Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 25, 1919, Page 1

Nor VOL. LXI—NO. 150 : POPULATION 29,919 * NORWICH GERMANS PROBABLY WILL | SIGN TREATY FRIOAY P. M. Herr Mueller, Foreign Minister, is Expected to be the Chief German Plenipotentiary—German Envoys Are Due to Arrive at Versailles Friday Morning—Belgium is to Have Priority in Reparations to be Paid by Germany to the Extent of 2,500,000,000 Francs—Belgian War Debt to be Wiped Out by Substitution of German Bonds for Bel- gian Obligations. (By The Associated Press.) Friday afternoon probably will wit- ness at Versailles the signing by Ger- many of the peace treaty of the al- lied ‘and associated powers. The German plenipotentiaries are due 1o arrive there Friday morning. Herr Mueller, foreign minister in the' new cabinet of Herr Bauer, is ex- pected to be the chief German pleni- potentiary, Dr. Haniel Von Haimhau- sen, who was (o have signed the tre: ty for Germany, having resigned from the peace delegation. The new Italian delegation to the peace conference is expected to reach Versailles Friday, headed by Signor Tittoni, foreign minister. The council has resumed on the provisions of the Austrian treaty which were not included in that part of the document recently handed the Austrian delegation at St. Germain. The Turkish delegation has sent to the Council of Ten a- detailed memo- randum of the requests recently made orally in behalf of Turkey. Belgium is to have priority in repa- rations to be paid by Germany to the extent of 2,500,000,000 franch. Formal approval has been given this decision. DETAILS OF CEREMONY OF SIGNING PEACE TREATY Paris. June 24.—(By The A. P.) Un- officially Friday aiternoon has been its work words “Seal of the President of the United State: Some of the seals supplied by the delegates are merely monograms” un- contrast to the, rms supnlied’ by of Poland and other European officials. The French treatq experts regard the Chinese and Japanese seals as the most artistic. These. are chiefly the names of delegates in Oriental letter: adorned with fiowers and quaint fig- ures. The expectation was that strictly’ perconal seals -will be used. but, like M. President Wilson, Vandervelde, representing Belgium, is using.an offi- cial seal the Belgian coat of arms en- circled by the words “Minister of Jus- tice.” The German delegates will sign af- ter -the allies. The. order in which the allied dele- gates will sign after the signatures of the president and premiers are attach- ed, will be according to the alphabeti- cal order of the names of the coun- tries they represent. When the sig- natures are completed -the entente party will emerge on the terrace at the side of the palace, where all the great fountains will be playing in the gardens. The Germans will leave on thesside where they entered, A TO' SUBSTITUTE GERMAN set as the time for the ceremony of signing the peace treaty of the allied and_associated powers on behalf of Germany. While the German plenipotentiaries have not yet been announced, advices received from Weimar are to the ef- fect that they will arrive in Versailles Friday morning. M. Clemenceau will open the cere- monies with a brief intreduction. No speech is exnected from the Germans William Martin, of the French for- sign office, as master of ceremoni will then earry the treaty to Presi- jent Wilson and the premiers, who will sign at their seais After the ireaty is hrought back to the signature tabic, the names of the other delegates will be called, and they wiil udvance and sign, It is cxpected thai the signing will require two hours. The s of all he delegates Wil be :ffized iy’ ad- ace:_many of them are. already in the hande o7 the French foreign office. President Wilson” is using the presi- dent's seal which is an chgle, with the BONDS FOR BELGIAN DEBTS Paris, June 24—(By The Associated Press). The council today signed. a document giving formal approval to priority for Belgium in reparations to be paid by Germany, to the amount of 2,500,000,000 francs. The council’ also confirmed the plan to wipe out the Belgian war debt through the substi- tution :of German bonds for the Bel- gian obligations, the four great pow- ers ‘o take over the German bonds, subject to the approval of their re- spective legislative hodies. The bonds ihe powers propose = to| take over are of a special issue which the peace terms require Germany to make, to reimhurse Belgium for all the sums she obliged to - borrow in consequence of the violation of the treaty of 1839, The American delegation proposed some time ago to give Belgium prior- ity in the renarations, and also ap- proved’ the plan for eliminating her wat debt, but final decision was de- ferred until the treaty had been com- pleted. SISTERS TESTIFY IN TRIAL OF MRS. A .E. A. GILLIGAN Middletown, Conn, Jux 4—The day in the trial of Mre, Amy E. Archer Gfiligan, charged with the murder of Franklin R. Andrews of Cheshire, was ofeupied by the defense in the use of witnesses to establish the mental state of the accused preceding and at the time of the death of Andrews. In the afternoon Catherine Dugan, sister of Airs. Gilligan, testified. as had another sister earlier, of the sending of un- needed supplies by Mrs. Gilligan to her relatives e also testified that she was at the home in Windsor the day of Andrews' death and found her sister unconscious on the floor. Mrs. Gilligan complained of pains in the head at the same time, the wit- ness stated. Mrs. Hilda Harrington of Windsor testified that.she thought Mrs. Gilli- gan was nerious rather than insane. Former Sheriff Edward W. Dewey testified that in his opinion Mrs, Gilli- igan was not shamming insanity but mght be in a state of remorse. Dr. Thomas . O'Connell of East Hartford, physician to Mrs. Gilligan from 1587 until 1902, declared that he did not on those dates think she was insane but might have become so lat- er. Cancelled checks and other private papers of the accused woman were ordered brought into dourt. The trial will be coninued omorrow a 10 o'clock. ANSONIA STRIKERS ARE RETURNING TO WORK Ansonia, June 24.~Two hundred more employes of the American Brass company reporjed for work this, morn- iflg and mere were expected this aft- efmoon. The day has been one of the quietest of the strike. The company posted a notice to “out pFesenit emplofes” in the mills this morning announeing an - advance. of 10 cents an hour, a proportionate raise pleceworkers and rate and one hait for Il over eient hours. The strikers will have a big mass mecting tonight at action will he taken on the announced increase. The announce- ment was directed only to those wh hdd returned to work. Workers of the Ansonia O. e all satisfied with the increase of per cent. for day workers and 12 per cent. for piece workers announced yesterday and accepted by the wogk- ers last night C. Co. FORMER CITY TREASURER OF STAMFORD SHORT $7,000 Stamford, Conn., June ~A report glven to the eity council firm of auditors showed that the accounts of Willlam N. Travis, former city tr urer, are £hort Lctween 57,000 $8,000. It is pointed out that the city treasure hooks we loosely Lept. ‘The report has been given to the prosceudng aiteiae, and corporation Counei Travis is on o trial on the charge of irregularity in handling the finances the #tamiorl Nationur bank of whish ho was the former cashier His cuse is in the Unit Sluies cour ’ SENATZ VO FOR AN ARIY OF 4006°0 MEN , Juie 4. — Without a nate tonight ado, ments {9 the a I provid.ng for of 400000 men 3 e3innioz July 1. The ! phesed LY the house provided army of 300.000, and € | MIDNIGHT FIRE IN JEWETT CITY SALOON (Special to The Bulletin.) Jewett City, June 25.—An alarm on the Baptist church bell at 12.30 o’clock this (Wednesday) morning lled the firemen for a fire in Joe Gawaski's loon on Railroad avenue. Alex Per- racinni gave the alarm when he d covered the blaze. Officer Dolan, M il , Arthur L'Heureux and broke in the doors, one of which was red hot, and connected a garden hose and extinguished the blaze before the fire company arived. A hole was cut in the floor later where the fire had eaten through. The centiral part of Main street was filled with smoke although the fire was so far away. he fire evidently started in a pile {f sawdust. FORTY-EIGHT HOUR WEEK FOR SHIPYARDS IN FRANCE| Paris, June 23.—A bill abolishing work aboard all public nad private vessels to eight hours a day or forty- eight hours a week dopted today by the chamber of deputies: During ‘the debate several deputies expressed the wish that negotiations be opened- with- other -powers to en- act simildr legislation for their seamen on the ground that France would be handicapped if she were the only one 1o have eight hours. The gzovernment promisetl o begin ‘negotiations. Advice to June .brides: Make him take you on vour wedding trip. It may ‘be the last one you'll ever take. Acting President Of The Mine Workers’ Union PRESS ILLUSTAATING SERVIGE, W, Ve, John L. Lewis, acting Preéldent of the U d Mine Workers of America. has been the Director Gene: er had recommended paced aL 509,..0 office t the tota s and mea, in iis purchases of coal. Cabled Paragraphs To Demobilize Swiss Army. Geneva, - June- 24.—The - federal ' au- thorities have. taken ‘measures to de- mobiliez the Swiss army. h Cotton Mills Troubles. Matichester, .June 24—While it had, bee nannounced that the strike of the cotton mill workers in Lanéashire had: been " settled on a_basis of .a. forty- eight hour week and'thirty per cent. increase in wages,’the ‘cotton spiners today rejected the ;gettlement. ' The terms reached the:conference here this afternoon. » SEEK ACTION; AGAINST i BERKSHIRE ‘ICE° COMPANY/| New Haven, Conp. June 24.-_A vote of the board of aldermen.tonight”au- thorizes ‘the sending of a report of ‘a citizenis committee named by Mgyor David B. Fitzgerald ' fo the United States district attorney at Hartford, to the prosecuting’ atforney of New Germany Must Pay For Sinking Ships France Has Decided to Re- quire Complete Reparation —Violated Both Armistice and Treaty. Paris, June 24—(By the A. P.— France has decided to require com- Dlete reparation frqm Germany for the sinking of the German warships at Scapa Flow. This announcement was made by M. Leyques, minister of marine, to the naval committee of the chamber of deputies, this afternoon. He declared that the act of the Ger- mans violatéd both the armistice and the peace treaty. 2 Haven county and-to the city attor- ney here for their scrutiny. and to_be juscd ‘at their discretion’ as 'the foun- dation -of . possible: action against- the Berkshire Ice Company and some of its officers. The ..committce reported tonight_that. it -believed, the. ice cor- poration have charged ' extortionately. for_its product;. that ‘it had stifled competition by -unfajr methods. and virtually ‘had a monopoly. of -the busi- ness. x After reciting facts, concerning . the placing of ice at $1.a hundred pounds for retail. trade after competition had been eliminated, the .committce recom- mended: Continuance of ice| stations by the city. 3 A municipal ice plant of 130 tons daily capacity under lease to compe- tent parties if a _referendum should sanction this propesal.” ' City backing, without municipal control, of a co-operative ice com- pany to supply merchants with 100 tons daily. < Or, as alternatives: A contract with responsible persons for ten years guaranteeing to the full supply of the city’s ice needs at a rea- sonable price, the ice supply to be un- der municipal control and free from competition by’ the contractors. A lease by the city of local waters whereon a harvest commensurate with Neiw ‘Haven’s needs may_be obtained, with proper . storehouses. An ordinance’ requiring dealers to sell ice only by standard. weight was advocated ‘and the aldermen voted to authorize their committee on ordi- nances to draft such a measure. Ex- cept for thjs recommendation and. the one advising sending of the evidence secured to, prosecuting agents,- consid- eration of the report was left for a future aldermanic session. The: committee reported that its investigation showed that “there is absolutely no -justification for = the present price at which ice is being sold in New Haven” and ‘“beyond doubt, the ruthless metiods- of. the.sinister and powerful natural ice’ combine in this state made the harried dealers glad to- get out of the business alto- gether. On. the other -hand, -the im- pressive list of its victims has made new ventures in the ice trade 100 pre- carious to be attractive. MRS. LUNDGREN.TESTIFIES IN HER OWN BEHALF June 24.—Speaking a voice that it was found to move her chair close to necessary the jury box Mrs. Bessie ‘M. (Skeels) Lundgren, on trial for the murder of Miss Florence W. Gay, testified in her own defense today. She will resume the stand tomorrow morning. Because her physicians said they feared for her heaith, Mrs. Skeels was allowed to remain seated even when taking the oath. "She ‘told -of the pringipal incidents in her life and described conditions in’the Gay home in Andover, where she attended Miss Gay and her mother as a nurse. Mrs. Skeels said that she went to the Gay home on Thanksgiving day, 1918, as a substitute nurse for Mrs. Gay, who was an invalid, but was soon engaged permanently and re- mained until February, 1918. Mrs. Gay, she said, was helpless and Miss Gay was very thin, nervous and hysterical, with frequent crying spells. She said that Miss Gay's' face was disfigured by skin trouble and her hands were sore. For this, she said, Miss Gay took a bromide -preparation in quantities. In the summer of 1917, the witness said, Miss Gay suffered from what Mrs. Skeels believed was ‘bronclrial pneu- ‘monia but: would not have a doctor, s0,"she, as nurse, took charge of the case. At that time, she said, Miss Gay acted’very. queerly, often locking her- self in the bathroom' and atone'time Tinning ‘about ; Uclothed. downstairs, Against the ‘patient's wishes she said, Dr.’Charles E. Abbotf, of Andover, was called 'in and sa{d that she was suffering from a mental and’ physical breakdown. ASKED TO INTEREVNE IN WETERN ELECTRIC CO. STRIKE Boston, June 23.—Mayor Andrew J. Peters was asked -today ‘to -intervene in the strike of employes of he West- ern Electric company ‘in this city, with a view to expediting settlement. The request came fram a committee representing the New Enginad joint council of telephone workers' unions. The committee -told. him that 49 lo- cal unions had authorized a sympa- thetic strike, which would be called unless the demands of the Western Electric workers were granted soon and would embrace the operators and mechanical employes of the New Engy land telephone and Telegraph com- pany, the Providence Telephone com- pany, which controls Rhode Island, and possibly the Southern New Eng- land Telephone company in Connecti- cut. The mayor said he would request Western lectric company - officials_in New York to take action to prevent a tieup of telephone service. The Western Electric strike was de- clared five weeks ago to enforce de- mands’ of the union for reinstatement of union officers who had been dis- charged and for the principle of - col- lective bargaining. A SYRIAN STOREKEEPER SHOT IN DANBURY Danbury, Conn., Junme 24—Afhmad Salem, a Syrian storekeeper at Fry's ! Corners on the city’s ,outskirts, was shot and probably fatally wounded by one of two men who attempted to rob him late tonight. Salem refused to hand over his day’s ‘receipts to the men and the shooting followed. ~ The men, ‘scemingly foreigners, fied on’ the approach of other persons and have not been captured. —_— A Timely Warning. Motto for the. United States War Department in regard to sending food supplies where they may fall into the MAY SALVAGE SOME SUNKEN GERMAN WARSHIPS ‘London, June 24 —Three of the Ger- man warships which their crews at- tempted to sink at Scapa Flow on Saturday have been beached and the Baden is moored in readiness. for beaching, it was announced officially today. = There is every prospect of salving the ships in good condition if the necessary apparatus arrives before bad weather sets in. The ships beached are the cruisers Emden, Frankfurt and Nurnberg. IRISH REPUBLIC PROPOSES BOND ISSUE OF £1,000,000,000 New York, June 24—The Irish re- public proposes to issue bonds to the amount of one.million pounds sterl- ing, President Eamonn De Valera an- nounced here tonight. The minister of finance is preparing a prospectus which will be issued soon, he said. Half the issue will be offered to the public fof immediate subscriptions, 250,000 pounds in Ireland and 250,000 pounds abroad. The bonds will be of denominations “to meet the neegs of small investors.” In order to obtain for our own de jeure government and for the Irish re- bublic which the Irish people have willed ‘to set up, the necessary inter- national recognition, Mr. De Valer: said, “we shall send at once our ac credited representatives to Paris to the peace conference and to the League of Nations. We shall give them all necessary authority, and that they may proceed there in a manner befitting their character as the representatives of a nation, we shall apply for,the necessary safe condict {0 enable them to pz through the naval and military cor- dons with which the power in occu- ntion of our country has surrounded us, We shall send also to other coun- tries a number of duly accredited am- bassadors and consuls to see that the position of Ireland is understood as it truly is and not as English propa- ganda would represent it and in gen- eral to see that the interests of Ire- land in these” countries are in no way |- neglected. We shall thus resume that intercourse with other peoples which befits us as a separate-nation, that intercourse which it has been the chief aim of English statescraft to cut off and which indeed English power has succeeded in cutting off for over a century. “To measures such as the English ways and communications bill, design- ed as regards Ireland, to prevent Irish- men from using the natural resources of ‘their own country, we shall offer all the resistance we command, as be- ing both injurious and unjust. It will be the special duty of our director of trade to examine, in cooperation with public bodies, how best to make our resistance effective. “It is obvious that the work of our government cannot be carried on without funds. The minister of finance is accordingly preparing a prospectus, which will shortly be published, for the issue of a loan of onme million sterling, 500.000 pounds to be offered to the public for immediate subscri tion, 250,000 pounds at home 50,000 pounds abroad in bonds of such amounts as to meet the needs of the small subscriber.” The bond issue will be repaid, Mr. De Valera said, months after the English “evacuation” of Ireland. He denied emphatically that Russian or German money ever had been used for promoting the cause of Ireiand. WATERBURY STRIKERS REFUSE TO ACCEPT OFFER Waterbury, Conn,, June 24—Water- bury strikers today refused [o:cept the offer of the manufacturers for a raise of 10 cents an hour for all em- ployes with an eight hour day and time and one-half for overtime. The strikers want a_greater increase in wages with recognition of their union. At an open air meeting of the 6,000 strikers held this aiternoon, the strikers voiced their disapproval of the terms of the manufacturers. It is reported that the factory owners will not consider the recognition of the union. Machinists threaten to strike in many factories of the city this week. Quiet organization by the machinists is said to have been in progress for weeks. Over 1,000 workers who left the fac- tories at the time of the walkout re- turned to work the past twq days, ac- cording to a statement given out the manufacturers tonight. No_di turbances were reported today. Extra police and members of the city guard armed with riot guns still guard the Tactories, CO-OPERATION OF INDUSTRIES AND EDUCATIONAL FORCES Nantasket, Mass., June 24.—Resolu- tions urging co-operation _between American industries and pjublic edu- cational forces in the task of Amer- icanizing non-English speaking indus- trial workmen were adopted at the closing; session of the -first national confercnce on Americanization in in- dustry here today. The resolution recommended that every industry employing non-Eng- lish speaking people formulate a defin- ite policy regarding Americanization work, and declare that such work can best be done “where a responsible person is charged with its direc- tion.!} REFUSED TO ACCEPT A WRITTEN PLEA OF GUILTY Hartford. Conn., June 24.—In the United States district court here to- day Judge Edwin L. Garvin refused a written plea of guilty entered by the A. W. Burritt Company of Bridgeport, lumber dealers, called to plead to an indictment of fifteen counts charging violaticn of a war embargo on the shipment of material. Judge Garvin ruled that some officer of the company must personally appear. The case will be called again at the September hands of the Bolshéviki: ~ Never foed a starving itiger until you have him in the cage.—Sdn Frnacisco Chronicle. term of the court. ‘The company was indicted for shipping lumber from the south under false bills of lading. I N, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1919 10 PAGES—74 COLUMNS ] PRICE TWO CENTS Strike of Bay State Carmen Has Ended Announcement Made by John H. Reardon of the Execu- tive Board of the Interna- tional Union. Boston, June 24—The strike of about 3,500c ar men of the Eastern Mas- sachusetts Railway company was of- ficially declared ended tonight and the cars will resume their regular sched- ule tomorrow morning. This action was taken at a meeting here of the conference board of the ten local unions that had been on strike, It was not announced how many of the locals had voted in favor of re- turning to the cars, but the aggregate vote was overwhelmnigly in favor of this course. The bare result was announced by members of the con- ference board and John H. Reardon of the executive board of the internation- al union, who stood ready to suspend from membership all men who refused to obey the order of William D, Ma- hon, international president, to re- turn to work by tomerrow morning. A meeting of the conference board will be %held tomorrow to discuss plans for a conference which Mr. Reardon has arranged with the management of the company, when the use of the hand fare register on open cars, mod- ification of the present working agree- ment and other greivances will be con- sidered, with a view of possible arbi- tration. The strike began in Lowell on June 16 and few days later the men in Wo- burn struck in sympathy. Lawrence soon followed and last Sunday morn- ing the other walked out, tieing up practically the entire system north of Boston and the Quincy district on the south side of thi FORMER SENATGR BEVERIDGE'S VIEW OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS Bedford, Pa, June 24—The United States, by joining the league of na- tions, would deliberately surrender her freedom of action and decision as to her own rights, powers and policies, as well as her sovereignty and inde- pendence, said Albert J. Beveridge, former United States senator, of In- diana, addressing the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar association here tonight. The speaker termed the league “a hybrid international confed- eracy” and declared that the United s, as a_member, would be sub- ordinated to it. The constitution of this nation is mangled by the pronosed covenant of the league of nations, and “basic na- tional powers, given congress by our constitution, are, in practical and final effect, transferred from the American government at Washington to the league's government at Gene- va" said Mr. Beveridge, “The super- state” will have the power to say just what the Monroe doctrine means, and how it shall be applied, and in Mexico, where “for years American citizens have been murdered.” this nation would be heipless to take action to protect her subjects under the league covenant, he said. Under the covenant, in short, we would - underwrite forever the status quo of the whole world as the big four has framed it” said Mr. Beveridge. “If War breaks out among the arbi- trarily constructed states, which the biz four has set up in Europe, the league government at Geneva can or- der as many thousands of American soldiers as it likes to kill and be killed on one side or another, as the league may decide.” Calling for a public expression on the covenant, Mr. Beveridge said: “America is not committed to mem- bership in the superstate, and never will be, unless the American senate consents. And the senate never will corsent until some way is found to place this tremendous question direct- Iv before the American people and their answer is secured.” REPARATIONS DELAYING AUSTRIAN PEACE TREATY Paris, June 24—(By The A, P.) The question of reparations is still delay- ing completion of the Austrian treaty owing to the difficulty of aligning the small eastern states on any general scheme for a division of the financial obligations and the claims _resulting from the breakup of the Hapsburg monarchy, with consequent elimina- tion of iis responsibility for repara- tions. American experts have conducted negotiations with representatives of the states inheriting parts of the Hapsburg _domains, including Poland, Czecho-Slovakia-Jugoslavia and Ru- mania, for several weeks, but the re- sults have been unsatisfactory to the council of four, and French experts are npw trying their hand. The problem is decidedly complicat- ed, because, on the one hand, it is planned to charge these states with a hare of the Austro-Hungarian finan- cial responsibilities proportionate to the area and resources of the Haps- burg territories acauired by them, un- der the guise of “contributions to the cost of the war of liberation,” while, on the other hand, Rumania and Ser- bia are entitled to offsets for repara- tions due them. Poland and Czecho-Slovakia are not entitled to reparations under the gen- cral principle of the Austrian and German treaties, which limit repara- tions to the actual belligerents during the war, Certain changes in the permanent reparations commission are also being made, to adapt it to Austrian condi- tions. The German treaty provided only for Serbian membership in cer- tain contingencies. But all these states will be given seats and votes when their interests are involved. 3 All sums delivered from Austrian, Hungarian and Bulgarian reparations will be pooled with the proceeds of the German _reparations for dividion among the interested states in pro- portion to proved claims. DEMANDS BY SHIRT WORKERS IN NEW YORK New York, June 24.—Workers in the shirt making industry have present- ed manufacturers with demands for an increase in wages, reduction of the working week and collective bargain- ing, according to an announcement made tonight from headquarters of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. 3 The demands were sent to the manufacturers in a letter which ex- plains that in_order to secure relief from what is claimed to be highly un- satisfactory - working conditions ' the shirt makers have organized. They demand an increase in wages of 25 per cent. to all-week cmployes, 40 per cent. to piece workers, a mini- mum wage scale for cutting depart- ments, time and a half for overtime, and no work, overtime or otherwise, on Saturday afternoons and Sundays. Condensed Telegrams Bar siver was quoted at 53% pence in London. Boston saloons will continue sale of 2% per cent. beer after July 1 Prince of Wales will be gue: ‘White House from Aug. 12 to 2 Canadian Pacific Railway applies for aerial passenger and freight service charter. « Economic Council decided that with the signing of peace all blockades will be_raiced. * Frank Nebeker, Salt Lake City, was appointed an assistant to Attorney General Palmer. Light frost formed on low lying cranberry bogs in the Cape Cod:dis- trict. Damdge was slight. It is reported a big dispute has ari en between the British and Americans in the cinema trade in Britain King and Queen of Belgium accepted invitation of Presidént Wilson to visit the United States in September. Gold coin to the amount of $500,000 was withdrawn from the Sub-Treas- ury for shipment to South America. An advance of 5 cents an hour was granted to the employes in the Argo plant of the Corn Products Refining “o. Soft coal output for week of June 14 estimated at 8,273,000 tons. Hard coal output estimated at 1,865,000 tons. Educators and engineers from all over the country gathered at Wash- ington in a_conference on = business training. ™ According to a report received at Berlin, two American. soldiers. were killed and hree injured in a brawl near Frankfort. American steamshi Baltimore, was sunk plosion, according Gothenburg. The funeral of James D. Bergen, founder of the J. D. Eergen Cut Glass Company, Meriden, who died Sunday, was held yesterday. Union metal workers, said by their leaders to number 5,000, walked out at Vancouver, B. C., in sympathy with the strikers at Winnepeg. House and enate conferees, approv- ed the rider on the agricultural bill providing for repeal of he daylight saving law on Oct. 26. Reports from easten Kentucky say moonshiners of that section form- ed a union and are setting a standard price for their product. Jury for the trial of Gordon Fawcett Hamby, charged with the murder of two Brooklyn bank clerks last Decem- ber, was completed. President. Wilson's baggage was packed and everything made ready for his sailing to New York after the signing of the peace treaty. 3 A report from Madrid says thé Spanish government will allow expor- tation of 45,000,000 kilos of olive oil during the second half of 1919. Senate Naval Committee completed the naval appropriation bill of 1920, It will carry $646,272,000, an increase of $44.803,000 over the House total. Western Union Telegraph Co. an- nounced that cable messages in code authorized for Great Britain will now be accepted for places in the Dutch East Indies. Representative Longworth, of Ohi introduced a bill levying a high tariff on imports of dyestuffs and establish- ing a licensing commission to control imports. Direct sailing from Chicago to Liv- erpool will begin today, when the Shipping Board will dispatch the 4,000 ton steel ship Lake Granby over new route. Carl F. Anderson was appointed a: sociate justice of the Middletown ci Farnam, from by a mine ex- to a report from court, to take the place of Judge Warner who becomes the presiding judge. More than 50 Mexicans, peon lab- orers, were killed by bandits of the Diaz faction in revenge for the killing of Gen. Blanquet, leader of the Diaz followers. An automobile in which Morris 1. Dee, 50, of Middletown was riding alone overturned yesterday and he sustained a fracture of the skull. He is expected to die. Frank L. Polk, of New York, coun- sellor of the State Department, and now acting Secretary of tate, was nominated to be Under Secretary of State, a new office. Russian Soviet government demand- ed the release of L. C. A. K. Martens, Bolsheyik representative arrested in New York Reprisals are threatened against Americans in Russia. Senators Kendrick of Wyoming, and Kenyon, of Towa, introduced bills pro- viding for packers surrendering con- trol of the packing industry and plac- ing it under Government contol. Kansas will harvest 225,000,000 bush- els of wheat, valued at $450,000,000. President Wilson notified Col. House not to participate. in functions of the League of Nations until Senate had ratified the peace treaty. President Wilson nominated William Gonmzales, of Charleston, S. now minister to Cuba, to be ambassador to Peru. Boaz W. Long, of New Mexico, ‘was nominated minister to Cuba and Benton C. McMillan of Tennessee, to be minister to Guatemala. Central Western railroads asked In- terstate Commerce Commission for in- creased rates on vaious commodities from points in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin to sations in Central Freight Association territory. War expenditures of the War De- partment between April 6, 1917, and June 1, 1919, amounted to $14,544,618,- 000 Secretary Baker informed the House Committee at the beginning of its investigation of the department. GERMAN OFFICIAL TELEGRAM INTERRUPTED BY POLES Paris, June 24.—(By The A. P.) The Polish high command has forwarded to Premier Clemenceau a copy of a German official telegram which it in- tercepted in Silesia. The text of the telegram is as follows: “Posen, June 1.—The government will sign (the peace treaty). Never- theless, Horsing in Silesia and Wig in western and eastern Prussia will pro- claim war ‘against the Orient. The government will officially oppose, but semi-officially will support, the busi- ness in every way.” Horsing and Wig are the Prussian high commissioners in Silesia and ODIFICATION OF THE WAR TIME PROHIBITION MEASURE Provision in Bill Which Would Have Prevented the “Use” by, a Citizen in His Own Home Has Been Stricken Out by, “That Such Liquors Need the House Judiciary Committee—Section Now Readss Not be Reported, Provided the ; Burden of Showing That Possession is Legal is Upon the - Possessor—Bill is to be Reported Today or Thursday. | Washington, June 24.—A man’s right to store liquor in his home for the long dry period after July 1 stood up today against an attack on that pro- vision of the prohibition enforcement bill before the house judiciary com- mittee, The bill as it will be reported out tomorrow or Thursday is considered all-embracing. So drastic are its pro- visions, members of the committee id, that while a man may put a kes of beer in his cellar, he may be con- victed, and fined, if he wears a watch fob on which there is a picture of the keg as an advertisement. In .a general consideration of the measure the committee made a number of minor changes, but the principal fight was over the question of the right.of home storage for personal use. Representative Morgan, republican, of Oklahoma, endeavored to have strithd en cut the section reading that “if shall not be unlawful to possess liquor in one’s private dwelling while the same is occupied and used by him only as his dwelling.” Ardent prohibitionists on the com- mittee voted against the Morgan pro- posal for the reason, they said, that nothing was to be gained by enacting a law so drastic as to arouse the hos- tility of people who rejoiced that the day of the saloon had ended. Prohibi-~ tion members supported an amend- ment eliminating the proviso that the liquor must be obtained and placed in storaze prior to date the act would become effective. As amended, the section reads: “That such liquor need not be reported, provided the burden of showing that possession is legal is upon the possesso ARMY AVIATOR KILLED AT DOOR OF HIS FIANCEE Rye Beach, N. Y., June 24—Lieut. Shelley Watson, an aviator stationed at.Mineola, and his civilian mechanic, M. Ireland, were burned to death here this morning when their airplane, a Curtiss machine, plunged nose first to the ground. Watson's fiancee, whose name was withheld, is spending the summer with Mrs. Ruth Downs Parker in one of the cottages on Rye Beach, and it had been Watson's practice to fly over ev- ery morning from Mineola, and circle low over the cottage. He left Mineola, it was said, shortly after nine o'clock, and made the usual manoeuvres over the Parker cottage, flying at an alti- tude of not over 200 féet above the cottage. On the third or fourth time around, witnesses noticed that the engine “went gead.” The machine lurched and crashed to the earth. As it struck there was an explosion, and the air- plane was enveloped in flames. The men were both dead when reached, the bodies being badly charred. Ireland . seemed to have made an ef- fort to extricate himself, and had got almost out from under the machine. Watson seemed still to be strapped in his seat. His fiancee arrived on the scene just in time to witness the ac- cident. Coroner John Stella from New Ro- chelle gave permission for the remo- val of the bodies to Werner's mor- gue in Rye as soon as an army avia- tion officer from Mineola arrived. It was said that Lieut. Watson had returned from eighteen months of overseas service in February or March. ~He had been cautioned against fiying so low, it was said, but had replied always that he was ac- customed to such work in France, and could manage it all right. A cottage caught fire from the flames, but the blaze was quickly put out by the Rye fire department. GUILTY OF-MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE Waterbury, Conn., June 24—Nick- for Nechesnook was found . guilty of murder in the first degree in the su- perior court here this aftenoon. The jury was out two hours. Sentence will be pronounced by Judge Burpee tomorrow. On the 13th of March the body of Fedor Torrant was found horribly hacked in the northern part of the PROCLAMATION CALLS FOR LICENSE OF WHEAT DEALERS New York, June 24—Julius Barnes, United States wheat director, an- nounced tonight that President Wilson has signed a proclamation putting un- der license of the wheat director per« sons, firms, corporations and associa« tions dealing in wheat, wheat flour ot baking products manufactured either wholly or partly from wheat flour. - The only exceptions are farmers and small bakers. The proclamation, which goes intq effect July 15, applies to the business of “storing or distributing wheat, or manufacturing, storing or distributing wheat flour.” as well as to the manu- facturers of bread or other bakers products either wholly or partly from wheat flour. Exceptions are listed as follows: (A) Bakers and manufacturers. of bakery products whose consumption of flour in the manufacture of such products is, in the aggregate, less than fifty barrels per month. (B) _Retailers and farmers or co- operative associations of farmers or other persons with respect to the products of any farm or other land owned, leased or cultivated by them. Common carriers are required to se- cure on or before July 15 a license from Mr. Barnes “in such form, under such conditions and under such sules and regulations governing the conduct of the business as he may from time to time prescribe.” AGREEMENT ON REPEAL OF GOV'T CONTAOL OF WIRES Washington, June 24.—Agreement was reached late today by senate and house conferees on legislation to re= peal government control of telegraph, telephone and other wire systems. The conferees adopted the house plan of terminating government control at ‘midnight on the last day of the calen- dar month in which the law is ap- proved. Toll and local exchange telephona rates would be continued four months unless sooner changed by state com- missions, under the conference agree- ment—a compromise between the ninety days’ rate extension clause of the senate bill and the six months’ continuance provosed by the house. The practical effect of the legisla= tion, the conferees stated, will be that all of the wires will be returned to private control and operation at mid- night July 31..as it is expected confi~ dently that the law will be signed by town. Torrant had been in the habit of carrying a large sum of money but did not have it with him on the night of the murder. The prisoner did not budge the verdict was returned. when No one ever saw a henpecked man with a double chin. Discoverer Of Deadliest’ Poison Ever Known East and West Prussia, respectively. e e SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF THE INCORPORATION OF PLAINVILLE Plainville, Conn, June 24. — The semi-centennial of Plainville'’s incor- poration as a town began today with observances in the schools and _ad- dresses at night by Charles H. Nor- ton, of Worcester, and Rev. C. H. Hamlin, of Amherst, both former res- idents. An army plane flew here today to take part in the final programme tomorrow, a welcome to the town's re- turned war service men. ‘When speaking of her age a wo- man doesn’t tell you one thing to- day and another ten years later. | tessor ;Nort ! e’ Ui ., Eagton, Tl agd, at " the Wofiéfimmn}’mw missioned.a captain In the'ordnance ’ dopartment-and.assigned.to the gas warfare service of the Bureau.of Mines. While acting in this ca- pacity Professor Lewts discovered and’afterwards developed the ges. resident early in July. 5 cHon on the conference report will Dbe had first in the house and prompt ratification of the conference agree- ment is anticipated in both bodies of congress, the time for ending govern ment control and the telephone rate extension questions being the only. subjects in dispute. TWO COUNTERFEITERS SENTENCED AT HARTFORD Hartford, Conn., June 24—Louis Stoezic and Andrew Reuckas, charged with counterfeiting, were sentenced. fo three years each in the federal peml- tentiary at Atlanta by Judge Edwin L. Garvin in the United tates district court today. The two young men had previously confessed that they had raised bills and passed them, first in Scranton, Pa., and later in Hartford and Waterbury. Their method .of procedure was to clip the corner Of bills of low denomination and by past- ing other figures raise them to higher value. 3 . Previous to the session of court Judge Garvin heard and granted the petition of the department of yustice to amend the complaint against the International Silver company, charged with violation of the contract labor law. The amendment contained ad- ditional facts and changed the form of complaint opening the way war re= argument of the case. The case dates back about two years. - _— INCREASE OF EXPORTS THROUGH NEW YORK New York, June 24—Despite heavy reductions in the export of war sup- plies to England and France, the to- tal value of exports passing through the port of New York during the month of May was $272,792,119, an in- crease of more than 25 per cent. over: the figures of $214,873,278 for May, 1918, according-to a.report made pub-} lic tonight by the collector of cus=l toms. : Exports to Asiatic countries show ed the greatest proj increase, ! Jumping from $4,233,207, in May, 1918, to $24,237,358 in May, 1919. Six times as great shipments to China, three times as great fo Japan and three. times as great to British. India vm-.,i Tecorded. . i May, South American exports -for 1919, totalled $27,018,817, an. g as compared with May, 1918,-5f $5.41%.« 118, although exports to Argentina andy Chile dropped off nearly 50 per cent. RURAL CHURCH 'WORKERS DI MOVING PICTURES; ‘Middletown, Conn., June-24—Nearly 100 delegates of the Rural Church, Workers of Comnmecticnt visited picture-houses -here this evening to get firstthand data on the,subject for the night discussion: “The Value of¥ the. Present Day Moving' Picture. This discussion ended the _first -of. & twi days’ conventiony B