Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 23, 1919, Page 1

i A VOL. LXI—NO. 174 0 KILLS GUARD Akntm‘A.-mBre-hOutln " Precautions of Civil and Military Authorities — Cavalry, “~* Marines, Infantry and Sailors Ready to Quell Outbreaks .! —Black Kills Guard Who Attempted to Search Him — Second Guard Fatally Wounded In Attempt to Auistl . Comrade—Two Negroes As He Was Leaving His Home. [ Washington, Jiy 22.—Race hatred in the national capital, engendered by at- tacks on white women by negroes and fanned by three successive nights of rioting, found expression again to- night in clashes between whites and blacks. A home defense zuard was shot and killed. a second guard fatal- 1y wounded and another white man slashed severely by a razor wielded by a negro. Al of the negro assail- ants escaped. The outbreaks, however, were spor- adis and confined to a single vicinity near Eighth and M streets, the center of the black district of the northwest section. This was due, in the opinon of the authorities, to the extraordin- ary precautions taken to prevent form- ation of mobs and to : gan early in the evening. Approximately 1,500 troops—cavalry infantry, marines and sailors—patroll- er the streets and awaited in re- serve for possible outbreaks, supple- menting regular and volunteer po- lice, Tonight's casualties brought the number ersulting from the rioting, which began Saturday night, to seven persons dead, 11 believed to be fa- tally wounded and scores injured, more or less seriously. The only fatal outpreak occurring tonight up to midnight resulted from the stopping of a negro by Isaac Halb- finger, a home guard. Halbfinger attempted to search the black, who drew a gun from his pocket and shot the guard through the heart. Another home. guard, like Halb- rain which be- | HOME N sueeuofvduhmzmaeqma Slash White Man With Razor finger, armed only with a riot stick, ran to his companion's assistance and also was shot. He died later. The negro escaped. Two negroes with a razor set upon a white man in the northwest section of the city as he was leaving his home and before he could escape siashed him severely. Negroes in several parts of the city were reported to have fired on pass- ing whites but in no other instances was anyone killed or_injured. OFFICIALS UNABLE TO CHECK CRIME WAVE ‘Washington. D. July 1 President \Vilson late today called | Secretary Baker to the White House |for a conference on steps that might be taken by the military in co-opera- tion with the civil authorities to pre- vent recurrence of the outbreaks. Resolutions introduced in_the house today ranged from that by Represent- ative Clark. democrat, Florida, charz- ing that the District government had “utterly failed” to put a stop to the crime wave that has swept the city for | a month, and calling for conzressional | {investigation, to those of Representa- tives Emerson, republican, Ohio, and Vaile, republican, Colorado, demanding that martial law be declared.. Even while the rioting was at its| height early today, reports of another | attack upon a white woman came.; Frightened away once, her assailant hid and seized her as she left her house. She escaped only when all but stripped of her clothing. SENATE DECLINES TO APPROVE APPOINTMENT Washington, July 22—An emphatic negative was returned by the senate foreign relations committee today to President Wilson's request that it ap- prove provisional appointment of an American representative on the inter- national reparations commission with- out .awaiting ratification of the peace treaty. While the president was renewing his talks with republican senators at the White House and the senate was beginning another day 0f speech- mi on the treaty, the committee adopted ‘a resolution deciaring - that no power exists” to excoute provi- sions of the treaty in advance of its ratification. £ The resolution was presented by Senator Knox, republican, Pennsylva- nia, and was substituted by an eight to seven vote for another expressing no opinion as to the president's pow- e rto act. Later, in the senate, Senator Moses of New Hampshire, a republican mem- ber of the committee, pointed out dur- ing an address opposing the treaty that the reparations commission would continue until 1951 and would exercise drastic powers. nection, Chairman Lodge that its powers even might extend to effecting acts of war against Germany In that con- | suggested | BEGINS FIGHT FOR . VOTE OF CONFIDENCE Paris, July 22—Premier Clemen- ceau’s fight for a vote of confidence opened 'this afternoon in the chamber of deputies with a statement by Deép- uty Francois-Fournier, who discussed the general policies of the government. M. Ciemenceau and all the ministers were on the government bench. The chamber was crowded. M. Francois-Fournier, opening _the debate, recalled the meeting on Fri- day when the vote on the food pelicy | showed the government to have a minority. He said M. Boret, food minister, who resigned, was abandon- ed by his colleagues, who left him to struggle alone bur that it was - the! gowemg?pv'i economic policy that led to M. Boret's resignation. He said the economic situation was serious and that the country considered the gov- ernment's announced progremme to be insufficient. After criticising in detail ‘the econ- omic policy of the government, M. Francois-Fournier took up the foreign policy. He advocated a more intimate falliance with Italy and concluded by asking the chamber to say if it en- dorsed the government's errors which he declared compromised the fruits of victory. M. Joseph J. B. E. food minister, in repl; Noulens, the new outlined the Chicago, July 22.—Only theories as to the cause of the explosion and de- struction by fire of the dirigible ma. chine resuiting in twelve deaths and injury to 28 other persons when the blazing. balloon plunged through the To0f of a bank yesterday, were elicited at the first ‘session of the coroners inquiry today. - At least four theories for the start of the fire were heard today: Pilot John Boettner, who -has been held in .custody. told the state's at- torney that spontaneous combustion probably was the cause.. ‘W. C. Young, chief of the ‘aeronau- tical forces of the Goodvear Tire and Rubber Company, owner of the dirig- ible, suggested- burning oil from the motor cylinders. Lieutenant Thomas - Atkinson, “pur- chasing agent for the Motor Trans- port Corps, U. S. A. was inclined to believe a leaky valve was responsible and that static electricity caused combustion. Montford Morrison, a member of the coroner's jury and a technical ex- pert, who examined the broken mo- tors, suggested that he found all ex- hausts open and that sparks there- from may have ignited the gas bag. Assistant State’s Attorney Lowry, asked the chief of police to take into custody two ufficials of the local of- fices of the Goodyear company for questioning. Their names were not divulged. The first session of the inquest was marked by the refusal of Pilot Boett- ner and his chief, Mr. Young, to tes- tify. Their refusal was on the ad- vice of counsel representing the com- pany. While the coroner’s double jury, composed of six business men and six technical experts, were hearing first testimony, the corporation counsel's office was engaged in drafting an or- dinance regulating fiving over the city The twelfth victim of the calamity. was Milton G. Norton, a photographer for a morning paper, who died today. His parachute ignited as he leaped from the machine’s gondola and he fell in the street. As death approach- ed he murmured that he hoped his camera and plates had not been dam- aged. DRASTIC PROHIBITION BILL IS PASSED ‘Washington, July 22.—By a vote of nearly three to one, the house, weary of talk on prohibition, today passed a bill for its enforcement, with pro- visions and penalties so drastic as to bring from the men who tnmed it the prediction that it would fore press the liquor. or. trafic on 4 democrats and: 48-<republical to suvport it. Against thi dred, the prohibitionist, putting up a| =olid front to the very last, polled 287 road smile spread over the faces of the prohibition leaders, for their work in the house was ended and the mcasure was ready for the senate, wheic many of its restrictions may be modined or stricken out. Icefore the house put the bill on its :gc one final but feeble hand was reached forth to strike it down and pat in its place a_briefer and more liberz1 measure. . This took the form of o three paragraph bill by Repre- _wheat was resumed € Exchange will mber delivery is re- pqwfl 1g_at 24 cents nt announced plans arranged to market surplus swock b phenol. irst_quarter of 1919 California pro- mamu)wonxmwy 24,000,000 barrels o - Bandits robbed the Atlantic Refin- ing Oil Co. at Puerto Lobus, Mex., of about_$10,000. Commonw.\ith Petroleum Corpora- tion of New xork increased its capital to $300,000,000. Indica’/>ns ih Washington peint to an early increase of from 10 to 12 Derl cent in freight rates. Restrictions upon importation of | cotton and cotton manufactures into Greece were removed. Bar silver was quoted at 54 1-4 pence an ounce in London. New York Qquoted silver at $1.03 3-4. London papers believe Premier Lioyd George will reduce his cabinet to its old number of twelve. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. showed net profit for 1918 of $29,020,000, com- pared with $17,838,000 in 1917. Newar® City Commission voted $100,000 to buy foodstuffs and cloth- ing from the War Department. Producticn of soft coal for week ended July 12 was 10,169,000 _ton; Hard ocoal .production was 1,874,000 tons. Announcement was made that the price of wire products was advanced $5 a ton by the Midvale Steeb & Or- dnance Co. Flaxseed production of Minnesot: South and North Dakota and Montan: show 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 bushels as a probability. Railroad Administration signed short line contracts with the Wabash, Ches- ter & Westeyn Railroad; Williamerte & Coast Railroad. Japanese army budget includes $175,000,000 to strengthen fortifications and build ‘new works. Also plans for more army divisions. Premier Lloyd George arnounced the House of Commons that three Yorkshire mines were flooded owing to a strike of pumpers. , Reports received in Berne state Americans were investing it coal re- gions of Silesia ath a view of pur- chasing part of the fields. Resignation of Colonel Samuel T. Ansell, former Acting Judge Advo- cate General of the Army, was ac- cepled by Secesfary Baker. rank Polk, Assistant Secretary of State, sailed for Brest, France, on the Imperator. He will head the Ameri- can peace delegation in France. Department of Agriculture declared the $3 a ton excess rate on fertilizer delivered west of the Apalachicola River in Florida was exorbitant, General rains have fallen in Canad- ian prairie provinces since Thursday Crops will be revived except in soutn- ern Allfrta, wheye they, were destroy- ed. Knights of Columbus will aid yeo- manettes, relief workers and women and girls who were released by the ‘War and Navy departments to find Jjobs. Belgaria ng to have prob- settled by the Peace e B S M. Francnis Fournier, Independent Socialist. filed in the Chamber of Deputies, a dmand for the interpella- tion of tne Goverument on ils general poliey. Declaring there was a movement on foot to depose the Government. tae President of Honduras, after a meet- ing of cougcil 1yinisters, dej:lared a state of war. British Mexican Petroleum Co. is reported to have filed articles of in- corporation in London on July 15. The new company will have a paid-up in- itial capital of £2.000,000. Italian Foreign Minister urged term- ination of Treaty of 1915, which gave Since Close of Diaz About 250 Attacks of Seri- In Mexico. Washhl((on, July 22. Although about fifty American citizens have been killed or outraged in Mexico since 1917, not a single arrest or con- viction is know to have resulted, Henry P. Fletcher, United States am- bassador to Mexico today told the house rules committee in a hearing on the Gould resolution proposing ap- apointment of congressional commit- tee to investigate relations between the twe countries. The ambassador also laid before the committee a report compiled by the state department in response to a senate resolution showing that since the close of the Diaz regime, about 250 attacks of a serious nature have been made on American citizens in Mexico. Relations . between the two coun- tries, however, Mr. Fletcher said, have improved during the last three vears. Although declining to express an opinion as to the policy, either past or future, of this country towards Mexico, the ambassador in effect op- posed suggestions advanced by mem- bers of the committee looking to with- drawal by the United States of recog- nition of the Carranza government. Such a step, he said, would only in- crease the existing unfriendly feeling of Mexicans towards Americans and ‘would not, unless accompanied by other action in the way of assistance, bring about the establishment of a more stable government in Mexico, but would add to the difficulties of that country. At present, Mr. Fletcher said. there were no no revolutionary leaders in Mexico with sufficient following to overthrow the existing government and set-up a stable gne. MEXICAN BANDITS KIDNAP AMERICAN: CITIZEN _Washington, July 22-=The kidnap- ping of Lawrence L. Shipley, an Am- erican citizezn, by Mexican bandits near Fresnillo, Mexico, last Saturday, was reported today to the state de- partment. Shipley is a native of Yer- ington, Nevada. The department had no other details on this latest attack on an American citizen in Mexico, but the official an- nouncement of the occurrence said an investigation had been ordered. DR. WU PAYS TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN MISSION Washington, July 22—Dr. Chao Chu Wu, one of the Chinese delegates to the peace conference, arrived in ‘Washington today to _discuss the ‘Shantung settlement with senators and omeu%a Reiterating that China 0 sulwnit - the - Shantung- question ~ to the League of Nations immediately upon its formation, Dr. Wu paid a tribute to the American mission to the peace conference, de- claring that the Chinese delegation deeply appreciated the work the mis- sion had done on behalf "of China. “China,” said Dr. Wu, “will not sign the peace treaty hecause she wants_to be free to take whatever action msy be necessary in. the future. The League of Nations undoubtedly will offer the best avenue to approach the situation.” Japan's promises in regard to Shantung were described by Dr. Wu as being “empty” of any real mean- ng. but which Germany agreed hefore- and should not be so considered. In a speech supporting the league, Senator McNary, Oregon, said he would oppose mendments which would send the covenant back for re- negotiation, though he could see no ob- jection to explanatory reservations de- signed t6 clarify its provisions. The league also was supported by Senators Johnson, Soth Dakota, and Beckham, Kentuc both democrat the former declaring his only objec- tion was that the covenant did not go far enough in forcing maintenance of peace and the latter urging that it at least must be given atrial and could be perfected later. The republicans who saw President Wilson during the day were Senators Edge, New Jersey; Calder, New York, and Cummins, Towa. The conferenc- es are understood to have followed the general lines of those of last week. LOWELL'S VIEWS ON SHANTUNG PROVISION New York, July 22—Dr. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard Univer- sity, declared in a statement to the executive committee of the League to Enforce Peace here today that the ob- jections to the peace treaty, based on the Shantung provision, “is a bugbear founded on insufficient knowledge of the facts.” “Germany cedes to Japan only the rights that she acquired from China by the treaty of March 6, 1898, he said. “This gives certain industrial concessions in regard to the railroads etc. in the province of Shantung, but the only territory ceded is a strip of land thirty miles wide around the Bay of Kiao-Chow, and this only by a lease for 99 years, China expressly retzining the sovereignty, though not exercising it during the period of the President Lowell declared that Am- erica’s acceptance of Article 10 of the League of Nations covenant, which| guarantees against external aggres- sion the territorial integrity and ex- isting political independence of all members of the league, does not guar- antee Japan's possession of the Chin- ese province. In ratifying the treaty, President Lowell asserted, the United States would do so on the assumption that Japan would carry out her obliga- tion to return the ceded territory to ment between the two countries. Ie Chipa in accordance with an agree- added that it would be wholly incon- sistent with such an agreement to as- sume an obligation to defend Japan- ese possession of the territory. PRESIDENT WILSON ON WAY TO RECOVERY Washington, July President Wilson, who was confined to his bed yesterday, was well on his way to re- covery tomight, even though he spent a busy day holding conferences with republican senators on peace treaty’ subjects and_with other officials. Ad- Grayson, the president’s cian, expressed the be- persenal phy. lief tonight that although Mr. Wilson would have to exercise care for several |days, owing to his weakened condition, ‘ma pomcarn nead be ek sovernment's economic policy. He told of measures taken' to increase the supply of wheat and sugar and as- serted the government could not be taxed with lack of foresight. In con- clusion, he said he would oppose food speculators inplacably and would prosecute all offenders. M. Clemental, minister of commerce, emphasized the necessity of main- taining control of wheat and sugat throughout the world and announced that the allied governments had de- ed to organize conferences, in which neutral nations should take part, to reach conclusions on the crit- ical ‘economic situation throughout the world and to submit these findings to all governments. VOTES CONFIDENCE IN CLEMENCEAU’S CABINET Paris, July 22—The chamber of deputies gave a vote of confidence in the cabinet of M. Clemenceau this af- ternoon a a vote of 272 against 181. M. Clemenceau’s = opponents were jubilant over the vote in the chamber, saying that it spelled the doom of the cabinet as at present constituted. Premier Clemenceau, on leaving the chamber, said: “This is a mere skir- mish. The real battle is coming.” The president was checred as he departed, many officers _surrounding him and, shouting “Vive Clemenceau!” and “Lohg live the father of victory!™ !HUB PUBLISHERS GRANT NEWS WRITERS' DEMANDS Boston, July 22.—The néwspaper publishers’ association agreed today to grant the demands of the News ‘Writers’ Union for a minimum wage scale of $45 per weeck for re-write men and copy readers, $38 for reporters and staff photographers, and $30 for district men. Members of the union| who receive more than the minimum wage will be given “proportionate in- {creases.” . The sca'e is retroactive to June 1. Members of the been emploved by for at least three to the new wage union who have a daily newspaper years are entitled scale. {BILL INCREASES INTERSTATE - COMMERCE COMMISSION ‘Washington, July 22—Increase of the membership of the Interstate Com- merce Commission would be necessary | under the proposed Isch-Pomerne bill for the regulation of railroads, Commissioner Clark told the house ninterstate commerce committee to- day in including his testimony. Three commissioners he said, should be as- signed soley to the supervision of cap- ital issues of carriers. ROCHESTER WOMAN SHOT THROUGH THE HEART | Rochester, N. Y., July 22.—The body {of a woman found vesterday under a compost heap in an old barn near identified today as that of + Nettie Costes, 36, of this city. An i autopsy showed she had been shotj through the heart. Miss Costes was last seen motoritg with Percy Rob- erts, 35. who disappeared Saturda A 22 ‘calibre rifle was found in his tunwbua. seriative Igoe, democrat, Missouri, in- trcduced some days ago, and offered today in the form of a motion to re- comiuit, which meant its substitution for the general enforcement measure. Mr. Igce's motion was defeated, 255 ©> 135. and this vote analyzed meant that at least 36 members who favored a niore liberal bill took the more dnastic_one later when there was no other choice. Among those voting against the bill were the following: Casey, Dewalt, Eagan, Lohergan, _McClennon, Mc- Lane,. Minahan, Steele, Bacharach, Burke, Edmonds, Freeman, Garland, Glynn. Lehlbach, Merritt, Moore, Mo- rin, Porter, Radcliffe, Ramsey, Re- ber, Vare and Watson. RED TERROR EXISTS IN BOLSHEVIST TROOPS Omsk, ‘Wednesday, July 95—"Red terror” exists no: only ' the cities and villages of Bolshevist Russia but even among the Bolshevist troops, ac- cording to data gathered by the intel- ligence service of the Siberian army. Battalions of Hungarians, Chinese, Letts and members of the Bolshevist party are placed behinde attacking regiments of the Red army, according to_the intelligence reports. Red army officers, it is said, are given the right to shoot without trial disobedient sol- diers. Uprisings in ccities and vil- lages are continuing and are being drastically suppressed by the Bolshev- ikl Huager is =ail *6 ve S cities and epidemics are reported teo be causing thousands of dea.ns uaii,, as there are no physicians or medicin- es. Cultivated acreage is estimated to have decreased to one fifth of normal and the peasants are refusing to sow crops since the Red army requisitions the produce. o ITALIAN STRIKE WAS A COMPLETE FAILURE Rome, Monday, July 21—Official reports reccived from all parts of Italy show that the proposed general strike called for today was a complete failure. Calm prevailed everywhere and the public services were all in normal operation. “The fiasco could not have been more complete”, says the Populo Ro- mano. “The anti-revolutionary at- titude of the country could not have been more determined. We must re- Jjoice in having thus proved the use- lessness of attempts to throw ltaly in- to chaos, ruin and starvation.” NEW HAVEN EMPLOYES GET DELAYED INCREASE New Haven, Conn, July. 22.—After a delay of two years caused by war conditions, the clerks of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road who were granted an increase of 40 cents a _day in 1917 are now to re- celve it. Payments by the railroad at the new rate began this week and af- fects seyeral thousands of empioyes in many classes of work. This action follows increases in tke pay of fire- men, engineers and brakemen a fort- night ago. Gatemen and switchme are also scheduled for more pay on the buu of an agreement reached in 1917. .a.hle action from the senate interstate preference to products imported from England and France over those im- ported from United States. The Rev. Mercer Johnston, of "alti- more has been awarded the War Cross for conspicuous bravery displayed at Mr. Johnston was ouispoken - acifist before the war. Council of Agriculture asked the Government to create simi- lar body to the United States Grain Corporation to manage distribution and exportation of 1919 crop. One man severaly injured and scores of passengers were shaken up when two cars of an eight-car south- bound Lexington Avenue expiess in the B. R. T. subway jumped the track. A resolution introduced by Repre- sentative Little, of Kansas, proposes that names of West Point graduates killed in the war be engraved on a bronze tablet to be placed at the Academy. ador Herz, a private banker and st hip ticket agent, was indicted onia charge of conspiracy with a number of other illegally to procure permits by which aliens could leave the country. LEGATION AT BRUSSELS RAISED TO EMBASSY ‘Washington, July 22 — President Wilson’s recommendation that _the American legation at Brussels, Bel- gium, be raised to the rank of an em- bassy was approved unanimously to- day by the senate foreign relations committee. In his letter to congress transmit- ting his recommendation, President ‘Wilson said: “You will no doubt have noticedl that France and Italy have recently taken this action, and it is authorita- tively announced that Spain and Bra- zil will follow their example. It would be, it seems to me, a very proper, thing at this time to show our deep interest, at the conclusion of the war, in the little nation in which so many of the causes of the war scemed to center and whose cause indeed will always seem one of the most striking evidences of the unscrupulous action of Germany. “HARD BOILED” SMITH'S wi WANTS DIVORCE San Diego, Cali July 22—Mrs. Marguerite Michel Smith filed in the superior court today a -petition asking for a divorce from Lieutenant I. H.| Smith, who was given the sobriquet| of “llard Boiléd” hy the men of the! American army. She alleged brutal treatmeni. Smith’s career as com- mander of prison camp No. 2 in France recently came in for consres- sional investigation. DEMANDS EARLY ACTION ON DAYLIGHT ACT ‘Washington, July 22.—In approving the agricultural appropriation bill to- @day without the rider repealing the daylight savings law, the senate agri- cuitural committee directed Chairman | Gronna to demand early and favor- | ‘Japan promises to restore political rights but re cconomic rights,” he said. “In China that means nothing. Look at South Manchuria. There tha Japanese have on.y e€coiomic rights, but everybody kno the Japaness are in ‘complete control economically, politically and every other way.” PROVIDES FINANCIAL HELP FOR EX-SERVICE MEN Hartford, Conn., July 22—State Treasurer G. Harold Gilpatric today authorized a statement that his de- | partment was prepared to advance the funds required by the act of the legis- laturs of 1919 providing for the finan- cial assistance of discharged soldiers, sailors and marines of this state. A question had been raised whether a special session of the legislature was needed to specifically pass an appro- priation bill to secure the funds need- Treasurer Gilpatric said: “The finances of this department are so arranged that the money for the ser- vice men will be available for distri- bution by their own organization the minute it is formed as required by the state and demand is made upon the board of control in the prescribed manner. There need be absolutely no doubt in the minds of the boys about getting the mone; It is anticipated that with the for- mation of & Connecticut branch of the American Legion in August that pro- vision will be made for securing the authorized money for the men who were in service. MILITARY POLICE PUT DOWN GERMAN STRIKE Coblenz, July 22 (By the A. P.).— American military police, armed with machine guns and sawed-off shotguns, put down a strike of German workmen yesterday in less than two hours after the men had walked out, merely by their presence in the district. The strike, azgregating 800 mans, was in Bendorf-on-Rhine. Ger- It general strike in Berlin and other parts of Germany, notwithstanding Wwarnings issued from American army headquarters. When word reached Coblenz thn the men had struck, 40 military police- men rushed to Bendorf and took ®p positions in various parts of the town. Almost as soon as the machine guns were in position t MOTHER AND DAUGHTER DIED FROM BURNS Jersey City, N. J., July 22.—With the door of their combined kitchen and bedroom securely fastened from the outside with a rope, Mrs. Mary Fleutuch and her eleven year old daughter were discovered in a dying condition today as a result of burns received in a fire of apparent incen- diary origin which - partly destroyed the little grocery store conducted by Mrs. Fleutuch. in this city. The mo- ther and daughter both died a few hours later at the city hospital, but not before Mrs. Fleutuch had regain- mmerce committee aon the separate ouse bill proposing repeal of the day t act. ed consciousness long enough to give the name of a neighbor who is al- l‘s‘d tn bhave threatened her life. was called in conjunction with the! strike leaders sent | PRICE TWO thing Is Done Quickly. Washington, July 22 —Municipal ownership of street railways today re- ceived for the first time the approval of a witness appearing before the Federal Electric _Railways _Commis- sion. Samuel R. Bertron of New York who said his banking firm had fir nanced about fifty street railway pro perties, declared his belief that trac- tion properties owned by a munici- pality would be operated efliciently and not be subjected to the political and other evils ordinarily ascribed to that form of management. Mr. Bertron agreed with Job_ E. Hedges, receiver for the New York Railways Company, and J. K. New- man, representing traction interests in New Orleans, St. Louis and other cities, who also were heard, that un- less something was done quickly, pre- ferably increases in rates for tem- MflfiImPAt OWNERSHIP - MIGHT SOLVE PROBLEM ous Nature Have Been!New York Banker Believes Traction Lines Owned By Muni- M On American szensl cipalities Could Be Operated Efficiently—Witness Before Federal Electric Railways Commission Has Financed Fifty Street Railway Properties In This Country—Rep- resentative of New Orleans Traction Interests Says Street Railways Will Be In Serious, Plight Unless Some- porary relief, the plight of the railways throughout the ci would be serious. R. . COMPANY REPLIES Beeckman replying to his reque today, matters causing a strike of the railway employes ready stated as their position gard to arbitration, that to fix wages, but that they had one else. FORD PAYS LITTLE ATTENTION TO INCOME Mount Clemens, Mich., July 22.— Henry Ford, after six days of hostile examination by Elliott G. Stevenson, counsel for the Chicago Daily Tri- bune in the $1,000,000 libel suit, ex- panded somewhat and appeared less nervous under the interrogation of his friend and personal attorney, Alfred Lucking ,today. Incidentally it became known that Mr. Ford has not ceased his efforts to promote world peace. Edwin J. Pipp, manager of a new bureau established by -Mr. Ford at the beginning of the suit, announced it was planned to send a newspaper correspondent with Pr. ident Wilson' to report the latter speeches in support of the League of Nations, which, Mr. Ford testified last week he believes will assure unive, al amity. The bureau will distribue the correspondent’s stories to a list'of pa- pers which have been taking the re- port of his news on the present suit. It appeared that Mr. Ford pays li tle attention to his income. 'He w building the . great Ford hospital in | Detroit when the United States enter- ed the war, and it is now operated by the government as General Hospital Number 36. “What did the hospital cost you?" dsked Mr. Lucki “I do not know. [Z5i:988L 8 copliple: §C. mllfonp apy- moré.nnn that-I think; three or four millions perhaps,” said Mr. Ford. - He established a refuge for Belgians in’ England in 1914 and still maintain it, but said he did not know exactly what it was costing him. In the course of the examination Lucking received quite many don’t knows” apd .“I don't remem- bers” as had Mr. Stevenson. Mr. Ford was admittedly eager to get away, for there is an immediate vaca- tion_in prospect for him with Thom. A. Edison and John Burroughs, th naturalist, as_companions. “Now Mr. Ford, are you an anar- chist?” queried the lawyer. don’t think so; no sir, T am not “Have you ever been affiliated with any anarchistic society or encouggged anarchy “I have not.” FOUR ARMIES ARE FIGHTING BOLSHEVISTS Omsk, Wednesday, July 9—Four armies of Admiral Kolchak's All-Rus- sian government are fighting the Bol- shevists on four fronts that extend for 7,500 miles, the general staff an- nounced today. These fronts are the eastern, south- ern, northwestern and northern fronts. The eastern front stretches from the mouth of the Pechora river to the Caspian Sea and along it are troops of the Siberian army and all Cossacks except those under General Denikine. The southern front reaches from the Caspian Sea to the Dnieper river, where the volunteer army, the Don and Tersk Cossacks and mountaineers of the Caucacus are fighting under General Denikine. Along the north- western front, running from south of Pskoy to Petrorad, Russi. and Es- thonian troops are grouped. On the northern front, the mouth of the Pechora river, the army is commanded by General Mul- ler. ORDERS HELLO GIRLS | BACK TO WORK Cleveland, Ohio, July Telephone | operators who have been on strike here for the past ten days were or- dered back today by Julia O'Connor, national president of the Telephone Operators’ Union, in a_telegram from ‘Washington to Rose Sullivan, -inter- national organizer, in charge of the strike here. Acceptance of the strike settlement obtained by members of the Cleveland city council in Washington yesterds and return to work at once was ad vised in the telegram. A meeting of ! the strikers will be heid Thursday night for a vote on the question of returning to work. PUL'FING CEASES IN WORKSHIRE COAL MINES London, July 22—A despatch to the Even'ng News from Bradford, York- y2ars that vent in heen stopped. The correspondent adds that the | defiance of the miners' federation by [ Heri ert Smith, president of the York- shire Miners" association, in declaring that the miners would fight to a finish, ciented a eensation in Bradford. The desypote hadds that a long struggle is | feared. ation the mines UKRAINIAN REDS CAPTURE ANOTHER TOWN Ukrainian Red troops nave captured Konstantinograd, 40 miies south of Poltava, and that the Poles occupied Tarnaggh Jgnday. from Onezhsk Lake to| chire. loday announced that pumping | won'd cease in the remainder of the | } Yorksivre. coal mines this afternoon. Ttis would be the first time in 45 ‘ Tondon, July 22 —-A wirele, patch received from Mosco Tuesday, says a Bolshevik wireless | message received there asserts that ANOTHER VERSION OF THE “BETRAYAL” New York, July 22.—Anothes prisoners of war who arrived yesterday from France are being held at Hoboken pend ceipt of orders from Washing sioned officer, formerly attached staff. According to this and were housed listed men at _fleld Wearing German” uniforms, the; to mingle with prisoners captu the Americans awaiting tion to with these prisoners form American officers formation obtained from examination correct. This non-commissioned office wished his name withheld, distinctly remembered one which Scholz showed the Amer German officer had “I remember it particularly, punishment we gave the said. “It was a German malo; dresced as a Heutenant discove; major had lied. were able them if tiiey lied they would be shot, we In this case the major was up out of bed and taken before ican officers. were led into the same room after the major had. been accu ped from his uniform while th. ates looked on and he was sent cage for enlisted men for the The next day he was detailed enlisted man, for the around headquarters. “We had to be careful that activities should not be. discov the Germans. 1In one instan had a man in the cages, and t ture of his work was discovel the other prisoners. before daylight with hands. We never left cage after dark their Scholz do they oner now. is going to 1 do know cret service agent; mans here. Scholz tim again expressed a fear tl not live long after neace. BREWERS’ RIGHT TO MAKE 2 3-4 PER CENT. Washington, July 22.—The q of the right of brewers to manu beer containing 2 3-4 per cent. cohol reached the supreem cour through appeals filed by ment from federal court Baltimore quashing and t he indic company under the food control 1917. Because of the importance question in connection with t forcement of the wartime act, ment to ask that the case be dited. Unless this were done cision probably would not be down until after prohibition b: stitutional amendment became tive. REFUSED WAGE EMPLOYES WIILL § Southington, Conn,, mands of a 30 per cent the als here were made on Company offic today. requests were not granted from efforts of lLear stock from running at BILL WOULD DEPORT large. to submit to arbitration thest receivers, were appointed by the court STORY sion of how the American army aided by the two mysterious German send them to the national capital, obtained tonight from a non-commis= “non-com,” two prisoners, who were brought here under the names of Alfred Scholz and Alvin Grothe, received a sum of mon- ey from the United States government and fed with the ens headquarter: whether said case office Some German privates dirtiest decrees July 2 increa: wages and an eight hour working day Blakeslee Forging strest ountry TO BEECKMAN’S REQUEST Providence, R. 1, July 22.—Receiv- ers of the Rhode Island company to- night sent’ a letter to Governor st late the street The contents of the lener ‘were not announced but the receivers have al- in re- the no au- thority to delegate that power to any- r ver- was here and who now ing re- ton to was to the intelligence branch of the field army the Y used red by transportas the rear and after conversing to in- in- under rr who he n icans @ lied to them for the " he Schold red the You- know we- used to threaten the officers and men that though ould not carry out our threat. hauled Amer- Then used of ilying, his insignia of rank was strip e priv to the night like an jobs holz's ed by . We he na- red by They killed him bare in a “I have no idea of what either pris- in this ci are desperately afraid of being killed by German se- or by othe ountry r Ger- time would BEER uestion, facture of al- t today the goverd- in tmente brought against the Standard Brewirg act of of the he en= prohibition court officials expect the govern= y effec- INCREASE; TRIKE —De- in in be-s half of the 150 workers employ: m;x‘ The an. the that a emploYes’ committee announced strike would® come tomorrow night. The company as a large contract fér a Bristol plant to fulfill If the Blakeslee hands go out virtually every shop in Southington will be closed by strikes. CONSTAELE AND FARMER DIE IN PISTOL DUEL Lexington, Ky, July —Willlam | Lear. constable "of the Yates magis- terial district, and amuel Hill 5 farmer, were killed in a pistol duel which toek place between the two men at car Wallow, M ison coun- ty, tods Hill while lying on thae ground mortally wounded, fired the shot which resulted in the death of Lear several hours later. Hill died almost instantly. The tragedy is said to have resulted to keep HIill OVER 500 ENEMY ALIENS Washington, July 22.—Deportation of 512 enemy aliens for violations of various war statutes is proposed in a bill unanimously revorted today hy the house immigration committee The aliens are now interned at Fort Ogletnorpe, ( and Fort Dougla¥ Utah. They would be permitted hear- ings by the department of justice be- fore deportation