Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 25, 1919, Page 1

VOL. LXI—NO. 229 NORWICH, CONN., TfiUfiSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1919 12 PAGES-—-84 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS e e STEEL INDUSTRY GONFLICT NEARING CRITICAL PERIOD There Has Been Little Change In the Pittsburgh District Since the First Big Walkout—Each Side Is Guarding Against a Stampede—Labor’s Board of Strategy Is Mapping Out Plans to Checkmate Efforts of Employers—Governor Sproul Upholds the Work of the State Police—24 Arrests Have Been Made at McKeesport and 16 at Glassport— Leader John Fitzpatrick Is Going to Washington to Pre- sent Strikers’ Appeal to the Senate Committee. he third day of the great steel trike pa without citner capital} avor having made anv apparent| naterial gains. Last nigit atieniion was focussed on Washington.| ere inquiry into the industrial} ..ruzsie by the senate labor commit-| T o g e | From their respeciive headquarters, leaders and directors of the: issued their usual conflicting! h still in doubt| ers wno have} Foster. left Steel Company. principal subsidiary of the United States Steel Corpora- tion. vould be shut down by the end of the week. Secretary Foster announced late to- day that 342,000 men in the industry are on striikz ond that the situaion was well in land. This is a gain o 15.000 compared wih his figures of yesterday. Only cptimistic information came | from the offices of the Carnegie and other steel companies in the Pitts- burgh district today and they were riance with those given out . by the unions. The company officials ¥ maintained -that the irend was into 000 more men had {the mills. Increased forces. they de- bringing the total toiclarcd, were in evidence at ail the crucial Pittsburgd | important plants. including Home- f the United Stateslstead. Clairton, Braddock. Duquesne n and several “inde-{ond ihe Pittsburgh city mills of the ed that the stream of|Carnegie company. The strikers re- o d_turncd and was flowing in-iported :wo of the smaller indapend- mills. _|ent mils in ts ity closed. but ihis ording to repc com Plits-1was denied by officers of thes> con- ere union lzbor lcaders heldlcerns who said they were running cral parley 1o consider conductihut were short handed. b trike. manage’s of the planis| The Jones and Laushlin Steel Com- - oifensive. seeking now to Not content with merely holding what forces remain with them, they are to be tryving to induce wavering ers to return. On the other hand ~'s recruiting forces afe not in- e. as shown by the fact that o zanizers from the mine worker: union have been called to rninforce[ »f the steel workers' union in n-union worke Des rediction of Mr. Fos- ter that. through the work of these orzanize the strikers will be able gradually to shut down all the im- of had heen anle ction in all important uding those in Homestead. RBraddock quesne and the ity mills of the Carnegie wort employers they the Pitisburgh dis- labor claimed that to in- riet burgh. the situation in was clouded by eon- The industry in that crippled by the clos- 2t was b no means | any officials claimed | had lcen made to the re-| duced forces with which they were inz_opezation- he Younzstown 4 though of many pl tied up and o strict, where claimed hr (he strik- the stfike spread vesterday to ricatinz plants. iwo of whaich were cloked as was the Youngstown-Press- cd Steel Company. Paralvsis of pro- tion the Mahoning Valler. caus-| idieness of 44,000 workers. con- every pian: beinz closed. 1200 Men Vote to Return to Work From Canton, Oh'c. nouncement b the advances were ues. came the zene) Sheel teel Companv h numbering had voted to return tn work. In the Colorado district. plants of rhe Colorado Fuel and Tron Company Pueblo which in closed Monday. re- main idle. and aceording to officials will make no offort to oerate with strikebreakers, Yesteday was marked by a sharp violence. Although rioting Cleveland. order reigned Y.. and Pittsburgh, New- | Farrell, Pa. ths storm of these riots came strike headquarters that Buffalo the trouble had heen “in- #d” by “hired detectives” for the purpose “of bringing in the state con- abulatory and hreaking T the strikers: Governor Smith would asked order an investigation, was announced. A complaint by Mr. Foster to Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania con- cerninz the action of the state police " dispersing crowds in steel towns, ught from the governor a reply nat he‘had been informed “dangerous 3 evil disposed persons at points in otherstates” were reparing ‘to ecol- ~ct armed mobs come across the line to attack our citizens and destrov their property.” and that suen mobs would be treated ‘as armed in- vaders of Pennsylvania. An attack on metheds which he said had be: n employed in the past by steel companies was made vesterday by amuel Gompers, president of the Americah Federation of Labor, who in addressinz the senate interstate committee on the Cummins railroad bill. referred to the steel strike, charg- ing “murder. assault, arrest of men, prohibition of meetings on rented srounds and workers dispersed by hugs. zangsters adn detective crooks employed by the companies.” To the senate will be carried the fight of strikers in the Pittsburgh dis. trict for the right of free speech and assemblage. John Fitzpatirick. chair man of the national committes for or. - the ranks e T ganizing iron and steel workers, an- nounced last night after the confer. ence of labor leaders in that city, LABOR'S '30ARD OF STRATEGY, IS MAPPING OUT PLANS! Pittsburgh., Sept. 24.—While orz- anized labor's board of strategy was in session here today mapping out further plans to ering victory to the union steel workers of the counry in their struggle with the employers, the operating execut:ves of inc corpora- tions involved were stroining every merve (o check a spread of the strike. The present phase of the conflict regarded by both sides as a critical period. The firs rush and excite- ment of the initiation of the strike 's| ver. Reports indivate that there has| not been a great movement of men in- o or out of the planis i the Pitts.| burgh district since the first big| walkout and each side is guarding cgainst a stampede. The leaders of the strikers. as shown by their declaration that tnr strike is spreading, are not giving up the attack, but predict that with the coming of more organizers they will| gradually_shut down all the important | works. Secretary William 7. Foster. ! of the sirikers. National esmmittee, | =aid today that he expa \ &rcat Homestead plant of the Carnegie pressed with the fact that our people sait pany mills, against which a drive h been sta-ted by the unions, were re ported to be running near normal by the management. At union nead- quarters it was said men in some of the plants of he company were grad- s ually coming out. Officers of -he. American Steel and Wircs Company and the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company also reported about n improved conditions Pittsburgh. the outer Pittsburgh disrict small gains were reported for the lorger stcel milis. Conditions were said to be better from the standpoint of the cmpioyers at Newcastle and at Farrell at both of which places there have been riots with loss of life. Organizers from the mine workers' union and other labor orsanizatio; are beginning to come into the Pitts burg district to assist those who have been campaigning here. Secre- tary Foster sent out an appeal Sev- cral days ago to labor leaders. a serting that hundreds of men have been_ wanting to join the unions af- fected but. there were no organizers about to take them in hand. The Pittsburgh district as a twhole was_comparatively - quiet today. Latc in the afternoon strikers attempted to hold a meeting on the borouzh linc of in and McKeesport. The horough authori- ties have forbidden . mass meetings and have broken up several attempis of the union men to gather in. open places GOV. W. C. SPROUL UPHOLDS ACTION OF STATE POLICE Harrisburs, Pa., Sept. 24.—Gov. Wil- liam C. Sproul tomight gave out a telezram which he had sent to William Z. Foster, leader of the e in the Pittsburgh district, in answer -to a message in which Mr. Foster had com- plained of action of state police. The governor says that the interest of the State government is preservation law and order and that it will regard any armed mobs which seek to cross the state line to overcower municipal officials “as armed invaders of Penn sylvania” and will deal with them as such. The governor's telegram says: William Z. Foster. Secretary. 203 Ma- gee Building. Pittsburgh, Pa Your teleSram compiaining of the action of a squad of our state police in dispersing a crowd at North Clare- ton has received my attention. My in- formation is that the people were or- dered to move in accordance with a prociamation by the sheriff forbidding public gatherin2s. that the police did not approach the crowd until their commands had been defied. and that nobody was hurt until shots had been fired and stones and other missiles had been thrown at the officers. Experience | has shown that it is dangerous to per- mit the congregation of large numbers of people during times of stress and excitement and the sheriff as the offi- cial charged with the maintenance of law and order was acting for the pub- } lic_welfare in forbidding the gather- ings and in enforcing his decrees. carrving out this policy all the counties will sistance of the state. Permit me to take this oopportunity ol saving to vou that in the situatfon which now ‘exists, when lawlessness and disorder have compelled the in- tervention of the state to aid the local authorities to maintain the peace, when every good citizen's attitude should be that of upholding the law and counselling and aiding in the maintenance of order. I shall expect Yyour full co-operation in helping us to see to it that the laws of the common- wealth are observed and its peace pre- served. Reports have reached me that many agitators, hostile alike to our institu- tions of government and to the organ- ization which vou represent, have taken advantage of the disturbed con- ditions to come into Pennsylvania to n the sheriffs of have the full as- spread wicked propaganda and to en-' deavor to incite the ignorant and the vicious to riot and pillage. These per- sons are enemies of the state and our every endeavor is being given to their apprehension and punishment under; our Jaws. Information has come tq us that ef- forts are being made by dangerous and evil disposed persons at points in other states near our .boundaries to collect armed mobs to come across the state line to overpower our municipal au- thorities and to attack our citizens and destroy their property. If any such attempts are made we shall be com- pelled to regard these mobs as armed invaders of Pennsylvania and we shall 4eal with them as such. I count upon Your counse! and influence to discour- age such attempts and to aid us In every way that you can against those who would by intemperate speech in- flame people to criminal actions. Our interest in the struggle in which you are engaged is In the maintenance of law and order. the protection of vour rights and those of all of our people. citizens and ' sojourners alike who live within our laws. During your own stay here you must have been im- 'Clemenceau’s Views Gf League of Nations D | ! eclares the League Could Ex- ist Even Though Rejected By the United States Sen- ate. Paris. Sept. 24 (By the A. P.).—In an} explanation to the chamber of deputies! today, Premier Clemenceau, after de- claring that the league of nations could exist even though rejected by the United States senate, asserted that it was precisely because the French felt that the league of nations was an insufficient guarantee for some vears to come that the protective treaties of aliiance betwen France, Great Dritain and the United States were drawn up. SAYS SHORT WORK DAY DOES NOT DIMINISH PRODUCTION New York, Sept. 24 —Evidenc creasing that reduction of work hours within limits does not diminish production. according to ITederick S. Lee, professor of physiology at Coium- bia University and consulting physiolo- gist to the United States public health service, who addressed the internation- al Conference of Women Physicians to- day on “Industrial Fatigue.” At the same time Professor Lee declared that imitation of work on the part of the workers to a point par below their physiological capacity” was ‘“very common.” The speaker expressed the opinion that while the evidence seemed to point to an eight hour day as approxi- mating the best working period it was probable that limit would be found too long for certain kinds of work and too short for others. t night, Professor Lee said. the fall in proauction during the last two hours was enormous, “at least in the very common twelve hour night.” are law-abiding and while they have absolute consideration for the rights of others they are earnest indeed in the protection of their own rights and the good name of the commonwealth of which they are a part. This is the spirit of the people of Pennsylvania, and as governor of the state T shall see to It that their laws are faithfully ex cuted. their rizhts protected and their titiiions upheld. 2 WILLIAM C. SPROUL, Governor of Pennsylvania. canitol it was explained to- right that by “armed mobs” the gov- ernor had in mind reports that steel steel workers from Youngstown. O.. were preparing to march over the state line into Farrell, Pa., a town in the Pitisburgh steel industrial region, for the declared purpose of holdinz a mass meeting in the Pennsylvania town. i1 At the TO MAKE FIGHT FOR RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH Pittsburgh, Pa. Sept. 24.—The fight of the striking steel workers in the Pittsburch district for the right of free <peech “and free assemblaze will | be carried to the United States sen- ate. John Fitzpatrick of Chicago. the chairman of the national committec for organizing iron and steel workers announced here tonight at the clo: of the committée meeting. He said that he would leave at once for Wa ington to vresent the strikers' appeal to the senate committee investigating i the sirike before which he will tes- tify tomorrow. Mr. Fitzpatrick declared that the critical in ital assauits this district situation beca W of b police on strikers. He charged | they had clubbed and run de | men and children wiih their horses at cKeesport. Clairton,_ Homestead and 1 am taking sufficient evidence to Washington to present our case.” the chairman added. “lt is our intention to demand that the constitutional rights of the workers be upheld by the federal government.” Frank P. Walsh, former chairman of the National War Labor Board, wired tonight that he would arrive in Pittsburgh within a few days to take up the fight of the workers for free speech and free assemblage and in- estigate local conditions, Mr. z- patrick said. Although fakce > atyise | i disinclined to talk meeting today. Secre- illiam 2. Foster said that a -commice haa heen appointed to h the presidents of the four brotherhoods to discuss mat- He re- about meet railr ters a pertaining to the strike.” ) fused to go into particulars regarding ithe purpose of the meeting with the ! railroad chiefs. According to Mr. Foster. another committee was appointed to meet with Sheriff William S. Haddock of Allegheny county, and make a protest against the actions of the state troop- ers called into the county by the sheriff. Several members committee will remain in Pittsburgh and_act in an advisory capacity in conducting the strike, Mr. Foster said. {The main committee, however. Wz adjourned without date. When asked regarding the progress of the strike. Mr. Fitzpatrick said that be was highly pleased with reports and that the mills were shutting down ! { throughout the couniry. He said the Homestead situation was well in the i control of the union and tha: the plants there were closing, although the Carnegic company was making a bard fight to keep them in operation. He charged that ghe company was vunning Ke rolls without steel in an effort to make a pretense >f operat- ing. NO POSSIBILITY OF A GENERAL STRIKE Pittsbursh, Pa. Sept. 24.—There is no possibility of a general strike grow- {ing out of the steel workers' walkout, ! Mr. Fitzpatrick declared. “All talk of i a general strike is ridiculous,” he add- ed. Mr. Fitzpatrick asserted that the steel workers' strike was an “Ameri- of the national | 1 i can strike.” He said that reports that| only foreigners had walked out of thej ! plants were false and “not substantiat- | { ed by fac | "1 ety anyone te prove that this is i not an American strike.” said Mr. Fitz- { patrick. “Although large numbers of foreign-born workers have walked out. many American-born men have joined our vanks. Of course it must he re- membered that large numbers of for- eign-born men are employed in_un- skilled labor in the steel industry.” 100 RAILROAD YARDS CREWS HAVE BEEN LAID OFF Youngstown, O.. Sept. 24—Railroads ! serving the various sieel plants in the | Youngstown district have laid off 100 crews. aggregating 500 men, since the steel strike began Monday morning. according to railroad officials. Many additional crews will be laid off, it was { Doorn castle. C;ndensed Telegrams England is planning to regulate child labor. Reorganization of Chilean ministry announced. Americans are g more bread and less of the higher priced goods. A successful attack by General Den- ikine is admitted by the Soviet Gov- ernment. Bar silver was quoted at 62% pence an ounce in London: New York price $1.15%. Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, left New York for Chicago. Gold output of the United Stal 1918 dropped $15.104,000. Silver ped 3,930,223 ounces. Standard Oil Co., of nounced advance in naphtha and gasolene. In prices King and Queen of Belgium will vi San Francisco and from there will go to the Yosemite Valley. Steel company officials considered use of airplanes to protect steel mill property against damage. It was reported a shipment of 51,000 pounds of powdered aluminum ar- rived in this country from abroad. Status of the former Austro-Hun- arian crownland of Galicia was before the Supreme Council for discussion. Unitcd States gold coin to the amount of $375.000 was withdrawn from the Sub-Treasury for shipment. Plans of New York State for the Roosevelt Wild Life Reservation S tion will be duplicated in Japan on a larger scale. Former Kaiser has taken out fire insurance of 10,000,000 florins on his furniture and personal property at All American units were withdrawn from the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, which was occupied since December by the Third Army. Army canned goods bought by Mayor King were being marketed through the factories of Meriden yesterday for the bencfit of employes. The American state department is taking measures to check the extension of the anti-saloon league’s prohibition campaign in Europe. Bank clerks in New York formed a union; they demand -a six hour day, time and a half up to 7 o'clock and double time after that. An increase of 15 per cent. in the price of illuminating gas was announc ed by the Meriden Gas Light Compan making the cost $1.40. Seth Bullock, lifelong friend of the late Col- Theodore -Roosevelt, died at his honie at Deadwood, S. D., after an ‘iliness of several weeks. Senator Penrose, chairman Tinance Committee, is taking up members of the commitiee questions relating to revision of the tariff. Senator Champ Clark declared in an address at New Orleans that profit- sharing was the solution of the dif- ferences beiween labor and capital Enactment of the prohibition en- forcement bill. fixing one-half of one per cent as the maximum content of legal beverages, is expected this week. General Manager Royce of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. says un- less trollev fares are increased fore- closure porceedings might be begun by bondholders. War Department announces it has sold the Moline Plow Co., Moline, IIL.. 80 per cent. of the machinery required to re-equip its tractor plant, destroyed by fire August 24. According to officials in close touch with the situation at Washington, the Navy Department may be forced to abandon its plans for government own- ership of the wireless Ben Tillett, M.P., British fraternal delegate to the Canadian Tr and lLabor Congress at Hamilton, preflicted election of a labor governmel in England in a few years. Three post office employes were ar- rested in Chicago on a charge of steal- ing $240,000 of a shipment of $415.000 from the Federal Reserve Bank to the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. An ordinance was introduced by Al- derman Lee providing that “all em- ploy of New York be granted the right to form a union for their mutual advantage and advancement.” Every possible effort is being made to restore to its pre-war basis_ the cable system, it was announced in London. Five cables connecting Eng- land ‘and Germany that were cut are being repaired. Mexican government reported likely to determine and present Mexican gov- ernment’s responsibility with respect to a bond issue of 200,000.000 pesos au- thorized by the Madero administration and carried out by Huerta. M. Pratt, members of the French Chamber of Deputies, was arrested on a charge of extortion by a merchant named Gilbert. Gilbert said he paid Pratt 2.000 francs for letter absolving his firm from charge of being Austrian owned. POREST FIRES THREATENED TOWN OF PLACERVILLE, COL. Placerville, Cal, Sept. 24.—Placer- ville was threatened again with de- struction by forest fires this afternoon | settlement 0 {bers from each pressmen’s union here, Nation-W.de Strike mmjgns [taly Situation Results From the Uncertainty In the Fiume Affair — D’Annunzio Has 1,200 Men. Rome. Monday, Sept. 22.—(By the A. P.)—The situation throughout Italy resulting from the uncertainty of the Fiume affair has been complicated by a_strike of metal workers which has affected all factories. A meneral na- tion-wide strike is threatened which would not oniy tie up the industries of Italy but also the means of transpor- tation, including shipping. The postal and telegraph employes already have taken recourse to sabo- tage, causing delay in transmission of letter and telegrams, The non-deliv- | ery of many of these missives caused serious inconvenienc to businss hou: s and individuals. D’ANNUNZIO HAS AR_MY OF MORE THAN 12,000 Triest. Monday, Sept. 22 (By the A. P.).—Additional reinforcements to Ga- briele d'Annunzio’s forces have raised | the military strength of his contingent to more than 12,000 men, according to the estimates of allied officers return- ing from Fiume. PRESIDENT WILSON AT CHEYENNE, WYO. Wyo. Sept. Cheyenne. 24 —Reading again the proposed senate reservation to Article 10 of the league covenant, sident Wilson declared in an ad- herc ioday that should any such ervation be adonted he would “be okbiiged as chief executive to regard it jection of the treaty.” The president added that rejection of the treaty would mean negotiation of a senarate peace with Germany and asserted that such a negotiation could not change a single item of the peace seitlement. Recalling Japan's promise to return to China all sovereign rizhts in Shan- tung. the president said the only thing retained by the Tokio government would be economic rights such as other nations hold. He said the Tnited States had no rigsht to doubt that promise. He characterized as “empty noise” the professions of friendship for China made by those who want the treaty to fafl. Turning to the league covenant. the president said the question of whether the heart of the league covenant was to be cut out soon must come to a “showdown.” Tt would mean the vitiation of the whole plan. he assert- ed. if the nation were to adopt reserva- tions to Article 10 as proposed in the senate. 10,000 PRINTING PRESSMEN IN NEW YORK ON STRIKE ept. 24—A storm of cheering greeted apnouncement at a mass megting today of New York Printing Pressmen’s Union 51, of the “Big Six.” that publishers who ca ried out threats to move their plant to other parts of the country would find that union pressmen in Chicago, St. Louis. Rochester and other citiss would refuse to work for them. 2p~wximately 10,000 union em- ployes aquit work for a self-declared half holiday this afternoon to discuss strike acticn to enforce demands for a 44-hour week and a flat increase of $14 a week. A resolution to delegate committee, of New York, strike mem- to two authority to sign agreements with em- ployers embocving the workers’ de- mands. was adcpted after bitter wrangling between the “radical” and “conservative” groups. This settle- ment committee will be named next Monday, it was announced. COUNSEL FOR GRAU DENIES CLIENT IS A SPANISH L. W. W. New York, Sept. 24—Counsel for Jose Grau, a Spanish I W. W., who is alleged by the immigration authoriti to have entered this country secreily in order to attend a convention of the organization in Philadelphia several months ago, today obtained a writ of habeas corpus. Grau, who was detain- ed at Eilis Island for deportation, claimed in his petition that he does not advocate unlawful destruction of prop- erty and that although he has written newspaper articles under the name of “Arnaldo Sopelno”. he is a segpfaring man and entered the country legally as a member of a ship's ceew. ARE TO FILM AFRICAN TRIBES IN THE JUNGLES| 24—African tribes in the jungles into which Theodore Roosevelt penetrated on his bizg game hunts will be filmed with the still and motion picture cameras by party which sailed on the steamship Cretic today, under the ausnices of the Knights of Columbus. Native hunt-: ing of lions, tigers and leopards will be | caught by the “movie man” and brought back for scientific and educa- | tional exhibition. it was announced.| The pictures will be taken mainly in Uganda and Kavirondo. AN ITALIAN DETACHMENT HAS ENTERED DALMATIAE Sept. 24 (By the A. P).—An with several arm- New York, Sept. Paris, Italian detachment ored motor cars, has crossed the line of demarkation near Toguire. Dalma- tia, and penetrated the town after havinz_overcome the resistance of a dozen Jugoslav soldiers, according to a despatch from Belgrade. reccived her The despatch adds that two Ameri can vessels have left Spalato for To- suire. INCREASES IN PAY FOR ALL NEW YORK CITY EMPLOYES New York, Sept. 24.—Increases in the pay of policemen, firemen and all civil when the wind shifted towards the city. All business establishments were ciosed and every able-bodied man was called cut to fight the fires that were within one mile of the city. Ashes fell in Placerville. SPANISH SAILORS CHARGED WITH SMUGGLING RUM[BROKE WOR New York, Sept. 24—Rum smu, gling, generally supposed to belong to the days of “saucy brigs” and cutlass- was the crime four members of the crew of a Span- ish steamer who were arraigned today | plane ultitude record Commissioner | when he Hitchcock. They were held for further!height of 30,900 feet or apj examination on a charge of smusgling | six miles. before United States 65 bottles of Spanish rum imto the country. | agreed jnm budget _committee of the board of charged against | Schroeder, chief test pilot at McCook Husea in”th service employves of the citv, amount- ing to about $10,000.000 annually, were upon late today by the finance estimate. These increases arc mate- rially larger than even the most onti- mistic beneficiaries expected a short time ago. LD’S TWO-MAN AIRPLANE ALTITUDE RECORD Dayton, Ohio, Sept. third successive time. 24 —For Major R. the W. Field, broke the world's two man this afternoon an indicated ascended to Furnish an Officer to Act 265 Institutions. Bethlehem, Pa., Sept. 24—The new regulations of the war department for the Reserve Officers Training Corps to be reinstituted this fall in colleges and schools of the country were an-| nounced by Secretary of War Baker! in an address at the opening exercises of Lehigh University today, at which President Henry Sturgis Drinker pre- sided. Secretary Baker said that “the gov- ernment will, to institutions forming training units of at least 100 membes furnish an officer to act as professor of military science and tactics, with with such a: ants as may be nec- ary, and all the requlsite equip- ment. Students who attéend the sum- mer camps will, in addition, be pro- vided with quarters and sustenance free of cost and transportation from and to their homes” The military training ‘asked during the year has been reduced to a minimum while con- serving efficiency and leaving the main work of drill and field work to the two summer camps proposed” The revised regulations will affect 265 institutions and all classes affili- ated with the war department in which \pproximately one hundred thousand students are under military training. They are distributed over every state and territory in the union except Alas- ka and including Porto Rico and Hawail. REGULATIONS FOR RESERV ~ OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS Secretary Baker Announces That the War Department Will as Instructor, Uniforms, Arms and Equipment to Institutions Forming Training Units of at Least 100 Members—New Regulations Will Affect having R. O d to by Sec- Other institutions not T. C. units weré app retary Baker, who said: “I cannot toc strongly urge upon the autrohities our universities and colleges and upor our American students the great ed ucational and physical value to oul yougn men of the training thus offer- ed. Tt will give them an opportunity to render valuable and patriotic ser vice and to our nation a large body of educated men able and ready tr take responsible positions if the neer of national defense should arise. Tt will greatly aid in putting America in a position to preserve peace rendering evident our power to resis aggression. Secretary Baker paid- tribute to ‘the glorious part played by the college of this country in the recent strug gle’ He declared that “it has not Leen in the past, nor is it now, the idea or intention of the government in reinstituting a system of military training for students to deyelope a militaryistic spirit in our people. There is a wide gulf between military pro- ficlency as typified by the American citizen trained to arms and confident militaristic system de years. It nation a of ef na- of his proficiency and that spirit which the Prussian veloped during the past forty is our idea to develop in the citizenry trained and capable ficiently bearing arms for the tional defense.” JAPAN AIMS AT COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY OF THE SEA New York, Sept. 24.—Japan is ready to compete with Great Britain and the United States for the commercial su- premhcy of the sea, Baron Kondo, president of the Nippon Yusen Kabu- shika Kaisha Steamship Company, the largest in the Far East, declared {upon his arrival here today on the steamship Caronia from London. The baron is on his way home from Paris, where he has been acting as an in- dustrial adviser to the Japanese peace mission. Japan” he said “now holds third place among the nations of the world as a maritime power and will not only strive to hold that position but is will- ing to compete with all others for sec- ond or cven firs pace. Laron Kondo declared that his com- pany now has 750,000 deadweight tons of shipping, including four passenger hips of more than 10,000 tons and [seven others building. “We are carrying out a building pro- sramme of from 600,000 to 700,000 tons A yea he said. “Our four largest ships are in the Yokohama-Seattle trade. This line with six ships and the Yokohama-Australia line with six ships are old lines. Since the war my company has branched out into world trade. The new lines of the Nippon Yushen Kabushika Kaisha already in operation, or due (o operate begin- ning O ber 1, include six ships to Hamburg. six to Liverpool, five to | South American ports. thirty to India !tweive to London and thirty to New York via the Panama Canal. | NEWSPAPER STRIKE IN NEW HAVEN REMAINS UNCHANGED New Haven, Conn., Sept. 24.—The newspaper strike In this city remains unchanzed. The publishers of the four New Haven dailies tonight denied that they had made any offer of settlement or suggestion of compromise with the members of their former news staffs. who, as members of the News Writers Equity association, went on strike on Sept. 15 John T. Flynn, president of the News Writers' Equity association, in a state- ment tonight said, “Colone! Osborn, editor of the Jour- nal-Courier. today conferred with his former staff and made them an offer of an increase’ in pay. The publisher of the Union also conferred with his former news writers today and indi- cated his intention of making an offer. “The news writers, at a fully attend- ed meeting today, unanimously agreed to submit a contract similar to one just signed at Lynn, Mass.. and to Stand pat on that demand. Tt has heen communicated o the publishers. The association newspaper, ‘The Reporter,’ will continue to JUNCTION OF POLISH ARMY WITH GENERAL DENIKINE'S Serne, Sept. 20.—(Havas)—The Pol- ish press bureau here announces that the army of General Denikine. operat- ing in south Russia, has formed a junction with the Polish troops near Kerostone. If the above report should be true it would mean that the Poles and the an- ti-Bolshevik forces under Denikine will be to coordinate their efforts in fighting the Bolsheviki in south Russia. OIL FOR LIGHTING AND HEATING SYSTEMS OF NEW YORK New York. Sept —Substitution of oil for coal as fuel, while it would mean revolutionizing the lighting and heat- ing sysiems of New York, would ef- fect a daily saving of more than $200,- 000, according to experts who appear- ed today before the board of standards and appeals. The testimony was given at a public hearing which was opened by the board at the suggestion of Mayor Hylan. MORE WARSHIPS ARE ORDERED TO FIUME which are before Fiumc and leave the Adriatic Sea. Strike of Doctors at Dundalk, Ire. London, Sept. 24—Tke doctors of proximat A Lapere two passenger plane was Pundalk, Treland, went on strike today to enforce demands for o minimum salary of seven guin sout $35) wgekly for all public sorvices. Their pfesent salaries average 275 pounds a vear. A numier of patients apph for treatment at dispensaries have been refused. vl T e ENROLLMENT AT YALE LITTLE BELOW NORMAL New Haven, Conn., Sept. 24.—On the eve of the opening of Yale Universit announcement was made at the uni- tonight that preliminary en- rollment figures indicate there will be a total student registration of about 3,000, which would be but little under the normal enrollment before the war As a result of the reorganization tak- en by the Yale Corporation several months ago, the new school year starts on a changed basis. Direction of all entrance examinations has been under a joint entrance examination board, of versity which Professor Robert A, Corwin is chairman. All entering students are required to take examinations in American history and government, and for the first time in the history of Sheffield Scientific school, no three lect” course is offered 1,200 students are en- rolled “in the college and 1,000 in the scientific school. In the medical school, the announcement says, the total number of students is about 100 The law school total exceeds 100, the forestry school about thirty, the school of religion 100, the school of fine res more than fifty and the musk school year Approximately 100. DIED FROM HEART FAILURE WHILE BEING TORTURED Chicago. Sept. 24.—That W. H Purcell, who was found dead in his apartment on the North Side last , died from heart failure w being toturred in an effort to make him disciose the hiding place of a fortune in securities and cash was the new theory on which the police started work today in their effort to clear up the death of the wealthy song writer and real estate man. The new and startling explanation of the crime was advanced following the discovery that $25,000 in Liberty bonds which Purcell had secreted in his apartment were missing. The po- lice believe thieves learned the hiding place of the bonds from their victim and were trying to force further in- formation from him when he died of heart failure. Purcell's body was bound with ropes and there was a gag in his mouth when the police entered the flat MISSING MRS. BUSHFIELD LOCATED IN DAYTON, OHIC Baltimore, Md.. Sept. 24, — Mrs Louisa ¥ Bushfield, former student of Goucher college, this city, the bride of George Irving university. New ushfield of Columbia York, who disappear- ed about ten ¢ ago, was found yves- terday located in Day Ohio, by her husband and father, 0 had been searching for her ever since she left the home of her aunt on Madison avenue. Mrs. Bushfield told her father, Benjamin D. Fox,’the reasor she left Bushfield without informing him or her other relatives was because she feared telling them of her secret marriage to the Columbia student. She will return to New York with her hus band and continue her studies at Co. lumbia. 32 CHINAMEN IN HARTFORD FINED $539 FOR GAMBLING Sept. 24 Hartford — Thirty-twe Chinamen, found guilty In police ecour today of gambling nractice were fined a total of $539.16. They were in court as. the result of a raid on a cellar on State street made shortly after 2 o clock this morning. Wong Ben, pro prietor of the establishment. for whormr a plea of guilty was entered b his counsel was fined $100 and costs of $£.88 and was sentenced (o thirty Aaye in jail. execution suspended- Thirty one others found mnilty of froquentine the place were fined $5 each and cost ARREST BFFIVE ITALIANS ALLEGED TO BE ANARCHISTS Naples, Sunday 21 Sept -On the ar- —— rival here of the her furopa Rome, Sept. 24.—A despatch receiv- | from New York, the arrested five ed here from Venice says the French who are alleged to be anar and American war vessels which have The authorilics here were ad- been anchored in the French hasin|Vvised of the cominz of the men by since the signing of the armistice have j Amcrican offic and also the Ttal- received an order to rejoin the ships|ian consul in New York. CONFLICT BETWEEN FRENCH SOLDIERS AND GERMANS Berlin, Sept. 24.—( )—in an en- counter at Saarh-ucken between bourgeois and French soldiers many persons on both side ere wounde according to_a desp i o the Lol Anzeigér. One huudred Fronelimen participated in the confi'c: ner- ous Germans have Lecn arrested for having attacked the Frenchmen, AL bl o5 el