Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 24, 1919, Page 1

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LXI—NO. 228 POPULATION 29,919 ' NORWICH, CONN., WEDNES SEPTEMBER 24, 1919 12 PAGES—92 COLUMNS * PRICE TWO CENTS INCREASED VIDLENGE MARKS PROGRESS OF STEEL STRIKE One Man Was Killed and Four Persons Injured at the Lacka-/| wanna Plant In Buffalo—Disorders Have Been Renewed in Newcastle and Farrell, Pa.—Several Persons Were In- jured In Street Fighting In Pittsburgh—Organized Labor Gained Ground In Chicago and Other Western Centers —Strikers Have Made But Little Headway In Pittsburgh and Other Eastern Mills. e in ¢ labor gained ground Youngstown and other we: rs on the second day of the strike. which was marked violence. but, according United S Steci various independent made but little headway tsbursh and other eastern mil e south were received decid- nz reports, such as from where union leaders mep were out and plan serted there was such a sur- or that hundreds of men o sweeping floors for jack a ac Chicazo district. where union iders claimed an additional 10,000 ad zone out, more steel planis South Chicago and In- . iarbor ough at the latter acc officials of an “independent” “x i their shutdown had been rely to avoid responsibil- - trial warfare. Yesterd. Gary mills of the United ~ Corporation, some small Chicago and five inde- in Hammond attempted on, e Youngstown district their mo: complete plant on calling proper. marked suspension the Mahon- 44000 men & every by caus strike, declaring 254,000 of the half affected had n mills on the opening da: now numberea ed that today or tomor- see the closing of many and announced t the strike to union trainmer leaders, while withholding tigures, chalienged the abor s leaders. Representa- the Carnegie Company. the diary of the United States Corporation. declared that the ion was “much improved.” An imate was madem that. in the Pitis- rict alome. 21.000 men had ) work. The second day of the struggle was carked by ugly rioting. Monday's discrders in Newcastie and Farrell, Pa., were renewed, with increasing casual- s that sdditional numbers of roopers were sent there to re- ree the milsary already on duty, while in Pitisiireh. which had its first_serious disturhance last night, several persons were injured in street! fishting. In Buffalo, N. Y. Monday| his disturbances assumed = more menacing proportions. for last night ne man was kilied and four persons wounded when guards at the Lacka- wanna Steel Company are aileged to have opened fire with shotguns on 99 strike sympathizers massed near ne of the gates, after the crowd had hurled bricks and stones. With the increase of disorder in the >ennsylvania steel towns. William Z. ‘osier, sccretary of the national com- iittee of stee] workers, who previous- :d stated no picketing had been dered and the men had been told to away {rom the plants, charged at ‘much of the disorder was due to esence of the state troopers. who, he lezed. had made ‘unprovoked as- upon innocent strikers. ctor was introduced ves- the strike situation when dered the senate labor to investigate the indust- ggle to ascertain “if the sit- sation can in any way be relieved by cderal action.” The inquiry will be- | <in tomorrow and before it ends it is| pected Elbert H. Gary. directing td of the United States Steel Cor- ration: Samuel Gompers. president American Federation of Labor.| ). Fitzpatrick. organizer of | workers, wil appear before ational To strike mee: todar organization in Pitts- the labor e will prove a < said that Mr.| attend the con- but that he would be repre- Mr. Fitzpatrick. CONFLICTING CLAIMS BY THE CONTESTANTS OF STEEL STRIKE| Pitisburgh, Pa. Sept. 23.—Conflict- ims as much at variance as given out the opening day of eel strike, continue to be made the contending forces in the w.gespread .ndustrial contest now be- ing waged The leaders of the organized work- rrs boldly claimed today that the sirike is spreading and that thousands of men who worked yesterday joined ;6 walkou: today. Predictions were ade plants still in operation would be closed tomorrow or Thurs- nd that no gains were made anv- either by the United States Corporation, the principal fac- the struggie, or by independent rns resentatives the Carnegic Company. the largest subsidiary the corporation, admitting ' that > core s plants are closed because strike. claim that the situation e than it was yesterday. Ac- oz to an authorized summary of conditions within the Pittsburgh dis- trict. more rien were at work at Homestead, Clairton, Duquesne and other places. better than it was yesterday. The <ituation in the Monongahela valley, where our four biz mills are located, is considergbly improved and is en- courazing.’ was the statement of an offieial of the Carnegie company. 327,000 Men on Strike. William Z. Foster, secretary of the national committee for organizing iron and steel workers, in charge of national headquarters here. said re- ports received by him during the day from organizers and others in charge of steel districts show that 327,100 men are participating in the strike. Aceording to his figures, 5000 add tional men are out in the city of Pirts- burgh: 5.000 more at Braddock, ard “All told, the sitdation| 3,000 additional in Rankin, near here. He claims 20,000 additional men are out in the Chicago territory and 5, 000 more in the Youngstown district, 3.000 more in the Wheeling field. not giving any figures, cor- poration representatives (onight dis- puted the figures, asserting if they were ue many of the districts in- cluded in Toster's list would be com- pleiely shut' down, which is not the ca Tae United States Steel Corpora- tion, according to reports, has not met with as much, success in operating some of its subsidiaries In other parts of Pennsylvania as it has the plants of the Carnegie company. in this im- mediate vicinity. In several localities smaller works were closed down when it was found insufficient men had reported to keep the plants in successful operation. Representatives of the Carnegie interests here declar. ed that this was due to lack of ade. quate nolice protection for men will- ing to work. Disturbances at Farrell. Following last night's riot at Far- rell, where one man was killed, there was another disturbance today dur- ing which tow men were shot and slightly wounded. At Newcastle. where seven were wounded last night, the situation was in complete control of the authorities. Many arrests were there for minor infractions of the law Two more troops of the state police were brought to the western part of the state today and distributed at points where local authorities claim condifions are unsafe. Secretary Foster. of the steel workers’ commit- tee. charges that much of the disos der is the result of the presence of - i the state troopers. Today he de-| Way to the plant of the American Steel | nounced their alleged action in riding| 4nd Wire company. Special Policeman | into the erowds and injuring innocent persons. He asserted that in Home- stead certain sections of the borough were today kent in a tumult as a re- =ult of the wayv the, state police rode i;ln groups of idle men and dispersed The nationa! committes for organ- izing iron and steel workers will meet here tomorrow for the 'purpose of dis- cussine strike ' progress and ng arrangements for prolonging the strugzle. Not to Discuss “Peace Plan: Mr. Foster said tonight t the committee had not been to dis- cuss any ‘“peace plans” t would devote its time to problems that have arisen as a result of the strike. “The first matter to be taken up will be that of the unprovoked as- sault of the state police upon innocent strikers,” said Mr. Foster. “They can- not zet away with such actions much longer. We are going to demand that the troops be taken out of the district or their activities curbed. “All information regarding the as- saults on strikers and their brutal tac- tics in the district have been reported to my office. It is my intention to place this information before the committee. Appeal will probably be made to the sovernor and the sheriff of Allegheny county to furnish ‘protection for the strikers agalhst the state troopers.” Mr. Foster said steel workers were being arrested at Duquesne for being out on strike, and fined when they re- fused to return to work. The matter of financing the strike will also be taken up at the meeting, Mr. Foster said. Fight to the Bitter End. “We are going to prepare to fight 1o the bitter end,” he added. to be 4 lon gsiruggle we will b ready. It is 2 nght for industrial democracy and the workers are dctermined io stick.” g When president asked of Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, would attend the conference Mr. Fosier said: “No.” He explain- ed that John Fitzpatrickj, chairman of the committee, would attend, was the personal representative of Mr. Gomp ers. The possibility of extending the strike to include seamen on carrier vessels on the Great Lakes and union tratnmer will ‘also be discussed ac- cording to Mr, Foster. He said rep- resentatives of botH unions had been invitaed to attend the meeting. Trainmen Have Walked Out. “Already a number of union train- men in the strike districts have walk- ed out and refuse to move cars of material in and out of the strike-af- fected plants,” he added. “The sea- men also are all ready to strike In eympathy with the steel workers.” Mr. Foster said that he had been in communication almost constantly with the officials of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Inter- national Seamen’s Union of America and that both organizations would co-operate in making the strike a suc- ces: At a meeting of union orzanizers to- day, Mr. Féster said plans were made for holding a series of meeting of steel workers throughout the district. He also =aid picket lines would be established around a number ‘of the plants. ONE MAN WAS SHOT DEAD AT BUFFALO Buffalo. N. Y., Sept. 23.—One man was shot dead, another fatally injured and three other persons were’ taken to the hospital when Lackawanna' Steel company private policemen this even- ing fired on 3,000 workers who had gathered in front of gate No. 3 of the plant. The dead man is Casimer Mazurek, 24 years old, shot through the head. He died in an ambulance on the way to a_ hospital. uek was a striker. He had been working at the steel plant for about two months since his return from France. where he served through- out the war with the Second division. Maciez Buczkowski, another striker. was shot threugh the right temple and urgeons a. ke hospital tonight de- 1L it is) Cabled Eagraphs . Supplies For Fiume. Rome, Saturday, Sept. 20.—Premier Nitti_has arranged with the ltalian Red Cross to supply Fiume with nec- essary foodstufls in order to preciude any suffering there. spaired of saving his life. N Of the other injured, two are strikers and one is a 3 year old boy. They are slightly wounded. The riot which had the fatal result was the second one of the afternoon. About 5.20 o'clock steel plant guards clashed with the crowd at gate No. In this disturbance several shots were fired by the guards, but no one was hit. The principal disturbance began at 5.50 o'clock, when plant guards opened the gate to let out-some workers who had remained in the plant, although operations. had been suspended earlier in the day. As two of the workers came out of the gate there was a shower of stones and bricks from' the crowd. Immediately eight of the plant po- licemen advanced to the center of the street, 25 feet away from the edge of the crowd. and began firing their .12 gauge shotguns. Other plant police- men inside the fence joined in the shooting, and witnesses said that about 50 shots were fired. While the shooting was in prosress, Chief Gilson and members of the Lackawanna city _police were in the thick of the crowd, trying to restore order. Their frantic signals to cease firing were disregarded by the plant zuards, Chief Gilson said tonight, and it was not until-the trowd, which in- cluded many women _and _children,; broke up in a panic that the firing| stopped. The strikers are'in an ugly mood to- ght. Three have been arrested on L&h'.lxges of inciting to riot. It is al- leged that they counselled an attack on the plant guards. Three other men were found near gate No. 3 tonight, carrving shotguns wrapped in paper. They were released after they had produced hunting licenses and denied any hostile obiect. Chief Gilson pre- dicted at 9 o'clock that there would be more trouble before morning. FIRST SERIOUS ouvala: IN CITY OF PI’ URGH Pittsburgh, Pa.. Se 28 first | serious outbreak in this city since the strike began occurred tonigh when one man was probably fatally injured, I special policeman seriously hurt and several others were injured in a riot in the Lawrenceville mill district to- night. ‘The rioting started when Paul Ko- simshi, 25, a workman, was attacked by a dozen or more meén while on_his | Samuel Carter. a negro, went to Ko- simshP’s rescue. By this time they were surrounded by a mob of several hundred persons. Finding the odds against them, the two men sought shelter in a Herron avenue butcher shop. The crowd is ] allezed to have attempted to enter the building and fired a number of shots. [ Foseph Hungartz, 21, said b the police'| to be a striker, fell with a bullet WG_W ‘He' was badly tram- [gtrike was “the first skirmish in in- denied _|either capital or labor had the rig} “in the abdomen: pled by the men as they rushed Into the shop. The windows of the place were shat teréd wity clubs and bricks and meats were strewn about the floor during the clash. Carter and Kosimshi, cornered, fought for their lives. and were about exhausted when police came to their rescue. Mounted police and dispersed the crowd. were made. Hungartz is in the hospital in a erit- ical condition. Special Poliseman Carter. who received a probable frac- ture of the left arm and left shoulder- bdale. and was beaten about the face and body, is also in_a serious condi- tion. Kosimshi was bruised about the face and head. EVERY MILL IN MAHONING VALLEY HAS SUSPENDED| special officers Three arrests Youngstown, Ohio, Sept. 23.—Within almost 24 hours affer the nationwide | strike of steel workers began, union | leaders had achieved their initial su cess in the Youngstown district pro- per. They had brought about com- plete suspension of operation in every 'rnUl in the Mahoning valley, calling 44,000 men away from their work. “We have 99 per cent. of the men employed in the various steel plants out on strike at the present time,” de- clared Secretary S. T. Hammersmark thi sevening. “The success of the first two days is beyond belief.” The following statement was made b when word was given out that the Carnegie _ Company's plants had! closed. “Our plants are closed now.| We are closed because we are with- out labor. to operate. It is not by choice but necessity. We want to make it clear that this is not a lockout. It is our one and only alternative. If the men wish to return to work we will resume operations. Unless they return our mills will have to remain idle.” A new angle 'n the strike situation developed today when foreign-ncrn workmen in large numbers begau to leave the district for eastern points. Every train leaving for New York and other eastern cities is said to have carried s:ores who are departing with bag and baggage, indicaiing. it ic said, that they are quitting the country. AT FARRELL TWO MEN WERE KILLED, TWO WOUNDED Farrell, Pa. Sept. 23—Two men were killed and two others were wounded in another clash between state police and strikers and their sympathizers here tonight. The trouble started when a crowd congregated at Staunton and Green- field streets and refused to disperse. When the troopers charged the crowd ' they were fired upon, it is alleged. The mounted officers returned the fire, kill- ing two men, eyewitnesses say. Tonight's riot occurred at the same place where one was killed and many more injured in an outbreak last night. More than a dozen shots were fired at the troopers before they used their pistols, it was said. They were also assaulied with bricks, stones and mis- siles flung by the crowd. Police authorities reported at $.30 o'clock that they had the situation well in hand. 1l feeling against the state con- stabulary is believed to have been larzely responsible for tonight's out- break, it was stated. FIRST BREAK.IN RANKS OF STEEL MILL OPERATORS Martins Ferry, ~Ohio. Sept. 23. Signs of .the first break in the ranks of steel mill operators in this distriet months and Congress To inquire Work Planned For Into The Steel Strike Representatives of the Strikers Will Be Heard Thursday— Radical Labor Leadership Was Roundiy Denounced In the House. ‘Washington, Sept. 23.- tervened in the steel strik directing the senate to to ascertain “if the any way be relieved by tion.” The inquiry will begin when representatives of the Later Cnairman Gary of the United States Steel Corpori- tion, President Gompers of the Amer- and other spokesmen for both capitol and labor will be heard. ican Federation of Labor, will appear. Action by the senate was taken on inquiry | republi a_resolution proposin: offered by Senator cancan, lowa, chairman o cation and labor commii resolution was adopted without jection after brief discussion of the industrial situation serious the public's interest. ‘While the senate was launching the Toudly applauded an address by Represent: republican, Youngstow Ohio, a_member of one of the railrox William Foster, secretary and treasurer of thc ommittee organizing the steel wor committee inquiry, the ho tive Cooper, brotherhoods, assailing and other union labe he charged, were s, whom, revolution. the heart of one steel trict, appefed to the rank ancd file of labor organizations to disregard|cnce of Women Physicians. The attack | “radical” leudership. on fresh air was made by Dr. W. A.| Immediately after adoption .of his|McCall of the New York Teachers resolution, Chairman Kenyon sent |College while the question of nutri- telegrams to Judge Gary and John J.|tion wgs dcalt with by Dr. Henry L. Fitzpatrick, chairman of the steei | K. Shaw of Albany, one of the origi- strikers’ organization, requesting them |nators of ~ baby health contests to appear Thursday. pear Thursday and, at h his - testimony week from tomoriow on' said tonight he Pitzpatric the Kényon, was deferred Senator was e today federal Thursday, strikers f the edu-|mittee and relationships ttee. The{with the Salvation Army, Knights of ob- | Columbus, Y. M. C. A." and kindred use - [not as beneficial as “semi-fresh” or leaders|and.rich children often have suffered | fomenting | mere from malnutrition through war | is re until " hand to start the hearings Thir “ixpedition of quiry and submit a report late next weel who aded. said the chairman, senate disenssion of his ciliatio., gLl resuit. | " Senator Kenyon. told the senate that he was acting primarily in the public -believing vaat —the- -_steel 68 Gegrees as for 5. dustrial warfare” and of acting in detriment to the public. of fifty per cent. or twenty per cent. Further senate discussion of the in- |and when the température is in cach dusiral unrest and the steel strike|case 75 degrees. The moderate humid | is expected tomorrow in the senate.|condition is only slightly more com- Senator Thomas. democrat, Colo- | fortable.”” rado. today introduced a resolution| Dr. Shaw urged better physical and which would put the senate on record “conspit as disapproving disturbances? to accompli American and deploring “closed shop” American and The senator plans solution tomorrow. the committee’s ies ish “strik to call FALL FROM WINDOW FATAL FOR LAWYER JUDSON S. HALL Judson S. Hall, a lawyer whose suit for $330,000 against his two brothers and his sis- ter attracted wide attention in 1918, Meriden. Conn., Sept. supreme court of the state. suit Hall asked $250.000 as his share of the estate of his father, State Sen- ator Sesh J. Hall, $100.000 damages for suffering and severe mental anguish” incurred while he was confined in asy- lums “for the insane. the defendants was that Hall was in- sane and that he had threatened the lives of his brothers. Hall_was born in Meriden 53 years ago. He studied law at Columbia and Cornell universities and was admitted to the bar in Connecticut, setts, New York and had practiced in New York. ing to friends of the family here, Hall has been an inmate of many institu- tions for the insane in recent years and has gained his freedom no than 15 times only to be again. B VERMONT IS PREPARING TO FIGHT INFLUENZA The state board of health is organizing a force of 100 physicians to fight influenza in case the disease appears again this The physicians are volunteers who have responded to the call of the secretary of the board and they will work under pay of the United States public health service. and New Burlington, Vt. Sept. 23. fall. OBITUARY. William H. Lockwo: Hartford, Conn., Sent. H. Lockwood, a captain in war and reputed to be the first electro- typer in Connecticut, died at his home He or- wood & A widow and two sons tonight at the age of ganized the firm of W. Sons in 1857. survive. George C. Edward: Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 23.—George C. Edwards, 73, vice president of the International Silver company and the founder of the Bridgeport Chain com- He was for- merly a manufacturer of Waterbury. pany, died here today. Gil William Benedict ‘Winsted, Conn., Sept. in H. Loc] Arriving at Ogden at 2.30 c'clock this afternoon, the presidential ner- Massachu- | ty expected to take a short 1ide Jersey. He| through the city, spending just one od. 81. bson. Benedict Gibson, the oldest man Southfield, Mass. He was 13 days old. the Massachusetts - general 4. 100 vears He was in Congress in- by labor committee institute an immediate investigation situation can in ac- involving I'ne representative from industry dis- Judge Gary tel- ephoned later that he could not ap- st, Ken- assured na_probably other repre- | sentatives of the strikers would, be in- is planned by Venator Kenyon. during reputation, ! that legislation to bring about con- that ht and objects Dby force or disorder. denouncing . the “strikes for as tyrannous an un- deploring up died today of injuries received when SQUAWS WITH PAPOOSES he fell from a window at the State — > Hospital for the Insane in Middletown| On_Board President Wilson's Spe- where he was confined. cial Train. Sent. Indian squaws Hall's lawycrs dropped the action | with papooscs on their backs grected against the members of his family af- | the president's special today as it ter the case had been appealed to the | sped through Nevada and over the In_ the addition “severe bodily The answer of Accord- less confined 23.—William the Civil William in Berkshire county, died late. yesterday in the house in which he was born, in The Amejjcin Legion To Seek Aid of Salvation Army, K. of C.and Y. M. C. A. In Conducting Employ- ment Bureaus For Ex-Ser- vice Men. . New York, ment that the adopt a permancnt poiic ployment assistance for discharged Soldiers, 20,000 of whom twe recent investigations show are. still veekoins jobs, was made here tonizht by the national executive commitee. The plan, ‘which, it was said, contemplates the legion's carrying on in large measure the - work undertaken by Colonel Arthur Woods of the United | States Employment Servxico, will be submitted o the naional convention of he veterans in Minneapolis No- vember 10,,11 ahd 12 ach post in every ecity is urged to appoint a strong employment com- “Sept. © 23.—Apnounce- American Legion is to of re-em- orsanizaions ‘for the purpose of co- operating with them in the work of placing the remaising idle com- rades in positions. LORE AT CONFERENCE OF WOMEN PHYSICIANS New York. Sept. o —Fresh air | conditions than poor children, accord- ing (o statements made today by speakers at the International Confer- throughout the country Dr. McCall-based his conclusions on recent elaborate experiments by th New York state commission on venti lation. He said that these investiga tions showed that‘public school chil-| dren ‘“‘are slightly less efficient and make slizhtly less improvement in psychological, educational and physi- cal measurements when under strict ly -fresh air than when under air that is semi-fresh.” He s the commi: a He ‘said he proposes to hear both |sion's investisation might be summed sides as quickly and as fully as pos- |up. roughly, as follows: | sible, to set causes of the strike and{ “The simple mental excrcises, com- | | tne 1ssues clearly before the American | plex mental processcs, accuracy of people. Visits by the committce to|judgment and both mental achieve- the steel centers, he said, is not con-|ment and improvement are just as templated. efficient under a témperature of 68 as “1 hope to complete the hearings,under a temperature of SG. An indi- | vidual, however. is made comfortable | {at 55. The high temperature does not | impair the ability to though it prob- | ably does impair the willingness to| work. Mental efficiency and improve- | ment, comfort-willingness to do men- | tal work appear to be the same for| An inafvidua's | {mental _efficiency and improvement | jand his general nervousness are iden< | tical whether he be under a humidity medical care of children, advising fre- quent medical examinaticns for them. “The war. he said, “has produced an increase in malnutrition. The high cost of living and the conservation of food by adults has_worked hardships on the offspring. We have found a large number of rich children suffer- ing from loss of appetite while in va- rious orphan asylums in this state we found the children well fed and with zood appetites, due to regular diet regular hours of rest and play and the proper kind of solid food.” PRESIDENT GREETED BY Utah' desert en route to Ogden, Utah. The president slept late this morn- ing and missed a crowd of school chil- dren who_serenaded him at Montello, Nevada. The president devoted part day to executive matters and letter writing. The entire populations of the many small towns in Nevada turn- ed sout early today to welcome the president and they .were plainly d appointed when he failed to apnear of the is address the for there. While no speec scheduled, the president maiy. a few remarks to the crowd at station before the train leaves Salt Lake City At the latter city the president will deliver an address in the evening. Leaving Salt Lake City at 10 v'clnck tonight, the president will arrive ata Cheyenne, Wyoming, at 4 o'clock to- morrow afternoon. TO INCREASE THE PAY OF BAPTIST MINISTERS hour New York, Sept. 23.—Poorly pa Baptist ministers who have been com- pelled to spend their life saving to buy necessities or forced to go into debt for them in the hope that “the Lord will provide,” were ziven a mes- sage of cheer today by Rev. Charles A. McAlpine of the National Commit- tee of Northesn Baptist Laymen when he announced that the general board of promotion had taken steps to in- crease their pay. Mr. McAlpine:con- tends that the salary of every Baptist pastor who receives less than $2,000 a vear should be raised 50 per cent. Many churches in various sections of the country, including Michligan, New Jersey and New York state, are without pastors, he pointed out, be- cause of the shortage of ministers. He asserted that the clergymen “are be- ing forced. because of economic con- ditions, to accept empléyment with other religious, philanthropic and wel- fare organizations.” ROCKVILLE IN THROES 3 OF A TEXTILE STRIKE Sent. . Rockville. Conn.. The company’s tin plate Yorkville, near here, empl court in|than haif of the emploves in the seven textile shops here tonight e on strike, the total reaching not fr from 1.800.. Al classes of workers, includ- plant at|inz weavers and spinners, walked out loying $00 | today. A mass meeting for all the mill came today when nolices were posted [ persons, is working under an Amalgi- hands has been called for tomorrow There has no disturbanc infor n= striking employes of the|mated Association of Iron, Steel and Wheeling Steel and ‘Iron Company [Tin Workers agreement, bul its other T that its plant would resume operations | furnaces and mills here and at Wheel- But How? within a few days under ~a unionlinz, W. Va., employing 3,000 men, arel What to do with the railro agreement, .. 2 idle, Make them efficient—Chicago News. Condensed Gold exports_during the amounted to $3,305,000. Telegrams ast week Grain receipts at Chicage amounted to 9.458,000 bushels last we_e)L Price of milk in England advancing. It is expected to reach a shilling a quart: Bar silver was quoted at 62% pence an ounce in London; New York price was $1.14%. : Dominion Park on Mount - Revel- stoke, B. C, was officially opened by the Prince of Wales. German troops in the Baltic region intend to remain in Letvia all winter according to reports. Secretary of the Treasury submitted estimate for appropriation of $35,000 for industrial conference. i ate bor nator Kenyon proposed immed: investigation by the Senate La- Committee of the steel strike. According to a Helsingfors. report the Bolshevik have made all prepa- rations for the evacuation of Petro- grad. Aocording to Berlin reports German bankers were called upon to evolve a plan to check further decline in marks. Attorney General Palmer signed a strike a¥mistice, pleading for a half vear's truce and speeding up of pro- auction. Soft coal output in week _ending Sept. 13, totallesl- 11,080,000 tons, the highlest poin reached this year. arm E.th T. A. Mitten, presidint of the Phil- adelpn Rapid Transii Co.. said he received no offer from the I. R. T. to head their line: New York superintendent of public works reported against Federal con- trol of Erie canal as a such control would be ruinou an dyes ame reported a big It is also said efforts of shirt to obtain German dyes is mot movement. Americi sccess. Leopold Krause, captain of police at Rockville since 1910, has resigned to take effect October 1. He assigns ill health as his cause of action. At a meeting of the Ilartfora Elec- tric Light Company it was, voted to increase the capital stock of the cor poration by $1,500,000, making its total 57,500,000, Cornerstone of the Franco-Amer: commemorating E: can_monument, t peditionary Force in capturing San Miniel salient a year ago, was laid. st budget for the half year Bolste: under Soviet rule showed a defici] 30,000,000,000 rubles. This deficit will be met by issue of more rule notes. Plans for a shipping company with $100,090,000 capital is being discussed on the Pacific CoMt for the purpose of buying some Government vessels. Alien Property Custodian Francis P. n Garvin announced 15 memberships the New York Coffee & Sugar E: change will be sold to the high bidder. m H. Frank, millionaire brew- mayor of Poughkeepsie, intention of go- to escape pro- Wi er and former N announced his ing o Switzerland hibition. A court of inquiry began a secret investigation of reported theft of from $3.000 to $4,000 in Liberty Bonds from in New York Various departments Navy Yard. Nearly every organized craft in Canada was represented at the meet- ing ol $00 delegates at the 35th an- nual Trades and Labor Congress at Hamilton, Ont. unemployment insur- ance are meeting with a mixed re- ception_at the hands of legislative assemblies of states in the Common- wealth of Australia. Projects for Hines announced unless shippers assist administration b: prompt loading and unloading of cars, conserving space and act favorably on other suggestions a serious shortage is feared. Auckland Geddes, president of the British Board of Trade, who received a delegation of motor manufadturers, declineq to consider protection against free importaio nof commercial cars and tractors. FORMER KAISER'S FIELD KITCHEN IN NEW YORK Sept. — The field by the former German emperor was among the 2,700 tons of trophies of the world war brought to this -country by the transport Santa Rosa which arrived here today from Brest. They will be sent fo the Smithsonian Institution at Washing- ton, where they will be placed in the war exhibit. The field kitchen made of copper, resplendent with enamel decoratlons, showed no signs that it had been in the midst of shot and shell. Accord- ing to_its history, it was captured near Verdun. A case of medals, described as the propert: of the one time German crown prince, was also among the souvenirs. The medals were captured by American troops. the retainers of the prince having left them behind in a hurried retreat. Two German military motoreycles of a new tvpe which were used to carry machine guns, were also on' the trans- port. They have a potential speed, it is estimated, of 120 miles an hour. LONG DEM. NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR BAY STATE Boston, Seot. 24.—Richard H. Long, a Framingham manufacturer, was nominated for governor by the demo- crats at the vrimary yesterday, for the second successive year. At the election in November he will again op- Calvin Coolidge. who Directar New York, kitchen used pose Governor was renominzted by the republicans yesterday without opposition . 10000 BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL BURNED; LOSS $100,000 Philadelphia. Sept. 23.—Ten _stills containing 10,000 barrels of crude oil were destroyed by fire at the plant of the Atlantic Refining Company here tonight, The loss is estimated at $100,000. Three emploves at the plant were injured while assisting the firemen in fighting the blaze. - REPUBLICA Washington, Sept. 23.—Republicans took actual control of peace treaty| procedure in the senate today by & three vote margin. | The'first test in the fight now being | waged about the pact with its lcague of nations covenant came on a motion | by Chairman Lodge of the foreign re- | lations commitice to postpone for onc | week consideration of some forty odd amendments, which would relieve the ! United States from service on commis- | sions created under the treaty. The{ formal motion, with a fixed date, was put before the senate after the vice| president had sustained a point of or-| der by Semator Hitchcock, leader of | the adminfstration forces for ratifica tion, against a motion for indefinitc consideration, and it was adopted, 43 to 40. The motion, not of itself important, was accepted tonight by opponents of the league as the best possible index | of the feeling and attitude of the sen- ate toward the treaty and the cove- Democratic leaders declared it S WIN THE FIRST TEST VOTE ON PEACE TREATY Senate Sustains, 43 to 40, a Motion By Senator Lodge to Post- pone For One Week Consideration of Forty Odd Amend- ments—Democratic Leaders Are Disposed to Belittle Sig- nificance of the Vote—Ten Senators Were Paired and Three Absentees Were Not Paired. and nays wers de- on which the ayes manded by Senator Hitchcock ow~ ed party lines. Senator Jones O Washington and Senator McCumber orth Dakota, both republicans, voted against the motion, and Senator Reed democrat, of Missouri, voted for it. Ten senators were paired and three —Gore, .Oklahoma, King, Utah, and ssee sen: Shields, Ten a voting, were not paired The little flurry over the Lo tion was the only excitement the two. hour consideration tfhe which was not taken up until 3 o because of a parliamentary wra Senator Lodge called it up. the regulation hour, but the fig a scnate rule still was rur when Senator Hitchcock ¢ by a demand for r There was no speechmakir in the day the crowds in listening to the monotonous re looked down and saw only tors—Hitchcock and Brar publican, of Connecticut sena ing_the war. The declaration was made from the rear platform of the president’s pri- vate car where a crowd clamored ior a speech after the presidential pariy| had returned from a brief ride] through Ogden. “1 cannot make a real speech in the| circumstances,’ he said, “ior you will | | understand that the iheme [ have| most at heart needs a lot of sea room to turn in and 1 would despair of making any _adequate remarks | apout s0 great a faatter as the treaty of peace or the League of Nations but'I do find this. that the thing .s| very near the heart of the people “There are are some men in public life who do not seem to be in touch witH the heart of the people, but those who-are, know how’ that heart throbs deep’ and strorg for. this great enterprise of humanity, for it is noth- ing less thun that. “We must set our very definite way to assist the judg- ment of public men. 1 do not mean in anv wav to coerce the judgment of public men, but to enlighten and ass.ac iual Juugment for 1 am con- vinced, aflter erossing the continent, that there is no sort of doubt thal fiydnY eighty per cent. of United States are for the League of tions, and that the chief opposi- tion comes from the very disquieting ‘element that he had to deal with be- fore und during the war. “All ‘the elements that tended to- wards disloyalty are against the league, ang for a very good reason It this league is not adopted we will serve Germany’s purpose, because we will be dissociated from the nations. and T am afraid permanently dissoci- ated from the nations. with whom we cooperated in defeating Germany.™ [ | purposes in a the people of the INCREASED STREET CAR FARES IN RHODE Sept. 23—Six cent fares in the present zomes of the Rhode Island Company, an increase of one cent, with an advance from one cent to two cents for transfers, are provided in an order of the public util- ities commission entered today. In- creases during the past vear in the pay of the ,company’s employes amounting to $2,213.900 annually, are declared to have made the fare in- crease necessary. The company is ordered to file with the commission tariffs to become ef- fective on three days’ notice to the public and to remain during the res ceivership of the company unless oth- erwise ordered by the commission The commission recommends that a replacement reserve fund—3$959,750 in 1919 and $1,125,200 in 1920—should be immediately expanded on the property to keep it in reasonable operating con- dition. ISLAND Providence, R. I. WOULD BROADEN SCOPE OF WORKMEN’'S COMPENSATIONS Toronto, Sept. 23.—A broadening of workmen’s compensation laws to in- clude the workers in all industires. including agriculture, mining, lumber ing, transportation, distribution, chandsing and domestic service, was urged today by Royal Meeker, United States commissioner of labor statis- tics, in an address delivered at the opening session of the sixth annaal convention of the International Asso- ciaton of Industrial Aceident Boards and Commissioners. More than 70 delegates from all parts of the United| States and Canada are in attendance at the convention which will last four days. LARGE REGISTRATION AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY New York, Sept. 23.—Registation at Columbia Univesity, which will end tomorrow, shows to date the largest number of students listed in its his- tory, it was announced tonight. Virt- ually all departments have announced regord registration, so far. More than-2,000 men have signed up for the department of extension teaching, which plans to do much to- warg democratizing university edu- cation, it was said. ~ Other depdrt- ments reported registrations totalling more than 2500, $100 FINE FOR VIOLATING WAR-TIME PROHIBITION Boston, Sept. 23.—The first fine im- posed in this federal district for vio- lation of the war-time prohibition act was declared (oday in the case of lid- ward Pothjer] a New Bedford saloon- 2 keeper, who pleaded guilty to unaw- ful sale lof iquor. ~His fine was placed ‘at 3100, I ant. meant nothing. her. Others fiit ack v Exceps.n three instances, the vote, | fow sat through the rea PRESIDENT TALKS OF NOT TO REINSTATE TREATY AT OGDEN, UTAH STRIKING POLICEMEN Ogden, Utah, Sept. 23.—President| Bogton, Sept. 23 o n Wilson told @ crowd today that he|Curtls in a statemen e+ had found eighty per centl of the|ated hat he would not reinstate people in favor of the League of Na-|striking policemen. “I have no tions. The chief opposition, he added, | thority to reinsta policemen came from u “very disquieting cle-|the statement said > ment” which included the inftuences | vacant and observing which tended toward disloyaity dur-|make no distinetion ' union member connections or Yeither manner with of the de partment w or 30 vears 1 o their status Taw “Well, of course, the men migh appear for exami £ e vil service commissior rt a over again, but as I und they wor robably meet w ser ous obstacles there “It has been said tha w th men were going to quit thei that they were going to take action if 1 found one of t violating Rule Tr 3 notice from the policemen his e fect, 1 read the statement in t I had o intormaion tha strike aid the men ve bee RESULTS OF CITY AND TOWN CONVENTIONS IN NEW HAVEN New Haven, Conn., and town conventions tonight, the democrats Mayor David E. Fitzgera publicans naming Jame A late a major in the army and a of the 102d regiment. The democ ticket is the same as el with the exception of the candid registrar of voters. The republ put up a ticket,” candidates sur Sliector, town clerk str f voters having previously n nominees The democrat follow mayer, David ¥ ra 8 Frank C. Miles: controlle Mullen; sheriff, Frank A mier treasu Henry Fresenius x lector. William H. Hackett: re of vital statistics, Andrew P. registrar of voters, Thomas F Douzha town clerk. John The republican James A. Hagserty Merriam: controller. hart: treasurer, William tax collector, . Babcock of vital statistics rence L. registrar of voters. Louis K town clerk, Frederic w tick s F F FIXED RATES FOR FURNITURE MOVERS IN NEW YORK New York, Sept. 23.—An attempt lighten the financial burd whie faces the thousands of New Yorke: to whom October 1 is “moving was made today whaen a resolu introduced in the board of alderme fixing the rates which furniture mov ers may charge. The ordinance pro vides a .scale ranging from te o° $1.75 an hour for one horse vehicle t $3.50 an hour for large motor drive: vans. It also provides tha of at least three miles an r bo maintained and that not more th four men be allotted to one j Another ordinance propose that daylight saving be continued in New York city regardless of what the resk of the country may flecree. Tt provides for the setting back of the clocks I the metropolis for an hour end of April to the end of September of ean! year. A RAILROAD REORGANIZATION BILL HAS BEEN PERFECTED ‘Washington, Sept A raitroad reorganization bill will be presented during the present session by the Tn terstate Commerce Committee. Repr: sentative Mondell, balority floor lead- er, told the house today, but he could make no promises as to the time final action. His. statement was In re- Ply to charges by Representativa Wingo, democrat, Arkansas, that the bill was being delayed for political purposes. Before the committee, Clifford Thorne, of Chicago, representating shippers, asserted that a sweepin advance in freight rates would be “most unfortunate” while all partles concermed, he thought, would favor private -oneration under - supervision through Director General Hines with the continuance of the law. carryin with it the government guaranty: til peace conditions are reinstated. ITALY TO SEVERELY PUNISH SOLDIER RAIDERS OF FIUME London, Sept. 23.—In official here the opinion was expressed today that Italy sincerely desires to solve the Fiume situation. It is understood that the Italian military authorities have issued orders.that participants in raids who do not return to their units within five days shall be posted as de- serters and punished with the utmest rigor. > un circles