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Show i 1 ; ::" : : : ; : Li! w v$ f. w-f, 1 1 Supt. H. M. Albright of Yellowstone National park mid Miss Anne Anzer of the National KditorUI aijsocla-tion aijsocla-tion decorating the commemorative tablet at the golden anniversary of the park. 2 Shrlners of United States 'flrawn by water buffalo parading the streets of Honolulu. 3 Dr. I'orras for I'eru- and Senor Aldunute for Chile signing the treaty to arbitrate the Tnma-Arlca dispute. ' . NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS President Harding Still Tries to Bring the Railway Strike to an End. CONFERS WITH THE LEADERS Government's Plan for Fair Distrlbu-tion Distrlbu-tion of Fuel and Food and to Curb Profiteering Put Into Operation-Bavaria Operation-Bavaria in Revolt Against Con- . trol by Berlin. By EDWARD W. PICKARD PRESIDENT HARDING and his administration ad-ministration forces devoted themselves them-selves last week almost exclusively to the problems arising from the railway and coal strikes. Thut their efforts might result In the ending of the former for-mer was the renewed' hope at the close of the week, for Mr. Harding held a most Important conference In-Washington In-Washington with Chairman T. De Witt Cuyler of the American. Association of Railway Executives, and President Jewell of the railway shopmen. His aim presumably was to Induce the rail executives to modify their Ann attitude atti-tude concerning the seniority rule and to persuade the shopmen to recognize' the decision of the railway labor board and return to work pending a rehearing rehear-ing of their grievances. After leaving the White House Mr. Cuyler announced that the executive of 14S of the largest railroads In the country would meet In New York on August 1 to talk over a tentative plan for settling the shopmen's strike. He would not tell what Mr. Harding had suggested, but denied that he bad asked the executives to recede from their position on the seniority rule. The presidents of western roads Insisted the strikers would not be taken back with full seniority rights restored. Having abandoned for the time being be-ing any hope of ending the coal winters' win-ters' strike, the President and his aids turned their attention to the question of averting the threatened fuel famine fam-ine and followed up the call on the various state executives to facilitate nnd protect the resumption of mining with measures designed to Insure a fair distribution of such coal as Jnay be produced nnd to curb profiteering. Secretary of Commerce Hoover devised a plan which was promptly adopted and put Into effect with the legal oi-proval oi-proval of Attorney General Puugher-ty. Puugher-ty. It rests upon the powers of the Interstate commerce commission, which body, declaring the existence of a national emergency, took charge of the routing of cars nnd the distribution distri-bution of fuel nnd food. The plan provided pro-vided for a committee of general supervision super-vision In Washington, to be named by the President nnd which will establish In every coal producing district a representative rep-resentative and a committee of operators. oper-ators. Also, there Is an administrative administra-tive committee comprising representatives representa-tives of the presidential committee together to-gether with representatives of operators, oper-ators, representatives of the railways, snd where necessary, representatives of the larger consuming groups. The bus! of prices agreed upon between the operators and the secretary secre-tary of commerce on June 1 Is to be maintained, except where varied by the presidential committee, nnd tlds same basin of prb-e determination shall be npplled to nil districts which are so far not co-operating. President Harding announced the appointment ap-pointment of Attorney General Dangli-erty. Dangli-erty. Secretary of the Interior Full. Secretary of Commerce Hoover, ant Commissioner Altchlson of the Interstate Inter-state commerce commission ns nicni-, nicni-, hers of the general committee. Mr. j Hoover Is chairman. A Jlfth meni-I meni-I her was to he added to undertake the I administrative direction. ! Mr. Hoover called on th governors j of the pt:i!" to set up stale or .rant ;: tious to co-i pcr.b'e in the distribution of the nviliahle cosil supplies to the points of greatest nd. Distribution for rn'-lnu' own will ti directed from I Washington. It was stated theie that states which have large bituminous deposits will be expected to mine their own coal Instead of obtaining It from other fields under the emergency order. IN ILLINOIS the prospects for ending end-ing the mine strike were slightly brighter. President Farrlngton of the Illinois miners, always nn advocate of separate state agreements, came to the conclusion that the time for putting that policy into action had come and culled a convention of delegates of every local union In the state to meet In Peoria August 3 to consider peace proposals of the operators. Next day he rescinded the call because of "pro-mature" "pro-mature" publicity. Acting Governor Sterling asked Farrlngton to consider the proposal that the miners of Illinois return to work at once at the wage scale and under the working conditions condi-tions existing when operations ceased April 1 lust, pending a readjustment of the same by an agreed tribunal, and thot representatives of the miners nnd operators of Illinois should meet and endeavor to arrive at a settlement Farrlngton replied that this plan was Impracticable. ' Orders for Immense quantities of conl hnve been placed In England by Americans but not all of them are being be-ing accepted because of market conditions condi-tions there. Prices of coal and shipping ship-ping and freight rates have advonced 'sharply In Great Britain. The British miners may refuse to mine coal for America, and American dock workers may refuse to handle It if It comes. ONE J. Cleve Dean, chairman of the railway employees' publicity association, sent to President Harding a telegram bitterly attacking the supposed sup-posed atfltude of the administration toward the two great strikes. He said: "For you or any governor to attempt to operate the mines or railroads by military forces or to attempt to draft men Into mining or railroad service would be an attempt to establish Involuntary In-voluntary servitude," and he predicted such an attempt would bring on the "long predicted war between capital and labor." He asserted, also, that the Republican party was hostile to the American fanner and labor and that "the hard times that now exist Is a premeditated plan to bring the farmer farm-er nnd labor down to their knees." Mr. Harding's reply to this outburst, while dignified, was a scathing rebuke of Dean's "political partisan references" refer-ences" and of his false assumptions. The President explained at length the attitude of the government and asserted as-serted Its Intention to speak and net not for any one class alone, hut for "the American people as a whole nnd the common good of all Its citizenship," He made It clear that while the right to strike was recognized, the government govern-ment would fully protect thoxe who desired to work. The lotter, he snld. In responding to the call of the country, coun-try, are exercising their rights "nnd nt the snme time making their contrl-bnM'W contrl-bnM'W to our common American welfare." wel-fare." CHICAGO'S street car strike was still In the muklng last week. Hope and despulr alternated, the former for-mer fostered by the optimism of International In-ternational President Mahon who told the men they must tuke a referendum vote on a new proposal mode by the companies, and the latter due to the pessimism of local President Quintan, who said the employees would accept no offer the employers were likely to make. The workers were called to hold a mass meeting Monday evening of tills week, and Quintan told the Chicago public to prepare to find a strike In effect the following morning. DK15ATI0 on the tariff in th senate was enlivened last week by Sen-ator Sen-ator McCumber's abortion that In 1!MU spokesmen for the newspaper puhlfsh-ers puhlfsh-ers told the senate finance coiuyiittce that if newsprint paper we not pined on the free list they would defeat de-feat the Pepuiillcnn party at the polls, and that, the committee refusing to yield, the publishers therefor did defeat de-feat Tuft 'fer reelection, other senators sen-ators culliii'; for Mimes, Mr. Smoo; -aid that the Int.' .John I. .Vorris, r p-i'e-eiit Iiil' ih" puiilivhers' ns..o"'(irtnii, "old a finance subcommittee thut if a duly were Imposed on newsprint "the i'puhiican party would be driven from power." This, Mr. Smoot supposed, wai the basis of McCumber's statement, but he, Smoot, did uot think Norrls had been authorized by the publishers to make such a threat. McCumber reiterated his statements with added details and was supported by Watsor of Indiana who related how Norrls and other publishers In lfKXI offered to make Joe Cannon president If h would put through a bill placing newsprint news-print nnd wood pulp on tiie free list. Cannon, he snld, ordered Norrls froun his otnee. All of this, whether true or not, was highly eutertaining to the Democratic senators. COMMISSIONER BLAIIt of the In- ternal revenue bureau dealt the liquor Industry a hard blow by for-bidding for-bidding further Imports of wines and liquors until the supplies already In the country for nonbevernge uses are Insufficient for national requirements. Secretary Hughes asked, and presumably presum-ably was promised the aid of the British Brit-ish government In the suppression of liquor smuggling from Bermuda and the Bahamas. The British government, govern-ment, however, has refused the unofficial unoffi-cial request of the United States for the right to search outside the three mile limit British vessels suspected of being engaged in smuggling liquor Into the United States. i I, i THAT the French ore at lost reaching reach-ing a point where they will consent con-sent to a reduction of the German reparations debt Is evidenced by the plan on which premier Polnculre Is working. As it stands now It Is being be-ing modified dally the proposition Is that for every dollar paid by Germany on the reparations account and for every dollar of the allied debts which Is canceled, France will cancel at equal amount of a certain class ot bonds. In the second week In August or sooner If the Italian governmen' crisis Is cleared up, the Morgan com mlttee of bunkers will meet again It' Purls, and It Is hoped that meantlnn the League of Nations council will have prepared the way for the bank ers to propose a new reparations set tlement Polncare and Lloyd Georgi are to hold their conference In London August 10. THE Bavarian government Is In open revolt against the central German government at Berlin and hu Issued a decree that rejects nnd sup plants the recent legislation by the relchstug for the defense of the re public. The Bavarian minister at Berlin was Instructed to Inform Chancellor Wlrth that any outside police po-lice official attempting to operate In r.aviirla would be prompxt; arrestee Wlrth hns called s conference of all the German states to 'consider the problem, and If Bavaria ' does not suppress Its new law President Eber) may summon the stnatsgerlehtshnf, oi tribunal of the slates, to deal with tht case. Chancellor Lerchenfeld of B vnrlu says he Is opposed to any sep rtttixr tnovemeot 'bnt that his stut will not submit to any abridgement of Its rights. The old enmity between Bavaria and Prussia and the strong monprchlst sentiment among the Ba' varlnns make the situation difficult for Berltu. FROM several widely separateo sources comes the information thai soviet Itnsslu Is planning military operations on her western front In the autumn. Frank Vunderllp, the American Ameri-can financier who has been In touch with the Russians In Berlin, says In Paris Hint the probability Is Increasing that the bosheIkl will force such a war on Europe In the harvest setson. attacking Biunanln nnd Poland "in nn attempt to rally Kussiun morale and also to get food from the eastern harvests." Kusslnn refugees In Belgrade Bel-grade assert the soviet government Is preparing for a drive through the Balkans Bal-kans and then westward through Aus trla. Arc.rsTUS Tl SOMAS has been up pointed executive chairman of the Produclm; Managers' association for three yeirs at a l:rj.; salary, with powers in the world of the spoken dnilim i ompavable to those of y.'il I lays In the motion j Jet are Indtisfr; nnd Judge Landis in brtscb.ill. Th association Includes prm-th-aily u'l important theutrleul f-rcdacflra. |