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Exclusive Associated Pt8f 'sfK ft ri Scrvc 1 1 -1 I f-y HOM Oakland and vicinity Tonight and in the morning, cloudy, becoming fair during the day Sunday; moderate westerly winds. Vrv International united 1 B1THGW Press 771771 1 aj rr i it i rail i OAKLANP, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1923 by 1922. TRIBUNE CopyrlKht i VOLUME XCVIl-FIVE Mnr mix vn VAT TTTltEi vnirfi nnfn i ii ii r. mr bj Nippon Prince's Driver Suicide As Tire Bursts II UL III I III rartit mm iinr i i 1 11 9u00 Mamtenanceof Way 7 3 00 Clerks Remain; U.S. to Pool Coal Supplies IIIIL.

uu I i i 87 CENTS DYNAMITERS ftews imtc REBELS FLEE AFTER FULL Capture of Stronghold by Free Staters Causes 'Rout of Irregular Forces; Re treat MSde Towards Cork Insurgents Fully Equipped With the Exception of Artillery; De Valera Flees to Clonmel Headquarters DUBLIN, July (By the Asso elated Press). With both flanks of the Repubuican onsurgent army broken through yesterday's capture of Waterford and Limerick, the Ir regular troops today were reported to 1 i retreating in the Election of Cork. They are believed lo number some thousands of soldiers sufficiently, equipped with all arms except artillery, and they are expected to give the national army forces1 considerable trouble in guerilla tactics, but it is doubted If they will mako a determined stand before reaching Cork. TELEGRAPH LIXES TO CORK, RESTORED. Telegraph lines froi.t Cork were partially restored yesterday and messages reaching Dublin indicated that the city was compartivaly quiet.

Some travelers, arriving 1u Dublin from Cork said ost qf the people were strongly in sympathy with the provisional govern ment but that they were over-awed by Republican troops. The national forces are said to be in complete control of Limerick except for a few insurgent snipers. Many business buildings were said to have been destroyed by fires which spread ffom the Strand and other barracks ignited by irregulars. Most of the insurgent soldiers apparently escaped. LOOT FT) LIMERICK STORES, CHARGE.

Free State channels charge the Republicans with having looted the Limerick, stores of practically everything valuable. The loss is said t'o have t.nidunttd to several thousand pounds. Valera is alleged to have been In the city for some time but left when the attack began. going to Republican headquarters at Clenmal. LONDON, July 22.

(By Inter-ntlonal News Service.) Four banks at Dundalk, 45 miles northwest of Dublin, were raided this afternoon and lareg sums stolon, according to a despatch from Dublin. Several unarmed priests, passing one of the banksjattempted to capture the raiders, but were warned off by the latters'; pistols. 1 Pullman Shops taiven Injunction Richmond I WomenJ Among Striking Employees Enjoined. SAN FRANCISCO, July 22. iFollowing a sympathetic walkout the part or empioyeei oi me Pultoan Company in a dozen cities in thl, United States, a restraining orderVwas obtained today from FederaiJudga Maurice T.

Doollng enjoining the union organisations on strike and Individuals everywhere from Interfering with the operation of the company's cars and plant. Named among the defendants are a number of women as well as male employees. Disorders at the Richmond shop in Contra Costa. county are said to have been tor what the company sets forth ad a sympa thetic strike of Its employees," following the walkout of the shopmen three weeks ago. The company states that it took no action relative to the strike until the trouble at the Richmond, is charged that strikers have been Intimldat- ing employees "of the company re malning at work at Richmond ever since July 10, that there has been violence and that women strikers have taunted women employees.

The walkout of Pullman work-v era, Is declared, occurred'irt Oa. land, Richmond, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, St Paul, St. Louis. Kansas City. New York, Buffalo, Long Island City, Washington, D.

Louisville and Cincinnati. The organizations named as defendants Include the International Association of Machinists, the In ternational Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Shop Forger and Helpers, Internationa Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Sheet Metal Work- era International Alliance, and Brothsrhood of Railway Carmen of America. The are ald to live, in all parts of the country, but the women are members of the Pride fit California, local, of the International Federation of Shop-craft. 122, and their names are given as Marie Lin do Mrs. Halns, Veronica McCarthy, Mrs.

Reeves and Mrs. IL Houseman, OF WRICK PAGES NO. 22. SYSTEM Strike "of "Maintenance of Way Employees on Michigan Central and Clerks on Northwestern Is Averted Chairman Hooper of Labor Board Tells Harding Diffi- culty of Settling With Shopmen on Strike OGDEX, Utah, July 22 (United Press.) One man was shot and one man was arrested charged with kidnaping today as a result of Intense feeling here growing oat of the railroad strike. James nines, aged OS, from Me Gill, Nevada, was shot as he left a freight train In the Southern Paciflo yards.

His assailant was not found. Hlncs' Injury was not serious. Spencer Nolan, said to be a striker, was arrested and kdd under 1500 bond, charged witfi kidnap. Ing an employee of the Southern Pacific shops. BT ASSOCTATED TIZSS.

LEASED WIBE TO TliBTTffZ. DETROIT, July It-Strike of 9000 maintenance of way men on the Michigan Central lines baa been averted by the signing today of a wage agreement restoring the scale effective before July 1, It was announced. The, agreement was signed. by officials of the rail road and of the union. Tho right-hour day la re-established, but the rate of pay for over time labor has not been fixed, this matter having been left for farther arbitration.

CHICAGO. July 32. The threat-oned strike of 7300 clerks on the Chicago Northwestern A-allroad has been postponed, for the time being at lenst, according to reports reaching the United States railroad labor board this afternoon. Th company Is reported to have mrfde somo i It at the Labor board that tho N. W.

had agreed to waive Um usual 30-day notice and the clerks would present a petition to the board for a wage increase immediately. The clerks are alao acklng sk-k vacation pay and Saturday hair-holidays. MISSOURI TROOPS HELD FOR STRIKE DUTY. JEFFERSON CITY. July 22.

Under orders from Adjutant General Raupp at his temporary" headquarters at Nevada, where the Missouri National Guard is In annual encampment, the 203rd artillery regiment anti-air craft company was to entrain this fternoon for Macon for possible service in the rail and coal strikes. At Macon, it. was explained, the units of the regiment could be des patched in a 'few hours to either Hannibal or Moberly for duty. Both cities are largely railway strike centers on the Wabash and the Mis souri, Kansas Texas railways. By JAMES T.

KOLBERT, United Press Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, July 22. Within 24 hours President Harding will move to end the rail strike. The executive today sought a so- lutlon the tie-up in a conference with Ben W. Hooper, chairman of the Railroad board, summonej from Chicago.

The- President then will deter- -mine what action he can take towards settlement ot the strike. It la believed h'a will bring rail exeeu- tlves and union leaders together for a peace conference. The greatest obstacle In the path of an early settlement of the nation-wide strike of 400.000 railway shopmen is tha question of restoring seniority rights to the strikers, Hooper told the President. Harding desired complete information on the shopmen's dispute before taking steps which ha hopes will bring a settlement, gave the President the information of the demands made by the men to ter- -mlnate the strike and the real cause underlying the walkout. Hooper said that' western and (Continued on page 2, col.

1). Renomination Is Declined by Slemp COLORADO SPRINGS. July 22. Representative C. Bas com Slemp of the Ninth Virginia district, only Republican congressman from that state, today issued a definite statement finally declln ing the renomination given him by day.

1, -t-'j II RAW mm MEN 22 Publishing Co. Raps Radicals For Actions in Stirring Strife CLEVELAND, Ohio, July Presi). Communist! and other radicals taking advantage of the rail and mine strike are active in the ranks of the big railroad brotherhoods with the ultimate object of overthrowing the government, Thii wai the itatement here today of Daniel B. Bobertaon, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen of the "big four" brotherhoods. Robertson exhibited a circular signed by Davis, secretary of the executive committee of the communist party of America," in which the officials of the brotherhoods were branded as "cowardly for submitting to edict of the railroad labor board," and brother, hood members were urged to strike with the shopmen and the miners I In defisn.ee of their officials.

Local Leaders May Be Disciplined for Refusing to Heed Strike Call. Wlth the stationary firemen, engineers and oiler? of the Qnstbay officially, but not actually, on strike, action was today threatened by their international officers against: their, local, leaders, to pre- ent the latter from continuing to hold men at work In violation of orders from International head quarters. xne waiKout of these men, which, it is claimed, has been fully sanctioned by the Chicago head quarters of their union, would seriously cripple Southern Paciflo interurban traffic here, and mark an important tep in the progress of the strike, it was declared at strike headquarters at Seventh and Pine streets today. LOCAL LEADERS NOT FOR "SEPARATE PEACE" Other developments today in the railroad strike situation as it affects the Eastbay were: Announcement by local labor leaders that no "separate peace" win be entered Jnto between them and any of the western railroads, Assertions by international offl- cera-ef-the striking shopmen, at a meeting in Oakland today, that workmen are leaving the railroads faster than strikebreakers are oln- ing them. Admission by local railroad offi cials that the problem of how to move the huge shipments of perish able fruit that vill grow lartrer as grape season advances, has not yet been solved.

AUTHORITY MAY BE TAKEN FROM THEM. An Interchange of telegrams which was In progress today between international officers of the stationary I -emen and oilers' union and local labor leaders may result In the taking away of authority from the local officials of that union who have prevented their men in the Eastbay shops' from Joining in the strike, It was Intimated at strike hendquarters here today. According to telegrams received from.Timothy Healy, international president of the union in Chicago. I by yjfcis. 8 sece'trr-treas- urer of the Federated 'Railway Employees, and A.

Spooner, secretary of the local cen-tial labor sent strike orders to James H. Coulsting, Pacific Coast vioe-presldent of tho firemen and oilers, which were not Obeyed. Healy today asked Spooner for fall information with which, he in- (Continued on Page 2. Col. 3) Bandits Get $2000' In Hail of Shots KANSAS CITY.

July 22. wcuvjf-iivo Buuia were one was; hit, but three bandits escaped with a 12000 payroll en route to the office of the 'Howard Confectionery Company here. Junction' with chairmen of the other three trans ortation brotherhoods, we feel that a call for troops at this time is unnecessary to preserve peace In the shop strike, and it is therefore requested that you will make investigations as to the manner that the railroad "companies are permitting their guards to go about the properties armed where our members are compelled to go to work, not striking, stop ping our members and ascertain by, causing dissension In our ranks 1 i Dog Battles To'DeathWith Rattl esnake CAN ANDREAS, July dog and a huge rattlesnake engaged in a duel to the death at the Danielson ranrh home a few nights ago, the faithful family friend finally biting the deadly reptile in halves. It was struck several times by the snake, and while every care is being lavished on it, fears are felt that the brave animal may die. This is the first instance recorded in this section of a dog actually Coming to grips with a rattlesnake, though cats have been known to catch harmless water snakes and even carry them home.

Youthful Burglar Caught in F. After Exciting Gun Battle. SAN FRANCISCO, July 22. A burp'T alarm sounding like a fire-bell in the still hours of' the night led Patrolman'Charles H. Cornelius to the scene of a crime early today and almost cost him his life, as he battled In a pistol duel with an 18-year-old boy.

After ten shots had been exchanged the 'burglar's gun was empty, and Cornelius halted him with' a wound in the back, which proved painful but not serious. Ten times the hardware and sporting establishment of O. A. Bremer, 1287 Market street, was broken into before the proprietor installed his burglar alarm. The contrivance Is a huge gong In front rof the premises.

This morning Jack Ward, 18-year-old wanderer, who says his home Is in Detroit, climbed to the roof, plunged through a skylight and set off the alarm. Gathering up three pistols, one of which he loaded, Ward, the police ay, smashed the plategjs window in front of the store in an effort to make a quick tescape. Patrtolman Cornelius was two blocks away at Seventh and Market streets when he heard the alarm. He arrived Just as Ward crashed through the glass. At sight -of him the burglar opened fire, sending five shots at the officer who crouched in the doorway.

Returning the fire, orte of the bullets cut Ward down, striking him in the back. By this time Sergeant Albert Munn and several other officers arrived and Ward was first taken to the Central emergency Later he was charged with burglary and assault with intent to commit murdor. His wound proved to be of the flesh variety and, not serious, The burglar alarm continued to ring for an hour after the oc-currence-and- was not shut off until Bremer himself threw over a secret switch. Meantime all of the hotels in the vicinity where peopled with guests alarmed by the noise, who hastened Into the cor ridors, anxious at the disturbance. Lord Nor thcliffe Still Critically III LONDON, July 22.

(United Press.) Lord Northcliffe, owner of the powerful London Times and many Other British and continental publications, is in the most critical period of his recent serious illness, according to announcement today. The famous publisher's condition was described by physicians in the most recent bulletin as giving rise to grave anxiety. A fever due to Infection of toxine poison remains unabated, doctors declared. An official of the Times declared leading physicians are puzzled as to the exacT nature of Lord North-cliffe's illness and are unable definitely to diagnose. Lord Northcliffe was taken ill immediately after returning from a trip -through Germany incognito early in June.

i Ambassador' Herrick On Way to America PARIS, July 22. Myron T. Herrick, the American ambassador to France, left today for the United States for a two months' rest After a shprt visit to Wash ington he will spend most of his holiday at his home in Cleveland. Judge Enjoins Husband From" Other Women CHICAGO, July 23. John Haas was restrained by court order yesterday from "visiting, seeing, talking to or ridtng with any woman In the world except his wife." Another Injunction restrained H-aae mother-in-law from "visiting, talking with, or In any way Interfering with the domesUc happiness or connnbial felicity of Haas and his wife.

The restraining order followed a reconciliation after Mrs. Haas had sued for divorce. She qverred her husband would not "forgot other- women." He said bis mother-in-law eansed the tron-brcrTne "orders" followed. 1 1 1 BOY BANDIT SHO POL I Reduction for Oakland and Other Alameda County Cities Ordered by Reason of Decline in Fuel Oil i Companies Told by Railway! Commission Necessity of Lower Price Than $1.02 Per Thousand as at Present Gas rates for Oakland and other Alameda county cities and towns were today reduced to 97 cents 1000 feet by the State Railroad Commission. The declining price of fuel oil was given by the comtnlssion as the reason for the reduction.

This Is the first time since the war that the price of gas In the Eastbay cities has dropped below the dollar point, it was pointed out by members of the Railroad Commission. The rate which Is to be superseded by that announced today was $1:02, 1000 feet. The cities affected by the new rate Include Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley and virtually all other places in Alameda county. Other reductions were made covering practically the whole of Northern California. Am ong the gas companies principally affected are the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and the Coast Counties Gas Company, which supplies Wat-spnvllle and (Vicinity; Fruit Men Protest 5.

P. Merger SAN FRANCISCO; July 22. The California Fruit Exchange, composed of leading shippers of deciduous fruits, has adopted resolutions strongly protesting against 'the unmerglng of the Southern Pay clfic-Central Pacific system, according to a letter received today by Wallace M. Alexander, chairman of the state-wide committee against dismemberment. In the letter, enclosing the.

resolutions, J. L. Naale, general manager of the California Fruit Exchange, states that his organiza tion certain facts before. the hearing by the Interstate Commerce Commission 1 proving that, if the present rela-. tlonship between the two railroads Is severed, the deciduous fruit industry will suffer a serious loss.

Garment Workers in Strike NEW YORK, July 22. The International Garment' Workers' Union has ordered Its 50,000 members to suspend work for a week beginning next Tuesday. Nearly -4000 plants will be affected by the orfl(r which was IssuieA. in cnmnel small contractors to recognize the union. Employers of about 600 large faototui already working under union rules say they have agreed to the suspensibn in the hope that it will force small shops to.

adopt standardized production methods. 1. University Offers Community Course SAN LEANDRO, July 22. Additional request has been received at the Chamber of Commerce of San Leandro that members seriously consider enrollment in the second annual summer school of community leadership, to be held at Stanford University September 18 to 23. Enrollment blanks were' enclosed.

The matter will be placed before the attention of all of the organization's members at the next meeting. Farmer Dies While Driving Hay Motor REDDING, July 22. As E. B. North motored through Siskiyou county, east of Ho'rnbrook, he a team attached to a 'motor stopped in a hay field and the driver leaning forward in his scat as though asleep.

North investl-" gated and found the driver dead. He was Jefferson Greive, 72, a farmer in Siskiyou county for fifty years. He had apparently been stricken 'With heart- failure as he worked. Policeman Wounded Fighting Bandits BT INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE. lEASn WIRE TO TRIBUNE.

NEW YORK, July 22 Arthur Loew, 28, policeman and former World war aviator, was shot four time and seriously wounded early today when slnglehanded he fought a pitched battle- with four burglars in Brooklyn. Judging by the trails of blood leading from the scene of the encounter it is believed that Loew wounded at least three of the four men. Two Are Held in to to. of T. he his rKYO, July 22.

Because of tire puncture while his royal master was riding in his machine, the chauffeur to Prince Hirohlto, regent of committed hari-klrl today. Harl-kiri la a method of suicide known in Japan as "happy despatch" permitted as a means of escaping execution or official disgrace. Any happening which in any way inconveniences any member of the imperial family la taken as a personal responsibility by whoever is in control of, that portion of the royal entourage in which it occurs. Head of Laboratories and Former City Bacteriologist Hurt in Auto Collision. Dr.

Pauline 8. Nusbaumer, head of 'the Western Laboratories, former city bacteriologist and one of the best known physicians in the city, Is recovering today, from in juries receivea last night in an automobile and train accident at Thirteenth and Webster streets. Accompanied by her niece, Mrs. H. M.

Lawrence, 'who was driving the car, Dr. Nusbaumer's machine crashed Into a Southern Pacific electric train in charge of Conductor E. A. Levy and'Motorman L. T.

Wallace. The automobile was badly damaged. Dr. Nusbaumer and her niece were removed to the Menlo hotel where they were treated for cuts and bruises by Dr. D.

D. Weaver and later taken to their home at 7 Estrolla avenue in Piedmont. Dr. Nusbaumer is the secretary of the Alameda County Medical association. Banker on Train Saved by Chance Cashier Slips, Falls From Car Just as Brakes Halt Speed Found in Time.

A freak chance in all probability saved the life of Walter P. Tatge, cashier of the National City Baffle of Chicago, when he accidentally fell from a moving train near Duns-muir today. Tatge was one of the deleeates to the conclave of the American insuiuu -oi canning cently held at Portland. Tatge lost his footing and fell from the steps of one) of the cars whlKTthe train was moving at a high rate of speed. At the same instant something went wrong with the emergency air brake, and it automatically brought the train to a stop almost within its own length.

The brkemen descending from the train to investigate the trouble stepped upon Tatge's unconscious form which lay Just outside the track. Tatge was picked up. and brought Oakland, where he was taken Providence hospital. He partly recovered consciousness but was still in a dazed condition. It was stated at the hospital that Tatge's injuries were probably not a fatal nature.

He struck his head in the fall and is suffering from concussion at the brain and possible fracture of the skull. Auto Driver Sought In Boulevard Blow A search for the driver of an automobile which ran over James Cummlngs as he was repairing hia machine is being made today under the direction of Captain of Inspectors Walter J. Petersen. The accident occurred) last night boulevard near Twenty-sixth avenue. Cummlngs' machine had stalled and he was about to crawl underneath it when was struck by the passing machine.

He was picked up unconscious and taken to the emergency hospital. He -was treated 'for cuts and bruises and later, removed to home at 6307 East Fourteenth street. iU-e Britain in Protest At China Rail Grab PEKING, July 22. (By International News Service.) Great Britain today entered formal protest with the Peking government against the seizure of the rolling stock of thhe Peking-Mukden railroad line by Chang Tso Lin who has never released it since" his withdrawal to Manchuria -v'u BtitishAsH Probe High Sea Murder MIAMI, July 22. The British government has asked the United States to investigate the killing of Captain George Edgcomb, master of the schooner William H.

Atbury, according to- information received today by "Ltetrtenant--Colonel viqa consul here. injured iii crash Score Fatally Injured Near Springfield, When Express Flyer Clashes Into Passenger Awaiting Orders Whole Family Victims of Collision; Accident Comes at 45-Mile-An-Hour Speed; Open Switch Held Cause SPRINGFIELD, July 23 (By International News Service). Eight persons were killed early today when the Meteor Express No. 9 of the St. Louis San Francisco railroad ran into an open switch ai Logan and crashed head-on into the combined "Katy" and Frisco special No.

2, which was standing on a siding. Over forty were injured, several probably fatally. The dead are Engineer II. R. Rlne and Fireman Nealy of the Meteor and a man, wife and four children, all of one family.

The Meteor, southbound from St. Louis, was -running about 45 miles an hour when, it struck the open Bwltch and was behind schedule time. Both locomotives were demolished in the crash and the track strewn with wreckage. Most cf the injured, passengers were occupants of two chair cars on train No. 2, St.

Louis to Oklahoma City, which were telescoped. Members Of the family which was killed were seated in the front seats of the second chair car. It was hours before rescuers could-ytake their way Into the mass of steel wreckage of the two chair cars and get at the bodies of the family who had been In the front seats of the second car. They were identified as Mr. and Mrs.

Andrew Hammer of Stoutland, and Beulah.and Bernlce West, aged 12 and 10, sisters of Mrs. Hammer, Marjofle, the little baby of Mrs. Hammer, 'Hound' in her moth er's lifeless arms, still alive, but dying. Her 12-year-old son, Bur ner Hammer, was also not expected to live. Benny West, Mrs.

Ham mer's brother, was badly hurt, but may live. The mall and baggage cars of the Meteor were wrecked and 1 was believed the clerks in both cars had received fatal injuries. They were rushed to the clt. hospital along with the other injured. Logan is a small town 25 miles south of this city in the Ozarks.

McCormick mParisy Denies Love Errand PARIS, July 22. Harold F. McCormick, on his arrival here today from New York, told the Associated Press he" was in Europe for business and a rest and that he had no intention of seeing Mrs. Alexander Smith 'Cochran XMrn. Ganna Walska), whose engagement to the American, harvester magnate has been persistently reported and denied.

McCormick said he had received no news of Mme. Walska and that he did not know whether he would go to Switzerland while in Europe. Reports were published recently that McCormick and the singer expected to meet at Carlsbad in August, Mme. Walska's preliminary decree of divorce from Cochran is expected to become final August 19, the sixty day interval provided in the provisional decree granted by a French court will expire on that' date. Electricity Kills Couple in Germany FRANKFORT, July 22.

Electricity snuffed out the lives of a young married couple yesterday lg unusual accident. Both bodies were found in a bath room and Investigation revealed that the cine bathtup, a water pipe and a portable metal lamp stand figured in completing the fatal electrical circuit. The wife had grasped the lamp, which was of defective construction, with her wet hands as she Was about to leave the tub and was immediately killed, since the pipe leading from the tub completed the circuit to the ground. The husband was killed when he took hold of the lamp in trying to assist his Obregon's Illness Halts Aide's Wedding MEXICO CITY, July 22. Owing to f.e illness President Obregon, the Wedding of Hortensia Calles, daughter of the seer tary of the Interior, to Ferdinanda Torrefclanca, President Obregon's private secretary, set for today, has bean postponed.

President Obregon has not been at the national palace since Monday, when he returned from a week' vacation. Bis ailment, the flttenitnrThyslclafiray7-lsvery; slight. Willi Worker's Home Wrecked as Fields Resume Operation in Western Pennsylvania Guarded by Troops Government Charters Ocean Carriers to Import Fuel From Europe; Supply of 500,000 Tons Month Sure WASHINGTON, July 21. By In- ternational News Service). A rot-ernment plan Tor the pooling of coal In the mine districts and the distribution ot cars to carry It will be considered by a conference of coal operators called to meet In Washington next Monday.

Secretary of Commerce noojer annogneeoHo- nay. Plana of distributing to railways, public utilities, industries producing necessities will be considered at the conference, It was announced, i COKEBTTRG. July 22. A troop train bearing the state militia into southwestern 'Pennsylvania soft coal fields was stoned from ambush near Monongaheta today. A score of windows were broken bnt no one was hurt, It was announced.

Asshilhnts from' ambiish' fired on Charles Sliarpnack, superintendent of the Wilson mine, which resumed operations two weeks ago, Sharp, nack escaped injury. By PAUL R. MALLEJf, United Press Staff Correspondent. wASi-mNUTUiv, July 22. Soft coal, mines of southwest Penn sylvania were opened under a guard of 1000 soldiers today.

Final preparations were made by mine owners to begin actual production of fuel immediately, despite open threats circulated. Reports of violence were received at regimental headquarters here. Strikers were alleged to have dynamited the home of Thomas Coster, In Toungwood, Westmoreland county, when he failed to heed warning that he quit work in the Penfield mtne No. 3. of the Keystone Coal Company.

Coster and his family escaped injury. Bloodhounds are being used by State police in a search for those responsible for wrecking a freight engine and five cars of coal on the Dunlap'branch of the Monongahela railroad early today, causing serious in.iury to James Sutton, a brake-man. Traffic over this branch probably will be tied up all day. LEWIS TO CONFER WITH EASTERN MAYORS WASHINGTON, July 22. In an effort to bring about resumption of mining operations in th eanthracite coal fields, a conference in which John L.

Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, is expected to participate will be held Monday either in Scranton, or New York, John F. Durkan, mayor of announced today. After he had conferred with President Harding regarding the situation. V. S.

TO IMPORT COAL NE Wit J.uly, ZTalrteen more ships, with an aggregate carrying capacity of 90,000 tons, were chartered today to Import coal from Europe because of the coal strike; A. Lasker. chairman of ttne United States Shipping Board, here for a conference, said est er- day. This Is total of twenty ships entered In the cqjl trade within two days. The available ships now in operation are capable of bringing in every thirty days, and 2,000,000 tons could be Imposed monthly if necessary, LaskerQde-Icared.

Call for Troops Is -Still Unnecessary RICHMOND, July 22. Chairman W. C. FulenwIderV of the B. R.

T. legislative committee, sent a telegram to Governor Stephens yesterday urging 'that the state's chief executive not call out the na tional guard in connection with maintaining and order In the shopmen's strike. Members ot the railroad labor organization here believe that such precaution Is not yet oalled for, and hinted that the presence of armed men upon trains would Invite trouble. Fulenwlder's wire-follows In full: "As chairman of the State Legislates Board," protherhffodtrt Ratt wax Trainmen, and acting in con SUM 1 Sheriff's Slaying 1ST. LOUIS, 22.

Two men arrested here today arejield for possible connection with the killing of Deputy Sheriff Patrick J. Nalty, 60, and seriously wounding of Patrolman Ross Johnson, 45, in gun battle at Granite City, early thi morning. Witnesses of the'shoofing-have-'beea'caned'to tdeatiij; tbeafc A ,1.