Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 1, 1919, Page 1

" ® & 3 3 %« » Builetin Service Flag Norwich VOL. LXI—NO. 62 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1919 TEN PAGES—80 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS MANY PERSONS DROWNED AT LAUNCHING AT BRISTOL, PA. From Ten to Forty Persons Were Killed or Drowned When a Temporary Scaffolding Collapsed While Nearly 150 Persons Were Standing on it to View the Launching of the Freighter Waukau—Three Bodies Have Been covered—Polike and Firemen Are Grappling in Waters of the Delaware River for Victims, m the L be e- e r ind the big hull slid down the suction, it is feared of the victims dowr the river. Every the drawing s 10 the bottom of available craft, in- ern | cluding the tugs which were on hand ant make fast to the Waukau, rushed col- [to the scene. Some of the victims | practically of whom were men managed to grasp the scaffolding and r | were pulled to safety sailor in the d men asho all who wer were ind wer ital in vehicles of were on tedly fo ind the piling, however | pered their work and up to a threc had beer Officials of erchant Shipt men ship yard crowd of spectators and _ pulled Within a on the aken to the sorts quickly The fow minutes sur repe swift bodies ound tion rd of the polic ives hose who who unabl, w ne to ob- ned home, were nation e opinio Coroner Ru r of m ho crow scaffold overcrowded it pyard en over a ploye: 2 the Some GOV. HOLCOMB FAST DAY ISSUES FROCLAMATION. nf At home wrticipa ould cont rmi LEGATES GODSPEED FINANCIAL COMMISSION TO MEET GERMAN AGENTS M Paris, Service). Saturday ment Brigad Cabled Paragranhs Two Years For Stealing Auto. for cel March Felix the 31.—(French Marcel w: to two years’ stealing General W. American peace delegation Ma a courtmar W. Harts, Wirel automobile of lesy sentenced imprison- of the , on January 110 will be brought before al shortly. | DISSBLUTION OF CORN PRODUCTS REF!NING CO. March 31.—Dissolution of New York, Corn 1921 ik cou the res ment. = al plants, L following arne of -a compro the which ew roration’s app Products Refini; hich is‘required to sell to but three of hours earlier Comp: mpeti pr conc and that L monopo! corporation, which 600,010, wat its plants a Davenport, 's capit is Bt N, T Chic To: more a woid MEET TODAY TO DISCUSS PROCEDURE AT VERSAILLE After it no mem ni ion wil onduc also workir RAILROAD CIVIL ENGINEERS REQUEST SALARY INCREASE March Incr ortional WOouLD WITH W. H. TAFT I neh | ATE q railroad brot ganized rhooc emy worki repre pre the ent railroads A schedul ent national co wa | |r BOLSHEVISTS CALL WOMEN FOR MiLl 31 ITARY DUTY March Al COLORADO DEATHS Min | | | | | of | call en | mili me matt repe 000 1 ki 11 had 6 ont | 1ated | TWO LARGE ICE HOUSES ON THE A TO HANDLE 1919 WHEAT CROP A. P BURNED AT MERIDEN.| Mer arge i Johnson here, 00 tons of royed by fire oral loss thout covered by insurance. The re the fire is to make more acute shortage for the coming sum n, Conn., March 31 W Two H stored | re completely this afternoon. $35,000, é houses owne W W 1a | | | ice, were ha de pa sult of the is o imiy the of litia McAdoo .in | without Otta Canadian beria. commo WILSON AND ALLIED permit Argo and Pe- | any tors its man- was ordered by Hand toda 1 dismissal ed- the evi- | etn 1gTee- the of | | It | wa PREMIERS CONFERRED | The A allie out toda methc b 100n discu Mars ench bank n mir ters in to ¢ from MC'ADOO COUNSEL FOR THE P.) pr the | from 1| The i the RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION. tha remu erati perm on trip. 31—Walter of railro; Lo Adoo, M 3 had of N tid it s | CANADIAN FORCES ARE TO or ai to ew Mr ve RETURN FROM SIBERIA Mewbu late March > been made exped la i r 31.—Arr 1ary m, by return of forces i 1in th Minister to a secre government ques me; n |wouLDp PLACE EMBARGO ON UNITED STATES COAL'COMM(TTEE TO REDRAFT ipu- | ion. re- 150 Executions For Looting in Iiudapg; Drastic Action is .en By Government t. Enforce| Law and Order—City is Quiet. Budapest via Vieuna, Sunday, March plunge of Budapest into anti-capitalism continues with feverish efforts to show that the reign of law and order is undisturbed. The city wardly quiet since the first | which there was much especially of jewelry shops. 1t of the looting, it is re- persons were executed by regime, their ~communistic | appaerntly being too violent. | new freedom exsts for those| are willing to live as the govern- dicts Two important news- Pester Lloyd, and the Az | only what pe ma write ent fight suthern | city of | et Arr hct day nu tem N 1 ing ideas The who ment tes. rai n bem the censor idents telegraph if they sired by the goveri roops who have been Communists in captured the miles no st r The German | wes Hungary and | ia ostile the Com- |cha nd arc smpting to estab G independence, L corresp ansmit by DE points rn 8 Hungary egedin and it M ing Com- | the themselves - in | despite fact | <4 1 small indus- | thre Communists | | ter the fash- | elsewhe r SENATOR OF FRANCE CES A COURTMARTIAL Bel~ " On Baks of Dvina Carried Out mber repulsed by heviki Active an Intensive| 1 Bombardment of the Amer-| ican and British Posi- tions. i Sunday, March 30.—(By "The Bol evisi carried out bombardmen of the British positions on banks of the Dvira, w the Tul- district and at Kucgonan yester fternoon. AL midnight a larg of the ememy infantr to attack Kurgoman, but were the allied u vmerous . direc t erican and h ptec renc ied shell- | J1<koia Ozera - flew g the of villages of An enemy p wllicd positior | terd the 1 propag nbs. BS THREATENS TO CALL GENERAL STRIKE Marek Bugene V. socialis. leader, foday threaten- 10 teral Stri his “par- hroug the country unless he ring i ourts ¢ which he onvicted al ke of the e o {1918 | the | Trade with 2 yme of Mrs, t notified United court had S0 Bt rehe He . refus- 1 but follow £h Mrs, e to the in of Ch 7al my éon;iensed Telegrams Sergeant Peter Hackett, who was a| member of the Bridgeport police force for 30 years. died lere yesterday. Jos. Schultz, town clerk at Bridge- port, died from heart troulbe. An appropriation of $500,0,0 to pro- mote fundamental research in physics and chemistry was announced by the Rockefeller Foundation. More than $10,000,000 in loans to railroads have brought the total ad- vances furnished by the War Finance Corporation to $145,000,00¢ Production of gold in South Africa, in February 471 tine ounces valued at Rhodesia, | amounted Ocean rates to Holland reduced 50| ts_per cubic foot. | ‘Statistics of the War report scrap on hand Feb. ed to 35,948,009 pounds. Railroads running east from Louis and Chicago report traffic ing Fresh and cured meat shipments for the week umounted to 85,685,000 pounds An increase of 20 per cent. in do-! mestic telegraph rates effective April | I, was announced by Postmaster Gen- | eral Burleson British exports for the first half of were only per cent. of the| for . \\'hm'e,n the American eased 30 per cent. during peviod, British Board of statistics show Army transport Scranton reported | by radio mesages to the War Depart- ment rudder was smashed 900 miles east of New York Food is now the important word in| Germany and mark is worth | what food it will buy. Eighty big German cannons refused | the United States Receiving Com- | were sold by the German | Government to a foundry. They will melted into farm implements General Pershing issued a call for| reading matter for the soldiers he American Expeditionary Forces Sir Thomas Linton and 1,000 troops Department 28 amount- St. hold- 1 in, same total exports | | 1 nission $200000,000 ONE YEAR BONDS T0 BEAR 5 PER CENT. To Be Placed on Sale Wednesday Through Federal Reserve Bank and Sub-agent Banks By the War Finance Cor- poration to Provide Funds for Railroads and to Meet Gther Demands—Bonds Will Be Issued in Denomina- tions of $1,000, Free From Taxes, With Interest Pay- able Semi-Annually. Washington Corporation 000 will through sub-agent The boads, will be' the 1irst. (o be issuad und War Finane« Act irsued in d niature in five ce and will be e March londs te federal bank: meet other cemands. The tax exemption were et forth as follo . of the corpora- “The tax will United that they he 11 will 1 and exempt and the Corporatior omiations of laxation by States with tLe exception 2 will be subject 1o inheritance taxes and to surtaxes and excess profit: taxe. or hereafter . : imposed by the United Siates upon the with rofer incomes rofits of irdividuals or issue ~Jere careed upon cérporations. But another important ferencés Letveen At tex exemption relating to these bonds Sl S T is this: 1e interest on $5,000 of 1nd formal these bonds owned by any person will sue made t be entirely exempt from ue will i taxes, surtaxcs, excess pro ) provide taxes” TR per 1 Ation the is ment of Rece from the the corporation nnounc ight used funds for INTERNATIONAL REGULATION OF LABOR CONDITIONS. London, March oss Service.)—The cres he and the SCHEDULED MOVEMENTS OF THE ATLANTIC FLEET Washington, March 31.—Upon com- pletion of its annual winter manoeu- vres at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Atlantic fleet of dreadnoughts, destroy- comple ing itish Wire- ed draft of permanent | promotion int ation for or interests rnational | ers and 00 {950 of t iment 3 Aquitin rty 1 imself er, diec Hungaran Socialists arrested Arch- duke I Semssic frontier King Helena hem woun ' d a nia. Adam Forepaugh, ma widely 1 at his I ranz Jose from Ke Victor E gulation of | of forty-one ]x\umwr deals with son of the famous | [BeS BF the o the same name, and oree known animal train , lpiAed labor office. home in Philadelpha P Meetings of will be held conference wded, of t New : G9th Reg on the sists Yo Drese h and Juli Count ely & manuel will Queen Lo and 5= whe r ra 1 rccom v tion T Zener: whi conferen interns least once inelude workers ed i will | of stional urday in 81 30 so ch will 1o The York tire I \ch two the Leav proceed Zunne will hold it there til late in June ach desigr iliaries will sail next Sat- or New York and will remain North River from April 15 to s to give the crews shore leave. New York May 1, the fleet to Hampton Roads for other exercises which mnd at Yorktown un- when it will disperse ated ports by June 27. 1p force will go to New main in the North River Tt then will join the en- and re which will WILD TALE | Hasting OF SPREAD CF HEVISM iN AMERICA BOL STATEMENT OF OWNERS OF but these official January 21 the militar: the charges were | ved Tt his hase which res th ain was int *-4- p | REPUBLICANS GAIN { sa7 CONTROL OF DANBURY. i tpe M a!Th of | nea | | Oct Tonn ar republic am * - Willi irried nd aind 5 ouneil nds and three n now democrats, GYPSY FORTUNE TELLER CHARGED WITH $2000 THEFT. |« Bridgepor 3L—AT aping from of pol and flee he Conn ing March custody through Atlantic coas fortun. sterday 1 h the thef John, of Portsme held await tate arrival the o e 3 ar- | B | Fric ith, % author- | ) he if t vid 2| ploc opened and fortune was about parlor posed teller avenue she exington said that well patronized. Hali S, ition N 31 from March -A depu- Nova S Fede it was announced I wait on the government at Ottawa soon to discuss the feasibility placing { on United of ships have unemployment t is said due F wil wthorities 1 tec con Ownr hem of pow { has the priv orig G t embargo is repor secause of | to the loss of |of Lawrence coal | to American operator | ALLIED MISSIONS HAVE RETURNED FROM BUDAPEST |, March The French. Stuc Serbiar ssions which we whi Hungarian revo- out, have arrived at Bel- were imprisoned in but no considerable urtai of the § Paris Br in Budapest u broke wrters, their sent to jail. |wer: | ESTHONIAN FORCES HAVE Guyta | GERMANY AUTHORIZED TO and 1t | wolsr | that trade treaty *‘THREE ARMV AV\ATORS Pensacola kille CALIFORNIA- MEX!CO LAND ornia- Mexi o0 L ill adhere to a not ded partm Jlon c tion ori ar eable our 1z own CEIPTS OF CONNECTICUT AUTOMOBILE DEPARTMENT n 31 Connecticut e o automobile six months of that is from amount to present ober to date rly CAPTURED TWO TOWNS Mar 1 official com- v the Hs- Esthonians on town of Pechory, | and the town of | eastern of the out .thirty miles south | Both battles were won af- ghting. @The victory of the! as released the ategeti- | nt railroad between Fiai Volmar on the Aa river from | the olsheviki. l 1 | | |88 NAMES ARMY CASUALTY LISTS. rmy capt skoff o1 d the e hore hold of TRADE IN NEUTRAL NATIONS | March 31 telegraphed to representative v was day chi Co Marshal Foch on teneral Nudant, | at 8, saying | ¥ horiz=d to trade U in neutral countries, even| he firms are on the blacklist, pro- | d that the supreme council and the k: authorities approve. The reau, the semi-official news dition and entirely free. P n emands | | THE ALGECIRAS TREATY | is, March A special LO!I)\’!\H—} had been appointed by the ference to re-draft the regulating the interests of (b ers in Morocco. The committee| been instructed to eliminate from draft all the special interests and | ileges accorded to Germany inal document. L is the he commitiee inst this con Igeciras | in th American member KILLED AT PENSACOLA FLA.| a., Marc Ensign nsigns ind we mpson two Wigel dent ( d, and injured nes tod Hobb Tru L. sion naval L. D. Jesse s the dresse announced he men ! not l | fresh |in 'v'n Lirma e | rai cxt November. German reinforcements arrived 2 landing of Sneddon, bia Uni at Professor to b Polis of Teacher's ve be curriculum should in Thomas H. Gocdwin, on-Hudson president of irants fo hin ing Sing Manufactured goods made in the U. “Fruit growers of Monmouth County, t storms did According to a statement made Norwegi iament, Norw 2,000,000 barrels of h fo buds in wers F Day hem to shipped will be observed on .ondon und X h in lives since “Lifeboat bo: ch w tru tata 100 or- Miss Alice _Hamilton, M. D, lisease, = a spe- Ha st womar ver placed or vard niversi Colonel Sacardoso was ippomled to ew Portuguese (! H member of the Demoeratic_party A decree was issued by the French menf permitting the baking of Use of bread flour hiscuits. and pastry w. ermitted A dozen freigh t cars and 4,500 aawes‘ Sumter Secretary Baker and mer he officers ments ving declared border are hig quality issued by the Argen- Government nationalizing th service of coastwise vessels in an » solve the strike Support of unemployed is costing municipality of Berlin $240,000 a A force of 2,300 with a z payroll of $24,000 i$ needed to keen track of the workless people William G. Sharp, retiringy Ameri- can Ambassador to France was pr 1 guest at the luncheon Inter-Allied Club by members American_Embassy. Secretary Daniels, Admiral Admiral Wemyss, First h Admiralty ference in Pa und; they discusse merchant marine question Orders for 530,000 tons of steel rails France accordi alor Mexican A decree was tine clerical give he the of Benson held cor rstood e Germar were rom placed ) adv IN TWO cou Londor D Washington, following the commandi ican Exped action die from accide died of disease No Connectic Monday Afternoon List. Monda oon list shows: in ac died from wou wounded sever C., March 31— are reported neral of the K The by Amer illed onary Forces wounds other ¢ tal 37 men on list and i Th Killed 5, died of d Iy 4, total 51 Connecticut include the wounds. Pr ds names following in this section Died from ite Edw B. Trecher, New Haven 1 of discase, Corporal George J. Daly, Wallingford; returned to d previously reported missing action, Pri Joseph E. Doherty, Thompsonvill COMPLIMENTARY DINNER TO HOMER S. CUMMINGS. ( March 31.—It was tonight that a din- ry to Homer S. Cum- of Stamford, recently elected of the national democratic would be given in this cty | night. All members of atic committee and the town committee have to attend. Hartfor S d complime! onn committee state | chairmen_of invited 1 ALSACE EXPRESSES GRATITUDE TO FRANCE March 31.—(F A few days imittee formed to northern provinces of France. The ommittee today forwarded 1,000,000 to President Poincare as a tes of the gratitude of Alsace Strasbours Wirel rch after e noney Lo as francs timony France | tion. | considered ’BAV STATE TO SUPPRESS |at provosed semble at New- today b said the vess e considered availa- g after April 30 but that ttleships would be laid ntil the navy ed with work necessary by a revision of the re- ports of the fire control and _turret joards. which will be made in May. Batile inspection will be held while the is proceeding from New York ipton Roads and fleet tactical exercises will be held from May 11 to 17. Gunnery exercises will occupy the week following and the ships then will return to Hampton Roads for a week o the crews can have recreation. Fleet tactie zunnery and engineering per- forman: will occupy the battleship force from June 1 to 21 and it will then 20 for manoeuvres before as- sembling at New York. wvolved, at should b least womar will mee Nations, office the one of port An I nouncement irtment would dock visers The n dey he fleet ble for einter shed league or body of 1l control the com of representatives del- representing w iza < D made s were ready to proc the S to H; th the king nting firector of t labor offic in w hodsy general 1 office bor clearin LAWRENCE STRIKERS D:M»\ND 44 HOUR WEEK‘ Ma comprising mill strikers working w hours, w icording to a statement Muste, o1 He said t the dema to sea CANDIDATES FOR HARVARD BOARD OF OVERSEERS Mass,, March » 31— en graduates of Har- ity were submitted to the v for a mail ballot on the of ten men as candidates board of overseers, to which men will be elected on Commence- Day hose proposed candi- roups, tile » demand a instead of 44 vard Unive lumni tod nomination fivy hvlu strike hours, A. ers. visin ntire body the but might in 2 d, or and w who lement wo. sted H dema lowed most th H. Bradfe medical school nry Pennpacke Howaxd Coonley all of Bostor homas W. ey former Henry B. ., Ellery and Ben- William H. Lamont, Henry Robert P. Perkins, Laus Egerton T. Winthrop, ington _ an Greenville New York; Herbert L. en Wister of Philadel- Julian W. Mack of Chi- JTames M. Morton, Jr., of John D. Pennock, of Syra- Italians numerous riker ithy amon, e L The was first operatir schedule duced from hour basis. remaine dec with wa tt mi strik PERMANENT RECEIVER OF NEW YORK RAILWAY CO New York, March 31.—Joh E. ently appointed Fed \IA\A! as temporary receiv New York R: company, was named by him 1s permanent re ceiver. In Clark and Tu Judge il River cuse, NI Y. have MORE MEN OF 26TH DIV. ARE HOMEWARD BOUND Washington, March 3 daitionak inizations of the Twenty-sixth (New England) Thirtieth (North Car- olina, Sou Carolina and Tennessee) ind Fortieth (California, Utah, Ari- New Mexico and Colorado) Na- Guard divisions were reported to ave iiled for home. The transport America, carrying the 101st Infantry complete, the 103rd In- | fantry, ) anies L and M, Company “ngineers and the Fifty Brigade Head- iarters, it Boston April €. Al the units belong to the Twenty- sixth division. Dieluded in the officers iboard is Brigadier General George H: shelton, commander of ade. The America 201 casual him today appointment inve: in Judg h gh d of the company Iy all the surface would be made should an increase ary, “the public, sonable, would Manhattan, | in fares pro which ‘suppor day the time the company reckiver's I its preside with Cheodore P. n eight fo the in #hon t cent chs to make also is bringing < \l.,‘AN}:E?T'fT‘IC AfI,s_leLsH MINERS REJECT narchistic acts and propaganda, GOVERNMENT'S TERMS in support which Adjutant General Cardiff, March —At conference Jesse F. d, was urged|of the South Wales miners today @& egislativ today. The|resolution was adopted advising the meas which ormer | Miners Federation to reject the gov- John Bates peti- | ernmen ms of wages and working would im- | condit the coal miners based prisonment both | on the recent report of the coal com= for certain acts the | mission, of which Justice Sir John presence of three or Sankey is chairman. M E. Sproule ocialist party of posed the bill, saying many persons migl views, they did not w government. Ec press Governor tioner L. is the vide three years $10,000 fine committed in more person. secretary Massachusetts, s for nd , or n of the op- hat although have radical | h to overthrow report recommended work underground, in- stead of eight hours, from July 16, and six hours from July 13, 1921, subject to the subject condition of the indus- try. It also recommended an increase in wages and thafl the colliery workers should have an effect voice in the direction of the coal mines. GOVERNOR COOLIDGE TO WELCOME GENERAL COLE Boston, March 31 Governor Coolidge will welcome Brigadier Gen- eral Charles H. Cole of the Twenty- sixth division, who has just returned from France, at a small official din- ner tomorrow evenin The zuests band across rope from the White|will include the governors of the oth- Sea Lo the Caspian as smouidering or|er New England states with their aflame through Bolshevik attacks, and | Major General H. P. McCain, declared that Germany. and Austria Admiral Spencer S. Wood, for- wera likely to slide i hopeless an- consuls in this city. presiding of- avchy or form a military alliance with rs of gislature and mayors of The Sanke seven hours of HOUSE OF COMMONS PASSES MILITARY BILL March 31.—The house of passed the third read- ing of the military bill by a vote of 282 to 64 after strong criticism of the government on the ground of wasteful expenditure and violation of election vledges to abolish: conscription Winston Spencer Churchill, secretary for war, made a vigorous reply to these | criticisms. He described tI broad London, commons today aide Rear eig fic Massachuset HUNGARY HAS SENT A DL_EGA\ION TO BERLIN Geneva— an gov- n to Ber- of alliance ADMIRAL \‘13 TO SAIL ON MAURETANIA ampton, M When Ad- rrive cion poard by Mayor i him among n Nies * form iy helonzing Macke sen's army e arrived in Budapest o reorganize arm: zlonz German now wnmbers 100,-f ssenge Admiral Sims declirel viewed ‘as be boarded he was to be inter- th> vessel, de- W' puraped i are"