Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 2, 1920, Page 1

When the Detectives Gave Charles Angle, 24, Wmnd i Chicago Police, Permission to Give His Wife Some Mon- ¢y, the Thief Walked to a Dresser, Opmed a Drawer, Turned and Fired Five Shots, Opened a Window, Jlm_:p- «d Out and Escaped—Showed No Inclination to Give . by tha Fight Until the Shooting Occurred — Detectives Were| Removed to a Hospital---One Was Shot in Left Hand and Abdomen, the Other New Haven, Conn., Feb. 1.—Charles Angle, 24, of St. Louis, wanted by the Chicago police for automobile steal- ing. shot and seriously wounded De-| tective Sergeant John J. Healy and/ Doatective James P. Currier of the lo- cal police force when they attempted to arrest hium here today. Angle es- caped. but his wife was taken into custody- ) After Angle had put on hishat and coat preparatory to leaving with the detecti¥es, he asked permission to give his wife some money. He reached in- to 2 pocket, then remarked that he mus: have lefi his money in the dress- er. Walking to a dresser in the room, he opened a drawer. In a flash he had turned, fired five shots with’ a re- ver, opend a window and jumped Detective Currier, although ded in the abdomen, crawled jo indow and fired two futile shots fug! e. e, according to a circular sent -om Chicago, is wanted there for Has a Wound in Leg. a ‘series of automobile thefts. Yester- ¥ Jice said that he was headed east, having been seen on a New York Cen- tral frain several days ago. Today in- formation reached the local police that a man answering Angle's description was rooming with his wife in a house Crown street. The two detectives went to the house and when,Angle opened his door he was told he was under arrest. “You must be ciairvo- " he said, as he prepared to leave with the officers. He showed no clination to give fight until the shooting occurred. Angle, the police say, has used the aliases of Mahoney and Howard, and was living hére under the name of Connery. He had been employed the past week as a clerk iy a leading groe- ery store here. His wife, Minnie, was locked up as s material witness. The detectives were taken to St. Raphael's hospital. Currier has a bul let hole in the abdomen, while Healey's wound is in one leg. G | | WHAT Fe¢ D. ROOSEVELT DID FOR THE NAVY Feb. 1.—In dese ions of unpreparedness the Americgn navy prior to the war with Germany, Assistant Secretary of he Navy Franklin D, Roosevelt clared ton’gh: in an address at Brook- Iyn that as the result of his efiorts i obtain an adequdte programme of action he had “committed enough il- cts to pv* him in jail for 290 * He said he undoubtedly would ched if he had male Two months after war was de- clared,” said Mr. Rooseveli, “I saw | ing al- in | de- | ABATEMENT OF “FLU” AND PNEUMONIA IN NEW YORK New York, Feb. 1.—Despite a de- cided’ decrease in deatns and new cas- es of influenza and pneumonia during the past twenty-four hours, Health Commissioner Copeland tonight warn- ed the public against over-optimism and urged tnem not to relax their vig- ilunce aga nst the malady. Where cas- es were waning, he said, deaths some- imes took a jump. There were 904 less influenza cases today than on Saturday, when 4,895 new cases were reported, health de- partment records showed. There was aiso a falling off of 146 pneumonia | l day a telegram from the Chicago po-v gj | that the navy was still unprepared and ' cases from yvesterday's record of 811! forty mill.ons for guns hefore eave me or anyone perinis- spend the money.” 2 assistant secretary said that re the war he “was oppesed b¥ president, ‘who said that he did t want to commit any over act of war but who added thy® he was fol- lowing 2 definite course in an efort to av a war.” In March, 1917, Mr. Roosevelt said, | that he had suggested Admiral Sims as the head of the inter-allied flect. He paid a tribute to JAnnapolis, academy and said that-the cers_and students there at the out- bres”. of the war deserved much cred- it for helping to train the great naval forces whic htook part in the strug- cle. COAL STRIKE COMMISSION RESUMES SESSIONS TODAY Washington, Feb. 1.—The coal strike settlement commission will resume to- morrow consideration of arguments advanced by represcntatives of the minere and the operators with the hope that it wiil be able by Thursday to conclude its hearings insofar as the central competitive field is con- cerned. “Operators for the first time are to present statistics and state- ments as to the aciual conditions in the industry, its earnings and ability to pay increased wages. - In an advance statement given out today, the Unifed Mine Workers as- serted again what has been their con- tention sinee the controversy began, that they would not be salfsfied to ac- cept a setflement which merely put their members, on increased _scales commensurate with the increase in the cost of living as based on the pre-war standard. “What the miners ask is an oppor- tunity to advance and progress jnstead of going backward,” the statement said. “They insist on the 1920 stand- ard of living.” The assertion was repeated . that miners' wages have never been ade- quate to “maintain a standard of liv- ing based health and reasonable comfort.” £ AN AMERICAN ACE . KILLED IN MANOEUVERS San Antonio. Texas, Féb. 1.—Captain Field E. Kindley, American ace and commsznder of the 94th Aero Squadron was killed jnstantly in aerial man- oeuvers at Kelly Field Number 2 this afternaon. Captain Kindley's home was Gravette, Ark. The accident occurred while a group of planes were in praci formation, * preparing for an exhibilion scheduled in honor of General Pershing's visit| on the track did not ses the car until: Tuesday. Captain Kindley’s machine fell when he <was about fifty feet above the ground. He was crushed and burned. Laptain Kindley was one of the air service officers summoned before the pouse eub-committee investigating the air gervice recently. He came to Kel- Iy Field from Mitchell Fieid, Long Is- land, one month ago. AMERICAN WAR MATERIALS FOR THE POLISH ARMY Paris, ¥eb. 1.—Ore hundred carloads of American war materials purchased | from the American army have arrived in Peland s atc beinz used to out- fit the Polish army. The army ma- te=ia’s hos teen upplemented by, an issue of undeyewar. socks and sweat- erg jrovided be tle American Red Cross. A new levy of 300.000 men is being outfitted almost entirely with American army uniforms, including nvegrseas caps. A half million pairs of American Red Cross socks and a onarter of a million sweaters were die- tributed in December. Secenty thou- sand men of the army either are American-born or naturalized Amert. caus @ BOSTON FREIGHT HANDLERS VOTE TO CONTINUE STRIKE Boston. Feb. 1~—The join strike committee repregenting the 1.200 strik- ing freight haddlers and longshore- men at the Boston and Albany and Bostori and Maine railroad terminals Mhex! late today voted a continuance the strike/ untii Director General Hine- .set a date for an- f a wage award. The on Wednesday last delay by the rail- fstra in_announcing its F & wage advance. 4 should yand a decrease of 19 in influenza { deaths ard 17 in pneumonid deaths. Copeland’s statistics show there ! have been 38,887 cases of influcnza re- ported durng the present epidemic with 772 deaths. The pneumonia cases auTb 7505 with, 1,953 deaths. Two thousand stationary engineers, remen and oilers employed in hotels, | apartment hLouse’, office buildings, i hospitals and public institutions, vet- ed ionght to heed the appeal Health Commissioner Copeland and | postpoied a. strike scheduled for to- I'n morFowNehich” Would have: Yert many | thousands J6f persons heatless in the i of the influenza epidemic. - The was ordered deferred for S s and the heal: commissioner wAas appointed as a special arbitrator. \ He told the men that he had already conferred with a number of employ- ers and that he was confident their demands would be met MRS. RICHARD S. FOLSOM WAS ACCIDENTALLY SHO? Chicago, Feb. 1.—Mrs. Richard 8. Folsom, prominent Chicago society woman an dwife of a former city cor- | poration counsel, was reported tonight | 1a be recovering from the effects of a | bullet wound received in her home last Friday night. Her husband refused to discuss the | matter today and stated it was an ac- cident. Chief of Police Garrify, who made a personal investigation. also sail the revolver was accidentally dis- charged by Mrs. Folsom shortly after she had returned home from an au- tomobile show with ®er husband and friends, it was reported. Her father, General George M. Moulton, and Mr. 'Folsom were in the house at the time, and heard the shot, shortlv after Mrs. Folsom had retired to her room. Mrs. Folsom was taken to te hospi- tal in a -private ambulance. The matter was not reported t othe police, but later General Moulton called Chief Garrity. TRAPPED BY WALLS OF SNOW; THREE PERSONS KILLED on the tracks by high walls-of snow whrich had been piled side, three nersons were killed by a Buffalo and Lake Erie interurban car rear Lamberton today. The dead are, Mrs. Ralph Smith and Miss Helen Case of Lamberton, and Ralnh Todd of Fredonia. Two companions were injured, but will recover. 1 The accident occurred on a curve whera snow plows had piled up banks more than six feet high on either side of the tracks. The five walking it was almost upon +hem and they were unable to escane. The motor- mar’s view of the curve was cut off by th: hizh snow banks and the ear was were killed instantly and Todd died a few hours after the accident. FRANCE HAS NOT CHANGED ATTITUDE ON ADRIATIC Paris, Feb. 1.—The French govern- ment has not changed in any ay its attitude on the Adriatic question adopted in conformity with the deci- sions of the supreme counefl January 20, it is declared in the best author- i izer circles here. The French dele- zation's decision was takén after the receint of the note from Signor Nitti { the Italian premier, and was in full agreement with him. It ‘was adcd today that M. rand, the French premier, ready to carry out the unde agreed upon by the French and Brit- ish governments. - While abhstaining from any initiative in the matter, M. { Millerand is welcoming any sugges. tlon from Rome and Belgrade in.the interest of a prompt solution of the Adriatic question. 11le- stands FIFTY ALLEGED RADICALS TAKEN IN RAIDS IN NEWARPK Newark, N. J., Feb. 1—Fifty al- leged radicals were taken in raids in *Newark and vicinity by department of Jjustice agents today in what was termed a “mopping up” of leaders of | to be state secretary of the party in New Jersey, was one of the men ar- rested. Christopher Mandow, a8 Rus- sian, another prisoner, is declared to have been one of the socialist dele- gates who assisted in forming th munist party in Chicago, =~ of going at high speed. The two women | rtaking ' Dunkirk- N. Y§ Feb. 1—Trapped ' ° the depositorie up on either GRIP AND PNEUMONIA | ! the communist party. J. Trotsky, said, .~ ficer | Poland, and sihich is to be followed by | should vote on this-propodal and there iversion to other ports of steam ships bound for Boston was begun be: cause of. the strike of 1200 . freigh handlers. 5 | Elizabeth, N. J., boar gof education granted a flat, bonus of .$200 to 400 teachers, ‘A plan for standardized in creases was adopted. d The home of Hugh M. Alcorn, state |atiorney of Hartford county, at Suf- « fleld, was wrecked by fire Sunday aft- erncon. Loss $10,000. S a Soviet Board of Criticism. New York, Feb. ‘The past year for ihe United States has been one of > 25 % Idaing and delay” and as characsi pope Benedict received a memoran- terized as “the tragedy of iragedies” qum from Arabian tribes in Palestine | 2q Secretary of the navy Daniels, WhO otesting against alleged ‘“pro-Zion- aadressed the opening meeting here po, poliey, of Britain. today' of the campaign for the Near East Fund: Aithough America had’' Eranidin W. M. Gutcheon of New not kept faith iwth tne allies, he sald yg e city, was nominated by, Presi- ho had confidence that the American dent Welson to be a director of . the apie Woul e . W i )T P One of:the bellafs/tnas carried us|'3r. finznoe: carporation. ,Daniei\gni, "wunthb::wmal&,pe‘oples ha};e‘ ob! the right to and ,to con force of their own destinies. . Shall America . fiT alone fail now in sustaining that prin ? I do not believe it. I am con- fident that the A%erican people Iwll| respond to this call. Giv to Armenia present rellef from the perils of star- vauon and then provide for the frees Gom of the country from the rule of the Turk. They will respond to this call as they have responded to every call made upon them since April 6, ation of an organizad field 2,000,000 men wouid be pos- ible within five years after passage of the senate army reorganization bill. When two trolleys loaded to capac- ity collided at Vanderbilt and De Kalb ! avenues, Brooklyn, ' 20 persons were ' injused and more taan 100 badly shak- en up. : i - | After discovery of 14 cases of whis- key stowed -under an“automobila on !the deck of the liner Yarmouth, the| captain was ordered to and tell how. it came. there. Secretary Daniels in gpeaking of the navy said that the popular idea of the navy was that it ‘only exists as a fight- ing maciine. This, he added, is chief mizsion, but if it had not proved a powertui agency in the protection of the Leople urd the upholding of the dignity of tne flag at all times it had failed cf his mission. In the war, onl this side and in convoying troops| acrosz and in protecting the interests: of the allics, he Geclared. it had prov-| ed its worth anu had done its full shm’e1 | Window washers in Chicago have’ gone on strke demanding $48 a2 week for experienced workers and. $44 a week for men less than six months in the business. Captain Karl W. Detzer was releas- ed_from custody at Governor’s Island. He was dharged with mistreating sol-. diers and prisoners in his custody. at in Lringing about vl peace. fi Mans, France. There was nothinz the.matter with the American n;v)t' during tbhe v;ar. James W. Gerard, former ambassador S g to Germany, said in a brief address. Dloved in' the New York _postoffice “The trouble ith the .secretary is 'lore thau iv years, Win. H. Chase that he is too good natured.” added died at his home in Port Richmond, BIr. Qerard “I T had been secretary of Staten Island, aged 87. rals or| T rybens ‘cse had formed ' sovier! Mrs. Camden C. Dike, 81, mother of | hoard (i criticism, I would have had NOrman S. Dike, county judge of them on the slide and their heads in Brookiyn, drobpd dead while attend-: the basket inside of twenty-four INg a meeting of the Woman's Guild hours.” - |of the Church of the Pilgrims. There has already been $1,000.000 ! Y sabscribed to the relief fund in New Judge Louis D. Gibbs, who charged | York city, it was announced during the the Bronx. county -district attorney’s e ting. | office with “coercion, intimidating and Jindorsement of Arthur J. Balfour's Sweating” witne.ses, was publicly re- | pludge in behalf of Great Britain for buked gy the Bronx grand jury. the establishment in Palestine of a 'na- | i L tional home for the Jewish people, was' When the new .municipal cf il, | coupled with a prediction that the end composed mostly of Sinn Feiners, fif: | nf reiigious parsecution throughéut met in Dublin, it was greeted with en- the worid o -uld result from the war by thusiasm by crowds as the republican Secretary Daniels in an address to- flag was hoisted on the city hall. night. He soke at a dinner given by| tha fenist organizatior of American for | the Palestine restoration fund | Island, Casco Bay, Me., that vessels are The secretary said that ‘“this holy'unable to reach there, althouga food movement has or'r Go”snéed to all who and fuel supplics are running low. It engaged in it” adding: s suggested that an airplane be used. Ve love every foot of land which &) David’s psalms and Solomon's son~s| According to official figures of the »ve made dear to all Jews/and Chris- enrollment of political parties in New York, there are 162,974 more demo- | tigns! Aftar havirg be»n continually em- Ice fields are so great around Orr's is : 2 crats’ than republicans. Of the 1,000,- | TO REDUCE NUMBER OF 1900 yoters . enrolied "oply 5,931 are| “TGOVERNMENT CZPOSITORIES “drys.” \ Was §%, 1on, Feéb. 1,—Drastic re- ductions (. the number of national banks designated as government de- positories is being made by the treas- ury devariment with the result that Chicago Tribune announced estab- lishment of a plant welfare, drafted | by five employes, to include bonuses, | pensions, sickness, accident and death benelts, help in home building and va- less than 400 of the 1.33% guch insti- cations. tutions holding federal funds on June, \ aciu 30, 1919, are expected to survive the| Plans of establishment of three | large industrial training schools in Af- zes the government's fin-'rica for negroes was announced by: ancial situation, brought about y' the Rev. J. I Bartholomew, D. C., cegten- war’s fiscal operations, it was said of-- ary secretary of the Methodist church, ficially today, have made it necessary of Boston. to abolish hundreds of the deposi-; s torics and revise the plan for dis Clinton Tyler B ard, president of | tribution of government "~ money’s Harper & Brothers, was fined $1,000 among banks employed since prior to.and the firm also $1,000 with the alter- | 1912, 5 | native of goink to jail for three| While the treasury is cutting off the months, for publishing tae book “Mad- inactive accounts. it also is reducingeleine an Autobibgraphy. the balances carried br many other = banks—in all, in fact where govern-| Thres men held up John Messer and mant transacteions do not required Charles Berowitz, messengers for the the use of large sums. ; Peter Doelger Brewing Co., and rob- Sclentifio ropor§ionmentsP® is is ' ped them of-a payroll of $1.600 just said ould be basis in the future for gutside the concern's building, 407 disnosition of surplus funds. Officials East 55th street, New York. explained the new policy 2s to deposi- | : tories during the administwation of! Franklin McVeagh as 'secretary of the forced to cancel his tour in behalf of treasury for President Taft. the York foundation to found and| Practically half the fbanks to be de- | maintain a school in' the mountain | prlvedh of zoXerm;ng hal’agri‘sn th\tvs section of th south, while in Boston. | have been rudeuced from $52.000,000 to He w oper: r i $27.670 €00, Other Benks will be taken oipig. | To OPerated on for appendi off of the official list of demositories, . The German government wiil in all and other accounts will be reduced un- | til by the end of the calendar vear it propability cancel the appointment of aron Von Lucivs, temporary diplo- it is expected the new poiicy will be B, full yequipped. Officials ere reticent matic German representative in Rome, as a result of attacks wpon him by today as' to the geopraphical location French and other continental news- | papers. PREVALENT IN ITALY| A. Mit Sergeant A. C. York, war hero, was S SR 1 Palmeé’. atterney general, % {was a governmnt witness in the U. S. Rome, Feb. 1.-—Owing to the ap-district court in New York in the pearance of bronchidl pneumonia as a complication of influenza in the most populous centers of Italy, hygienic measures adopted last year against the Spanish grippe are again being ap- plied, The disease is taking a benign. form in eight per cent. most of the cases. X 7 Large assembtlages of people are dis- couraged hiwc places are being rig- or) sty disinferead and all street cars equity suit brought by Max Stroeh: as a stockholders in the Botany Wor- sted Mlls oi Passaic, N. J.. to restrain | the government from selling majority stock of the company. VARIETY OF MATTERS FOR CONGRESS THIS WEEK Washington. Feb. 1—Military and| % ! naval legislation, appropriation bills m{e;(z;te«? before | ,ng" committee work on a variety of . 1 % aifficult prob-. sypjects consitiute the week's pro- 2t 1y to wisure disinfection of public! gramme for congress. A% Mflch jast vear o-caped entifely| “in general interest, developments in and undoubtely contributed much 10| .ommittee arg expected to overshadow spreading the disease. In the mean- /- those on the floor Of cither senate or time, however, it has been decided all 1 cabs cariyhng sick to hospitals must house, chief attention being Tocused on 2 ~ ppearance of Secretar ie] be disinfected by hospital authorities [l!x:e:ilag' Derorc the benate g’avl:?nansluixi bastyne teapiniy sctvice. committee investigating award of naval decorations. The secretary is expectéd to reply to charges by Rear Admiral Sims and another general air- ing of the medal row is looked for. On the senate floor work will be continued on the army and navy pay! . bill and when it is disposed of an ef- fort probably will be made to bring u; the army reorganizat@®n bill recentl} reported by the military committee. In the house appropriation bills will be the order. No developments of importance af- fecting the peace treaty are expected v by the leaders during the weke, but will be absent more than a year. there will be many conferences pre- Dr. Goldman’s depadture follows' paratory to the effort of the democrats | close upon that of the first American! fo brinz up the treaty for debate on Jewish relief Lnit, headed by Dr. Bor- | February 10. Nearly every -state fac- is L. Bogen. which is on its way to!tion is taking counsel as to how it | RELIEF ACTICITIES FOR JEWISH WAR SUFFERERS New York, Feb. 1—Dr. Julius Goldman of-this city, active in Jewish ' philanthropy for half a century, has been celected to head all the relief ac- ucties of the joint distribution com- mittee of the American funds for Jew- ish war sufferers in Burope, Felix M. ‘Warburg. chairman, announced to- night. Dr. Goldman who will have the title of director.general, sails tomor- row on the steamship Mauretania and other units. . MEXICO. HAS RELEASED THF' AM;R’CAN_ AVIATORS San Antonio, Texas, Feb. 1.—Lieu-{ tenants B. ¥, Davis and G. E. Grimes, United States aviators, who have been held by Mezican . authorties since Wednesday last, when they made a ferced landing near Guerrero, were re- leaged at Nueyo Laredo this after- nson and crossed the Rio Grande to Laredo, Texas, Colonel J. B. Frecht, !Southern Department air service of- announced tonight, are indications that the mot'on may, draw support from widely di\-ergen{ i sources. l THE LEBAI ¥ UDY ESTATE IN ; ~~ENGLAND 18 $1,670,600 London, Feb.' lL.—Anncuncement - is| made that the net value of the estate of Jacques Lebaudy in England has been fixed by the probate court at $1.- 570,000 Leblud% was shot and killed by his wife at their home. near Mine- ola, N+ ¥, on January 12, 1913. Ma- dame Lebaudy was later exonerated Gy the jury, 17 Persons Burmed | X Widew, Het Four. Chldesn ovcer is not antagonistic to Archduke | American aviators flying over Mex- To Decth n Newark and Two Men Perished in Tenement House Fire. Newark, N.»J., Feb. 1L.—A widow, her four ¢h.ldren and two men were burned to death in a three-story ten- ement house here éarly today. The fire started in the lower part of the building, cutting off escape by the stairway. - Members of three other families jumped from windows nets held by firemen. The dead are: Mrs. Johanna Petty, 40 years old: her four children, Ma- bel, 18; George 13; Kthel, 10, and ‘William, 8; her brother, James Cham- bers, 45, and Henry Meyer, 60. into floor. The three youngest children| er .and Mabel evidently had tried to overcome, Chambers’ body wag found! in the hallway. Meyer, who boarded th the other family on the third story, failed to hear revélver shots ! fired to’ awaken the people in the;- burning structure. Trank Adasyk, 15, sustained a brok- en back when he jumpeq from the top floor and struck a vegetable stand in front of the house. May Harzuia, 31, ill with pneumonia, jumped into a net and was taken to a hospital in a se- rious condition. People in adjoining houses were driven out lightly clad into the bitterly cold weather. PROCEDURE OF SELECTING A KING FOR HUNGARY Eudapest, Friday, Jan. 30—Proced- ure necessary for the ' possible ap-; pointment of a regent and selection of a king 1s outlined in a general or-! der by Admiral Horthy, head of the! new ‘Hunsgariga army, jpublished in newspapers here today. The order was issued as a result of the extremist! movement, which has been advocating; the substitution of the old Friedrich . cabinet for the Huszar government,! no win power. The former is reputed to bave been an ardent supporter of Archduke Joseph. Promises to the allied power that the Huszar cabinet ill remain in con- trol until the national assembly meets are recalled by Admiral Hor- thy who points out the national a: sembly should elect a temporary re- gent and then appoint a new cabinet. e says “I will resist any attempt to viclate our prices.” 1. is generaliy regarded that the' Joseph, but is an effort to insure the orderly conduct of public affairs as weil as to give the national assembly | orcriunity to refer any decision re-: garding 2 monarchial constitution or, cheicc of a king to the people. Legal| authorities are not agreed as to wheth- 27 Hungary is still a kKingdom, or is a! republic, and whether the nationali assembly is empowered to determine fl;ebforxn of the constituticn without a ebiscite. Resiirald : Tandhils bearing the words: “Long |- 1 Archduke Joseph. Hungary's fu- turz king,” are being distributed here. WILL REVERT TO GERMANY Berlin, Saturday, Jan. 31.—Predic- tions that one-third of the plebiscite ' zone in Schleswig-Holstein will revert to Cermany on the nationality issues are rade by the correspondent of the Taeglische Rundschau. He disputes tiie prevalent notion that German; prespects for success in the plebiscite are- but meagre, and declares, while' tiie Danes within the zone have bee: figured as an entity, certain sections, particularly the cities of 'Hover an Tendern, are predominantly German. i Germans aiso hold a majority in the! southern section of the region where! thr piebiscite will be held, he said. The island of Alsen, is believed, will fall to Denmark because of the phvsical diiculty of dividing it. TO HOUSE DENOMINATIONAL AGENCIES UNDER ONE ROOF New York, Feb. 1.—Plans to install the majority of its demoninational agencies under one roof were announc- ed today by the Board of Promotion of the Northern Bantist convention. Four floors_of “the Molland House, one of New York’s oldest conservatice hotels which recently clesed its doors to the public, have been leased for five years. Baptist headquarters will be transferred to it and the American Baptist Mission Society and the Wo- man's American Foreign Mission So. ciety both having offices in Boston. ar to be brought here. Occupancy will bel about May 1. TOBACCO As SECUR_ITY | FOR AUSTRIAN LOAN Vienna. Friday, Jan. 30.—Authoriza- ion fer a foreign loam, with a mo- nopoly on tobacco' as security, has been authorized by the national as- sembly, and the government has de- cided to contract jth a Dutch organi- zation. which will advance 20,000.000 florings The government will share prefits of the mononolv and will re- tain supervision of its finances. Fin- an e Minister Reisch has expreseed the tha of the republic to the allies for: faciiiaurg the agrae CRITICISES FLYING OF U. 8. i AVIATORS OVER MEXICO Mexico City, Feb. 1.—Criticism of!} ican territory was again expressed by Luis Cabrera, secretary of the treas- ury, in conversation with newspaper men vesterday. IHe referred especial-| 1y to two flyers who have landed near thecs Incnrsions were wolations of | through Cardinal Gibbons of Balti- sovereignty and that representations| ™orE: would be made to Washington. MAKE UP OF PROPOSED SENATE FOR POLAND Wargaw, Satur Jan.” 31.—De- cision to institute a senate compos- ed of seventy members, including representatives of the governing au- thorities of Polish provinces, has been | reached by the constitutional com-: mission of parliament. In the senate will be five delegates from the Cath- olice episcopacy, three representatives o £ other- reli bodies and dele- gates o - institutions and iniversities. [ OBITUARY. Frederick Samson. Hartford, Conn., Feb. 1.—Frederick Sampson, secretary of the Hartford Wire Insurance Company, died at.his home in Farmington avenue today aft- er a aveek's illness of pneumonia. He was 72 years old. He went to work for the company as an office boy and became sicretary in 1810. { entrusteq with messages sensational- . have been for. considerable time trav- The Petty family live@ on the top | eling between. Berl.n and ‘Soviet Rus- | sia on faise credentials, it is stated were suffocated in bed but the moth- | oficidl quarters. The credentials they reach the door, near which they were; them as delegates = of carried are said' to have described e the American | Red Cross mission in Berlin to con- | | duct investigations regarding the ex-! change of German pr.soners from | Russia. i These couriers, it appears, were carrying despatches between Moscow ‘understood before. | the Gnited States in accepting ! League of Nations is not due to hés- | - With the situation clearly explained . should be stopped, the newspaper says | c'tizens without distinction of faith or tim’s clothingz causht* fire. BY BOLSHEVIST € Agents of Soviet Russia, Travelin ¢ Befween ectis nid Mo sia, worked Under Guise of Delegates of the American Red Cross Mission in Berlin — Object Was to Spread Communist Propaganda in All Parts of the World by Special Courier From Berlin—Discovery Made by the Lithuanian Authorities. undfin. Fah 1.—Bolshevist agents regarding | widespread - Red plans and Dolshvist organizations in other countries, including the German spar- tacists and the Swiss communists. Lithuanian authorities discovered the illicit traveling after Lithuania’s bor- | ders had been crosseq many times, | and a number of arrests followed. Not | all the couriers were provided with American papers, but such forged credentials were found onm several of the prisoners. Two men who carried Red Cross passes admitted they had nothing }o do with the American mission but reality were workng for the cot munists. One. woman, similarly equip~ ped, who worked from Dvinsk, said ske hag been instructed to deliver documents to persons she did not know personally. Most interesting of the captures were two men enroute to Moscow by way of Berlin. They carried letters concealed in their neckties. One of | them was a German and a member of | the independent socialist party of | Germany and the other was a Swiss | belonging to an extremist organiu-{ n tion called the socialist-democratic organizution of = young & people , in Switzerland. ) The German carrieq a letter from the head of a spartacist organizatien in Germany to M. Tchitcherin, Rus- sian bolshevik m.n:ster of foreign af- fairs. The letter indignantly denied the report that German sparta were counter-revolutionary: to .the Russian bolshevists. It declareq that Karl Radek (the bolshevik propagan- dist who recently left -Berlin) could testify to the writer's communist sympathies. It was said further by the writer that he was arrapging with the Russian boishevist Zinovieff with regard to. spreading communist prop- aganda in al parts of the world by special courier service from Berlin. Another letter seized, which was written by the same German, stated he had succeeded in inducing a staff of engravers to print. American, French and German passports for the use of couriers and suggested that the sovietss make similar -arrange- ments for couriers’ from Russia to Germany. The Swiss courier carried a_letter from the secretary of an organization of extreme socialists in Berne to an editor of a’ Red paper in Moscow, acknowledging the receipt of bolshe- vik literature from Moscow, of which, he said, he had made great use, and asking further supplies. Under interrogation the German tourfer declared the German inde- pendent socialists woulq attack and overcome the German government the moment they were assured of support from Lenine, . A COMMENT ON AMERICA'S POSITION ON THE L. OF N London, Feb. 1.—It is evident from the tone of editcrial comment on Vis- count Grey’s recent estimate of Amer- ica’s position on the League of Na- tions that it set forth conditions little #iscout Grey’s statement declared the hesitation :f the tilitiy to the principle, but to consti- tutional questions and caution as to the possible effects of entering into the league. by such an authority, newspapers here seem willing to give the United States - -argument that-sie is unwilling to make a radical depar- ture from her former policy without due consideration, The letter is viewed as a powerful appeal 1o Amer- ica to enter the league, and the Sun- day. Observer pleads for the establish- ment of the league quickly, even if it is only a consultatory body, without the United States. “Le us meet the United States so liberally ad boldly as to leave her not an excuse for standing out,” the newspaper says. Complaints over reservations pro- posed’ by the United States senate nd it inyites the United States fo ‘send over a shipload of them,” add- ng: “The more America’'s reserva- tions are indulged, the less she is in- clined to insist upon them.” Nations, big and little, are showing their worst sides to each other, the paper goes on, and it asserts that the “heart and soul” of Viscount Grey’s plea is patience, After saying: “There is a deplorable tendency to cast the major responsi- bility for Europe's troubles on America’s swhoulders,” the Times says the viscount's statement arrived at a most opportune moment and ‘“those who digest it will find misunderstand- ing-reméved and comprehension es- tablished.” FORMER VERMONT LEGISLATOR CHARGED WITH MURDER | Montpelier. Vt, Feb. 1.+George C. Hale, representative in the legisiature from the town of Middlesex, was ar- rested today. charged with the mur- | larger number for meals. — DERAILMENT BETWEEN PROVIDENCE AND WILLIMANTIC Providence, R. 1. Feb. 1.—Traffic on the Willimantic division of the New Have nroad will be tied up until some time’tomorrow as the result of the de- railment at 8.15 this morning of the caboose and rear car of the Provi- dence-Hartford freight, which plung- ed off the east end of the wooden trestle lcading to the bridge over the Moosup river, near Moosup, Conn., station, and landed bottom side up in a dry ditch thirty feet below. > The supports of the trestle were carried away or knocked out of place so that it was not considered safe to allow even a handear to cross. Bridge men . were sent-from -this-city to res - ‘pair the damaged structure. " Conductor William FEldredge and Brakeman Joseph Jaunders, both of Centreville, and Brakeman Joseph Ma- lo of 178: Pearl street, this city, who were in the caboose, escaped with a had shaking up and ises. The dropping 6f a brake shoe, which caught in a switch frog, is said to have caused the accident. The cars after leaving the rails were dragged along for about 800 feet and besides tearing up several lengths of rail, mowed off timbers off the trestle for about 100 feet. Trains from this city were run as far as the scene of the wreck and-on the other side as far as Moosup .sta- tion, the passengers -being conveyed the intervening distance of about a mile over a highway bridge in auto- mhobiles. FOR RELATIVES OF THE AMERICAN DEAD IN FRANCE Paris, Feb, 1.—The Young We- men’s Christian Association is pre- paring to entertain at its rest hoyse 4at Romagne this spring and summer considerable numbers of relatives and friends of the American dead who lie in the nearby American cemetery, which is the largest in France. In it, thére are 23,061 American soldiers buried. The rest house can accommodate twenty overnight vis'tors and a much The house’ has been open since September. In November ninety relatives of Ameri- o soldier dead partook of its hospi- ality. er of a neighbor, H. Lester Morse. It is alleged that he shot Morse after a| quarrel about a boundary line between their farms. He notified the author- ities after the shooting’ and was brought to the county jaii here. According to the story told by Hale to the authorities, a dispute of a year's standing over the boundary line resulted recently in Hale's obtaining 5 judgment against Morse. He said that he walked out to the line today and that Morse approached him with a | pitenfork in his hand. Hale warned | Morse. he $aid, not to come any near- er, but Mgrse did not stop and Hale shot him through the heart. Morse fell dead in the snow. PCPE BENEDICT PRAISES WORK OF HERBERT HOOVER | Rome, Saturday, Jan. il.—Hlerbert| Hoover's work in aiding children of victims of the war entitles him “to a very high rank in- the history of Christian charity, and gives hm a unique place in the gratitude of peo- ples,” says a letter addressed to Mr. Hoover by Pope Benedict on January 9, and sent to the chairman of the After recalling that more than 3,- 000,000 children in qdifferent states of Europe await relief, the pope appeals to “the generosity of ail American party.” MANAGER OF A CHAIN GROCERY STORE MUFDERED Port - Chester, ' N.. Y., ' Feb. 1. Thomas Keane, managér of ‘a chain grocery store here, was shot and kiil- ed by unidentified assailants last) night.” Seven buliets were fired into his body from two weapons. Robbery apparently was not the motive, the police say, as the day's rece.pts were found intact. e Mrs. Anna Drought, who lives over the store, ‘told the police she heard a yell about 11 o'clock and sounds of a scuffle. Friends accompanied her to the store, where they found the door open and - Keane's body a few feet from the entrance. One of the shots had been fired s0 close that the vic- | rious points At the two American cemeteries near Chateau Thierry rest houses will be opered this month—one in the Belleau Wood where there are 2,594 American graves and the other at Fery Tardenois, where lie 3,092 American hero dead. In these houses there w'll be no accommodations for overn'ght visitors as the hotel faefli- ties at Chateau Thierry are good. Only tea and light lunches will be served. TELLS OF COMING OF WIRELESS TELEPHONE. New York, Feb. 1.—Wireless tele- phone conversation at any distance is considered a,possibility of the near fu- ture by Robert F. Gowen, engineer in charge of. the De Forest Radio Com- nany of Oss‘hing. who made vublc tonight a series of experiments with a_new wireless telephone apparatus. Employing a2 small aerial. " a wave length of “only 275 mefres and one- third kilowatt of power. he ‘claimed t2 have talked to Chicago and other western cities in ordinary tores and to_hav: thout difficulty. T vhich have been o Inet thijrty davs ST TN e a radinus of $00 within miles. hat the recefv- ing arparat also record tele- graphic dot hes from the or- ai wirele ants. “We ha reached the develomment of the wireless telenhove,” Mr. Gowen sail “for a distance of at least 898 miles a service that entical with the long distance telenhone.” . DECLINE OF “FLU” AND PNEUMONIA IN CHICAGO Chicago, Feb. 1.—New cascs of in- fluenza and pneumonia, and deaths from the discases in the last twenty- four hours showed a sharp deoliie from Saturday, and health depart- ment oficials announced tonight that the outlook was encouraging. Influenza_ cases reported today numbered 591, against 860 Saturday, and pneumonia cases decreased from 352 ‘- to 248, “Influenza caused 98 deaths, as compared with 122 yester- day, and 75 persons died of pneumo- nia, a _decrease of ten from the pre- ‘vipus day. £