Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 3, 1919, Page 1

Balletin VOL. LXI—NO. 210 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, BER 3, 1919 < 10 PAGES—76 COLS. 7PRICE TWO CENTS A FAR-REACHING RAILROAD BILL BEFOR Provides For Return of Roads eration Under Government Control—Would Prohibit Strikes and Lockouts of portation Board, a Committee On Wages and Working Conditions and an Advisory Employes’ Council—Bill Created By a Bi-Partisan Interstate Commerce Sub-Com- mittee. Wa. ngton, Sept. 2.—The senate oday received and disc or sev- outlining a permanent evolved by a bi- commerce sub- hours a bil road policy as the features of be known Senator Cum- lowa, having acted on the sub-committee, are termination of govern- the railroads. their re- ownership and opera- fede control and gional systems. strikes and loc The measure con- - fundamentals of the "lumb plan Chairma explained th in presenting provisions at Senators Robinson, mins Pomerene, Ohio, demo- he of sub- the arafting E THE SENATE to Private Ownership and Op- Employes—Calls For a Trans- ] proposal to penalize strikes and lock- outs, declaring the plan, although novel, was necessary to protect the public. The employes, the three sena- tors explained, are protected under the bill by a provision that their wages siali be fixed by government agencies. The bill, Senator Cummins told the senate. represents months of consider- ation by the sub-committee. Its key- note, he asserted, is the plan to ter- minate government control and, with oncentration of the nation's railroads into 20 to 35 regional systems. pro- vide for strict government supervision of virtually all railway affairs. Among the new agencies the bill proposes are a railway transportation roard. largely to supervise railroad operations: a committee on wages and working conditions, and an employes' advisory council. The interstate com- merce commission also would be siven greatly increased powers and repre- sentation on all railroad directorates of empioves and the government wouid be required. HEARING OF SENATE COAL INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE Wes a Sept. 2 —Representa- L N 0al association eir te ¥ today before c ivestigating commit- reiterated that the threat- shortage this winter was shortage of railroad representatives of the rail- told the comm e equipment was it of the unusual railroads during would transport ail winter. Director ed appear week ice president association, de- o zeneral in- mines during which could not be ex- >y increased demand and de- supply d chiefly by a He explained that ot he scarcity of cars that in ases the employers. being un- hold men through periods of re naving bonuses to get needed ghuysen, republican; New id the committee he wou a number of complaints bou which had reached him - call on wholesale and retail ahan. traffic chief of the iat presented several e ms which he said shortage in practically - s coal district, with ¢ creasing shortage from 0 week. Hundreds of cars . siag and other refuse, M ahar ded. were permitted to weeks at me on sidings. McManamy, assistant director . ons of the railroad adminis- or the number of cars now was due largely to the emands that had been made o pmen: during the war, but re- July. Prospects were good for early explained, although repair delayed two weeks in August A. G. Guthein of the car service sec- on of the Iroad administration, fier asserting that the rallroads would transport the coal required his winter, suzgested as recovered entirely from the war, that coal operators estore their pools at tidewater and the resume wartime demurrage and nsportation more exten- he railroads 6000 WOMEN'S TAILORS IN NEW YORK TO GO ON STRIKE New York. Sept. 2—Six thousand women s tailors. most of whom are employed in h and Madison avenue shope here %0 on strike tomorrow or Thursiar to enforce their demands for union shope, a 44-hour week and a minimum wage of $50, it was an- . by Samuel Lefkovits. esident of the local branch of the International .Lad Garment gt The tailors are now required 10 work 4% hours a week. he a minimum wage scale 500 to 700 shops will be stril LEXINGTON. KY. MAN CELEBRATED 131ST BIRTHDAY Ky. Sept. probabiy the worid, prepared today 131st birthday tomorrow = for a life Insurance agent never can tell what'll happen sonny.” he told the agent. “And 1 want to prepare for the worst.” The agent looked over his rate card found that his card covered onl the first ears of a man’s life. The agen: is now busy with his headquar- to learn if he can insure STATE LEGISLATURE OF 1919 COST $199,558.94 Sept. 2.—The cost e state of the legislature of 1313 has been determined by Comptroiler Morris C. Webster to have been $139,- 538.94. Warrants drawn upon omptroller show unusually heav payments thus far this vear, disburse- ments of the state for the past nine montas a total of $10,204,- Among the new items of ex- s aggregating $166.- nd wounded soldiers services where sol- for died BOLSHEVIKI CAPTURE OUTER FORTIFICATIONS OF DUNSK Lendon, Sept. 2.—The Bolshevik forces have captured the outer for- tifications of Dvinsk (Dunaburg). ac- cording to a Russian Bolshevik com- munication received here. Dvinsk lfe: on the right bank of the Duna, where It i= rrossed bv the rallway from Pe- trograd to Warsaw. . ] | they WAR DEPARTMENT IS AWAITING OFFICIAL REPORT Sept. await_an_official from Major General Dickman, mander of the scuthern department. | Secretary Baker said today before | considering the cuestion of whether | some action shall be taken against !the Mexicans who fired on_an Ame can army airplane on the Rio Grande, wounding one officer. T'ntil some re- | pert was received Mr. Baker declined | to speculate on what line the depart- 2.—Phe war de- report com- Washington, | partment winl ment's action might take. In military circles, the firing upon the army vers was considered far more serious than the recent deten- tion of two other aviators for ransom. All army machines are plainly marked it was said, and the press reports from the border would indicate that Captain McNabb's airplane was either on the American side or was following the river—the international boundary at this point. In either case it should have been immune from hostile at- tack The fact that press despatches re- ferred to repeated “volieys” from the Mexican side was also considered sig- nifieant as indicating that the assail- arts were under some sort of military command. 4 Reports persist here that General Dickman has authority to meet such situations. without waiting on kis su- periors, by sending a column across to capture or scatter the ofiending band and to clean up the district in which committed the objectionable uc- tion. It would not come as a surprise to many officers if tomorrow’s des- patches related to a southward move by_cavairy. Both aviators belonged to B ight, ighth Aero Squadron, Captain Mc- commanding the flight. The unit was transferred to Laredo from Keily Field. San Antonio. several weeks ago when other units were sent to various army posts along the bor- der for patrol duty. The attack on the aviators took place shortly after § a. m .about six- teen miles from Laredo. near the of the Santa Isabel Creek the airplane was flving low, hugging the American side of the Rio Grande. There was no warning from the at- tackers who appeared suddenly on the Mexican bank and fired several vol- ieve at the plane before it could get out of range. According to first re- ports the aviators estimated there were twenty-five men in the attacking group. Landing immediately in a_ field on the Texas side. Captain McNabb was taken to a farm house and aid was summoned from Fort McIntosh hos- pital, a physician making the trip with surgical supplies in an airplane. was not serious he was removed to When it was found McNabb's wound the post hospital. Unconfirmed reports tonight that Mexican soldiers may have partici- pated in the attack coupled with Col. onel Buck's statement that an outpost of Carranza soldiers had been sta- tioned at the point where the shooting. took place, caused Laredo to throb with excitement in expectation of some action by the American forces though there was no indication that any was forthcoming. U. S. AVIATOR SLIGHTLY WOUNDED BY MEXICANS ! Laredo, Texas. Sent. Fired upon from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, _Captain David W. McNabb, United States aviation corps, was slightly wounded today while on ac- ial patrol duty along the internation- \l_boundary northwest of here. With Lieutenant Von De B. John- son. Captain McNabb was ving siow- I¥ up the river close to the water when suddenly a group of Mexicans fired a volley of shots at the airplane, wounding McNabb near the ear. Sev- cral shots pierced the plane's winge. Colonel Beaumont B. Buck. com- mander of the Laredo district with headquarters at Fort McIntosh here. aid tonight all that is known of the attack is that the firing was from a point where an outpost of Mexican faderal soldiers was known to be lo- cated. WOMAN LEAPED FROM A FIFTH STORY WINDOW New York, Sept. 2—After reading the first letter she had received from Germany in five vears which stated that six of her relatives had been kill- ed in the war, Stella Farrar, 50 vears old, leaped from a fifth story window of an East 75th Street apartment to- night. She was instantly killed. RUMANIA WILL NoT SIGN TREATY WITH AUSTRIA Paris, Sept. .- Rumania will not sign lhe peace treaty with Austria, according to Intransigeant. because of a clause introduced at the formal re. quest of the American delegates com~ cerming etnnical minerities. — Cabled Paragraphs Deny Destroyal of Zeppelins. Geneva, Sept. 2 (By the A. P.).—A despatch received at Romanshorn from the Zeppelin factory at Friedrichshafen today denies a published report that the Germans had destroyed tweive Zeppelins. The Germans will deliver their airships to the allies in accord- ance with the eace treaty, the despatch says, with the exception of the latest types constructed during the last nine months for tourist and postal traffic. ALLIED REPLY TO AUSTRIAN DELEGATION Paris, Sept. 2—The note transmit- ting the allied reply to the observa- tions of the Austrian delegation on the conditions of peace, addressed to Karl Renner and signed by M. Clemenceau, as president of the council, follows: “Draft of the Covering Letter; (1) the allied and associated powers have given most careful consideration to the observations of the Austrian del- cgation on the draft treaty of peace. The reply of the Austrian delegation objects to the draft treaty on the grounds that in view of the dissolu- tion of the Austro-Hungarian monar- chy, Austria ought not to be treated as an enemy state at all and that, in consequence, she ought not to be made in any special way inheritor of re- sponsibilities in regard to reparation, to which the Austro-Hungarian mon- archy would be liable, d it still ex- ist. “As these observations fundamental misconception of the re- sponsibilities of the people of Aus- tria, the allied and associated powers feel it necessary to state as briefly as may be the principles which they consider must be applied to the set- tlement of the late war so far as Aus- tria concerned. The people of Austria, together with their neigh- bors, the people of Hungaria, bear in a peculiar degree responsibility for the calamities which have befallen Europe during the last five years. Austria Precipitated War. “The war was precipitated by an ultimatum presented to Serbia by the givernment at Vienna and rnqmring! acceptance within 48 hours of a series of demands which amounted to the destruction of the independence of a neighboring sovereign state. The roval government of Serbia accepted within the prescribed time all the de- mands except those which involved the virtual surrender of independ- ence. “Yet the government, conference of con is of that reply. point to a then Austro-Hungarian refusing all offers of a fation on the bas- immediately opencd nostilities against Serbia, thereby de- liberately setting light to a train, ich led directly to a untversal war. It is no tevident that this ulti- matum was no more than an insincere excuse for beginning war for| which the late autocratic government| at Vienna, in close association with the rulers of Germany. nad long pre- pared and for which it pnsidered the time had arrived. Th® presence of| Austrian guns at the siege of Licge and Namur is farther proof, if proof were required. of the intimate as- sociation of the government of \'xen-' na with the government of Berlin _in, its plea ¢plot?) against public law and the liberties of Europe. ] People of Austria Responsible. | “The Austrian delegation appear to/ think that responsibility for these acts! rested solely on the Hapsburg dyna ty and its statellites, and that by rea son of the dissolution of that monar- B allies, re chy through the victory of the the people of Austria can escape sponsibilty for the deeds of the ernment. which was their own ¢ and which had home capital. Had the people of Ausiria in years preceding endeavored to the militarist and domineering it by which the government of Hapsburg monarchy animated they made any effective protest against the war, or refused to assist or support their rulers in prosecuting it, some attention might now be paid to this plea. But the fact that the war was acclaimed on its outbreak in Cienna, that the people of Austria were its ardent supporters from start to finish and that they did nothing to dissociated themselves from the policy of their government and its al- lies until they had been defeated in the field, makes it clear that, ac- cording o any canon of justice, they must be held to bear their full meas- ure of responsibility for a crime which has brought such misery on the world. People Suppored Autocracy. “There is. however, a further fact to which ahe allied and associated powers feel bound to polnt. The Hapsburg system became in its es- sence asystem maintaining the as- cendancy of the German and Magvar peoples over a majority of th einhab- itants of the Austro-Hungarian mon- archy. This ancient and effete au- tocracy, with its militarist traditions, was maintained in existence through the vigorous support of the inhabit- ants of Austria and Hungary because it zave to them a position of political and economic domination over their fellow subjects. “It was a policy of radical ascend- dncy and oppression to which the peo- ple of Austria gave their steady sup- port, which was one of the deeper causes of the war. It led to those ir- ridentist movements along the fron- tiers of Austria and Hungaria. which kept Europe in a ferment of unrest: it led to the growing dependence of ‘Austria-Hungary on Germany. and consequently to the subordination of the Austro-Hungarian policy to the German plans of domination, and, in the end, it led to a situation in wigch the rulers of Austro-Hungarian mon- archy could see no other way of pre- serving their own power than to set to work deliberately to destroy the liberty of small and dependent na- tions. which kept avile the vision of liherty among their oppressed breth- ren and which blocked the way to Constantinople and the east. Draft of Treaty Must Stand. “In the opinion, therefore, of the al- lied and associated powers, it is im- possible to admit the plea of the Aus- trian delegation that the people of Austria do not share the responsibility of the of the government which pro- voked the war, or that they are to es- cape the duty of making reparation to the utmost of their capacity to those whom they and the government they have sustained, so grievously wronged. The principles upon which the draft treaty is based must there- “Until the signing of the peace, the people of Austria are, and will remain, an enemy people; upon its signature they will become a state with whom whom the allied and associated powers hope and expect to maintain friendly relations. “(2) The Austrian delegation have further protested against the arrange- ments under the treaty governing their relatioms with the new states the | curb) National Socialists Stirring Up Stri For Oct. 8—Party to Adopt a Soviet Constitution. Chicago, Sept. 2.—Three hundred representatives of the left wing faction of the national socialist party, which recently withdrew from the parent body, today organized the <communist labor party of America and adopted the emblem of the soviet republic of Russia with the motto: ‘Workers of the World Unite.” The emblem consists of a ecythe and hammer, surrounded by a wreath of wheat. A suggestion that a torch be added to the emblem was voted down. Ielegate Zimmerman of Indiana led su.all minority who wanted the new organization christened the Indepen- dent Socialist party, but his suggestion Was overwhelmingly defeated. “I think the word communist will sirike terror to the American work- man, and we cannot succeed in this niovement without this element,” he said. I will go as far in the revolu- Liwlary movement as any man in this ha but I think it unwise to adopt this name. If you think I am a cow- ard, search the court records of In- diana. We know that this country is not yet ripe for the revolution. If it vas, the name communist would be all right. They did not use it in Russia uriil after the capitalist class had been overtLrown.” 7 In urging adoption of the name, speakers declared the term sogialist had been discredited and that the word communist fittingly expressed the revolutionary objects of the new political party. Tomorrow the party will adopt a constitution which, it is said, will be patterned largely after that of the soviet of the republic of Russia. Every mention of the Russian republic and KoisLevism was greeted with cheers. One of the first acts of the new party was to approve a plan for a gen- eral strike in the United States on Oct. Sth to compel release of Thomas Mooney, Eugene V. Debs and other alleger class war prisoners. It was decided 1o hold future meet- inzs in the Industrial Workers of the World hall, several blocks away. This is to accommodate the increasing| crowds, it was explained. “We want to get as far away as pos- sible from thke corpse,” shouted one delegate. referring to the National So- cialist party, which was in_session in 2 hali on an upper fioor of the same building. The new party, which claims to have representatives from every state in the union at the convention, decided to use phonograph records of “The Interna- tional,” and other Russian soviet conevs spread the radical propa- to | ganda. Amonz the resolutions adopted was one demanding the immediate with- drawal of American troops from Rus- sia_and Hungar: The communist group of ultra radi- cals. recently expelled from the Na- {ional Socialist party. which is mee! ng i _another West Side hall. expects OTErT ANOUET DOlitical DAty be it ourns at the end of the week. This faction consists of foreign lan- =uage socialists and others who regard the parent bedy and the left wing fac- tion as too conservative. The emergency convention of the National Socialist marty. under _the leadership of Congressman Victor Be zer of Milwaukee. Adolph Germer Chicago. Alzernon T.ee of New York ~A \fpiee D W Hean of Milwamioan devote dthe entire day to committee ACTORS’ STRIKE APPEARS TO BE NEARING AN END New York, Sept. 2.—The actor: strike which hag kept closed virtually all of New York’s playhouses duri the last twenty-five days is nearing an end, according to reports persis- tentiy circulated in_theatrical circles heretonight. Nothing _authoritative, however. could be learned as to how a settlement of the strike was to be ef- fected, Four shows now closed because of the strike will open within the next week. the report insisted. They are the Zeigfeld Follies at the New Am- sterdam Theater: East is West, at the Gaiety Theater; ' Scandals of 1919. at the Liberty Theater, and Friendly En- emies at the Manhattan Opera House. The Follies and Friendly Enemies, at was said, would open Saturday night and the other two the early part of next week. More than 2500 striking Equity Ae- tors attended a _mass meeting this af- ternoon in the Lexington Theater, lis- tening to addresses by Lillian Rus- 11, Hazel Dawn. Peggzy Wood and other stars, all of whom predicted vic- tory in the near future for the Equity Association. NAUGATUCK STRIKERS VOTE TO REMAIN OUT Naugatuck, Conn, Sept. 2.—The ballot caused by the striking em- ployes of the rubber shops here on the proposition of the employers to return to work pending arbitration of differ- ences resulted in 1113 negative and 279 affirmative votes according to the count announced tonight. More than 3,000 hands are on strike. They had been at work in six United States iants, Rubber Company FOR LIMITED IMPORTATION OF DYES FROM GERMANY Washington, Sept. 2.—Importation of a six monthe® supply of dyes from Germany for American manufacturers will be allowed under a ruling an- nounced today by the war trade hoard. Manufacturers have been requested to fiie statements with the board showing iie total quantities of dves needed for tiie six months beginning Oect. 1. formed out of the late Austro-Hun- garian monarch. Policy of Austro-Hungary Wrong. “The allied and associated powers feel bound to point out that the dis- abilities from which Austria will suf- fer will arise, not from the provisions of the treaty, but mainly from the policy of ascendancy which its peo- ple have pursued in the past. Had the policy of Austro-Hungary been one of liberty and justice to all its peoples, the Upper Danube _states might have remained in friendly economic and political unity.. As it was, the policy of ascendancy pro- duced one of the cruelist tragedies of the late war, when millions of the subject peopies of Austro-Hungary were driven, under pain of death, to fight against their will in an army which was beirig used to perpetuate their own service, as well as to com- pass the destruction of Iberty in Europe. Definite Policy or Proh'hition Party May Hold National Conven- tion After Conventions of Republicans and Democrats. Chicago, Sept. 2.—A resolution pro- posing _that the prohibition party “have no connection with the so-called worla work” was rejected late today by the national committee of the par- ty after a heated debate. In its place an amendment was a #pled recom- mending that individual members of the party be urzed to “give active as- sistance in the world prohibition work through the instrumentality of the prohibition foundation.” The foundation is an organization h(‘omposed of prohibition party mem- ers. The national committee adjourned its two days' meeting tonight without outlining a definite policy for the fu- ture of the party. It adopted a reso- lution authorizing a national conven- tion at a time and place to be deter- mined by the executive committee. Speakers said it should be understood that the convention would be held af- ter the conventions of the republicans and democrats and that action taken by the prohibitionists would be deter- mined to a large extent by the courses pursued by the two major parties. A resolution was adopted recom- mending that the party unite with other parties “when for the good of the cause” A large part of the discussion over participation in foreign prohibition fights hinged on a pecuniary angle. Virgil C. Hinshaw, chairman, A. G. Calderwood, Minnesota. and others as- serted that the party would be unable to obtain funds except on the ground of carrving on world work. An im- | pression was prevalent, they admit- ted, that the work of the party in this country was finished. Hawson L. Peel chairman of the sub-committee on resolutions, whose report urging op- position to participation in European pro on battles was rejected. led the iziht against the amendment ! which was adopted. “What right h e we to go to oth- er countries and interfere in their do- mestic auestions,” he demanded. “Tt is =w_-nal impertinence on our part.” AnClher tlt developed in the com- mittee meeting over a proposal fa- voring a prohibitive tax on liquors should ~ demobilization be declared complete and saloons permitted to reopen during the interim between wartime prohibition and constitu- tional prohibition. Tt was urged members that such action would the committee open to the charge of sponsoring licensing of the liguor traffic through taxation. The resolu- tion as adopted urzed Representative Charles H. Randall of California. the oniy member of the prohibition party in congress, to “persist in his work until all necessary enforcement legis- ation be adopted to put into operation ihe constitutional amendment A resolution was adopted urging re- peal of the internal revenuc act taxing |liquors as a beverage. Another reso- lution demanded “the immediate en- by conaress of prohibition legislation. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE RECEPTION OF GEN. PERSHING New —Arrangemen or the reception of General Persh: arid the parade of the First division of the regular army with the American { commander-in-chief at its head next j Tuesday were completed today at a conference between Major General Shanks, commander of the port of em- barkation, and the mayor’s reception committee. General Pershing's ship, the Leviathan. is expected to reach New York next Sunday or Monday, 4 from the time he lands until he leaves for Washington, a few days later, he will be the guest of the c lof New York. A patrol boat carrying the reception committee and a number of high offi- { cials, who are expected to include Sec- retary of War Baker and General March, chief of staff, will meet the Leviathan at the entrance to New York bay and will escort the liner to the same Hoboken pier on wh President. Wilson disembarked on his return from Europe. After exchanging greetings with the reception commit- tee on the pier. General Pershing will be taken on board the patrol boat and brought to the Battery, where he will be met by detachments of police mounted on horses and motorcycles, who will escort him to his hotel. In the First division parade General Pershing will have for his staff all the generals who have commanded the fa- mous unit since the declaration of war. They will include Major General W liam Sibert, who took the division overscas and leter returned to take charge of the chemical warfare ser vice: Lieutenant General Robert L. Bullard, who left the division on July 12, 1918, to take command of the Sec ond army: Major General Charles P. Summerall. who succeeded General Bullard; Brigadier General Frank Par- ker, who relieved General Summerall in October, and Major General E. I. McClachlin, the present commander. One of the most interesting features of the parade will be the presence of the first American field zun fired in the great war and the first American colors borne on the front. These his- toric relics will be brought from Washington, where they are being pre- served as national souvenirs of the tremendous strugsle. Another novel feature will be the presence of the wel- fare workers who were attached to the aivision. At division headquarters it is esti- mated that between 23,000 and 25.000 men will take part in the parade. which will take five or six hours to pass a given point, and will be four- teen miles long. All former members of the division are Invited to take part. They are requested to report to head- Guarters two davs before the parade in order to draw the necessary equip- ment. SEA CAPTAIN CHARGED WITH MALTREATMENT OF CREW New York, Sept. 2.—Captain Adolph C. Pederson and his son, Adolph, Jr., skiper and second mate, respectively, of the American barkentine Puako, who were tried and acquitted last May of having caused the death of a sailo named Axel Hansel in April, 1918, dur ing a voyage from Victoria, B. C., to Capetown, South Africa, were placed on trial here today, in the criminal branch of the federal district on an in- dictment charging them with maltreat- ment of five members of the Puako's crew on the same voyage. Leonard R. Pederson, first mate, another son of the captain's, also is a defendant. The sailors claiming to have been ill treated on the high seas are Jack Joe Frank Grielen, James * Campbell, William Jones and B. Olsen. 2. i Condensed Telegrams Republic of San Salvador reports | vellow tever spreading. | N BT i Wembers of the 83d Division are ! holding their first reunion at Colum- i bus, Ohio. ! According to a bulletin of the Ger- | man majority socialist party, produc- tiveness of all branches of indutry is facing extinction. Eight hundred dollars in cash was stolen_ by burglars, who blew open a United Cigar Stores Co. safe at 108 Park Row, New York. and 100 thousand white persons met at Austin, Tex., and Two negroes discussed the race question, which speakers termed acute. Overland traffic between Tangier and the French protectorate ceased because of the insecurity of the road throught th Spanish zone. Hubert M. Rigney, former deputy| United States marshal, and former assistant superintendent of the state capital, died at Waterbury. Two bombs were found on a railroad track near the main station at Co- blenz. Men who discovered them threw them into the Rhine. Judge William J. Malone of Bristol was named as acting attorney general of the state in the absence of Attorney General Frank E. Healy. Omsk is being evacuated and the Kolchak government is being trans- ferred to Nikolayevsk, according to Bolshevist reports recéived in London. Juan Antonio Buero, minister of for- eign affairs of Uruguay, was chosen representative at international labor conference to be held in Washington. Suspected of carrying ammunition to the Sinn Fein forces, the steam- ship Hampshire Coast was seized by a British destroyer and brought to Cork. Cornell University will receive the greater part of the estate of Benno Loewy, philatelist and Shakespearean student, estimated at more than 3230,- 000. United States steamship Von Steub- en arrived at New York with 2,091 of- ficers and men of the First Division the first over and the last back from France. Andrea Zorn, Swedish artist, donat- ied 100,000 kroner to the Swedish-A1 erican foundation to enable Swedish ientists to study in the United ates. At a conference of republican sena- tors, plans for organized tour of republican speakers in the wake of .president’s transcontinental tour were abandoned. _Ahmed Mirza, Shah of Persia, is on I'his way to Italy aboard a British ve: sel. From Italy he will go to Swi erland. It is not likely he will visit the Uited States. A twenty-six-passenger twin-motor airplane, for which a transcontinental LI ht to New York is planned, flew to} | Toledo from Chicago on the second jleg of its journey Enrico Caruso and Mrs. Caruso, with | Guglielmo Setti, conductor of the cho- rus, are among the passengers aboard | the' Italian lner Guiseppe Verdi, now due in New York | President Wilson accepted the invi- | tation of Dr. John W. Tucker, of th. | board ef governors of the society of | and sciences, to speak at a din- ner in New York in Octobe Rabbi Stephen S. Wise denounced the attitude of the United States Steel Corporation opposing formation of |2 union of iron and steel workers oy | the American federation of labor Grover S. Whalen, commissioner of ants and structiures, arrived at New York form Iurope. He declares the United States, and New York in par ticular, have the best docks in the world A plan to establish an aerial base at Queenstown, Ireland. where passen- gers, traveling from the United States may alight, was received by the urban district council, and help was prom- ised for the project Ruma prohibiting men from n government issued orders Hungarian officers and carrping arms, _including sword 0 prohibiting officers, ex cept those attached to the provost forces, from wearing uniforms. GEN. O'RYAN'S ARGUMENT FOR A CITIZEN ARMY Washington, Sept. 2.—Characteriz- ing a regular or professional army as an absolute institution” in which men eniist after they have failed in civil life, and turn to it as an “asylum,” Major General John . O'Ryan of the| {27th division proposed before the sen- ite sub-committee on military_affairs the creation of a citizen army of a mil- Lien and a half men. He was giving his \iews on th administration’s army bil . ‘I am opposed to any bill which will perpetuate a large standing army eneral O'Ryan said. He added that egarded as unnecessary a profee- sional army except for duly on the border and a few minor purposes. As for garrisoning the Philippines and other insular possessions, he declared {ii was not only unnecessary but un- wise. since that was zuard work essen- tally the part of the nav. Criticizing the character of the en-! sted personnel of the professionall he declared that such an army “incapable of efficiency.” General O'Rvan’s plan for army provides for three _months’ training with_one weekly drill _for three vears of 500.000 men and three vears' service in the reserve. He sald he would utilize all the officers of the natforai geard and national army di- visiors that existed during the war anl as many of the men as wonld re- eniist with the understanding they would belong to thefr old organiz a citizen tions, and these organizations would be perpetuated “with all their tradi- Gons.” While the army he proposed, he said, would be national in charac- ter. its units would belong in a sense the Adifferent states to foster “local- ity piides.” FORMER GERMAN EMPEROR HAS BOUGHT:AN ESTATE Amsterdam, Sept. 2.—The Handels- blad says the baggage of Iormer Em- peror William of Germany will be transported duriag the coming week trom Germany to Doorn, Holland, where the former emperor has bought an estate and plans to live. The train, INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR GONFERENGE IN OCTOBER President Wilson Will Today Issue invitations to Labor Lead ers, Financiers, Manufacturers and Farmers—First Ses sion Probably Will Be Held at the White House—Ar rangements Were Discussed at Cabinet Meeting—De tails Completed For President Wilson’s “Swing Arounc the Circle.” Washington, Sept. 2.—Before lea ing Washingtor tomorrow night his speechmaking tour of the count son, Rear personal Secretary T =phe o on President Wilson will issue invitations | thirty correspondents ti to labor leaders, financiers. manufac- | the pres. nd leading m turers and farmers to attend a confer- | tropolitan newspaper ence early in October for considers sider Scheduled | The pre tion of the problems of labor and of |set = e those who direct labor. the west and sot ¢ > The president. it also was learned, |sumed B orr plans to complete all arrangements short pi sp for the conference before his dep: town: ture so that tne meeting may be held|known 1 immediately upon his return the last| The fer t of this month. The first session of | pose pr the conference probably will be held|anot o at_the White House | cret service men, and The entire labor situation and also | respondents so d arrangements for the conference w understood to have been discussed today's cabinet meeting. It was pr sumed that the plan to invite farm- | ers’ representatives, which has urged by several members of the se ate, was agreed upon. inal arrangements for the pre dent’s “swing around the circle” were about completed today. ing President Wilson will be Mrs. W Accompany at|a pilot engine wil e-|a precautionary meas cidents and c b T been | train schedule will not be m: pul ter cit si-| Members of the pa N he trai c A days of tk nig il- | stops being & CRITICISM AND DEFENSE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL PALM Washington, Sept. 2.—Sharp cism in the senate today by Sena Frelinghuysen, republican, New J sey, of Attorney General Palmer dr: a vigorous defense of Mr. Palmer from | and | senate fo Senators Underwood, Alabama; Williams, Mississippi, democrats The New Jersey senator replying accusations made against him by criti- ™M PROTEST FROM AND ALBANIAN HUNGARIAN SYMPATHIZ ER hington, er- ew to | publican, Russell, Palmer in a recent statement ,assail- | peared before ed Mr. Palmer's administration of the | sented for : - alien property custodian’s office and |tk v ne 3 flaily charging him with having pro-|Grea ; German sympathies before the en- said. G a trance of this into the wi declared hehad agents in his own house.” Mr. I linghuysen also asserted that Mr. P mer was the “intermediary President Wilson for German intere: secking to condone the Lusitania cident. In defense of Mr. Palmer, Underwood declared Senator huysen had auited and misrep: sented” the attorney general and deceived the- senate and the pub. There is no question of Mr. Palme lovaity, Senator Underwood declar adding’ that charges against him I emenated from German interes posing disposition of German prop: 1y _seized. Senator Williams asserted against Mr. Palmer were and ridiculous. He also asserted charges originated with German terests seeking to discredit him Senator Williams' retorts were caustic that Senator interrupted to invoke against the senator her’s motives, but replied that he thought scy senator had been involved attack upon Mr. Palmer “quite wittingly” after it had been by German interest country Sena the senate impugning a Senator Willia the New ru u NEGRO VETERANS ELIGIBLE TO MEMBERSHIP IN LEGION| New York., Sept. 2.—Negro veters of the world war are eligible to me; “received German Freling- had o) charges outrageous Frelinghuysen in't beg: |in Persia re-| Discu la “writien was the on comm in- tor re- lic r's had - er- the ALL TRADE RESTRICTION AGAINST un- | un -~ ans m- bership in the American Legion, but|equipment, m the composition of local posts and | Loiicle 3 state organizations will be left to the | Uit 008 3 members themselves, according to in- war d today of structions made public he Henry D. Lindsley, chairman national executive committee. Pending a determination of the ques- nex w tion at the national convention November. Mr. Lindsley said, it desirable that the various state orga izations fix upon the method wh will reflect the wishes of the memb. ship in their state. Thus, he said local post may be composed exclusive- Iy of white men, or exclusively of ored men. or part white men and c ored men.* Separate white and nezro state or- ganizations. each with representat in the national convention, the cha man said, also were feasible if should be deemed necessary. TRACTION LINES ASK PERMIT FOR ZONE SYSTEM —Permission New York. the | i mo Jlements usively an- ich or— a FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE SONS OF o0l- ol- Bridgeport, ( election of officer fifth annual convention ¢ Ltaly concluded its « ven, w ion ir- ¥ it| Louis Nerz grand venera New Haver Thomas S put into effect a zone system, increas- | lod Elections ing the fare from five cents to eizht,|choice of 5 between Queensboro Bridge Bk - o4 maica, was asked by the recei ot e rTARGED WitH E the Manhattan and Queens Traction e any in a-petition filed with the UCTING STEPDAUGH public service commission here today.| = Tnereased cost of operation and w reases to emwvloves were given ! req o the receivers as the reason for askinz | View se a higher fare rate. and it was ted | for l"v’m‘ the line would be obliged to suspend if | vesterda ) the increase were denied. ‘:'“(4,“ I F $2,500,000 ASKED TO FIGHT jQuida says st FOREST FIRES IN THE WEST| !¢ 1" - g i | scen o ard fre Washington, Sept. 2.—Congress was|May. When he asked today to appropriate $2,500.600|ing to her sto; g¢ ot for fighting forest fires in the west.|seized the gir v s The department of agriculture in re-|and forcibly tock her . g ing the appropriation explained | Quida beli : it had already spent more than 32,00 000 for this purpose and that expendi- the were continuing at | wa ting of tures $50.000 a day. Further apropriations HAS RESUMED OPE 4 Wwill have to be made in addition to the SN ED RATION two and a half million dollars unless| Briggeport. Conn, S . rains set in within ten days, the de- |, : e partment said. PERMANENT RANK OF GENERAL FOR PERSHING Washington, Sept. 2.—The house b conferring the permanent rank of gen- Pershing in recoz- nition of his services abroad was pass eral upon General ed by the senate late today to President Wilson. FORMER EMPEROR CHARLES 1S TO LEAVE SWITZERLAND Geneva, Sept. 2.—It carrying the baggage, the newspaper adds, will be & special one of five cars. L] without debate or a _record vote and now goes s reported that ion of the local la ! Graphophone Comy m today ar s | down due to ¥ Not all the stri 11| bers of the Wo i DI} qustrial Union refuse to accept the o pany - which was to consider the mands previous adjustment s turned. It will not . what proportion wom returned untif thd peror Charles has given up of the chateau in which he tsfield has been residing at Prangins, near|Levenson of E here, and intends leaving Switzerland [ sult In Tee superfor court for the sum hortly. His destination is unknown,lof $75.000 Raymond Terry but it is believed that he will proba- Great Barrington. charging alicnatior bly go to Bavaria of his wife's affections.