cape may county times, sf.a isle city n. j.

Tndunrtal Cotnmln]<>n anaoiBeM WHCrt .-f New Turk mate factory worker* during SeptiHu!>er wn* S23.U7 a week, a decreaae nf 80 cents from Au-

j gust.

New Turk county committee of I American Legion recommended the j susiM*nsion of Willard StralcUt Post's

A Summary for Busy Readers «i* a ner for disapproving the veterans-

• clrll service amendment.

ESSENCE OF ALL CURRENT AFFAIRS 1

of the Significant Doings

of the D?y.

OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST. Progress of the World In General. Legislative Activities at the Nation's Capital—News From Every Corner of the Country.

r

WASHINGTON

Three btpdred ;.nd fifty coke evens. In addition to ft St, were pm In blast Frick Coke Company. ftrecnsbu*c. It was announced plans are be Ing mad** to put in blast 300 ovens in Brownsville. I'n., shortly. Giving expression to the stud* nt op.nlon of America. 100 delegates from 40 colleges and universities assembled at an intercollegiate conference at Princeton University. Princeton. N J., and urged Immediate limitation of armament for all the nations of the

world.

North and south, whites and blacks were admonished by President Hard Ing at Birmingham. Ala., to put aside old prejudices and pretenses and set the face of the nation courageously toward a constructive and permanent

solution of the race problem. 1-Ieutenant Ulric Bouquet of Brook

lyn, N. T, and Staff Sergeant Vernon E. Vickers of Montgomery. Ala., were killed at Honolulu when their airplane crashed to Harms while they were at-

flight formation at

Republican senators of the agricultural “bloc " agreed upon rate of duty «m agric ilturul products considerably higher than provided la the Fordney »ar!ff bill passed by the house, which they will urge upon the Senate Finance

Committee at the hearings.

Ib.-peal of the excess profits law. ef- I |( , mn , ln _ ,. Mn fective January 1. 192^. was approv -d i ‘ ^ e ,,|. ude

*’>■ .ner two udaitlMiBl n,. Dw-t

«r,o,ili» e «u it. retention m . , ^ ^

a»UM Ms nlMM. „„ '-.uchuutt.

Honue luterstate and Foreign Com-: Bierce Committee, by a majority of 21 voted <n favor <>l the amendment creating an advisory board to

minister the maternity bilk Election of a "beer and light

Congress" is to be sought next year

by the country "a wet Interests. They . , •re preparing now for what they term t ‘ ,f , U,t A - I .'.. l .: a national referendum on the question ! ^ ,1,e decision oter Wolf of amending the Volstead law to per- ! ««« iik-ht-.ieuk v veiglit cham

i plon. in the seventh round of a 1-- ; round match at the Pioneer Club, New

y or 2i ndment ,

““‘Ij

t wines L^.

SPORTING

Gene Tunney, iigiit-heavywelgli

r Wolf Larsen, fi

mit general sale and use of these

beverages.

Marshal Focb will lay the cornerctoiie of the national headquarters |

building of the American Legion Indianapolis on November 4. General Diaz, Admiral Beatty.

General Jacques fonnall. paid the!

| York. Larsen was clearly outclassed. Phil O'Dowd, Columbus, O.. was varded the Judge*’ decision after u 1 slushing 12-rouad bout with Joe Lynch, and I former bantamweight champion. It wps Lynch s hr? I fight since his defeat

Brooklyn last sum-

other high officials of ’Jie Ai^erlcan government.

“Pal" Moore, Memphis bantamweight, was matched to meet Pete Herman. former champion, la a 1 Ground contest to a decision .t New Orleans,

November 28.

When the year iH21 passe: Into history It will probably go on record as the best ever so far as golf udv*n.-e-

ment goes.

Robert Quinn, business manager of the St. Louis Browns, makes the first prediction for 1U22. He says that the Browns will capluie the American

League pennant.

Peggy Bettiuson, matchmaker of the

Proposals for au immediate 20 per cent reduction in the wages of the 13,Oltj shoe workers In factories ufliliated with Hie Lynn Kin* Muuulucturens' Associutioa Were submitted to the work-

ers' unions.

Aauudonmcrit of 73 miles of ruilroud by K. V. Tuylc.-, ro-celver of the Aiu-

bouia and i—sslssippl Rui'.ruad Com- _ . ,, . paiiy, was authorized by the Interstate ’ -National Sporting Uub of London, bu» Commen-e Commission. The railroad cabled an offer to Billy Gibson Vr lies betw een Vluegur Bend, Ain, and i lle ‘ :n - v Leonard's services agali *t Pasosgouia Miss Erxle Rice for the wor.d’S lightweight It was learned at the Deiairtment of championship, the lK>ut to be stsged J untie® that Attorney Geuerul Duugh- tliere sometime next December. Rice «rty authorized the tUU.g u: untl-inist bolds the Lngllsh titular h„nor« and suits In Kami us tguiust a group of the Lord Lonsdale belt, manufacturers of building materials. t Approximately r *.'A)0 licer.Ms lor John L. Benton, counsel for the Na- came ■booting were Issue' la the Pror-

lional Associutlcii of Railway and bice of Manitoba.

Utilities Ccmunssluuers, urged resto- A check of $30,000 was sent from xathai of 3 cents a mile us the maxi- New York t» Christy Mathewsou, who mum passenger rate on railroads, be- Is f-chUng tuberculosis at Saranac lore the Senate Interstate Commerce Lake. The money was paid by New Oomuuuee. Vork basehall fans at a beneO at the The aUmailstniUau foreign loan re- *'*>*0 Grounds. September funding hill was passed by the House Bluenose of Lunenburg defeated by u vote cf I'M to 117. The hill ere- EUfc of Gloucester in the si*cond in•tes a commission of vt members ternutioual fishermen's race and won composed of the secretary ot the treus- the sailing championship of the North ury and four other* appointed by the Alluutlc captured last yi

’•resiuent with authority to uegotlute peruuto.

for the refunding i-f ti*e luresgu iuuebt- • M.cblgon's defv ■: by Ol io State uisi edness totaling nearly gil.taw.UWO.UUO. the -laughter of Rutgers by Georgia The bW now goes to the Keuate. w here ; Tedi were unesjiected footbaii

•~ssfli'ru wlli be made to jass i*. ' suits-

General Diaz of Italy visited the

al A. adeuiy at Annapolis.

H. B. Dynes and \\ . H. Ri-h'*.-. rep ■entiug he i *vpartuienl or Labor, ve been sent to tlie Kansas eoul

‘ds to act as med. itora.

Japs near cm. sen Inhume and Idmu anted a: New Vork. Japanese vaJ udets and two princes cm the

JL

Ung

the

High commissioners repnaumtlng P<> land and govennuent of Danzig signeo u yiolltlcal and economic treaty. Two thousand S|toulsh soldiers were buried in the Mount Arrult sector ut the Moroccan butlle front in two days, according to information from Melin . i iouds have lifted from the Anglo Irish eon'ereiice and ho|A* of cuinpleU agreement has never been so bright The .ruth is Unit -n both sides then 1* a real desire to bring the ugt-long ecmdl.t ,o a close. Both rv*-ognlro that, the facts being what they are.

RAILROAD STRIKE I IS CALLED OFF Resolution Canceling Order for Walkout Adopted by Union

Chiefs.

AFRAID OF PUBLIC OPINION Action Followed Labor Board s Thraat to Handle Men "Withoa; Glover"— Settlement on Texas Road V. nera Men Quit Is Undecided. Chicago.—The rail strike acheftM For October 30 was averted when leaders of the switchmen, trainmen, conductors. engineers and firemen nt a (olnt meeting adopted resoluttens Ithdrawlug authorization of a walkut and officials of the railroad telegraphers' organisation anuoundfil they would take similar action. Tboae were the only miious which bad authorized a strike. The vote calling off the strike was , unanimous by organizations, 'V. C. I 1-ee. president of the Brotherhood ef J Railroad irgin-.en, announced. The xfficial wording of the resolution | adopted was that the "strike be declared not effective.” Union leaden* said the resolution i adopted by the Labor Board ar.uoureIng no further wage-reduction petitions for any one group of employee* j oiild I•■onsldered until rules and oriclng eonJltions for thaf group bad I .eon settled, was •'derided ly In-tru- j mental" in bringing about the action i railing eff the walkout. Tlie vote In the Individual unionp was unusually close. Uie Crete' n particulariy holding lengthy arguments agreeing to rancellatlon of the strike order, tin- labor ebleftains said, j of the groups the ballot was descritied as "the closest in history on similar question." All the differences were ironed out by the different unions, and the final showdown found nil of them casting their ballots for

“no strike."

We called this strike to gain certsln right* to which our men were entitled.” L. E. Shejqaird. president of the conductors, told th- Associated Press. "It twin became Ident. however. that the roads were succeeding in their misleading propaganda to the effect that we really would by striking against .the Government. “This railroad propaganda 'n;.nd its way to the United States ttnilroad Ijileir Board. ’ r Hs govert. mental agency told us that it would look c® a slrike a* against It and the Government and not against the roads, and that tlie fu'l force of the Government would be brou. to bear against us If we walked out. Cnd»r such circumstances there was nothing to do but annul our orders for the <K-toher

90 walkout

The first announcement of the executive's action was made by Mr. Lee. ' Rushing to the firor below the hotel meeting room where dozens of newspajier reporter* were congregated, he smilingly shouted: Tlie strike Is off. l>oy*. hut Fve : only got one copy of the resolution and . FII (dnw that to you tomorrow." All of the union r.veo were smiling as they came out and many of them - Jocularly pushed and shoved each other flow-n the stnlrs. To ail queries most of them merely replied: "It's all settled." The board, which Info/med the unions the decision would “handle' them with ungloved hands.” I; they did not cal! off the strike by morning, would take the altitude now that u.o dispute had been settled and that consequently the matter again was out of Its hands, members said. A day of rail union meetings, sessions of the United States RnllriniO Labor Board and conferences between | representatives of the two groups to- ; night found high officials of the eini plo/ee* t-elng Informed by tlie t«n.rd | that unless pr cc ran* t.y mor.Jnt it I would “deal with ’lie unions with ungloved hands" in its attempts to prevent an October »> walkout. The statenint from tlie 1-nlwir Board W~s delivered to union committees j which railed on the board In the day ' to report progress of the Joint con1 ferenc*- of chieftains of the switch-

EDWARD C. PLUMMER

BRIANS COMES TO

J eOt-gHARI-ES KELt.ES

New U. 6. Shipping Board Member Is An Expert.

1 HFFFNn FRANK

I Mew Engineer Commissioner {• of District of Caiumbia

Premier Wins Greatest Victory of His Career by Big Majority in Paris Chamber.

Edward C Plummer, one of tlie veteran shipping rot* of the United States, who is a new roeubei of the shipping board and perhap* nt widely Informed upon the general

GIVE RECORD WELCOME TO MARSHAL FOCH

tion During Biie? Visit to

New York City.

A PROBLEM OF SECURiTY •Given Guarantees’ Says •Country Will

Disarm on Land and Sea’—Gives Hun Confider e Vote, 381 to IBS, After He Demands Majority.

Paris.—Premier Briand win go to j the Washington conference armed with a vote uf confidence amounting to 381 out of a total of 547 Deputies who i voted in tba French Chamber of Depu- ' ties His victory is regarded as ae j greatest at his career. The vdte |a even greater than It was the last time his Ministry was questioned, and It Is

pplng question a* any parson In the | Intercat'.ng os showing a new lineup in c.untry. He ha* devoted practically I the Chamber of Deputle% seeming ail his life to the study and develop- ggain | 0 demonstrate M. Brtand's ment of American shipping, having as deTernea8 M B politician : young man gone to -ea and worked Alth<>ajth Prein , er BrlM<J 1( * t maa ,

_-_r_-u^r_n_- | votes among Prosiilent MIHeran'l'a Bloc

National, he made up for these losses by skillfully squiring the votes of the entire block of radical Socialists, as | well as individual Deputies on the r 'x- ]

-— i IS r£ RAILROADS WILL SEEK

Guest of Nation Receives Ova- *■*' hlm 0,1 >-v q«e*tio-. ot intjrtee

I rather than exterior policy failed chlefI ly because Premier Briand. by his striking eloquence kept the importance I of the Washington conference always

before the Chamber of Deputies a* the New York.—The great hero of the principal laaue. *

World War paaaed through New York Thai the vote Is a direct mandate :. ilia Way to Washington. He passed to tlm to defend France's Interests alter the manner of heroes, amldat the at the Washington conference, with tee ' Hunlng of guns, the .umultnou* cheer- , BMiunU)re t |, B t he will represent his lag of crowd* and the waving of bunt- emir® gouttrv at the conference, ire. For three hours an abandonment Turning on this issue the vote i* ! welcome unequalled In the history pfcelT to protract Premier Brir.nd'a ■ : the city wa« accorded the slender. | ^,5. | n Washing!qo unless something

grim-lipped, serious-eyed soldier who I unexpected happens.

Ml the Allied arm!®* to victory. ' Responding to certain q-estlont PreIt was Marshal Ferdinand 1 och, 1 m |er Briand was more specific than i.lmeelf, who thus took the city by ] heretofore ax In his policy la Washlng-

Morm — the groat little I*renchman ; too. declaring:

v liose triumph Is atlll freah In the ' “France Intend* to pt.csne a policy i -morie* of taose wi.- welcomed him. | D f aiedlation in the question of the PaGemWa! John J. Perahlng, who heliv I c iflc. A* for a* we are concerned it ed him vanqul.-.i tbe'Genuon horde*. : | t largely a problem of our *e urity v* :ik among the first to'welcome him to jo t* oi>tained by moderation ar.a wltht: e shore* of America. Twenty-five j ou t n ny a rrierv pen see The minute t:,..u*and cheering citizens greeted him France Is given anythin; more than ii- the Battery after the gun* of th« j B verbal accord which win guarantee United State* navy had t»oomed their | that security, she will be ready to unite salute acros* the bay. A triumphal i with the rest of the world lu dlsarma-

I roeesaion through the street! follow- | ment, both on land and sea."

ed. At City Hall he was presented However, thl* guarantee will have to •> itik the freedom of the city and ac- be along lines satisfactory to France’s I aimed the “first soldier and strategist war allie*. as Premier B^fniTs man-

Col. Charles Keller, Corps of Engi-

neers, United States army, who has been appointed engineer commissioner of the District of Columbia by President Harding. Colonel Keller, who succeeds CoL Cht.les W. Kirz. Is a decorated veteran of the World War. He was born in New York and gradu-

ated from West Point in IPOO.

FURTHER WAGE CUT

Lines Will Apply to United States

Labor Board Soon to Al-

low Reductions.

•f the age." From there he proceeded the Pennsylvania Station, c-owds flanking the streets to get glimpse of him before he left for Washington. Through ail the demonstration Marshal Foch was quiet and tense. He said little, betraying hl» e-jotlons only in nervous. Jerky movements His keen, blue eyes held a faraway, strained look. The lines of his mouth were set and grim. He seemed to stand apart, remote nitf solltarv. Occasionally be smile.L but even in his smile there was a certain wearines*. Hi* slender, ► '.dleriy figure was garbed in the horizuo Mae of the French army, topped by the red cap of the mershal, witli it* gold lace trimming*. As lie dei-arted for Washington his last word* -verej "1 am too dcaply

touched for words."

date insists that he Is, “with the accord of the Allies." to assure a renllzat'oii of France's rights to .ontlnua to defend her prestige abroai’ while maintaining a strict p „ vf peace and ■xterior and Interior order by a broad

policy of republican:* .

Mr. Herriot. leader of the new union of Left groups which rallied to Premier Brtand's support declared that the treaty of Versailles, contrary to Mr. Tardleu’s definition, does not give to France the right to rcmsln on the Rhine after the expiration, of fifteen years and that, therefore. Premier Briand must seek something to replace thl*. as well as the uns! .ned Franco-

Anglo-Ameiican guaranty.

Premier Briand, In closing, rdternied

New York.—Having emergen from e tbr* itened strike of train service employee* without making concession* to the brotherhood*, the country** fr steam carriers plan to present roou to the railroad labor board proposals ft>. further reductions In the pay of all classes of employees. • *• tiie proceedings which ltd the labor isader* to call off the strike a' the K-he*t of tlie labor board the railroad evecutlv--dld nor yield a t'ngle point of the decision taken by the Association of Railway V- utlves In Chicago on October 14 to * ek at onca a concurrent reduction of rsll.one ••ages and

freight rate*.

1 lie foregoing statements ver» made unequivocally by Interests chre to the Association uf Railway Execuiive* end tlie Eastern Presidents Conferene*. It was pointed out that tlie un’on leaders withdrew their strike orders largely on the statement c* the railroad labor board “that the stibmisslnns of carriers and — ployees on m »ules and working conditions shtll be *■ completely disposed of a* to any particular da*a of employees before a hearing is had on any qt estion cf wages affecting said class of employees on cny carrier affected by Decision No; 147," the dedal* whir ordered the 12 per cent wi,„e reduction into effect on Jrly 1. agnln-t whlc' the Big Five brotherhoods threatened to strike. It was further asserted th. * .e carriers tame out of the Chlcagn conference* without having aasunnd any obligations as to their fu'ore lrbe r policy

his intentli-n to sateguard France * In- i in exchange for Immunity from :

tereM* and recalled bis sevc.liy in con- ; tbreoter.ed walkout

aectiem with tlie IL-hr IncMant «i)d ^

WORLD’S NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM

fl when Germany threatened to cross the

polish frontier*.

"1 have been accused of carrying on j a -dead d..g poUry* of Inertneas,’* said the Premier, "but were Duisburg and Ruhfast dead dog poUclesT When the <;ennan* professed their Intention to the frontier and maintain order

LATEST EVENTS AT WASHINGTON

VUtL^lor^WIrth' £nt W du «

IK DON. Th, Daily N— I, N„ U .d ...rrmpondo.1 telam Itol “ TM a,,. u „. .■n-iuu-r Uorf linyUod r™,.l..«I

Waaiii^tuN ■ | lo , llt

the premier say that he see* very lit- |>r¥n|U . r Itrlalld takes passage for ik prospect* of bring able to t-ttetd j ^ hif nBJ . lo n ttend the •u- n ...nterenra owtuc lo 1 COIlf * rei)C * Washington. With the

I prestige of one of the greatest vlelories of his political career. In which

Irish ;

feated. pl-te it ,

MUST MEET TREATY TERMS Not a "Scrap of Paper.” Rathenat Tell* Amberee. Berlin - It. Writer Rath.-mm, wIk

for ‘ 1,1 I MAIL LOOT $1,000,000

arm a ment conference UnlonlM opjHndtlon

conference.

MEXICO CITY.—Plans are bs.ng

made by the Mexican Govenimeut to reduce ..II production In loiter that

the ii.-iil- are laying exploited. LONDON.—Although the difficulties

being e\ 1 .rrteuccd at Lie Irish confer.ucc aie reported t<* be growing dally more M-nutis, the f-ri remains that :he ronierenc* Is sCU in being and the dope in frequently exprwwed that a -ettiemeiii may be reached despite all

he has already fallen fp«ro power and | l^en recalled as head of the cabinet

54,421,832 ELIGIBLE TO VOTE

Shows 26.759.952 Women

Above 21 Years.

Washington. - The United States h** a potential vctlng strength of 54.421.832, the Cer. u« Bureau an noonced. tlie UC0 iK.ll of the nathm Khowlng 27.d81.88y mm and 2rt.7.Vt.P.C women twenty-one years of «Vc and over «iassed as citizen*. In the male division acre included 2.782.000 necrorz. 61JS9 Indians. 53.411 Japanese. 4(i.«71» Chinese and 7,3*5 of various

Aasi.:i,i::..u^to^uueuu me u-rrmn— j #|ber rures.

LONDON.—Accordirfl tv a Cent.-al rhIN^ARMY IN GLOOM

S'rw a di'i'atch from Vleunu. ex-Kui-i an act of at Morey, Food and B.«r Satisfy

uiigary fur t!- i - “P ^ s t.leut.—Step* prepartftory to a n- » the Americar. fore , in Ger

OHDcv

PARIS —The French Senate B*ve prvu.irr Kriond a vote of cuntMieucv. The \..Ee was 3WI for the uvernmem aud ui.lv nine ugalnst. The chamber

• - vote

-..nmi.

• preiu

betel

;urted '

• Kink of Hungary 1

day.

i.as

DAPEST.—The Hungarian As ly 1- to be cuuvoked within a few tv dethrone Charles. The elec- ;

^f Admiral Iterthv, the Regent, ns (

igary is said t > be among '

The Senate voted it* approval of the repeal of the excess profits tax, effective January 1, 1922. Similar action haa already beer, taken by the House, so that the excess p-ofita tax repeal Is now definitely settled. The portrait of Theodore Roosevelt will appear for the first t.me on a Government security when a new issue of Treasury certihestes is

placed on sale.

For the first time In a year and a half the Treasury announced the issuance of eertificatet of indebtedness at interest ^ate* of less than 5 Proposals for the taxing of undistributed earnings of corporatip met with defeat in the Senate. Three separate amendments on the proposition, two by Senator Jones, of Hew Mexico, and one by Senator Simmons of North Carolina, both Democrats, Passage of the railroad funding bill was urged by Senator Cummins, chairman -f the Senate Interstate Commerce Co imittee. ,n j. report

submitted to the Senate

Will H. Hays, postmaster general an. nounced total loss in New York mail

bag theft Is $1,454,128. The Supreme Court i

November 7.

House defeated an amendment to the Foreign Debt Refunding Bill provid Ing that the rate of interest to be pa.d U.o United St,tes by u* A|l w

recessed to

bids ter ojple-J I ; guuds at . m are f< : tv tbelr

ut purchasing any ' , t . f< rr

sling *287.

! in swuritte*. bringing tl.v tuta' :l

SAN ANTONIO—International & Great .' rtiicni I tail raid uf Texg- ran aU trains on schedule rim: drryi Saturday's walkout of 00U union truln-

i mem.

ratty in center

.( * lie Washington govet Lav. U-m tB>cn and • r«dj to nt- - The Pro mny c nslyts of Ut o'® 1

ndy

shou'd

A teat vote

repeal of

, jvrg^ais that tbr nTiny is to be re- . ' doced caused gluotz -mong the offl-

m) enlisted men.

the Senate as-ured th# iffertd** Pr0f ’ t * U *- An vi Missouri. Democrat words "and each v t ar

after a clause the per^ prov.d ng *or th, contmaar.c,"!, fu' excess profit, tax on ineem# n, !!^ calendar year 192: met ' th *