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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1919
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MINER REVEALS TRIALS OF 109tll REGT.
SIX BILLION LOAN TESTS PATRIOTIS
EQUIPMENT
IN BATTLE I
' WAS poor!
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Hero Leader of Home Forces! Tells How Soldiers Suffered From Unpreparedness
PLEADS FOR TRAINING
FRANCE FEARFUL OF GERMAN PLAN
National army mon Were sent into' KatUs half trained and crack units j ¦w»ro only half equipped because our' nation -was unprepared for war. de-1 clared Oelonel Asher Miner, gallant; Isader cT the 109th Field Artillery and , hero of Apremont who lost a leg in ; battle on October 4. last night In ad- \ dressing nearly two hundred em- ' ;Hoyees of tho MIner-Hillard Milling' cemi>any at a banquet in Hotel Red- { Ington. I
Colonel Miner's declaration ofl .Uaerica's unproparedness came as a' Burprlso when thei leader of the home i regiment commented on the efforts of j national leaders to have universal J militarj- training for the young men I of the country. "If wo had nillltar>' ¦ training there would be no wars," ho | said. "League of Nations or no League | of Nations, this country must be ready ( and not unready. We were not ready ¦»'hen this war begran and not pre¬ pared even when tho war ended.
"The lOJlh went into battle half equipped, that's what we had lo do. We lacked aeroplanes and other neces¬ sary equipment" he pointed out. Con¬ tinuing he satd: "I saw thousandsi of National army men pushed into the hell with three months of army ex¬ perience and only one week's real train¬ ing.'
Colonel Miner in bis long talk told of what the Wyoming Valley boys accom¬ plished In the world w^ar. He ex¬ pressed his pleasure in Joining with his employes in a happy reunion and deplored that other men of his com¬ pany who are in service could not bave saipe;-fencc<l the pleasure of the re¬ union. He wan pre;iciited with a gold watcli. The presentation speech was made by S. C. Coklren. The banquet -vaA an enjoyable evei.t which em-" ployeeb of this city, Pittston. Plymouth. •Scranton and Miner's Mills attended. The Colonel was accompanied to tho dinner by his wife, four daughters and his brother. Br. Charles Ml.ner. Sees Men in Film
Through the courtesy of Daniel L.. Unit und l-'red Hernnan, slides and a rvcl of moving pictures, tho latier ¦»r the lOftth at the West Plttslon camp und Colonel Miner's return to this city was shown. For the flrst time the I otonel .-iiid his family had the oppor¬ tunity of witnessing the gallant organi- i-aiion in army practice depicted on tlio bcieen.
Jarac# C. Iteed. chemist of the com- p.i!';- waa the master of ceremonies arid through hia efforts the hours were
Paris, Feb. S.—France was looking toward Germany with increasing imeaslness tonight.
The enemy's attitude was rojfard- ed as becoming daily more insolent
Chancellor Ebert's speech at the opening of the national assembly in Weimar, when he warned the Allies that Germany would refuse to p.ix- Ucipate in the peace settlement If the terms were too severe, -w-Tis felt to be actualyl menaiclng.
The armistice Is to be ranew^ed February 17. French newspapers demand that action b« t.iken then to render Germany incapable of re¬ newing hostilities. They point out that terms of the armistice have been wilfully flouted. Allied de¬ mobilization is greatly desired, but the press contends :; Is impossible until the menace is squelched. They charge Germany with p'aying for time as she openly speculates on dissension among the Allies,
"Delay means a muddled peace." declared tha Temps. "We must oblige Germany to furnish addi¬ tional guarantees. A might} outcry ¦would be certain from Weimar and the various German tactions doubt¬ lessly -would unite against us. Nev¬ ertheless, decisive action Is Impera¬ tive."
A Bemo disi>atch today said that El>ert's speech wns lauded through¬ out Germany. The Berlin Tageblatl demanded that the Gorman govern¬ ment refuse to sigrn a "dictated peace."
MINE FIRE FOLLOWS GAS EXPLOSION HERE
A fire resulting from an explosion of gas raged last night in the underground workings of the Stanton colliery of Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company. After an all-day fight agmnst the flames by the miners at the colliery, officials of the com¬ pany announced last night that the situation "was under con¬ trol. The fire is expected to be extinguished today or to¬ morrow.
The fire began yesterday at noon as many of the miners were leaving their work for home. A pocket of gas unusually large in size was ignited by a miner's torch. The explosion that followed knocked down timbers. The fire communicated to the debris and spread to the "walls of coal. The miners at work in the section escap)ed without injury, it was claimed.
Douglas Bunting, generad superintendent for the com¬ pany, said last night that the fire is in a remote section of the mine. He said the other portions of the colliery were able to continue work, although a good number of the men are en¬ gaged in fighting the advance of the fleunes. He said the loss will not be great, as the scene of the accident is removed from the more active chambers of the mine.
Airplane Flight
Across the Sea
LOCAL MINES CLOSE
ICONSH FOR WORLD POIRS
DEFEAT OF KENNEDY
Notices Posted and Officials Figures Show Tremendous Vic- Say They Have No Plan to     tory   For   Regular   Forces
Offset Conditions
Will Be Submitted to Public', Opinion This Week as a Panacea for War
CENTRAL CONTROL
Paris, Feb. 8.—The first world's con¬ stitution, practically complete tonight, will be given tho test cf universal pub¬ lic opinion next week.
Official announcement was made to¬ day that the committee compiling the draft for re-organisation of the Lea¬ gue of Nations had accepted all of the 22 articles and had referred the con¬ stitution to a sub-committee for a partial re-draft necessitated by some minor chongca
In less than a week the first step In complete revolution of International re¬ lations has thus tieen accomplished, the League committee having held Its flrst meeting Monday.    This has been
UNION CAMPAIGN ON
Miners employed by the local coal companies have begun to feel the ef¬ fects of a market well supplied with coal aided by a mild winter. Notices wero posted yesterday at all thfe col- lieriea of the Lehigii & Wllkes-Barre Coal Company annobncing that there will be no work tomorrow. The Sus¬ quehanna Coal Company will have Its mines In operation tomorrow bi't will likely be idle on Tuesday. During the past wp''t this latter company worked only two day.«, its miners being idle four days. Other companies will ptart this week to declare temporary sus¬ pensions until market conditions im¬ prove. In the meantime the thousands of anthracite miners will be subjected to short periods of idleness which will continue for some time, due to the un¬ usual conditions.
Throughout Coal Regions DISTRICT LINE-UP
Complete victory for the admin- I istration forces in the recoct election j held throughout ti^e country by the i United Mine Workers of America wa.s ! announced yesterdsy when totaT^oTeT
Waahinpton, Feb. 8.—An airplane flight across the Atlantic will be attempted soon by American a'via- tors.
Orders late today disclosed this by the assignment of Commander John Towers, one of the foremost naval aviators, to the project He is to be "tn charge of the develop¬ ment of plans and the assembly of material and personnel for the pro¬ posed Iran*-Atlantic flight."
The Navy for more than a year has con8id3red the plan feasible and late last summer a trial was to be attempted but It was delayed on account of the necessities of us¬ ing all mac hlneo ar.d pilots for war work.
The flight probably will start from Halifax, as It was planned to start the flight there last year, this being the closest point to Europe. The Navj's new monster flying boat, the N. C. L., which recently carried 50 persons, probably will be used in the attempt, because it carries much larger amounts of gasoline, fuel and other supplies. It has three lilierty motors and is the largest flying machine In the world. Ev|ery teit of the boat has been successful. Sleeping compartments for three men aro provided in the boat. It carries a crew of two or three pilots, three mechanics and a radio operator.
Na-val aviation experts believe the roost feasable plan to cross the Atlantic by air would be to string a fleet of destroyers and supply carr>-lng ships along the entire route and send two or three planes to¬ gether to avoid the danger of losing one. The destroyers could come to the rescue of a disabled plane as could one o? the escort planes.
Communication could be main¬ tained by radio.
Thirty to thirty-six hours flying time, it is expected, -will be required to make the trip and this, experts believe, necMsitates at least one stop in mid ocean. Aerial naviga¬ tion has been so perfected during the war that there will be Ilttle danger of the plane getting off the course. The compass Is their main reliance for direction.
Keen rivalry has aiisen between the Brltisii and Americans for makinjr the flrst trans-continental flight and the American Navy Is making ev.?ry effort to beat the Btitons to It.
^he night wil! be all-Amcrican. Liberty motors will  be    used    and
PEOPLE MUST SHOW WILLINGNESS TO BUY TO UPHOLD IDEALISM
E
J WIOOT ANY CHANGE    SAYS CARO GLAS5'
Child Labor Amendment Only Subject for Contest That Fails to Reach Goal
FUNDS MUCH NEEDED
Purely a Matter of Proving to World Faith in Struggle for Freedom >
i
MAKES AN APPEAL
Washington, Feb. 8.—The Hou.se late
! tonight adopted the conference report
I on the six billion dollar   revenue    bill.
I The vote was 310 to 11. with 12 voting
"present."
The bill as it came from the confer¬ ence committee waa not changed by the House In any particular.
The House action today leaves only the Senate ratification of report before the biggest revenue bill in history Is ready for the President's signature.
The only fight on the conference re¬ port was one by Missi.ssippi congress-
rjturna     were     compiled.     Frank     J
Hayes of Illinois was re-elected prcsi- i    every part  of the machine will be
dent,   John   I*   Lewis   also   of   Illinois j    made in America
was   named    \\ce    president.   Wliliam |V	
Green of Ohio was elected secretarj-- { treasurer of the miners*  organization.' The  election  held  great  interest for | the miners In the three anthracite dis- i tricts.    The candidates badted by the old guard of the miners and their op¬ ponents   known     as     the   insurgents made a f«pecial  play  for the  votes of the hard  coal  workers.    While Hayes did   not   get   a   majority   of   the  total vote caat In District Xo. I. No. 7 and No. 9, comprising the anthracite fields, he  did   secure  majorities  In  Districts
Pittsburgh Pa. Feb. 8.—Forecasting a subscription equal to any previous loan, SecretarV of the Treasury Glass prepared the ground for the flotation of a loan of $5,000,000,000 op $6,000,- 000,000, in a speech before the Cham¬ ber of Commerce her© tonight
Patriotism, the nation's honor to meet its commitments, and a con¬ science transfigured by the war, must win. Glass said. These must induce the purchase of Victory Liberty Loan bonds over the cold-blooded argument of commercial investment,  he added:
"A little thought will teach the wisest
men on the child labor amendment i among our financiers that It Is impos- whlch taxes profits from the product' sible now 16 float a loan of $5,000,000.- of child labor.   The fight was lost on a  000 or $6,000,000,000. purely for Invest-
\ motion to recommit the bill by Repre¬ sentative V'enabie of Mississippi, 171 to 15.
Venable and Humphreys of Mississ¬ ippi, declared the child labor    amend
ment purposes," Gladd said. "We aro not going to float it strictly on a com¬ mercial liasis. That cannri be accom- i plished satisfactorily. We have got to appeal lo the patriotism of the Ameri-
TO FINANCE NEW LABORS
Washington.   Feb.   8.—AppeaUng
ment was unconstitutional and an un- jean  people and it will not t>e done in warranted assumption of Stale    police i vain.
power by the federal government. !     "While  Congress   ia  writing  off   the
On the flnal roll call, four Mississippi j-books     $:5,000.000.000     in     authorized
congressmen   voted   against   the   bill. ; public  funds  which   would  have  been
Ropresentative Moore of Pennsylvania, ; expended had tht war not  terminated
I Republican member of tha ways    and ^ so   suddenly,   the   government   still   Is
I means committee, called th_e_measure a ^spending aboul two billion a monlh to
i "flftaacial   chamber   of   fiorrors,**   but ; meet its honorable commitments.
1 voted for it ; Nation's Honor at Staks.
The speech of Chairman Kitchin of I "The honor of the government ! the House ways and means committee, ' therefore, ia involved In th© success of In opening up tne debate, was largely a i ihe next loan. Being your government j protest against the recommendations of : It is your honor that ia Involved. And former Secretary of the Treasury Mc- • I know that the appeal of the Amerl- Adoo and President Wilson that the j can government to the American peu- blll should be reduced from 18,000.000,- i Ple will meet a response of which the 000 to $6,000,000,000. i nation  will  be proud."
Need  Twenty  Billions i     Glass said he was being   told    in    a
Kitchin  also  made  accu^^ations  that ¦ "rather       consistently       disconcerting
i there was a  propagand.^ to defe.it  the : way."   by   well   known   financiers   that
I bill, so that the present law would re- | future   loans   must   be   handled   cold-
1 main in force. ^ M'oodedly.     They  argrue.   he  said,   tb.at
The House conferees, he said, agreed jthe attitude of the people has changed:
for I to drop many of the House provisions   th.it'  thingti  have assumed  a different
plM..i«.nij'spent. J E, "Kx" Alexander |'don«= through dint of hard work. All j J^'^lf'" ''ll'if.„V"li!r. ^«.^i!"^*^ b.i ,n 11.,^ siiig.iiK and Wppciibelm's or- Ithe members were anxious to complete ^^ >? aJ!?,?,^ L ^^'^^^'^^ 'f'* ctoi,UTi attended the draft but the Europeans generally i "'*5ht ir admitting they will close tho
iwera  accustomed     to     more   leisurely i'""'fP^''^'"    »">"«»   tomorrow    because
(Continual on  Psgs Two)
NIGHT   WATCHMAN   WANTED
Wanted: .\ night watchman. Must have had prevloub experience and be able to furnish reference and bond. .\ddres8 Box 4S, Sunday Independent Wllkes-E.TTre, Pa.
TWO VOUNQ  MEN WANTED
Wanted: Two .\oung men. 17 to 'J5 years old. to travel with manager. Sec Mr. Wuinn, Hotel Lincoln, between hours of la-o and five o'clock in the afternoon.
methods and the night sessions occa- tliere is no market demand for coal, sioned some surprise. President Wil- ^'°*' mined during the past month Is son as chairman for ths committee was ^tlll on the market and the sales responsible for the fact that every' agents for this company can find no minute was occupied In welding the! ^^'^ channels of distribution. The various     plants    into    an    acceptable I "ilriers   will   report  back  at  work  on
whole.
When the discussions showed a ten¬ dency to drift, the President diploma¬ tically wound the conversation back to the  Immediate subject
Professor Ferdinand Lamaude, French member of the committee, out¬ lined the main points of the consti¬ tution.    As he expressed it the organi
Tuesday when the breakers, washer ies and other departments will re¬ sume. An effof^ -will be made to work the balance of the week but shc-ild conditions become -worse than they are at present there will be another day of idleness, officials say.
Unions Gain Strsngth. Miners employed    by    the  Susque-
zation of the League will be similar to i hanna Coal company will work tomor-
U.  S.   MAIL   CLERKS   WANTED t;OVP:R.NMK.VT   will   hold   Hallway Mail   Clerk   examinations   In   Wilkcs- Harre March 15th.   92 month.   Kxperi- <?nce   unnecessary.     Men.   18   or  over. I desiring clerkships write for free par-| Ucular<>.  J.   L.   Leonardf   former Civil tServico Kxemlner). 1300 Kenols Build tug, Washington.
WANTED   RAILROAD  TIES
Ties wanted by I/ehigh Valley nail- mad Good prices. Address H. J. McQuadc, Purchasing Agent, 143 Lib¬ erty  St,  New "^'ork.
TYPEWRITERS
Remingtons. Royals. Underwoods. Olivers. $8 and $4 monthly. Largest slock of Typewriter Supplies. Bell Phone S81-M. The Multigraphing Co., 1013 Coal l^change Building, top floor.
the ITnlted States. The League's af fairs will be administered by an execu¬ tive committee, with greater powers, however, than those of our President. The Judicial and legislative branches will be under the executive committee.
The delegates have approved limi¬ tation of armaments, Lamaude said. Land and sea forces will tie controlled by the league, except in the case of internal matters.
The much debated question of the matter of enforcement of.tbe league's mandates apparently will rest w'th moral suasion. In the ca&e of a dis¬ pute, Lamaude explained, the party nations will be summoned before llie league. In the event a nation refuses the Judiciary's ruling and all other at¬ tempts at settlement, the plan Is to let
row but there Is a probability that they will be Idle the following day. It ¦was announced. The coming week will be a slack one. Last week the miners worked only one-third their usual time. Manager R. A. Quin said last night that the officials know of no po sible way in which to relieve con¬ ditions.
The men must wait  for the market to  Improve  and  the  demand  for  coal
No. 1 and No. 9. The insurgents car¬ ried No. 7 district by such a big ma¬ jority that the majority gained in the other two districts by the admin¬ istration  candidates  was  wiped  out.
In being re-elected to the presidency I of the United Mine Workers, Hayes de¬ feated John  H. Walker of Illinois, by ; 25,487 votes.    He carried  20 out of 25 '
resumption    of    building    activities I i^^^J' !^'l*'«<^ '" "and Jiy because they   phase,
I feared their insistence might aid    this
throughout  the  countir.  tl'.e  Treasury
Department tonight declared valid rea- I sons no longer exist for the withhold- ( ing of credit for constmction work, j     Blame for the innctivity in construc- j tion  lines  w.^s traced   in    an    official
statement to high cost^ of m^iterial. 'The impression seems lo exist that
districts in the country.   This plurality j Po'l^^'^^   initiated   during   the   warjjy
was far beyond    the
even the most ardent supporters back
propaganda." j
"The espienditures of the government this fiscal year will be nineteen, if not ' twenty billion dollane," Kitchin said- "By bonds and taxes we have raised ' only fourteen billions thus far. This ¦ means a now bond issue of five or six • biliion dollar.^. If the expenditures run ! to $20,000,000,000.  the  secretary of the
Reciting a long li..!t of "Impossibili¬ ties" which have become verities, tha treasury secretary said he could not believe -a reactionary spirit had ho completely gripped the American peo¬ ple that they would diminish glorious achievembnts of war by an inglorious exhibition of avarice in time of peace. He declared that if al! he had been told is true, he has come to doubt the
of Hayes. An andicatlon of Hayes' strength was given by the fact that John P. White, who resigned during the war from the presldentcy, defeated Walker by only 8,576 votes. The re¬ cent contest was the third in which Walker was a candidate for president. He flrst ran against T. L. Lewis in 1912. He ran against White In 1916 when he was again beaten. During the last campaign he was grroomed by the insurgents for the chief office but Hayes' good work among the miners since he held office was loo strong a recommendation to overcome.
It was the contest for the office of vice president of the International or¬ ganization that occupied the attention of local miners. Thomas Kennedy, president of the miners in District No. 7, waa named a candidate for the office by the insurgents.    His opponent was
expectations of ' Secretary McAdoo and ihe Federal Re-; tre.isury will have to get a new bond; *'""'>" o^ the .\merican people to serve board for the < onscr\ation of: a-Jthorization from Congress." p°P* ^''h peace-time problems con- credit   are  still  fullv  active   and     re-       Turning to the expenditure.'!  for the   ''"ontlng them.	
sponsible for Innctivity   in    the build-   next   fiscal   year    from   July.   1919,   to ing trades." the statement said.    "Thei July.   1920.   Kitchin   said   expenditures I activities  of  the  country  bave  under--would  not  be  less than   $10.000 000.000 gone a great change since the signing . "While the bill raises only four billions.
of the armistice. Many industries which were engaged in the production of war nuiterial and for which credits
leaving a deficit of six billions. Want Share of Profits. "When  we  think  of    the    enormous
were essential, are now directing their | burdens the people must airry we can
TROOPS  TO  STOP  STRIKE.
Sacramento. Cal., Feb. 8.—Two spe¬ cial trains filled' with soldiers from San Franf-isco passed through here late today going north. Railroad em¬ ployes said they were bound for Seattle.
to  become  normal.    He  said  that  the  John    L.    Lewis of Illinois.    Kennedy
present condition is to be expected in view of the fact that Jhe mines work¬ ed every day for two years during the war ar.d that all homes, business places   and   industrial   plants   stocked
made a hard fight in the local districts
and   secured  a  good   vote  but  Lewis'
plurality   over  him   was  even   grreater
than that of Hayes over Walker. Lewis
defeated Kennedy by 65,340 votes. iip with as much coal as was possible j Kennedy and Walker carried District to  secure. I No.  7 where they got a blgvote, but I BAR SOLDIER WORK
Officials of the United Mine Workers  the majority of the miners in No. 1 and
energies toward other lines more nearly related to normal activities of peace. Consequently many policies enacted during the war nre now out of date.
"The Department's impression is that inactivity in the building trades is directly traceable to insufficienc>' of credit and abnormally high costs. The building tradis of the country respond¬ ed promptly to the previous policies and co-opera;ed in a patriotic way with the government in Its program for the conservation of credit during the war. Now, apparently there is no valid rea¬ son why suff.cient credit should not bt made available for useful building operations."
the  disputants   fight     The  committee of America claim that the slack period   No. 9 districts voted against them
WATCH  REPAIRING
Is your Watch or Clock reliable?
Main springs put in while you wait 30c.
Watch cleaned and oiled 30c.
fctep in and havo your watch reg¬ ulated >"Vee. Railroad watches our spodalty.
CRESCENT JEWELRT CO.. 145 S. Main St
BIRDS AND  DOQGS
BIRDS AND DOGS FOR .SALB>- Canarles. best singers in America. Toy Boston Bull pups. Beauties. Peranto. comer Lincoln and tjouth street, Wllkes-Barre.
apparently luis decided that by time the Judlciar>- hands down jis decision tho affair will have received sufficient airing through the news¬ papers to ha""e generated enough pub¬ lic sentiment against recourse lo force as to niMke actual warfare practically impossible.
EXPLOSION OF GAS
HAS FATAL RESULTS
the'now experienced by the miners haej William Green had .an easy time de- proved to be a good membership boos- | feating John L. Sinh of Indiana for ter for the organization. Many min- secretary'-treasurer. Green recclved ers who had previously refused to be- almost 100,000 votes over his opponent, come   members   are   flocking   Into   the' Official figures give his   plurality    as
DRAPERY HANGER WANTED
Loca] department store Iws a  'acancy in their drapery and win- icrw shade department    One fa-
Madison, Wis., Feb. 8.—Eight known dead, fifteen Injured, five missing and a property loss totaling $400,000, wa3 the toll of a terrific gas explosion at Platteviiel, Wis., today. Nine stores and offices were -wiped out
"While spectators watched flremen battled a supposedly incipient blaze In the Forehand block. In tbe heart of the business section. Gas, evidently accumulated from a leak In a city main, exploded with a fores that levelled the walls of the building. Spectators and tnilisir with hangvig and making firemen nearest the explosion had no ;>referred. Address Box 9 t. i means of escape and were buried under 1 _J„,. 1..J—.-.».r]-.,» \I/;IU-. tons of debris. Bricks were hurled >tjnday      Independent.      Wilkes-, ^^^.^^ t,,^ ^j^^, ^^^^^^^ .^^^   injurins
iarre. Pa. t bystanders.
union ranks in the belief that what¬ ever hard times come in the future may have their sting partly remo-ved by the assistance of the union.
94,306.
The terms of the newly elocted of¬ ficers begin April 1. They will sei^-e for two years.    They will   be    largely
Local industrial plants. It is said, are [ responsible for the terms of the next laying men off. The Sheldon Axle ] ..j^freement between the operators and Works, the Hazard Wire Rope Works; min^Ts under which the coal Industn' and the Viil^f\. Iron Works are said'
to  have  :¦ by   the   dis men and  w
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FOR ROAD BUILDING
Washington. Feb. S.—Tho Senate to¬ night adopted an amendment to the $400,000,000 postofflce appropriation bill, prohibiting the employment of American soldiers. ..jailors or marinea, while still in service. In building of roads. This amendment was designed to prevent th«» use of soldiers returning to this countrj' and not yet discharged in carrying out    a    $200,000,000    road
well doubt the policy of making large reductions, especially when industry has made such large profits.
Representative Rainey. Illinois Democratic member of the Ways .and Means committee, predicted that ^he growth of governmental expenditures as outlined by Kitchin would force a revision of congress' methods of ap¬ propriating money.
' "We need some kind of budget sys¬ tem." Rainey said. "We need some Sbange in procedure that will prevent submission of amendments from the floor of 'purely sentimental reasons, when those amendments mean mill¬ ions to the federal treasury."
Represent Fordney of Michigan, another of the House conferee.o on the bill, said he had fought for more than a $60 bonus to soldiers as carried in the bill but had been unsuccessful.
Eleven members voted against the conference report, seven Democrats and four Republicans.    They are:
'!"'es. Texas; Huinphreys, Miss.; Stevens. Miss.; Venable. Miss.; Sissoii, Miss.; Blackmon. Alabama; Ualburn. Texas; Dyer, Mls.souri; I.aiigley. Ken¬ tucky: Powers, Kentucky; Sells, Ten¬ nessee.
TO YEAR CALENDAR
rklng  forces ral   hundred
AUTO ik*MH KILLS FOUR
Coraopr': *, 'A.; F«fc. *.—four persons were ins-; .ntly'TtlWed. their liodles mangled be*Jn<J Vo*bjipldUon. when the Buffalo flyeipWSrti^ » rnotor truck on which the>- tIMM AdiAk tk the Mulberry- street crossing'^iftllsrtWisburgh and La.ke Erie TMJWMd:     -:¦¦
John KanK^: S^Mt* Shoop. 25; Ludwig "^'aMtlssna ": Lugi Quag- letti, 27. ;. ¦ -. delM.
by    the
building  program  authorized win again be placed on a peace basis.   \ bill. During the recent campaign among      ^n effort to kill the rural motor truci
the miners one of the most active sup¬ porters of the administration candi¬ dates was John B. Gallagher, a union
service -was defeated. The Senate voted to continue for another year the experiment begun a year ago, to deter
District No. 1 for Hayes, Lewis and Green. Their big -vote in this county was one of the results of his work.
official of this city.   Gallagher stumped , mine whether by  the   uae    of    motor
trucks the producer and tho-city con¬ sumer can be brought closer together. Southern Senators defeated an amend-
RICKENBACKER'S FUTURE. ?',«nLS*^'"^.,'*''''   "°  ""^f   °^u ^^l
New   York,   Feb.   8.-Caplaln   Eddie! J^OO.OOO.OOO   road  appropriation  should
Rickenbacker   who   recently   returned! ^^ "P*."^ °" '¦°*<*» ^'^''^ ^^ the govem- from PYance as  the accredited ace  ofl'**^"'^ '" connection with military con-
iTt» Ol v'oraoplis.
All were It Is belie disregarded^^ tried to era
aces of the American flying forces an- j nounced tonight that he would seek his I release from the army so that he ihight
RAILROAD BUILDING
TO RELIEVE IDLENESS
tonmenis
The $'.100 000.000  road   provision was adopted in the fact of charges that It
tlB*'d»ifei  of tho truck'l>c free to devote his future time to hisj*'^'' a Po«k barrel appropriation,           ^
signal    andi family.     He   will   probably   i,o   vn   ihe       The Postoffce appropriation bill was j tion of building work  on  railroad im- ngine. i lecture plaKornt | adorned late lonlshu IflrovuataXs ia, tiubir citv.
Washington, Fqb. 8.—A policy of "going ahead with railroad improve¬ ments wherever feasible," haa been adopted by Director General Hines. Regardless of congressional action. Hines has determined that where the consent of teh railroad corporations can be obtained, improvements de¬ cided upon will be pushed In order to aid in  relieving unemployment.
Announcement of the railroad ad ministration's plan to lead, instead of follow. In resuming conMtrucHon work was adopted by Hines in a speech to a delegstton of Chicago aldermen late today.    The aldermen sought  resump
New  York,  Feb.  8.—A  plan   to  sav«
fifty millions of dollars a year In time
and fifteen millions in .-noney   by    the
adidtion.." of one more   month    to    tho
twelve now in a year, has been launch-
j ed by the .American Kiiual Month Cal-
t endar   .\ssociation.   according   to   an-
I nouncement made by that organization
tonight
The idea Is to divide the year up Into thirteen months of 28 days each, nuik- Ing each month begin with a Monday. This, of course, will leave one day lying around loose in an ordinary year, so It Is proposed lo make that day New Years Day, an independent legal holi¬ day located between the last calendar day of the previous year and the flrst day of the following year. On leap years the extra day will aliro bo made an Independent holiday and will be slipped in between two months where it will tiot be noticed.
The thirteenth month, or rather the extra, morrth, under the proposed sys¬ tem, will be called "Liberty" to make the calendar niore American, the of¬ ficials of the association say. Thua the calendar -will read: January, February.   Liberty.   March,  etc.
The saving In money will he through the abolis'nment of printed calend.irs. That i.« where the savin;? of time and labor will come in it ia averred.
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