Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 22, 1919, Page 1

VOL. LXI—NO. 305 POPULATION 29,919 10 PAGES—80 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS. I3 CARGO OF 249 INCORRI: ‘Among Those Aboard the “Soviet Ark,” Which Sailed at Dawn Sunday, Are Men From Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven, Ansonia and Waterbury—Banished Radicals Vented Their Fury In Curses and Threats—Berkman Was Puerile In His Rage, But Secret Service Men Paid Little Attention to His Threats to Come Back and “Get Them”—Goldman Declared That This Government Has Signed Its Death Warrant In These Deportations—Ship Destination Was Hidden In Sealed Orders. : New York, Dec. 21. — The United States Army transport Buford, ark of the Soviet, sailed before uawn today with a cargo of anarchists, commun- ists and radicals banned from America for conspiring against the govern: nymt. The ship's destination was Rudden in sealed orders but the 249 passengers it carried expect to be landed at some ‘ar northern port giv- ing access to Soviet Russia. : “Long live the revolution in Ameri- * was chanted defiantly by the crowded on the decks of the troopship as she churned past the Statue of Lib- ertr. Now and then they cursed fn chorus at the United States and thé men ¥ho had cut short their pro- Not until the Buford Narrows between paganda here steamed out of the ¥orts Hamilton and Wadsworth did the din cease. Over their heads, whipping in the wind, the Stars and Stripes - floated from the masthead. The autocrats of all the Russians on the transport were Alexander Berk- man and Emma Goldman, his boon companior for thirty vears. With them were 245 men and two women— Ethel Bernstein and Dora Lipkin. None knew where they would debark and even Captain G. A. Hitcheock, the commander of the veteran transport, was no better off. At daybreak to- marrow Colonel Hilton, commanding the troops on board as guards, will hand the skipper his instructions. Only @ few high officials of the War and Labor departments know the ship's destination he voyage will last eighteen days prolonged by unfavorable presumption is that the land at Hange, Helsing- or for Abo in Finland which are connec | with Bielo-Osporoft on t rontier, It was in- timated | quarters that ar- gem. e been made with the ish government to permit the passagie of the Russians through that countrs Event Unique in Annals of Nation. The transfer from Eliis Island to the Buford of the agitators who Ppreached death and destruction was @n event unique in the anpals-of the pation. Scized in raids in all parts of the coun they were mobilized here for deportation. An eclaborate screen! of secrecy was thrown about the preparations for sending them away. It was in the darkest hours of night that an army tug drew up at the: a at ', immigration station to take wbourc the undesirables for the| geven mile journey down the bay to the Buford. *Two dozen solgie ed w rifles and as man immigra- tion inspeteors carrying night sticks] patrolied the shores of Eilis Island un- 1l the tug arrived at 5.15 a. m. The| Reds were marched single file between lines of guards from the immi- harracks’ to the boat landing, f them carrying his or her bag- o of agents of department culated among the Rus- waiting to begin their long Journe These & ts and the sol- guards on island went on the tug with the deportees and d them to the transport. revenue cntter and two other t formed escort -for the | and one tug lay alongside while being transferred to the to prevent attempts by .those ant to leave to swim the half the sho: aten Island. of them 1 weemed downca: the step- on board the tuz for the grim ey through the darkr rbor to the troopship. Th cold and a b of the air was was blewing as they huddied on oodbye Ame sobbed Miss in as the tug plowed past the atue of Li ith her lighted | tofeh held proudly alof:. She was leav- fog behind Samue Lipman, her fi- anee, facing a twenty year term Atlanta penitentiary esplonage law Berkman Defiant to the Last. Bearkman v in the for violating the it to the last andl threatened secret service men as he stepped from the soil of the Unit- ed States. We're coming back and we'll get you yet” he muttered, embellishing his statement with curses “To hell with America!” came in a deep voice from the anarchists' tug s it passed a boat crowded with more department of justice men. The chant of “Long liv the United States,” was start- v Peter Blanky, general secretary Union of Russian Workers, as d go under way at 6.15 o'- oof of membership in this which was formed here a Russian who is now chief Petrograd, caused most of the revolu- fon, of poil thoee in the partv today to be deport- e in od. Its constitution advocates the use of olence. Miss Goldman Unconcerned. Miss Goldman was so unconcerned that she slep until after midnight al- though. the rest of the party remained up all pight. All were notified imme- diately after dinner last night that they wouid be deported before day- light. They had not expected it so quickl: Despi clobarte precaution Harry Weinberger, counsel for' Berk- man and Miss Goldman, learned of the plans and made two ineffectual at- tempts to visit the island The bureau of immigration considered another vis- it useless because he had said fare- weil to his cliants. So had Mrs. Stella Ballentine, Miss Goldman's niece, and Miss Eleanor Fitzgerald of New York, who had expressed a desire to be de- ported with Miss Goldman and Berk- man, whom she ki d in public when he was surrendered for deportation. Anthony Caminetti, commissioner geneml of immigration, took personai |man “grand - have| | ihouse committee on immigration, al- 80 wera there as was Francis P. Gar- | wvan, assistant attorney general and William 'J. Flynn, chief of the secret service of the department of justice. Elected Berkman Boss. As soon as they were informed | that they would be out of the coun- try before dawn, the male anar- chists at_the island formally organiz- ed the “First Soviet Anarchistic Com mune” of America and elected Berk- -y He bossed the preparations of all in the large! detention - e v mwnarch was ever more readily obeyed. ~All stood up when he entered the room. The members of the commune obeyed him so promptly that guards transmitted | their orders through him. In khaki shirt with khaki trousers tucked into| high Russian boots he was the cen-! tral figure in a merry group that! awaited the tug. They played banjos | and guitors and sang the “Interna- tionale.” All their conversation was in_Russian, Berkman said he expected to go to Petrograd and cooperate with Lenine and Trotzky in governmg Russia. He said his uncle, N. Starick, was the di- rector of all the country’s railreads and also head of the Moscgw Soviet. “Why should I not be happy? 'he remarked as he tied up a box of oranges which was put aboard the transport with eanned goods, . con- densed milk and ehocolate and great quantities of other food supplies that the whole Soviet took with it. “I am | going among friends.” Well Provided or, Most of the members of the Com- mune had ample clothing of their own but the immigration officers took care that .no_one should be imperilled by the rigorous weather of Russia. Those who were not properly equipped were supplied with complete outfits from army stores, including overcoats, un- derlothes, mittens, hats and boots. The Commune took half a million dollars in American money with it Berkman said the cash possessions averaged $2,000 each. Dire Prediction by Gcidman. Miss Goldman. said her plans after she ‘reached Russia were indefinite other than that she would immediate- ly, organize the “Russian Friends of American Freedom” to carry on prop- aganda in the United Sate: “This government has signed its death warrant in these deportations,” she said. “This is the beginning of the end of the United States govern- men. I am not going to stop my work as long as life rests with me. The czar never resorted to such meth- ods as the United Staets is using in this first deportation of political ag- itators.” s A similar prediction of dire results for_ this country was made by_Arthur Katses, another leader of the Russian union, who was arrested in New York. . “The anarchist movement will be! carried on in the United States al-| though the intellectual heads, the real | top of the movement, are now being | sent away,” he said. Women Were in Deep Black. Miss Goldman and the other women in the party were in_ deep black and noné of the three exhibited the defiance that characterized of the maleganarchists. The trip was| regarded as a lark by the youngest deportee, Thomas Buchamoff, 17 years old, nephew of Bianki, who organized a branch of the Union of Russian Workers at Freeport, Long Island. The Soviet left many individual messages of farewell at the island to| be sent by immigration officers and a joint telegram was sent to the de- partment of Labor asking American ! women to reflect on the separation of deportees from wiv It was signed by Alexander Schatz, “grand secre- tary of the Communi “Think! Think! Think American women,' ‘it read, “we = came to tais| country with love for the liberty up-| on which the country was founded. We honestly labored and devotedly in- vested all we possessed for the wel- fare of all, as we understood it best. Yet the government of the United States is going to deport us. Well, the only thing we ask is that our children and wives be not deprived of their fathers and husbands and be granted permission to go with them to Soviet Russia. : Women Occupy Large Cabin, The three women in ne deported party. will be treated as first class passengers during the trip, occupying one large cabin. The men are in three separate . compartments and Grand Commissary Berkman has not | privileges not granted to others. Ten immigration inspectors will help sol- dier guard them. All will be confin- ed to theld quarters except for a| brief daily exercise period on deck. Red Cross nurses went along to act as matrons. Officials of the department of justice expressed pleasure at speedy fruition of plans to rid the country of anar- chists. These plans were laid when bombs were sent to officials and prom- inent citizens in June. In country- wide raids on November 7 anarchists numbering 290 were arrested and 239 of these were deported'today, the other ten included Berkman and Miss Gold- man, whose cases had long been pend- ing. Other Soviet arks are to jeave in the near future for the department of justice has a card index of 60,000 radicals who. are under scrutiny and it is the announced intention of the authorities ~to deport all who are proved to advocate the overthrow of the government by vielenc: Sixty anarchists who have been or- dered deported wore expected from ! Detroit for the Buford, but the train! orders were cancelled because to have awaited its arrival would have| delayed the sailing. Today's shipioad ! i i 1 i charge of preparations at the island during the night and accompanied the tug down the bay. FRepresentatives Wobpson and Siegel, members of the coptained men arrested in New York, Philadeiphia, Boston, Bridgeport, Hart- ford, New Haven, Ansonia and Water Bury, Conn., Cleveland, Akron and| Youngstown, Ohio; Baltimore, Chicago, [ .. TRANSPORT BUFORD DEPARTS WITH IBLE RADICALS Cabledm_Paragraphs : German Mission in Paris, Dec. of the German mission Whi trusted with the arrangements Paris. ~The second section ich is en- for putting the peace treaty into effect ar- rived here today. It is headed by Herr Von Simson ang consists of three ministers of state and two secretar- ies. The first section of the mission | Were bound by and had agreed to ac- reached Paris yesterday. Detroit and San Francisco. Tincluded in the passenge: Buford was a carload of P! ‘who arrive/. here yesterday. rist of the uftalo Reds, Statement by Goldman and Berkman. In a ffrewell statement signed by Goldman and Berkman and given out tonight by Mrs. Ballentin anarchic\s expressed their the American government them “the honor and glory e, the' arch gratitude to for giving of bring to Russia the knowledge of the out- rages and cruelties American men and women practiced upon because of their opinions.” After several hundred words devoted to abus; thorities the pair conclude ment with a prophecy of tl “We, the first Americai refugees,” the .statement of. the au- their state- heir return. n political s vet live to see America truly brave and trulv free and we waii by this land to rejoice with her peop! in_their triumphant achiev Representative Siegel; panied the other house committee on immi |the Buford as far as the | limit, said .today that he ement.”. ‘who . accom- members of the igration on three mile was |, sur- priced at the excellence of the ar- rangements on board the transport for the comfort of the radical: s. “I might say they are traveling de luxe” he remarked. “We hag talks with many of the de- portees,” he added. all United States government stitutions.” “and they were loud ip their denunciation of the and its in- Mr. Siegel professed not to knoy the destination of the Buford although he said he had been informd she would go norht by wdy of the Kiel canal. CAREERS OF EMMA GOLDMAN AND ALEXANDER New York, Deec. 21.—Th BERKMAN tion of Emma Goldman and her de- voted companipn, Alexander Berkman. '3 ends a joint career of 30 ¥ ot ol United ~ States preached the overthrow ment by violence. He spe and she three years in jai were never punished for th teachings played in attack on_life and property, Berkman served fourt: fiom registering for the dr: the war, man during ~ which ministrator, and referred to in Pres-|tion period of great difficulty. We ident Wilson’s letter of December 6th.|have greatly inflated our national e deporta-| ynder the terms of this proposal the | credits or currency with- its conse- mine controversy was to be settled on |quential stimulus to speculation five principles an- | through easy money. We have 81d cars-in the |, i ced by Dr. Garfield. The appli- | extravagances on the part of those they | oaticn of one of these principles deter- | sections of the community that have of govern- | mined’ the 14 per cent. advance which |had larrer incomes than they can in- nt 16 years| gag granted the miners. The Garfield | telligently spend. We are faced with il, but they | payovai, further provided for the es- great disruptions in the course of the ;g;flo ttl:‘::: abiiskment of a guard with advisory | world’s commerce en years - far shooting Henry Clay ¥rick and rs for drging young men to abstain two aft early in Miss. Goldman was in pris- Wo years for opposing conscrip- nd one’ year .for inciting to riot. was never brought to ‘trial on an indictment’ for murder in con- nection " with™ the Prepare bomb outrage in San Fran Goldman was acquitted of tribution of birth control dness Day cisco. Miss illegal’ dis- literature. Their joint activities- as publishers d “The Blast,* during the war combined addresses at anarchists’ helped cause , the President charged in its deportatio archist magazines, assassination MeKinley, the government.! “Mother suppressed with their meetings, of n proceed- ings. The confession of Czolgosz de- scribed the influence which Miss Gold- mun's writings had on him. Their influence was traced in the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times. Matthew Schmidt ang David Caplan, now in jall with others for viere “of General Palmer has said. Suspected of Receiving Money. They were suspeeted of Goldman cln,” that crime, Altorney German receiving German money to oppose prepared- ness. by the United States before the i United States entered the war. They cooperated with German spies in endeavoring to promote a‘revolu- tion in India during the war. They were the pioneer radicals in the United States. . Now there . are 60,000 Reds htre and 472 disloyal for- eign ' language newspapers, to_Attorney General Palmer. Denounced by judges public officials from President Roose- | according and _other velt down as enemies of the country sceking to destroy but re woimen anarchists who greeted with kisses as. “beautiful egarded by them characters, 100 years ahead of their times,” they so increased their following that: it was easy for them to pro 000 bail in cash v.de $15,000 or : Liberty Yet fines of $10.000-each for | opposing the draft were unpaid. They had no property, they eaid, For more than 10 years their depor- tation had been agitated and at times seemed near but no formal proceed- ings for this purpose were instituted until the alarming radical activities of 1919, including the Seattle and ‘Win- nipeg general strikes, the sending of bombs through the mails to Attorney General Palmer and other prominent men, the formation .of branches of the communist party and plan. chistic demonstration on the anniver- ! s fOr. anars sary of the formation of the msuviet Republic of Russia, which were frus- trated by countrywide raids in 'Nov- ember. These raids made 697 anarchists seized by a total of the 1Jinited States on deportation proceedings in the last two years, Co-Workers of Nil lists. When their co-workers, the Nihilists in Russia, whence they came evoluted into the Bolsh formed the.Soviet government youth, and after eviki the downfall of the monarchy, Berk- man and Miss Goldman championed a similar government and social for this country. réndered = for t as Soviet ambassador order Berkman when sur- deportation predicted that he wouid return to the United and Miss Goldman prophesied a revolution here within five years. “American capitalists are the most greedy in the world,” she said, “and |sassinate Yussuf Wahba Pasha, when the time comes they are’ going | premier: .to pay a terrible price for it. derous storm is.brewing in the United | ing. from his home toward- the minis- States.” Yet when given: apportunity during}Arian:Youssuf Haab stepped into the their many appearances in court to froagway in the Medan Silesman Pasha air their views they’ repudiated vio- Jand threw two bombs at A thun- T Hoover Favors Cred For Foreign Buyers Declares They Are NM to Speed the Conditions of the World to Normal. Chicago, Dec. 21.—Necessity for es- tablishing credits in this country f oot ( They Failed to Partici- w‘;{te In Government’s Plan For Settling Strike. ‘Washington, Dec, 21.—Coal opera- tors of the United States through their .executive committee explained further tonight their reasons for re- fusing to. participate in the govern- or foreign buyers\if the world is to re- turn to normai speedily is emphasized by Herbert Hoover, former food ad- ministrator, writing in 7 i - Farm and ment’s plan for settling the bitumin o ous coal strike. Renewing the denial | Home for January. Z that previous agreements had bound | [Reviewing world economics from them to accept the government’s plan, 1917 to 192), inclusive, Mr. ' Hoover pointed out that the farmer here and in other countries has inaintained pro- duction, while manufacturing, mining and transportation has slackened enor- mously since the armistice, In his review the.man who virtually rationed the world through the war emphasized that: “The world situation is such that all our foodstuffs will again be needed. it the world is to be carried over with- out starvation. In the great American export staples of grain, meat and dairy products there is a_sufficiency to get the world through—but only on a nar- row margin. “Burope’s haryests this year were 80 per cent. of the pre-war normal and will not recover for some time. Russia may not be again exporting foodstuffs for some years. Reduced producing capacity of animals in Europe, due to under-feeding, is more serious than their lessened number, “There will be no considerable carry- over of food supplies anywhere in -the world on Aug. 1, 1920. The world will start fresh again next August, with only its then production to cover the year following. “The only remedy,” he says, “is the establishment of credits in_the Unltea States for,foreign buyers, and seeing that fair prices to our producers are paid under these credits. Upon credits revolves the gale of the American farmers’ surplus. Credits cannot be established until we have peace. “With the uncertainties of ratinca- tion of the treaty and the political chaos that might follow from failure to secure its ratification, the Amerian banker and investor has not felt justi- fieq in subscribing to European loans giving credits to European countries. The consequence is unless we can solve this problem, we shall have a glut of our export stables at home ana at the same time Europe will be starv- ing.” A Of “the present period Mr. Hoover vrites: ‘We are going through a reconstruc- the operators asserted that while they cept strile settlement proposals made by Dr. Garfield, former fuel adminis- trafor. the, government proposals as accodted by the miners differ vitally from those of the Garfield plan. The, insistence of, the operators left open: tonight the possibility, it was held, -that the :commission named Saturday, by President Wilson and given by him power .to fix wages and prices of coal necessary to sustain wages, might be unable to function. | The executive committee did not say, however, that the operators would stand aloof from the commission in its inyestigations ‘and. decision, but left tife. question open, to be settled prob- ably at a meeting Tuesday in Clever land, Ohio, where a general session' of the scale committee central com- petitive field and other operators gen- erally has been called. The operators in_a formal state- ment of Attorney General Palmer of vésterday, in which he says that ‘it would be an amazing repudiation of their own statements if the operators do not_acauiesce in the plan which their . officlal representatives have re- peatedly. agreed to' in the settlement o fthe coal strike, the bituminous coal operators feel impelled to re-state their attitude so that it may be clearly appreciated by the public. “Attorney General Palmer, in his statement of yesterday. asserted that the operators had agreed to the mem- orandum of the attorney general and John. L. Lewis, acting president of the United Mine Workers of America, laying . down the terms of agreement for settlement of the coal strike. The fact is that the operators never learn- ed of the existence of that agreement until after it had been presented to miners at the Indianapolis conference of ‘December 1. “The operators did accept the pro- posal of the government, presented through Dr. Garfield, former fuel ad- powers only. “The operators still stand by the ac- ceptance of the Garfield proposal, The president's letier of December Gth re- ferred specifically to. it ang it seemed clear to the minds of the operators that it was the intefit of the president that the. Garfield proposal was to be uséd as, the basis of settlement of the ware controversy, . “The operators neyer . have been consulted -in regard to the memoran- dum’ which was drawn by the -attor- ney general in. conference with Presi- dent eLwis and Secrefary Green of the miners' organization. “The memorandum goes far beyond | the Garfield proposal to which they assented. “The operators point out the follow- ing radical differences between the Garfield proposal and the Palmer- Lewis memorandum which was ac- cepted at Indianapolis: “l—The Garfield proposal would have established a board with advis- ory powers only. The Palmer-Lewis | memorandum agreement would estab- lish ‘2 commission not advisory in character but with full power defi- vitely to fix coal prices, wagss, dif- ferentials and to determine cf working cunditions d “All these troubles are to be expect- ed out of a great world war. They could be a good deal mitigated if we | could apply our national energies to their solution- instead- of holding a talfest over industrialism and instead of jockeying for palitical position. Whether we will concentrate our minds and energles on these problems, I do not know, but certainly I see litt%e in- dication of it hereabouts . LABOR LEADER MAURER_OENIER CHARGE OF UN-AMERICANISM Reading, Pa.. Dec. 21.—At a mass meeting here today, James H. Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. delivered a two- hour reply to the charge of un-Ameri- canfsm made against him by the American Legion and other patriotic organizations. Maurer quoted from the Declaration of Independence and the state consti- tution to justify his pro-Bolshevik ut- terances as being a legitimate exercise of freedom of speech, and attacked the Pennsylvania state police as “Cos- sacks” because' of their connection with the steel strike situation. Maurer denounced. to an audience of 2,000, made up largely of socialists, Attorney General Palmer and Ole Han- son and accused Governor Sproll of failure to carry into effect the laws permitting free speech and free as- sembly. He declared ex-Governor Brumbaugh, Sproul's predecessor, could have had a $200,000 bribe if he had signed instead of vetoing the rull crew railroad bill several years ago. OBITUARY. Gilbert William Gaul. New Yok, Dec. 21.—Gilbert William labor —The question of differenti i ] working conditions jmany bt St 1.3 rad 1 the tuminous coal flelds affceted memorandum are so i api complicated that a review, in_order to make an decision, would be an in task. These matters are of vi portance to the coal Industry. The | differentials themselves are not in dis- {pute. . “3—Furthermore, the findings of the commission contemplated by the Pal- < Gaul, an artist and member of the | mer-Lewis = memorandum ~may be |National Academy since 1882, died made retroactive without limitations|here today. He w the youngest { a5 to time, g % member of the National Academv of “There are other important differ- | Design when he was admitted at the | ences between the Garfield proposal jand -the Palmer-Lewis. memorandum ! which have not been made clear to the | ogerators up-to this time. The opera- tors repeat that they. have never age of 21. His milit: ipaintings won many medals, including one in the Paris exhibition in 1889. He was born 64 vears ago in Jersey City, N. J. One of his hest known war agreed to the Palmer-Lewis memoran-| pictures was entitled “The Best Dress- dum- and that they stll stand upon e Woman in the World” and depicted their agreement to accept the terms of |, Red Cross nurse on'a baitlefield in the Garfield proposal. They will unite |France. with all the well-thinking people of 3 the country, so that, in the final con- clusion of this matter, all interests will be faithfully protected and served, y and historic BTEAME; WITH BROKEN PUMPS IS ROLLING DANGEROUSLY ;’,fbm; Practitanls saintiol af el anirat . Dec. 21.—Wirelest Attorney General Palmer in his|Messages reguesting assistance’ were intercented at Cape Race tonight from the British freight steamer Kamarima, which reported that her circulating pumps were broken and that she was rolling dangerously 180 miles South- east of St. Johns N. F. The Hama- rima, which registers 2796 tons, sailed from Cardiff on December 11 for this vort, SCHOONER JAMES SLATER A WILL BE A TOTAL LOSS Wellfleet, Mass., Dec. 21.—The 364-ton British schooner James Slater. bound trom Liverpool, X. S, for New York, went ashore here early todav and will be a total loss. Cant. J. L. Publicover and his crew of seven men were taken oft by the Cahoon’s Hollow coast guard crew, by means of the breeches buoy. The vessel ha da cargo of wood puip. statement last night took exception to | statements of A. M. Ogle. chairman {of the operators’ executive committee, 1 made before the senate investigat- ir(_committee Friday. Mr. Palmer | sa.d, newspaper reports credited Ogle ith " declaring that the . attorney | general had proposed a ‘“surrender.” This, Mr. Palmer said, was false. Mr, Ogle tonight responded to the attorney general's remark by referring to the transcript of the committee session. That document, it was point- ed out, showed that the conversation mentioned took place before any pro- | po bad been made by the government, ang that Mr. Ogle’s remarks were qualified. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE PREMIER OF EGYPT Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 15.—An official communication issued today gives the following details regarding the attempt made this morning to as- the THE STRANDED STEAMER NORTHWIND FLOATED | Newport, R. T, Dec. 21.—The steam- er Northyind, which went ashore in a fog on Naushon Island. Vinevard sound, a week ago, was floated late today by the coast guard cutter Acush- net. which canvoyed her-to-Vinevard Hayen. The setamer: was bound from Norfolik to Bostan with a cargo of coal, “As, the prime minister was motor- try. 2" Coptic medical . student named car. The i and several hundred fons of coal were lence. ‘fchauffeur saw the student’as be was |removed in order to fioat hel ;The anarchist never adyocates “a|preparing to fhrow the first borny and * i eizn of terror,” said Berkman.|stopped the car with' the result fhat ‘Anarchism means the negation eof | the bomb cxploded in the road several Where the Honor Comes In. violence. Anarchists teach self-re- | yards ahead of it. The student hast- | We don't exactly fear war with | iance, cooperation and mutual ald jn iy threw the Second boiab. which | Mexico, but how we dread to have wetit -over the car and exploded in the!the semate make peace afterward.— (Continued On Page 3. Col. 4), iroud - Nobody whs injured." Brookiyl. Hagle. by 3 | Thursday. Condensed ‘Ie'l‘agnirds*f Gold sold at 110s 6d. a fine ounce in London, compared with 107s, 7d.’ at the previous close. R Tk After a rough trip the Carmania of the Cunard Line arrived at New York with 871 passengers. R ‘Bar silver was quoted . at 78 1-2 pence an ounce in London ’ cotmpared with $133 in New York. - Platt bill was passed making gold certificates of the United States: pay- able on demand legal tender. An ordinance for contrel of all air- craft flying over ‘Newark - was pre- sented to the city commission. Plans to relieve the French financial and ‘economic situation 1l be “con- gd!e{;ed» at the Cabinét - meeting . ‘in aris, £ g The dollar was quoted at 11 francs and. 25 ‘centimes ‘compared --with 11 fratics at. previous close on Paris ex- change. HEARERS e A movement. was started ' in - Con- gress looking to a reduction in . the amount of newsprint paper - used by Hotel, the Benningten the government. The Cottage garage and the laundry ‘plant of J. H. Powers . at Bennington, Vt., were de: stroyed by fire early Saturday.: perils (5 § New York burglary: insurance ‘com- panies are increasing their rates be- cause of the ~failure: of police o checks the crime wave in the city. Manufacture of intoxicating liquors, or “beverages near intoxicating,” even for one’s own use, is unlawful in Min- nesota, the State Supreme Court ruléd: Members_of the committee on ar- rangements for -the Republican Na- tional Convention next Jume, ' ‘were summoned to meet in Chicago, on Jan. 5. 7 Forty-three. members: of theo crew of the British steamer Manxman were drowned when their ship foundered in mid-ocean, according to reports pick- ed up at Halifax, N. S. Cuillermo Meixueiro, rebel leader in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, for the last five vears,'and former governor of the state, will surrender uncondi- tionally to the city o fOaxaca. Canada's trade last month exceded the total for November, 1918, by $18.-1 000,000. Compared with eight months Compared with eight months of the fiscal year it was 6 millions lower. Colonel William Boyse Thompsan, recently selected chairman of the pub- licity committte, - of the Republican National Committee, resigned as a di- rector of the Federal Reserve -Bank. Department of Commerte = raported that artificiai silk -industry ' of :Bel- glum is being actively revivéd. Sev- enty-five per cent, of the workmen employed before the war. are back at Severe fighting icinity of Nayva, on the Esthonfan front where the Bolsheviki broke through wire de: fense and captured - sevéral villages, was teported by the - Soviet govern- | ment. House Interstate. Commerce Com- ‘mittee deferred actio® on the proposal to place an embargo against sugar ex- ports until the bill continuing the' Su- gar-Bqualization Board has been di posed of. Congressman Olney of . Massachu- setts-called at the White House to urge President Wilson to declare de- mobilization complete . in order that the war-time mwoh#bition ban may ‘| be lifted. Consideration of Senator Dial’s bill proposing a one-cent drop letter post- age rate was postpone dby the senay poht office. committee until after t annual ‘postoffice appropriation bill has been passed. Colonel George Harvey, in latest is- sue of Harvey's Weekly, asserts American Minister in Copenhagen is {using the legation as a trading post{months' military training with pr between the Russian Soviet. and Wall Street financiers. Director Hines announced = that despite the great difficulties in getting | empty coal cars back to_their normal channels of traffic after the coal sirike gratifying progress as being made. to supply the enines. The Gloucester, Mass, fishing schooner, Benjamin E. Smith, arrived at Halifax, N. S,” with her 'flag at half mast for two of her trew. who were lost in thick, weather hile f ing in their dory off Liscomb, N. S., A RETURNED NEGRO SOLDIER LYNCHED BY MOB IN GEORGIA Columbus, Ga., Dec. 21.—Boarding a Central of Georgia passenger train at Smithville, Ga., a mob of about fifty | men seized Charles: West, a negro re- turned soldier, and huiried him away to a secluded spot where he was shot to death. The negro -had been'ar- rested in Jacksonville, Florida, on a charge of having killed Emmet L. Brightwell, a farmer of Richland. Ga., and was being returned to- Americus to answer to the charge when he was removed from the train. The train was boarded-so quietly when a three minute stop was made at Smithville that members of the train crew. did not know . that the mob had seized the negro-until informed by the prisoner’s guarg after: the trafn had left the town, The body of the negro’was found late in the day hanging in a tree and riddled by bullets. |JENKINS CLAIMS THAT HIS RELEASE WAS A “TRICK” Dallas, Texas, Dec. 21.—Character- izing his release on bail as another “trick” _on the part of Mexican offi- cials, William. O. Jenkins, American consular agent at Puebla, Mexico, in a letter received here today, reviews the history of his case, and declared that “under such conditions I hardly see how I am to aveid convietion.” S8LOW VOYAGE BY THE i STEAMER IMPERATOR Southampton, Dec. 21L.—The steam- er Tmperator;,on -her. first trip as'a Cunarg liner since recently...she _wes turned over to the British government by the United ‘States shipping board, arrived here today four ‘dars behind her scheduled time. ~The delay-‘was due to dirly boilers and bad coal. The passage was uneventful, - 525y More failures are due to than lack of strength. Tackot wil MUTIRY I ! O -~ THE TRAKS Last November. of the crew of the transport America, including .tyo. . petty officers, chargea with mutiny .on. the high seas and other crimes, were taken from the ship in irons today when she docked at a Hoboken army pier. Other arrests are expected to be made, as the transport crew is. reported to have been in most open rebellion since leaving this port last November on a trip to Eu- rope and return. An L W. W. agitator is 'said to have fomented the trouble. The * America, an army transport, manned by a civilian crew, returned from France yesterday with members of the American peace mission. Six of the eleven prisoners taken from the vessel are alleged to have been ringleaders in the trouble aboard. Seven of the prisoners are charged with mutiny_on the high seas. The others are charged with stealing and other. offenses. William' Calkins, an ordinary sea- man, accused of being one of the ring- leaders, in the trouble aboard the transport, and who is said to have had an L W. W. card, was arrested by an armed guard who found him hidine in the hold of the ship after it had dock- ed. Calkins had been arrested at sea for stealing, but in some manner es- caped and was reported missing. The trouble started last November when the vessel was on its way to Eu- rope. Members of the crew who were caught gambling refused to quit ween ordered to do so by army officers. The to matic pistols were found. These, it said, were stolen from officers and sol dier passengers. Several days later two women pas- PORT AME Eleven Members, Including Two Petty Officers, Were Taken From the Ship In Irons When She Docked at an Army Pier In Hoboken, Sunday—Other Arrests Are Expected, as Members of the Crew Are Reported to Have Been In. Almost Open Rebellica Since the Ship Sailed For Furana New York. Dec. 21.—Eleven members sengers, wives of officers on their Hoboken on its last trip. =He is be: lieved to be a professional agitator and will be made the subject of a investigation, it is stated. WhY when Coblenz, became hysterical they discovered two soldiers trying 1 gain entrance terooms through the deck windows: ~On the same _day caught selling a raincoat and everyons- in the galley was found shi When the transport re because of trouble with the créw, the ship commander ordered shore jeave restricted. The crew broke out in open rebellion and declared they would N g0 ashore if they had to figh o o fight their way Sixty members of barge attempted to get ashore on the morning of Dee. 4, but were forced fo return at the point of pistols in hands of the ship officers. boatswain, who hid aboard the bz escaped. ~An hour later several of the crew stole a lifeboat and went sshore. When the fireroom force was going to fet the fires go out, a special armed guard was sent below. Another armed. guard of soldiers was put aboard the v prevent trouble on deck. - After the fireroom incident, staté= rooms and lockers aboard the ship were broken open and loot ing and vaiuables. On Dec. 15 Calkins was placed un- der arrest on a chagre of stealing and aken alleged to have boasted that he was: one of the ringleaders in the troubla aboard. He escaped after being loeked to their stal 2 master-at-arms o0ting craps. ached Bral:t o the crew in'a A two detectives learned that essel to ed of cloth- to the captain's office. He is ‘baggage of passengers was looted and |in the brig. when ship officers ordered the crew Calkins s said to have joined quarters searched a number of auto- |crew ten minutes before it sailed L spectak, REORGANIZATION OF ARMY WITH COMPULSORY TRAINING Washington, Dec. 21. — lation which would amount to.a virtual re- organization of the army with pr tection from outside attack as a pri- mary purpose and - with —compulsory military training for boys from eigh- | teen to twenty years of age as a lead- ing feature has been agreed upon ten- tatively by the senate military sub- committee considering a permanent military policy for_the nation. Sena- tor Wadsworth of New York, chairman of the sub-committee, said tonight | the legislation would be put in- final form during. the Christmas recess of congress, for presentation to the full commitiee when the senate reconven- es. The legislation as agreed upon b: the . sub-committee, Senator Wads- | worth said, is_completely new and| bears no resemblance to the army re- organization bill drafted by the gen-| eral staff and the transmiited to the|, house and senate military committe by Secretary Baker. While variou minor : details of the plan rémain to | be worked out, the committee’s pr ent agreement, Senator Wadswo said, calls for a_permanent standing peace army of 280,000, although the committee may possibly reduce this number in the final draft. One big army composed of the res- ular army as now recognized and a reserve or citizens' army is provided in the tentative legisation. Of tue Iatter army the national guard would be a part although the details of the organization of that service remain| to_he worked out. Youths within the prescribed lim| D r . t 1 age s would be required to take f¢ r vi- sion for using the regular army or the | national guard to furnish this train-| ing. The youths, howe would be ! given an opportunity to elect either | taking, this training In a_lump or in| joining the national guard for i ipericd -during which they we ceive the samc amount of tr prescribed for the four mon riod. - Tpon completion the reeruits would b serve army for a T but no conditions, said, could the re: on'to. perform mi in_case of declarati “While the bill w nuisory m 2 ning. Wadsworth said, “there wi visions made for co: service.” Ancther radical departure pdresent miiitary svetem substitution of the term corps, in designating the auarter: ter, judge advocate. ordnance n flar _hranches of se the bill provides. wnt eli~ihility instead of ; The sub-committee {averrila the recommenda tary Baker and Ge of staff, to have the « service combined with the en corps. S*milar leislation also worked out hy the honsa mil e 1d re- | ining as | of this tr placed i od of enator Wad: es be called up- | Tvires i 1 be no pro- { military from i i jcommittee which Antin {Anthony said tonizht will have larmy’ rearganization bill ready hel o taken mn early next moath. TUna plans af the honse eommitten, hawer the*neace army will fnenlde anns matelv 300000 enlisted men and 1%, 000 officers. | As now planned. the house hill will | maintain the present status of the na- tional guard. “FLYING PARION” RESIGNS { FROM ARMY AIR SERVICZ New York, Dec. #l—Lieutenant Belvid W. Maynard, “the fiying par- sdn.” winner of the recent army trans- | | continental air race, announced today |\ that he had resigned from the army | ; air service and will resume his work 3 iwas also said that Touis Loucheur,: “T am going to take the adyie 1|01 De the teceived in an anonymous letter the other day and go back to my preach- ing” Licutenant Maynard said. “In substance it said: T am now an | old man of over 80. but when I was a young man, an old man told me not to be a fool. Now I am old and you fare young, so I want to give you =ome advice. Don't be a fool. Go back to your- pulpit and zive up yowr flyinz « ‘and newspuper fame. TO MAKE LIST OF GERMANS der-Secretary of State Jus morning to take part in the making up {of a list,of Germans war crimes, anq whose delivery to tht {entente will be demanded.” A confer- cnce will be ‘held during. the week in! London to determine upon a plan for: joint action by Great Britain, and Belgium, Paris, has a list of 500 names ready to be submitted. lor had m, | motos | the tra has been lea | not CHARGED WITH WAR CRIMES Paris, Dec. 21 (By The A. P.) Un. for Military for Tondon this ice Ignace left charged with B France, according to the ;Echo Da Among these fames 3| that of one of the former German em- peror’s sons ang also those of Former: Crown Prince Rupprechi of Bavaria and several generals and commanders. of prison camps in Germany. In all, according to this newspa- | about 1500 persons will be ar- med before military tribunals of. ch of the three nations or by mixed| ibunals in cases where the persons! e accused of crimes against peoples| various nationalities. It is said that even if culprits are tried by German courts they neverthe- must appear before the allied tri-. | bunals. The case of Former Emperor Wil am will be dealt with separately from the London conference. $700,000,000 FROM SALE OF : WAR MATERIAL IN EUROPE ew York, Dec. 21.—A total of 00 000,000 was realized by the sale of America’s war material in England, | France, Belgium, Italy and Germany, | Eawin chair datin his arrival from Europe with five oth~ er members of the commission on the transport Powhatan, commission also cleaned up claims due and much more. B. Parker of Houston, Texas, n of the United States Ligui- commission, stated’ today on He said the zainst the United States, for as Its report will be ready a few davs. Mr. Parker asserted that taken the commission ten onths to dispose of all ff i : coun- s war stocks abroad, the ofher al~ countries had not yet becn able k2 an inventory. He denied ¢l trueks had been “left to go b¥ boards” declaring that all motor sport material sold by the com- on had been used and that some s worn out. i ted the articles were soldl than 50 per ceat. of what i of the material wag < more of a liability than. while it according to Mr. Parker, and ot available, coulfl. ht home. Hec said the uld have brought less im WAR CRIMES TRIALS 7O GE D IN PARIS AND AT LILLE D i o war crimes will s and at Lille in 1920; al at Lille has lssued- ints - against German nd soldiers, and a_ captaifi Tieute iready have + imprisone A Br d_from an _authorized arce that Holland . is declared to. ive stuted o that - she - will® er up 1 for trial. GOSSIP OF PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES IN FRANCE 18 —The. elogs, hanel to the presi- mber of deputies. is kening his chances. y of France. Gossip- this _ afternoon was : the presidenc: the chamber that Premier Clemenceau, despite nus crous utterances to the contrary. s a candidaie for the presidencwy 1 that he was not hindesing his friends from working in his behalf. It SENTENCED TO DEATH Budapest, Friday, De . 19.—Dr. Bus: gene Laszlo and four associates have | been entenced o death. They were ed of murderinz several couns 5. robbery aad ; mon - impi BE