Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 8, 1919, Page 1

VOL. LXI—NO. 293 POPULATION 29,919 A PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED FOR SETTLEMENT OF COAL STRIKE Terms Are Not to Be DivulgedeUntil Tuesday at Indianapolis —Attorney General Palmer States That “‘a Definite Con- crete Proposition” Made By President Wilson .Hn Been Sanctioned By Acting President Lewis and Secretary Green of the Mine Workers’ Union—Pact Is Said to In- " clude 14 Per Cent. Wage Advance and the Appointment | of a Commission to Study All Conditions Surrounding the Industry Upon the Resumption of Work By the Strik- ing Miners—Fuel Administrator Garfield Declares He Has Not Been Budged One Inch In His Position. H Washington, Dec. ioyernment proposals for settiing the coal strike vere cloaked in a veil of mystery to- night which promised to' lift only at Indianapolis Tuesday when the federal court and the leaders of the United Mine Workers alike will be called upou 10 consider them. Attorney teneral Palmer and his special assistant. Judge Ames, were traveling to Indisnapolis tenight on the same train with John L. Lewis. acting president, and William Green, wecretary of the mine workers' uniou, whose secret visit and equally secret conference yesterday with Mr. Palmer and Joseph P. Tumuity, secretary to President Wilson, resulfed in_a pro- visional agreement to settle. Not one » participants of the conference discuss its meaning or intent in detail. Refore boarding the train for Indianapolis Mr. Palmer, however, said he was e sure that the end of the strike was in sight. [t was learned th would tonfer with Judze An- dersen of the federal district court on hing Indianapolis. Fuel Administrator inz with brevit only dou My po Garfield, speak- and emphasis, added o the situation ifon has mot been bhudged inch, and will not be,” he said was recalled that vesterday Dr. Garfield had reiterated that not one could he added to the price of coal 1o finance wage increases to the miners greater than the 14 per cent. he sug- &ested which operators could pay out of prol and that the government behind him in the stand. It also pointed out that on Nov. 26 he *uggested this basis of agreement to the miners. with a proviso that an ar- Litration commission be anpointed by the wnresident to review his decision, i nower to change it if the com- sion should find economical justi- ficati n. This proposal the miners representatives then instantly rejected. I'rom ofher authoritative sources there was only the attorney general's statement issued last midnight that “a definite conerets proposition from the president looking to the speedy. settle- ment of the strike” had been taken be- fore Lewis and Green ?m that they had ugreed to recommend it to the na- onal board and wollcy committee of e mine workers' union. The miners’ representatives, it devel- oped today, arrived in Washington at noon Saturday and were closeted until midnight with the -attorney general. hey went from the department of jus- t to the home of a friend and did not appear until train time tonight, 7d would not talk or add anything to attorney generals published ver sion of the situation. Who sent for the miners' leaders, or whether they came to Washington of their own ac- was a_question left unanswered oncerned, the step taken zuaraniced the essation of the coal strike on the pars o[ the organized miners still out was not claimed anrwhere. A definite vilence was maintained officially on 7is point. Likewise, the executive ommitteé of bituminous coal opera- s watching the governmental activi- % had no information which it would tonight, ip was ; Thal tive over the situation. ald in labor circles that the president’s proposal would uesult Ziving the miners more-than previous sovernment suggestions would allow, Uther versions said that a practical repetition of Dr. Garfield's arbitration offer had been pre ionally accepted by the mine workers’ union chiefs. It was further sald that a digerence of method in dealing with the strike had developed among the government “gencies chiefly concerned, although all were working towards a settlement. Meanwhile Dr. Garfield labored most of the day on a multitude of details ~* Jthe great job of irying to .cone--vé every pound of coal. Officials were confident that the country would weather the emergency, but the fual administration acting with reglona: coal committees contained to maintatn restriction of fusl supplies of concerns not on the priorily list and to reduce passenger train service to what it was in war days. Attorney General Palmer is expected ta take an active part in the federal court proceedings in Indianapolis on Tuesday when the 84 national and dis- trict officers of the miners’ union are to answer charge sof criminal contempt of court In the strike cases. Whether Mr. Palmer would act for tne presi- dent in presenting further the presi- dent’s seitiement proposal at a meet- “ng In Indianapolis of the mine work- ers' union representatives was not an- nounced, though the session was call- ed by Acting President Lewis after the Saturday conference with the attorney general. TERMS OF AGREEMENT UNOFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED 1icago, Dec. 7—The proposal John L. Lewis, acting president and Willlam Gfeen, sedretary of ti United Mine Workers of America o by President Wilson and Attorncy Gen- eral Palmer in Wasington last night inciuded a 14 per cent. wage ad- vance to miners and the appointment of 4 commission to study wages, profits and all conditions surrounding the industry upon resumption of work by the striking miners, accords ing to private advices from the na- tional capital received by Dr, F. C. Honnold, secretary of the Tliinols Coal Operators’ Association, today. Dr. Honnold declared that his in- formation indicated that the str would be settied by Tuesday or Wed- nesday and that the miners would he back at work not later than Friday, at_least in Illinois. The terms of the proposal as inter- preted by Dr. Honnold from the ad- vices he received indicated that they were similar to the plan previously put forward by Fuel, Administrator Garfleld and that they contained cer- taln details of settlement that would not be made public until after con- sideration of them by the miners' ex- ecutive board in Indianapolis on Tues- sy in | “It now seems certain that the| strike will be. sctiled this week and | that the miners, in Illinois at least, will be back at work not later than Friday,” Dr. Honnold said to night. “My advices today disclosed nothing! about the settlement plan to lead me! 10 believe that ther was anything more than the Garfield plan. Mr Pahner and Mr. Garfield have work- ed out certain details that do mnot want made public until after the In- dianapolis conference. The attorney general was to leave Washington for indoanapolis tonight. 1 was in- formed. “The mines generally are ready to resume operations andl am confident every mine superinfendent in Illinois knows of the settlement proposal ‘and are ready to blow the mine whistles louder than ever ihe moment they know the plan has been given to the miners. ‘Now that a settlement is expected to go through this week, operators to- row will ask the rajiroad administra- tion to provide for an adequate car supply, ~Cars must be had to that end must be taken immediately.” 'HEARINGS ON CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY TUESDAY Indianapolis, Dec. 7, sion of the federal grand jury is scheduled to start ‘at 10 o'clock to- morrow morning to take up charges of conspiracy on the part of miners and operators to limit. the produetion of coal. Action against the coal men will be sought under both the Lever and anti-trust acts, and according to attorneys for the government, the in- vestigation will extend to every scc- tion of the country in which bitumin- ous coal uiners are on strike. Accord- ing to the government attorneys they have gvidence that tne operators not only have conspired with the miners in violation of government statutes, but they "have formed a combination of “operitors alone, intended to limit the production of coal. The contémpt charges gef fof Tiidss Gay morning were brought on inform- ation charging that the miners’ of- ficials had’ violated the injunction is- sued hers by United States District Judge A. B. Anderson against en- couragement of the strike. Righty- four international or district officials of the mine workers are involved in A special ses- the case and in addition specifie charges of violation of the injunction by payment of strike benefits have been instituted against thirteen offi- cials of two local unions of Clinton, Indiana. > GOV. COX OF OHIO HAS CALLED OFF CONFERENCE Columbus, Ohio, Dec. —Governor Cox tonight called off the conference of coal operators and miners" leaders which was to have been resumed to- morrow morning at. his officc in an endeavor to bring about a’settlement of the strike of Ohio miners. In calling off the conference, the governor issued the following statement “Te indications ‘are that the cou- troversy will be ttled Tuesday on nation-wide basis. In view of th the Ohio meeting scheduled for Mon day morning il net be held. It is reassuring to the country that the master hand of President 'Wilson is | time. Lawlor nicked again in action.” — VIGOROUS PROTESTS FROM THE GERNAN GOVERNMENT Berlin, Dec. 6.—Vigorous representa- tions have been made by the Ger- man government to the inter-allied naval commission relative to an alleg- ed violation of the armistice terms and an invasion of German sovereignty at Kiel by the British steamer St. Hele- na, carrying German prisoners. { The incident, which is described a “extraordinary” in a semi-official statement issued today, occurred along the Kiel Canal. Word was received by the German Baltic station that a German had escaped from the steamer while she was anchored at-the Holtenau docks, and that he had been pursued and fired upon by the Brit- ish. German troops were at once or- dered to oceupy the docks and Kiel police hoarded the St. Helena to in- quire as to the cause of the incident. They are alleged to have found there about 700 Germans who claimed they were being held on board and be- lieved gey were being taken to Danzig for fofcible enlistment in. the Polish Legion. They asserted they had been selected from “prison camps in Eng- land because of their Polish names and that many had joined the legion under British pressure. It was pointed out that the vessei was in German territorial waters and that, therefore, the mer were no long- er_prisoners, and thereupon -the Brit- ish commander of the naval escort and the captain of the St. Helena liber- ated, under protest, 600 men who did not wish to remain on hoard. ¥rom 30 do 100 Germans are said to have re- mained on board the ship, which pro- ceded to Danzig. DIED WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF HUSBAND'S EXECUTION New York, Dec. Angeles —Senora, Felipe wife of the Mex revolu- tionary leader recently exccuted by Carranza troops, died today without having been informed of her hus- band’s arrest and death. She came here from El Paso three months ago suffering from nervous exhaustion caused by fear for her husband's safe- ty and gradually grew worse. time 1of General = Angeles' execution her condition was so feeble that her friends deemed it inadvisable to give her the news and she remained in ig- norance to the end. She leaves four children. Semora Angeles - was 43 years old. Cabled Paragraphs Disconcerting Rumor in Vienna. Paris, Dec. 7.—(Havas). The Jour- nal Des Debats says that an alarm- ing rumor was in circulation yester- day on the Vienna stock exchange to the effect that the government would refuse to continue to assume respon- sibility for affairs of:state and would hand over the governmental power to the entente, : NOTHING FROM MEXICO ON THE JENKINS AFFAIR Washingtn, Dec. 7—There was no word tonight indicating asolution of the mystery which has developed from the sudden relase of William O. Jen- kins, American consular agent, from the Peubla jail, after the determined demand of this government apparently had failed to influence his Mexican captors. Both the state department nd Jenkins himself already have tarted investigations with the object of determining what “influences were insivumental 1n putting up the $500 bail bond which the, Mexican govern- ment so readily accepted. Admittedly, tne crux of an interna- tional situafion of utmost tenseness two days ago, the Jenkins case has now becorae a Wiplomatic enigma, the solution of which offers interesting but not dangerous possibilities. - A careful investigation of reports that Mexico hus taken steps to ment her aviation forces has fo corroborate the statement that a squadron of 24 “modern pursuit planes” are available for service. In- formation obtained through reliable} sour considered Dby military and | state agencies to be thoroughly de- pendable, puts the iotal strength of the Mexican air department at less! than a dozen planes, none of which are of a type evolved as a result of experience in the great war, and with a trained personnel, oniy sufficient for the duties of experiments and tests. TWO MEN KILLED IN STREET PISTOL DUEL IN WATERBURY Waterhury, Conn., Dec. 7.Peter Ce- cere of this city, alwleged white slav- er, and Joseph Catardo of 203 North ington street, Bridgeport, killed 7 other in a revolver duel on Ben- edict street a few minutes after noon The pair were walking quiet- together when a quarrel over a woman arse, it is said. Catardo shot four timed ‘at close range at Cecere, who fired the same number of shots at his fleeing assailant. Catardo fell to the pavement with-a bullet in his cull, but Cecere, with a bullet near his heart, was able to walk over 300 vards to he restaurant on Meadow strw‘e:rwnere the tivo Wad Started the Both were taken to St. Mary's hos- pital, where Cecere died at 110 p. m., and Qatardo at 480 p. m. The shoot ing was seen. from less than a block! away by Howard J. Lawlor, of 416 Blatchley avenue, New Haven, a state guardsman who was in uniform at the up the guns abandoned by the vair and followed Cecere to the restaurant, holding him until the police came. Cecere was out under $15,000 honds, having been arrested on October 2 on the charge of enticing females for im- moral purposes. He has been arrested times since 1911 on minor Catardo is,an ex-soldier and wore an army overcoat, * TALK IN MADRIDC OF A NEW CONSERVATIVE CABINET .\|51r|ri d. council of minister v having decided to | communicate the political situation io the king, Joaquin® Sanchez Toca head of the retiring cabinet, d a long telephonic conversation with the chief of -the household, as a result of which the king will return to Madrid either today or Monday morning, when the council will meet under his presidency and Senor Toca will ex- plain the reasons for thé cabinet’s res- ignation. The talk in Madrid toZay is of a new conservative cabinet under the premiership of some neutral, possibly the former_minjster of marine, Admi- ral Angel Miranda, who had an hour's :onference with ~ Former Premier Maura yestérday., 4 The socialist - ‘deputies have an- nounced their determination, if a mil- itary government replaces ‘the Toca cabinet, to’call a general strike in Spain. 4 The twenty-three officers whose ex- pulsion from the army by the court of honor caused the cabinet crisis, to- day published a long protest in the or- gan of the striking newspaper cm- ployes, Our Journal. ORGANIZATIdNS TO POOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES New. York, Dec. T.—Merger of the| National «Social- Unit Organization, which has been conducting nationwide researches, experfhents -and demon- strations in community organization, and the community coupcils, which has centralized*its werk in New York, was announced ~ here today.. Pooling of the educational resources of bogh organizations is provided for under the merger plan, Community councils were formed during the War to assist in the suc- ful execution of the nation’s war programme, specializing in the pro- motion of Liberty loans, entertain- ment of service men, espionage work and Americanization programmes. So- cial welfare work will be one of the principal peace tima duties of the combined organizations, MEDALS FOR RESCUING 25 AMERICAN SAILORS Cadiz, Spain, Dec quartermas and three sailors of the Spanish steamer Fernandez Silvestro were giveen an American medal for bravery vesterday as reward for having rescued 25 . American sailors from death in 1918 An autographed letter from President Wilson, praising the recipients of the medals, was read, (Havas). The U. 8. NOT HAVING DESTROYERS BUILT IN GREAT BRITAIN London, Dec. 7.—The American na- clared unfounded a report published in the Pall Mall Gazette that the Unit- ed States had contracted for the build- ing of American destroyers in Great Britain, 182 Trains to be & Gf New Haven Road Discontinuance to Begin Wed- nesday, Because of the Fuel Shortage—77 Off Boston and Maine. Boston, Dec. 7.—Discontinuance of 182 passenger trains on the New Yorlk, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and 77 on the Boston and Maine Rail- road, effective on Wednesday, Decem ber 10, because of the fuel shortage, was announced tonight. Two trains in cach direction will be taken off the New Haven road’s New York-Boston service, the Knickerbocker —Limited leaving New York at 1 p. 'm., the Knickerbocker train leaving Boston at the same hour, the 751 a. m. train from New York via Hartford, and the 746 a. m,'train for Boston via Hart- ford. Fifty of' the New Haven trains to be discontinued run only one day a week, Saturday or Sunday. Nine of those specified hy the Boston and Maine are Sunday trains. Extra stops will be made by other trains in mdny cases, to accommodate lpocal ‘traffic. The Boston and Ahany Railroad an- nounced the withdrawal of five trains, including the New England section of the Twentieth Century Limited, east and west. The train leaving Boston for New York at 9.15 a. m. will not run between Boston and Springfield, and one leaving New York at the same ued. The other is the 5 o'clock train from Al- for Boston. hour will be disconti cut bany KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK IN ENGO FOREST, BELGIAN CONGO Cape Town, Union of South Africa, Monday, Dec. 1.—Details of the rail- road - wreck in the Engo Forest, Bel- gian Congo, in which Dr. Joseph R. Armstrong and William Stowell, both of Los Angeles and members of an exploring expedition sent out by the Smithsonian Institution and a mo- tion picture company were killed, were received here today from railway headquarters in Rhodesia. The . expedition left Sakania, Bel- gian ‘ongo, for Elizabethville special coach aftached to. a train, for fuel a man-controlled water truck in a goods While the train was stopping | 'Whenv venes at. rashington, Dec. 7.—The validity ot’“{hn ;n.‘rt time prohibition law may be decided tomorrow By the supreme court, in which event the country’ will get afinal answer to its big question whether this will be a “wet” Christ- The court will reconvene at noon after a two weeks' recess, and while there never is anything ahead of time to indicate what opinions might be- handed down, the impression prevail- ed generally that the constitutionality of the war time Jaw and the Volstead act for its enforcement may Dbe set- tled at the opening. Unless the court decides these cases before 'January 16 its opinion will ‘have no effect, for the country will be dry then by con- stitutional amendment, : In view of the brief time interven- ing Defore constitutional prohibition becomes effective and the court’s in- dicate desire to give early considera- tion to the question by advancing the {pending appeals for argument, persons familiar with the court’s procedure thought the decision probable. Affer handing down decisions. to- morrow the court will hear a number of important cases during the week. including appeals from New Orleans and Baitimore involving the right to manufacture beer containing more than one-half of one per cent.” under e war time probibition act. Argu- ments also will be presented on ap- peals involving the constitutionality of war revenué act of1819, provisions levying excise taxes upon profits de- |rived from child labor and the New | York income tax act. |STRIKE CAUSES SUSPENSION OF MADRID NEWSPAPERS Madrid. Dec. 'in;“|:]e\v per was issued in Madrid this morning a$ a result of the strike | of newspaper employes and the only {one to public during the entire day {will be Our Journal, issued by the strikers. The Debats and A. B. C. | which published yesterday, decided to critical importance of the pro Swarss . R T locality. b THE CAMPAIGN CLOEES WEDNESDAY 'HELP FIGHT THE WHITE PLAGUE The American people are becoming aroused to the blem of vitality and conserva- tion of health as the necessary factor in reestablishing the world after the devastation and destruction caused by the g e Of all preventable diseases Tuberculosis takes per- haps the first place in importance. Get your Red Cross seals and help the work in this broke away and crashed into the rear of the train, smashing the last coach to matchwood. Armstrong, Stowell Pliny Horne, a photographer of Angeles, who were in the coach, were badly injured. Armstrong died three hours later and Stowell the same night. ilenry Kohler, and Bdward M. Thier: ent, had ieft the coz forward one ffered onl; tives also we a photographer, a correspond- and gone to a Jjust before the crash and from shock. Four na- killed in’the accident. BURLESON DEFENDS HIS ADMINISTRATION Washington, Dec. . 7.—Postmaster General Burleson, replying today to a statement by Chairman Steenerson of the house postoffice committee, attack- ing Mr. Burlesons annual repori, said Mr. Steenerson ‘“‘does not séem to un- | derstand that a postal audit is not made by the postmaster general, but an independent official. of the treas- ury department, who happjens to be' a member of the republican party, to which Mr. Steenerson belongs.” “It is true, as stated by Mr. Steen- erson, that the postmaster general did not utilized the services of the offi- cials ofeone particular telegraph com- pany.” the statement continued, “but this was only aftcr he had found that while America was involved in the world war- its directing officials had not only proposed to boycott the liandling of press matter, but had in every way possible discouraged the handling of 'government husiness. . “As for the compensation allowed the railroads for mail transportation, this is fixed by the congress and not by Mhe postmaster general” ESTHONIAN POWER FOR NEGOTIATING IS LIMITED Dorpat, Eesthonia, Saturday, Dec. 6. —(By The A. P.) Anncuncement was received officially from Reval today that Esthonia could not negotiate for peace with the Russian soviet repre- Snetatives now in Dorpat. except on the conditions laid down by the asso- ed powers. M. Po: the Esthonian foreign minister, in an intervisw yesterda: said: “Esthonia has never heen ag- gressive toward Russ but fought only to defend her independence. T be- licve the other new states were in the same situation. honia considers it necest that soviet Russia should make analogous proposals to them. The other states, however. have only partly accepted the soviet proposal, All the delegations have not vet ar- rived. The FEsthonian _delegation hopes, nevertheless, that these pour- parlers will be concluded success- fully. TO REDUCE THE SIZE OF CHICAGO NEWSPAPERS * Chicago, Dec. 7—Local puplishers of daily newspapers, to aid in. con: rvation of coal in addition to seek- val authorities in London today de-|ing to relieve the'white paper short- |immediaie help, age, begin tomorrow . reducing size of their publications. tion will the: w industri the The reducs he 10 per cent. greater than - time restrigtions «of the war hoard. —a join the other newspapers in stopping publication for two days*in the hope that the strikers wilt retyrn before the cnd of that time or some solu- tion of the difficulty reached. The Liberal and - Heraldo decided fo dis- charge their, striking employes unless the men returned to work immediate- Iy. This the men refused to do. Our Journal. will publish a letter from the former premier, Count Ro- manones, regretting the caliing to the strike at this time and suggesting that a peaceful solution be arvived at. DUELLING BLOOD IN ITALY COOLED '38Y AN EXPLANATION Rome, Dec. A duel Count Gabriel Gravani Attilo Fabbri was narrowly last week. The troubie between the two ‘men was the outgrowth of stric- tures upon Gabrielle D'Annunzio -made by Fabbri. “During a heated discussion of the Italian situation Fibbri violently at- tacked D'Annunzio for having by his action at Fiume rendered the in- ternational situation worse. Gravania immediately challenged Fibbri to a duel. When the seconds chosen for encounter met, those of -Fabbri said Fabbri did not understand how he could have offended Count Gabriel by simply expressing his opinion D'Annunzio. Gravani seconds thereupon said the counte interpreted Fabbri's words os impugning Gra- vania’s family honor. between and Cavalier the The count, it is said, claims to be a relative of D'Annunzio. * Fabbri's seconds declared that Fab- bri had no intention of reflecting’ up- on Gravania’s family and the seconds therefore decided t necessary and invited the tow men to shakes hands and peaceably settle the controversy. The count and the cava- lier agreed to thi CHARGES THAT IMPERATOR OVERSTOCKED WITH COAL Washington, Dec, the trans-Atlantic liner Imperator, now being operated by the = Cunard Line, had taken ahoard more coal than permitted cunder the bumkering reg- ulations now in force are being inyes- tigated by the raiiroad administry tion. ‘A report is expected tomorrow. The specific charge which brought ahout the 7.—Charges that ; inquiry was_explained to- night as being that tne Imperator tovk aboard some ,000 tons. of coal. whebeas under the regulations the lin- er was not permitted to place in her bupkers -~ more than 2500 tons— merely enough to take her to Hali- fax. SUPREME COUNCI. TO RECE|V_E DR, RENNER Vienna, Saturday. Dec. 6.—Dr. Karl Renner, the chancellor, has béen noti- fied by the supreme council at Paris that it is willing to receive him per-| sonally to plead his courtry’s danger- ous_plight. Dr. Renner will heg for, n proposing, as an al- tefnative, the retirement of the pres- ent ‘government and the election by the. allies of a neutral dictator and a@minisirative staff (o ern the - country, averted ; , of| hat a duel was noty ‘Gondensed Teiigrams’ : Quotations for quicksilver were ad- vn._nced %5 a flask to $100. As a result of the lockout at Bar- celona many shops are closed. Czecho-Slovakian government or- dered mobilization of three military classes. The President list of foreign Mexico Premier Venizelos arrived at Athens from Paris and was acclaimed by a crowd of 80,000 people. The celebration of the Centennial of the State of Maine will be held next year from June 28 to.July 5. Members of the Bela Kun, Hungarian dictator dur- ing the Soviet regime, will not be sur- vendered to Hungary by Austria. Gold amounting“to $10,000.000 was! withdrawn, from the New York Sub- Treasury for shipment to South Amer- ica. President Murray of the Pittsburgh Council of United Mine Workers of America, announced end of the coal strike. Order for discontinuation general strike in " Italy as declared following opening of the Ttalian Par- liament. ' of the Congress of Independent Socialists, in session at Leipsic, adopted. a de- claration favoring the Soviet system in Germany, Senate military committee favorably reported’ a bill providing for estab- lishment of a separate department of aeronautics. Gen. Diequez, commander of the| North at Chihuahua City, announced “it is very possible that Villa will be captured soon.” ¥ The new Hungarian Premier, M. Huzzar, is in favor of a restoration of the Monarchy, he informed a roy- alist deputation, Canadian financial interests acquir- ed the Rio Cauto Sugar Co., of Cuba, operating at Ingenio, Rio in Orient Province. ¥ Jugo-Slav delegation in Paris is in- formed that d’Annunzio is planhing ‘a raid on Cattaro, Spalalo and territory ’om)osile Lafbach. The per capita circulation of money in the United States was $55.65 on iDecember 1. Last year’s comparison was 38 cents higher. I Governor Robertson ,of Okalho issued a proclamation declaring mili- tary lafv in the coal mining regions, to {take effect immediately. British steamer Hurona foundered Nov. 27 of Psara, Greclan Archipelml i The! crew avas saved and-landed at Pi Yaeus by A Greck steamer. There are now pending in the Paris courts two thousand. divorce cases, {ascribed chiefly to . infidelity ~of hus- bands or wives during the war. The Rockefeller Foundation Sunday announced the appointment of Dr. Richard M. Pearce as general director of its division of medical education. Dr. Copeland, Health Commiissioner of New York, resigned when the Board of Estimate refused to carry on the work of the Riverside Hospital. W. A. Thomas, phesident of the Brier hill steel company, second larg- est plant in the Mahoning valley, has tendered his resignation, effective Jan, 1 Within the next few days Premier Stephent Friedrich of Hun- gary will be arrested on a charge of complicity in the murder of Count Ti: 3 former I Chargaduiwith ealitig home manufacture for “red recipes of beer and liquor” two men and a woman were Jarrested in Brooklyn by federal of- I ficials. George E. Gilbent; Manufacturing makers of woolefi goods, with mills and at Gilbertville, in- ed employes’ wages 12 1-2 per . effective at once. Henry Lane Wilson, American:Am- bassador - to Mexico during Taft’s ad- ministration, denied reports published at El Paso that American were or- d?r!d to quit Mexi¢o-in 1912, Administrative comtission of Mont- real announced’ its intention. . of = li- quidating debt of $45,000,000 held in England ‘by floating another loan in the United States or Canada. R. A. Widemann, of Stony Point, N. Y. filed a writ of mandamus in the, Supreme Court, District of Columbia,] against Secretary Lansing, requiringi him to cancel the proclamation for national prohibition. Orders for seizure by the govern- ment of 5,300.000 pounds of sugar held lat Yakima and Toppenish, Washing- ton by the Utah-Idaho sugar .com- ipany were issued by United States district judge E. E. Cushman of Ta- coma. A blanket bill providing for in-| creases of officers and non-commis- sioned, warrant or pefty officers and non-commissioned warrant or petty | officers of the army, navy or marines! was favorably reported by the Senate Military Committee. NITRO, W. VA, EXPLOSIVES PLANT SOLD FOR $3,551,000 | hington, Dec. 7.—Sale of the ex- s plant at Nitro. W. Va., to the Charleston (West- Virginia), Tndustrial Corporation for $8551,000 - was an- nounced today by the war department. Of the recently supbmitted informal bids foy the plant and other facilities owned By the department at Nitro,s that of the Charleston corporation was the highest. The plant and. twon cost the governmen: approximately $75,- 000,000 . OBITUARY. J. Thompson Baker, Philadelphia, Dec. 7.—J. Thompson Baker,former congressman from the Second New Jersey district and one of the founders of, Wildwood, N. J., died in a hosplital here today after a long fllness. He was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, 72 years ago, was o gradwate of Bucknell University | and ‘was identified With ‘many’ busi- ness and financial intcrests in south- crn New Jersey. ' Food Prices Have | " vailing Before the War—A Modest Hotel Room From $5 to $8 a Day, With Food In Proportion— Soldiers and Sailors Roam the Streets Nightly, Shooting Off arms—Gambling Houses Are In Full Swing For All American peace delegation in Paris will sail for the United States on Wednesdiy. (By the A. P.)—Constantinople credited here with being governed and highest® priced chaos run riot. ‘nAca’s-'-é{cem \ Classes. the worst city in It present a spectacle. of Everybody is rob- bing everybody else. ‘Black Handers among the shipping agents and the longshorement are responsible for the the world. fact that it costs more to get freight from a ship to shore than to trans- port it from New York to Constan- tinople. ~All available dock has been taken up by the entente powers, and Americans and citizens ot other. countries, are _paying ton to get goods from a ship through the customs. Every species of Levantine thievery has been turned loose. A modest ho- tel Toom costs from $5 to $8 a day, h food in proportion, although the markets are full of produce. Food prices have increased twelve hundred per cent. over those prevail- ing before the war, while house rent has increased fifteen fold.. The city nightly is full of fighting soldiers and ailors of ail nationalities, shooting off firearms. The gambling hous i full swing for all classes, merchants, when losers, their losses by raising prices, althougi the warchouses are overstocked. The sireets swarm with pickpockets, with the Turkish police claiming to be Wwith the belpless because of tae inter-allied ontrol. The Turkish ' government claims it is helpless to condunt -°- tairs for the same reason—that it has 00 many bosses. The Turkish officials say they mortally afraid of the ultimate atti- tude of Great sBritain, although re- cent speeches in the British house of commons have rewwakened their !hopes that_Turkey will not Is par- titioned. Meanwhile, capitalists of all nations are going head buving up private concessions for ex itation when peace is signed. However, the Turkish zovernment has forbidden the sale of new concessions since July. STRIKE CAUSES WILD RIOTING IN MANTUA, ITALY Rome, Saturday, Dec. § (By the A. space | 335 al { full details of the situation at Mantuie. making up | Incredsed 1,200 Per Cent. Over Those Constantinople, Tuesday, Dec. 2.—, P.).—Eight persons are dead and 42 is | others are Known to have been wou ed as a result of the wild rioting en where mobs terrorized the city. . 4% The rioters attacked the small gar- rison, cut telegraph and telephane communications, siopped railway fic, raided arms shops, burned prisoms freeing all sorts of criminals, and k the police and soldicrs at bay - fresh troops and carabineers arrives with machine guns and occuprea . § city militarily. “The troops finally tablished order Thursday night. ' The Rome newspapers tonight p The Giornale D'Italia says chamber of labor authcrize without excesses. The disorders awé begun by 500 strikers. who spee were joined by the lawless element der the direction of extremists. The crowds stormed the barracks and fired on the garrise The soldiers discouraged the attack firing into the air. At the sugzestl of some of the extremist leaders t mob moved on to the railway statfg and seized the restaurant, where feasted and drank wine. Those -of # rioters unable to enter the restau: were incensed when the men ins poured wine upon. the floor of -the re taurant until it fowed into the streety The rails were torn up to preva trains from entering or leaving t station and the building itself badly wrecked. At the suggestion * us burn the jails and free the pri the mob moved to the priso overcame the guards and ordered: astonished prisoners out, telling” a revolution had come and they we free. The men released were all being he for commeon crimes none of them bex volitical prisoners. Those of the leased men who were unable to obf civilian clothes turned = their -sts uniforms inside out so as fo be legh conspicuous. They were given arm seized from soldiers or taken from' looted arms shops. The proprietor of one of the ai shops raided by the mob tock refuge a room behind the shon and > burned to death in the fire the mob after taking all the reyolvers, rif and ammunition in,the store. . MEXICAN SITUATION IN ’ CONGRESS THIS WEEK “Washingt situation ~ overshadows, all considera- tions likely to come before congress this week, The senate foreign relations com- mittee will meet tomorrow to give fur- ther consideration to a resolution re- questing President Wilson to break off diplomatic relations with Mesico and to withdraw recognition of the Car- ranza government. Senator! Fall, -republican, of New Mexico, author of the resolution, talk- ed over the situation with the pres- ident Friday afternoon and it had been expected that Mr. Wilson would give some expression of opinion on the pro- posal in advance of the meeting. Sen- ator Iall said tonight, however, that the president had not definitely prom- ised any response, cither Dbefore to- morrow’s committee meeting, or later. Aside from Mexico, there is work enough to keep senate and house busy until the holidays, with little proba- bility that the Germtn peace treaty will be taken up in the senate mean- ‘hile. cnate Jeaders still hope o get a vote. this week on the Cummins. bill, designed to meet conditions with re- turn of the reads to private operation and control, but with the long fight over the bill's anti-strike provision there may be no final enactment until next month. President Wilson an- nounced last spring that the roads TEOTHE " Mextear| { months’ visit to T AMERICAN MANDATORY FOR - CONSTANTINOPLE FAVORI [ Brookline, Mass. Dec. 7.—An can'mandatory for Constantinople the selection of that city as the manent capitol of the league of nations: were advocated in an address here fo- gLt oy Ur. James . Barton, director of the ‘Near East relief commissr who recenuy iv iwom a seven Acceptance of such a mandatory, he said, “will make it much easier to accept u!so the mian- datory of Anatolia and Armema, amd possibly other areas of what was once the Turkish empire.” Dr. Barton ucplored the delay “in tifying the peace treaty by the nited States. "It is unthinkable” he said, “that the p will allow the treaty to remain. wl it now is, a disgrace to American statesmanship and a menace to world . Barton explained that by Con: stantinople he meant all of Turkey, Europe and the entire environs of Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmora the Dardanelles. “No first class - ropean power has been permitted or can be allowed to hold that crossroad between Europe and Asia,” -he said. “But they all agree that America could hoid and administer this Imper- tant trust with the approval not enly of the European powers but also th people of Constantinople.” 7 SREC AR ey il CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP would be turned back the first’ of the year, ‘but many senators believe now hat ne will wait until the new law is effective. Many hearings and investigations are on the dockef for the week. The senate elections commitiee plans to take up the Ford-Newberry election contest by appointing a sub-commit- tee to conduct an inquiry and count the ballots, The senate interstate commerce committe will try to, get started -on plans for investigation of the federal trade commission and its employes. 3 Tmmigration legislation be is to ! considered further this week by the house immigration committee, gnd, in censideration of anti-radical legisla- tion, Senator Sterling, republican, of { outh . Dakota, will attempt to have | the senate pass this week his sedition | bill,. penalizing attempts to overthrow the’ government. The coal strike and other industrial troubles will i§> considered tomorrow at a special session of the senate la- ber committée. Chairman Kenyon hopes that congress.in some way may Dbe able to assist in settling the strike. possibly by providing an adjustment tribunal. A resolution calling upon the government to iake over and op- erate the coal mines as an emergency also is being discussed and the com- mittee will consider the resolution of Senator Jones, republican, . Washing- ton, proposing congressional investi- gation of the coal str BOSTON C. L. U. TO VOTE ON NEW LABOR PARTY Roston, Dec. 7—~The Boston Central Labor union, #fier hearing the report of Edward . McGrady, its delegate to the natignal labor party cenvention in Chicago. voted to make a definite de- cision at its next meeting on Dee. 21 on the question of endorsing the labor party. Mr. McGrady offered a motion for immediate endorsemcnt, but the meetidg acceptéd an ‘amendment by Irank H. McCarthy, New lingland or- ganizer of the American Federation-of Labor, to defer action fof two weeks: BQDY WITH STAB'WOUNDS L SR + FOUND IN BRIDGERPORT Con Bridgeport 3 he body of Havry Rossignol, old. of thie city, was found by #the. police to- hight lying in a street wounds in the abdomen. May. who is said to have been with Rossignol during the afternoon, with stab ness. William H.|ware and ot .was |man is a 3 talen into custody as @ material wit- [which the police claimed to have OF WASHINGTON HERALD Washington, Dec. The Washing- ton Her%ld will announce tomorrgy that C. 7T. Brainard has sold his’com- trolling interest in the paper to Waltdr S. Rogers, Herman Suter, ‘Charles B. Crane, Julius H. FRarnes. Herbert Hoover anc others, Mr, Rogers an- Mr. Suter will ve in active charge of the paper. i It is stated that the transtér of the Washington Herald has no politigal significance. as among the new owners are both republicans and democrats. The Washington, Herald was -estalt: lished in 1906 by ‘Scott C. Bone, for many years editor of the Washineton Post. ‘Mr. Brainard; president of Hars per Brothers and owner of the Mes Clure and Wheeler newspaper syndi- cates, nurchased a controlling interest in the paper in October, 1912." He states in hic announcement that hesis dfsposing of his. control because. i OLier interests prevent his® hving Washington and Ziving the paper his personal attention. = Walter S. Rogers suggested and @i- rected the American governn ent's for- eign cable and wireless new. servite during the war which sent American news to most of the countries of. the world. During peace conference he continued this news service and had charge of the government's relations with the pres§ of the world other than that of the United State p CONVICTION OF REV. ELI 5 MILLER MOWRY IS CONFIRMED Seoul, Friday. Dee. 5.—( P.) The supreme court ‘today firmed the decision of the court of ap- convicting the Rey. Elir Miller a Preshyterian missionary “of Mansfield, Ohio. of shelierinz Korean agitators during - the Korcan revelt. Mr, Mowry was sentenced to pay~& fine of 100 yen or go (o nrison: fOP twenty days. The court gave Mowry thirty in which to decide ‘whether he would pay the finc or serte the Jail term. The Rev. Mr. Mowry was . found guilty last. April of sheltering! Korean agitators. - HOTEL SILYERWARE STOLEN, .7 BY WAY OF THE ASHCAN Tl ¢ agpy New York, Dec. Hotcl ' r valuables thrown retrieved by the, tem. of ol ashéans to new covered here today. Wednesday and Thursday at Mantig, - esident and “senate. Mr. - silver-" v