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Show UjftwtjV 'Ma rvM , . . Jin 5' I J 1 Presentation of gunnery trop v.v.Ji ...a. ..oiu.aiaii.y to U. o. i. tcw Yori ut Seattle. 2 Dr. 3. S. PlHskett, director of astrophrsLal observatory at Victorln, B. C, and 7-Mnch reflector telescope through which he recently discovered and measured twin suns of linrucnBe size. 8 Dedication of monument on Ar gonne battlefield to those who perished there. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Strike of Bituminous Miners Settled Set-tled Temporarily and in Feeble Ma:.rr. BOTH SIDES CLAIM VICTORY Negotiations Between Railway Executives Ex-ecutives and Shopmen Resumed Violence by Strikers Exasperates the Public France Ready to Enforce Sanctions Against Defaulting Germany. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ONE of our great strlkes that of the bituminous miners was settled set-tled lust week, partially, temporarily, and after a fashion. The agreement reached at Cleveland by the miners' officials and ierators representing perhaps 60,000,0(10 tons annual ''production ''pro-duction means there will be enough coal to get through the fall and winter, win-ter, though conservation and rationing ration-ing probably will be necessary. But the old wage scales and working conditions con-ditions are to continue In effect until March 81, 1923, which means the high prices for coul that have prevailed tot several years will be maintained by the dealers. If they can do It, and slso that next' April the disputes and probably the strike will begin all over again. To be sure, the agreement provides for the creation of machinery to avert further strikes and to bring some. order Into the chaotic coal Industry, In-dustry, but the public must not count too much on this. Both the miners and the operators clnlm to have won a victory at Cleveland, the former because their wages and work conditions are unchanged, un-changed, and the lutter because the miners signed agreements with Individual Indi-vidual operators and also because the tribunals to be set up solve the issues revolving around the question of arbitration, ar-bitration, which the miners oppose. The agreements were with operators opera-tors of nil the bituminous states except ex-cept Illinois and Indiana, but the prospects pros-pects for resumption of mining In those two states also was excellent. Already the coal profiteers are getting get-ting in their work. Senator Borah of Idaho called this to the attention of the federal fuel committee and announced an-nounced bis Intention of seeking ligls-latlon ligls-latlon to check them. At the same time Fuel Distributor Spencer asked the railroads to refrain from competitive competi-tive bidding for coal, the result of which bad been to force the price above the limit set by Secretary Hoover. Hoov-er. It was stated In Washington thnt President Harding would ask congress I to prss !pgl!HV'H nlvrtig ?.deru1 i fuel committee legal powers' to con- trol the IistrIhutlon and regulate the price of coul as a safeguard against hardship nr profiteering. It Is quite evident thn: unless the government do-s come to the rescue, the settlement settle-ment of the coul strike will be an expensive ex-pensive thing for the consumer. HIS final suggestion for settling the strike t railway shopmen liuvlng been rejected by the union., and only accepted by the railway executives with reservations. President Harding Ivst nearly all the wonderful patience with which be has been dealing with 'hat problem. On Friday the President laid the inoi matter before congress. Ai'ter lecturing the right of employer nuA employee alike to conduct their business busi-ness must be recognized, Ik said be us "resolved to use all the power of the government to maintain transportation transpor-tation and sustain the right of men to work." He said the Ksch Curnniiris act was iiisdequute and recommended ac-tlor, ac-tlor, to make the railway labor board's decisions "enforceable ami effective against carriers and employees alike." lie scored severely the strikers .for their acts of brutality and their contempt con-tempt for law. ftid announced his Intention In-tention to Invoke laws, civil and criminal crim-inal forbidding conspiracies hindering Interstate con kwrce uni' rcu ri;),; wfctj u- rnil-.vfi rvic The President, asserted a national Investigation In-vestigation of the coal Industry was necessary and recommended a federal commission to advise as to fair wages and conditions. In discussing coal the President referred re-ferred to what he termed the "shocking "shock-ing crime at Herrln, 111. which so recently re-cently shamed and horrified the country," coun-try," and added the Incident was "butchery of human beings outright In madness." WARNINGS of brotherhood officials offi-cials that alleged faulty equipment equip-ment and the employment of armed guards would result In many sporadic strikes of members of their unions were fully Justified. Engineers, firemen fire-men and trulnmen In numerous Instances In-stances abandoned their trains and service, especially In the Far West, was badly crippled. Passengers were marooned for days In small towns In the desert regions and women, children and Invalids suffered greatly fnmi heat and lack of milk and Ice. In some enses the tending of relief trnlns ws prevented or delayed by the strikers. The government, the railway heads nnd the entire American public were thoroughly exasperated by these methods, and the brotherhood chiefs, realizing the great mistake their men were making, ordered them back to work. The beads of tha "big four" still Insist that equipment Is so degenerated de-generated that the lives of the train-juen train-juen are endangered, and they were pleased to read that President Hard-lag Hard-lag had written to Chairman McChord of the Interstate commerce commission commis-sion Insisting that the federal laws relating to inspection of rolling stock and safety appliances must be strictly enforced, regardless of the public Inconvenience In-convenience which might ensue. As for the employment of armed guards, the striking shopmen and their sympathizers have by their actions destroyed de-stroyed completely the argument of the unions. They have mobbed, killed and maimed many nonunion shop workers In most cowardly fashion ; they hnve set fire to shops; they have torn np trncks, they have bombed trains, and they !rnve blown up at least one railway bridge. Wherever railwny property and workprs are not well protected by armed guards or state troops, acts of violence are perpetrated. per-petrated. Over and over again, in scores of places, the striking shopmen are proving themselves to be brutes nnd cownrds. Their only excuse If It be an excuse lies In the statement of Attorney General Duugherty that Red agitators and I. W. XV. leaders are exceedingly ex-ceedingly active In fomenting troubles. TN ACCORDANCE with Its arranged plan, the senate voted Saturday on the tariff bill devised by Its committee an flounce, accepting It by a fair majority, ma-jority, and the measure Is now In conference. con-ference. During tli3 flnul days of debate de-bate several Important amendments were adopted, one it them authorizing the establishment of foreign trade cones In American ports where foreign grwutu may he brought 'n wHro? j-py-ment of duty to be stored, exhibited, mixed with domestic products and reexported. re-exported. Logs of fir, spruce, cedar and western hemlock were transferred to the free list, and so were scientific Instruments for educational purposes. The Democrats fnlled to get a reduction reduc-tion of the rates on aluminum, and Senator Harreld (Rep., Okln.) lost bis fight for duties on crude petroleum and fuel oil. MISSISSIPPI Democrats staged a pretty contest Tuesday in their senatorial primaries. The real fight was between former Senator James K. Vurdaman nnd Hubert D. Stephens. A third contestant was Miss Belle Kearney. Kear-ney. She polled only about 17,(KK) votes," but that was enough 'o prevent "ordaman from getting the required majority; be received over a thousand more than Stephens. Under the state law It Is necessary to bold a second primary on September 5 to determine which .f the two men shall be the nominee. Some time ago former President Pres-ident Wilson stated that he hoped Vurdairmn would : ot be sent to Washington Wash-ington a -In. UNABLE or unwilling to recede from the position he had taken regarding re-garding Germany's failure to pay, Poincare returned to Purls and the allied al-lied conference In London broke up without result unless It be the mo mentous one -of a rupture of the entente en-tente and the wrecking of the treaty of Versailles. The French premier summoned bis cabinet and It unquali-fiedly unquali-fiedly Indorsed all he had done and snld In London. It also decided the government was competent to handle the situation without convening parliament, parlia-ment, unless conditions become much worse. Though- fully prepared to put Into fore the French sanctions against Germany, the cabinet decided to await the action of the reparations commission concerning a moratorium, Germany meanwhile defaulted In the war debts due on Tuesday, declaring In a note to the allies that this was due to the demand for foreign currency cur-rency to pay for urgently needed necessaries nec-essaries of life and to the fall In the value of the mark. The reparations commission was trying to devise some way of tiding over the situation until November or December when, It believes, be-lieves, another meeting of the allied premiers will have to be held to consider con-sider the whole question of German debt and finances and the Interallied war debts. The break-up of the London confer ence caused another great decline In the value of the mark, and at the same time came a series of farm strikes throughout the country led by the communists and seriously threat enlng the harvests. Chancellor Wlrth, In a statement to press correspond ents, said: "'Germany cannot pay In gold. Ten million gold marks, paid this week, were drawn from money set apart to buy wheat this month. The first duty of the German government is to give bread to our slnklnc people. "In Austria, which Is less densely populated than Germany, the author Ity of the state has been endangered. Germany is now heading under full sail Into parallel conditions. What can Frunce gain from her policy? Our Inability to pay In gold will be followed fol-lowed by inability to pay tiianythlng. What comes after that Is not politics It Is social revolution. We of the German republic have restored harmony har-mony In central Europe, where formerly for-merly an entire upheaval threatened. We are today sitting at the deathbed of our work." THOUGH expected for some time, the death of Lord Northcllffe, the famous British Journalist and leading publicist -of the world, came as a real shock. America feels the loss only less than Great Britain, for he was often In this country, knew thoroughly Its people and Its Ideals and was the greutest force In the promotion of close friendly relations between the two nations. His power In British poll tics was tremendous, and there Is no one to fill bis place. Viscount Northcllffe North-cllffe was burled In Westminster Abbey Ab-bey Thursday with all the honors that could be bestowed. Eminent persons, including many ambassadors, filled the edifice and the humbler folk thronged the streets outside. Iltisil Insurgents, having been almost al-most totally routed In the South, broke Into renewed activity In the North and among other exploits captured cap-tured Dundalk In a surprise attack. But they wert unable to hold tho place more than n few days. Whea the regulars reoecupled It they took hundreds of prisoners. Regular river-boat river-boat service has been re-established between Cork and Queenstown and normal conditions almost restored c that district. The Marconi radio station sta-tion at Cllfden on the coast north of Gniway has been rescued from the rebels. The new Irish Free Stste lost one of Its wisest and strongest supports In the death of Arthur Grifllth, president of Dull Elreann, on August 12. Irish and English alike mourned him and his funeral In Dublin was tho ocensloa of a very remarkable demonstration. OVER In Chi;ta a pence parley actually was bggun, the agents of Gerr. Wu Pel Fu, war lord of the North; and of General Chang, dictator of Manchuria, and Sun Yat Sen, fors mer bead of the southern government, getting together In Shanghai. Repre-sentutlves Repre-sentutlves of President LI and other! also were present. Doctor Sun, who reached Shanghai from Canton via Hongkong, said be had no personal ambitions and would obey parliament nnd support whomever it chose u lircfcldexit. |