Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 15, 1916, Page 3

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BERLIN EXPLANATION OF 3 DEPORTATION OF BELGIANS Asserts Facts Have Been Completely Distorted in the United Spate Berlin, Dec. 14 (By Wireless to Say- ville) —Assertion that the action of the German government in the de- portation of Belgians is absolutely in accordance with the principles of in- ternational law is made in the con- cluding sections of Germany’s reply to the inquiries of the United States con- cerning this subject as published in the Nord Deutsche Aligemeine Zeitung and given out by the Overseas News agency. ‘These paragraphs, available today, read as follows: “The unemployed (Belgians) sent to Germeny shall be istributed from central receiving pldtes in Paltengra- dow, Guben, Kassel, Meschede, Muen- ster, Soltau and Wittenberg. Thence they will be sent to places where they shall be engaged in agricultural and industrial establishments. Of course, they will be excluded from occupativns to which a hostile popwiation, accord- ing. to law, cannot be coerced. z *1( the American government at- (‘:rhon importance to it, a member of its embassy at Berkingwi ] Sre, B pormidE R S eretrion about the conditions under which these @ersous live by personally visiting them. “The German government highly de- plores that behind the press campaign of her enemies the conditions expiain ed ubove have been completely dis- torted in the United States. The Ger- man government also, and not in the least interest of the Belgian popula- tion, would extremcly deplore if, by these distortions, the highly benefi- cial zction of the relief action should be hampered in any way “The popu- lation from parts of Germany and from German colonies occupied by hostile troops, especially: tho - deportation of women, childreniand 0ld parsons from castern Prussia {o Siberia, has, as far as known hcre, given to neutral states no incentive to e steps wil the respective governments sim! to those now taken towards Germ: “At all events, there could’be no doubt that these measures are gross violations of the laws of humanity and of the rules of international law while. after the explanations giten above, the German government is ab- solutely in accordance with these prin- ciples.” The first part of the German reply, transmitted yesterday, stated that the German government believed the United States had been incorrectly in- formed regarding the cause and exe- cution of the Belgian deportations and asserted that they had heen carried out wit hall possible consideration and without harshness. 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JONES Suite 46 Shannon Building Take elévator Shetucket Stieet en- WHEN YOU WANT t5 put your bus- before the public, there is no ess S T e e niz: gions. he ‘time proposals i ‘the minor resented National League o a deeision might week -on both for.the abol- robably will ted. vice presi- dent of the league, succeeding Charles Somers, formerly owner n ‘The ne : is composed of the Boston, New ¥ Cleveland and Chicago clubs. x nection with them. ~ Under a vule, the players, if given the con- sent of the club owners, could do news- {* paper on world’s series games and other events, but it was decided to abolish the practice entirely. H. H, Frazee and Hugh J. Ward of New York, the new club owners .of the Boston club, and James Dunn = of Chicago, purchaser of the Cleveland club, of-the Cleve- 'd of - presidents of NATIQNAL LEAGUE SENDS PETITION TO AMERICAN cee Leva May Change Strike Fouls. Rule Regarding franchise, were unanimously voted in- to_the league. The magnates had planned to hold a problems confronting them, but decided, after a to two day meeting to settle five hour session_this afternoon, wind up the meeting tonight. The, club owners. empowered Presi- appeal made for tt’l‘l: abolisitment of the draft dent Johnson to decide the rule and right of the leagues to have a board of arbitratio: ming of their own to decide cases involving minor league players instead of hav- ing the National Baseball Commission hear them as at present. A. T. Baum, president of the Pac{gc e three to The other members of the committee were President Barrow of the International Coast League; was chairman committee representing the Class AA leagues, which swught have the draft rule eliminated, of League, and Thomas J. Hickey, presi dent-elect of the American Associa- tion. J. Carl Ewing, president of the Oak- land club of the Pacific Coast League, M. E. Justice, president of the Contral Daniel Assocy . tion pressed the cause of the minor leagues in the appeal for the creation of a President Eastern Association, and O’Neil of the New York, Dec. 14.—Without having touched upon the revision of the Na- tional Commission, as suggested: by President Dreyfuss of the Pittsburgh club, or umnpropoued changes in tho rules gov: g the world’s series or the adoption og a new contract for players, the National League club owners held 2 long session here today end the annugj meeting may last. the week out. 5 At yesterday’s session a committee from the minor leagues prepared a petition tb the delegates asking for the elimination of the draft rule for Class AA clubs.and then left for Chicago to present their request at the Americaa League meetirg. The National League coiisidered this petition teday and referred it to the National Commission, which will ‘re- port later what its members decide. The same action was taken in refer- ence to the creation of a new board of arbitration of five members, independ- ent of any existing baseball tribunal, which would pass upon cases affect- ing minor. and major league clubs' players. The National League dele- gates announced that they are in fa- vor of such a board being formed. President Haughton of the Boston club as well as several others, spoke at SLUMP IN STOCK MARKET. Leading Issues, Other Than Rails, 5 to 10 Points. New York, Dec. 14.—The stock mar- ket experienced another drastic down- ward movement today, leading igsue other than rails falling 5 to 12 points under recent low levels and from 2) to almost 50 points under maximusc of last months. Rails records relatively small Josses, With a few“actual gain Trading again attained the huge pro portions of Tuesdayp mainly as a re- sult of the tremendous outpouring of our, when lowest quotations The' setback was today ‘and morg. s qs:gnr.hwc»- ér. embracing a'lfig number-of is- sues. Pressure from short selling was in- sistent. Much of the liquidation was. Involuntary and was added to by the offerings of individuals “well able to weather the storm but whose appre- hension had Leen heightened by the uncertainties arising from the ~Ger- manic peace proposals. Total amounted to 2,500,000 shares, of which United States Steel and similar in- dustrials, as well as the so-called war group, furnished almost half. Among the greatest declines wers United States S points to 112 3 points to 580, Lackawanna and Cruci ble Steels 5 5-8 and 10 3-4 respectivel American Locomitive 7 1-2, Locomotive 5 3-4. Gulf States Steel, 26, with 35 for, the second preferred, Central Leather 10, Industrial Alcohol 12 and Granby Mining 9 5-§ were among Others that showed large de- clines. . Metals receded from 5 to. 7 points, with similar reclines in petro- leums, motors, sugars, papers and ths entire’ shipping list. ~Mercantile Ma- rines were especially weak in the fi- nal dealings. » Bonds, particularly International is- Fe!l Taclede Lee Tire. Lebigh Lig & Ma Max Mere Minn ‘& Bl Missoudi. K i i Pt hich,fell 7. 1-8 1Al P etrettt ‘Steel, 10| Wesourl Fuc pr Fde 2r pf Gaston W &W reester (N Inspiration € Kelly Kenu Gas. well avell Motor pf Maxrell Motor 2 pf Merchane Marine chant Marine pf Mesican Pet sajos Miami Copper P &S SN Lon & Kansas & T of ourl Pacific sourl Pacific squrl Pac ties Gas Ontario Sliver west Bt L sues, were again steady, but yielded under the weight of the increased .of- 1 | Bennsylvania ferings towards the close. Tota, sales (par value), aggregated $4,435,- 90. 000. U. S. bonds were unchanged on call. Asax Alaska ills Rubber o Balimore & Ohlo .. Baitimore & Ohlo pf . Barrett Co ad- s B Righ” Low, Close. 8 81 Owens Bottle Pacifie Mail Pan Am P & T pf . Peoples Gas Philadelplia Co Pittsburgh Coal ctf Pitt Coal pt Pitts Steel pf Pullman Ry Stel Ray Con Reacing tteading Bouth Pacific : Bouth P R Sugar § Bouth Raliway . South Ry pf Studebaker BRE T BERRRREIGE HY . New York, Dec. 14—Cotton futures closed firm. December 18.06; Januar Mey 18.90;" July MONEY. + New York, Dec. 14.—Call fBrm; high 4; low 3 1-! 4; last loan 4; closing i fered at 4. CHICAGD GRAIN WARKET. High. 1543 168 money r:nng rate Low. 1534 165 141%. =~ . After a long discussion President Tener advised that all s ions on this' subject be submitted to him for reterence to the joint committee on rules when next_uie«y 2 COLGATE OPENS s BASKETBALL SEASON | Appear on This ; Season— Many Prominent Fives ~ Colgate’s Schedule Hockey. (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Hamilton, N: Y., Dec. 13, —The Col- gate university basketball team opens its season this. Saturday night on the flome court when the Maroon forces line up against the Clarkson Scheol of Technology guintet. : This is the first game of the sea- son’s schedule, on which Cornell, Nia- sara, Springfield, Buffalo, Alleghaney, Syracuse Rochester, Wesleyan, R. I, Albany Teachers' College,” N. Y. the Army. and St. Lawrence find places. At present the attention of the Ma- roon coach is centered upon filling the two places, one at forward and another at guard, left vacant by the graduation of Captain. Kennedy and Stewant. Several candidates are making bids,.for these positions Waite ana Bek, both football men are show- ing up well at guard, while the choice for the forward position has narrowed down to three fast players, Calnon, a new man, Anderson of last squad, and Smith, who has much ability’ but who is handicapped by lack of weight. The opening contest against Clark- son Tech should prove a worthy ind; cator as to just how far the Maroon quintet has “absorbed the systéin of play laid down by Coach Hammond in the daily pre-season workouts. It should also furnish- definite data uvon which to base an opinion as to the outcome of the Cornell-Colgate game at Ithaca on Jan. 6. & Colgate has experienced another goom “in hockey, which means that this season will €ee the Maroon seven competing with many of the eastern colleges in this sport. Manager Bu- chanan has already tentative dates with Harvard and M. I. T. both to be played in Boston. Wiiliams, Wes }levan and R. P: L will probably be met at Hamilton, Yale at New Haven, and Army at West Point. SUMMER BASE BALL N MAY BE ALLOWED Proposed Change Made By Wesleyan Professor. What in the absence of explanation of any kind, may be the indication of a vital change in the policy of the Na- tional Collegiate Athletic association, bringing about among other thipgs the tacit recognition of summer base- ball in the colleges, is'a proposed amendnient to the’ by-laws of the as- sociation whereby the playing of those ineligible as amateurs is stricken from Article VI, defining the princi- ples of amateur sport. - The proposed change (he * national association public yesterday by Prof. Frank W. Nicolson of Weslevan university, se retary of the N. C. A. A, and chair- man of the commitiee on revision who sent out copies of thé constitution as amended and revised for adoption at the annual convention to be held at the Hotel Astor. in' New York city on | Pec. 28. : Under the present constitution, pros- elvting. the singing out of prepara- tory school athlétes and influencing them to enter a particular college, playing students ineligible as .ama- teurs, playing of students not bona- fied and unsportsmanlike conduct are deemed, the violations of the princi- ples of amateur sport. AMERICAN LEAGUE HAD PROSPEROUS YEAR. Played to One Million More People Than in Year 1915 in the law of Chicago, Dec. 14—The American League played to one million more pa- trons in 1916 than it did in 1915, as revealed in the treasurer's report pre- sented to the board of directors of the league at their session preceding the annual meeting of the club owners here today. The directors officially awarded e 1916 ‘pennant to the Boston club ana approved the treasurer’s report. Frank J. Navin, president of the De- troit _club, was ‘€lected a mamber of the flnance committee, succeeding *harles Somers, former owner of the Cleveland club. DICKERING TO PURCHASE ST. LOUIS NATIONALS. Robert L. Hedges, Former Owner of St. ‘Louis Americans. St. Louis, Dec. 14.—Negotiations looking to the purchase of the St Louis Nationals were opened yesterday by Robert L. Hedges, former owner of the St. Louis Americans, it was learn- ed today. The offer was made to Lon C. Hock- er, attorney for the St. Louis Nation- als, who mow is attending the Nation- 2l League¥ meeting in New York. Mr. Hedges said he was acting for oth- ers. Harddigs Still Claim Championship. Sporting Edito: In Wednesday morning’s paper I read an article of Manager Barry in which he stated that his team of huskies had defeated the Harddigs Athletic club .in their first game of the season. We would like to ask Barry to wake up from that pipe dream. The Harddigs have not played a Saturday game this season as most of their best men are work. ing and Manager Barry claims his team defeated the Harddigs on a Sat- urday afternoon. If Manager Barry will rake up his memory it will teil him that the first game he played was against the Hopkins & Allen team and defeated them 12 to 6, a few Hard- di% men who were employed in that plant playing with them. Casey, a “Handdig star man, easily making a to idown. What if all were Hard- iy men, also Bar stated that he made a challenge to play us the Sun- day his team defeated the All Nor- wich team and I told him that we had disbanded for the season. The Jewett [City team has no record of defeating any teams outside of Norwich. They defeated a Greeneville team which was composed of grammar the championship while the Harddigs havé defeated teams from ‘every town in New London county.. Also | EIPER TELLS STORY — . _OF DOUBLE TRAGEDY. S e R‘ononnudyfl-ppmm of the Night | Calmly and in Great Detail. Buffalo, N. Y,:Dec. 14—John Ed- ward Teiper, on trial charged with the murder of his mother, today told the jury his story of the double tragedy in the Orchard Park road on the night of Jan. 30. e recounted the happen- ings of that night calmly and in| greater detail than they were given in' the statement he made to the dis- trict -atterney -two .gdays after the | tragedy. \ In bis story tdday Teiper failed to identify the assailant as a negro. Im- portant amgqng thc other details he added were these 3 He was certain that he had left the | headlight burning on his roaister| when he lef: it in the road at 5 o'cleck that Sunday afternoon and that the lights were out when he re- turned in his mother'’s car. - He denied that the hat taken from under the arm of his dead brother, Frederick, was his hat. He said that a third hat, given to him at the mur- der~ scene, and 'which has since dis. appeared, was his and that he wore it home. He said that when the mysterious assailant grabbed him by the throat there was a protracted sntuzgle in which the two went to the pavement at ieast onee. - He said that when his mother gave him Lis birthday check for $100 he lookeG into her handbag and saw a large roll of ‘bills. ! After describing - the trip murder scene, Teiper's story as told today says that Frederick Teiper came back to where Edward was working on the roadfter and said that he wanted to see that- Bd started for home all right. Teiper then tried to ght his trouble-light, he says, but it wouid not work. Ired went forward to thc large car and brought back a troible-light .that .would rot fit the socket of Edward’s road: Then Fred said he would try to connect the light on his own car and back up, so that Edward could nave light for a repair work. Teiper's testimony con- tinues red walked away frobi me. T lift- ed my hvod and in the darkness was just trying to take the distributor block from the magneto when I heard a groan ahead of me. Then I heard a cry: ‘Oh, Bed, B4, and I knew it was Fred calling. T started toward him. I must have gone half way—half the d tance between the roadster ,and the touring car—when someoné grahed me by th ethroat. Another arm went around my back: “L tried to break the bold. I went to the ground and got up somehow. How long the struggle lasted I do not know Finally T broke the hold. Then everyihing went black. I do not re- member being struck. “The next thing I remember clearly is seeing two lights coming throagh the foggy darkness from the darkness of Orchard Park. T was on the ground, prohabdly i to 75 feet hack of the roadster. 1 arose znd stoppad the appreaching car and asked th i the car to set a Answering ques Teiper declared tha he leave' the highway to go into the field in which were fornd his money, watch and revolver: . He said that af- fer stopping the approaching automn- bile and rtalking to the constable who was in it he collapsed again and that when he regaineds consciousness he was in the same spot. He had no recollection of the time that clapsed between the various incidents after his siruggle with the unknown assaii- ant. STAFFORD SPRINGS GeorgeSiswick Leaves for Bermuda— 0Odd Fellows o Confer Second De- gree—Alumni Meeting. to the George Siswick has gone to Ber- muda for®ten days’ visit. Miss Mattie McCulloch has gone to Salem, Ohib. and Erle, Pa., for visii of several ‘weeks. Mrs. Peter Boufford has been at the Johnson . hospital for' treatment for pneumonia for several days. Mrs. Sarah Black is visiting friends in_Worcester. Mrs. E. P. Kellozg and son Robert of West Stafford dre visiting relatives in Mystic. Will Confer Degree. £ The Odd Tellows will hold a meet ing next Tuesday -evening when the| second degree will be worked. The high school basketball team will go to West Hartford today (Fri- day) and play the West Hartford high school. team. 3 Wage Increase. The employes of the Orcutville mill have been given a ten per cent. in- crease in their wages. Alumni Meeting. The Stafford high“school Alumni as- sociation is planning for its annual Travel at your own convenience on ‘individual round trip tickets, including meals and stateroom berth on steamers in both directions. NewYorkJacksonville One $ Wed. § 480 Round Way- 19 Sat. 3 ‘Trip Comespondingly low far ith direct comectigm forNfit:i,F:vaim Be::il.“ Tampa, St. Petersburg sy : East and West Coast Resorts Write for formation and attractive’ booklets s e, Passenger Traffic Man- Mallory Lines, r New York, or call upon Depot Tk. Agt.,, Norwich has men on the line welghing 180’ pounds easily and the understanding wai the teams should average 140 ‘pouhids. For my part I am willing to leave the decisioh to the sporting edi- tor as to which team deserves the championship. FRED WILLIAMS, Captain of the Harddigs. Twenty-five Track Candidates. The first call for brought out twenty-five candidates. is ‘expected that this number will materially increased this wi ve! Plow and LEGAL NoTice.” ° NOTICE." By order of Execution, I will sell t: the ‘highest bidder on Snt\lrda}'.ene:‘ 16, at 11 o'clock, at the public gignps gipat sagad of Eriflurt, o the following * de: Ibed nrnmr?non' Ono two year pid haifer, 1 bu 1 mowing machine, i one-norce 1 stove. STANTON L. BRIGGS,, Constable of the Town of.Lebanch. TO THE PUBLIC OF 'NORWICH and VICINITY We wish to say we have a lot of pie::es of Furs, odds and ends, which we want to turn into cash at once. In order to do this we will make extraordinary low prices on these goods. This lot of ety of Furs, all in fine conditiog. skins contains a great vari- Anyone in the market for skins will do well to call and see them and get our prices. It will pay them well. Tlié French American Fur Co. THAYER BUILDING FRANKLIN SQUARE meeting after Christmas. The et committee is Miss Rdith man, Mrs. C. Welsh, William ~Ladist tick- l Cush- | 11 Heald. Cuba annually imports about ¢00,- 000,000 feet of lumber. Hartford. Messinger of Concord, N. v of Hartford, has won the Rhodes s'holarship enti- tling Lim to study at Oxford. He was graduated from tiie Hartford public high school in 1919 and was ciass his- and is a graduate of Prince- BEGIN YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING FODAY Wines and Liquors, Champagne and Cordials GEQ. GREENBERGER: & C0. HEADQUARTERS FOR Wines-«Liquors We have a large assortment of all kinds of Wines and Liquors for the Holiday trade. We have also Bottled Beer of the Leading Breweries. 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