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Show BRAND RUMORS AS UNFOUNDED Reports of Strike Trouble Said to Be Overdrawn MKl I KK May IS Itumnre rlrrti-, lale1 late veaterdajr that two hundred) armed airlkera fiad held tip and aearrhtd a train hound for Hlawat ha over lha I'lah rnllway nt a point two tniieat north of here, were branded aa fnlae bv at a to and cit v off l-'lale after aft-er an inveallcatton. O. V" MMhane and William M K nerr, memhera of the ataie tndoatrlal i mmiiiion rep (fanning (tovernor Mabev In the alrlke dlalrlct. found not h lug nmrtiiltiK In th ltir)il-nt Marahal Ila1vnratn of Helper w aa' iinoerl tirhed by ihe ot-rurenca aa lieteiled by the Invent IgAl Ion. "Within the paa tin v r an repnrta had heen In-tilnted t nat MlKl V al rike-hreakera rike-hreakera Mere lo rome thrttugh on No. 4 from Halt Uhc yeatenlav." Murahnl Malvoran explained t It to morning. Thi atrlkera appointed a picketing com-tntiten com-tntiten of leaa than twenty lo meal Ihe train al a aw Itch where it had to atop ami there attempt to perauade any alrlkehreakera from proceeding 10 the roal nilnea. Ho far aa I know, none of iheae ph-keta were armed. The airike-Krt-akera were not on the train and I found not h In g to Indira la t-nt the atrlk-ra forred open ativ a.i'ed cara. 'One paaaenger waa rec-tgnlxel hy hia cfunlrmn aa n former miner al t'ameron lie waa armed and excited end the plrkela look him from the train an hrooght him Into Melner and turned him over to me. I found that he waa on hia way to a aheepherdlng jnn tip one of ihe run ton a and relea-ed htm. Kvervthlng ha a heen unlerly her'. Koine ntirface encllemcut haa heen stirred tip among ine atrtkera nt arloua tlmea hy tlie circulation of f.il-c rinnora but an far no violence baa heMi Tt corded " Al a conference today, called becaoae of the Incident ea:erdav M-Hhane arid Knerr will aek union offlt-'ala to limit picket dtiiy to two men of each na-llonallty na-llonallty In tha camp. |