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3 VOL. LXII—NO. 38 CONN, THURSOAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1920 WAGE DEMANDS OF RALLWAY EPLOY AGAN T0 6D BEFORE PRESIENT WLSON Director General Hines Has Been Unable to Reach an Agree- ment With the Union Officials—The Appeal to the Pres- igent Was Taken at the Request of the Union Leaders— Has Decided to Place Claims and Proposals of the Em- ployes Along With His Own Before the President For Refusal to Grant the Employ- s’ Demands Was Based on the Fact That Federal Con- trol Soon Will Cease. Washington, Feb, 11.—Failing to reach an agreement with the repre. seftatives of the more than 2,00000 raliroad employes on demands for in creased wages, Director General Hines| dec:ded tonight to submit the whole case to President Wilson for decision. The appeal to the president is to be ken ai tae request of the union ders after they had conferred wiin Hines for two hours late today and after he bad informed them there was no Lope of an agreement under | present condition. Mr. Hines will, send to the White House tomorrow | the Statementé of the unions togetho: with his own representations in the controversy. o The presiflent thus is called on to determine whether the government! grant' the increased wages or transfer the wage demand controversy | o tae corporations soon lo regain 1 of their properties. bmission of the claims apd argu- to the president, while tempo- general negot! an a final break. ation officials ex- » members of Mr. staff nor the union spokesme: i i Hines indicated they felt that a deadioex had 4o g authouga the discussions | were ended. Resardiess of the pres-. ident’s decision in the matter, the con- | te ned out after re- turn_of the railroads through mach t up by pending leg- siaston. = 4 Mr. Hines' refusal to grant the em-; jcyes’ demands apparently w based | the fac! 1at_federal con- | socn will uride: »od to have kept ' ntly before e! er with the argu i be unfair to thel| d stocik | te revenues | conference had not solved | cbiems before it, the real is ses involved now were more clearly ! developed them at any time since the | demands were first presented ! Jmly. In expianation of his ac- : director general issued the owing statement: ince February 3, the director gen- bas had frequent conferences with the chiel executives of the rail- road labor organizations for the pur- pose of devisiug means for disposing | 3 the pending ciaims for wage in- i these conferences the labor organizations f have xprssed their wiews with great| ability and frankness. ‘The director eneral has not been able to agree with them as to how the problem hould be disposed of in view of the early termination of federal control, and is now laying before the president theé representations of the executivs of the organizations and also his own report for the purpose of obtaining the fresident’s decision in the premis- es In any event, the conferences have been decidedly hlpful in bringing out a clearer development as to the real issues Masplved and as to the charact- er of evidence pertinent to those is- sues and the discussion throughout bhas been characterized by courtesy as well as candor and with a sincere pur- i pose on the part of all to try to find a solution.” At the White House late tonight it as £aid that Director General Hines would present the data in the contro- versy to Secretary Tumulty tomorrow morping aid that it would be sent to the president immediately. Submission of the matter to the president was in accordance with ‘in- ‘ormation given out earlier in the day at the White House that after making a decision in the matter Mr. Hines would report to the president. While the director general was said not to have made any final answer to the aion leaders, his statement of @ agreement with their claims could be considered as a definite answer. The separate grievances and claims of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men were not included by Mr, Hiaes in the data sent to the/ White House. The director | W. G. Lee, president of the trainmen, | will confer again tomorrow with Mr. Hines. In a statepent tonight, President Lee declared that the government had not succeeded in reducing the cost of y the campaign begun Ilast c and he, therefore , felt he could no longer hold the demands in nce. e trainmen,” said Lee. “take the tion that more than a reasonable e has since elapsed and that -the cost of living. has not been-redured, but instead has been increased since that time, and that it is now up 10; the federd] government to. make good the pledge. made by the prsident in.his letter of last August as understood by iabor. T expect to get the written answer of the director general to the train- ‘men’s request at the next conference with him, after which the special com- mittee of twenty officers and general! chairman, authorized by the inter- ! national convention of the brother- hood to handle the subject, will take inal action relative to its disposition.” TRAFFIC IN NEW YORK ! STILL HAMPERED BY SNOW| 11.--For the first| surface cars lower Broadway | in ts of the city, but they | They were | off the | carried wurk cars sent out 1o dig ic no passenge trucks and were followed by hun- dreds of uniformed motormen and conductors armed with pioks, shov- els and scrapers. When service will be resumeq remains problematical. | A bright sun again today helped] the street pleaning army to open the thoroughfares, but Arnold McStay, streét cledning commissioner, saxq it would be at least a fortnight before the streets are free from snow and | ice -even if there are no more storms. Al traffic was barred from Lafayette street today so that one lateral thor- oughfare could be cleaned for vehicu- jar traffic. The menace to health has become so grave that Health Commissioner Copéland suggested that individyals! owning trucks or care carry’ their garbage (o the city dumps. Several of the large buildings in Jower Manbattan emploved hot water and Jive stcam carried from boilers, by pipe lines to melt away ice cov- ering coal chutes and basement en- tranges. The water front Streets were filled with struggling masses of motor trucks and horse-drawn vehicles. DEVELOPMENTS IN SOCIALIST ASSEMBLYMEN HEARING Albany, X. . 11—The close of today’s session of the trial before ‘he assembiy judiciary committee of ihe five suspended socialist assembly- men charged with disloyalty was marked by two developments—denial 9y Chairman Martin of preliminary notione by the defense to strike out aearly half the evidence introduced 7 the state and an ineffectual effort 3y Assemblyman William W. Pellett, sommittee member, to have that body tecommend to the assembly dismis- sl of all charges on the ground of nsufficient proof. Mr. Pelleit, a New York republican, sroposed dismissal at an executive jmsion ealled at his request after the searing had been adjourned until next Cuesday on motion by the defense. Shairman Martin, who made light of ibe Pellett action, stated after the nee;x that “only an informal dis- had taken Jiace, and that it then had been tabled Tuesday. Mr. Pellett Mr. Martin, and no vote was taken. LLAVE'S FATE IN HANDS OF 'PRESIDENT CARRANZA Vera Cruz, Mexico, Feb. 1L—The urtmartial which has been trying Gaudencio de la Liave, the federsl_general recently cap- ile ledding rebels, has been i i by order of President tarranza and the prisoner placed at he tion of the president. It is telieved that the general will be wought to Mexico City and judged Mm. 1.a Liave is T 1a De 1a ve 'S years ol have been made in REV. HENRY W. STOUGH 2 ACKNOWLEDGES INDISCRETION Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 11.—Rev. Hen- ry W. Stough, of Wheaton, Ill, an evangelist, who is acdused of having declared in one of his sermons that|120 per cent, in a short y in | period. the American ar France were “scum ang riffraff,” left| here today after being relieved of : his_four:weeks contract in an evan- gelistic campaign by cooperating clergymen. Local ex-service men forced the is- sue, as they took exception to the following remarks attr.buted to -the evangelist “When the draft law came into op- eration every class of society from the best homes in America through all grades of society down to the riff- raff and the scum were included. In the name of patriotism, Christian ents permitted their girls to dance many men of { | in the arms of these men because they wore the khaki, not -realizing that khaki does not change charae- tes Rey. Stough acknowledged making| the statement to a committee of the | local American Legion post. He said| it was ill-timed and made an apology | for it. He declared his heart was loyal to the flag and the nation. CONDITIONS ARE NORMAL IN LEXINGTON, KY, Lexington, Ky. Feb. 11.—Although General Francis C. Marshall, military governor of Lexington, declined to make a etatement as to when the five hundred federal troops stationed in this city would leave for Camp Taylor, indications tonight were that the entire contingent will be on its way to Loulsville before noon Thurs- day. Conditions throughout the city are normal. Lexington is stjll technically under martial law, althéugh all military re- strictions were removed today. Five of the victims of Monday morning’s rioting were buried this afternoon, three here and two at Ver- sailles, Ky. Funeral _services for James Massengale of Lexington, shot through the left lung during the riot and who died at a local hospital this afternoon, Fave not been announced. No other Geaths are expecte@. WOOD WOULD ACCEPT LODGE RESERVATIONS Chicago, Feb. 11—General Leonard Weood replying today to the request of Senator William E. Borah for views of republican presidential candidates on the league of nations and the peace treaty, said he believed “wé should ac- cept the league of nations as modified and safeguarded by existing Lodge reservations.” DEP'T STORE IN-NEW HAVEN DAMAGED $60,000 BY FIRE New Haven, Con: Feb. 12—Fire [ ever before, the quantities brought in- |to the country advancing from. 7,000,- | Cabled Paragraphs Schlefwig Plebiscite. Copenhagen, Feb, 11.—While the plebiscite in the %irst Schleswig zone passed off without any serious trouble the rejoicings in Copenhagen were marked by isolated outbreaks of rody- ism. These culminated in a police statidn being stormed, the police as- saulted hnd persons arrested for dis- orderly conduct released. Between midnight and three o'clock this morn- ing huge enthusiastic crowds assem- bled in the town hall square. The crowds marched to the King's palace singing and cheering for Schleswig's new sovereign, who, it is expected, will shortly cross the old border mounted on a white charger. v Armistice Concluded. London, Feb. 11.—The conclusion of an armistice by the Letts with the| bolsheviki is announced in a despatch received here this evening from Ri- ga. TO MAKE ELECTION iN MEXICO' PEACEFUL { Mexico City, Feb. 11—The seventeen { governors and provisional governors of the republic who.have been conferring | here, at their concluding session to- day issued a lengthy manifesto to the governors of the rious states manifesto says, will be responsible for | law and order within their jurisdie- | tions during the election period. | Twelye fundamenta] measures for fair_elections were adopted by ~ the; governors. These include non-partici- | patton of the federal army in the elec- tions; a gharantee of the right of suf- frage; non-participation in the elec- tions by public officials and others de- pendent up the executive: a special | provision as to when and how soldiers | may vote and an arrangement by {which a fair.counting of the votes will | | be assured. HIGHER FOREIGN PRICES INCREASE IMPORTATION Washington, Feb. 11— High prices of the products of for- eign countries have apparently no ter- rors for the people of the United States. Does coffee dogble in price? The people of the United® States calm. Iy increase the quantity imported and | treble the sums paid for it. Does 3u- | { gar advance 50 to 1000 per cent. in| price? They increase the quantity im- ported and consume a larger total than 600,000 potmds in 1918 to 10,000,000,000 pounds in 1919, and the wholesale price paid _therefor from - $375,000,000 to $530,000,000. Do hid and skins sho\v; an increase of 50 to 75 per cent.? The | gnantity imported doubles and the| sums paid for the grand total trebles. Do diamonds and other precious stones increase in price per carat? The| quantity still further. increases an the total imports jump from $50,000,~ 000 in 1918 to $100,000,000 in 1915. There are some of the facts revenled | by an analysis by The National City Bank of New York of the latest import i figures—figures which show an in- | crease in stated values of our imports |from $1,778,000,000 in 1915 to $3,904,- 1000,000 in 1919, an increase of a four Prices abroad, says the bank's state- ment, of many articles have doubled ince the close of the war, but this fact has not deterred the people of the Unitted States in their importation of these higher price articles, but appar- ently has rather stimulated consump- tion than otherwise. Coffee, as every- body knows, has more than doubied in the import price in the single year 1919, advancing from less than 1lc per pound in November 1918 to 24c per pound in September 1919, yet the quantity of coffee brought into the United States in the year just ended is greater than in any earlier year in the history of the trade, and ‘the im- port valie in 1919 exceeds $250,000,000 as against $99,000,000 in 1918. The price of cocoa jumped from 10c per pound in November 1918 to 20c per pound in August 1919, yet the quan- tity imported in 1919 exceeds that of the preceding year, and the sums paid in 1819 are practically 50 per cent. greater than in 1918, Sugar, as every- body knows, has reached a price hith- erto unheard of, at least®in the mem- ory of the present generation, and hard to get at that, yet all ‘the sugar authorities now agree with the state- ment _that the quantity consumed in the United States in 1919 is “the big- gest ever”, while official figures of the government show that the sums paid for that entering the ports of the Unit- ed States in 1919 (including that from our own islands) is approximately $540,000,000 against approximately $350,000,000 in 1918, and-$157,000,000 in the year preceding the war. In. manufacturing materials the ad- vance in prices has been us great as that of foodstuffs, but this has not de- terred the purchase from abroad. Raw silk, for example, shows an advance in import price from $5.89 per pound in December 1918 to ‘an average of $9.10 per pound in November 1919, and yet the quantity imported in 1919 is one- third more than in the preceding year, and the value of the importation about $350,000,000 in 1919 against $194,000,- 000 in 1818. Calf skins, for which the leather consliming population seemed to have suddenly developed a special taste, have advanced in price from 18c per pound in November 1918 to 67c per pound in November 1919, and notwith- standing this quadrupling in price, the quantity imported has jumped from less than 8,000000 pounds in 1918 to 65,000,000 pounds in 1915; and the value of the imports from $3,000,000 in 1918 to approximately- $35,000,000 in 1919, Goatskins more than doubled in im- port price, advancing from an average of 42¢ per pound in December 1918 to 93¢ per pound in November 1919, yet the quantity 1 jujmped from 62,000,000 pounds in 1318 to 125,000,000 early this morning in the Edward Mal- ley Company department store caused damage estimated at $60,000, The flames originated in the store on the third floor, where grease caught fire. Water and smoke caunsed most of the loss, mainly in the shoe and rug departments. Denmark has about $5 head of eat- Washington's birthéay, and fllt.e‘ml.lnhflhmd pounds in 1919, and the value of the importations from $30.000,000 in 1918 Danbury—At a meeting of the mer. unfllehn;lllfllechmb&ofm:m. Monday, Feb. in" observance of also om Fridwy, April 2. | indication of the path along which the | - Providing For 5 Cent. ot ‘Washington, Teb. 11.—First definite declaration of an effort to amend the Volstead act, which limits the alco- holic content of beverages to one-half of one ver cent, was made in the house today by Representative Vare, republican, Pennsvivania, who an- nounced that at the next’session of congress he would’ introduce a bill providing for the sale of five per cent. beer. GOV. EDWARDS ANSWERS BRYAN AND PALMER 1 Trenton, N. J., Feb. 11—Answering William J. Bryan's latest attack on him by declaring that pepsonal liberty is involved in the question of prohi- bition, and not merely to get a drink, Governor Edwards fonight issued a statement intimating ' that = Bryan's “hysterics” about prohibition was sim- ply a mask to cover an attack on Dem- ocratic National Chairman Cummings, who, the governor said. was a “form- idable obstacle” to the Nebraskian's political designs. Mr. Edwards reit- erated his determination to take the matter of prohibition before the dem- ocratic national convention. “I' it be true” Governor Edwards said, “that the remote places and the wilderness are able to send enough delegates to this convention, who either blindly or stubbornly will b Now Diaftof A tce " abolsh fixed prices for wheat harvest- Ten Reservation ‘Washington, Feb. 11.—Steps to eliminate many collateral issues of the peace treaty fight were taken today on the floor of the senate while ne- gotiations were being resumed pri- yately for a compromise on the two principal points remmining in . contro- versy, Article Ten and the Monroe Doctrine. { Modification of eight of the fourteen republican reservations on the basis of agreements by the bi-partisan conference and-in a way said to be satisfactory’ to many democrats was propose@ formally by Senator Lodge of Massachesetts republican leader.. Four of the remaining six are said to have been already accepted without change by the democratic leaders, laving those which relate to Arifle Ter and the Monroe Doctrine as the only subjects of serious disagreement. Progress also was claimed in fne Article Ter negotiations a_new draft of the reservations being declared by the mild reservation republicans to have received approval from Senator Lodge and from some democratic friends of the treaty. The draft was denounced by ‘Senator Hitcheock of Nebraska, the democratic leader, how- er, as constituting “not a compromise but a surrender” and much doubt re- mained as to its uitimate acceptance. The new reservations said to have been drafted by a democrat, would NORWICH DOLLA e i Saturday, February 14th THE GREATEST mjr IN THE YEAR FOR BARGAINS R DAY o G eject from the convention those who esire for each state a doctrine of per- sonal liberty, then this is only another democratic party i November - elections.’ Replying to Attorney General Pal- mer's atiack on him on the prohibi- tion question, the governor said that the people would have little fatih in Mr. Palmer’s prophesies, since his declaration that the deal he had made with the packers would force food prices down had been foliowed by higher prices. to tread in the | “LET THE PROHIBITIONISTS SHOVEL THE SNOW™| New York, Feb. 11—The difficult; that this city has had in obtainin snow shovelers was given a new' ex- planation today when numerous signs were stuck in the snowbanks through- | out the city carrying such inscriptions | as “No beer, no work,” i prohibitionists shovel the | was forecast to part of the deny this nation's obligation to pre- serve the inegrity of other - league members “by the use of ‘its military or nava forces, or by the economic boycott, or by any other means’ un- less congress acted in each speeific case. Under the original republican draft the denial of th article's obliga- tions i? mge directly and without tae use of tl explanatory - la ki Y nguage Senator Lodge's move in_proposing a plan agreed on by republican lead- ers several days ago. Not all of the changes embodied in his proposal had been accepted by the ~democrats the bi-partisan conference, it said, and some, democratic opposition revised rogramme. The general impression in most quarters. however, was that these differences could be disposed of without extended debate. The disagreement over the Mon- roe Doctrine also was thrown into the A snow meiting machine, which | threw streams of burning oil and| which was said to have been used on| Canadian ralways with success was| tried on the snow barriers today but| proved a failure. Firemen condemned ' the apparatus on the ground of the danger of the burning oil flowing into ! the sewers or being scattered by a| strong wind. BAY STATE “DRY” TOWNS CONTINUE TO VOTE LICENSE Boston, Feb. 11.—Although town meetings nowadays have only an| academic interest in liquor licenses, three towns in this state reported | vesterday a shift in sentiment from | aridity of long standing to theoretical license. Provincetown yesterday re- turned the first license majority in its{ long history with a record of “Yes” | 206; “No” 162 as cempared with last| year’s vote of “Yes” 60; “No” 130. Tyringham in the western part of the state also went license for the first time and Stockbridge, seat of the fashionable summer colony in the Berkshires, which has been a steady advocate of no-license, voted license 112 to 79, REPORT OF DEATH OF BARON EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD New York, Fleb. 11—A report of the death of Baron Edmond De Rothschild has just been received from Paris by the Zionist organization of America, according to an announcement made by the organization here tonight. Bar- on Rothschild was 74 years old and the head of the French branch of the fa- mous banking house. The activities of the late baron in helping Jews from Russia and Roumania establish col- onies in Palestine made his name widely known. : His most successful achievements in the Holy Land were the founding of Petach Tikwah and Rishon Le Zion| colonjes noted for their grape-growing industry. : | obligation to background, the leaders apparently be- i _V@I;;xg _t‘ha( it might be adjusted quickly if a compromise wer - ed on Article Ten. e There was no debate on the treaty during the day's 'session, Senator Lodge presented his proposed modi- fications withayt comment except that he desired to have them printed for consideration when the treaty formal- ly comes before the senate again next week. He made no statement regard- ing the new Article Ten reservation but the mild reservaticnists declared they were hopeful that later he would presen? it also. The text of this res- ervation follows. “The United States assumes no o g Dreserve by the use of its military or naval forces. or by the goonomic boycott or by any other eans, the territorial integrity or po- litical independence of ~any . othtr country or to interefere in contro- vensies between nations—whether members of the'league or not—under th provisions of Article 10, or to em- bloy the military or naval forces of the United States under any article of the treaty for any purpose unless in any particular case the congress, which under the constitution has the sole power to declare war, shall by act or j@nt resolution so provide.” KOLCHAK WAS EXECUTED BY HIS OWN TROOPS Tondon, Feb. 11.—Admiral Kolchak was executed by his own troops to prevent his rescue by white troops moving in the direction of Irkutsk for that purpose, according to a Copen- hagen despatch to the Herald. The Moscow soviet sent a wireless mes- sage asking his captors to spare his life, but the appeal was too late. The Moscow wireless gervice on Jan. 31 transmitted an extract from an article from the official bolshevik organ Pravda which said: “Only a few days aso Supreme Ruler Kolchak was hoisted on his sol- dlers’ bayonets.” DENIES INHERENT RKIH:T OF WORKERS TO STRIKE ‘Washington, Feb. 11—Denial that any group of organized workers pos- sess an inherent right to strike is con- tained in a memorial to congress, formulated today at a conference here of representatives of four large farm- ers’ organizations, the Nz Grange,| the American Farm Bureau Federa- tion, the Cotton States Board and. the Association of State * Union Presidents. 3 KILLED MESSENGER AND GOT $30,000 PAYROLL ol ‘Washington, Feb. 11.—Theft of the $30,000 payroll of the Aguilar Oil com- pany at Tampico, Mexico, by robbers who killed the messenger carrying the money to the company’'s refinery and wounded. three other men on the street car where ‘the holdup took place was 'reported today- to the statedepart- ment. The commpany, is a British cor- : but has ~many - American ‘stockholders. The robbers escaped imto the brush . 3 modifications was in aceordance with | wa "A shortage of coal for schoals- and hospitals was reported in Boston. The French cabinet decided to ed in 1920. Unfilied orders of the United States Steel corporation on January 31 were 9,285,441 tons. i\ ly §7,500,000 in gold bullion had be:s“:-: b at New York for ship- ment to South America early next week. A general ‘strike has been declared in u.! industrial region of Solingen an iron and steel center of Rhenish Prussia. Directors of the United ':'III‘; c,:“ increased to 12 per cent. the A fi:’:‘.fi rate on the capital stock of the company. Egypt is “bursting with wealth” ac- cumutated from cotton, says a corre- spodent of the London Daily Express in Cairo, It was authoritatively _ denisd that Germany had informed Belgium of the annuiment of the Germano- Belgian financial agreement. The Japanese government is nego- tiating with the Alexandrovsk author- ities for the evacuation of the Japan- ese populaties from the city. Advices from Fiume announce that preparations are being made - there for resistance against a compromise! settlement of the Adriatic dispute. Notices which are being sent to alumni of Wesleyan university give information that the ‘group plan” of | future class reunions has been adopt- ed. Spontaneous combustion in cotton waste caused damage estimated at $50,000 to the big textile plant of the Pay Cotton Company at Woonsocket, | R. L Siberian bolsheviki have captured | A!exandmvshn: capital of the Isiand of Sakhalin, and fear is felt that th radicwp forces may enter Japanm | proper. Two men and one woman were drowned at Manchester. N. H., waen attempting to ¢ross (he partly frozen Merrimack river in South” Manchester by boat. America has sounded France on the subject of tabacco monopoly . for France being farmed out to tae United States for a period of twenty- five years. Germany is preparing a list contain- ing thre names of allied soldiers and high officials Who are accused by the Berlin government of violations of the laws of war. An immediate nation-wide religious educational Campaign was among the plans of the inter-onurch world move- mient confereace which is now in ses< sion in New York. Several Massadhusetts - towns and institutiogs were bequeatned sums ranging fom $1,000 to $25,000 by Thomas Prince, who died February 3 at Santa Barbara, Cal. n sales were re- sumed in London. Bidding was ac- tive. - Fine grades were unchanged, but medium and coarse crossbred de- clined five per cent, Italians will emigrate to the United | States this year than in the record| year of 1913, when 375,000 left Italy's! Shores for America in the opinion of | Ameérican officials in Italy. The recent efforts to ulate the export trade of Great Britain to as- sist in righting the exchange position are indicated in the London Board of Trade figures for January. The wool auc | 1" Julius C. Stremlau, state prohibition enforcement officer, announced taal he had secured headquarters at the !Allyn house in Hartford, where his | office wil be maintained. | Preliminary to his installation as chief exedutive of France, Paul De- schanel, the president-elect, has pre- sented his resignation as president of the Chamber of Deputies. New Yeork newspapers which faced a newsprint crizis last week and were forced to cut down their size, are re- ceiving paper brought there on & spe- |citl freight train from Utica. T Finnish state council decided to create a 500-meter “no man’s land” be- | tween Ruseia and Finland in order to| suppress smusglig ad minimize the| risk of pestilential contagion. Louis Leavitt, a Brooklyn manu- | | facturer of white lead was indicted | |again on a charge of profiteering in | 12,000 pounds of bacon ‘which fhe! bad bought from the government. Present “excessive” and “unerou:"i second class mail rates were blamed: as the major couse for suspension of 2500 newspapers since July 1, 1918, by Victor Rosewater, of Omaha, Neb. | _Negotiations for the sale to the i French government of fifty wooden | ships, ~aggregating $180,000 dead- weight tons .are being conducted by the Anderson Overseas Corporation. | A silver punch ladle used by George Washington while he was president was purchased for $1,000, at a sale of ‘Washington- zelfes at the galleries of | the American Art Association in New York. The shipowners organization of Christiania, Norway, hes asked the Norwegian government to make an effort to' cancel the Amerjcan coal contracts, which call for 35,000 tons monthly. George Lasbury former socialist member of the house of common news of whose projected trip to soyiet.Rus- sia caused considerable' surprise in of- ficial circles here arrived in Mos- coiw on Sunday. . Charles John Williams of Methuen, | Mass, was held in $2,500 bail on a charge of abduction in Brooklyn. He was arrested in the commpany of 17- year old Margaret Heintz, a Brook- yn gl'fl, reported missing since Jan- uary Eamon de Valera placed a " wreath on the grave in New Bedford, Mass., of- Captain George 'S. Anthony, mas- ter ‘marier, leadst of the expedition that rescued the poct’ Jon Bovie O'Refity and other Inish paolitical pris- oners serving gentence In Australis, | spective | from New York . New- York, Feb. 11.—With five ar- rests i connection with the $5,000,000 securitiey theft plot. the .pelice claim to. have. “nipped in the bud” here, the district attorney's office formally to- day that one of them had confessed to having taken part in stealing more than $1,000,000 worth of .stocks and bonds from Wall Street messengers in May and June last_year. All five were arraigned and held in $100.000 bonds each, charged -with suspicion of larceny of $107,700 worth of securities. Deputy Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Murphy asked for the high bail, declaring that Irving Gluck had made a confession implicating himself and the others in the $1,000,- 900 thefts. Edward = Furey, a. chauffeur, and designated by the district attorney’s office a~ the “master mind” in the al- leged plot, made the acquaintance.of Police in New York—One of the Men Ar- rested Has Confessed Complicity in Theft of More Than; $1,000,000 Worth of Stocks and Bonds From Wall' Were Held in $100,000 Bonds Each. Joseph Gluck, Irving's brother, by! representing himself to be a city de-: tective, according to the confession announced by Murphy. Furey exhib- ited a badge and revolver when . he; called at the store of the Gluck boy" father, and later demanded a share in the spoils of the robberies which he urged be continued, according to Murphy. Joseph Gluck gave Furey $1,750 inj: cash, a $1600 diamond ring and an automobile to keep from being ar=; rested by him on Furey's first call, the ‘alleged confession continued. The roster of those arraigned to-- . day included Joseph and Irving Gluck, brothers, Herbert and Rudolph Bu- nora, also brothers, and Furey. The securities they are alleged to have stolen include American Tobaceo, Missouri Pacific Railroad, Crucible Steel, Ryan Petroleum and, Aetna Ex-- plosives’ stock. < REORGANIZATION OF THE PENN. RAILROAD SYSTEM Philadelphia, Feb. 11.—Radical changes in the operation of the Penn- sylvania Raiiroad system with a re- 1 organization of officials - affecting many of the higher officers, was an- nounced tonight by Samuel Rea, the president of the company, to become effective when the railroads are turn- eq back to their private owners. The | system will be divided into four re- gions—Eastern, Central, Northwes rn and Southwestern—with each in charge of a vice president. The re- headquarters will be at Philadejphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago and St.Louis. The ~ saparation in organization that has existed since 1870 between the lines east and west of Pittsburgh is to be abandoned, the announce- ment’ said, and the system will be- come a unit in all that concérns its service to the publ Instead of having a dividing as at present | at Pittsburgh, one of the busiest railroad centers in the country, the whole territory between Altoona, Pas, on the east, Buffalo on the north and Columbus and Crestline, Ohio, on the west, will comprise the central re- gion. The eastern region will & extend to Altoona and to Washington on the south. The north- western region: ‘will -éxtend’ from (o~ lumbus_and Crestline to Chicago, and the southwestern ~Will ~be bounded roughly by Celumbus, Cincinnati and St. Louis. Bach regional . vice president will have a complete staff, including a general manager in charge of opera- tion, a traffic manager in charge of all matters affecting traffic and rates. DIFFERENGCE IN IDEAS IN LONDON AND PARIS Paris, Feb. 1l.—(Havas). Coni- menting ‘on the speech. of Premier Lloyd George in the British house of commons yesterday with reference to Russia, the evening newspapers are unanimous in remarking that there is | a difference in the ideas expressed P4 London and those voiced in Paris by Former Premier Clemenceau and af- | terwards by Premier Millerand | concerning Russia and Turkey. They insist on collaboration and frank in- tercourse between France and Eng- land on these subjects. The newspapers express the- hope that 'the coming conference of pre- miers in London will cause all dif- ferences to disappear. Concerning the declaration of Tarl Curzon, British secretary of foreign affairs, with regard to possible revis- ion of the peace treaty, Captain An- dre Tardieu, interviewed by La Li- berte today saiq that only that which cxisted could be improved and in or- der that the treaty might exist it must be applied, NO ANSWERS FOR FORMER GERMAN CROWN PRINCE ‘Wieringen, Holland, Feb. 11.—As far | as the villagers of Wieringen know,| former Crown Prince Frederitk Wil- liam of Germany has not recelved any answer to his telegrams sent to the kings of Great Britain, Belgium and Italy, the emperor of Japan and the presidents of the United States and France offering to surrender to the allies for trial. Through his aide, Frederick William sent word to The awsociated Press correspondent today that he could not answer any questiol on the subject of his offer. The former crown prin pbusied himself today in a boxing bout bout ‘with - a professional instructor who came to Wieringen from Amster- dam this mornin; POLAND NEEDS 400000 TONS OF AMERICAN GRAIN Washington, -~ Feb. 11. — Poland | needs 400,000 tons of Ameican grain to avert starvation until her harvests next September, according to Stanis- laus J. Arct, newly arrived here from Warsaw to act as plenipotentiary of the Polish government in food mat- ters. Even with ~American grain _the Poles, Mr. Arct said, will suffer from under-nourishment. At present, he stated, all non-producers are on ra- tions of 150 grams daily per person, or about 120 srams below normal. Soldiers, teachers and -workers, he said, receive the largest rations. IDAHO THE 30TH STATE TO RATIFY SUFFRAGE i : 3 Boise, Idaho, Feb. 11.—Idaho's leg- islature in special session today rati- fied the woman's suffrage amendr/.t to the national constitution by Targe majorities in both houses. In the senate the vote was 29 to 6 with six members absent or not voting. Idaho | is the’ thirtieth state fo ratify. BOLSHEVIKI IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA London, Feb. 11—The war office announces that " the' Bolsheviki in southern Russia ave ‘crossed the Sea of Azov fro .. Taganrog and succeeded in. gain - a footing on the southern coast be veen the Don and Yevy rivera { morial from bankers and others. ASSIGNMENT OF REGIMENTS i FOR RECRUITING PURPOSES( (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Whshington, Feb: 10, — Secretary Baker has written members of con< gress that in allocating the perma< nent establishment of regiments he had in mind bringing about “a closer yelationship and increased, respect; and cordiality between the citizens i uniform ang the citizens out of uni- form, sentiments which are necessary if we are to build up a real citizen army backed by good will and affecw tion” of the peopie.” The secretary states that the new army is to b based on the principles of a typi American institution and be made & part of the people. He urges that the. people become acquainted with “the advantages accruing to the citizen im uniform in military, educational vo= cational and recreational training.” The allocation for New England states for recruiting purposes is as\ follows: Infantry: \ Connecticut: 43rd _Regiment, Col Faison, Camp Lee .Va, Maj. Gen. Bundy; Massachuset(s: 36th Regie ment, ‘Col. Parmenter, Camp Devens, Gen. McCain;' Maine, New: re, Vermont, Rhode Island, 13th regiment, Col. Haskall, port of barkation ' Hoboken, Maj. Gen. anks; New England = states Field Artillery, lst regiment, Col. Pennell, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Maj. Gen. Hindsy New England - Coast “Artillery, 2nd regiment, Col. Watson, Camp Bustis, Va., Brig. Gen. H. Hagood. Cavalry 3rd’ regiment, Col. Breti, Fort Myer, Fort Ethan Allen. i BRITAIN WILLING FOR g FINANCIAL CONFERENCE | London, Feb. 11.—J. Austen Cham- | berlain, chancellor of the exchequer, announced today that the government was willing to participatg in an inter- national financial conference if invited by Bne of the neutral nations o rby the league of nations, on being satisfied that the conference would assume a really representative- character, _ThP announcement of Mr. Chamber- lain was made in reply to a recent me- Tho chancellor said that the government wished to make it absolutely clear that in the event of Great Britain's par- ticipation the \government could not support or take a share in any scheme involving an addition to the liabilities of Great Britain for expendi« ture in America. PERMITS FOR AMERICANS ) IN TAMPICO OIL FIELDS Washington, Feb. 11.—Permits ta- continue drilling in the Tampico oif fields have been granted several Amer~ ican companies by the Mexican gow+ ernment pending the passage of a lay covering oil concessions, according to official advices from Tampico today. The permits will release about 68,000 barrels of petroleum daily from proved - wells that had been stopped by Presi- dent Carranza's previous devrees for- bidding work in the fields. In addi- tion, work will begin on fifty new | wells. j This information was conveyed by i .. the state. department at once to the shipping board, which recently was unable to obtain satisfactory bids for 25,000,000 barrels of oil. COAL FOR NEW ENGLAND TO BE GIVEN PRIORITY Hartford, Conn., Feb. 11.—All coal consigned to New England will be | given_ priority over all other freight | | for 72 hours, according to an order | issued by Director General of Rail- | roads Hines. Word to this effect was contained in a telegram received late today by 'E. Kent Hubbard, president of the Manufacturers Association of Connecticut, from Congressman Lon- ergan. It follows: “Railroad admin- istrator has ordereq that.all coal bill- ed to New England go through for 72 hours with priority over. all freight.” x WILL NOT CHANGE THE QUEBEC PROHIBITION LAWS Quebec, Feb. 11—The present leg- islature will not change the Quebec prohibition laws, which allow the sale of light wines and beers, Walter Mitchell, ,provincial treasurer, told a delegation which called upon “him to- | day. Both liquor interests and pro- hibitionists have sought amendments but the treasurer saiq that the laws which have been in force ninc months, have not had a fair trial. “The people voted for the law by an - overwhelming ‘majority, and evs ery effort should be made to give it a fair trial” he said: GENERAL WRANGEL IS TO SUCCEED DENIKINE Budapest, Feb. 11'General Deni« kine will be superseded in active tom. mand of the anti-bolshevik forces oy the southern Russian front by the 3 year old General Wrangel, it is re- ported. by persons returning from southern Russia. General Wrangel's Cossacks have long heen the backhone of the resistence to the bol: ac- cording to ‘these travele 0 that General laenn:ma is old | worn out by tical _ mt difficulties to E