Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 30, 1913, Page 1

The REBELS CLOSE IN ON NUEVA LAREDO Force of 5000 Preparing to Attack Federal Garri- son of 1200 in the Border Town TEN AMERICANS THERE AT THE PRESENT TIME i { Twenty-One Other Americans Just Outside the City—Ameri- l can Troops Ordered to Return Fire if Bullets or Shells Are Sent Across the Line—Terrible Suffering in Sinaloa From Famine—Lack Food and Clothing. s, Dec. 29-—Confirming , from across the line if they are sat- % official reports reached | isfled that the firing by Mexicans is in- partment today of renewed | tentional Vitw it northeastern Mex- | Belated advices from Durango are or e of | to the effect that the constitutionalist the | forces now occupy Gomes Palaclo, and states. | Laredo, 5 ces ars Famine in Sinaloa. ieva La- | Terrible storfes of the sufferings of hat 1f | the people in northern Sinaloa from apon nding quarter is suc- | famine continue to reach the state de- owed immediately | partment and like the preceding re- e upon Ohmaga. | ports they have been turned over to the federal zar- | the Red Cross, which will extend re- 1as taken i 1|lief of food supplies into the difficult | mountain country. Dr. Mensendieck, ! in the little town of Agua Callente de derals have | Baca reports that on October 25, owing \ ‘machine | to_the drought, inhabitants were not s and | only starving, but were without clolh- is a |ing, the well-to-do es well as the poor, inder | so_that women and young girls wepe -ranra, | obliged to hide in their shacks abso- o € Iutely naked and all were suffering ter- on- | ribly from exposure during the cold the | nights. He predicted even worse con- | aitions at the expiration of two months |or about the present date. Nueva Laredo. nt Jesus Ci Venustia the und arty and rales Nine Americans There. Carranza Leaves for North. o : Hermostllo, Mexico, Dec. 29.—General | their e i Carranza, the constitutionalist chief, | th left here todey for Carbo, midway be- ica en Hermosillo and Nogaleg, on the b ™ ary Arizona border. The reason for his un- t nine expected departure for the north was A . < = beriot, | not made known. IS rica nsul ere are = < a in this Federals at Ojinaga Desert. e | P esidio, Texas, Dec. 29—Part of Orders to American Troops. the Mexican federal army tonight was s said department | reported to bave deserted from the fort toda . = rder to the |at Ofinaga, Mexico, opposite here, and Ame = ands to return | after going up the river to have cross- Promy s or shells ' ed to the American side, # TRUNK MYSTERY ON BOSTON AND MAINE N YORK'S EAST SIDE BUYS HAMPDEN ROAD. m Body of = Russian Pole | Single Track Line of Fifteen Miles Durfip Gutter, Which Cost $4,000,000. 29. Beston, The directors of der Dec. mys- + m y» rival the fam- | the Boston and Maine railroad voted . jer of a dozen years rgo | today to purchase or lease the Hamp- e extion of the | den railroad. The terms as to price 3 he notified them | and conditions, it was announced, will for f had watched | be such as may be approved by the loaded | public service commission. 1t was de- e . Ziiter | cided to take over the road as mow | constracted, The directors also voted to follow the recemmendations of the public ser- vice commission that the Boston and Maine join with the Hampden road in petitioning the legislature for relief {lat of | om the obligation to build_branch for. | Unes into Chicopee and Holyok ‘At | Pending the application for legislatio “" | the Boston and Maine will join with | the management of the Hampden road i houen | in taking steps to enable the Boston | n th 3 When Joseph | e © - b3 o ® r kL th t s IS b 3 3 » © i | and Maine to operate the new line. | and The Hampden raliroad is a single track road of about fifteen miles in the western part of the state and cost about $4,000,000. petti m .| GRAND JURY sLow, i PEOPLE FURIOUS. | the lips IS i | * Po- | Fear of Outbreak Against Negroes | | Held in Maryland Jail. Armonw AN rET o e | Chestertown, Md., Dec. 29.—The grand | | jury., which met this morning to take up the cases of the two negroes charg- | ed with the killing of James Coleman, | a well to do and popular farmer, ad- | journed late this afternoon without re- | rning an indictment. i | As a result, the friends of the mur- | ed man were in an angry mood, and | the local autherities feared an out- | break | ff Brown kept all the police, | and deputy sheriffs in the tonight, and no attempt was made | have them patrol the town. | e Fight witnesses were examined to- oo | day, and twelve remain to be examin- | {omorrow. | = Joseph usheart stz PR e ) . e wooa b 5 et urchin to| NATIONALIZING OF | - h aas { THE NEGRO RACE. | Jearned vwhere the trusfk < obtained | Dus to White Man's Ostracism, De- | e e Sve clares Prof. A. E. Park. | Betn r Minsisapolls, Des, 39, -Soclal conal | tions in ‘the United States are tending | years ¢ to_develop in the negro a racial con- | B o sciousness and to organize a negro na- | cnry, iy tionality, declared Albert B. Park, pro- | fessor of sociology of the University of ‘ Chicago, today before the American | ociological society, which is meeting | jointly with the American Eco- ic associstion | The nationalizing tendency among | negroes of this country is the re- | of the white man's ostracism of | black brother,” gaid Protessor He adversely criticized the pub- EERE L TO PROBE DISAPPEARANCE 5 OF THE CARDINAL'S WILL | puric Bk i b [lic utterances of Senator Vardaman ivos. Beticys It | rer Con- | of Mississippi and Governor Blease of | ®2aled or Has Beon Stolen, South Carolina, i rown pro gailon tnto HORN BLOWING TO BE | Car_ | BARRED IN NEW YORK. | enabled SR T | The New Year Not to Be Ushered in With Discordant Blasts. | v York, Dec. 26.—Orders ontended | sop the chimes of historic Trinity | church welcoming the new year from the « drowned In a general tooting of | ampo- as is usually the case, were n t issued by Mavor Kline today. The mayor directed Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo to instruct the po- to suppress horn blowing on New ' ‘ear’s eve, and especiaily in the viein- 1y of Trinity church and other public piaces where celebrations are planned, including Madison Square aprk, where one of the two municipal Christmas trees stand. ised by | of 189 died in which ed to 2d- 1t fo his Birdcage for Secretary Hamlin. Washington, Dec. 29.—A birdcage | made from the bark of an eversreen iree, hearing a Christmas card and the best wishes of Lottie Lester, was | placed today on the desk of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Hamlin. Lottie is the Seattle schoolgirl whose “Belgian hare hunny” ate her papa’s Panama hat and who got a new one | from Mr. Hamlin when she tried to <en tween intor of Holy' neg; <t g e es of $197,800 arc shown in petition of the Ver- « company, with quarries in . and offices in Granville, W Y. The assets are-stated to agenls Cabled Paragraphs Vedrines Flies 3,000 Miles: Caire, Wgypt, Dee. 20.—Jules Ve- drines, the French avlator, arrived at Cairo teday, thus bringing to a suc- cessful end a flight of nearly three thousand miles, which began several weeks ago from Parls Bishop Bars the Tango. Bar-Le-Duc, France, Dec, 20.—The Bishop of Verdun today issued a pas- toral letier forbidding the dancing of the tango in his diocese, He says the tango is intensely dangerous and one of the greatest dlssolvents of the morality of France, Aeroplane to Propel Sledges. London, Dec, 39.—An interesting fea- ture of the equipment to be used by Sir Ernest H. Shackleton on his pro- posed expedition next year across the Antarctic continent will be sledges driven by aeroplane engines and an aeroplane with clipped wings to aid in propelling the siedges over the ice. Curfew on New Year's Morn, London, Dec. 29.—Curfew will toll at 3 o'clock ‘on New Years morning for the hotels of the West End of London. This year the hotel men vainly begged for an increase of half an hour, for they feel keenly the competition of the night clubs, which are permitted to Temain open as long as they please. BOYS SCRAMBLE TO CADDY FOR WILSON, Secret Service Man Restores Order Out of Chaos. Pass Christian, Miss, Dec. 29.— President Wilson played 13 holes of golf today for the first time in many weeks. He made some of the holes under bogey and succeeded in defeating S. N., something he rarely does. A half dozen youngsters clambered on the running board of the president’ automobile when it entered the =olf grounds and engaged in a free-for-all fight for possession of his golf clubs. The president laughed heartily as he leaned out and separated the contest- ants, while one of the secret service men ' told the boys if they didn’t behave and take their turns orderly each day they would not be permitted to caddy for Mr. Wilson at all. After that a truce was declared. “The president is mending slowly,” said Dr. Grayson today. “His grippe and oold have entirely left him now, but what he needs is & rest from work and some exe 3 The president is receiving many in- vitations to attend social functions, school plays and entertainments, buf he is declining them all. STRIKE ON “FRISCO” ROAD IS AVERTED. Receivers to Make Concessions to Telegraph Operators. St. Louis, Mo., Deo. 29.—There will be no strike of telegraphers on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad, ac- cording to indications tonight. ~The strike committee of the Order of Rail- way Telegraphers will mest the receiv- ers of the raliroad tomorrow in an at- tempt to reach an agreement on the demands for an increase in wages and better working conditions. There wers conferences throughout the day and James W, Tusk, chairman | of the receivers, said tonight that he thought an agreement would be reach- ed. The outcome of the conferences thus far may be summarized as fol~ lows: The railroad company has agreed to a wage increase. but not to the 15 per cent. increase asked by the grievance committee. The railroad company has agreed to pay overtime, but not double overtime | as asked by the men The chief points now at issue are the matters regarding conditions of 1abor. GOMPERS' FATE RESTS WITH SUPREME COURT | High Tribunal to Decide Whether or | Not He Goes to Jail. Washington, Dec —On the strength largely of a brief filed today with the supreme court of the United States will depend whether Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, must go to fail for contempt of the District of Colum- bia supreme court. The contempt sentence arose out of the injunction of the district supreme court against boycotting the Bucks Stove and Range company. The dis trict court of appeals reduced the sen- tence imposed by the trial court from one year to thirty days. 1t also reduced jail sentences imposed upon John Mitchell, former member of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, to a $500 fine for each. Oral arguments as to the validity of all thp sentences will | be made before the court uar about Jan- BLAZE AT MONTREAL CAUSES $300,000 LOSS Nearest Available Water Supply Was a Mile Distant. Montreal, Dec, 20.—Montreal facing a waier famine, day to conqus: 3 fire to save a xetion of the cits from destruction. To (nis end. water wae orcught from ihe St l.awrence river, a mile away from On- tario street and Providence lane, the heart of the threatened district. The city hydrants were ail but idle, ow ing to a break In the main water con- dait on Christmas night. Two three story buildings and sisty automobiles were destroyed while the firemen were devoting their effor:s suo- cesstully tu preventing the flames from reaching a 2,000 gallon tank of gas- olene, One fireman was injured. Tho es- timated property loss was nearly $:90,- 000. The buildings destroved were owned by Joseph Laurler. already was obliged to- Steamers Reported by Wireless. Sable Island, N. 8., Dec. 29.—Steamer Sicilian, Glasgew for Bosign, signalled 570 miles from Boston at 7.30 & m, (corrected time), Steamer Barbarossa, Bremen New York, signalled at 6 p. m. position given. ay, Cape Race, N, F., Dec, 29, Minneapolls,” London for New York, signalled 1,333 miles east of Sandy Hook #t 6 p. m. Dock 8.30 a. m. Fri- ay. for No Dock 8.30 a. m. Thurs- Steamship Arrivals, Rotterdam, Dec, 26.—Steamer Russia, New York for Libau, Hamburg, Dec, 28. New York. Philadelphia, Dec. 29 —Steamer Man- iton, Antwerp via Boston. Westfield Home Burned. Westfield, Conn., Dec. 29.—The dwell- ing house of Mrs. Charles Sears was burned to the ground late tonight, the family escaping in_their night clothes. teamer Patricia, be|buy a hat conflscated by eusioms | The origin of the iire is unknown, The doss i anout $2,500 » his opponent, Dr. Cary T. Grayson, U. | NORWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1913 Only Two Saw Button on Man INVESTIGATION OF PANIC AT CALUMET BEGINS, SCORE OF WITNESSES Preponderance of Evidence Tends to Explode Claim of Miners' Federation —Cry Raised by Somebody in Hall. Calumet, Mich, Dec. 20—Two out of a score or more of witnesses testi- fied before a coroner’s jury today that the man who caused the Christmas eve disaster wore a white button like the | badge of the Citizens Alliance. Im- | mediately after adjournment of ~the hearing, O, N. Hilton, the Denver at- | torney in charge of the Western Fed- | eration of Miners' legal interests said | further investigation of this phase of the inquiry would be attempted tomor- Tow. Contradictory Testimony. The union lawyer did not commeit. on the fact that the president and half a dozen members of the women's aux- | 1liary of the federation swore that they saw no insignia on the man and that union members who stood in the vesti- baule of Italian hall for an hour before | the panic started said the alarm came within the hall and no person ing such a button had passed them. Believe Cry Was Raised in Hall. | { In the opinion of Anthony Lucas, | prosecuting attorney of Houghton county, who conducted the examination of witnesses, facts fairly well estan- lished today were that an excitable | member of the audience raised the cry, i that there was po actual fire in the | +2ll and that the doors were open and | the stairway clear when the panic started, WHITMAN TO TURN OVER HIS EVIDENCE. | Will Give It to Governor’s Graft Investigator. Special New York, Dec. .—District Attorney Whitman today adduced evidence at his John Doe inquiry into state high- Way graft of alleged crimes committed in Ulster and Monroe counties and an- nounced that he would turn the evi- dence over to James W. Osborne, Gov- ernor Glynn's special graft investigat- or, and to the district attorneys of those counties for prosecutic The evidence of aileged crime in Monroe county copsisted of an affi- davit by Frank W. Truesdale of Greece that the amount he and his partner were to have received for a state con- tract for oiling a road had been in- creased in order to permit them to contribute $300 to the democratic stite committee; that in Ulster county of testimony 'by Miss Mary Diamond, a stenographer, that she had been car- ried on the 'payrolls of the highway department as a day laborer and that her signature on a voucher for her pay | had been forged and part of her pay | withheld. “Evidence was also adduced | tending to show that payrolls for state | road work in Ulster county had been padded. I ANOTHER DESPERADO HAS ELUDED ARREST. | Kills Officer, Wounds Several Others and Makes His Escape. Pa, | _ Pittsburgn, Dec. 29.—Henry | Rokowski, aged 22, who shot and killed | an officer and mortally wounded a for- | eign woman and man yesterday and to- | day fought a posse in'a woods at West | Homestead, a suburb, has disappeared | tonlght. Constable Martin Windt was killed after he had arrested Rokow on a charge of assault and battery pr ferred by his parents. After killing the officer, Rokowski wen® to the home of AL Yakabik, looking for his sweetheart and shot and mortally wounded Mrs Yakabik and a boarder named Bau- | kosidi | It was learned tonight that Rokowski | had planned to murder six members | of the Yakabik family, his sweetheart, Mary Moose, Baukoski and a stepson. Rokowski fled before officers reached the scene. During the night a posse | met him in a woods. Shots were ex- | changed. Today Rokowski barricaded | himself ‘in a shanty, but while the | posse mapped out a plan of procedure, either to blow the shanty up with dy- namite, burn it or riddle it with bul- | lets, Rokowski, aided by a heavy fog, escaped. STEAMER TASMAN IN A BAD PLIGHT. | Water Gaining in Hold and Passengers Still Aboard. Melbourne, Australia, Dec. —~—A wireless message received at noon fo- day from the steamer Tasman, ashore in the Gulf of Papua, reported 15 feet f water in the hold and gaining rapid- At that hour the steamers wi B had been despatched to the assistance of the Tasman had not arrived. It is considered possible that the Tasman | will be a total wreck. | In addition to Mme. Lillian Nordica, { Alva Adams, former governor of Colo- |rado, and ‘Thomas G. Skallsmith of | California, previously mentioned in the despatches as passengers, Major Syd- ney A. Cloman, a member of the Panama-Pacific exposition and ex- military attache at London, is aboard the steamer. OBITUARY. Dr, Emma J. Musson. Philadelphia, Dec. 20.—Dr. Emma M. Musson, professor of otology at the Wome: Medical college and well known throughout the country as a throat and nose specialist. died vester- day at her home in this city. She was 50 years old. During the summer of 1908 she worked with Dr. Grenfell in Labrador. > Won the Mackay Trophy. San Diego, Cal, Dec. 29.—Flying 53 miles in a biplane in 46 minutes and locating an “invading” body of troops and_their equipment, Carberry, pilot, and Lieut. F. Zeidel of the Wirs{ Aerc corps of the United States army, today captured the Mackay trophy. The contest took place in the war game, California to Vote on Prohibition. Sacramento, Dec. 29,—With the filing today of petitions from ten counties, aggregating 25,639 names, the proposed law providing for total prohibition in the state of Califgrnia will go on the general election ballot in 1914 It is said to be one of the most drastic pro- hibition measures ever proposed in the United States. Lieut. Joseph | Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion * the City’s Population A Disagreement by Schmidt Jury BUCM WERE THE INDICATIONS AT MIDNIGHT, DEADLOCK TEN HOURS Foreman Tells Court It ls a Hopeless Case—Says Some of Jurors Refused to Enter Into Discussion of the Case. New York, Dec. 20.—A possible dis- agreement of the jury in the case of Hans Schmidt, the German priest who has been on frial three weeks on the charge of murdering Anna Aumuller, was indicated at midnight tonight. At that hour the jury had been out nearly ten hours. They reported to Judge Warren W. Foster of the court of gen- eral sessions that they had been un- able to reach a verdict. The judge Justice they ought to deliberate fur- ther, and the jury retired again. Case Given to Jury in Afternoon. The trial of the one-time assistant rector of St. Joseph’s church came to a close-early this afternoon after Judge Toster had briefly charged the jury, which had heard Schmidt's counsel de- scribe the man as tainted with hered- itary insanity. The prosecution held that Schmidt was sane at the time he killed Arina Aumuller, cut ner body into pieces and tarew them into the Hudson river. He has been shamming insanity, counsel for the state con- tended. “A Hopeless Case. The foreman of the jury in reporting [Mhat a verdict had not Deen reached said he feared it “was a hopeless case.” Judge Foster upon questioning the jur- ors learned that he could not aid the men in any point of law because there had been no discussion of such char- acter, he was informed, during the de- liberation: “I think we are close to a standstill,” juror No. 5 said. “We can't ve a cog or a wheel None of the jury asked a question before retiring again. Some of the Jurors Balky. Twenty minutes later the jurors re- appeared and complained that their room was too uncomfortably cold for tenancy. Judge Foster said a court at- tendant had informed him the room wes as warm as the court room. He requested them to retire and resume discussion. The foreman reported that some of the jurcrs had refused to en- ter any disc n of the case at all Judge Foster warned thenithey must, in obedience to their oath. 5 LENIENCY FOR WRITER OF BLACK HAND LETTER. Woman' Receives Sentence Period Spent in Jail, Covering Philadelphia, Dec. 29.—\1s, Stella M. Hodge, who admitted sendins a “Black Hand” Mtter to Hampton G. Silcox at ber trial last week, was sentenced by Judse Thompson in the United States court this afternoon to two months’ imprisonment, dating from the time of her commitment. As she was arrested October 20 and committed two days later she has not only served her full term, but a week additional. She thanked Judge Thomp- son for his lenfency ani was permited | 10_go. Mrs, Hedge, three years ugo, con- fessed killlng Emil Amann, superio- tendent of the water works. at Warren, Pa., but later repudiated the confes- sion. She had been traced and sum- moned in the case by Sticox. About a | vear ago Silcox received the “Black | Hand” letter and a box of candy he | belleved to be poisoned. The letter s traced back to Erie by jostal in- spectors, and Mrs. Hodge was arrest- ed there. She said she had sent the letter to Sllcox in revenge. COLES NOMINATED FOR { MAYOR; OF MIDDLETOWN. Republicans Select a Business Wan as Their Standard Bearer. Conn,, Dec, —Frank | Middletown, | A. Coles, a well known bu man, |tum§’hl was nominated for vor by | the republi st with | Alderman Nir. Coles received 207 votes and Mr. Strcud 191—sixteen votes majority. At ine democratic caucus last week Dr. Jau . Lawton defeated former Mayor Wi lard C. Fisher by 18 vote: he election occurs on January '9 and it : predicted that it will be the hottest in 1 or Fisher was at a caucus of che [ party” held tonight, and attended by about fifty citizens, A full tickct w placed in the field for the city electi made up from the nominees of tha re- publican and democratic tickets. | $10,000,000 SUIT AGAINST | THE QUAKER OATS COMPANY. Action Brought Under One of Sections of Sherman Law. and_the direc- | tors of the Great Western Cereal com- pany were made defendants in a suit for 10,000,000 damages filed in the United States district court here today by Willlam A. Tilden and Charles D. | Thompson, _receivers for the Cereal company. The suit was brought under section seven of the Sherman anti-trust law, and was the result of the sale of the trade names and principal proper- tles of the Cereal company to the Quaker Oats company, June 32, 1911, MAY STARVE OR | FREEZE TO DEATH Thirty Thousand Persons Facing Death in Albania. Parls, Dec. 29 —Thirty thousand persons are in danger of starving or freezing to death in_Albania, accord- g to reports from William ¥, How- ard of New Yorl , who has just finished a 400 mile journey through the remote | mountainods districts, which he tra- versed by horse and afoot. As a re- sult of the Servian occupationfi he says, more than one hundred villages and towns have been destroyed. Twelve thousand houses huye Dpeen burned and 4,000 men, women and cihl- dren killed. One hundred thousand persons are homeless, $30,000 Fire at Springfield. Springfield, Mass., Dec, 20.—A fire ‘which broke out at 9.30 tonight caused the Adaskin Furniture company a loss of approximately $30.000 and badly damaged the large store building in which they are located. directed them that in the interests of | Condensed Telegrams Pennsylvania, as a Producer of coal, broke all previous records this year. “Granny” Deese, the oldest person in Alabama celebrated her 107th birth- day at Mobile Sunday. Dr. Abraham Jacobi, ex-president of the American Medical association, was cured of cancer by radium. Mrs. John Waldman of New York died in the city hospital from burns recelved while trying to light a Christmas tree. The Busin Section of Buffalo, W. Va., was destroyed by fire of unknow origin yesterday. The loss is est mated at $125,000. The Stamp Collection of the late Earl of Crawford has been purchased by the firm of Edward Healy & Co., of London for $80,000. High School Fraternities were criti- cized yesterday by speakers at the an- nual convedtion of the Phi Gamma Deita fraternity at Atlantic City. John Ritty, Aged 65, who is credited with inventing the cash register, died yesterday at the home of his sister, Mrs. Thomas Cooper at Dayton, O. After a Quarrel, said to have been due to jealousy, Ollie Blades, a young farmer, shot and killed his bride of month near Republic, Mo., vesterday. At the Christmas Exercises of the First Presbyterian church at Cran- bury, N. J. the pastor was presented with' a bushel basket containing $200. General Edwin Louis Hayes, the oldest living general in the United States celebrated his 95th birthday vesterday at his home at Bloomfleld, N. 3 Mre. Rebecca Clarke of London, 109 years old, picked out Christmas day as the appropriate time for the mar- riage of her youngest son, Harry, who is 67. Mollie Chatfield, an artist, was found dead In her studio at New York yest day with a steel paper cutter Griven through her heart. Apparently it was a case of suicide. Mild Weather Has Permitted th plowmen on the farm of former United States Senator Lorimer to “turn over” 100 acres of soil on his 600-acre mint farm in Michigan. Six Hangars and two acroplanes at the Hempstead, New York aviation field, where some of America's fore- most aviators learned to fly, were des- troyed by fire yesterday. Mrs. George Secord, 30 years old, an actress, fell or jumped from a fifi story window in a hotel at Chicago yesterday and was Kkilled, Mrs. Se- cord’s husband is an actor. Postmaster General Burleson has barred from the mails any parcel con- taining the body of any wild animal or bird killed in violation of the laws of any state, territory. or district. Mayor Patrick J. Moore has caused a sensation in Pittsfleld, Mass., by an- nouncing he will appoint a censor for the charity ball in 2id of the House of Mercy hospital to prevent the tango. Burning His Finger Tips with strong acids falled to enable a deserter from the Marine corps to successfully pass the scr; atiny of the “finger prints” e: perts when he tried to enlist in the | navy. A PRESCRIPTION FOR MONEY PANICS Governor Baldwin Expresses Firm Faith in the Ef- ficacy of the New Currency Law NEED GOOD MEN ON FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD His Excellency Has Faith to Believe That Such Will be Ap- pointed—Address Before Economic Club at New Haven —Senator Hollis, a Democrat, Points Out Defects of the Law—Senator Weeks Says it is up to the Administration New Haven, Conn., Dec. working out of the new banking curreney law will dep: administration,” said se Weeks of Massachusetts tonigh have schemes, T beliove that fears that there would be inflation would be well grounded. I do not beileve, though, that the board will be without cour- age. dressing the Economic club @n Want to Keep Politics Out. currency question. | “What ambition has President Wil- wornle, Administration will have 10| son other than to make good befors S en e ¥ federal = reserve | the country? We democrats want to D araiCiess Rolitics we have in | jceep politics out of this reserve board, that board, the better the law will be. | The democratic senators got togsther ooy, case, the success of the systel | and decided they would not recommend depends upon the character of the | o"gingle man for the board. . Thet 1 board. ~The men on it should stand |what we are trying te Ao te keep poll- as high in the estimation of the busi- ness men of the country as the judges | who sit on the supreme bench stand in the estimate of the lesal profe and the same ambitions shoul ence the men who sit on the board as influence the justices of the supreme | court, which is to serve their coun- try.” tics out of the board.” The dinner of the Economic club was attended by bankers from all parts of the state by special invitation extend- ed through the Connecticut Bankers' association. Governor Baldwin wel- comed the two senators and President ‘Wilson H. Lee of the club presided. Governor Baldwin said: Governor Baldwin's Senator Hollis Points Out Defects. enator H. F. Hollis Spesdtiy democrat, who | also sat on the senate finance commit- | _ This bill means a great deal to New tee and was the other speaker of the | England. Her banks henceforth are to evening, said: be governed, in some things, by an “The two defects which have been | authority out of New England, into the very constitution of which they will be re that it gives | —most of them—soon Incorporated. advantag nd pointed out in the bill the banks too ma the danger of infiation. In the fl Her currency is to ba varied in volume Dlace, wa gave the bankers advantages | from time to time by a national au- as we wished to coax them into the | LhOFity working from Washington, svstem. \We gave them every beucfie| “S0 far as Ican see, the new banking we could; we ov 4 it a little, in my | Bill 1s, for one thing, a pretty good opinion. But ew that If we did Preseription against panics. We are not get the bankers in there wou.d be | no longer to be driven to look to some no system. | Wall street Colossus to volunteer to s to the danger o flation, we ' 8 Dply the funds to tide over a period have copled from the cxperience of |Of stress; or to a secretary of the others. There i3 not one thing in the | treasury to exercise an absolute and bill but what has been tried out by | impiense power towards the same end. A ‘ooard of public officials, not one, ave Will be looked to for the necessary ac- others. If tha federal board up of the right men, of men who courage and can say ‘o' when they | tion. Who will they be? There 18 the should say ‘Mo, and are not w crucial point. I have falth to belleve kneed, there will be no ¢ that good men will be appointed on men on the board have no backoone | the federal reserve board, wise, inde- and can be influenced by those who ) pendent, firm.” CLARKE TO SUCCEED !A BUMPER YEAR GENERAL A. H. EMBLER | FOR FARM PRODUCE Elocted st Meeting of Southern New | Not Likely, Howsver, to Reduce the Cost of England Telephone Company. t the rezular | Washington, Dec, Ten billion e board of di- | dollars’ worth of products, five billion N neland | dollars of cash income—a bumper year ew Haven, Dec, 2! December meeting of rectors of the Southern As Henry W. Torney was being mar- ried in New York he received a tele- gram from Washington telling of the death of his father, George H. Torney surgeon general of the United States army. Cattle Commissioner Jefirey O Phelps has called upon the Connecti- cut Humane society to co-operate with his department in an effort to stamp out glanders among horses in the state. Mrs. Warren F. Skinner, wife of a Lynn, Mass., furniture salesman, com- le; company. yesterday afier- |in spite of droughts and other setbacks B0 Ba 1S N Olatks was actenlasd. |—is the 1913 record of six million retary and t urer f the company | American farms. to succeed W H. Embler | The most successful vear of hus- on Januar t, 1914. General Embler, [ bandry in the United States brought who has been treasurer of the com- | forth $6,100,000,000 worth of crops, of pany since 1882 and who has attained | which $2,896,000,000 were represented the age of seventy-nine and one by cereals alone, and $3,650,000,000 | vears, will be retired at the close of | Worth of animals sold and siaughtered the present year under the company's |in apimal products. The value of the pension_plan, | 1918 crops is twice as great as that | PN Tetarke's experlence covers a |of 1899; more than a billion doliars | range of more than thirty-three over 1009, and substantially greater | Born at Portland, Connecticut, on than 1012, "OF all the crops, howev Venber deth; 1861, ‘He cmne to it is estimated that 52 per cent. wi Haven three years later. In 1580 he Temain on farms where they were pro entered the employ of the Conn duced and that 20 per cent, of the an icut Telephone company as a cle fmal production will remain. On tha | ohe vesr later, was appointed basis, the cash income is estimated b the department of agriculture at $5,- cen off Whe: Haven office. 847,000,000, succeeded by the | of the New company was Vew Fngland Telephone But desptte a record year of crop | 52 aen, Mr= Clarke bacame value—although the record of produc- | manager and cashier of the New Tla- | tion has fallen—and the fact that the mitted suicide by hanging yesterday at a private hospital, where she had been undergoing treatment for a mental disorder. Mrs. Thaddeus A. Thompson, wife of the United States minister to Co- lombia, was operated upon at a hospi Her tal at Baltimore sterday. physicians reported that the operation was successful. Fines Aggregating $300 have been assessed against August Belmont, Morgan Belmont and C. Oliver Iselin, of state game la their preserve 1 Jr., for violation 1y while hunting on Garnett, S. C. Mrs. Lillian Devereux Blake, ploneer in the woman suffrage move ment in this s il in sanitarium at Englewood, N. J., is not | expected to live. More Than 12,000 Persons, including 4,000 women and ‘children of Chicago, who did not have a Christmas dinner rhursday, were fed by the Volunteers of America in the First Regiment armory Sunday. Two Policemen and a special guard were injurgd in a riot at the silk mills of the Sidhey Blumenthal co Shelton vesterday, where been in progress in the for several weeks. weave George Matthias of Seymour was ves- terday appointed by Judge Thomas in the United States district court, re- ceiver of the . J. Von Gal Hat com- pany and of Hawes Von Gal, incor- porated of Danbur; The Skunk Was yesterday added to the list of natural resources which should be conserved or protected be- fore exterminated, the department of agriculture classifying this animal as of “great economic importance.” After Taking the Precaution to tie & rope around his neck that his body might not be lost, Seaman Frank Jamos, aged 24, jumped overboard vesterday from the steamer Aseania which arrived at Portland. Me., Sun- day from London. Edward M. Grout, former controller of New York city, was yesterday in- dicted for perjury, He is accused of having made a false report to the su- | perintendent of banks of the resources of the Union bank of Brooklyn, of waich he was for two years president. e . Robert Maloney, a Magician, who istered at a lodging hotel at Cin- cinnati, under his stage name of J. R. Willard, shot and killed his wife, Othello and Frances, his one vear old daughter, while they slept in their bed yesterday. Maloney then rushed from the room, in his undergarments and ran shrieking like madman down the sirect. He was caplured. creased production on farms may ap- pear to be from the consumers’ stand- point, it does not follow that such in= creased production would resujt in any increase in the cash Income per farm or per capita of farm population, or that prices paid by consumers would be of a rer was added tha nt si rday as secret v ang. which positlon he number of farms has increased 11 per T 108, When Lo was frans. | cent. since 1910, untll there are mow ferred fo the executive office of the | estimated to be 6,600,000 farms in the | company and appointed andit Iie | country, the department, in a discus- | Gontinued as auditor until the crea- sion of the subject, made public to- | tion of the office of t rer day, does not take the view that a low- | i 1891, when he was elected to that ' er cost of living will follow as a eon- inosm}»' To his function of nt sequence. “However _desirable in- ary in 1908 1d | urer. At the same clared the regular of 1 8-4 per cer & any lower," says the report. “Had T5th, 1914, to_sto of Yecord | the total production in 1913 equalled e st or exceeded the 1912 production, it on December FILIPINOS FRIENDLY TO UNITED STATES seems probable that the cash income per farm would not have been greater and might have been less than in 1912, but it is extremely doubtful whether the cost to the consumer would have been any less, because retail prioss are promptly raised on a prospect ef under-production, but are very slow to | decline if there is over production. Commissioner Quezon Says They Are Pleased with Wilson’s Policy. 29.—Manuel Washington, Dec. Quezon, resident commissioner from | the Philippines in congress, returned today from Manila with the declar: that since the announcement of Pr CHANGE IN DATES OF THE RESERVE BANK HEARINGS ident Wiison's Philippine policy the | Committee’s Plans Delayed Owing to Filipinos are more friendly towards 1 ‘of MoAdoou Americans than they ever were g | that they now look to the United State government as well as to its renre- sentatives in the Phi as their Washington, Dec. 39—The reserve bank reorganization fiomn’t“ls M”f x announced & change in its plans for | real benefactors. Mr. Queson went to holaing publie hearings in New York | s e Caomt Wilaon, A |and Boston. It had planned to st fwo outlined in m;} message delivered to the g”;mlg If;ws‘}’;;"(l. ?:rth‘n:unsux iy Mlipino people by Governor Gene A % s e et with the enthusinstic | 10 Teturn to Naw York for forty-elght approval of the people of the islands Accoraiby BIne plan_the i and especially the step giving the na- | According to the new plat, the SoR1- fives control of hoth branches of the s Wil Ml A Y Philippine legislature. No wholesale ‘L‘:-")smfl-fln e o Jac removal mor any political appointment | the Sth, It witl it in Bostor, SOUATE of American officlals has been made. | {288 13 And, ot froft BOg 5 | not be changed, according to the an- nouncement. The change in plans pas made om | Meriden Accepts Compensation Law. | Meriden, Conn, Dec. The city £ht voted account of the iliness of Secretary aof counell in pecial session toni un unanimousiy to accept the provisions ot the Treasury MeAdoo. Aeln'-??‘sh ha the workingmen's compensation act (shows a steady improvement, SutEs {and Mavor Donovan was authorized ; General Ruper: Blue of T B | to file the necessary papers. The may- | bealth service prdered Test. or and ths c:ty ofefals are opposed to | of five days, ing oul moncy in insurance pre i | Tayms and the city will carry its own | Wealth a Bar to Refigion. ek, | Pniiadelphia, Dec. 29—The wealth = E i }ar the Indiand fn "‘;;Jnht;manirn’\:tkz‘-.; Steamers to Compete With Railroads. | difficult for missionaries to Chicago, Di -Steamboals are |in the ways they sbould v n;\adml:;l; | to enter into active competition with | John Markoe toduy to the membars |"the railroads for freight and passenger | of the Indian's Home a2 raffic between Chicago and New Or- lzmt;sthu;t lgg‘l‘nguhmx:: ong.mon leans and Kansas Clty, Mo, next |Worl becar | spring, according to announcement and coal had been dlscova"d’:n the which reached Chicago merchants to- |}ands owned by the Indians, Aay. Stops will be made at the princi- | to 8ome of the aborigines :Ah: income pal transfer points on the way. |as much as $3,000 a month. | | _ Philadelphia, Dee, 20.—The United | Btates court today appeinted recetvers i for the Hreakwater company of (his | olty, The assets of the company ave placed at between one and two million , dollars and the liabilities at beiween | thres and four millions, 3 OBITUARY. J Christian Bang. Reoeivers for Breakwater Company.