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Mail Tribune
6 UNIONS
OUTLAWED
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U. S. Labor Board Declares
Unions by Strike Action For
feit All Rights Before Board
c Men No Longer Employees
of Railroads Urge Roads to
Form New Associations.
CHICAGO, July 3. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The six railway Bhop
crafts unions which went on strike
Saturday were outlawed by the Unit
ed States' labor board today,
v In a formal resolution the board
declared that the unions, by their ac
tion, forfeited all rights before the
board as railway employes and that
new organizations of shopmen taking
the striking men's jobs should be
formed to represent the shop em
ployes In disputes before the board.
The board requested employes re
maining in the service and the car
riers to take Hteps immediately to
form new organizations for the pur
pose of representing the shopmen be
fore the board.
The resolution formally declared
that the striking shop workers re
.no longer , employes of any railroad
and therefore without the jurisdic
tion of the board or subject to the ap
plication of the transportation act.
Although applying directly to the
Bhopmen at this time, the board also
said that if the maintenance of way
men, signal men, stationary firemen
and oilers and clerks joined they
walkout, they would be relegated to
the same position as the shopmen.
Strikebreakers Upheld
Letters will be addressed by the
board to both carriers having men
on strike and to the Bhopmen remain
ing at work, advising them to form
new "associations or organizations
which would function in behalf of the
employes before the board," and
which would "be accorded the appllf
cation and benefits of the outstand
ing wage and rule decisions of the
board."
The board's pronounelamento ful
ly seconded the statement of Chair
man Ben W. Hooper Saturday that
men remaining on the job should not
be called "scabs" or be considered as
"strike breakers." The resolution
Bald Buch men wore "within their
rights," and "have the moral as well
as the legal right to engage in such
service of the American public to
avoid interrutlon of thdispensible
railway transportation." -
Such men are entitled, the resolu
tion added "to the protection or every
department and branch of the govern
ment, state and national."
Men fun Strlko
CHICAGO, July 3. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Timothy Healy, pres
ident of the stationary firemen and
oilers, today dispatched telegrams to
150' of his local unions telling them
the, men have "a perfect right to
strike now," if they so desire. The
messages were sent in answer to in
quiries asking authority to join the
syklng railway shopmen.
Reports to Mr. Heay today said
that "about half" of the firemen and
oilers had already quit work.
Nobody to Starve
NEW. YORK, July1 3. Asserting
"that nobody will starve and nobody
will freeze," even though the strike
of shop crafts unions should continue
to October, the season of. heaviest
traffic, officials of the American As
sociation of Railway Executives to
day announced they would maintain
a ."hands off" policy, leaving each
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PARTY BEATEN UP AND ROBBED IN
FULL VIEW DINERS S. F. RESTAURANT
SAN FRANCISCO,' July 3. While
between' 75 and1 100: persons were
dining in the Bimbo restaurant, in
the foreign quarter of San Francisco
last night two men wielding black
Jacks, beat three men into uncon
sciousness, heat ' and ' battered two
other men and , knocked down two
women. .
The handits escaped in an auto
mobile with three gold watches and
164 In cash taken from their victims.
One of the victims, J. Barrett, is
lo tartly injured that physicians at
the county hospital hold out little
hope for his recovery.
The others Injured are Mr. and
Mrs. Jessie I. Thompson and Mr. and
Wife of American
Killed by Bandits,
U. S. Demands Action
WASHINGTON, June 3. Mrs.
Thomas Cheney, the Mexican-
born wife of an American employ-
ed by an American company op-
erating In the Tamplco oil region,
was killed by Mexican bandits
June 29, when she recognized
their leader, according to a report
today to the state department
from Consul Shaw at Tamplco.
As Mrs. Cheney is an American
citizen by marriage the depart-
ment made immediate representa-
tions to the Mexican government
recommending that the murderer
be apprehended and punished.
The consul's message, dated
June 30, said that about a dozen
armed bandits, who claimed to be
followers of Manuel Larrago, had
appeared at Chocoy station about
forty miles northwest at Tain-
pico on the preceding day. They
demanded a payment of 2000
pesos. Mrs. Cheney recognized
the leader of the band and was
4- killed.
HEAVY FIGHTING
Machine Guns " Rattle, and
Censor Hides Real News
Free Staters Rout Insurgents
Warriors Rooted Out of
Main District With Armored
Cars 11 Killed and 16
Wounded.
LONDON, July 13. (2:15 p. m.). By
Associated Press). No word regard
ing the developments of the fighting in
Dublin has reached London since the
receipts of messages filed at 11 a. m.
at which time the national troops were
directing an intense machine gun fire
against the positions .occupied by the
republicans in Sackville street. The
provisional government's military cen
sorship is assumed to be the cause of
tile delay.
DUBLIN, July 3. The Stephens
Green club, which had been held by
the irregulars since Friday was cap
tured by national army forces today.
The irregulars had evacuated the posi
tion. Heavy Flghtinfl On
DUBLIN, July 3 The real assault
on the positions held by the republi
cans in Sackville street was begun at
nine o'clock this morning and was still
continuing nearly an hour later.
The other areas held by the insur
gents in various parts of this city were
occupied by the free staters during the
night.
Heavy fighting is going on in Sack
ville street which is swept by machine
gun fire. The national army forces are
operating from O'Connel bridge to the
Parnell monument. The return fire of
the insurgents Is feeble. The machine
gunners are maintaining a devastating
fire against the building where Eamon
De Valera 13 believed to be holding
out, following his flight from the Gres
ham hotel.
Despite the great danger from stray
bullets a large crowd Is watching the
fighting from a distance.
Irregular! Weakening
Details of the operations of the na
tional corps, as revealed in the latest
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Mrs. W. A. Hunt, all of Oakland, and
Peter Fazere and Joseph Cronln,
both of San Francisco. The Thomp
sons and the Hunts were dining at
one table. Hunt arose and crossed
the floor on some errnnd. ' As he
passed a tnble at which two men
were sitting, one of the strangcrR at
tempted to seize a dlmnnd stickpin
Hunt was wearing in his tic. The
other bandit made a grab for Hunt's
watch. Hunt resisted and .Thompson
with the other two men. rushed to
his assistance. Then the two bandits
drew blackiacks. With three of the
I men unconscious the two holdups
seized the wntches and went through
one of the victim's clothes, stealing
a wallet containing $64. "
CONTINUES
DUBLIN STREETS
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A certain section of our country recently boasted of a family of five generations, nil living and in grind
health. Now comes Lancaster county, in rennHylvunla, and puis forward the group shown In tile photo
six generations. From left to right they are, Mrs. Elizabeth Hupp, great-great grandmother. X! of Kbcr
nianstuwn; Mrs. F. Mue Guldar, grandmother, who Is holding Wilbur (i. Itoyar, 3 months old; Mrs. Sarah
Miller, great-great-great: grandmother, of Nefl'sville, Pa., age 104: Mrs.' Kllie Zug, 04 of Lancaster, great
grandmother: standing, Mrs. Huldu Royur. mother of Wilbur lioyer of Knst Petersburg, 1'n.
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EN ROUTE WEST
EN ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT
HARDING TO, MARION, Ohio, Union
town, Pa., July 3. In high hopes that
by evening he would be in his home
town for the first time since entering
the White House, President Harding
today started on another lap of his
automobile journey to Marion.
Refreshed by a night's rest at a
hotel perched on a mountain top near
here, the president and Mrs. Harding
were up for an early get-away. They
were anxious to arrive in Marion by
night,: although the stiffest mileage
schedule faced them since their depar
ture from Washington. Approximately
250 miles of the route remained to be
covered.
In the event the tourists are unable
to complete their trip by night, it was
said they would stop for the night
within striking distance of their des
tination and complete the tour tomor
row, morning in time for afternoon
homecoming ceremonies in which the
president and General Pershing and
Charles G. Dawes, former budget bur
eau director, both traveling with Mr.
Harding, are to participate with other
speakers.
Today's route carried the president
through bituminous coal fields in
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio
where miners have been on strike for
aeveral months. Since leaving Wash
ington, Mr. Harding has made no pub
lic comment on either the coal strike
or railroad situation.
M'CUMBER TELLS OF
DEFEAT CAUSES
WASHINGTON, July 3. Senator
MeCumber, republican, ' North Da
kota, in a letter made public by him
today, ascribed his defeat for re
nomlnatlon in the North Dakota
primary to "the bt-partinan combina
tion which had been made againta
me on the one side and the non
partisan organization, which so loy
ally supported my opponent
Senator MeCumber squssed his
defeat and expressed appreciation for
support given him in a letter to Jl.
$4 Hughes of Fargo, one of his cam
paign managers.
BASEBALL SCORES
, National
At Pittsburg It. H. E.
Chicago . -. 2 10 2
Pittsburg '. 6 8 0
Batteries: Stuelaud, Kaufman and
O'Karrell; Yellowhorse und Gooch.
At New York R. H. E.
Brooklyn .v 4 14 1
Now York 9 14 3
Batteries: Grimes, Smith, Murray
and Miller; Douglas and Smith.
At Boston
Philadelphia-Boston postponed, wet
grounds.
American
At Chicago (14 innings) R. H. E.
Detroit 7 13 3
Chicago 6 '8 2
Batteries: Pillette, Ehmke and
BasBler; Schupp, Blnnkenshlp and
Schalk.
At Philadelphia . R. H. E.
New York 12 17 0
Philadelphia 1 1
Batteries: Mays nnd Hoffmnn:
Sulllvnn, Eckert, Holmnth and Perkins,
Beaten by Pennsylvania Family of Six
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Neither Side Willing to Give
An Inch So Conference Ad
journs for Week Only Hope
Solution Now Lies With Gov
ernment. WASHINGTON, July 3. (By the
Associated Press.) Deadlocked ovor
a basis of negotiating a settlement
of the bituminous coal strike, the
conference of opc.TJVors and United
Mine Workers officially accepted the
suggestion of government representa
tives today and adjourned until ncx;
'Monday.
. WASHINGTON, July 3. Only n
possible proposul by the administra
tion appeured today to offer any
prospect for a break in the deadlock
faced by bituminous coal mine op
erators and officials of the miners'
union on meeting for their third
joint session of the conference culled
here by President Harding to devise
means of settling the coal strike.
Following the formal votes at their
second meeting by which each side
rejected the proposal of the others as
to the basis for negotiations of new
wage scales and later separate meet
ings of the two groups at which each
was said to have held firm in the
position taken. No indications were
given today of what suggestions the
government might have to offer as
a means of progress In the negotia
tions. Following casting of ballots, tho
joint meeting adjourned until 10
o'clock today.
Secretaries Hoover and Davis, who
attended yesterday's session Issued a
joint announcement that tho opera
tors' first vote culled for a central
competitive field wage . conference
with the miners, and the latter im
mediately after recorded their oppo
sition to the operators' proposal for
Independent wage conferences in
each diBtrict.
Various other mines In strategic
points throguhout the central coal
field were also understood to bo se
lected for Immediate operation. The
old wage scale calls for a base wage
of $7.f0 per day underground, while
the mines that will onen are expected
to offer to miners the 1917 scale,
which has a base of about t a day
underground. Both the union offi
cials and operators Boem to be fully
informed of each other's determina
tion and the only doubt remaining
concerned the government's propos
al. Secretary of Labor Davis appeared
still hopeful before the meeting and
was again the chief source of the im
pression that tho administration
would intervene further before let
ting the gathering full of accomplish
ing a Btrlke settlement.
NAVAL EVASION
' TOKIO, July; 3. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The admiralty today
Issued a formal statement flatly de
nying recent reports that Japan was
evading the Washington naval treaty
by increasing construction of auxil
iary vessels.
The statement, which outlined the
tentative auxiliary program also an
nounced that Port Arthur, taken
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I,A OUANmO, Ore., July 3. (Spe
cial.) With the return from Port
land roconxly, of Mr. WUltum Mlllbr,
where hu conKiilted with tho Uruml
Chancellor, Domain oC Oregon,
Knights ol PythtiiH, the Grand Keeper
of Het'ords and Seal, .Domain of Ore
gon, the Secretary of Portland Tem
ple D. O. K. K. and tho preHldent of
the Portland Northwest Association
of D. O. K. K. Temples, local commit
tues in charge of the second annual
convention to he held In La Grande
Scptomher 1st and 2nd have spirited
up on anangementH. . PrWe moneys
for drill competitions nnd floats have
been definitely fixed. The caHh prizes
will be distributed aa follows:
Hand:, Kirst prize, $200; second
prize, $150.
Drill Team: First prize, $100; sec
ond prize, $100.
Drum Corps: First prize, $100;
second prize, $r0.
Floats: Pest K. ot P. float, $!0;
best Dokio float, $50.
Friduy morning, September 1st r
Registration of delegates and visitors
at Y. M. C. A. Meeting nf delegates
to Pacific North went Association of
D. O. K. K. Temples. Friday nfter-
noon Ceremonial, which is the only
event of the convention that Is riot
open to the public Also automobile
ride for delegates nnd visitors. Fri
day night Htunt night at baseball
grounds, followed by Mnrdi Oras on
up town streets.
Saturday morning Competitive
drills between drill teams of North
west Dokio Temples at hall grounds.
Meeting of official delegates. Sat
urday afternoon Competitive con
test between drum corps and bands
In ball grounds. Saturday evening
Mammouth parade followed by MardI
firas.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 3.
At least seven persons woro killed
nnd about 75 other Injured, half of
them seiiouHly, early today when a
Camden-Atlantle City express train
left tho rails at Wlnslow Junction, 37
mllea from here, und rolled down an
embankment. Tho actual number of
dead will not be known until the
wreckage is thoroUKhly searched.
There wero reports that nearly twenty
pci-Hons were killed, but officials of
tho Philadelphia nnd Reading, ' an
nounced 'only five. '' " " '""
The train split a switch at the Cape
.May cross-over nnd plunged perhaps
forty feet down a steep embankment.
The engine and five coaches wero
piled up at tho bottom, a complete
wrck. . ' ' : .
The known dead: John T. Llne
hnm, Philadelphia: Walter Weseott,
Gloucester,' N. J., engineer; William
T. ' Bouder, Atlantic City, fireman:
Joseph Dllsuco, l'leasnntvlllo, N.- J.:
Solomon Worth, Mays Land lag, N.
J.; T. X. Bidden, I'ullmnn portor;
Francis Corbctt, I'hilndelihla.
from tho Russians In tho Kusso-Jap-anese
war, would be abandoned as a
naval port.
LONDON, July 3. A dispatch
from Kankow rocelved here today
says:
"Tho Japanese garrison, consist
ing of a battalion with detachments
of special troops evacuated Sunday.
The troops have been maintained in
recent years for the protection of for
eign interests, tho same as the for
eign garrison in Tien Tsln and Pe
Xo Paper July -till.
hollowing a long established
custom there will be no issue of
tho .Mall Tribune tomorrow,
July 4th. A full account of the
events of that day wll eh printed
In the paper of Wednesday,
! July r.th.
HUGE WINE DEAL,
T. R. Petrotta, Sacramento,
Riddled With Bullets, When
Hand Extended in Greeting
Suspect, in Jail Victim
Once Before Attacked En
dearing Letters Among Clues
Found.
CMlCAflO, July 3. Vincent Cur
tain la held by police and two men are
being sought for evidence in the slay
ing of Thomas It. i'etrotta, Wucrn
incnto, Cal., wine mcrcliant who was
shot n dozen tinica last night as he
met Curtalo to keep a buaincsH en
gagement. Friends salil the two were
to have closed an agreement fur the
sale through Curtalo of 200,000 gal
lons of wine owned by I'etrotta and
associates.
Kndeaiing letters nnd tho photo
graph of a woman named "Hose"
whose letters frequently mentioned
Curtalo ndded another element to the
mystery of the shooting. Four years
ago I'etrotta wns found on the street
hero shot In the bend and bndly
wounded, but no explanation was
ever obtained by the police. KffortH
of police to connect tho Hlaylng of
'I'etrotta with that of Tony Curtalo,
Vincent's brother, a month ago, also
proved a failure.
Vincent -ChLesL cousin of the slain
man and an nttorney, said Curtalo
and Petrotta were to have tnlked over
plans for the formation nf a $2,000,
000 fruit Importing corporation at the
meeting when Petrotta was shot. As
Curtalo reached out to shake Petrot-
ta's hand, tho slayer fired repeatedly
into Petrotta's body nnd fled, one de
flected bullet giving Curtalo a minor
wound.
Discovery today of a former wife
of Thomas R. Petrotta, wealthy Sac
ramento, Cal., wine merchant, who
was shot and killed here last night,
has led police to ascribe the slaying
to vengeance on the part of relatives
of the former wifo, it was learned at
the inquest today.
Clothing Propaganda
WASHINGTON; July 3. Senator
Smoot of Utuh, ranking republican on
the sonnte finance committee told the
senate today that propaganda which
he said clothing manufacturers were
circulating to the effect that the duties
on wool in the pending tariff bill
would Increase tho price ot suits of
clothing by $1.75 was untrue.
Sawmill Burns
KAMLOOPS, 1). C, July 3 The Nor
thern Construction company's sawmill
oontalnlng about 2,500,000 feet of lum
ber was destroyed by flro here yester
day. Tho loss was estimated at $100,
000. i
Cashier to Prison
WOODLAND. Cal.. July 3. Floyd
i'uttle, nsslstnnt cashier of the Hank
of Yolo, who admitted a shortage of
41.00() in his accounts, pleaded guilty
today to embezzlement and wns sen
tenced to San Quentln prison. Ills
term will be from 1 to 10 years. He
was not represented by counsel
PERRY, Iowa, July 3. Twenty
laborers, brought from Chicago, pre
sumably to work In the Chicago, Mll
Waukoo and St. Paul shops woro
stoned nnd chased out of town Sat
urday night by a band of strike sym
pathizers. There .were numerous fist fights
between the Chicago laborers nnd
local strike sympathizers. Severnl of
tho laborers wero Injured. Ono of
them was badly cut about tho face
by flying glass. Windows in the
pnsscnger coach on which tho men
arrived from Chicago at 8:30 p. m.
Saturday were stoned and broken.
The sheriff and several deputies and
locnl police officers wero ' on hand
when .the train arrived and made ef
forts to maintain order, but wero out
numbered. ' According to Emmett Cnltahnn,
chairman of tho local federated com
mittee of the tslx shopmen's unions,
tho disturbances wero caused by boys
and by strike sympathizers. He Bald
ROSE'AND PISTOL
IN MYSTERY DEED
RAILROAD STRIKE BREAKERS STONED
AND CHASED OUT OF IOWA TOWN
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FOREST FIRE
Careless Camper Blamed, and
More Danger Expected After
Holiday Ban Matches From
Woods Green Timber Me
naced Rush Fighters to
Check Flames.
Ol.YMPIA, Wash., July 3. A forest
fire situation as serious as any In the
history of the state is now threatening
virtually every county in the state, ac
cording to State Forester Fred K. Pnpe
today. Probably forty' or fifty new
rires have started up over Sunday, ho
s'ald, and practically nil tho old fires
are reburnlng, many of them into
green timber. It Is a miracle that no
serious damngo Is reported from any
particular place, It was said, but a con
tinuation of tho present warm weather
will put the blazes entirely out of con
trol. Men are working now only to
keep the fires from spreading into
green timber.
The first fires In the Olympic na
tional forest of any consequence were
reiiorted today by It. L. Fromme, fed
eral supervisor here. One serious
blaze 1b running Into green timber
along the Duckabush river, burning
out Boveral logging railroad bridges
of the Webb Logging and Timber com-
puny as well as one small camp and
some equipment.
Two other fires are on the Dosewol
lops river but are burning Into old log
ging works. Tho fires started yester
day and campers are held responsible
for two of them. Both state and fed
eral officials report that for the first
time this year campers are beginning
to get careless nnd ninny of the blazes
are found traceable to them. .''.'
A serious situation Is expected to
nrlse over the Fourth of July unless
more cure Is taken and no fires are
built in foreB except in authorized
tourist camps. Permits for burning
have all been suspended by tho state
forester.
TACOMA, July 3. All fire permits
In western Washington stand iinmedl
atefy cancelled and no new permits to
build fire in the woods will be Issued
for any purpose for the time being, It
wns announced today by W. C. Vest,
district fire warden. Mr. Vost an
nounced that the state forestry depart
ment has taken this action on account
of the. forest fire hazard, which is
growing daily worse.
Reports from Kelso today said the
situation in Cowlitz county Is the
worst In twenty years. Numerous fires
are burning there and the extremely
dry condition of the woods has caused
the gravest apprehension on the part
of the Ostrandor Railway and Timber
company, the Inman-Poulsen company,
tho Long-Uell Lumber company,' the
Eufula Lumber company and the Ham
mond Lumber company.
The Long-P.ell Lumber company yes
terday sent an additional crew of sixty
men Into the woods to fight the fire
and lurgo pumping plants have been
set up.
Most of the loggers are out of the
woods for tho Fourth ot July vacation
and the danger 1b augmented by ab
sence of experienced woodsmen to bat
tle the flames.
the striking shopmen did not engage
in the fights.
LA GRANDE, Ore., July 8.
Twenty men arrived at La Clrando
Sunday to work in the local shops ot
tho Union Paclflo system In place ot
the men who walked out Saturday,
according to information gathered by
the La Grande Observer. All fore
men remained at work but 99 per
cent of tho shopmen were out, ac
cording to union leaders.
C. F. Roberts, assistant division
superintendent of the Oregon-Washington
ltnllrond and Navigation com
pany, a Union Pacific subsidiary, re
ported that men were working today
in the shops nt Relth, Ore., and that
men wero going to Huntington to take
strikers' places. - Tho strikers here
protested last night against orders
reported to have been issued by n
special agent of tho Oregon-Washington
Railroad and Navigation rom
pany nsklng strikebreakers here to
arm themselves.