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15 VOL. LXI—NO. 'POPULATION 29,91 ' NORWICH , CONN. FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1920 12 PA W. . BRYAN URGES SENATORS T0 COMPROMISE ON TREATY At a Bi-Partisan “Round Table” Conference of Senate Lead- rticipated in by Four Republicans and Five Democrats, Including Republican Leader Lodge and Administration Leader Hitchcock—Senator Lodge Char- acterizes It as “the First Practical Step” ers, Which Was mise Negotiations. ‘Washington, Jan. 15.—At a’bi-parti- san “round table” conference of senate leaders late today formal negotiations toward a compromise on reservatiohs to the peace treaty were inaugurated. While no agreements were reached at the neeting, in by four republicans and five dem- ocrale peominent in recent informanr negotiations, and which lastéd two hours, another meeting will be held Saturday. The conference in which Republican Leader Lodge and Senator Hitchcock, administration leader, were. leaders, Tollowed the unsuccessful attempt democratic semators at a party oz cus to elect a leader to succeed late Senator Martin of Virginia. After; two uttempts to.break a tie vote of 19 to 19 on Senator Hitchcock and Senator Underweod of Alabama, the hwo candidates, the caucus ad. to the joint call Another caucug nderwood supporter, takes his seat but the result still, re- mains in doubt because of the positi of &enator Smith of withheld his vote tod: William Jenning: Georg! o al republi democratic senators, Z an im- mediite empromise on reservations and ratification of the treaty. He al- en advocated his plan of withdrawal of demcerati icipation in voting| v if compromise negotia- fail . nference hotween b} the dem- rentublican was izel by Senator as nractical sten” in the com- Y negotiations. addition to Senators lodge and Hitchcock., the conferces were Senators New of In- diana, Lenroot of Wisconsin and Kel- logg of Minnesoia, republicans, and Senators McKellar of Tennessee, Sim- mons of North Carolina, Walsh of Montana, and Owen of Oklahoma. democrats. Both delegations were chosen informallr and were said to ber without specific nuthority to act| for their respective sides. The Lodge reser: ns were the basis of discussion at the conference: which was participated | journed | in the Compro- While no informal writing for their modification were presented by the democrats, many verbal suggestions were made and these, Senator Lodge said, were taken under advisement by the republicans. Before the negotiations are concluded it is expecied that formal drafts of compromise proposals will be brought forth. Ifailure of the democratic caucus to select a leader today, according to supporters ot both Senators Hitchcock |and Underwood, is not _expected . to {have any immediate effect on the treat] questions. Senator Under- wood, immediately afier the caucus, announged that regardiess of the final vesult Mr. Hitchcock would continue to handle the treaty for the minority | with his loyal support. Senator Sim- mons, a Hitéhcock supporter, also stated that the Nebraska senator would continue in charge of the treaty jon the democratic side. After hig conferences with senators, iMr. Bryan in a talk with newspaper wen, emphasized his belief that a |large majority of the merican peo- ple desire ‘immediate ratification, Prompt action, he said, would accom- plish these two results: b “First, it woulq take the question out of politics and permit both par- suggestions in 1 ties to turn their attention to very im- portant domestic issues. Second, .an agreement would permit ratification by a larger majority than in any oth- |er way and that would give the great- lest possible weizht to our action and { influence abroad.” | Hig previous expressed, suggestion | that the democr: of the senate withhold their votes and let the re- publicans ratify the treaty with their j reservations, Mr. Bryan said, should only resort if compromise i led. Asked whether he Believed the pres- dent would approve a compromise set {of reservatians, Mr. Bryan answered: | “I do not know that anybody is au- | thorized to say what the president will accept and I dom't think it is iair to ask in advance what he will accept or for him to suggest changes that would put him where he might be accused of a breach of faith.” i TWO MEN DEAD AT FIRE IN NEW HAVEN New Haven, Conn., Jan. 15—Two men are dead, a dozen men and wo- mea are in hospitals suffering from the effects of smoke and a score of others have minor injuries as a re- sult of a fire in the Chamber of Com- merce Building this afternoon. Fully one hundred men and ‘women were rescued from the three upper floors of the eleven story structure. The property loss will aggregate $150,000, falling mostly upon M. Stein- ert Sons, piano dealers, and J. R. Rembert Company. stationers, who had the street floor stores, and whose reserve stocks were burned. The dead are: Charles . Evarts. of Milford. New Haven county healt! officer, Yale Law School, 07, and twice a member of the general assembly and Nicholas Everli; an engineer of the building. Of those overcome by smoke, Mrs. Jane Thompson was reported in a se- rious condition at a hospital. Ahout a dozen of those affected by smoke Were firemen who were engaged -in mopping up the blaze in the base- ment long after the fire was under control. The Steiner! bad pianos, phonographs and packing cases, and Rembert Company a stock of station- ery in the basement. Tke fire was among these and the firemen reached it with difficulty. The fire broke out in the hasement and was discovered by who was unloading pac < from a freight elevator. He saw flames burst from some packing ma- terial. The exact cause has not been determined. Jacobs ran out of the building to police headquarters near- by_and gave the alarm. The flames rushed up the two cle- vator shafts, reaching the seventh floor, while the dense smoke went to the eleventh. The smoke trapped fully one hundred persons o the nineh, tenth and eleventh floors, Most of them went to the windows and waited uniil firemen had raised lad- ders from roofs of adjoining and much lower bulidings. Some were dircct- ed to jump into nets. others were tak- en down scaling ladders. Absence of any fire glare probably accounteq for thé seeming composure of so many persons. The elevatods were stalled at the eighth floor. The yvoung wo- men operators were both overcome by smoke, < The building faces the Green, close by City Hall. théusands witnessed many incidents during the first hour of the fire. A bevy of misses in a business college was led to a fire escane and passed down by nolicemen and fire- men without a sign of excitement, MAY FURNISH PO1L 7D witH WAR MATERIALS AND FOOD Washingtén, Jan. 15— Definite plans for furnishing Poland with war mate- rials and food to aid in checking the westward spread of holshevism are be- ing considered by the United States and by allied governments, Secretary Baker said otday before the house ways and means committee, menting the declaration of (iene Tasker H. Bliss that Poland was only. bulwark against bolshevism. The committee has before it the 1 of Secretary Giass to author- ize $150,000.000 in credits to European countries for the purchase of Ameri- can food. Supporting that project, General Bliss, speaking from his ex- perience as . American representative Central Tens of thrilling ‘the on the supreme military coun dur- ing the war and as a!member ol the American peace delegation to Paris, declared that if Poland were overrun. l:enenl revival of the war might fol- ow. It was the “growing opinionf’ military experts added. tt slan sovie: armics would furn toward the west. where they would outnumie the Polish forces, their only barrier. General Bliss said that in granting loans the United States should de- mand of the allies that thev provide ibe with military suonlies, of supple- | SMALL SALARIES CAUSE A DEARTH- OF TEACHERS New York, Jan..1i—It would -be hetter for college professors :o strike in a body for higher pay than to strike individaally by leaving their profession, declared Miss lelen H. Taft. actng president of the Bryn Mawr College, in an address here to- night at a meeting helq at the Bryn Mawr Ciub in behalf of the college’s i fund campaign. s Taft asserted it is to avert ne- ily for a strike of any kind that tae, colleges of the country have jlaunched their drives for funds. She declared that teachers already have begun a revolt against less than a |living wage and that “radieals have | appeared among the teachers in New York schools and one at least in Bos- n.” Hundreds of schools in New York and Maine have had to close for lack of teachers, she said, and unless salaries are increased, “a feww years will see us without teachers.” “The discrimination against the teacher in contrast with those who follow other professions has been marked,” she continued. “The public will pay ‘Babe’ Ruth $20,000 for half 2 year and Jack Dempsey $100,000 or 300.000 for a single fight, but they {Will' not pay their college professors jenough to live on. A professional baseball player sells for $130,000: a { rofessor is “secured from one of the western colleges for a few dollars| more than he was receiving there.’ | . Explaining that her statement this fall that professors should form a union anq strike to enforce their de- mands “was not intended to be whdl- ly serious,” Miss Taft nevertheless declared tonight that “the teacher is under no contract to stay in his pro- fession and if he were he would have | istification for breaking the jcontract at present wheh the salary | has been cut in half by the rise in the | of living.” _“Tkroughout the history of educa- tion a large measure of the recom- pense of the teacher has.been nothing e t}f-:ng;blo than the | satfsfaction which he derives from his w ai Miss ' Taft, ey which he der Miss Taft. . said | satisfacti on | es “But must vanish if he is beset on every | that side with financial worries. Intellect- ual enjoyment cannot pay the butch- er's bill and the poor s ‘holar, happy though he may be in a hermitage with | a loaf of bread and a cup of clear | water, cannot preserve his peace of mind or his intellectual detachment when he faces the impossibility of | giving to his children the henefits of | jthe education from which all his own | satisfactions have been deriv Answering in the afirmative the {auestion of whether education of wo. | men has paid the country, Miss Taft {declared that “unl conditions im- | its tuition fees as students cannot | continue to be educated at the cost of the professor.” HARRY NEW GUILTY OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER Los Angeles, Calif, Jan. 15—Harry INew was found guilty today of scc. ond degree murder in connection with the shooting and ing of his fiancee, Freda Lesser, in Topangzo Canyon. near here, on the night of July 4 last. A jury in Superior Judge Gavin W, Craig’s court returned the verdic shortly before noon after having been deadlocked nearly 44 hours. Coupled with the verdict was a re- commendation that the court order the defendant placed in arf institution for a “reasoable length of time for ob- servation as to his mental condition.” Lecompte Davis. leading counsel for | the defense, announced a motion for a {new tfial would be made Mond New, accordinz to testimony intro- .ter publi l‘Gallivan's statement, | English sehools. | prove, the colleze will have to double | URiY duced at the trial, is the son of Sen- ator Harry S. New of Indiana> ' Most men expect their.wives to be religious for the whole family. To Ask Extradition of Formet Kaiser Supreme Council Has Drafted a Note to the Dutch Gov- ernment. 7 Paris, Jan. 15—(By The A. P.) The supreme council has drafted’ a note to the Dutch govdrnment, asking fot the extradition of the former Germar emperor. It will probably be sent on Saturday. The note-refers to Article 227 of the treaty of Versailles and _invites Holland to join the allied powers in the accomplishment of this act. Article 227 of the treaty of peace with Germany declares: “The allied and associated powers ! publicly arraign William IL. of Hohen- zollern, formerly German emperor, for supreme offence against internation- @ morality and the sanctity of trea- ies, “A special tribunal will' be consti- j tuted to try the accused, thereby as- suring him' the guarantees essential to the right of defense. It will be | composed of five judges, -one appoint- d by cach of the following powers namely, the United States of Amerj Great Britain, France, Italy and Ja- pan.” The article also declares that it will be the duty of the tribunal to fix the nunishment. which it considers should be imposed GALLIVAN CRITICISES WAR SERVICE DECORATIONS Washington, Jan. 15.—Controversy over awards of war service decorations by the war department was widened today when Secretary RBaker public a letter to Representative Gal- livan, democrat, Massuchusetts. chal- lenging statements made a few ago by the latter in the house r ing former chiefs of staff, while G livan amplified his previous charges in_a written statement. Mr. Baker's letter ‘dealt, with ¢he 30 fperintendent of the state hos military records nad war gervice ofif ) 8L Horrs [HCIas, C¥ 4w General Tasker H. Bliss and Major [there. He was oot o Generals Hugh L. Scott and_ John ¢ Biddle, predecessors of General Pey-| . Charles D. Orth was elected presi- ton C. March in the office of the chief of staff. The secretary denied em- phatically - Callivan's statement that these officers had been/removed for inefficieney and said he made the let- as the only means the of- ficers assailed had of answering such <harges, Representative Gallivan in fiis state- ment declared only one enlisted man, ‘““apparently by error,” had been awarded a distinguished s ice medal while 354 officers and 33 civi been given this decoration. He quoted figures as to awards made, adding that he did not desirs “to anticipate or be- fuddle the di: by the house, “Let it not be forgotten,” said Mr. “that the act creating distinguished _ser; médal ab ed™ the certificate merit, the oldest decoration of the American armv. which was for en- listed men onl “I do not care to comment unon the figures which I append. It certainly is illuminating and it is proof conclusive that the medal has been restricted to a much narrower field than even T an- nounced in my remarks in congress.” The figures quoted showed the fol- lowing distribution of D. S. Ms: Generals 3, lieutenant generals 2, ma- jor generals 69, brigadier generals 12. colonels 265, lieutenant colonels 78, majors 16, captains 2, lieutenants 3, chaplains 43, sergeants 1, corporals 0, privates 1, civilians, male, 25, civilians, female, 8. “How carefully our allies this same distinguished decoration” the statement said, “can be noted from the following figures which show the awards.of the D. S. M. by countries: “American (ireluding to foreign- , French 144. British 79., Ital- Belgian 19, Japanese 4, Ruman- the AMERICAN REL! TOR SUFFERERS IN AUSTRIA New York, Jan. :5—Formation the American relief committee for suf- ferers in Austra, composed of many leading American bankers and others, for the relief of thousands of under- fed children in Vienna was here tonight in connection with aniap- peal to the American people to con- tribute for the purchase of supplies. OBITUARY. Richard C. MacLaurin. Boston, Jan. 15.—Richarq Laurin, president of the Mas setts Institute of Technology, died at his home late today from pneumonia. He had been sick since last Saturday. Richard Cockburn MacLaur president of the Massachuselts Insti- tute of Technology, once remarked that the first duty of that institution was “to educate young men For his own part in fulfilling that duty he laid a broad foundation in his own education. Dr, MacLaurin was born in Edin- burgh in 1870, his early bovhood was spent in New Zealand and his pre- liminary education was completed in He entered Cam- bridge in 1892 and there took the de- grees of bachelor and master of arts, besides winning the Smith prize_for excellence in mathematics.. Upon graduation he was elected Fellow of St. John’s College. ersities. were followed by a return miade | s had } awarded | of | announced | | i tinguished secretary of (year was approved tonight y war” in preparing the report called for | foreisn missions board of the T rotes- | under the, Gallivan resolution adopted |tant chureh of the United States and . eside ff, ‘lenied, theJapanese i single column newspaper, fo be cailed | | Condensed Teiegrams. 1 Paris quoted the dollar at 11 francs, 20 1-2 centimes. : Italian troops are _reported evacu ating the Dalmatian coast. i | The Vatican subscribed 20,000,000 lire to the sixth national Italian loan. New York quoted silver at $1.35 an ounce compared with 81 1-2d, pence in Tondon. Federal Trade ‘Commission reported Armour & Co. using unfair trade methods. Admiral , Viscount Jellicoe and hi:"i party were welcomed on their arrival at Kingston, Jamaica. Steamship Mexico arrived at New Yofk with 133 passengers and 19,000 bags of sugar from Matanzas. | Fernandez Bosta, Minister of Ma- rize in the Chagos Cabinet, was asked to form a Cabinet for P*tugal. Evacuation of the first zone of the | Province of Schleswig was started by ( the Germans as required in the peace treaty. ‘Bayles’ . Shipyard, Port Jefferson, Long Island, was sold by the Shipping Board to A. P, Allen of New York, ! for $2,000,000. f Louis Baros, owner of a dry goods: stroe at 235 Columbia street, Brook-{ lyn, was arrested, charged with receiv- ing stolen goods. Annual meeting of shareholders and directors of the Chemical National Bank of New York, elected Pervy H. Johnson president. As the result of a strike of print- ers, Antwerp decided to publish a la Press d’Anvers. Jose Battle y Ordonez, a former| president of Uruguay, was wounded in | the arm during a sword duel with Sen- ator Leonnel Aguirre. \ Dr. Britton D. Evans, noted alienist dent of the National Security League to succeed Col. Charles B. Lydecker, who retires because of ill health. War. Department offered for sale through Detroit district ordnance of- fice 980,000 pounds of steel located at Dodge Brothers' plant, No. 3, Detroit. Bureau of Census report shows that there were consumed in December, ex clusive of linters, 511,585 running bales of cotton compared with 472,908 bales in 1918, A budget of $104,000,000 for this by the Canada. General Juan Barragan, chief of the cruiser Yakumo had landed arms at Manzanillo for the ment. / Mexican govern- It is believed the American warship Pola is going to Fiume, where it js said she will be joined by Allied soon as a decigion is reached Large guantities of coal are reported to be accumulating in the mining dis- tricts of Spain owing to a shotase of freight cars. Some mines are accord- ingly closed. According to H. M. Gaylord, Deputy Chief Commissioner of Internal Reve- nue at Washington it will take Federal Prohibition agents years to make the United States dry. Prices to be charged for accommo- dations in San Francisco during the Democratic national convention will be determined in advance by the gen- eral arrangement committee. e Clemenceay Would | Accept_fr_esidenfiy in Nomination for Head of French Republic. Paris, Jan. 15—Premier Clemenceau has accepred nomination for | the presidency of the republic, it was an- aounced tonight. # M. Clemenceau formally authorized his supporters to place his name be- fore the. plenary caucus of the con- gress of Versailles tomorrow, and promised that, if elected, he would aqcept the mandate entrusteq to him. pporters of the premier immedi- ately decided to order .ballots printed bearing M. Clemencedfu’s name, These Will be distributed among the voters [at Versailles® on Saturday when the assembly convenes. Tonight's announcement was the first definite information that Pre- mier Clemsnceau would stand as a candidate, although it haq been as- sumed generally that he woul run for the office, or at least would not re- use to serve if elected. One of the supporters of M. Cle- merceau told The Associated Press that the prerhier would have refrain- ed from a public declaration had there been no oppos:tion to his candidacy. ALLIES AROUSED BY SUCCESS)OF SOVIETS London, Jan. 15 (By the A. P.).— Before peace h Germany is a week old the British public has been brought up sharply against the possi- billty of another war. Winston Spen- cer * Churchill _secretary for war; Walter 'Hume Long, first lord of the admiralty; Baron Beatty, commander of the grand fleet, and Field Marshal Sir Henry H. Wilson, chief of the im- perial staff, left London tonight, hav- ing been hurriedly summoned to Paris for a consultation with Premier Lloyd George and other British officials there (zn important military and naval mat- ers, This summons is inevitahly connect- ed in the public mind with the-semi- official statement published today call- | ing attention to the threatening situa- | fion in the middle éast as a result of bodshevik military successes, which have given the soviets virtual mastery of the whole of European Russia, for, althoush it is not yet confirmed that they have entered Odessa, it is be- | lieved it cannot be long before they are in full possession of these coast regions. By their wictories the bolsheviki have secured command of enormous supplies of food, raw materials, coal and rolling stock and other means of transport which they formerly were in need of. l{i regarded as certain that, flush- od \ith success, they will not be eon-. tent with their present conauests, hut ill seek to extend bolshevism either stward or westward. Expert mili- | tary ‘opinion inclines’to the belief that | their mext move will be an atta Potara—rnd —the — Baltic ~ state Warsaw desnatches to the London papers already indicate that the Pole are fully anticipating such a move. EI ST s \ | SPACE BASIS SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING THE MAILS ‘Washington, Jan. 15.—Extension to all mial lines of the space basis s {tem in paying the railroads for trans- { porting the mails was prescribed in new regulations issued by the Inter- state Commerce Commission today in deciding complaints of the railroads for changed methods of compensation.! Abolition of the allowances for terminal rvice also was ordered. In ilieu of this, the roads will be paid an additional rate in the computation on a space basis. The new rates are made retroactive {to November 1, 1916, with an increase I The American Legion was Surgeon General Biue to a: pubiic health service in finding insti- uticns that will give proper care to tubercular men formerly in the service. Viscount Astor and Admiral Henry B. Wilson, in command of the At: tic flect, joined the Brittany ; the U. S. Navy Post, which recently received its charter from the American Post. Seven hundred out! of. ‘the .5.000 French freight cars sent to Central Europe for the transport of coal ar- rived at Prague. Federal Judge Knox, U. S. District Court sustained writs of habeas cor- pus in behalf- of Gres Weinstein, aid of Trotzky in America, and s other prisoners held on Ellis Island, pending deportation. is Abrakam Colt, of Newark, who ran wild with a knife in the chowd at Broadway and 2nd street, slashing five pers was locked up on a charge of felonious assault. He will be exam- ined as to his sanity. Commander David Worth Bagley cabled to the Navy Department re- questing his name be éonsidered only for such decorations as red upon all serving in the war zone. A formal notice g i i Student Ten months in the TUnited States TFEaAl by the Studen and Canada spent in studying and | Council of Yale and the Sheffield Se isiting - educational institutions, par-|ent [ i issued re- plarly. McGill and Leland Stanford | comir discontinuance of unde: i | Dr. McLaurin came to this country in 1907 to tuke the chair of mathe- matical physics at Columbia Univer- sity, and a year later was made head of the department of physics. He was chosen as president of the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology- in Nov- ember, 1908. Cambridge University conferred the degree of doctor of science upon Dr | States district attorne; MacLaurin in 1898 for his researches|of John F Crosby, who recently |re- in science and the degree of doctor of laws in 1904 for his achievements in the study of law. ‘When. he came to Boston the Insti- tute of Technology, in the words of one of its officials, “was moving un- der shortened sail till the real captain should come aboard.” Tt had there were' serious financial problems to be met and the need of obtaining new quarters was imperative because of the restrictions about the old loca- tion and buildings. He is survived by a widow and twe children, been|J. L. Ackerson, U. S, N. without a | president for some time, dent in charge of the d I {in the state capital today and tendered Hartford, Conn,, Jan. 15.—Judge Ed- ward L Smith of the court of common | the conference laiz today in support pof ths ; please called at the executive office his resignation of the judzeship to go into effect January 24. The resig- nation was accepted. The reason for Judge Smith's resignation ceptance of the position of United in succession signed. ACKERSON TO ASSOCIATE WITH WINCHESTER CO. Philadelphia, Jan. 15.—Commander vice pres struction of the Emecgency Fleet Co poration, announced today that he h: resigned both from the navy and from the fleet corporation, effective March 1. He will become associated with the Winchester Repeating Arms Corpora- tion, New Haven, Conn. Atian- | was confer- | captains of destroyers: is his ac-{ i Slovakia. Authorizes His Name to be| - Placed i Bl i Postoifics Appreprintioss Bl Eer Pesscbed K cludes $75,783,900 for Increases in Salaries Provided for Washington, Jan. 15—The largest postoffice appropriation bill ever pre- sented, carrying $460,977.868 for main- tenance of the department during 1921, was passed today by the house. The original cstimate was $391,713,673, but the house added $75,783,900 for in- creases in salaries provided for in previous legislation. Provisions for contingiing the exist- ing airplane mail service after July 1 and for its extension were eliminated from the bill on a point of order by Representative Tincher, republican, Kansas, who held operation of such service permanently was unwarranted by law. Representative Walsh of Massachusetts, as speaker protempore, sustained Tincher's objection. The item ecarried $850 500 for purchase of airplanes and the extension of .aerial. mail routes through the south and to Alaska. Supporters of the aerial mail look to the senate to restore the pro- visions. £ Appropriations for experiments in operation of motor vehicle truck routes and country motor express routes also were eliminated. . Extraordinary increases in prices of supplies and the rapid increase in the volume of business necessitated such a large general appropriation, Chai man _Steenerson, Minnesota, of th postoffice committee, said. The bill is the second general ap- propriation measure to pass the house sknce it reconvened following the Christmas holidays. The first, cover- ing the needs of the Indian affairs bureau, carried approximately $1%,- 000,000. ° Following passage of the postoffice bill today,.Republican Leader Mondell of Wyoming issued a statement say- ing that because of expeditious action in disposing of these two measures all of the thirteen general appropriation bills might be passed by April 1. This schedule, he forécast, might -result in adjournment by June 5, sevéral days before the opening of the republican national convention at Chicago. Sliomuhe e R et el T e e O COAL COMMISSION HAS ADJOUR! ' ‘Washington, Jan. 15.—With the ar- guments of both miners and coal mine operators in the central competitive fleld completed, the coal strike settle- ment commission adjourned formal sessions today until Monday, taking under advisement statements and sta- tistical reports which had been filed in connection with arguments during the four days of discussion. Phil H. Penma of the Indiana coal operators’ association, closed the op- erators’ statement today. There has been 33 years of collective bargain- ing in the coal industry, he gaid, but now the operators are convinced that thé mine workers are irresponsible as an association, and will not keep the wage contracts which they make. Penna formally asked the commission, in behalf of his-associates to consider methods of making its wage awards enforceable, even to the extnt of re- commending legislation to congress. Penn, together with Ralph Crews, attorney for the: coal operators, took the position that the Increased wage demand was the only serious claim of the miners. The thirty-hour week asked by the miners, Penna said, was “almost criminal,” and attacked it as a proposition designed to lower produc- tion ‘and raise even higher the cost of | Tving. Beginning Monday, the commission expects to sit again as a court con- sidering evidence rather than state- ments, cross examining witnesses, {and adducing the views of technical experts. COMMITTEE OF 48 OBJECTS TO OPEN SURVEILLANCE New York, Jan. 15.—Complaint that Federal District Attorney Higgs of St. Louis has subjected members of the committee of forty-eight “to the cal- culated affront of open surveillance” during the organization's recent poli- tical conference in that city was made today to Attorney General Palmer by J. A. H. Hopkins, chairman of executive committee. Mr. Hopkins de- clared that the only interpretation to be placed on this action was that it was “an effort to make it appear that |of 25 per cent. over those rates after|any attempt to rouse the American {January 1, 1918, people to political action with a view Postmasteéy General Burleson was|to taking the control of public affairs ordered to put all roads on a space|out of the han of the democratic or | rate basis by March 1 i blican parties is nece: Iy law- 1920. { {“SOVIET ARK” WILL REACH The organization, which includes in rship Dudley Field Malone, ! R DESTI Y | former collegtor of the port of i R O o med that M. IT made no Was .—The “Soviet| arrest five men who, rep- | ? = undesirable| resenting themselves members of i » United < | the American Legion but later repu- (g 1 European des ination | diated by that organization, had ! tomorro | They wouid not | which the ship is bound. | The Buford was last reparted as! |ready to leave her anchorage oft Kiel | | Tuesday night and it was said sh might be bound to any one of the fou !Finnish _ports, = Heisingfors, Viborg Hango and Reval. The fact that the ship was due at her destination to- morrow led to the belief thit she was | bound to Hango because of that port i being nearest to the frontiers o fSo- viet Russia, the ultimate destination of the 249 undesirables aboard the Bu- | I ford. 1 e T e B o S | CLOTHING PRICES-ARE i BECOMING IMPOSSIBLE fs here said tonight.| eal the port to tol 15.—Unless _clothin people will lose th r and indu R. Fige, assi: bef the Jan. Chicago, | pri { pur ing T | be idle, said H. to | tod! Most clothing impossible for ple_in ‘the T conmittee under the 44 hour week, will address | TREATY MAKES HUNGARY WAIVE CLAIM TO FIUME Paris, Jan. 15—(Havas)—The Hun- garian peace treafy provides that Hun- gary shall formally waive- claim to Fiume and all the former Austro- Hungarian territories awarded to It- aly, Rumania, Jugoslavia and Czecho- Hungary must adhere to the clauses,of the treaty with Austria, signed at St. Germain, concerning na- tional minorities. Under the terms of the-treaty the Hungarian ‘army must not exceed 35,- 000 men, with guns of not more than 10 centimetere calibre. Hungary must assume a proportional share of the Austrian debt. Most of the remaining clauses of the treaty are similar to those of the treaty of St. Germain. threatened to break up the orzaniza- tion unless the government prevented the meeting. It was also alleged that Mr. Higgs had talked to the manager of the hotel at which the conference was held, the manager declared the meeting could not take place there, ut was prevented hy an injunction interfering with the arrange- 24 ARRESTS IN GAMBLING RAIDS !N NEW HAVEN New Haven, Conn., Jan. 15.—Twen- tv-four men were arrested tonight in raids by local police detectives on three alleged gambling resorts. David . Fitzgerald, proprietor of Fitzger- ald and Malone's Cafe and widely known as a boxing referee, was held on charges of pool McCranr others were the National porting Club. sharg- rq with keep'ng a gaming house. Ed- or of the third ged with MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS HZLD IN IRELAND; are in the maority in many areas, the issues are complicated by the appear- ance of the municipal reformers and other parties with numerous women candidates, ' The results of the elections will be announced next Saturday. SCATTERGOOD BUILDING IN PROVIDENCE BURNED Providence, R. I. Jan.f 15—The A. T. s o and Canal streets was c G by fire late tonight, entailing estimated at, §300,000. the mercury hovering around h Hihe zero point the work of the fire de- SAYS MINERS CAN PRODUCE NED UNTIL MONDAY ENOUGH COAL IN 30 HOUR WEEK ‘Washington, Jan. 15.—John L. Lew- is, acting prasident of the United Mine " | Workers, in a statement tonight said that the statistics which the miners planned to, file with the commission Monday wbuld show that ‘“with a thirty hour week the miners can and will produce all the coal that possibly can be demanded.” . “In 1918 when the war was at its height and the demand for coal was greater than ever before,” Mr. Lewis said,’ “the miners produced 685,000,000 tens of coal, the largest out in the history of the industry by approxi- mately a hundred millions tons. And they did this in an eight hour day with 80,000 miners out of the mines and_ in the military service. “If they could do this under those conditions, we know that in a six hotrr day, five days a week, they can ‘produce the §50,000,000 tons of coal that will be required in 1920, for prac- tically all of the miners who were in the military service—except the 3,300 who gave up their lives—are back in the mines. We do not believe the public will insist on the miners work- ing 49 hours a week if they ‘can pro- the | ed to visit hi This pe i granted and MeAllister ool | sed on bonds. ! i duce all: the cogl that is reeded in thirty hours a week.” e SRRy MORTUARY STATISEIGS. OF THZ STATE FOR 1918 Hartford, Conn., Jan. 15—The state department of health gave out today figures of the mortality of the state for 1919, also comparative figures for the preceding years. The total deaths for the year were 18,228, showing a death rate of 12.4 per 1,000. It is sald at the department that the rate for 1919 is the lowest on record since the state first kept a record of vital sta- tistics. There were 2,929 deaths of children under one year, a death rate for in- fants of 87.2 per thousand. This al- 80 was the lowest rate on record among infants. The death rate for the preceding six vears was: 1918, 19.4; 1917, 15.3; 1916, 15.6; 1915, 14.6; 1914, 15.1; 1913, 14.9. Deaths during the year 1919 are classified according to diseases as fol- lows: Typhoid fever 56; measles 99; scarlet fever 46; whooping cough 58; diphtheria_253; influenza 1,169; pul- Ihonary tuberculosis 1.84%; ofher forms of tuberculosis. 220; cancer 128: in- { fantile paralysis 10; pneumonia in all forms 1.628; diarrhoea and enteritis under two vears 648; puerperal 193 suicide 198; accident 990; and.ho cide 50. | LIPE SENTENCE FOR CHONIC PISTOL TOTER McAllis- ng Sing i ast . after having left an j artisti fashior dummy on his cot, today was sentenced - in the Bronx county court to life imprison- ment upon pleading guilty to having violated the Sullivan law for the { fourth time. He was arrested in the Bronx Jast December after a chase in which he fired five shots at detectives. In effecting his- escane from Sing Sing ast summer while serving a term for burglary as a third offender, he fashioned the head of his dummy from bread crumbs, adding a few hairs and eyebdows from sweepings from the prison barber shop floor. The day after he had completed the dummy, it was found he had forced his way through the window of his cell and had swam the Hudson. While McAllister was await'ng trial in the Bronx county 1, Sheriff n- nelly was informed his prisoner was contemplating a sci ck upon | the lock of his cell. He y j sherift not to attempt {h’s mother and sweeth word. DECREASED PRODUCTION it Co . | s e Irish munici- o7 G radua o Lrne s and| Belfast, Jan. 1 o nici-4 of the wo problem and {to Cambridge to study law. %‘:‘:cflft :;ls;{;in‘:. P in finding a solution ofpal elections Which fought out | ¢y, al relatior In 1898 he was apnom'tvvd_ professor S | the problem. | for the first time today under the e problems wi t be ¥ of mathematics in the University of ] | Sidney Hillman, president of theipropdrtional represeniation eystem in|understood iw order to av New Zealand. TLater he became a|SMITH RESIGNS JUDGESHIP Amalzamated Garment Workers of | 126 boroughs and urban councll areas|able industrial breakdown.” - declured trustee of thdt university and took an BECOM ¢ | America, who told the. retailers yes- |created great excitement. 2 uy iSastm ripp, chairman of the active part in ' the ~organization of T B O A AT O RN b iRt production badlincueased | CATEAOUER. thcr ST en dcabaldntes o oan o a S technical education in e colony. house Electric Manufacturing Com= pany, in_an address tonight at the Stevens Institute Alumni dinner. The American workman has fallen oft 20 or 30 per cent. in productive effort compared with pre-war man- hour output, he said, a condition which “transcends in its vital importance ail questions of strikes, wages, prices and in fact, everything else.” If continued long, he added, prosperity will sure- 1y be destroyed. - { RIOTS AND MUTINIES OF FRENCH FORCES AT TOULON London, Jan. 15.—A wireless dos- ipatch from Berlin says that riois and pariment was' hampered by the huge|mutinies have. broken out among the formations of ice that follnwed the|I'rench” naval forces and pouring of w: 'Several fi a five story brick structure, At midnight the firemen workinz hard to save adjoining erty, the flames threatening the don and Carpenter building. ater on the building. rop- ms_occupled the building, |of France on the Meditcrranean The A uprisings: were cadsed by insuif were | bread supplies, the message asserts. b m R S v troops at Toulon the military and maval port nt It's folly to try deaf mutes as serye ants; they won't answer., P