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KEENEY DEFENDS
MINERS' ACTION
District President of West
Virginia Men Writes
to Wilson
Charleston. W. Va.. Nov. s.—De
fending the "loyalty and intense pa
triotism of the West Virginia miners,"
C. F. Keeney, president of District
No. 17, United Mine Workers, in a
letter to President Wilson made pub
lic here, declared that the miners
did not receive "a just compensation!
sufficient to afford our families a
decent living."
Mr. Keeney quotes figures from
the Department of Mines showing
that the wage increases granted the
miners since 1915 amounted to 50
per cent, while the increase in the
selling price of coal was 159.6 per
cent, and the cost of living increased
from 13 to 85 per cent in one year
from 1917 to 1918.
Referring to the hazardous occu
pation of the miners, Mr. Keeney
said the death rate was "higher
than that of the American Kxpe
ditionary Forces."
Mr. Keeney, in conclusion, said: |
"As God reigns, we will not see out
employers revel in wealth, even
though they blind the public, and
face the dreadful ordeal of winter
in the mines without a just com
pensation sufficient to afford cut
families a decent living."
The first move on the part of the
coal operators toward bringing about
resumption of work in the union
fields of West Virginia came yester
day when the Kanawha Coal Opera- j
tors' Association passed resolutions!
placing themselves and their prop
erties at the disposal of the state
and Federal Government to be used
"as may seem best in the crisis."
"There was unanimity of opinion,
expressed by the score of operators
present, that the miners did not de
sire the six-hour day or the five-day
week," D. C. Kennedy, secretary of
the association, said.
Four mines in the unionized New
River coal fields were reported to be
in operation today by T. L. Lewis,
secretary of the New River Opera
tors' Association. He said these
mines had an annual output of ap
proximately 100,000 tons and em
ployed several hundred men.
Mr. Keeney, district president of
the mine workers, announced that
two mines at Big Creek and Stone
Branch, in the unorganized Guyan
field, were closed to-day "out of
sympathy" for the strikers. He said
pbout 150 men had quit work, al
though the operators had offered
them $lO a day to return to work.
50,000 Men Out
in District No. 2
Johnstown. Pa., Nov. s.—Presi
dent John Brophy, District No. 2,
United Mine Workers, has reports
from the district board members
which show 50,000 idle miners m
the district, he said. This number
is larger than the union membership.
Three nonunion operations of ihe
Berwind White Coal Company near
Houtzdale, employing 000 men, are
shut down and 400 to 500 nonunion
men in the Punxsutawney field quit
work. Many nonunion mines, Brophy
claims, are showing reduced produc
tion because of disorganization.
Operators in the Central Pennsvlva
nia field, particularly in Somerset
county, say they have no fear the
str ke will spread. A fight between
strikers and mine guards, with no
serious consequences, was reported
re y at the Kelso mine, in North
ern Somerset county.
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PLANE, 130 LBS.,
INVENTED BY
A FRENCHMAN
Paris, Nov. 5.—A 130-pound
airplane is France's latest con
tribution to aerial progress.
A French engineer named
Archer to-day took out patents
for the baby machine, which is
electrically propelled, with a
maximum speed of 155 miles an
hour and capable of carrying two
passengers. Archer expects the
machine to revolutionize com
munication between cities.
Archer is inventor ,of the
French army's "baby cannon."
Legion Delegates
Are Arriving For
Annual Convention
New York, Nov. 5. —Advance |
delegates from every state in the
Union will assemble in Minneapolis
this week to consider the tentative
program and other important pre
liminary matters for the first annual
convention of The American Legion
which will be held in Minneapolis
next week on November 10, 11 and
12. The convention will be called to
order at 10 o'clock next Monday
morning by Henry D. Lindsley,
chairman of the National Executive
Committee. It is expected that at
least 2,500 delegates, representing
approximately 1,000,000 former sol
diers, sailors and marines, now
| members of the Legion, will attend
i this convention, the purpose of
I which is to establish the Legion's
i permanent organization and deter
! mine its future policy.
| The business before the conven
-1 tion will be of vital interest both to
' ex-service men and women and to
I the country at large. The program
J will include the election of perma
' nent officers for the ensuing year;
I the adoption of a permanent consti-
I tution and policy of organization;
I location of National Headquarters;
j membership questions of eligibility;
' nomenclature of post, state and na
[ tional officers, and many other ques
j tions of organization nature.
Elected Mayor For
the Fifth Time in
Bridgeport, Conn.
j Bridgeport. Conn., Nov. s.—Mayor
i Clifford B. Wilson. Republican, was
j re-elected mayor yesterday by a
| plurality of 1.572 over Allan E. Vin
i cent, Democratic-Fusion-American
Labor candidate. It Is the fifth con
i secutive election of Mayor Wilson.
Prohibition Changes
New York Hotel Life
New York, Nov. s.—Prohibition
j enforcement has humbled the
i haughty hotel clerk in New York,
j A week ago he told out of towners
I with his loftiest and most distant air
that there were no accommodations
left for the night. Now he all but
goes into the street hunting for pros
pective guests. Hall rooms, rooms
and baths and whole suites have
been available for the past four
nights, hotel proprietors announced
to-day "because of prohibition."
A typical night scene in any
Broadway hotel hallway now is said
to be chambermaids carrying more
bedding to whatever guests there
lare, instead of the "old time" bust
ling activity of bell hops rushing
here and there with trays of liquor.
AIM TO UPSET
U. S. GOVERNMENT
Senator Wadsworth Charges
Russian Bolsheviki With
Activities
Washington, Nov. 5. —The Russian i
Bolsheviki "have availed themselves |
of every opportunity to initiate in j
the United States a propaganda aim
ed to bring about the forcible over
throw of our present form of Gov
ernment," Chairman Wadsworth, of
the Senate Military Committee, has
been informed by Assistant Secre
tary Phillips in a letter made public
at the State. Department.
The Bolsheviki, Mr. Phillips said,
have at their disposal large quantities
of gold, partly a revenue of the for
mer Russian government and partly
a reserve belonging to the Rumanian
government, and it is considered im
portant not to give them means
through commercial transactions to
bring this gold into the United States
where it could be used to sustain
their propaganda of "violence and
unreasons."
Mr. Phillips said that while there
was no blockade of Petrograd as far
as the United States was concerned,
no licenses for the shipment of goods
to Bolsheviki Russia were being is
sued. This policy of nonintercourse.
he added, could not be continued
after the proclamation of peace
without additional legislation.
Sets $75,000 as
Price For Hulls
of Wooden Ships
Philadelphia, Nov. s.—Announce
ment is made that the Emergency
Fleet Corporation has fixed $75,000
as the price for the 3,500-ton Ferris
type wooden ship hulls the Govern
ment intends to sell. Nearly 200
wooden ships, mostly of the Ferris
type, are to be sold. The price ap
plies to the hulls now in the moor
ing basins in their present state of
completion, and is on the bare boat
basis. Equipment on the vessels
will also be sold.
"To purchasers of hulls, who so
desire," the announcement said, "we
will sell equipment at such prices
that we estimate Ferris hulls can be
finished as steamers for $230,000, or
$05.71 per deadweight ton, which
should be attractive in view of the
present prices for completed vessels."
Major Hines to Get
Coal to Military Posts
Washington. Nov. 5. —Major Gen
eral Frank T. Hines. chief of trans
portation in the War Department,
was appointed by Secretary Baker as
a representative of the department
in the matter of insuring a supply
of coal to military organization and
posts in the United States.
General Hines has been instructed,
the announcement said, "to present
the needs of the army to the Rail
road Administration," whenever coal
shipments intended for a camp have
been commandeered or the usual
flow of fuel interrupted through
other causes.
Chile to Join the
League of Nations
Washington, Nov. s.—The Chilean
minister at London has been author
ised to announce the adhesion of
Chile to the League of Nations, the
State Department is advised officially.
TELEGRAPH
GAS SIGNAL ALARMS FOR
BATTLE FRONT WERE MADE
BY THE LOCAL PIPE WORKS
Philadelphia, Nov. 5. The
achievement of the Harrisburg Pipe
and Pipe Bending plant, of Harris
burg, in making signals for g]us
alarms on the battle front, was
made public to-day by the Pennsyl
vania War History Commission as
an example of Pennsylvania's indus
trial part in the great war.
To insure a gas alarm signal loud
enough to be heard over the roar of
artillery or rattle of machine guns,
it was found that the. horns needed j
a cylinder and air compressor to get l
the full sound capacity. 'Pennsyl- I
vania came forward at once and I
every cylinder used for these impor
tant instruments was made by the
Harrisburg concern.
The achievement of the Pittsburgh
Plate Glass Company in supplying
the Army and Navy with great
optical glass for binoc
ulars. telescopes, gun-sights, peri
scopes, cumerus and other optical
instruments necessary to modern
warfare was made public.
Receptacles for Pigeons' lx*gs
Thomas A. Gey, of Norristown, |
made aluminum receptacles for ,
messages tied to •carrier pigeons'
legs.
When America entered the war it
had neglected the training of the
pigeon as a dispatch bearer on the
battlefront. During the balance of
1917 and 1918, however, the War
Department sought to atone for its
neglect- When it came to training
the pigeons, it was discovered that
it was necessary to provide a re
ceptacle for the message, none of
the birds having quite sufficient in
Communists Gain
Throughout Poland
Berlin, Nov. 5. The Vorwaerts
says it has received information in
dicating that the Communistic move
ment is rapidly gaining strength
among the wage earners of Poland.
Lack of employment and shortage of
food are stated to be the chief con
tributory causes. The food situation
still continues serious, it is alleged,
despite the supplies received from
America.
According to the most recent fig
ures, the number of unemployed in
Warsaw is fully a hundred thou
sand. In Lodz and other large in
dustrial centers it is reported that
the ranks of the workless are con
stantly increasing.
The growth of communism has
been greatly accelerated by the re
turn of late of a number of Polish
communist leaders from Moscow,
who have proved very apt pupils of
Russian methods.
Mrs. Preston Gibson
Sued by Her Mother
New York, Nov. s.—Action to ob
tain possession of furniture loaned
to her daughter, Mrs. Benjamin Rog
ers Pratt Gibson, who recently mar
ried Preston Gibson, playwright and
author, has been started by Mrs.
Anne R. Benjamin, who obtained a
write of replevin and served it on
Sheriff Knott. This temporarily
transfers the control of the furniture
to him.
The argument on the writ will be
heard in the Supreme Court. Mean
while, the furniture is in the Harlem
storage warehouses, where Mrs. Gib
son placed it before her marriage.
telligence to carry important dis
patches in their beaks.
It was also found that the lighter
the receptacle, the surer was the
pigeon of arriving safely at its
destination. Of course, the raising
of pigeons could not exactly be
taken by a Pennsylvania firm under
a war contract, but the Keystone
State simply had to get into the
business somehow or other, with the
result that to-day Pennsylvanians
may have the satisfaction of know
ing that every aluminum receptacle
to be tied to a pigeon's leg to carry
[ messages was made by Gey.
Many Opital Glasses
The announcements are made pre
liminary to State History Week, No- |
vember 8-15, and as an illustration !
of the nature of material desired
by the Commission for the comple
tion of the Commonwealth's stock
of war accomplishment.
The total output for the Signal
Corps of the Army and Navy De
j partments from the Pittsburgh Plate
! Glass Company works at Charleroi
j had reached 81,845% optical glasses
| when the armistice brought general
cancellation of contracts. The total
was divided as .follows: Navy or
ders, 12,038%; Signal Corps, -0,-
530; Signal Corps (aero branch),
59,457.
Prior to the outbreak of the
European War, the Pittsburgh Plate
Glass Company had never attempted
the manufacture of optical glass. Its
first shipments, on all orders, began
in February, 1917. The first 11
months' total shipments reached 88,-
527, and during 1918, the shipments
totaled 299,898.
Fortune Seekers After Gold
Finds in British Columbia
Vancouver, B. C., Nov. 5. Stories
of marvelous gold finds have come
from the newly-discovered gold fields
in the Copper Lake Region, 65 miles
north of Le Pas, Manitoba, and also
at Contact Bay, about 200 miles east
of Winnipeg. One man recently
came into Le Pas, it is said, with a
canoe load of sacks filled with gold.
He wanted the gold made into bricks.
Stampeders are rushing to the new
fields and Winnipeg stores are doing
a rußhing business outfitting expe
ditions.
The story of the gold find itself
sounds like an old Klondike tale.
Jacob Cook, an Indian prospector,
while on his way to his cabin on
Copper Lake, tripped and fell over
a rusty spur of quartz. Angered by
the fall he struck the spur with his
pick and saw evidence of gold.
Within a few minutes he opened up
a streak four inches wide and several
feet deep which assayers declare is
almost pure gold.
Will Seek Release
of 117 British Subjects
London, Nov. s.—The foreign of
fice is preparing to open direct nego
tiations with Soviet Russia for the
release of 117 British subjects held
by the Bolsheviki.
It is authoritatively denied that
Great Britain intends to discuss any
other subject with the Bolsheviki.
The London Daily Herald, the
labor organ, on Monday said it had
learned on good authority that Great
Britain was favorably considering a
proposal for a conference of Soviet
Russia with the Entente allies.
Reichstag Building
Has Been Renovated
Berlin, Nov. 5. The Reichstag
building has undergone a rigorous
renovation and has been pronounced
again tit for Parliamentary occupa
tion. The work occupied nine
months. In ridding the great gilded
domed edifice of all traces of the
revolution the largest calihered
vacuum cleaners, the most powerful
of disinfectants and the deadliest of
vermin exterminators were em
ployed.
While in addition to the damage
it had undergone, the building con-
I tained so many unpleasant reminders
of the days when civil war was
waged in Berlin the National As
sembly had a reasonable excuse for
prolonging its sojourn in Weimar.
But now that disinfectants and ver
min-exterminators have completed |
their work such excuse no longer
exists.
The shortage of hotel and lodg
ing house accommodation, however,
is likely to prove embarrassing to
those of the returning legislators who
have neglected to secure quarters in
I advance.
Plenty of Coal
For Pittsburghers
Pittsburgh, Nov. 5. —Fears that
Pittsburgh would be compelled to re l
turn to heatless days and lightless
nights were dispelled by R. W.
Gardiner, commissioner of the Pitts
burgh Coal Operators' Association,
in a reassuring statement to the
public.
Mr. Gardiner said 20,000 tons of
newly-mined coal was now at Mo
nongahela river wharves and before
the strike was called operators had
greatly increased shipments to
wholesalers in this. He could see
no reason, he said, why domestic con
sumers should be deprived of coal in
order that railroads, public utilities
or manufacturers should be sup
plied.
Reports from the Pittsburgh min
ing district indicated that very little
change, if any, had taken place in
the situation.
GASINTHESTOMACH
IS DANGEROUS
Recommends Rally tie of Magnesia
To Overcome Trouble. Cauaetl
by Fermenting Food and
Acid Indignation.
Oas and wind In the stomacn ac
companied by that full, bloated feel
ing alter eating ale almost certain
evidence of the preseuoe of exces
sive hydrochloric acid in the stom
uch, creating so-called "acid Indiges
tion."
Acid stomachs are dangerous be
cause too much acid irritates the
delicate lining of the stomach, often
leading to gastritis accompanied by
serious stomach ulcers. Food fer
ments and sours, creating the dis
tressing gas which distenos the stom
ach and haiftpers the normal func
tions ot tne vital internal organs,
often affecting tlie heart.
It is the worst of lolly to neglect
SUCH a serious condition or to treat
witn ordinary digestive aids wuien
have no neutralising effect on the
stomach acids, insteud get trow any
druggist a few ounces ut Bisurated
Magnesia and take a teaspooufut in
a quarter glass of water rigm after
eating. This will drive the gas, wind
and bloat right out of the body,
sweeten the stomach, neutralize the
excess acid and prevent its formation
and there is no sourness or pain
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tablet form never liquid or milk)
is harmless to tile stomal, inexpen
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magnesia for stomach purposes, it
is used by thousands of people who
enjoy their meals with no more fear
of indigestion.
NOVEMBER 5, 1919. "
Snobbery War Is on
in Witham, England
London, Nov. 5. Dr. Charles P.
Knight has began an avowed war on
snobbery in Witham, reputed to be
one of the most exclusive places in
Essex, through the introduction of
dancing classes for young and old.
"This winter all Witham will be
dancing." Dr. Knight declared. "I
believe we are defeating class dis
tinctions. We have here the daugh
ters of vicars and medical men and
they are dancing with shop and fac
tory girls, soldiers and others. Clan
ishness cannot survive that."
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