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VOL. XXXIX NO. 42
Entered at Portland Oregon)
Postoffice a Second -Clans Matter
PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1920
PRICE TEN CENTS
COX UNALTERABLY
OPPOSED IN WEST
$500,000 CARUSO GEM
THEFT SUSPECT HELD
'5
STORM TO GRIP CITY
. TODAY IS FORECAST
MONTH'S RAIX IS DOUBLE NOR
MAL OCTOBER' FIGURE.
MAIDS PLENTIFUL IF
APPEAL LOOKS GOOD
PARISIAN FINDS SERVANT
PROBLEM SIMPLE ONE.
DRY LAW TANGLES
UP DEPARTMENTS
NATURE-HEATED CAVE
IS FOUND NEAR BEND
HELD UP FOR YEAR
T
PITS
SALESMAN" ADMITS HE HAS
SOME OF JEWELS, SAY POLICE.
WARMTH APPARENTLY
VOLCAXIC ORIGIX.
OF
AMUNDSEN
DA
MILLION
MINERS
QUI
BRITISH
V
Country Exasperated by
Bourbon Shortcomings.
DEMOCRATS LACK COHESION
Sullivan Analyzes Situation in
Trans-Mississippi States.
SENATORIAL RACES CLOSE
Republican Candidates Expected to
Run Behind Harding but May
Be Carried Over on "Ware.
BY MARK SULLIVAN. '
(Copyright, 1!20, by New York Evening
Post. Published by arrangement.)
CHICAGO, Oct. 16. (Special.)
Cox's fortunes in the west are in ex
tremely poor shape. Such elements
as support him are too diverse to be
of real help. They antagonize each
other, pull -against each other and
neutralize each other. Instead of
helping Cox they whipsaw him. The
spots where there is a strong league
sentiment which might have helped
Cox happen to be the same spots
which are fundamentally republican
states. On the other hand, the states
which are normally democratic and
might have been expected to give
their electoral votes to Cox happen
also to be states which have a con
siderable Irish vote, or some other
sort of vote that is hostile to the
league.
Those women who might have sup
ported Cox o"n the league are drawn
away by the suspicion that democratic
victory, especially in the lower house
of congress, might tend to endanger
prohibition. The labor vote that
might have supported Cox is dimin
ished by the fact that many who are
laborers are also, for racial reasons
or otherwise, opposed to the league of
nations.
The largest single element in the
western situation is the thing that
Hoover emphasized the other night:
A deeply held conviction that the
democratic party has not managed
Ihe country well, and that the country
i. in -a mood of exasperation that
hiis reached the point where it isn't
willing even to talk about or listen
tc the possible shortcoming of the
new man. but is determined to get
the present one off the premises, bag
and baggage, on the earliest pos
sible date. As one politician said,
It is just plain raw anti-Wilson."
Mood tnivtrral UroRrapblcally.
Of course, it would be inaccurate
and grossly unjust to say this mood
is universal among the voters. But
it is universal geographically. And
such a mood, when it is widely dis
tributed geographically, does not need
to affect more than 10 or at mo-t
20 per cent of the voters to change
the pro-Wilson majorities of 191S to
anti-Wilson majorities in 1920. Con
eidered state by state, this is the situ
ation in the trans-Mississippi states.
Mississippi states.
Minnesota will go for Harding by
upward of 100,000. When Harding
visited Minnesota he was accorded
a reception which for sincerity and en
thusiasm equaled any reception ever
given by Minnesota to any candidate,
barring only Theodore Roosevelt. The
democrats have really thrown up
their hands in . Minnesota, not offi
cially, of course, but practically. All
the democrats really hope in Min
nesota is to hold the party organiza
tion together by soft pedalling on
Cox and concentrating their activities
on one of the minor candidates for a
state office.
North Dakota will go for Harding.
The Non-partisan league on the presi
dential Issue is officially more or less
(Concluded on 1'age 6. Column 3. )
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Sisters Lead Man On to Offer Loot
for Sale YVliile Sleuths Listen,
Orricers Report.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16. Harry C. To
back, a salesman of Brooklyn, was
arrested tonight charged with having
committed the J500.000 jewel theft
from the home of Enrico Caruso sev
eral months ago.
According to the police, Toback
has admitted possession of some of
the stolen gems.
The arrest, detectives declared,
was the result of a carefully laid
trap. Police give full credit for To
back's capture to two sisters,' Mrs.
Catherine Smith and Charlotta , Poll
Ion, In whose apartment the suspect
was taken at the point of a revolver
by H. J. Porter, detective. He pro
tested innocence, though the women
testified he had told them a differ
ent story when he tried to sell them
valuable jewels.
Toback was forced to drive his cap
tore to police headquarters in his own
automobile.
Receiving Toback in a room in
which recording phonographs had
been installed, the sisters led him
on to make an offer of sale of
"jewels, the proceeds of the Caruso
robbery, for $30,000 cash." Concealed
in a room overhead, sleuths "listened
in."
Toback was arrested just as he was
leaving the flat. Protesting, he was
led back into the room. Here he
was forced to open a sample case he
was carrying, disclosing a collection
of women's sealskin coats.
According to the account given by
detectives, the prisoner told the
women that the jewels were in Balti
more and that they would have to go
there to see or get possession of
them.
TWO CONVICTS ESCAPE
Fugitives From Salem Prison Are
Reported to Be Armed.
SALEM, Or., Oct. 16. (Special!)
Officers at the state penitentiary late
tonight said they believed that two
trusties, Ralph Turpin, life-termer,
and Juhn Tuel, sentenced from Jose
phine county to serve from one to five
years for burglary, who escaped today
from one of the prison farms, were
armed. It was reported tonight that
a farm house near Aumsville had been
broken into and a shotgun and two
suits of clothes stolen.
Turpin was sentenced life im-
prisonment after conviction pf Second
degree murder when tries for the
killing of William McAllister in Jose
phine county in 1917.
BRUIN ROAMS IN CITY
Peninsula District Terrorized Until
Animal Is Shot.
An exciting bear hunt in the heart
of the Peninsula residential section
brought a reign of terror among
youngsters and frightened many
grown-ups yesterday until the roam
ing bruin was brought to earth by
a well-directed shot from the gun
of the animal's owner.
A young black bear, about three
quarters grown, escaped from its
owner, Vincent Murphy, 163 West
Emerson street, and started out in
quest of excitement. Pedestrians saw
it moving up the street, and with
cries of alarm, ran into houses.
BIRDS GO MILE-A-MINUTE
Two Homing Pigeons Cover 28 54
Miles in 2 5 Minutes.
BEND, Or., Oct. 16. (Special.)
Two homing pigeons from the W. J.
Sproat loft, aided by a stiff wind,
made the almost unbelievable time of
28 miles in 25 minutes. The birds
were released at La Pine by Forest
Supervisor Plumb at 8:30 o'clock in
the morning and arrived in Bend at
8:55 o'clock. The rate was well over
a mile a minute.
Just how much the birds were as
sisted by the wind is impossible to
tell as its velocity could not be
measured.
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Explorer Said to Have
Missed Open Water.'
SHIP IS JAMMED IN FLOES
Return to Strengthen Crew Is
Blow to Expedition.
WAY TO POLE IS OPEN
Explorer Has Slight Chance to Get
Out of Ice in Time to Win
Success Yet, View.
SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 16. (Spe
cial.) The great , Arctic Ice pack
moving westward In dense masses
trapped Captain Roald Amundsen's
north pole expedition at Cape Serge,
Siberia, last month, and unless he has
found some means of extricating his
ship from her frozen fetters, he ha
been thrown back a whole year in his
daring venture to drift across the
pole. By returning to the Siberian
shore in the Arctic instead of sailing
eastward he missed the chance of a
lifetime to add a great page to Arctic
annals. In the eastward section the
Arctic oceanwas :iear of ice.
This is the news brought to Seattle
today by Olaf Swenson of the Hib-bard-Swenson
company of Seattle,
who arrived home on the fur corpora
tion's power schooner Kamchatka.
He headed the company's annual ex
pedition to Kamchatka and the Sibe
rian Arctic on the schooner.
Tootsle" In Witb Party.
Captain Amundsen has only three
men and one woman aboard with
him on his ship, the Maude. The
woman Is an elderly native whom he
took aboard at Nome as seamstress
for the expedition. She is known In
the mining camp as. "Tootsie."
"Amundsen went back to Siberia to
pick up several natives," said Mr.
Swenson'this morning. "Captain Han
sen of the Maude, retired from the
expedition at Nome. The vessel's
chief engineer and sailmaker also left
the vessel there and it was necessary
for Amundsen to strengthen his
crew. So when ho left Nome late in
the summer, he sailed back to Cape
Serge, Siberia, which lies about 225
miles northwest of Nome. There he
was caught in the ice and unless con
ditions have changed and he has suc
ceeded in forcing his way out, which
is unlikely, he is stuck for the winter.
Way East Is Open.
"If Amundsen had had a full crew
when he left Nome he would have
had' the chance of a lifetime to add a
brilliant page to Arctic history. The
ice this year is all packed to the
westward, leaving an open sea in the
eastward section, north of Bering
strait and Alaska. Our vessel, the
Kamchatka, went as far north as
73:15 this year and we could have
gone farther without any difficulty.
Open water lay before us. If Amund
sen copld have sailed into the east
ward stretches instead of having to
head back to the Arctic shore of Si
beria, he would now be a long way
on his attempt to drift across the
Pole.
"As It is, his expedition has been
thrown back a whole year, unless he
has had a chance to extricate him
self from the ice at Cape Serge."
Mr. Swenson reports that when the
Kamchatka left the far north the
power schooners Polar - Bear and
Belinda, both owned in Nome, had
been - caught in the ice near Cape
North and evidently were frozen in
for the winter. The Belinda is owned
by Arnold Castell, who for years was
(Continued on Page 3. Column 1.)
PICTORIAL COMMENTS BY CARTOONIST
Deficiency for Year, Despite Abnor
mal Totals,' Is 3.5 6 Inches;
Apple Harvest Sutlers.
Portland today will continue to be
in the grip of the storm which struck
the city yesterday, according to the
prediction of the United States weath
er bureau. The schedule of weather
for today announces that there will
be occasional rain with southerly
winds. 1
The rainfall yesterday reached a
total of .46, making the aggregate
rainfall for . the month of October
7.34. This is nearly douole the nor
mal rainfall for the entire month of
October.
September also was a rainy month
this year, the aggregate rainfall
amounting to 4.16 inches, compared
to a normal rainfall of 1.84.
In spite of the heavy rainfall dur
ing these two months, however, there
is still a rainfall deficiency for the
year of 3.66 Inches. This is due to
the unusual good weather conditions
which prevailed during the months
of January, February and March of
this year. In February especially
there was only .16 inches of rainfall
compared to a normal of 5.73.
Apple harvest is said to be suffer
ing to a certain extent, owing to the
heavy rainfall. Growers are reported,
however, to be going ahead in most
sections in spite of the inclement
weather. The rain does not affect the
quality of the crop; It is merely a
question of securing pickers to work.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTE RD AY'S Maximum temperature. 52
degrees; minimum, 45 degrees.
TODAY'S Occasional rain; southerly
winds.
Departments.
Editorial. Section 3, page 10.
Dramatic. Section 4, page 4.
Motion pictures. Section 4. page 2.
Real estate and buildings. Section 4,
page 9.
Churches. Section 5, page 2.
Books. Section 5, page 3. 1
Schools. Section 5, page 10.
Automobile news. Section 6. j
Music. Section 4, page 6. i
Garden chats. Section 5, page 11. !
Women's features.
Society. Section 3, page 2.
Women's activities. Section 4, page 8.
Fashions. Section 5, page 4.
Miss Tingle's column. Section 5, page 5.
Auction bridge. Section 5, page 4.
Special Features.
Bridge of the gods born of Indian lore.
Ma gazine section, page 1.
Fashion's decrees in feathers and fur.
Magazine section, page 2. ,
Review of styles for "first ladies of the
land." Magazine section, page 3.
Tune for bad tempers are described.
Magazine section, page 4.
Mits Reid highest salaried -woman in big
business. Magazine section, page B.
News of the world s seen in pictures.
Magazine section,' page 6. .
Talks with Roosevelt. Magazine section,
page 7.
"Among Us Mortals," sketches by Hill.
Magazine section, page 8.
Second cousin to Lincoln leads' typical
western life. Section o, page 1.
Art of running spinning wheel revived.
Section 5, page 7.
Marble palace is mecca for world's buyers.
Section 6, page 8.
Medford's fight for county seat described:
Section S, page 9.
Official ballot for coming election. Section
4. page 1 1.
Oregon plant series by Helen Gilkey. Sec
tion 3, page 1.
Foreign.
Maids plentiful in Paris if prospect for
future looks attractive. Section 1,
Page 1.
Score wounded in
tion 1, page 3.
Million coal miners
Belfast riots. Sec
in England strike.
Section 1, page 1.
National.
Three departments at Washington tangled
up over prohiibtien law. Section 1,
page 1.
Veteran of Haiti taken off probe board.
Section 1, page 2.
Mrs. Sprockets, jewel theft victim, arrives
in New Tork from London. Section
1, page 10.
Seasonal credit for agriculture available, is
reply of federal reserve board. Section
1, page 23.
' Politics.
Democratic administration blamed for high
cost of living, by ex-Senator Piles. Sec
tion 1, page 21.
Indiana becoming pivotal point in presi
dential campaign. Section 1. page 8.
Flock of speakers to talk democracy in
state. Section 1, page 14.
Plans complete for republican rally at
auditorium tomorrow night. Section 1,
page 14.
Cox unalterably opposed in west, Section
1, page 1.
ViQ PE. V"TL.l
ON THE. JOO!
Prospect Held Out for 'Marriage
Brings Troop of Women Will
ing to Do Housework.
(Copyright by the New Tork World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
PARIS. Oct. 16. (Special Cable.)
Housewives in search of help, which
is as costly and as elusive here as
anywhere else, are interested but not
encouraged by the experience of an
ingenious client of an employment
agency in Rue Rochechquart, who was
overrun with respondents at the first
call, all of them ready to promise
to stay permanently.
Such luck could not be expected by
the average despairing servant hunt
er, because in this case the applicant
for a maid was a man in whose be
half the agency placed the following
card in its window:
"A single gentleman, with a small
fortune, living in Passy, wishes to
engage a girl for general housework.
Will marry her if desired."
On the morning after the card was
posted the agency received a tele
phone message from the client asking
that it.be removed at once, as a troop
of women were besieging his doors,
the agency having given all of them
his address.
The client? said he felt sure he could
select from among them one to suit
him, but he had a tull day's, job be
fore him to sort out the ages and
sizes and reduce the number of ap
plicants so that he could make an In
telligent choice.
Politics.
Cox accuses Harding wl flopping 12 times.
Section 1, page 2.
Enemies of order cheered by Harding pro
posal, says Secretary Colby. Section
1, page 20.
Harding closes last extensive speaking trip.
Section 1, page 10.
Domestic
Man 'suspected of having stolen Caruso
jewels jailed. Section 1, page 1'.
Johnson puts fight against league above
all other issues. Section 1, page 10.
Aunt accused of poisoning three children.
Section 1, page 11. ,
Pacific Northwest.
Success of sockeye propagation indicated.
Section 1, page 7.
Amundsen's dash to pole held up year.
Section 1, page 1.
Engineers are opposed to bird refuge meas
ure. Section 1, page 6.
Three-cornered fight for governor In Idaho
makes republicans confident. Section 1.
page 4.
Pendleton jury reports charges of cruelty
to prisoners groundless. Section 1,
page 18.
Mayor of Klamath Falls asks new fire
inquiry. Section 1, page 20. ,
Nature-heated cave discovered near Bend.
Section 1, page 1.
Northwest Tourist Association elects direc
tors. Section 1, page 1 1.
Reported discovery of kidnaped Bobby
Stagg in New Tork found untrue. Sec
tion 1, page 18.
Sports.
Pacific Coast league results Vernon 3:
Portland 2: Sacramento 7, Ios Angeles
0; San Francisco 0, Seattle 2: Salt Lake
4, Oakland 14. Section 2, page ft.
Many boxing stars back at Stanford. Sec
tion 2, page 3.
Tale is smothered by Boston college. Sec
tion 2, page 2.
Aggies and Multnomah play 0 to 0 tie.
Section 2. page 2.
More witnesses subpenaed in coast ball
probe. Section 2, page 3.
Montana defeats Washington 18 to 14. Sec
tion 2, page 1.
Waverley golfers win punchbowl tourney
second time. Section 2, page 4.
Heilig fight card an" array of , topliners.
Section 2, page 4.
Commercial and Marine.
Heavy imports of foreign butter bear down
prices. Section 2, page 21.
Chicago wheat declin.es with insufficient
buying orders. Section 2, page 21.
Selling of speculative industrials depresses
stock market. Section 2, page 21.
Record cargo of sulphur brought to Port
land by steamer Clauseus. Section 1,
page 22.
Portland shipping board office officially
removed from Seattle Jurisdiction. Sec
tion 1, page 22.
Portland and Vicinity.
Prety woman's love for drug addict causes
her death and widower is in jail where
he is in Insane condition. Section ,1,
page 21.
Commerce chamber opposes dock measure.
Section 1, page 16.
Entries for livestock show Increase 60 per
cent. Section 1, page 16.
Proper fire protection put up to voters. Sec
tion l, page 17.
Governor to call on legislature for help In
preserving Deauty spots or state. Sec
tion 1, page 20.
Trade excursion lea-es for eastern Oregon
cities tonight. Section 1, page 23.
Storrrto grip city today is forecast. Sec
tion 1. page 1.
PERRY ON SOME TOPICS IN THE NEWS.
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1 CI -V";' MtfiELrOr VNOMEN V)NfVrV5QN AfclX
Three . Secretaries , Get
Into Awful Mixup. .
DIPLOMATS ALSO INVOLVED
Question of "Probing" En
voys' Baggage Hot One.
COLBY. OPPOSES SEARCH
Position Taken Hostile to Stand of
Treasury Department and Attorney-General
Palmer.
"WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. (By the
Associated Press.) Disclosure of a
number of prohibition snarls in which
three government departments and
members of the diplomatic oorps are
involved was made today when the
state department issued a statement
saying it "assumes that no fficlal of
the government would attempt to
pry into the baggage of a foreign dip
lomatic officer."
The unusual course of the state de
partment in making what appeared to
be a public appeal to other govern
ment officials was adopted, it was
learned, after the treasury had
amended customs regulations to re
quire baggage of diplomats to be ex
amined and liquor removed. Back of
the action of the treasury depart
ment, it was disclosed, was an opinion
rendered by the attorney-general. It
was said to hold that the Volstead act
withdrew from diplomats the exemp
tion from customs examination of
their baggage heretofore accorded.
Diplomats Are Irritated.
Diplomats have made no formal
protest. The state department, how
ever, has seen evidence of irritation
among them here. Since the opinion
of the attorney-general failed to sus
tain the department's contention that
examination exemption should be con
tinued, it sought recourse through the
public statement.
Differences have arisen between
state and treasury officials. Treasury
officials let it be known that the dis
cussion of the status of diplomats
baggage began last spring. The
treasury ws said to have formulated
the policy then and asked the state
department for its views.
Foreseeing the possibility of em
barrassment, the state department
obtained a delay In issuance of the
new restriction. Late in August,
however. Assistant Secretary Shouse,
whose resignation was announced this
weeK. applied to Attorney-General
Palmer for an opinion interpreting
the Volstead act. That opinion was
said to hold that all importation of
liquor was barred by the act. The
state department, however, is said
to have made representations against
the rigidity .of the findings on the
ground that international comity and
law worked to the contrary. A sec
ond legal review by the department
of justice resulted and the state de
partment again was defeated in its
contentions, it was said.
Action Canaei Concern.
On receipt of the attorney-general's
opinion, said to have been written
and signed by Solicitor-General Frier
son, as acting attorney-general, Mr.
Shouse amended the customs regula
tions to require "examination of bag
gage and effects permitted free entry"
into the United States. The change
amounted merely to deleting the
words "without examination" from
customs regulations, but Mr. Shouse
directed the attention of customs of
ficials to the distinct departure from
the prevailing practices.
Mr. Shouse also sent confidential in
structions to the customs authorities
(Concluded on Page 2. Column 2. )
Under Bottom and Pxk Walls Un
bearable to Touch; Manifes
tation Believed Recent.
BEND, Or., Oct. 16. (Special.)
Discovery at Horse Butte, nine miles
southeast of Bend. . of a naturally
heated cave, apparently drawing Its
warmth from a subterranean volcanic
source, was reported today by C. A.
Yarnell and H. D. Eide, local fuel
dealers. Investigation verified the
report. The cave, located near the
top of the Butte, first attracted at
tention when a wave of heat was felt
issuing from the mouth.
The cinder bottom and rock walls
of the tunnel are unbearably hot to
the touch, the heat increasing as far
back as could be explored. That the
phenomenon is a recent manifestation
was indicated by the smoldering of
grass and twigs near the opening.
The cave lies on a horizontal plane
for about 25 feet, then dips down
ward. The opening is large enough
to admit the body of a grown man.
To test the natural oven, Mr. Yarnell
cooked a light breakfast this morn
ing by introducing raw articles of
food into the aperture and closing
the opening for a few moments.
Another opening. In which the tern,
perature is well above normal, al
though not uncomfortably hot, was
found at a slightly greater elevation.
Horse Butte is of undoubted vol
canic origin, and from surface indi
cations at least, is composed chiefly
of red cinders. Large fragments of
petrified wood are seen at intervals,
partly covered by the cinders.
MONKEY BITE LOOKS BAD
Greek King's Condition Grave Re
gent May Be Elected.
ATHENS. Oct. 16. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) King Alexander, criti
cally ill from a monkey bite inflicted
recently, suffered two hours of the
most dangerous crisis last night. The
cabinet met at midnight and decided
to summon the late parliament to
elect -a regent.
Throughout Friday the king's con
dition remained stationary. His tem
perature fluctuated, reaching 104.9
degrees, and he was restless.
Dr. Georges Vidal. the noted French
specialist, again examined King Al
exander yesterday and declared tb
case was most grave. The stomach
trouble the king suffered was an im
portant element, he said.
BEAVERS ARE FOR SALE
Wares Claims to Have Enough
Backing to Swing Deal.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 16.-(Spe-cial.)
Walter H. McCredie, manager
of the Portland Baseball club, said
tonight that Clyde Wares, manager
of the Seattle team, claims to have
sufficient backing to swing a deal for
the purchase of the Portland fran
chise. "Wares has simply asked me if we
will sell and I have told him yes,"
said McCredie. McCredie declared
that the club 'will be sold any time
anyone offers the price set on it by
Judge W. W. McCredie. He refused
to divulge the figure at which they
are holding the Portland baseball
rights.
SHOWS HIT BY ECONOMY
Failures Reported as Theater Pat
ronage Takes Tumble.
NEW TORK. Oct. 16. The national
economy wave has hit the theaters
With a hard thump. The "S. R. O."
sign, especially prominent since the
armistice, now is an unused "prop."
Of 44 leading attractions here, 16,
it was learned today, have begun dis
posing of seats through agencies.
Production failures were reported in
excess of last year. Last week 28
road shows were closed. An official
of the Actors' Equity association es
timated that 3000 actors were out of
work in New York. One producer
estimated producers' losses in recent
weeks at $1,200,000.
OVSHT
Thousands Idle as Plants,
Lacking Fuel, Close.
RAIL MEN MAY WALK OUT
Shipping Tied Up Within
Week, Say Port Officials.
WORKER'S RANKS SPLIT
Attitude of Many Leaving Jobs In
dicates Most of Leaders Ad
vised Against Strike.
LONDON. Oct. 16 (By the Asso
ciated Press.) With 1,000.000 miners
out of the pits tonight, thousands of
dock and industrial workers already
out of employment as a result and
transport workers and railroad men
called to meet soon to discuss a gym-
pathetic strike. Great Britain faces
one of its greatest industrial up
heavals in the opinion of labor and
political leaders today.
Reports from industrial centers are
not reassuring, while port officials
say shipping will be tied up within
week. The most hopeful raessate
came from Sheffield, where, it is
believed, there is enough coal for
three weeks. At other centers one
week's supply is the limit.
Workers' Rink, Divided.
The statement that the men struck
against advice of most of their lead
ers was confirmed somewhat by the
attitude of many who left the pits.
They said they did not understand
voting against the "datum line" meant
strike and It is clear a great
many misunderstood the "unfortunate
phrase," as A. J. Thomas. scrtsrv
of the National Union of Railwaymen
called it in a speech. He admonished
railroaders to listen to the advice of
their leaders, which would be given
after ihe meeting Wednesday.
A different note was struck, how-.
Ser. by the South Wales branch of
te miners' federation, which called
a' meeting for Friday to recommend '
that if the strike was not settled by
October 30, pumpmen and other em
ployes remaining should be called out.
Lloyd Ceoi-Ke Inactive.
It is indicated tonight that Pre-- '
mier Lloyd George will take no handf
before Tuesday, when parliament
meets.
London's electrical signs and win
dow displays are dark tonight by or
der of the coal controller and the
races, for which special trains are
usually operated, have been canceled.
Notwithstanding the food ministry's
assurance that there will be plenty ;
of food, London provisioners report
housewives are laying in supplies. The
sugar ration will be cut half Monday.
Liverpool la Disquieted.
On the marine side, ocean liners
have been instructed to obtain
bunker coal abroad as much as pos
sible. Reports from Liverpool state
much disquietude is felt there.
Representatives of the United
States shipping board stated that
they had received assurances from
the British ministry of shipping that
none of the American steamers would
be tied up.
Inquiries at the offices of the main
trans-Atlantic passenger lines this
morning resulted in the statement
there was no indication at present of
restriction or alteration of the adver
tised sailings.
Food May Onst Paasenjcer.
It is declared to be possible that
trans-Atlantic passengers may be ex
cluded from the steamers on their re
turn trips to the United Kingdom in
order to conserve space for food
stuffs. Premier Lloyd George today ad
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