Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 2, 1915, Page 1

Norwich Bulletin VOL. LVIL—NO. 129 ) NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1915 TWELVE PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Anv. Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population VICTORIES BY TEUTONIC ’ Say That Several CLAIMED ALLIES & - - v Forts of the Girdle . North of Przemysl Have Been Taken [RUSSIANS EVACUATE TOWN OF RADOM Engagements Between Austrians and Italians are Be- comeng More Spirited—An Artillery Duel is in Progress on the Plateau of Folgaria and Lavaronne —Paris Admits the Recapture by the Germans of Portions of Trenches on the Outskirts of the Le Pretre Forest—A Zeppelin Raid on London, Re- sulting in the Death of Four Persons, Has Been Followed by a Renewal of Attacks on German Business Houses in English Towns—Austrian Av- iators Have Flown Across the Adriatic and Drop- ped Bombs on Bari ties Small. and Brindisi, With Casual- Germar ment and Austrian official state- in agreement on the con- of the Teutonic allies Notwithstand- ing the recent optimistic reports from Petrograd that the fighting along the river San, Galicia, in the neighborhood of Przemysl, was developing in favor of the Ru it would seem that the Austro- man investment of Przemysl is_ drawing closer. Both Vienna and Berlin say that three of the forts of the girdle on the north front of the fortress have been carried by storm and that 1,400 prisoners and 28 guns were taken at these points. South of the Dniester, the town of Stry has been captured and more than 9,000 prisoners, together with eight cannon and fifteen machine guns. An unofficial Berlin report says the Rus- sians have evacuated the important town of Radom, in Poland, to the south of Warsaw. Fierce fighting continues in Galicia and at some points along the western line, while the engagements between Austrians and Itallans are becoming more spirited, an indication that the Italian troops are coming within strik- ing distance of the prepared Austrian defenses in the mountains. Paris admits the recapture by the Germans of portions of trenches on the outskirts of the Le Pretre forest, but at other points on the western line claims progress for the allies, notably to the north of Arras, at Souchez, Avhere heavy losses were inflicted on the Germans in the “labyrinth,” pear Neuville St. Vaast, where the German works, the French assert, are falling into their hands. An artillery duel between the Aus- trians and Italians is in progress on the Plateau of Iolgaria and Lavaronne rnd minor fighting is taking place on the Carinthian frontier. A Zeppeiin raid over London, the Germans announce, was in the way of reprisal for the recent bombardment by allied aviators of Ludwigshafen and resulted in the killing of four persons and the injury of a few others. This raid has resuited in a renewal of at- tacks by mobs on German business houses in English town Austrian aviators have flown across the Adriatic and dropped bombs on Barl and Brindisi, in southern Italy. The casualties were small. A British official statement says that a Turkish prisoner captured two weeks &0 in the Dardanelles campaign, as- serted that up to that time the Turk- ish losses on the Gallipoli peninsula were over 40,000 men, COUNT VON BERNSTORFF TO VISIT PRESIDENT TODAY. Declined to State Last Night What He Proposed to Discuss. ‘Washington, June 1. — Tomorrow Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, will call on President Wil- son. The ambassador requested the interview. 1t will be his first visit since he returned from Germany after the European war began. He declined to say tonight what he proposed to discuss, but revealed that his action was taken without instruction from his government. In well informed %ua.rlers the bellef was expressed that hile the ambassador’s visit might not affect the forthcoming note, what the president might say informally to the pmbassador wouid be transmitted to the German government and be taken into consideration when the American communication is received in Berlin. Jt was thought likely that Mr. Wilson would seek to impress upon the am- pbassador the earnest intention and unvarying determination of the United States to obtain an accountability for ast violations of its rights by the lerman navy and a guarantee against fheir repetition. f KCTION OF RUMANIA AND BULGARIA BOTHERS ROME. That Into Fhere Was a Firm Conviction * Rumania Would Follow Italy War. Rome, Via Paris, June 1, 6.20 p. m.— Fhe Rome papers and people are ab- orbed in the question of the possible ntrance of Bulgaria and Rumania in the war. There was a firm conviction nong the people generally that Italy ad only to declare war against Aus- ia to bring in Rumania, but a week as passed and Rumania shows no isposition apparently to depart from Jer neutrality. It {5 explained here in certain au- horitative circles that Rumania is 1till negotiating with Great Britain and Russia fo rrecognition of her claims. late advices are to the effect that Russia especially is not inclined to ve way to what she considers rather erated demands, particularly i’ in the Sountr, ., — view of the fact that Italy is now at war and this has already relieved the German and Austrian pressure, chief- ly in Galicia. BRITISH SUBMARINE SUNK TWO TURKISH TRANSPORTS One of Them Laden with Troops, in the Sea of Marmora. London, June 2, 12.40 a. m—A Reu- ter despatch from Athens say “It is reported from Constantinople that a British submarine has torpe- doed two Turkish transports, one of them laden with troops, in the Sea of Marmora.”, ‘Whether the above item refers to a new attack by a British submarine on a Turkish transport in the Sea of Marmora. or is a belated report from Constantinople to Athens of a sim- ilar occurrence announced last month is not known. The British admiralty on May 23 reported concerning the operations of the submarine E-14 that the under- water boat in the Sea of Marmora sank a transport April 29 and on May 10 a large transport fllled with troops. GERMAN BAKER ORDERED TO LEAVE JAPAN Had Been Sending Secret Documents Concealed in Bread. Yokohama, June 2, 3.09 a. m.—A German baker, accused of sending se- cret documents concealed in bread and cakes to German prisoners at Tokio, has béen ordered to leave Japan with- in a week. Four other Germans en- gaged in business here have similarly been ordered deported, “for commit- ting acts against the welfare of the country.” Turks Nearly Surrounded Allie: London, June 2, 1.25 a. m.—Advices from Mitylene, according to an Athens despatch to the Exchange Telegraph company, say that allied troops re- cently were on the point of being sur- rounded by several companies of Turks who succeeded in breaking the British lines between Eski Mezentare and Kaltopou when allied warships hurried to the scene and by their timely ar- rival dispersed the Turks, killing the greater rart of them. DESPONDENT AUTHOR’S BODY FOUND IN RIVER James Eugene Farmer Unsuccessful in Getting Play Accepted. . New York, June 1.—The body of a man found floating off New Dorp, Staten Island, Sunday, was identified today as that of James Eugene Farm- er, an author and historian. Friends said that Mr. Farmer had been despondent because he was un- successful in inducing producers to accept a play he had written. Mr. Farmer wrote books of fiction and was the author of some historical works, including Essays on French History, The Grenadier, The Grande Madamoiselle, Brinton Elliot, and Versailles and the Court Under Louis $50 Dividend on $100 Stock. New Bedford, Mass, May 1.—The Grinnell Manufacturing company this morning mailed to its stockholders a cash dividend of $50 per share. The par value of the stock is $100 per share The management said that the divi- dend was paid out of the accumulated carnings of previous years. The Grin- nell manufactures fine cotton goods. et sk ey Boston Fireman Killed. Boston, June l—Jeremiah J. Fitz- patrick, a member of the fire depart- ment, was killed today while respond- ing to an adarm in South Boston. The wheels of a ladder truck he was driv- ing struck a curbing and he was thrown to the ground and the wheels passed over his head. Former Hartford Police Chief Dead. Hartford, Conn., June 1~—Former Chief of Police Willilam Gunn died at his home here tonight after a long ill- ness. He was 63 years old. He en- tered the police department in 1876 and in 1905 was made chief, resigning in 1912 on account of ill health. He is survived by his widow and two sons. No Liquor on B. & M. Dining Cars. Boston, June 1—Beginning today, the serving of liquors in dining cars on the Boston and Maine system is forbidden by the meanagement of the railroad. One of the officials sald the road was merely following the example of many other large railroad companies ~ Cablr;e@e“’fr}’igraphs s,&“ iling OFf in Paris. e «© 1, 440 p. m.—Births are to show the effects of the According to the statistics for .S there were 1,850 births in May, the tenth month of the war, as com- pared with 3,890 in the same month last year. German Reply of Interest in Rome. Rome, Via Paris, June 1, 450 p. m.— The German reply to the American note has aroused much interest here. The_sentiment in_political circles is that it is entirely inadeguate, so much so that it places the United States in an “embarrasing position as to how to enforce her wishes if she does not go to war.” UNCERTAINTY OVER SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST ACT. Obstacle in Way of Expanding Bus- iness With South America. Boston, June 1.—Uncertainty over the application o fthe Sherman anti-trust act to combinations formed to promote export trade is one of the princopal obstacles in the way of expanding business with South American coun- tries, in the opinion of New England merchants, expressed at a conference with the federal trade commission to- day. After several speakers had em- phasized this statement, some urging that the act be amended, Joseph E. Davies. of Wisconsin, chairman of the commission, stated that with bpth the leading political parties committed to the spirit of the Sherman law, he thonght it unlikely that congress would ‘be willing to make any change that might atfect domestic trade. Sue- ceeding speakers then pressed the ex- pediency of changing the act so as to differentiate between its application to foreign and domestic trade. MILLIONAIRE PLEADED GUILTY TO AN ADULTERY CHARGE New Jersey Man Arrested at Mobile with His 17-Year-Old Stenographer. Mobile, Ala, June 1.—Joel M. Fos- ter, a millionaire poultryman of New Jersey, through his attorneys here, to- day entered a plea af guilty to the charge of adultery in the city court and was fined $100 and costs. The de- fendant is said to be ill in his home at_Browns Hills, N. J. Foster was arrested in Mobile in January, 1914, at a_prominent hotel in company with Delilah Bradley, his 17 year-old stenographer, of Pebreton, N, J., on charge of violating the Mann white slave law and after a prelim- inary trial was released on_ $5,000 bond. The state case was made later and it has been on the docket of the ity court for fifteen months. The case n the federal court is still pending. CENSUS OF BLOCK ISLAND WAS PADDED. Census Bureau Drops 164 Names From List of Inhabitants. Providence, R, June 1.—Invetsiga- tion of charges that the population figures for Block Island had been “padded” led the board in charge of the 1915 state cemsis to drop 164 names from the list of inhabitants of the island today. The charges were made by State Senator J. Eugene Littlefield, who said the object of the “padding” was to in- crease the number of liquor licenses allowed on the island. SPEAKER CHAMP CLARK WOULD PUT JINGOES IN TRENCHES. Deprecates Interviews Telling What President Wilson Should Do. Oklahema City, Okla., June 1.— Speaker Champ Clark in an address today before a local demorcatic organ- ization, said in connection with Ter- many’s reply to the American note: “President Wilson should not be hampered by anybody going about the country giving out interviews about what should or should not be done, “If T could reach out and g~J every jingo in the country and put them into the trenches in Europe, I would be glad to do it.” REVISED AUTOMBOILE LAW EFFECTIVE YESTERDAY Requires Care in Approaching Trolley Cars Which Have Stopped. New Haven, Conn., June 1.—The re- vised automobile law, becoming ef- fective today, C, M. Robinson, who represented the automobile clubs at the general assembly, and who is leg- islative chairman of the New Haven club, issued a formal notice to auto- mobilists to become familiar with the changes in the law. Their particular attention is directed to the provision requiring care in approaching and passing trolley cars which have stop- ped to accommodate passengers. OBITUARY. Eliot Gregory. New York, June 1—Eliot Gregory, widely known as an author and artist, died suddenly here today of heart dis- ease. He was 61 years old. After graduadng from Yale in 1890, Mr. Gregory studied art abroad. He was given a gold medal by the Paris Salon for a painting called “Coqueterie.” He also pained portraits of widely known men and women. Mr. Gregory was the author of the “Idler Papers” and he also wrote a number of books, in- cluding “Worldy Ways and Byway: and “The Ways of Men.” He was a chevalier of the Legion of Honor and a director of the Metropolitan Opera house. Frank Vaughn. Albany, N. Y. June 2.—Frank Vaughn, a widely known newspaper man, who at different times was con- nected with New_ York, Buffalo and Albany papers and the Albany bureau of The Associated Press, died here today of heart failure. Latterly he had been identified with the publicity ‘bureau of the democratic. state com- mittee, Movements of Steamships. Gibraltar, June 1—Passed, steamer ‘Stampalia, New York for Naples. ‘Bordeaux, May 29.—Arrived, steamer Rochambeau, New York. Choristiansand, May 380. — Arrived, steamer Frederick VIII, New York. Greenock, May 81.—Arrived, steamer Tuscania, New York. Liverpool, May 30.—Sailed, steamer Bohemian, Boston. Cadiz, May 30. ailed, steamer Beu- nos Aires, New York. New York, June .—Sailed, steamer Rotterd Rotterdam. _ . Prompt Dealing With Germany PRESIDENT TO SEND NOTE BE- FORE END OF WEEK. WANTSFINALANSWER An Unfavorable Response to This Note Probably Will Result in a Severance of Firm Diplomatic Relations—Remains in Stand on Lusitania. Washington, June 1 President Wilson determined today that the United States must ascertain definite- ly and very promptly from Germany Wwhether the imperial government in- tends in the future to be guided by the accepted principles of international law and the rights of neutrals or to follow its own rules of maritime war- fare. The president listened to a varied expression of opinion at a meeting of his cabinet, taking little part in the discussion himself. Later he began the preparation of @ note to be des- patched before the end of this week embodying his own ideas and wh seemed to him the consensus of his official family. German Note Unsatisfactory. The verdict of a majority of the cab- inet was that the German reply to the American note following the sinking of the Lusitania was unresponsive and unsatisfactory, disregarded the good will of the United States, doubted its facts and disclaimed all blame for the destrnction the merchantman with American lives. The questions of fact raised by Germany is regarded as ir- relevant at this time. The trend of opinion was that the United States must inquire and obtain an early an- swer as to whether Germany intends to recognize the hitherto accepted principle that neutr: may travel anywhere on the high seas on unarmed merchant ships, whether or not such ress; arry contraband, and that hantmen which do not resist cap- re must be visited hed and the passengers and cr erred to a place of destroyed. Action in Case of Unfavorable Answer. unfavorable answer to this would-lead, it w safety before the vessel is An in- predicted in quarte to a everance of diplomatic relations on the ground that the United States could not continue interourse with a government which repudiated these principles. Steps then would be en to inform as a result of thi tion and such measures S nec ry adopted to feguard the lives and interests of ci United States, Should Germany accept the princi- ple, in a way that would constitute a guarantee for the future, and the American government would reiterate its demand for a “strict accountabil- ens of the ity” for violations of this principle and the killing of Americans in the torpe- doing without warning of the Lusi- tania. CONFEDERATE VETERANS AT 25TH REUNION Reiterate Loyalty to the Union and Pledge Support to the President. hmond, Va. June —Thousands of crate veterans at the opening of their 25th reunion here today cheer- ed the hope expressed by their leaders that peace in America may not be disturbed by w in Europe. They reiterated their lovalty to the Union, shouted plec of support to the president in any crisis and bowed as- sent to prayers that those who guide the republic’s destinies might be bless- ed with wisdom to deal with pending international affairs. The climax of the ceremonies came when Dr. Henry W. Battle closed an address with the wor: “Our pre dent—God_bless, protect and guide him—has his hand on the helm of the ship of state, directing her cou through the storm-tossed waves of world at war. APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED BY GOVERNOR HOLCOMB a Ex-Gov. Simeon E. Baldwin a Mem- ber of New Tax Commission. Hratford, June 1.—Gov. Holcomb to- day announced the following appoint- ments: Former Gov. Simeon E. Bal win of New Haven, Dairy Commis- sioner Frank H. Stadtmueller of West Hartford, and Guy P. Miller of Bridge- port to be members of the tax com- mission under the new law, Howard W. Curtis to be judge and Frank E. Blakeman to be deputy judgd of the town court of Stratford, each from the first Monday in July, to fill vacancy, Henry R. Buck of this city to be agent of the state to inspect the boun- dary line between Connecticut’ and Massachusetts. HARTFORD LIFE MEMBERS LIABLE FOR ASSESSMENTS To Meet Liabilities—12,000 Holders Affected by Supreme Court Decision. Washington, June 1.—AIl the 12,000 certificate holders in the former safety fund department of the Hartford Life Insurance company, conducted cn the “mutual assessment plan,” were held by the supreme court today to have been bound by the decision of the Con- necticut courts in 1910, that the com- pany, after closing its list of members, could continue to collect assessments to_meet liabilities. ; The decision was ennounced in & suit brought by Mrs. Eliza Ibs in Min- nesota on a policy held by her hus- band. He had refused to pay the as- sessments after new members were no longer accepted. Biennial Council of Women’s Clubs. Poreland, Ore., June 1.—The mid- biennial council of the General Feder- ation of Women’s clubs met here to- day and listened to a discussion of art and music. Among the speakers were Mrs. Melville F. Johnson of Indiana, Mrs. F. S. Wardell of Stamford, Conn., Mrs. Thomas G. Winter of Minneapolis and Mrs. Frederick Coles of Omahba. Railroad Damage Sult Fees Annulled. Washington, June 1—The Kansaes statute allowing attorneys fees to ship- pers, in euits for damages by reason of the failure of the railroad to furnish fieght cars, was annulled as unconsti- -~ _ | tutional today by the suvreme court. _on the mmmaambmgrmen a A New Mexican Policy Adopted BY PRESIDENT WILSON AND HIS CABINET, MILLIONS RELIEF OF Purpose Is Said to Be to Give Rec- ognition to a Coalition of the Best Interests and Place an Embargo on ons for All Other Factions. ‘Washington, June 1—President Wil- son and his cabinet today adopted a new policy to be pursued by the United States toward Mexico. It has for its object restoration of order and the re- lief of millions of non-combatants from the devastations of Mexico's mil- itary elements which have brought al\flbouz conditions described as intolera- e. Mexican Factions to Be Warned. The president read to the cabinet a statement which is to be communicat- ed tomorrow to the leaders of all Mex- ican factors, serving notice that unless they, themselves, compose the situa- tion some other means will be found by the Uniteq States to bring about the establishment of a stable govern- ment in the republic. The statement was approved after prolonged discus- sion. It will be made public tomor- row. Course to Be Pursued Not Outlined. The specific course the United States will pursue in the event the contending factions fail to agree is not outlined in the president’s statement, but the administration’s present pur- pose is to give moral support to a coalition of the best elements in Mexi- co anu accord the government thereby ed formal recognition. With such »gnition would come an embargo on arms permitting the constituted gov- ernment to receive munitions of war to the exclusion of all other elements and factions. Coalition Government Desired. Tht the government's policy if un- successful in this course might re- quire intervention ultimately has been considered and the intention to insist on a settlement I not been swaved by possible necessity of such action, In hizh executive quarters, however, con- fidence prevails that the expression of the American government’s attitude will clear up misapprehensions as to its intentions that have existed in Mexjco and brings about the desired coalition government. Crops a Failure, Industries Exhausted. The administration’s policy is the culmination of several weeks of con- ferences between the president and his official family. The return of Duval West. who spent three months per- sonally investigating conditions _in Mexico for the president was the de- ciding fac He brought back re- ports showing that the food situation was serious, that the country chops had failed and industries were ex- hausted, that the soil had not been tilled for lack of cattle which had been slaughtered or exported for revenue, and that a terrible condition of affair for the large masses of innocent non combatants was ahead unless remedi- al measure’, were undertaken. OBREGON AND VILLA FORCES UNDER A TRUCE Pending President Wilson's Mexican Chieftains. Note to Paso, Tex., June 1.—The Car- ranza army under General Obregon and the Villa forces were facing each other today in central Mexico virtu- ally under a truce pending receipt of President Wilson’s note to Mexican chieftains, which is expected tomorrow. George C. Carothers, special agent of the state department to the Villa fac- tion, arrived today at Chihuahua City, wkere he will await the telegraphic transmission of the president’s mes- sage. It was learned that Carothers, to- gether with several of Villa’s cabinet members, then would proceed south to meet Villa, the northern chieftain, and present to him the American message. General Villa has left the battle front below Leon and returned north to Aguascalientes, there to await the de- livery of the message from Washing- ton. SELECTING JURORS FOR BARKHAMSTED MURDER Isaac H. Williams of Bridgeport and Harry Roe of Poughkeepsie on Trial. Litchfield, Conn., June 1.—Ten jurors had been selected when adjournment was taken in the superior_court here today in the ‘trial of Isaac N, Williams of Bridgeport and Harry Roe of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., who are charged with the murder of County Commis- sioner Hubert B. Csae at Barkham- sted, November 28, 1914. The jurors so far selected are: Philo Sperry, 60, of Watertown, a farmer; A. R. Gibson, of Woodbury, a farmer; J. R. Stil- son, 50, of Washington, insurance agent; Thomas O'Connor, 42, of Nor- folk, a farmer; Frank B. Gregory, 48, of Norfolk, a caretaker; cholas Glennon, 49, of New Milford, a_farm- er; Willlam F. Abeling, 55, of Tor- rington, farmer; William L. Church, , of Plymouth, carpenter: Wallace Dickinson, 60, of Falls Villave, car- penter; Lucius B. Goodwin, 35, of Tor- rington, a farmer, Twelve additional talesmen have been secured for tomorrow’s session, the first panel having been exhausted. Jacob Ruppert’s Estate $20,000,000. New York, June 1.—The will of Ja- cob Ruppert, millionaire brewer, who died here on May 25, filed for probate today, disposes of en estate valued at 20,000,000, divided among his widow and four children. All stock in the brewing and other business interests of Jacob Ruppert is left in trust to his son, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, Jr., who is part owner of the New York American league~baseball club. Allan-Liner Chased by Submarine. Mnotreal, June 1.—The Allan liner Corsican, which arrived at Glasgow today with about a thousand passen- gers, was chased by a submarine near Queenstown, according to a special cable despatch to the Montreal Star. The Corsican received a warning by wireless from the Megantic, and was Condensed Telegrams It is settled that the Atlantic fleet will not go through the Panama canal tg the Pacific coast. Presidont Wilson sent 15 Memorial day wreaths to 'soldiers’ graves throughout the country. Petitions for.the pardon of Joseph Cassidy, former democratic boss of Queens, were filed at Albany. Harvard college undergraduates have taken up the fad of having bangs dropping over their foreheads. Mrs. Sophie Wodjik of Wilwaukes was sentenced to prison for life for strangling to death her son Adam. The Dutch steamship Triton caught fire and was beached at North Deal, Eng., after she had been partly de- stroyed. Five of the Lusitania’s dead, three men and two women, were brought to New York on the liner Lapland from Liverpool. Henry ‘Kirk White, for many years prominent in the leather business, died at his home in Lowell, Mass. He was 58 years of Run over and terribly injured by an automobile, W. G. W i vate watchman of Philadelphia, ended his agony by shooting himself. Twenty-one young men were arrested at Quee by a strong-arm police squad as the first step in a campaign to put an end to street car rowdyism. After mastering four languages, Harris Sainberg of New York, a suit case maker, became deranged by over- study at night and committed suicide. The crews of the British steamer Glenlee and the Portuguese,steamship Cysne, which were sunk by German submarines, were landed at Brest, Frane, A feature of Memorial day was the casting of flowers into the sea from the battleship Oregon as a tribute to the navy men who have died in the line of duty. William C. Trull, 76, a former as- sistant corporation counsel of New York city, died at Edgehill inn, Spuy- ten Du of heart failure, after a long illnes Stcokton H. Ewell and Harrison F. McCarthy, University of Wisconsin students, from Baltimore, were drown- ed in Lake Mendota by the overturning of their canoe. Pietro Talozeo of New York was beaten by two girls in the Bronx Zoo monkey house and then sent to serve six months' sentence at the work- house as a masher. The pharmacy commission at the capitol, Hartford, organized by the election of Curtis P. Gladding of that ity, president, and John A. Leverty of Bridgeport, secrétary. Ex-President Taft will preside at a conference in Independence hall, Phila- adelphia, June 17, at which a plan for a league of peace or league of nations probably will be adopted. United States Ambassador Sharp, at- tended by members of the embassy staff, placed a wreath of flowers upon the grave of the Marquis de Lafayette in the cemetery of Picpus. The British steamer Ausonia was badly damaged by fire while lying in the London docks. It required 120 firemen, 18 engines and a fireboat to get the flames under control. Rear Admiral William S. Benson, chief of naval operations, declared that no orders had been ngiven to naval offi- cers in New York to sink any German liner that attempted to leave port. Count Della Torre, who was appoint- ed by Pope Benedict, president of the Catholic Union, which has control of all Italian Catholic associations, left for the ¥ront yesterday as a volunteer soldjer. uing efforts to stop what they lt_‘rn] gambling on baseball games, the New Orleans police yesterday arrested Ralp sterado and charged him with violating the Louisiana lottery law When a detective of Brooklyn search- ed @ man who mhe had séen asking for money he found in his pockets $3 in cash and two bankbooks, one show- ing deposits of $811 and the other $1,003. A feature of the Memorial day cele- bration at Denver was a five-minute pause for prayer all over the city for world peace in accordance with Gov- ernor Carlson’s Memorial day procla- mation, Residents of Milford, Pa., are trying to get a trolley line built to Port Jer- vis. A constructon company has ask- ed the Business Men’s league of Mil- ford to get the town to pay ome-half the cost. Dr. Richard Curran, former mayor of Roci N. Y, died yesterday, aged Dr. Curran raised two companies for service in the Civil war. At the tle of Antietam he won a medal of honor. The Kansas statute allowing attor- nevs fees to shippers in suits for damages by reason of the failure of the railroad to furnish freight cars, was annulled as unconstitutional by the supreme court. Although hours were spent in search, the body of Henry Clark, 31, of Phila- delphia, who leaped 216 feet from the Brooklyn bridge in hope of attracting the attention of the flim world, it has not been recovered. The American Association of Phar- maceutical Chemists opened _ their eighth annual convention at Rochester, N. Y., yesterday, with President George C. Hail of New York presiding. The convention will continue throughout the week. One man is dead, a young woman is in a critical condition and three other persons are suffering from serious in- juries in Fordham hospital as the re- sult of a collision between a motor- cycle and an automobile et Boston and Gun Hill roads. Milkman Commits Suicide. New Britain, Conn, June 1.—Des- pondent over family and business troubles, George H_ Appleby, aged 40, a milkman, committed suicide at his home on the Plainville road today, by swallowing poison. He leaves his Says Walsh ~ Distorted Facts * KING PROTESTS STATEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL CHAIRMAN, ON COLO. HEARING Employe of Rockefeller Foundatior Declares Version Given Out at Kan« sas City Is a Complete Perversior of Testimony Given. i New York, June 1.—The charge thai Chairman Frank P. Walsh of the United States industrial relations com- mission distorted testimony when he sued a statement at Kansas City yesterday seeking to make it appear that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was per- sonally responsible for labor conditions in the Colorado coal fields was made here tonight by W. L. Mackenzie King, former minister of labor for Canade and now director of an investigation into industrial relations for the Rocke- feller foundaticn. To support his con- tention, Mr. King quoted from the of- ficial stenographic record of his testi- mony given in Washington - recently. His rejoinder follows: Protested Mr. Walsh’s Methods. “No better example could be afford- ed of the methods adopted by Mr. Frank P. Walsh, the chain commission on in rial rel of the kind of things against which I protested so strongly whilst te: ing in Washington, than the foliowing paragraph from a statement esterday by Mr. Walsh at e City, and which ven to the publi in the name of the commission as a whole: Walsh’s Statement, ““But, above all, the commission has proved the absolute responsibility of John D. Rockefeller, Jr, himself for everything that happened in Colorado. W. L. Mackenzie King, former labor commissioner of Canada and at pres ent an employe of the Rockefeller foundation, boasted while giving his testimony that the will and conscience of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., were more potent in Colorado than all of the pub- ic opinion of all the people of the United States, and that the American people must look to that one man for an improvement of conditions, conced- ed by all to be un-American and in- tolerable.” ‘Stenographic Report. “That this is a complete perversion of my testimony is shown from the following extract from the official stenographic report “‘Chairman Walsh: Is - there any force to control the Rockefeller inter- ests in Colorado to do the right thing, if they are not doing the right thing, except the ordinary people in Amer- ica?” fr. King: If you are speaking of the immediate force and immediate in- fluence, I think that the conscience of voung Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is more powerful on that and will affect social justice in Colorado quicker than any other single force that you could bring to bear. I think he reaiizes there is a great work ‘to do there and he in- s to have it done. Chairman Walsh: You think that the will and conscience of Mr. Rocke- feller in bringing proper conditions and enduring conditions in Colorado is more powerful than the will and con- science of all the balance of the people of the United States, directed in that field?’ . King: Mr. don’t put it that way at al Denial by Mr. King. “It will be eeen that the reply in which I made reference to Mr. Rocke- feller’s conscience referred solely to the question as to what was the most po erful influence for correcting condi- tions among the Rockefeller interests Chairman, 1 in Colorado should they be found to be not as the yought to be. of the will and co Jr. The contrast nce of Mr. John with the power of well as the introduc- D. Roc public efeller pinion, tion of a reference to Mr. Rockefeller's will’ were Mr. Walsh's own, not mine. Protested Effort to Pervert Testimony. sal of the evidence in its en- 1 show that instead of thera being on my part any boast of the kind Mr. Walsh alleges, there was the most vigorous protest against the at- tempt whicl ing at the time to so distort vert testimony as to make it appear to the public that such a contrast could be drawn. Not only did I protest against the distorting and perverting of words into the framing of so absurd a contrast, but the record will show that, with reference to it, I made the following positive assertion: ‘I do mnot see the necessity of drawing that dis- tinction. Mr. Rockefeller is not de- sirous of opposing public opinion. I think he is distinctly anxious to fall in line with it.’ Did Not Discuss Colorado Situation. An examination of the testimony show further that I resolutely re- fused to be drawn into a discussion of the Colcrado situation one way or the other and that I positively declined to fix resporsibility for it or any indi- vidual or group of individuals. Noth- ing could be plainer than the follow- ing which appears at page 1358 of the official record: “‘Chairman Walsh: Who was re- sponsible for the conditions in Colo- rado? Mr. King: I could not and would not attempt to fix the responsibility.’ “I trust that these questions will be sufficient to indicate how much cre- dence is to be placed in statements emanating from Mr. Walsh and how far they are entitled to consideration.” Quarantine Station at Boston Under Federal Control. Boston, June 1.—The quarantine station in Boston harbor, established by the city in 1872 during a smallpox epidemic, pased into federal control to- day. Dr. Samuel B, Grubbs of the fed-: eral health service, a graduate of Ab- bott school of Farmington, Me, and ‘the University of Michigan took charge of the station . 1 Lese Charter Under Trust Law. Washington, June 1—The Missouri supreme court’s decision forfeiting the charter of the Mallingkrodt Chemical works at St. Louis, Mo. because it failed to file the eariy “affidavit of in- nocence” from participation in any trust organization, as required by the Missouri anti-trust law, was affirmed W, two daughtens and a sam., | jaday by the supreme caurt