Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 19, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXI—NO. 44 ALLIED NOTE ON SAID T0 BE G ‘Has Been Received at the State Department, But is Withheld — Department Officials Stated That the Council’s Note Would Receive Careful Consideration, Giving the Im- pression That Some Time Must Elapse Before a Reply Will Be Given—Apparently President® Wilson’s ltiote Has Served to Reopen the Whole Subject to Negotiation. Washington, Feb. 18 (By the A. P.). —Presidgpt Wilson's note to the allied -supreme council regarding the Adriatic question, which caused something of a stir in this as well as the allied countries, apparently has served to reopen the whole subject to negotia- tion. The supreme courlcil’s reply was re- ceived today at the state department, but was withheld. London advices the note conciliatory. The state department made no comment on this, but it was pretty well understood hat the entente premiers’ communi- cation had at least removed the Adri- atic question from the status in which it was after the council communicated its settlement to Jugoslavia if the form of an ultimatum without the Tnited States being a party to the agreement. The Jugo Slavs were given the op- tion of accepting the ccuncil’s plan or submitting to the carrying out of the Adriatic provisions of the secret treaty of London, nezotiated before the Unit- ed States entered the wa In this connection it was disclosed today that President Wilson in his note again came out definitely against the appli- cation of this treaty 1t alsc was understood that the president had taken the nosition that regardless of the ovneration of the treaty of Versailles and the leazue of nations the Unfted States should be a tyv to the Adriatlc settlement be- eause of its position as a co-bellizer- ent. While the premiers’ renly was being ived at the state derartment from , a_suggestion came rope that the miers had American government, in that 1t still held that the Adriatie asteement made at aris orf Dec. 8 shonld he earried out. to indicate the practical stens that canld he taken to execute this agree- ment it should be accented by Italy and Tugp Slavia. Under tha torms of the Der. § settle- ment. to which the United States was a party. Fiume was ta be created into a free state under the league of na- ioms and in other resnects the zen- 1 princinle of self-determination of the neoples affected was to be put into foree, = The seizure of Flume bv D’Annun- was sngmestad. had chanced < ions in the Adrintic. and the in- abilitv or Indienesition of the Ttalian government to_restors. the status ano anpeared to nlace the Treleht of re- snoneibility for dcln~ so unon the en- terite nowers or the Tnited Stafes. It was reatized that mone of these was willinz to- indertake such a move and conseanentiv other measures to meet the case were considered. As comment unon this involved a Aleclosure of some of the featnres of the latest entente note, the state department had nothing to say on the subfect. i suzgestion | s2id to have mj; An -alternative suggestion contem- plating the neutralization of the en- tire eastern Adriatic shores and waters was said to be nothing more than a revamping of a ‘project made early in the negotiations on the.subject and { which failed of approval. There is veason to believe, however, Vth:l't the zcreral tendency of the premiers’ note is to invite the United States to come forward with some, solution of the roblem. : At the state department it was said that the council’'s note would receive careful consideration, making it ev dent that some.time must elapse be- fore a reply will be made. ‘While the department has decided not to make public the president’s communication and the council's reply without the consent of France, Great Britain and Italy, it was learned from | authoritative sources today that the American government looked with fa- xor on the publication of the ex- crerges and had taken steps to as- cetain*he wishes of the governmernits ia the matter. A factor in the desire of the United States for nublicity, it was said, was prejudiced versious of Pr son’s note which were 1 i the foreizn pres: dent’s position and placed the T States in a wrong light before the peo: ple ou the allied countries, One thing of importance from the American viewnoint which developed today was that such decisions as are ‘reached by the nremiers in their Lon- don meetings. at which the ! States is not represented, are all sub- ject to approval at subsequent meet- ings in Paris at which an American | representative probably will be pres- # this renresentfative will not have enary powers to aceent or re- ject any decisions reached at the Paris meetings. he will at least be able to quickly refer them to the state de- pa~tment, thus carrving out the un- derstanding reached in Paris when the American peace commissioners with- drew—that thereafter all questions arising under the peace freaty and armistice were to be referred to the various foreign offices. It is known that the Paris confer- ence Will take up the question of the disposition of Turkey, and as all the entente powers are on record as hav- inz requested the narticination of the ! Tnited, Siates, it-is exnected that Am- hassador Wallace. renresenting the state department. will-be fully- advised as to, develgpments. While there is no idea that the American government will consent to accept a mandate of any character, even over Armenia, where the sitna- tion is renorted to be desrerate, the warm interest in tbis corntry in the Armenians is so well recoznized that the entente powers are believed to be certain to solicit the advise of the Tnited States in making an adjust- ment of the matter. OPINIONS ON IMMEDIATE SALE OF GERMAN SHIPS Washington, Feb. 18. — Conflicting opinions as to the advisability of the immediate sale of the thirty former German passenger liners recently of- fered by the shipping board presented to the senate commerce committee today by members of the board. Chairman Payne told the commit- tee that the reconditioning of the vessels for passenger service would involve an expenditure of more than 375,000 000 and offered a resolution approved by three of the four mem- bers of the board requesting author- ity to put the ships on the market. A}l bids recentiy received for the purchase of the liners have been re- jected, he stated. Vice Chairman Stevens, of .the board, on the other hand, declared that the vessels should not be sold at this time as their true valuationl hag never been worked out. He urged that the vessels be reconditioned be- fore their sale. Estimates of value of the vesselg received by the board. he said, had been made with a depreciation charge of five per cent. while only 2 1-2 per cent. should be thus charged off. He placed the value of the fleet at nearly $75,000,- 000. Opposing the immediate sale of the lindrs because of the uncertainty as| to their value, Mr. Stevens said the public was entitled to know whether the fleet was being offered at fair prices. More than money was im- volved, he added, and the transfer of the ships should not be made until it ‘was known that the best interests of the government were being served. The advantage accruing from the sale of the craft as they stand, Chair- man Payne said, lies in the saving of the estimated cost of the repairs together with the uncertainty as to conditions in which, the shipping world after the six months or more aecessary for the repairs. STEAMERS HELD BY STRIKE OF DOCKERS AT ROTTERDAM Rotterdam, Tuesday, Feb. 17.—Sev- eral American freight steamers which were caught in port when the dock- ers’ strike was called recently man- aged to sail today in ballast. The lin- er Rotterdam arrived from New York today and discharged its 366 passeng- ers and their baggage, but the ‘cargo could not be moved. The strike here and at Amsterdam continues without violence. ALL AMERICANS AT MARASH ARE SAFE ‘Washington. Feb. 18.—All Ameri- cans at Marash, in Turkey, where there have been a number of disturb- ances, are safe, the state department was informed today in a despatch from Constantinople. LETTS ARE TO OPEN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS London, Feb. 18.—The Lettish le- gation here announces that the Let- tish government has decided to open peace negotiations with Soviet Rus- in conjuaction with the other order etatos. 0 were | the | NO REDUCTION IN WAGES OF RAILROAD MEN BEFORE SEPT. 1 Washington, Feb. (8.—Guarantee against any reduction in wages be- fore next September 1 is given rail- road workers in the revised draft of the railroad reorganization bill re- ported today to the senate and house.| Raiiroad corporations which are to regain control and operation = of their properties March 1 are safe- guarded likewise by the compromise measure against reductions in rates and fares at the hands of state com- missions prior to September 1, bill providing specifically against any | rate or fare reduction not approved by the intersitate commerce commis- sion, the federal regulatory body. The re-drafted reorganization measure, while not prohibiting ad- vances either in wages or in rates, in | the | the opinion of the members of conference committee subscribing to the majority report thus will tend to stabilize conditions in the railroad industry insofar as the confererees deemed advisable. Before presentation of the confer- ees’ report and the re-drafted meas- ure to the house, where it first was received, the section of the bill rel- ative to wages was interpreted as e tablishing the pay of railroad em- ploves at the level effectlve when the properties are returned. This inter- pretation. which later was found to| be erroneous, led to hurried confer- ences among railroad labor leaders in Washington, despatching of labor representatives to the capitol to as- certain the exact provisi of the measure, and to the calling of a con- ference for tonight of officials of the fourteen . railroad unions together with Samuel Gompers and Frank Morrison, president and e<cretary, re- spectively, of the American Federa- tion of Labor. The labor leaders on learning that an advance in wages was not precluded between March 1 and September 1 under the bill, gen- erally expressed satisfaction with the provision against any reduction of pay during the next six months. The house fixed Saturday for con- sideration’ of the conference report agreeing to meet an hour earlier than customary so a finel vote might be reached before adjournment. Representative Barkley, democrat, Kentucky;, a minority conferee, was given permission to file a disagreeing report. He served notice that an ef- fort would be made to send the bill back to conference under instructions to eliminate some of the provisions. Supporters of the report, however. were confident that the report would be approved. Chairman Cummins of the senate commerce committee announced that the report would be taken up in the senate ag soon as it was sent over from the house. - MlLIT:ARV 'PATROLS IN IN STREETS OF DUBLIN Dublin, Feb. 18—Military patrols, with fixed bayonets, went through the streets of the city last night, stop- ping and pearching pedestrians, es- pecially on the north side, demanding why they were out at that time of night. The reason for this action is a mystery. POPULATION 29,919 “Loyalty Week” to Tnited the | “ NORWICH, CONN, THU DAY, FEBRUA RY 19, 1920 Begin Februry 22 ation Issued hymCovemor Holcomb Last Night. Hartford, Conn., Feb. 18.—Governor Holcomb, in & proclamation tonight, designated the week beginning Feb- ruary 22 as “loyalty week.” The proc- lamation follows: “Two great Americans, Washington and Lincoln, were born in February. They acknowledged allegiance to no other country. In this period of tur- moil and unrest, with foreign propa- ganda promulgated in many mewspa- pers and from many pulpits, finding fertile soil and willing ears, it-is of vital importance that loyal Americans seriously attempt to Americanize America, including native as_ well as| foreign-born citizens, in order that; government of, for and by the people shall- not perish in the United States. “Therefore, in accordance with the action taken by sister states, I pro- claim the week beginning on Sunday, February (Washington's Birthday). as Loyaity Week, and urge that all izens of Connecticut renew to them- selves pledges of loyalty to the pr.n-| ciples of liberty, supremacy of law, representative government and the en- lightened rule of the majority. “I also call upon all clergymen to make public pronouncement upon these subjects.” CHARGES AGAINST THREE N. Y. ASST. DIST. ATTORNEY Albany, N. Y. Feb. 18.—Governor Smith received today from Raymond F. Almirall, foreman of the New York | County extraordinary - grand jury, | specifications alleging misconduct in office on the part.of three assistant| district attorneys, John F. Dooling, JamesE. Smith and Edward P. Kil- roe. The governor said that he would | { designate Attorney General Charles | D. Newton as special counsel to the. grand jury in the investigation of the charges. i Dooling is ocharged with conspira- i ey to bring about the ‘indicts f i 1S i*. Means for murder + is alleged to have been guilty of neg- “uty Liorespect investi {ing and prosecuting gvmbling and orderly housgsp, and Kilroe is accused of neglect of duty. Mr. Almirall's letter was in reply |to a recent communication fi- governor, in which the execut! ed that if the extraordinary grand jury would furnish him with spcuifi(:fllmnsi in connection with alle i £ vershadowing crime,” he would des- | ignate the attorney general as its spe c.ai counsel. “Because of the preference of the grand jury not to link together the in uninvestigated crime,” Mr. Almiral | wrote, “the grand jury takes the greai liberty of enclosing herewith a memo- | randum of the names of tares mem- | reiepred 1o -ga the ctter, dajed January 22 7 “of the crimtes. with which suh members are charged.” i ‘'he memorandum states in part: { | | I nection with “Atexander ‘1, Reicharan { with a_conspiracy to falsely and ma- | | liciously indict Gaston B. Means for | 1 ! i the crime of murder and to. procure | Means to be complained of and arrest- | cd for such crimes in violation of tne penal law. “James E. Smith, charged with va- | rious violations of the penal law and | with neglect of duty in violation of the | penal law, in respect to'the investiga- {tion and presentation and_disorderly houses. “Edwin P. Kilroe, charged neglect and omission of duty in viola- tion of the penal law, m failing to present and prosecute charges of lar- | céncy made by Thomas B. Donaldson, | P insurance commissioner of the state of Pennsylvania, against George F. Montgomery.’ bt vith | SCHEME TO BRING ABOUT MAYOR HYLAN'S REMOVAL New York, Feb. | | torney - Swann | night | 18.—District At- issued a statement to- in which he claimed that the extraordinary grand jury’s charges| against the three assistant district | atorneys were preferred as a subter- fuge to bring about Mayor Hylan’s re- { moval and “to find something on Will- {iam Randolph Hearst.” Mr. Swann asserted that the grand jurors expect- ed Attorney General Newton to des- ignate Alfred F. Becker, deputy at- torney general, to take his place. W, H. BLODéETT APPOINTED STATE TAX COMMISSIONER' Hartford, Conn | H. Blodgett of Wi clerk of bills at the last four sessions of the leg- coming clerk in 1909. of the senate in 1911. PROBABILITY THAT JOHN F. BARRY COMMITTED SUIGIDE Milford, Mass., Feb. 18.—Belief that John F. Barry committed suicide grew |in official .minds today when single foot prints corresponding with the | shoes worn by him were found by police detectives leading tothe mill pond in the ice of which his body was found last Saturday. A second autopsy on the body held today confirmed the findings of the first in eliminating drowning as a cause of death and discovering <no marks of violence. ' The wire and cord cord bound Barry's hands and feet, | the police now believe, were self-ad- | dusted. 332,556 CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGE IN STATE Hartford, Feb. 18.—The state comp- troller's department was able "today to announce 332,556 as the total num- ber of children of school age enu- merated in Connecticut last vyear. Owing to the tardiness of school offi- cials in sending returns to the comp- troller it has not been possible to give the figures until now. The number enumerated shows an increase of 7,048 over the previous year. The total amount of the grant which the gtate will pay the towns is $748.183.50 or $15,858 more than was paid last year. g He was clerk Thomis T. Kelly, lord mayor-elect of Dublin, was conditionally released from the the Wormwood Scrubbs pris- on and is now at the home of a friend. of of gambling | 1; Cbndensed_jéiegrm Gold sold at 1225 an ounce in Lon- don, compared with 121s close. Canada’s trade for January totaled $225,096,920, exceeding January, 1919, by 26,000,000 : Grain organizations of North Dakota are still protesting against the bill of grain corporation. Allied supreme council decided upon internationalization of the Dardenelles | Wilson's extended illness and the at- and Bosphorus. Business office of the Pittsburgh Leader wrecked by fire. A loss of $15,000 was reported. A recess until Feb. 25 was taken by the naval court of inguiry into New- port’s vice conditions. It was reported in Chicago the gov- ernment would make a drive against foodstuffs prices there. Gabriele Five tim Wallace F. Robinson, financier and philanthropist, died at his home im Boston after a prief' illness. Dela M. Alling, 50, a farmer of Orange, fell on the ice yesterday and died in a hospital of a broken skuil According to Eggan Schiffer, the | German minister of justice, Germany | is punishing all her own war- culprits. William Devoll, Jr., city editor of the New Bedford Standard, died of pneumonia, after an days. Nine fires started on the seven sugar | plantations on the island of Kauai, and {about 90 acres of cane burned. According to the Pall Mall Gazette, | Premier Lloyd George 2 | Reading the ambassadorship at Wash~ ngton. President of the Canadian Pacific | Railroad reported to have predicted an increase in railroad rates in the do- minion. The will of Henry B. Endicott leaves | virtually the entire estate, estimated at $10,000,000, to his immedi- jate family. Edmund Blake, Coast Artillery at Panama, regeived the French Legion of Honor for services rendered on the JFrench battlefield. D’Annunzio is which | .. A bill providing for a vehicular tun- name of a person and-he charge of an |nel under the Hudson between New | ¢ | Jersey and New York was introduced n the New Jersey senate. The Austrian regional assemblies, in of the district attorney staff par-session at Salzburg, decided.that the siund | Austrian constitution should - provide , 1920, for a federagion ofstates. Bills carrying appropriations for the | 5 1 | purchase of munitions for gunboats “John T. Dooling, charged in con-|and destroyers were presented in the ‘ortes by Rear Admiral Benson, chief of naval | the retired list, was appointed by Pres ilson to succeed Payne as head of the shipping board. dent Loss due to the burning of ths plant Organ’ Company at Springtield, Mass, was placed by com- v officials at between $200,000 and the § pan ,000. The wooden steamier Ripogenus, a| 3 coal carrier, reportedl by wireless that | ment had not influenced his testimony she was caught in port, All war-time restrictions on internal raido communication States were lifted, effective Feb. 29, under an executive order signed by the president. The council of ambassadors decided .today to allow Austrian delegates to be attached to the Inter-Allied cora- missions which are to be sent to east- ern Austria. Rev. James H. Petta:, a missionary to Japan for more than 40 years, died suddenly at the offices in Boston of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The appointment of a commission to care for the graves of Massachusetts men who died overseas was advocated . { before Feb. 18.—William | judge Edward L. Logan. a Lady Astor, in an address at Prom- A large tank car of wine, consigned | to Boston from California, was broken into at Springfield, Mass., by railway employes and enough consumed to in- capatitate scores of workmen. Harvard university celebrated the its graduate school of education at a dinner at the Har- vard Union given by the visiting com- mittee of the board of overseers. establishment of To relieve a threatersd milk famine facing New York as a result of Sun-| day's blizzard stalling trains up state, the Pennsylvania Railroad placed an embargo on all freight except milk. French Discontinuance of all mgional and district offices of the railroad admin- istration on March 1 was directed by Director Generdl Hines, as a second step in returning roads to private own- ers. A strike A special council repreSenting the Don, Yuban and Terek division with a | he said virtually would mean his de- at alfeat at the San Francisco convention, Caucasia, to|were given by the Ohio senator as join under the leadership of General| his' reasons for Denikine and oppose the ‘bolsheviki. - |race. population of 500,000 agreed meeting at Novorossick, the minister of marine. teere the in the legislat; committee ve | islature, was tod: 0inLea ! rose League, in Londan, declared the | €ODCerning’ the socialist attiude to- | tax . commissioner bv Gavernos ~ 0. {30e0 EAEAS T8 SO0 ot be worth | Vard_the war. In direct examination ,comb; to succeed William II Corbim, the paper it was written on if it were | 2.*- Fillquit had testified that while i resigned. Mr. Blodgett , AT ot e S R e navy. opposing” war, socialists here had office March 1. His term will expire 5 dor so:xfh_t uul'mvtuflly to “obstruct it.” July 1, 1921. ™M Great Northern, Northern | FTOM their point of view he had add- Mr. Blodgett was a member of the pare aen ihe Barineion soitoods | ¢ “Obposition” was “patriotic.” state house of represeniatives *{into one system shortly after govern- | o URIST, cross examination Mr. Hill- Canaan in 1903. In 1907 he was electe | o0 SYELER- SIRE 2 said he “believed” he had assist. ed assistant clerk of the house, ve. |ment control is relinquished fvas fore- | casted in rajlroad circles. internal is threatened by 75,000 members of the Amalgamated Textile Workers of America of New 'York, New England and Philadelphia unless demands for a 44-hour week and a 50 per cent. increase is granted. 3d at previous \ to have said annexation of IKiume by Italy is now impossible. s many nurses as are; now available could be used in com- batting inf{luenza in Maine. illness of ten sugar were offered Lord is John Barton ice at Sears- Me., and needed immediate as- sistance. United by loan of unlimited amount will be offered simultaneously in_principal reserve and central sefve cities of the United States, be- ginning Friday and ending March 20. re- To Define Disahifity of thflresidflnt‘ Two Proposals Made in the ouse—Neither Was Aim- ed at President Wilson. Washington, Feb. 18. — President tendant discussion as to whether he was incapacitated for continuing his duties gave rise today to two pro- posals in the house to clarify and supplement - constitutional provisions on_the subject, It was made clear, however, ' that neither proposal was aimed at Pres- ident Wilson, the intent being to de- fine the procedure for future emer- gencies beyond any possibility'of mis- construction or partisan action. The first proposal was in the form of a resclution for a constitutional amendment, introduced by Represen- tative Fess of Ohio; chairman of the repuplican congressional committee, proposing to have the supreme court determine the abi of a president to discharge his duties, whenever au- thorized by a concurrent resolution of congress. » If congress was not sit- ting when the emergency arose, the vice president would be authorizéd to call a special session. “Unless the constitution expressly states that congress shall be the judge of the disability of the execu- tive,” Mr, Fess said, “it is argued that it cannot safely be allowed by inference; especially would this be true where the two departments might belong to different political parties, “The uncertainty of the constitu- tional question would strongly argue the wisdom if not necessity of an amendment pointing the way out of a possible embarrassment.” Virtually the same procedure was outlined in a_bill introduced by Rep- resentative Rogers, republican, of Massachusetts, and referred to the judiciary committee along with the Fess resolution. It would provide that the supreme court on the request of the senate or house should determine whethes the president “is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office with- in’ the meaning of the constitution.” The same tribunal would be author- ized to say whether the president's inability hag been removed, in which case he would be restored to office. “Nobody knows what ronstitutés inability or how it shall be deter- mined,” Mr. . Rogers said. “Yet the decision may he of supreme conse- quence to the nation. “It is high time that we made certain the uncertainty of the consti- tution. I propose a very simple way —a way making pre-requisite action by the legislative and the judicial branches of the government which under the constitution are co-ordi- nate with the president himself. " “This is not a drive .against the president. It is simply te eliminate intolerable obscurity in our funda- mental Jaw.” ookl 2 { HILLQUIT NOT GOUNSEL- FOR RUSSIAN SOVIET BUREAU Albany, N. Y.. Feb. 18.—Morris Hill- quit, socialist leader, who defended Soviet Russia while testifying as a { witness for the defense at the trial of the five suspended socialist assem- blymen charged with disioyaity, today denied he was “a paid counsel or ad- vocate"of t he Russian Soviet bureau in the Wnited States or of L. C. A. K. Martens. Russian Soviet, “ambassa- or.” Under verbal crossfire from Martin Conboy, Mr. Hillquit admitted he was { counsel, but not “counsellor” for the Russian bureau. He declared, however, his appoint- tand asserted he had ‘“riever received any payment, big or small, from the Soviet government or Mr. Martens, di- rectly or indirectly.” “Wasn't a check drawn to your or- { der for $3,000?” asked Mr. Conboy. “None for three thousand dollars or three thousand cents.” “And 1 presume it will be a sur- ptll'ise to you if we will produce the Il be a welcome surprise if you hand it to me.” No check was produced and Mr. Hillquit continued his testimony. { said that for the last year he had ad- vised Mr. Martens regarding the best way to accomplish his “worthy” mis- sion in this country and had aided him in organization of his office. In direct examination this morning, Mr. Hylquit, in his dual role of chief counsel and first witness for the. de- fense, testified American socialists were not- bolshevists, but that they! sympathized with ‘Soviet Russia be- | cause it was conducting “a great so-| cial experiment leading to an ideal| state.” Mr. Conboy also grilled the witness S ed in drafting a manifesto adopted by} the national committee of the socialist party at the time of the Lusitania crisis, urging workers. not to fight or product war munitions. THREE READ, 32 MISSING IN PROVIDENCE HOTEL FIRE Providence, R. L, Feb. 18.—Three known dead and 32 others missing was the official police checking late tonight of the guests at the Lorraine Hotel; here, which was swept by fire at 4.30 this morning. Sezsch of the ruins. for other bodies, which the police feel certain must be there, will begin to- morrow morning. There were a total of 106 guests registered and of these the authorities have found 71 to be safe. The missing are practically all Massachusetts and New York peo- le. : pPolice and coroner’s investigations of the cause of the_fire adn of an al- leged lack of fire escapes and a fail- ure to properly warn guests when the blaze was discovered were under way tonight. i i — = | POMERENE WITHDRAWS FROM PRESIDENTIAL RACE] Washington, Feb. 12. — Senator Pomerene, democrat, of Ohio, with- drew tonight from the contest for the democratic presidential - nomination. Necessity of devoting his entire at- tention to important legislation in} the senate and the fact that under the Ohio state primary law a solid delegation would be impossible which | ;,..L\ddiag that -no further wage increases { has already serveq time at Wethers- " FORCES AT VOSTOK the Principal Streets—Allied Troops, Including Amer- ican, Maintained a Strict Neutrality Toward the Occupa- tion of the City by the Revolutionists—Throughout the Day the Parading Revolutionists Were Joined in Their "Celebrations by Truck Loads of Soldiers of Every De-’ scription. Vladivostok, Jan. 31 (By the A. P.). —The firing of a volley in the eastern section of Vladivostok early today signalled the advance of revolutionary troops with artillery, machine gun corps and infantry, one thousand strong. Marching through the princi- pal streets, they occupied government buildings as they advanced. As the revolutionists approached the headquarters of Governor General Pozanoff, Russian commander of the maritime province, a dozen Cossacks who remained loyal to him showed signs of fighting, but surrendered after a few shots. _Revolutionists occupied the entire city by 10 o'ciock, disarming not more than fifty Russian officers. who re- mained Joyal to the last fragment of Admiral Kolchak's all-Russian gov- ernment. Owing to the shell to which the Kolchak power had been reduced here, throughout the day the paradinz revolutionists were joined in. their cel- ebrations by truck loads of soldiers of every description, from cadet officers to veteran fighters in nondeseript uni- forms. v Cheers were voiced from street crowds, the first cheers for Russian troops heard here for more than a vear. During the evening all mfilttary units which formed the old Russian staft headquarters declared allegiance to zemstov authority, then three thouu'and paraded the city, cheering and singing, carrying red flags of rev. I b olution. . Three trains of Nikolsk revolutien- ists arrived in the afternoon. They had expected to start the revolution. but local insurgents from the hills surprised everybody when ‘their col- umn appeared marching through the city. 3 = Allied troops here, practically ree duced to Americans, Japanese and Czecho-Slovaks, maintained a policy of strict neutrality toward the occupa~ tion of the city by the revolutionitss. But American and Japanese relations were near the breaking point over two incidents. One of these was when a Japanese company commander attempted to prokibit the advancing column pf rey- olutionists from entering the city. He asserted that the allied council had so agreed the previous night. An Amer- ican officer present told the revolu- tionist leaders that no such poljey had been decided and the advance continued. Fhe other Incideat was when Jap- anese forces delayed troop trains from Nikolsk. As a result of this incident! j General William S. Graves, | chief of the American expeditionary forces in Stheria, has submitted a formal protest to the fa- ter-allied railway board. General Graves protested that the Japanese forces have interfered with tralns on American ground, the American sec- tor of the Siberian railway, which was n violation of the inter-allied agree-: ment. CAUSES OF INCREASES IN COST OF COAL TO CONSUMER Washington, Feb. 16.—Increases in the cost of coal to the consumer since the war’ have been caused by ad- vanced operating cost due to wage advances, strikes, intermittent car supply and augmented overhead ex- penses, T. H. Watkins, New York, president of the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Corporation, today told the senate coal committee. The 14 per cent. increase in wages recently granted bituminous coal miners would never have been neces- sary or demanded by the men if ade- quate transportation facilities had been afforded the mines to allow con- sistent’ operation. Mr. Watkins said to miners would be justified. Mr, Watkins said railrond officials estimated it would cost $3,750.000,000 to provide necessary roiling stock to handle coal alone when the roads are turned back to private management. Several coal operators have been forced into bankruptcy by the r: read administratiop, Mr. Watkins al- leged. through the policy of confiscat- ing coal and: withholding payment for it for long periods. i Former Fuel Administrator Garfielq informed the coal str'ke sattlement commission today that pressure of private matters rendered it almost| prohibitive for him to testify before the commisson. said the commission had Dr. Garfield that he need not appear. HEAVY MOVEMENT OF COAL THROUGH HARTFORD | Hartford, Feb. 18—One hundred | carloads of coal have come Hartford within the past 24 according to a statement 1- Chairman Robinson | informed | STATUS OF CANADA'S DIPLOMATS AT WASHINGTON Ottawa, Feb. 18.—Legislation will be introduced at the coming session of parliament, it was learned today, to define the status of the proposed Canadian representative at Washing- ton. Since the early days of the war there has been a Canadian mission at Washington but its functions have been confineq to matters of trade. The: functions of the Canadian rep- resentative will be of a wider charac- ter and, it is stated, semi-diplomatic, The main aim will be to cut out the present circuitous route via the colo- nial office. On matters particularly affecting Canada and —the United States, the Canadan goverhmieght would Ceal di- rectly through its own representative jat Washington. On matters of im- iperial concern the Canadian repre- sentative would work in cooperation | with the British ambassador. Direct Canadian representation has again been brought to the.fore by the dis- cussion which has arisen over Can- ada’s status in the league of nations. It ig suggested that, had the (ana- dian representative been appointed, any representations the Dominion government might wish to make to Washington in the matter would have been handled “by him in conjunction with the British embassy. BUTCH PRESS ON THE SECOND ALLIED NOTE The Hague, Tues Dutci press, although inclined to re- at one newspaper calls “a play of bad temper’ in the rather wrp wording of some parts of the econd allied note with regard to the former German emperor, in comment generally takes the. view that these the Hartford division of the ven road. All told, cArs came in during the S - 3 was stated further, a number ds- clared at division hefldquarters to not far below normal. coal shipments are not holding’ An order issuc§ by Director Ge eral Hines for the protection at New York piers of coal consigned to New England, as announced by Mr. Hines in a telegram to Governor Holcomb received Tuesday night, will help Connecticut public utilities, said Thomas W. Russell, state fuel ad- | ministrator. STATE PRISON SENTENCE FOR “FLIM FLAMMERS” Waterbury, Feb. 18#-Marianno Pi- vwarski of New York, confessed “flim flammer” was sentenced today, in the superior court, by Judge Haines, to state prison, to serve from one three years on the chargze of ohtain- ing money under false protenses. He field and in Sing Sing., having ' been convicted on similar charges, He buncéed Frank Matouski of Thomas- ton out of $1,23 in a ‘“confidence game.” He obtained the $1,230 from| the Thomaston man in exchange for a valise suppesed to contain $20,000, which as a matter of fact contained nothing but old newspapers. PROTEST BY THE MILK DEALERS OF THIS STATE Hartford, Conn., Feb. 18.—Opposi- tion to a proposed rule making it| compulsory in this state for milk dealers who Pasteurize their milk -to have their employes undergo a phy- sical examination once a year devel- oped at a public hearing held by the state milk regulation board here to- | ay. Several milkk dealers spoke | against the proposal, which was | among a number of tentative rules | read by Thomas Holt, state dairy and food commissioner. James M. Whittlesey, state cattle commissioner, said that approximate- ly 30 per cent. of the cattle in. Con- necticut are tubercular. SELECTING JURY FOR TRIAL OF ANTONIO VALENTINO New Haven, Conn., Féb. 18.—The jury box was one short of being filled | when the superior, court was ad-| journed late today in the triol of An-| tonio Valentino, of Derby, . charged | with the murder of §alvatore Zollo, dropping out of the of Salvatore Zollo, of Madisen. N. J.. This is cited | as indicating that the unusually large { up | foodstuffs and other forms of freight. | to} portions are intended only for home consumption and that the real mean- iing of the note is that Holland is isimply asked to prevent Wilhelm | from "interféring with the peace of the world. The government, the newspapers say, is undoubtedly pleased that the allies did not attempt to dictate the i specific place of internment. The general fecling iy that the incident [ Wil be speedily seitled with Hol- iland’s expected offer to intern Wil- | helm at Doorn. e e s e { | RULES MILK DEALERS DO NOT REQUIRE LICENSES Waterbury, Feb. 18—Judse Walter D. Makepease in the district court here today ruled that the law passed by the last session of the legislature, requiring milk dealers to have licenses, is unconstitutional. Grant Porter, a local milk dealer, was in court for not taking out a license. The law requir- ed bonds of an amount bf be fixed in every case by the dairy commissioner. If milkmen failed to pay dairymen or producers, suit could be brought on the bond. according to tha provisions of the act. Attorney C. G. Root, who attacked the validity of the act, claim- ed that the law.would make a collec- tion agency out of the attorney gen- eral's office. The state will appeal the case to the supreme court. BISHOP BREWSTER HAS BROKEN SHOULDER BONE Hartford, Feb. 1S.—Although suf- fering from a broken shoulder bone, the result of a fall oy the icy pave- ments Monday, Bishop Chauncey B. Prewster, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Connecticut, following a custom of many vears standing, Ge- livered the address at the first icn- ten noon-day service in Chr'st church cathedral today. Bishop Brewster was injured in Branford. fracturing his left shoulder in two places. The bishop is rapidly recoviring and has been performing some of his usual duties although his shoulder i« held in a plaster cast and Le is unable to use his left hand. A WARNING AGAINST : ALTERED $10 AND $20 BILLS New Haven, Conn., warning was issued today by Orrin P. the secret service against altered $10 Numbers of these are in ges culation, 2 larger number than had been anticipated. By means of past- ing the numbers on the corn'rs $2 bills have been raiscd to’$10 and $6 Feb. * 18.—A merchants k-zd: of to A eKen in in Derby on October 29 last. The de- fense has exhausted the 25 challenges allowed. bills to $20. Bills of these denomi- nations ‘should be carefully Scruti- nizad. 2 -