100 Years Ago June 16, 1922 Ira Clemens of Pittsburg, after two years of service, declined re-election to the presidency of the Southwest Interstate Coal Operators Association although strongly urged to accept it again at their annual meeting in Kansas City yesterday. The coal operators elected H. N. Taylor of Kansas City’s Central Coal & Coke company to succeed Clemens and also decided that no immediate steps would be taken to re-open the coal mines in the southwestern field. The testimony of Mrs. Alf Dainty, an eye witness, was a feature of this morning’s session of the trial in Lamar, Mo., of Rolla McKinney on the charge of first degree murder, for slaying Lee Duff at Morgan's camp, two and a half miles southwest of Minden the night of Nov. 26.