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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE ASSOCIATED PRESS NETS COMPLETE STOCK MARKET Volume Sit No. 204 NEW YOliK CITY, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1022. 28 PACES II IK EE CENTS. FAIR. MODERATE TEMPERATURE AND MODERATE TO FRESH WINDS TONIGHT.

Temperature today, 12 M. (Eagle Year ago .89 Complete Report on Page 7. FOUR O'CLOCK. ACCUSES HARDING'S PRESIDENT TO ACT Enright Home From Tour Of Europe, Reveals Plan To Check World Crime Wave IF OPERATORS FAIL BORAH URGES U. S.

INQUIRY LOOKING TO MINE SEIZURE; COAL CONTROLPLAN READY s. HERE AND NOW GDVERNMENT WILL Senator Proposes Citizens' Commission Named by the President to Consider Nationalizing of Industry and Standardizing of Living Costs and Working Conditions at Mines. DOCTOR OF BLOCKING CARE FOR WOUNDED Col. Sprague Calls Gen. Sawyer "Penurious and Mercenary." Latter Replies.

(By the Associated rrcss.) Chicago, July 25 Col. A. A. Sprague, chairman of the American Legion's National Rehabilitation Committee, in a letter to Brig. Gen.

E. Sawyer, personal physician to President Harding and chief co-ordinator of the Federal Board of Hospitalization, made public today, charges that Gen. Sawyer Is standing in the way of proper care for wounded and shell-shocked veterans and holding up hospital plans voted by Congress. Appealing to Gen. Sawyer to "stand aside," Col.

Sprague said more than 4,600 mental cases still are confined In contract Institutions and that of the remaining 4,715 victims of mental disorders only 3,500 are in Government institutions devoted entirely to their rare. Quoting from a letter received from Gen. Sawyer, In which the chief co-or-dlnator said "I am convinced that the peak of hospitalization has been passed" and that the Government had sufficient beds, except in two districts. Col. Sprague replied: "It Is almost unbelievable that, having satisfied Congress that these hospitals were needed and that they should be built to capacity, that we now have to reply to your statement that they are unnecessary.

"The reply of the American Legion and every real American is: "Give these men the best care that medical science can provide in Government, institutions maintained at the highest standard of equipment and administration and near to their own homes so that, if rehabilitated they can be returned to civil life with greater ease, and if doomed to hospitalization, they can be near those whom they love best. years have already passed and the veteran has not yet been provided for. A belated program is now being held up ami changed. It is bring changed to meet your approval. "I appeal to you, sir, to stand aside and allow this program of the.

Veterans' Bureau to go into effect and at once." The Sprague letter follows one written by the General July 12 to Col. Sprague dealing with the Legion's demands for hospital care of the. wounded under the Langley appropriation bill. Replying to charges (hat he, was "penurious and mercenary," Gen. Sawyer said: "God forbid that a dollar should ever be considered in comparison with the results we are seeking for the World War veterans, but at the same time let me say that it is our duty to oppose wastefulness and senseless expenditure wherever it is found possible to do so." TO PRODUCE GOAL Hints Government Will Step in If Mines Are Not Re opened Soon.

Washington, July 25 The Railroad Labor Board remains the only agency through which tho Government can and will deal with the railroad strike aituation, though President Harding Is continuing to hold himself in contact with all actions which the board takes in the matter, it was said today at the White House. The Administration In the railroad trike, as in the coal controversy, it was asserted, Intends to proceed in fairness to the interests involved and with the determination to maintain the dignity and majesty of tho United Btates Government. In accordance with this policy It believes that all labor controversies should be placed before the Railroad Labor Board, the eole authority under the acts of Con gress. (By the Associated Press.) Chicago, July 25 The railroad strike combined with the coal strike was being brought home to the public today through the announcements of leaders in several industries that unless a speedy settlement was reached Closing of the plants with resulting un employment, rationing of fuel and food supplies and a crippling of public Utilities service would result. Steel plants, especially in the East, will be closed on a wholesale scale if present conditions continue until Au gust, according to the head of a large ateel corporation.

Industrial coal was eaid to be unobtainable at any price In New York. In Chicago increases of from $5.25 to $15.25 a ton in coal prices were announced. A shortage of coal cars in bituminous fields has caused an appreciable decline in pro duction. The close relationship which the strikes were assuming was seen In the Statement of H. B.

Trumbower of the Wisconsin Railroad Commission, that If the coal strike lasted an additional two weeks rail transportation in that State would be at a standstill. Official Washington still maintained silence on the rail situation, but it was confidently expected that Presi dent Harding would begin action to end the shopmen's strike during the week. In some quarters it was believed that the next move might come through the Railroad Labor Board. it was pointed out that the board has power to grant full recognition to the new shopmen's unions which 40 Eastern railroads under the lead ership of L. F.

Loree. Eastern re gional chairman of the Association of Railway Executives, contemplate lorming. Pin. Hope" on Conference Today ttopes tor immediate peace were Mrs. Gurnee Munn Robbed of Cosily Bracelet in Paris Paris, July 25 (By llie Associated Press) Mrs.

Gurnee Munn. tlniifrtiter or Rodman Waiwi maker of Philadelphia, lias horn robbed of a platinum bracelet, set uith gems, valued at 250,000 francs, according to an announcement by 1h' Journal today. Several of Hie cleverest detectives of Purls have liecn nssigned lo the rasp, hut so far they have developed no plausible lines. The Miiinis ntiil Rodman Wana-niaker am in Purls for the summer, It was sold at the New York residence of Rodman and John Wiinamaker, Jr. today.

Mrs. Munn, aceortlliiK to recent cable dispatches from tho French capital, intended to leave there soon for Dcativlllc. Mrs. Miinn's brother keeps up a home hi Paris. He went to lUii'opc last June on the Olympic in the company of Police Commissioner Kiiright.

WADSWORTH JOINS LENROOT IN FIGHT ON WOOL SCHEDULE Washington, July 25 Senator Wadsworth, Republican, New York, joined today with Senator Lenroot. Republican, Wisconsin, in the tight on duties on coarse wools, proposed in five pending Tariff Bill. He. said he did not believe a. rate equivalent, io 137 percent ad valove.m or even of 90 percent on such wools be justified and added that "the urious spectacle" was presented of proposing the lowest ad valorem duly on clothing for the rich and the highest on clothing for the poor.

Like senator Leni ent, Senator Wads-worth said he had no complaint to make against the 33 cents a pound duty on the tine- wools, such as produced In quantity in the United States. He declared the woolen industry was one of great Importance to the country and should he sustained, but added that very little of the coarse wool was produced, in the United States. Whether Senator Lenroot could swing enough Republican votes to overturn, with the aid of the Democrats, the Finance Committee majority and the Agricultural-tariff bloc In the matter of a maximum rate of HO percent duty on coarse wool and its manufactures was a debatable question today at the Capitol. Claims were made both wavs. The Wisconsin Senator, who sought to have the committee accept his proposal and thus avoid an open break In the Senate, was determined to make his fight all along the line unless the committee gave way.

It was his plan to offer a 60 percent limitation amendment to each paragraph in the wool schedule. A vote on the first that rcluting to carpet wools was expected today. MRS. GURNEE MUNN ll ll Rides of Union Hampering Output Caused Showdown, Says Operators9 Spokesman n.the meeting today of offl ials of the Baltitiaore and Ohio Rail Police Commissioner Richard E. Enright Bteamed triumphantly into the arms of his Police Department aboard the White Star liner Majestic at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon after nearly two months spent In intensive study of the police departments in the capitals cf Europe, which, he said without preamble, had convinced him that his Finest are the finest of them all.

Besides copious and voluminous praises for the New York City Police the Commissioner brought back with him a hat full of plans, foremost among them being one which he believes will systematically internationalize the gentle art of suppressing crime and go a long way toward cleaning up the earth. The first step in this plan, he explained, will be taken some time in September, when the police heads of London, Paris, lenna, Rome, Naples, Brussels and Berlin will come to New-York for the first international conference In a series designed to coordinate the police of the world's principal cities into a universal bureau for the interchange of ideas, information and crime control methods. Warm Homecoming. It was a riotous, torridly warm home coming for the Commissioner. The Majestic docked at the foot of 18th st.

nearly five hours late, but the do-lay did not appreciably dull the enthusiasm of the official and self-appointed contingents of welcome. The John F. Hylan, flagship of the municipal fleet, met the Majestic at Quar antine with the Police Department Glee Club working in top form and the Street Cleaning Department band blaring "Hail to the Chief." Besides the band and the dee Club the flag ship carried Acting Police Commissioner John A. Leach, Deputy Commissioner John Cray, Chief Inspec'or William J. Lahcy and others.

"Doggone Glad to Get Back." Closely following the John F. Hylan came the Dock Department boat Manhattan bearing still other welcomers. Lined up at the dock, bounded on all sides by crowds which the police had some difficulty in keeping in line, waited the Citizens Committee of Welcome, Thomas Hassett, chairman, wtih a squad of traffic policemen as an honor guard drawn up at the gangplank. "I'm doggoone glad to be back," raid the commissioner, radiating an expansive smilo as he stepped Into the middle of things. "More than that, I'm overcome.

This is some welcome." Commissioner Enright said he found that Scotland Yard in England and the Paris Prefecture, France's famed crime bureau, operated along the same general lines as the Central Office in New York City. "They aren't, any bettor, and not much worse, than the system in vogue over here," he said. SUES ST. JOHNLAND $15,000 Mrs. Clotilda Holloway has brought suit in Supreme Court for $15,000 against the Society of St.

Johnland, which has an establishment at Kings. Park, L. for injuries she received by falling on a rustic stairwa'-in June of last year. She was there to visit her daughter, employed as a nurse. The society today asked Justice Cron sey to dismiss her complaint on the ground that she was there not for any nenent to tne society, and was a mere "licensee" when she was injured.

Decision was reserved. TURKISH WAR LORD ASSASSINATED; TWO ARMENIANS SEIZED Tlflis, Republic of Georgia, July 25 (By the Associated Press) Djemal Pasha, former Minister of Marine in the Turkish Unionist Government, chief of staff of the Afghan army, has been assassinated here. Two Armenians are charged with the crime. Djemal Pasha was one of the three Turkish officials who were the leaders of the Turkish Government during the war. With his associates, Enver Pasha and Taalat Bey, he was tried by a Turkish courtmartial at Constantinople in July, 1919, and condemned to death.

With Knver and Taalat, however, he had fled from Turkey several months before, just prior to the armistice. The court-martial which condemned them was Instituted to undertake prosecutions under the new regime for the purpose of clearing the Turkish people as a. whole from blame for joining in the war and for the Armenian, Greek and Syrian massacres and deportations. MAP SCENE OF CRIME WHERE LOEWE WAS SHOT District Attorney Ruston and As sistant District Attorney Hcmstrcet, In company with Detective Capt. John J.

Sullivan, yesterday afternoon visited the scene in tho rear yard of 251 8th st. of the killing on Saturday of Patrolman Arthur V. Loewe of the 6th ave. station, who was shot while trying to round up four men. John Walsh, known as "Liverpool Jack." who died of bullet wounds, was one of the four.

Diagrams were made f.nd crreful attention was paid to the pien and conditions in the year by the visitors. The trip was made to accuatnt themselves with the scene of tht- crime in the event that the other three men are arrested. Walsh lived at 42 Carlton ave. Patrolman Loewe will be buried to morrow. $8,000 Ryan Account In Name of Henry" Search of the testimony of the Meyer committee, which probed' New York City officials last summer, revealed today that Police Inspector Domlnick Henry had had an account with Allan A.

Ryan, according to the testimony of Ryan. An account of about $8,000 under the name Henry" was brought to light yesterday in the Ryan matter. Inspector Henry said he did not believe it was his. Later he said: "No, I never had an account with Allan A. Ryan." The Mever committee records show that on Sept.

14, 1921, at an executive session of the group, Ryan was questioned. He was shown a list of accounts. Including the names "Richard E. Enright, Thomas Underfill! and Domlnick Henry," and was asked if they were accounts with him. He answered: "Yes." TAKE CONTROL OF To Withhold Cars from Mines That Try to Rob Pubilc, Hoover Asserts.

Prcndergast and Hoover Confer on Coal Rationing Ragle Bureau, 901 Colorado Building. Washington, July 25 Under Instructions from Governor Miller lo ronsult and co-operate with the Federal Government In providing coal for publie utilities In New York State, William A. Ten ler-gast. chairman of the Public Service Commission of New York, arrived in Washington today, prepared to go over tbe whole situation with Socrttary of Commerco Herbert Hoover. Chairman I'renilergast anil Secretary Hoover will consult at length at 3 o'clock this afternoon.

Prendergnst vill return to New York tonight to render prompt report, lo the Governor. The Public Service Commission has not laid out any definite plan yet, but Commissioner Prendrrgast will fully Inform "himself as to just what regulation and control tho Federal authorities are readv to undertake. The New York Stale government will then take whatever steps are necessary lo cooperate to the fullest extent. Washington, July 25 The Immediate policy of the Government In th.i coal strike situation was declared at the White House today to he a continuation of its endeavors to furnish protection to men willing to work In the mines and lo put Into motion the machinery decided upon, for distribution of the dwindling coal supply. The statement was made that, should coal not be produced in appreciable quantities under this protection and in accordance with the President's invitation to the operators lo open the mines, some other steps might be taken, but that President Harding was unwilling to consider at this time what they might be.

The Administration spokesman, In discussing the coal strike situation, said appointment of a Federal commission to go into the coal Industry and ascertain the facts was not In prospect, at least this week. Washington, July 25 The Government's emergency coal control program will begin to function within 48 hours. Secretary Hoover in making this announcement today said ratification of the emergency plan for distribution and restriction of unfair prices by the operators' Association Was expected within 4 hours, but if cooperation was withheld in any district the Government would proceed to appoint the necessary local committees. Tho emergency coal control plan, Mr. Hoover stated, is intended to apply to all coal produced, whether in the non-union or union fields, and it was indicated that service orders by the Interstate Commerce Commission providing priorities in the allocation ot coal ears may be expected almost immediately.

As regards the coal strike itself, Mr. Hoover declared the Government had exhausted every means toward a settlement, that it had offered arbitration, which had been rejected, and the matter to be taken care of now was the distribution of coal as pro duced. The Commerce Secretary empha sized the intention of the Government to prevent advancing coal prices and declared that under the emergency program no freight cars would be allocated to those who tried "to rob the public." Sharp advances in priees have been reported to the Commerce Department from some localities, he said, reaching as high as $13.60 a ton In Western Kentucky. The personnel of the Central Committee, it was believed at the Commerce Department, would consist of the Government officials who have been active in the drafting of the Government's plnn, which would consist of Secretary Hoover, as chairman; B. Ksterline of the Department of Justice, Director George Otis Smith of the Geological Survey, Interstate Commerce Commissioner Atchison, and F.

It. Wadlelgh of the Commerce Department, coal division. should be thus honored. For all of the thousands who watched that mute cortege were not there to sing the martyrdom of the dead. Many were there who condemned.

B'or hours before that fixed for the start of the procession the streets in the neighborhood of the Nunzlata home at 232 Union st. were jammed. As the hour approached the police reserves from the Herbert st. station arrived to forestall any possibility of disorder. Also, there were scattered among the thousands who waited to see the passing of Nunzlata a large number of detectives, who circulated constantly, not only for the preservation of order, but In the hope that others who are wanted for crimes like that of Nunzlata might yield to the temptation of witnessing the glory of his going.

Nunziata was convicted with three others of killing Wilfred Kotkov at Woodhaven, Feb. 23. 1921. Kotkov was beaten to death with a lead pipe during an attempted robbery, trlends, relatives and civic organizations Intervened in an effort to save the life of the young slayer, urging his extreme youth. However, Governor Miller declined to commute the sentence, because, as he said, Nunziata was unusually mature for his years and undoubtedly knew the nature of his act to tho full.

1 COAL IN 48 HOURS SHIPPING BOARD VERSIONS. Little drops of liquor (big ones aren't banned), Make jour Uncle's vessels Wetter than bis land. The Ship Board ship sails down the hay, Goodbv, my voyager, goodby. You'll not be parched for many a day, Nor dry, my voyager, nor dry Bobby Shaftoc's gone to sea, On a U. S.

ship went be A3 he sailed be winked at rue. Lucky Bobby Sbaftoe! We have a ship a-sailiug, A-sailing on tbe sea; And, oh it is all laden With drinkables for thee There are cocktails in the cabin. And highballs in tbe hold, And all is wet and merry As in the days of old. N. H.

OFFERMAN BUILDING BOUGHT BY MARTIN'S; 11,000,000 PRICE PAID Tax Department and Other Boro Offices Must Move-To Be Made a Store. The OfferYnan Building. 503 to 513 Fulton a 6 -story structure ex tending back into Duffleld where the frontage is 180 feet, has been pur chased by Martin's dry goods establishment from the Offerman estate at a figure close io $1,000,000. The prop erty, which extends along Fulton st. for 99 feet, includes a 3-story building on the opposite side of Duffleld No.

237 Duffleld in which the heat ing plan of the main "building Is Situated. The entire property is al-' sessed by the city at $811,000. Martin store adjoins the property and extends to the corner of Fulton and Bridge sts. When the Offerman Building is ready for occupancy, after the leases of the present tenants ex pire, the Martin stock will be moved into it, and the old building at the Bridge st. corner will bo torn down On its site a new structure will be erected to conform with the architec ture of 'the newly acquired property.

The Offerman Building has an orna mental facade of brick with sculptured stone trim. When Mr. Offerman con templated the structure he said that he intended to have one of the most attractive building fronts along Fulton st. The entrance to the offices have a stone carved arch which attracted considerable attention when the building was opened. Tax Department Quarters.

Property owners and builders know the building well, for In it are located the Tax Department, the Tenement House Department, the Collector of Assessments and Arrears and the Receiver of Taxes. The Municipal Court, where hundreds of rent cases were heard during the past year, is located on the fourth floor. The New York Telephone Company occupies all of the seventh and part of the fifth floors. When the City Sinking Fund Com mission leased the space it was re quested that a clause be inserted per mitting the city to vacate in one or two years, but the Offerman estate insisted upon a five year lease and this arrangement was agreed upon. At the Controller's office it was learned today that the city will not be inconvenienced by the change in ownership of the property as there are three years more to run under its lease with the Offerman estate and by that time the new municipal building, which will house the various departments now in the Offerman Building, will be completed.

The floor occupied by the receiver of taxes covers about 1.800 square feet of space. The city pays a rental for that, department of $26,327 a year. The ground floor tenants include the Silsbe Son restaurant, which occupies the entire depth of the floor end part of the Duffleld st. frontage; the Cardex Store Company, hosiery; Singer's clothing store, Blckford's lunch room, ami the United Cigar Stores Company, the deposit vaults of the Irving National Bank and other Rafe deposit firms and a barber establishment which are located in the basement. Sold Subject to Lipases.

The property was purchased from the Offerman estate subiect to the leases held by tbe tenants. Silsbe Son have a lease which extends to 1926. Other leases in the building ex tend from 2 to 4 years. Just what arrangement has been made by the new owners and the present tenants for occupancy before the expiration of their leases could not be learned today. William O.

Rasch, representing- the Offerman estate, whose office is now In the building, stated today that the contracts in the sale were signed a few days ago, and the transaction between the tenants will be conducted by the new owners. The entire building, including the property on the opposite side of Duffleld will be used by Martin's for the enlargement of their business, which has expanded In the past few years to such an extent that the firm has been on the lookout for more spare. The Offerman Building was erected 25 years ago by Henry Offerman for Weechsler drygoods merchants, who moved into the building when It i was completed and continued for about seven years. Then too business was sold to Chapman a Western dry-goods firm. Two years later the Darlington Company purchased the stock for the purpose of continuing the dry-goods establishment, but never opened the place and subsequently the stock was sold at auction.

Washington, July 25 -Creation of a Federal cool commission or three members appointed by the President to Investigate the coal industry and recommend legislation to Congress was proposed hi a resolution Introduced today by lioiah of the Senate 'ommittee. Kecommendal Inns would be required from Ihe i i mission "on the advisability or necessity of nationalizing the coijl Industry" and "the feasibility or necessity of governmental regulation and control of the coal industry." Other points on which i ecomiiirnda-tlons are called for in the hill include: "Standardizing the mines upon the bards of their productive capacity and regarding the closing down of mines which by rcuson of I heir natural limitations fall below the standard. "Standardizing the cost of living for mine workers and the living conditions which must be supplied or afforded in order to surround the workmen with reasonable comforts, recognizing the psychological effect of such feu-rounding In respect to their efficiency. "Standardizing a basis of arriving at the overhead cost of producing the coal and delivering It at the door of the consumer, recognizing In this compilation that. the Htundardized cost, of living to the miners must, be the first and irreducible item of expense." A report from the Commission, to bo known as the United State.

Coal Commission, would be required with-In nine months. Its finding would be made public only through reports to Congress. Make-1 of Commission. Senator Borah proposed that one of the Commission members be appointed from a list of nominees by the National Coal Association, another from a similar list from the United Mine Workers the third, representing the public, to be appointed by the President and "In no wise Interested In a business way with, the coal industry." Members of Congress would be barred from ap. polntment.

Proposals for a Federal fact finding body to Investigate the. coal Industry have been frequent since the beginning of trouble In the. coal fields. Such a. step, litis been favored by organizations of mine operators In the bituminous and anthracite sections of the industry and emphasized as desirable by tho miners' union leaders.

DEVELOPMENTS TODAY IN TWO BIG STRIKES? RAIL Industrial shutdown In Eajit threatened as result, of strike. B. and O. officials meet shopmen in effort for separate peace pact. Decisive move predicted as President, meets Cabinet.

H. n. Hoard pledges recognition to newly formed unions. MI MORS. Mine operators help Hoover to perfect plan for coal control.

Illinois producers abandon hop of immediate resumption at mines. Attempts to operate Pennsylvania pits with non-union men unsatisfactory. Senator Borah asks Congress to consider seizing the mines. ILLINOIS OPER ATORS ABANDON PLAN TO REOPEN THE MINES Chicago, 111., July 25 Illinois Coal Operators Association members said today there was no hope of Immediate reopening of Illinois mines. After a meeting of the association.

President Miller suld all hopes of reopen ing of the mines hud been abandoned. Nothing short of martini law and the suspension of State mining laws by the Governor could start work In the mines, Mr. Miller added. Cokeburg, July 25 (By the Associated Press) Filtering the second week since President Harding "invited" the coal operators of the nation to resume trie production of roal. developments in the bituminous fields of western Pennsylvania were being eagerly watched today.

While State militiamen with regimental headquarters here are preserving order in the Pigeon Creek Valley mine district, operators were exerting every effort to reopen their mines with the non-union workmen. Thus far, it. generally is conceded, the efforts of the operators to obtain open shop workmen in sufficient numbers to turn coal In large quantities have been unsuccessful. REPORT STUDENT DROWNED Morris Isaacs, l-year-o(d missing New Yojk University student, and junior fingerprint expert at Hart's Island penitentiary, has been reported drowned at Norton's Point, where he went bathing on last Sunday. His clothing has been hientlried by members of the family from a bathhouss he had rented at Whitney's Baths at Norton Point, near tea Morris is one of six children of Joseph and Rachel Isaacs of 363 S.

st. He graduated from P. S. No. 18 at the age of 12 and from the aast- ern District H.

S. at 16, the highest I of his class. He attended night courses at New York University and was to have registered for a law course at Fordham University yesterday. The. body has not been recovered.

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Ailv By GEORGE ('tlKRIiC. (SiUifj Correspondence of The Eagle.) Scranton, July 25 The oniy plan advanced by the operators to solve the suspension of work by union miners in the anthracite Melds Is arbitration, with the alternative of remaining idle until the miners feel the pinch of poverty and decide to return to work of their own free wills. The United Mine Workers of America view arbitration as proposed by the operators and the President as a step toward the breaking of their iron-clad union. They say that putting the issue of wages up to outsiders is a blow fit collective bargaining. By the "they" is meant the leaders, such as Lewis, Brennan, Capallini, Steve Kacdonald and Alec Campbell.

The men have not yet learned to question orders or policicn framed at union headquarters. The operators claim the only reason arbitration has been rejected lies In the fear that the union leaders will find themselves out of Jobs. This Is an aspect of the situation which the men's leaders refuse to discuss. Operators' officials in the mine region refer requests for information back to New York, to W. H.

Williams, vice president of the Hudson Coal Company and the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, who by tacit consent is the eastern spokesman for (he mine, heads. Mr. Williams, when seen at his office, discussed many side issues which the union leaders are pleased to ignore, at least tor publication. "Miner Underground Aristocrat." "You wan't find a laborer in the mines making only $1,100 a year," he said, answering the pet argument of the United Mine Workers that the minimum as not n. livina t.

"Counting all grades, the average was "The anthracite miner is an unrlnr. grouna arsitocrat. He requires a la borer to help him. But In rtirfri-eni sections his work differs considerably irom tnat in other fields. The niteh nf 1Mb vein, tne numner oi nays the men decide to work, the number of button strikes they have and a score of other details enter into footing uo his vem-.

ly total or earnings. "In our company weekly sheets come In. showing the average earnings in all sections of our mines. When the earnings fall away off In one part the entry is red-pencilled and sent back to our officials at the mines for investigation. We do that because it is sound business.

We try to keep the men satisfied." He called attention to the fact that during the war. when there was a labor shortage all over the country, the miners stuck to their drills and shovels. Three raises were granted during the war period, two by the companies in recognition of the Increased cost of living and one at the direction of the Government. If a laborer now falls below $4.20 a day the mine pays the difference. Complain of "Button" Strikes.

"The seams vary greatly," said Mr. Williams. "They run as low as 26 inches and 30 Inches Is not uncommon. Where they lie flat, they must be worked from top to bottom. Where the pitch is steep miners can bring down coal without laying a stick of powder.

These conditions all help to make it hard to size up an average condition." road with representatives of the Strikers. Success in settling differences on that road probably would mean that other roads would adopt a similar course, it is understood. Existing embargoes on freight have caused a shortage of commodities in several cities and lack of transporta-. tlon has reduced the supply in a few lins. In Chicago a leading chain grocery firm yesterday announced that the sdle of sugar would be limited to Impounds to a customer.

Similar action previously had been taken in several small towns. Curtailment of train service continued, the Pere Marquette announcing that the "Resort Special" from Chicago to Detroit would be placed on tri-weekly basis and 13 other trains suspended. At Chicago the Grand Trunk Line cancelled two trains between Chicago and Detroit and two between Chicago and Harvey, and tho Chicago and Northwestern annulled two trains between Chicago and Milwaukee. Six trains were cancelled by the Soo Line, Gerat Northern and Northern Pacific Railroads at St. Paul.

In North Dakota train service on Several divisions was placed on a triweekly basis. Motor trucks would be used to carry mail on off-days, it was announced. Disorders took a new turn when Seven men were arrested in Philadelphia, charged with spreading among the workers at the Baldwin locomotive shops literature demanding that the workers refuse, to work on railroad equipment. Harrisburg, July 25 The Pennsylvania Federation of Labor today eent out a call for a preliminary conference at Harrisburg on Aug. 2 for the purpose of considering action relative to constitutional rights, which the call alleged have been abridged In tho coal and rail strikes in his State.

"Political action, relative to candidates for public, office, who either condone such Tocthods or are indifferent to them, will also be outlined," the call Eaid. "The stage is being set for a repetition, in an even more vicious form," the call stated, "of the reign of terror, replete with attacks upon women and children, that characterized the steel strike." HARDING ACCEPTS DOVER RESIGNATION Washington, July 25 President Harding has accepted the resignation of Elmer Dover, Tacoma, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury In chr.rge of Internal revenue and customs, it was announced today at the Whito House. About a Bull and A Column Wide Though it's a bull story, the truth is not trifled with in the yarn we're going to spin now. It's all about the black and white bulldog Mr. I.

Finkelstein of 2248 81st st. lost. The pup wandered away and caused Mr. Finkelstein some concern. Did he let him alone and trust he'd come home? No; he sent an Eagle ad out to find him.

It found him all right! Things just can't stay lost when vou call Main 6200 and tell about it. SOT MEISKLY flURST-lirEXCHIJiG Ilurftford's Aritl Phosphate But treat nerve tonic, nppctizer and builder-bD of vitality. Druggists. Adv. Bands Silenced by Police As Neighbors Make Hero Of Murderer at Funeral' Nineteen-year-old Peter Nunzlata, one of the youngest murderers ever condemned to die In New York State, went to his deaih In the electric chair a pariah, his life held forfeit to the State.

He went to his burial In St. John's Cemetery yesterday afternoon, hailed as a hero and a martyr with a funeral cortege which will long remain in the memory of those who live In the Italian quarter. True, the three bands leading the Imposing procession did not play, but this was by 'police order and served merely to emphasize the martyrdom of Nunzlata. No police order could hide the eleven open carriages ot floral offerings costing, in themselves. a small fortune and the closest police vigilance could not detract from the 90 carriages of oumers who fol lowed all that was left of a man who tho State had decided had forfeited his right to live even before he reached his maturity.

Through massed thousands of his countrymen, Nunzlata passed to his last resting place; passed mid tears and walllngs; passed mid mutterings and Imprecations that a murderer Old Mother Nature Is net the only person who besets the coal operator with cost difficulties. The unions themselves take a hand. One of the practices which the operators find particularly trying on the nerves of sound business la the famous "button" strike. This is a form Continued on Pago 2..