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ADOPTED
Committee to Be Named by Presi
dent Would Have General
Supervision of Situation.
WASHINGTON, July 24. (By the
Associated Press.) Agreement upon
a. tentative plan for distribution of
coal and for restriction of unfair
prices was announced tonight by
Secretary Hoover after a series of
conferences during the day with
representatives of producing oper
ators, the railroads, the. interstate
commerce commission and oth,er
departments of the government.
The plan, which was described by
Attorney-General. Daughertr in an
opinion as "entirely legal," is to be
discussed further tomorrow by the
conferees and fhe agreement of the
operators present is dependent upon
the approval of their various asso
ciations. Committee Is Proposed.
Under the proposed plan Presi
dent Harding would appoint a com
mittee which would have general
supervision of the measures to be
adopted for emergency fuel control
designed to safeguard the public
from an impending coal famine.
Application of the law governing
interstate commerce, through the
interstate commerce commission,
would enable the allocation of
freight cars to be governed by the
maintenance of fair prices for coal
among the operators.
The tentative plan follows:
"A committee in Washington, to
be appointed by the president, of
representatives of the department
of commerce, the interstate com
merce commission, the department
of justice and the department of
the interior, to be designated the
presidential committee. This com
mittee to have general supervision
of the measures to be taken here
under and to authorize the execu
tion of such of these measures as
may be necessary from time to
time.
Representative Are Planned.
"The administration committee,
comprising representatives of the
presidential committee, together
with representatives of operators,
representatives of the railways,
and, where necessary, representa
tives of the larger, consuming
groups.
"The presidential committee will
establish a representative in each
coal producing district.
"The presidential committee will
appoint a committee of operators in
each district, to be nominated by
the district operators' organization
or independent operators. (In case of
failure of the operators to take such
action the presidential committee i
may appoint such operators as they
see fit on such committee.) The
members of these district commit
tees may be changed as determined
upon by the presidential committee.
Co-operation la Proposed.
"The presidential committee will
co-operate with the interstate com
merce commission in carrying out
preferential orders issued by the
commission.
"The governmental representa
tives in the districts, with the co
operation of the district commit
tees, shall advise the agencies of the
interstate commerce commission as
to local car movement to effect the
purpose of this plan.
"The operators will proceed with
their usua.1 business until they are
affected by preference orders.
"It is expected that the district
committees under the authority of
the presidential committee will rec
ommend the allotment of cars on
the basis of those who conform to
the fair prices to be agreed upon by
the presidential committee.
Guarantees Are Requlred-
"When the operators demand them.
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for payment by persons buying
uuqer priority oraers.
"The roads will be requested to
ftDDoint ft rtnrpRAntaHvft tn il.nl
with purchases of railway fuel.
"The basis of prices agreed upon
between the operators and the sec
retary of commerce on June 1 are
to be maintained except where
varied by the presidential commit
tee and this same basis of price
determination shall be applied to
all districts which are so far not
co-operating.
"The whole of the above is ten
tative, pending further considera
tion by the interstate commerce
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tice, department of Interior and the
MOVIES ENTICE DANCER
(Continued From Ftrat Page. )
hotel. I had guessed the purpose
behind the invitation which was
mailed to me, because 'Sonny" had
warned me that papa had decided
to face his son's vampire. So I
went in my" best bib and tucker and
did my feverish best to fascinate
the roomful of prominent men and
women who were present. I was so
.foolish as to hope that this was to
be a sort of test of my ability to
carry off the role of 'Mrs. Whitney
II.' Harry Whitney danced the first
dance with me just a few -steps
and then he gallantly led me on
his arm Into an ante-room where
we were alone. We walked up and
down the room and talked.
"He tried me on every subject
from horseshoes to diamond horse
shoes, i remember what he said,
but I don't remember what I said.
You know how it is you forget ail
the clever things when you want to
repeat them."
Dancer Wins Laugh.
"Anyway," said Evan, with a vic
torious chuckle, "I made him laugh.
"In fact, I almost made him for
get what he had brought me there
to tell me. We were going back
into the ballroom when he suddenly
paused and took me by the arm to
"detain me.
' I 1 1 k A mv Knn u taattx n.-u a ...V -.
he said, 'but I don't like his princl-
"We nearly quarreled then
'. "Ton Know, Sonny does not mean
lo marry you.
"I protested.
" 'I'd rather believe Sonny when
he says that he does not mean to
marry me.
"He never answered that He
- just stood there without saying a
word for minutes, staring straight
. into my eyes and when he spoke
I didn't understand the connection
with what had gone before.
" 'You're as pretty as a picture,'
he said. 'And as clever as they
WOMEN LAWYERS 1ST SUPREME! COURT.
Dry, musty law books have taken on a new interest for the eight women pictured above. They are law
yers, all eight of them, and they ire compiling digests of all laws relating to women that have been passed
in the United States. When the work is completed for the national woman's party, it wilt be the only com
plete record of laws concerning women ever made. Left to right, bottom row, Emma Wold, Dorothy Bealse,
Fred Lee Woodson, Burnita Matthews. . Top row Alma Partridge, Lillian Bass, Etta Taggart and Olive Lacy.
make 'em. I wish you every sort
of luck.'
"Then he took me back among the
guests."
The curious thing about Evan's
state of mind is her continued lik
ing for the male members of the
Whitney family. Though she ' in
dicts 'Sonny's' conduct and resents
the father's interference in what
she was convinced was destined to
be a love match, all her reference
to the pair are larded with little
involuntary memories of their
charm. ' .
It is "the Whitney charm," she
admits now, that still Influenced
her to make plans to provide for
her own needs and those of her
baby and to look forward to a
hoped-for day when she can send
her last love message to the man
she says is the father of. her child:
"The suit is dropped. As ever,,
Evan."
BONUS. HINGES ON DEBT
(Continued Prom First Page.)
part of Great 'Britain's debt to this
country.
If Great Britain should actually
pay us a considerable sum before
the bonus bill comes up for final
action, or if it should have become
clearly evident that Great Britain is
going to pay, the advocates of the
bonus would immediately seize upon
that. They would say that this
money would provide. enough for at
toast a first installment in paying
the bonus and that subsequent re
ceipts of cash from Great Britain,
or from our other European debtors,
would take care of future install
ments on the bonus. , .
Argument Would Be Provided.
Advocates of the bill would say
that this unexpected appearance of
new cash in the treasury would meet
Mr. Harding's objection that the bill
must not be passed unless the ca-ah
to pay it is available.
How the president would feel
about this nobody but himself can
tell. Probably much would depend
on the amount of cash that Great
Britain might pay us. tf Great
Britain's cash installment on her in
debtedness is merely a hundred
million dollars or so, that would
only be a small percentage of the
total amount involved in the bonus,
and to say that such a small amount
would justify going ahead with the
proposal would not seem to meet
the condition the president made six
months ago to the effect that if the
bill were passed at all it should be
a good-faith bill and that the money
involved should be in hand or deft
nitely in sight. It would be easy.
however, to - overestimate the
amount Great Britain will pay us
in the near future.
Enjflnnd to Assume Debt,
That England is going to assume
completely and without quibbling
the entire obligation of several bil
lion dollars which she owes us is
known. But assuming the obliga-
WHAT CONGRESS DID AS ITS
DAY'S WORK.
Senate.
Debated' wool schedule of
tariff bill.
Lenroot offers amendment
fixing maximum rate at 60 per
cent ad valorem.
Matter of German property
in hands of alien property
custodian discussed at length.
Announcement made that
the judiciary committee will
take up the Underwood bill
Thursday.
Completed flax, jute and
hemp schedule of tariff bill,
Several reductions proposed
by the finance committee be
ing adopted.
tion is a different matter from turn
ing over the cash. It wiit undoubt
edly be Great Britain's disposition,
and that disposition will be entirely
satisfactory to us, to meet the obli
gation by changing it from its pres
ent form of an overdue note into the
form of long-term bonds.
It may turn out that the finan
cial relations between Great Britain
and ourselves will be covered by the
acceptance by us of these long-term
bonds and; that the amount of im
mediate cash paid as a first install
ment will be relatively small, much
too small to take care of the sol
diers' bonus.
AGENTS' STRIKE AVERTED
(Continued From First Page.)
took off two trains between Chicago
and Detroit and two between De
troit and Harvey.
S. M. Felton, president of the Chi
cago Great Western railroad, to
night issued a statement denying a
statement that he had a long dis
tance telephone conversation with
President Harding on Saturday in'
which the president had been report-
ed as requesting Mr. Felton to.- use
his influence to end the strike.
HARDING EXPECTED TO ACT
President's Authority for Decisive
Steps Unquestioned
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 24.
(By the Associated Press.) While
on the surface, concrete develop
ments in the railroad strike were
lacking In Washington today, the
impression gained in official circles
was that the situation was being
rapidly "shaken down" to .a point
where a new move by the adminis
tration could be expected. .
Cabinet members who discussed
the situation invariably declared
that .President Harding was in per
sonal charge of the question and
though there was more than the
belief that the cabinet would be
called upon to consider it . at the
regular session tomorrow, nb hint
was forthcoming 'as to the mannef
in which the transportation crisis
would be laid before the president's
official family.
Further evidence was obtained,
however, that some of the chief
executive's advisers have urged that
the 'government cannot permit the
breakdown of the country's arteries
of commerce to go further, while
waiting for the railroad manage
ments and shopmen to dispose of
their differences. . '
, j
it is known, giving details I
of the extent to which the strike
has been responsible for the almost
total "blanketing" of the healthy
business revival in the United States
and while instances of direct inter
ference with the United States mails
have recently been conspicuously ab.
sent, postal inspectors today re
corded the furtlfer annulment of im
portant mail trains. '
Some administration advisers, who
favor a drastic move by the gov
ernment are known to hold the view
that President Harding should de
mand that the rail executives make
every effort to- restore interstate
commorc-j. especial!; H the extent
of abandoning their stand on the
seniority issue said to be the crux
of the whole strike question
whereupon the disputants would be
expected to come together on the
matter of a fair living wage for rail
road employes, conceded to be" the
remaining important issue.
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an appetite
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puts your appetite on
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and you're ravenously
hungry for more. Go
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want They are as good
for you as they are good
to eat
OVEN BAKED
BEANS
with Tomato Sauce
OS
HEINZ
If the railroad executives refused,
it was declared, the president, sat
isfied he has full authority and a
duty delegated him by the constitu
tion to maintain interstate com
merce and the mail service, could
proceed to operate the roads.-While
the Esch-Cummins act would be
invoked for the purpose as far as
that would apply, it was said the
president's main reliance would be
the duty "entrusted" to the chief
executive under the constitution.
The president, It is understood,
has been assured by his atfvisers
that his authority for decisive ac
tion, without recourse to congress,
is without question. Two courses
would be open to him in order phys
ically to operate the roads, it was
said. , First, he could request the
strikers to return to work under
the government operation at the
old wage scale and with seniority
rights restored. If this failed, then
federal troops could be called upon
to assure operation of the trains.
The first course, the president is
understood to believe, would be ac
ceptable to the strikers who would
see in it the capitulation , of the
railroad executives and a victory
won for labor. The chief contention
of the strikers, it was said, has de
veloped into a fight for seniority
with the wage . -dispute .becoming
subordinate.
There is little disposition in gov
ernment circles to consider meeting
the emergency by actually'"putting
if e """s uu"er Fov'"me"' up!ra"
tio-n. Powers given' the interstate
commerce commission in the trans
portation act were cited as making
this move unnecessary. Terms of
the act make it clear, it was said,
that this body in any transportation
emergency, might suspend all rail
road rules and regulations govern
ing car service, interchange of equip
ment and facilities as between roads
and create euch agencies as it found
necessary to enforce its ruling. The
sweeping grant of authority would
be first used in connection with the
coal distribution plan, but official
Idea existed that it might extend
to deal with other phases of the
transportation system.
The Br cm
You Need
is stored by Nature in the
whole wheat grain but don't
stuff your intestines with
raw bran. In
you have all the bran of the
whole wheat grains combined
with their rich, energizing food
elements a complete, perfect
food that builds healthy tissue,
good brain and bone, while
keeping the bowels healthy
and active. When you eat
bran eat it in Shredded Wheat.
, Two Biscuits with milk or cream make
a complete, nourishing meal. Eat it for
breakfast with sliced bananas or prunes;
for lunch with berries; 4ot dinner with
. sliced peaches, apricots, ctewed raisins, or
other fruits. Ready-cooked, ready-to-eat.
Pacific Coast Shredded Wheat Co., Oakland, CaL
Legislation Resigned to Force
Settlement of Damages
' Americans Referred.
to
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 24.
(By the Associated Press.) Repub
lican and democratic senators today
joined in demands for prompt pay
ment of American damage claims
against Germany and Austria, but
differed as to procedure, ; during
three hours' debate on the bill of
Senator Underwood of Alabama, the
democratic leader, which proposed
an American claims commission.
Senator Lodge- of Massachusetts,
the republican leader, indicated that
he favored a joint claims commis
sion. Senator Lodge, however, agreed
with Senator Underwood that prop
erty seized by the alien property
custodian probably would be used
to pay American damages, but such
a method of payment was opposed
by Senator Walsh, democrat, Mon
tana. Chemical Frauds Denied..
The discussion was opened by
Senator Underwood with a state
ment fin support of his bill, in
which, incidentally, he denied
charges of fraud in connection with
acquisition by the chemical founda
tion of 6000 German chemical pat
ents now the basis of a government
suit Wide discussion of the chem
ical foundation affairs was precipi
tated. Chairman Nelson of the ju
diciary committee attacking Sen
ator Underwood's position and
charging that the foundation was
spreading propaganda, while Sen
ator Underwood declared that the
foundation was an eleemosynary
concern, with profits limited and
designed to develop.
Underwood Bill Referred.
The Underwood bill was referred
today to a "judiciary sub-committee
headed by Senator Cummins, repub
lican, Iowa, which will begin hear
ings next Thursday.
Thomas W. Miller, alien property
custodian, and his predecessors in
office, A. Mitchell Palmer, ex-attorney-general,
and Francis P. Garvan,
the latter now president of the
chemical foundation, will be among
the early witnesses, indicating that
the chemical foundation case will be
gone into at some length.
It also was. announced that Sen
ator Underwood's bill had been re
ferred to the state department for
an opinion. Senator Lodge advising
the senate that the department was
negotiating with Germany for
treaty to establish a joint claims
commission.
' Restrictions Are Suggested.
Senator Dodge added that-. he
would not favor giving such a com
mission power to decide' whether
Germany was bound to pay Amer
ican claims, but the commission, he
said, should only fix the amounts
due.- ' . ' ' . ,
This was opposed by Senator Un
derwood, who said he favored an
American commission to fix Amer
ican claims and that American
claimants might be delayed interm
inably if their claims were placed
in the hands of a joint commission.
BLACK FIG PRICES SOAR
Demand of Home Brewers Given
as Reason for Advance.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 24. The
discovery by California home brewers-
that the Black Mission fig
makes a peculiarly tasty sort of
liquor that has a "kick" all its own
Is causing the lover of the fig in its
For the Price of
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the Suit Alone
we include extra trousers or
knickers during our special
BETWEEN -SEASON SALE
Your Choice of hundreds of fine Foreign
and Famous American Woolens
'- '
in all the newest weaves and most
popular colors for summer, as well
as medium weights for all-year wear
Prices are now down to Rock Bottom
$45
including Extra Trousers
We suggest an early selection, as the values are
very unusual
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native form to say certain unprint
able things about said home brewer.
Not only the fig has gone up in
price because of its potentiality as
a beverage maker, but corn sugar,
the base for much of the fig nectar,
We know that our
candies are pure and
wholesome, because
we make them in our
own spotless kitchens,
using only the best
materials.
PLANTATION
Chewing OQp
Chocolates . . . O tJ C
Trade-Mark
Registered
THE SIGN OF
PERFECT SERVICE
Proper Glasses
Thoroughly experienced
Optometrists for the ex
amination and adjust
ments. Skilled workmen
to construct the lenses
a concentrated service
that guarantees depend
able glasses at reason
able prices.
Complete . Lens - Grinding
Factory on the Premiwew.
SAVE YOUR EYES
THOMPSON
OPTICAL INSTITUTE
For the Conservation and
Betterment of, Human
Vision.
(Not a School.)
201 to 211 Corbett Bid.
- Fifth and MOi-rl.on St.
Established 1908.
Chas. A. Rusco,
Pres. and Gen. Mgr.
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Oscar M. Smith, Manager
Third Street, Near Washington
is going up also; today's quotation
for 100 pounds being 25 cents over
that of yesterday.
Choice figs that sold at 7 cents
a pound last year are selling at 14
cents today. The standard article
YOU'LL MISS A LOT 0' FUN
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