Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 24, 1919, Page 1

VOL. LXI—NO. 149 PLAINTIVE NOTE FROM ~ UNCONDITIONALLY AGGEPTING PEACE Informs M. Clemenceau, President of the Peace Conference, That Germany, in Accepting Conditions Imposed, is Yielding to Superior Force, as the German People Have No Means of Defending Themselves by External Action —Declares No Act of Violence Can Touch the Honor of the German People—Signing of Treaty Not Before Thursday, and Possibly Friday. (By the A. P.) on to accept rms. the government republic has sent the > M. Clemenceau, pres In peace conference, through r. Haniel Von Haimhausen - minisier of foreign affairs has structed me to communicate to your escetlency the following 1! appears to the government of raments Jermar vernments decided force wrest ance of e peace conditions, even tho without presenting any matorial signifi ance, alm at divesting the German ! ot ce can touch the > man people. The Ger- A r fr tful suffering 1 - ast vear have no ans of Ives by ext@nal ac- superior force, and ng in the meantime e unheard of injus- © conditions, the gov- ierman republic de- ready to accent and litions imposed Mr. President, assur- consideration VON HANIEL." RESUME OF OF THE PROCEEDINGS ences in which de ns from thiv 1 allied countric and Germany participated. The five leading nations, the United Sta Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan we repre- sented in the pe conferences at Yaris by five tes each while the delegati of oth nations and Brit- ish dominigns were composed of from one o three me I'he renrese ives of were President Wilson, Secre- of State Robert Lansing, Henry . formerly: American ambassador yme and Paris; Colonel Edward General Tasker H. the United at F M. House B ) P Clemenceau, premier of was chairman of the peace At firs & supreme couficil or a coun- en was orzanized so as to in- wo repr ves each from G Britair . United States, Italy and Japan. Subsequent- | this council was divided in two parts—a council of four. composed of )recident Wilson and Premiers Lloyd George, Clemencean and Orlando, and » council of foreign ministers. The conference of the allied delega- ons conven officially on January 18 up the terms to be submitted when completed to German dele- gation. President Wilson had arrived fi France on Dec. 13 and had visited | England, Italy and parts of France. Or first acts of the confer- nee » send a proposal to all the to meet on the to endeavor to com- " sian internal situation st (his plan was rejected by the Rus- Var factions which were ¢ over territory in different of Europe were onference to directed by discontinue toward the act the treaty occurred on January 24 when the conference agreed to the plan for organization of | a League of Nations and a committe was appointed to draw up a_cove nai 3y January 30 the conference had adopted the plan of governing| colonies and backward nations| atiors, subject to the direction and | approval of the League of Nations. The covenant of the League of Na- tions was completed on February 14, Un the following day President Wilson Ieft irance for the United States. He returned to France, arriving there reh 13. In the absence the council ten had continued its work despite an attempt o inate Premier Clemenceau. A report of the international labor legistation commitieo was _adopted April 11 Reparation demands to be made on Germany were approved | April 14 and the Germans were in- Vited in April 16 to send their delega- tionl to Versallles to receive the trea- 1¥ The peace conference next consid- ered the treaty with Austria. The Itullan delegation insisted unon ob- taining contrel of the formerly Aus- trian city of Fiume, but on April 23 President Wilson gave out a state- ment that Fiume could not be given o Italy. On the next day Premier Orlando returned to Rome and for more than o i ed on the gates. B A revised covenant of thie League of Nations intended to conform in 1e- spect to the Monroe Doctrine to ob- Jectlon raised in America was adopt- ed by the peace conference on April 25 Geneva wus sclected as the seat of the league. pantung was disposed of on April when the council of three voted to turn it over to the Jabanese on a surances that it would be given laf to_the Chinese. The Germans, headed Brockderff-Runtzau, arrived in Ver- gailles and presented the credentizls to the wllied delegates on May 1 The peace treaty was presen‘ed 1o the Germuns at Versailles on May 7, the anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitan'a and an official summary of the treaty was made public taat day 1* was also announced that the United States ~nd Grea* PBritain had pledged aid to rrance against possible futire German aggression. The munncr in which the Germans received the trca- ty was described as insolent. Numcr- ous German leaders declared they would not sign it and a week of mourning was decreed by the German government but the decree was vir- tifally unheeded. Thereafter the Cerman delegates submritted various notes to the coun- cil of four asking for' concessions or eriticising the terms proposed in_the \realy as submitted to them. On May week thereafter the Ital- were absent but return- in time to participate in siecence with the German dele- by Count nd company PEACE CONFERENCE | drawing from offt grievances wi strike. A. Miles of hrough mandatories issued to various| 16 it was announced that the German when Germany and three of the treaty would tified b: allied or become effective sociated powers. The German reply to the first form {of the peace* treaty was pr rtes on Ma the allied dele; was follcwe ter-propo. | Mean the Austrian delegates | kad at St. Germain and on terms of the peace treaty as drawn by the allics submitteq to them. SIGNING OF PEACE.TREATY THURSDAY OR FRIDAY P.)—The is not like- yefore Thursday, pos- ay. This announce- Premier Paris, June 23 (By the gning of the peace treaty Iy to take piace sibly not until Frid nt was made tonight Clemenceau nad Secret me by Dutasta. | HEARING ENDS ON PETITION OF STREET RAILWAY MEN —Charleton Og- | war labor hoard, completed today the hear- em- Rail~ and the Rhode Island increasing_ their New burn, York, June 23. examiner of the national ing of vel ployes ¢ road itions_of the company streetrailway Boston Elevated ¢ awards present_ wage scales by neafly 30 per | cent. Mr. Oghurn announced that he | would make recommendations to war labor board at an early date. Receivers of the Rhode Island com- pany, which operates throughout the state of Rhode Island. were not present hearing, and P. of the Amale: tion of Stret and mated Assoc a fight” John J. Fitzgerald who, appeared as counsel for ineffectyal, stated that the “were in an ugly mood,” had voted 2410 to 91 in favor of They had agreed to v It was explained that the 1 crease demanded—from 43 and 48 cents an hour to 70 and 7 s in anticipation of an early grantingof ap eight hour day. A would be necessarv to prevent cents large the men’s level. It was BUSINESS SESSION N. E. TYPOGRAPHICAL New Haven, Conn., June 23. iness session of the New. ing its tenth was held today. David E. Fitzgerald welcomed the delegates on behalf of the city. Later ing visited. The convention banquet was this evening at vin Rock speakers included: Marsden S| president of the International T graphical Union: Patrick president of the Connecticut Fede: tion of Labor; Judge Isazc Wolfe, N yor Titzgerald and Colonel Norris G. Osborn. Head Of National Teachers ; Union Miss Alice Deal, who has been leading the fight of 1,000 District school teachers against the Board of Education on the question of teachers rights, in the case of Miss Alice Wood, who was suspended without a hearing for her discus- sion of current events. Miss Deal has just been unanimously re-elect- {ed president of the High School Teachers' Union and in the election Tan unwritten rule of the teachers Tunion was suspended, inasmuch as ift has always been tacitly agreed to Pelect a president of the union for “but, one, term. .sWashington labor or'l'fl stiina, imcluding mare"?_l{’n.n 100,000 Bistrict residents in their ménbership are -planming a’ cam- paign for.the election of Miss Deal to the Boardlot Bdueation. ; GERMAN REPUBLIC sented to and this of Suffolk County. county phy: {J.. who performed the autopsy on the body determine the | O'Brien, an i Wilkins, was recalled to the stand and told of conversations with Mrs. Skeels in wh was in a hospi Under cross examination she said that Zlectric Railway Employes, charged that the receivers rying to drive our fellows into of Providence, the Rhode Island company employes. after cials of the carmen’s union testimony that efforts to take up ) the receivers had been { employes and already ago that stop drinkin, eral she said she had found a bottle it, how- ever, he said, until union officials made further efforts to obiain a settlement. going to ther Wil and enalysis made increase it was pointed out, wages under an eight hour day rule from falling below the bpresent that the men might be willing to fore- £0 part of the Increase in exchange for immediate granting of an eight hour day. intimated UNION -A bus- England Typographical Union, which is hold- { annual convention here with President Oscar Hartford presidin. Mayor cessions. American Bra a similar proposition to ightseeing trip was taken, the Yale Sowl and other points of interest be- held The ott, Do- ", O'Mearar, re were opened here. It heavy police guard here. 400 extra police remain on duty under Sheriff Reilly and three companies of slate guard are mobilized aifd ready or franc now buy. many than in sidered by financial experts that Ger- many unquestionably will find buyers much better in France and consequently the financial TERMS Cabled Paragraphs Demand by German Admiral. Paris, June 23.—The Germah ad- miralty denies & rumor in circulation today in Paris and elsewhere that the Germans had sunk the remainder of their warships in German harbors. MRS, LUNDGREN TO TELL HER STORY TO THE JURY Lawrence, Mass, June 23.—Mrs. B ie M. (Skeels) Lundgren, on trial for the murder of Miss Florence W. Gay, is expected to tell her own story to the jury tomorrow afternoon, when th defense probably will open its case. The prosecuting attorneys, who were examining Dr. William F. Boos, of Tufts College, a toxicologist, when court adjourned today, plan to com- plete his examination tomorrow morn- ing and. then finish the presentation of the state’s case by examining Dr. jeorge B. Magrath, medical examiner Attorneys for the defense said they expected to com- plete their case by the end of the week. Dr. Boos, who examined the organs of Miss Gay and of Albert J. H. Wil- ins, of Bayonne, N. J. brother of Skeels, for whose death she is indictment for murder in New aid that in his opinion Miss death was due to arsenic ad- stered within 24 to 48 hours of her under death. The death of Wilkins, he testi- fied, was due to lead administered within two to four days of his death. Dr. A. O. Getler, who also examined the organs of Wilkins, testified that in his opinion death was due to sugar of lead that m ered within two da t have been administ- ¥s of death. L Haskins, assistant ician of Hudson County. N. Dr. Arthur 7E. of Wilkins id he could not of death. As- the caus suming that lead had heen found in the quantities testified, he said he would belicve the man died of lead boisoning. Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins, widow of the latter Gl id that Wilkins d could not live. Mrs. Skeels was her friend and had 1 done all she could for “Albert.” Wilkins was advised seven vears he would die if he did not . she said. After the fun- marked “sugar of lead” in_the Wilkins' hom William J. Cherlock, a detective, of Hudson County, New Jersey, told of ins home last July finding” 29 medicine bottles and boxes which he gave to Dr. Getler for He said he saw nothing “suzar of loady RESUMPTION OF WORK IN ANSONIA MILLS sonia, Conn,, June 23.—Employes in a closet ed A of the Ansonia O. and C. Company, at a meeting tonight, vtoed to accept an offer made by the company today, whereby they will receive a wage in- creased approximating twenty per cent for.day workers and twelve per cent for piece workers, a nine hour day in- stead of ten hours and other con- The proposition of the com- any came after virtually all of the 0 employes had returned to work when the plant reopened this morn- ing. It was reported tonight that the Compan; ‘would make s local em- tomorrow. Officials of the com- were silent on the situation. ploy pany About one third of the employes of the Ansonia mills of the brass company urned to work today when the mills regarded as certain that any offer made to the employes here also will be made to those in the Waterbury and Torring- ton mills of the company. There has been no reduction in the More than ummon: -~ MAKING CAREFUL STUDY OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE June 23.—Tre varying rates Paris, of exchange will play such an impart- ant part in the reconstruction of Eu- rope after peace is signed that econo- | mj of exchange, with a view to discover- ing what the natural channels of trade will countries if the rates continue as now. c expe s are making a careful study be for the various European The Ttalian lira and the French 0 much more in Ger- ngland that it 1s con- for her wares among French and ital- ians, who will not be ruled by sen ment. The rate of the lira also is Germany than in experts believe that Italian traders will be attracted to the German mar- Kets in preference to those of France. Because the buying power of the lira is far less in the United States than in Germany, France and England, the experts point out that America can- not hope to compete, SOCIALIST PARTY TO HOLD “EMERGENCY CONVENTION New York, June 23.—An “Emer- geney” national convention of the socialist party has heen called to meet in Chicago on August 30, to consider action of the national executive com- mittee in cancelling the charters of a number of “left wing,” or extreme radical organizations, according to the announcement here tonight. The split in the party has heen emphasized by the assembling in this city of a “left wing” national conventio nwhich is now in session. The ‘regular.” or moderates, claim that an organized attempt was made by the extremists to capture contrel of the national organization chiafly through a plan to vote the entire fore- ign language federations for a slate, using the socialist foreign linguage newspapers, according to an official statement by the national cxecutive committee “in a disgusting campaign of slander.” ESTHONIAN AND GERMANS RESUME HOSTILITIES Copenhagen, June 23.—(Py 4. P.)— An Esthonian official communication announces that after a seven Gays truce the Esthonians and German Baltic landswehr have resumed hostili- ties along the entire front from the Guif of Riga to Ronnenburg. The British mission has failed to ar- range an understanding ? 4 Resolution in the. - Greeted President of ‘Senate to End War the “Irish Republic™ Presented by Senator Fall as!|Followers Were Wildly En- an Amendment to the Pend- ing Army Bill. Washington, June 22.—War with Germany and Austria would be de- clared at an end by an amendment to the army appropriation bill introduced late today by Senator Fall, republican, of New Mexico, with a view to remov- ing from congress any blame for con- tinuing war conditions pending rati- fication of the peace treaty. Later a joint resolution to declare a state of peace was introduced by Sen- ator Edge, renublican, New Jersey. Without debate, the Edge resolution was referred to the foreign committee. The amendment follows: “The state of war heretofore exist- ing between the United States of Am- erica and the imperial German go ernment, and /Germany and the United States of America and the Royal- Austro-Hungarian government de- lared to exist by senate joint resotu- tions number 1 and 111 April 6 and December 15, 1917, respectively, no longer existing. a state of peace be- tween the United States of America and its people and the former imper- ial German government and German government and Germany and its peo- ple and the United States of America and its people and the former Royal Austro-Hungarian government and its people is recognized by the congress to exist, and the president is hereby authorized and directed to procure the immediate return to the United States of all military forces used under his command and direction under author- ity of said resolutions or either of them, and also the return of such naval forces as are not necessarily used in foreign ports or waters in times of_peace. “No funds herein appropriated or authorized shall be used for main- tenance of such military forece upon foreign soil except as necessary in carrying out the above purposes.” The taxt of the Fall joint resolu- tion, following the preamble on the declaration of a state of war between United States and the imperial Ger- man government, says: “And. whereas by the use of such forces and means the war so declared to exist'was brought to a successful termination and an armistice was en- tered into on November 11, 1918, and the imperial German government was overthrown, and the terms of such armistice have been falfilled: “Therefore, be it resolved: that the state of war heretofore existing he- tween the United States of America and the former ®uperial German gov- ernment and the German people no longer exis(s, and a state of peace is hereby declared to exist between the United States of America and the German government and people, “Resolved further: that the president. be and he is hereby authorized and .secure - the immediate " re- turn o all military forces of the Unit- led States used in pursuance, of the power vested in him by the Said re- solution of April 6, 1917, and not al- ready returned to American soil, and to likewise secure the return of all naval forces, not necessary to use in foreign waters in times of peace.” AIRPLANE IN LANDING KILLED TWO CHILDREN Boston, June 23.—One of the seven bombing airplanes which flew here from Albany struck “and killed two children and injured a third in a land- ing at Franklin Field today. A large crowd had gathered on the field to watch the landing. Coming down against the wind, Lieutenant Colonel Claggett, pilot, saw that his course was carrying him into the crowd. To avoid this, he deliberately headed into a clump of trees. He did not see the three children, who were standing near the trees, until it was too late to change his course again. The plane hit the three children and crashed into one of the trees. The pi- lot was not hurt. Captain W. E. Chandler, observer, was taken to a hospital, where it was said that his injuries were not serious. The other planes landed safely. The pilots said that the day's flight been without incident, but that some of the machines hdd developed engine trouble which delayed the squadron somewhat. The flight from Albany Vi made in about two hours and a half. CIRCULAR ISSUED BY PREMIER NITTI OF ITALY Rome, June 23.—Francesco Nitti, the new premier, has addressed a circular to all the prefects in the kingdom in ‘which he says that Italy's sacred elaims cannot be efficaciously set forth by the government unless the government is supported by the united strength of the country. The circular urges the prefects to use the utmost vigor in preventing the breaking down of national energy through dissens- ions. “The supreme necessity of the coun- try,” says the circular, “is to produce, and it is impossible to produce with- out order. The premier threatens severe pun- ishment to whomsoever contributes to augment the dearness in the cost of living and promises speedy abolition of all war restrictions. AN INSPECTOR OF IRISH CONSTABULARY SHOT DEAD Dublin, June 23.—While a crowd was returning from the races to Thur- les this evening, District Inspector Hunt of the Irish constabulary was shot dead by armed men. The men escaped. FOOD SHOPS IN NORTHERN PART OF BERLIN PILLAGED Berlin, June 23 —(By The A. P.) Numerous food shops in the northern quarter of Berlin were stormed and pillaged today, _The .military soon restored order but' there are fears {of a repetition of the disturbances. ECARDlNAL MERCIER IS COMING IN SEPTEMBER Boston, June 23.—Mayor Peters re- ceived a letter from Cardinal Mercier, the Belgian primate, today, accepting the mayor's invitation to visit this city. 'The cardinal said he expected to come here in September. German Socialist Acquitted. Berlin, june 23 —(By A. I'.)—Geo. Ledebour, socialist democrat lcader, who was arrested in connection with the disorders in Berlin in january, was placed on trial today and acquitted. Col. House Goingto London. Paris, June 23—(By The A. P.) Col- onel House announced this atternoon to American correspondents his inten- tion to leave Thursday for London. relations had | police | Cocchi, cha thusiastic at the Waldorf-| Astoria, New York. New York, June 23.—Edward (Bamonn) De Valera, president of the | Sinn Fein “Irish republic,’ emersed dramatically tonight from the seclu- sion in which he had kept himself since his arrival in the United States. In a statement to the press at the Waldorf Astoria, where he was greeted by wild- Iy enthusiastic followers he had come to America * the Irish nation.” He declined Lo tell how he réached America, but said he came here from Boston several days ago. It was stated that during his stay in New York he has been living at the Carmelite priory in Fast Twenty-ninth street. His secretary, H. J. Boland, said that while in Boston De Valera endeavored to arrange an audience with Cardinal O'Connell, but did not see him. Prior to that, he said, he was in Philadelphia, where he saw’ Michael J. Ryan, who was a member of the Irish peace dele- gation to Paris, and Dr. Patrick J. Mc- Cartan. He declared De Valera had visited Baltimore, where he saw Car- dinal Gibbons, and Washington, where he met several United States senators. He said that he also paid a visit to his mother in Rochester. As Mr. De Valera stepped from an automobile a crowd of several hundred Dersons in the street cheered him and a few frantically waved the flag of the Irish republic, One aged Irish woman, finely attired, threw her arms around De Valera’s neck. The police forced the onlookers aside to make a passage- way for the Sinn Fein leader. 'He bowed his thanks as he entered the hotel. Inside the Waldorf, many Irish men and Irish women, inciuding mem- bars of the Friends of Irish Freedom, a number of clergymen and two Ben- galese from British India, had gathered to_meet him. In the party that brought him to the hotel were Justice John W. Goff, the Rev. Peter E. McGuinness, assistant genéral of the Carmelite order, his host;_Justice Danicl F. Cohalan, Jus- tice P. J. Hendricks, Justice Edward J. Gavegan, Major Eugene F. Kincaid, former congressman and ex-sheriff of Hudson_county, N. J.; John Devoy. editor of the Gaelic-American; Shamus O'Sheel, the poet; David O'Connor of the editorial staff of the ~Sinn Fein daily paper in Dublin; Judge Jerome J. Rooney, Dr. C. J. Maguire, Papal Count Thomas Hughes Kelly and Col- onel Thomas B. Felder of Atlanta, Ga., who defended Jeremiah O'Leary in his recent trial. Mr. De Valera was accompanied also by four Irish members of the British parliament—Diarmid_Lynch, secretary of the Friends of Irish Freedom, who represents South East Cork; Liam Mellowes, representing West Meath; Dr. Patrick J. McCartan, representing Kings county, and- Mr.- Boland, repre- senting South Roscommon. He read his statement to the pre: He desired, he said, to express the as. pirations of the Irish people exactly as he felt them and “not as British pro- pagandists” had been quoting him for the American press. His manner of delivery was impressive but not elo- quent. " He said he did_not _purpose “campaigning” the United States in the Irish cause but that he might go to Washington and_elsewhere. Asked if he had been invited to address the United States senate. he said he had not. “I come directly from the people of Ireland to the people of America, con- vinced that the American people, and consequently the American govern- ment, which as a_government of the people ought to reflect the people’s will, will never consciously conmnive at or allow itself o be made a party to the suppression of the natural God-given right of the Irish nation to its liber- Mr. De Valera read from his state- ment. He declared the degree of unanimity obtained in Ireland for the declaration of a republic was “higher than claimed by the American colonies when they declared their independence” and “higher than that by which vour own glorious union and constitution were established.” “Had complete unanimity been in- sisted upon as a precedent to your in- dependence, as some people pretend to belieev it should be insisted upon in the recognition of ours,” he declared, “you would not be today the greatest nation on earth, but merely thirteen miserable colonies with your people| kept permanently divided by the in- trigue of English statecraft into op- posing and contending groups.” England, he declared, had “con- trived artificial famines recurring in every decade” in Ireland to keep the population down, driving thousands of Irish from their native land. “It must surely be a source of pride to you,” Mr. De Valera concluded, “as it is & source of hope to us, to reflect that mever have you undertaken a cause that you did not bring it to tri- umph. The Latin nations as well as Poland, Hungary and Greece are now free states. Ireland, the one remaining White nation in the slavery of alien rule, will similarly be free unless Americans make scraps of paper of their principles and prove false to the traditions their fathers have handed down to them.” A despatch received by Mr..De Va- lera from Washington tonight stated that the “Irish National Bureau” had announced the appointment of former Justice John W. Goff of the New York state supreme court as director of the nation-wide campaign to be conducted in the interest of freedom for Ireland. KILLED WHEN THROWN FROM SPIRITED HORSE South Norwalk, Conn., June 27. — While riding a spirited horse on pre- mises of James A. Farrell, president of the United States Steel corporation, this morning, William J. Clooney, an employe, was thrown against a tree and died instantly from a fractured skull. Clooney resides in New Jer- sey. FRENCH TAKE GERMAN SHIPS INTERNED IN SPAIN Havre, Sunday, June 22 (French Wireless Service).—The French navy will take possession of three German ships now interned in Spain. These ships are the Faro, now at Huelva; the Planet, at Balboa, and the Olden- burg, at Cadiz. The crews, of 27 men each, will leave here immediately by train for the various ports. ON TRIAL IN ROME FOR MURDER OF RUTH KRUGER Rome, June 23.—The trial of Alfedo ged with the rcurder of in’ New Yerk din 1917 Dbegan this cvenfog -in “the court of ssizes “in Bolozna. - The obstacles which last week were thought to milit- ate against a trial of the accused man before the autumn were removed. Ruth Kruger Oond;nsed ‘Telegrams Capt. G. Gatherwood won the Aerial Derby held in London. his room with a severe cold in throat. A plot to free thirty women in the county jail, Chicago, was exposed by a trusty. A state of siege was ordered in Mun- ster, Westphalia, because of Spartacide disturbances. Federal Reserve Board will present a plan to congress for financing Amer- ican foreign trade. Resumption of trading in coffee fu- the tures on the Havre Dxchange was postponed until today. King Victor Emmanuel requested Francesco Nitti, former Minister of tife Treasury to form a cabinet. The strike of the cotton workers in Lancashire stopped the spindles and thousands of looms. Sixty bodies were recovered from the ruins of a motion picture theatre o Mayaquez, an Juan, destroyed by ire. Six United States army airplanes ar- rived at Buffalo, completing the first stage of a flight from Dayton, Ohio, to Boston, Mass. President Wilson accompanied by President Poincare and Premier Clem- enceau, will attend the opening of Pershing Stadium_today. The Mayor of Kingston announced that as soon as information reached Jamaica of the signing of the peace treaty a holiday would be declared. P. Caminetti, commissioner general of immigration ,announced if Edward de Valera and Harry J. Boland enter the United States illegally, they will be deported. Reports from the coal districts of France indicated the striking miners returned to work following the adop- tion by the Chamber of Deputies of the s-hour day law. One man was killed and six injured when the Royal Northwest' Mounted Police of Canada rode into a “silent parade,” which the mayor of Winni- peg had forbidden. Electrification of all of England’s great railways lines, is proposed by Sir Eric Geddes as the greatest econ- omy he can suggest in the Govern- ment’s reconstruction plan. Bills are to be introduced in con- gress which will make it mandatory for the Shipping Board to permit ship- vyards to accept contracts for con- struction of vessels on account. Representative Dyer of Missouri told members of the house judiciary committee President Wilson repeal war-time prohibition if con- gress did not act on the measure. George H. Roberts, Controller Food, presiding at the Conference, said that in the interest of the consumer he had decided to re- tain control of food during the win- ter. Gustave Stressman, leader of the Na- tional Liberty Party of Germany, says the years of economic depression which Germany is now facing will force at least 15000,000 Germans to find homes in other countries. Secretary Baker is requested duty in Washington and holding higher rank than that army. Capt. Roy Francis, ning a one-stop flight York and San Frnacisco, with a Mar- tin bomber plane, at McCook field, Dayton, Ohio, said he would not be able to start on the trip before Tuesday. who is plan- General Peyton C. March, Chief of Staff, in announcing the close of the series of weekly interviews given to newspapers, paid a high tribuie to the press of the nation for the manner in which it observed the voluntary cen- sorship. Submarine chaser No. 310 was or- dered by Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr., to the vicinity of Yakstat village, Alaska, to quell a native uprising. The ordered to gunboat Vicksburg was Kodiak and Port Althrop, where can- nery men are reported striking. Sixty-five tons originally purchased by the Red Cross for the making of socks and sweaters for American soldiers was made into 78,000 yards of cloth and 33,000 shawls. It was shipped to the destitute war sufferers of Europe. The strike of the cotton mill work- ers in Lancashire, Eng. was settled Yesterday on the basis of the workers obtaining a 48 hours week and a 30 per cent. increase in wages. Work will be resumed June 30. OFFICIALS OF GERMAN ARMY THREATEN TO RETIRE Beriln, Jupe 23.—(By A. P.)—Gen- eral Maercidr, who is in command of the forces guarding Weimar, made a pessimistic statement at a meeting of various parties today regarding the signing of the treaty, according to a Weimar despatch. All the generals and staff officers of the army have threatened to retire if the government signs peace unconditionally, it being declared that such a step would be in- compatible with a honor of the Ger- man officers’ corps. > The assembly met at noon and Pre- mier Bauer ased for confirmation of the assembly’s decision, as the allied and associated powers had rejected Germany's reservations. The assemb- ly thereupon declared, nothwithstand- ing the opposition vote of the German National Party, the People’s Party and a section of the Centrists, that the government was still empowered to sign the treaty. SEEK EXPLANATION OF SINKING OF GERMAN FLEET Paris, June 23.—(By A. P.)—The budget committee of the chamber of deputies has decided to send a dele- gation to M. Clemencau to inquire if the government is in a position to furnish immediately an explanation of the sinking of the German fleet. The delegation will also ask what measures the government expects to take to meet the loss to France through the destruction of that part of the fleet to which France was enitled. ADMIRAL VON REUTER TO BE COURTMARTIALED London, June 24—Admiral Von Reu- ter, in command of the German fleet scuttled and sunk in the Scapa Flow, will be courtmartialled for having broken the armistice conditions, says the Daily Mail today. The newspaper adds that the details of the trial of the admiral will be ar- | ranged by the allied council in Paris. PRICES REMAIN FIRM ON THE PARIS BOURSE Paris, June 23.—Prices were firm on cent. the Bourse today. Three per rentes 62 francs, 80 centimes' for cash. Exchange on London 29 francs. centimes. ° Five per- nt. 1 francs, 70 centimes. The dollar ed from 6 francs, 35 centimes francs, 40 centimes. rang- TEN PAGES—78 COLUMNS A F. OF L. SUPPORTS A 44 Premier Lloyd George is confined to| 55,000,000 | would of British Labor in a resolution by the House 16 report the number of commissioned officers on the number to which they are entitled in the regular between New aviation of knitting yarn American o 88 o 6 Bulletin PRICE TWO CENTS . HOUR WEEK nual convention, pledged i ernment service. he demand based on determination to pre Wwa primary causes of indusirial unrest. Samuel Gompers, president of federation, announced that the four great railroad the Engineer men: federation. The fourth said. to consider similar application. with the entry railway men for government owne: ship and control of the, roads. subject has heen re ecutive council with formulate a policy. shorter work day, the pledged ifs support to the commercial telegraph to electrical and telephone workers. in the gov- nt un- employment declared to be one of two the three of brotherhoods Conductors and Train- had applied for charters in the brotherhood, the firemen was meeting in Denver, he Delegates were of the opinion that of the brotherhood the federation will back the demand of the rred to the ex- instructiong to In addition to_taking action on the convention striking. operators and obtaining for its telegraphers the same concessions which have heen granted FOR WORKERS Bases Action on Effort to Prevent Unemployment—Three Railroad Brotherhoods (Engineers, Conductors and Trainmen) Have Applied for Charters in the Federation — Convention Pledged Its Support to the Striking Com- mercial Telegraph Operators. Atlantic City, N. Y., June 23.—The American Federation of Labor, at the closing session here today of its an- self to ob- tain a general 44 hour week for work- ers in all erafts throughout the United | States and for employ A resolution was adopted request- ing congress to investigate the allied suppression of free speech and other American institutions in westetn Pennsylvania. . <> When the question of the 44 hour week came up it was apparent all delegates as well as all officers of (P federation, were inclined to the vie% that the shorter work day was gne of the most vitally important sig- jects avproved the reconstructf1 convention. The report of the com- mittee which had heen studying the subject was adopted unanimously as expressing the convitions of the con- vention, Thanks of Treland for the conven- tion's resolution calling for recogni- tion of the Irigh repunlic was continu- in_a Mmemorial received by Presi- dent Gompers today and presented to the convént Tt was sent from Philadelphia P. McCartin, “envoy of the Trish republic” and H. J. Bo- land, “special envoy THe executive council has been authorized to select the next conven- tion city after getting assurance from hotel managers in the city selected that prices will not be; increased nor profiteering practiced. Bitter ecom- plaints have been made hy delegates about the prices they were required to pay in Atlantic City. GERMAN SAILORS SHOT Thurso, Scotland, P.)—German sailors were shot hy own officers when the sea cocks. made by Lieutenant Nuttall of steamer Alouette, today from Scapa Flow, German_ships were sunk. “I pulled stroyi where ordered the Germans the seacocks. Four turned officers shot three of them dead. several of them dropped. “Others among or five other destrovers; vessels afloat.” now afloat. pelled to shut the sea cocks. battleship,” he added. haste to the Brit “He stated the and requested a: He was arrested. ruse to lead to the belief that This was not actually happened.” PROTEST REDUCTION OF Panama, June 23. American testing to the secretary the semate against the duction in the congre ation for their claim they are against. of war proposed department. being as the reduction, it is said, af shipping services for American v sels at the canal. TURKISH FORCES OUTNUMBER to one and threaten to drive Greek forces plenty of ammunition. atlantic Flight F. P. Raynham, the aviator who made the unsuccessful attempt to start across the Atlantic from New- foundland, on the day Hawker His injured plane is now being repaired and with £ new nav. tator o take the plice of the fured Major Morgan, he hapes o 00n. sturt again in his Martinayds BY THEIR OWN OFFICERS June 23—(By A. heir they attempted to obey the commands of the British of- ficers to return to their ships and shut This _ statement was the who reached here the alongside a German de- when I saw the ship begin to said Lieutenant Nuttall, “and back to close or five of them back, whereupon the German We then opened fire on- the. officers and the Germans then returned and closed the sea cocks. The Germans were also driven back to four they closed the Sed cocks in time to keep the Lieutenant Nuttall reports that the Emden has been pumped out and is The Baden's crew was forced back to that vessel and com- “Directly the first red flag and Ger- man ensign were hoisted on the first “the German admiral put off in a motor hoat post- h air station ashore. ships were sinking stance for the crews, aval men believe the trip was a the crews were taking charge of the ships. substantiated by what PANAMA APPROPRIATION em- ployes of the civil government of the Panama Canal zone at a mass meet- ing Sunday adopted a resolution pro- and re- ional appropri- They discriminated The labor unlons also are protesting schools and the police, fire pos- tal services. It is claimed also that the proposed reduction will hamper GREEKS IN ASIA MINOR Paris, June uation Asia Minor is serious, according to of- ficial advices received Reuter's Limited bureau These advices stated that the Turk- ish forces outnumber the Greeks four the Greeks entirely out of Asia Minor. The are artillery and| are reported to be re- treating~ before the Turks, who supplied with goed Will Attempt Another Trans- SIXTY-DEAD AS RESULT OF CYCLONE AT FERGUS FALLS Fergus Falls, Minn, June 23— Telephone communication from Fergus Talls and the nearby storm-stricken territory to other cities in the state was restored late this afternoon, and over the telephone Adjustant General W. F. Rhinow gave an estimate of sixty dead from Sunday ecvening's tornado. Work of searching the debris which marks the sites of nearly 400 homes and stores will he completed by mid- night, General Rhinow said. Arrangements are being completed to drag Lake Alice, a nearby summer resort. Many persons at the lake were swept into the water, it is believed, and a large number of summer cot- tages which line its shores were blown far out into the water. More than 150 persons with serious injurles are being cared for at the state insane hospital and Wright and St. Luke's hospitals. Arc lights were strung throughout the devastated dis- trict today to enable the soldiers and civilian relief workers to continue their search of the ruins. Late today 47 bodies had been re- covered. About twenty more are thought to by lying beneath the wreck- age. HOPES TO START ON OCEAN FLIGHT WEDNESDAY St. John: . F., June 23.—Vice Ad- miral Marg Kerr, pilot of the Handley- Page bombing plane which is wait- ing at. Harbor Glace for \'a\'orgqe weather for a trans-Atlantic flight, nounced here tonight that_he hopl to get away Wednesday. He will fly with the first strong westerly breeze, he said. Captain Frederick P. Raynham, pre- paring his second attempt at the flight with small Martinsyde biplane, stated he probably would await the next full moon, due about July 13. He expects to spend the intervening time making further tests of his plane, which was wrecked when he tried to follow Harry G. Hawker on his flight. CANADIAN RAILWAY SHOPMEN SUSPEND NEGOTIATIONS Montreal, June 23.—A three weeks’ nment of negotiations - in the ke controversy was sug- gested to the Canadian railway war board today by the executive commit- tee of Divisino No. 4, Railway Shop- men of America, representing 30,000 men. It was announced the sugges- tion was made because of assurane received by officials of the di 3 while in Atlantic City that the United States railway administration would have ts finding completed within three weeks in connection with demands by shopmen on’ American roads. STRIKING CARMEN MAY w8 LOSE UMION CHARTERS Boston, June 23.—At a conference be-. tween the joini committee of all the local unions of the Eastern Massachu- setts Street Railway system and of- ficers of the International Union to- day, President W. D. Hahon served an ultimatum on the striking car men, giving them until Wednesday morn- ing to return to work, under penalty of forfeiting titeir charters. The locals met at their respective headquarters tonight to determine their action in view of the ultimatum. COMPLETION OF AUSTRIAN PEACE TERMS DELAYED Paris, June 23.—Completion of the Austrian peace conditions has been delayed by the reparations problem. The American proposal that the new states formed from Austria-Hungary bear something toward the cost of the army of liberation has not met with favor. The French delegation is work- ing upon a new plan. FOOD FOR THE LIBERATED COUNTRIES Or EUROPE New York, June 23.—Enough food to provision the people of the liberated countries of Iurope until their own farm crops have been harvested this fall will be in transit by July 1, it was announced here today by the American relief administration throush Theodore F. Whitmarsh, an administration rep= resentative, just returned from Europe. REMOVING VIERA PARTISANS FROM URUGUAYAN ARMY Buenos Aircs, June 23—President Brum of Uruguay, according to des- patches from Dontevideo, has issued a decree removing from the army all of- ficers who are partisans of ~Former President Viera “in order to prevent & projected revolution.” Montevideo, it is said, is quiet. POLISH MINISTER TO THE UNITED STATES Paris, June 23.—The appointment of Prince Casimir Lubomirsky as Polish minister to the United States is com~ , firmed. He is in Paris. .