Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 31, 1920, Page 1

e NORWICH “CONN., SATURDAY JANUARY 31, 1920 Efforts to Break the Deadlock by Unofficial Bi-Partisan Nego- tiations Have Ended in Failure—Democratic Leaders Are Preparing to Bring the Treaty Back Into the Open Sen- ate—Hitchcock Intends to Move on February 10 to Take Up the Treaty For Ratification—Senator Lodge. Refused to Accept the Taft Democrats. Washinzton, Jan. 30.—Bfforts b suddenty ratic senate rations to & the, open sei Uver the leaders began te for consideration. the bi-partisan moveweni, after bring- ing gether on Jy ms t disaster. The end written' by and presented to the bi ;n committee by Walki ihe announcement that further » were usel the drafted plans to the fight nen. The pasty leader, Senator Hitchcock braska, announced that be given in the senate tomorrow intention to move on February take un the treaty for Opinion was divi as n_would prevail Senator to k the peace treaty deadlock by un- official bi-partisan negotiation ended failure today and demo- prepa- % the trealy back into ong-dedated Article Ten republicans and democrats to- many collaterial issues,-fin- came enator Lodge of Massachusetts, an leader, had renewed his to compromise on that article d rejected a reservation on the Former President partisan the demo- out of the conference with delib- notice would ratification. to whether Hitcheock ex- Reservation When Presented by the sume any legal or binding obligation to preserve the territorial integrity or the provisions of article ten or to em- ploy the military or naval forces of the United States under any article of the treaty for any purpose;- but the congress, which under the consti- tution has the sole power in the prem- ises will consider agd decide what moral obligation, if ‘any, undér the circumstances of any particular case, when_ it arises, should move the Unit: ed States in the interest of world peace and justice, to take action therein, and will provide accordingly.” The ‘move of the democrats in championing this resaevation came as a surprise. the leaders on both sides having indicated before hand that any decision on Article Ten probabiy would be put over until next week. In rejecting _the proposed substitute Senator Lodge reiterated his . an- nouncement that no change at all wouid be considered in the Article ‘Ten reservation drafted by the re- publitans at the last session of con- gress. The conference then broke up in less than an hour after it had be- gun, by Senator Hitehcock in announcing the negotiations were at an end: propose. he said, that thel “We presented the Taft reservation ose reservations on|on Arficle Ten as our proposition. ‘which agreement had been; There was some conservation as to its reached in the committee and then| cxact meaning. We urged them to ac- fizd @ifferences over the others.| cept it, or take a few davs to decide. P Mr. lishment. given however. Tentative agreement, Hitcheock said, had been reached by weive of the fourt he on! vatio ne. Senator mated. The text of the Taft reservation as the democrats, is as fol- ngesented by iows: “The United States declines to as- HELD FOR MURDER OF SERGT. FRANK H. KING. Now_York, Jan. 3 corps, was indictad by gtand fury n Brook s sleep at Fort Totten March. TI murder which the civil 10 solve. Barry Jackson, S. C here for trial im the federal King had been entrusted with siderable sums of money rades and robbery is held been the moffve for the murder. widow and £aimM e in N T, a my wa: and CAPITAL STOCK OF THE NEW YORK HERALD-SUN IS '$5,000 Albagy, N. Y. Tierald’ n. 30.—The Corporation of ed articles 6f incorporation wi reary of state today. stock is $5.000. The directors Frank A. Junsey, Erwin ang William T. York. Subscribers to the capital st are Arnold R. Boyd, Thomas R. Hart at by Senator Lodge, | any counter-proposal Georze W. Bar- I¥. a mechanic of the coast artillery a federal 0 today for the murder of Sergeant Frank H. King in last tery authorities undertook | is ndw held at Camp will_be ' brought court. con- v his com- o have His London. Sun- Maphattan, newspaper proprietors and publishers, h the | The ‘capital are Wardman De Wart, all of New could not aceept it. “We then asied them if they had or would make one. Mr. Lodze soid he 1 sug- gested that we try to agree on a way committes on the preamble and| for taking wp the treaty in the ‘sen- een proposed reser- subjects remaining rticle 10 and the Mon- Lodge majn- tained that there were in all Six of the feurteen on which no agreement, even tentative nature, had been con- ate, but Senator Lodge did not.want 2 meeting on that subject. Zoing to nroceed to call it up.” To thi to add. nor bring the treaty before the senate. In tis statement reviewing the occomp- Tshaents of fhe committee, however, he refusing to compromise on Ten and the Monree Doctrine. NOTHING FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG WITH GOVERNMENT ‘Washington, Jan, is nothing fundamentaily ‘wrong. with the government of the United States and there is no need of change in ex-~ isting social standards and economic laws, representatives of seven nation- al-farm organizations declare in a memorial adopted at a conference here vesierday and presented today subscribing to are _the International National Farmers’ National Grange, American ureau Federat.on, National Un.on, American__Cotton Growers' Association, and National Federation of Milk Producers, “The frequent assertion,” the me- ymorial states, “that the war has Dbrought * fundamental economic and industrial changes and that we are born into a new world is without foundation. The same social stand- ards and economic laws will continue 10 prevail.” . In a giscussion of national issues, the memorial declares the farmers are | emphatically opposed to government ownership and operation of railroads the memorial Farm Congr: Congress, Farm rmers’ Jr. and Joseph Diehl Fackenthal, all | policy and the o r. and o 5 principle of so of New York. Americanism.’ % iy s The memorial denounced govern- ,John J. Tavior, of Streator, IiL,|ment price fixing as an intererence gpice wrote 4100 words on the blank | With the law of supply and demand 4 oLx postal cara [ithout artificial | and declares that it was dangerous s The. hat single card | discrimination to compel any group in regular newspaper would fill about two And this er columns. Claims To Have Found }va- petual Calendar CoPvRIAT PRI, FLLATRATING SERVICE. & ¥. Rev. Francesco Scatigna, of italy. who cleims to have found the “per- petual calendar” which has baffied sclentists for centuries. His calen- dar consists of two discs, one super- imposed upon the other, by the tarning of which the correct day, week snd month may be obtained. It his statement is true, it will dis- Prove the prediction of the. great sstronomer Herschel that a per- Ppetual calendar never could be de- vised. vpe, d three-quar- of citizens to sell their products in a regulated market and to buy-- thelr supplies in an unregulated market. The price of indiscriminate strik- ing for trivial ca of distress or damage is indefensible, the memorial says, but the right to cease. work, individually' or coliec- tively, is unassailable, MEXICO TO PERMIT RETURN OF AVIATORS Brownsville, Texts, permission of the Mexican govern- ment, arrangements have been per- fected for the return to the United States of Lieutenants E. F. Davis and G. E. Grimes, American army aviators who were forced by exhaustion of their gasoline supply {o land on Mexican territory Wednesday. Captain W. B. Bradford, assistant district adjutant at Fort Brown, an- neunced today that an automobile with gasoline and o} will be sent from Guerrero, Mexico, where the two avi- Jan. 30—Through ators are stopping at a hotel, to a place thirty miles south of the Rio Grande where their airplane was abandoned. The supplies will be sent across the river from Zapata, Texas, and it is expected the men will fly back to this side probably tomorrow. Arrangements were completed through United States Consul Gilbert Willson at Matamoros, the Mexican town opposite there, RED CROSS WORKERS ARE DUE AT VLADISVOSTOK TODAY Vladivostok, Thursday, Jan. 22— (By The A. P.) Three traing of Red Cross workers, including 100 women, are on their way to Viadivostok, the first’ being due to arrNe tomorrow. The second is now at Harbin and the | third at Chita. All the women per- sonnel_of the. Red Cross will be sent | from Siberia on the earliest *sailing transports. Red Cross’ volunteers are being re- cruited to remain here to direct the distribution to civilian rtfugees of the $3,000,000 worth of gupplies on hand, and also to care for . 900 _children here, whose homes are in Petrograd and who have beert political or any other country under| ‘Wiat happened was described thus of the committee’s work made| But Senator Lodge definitely said he 5 Hitcheock did not cor- respond. with a review of its accomp- could not! Senator | make any counter proposal. So we are Senator Lodge had noting would he indicate what his attitude would be on a motion to t forth at lensth his reasons for Article| on the groung that it is “ageinst good | s and Fegardless | | 1 | “Bordeaux Harbor" Cabled Paragraphs Herr Todsend Not Wanted. Flensberg, Schieswig, Jan. 30—The international -commission for the Schleswig plebiseite area has request- ed Herr Todsend, the burgomaster urder the German re‘fme.x:f quit_the plebiscite region by 6 p. m. on Sat- urday. 3 ENLISTED MEN EXCLUDED FROM THE HIGH AWARDS ‘Washington, Jan. 30.—A ‘ruling by the war depariment specifically ex- cluded enlisted men from distinguish- ed service medal awards, Brizadier General Robert C. Davis, president of the A. E. F. awards board, said today before the house sub-committee which began hearings in its investigation of the army’s distribution of war decora- tions. Suggestions that enlisted men be included, he said, were made from headquarters of they American ex- peditionary forces, but cabled in- structions from the department were that enlisted men were ineligible for such awards and that the Order of Merit, formeriy the equivalent of the medal for enlisted personnel, could not be revived. This ruling prohibited many enlisted men from receiving awards. General Davis said, adding that approximatel 1.200 medals and more than 5,500 Dis. tinguithed Service crosses were awarded by the A, E. F., 4,500 of the crosses to enlisted men, 1,000 officers and 25 to nurses and auxiliary work- ers. Four enlisted men in the services of supply were recommended for a cer- tificate of merit, approved by the war department, he said. Only one general staff ., officer re- ceived’ the distingvished service cross, General Davis stated. adding that Brigadier General Dennis Nolan. tem- porarily in command of a brizade of the 2§th division. was so decorated for hazardous services. NOTABLE PAINTINGS OF FRENCH “INDEPENDANTS” Paris, Jan. 30—The annual salon independant is now in progress at the Grand Palace of the Champs Eiysees, with some six thousand naintings on exhibition and large crc\ds at- tendance. The organization of inde- pendent artists is made up mainly of arists outside the two old organiza- tions long identified with French art, and reépresents some of the more ad- vanced schools of impressionism and cpbism. It is only of late years that the independants” have gained a place in the Grand Palace where the is held. One of the motable pictures of the present exhibition is the “Splendors of the Trench” by Albert Moreau, which connoiseurs believe should find place at the Luxembourg gallery. ‘The Bathing Girls” by Andre Foyor: also attracts marked attention. The Cubists are strongly represented and the sirangeness*and vividness of their designs are the source of much amus- ed comment by the crowds. Other paintings which attract attention are and “A Parisian Bar.” both by Andre L'Hoie; “Made- lom” by Jacqueline Marvel; in. Brittany” &y Punl Signac; mon on the Beach,” hy -Adbert Alix; landscapes by. Viaminck, and werks by Rene Lotiron, = Alfred Lombard, Robert Villard and Albert Gleize. ‘FURTHER OPPOSITION TO ‘Washington, Jan. 30.—The new bill to create a separate department of the ai-rencountered further vigorous upposition in the senate today, Sena- tor Borah, republican, of idahd, lead- ing the attack against the measure on the ground of exiravagance. Urging its passage, Chairman Wadsworth of the military committee asserted that the next great war-jnvolving this country would be ushered in with an air, bat- tle off the coast and warned the sen- ate to prepare against that day. Opposition to the bill, so far as it would separate the army air service from its.status as an -integral part of the army, also was expressed in a letter from Ceneral Pershing, made public ‘during the day by Representa- tive Fisher, democrat, Tennessee. In his a¥ack on the bill, Senator Borah_ took occasion to warn his re publican colleges that ‘the par “special promise” of economy at the last election was not being carried out in congress. 'He aldo referred to the committee on platform and policies appointed: recently by Chairman Hay of the republican national committee as a committee “of 157 varieties,” add- ing that “the gifted zentlemen” who composed it “cannot convince the peo- ple against the record being made here. CELEBRATED ORGANIZATION OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS Paris, Jan. 30.—A public celebration f the orzanization of the League of Nations was held here today in the Scrsonne, presided over by President Poincare, Paul Deschanel, the pre: dent-elect, Leon = Bourgeols, Thomas, Former Premicr Ribot and Andre Honnorat, minister of public instruction, occupled places of hon- or: Tacomntic the development of the idea carried out by the league, M. Bourgeois, wiho was the French mem- ber of the commission Which drafted the League of Nations covenant, said: “President Wilson, by his message and personal efforts, offered the means of realizing this ideal in a great inter- national convention. Whatever defects there. may be in it, the pact of April 28, 1918, has sealed between the free peoples a solemn agreement for the union- of all for the safety and im- portance of all” ** M. Bourgeois, in his address, made a reference to the first meeting of the league on January 16, when, he said, there were found missing only the representatives of the United States of America, “for. the adherence of which in the future we are all waiting and hoping.” M. Thomas pointed to' the interna- tional labor conference as concrete ev- idence of the value of the league's ex- istence. NO QUORUM IN SENATE FOR THIRD SUCCESSIVE DAY Washington, Jan. 30—For the third successive day the senate was un- able to secure 3 quorum today for consideration of the army pay bill and It agaln adjourned near- ly two hours ahead of the usual time. 5| Albert OBITUARY. Colonel Hiram F. (“Hi") Henry. New York, Jan. 30.—Coionel Hiram cared for by|p. (“Hi") Henry, whoseminstrel show Americans since they Were .sent out|toured the country in a special train of Siberia because of the-food scar- city in European Russia, forty years ago, died at his home here today, in his 7T6th year. Jle was a Civil war veteran and was noted as o woman's fice is her fortune—or' a cornet player. He i3 survived by perhaps thé fortune of her duggist. his widow. grand salon of the older organizations | mset || “Wo- | THE DEPARTMENT OF AIR and navy| A Spirit of Unrest | Among Farmers: Government Offcials’ Regard| It as Likely to Disturb the! to disturb ' the existing. structure, is considered by ~ govern- ment officials to be revealed in more than 40,000 replies to a questioffhaire recently sent out by the postoffice de- partment. The replies as ‘thus = far digested were summarized in a report prepared hy GeGze L. Wood, superintendent of the postoffice depantment’s division of rural mails, and read to the senate postoffice committee today by James 1. Blakeslee, fourth assisiant Hostmas- ter general. he views of the 40,000 or more farmers were obtained by the broadcasting of 200,000 copies of a questionnaite throughout the agricui- tural states askinz | for whereby the postoifice {id in cutting down the cost of Hving. 1 i wers to the questionnaires have' becn coming in at the rate of a thou- sand @ day, and as summarized b officials show the major complaints of the farmers in numerical order to be: Inability to obtain labor to work the farms, hired ‘help and the farmers' cafldren ngving been lured to the city Present Economic Condi-| tions. ‘Washington, Jan. of a widesrrend spirit of unrest and dissatisfaction among the farmers of | the “country, so threatening as: likely | economic | sugzestions | deparument | Should Cut Prices | Head of Munson Line De-| 5 ) clares Americans Are Un- able to Compete With For- eign Craft. . Washington, Jan. 30. — Shipping | Beard prxes on vessels built during| and since the war are too high to al- low American operators to compete with foreizn craft, Frank C. Munson, of_ New York, head of the Munson Line, said today before the . senate commerce committee considering mer- cantile marine legislation. 'Prices should be cut from $200 and $225 a| ton to $100 flat, he said, in order to! permit the 190 odd American ship op- erators to get established. His line, he said in answer to questions, would ( buy 25 or 30 carro and combined car- Lzo and passenger vessels at the lower Fprice. Great Britain is sefling government ships at $125 a ton. Mr. Munson: Aaid.l and the resulting difference in capi- | ital coste would make it $200,000 ag vear cheaper to operate a British boat'i {than an American boat in the same trade. i_ About 75 per cent. of the shipping {’board’s, vessels. would he taken at the iproce he recommenged, Mr. Munson | said, if operators were given a time payment plan of purchase. Wooden ['vessels of the board, he said, were not Iy bie and some of the smaller steel z by higher wages and easier li 'vessels were expensive to operate, as As a specialist in his line W. A Baltimore meeting as follows: come the leading advertising medi tional advertisers have been made in the country reads a newspaper tiser the’opportunity of reaching munities every day in the vear.” Jocal fieid. newspapers. readers. indispensable if results are Wunted. columns all for two cents a day ALWAYS FOUND IN THE LEAD “The every Being supreme in the national field it must also be supreme in the Publicity is what boosts business and there is no' way in which closer touch can be maintained with the trade than through the In Norwich and vicinity The Bulletin goes into the homes of the Its circulation reaches over its entire field and it is therefore In the past week the following matter appeared Bullstin Telegraph Local General Total Saturday, January 24 ........ 95 125 368 588 Monday, . January 26 .. 106 244 461 Tuesday, January 27 ..... 97 148 234 459 Wednesday, January 28 ... 112 226 415 *Thursday, January 29 87 342 506 Friday, January 30 ... 9% 330 526 < “Totals” ... 557 T 684 1744 2985 Thomas of New York addressed a ct that newspapers have he- um of the nation hecause na- to understand that nearly everybody day and this gives the adver- ail the people in any and all com- was in The Bulletin's High profits taken by middlemen for the mere handling of food prod- uets; ‘and Lack of proper agencies of contact between the farmer and the ultimate consumer. any of the replies, said one offi- cial who had looked over them, proh- ably as many as 50 per cent., indicate that the writers gontemplate either leaving their farms or curtailing acre- age because of the gr#iwing feeling against non-pr&iucing city dwellers. Commenting tonight on the repl Assistant Postmaster General Blakslee said: the predominant cry is for production and still more production cannot but constitute a grave menace.” Before the senate committee characterized the situation as quieting and portentous of disastrous consequences.’ This opinion was ex- pressed by Mr. Blakslee after a mem- ber of the senate committee had re- he marked that the replies seemed to have come “mostly from a bunch of bolshevists Excerpts from.a number of letters, taken at random from the more than 40,000 already on file at the postoifice | departmen showed the trend of { thoueht amone ot je~=* a considerable | proportion of the farmers of New sl guatint, Lioo. dedll, wesoTn states, | Georgia, and the eastern agricultural section. “The time is very near” wrote a farmer at East Chatham, N. Y. ‘when we farmers will have to curtail pro- duction and raise only what we need for our own use and let the other fel- {lows look out for themselves. Labor { unions are more to blame for the high than anyone else. People are to get pay for what they don't earn.” Declaring that the whole onus o higla cost of living rests with the dleman, a Missouri producer advo ed the establishment of markets to be served by parcel post direct. “I sell butter to the dealer for 45 cents a pound,” -his letter said, “and the same butter sells to the consumer for S0 cents a pound. In the distribu- tion we lose nearly half and we lose money on the butter &t the first price. Such conditions are causing the farm- ers to leave the farm by the thou- sands. Declaring that he works a 240 acre farm without felp 74 that hupdreds of other farmers are doing the same, a Revere, Mo., man declared that “the place to start to lower the cost of liv- ing is to cut the wages in the city, which have called our farm help there. We need them on the farm fo help incaease ‘production, and then we can cut the cost of living.” His return for last year averaged one dollar ‘a day for himself, a White Water, Mo, man said. “I hope soon to see the farmer and consumer going hand in hand. If not, then I am quit- ting, for ome. Work fourteen hours a day for $1 and let the middleman get the biggest part of it? Not me.” The tendency away from the farm to ghe city was blamed by another middle western farmer for the high cost of living. “I dtfibute it a great deal wrote, “to the good times in the cit- ies. The young men can go to the | city and get big pay for eight hours work, while farmers have to work 14 to 16 hours a day at fiard manual la- bo; B Declaring that while the farmer has to take what the commission man and retailer will pay him for his produet, uch a condition at 2 time when | “dis- | were those of the larger types which were hastily and carelessly turned out during the war. Criticising the policy of the ship- pin gboard In' keeping vessels and op- erating them at a profit, Mr. Munson i Private operation, he said, would re- {sult in greater profits than made by the board. Munson also asked the committee to consider tne plight of the 130 or more ship yards in the United States which would ‘face bankruptcy”, he put it, when government contricts expired. 1f vrivate ownership was allowed to get established now, he sail, the yards would be kept busy in building spe- cial types of ships to round out the existing merchant marine. Chere is a shortage of the express type of combination passenger and freight boats,” he said, “ i the far eastern trade. will develop greatly in my judgement, ! during the mext few years if Amer- icans establish lines out of Pacific | ports and compete with the Japanese.” FINED FOR RUNNING A POOLROOM IN EAST DERBY Derby, Conn., Jan. 30—John A. Mc- Kee of New Haven, arrested Thurs- day on the charge of gistributing in- | formation to be used for gambling | purposes, following the rail on a pooircom in East Derby, was heavily tineq in the city court this afternoon by Judge A. C. Baldwin. McKee was arraigned on four counts. He was fined $200 on each of two counts, $100 on the third, and was sentenced to sixty days in jail on the fourth, but the jail sentence was suspended by the court. 'The fines were paid. i MEXICO REVOKES PERMITS OF BROWNSVILLE MEN Brownsville, Texas, Jan. 30.—Sev- eral’ prominent Brownsville ~citizens who testified before the senate sub- committee investigating Mexican con- ditions” have been informed that their permits to enter Mexico have been revoked, it was learned today. Mex- ican Vice Consul R G. Dominques declared he was acting on instructions from Mexico City. OBJECTS OF LABOR AND LEGION ARE IDENTICAL Phoenix, Ariz, Jan. 30.—The aims and objects or organized labor and of the American Legion are identical, General Pershing declared in an ad- dress here today, “and these two or- ganizations 'should go hand in ‘hand toward progress and common under- standing among the different classes of people in America.” HARTFORD UNION MASONS DEMAND $1.12 1-2 AN HOUR Hartford, Jan. 30.—Demand for an hourly wage of §1.12 '1-2 beginning May 1, was made upon employers by unionized ‘masons, brick lavers and plasterers of Hartford today. They are now receiving $1.00 an hour for an eight hour day. Within the past ten days carpenters, painters ‘and plumbers have present- ed demands for $1.00 anr hour, ef- fective May 1. a day. City labor works six to elght be is compelled to pay whatéver - the dealer, asks for is. clothes, farm-ma- chinery and other necessities, another farmer said: “Farmers work from 12 to 1§ hours hours a day. The city man makes “two or ‘three ‘times-as. much as ° the i United States in i level on the Swiss exchange when 10 { to be recomstructed | g0 to South America, §200.000 to Mex- ! | declared that the money was being used to make the costs of the war constructed vessels appear - lower. |' Condensed ___T elegrams eatre announced it had & Aty room for women < opened a smol a cost of $19,000. 5 3 rted from Canada to the bpgher ovember and De- bushels. cember totaled 1448877 Gorman mark reached a new low 0} marks sold for § francs, 50 centimes. | Gold amounting to $3,000,000 arrived ! on the steamship Rotterdam. It was| consigned to the Guaranty Trust Co. An agreement on all points at is- sue was reached between the ltaliany cabinet and leaders of rallway stri ers, sl | Paris quoted the American dalllr! at 13 francs 19‘ cents, compared with previous ‘close 'of 13 francs, 40 1-2 Centts. Lieutenant Vanderbilt Eekhout was| fatally injured while flying over the naval aviation station at Guantana- mo Bay. : Bar silver touched a new high re-| cord in London, when it sold for $5d. an ounce compared with §1.35 1-2 i New York. For economic and hygienic reasons the police of Paris have forbidden the| throwing of confetti, during the com- ing pre-lenten season. § A jitney bus was overturned at the! corner of the Boulevard and avenue, Jersey City, and sengers were injured. five pas-| Republ General Wood reportinz New Jerse leaders favored Wood. { Three out of every four aliens ar-' rested in anti-radical raids already | haye obtained counsel and are making | a fight against deportation. A joint resolution declaring L coin's birthday a nat al holiday introduced by Senator Sherm referred to the judiciary comn st Lawrence danal facilities are if the esent plan goes through, so as to make the locks equal to those of the .Welland Canal. | | i i Withdrawal of gold coin amounting to $424 000, was announced by the sub-} treasury. Of this amount $200,000 will} ico and §24,000 to Canada. Production of anthracite. in Penn-| sylvania in 1919 was the lowest in seven years, amounting to only $6,200,. 000 tons. Bituminous production amounted to 438.083,000 tons. \‘ Harry S. New was sentenced to an | indeterminate term of from ten years| to life imprisonment ir San Quentin, Cal., penitentiary for the murder of his sweetheart Frieda Lesser. Lawrence Washington, great nephew of (George Washington, is _dead at ‘Washington, of influenza. = He was born at Mount Vernon and employed- at the Congressional Library. Landing , floats and other fa- cilities are being sought in Juneau, Ketchikan and other —southeastern | Alaskan cities, for seaplanes, repre- | senting Seattle and southern Alaska. A bolsheviki report says the Rus- sian soviet cavalry, commanded by General Dumenko forced the rivers in the Manych Valley in the lower Don| region'and captured 5,000 prisoners British occupational troops number- ing about 750, arrived at Ilensbous, Schleswig-Holstein, being warmiy wel- comed by a Krench guard of honor and deputation representing Denmark. | Governor Milliken and Attorney General Sturgis. of Maine, will attend | a conference of governors of several | states with Charles E. Hughes at New | York to open a fight against prohibi- tion, The three men arrested on the charge of robbing the paymaster of. the Sigmund Eisner Cloth Manufact- uring Company of Red Bank, N. I, of $18,000, sentenced to terms from 12 to 18 years. Admiral Kolchak’s surrender to Si- berian revolutionists was authorized by General Janin of the Czech army who' was placed in command of the Allied troops west of Irkutsk, on Jan. 19 by Kolckak's army. Lieutenants E. F. Davis and G. E. Grimes, American army aviators, who were forced to land near Guerrero, Mexico, are. not molested by - the Mexicans and will probably fly to American territory soon. < A number of independent steel com- panies operating in the Pittsburgh district and the Youngstown. Ohio region, announced ten per cent. wage advances for laborers and adjustment in rates paid other employe: R. Wallace and Sons. silverware ! manufacturers, Wallinzfor® Conn, announced an increase in wages of 10 per cent..on all hour and bpiece work. Over a thousand employes| will. recelve the benefit of the in- crease. : I the I. R. T. had paid a 7 per cent. dividend to its stockholders from -1903 [ to 1919, the rate it paid to the Man- hattan Railroad Elevated - Line. the company would have a surplus of $49.- 872,070, it was shown at the traction hearing before the Board of Estimate. General von Gonland, adjutant to the former German emperor, said the widely printed letter purporting to have been sent by Count Hohenzollern from Amerongen to Prince Furstes berg at. The Hague, declaring he ad no desire to return to Germany, as he felt he had been fraud. TEN GIRLS INJURED | IN A BOB SLED CONTEST. Huntington, N. Y. Jan. 30.—Ten girls were injured today at the con- ests of the Huntington Bob Sled as- sociation when the Grevhound, a_sled owtied and piloted by Thomas Hag- gerty,' which was carrving 20 giils, struek a' rut and turned over. Eight of the’ injured were taken To the Huntington hospital. None of them is expected to die. 693 INFLUENZA CASES REPORTED IN THE STATE Hartford, Jan. 30.—The number of new cases of influenza reported to- day to-the state department of health by town heaith officers was 693. The reports of: cases \according to towns were as follows: Bridgeport. 85:, Dan- bury, ,2%; Greenwich, 39: Stamford, decetved, was a farmer. - The farmer labors and pro- “duces but gets a smaller return than any other class, 21; ./orwich, 28; New Haven, 39 Waterbury 179: Hartford, 133; New Britain, ¢6; scattering S1, | states of iSurope wag a story begun Audubon | | an State Chairman Stokes| of New Jersey, sent a telegram to| | to rea 15 QUIZZED Martens Narrates Tale of How Couriers of Soviet rying Funds to Finance Its Propaganda in e the Gauntlet of Death and lmgmonm;:n in S of Eusope—Became Evasive n Presse " ing States Senators Brandegee and Names of the Couriers. ‘Washington, Jan. 0.—How fhe couriers of Soviet Russia, carrying funds to finance its' propaganda in America’ ran the gaurtlet of death and imprisonment in the surrounding but abandoned half-told today by Ludwig C. A Martens, Soviet agent in the United States, before the senate foreign® relations sub-commit- gating Russian propagan- Martens flatly declined to answer furiher questions put him by . the committee on the subject of the cour= lers ang left it to consider whether or not his pled of “diplomatic im- munity” from further examination | Should be allowed, wh.le he went on lo recount his personal activities in endeavoring to get his government | recognized by the state department, 1 in placing provisiohal contracts $25,000,000 worth of food, clothing machinery with American busi houses. This latter efiort, he d, had resulted in placing two.or three letters before President Wiison urging revognition, though the’ state @epartment has remained firm in its refusal to recognize him in any way. Out of twenty of the mysterious messengers who started durng the with fonds and | Martens stten and nternational 1d been shot summ iree that 1 know said casually. Of L through Germ: nine autns and jailed. The an h him however, carried $30,900 { Soviet ambas- tes. The cour- ten who and his credenti; sador to the United S $150,000 had come to him. through th any of the money had not been ® advised. . Altogether, ! underground route, and 2lso an in= struction, so he’gaid, not - to ney “on politics or the oyt pt mcernal factio ties in the United States. A list of contracts for §00ds ed into by Martens was submitted® the committee with _the. expl fhat the- firms mamed had agreed fto furnish the goods only upon condition | that they were given licenses by the state department to export the proc: ducts to- Soviet. Russia. -The largest contract cited was for §4300,000 worth of printing presses. to be fur nished by the Lehigh Machine Com= pany of Lehighton, Pa. Only $10,000 had been paid on the contracts, Martens d, and none of the goods had bLeen shipped. “You depended on the relations opened with American business con- cerns to help you get 'recognition?” Chairman Mosés dsked. ; “Yes; Martens teplied, adding he knew of many letiers. and. sentations’ made Ly Americans frient 1y to the Soviet government (0 Amer- jcan ofiicals and speaking .partici- larly of “at least two’ which went 0 President Wilson from individuals who, he- intmated, would likely se- cure a hearing. ;! This was Mart ance before the committee examination will be resumed at the next session which will be called by Chairfnan Moses after Wade H. Bilis attorney employed to conduct the in- vestigation, bas recovered from Mis. illness. At the outset of day Former Senator Hardwick, of | Georgia, ccunsel for the “gmibissa- enter. gk that | the_hearing to- lanation 1 fers, carried money in the form of dor.” told’the committec that Martens ndinavian eur- | d, ang had various | Finnish would present irue copies of all com- munications between himself and the ports. Here he began | enator Moses of ampshire, chairman of the and Senator Brandegee, | were prodding| him on with questions as to messengers’ routes and methods of travel and dis- su 3 eties of 1 to de, thou; New I committee, decline to answer,” he stated fi- ¢ when asked to name one of the couriers, and repeated his words quietly when the topic was ' pushed further. ~He, 100, had sent couriers, he admitted, but of their fortunes Soviet government, but that it was desired that some of the letters be considered in executive session as it mignt involve the safety of persons who have kept open the lines of com- munication between Martens and his government. Before the committee contindes the ' inquiry it- will . decide -~ whether <to grant the request fo rgn s tive session and @ilso. whether it will ‘re- = quite Martens 1o give the ‘names-of the couriers carrying communicationg Detween himself and his;government, CREDITS- OF TO SOME EUROPEAN NATIONS Washington, ~_Jan. 30 —Republican cun mempers of the house ways and means committee in conference late today informally agreed o favor leg- islation authorizing the treasury to extend additional credits of $50,000,000 to certain European countries for food relief. The specific countries to benefit by the food credits will be decided upon | at a later meeting of the majority | members of the committee. Poland,| Armenin and Austria were included | in the original proposal of Secretary Glass, since supported in a letter | from President Wilson, for credits of} $150,000 000, later reduced to $125,000,- 000 by Mr. Gla After the informal -agreement had| Dbeen reached, Chairman Fordney call- | ed a meeting for tomorrow of the full committee to consider final action. Leading democratic committeemen, in- clading Representative Kitchin, North rolina and Garner, Texas, who were among the first to suggest the $30,- 000,000 as a maximum_ authorization, are counted on by the republican members to support the $50,.000,000 loan which also has approval of some! members o the republican steering committee. The agreement among the republi- can committeemen came after an earlier conference with the _steering committee. Some of the republicans favored a targer sum than $50,000,000 but the majority opinidn seemed to support that amount. 120,000 TONS OF STEEL RAILS COMMANDEERED Washington, Jan. 30.—At the re- quest of the railroad administration, Acting Secretary Crowell of the war Qepartment today signed an order commandeering 120,000 tons of steel rails to be allotted among rail mills on the basis of théir productive ca- pac Compensation in most cases will be decidea later, on the basis of ctual cost plus a_specified profit, but in & few cases price agrepments with the producers already have been reached. Railroad administration officials, in the absence of Director Genera! Hines, ‘declined' to_identify the ocome panieg from which steel will be ob- tained through the commandeering] order. Much of the steel to be seized, it is understood, will-be used for “replace. ment” or to restore to railroad cor- poration ownership steel which the government employed im trackwork during federal control, TO FIX MINIMUM JOINT RAIL AND WATER RATES | Washington, Jan. 30.—House and senate conferees on the railroad bill today finally agreed to acceptthe sen- ate amendment empowering the in- terstate Cowimerce Commission to fix minimum- joint rail and water rates. Chairman Cummins of the senate managers announced that the ‘confer- ees would Tesume consideration to- morrow of the contested rate-making section with the hope that an agrees ment might be teached before ad- journment. 5 - OBITUARY . Arthur’ Williams Hartford,, Jan. 30.—Arthur Williams of Chaplin,a graduate of the of 18 Yale University, and formes 1y proprietor of a private school in New York city, died “today in_this* city where he and his wife were spending the winter. He was born in Worcester Mass. His classmates at Yahy if{’luded former Governor Henry Roberts and Jumes P. Andrews, -reporter for the snpreme’ court of Commecticut. Mr, Williams retired ten years ago and PAID MEXICANS $200 IN GOLD. FOR HIS R Washington, Jan. 30.—Dr..Jjames Taylor of New York, secrefAry board of. foreign: missions ok Methodist « Episcopal cnureh; = for the first time today the his capture ‘by -Mexican soldiers whom his' friends _paid $200 in i for his release. Whilé 0n-.d business trip in the, vicinity of Tampico:somie months ago, Dr. Taylor told.a examiner of the senate’foreign’ tions sub-tommittee thathe was heid up by a soldier after he had taken a picture of some ‘oil properties. “The soldier rushed up to me and placing a revolver at my breastior= dered me to give him the film,” Dr. Taylor said. ‘“Later soldiers appeared and 1 was' orderedy to surrender my camera and . before the general in charge of <> abouts. Affer a few words the gen- eral withdrew to another room and sent word to me that 1 conld not be released until I had paid $500 in gold. There was no trial, no formal cha were preferred and the fine was fi-. nally reduced to $200 and paid.” * = Dr. Taylor characterized as utterly ridiculous charges that W. 0. Jen: Kins, the American consular agent Puebla, was implicated with. the ban= aits who kidnapped him. & ls s iu2 rela. versity training must cease to be I privilege of any single group of ‘soefs ' ety and become the common property. of all This is the statement of Dr. Levy-Bruhl, French exchange-prefes=; sor for the Sorbonne, now at Harvand University. New Hexl Ut Sberian Arsy General. Semenoff, ~nameds Lad ‘he Siberfan Army. He sue- eds Admiral Kolchak, retired.be- cquse of ill heaith, and wiil com- and “the Ali-Russian ¢ 3 mental. forces. General én was recently. commander of.il had lived in Chaplin most of the time since. . He leaves a widow, three chil- Iren and a sister, 4