Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 10, 1919, Page 1

VOL. LXI—NO. 137 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1919 - 'PAGES—70 COLUMNS ‘PRICE TWO CENTS SENATE HAS A COPY OF THE PEACE TREATY BROUGHT INTO COUNTRY BY Was Read Into the Record by Senator Borah After the Read- ing of a Cablegram From President’ Wilson Saying He Could Not, Without Beaking Faith, Send the Text of the Treaty—Ordered Printed by Vote of 47 to 24—The De- velopments Served to Widen the Breach Between the President and Republican Majority—J. P. Morgan and Other Leading Financiers of New York Are to be Sum- moned to Testify in the Investigation of How Copies Have Reached Private Hands in New York—Brandegee Had a Lively Tilt With Hitchcock and John Sharp Wil- liams. Washington. June 9—Out of a whirl- | however, by the arrival of wind of developments the senate today got a copy of the peace treaty, and after a five hour fight ordered it print- ed in the public record. At the same time it got under way the irvestigation of how coples have 1eached private hands in New York by summoning to testify a half dozen of the country's leading financiers. The copy which went into the record was brought to this country by a newspaper man and was presented by Senator Borah, republican, of Idaho, just after the reading of a cablegram from President Wilson saying he could not without breaking faith send to the senate the text of the treaty. The effect was to clear the air on the much debated subject of publicity for the treaty text. to widen the breach between the president and the senat majority, and to forecast a sensational 2 o'clock, when the wire repeal bill came auto- matically before the fenate. Shortly before 4 o'clock Senator Bo- rah, obtaining the floor, remarked that the authenticity of his treaty copy had been questioned and that he would prove it by reading the document. Thereupon he began leisurely with the preairble of the big volume, reading of which probably would have taken fif- teen hours. - . The president’s supporters objected ! that Mr. Borah was reading a confi- | dential document against the senate’s rules, that he was breaking _both precedent and rules hy presenting a treaty at an open session and that he was exceeding his right by speaking too often on the same subject during the same debate. ut all these efforts to ‘cut off the 1cading failed, and for an hour Mr- turn f the inquiry into the manner| Borah read through the cumbersome by which copies of the document have | preamble and . into the first section of hecsme available to unauthorized per- | the treaty. At last, however, conferences among | the leaders brought a compromise by * hich unanimous consent was given to interrupt the reading, and vote on th 500 relations committee, hour after it convened tigation, voted to call be-| w for th e it J. P. Morgan, H. P. Davison|reconsideration' motion. It promptly homas I* Lamont, all of the Mor- | was rejected, 42 to 24, opening the way zan banking house; Jacob Schiff of |to rush the treaty off to the govern- | Wuhn, loeb & compa and Paul | ment printing office to be put into; Warbu , formerly connected with the| same concern: and krank A. Vander- lip. former president of the National City bank. It then examined Frank L. Polk, acting secretary of state, about official copies in the state de- partment vauits, Statements also were made to the committee by Senator Lodge, republi- can, of Massachusetts, and Senator Borah that they knew of copies in New York, Lut could not divulge the names of their informants. The senate listened in silence to| President Wilson’s cablegram, which was taken as forecasting a refusal to comply with the request for the treaty type. SPEED RECORD IN PUTTING GERMAN TREATY IN TYPE Washington, June 9.—Establishing a new speed record, the government printing office within two hours to- night set up in type the German peace consisting of nearly 100,000 words. As the treaty will appear tomorrow, it will cover 64 pages of the Congres- sional Record and will have cost the government $5,000 to print. Although senate leaders plan to have the treaty printed in document form later, 35,- text. Senator Borah immediately pre- | 000 copies of the Record were printed tented his copy of the treatr, which | tonight for distvibution ameng the was ordcred printed by a vote of 47 | recular recipients of that publication. 1o 24 Metal Trades Department of the| American Federation of Labor drew up {a working schedule for a G-hour day with no overtime. SPAPER MAN Condensed . Telegrams The Pope appointed Monsignor Ratti Nuncio to Poland. On June 30 the national Mexican debt will total 529,572,085 pesos. Shipping Board arranged to assign to owners vessels now in requisition. Italian press divided on advisability, as'to negotiating with Germans on the peace terms. J. P. Morgan is in Ottawa. He went to the Finance Department to confer with Sir Thomas White. Manuel Frabco, president of Para- guay, died. Jose P. Montero, vice president, assumed office. During the week ended May 30 the War Department sold surplus war ma- terials valued at $36,682,798. . Denver Post announced it had pur- chased an airplane for distributing papers to surburban towns. Greater part of the Paris strikers when asked why they were striking declared they did not know. Mexican War Department is con- structing an armored tank along orig- inal lines for fighting the rebels. Returns of the Mooney strike vote, in and counted show that 75 per cent. of the trades took no action on the | vote. | San Francisco Sunday morning news- | papers raised the price (o ten cent Los Angeles will make an increas soon. Turkish Government appointed a| delegation to the Peace Conference | under the leadership of Damad Ferrid Pasha. G. W. C. Noble, principal emeritus of the Noble and Greenough School, is dead at his home in Cambridge at the | age of American firms were awarded the | contracts totalling 200,000,000 francs, to rebuild the cities of Rheims, ney and Soissons. is strike June 16. are demanding an eight-hour day and 55 cents an hour. Berlin street car workers were on a 24-hour strike as a protest against the Toronto expecting The street a railroad car men execution of Levin Nissen, Communist leader. Three bank robbers obtained $26,000 ! in cash and Liberty Bonds from the| Leeds bank owned in Leeds, a suburb of Sioux City, lowa. According to revised arrangements Bavarian all American forces, including engin- eers, will be withdrawn from North | Russia by the last of June. | Britain is spending more money than | ever before in development of agricul- | ture, This yeal bill is $1,140,707, for agriculture education and dairy Advices recei in the state depart- Later, however, there was a motion | to reconsider and a parliamentary | tangle developed which endangered publication of the treaty. To circum- CONDENSED REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (By The Associated Press.) vent such a possibility, the Idaho sen- | Germany, if she signs the peace ator in the late afternoon began read- | treaty and sives satisfactory guaran- ing the hundred thousand word docu-|tees that she will establish a stable ment and continued for an hour de. |Bevernment and loyally carry out the Epite many protests from the presi- | Provisions of the treaty, doubtless will v M S 40 U be permitted to hecome a member of the league of nations. The council of four at this momentous subject under consid- eration and from unofficial reports thus far received there seemingly i no strong objection to Germany he- coming associated with the other na- tions in the ledgue, if by contriteness she proves her worthiness to member- | ship. | v permitting membership to Ger- | many the feeling prevails in peace ! conference circles that there will be no | likelihood of a coalition between that country and Russia which in the fu- | ture might be the source of trouble, | and that with Germany inside the! league she could be kept more tract- | able than outside it. The council of four also is busily engaged in going over the reports of the_commissions which have been ex- Then the effort to prevent public tion collansed and the motion to consider was voted down The first of the day’'s series of sur- prises came when the foreign relations committee, whose meetings in years past have been surrounded by the osest secrecy, threw open its doors o the public. Senator Borah told the committee that early in March he became con- vinced the international bankers of New York were particularly interested in creation of the league of nations and that he quietly began an investi- gation Under questioning the Idaho sena- tor added he had secured his informa- tion, t ther with the knowledge that 2 copy of the treaty was in New York, from sources which he could not re- veal. He then suggested the calling of present has Mesars. Morgan, Davison, Lamont, |amining into the counter-proposals burz and Schiff. The name of Mr. | Germany offered to the peace treaty. Vanderlip was added to the list on| While all the commissions have not suggestion of Senator Williams, demo- | Yet reported to the council, it is felt in | ‘tat, of Mississippi. Paris that late in the present week the ! enator Lodge next made a state-|entire situation will have heen so ment saying that he, too, had derived his information about treaty copies from sources he could not reveal. Acting Secretary Polk told the com- mittee he had received ut various times about thirty copies of the treaty —the first one about May 19 by spe- cial courier. “All these were placed in my saf and held subject to further order continued the secretary, adding that they had been examined by no one except himself and his secretary. Asked whether there was any possi- bility that copies had been secured from the state department, he replied: “Absolutely no chance whatever.” Senator Hitchcock presented to the committee the cablegram from Presi- dent Wilson, in which the latter com- mended the Nebraska senator for in- troducing the investigation resolution, and expressed a hope that the inquiry would be “most thoroughly prose- cuted.” The message, dated June 7, did not refer to the senate resolution asking for the treaty text, and at the White House Secretary Tumulty said he thought it probable this request had not reached Mr. Wilson when he cabled. The committee adjourned only a few minutes before the senate assembled and President Wilson's cablegram at once brought up the subject in the senate chamber. No sooner had the message been read into the record than Senator Borah was on his feet. T now have in my possession a copy of the treaty,” said he. “I am permit- ted to make his public by those who gave it to me. This particular copy was brought to this country by a staff correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, Mr. Frazer Hunt. I ask unanimous consent that it be printed in the Rec- ord-" The president’s supporters promptly refused unanimous consent and Mr. Borah then made his motion to print it. That was put to a vote, and_the doenment was ordered printed, 47 to 24 Senator Hitchcock denounced the procedure as beneath the dignity of teh senate and as a step “‘co-operating with the German government." Senator Johnson replied that the only infamy In the matter was in “en- deavoring to keep secret from all the people what Wall street has.” After more than an hour of debate, Senator Beckham, democrat, of Ken- tucky, said he had voted for the Borah motion under a misapprehension and whipped into shape that it will be pos- sible to hand the Germans at Ver-- sailles the final word of the allied and associated powers, constituting an ir- reducible minimum of concessions. It is said that five days after the presentation of the reply of the allies the Germans must give notice as to whether they wil sign the peace treaty. Considerable fighting continues be- tween the factions in Russia, appar- ently with varying results: Hostilities also are in progress between the Hun- garians and Czecho Slovaks, but these are likely soon to end under a threat by Premier Clemenceau to use allied troops azainst the Hungarians if they do not cease their activit; A court has been formed in Germany to bring to the bar of justice persons accused of having fomented and lengthened the period of the war and of being the cause of Germany losing it Unofficial advices from Russia are to the effect that Jewish pogroms have oceurred in fifty different places in that country. Many thousands of Jews are said to have been slaughtered. BULGARIANS TO SELL LOOT IN AMERICAN MARKET? ‘Washington, June 9.—Charging that i the Bulgarian government has placed cn sale in the American market loot taken in the occupation of Serbia, Dr. V. M. Yovanovitch, director of the in formation bureau of the kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Sloveres, declared | in a formal statement today that two agents of the Bulgarian government Zlatan Zhechkoff and Konstantin Hadji S- Toyanoff, who arrived in New York May 19, brought more than fif- leen tons of medicinal opium which | they proposed to sell in the United States. The opium, he said, was 4| three years' accumulation of the poppy ciop in Serbia Macedonia. CLASS DAY EXERCISES AT VASSAR COLLEGE Poughkeepsie, N. Y., June 9.—With the revival of the Daisy Chain, of for- mer years, class day exercises at Vas- sar College took on the appearance of former years. The feature of the exercises today was the pageant “Where the Years Di- vide,” The honor roll of the senior cl Wi announced today. 1t included Elsie Van Dyck Dewitt, New lLondon, Conn.: Rachel Gibson Franklin, Phil- ! minister to Poland, indicate repo: adelphia; Marguerite Emma Kretsch- ner, Demarest, N, J.. and Louise Eli- zabeth Catherine Stuerm, Philadel- phia. 3 moved to reconsider the action by mhich the treaty was ordered printed, & rcconsideraiion vote was prevented, ment from Hugh Gibson, " “Aférican | acres of Jews in Pola ted. In a counter-effort against the Rhen- | ish Republic appointed Karl 1 leadin: Clerical, as regional president of the Rhineland. Nine American mining men who ar rived at Nogales, Ariz, report 40| s and Mexicans W killed at La Colorado. a district of Sonora, by Yaqguis and band | doned. The Largest Wheat Crop Ever Raised Forecast in Monthly Report of Department of Agriculture —1,236,000,000 Bushels. Vashington, June crops are growing throughout the country but plant diseases already have done some damage and threaten to curtail production somewhat. The largest wheat crop ever grown, ag- gregating 1,236,000,000 bushels of win- fer and spring wheat combined, was forecast in today’s monthly report of the department of agriculture. That represents practically one-third of the world’s wheat crop this year. In pre- vious years the United States has grown about one-fifth. Big crops of oats, barley, rye, hay. apples and peaches also are in prospect. Red rust made its appearance dur- ing May in the principal winter wheat producing sections and the infection is spreading. It caused damage to the extent of about 7,000,000 bushels to winter wheat and experts are unable to determine how extensive the dam- age will be by the time that crop is harvested. 9.—Bumper APPLICATIONS FOR PARDONS HEARD BY STATE BOARD Hartford, Conn., June 9.—The state board of pardons today denied pardons to the Perretta brothers, Joseph and asmo, of New Britain, whose appli- cations were among 34 heard by the board. They are under sentence to be hanged on June and only the gov- ernor can intervene. The Perretta brothers w of Frank Palmese and on March 4 la: the supreme court of errors handed down a decision denying their appeal. Five pardons were granted by the board, tour of them to men serving life sentences. Edward Rogers of Mid- dlesex county, who has served ars of a life term for murder, was set free. His physical condition and the recommendations of Warden Mc- Claughrey caused the board to grant the pzrdon- Joseph A. Hough of Chester, serving life sentence for murder, and who has been in prison since 1900, was par- Petitions in his behalf trom friends were before the board. William McLaughlin, who has served 1 yea of a life sentence for mu er committed in Litchfield county, was given his liberty. Joseph I'allanta, sentenced to life imprisonment from Fairfield county, received a pardon. He has served 13 vears. Arthur B. Furrone of North Granby, who has served 19 years of a sentence of 33 ye for rape, wa scommendations by the warden ardon. ichael ndo, who w ed. are included among the salient s e 3 points. ¢ > nt from New e ‘L',j”l,‘rff).“i':,n, e socond de.| Among other recommendations were gree murder, presented his 52d appli- | hat orsanized labor take a_definite cation for a pardon. It was denied.|tand favoring public and semi-pub- Anotrer petition which received unfa- | i€ °W"f°ri'l;!' of utilities, ~develop- vorable action was tirat of Manuel|™ent of waterways and water powes Sylvia, convicted at Norwich in 1906 | regulation of land ewnership. increas- of second. degree murder. (harles|cd activity in politics, prohibition of Josito, convicted ~ of muwer in|Child labor, freedom of expression and | dzeport in 1907, and serving a life|association, workmen's comnanc-tinn. | i was refused a pardon. Bes- | ostriction of immigration. tax adjust- akefield, serving a life sen- | ments, elimination of private employ- | second degree murder, with- ment agencies and recognition of the w her petition before the hearings BOMB PLOTS WERE NOT HATCHED AT CARBON, PA. a., June 9.—Cleveland detectives working in s state in an endeavor to run down the perpetrators of the bomb outrag Department of Justice agents ar-| ;¢ occurred in eight American ci rested four men and an army officer | jos recently denied tonight there was at Detroit on a cha of conspi anything to the statement today by to defraud the government of § Chief of Police James Finerty of Bes- wor th of ordnance salvage. semer, Pa., that the homb plots were A campaign was launched in !hatched at Carbonm, Pa, near Besse- Middle West through the Appeal to|me: Reason, Socialist par n, to nom-| Detective Homer Crooks of Pitts- inate for president Debs, | burgh, in charge of the investigation. now serving a prison sentence. { said he eant Detective Irank Destroyer Hale in preliminary tests|of Cleve it to Bessemer Sa at Bath, Me., Iron Works, A1l | urday and investigated Chief Finerty's speed records when it did cnots | claims that the bombs were made an houh. With the wind and tide in | there and that lln‘. man blown up in favor it did 38,30 knots an hour. jthe explosion at the home of Attor- According to reports received at Hel- | ney General liulr.nm_ l':ll' ux‘s ingto: ingfore. " British, | ywarships © raigingwas: Louls Tagdue of S oo o Kronstadt, sank two Dolshevik vessels | Chief Finerty’s misn 1n/ormath &0 and forced the evacuation of one for- Wkt S e tress. British casuaitles were light, |}o."petective Crooks said there was Berlin Independent Socialist Die| ), (o ely nothing to substantiate the Rretheit reports great activity is being | 550 0" FOECEE (G0 g Tine de- dispiayed in Germany recruiting’ men| . ij¢ gaid. that she told Chief Fi- for the army and storing ammunition. | po " p Whereabouts of six anar- Director Hines of the railroads| speaking at a dinner at the Boston at | the Boston Chamber of Commerce de- clared he was in favor of railroad con- solidation especially in New England. | Officials of railroads running east| from Chicago report a fair increase the volume of tonnage due ta the eral demand for commodities out of steei industries located in their te ritory. The Texas Governor's that more troops be s the Mexican border w regarded as a wise precautionary movement in view of the alleged growing of the Vil- lista movement. | suggestion ationed along The French armored cruiser Jeanne| @’Arc arrived at Lisbon with Presiednt | elect Pessoa of Brazil and his party | on board. They will leave for Brazil | by way of the United States after a| short visit in Lisbon. | Professor B. Ascheimer, of Baltimore | just returned from Africa with the Smithsonian Institution expedition, | disput or R. L. Garner's cap- | ture of the speaking ape, decalring the | ape was stolen from him. Mayor Harry L. Davis, of Cleveland, | whose home was destroyed by a bomb, | in a letter to Senator Pomeren, of | Ohio, advocated deportation of uli: who, after a resonable period of here, fail to take out naturalization | paper: | A committee representing the Uni- ! versity of Prague yesterday conferred | on President Wilson the degree of ! “doctor and professor.” General Pershing has conferred the distinguished service medal on Bri 1s | time | dier General George H.- Harries at Chaumont for services rendered as commanding officer of the base at Brest. | DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS ! FOR ADMIRAL M. L. WILSON | New York, June honorary ' degree of doctor of s was con- ferred upon Admiral Mark L. Wi | U- S. N, at the commencement ex ercises of the American College for! Girls at Constantinople June 4, accord ins' to_a cablegram received here to- | day. Twenty young women, including | nine Armenians, three Greeks, fou Bulgarians, three Turks and one Jew, received diplomas, The American consul at Prague,| Rohemia, desires' a collection of Amer. ican trade and commercial directories for the files of the consulate. | ian republic. ireturning ves ch who nfade the hombs. not held by the police. SERIOUS SITUATION IN PORT OF BAHIA, BRAZIL Aires, Buenos ceived I serious situ Bal B June 9.—Despatche: m Rio Janeiro tell of 1 ex g in the port 1, because of a general o strike t Bahia has been for three days without bread. milk and meat and that the telephone, telegraph systems have suspended, through a telegram ommercial association of ent of the TURKISH DELEGATION IS ON ITS WAY TO PARIS Paris; 2 (By the A, P.)—The Turkish delegation on its way to Paris is travell by a French warship. It is made clear in official circles that the Hurks come merely in an advisory capacity, not as plenipotentiaries, and there is no definite statement as to ther a treaty will be negotiated h Turkey just as with Germany ustria and Bulgaria. WILSON GETS LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN JUGO-SLAV Pari me 9.—President Wilson has receiv letter from an u Jugo-Slav who said he had he the preside points and the proposed plebiscite and desired to ¢ his vote in favor of Jugo-Slavia against Italy. President on sent the letter to the secreta constituting the first vote Subaed o te piebiseite. BRAZILIAN FLEET IS HOME FROM EUROPE Tio Janeiro, June 9—The squadron of the B i flect which has been in Ei where it cooperat- ed with the allied flee! during the war, arrived the harbor today. Anl enthu stic welcome was given to the mand of Admiral F ontin, USTICE BRANDEIS IS TO SAIL FOR PALESTINE hington, June 9.—Justice Bran- will leave tomorrow for New York to sail*for Palestine to be gone mgst of the summer. The trip, he said, is for a vacation and is not of an official character. A\ ere convicted of the murder; ordered | cls which were in com- | A.F. of L. Against Radical al Agitators Prepared to Deal With Recon- struction Problems of Im- portance to Labor. Atlantic City, N. J., June 9.—Dele- gates representing more than 3,000,000~ 000 American working men and wo- men, at the opening session of the American Federation of Labor here to- day. put the stamp of their disapproval on the ideas of radical agitators and prepared to deal with reconstruction problems of vital importance to or- ganized labor. Opportunity to show their lack of sympathy with the efforts of radicals came during an address by Governor Runyon of New Jersey. Referring to ja meeting in New York last night, the governor asserted that ‘“these men threaten that unless things are settled their way chaos will result.’ He paused a moment and then de- clared: “I know that American labor, and; this convention, fraught as it is with such potential consequences, have no sympathy with any ideas that are not constructive; I know you are out of harmony with destructive creeds. You think along the same lines.” A burst of applause from the floor quickly swelled to a roar. Samuel Gompers, president of the | American Federation of Labor, sound- ed the keynote of the convention when he said during his opening address or- ganized labor was determined that po- litical or industrial tyranny should have no place in America. “Any employer,” said Mr. Gompers | “who “thinks that industrial autec: cy is going to prevail in the United | States is counting without his host. Mr. Gompers said that organized labor was making no unjust demands and that workers having shed their blood and made sacrifices to win the | war. had no_intention of losing sight of the principles and ideals for which they had fought. The annual report of the executive council of the federation containing broad outlines of organized labor's re- constructive programme, was submit- ted to the delegates for their consider- ation at the close of Mr. Gompers’ ad- dress. | Foremost among the subjects in the report was the reconstructive pro- gramme sumbitted to the executive council last December by a special committee which had heen studying the general situation and labor's re- quirement. | Recommendations for a 44 hour week and a firm declaration that ex- isting wages must not be reduced and, in fact, many cases should he increas- right of school teachers to organize. Tt | further is set forth in the repor which will be discussed during the coming two weeks of the convention that if occasion should arise to ex- pend public funds to relieve unem- ployment. the building of wholesome homes would best serve the public in- terest. ! Militarism is condemned in the re- | port and it is recommended that or- | manized labor demand that the mili- tia_of the states he wholly organized 1l and controlled by democrafic princ | ples. | The Mooney case undoubtedly will | come up for conside during the next few gate and guest today 32 page review hed b ble ach dele- nded him nib- of the national case Wo Defense League of cisco { pamphlet is and the Mosney C presen for the delezates’ consideration the programme adopted last January at Chicago by the National Lahor Con- gress in which it is recommended that a general strike shall he called as A means of obtaining jutice for Moon- ey. | | i | | I | NUMBER OF CHANGES IN THE OMSK GOVERNMENT.‘ Ohsk, Russ June 9. —(Russi Telegraph Agency) Recently there; Omsk government and today an- | nouncement of the personnel of the | new government was made. The min- i which, Is declared, includes | representatives of all shades of Ru | sian progressive »nublic opinion, 1 jeral and socialist. iz as follows President the council of minist { —Peter Vasiliovity Vologod revolution { Minist of Justice—Prof escor Tel- | jberz. constitutional democrat. i Acting for the munister of foreign | affairs—Professor peo 50- | list, and J. , former mem-| ber of the Ru-sian extraordinary | mission to the United States i Minister of Finance, J. A. Mikholoff, | social revolution Of the interior. t. M. Pepelauff, consti- | NEW YORK UNDER GUARD| | New York, June 9—Fvery impoi tant public huilding in New York, | well as residences of prominent cit ens and public officials who mi ht e | targets of terroris were today | placed under guard of 300 policemen | wearing civilian clothes. | Police officials and federal agents| refused to comment on the extraordi nary precaution taken to prevent here | such bomb outrages as occurred June 12, bevond stating that guards in civil {ian clothes were more des an | uniformed policemen. i CO. L, 338TH INFANTRY, HAS 1 SAILED FROM ARCHANGEL Washington. June 9.—Comrany L of | the 339th infantry, in addition to the units annpunced Saturday. has sailed | from Archangel, the war department | announced todav. This company left! with the others for Brest June 3, hut it wa sinadvertently omitted from the first cable message. have been 3 number of changes in the | oF Tf go to the s in August 4 a study of economic conditions there A i has 1 increased to 832. The mi sion will be under the patre of t S w government e Holland-Ame ica Jine has o the liner Rotterdam {10 carrv the par NATION-WIDE STRIKE OF PHONE WORKERS CALLEL Effective Next Monday Morning—Involves Operators and Maintenance, Construction and Repair Men—Ordera Issued From International Headquarters at Springfield, IIL—Action Precipitated by the Strike of the Commercial Telegraphers of America—Later Report Says Order Has Been Rescinded. Cleveland, Ohio, June 9.—A nation- been rescinded.” Charles P. Ford, in« wide strike of telephone workers, in-|ternational secretary of the Interna- volving operators and maintenance, | tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work- construction and repair men, was| ers, said tonight. called today, effective next’ Monday, “It may be necessary for some lov morning, according to C. Sickman, lo-| cal unions to adjust their differences cal business agent, and J. H. Groves, strikes,” he asserted, “hut there financial cretas of the Electrical will be no national walkout immedi~ Workers Union. It was announced the'ately.” orders were received from the inter- ?ationa] headquarters at Springfield, . The strike was precipitated by the strike of the Commercial Telegraph- ers of America. called for Wednesday, it was stated. The telephone employes’ | demands are similar to those of the Senator Brandegee of Foreign relief telegraphers—recognition of the union, committee stated today that unless the right to bargain collectively and Acting Secretary Polk denied that the abandonment of discrimination in dis- copy of the peace treaty now befora charging union men. senate committee was a true copy he The strike was authorized by a na- committee would proceed with the in- tional referendum of electrical work- | vestigation on the assumption that the ers completed May 11. copy was authentic. After the hearing xy e had adjourned Brandegee and Hitche SAYS STRIKE ORDER cock had a lively tilt in the senate in HAS BEEN RESCINDED which John Sharp Williams of Missis- Springfield, I1l, June 9.—"“Orders is- SiPpi took a hand in firing hot shots : sued a week ago, calling for a national the Connecticut senator. But Brandes strike of telephone workers, including gee fired back witty and caustic re- operators and maintenance men, have'plies. BRANDEGEE IN TILT OVER PEACE TREATY (Special to The Bulletin) ‘Washington, D. C., June 9, 19119.— TAX ON PROFITS OF MUNITION MANUFACTURES UPHELD Philadelphia, June 9.—The govern-| SHORTAGE OF LABOR CHIEF OBSTACLE TO BUILDING New York, June 9. — The short- ment’s war time tax on the profits of age of unskilled labor and tha munition manufacturers, contested by | high ¢ of materials are the producers of parts of shells, who|chief obstacles to building operations claimed that the impost was intended at present, according to the testimony of several large brick manufacturery here today before the joint legislativa committee investigating the housing problem. In answer {o charges that a_secret understanding exists among brickmakers to keep up the price of their product, the witnesses testified that they were now selling brick for about $1 less per thousand than tha price fixed by the government during the war; that any manufacturer was at liberty to sell at a still lower prica® ife he deired to do so and that prices of materials were not fixed hy them, illed labor is easy to obtain. said Charles E. Murtha, but unskilled men are hard to get. This assertion was suported by William Maxwell, treas- ured of a plant with a capacity of 30,000.000 brick a year, who state “We have scoured New York and the labor is not available for a satis- to apply only to completed articles, was upheld by the circuit court of ap- peals here today, In a group of three decisions holding that any participant in the abnormal profits of munition making must sub- mit himself to taxation laid upon this class of income, the court sustained a government policy involving many millions of dollars in revenue already collected or in course of collection. Opposite action by the court would have necessitated legislation to make up the conmsequent deficit in federal receipts. The decisions, Buffington and affirmed by Judges| Woolley and Haight, who sat with| him, sustained the judges of the First and Third Pennsylvania districts, who denied claims of the Carbon Steel Company and the Worth Brothers Company, secking to recover from the | ficiory production. We will take two sovernment {axes paid under the eX-|hundred men who can roll wheel > law of Sentember 8, 1916, and re- | rows right now And eivn versed the justice in the twenty-third | 2 SAme Nem g it written by Judge : " In the twenty-third | cents an hour for eight hours' work district, ved a_simila or they can work eighteen 0 i the B teel Wheel company.|they wish s oure il : ]nv'. suits were known as the “part The cost of building material. Mr. |shell tax cases” = { Mu d. has increased 125 per Judge Buffington’s opinion held that) cent. in the past four vears. The cost the purpose of congress wa 1o tax per-| of libor was indicated by William it sons who manufactured the whole OF| Frammond. another Lricy et any part of a shell. overruling the|cjteq gne grade of labor a having manufacturers’ contention that the|jjoreaceq in price from $1.90 to $4.45 legislative fntent was confined to the| 3" gac” gince 1914, The witheee s b production of the completed shell or|{,“Gianlce 1908 The withesses a completed part, Its effect is tofpo (06iea o= oirtan make munition contractors liable for G s their profits, regardless of sub-con-! tracte, and to place a similar liabil-|JURY COMPLETE FOR TRIAL ity upon ontractors doing any| OF MRS. BESSIE M. LUNDGREN part of the work of producing a shell,| Tawrence, Mass. June 9 —The {1 e whether loaded or unloaded. [ il ey M B The tax which induced the - i Lundgren on the charge of murder fot tion is an annual levy of 12 1-2 'per| e orinEriohes cent. “upon the entire net profits act- | D kel a received or accrued from the . was completed to- isale or disposition of su rticles Sinasdied (munitions) manufactured wi el g ekt nd. operation, United States.” The impost is in ad-| %t propoed in pillow citien siie ditie he ince al e 2 weg Saoised Al i 3 AL PO R challenge in the selection of the jjur T eral AR Ve ARy liey e I 15 one of the men who on her Thomas S. Webl, n Chief OF CORNELL UNI VERSITY {a brother- ) of Polica Ithaca, N. Y. June 9 Frank M. Smith, of Andover, who a Smith, former (Governor Charies ested Mrs. Lun n the murdes Hughes and Chief Judge Hiscock of i charge. The ution challengeq < court of appeals will be! (hirteen men. 8 speakers at the fiftieth anniversary of | Mrs. Lundgren was carried into the Cornell university. June 19-22, when a ! couriroom on g « T j statue of Ezra ‘Cornell, the founder. |automobile in which she was euoy will be nnveiled. {from her home in Andbyer. < John R. Mott, head of the Y. M. C.| 5 The court called on alatay 0 e et i Al hat alled on two physicians v c counctl, will preach thel o yave il o6 O WO Physiclans reate sexmon:. and President |, - o iy SF S0C6 Lunderen 1o an and Prof. T. I Crane will >~ ether she was able to stand tri Founders’ day, June 22 dering that she might be sube will be a flight June 16 of 1o exiended cross cxaxminna- ar ‘ornell tors They decided that she was Mineala to. deren kerself said she was cnxions will remain continue and subsequent e centennial, giving Stated that <he the stand in her defe FEELING IN FRANCE THAT GERMANS Paris. June 9. z in French official circles rmans will not sizn the peac s is hased largely on repo n indicating that Philipp the Germ: hancellor ILL NOT SIGN | GERMAN PEOPLE SHOULD | NOT HOPE FOR BETTZR | | stop beliey the gover i s from cheide- K Ber ische Zeitur the respons tutional democ: e make a « Ot lahor. Leonid Shumitovsky, so- | s Be peace ‘@éls rm on clalfdemocrat 5 Neehid n. and will probably ref T o it Of education, Professor Preobrajen-|m,iier fo the national assembly. which s people’: socialist. { ved to be avorable. unless e Of w: and communications—AL. e s of ita Oustrougoff, stitutional democrat. ; AR ¥ to s safew Of supplies Nekhludoff, consti- e ompetitor ex- tutional demacrat. { WALKOUT IN VIOLATION Of agricuiture, K. Petroff, soci4l] OF UNION'S AGREEMENT . revolu P ; | Additional ‘el- Of war, General Stepanoff, constitu- nion offi- this decl.ration tional democrat. i v, Rear Admiral Smirnoff, | \ew RS many is ex. constitutional democrat. S allcont wasit D roisont PR lation of s agreement with t'forward now PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN | the raflroads and demanding that they e O administration ad tnat the entire difficulty would be olved by tomorrow. N i il 1 s and finacial SWISS MISSION COMING i st ; TO THE UNITED STATES A : Berne. x ORDERS F ers of t INCOME TAX RULING |¢ BY SUPREME COURT June E on, court heid today that by alien non-resides from bonds and mortzaces, secured u property this cox ind s of Laans place i privately 2 mitted by an agent cated in the 0 more popular loans weuld ‘e United States, is taxab} offere? .