Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 6, 1919, Page 1

VoL LXI—NO. 134 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, - CONN., FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1919 TWELVE PAGES—92 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS 73 MEN KILLED IN COAL MINE AT WILKESBARRE, PA. Fifty Others Were Burned and Maimed, Many of Whom Will Die—Opinions Differ as to the Cause of the Deadly Blast—Disaster Was Caused by the Explosion of Seven Kegs of Black Powder—The Tragedy Occurred While the Men Were on Their Way to Work—The Dead and the Maimed Were Literally Roasted by the Superheated Wilkesbarre, Pa.. June 5.—Eighty- three men dead fifty etners burn- | head wire, ed and maimed. many of whom will of a terrible disatser in plosion alls flame traged Owing two mi de ey one time LUSIT Coble ng of the ship, with the fol- |ernor Holcomb on July 10, 1917, to fill| When the janitor's wife reported that g inscription in Germar Lu- |the vacancy caused by the death of |Sh¢ had overhead a conversation of two i sunk by German U-boat, May |Judge W. U. Pearne. Edlin had been |Men in an alleyway near the build:ng. 2 newspaper man in Waterbury and |She said she heard one of the men scy the reverse side is depicted a |had studied for the bar, 10 which he | "It Will go off about 3 o'cloc: The people at a booking office, the figure | was admitted in 1913. He was a|DPolice made an inspection of the prem- within the ticket window being a|graduate of Brooklyn, N. Y. high[ises with the aid of searchlights but skeleton, handing out steamship trans- [school and afterwards attended Har- | found nothing to confirm the suspicion portation to those awaiting their turn. [vard University. He was 32 years|that bomb had been placed there. Their The German inscrintion is translated lold and unmarried. activities arousea everyone in the here as “Anything for money.” REQUEST COURT TO ORDER REOPENING OF OVERLAND PLANT| Mount Clemens, Mich, June 5.— |71® ROlice said there was 1o reaso tor g PAETgY | Witnesses who came here four weeks |ny demonstration by bombers at the o T o Steton 3% lago from Texas and New Mexico to|PUilding as far as was known A ] : ourt | testify ffor the Chicago Daily Tribune, == equesting the co ¥ g y 3 e P eviourt | which s being sucd by Henry Ford |STRIKE TIES UP FISHING Overland Automobile company plant, | i0r $7.000.000 damages on acharge of VESSELS AT PORTLAND, ME. which has been closed since the rioting | 1ib¢l, and who have been growing res-| Portland, Me., June 5.—The demnads which twg persons werd shot to|U'e, Were cheered today by informa-|made by sword fishermen on ten or death t Tuesday. The petition also | ton that in all probability their testi- |twelve vessels tied up here were re- usks that a restraining order be issued [ W'Y Would be called for tomorrow. | fused by the vessel owners today. Of- o idle workers from interfer. Ucunsel for the plaintiff today in-|ficials of the fishermen’s union were 1 the operations of the plant. | !roduced depositions, editorials and |nottied to that effect by Frank S. Wil- e Uit was filed by the Dail-Over- it apecifc malice. ay be- |14rd, of this cits, Charles Melcay of Jotteville, N. C, which the petition | Tribune editorial of June 23, | Cave Forpolse and Fred Bickford, cap- otteville, N. C. which the petition | 3,15 (i TR0 ™ e Detroit manuac. | tain and part owner of the veseels who umer of motor chrs bt becauce of | turer was called an anarchist. At ad- |Fepresented the owners. e ehutdown of the plant has been |journment Attorney William Lucking| The fishermen said they would not S AR of the pladt ¥aid he had but one brief deposition to | FLurn (o the vessels If they were re- nable to ha iveri . Fead ‘fomorrow ‘and w0 Witnesses | quired (o contniue the practice of pay ¢ 3 whose testimony probably would he [ing for all gear, and oil, and_gasoline TAFT ORATOR AT BYRN ster.. This, ho said, would completo | for the cngines and allow a clear Ore. MAWR COMMENCEMENT | airect pr tion of the plaintiff's |fifth share for the vessel and one full Philadelphia, June 5—Former Pres- | Cds share for the engine. jdent William H. Taft was the orator Ry = at the 4th commencement of Eryn| DEMAND RECOGNITION OF CONVICTION OF “THE WOLF OF Mawr coliege today, at which he dis- OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC WALL STREET” CONFIRMED cussed tac league of nations. “I am 4| Boston, June 5.—A message signed| New York, June 5—The conviction republican, and 1 will live and die as ),y (hirty democratic members of the |of David Lamar, known as “The Wolt one.’ Be said, [but certain issucs are|jegislature calling upon President Wil- | of Wall Street,” for conspiring 10 pre- s Eariee pa hersonal nostility will |son to demand recognition of the Irish | vent the transportation of war mu- e mrmoition o Ty of the peo- | republic was cabled to the president|nitions from the United States to the D e 0 yihe league which | today by Francis J. Finneran, presi- |allies, was confirmed today by the a8 B0 reference to its merits and de- | gent of the Democratic Club of Mas- g ~Sevari young women rv “Freedom loving Americans demands | case of Henry B. Martin, & momber T e BT an At the hands of | o 45 our representatives at the peace | of the so-calied = Labors — National . . table to demand recognition ef the|Peace Council. Both men have beon |Irish republic fulfilling the promise|on bail pending appeal. They were SETTLEMENT OF THE | made by thousands of Americans who | sentenced to one year each in the FIUME QUESTION NEAR [dicd in Falnders ficlds for the freedom Paris, June 5.—Premier Orlando of |0f small nations.’ 2 B Italy had a conference with Premier e HELD IN RANSOM FOR Clemenceau on the Adriatic problem, | SUFFS. ASK SPECIAL FIVE DAYS BY BANDITS La Liberte says that indications were SESSION OF LEGISLATURE | Nogales, Ariz, June —After being today that a settlement of the Fiume | partford, Conn., June 5.—The Con- |held in ransom for five days by bandits auestion wax near. The full claims|necticut branch of the National Wo- | A. D. Ayle and H. Barton, American of the Jugo-Slave it adds, probably|man's Party today sent a message to |farmers, having holdings near Ameca, will not be met. The paper says that|Governor Holcomb asking him to call | in the state of Jalisco, were released Dalmatia will go to Italy while the|y wpecial session of the general as- |today when the Chambeb of Gom- Jugosiave will get the port of Scben- | combly to act on the national suffrage | merce of that place delivered $2.000 o amendme 3,000 F New York, June 5.—Three thousand | ness of the queen of the Belgians,| It's a very moderate moderation of Jobs are open to discharged soldiers | President Wilson's visit here has been | prohiition which the President -urges; on farms in York, New Jersey | postponed until the end of next week. [but even so, it will make the more and Connecticut. actording to an an- | Queen Elizabeth is suffering from hay |rabid di foam at the mouth.— nouncement tonight by Dr. Georg fever. Charleston News and Conurier. Kirchwey, state direetor of the United Sitates employment service. The wages| The same old sins and sinners oec- offered with ~aeed Flames Following the Explosion. lisatser was caused by the ex- the t { seven kegs of black pow- | caped. in ree hundred pounds in all, and ad and the maimed were liter- ed by the superheated gas an instan t]ed A delegation of of eparks and then | stopped and told me to 0 out and tel| o s Solth Accloans Taa with a terrifi :*n:h'lv |nt;]ln:h<"xr runner on the r“fl- Paris and requested that independence X L ea she ‘v o flame ;*\.w A o n"y. t '; U”I:‘Ql" a 1. MC-1} egiven to the Union of South Africa. pless men who were huddled | the cary that they had hetter gt out |, EO1Sheviki advices reaching Copen: methe t ars_with no|and walk. | saw some night shift men | JAS€n say that the Bolsheviki have ahead a jur; n and caused by the sagging of the over- He is ot the opinion that perhaps a steel bar or drfll carricg by one of the men came in contact with el 01 e Bl aware | e vire forming the " short ireur | 12 (Feay has been” srranged.” bot oal Comnany in the|which caused the powder to give may. | {rs 005Ul has been fixed for“Aus- tion of this city early to-| According to the company’s figures, e S erg odt balditls men and hoys were being carried but seventcen es John Connon, who was on the motor when the accident occurred, said: “The trip forms at the mouth of the following the explosion. The|tunnel each morning. The trip today seeurred while the men were | formed at 6. o'clock. John Mec- r wa » wor this morning. | Gro: ¥ Wi e motorman and Jim- to their working places being | my Kehoe the brakeman. . T was riding les from the mouth of the tun-|on the head end-of the trip and the me were making the trin in|cars were filled with men. In the last ourteen mine cars arawn|car were several kegs of powder. T ele motor, the wder be-|do not know whether any men were rie two cars in the middle|in this car. The last car was just in- ra he train had penctrated | side the mouth of the tunnel when Me- out 200 feet when Aug- | Groarity noticed the wire hanging low. 1 one of the survivors|He stopped the trip and started ahead overhead trolley wire s a few hundred feet to ascertain the nd touchin ¢l powder keg. |cause of the low wire. He had travel- few feet when he again ing out and I told them to notify the : L o Suir S i of Admiral Kolchak of the Omsk gov- ting syst e iy o the trip of cdrs oWt ernment. Prisoners to the number of of the patid they would, ere in the| 40000 and 100 guns and much war Ay D fhe_cars were In ihe|material are declared to have been e mbing out and the night shift| takeu iy the Bolsheviki. Reports from : blindin h. There was not much|Lsthonian sources declare that the - linding flash. Thete was not much | gespatches announcing the capture of ving were given first |a little while. Every man in the tun- | porosred by the Esthonlans - were sicians and then |nel was affected by smoke. Wa men AT 1 o ; S There is no limitation of armament bilances and venicles of Al | hut we sscaped the foree of the fumes, | [oF the small states which have spruns re w‘ aratus being | Then we ;'Jrll‘ll. to help the injured!'P 1" !l?gmer AnstrosHungasan Lerrt mers 00 Mks out e oty ot e T e council of four has decided = et sntered thel “T ‘& not sive How the ‘accidant liminate the limitation provisions dead and dying | happened. The wire was hanging low. | x4 by the council in the Austrian ¥ e e O e v Tohchis” (MaBEInE JOW | tceaty {or tHese amall states! Theiac odies of the dead | the car. Some of the men T am sure|tion Of ‘}'em‘”"“‘:":" mas “*‘}fe" n ‘2' — v % | protest of e igoslavs, who contend- T he hans | mets, Crunue an Jhey. piisd On 1op Oflled' thabilt Swas untalr” toklesve Ttaty | e e T e " ['Well armed” whillelthey wera limiten. R L | s e e el s | Bnd! beckuke 'ths Pol& dlaot Aemindad e succumbed o their | buresn of mines informed The Asse. |the elimination of the provisions. he hospitals But forey ciated Press tonight that the state icad have so far been|code contained regulations governing|E=/GHT INDEPENDENT i the storage of explosives in magazines PACKING HOUSES MERGED ong the men killed outright by |and working places, but was silent on| New York, June 5.—Merger of sight lly blast was James J. McClos- | the transportation of the same. M. |jndependent packing houges. into dns . former bLaseball. piicher. ai{Builon ASCIAFed. this Wasa-SrOROUS | orEantArtin, OHpItEHZeR St $T05,000, + member of the Philadeiphis | omission in the law and that acting | 000 to operate in the United States and | League club, on his own responsibility he would Is- | Canada and later in foreign countries, tant General Manager Bucha-|suc regulations (omorrow —morning|wus announced tonight by James Im. g it ot g o e e lof Imbrie & Company. the disaster, gav a obeyed untll the same can be cnacted | ' Ure & Company. atusatin sio st L e son, vice president of Wilson and ANIA MEDAL ISSUED BY GERMAN GOVERNMENT Wednesday June 4—(By Middletown, Conn.. June 5.—James|involved w: not disclosed. ) Lusitania medal | R. Edlin, judge of the city court for| F.S.Snyder of Boston, former mem- was i i said, with the [two years and assistant clerk of the |ber of the food administration, exec- r : government, | superior court for Middlesex Cpunty |utive committce and head of the ad- er the K the Lu: since killed himself this after- [ ministration’s meat section, will be an n the hands of Afericar noon body was found in a bath |executive of the new Mr. the Ameri ipied | tub by an of - Judge pointmen Monda ference, had five ) W of the medal hington med which ¥ diam- is depicted year: lief y-seven voung women received | Sechusett ARM JOBS OPEN TO DISCHARGED SOLDIERS are from $30 per month up, pected liis mother. throat and fallen into the water. had_expected superior court clerk last ndges in annual con- who Edlin t a; by but the th to service, in was appoined jjudge by s. nt. The message JUDGE JAMES R. EDLIN OF MIDDLTOWN SUICIDES He had the ap. present retire clerk, after thirty. was reappointed. S0 FROGRESS IN TRIAL OF FORD $1,000000 SUIT read: Queen of Belgium is I, Brussels, June 5—Owing to the ill- cupy the stage of life but they fur- nish a multitude of variety shows. cut his Cabled Paragraphs Esthonian Minister in Pa Paris, June 5.—(Havas)—M. Poska, the foreisn minister of Esthonia, ar- rived in Paris today to ask the Great powers to aid the small Esthonian army which is fighting the bolsheviki southwest of Petrograd. He will have a conference with the council of four, CONDENSED REVIEW OF- INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (By The Associated Press.) The council of four in Paris is still ehgaged in efforts to reach a satisfac- tory ~ conclusion with regard to the counter-proposals made by the Ger- man peace delegates. It also is work- ing on the clauses of the Austrian peace convention which had not been completed when part of the treaty was handed to the Austrians at St. Ger- main. Reports in Paris. are to the effect that the council will be unable to re- ply to the Germans before the end of next week. This probably is due to the complicated nature of the questions under advisement. Jt is deretocd thai the financial clause of the Aus- to be left to a commission which will deteimuine the amount and the method of payment after an examination into the resources of Austria. Premier Paderewski of Poland has entcred a protest to the peace confer- eace against any change being made in the peace terms regarding Silesia, I: has been reported that the council c. four was considering an alteration of the original demands. The Austrian cabinet, it is asserted, is undecided whether to accept or re- ject the peace terms offered Austria. The newspapers continue to declare that the terms are unacceptable, and a report coming by way of Copen- hagen says black flags are to be flown throughout Austria Iriday as an ex- pression of the feeling of the popula- tion against the terms. in ted a severe defeat on the troops Company, had resigned hi: with that company to become president of the new corporation. The identity of the packing houses connection company, Imbrie said. BOMB SCARE IN A BOSTOM APARTMENT HOUSE Boston, June 5.~—Occupants of an apartment house at 187 nad 189 Hunt- ington avenue :n the Back Bay die- trict had a bomb scare early tuday building many of whom sought re- fuge for the rest of the night in ncar- by hotels or at the homes of friends. United States Circuit Court of appeals. A similar decision was given in the Mercer County, N. J., penitentiary. to the bandits, who are said to be a Zapatasta gang. Foaming at the Mouth, The race is not always to the swift. The fastest colors are those that won't run. Heated Dehiate in Senate on Treaty [Clmrgu of Partisanship and Politics Made From Both Sides of the Chamber. ‘Washington, June 5.—In more _than five hours of heated debate today the senate ran the whole scale of issues involved in the peace treaty fight. Starting with _the controversy over publication of the treaty, the discus- sion drifted to principles of the treaty itself and of the League of Nations, and before it was finished involved sharp charges of partisanship and pol- itics from hoth sides of the chamber. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, sen- jor democrat _of the foreign relations committee, charged that Chairman Lodge and Scnator Borah of ldaho had made an attack “of a most scan- dalous naturc” on the president in their statements telling of copies of the unpublished treaty in New York. A searching _investigation was de- manded' by the Nebraska senator. Senator Lodge replied that there was nothing to conceal, and that he would welcome investigation, which should include also the d <cratic state department. Senato Borah made a similar statement and then charged that there was “a_ conduit” between those backing the League to Enforce Peace, headed by Former President Taft, and those who possess information as to what is in the trea- b3 Tonight Acting Secretary Polk of the state department, took a hand in the controversy through issuance of a statement denying a declaration, of Senator Lodge during the debate that the state department had told newspa- per men financial sections of the treaty were in the hands of financial interests in New York. “As far as I know,” said Mr. Polk, in on the the de- the first formal expression subject that has come from partment, “the copies of financial and reparation sections are not in the hands of unauthorized persons.” Meantime it became known that Senator Hitchcock, in asking for an investigation of the channels through which_copies of the treaty reached New York, was acting with the back- ing of the White House.” His resolu- tion directing the foreign relations committee to investigate was intro- duced vesterday, it was said author- fter he had been requested at a White House conference. No vote was reached during the day on either the Hitchcock resolution or that_introduced by Senator -.Johnson, republican, of California, asking the state department for the treaty text. A PLAN TO ELIMINATE STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS Atlantic City, N. J, June to permanently eliminate strike: outs and other labor troubles was pre- sented at today’s session of the building trades department of the American Federation of Labor: The proposal has the endorsement of Sam- uet-@ompers and “the - SUpPOFL of “the executive - council of the building trades department. The plan provides for the creation of a national board for jurisdiction: awards in the bu ing indus to I comprised of eight members, three to be international officers of the build- ing trades department, and one repre- sentative each for the American In- stitute of Architects, the engineering council, the Associated General Con- tractors of America, the National As sociation of Builders, Bxchanges and the National Building Trades Employ- e ociation. he national board for jurisdictional awards is to have power to investigate all disputes and to mal~s awards in accordance with the findings, I'wo resciutions presented and re- ferred to committee for action caused a stir among the de K- ed an explanation y of War Baker regarding the activity of troops at Toledo, Ohio, and the other demanded the abrogation of the agreement between Samuel Gompers, representing labor, and the war de partment for cooperation during the war, At the convention of the Metal Trades Department Council ‘of the federation, Secretary A. J, Barres pre- dicted that shinyard strikes would be gencral on the Atlantic coast unless agreements are soon reached between employers and men. Mr. Barres members of the Macy hoard, wage awards expired March .1 Notwithstanding oppogition it was reported that agreements for the ad- Justment of all demands and the continuance of the Macy board awards until October 1 had heen reached with the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corpora- tion, the American Shipbuilding Com- pany, the Globe Shipbuilding and. tha Emergeney Fleet Corporation for its vards at Hog Island and Harriman, Pa. This agreement provides for the recognition of the union and the ad- justment of ail demands after October 1 by a board chosen by the employers and_ workers, each to be represented by five men. James O'Connell, president of the council, said he hoved before the con- vention adjourned that an agreement would be ready for announcement be- tween ali the eastern yards and their men, a whose DOUBTS MODIFICATION OF WAR TIME PROHIBITION ‘Washington, June 5—Senator Jones of Washington in an address tonight before the national convention here of the Anti-Saloon league of America sail he had been assured by many senators who were opposed to prohi- bition that, inasmuch as it was now written into the constitution as an ex- pression of popular will, they would oppose any legislation for the repeal of the provision against beer and light Wwines in the war time prohibition act. He said he believed, therefore, there was no possibility of the modification of the act in that respect. Many senators who vote dagainst the prohibition amendment, Senator Jones said, also had assured him that the ywould support measures provid- ing for the strictest enforcement of national prohibition. COMPLAINS OF ARMIES OF OCCUPATION IN GERMANY Paris, June 5 (By the A. P.).—Count Von Brockdorff-Rantzau, head of the German peace delegation, has sent a formal letici of protest to the peace conference complaining that the armies of occupation in Germany are arbi- trarily protecting and favoring the in- dividuals who are attempting to estab- lish a Rhenish republic. The protest adds that the armies also are prevent- ing loyal Germans from manifesting counter 8 Superheated steam is used to remove the fatty acids from sewage sludge to increase its value as a fertilizer in a ~—=ess of European invention, | fined $100 anl Van Bla Telegraphers Strike in10 SouthernStates In Support of Telegraph and Telephone Operators Now On Strike in Atlanta, Ga. Washinston, June 5.—Employes of the Western 'Union' Telegraph com- pany in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, South and North Carolina, West Vir- ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississip- pi and New Orleans, La., who are members of the C‘ommercial Telegra- phers’ union, were ordered to £0 on strike immediately tonight by S. J. kmwnkump. president of that organ- ization. President Konenkamp said the strike orcor was issued in support of Atlanta telegraph and telephone operators who ‘wen tout several’days ago, and ed ‘that it would unquestionat followed by a nation-wide strike with- in a‘few days. “T took the step immediately upon learning that Postmaster General Bur- un_ had ordered wires returned to tke cempanies,” Mr. Konenkamp as- sorted. “Authority for it extended ¥ a strike vote taken some time ago, Whaich has been held un to see if we could not nezotiate a peaceable settle- ment. It is very likely that the strike will also involve the Postal company, but that cannot be determined yet.” VIRTUALLY NO EFFECT ON THE WESTERN UNION New York. June 5.—Newcumb Carl- ton. president of the Western Union Telegraph company, declared tonight that the strike of Western Union em- ploves in ten states, ordered tonight by S. J. Konenkamp, president of the Commercial Telegraphers' union, would have virtually no effect on the ‘Western Union. “Of more than 40.000 Western Union employes eligible for membership the Commercial Telegraphers’ union, he said, “only about 700 are members of the organization. In the territor: covered by Mr. Konenkamp's order, less than 400 of our employes are members of that union.” PROCEEDINGS OF CONN. BRANCH OF A, F. OF L. Meriden, Conn., June 7—A prolonged debate on the resolutions which would have the Federation of Labor support a new political labor party wil lextend the Session for another day, in the opinion of many delegates. The va- rious resolutions were called up in convention th: afternoon and those advocates of a political party to aid organized lahor were prepared to fight to a finish for declaration by the convention. Then will follow debate on a resolution to support the league of nations covenant. Tt was voted to present Cornelius J. Danaher with $300 in recosnietion of the legal seryices he has rendered the Federation during the vear. Presi- dent O'Meara said that Mr. Danaher was the only lawyer in the state who has come to' the aid of labor. Rep.. W, B. Rogers of Manchester spoke for wOMan's suffrage and ask- ed the delegates to support if. He also urgzed assistance for the $100,000 fund which the suffragists are planning to raise in a drive. Mr. Rogers said the legislators lacked interest in labor matters, and the “republican machine” was against most labor bills and wo- man’s suffrage. He also that in his opinion the labby against labor bills was greater in the last session than ever before. Miss Theresa Sullivan spoke in be- Yhalf of the telephone operators of New England and the movement to organize that craft A committee to interview the trus- tees of the Boys’' school to learn the reason for report that hoys were to be sent out to aid in building houses was named with John Madden of Stamford, R. Beadle of New Haven and James J. Golden of Meriden on it. The pay of members of the execu- tive committee was raised from 6 to §7.50 a day. BROKERS PLEADED GUILTY OF USING MAILS TO DEFRAUD Boston, June ames J. Benclisha and Frank Van Blarcom, stock brok- ers, pleaded guilt in federal court to- day to charges of using the mails in a scheme to defraud in connection W the sale of stock of the Wood Praducts Chemical Company. Benelisha rom 4400, was : From Bookkeeper To As- sistant Treasurer CorvmeNT CLEDIEY. wha- O AL e Robert G. Hand, of Mississippl, who has been appointed assistant tressurer of the United States. When the war broke out Mr. Hand Was ‘the prineipal bookkeeper in the ofiice of the treasurer. He'was assigned a5 exceutive clerk to the wor ‘loan, organization and con- tinved ‘with his work also in the treasurer's office. He performed ex- tremely vamable service with the war loan organization and it was in recogmitien of his faithful serv- ice that the recent appointment was mads, W PNTTD SRR, Condensed Telegrams Directors of the Gulf States Steel Co. passed the dividend on the com- mon_stock. . British government ordered remov- al of import taxes on scales, cutlery, laundry appliances -and motors and similar articles. Import duty of sugar in Spain was raised to 60 pesetas per 100 kilos. A contingent of American troops left Archangel for the United States. Imperial Baok of Germany gives its holdings as of May 23, 1,521,581 marks. e General Pershing made an inspec- tion of the naval and military base at Brest. United States Steel Corporation sold 345,000 tons of steel to the General Motors Corporation. The American Legion, New York ranch, obtained a charter in the New York 'Supreme ourt. Miami Copper Co. produced 4,989, 580 pounds in May, compared with 4551,115 pounds in April. The $31,600,000 Agricultural appro- priations bill was passed by the House with only one dissenting vote. Shipping space to northern French Atlantic ports is now available at $30 a ton weight or measurement Steamship Betsy Hall, 9,400 tons launched at the Alexandria yards of the United States Steamship Co. War Department announced total holdings of Government wool on June 1 amounted to 186,828000 pounds. Checks amounting’ to $33,933,962 were issued to the dependents of Sol- diers, sailors and marines during May. Senate adopted the House Woman Suffrage amendment. The amend- ent now goes to the states for ratifi- cation. Legal phases of the Esch telephone and telegraph bill were considered by the Interstate ommerce Committee of the House. American Relief Administration an- nounced that until further notice the rate for German marks will be 12.65 arks per dollar. Investigation of War Department expenditures during the war was au- rized by a House resolution, which a party vote. War Finance Corporation made ad- ditional loans to railroads under Gov- ernment control totalling $16,990,800 to_June 2 American marines landed at Punta Arenas and Port Limon because of the revolution against the Govern- ment headed by General Tinoco. Francis P. Garvan, recently nomi- nated for assistant attorney general, will not relinquish his office as alien property cu 1 for several months Vice Chancellor Lewis of the New Jersey Chancery Court approved the sale of the American Malting Co., in liquiation, to the American Malt & Grain Co. It was a™nounced in the House of Commons there was no information as to whether the Prince of Wales would visit the United States after his Ca- nadian tour. A certifificate of incorporation was filed at the secretary of siate's office by the American Fabrics Company of Bridgeport. The concern will have a capittal stock of $4,000,000. Announcement was made at _the General Electric Co.s plant in Lynn, Mass,, that the working week had]| been” réduced from 53 hodrs to 481 without a decrease in wages. Southwestern and Western rail roads reguested the Interstate Com- merce Commission to increase the | rates on bullion and smelte A Chinese peace delegate, it is re- ported, announced the g Four” have agreed to permit the Chinese de egates to sign the peace treaty, with reservations regarding Shantu Members of the Chicago Board of Trade will vote on June 6 on chang- ing grades of oats making No. 2 white the contract delivery and No. 3 whate at 1% per cent. discount. Food Administration Grain Corpo- ration_reports the receipts of wheat from farms during the week ended May 23°as 2,505 000 bushels, compared with 2,230,00 bushels a_year ago. Southern foreStry officials, timber land owners and others interested in the preservation of forests, zathered at Asheville, N. C. Forest Graves of | the Department of Agriculture pre- | sided over the meeting. 1 Commissioner Lewis Nixon ap- | pointed Terence V. Tarley chief coun- sel of the Public Service Commission. | Victory Notes were sold at 100.10 their highest figure, in the Wall Street market. .. Alexander Totruch, of. New. York | City, was sentenced to two and al half years' imprisonment for swindl- ing victims outa of thousands of - by selling shares in the Munic ding, the City Hall and ipal the sub- | REPLY TO COUNTER-PROPOSALS READY FOR DELIVERY MONDAY | Paris, June i (By the A. P.).—Such progress was made by the council of four today. it is hoped that by work- ing through Sunday the reply to the German _counter-propo: be ready. for delivery Monday. The council has decided to refuse WIRE_LINES ORDERED RETURNED 10 OWNERS Edict Issued by Postmaster General Burleson—Makes Order Effective Immediately—Postoffice Department Retains a Measure of Control Pending Final Legislative Action by Congress—Reason Given by Burleson Was That the Re- turn Was Desired by President Wilson, the Senate In- terstate Committee and the House Committee. Washington, June 5.—Telegraph and | ings manifested a desire for action to- telephone companics whose lines have | ward that end, he felt it his duty to been controlled and operated by the |return operative control to the vari- government since last August' 1, were | ous private owners. ordered tonight to resume immediate- | ~Strikes threatened by telephone and Iy operations for their own account by | telegraph employes' unions had no Postmaster General Burleson. The | bearing on the department's action, of- postoffice department, however, under | ficials said. terms of Mr. Burleson's order, retains | The order issued by the postmaster a measure of control of the service, | zeneral abolishes the wire operating pending final legislative action by con- | board: of which Union N. Bethel of gress. New York is chairman, but the wire: Regulations prohibiting discrimina- | control hoard, consisting of John A.: tion against wire employes because of | Koons, first assistant postmaster-gen- union affiliations, maintaining exist- | eral, W. H. Lamarand the statistical| ing rates and charges and instructing {and legal staff, will continue to exer- companies to keep special accounts to | cise the control retained by the order facilitate cost settlements between |until the government’s connection with themselves and the government are | the wire systems is ended. retained in effect under the order is-| Contracts for compensation and ! sued by the postmaster general. awards by state commissions remain | Mr. Burleson accompanied the order | in effect under the order as well as| with a_statement giving the reasons |the increased toll rates, service con- | which impelled him to take the action. | nection charges and special exchange | He asserted that the president having | rates recently authorized by the post- recommended the return of the prop- | master general. | erties, the senate interstate commerce Congressional leaders said that thei committee having indicated that im- |order was somewhat confusing in that. mediate return was advisable and the | it returns physical operation of the house committee having through hear- | systems but retains actfal control. CRITICIZED CONDUCT OF POSTAL TELEGRAPH CO. Washington, June 5.—The conduct of the Postal Telegraph company in handling government busines: at Washington in_ the trying period of war was enough to justify the taking over of telegranh nad telephone tems, Assistant Postmaster General Keons told the house interstate com- merce committee today at a hearing which closed just before issuance of orders by the postmaster general re- linquishing oneration of the wire prop- IN COMMUNICATION WITH | RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIKI | Copenhagen, Wednesday, June 4. The Swedish ‘Socialist paper. Folkets- | dagblad, which is said to bé in close | | communication with the Russian Bol- | shevik government, has received a tel- egram from Petrograd reporting that| the forceS 6f Admiral Kolchak of the Omsk government have been de t- 1 ed in the south and center, while"the northern front is shaking. The societ troops are said to have captured 40,- | 000 prisoners, 100 guns and much war erti Mr. Koons made ro mention | o, B !x i o ?icxl-lhznhc POSUMASICT | The Esthonian offensive against Pe- | 3 Sl it & trograd, the telegram adds, has been | i ‘Koons declared that if other [Stopped and the anti-Bolsheviki are! WI}P companies had adopted the same retiring in the direction of Jamburg,‘ The telegram continues: “The British navy attempted to force | the Finnish Gulf, but retired. “The revolutionary movement | against the soviet has been broken and | the societ is stronger than ever 125,000 WAR RISK INSURANCE CERTIFICATES RETURNED! Washington, June 5—Dependents of! men in the military service, who have | moved without notifying the War Risk | policy the Postal, it would have strangled the government in the con- duct of the war. He charged that the Postal avoided government business, made no special effort to_exnedite_it, and transferred to the Western Union larze numbers of government messages filed with it for deliveries in cities at which it maintained offices. Information upon which the charzes were BISea; he-said, was obtained by inspectors from the records of the company. There was no evidence, however, to show intentional | Bureau of their new addresses have delay by the Postal. he said. caused the return of 125.000 insurance E certificates, A total of 337.742 checks DETERRENTS TO BUILDING has been returned, inclnding 15,000 drawn to dependents in other countries | which are unclaimed. As fast as pos- sible, the bureau is locating the per- sons’ to whom they belong, being as sisted by the Red Cross and local | agencies throughout tha country. A trend from the country to the citles has been noticed in the change of ad- | dresses sent to the bureau. New York { leads the country for centralization, { but all especially those near can- | tonments have received a large number { of soldiers who formerly lived in the | country. i N ACTIVITIES IN NEW YORK New York, June 5.—Testifying today before the General Welfare Committee of the board of aldermen, Samuel Un- termeyer declared the two great de- terrents te building activities in New York city are inability to borrow money and “the eactions of criminal combination among dealers in build- upplies.” He asserted that the and cement industries, among are operating under some se- ice agreement and he advocat- ed inv ion of every association in_the building trad: i} Mr. Undermeyer said the plan of getting the federal government to loan money to build houses was impractic- ble because whatever appropriation was made would have to be decided throughout the country. He suggested that if the great life insurance com- ing HUNGARIAN MINISTER FLED ! DANUBE IN A ROWBOAT | Washington, June 5.—How Count | Apponyi, former Hungarian minister o feducation. fled acress the Danube in a row hoat, hegged the Czecho-Slovak Zovernment not to deport him and | panies could be induced to make real{ promised to hecome a faithful gubject'{ estate loans, however, twelve of them |js described in official despatches re- | cnuld furnish $100.000,000 for this city | ceived here today by the commission- ; at once. He made the cha that| er of the new state. | officers of the life insurance com-| The same despatch stated that the | seemed to prefer to use the|strength of the new standing army of | of their policy holders to| Czecho-Slovakia has been fixed &t in Wall Street securities”| 243000 men. rather than invest it in improved real Tl B estate. MISS ALICE G. DREXEL WEDS BRIDGESORT JITNEUR CAPTAIN W. BARRET, U. S. A. : = New York, June 5—Miss Allce HELD UP BY MEN IN UNIFORM| . 50 Tyrexer “the only daushter of Milford, Conn., June 5. — David|nfr ang Mrs. John R. Drexel, of this Lioyd, a public ~service _automobile | city and prominent socially in New York, Newport and Philadelphia, was er of Bridgeport, was held up and Germany's request that a fixed sum for reparations e indicated in the treaty Tt was said in authoritative circles tonight that the outlook for an agree- ment on the renly was more encour- aging a result of tod meetin of the big four. It was considered c: tain that comparatively few changes would be made in the text of the treaty. The reply will consist first of a short letter answering Count Von Brox Rantzau’s introduction, long memorandum taki counter-proposals. Considerable difference prevails as to the prospect of nresent- ing the reply at an early date. In American circles the hove is_enter- tained that the work will be finished s0 that the reply may be finally acted upon by the big four not later than Monday. French peace conference cir- cles are less optimistic, the belief pre- | vailing that the reply will not be ready | for presentation before Thursday. then of opini BELIEVE AVIATOR JAMES FELL INTO SOUND OR OCEAN | New York, June Belief that tain Mansell T. James, Canadian who disappeared last Thursday while flying from Lee, Mass, to Mineola, had fallen into Long Island sound or the Atlantic, was expressed tonight by officials of the Acro club of America following receipt of a report from J. R. Murdock, superintendent of the tel-! ephone exchange at Torrington, Conn. Mr. Murdock stated that he hadl| made a telephone canvass of hous along Captain James' route from Lee and had succeeded in tracing the course of the aviator as far as Han- cock, Conn., eight miles north of Wa- terbury. The plane passed over Han- cock about 12.30 Thursday afternoon, he said, fiying high and headed toward Ansonia. As the country from Hancock is thickly populated, 1t was believed un- likely that Captain James could have fallen on land unnoticed. “ace, A stiteh in time may mouths of gossips. close the robbed of his new automobile DIS| married in New Rochelle this after- T O e here tood west of|100R to Capt William Barrett UZS. Codmont. One of the men pointed | &: who served in France with the avi ‘» A R e e was quoted atter the cer- | him to gef out. Lloyd walked to Mil-emony as saying that neither she nor ord 4nd while on the street saw his|Mr. Drexel had met their son-in-law “utomobile sneed by with the two men |and that their daughter’s wedding was in it. He notified the police and the|“both a surp; | Chase was taken up with automobiles. TTho 1ast report of the stolen machine | CAPE MAY TO BE NAVY LRl toward| GOURTMARTIAL HEADQUARTERS ‘Actording to Lloyd, the two men in| oston, June 5.—Announcement of unifurm approached him in Bridgeport |the intention of the navy -lepartment Gnd hired him to take them to New |to establish court martial headquarters Haven After reaching Yew Haven|at Cape May, N. J. was made at the 2d riding about for a short time, they [navy yard here today. The plan pro- d Lloyd to drive them back toward e tho b Lnnancel boiina dgerort and after traveling several | general court martial which has been | miles the holdup took place. Lloyd |ERicral, COre BTl o S0 C0 oS rered told the police that one of the holdup | the war. Cave Mav was selected. of- men saia they needed the automobile | ot AT G © OV FRE S0 T Yo for a $50,000 job that they intended to o curry out tonight. - Exir T 4,000 WINNIPEG VETERANS NEW BRITAIN/BOYSHANGED TO HELP MAINTAIN ORDER WHILE PLAYING “MOVIES” Winnineg. Man., June 5—More than | 4,000 Winnivef veterans of the great | ar. includinz scores of officers and New PBritain, police are invi Conn., June 5—The gating the hanging ot Joseph Tantarskl, 10 vears old. Whopyundreds of union men. after standing | came to hls death here today While|at attention in the auditorium this oI o Sother Walter: | afternoon and_singing “God Save the King.” pledging themselves and their two other boys who took a rove away | L PR DIEVEIE CGEERENE B order from them and th it over a limb of in Winnines and to stamp ouf Bolshe- a tree, pulling Joseph up, and then | Vi st letting’ Tim fall pack, to_fhe gronnd.|=sk and anavhy from ibe fopes of The police have received other ver- | ¥ innipeg labor. ions, howeves by two men one being a story told o Al thev saw the body | INVESTIGATING REPORT THAT hanging by _the rope and that they cut NEW SCHOONER CAPSIZED the rope. No arrests have been made.| Tockland. Me. June 5—The new four-masted schooner Dorvothy T. SHIPMENT OF $5500,000 IN i GOLD TO BRITISH GOV'T. New York, June 5.—An additional shipment of §5.500,000 in gold for the account of the British government ar- rived here from Canada today. A total of $12,000,000 in gold has arrived so far, and it is understood that the fi- nal sum will aggrezate $50,000,000. Brinkman. which left here May 28 for Newport News to load coal for a port n South America and whose owners were investigating a renort that she had been capsized. arrived safetlv at Norfolk today. Word to this effect was received here by the huilders. Japanese manufacturers of machin- ery of every description are directing their attention foward China, whose demand is steadily increasing. Japan- ese exxports include stone crushers, electric dynamos and gas plants. Charles G. Lund, 48, a member of the banking firm of Fitzgerald, Hubbard & Co,, of Boston, died at his home at ‘Woburn, Mass., of pneumonia. I