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sliin XO. 5212. WASHINGTON, D. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1921. S5! TWO CENTS.

ik 1 GOMPERS FINDS LABOR IN SOUTH HAS U.S. IDEALS Says American Contact Offsets European Influence. MEXICO MEETING ONE OF HARMONY Met President Obregon At Pan American Convention. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, yesterday declared the Pan American Federation of Labor, embracing the labor movements of North, Central and South America, to be "the only international labor organisation in existence devoted to upholding the principles of democracy in industry and in government." statement follows his return from the third annual convention of the Pan American Federation, held recently in Mexico City, at which he was reelected president, and at which he held numerous conferences with President Obregon and members ol his cabinet. "The great achievement of th convention in Mexico," he said, "was the bringing together of the labor movements there represented on a platform of constructive democracy and the complete and lute repudiation of all doctrine i subversive of democracy and demI ocratic thought.

Spirit of Westprv Freedom. "No international labor movement has ever faced the world or a program so thoroughly in accord with the spirit of Western freedom and democracy, so profoundly rethe thought and purpose of Progressive democracy. "The convention, as was to be expected, paid much attention -to the conduct of the United States in Pan American afTairs. Not a little criticism was directed against our government It is our belief that it is better to give this criticism voice 1 than to afford It no opportunity for hearing. By giving it voice it is possible to meet it, and I may say that the United States delegation was able to accomplish considerable that will ultimately make for better relations in general with the LatinAmerican nations.

"Nothing can more properly couih i terbalance whatever tread there may be toward -Kuropean and tactics than the oontact with American? labor established by the Pan American Federation. Now an Established Body. The Pan American Federation of Labor now is an established institution, the only international labor organization in existence devoted tc upbuilding the principles of democracy in industry and in government. The aim during, the coming year will be to secure the affiliation of those nations not now members, notably Chile, Peru and Argentina, and there is reason to look for a large measure of success in this direction. "We found in Mexico much evidence of progress and our delegation is a unit in expressing the belief that the present government of Mexico is composed of able men of integrity and initiative.

The government of Merico is as near to being a government of and for working people as any government on earth, and the principal reason to be proud of this fact is that, so far as we were able to determine, it is a government devoted to the principles of democracy. "Mexico is entering a period ot recuperation from revolutionary struggles, a period in which she will have many aggravating problems to solve and in which she will need the kindly, sympathetic support of her friends. She may for a time also need their forbearance. for the task of restoring the republic to a sound basis is sure to be a most trying one. 1 Can Create Mutual Feelings.

"One thing clear as the result of our trip to Mexico City is that it is possible, through friendly intercourse. to create a much better feeling between the nations of the American continents, to their mutual benefit. The platform declarations adopted unanimously at the convention and which Gompers hails as one of the great labor events of the year," contains the following fundamental principles: "Political freedom, the right of the worker to have a voice and vote equal to that of every other citisen is the first practical step ward those individual rights which are essential to liberty. But politkI cal liberty, working through the legislative, executive and judicial departments of the organised government of a free people does not i and should not be permitted to enI ter into that personal (nongovernr mental) relationship between wage earner and employer through which the terms of employment are deterr mined by the recognition of equality 0f rights, and the joint agreement of both parties. "The principle that governments should only exist with the consent of the governed is identical with the principle that the terms of employment, conditions of labor and the rules and regulations of employment should only exist with the consent of the employed.

We regard as essential the extension of democracy In Industry and we declare our unalterable opposition to Interference in the of industry by forces outside of the industrial field and therefore incompetent to deal with its problems. We urge upon the labor movement everywhere the extension of the practice of tixticn between the employers and the workers and the making of trade agreements. We hold this to be the first great step In the development of democracy in Industry and we hold that in no other way can such democracy be developed. I There is no democracy while the -kers are inarticulate and the workers can have no effective voice except through organisation in the industrial i ii Rope Least in Minds Of Mingo Clan Another Sunday Celebrated Merrily in Jail. Despair of Jury.

WLLLOAMSON, W. Feb. This was another merry-making for the ifatewan (defendants in the county jail Many of them again had their wives i land sweethearts some of them their them. The hangj man's rope, which is to be their penalty if they are found guilty of i the murder of Detective Albert Pelts, was evidently the farthest thing from their minds. The tentative are eighteen now were allowed to spend the Sabbath with their families at home, being excused till 1 noon tomorrow.

Practically all othi ers officially connected with the (case likewise were out of town. But jtwo stenographers and three typists i were condemned to spend the sunshiny day Inside, transcribing 1,500 pages, constituting ten days of examination of veniremen. Wade N. Bronson, county prosecutor, expressed strong doubt today as to whether a jury can be ob- i tained in Mingo County. The defense is determined to make every to obtain one.

Tomorrow's hearing is expected to witness an important motion by the State, the nature of which is closely guarded tonight. It was learned tonight fhe State '(will ask the elimination of several 'jtentative jurymen. 1 POLISH-RUSSIAN PEACE EXPECTED TO BE PERMANENT Rumors to Contrary De- i cried as Negotiations Near End. i (SfecUl Herald.) Peace negotiations between Poland i and the Soviets, which have been in 1 progress for several months, are to be concluded. we are told, within a week or two.

Officials ot both i countries raise their voices in a at Menial of any rumors 5 which assert that the peace i established is only temporary and that the spring will, see the Red armies marching against Latvia and Esthonla, against Poland, against Roumania, or against all of These rumors, the origin of which j1 is presumably German, have been jvery damaging to the efforts of the 'Poles to obtain foreign credit, and to counteract their effect the Poles have made vigorous propaganda to establish confidence in the perma- i nence of the Russian peace. Now, almost on the eve of signing the Russian treaty, Marshal Pilsudski. chief of the Polish state, accompanied by Prince Sapieha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, makes an official visit to Paris for the apparent purpose of getting France to join the i Polish Roumanian alliance against Bolshevik Russia. Each Fears Russia. At the same time the Polish For- eign Minister reiterates his in the peaceful intentions of thei' Reds but intimates that any against Roumania will be looked I upon as a hostile move against Po- There is a certain inconsistency in going forth to seek help while pro- 11 fessing there is nothing to be afraid of.

The interpretation which is 1 sure to be put on Pilsudski's visit to Paris will not make it easier fori the Poles to secure foreign I Poland and Roumania have a com- 1 mon cause in the fear that sooner I later Russia will demand the re- I turn of territories formerly Russian which have been acquired by these I two nations and which contain a1 large Russian population. From Roumania Russia will demand the return of Bessarabia and from Poland that territory east of I the Curzon line which was acquired i from the Bolsheviks by the treaty of October 12, 1920. The Russian Constituent Assembly which recently met in Paris and is now seeking recognition, has announced that this territory ceded to Poland contains I several millions of Russians and is considered by Russian liberals to i have been annexed by force to constitute a source of conflict and to create a menace to the peace of Eastern Europe. Rambling In War (lauds. These war clouds have been on the horizon for a long time and the visit of Marshal Pilsudski to Paris has served only to make them appear nearer and more ominoup.

1 Tet this, it would seem, is hte thing which it is to the interest of all concerned to avoid. The world is well how desperately all the nations Involved need peace if they are to escape greater disasters than those with which they have been afflicted, and It seems inconceivablc that the long negotia- i tions at Riga are actuated by no sincere purpose and that the peace which is to be signed is only a truce. The present of Russia may not be sane, but they cannot be ig. norant of the effects of a new war i on their hopes of resumption of trade and recognition. This gesture of the Polish government may be only for its effect on its elector- i ate.

but even so. It Is a dangerous i expedient. Report Mineral Find. Mineral discoveries of much im? portance have been reported by W. t.

Davey, frnm the Beaver Lake district in the north of Saskatchewan. Several veins of high-grade gold and copper, running at least 4 per cent, i in the same veins have been found as well a body of asbestos, the fiber, in some cases, being fifteen Inches in length. ALLIES CLAIM GERMAN DEBT IS 400 BIUIOJ Reparations Commissio Fixes Sum in Excess of Indemnity. PREPARE TO ASK PAYMENT IN FUL1 Teutons Decline Treat; Terms Will Hold, Officials Say. rARIS.

Feb. the al led premiers took the Versatile reaty into their own at th Paris conference and Agreed on a ndemnity of 226.000,000,000 mark be paid in forty-tWo years, th eparatlons commission still is rerishly at work preparing nany's war bill, according to th lame treaty, and It was indicate oday from the best sources that it stimate of war damages would much more than marks gold. This not only Is upwards of 100 marks gold in excess of wha Germans now are asked to pa; but also, according to the treat; must be paid within thirty years. Ia Better Bargain. Thus, it was explained to yoi correspondent by a French statei man, "If the Germans come to it London conference with any id? that they negotiate a lower figui md plead poverty, we can only rt fer them to the figures of the repa rations commission.

They mui 226,000,000,000 marks and 12' cent export tax, which is a bei ter bargain than the rcparatior commission will offer them." Andre Tardleu declared In tl chamber In his lnterpellat4on Premier Briand that the total sur ncluding export tax. would be onl 110,000,000,000 marks. It is Tar estimated that the damage the German campaign In Franr ilone could not be repaired 100.000.000,000 francs gold. But th reparations commission receive urther instructions anent the Pari igreament, and the huge commii lion, under Louis Dubois, ng daily at the Hotel AstorlaJW ng sotrrelro-f committer faefctnig ind Its ramifications are extendin ill over Kurope. It may not finis ts work by May, as the treaty stip llates, for It must add up the est I mates from every Individual wh ost property In the war as well a make inventory of the econom! wealth of Central Europe.

To Raise Protewt. But whatever the final sum upon by the commission, jndoubtedly would raise an indig lant storm of protect in Berlin i jplte of the fact that'the Germar lave the right to be heard befoi icceptinR it. The Reichstag prote! igainst the Paris settlement wa lot sincere, according to my infoi mant. It is the opinion among som the reparations officials that th Germans will yield if the premlei 'treat 'em rough and call the! at London. But Germany 'can't-pay" attitude was, first, signed to influence the German pec in the elections this month.

secondly, a part of the general pol cy of Berlin to demoralize the er ente by delay on every decision. French official said: "Germany is prepared to iny proposition, no matter hoyr ger it is, and if the entente lei them into London with an Idea concessions the Germans will caui nore delay. It must be absolutel i take-it-or-leave-it proposition." (Copyright. 1921 Public Ledger Co.) FIREMEN RESCUE THREE IN BLAZI Escape Cut Off When Stor Under Home Catches Fire. Three persons were carried safety from a third-floor apartmei at 1244 Seventh street northwei last night when fire, originating 1 the store Morris Schwartz, mi linery and women's clothing, the first floor of the building, spres rapidly through the store, sendln clouds of smoke through the buile Ing.

Miss Leila Beach, who occuph the third floor apartment, was cai ried to safety by firemen, whil Harvey Ember, of 1218 Girard northwest, and E. W. Dye, 13( Four-and-a-half street southwes were also brought safely from th building. The blaze was discovered in th store shortly before 7 o'clock by passerby, who immediately sounde alarm, bringing three engin companies and No. 4 truck.

Wit the arrival of the fire apparatus tl had gained considerable heac way. Members of No. 4 truck ran lad Jers to the third floor of the build ing and brought the three person whose escape was cut off by th smoke, safely from the building. The flre was confined to the fln floor and resulted in damage place by the police at 812,000. Officials of the flre marshal's of flee will conduct an investigate today to determine the origin of th blaze.

View on Jap Alliance. LONDON, Feb. to Central News dispatch from 3aron Uchida stated in the Diet tha le did not interpret the Anglo-Jar inese alliance to mean that Englan rould side with Japan in the ever war between Japan and the Unit td States. Charming Prir Sports Best (Lady Asquith's Daughte Ideas on Prize Figl War, us banc Georges Carpentier, who la soon to meet Jack Dempsey for tne 1 world's heavy-weight title, is the greatest diplomat In the world to- the opinion of Princess Elis- I Iabeth Bibescfoj only daughter of Herbert Asquith. former Premier of Great Britain, and wife of the newly arrived Rumanian Minister to the United States.

i "Art and sport are the real league 7 of she declared. I pentier, in winning the support of the majority of the English people at the time he fought Beckett London, accomplished a feat which no diplomat had ever touched." She predicts that he will have equal I- success in America. is Seen at Hotel Salte. I Princess Bibesco, when seen In an attractive suite of the Ward- I man Park Hotel, overlooking Rock I 8 Creek Park, presented a striking picture. In a black gown.

1. with a perfectly matched string of pearls that accentuated the white 1 black contrast of her complex- I on with her hair, dress and eyes. 1 she seemed more the Princess of 1 Southern Europe than the daughter 1 of a distinguished English states- I man. 10 Hovering in the background was the handsome young prince. Al- though the deepest afTtction very obviously existed between the two, lt the princess showed that she sidered her views on modera diplo- macy of too serious concern to be I distracted by a husband, even a diplomat husband, so she banished I him to exile in next room by a ir wave of her hana.

8- (alls Art Heal league. ke "Disarmament is not good unless 1 it is psychological as well as being military. We have got to try and Protests Move I For Curtailing Consul Service Stilting that the United 1- "cannot afford to have mediocre business men representing it In foreign countries," Col. Fred Cardway, vice president of the Packard Motors Export Corporation, yesterIs day sent a protest to all New Congressmen against a proposed cut of in the diplomatic and consular "America has accepted an imporh tant role Ih the commerce of the world, and the protection of oar inIternatlonal trade is now a respon10 sibility that cannot be evaded." says is CoV Cardway. "The time is near at hand when we must extend credits to the foreign purchasers of our goods.

It is to the United States consuls that we must look for the 'it protection of these credits, which in many countries will total hun- dreds of millions of dollars. "You are no doubt familiar with the invaluable assistance rendered by the consular service in bulldlne our export trade, approximating $9,000,000,000. I am convinced that the amount now paid in salaries le to maintain oar entire diplomaMe and consular service is considerably less than $4,000,000. "That anyone should believe that this sum is too large to spend for the protection of American interests in the markets of the world is To decrease this appropriation would, in yopinion. jeopardize not only the efficiency A but the very existence of the Amer- i ican consular system." BRITISH PROTEST U.

S. HEAD TAX I.ONDON. Feb. $. Investigation of a statement in the House of Com' mons by J.

Jones to the effect that the American government does not ilive up to Its promises regarding El the- refunding of the American head tax to aliens passing through the United States, has just been com- pleted by Consul General Skinner, and shows that Mr. Jones' memory is slightly at fault. Mr. Jones' dec- laratlon caused considerable stir, coming, as it did. at the time American charges for vises were being; attacked as entirely boo high, little digs at the United States being heard from less influential mem? bers of the Commons.

Mr. Jones' it charge was that when he went to 3t Canada via the United States he had to pay the equivalent of $8 for a head tax besides $10 for a vise. He said when he arrived at Montreal he applied in the usual way to the" Ld steamship company for the return of his $8, but instead got "only ones fourth what he had paid." (Copyright. 1M1. Public Ledgsr Cs.) JAN SMUTS HOOTED IN ANTI-LABOR TALK 't3 LONDON, Feb.

Central News ie dispatch from Johannesburg, South Africa, states that Premier Jan ie Smuts was hooted down while maka Ing a speech in sunport of an antiid tabor candidate. The dispatch states that it is doubtful whether ih Smuts will have even a. small male jority when the results of the elec1tion are in. The Nationalists, it is declared, have made great headway in the I- towns backed up by the malcon8, tents of all descriptions, ie )t Gas Explosion Wrecks Pennsylvania City Hall WEST HOLMSTEAD, Feb. The 1 Municipal Building here was wrecked by three gas explosions and Are.

Six firemen were burned and loss today was placed I at 810.000. a Police in the building, smelling gas, summoned an Inspector, who it in his search opened, a basement i )- door. Collected gas Ignited from a Are in the next room and the it blast blew a hole in one side of 1 the building. The other explosions followed quickly. icess Thinks 1 League Bona sr Has Her Own Pithy its, Politics, Golf, and Kings.

our minds of the Inevitable n-ar propaganda." she said. "Art Is the real league of So is sport. There is no official, French propagandist or diplomat to touch M. Carpentler and I I believe that when he fought Beck-, stt In London a majority of the uidlence wanted him to win. No jther diplomat has ever accom- pUshed that feat." "In the same way your American I tennis players were eo beloved that they sowed a seed jf good feeling in the hearts of person they met.

And when Gardner nearly the golf oionshlp all sorts of people said to me that American was the most with delight nd some, let it be confessed, with the surprise that all insular people i when anything good cosies', frofc abroad." Americans Misjudged. The American people have been rreatlv misjudged by some Euro-11 writers who have denounced them as title-worshippers arotestations of democracy in other regards, according to Princess Bi- I besco. It is true, she said, that there exists a certain type of Amfr- lean who toadies to European title holders but in no greater proportion than the same type is to be round In other countries. Thl? type unfortunately, she conreesad, is the one which flocks round foreign visitors or the Princess admitted to a 1 rreat desire to meet in larger num-j, bers the real Americans of culturp md understanding. "It Is because l-ou possess so large a proportion of that class that the other type stands I jut Id the memory, of unthinking ahe said.

I CUBAN DEBT LAWS GIVE GRACE TERM TO SETTLE BILLS Moratorium Ended With Plan to Check Financial Chaos Prospect. Qi given days In which to meet their finan- cial obligations, and banking in- stitutions are given 135 days In, which to return deposits, under the. provisions of the law ending the i Cuban moratorium. In both instances a partial payment plan is provided for. The text of the law was made public by the State De- I partment yesterday Drafted by Irowder.

Maj. Gen. Enoch Crowder, Judge. Advocate General of the United States Army, who was sent to by President Wilson to advise President Menocal regarding tho financial situation in Cuba, is derstood to have drafted the law. In the case of ordinary or those with financial obligations growing out of bills of drafts, notes and other credit doe- i uments ot a mercantile character.

15 per cent of the amonnt is to be paid within fifteen days after the act became effective, which was on February 1. An additional 25 per cent must be paid within forty-five days; 25 per cent within seventy-five days, and the remaining 35 per cent within 105 days of passage of the act. The only exception is to obliga(ions which have to be met with proceeds from the sale or pledge of cane sugar, or molasses, which must be fulfilled in accordance with the terms originally agreed upon. Baik Provisions. The payment plan adopted for the return of deposits by banks is as follows: Fifteen per cent within flfteen days; 15 per cent within fortyfive days; 20 per cent within sevcnty-flve days; 25 per cent within 105 days, and the remaining: 25 per cent within 135 days of passage of the act.

In the event of either debtors or banking Institutions failing to abide 1 by these terms, the creditors and 1 depositors will have redress in the courts the law provides. Neither debtors nor banking i restitutions, however, can share in the benefits of the law without first formally notifying the secretary of the Cuban treasury. No interest is allowed for these deferred payments, nor do the provisions of the act applv to funds of any kind belonging to the state, the provinces or the municipalities. Bandits Bar Road Before Holding Up Society Autoists NEW YORK, Feb. blocking the road with tree stumps, rocks and other obstructions, four armed men waylaid and robbed seven occupants of three automobiles shortly after midnight this morning as the party was leaving the Baltusrol Golf Club at Short J.

One of the victims, attempting to was shot twice. Several hundred dollars in loot, all in cash, was taken. The robbery followed a dinner given by Col. Paul Debevolse, of Elizabeth. Debevoise and five of Ms guests were starting for thi-ir homes together The cars had Just passed from the club driveway and had proceeded a short distance iown Baltusrol road when their progress was block by the barricade The three machines halted ind the occupants went forward to investigate.

As they did the party was by the armed bandits, who ordered their victims to throw heir LEADERS URGE PARTY PARLEY OF DEMOCRATS White Declines Committeemen's Petition to Call Meeting for Mar. 1. EFFORT IS SEEN AT NEW CONTROL Suggestion of Chairman's Resignation Regarded As Significant. A petition signed by thirty Democratic national committeemen and nineteen committeemen headed by Thomas B. Love, of Texas, sent to National Chairman George White yesterday, urges that a meeting of the committee be called at St.

Louis some other centrally located point for March 1. The purpose suggested is "that the of progress may be organised for constructive patriotic action in the succeeding four years and for a right ous and righly earned victory in 1924." "We congratulate our chairman ird his associates upon their valiant and patriotic efTortg in the recent campaign under the leadership of that splendid Democrat. Grov. James M. of Ohio." continues the petition, and beg to wish for White many years of happiness and added usefulness upon the retirement which he announced shortly after Noyember 2.

his private interests will make it necessary for him to see DfrllaeR to Call Meetimc. Thomas B. Love, Democratic national committeeman from Texas, who made public the petition, led the fight for W. G. McAdoo in the San Francisco convention.

That section of the Democratic I arty led by Gov Cox and Chairman White are oposed to holding a party meeting at this time and White has declined to issue such a call. Democrats here see in the demand that a meeting be called the beginning of a new fight for control of the organisation. The sugKestion contained in the petition that Mr. White is about to retire is regarded as particularly" significant. White did announce in November that private interests would compel him to retire.

Since that time he has failed to take any action in that direction and it is understood he proposes to remain as chairman. Executive Committee to Med. Only recently Chairman White called a meeting of an executive committee here for February 17 for the purpose of "working out the future of the Democrati cparty." Among those aligning themselves with Love in the demand for a meeting of the committee are Charles Williams vice chairman, of Tennessee; Samuel B. Ataidon, vice chairman, of Kansas; Charles Boeschenstein, of Illinois: S. B.

Hicks, of Louisiana. D. J. McGiVHcuddy. of Maine; N.

W. Quinn. of Massachusetts; A. A. Jones of New Mexico; John F.

Costello. of the District of Columbia; B. Dockweiler. of California. J.

O. Wolcott. of Delaware; W. H. Thompson, of Nebraska Robert C.

Murchie. of New Hampshire; Robert S. Hudspeth, of New Jersey, and Patrick H. Quinn. of Rhode Island.

BLAST DISABLES TRANSPORT AT SEA NEW YORK. Feb. An explosion in the engine room of the U. S. army transport Cantigny has disabled that ship thirty miles out at sea, according to wireless reports received here today.

The vessel was believed to be tossing helplessly on the sea and a.n army tug was immediately dispatched to tow her to port. The Cantigny left Hoboken yesterday with a detachment of United States troops aboard. Officials at the port of embarkation refused to (five the number of troops and declared they believed the vessel in no immediate danger. A wireless was received from the vessel at 3 a. today stating that one of her turbine engines had burst and that she was unable to proceed.

Burning ft EARS 1 I or girl educatioi received at scl "Burn the learned, but it I bought. We have pr Nowadays thei where efficient ing in any des are ambitious struct ion youll for you if ypu Turn to The "Educ 1 Yank Heroine Repels Turks ICopyrtgkt. 1KI. I Mrntoud A I KLSIE MAY KIMBALL, Of Mount Tfnm, V. drove off vrltk ikoyi TatVtek force of Nallraallatb that niptarrj tke HI; at Kara.

Araarala. wkaa Ikrj trim to ateal Uaaktla from orpkaaa la a relief arpkaaa(r I. Kars. HARDING BOAT SPEEDS ONWARD TO ST. AUGUSTINE Edge Joins ference Slated for Tomorrow.

By w. b. macnahee. ORJfUND BEACH. Feb the mudbank hazards ol the Indian River, which have de layed her north to St.

Au. gustine, the houseboat Victoria, win President-elect Harding on board made the beat rua of the trip todaj and dropped anchor lonight at T'ltusvilln. about forty mii-s beloo here. Seaator Walter Edg, 1 publican, of New Jersey, joined houseboat party at Tituaville. and liriU.Jn*kc t0 St' as the guest of his colleague.

Senator Freling-huysen. Sunday Golf. T.hi? Sunday, the houseboa! th vl land to play Kolf- tne Victoria maintained a steady speed northward which should gel the President-elect to St. Augustin. on Tuesday in time to begin 1.7, "nC' he hM Marion.

Senator Cummins or Iowa, who made the trip tt Miami on the Victoria probably will leave the party tomorrow at Davtona, where he will spend the remainder of his vacation. The President-elect and Mrs Harding, ir was learned hefHren? da5' before leav.ng Florida, with A L. Kllng, Mrs Harding's father Plctare Health. With the end of the houseboat excupMon In sight. Senator Hardin, 1 nhv! nf in I thai conference! the Of healtl, World, Hours spent in golf i .2 enpr of other members of the Party and he plans to maintain his achedule of recreation In St.

Augustin. as much as the conferences did ln did physical shape when he enten upon his duties as President. Mrs. Hardin? Here. Warrra C.

Hardlag. wif, of tke Prealdeat-elect. wkn ka. keea d.lag ker ra tl.a akopplas la York, re. taraed la yeaterday la her private ear.

Mr. Harry Mr. B. Mr I.e. aeeret ageat aervaapaaled Hardtag oa the private ear, left Wew York at p.

m. arrived here at p. aa. 7 fvfuine, I Midnight Oil the ambitious boy who wished more i than what they had tiool were forced to idnight Oil" They was education dearly ogressed since then. arc night schools teachers give train ired subject If you and desire extra refind the best school i Page Eleven national" Ads WILSON TURNS DOWN PLEA OF 1 RAIL WORKERS I i President Refuses to Intervene in Dispute With Officials.

REFERS REQUEST TO LABOR BOARD Tells Unions That DulyConstituted Bodies Have Authority. I President Wilson yesterday rai fused to intervene in the versy between the railroad labor unions and the executives before the Labor Board ai Chicago. The Labor Board and Interstate Commerce Commission are gularly constituted agencies abk to with the points at issue, he raid in a telegram to officials of the unions and to a representative of the railroads- I Copies of the President's telegram sent to J. F. Anderson, vice president of the International Association of Machinists; K.

F. Grable. grand president of the CtiUd Brotherhood of Maintenance Employes and Railway Shop Laborers, and Tfcomas DeWitt Cuyler. chairman of the Association of RailWIy Executives, all of Chicago. In making request the raiiI roads be permitted to return to a prewar basis of operation.

W. W. Atterbury, spokesman for the railroad executives, informed the VTTTr labor Board that if such permisj sion is not given the roads will soon find themselves face to face with I bankruptcy. Rmini laterveatiM. The railroad unions immediately telegraphed tc President Wilson rej questing him to institute an inves-j ligation into the alleged facts presented by the railroads.

they asserted, are not borne out hy sworn statements on operating costs 1 required by the Interstate Cornamerce Commission. In his reply President Wilson said: I "I have carefully considered the several telegrams addressed to me I dealing with the labor questions and railroad management now unj by the Railroad Ubor Board in Chicago. I "The transportation act. dpprovI ed February 28. 1920.

to a creator extent than any previous legisls' tion. places all the deatI Ing with finances and railroad manI agement and necessary rates Under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission: all questions involving the expense of operation, the necessities of railroads, and the amount of monev necessary to secure the successful operation thereof, are now under the jurisdiction of the eommission Go to RnaH. "At the same time, the act placed 1 1 all questions of dispute between I carriers and their employes and subordinate officials under the juj risdictioo of the Railroad j- Board, now sitting in Chicago. i "This board composed of three members constituting the labor group, representing the employes and subordinate officials of the carriers; three members ronstltutinc the management group, representing the carriers, and three members constituting the public group, representing public "So far as I am advised, the 1 board may be relied on to give 5j careful and intelligent eonsideraj tion to all questions within its ju' risdiction. To seek to Influence of these bodies upon any thine: which has been placed within their jurisdiction by Congress would he i i unwise and open to grave objection would manifestly unfair for me.

therefore, to take any action which would interfere with the derly procedure of the Interstate Commerce Commission or of the Railroad Labor Board and all matters mentioned in your telegram are within the jurisdiction of one or the other of those bodies and in their action I think we may repose entire confidence. "In view of the foregoing, it does not seem wise to comply with your suggestion that the matter be submitted to the Congress, and the only action deemed necessary Is to submit copies of the telegrams received from you and from representatives of the railroad executives to the Interstate Commerce Commission, and to the Railroad Labor Board, for such action as these bodies may deem wise in tha premises: thlr will be (Signed) "WOODROW WILSONRrport Payae. It is understood that the President's telegram was drafted following a report from John Barton Payne, who in addition to being Secretary of the Interior is advisor of the railroads. It been reported that should the raivoad executives be permitted to Acrease the wages of shopmen and maintenance of way ployes those men who number about 369.000 wfL immediately go on strike. such a walkout would not entirely paralyze railway labor officials In Waahingtoa assert, it will oertAinly make operatioajfracetlligly difficult.

OWN LIFE BY INHALING GAS G4wM Reinmutb. ar tl years old. waa found dead at Ma hois'-. JIM street rorthweat yeaterday morning. the reault of inhaling Illuminating through a tube attached to a Jet la hi.

according to the police. Reinmuth, who waa In the Government Printing OlHee. hi4 been in 111 health for aom. time. it It stated Coroner Nam a itoruScate at fc A.