Charleston Daily Mail (Newspaper) - February 11, 1923, Charleston, West Virginia SNOW Snow Sunday Monday Cloudy COLOR VOLUME AFRAID TO THE NEWS CHARLESTON W VA SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 11 1923 CEASED THIS UNITED PRESS PRICE 5 CENTS ILL TOM 112 Doubtful if Any of 60 Men Still Entombed Are Alive States Coroner Asks For Divorce BROUGHT UP 39 Thirteen More Have Been ed Under Grund gation is Under Way N M Feb lour bodies had been brought out of mine number 1 tonight lowing the mine disaster of Thursday entombed 122 miners Grave diggers in the cemetery of tha corporation ers of the mine had completed nearly 100 graves The bodies will be burled In two rows shoulder to shoulder DAWHON N M Feb hundred and twelve miner's have ished in Bawson mine No 1 This the belief here tonight aa weary rescue workers frantically ploughed through debris in the mine tunnels far beneath the ground In search of victims of New Mexico's mine disaster when 122 were entombed by a terrific explosion in the corporation's ber 1 Thursday afternoon Two of tho men Charles Kanta and walked out of the death tunnel uninjured after waiting 16 houra for fresh air to be pumped Into the shaft and cheating death by wrapping their sweaters their heads to combat the gases that followed the blast Sixty Not Tct Tonight SO bodies had been brough to tho surface and 13 more had been located In the mine Hope was prac abandoned that any of the re SO would be- recovered alive It is more than doubtful that any alive in the Judge T coroner the United Press The in the shaft have baen there 48 ho said and the chances mighty slim that any of them are living said the amazing escape of and Martini probably was due the that they were a erable from tho scene of the explosion He declared mine engineers told him searching parties not penetrated to that part of the the My jury is making preliminary in- now but actual In- quest not be held until the mine JH cleared and it is possible to go into place the te said conducted here October 23 1913 when 263 men were In a mine explosion r possible causes of the were given by the miners tonight It is generally believed a spark set and to oft pocket which in the high explosive coal dust IiS Baxter cousin of the late Admiral has filed suit for divorce against her husband cisco 6 Union Prohibited From ing With Bight to Make In- dividual Contracts NINE ALLEGED MEMBERS GRANTED BY JUDGE BLAND Writs Mark Second Phase of Warfare Between Open pers and Mine Workers legal action unprecedented in the history of tho country was recorded at Logan Saturday afternoon when Judge ert Bland of the circuit court acting on the petition of 100 ers of the county Held a writ of injunction prohibiting United Mine Workers of America from interfering by any act or thing with the rights of workers to make individual contracts with their employers At the same time Judge Bland on the application oE counsel for the Logan Coal Operators association granted a similar writ restraining the Charged With Murder Criminal Activities Cover Three Years cording to Chief of Police CLARKSBURG Feb bars of Harrison county Jail tonight were confining nine alleged members of the black hand all charged with murder arrested in connection with activities of Clarksburg police and of cities Police Pennsylvania and Maryland Chief Laco Wolfo told the United Press that for more than three years a band of- men believed to be members of he black hand has in a series of brutal crimes Solutions of many unexplained ders were said to have been effected in the report of Chief Wolfe Plots for further violence were declared to have been learned One of the plots was a campaign to be staged against seven Clarksburg citizens the chief declared Rev T K Gainer pastor of the United Brethren church hero who has been Seady to Keply Instantly To Any Sign of Hostility On Part of Turks SMYRNA Feb in Signals ed from the mastheads of allied ships in Smyrna harbor tonight as British and French naval ders with full to strike back at- the first sign of a hostile act on Turkey's part awaited word from An gora of tli c national assembly's deci- g means peace or war Ships from all parts of the world snuggled against the quays along the city's miles of waterfront warned that the Turks have sown the harbor entrance mines pers were warned against routing vessels by way of Smyrna French nationals fearing uprising against foreigners similar to that when thousands of were from Smyrna fieri from the city today aboard the conducting strenuous campaign against bootlegging had been marked for attention by the alleged black handers Four foreign-born merchants were also marked with the sign of death after their names union from its announced intention of murder mysteries which wiKing -in active campaign for the curred in Clarksburg within as many unionization ot the Logan fields Operators in tho application for he writ charged that the United Mine Workers organization is conducted in violation of the laws arid that its proposed campaign of in Logan county amounts to a conspiracy to destroy the rights of operators to work on an open shop basis Employees Broader The writ granted tho employees was slightly broader in application The petitioners who sued in their own name find for tho benefit 01 all the workers of the county based their plea on tha charge that the mine union sought to destroy years have been solved by evidence uncovered with the arrests Chief Wolfo declared Prohibition officers were to be tims of an alleged plot to lure the sleuths into a house where a shine still was to operate in full view plans for dynamite to blow the house to bits when the agents had entered the house had been made in the alleged scheme The home of Chief of Police Snider of Fairmont had also been marked for consideration The Chief was to mite the home Tho manner In which against the prisoners had been ed was not made public Clarksburg police however declared they had from the lips of the enemies of tho arrested men which solved more than a dozen murders A statement given officers also ed the existence of a plot to kidnap the child of Angelo Grantano wealthy Clarksburg merchant An ear was to be cut from the child and mailed the father with the statement that other members would be mailed unless a sum of money was sent the black hand store was wrecked by an explosion of dynamite more than a ago Arrest of the nine men explains the blast Wolfe declared How American girls were kept in white slavery by the Mafia under threats of death was explained in one of the statements tho context of which was not revealed Specific charges of murder havo been laid against all nine men for the death of James Papara Clarksburg department store owner who was shof in his store on the night of January The names of the arrested men Angelo Bobo Fairmont W va Patsy Baltimore Md Richard Ferri Fairmont W Va Offered Big Sum to Lobby For Measure MINNEAPOLIS Minn Feb 10 that was offered her to go to Washington to lobby for a Mrs 1 Winter president of the General Federation of Women's clubs night warned the two million she represents to be careful what they The Influence of women in tics today is almost unbelievable Bhe said In traveling about the country I find the federation is being resented in most ways Federation of Women s clubs endorses nothing over it has no she said Not long ago I was offered to go to Washington to lobby for a Secretary of State Abandons Proposed Visit to South American Countries Aug1 VIEWED AS SIGNIFICANT Does It Mean U S Expects Soon To Tender Its Good Offices To Old Lets Congressional Leaders Know That Eiver Item Must Be Held to OU ustus Jergo Clarksburg W n iP Clarksburg W Va Jo Nicholas Salamandi Fairmont W a Joe Surgi Fairmont W Phillip Fairmont John Clarksburg Va WASHINGTON Feb Harding has come to the rescue of the budget system and will not permit it by the votes of the members Mr Harding has let congressional leaders know that if they will not pre- serve the budget system from the saults of pork barrel statesmen he will He will decline to permit the right to make their own with their employers and contracts to force cruiser which steamed into the harbor in defiance of the ultimatum of moro than tons This ultimatum was not enforced the time limit being ex- tended indefinitely pending decision of the government The Turkish congress is meeting to hear Isfnet report on Lausanne decide whether Turkey will make good her vague threats of war Mustapha Kemal generalissimo them into a relation with the union which they had no desire to enter It is said to have been the first time in history that any group of employes have sought legal action to prevent attempted of their ranks The two injunctions granted at Losan Saturday mark the second phase of tlie legal warfare into which apparently Logan operators and of tho mine union have Several days ago attorneys for the union filed with the United States district an application for a writ restraining Sheriff Don Chafin of Logan county or any of his deputies or employees of the Logan coal on Page Four CHEST DONATIONS WILL BE TOTALED The tremendous blast in the heart of the mountain apparently withered all lift before it clear to the mine entrance engineers Bald killing the men instantly Funerals of several of the victims this afternoon as workmen Continued on Page Four MAYOR CALLS TOGETHER RENAMING City Executive Hopes to Have Plan for Consideration By Council Soon of Turkish armies is expected to address the assembly Influential Turks said favor are flocking to the cap- tal But opinion prevails there will be no war Turkey if she decides to fight Britain can strike in several ways Turkish troops in the vicinity of sul move against the small Brit- ish garrison defending claims to the rich oil lands A clash of arms with Greeks along the MariLza river In bring Britain into Berlin Government So Informed in Joint Note From France and Belgium Just How Much Has Been Pledged and Collected to Be Made Known at Monday's Noon Meeting Full Reports has been put into the I much has been subscribed and how chest which was built to far short it is of the goal community hold will be definitely de- It also will determine who has con- worker and who has not contributed in the campaign will turn in his or land the list of contributors probably her report together with the pledge be published cards that have been signed Monday 10 WASHINGTON Feb international situation has forced Secretary of State Hughes to abandon a contemplated the bigger countries of South America the ed Press learned tonight Hughes feels that the grave pean situation Involving foreign policy will make It necessary for him to remain in the capital Virtual notification to has already been given by the tary to the Latin-American and ministers in Washington Informs Pan-American Union it the last meeting of the ing board of the Pan-American union board is made up of the American diplomatic representatives mads this statement in replying to an address by Ambassador of Brazil stressing the of th secretary's proposed My only concern is that In view of the exigencies that obtain at thla time and may obtain for the next week it may not be possible for me to leave my post of duty The underlying importance of the development that Hugheo probably not make the trip as seen by ob- servers here is the indication that some change has come or la expected in the situation abroad that the way for the United States again to offer its aid about a of tha crisis in the It is noted that Hughes in his ment to the Latin-American diplomats spending of the appropriation of for rivers and harbors ed in the army he has let con- gress know and will keep army to the limit set by the budget bureau The president congressional appropriates SS explain the nature of the ex- prefer that he that obtain at this and preserve the integrity of the budget plan that way rather than by vetoing the army arid making an extra session of congress imminent The budget system is regarded by all Republicans as one of the of this administration It was set up to prevent pork raids on the treasury But on the river and harbor item of the army the house boosted tho budget figures from 527 000 000 to This tho president feels may obtain for the next few weeks Two Chief Questions However it is believed that ferred to one of the two foreign been set as the hour by of each of the civic clubs including which every report must be made re- j the chamber of and of whether been completed everything This was decided yesterday after- noon at a meeting of the board of directors of the Community federation meeting with tives of the civic clubs appointed on committees to assist in the Thrace might the conflict Trouble in Constantinople an ing against Christians might be to start war A hostile act here such as firing upon British men of war In the harbor would bo a cause of war Austrian and German officers are reported to be at enroute for Angora to join the Turkish army The assistant American high Mayor Hall hopes to be able to the much-discussed street re- to the council at its next meeting In order to get it in shape presentation to tho council he an- last night that the street re- naming committee appointed a year ago meet Tuesday evening at o'clock in tho mayor's office Tho last meeting of the committee a month ago when several members were absent Those who were present were unable to agree whether the new street to be com- posed of Washington Lovell and Charleston streets should be called street or Charleston street At that meeting Alvin IX Cormick who originated tho street re- naming plan In the Lions appointed a committee to a Hat of duplicated street names meeting Tuesday evening The members ot the mayor's com- Miss C I Coffey Mrs H IE Martin Mrs B M Mrs M T Davis Mrs C E Krebs Lester Smith D JS Baird Peter Silman W N arid A M Scott missioner at Angora Constantinople warned of the gravity of any hostile act at Smyrna canvasses have women who were not members of any and regardless of iof the soliciting meet at the Hotel Kanawha In the meantime will be whereby these men and women will canvass persons who have not contributed to the chest At noon yesterday it was reported that 423 donations amounting to 000 had been turned in at the headquarters Later including a donation of from the Kelly Axe Manufacturing com- pany was reported Succumbs Following Two tions Performed for tinal Trouble PARIS Feb and today barred high German of- from the Ruhr The two governments In a note to Berlin informed the Germans that the zones are forbidden ground Chancellor recent visit the Ruhr caused unrest and ment among inhabitants tho note said and the order includes all inet ministers of the German government General Degoutte was placed in military command of region following a today between Foreign Minister Jasper and Premier Poincare France General Maginot attended the ing and it was announced that the French and Belgians had reached full accord on to bo pursued Problems that arise in the future will be settled by conferences at Brussels or Paris French and Belgian workers be substituted for German railroad postal telegraph telephone and toms employes in event of a strike it was said here Dispatches from tho Ruhr said such a strike is expected momentarily At Dusseldorf today twelve German who refused to salute French officers were arrested the French ing the entire Ruhr area under strict discipline ity ehest The majors will bo instructed that all subscriptions I and pledges must be turned in at the I federation headquarters by noon day arid tire majors will be expected to see that the captains and team workers comply Yesterday's Reports When all the pledges are turned in the federation will determine how Besides this however several sand dollars been subscribed and the pledges have not been turned in at the federation headquarters Many teams have reported their total amounts to the federation but in Continued on Pago Four u- serious step because it Mas done is vitally Interested hv the votes Republicans as well as t u or possibly In a measure to The dangerous situation about by the French occupation of the Ruhr The war cloud hovering over the Near East where any moment see an overt act that would cause out- of hostilities The United States with the delicate question before it of arranging a separate treaty with in the Democrats Republicans in both houses j clouted the yery agency that they set up to protect the treasury he holds Thp president may ask the next con- gress to pass the Madden resolution Jiving him power to veto part of the Q IT Is Closed To Foreign War Vessels CONSTANTINOPLE Feb and approve the remainder If Turks tonight closed Harbor he had he would veto the foreign warships and announced river and harbor item he has told tnat all lighthouses on the Gulf of INSTATES WASHINGTON Feb 10 Judge Martin A Knapp of the circuit court of died here early today ON WAY WITH LOS ANGELES Cal Feb Chief of Police Oaks with little Phil intestinal disorder but successful neither was Alquin in custody is duo arrive here Sunday night Herbert and Uribe are due to be released either at that time or Monday ing y State Road Commission Issues List of Commonwealths ing Tariff on Gasoline In view of tho proposal to place a tax of one cent the gasoline sold in Virginia the state road commission has ascertained the amount of revenue derived in states where such a tax is in effect In most of tlie states the tax is one cent the gallon Here is what the tax raised in those states from January 1 1922 to Constable His Wife and Three Others Alleged to Have Had Whiskey Ben Childress constable in the court of Magistrate C K Jarrett was ar- rested yesterday county officers with possessing moonshine July 1 Arizona Arkansas Colorado 4 Con- yearly reports give Florida Kentucky 549.97 Louisiana 5220.000 pi Montana New Mexico North charged liquor With Childress were taken wife Myrtle and Wyatt Pridemore 13 A Eastwood and W M Miller The last three were visiting at Childress home 203 Clendenin street when the officers made their raid The officers say that four pints of whiskey were found in the callers and approve the application for general support of the war de- Discoverer of X-ray Is Dead in Munich Aged 78 3 MUNICH Feb Wm Conrad Roentgen discoverer of the died here today at the age of years Professor Roentgen was born 111 Lennep Prussia and was educated in Holland and Switzerland His discovery of the X-ray for which he was chiefly was mirely accidental While he waa working with a ly exhausted vacuum tube he first discovered the ray and found it had the power of passing through objects which are ordinarily opaque Prison Sentences Upheld For Cleveland Speeders CLEVELAND O sentences for Cleveland speeders were upheld by the court of appeals here The jail sentences are vided for in a new city ordinance The ruling was the result of a test will be extinguished The Turks detained today but stibr sequently released French and Italian colliers which were taking on coal In the Black sea port of MARCH 15 sion of Wyatt Mrs Childress Report Denied By Secretary to Governor in Telegram to United Press LOS ANGELES Feb Ips Los Angeles hammer is not imprisoned in the stuto prison according to a telegram received tonight by tho United press from Jose secretary to tho governor of tho the assertion oC federal immigration Quota club recently doubt due to old fogyism or and women are very much turbed over the suggestion that they 1 might in an emergency sell to raise funds to finance the club And they are perturbed over the ther suggestion that some ot them might give kisses free aroused tho wrath of tho members or at least What no club prison re- press wired tho ernor for confirmation ply to the United Press telegram telegram to the governor Clara Phillips Is not in tuit Lee the board oC who met wan n paragraph in the Weekly Roar publication oC the Lions club Tho paragraph which does not ex- press ot the club H did the that the Woman's club and tho Professional Woman's club will be a creator good than by the Quota even though they succeed in establishing a large membership Our feelings on tho matter are no but we can't help the Boar said However if other things go well and it is the finances of club that might cause lina Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina Washington Maryland placed a gasoline tax in effect June 1 1922 Pridemore and that while trying hastily to dispose oC a half of liquor inadvertently handed It to Deputy Sheriff Canterbury who with Deputy Kmery Todd and Whit made the The five gave bond of DEBT SETTLEMENT to appear next week at a preliminary hearing case filed by a man convicted in municipal court of speeding and sentenced to five days in jail The court of appeals held that are empowered to deal with traffic violations beyond the state law The court also held that the city ordinance although providing more severe punishment than the state law was constitutional Delay in Production of Plates Makes Necessary Another Date BIG PAYROLL WARREN Ohio Feb three steel mills today paid employees the largest bi-weekly payroll since before the war All mills report orders ahead to keep them running Another extension of Hme In 1922 West Virginia automobile license tags will be recognized was ced late yesterday time weta extended from February 15 to March 15 The extension was made sary by delay In production of tho tags In making the announcement tae commission requested that all tions be filed as soon as possible aa the tags will be mailed out in the order in which they are received Twenty-five thousand pairs of are being mailed from Charleston and sets are being sent out daUy from where the tags made The total amount collected from automobile licenses and operators and chauffeurs permits in tha dar year 1922 was the commission announced yesterday In 3031 it was There were 101 301 pleasure cars in 1922 and tlley compared with in paid which paid full time until June New Viscount to Take U S Girl Along When He Starts England to Assume Title Permits and licenses granted in 1922 totalled compared with in 1921 A corresponding in- crease is expected in 1923 M ASSOCIATION TO MEET IN IS Measure Becomes Entangled In Fierce Fight Over the ping WASHINGTON Feb 10 Ot u t i i 10 DT L t ment that can be more easily today into tho senates died than in a male club The to take its chances bers can sell kisses to but even then there is always some While tho opposition to it was relatively uo greater than in tho house where it passed late SOI to 44 the measure has entangled in the fierce arid vindictive on the ship subsidy As administration forces wero lined through the filibuster danger of aome them free When directors sisters bootlegging of tho Quota club met yesterday son president produced a copy of the Lions Roar and had the para- graph road The reading provoked discussion in which the Hoar was cised by airs Catherine Miss Julia Dohorty Mrs Lilla Goshorn and others It was strongly denied that members of tho club ever would re- sort to polling kisses or that they would them The mailer it was be brought up at the Quota meeting Monday noon up to break that barred the way to a final vote on ship subsidy tho senate finance committee today took up debt as it passed the house Smoot and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon were to he hoard concerning tho terms settlement NEW VOKK Feb Mabel Gray of New-York is the next American girl to obtain a British title Announcement was made today her engagement to Viscount who until recently was Professor Er- nest plain American citizen Professor Fellow wlm gained the right to the title on the death of his father In Washington last Sunday will uo to shortly to have his rank confirmed and take his seat in the house of lords He will take his with him When Miss Gray who tha ter of the late Richard Gray formerly general traffic manager of the Pacific railroad in California be- engaged to tho she hail no idea sho would marry a title At time of the engagement tho title Then his son Prof Charles Ernest formerly of Columbia university became viscount and Miss Gray his fiancee learned that she fated to be a noblewoman of land Wo met when we were both bers oC the Columbia University ral said Miss Gray Wo had no whirlwind courtship or anything of that kind About six months ago we became engaged I had no thought of the title The just dropped out of a clear sky I am an old-fashioned woman who Is content merely to her husband's wife Miss Gray said she had no Idea of what the social or other duties of a viscountess might be She has lived in New York during the last 18 years and knows nothing about life in National Organization Will Hold Annual Convention at White Sulphur Springs hv a and hero wae no tho lanJ Her brother James can branch oJ illo family getting it I Is an engineer oj the United R Gray States Mra West Virginia will entertain the 1923 convention of tho National Tax association it was announced last night by W S Hallanan state tax Hal Ian an day received word from A T ccmb secretary of tho association association that the executive committee had decided to accept the extended to the body by Mr Hallanan at the 1922 meeting at will be held at White Sulphur Springs in n win bring to West between 50 and 300 political economists and students ot taxation in the United States and Canada Mr Hallanan said V
