Cumberland Evening Times (Newspaper) - May 5, 1921, Cumberland, Maryland ri Tonight overcast with probable oc rain To morrow rain and cool REPARATION IS GIVEN GERMANY CUMBERLAND THURSDAY MAY 5 1921 Associated Press Direct Service REQUESTS RIGHT i TO SELL GAS FORl USE TWO CENTS MUST ANSWER BY MAY 1 WHETHER SHE INTENDS TO FULFILL OBLIGATION Should Germany Fail to Comply Will Proceed With Oc of Ruhr Valley May allied ul issued to Germany to day summoned her to reply cate by May 12 at the latest whet her she will perform her un fulfilled obligation under Hie treaty of Versailles primarily as to the payment of repara tions lo the allied powers Should fail lu the allies give that will pro coed on May 1 with the occupation of the Ruhr valley and to undertake all oilier military aud naval meas The terms for payment ft debt to he allies are lo be her by the allied reparation commission by tomorrow Mean while the allies he slates arc lo continue all necessary preliminaries for the occupation tit the Ruhr The ultimatum was haml pd to he German ambassador in Lou don this London Gels the News London May mes sage received from Rives a Berlin saying that in view of the situation that arose in conse of the reply of Secretary of State tu counter proposals on tho German Government unanimously decided to resign Chancellor informed President of I lie Cabinets de the President re quested Ministry lo continue lo with current affairs which it consented to do A Herman dispatch from Berlin there is no foundation for Ilic report that has made a new reparations offer to the Allies The Allied plan for Germany was being separated by nf the reparations cum mission into parts One of these is he purely legal portion ing In treaty of Versailles while the other chiefly relates lo the guar antee bonds it is planned to issue as security for the German pay ment and the rales of interest upon securities these being e the provisions of treaty It is not possible lo determine yet precisely what will be to but according lo present intentions the commission will send ID the Friday a hill of ties strictly in compliance with peace treaty while simultaneously the Allied governments will send another part of the plan as a modification of the treaty favorable lo Germany and she can accept or nol Substance Is Finished Il was explained that what was being studied now were questions of form rather than nf essentials The endeavor of Mm supreme coun cil has been to reach in obligations within tho terms of Uie treaty which lefi and lo change at any time by the com mission In this work il Hie as sistance of financial authorities such as M French Minister of tin nnd Sir inf lary for War legal advisers of the British and French Foreign Offices finch as Sir Gordon the Brit General aud XI From grol French law ex pert and of the members of Ihi supreme coun cil believe they have been able to keep within limitations of in lic now in ihc of linal upon reply of Secretary to Simons London Times Air has given Ger miny lie of sound advice and has in unmistakable form outlined policies which lUp of the mil ion The nf America on the reparation subject has been straight for ward and Comment On Hughes Note Hay on tha note of Secretary in transmit German reparations offer lo the Allies tho Frankfort ta zella says failure of our appeal to Pres ident Harding which was prompted bv a false appraisal of political con and was Insufficiently prepar ed means the irreparable loss of lime and Ilio serious weakening of our po sition Secretary Hushes is more I ban a mere It Is lau II This German liberal organ how ever docs not Interpret the answer as Indicating lmi IB Slates docs not intend to contribute to the relief of the situation U believes the Washington Government will endeavor lo exert u moderating r influence upon the Allies H sug gests that German diplomacy learn tlie fact that the Harding Ad ministration is primarily concerned In safeguarding American Internal and foreign and that for the present it shows nn inclination to the Allies especially France t MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL HELD AT TWO OCLOCK THIS AFTER NOON TO TAKE UP MAT TKR i Objects to Action 1 Being Taken on Such Short i to Public A special the City Council was hold at two oclock this afternoon to take up the re quest of the West Virginia and Maryland Gas Company pas for commercial purposes in the city from May 1 to Septem ber 1 The request was received from the officials Of the com pany at Buffalo by City AUor ney William C be cause of the lateness of its ar rival it was deemed that the City Council be called to deal with the matter al once Under tlie existing contract between the city and the gas company the former can not furnish gas for com WIND AND RAIN DOES WORTH DAMAGE IN NEW YORK f New York May damage estimated at more than was caused by the heavy rain and wind which visited New York yester day and last night Telephone and power wires blown down and many localities were inconvenienced today Twenty five steam and sailing vessels at anchor In New York bay began dragging late last night and were compelled to call for tugs to assist them POTOMAC BADLY SWOLLEN BY RAINFALLS Tributary Streams Bank i Doubt Expressed of Stage the continued last vo the this year when Full Flood Ihn Iaca and of Potomac thus far water HI noon to up ihc a SHIP STRIKERS BATTLE LINE IS DRAWN CLOSER UNION LEADER CLAIMS EVERY WILL BE TIED UP BEFORE WEEKEND Owners Are Recruiting Strike s v Ships in Tugs in Secret Water and was still rising Considerable wood logs and brush was i brought down Will Creek I i Wills Creel which is easily by torrential rains due lu its draining a hugo formed by towering for miles gradually ID rise lasi i evening and u noon was threat ening lo roach Hood uf swollen muddy water sweeping rapidly o the I junction with the at dam with a booming roar Modi i Hun at Lii Vale and Dry Hun from thu Valley section were rushing l turbulent streams from ihc amount of i water from ihc hills that poured j down into I hem Al ai noon i stated he Georges Creek was also high tind iho river i there was assuming lions The local weather observer ai Ihu Hall reported over an inch of I rainfall in the last hours and river guage TWO PERSONS ARE KILLED WHEN GAS PLANT EXPLODES Scranton 5 Explosion of a tank in the of the Diamond Oil nnd Paint on Seventh street this city today resulted In the death of two per sons the serious injury of two others And the almott complete destruction of building by fire Two other men are un accounted for The clend are Miss Anna rapher and William con of the treasurer of the com and Thos also a son of pany James bookkeeper the treasurer were injured BANKER SCORES ULSTER LEADER A POINT IN SUIT AND FOR DIVORCE HOLD MEETING ADMITS LETTER ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN MRS STILLMAN j HY INDIAN Witnesses for Say They Peeped in on His i in Cabin Home AFFAIRS IN IRELAND DIS CUSSED BY SiR JAMES CRAIG AND EAMON DE VALERA AT CONFERENCE TO LAWAND LEAGUE j j New York May f James A New York banker u a point in Iho i for divorce which he i instil tiled against he er Fili Potter whom lie him Regarded as In View of Proc to Irish People This i WOMEN WILL H AT VICIOUS INTERESTS INi CITY THAT FOSTER EVILS mereia purposes unless permission is j granted by the city The com pany in milking its guaran loiK May of lees that in furnishing gas for efforts in Washington to SeUle supply KJ the nationwide marine strike domestic consumers will no way Muy l a a 15 percent wage cut served to draw tlie battle line closer here i was not present at lu a com prepared by him was Union di set forth his views on that before week had ended He stated m his that the subject under discussion was of sueli importance to as con suming public thai he did not it pi opor to pass on it on such short notice and he advised lhat action be postponed pending return of Mayor Noon who is now in attending a professional clinic His i lei I or follows i May To Mayor and j City i Gentlemen The of the Virginia Maryland Gas lu iho city for permission to sell natural gas for I purposes is one that should i receive very careful consideration and before ii ia granted if il is I granted at all i This is a very matter I and not be passed upon linally a suddenly called special i m i nil lo in Breakers and Taking Them to hourly as exceeds an River Men Doubt Flood Unless there n continual heavy the ilay several men expressed a as KJ the reaching a damaging height to despatches below Cum berland received the Potomac river due in heavy rains of recent was haul full at Williamsport ami and other late last night and river bottom there over a mile iy American ship nol then at was lc place Railroads Arc Intac No delay in or damage lo properly hie n the hlgh recent ruins had been reported by the Western Marv land or ihi Ohio in city or vicinity al noon At 1 this lomac this city had risen aud one half feet above normal six feel three when Citywide Organization named as cor have tirms of endearment ill a previous cm alimony mo lion had Idler and to the on ground lliev had been War to Get Evidence pay agents to Dissatisfied it is said cause of an apparent laxity iu the oJ in Cumberland especially men of foreign it liu on uf the who K nol a in the I action liis wire i was Mr hi luu would lher lelter which plaintiff is Sir ill se lied lip tight and their in in and il asserted thero nut men i available lo replace On lie oilier hand he owners that iho situation was well ill hand the of which made were said j to ili operators could A Heel of lups has been employed in carry the from the bureaus tu ships declared are daily violating act and other evils an of j organization of a Law and Order i1 League is now underway in berland A and women active in the moral and Civic welfare of he city are be Slillman hind the movement and it is de rnm in behalf or the di clared it is their intention lo call r lames A how he newspaper Illi discussion Sir linn and Valera il was said is apart from position In unchanged Meeting Important Dublin May r This lames Craig and lie Vali day Is hiro as of greal in view oi Vah i i s lo the Irish people i u ibis wcel in which he ti provisions for such devolution In the of honu as to Ho In I for and content have lieen i lenl Sir lames ii fiw lays ago ex in this pressed n wish io inert the republican I Toms Busy i Two Ministers Fired On in tin loneliness May were in In j us the William lr in i Iving Mrs lill of tlie Method si were nut Church in Ireland his 1 iw tragedy Her were 1 lo i Ibii MIX alleged to Mrn uf girls Indian yuide Injunction Withheld May for an injunction to from picketing vessels or ing men from suing lo work ori them was tiled in States Court by lh Hallimore i but at a regular wilh due j notice lo gas consuming public in C Host refused to injunction but said In would do so MAINTENANCE OF WAY UNION DRAW UP RULES Chairmen Workers Meet Be hind Closed Doors x meeting in near an to form it and to seek the j puil of the various of citizens Aheady cards ure lining printed in this end for membership thai will be circulated among various organ if and a in Iho window curiums on tho guide for sum and Mrs Slillman Hul on I h r order thai may have u chance lo c be heard j Xnr 1 il proper or courteous to pass upon this mailer lite absence of the mayor who is i absent for a week or so attending a 1 professional clinic in Chicago in cases of emergency which ibis is 1 do not think we should lake up j and dispose of mailers of greal public I importance such as in iho absence ot the head of the city i 1 hat he post thi Mayors in order Ibut IK may part in Hie rlc and iu order wv all of us with ihc gas con may have time to think over and a wise con elusion I I also ask that yon order published in the daily news papers the loiter i of the gas attorney to Cily Attorney Walsh and the petition of jhe Worn Maryland das Company to tin Service Com of Maryland requesting au to sell gas for industrial pur puses so that the of land may have an t fa mil themselves with the statements In the case I repoat that wfi should aud caution that natural gas is sell IVc per 1000 feel in Cleveland It to sell for per linm feel in Onthe claim i by tlie gas company of an of cas price was jumped I first to Ode per inni only lasl year he company told the people of Cumberland thai its ply of giis was wells were giving out and UK only way in which il could i gas for Cumberland would he by chasing gas from another company I and that this could nol be done unless people of Cumberland would eon sent fo an Increased schedule of rates 1 running from to per 1000 feet Iho gas the West Virginia fe Maryland Company unblushing steps forward and admits hat far j from being compelled to purchase gas j Mn order to supply Cumberland it lias so much gas that it desires to sell gas lor Industrial purposes t Speaking as one member of the Cily Council only t wish to say that Ms such n vast contrast conflict and j j between the and I pit I ii of company 1 last summer In the poverty of Us gas resources and Us prosperous and opulent conditions wilh its ability to furnish gas now a increase in price has been granted by Public Service Commission of Maryland thin I am i nol al present In favor of any further concessions until he situation has been fully explained and made clear i evidence of from now mi were pre immediately if lion or violence io him Th union leaders who incl Koo in chambers wilh officials of the steamship company assured him ilia I they would ito vory in their in vio lence and malc he men 11 it law Police Take Action i Police Commissioner took two lo protect ship and of Hoard and companies Me ordered llu police back on Ibe hulls and a Hie Hubert IV Carier placed in commissioned for harbor patrol duly A I iTI Vork May of of the many railway workers me I here behind closed lo discuss the rei ion of the Suites Labor for new agreement in be signed Inly I Th will also have before ii proceedings of of railway and unions which met j will be closely to Spair of Nev Jersey ene of the leaders al todays To Wage War on Clique Il is declared a powijifnl or backed by cerlain political in l thai has tho of Federal ami ilu ny Hci in of securing evi deuce of of cor dials and Plan Big War HAGERSTOWN CASE TRIED BEFORE LOCAL JURY Case Is Heard In Chambers nol hear arguments in open court feel ight be accomplish sup dial pur ludg did of the ing ilia in oil in chambers Thomas K man ager of Hallimore Steamship Company and the lawyers represent ing the company 1 Tybr and nrc Ibe of complaint 1 Minsh Matthews anil T Mister the unions Tho men against Mm licin was sought were named as Wil H business igent of the Marine Associa tion No Hassmussen business agent of the and Seamens Association Harry business of iho Marine and Association of At Ian lie and Gulf Patrick business nent of ilie Oilers and of the Atlantic and charges a violation of the Sherman AntiTrust net and the Clay ton u In that men named and lite in burs nf heir entered into a conspiracy against statutes of Slates of America In such cases and provided to injure and destroy Its the Steamship good will nnd especially obstruct and destroy its hade and Fail to Appear r M Mny of marine workers failed o meet today with Secretary Davis lo continue conference looking to a of shipping wage contro has resulted in of some merchant walk ing out Mr Davis said confer ence would nol be held it nil that hu lid nol lnow whether the meeting would be resumed Government had about align Suit for Damages Over Removal of Cattle Pens front Private Properly The suil of Owen D of ihc t Ohio Railroad removed from Washington counly was up a jury in th Court It is forth in i he suil Hint Slier ley purchased if ground on avenue in from 1 lattir had pur the Ohio puny The prop erly WHS enclosed and divided inlo catlle pens weighing nnd building and had been used for shipment of live stuck In Sherley a and itl leues In May MQ v Ohio Company sent a force of men and removed pens It it is in n raise a sum ot money town and in ail endeavor lo to the score or and thai are selling j and of of is In un on in homes of several local and ils anil 1 I saliby l liell hops and in Ii i of who is ni Ihc of the Law and Order thai hoped i of I women Bootleggers pay Big Rents m examination i the are sli roll of Slillman Mrs induing by h lo he nul harrier uf i a Idl worried thi stories was nol in conn Two Others Testify Besides lln peeping witnesses nnd Adams two others lor are j of great of near Xew Vork Keily former sup in t hi cuse and alleged by Slillman lo be ihc father of Mrs young i isl was not al yis but Mnn of a her Ar in lumber lias wilh and Mm and Indians who are for I Tin i as foi Is ex io i As Mrs his a i oi witnesses lo testify Slill with the ond girl Mrs and young son lay and of Invi it he suil is settled Held in Secret I yesterday wens in the I Jar Club ill A of de Mie North liisi evening Mr a Wound In ihc forehead while a u in hy of glass as a panel at side door of the mission The Idv Mr Me tine of ihi best known was disclos iu lie narrowly escaped being shoi in lln uf a buy hy him being Cal STOCK MARKET for both sides moved iu mil further they hoped Iho halls and to a of the called by and il possible lo w ire and ired Adams sou ia win on I trade in j Jl is the Ansc II C iin effort to arouse lite InJ l his who h In are in II Is well thai IK are lieing from such and thai busi ness houses can nol pay them Il is thai a more street place is lo chance a man who wauls lo business al th stand imv fnr the lessee a and will pay i lie includes of or nnn who In to MID liny were ployed by In n rin the Shaves of Lake I aboul slx miles from hi In Mrs i limes in or if a by Slillman and in the ii shares Maximum Minimum Max ii 53 40 46 Potomac River i Belfast May Belfast says that Sir Craiy tje Ulster Union Irish Republican lender had Alter pro an interview in Dublin Sn son admitted a alleged to James has called a have been written io Mrs the Ulster in Bel man by Ired Indian fast lo lie Mt guide and In TO SLACKER LISl IN RECORD T The War Ue slacker iisi as issued from time lo lime will he in the Congressional for was in 111 and by lohnson Ke publican h a serv and I here wis no objection AT Johnson said ill bis opinion puldi allou oi lb in the Kecord would make of i hem documents and ra lieve Ilio of any at law in event appeal in en loru nay Ti was vir lually no ion to I he general of the morning In I lie Transactions In noon were mi a Miale mor ihan one lir UK full session Kails were is sues the cheaper or j stock in which of i I lo 2 iioinls were Oils j motors steels nnd 0 UK al of 1 lo points Tinted Stel was sic id ily In Mi jibe highest Ior the ear to dale Call money opened it per but were froin yesterdays linal j Dealings gains Investment i ills position wilh suni of and clos ing was Sales approximated scales and from the land asks ilamaRes The plaint iff is represented by Charles II and L of and Albert A of II U and A appear for the lie A number of witnesses from Hagers arc In case for the place H a year Is a a ilac was remark bis rent for of womens apparel ii r LABOR OFFICIAL URGES WORKS Frank Morrison Asserts f Mrs I son lay have not been I Is mil known sin will witness in cuse in an I Mrs Ilia tier wish all I I L Lewis Head Ol I M his millions cumin of That MINERS WAGE SCALE EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1922 Union Will Accept Wage Out SUMMARY TODAYS NEWS A oil i Mny of organized mine will nol bej reduced John Lewis Allied on Will Prove Ul Corkers of lp declared In a rel Unemployment filling reports or suei Lewis out MIH the miners under a scale of Ht p divorce of public works the Vaulted States as remedy for mi was urged i n bv Morrison or ii S the of Labor iu Ilo I A his proceedings for line of i drawn closer after failure i about of controversy i Ilsler holds wth Kainon on Invitation Is Delivered May Auckland os British ambassador carried n Stale Hie for to lie States he Allied powers lo bo on the Council Iho and lio coun cil of ambassadors The Invitation from London last night and must donod hope Hint the controversy could i point lo he ami which be settled at his time by Federal should he tin mediation factor In Ihc mallur is this Ilow I will the use of gas for pnr affect the winter supply in PHILADELPHIA for domestic purposes JOIN STRIKE I Wo cannot consent lo anything Mint iwill or diminish the I of gns foV purposes Yet Amy feeders letter to Cily Attorney Walsh is visitants of the Phil by no oii this point The lotler says do not think f1 tu a for hour fido a at of the ten session of the federation live council There are at workers out of said Secretary Morrison and condi are allowing no Many of the men could lie put worl on national county and stale public on the theory any reduction by lh or with hope that nf wanes will be ac hah union meet rules of maintenance to draw up new LOCAL MAIL SERVICE FLYER IS BURNED TO sale of this gns will our ability to render good service Rl Continued on page 9 commercial a for a Their and 700 moil unit Only ground establishments are n Rode Springs May ler M a aviator WHS burned lo death when his airplane overturned nnd to hn was lo Cheyenne CONSOL OFFICES TO MOVE TO NEW The auditing nnd real of thn Coal Company will he moved from Baltimore to New York n round tins of this month Tile transfer of which have for years in decided in order lo concentrate he work of Hie vari departments Since Clarence late lore H Inking off i Wheelwright of lie Con His wife the executive offices have lives Rl Carneys Point N J been located In York Potomac Is gelling beyond result of continuous Local to attend ceremonial In force Templars In aid Lukes Church tonight of Unions law without apparent effort them lo b order Meeting lo be held Sunday for Ilan forest plane asks for KILS for commercial purposes roi rr 1 1 h i s 11 ur 1 ldv k Mi i 1 IK H ii t 1 r i 1 io 1 II 1 j t SL 1 1 I 1 fa i i 0 2 i It li 1 1 S 1 ri li r ll e S f iL t X 1 M V r T 7 Ul fl I n V tg f 1 i 1 i A Ti 1 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