St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 12, 1922

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COMIC PAGE JULY 11, 1922. Po +z opyright, - —— 1322, by H. C. Fis iE. gistered U. ye, g 4 S. Patent Office. ST. LOUIS FORWARD OR BACKWARD? The proposed bond issue represents only 8 per cent of St. Louis’ assessed valuation. Its success Will mean 100 per cent in the city’s progress. VOL. 74. -NO. 310. ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The wade Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 12 , 1922—28 PAGES, PRICE 2CENTS BUT, BeLieve me iT COULD BE A WHOLE LoT MoRE ADHESIVE! WEDS MRS. ALICE SINCLAIR | WHILE TRAVELING ABROAD “THE HAGUE _ CONFERENCE - 1S NEARING A COLLAPSE Day's Session on Russian _ Private Property Breaks Up in Confusion and Many Delegates Con- sider Failure of Parley Is Inevitable. OS ee Re oy eer Qe s TQ END STRIKE IS PUT UP 10 RAILWAYS BY LABOR BOARD CHIEF: THEY PROMISE A REPLY “LATER” a ee INDICATION: Oe ae aoe ot hea ne Lee aie dteedied, eis aa Rene STRIKER, WHO RETURNED TO RAILROAD JOB, FORCED TO RESIGN AS ALDERMAN Associates in Council at Middlec- town, N. Y., Refuse to Sit With Him in Sessions. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., July 12. W ILLIAM H. FUNNELL, an employe of the Ontario & 15 years, who went out with the WAY OPENED FOR “USE OF FEDERAL ~ TROOPS IN STRIKE GEORGE J. GOULD. GIRL WHO AVENGED DEATH OF FATHER RELATES HER STORY FARED, COMMITTEE RACE WEDS WEALTHY WHO DISAPP Flip of Coin Takes Candidate | UNDER S000 BOND William H, Herring ot" 7205 lial | Broadway was a candidate for elec- | : propose to be smoked out by his op- | | clair Will Cause Him to Whko Went Surety for |ponents, after he had gone to the’ Forfeit Interest in Two! . Manuel Worried on Learn- |porters of other candidates in okt COUPLE TO MAKE — TOLD OF OWNING —_cancidates, went to nim Ine frienaiy VIS'T TO SCOTLAND, MEXICAN OIL LANDS | o. aM Gimp ot the ongmutnens inal litical future on “heads.” Some observers in the war sa November—Wedding At-| Millions Died After Being : . a say tracts Much Comment. Left Stranded. NVICT ‘HEADS OR TAILS, LOSER QUITS IN Pl AN Herring Out of the | ition as Democratic committeeman of | Marriage to Mrs. Alice Sin-| Two Jefferson City Negroes |‘P* grep gic Ben 9 bre trouble and expense of filing. Such | |terms as ‘Poor Fish,” used by sup- | es al Sg New York Homes. Ing He Is Missing. |arguments, did not discourage him. Issue i. ee 3 | But when John J. Phelan of 6018A | | way and proposed that one of them/| | withdraw, and that they toss a coin | | Not Expected to Appear in | Friend Who Went to Mexico ‘coin as flipped, and it was Se et : ' ; : i or fierring, who had staked his p New York Society Until| With Him to Get Some that Herring was not such a sucker | after all, and that he did not “pull HOPE OF USEFUL | SERVICE WANES a bone,” as s - one,” as some of his critics sug ! Western Railroad shops for gested. They say M. J. McGee, present committeeman of the ward, PARTY AAB TRYX To CREATE A | PHERE ARoOVALS GRANBPA ONEL START CUE ENBER” SESSICASS OVER THE PLACE IENRKS WHo YEARS AGO. A A Ul — —— ere CC CE tt ge os - ? Litvinoff Says Promises on Compensation and Guar- antees Are Impossible Un- til Russia Knows What Credits She Can Get. By the Associated Press. THE HAGUE, July murning session of the conference | on Russian affairs, which was de-! immunity as voted to the consideration of the private property question, broke up amid considerable confusion, mbry o* the delegates declaring the Ru:- sian replies meant that the collapse of The Hague conference was in- vitable. No decision as to this, how- ver, had been taken up to 3 o'clock this afternoon. President Patyn, hearinz after ' #he Russian explanation concerning Yhe restitution of confiscated foreiten | Francisco Tejeda Liorca, yesterday | was. consigned i school, 12. The | the story of the killing to the pre- 'Cruz had apparently extended that She Says She Would Have Challenged Deputy to Duel if She Had Been a Man. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, July 12.—Maria Del Pilar Moreno, the 15-year-old girl who Monday avenged her fa- ther’s death by shooting Deputy Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, July 12.—The mar- riage of George J. Gould to Mrs. Alice Sinclair a week ago in Paris created a great stir among friends of the Gould family an- nounced here today. It stood that some members of Gould’s family, Mrs. former Miss Edith Gould, especially, ‘had been informed of the marriage | t N N ht siding Judge, asserting calmly that | 8°vera! days ago. irs. Wainwrig she had killed Liorca because his’! a Deputy had kept him} out of the courts and his election | last Sunday as Senator from when it was to ai correctional pending legal procedure. The child again yesterday related |much pleased. A cabled message to 'a close friend of Gould outside his |family was understood to have been Vera | the authority for making | nouncement. immunity for another four years. | “If I had been a man I would have! ‘life interest in the home at Fifth challenged Liorca to a duel,” said’ Maria, “but as I am only a girl, there the house at 177 ®ast Sixty-seventh was nothing for me to do but to keep | street. Mrs. Gould, in her will, left my promise of vigilance and shoot at | these houses, which had been given the first opportunity.” | to her Prior to the judicial order con-| furnishings and art treasures to signing Maria to a _ correctional!) Gould “during ‘his life or until he re- school, men friends of the family | marries,”’ when they were to become is under- | in the Post-Dispatch yesterday teil-| Carroll Wainwright, the |; Mexican 'negro convict at was quoted today as saying she was | ‘Supreme Court has yet to determ:ne | whether the an-| By this marriage, Gould loses his | ro ithe ‘avenue and Sixty-seventh street, and | Under sentence from St. J¢ ‘having a forged draft in his posses- ‘sion with intent to defraud, and dazzled by | by her husband, and all the | stories of the millions to be got from | owned by Manuel, | Manuel, made a formal request of the Judge. part of the residuary estaté to be di- | By a Staff Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, July 12.— Two Jefferson City negroes, one the owner of a taxicab line and the other the owner of a restaurant, read with much misgiving a story the desert of disappearance into a of James Manuel, liberty from Penitentiary. The State ing Missouri he shall serve a three-year sentence. The Supreme Court required a $6000 bond before it would order temporary--release of Manuvi, Joseph for ~he Jefferson City negroes, Tampico, Mexico, signed the bond. who is the proprietor of two aliases, D. P. Hayes and Hen-y oil land near Correspondent of the, aT ale | has the position hooked, and that Herring was only a minnow in the political pond. withdrawn, McGee is Michigan avenue. LA tt ttt te tt NEW FRISCO WORKER DROWNED _ WHEN HE STEPS IN CINDER PIT | Didn't Perceive That Water Lay Beneath Layer of Dust on | Pooh | Leslie Hales, 26 years old, an elec- |trician, of 8661A South Broadway, ‘employed __ at 'roundhouse at Tiffany and Choutean /avenues, was drowned in cinder | pit adjacent to the roundhouse short- | \ly before 1 p. m. today. | Hales had been working in familiar with the cinder pit, which is | 10 feet deep and filled to the ground | level with water, | when they are brought in. face of the water is covered with a President’s Proclamation Since Herring has) opposed by | Phelan and Edward Duffy of 7022 the Frisco Railroad | the | | yards only since July 4 and was un- | into which the cin- | | ders are raked from the locomotives | The sur. | 'quests from all parts of the country ‘are reaching t).e Government asking Makes It Matter for All U. S. Avcencies to Com- mand Respect for Law. LAWS FOR MOVING OF ALL TRAINS Statutes as Explicit for Pas-| senger and Freight Traffic as for Mails, It Is Pointed Out. By DAVID LAWRENCE, ‘Special Washington Correspondent of the Post-Digpatch. (Convright. 182%.) WASHINGTON, July 11.—Re- Strikers and later returned to work, has resigned his position as Alderman at large and es- ident of the Common Council. This took place while more than 100 striking railroad men awaited word from him at the foot of city hall steps. A con- ference of Aldermen was held and his resignation was demand- ed by his associates in the Coun- cil, it being stated that five of the number deelared they would not sit with him in the sessions. In a statement issued yesterday, Funnell said: “I have made a mistake. I re- gret it deeply and want to do what I can to right the wrong I have done my fellow workmen.” | heavy layer of dust which makes it | RAILWAY GUARDS KIDNAPED AND Minimum Acceptable to Unions, to Be Presented to Strikers Again With Com- ment and Counter Propo- sitions of Employers. CONFERENCE TODAY WITH “BIG FOUR” Trainmen at Bloomington, Ill., Who Voted to Refuse to Move Trains With jroperty, announced that no useful | purpose would be served in contin- ing the discussion. 'Sir Philip Lloyd-Graeme of Great Mtain said he would consult his Troops on Duty, Rescind Action— Other Develop- | Hubble, had served two penitentiary oa" | | lterms before he came to Missouri, | difficult to perceive the water un- | 10° the appointment of hundreds af | Es . , ‘deputy marshals to assist in the en- Oklahoma and the Federal Peni-' der it. a ‘ tentiary at Leavenworth having ®x-| Hales, ‘forcement of the Federal laws which to be allowed to serve the girl’s time in Belem prison, each main serving | one day without food. The request was denied. vided among their seven children. Appeared at Operas. The former Mrs. Sinclair is a strik- ‘ingly beautiful blond woman. She ap- FLOGGED IN TEXAS walking across the. vard, stepped into the pit and drowned | it an offense for anyone to make EK j | Z Ce ee OE Oe ee om sda .** Stee ai meme an et ALLIED TE OLOING L Oee , ent P me e ny tae a i .** eer on™ } s | peared frequently at the opera and i ‘ of the a ment at The Hague than at Genoa) E. all the remaining payments for 1922, | payments provided for 1923 and i924. _ Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch Neagues as to whether any good ? yal dae verves bya further meecing ommission on property. Maxim Litvinoff of the Russian jelegation said. on leaving the con- WWrence chamber, that further meet- Yngs were unlikely, as the non- Russians insisted upon the Russians making promises with regard to property compensation and givinz fuarantees which were impossible until the Russians knew what credit end loans would be granted. M. Litvinoff added that the peave pact would hold for one month after the last meeting. A meeting of the commission on debts was arranged for later in the afternoon. y Restoration. Sir Philip Lioyd-Greame, who is president of the Commission on | Property, which was the body sitting | Reported Free Valera, the Republican leader, Dublin and today visited the Repu)h- lican offices Dublin dispatch says. DE VALERA NOT INTERFERED ok WITH IN HIS DUBLIN CALLS ° the restaurants at the cabarets. State Authorities Have No Intention of Bother- ing Him in Movements. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, July 12.—Eamonn de is in Suffolk in street, a It is understood, adds the mes- sage, that the Free State authorities | have no intention with his movements. MRS. SPRECKELS 10 REPRESENT of LABOR DEPARTMENT IN EUROPE today, announced that further dis-| San Francisco Woman to Investigate cussion seemed useless and brought the conference to a sudden close, after two hours of debate, in which he and others of the non-Russian @elegates pensistently tried to get Maxim Litvinoff and his associates of the Russian delegation to answer QUestions regarded as essential. These related to the plans for the restoration of foreign property con- fiscated by the soviet regime and the probable time that would be required to rebuild Russia. ust as at the Genoa conference, the chief bone of contenfioh was the foreign property that had been na- d in. Russia, and it did not appear that the Russians and non- Russians were any nearer an agree- on that problem, which wrecked the. Genoa conference. | By the Associated Press. ‘PARIS, July 12.—Germany today | handed the Reparations Commission her note requesting a moratorium for _ including that due July 15. Germany further requests that the moratorium be extended for the cash under the schedule of May 6, 1921. Allies Decide Germany Must Pay, $2,000,000 Marks. and New York World. ht, 1922, by the Press and Pulitzer , the New York World the Post-Dispatch.) _ PARIS, July 12.—The Reparations mission has decided Germany mast pay the installment of 60,0¢0,- “one gold marks due next Saturday, te has credited toward the way- _ Ment of the sum nearly 18,000,009 - kold marks—representing the conn ' @8t on the ireserve fund of the com. » Mission and payments made by ihe mbourg Government for coal. and by the American Textile Alli- | Sea for dyestuffs delivered from li 1921, to June 30, 1922. Le Temps estimates the value of the dyestuffs at 700,000 gold marks siders that the total rehuction uld not exceed 10,000,000, rising tempera- ture temorrow. Illinois: Generally fair tonight and preceded’ by thunder cooler tonight; warmer to- Us Stage of the river at 7 a. m., 11.7 feet, a rise of .4 of a foot. 'at concerts, and was seldom if ever 1 in the after-theater crowds at She wned several costly motor cars. Her home on Manursing Island, at ye, is one of the largest and finest iin that part of Westchester County. | It is on the north end of the island | | plained and was once the McLaughlin estate, owned by a publisher who died sev- | 'owned near Tampico, Mexico, and en | The | eral years ago. In front of the house the Slopes to a 20-foot seawall. lawn the wall is a large pier. Many Servants Employed. In the house and about the vears ago the reclamation of 27 acres of salt meadows was about 200 men were employed. work now has been completed. It was said in Rye today that Sinclair had lived in that community for about five years and that island, it was said, with children and an army of servants. Gould and his bride are sail to have taken a place in Invernessnire, Scotland, and it is not likely New) York society will have a chance to| had got hold of some money. greet her before November. Most of the Gould children probably have visited their father bride before their return. $1000 OFFERED FOR ARREST OF ILLINOIS MINE SLAYERS Attorney-General Addresses Appeal Particularly to Williamson People. 'By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 12. — Attorney- General Edward J. Brundage today offered a reward of $1000 for infor- mation leading to the arrest and con- viction of the persons who commit-; ted murder and assault in connection with the strike of the coal miners in Williamson County. The appeal was particularly di- rected to the citizens of Williamson County, who, the Attorney-General said, would be protected in every way in any assistance they may give. AMMUNITION DEPOT EXPLODES By the Associated Press. BERLIN, July 12.—Thirty per- sons were killed or injured by the explosion of a depot of ammunition supplies at Groden, near Cuxhaven, yesterday afternoon. TCHITCHERIN GOES TO BERLIN By the Associated Press. INNSBRUCK, July Minister Tchitcherin, of Soviet Rus- sia, who has been recuperating from a slight nervous breakdown at a hotel here, left for Berlin last eve- Free Band Concert Tonight. At Lafayette Park, 7:30 to c' clock. Below | CX- | | tensive grounds from 40 to 60 serv- | ‘ants are employed. When a few. undertaken, | this | ‘in ecitizen’s clothing, under Mra. | /on she | went abroad about two months ago. | She lived in the great estate on tne | peal bond at St. Joseph. two littie | w'll | and his) | Director Hill, fewing as to Manuel’s supposed prop- 12.—Foreign : 10 | acted service of him previously. Last December he arrived at Jefferson |City agd took up activity as a fact- ory hand in the prison. Telegram About “Land.” All-was normal ‘until late in April, when the convict received a telegram telling him not to sell his land for than $4,000,000. He ex- to . that this related to less land which ne} which oil had been discovered. Penitentiary and negroes in of a convict million- aire. Warden Hill cautioned the negro not to sign any papers getting proper advice and allowed him to make two or more trips to Kansas City and one to St. Joseph, the cort of J. M. Willams, deputy pris- vardmaster, for the suppos21. purpose of arranging deals for his) land, and to try to arrange an ‘ip-| i$ The St. \ tic comment from Circuit Judge Utz, ‘who objected to the unusual courte- sies being extended to a negro COn- | vict simply on the theory that he | No Effort to Verify Story. No effort was made by the peni- tentiary authorities, according to Hollenbeck and Warden) to verify or disprove the re-| erty. Manuel’s sister, Melinda Manuel, of Muskogee, Ok., came here and David |W. Peters, chairman of the Repub-| ‘lican City Committee here, was re- tained attorney. Robert W. owner of the Silver | was interested in the case and the Supreme Court was asked to admit Manuel to bail. Stokes took the matter up with He- ber Rankin, another prosperous ne- gro, owner of a taxicab line, and he and Stokes signed the $5000 bond for Manuel. Soon after Manuel was released he wooed and was married to a wealthy negro widow from Kansas, and having aroused the interest in his affairs of Joe Rector of Kansas City, friend of former years in Ok- lahoma, and member of a wealthy Indian family, he and Rector, with $2000, went to Mexico recently, to make a few oil millions, Manuel hav- ing agreed to divide the profits equally. Left Rector Stranded. Manuel did not develop anything to divide, however, according to re- ports from Mexico, and left Rector stranded. The latter, bitterly disap- pointed by the circumstances, died near Dallas last Sunday on his way back to Kansas City, where the rest of his family is, and now Stokes and Rankin wonder whether they will be holding the sack if the Supreme Court affirms Manuel's sentence. Stokes hopes that Manuel's rela- tives will “pay the freight.”” He said he had a telegram recently from Manuel from Mexico City which, however, said nothing of Rector. as Stokes, negro Moon. Cafe, Penitentiary employes | Jeffer- | ‘son City at once became agog o7vcr | the prospect without | Joseph trip brought caus- | The upshot of the matter was that | before help could reach him. His | body was recovered by the fire de- aciecnee The widow survives. | commerce. | President Harding's proclamation, | however, doesn’t make it a matter interfere with the mails or interstate FINGER PRINTS AND PICTURES MAY BE SENT BY WIRELESS all other agencies which can com- mand a respect for the law. The use of Federal troops is in- evitable. President. Harding and | for the Department of Justice mere- | ly, but for the War Department and | New York Commissioner Says Sys- tem Now Is Being Perfected in Copenhagen. (Copyright, 1922.) his advisers are loath to use them, ‘as they would rather have the civil | branch of the Government carry out IMs nd ? : aa . 'the law processes of the Govern- | LONDON, July 12.—Police Com- ment, but the inadequacy of civilian |missioner Richard E. Enright of | officers, such as marshals and dep- |New York yesterday prophesied that | uties, is already apparent. |finger prints and photographs of | Laws Apply to All Trains. crooks will be wirelessed from one. The Government is apprehensive | part of the world to another in the|that the situation will grow worse | near future. _chiefly because strikers in the past “A remarkable system is now be- have not understood the laws which \ing perfected in Copenhagen,” he | they were violating. Most of the ‘said, ‘“‘whereby this can be done.|leaders seem to be under the im- When =the system is universally! pression that moving the mails is |adopted, a man arrested in Europe,| essential, but if other trains are ‘and who is supposed to be wanted | stopped or delayed, there is no pen- ‘or have a record in America, can bejalty. The opposite is true. For the ‘identified as to his finger’ prints; laws of the United States are just | within a few hours instead of wait- ‘as explicit with reference to the ‘ing a fortnight.” movement of passenger and freight In denying there had been any | trains as mail carriers. ‘special crime wave in New Y«rk, he} No warrants have gone forth as said that since 1916 there had been | yet to arrest leaders or strikers, tut a decrease of 19 per cent in serious | jn the 1894 strike such a step be- crime. | came necessary, as there was whole- | ‘gale disregard of the law and wrauck- TRISH IRREGULARS SAID 70 |ing of trains. Perhaps the best ex- HAVE CONSCRIPTED WOMEN | position of the law which the strik- |Dispatch From Belfast Says Young ers are confronted with was given by Judge Ross in his famous charge Women Working at Farmhouses’ | Have Fied. | te the grand jury in Los {By the Associated Press. just 28 years ago this month, in coa- nection with the Debs strike. Judge Ross’ Charge. He said: LONDON, July 12.—An Exchange * ‘Telegraph Belfast dispatch says that A railroad which is a link ‘n a! }12 young women working in farm- through line of road for the trans- ‘houses have been conscripted by ir- regular troops in raids from Glen- veigh castle, giving a Londonderry | Angeles | . | Missouri-Kansas-Texas Denison, were kidnaped, taken to the | woods and beaten by a mob of 1900 at Denison early today, according to portation of freight and passengers * Othe oung | 18 engaged in the business of inter- et am state commerce, and every organi- zation or conspiracy in restraint of such trade or commerce is by stat- CALLS POST RATE CONFISCATO acer Isc cater et toe conemoer et. Y sion of a crime. Congress has passed | National Publishers’ Association Ex-| jaws to regulate such commerce, and | ecutive Discusses Kelly Bill. | has provided punishment in a cer-| Frederick W. Hume, executive sec-|to the conspiracy statutes which retary of the National Publishers’! make any one convicted of a con- Association, told the Southern News-| spiracy to break the laws of the paper Publishers’ Association yester-| United States liable to a fine of $10,- He outlined the principal features The Harding administration is of the pending Kelly bill and said | about to apply-the same broad prin- postal rates must be adjusted to the ciples of law in securing the _— satisfaction of newspaper publishers.|terrupted passage of trains from troops to help them out. Telegrams from all parts of the United States indicate that grave apprehension cx- LONDON, July 12.—A Cairo dis- ists in many railroad centers as to patch to The Times reports that Maj. W. T. Blake has alighted at Siza, to the south of Amma, Pales- ing held in readiness for service. Experience in the 1894 strike has Four Deputy U. S. Marshals in Party Attacked at Deni- son—One Man Shot and 16 Beaten. By the Associated Press. DENISON, Tex., July 12.—One man was shot and 47 alleged strike breakers and four Deputy United State@® Marshals were attacked bv a mob of several hundred men, bvu- lieved to be strikers and sympa‘hiz- ers, when being marched from the Union Depot to the Missour!-Kansas- Texas shops here early this morn- ing. Sixteen of the men were kidnaped, hustled into automobiles, taken to the Red River bottoms and flogged.’ The others escaped. Four men, claiming to be victims of the mob, were found wandering along the railroad tracks at Colbert, Ok., this morning. Those who escaped from the mob were shipped out of Denison. The situation was quiet here at noon. - By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., July 12.—-One man was seriously shot and a dozen oth- prs, some of them deputy United States marshals on guard at the shops At ports to the Katy general offices ere. J. W. Pike was the man «hut. The reports said the mob, com- posed of strikers and sympathizers, attacked railway guards and em- ployes in an isolated section near the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Raliroad Denison shops. “Railway guards were kidnaped and whisked away in automobiles to the river bottoms, where they were beaten,”’ said H. E. McGee, general manager of the Katy here. “We have been busy this morning searching for the men who were car- ried to the woods and assaulted,’ Mr. McGee said. “Uniess there are troops in Denison before nightfall there will be more bloodshed.” It was intimated here the Mis- souri-Kansas-Texas road would fvl- low the lead of the Texas & Pacific and ask Gov. Neff immediately for State troops. McGee said he could not give d-- tails of the affair nor the names of any of the men reported kid- naped. “All I can gay is that a mob of about 1000 wild men broke loose and attacked railway employes,” he said. ‘Negro Employe of “Katy” Beaten at San Antonio, Tex. By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex. July 12.— The first act of violence tn Sar. An- into another state from other states women working at farmhouses in ute declared to be illegal, and all | By the Associated Press. tain prescribed way. | day that present postal rates on sec- 000 to imprisonment for not more 4 State to State. The marshals and } MAJOR ‘BLAKE REACHES SIZA whether the marshals can cope with tine, in his attempt to fly aroud and from that state to other states the district are said to have fled. persons so combining and conspiring | ASHEVILLE, N. C., July 12.—-| The same Judge added a reference | ond-class matter are confiscatory. than two years. deputies in the past have called for By the Associated Press. the situation. Federal troops are 4e- ‘the world. Contineed on Page 2, Columa 2, ——$— that of the r 3 The City Circulation %. Daily POST-DISPATCH alone approximately Equals LE _______________— | { x Daily Globe-Democrat that | Times Combined, and Exceeds of the ae EL —. Continued on Page 3, Colas ¢. = Times Combined by ————————— = - Daily Star é ments. By the Associated Press. . CHICAGO, July 12.—No definite. reply to the shopmen’s strike settie- ment proposals was given Chairman Hooper of the Railroad Labor Board by representatives of the railway executives at a noon-day confarened. today, > The executives said they wots give Hooper their answer “latér.” — Chairman Hooper said his. chief. purpose in meeting with the execu< tives was to arrange a conference. between them and B. M. Jewell-temd= er of the striking shopmen, and he indicated that the attitude of the. executives was disappointing. Chairman Hooper's program, which is said to represent the mini- mum acceptable to the striking shop- men, is to be carried again to=the shopmen’s leaders later today, with — 2 ‘the cOmments and counter stir as: of the executives, When Chairman Hooper lett the Labor Board offices for the meeting with the railroad executives he was confident some plan of settlement could be reached quickly. He waid. he expected to call President Hard- ing on the telephone with a report — on the success of his confersance with the railway presidents. he conference of Chatrmat Hooper and the railway exechtives is said to be the direct resul€.éf a 10-minute telephone con ion late last night between Harding and W. L. MeMeninter. labor member of the Railroad Labor | Board. promise of the execu- tives to receive the shopmen's pro- — posals through Chairman Hooper wm understood to have been combfuni-— cated to McMenimen by the ee dent. or Proclamation by President. se aes President Harding’s personalin-— ae tervention in the strike through this < proclamation calling for 7 o: transportation and the mails Bite been accepted as bearing much tae nificance oo. Labor Board in anticipation’™ of ther developments.