Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 18, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXII—NO. 43 POPULATION 29,919 HODVER IS AGAINST THE GOV OPERTINOF RALROADS AND SHPPR .. o Tells. American Institute of Mining Engineers That “No Scheme of Political Appointment Has Ever Yet Been De- vised That Would Replace Competition in Its Selection of Ability and Character”—That No Government Under Pressure of Political or Sectional Interests Could Be Free From Local Pressure to Conduct Unwarranted Services in Industrial Enterprise—States That While the Consum- er Would Pay For Inefficient Management of Railroads, the Burden of of Inefficient Handling of Shipping Would Fall on the National Treasury—Asserts Labor Unrest Would Be Allayed by Restoration of Co-Operation Be- tween Employer and Employes in Production That Was a Binding Force When Our Industries Were Smaller. —The return of private ownership on March 1 mean the placing_of private operation in its “final trial” m_the opinion of Herbert Hoover, ex- sed tonight in his inaugural ad- ss as preside! of the American In- gineers. At the Hoover attacked gov ion of either railroads or periments in_socialism ar”, to which fundamental objec- the railroa of political appoirit- Mr. Hoover said, “has ever yet devised that will replace com- its selection of ability and shipping and the advantage of onnel, sifted out in a of competition and. even svernment operation of ses is not proving sat- here: ultimate in< arise ffom the bureaucracy full oportunity for Already we can - show ernment under pressure of 1 or sectional in- y conduct the risks mprovement, or ean cal pressure to con- services in indus- ment been ysis of question of shipping, that while with the ent inefficiency could he consumer, “on sooner or later find speake r officials conid not engage in “hi, ' they must take n and in fix- of our large he went on. “in_the world’s us to hold up rates, for so rate tieet in one hand others will - only number of our the private flects grow. shall yet.be faced with the ques- on of demobilizing a considerable s flegi into private hands, icknowledging that we op- easons than interest d empoye was next Hcover. He assert- had until recent- ted the human -fac- ment in our " and this neglect accumulated T of the discon- and unrest throeughout the indus- population and had reacted in ce of production. am daily impressed,” he said, the faet that there is but one way out, and that is to again re-es- tablish organized representation that personal c peration between - en ployer and emplove in production that a binding force when our indus- tries were smaller. = Mr. Hoover declared that’he wasj convinced the vast majority of Amer- fean labor “fundamentaly. wishes to co-operate in-production und that this basis of good will and can be organiz- ed and the vitality of production re- created. » In a b reference to the interna- tional situation he declared that the safety of an - civilization was nder thread” and faced with a new contemplating, ‘maintenance -of an - enlarged army and npavy in preparedness for further upheavais while failing to even provide for some insurance against war by aleague to promote peace. 14 RAILROAD UNIONS URGE GOVERNMENT CONTROL said, Washington, Feb. 17—Urging that federal operation of the railroads-be ntinued for at least an additional two years, B. M. Jeweil, acting presi- dent of the railway empjoyes’ depart- ment of the American Federation .of Labor, in a letter to members of con= gress today, expressed the opinion ¢ return of the roads. to private ownership at this time would lead in- evitably to their - bankruptey, which might essily result in.a national panic in turn bride “world-wide bank- . D}{}; two years traffic has been short uted,” M Jewell said, explaining s beilef that the railroads cannot survive their retarn to private control. “It has been sent over selected routes. A great part of the mileage of the country is not earning operating.ex- penses and fixed charges. Receiver- ships are inevitable if the railroads are unserambled and each left to shift for itselt” Mr. Jewell said he sent the letter in behalf of organizations which “repre- sent directly 2,000,000 workers,” but Which believed they might “claim to reect the wishes of the great majority of_the-people of the count: : The letter of objections to. the ré- turn of the roads was signed by the heads of the 14 railroad unions, in- cluding the four big brotherhoods, who have been acting as a unit in urging, first, government ownership of the rail systehs, and, second. continuation of | government control as an aiternative. Calling attention to the “colossal savings. economies and efficiencies” under federal operation, the letter said a reversion to private ownership -would mean “an increase in rates of from 25 to 50 per cent. * * * ¢ an addition of $1.500,000.000 a vear. ‘Among the score of specific reasons cited by the employes’ representatitves against return of the railroads were ‘According to the reports of the di rector general, the railroads operated as & unified system are on a paying basis. “or are in 3 fair way to earn all charges against them. and possibly % accumulate 2 surplus’ . - - rail- § Ir we hold up rates| ships | Validation of watered securitics, al- | leged to be the main object of those | seeking return, would mean the subsi- | dizing of the railroad industry. “The Cummins:Esch bill, with its | guarantee of earnings, is an invitatior i to_waste and extravagance. ¢+ Return of the railroads at this time : is_an initation to still further indus- | trial disturbances which are “‘born of labor shortage on one hand and the high cost of living on the other.” TWO MORE SHOCKS FOR CHICAGO'S GANG WORLD death and the state announced it would ask the death penalty in every case. Two of those indicted, “Big | Tim® v, 'former - secretary’ - to Congrs McDermott and one- time member of the Illinois legisla- ture; and Mike Carrozzo, are both presidents- of -Chicago unions. The second shock came when John O'Brien, sentenceq to hong Friday for the myrder of Policeman Richard Burke, ‘appealed to Governor Lowden {and the state pardons board to save { him and offered to reveal the secrets of gangiand in an effort to prove that O'Brien charges he took the blame to | =ave n relative of Enright. who prom- iised to zet O'Brien off with not more thah a two vear sentence.. Even af- ter. bis Bn- right ipsisted he could get a pardon. but, with the gang leader. murdered and the sheriff —preparing™ t6 hang O'Brien Tridav in the presence of 300 prisoners an “object lesson.” the ronvieted man has given “up hope in his former friend's effort: A Sister of Merer carried O’Briens appeal “direct to Gove owden who is in the city O"Brien’s {attorney announced that ~the | zovernor probably: would grant a 30 day reprieve to investigate the sto STATE TAX COMMISSIONER CORBIN HAS RESIGNED Hartford, Con: | H. Corbin of th sioner of Connec years, tonizht sent his resig: Governor’ Holeomb. Mr. is_treasurér of the Wile: ompany, said in his resignation that his personal | e it mecessary for him to re | uish his state duties. He c: work in_Governor Holcomi's tration his “p Mr. Corbin au- thority on tax questions nad although a renublican he was retained in office by Govern ldwin, a democrat. He was ‘mor Woodruff, to fill a , and was renominated In 1909 by Governor Lilley. 1913 his nomination was ent to the senate hy Governor Bald- win‘and in 1817 ' Governor: Holcom! again nominated him for four vears. Druring. Mr. Corbin’s term of office the state taxes more than doubled in vol ume. Mr. Corbin is known at Yale as “Pa” Corbin. '89. one of the groatest centers that ever wore the Blue. He played on the Yale football team. four 17.—William tax commis- Bic®rd, is regarded as an cears and | was: captain of the 1388 eleven. He | also rowed on the Yale varsity crew for three yveas iARREST OF AN ARSON | SUSPECT IN NEW HAVEN | New Haven, Conn., Feb. 17.—Thom- as P. McDonough, 33, who says he man, and came here fe- c was arrested in-a downtown restaurant ftonight-and locked up on spicion of being connected with in- ndiary fires which ha caused losses here in last few | e McDonough is five fect, three {inches tall and weighs 20 | pounds. | ¢ Fire department esti that *damaze from fires ir ibuildings: in - the. last 'six heads "have expressed . the opinion that a pyromanide was at wor NORTH DAKOTA REPUBLICANS RESENT SOCIALIST CONTROL Bismarck, N. D, Feb. 17.—Noj Dakota. republicans, in_ state conore tion here today, adopted resolutions urging all presidential candidates not to file petitions in this state for pri- mary preferential vote. The action was due, according to the resolutions, to the “disfressing state situation, ! which includes, it was noted, “the ffact that all branches of .the. state government of North Dakota were taken over' two years ago by an ore | ganization directed by. sociaiists.” it MARYLAND REJECTS FEDERAL SUFFRAGE ‘AMENDMENT Annapolis, ~ Md., Feb. 17>The Maryland general assemb cisively. rejected the federal amend- ment for woman suffrage. In the sen- ate the vote was 18.against and 9 for ratification, in the house 64 .against and 36 for ratification. Big delega- tions of suffragists came down from Baltimore headed by ' Mrs, Donald Hooker. The committee on federal heard both sides. - - Chicago, Feb. 17.—Chicago's gang world, which has not recovered from ,the murder of “Mo: right, “king of the gun men,” three weeks ago, re- ceived two more shocks today. A _grand jury returned four indict- ments charging -murder in the first, degree in connection with Enright's letter of | st appointed in 1907 by Gover- | reeks has | exceeded $400.000, or more than: the entire city fire losses .for last vear. The police and fire department today de- | Cabled Paragraphs' Reverse for Russian Volunteer Army. London, Feb. 17.—The Russian vol- unteer army has been forced back to the Sea of Azov with its troops com- | pletely disorganized and typhus raging ‘among them, according to a wireless despatch received here today. from Moscow. The bolshevik oOfficial com- munication says the Red troops have captured several positions from 20 to 36 miles northeast of Stavropol. HILLQUIT IN -DEFENSE OF SOCIALIST ASSEMBLYMEN Albany, ‘eb. 17.—~If the bol- | sheviki eve to impose the soviet system of govern- ment on the American people against the will of the majority, American so- cialists would take their stand against i the Russians, according to an asser- tion today by Morris Hillquit, socialist leader, at the trial of the five sus- pended assemblymen charged with disioyalty. i Mr. Hillquit, who is international secretary of the socialist party, quali- | fied as an expert on socialism. He was called to refute among other charges one that the socialist party of Amer- ica, affiliated with the internatiomal, is “the agent of an alien, invisible empire, secking to project itself as a revolutionary force in various coun- tries.” In connection with the charge that, by pledging support to the third (Moscew) international, American so- cialists had endorsed, a campaign of civil war .and ‘violence advocated by { Lenine snd Trotzk: Tquit- tes- | tified that American social the interns he said never had is instructions and influence: “moral” power. Mr. Hillguit a also that ‘there was no such being as “a_citizen of an invisible emni Mr. Hillquit_exnlained the narty of socialists in Russia known as the communists, “with a few mostly unau- thorized representatives from a few neighboring countries.” had proclaim- ed organization of the third interna- tional. The league of nations was infected ino_the hearing when Mr. Hillquit as- ing a “true” league of nations, social- isis. opposed the program adopted at by a lot of old diplomatic fos- abolish wars, a league would to be based on a nrogram “pretty aptly formulaied by President Wilson in his late lamented fourteen points,” Mr Hillguit said. n “trae conditions in b 7 Mr. Hillquit ‘admitted < wvas a controversial subject but said “socinfists do not proceed .upon the_assumption. that'the soviel gov- and malicious will of the few fire~ brunds or cantankerous agitators. He a that Lenine was “a very sober, Tinderate- thinker and mot- the irre. spensible firebrand he has been ple- t Mr. Hillquit denied that Lenine and Trotzky went to Russia with German gold to create a revolution to weaken the allied forces lie also said sociallsts never cred- Ited “thc exnloded theory of the na- tion” of women” or abolish- | religion. He alsn charzed the nd not the holsheyiki v for Russia's eco- ENGLAND IS HAVING INCREASE IN PRICES Feb. 17.—An actual and rospective increase in . prices an- nounced today includes one penny to WO pence increase on cigars and an ounce of tobacco, and a half penny increase o package of ten cigar- ettes. Sewing cotton is increased 2 3-4 pence a reel, The recent increase in the price of {petrol, which caused a . one day's | strike of taxicab drivers, 1s wxpacied jto bring an announcement of higher | fares tomorrow, when the home sec- jretary will receive a deputation rep- | resenting the taxi men, | In consequence of the increase in railw: the Dbelief London, <d_in th tai employes deina invoiving an aggies 060,000 pounds sie:lng vearly, and it is expected that a haifpenny extra Will be placed on letter postage, JOHNSON'S NAME ON REP. BALLOT IN NEBRASKA near future. The pos- te of about 11,- { , Lincoln, 'Neb., Teb. 17—vot, ilhfimns to plac ethe name of & | Hiram W. Johnson of California on the republican pallot in the Nebraska | presidential preference prigary April {20 were filed with the ary I state toda; ol Senator ohnson's name is the sec- j ond to be formally presented to cretary as a i | publican nomina | half of General Leon: | recently been filed. Friends of Generat | John J. Pershing have announced they | would take ar action soon. Mar} 24 is the last day for filing. {TO CONTINUE MILITARY i : TRAINING FIGHT IN HOUSE | Washington; “Feb. | deciison of nouse {it ‘and - although ment of republ 17.—Despite the mocrats to opp._se “a majority senti T « ans” also is against | it universal military -training, ~Ae- | resentative Olney, democrat, Aassa- | chusetts, today declared in th. will continue an {into law.” | Representative Olney, who 'i | member of the 7 s house military com- i mittee, disclosed that ten of its mem- | { bers favor. including the plan in the jarmy reorginization measure, while | nine oppose it and one is doubtful. FAVOR WITHDRAWING THE GOVERNMENT’S IRISH BILL London, ¥eb, 17.—The British labor party delegation which visited Ireland recently has reported in favor of with- drawing the government’s Irish bill | and settling the Irish question from an entirely _different ‘standpoint, it was stated this afternoon. The delezation | is said to have come to the opinion that the problem is as much industrial 4 spolitical and that it should be solved by taking both these factors into consideration. Sugar trading on the New York Cof- | fee and Sugar Exchange reopened. i should attempt by force | serted that although always advocat- | E ow- | |ing that parcels pust charges wait el her wag:s, house, ! issue uniil enacted ' Steamers to Be Available | Within a Few Days. Boston, Feb. 17—John Barton Payne, chairman of the Shipping Board, tele- graphed Governor Coolidge toflay tBat| he was able to offer six additional | Shipping Board steamers approximat- ing 55,000 tons of coal capacity, to { facilitate the movement of coal in- i{to New Engand. The conference of New. England governors, which met | I iere vesterday to discuss the fuel sit- uation, urged the shipping board to assign’ more ships for the {ransporta- tion of coal to this district. Chairman Payne's message said the | six steamers would beavailable with- {in afew days for loading at Hampton j In addition 1o shipping ‘board tonnage ow carrying, railroad administration and would be supplemented with further tonnage in ubstantial amounts. NO CONFISCATION (v’Fv COAL , | CONSIGNED TO CONNECTICUT | | Hartford, Feb. 17—According to advices from Washington received by the Manufacturers' _Association of Connecticnt today, the director gen- eral of railroads yesterday issued .an order prohibiting railroads in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York from confiscating cars of bituminous coal consigned to Connecticut points. 1In the last few days numerous in. stance~ have been reported to the association of seizure in those states of coal belonging to Connecticut in- dustrial plants. In one case, it is-as serted, the coal thus seized was i verted to the use of a manufactur- { Roads. This assistance, he said, was,'uhe Mexican presidential election next ' tew England coal for the|same year an era of peace and. work -jand Mexico. Conditions now- point to oErdin1921 General Alvarado Says Cur- [!ert.Wison. B ent Opinion Thers Is For & | chtberad Win W i 2 e n ‘eace r'lnim) 4 vious close. : New York, Feb. 17—Disordered con-'| A shortage of raw materials in Ger- ditions .existing in Mexico will end in | many precipitated a condition describ- 1821, aceording to ‘a statement made{ed as desperate. here toaay by General Salvador Al-| = varado, Iounder and publishg. of ELL -Stockholders of the Crucible Steel Heraldo De Mexico and ki Heraldo'| Co,; approved plan to raise capital Semanario, of Mexico City. General.stock'to $10,000,000. - Aivarado 1S 10 the United States buy- = ing modern printing macninery fof | Amsterdam police discovered the be- his newspapers. ginning of a widespread communist movement in Holland. B dndanin a u:e‘rlllord:f;u Fobid end “because there.is a powerful cur- = 3 Signor Polidor, Zn actor and writer, illed in an airplane crash at rent of opinion throughout the coun- try in all places and classes toward = a Naples while making a moving-picture film. peace reorgamzation.” If the vote in " Gold sold ‘at 121s 3d a London, compared with 121s 6d at pre- vious cloge. . July. is respecied, he sald, “in this —— y i An Italian transport with 1,000 reg- ular troops was captured by two war ships attached to the forces of O'An- nunzio. will begin inating the main source of trouble,” between the United States the election of General Obregon as president, he asserted, - Promotion of friendly ‘relations be- tween" the LWO couniries, he said, de- pended broadly upon a better mutual knowledge of the aspirations, 'needs and conceptions of each people. “No one doubts that the United States possess - material strength. enough to occupy Mexican territory he said, “but it never will conque: by that means the hearts and good will of that people. Besides a large army of occupation ~and the consequent waste of iives and money, the United States@would face,ll‘ terrible prob- | lem of assimilating 16,000,000 rebels who would hate with all their hearts their oppressors. Discovery of the growth of sugar on fir, trees in British Columbia was an- nounred in the American Forestry Magazine. - More Subways will have to be bui in London, according to Lord Ashfield, of Southwell, to meet. growing traffic Department of agriculture announc- ed,more. than 50,000 farmers own mo- tor-trucks. - Néw York state leads with more than 3,000.+ The senate adopted the MoKellar resolution directing the shipping board to delay temporarily the sale of form- er German vessels. ing establishment in New Jersey. . The association is also_advised | lin New England railroads via th Hudson river gateway. Another encouraging _development reported from Washington is the! statement that in the last three days| more than 40000 tons of bituminous | coal have been cleared from Hamp. ton Roads in vessels bound for Bos- ton and Providence. It is anticipat- ed that part of this coal, which should begin to arrive within the | inext day or two, wili ‘he available for points in_eastern Connecticut. C. L. Bardo. general manager of the New Haven road, says the recen storm proved the most severe in its| effect on railroad transportation in Connecticut sincé the blizzard of 1588, Dardo stated further that .in its prostration of transportation it ! surpassed anvthing in his 35 years of i railroad experience. UNEASINESS FOR AMERICANS NORTH OF ALEPPO, TURKEY Constantinople, - Monday, Feb. 16. (By The A. P.) There is much un- sasiness concerningthe fate-of twen= ty Americans at Marash, north of Aleppo, Turkey, in Asia, where & reign of terror has existed since January 21.. The last word was re- ceived from them on . February I, when_ their food supply was short and the Christian refugees were in a | state of terror. In occupying Cilicia the French troops frequently took over American { mission properties and schools, which were the best buildings and the eas- iest to defend. Consequently, the Americans were immediately regard- | ed by the Turks as Frenchmen. There have heen many conflicts between the French occupying the district and | the Turks. The French are using! Armenian * and Senegalese troops, which apparently has excited great hostility among the Moslem tribes, Rustem Bey, mnationalist - delegate | from Angora, told the correspondent | that James Perry = and Frank S.| Johnson, _representatives of the | American Y. M. C. A., killed recently | {near Aintab, were mistaken for | { Frenchmen by natives who had no grievance against Americans. He de-| clared that Americans were mnot in !danger in’ Anatolia and Cilicia 1if i properly distinguished frem the Trench, Rustem Bay said that the trouble ireventually involving the native tribes n a siege of the town. STOWAWAY LONGS TO RETURN TO FRANCE New York, Feb. 17.—Freddie Mack Raimond, 16 year old'stowaway, suc- ssful in his. fourth attempt 'to get into. this country when he came with returning American troops last Sep- |for pagsage “home to France.” Mus- | tering ‘out of his.army friends’ and i the breaking up of the war canton- ments was too much for him. He was homesick, he said. | “The camps are going” he com- { plained. I “want to go-home, to.my native France.- I love the doughboys and I'm proud to wear the uniform {they gave me, Dbut now 1 believe, I shall te better off where I belong. ease send me back.”, 1Tis pussage will be arranged. on an | eSeNting the national committee. on American ehip ‘sailing for a Irench | port soon, it was stated at Eilis Isl- | {and. “The boy will be Kept there un- ! til he-leaves. " His eyesight- is. poor, {the result of a gassing. he redeived jat Soissons with tie American troops, EALL AMERICANS ESCAPED | FROM MARASH, TURKEY | Constantinople, Monday, Feb. 16. (By | The A..P.)—The American - committee | | for: relief {ceived a message ‘dated February 13, {from it offices at Adana,.Asiattc Tur- | key, which.was construed to mean that all the Americans have, escaped: from : Marash (northeast of Aadan and of Aleppo) sonthward to Islahie,”which is on the railroad. The message says: “Information this ‘morning is that |the personnel of 2,000 refugees retired |to Islahie: with Colénel ~Normand. | There' was “extreme- destitution ' arfd i many were sick or-wounded. There. {§ ino information from: Aintab or Hadjin. ! reported . that out { The situationis serious”™ .- ' | _ Maor David G. Arnold.of Providence, {R. I, managitg director of the Am. jerican commission for relief in/ the | Near East, said today thai there,were ten. American relief workers and .six | American jonarfes at’ the - head | quarters of American board college.| }at Marash. The relief workers, | said, inciuded Mabel: H. Poir: North Hero, Vt.. Helen 'Shultz - of from Washington that sinre';l“le‘b‘ 1%, ! 50 that they may solve their two great 1,700 cars of coal have been delivered | fyngamenti problems: first, organiza- ipret the true meaning of events.” i iy | PUBLIC VICTIMS OF THE | several witnesses jat Marash started through a contro- | asserted that the navy was comman- | versy between Armenians and Turks,] deering coal also, regardless of -an l.operator’s contract | tember, today applied at Ellis Island | {'ministrator was. urged’ by, the. same {EUROPE SUFFERING FROM in the Near Hast.today re- | United States/ to.be the doctdr when h | overseas commissioner for the Krights 'he only poli for _the United States to follow is that of frank co- peration with its southern neighbors ginia, was appointed federal trade commissioner and ‘his nomination was lon of production, so to obtain tae |Sent to the senate. best results from their natural re- | {sources, Second, cducation, 0 to 0b- tain greater conservation and the up- lifting of human resources. ¥ “On the other hand, it is the duty: of | Mexicans in this task of the better- i ment of ofir relations with the United States and all_the friendly nations to establish a government of enlightened nd progressive men fitted to intér- Rand gold-mines of South Africa an- nounced the output at 670,503 ouhces in January, compared with 676,919 ounces in December.. 4 anization’ of -a German electric 1.12;' coricern, “Osram Works Ltd.” i was announced in a report to the de- partment of commerce." Premier . mfwma&:p;‘on: ported. ‘MINERS' WAGE INCREASE | Amb ‘Waghington, Feb. 17—The public was pictured as the victims of the recent 14 per cent. increase in wages given coal-miners, in testimony . it cOAL} " Coast ‘guard cutter. Kasca reported strike, settlement commission and " the vy yadio senate ueammfi'ce ‘sub-committee * in- | ¢ vestiga he it <M .nfifluwnh-,‘ € ager of the National at Amsterdam and ‘Rotterdam, Amer- ican vessels ‘were advised to aveid temporarily. these ports, o4 ‘@E, & z.wgg‘ : o on to congumers; but when tHe 0.the drate depattment. operators added the- increase to: the e A5 price -charged" the - public - utilities; L 'flrbfl"' '»‘gtl;'flflu"a’"” o Was inevitable = that . the advahée|Sil ‘g!x rd_ chief jus e akcep should be reflected in” rates: - He de- | the. ,m'h‘fl.mfimaél;{i p, at Wash- clared, that the utilities, under staté|ington were not confirmed in Londgn. or_ municipal. regulation, were aHots| . ax <7 : / ed s0 narrow. a Margin of profit' l?l . G..Youn: neral superin- they coiild not absorb the increage.) ten ithe New,York and Stam- Chairman Robinson indicated - the | ford. Rallway, Company, who has been trend of the commission’s efforts to|connected with the ] for 21 yjears, solve “the fuel problem by asking if|Wwill resign. on‘lumg Lo n the utilities would beé willing to store 4% SEA T . coal in the summer months, so that! Marshall Foch declared, in an inter- view in Paris, the proposed alliance the miners would have steady em- ployment. Mr, Aylesworth replied {between France and England is an that they would if the additional cost “absolute and imperative necessity” of double handling of coal was offset|for France. in the price and in lower freight rates during the good weather. The witness estimated that 50 per cent ‘of the operating expenses of public utilities was fuel Continuation of government * con- trol of coal distribution was said by to be . absolutely necessary until festoration of mormal | conditions, but they freely criticized | through the existence of quantities of the railroad administration’s exercise. counterfeit British bank notes in Rus- of this function. |sian territory. Edward Chase of the Berwind- ‘White Coal company of Philadelphia, |; The Crucible Stsel company an- nounced . today that the stockholders had unanimously approved an increase from $25,000,000 to $75,000,000 in com- mon stock. Commercial relations of Britain in In order to encourage Belgian plant- ers to increase their. beet roof crop sowing, the government fixed the price factories ‘must pay to growers at 125 francs a tonm. e equirement_and in such a way as to “demoralizé” the industry. v Chairman Robinson announted that = he expected Former Fuel Adminis-| Unitéd States shipping board steam- trator Garfield to appear before thejer Orion, bound from- Hamburg for commission today or tomorrow to ex-{Nova Scotia, was caught in the Bar- plain the ‘intent of the strike settle- irington Passage off Nova Scotia and ment proposdl as accepted. by. the op-{is'in need assistance. 'erators, with regard to how "the- 14 per cent. increase was to be absorb- ed, after -which the "hearings will>be called. Mr. Robinson sald” he “hoped | ment. agent, to be taken back to Chica- ;‘;eecm:r:: :imr:u;““‘:n be able dlDi‘o to face an indictment charging her an award,” eri adding that it would be rendered as| " CLomin4l anarchy. soon_as possible. : Establishment & a government ageéncy with powers similar ‘to, . those | formerly rexercised- by . the fuel ad- Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes was turned over, to, Miss. Clara . Olson, a goyern- Two firemen. were killed and several injufed in fighting a blaze in the plant of the American Manufacturing Co., at St. Louis.. Amoung-those injured was Assistant Fire Chief Barry witnesses before fhe senate ‘com- mercé : sub-committee. 2 i eorse W Bt iWashington, rep. | - AN inflammatory document of_the on the-person- of a- bolsheviki agent o5, and electrlc service, amnounced |ynger arrest in London. He was on that gas, electric pewer and :tractio; companiés would ask an upward re. {Bi8 Way to:the United States. vision-_of rates unless relief was af- - C.’F.-O’Briant,'a farmer of Dalton, forded from the fuel price increase. g, afier éxperimenting for vears, an- nounces production of cotton with a ‘staple of pronounced green, sought for years by scientists and agriculturists. Robert J. O'Connell, local secretary of the U. S. civil service commission, ;died in Providence of pneumonia. He ‘was born in Providence July 22, 1891, and was prominent in the Knights of Columbus. . - ,-ECONOMIC NEURASTHENIA * New York, Feb. 17—Belief that Eu- ropean natiohs are “suffering from economic neurasthenia: and expect the they: can ' eure themselves by hard ‘work,”- was expressed today by Law: rence . O, Murray; on his arrival-from Europe after ;two years of sefvice ‘as _ Thirteen New . Englanders . were seas Col among the attaches of the American of Columbus. Mr. Mueray, who.was |Red Cross commission to Siberia who comptroller of the currency for the ar-: |safled from Vladivestok for San Fran- ministrations of, Presidents Roosevelt, | cisco-on.the transport Great Northern, Taft and Wilson, directed the finances |February 5. . s of the K. C. organization abroad. . The’honesty’ of ‘the * American ' sol Edward David. Jones, 64 years old, dier ‘was* 1audéd by Mr. Murray, who |ome of the best-known men in the New of approximately | York financial district and founder of $300,000 loaned to aboist 30,000 soldiers | financjal news bulleting and the Wall of the, A/E..F, by the Knights:of Cel! | Streét Journal, died at his home in umbus; all but $500 was paid back, |New . York. . ) 3 : He attributed this loss.to the fact that. many, of the boys, who received loans were killed in actior - Pink paper similar to that - found % June 2.last,’when- attempts were made e to blow up the homes of Attorney Gen- COMPENSATION | eral Gregory and other prominent men Dl &ifl SERVICE ' MEN |in Washington, ‘was found in'raids en | Reading, Pa.;: Minxie E. Douglierty of' | Holyolce, iass, and* Stanley . Kerr of Darby, P%. i % T 10 _It_sometimes happens that a man's] house is his mother-in-law's castle. A T it ;| Reds in Paterson, N. J. [2 m:;a":‘:'st . ratés. to g nts at Yale university | diers “and sailors’ would b volunteered e . carbonmonoxide ered ‘to_ta o $100 for: singlds s tests. to_detérmine the proportion 1ebile; ‘exhaust gases which safely ‘may be in the air of the pro- marrieq ‘men un ! "posed Hudson vehicular tunnel, unanimousky .today by . the | cation committeefl » | conditions. 3 L James Garland Pollard, of West Vir- | Russia are facing a serious menace | most important character was seized | Washington, Feb. 17—The peace treaty compromise negotiations got in- to such a tangled state today that, despite claims in some quarters that the lines on both sides were weaken- ing, the treaty’s best - friends in the senate minimized the possibilities of agreement. “It looks as though we might come out at the same hole we went in,” Senator Hitchcock, Demaocratic Léader, States That the | _publicans Apparently Had Rejected All Cqmpromin posals on the Subject 2nd That He is Certain the Debate is Likely to Continue, as There Are No Sign a Showdown Immediately—Proposed Adriatic S ment Might Cause Withdrawal of Treaty of Versailles' From the Senate — Reply of the Supreme Council - fo- President Wilson’s Adriatic Note is Being Forwarded." intimating that only retirement its part.in policing the Adriatic intended. e The council issued an emphatic de=' hial on its own behalf of French n¢ paper reports that it was persuaded to- modify amd_soften the first draft' of the note to President Wilson by inter=| vention ‘exercised by Viscount, Grey, | Lord Robert Cecil and Austen Cham=| 4 said Senator Hitchcock, the democrat- ic_leader, after another effort to ob- tain republican aid in modifying the article ten reservation adopted at the {last session of ~congress. He added | {that the republicans apparently had | reected all compromise proposals on the subjéct and that he was certain the treaty never could be ratified unlesg they did compromise, At the same time some senators in the mild reservatior’ group of repub- ilicans indicated their belief that the democratic proposal might command considerable republican strength, while ! some democrats predicted that enough democrats to insure ratification would | break away and vote for the republi- can reservation as it stands. ! The result was a muddled situation in which the party leaders on both sides appear uncertain as to what might be the next development. It generally was agreed, however, that there would' be no showdown immedi- ately and that the debate which be- gan yesterday would be permitted to | dun on for the present without any effort to hasten a ratification roll call. Forty democrats had been pledged ‘lom’gh! for the alternate Article Ten reservations presented by Senatol Hitcheock. It would take 49 votes to make up the simple majority necessary tojsubstitute one of these reservations for the republican draft and to seven or more republican votes required for ‘this operation fifteen more would have to be added to insure final ratification by a two thirds vote, The senate made no progress today toward a vote on the first of the pro- posed modifications in the: republican reservations, the entire day being: oc- cupled by te on other feature& of the treaty. . = St i \PEACE TREATY MAY BE WITHDRAWN FROM SENATE Washington, Feb. 17.—The allied su- | preme council ‘has been informed by : President Wilson, it was disclosed to- day, that if the proposed Adriatic set- tlement to which the American gov- ernment s not a party is put into force thé United States might have to consider withdrawing the treaty of Versailles from senate consideration. The- president’s communication was not in the nature of a threat in the common sense of the term, it was said, but was merely a statement of .a sit- uation in which the Unifed States might find itself If asked to subscribe to agreements in which it had no hand in making and to which it was op- posed. The explanation was made in offictal quarters that the league of nations | Was to be the instrument for enforcing various agreements as to boundaries and the like and that if the United States became a party to the treaty of Versailles it thus would be subscribing | to the enforcement of agreements to which it had not given either its ap- pl‘;!;v':fl or consent. was explained further that the Anslo-French-American treaty and the treaty of Versailles were consid- ered inseparable so far as this ques- tion was conicerned and that if a sif- uation arose . where the president {would ha evto consider withdrawing the latter, he also would have to con- sider withdrawing the former, An early announcement at the White House characterized as an “absolute falsehood” the statement by Pertinax in the Echo De Pdris that President Wilson’s communication contained-a postseript bearing a threat to with- draw the treaty from the senate. This was recognized as erroneous as soon as l_t came to the attention of other officials. ~ Obivously it did not come from President Wilson himself, and it was later explained that those who made the statement had svoken with- out full and complete information. At first, t0o, the president’s com- munication was referred to as a “memorandum” and was described, as containing only eight or ten lines. It subsequently was disclosed, however, that the communication finally sent was in the form of a note and that it covered two or three pages. This note, it was explained. was prepared from 2 memorandum to Secretarv TLansing which the president dictated and sent to the state department. SUPREME COUNCIL REPLIES TO THE ADRIATIC NOTE London, Feb. 17 (By the A. P.).—The | American embassy is engaged tonight | in coding and forwarding -to- Wash- ington the renly of the supreme coun- cil to President Wilson's Adriatic note, which will be in the hands of the Washinzton -government tomorrow. The council made it known in its daily semi-official ecommunication to the newspapers that it does not nro- pose to make public the correspon- dence, 8o that the question of whether the text of the notes will be given to the world rests with President . Wil- son. . Since the main facts are publi property, ‘namely. that the president strongly. obiects to the solution of- the Ttalian-Jugoslav nroblem by the applic cation of the treaty. of London thereto and objects so strongly as to contem. plate: America’s withdrawal from the Versailles compact as - a . possibility, and that the council objects to the re- opening: of the question, the undecided point is whether the arguments ex- changed shall be published while the | controversy is hot on the anvil, i The statement from Washington confirming the first reports that the president had intimated that rejection + of his polley might. be_ followed by | diplomatic reprisals. furnished another surpriss to the noliticians and the pblic, because it came close on' the hee!s‘wl ‘other. i the ashington messages ing berlain, chancellor of the e S The susceptibilities of the noffim members of the council were ong of . the factors behind this denial because the story was calculated to give the impression on the Continent that the British were dominating the cnnhvl ence. ey The feeling at Italian headqnarters in London with respect to the prests dent's action is strong. Unofficially; it is spoken of as an attack upom Italy, and his memorandum is dé~ scribed as an ultimatum. The lct:m- also feel that Italy's claims to eration fof her part of the war and the sacrifices made have never been quita appreciated by her allies. The feeling in the Jugoslav camp i8 equally strong, but has the element of elation that the Slavs have a champion. They feel that they are st a - disadyantage because = Minister Trumbitch is outside the councils of the powers, and, like the Italians, have their own grievance in that they COm: sider that the fact that they were in the war from the start and that their country was practically ruined is not to be given the weight it deserves: Whether the supreme council's reply to_the president's note will be mada public ‘has not been decided. The president’s communication . has beem withheld, some officials taking .the view that they did not wish to adda possible complication to the' situation in Italy or any othericountry by gl¥= ing publicity to the éxchanges in af« vance of an entire agreement hetween the principals. ? There is no disposition, however; to withhold" information regarding - various steps that have been since the original agreement in\ Paris by the .supreme council with Actin; Secretary Polk of the state depaw ment present. down to the despatchof the president’s note. INTEREST HAS SUBSIDED IN . SHIPPING BOARD AUCTION: Washington, Feb. 17.—Recommend~ ations as te the future policy to be fol= ! lowed, by the Shipping Board in gard to the sale of the thirty German passenger ships which has stirred up a controversy involving several branches of the government, will be * submitted to the senate commerce committee tomorrow: by Chairman Payne. The end of-the auction for receiving bids on th evessels came quickly- to= day with only one offer made out of a choice of 19 ships. The largest ves= sels of the fleet, including the Levia= than, George. Washington, Agamem- non and Mount Vernon were passed * over without arousing the interest of hipping men who yesterday bid millions . for the liners in groups. Under the announcement at the opening the auction, no action will be taken on the bids without the sance tion ofthe senate commerce committes thehouse merchant marine com: tee @nd penuing the decision of the infunction- proceedings _brought . by William Rzndglph Heargt, as a_tax- payer to prevént the sale of any of the vessels. Officials of the board today express= ed disappointment at the light bi at both sessions, of theguction. Sealed bids for the thirty shipffs opened om January 20 offerede a total of pver $32,000,000 for the fleet, but allowing = for the various groupings which i~ cluded the same vessels at the an thetotal offering represents only $2 850,000 for fifteen ships. - Opposition of the sale continued the senate today, Chairman Jones ef the commerce committee introducing a resolution to T «;r‘ the ves- sels and requiring the shipping. bosed to refit the liners with the earnings of its other craft. - e President Wilson today worked on his reply to the senate resolution call« ing for information as to whethér a secret agreement exists between Shipping . Board_and~ Great - Britain over the disposal of the German ship It will be an emphatic *denial, it i understood. P WOMEN VOTERS SANG “HAIL, HAIL, THE GANG'S ALL HEREI® Chicago, Feb.. 17.—The League: of Woman Voters at its session here o= day honored more than a hundred women pioneers in the suffrage cause and ‘others who have done important work in securing the yote for womens A large sapphire pin was presented to Mrs. (y-rie Chapman Catf in recogil=- tion of her work, and when the pres- entation was made the women sang “Hail, Hail. the Gang's Al Here!™ © Amone other women who were % “certificates of service” _were Jane Addams, Miss Mary Gatrett H&Y and Mrs. George Bass, the latter leaders in the women's divisions the republican and democratic partles. Miss Hay ahd Mrs. Bass received th certificates at the same-time, with injunction from Mrs: Catt not to “call each other names.” They shook hands while the delegates ‘Ghedhi More than $40,000 was raised to ry on the league’s work. REVOLUTION HAS BROKEN ; OUT IN VLADIVOSTOK London, Teb. 17.—Revolution has broken out in Vladiyostok,” Nikolsk, Yenishiesk and Blagovestchensk, where all authority now is in the . hands of the provisional governmént, whose program is in favor of unioft ith soviet Russia, says a soviet wires s cpmmunication = rcceived froi Moscow. - r = The_desnatch adds that Red-t have entered.Tiraspol, 73 miles no: west of Odessa. . L S MRt QAR 7 o It is far easier to er thers thai o o 4 A S ORI e ) Yo e i i i