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OCT 2 2. 1S21
VOL. LX XO. 19,00G
Entered at Portland Oreon
Poffffe am 8?Tii1-Cla!i. Matter.
PORTLAND. OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
I COB
PACKING HOUSE MEN
IN FAVOR OF STRIKE
PRESIDENT PLEADS
BLIND MAN'S SIGHT
IS BEING RESTORED
CITX HALL CIGAR DEALER NOW
CAX DISCERN" LIGHT.
COMPROMISE TAX BILL II C
uit dv dhtlj cinre:Ui u.
USE ADS TO DISARM
WORLD, SAYS EDITOR
ADVERTISING BY GOVERN
MENTS IS ADVOCATED.
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TADPrT nr
WORKERS AT FOCK CENTERS
VOTE FOR WALKOCT. '
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS I H II ll I I III
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AMBASSADOR
PEACE l
10 BEGIN TODAY
FOR
WORLD
UNION
BOMB
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First Degree MurderYer
dict Is Returned. -
TO BE PENALTY
Dentist Hears Decision With
Wo Show of Emotion, but
Wife Collapses.
SENTENCE IS DUE SATURDAY
Judge to Pronounce Fate of
Dennis Russell's Slayer
at 9 o'clock.
BY DON SKENE.
EOSEBURG, Or., Oct. 19. (Spe
cial.) Dr. Richard M. Brumfield, on
trial for the murder of Dennis Rus
sell on July 13 last, was found guilty
of murder in thefirst degree by a
jury in the circuit court here tonight.
The penalty is death by hanging.
The jury announced readiness to
report at 11:25 P. M. after being out
for three hours and 40 minutes. The
verdict was rad at 11:50.
Judge Bingham will pass sentence
on Dr. Brumfield at 9 A. M. Satur
day. The prisoner heard the verdict
with no show of emotion. Mrs.
Brumfield entered the court smiling,
but collapsed when she heard the
jury's decision. Friends and rela
tives helped her to an adjoining
room, wheret Fhe sobbed with her
face buried in her bands.
Mrs. Brumfield Collapses.
Mrs. Brumfield joined her husband
a few miffntes before the verdict was
read. She smiled at him and gave
his shoulders a few affectionate
pats, then she sat down close beside
him and flashed looks of cheer and
encouragement at her silent mate.
County Clerk Riddle read the ver
dict. In an instant the wonderful
nerve of Mrs. Brumfield snapped
and she collapsed in her husband's
arms. Weak and fainting, with sobs
wracking her body, she threw her
arms around him and their lips met
in a long kiss.
He held her in close embrace for
a brief space, then got up briskly
and walked with his usual alertr step
to the jail. Relatives and friends,
led by Miss Venita Ellensburg,
friend and constant companion of
Mrs. Brumfield, screened the grief
stricken wife from the scrutiny of
the courtroom audience, filled with
the curious who craned their necks
and mounted chairs to get a better
view of the tragedy.
Dentist Keeps Self-Control.
With tears coursing down the face
that had never lost its smile when it
would help her husband, Mrs. Brum
field was led to an adjoining room
end comforted.
The iron self-control of Dr. Brum
field did not waver at the news that
he must pay the death penalty. He
walked into his cell quietly and re
marked: "So that's the verdict, 19
it?"
One of his jailers touched his arm.
"Don't worry about me, boys; I
won't weaken or run away," he said.
"Dad" Cook, moonshiner and jail
companion of the murderer, looked
up at Dr. Brumfield with an inquir
ing gaze.
"First degree," said Dr. Brum
field, tersely, as he started to get
ready for bod.
Arguments Continue Seven Hours.
For about seven hours today the
jury trying Dr. Brumfield listened
to the final arguments of attorneys
for state and defense. At 5:30 P. M.
Judge Bingham began his instruc
tions to the jury, which he concluded
shortly after a recess for dinner, and
sent the 12 men out to deliberate on
a verdict.
Brumfield was pictured by District
Attorney Xeuner and Deputy Dis
trict Attorney Hammersley as a "super-slayer
with a master criminal
mind that carefully planned and exe
cuted a cold-blooded, diabolical mur
der." Dexter Rice and A. X. Or
cutt, nttorneys for the defense, held
that the defendant at the time of the
crime was an insane man who in
gome way became involved in a mur-
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Referenduni Recently Submitted
Shows That 80 Per Cent of
Employes Want Tieup.
OMAHA. Oct. 19. Eighty-five per
cent of the packing- plant employe!
of Omaha, who voted In the recent
strike referendum, favored authorizing-
the executive board the Amal
gamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen of North America to call a
strike In the packing- Industry If such
action is deemed necessary to pro
tect Interests of the employes, according-
to J. W. Burns, secretary of
the union's district council No. 6.
EAST ST. LOUIS, 111.. Oct. 19. Packing-
house employes in the East St.
Louis district balloted approximately
18 to 1 in favor of a strike. It was
announced today.
FORT WORTH, Tex., Oct. 19. The
majority of the ballots cast by the
Fort Worth packing- bouse employes
favored a strike, M. H. Freeman,
secretary of the butcher workmen's
local, announced today.
MILWAUKEE. Wis., Oct. 19. About
83 per -cent of the votes of the packing-
house employes in Milwaukee
favor a strike, a union official an
nounced today.
DAVENPORT. iTi Oct 19. Ninety
five per cent of the votes of packing
house employes here favor a strike,
accordiitg: to J. B. Mulady, president
of the local union.
THE DALLES CHIEF SHOT
Chinese Open Fire on Police Head
. in Course -of Tong Outbreak.
THE DALLES. Or., Oct. 19. (Spe
cial.) Frank Heater chief of police,
was shot twice tonight in the course
of a tong outbreak here. One bullet
struck the star on his breast, pene
trated the metal and entered his
breast. The other bullet struck him
in the calf of the leg. Neither wound
was considered serious.
Three Chinamen started the shoot
ing by opening fire on Patrolman
Dunsmore. who was near the railroad
station. Mr. Dunsmore lost his re
volver and was unable to return the
fire. The chief ran down an alley
to aid Mr. Dunsmore and was shot
when he appeared. About 30 shots
were fired during the aflray.
The authorities did not know
whether sny Chinamen had been shot
or not. The whole police force was
called out and roads leading from the i
city were guarded closely. Five Chi
namen were seen riding around In "Tin
auto today and are suspected of com
pliclty.
WRANGEL'S CASH LOST
Jewels of Baroness, Worth 40,000
Francs, Also Sink on Yacht.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. 19. (By
the Associated Press.) General Baron
Wrang-el'i personal fortune; his wife's
jewels, valued at 40,000 francs, and
Important documents of the Crimean
government were lost Saturday when
the yacht Lucullus, on which the head
of the former anti-bolshevik govern
ment in South Russia lived, was sunk
by the British steamer Adria.
In addition there were valued
mementos presented the general by
the late Emperor Nicholas. Investiga
tion has proved the accident was due
to a swift current. The Lucullus rests
In 70 feet of water, and It is believed
divers may be able to recover part of
the treasure.
PERSHING PLANTS TREE
neception Is Given General on His
Iteturn to Paris.
PARIS, Oct. 19. The reception at
the city ball in honor of General
Pershing- today was elaborate and
impressive. Some 1500 persons were
present. Including- France's leading
military figures, members of the dip
lomatic corps, representatives of the
various embassies and a large con
tingent from the American colony.
At the planting of an oak tree in
honor of Franco-American amity In
the Trocadero gardens. General
rershino threw In a shovelful of
French soil, which he said "is also
American soil because American
blood was shed on It.'
GIRL KILLED llf RUNAWAY
ltlg Carrying Ex-Portland Teacher
Itolltt Down Embankment.
KELSO. Wash", Oct. 19. (Special.)
Miss Carrie Crawford. ex-Portland
school teacher, was Injured fatally
here this afternoon when a runaway
riff rolled down an embankment. She
died on the way to the hospital.
The family of Miss Crawford are
pioneers of the Columbia heights dis
trict. She is survived by a brother
and four sisters. One sister. Miss
Katherlne Crawford, is a teacher in
Portland schools.
OREGON ' MEN CONFIRMED
Senate Acts on Nominations of
George U. Piper and E. N. Wheeler.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington, D. C. Oct. 19. Nomina
tions of George U. Piper to be collec
tor of customs for the Willamette
district, Oregon, and E. N. Wheeler
to be appraiser of merchandise for
the same customs district were con
firmed today by the senate.
Both nominations- were confirmed
without discussion. I
Essential Co-Operation of
Nations Urged. .
TRIBUTE IS PAID TO 'BRITAIN
Friendship of English-Speaking
Peoples Consecrated.
EXECUTIVE AT YORKTOWN
Address Delivered on Spot Where
in 1781 Cornwallls Surren
dered to American Forces.
WILLIAMSBURG, Vs., Oct. 19.
The honorary degree of doctor of
laws was given President Harding
by the College of William and Mary
today at exercises of installation of
Dr. J. A. C. Chandler as president of
the institution.
In cap and gown, Mr. Harding, in
an address, appealed for Increased
patriotic attention to the national ed
ucational system and praised the part
played in American history by the
Institution, which is the second old
est college of the country.
Before coming here the president
delivered an address from the spot in
Torktown where Lord Cornwallls sur
rendered In 1781 and announced a
policy of Anglo-American friendship
for all future time.
The United States and Great Brit
ain, he asserted, had consecrated a
long-time friendship by association In
the common sacrifices of the world
war and found themselves "arrayed
together" In a trusteeship for the
preservation of civilization. He spoke
also a word of gratitude for the aid
given by France in the revolution and
declared the time bad come for world
wide co-operation and amity among
nations.
Others Ala Are Honored.
That part of the Torktown speech
devoted to British-American relations
was in the form of a brief declaration
of policy on which the president did
not elaborate.
Delegates were present at the Wil
liam and Mary exercises from all col
leges In the country more than 100
years old, and honorary degrees were
also conferred on Judge Alton B.
Parker, democratic candidate for
president in 1904, and on Governor
Davis of Virginia.
President Harding, In academic
robes, headed the procession around
the college campus prior to the ex
ercises, which were held in the alcove
of the Wrenn building, the oldest
college hall In the country still in
daily use. It was built in 1694.
Later he went to Jamestown, site
of the first English settlement in
America, and placed a wreath on the
grave of Governor Tardley. who In i
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LIVE IXs Vt--rCV.
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Thomas Sheridan, in Dark for 30
Tears, Has Hopes That One Day
He Will See Again.
Under practically the same treat
ment that Is bringing relief to Thomas
P. Gore, ex-senator of Oklahoma, who'
has suffered blindness for 33 years,
Thomas Sheridan, blind cigar man at
the city hall,. Is beginning to discern
sunlight, after more than 30 years of
darkness.
Treatment of Mr. Sheridan began
some months ago. and after some time
he was able to lift his eyelids without
pain. After his fifth treatment, Mr.
Sheridan states that be was able to
discern light intermittently.
Shortly after Mr. Sheridan began to
recognize light he became 111 and was
forced to suspend his treatments. He
has resumed them, and while he can
not yet determine what the ultimate
results will be, he is hopeful for at
least partial recovery.
"I cannot be too hopeful," he said
yesterday, "but at the same time the
excellent results that I have obtained
thus far lead me to believe that with
careful treatment I may yet live to
distinguish objects and possibly the
sight of one of my eyes will be re
stored."
Mr. Sheridan lost the use of his left
eye as the result of an accident and
later during a spell of Illness lost the
sight of his right eye.
REWARD NOT TO BE PAID
Offer of $5000 for Recovery of
Priest Not Official.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 19. The re
ward of J5000 offered by Archbishop
Edward J. Haftna for the recovery of
Father Patrick E. Healin, who was ab
ducted from his home at Colma, Cal.,
August 2 and murdered, will not be
paid. Chief of Police O'Brien an
nounced today. He said it never had
been offered officially.
William A- Hightower. who led
searchers to the priest's grave Au
gust 10, is serving a life sentence in
San Quentin prison on conviction of
the murder of Father Healin.-
STUDENT HAZERS OUSTED
16 Sopohomorcs in' University of
Minnesota Suspended.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 19. Sixteen
sophomore men of the engineering
college of the University of Minne
sota were notified today by E. E.
Nicholson, dean of student affairs,
that they are suspended from the uni
versity. This action followed an investiga
tion of hazing of freshmen.
PRICES OF FLOUR BREAK
Product Touches $7 a Barrel for
First Time in Six ars.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 19. Fol
lowing yesterday's decline in wheat,
flour broke to new low levels today,
touching $7 a barrel for the first time
in about six years.
Mills posted prices of $T to $1.15
a barrel for family patents today, a
reduction of 40 to 55 Cents from yes
terday.
LET'S DO IT.
rVNO
Mr. Underwood Declares That No
' One Except Treasury Experts
Can Understand Act.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 19.
The compromise tax revision bill was
assailed today In the senate by demo
crats and republicans.
. Senator Underwood of Alabama,
democratic leader, characterized the
measure as the worst presented to
congress. No one understood it. he
declared,' except the few treasury ex
perts who drew It. and he predicted
If the bill became law the courts
would, be several years In interpret
ing It. .
Charging republicans with a failure
to be candid with the American peo
ple, he said, they were trying to have
It go out that taxes were to be re
duced when, as a matter of fact, they
would be increased through operation
of the - administrative provisions of
the revenue measure and the pro
posed American valuation plan In the
tariff bilL
Senator Moses, republican. New
Hampshire, paid his respects to the
committee bill and also to the amend
ments sponsored by the agricultural
bloc, which he termed the "Ken-Cap-klan,"
a play on the names of Sen
ators Kenyon of Iowa and Capper of
Kansas, leaders in the bloc.
Supreme court decisions in tax cases
got Into the debate. Senator Nelson,
republican, Minnesota, complaining
about opinions holding state and mu
nicipal bonds exempt from the federal
taxation.
The senate, after a long technical
discussion, voted down, 66 to 12, a
committee amendment under which
treasury experts had figured the gov
ernment would receive taxes on about
85 per cent ot the earnings of "close"
corporations accumulated prior to
March 1, 1913.
Senator La Follette, republican,
Wisconsin, renewed his fight against
provisions of the bill which would
exempt from taxation that part of
the Income of foreign traders and for
eign trade corporations derived from
sources outside the United States.
Senator McCumber, republican. North
Dakota, again defended the provisions
on behalf of the finance committee,
contending that they were necessary
so that American concerns might-cjdo
business abroad on an equal footing
with foreign corporations.
Senator King, democrat, Utah, in-
troduced an amendment which would
authorize the president to invite the
state? to appoint representatives to
confer with representatives to be ap
pointed by him to discuss co-opera
tioti between the federal and state
governments in the levying of taxes
and particularly to recommend means
for the elimination cf conflict be
tween federal and state inheritance
taxes.
:INES TOTAL $9,500,000
Mississippi Fire Insurance Com
pany Penalized.
JACKSON, Miss.. Oct. 19. Chan
cellor V. J. Strieker issued a decree
today in the Hinds county chancery
court Imposing fines aggregating
nearly 39,500,000 on fire Insurance
companies formerly doing business In
this state.
Thirty-three companies were fined
$195,875 each. Others were fined
from J1000 upwards v
Myron Herrick's Home in
Paris Is Damaged. ;
VALET HURT BY EXPLOSION
Package Believed Present in
Honor of Birthday.
OTHER ENVOYS WARNED
Attempt on Life of American Is
Sequel to Threatening" Notes
on Italian Murderers.
PARIS. Oct 19. (By the Associated
Press.) A small oblong package
wrapped in white paper tied with a
strong cord and marked "perfume"
lay on a table In the American em
bassy all this morning. It was ad
dressed to the American ambassador,
Myron T. Herrick. and had been de
livered by registered post. Thinking
it was a gift, the ambassador's secre
tary, Lawrence Norton, carried it to
the ambassador's residence at 16
Avenue De Messine. Early tonight
the ambassador's valet. Blanchard.
saw the package on a desk and
started to open It. Removal of the
paper revealed a small pasteboard
box. Almost immediately a spring
was released and as he lifted the lid,
Blanchard, who formerly was a
bomber in the British army, heard a
familiar noise. He hurled the box
thro'ugh the bathroom door and ran.
The bomb exploded In the doorway,
two fragrents hitting him In the
back. He was not seriously injured.
Ambassador on Step.
The ambassador, his daughterln-
law, Mrs. Parmely Herrick, and her
7-year-old son were ascending the
stairway. Blanchard came running
out as the ambassador reached the
top
"A bomb has exploded and I am
h?t!" he shouted. "Thank God you
weren't in the room."
Blanchard collapsed and was car
ried downstairs. The ambassador mo
tored immediately to the Hotel Cril
l"n to ask General Pershing the best
thing to do and. the prefect of police
was summoned.
The bomb Is believed by the police
to have been sent by French com
munists as a protest against the con
viction of two communists in the
United States charged with murder.
It contained the deadliest of explo
sives, according to the oollce.
rinlbroom Is Wrecked. j
The bathroom was wrecked, much
damage was done in the bedroom and
seven fragments went through a thick
steel wardrobe, while others made
deep dents In the metal doors of a
cabinet. 1
The ambassador's first thought was
to Iftnore -the matter, but Gfneral
Pershing and others advised him to
make the full details public because
of the possibility of other bomb out
rages. President Millerand was among the
first to congratulate the ambassador
on his escape. He assured Mr. Her
rick that the outrage was deeply re
sented by every Frenchman worthy
of the name and that the greatest ef
forts would be made to apprehend the
guilty.
Premier Briand, Leon Bourgeois and
many members of the diplomatic corps
sent similar messages and through
out Tarls the most intense indignation
is expressed at the attack.
Mr. Herrick refused to take seri
ously the scores of letters he received
protesting against the conviction of
the communists in the United States.
Some were politely phrased, but others
made threats to "get the ambassador"
and blow up the embassy.
z Envoy Makes Statement.
"The act was that of an Irresponsi
ble coward who was without courage
to come out into the open," the am
bassador said.
The package, about elsht Inches
long, four inches wide and five inches
deep, came by registered mail and was
labeled "Perfume." The valet, Walter
Blanchard, a 32-year-od Englishman,
opened the package. Upon opening
the lid a spring was released and
Blanchard, who had been a bomber
during the war, Immediately sus
pected Its significance, threw the
package away, rushed frr.m the room
and was hit in the back by a frag
ment. Mr. Herrick expressed the belief
that the explosion was a sequel to
threatening letters he had been re
ceiving from French communists be
cause of the conviction of two com
munists In the United States for
murder.
These outrages should cease," he
said. "Any reasonable man knows
neither the embassy nor the American
government has anything to do with
Sacco and VanzettI; they committed a
crime for which they must suffer."
Clothing Is Destroyed.
The ambassador said he would keep
an engagement for dinner, but re
marked that he would be unable to
put on evening clothes, as most of his
wardrobe had been torn by fragments
of the bomb.
Mr. Herrick was anxious that all
the other American embassies be In
formed as soon as possible of the out-
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j Too Much Space Given to Scandals
and Sports, Press Congress at
Honolulu Is Told.
HONOLULU. Oct. 19. Discussion St
the sessions of the press congress of
the world today centered on the topic
of "How Far Is the Freedom of the
Press Desirable and How May It Be
Safeguarded?"
That the governments of the world
should use the tremendous modern
foroe of paid advertising to forward
the cause of International peace was
the declaration ot Riley H. Allen, edi
tor of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Mr.
Allen continued: "I sincerely believe
that a campaign of a year's advertis
ing conducted by the governments of
the world in the cause of peace would
be more effective than a line of forts,
a division of infantry or a fleet of
battle cruisers, and would cost far
less"
James Wright Brown, publisher of
the Editor and Publisher, expressed
the opinion that freedom of the press
could be obtained and held best by
the publication of "more accurate and
more dependable newspapers, right
eeusly administered in the publ'c In
terest." He continued:
"Scandals and crimes have occupied
news columns to the exclusion of
vital International and domestic prob
lems that must Inevitably engage the
attention of thoughtful people. Spe
clfically the Hamon, Stillman and
Arbuckle cases have been all over
the front pages for months.. Baseball
and other sports also occupy too much
space.
"Amer'can publishers are finding
that clean, dependable, reliable, ac
curate newspapers will win and hold
public confidence and sound financial
support."
CHILD SLAYER IS IN JAIL
Negro Shoots Policemen and Then
Confesses Again.
MOUNT HOLLY, N. J.. Oct. 19.
Louis Lively, the negro who Is said
to have confessed he killed 7-year-old
Matilda Russo at East Morristown
last June, was brought here late to
day from Bridgeton and placed in
jail. He was arrested earlier In the
day at Vincland after shooting a po
liceman. Prosecutor Kelsey said tonight
Lively had supplemented his early
confession with a statement Implicat
ing his wife. She took no part lu
the actual kining. the negro was
quoted as having said, but has known
since the night of the crime that he
slew the girl. Mrs. Lively was ar
rested shortly after the child's body
was found and held as a material
witness.
DRY COOK ISLANDS ,AIM
Prohibition May Be Enforced by
New Zealand Government.
WELLINGTON. N. Z., Oct. 19. Pro
hibition would be enforced in the
Cook islands by the New Zealand gov
eminent under a bill Introduced in
parliament Monday.
The Cook or Harvey Islands were
taken under British possession in
1888 and are under the direct admin
istration of New Zealand. They lie
between the Tonga archipelago and
Tahiti and are inhabited by Malays.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Highest temperature, 63
degrees; lowest, 47; cloudy.
TODAY S Fair.
Fore if n.
Condition! In England worst since Napo
leonic wars. Page 8-
Bomb explodes in Ambassador Herrick's
Paris home. Page 1.
Premier Briand's proposed strip to arms
conference attacked. Page 16.
Famine in Kunsla seen at Its worst along
Volga river. Page 6.
National.
America favors giving Japan place In the
sun. Page 3.
President pleads for co-operation of na
tion In preserving big best .ideals.
Page X.
Senator McXary introduces bill calculated
to speed reclamation work. Page 2.
Washington waits for result of trike con
ference. Page 5.
Republicans and democrats attack com
promise tax bill, "age 1.
Dottiest l. '
Moves for peace In railroad strike begin
today. Page 1.
Governors ask repeal of Eich-Cutnmlni
act. Page 2.
Galveston, Tex., extends Its commercial
scope. Page 7.
Eighty per cent of packing houre em
ployes vote for strike. Page 1.
Use of advertising to aid disarmament
urged. Page 1.
Big mining waste seen In high taxes.
Page 13.
Pacific Northwest.
Auto dive In river drowns two men. Psge 8.
General McAlexander has famous "Rock of
Ma me" regiment under command at
Camp Lewis. Page 8,
Dr. Brumfield found guilty of murder In
first degree. Page 1.
reports
Washington defeats Beiuwn, 21 to 0.
Page 14.
Portland golfers will have busy week-end.
Page 14.
Commercial and Marine.
Army's thief eng neer pledges aid for
Portland harbor. Page 22.
Wheat again declines in local market
Page 23.
Slight gains made by railway and oil
stocks. Page 23.
Portland and Vicinity.
Hope that blind cigar dealer; sight may
be restored. Page 1.
Chamber of commerce directors condemn
proposed strike. Page 4.
Portland may send trade delegation to
oriental countries. Page 12.
Local Boy Scouts to train for sea. Page 9.
Exposition heads prepare for tax levy cam
paign. Page 9.
Salvage sale planned to aid jobless.
Page 5.
Multnomah county grand Jury returni
nine Indictments. Page 6.
Young woman who disappeared believed
to be ktpt In hiding by Chinese. Page
13.
City school land offered for sale. Page 16.
Exalted ruler of Portland Elks captures
robber suspects single-handed. Pag lu.
Strike Declared to Hinge
on Two Conferences,
SETTLEMENT SIGNS NOTED
Shop Crafts Officials Say
They Will Wot Go Out Un
less They Must.
BOARD TO GET SUPPORT
Cancellation of Order Calling
Men Out to Be Prize; 11
Unions Not Aligned.
CHICAGO, Oct. 10. (By the
Associated Press.) Preparation for
the various moves through which it
is hoped the threatened rail strike
will be averted were completed
today and tomorrow peace efforts
will be in full swing.
Tonight heads of the unions and
of the carriers were silently alert,
with figuratively speaking one
eye on the conference tomorrow
between the "big five" rail union
leaders and the railroad labor board,
and the other on meetings of offi
cials of 11 unions which have not
yet joined the conductors, engine
men, trainmen, firemen and switch
men in a strike order, for both sides
were agreed that out of these con
ferences would come the final deci
sion as to whether a general walk
out of rail employes would mater
rialize.
Cancellation of Order Is Stake.
In the conference with the labor
board rested the possibility of the
"big five" being persuaded to cancel
their order for a walkout, while in
the meetings of the 11 unions, which
actually started today, was to be
decided whether these organizations,
hclding the balance of manpower
through numbering three-fourths of
the nearly 2,000,000 rail workers in
their membership, would join the
"big five" if they walked out Octo
ber 30, as planned.
W. S. Stone, president .of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
neers; W. G. Lee, president of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen;
W. S. Carter, president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen; C. T. Cashen, presi
dent of the Switchmen's Union of
North America, and E. P. Curtis,
vice-president of the Order of Rail
way Conductors, left Cleveland to
night for Chicago to meet with the
labor board at the latter's request.
L. E. Sheppard, president of the
conductors' organization, also is
expected tomorrow.
Settlement Signs Noticed.
While this conference was looked
on as the most important of the
peace moves, railroad men tonight
professed to see signs of a peace
able settlement of the difficulties
in the attitude of B. M. Jewell, head
of the 476,000 members of the six
railway shop crafts' organizations,
and of J. C. Smock, vice-president
of the maintenance of way union,
which numbers 300,000 men.
The shop crafts' executive council
met today, but took no action other
than to call in the conference of 100.
The committee, while having power
to call a strike, also is expected to
defer action by calling in the 1000
general chairmen for a meeting
Friday, when the final attitude of
these groups probably will be made
known.
The maintenance of way executive
council met only informally today,
the formal meeting coming to
morrow. "I cannot speak for my entire
organization now, but personally I
will say we do not want a strike,
that we would never strike on the
wage question unless forced to, and
that we will not go into any walk
out with the brotherhoods unleES we
have definite promises of co-operation
which so far have not been
forthcoming from them," said J. C.
Smock, maintenance of way vice
president, tonight.
Mr. Jewell repeated his state
ments that he was opposed to the
strike. ,
The labor board will go into con-
iConcludetl on Pace 4, Culunin 1.)