Coshocton Tribune, The (Newspaper) - November 29, 1919, Coshocton, Ohio HELP PRODUCE FOOD It is not enough to decry strikes Production will help cut living costs The Farm Bureau will help food duction It's a progressive farmers organization VOL XI NO 89 Coshocton Tribune FULL INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEWS REPORT AND CIRCULATION TO ALL SATURDAY EVENING NOVEMBER THE WEATHER FOR for Ohio rain turning to snow m west portion cold in north and west portions Sunday local snows and colder THREE CENTS TO WORK OR NOT IS ISSUE UP TO INDIVIDUAL MINER WAXES HOT More Eastern Miners Go Out While Operators In Maryland Close Mines PHILADELPHIA Nov 29 Bituminous coal operators of the central Pennsylvania eld met here day to discuss an independent wage scale with their miners The action the crisis that developed in the central Pennsylvania field in the past 24 hours voer miners who had remained at work awaiting an adjustment of wages by the ington conference walked out today Representatives o union miners stated that the miners in the central field would refuse the 14 per cent in- crease agreed to by the president's cabinet The conference here was attended by about 50 operators from 13 central counties surrounding Johnstown It is planned to continue the conference over Sunday until an agreement has been reached The output of the central vania soft coal field is about 000 tons a year It is the biggest single factor in the soft coal industry in the United States There are about miners employed in the mines The few mines that remain in operation aie said to be a small lactor in the output QUESTION WHETHER PETITION FOR REFERENDUM ON GAS RATE ORDINANCE WAS FILED IN TIME LEADER 1 RECENTLY ELECTED iW T Knight Files Petition With City M P FOR T f tor Late Friday 216 to Advise Election Board as to Legality At the eleventh hour or was it the the petition ifor a referendum election on the new gas j rate ordinance was filed with Auditor H Williams nt his The petition bears 216 lures timo the petition is filed with In the meantime the legal phase of the matter will bts looked into It is considered that the tion will go on the ballot it the tion next November It is considered that the new of 42 cents Evans who has been per thousand cubic feet with a re.uli- the petition for the past three c charge ot 35 cents on claimed to have secured each go into effect at once names but it was reported Friday altho fho filing of the referendum pen one of the petitions bearing tion somewhat complicates the about 00 signatures had been lost tion or stolen about 4 HO o'clock Friday afternoon W T Knight one of the tho it is found that the tjOn was filed in tune the fact that there are names on peti WASHINGTON GIRL MAKES BIG HIT WITH HEIR TO THE BRITISH THRONE ot the committee appeared tion would undoubtedly render i at the city building and filed the or action toward a referendum invalid E Lapointe E Lapointe is the newly elected member of parliament for Quebec East Sir Wilfred Laurier's old con- Mr resigned his seat as member for to run in the district is re- as 1 ader of the Quebec petition There is considerable question to whether the petition was filed time to get within the thirty days m a torck nte Uw The raU ordinance having been pass council October 27 It as ten per cent of the total vole east as for mayor at the last election would in by 233 or 234 there having been a total of 2331 cast Mi Knight filed the petitions the to prevail that the five petitions bore 237 signatures been figured that the time would which would he thiee more Hum 26 or 27 the required amount Hut a careful count i being Thanksgiving Legal of the signatures show s there are only i ft MINES ARE CLOSED CUMBERLAND MD Nov 29 A new crisis developed in the roft coal situation in this district The Georges Creek Coal Co the largest coal op- in Maryland issued the following order which was at their at ing Maryland In A of tho fact that the em- ployes of this company int work out notice the mines will be closed finitely Former employes will remove their tools by Monday and call at the office 2 o'clock Monday afternoon to be paid off The order issued last night and it is that another complete of the mines in this region is impending The action of the Georges Creek Coal Co in ordering their mines Council Passes Ordinance Friday Night New Mayor Pledges Himself to Turn All Fees Over to City Beginning January 1 the salary of the mayor of Coshocton will he per year The city council at ihs ad- meeting Friday pass ed the ordinance fixing the amount closed is said to have followed action all of the members voting aye except taken by the miners yesterday The men are said to have emit their work but this fact did not become generally known until today Miners in the per Potomac region are also out It is said the miners employed by the Con- Coal Company also will walk out and if this development curs this region will be tied up The men are said to be dissatisfied with a 14 per cent increase in pay Tish said ho had given his word The miners scoff the idea of would turn all the fee money over diers operating the mines but declare to the city and added Believe me that if troops are serit to the region I'm going to do it there will be no trouble between the Before the vote was taken the conn soldiers and themselves From oilmen expressed themselves upon ent indication It appears that the fight the salary should be Before ad- between the operators and miners in Solicitor Klein called at- this section will be fought out to to the fact that in the The miners will hold a Passed last Monday night fixing ster mass meeting at salary of the g I tor at per month it was not fied which funds the salary shall be I paid out of He suggested that fourths of it be paid out of the out of the service fund and out of the safety fund An ordinance will also be pre- pared providing that one-half of the city auditor's salary shall be paid out of the water work's fund since he is to take over the clerkship of the water Ha is Thanksgiving seems to be that ins ami count in computing the period of 30 days and that it was too i te to the petition on No 28 this is a if to Iv determined by Prosecutor C Leech who is the legal ad visor 01 the county board of elections The spet that the city audi toi shall certify the petition to the election after ten days the In explanation of the statements given out from day to clav by William Evans that he had 400 01 more names on the ions he reported to announced thai he left one of the pc certain place to be and he came back after looking after some potatoes he picked up the petitions and discovered n little later that two or three pages full ot tures had been torn out of the petition TO PROTECT Mayor-elect W S Tish who to be excused from The salary iwas increased with the understanding that all fees collected by Mayor Tish arc to be turned into the city ury Mr Tsh stated that he was will ing for an agreement in writing to this effect be drawn up so as to bind him as tightly as possible and he would siSn Jt but hls fellow councilman were willing to take work for it Mr Death claimed Charles W 79 CM 12 one nf the most prominent pioneers of ton Friday evening following a long illness from rheumatism and neuro Alias Margaret Calhoun W Special Miss H thru her What gill the biggest nal to the House of hit with the of Wales The ot the premier ing to her ft lends Mm Margaret Cal of is related thru honn Simmonds of Washington enjoys paternal grandmother who was this enviable Miss RAILWAY MEN HAVE NEW PLAN ih to the Miss who is the only child statesman iohn She wan of Mrs C of this city chosen tor the District of al the re union 11 and received mention as lie most beautiful of the year it the in Wa- danced with the pi nice at all of Hie o riven for him in and the signal honor first of a fiom the pi nice and his suite Mr Balch was born June 21 1840 at Ohio near ILK On September 11 186 he married to Miss Frances C Wood to their union eight children were born all of whom are living Mrs Balch preceded her husband in death i three years ago 1 I Soon after his marriage Mr to a farm near Keene where i men and Firemen here this morning a he WILL LIVE IN VAN mm ILL CLEVELAND Nov a ing of ISO general chairmen of tho Brotherhood of Locomotive Engine Mr and Mis J A had as their guests Friday evening Mr and Mrs Robert H and son gene who started Saturday morning to drive thru to their new home near Van Orin Illinois The Hamilton are well known resl LONDON Nov 2 The Kalian i i c t 1 f i i lived until the fall of 1872 when I subcommittee of 15 was named to ar dents of the Fresno but are deputies have adopted a resolu he to Coshocton He erected company Timothy Shea president to moving to Illinois where Mr Hamilton upon the government to flour in Coshocton and Washington the first of next week to has rented a large fann and will take Mipprcs.s J and m f number of years 1 with Railway Director Hmes possession immediately on his arrival until his health failed He then ed the business over to his sons For a number of years Mr Balch was in his offer of a new way of paying for there overtime work on the railroads The 470 general chairmen of the four big the lumber business and contracting j brotherhoods adjourned their Clevo JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FIRE BALTIMORE Md Nov which followed a series of explosions Works department January 1 destroyed McCoy hall the central buildings of Johns Hopkins early today causing damage estimated j at Several other university buildings were damaged and for a time Baltimore was threatened with Several firemen were injured and there were a number of narrow escapes The engineer of McCoy hall saved his life by leaping from the second story window A blind music teacher Miss Continued On Page Six AT AGE OF 70 Glandular tuberculosis caused the was rescued from her home by a for- death Saturday morning of A T Bell mer soldier when it looked as tho the flames would spread to it HELD FOR MURDER aged 70 of Chalfants Mr Bell had been ill for seven years and for the last two years He was a ber of the Chalfants M E church and a resident of the TORONTO Ont Nov Trinway vicinity James Coppen 35 is undere arrest Mr Bell left a widow three here today charged with murder ters Mre C W Mrs R c lowing the discovery in the ruins of Maston and Mrs D Axline and his home day before yesterday of the one son O A Bell He of his wife with her skull beaten also left one sister Mrs Frances la and her body burned almost to a ton Roscoe and one brother T J crtop IBell Roscoe Police say Coppen and his bad Funeral services will be held quarrels lately and believed day at one o'clock at the Chalfants M struck her and when E church in charge of Rev Perry UM bMM cover hit will be made at the Chalfants He built a number of churches the Ho was prominent in business and church activities for a great number of years Mr Balch is survived by the ing one brother Samuel Balch Ark one sister Mrs Sara M Wood Coshocton and eight children John W Balch Jr Judge A Balch Harry L Balch Coshocton Mrs Violet Bond Omaha Neb Mrs Corrine Wildennuth Pomeroy O Mrs Pauline B Watson and Mrs rie Ogle Coshocton and eight grand- children Funeral services will be held day afternoon at 2 o'clock in charge of Rev I M McVey and Rev A B Williams of the M P church of which Mr Balch was a member for a number of years Burial will be made at South Lawn cemetery The following will act as pall Edward Curtis Charles Shaffer Johnson Smith W W Fletcher E E Reamer and John Balch INJUNCTION DISSOLVED An injunction heretofore granted Jn the case of Blanche Johnson Nellie accompany the other committee land conference yesterday after ing their chief executives to go to Washington for further details from Mr President W G Lee of the hood of Railroad Trainmen and dent W Stone grand chief of the Engineers also will head committees I CLEVELAND O Nov from their respective organizations to inB tnp arrest and deportation of a of said Central News from Milan day NewH dispatch from Home haul that Lilian monarchists at Florence and issued a manifesto to the people to rally to their king ami against the king's enemies WILL RELIEVE SUGAR FAMINE COLUMBUS O Nov That the sugar shortage in Ohio will be greatly relieved within a few days is the men coming to the city to work in the steel mills was lawless and handed disregard for the rights of Hie American Federal Judge today ordered police and officials to cease this practice I Judge ruled that er the mayor nor any other city cial had the right to enforce the order issued by tho mayor that no strike breakers be permitted to enter the ion of Howard Figg United State uty attorney general at Ington according to word reaching officials ioj the CJt bei that he was out O Nov John Stephenson today Is recovering from wounds received yesterday when hit by a charge of shot from the gun of his son Melvm with whom he was out hunting The elder son stirred up the rabbit rind his son fired Part of the shot entered arm but the rest finished tho rabbit here According to the Michigan are now making rapid ments into the Buckeye state A recent announcement was made by the department of Justice that it Moore against Moore has been dissolved by Judge i system apparently is not yet effective Glenn In common pleas court as several carloads of cane sugar ar injunction was to restrain the rived here recently Despite the order Chief of Police Smith announced he would continue using his power to arrest all suspicious characters The court ordered that no more ar- be made unless the police had Maude Weaver would establish a zone system placing thaf arrested E C Darling and J Floyd Ohio in the beet sugar zone but this gun carriers or engaged ia un- oes fitr In A n nni VAA la wAf o o NOW THE HUMS WON'T RATIFY ants from cutting timber The action was started last March The plaintiffs Housewives were asked to pay cents a pound for tho cane LONDON Nov 29 Von Ler ner head of the German peace delega tion has sent L letter to the allies ing that the Jennan national assembly NEW AUSTRIAN CABINET coalition has agreed that Germany cannot who arc daughters of J P Darling gar They complained to federal inet has been formed for Austria at ify the treaty unless assured of the ceased asked that the defendants be rials who have sent samples to by Carl Husiar who took tho repatriation of German war prisoners required to SPt up their interest in real for analysis Under tho plans post as premier of Austria Count and guaranteed against further allied estate and that four alleged announced from Washington beet Albert was nominated demands said a wireless press declared null and void and gar should retail at fourteen a i dent of the Hungarian peace delega patch from Berlin today quoting tho that the plaintiffs title be quieted j pound and cane sugar at 20 cento tlon I Deutsche Algemeine WASHINGTON Nov 29 nation is turning to the coal miner for relief from the coal shortage Wtih negotiations of wage adjustments broke off it is now up to the individual miner to determine whether he will return to his work and accept the wage in- crease declared just by Dr Garfield fuel tor In a majority of the mines the country notices were posted today offering a 14 per cent increase in wages to those miners who return to their work This is the increase given by Dr field Protection will be given by the government The de- of justice and war department are both pre- pared to see that there shall be no interference with the miners who desire to return to their work Any persons whether miners or operators who at- tempt to restrict the coal out- put will be prosecuted by the department of justice Judge C B Ames has made this statement Officials here weie to adopt i policy of watchful waiting They declare that within i week it will he determined the miners are to follow the lead of the government or whether will hv their leaders who have re- fused the government's Actual of operator reaching is is t per cent on the stock aie shown In the Kovernrnent report cm corporate and government revenues for the year of It on this report that former of tho treasury McAdoo Bays his information relative to excess profits charged coal operators wan taken The report contains the income tax statements of corporations making more than fifteen per cent on their stock It was prepared by the secretary of the treasury in response to senate resolution Names of the companies are not en They are designated by code bers as they are known in the ment records The large appeared to he made by the small mines ot by tors with small investments The op- contend the earnings should be calculated on the capital in- vested rather than upon the capital stock Another large mine in the lan region that earnings based on capital invested range from to per cent This percentage is computed on earnings the in come and excess profits taxes arc de ducted a basis of comparison one or the largest mines in the re- gion with invested ot OHO 000 made a profit in 1917 of 199 per cent A mine showing per cent earnings reported but as the amount Another urge mine i Appala chian region invested showed a profit of 26 on the invest In the mid continent district tho were more evenly di- vided among the operators The highest wai 160 per cent on an investment of while the lowest in the report was 1.271 per cent or invested There was one ex ception in the mid continent field to the general rule of small profits by large investors One operator with at investment of showed a of 138 39 per cent The western district returned tlu lowest profits One mine with an In vestment of returned bu 5 65 in profits The largest profit ir this zone was on u capital o No report was made on tlu money invested The operator showing fho maximim profit on capital that n pe cent was located m the The capital of this was t NEWSPAPER
