring may be taken In the exercising of reeognlied rights by either party, to the hoard for a rehearing.

This does not fluinge. the substance, but I thought It only fair to have the statement apply to either side In the controversy "1 hope you and your associates will see fit to express your approval of the terms submitted. Coiiflrtinitlon follows by mall." The point nnout lawsidts being withdrawn from court and placed before the labor board for settlement Is understood here lo have been Mlpulutcd hy the unions as a result of the recent Coronado decision. NOT AN TRAIN OR TROLLEY LINE IN CHICAGO OPERATING Auto Service Cares for City of 3,000,000 When Strike Comes. CHR'ACO, Aug.

I. With Mreet car and elevated road employes nn strike today, psralyxlng electric transportation for the third lime In the city's history, Chicago moioreij or walked, assuming Ihe appearance of a country ftilr nn a holiday. While citliens crowded pavements and corners, everything from baby's gocart snd grandpa's wheel jdialr to the latest thing In automobiles crowded the streets and moved the throngs with facility and little inconvenience. It was the automobile's great triumph, according to traffic policemen, who expresjied wonder at the ease with which ihe motor fleets had met and p-inirently solved the problem of moving hundreds of thousands of workers. With a system of one-way traffic signs Installed -through the "loop" police re- fONTINUKD ON PAK KI.KVKN.

I WOH MEETS URGE FOR JAZZ MUSIC IN PROGRAM TONIGHT The M'lody KnlertalnT will supply the prr.Bi'Hin whh'h will be broaden. by Wll, The Slar-Hatfleld radio station. t'nlt(ht. U'-quests of fiidh. enthusiasts for w.e u- tlon of the major part of tonight's program to "peppy" dunce aeh'cUnti.

1 Member of the orchestra Hurt Ross, piano; Al Kishnian, xylophone; Ben Friedman, drum; I'M Mnloof. violin Ous Dumont, banjo, and RuhkcH Truelock. saxophone. The program follows: "Cmml th Knierta "Bweet Mama" Melody Tasln' Melody Kntertalner," "Vtrftinla Hhiea" Melody Kntrtalnern Xolitidv I.ln" Melody Knt rU Intra Reading Mark Cit nitron "Some Sunny Day Entertainers "Juat a Unit- I.ov Sons" Melody Entertainers The program will begin at 8:30 o'clock, so of Indiana Authorities Place Emergency Mining Plan in Operation National Guard Officers Attend Conference With Ad jutant General. INDIANA KTATi; t'AIMTOL.

Aug. 1. Production-of coal from Indiana mines, under stnte authority nnd with the pro- tectlnn of the Indiana National Guard, will be under way within a few days or I possibly a few hours us a result of or- lers Issued today by Governor MrCray. Following the refusal ot the Indiana miners to Issue permits for enough men to operate mines for emergency pur- poses and with the expiration of the flvu- ay period granted miners and operators In which to conclude a strike settlement, the Governor put Into operation ma chinery to mine coat under state super vision. At the same time the steps were taken which will lead to the reopening of some Indiana mines.

Governor McCray Issued n. call to the Governors of seven coal states to meet In Indianapolis, (Thursday morning to fllscus plans for co-operation In the production of emer gency coal 'supplier and a possible method of setttlmr tin strike. Th roach With Parleys. In a statement to the public, Gover- nor McCray let it he known that the "time has come for parleying to cense" and from this time forward the energies of the state government will be directed toward the production of coal Instead of attempts to have the miners nnd operators enter a strike settlement conference. With the miners and operators wrangling over whether the strike is to be adjusted in a four-sate or one-stato conference, the Governor determined to wait no longer for the two factions to reach an agreement.

Immediate plans of the Governor are necessarily withheld for the present, but an announcement that Indiana mines are in operation may be expected at any time. Officers of the Indiana National Guard, which Is engaged Jn summer training at Camp Knox. were In conference with Adjt. Gen. Harry B.

CONTINTRII ON PAOR FIVK. Reed 7,350 Behind in Missouri Rpmilpr ft fi Hanriirlatp neguiar u. u. r. uanomaie Apparently Indorsed.

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Brewster of Kmiishs! I'lty, indorsed by the regular Republl- ran organization, apparently has von; the Jtepuhllcan nomination for 1'nlted States Senator, on the face of turns from l.lut out of .1,848 precincts In thei state. The Pemncratlr. nomlnntlon re mains In doubt, with Breckinridge I.onjr, third assistant secretary of In' the Wilson Cabinet, leading Senator James A. Reed by T.UfiO votes in re-i turns from JAW precincts. W.

Aug. 2.VT) Wednesday 1- The lead of United States Senator Howard Sutherland over H. C. Ogdcn of Wheeling for the Republican senatorial nomination was increased to tf.000 votes when atate-wlde primary election returns from virtually one-third of the state precincts were complied this morning. M.

M. Neely, Fairmont, had a 3,000 lead over Mrs. Izetta Brown for the Democratic nomination, OKLAHOMA CITY. Aug. 1.

(VP) Mls Alice Robertson. Republican representative In Congress from the Second Oldahoma Congressional district, was lending her Republican opponent, (ius Ttnch. Ill to IS, In returns torn nine precincts out of Ufll, Mayor J. Walton of Oklahoma City, indorsed by the Farmer-1 abor Reconstruction league, un organization whose principles are sinillur to those of tin Xon-Partisan l-eague, who was deflnllt- ly blacklisted by the Ku Klux Klnn, swung Into lead of slightly more than votes, with 38.7.10 -votes counted In' today's Democratic gubernatorial prl-1 mary- Walton's closest opponent wns R. H.

Wilson, said to have been the Klan's choice for the nomination. Thorn a H. Owen, ex-Supreme court Justice, was third. The vote: Walton, 16.404: Wll- son, 12.479; Owen. 9.718.

RICHMOXn. Aug. I. Wl-Vrao-1 tically complete returns from three-' fourths nt the OU counties In Virginia! ami Kcatterlng returns from the other received by th- Times Dispatch give -ntiior nwansnn vote and westmoreiano uavis in the ronest for nomination to the I Tnlteil states Senate. TOPtlffA, Aug.

I. itP) Marly newspaper returns In today's state-wide primary from scattered parts of the state, indicate close races for th, Republican nominations for Oovernor, Su- CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT. Reports Indicate Other Associations Will Follow Indiana, Pittsburgh and Southern Ohio Bodizs in Refusal Eastern Ohio May Favor Move. INTERESTS AID STEP PHILADELPHIA. Auir.

1. A joint wage conference of operatora and miners In the central competitive coal flelrt, to be held In Cleveland, next Monday, was called today by Preaident L. Lewla of the United Mine and met with a flat refustl from part of the owners' association nnd Indlcatlona that the others will follow ult. The following- hao definitely rejected the miners- Invitation, according to offl-rlnl and unofficial dispatches The Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators' Association. The PlttsburRh Coal Producers" Association, comprising- the Pennsylvania district.

The Ohio Goal Exchange, comprising a part of the Ohio "district. Illinois Action Belayed. According to a dispatch from Chicago, the Illinois coal operators will paaa on Lewis's invitation when the atato operators' scale co-nmltteo ineeta there Friday, but the Indications are that Illinois will follow Indlana'a lead. Eastern Ohio operators previously have Indicated that they would bo willing; to Join in a four-state conference. A report that certain coal companies operating In northern West Virginia mlliht seek to enter the Cleveland con ference was confirmed here.

m8-1" ter would bo up to the conference, but It was aald that a contract with theae. oporators would be made aoon after an agreement la reached in the Cleveland meeting. If the West Virginians were not normitted to participate. The same governmental and financial influences which are said to have brought about the calling of the Cleve land conference will be exerted, It was aid, to make the meeting a success. Union Chief's Call.

In Issuing his call for a Joint wage conference at Cleveland, President Lewis also summoned the general policy committee of the union to meet In the Ohio city at the same time for the pur- of acting- promptly on oeveiop menls as they may occur. All men will remain on atrike until an agreement or definite understanding Is reached, he said. The follow! Jf telegram was sent to the oDeratK nterests In the centrol competitive which Is composed of western Tensylvanla, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois: "In behalf of the United Mine Work ers, I am berewlth Inviting the cool aerators of the centre! competitive field lo meet In' Joint Interstate conference at the Hollenden hotel, Cleveland, 0 CONTINVKI) ON PAflK KIVK. LEWIS MOVE MEANS DELAY, OGLE SAYS Morton L. Gould, president of the Indiana Bituminous Coal Operator Association, telegraphed Preaident John Lewis of the Mine Workers last night, refusing the latter' invitation to the Indiana operators' aaaoclatlon to send representatives to the central competitive Held wage conference in Cleveland, Monday.

Reports, for which a representative of the Mine Workers was responsible, that a portion of the Indiana tonnage would be represented at the conference, were denied Vigorously by Mr. Gould and other officers of the Indiana coal association. The Indiana operators as whole. It was said', will stand firm for a separate wage agreement affecting this state only. Mr.

Gould's message to Mr. Lewis follows "Replying to your telegram of this date, the operators of Indiana, repre sented by this association, decline to accept your Invitation to meet in Cleveland, Monday, Aug. 7." Predicts Delay Besuit. An attempt on the part of John 'L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, to hold "an abortive form of four-state conference" will delay final settlement, Alfred M.

Ogle, president of the National Coal Association, declared In a statement in which he reiterated the offer of Indiana mine operators to negotiate a separate wage agreement for this atato alone. Mr. Ogle charged that Mr. Lewis's trail for a meeting la directly opposed to the public interest for the reason that nn Interstate conference attended by representatives of only part of the tonnage In each state will confuse the Issues at stake. It Is the first time In collective bargaining In the coal industry, he said, that any one has attempted to dictate what form of conference should be held In the central competitive field.

"The arrangements whereby the four states, Indiana. Illinois, Ohio and west CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE. In Controller H9ue lndioates Levy win Be so oerus oh $100 of Taxables as Budgets Form. MAYOR WANTS ECONOMY Shrinkage in Valuations Also Faced Councilmen Hear Department Estimates. Probability that the tnx levy for the city of Indliinflpolls for 1 it'll will be shout PR rents nn each ftOU worth of tax shies was Indicated yesterday by Joseph Hogue, city controller.

This will be an Increase of cents over the M.2-rent levy for this year. Although Mayor Lew Shank nnd Mr. Hogue are demanding strict economy In municipal administration and have asked heads of departments to prune their estimates "to the limit," Indications point to an Increase of nt leant $100,000 over the 10L'2 figures on city expenditures. Aside from the Increase In levy necessitated by Increased anticipated expenditures, the city Is confronted by a considerable shrinkage In valuation figures. Cntinrlt Agreeable.

Several conferences have been held between administration officials and members of the city Council on budget estimates nnd thus far the roun-cltmen have expressed little disapproval of the tentative figures. It appears from these conferences that the budget will, be whipped into shape agreeable to administration heads and the council-men before-It Is sent up for passage. Even though the 1023 levy Is raised to nS cents It wlft not be as high as that for 1020. in the Jewett administration, which wns $1,001 on each $100 worth of taxable property. The 1020 high levy was made despite the fact that the' highest valuation In the history of the city was shown, on which $4.304, in revenues were collected.

Tills was the year before the election. In 1921 the levy was given a considerable cut, custom In election years. Comparative Flgnra. The budgets for six city departments for have been submitted by heads of departments and tentatively approved by the councilmen nnd controller. These nre shown In comparison with 1022 figures ns follows: Department of public safety asks 2.328,040.ri0r an Increase of nt pbne works asks an increase of n(iJnrtmrtItor nnanr increase $43,020.

Department of law asks an In- iTasr of $4, UK). Dcnnrtment of public purchase ssks stfi.I)"", an lucres of $1,700. city plan Vnimlsslnn asks I2H.3HO. an Increase of The city plan commission, however. operates under a separate levy from the ltv'n snral fund lew.

am do the snnl tsry department, health department and ps rk nd rerrea Hon departments. Tentative park department figures already submitted show an increase of fTfi.Mlg over this year's budget, as a total of wilt be asked. This will mean an Increase of the present 7-cent levy to between fi and 0 cents on tho flOO. The health bonrd will ask for next year, an Increase of which will also mean a levy he-tween 8 and 9 cents. The recreation department, which operates on a fixed 2-cent levy, estimates Its expenditures at IllS.O, decrease of AIR LIEUTENANT DIES IN FALL AT TEXAS FIELD SAN ANTONIO.

Aug. 1. Lieut. Sam I.unt, Kelly field aviator, met almost instant death here todny when his plane fell 1.10 feet as he whs attempting to land. He Is survived by a widow here ant) a mother, Mrs.

Caroline K. Lunt of Alexandria Va. The hody will be nt to Washington for burial In Arlington ce ne y. JURY DISCHARGED OBEN CHAIN CASE; PLAN THIRD TRIAL j.OH AN.JKI.KS, Aug. -The Jnrv In the case of Madalynne when- cnn'ln.

charged with the murder of J. Helton Kennedv here, lute this after- noon was discharged for failure to agree. This wns the second trial of the woman accused Jointly with Arthur nun-h, wh also has been tried twice, therefore, have been un rv.ur jijrin: able to reach a verdict In the killing of Kennedy. At the i-micliislon of Rurcli's second trial the proef-cutliin announced It would try him again because ti majority of the Jurors were for conviction. (..

McCartney, deputy district attorney, announced tonight that the state planned to try Mri. a third tiro. LOCAL. Indications point to $400,000 increase city expenditures for 3923. Holdup man refuses to take small change of woman victim.

Charles W. Miller of Indianapolis elected chairman of the Republican executive committee of Ind (ana at organ ization conference. DePauw university executive describes Dr. F. B.

Wynn as "great cltlxen" In eulogy at funeral. Mayor Hhnnk favors organization of alt mayors of state as means of maintaining lobby to work for beneficial municipal legislation at Legislature. Indianapolis lodge of Elks to enter tain more than f.00 orphans of city at Circle theater party and Riverside park outing today. Representatives of Western railroads admit three increases In Indiana rates- to Missouri river points did not apply to Illinois. STATE.

Muncte official replies to charges made by mayor In asking his resignation. Patriarchs Militant close business ses sions at Terre Haute and elect officers. Couple reunited after marriage of day following court action at Shelbyville. Missslon and Welfare societies open convention at Bethany park. DOMESTIC.

Six persons dead in New Tork as result of eating, pie from poisoned dough. Four sticks of dynamite and fuse are presented in evidence at trial of alleged Chicago terrorists. National Live Stock Association and Wool Growers' Association begin suit against Live Stock Exchange group, charging profiteering. Two negroes lynched by mobs in South. FOREIGN.

Irish irregular forcea retreat alone road to Cakcr, before attack of na tional army. Great Britain lets United States know cancellation of $3,000,000 war debt would be agreeable. Rome is armed camp as result of gen era! strike in protest against Fascist! reprisals. EDITORIALS. Business Shows Steady Gain.

Finger Printing Postal Employes. Brooklyn Bridge Obsolescent. Trees by the Road side. Britons Keep to the Left. Elcc tricky In Modern Life.

MARKETS AND FINANCIAL. Railroad stocks continue to show strength on New York Stock Exchange, with avcrage'prlce of twenty-five setting a new high record. Wheat makes new low price record for season, but decreased rural selling later leads to rally. Com gains with reports of crop damage in the Local live stock market presents re- actio nary aspect despite comparatively small receipts. Light and light mixed hogs, decline 10 to in cents a hundredweight.

Others remain steady. Government cotton report places pro- duction 11.449,000 bates. The crop: condition is given as 70.S. Report takes cotton market by surprise nnd rapid and excited advance In quotations follows. SPORTS.

Indians lose to St. Paul, I lo 0 and 8 to 3 and go down to third place. Brown defeat Boston, 3 to Pittsburgh defeats Giants for fourth straight time, 10 to 2 and reduces lead of National league leaders to slim margin. Washburn defeated by Hunter In Sea-bright tennis tourney. Patterson and Johnston winners.

De Pauw signs James Ashmore, ex-University of Iowa coach, as athletic director for one year. Grey Lag wins feature opening day race at Saratoga Springs. TRIES TO KILL SELF AFTER DRINKING HOME-MADE MULE William E. Tucker, 38 years old, liv ing a mile and a half east of Southport, after consuming some of his own brand of mule last night Is said to have run his wife out of the house and attempted suicide. Inflicting a slight knife wound in his throat and cutting a small place In his wrist.

Mrs. Tucker became alarmed and called Sheriff who. with Deputy Omer Hawkins went to Tucker's home with a search warrant and found a seventy-gallon still and about eighty gallons of white' mule. Tucker whj lying on the floor asleep when the officers found him. He was arrested on a blind tiger charge and his still and liquor were confiscated.

In Indianapolis Today. Klwanls Club, luncheon, flaypool hotel 12:15 p. m. Elks' j.nn ii I outing for orphan, Klrrr-ftlde park, hII day. American Ieglin Atisillarr.

meeting. Chamber of Commerce. p. Uon Club, luncheon. Hotel f.inrolrt, 12.1ft p.

m. Pleasant Klin Buulerard AMoriatlnn, meeting, MrKlnlcy school. State and Islington avenue. Itili o'clock, Delta Upsllon Fraternity. arhaon, Lincoln.

12:10 p. m. Purdue Alumni Asnorhv' luncheon, 111 North Illinois street MS p. m. Sigma Sfn Fraternity, lftneheoni Beard of Trade building, lffl5 p.

m. skv: ronic. Au i. art Hallway xrcutlvs of the nation today nrmly but rrsoliitoly rcjwtoi! the program advanced hy the Harding administration for set-tl'nlrnt of the rail MrlkV. Wllllnir to acrept conditionally two simcestlons put forward hy the Whlto House that hoth sides abide by wane decision of the rallroal lahor board and that law suits sprlnelne out of the.

strike he withdrawn the heads of US roads- declared emphatically that it wan Imporaildr to reinstate strikers with un- impaired seniority rlehfa, the third pro vision In the President's plan. After helnic told by Kobert S. Ixive nf the Pnlon Pacific that there was no moral or practical' reason for buddna; from tlirlr position the executives disbanded, rauaht the first trains for their uiat 'he were g-olna; ahead and would operate their roads with the force, ih.v had assembled since the shopmen walked out on July 1. Hoover'. Plea I.

Vain. The derision not to yield nn the question nf seniority waa made known to the White House by telegraph aftor the rail heads had listened to a twenty-minute address by Secretary of Commerce Hoover, who. as direct representative of th- President, told them. In effeet Hie administration held the seniority question of minor Importance In com parison with that of upholding the rail-road labor board. This action was token In the face of.

a leiier from President Harding addressed to T. Hewitt Cuyler. chairman of Ihe American Association of Railwav Kxecntlvea, embodying "tha terms of agreement, as I understand them, upon which the railway managera and united shop craft workers are to aree. prelim-Inary to calllnr off the existing atrike." President Hardin-had doled hia let-tar with theae two "I need hardly add that I have reason tn believe these terms will be accepted by the workers. If there la good reason why the managers can not accept, they will be obligated to open direct negotiation, or assume full responsibility for the situation." Call.

Settlement Imperative. In addition, Secr.tary Hoover had urged upon the eaecutlvea at their morning session, when the text of tho Harding letter waa read, that settlement of the rail strike was Imperative In view of the complicating condltlona Introduced by the coal strike. It became apparent from tha very opening of today's conference that tha seniority question would b. th wedge, which would divide administration and railway executives. After setting forth the reason why I hey held this an Insurmountable obstacle, the railroad chiefs ended their reply lo President Harding aa follows: "It Is submitted that the striking former employes can not be given preference In employes at present In the service, without doing vlolenco to every principle of right and Justlcs Involved (n (h)(( mriUrr HnJ without the grjssest Dn.ach of f(lUh on the pftrt ti( tha to tn(, men at pPMent in theiP IInnr It the ranroada can not consider any settlement of the Pl -r" id, piolrctlon In their present employment, tl)tn lo tnn who re- ln and lo the aew employes entering It.

Adapted hy Vote or 363 to Z. The only question which arose during the short period during which the President's proposal was under active discussion waa how emphatically the reply rejecting his plan should ba won led. In the balloting each road was given one vote for each 1,000 mllea of track It operated. The reply, drafted during tho noon recess by. the standing committee, whs adopted hy a vote of 203 to 3.

This, however, represented unanimous disapproval of the President's plan, tha two dissenting votes being caat by L. F. Iorec, chairman of the Eastern conference, representing the Delaware ft Hudson and the Kansas City Southern, with the explanation that ha wished the seniority proposal turned down even more decisively. Only two roads operating In tha I'nited States were not reported Top-resented at the conference. They were the Atlanta, Birmingham Atlantic and tho Culf A Ship Island, both of which were declared to have been unaffected by the shop craft strike.

Foremen Kntcr Pretest, President A. H. Smith of New ork Central apparently cryst allied the sentiment of the rail chiefs when, ln the midst of their discussion, In threw upon the conference table a bundle of 400 telegram from foremen aid super visors of the road, announcing they would have to resign If the seniority ranking of the strikers was returned. Immediately others leaped to their feet to testify to a similar condition among ofllclDts on their roads. Resignations would be wholesale, from subforeraen to general managers, If their personal pledges to protect recent employes could not he made good, they declared.

"What we want the government ta do Is to let us alone; to Jet us settle CONTINUED ON PAGE THBSK, Sellers Farm Is Abandoned. LEAGUE CALLS MEETING Rev. J. F. Weber Again Heads MoveAsserts 4,000 Names Are on Petition.

Dlsannexatlon of West Indianapolis as means of forcing the city to discon tinue the use of the Si Hers farm as a dumping ground Is again threatened by residents of that part of the city. The Rev. Joseph F. Weber a leader In the first West1 Indianapolis dlsannexatlon movement early last year, again Is active in the clrcutntlon of petitions. A meeting of the Enterprise Civic League has been called by Frank Turner, president, to be held Friday night In As sumption hall.

1105 Blaine avenue, to consider the dlsannexatlon question. Following- a conference between the Rev. Mr. Weber, Mr. Turner and several other leaders In the dlsannexatlon fight, the Rev.

Mr. Weber said a petition demanding- either that the Sellers farm nuisance be removed from West Indianapolis or that the privilege of dlsan nexatlon from the city bo allowed once will be presented to the city Council next Monday night. He said the pen lion haa been signed by members of 4,000 West Indianapolis families, and that there will ho at least 1,000 more signatures before next Monday night It la also probable that the petition will be presented to the board of public works and to the board of sanitary com-misslonora, Father Weber added. Protest Under Consideration. Mr.

Turner said the dlsannexatlon question would be discussed by the En-terorlse Civic League and that It had been brought up In the consideration of a protest against the proposed erection oi a new garbage reduction plant on Sellers farm, as announced Monday by Jay -A. Craven, president of the boaru of sanitary commissioners. Early last year residents of West In- rllnnntiolls. under the leadership or in. Enterprise Civic League, threatened to attempt dlsannexatlon of their part of the city If the Sellers rami nuisnnce were not immediately removed.

All can fOXTIKIIKI) ON rAOK TEN', ONLY NEW YORK'S P. O. CLERKS TO BE FINGER PRINTED WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.

Finger printing of post Hi employes will he confined io the New York postomre. Postmaster Gen-ral Worl. announced todav, the department having decided not to extend the practice, would entail a needless expense. Immediately sftr the arrest or a num ber of postal workers in aw several months ago. the postmaster gen eral suggested that the employes voluntarily submit to finger printing.

The re-ault was. it was later asserted, that out of the first i.V) cases, forty-nine workers were to have had criminal records. "The department has never seriously considered a nollcy of finger printing all of the 400,000 workers of the service," Postmaster General Work said. "Honest workers were found very willing to co-operate In eliminating those having criminal records, and thus far the department haa been commended by postal workers and organizations, for the action it tooltln Now York." WEATHER FORECAST Crow says: 8ome who imed to rock the boat now i ii themselveH try In it to beat trains over the crQiiHlnr. Forecast for Indiana for Wednesday Thursday: Somewhat unsct-t 1 "Wednesday Thursday probably fair; not much change in temperature.

Forecast for Indianapolis nnd vicinity for Wednesday nnd Thursday: Homewhut unsettled Wednesday: Thursday probably fair; not mm change In temperature. I'nltrd State Went her Hiirru Re-port fur The lndlnnapo Star, Al.MANAi: OP T1IK HAY. Si in I 1:44 Hun er at WKATH Kit rONPITIONS YKtf TKIUM V. Relative Hmtihilly. 7 a.

72 jiotiNnon. pel' 7 p. SS pet Prfcipltntlon. Amount fliirttn i wen ty-four lioura ending at 7 n. 03 Total amount linco 1.

24.70 Accumulated departurn frmn normal alnc 1 (fleflency) a TO Wet II Soon Dry "1 Wet IS 1 p. m. t7 Wst 64 Minimum. II For the 8m Dsts Last Taar. 7 a.

Maximum 17 p. 71 1 Minimum II -Mm.