Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 10, 1920, Page 1

Anthracite output for 1919 smallest in six years) totalled 86, 000 tons. Total general stock of money in ‘| United States reported nearly $8,000,- 000,000, Senator Hitchcock Says He Does Not Regard the President’s Declaration as Calculated to Cut Off Any Reasonable ise— of the Democratic Senators Have Declared Privately That They Will Take the Best Com- “Gold sold at 110s a fine ounce in A e London, compared with 109c 3 1-2d at| - Washington, Jan. 9.— Subpoenas last clsoing. ¢ were served tonight on Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, self=styled Russia * of the Joint Legislative Committee Investigating Radical Atlantic City, N; J.,” Jan. 9—The of the Interchurch World 1t to | in co-ordinating the energies of the Protestant denom- Bar silver quoted at 78 pence an ounce in London, compared with $1.33 in New York. promise / Straight Up to the White ‘Washington, Jan. 9—The fortunes of ghe treaty of Versailles became even more unsettled today when, on top of President Wilson's , Jackson Day proncuncement for the ques- ticz to the people in the political cam- paign, Willlam Jennings Bryan's opposition to such a course, demo- cratic and republican friends of the senate remewed determinedly their effort to secure a compromise ratifica- tion. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, the acting democratic leader, said he did not regard the president’s declaration as calculated to cut off any reasona- ble compromise and predicted ratifi- cation before the campaign was under way. The mild reservation group of republicans took much the same view, and the group of democrats, who have DLeen urgent in‘ their demand for a compromise declared their position was in no way altered. Discussion of compromise reserva- tions accordingly went forward as ac- tively as before, A conference being arraged on the republican side to - take up in detail the set or reservations supbmitted recently by Senator Ken- drick of Wyoming and other, demo- crats, It was said a counter proposal might be drawn up within a few days. 3 Among the treaty’s irreconcible foes, president’s stand and the state- ment last night of Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the republican senate leader, that he would “most cordialiy welcome” the treaty as a political is- sue, were hailed as having definitely put the question into the campaign. In announcing the compromise plans would go ahead, Senator Hiltncock said that of course the democrats d not agree to any compromise v impairing the treaty, and that there would be an endeavor to work out such reservations as the president could accept. Some other democrats were -pot so emphatic on that point, wever, declaring privately that they would take the hest compromise they could get and then put the responsi- bility straight up to the White House. The speech of Mr. Bryan at the Juckson Day banquet here, which, in addition (o opposing any effort to carry the treaty into the campaign, advocating a speedy compromise, was pot into the senale record today by Senator MecCormick. republican, Illin- ofs, after the president's lettér an- Acuncing his stand had been present- They Can Get and Then Put the Responsibility House. {ed by Senator Hitcheock. Senator MecCormick requested that the two “be printed in juxtaposition,” in view of reports that they are agreed on the treaty.” ' No debate developed, and only on one other occasion during the day was there mention on the semate floor of the treaty or the Jackson Day de- velopments. That was when Sena- tor Walsh of Massachusetts, a reser- vation. democrat, put in a letter from President Lowell of Harvard, asking that the democrats show a willingness to compromise Article Ten. Hitherto an advocate of unréserved ratification, Dr. Lowell wrote that he was con- vinced that Article Ten imposed ob- Jjectionable obligations. Mr. Bryan did not tarry long in ‘Washington, leaving early in the day for Lincoln, Neb., where he will speak Monday. He will deliver an address in New York January 18. So far as was learned he did not confer with democratic leaders here befre his de- parture. The cabinet met in its regular ses- sion today, but if the members dis- cussed the split between the president and Mr. Bryan on the treaty isue or Mr. Wilson's stand they would not admit. Democratic leaders did not attempt, however, to minimize the effect that the split between the president and his former secretary of state might have both at the convention and at the polls in November if it should be carried that far. They recalled the dominant role Mr. Bryan played at the Baltimore gathering when Mr. ‘Wilson first was nominated and white the convention time is yet in the distance, some of them, at least, look forward to stirring events in San Francisco. Many of the democratic leaders who who gathered here for the Jackson i homes. aitmatt Hometr S. Cum- mings, of the national committee, con- concerning arrangements for the par- ty convention on June 28, but o def- iate decisio was reached. . A meeting of the executive com- mittee will bé called soon to formally discuss plans. Meantime Chairman Cummings expects to select members of a committee on arrangements which will go to San Francisco, probably in February, to make the necgssary ar- ements rangs there. ALLIES TO RE-ESTABLISH PEACE WITH_GERMANY TODAY V__'—-Jw Paris, Jan. 8 (By the A. P.).—To- morrow’s ceremony, which ~definitely re-establishes a state of peace be- tween the allfes and Germany, puiting &n end to the armistice, will be divided two parts.. The representatives of the five powers will meet first in the office of the minister of foreign affairs. Baron Kurt .Von Lersner, head of the German neace Von._Simson will be invited to sign in Garmani’s name the profocol of Nov. 1. Ther will receive from the hands of Premier Clemernceau ' letter bind- ing the allies to reduce the amount of material demanded for the destruction of German war vessels at Scapa Flow. The second part of the ceremony will foliow immediately in the Clock Hall. The thirteen powers which have rati- fied the treaty of Verszilles will be represented here by one delegate each. Minutes will be drawn up on the.fol- Jowing matters: Signing of the Ver- gallles treaty, signing of the protocol attached to_the treaty, and signing of the agreement by the United States, EBelgium, Great Britain, France and Germany relative to occupation of the Rhine. After the signature of these dochvments is completed they will be handed to the French officials for de- posit in the ‘archives. The records will be printed on large sheets of quarto parchment paper and the seals of each pienipotentiary will be affixed with the signatures. The ratification exchange ceremony will be followed by the immediate re- sumption of diplomatic relations be- tween the allies and Germany. It is considered possible that Baron Von Lersner will be designated chavge @'affaires. On Sunday the French charge d'affaires, M. De Marcilly, will leave for.Berlin. Another immediate result of the rat- ifcation: will German prisoners of war. So as to 'make it possible for the ceremony” to be held tomorrow, a tech- nical commission presided over by General Lerond and attended by Herr Yon Simson worked throughout last night. In preparation for the aillied demand for the delivery of Germans charged with war guilt, the. allied commission dealing with that subject met this af- ternoon. MARTENS HELPED FINANCE THE COMMUNIST PARTIES Chicago, Jan. Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, self-styled “Soviet ambassa- dor,; and representative of Lenine and Trotsky in the United States, helped finance the Communist and Commun- ist Labor parties in Chicago, accord- ing to a statement given out today by Assistant State’s Attorney Henry A. . Berger made the announcement after examining the’ archives of the Com- munist Labor party, seized yesterday at_Moline, when Edgar Owens, secre- tary of the party, was arrested on a warrant charging him with violation of the state anti-sedition law. Among the papers in the po: of the state’s attorney, he said, is a cancelled check for 120 bearing Mar- ten’s signature. The money was used purchase a lease on a hall used as a Communist lecture room. S Attorney Maclay Hoyne al- egrams from Martens to lo- cal as, giving detalled instruc- tions for the Red campaign here. ion U. 8. NOT TO WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM SIBERIA TWashington, Jan. 9—Thé American government has reached no decision to draw its troons from Sideria. it was said today officially. There has lieen no change in the no the foree in that country Czecho-Siovak soldiers putriated and the Ameri: somrzission withdrawn. can railway delegation, and' Herr be the repatriation .of \ CASH PAID FOR : THE-VANDERBILT HOME New YorK, Jan. 9.—The Cornelius Vanderbilt . home, fronting Fifth ave- nue from 57th to-58th street, has been sold for $5500,000 cash, it was an- nounced today. It was said that the residence, one of the most costly in America, will make way for a $20,000,- 000 structure. The name of the pur- $5,500,000 site would be used by T. Coleman Du- pont for a hotel, and another that the Marshall Field -interests in Chicago had obtained it for a department store. Representatives - of the Vanderbilt family said they -had decided to sell because of the high cost of maintain- ing the mansion. Not for Marshall Field & Co. Chicago, Jan. 9.—Officers‘of Marshall Field & Co. today denied rumors cur- rent in New York that they were in- terested in the purchase of the Cor- nelius Vanderbilt home on Fifth ave- nue and would ercct a department store there. TAFT OPPOSES SENATE DELAY ON PEACE TREATY Portland, Me., Jan. 9.—Procrastina- tion in the settlement of the senate controversy over the ratification of the peace treaty by the adoption of Presi- dent Wilson's idea of making the treaty the issue qf a campaign was opposed by former President Taft to- day in remarks at a dinner of the Portland Rotary club. If the treaty became a campaign issue, it would be fourteen months, Mr. Taft said, before anything like a settlement could be reached, and he considered it .doubtful-if. even then it could really be accomplished. He ar- gued aganist the accentance of the leadershi pof extremists at either end of the line of controversy and said it was essential that world peace be s cured promptly and on the best pos: ble terms through compromise. WOULD RESTORE LIBERTIES TO ’fEL“ ALLAY UNREST Washington, Jan. 9—Oppesition t the Sterling sedition bflF on thg grouna that adequate laws already ex- ist to meet the situation was_express- ed today by Senator France, republi- can, of Maryland. He said the espion- age act, passed as a war measure, has been “wholly vicious as well as in- effective.” “Much of the widespread unrest,” he said, “is due to the enactment of repressive statutes which = interfere with personal liberty. “I am convinced that if we restore to our people the liberties which they enjoyed prior to the war the serious unrest and discontent will quickly ais- appear.” AMERICAN PHYSICIAN DIES‘ OF TYPHUS IN SIBERIA Washington, Jan. 9.—Typhus in Si- beria has claimed another American in the death of Dr. James J. Johnson of Braggs, Okla. attached tg tge American Red Cross commission L Siberia, announced today in a cable- gram to national healquarters. Dr. Johnson, who saw six years’ service in the army before joining the Red Cross fieJd forces, died ‘Dec. 13 and was buried with military honors at Irkutsk Dee. 18, the .cablegram stated. TWO CENTS WAR DEP'T . RATE OF GERMAN MARK ‘Washington, Jan. —The official rate of exchange on the German mark for all army accounting purposes has been fixed. at two:cenis by the war department for the month of January. | | Sometimes marriage is a failure and scmetizes it is only a run on PPN Day deliberations left today for their ferred with some of those remaining chaser has not been disclosed. There was an unconfirmed report that the Legislators are reported planning to oust every - socialist officeholder in New York state. Paris quoted the. American dollar at 11 frs., 17 1-2 c., compared with 10 frs., 95c, at previous close. House judiciary committee will take up the Hudspeth bill to prevent gam- bling in cotton futures. American capital is being invested heavily in commercial and financiall concerns in Jugo-Slavia. British iron moulders by ballot de- cided to reject terms offered for the adjustment of the dispute. Total output of domestic crude oil in November, 32,114,000 barrels, com- pared with 24,914,000 in 1918. A report from Dublin to London de- clares Rir Joseph Byrne, chief of po- lice in Ireland, was dismissed. The quarterly dividend of 2 per cent. begun last October, will he declared by the United States Rubber Co. President Pessoa has received a re- quest from Armenia that Brazil recog- nize Armenia’s independence. ° On account of the increased cost of production, the Daily Saratogan in- creased its price from 2 to 3 cents, An aerial service between Winnipeg and St. Paul will be established this summer, ‘it was announced at Winni- peg. Arno Valley is flooded and many italian towns, among which are Balci. Caprona, Pebriola and Peretolo, are isolated. i Senator King introduced a bill pro- | viding for loans on_ Liberty bonds by savings banks for 90 per cent. of their face value. Public Service Commissioner Nixon asked dismissal of gas companies’ ac- tion to nave 80 cent gas law declared unconstitutional. An - additional appropriation of $2,- 000,000, making a total of $4,000,000, was asked of congress by the internal revenue bur2au. Only one bid was received by the bureau of insular affairs at the war department for- 51,300,000, 4 per cent jbonds of Porto Rico. § —_— v reenwich, Conn., was arrested and held for a court hearing on the charge of stealing town funds. 1 | Employes of American railroads ! have been ordered by the United! States railroad administration not to accept Canadian currency. According to Indian Moslems, Bri- tish goods will be boycotted if the peace seftlement with Turkey is not satisfactory to the Mussulmans. |, Silk valued at $50,000 was recovered by policemen \of Guttenberg and West New York on the Pallisades from an overloaded motorboat sinking in the| Hudson. W. E. Hansel, owner of a chain of plantation stores, was hoind to a post and burned to death by robbers who! looted his headquarters at Holt, near Osceloa, Ark. Canadian immigration officers -have bee instructed to increase their vigi- lance at border towns to prevent an influx of radicals into this country from the United States. . Suspension of street car service in Salem and Peabody, Mass., on Jan. 14 because of “unfair jitney competition” was announced by the trustees of the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company. A house war investigating commit- tee declared responsibil®y for the loss of American lives through .attacks ordered on armistice day should be charged to the American general headquarters. More than two hundred automobiles were destroyed in a fire of mysterious origin which swept through the Bast End garage ®at Montreal. * The fire started with an explosion which blew off the roof.of the building. Samuel Gompers, who spoke at Bos- ton as luncheon guest of the Boston chamber of commerce, was heckled and his voice at times drowned in a charne of “noes” while he was discuss- ing the recent strike of Boston police- men. Transport Mercury arrived at Ho- boken after being in a 90-mile-an- ihour hurricane. Many of the 353 army and navy passengers are sick and injured as a result of the storm. Only three' China cups aboard remain unbroken. . Rev. Samuel Neal Kent, an Episco- pal clergyman formerly at Newmort and now rector of a parish at War- wick, Pa., was found not guilty of charges of immoral conduct on the States. BOV: ambassador to the {United States, and | his_secretary and, g‘kgmp, Santeri’ Nuorteva, calling for their appearance at. the initial hearing ‘Monday of the senate foreign relations sub-commit- tee, charged with an investigation of Russian propaganda in: the United Both accepted the' summons, Martens, for whom department of ustice agents have been seeking with a. warrant for arrest, it was said at the temporary headquarters -pen of the “Russian soviet u” was- setved with the subpoena “at the he here of a friend with whom he had'spent the afternoon.” The subboena for the appearance of Nuorteva was served at the offices of the * % Members - of the sub-committee, which, in addition to Senator Moses, is composed of Senators Borah. Idaho, and Knox, Pennsylvania, republicans, | and Pomerene, Qhio, -and Shields, Tennesse, demecrats, said - that the examination of Martens nad Nuorteva | would occupy several sessions. Addi. tignal witnesses have ni e Nuorteva, in a recent statement, said that Martens was prepared to substantiate charges made by the “embassy” that certain. planks in the ot been select- their failure to get in touch with silently and wait for customers to is simply wasting time. ‘There is n merchants and those who are look want and buy it right. There is no better means of bringing about such an acquaintance- ship than the advertising columns of the newspaper. There the houses that are seeking business and the every morning with consequent benefit to all. From the thorough manner in which The Bulletin = covers Norwich and this part of Connectieut there hastening the needed get-together. by its service 2 In the past week the following for two cents daily: Bulletin Telegraph Local General Total Saturday, Jandary 3 ......i. 75 141 toog2 498 Monday, January 5 .. 7% 109 310 495 Tuesday, January 6 ... 4 2120 . .. 1246 450 . Wednesday, January 7. ... 1267 266 477 Thursday, 12 286 - 482 Friday, - U 4 Totals communist and communist labor par- ty platforms, which, he claimed, were the" basis of the recent raids and of the present deportation ' proceedings against members of the party, were framed by department of justice agents. Martens, he said. also, if per- ted to testify, would prove complicity of department of justice agents in the summer bomb plots. COAL OPERATORS STUDY COAL STRIKE ISSUES Washington, Jan. 9.—The policy of the bituminous coal operators in the settlement of the coal strike issues and the attitude to be assumed to- ward the commission of three ap- pointed by President Wilson to inves- tigate wages and prices, was consid- ered today at a meeting here of the wage scale committee of the central competitive field, which was prelimi- nary to the opening Monday by the commission’s hearings, at which both miners and operators will appear. Although no announcement was made after today’s meeting, it was learned that refusal to accept the commission as now constituted was advocated by some of the operators who have heretofore publicly charged that the body would begin its work with commitments. Most of the operators agreed that a declaration of their stand should be made before the work of the com- mission gets under way. That this declaration would be either flat refu- sal to deal with 'the present commis- sion or a statement of the‘operators’ willingness to cooperate “with reser- vations” appeared probable tonight. In opposing the commission as organ- ized with one representative for each, the miners, operators and the public, some of the operators argued that an impartial tribunal all of the members of which would represent the public, would be more satisfactory. Another course favored by some of the mine owners was to furnish thé cdommission whatever informatfon it might ask, but with the expres: understanding . that the operators would not consider themselves bound by the conclusions of the commission. The position. of the operators out- side the competitive fleld in the pre- posed settlement also is doubtful, it was asserted by F. W. Lukins of Kansas City, president of the South- western Interstate Coal Opergtors As- sociation. ~Although only rebresenta- tives of the central competitive field were inviteq to the hearing Monday, the attitude 'of onerators outside, the central field will be considered tomor- TOW. government resdrvation at Newport, by a jury in the United States district court at Providence. COL, FRANK HALSTEAD EXONERATES CAPT. DETZER i New York. Jan. 9.—@ol. Frank Hal- stead of Cincinnati, Who commanded the American embarkation center at Le Mans, France, today declared on the witness stand that he “assumed full responsibilit” for the charges of brutal treatment of military prisoners on which Capt. Karl W. Detzer of the Le Mans military police company is being courtmartialed on Governor's Island. Colonel Halstead said he “did not think much of the efficiency” of Cap- tain Detzer's company. He saw Cap* tain Detzer in disguise one day, ASKS $12,000,000 FOR AN AMMUNITION DEPOT Washington, Jan. 9.—Congress was asked today by Secretary Baker to authorize expenditure by the war de- partment of $12,000,000 in building an ammunition and ordnance storage de- pot in the vicinity of Ogden, Utah. The war reserve of ammunition, now nesu in manufacturing plants along the eastern seaboard, is a menace to many cities, the secretary adding that sueh continued storage twas “untenable from the standpoint of national defense.” 522 PUBLIC SERVICE MOTOR Hartford, Conn., Jan. 9.—The num- ber of public” service motor vehicles which have been registered this year wearing a “large pair of army shoes, with his army socks showing beneain his trousers.” Operatives of.the cap- tain’s comypanr, in civilian clothes, of- ten were nointed out to_ him in Red * ™= Cross canteens, he added. up to date is 522. They are insured for $8,722,500. It is’expected that this number will be: greatly increased dur- ing the year. A substantial increase in the number of registrations is look- ed for in April. y Brings Merchants and Buers Tagethér Much of the trouble with those who complain of poor business is U VEHICLES REGISTERED‘: inations and the evangelization of the world, was approved today at the con- ference of 1400 church leaders here. The: calls for the expenditure 00,000 in the next five years. It provides for evangelistic work in America and the foreign field, proper financing of ‘hosptals and homes, lib- eral awards to struggling colleges, for the fighting of social and industrial unrest, and better wages to both min- ieters and missionaries. It ig speci- fied that no part of the budget shall be ‘changed by a board of review to be appointed “with equal representation of all denominations, without the consent of the denominational board directly affected. Three hundred and twenty millions are to be expended in 1920. Presby- terians and Methodists joined in pro- testing the original selection of ~the period between April 21 and May 2 as the time for the drive to raise this year's quota. Dr. Nolan R. Best a Presbyterian, complaineqd that these dates would conflict with the Presby- terians’ “every member” canvass and; moved that the drive be deferred to February 16-27, 1921. the trade. The inclination to sit discover the location of your store eed of a get-together between some ing for chances to buy .what they trade get in touch with each other is no medium that can equal it in Big or little business can be helped matter has appeared in its columns Dr. David C..Downey of New. York, a Methodist, called attention to a declaration of the Methodist leaders. that followers of that faith should participate in no-other drives until .after . Methodism’s centenary fund of $112,000,000 is'completed. Dr. Downey- said ‘the world surveys of the Inter- church World Movement, which would be used a basis. for the °$320,000,000 drive “are incomplete and inconclu- sive.” After considerable = discussion the administration plan to have the cam- paign this year was adopted. Metnodists and Presbyterians as- serteq that they could not be partici- pating bodies without first gaining the consent of the ruling bodies of their bodies -of their denominations. Another discussion occurred over the manner in which the funds to be raised in the cooperative “ingather- ing” are to be apportioned. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., proposed that ail money received through the = central treasury, aside from the several de- nominational funds, be distributed among the various active denomina- tions pro rata. A substitute plan advanced by Dr. C. H. Patton, of Boston, who present- ed the report, proposed that the gen- eral fund be apportioned on the basis of actual collections made by the de- nominations. When a figsht seemed imminent the question was referred to the general committee to be appoint- ed later, which . is to rule upon all questions in conflict, A SERIES OF RAIDS ON “REDS” IN PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 9—A series of raids, the second in Butler county within four days, were conducted by special agents of the department of justice at West Winfield late today, and 23 men, alleged members of the Russian communistic party, were ar- rested. Sixteen of the prisoners were brought to Pittsburgh tonight, while the other seven were detained in the Butler county jail. A majority of those arrestéd are Russians, federal authorities said. Most of the men were taken into custody ‘While at work in West Winfield industrial plants. Last Tuesday government agents and state troopers arrested 300 per- soms in raids'at Lyndora, Butler coun-~ ty.. Of this number, 15 known leaders of the “Communist party” were. held, the remainder being set free. Records of the “Communist party” confiscated at Lyndora contained the names of the 23 men arrested today at We;t Winefild, federal authorities said. GARDINER, ME., BANK TREASURER SUICIDES Gardiner, Me,, Jan. 9—Ernest L. Parshley, treasurer and cashier of the Gardiner Savings institution, commit- ted suicide by inhaling illuminating gas while alone in the counting room of the bank. His body was found by the assistant cashier - on - returning from a brief absence. ‘The trustees of the bank said to- night that they believed that Parsh- ley was suffering from a temporary aberration. They said that an ex- haustive audit made three weeks ago shozved the bank’s accounts to be cor- rec ANTI,JAPANESE RISING HAS BROKEN OUT IN KOREA London, Jan. 9.—An anti-Japanese rising has broken out in Korea, ac- cording to a bolshevik wiréless com- munication received here tonight from Moscow. ; -~ I'the ‘church bells ring. Elmira, N. Y., Jan, ed ‘commercial dctivity of tae soviet bureau in New Yori was a ' blind for distributing letters = from - Lenine to American workingmen and the distri- bution of other propaganda direc: against the government, declared Stace Senator Clayton R. Lusk in a state- ment here today as chairman of the Joint legislative ‘committee investigat- ing, radicalism-in New York state. Senator Lusk, who issued the state- ment from his. home, answeted the questions which the five socjalist as- semblymen, as yet unseated in the state assembly, had prepared to pre- sent to the legislature against the Joint committee. The statement said: “No one outside of members. coun- sel and agents of the committee and staté and local- officials. have had any- thing to do with the so-called raids on the soviet buréau or any other organ- ization. No papers-seized-have been received by anyone other than agents of “the ‘committee.” Any papers seized at the soviet.bureau, were brought in evidence before the committee in pub- lic hearings. Photographs of some of these have been published in news- papers. I do not know for what pur- pose thoy have 'been used or whether copies have been sent to England. “R. N. Nathan (said to be British secret service chief in the United States) never had any more informa- tion, to my knowledge, than did the newspaper reporters and the - public generally.” INTIMATIONS THAT PACKERS 3 CONNIVED WITH RADICALS ‘Washington, Jan. 9.—Charges that arrests of federal trade commission employes, made in the recent depart- ment of justice campaign against ‘“Reds,” have been the result of “frame-ups designed to build the the- ory that the commision is a hotbet of bolslievism™ were made by W. E. Col- ver of that body, before the senate agriculture committee. Colver left the intimation that the larger packing eoncerns had conmived = in some degree to attain that result. and involved Ludwig C. A, K. Martens, self-styled ambassador of the Rus- sian Soviet republic to the United States, and S, Nuorteva, Martens’ sec- retary, in his account.of instances to prove the point. ¥ Rt Given a whole day before the com- mittee, which: tonight announced its ‘Hearings ended, Colver likewise voiced x “for tion to Exrsnmu‘nss IN WAR DEPARTMENT New York, Jan. 8.—A story of how American capitalists spent vast sums without expectation of return or prof- {it to aid the government .in its ef- forts to supply -explosives for the war was told here today to members of the house committee on expenditures in the war department. Incidentally it de- veloped that the same men had put at the serviceof their. country valu- able secrets learned from the Germans for the extraction of nitrogen from the air. The committee met to open an in- vestigation into the expenditure of 84,000,000 for two nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Frank S. Washbuprn, nresident of the American Cyanamid Company, which built one’of the plants at Muscle Shoals, informed the committee that the company had made no profit.on over $89,000,000 worth of war work it had done for the government. The plant cost the government $62,000,000; produced 1,500 tons of ammonium ni- trad when the armistice was signed, and ‘then ceased operating. “It wgs inconceivable to me,” said Mr. Washburn, ‘that during the war some men of affairs should be enabled by the government to make large prof- its and others should give their ser- vices for $1 a year or risk their lives at the front. The Ameérican Cyanamid Company did not want any profit out of its war work. As a matter of fact it had none. Government officials in- sisted that we were paid a fee of $1,- '00,000.- When we receive this fee we must pay 85 per cent. of it in taxa- tion. It has not been feasible for the government to repay us our entire ex- penditure.” BOLSHEVIKI SUCCESSFUL IN EASTERN SIBERIA London, Jan. 9.—The town of Kras- noyorsk, Eastern Siberia; has heen captured by the bdisheviki, according to a wireless despatéh received here this evening from Moscow. “The remnants of the first, second and third armies- have = surrendered, and 60,000 prisoners already have been counted,” sayg the despatch. Another communication from Mos- cow says the booty captured by the Reds, on the southern front in Russia in the present offensive include 400 guns, 1,000 machine’ guns, 11,000 rifles, 18 armored trains, 200 10,000 wagons and large stores of food | and munitions and 35,000 prisoners. | MAN FATALLY BURNED IN MINE AT SCRANTON .Scranton, Pa., Jan. 9.—When two| miners in the Bellevue colliery of the| Delaware, Lackawanna and Western | Company walked into an abandoned mine working this afternoon with a naked damp,: an explosion followed which burned both men severely and did considerable damage.. The open light ignited a pocket of gag lurking near tQe roof. In the ex- plosion Frank Dobitski was fatally burned ang.Michael Boronko serious- ly burned. A large quantity of the roof was loosened by the explosion, making” it impossible “to reach the men for a couple of hours. This fact gave rise to the disaster rumors. 'CZECHO-SLOVAKS HAVE - PAID $6,300,000 LOAN New York, Jan. 9.—The government of Czecho-Slovakia has paid a $6,- 300,000 loan advanced about six months ago by an American syndi- cate, it was announced here today. The loan was in the form of an ac- ceptance credit advanced by three New York bapks. - 4 Some 1nen have a regular Sunday morning attack of homesickness when PROBING | Chicago |* Jocomotives, | P1. Letters From Lenine to American Working Men and Spreading of Other Propaganda Against the Government. regulate the industry. . ¢ : To this testimony the commissiang edded -a critical analyis of statements and motives of witnesses who have opposed packer regulation. rhe . first instance the commissioner said of the “frame-up,” had resulted in the arrest of Ratael Mallen, a former clerk for the trade commissien, in raids directed last week at Chicago Communist centers by the department of justice. H. J. C. Claybaugh, head of the secret service at Chicago, and his assistant, “a man named Barry,” Colver said, both of whom have since resigned, were responsible and Bar- Iy now was a ‘“special .agent” for Swift and Company. Mallen was later released. Johann Ohsol, another employe /of the commission, Colver said, was ar- rested -in a Washington hotel during the present week, while on a visit to S. Nuorteva, having been pointed out to police officers as Martens, who is ‘be- ing sought by the secret _ service. Reading an alleged claim of Nuortevs and Martens that purchase of large meat supplies from an unnamed Chi- cago packer had been arranged with the object of getting it into Russia through the allied blockade, Colver said he considered this connectjon be- tween meat packers and the sovit representatives ‘signified” as it com- cerned Ohsol's arrest, especially since the latter had been taken into custo- dy when he came to see Nuorteva in answer to a specific telephone call. Reverting to the agreement prepared by Attorney General Palmer in con- cluding the Sherman law prosecutions against the packers, Colver said that merely settled the Sherman law of the mattel “Separation of the . packers from their grocery holdings, however, as in the case of the trans by Wilson and Company of its grocery business to Austin-Nicholls, Compan: of New York, a wholesale grocer,” he assert- ed, “merely means that the stock- holders of Wilson and Company have added the Austin-Nicholls concern to their holdings.” Principals incorporated in the set- tlement deecree, he urged, should be wo‘i’kcd out in legislation and ampti- fied. To show that the consumer was not getting any benefit from lowevr lve- stock prices, Colver presented a di- agram showing that on August 1, when ‘live hogs sold at 23 cents a pound,! Joins sold in Boston for 34 1-2 cents;'while on October 28, when live hogs sold at 12 1-2 cents, loins sold for 37 1-2 cents in Boston. SUIT AGAINST THE VOLSTEAD ACT IN BOSTON Boston, Jan. 9.—Suit to restrain the federal authorities in this district from enforeing the Volstead prohibition en- forcement act, on.the ground that it has not been legally adopted, was filed in the federal district court today by Patrick Henry Kelley, an attorney, on behalf of George G. Dempsey of tha wholesale liquor firm of P. Dempsey & company of this city. Judge Ander- son set next Monday as the date for a hearing. ’ ‘The bill in equity is directed against District Attorney Thomas J. Boynton and Acting Collector of Internal Reve- nue Andrew J. Casey. In it Mr. Kel- le contends that the Volstead act, in order to become operative, must first be passed by a two-thirds vote of con- gress and then ratified by three- fourths of the state, in the same man- ner as a. constitutional amendment. “Neither the congre r the sev- eral states,” the hill says, “have amny power of separate and independent legislation and action delegated to them under the provisions of Section 2 of the eighteenth amendment (the na- tional prohibition amendment), and the national policy intended to be se- cured by the eighteenth amendment cannot under the constitution of the United States nor under the eizhteénth amendment be perfected, determined, ascertained or secured by the exer- cise of the separate and independent action, power and will of the congress or the several states.” TROUBLE OVER SOCIALISTS IN NEW YORK ASSEMBLY Ney York, Jan. 9-—Republican lead- ers from all parts of the state held in- formal conferences here today on the assembly’s summary suspension of its socialist members and the resultant probable effect on the clectorate of the tate. Meanwh the five suspended assemblymen de plans for a bitter fight for reinstatement. It was intimated tonight that the re- publican lea s had found consid- erable opposition to the assembly’s programme in dealing with the social- ist_members. The socialists’ fight for reinstate- ment will be championed by ablest lawyers they can hire, it was an- nounced. - Propaganda will form a big part of a campaign to turn the assem- y’s “action into a hommerang and compel reinstatement through public opinion, it was said. REJECT TERMS OFFERED London, Jan. 9.—The Gnion 6f Rail- way Workers at a conference today reejcted the terms offered by-the gov- ernment in settlement of the w. demands of the,workers. Nevertheloes i there is'no deadlock between the unfon heads and the government prospect at present of a strike. In fact, the confere and " no owia ment's referred the hope of receiving the govern xeply regarding ° proposals back to it for consideracon, No official statement concerning the grounds for the objections of the rafl- waymen to the government’s propesals has been issued, but accordinz to zood information they were that the mint- mum should be based on the highest pay and that there should be no slid- ing scale, and that the new rates of pay should be retroactive to Ang. 1. BOOZE NOW A POPULAR. LooT OF BURGLARS Greenwich, Conn., in the. residence of Maj Moore, - Jr.}\ last night ied eight-cases of imported whiskey v ued at $2,400. The house si closed fe the winter, but éntrance was obtained with false keys. An automebile. aisc was ueed. ook 1 away