Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 23, 1920, Page 1

FEDERAL v —A Prohibition Agent and a Party of Michigan State Officials and Wine They Had Confiscated Taken From Them—Major Dal- rymple, Federal Prohibition Director, Has Called For an Chicago, Feb, 22.—A “rebellion aaginst prohibition” has broken out in Iron County, Micaigan, and the coun- ty led by its prosecuting attorney, is in “open revolt” against federal au- thority, Major A. L. Dairymple, fed- eral prohibition director for the ce trai states, notified Washingtcn today. A prohibition agent and' a Mech'gan state constables were held up February 19 by Iron County officials and wine they had confiscated taken from them, according to word brought to Chicago today by Leo J. Grove of Marquette, supervising praibition torpey General Palmer to order. war- agent for the Upper Peninsula. or -Dalrymple appealed to At- issusd_for the arrest of the iwo deputy sheriffs, two police officers and three other resi- dents of iron River, a mining village. While awaiting word from "federal anthorities Dalyrymple issued orders for a company of picked prohibition egents to gather here tonight prepar- story to starting tomorrow on an arm- e! expedition which, he declared, will Maj rant higan state constabulary d to cooperate in the ex- rccormpanied by Lieutenant ope and Troopers Masters of the state constabulary, eleven barrels of wine at a mine two miles from Iron River, he reported to Major Dalrymple today. The wine is said to have been ma Peter and Steven Scalcuc- ¢ Ttalians, who own several s at Iron River. d the ligwor into starfed to move it to Ca; arters—of the state . co: in that section of ‘the pe- ula. hen the sleigh reached Iron River by Prosecuting Attorney ugh, Depuly Sheriffs esse Allen, Police Chief and Police Captain M¢Donough, report according to Grove's told the prohibition supervisor - was “under arrest for trans- liquor” and ordered his men the wine. Grove put up a but wa overpowered, The says, was returned to the brothers by MecDonough, ort adds, told the broth- , he armed guard over {t hoot if the federal possession. - receiving the report, Major Dairymple asked that Attorney Gen- eral Palmer instruct the United States commissioner at Marquette, Michigan, ue tae warrants. Grove reported District Attorney Myron H. nd Rapids, had ordered ier 1o issue no war- u submitting them . which of the wine seized in the . taken some time ago, tested 14 per cent, aleohol. tron River is a small lage in.the mining country a_few miles from the Wisconsin line. The population of the - composed of Italians according to Grove, and bootlegzing has been rampant in the hilis and woeds for months. The M tried to higan state constabulary " the county a few constzbularly was shot by ger. a bootleg- PREDICT “REBELLION” BTEPHEN P. GEROW, CANADIAN W shington, Feb. 22.—State and dis- t prohbition’ authorities have ubder the Volstead ion. enforgement act to deal with against prohibition” in Michigan, department of internal revenue bureau Iron county Justice and s said fnight in discussing the | encies jointly entrusted with ment df the statute. Agents of the prohibition director's office in Michizan, however, /will be given full co-operation of the Wash- gton authorities, it was said. al thouzh beyond advice and instructions as 1o procedure officials were not able {0 say tonight just what steps would be taken here. Attorney General Palmer was ab- sent from the capital and reports of the “revoit” had not reached William L. Frierson. acting attorney general. It was peinted out at the @epartment of fustice that the requisition of Major en- D. L. Dairymple. prohibition director for the central states, that the attor- zeneral issue warrants for the ar- of the Tron county authorities ag- #d of defying the prohivition law o I not be granted inasmuch as the Judicia land not- the prosecuting branch of the government must swear ont warrants. The attorney general mizht recommend to the United States dlstrict attorney at Grand Rapids that prompt application for warrants be made to the nearest United States canmimissioner. Officials predicted that the ‘“rehel- lion"” would be short lived. saving that enforcement o’ the prohibition laws was entered into with the determina- tion to act swiftly and emphatically in case of any open attemnt to defy the statutes. . 3 The ontbreak il Michizan is proba- hly the first of its kind in this (‘2“:(:\' heztins a resemblance to the historie “whiskey rebellion” of President Wash- !ngton’s first term.when bandsof farm.- ars in western Pennsylvania took to arms to resist the evcise taxes de- sizned hr Alexander Hamilton' for the support f the new government. The taxes. which were a novelty In gov- ernment finanme. remained, however, a nart of the American fiscal svstem ~nd were one of the menuments to tha yanno genius who was first secre. t1 of the treasurv. The firmers. whose nrincinal crop wag o=ain, had sreat diffienltv in et- ti=e their gnods to market in a form other than In Jiauor bepanse - thera were fe roads in that earlv dav. and heside thet thev had a traditiona) ha- tred for the excise collector and the state of Pennevirania never had heen ale to enforce the resulations. Thev rallied in nrotest against the federal faw of 1781, tarred and feathered the tax collectors and visited stmilar treatment on cftizens who sympa- takes from five to fif-| ptain Marsh of the | i Armed Expedition to Clean Up the County. thized with the new law., Hamilton, at the . request of congress, made ' some modifications in the law, but the op- position did not subside, and rioging and other violent acts continued until President Washington by proclama- tion ordered the disturbers to yield to the law. This had only a temporary effect and in 1794 violence broke out again' and a mixed commission at- tempted to settle the difficulties. This also was fruitiess, and late in that year Washington, with patience ex- hausted and determination aroused, ordered out fifteen thousand militia- men under General Henry Lee of Vir- ginia. The leaders fled at the approach of the troops, which took several hun- dred prisoners, of whom two were convicted of treason. but pardoned. Twenty-five hundred trocps remained in the disturbed region through the winter, “the disturbances died away, and the law went into operation. Historians have given to the inci- dent a greater meaning than the mere successful quelling of an incipient re- bellion against federal taxationlof the liquor traffic. They have recorded it as ‘one of the most significant of Washington's acts which had a pro- found effect in strengthening the new and weak government not only at kome bnt in demonstratine to all Eu- rope. which was watching the Ameri- can experiment with little sympathy, that the newly created union was vre- pared and determined to preserve. it- self and - enforce its constitutional laws. THE “SOVIET ARK” HAS ARRIVED IN NEW YORK New York, Feb. —The United States army transport Buford, . the “Soviet Ark” which carried Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman and 247 other undesirable aliens to Rus- sia, arrived here tonight, just ‘two months and a day after she started her memorable voyage. The transport brought back 46 officers and 293 cas- uals, from Belgium. The Buford saileq secretly during the early morning hours of December 21, bound for an unknown port. Kiel was the first point touched at and the transport remained there from January 9 to 13 undergoing boiler re- pairs. The passengers who were guarded. by soldiers, were not per- ‘mitted to go ashore. The radicals were landed at Hango, a port in Fifi- land, on-January 19, from where they proceeded to the Russian frontier by railroad. On the peturn ° trip, the Buford went to Brunsbuttel, a German port, ang then to Antwerp, where it ar- rived January 24 and sailed February & for New York. CHARGED WITH THE LARCENY OF SILK Boston, Feb. 22.—George A. Hen- derson alias - Alexander F. Chisholm, Wio was arresiad on a charge of lar- ceny of silk from a department store |as he was boarding a train for New York today, will be called upon to an- swer in court to charges made in a warrant, issued last November, of breaking and entering several rooms at the Copley-Plaza hotel and larceny of jewelry and other valuables frora guests. The silk was stolen yester- ay. The police said that the man, reg- istering under the name of Chisholm, occupied a room at the hotel for a time in November and that after guests had missed articles valued at several thousand dollars, a hotel de- tective discovered him breaking into a room. A chase through corridors of the hotel followed and the man es- caped. > BRITISH SQUADRON HAS ARRIVED AT CONSTANTINOPLE Constantinople, Saturday. Feb. 21.— A British squadron, consisting of five battieships and four torpedo destroy- ers, under command of Admiral Fre- mantle, arrived today and anchored insthe Bosphorous near the Italian and French battleships in the wWater- way and within a stones throw of parifament building, where the peace discussions are taking place. The newspapers are so jubilant over the retention of Constantinople by the Turks that the details of the possible peace treaty are overshadowed. NEW YORK TAX RATE DOES NOT JUSTIFY HIGH RENTS New York. Feh, 22.—New York's tax rate en real and personal property for 1920 VAries Iroum »-.4v 10 $.35 per each $190 of taxable property, City Comp- troller Craig reported today. This is an_increase of from 8 to 14 cents. The increase, Comptroller Craig stated, does not justify the high rents being charged in this city. “There is no relation whatever, he said, “be- tween the tax rate of 1920 and the very - high rents that.are now being enforced throughout the city.” ITALIAN PAPER PROTESTS RULING OF THE CENSOR Rome, Saturday, Feb. 21.—The newspaper Messaggero protests today against a ruling of the censor sup- pressing: a- telegraphed summary of an article:in the Wall Street Journal criticizing President Wilson's atti- tude toward Italy. The censor’s rul- ing is declared to be agdinst the pub- lic interest. “As dre the ‘people more royalist than the king, so is the censorship more Wilsonian than Wilson,” it says. NO FURTHER FATALITIES FROM EATING OLIVES Chicago, Feb. 22.—No reports had been received tonight of fatalities resulting from the -eating of bottled olives containing bacillus botulinus sold to.the-retail trade in fifty-two towns in eight states through a Chi- cago wholesale grocery house. It wag: believed that -the warning sent out yesterday by J. Mec- Laughlin, superintendent of the Illi- nois division of food and dairies, had checkeq the sale of the poison olives and warded' off possible. deaths. - POPULATION 29, 919 _NORWICH, CONN. MONDAY, - Condensed Teiegrams S Tynitlis: epidernic agingtn: wnsters Galic! \ % 3 F ¥ English soldiers ‘are using armored tanks on ‘Dublin Sinn Feiners. “the Liver- ome in that Baron' Russell, editor pool Post, is dead at his city. e 3 ~Canada’s 1919 gold otuput placed at $16,275,000, compared - with $14,463,689 in 1918, Senate postoffice commi proved one-cent rate for drop-letters, ee local or Grand Jury at Atlantic Gity will be asked o . investigate charges of gambiing there. The dollar was quoted at 13 francs 10s in Paris, compared with 13 francs 85c at previous close. * Bar gold was quoted at 1i9s 6d a finé ounce ingLondon, compored with 121s at previous close. Bar silver at New York, remained unchanged ats $1.30, compared with 82_5-8 an ounce in London. Under a new law a bonus from $25 to $37.50 a ton ‘will be granted to ships constructed in Brazilian ports. Dutch steamer Noordjik reported in | danger off Cape Breton js now in open water in no need of assistance. A report from Moscow declared the boisheviki had captured Archangel and that the garrison there had join-! ed the Reds. Stnadard Oil Co. of New York, re- portd to, have place a contract for three nelw 12,500 deadweight ton| tank steamers. Former Governor Murphy, of New Jersey, who was operated on for ab- | dominal trouls is recuperating at; Palm Beach, Fl 7 . % House Miiitary Committee approved the principle of universal military | jtraining as a part of the nation's fu- | ture military policy. Senate Commerce Committee order- ed a favorable report on Chairman Jones’ bill prohibiting the sale of former German ships. Mexican Federal troops routed com- | bined rebel bandits at Barre de Naut- | la and Paso de Talaya after Killing more than a hundred. Lord Lytton’s name was added to the list of possibilities for appoint- ment to the post of British Ambassa- dor to the United States. One man was killed and three seri- ously injured in an explosion of a tank in the plant of the Organic Salts and Acid Co., Newark. Thirteen persons were killed when | the steamer Danube struck a mine in! the Black Sea, thirteen miles off Cape | Ramili on the European shore. Consideration of the Kenyon reso- lution to create a large industrial con- | gress. will begin in the Senate Edu-! cation and Labor Committee next! 1 Transatlantic liner Noordam, sched-: uled to sail for New York, will not depart for an indefinite time because | of the dockworkers' strike, at Rot- terdam. ’ X Acting Secretary of State declared | the Preident's note was not held up| but was being given the customary | reading to insure covering of ail| points. ! London Chronicle announces pur- chase by a syndicate of between 13 000,000 and $15,000,000 yard f flan- nel from the government disposal board. Luis Cabrera, Minister of the Mexi- jcan treasury, announced in the Excel- sior that while Wilson was president | of the United States Mexico had noth- ing to fear. Unofficial Republican convention ion in one hour and of the shortest Harmony marked | sessions ever held. the meeting. Saturnimo Reyes, son of former President Reyes of Colombi: was | sentenced to serve months: to one | yeam in_the penitentiary on a charge of grand larcen \ Official statistics issued at Copen- hagen show wages of manual work- ers were increased $237 per cent {since 1914 and the cost of living in- | creased 142 per cent. Gold coin amounting to $1,550,000 | for export to South America was| engaged at the sub-Treasury. A ship- ! ment amounting to $215,000 was also | arranged for Mexico. A prairie ‘fire, sixty miles wide swept through thee territory of La Pama in the central part of Argen- tina, causing an estimated loss of} $1,000,0007in live stock. | i | Department of Health reported 389 lcases in influenza, showing a de- crease of 71 per cent. over previous| day and 259 pneumonia cases, an in- | crease of 14 over the day before. A diplomatic dispztch from Berlin | {says “undoubtedly” the coming nego- jtiations regarding prisoners exchang- ed between Germany and the Soviet will develop into peace negotiations. “ Because the: War Department now has 200,000 typewrlters, acquired dur- ing the war, the House favored Rep- resentative Wood's suggestion {pat no more be bo‘;ht during the fiscal year | of 1821, Tax law problem can be solved only by co-operation between the public and administrative officials with con- ‘fidence in each other, Daniel C. Roper, U. S. Internal”Revenue Commissioner declared. Seven men, arrested four months ago. following an investigation which showed ‘that $25,000 worth of parcel! post matter - disappeared from the mails last year, were indicted on sev- eral charges. A guard of several passengers were injured And traffic held, up on the ‘Summit. avenue and Newark lines of the Muodson and Manhattan tubes ‘when the rear car was derailed at Ex- change Place. 7 Republican leaders in Congress are shaping legislation for the creation of the greatest single purchasing agency in the world. They propose to take from every department except the | weil, |it. | Djavig | newspaper, army and navy the task ®of buying supplies. Indoors Between Midnight and 5). ‘m. Dublin, Sdturday, Feb. 21.—Fri- day's decree stipulating - that after February 23 all persons in the Dub- main indoors between midnight and lin metropolitan district must = re-| 5 a. m. was not entirely unexpectéd, thk government some jmonths aglol having by proclamation taken power to apply it. ot s Fixing the hour at midnight ‘will cause minimum interference Wwith the normal life of Dublin, which has few night entertainments and goes to bed early, but it wil affect a large class of night workers, who are alarmed at their announcement that wvirtually no one except clergy- men, doctors an dnurses will get the necessary permits to be out of doors between the hours mentioned. ‘When applied to for permits to- day, the police said they had noth- ing to do with their distribution, and that .the whole matter was in the hands of the military. puzzle for the new corporation, as nearly all city cleaning is done at night. A committee will consider th phase’ of the situation at a special meeting Monday. Electric lighting is under control of the corporation and the men con- nected with this service work in shifts. A slight altescation . in hours would aveid inconvenlence. ‘The gas company is applying for permits actment by an Overwhelm- ing Vote—Passed - in - the ‘Washington, Feb. 22.—Fnal fight on the railroad bill, ten months in the making will shift tomorrow to the senate, with leaders predicting its speedy enactment by an overwhelming vote. : C‘f’he conference report, a compari- son whipped together from the funda- mentals of the Cummins and Esch bills, fresh from the house with a clean margin of 99 votes, will be laid before the senate immediately after the readong of Washington’s farewell address. It will have the right of way over the peace treaty and all other measures, and while the senate works according to its own fancy, it could concur with the lower branch in half an hour or hold up the bill by fili- bustering methods until March 1, the date fixed by President Wilson for re- turn of the roads to private control. But having come through the house; admittedly the danger point in the view of advocates of the measure, the general opinion among’ senators to- night was that no serious opposition would develop and that the law under which the-roads will attempt to work out ‘their own salvation after the long period of federal control would be in the hands of the president by the mid- dle of the week. As is always the case with import- ant legislation there was wide discus- sion’ today over the possibility of the This was the man God Proclaimed the dawn of The lives that serve the eternal verities Alone do mold mankind Sparkle awhile and perish; as the spray, Smoking across the crests of cavernous seas, Is impotent to hasten or delay The everlasting surges of the tide. _GEORGE WASHINGTON Who dared a deed and died when it was done, Patient in triumph, temperate in.power. Not striving like the Corsican to fower To heaven, nor like great Philip’s greater son To win the world and weep for worlds unwon. Or lose the star to revel in the flower. gave us when the hour Liberty begun; . Pleasure and pride John Hall Ingham. for its workers. Dublin had a previous experience of a much more stringent order un- der Major General Sir John Max- after thé rebellion in 1916, It was then necessary to remain indoors between the howrs of 7 p. m. and 7 a. = = An important feature of the pres- ent announcement is that it contem- plates the employment of armed soldiers who may shoot anyone who not answer the challenge. As street car rvice inside the city is virtually shut down before midnight it will not be affected. The order has created intense bit- terness among Nationalists generaily, but the Unionists mostly approve of it. It is pointed out that nearly &v- of shooting has occurred long before midnight and that the recent attack on Field Marshal Vis- count Frenah, lord lieuteriant of Ireland, was made lign Some Sinn Feiners government is . inviting trou byt and the general belidf is that the risk of disorder will be in- creased and not diminished. in broad day- sav, the ONLY A CONTINUATION OF GERMAN PLOTTING Constantinople, Tuesday, Feb. 17. The constitutional anoeuvers are only a continuation 'of German plot- ting, according to Almendar, the or- gan of the entente and the liberal party. The newspaper asserts that Berlin, Switzerland and Russia are centers from which Young Turks like Bey, Djemel Pasha, Talaat { Pasha and Enver Pasha are directing bolshevik negotiations for the na ticnalists in an effort to effect Ru: sian cooperation in Pan-Islamic bol- hevism. Enver Pasha, says _the is now in Persia, where he is attempting to facilitate. the en- trance of the reds into India. He has been negotiating in Azerbaidjan, which controls the Baku oil fields, and probably could open the road for the bolsheviki into Persia. Many nationalists declare that the failure to obtain a satisfactory peace will drive Turkey into - an alliance with the bolsheviki. The nationalist block in the chamber of deputieshas passed a resolution declaring that peace will be impossible unless a. new plebiscite is held in Kars, Ardahan, Batum and eastern Thrace. This would afféct the territory of the Ar- [ menian and Georgian republic and add new complications to the situa- tion. EDWARDS TO FIGHT FOR ANTI- PROHIBITION AT CONVENTION Atlantic City, N. J., Feb. 22—Gov- ernor Edwards of New Jersey.an- nounceq here today his intention of going to thg Ban Francisco conven- tion prepared to fight for an anti- prohibition plank in the democratic platform. He criticized William Jennings Bryan, whom he designated “a man without a state,” and de- clared that he had no fear that the Nebraskan will seriously injure the party should the convention take an aiti-prohibition . stand. Governor Edwards said he was convinced that both parties must face the prohibi- tion issue as the livest that will come before the nation conventions. “I don't care who is the party’s candidate” said the governor. “My only' concern is to see this question of national prohibition thresheéd out. It is not a matter of liquor, it's a question of principle. Personal liber- ty and l}aler rights are involved.” wrecking of the bill by a presidential veto. At the same time there was considerable interest in the meeting i here tomorrow of the general commit- teemen of all the railway labor or- ganizations to discuss the president’s proposal for settlement of wage griev- ances. The date of the conference had no direct bearing on the plans of Senator Cummins for calling up the i railroad bill. Organized labor made its fight in the house, with varying success, according to the individual view of members for and against the tadoption of the compromise measure. The statement by Representative Kitchin, democrat, of North Carolinas who voted against the bill, that labor leaders had estranged at least a doz- en representatives was met hy the claim of labor leaders that the 150 votes against the measure would not have been polled except for their fight in behalf of railway employes and the union hosts. ‘While there still was much talk about further efforts, de- signed to reach the senate, there were no indications that organized labor hoped to sway the senate to the point of defeating all railroad legislation. Few members of the senate or house were willing to go as far as to predict ) that the bill might be vetoed. In this connection statements made during debate yesterday that failure to enact legislation befere: March 1 would put half the roads in receivership in three months and bring on financial distress more serious than any experienced in years, were on many tongues. It was largely because of this view, express- ed by leading democrats and by Chair- man Esch of the Interstate Commerce committee, who had worked and slept with the railroad bill since May, that nobody, apparently, was disposed to mrediet tat the president would re- fuse to sign it. There w no doubt that the big democratic vote case against the bill in the house was a surprise to republi- can leaders and even to many demo- crats, who had preached that in fram- partisanship should not figure. When the conference report is pre- sented to-the senate tomorrow, Sen- ator CSummins, chairman of the con- ferees, will make a brief statement and urge prompt consideration. Senator Robinson, democrat, of Arkansas, also a conferee, will cuss it, and unless there is an unexpected flow of speech- making- leaders said tonight the vote would be “swift and certain.” BOLSHEVIK CONCENTRATION ALONG POLISH FRONT ! Warsaw, Friday, Feb. 20—Bolshevik concentration along the Polish front continues, according to reports reach- ing here from military observers. It is stated that seven infantry divisions which were relieved by /the collapse 'of the Yudenitch, Kolchak and Den- ikine forces, have arrived at various points opposite the Polish army and are preparing to fill the gaps in the bolshevik line. Several new divisions are reported to have arrived at northern central rail terminals ;,where their command- ers are planning methodically for an offensive .if peace negotiations are un- successful. ¢ ‘The Polish forces are fully prepar- ed to meet an aMack although it is considered impossible for the bolshe- vik army to open an offensive Lefore the snow melts. The present concen: tration” is regarded largely as a “grandstand play” to back up bolshe- vik peace note. L National Board of Farm Organiza- tfon announcel nomination of a ‘can- didate for presidency. {hand for all of those who are in an- | tose wo ing railway reorganization legislation,| ‘ Dedlares It Would be in Line With That Which is Most Ar- dently Desired by Those Who Seek to Oppress Labor— Statement, in the Nature of a Rebuke, Made in Reply to William Mitch, a Leader of the Indiana State Labor Party, For Opposing the Political Declaration of the Am. erican Federation of Labor. ‘Washington, Feb. 22.—Formation of a political labor party would be “de- trimental to the interests of labor and | exactly in line with that which is most ardently desired by those who seek tooppose labor,” Samuel Gom- pers declared in a letter to William Mitch, of Terre Haute, a leader of the Indiana State Labor Party, made public here today. Mr., Gompers wrote in reply to aj telegram from ®Mitchell and his asso- ciates supporting the action of the | Indiana State Labor Party in oppos- | ing the political declation of the! American Federation of Labor calling | on organized workingmen men to elect their friends and defeat their enemies, | Mitch's telegram declared in fa- vor of making the fight solely through a labor party. “By what right” wrote Mr. Gom- pers, “do you assume to declare the! work and the policy of the American Federation of Labor to be impractic- al? Surely the results achieved in the interests of the workers demonstrate the utter fallacy of your assumption. “By your declaration you assert the practieability of the course you de- clare you will pursue. What experi- ence have you had with your political party upon which to base so absurd a claim? b “Forsooth, some men understand not : only that which is charged, but the ! virtue which is.proclaimed of political financial honesty and dishonesty. Per- hopes thorough investigation of politi- | cal and financial virtuer may be aE proper subject of inquiry after a po- litical party shall have been in ex- istence more than a day. { “Of this one thing vou may rest as- sured, that the day of reckoning is at | tagonigm tothe catise of labor, and for are subtle and equally gunlty even though they clothe their dctions in the robes of pretended friendship. ““When you shall have learned lesson of the real struzzle of and the cause for which our movement the Tahar | cess, stands, you may become penitent for the gross injustice you have done by your pretention and your course. “The effect of a separate politfeal labor party can only be disastrous te the wage earners of our country and to the interests of all forward look- ing people. The votes that would go to a labor party candidate would, in the absence of such candidate, go to the best man in the field. In no case would they go to an enemy of labor. “There can be no hope for success of labor party candidates. The of- fect therefore, of a political labor par-' ty will be to deeat our friends and to elect our enemies. “Labor can look upon the formation of a political labor party only as an act detrimental to the interests of la- bor and exactly in line- with thag which is most ardently desired by those who seek to oppress labor. “The welfare of American humanity demands in this hour of national cris- Is that there be success at the polls. This is no time for experimenting with political theories which are proven false at the outset. The workers of America must use the tactics of suc- They must have' results. esults will not be obtained by in- Jecting a labor party, so-called, into the struggle. “Those who are determined to be blind to the facts of the present and past, will o fcourse, rush on to dis- aster and calamity. This the Ameri- can labor movement will net do. It rejects and repudiates the fallacies of blind theorists and will have nothing to do with those treacherous follies that are suited only to the puprposes of labor's enemies. “Your telegram is an affront to the labor movement and an assault upon the interests of that great body of Americans who are determined that the present campaign shall result, not in the destruction of our diberties, but in the opening of the way to national progress and the enlargement of op- portunities for human welfare, safe- ty and happiness.” SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE GIVES UP MADRID CONGRESS IDEA Madrid, Saturday, Feb. 21.—Reports réaching here that the International I\'\'oman Suffrage Alliance has aban- i doned the idea of holding a congress in Madrid next May came as a sur- prise to feminist leaders here The Marguesa Del Ter, president of the | Union of Spanish Women, told The Associated Press correspondent today that the efforts which had been pro- ceeding to ‘arrange for the congress in Madrid had met with many diffi- culties but were still proceeding with the hope that the matters eventuaily would be arranged. The marquesa declared the femin- ist 'movement had found sympathizers among every class of Spanish society with the possible exception of the Clericals, whose leaders strongly op- pose any effort at the emancipation of women, especially in a political sense. Marquesa Del Ter, who has partici- pated in the feminist movement in England and France, and who during the war was especially active in pro- viding ambulances for the allied front in France, said she had practically se- cured use of the royal theatre in this city for the congress meetings from the minister of public works, but that later such strong pressure had been brought to bear on'the part of thd Clericals, that this assent had been withdrawn. She added. however, that she intends making a direct appeal to King Alfonso, who, she fells certain, will not allow Spain to “appear ri- diculous in the ‘eyes of the rest of the world” by refusing to recognize the advancement of women and their right to gu& their wviews before their countrywomen. RETAIL MEAT DEALERS MUST REDUCE PRICES ‘Chicago, Feb. .—Retail meat dealers throughout *the country must reduce their prices as the wholesale price of meat declines or else sub- mit their books to federal agents for investigation of their profits, This definition of the government's attitude was announced tonight by Attorney General Palmer. Instruc- tions to serve the notice on all retail meat dealers have been sent to every United States district attorney he said, “or three months the price of meat hag been falling,” said Mr. Pal- mer. “The retail dealers have claimed that their supplies were old stock purchaseq at the higher price: The old stocks should be exhausted by this time, and unless the price to the consumer comes down we will have to look into the question of the deal- | ers’ profits,” < Mr. Palmer’'s pronouncement on the meat price situation followed the publication by the Institute of Amer- ican Meat Packers of a bulletin an- nouncing the practical cessation of foreign trade as a result of the ad- verse exchange situation. Wholesale meat prices at the Chicago yards dropped—to pre-war levels for some | grades—following the publication. MAY SALVAGE STEAMER 1 ON OLD CILLEY LEDGE Rockland, Maine, Feb. 22—A two| day survey of the steamer Polias, which grounded on Olg Cilley Ledge, near Port Clyde, on February 6, was completed today. Chester A. Beckley A. Beckley of New London, Conn, who .was. in charge, said that the result could not be officially announced until his re- port was in the hands of the shipping board. The possibility that salvage efforts might be attempted was in- dicated by his statement that al- though the hull was - considerably damaged, the steamer “is evidently not ‘to pound te pieces yet awhile.” “A steel steamer would undoubted- 1y have broken up ere this,” said Mr. Beckley. * No trace has ever been found of the eleven members of the crew who left the Polias in a lifeboat on the night she went aground. The remain- z;er of the crew was rescued the next ay. concrete freight |- | Harvard Law school. NEW FACES ‘AT THE PEACE CONFERENCE TODAY London, Feb. 22.—The peace confer- ence will reassemble tomorrow, with the addition of Premier Millerand and two other French ministers, Paul Big- non and M. Thoumyre, and the Italian foreign minister. These officials ar- rived tonight and were met by repre- sentatives of the king and the gov- ernment and of the respective em- bassies and legations, The appearance of the representa- tives of Italy, France and Rumania in- dicate that besides the two leading questions, Russia and Turkey, there will be important discussions of an economic nature, and it is expected that a decision will be reached on Premier Lloyd George's proposal to trade with the Russian co-operative’ unions. As has been stated, M. Mil- lerand has no objecttons to this course provided any negotiation jwith the So- viet government is exchuded. Interest centers in the Turkish de- cision. Public sentiment in England against allowing the Turks toremain in Constantinople is growing rapidly, and the question will arise whether it will be possible to revise the Supreme Council's decision after it has already been announced officially throughout India by the Indian giithorities. The secretary for India, E. S. Montagu, and the Indian government are being blamed-for undue haste in this mat= ter. NO INFLUENZA ON THE U. S. WARSHIPS AT COLON Colon, Panama, Saturday, Feb 21.— Reports that influenza is prevalent on board the ships of the Aalantic fleet now in Colon are not founded on fact, according to Surgeon Commander Oman of the medical corps of the navy in an interview today. He said the health conditions in the fleet in.southern waters were excel- lent and that there were no cases of influenza on board the battleships. There were, however, a few mild cas- es of the grip on the cruiser Colum- bia. Since January 8 when the fleet departed from the United $tates, there has been only one death—that from pneumonia—among the = 18,000 men on the warships. On shore the hospital authorities re- port 32 cases of influenza, the patients being from the Columbia and_ the Pennsylvania, =~ 33 TO SAIL TO ASSIST IN RELIEF WORK IN ARMENIA New York, Feb. 22.—Thirty-three en and woman workers, experienced in welfare work in France, will sail from here (Friday for Turkéy to as- sist in_the relief work of Armenia, the Near East Relief announced here to- night. There are now about 500 men and women engaged in the = work abroad. The party to leave this week in- cludes Dr, Jefferson W. Hawthorne of Cambridge, Mass. ss Emily Pass- more of Westwood, J.; Miss Fran- ces McQuaide of Blackinton, ' Mass., and Miss Edith L. Wood of Bart- ville, Pa. WASHINGTCON-LAFAYETTE FIAG TO WAVE IN PARIS TODAY Paris, Feb. 22.—(Havas.)—In answer to a despatch received from Phiiadel- phia announcing that a Washington- Lafayette flag will wave over Inde- pendence Hall Monday in honor of Washington’s birthdax, the municapal council of Paris has repiied that the flag given to Paris in 1918 by the city of Philadclphia will be holsted over ;he city hall of Paris simultaneous- y. O3ITUARY Robért McNeil Morse Boston, Feb. 22—Robert McNef Morse a leading member of the Bos- ton bar, died last night after a long fliness. He was born in this ecity in. 1837 and was graduated from Har- vard ' college in 1857 and ~ from the He was a mem- ber of the Harvard board/of overseers from 1880 to 1894.