St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 24, 1922

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PAGE 23, 1922. fi — 2, by H. C, Fisher, &. Patent Office.) : (Copyright, 1982.) _ ~) 2 @ S KARL su PY WIFE ) BRASN’'T SEEN MY FACE tA) THIRTY YEARS (Copyright, 1922 eo ) IS ALWAYS THE MAN GIVE UP — S f (Copyright, 19 HE THING THAT YOU. AVE LONG DESIRED! Is it within your grasp? ls it advertised In the WANT PAGES Today? [ecstatic eee OL. 74. NO, 353. ee _- oe a —— 2 WT IN GAS PRICE BAN Bt MADE: LACLEDE. RNS $600,000 EXCESS i Bankruptcy”’ Company Now Has of $549,000 and Is sing 9 Per Cent on mon Stock, Which Advanced From 43 to we ae WHER OPERATION “SAVINGS IMMINENT a a” ion of Coal Con-. t. Chief Source of High as Price, Obtained, With ill Lower Price for 1923. ‘in 1921, the Laclede Gas' | declared to the Missouri vice Commission that it skruptcy and must have its) srrected immediately to es- it extremity. ’ l of that the Com- authorized the Laclede to ite rates to householders cents to $1.05 per 1000 cubic advanced the rates of other in a measure to increase ve annual gas bill approxi- year, Bly $1,900,000. ~~ ae “ ~ — ly issued as a bonus to bond- | ~— the commission granted the electric noted in letters of New York “ | showing has caused the com- | Btock of the company than 18 months have elapsed. iniy has the company escaped ptey, but it has been restored unusual financial well-being prior to the war. For months of thie year, it, ata rate to produce an | mal net revenue available for in-— f and dividends which is more : 000 in excess of a sum the Public Service Commis- be a reasonable return upon valuation of its property. b only has the deficit been out, but the company has ac- | ted a surplus above its cus-| wy reserves of $549,945. Its) ‘of operation have been 540 reduced that its net earnings six-month period were at a c produce $2,762,988 annually. equivalent to 8.64 per cent mmon stock of $10,700,000, itly asserted to have been Jamps From $43 to $92. to ad- igince Jan. 1 from $45 a share Which was the high bid yes- ‘on the New York Stock Ex- The recovery of the com- “been so striking. that it is) bond houses to their cus- hich followed an announce- the company of the first on common stock since officials say they can fore- to interrupt a continua- prosperity. In fact, fur-— s in operating costs | to be imminent. L. Holman, president of , was asked by the Post- | yesterday whether, in view 1y’s apparent flourish- | Jon, it would reduce its Tor gas. .He replied: “Inas- | 88 rates of public utilities in| ‘are under the control of a | s Commission, we fecl Initiative in any rate reduc- come from some other | 9 iversation with PR “that the company = since) | Mas benefitted from a modi- B Of its cortract for coal with | jon Coal Co. This con- for annual delivery of ns and is one of the larg-, ms 0 the company’s operating weil hd in Coal Costs. ct, made in September, & price of $5 a ton for 1921 and $4.50 a ton Shortly thereafter, the | ch established that the ® made at a time when had begun to decline and | immediately the market | ch lower than the price. the Laclede. This caused | Bervice Commission to company to strive for % of the contract which gas costs. | Said yesterday that cer- § of the contract had re- uction of the price to ‘the begifning\ of 1922. May the company ob- r reduction in price ton, retroactive to las: ae Page 3, Column 3. A A ALA LOC a Pye, it > in _ ports: | predicted by the city of St. | briefs in ‘units and electric rate cases. ducing the peat units of the gas and (a granting | rates | oal FEDERAL FUEL DISTRIBUTION | tion agency to meet the present coal _ —— ‘INI DELIVERY PLOT T EDWARDSVILLE. S FRUSTRATED Sheriff Discovers Free “Big’”’ George Ayers and James Traynor, Held for Murder and Robbery. COMMISSION WILL REVIEW ST, LOUIS GAS RATES NEXT MONTH Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Aug. 2+ T HE Public Service Commis- mission will review rates of the Laclede Gas Light Co. next month, Chairman Kurtz Said today when the recent earn- ings of the company were brought to his attention by the Post-Dispatch. Industrial consumers in _ St. Louis have filed a complaint that the rates fixed by the commis- sion in April, 1921, discriminat- ed against them in favor of household consumers, Chairman Kurtz said that hearing on this complaint on some day in Sep- tember not yet set would neces- sarily involve consideration of all rates. He said that City Coun- selor Caulfield of St. Louis would be notified of the hearing and would be permitted to intervene if he so desired. FOUR BARS IN CELLS Eighteen Saws Found Hidden in Mattresses—Work Also Begun on Bars in Prison Corridor. An attempted jail Edwardsville, IIl., George” Ayers, character the “Big | delivers jail St. Louis indictment for murder of Deputy Sheriff Patrick J. 'Nalty at Granite City July 22, James Traynor, facing a bery charge, was frustrated | by Sheriff Little. Four at to free under and bank rob- today sawed bars ‘and Traynor and 18 saws were found | concealed in the two cells. Sheriff Little also found two sawed bars in the “bull ring’’ or large corridor adjoining the tier of cells. 'The advanced stage of the prepara- tions, he said, indicated that break for liberty probably would have been made within the next 24 hours. Sheriff's View = Plot. CAULFIELD TO TAKE UPCAS RATE SITUATION ose lentering the second floor of Na where they were confined, suprise ‘the jailer when he entered, and take his keys. They then the three other doovs between them and liberty and permit break by the 30 risoners By Staff Correspondent of the Post- ‘nil. ; ad Dispatch. —_— or » ' | Three others under indictment | JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.. Aug. 24. | With Ayers in the Nalty case are| — City Counselor Caulfield ‘ of St. confined in the jail, awaiting trial) Louis, who chanced to be in Jefter-| sept. 5 in the. Madison County Cir- eon City today, said, upon being in- ‘cuit Court. They are Mrs. Bernice formed of the disclosures of recent) 'Traynor, wife of James Traynor; Laclede Gas Light Co. financial re- City Counselor to Look nto Mat- ter With View of Trying to Obtain Reduction. in the Nalty was killed the morning of “You can say this for me. wae July 22 when he and another officer | these things and the improved finan cial condition of the Laclede were | ley and Watkins Louis to | the room of Mr the Public Service Commission in ved Newman Hotel the recent British thermal) These | Mrs. Traynor in an effort to get evi-| recently were settled by the commIs-| gence on other men believed to be sion—a denial of the privilege of re-| in plicated in the robbery for which Traynor was under indictment. Escape Effort Expected. Sheriff Little today said an effort as t»-- were ‘eaving | Traynor ik lettin” Bg of increased electric rates. “In the face of these predictions | ;,, the La- parity plea that be on a Union Electric upon the clede rates should with those of the- Light & Power Co. The rates of | the Union company might better have been reduced instead. “Al lof the utilities in St. Louis, the Laclede, the Union and the inited Railways are in good finan- condition. They ought to be. have received increase after increase. I shall look into this mat- ter, particularly to see whether householders cannot obtain a rate reduction, but occurrences such as those to which I have referred are very discouraging.’ three weeks and a close watch had been kept on them. All persons who visited them were searched prevent saws from being smuggled in. Little said he thought the saws found in the mattresses in ers’ and Traynor’s cells had two men. They Sections of two bars in each of the by a mortar made of soap. Soap| was rubbed into the grooves made | in sawing and blackened to prevent. detection. A close inspection of the. ing of one of the bars and this led | to the discovery of the others. Work of sawing through two bars in the “bull pen’ was about half completed. Soap had b:en rubbed) into the cuts in the bars. With | these bars cut, AGENCY PROPOSED IN BILL ‘Cummins’ Measure Would ‘Extend Broad Powers to Interstate Commerce Commission. the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—Estab- lishment of a Federal fuel distribu- By the floor and lain in wait for the jailer when he mate a round. It emergency and the extension of/the jailer’s keys to unlock three broad powers to the Interstate Com- merce Commission, with respect to the issuing of embargoes and priori- (ies, as proposed in a bill introduced today by Senator Cummins, Repub- lican, of lowa, chairman of the Sen- ate Interstate Commerce Commit- of the fail. Move to Other Cells. were transferred to other cells. jail now contains 30 gare rend ap- a, one-third capacity. O'Malley and Watkins nica rested in St. Louis 90 minutes after Nalty was shot. Ayers was found four days later at 1939 Papin street. with a bullet wound in his leg. The office of ‘‘Federal Fuel Dis- tributer’ would be created by the bill and that official would be em- powered to determine facts relative to fuel prices, shorteszes and supplies generally, production and marketing methods and the reasonableness of profits taken within the industry. os would make reports on his findin to the Interstate Commerce ea sion, which could act thereon as war- ranted. $10,000 bond pending an appeal ¢< the Supreme Court from his convic- tion and sentence to 35 years in the Missouri penitentiary for robbery of | (a St. Clair (Mo.) bank. He was sur- rendered by his bondsmen and made an effort to be sent to the peniten- tiary to avoid extradition to Illinois. but failed. were indicted for the Nalty killing Aug. 4. CHINESE WAR ROVER, SUN SAYS Ry the Associated Press SHANGHAT, Aug. | Sen, Proctor Spent $7332 in Campaign. JEFFERSON CITY, Aug. 24.-— David M. Proctor, Republican cand!- date for nomination to the Unite! States Senate, spent $7332.55 during his campaign, according to his statc- ment filed with Secretary of State Charlies U. Becker today. The ex- pense account was filed by C. O. La- rue of ‘the Proctor-for-Senator Club. tion, announced yesterday that peace Proctor’s expenses started Feb. 25,/ reigns again between the North and! 1922, the statement said. Proctor. the South and that “the war is er: a-| finished fifth of six candidates. , ed.’ 24.—Sun Plans to HAD BEEN SAWED ‘ily go to the North Pole, 'Pole or around the world. | pect | picked trained were discovered in the cells of Ayers | , ‘data gathered. ‘round-the-world trip by air the | | Refueling twill could unlock a general, | commercial George O'Malley and Lyle Watkins. | ‘attempted to question Ayers, O’Mal- | | Police had been keeping a watch on | Ayers and Traynor to escape had, been expected during the last two or! the facilities for io | Sons of municipal opera, and for ‘contemplated establishment 18) Ay- been | smuggled in to some other prisoner! in the jail and then delivered to the, two cells had been sawed out and/§ then replaced, being held in position | cells this morning revealed the saw- | cently the men could have | made their way to the entrance to) would have been necessary to take _terments, but it additional doors before getting out | tat the directors will augment ilis | amount from the surplus. Ayers and Traynor this morning | ®4vance orders The | 1923 season emboldened the organ- ization to proceed with its plans. ar- | At the time Ayers was out ite He and the three others | SL EEN oT. r LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Onlg Evening i aper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. an — ——_———- ST. LOUIS, “THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, a a —- -— ——_—_ —-——- — 192 2—36 PAGES. PRICE2 CENTS Neen eee eee POSSIBLE FOR ST. LOUIS TO SEE THE ZR-1 NEXT YEAR Mooring Mast All That City Needs to Be ide “Port of Call” for Giant Airship, Admiral Mottett Says. By CHARLES C. ROSS, Chief Washington Correspondent of | the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.——All that St. Louis needs in order | a “port of call” tal flights projected for the ZR-1 ithe giant rigid airship now building | \for the navy at Lakehurst, N. J., is a mooring mast. ‘If St. mast,” Moffett, of Aeronautics, patch correspondent today, Louis will put up a mooring Admiral William A. chief of the navy’s Bureau told Rear Post-Dis- “she will see the ZR-1 next summer. There’ Nh ‘something doing’ the he in aeronautics | about that time.’ Flights from coast to coast in the l’nited States, to test the commercia! ‘possibilities of lighter-than-air craft are the least of the expeditions planned by Admiral Moffett and iis police | aids for the ZR-1. the | Picked Crew Being Trained. “The ZR-1."" he said, “can read- the South We ex- with a being currents trips is now make those crew which at Lakehurst. Air studied and all Plans for to are being the first are still in a tentative stage. Vladivostok, back thence to to Seattle and the continent to Lakehurst. will be necessary three times—once in Europe. possibly “ft serlin, once froni a navy vessel in the neighborhood of Viadivostok and finally at Seattle. “The average speed of the 70 miles an hour and trip will be completed, if our go right, in 14 days. “The ZR- of the American fleet, for advanced scouting duty. But we expect prove with her that the dirigiole has value for the carryine of freight and passengers. The ship will be used to transport navy pber- | sonnel and hein th across the conti- thence across s.iiip the ylans be te to become | possible | The chosen. ‘route probably will be eastward over | Europe, home, 1 is being built as a unit) ;nent. On these trias a ce areful count of expenses will be kept, so (that we shall be able to show by actual figures the commercia! possi- | bilities of this form of transpo:ta-| tion. on the transcontinen- | l‘inest Craft of Kind. “Britain is building no new Zep- | pelin type airships; Germany is for- bidden to build any. We shali have, then, the kind. Every possible precaution is being taken to make her sa’e The noninflammable helium gas, our own American discovery, will be used for inflation. This means there will be no danger to the cities ov er, which we fly. “After the disaster to the ZR-% in England a year ago, the dev elopment of lighter-than-air flying craft wa: in danger of receiving a severe Set- | COLLINS DIRECTED IN BATTLE _ Youth Tells How Irish sere er Took Command of Sit- uation and Refused to Flee When Ambushed. | | POSSIBLE St SUCCESSORS | in the ZR-1 the finest craft of | ARE MENTIONED | : ‘Throngs of Mourners Line! Streets of Dublin as His Body Is Removed, Paying Impressive Tribute. | back, from which it might not neve @8Y the Associated Press. recovered for 25 years. net determined to go on with _ZR-1, which | fore we began 'Great Britain for ‘the ZR-2. have a ship. investment 'hurst, negotiations the purchas » of test with an American-uilt in the hangar at Lake- on which something ought to be realized.’’ : be any fizzle with prophesied the Admiral. are going to make a success “There won't the ZR-1,”’ “We of it.’’ respondent, siasm. “I know we will,” Moffett. Mooring Mast New Device. Describing the dirigible, Moffett said that it would he equipped to ride to a mooring mast— a new device that has been success fully used in England. Formerly a ship of this type could “lay up” only in a huge shed, like the one xt Lakehurst. The use of the mast ‘does away with this limitation. A mast erected at Lakehupnast.for |ZR-1 is made of structural ooks like a wireless tower ee ee Continued on Page 3. Column 5. caught up by his enthu said Admiral It ‘s $41,870 PROFIT FROM. OPEN AIR OPERA SEASON ———_" ‘Directors Plan and Establishment of Train- ing School. Plans for theater, of sea- municipal Forest Park, future annual training school for singers were O}»- proved today by tors of the Municipal Theater ciation, meeting at Hotel Statler. The plan for as briefly outlined in the report director chairman of the Executive-Produc- tions Committee, contemplates the development of local talent for cno- rus singers and possibly for miner and principal roles, if possible. A profit of $41,870.40 from the re- completed eight-week season of 1922, the fourth opera seasor | gives the association a surplus fund of $66.360.51. From this the ccn- | templated plans will be carried ovil, |the guarantors of the 1919 season will be repaid the $11,643 deficit which they met and a surplus fund Of $30,000 left subject to the o-cder of the directors. This leaves $23,717.51 for the bet- is considered likely Cuniliff of the large volume tickets to the for 'declared that 'ROTARY CLUB B10 MEET HERE | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Aug. 24.—The 1923 Ro- — Club convention will be held in . Louis from June 18 to 22, it waz 7 ce amma today. Tom Biggers, secretary of the St. Louis Rotary Club, said that 26 countries would be represented here at the international convention § in) }1923. Fifteen thousand delegates | ‘are expected to attend, making it the largest convention ever held in St. Louls. The local club already has ‘contracts with all the hotels here to house the delegates. ‘KOREA REPORTED FLOOD-SWEPT TOKIO, Aug. 24.—According to Yat| advices reaching here today, Korea is | leader of the South China fac- | being swept by great floods. The dead are estimated to number 1000. So far no estimate has been made of damage, but it is believed that it will be immense. the improvement of the the} of Aa the board of direc: ' ASSs0O- the training schvrol | of | of Public Welfare Cuniliff, | ~ | FAIR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW; THE TEMPERATURES. ] 4 6 & ee. S_p»m » Improvements! Highest PicK AND SHOVEL 90. ARE A Goopd : lowest, BATTERY. ue heen terday, at 3 m. Official fore- and Fair tonight an:l slightly | 1 tomorrow. , Missouri: erally fair cooler and tomorrow. Illinois: erally fair right and tomor- row; somewnhat unsettled. to- night; cooler to- morrow and in Gen- an.) night. | Sept. 4 by Department Stores. Downtown retail stores have have been closed all day on Saturdays during July and August will be open from 8 to 5:30 Satur- day. it was announced today by the Associated Retailers. The summer store hours, 8:39 to 5 on the first five days of the week | and 8:30 to 5:30 on Saturdays, wil be continued this week and next The winter schedule will be re- sumed on Sept. 4. Stores then will be open from 9 to 6:30 and from 9 to 6 on Saturdays. Department stores and women's apparel shops will close at noon on Labor Day. THEY HAVE TEN GRANDPARENTS Should River Children Very Happy. If the two children of Mr. a Wood William Traband of Wood River are) ‘not “spoiled” it will not be for lack | | of grandparents to coddle them. c Younting grand and great-grand and | t-great-grand wy The crandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Henry Traband, Jr., of Lebanon, /Mi., and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Mor- ‘ton of Louisiana, Mo., There are also two sets of great-grand, Mr. and | Mrs. Henry Traband, §Sr., of Lebanon | land Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Morton of uisiana. | “Topping the list are Great-Great- purbengee ~ tere Twitchell of Batch- ‘town, Til, and Great- Great-Grand- father Chmpe of Lebanon. — a = a ree ee — —_—— City -Ci lt a of , Daily POST-DISPATC# alone approximately Equals 7 that of the ime Daily Globe-Dem emocrat and the I This prob- | ably would have happened if we had) tne | we had projected ne- | with | We felt that we shold. /and borne through the streets amid Moreover, there was the great | sembled multitude. |dock by |including Richard Mulcahy, ' Visional “I believe you will.” said the cor- | ‘army. Admiral | | city. | at all angles, comprising an itncon- 'gruous ending to the mournful pro- | cession. | wounded SLIGHTLY COOLER TOMORROW | Collins sea _the city order to give the thousands of -sor- | yes- | 70. | ' mains cost for St. Louts | vicinity: | | tomorrow: cooler | tonight | Gen-' to- | /arms to the waiting gun carriage. | north portion to-| | was led riderless alongside. STORES T0 BE OPEN SATURDAY | of the headquarters staff Winter atnedute Will Be Resumed which | ‘them making no effort to restrain | blinded eyes, |wearing a ragged civilian coat and ‘la tweed cap. he carried a machine gun, the same Be | nd Mrs. | ing.” he said, “was the first to meet parents they have | 'eral ordered him to halt and told us ae a - ee — nina Times Combined, and Exceeds of ine = Daly Se ee ere DUBLIN, Aug. 24.—A_ casket | draped in the tri-color of Ireland, | containing the body of.Michael Col- |! lins, slain chief of Ireland's new | Free State government. was landed | here today from the steamer Classic | an the as- | ! } impressive tribute from | ; Gen. Collins’ body was met at the large thrones of mourners, chief of | acting heady of the Pro-| other | of the was taken on a gun carriage, preceded bv a band of pipers. to St. Vincent's Hospital. Distant Crack of. Rifles. Prayers were said as the proces- sion passed in silence, broken only staff and and prominent representatives The body Government, | by the distant crack of snipers’ rifles | in various parts of the grief-stricken | The cortege was flanked by a line of Dublin guards marching in; 'slow time with the muzles of their revolvers protruding from their hol- | Sters. in the | el and | A detachment of civic guards | blue uniforms followed. They were the only armed uniformed men in the procession. Immediately behind came an arm- ored car bristling with rifles held Several men who were in fighting at Bandon, County Cork, Tuesday night, when lost his life, accompanied | beloved leader's body on the | voyage to Dublin. It was arranged to remove the) body from St.\ Vincent's Hospital to | hall Vater in the day in their rowing [Irishmen and women an op- portunity of seeing for the last time | the features of their national hero: lving in state. Tomorrow the re- | will be taken to the pro- cathedral where a high requiem | mass will be held preceding the/| funeral at the Glasnevin cemetery | on Monday. Crowds Await Arrival. ' From midnight last night crowds had been gathered at the North Quay | to witness the arrival of the Classic, \ which docked at 2 o'clock this mor - | ing. Scenes typical of the nation’s sorrow marked the progress of the. coffin from the steamer through the long avenue of troops with reverse4 Regular officers draped the plain oak casket in the Free State colors and placed it on the wooden plat- form bullt on the 18-pounder gun carriage. The dead General's charger The members of the Provisiona! Government and deputies of the Dail Eireann together with the members immedi- ately followed. Then came the throngs of bare- headed men and women, many of their tears. Among the little band of fighting men who made the last stand wit': Collins and who followed the body of the slain hero through the Dublin street with lowered head and tear- was a boyish figure Across his shoulders gun with which he said afterwards he had poured a hail of lead into Collins’ attackers. Tells of Ambush. por the procession was dismissed old an interviewer in a shy and carton manner and in a voice often choked by emotion, a vivid story of the fatal ambush. “The car in which Collins was rid- ‘the ambushers’ fire. There were at least 250 of them against 12 of us. tt was about 9 o'clock when we passed through the village. We had not gone over 400 yards along the road when from both sides we were caught by a deadly criss-cross of machine-gun fire. ‘The driver of Collins’ car wante! to drive at full speed, but the Gen- to take cover. He took command of the whole situation and directed the fire against the attackers for nearly an hour. Two machine guns wire up incessant firing at Mick's open STRIKE SETTLEMENTS BY INDIVIDUAL ROADS DISCUSSED AT PARLEY. HARDING'S MOVE -ecutives think it inevitable and secretly rejoicing over the belief Mr. IS REPORTED ON FOOT By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Aug. 24. HE railway shopmen’s atrike T enterea its fifty-fifth day with reports from Sioux City, la., that plans have been ma- turing for weeks for a general nation-wide strike of organized labor. John Shank, secretary of the Trades and Labor Assembly of Sioux City, was authority for the statement that a move for a general labor war was on foot. Union organizations through- out the country, including the Central Trades and Labor Union of St. Louis, have made demands of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor to call a strike. The Sioux City as- sembly passed the _ resolution, following the lead of central la- bor organizations in Omaha, Denver, Detroit, San Francisco and other industrial centers. AGAIN IN RAILWAY SHOPMEN S STRIKE New Failure to End it Gives Rail Executives Idea They Can Force Their Men to Surrender. BY DAVID LAWRENCE, Special Washington Correspondent of er Post-Dispatch. Copyright, 1922.) WASHINGTON Aug. 24.— The next move in the railway shopmen’s strike is President Hardine’s. The collapse of mediation on the part of ‘the Brotherhood cniefs and the rail ‘executives leaves the situation ex- ;actly where it was when. Mr. Hard- ing yielded to an impulse and al- lowed the disputants to try settling (the strike themselves. This effort has failed, and the effect of it has been to strengthen the belief of the rail executives that thev have the shopmen ‘‘on the run” and that by persisting to the end they will crush ‘the resistance of the union leaders | and force an absolute surrender. There is no question that the shop- men have been placed in the position of begging for reinstatement. The unanimity of the executives in re- jecting their pleas is directly attri- butable to a feeling that by showing a united front at this time the rail executives would be delivering a body blow at future strikes. But will the shopmen surrender? Will the brotherhoods allow a crushing defeat to be administered to unionism? Many of the rail ex- are Harding would use the power by se- curing the indictment and arrest of any persons suspected of giving or- ders to tie up transportation. Mr. Harding, however, is being urged to try his hand again at medi- ation. This proposal of the rail ex- ecutives to Mr. Harding a week ago was much more favorable to the strikers than was the reply handed the brotherhoods in New York on Wednesday. As the negotiations drag out, the executives, feeling the strength of their position and their greater powers of endurance, are go-. ing back to their original position of a free hand in dealing with the seni- ority question. View of Strikers’ Action. Under these circumstances many people in the administration circle are of the opinion that the strikers made a strategic error when they declined Mr. Harding's last proposal and that they would have been better off under it than they are today. That's one reason why it is believed the President will be persuaded to make the same proposal, perhaps with a slightly different phraseology so as to afford the machinery for a settlement. It is conceivable. of course, that the shopmen will endeavor to rally the brotherhoods to their support hy a sympathetic strike, but It is dou%t- ful whether the wit'l ~“Contineed om Page 2, Colume & Hours—“‘It’s Up to Shop- men Now,” Says Big Five Leader. SESSION SURROUNDED BY UTMOST SECRECY “We Are Still Mediating,” Declares Warren Stone, Spokesman for the Union Men, When Parley Is Ad- journed. By the Associated Prees. NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—Represen- tatives of a score of railroads and ( the big five brotherhood chiefs con- |ferred at the Yale Club for about three hours today on the possibility of effecting separate agreements be:* tween individual lines and their striking shopmen. “We are still mediating,” said Warren S. Stone, spokesman for the brotherhood men, when the meeting adjourned at 1:25 p. m. The chief of lagomotive engtihesss. sinuntaauuniubodmassaaa ing, which Was surrounded by the utmost secrecy. He labor headquarters to confer with leaders of stationary crafts, “Now Up to Shopmen.” “Tt's now up to the shopmen, ” said a spokesman for the brotherhood chiefs. The brotherhood mediators spent their lunch period with the leaders of the shop craft unions. To make the secrecy which sur- rounded the morning conference more emphatic, reporters were or- dered from the Yale Club, while the executives lunched and no statements of any kind were given out. The railroad executives remained at the Yale Club but, stood, would ences with the mediators this after- noon. Asked if he had any comment to make on the morning session, Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio and chairman of the group now in conference, anawered gruffly: “No,” Strike Leader's Comment. A member of the shopmen's Eaat- ern strike committee made this comment to newspaper men: “I'll tell you that there's goi be no settlement with any 19 | roads. You can put that in guns pipe and smoke it.” While an official statement was ‘to lacking from the shop craft leaders, — this comment was regarded ag sig- nificant in connection with the state- ment attributed to heads of the sta- tionary brotherhood men had not been au- thorized to suggest any separate sget- tlement plan which would involve abandonment of the policy of the “all for one and one for all. policy.” Nothing offictal could be learned early this afternoon concerning the * one had been framed. One. unofficial + latest settlement proposal, if report, which could not be pry firmed, was thaf the 19 roads, refusing to reinstate strikers full seniority, had merit and efficiency, work them-. selves back gradually into their ol rankings. The possibility of individual agree-. hastened. to. it was under-— continue their confer- - trades last night that the agreed to take them all back and let them, through . AG 424 a aie a * oe tate om Fi. 4 or rt min <a