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Show THE CO L SHORTAGE D TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH S. ID Sailing, Sailing liver October PROBE ORDERED PRES. COOLIDGE TAKES HAND EASTERN COAL SITUATION; DEMANDS FACTS IN By George Barr McCutcheon WHU Serrlea Pinch Of Strike Is Being Felt And With Coming Of Winter Ways And Means Of Warmth Must Be Found BORN TO BE HANGED Here's a clever story about a Washington. Moved by reports of serious coal shortage resulting from the prolonged strike. President Coolidge has ordered an independent investigation to determine for his own satisfaction the amount of hard coal available in the northern states. New York and the New England states especially are beginning to feel the pinch of the strike. Complaints are now being received In Washington from some of the midwestern states which are said to suffer for the first time the scarcity of hard coal. The strike has entered its ninth week without sign of settlement, and without activity by a government which asserts that its hands are tied by lack of authority in law. President Coolidge has received from numerous sources the assurance that the hard coal supplies were so abundant that the public would be unembarrassed at least during the first four months of cold weather, and that the operators and miners would bear the suffering of the strike alone. Those optimistic reports came during the warmth of summer. The president was advised that in the long run it would be best for the country to permit the operators and the miners to hammer each other's heads off. Now that the first wintry blasts have brought reports of suffering for lack of coal, President Coolidge is reported to have discounted some of the earlier advice and to have started out to ascertain for himself the exact condition of the coal stores. Agents of the department of commerce are reported to be assembling the facts. Personal friends in whom the president has complete confidence are at work obtaining the information for his guidance, also. The president's immediate advisers assert that a dilatory congress is responsible for the failure to clothe him with power to deal aggressively with the strike. The report of the United States coal commission, with its numerous recommendations to meet the present emergency, was made three years ago, but remains unprinted as a, public document. In his first message to congress, nearly two years ago, President Coolidge urged that he be equipped with permanent power to appoint a commission in any such crisis and to equip the commission with power to conciliate the troubles existing between miners and operators. He wanted a commission with power to investigate any prolonged strike and to place the blame upon the side responsible for the continuance. He also urged in that message favorable consideration of the coal commission's recommendations to permit the national government to provide an eaual distribution of available coal among the states in the event of a strike, and to establish agencies which might purchase and store coal against future strikes. In his message to the incoming President Coolidge is expected 10 renew ail his past recommenda tions. con-pres- Seattle Suffers Serious Fire Seattle, Wash. A spectacular fire, which swept a block of automobile agency and accessories salesrooms and service garages, and threatened Seattle's automobile row, was brought under control, after doing damage estimated at $2,000,000. An overheated heater in the basement of the Miller-NortoSales company is believed to have started the blaze, which spread rapidly to the plant of the company, the Firestone Tire and Rubber company and the Chandler agency. Firemen were unable to stem the spread until virtually an entire block of buildings were gutted. The Firestone company was the heaviest loser, seventy-fivcarloads of tires being destroyed. C. A. Scatter-day- , office manager of the tire company said the loss to his eompany would exceed a million dollars. n Willys-Overlan- d e Frisco To Have Large Building San Francisco. A $6,000,000, twenty-story building will be erected by E. H. Rollins Son and Ulytho, Witter and Company. It will have an entire block of frontage on Montgomery street between Pine and Dush. The two Investment companies putting up the structuro will pay $12,000,000 for r lease on the site. nlnely-nlne-yea- Adopted Boy Loses Appeal Waukegan, III. Jack Donald, adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Durand, wealthy North Shore society people, was denied a new trial and sentenced to Joliet penitentiary for three to twenty years by Circuit Judge Edwards for the robbery of the home of F. Edson White, president of Armour and company. lie is at liberty on $10.0000 bond furnished by his foster parents, who will viction appealed. bare his recent con- man born to be hanged before he was thirty for a crime he didn't commit that's the way a gypsy queen told hla fortune the night he was born. And what's more, U.S. CITIZENS MUST HAVE ITI WASHINGTON ACTS WHEN AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE PLACED IN DANGER CBII T F RENCH T the gypsy queen was right; she was a palm reader who knew her business and wasn't afraid to admit it. So Oliver's father disappeared and the neighbors cried, "Murder!" And before long they also yelled, "Oliver." And Anally, Just six days before Oliver's thirtieth birthday came along a lynching bee strung him up. But, just the same, all this did not prevent Oliver's getting elected to the state senate and winning a pretty wife and living happily ever after. By George Barr McCutcheon. Enough said! MEMBERS CHOSEN PAINLEVE WILL HOLD TWO POSITIONS IN NEW BODY; NEW NAMES APPEAR IN ROLL CHAPTER I Copyright, Bell Syndicate Sikes hastened to obey, and returned drawled, as she scuffled past him Into the sitting room. "Nice balmy weather presently In great excitement. to be born In, isn't It?" "Say, Ollle," he burst out, "there's Mr. Sikes, taken unawares, forgot a couple of women out here from that himself so far as to wink at the par gypsy camp. They claim to be fortunetellers. One of 'em wants to tell the son, and then, in some confusion, stammered: right In, Mrs. Sage, baby's fortune. She says she knowed and have n chair. Let me make you a couple of weeks ago that he was goacquainted with Oliver's sister, from ing to be born today, that's what she Ueverend Sage, Mrs, says." Hopkinsville. Gooch. Mr. Link, Mrs. Gooch. And "Well, I'm not going to allow any her hus- gypsy woman to go nigh that infant," this is Oliver's brother-in-law- , cried Mrs. Grimes. band, also of Hopkinsville." "She says it ain't necessary to even Everybody bowed. "How is your dear brother, Mrs. see the baby. She says the only reliable and genuine way to tell a baby's Gooch?" Inquired Mr. Sage. "I didn't know there was anything fortune Is "by reading Its father's hand." the matter with Oliver." Mr. Baxter arose. "There Isn't anything the matter "Bring her In, with him," said Mrs. Sage, "that a Joe. Now, don't kick, Serepty. My good, stiff drink of .whisky won't cure." mind's made up. I'm going to know "Ahem !" coughed her husband. He my son's future." Mr. Sikes rushed from the room. A had the worried munner of one who moment later he returned, followed by never knew what Is coming next. His wife looked up into his face and two shivering women who stopped just smiled a lovely, smile inside the door. that was slowly transformed into a The host, with a nervous sort of mischievous grimace. v geniality, beckoned to the strangers. "I'm always making breaks, am I "Better come down to the fire, Queen," not, Herby dear? It's a terrible strain, he said. Mr. Gooch, being a parson's wife." The elder woman fixed a curious look upon Mr. Baxter. "Umph !" grunted Mr. Gooch. "I am the queen of the gypsies, Mis, At this Juncture the sitting room door was opened and the proud father, ter, but how came you to know it?" followed by Serepta Grimes, entered she asked In a hoarse, not unmusical the room. Beaming, he surveyed the voice. assembled gathering. "Always best to be on the safe side," "He's got the finest head you ever said Baxter. "But look here. Do you saw," he announced. "Got a head like mean to say, Queen, that you can look a statesman." at my hand and tell what's ahead of Reverend Sage had moved over to my boy upstairs?" one of the windows, while the other "First, you must cross my palm with occupants of the room surrounded Bax- silver." ter, and was gazing out between the The company drew their chairs curtains across the gale-sweporch closer as Baxter dropped some coins into the blackness beyond. He shiv- into the palm. Silence perered a little, poor chap, at the thought vaded the gypsy's room. Every eye was on the dark, impassive face of the fortuneteller as she seized die's hand and began : "1 see a wonderful child. He Is strong and sturdy. I can see this son of yours, mister, as a leader of men. Great honor is In store for him, and great wealth. I see men In uniform following your son many men, mister, and all of them armed. I see him as a successful man, as the head of great undertakings. He has been out of college but a few years." "That will please his mother," said Baxter, sniffling. "Sh!" put in Mr. Sikes testily. "I see him," continued the fortuneteller, "as he Is nearing thirty. Rich, respected and admired. He will have many affairs of the heart. I see two dark women and one, two yes, three fair women." "That would seem to show that he's sort going to be a purty of a feller, wouldn't it?" said Baxter, proudly. "He will grow up to be the Image of his father, mister." The gypsy leaned back In her chair, spreading her hands In a gesture of finality. "I see no more," she said. "Is that all?" Mr. Baxter sniffed. "Well, Queen, I guess you took us all In purty neatly." Outraged royalty turned on him. "You scoff at me. For that you shall have the truth. All that I have told you will come true. But I did not tell of the end that I saw for him. The Light Fell Full Upon a Face you Hark ye! This son of yours will go to Close to a Window Pane. the gallows. He will swing from the end of a rope for a crime of which he of going out again Into the bitter, unbelievable night at the thought of his Is not guilty." She was now speaking cold little home at the farther end of In a high shrill voice ; her hearers sat as if under a spell that the village. He was thinking, too, of his wife and could not be shaken off. "It Is all ns the mile walk she would have to take plain as the noonday sun. He will with him Into the. very teeth of the never reach the age of thirty. That buffeting gale when this visit was over is all. That is the end. I have spoken She had conic to this wretched little the truth. You forced me to do so. town from a great city, where houses I go." mid flats were warm and snmr. Ho thought of the warm little room on the Well, Oliver's got quite a third tloor of the boarding house where career ahead of him. Can he lie had lived and studied for tun foil live up to It? years. It was In this housemiat he had met Josephine Judge. She was the daughter of the kindlv Widow U'lwi rw.n- (TO BR CONTlNfUD.I din ted the hoarding house a tall, slim girl who used slang and was gay and Bahama ttlandt blithesome, and had Hinbltloiis ! AmbiThe Bahamas ore a group of 3,000 tions? She wanted to become un . actress. She was Islands, mostly reefs, of which only He was not a theater going Inhabited. The principal Islands youth, are are: New Providence, population lie had been brought up with nn for the stage and nil Its InOhaco, population 4,403; Great iquities. So he devoted himself, heart Bahama, 1,821; Amlros, 7,545, anil and soul, to the saving of the mis- Harbor Island. The total area Is square miles, nntf the highest guided maiden, with astonishing results. They fell in love with each point Is over 410 feet above sen level. other and were married. The principal city Is Nassau, which Is He pressed his face against the cold situated on New Providence, and Is o pane, striving to rid his mind of the fashionable health resort. The mean doubts and worries that beset It. temperature In the hot .nonths Is 8S Suddenly he drew back with an ex- degrees Fahrenheit, una; In the cold clamation. The light Ml full upon a months 00 degrees Fahrenheit. There face close to the window pane, s face are heavy rnlns from May to October, so startling and so vivid that It did not snd the rainfall In one year wbs 03.32. appear to be real. A pair of dark, gleaming eyes met his for a few secStick to Home -- Made Bread onds; then swiftly the face was Although bakers' products rmve in He leaned forward and peered creased enormously In the last te Intently. Two Indistinct figures took years, due to the lettlng-uof hoin shape In the unrelieved darkness at the and baking and the Increaslns corner of the porch two women, he rooking custom of entire families eating out made out. there are Mill many home makers who "Joseph." be called, "there are two bale tbelr own bread apparently, as strange women on the porch. Perhaps last year the United States Department of Agriculture sent out m.r you" "Go see who It Is. Joe," commanded than 2,000,000 copies of tha bulletin, Mrs. Grimes crisply. "Baking In the Home." "St-ste- p good-humore- d Oliver, Born in October Oliver October Baxter, Jr., was born In the town of Buniley on a vile October day In 1890. Rumley people were divided in their excitement over this event and the arrival of a band of gypsies, camped on the edge of the Damage Done Up To Date Is Not List Is Presented To President For Officially Known; Ambassador His Approval; Socialists Refuse Herrick Demands Action By To Consider Places In New French Cabinet swamp below the Baxter house. Oliver's parents were prominent In the commercial, social and spiritual life of the town. His father was the proWashington. Ambassador Herrick, J Paris Premier Painleve, accom in Paris, has made representations to panied prietor of the hardware store, a promnew members his of the by the French government for protection cabinet, arrived at the Elysee palace inent member of the Presbyterian In the local lodge of American life and property in last Friday for the customary presen- church, and a leader of Odd Fellows. His mother, Mary Damascus. tation to the president of the repub- Baxter, a comely, capable young womInstructions for the ambassador to lic The new cabinet is constituted as an, was beloved by all. No finer make the move were forwarded when follows! "youngun" than Oliver October had word of the disorders in Syria was Painleve will be minsister of fi- ever been born, according to Mrs. and Serepta was an received. The Washington govern- nance in place of Joseph Caillaux and Serepta Grimes, on babies. It was she who ment also has sent two American de- also continue authority as premier. Subject to took command of Oliver, his mother stroyers from Gibralter to Alexanmodifications the new and his father, the house itself, and all where to dria, Egypt, they are ready is constituted as follows: that therein was. proceed to Berisut should the situa- ministry Premier and minister of finance, As the story of Oliver October really tion require further steps to safe M. Painleve. at 7 o'clock In the evening of begins Americans and their property. guard we will open the narrahis birthday, Minister of It was estimated by officials here foreign affairs, Aristide tive with Mr. Joseph Sikes, Mr. Baxthat about 150 Americans probably Briand. old and trusted friend, hovering were in Damacus or its immediate Minister of justice, Camille Chau-temp- s. ter's in solitary gloom over the baseburner vicinity when the revolt against In the sitting room of Baxter's house. French authority occurred in that Minister of the interior, A. Schrara-eck- . He was interrupted In his gloomy medilast week. city tations by the slamming of the kitchen Reports as to damage done by the Minister of works,.-Anatol- e De door. His brow grew dark. This was bombardment of certain quarters of Monzie. no time to be slamming doors. Damascus, by French artillery and Bushing to open the door, he was Minister of war, EJouard Daladier. c.iiplar.e have not disclosed the exconfronted by a pair of total strangers Minister of Emile Borel. marine, tent of any injury to American propa tall man with short black whiskers Minister of commerce, Daniel Vinerty. So far as known, no Americans and a frail little woman with red, were hurt and the representations cent. cheeks. Minister of agriculture, Jean Durmade in Paris were of a general and "I am Oliver Baxter's sister," announced the woman, "and this Is my precautionary nature, as was the ac- and. Minister of instruction, Yvon tion of the American consul in Damhusband, Mr. Gooch. We drove all the acus in advising Americans to take way over here from Hopkinsville to Minister for the colonies. Leon take charge of things for my brother." refuge at Bereiut until order had been restored. Perrier. "Well, 1 guess if you are bis sister Minister of labor, Antoine Dura-fou- r. you'd better come into the sitting room and take your things off," said Mr. lvonoon Old Damascus is like a Sikes, leading the way. Minister of pensions, Louis city of the dead, according to refugees Mrs. Gooch, having divested herself from Syria quoted by the Daily Mail's of coat, scarf, bonnet and overshoes, Cairo correspondent. The cabinet also contains a new her hair before the lookFleeing from the French bombard portfolio, that of minister of budget, straightenedwhile her husband surveyed ing glass, ed city, the refugees brought reports which will he filled Ly room and Its contents with the disGeorges Bonthat shells were believed to have kill- net, former undersecretary of state to the dainful air of one used to much better ed 1200. prisoners in the city prison, the president of the council. The things. while they reported several million portfolio of commerce in the new minGooch typified prosperity of the dollars damage to property. istry was declined by both Charles meaner kind. Over in Hopkinsville he They charged that the French Chaument and Louis Loucheur. There was considered the richest and the troops, after their bombardment of was a strong rumor in political cir- stingiest man in town. He was what the city, came into the town- and cles that the premier later would Is commonly culled, a "tax shark," destarted an orgy, shooting into stores name M. Chaumet governor of the riving a lucrative and obnoxious in on the prir.cipal streets from armored Bank of France. come through his practice of buying up cars and looting as they went. real estate at tax sales and holding it The new combination tends ulie-htCessation of the bombardment was ly more to the left than the former until It was redeemed by the owner, or, as It happened In said to be due to the protests of Eu- cabinet many instances, acquiring the property The task of recruiting the new cabropean consuls at Damascus. inet kept Premier Painleve sten.lilv under a provision of. the state law after a pre at work all night. First of all, he then in operation, whereby Woman Battles Snakes scribed lapse of time lie was enabled Ft. Lupton, Colo. Mrs. II. II. Slaut-erbac- spent much energy in trying to induce to secure a tax deed in his own name. wife of a rancher near here, former Premier Herriot to tako ni No one, mt even his fellow church killed 140 rattlesnakes with a club In place and form a cabinet, or at least members, had ever been known to get r a battle for her life and that to assume a portfolio in his ministry. the better of him. of her old child. Mrs. Slauter-bac- k Herriot, giving as a nretext nnnr "I shall fake charge here," Mrs. said she was riding on horse- health, maintained his refusal. Gooch announced to Mr. Sites. "Is Vain efforts also wore mnrln h M this the way upstairs?" back through a pasture on her husband's ranch, and was carrying her Painleve to obtain the collaboration Mr. Sikes nodded. "Rut If I was child. Dismounting to open a gate of the socialist leaders. Leon Blum you," he said. "I'd ask Screpty Grime she heard the warning rattle and lo- and Paul Concour. They declared before I took charge here." "I will soon get riil of Mrs. Grimes," cated a snake nearby. She picked up they were bound bv ih wiu;nn said she. tossing her bend. a stick and killed it. Immediately a the Grenoble socialist congress As nhe started to leave the room, a second snake appeared, then a third; participation in bourgeois loud knocking at the front door rose then they came by twos, threes, fours, government. above the bowl of the wind. Sikes, reand finally by the dozen, she said. In a few minutes she was hemmed In by Gunmen Escape With $117,000 suming his oltlce ns master of cerej scores of angry serpents, while her Buffalo, N. Y. Bandits held on the monies, pushed his wny past Mrs. oaby clung to the horse nearby. Fran- money car of the Bank of Buffalo. Gooch and opened the door to ndmlt a woman snd Hr men. The first to tically welding the club, she disposed shot and killed the wounded enter the sitting room was a tail man of the snakes as they came within the guard and escapeddriver, with currency reach. The horse was not surround reported to amount to $117,000. A wearing a thin Murk overcoat and a high silk hit. This was Rev. Herbert ed and it stood calmly through the package containing $14,000 was dropSage, pastor of the Presbyterian church battle. Mrs. Slauterbacg was not bit- ped by the bandits In their The ten. Two ranchers went to the scene holdup occurred while the flight. was of Itumley. The lady was his wife. money The other member of the trio, a fat, and verified Mrs. Slauterback'a story. being loaded Into the bank ran. The Jolly looking man of IndePhotographs also have been taken as driver of the van was killed Instant, terminate age. was Silas Link, the evidence of the adventure. ly when he offered resistance. undertaker upholsterer and liveryman of Itumley Bids Asked For On Mail Routes Yankee Jazi Bands Ousted "Reereh(f Sage was Calexlco, Calif. Postmaster American Jazi young man of thirty, threadbare and Washington General bands have been driven out of MexiNew has announced the trifle wnti, with kindly brown eyes set can resorts. The exodus resulted deep tinder a broad. Intelligent brow. of mail air routes and enlargeing ment of the projected lines to include from retaliatory measures taken by Ills wife wan. surprisingly enough, a Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colo., officers across the border when a handsome, dashing young woman. She Mexican band was refused passports was tall, willowy and startling. She !n the national aviation system. The to come to Calexlco and play for a wore a sealskin roat at least It looked Cheyenne-Denve- r on which no wedding. Every American route, musician ) like sent Willi sleeves that ballooned award was made, will be extended playing In Mexlcall resorts was round- - j grandly at the shoulders; rather stunsouthward through Colorado Springs ea up, pointed toward the border and ning cornl earrings made up of graduand Pueblo. The bids under the new told to keep going. Roth Calexlco ated globes tad a slinky satin skirt of advertisement will be opened Decem snd Mexlcall are now dancing to the black. "Good ber Nineteenth. home grown variety. evening, Mr. Sikes," slit last-minu- wind-smitte- n Del-pho- s. An-terio- u. - . hard-presse- d two-hou- red-face- good-lookin- H good-lookin- g open-mouthe- stage-struck- 13.-.rr- with-draw- |