Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 1, 1919, Page 1

5 = House Committee _In Postai Tel. Rates imposed their own prices at'the public markets yesterday, and unserup- lous persons seized the op] ity to Sub-Canimiftee | Tseatiga: help themselves to goods without pay- tures. 4 ing for them. The horses were taken out of a truck gardener's cart and the Washington, July 31—Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the demo- contents of the vehicle seized. Pick- pockets were busy in the crowds dur- cratic national committee, called *be- fore the house sub-committee investi- ing the excitement. BRITISH COMMERCE MENACED gating aircraft expenditures Yo testify under oath why he had permitted the BY INDUSTRIAL REST publicity bureau of his organization to VOL. LXI—NO. 182 ! T0 ACTION BY INCREASING COST OF LI | Government Machinery Has Been Set In Motion In Response to Demands From the Public—President Wilson Giving Thoughtful Consideration to Statement That Prices Would Have to Come Down Or Wages Go Up—In- vestigations During the War Disclosed That Profiteering Was At a Minimum In the Retail Trades — Exorbitant " ON THE VERSAILLES TREAT! Alien Property Section Is Said to Close the Door of Legal A peal Even to American Citizens Who Were Minority Stockholders In German Concerns Taken Over By the Government—Seven Republican Senators Are Creati a Middle Ground In An Effort to Secure Acceptance By the Senate of the League of Nations. POPULATION 29,919 THE —G-dmdensed Telegrams Acrial taxi service from Newport to New London is planned. Drought in Gentral lllincis has been broken by fall of an inch or more of rain. War Department announces France will not permit removal of American soldier dead. American owners reported to be pre- paring to reopen Guanajuato silver mines in Mexico. g United Shoe Machinery of America declared to have acquired domination of British shoe industry. Cable from London says that 3,057, 812 British officers and men bav been discharged or demobilized. Chief Moran of Secret Service says counterfeiting has been resumed to an unusual degree in last few months. German Government established new department in effort to make wireless When Government Relin- quished Control Last Mid- New York, July 13.—When control of the telegraph systems of the coun- try is formally relinquished by the government_at midnight, a_ reduction of 20 per cent. in rates wiil be made immediately on the lines of the Pox- tal company, but the Western Union will retain. the schedule put into ef London, July 31.—(By The A. P)— The general industrial unrest in Great Britain, which has been seething ever since the armistice, seems at the present hour to have reached a point which menaces the commerce of the country with at least tempo: dis- et It is c:hnll:erodwnd?um m!;: ?;.ndp‘aflproposed commlu:': trip to Tl e o schatulg into oI~ | cheaper than cable communication. - iy i 3 t may mean the do o | the Pacific coast as a “junket took |fect after Postmaster General Burle- i i yashington, July 31—Develop- speech-making on the tre in Profits Were Being Made By Manufacturers and Whole- | Lioya George government. full responsibility for the statement|son took control on April 1. T ar o i T et | ments shaped up today for & sharper | senate and Prosidcnt Wil The strikes of the past month have|and declared it was not a circum-| Clarence H. Mackay, president off3fe Petiyioning Gowernment for Sub-|gchnition of the senate salers. 3 been serious enough, but they are|stance to what would come later. the Postal, announced in a statement| gy ®] Jui Peo RorRe 2 IR QNI by the league of nations and the treaty the protocol agrecd to merely swmptomatic of an epidemic| From the moment he entered the|inte today that the rate reduction |y 3", Sl on laras of cotton balloon | Shantung agreement, while another |mwics Cullainng aduitional e Wasbington, July 31.—Goverrment-) In response to questions, Mr. Palmer| of dissatisfaction which appears tolcommittee room and introduced him-|would be made “in accordance with! 26 & M) 0% +ares of COBOR T OO (ng hitherto obscure section of the ments upon Gevmany. The preside 2l machinery was set in motion *oda; ’admi([ed that there was no law by | prevail throughout:the ranks of érgan-| self to .the members demanding the|its promise to the public.” He quali-|“g? g £'¢ POiIA00e, 08 T O0E | Vorsailies treaty relating to alien also was told by two more republic in response to demands from thelwhich prices could be lowered direct- | ized labor.- Half a million Lancashire| explanation until he went away Mr.|fied the announcement, hOWEVEr. DY |fgoct tomorrow ihe order Docritting the | ~nemy property was brought under [at the White liouse that reser > public tha: some official action be|ly, but he declined to say whether new | cotton operatives were idie for more| Cummings continually was smiling, | saying that if expenses continued to| (868 TOMOTFOR the QrOSr DOrm BIAE THe | 4re in the foreign relations commit- | would Be necessary the league i takes to relieve the high cost of liv-|legislation was needed to enable the| than three weeks. Two hundred thous- | while Chairman Frear pounded the | mount, charges might have to go with o = tee. be ratified. ing. department -to punish men who may | and Yorkshire miners have been on|table with great heat and stopped the | them. T reign Affairs Committee of Bel-| To the league controversy seven re-| Of the day's developm ¢ P'rices. as they affect the average|be guilly of profiteering. strike since July 20. The Liverpool| proceedings to have . certain replies| Newcomb Carlton, president of the Foreign Aftairs Committee of Bel i, . 0 cenators, all friendly to the agreement of ihe seven repu citizen, assumed first place in inter-| ‘There is a Sreat +leal of good law| dockers have paralyzed shipping there| stricken from the record. With mock | Western Union, who also has been in guemo“ o me‘ 3 bl peaca | treaty, added a new feature by agree- |atracted perhaps the widest | at the capitol. ¥ severa et the capitai. At - the White on the statute books.” the attorney for two weeks, holding up hundreds of courtesy Mr. Cummings. turning to charge of the cable systems controlled treaty. ing to a. definite group of reservations touse President Wilson was said to|general declared. ships of all sizes. The bakers have{ the chairman and addressing him as|by the government since last Decem- whoze wording they hope will furnish|ators of that party who € be giving “deep and very thoughtful ‘When a course of action is decided | decided to strike on Saturday, and now| ‘my .5ood fellow,” said that he knew | ber, declared on the other hand: “We tino Galv bel, nting a middle ground attracting enough | the league accepted ave bee k consideration” to problems presented |upon, the federal trade commission is| the London police are about to. go out|befere he arrived that he would be|cannot see our way clear to do better C‘r"z :ndfl'aa?;: x}.ff.f i u?el Mmembers of both parties to insure the | ing a reservation programme d to him and the railroad administra- | understood to be ready to supply the| on their second strike. unable to satisfy the republicans.|than we are doing at this time.” u: xuca, Ieai1is'a atcoptancn by the senste to further protect nutional ir tion by members of the railroad brotherhootls, who represented that prices would have to come down or most_extensive collection of industrial information ever gathered by any government. Prcduction cost figures The worst movement of all from the government standpoint is the threat of “direct action” by the triple alli- ance of railwaymen, miners and tran: There were one or two sharp retorts from Chairman Frear, to one of which the witness, lighting a cigar from an- other and still smiling, declared “My, Neither would discuss the possibil- ity of a long continued “rate war. PERSHING MAKING LAST TOUR of the East.” French Under Secretary of State timates amount involved in purchase of American army supplies by France at Regarding Shantung, it became known that in the very near future a declaration throwing light on Japan's | intentions is, definitely counted on by | without weakening covenant. The was a group of lating to the po s vita result fo wers o magesgoup it cocial unrest was not|have been obtained by the commission | ance of ra mer A e Dt iy e about $260.00,000. i : to devciop into upheaval. In U E > 56,000,000, | port workers. = These powe; nions ? ,00,000. . L : R e e s Dects 070 na house. the situation mave s | op0 e R eon an S oo ot | Sre taking & secret. ballot cto ecide| At the outset Mr. Cummings told the| GERMAN OCCUPIED TERRITORY | National Soldier Settlement Art, car- | administration | senators, =~ At may|f&roce G0 the Momor oo to several resolutions to investigate|its activities during the war in advis-| whether they shall use th& weapon|committee that while he had not read| Paris, July 31—(By The A. P.)|Iving an appropriation of $300,000,000 |5 "% ¢ “rrom the White House. |and the right of withdrava the cause of existing price Jevels, an- | ing the Sovernment what prices to| Of & general strike to try to enforce|the particular article to which the re- | Prior to his departure for Coblenz to-|Was reported to House by Public|!n§ that, trom the White Fousee . |08 B0 CERC 20 WIS, oo their political programme of the na- publicans” took offense. he quite ap- night, where tomorrow he is to begin Lands Committee. into question for the first time, was thece reservations in=the uther to reduce tie volume of cur- for the milllons of dollars of fency in circulation as a means of | purchaces made by it. For this rea- | tionalization of mines and railways,| Proved it, except that it was not vig- valedictory” tour of German oc-| North Dakota State Supreme Court|g i lared by republican semators at a|as agreed on were Senutors M Gefiating prices, one ‘o request the|son, it is believed the commission is|and to end conscription, ‘and with-|Orous enough. It was during this|cupled terri%gy, first visiting the|handed down decision holding that | Seciared by FOPMBNICEP SERaters OO, %8 BACC, Op R T it o attorney general to stop speculation in|ready to urge that further investiga-| drawal from all participation in Rus-|duestioning that Chairman Frear told|American troops and then the Irench|bone dry law was not legally passed|q uon OO0 Ccoect the acts of A.|foreign relations commit N x BB 5 ctdhahgrs, Sud AROtHCE o] oy y B Sebr T b e an e siah nfraire: the stenographer not to permit certain |and EBritish zones, General Pershing, | by the Legislature, ! .| Mitchell Palmer as alicn enemy prop- | Oregon; Cummins, Towa; Col sell this year's wheat crop at market|by resolutions pending in In these circumstances words . of|Statements to remain in the record. to|the American commander-in-chiet,| Aurora, Elgin & Chicago electric| . /7™ iodian, closing the door of |Island; Leuroot, Wisconsin prices instead of at the government the difference to be made congress. would only muddle the situation, causing the loss of valuable time and revolution and Bolshevism crop up in the newspapers and are used by con- which the witness replied that in a court of justice he would have more this afternoon received the American newspaper correspondents in his Paris line completely tied up yesterday by a walkout of motormen, conductors, line- legal’ appeal even to American citi- zens who were minority stockholders Minnesota, and though the exte encer, to they W nt uarantee. up by the government. the waste of the money involved. servative men to dese¥ibe the present|Tights. What the chairman wanted to|home. men and shopmen. aken over by the|be bound by their cement wa Late today Attorney General Pal-|' 'Tre commitsions . inveatigatiops| movement. Some of the newspapers| know especially was the basis for the| General Pershing talked with the| British and American business men |t GEXTER, “ONEREN® UHED O yllnicet | revened, 1t was deciared i mer met cight high sovernment offi- | quring the war, a1l of which deal only| are asking where _ ey comes| charge that the sub-committee was | correspondents on various subjeéts—|in Liverpool are offering from $250 to | RPNEIMENG, FUbd, ("o iaing that |ized fully that they might hold ib cials whom he had summoned to his|with the most authoritative informa- | from to finance all anda be-| “smelling committee” and that it soon |the American dead buried in France |$500 premium for steamship tiekets to| A % Mtion shail be raised as to the | balance of pow i office for a discussion of high costs|tion derived from the books of com- | ing put forth. = - was to start on a “junket.” Finally.|against the removal of which he said | the United States. S ettty St & tranefor of any prop- |vote and thus.cut b it and the best methods to pursue to ef- | panies involved, are vaid to have| The government Tegards the police| after a sharp wrangle Mr. Cummings|he would advise; the preparations| On ground that airplanes disturb his | ctE0 00 P 5 FOON G o oretradical: Guslifieatio < fect a reduction. After a general talk. | shown that profiteering was at a| Strike as the most dangerous feature|Sald that as he understood it the com- |that are being made for the American | fowls and livestock, a farmer at Kan- | “F, 0 "0y inere was more | prevent unreserved ratificatio lasting nearly three hours, the con- ference disbanded to meet again. pro- bably next week, for further counsel based on additional information to be minimum in the retail trades, most of | the exorbitant profits which are be- ing made going to the manufacturers and wholesalers. As a remedy. the of the prevaili t. It may prove a critical test labor campaign. The home secretary, E. Shortt, has declared that the government is firm mittee contemplated a western trip to look into spruce conditions relating to aviation, when all of this had been zone over by Charles E. Hughes. “There have been other inquiries.’ troops’ to leave Friewy, and concern- ing the relcase of the 48,000 German prisoners held by the American army. After his_reception of the corres- sas City has brought suit to determine ownership of air above his farm. James Stewart, of Winnipeg, will be made chairman of the Government | WAS ENGINEER BRICKLEY ASLEEP AT HIS POST? RACE RIOTIN CHICAGO LESS VI G IN OLENT @ i s : : i nder. : i riewed | Grain Board, A = reiarics Glass, Fouston, Hedfield and | o aoine ma tatesotate hasiness the | have the status of anm ordinary labor|Subject has been canvassed until it is|(alion which represented the Ameri- tor Kozakiewitch, a representa- | moneC noratng o 2how that iienry|and bloodshed had abated tc A o Director General Hines, | ooatera. to be agmiied firse 1o~ Those | union. ; ; threadbare. Moreover. the taking ub|can expeditionary force in Paris in|tive of the Ukrainian Government, ar- | momies i ree Tmedon, sagineer of|ter st davs and n of rio Chairm:n Murdock of the federal Where the mulcting of the pub| Lord Askwith—formerly Sir George Of & subject of this character by a|ipe Bastile Day parade and in Londond rived on the Hellig Olav from Copen- | {he New York. New Haven and Hart-|but violence continued to occur s trude commission; Assistant Secre- |lic has been most flagrant. 4 Ranken Askwith—who has had more| SOMMittee which T submit is mot|,; the Victory Day celebration. hagen. He is on his way to Washing- | ford westbound freight train which | adically, notwithstanding orce of the Treasury Leflingwell, and experience than any man in Lngland| {riendly to the administration, and not| In declaring that he did not favor | ton. e with mmother froight near East| 6,500 state troops and thou tary W. B. Colver, commission 1t geveioped today of the federal trade that demands WASHINGTON MEAT DEALERS AVERAGE 100 PER CENT. PROFIT in settling labor disputes — has de- nounced the premier bitterly as re- sponsible for the present conditions in a position to give an unhiased re- port, is a waste of time and public money and, in ordinary political par- lance, a junket. the removal of the American dead burfed in France, General Pershing said he was arranging for a confer- Department of Commerce offi say the Government is making ever effort to bring about trade relations Portchester, N. Y., early today, was asleep at his post in the electric lo- comotive, was given in the borough policemen Wre South Side negro quar Three negroes on active duty died 5r morc wages werc pending before| Washington, July 31—Figures show-| by his policy of ‘political Interference | 2 chce with American artists Wwith a|between the United States and Sic i wounds, inaking the official corre e railroad administration frem sev- | ing that retail meat dealers in Wash-| in industrial business. ts. apqit fair to this committee when 1t|view to making plans for the beautifi- | beri Si-| coulrt, here tonight when an Inquest|death list 82, of whom eighteen crui hundred thousand employes. Per- | ington are averaging 100 per cént| .Lord Askwith, who has been chief| S Sraened (o fnakte he D t0 qa cation of permanent eemeteries -and | Striking miners in Yorkshire district | oner Phelan of Bridgeport. A. H. Mon- | negroes. Only one of the w liaps thc frankest talk which govern- | profit on all sales of meat cited tgdlay | industrial commissioner _ since 1911, [IUIFSETT Chairman Wrear asked. . |the 'erection’ of monuments to the|of England refuse fo return to work in | gard, conductor of am extra freight,|Shot today, though o dozen or m micnt officials have heard in a long | before a senate District of Coligubia| says: “The premier has impressed| .. iy portecs folly to Spend Smoney on | American soldiers. The commander-|spite of scttlement reached between | testified that he passed the train which |members of both races were wour me in this connection, in the |sub-committce investigating = ving| every trade, sometimes ‘the employers, in-chigf spoke with some emphasis, |Lloyd George and the Miners' Fed- | Brickley was running. a few minutes|in the scattered disturl m e e :tatement of W. G. Lee. president of the tminmen, before the wage adjust- costs in the District. E. A. Calvin, representing the cot- more often the employed, with the be- ‘lief that they only had to push hard a trip of this character when you ought really to send public account- ants; and when there are sa many saying. he felt that as themen had fought and died in France they should eration. Congressman Gould, testifying before House before the accident.oceurred and that Brickley was leaning against the side of them of a m white men atta downtown district char: ton nin, cked and severely int board. Mr. Tee told ihe board ton states official advisory marketing| enough to receive their dernAnds from : lic in France. He'sajd he believed the Committee, said Carran ntly asl That wn increase in wages was not the [ hoard, iold the committee that while,| the bottomless purse af ‘the mation.” | of"y BPPIoms, InCnaing (oo BIEH €oSt | iiranch felt the same as he did, and | Government was placed in powdr by | Jo 5 Buskbes ot Statmford, w algnal|& negro who was on his wiy h ploper solution of the present eco-| on July 1, retail dealers in Washing-| The taxpayers are footing the indi- ican. organization” the|that the presence of the™ “American|less than 2 per cent of ibpuhumn off man, and O. F. Dorward of South|from work. The police rescued nomic hardships under which worke. imsmen are laboring, because they would be followed by new increases in the cost of everything which would more than absorb the additional pa Until ali classes get together to stop ton, according to figures ment of agricilture, were paying from 18 to 19 cents a pound for dressed beef, they were disposing of the entire carcuss at an average price of not less than 40 cents a pound. The whtness s ‘the-miners’ strike, afl the workers thrown out of employment through the coal shortage getting the ‘unemployed dole,” which, in the case of men with families, amounts to more than two pounds a week, and the num- | witness went on, “has indul in plenty of slander directed at thp pres- idént of the United States 'ani vou should be sportsmen enough t6 stand mild criticism. This isn't a marker to what's coming. |year there would be oflicial represen- jlation at Memorial Day_ celebrations. dead in theif scf would always be a reminder of how the two nations had fought together. He added that each General Pershing ‘said the task of Mexico. Brussels Le Soir announces that the | hundred million_dollar loan arranged by the Belgian Government with Am- erican banks will be made through the United_States Government. Norwalk, signal _supervisor, testified that the crossing and danger signals east of the scene of the wreck were all set properly. W. H. Deleert of Larch- mont, N. Y., foreman of engines, said that after the accident he found the There b trol wagon. by troops who streets- last den on the req son. negro, and he was sent night home in Y ordered or May ue > “profiteering.” he sald, the only thing | said the same profits were being made| ber of these in the industrial towns|' “If you do. there will be an investi- | assembling the American dead in na-| The Peace Gonvention i valv and power on in the| The negro area was comparatively for everyone to do is to get all the | today £ | of the Midlands is steadily . increas-| gation bt the house.: the chairagn In | tional cemeteries. was prosressing ra?|of Columbus a tthe Hotel Simioe Bmis | vineced homomotive, Other testimony | auiet tonight. The bresenc wages he can, a course which he de-| The butcher or retail dealer, 8aid| ing. L # terrupte pidly and satisfactorily, notwithstand- | falo, on August 5 to 7, will be address- | was given to show that there was no|troops apparently had calmed clared would result eventually in pre- | Mr. Calvin, when selling at 100 per; Direct action by the workers is de-| “[iner the witness replied. “I have|ing the difficulties encountered. ed by Assistant Secretary of the Navy | mist to obscrure the view of the en-|8roes’ fears, and had had a salu Cipitating the “upheaval’ now staring| cent. profit, adds more to tha cost of | nounced by many public men as an| quite enioyed myselt {his evenings With ‘regard to preparations for|Roosevelt and Secretary of War Baker. | gineer and the train was going about|effect on disturing clements amc the country in the face. the meat to the consumer than the| attempt to usurp the powers of parlia- | ' In commending the public service of | leaving France, General Pershing American and British delegates may | twenty miles an hour. Coroner Phelan|both whites and blacks As a step toward breaking the| combined profits taken by the farmer,| ment and govern the country by a dic- | Mr, Hughes, who conducted the air-|said the service of supply was rapidly | quit Federation of Trade Unions con. | will continue {he hearing tomorrow,| Were well distributed and high prices, plans are being made by | the livestock dealer, and the packer| tatorship of labor unions. Labor's| craft inquiry, Mr. Cummings said the|cleaning up everywhere. and could be|vention in Amsterdam, unless rules of | Leonard H. White and John J. Brazz,|Machinery was runnine I'ostmaster General| with transportation and storage| answer is that the present parliament leaders | ready on ten days’ notice to turn ev- | representation which give ihem comes| conducior and flagman of the traii| « Food supplies were rushed into tr Secretary Baker, Durleson and Representative Kelly of Pennsylvania, to sell through the par- cel post surpius army food stocks val- charges included. And he asks that profit, said Mr. Calvin, for “simply cutting the meat and handing it over does not represent the country and has gone back on its pledzes to labor. Minister of Pensions Hodge said in difference between republican in conzress and the president was that the president had selected fdr the while the other was a purely political erything over to, the French. Of the American_forces remaining in France, General Pershing said about 325 offi- bined only nine out of 27 votes ar changed. i that was struck, are expected to testi- fy. Tt is said that Brazz flagged the oncoming train but his warning was negro sections wholesale groce lice and the t by spera roops ued at $124,000.560. the counter to vou, assuming no risk| parliament tonigh wihle the other was a purely political | cers, largely reserves, were on duty remained a barred zone where Officials who attended the attorney | whatever.” t looks as il we are approaching| investization. » > witih the Hoover commission, engaged | FARMS FOR EX-SOLDIERS, e wreck cost two lives, Brickley | might mot enter and even the seneral’s conference declined to dis-| The witness also cited beef quota-|a general election. Representative Magee, republican. of | in reiief work. Most of these officers SAILORS AND MARINES| and Charles BE. Rust, an instructor en- | trucks of groceries were driven or 3 : B Philadelphia; Piti v g s S cuss what took place. Mr. Palmer | tions at Boston, iladelphia; Pitts-| Premier Lloyd George's famous poli-| New York. asked Mr. Cummings for |would remain in civilian capacities| Washington, Juls e et gineer, of New Haven, being burned|to the “dead line” by white ch; statea that the conference was call- | burgh and other large cities. showing| cy of compromise, so long successful,|a yes or no answer bearing on the war | when demobilized. conducteds throushoue tho ”m"fl“h'_““ to death when the wreckage . caught|Who then were relieved by negro driv ed chiefly for the purpose of making | that although the price of dressed heef| appears to have reached the break- | investigation and the resultant sale of| It was his opinion, General Pershine | developed that there is a Wide gonc| fire from the fallen electric = twires. | ers under police escort a survey of the situation, developing | to the retailer declined on an avewage| ing point, and certainly is undergoing|army food. {@eclared, that the 45,000 Germdn pris leral interest in Socretary Lanss sen. | Bight freight cars were smashed and| Many of the poorer ne ere re any information on which the head of | of 25 per cent. at those points from | its severest test. ~No soner is one| “Why, that's a trick auestion” the|oners held by the American army|ject to furnish farme 1o discharecd| traffic on the system both east and|ported in dire need of 2 wi e matlon's liw euforcement machi- | July 1 to July 15, there was an aver: | eruption cleared up. than . new one|witness replied. ‘1ts like Askine 5 |might be relcased ns soom a3 the Ger:|1ossiels. [urnish farms to discharged | traffic on the systom both east and| Bore mds. roiiy wa : s might act to curb profitcering. | age decrease of only eight per cent.| breaks out. The old leaders of labor,|man if he has quit beating his wife.” | man peace treaty is ratified by three|ing to 4 report submitted by the oee. | hours. Passenger trains were moving |the stock vards but negroes fe 1 t seems to be a universal pastime, | in the price to th econsumer. = men of the type of J. H. Thomas, who| “Strike that out,” Mr. Magee shout- [of the great powers. He did Not be- | regary fo both houses of consress . | On two tracks this afternoon and it|80 there to draw their wug putting this thing up to the attorney| ~“These figures clearly show,” inter-| has just returned from America; Will- | ed, and it was stricken out. lieve it would be necessary to await|' Accompanying the semert mhioi was expected that the other two tracks|ands of negroes have not attempte general” Mr. Palmer said smilingly.| jected Senator Capper of Kansas, a|iam Adamson spokesman of the labor| Chairman Frear contended that the | ratification of the treaty by the Unit- | addressed to the Sneahoe of tha hones| would be cleared some. time tonight.|to go to work all week Sven the sovernors have taken to| member of the committee, “that the| party in the house of commons; John|democrats were making a concerted|ed States senate. ey \he speaker of the house e s atoond e e e blaming this Gepartment for existing | retailer, or the man who is selling over | Hodge and Will Thorne, are preaching | attempt to Aisoredit the Inquiry, while S a T 150 extracts from representative loro | WHY SHOES ARE TO tnvalved any corsiderable numbe struction from the war is being ar-|publicans in control of congress were | SALE OF 100 STEAMSHIPS st et SLRSE R Ol BRING HIGHER PRICES | earch of four negroes who b ranged, and are warning the working- | trying to ctiticize every single act of BUILT ON GREAT LAKES| W8 Investigations made among| poston, July 31.—Shoes sold next|in the stock yards were driver b INDICTED FOR FORGERY SALE OF COCA COLA men that Great Britain's future is Im-| the administration during the war.| Washington, July 31.—One hundred | stances that from tweaty te Tforty iap|Spring will bring even higher prices|militiamen with lowered bayvo IN THE SECOND DEGREE COMPANY FOR $25,600.030 | perilied unless she can regain her for-| The committee chairman brought out | steamships built on the Great Lakes|oent. of varions commonde sonty, P€T|than those now prevailing, but relief | ter the whites had demanded ¢ 3 Atlanta, Ga. July 31—Salc f the| SEn trade. Mr. Thomas has held upl|that prior to 1896 the witness was a| during the war have been sold by the | jeme (of (yALIOUS S 42T 30X~ Imay be expected late in 1920, acuord- | biacks be delivered to them. No eas New York, July 31—Denald Ham- | Sllaws, Sao (00 0r Atianta 10| Lhe picture of American competition| republican. He told how he and Mr.| shipping board to the Anderson Over- | famiy te foeciyitage of an oppor- | fzY 10 o™ Ciitement issued foday by |ualtics resulte mond, son of Proféssor W. A. Ham- | co0% coO%, oo °$25.000.000 be. | and American enterprise. Magee and Representative Lee, demo- | seas Corporation of New York for ap- | homes. I ene. diision "ohs Of farm |ine National Boot and Shoe Manu-| About 400 white men beat o mond. dean of Cornell university, was| "o %00 L S oS (0 the final| , But the old leaders seem to have|crat. of California, members 'of the | proximately $80,000,000. -This is prob- | nomes; 17 one division alone more|gyciyrers Assoclation. The cause of |three negroes severely at Forty-se indicted here today on a charge of | FRUNC, WO e’ dependent upon re- | ot their influence. A new and young- | committee. had protested against he- | ably the largest ship sale on record,|ir ohomocUsand men expressed |pign prices was said to be the deple- | enth street and Vincennes forgery in the second degree. New York | °F Set. a majority of them outspoken|inz forced to-travel to the Pacific|the board said in announcing the deal| '@ gipbcisonal interest in the plan. |iioh.o¢ stocks under war time condi-|afternoon. The other two. | The indictment alleges that July 3, Jiammend _stole an envelope addmess- ed to Bradford Ncrman, Jr. from the Harvare club. The envelope contain- ports of auditors for the capitalists confirming statements as to the earnings and financial status of the company. The sale includes the name, trade- socialists, some of workingmen, but are in the saddle. them not even socialistic theorists coast next month. Mr. Frear said he had been to the coast over every rail- road, so the trip was no “junket” for him. There was great need, Chairman tonight, and the vessels will eventual- 1y pass into French and Italian own- ership. Delivery of the ships will com- Secretary Lane had been asked by committees of congress what evi- dence there was that the soldiers, sail- ors and marines were interested in the plan before congress for provid ns, the prosperity of the public and European competition. The statement said present prices were excessive and condemned “buy escaped No whites firing wounded AGAINST POLICE FORCE ed a check for $2,000, upon which, it - - meiice 3 ), ant proce al h . e b of speculative character. The pac - - v ¥ such realty as is actually used by it in 5 lons _ of | pleted, Chairman Hurley said. As the : - Y e L bouo | stored, it said. “if jmanutacturers and| Jersey City, N. J. Ju M Ao e hetR. other complaints | the distribution and sale of the pro-| Bluefleld. W. Va. July 31—A re-|dollars’ worth of gevernment property. (Suie is mode op n. partial payment |many army offcers ranking avove|mlrClintssenerally follow the dic | Hague today ordered Lave Been received tgainst Hammond, | duct (n various eities. It does not Tent send troops. Into. the Fiat Top| Chamberlatn: of Oreson, enclosing pie. | Lo (he Poard wili keep o measure | partment of interior was urging con- | tates of common Lense but all pur-| of Public Safety O'Ericn Iy &l from frie. ds, aceording to|include, it was satd, bottling rights,| } b ;Dic-lot control to assure provision of in- | et TP g S arEINg Con-|chases far in advance of actual needs,| out” a movement on foot t AAiilant District Attorney Pllatoky: | nor varions bulldings owned by Asa G.| Mountains near here to reseue his|(res of lumber engines Iving in diteh- | surance protection and freefam from i %or the developmens ot ahhon fga[OF Duying in quantities in excess of [ ize the city's police dep risirict Attorney Swann said Ham- | Candler in New York and other cities.| [0UFIeSR, Vear o e By A B0l o et for ‘& moment - the witneas € |liens. The ships range from 3300 10|hy soldiers and sailors, adding tna:|those needed for seasonable goods| affiliation with the Amc n e mond enlisted in the British army in| Principal stockholders are Mr. Cand- | 3 5600 PAnd of outlaws and army de- |\ f 7| 3600 deadweizht tons draft. an impression had been spread ibrod | MUSt Stop.” tion of Labor .Any patrolmar September. 1914, and sailed with the | ler, his five sons and daughter. Iden-| SSCSTR WO RO FIATMS 15 being held|TRavie, o o paraly worth sending this| i Hurley made the announcement|ihai" e men would mot care (5 o ng the movement is to be suspend irSt Cammdian contingent. At Ypres| tity of the purchasers was mot an-| Prlsoner by them, was made —today| A% Srehiroly worth scRfins fhlslconcerning the sale a few minutes) 2%, 0N, O WOWE ot care 10 20 pppE KILLED IN A according to the mayor's orc ho was wounded several fimes by |nounced today, but the transaction| (prolER the Tluefields army tfeerufting| CTaly 0 "5ich ‘to be understood as | Defore he left ‘his office as chairman |of the army officers whether It was GRADE CROSSING ASSIDENT| If the members of the police de machine gun bullets. After his re-| was made through the Guaranty| g l5 Y = AMP | geprecating Investigation of any war|OL the shipping board for the 1ast|.qyisable for the government to pre-! Provid R, B Juiy SV ana] Bertment were to be affliated .w Jease from the hospital, Mr. Swann|Trust Company and Chase Nationall “'SFC. 110 Farley, alleged leader|activitles. 2 time. Tomorrow he returns to privAte(yids such farm hemes for returmas| Mo oo ety 31 Mr. and| tho American Federation of I S Hammond sailed for this coun- | Bank, both of New York. Many years| . Manderville Farley, alleged lead Mr. Magee wanted ‘to know if Mr. |life. leaving for his farm in Ilinois, | e Su¢h farm bomes for retutniigi Mrs. sbott: X | would mean that the membe > iry without getting a discharge. He|ago, it is understood, Mr. Candier paid| gegerced from Camp Lee; Va. was shot| Cummings, as chairman of the demo- | His successor as chairman has not|replies he received, Secretary Lane | mese et e o oy aanington| be “srerving two master t soon retired to Engind and was com- | $500 for the Coca Cola formula and é E - GEREiE irsaiveation, fearcd P ' been announced but it is believed = aciiane | were insta ed by & New | mayor, “In the event of | : ir forces and went to Frasce. : . Bite the’ contrary. my dear sir.~|Bation as a member of the board was = e | DR R oF Having | to ofs *n"951% Hammond came here again, | DRUG ADDICTION 18 e e e ey eoeD | piied. 1 Jook Torwara Sith syeat | [avorably reported to the senate to-i PMiom tne nundreds of replies re. | 110 0, machine rolled” on to the | ibor. to whose rul 4 AN AMERICAN DISEASE Dleasure io these. investigations.” The | day. will be appotated: cofiiom the hundreds of replies re-| tracks directly ahead.of the train| subject, and At the rame. tim according to Mr. Swann, and until his arrest has been living at expensive hotels. 40 VILLA FOLLOWERS KILLED New York, July 31.—Drug addiction “is essentially an American disease prompted by strenuous living.” de- clared Health Commissioner Copeland despite his wounds. Abshire, in making the request for troops, suggested that the war de- partment approve the use of soldiers now stationed at Camp Lee for the ex- leaders of the renublican narty are doing us a great service. But I think you are on the wrong track. and that's why you have my svmpathy. T am in RUSSIAN GENERAL DENIKINE GAINS IMPORTANT VICTORY taken ‘and are here appended which give their purport. There have been but two replies which condemncd the plan. All the other replies hav> becn which was bound to Providence from Willimantic. Abbott's Crossing where the acci- dent occurred, has no gates but is equipped with' bells and electric light the people of they are emplo FIRE AT GOO [ yedn DYEAR RUBBER fh e favor of the republicans investigati London, July 31.—(By The A. «P,)|D®% 2 ) ARy AND ELE\{'E:I ::]Ar'n;nstn D e e e b | oo, grerything the democrats dil. T h:f'f General enikine, the Russian com- e oone jof Hherdivision] warning. L NACTORY (1 AT Galveston, Texas, July 31. — Forty | rezistrati b = eve vou mentlemen are actuated by |mander, has gained an important vic-{ro; -1 s & Naugatuck, Conn Tu T Vilia followers were killed and eleven | = qos po the bed or pently e tars| AN INCREASE IN PAY high motives, but the whole thing will | tory over the Bolsheviki and captured | Tceed (e, matier to a vote of his di- | pRECIOUS STONES TO THE Goodyear Metallic Kubber Shoe Cor tured yesterday in a fight between | ik drugs in necessary cases. This FOR WIRELESS OPERATORS| COme to naught.” the town of Kamashin, on the Volga.|ppiod O iod00 men siatloned on the VALUE OF $16,000 STOLEN | pany plant here wa 1 idits and federal troops near Las analysis shows that of a S'I'OHDAO! - New York, July 31.—Members of the ——— Five thousand Bolsheviki, nine guns that ".595 men expressed themselves Providence, R. I, July 31. — Dia-| destruction by fire k on the Durango-Chihuahua| 00 representative addicts, ~ virtually | United Radio Association, whicn ins| /NQUIRY INTO NAVY and large quantities of material Were| 39 personally Interested in it. Colonel | monds, pearls, sapphires and other| flames swept ihe “he om"” e e oy oo shn: | S fobirthy of the total registration, | ciudes more than 500 wireless opera- DEPT'S WAR EXPENSES|also Nen. & s announcement. the|L: H: Adams found 245 men In his| preciols stones, valued at more than| factory, Firemen ke g « 3 = 3 are “natives of the United States.”|tors employed on steamships, who did| Washington, July 31.—Inquiry into 4 regiment who were anxious to become| $16,000 were stolen from Norman Hall,| § Faigrdlegan sul said an official report received by war office says that possession of identifie@ with this develpment work.| the summer home of C. Dia Lihme of damage: by fire and > him stated the federals had surround- ed Las Vegas in the hope of captur- ing Francisco Villa, but if Villa was in the town he made his escape. NO DECISION REACHED ON Of this 1,000. there are 75 negroc: and two members of the “red race, while the vellow race is not repre- sented, due, Dr. Copeland asserted, “to the fact that Chinese smoke. opium, which is smuggled into this country.” Grouped by occupations, laborers not participate in the recent seamen's strike which tied up shipping along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, but wha presented demands for wa=ze in- creases, today were granted an addi-|Haskell. of New York. who anncunced tional $15 a month With §5 @& Gu’ Lurt subsistence. Dy the American Steam- the navy' department’s war expenscs will be made by the standing house committee on the department’s cxpen- ditures headed by Representative today that the committee planned to hold" hearings during the house re- Kamishin gives General Denikine a fitmer hold on the river and his main objective in the advance on Saratolv threatening the Bolshevik communi- cations with Astrakhan. Kamishin was entered by the anti- Bolshevik troops on July 30, and the Colonel Peyton found in 206 men of the 6lst Infantry 98 men who either wanted to know more of the plan or who wished to try it. Brigadier Gen- eral Poore reports that in his brigade out of 7,0#0 men. 1,000 expressed in- New York, at Watch Hill, Tuesday, it was learned tonight. Although Mr. Lihme and his family were at home all day, the robbery was not discovered until yesterday morn- ing. The police, at Mr. Lihme's re- The cause wa ble. RESUMPTION was any ‘estimate of OF STREET CAR TRAFFIC IN CHICAGO lead with 130 registrants, - 3 g . s 3 ; i BULGARIAN BOUNDARIES ot ith 130 registrante, closely fal- :yl:ipchA.:fif‘tl:ml‘sind’li::aai Swsionis L e :fi?;:xhx:::y "waz “pureued " twelve :e:n in lhe:]cx,n c g::l::vi“é(.epl the affair secret until last Cieago, July 1 s - | drivers. ; grants senior operators $125 a month . OBITUARY. LEAF TOBACCO HELD — affic Saturday morn C Paris, July 31—The supreme coun: RS e FARITE ESaEtundey mornins ol discussed the Bulgarian boundar- ies again today But reached no decis- jon. The aiscussion will be resumed FOR THE CREATION OF A NATIONAL BUDGET SYSTEM and subsistence, and junior operators subsistence and $100 a month. Frederick Shettleworth. Portland, Conn., July 31.—Frederick Spettiowarth, who in récent years had = UNITED CIGAR_STORES ARE TO CLOSE SUNDAYS BY THE MANUFACTURERS ‘Washington, held by manufacturers July 31.—Leaf tobacco and dealers FAMOUS MARINE BRIGAGE Washington, July 31.—High praise assured tonigh from union lea: headquarters of t, accorai ders which cam W. D. M tomorrow. Washington, July 31—Speaker Gil-| OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN I8 n in busimess at Peekskill N. Y.| New York, July 31.—The hundreds|July 1 was 1,400.963,523 pounds, com- | for the battle performance of the Sec. | national nresident of The 1 received a report from[lett was authorized in a resolution GROWING WEAKER HOURLY | and had come hem to visit his par:|of United Cigar Stores throughout the |pared with 1,386.049.368 pounds a year | ond Division, of which the famous ma- | Bmployes’ orean zition. A A the milltary commission at Versailles| passed today by the house to apnoini| New York, July 31-—Oscar Hammer-|ents, died “today_from blood poison: | couniry will be ciosed in- future on|ugo, the census burcau announced to- | rine brigade Was @ part s ‘containea | who addresucd mortines of the situation at Danzig and Me- a committee Of seven republicans und' stein, grand opera producer, who has|ing due to infectlon from a boil. A | Sundays, according to an announce- | day. i nan order published by Lieutenant| men this afternoon and tonizhi, « It was decided to send no|five democrats to recommend lezisla- been critically ill here for several days|short while ago he was elected vice ment made today at _the =eneral offices Chewing, smoking, snuff and export| General Liggett, commanding the| pressed confidence tha the 16,000 troops to Danzig. and the Memel re- tion for ‘the creation of a naicnil tonight was growing weaker hourly,|president of the Hagger & Powell In-|of the ebmpan: heTe. The only ex-|types totaled 1.012,255.690 pounds: Third _American. Army, of which the| strikers would vote tomorrow |t port was referred to the Baltic com- budget system. The committes must but his physicians said they thought|s=urance Company of Peekskil Mr. | coptions will be stores at Coney Isl- Jgar types 323,531,216, and imported| Second Division, now en route home,! cept the terms offercd by the com 5 R BT - . he would live throughout the night. Shettleworth was born here in 1880, ! and and Atlantic City. types’ 63,176,917, - S S 7" was'a part. . panies. 5