Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 24, 1918, Page 1

*VOL. LIX—NO. 307 . POPULATION 29,919 RICE TWO CENTS ANTA CLAUS DISTRIBUTED | DISCHARGES 10° SOLDIERS Sick and Wounded Men to the Number of 968, Who Arrived on the Transport George Washington, Were the Recip- ients of Papers to Be Treasured—6,025 Men From Europe Arrived at New York Yesterday—Sixteen Bat- tleships From Home Waters Are in New Yprk Harbor Awaiting Arrival of Fleet From European Waters For Big Review Thursday. New York, Dac. 28.—The United States transport George Washington, which took President Wilson = to France, and the steamship Cedric ar- rivea hece today, bringing 6,025 men from overseas in time to cclebrate Christmas in the Uaited States, The Cedric, from Liverpool, with 65 oficers and 2,188 eniisted men, docked first and was accorded a rousing re- cépajon, buf the welcome to the George Washington, which arrived &n hour later, from Brest, was perhaps the most enthusiastic the city yet has given a returning transport. The I)Ig liner had on board 231 offi- cars and 3 461 men, more than halt_of them membern of the lone Di- Kentucky and West Virel 2al guan} iroops. The.George Washington's 963 sick and wounded, contrary to custom, were in p&Session of their honorable discharge papers When' the transpert I¥nded. They received them last nisht With cigarettes and candy, at a novel Christmas_celebration, arranged by Chaplain P. F. Bloomhardt of the . George Washington. As the men were dozing off for their last sleep ahoard the transport, the ship's quartette entered the sick hay and roused them by singing Christ- mas carsls and “Home, Sweet Hom The lights then were flashed on and riember of the crew, attifed as Santa laus, distributed the discharzes, which had been approved Ly General Pershing before the George Washing- ton isft Brest and by the war de- partment by wireless. *_According to MAjor W. H. Unversau, the' Indiana men were ‘“keenly dis- appointed” at not getting into the fghting. They were at an American training camp for almost a vear be- fore they sailed but when'the armis- tioe was signed they were all ready for actiori and expecting daily orders (o _entrain for the front. Colonel Halsted Dorey of Washing- ton, bearing four wound stripes, was | one of the wounded officers on the | George Washinston. = After beinz gassed twice and wounded once in the leg, Colonel” Dorex’s hip was injured a1t Verdun by a high. explosive shell He is a veteran of Cuba and thej| Thilippines and a former member of the staff of Major General Leonard Wood. Before sailinz for France, he commanded the firet Plattsburg train- W camp for Lusiness men, § o WA FLEET THUR‘BAV A M. . New York, Dec. 23.—Steaming home | m participation in the bloodless al- | lied victory over the German armada, | America’s overseas battle fleet—nine ! superdreadnoughts—with . the Perm-| gylvania, flagship of Admiral Mayo, ! commander of the navy, as escort, will arrive off New York harbor just in time to lead. the great peace review Secretary of the Navy Daniels ursday morning. Whough officers on the staff of Vice | Admiral Grant, commander of the; “home fleet” were unable tonight tol stite the position of the westward!| cruising squadron, they announced that the returning warships “would not pass the Statue of Liberty before 9 o'¢lock the morning of the 26th.” Dismissing reports that ‘the veteran fighting craft from European waters might anchor in the harbor Christmas day, reforming the following morning for the naval parade, the vice ad- miral's assistants declared that in no case would these ships make their ap- pearance in the upper harbor before they had passed the presidential yacht Mayflower, with the navy's civilian chief on her pridge. It was more like- {1y, they rsaid, that the homecoming fleet’s progr would be timed to! reach Ambrose channel, in the early| hours of Thursday morning, when the vessels would steam up the bay-in parade formation, arriving off Liberty Island betwe: 9 and 10 o'clock. . Vice Admiral Grant had been throughout the day in wireless gom- munication with Admiral Mayo, mem- bers of the former’s staff stated, but Great Slump in the Remington Plants Plant at Iion, N. Y., Has Been Closed—6,500 Em- ployes Laid Off in Bridge- port. Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 23.—More than 6500 men and women were laid off with but a few hours notice here today when- notices were posted in the two plants of the Remington Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Com- rany announcing that practically all its ordnance department contracts had been cancelled. Less than 1,000 persons will remain at work at the Remington plant and a2bout 2,000 will continue for tne pres- ent at the Union Mecallic Cartridge piant, it was announced tonight by Daniel B, Gauchet®ind Jarvis S. Wil- liams, the respective works managers. The notice posted in the Union Me- tallic Cartridge plant stated “any em- the es dismissed who were in cempany’s employ prior to ‘the de ration of war in August, 1914, are r quested to apply at the employment cffice on or after January 2, 1919, when every effort will be made to re-employ them on the company’s cemmercial work, which will be rapidry resumed.” Since the war contracts were e~ umed at the Union Metallte vartridge vlant, commerecial contracts have made up about ten per cent. or the rroduction of the of the plant. Works anager Willlams stated tonight, and out 2 work. mum, ILION PLANT AT ONE TIME EMPLOYED 18,000 This is considered a max the commander-in-chief had given ne 741 0 § i 41 Utica, N. Y., Dec. 22 information as to the exact time of 2, his expected arrival Off the coast,| (o0 Arms Company’s plant at iion, However, messazes were exchanged|€h8ased in government work, was completing arrangements for the re- view and for the land parade of re- turning seamen and their officers. Owing to delay by storms of the destroyers and smaller craft in the overseas fleet, it was ated, only 6,000 officers and men. -thirds of the complement of Rear Admiral Rod- man’s and Rear Admiral Rodgers’ bat- tleship squadrons, will march in the review. This will start immediately after the naval parade, probably shortly after noon, clusion shore leave: tion cvery officer and man aboayd The returning vessels, will be put into effect | Awaiting the overseas units which they will join in the great procession up the harbor, 4,200 of the 15,000 men aboard the west Atlantic fleet, Vice Admiral Gran’s guardian “of ' home| waters, today were enjoying leaves at| their homes near Ncw York or “liber- ty" for a few hours in the metropolis. This fleet, including eleven battleships and seven destroyers, with attendant craft, and comprising the bulk of the naval force which operated through- out the war from Chesapeake bay, boasts not only the protection; of the American coast but the training of 35.000 men of the battle convoy and patrol units as us share in the con- =1 Though composed lately of .éhips | of the “old mavy,” including three that saw service in the Spanish-American war, Vice Admiral Grant's squadron j will be headed by the nation's newest dreadnouszht, the electrically driven New Mexico, which came into port to- day after a cruise undertaken to es. tablish statistics for her type of pro- puision. On the records, naval offi- cers said, would be based the recom- mendations of the department regard- ing future construction along this line. The Mi: ppi, sister ship of the sew Mexico, though equipped with oil- burning engines, also will be in the line with the home fleet. BOLSHEVIK LEADER JONES HAS BEEN DECLARED SANE New York, Dee. 23.—Ellis 0. Jones, | author of the manifesto proclaiming; Bolshevik government for the United ' States beginning Dec. 13, is not in-| sane, accofding to Dr. Stephen P.| Jewett, acting director of Bellevue hospital, who has spent the last ten| s assessing the mentality of the 'ople’s House” radical. Dr.” Jewétt's verdict” was read in magistrates’ court today when Jones| was rearraigned to plead to a (‘hqlge| o fdisorderly conduct upon which he T Geaied ihae " 1o appeared in Central Park to lead a ‘“mourning parade” of Bolsheviki on the day set by.him for. the radicals to take up the reigns of government. The alienist qualified his aesertion that Jones was sanc with the statement that “he has dope the most insane thing I have ever heard of.” Jonés pleaded guilty, but sentence was suspefided when Mrs. Jones: in- formed the court that her husband had been suffering from a nervous breakdown and that he would be placed in a sanatorium. SENATE PASSED WAR b REVENUE BILL LAST NIGHT Washington, Dec, 23.—Without a record vote, the senl!e late tonight passed' the war revenue bill, reduced to raise about ‘six billion dollars in 1819 and four billions in 1920, as com- pared wit hthe Jevy of $8,200,000,000 for next year proposed in the bill passed by the house three months ago. ‘When the final vote was taken at 10,40 o’'clock the senate had been in continupus session for nearly thirteen bours. Tmmediately after the passage of. the: bill, the senate began its holj- day vacation under the plan for three recesses until'Jan. 2. Absence of A quorum in the house, however, had prevented that body from putting a similar program into effect. HOT PLUM PUDDING FROM K. OF C. ROLLING KITCHENS New York, Dec. 22.—Hot plum pud- fing will be served to soldiers over- on Christmas day from forty-five kitchens manned by Knights of Dolumbus sécretaries, it was an- nced here tonight. Other holiday e sent abroad for soldiers and saflors by the Knights of Columbus Ineludes 40,000,000 clzarettes, 50.000 pounds of hard candy, 50,000 pounds of chipeolates, 50,000pounds of lemon drops, 25,00 pounds of gum drops and 1,000,000 packages of chewing gum. CANADA RECALLS EMBARGO - ON ALL COARSE GRAINS Montreal, Dec. 23 —The Corn Ex- change has been advised by the de- partment of trade and commerce at Ottawa of the removal of the restric- {lons on the exportation from Canada of all kinds of coarse grains. It is pointed out by the department M hereatter it will not be necessary for exporters to obtain licenses for exportation of any type of coarse This will simplify considerably matter of export. LAMENT FOR PERFIDY OF GERMAN SEAMEN London, c. 23 (British Wireless | Service).- over to the British.of the German sub- marine U-9 by the crew, who seized this opportunity to earn 500 marks per man paid by Germany as compensation for taking the boat to England, the Cologne Volks Zeitung sa “Even. when the astounding history of the Russian rubles given to the German people’s deputies was related, we had patience. We had indeed still | one consolation. Through this night; 23 of universal misfortune the Qmt.l«ior\ of our armies’ fame glistened with | friendly radiance never to disappear so ! long as men walked upon eargh. Shall | we now be robbed of this consolation | in the solitude and silence of our mis- ; dition to valuable furs on display in| ery? TIs it possible in Germany that even ‘red’ sailors could have sold for| 500 marks the last poor remnant of the | honor of arn undying hero? “A British admiral (Beatty) re- nounces the handing over of a U-boat which as victor he wishes, with noble gesture, to bestow upon the vanquish ed, as one is accustomed. to leave hi: sword to the brave commander of a conquered fortress. Revolutionaries in German naval uniform prefer, we are told, 500 marks. These dishonorable men venture again to tread German soil with their wages of sin. “Can it really be true? Many a tear would flow in the German fatherland. So, eVerything is lest, including honor. We could not then sink lower in the ;:;timatlon of the world—it is impossi- e LONDON REGRETS DEATH OF WALTER HINES PAGE Londoun, Dee. 22.—(Eritish 'Wireless Service.)—The London wvapers ex- press great regret at the death of Walter Hines Page, the late Amer- ican ambassodor at London and print appreciations of his work at the court of St. James. The Globe his duties as American ambasador en- titled him to rank with the mnost suc- cessful of the brilliant men who have occupied that distinguisi in the past. He never pret English feeling a must be granted as th cess attainable in the d sponsible post ‘which hc so recently vacated.” sa; FACTIONS OF SOCIALISTS HAVE COLLISION IN SPAIN' Bilboa Spain, Dec. 23 (Ly the A, P.). —Two groups of' manifestants, one shoutmg against Spain and the other crying for Spain, collided heré today. One of the persons in the . loyalist crowd was killed by a.pistol shot. ESTHONIA THREATENED BY BOLSHEVIK ARMY ‘Washington, Dec. 28.—Reports to the state departrren; from Ilels:ngfors said the Bolsheviki had an, umy of 10,000 men-at Narva front and that the er- uation jn FEsthonia was serious be- canse of theJjack of arms. and upon its con- | affecting in rota- | Commenting on the handing ! “His discharge ot closed this afternoon. At one {ime £,000 persons were employed. 6000 were at work when the plant clésed today | The closing was due 1o an order from the l’nilml government compelling the company 1o dis ue operations on ordnance department’s orders. As the plant w used for rothing élse it was nece: v to dis- miss - virtually - all the employ The | company has natified the employ i that it intends to resume the sporting goods work as soon as possible after the first of the year and that any em- piove dismissed today can apply for work after January The plant has been making the Lee- Enfield rifle since 1914, when ey, ware made for the French and ¥En lish. This continued until July, 1917 when the "nited States took hold znd since that time the arms have been made for this government. Before the hout 1,900 were employed in the ¥ plant. MAJOR DEMCBILIZATION DISTRICTS E3TABLISHED Washington, Dec, 23.—Isablishment of major dobomilizaticn districts to which men returning from abroad will be sent as uniy for disenirge, has been 1/m:xl\m;,' up casuai comranies for con- voy heme, army comimanders organi o1 them on ihe basis of this new dis- tricting, including so fav as only men frem one dist: company to the port feading its dis | include: En;hnd states and and Distrlct of l‘olumlna 1lustrating the oper: plan, Casual Company of umber 404 an- | faken at an Bast Side warehouse on this company are regcidents England or New York. 1y casual company andam was 5. No. 111 sicred to Dis- | triet No. | ARRESTS FOR THEFT OF FURS ! VALUED AT MORE THAN $75,000 Atlantic City, N. J, Dec. Two i { tion with the robbery early today of | the boardwalk store of Cohen tleman. They are Harry Goff, le: man employed by the firm," and Fran- cis Goodman, a porter in the build- | ing. The- robbers gained entrance to the . | building by first entering a photo graph studio next door and ihen cut- ting a hole through the wall. In ad Get- i the store and in the workshop cu the | second floor, atout $35,000 were taken from a safe which a member of the { firm said he forgot to lock last night. ‘7N NEW YORK ‘CARPENTERS Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 23.—Members of the local union of the Carpenters and Joiners of America took no actio | |a ta meeting tonight on the strike oLy the | 700 carpenters employed by Cauldwell-Wingate company of York . here on several housing projects. The men out this morning on New walked instructions - ef national president of the union. Other firms here are not affected by the strike, which is, according to un- ion representatives, to show sympathy city, who are seeking an increase of a dollar a day, THREE MASKED BANDITS GET DIAMONDS VALUED AT $50,000 Montreal, De¢. 23.—Diamonds valued 0,000 were stolen from L. L. Michaelson & Sons in the Iastern Townships Bank building between 10.30 p. m. Sunday and 2 a. m. today by three masked bandits who over- | powered the night watchman and blew open the safe. The police stranger who called at the office last | week claiming he was representing a | Philadelphia house was a “blind” and | the offices were arranged. EMBARGOES LIFTED ON Washington, Dac. —Sweeping re- Jaxation of restrictions on the exports of foodstuffs, fodders and feed to the war trade board. AN AMERICAN GENERAL Paris, Dec. 23.—An airplane ‘piloted by a’ British officer and carrying an American general' from Treves, Ger- many, was capsized this afternoon at Louvres, -on the outskirts of Paris. The pilot was killed and the general was seriously injured. About | completed by thesmir department. In, furs valued at more than $75,000 from | ON STRIKE AT BRIDGEPORT government | William L. Hutchings of Indianapolis, | with striking carpenters in New York | have a theory that a that his real mission was to see how | EXPORTS OF FOODSTUFFS Pan-American repubiics, Canada, Cuba and the West Indies, was announced | tonight by Chairman McGormlck of the | SERIOUSLY INJURED IN PARIS - Condensed Telegrams Strike of the ended. Cable communi; i 000,000, accordin; of Rome. Fresh and from Chi $149.266,019, was awarded to General Pershing. by Holland will At a mass mee dent Wilson to vi: Colonel Robert ing Ehrenbreitstei. the Rhine. ! Fuel and zone regulati S. Clarke pended until Jan. to end the life of Gannon, Camp Z: stitches | muscles | instead of | dei visions to that c thorities will be 2,000,000 tons. for Boston | zine writer, died the Chicago Sunday was W Meetings were he towns and resolu Sinn_Feiners inv son to visit Irela Ireland’s support | ’W‘A!h a machine marines at drives mas” Keough, an clared to be tne nounced today as returaing on the Detroit. 1 transport Rijundam was assogned t*, Don Leopoldo Ocejo, Spanish District No. 1, indicating that all censul at Puruandiro, the greater majority of the men in|oacan, Mexico, e An dJamaged. bu | e injured. A “HIGH-H Washington, Hitchcock of Nel the foreign clared i ‘ml:mg over | -shipowners Travis announced a -New York State's Administrator nounced that maximum prices on coal |moved before Feb. 1. E. A tawanna Steel Co., president of the new steel export com- | 100 have been engaged on this | dilation being formed. t The aeroplane mail service hetween‘ New York and Chicago has been sus- were aken Soissons - are plying-the Rhine. William Keough, known as “Christ- Whiskey valied by the st |at between $40.000 and $50,000 and de- | recently was of New | nated by a captain of | government forces. relations the senate of the trans-Atlantic ca-1 of Tup‘nh ation with Hawaii has been. restored. The supreme court ed over the holidays, Italy’s war dam rday recess- unt to $13,- nanza Italia ‘meat shipments he week was 88,- ordered payment on war o debt of Capnhl invested in lumber industry | in Canada for 1917 was estimated at Distinguished ' Service Cross 28 allied generals by A thief grabbed $2,500 through iron bars from the office of the Secretary ! of State of Indiana and escaped . Negotiations were completed, wher: purchase almost the | entire 1919 nitrate output of Chile. g-in Queenstown a resolution was carried inviting Pres sit Ireland next week. Boyers, a West Point graduate of 1903, was assigned | to command American forces occupy- | in, the Gibralter " Garfield ‘of ons will not bLe re-| , president of was the elected P in order that the motors may be [TlPd out. | A bayonet wound in the heart failed | f Private achary Ta in Abraham vlor. Five the heart German reports to Geneva say that 2,500,0 00 tons of shipping ies to carry pr ountry German au- able to collect only | The steamship Aztec, station shipl and vici ordered tow New York to represent the today W rst Naval District at the naval review of -the returning overseas fleet. It will take from nine to twelvi months before the: Australian and New Zealand troops will be ready for transportation from Europe , to + Australia. Randolph Bourne, author and mag- of pneumonia at his thome in New York, sged 32. Choice of Charles M. Schwab for| the next president of the TUnited| States was v oiced at a banquet given | ;h Machinery Club. ilson Day in Ireland. | 1d in more than forty | tions drafted by the| iting President Wil- nd and pledging him | were adopted. President Wilson is receiving letters | {from all over Burope ffom hays and girtssayho ‘walit his autograph. .~ American patrol boats, each armed gun used by or in the | other d other aliases A\nd who js alleged to have victimized jewelers and department stores, was arrested at Altoona, Pa. authorities largest sing | | ure made in Michigan since the state this | prohibition law bhecame effective, W vice | state of Mich the E nerican The (h men were arrested tonight in connce- | TAKING OVER OF CABLES ANDED OUTRAGE"” Dec., 23. — Senator braska, chairman of committee, de- today that the I ble lines by the government after the igning of the ar handed outrage,” ty for assuming 5, Senator | | giverr’ the presid gency and he added that if the pres dent wanted to taRe over the lines he jshould have confi TO DEMAND R enty headed b and Mrs. Henry ker tomorrow a rames demandin lease fm prison | near reiatives of from ten to thir ciplinary worth, Kas. ON PRI Paris, Friday, immediztely, Franc- for a nds to remain | American army tributing circular: ery effort will be sible | 1y rolled by 60 per of the country | T ; ended tonight, 1 600,000, El Paso, Tex., | Chihuahua, $20,000 worth of poration. eral Hennandez " Parral, . power conferred b ycongress. New York, Dec. 23 will present to Secretary of whom are serving terms Dec. {learn what propor: army in France wisn:s t yeturn home wha: to give preferent.a ! those soldirs eager to re | RED CROSS EN command which passed Cusihuir Wednesday, Mining company, ‘mistice was a “high- and an abuse of the Author- control of the cable {itchcock said, was ent as a war emer- erred with congress. ELEASE OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS A delegation of | T, John L. lard of y Elliot this city of War Ba- petition bearing 15 000 v g the immediate re- of 300 “‘conscientious * 1t was announcec here io- The party will include a dozen the prisoners, most ranging ty vears in the dis- barracks at Fort Ieaven- TO GIVE SOLDIERS VOICE ORITY OF RETURN 20.—In order 1 of the Amer.can wishes to remam tins aud what in here indefinitely, the authorities are dis- 'S to- the troops. Ev- made so far as pos- passan: v "D at once. ROLLMENT MAY REACH 20,000,000 Washington, Dec. 14,000,000 members had been en-| 23.—Approximate- cent. of the chapters! when the American led Cross annual Christmas roll cail according received at national headquarters here, | If the same ratio should be maintained | bring up the woman sufirage consti the total enrollment would exceed 20, . to reports'! VILLA’S COMMAND DESTROYS Dec. 23.—Villa’s main chio, destroyed proeprty of the Cusi an American cor- Villa was pursued by Gen- in the direction of an- ;! to| |Christmas Cheer For Men Overseas Sweets and Luxuries Have Been Provided in Large Quantities by American| Red Cross. Coblenz, Sunday, Dec. 22/ —(By The A. P) The arms of Santa Claus rmvhm‘, . across the Atlantic and france to bevond* the Rhine have trought larze quantities of sweets and various luxuries and holiday gifts for the first Christmas in Germany of the American army of occupation. Christmas packages for the soldiers began to arrive several da carload lots and are being distributed rapidly from the rall!‘ouds to the eight d ns within the area of occupa- The quartermaster's department tion. ard the American Red Cr has pro- vided thirty carloads stocs of choco- late and v. The quartermas- | ter also is providing four rs of pas- try and material for pies and cakes. Every officersy mess and every com pany of soldiers is to have a Cheisi- raas tree. Many of the trees were cut ll. the soldiers themselv The Y, M. G. pplying deco- lmucm for the sranches of Knights or T th all di ns will present the exira smokes, in addition to individ- 2 and plenty of ndy and mans throughout pied '\rf*a are prenaring e celebration among seem determine the occu- | t for snow, € | CHRISTMAS, 1918, WILL BE | SORROWFUL IN BERLIN —(By The un- s an The Hn“n’\' Dec. prevai especiall rrowful turn. ployed ter Berl *cording tol [ ‘he estimates mad 1y, number v daily and to the gen- the season d warmth. atres are fillel ‘o their city, hut the play bilis ca- i are serious I PERSHING SLEPT IN CASTLE ON EAST BANK OF RHINE With the Amer! i of Occ pation, Sunda y The As- |-or'x:\(eri Press (ie'\‘rt“ John J. Pe . commander-in-chiel of the American forces, slept in a castle on e east bank of the Rhine Saturday xht as the guest of Major General Hines, corps commander, with head- juariers at Neuwied. In an automobile General \( ossed the Rhine at 10. Pershing o'clock Sat- rday night on a pontoon bridse at | Coblans, after having cntertained the newspaper correspondents at dinner | in his private ¢ This morning [ General Pecshin: Was joined at Neus . jor Géneéral Dickman, and h Generals Dickman and i lhne iiod the three division head- Guarte within the bridgehead and other points of interest on the eastern | side of the Rhine. Returning to Coblenz ing left by special train ght for Chatimont, goinz by Treves, Luxemburg and On his way to eneral Pershing | guest of er inder General Per- Sunday way of erdun. Coblenz Saturday @ luncheon Muir, com- h Cerps, in a ooking the The castle is own- till is in the Ger- of {castle on the Moselle ov {own of Cochem. el by a major who man army. It w the FFourth Corps { stands on the s | rising above thé {and commands Mos: a le and-Cochem view for miles 1 Pershing travelled by mo- zm~ Wittlich, the headquarters 1 Haan of the Seventh and oth points of the occupied rea. A special train | made up of nine cars preceded General Pershing from Treves Within five minute: cial train arrived at Corps at M after the spe- the tele- OF WAR CONTRACTS' New Haven, Conn., Dec. 23. — The | views of Connecticut industries and of state officials concerning the tion of war contracts in this the war department in! today hy delegates from | several Connecticut c Benedict Crowell, ant secretary of .war, conferred with the visitors, according to word received here tonight and said tthe war department would consider th Connecticut labor situation thoroughly. T state delegates were: Judge George W. Wheeler of Bridgeport; Leo A. Korper, federal employment chief, Hartford; Charles E., Julin, sec- retary of the chambeb of commerce, New Haven: Waldo C. Bryant, district chief of ordnance, Bridgeport. WAR LABOR BOARD REBUKES GENERAL ELECTRIC WORKERS Pittsfield, Mass., Dec. 23.—Refusal of the war Jabor hoard to consider the grievances of 3,500 employes of the Pittsfield plant of the General Elec- tric company while they remain on strike was contained in a_telecram | received tonight by David L, Kevl, | secretary of the Federated Trades council of Pittsfield, from ,J W | Loucke, secretary of the boar The strikers, who constitute ap- { proximately 90 per cent. of the com- pany’s working force here, have been | out since Thursday in sympathy with a strike in the Erie, Pa., plant. 1 SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT BLOCKED IN THE SENATE ‘Washington, Dec. 23—An effort to | tutional amendment in the senate n Imonth was clocked tonight before the | | senate started on its holiday vacation | by Senator Williams of Missi | democrat, who objected to a requs $20,000 WORTH OF PROPERTVlby Senator Jones of Washington. re- publican, that senate censideration of the house re<ohmon be bevxm Jan. 10§ Sugar From Por-lo Rwe San Juan, Porto Rico, Dec Fourteen thousand bazs of sugar,. the first of the new Porto. Rican - crop, i were shipped to New York todav. ' | son ana two i ton for Mz RESTRIGTIONS ON GERMAN ENEMY ALIENS CURTAILED All Have Been Removed Except Upon Those Applying For Entry Into or Departure From the United States and Those Affecting the Power of Internment — Order Cabled From President Wilson Will Affect About 500,- 000 German Men and Women. ‘Washington, Dec. -All “The attorney general, however, tions on Germany enemy alicns except | will continue to exercise a$ heretofore those applyving for entry into and de- | the power to inte all dangerous parture from: the United St and | German alien enem The action of those affecting the power of intern- | the president does not affect ment, were ordered removed today by | way the status of men alreadv General Gregory, effe ed or the restrictions and obligations s day. This action wus taken | heretofore imposed on alien - enemies cabled instructions from President | now on parole. violation of pa- Wilson, and Wl affect about 700,000 | role will be punishied a5 heretofore.” ierman men and women. i3 B snecia It was explained that the depart- | 1, onn Lord O'Brian, special a ment of justice would continue: e S At ans it ichoatn ercise the power of internmant of dan- | {112 orge R = gerous German aliens and that the or. | 3 Tt il der would not affect such aliens al- e tioe ready interred ence to entry and departure < o T S S The effect of statement was issued at the is to pla ' on the “On tho recommendation of the : 5 b0 P Ay 230,000 Gerd torney general the pr nt has ‘:lfiiiflq"“‘,; ‘li:“” Ger rected that on and after Chrisi s 3 o 8 iflornc o : ing permiis for entr ntinue | affeet- 1 femaie which while the prohibited they were excluded 1 bé open to ther rcement of all rez of Columb o >anama Canal Zone, and il water { affecting the power . P Internment is continuing, Mr. O'- his hat: on. Christm: Brian aid, ten Germans having been the permit ss systems effec nd six more | as these aliens w unoffiially at - the chuntre and tnar all pro- | the department of justice that be- hibited ted zones will go |tween four and five thousand Gé'mans out of ence. All registration re: have been interned since the United likewise cease, and States entered the war, 1 longer be necessary for ( The number of Germans registered man alien enemies to obtain permits|in the principal cities were: New for change of residence. Tn short, they | York, including nearby New Jer: \nll In freed of oll rictions affec oints, $0,00: Philadelphia 12,000; and of employ - | Boston, £.000: St. Louis 6,000; Chicagu m en 000 and San Francisco §300. WILSONS ARE TO OCCUPY THE “BELGIAN SUITE” IN LONDON AN EXPLANATORY STATEMENT BY TROTSKY ON CZERNIN London, Dac. 23. “Belgian| TLondon, Dec. 23.—Brit Wireless suiate,” reserved excl for royal ice,)—IL.eon Trotsky, Russian guests until now, c inist and ma- President and Mrs, Wilson dur as made a statement regarding stay in Lon In the ¥ nt cfforts of Coun* Czernin, interesting h v it h: l‘ A within { former Austro-Hungarian iminister of alls many crowned heads, one of \ foreign affa to excuse Count but the least inertioned at|Czernin for the part he jlaved in_the ckingham Palace, be the former | neggtiation of the Prest-Litovsk treaty “Count C: in,” says Trotsky, “in- sists now ¥ =1mn~1 uron a differ- ence between the policy of Dr. Rich- ard Von Kuehlmann (former Ger- here. man foreign secretary) and his own. At the request of President Wilson,| We have aciuaily noticed between them some difference, but this differ- ence was due simply to the fact that Von' Kuehimann — commaudedy and Czernin obeyed. zernin now discloses that it was his conviction that it was necessary that Poland, Lithuania and Courtland should themselves determiac their fu- who evidentiy found that too much is being crowdeid into his short stgy in proposed. diger at # zmp. “Xu v ‘night has This was te haye only second to the uckinghani Palace Fri- Instead of the Lancaster caster” 1o been elimi House banquet, Premier Liovd Georgel ture zovernment. In tha Brest-Lit- will entertain the president at dinneryovsk necotiations Czernn did mot in Saturday. to meet the wa binet sny way display this conviction. When Much of the regal pomp of Bucking- | General Hoftman wanted to express ham Palace ended at the beginning of | in especially e 7 contempt of the reign of Edward VII, but much|the victors fo t of self de- was left to be eliminated by the pres-| termination of peoples, “on Kuehl- ent king. It is still a far cry, kow-| mann charged Czernin with this task ever, from the formalities of this|and Czerni carried it ou palace to those of the White House. As to (hs special pac The presidential party will consist suppomd to ]n\ becn made by of five, inciuding Rear Admiral Gray- i 1rried owing csitions dif- Kuehlmann WHY GERMAN MINISTER VON E the official ¢ E_GKHAF'DT Was ms"?‘s_SEDJ ences or durmg the few 4omm<mmm Washington, Dec. 23—An indirect| oy, warning from the American govern- | oy of the n(‘goua- ment was responsible for the gecision of the German authorities to dispense with the servic of the notorio Minister Van Eckhardt at Mexico Cit t was h.ul\P(l officidlly today that ransmitted to Berlin recent- was difficult to <reconcile continued anti-American tions will be WOULD MAKE GERMANY REPLACE SHIPS DESTROYED London, Dec. —A special commit- ee of the London chamber of com- 1 Ec¢khardt t i !imerce dealing with trade during and | phone and teleraph wires of the train | 4d anti-ally propaganda with the new | ffer the war recommends that the { were connécted with the signal corp rman_government's protestations of | hogce terms should compel Germany w During the afterncon aides |Te8ard for the United States and re-1i, make the fullest restitution for ail nd other officers of the ~ommander's | Peated appeals for food sul allied and cargoes sunk by personnel tziked with Chaumont and | It is understood that the Germar |epemy such tion to be aris over ihe signal corps wires re- | §overnment also has issued orders for|mage 1 coal or garding army, affai Ilho discontinuance sgenerally o{ Jn(!-;munp-‘.v The committee would compel From Tra: to Coblenz/and on the | AMme! i | Germany to furnish France with ceal veturn trip the train consisted of | AN Associated Pre: [0 {until the deliberately wrecked French | French-built cars which were drawn | Mexico ( Saturday announced the | ines are re-established and to com- {by a German locomotive. The train | Fecall of Eckhardt, disclosing that the | pensate the relatives of .al was in charge of a German crew. e o B e Rimente o b { Mexican foreign office although until{“"y e oot nthat VIEWS ON CANCELLAT!ON | additional orders were received he ap-{ 't of justice'to the allies en- sels be not allowed on the sea the fullest reparation has been made; that no financially comsrolled enemy tonnage be allowed under neu- flags, and that no coaling-stations wned or controlled by subj ot enemy countries be permi sh or atfied ports or posse parently. had been keeping to himseif the notice he had received from Eer- lin more than five weeks ago g the Mexican ambassador at W ton. Ambassador Bonil'as left W ico City several wee! It was explained at the time that was making a trip t! naa hezr ranged long in advance, until BISHOPS PROTEST TURKISH DOMINATION OF ARMERNIA DISARMING OCEAN LINERS AND MERCHANT SHIPS| New York Dec ~On_behalf ot New York, Dec. 33—Discrmament of | ¢lEhty-two “American bishops liners and merchant ships which were | announced here today b provided w Eonsgiteombits David SHLSCIeer diot it 2 Shasaa bl sun today at) church, the following —mess: the navy and will be continued | Deen cabled separately to the bishops of Cant With utmost The Paul and.the. Americd, | Siuister frumorsposeibl ih vhich were lying at the ravy vard, | Lurkish suzerainty over were stripped of their guns and men |Menia. Throush from the ordnance depar.ment, which armed the siips, will be sent to re- move those from more thar one hun- there and ships dock. two piers where these moEs o T unhappy Ar- our lordships we ask that the Anglican churches do their utmost to prevent hideous a crime. repetition of so The honor of our rches £ the allied democracies dred vessels docked here. The guns|Cchurches and of t democracies will be stored in ~warehouses at the |demands Armenia be upconditionail: R0 ) liberated from Turkish rule and re- stored to her own people.” CHARLES DE WOODY LEAVES BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Victoria, celegation conference New York, »Der De iLe Japane er-Suwa | Woody, wh ¢ it Maru. The plan 5 by | burean of in the depart- boat to Seattle, where en- | ment of justice, hA- rated many ain tomorrow for New Tork. Germz 4 plots and tmn or internment of those par RS et anncunced his OBITUARY. Jumary | i Dr. Donald H. Currie, 5 transferred hero from after the United ates will go into l‘i\dmfi.u Brookline,” Mass., Dec. S L ald H. Currie of the United | as ceneral manager of the foreign de- public health service, port physician | aitment of n merecantile concern and of Boston and regarded as one of zho[\flu SRS B foremost authoril on leprosy in America, died at his home here toda: ARGUMENTS IN THE DEBS umonia, resulting.from influen < Currie *w ordered -to Boston CASE ARE POSTPONED from Honelulu in August, 1917, after| Wushington, Arg iments ol Tn- reapolis vears spent in the Hawaiian Isl- n the service of the government. rosearch work among the lepers on the island of Molokai, !hr- govern- | cenvictéd under ment leper station, attracted the at-| which were to | tention of medical men throughout the t January world in the cave of Ei and on 4 were postponed by the su- preme court today until January 27. have been made