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THE LARGEST MORNING DAILY CIRCULATION IN PENNSYLVANIA OUTSIDE OF PHILADELPHIA AND PITTSBURGH vj '4P The Weather Full Report of Associated Press Fair and cool today Sunday fair, alowly rising temperature. Temp, yesterday Max. 76. Mln. 61.

(For Full Details, Sea Page Two.) ESTABLISHED 1867 VOL. 132, NO. 16 MEMBER OP THE! ASSOCIATED PRESS SCRANTON, PA SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1925 TWENTY PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS Mi HI EWHJOlWtOST 111 1ST IS I Slffll DETROIT HAN TO v' COAL DECISION OF COURT, BARRING SCIENTISTS, SHEPHERD HAS LOST FIGHT TO GAIN MILLIONS PRESIDENT TAKE ACTV SITUATIO ARRANTS STARTS DARROW'S IRE Miners and Owners AS SCOPES TRIAL NEARS ITS END Silent on Reports of Intervention by U. S. Government Will Take Hand In Anthracite Dispute If Such I Action Is Necessary RS REPORT BY DAYIS Secretary of Labor Goes to Summer White House and Discusses the Outlook PROCEDURE NOT DISCLOSED Cabinet Member Is Leaving for England to Investigate Industrial Situation REVIEWS GUARD DIVISION Chief Executive Stops at Spot Where Was Fired "Shot That Was Heard Around World" SWAMPSCOTT, July 17 (A.

The Government will take a hand in the Anthracite field wage negotiations should an agreement not he reached and a strike called on September 1. Suspension of operations in the hard coal field has been considered likely unless the operators and miners reach a basis on which their deadlock can be broken. The program the Government will pursue in the event of a strike was digeussed at a three hour conference tore today by President coonage nd Secretary Davis. plan Is TJndlsclosea The specific plan of the government was not disclosed. Secretary Davis ventured no opinion as to the outcome of the wage negotiations now under way.

He pointed out, however, that the Department of Labor, through two mediators, was keeping in close touch with the discussion of the operators and the miners and was hoping an agreement would be reached before the present wage contracts expire on August 31. Secretary Davis came, to White Court to discuss several departmental matters before sailing tomorrow for England, but the coal situation received particular emphasis during his conference with the President. There was no hint by the President of the plan of procedure by the government In case a strike is called. Mr. Davis will return to this country on August 25, a week before the expiration of the present wage agreement in the anthracite field.

While in England the secretary expects to study industrial conditions, a (Continued on Page Two.) TWO MEN ELECTROCUTED BY POWERFUL SHOCKS HAZLETON, July 17 (A. Two colliery electricians, employed at different operations In this region, were electrocuted today. Frank Pelock, 28, of Freeland, electrician at an electric hoist at the Drlfton number nine colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, was killed by 11.000 volts when he crawled WIRES HE SAW SCOTT KILLING Telegraph Operator Tells llli nois Governor Condemned Man's Brother Is Guilty HIS STORY IS CALLED "PURE FAKE" BY ATTORNEY Chicago Slayer in Death Cel Skeptical That Brother Will Ever Give Self Up DETROIT, July 17, (A. James M. Ball, local telegraph operator to ight telegraphed Governor Small, of Illinois, that he was a witness to the shooting of Joseph Maurer in a Chi cas drus store a year and that l0er and not RusseH Scott was the muraerer.

Ball's Story Ball, an operator for the Postal Telegraph Companj here, said he paid no attention to Scott's trial in Chi cago as he seldom had time to read the newspapers. However, he saw picture of Russell Scott In a newspv per here yesterday and immediately .1 i luenuiieu it hi me unciiess 01 vna ui the men who participated in the affair jn which Maurer was killed. Ball, who is a poor man, debated some time before notifying Governor Small of the mislakei reanzing that it would take him from his work and that his family might suffer if he quit work to testify. Today, however, Ball decided to tele graph Scott's father that he had im portant evidence and asked Scott's father to come here. The elder Mr.

Scott placed the matter in the hands of aft attorney. Willing to Appear This evening, receiving no word from Chicago, Ball telegraphed Governor Small that he would appear before the Illinois exectttve If wanted, will ewear that Robert and not Russell la the slayer and that the shooting did not occnr in holdup, as the State alleged In Russell Scott's trial, but during an argument over a bill which the two brothers were trying to collect. Ball was In the City Hall drug store when the killing took place. He said that Robert tried to collect a bill from Mauer and that a heated argument took paee. 'When Russell saw a fight might come, he stepped in and told his broth er the sum was too trivial to make such a fuss over and that they had better leave before some one got hurt.

Robert refused, however, and when Mauer made a motion as if to threaten him, he bent forward and fired several shots "It happened so quickly I don't know exactly how many shots were fired or where Robert fired from. He 11 1 view. But anyhow Russell, the elder brother, was standing with his hands to his sides and couldn't have done it. COTT 8XSFTICAX. CHICAGO, July 17 (A.

Russell Scott, one time Canadian financier, snatched from the gallows by a week's reprieve from Governor Small a few hours before he was to have been hanged today for the murder of a drug store clerk in a holdup, tonight was as skeptical as the authorities over the authenticity of a telegram that saved him from death for a week. Scott and his brother, Robert, were both Indicted for the murder of the drug cferk, but Robert was never ap prehended. The reprieve, the latest of many Scott has received, came after a tele (Continued on Page Two.) AGED MAN VOLUNTEERS mr nrTU nil A I lU Ult IN UtAIH lHAIM WASHINGTON. July 17. (A.

a volunteer for the electric chair was ntt th ritri of rninmMa Com tnrtnv. nrnvirted the Prosi dent and all of the state governors witness the execution. E. B. Dudding, head of the Prisoners' Relief Society, offered to produce a martyr for the purpose of furthering his fight against capital punishment, land he volunteered to contribute his own services to the extent of turning on the electric current.

The chair has recently been author lzed for the district. Pudding's volun teer was described as an old man who once was sentenced to death for mur der and later acquitted. WWHWWHWII IIWII III IIIIBH Copyright by roolflo ft Atlantic Photos, Upper picture shows "William J. does not like, to posb for his photograph, but his father induced him to stand with him "Just once." Lower picture shows Mrs. Darrow, wife of the attorney tor tne dettnse, ana George Ak Rappeyea, one of the defense counsel.

Sharp Words Directed at Judge roiiow the Reading of His Opinion on Experts SAYS BENCH WASTES TIME Counsel for Defense Attempts Humiliate Jurist and Is Thereupon Warned PROOF WILL BE STATED Either Verbally or in Brief Form, Scientific Data Be Placed on Record JURY TO COME IN MONDAY Now Believed That Entire Case Will Be Placed in Their Hands Tuesday Afternoon DAYTON, July 17 (A. The briefest session yet of the court trying the Scopes case today brought the stormiest hour of the trial and forecast an early end of the "Evolution test." Judge John T. Raulston by excluding proposed testimony from an array of scientists, shortened the trial by days. The court's de cision aroused the ire of attorneys for the defense, sharp words being directed at the court soon after he had read hia opinion. Adjourn Until Monday With their experts precluded from taking the witness stand the defense will place affidavits in the record set ting forth what the zoologists, biolo gists, pathologists and others would have said had they been allowed to speak.

To permit the preparation of these statements adjournment was ordered until Monday morning. JTo Defense witnesses. ne aeiense was not expected to offer other witnesses and after filing of the scientifio statements, arguments would be in order. Varying estimates were maue or the time required for speech making, but it was considered probable that speaking "would be con cluded in two days and the case given io me jury some time Tuesday. Today's session was devoted to the reading of the Judicial decree against occupancy or the witness stand by smenusis, ana sharp language by at torneys.

The first flare up from the defense table came immediately after th opinion was read, when Arthur O. Hays asked that an exception be noted, adding: "It Is contrary to every element of Anglo Saxon procedure and jurisprudence to refuse to permit evidence as to what evolution Is and what It means and what the Bible is and what It means." Reflection on Court. Attorney General Stewart objected to the manner in which the de (Continued on Page Two.) POLICE AND REDS BATTLE IN STREETS. OF WARSAW WARSAW, July 17 (A. Street fighting between three Communists and the police in Warsaw's busiest streets at noon today caused a score of casualties.

The fight started when two detectives stopped and asked the three men to show their credentials. Two of them drew revolvers and fatally shot one of the detectives. The men then, ran away firing their pistols to hold off the crowd of pursuers. Finally they were brought down bt bullet wounds in the feet and leg The police suffered seven wounded, and eight to ten persons were Injured among the street crowds. Break Up Bootleg Ring Customers Through and Middle West shipping liquor by express in traveLing agents, were sent to the customers then returned by express.

More than Man Recently Acquitted of Murder Denied Right to Pro bate Will of Dead Ward SUSPICION OF UNDUE INFLUENCE IS SHOWN Custodian Will Be Appointed By Court If Various Litigants Cannot Agree CHICAGO, July 17 (A. Wil Ham Darling Shepherd, recently ac quitted of the murder of William Nelson McClintock, millionaire orphan and his ward, today lost his first legal skirmish to gain possession of the million dollar estate left him by McClintock's will. Undo Influence. Probate Judge Henry. Horner refused to admit to probate the will, leaving to Shepherd all of the estate except for an 18.000 annuity to Miss Isabelle Pope, young McClintock's fiancee, Probation was refused on the ground of a "presumption of undue influence, Judge Horner decided it was the duty of proponents of the will to disprovi undue influence In the higher courts.

Immediately after' the decision, the litigants Shepherd on the one side and Wne Iowa cousins of McClintock and Miss Pope on the other started a second contest over the administration of the estate. Attorneys for the contest. ants were unable to agree on an ad. ministrator and the hearing finally was continued until next Tuesday, when if an agreement is not reached, the court Will name a custodian. What Opponents Bala.

Attorneys for the contestants argued that Shepherd as the principal bene. ficiary, had drawn up the will himself, that he had lived wtia young McClin tock, and that two women employed in Shepherd's household, one of them un able to read, had witnessed the in strument. All of this, they contended, was Irregular and showed undue influence. Judge Horner said that no undue Influence had been proven, but while there was a presumption of such, it was the duty of the proponents to disprove this. Shepherd attorneys Indicated an Immediate appeal would be taken.

MAN KILLED BY STREET CAR IN PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA, July 17 (A. .) An unidentified man was killed when he stepped in front of a crowded Philadelphia and West Chester Trac tion Company trolley car at Ardmore Junction, near here, tonight, and was struck before the motorman could stop the car. The impact of the car against the man's body was so great that the car was derailed. None of the passengers were Injured although considerable excitement was caused' when those riding near the front seeing the man on the tracks, called to Motorman Spencer W. Fran, els to stop the car.

Their cries brought other passengers to their feet who, fearing a wreck, made for the doors, They were quieted by; the motorman and the conductor. Francis was arrested on a charge of Involuntary manslaughter. MAN ENDS LIFE WITH STICK OF DYNAMITE SHENANDOAH. July II (A. John Smeran, a miner, committed suicide in Odd Fellows' Cemetery to day by holding a stick of dynamite, to which a lighted fuse was attached, to head.

The explosion tore off his right hand" and shattered his skull. No reason could be assigned by the police for his act. He was GO years old. ATALLY WOUNDS GIRL AND COMMITS SUICIDE FALL RIVER, July 17 (A. Charles Mlrlsic.

40, today prob ably fatally wounded with a revolver Helen Oslekwici, 20, when she came to his lodging house to Invite his landlady to her wedding tomorrow to Roman Domnarisky. Mlrlsics then killed himself with a shot nred into his brain. who tied up street car and automobile the lamp that set Chicago ablaze. xne motorman jammed on tne brakes, muttering a curse on dogs who resolved to hara kira by street car. The car stopped with a jerk.

Passen gers were jounced from their seats, threatening to sit down In laps where they had no business to be. Bundles and packages went sailing. An old lady emitted a ladylike chirp of alarm. From beneath the right truck shrill yelps split the air. The motorman got down to Investigate and found that (OoMlnued oa Pgs PEPPER AND REED ENDORSE DUNSMORE Senators Urge His Reappointment As United States Attorney Here NO HITCH ANTICIPATED Also Recommend William C.

Murdock for. Prohibition Administrator By J. ntEDEBICr SSSA1X Special to The Republican. WASHINGTON1, July IS. Senators George Wharton Pepper and David A.

Reed, of Pennsylvania, joined today In recommending the reappointment of Andrew B. Dunsmore to be United States District Attorney for Middle district of Pennsylvania of which Scranton is the headquarters. At the same time the two senators urged upon the President the appointment of John D. Meyer, of Pittsburgh, to be United States District Attorney foe the Western district to succeed Wal ter Lyon and the reappointment of George W. Coles, of Philadelphia, to be United States District Attorney for the Eastern district.

Back Murdock Also the two senators have asked Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Lincoln Andrews, to appoint William G. Murdock, now state prohibition director to be prohibition administrator of the newly created Fifth sone whicn embraces Eastern Pennsylvania ajnd New Jersey. No recommendation was made for an administrator for the Fourth dis trict which includes Western Penn. sylvania. Senator Heed is not yet prepared to announce his choice for that position.

These recommendations were made to the Treasury and the Department of Justice for the Information of the President by Senator pepper In person, who came to Washington today direct from a long conference In Pittsburgh with his Ileague Senator Reed. The latter did not come to the capital, but authorized Senator Pwper to say to administration officials that he Joins in the four recommendations made to day. Practically Assured With the two Pennsylvania senators In accord regarding these appoint ments there is little likelihood that any of them, with the possible excea tlon of the prohibition administrators, will be turned down. The district at torney appointments are practically sure to go through. Assistant Secre tary Andrews has Insisted that po litical influence will not control hlra In naming the new prohibition admin lstrators, but at the same time he ha Invited senators to give him the bene fit of their views regarding candidates for these positions.

When Senator Pepper was asked to day if he regarded his visit to Secre tary Andrews as political, he said that If the recommendation of two United States senators from a state regarding the appointment of a man to a hig government position in that state is to be regarded as political, then "make the worst of it. Today's recommendations follow closely upon that made by the" two senators early In the week for the reappointment of John H. Glass to be (Continued on Page Two.) are expected to qualify for rifle merits. All is ready for the annual rM shooting match between two picked teams representing the 109th and the 110th Regiments, to be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The winner will receive the brigade title.

At present the rifle rhanpionshlp title is held by' the Northeastern Pennsylvania outfit, who defeated the 110. last year. Scranton guardsmen will be given a vacation from training Sunday and the rest will come as a welcome to the khaki clad men. The training this season has been of a far more advanced nature than in any previous camp and has resulted in more strenuous work. All camp calls will be one hour later than usual.

Rev. T. T. Richards, chaplain of the regiment, will conduct the Sunday morning services In the large open (Continued on Pag Two.) Atlantic City Parley Adjourns Until Tuesday Following Brief Session UNION LEADERS 60 TO DISTRICT 1 MEETING Operators Agree to Supply Fig ures on Salaries of Companies' Heads Special From a. Staff Correspondent.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. July 17. A a nmsr. bickered through a Dnei session to rlnv nd t.hpn adjourned until Tues i .1 day to permit the miners leaders to attend the district convention on Monday. To Give Figures.

The pay of the presidents and other officials of the coal companies was thj subject of today's debate, Vice President Philip Murray and his asso ciates contending that excessive sal aries paid officials and lawyers add greatly to the cost of coal, while Major W. HV Inglls, of Scranton, 'and his operator associates Insisted that they are not factors. Although at the conclusion of the meeting, Mr. Murray said the salary lists had been refused, the spokesman I for he operators said they will be produced when the committee sits again, complete figures not being at hand here, adding that these salaries are no figured, in. the labor cost of anthra.

cite. Silent oa Davis' Call. Neither side would comment for publication of the reports from Swampscott, following the call of Sec. retary of Labor James J. Davis upon President Coolidge, that plans are In the making for Federal intervention.

Privately they declined to take these reports seriously, pointing out that the Federal government Is doing no more than it did in 1923, when, after Mr. Davis had tried his hand, the Fresl dent left it to Governor Pinchot to Alii) iYia lrlnf cttcnanctnn Hha ranr. sentatives are however, taking no part in the proceedings. They are "lookers on in Vienna." More important than words rhowlng what the operators expect to follow from the conferences here or from Federal Intervention the resumption of work by two of the largest com ponies on great culm banks, long idle. The discussion of salaries to officers and fees to lawyers developed In the elicit of the miners to get what they assert is the real labor cost of mining coal, their contention being that costs, I as fixed by the operators are execs 1 sively high and represent items not piiperly chargeable.

"In the discussion of wages," said Mr. Murray after the meeting, "we have tried to get exact figures the operators as to the exact cost of mining a ton of coal, they having charged that It is our wages that are responsible for hieh costs to the con sumer. In order to ascertain all the utia wo luuijr lequesieu opersiors for the salaries paid the presidents of I the coal companies and their directors I and the Huge sums paid lawyers. We I believe these represent substantial I Items. I Acenses Operators.

"The operators said they believed I this to be Irrelevant and not worthy I of consideration." I Murray specifically charged that the I operators are retarding the progress I (Continued on Page Two.) HIGH POWERED STATION TO SEND PROGRAMS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC NEW YORK, July 17. (A.P.).. David Sarnof, vice president and gen eral manager of the Radio Corporation of America, cabled his office from London today that he had signed an agreement with the British Broad casting Company for the construction of a hlghpowered station to send I nightly programs across the Atlantic I for American listeners. The service probably will be estab lished this Fall. The power station, to be built In England, will be three times as powerful as any station now in London.

NOT ENOUGH VOTERS FOR SPECIAL ELECTION SUNBURT, July 17. (A.P.) The city commission today found after a close check up that 1,401 names on a petition seeking a special election whereby the matter of going back to a borough might be voted on are not enough. They found 9,000 persons proximately registered as voters. The law says that before a special elec tlon may be held a petition carrying the names of twenty five per cent of the qualified voters must be filed. Sunbury has been functioning as a I third1 class city for nearly four years, I and this form of government Is being bitterly opposed.

I I I Bryan and his son, W. Jr. The latter STROKE IS FATAL TO DAVID R. JOHN Former County Treasurer Succumbs at Home of His Daughter on Willow Street WAS STRICKEN MONDAY An Active Candidate for' the Republican Nomination for Sheriff David R. John, of Dalton, former county treasurer, and one of the county's best known residents, died last night at 8 o'clock, at the home of his daughter, Fred A.

Westpfahl, 639 Willow street, where he was stricken with apoplexy, Monday. The funeral announcement will be made later. Mr. John came to this city Monday morning going directly to the home of his daughter in South Scranton. A short time later he was stricken.

His physician, Dr. D. A. Capwell, was summoned and he later held a consultation with Drs. E.

L. Klesel and L. M. Gates. Pamlly at Bedside Mr.

John showed considerable, lm provement up until yesterday morning, when he took a turn for the worse. He lapsed into unconsciousness about noon and grew gradually weaker until (Continued on Page Two.) JH(ip the hoist to replace a fuse with Vout first turning off the power. f' John Raetz, 28, of West Hasle ton, electrician at the Beaver Brook colliery of the C. M. Dodson Coal Company, was electrocuted at 2 p.

m. today when his arm came In contact with a live transformer while he was repairing an oil switch. He was killed instantly when the 2200 volts passed through his body. MOVIE COMPANIES TO HELP "EXTRAS" Hays Evolves Plan Which He Characterizes As "Most Constructive Move" WILL RECAST "MISFITS" Central Bureau Will Shunt Many Applicants Into Other Lines of Endeavor view YORK. July 17 (A.

Ab lition of the present system of em "extras" for the movies at Hollywood, through commercial agen cies, was announced touay oy win n. Hays, president of the Motion Pic ture Producers and JJistriDUiors oi America, in a tolegram to tne iociu offices of that organization. The action was taken on recommendation of the department of industrial studies of the Russell Sage Foundation, which rj cently completed, an investigation of employment conditions in the mov.i metropolis. It Is considered by everyone to ue one or tne most construtivo ever. taken by the motion picture l.i dustry," said Mr.

Hays. "It will automatically wipe out of existence all questionable employment agencies, make up schools, schools for acting and other pretended agencies preying on a gullible public and giving noti ing in return." Central Casting Bureau As a substitute, the producers will organize a central casting bureau which will register applicants without charge and at the same time will endeavor, to decrease the surplus by shunting Into other lines those who seem to be untiuited for the films. The survey at Hollywood, according to the Sage Foundation, snowca a heavy excess of applicants over po sitlons. Even those who succeed In secur ing engagements, the report sain. have only Irregular employment so long as they continue as extras.

While in Hollywood, they tramp from studio to studio and also register at employment agencies. This excessive number of applicants has encouraged the growth of theso agencies which charge the unusually high fee of ten per cent. not only for the first engagement but for every subsequent engagement made for the same person." TXXaTIXS WITH CAHA9A WASHINGTON, July 17. (A.P.) he State Department today ox changed with Groat Britain ratification of four recently completed treaties concerning the Dominion of Can ada. The exchange was carried out through Ernest Laporte, Canadian minister of justice, who acted for Great Britain, Expect Many Visitors At Mt.

Gretna Camp Today Scranton Guardsmen Bring Rifle Practice Work to Close Annual Shooting Match Today Regiment Parade Called Off BirdDog, Trapped Beneath Federal Agents Wheels of Street Car, Ties Big "Trunk" Up Linden Street Traffic Arrest 7 Men and 1 Woman, and Find That Gang Canine's Paw Caught Between Truck and Rail Neces Had Twenty Thousand out New York State sitates Use of Jack to Free Animal and Set Things Moving Once More Special From a Staff Correspondent. CAMP ASHER MINER, MT. GRETNA, July 17. Bringing to a clcso their rifle practice work on the range for the present camp season, rlflem of the 101th Regiment spent' five strenuous hours on the range this afternoon, firing at 600 yards slow fire. Practically all of next week will be devoted to parades, reviews, basic military training and various military problems.

The parade of the entire 109th Regiment, scheduled for this afterno was called off. due to the original pro NEW YORK, July 17 (A. A bootleg ring operating throughout New The common ordinary bird dog York and the entire Middle West by traftlo on Linden street yesterday afternoon, takes rank with Mrs. O'Leary'i trunks was broken up today, prohibition agents said, after the arrest of seven men and one woman and the seizure of books and papers containig the names and addresses of clients and showing that approximately 20,000 tpam fining Int.rpfint htf iYin antt orders had been filled. Keys to the.

trunks, according to the by mail, and the empty trunks were itorms during the past two days. Annual Shoot Today cow, the hletorio bovine who kicked over Sashes from Curb. It happened between Adams and Jef feson avenues while a Nay Aug Park street car was proceeding peacefully on Its way up Linden street. As the car rocked serenely over the rails, a dog darted out from the curb. To the motorman's eagle eye he looked like a canine who had been disappointed in love.

All appearances indicated that he had every intention of ending It all luader ths wheels of thi street car. 40 solicitors went throughout the Middle West taking orders for liquor, United States Attorney Emory R. Bruckner said. rom ui muicawons nnu reports made by officers in charge of the firing range, the Scranton riflemen nre making some very good marks on the rang. large number of the men The eight persons arrested on charges of conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws were arraigned before a U.

Commissioner here and held for triaL 4 ft.