Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 3, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXII—NO. 55 S——— POPULATI PUBLIC HEARING ONBILLS T0 HELP FORMER SERVICE MEN ‘Repruenhtivu of the American Legion, Before ;dle Ho\!se Ways and Means Committee, Object to Callx}mg Soldier Relief Legislation 2 Government Bonus—Chairman Mil- ler of the Legion's Legislative Committee Smuli:ed That the Relief Be Handled “Like the $60 Bonus, Which Went Automatically to All Enlisted Men"—Pepounced " Methods of a War Insurance Bureau Inspection—Com- mittee Starts Executive Sessions Today to Listen to All Wiinesses. Miller of Wilmington, Del, chairman Washington, March 2.—Representa- | Millcr of FOUTRE (0 tive committee, tives of the American Legion, appear- | did not conclude their general state- today before the house ways and | onis, and the quesfitionsd_:.:iskedl by cans committee, at initial public | members of the gommittee did not In- Dearings on o mass of bills designed | dicate how the®bonus fund. if voted 10 in r service men, strongly | by congre: would be raised. 5 b ubjectet 1o nopular characterization of Tt was brought out during the ix I «cidier reliof legistation as a govern- | amination of Miller that the legion{ ment b + | wanted ussist:ncu '[ror e\'ar.\'lét;f:.\sm:g Extra 'ock pay, based on length of | the service, the witness sug service for men hot . Qesiring aid { that relief might be handled “like [Se' through land settlemsnt, home build- | $60 bonus which went automatically g of Vocalionai traiming, W ad- | to al enlisted men,” and to officers re- voeated by Franklin 1'Oher, national | questing it. i 4 commander of the legion, who declared |~ Chairman Fordney, referring équu; tha million men. with the tu-|ler’s statement that the legion did noty i1l ringing in their ears, | want soldier relief administered as the government owed kthe War Risk Tnsurance Bureau ad- s 1o all why eame out of ministered.” denounced the action of jet handicappeu bodily and!an inspector of that bureau who re- fused aid in the case of a lawyer- The the ou method of procedure in he =t E soldier. both of whose legs were brok- ob S ptoatre en and who was otherwise injured. Finding that the applicant was a law- ver, the inspector, according to in- formation presented to the chairman, ng who have re- to expres 10 aid the soldie 300 pers W opportunity on how « mud. on the floor of the hous, declared he did not deserve sympa- ar the solay sent to pathy or help as a man in his con- the committe after the dition “going before a jury could win Novem mentioned The wrangle got every ¢ he pleaded.” “I thjnk we ought to get that in-| hat the hearing ended in specter ‘na him waere imma commiiice later akree- Goldman Mr. Fordney said. exceutive session to listen to Representative Kitchin, sos irting tomorrow, if democrat, North Carolina, the chair- » months. man said he did not know the in- ler D'Olier and Thomas W. spector’s name. ILLITERATE ITALIAN GIRLS CONDITIONALLY ADMITTED JUGOSLAV NOTE ON THE ADRIATIC QUESTION ~Twelve Italian New York, M Washington, March 2.—Strict ad- cirte who came 1o the United States | herence to the American, French and marry American soldiers, but who | British agreement of December 9 on baee Been held at ENlis Isiand because | the Adriatic question characterized they could not pass the lite test, | the reply of January 20 of the Jugo- rarned tonizht Washington had ruled | slav government to the Irench and «v may be admitted to the country | British “ultimatum” on January 14. Y iixiy dave-providing they sign @ | The Jugosiav note which was made o het 1o marry during that time. | public today by the state department “mited States Semator Calder's|raiges many of the same objections “xempt them from the reading |as set forth in President Wison's « passed, they will be free at any |note of January 19 protesting ugainst Jed {helr soldier lovers. Even | the overturning of the previously he bill fails to become a law. there | agreed solution of: the vexatious < chance for the girls, for during | problem. &1, Vive thes may learn to read | The single insistent difference | red forty words and return | which distinguishes, the point of view Jeiand to demonstrate their |of thé Jugoslay reply from that of shment. the agreement signed hy Auin_m_m! «oidier must zat a friend or | Secretary Polk on behalf oi the Unit- o furnich a.$500 bond - to | ed States December 9 s over the ces- that his prospective bride | sion to I of the isiand of Liassa, o ey i¢ charge. The | Which, nécording to the ‘Jugo Slv will be required to inform !note, “is purely Slav and- from an oMcials every fitteen | cconomic point of view indissolubly - et may be luniteq with Dalmati z \ nicdxe to do all | Concerning the readjustment 1d must sigy of * to present the couple | “the Wilson line” as proposed in the T errving during the sixty-day | French and British proposals, the m [ note€ declares such an “unjustifiabie P sve amrend s ranidly. and the anngxation of purely Jugoslav ter- | iy 4 sz asted so” promptly. | ritories would bring about a new and} Tsland tonizht i flagrant violution of fhe principle of | 1 gEAts sirls probebly would | nationalitics. It would inevitably. cre et frotgos Tompt despite jate a permanent hotbed of irredent the © of the men Itve in | ism within the frontiers of Italy of a man . has eX-inature precisel¥ analagous to that tion. te sond his ! which was- held as a justification for night or hoth— | the claims of ‘Ttalia ~Irrederitias fn | i which its return to tie mother coun- ‘e heen at i try was demanded.” toher and Novem- 2 AL, Jor, and none hae arrived there IAteF | gre A MER MOCCASIN SANK than Janusry. | AT DOCK IN BROOKLYN | HOPE V!RGINIA SENATE WiLL Yorik rch 2—The former RECALL SJUFFRAGE VOTE Dassenger steamship Mocca- . (Fhich recently completed a . round trip to South America as t r mrm:f‘dmev“d {first vessel of the United smf-.‘l."’ d in the West VIf-| Shipping Poard's floet rdigned for he hope tO-|tha. service, sank today = at. her orro® wouldl Brookivn dock. Officers of the Mum. | vote of ,\1.mm>‘ w‘hfv; ;::‘hun Line, operators of the vesse on resolution was lost by {*1'd that they had . e o 8 ey had not learned whu: | ¢ lcaused her to g1 down. attempting to reconsider pro-: . The 3.‘,Ccas‘n“is i et s vision disposition of the resolution. &ross tons, formerly the Prinz .fon- Proponents of the resolution hODeichim, and was built in Germny o to break the strength of the opposi-| g0z v 1 by securing a r for Senator Tal, o+ : Ploch of Wheeiing, who i\ THREE BODIES RECOVER ; ; . ED S, Among eree FROM STEAMER BOHEMIAN | ion A telegram I loch read before the 4 | y agnmmm‘d his favor for| Halifax, N. S.. March 2.—Craft sal- ratification and asked in his absence }xal;um_lho cargo of the Leyland liner a pair be secured for him. o{mm_n, which broke in two and!| The house of delegates which made Sn this morning after running on the resolution a special order of bus-|the Sambro Ledges in a bl e iness for this afternoon postponed ac-|$!0TM carly yesterday, had toight re. tion following the senate’s adjourn-|covered bodies of three of the seven ment and made it a speeial order for | Tembers of the crew who are belieyed tomorrow afternoon. e ;;‘\;f;"{::;nssn-&.when the order came Two of the bodies were identified a3 those of Harold Collins, eward, and J. Taylor, a fireman, both | of Liverpom. The other five men who have not vei heen accounted for also hail from Liyverpool. rat BROOKLINE VOTED LICENSE; | FIRST TIME IN 43 YEARS | Brookline. Mass., Mareh 2.—At the town meetisg today Brookline joined | the long list of Masachusetts cities and towns which have reversed_long standinz no license policies on the li- quor question and voted in favor of license, 1448 to 1092. It was the first| | UNINJURED THOUGH BURIED UNDER 20 TONS OF COAL time in 43 years that this town, the| Waterbury, March 2. —Michael Jargest and wealthiest in the state,! McNally, an employe of the Con had voted “yes” Brookline, with ainecticut Light & Power compasy, population of 33.490 as recorded in the state census of 1915, larger than severn! cities of Massachuseits. The vote will have no practical effect. was buried under 20 tons of coal at! the power house of that concerm for over four hours this morning. He emerged not only alive but uninjured, R The coal had formed an arch and 7?3 DEFENDANTS DISMISSED whfnfl M:-Naliy dwnl";!cd’fl o:ler ’it he B | fall through and fell 20 fcet into al i oot et c-“! pocket which had formed. and thel| | jcoat "Led i on top of him. . Wirk- | had him rescued several times Twenty-three minor men e rwbery | elnctions conapiracy | When ' cave-in would cover him over| rial were dismissed from custody on |Aagain. Grand Rapids. Micl He was removed to a hospital ¢ the prosecution today. |and his condition is not serious, ove came jusi after Frank C.| —_— assistant - atiorney generi | CONFERENCE ON VOCATIONAL s T AT TRAINING FOR WOMEN eni reated is direc caso. s ige Seivions promply = grantd' Mr.|. pogion, March 2.—Plans for. _the Dailey's motions to dismiss. | tourth intercollegiate conference on ARt T vocational opportunities for women, QRELARY. [ $0 e’ tield:on. March § and 6. at.Cors Prof. Willard T. Barbour nell University, were announced to- New faven, Conn.., March 2~ |night by Catherine: Filene, flireflihr‘ Professor Willard T. Barbour of the|of the Intercoilemiate Varationag] { Yale Law School, died today at lhfl(}uidanee Association. Delegates are Yale infirmary of pneumonia, aged 25.|expected from fifty colieges auu Q..- He was a graduate of the University | versities. ON 29,919 derstood that they raised a defence|oclare Bela oo e T Hnneany | fund and through their efforts em-|PA¥InE cscaped with —several of his| ployed three attorners who aow ap-|Benchmen from Austria, He in re- 5t Michigan and studied at Oxford.| Members of the Cornell faculty and He was a professor at Michigan be- | women actively engaged “in: many ‘ore he cume to Yale last year and | Mnes of work will give addresses up- was anthor of several books on the)on oprortunities for women in bus- wbject of equity jurisprudence. ‘iness and the professions. NORWICH, CONN. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1920 12 PAGES—84 COLd PRICE TWO CENTS - - SenzteRezdopts Two| Cordensos _Teiegrams Treaty Reservatiuns about 8,015 by the end of February. i Monroe Doctrine Reservation Had Support of 15 Democrats—Vote 58 to 22. . Railway ‘express employes in Ch cago demand a flat increase of $35 a month. § An unsuccessful -attempt was made to assassinate Lord Acton, the British Minister at Helsingfors, Finland, Washington, March 2—Two more |to be United States Marshal for of the republican reservations to the|Montana. peace treaty, one of them affecting the < ! bitterly debated Monroe Doctrine pro-| Five thousand steel workers of vision, were readopted in the senate| today without change and by greater majorities than they commanded when originally presented last November. The Monroe Doctrine reservation, which senators have been told * is scarcely less objectionable to Pres: dent Wilson than that relating to Ar- ticle' Ten. got the support of fifteen democrats and Wwon by a voae of 58 to" 22 after a substitute drafted by thej democratic leaders had been rejected. The. vote on the republican proposal was 55 to 34 in November, when only nine democrats suported it. The other reservation acted on serts the full jurisdiction of the U ed States over purely domestic ques- tions and was adopted 56 to 25, with 14 democrats heiping to mak up the majority. In November it got the votes of only cleven democrats and was adopted, 59 to 36, Little debate attended the senate's action, all elements apparently con- ceding that the successive roll calls were merely formalities to let every- one go on record once more hefore the final deadlock, which now generally is expected to put the treaty over into the campaig: South Wales went on strike for a 40 per cent. increase in wages. Poland is reported demanding 31,- 500,000 marks in gold in the peace ne- gotiations with soviet Russia. Train service of ltaly reduced 80 per cent to mect economic crisis ag- gravated by the French strike. Senator Fernald of Maine congressional investigation of United States Grain Corporation. urged Lhe, s- During a collision between a crowd and the police at Milan the police fired on the mob and two civilians were mortally wounded. Field Marshal Haig was received at | Buckinham Palace by King George. He relinquished his post.as command- er-in-chief of the army. Navy Department expected to make awards on bids opened Feb. 20, for about 600,000 barrels of anti-corro- sive and anti-fouling paint. cents and 30 cents maximum. > %5 Texas Co. advanced the price of | On the Monroe Doctrine reservation | gagoline one cent a gallon in South | seven democrats who dod not vote for! Gurolina to a minimum of 27 1-2 adoption in November swung over to| the republicans on today’s roll National Congress of Socialists vot- ed to refuse adresion to the third - ternational of the Russian bolsheviki sponsored by Premier Lenine. tucky: Fietcher, Florida; Henderson, Nevada: King. h: Smith, Georgia, and Myers, Montana. Their defection on that i i clared by, the republicans to be'a sig- nificant developmeni in view of recent intimations reaching demoratic s that the president had sin out the Monroe Docirine and Ar Ten reservations as particularly objec- General Wood and Senator Poin- dexter will hold a joint deb: three tdays before the primary elections of | South Dakota. at.St Pierre, S. D. It is officially estimated in reports tionable. ‘ations | Feaching London that the.Turks mas- (It was over these two reservations|g,oreq 16,000 inhabitants after the ‘hat the hi-partisan compromise N€-|jpvonch evacuated Marash, Asia Minor, gotiations came t ogrief. the republi- can leaders scrving notice that the t e[ A Mexican bandit was found hanged V onsent tc no mod tion in L) ) y S SRt Semae Snicatie | O Iebruary 28 aear, fherplate where that neither would he acceptable as '0{" A ST gonion, k_;imerf-uni fhey stoud. On the democratic sub-j o0 Manzanillo, was killed Feb- stitute presented tod; by Senator | FUaTy Hitchcock of Nebra he party Admiral Nicholas Horthy, command- er-in-chief of the Hungary army and former head of the Austro-Hungary army, was elected regent by the N: tional Assembly. leader, the vote was strictly' on party | lkines except for Senator Reed. Mis souri, and Senator Shields, Tennessee, who voted with the republicans in op- position. The domestic questions reservation drew over to its support five demo- crats who had rot voted for it i Mrs. John Wanamaker, wife of the merchant, who is all at Atlantic City vember, Senators Ashurst, Arizona;|With pleurisy, is reported improving. Pittman and Henderson. Nevada: | Physicians having great faith in a Myers, Montana. and Nugent, Td: full recovery for her. On this proposition also — Hitcheock offered a substitute wh was .rejected by a solid republican | lineup.: joined by Senators Reed and Shields. The Sbantung reservation is to considered by the senate tomorrow. ORENING OF THE JONES MURDER TRIAL (N NEW HAVEN Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Co. will raiss fare between New York and Hoboken, and from the Terminal Building to Christopher street from 15 to § cents, beginning April 4. Mortality from typhus fever wat re- | duced Trom 17 per Cent. to 6 per cent. by the use of a new serum adopted !1‘ Red Cross workers at Ekaterinodar in the Kuban district of Russia. be New Haven, Conn., March liam M. Jones, -widower, wa on. trial- before Judge Greene, in super.or court today, on an. indictment -charging murder of Mirs. Ksther Hoperoft on June 20 last.| This murder has been regarded as one of the most mysterious ever com- mitted in this cily. What informa- tion the public has had of it came from the finding of Coroner Eli Mix made n July. Jenes, who was a foreman in a wire making plant. was popular with the men working under him and it is un- Wil- s placed Gardiner Boston & Maine Railroad ordered 20 engines from the American Loco- motive Co.; Missouri, Kansas & Texas ordered 30 from the Lima Locomotive Corp. and the Union Pacific 30. Suprema Court upheld decrees of the New York State Supreme Court up- holding the right of New York State in in fixing rates for the sale of natural gas brought in fro manother state. Official reporth received in London pear as his counsel. Mrs. Hoperoft's hody was found in a furnished room in a barn belonging| ; to and in the rear of the home of Mrs.! in Dickerman street. She d this room from choice. The murder “was committed late at night while she was in bed. The first floor of the barn_was used by Jones, who roomed in Mrs. Elis’ house, and another for their automo- ported organizing another revolution. Nantucket, having burned the scrap- of its b is almost without coal. | are suffering for lack of fuel h no wood available on the island jand the kerosene supply nearly ex- hausted. = , The shipping board steamer Hilton, Wwhich ran out of coal off Nantucket c : shoals on her voyage from Dartmouth, | biles.” Jones placed his machine in| ey Tt oo | England, v 2 4 the barn as usual that particular xe“p.r,'f}( for, Balilmors, (wasitowed to) night within two hours of the time! i which medical opinion fixes as the | ; ; hour of Mrs. Hopcroft's death. Jones| rencnme rernorier Asquith, who was esirecently returned - to Parl} ; ag arrested and held a month in | ey jail, and held for trial on the coro-|after a rousing welcome given him by Joseph L. Ashbridge was nominated | jed States {of th Qualficztions of Amhass_adnr Ged_des New British Minister Has a Considerable Knowledge of Business Affairs. London, March 2.—(By The A. P)— Sir Auckiand Geddes will be the first British ambussadof to go to the Unit- with a considerable knowl- edge of trade affairs and a strong conviction of their underlying im- post-war era. Lord Reading as am- hassador had business experience, but was conccrned largely while ordinary com- merce was sidetracked by the necessi- ties of war while he was in Ameri- ca. Sir Aucklan{ Geddes, as president board o% trade, had partial su- pervision of the consula. while dealing also with the m impor business questions of the kingdom. brings to his new office more of the| prejudice of the oid school Buropean | diplomats, now passing from the stage, | who considered high politics the P : f sphere, and trade almost beneath their | dignity. ! dor declines to| speaks freely of | the chief possir ction or ill-feeling between | s of the two countries in the | ity the peopl near future lies in the inevitable bus- iness rivalry between the two because | of thei amoung position the | present time as the two greai com- | al powers of the whose | resources for f equal do not exceed, the 3 resources ! of all the rest of the world. This the two! peoples have goodw cach to put itself in the other’s piace. Numerous stories of the business in- | terests of one country trying to steal the march on the otk e brought | attention f the board of he relations of the two| countries are not the only interest, if | they are cven the foremost interest, which Sir /#.ckland considers Viscount Bryce, he Is primarily a university h papers | have ccf profes- | sional manner. Sir pleads guilty to this. “How help that ! who has been a professor most of his | life?” heé asks. He believes that the policies and sentiments of the two na- tions are directed and inspired mor by college men than by a other | clas He hopes to see much of American colleges. Sir Auckland Geddes has tinction which none of his p; ors possessed ¢ 4 ada and the Uni he could not he distingu native. * He is likely to have a further distinction as being the first British ambassador who can tell a funny story in an after-dinner speech, and most of his r 4 :rtoire is derived from his native soun, Scotland. o long ed from a ADMIRAL NIBLICK FICURES IN NEWPORT INVESTIGATION | Newport, R. I. ch miral Albert P. Niblac department of nav —Rear Ad-| of the 1 intelligence, was added late today, on motion of the| Judge .advocate, to the list of parties in interest in the naval inquiry into| alleged improper ces by naval| vice inspectors in district. Bar-| lier in the session tary Daniels | and Assistant ary Roo the navy department had bee interested parti The motion regarding Rear Ad-| miral Niblack o Judge | Advocate Hyneman further | cross examination of 1\ hon James| Dewolf Perry, of the opal dio-| cese of Rhode Is cutenant E. M. Hudson, anotk ¥ in inter- | est, w. permitted que: 1 the witne After mentioning | Perry’s references to him in testimony, Lieutenant Hu the witness whether he belic certain portion f the testimony en at the t t summer Samuel Neale K t, wh Mr. Kent's acqu al of rge: The testimony in question referreq to! immoral acts. The bishop respond- | ed that he did not Rear Admiral Niblack has mentioneq geveral times in te He was said to have been pre believe it. ! been | ner's finding. Little information has| v = been. divulged by the coroner, State| ' CTOT3S on his way to Commons. an interview between [ Perr. and Secret Daniels in ington | when the bishop complained conditions in the Nev | According to the te Attorney Alling or the police as to| p, {*Daniels referred to the | ney 5 ce as 0| Postmaster General Burleson filed & | tanr o T tamntar | ot yas et Tie < | Commission. asking for a rehearing | have dectared v degenerated type Mrs.. Hoperoft finding as to fair and | “invest | reasonable rates for transportation of had been strangled, assaulted and her| mails. hody subjected “to unspeakable in- dignities,” according to the finding. The woman also described as of ec- centric habits had supported herself| by laundry, needle and house work. Governor Smith announced his in- tention to make a swing around New | York State, visiting the principal cities, to pdace before the people his ! legisiative program with a view of fnr(‘_itng the legislature to take aetion on it. EDWARDS. ENDORSED FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE ! Chicago, March 2—A petition enter- | An unidentified Mexican smugaler | ing the name of Gov. Edward I, Ed- |1 dead and another Mexican is in wards of New Jersey in the demo. |Critical condition at Hl Paso as a re. | cratic presidential race in Illinois was | SUlt of a battle between American | taken to Springfield tonight following | a mass meeting here at which the New Jersey executive was endorsed. Several speakers attacked William Jenninzs Bryan for his opposition to Governor Edwarlds. The petition will be filed with the secretary of state to- morrow, it was announced. Anton J. Cermak, Chicago alderman, was named lilinois campaign manager. Michael Zimmer, president of the United societies, who presided, read the following telegram from Governor Edwards: “The first step forward for personal | liberty was taken by the legislature of | ew Jersey today. I will carry tme! same fight to the San Francisco con- vention. The idea of personal liberty is greater than any man. I am with you in this fight for Americanism.’ military border guards said to have be: ttempting to bring! whiskey into the United States, and Mexican In connection with the recent decl- | sion of the Dutch government that! the former German Crown Prince must pay income taxes on the basis of an annual income of 800,000 florins, it was said in Amsterdam that his in- come is not one-twentieth of that amount. DISCUSS RAISING BILLION DOLLARS FOR CHURCH FUND Rochester, N, Y., March 2.—Discus- sion of plans for a five year campaign to raise a billion dollars for church work and an address by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of New York featured | afternoon and evening sessions of the New York. state ministers’ conference of the interchurch world movement here today. Mr. Rockefeller at the evening session said the movement was the greatest force for rizhteous- ness the world ever has known. PEACE PROPOSALS OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT London, March 2.—The Letvian le. gation here announced today that the pedce proosdls of the Russian govern- ment will be discussed at a conference of ‘the border states at Warsaw on March 6. SHIPMENT OF GOLD COIN TO SOUTH AMERICA New York, March 2.—Batween $10.- 000.000 and $15.000,000 in gold cein probably will be shinped this week to South America, principally to Argen- tina, it was announced tonight. Total 2old coin exportsi to South Aemrica since the first of the year total ap- proximately $65,000,000. " - - - DEBT OF. UNITED STATES NOW IS $25,404,331,707 Washington. March 2—-A decrease of $264,057.387 in the public debt was | effected in February, the treasury an- nounced today, leaving the total debt $25,404,331,707. ez - | BOMB INSPECTOR EAGAN. i connected w | called to other c atorg inves NEW YORK, DROPPED DEAD | New York, March .—Inspector Owen Eagan of the bureau of com- ustibles, who figured in the most im- ases in recent New y, dropped dead to- A night on the street in front of the Grand Central Palace. i Death was due to acute indigestion. ! Inspector Eagan, who w | S a recoz. nized authority on explosives, was h the fire department for | twenty-four years. He frequently was S as an exvert wit- | in suits relating to high explo- | ector Fazan lost two fingers of | his left hand in 1912 while examining | a peculiar package which Judge Otto A. Rosalsky had received in the matls | and of which he had become suspi- cious. The bomb, exnloding, wrecked the library of the judge’s home. The inspector ‘performed valuable | service for the government durime the | war, examining explosives planted by | enemy alier | OFFICERS OF CONNECTICUT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS New Haven. Con Connecticnt Assoc: Contractors today ing executive L. 8. Gri March _2.—The tion of Mlectrical efo=ted the follow- ford, chairman J. Warren Day. 1 ndon: Willlam Tlvnn, Bridzeport: George M. Chap- | wan and Joha Gilliland. Waterbur: and N. B. Fitch, New Haven. VALENTINO SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT New Haven, Conn.. March 2.—An- tonio Valentino, of Derby, who was found guilty last Friddy of the m der of Salvatore Zollo, of Madison, J., today was sentenced to life im- prisonment in the state prison by Judge Gardiner Greene. gress.” ! was announced. of power T He Aving on transportation ¢ | from the west to tidewater | Br: | before the = FORMATION OF RAILROAD BI-PARTISAN WAGE BOARD Y Representatives of Railroad Workers, With the Exception of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Shop Laborers, Reluctantly Agree to Give the Transport- aticn Act a Trial—Prompt Action Was Requested by President Wilson in Order That the Negotiations Be- tween Employer and Employe Might Not Longer Be De- layed. ‘Washington, March 2. — Definite steps were taken today toward set- tlement of the railroad wage contro- versy which has been pending since last August. Representatives of rail- road worke with the exception of one group, d to co-operate with the government and the railroads in giving a tri the tion with fent V! tion of F and heads of the fift gan s jueste lect ives to partisan hos was urged by t the nego er and employe delayed. The one group of workers which has not entered into the agreement “to go along with dent” was Brotherhood ¢ nee of Laborer: act n that sit on mpt they the ac s wage M hop which cently w w from the nier- ence between union he railroad adminis men from the ance union, howeve % 15 believed { would follow of the oth | workers in compliance with Mr. Wil- nent explaining the umion spokesmen although they could not the transportation act, greed to i bor in g particular, full co-operatic of other hodies representing Amer dent to veto it the uni re now offi e pres- ident has signed the b1 and it 1s the “Labor's criticism and = protests against this legislation are a matter of record adn were presented to the con- gress, the president and the public. We hace not chauged our views in regard to this legis on and therefore do not endorse the law: however, as American citizens, we feel that in the inter of railrdhd labor there 'is 1 ng left for us to do at present ex- C€ept 1o co-operate in the prompt cre- ation of the machinery provided for In law. e case of the Brotherhood eof ance of Way Employes and Laborers, this organization has ad duly aulhorized representa- in this last conference, There- in compliance with their consti- it was necessary to convene ich representatives, which they will do_in Chicago. Thursday, March 4.” The president in his letters said he had turned over direction of the preliminary wage negotiations to Di- rector al Hines, who was en- ith details of the winding up nment control by the president proclamation turning back the . Both e railroad executives he union heads were asked -to the director general of their ves on the board and were Mr. Hines would ar- K 2 first meeting at which will be determined all questions of cedure. 1 was regarded as rospects of a strike. the union member- were keenly disappoint- e rt their disap- 1.of and oppo: to the law by but possibility was expected to be climinated when full xplanation of the leaders’ action is ived by the rank and file of the | more than’ 2,000,000 workers. PRCPOSAL TO CANALIZE THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER Buffalo, N. Y. March The ini- tial hearings on the proposal to ea- nalize the St. Lawrence river at a cost of $100,000,000 to be borne by the United States and Can: , adjourn- ed this afternoon to meet on May 1, when the first. sworn testimony on the feasibility of the plan will be taken. Proponents will submit proof ang-will-he~subject to eross examina- tion by opponer to the project, it The meeting place has not been selected. Delegations from Canada and the western ates championed the cause of the St. Lawrence route at the closing session of the two day meet- afternoon. e secretary Commi; ing here th said _ it potential n, the power of the St. Lawrence to go td waste. F “We are facing a Lr'xnspnrtf\nnvn emergency in the west and Canada is ready e with us.” said Mr.} or ing a common per- olid be- il. the we hind t 1l show you something of r hnlltl‘b both here and in New York tha { make present routes unprofitable vhen we swear W C. Lewis anadian dele rect the ide: He declared that pri vate capital was ready to build the al without cost to either count in return for the power pri though he did not favor pri of a St. Lawrence cents a bushel. | WITNESSES IN 1. W. W. TRIAL. ARRESTED FOR PERJURY reh 2 —Guy Jay Coc > trial Montesano, W v, 2 16 year o ted after testifyin ten allezed I. W. zed Wi murder in connection with four formc ice men in the tralia Armistice day ‘parad r- pe ht on each. an effort to e the part of Wa whose murder charged specific Defense contend had been establishied that G ict ed in an ack en t 1 in Centralia, which ings, alleged con to ra hail. s charged with his testifying that erican Legion r the door Van member, of the I . W. hall when firing bezan. Cook gave evidence conflicting with that given by several state witnesses and one defense witnes: a the point where the parade the firing. OFFER TO REOPEN THE CAPE COD CANAL to reopen the 1, which has been closed ‘since the relinquished contifel at 1t Sund: The offer is con ditional upon agreement by the go ernment that this act will not preju dice the company’s case in the litig tion over purchase of the canal now pending. The governor wired Secre- tary of War Baker a request that he concur in the pla A score of ve loaded collier: end of the e fany of them were anchored at either nal today seeking pas- sage. The sanal staff, under ( F. Colbert, general manager, was réady to resume operations at short notice. of the In-{ isAYs PACKING BUSINESS fs NOW IS UNECONOMICAL ! gton, March 2.—Virtual elim- of the big packers from the i m ndustry and substitution .of i.'mull. local and co-operative stock- rds and slaughter houses was sug- ! gested today by Ed C. Lassater of Texas, representing livestock growing nizations. before the house agri- culture committee, ! The packing business now is uneco- | nomical, Mr. Lassater asserted, caus- i Ing injury hoth to livestock producers }and consumers. Transportation or ir‘r tle to the packing centers and re- {turn shipment of meat to consumers j{ involves an economic loss, he said, can be eliminated only by legis- n to reduce control of the big ers and to foster small, co-opera- | tive agencies widely distributed. Lassater also urged separation of large stockyards from packer contrel. The vards, he said, should not be {owned by a holding company but by { the railroads as a transportation ad- junct. Transfer of nackers' stock fn the vards to other than railroad In-. terests, the witness said, would not meet the demands of the livestock- s| producing interests. { TIndependent stockyards and slaugh- | tering plants cannot be developed, Mr. | Lagsater said, so long as congress permits.the large packers to have such @ preponderant share of business. DECISIONS BY THE UNITED ! STATES DISTRICT COURT New Haven, Conn., March 2—Mi- chae! G. Luddy, a lawyer, and Salva- tore Mirabile, a bankrupt shoe dealer, both of Thompsonviile, pleaded guiity to charges of conspiracy to eonceal | asse in a bankruptey case, in Unit- ed States district court today. Judge Thomas fined Luddy $500 and Mirg- bile $200. Adum Gentile and Gaetano Piccieli Naugatuck, pleaded guilty fo { robbing freight cars agd sentences of three months months, respectively. John Kornicki, formerly a saloonkeeper in Meriden, was fined $150 for violation he prohibition law. Other fines d in proh:bition law cases were s: John Gorman, Derby, $50; of Antonio Marzio, John Zigmantos, $100; Kanto Char= $75, and Kau: INTERNATIONAL BALLOON TROPHY CONTESTANTS New York, March 2.—Challenges for the international balloon tronhy, now held by the Aero club of America, were received he y from the Aero b of France, which enters three and the Royal -Aero club of nd. which has one ent Three 1 be entered by the United States. Belgium has entered one team and several other countries are ex- pected to compete when the conetst is country next summer. hy has not been contested when it was won by the » club of America. American teams won four out of the eight con- s in which they were entered. The phy, donated by the late James rdon Dennett, must be won three times in succession to become the per- manent property, of a club have te SIX PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH IN HOUSE FIRE Quebec, March 2.—Six persons, four children i an aged coule, were burned to death when fire destroyed the house of Gaudios Dupont, a farm- or. ar the ze of St. Fereol, In Montmorency county. Mrs. Dupont od but her chi n, her fa- mother, Mr. Mrs. Plerre Tremblay, perished. Dunont and two older sons were in the woods when the fire started. ® Work Resumad in Milan. ° Milan, Italy, March 2—The strike which bas been in progress here for. some days ended today. Work every- where was resumed,