Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 22, 1919, Page 1

VOL. LXI—NO. BETRAYED 173 GERMAN: HIGH G Two Former German Officers of High Rank Who were In- duced By American Military Secret Service to Divulge Information of Inestimable Value, Arrive In New York As “Prisoners of War.”” — Surrendered Themselves to American Forces After Delivering Plans of German Gen- eral Staff Covering Proposed Movements On Western Front Before Inauguration of American Offensive. of ever, and are believed to have banded | togetner to mete out stern justice.! tmost precautions were taken even jean military secret service and of the: within the allied lines to protect the i officiais betieved kept in! ‘Washington, July 21.—A story the betrayal of the German high com- mand through the efforts of the Amer- organization among German officers of a vendetta aimed at the lives of the traitors was brought to light with the arrival at New York today of “two! German prisoners of war consigned ‘to the director of military intelligence, ‘Washington, D, C." According to information here, the mysterious prisoners, who landed from the Agamemnon under heavy guard, formerly were German officers of high rank, occupying positions of great re- sponsibility under Von Hindenburg. Before the inauguration of the Amer- ican offensives in 191§, operatives of the American military intelligence corps prevailed upon them througn in- ducements which have not been di- vuiged to deliver plans of the German general staff covering the proposed movements on the western front, prob- able lines of retreat. points at which stands would be made and other de- tailed information of inestimable value. With these plans before him, Gen- eral Pershing was able to lay out his campaign with great freedom and it is believed that a result was to cut the cost of the American advance practi- cally in half. The German officers later surren- dered themselves to the American forces. Certaln of their former asso- ciates had become suspicious, how- r but as informers, this country. Preparations for the moving of the| prisoners were kept a close secret and it was only through the carelessness of some clerk that they were included in the roster of the Agamemnon when she left France. The plan was to send the prisoners to some isolated army post where they might be given military protection for is supposed. permitted to “escape” to some other country. there lives anew. will not say whether this plan can be a time, Eventually, they would have to begin their safely followed now. on the steamer’s Scholz and Alvin learned here tonight. to have been a German infantry offi- cer who was made prisoner near Mihiel on September Grothe, an aviator, who was captured{ {in the Argonne region on October 18. that as long as they were France their lives would be in danger, orders were given for their transfer to it béen ONE INFANTRY OFFICER THE OTHER AVIATOR New York, July 21.—The two Ger- {man_prisoners landed here today by the fransport Agamemnon were listed roster Alfred Grothe, as it Scholz is 2, 1918, Officials government including one was a ci the breast by was firing indiscriminately from the upper story of her house. The negress, a _girl years also was shot but not faially. In another part of the ¢ity a black firing from a onight the | marines at Reports to parts of the | both whites boarded a st suing fight wounded slig A mob, a negro and ed the black the car, fired bullets in th the four whi ly wounded. was said| smali groups counters a St} have been k and{ es, lans. SENATE POSTPONES ACTION ON WILSON'S REQUEST Washington, July 21. — While the senate was listening to more debate on the peace treaty today the foreign relations committee tourned its atten- tion to the problem of provisional American representation, pending sen- ate action on the treaty, on the inter- national commission to be set up un- der the treaty terms. President Wilson raised the point in a letter to Chairman Lodge asking the committee’s approval for appointment of a representation on the reparatio gommission, which. is to have wide in fixing the amount and method of collection of Germany's reparation bill. After an hour's discussion. during which Chairman Lodge and others ob- jected that the committee had . no power to give such assent prior to the treaty’s ratification, it was decided to postpone a decision until tomorrow. Senator Knox, republican, Pennsyl- vania, proposed that the committee declame that neither it nor the pres. ident could carry out any treaty pro- visions while the treaty was pend- inz. Tre League of Nations occupied most of the time during senate debate, Sen- ators Pomerene, Ohio, and Harrison, Mississippi, both democrats, urging its acceptance. Senator Pomerene ana- I¥zed the covenant in a constitutional argument and declared quick accept- ance of the treaty was the only course consistent with the nation’s respon- sibilities to the world. Senator Har rison bitterly attacked the republi- can leaders opposing the treaty, de- claring their opposition really = was based on political and personal antag- onism to President Wilson. During the day the Shantung set- lement also got hefore the sanata again, Senator Williams. Mississinpl. chargins that opposition senators had rusrorresented facts in tho <ase T'enials we-s 1ande by Senato- l.due ard Sei1t” v Horal f¢rho. repusl cirs CORSET WORKERS’ STRIKE IS STILL GROWING Bridgeport, Conn., July 21.—The strike of the corset workers in this city today extended to the factories of the Crown. the Bacheller and the La Resista plants. The workers at the Crown and Bacheller factories left the shops at the hour apnointed for the strike to take effect, but at the La Resista plant the officials refused to allow the! workers to depart until threats had been made to break down the doors. The only corset factory in the city that is running is that of the Birdseye Sommers company. and the strikers claim that it will pe compelled to close tomerrow. The conference that was echeduled morning between the strike | and the officials of the| Warner Brothers' company was post- | poned until tomorrow morning because | a number of the members of the strike commiftee were busy with the| situation at the other factories. MACHINISTS NOW WANT DOLLAR AN HOUR| Briageport. Jul ists of Bridgeport. several Bridgeport unions, will gin tonight to meet by individual shops, to plan for the presentation of | their demands for a dollar an hour| and a 44 hour week. Machinists of| the Lake Torpedo Boat company, of the Yost Typewriter company, and the Columbia Graphophone company will assemble at various hours this ve- ning, in Machinists’ hall. This action is taken under the sanction of the American Federation of Labor which at its convention in Atlantic for a week of 4{ hours. BERLIN SOCIALISTS ATTEMPT TO GATHER Berlin, July 21.—(By The A. P.) In- dependent So lists attempted to form a gathering in the Lustgarten at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The troops fired in the air and then pointblank into the crowd, wounding two men and a woman. The crowd then broke up. Pine incident was the cause of sen- sational reports throughout the city, but order was maintained. THIRD DIVISION GETS ORDERS TO RETURN HOME ‘Washington, July 21.—The third di vision has received its orders to return home, the war department was advis: ed officially today. This ieaves only one division, the first. comprising the Amrican forces on tl ine, that kas not received ordegs home. i from COMP. WILLIAMS SAYS CHARGES ARE UNTRUE Washington, July 21—John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the currency. appearing today before banking committee McFadden had resentative nia, that he dollars. and scandalous” Representative McFadden was call- ed on by Mr. Williams to make good his charges before the committee and announced the Pennsylvania representative woul Chairman MecLean testify in the hearing. In_ answering the McFadden charz- Williams denied any connec- the Arlington deal that he had sugsested acquisition of the site to Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and had introduced a repre- sentative of the owners to the secre- committee his | deputies to preside over the commis- es, Mr. tion with tary. He told _the brother-in-law, Lewis C. Williams, of |sion and examine had been attorney for |treaty with Germany. Richmond, Va., the owners since 1914. Accusations of John Poole, . Hogan. director of the Federal National Bank, of Wash- that the comt w'er nad dis- institution, Williams dent, and Frank ington, criminate were denied against by Mr. that the “wholly untrue” and distorted. NORTH PENN BANK HAS $900,000 SHORTAGE The North Penn Bank.of Philadelphia, closed by the state banking department last Fri- as unsound, has a $900,000 and Cashier Ralph T. Moyer has been ordered arrested by Com- missioner of Banking John S. Fish The commissioner said that his formation came from Receiver James in charge of the bank's affairs by appointment of the commis- sioner, and that Mover had confessed to MacBurney that he had books by substituting loose leaves the ledgers when state bank examiners Harrisburg, Pa. July day W. MacBurney, appeared. The commissioner made known facts of Moyer's confession ported to him by MacBurney tonight. According to what the commissioner learned Moyer admitted that the pecu- lations had been going for two years anl that when the state bank examin- ers came round he would substitute leaves for the proper ones in the ledgers. The commissioner said falsified 2 fal as that the task was now to find proper records and PLANNED RESTORATION OF LOUVAIN UNIVERSITY to where the money had gor.e. senate considering his renomination, denied charges by Rep- of Pennsylva- received a fee in connection with the purchase by the government of the Arlington Hotel site in Washington for several million Such charges were declared by the comptrolier to be “unfounded except presi shortage ascertain The probabl fighting later the death of who succum| earlier in th Harry Wil gress who h: second floor ond and C s ond negress ground floor ley when th rhshed the h holding. clash. Only a result wf negress who hips. th; TOTALS Paris, the presidenc: cently was n to a report tc_reparation: M. Dubo done in amounted to amount. he s; a committee as commercial of francs, and in- | embraced Sified | BRIDGEPOR in Bridgeport, the re- |action continue. In his offer the ' 1, Warner, ns, | conces: Paris, July 21 (French Wireless Ser- vice).—Directly after the sacking of S0 to discontinue in the future Louvain some of the members of the Practice of chgrging the employes for French institute planned to make the | thread used. restoration of the university and- li. brary a great international manifesta- | Meeting Inat the movement here for 44-hour week and tion. ia Four Killed, Others Result of Clash Washington's race war totalled two deaths and two men probably dying, police reports placed the number at a much greater figure. {but finally was shot down. street cars had been stoned in various was shoot fatally, after a composed largely o ians, according to the police, eornered crushed by the butt of a gun. Many clashes occurred whites and blacks on street cars. One negro attacked on the back:end of the car and wounded four persons but finally was stopped by a city detec- tive who was compelled The fighting at midnight solved largely to men had taken part in the early clash- the most serious were those in which the mob were made up of civi- which resulted in the instant deith of his fellow detective. killed, was shot by a 17 year old Thompson, tective to die, DAMAGE BY HUNS June 21—The parliamentary commission of peace, on the clauses of the treaty e manufacturers and agriculturists. added that the damage done to aseri- culture was said to aggregate 37,000,- 000.000 francs. The damage falling upon the vidual and the money paid enterprises were not cluded in the sum francs for military expenses and six billion franes for pensions were not in amount of the damage bois =aid. would 000,000 francs. increase in wages of shop conditions As and Whites — De- tective Shot By Negress. ‘Washington, July 21—At midnizht Tampico ten, authorities at ! while unconfirmed Of the dead, ty detective, shot through negro woman, Wwho 17 of about e door kept a pro- known casualty list in bay for several minutes, pslice headquarters said city, the assailants being and negroes. One negro mob had reet car, and in the en- two city detectives were htly. civil- in the fight that follow- was shot and his skull| between into the crowd following to put seven e negro’s body. Each of te men were only slight- had re- fighting between and in one of three en- marine was reported to illed. Although service le death list in the night's was increased to four by a second city detective bed to wounds received e evening in the fight detective | ne- the ec- son, the first ad opened fire from of a residence near treets, southeast. A sec- opened fire from the| of a-house across the al- e police #and guardsmen ouse which the first was the second e- was wounded during the one arrest was made 2s the attack, the young was shot through the 200 BILEION FRANCS | tting under iani. who re- 'y of M the chamber of amed by into the peace today listened by Deputy Louis Dubois relating s demanded of Germany said the material damege invaded _departments 119 billion francs. Thi aid had been verified by of engineers. architects. He indi- start in- 119.000.000.000 37,000 000,000 to of likewise the sum. The total done, M. Du- aggregate 200,000,- T STRIKERS REFUSE | COMPROMISE OFFER Conn.,, July 21.—With| their forces augmented, by nearly 2.- 000 emploves of other ployes of the Warner Brothers plant!to surrender the Kaiser to the Allies, at a_mass meeting tonight, refused to | but may accept the compromise offer made by asked b, the management. the general hour week, the closed shops and an!French Chamber of Deputies, who has 5 per cent. will!just returned from Ita; shops, ~em- | As a result of this| strike for a_ 44-| to his employves, De Ver| president of the Warner:drawl of troops from Brothers Compan extended several | includinz an increase in| agreement to improve and extension of the! te further the He azreed al- the e 1 hand Unoan leaders asserted at tonight's a closed shop is One hundred and fifty .universities|the paramount issue of the strike and have given their adherence An appeal has been drafted. It bears the signatures of three hun- dred statesmen, scholars, -artists and | writers who belong to thirty-two dif- | scheme. ferent countries. Portland, Me,, July expedition, will well as a graduate. The schooner will be built to with- stand the pressure of the ice floes and ! will have a crew of not more than ten will devote from two to three years in exploration work un- of the National Geo- men. The party der the auspices grauhic society. PENSION FUND AGENT FOR NEW HAVEN Hartford, Conn., July 21.—Col. Rob-} wasnd received a E. Fitzgerald New Haven informing him that Mi: Margaret E. Perry, the investigator of : cirv. 700 and 800 now out at the Underwood The polishers were the first to' vided only for persons disabled while veral days ago_and the platers at work, the house education commit- ert O. Eaton has Mayor Davi the charity board of consented to act as local agent of the widows' pension fund without increase ! quit in her compensation from year. large city'in the state that has not a Applications for relief are Eaton's local agent. coming into Colonel PROVIDE SMALL SCHOONER FOR ARCTIC EXPLORER 21.—Donald B. McMillan, leader of the Crocker Land be provided with ‘a small schooner with auxiliary power 10 be christened the Bowdoin when he leaves next Summer on his next Arctic exploration trip, according to plans of | the alumni of Bowdoin Millian is a member of the faculty as to college. that city, the New Britain is now the . only Mac- | letter | the | advised the Omsk. Monday, Jul; { egrauphic Agency). finarce annes headed by A of " about i ruble normal cents.) made in_territory f | mining indusi icial banks, ¢ jand Cossack During the = fo of | their benches ss ' bor union had shop. i ; jation from the city.|and adjusters followed. The demands|tee todiy un B S o e ey 0 whstarn, Modtana ‘and er sala; as investigator is - i wages and an assaze the measure, which wo e e 2 1 $1:200 & are for &n incrbase In’ wages Drovide fande for toiors] Co operation | Knights of Pythias opened here today | to. the United States | ceive about $ sembled and office say they can a week. ‘These for zemstvos and municipalities year, the ministry of finance rer | savings -bank hall > This make sa total of between;ing th eight hour day. workers to remain out ssuring them that they already had the strike won. RUSSIAN SAVI;GS DEPO:ITS SHOW BIG INCREASE | 7 (Russian Tel- The ministry of unced today that up to all-Russian government dmiral Kolchak had a various purposes a total 715,000,000 rubles. (The Iy is worth about 50 appropriations were reed from Bolsheviki, for tries, railroads, commer- o-operative organizations organizations. first five months of t?:ie T deposits increased 9. making total deposits of . ASSEMBLERS ! WANT MORE MONEY Hartford, Cenn., July 21.—About 200 loyed by the Under-, er compauy went on renoon, and after leaving marched to Central la- in the center of the| The assemblers re. 1.35 for each machine as- they want $1.50. They put up about 20 machines | : go; ‘ benefactors, . published today by the Temps in a This reparation, the, [ denburg Condensed Telegrams Fire badly damaged the western part of the F’ony l‘ven.w.:nh Prison, Kan- sas. . President Wilson declined an invita. tion to discuss the peace treaty in Chi- cago. President Wilson had a cruise on the Potomac River on ‘board the May- flower. S King and Queen of Belgium invited Pres.dent and Mme. Poincare to visit Belgium. % % Every engineer and his assistant in Chicago Fire Department went out on strike. 2 Italian dreadnought Conte di Cavour will visit -Boston and New York early | next morth S. J. Konenkamp, president of the Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America, resigned. Despite the rain large crowds visited the NC-i seaplane on exhibition in Central Park. Preparations for a_strong Allied at- | tack on Hungarian Soviet iroops were | reported being rushed. Twenty thousand hostages are re- ported to have been arrested in Petro- grad in the last three weeks. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, led a bucket brigade when a fire started in_his laboratory at Orange, N. J. Formcr German Crown Prince re- ported as saying he would .be willing to be tried by the United States only. Polish troops defeated the Bolsheviki on the front east of Pinsk, and captur- ed the important railroad center of Luninnetz. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig col- lapsed in London after the Victory parade. He was rushed to his home in a motor_car. & State prison farm at Bridgewater, Mass., is suffering from a shortage of prisoners to do the work and necessary help had to be hired. In a manifesto the German Majority Socialists announced they will take part in Socialist demonstrations against Versailles peace. Premier Nitti of Italy in a circular to municipal authorities, urged them to exert firmness in dealing with strik- ers who create disorder. Mrs. Herbert Hoover, and her son, Allan, will sail on the Imperator Tues- day from New York to join her hus- band, Herbert Hoover, in Paris. An airplane flight around the border ! Crashes Through Skylight i . <332 of Chicago Bank Building— | More Than a Score lnjured.l __Chicago, July 21—Ten persons were killed and twenty-five injured when a large dirigible balloon on its test flight caught fire and feil 500 feet, crashing through the glass roof of the TNItnois Trust and Savings Bank, § Jackson Boulevard and La Salle Street, at five o'clock this afternoon. Most of the dead were employes of the bank, trapped and burned to death in a fire caused by the explo- sion of the balloon’s gasoline tanks as they hit the floor.of the bank ro- tunda where more than two hundred bookkeepers and clerks, nearly all] girls, were working. 8 he balloon owned by the Gdod-! year Tire and Rubber Company. of ‘Akron, Ohio, had been flying above the | city for seversal hours when the ac-| cident occurred. When approximately 500 feet above the bank a spurt of flame was seen to shoot from the top of the gas bag near the center of the aireraft. The crowds gathered on the street wateh- ing the flight saw the machine buckle and cuiver as it started on its fatal plunge. Four of its occupants jumped and| two landed safely in the streets as the; blimp, a ball of flame, struck the vof | of the bank with a ecrash audible] throughout the downtown district. There was nothing to warn the 1 hundreds of employees of the instiu- { tion of the coming tragedy. A shadow | passed over the marble rotunda, where ! they were busy, and a crash followed. | The bank’s closing hours for patronage | had passed but the clerks were stilll at_work in various departments. Breaking through the iron supports holding the glass overhead, the fusi- lage of the balloon with two heavy ro- tary ' engines and several gasnunel tanks smashed to the floor. TEN PAGES—70 COLUMNS GAL PROHIBS. AGAIN VICTORIOUS IN HOUSE Prohibition Enforcement Bill, Drastic Provisions and All, Adopted Section By Section — Man’ Liquor at Home For Personal Use Withstands All At- tacks However—Amendment Limiting Private Posses- tion enforcement bill, drastic provis- ions and all, was adopted today sec- tion by section by the house, but & stood up against all attack final count, only three v make home possession of intoxicants | unlawful. After all perfecting amendments | had been adopted and others designed to make the bill less severe were | bowled over, an attempt was made to adjourn over night. This prevailed, but there was a demand for a roli call- and the prohibition forces piled into the chamber in sufficient num- bers to keep the house in session to- night for the tedious roll call vote on half a dozen amendments in dispute which had to be passed on before a vote was taken on the bill as a| whole. Demand for a formal reading of the engrossed bill which was not in shape | for that purpose, forced adjournment of the house tonight and -delayed its passage until tomorrow. The first fight of the day was over the section giving the courts the right to put under bond a person con- victed of violating the liquor law. This was stricken out by a vote of 53 to 66 after Representative Gard, democrat, Ohio, had pointed out that t | Mirsouri, man’s right to store liquor in his home intention to throw the searchlight on . On. the | American wine cellars, &es were | stocked with liquor recorded in favor of an amendment to|Senerations. vided sess more game,” bar. W Raker, an amendment to m have Chairman Volstead when members, amendment—Mr. Raker senttatives shaw, Georgia, list, Right to Store sion to Fifty Dollars Worth of Liquor Voted Down — Demand For Formal Reading of Engrossed Bill Forced Adjournment, delaying Passage Until Tuesday. Washington, July 21.—The prohibi- without. discussion. democrat, 6f announced his Representative Rubey. immediately be for pro- pos- of reported to ast t t worth likened ough to amendme: a person should than fifty dollar: iquor, which a meml ‘one white chip In a steamboat poker considering the high cost of he product in the closing days of the The house defeated this propo- His that a th _this out democrat, of the woy, Rep. Califarnia, offered ke it unlawful to own dwelling opposed it and called, only three crats, supported the and Repre- Texas, and Up- laker an evane liquor in one's the vote all dem Blanton, the This section was amended, howev. 80 as to provide that such liquor must be for personal owner of the dwelling or his family or bona fide guests. in by Representative Ste Pennsylvania, who might turn his dwelling into saloon. consumption by the This restriction, put e, democrat, at the man a was aimed of the United States for a distance of 7,805 miles will be started from Washington by Col. R. S. Hartz. Failure of the British Miners Feder- ation to approve Government proposal to increase the price of coal $1.50 a ton may result in serious industrious crisis. War Trade Board announced of individual licenses for export to Jugo-Slavia, Czecho-Slovakia, Finland, l.a‘;\ a, Lithuania, Esthonia and Pol- and. Four were killed and 10 are m g with property losses amounting to thousands from a cloudburst which swept over southeastern County, Ohio. Strike of telephone Youngstown, Ohio, operators accepted companies’ $3 a week increase and no discrimination against union. An expedition for the defense of the Northwestern frontiers of ~ China against General Seminoff's alleged as- gression there was reported to xgwe Representative Britten, lliinois, in- troduced a resolution to create a spe- cial national commiss’on to bring about a better understanding between em- ployer and employe. Bandits who attacked the Federal garrison at Potam, Sonora, killed 16 Government troops, according to Am- erican and British passengers arriv ing at Nogales, Tex. Liout. Col. Samuel T. Ansell, former Acting Judge Advocate General of the v, resigned. He said he w up his fight to correct court martial system. According to reports received from Laredo, Texas, Theodore Patterson, mine superintendent of the Mazapol Copper Co., at Conception de Oro, Mex- ico, was killed by bandits. He was a British subject. Senator Henrick, Wyoming, said a surance was given to him that the Ralroad Administration would furnisi all aid possible to cattle growers in the drought striken section of Wyeming, Montana and Idaho. Henri Rochette, banker and pro- moter, was sentenced to two years im- prisonment d a fine of $600 for swindling French investors of $2,000,- 900 through the sale of Mexican rail- road bonds in 1910. It is roported from Berne that the Dutch Prince Con Belmont operators in was settled when injustice in versation that Holland would refuse © kand him over to Germany if y_that country. _Franklin Bouilon, head of the For- eign Relations Committee of the declared Italy as never so hostile since the days of ‘respi. He urged immediate with. ume. NO MORE CONCESSIONS FOR MARINE STRIKERS New York, July 21.—With no sign n sight of a settlement of the ma- rine .workers" strike which has crip. pled coastwise trade, the situation be- ieame more acute today when .he ma- rin engineers definitely broke off ne- tions with the United States shipping board and the American Steamship Association. The American Steamship Associa- tion unanimously decided at a meet- ing late today to have no further iations with the strikers and to no more concs ions. D. Moor vice president of the as-| sociation —said that the organization | was solid’'y against the closed shop| principle. iaaian BERLIN PROTESETANTS .. ¢vin FMurcNZOLLERNS arss, J 21 (Havas) —A letter ad- dressed to ‘President Poincare by the Protestant community of Berlin ask- ing “democratic France to from France in 1685 by sparing their the Hohenzollerns,” is Berlin despatch. letter says. would be a way in which France might “testify her gratitude thousand French Huguenots who were sheltered by the electorate of Bran- isners of the letter ask Presi- are tc commuricate the re- the allies. NARROW SCOPE OF RE-EDUCATION BILL ington, July 21.-—After narrow- ope of the senate bill so that re-education would be pro- al Was vocation: unanimously recommended with the states. A contest on the floor to restore the senate provision for re- education of all persons crippled in in- dustry or otherwise was forecast. issue | keep | il sort who is traveling | n Switzerland, declared in private con- | Franklin | right its’ wrongs toward the Huguenots driven ! for the protection accorded the twenty | Instantly tks tanks exploded, scat- tering a wave of flaming gasoline over the workers for a radius of fifty feet. A panic ensued. There were only two exits from the wire cage and through them men and girls ~ with clothing flaming fought their way. Girls on the! second ficor ran screaming to the. i windows and several jumped to the street. In an instant the marble rotunda was cleared except for the dead whose bodies were buried under the mass of debris, and the dying, who crawled away from the scorching fire, their clothes burning off. The intense heat made rescue work cult and it was thirty minutes le- fore the bodies under the craft's fu- silage could be dragged out. They we=e burned beyond recognition. The cause of the fire which brought {the aming gas bag down is not de- i finitely known. None. of tie crew | could “ascribe .a definite reason. Two theories were offered. however. One was that a4 spark from the rotary motors set the xas afire. Tke other was that the Failoon was overcharged and the sun’s rays caured it to ex- pand and bucst, the fire foliowing the j contact of t with sparks in the . motors. i When Jack Bosttner, an employs of | the rubber c 1w aprd pilo the lcraft. saw the flicker of flame he shouted a warning to the other pas- sengers and jumped from -he tusil- age. All were protected by attached to their bodies b Henry Weaver and Harry | mechanicians, followed Baettner. £, {H. Norton, a photographer for a :morning newspaper, was the last to ileap. The fifth man, Earl H. Daven- !port, publicity agent for an amuse- iment park where the balloon has its i hangar, did. not get out. His body struck the roof the bank ‘and burned to a crisp. Wea- ver's parachute was ablaze and he ,was overtaken by the flaming balloon and carried down to death. | "Boettner and Wacker landed prac- tically unhurt. Norton suffered broken chgs and severe internal injuries. | The other dead were crushed and |burned in the rotunda of the bank. The central portion of the bank was iwrecked and it was an hour before the fire could be extinguished. parachutes beits] W acker, of |DEADLOCK IN RHODE | ISLAND TROLLEY STRIKE Providence, R. I, July 21.—Rhode 'sland’s street car situation tonight s apparently deadlocked, with no out- locksd; with no outlook for an early settlement. The receivers of the company today made the formal offer to pay max- | um of 55 cents an hour provided the 1917 agreeent as to working conditions | continue in effect, but the answer " |from the union submitted late this af | | | ternoon was a prompt refusal to con sider that figure. Union officials at once submitted a counter-proposal asking 60 cents an hour maximum wage which should be | granted with a condition that it be; I retroactive from June lst. Tonight the receivers replied. T |Jecting absolutely this offer, explain-| ing that the increased wage meant| $1,000,000 a_year additional operating| expense and stating that even if fares not be the ex- re- { were increased there would rsufficient revenue to meet pense. 3 |HARTFORD MAN DROWNS WHEN SKIFF UPSETS Hartford, Conn. July 21.—Oscar | Forselles of this city was drowned in !the Connecticut_river today _some- where between Middletown and Deep River. With two companions he left the latter place in a motor boat late last night. one of the two being Miss Augusta Olsen of this eity. According to information given since the fatality, the party engaged iin fishing along the way and at lhe; place where Forselles was drowned he | left the motor boat in a skiff to fish} !near shore. The skiff upset and he| | was drowned. REPOBT NEW CASES OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASE Hartford, Conn,, July 21.—New cases of communicable diseases reported to the state health department by med ical officers throughout the state du ing the past week were as follow: | Typhoid fever 11, diphtheria 20, scar- {1e% €-ve= 11, measles 28, and whooping eough 31, {COLORED KNIGHTS OF it provided double punishment for the poor man, who might be sent to jail. When the house reached section which contained the provision that it was not unlawful to- store liquor at home for personal u-e, first consid- eration was siven Chairman Volstead, of the judiciary committee, in charge of the bill., who had two amend- ments. These fixed the time for re- porting possession of intoxicants. In one which the house accepted, the time specified in the proclamation by the state department .as to the effec- tive date of constitutional prohibition —January 16, 1920—was accepted these including one by Igoe, democrat, i wine, which the bill had failed to d Representative Siegel, republican, New men dis: charged Several amendments were adopted Representative Missouri, making pro- on for the handling of sacramental York. put through one providing t arged from the military 1 naval service be given first call in ap~ pointing agents to enforce the law. An amendment make valid the by Mr. Igo would defense of a pers with violation of the ¥ bition law if he proved that liquor or beverage was not intoxi ing was defeated, 78 to 36. PRESIDENT WILSON NOT IN SERIOUS CONDITION aoors had not been postponed tonight, but at the White Holse it was con- president feeling ill' Friday when he went to the at Grayson diagnosed his ailment as acute dysentery and ordered him to bed. All appointments for today werc cancelled, and those who were to have called were asked to postpone their visits until tomorrow I ir. Hare was accompanied by F TELEPHONE COMPANIES WILL REINSTATE STRIKERS Washington, July 21.—Officials of Cleveland telephone companies in con- ference today with Chairman Koons of the Wire Control Board and a com- mijtee of the Cleveland city coun- cil agreed to reinstate employes who have been on strike and who have not been guilty of certain overt acts. 28,000 STEEL WORKERS VOTE ON GENERAL STRIKE Youngstown, O, July 21.—Twenty- eight thousand of the 30.000 steel workers of this district who are affil- | iated with the American Feddration of | Labor havk voted to the proposition of | a_general strike, according to union officials, who assert that a great ma- | jority of the men favor striking for | recognition of the union in all steel | weather enabled the forest fire fighters to gain on the blazes that have been | PYTHIAS IN CONVENTION ‘Waterbury, Conn.,, July 21.—The| with an aftendance of 200 officers and delegates. Mayor Sandland de- livered the address of welcome. Elec- tion of ofcers will be held tomorrow. destroying government, state and pri- vate timber in western Montana and forest service headquarters today. Wireless telephones were used today | The house of commons vote of 24 to 2. were cast by soci. MEXICAN SITUATION AROUSES U. S. OFFICIALS ‘Washington, July 21—President Wil-| Washington, July he Mexican son was in a weakened but nowise | situdtion occupied attention of serious condition tonight after:- having| both the leg: and executive &pent. the. day in ;bed with acute dys- |branches of the government today. entery. ‘Rear- Admiral, Cary T. Gray- | Tension which was evident at the son, his ‘personal physician. said the | State department-when first repor president had been in considerable | were received Saturday of the rol pain during the day and had been very | bing of sallors manning a small boat | “uncomfortable”. Admiral Grayson | from the American monitor Cheyenn. saild he would insist that Mr, Wiison|on the Tamesi river on July 16. w. remain in bed until he had complete- |relieved somewhat by a more deta 1y recovered. ed account of the incident received The president’s appointments for ! from Commander Finney of the crul tomorrow with the republican sen-|er Topeka, flagship of the Americii naval forces at Tampico, The report said the sailors, who sidered - extremely doubtful whethor | Were on official duty, were held up by Mr. Wilson would be able to keep|three men in civillan clothing, two of thota. whom carried rifles, and tha: when Nohe of those close to the president | informed of the incident, the Mexican would say _whether. his illness would | overnment authoriti at Timpico result in postponement of his trip|had expressed deep regret and prom- through ‘the west. ised to attempt to establish the iden:- The st complained of | ity of the thieves, It was added, how ever, hat up to the pres at- capitol to confer with Senator Hitch- (tempis had been fruitless. cock, of Nebraska, ranking democrat- | Before this despatch came, the ic member of the foreign relations|State department was advi om commitiee. He told Secretary Tu-|Tampico that on last Wednesda multy then he was slightly indispos- | bandits robbed the Atlantic Refining edand expressed his intention of zo-|Company’s oil loading station ai ing down the Potomac over the week | Puerio Lobos, near Tampico, of $10,- jend in belief that a change of air|000 which wis inlcnded for the com- might be beneficial.” During the trip, [Pany’s payroll. however, the weather was stormy and During the day Mumber of wen- damp and Hr. Wilson appears to have [2toFs and representatives called at contracted slight cold. When he|the state department to confer ywith returned this morning he was feeling | Henry P. Fletcher, the American am- worse and immediately upon arriving | Passadro to Mexico, while the senalo the White House Rear Admiral|foreign relations committee orders the resolution call favorably reported ing on the dep: nt for full information as to depredations agai American citizens and property in Mexico during rece On the senate floor vear Senator Fall, republican, New Mexico, reiterate | previous statements that among Mex- WILL DISPOSE OF icans killed by Amnirican fers i SURPLUS WAR MATERIALS | rcrulsing ra'ds across the er cur Washington, July 21.—C. W. Hare, [ing the past few months were offic director of sales of the war depart-|and men in uniforms of the Mexiean ment, accompanied by a staff of ex-|federal army. He read a telegram perts, sailed for Europe today on the|giving the names of some of the Car- Imperator to dispose of the surplus/| ranza officers and men killed by the stocks of war materials held there. | Americans. Kent, viee president of the Bankers| BERLIN CRITICISES DELAY | Trust Company, as financial adviser: L. L Harvey of Vermont, as legal IN RETURNING PRISONERE viser; J. B. Irvins. of Boston, textile| Berlin, July 21.—(By The A. P.)— expert and Henry Doerr. Jr. of Min. | Criticism of the de in returning neapolis, as an expert in the sale of|/Jerman prisoners of war was answer chemicals and medical supplies. Oth-|¢d today by the governmnt in a state- er experts may be added to the. staff|Ment that put the blame on the allies after Mr. Hare gets his work under| It Will be some time, the statemen: S says, before the prisoners will be re- More than fifteen hundred millions | Urned to their families. The reason dollare worth of Surplus property are| for this, it'is added, is that the peace to be disposed of by the director of| !érms stipulate 1 prisoners shall 3t be sent home as speedily as possible, but their return is to by a commission made lied and erman Members of be controlled up of both al- members. the German the delegation Versailles, statement contin have been ‘“waiting vainly for weeks for the entente to name its com- missioners. Germany can only beg the entente to hasten matters.” The pan-German papers have com- mented adversely on the situation, some of them declaring the govern- ment is weak and unable to force the issue. SWISS EXPERTS FAVOR THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS Geneva, July 21 (By the A. P.).—A committee of Swiss experts consider. ing the league of nations adon to- day a resolution favoring Switzer- land’s membership in the leazue bv a The two adyerse votes list memiers of the committee, which is composed of Do members of parliament and experts on international law. FIGHTERS GAIN ON SO e e WESTERN FOREST FIRES|that Switzerland would vote s Spokane, - Wash., July 21.—Cool!in favor of joininz the leaz plebiscite which will be held in September. PASS SECOND READING OF PEACE TREATY London. July 21.—(Ey The A. P.) tonizht unani- for the first time in directing the fire |mously passed the second reading of fighting operations. Sk the peace treaty.