Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 10, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXINO. 36 POPULATION 29,919 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1920 UED STRIKE RAILROAD BOARD “Cabled Paragraphs Premier Nitti Starts For Paris. 9—Francisco t ted today for Paris. RAILWAY RS HAVE I ULTINATUM T0 FEDERAL Issued by Grand President Allan E. Barker of the Directing 300,000 Members to Sus- pend Work at 7 . m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17, Unless The Federal Railroad Administration Beforé Saturday Grants Wage Increases Demanded Last Summer—Order Will Affect Storehouse Employes, Stationary Firemen, Sta- tionary Engineers, Steel Bridge Workers, Cinder Pit Men and Oilers as Well as Other Members of the Brotherhood —Order of President Barker is in Violation of the Un- ion’s Wage Agreement. 9. —Orders di- 800 members of the United of Maintenance Employes and Railway Shop Laborers to suspend work 7 a. m. Tuesday, Feb- ruary 17, were goi g out Ionight‘ to the locals of .he organization. Decision- to oraer the men out wa announced by Allan E. Barker, grand president of the organization, follow- of the general brotherhood. can be averted only administration nts wage e manded ‘"E:?!umm‘l{. Mr. Barker said Orders Have Rome, Feb. the premier, start i Mémber Italian Cabinet. Rome, Feb. 9—Signor Bonasi, former president of the senate, was today ap- pointed a member of the cabinet. SEA IS SUBMERGING THE STEAMER PRINCESS ANNE. and |ber 19 and then, as a matter of form- ality, sent the treaty to the foreign . b by relat ittee with instructions ken in two amidships by the | relations commi e I gminton liner Princess | to Teport it back at once with the res- . two | ervations framed by the republicans New York, Feb. 9—Cracks storm-battered from stem to stérn, al- Anne, abandoned except by her was slowly the seas ,tonight, stranded on the sand Unless favorable weather prevails. shipping officials is little hope of saving any part of her be not n cargo, of which & small amount is}consideration until next¢ week. Urg- still above water. ¢ g The story of the sudden breaking up of the shig which began béfore last midmight, First Officer Charles H. private owners of the lines.” “The public should —know, Barker continued, “that this strike call is not something that has been de- precipitately, Wage demands were presented {0 the railroad admin- | that time _and brother- hood membership authorized a strike We held a strike in_abeyance, however, upon President Wilson's ‘request that he be permit- ted an opportuni in living costs. for a ‘reasonable time,’ which he at sixty or ninety waited six months and there has been in the cost of living.” The wage demands of the men av- erage forty per cent., Mr. Barker said, There are more than 100,000 of our members who receive less than $3 a_day. More than 100,000 mechanics, sting of carpenters, painters, are receiving an/ a 35 cents an hour, W] half the wage received by the same sub- S o ibe| Thecotmittss exiects 0 astitoe shoals off | morrow, but it was announced tonight that Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the republican leader, would ask that its zeport be not taken up for senate there io enforce them. SROTEY ng a meeting bring_about a sral raiiroad crew of 44 men. lice boat patrol. len the l’r:laiddle of the night, W!lhf:f. e steamship began to give way with a| Thir rapid succession of .deafening reports like a salvo of artillery. rushed on deck in panic, believing the ship was going to pieces under them. A number of the men started a rush for the lifeboats to lower them, while the building trades.”J others took to the rigging.', Knowing there was no real danger -|ad finding it was impossible to calm the panic stricken crew, First Officer Barker and Second ‘Heath, whose home is in Portsmouth, went among them “The orders have gone out,” he de- | no_reduction “and we would require ree days to cancel them.” ike in addition sreases fequested last summer is to uniform rate from ,coast to would affect storehouse em- to _wage in- The sailors masons and steel bridge wor )t men and others as well as other nembers of the brotherhood. A committee of ten representing the srotherhood left class of labor ORCER IS INV OLA UNION'S WAGE AGREEMENT committee will re- Waushington up until the time to take effect. to enter into nego- ector general, Mr. the departure of conference of the e came to an end. Washington, Feb. UniteciBrott:rhocf Employes and Railwa; s in calling a strike membership was declared by railroad | administration officials to be a viola- union’s wage agreement. This agreement was said to provide strike ealls shall be without giving the railroad admin: ation thirty days’ notice, cjared the raiiroad administratipn had ved no official information of the varces and the strike call et oniy cight days ahead. Director General giorhed President Barker of the union fo® a siatement df Muinter: “its | man who disobeved orders. tion of the coffee were served. are soon to wage controvers eral railroad be adjusted before the: representativ n conference wi Later a power fishing sloop came alongside and after several trips | treaty. landed the seamen and their baggage at Sheepshead Bay pier. and ship, plit in_two and filled with water except for her main not leave until @ered to do so Dy the railroad admin- promised any zoing to do so. the strike call before the No reply had railroad admin- eicsea for the day. or- to pass the burden to the AWARDS OF $12,089,149 FOR REQUISITIONED SHIPS FIGHT IN NEW JERSEY * FOR 4 PER CENT. BEER. fieet of fishing it ship, their owners apparently waiting for the seas to able casts_of cotton goods w A the| In a Trenton, N. I, Feb. 9—The opening guns in the battle to give New Jersey 4 per cent. beer were fired here today joint legislative bills with that purpose. , In support of sponsor of the bills, Attorney General McCran rendered an opin that New lJersey was -entirely within her rights in passing an act defining “intoxicating Hquor” at a higher per- | centage than provided by the Volstead vessels and recommended shipping board. claims filed b> Trench and valued at $1,000,000. FOR DEVELOPMENT OF AERONAUTICS IN CANAD Ottawa, Feb. search council has appointed research committee of four to coop- erate with the Dominion air hoard in| RUSSIANS TAKEN FROM BRIDGEPORT TO HARTFORD e remainder for ship- ~—The Canadian re- » French claims, incing committee | aggrezat.ng fifteen Nor After putting four physicians on the { witness stand, who testified that four was non-intoxicating, counsel fof_the declared that the Vol- prohibited non-alcoholic as well as alcoholic beverages, Congress, he added, cannot by “a definition make non-intoxicating development it was an- m B Guthrie, The committee nounced here toda: assodiate memhers parts of Canada and investigations as with the air board. Committees all| _Hartford, . Conn, undertake ¢ completion when taken. For | ter rds were computed 1= of August 3 into | Ha the state to settle The “It is the duty of question.” he declared. Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the Anti-Saloon league, who led the contended that no state can legalize what the laws of the United States prohibit. food, physics and research hoard the coals of Alberta has been and probably engineering. standardize constituted. t as to the possibility of| prohibition forces, of the unset- TO DISCUSS PERMANENT COURT TROUBLE CAUSED BY BRITISH OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE SELIEVE HINES WILL LABOR PARTY -JEALOUSIES |S¢ized in the Bridgeport raid, GRANT WAGE INCREASE " —Beliet that| 9.—The three Scandi navian nations have accepted the in- | vitation of Holland to'a conference at The Hague on February 16 to discuss { participation in the permanent court justice provided for by Article 14 of the League of Na-| the Christiania, cor- | respondent of ‘the Temps says it is Norwegian official Switzerland, plans, also will take part in the .—(Canadian Press). James Henry Thomas, general secry of the National Union of Ran. | Vice-PresidentOf TheFrench waymen, said today that the state of Superior War Council something were done speedily a crash . would come in which nobody suffer more than the workers. Mr. Thomas declared t ish workmen must 000,000 railroad work- ueq 1o grow international 3 would tions covenant, Brit- quarter the ce harder and the Germans cighteen times harder. concession of inequalities French twi added difficulties cleverness of . through The Temps. ys the proposed court apparently ig intended to try offend- ers against the laws of war and be- lieves it would furnish 2 basis for so- lution of the problem arising from the allieq demand for the extradition of Germans accused of war guilt. URGE RATIFICATION OF TREATY WITH RESERVATIONS ‘Washington, Feb. cation of the:peace treaty with res- ervations acceptable to the republi- cans and democrats in the senate was in a memorial President Wilson today through Sec- retary Tumulty by a committee rep- arose not through the d a ve-statement of their ssion tomorow to Mr. declined to discuss its-con- s understood to be a ounter-proposition Hines as thus far laid before the jeajeusies in its own ranks. NEW JERSEY 29TH STATE TO RATIFY SUFFRAGE. Trenton, N. J. Tuesday, Feb. 10.— The woman suffrage amendment was ratified by the New Jersey assembly s morning by a vote of 34 to This completes ratification by the e measure passed the sen- New Jérsy is the 29th state to ratify the amendment, CLAIM BAIL SET FOR RADICALS 1S+EXCESSIVE ate last week. in_ behalf of lleged radicals held at Deer the ground that demanded by the immi- ties, was filed t court today. was set for hearing next Monday. Getting Even. planning to get even “Pussyfoot” bone-dry cam- | paign in the merry isle. She is send- | Oliver, Lodge over to the us about departed spirits—Savanah News. Peoce and other organizations with | Bngland is an aggregate membership of 50,000, President Lowell of Harvard University, Oscar S. Strauss and Clarence J. Owens composed the’ 000, it was said. Johnson to 0.000 is asked of the pris- oners mentioned. whereas the act of s under which they were ar- e January raids provides under $50 bail while the Bail of $1,000 is under the warrant on the prisoners were Wmrrested) i It is stated that ezed radicals canmot furnish the The memoriai called attention to the necessity for peace and demand- ed that a middle ground be found for a compromise which would immediate ratification by the senate, MURDERER CERONE'S PLEA FOR CLEMENCY DENIED Hartford, Conn., Feb, 9.—Daniel Ce- of Hamden, hanged at the state prison on March 5 for the murder of his stepdaughter, made a piea for clemency before the state board of pardons, in special ses- sion today. The plea was denied by the board, on grounds that the jury which convicted Cerone had the full facts in the case. OBITUARY. Dr. James McManus. Hartford, Conn., Feb. 9.—Dr. James Just Like That. ‘Willyum Bryan wishes it distinctly undersfood that all the others must %eep in tune with him if there is to be harmony in the democratic chestra—Indianapolis Star. or- Run For the Exercise. It Bryan should run again it would remind old-timers of a certain “race- horse” never known to win a purse, but eternally entered by his owners.— Knoxville Journal and Tribune. OBITUARY. Rev. Benjamin F. Benoit, Providence, R. L, Feb. 9—Rev. Ben- jamin F. Benoit, oldest French Bapt- in New England, died ternoon, a victim of the He was 72 years fAuenza epidemi Was Only Kidding Him. Possibly’ GGovernor Allen, of Arkan- the presidency because ‘William Allen rn in St. Anne, province of Que- Canada, in 1348, he was ordained h Baptist missionary at Web- ster, Mass, more than 35 years ago, and had been in active service since. After fifteen years at Webster, Rews| McManus, dean of the dental profes- sion in Connecticut, dieq at his home waved away he doubted whether White could deliver it. — Pittshurgh S Was to Be Expected. I When the mine operators say they |its establishment, and net, Marshal can’t absorb the 14 per cent. wage in- | Petain as previously announced, it means that they are pre- [ The Council will be com; paring to make the dear old public S soak it up—New Orleans States, Mr. Benoit was made general mission- ary for Massachusetts, a post which | here today at the age Tater he was| was graduated from thy be held for five yeas at Worcester, Mass. for five and at Putnam, Conn., for some time.| many papers ¥e asmes to this city @ 1916, Philadelphia dentistry and several ves two sons. books, He I . Treaty in Sent Back to the Foreign Re-| jons Committee — Will lations, ‘Washington, . Feb. :9—The peace treaty was formally brought back inte the open senate today but as soon as parlidmentary’ barriers ‘to its consider- ation 'had been removed it was put aside again for a period of waiting least a week. Suspending its rules by a bi-parti san majority of seven to one and vir- tually without debate, the senate re- by which ratification failed on Novem- at the last session of congress. ent legislative matter, it was said, in- ing a voice in opposition, can, Nebras] sent. A s By acclamation, and again on thy with_drawn . and aga . 8., S L firat | MOtion of the: republican leader, the Haioie thegarening fq shodt tho senate then ordered reconsideration of | f Erule b ts previous roll call on ratification ‘After distress signals had been set|!'S Pr . n and the crew quieted,«food and hot|ADd sent ihe treaty to a committee. When dawn came | The laticr step, it was explained, was | fhe conat guard came alongside, but |iaken to abrogate the cloture which the crew refused to leave in the life- | W2 y | hecause they could mot take their | Vice President Marshall held must v ' come back into the senate with the W s “fhe Treaty's recon. would bind no one and was reque: fbefore the nate for pos lican leader iscussion. tiord jcounty jail. It w the next week, fully | It was alleged that a new Russian work | newspaper was be under the direction of the University | Bridgeport plant.. One man was | rested in New York as he stepped es cor’- from a train with two suit ca st i——r COPYRIGHT PREAS ILLUSTRATING SERVICE, W Marshal Foch, who will be ap- pointed Vice-President of the French Superior War Council upon eleven members. L Lexington, Under Waral Law Murder and Been Sentenc- ed to Die March 11. Lexington, Ky, Feb, 9.—Martial law Dprevails here ionight, with 600 fed- eral and state troops patrolling the which during the day exacted a toll of four dead and fifteen wounded. Ly was quiet early tonight, but authorities fear a recurrence of vio- Five hundred additional Unit- ed States troops are én route from Camp Taylor, Lexington and all of Fayette county was placed under martial law at 3 oclock by Brigadier General F. Marshall ‘upon his arrival from Camp Taylor with 300 troops of the famous First Division, which helped repuise the Germans at Chatean Thierry. Rioting began this morning when a. mob bent upon lynching William Lock- ett, negro. who confessed to the mur- der last week of ten year old Geneva Hardman, was fired upon with rifles and machine guns by state militiamen stormed the courthouse during the negra's trial. The attempt to lynch Lockett was made just after he had confessed to the marder and as the jury found him gullty of murder in the first degree. He as “sentenced to die in the electric chair March 11, The shooting temporarily dispersed the mob and gave the authorities time to rush Lockett to a secret place of The mob reformed, however, and looted pawn shops and hardware stores to get fire arms. Fearing an attack upon the 300 na- tional guardsmen on duty, the authori- ties appealed to Governor Morrow for As a result, 300 troops, members of the Twenty-Sixth and Twenty-Eighth Infantry, arrived at three o'cock on a § Camp Taylor. immediately of patrolling the streets to keep crowds from-congregating. Lockett, arrested last Tuesday night, and held'in the state penitentiary at Frankfort for safe keeping, was in- dicted late last week and was brought | here on a special train this morning | He was heavily guarded. from the sur- which the leaders said would last at considered. in short order the action cluding appropriations and tariff leg- islation, were expected to occupy the was told today |senate's time in the interval. Barker| The complicated technical opera- who was in command of the skeleion |tion of taking the treaty from its pi- The 32 passengers|geonhole was accomplished in accord- and 28 memhbers of the crew had beer |ance with a programme previously taken off the previous day by the po-|agreed on by republican and demo. cratic leaders, and with no one but the irreconcilable foes of ratification rais- our democrats and twenty- nine republicans Voted to suspend the senate rules so that the treaty again could be considered while nine repub- licans, ail of them of the irreconcilable group, voted against it. The action was taken was taken on motion of Senator Lodge after one of the irre- concilables, Senator Norris, republi- , had blocked suspen- Officer. William | 5100 ©f the rules by unanimous con- pecial train from began the work Hundreds of farme rounding country arrived early to at-| tend the trial, and sullenly watched the marched from the train to the courthouse between lines | prisoner as he w imposed last session and which opened, the courtroom was crowded to . Lveryone was searched for before being admitted to the courthouse. Hundreds' were unable to gain ad- mittance to the courtroom and con- gregated in the ‘street in front of the| The cry “Lets get him" rmer on the outskirts of the crowd turned the crowd into a mob which began surging toward the en- to the building. Seldiers and po- biscK into close formation their guns on Only two roll calls were taken, one on the motion to suspend the rules and another on sustaiping the vice presi- dent when he overruled Senator Nor- ris’ point of order against the motion to reconsider the ratification vote. The latter resulted in a count of 62 to 10, the irreconcilables alone refusing fon, which bperates the steamer.|t0 back up the ruling of the chair, The railroad administration has dis- | Later Senator Norris made a_speech patched a vessel to stand guard over ! bitterly ecritici: 1h the abandoned steamship-andprevent-methods TR the pillaging of her car2o. Tonight a|sideration was accomplished. ng that the committee be in- | stru/cted to return the republican res- valu- | ervations along with the treaty ich are|ator Lodge declared the stipulation . ted | i8lmerely to get the reservations hack ble revision. When that has been .done, the repub- s expected to propose ! modifications agreed on by the dis- banded bi-partisan compromisé con- ference, thus opening again the whole air | field of compromise d which never ieneral Deweese, in com- mand of the militiamen, shouted & final warning to the crowd Sen- | It was the signal for the troops to fire. : nd police fired pointblank into the crowd and a nearby machine From the windo courthouse above another hail of hul- lets “spattered down on the ashphalt gun rattled. our men fell at the first volley. The mob, which had surgéd half way pressed back and broke. on ‘on the part of the au- Those killed in the clash were B. F, Carrier and L. M, King, both of Lex- ington, and John Thomas and Wi both of Versailles. the wounded was Mrs. K. Koiled in its Feb. 9.—Eight | Russians, who were arrested in| independently as well | Bridzeport last Frid : in a raid on a printing plant, were brought to. this, ap- | city tonight and locked up in the' as said | they wolld he given hearings within first attempt {o get the | prisoner, the mob broke up into small | crowds which paid hurried of the pawn shops and nardware stores t for fircarms. In somie stores as many as fifty or sixty revolvers and guns were seized. The word that regular army were coming spread rapidl and no further violence was attempt- g printed at the| was ar- | Lockett's arrest,, indictment, sets a new He was arrest- and sentenc taining copies of the publication. Fif- teen suit cases of literature were and was tried, found guilty minutes to- Under his sentence he will die in_the electric chair March 11. The little Hardman g found mutilated in a Tuesday morning soon after she had left her home for s been crushed in with a stone and her Her head had discharged from the army, was suspected and posses were formed immediately to look for him. He was found at the home of a miles from the murder late that night. Police an- nounced that the negro had confess- ed to the murder, adding that he * not know” why he had killed the girl. It became known tonight that Loci ett was not taken out of the court- is confined there under heavy guard. During the excite- ment the impression prevailed that he bhad been taken out of the city. He will be removed to the state ra= formatory at Frankfort or to the state penitentiary Iy as possible. Knots -of men gathered 8treets tonight an discussed the day’s Their temper apparently had cooled and there that they would resort again to law- Rurmors that a band of 1,309 anoun- tainecrs from Breathitt couny, heavily were on a train bound for Lexington and would make an effort to seize the negro were @iscredited by vey of the passengers on the be carrying the moun- tain men showed only a normal num- ber aboard, military men said. Twelve outposts of troops are duty in the warehouse district tonight and all roads into the city are being guarded, Brigadier General The commander said he ex. Ppected no further trouble. supposed ' to !| GOV. MORROW HAS SIGNED DEATH WARRANT/ T rankfort, Ky., 9.—Governor Lockett's death warrant. chair at the st3.2 pemitentiary here March 11 $400,000 Fire at Greenwich. Greenwich, Conn., Feb. 9—Fire to- night destroyed the home of Waiter C. Gondensed Teiegrams New York funds at Montreal are at $1.J7, with sterling at $3.90. A Peace negotiations between England and Soviet Russia are progressiis. Tanners' Council Association re- ported 1919 leather eXports valued at British government contracted for the %Lal exportable surplus of Argen- tine butter supph " Armour Leather Co, filed articles of {incorporation at Dover, Del. with a capital of $50,000,000. ‘ ‘Bar silver at 89d touched a new high record in London, compared with $1.32 1-4 in New York. It was learned at Washington that Swnator Hiram Johnson was ill from iniluenza at his home. 5 It is reported American liquor inter- ests, because of prohibition, are seek* ing a new field in China. Edward H. Clement, ex-editor of the Boston Transeript, died of heart dis- ease at bis homé in Concord, Mass. According to reports from Washing- ton, Willlam Jennings Bryan will be on the staff of the anti-saloon league. Destroyer Carlo. Alberto Racchia, while on its way from Brindisi to Pola, was seized by forces of D'An- nunzio, Industrial reorgani. in Ameri- ca in order that “our civilization may forge ahead,” was urged by Secretary of War Baker. a s ke Seventy Sinn Fein prisoners, closely guarded, were shipped /for England from Queenstow; are conducting a search throughout stolen from the mmils. slight touch of influenz his schedule in his spection tour of army posts. Steamship Maine, aground at Exe- standing by ready to float her. abuse at Toledo. were captured in Sfberia. They tive at Comenhagen. prisonment, or both, emperor to the allies. sented to act provisionally cil of the league of nations. whea the askipg sanction for such action. transferred from the New Yor to $6! to Switzerland. as ruler of Greece.’ Ohio railroad for annual rental of 22, with annual rental, at $1,703,179. Iieutenant Pierre Bodj army officér, who is with her now. Completing the task of ma; December checks, totailing $23 the burean of war risk an- nounced that isuance* of compensation checks to disabled former service men had been placed on a current basis. the University of Pennsylvania since January, 19111, tendered his resigna- tion to the board of trustees al its monthly meeting _yesterday. The board declined to aoccept the resigna- tion. The prohibition forces of the coun- try will ‘“gladly accept the chal- lenge of the ‘wets' at the conventions of the political parties,” if they at- tempt to force a “wet” plank in the platforms, Wayne Wheeler, general counsel of the anti-saloon league, de- clared. Entire [confidence that the legal battle now staged in the supreme court over tae legal soundness of the constitutional amendment to enforce prohibition will -he #n by anti-pro- hibition forces was expressed at Washington by attorneys attacking the amendment. MANITCBA SUFFERS BY HIGH RATE OF EXCHANGE ‘Winnipeg, Man., Feb. 9.—The prov- ince of Manitoba will lose several hundred thousand dollars in paying provincial loans on the .New York market as a result of the high rate of exchange, according to a statement made today by Edward Brown, pro- vincial treasurer. .This covers the two loans amounting te $60,500,000 which have been paid and another Joan of $1,000,000 which is not vet due. He declared that this loss will be offset hy the purchase of English sterling 'In the Tondon market, SUBSCRIPTION TO TREASURY CERTIFICATES §304,877,000 ‘Washington, Feb, 9.—Subscriptions to the last issue of treasury certifi- cates of ipdebtedness. sales of which Teagle, president of the Standard Ofl company of New Jersey. Th . " estimated at $400,000. closed on Februa « totalled $304,~ 877,000, B.cl'.‘-ll',)'r{l¢ oudston anhounced tonight. & aboard two naval vessels which sailed Postal authorities at Madison, Wis., the state for $20,000 in Liberty bonds, General Pershing, as a result af a reducing untryside in- cution Reef, is not badly damaged and resting easily. Several tugs are A degree of divorce was granted to Mrs. Lulu E. Wilson from John Flem- 'ing Wilson, author and playwright. Mrs. Wilson charged intoxication and British, French and ltalian missions are being treated well, according to M. Litvinoff, the bolsheviki representa~ A new law was put into effect by the state of Maine which makes per- s found guilty of profiteering in necessities of life liable to fine or im- Dutch second thamber of parlia- ment passed a resolution expressing| satisfaction with the government’s re- fusal to surrender tihe former German At the request of Premier Lloyd George, Arthur J. Balfour has con- s British representative on the executive coun- Possibility of a Canadian railway strike became known in' Cleveland sanadian general commiftee sent a letter to union headquarters Gold /coin amounting to $260,000 was sub- | treasury to .San Franciseco for shios ment o China. Gold- bars amounting 53 were engagzed for, shipment Elio Panas, former governor of | Northern Eyrus, declared in Rome;on the necessity fof a readjustment of “the people are only waiting the April | these prices in all fields, elections to overthrow Premier Ven- izelos and restore King Constantine . 4 : s - In Party Caucus They Adhere to Former Action, 106to 1 Against Universal Military Training—Vote Came Af a Three Hour Discussion Behind Closed Doonq—l’mdfa': " dent Wilson Had Asked That Action Be Withheld Sa the Party’s Stand Could Be Left to Its National Conven< tion. - ‘Washington, Feb, 9. — Rejecting President Wilson's ' advice, house democrats in caucus tonight went on record as- opposed to uniyersal mili- tary traming by a vote of 106 to 17 The president, in letters to demo- cratie = leaders earlier in the day, asked that action be withheld so the party's stand might be left to its na- t.onal convention. The rejection of the president’s ap- peal was double in its scope, for be- fore declaring against military train- ing the caucus rejected, 8§ o 37ra proposal that all action on, the -ques- tion' be deferred “at this time.” This te came after a three hour discus- ion behind closed doors, and imme- diately afterward on the straightout jon universal training advocates ndled to seventeen. “It is the sense of this caucus,” declured the _resolution, “that mo measure should be passed Dy this congress providing _for universal compulsory military service or train- ing.” Fhough not binding on the demo- cratic membership of the house, the caucus decision was “interpreted by Representative Caldwell of New York, who led the fight against the s caucus action, as precluding the pose §ibility of universal training beingihe cerporated in the army reorganiza< tion bill that will soon be before congress. In a formal states ment after the conference, he said: “Unless * there is considerabl(’ change in sentiment on the demo< cratic side of the house, it is quile parent there are not enough res publicans who favor universal traine ing to include it in the reorganizas’ tion bill. { Nevertheless, it is anticipated tha§ both, house and senate will have to vote on the universal training propo~« sal, for it is inciuded in the senata - bili and Representative Kahn, res publican, California, chairman of the house military committee which i framing the house bill, reiterated to. night his intention of pressing adop= tion of the plan. b President = Wilson , in his letter, which was presenteq at the cau after being made public during thea day, declared any action that woul make the proposal a party issus would be “unfortunate. Debate in the caucus by those fa voring universal training, the president’s stand. BANCATRY ATTRIBUTED TO CARRANZA SOLDIERS 01 Paso] Texas, Feb. 9—Further testimony attributing banditry in, the Big Bend dstrict of the Rio Grande valley, to Carranza soldiers was given today to the semate Sub-committee conducting an_investigation of con- ditions by Colonel George T. Lang- horne, of the' Eighth Cavalry, com= manding in that district until Octo- ber, 1919 i : In connection with a chronological history of disorders for a year, Colo- nel Langhorne saig few of the raids had been* perpetrated by ordinary border smugglers, cattle thieves and bandits, but on numerous occasions evidence .was. abundant that they were planned and participated in by Carranza's troops. Some decrease in the number of |raids now is attributable, the colonel thought,’ to the decrease in the num- bver of cattle. He said so many had been Kkilled or driven off that raids hag become less profitable. 5 While he was ifi the district he ‘ef- fécted a civilian _organization, he said, which, assisted materially _in appressing ~border disturbances. The farmers and. residents of towns: held their automobiles ready for the transportation of troops when a call was made and it was in that way a troop of the Eighth Cavalry was able to get 1o the scene of the Bright raid on Christmas day, 1917, in a few minutes after the alarm.had reached | his headquarters. SOFT COAL OPERATORS® PROTEST FIXED PRICES Washington, Feb. 9—Protests of a great number of bituminous operators that they are incurring a lass under the present maximum fixed prices and the 14 per cemt. wage increase to| miners, led the coal strike settlement commission today to decide on ap- | pointment bf a_specialscommittee to | begin the compilation of data bearing Apnouncing that the purpose-of the committee was solely to facilitate con- A contract was signed by Director General Hines with th- Mobile &| {cluded that new price levels were ne. {essary. Appointment of the commi | tee, however, following the representa- | | tion of current losses by many ope Mme. Lydia Lipkowska arrived at New York from Odessa, Russia, after a_thrilling escape from the bolsheviki. DG “ She was rescued by her husband, | 0TS Was accepted as a s ., a French| g out 562,420, Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith, provost of commission, Chairman Robinson em- phasized that the commission was yet entirely without authori u |any readjustment of prices . i 597475. He also Signed a contract | iy e A L with the Alabama Great Southern | authority, he said, would be only the commi; asked for sion finally con- by dication that the comm: a readjustment of prices to the public must be included in its final settle- ment. Il be represented the opera- will be announced tomorrow. HAS BEEN NO MUTINY ON ANY WAR DEP'T TRANSPORT Washington, Feb. 9.—Denial that mutiny has occurred on any war de- partment transport was made today by Sécretary Baker in a letter to Chairman Kahn of the house military committee. Mr, Baker said charges in | resolution introduced by Representa- tive Britten, republican, Llincis, of inefficient, = unseaworthy, mutinous, dangerous and almost murderous op- eration of transports” were “unjust.” Referring to the case of the trans- port America, which docked at New York last December ' with thirteen members of the crew under arrest, the cretary said they were charged with “certain’ derelictions of duties,” in- cluding theft. Evidence against only one of the thirteen was sufficient to hold him after the ship docked, he added, the others being punished at sea. s No evidence indicates that the ac- cident to the Powhatan was the de- Liberate act of bolshevism aboard that vessel.” Wrote the secretary, referring to the recent plight of that transport, which was tewed to Halifax. 13,700 SNOW SHOVELERS AT WORK IN NEW YORK New York, Feb. 9.—More-than 13,- 700 snow shovelers, 1000 emergéncy trucks and a steam shovel made up the army which today forced a r treat of much of the smow and ici which has choked New York's street! for narly a week. Two soldier finge throwers, attacked seteral hN\__.d square feet of snow in a test ai wech Streec andl Central Park, but proved of littie use in the day's -warfare. All traffic, except of an emergency nature, was banished from numerous thoroughfares while the battle with the snow continued but by nightfall approximately normal conCitions pre- vailed. With the exception_of Man- hattan’s “third rail” surface cars, put out of business by eclogzed “slots” in the streets, trolley timusportation was resumeq generally . deration of the price question by the | 1o order| il the senate amended it so as to | provide for the turning over of the TYLER SUGGESTS REFORMS IN OPERATION OF RAILROADS Washington, Feb. - 9.—Reviewing® “the efficiencies and economies ac= complished in varous phases of rail= road operation by the railroad admin- istration” W. T. Tyler, director of the division of operations, recommended. in his annual report today to Direc- tor General Hines that “many effec-, tive reforms” be continued after roads are returned to private control March 1. His recommendations in clude: g That arrangements be made to se up, at least 'in skeletonized form, the organization necessary to control thethe movesfent of traffic to and v ports whenever traffic conditio warrin by th placing of em and the issuance of permits, That every effort be made to con. tinue and extend the pooling of laks and tidewater tolls: the railroads maintaining the necessary organiza. tion at all times to handle traffie in Ppooled. That the raflroads cohtinue work of establishing uniformity rules governing car supply for | various important commodities han-| dled. That the campaign for the effective utilization of equipment by heavier loading be continued. That the co-ordination of terminald be made a continuing policy for railroads. That the centralized control of be continueq under proper limitations and the central organizations of thei railroads themselve: 3 A T SENATE VOTES TO ABOLISH i * HOUSING CORPORATION; Washington, Feb. 9—A bill by Sen ator Fernald, republican, of Maine,| abolishing the Housing Corporation. and transferring its affairs to th treasury department on June 30 next,| was passed by the senate today. now goes to the house, The bill was drafted by Sénaf [Fernald after the public buildlng]’ committee of which he is chairman,| had held extensive hearings upon :he‘ s housing situation and conducted an investigation of the corporation’s ac-' tivities. 3 Before taking final action upon the houses and dormitories constructed by the corporation at the naval reser- vationt at Indian Head, Mr., at Charles. town, W. Va., and aj thy Puget Sount navy. vard at Bremertca, Washn., to the treasury department instead of the ntial in- | navy department as proposed by the sion believes | committee. Without a reeord vote the senate also adopted the committee provisions authorizing the secretary ef | war to turn over to the Public Health| Personnel of the committee, upon | | which w | tors, miners and the public, probably Service such surplus nospital furni=i ture and medical supplies as may be. required by the health service hOSpi- tals. . ACTION SUGGESTED FOR , 4 PAN-AMERICAN SOCIETY New York, Feb. 9.—Extension. of! the activities of the Pan-American society by the establishment this year of a council in each of the large cities of the United States was de- cided upon at the eighth annual meeting of the organization here to- day. It is proposed to increase the| usefulness of the society and to ob- ' tain a more general distribution of . data on lLatin-America by means of: these .councils, John Bassett Moore was re-elected| /| president of the society ang Secres . tary of State Lansing and Ignacio’ Bonillas, ambassador from Mexico, were elected honorary - presidents. ' Other officers elected included Elihu Root, L. S, Rowe, Archer M. Hllnt'-" ington, F. Hurley and Maor Gen-.| eral Williara Gorgas as honorary: vice presidents. LIQUOR FOR CLUBS FOR CULINARY PURPOSE! New York, Feb. 9—Permits to keep. a stock of wines and liqlors on hand for culinary purposes have been ob- tained or applied for by nearly every large club, hotel and restaurant in" New York, it was stated at the office " of. the collector of internal revenus here tonight. ‘Filing of applications for permits to keep llguor in other than in the home of the owner, will close tomorrow night, LIST OF AMERICANS CAPTURED BY BOL & Washington, Feb. 8—A con port from Harbin today gave m lowing list of Americans as n captured by the bolsheviki at inskaya, Siberia, but contained tails or initials: -