Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 23, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXII—NO. 21 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN. FR DAY, JAN UARY 23, 1920 W FRENCH C NOT GREETED fn the Chamber of Deputies Premier Millerand and the Cab- inet Received a Vote of Confidence 272 to 23, But More Than 300 Deputies Abstained From Voting — Editor Daudet of L’Action Francaise, Declares That Jules Steeg, Minister of the Interior, Was an Accomplice of Louis J. Malvy and Joseph Caillaux—Outcome of Vote is Inter- preted to Mean That the Millerand Cabinet Cannot Last as Now Constituted. 22—Am:d tumultuou: Jan. ntly formed cabinet of Premier Alexandre Millerand received @ _vote of confidence, 272 to 23:. The y6te was considered a moral defeat government, however, as more ies abstained from vot- tance of the deputies to on the question of confidence re- d a scene in the chamber in the ren the ministry of Alexandre Ribot was overthrown three hours af- tér jts formation. The vote of confidénce was taken on the demand of Premier Millerand, owing a savage attack by Deputy >audet. editor of L'Action Fran- n Jules Steez, minister of the M. Daudet demanded the interpellate the government pointment to the min- red that Steeg was an interior. conv minister of the who Baunished following his was on on | charges. of communicating with the| enemy. and of joseph Caillaus, former premier, who i on to be brought te rial on charge of attempting to | promo; premature and dishenora- | ble_pe: th Germany i The significance of the vote was! generally interpreted in the lobbies of | the mber to mean that the Miller- not last as now con- the premier will M. Steeg at the min- have to replace istry of the interor or the cabinet will have to replace M. Steeg at the min’ he intetior or the cabinet rown on the first ques- tion invoiving the interior policy in a Question of confidence. Many of the deputies who abstained voting told the correspondent of The Associateq Press that they had given the premier fair warning that the next time they would vote against g bim, should M. Steeg remain, the chamber of deputies to-| & He claimed that M. Steeg was in com- plicity with M. Malyy and continued the was minister of the interior in the Painleve cabinet. to withdraw his charges and said he was willing to produce facts to prove| his_assertionk. while M. Daudet was speaking. Sum- moned in haste by telephone, he re- plied France with all his heart and intelli- gence. lerand £ indifference by the deputies, but with M no tial bow amidst conditions which caused many to predict that its life would be short. There even were moments when the {nil, ABINET 1S WITH ACCLAIM The charges of M. Daudet against . Steeg were specific and emphatic. iatter's policy while he (Steeg) M. Daudet refused Steeg was absent at the senate that he had always served remier Mil- The opening speech of i respectful was received wi Daudet’'s btiter attack on M. ceg, the chamber became extremely isy and unruly. The cabinet's ini- to the house was made estion of the cabinet's fall on the Before the vote of confidence orders of the succeeded one another with | such rapidity that at one time seven| of them lay on the desk of Speaker Raoul Peret. Premier Millerand add- ing the question of cimgdence in_the cabinet, ptea the order of | the day Deputy Dumes- { “The chamber, approv- g the government's declarations rel- ative to the choice of minister of the! interior and rejecting any _addition, | reverts to the order of the day.” The chamber was in an uproar and Speaker Peret_threatened to suspend the session. Prince’ Murat and M. Daudet exchapged caustic personal re- marks across the floor of the chamber with members of the cxtreme left amid pandemonium, ALL PASSENGERS TAKEN FROM STEAMER POWHATAN New York. Jan. 22—All the 271 pas- sengers on board the disabled army transport Powhatan have heen trans- ferred to the transmort Northern Pa- gific and_aré on their way to New York. = This news was received here ton‘ght in wireless messages, confirm- ing previous reports from Halifax. The trantsfer of the passengers was sffected late todny under good weath- r_conditions and without any acci- dent occurring. The Northern Pacific is expected to teach New York on Saturday. The Powhatan is being towed to Halifax By the Canadian government steamer Lady Laurier, while the United States destroyer Leary is acting as a rud- fler by means of a line passed from the | transport’s stern. The destroyc Sharkey and the coast guard cutter Ossipee are standing by to rend tny additional as: ce which ma; be needed. The safe transfer of the Powhatan's passengers brings t9 a close a striking sea drama which opened last Sunday When the first message wi &4 from the transport that the ship Was leaking, the room flooded, a Rortheastern gale blowing and im fiate assistance needed. The wir less calls for help were quickly re- sponded to by haif a score of vessels #hich put out from Canadian and American ports or rashed to the scene from mid-ocean. The first ship to ar- five was the White Star liner Cedric, §8 her way from England to _New ork. She was quicyly followed by the Western Comet, a United States Shioping Board steamer. * The Cedric and the Western Com- found the disabled transport roll- ing heavily in a stormy sea, without ts or heat, but were helpiess to rander any aid in the face of the per- sistent gale. The transport Northern Pacific, which was bound for New Yeork with the last details of the American expeditionary force from France reached its distressed sister #hip on Monday and replaced the Cedric which proceeded on its voyage to New York. For four days more the Powhatan lay helpless in the face of the unabating storm while 2 _grow- ing fleet of would-be rescuers made ¥ain efforts to take her in tow or ef- fect a transfer of her passengers. On repeated occasions tow lines were | passed, only to snap under the ter- #flc strain of the = derelict's dead- 'oj‘ahl, the surging sea and the fierce OPPOSED TO HIGH INTEREST RATES ON CALL MONEY ‘Washington, Jan. 22—Declaring that high interest rates on call money in- §tead of tending to check speculation, depress market conditions; Senator Owen, who is former chairman of the #enate banking committee, to which the bill was referred, said the meas- wre was designed to stabilize com- mercial interest rates. “The purpose is to stop violent and @rbitrary fluctuitions of interest rates By banks in In Jeading cities on call " the senator’s statement add- is no sound reason in ‘ these excessive call loan rates which are aliexed 10 be justified by the desire o check speculation. The high rates @o_not stop speculation but promote a bear market and create a situation that permits the ‘insiders’ to sell at a profit.” ITALY HAS REQUISIONED TWELVE LARGE STEAMERS Rome, Jan. 2. —The government has tequisitioned twalve large steamers, which will be pired under the controi of the naval autherities. This action bas been taken in order to ensure the eontinuation of the eoasting shipping service in view of the railway strike. MASKED MEN HELD UP TROLLEY AT CEDAR HILL New Haven, Conn., Jan. 22.—Two masked men heid up the crew of a Connecticut Company trolley car t might at the Scheutzen Park termin- &l and got away with 340. This is the third holdup at that point in the past WORKING FOR COMPROMISE ON TREATY RESERVATIONS s Washington, Jan. 22.—Progress tow- ard complete Agreement. on com- promise reservations t o the .peace treaty, first reported vesterday, was continued today by thc bi-partisan committee of senate leaders. The TLodge reservation to Article Ten of the league of nations covenant, the pivotal reservation of the whole ! controversy, was considered almost ; exclusively at today's fon jof the four republican and five democratic leaders. and tonight spokesmen for both factions joined in expressions hopeful of ultimate settlement. Ome of the democratic leaders d he looked for decisive action tomorrow on the controverted reservation but that conferences on, other reservations probably would continue into next week In view of the optimistic reports from hoth sides the “mild resers republican an dother senator: have been restive over the stated today that fon” who ituation nothinz would be done to interfere with the leaders’ ne- ot tions until some definite outcome sevident. CARRANZA DIRECTED RAIDS ALONG THE RIO GRANDE San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 22— Presi- dent Carranza and a few of his prin- cipal lieutenants instigated and di- rected the long series of raids - on American properties that began along Ehe Rio Grande early in 1915, accord- ing to documentary ewidence today placed before the senate su: tee investigaling the Mexsican situa- tion. This was supported by testi-] mony by John A. Walls, the district attorney at Brownsvilie, Tex., L. R. Barnes, in charge of the United States army intelligence work along the bor der during the war, and other wit- nesses. The committee obtained from them and from documentary evidence infor- mation purporting to show that not only were the hizhest Mexican officials cognizant of the program of the raid- Ing parties, which was carried out un- der the provisions of the “plan of San Diego,” but that as late as June, 1915, they were still giving encouragement to-and aiding those who participated in those raids in plans inimical to the United States. RECONSTRUCTION WORK IN WESTERN ASIA, $33,000,000 New York Jan. 22.—The Near Eas relief has disbursed more thom sob. 000,000 in reconstruction work in west- ern Asia, Cleveland H. Dodse, treas. urer, announced tonight at the annual meeting of the organization here. The commission has established 195 ore phanages, 54 relief stations, 44 hospi- tals with 148,725 clinic attendants, and 16 homes for women escued from Moslem harems, in addition to indus- trial plants which provide employ- ment for native workers. A letter from Secretary of War Baker was read in which the secre- tary declared that “before and during the war Armenia was especially dec vastated; if the remnant of this hardy people is to be saved to re. establish the country, it must be done this winter, when their own means of subsistence are utteriy inadequate.” CALL FOR REMOVAL OF REDS FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM Hartford, Conn., ~—Resolu- tions calling for the elimination the public school em of the state, of all disloyal sociaists, “parlor” so. cialists or holshey in any form were passed unanimously this after. noon at a meeting of forty regents and deputies of Connecticut chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution. v St LSO OBITUARY. Mrs. Nevada J. Haywood. the five suspended socialist assembly- - Cabled Pag¥aphs To Unify Factions in China. Honolulu, Jan. 22.—(By The A. P.)— Unification of the south factions in China is imminent, according to ca- ble advices received here today from Canton, via Shanghai, by the Mon Mon Bo, a Chinese language newspa- per. TENSE MOMENTS AT TRIAL OF SOCIALIST ASSEMBLYMEN Albay, N, Y, Jan. 22.—There were tense moments today at the trial of men charged with disloyalty when it ibemed that defendants and counsel Would quit the hearing before the as- sembly judiciary committee. The first came wien committee counsel proposed to call on witnesses to produce books, documents and papers to mark them for identification and to leave them with the committee for examination with the idea that they later might be introduced in ev- idence. . An objection By Morris - Hillquitt. chief counsel, was overruled by Louis M. Martin, committee chalrman. Then Mr. Hillquiti, turning to the witnese on the stand, Mrs. Anna Stern, exec- utive secretary of the socialist’ Bronx local, said: You are not bound fo part with possession of your book unless it is oftered in evidence.” To the committee he said: “This committee has no power to compel a person to part with his doc- uments merely because a_certain doc- ument is enumerated by the other side, without a test of its admissibility. “The statement of prosecution coun- sel, so often made, that the commit- tee is a law unto itself; that the a semblymen under chargés are here by courtesy or favor—with that state- ment as a proposition of force I am not finding fault. But I want to have it_understood that we do not wish to appear here on sufferance or courtesy or by favor. We are either here with | ail the rights of counsel in any court of justice or we do not propose to be here.”* The threatened “walkout” was averted when Judge Arthur E. Sufh- erland, speaking for the committee’s counsel, yielded to the suggestion of Mr. Hillquitt that the documents be marked for identification, but returned to their owners. Another crisis came when Fzra L. Kauffmann, a special policeman, of Rochester, was called and produced a book ig Hebrew which he said he had cbtained from a “Samuel Miller” of that city. Defense counsel objected when John B. Stanchfield, committee counsel, attempted to question the witness coicerning a conversation he had with Miller. “It isn't competent or direct evi- dence,” snapped Seymour Stedman- of Chicago for the defense. “We don't know. this man ‘Miller! Who is going to dispute what he said?’ After Mr. Hillquitt had recalled that the committee had promised a fair trial, Assembly Bloch said he ob- jected to that ‘“continual reminder” and that he believed “the statement is made only to create an- impression with the press that you are not get- ting a fair trial” If this testimony and festimony of any similar kin srmilted, we have not & fair-trial,”“said Mr. Hiflquitt to Mr. Bloch. “We have a travesty on Justice. T should be very reluctant to make my self a party to a farce of this kind, AS far as I am concerned and I think I speak for my associ- ates, wherever testimony of this kind as called, we shall take absolutely no part in the proceeding. were absent.’ The chair overruled the objection; the socialist counsel did not withdraw and Kauffman proceeded to testify that “Miller” in selling him the book had said he was literary agent for the Jewish branch of the Old Socialist Party. The day on which the first evidence was presented ended abruptl despite objection by the s forces, committee counsel obtained ad- joupnment until next Tuesday 0 re- view their evidence. Seven witnesses were cailed, including on agent of the department of justic working for the | Joint legislative committee Investigat- ing radical activities in this state, and committee counsel succeeded in in- troduecing, partly as evidence,. partiy for_iidentification: Constitution - and ‘by-laws of the national, state and New York Coun- ty socialist organizations; a copy of the Hebrew hook, written by “Hall Rogoff and published by the Jewish Socialist Federation of New York pamphlet entitled “Bolshevism,” w ten by “Dr. B. Hoffman” and publish- ed by the Russian Association Feder- ation; a report of a speech in New York by Assemblyman Claessens, a di- fendant, and court records in the case of Scott Nearing and the Amer- ican Socialist Sociey. ASKS VOTE IN. MAINE ON NATIONAL PROHIBITION Bangor, Maine, Jan. 22—The su- preme court was asked today to issue a Wwrit of mandamus to compel Gov- ernor Milliken to prociaim a day on which the people of Maine can vote upon the national prohibition law. The petitioner, Thomas Curran, of Bangor, says he is one of ten thous- and who signed a petition some time ago for a referendum on this ques- ion, : FOR STANDARDIZATION OF WAGES OF RAILWAY EMPL 2 ‘Washington, Jan. 22.—The railroad administration today signed an agree- ment with the Brotherhood of Raiiroad Signalmen of America providing for standardization of wages and work- ing conditions among the 20,000 mem- bers of the union. The agreement is in line with adjustments made fog other railroad employes ahd the for- mal agreement merely ratifies condi- tions already obtainin, CANADA PAID INVENTOR OF ROSS RIFLE $2,000,000 Ottawa, Jan. —The government of Canada today paid two million dol- lars to Sir Charles Ross, inventor of the Ross rifle, in compensation for the expropriation’ of his rifie factory at Quebec, under the war measure act, in March, 1917. This amount repre- sents a compromise. The valuators en- gaged by Sir Charles had reported the actual physical value of the plant and stock at over $6,000,000. COMMISSION OF IRISH PARLIAMENT FRUSTRATED Cork, Jan. 22.—A commission of the Irish parliament tried to slip into the city hall today with Arthur Hender- son and the other British labor dele- 2 Denv; Colo.. Jan. 22—Mrs. Nevada J. HayWwood, fe of William D. Hay- wood of Chicago, secretary of the In- dustrial Workers of the World, died in Denver today after a long iliness, Mrs. Haywood, who was born in Ne- vada fifty years ago, had made Denver her home for a number ef yescs. gates who are investigating conditions in Ireland. The police, however. forced the members of this commission back. 1t is as if wel Inpartil Neutraty Statement in Answer to Com- William ‘Washington, Jan. 22—Homer 8. Cummings, chairman of the demo- cratic national committee, in a formal statement tonight declared that if complaints of William Jennings Bryan as made in addresses - yesterday in Norfolk and Richmond,” Va. were baseq on the chairman's aftendance at the inaugural dinner given Govern- or Eaward 1. Edwards of New Jersef| Tuesday night at Newark, the former secretary of state's comments “are ‘without mierit.” Chairman Cummings further assert- ed that had Mr. Bryan read the speech given by the chairman ‘at the dinner, “he would not have made the com- ments attributed to him.” His attend- ance at the Edwards dinner, the chair- man said, connected him in no way with any movement having as its alm the selection of Governor Ldwards as the democratic nominee for president, as his position as regards candidates was “one of impartial neutrality.” Former Secretary Bryan referring to Mr. Cummings’ attendance at the Edwards dinner, declared in his ad- dress at Norfolk and later at Rich- mond, that the chairman must either separate himseif from the New Jer- sey governor or resign from the com- mittee. The statement issued by Chairman Cummings said: “If Mr. Bryan had read my speech on the occasion referreq to, he would not have made the comments attrib- uted to him. If he complains because I aitended an inaugural dinner to a, democratic governor of a great state, participated "in' by both ~aemocrats and republicans, his comments are without merit, whether that governor favored or opposed the adoption of the eighteenth amendment. If I am criti- sed for participating in a so-called dwards for presiden§ movement that statement also is without foun- dation.~ My position in regarq to presidentiai_candidates is one of iru- partial neutrality. .1 do not forfeit that position by participating in func- tions in honor of democrats who have been mentioned for the presidency.” BRYAN AS DICTATOR OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY Spartanburg, S. C., Jan. 22.—Declar-~ ing that the movement to enter Gov- ernor Edward I. Edwards of New Jer- sey on tse anti-prohibition platform in the race for the democratic presiden- tial nomination was “the greatest slander the democratic party has ever known,” William Jennings Bryan, speaking here today in support of pro- hibition enforcement, asserted that the democratic party “shall not go down into the grave with John Barleycorn.” Again referring to the attendance of Honter 8. Cummings, chairmin of the democratic’ national ~committer ¥n what “the ..former secretary of''state described as “the coming-out party” of Governor Edwards, Mr. Bryan said that if Mr. Cummings did “not know enough to starid aloof from _affiiliation with such a movement as the anti- prohibition movement or was in sym- pathy with jt, he was “not fit” to be { chairman of the party’s national com- mittee. EDWARDS SAYS BRYAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN FOR BRYAN Jersey City, N. I, Jan. 2.—Governor Edward I. Edwards of New Jersey is- jsued a statement tonight in reply to | references made to him by William Jennings Bryan in respect to the unching of the governor's presiden- tial boom at his inaugural dinner. He termed Mr. Bryan’s attack “vi- | cius,” declaring that those familiar |with the Nebraskian's history “know that Mr. Bryan has always been. for Mr. Bryan.” “He has never refused to adopt seresy.” the statement . said, looked as if it could garner votes.” TRAINMEN TO ASK FOR ANSWER TO DEMANDS Clevetand, Ohio, 22,—The Brotherhood of Rail: Trainmen, which has a membership of approxi- mately 200,000, will ask the railroad dministration for a definite answer to its demands for a general wage in- crease of about 40 per cent. Tues- day William G. Lee, president of the hrotherhood, today asked Director General Hines for an appointment for Tuesday morning and called the twen- ty-two general executive committee chairmenf and grand lodge officers to meet in Washington on that day. After the demands were presented, ly 31, 1919, President Wilson re- quested the men to wait a “reasona- ble time” until the government had an opportunity to reduce the cost of ing. “The men are pressing us too hard.” Mr. Lee said today.“ A reasonable time has elapsed and the cost of }v. ing gone up.” PAPER MANUFACTURERS TO GRANT HIGHER WAGES Holyoke, Mass., Jan. ;22.—Following 2 conference this afternoon between representatives of the paper manufac- turers of this city and the Connecti- cut Valley and the various . trades unions, the manufacturers announce an increase in wages would be grant- ed February 1. The amount of the iincrease was mot decided upon, the conference adjourning with the un- derstanding that the result of a don- ference in Buffalo, N. Y., February 2. wil govern the wage advance in th tion. The increase will affect gev eral thousand employes in the valley. ENDEAVORING TO HAVE POLISH PASTOR REMOVED Hartford, Conn., Jan. 22.—Alleging that he conducted himself improperly, the trustees of the Holy Cross Polish national congregation, have gone to the superior court to have their pas- tor, ‘the Rev. Felix Laszewski remov- ed. hearing on the application will be. held in the superinor court before Judge William H. Maltbie on Mon- day, January 26. WEATHER CONDITIONS CAUSE FREIHGT EMBARGO Boston, Jan. 22 —Because of weather| conditions and congestion, anemba effective at once, on. eastbound’ car- New Britain.—The salary of Plumb- ing Inspector Quinlivan was tentative- Iy set at $2,800 a year, with 1o allow- ance for transportation, at the council ' meeting last week. Gives Causes of Hgh Cost Living Chairman Colver of Federal Trade Commission Blames Great Packing Concerns and Excess Profit Tax. Newark, N. J, Jan, 22— The high cost of living since 1915 has been due largely to the five great packing con- cerns, whose profits from 1915 to 1917 as compared with $39,000,000 for the three preceding years, Willam . Colyer, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, declared in an address read by Robert R. Kane. of counsel for the commission, before the Atlan- tic Coast Conference of the National Conmumers’ League here today. Mr. Colver was unable to attend. “Building up huge surpluses out of undue profits,” Mr. Colver's statement said, “these concerns sought invest- ments in unrelated lines.” “The excess profits tax is another corner stone in our structure of un- healthy prices” the statement con- tinued. "“Tt incurs operation and carelessness in husiness management. Any excuse for the ex- cess profits tax, if one existed, has disappeared.” A represenfative of Swift and Com- pany of Chicago, later read. a tele- gram from Mr. Swift in which he de- nied that the packers had been re- sponsible for increasing the cost of living and declared that Mr. Colver's statement showed “another disregard of facts” It was asserted gthat the price of meat had risen only 55 per cent since 1913, while the average food increase had been 193 per cent. LABOR MEN TRY TO BLOCK ANTI-SEDITION MEASURES ‘Washington, Jan. —Opponents of anti-sedition measures, led by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, today urged the house rules committee to block the passage of the measures because of their drastic provisions and because sufficient laws now exist to prosecute dangerous radicals and communists: /Attorney General Palmer, who pre- vlously had announced his support of both the Sterling bill, which passed the senate, and the Graham measure, which has been held up in the house because of the drastic death penalty provision, failed to appear in defence of the measures. The attorney gener- al, however, sent a letter to Chairman Campbell of the rules committee stat- ing he was “impelled to say that neither of the bills accords with my views as to what the legislation ‘ought to be.” and recommended as a substi: tute a bill which he drafted last No- vember and which was introduced sev- eral weeks ago by Representative Davey, democrat, Ohio. The Davey bill provides fines not exceeding $10,- 000 and imprisonment for not more than twenty year$’ for persons con- victed of an attempt to overthrow the government or. of .acts of violenge against the government. The measure 8173, would prohibit writings or teach- ings which constitute sedition. “The départment of iustice is ready, Mr., Palmer informed the committee, to enforce whatever legislation con- gress should see fit to pass. Mr. Gompers appearing as_the spokesman for the American Federa- tion of Labor, denounced the pending bills in unqualified terms. Mass meet- ings, with the orderly purpose to strike to improve living conditions, would be suppressed under the bills, assertell the labor chieftain, adding that strikes and cessations of- labor are nothing more or less than aspira- tions of working people to improve their conditions. “I.do not believe this species of leg- islation will stifie the things it is sup- posed to do,” Gompers asserted, “but rather it will provoke the opposite. It will tie men to their jobs.” | Fvans, president of the Year- 1y Meeting Society of Friends of Phil- adelphia, said it was impossible_to separate freedom of speech and fhe freedom of relizion. He advocafed an appeal to the public spirited people of | this country in an effort to put down those who would overthrow the gov- ernment rather than utilization of drastic laws. WATER SUPPLY FOR ATHENS FROM MOUNT PARNASSUS Yew York, Jan. 22—A plan for sup- plying Athens, Greece, with from the springs of Mount Parnassus, was described by Thaddeus Merriman, deputy chief engineer of the New York city board of water supply, who ar- rived today on hoard the Cunard liner Pannonia_from Piraeus. Mr. Merriman Went to Greece last August to consider the -engineering_project, which is now before the Gre®k government. The plant would cost approximately $40.- 000,000 and woulds take about four. years to complete, The mountain, on the slopes of which there ‘are springs to assure a plentiful supply of wa- ter, is thirty miles from the city. SALE OF REMINGTON PLANT FOR NEARIL $10,000,000 Bridgeport, Jan. 22.—Large manu- facturing interests whose names are kept secret, have purchased the Remington Arms Rifle plant and Rem- ington city, through three holding cor- porations of which New York lawyers are incorporators, it was |learned to- daay. “Fhe sale of the Remington plant, built early in the war, for nearly $10,- 000,000, and Remington City, with its 600’ homes for workmen, erected at a cost in excess of $2,000,000, was con- firmed today by Chauncey B. Carver, one of the incorporators, who was in- terviewed at his New York office: BOSTON BQUND EXPRESS COLLIDES WITH FREIGHT Pawtucket, R. I, Jan. 22. The New York, New Haven and Hartford express from New York, dut in Bos- ton at 1.40 p. m. ran into the rear cnd of a’freight train near the Tin Bridge today. Two cars of the freight train were knocked off the track and two persons were slightly injiired. The ex- press resumed. its journey after m short delay. AUSTRIA HAS FREED ALL HUNGARIAN COMMUNISTS Vienna, Wednesday, Jan. 21.—The government has freed all the Hungari- an communists interned at Karlstein except Bela Kun the- former - com- munist _ dictator; Joseph Pogany’ for- ‘mer minister of war and Deputy Bela Rukoczy. ' The government explains that the minister of justice has issued load freight for delivery to the Central New England Railroad or the New: York, New Haven and Hartford at Campbell Hall, or Maybrook, N. Y., was announced tonight at the offices of the railroad administratiop YE o warrants for arrests and: filed no charges against Minister = Eldersch. Potice President Schober today ‘went to Karlstein to investigate charges of inclusive, were more than $129,000,000, | extravagance of |, Telegrams City_Controller Charles L. Craig, of New York, is reported ill at his home. General Pershing, while visiting Se- | attle, declared he was not a candidate for the presidency. Supreme Council decided the new conference of Ambassadors will be in- augurated next Monday. Secretary Bal viding for the appointment of General Pershing as Chicf of Staff. ‘In a railway collision outside Schneidemuhi, . Prussia, - 1S _passengers were killed and 20 injured. Army reorganization bill drafted by, the Senate Military sub-committee was indorsed by Secretary Baker. Smith P. Glover, former State Sen- ator from Newton, Conn., is dead at his home at Sandy Hook, aged 82. Federal Woman_ Suffrage Amend- ment was rejected by the Lower House of the @Ml Jeeisiature. John M. Parka, of New Orleans, on the face of incomplete returns, was nominated for Governor of Louisiana. n cl s cf n: di a Federal reserve board is drafting regulations to govern operations un- derder the Edge foreign trade financ- ing act. Arthur P. Davis, of Washington, wgs elected president of the Ameri- can Society of Civil Eagineers in New York. I Former German freight and passen- ger steamship tonnage lead in the she by the Shipping Board offered to do- mestic_interests. A resolution supporting’ claims of Greece to Thracian territory was re- ported by the Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee. Unanimous authorization was giv- en the Belgian government to make a loan of 5,000,000,000 francs by the Chamber of Deputie: In a report from Angram it is said direct telegraphic communication had been established between Soviet Rus- sta and the Bulgarian bolsheviki. Cost’ of living teok a slight drop in New York with the announcement that all grades of milk would be re- duced 1 cent a quart, beginning Feb- ruary 1. Lumber cut in New Brunswick, Canada, is expected to constitute a|' record. Reports from 42 forest rang- ers estimate total will reach 325,000,- 000 feet. Word was received in Boston that the” steamship Buffalo Bridge, from Lisbon for New York, and the Wakulla were still in need of assistance 500 miles off Ambrose Channel Light. Louis F. Loihle. of Newark, dealer in gold, silver and second-hand goods, was found. guilty oi. receiving $30,000 rth ‘of refined ‘gold stolen from the ‘Balbach Smelting' &' Refining Co, ' g me— Former Gefman emperor plans te} rravh- thmnnrorily o the .estate Of Count Bentinek, at the Castle Zuilen- o i’ n -ods threaten dikes protecting the pr esent home. W. L. Douglas Shoe Co. filed cer- tificates with the Commissioner of Corporations, Boston, showing an in- crease in common stock from 10,000 to 45,000 shares at $100 par value. Milla D. Shonts, widow of the late Theodore P. Shonts, filed in the Coun- ty Clerk's office summons and com- plaint in a suit for $1,000,000 damages, in which Armanda C. Thomas is nam- ed’ defendant. A boarg of officers appointed to ex- amine the accounts of Lieut. C. F. Bennett, naval disbursing officer in charge of accounts of officers on duty in_ Washington, reported Bennett's shortage was $75,000. House ways and means committee was told food relief in Europe can be furnished only through the United States government establishing credits for Buropeon countries to buy sup- plies in this country. = Under a bill introduced by Senator James L. Whitely of Rochester, Thanksgiving Day would be observed Nov. 11 (Armistice Day) instead of being fixed on a date appointed by president or governor. ‘Nearly all the powers of Europe, America and_Asia, including the new states created by the Versailles treat: refiresented at a banquet i %f foreien dinlomats at the Palace of Madrid. were honor 1 Military force with machine guns cecupled the Central Railway Station i® Rome on brder of the Minister of Transportation. Northern and central Italy are in the grip of a railroad strike, but southern Italy is little af- fected. i CALL FOR FOOD FOR THE , NEEDY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES New York,, Jan. .22.—The Tederal Council of the Churches of Christ in America today appealed to congress| and the house ways and means com- | mittee particularly, to act promptly in providing. food relief for the “starv- ing_countries of Europe.” Favprable action_on proposals to get fdod to needy European countries, “especially Poland, Austria, Hungary and Armenia,” was urged in resolu- tions adopteq by the administrative committee of the ¢ouncil. Transpor- tation difficulties, partial crop failures| and. delays in 're-establishment of economic’ interchange in Europe and| the Caucasus, are the causes contrib- uting to a serious condition of food| shortage, it was said, | ATTACKS ON THE “PORKLESS” RIVER AND HARBOR BILL Wshington, Jan. 22—All attacks on the “porkiess” rivers and harbors ap- proprigtion_bill failed today in the house and after Tnumerous amend- ments had been fejected the measure was passed with its appropriation of | $12,400,000 for maintenance and con- | tinuance of work on projécts under | way. The vote on passage of the hill! which carried the smallest appropria- tion of any measure of its kind in yeasr was 167 to 2! Previous to the final vote effort was made to récommit the measure with instruction to specify numerous river and h: r improvements, scattered throughout the country, but this move was defeated, 207 to 116. Likewise, the house refused to appropriate $11,000.- il treatment against the Hungarian prisoners. 000 ‘for work on the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri rivers, as well as for numerous smafler projects,,. Rathom, pavy were malicious and Rathom said in part: terest whatever in tite men who have been accused by the navy department. any way concerned in their guilt or innocence, In presenting these charges we have, only one aim in view—the maintenance of honarable and decent conditions in the United States navy and of its morale, the protection of tens of thousands of honorable officers and cnlisted men in the mavy, and the punishment of the brute beasts re- sponsible for the present conditions and of those who have permitted such conditions to exist. charges RAILROADS RETURNING eastern region h return to normal operating conditions since the armistice and there has been a continued growth in export freight business, according to the annual re- port of A. T. Hardin, regional direc- tor, to Walker D. Hines, director gen- eral of railreads, which was | operate the American boats under the | members of the wool firm of English Are to Be Presented to the Senate Committee by John Rathom, Editor of the Providence Journal— To Sub- stantiate Statement Charging Immoral Conditions in the Pages of Official Testimony and the Names of 35 Wit- nesses. . Providence. R. I, Jam. 22—Tahn R.|vicious, dishonest and dishonorable Providence | attack is absolutely false in Journal. replied tonight to the state- | speet, and we stand by the ment of Franklin D. Roosuveit, Which the assistant secretary of the editor of the in avy asserted that Mr: Rathom's harges of immoral conditions in the false. Mr. “We are about to present to the enate committee a list_of seven spe- ific charges against 3 Micials of the avy department backed up by hun- reds of pages.of official testimony nd the names of thirty-five witnesses, “The Providence Journal has nd in- t knows none of them and is not in “Mr. Roosevelt’s statement that our constitute & maliclously TO NORMAL CONDITIONS Railroads of the shown a gradual New York, Jan. made public ténight. Since March there has been a steady increase in_freight busines{ which decreased ‘sharply after the shipping of war materials ceased, but all of the roads have been in a position to handie more traffic than has been offered, the report says. Passenger-traffic has been heavy. : Not a little of the increased passen- ger business was caused by lack of housing facilities in the big cities of the east ‘which has driven more peo- ple than ever before into seeking homes in the suburbs. In export freights, the, eastern re- gion ‘railrodds handléd ‘more than twice as much ‘traffic 48 during 1913 or+1914, the report said, and 7.2 per. cent. ‘fmore than (n -the.record year of 1918. Freight delivered to New York during 1919 reached a. total of 7,866, 582 tons as compared with 7, 340.694 tons & the preceding year. Thecampaigr® for fuel economy, the report says, saved about $9.200,000 for the eastern region lines and an addi- tional saving of $7,955,000 has been made by consolidating operations at various terminal points. Another sav- ing of $228,000 in printing alone re- sulted from consolidation of the tariXfs of the virious carriers. Freight claims are being _adjusted more rapidly than hitherto, it is stat- ed. The roads pai dout $36,000,000 in 1919 on account of loss and damag- age. FOR PRIVATE OPERATION OF AMERICAN. MERCHANT MARINE Washington, Jan. 22.—Private oper- ation of the American merchant ma- rine under the supervision of the ship- ping board was urged by A. F. Haines, vice president and general manager of the Pacific Steamship Company, at the senate commerce committee hear- ing today on permanent shipping leg- islation, Sale fo private operators of the gov- errment fleet was recommended by Mr. Haines, who proposed creation of a federal merchant marine corporation as a_selling agency. It would have au- thority to issue $3,000,000,000 of five per cent. bonds as a means of selling the vessels on long time credxgs. “It is impossible for Americans to erican flag without some federal g “It is doubt- money is absorb’ the easy pay- said Mr. Haines. ful whether fficient available for citizens to fleet xcept on long time, ments.” Under his plan, Mr. Haines said, the government would have assurance that all of its vessels would remain under the American fla; PAY $1,600,000 TO SETTLE IN COME TAX CLAIM illiam A. Eng- O'Brien, who asi Boston, Jan. lish and John H. and tenced on months in spiracy to were sen- to eighteen O'Brien of this_city, July 31, 1918 the Greenfield jail for con-} defraud the government inl connection with ‘the payment of in- come taxes, have paid the government $1,600,000 in settlement of the claims of the internal revenue department against them, it was anpounced to- night by United States District Attor- ney Thomas J. Boynton. Mr. Boynton added that a civil suit which was brought against the, two| men for $3,000,000 in connection with | their deliuquency soon after they were sent to Greenfield was to be with- draavn. Both have made application for parole, to which they will be clig- ible in another week when they will have served one-third their sentences. The taxes due amounted to $1,373,000, according to government figures, and to’ this was added a fine of 100 per cent. MISSION FRO MRUSSIA COMING TO AMERICA Novorossivsk Saturday Jan. 10— (Russian_Telegraph Agency). A spe- ial mission from southern® Russ:a, headed by the Under Secretary of the Interior, P. P. Cronsky. will leave for America soon. The special task of the mission will be to establish po- litical relations « with the United States, The mission will ‘also &k up the work " of re-establishing economic re- lations between southern Russia and TO INVESTIGATE NAVAL ¥ “evidenco and witnesses were are ready to pro- duce to prove charge we have made. the truth of every “When Mr. Roosevelt suggésted in his statement that the department of ustice was responsible for Mr. Kent's second trial he fails to state that the matter was put up to the department of justice by the navy department. He #peaks of Mr. Kent's trial being over only ten days ago, entirely ignoring the fact that the methods spoken of were known to him _and Secretary: Daniels long before Mr. Kent's trial began.” CONDITIENS AT NEWPORT' Newport, R: L, Jan. 2 ~—The naval board of inquiry which was appointed! by the navy department to investigate naval conditions here convened at the training station today with ‘Rear Ad- miral Herbert O. Dunn, commandant of the First naval district, presiding. The sessions. it was announced, will be secret. Today's meeting was de- voted to organization. ( L R. T. BOOKS SHOW SURPLUS OF $10,000,000 TO -$12,000,000 New York, Jan. 22.—The books of the Interborough Rapid Transit Com- pany now show a surplus of hetween $10,000,000 and $12,000,000 despite the fact that it lost abeut $8,000,000 in operating its subway and _elevated systems during the war, Edward F. Gaynor, its auditor, testified today be- fore the board of estimate during its investigation of the New York trac- tion situation and the need of a high- er fare. It was explained, however, that the surplus is not cash but mon- ey invested in traction lines in the borough of Queens, Gaynor asserted that the subway had_netted the Interborough $65,068= 41452 in revenues in the sixteen yearg and the earnings of its elevat- ed lines increased the met profits to $75,895.972.83. James L. Quackenbush, counsel for the Interborough, explained to Mayor Hylan that the Interborough-Metro- politan Company and the Finance and Holding Corporation were the arents: of the present Interborough - Consoli- /dated Corperation which ~holds - the: stock of the Imterborough Rapid Tran-. sit Company and New York Railways Company and the Tinance and Hold— ing Corporation. “Mother and father now are both dead,” he said, “and thig offspring is sick, sore, lame, disabled and in the hands of the trustees in. bankruptey.” MEETING IN BEHALF OF | ARMENIA CANCELLED New York, Jan. 22-—A niass meeting' which was to have been held at Car- negie hall tomorrow evening to urge the administration to take steps 1o prevent the powers from cutting up Armenia, has been cancelled at the request of officials in Washington,"if was stated today. Announcement the cancellation by the American committee for the independence o Armenia, of which James W. is_chairman, said: “Mr. Gerard intimated that semi= official information received at the ofs fices of thé committee had suggested the advisability of cancelling the pro< posed meeting subject to further de velopments.” Mr. Gerard declined to discuss wha had asked that the meeting be call« eq off and declared he did not know the reason for the request. % “I did not want to embarrass may now be in progress” he said. government in any negotiations ADVANCE IN DISCOUNT RATES ANNOUNCED New York, Jan. 22—A general ad« vance in discount rates on commer- cial paper, Liberty bonds, Victory notes and bank acceptances was an- nounced by the New York federal re< serve bank_late today. The incréases are: On commercial paper, for advances not exceeding 15 d: for re-discount, from 4 3-4 to 6 per cent. Ol Liberty bonds anu Victory notes, for advances not exceeding 15 da: or for re-discount of notes mot ex- ceeding 90 days, from 4 3-4 to 5 1-2 per cent. * On bankers' acceptances, for ad- vances not exceeding 15 days and for re-discounts not exceeding 90 days, from 4 5-4 to 5 per cent. The rate on United States treasury | certificates of indebtedness .not ex- ceeding 90 days, remains at 4 3-4 per cent. TWO U. S. SOLDIERS KILLED IN CLASH WITH RUSSIANS ‘Washington, Jan. 22.—Two Ameri- can soldiers weré killed and one se- verely wounded in the clash with a enoff’s forces on January 10 near Posolsakaya, while five' Russians were killed, one wounded and fifty-five cap- tured, including one general and six other officers who still are held. In reporting the clash to the war de- partment today. Majon eneral Graves, commianding the American expedition in Siberia, said the Russians, in an armored ear, le.an unprovoked at- tack on the Americans who were in & similar cars The Russian attack was repulsed and the Americans then.cap- tured the car and its occupants. General Graves said he believed the incident could be peacefully adjusted with General Semenoff, “who could not have been responsibie.” TROUBLE WITH ARMED , NEGROES AT DUMAS, ARK. Dumas, Ark, Jan. 22.—A civilian posse from Dumas, preceding Cam; Pike' troops to the scene of mter? America in respect to export and ime port. The members of the mission will be - specialists ~thoroughly ac- quainted with economie, nd political military, R and a deputy sheriff - this afternoon captured John Welch and Frank Kib- bel, two of : and a: Kibbel "t Wl Kipee Russian _detachment of eneral Sem- - adidi day's trouble between armed negroes