Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 5, 1920, Page 1

POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN.. MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1920 - IGHT PAGES—64 COLS. . 0L OF ALL LABOR ORGANZATIONS WAS THE AIM OF PLOTS OF COMMUNISTS Fact Revealed in Documents Made Public By the State De-| partment—Were to Be Used as the Means of Fomenting | Revolution—Department of Justice Agencies Are Con- tinuing Their Crusade and 280 Persons Were Arrested in Detroit Yesterday—Authorities Were Surprised at the Number of American Ciiizens in Membership of the Com- munist and Communist Labor Parties—Their Cases Will Be Turned Over to State Governments. —Plans of the;tws years or both for any person a fine of not more 00 or imprisonment of not s or both for any of promoting sedition; lor the deportation of any alien con- mong whic great raids inangurated are directed, labor organizations as in ducoments department denaturali: deportation naturalized citizen guilty of either or “The patriciic press of virtually ev- regard to politics, organizatin people learn “the vreal pu has endorsed the bill; groups and unqualifiedly f the measur hailed generall; measure ‘with teeth the kind of u measure the department of justice must have if mp out. th.s grave menace of and that is < of running organizations. % it is going to | distinetly surprising that | COMMUNISM RECOGNIZES NC NATIONAL OR STATE LINES shington, Jan. and Trotzky recognizes ng the entire world estabiiziment of a ,ship of prole prepared s themselves and perfect case! . | the bolshevi rests reported to- in a collection of t'translated from > state department, { The memorandum wa today and has been transmitted 1o the senate and ho with foreign affairs. n newspapers s ‘made public tention by his committees Communist Labor pa the original | list eligible for representation and ful! i memberzhip in the third internation- {al, according to the full | call issueq by wireless 11919, which wag reproduced | memorandum. “bore from within” the labor unions, as disclosed ‘manicesto and programme,” Communist and Com- munist labor parties outlined for their adberents the programme for inciting strikes: and de- these smal] strikes into he plan of action was given in detail from “small strikes to ikes; from minor mass to general strikes and from | general strikes to the dictatorship of | proletariat through revolution.” Deploring the tremd of development trade unionism, January, organizs party ments of the so- especially represented by propaganda association,” the L W. W. of Amcrica and the Workers Intérnational Indus- {trial Union ot America. . The. extraordinary commisions and organized terror under the e dider whicrishi was based on the | FeEime are discusseq in the memoran- small _indusiry: The | dum, and_ ted primarily of skilled | Proclamations. hose skill in itself is a form | by Petrovsky, September The ‘unions are not or- the militant class the dominant unionism bulwark of capitalism, in imperialism and accepting velopment of | America, the “left mass action. cialist party { that group which minor mass s “manifesto” | Bolshevik raft division: supplemented i A message, 1919, con- !tains the tollowing: “At the ohightest attempt to- resist or the slighiest movement among the White Cuards, mas: be applied & A second section of the memoran- dum deals with' the economic results of the two years of bolst The budget f 1919, as pu * admonishes the par- * followers that they must actively in the struggle to revolution- It adds that against the unionism of the American Federation of Labor, the of revolutionary viki control, months of ed in bolsheviki news- papers, showed a deficit of thirty bil- lion rubles. X Other press excerpts show the dis- rative ma- organization the decrease in the tivity of labor, industrial collapse, ’.:mlik(‘r‘ socialist, ousted in the last ses- the breakdown of transportation. world programme sheviks. is amplified in the May Day ! proclamation munist international. The concluding sentences proclamation born the great In 1920 will be born the great- est international soviet republic.” NEW ENGLAND “REDS" ! BEING SENT TO BOSTON produc- | re-election reactionary and the bulwark : the bol- | themselves, the 4 much to achieve Segom particular strike but lete capitulation by capital as one aim w! hargaining or dickering of | kind between employer and em- the radicals’ of overthrow political .economic system. “The manifesto of the which was made pub- lic as one of the documents fo by Doth the Communist munist Labar froups ‘of this country the Leéagne of Nations as under which the ts prepare for their final bat- city, Holyoke and Chic- | wide raid on Red headquarters, were sent to Boston this afternoon by Ralph agent of department Massachusetts. ber were from Holyoke. 115 arrests were made and of the 38 not sent to Boston, some have been released anq others are being held for examination. el R R NO FALL IN PRICES FOR SEVERAL YEARS TO fOME Washington, Jan. 4—No nrospect of considerable fall years to come Royal Meeker, commissioner of labor | week statistics and which collects information trend of prices used by ment in. official f the government in ob inst the leaders ous coai strike was em- ; the Communist party heads ition in_their camps capitalist used a weavon which muster. This Thirteen of this num- | total within a_few days after At- wtih officials of the ited Mine Workers. prices for seen PALMER HAS ASKED FOR MORE FAR-REACHING LAWS Washington, prosecute the so-called parlor shevists, long haired m baired women who encourage asita- sedition as pastime, Attorney General Paimer to- day issued an appeal to congress for prompt action on tae bill By him several would strengthen the hanls department of justide in dealing w:th ican citizens cousidered danger- ous to the nation. At least one of the men taken in the latest raids is a ciov official and rumetous others are coumr3 or have taken out citizensiip Papers after long residence. “In order that recommend lary unit of va to replace the present units of wesht. yearnin intently for have not thoug sults of falling “The sufferings alrcady endured by the people through risin be muiltiplied tenfold drop within the next seven vears to; the 1913 level. prices is always a time ol husiness and unemploy- t much about the re- Fasker | A period of Declaring that the governments of the world could not reduce their m- -debtedness suddenly, the commission t said the credit which would have to b, | extendel to BEurope by would produce further inflation, “thus ces still higher: the department of justice,” Mr. Palmer's statement said; ey desl - foret this country effectively and seditionists who are who are seek- destrov the govern- ment, I hope very earnestly that con- upon the reconven- Ing on January,5 will enact into law - i ARRESTED FOR THEFTS FROM THE MANVILLE CO. Jan. 4—Thefts of goods estimated to be worth between $40.000 and $50.000 from,the Manville id to haye early today, when . the arrested David Littledale. Fres ediate! g s Providence, R. T Zraye situation now confronting us. months ago in appearing before a senate clear the fact that the department of justice was unable to proceed proper- against seditionists hecause of a lack of statutory definition crime and I also suggested the kind of 8 Jaw which I thought would meet the Waoonsocket Anderson and Hickson F. Anderson has been employed in the Manville miil as overseer and Little- dale corducts the Manville Company’s/| remnant store in former is held on a charge of stealing goods valued at $1,100 and the latter on the charge of ‘Woonsocket. “Since that time the bill 1 outlined Bas been introduced in the house and it now is in the hands of a sub-com- mittee. Epitomized properly defining aets #0uid provide for a fine of not more imprisenment Thefts have been going on for a ong period of time and until recent- y were shouded in mystery. Ander- son, according to the police, had beem stealing cloth from the mill, of sedition 310080 or WORK PROJECTED BY THE AMERICAN RED c\Ross ‘Washington, Jan, 4—Out of a fund of thirty million dollars available for ist work this year, the American Red Cross_ has set aside $15.000.000 for Curopean relief, $13,750,000 for use at home and $1,250,000 for completing its programme in Siberia. In making public today plans for carrying forward peace-time activities Dr. Li organization, declared that a consid- crable reserve must be heid for emer- Iis ‘incident to such possible s the opening of Russia to in- tercourse with the United States.” This determination, Dr. Farrand said, was reached ‘after long and full consider- ation*with government representatives in this_country and Burope. All obligations to_soldie and their families must be for, Dr. Farran dreported, while the ¥ | Red Cross must be ready at the same time to meet relief demands due to disaster: “We are pledged,” he added, “to the establishment of a peace time pro- os of | gramme in America for which $13, record | 750,000 will be made avail in cousidering this item be kept cleurly in mind that penditures in this country arising rectly out of the war remain high they hould rapidly diminish, and while our work for establishment of peace- time undertakings will increase in some measure, this increase will be inconsiderable as compared with the reduction of war items. To provide disaster rel as a se- lief, the report d substantial sum _ should be 3 ailab), and that while sthe Red Commun- prepared to meet instantly el 1 o s for help, ‘the public can.be oundarie ish the disaster fund after preliminary action has been tak- ator- | on rather than before” ing 1o thel The committee expressed the belief by|that the home resevve fund would includ- | properly protect the Red Cross ob- utterances | ligations in the United States which are nsidered ~“of prim import- ance. Turning toward the rest of _the warld. Rr. Farrand declared the or- dealing | ganization was “confronted by.a de- gree of suffering and helplessness organiza- | which is infinitely heyond the possi- bilities. of any funds at the disposal of the Red Cross and of all Bther re- lief” orzanizations combined adequate- Iy to meet” It was the wish of the American people, he added, that as nuch money as possible should be ed to meet emergencies abroad. “From its own treaury the Red Cross will appropriate $15,000.000 for general European relief,” the report of the . the|® tions | of CONGRESS CONVENES TODAY FOR MONTHS OF - HARD WORK Washington, Jan. convenes at noon tomorrow after a fortnight's holiday, with months of hard work in sight and adjournment expected by few leaders before the presidential campaign. next fall. Innumerable domestic and interna- problems await the attention of congress, with partisan politics of the coming presidential election prominent] to the fore. The senate will resume tomorrow consideration of the sedition bill - of Senator Sterling, republican, - North Dakota, and later begin work on the house water power developmént meagure. The Victor erger election case is the principal feature of tomor- row’s prozramme in the house, where leaders plan to weject immediately the certificate of/ the Milwau- 4—Congress re- official signed should sion. The senate returns tomorrow in the hope of disposition of the German peace treaty this month, but without | sl o e S o e S : | Substantial vesults from' compromise|naval cross, the same a8 was awarded | Major Goldsmith left Berlin tonirht the | negotiations A ng ',IT. hn;,,{qfi w'r‘ff'{:o commanding officers of other trans- | for -Hamburg, where he will organize | e egiate” movaay, To- | ports. Cantain Hasbrouck writes hel the w. 18e sy thiroush which| iternac ] over; nciee f dees not des to accept this medal. * | America vod 1 s will he cleared srnip{ree - espestate vty o for all sections of central Europe. S he consi ?;r ati ody has suzgested that an of-| The p nce of the American visi- | the French. . POLiel Sads o Tould be hono tors attracted considerable atiention | anama Ca settir vit} Wi by o of moving e camera operators. | ,’;;,',',T flement With Co-|i¢ is clear that when ushin f sunk| Adele Schreiber, a majority socialist | Tekas: the Turkishi g, ."commanding officer #hould be re-{and widely known welfare worker, will The i 4 : warded he meets sunreme |Fepresent Germany at the first inter- The r: _reorganization "‘"’Mr!s\s 3 with utter fear national . congress of belligerents in | and-tho ol conl, gas and phosphate | (5% i) of his. men above|Geneva on January 8, when the gen. and leasing hill. hoth in conference, i jim:eif with the utilization of all those | eral European food situation will be | nation-|are stheduled - for final ection this|uttriutes that show a man o hero|canvassed. S on }\hen the bour strikes for his supreme S — { trinl T¢ medals are nof given for this & 3 (e | BRITISH RAILWAY EMPLOYES | sort of thing, what on garth are they Leads Prosecution In western | | of| London, J. government’ made public considerable 1. £ —(By The A. P.) The offer tonight, advanc which conceded railwaymen held London and at Northampton. men decided that the offer was <atisfactory. The plan of the government was the same as that unofficially reported last week except that si: hy lings a eek wag to be regarded as t ave- bureau | rage minimum wage for the different thefgrades of workers, some grades be- govern-|ing mpaig as low as fifty-six shillings g paid higher rates. tion as a whole. the ue | increase offered was one hundred per cent. over the pre-war rate, Under 80| the plan should the cost of living in- they crease before next would be raised one shilling for eve: five per cent. in the rise in pric ter September there would be a & September, wages prices if prices| |RE Scale, varying with the cost of liv- ing. The sliding’ scale after September, would be operative, upward or down- ward, according as the cost of living varied, at the rate of a - shilling for falling each five per cent. movement, . the presopt cost of 1i ng being estimated at 125 per cent. above the pre-war rates, VICTOR L. BERGER BOUND New York, Jan. 4—Victor L. Berg- er, representative-elect from the Fifth ngston Inrrand, head of ther {idea that {1f this theory. had been aceepted in tr REJECT GOVERNMENT'S OFFER | dezigned for? i to the railway men! s in wages, was | rejected later at mass meetings of the| in_the East End of! The | un- | after his ship wa erything that T expected In the way of received here from Dorpat Kolchak, ment, government that he will cede “art of Siberia to Japan unless the allies further assistance armies to save Ru: TO LAND IN PRISON | Wisconsin distiiet, hoasted to an au- dience of about 0 socialists here tonight that he would carry the so- cialist flag cither to, congress or to prison. » Berger roused. his hearers to en- thusiasm when he declared he would be elected to congress six times more, “whereas Woodrow Wilson can't be re-elected once more.” One of the preliminary speakers des clared . “there would be - a million American voters to make their pro- test felt” if Berger :is arrested. A man -in the back of the hall shouted in reply: “And there’s a hundred million good Americans to lick you.” A disturbance followed and the in- terrupter was threwn out, i The stolen ness whic breakdown five vears ago and was made more serious ago by a paralytic stroke. Mrs. Town- send was 58 years of age- amd ' was born -in Concord, Michigan. Rev. Frederick W South Congregational churei h the last 25 ye fery, N. H. boro, Vt. sixty years ago and Wi ;{—gggnme‘i from Amberst - College in Andover, Mass, for ten years. He leaves a wife and four sons, . . Daniels Repies to |J.B.Re Attack on Awards Explains How He Differen. “tiated Between Awards For Officers on Sea Duty and Those on Land. Washington, ~ Jan. 4.— Secretary Daniels repiied lodav to attacks on his awards of navy decorations in a letter to Chairman Page of the sen- ate naval commitiee. which, with the house naval committce, probably will investigate the whole row precipitated by the refusal of Rear Admiral Sims and other-ofiicers to aceept the dec- orations awarded to them. ] The complaint of the officers was that in some instances Sccretary Daniels had changed, the recommenda- tions of the official hoard ‘which sat on the cases, bestowing higher decora- tions tan the officery thought merited| in some cases and others. Besides ' reviewing the details ~of each case and quoting from the find- ings of original boards of inquiry in the cases, Secretary Danicls explains lower ones in At length the theory on yhich hesired with some of the awards as finally| recommended to him. The secretary explaius also hofw he diferentiated between awards for omicers who seryed at sea ana those who served on land Mr. Daniels réfers to his first com- munication to Chairman Page, in which be set forth the principle that| the highest distinction should be con- terred upon officers and men who had come in contact with, the enemy and| by courage and judgment under attack | exemplified the highcst traditions of | the service and that the distinguished | service medal sould also be awarded! shore duty | only to tose officers on who in the language of the act of con- gress had distinguished themselves “hy _exceptionally meritorious service to the govermment in a @uty of great responsibility.” i “In thus following the act of con- gress authorizing three classes medals,”. wrote the secretary. “honors less than the medal should be awarded to officers whohe shore duty was meritorious /but not ‘of great responsibility.” “T stated that ‘the service worthy of the highest distinction enemy’ and that the hour that tesis courage and ship. I do not think the people can be p deil to accept the ihe distinguished service medal, should not be given to the captain of a ship who bears himself courageously in the supreme hour for which all other hours in his naval reer wefe but preparatory, if his shin is ‘lost” by submarine or mine attack. leader- former- vears Lawrence and Porter and othier-naval-herses « would=-have been denied osme of the early honors which their countrymen gladly j#ave them. “Ten commanding officers of ships torpedoed and sunk or put out of ac- tion_swere selected .as worthy -of - re- the distinguished service dal. These awards, as 1 stated in previous letter, were made without exception® to everv commanding officer whose ship felt the blow of the enemy | blow of the enemy cxcept was courtmartialed and who, though | pl; fully acquitted, has no recommend tion from any ognition of any one unerior officer. for charaeter. nsportation of troops, and without Captain Tncorporated in the letter were the records of all of the officers whn lost their vessels. including Commander D. W. and Commander Percy W. Foote, secretary's personal aide, about whom much of the controversy has centered. Baglev, brother of Mrs. Daniels, the In Commander Baglev’s case Mr. auoted from 2 letter by Rear Sims which said: vation torpedoed was ev n good judzment chivalrous acfion.” couraze KOLCHAK MAY CEDE A % PART OF S!BERIA TO JAPAN London, Jan. 4.—A wireless despatch Moscow quotes a cport as saying that Admiral head of the Omsk govern. notified the United States hag and . to ‘White a. “The Red “cavairy,” the says the des- patch, “is at the gates of Taganrog and Mariupol. “General Denikine's troops are flee- ing from Tsaritsin in panic, being cut off from Rostov, and at the same time squeezed upon two sidea. “The road to the Caucasus is now open from the northeast.” b . OBITUARY. Mrs. Rena Paddock Townsend. Washington, Jan. 4.—M Rena Paddock Townsend, wife of Senator Townseid of Michigan, died tonight at the Townsend home. here after ill- began with a nervous several months . Rev. Frederick W. Greene. Middletown, Conn,, Jan. 4—The ‘idge, of Massachiisetts, for the nom- ! Minnesota, for ten years.a member of of | distinguished service | is that ‘ren- | dered afioat in the presence of the distinzuished | service medal should be awarded tol the captain of every ship struck by, the mines or torpedoes of the enemy’ if his conduct was meritorious in the | American | | ministration. having been-elected to this position at Ebert today received Major Goldsmith and Captain Kingiand, representatives | of Herbert Hoover, who who | fecting a- | ganization for the feeding of European c- | children and others. Admiral | Quakers Wilson stated officially that ‘the fail<|ijcan Society of Friends, who ha® ure of Captain Hasbrouck-to return to his ship at daylight wifh a salvage!the children” movement, party was an offense. more .serlous thai| present at the reception, an error of judgment.” cause of his preyious service in the!complimentar: Mr. Hoov reference to his action after his ship | their was torpedoed wa. vol- | unteered their services in the “save also were However, he- of whi Hasbrouck ' thanks of Germany for the prospective selected by my direction for a aid. Campaign Secretary :of - the: Republican National. Committee Has Resigned to Accept Manage- ment. . Chicago, Jan. 4—James- B. Reynolds of Massachusetts, secretary of the re- publican national ."committee - since 1912, has resigned, it was announced here today, to take the management of |, the campaign of Grover Caivin Cool- ination ‘for president. The resigna- tion'is effective Jan. 10. The : announcement from western headquarters ‘of therepub- lican_national _committee said it was| expected that Clarence B. Miller of congress ' from the Duluth district, wouid bejmade acting. seeretary. He would asSume -all” of Mr. Reynolds' duties until the national. committee takes formal action. ‘Jimmie” Reynolds, factotum of the natiodal committee for years will open Governor - Cooldige’s campaign headquarters in ‘Washington. Mr.' Miller has been engaged seyeral months in. special work Washington for the national commit- tee. district in the sixty-first congress. CONVEN'HOPI 6F COAL MINERS CPENS IN COLUMBUS TODAY | Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 4—John P. White, selected by President. Wilson as the miners’ representative on the commission of three to regotiate a fi- nal settiement of the wage controver- | sy between miners and operators of the bituminous coal fiends of the country, arrived here unexpectedly to- night 10 atteng the international con- vention of the United Mine, Workers of America. The convention will convene o'clock tomorrow morning and called by Acting President John at 10 zation could make an official report to the miners of the country on the set- tlement of the recent coal strike. After greeting from all parts of the country, most of whom he is able to call by their first names, White conferred with Acting Presi- dent Lewis, Sccretary William Green and other officials of the organization ' relative to the convention' and plans for the hearing before the president's gommisslon in’ Washington January White saig he did not come to par- ticipate in the deliberations of the convention but ‘was here merely as a spectator. Up to this time. White has had no part in’the present controversy. He resigned as international president of the organization in 19171 to dccept a place as labor adviser in the fuel ad- He served seven years as.chief of the miners’ orgamization, ;.l;:u(‘olumbus convention in January, PRESIDENT EBERT RECEIVES REPRESENTATIVES OF HOOVER Berlin, Saturday, Jan. 3. President lans of the Ameri food relief or- A delegation of representatives of the Amer- er's pians and the manner of xecution, and expressed the ,dreene.. Mfi;g t:t " for 8t Jaf- rattle- died . tos He as born ‘He was pastor West chur - Speoial “Assistant Attorney Gen. “olis, Ind.,, who ‘leaf :|tion in the Newberry probe. “is an ol paizn il tice. HNewberry Probe SORYRIGHT PRESS LLUSTRATING SERVICE, .. stun Condensed Telegrams ship goods to central | of one of plers in New st. Louis, was appointed president of fn that city next summer. for | at} He last represented the Duluthj Paris increased from 65 to 30 centimes and in the Provinces cil for 1920, was | ternal Revenue Departmnent of Brook- L.} Lewis, so that officials of the organi- | " '® scandal in the army conditions disclosed Co., near Wilmington, Del. steel district, with for export. Of this amount, $450,000 goes 1o Indiz ed that on January 31 it would jssue will be changed to allow a maximum of 200,000, illici of 700 gallons were Virginia by state and county prohibi- tion officers. are here per- | arrangements for carrying out | p-t cially corn, beans and cane sugar, was | raised, according to the Mexican Sec- . in the course |retary, of Finance, ch President Ehert referred in | y terms to the scope of | between the United States and Ecua- dor was signed by Secretary Lansing and Dr. Don Rafael H. Elizalde, Min- ister frmom Ecuador. asked of the Mex | Deputies by President Carranza wi *| which the government could purchas lands held by foreigners. of prominent bankers in the world. Rome | panies i the government in turn gave the com- | panies right to raise fares one cent. address to electors at Draguigan, dency. the United~States, died at his home 1. Montclair., houses and_hundreds in the provinces | along the Seine, other river having offices in Kobe, Iy held a mecting in that purpos for the organ fean Chamber of Commerce. MINERS ASK PALMER Gen ral Palmer has been asked by the Unij?d Mine which morrow, to put a stop to_alleged vio- lations by operators in the terms of the made with the government and brought to an end the recent strike of soft. ce tonigl of the miners. olations bama, tucky, Colorado and some parts of Ii- linois. - . the ' government provided miners conditions as existed. prior strike, ‘and at a wage Increase of 14 per cent, R William 8. Menden was _appointed general manager of the B. R. T. British shipyards turned out ship- ping in excess of 1,800,00 tons last]. year’. » POLICE BARRACKS P BY 300 SN Attacking Forces First Fired Volleys For Th ing in Carergtchiil, Beginning at 10 p. cupants Were Held Prisoners While the R the Barracks—Laocal Election Are to Be Ireland on January 15. ! Denmark and other < 2k g London, . Jan. 4—Three hundred) Carson and the Ulster, U o s Sinn Feiners' attacked the police bar- [Dave the same s o Shi Board will be allowed use o | northeast corner that the e "o the TMamburg-American [racks at Carerstchill at 10 o'clock | ROHSRSt COTHEE CHRE York. % i Saturday .night, .according 10 a des- Despite the advant: willi F patch to the Central News from Cork.|for securing ‘minority et The attacking forces rired volleys Jfor the fact remains that - three hours and then blew up the eiid zation ig a telling f § this system. o of the building with bomls. ILis oceu- pants were made- prisoners while the of majority votes, and raiders looted the barrack preferences carefully 5 ticket. In’ this ¢ The barracks was odcupied Ty a|gupporters point sergeant and five constybles. Who Te- | of that hedy turned the raiders’ . fire. - Findifig! far more ef eventually that they were unable 10| qgoted,. mi gain an entrance, the raiders thiew |than any 07 bombs._entereq the breach made INijand, now o in the past Philip S. Smith, of Scenectady, N.|ihe building and seized and hand-| “mpore has not been th Y., was appointed trade commissioner | cuffed the policemen. They searched ! i "eyrcoted of éand to study South American markets. |the buildings, removing thc arms, | cededly minority groups __{ammaunition, accoutrements and mon- | (00 ¥ AR S o Advance of bolsheviki = forces in|ey; then held a council as to the Dortuntte ; for tepl the Donetz coal basin is de posal of the police, and decided 10| gemonstrated rapidiy, according to a soviet leave them bound, but threatened that| painers: ) ; appes to have | it an attempt was made to repair the | Leir NEl abGBtie: artee ; the unionists nor the | bullding they would return and com- plete its destruction. . _|some observers p: The raiders decamped after cutting | onied” in. proportia the telephone communications, but | om e 5o naSinandne police assistance finally arrived from! mye labor party Cork. It was found that none of the|yuen®potitias is policemen was hit. The sergeant’s|important pas seem to e % About 70 per cent. of the dock workers in Havana are reported to pe on strike. White Star Liner Celtic arrived at New York with 523 passenger from Liverpool. $ Gold sold at 109s an ounce in Lon- don, compared with 109s 8 1-2d at pre- vious close. Five hundred American firms now Baitic states. The Rev. Robinson, of the St. Louis University. Chicago will ask. Democratic. Na- tional Committee to hold convention The estimated value of the Califor- nia raisin crop this year is $33,000,000. This is double any previous year. Price of a two-pound Joaf of brdad in from 60 to 9 centimes, L. L. Rue, president of the Phila delphia National Bank, was re elected member of the Federal Advirory Coun= wife and family were also in the bar- racks uninjured. LOCAL ELECTIONS TO BE HELD IN IRELAND JAN, 15 Dublin, Jan. 4.—The first Jocal elec- tions since the beginning of the war will be held all over Ireland on Jan- vary 1B, and remarkable interest is attached to them because they \'Vi_ll show how far the Sinn Fein party is holding its own. Irish local government for a long period has been conducted by popu- larly-elected county, rural and urban district counecils. 'l;h(- l'oflllposillion i: il i generally a safeguide to.the state of workers, was rescinded by army ur»{gélfthe w:‘aerfi g‘aet,;ls oir; ll;; n(é‘;:;l;m":;.’i feem iy Teauest of Mayor Hodg:s principal factor ‘in llhe x_-mim}g{ 2 i mountin The local councils in the three e R amentina, ‘°s2fifi2;;:; southern provinces thus far have been overwhelmingly composed of . home rulers of the old naitonalist party. All local elections were suspended by the = government during the war, o pre- . | vent ‘possible trouble. Meanwhile e ultyre Sonatna: nationalist party has almost disap- As a result of a shake-up in ‘the | Iyn District, a raid and three made. rrests scription that freland. The ! thrown policies I¢ though most of \their ‘mi Sinn- Feiners, hile . sie ties may differ trade there seems no s on Ireland’s one tion they will cont The Sinn F dent of . obt Irish hodies © ster, claiming where the uni by comp tricts, they Rumors of a medal - distribution similar to the in the navy be- come more persistent. Five men were killed and several others injured in an explosion at the Hagley yards of the Du Pont Powder; and §305,000 to South : t g could virtually turn all America. ies of the n Department of Ag: g;::chu. m esimate of the number of horses:peared from the sc\em; and the . Sinn mln t.;:: ‘situation 1 ttle, sh \ he [ Fein has taken its' place. velop such g:xfi;i—ym Sl M it o ":! Formerly the members of the local|being likely body went out of office in batches, one from the Ciause in’the peace treaty providing |one-third Dbeing €lecteq vearly. Now |roy. % o maximum Stiength for’ Germany's|a clean sweep is to be made of all | ~The fact is regular army of 100,000 men probably|from the administrators of a while |observers, how county to_the administrators -of smallest districts. For the first time the yoting will be on a system of proportional repre- sentation, known as the single trans- ferrable vote. This plan was adopted after a_successful experiment in the town of Sligo. It gives a chance for for the representation of minorities. Although the Sinn Feiners had a large v in, Sligo. all the parties got # look In. Yhe object of change was to prevgnt’ the Sinn Fein from capturing local bodies wholesale, but its chief opponents were Sir Edward ment holds the local bodies. All to the local go pointed by the which is necessa ments to local of portant measures. liament - the local has the power.to tory council ‘and_ sub ministrators - of Thus, it 1s elections may another test of Sinn. Fein and the During the month of December, 27 stills, with a combined capacity seized in West Mexican embargo against the ex- of important foodstuffs, espe- A commercial traveler's convention SCORES OF Pl BY EARTHQ Mexico City, Jan. Scores of persons a violent earthquake 3 in many parts of M The center of thi lieved to have been of Orizaba. Incomplete press. DEMOCRATIC LEADERS MEET IN WA§I1|NGTON TODAY Washington, Jan. £—The national capital is to be the rallying ground during the coming week for national leaders of the democratic party. who will choose the time and place for the 1920 national convention, talk over candidates and policies, and rencw ac- | quaintances at a Jackson day love An_appropriation of $50000,000 was can Chamber of | h e | According to the president of a Rotjerdam bank, plans are being|feast which many of them believe will| that the state of Veras madv. for an economic peace confer- | make party history of one kind or an-|more than any other : ence at The Hague by a small number | other. . seismic . disturbances Although only one day is set astde for the formal business of the week, leaders of various magnitudes already were arriving tonight prepared for a week of conferences and gossiping aver the outlook for the presidential { campaign. . | “Cnoice of the convention city and Premier Clemenceau, in a- farewell | lime is to be the only business direct- id|ly taken up by the national commit- throughout the entis vices from Cordoba dead have already b in the village of San Ji pec, where many stroyed. = At Jalapa, further tims of the earth counted. including Lack of communie at! ted only one day; the com- creaded pas of employes and Strike of street car employes he will not be a candidate for the|tee wat its meeting Thursday, but an|Other .small townsai Senate. He also refused to say | effort probably will be made to have it| theatre of the distur] whether he would run for the Presi- | recommend that the convention nomi-|2pproximate estim nate a president and v majorify vote in vlac shirds ‘required ties impossible, P The earthquake cans in the large cities.: ident hy the two- Eimer E. Ricttenhouse, one of ths| in past ye e best known insurance men in tnej. At the hanquet that night severaljances have occurted country and assistani sc of or -the presidential nomi- | City. and<there Ivere e Equitable Lo A - are to outline policies, | there, —aithough the ¥ ‘wo - former nings Bryan : {are to be y in the last 24 hours the Seine!%on is expected {0 send a en four feet, movernment of-| which many leaders be declared. Scores. of Paris | ctate his positien toward a th Six -cities are in _the race nd | convention k among 1 membe the committee who s { arrived tonight indicated ~that Representatives of American firms| Would be no walkaway. The six apan, recent. | Chicazo, dlready seyected s City for thei ven v of the republicar ¢ & definite plans %as Ci Sun Francisco. Indiananalis, j Amerongen:and th of a local Amer. | Cincinnati and. Cleveland. —Discussion | the - dike -about thes { generally centers on late June or eariy | Former Emperor W July ns. the time of meeting. < | home. Workmen are" Talk of changing the ‘time-honored | ing the dike to meets democratic custom of requiring a twe- | and advices from thes thirds vote to nominate startefl some emperor atding. weeks ago at a meeting of the | Should. the rives tional committee in Atlantic € ches itg SEESE | the movement has leen activet to permit the avat | moted In many quarters. Sh the grounds and fi committee make such-a pecommenda- | Of the castief: Wg tion, it generally is conceded that the {;‘;efll‘;zgfi- exp convention would adont it. the Bond s over, altho and 'the mile, mmw that, rowb The castle is side of a huge| forms a, roads thus is ‘subje greater - degs of the villz To offset thi there exists dike of apps surroundi) Althous life as. i known, with considera of_property dent The damage. in meRsa~~ in | limited to cracks in- ings. There were no of the inhabitants EX-KAISER'S PRESE} THREATENED BY | The Hague; Jan, ff The Rhine has stage in many’ vedrs William Jen- Marne, are isolated. Yonne and of formu ation TO ATTEND CONVENTION Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 4.—Attorney Workers of . America, meets in convention here to- ix* states of agreement which1 SUN FAILED YUMA FOR *, FIRST TIME IN 45 YEARS vhich 1 miners. ‘announcement was made here by William Green, secretary He said that the vi- ere most numerous In Ala- West Virginia, eastern Ken- Th Yuma, Ariz., Jan. 4.—The sun failed to shine on Yuma .yesterday for the first time in’ forty-five years, accord- ing to versons who have lived here that ong.. Rain fell throughout the & A hotel which for a quarter of a century has displayed a_sign 'offering free board every time the sun failed to show_itself, prepared last night to do «a rdshing business, which failed to materialize, - tht ‘management - re- | Greenl said that the agreement with that the esume work under the same to the ral Frank G. Dailey, of Indianap- the, prosecu= Dailey hand” at bringing came ating politicians te jus- many of the operat ;| that they could not/return to waork |tree was lighted all night New Year's unless thex, resigned from the union. | eve. He said ‘the miners were told that|electric lights, the tree wis topped by after théy left the union they would|a large gold star in memory of the. be given work.at the 14 per cent in< J Norfolk ‘hoys who have their lives i crease, B ported. througho ten. Chrislm:\ql d 2 # In the states enumerated, Green said, had ‘told him| Norfolk—The communi: Besides jthe hundreds of coloreG the world war.