Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 6, 1920, Page 1

op— VOL. LXIl—NO. 58 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1920 . 12 PAGES—84 COLUMNS PRICE -TWO CENTS DISASTROUS FLOODS BREAK LOOSE IN PENNSYLVANIA Schuylkill River Rising a Foot an Hour—Twenty-Five Fam- ilies Forced to Abandon Their Homes—Reading Without Cabled Paragraphs Reassures French Prime Minister. Nitti, the Italian premier. this after- noon visited Premier Millerand and meetings of the supreme council in the organization of a policy of recon- Trolley Service Due to Lack of Power—Passenger Train | the allies, and notably France. Service Curtailed and Rising Water Threatens to Put Anglo French Loan lssues. London, March 5.—J. Austen Chdm- Gi Elb ic Plant Out of Commission—Industries Us-| berlain, chancellor of the exchequer, ing Electric Power Preparing to Close. Philadelphia, March 5.—The west- ern storm struck eastern Pennsyl- wyania today, bringing with it rain, sioet, snow and a high wind, causing ficods in rivers and many other small streams. $he warm weather of the Jast few days melting the ice and spow that have been on the ground for nearly two months helped to swell the streams. Tonight the wind veered to hohocken, Pa., the flood in e R A T o e ore rway fifty feot of | RELIEF WORKERS UNDERGO . new bridge that spans the Tiver. READING INDUSTRIES MAY ! HAVE TO CLOSE arch 5.—Floods long from Reading, Pa., ifeared in the Schuylkill vailey announced tonight that England and France had agreed not to renew the Anglo-French loan issued in the Unit- families were force to abandon their ed States in 1915 and were taking steps for its repayment. TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE Adana, Asia Minor, Sunday, Febh. more nerve-wracking experience than < the northwest and as clearing cold|points thirty miles to the north and seventeen relief workers of the Amer- weather is forecast for tomorrow it is sxpected no great damage will result. The Schuylkill river, which drains| the Schuylkill valley from the lower antiracite coal regions to Philadel- phia, was swollen its entire distance | and mueh of the lowland was under all_ of the| goods and ents or ower floors flooded. Whistles tonight 4 owners and workers to the help remove gods and water. Parts of e driveways in Fairmount .park wore also flooded and sireel car ser- yunk along off. The water tonight. Virtual milis to help remove Philadelphia had their base ‘mmmo mills ton prepare ¥ high viee sections of M. kill was ¢ rose a foot an hour toda Kchuy! ght was 21 feet ahove normal in the Manayunk section. Twenty-fiwe “south as far as Coatesville Perkiomen broke loose tonight and the | East, shut up for 22 is without trolley Pas- is curtailed and the river threatens to put out of com- electric which sup- train_ service plant in West Reading, plies towns as far west as Lebanon and to others and south of shutdowns are river the flood due to lack of current. to rise and grows worse the city will lighting or power tomorrow. The breaking of two ice gorges in the Schuylkill river all industries using public including ANOTHER ADVANCE IN FOREIGN EXCHANGE March 5 —Foreign ex- from forempst mports, even in moderate volume. s. P. Morgan & company, finas agents of lared al were without any know- from London also pointed to the siight probability of zold shipments here in the immediate future, There were further accessions tosthe ¢old movement to South America, but rade authorities belicve eXports te that cou will soon cease. Several moderate imports of the metal from Canada were said to be without bear- ne upon the reported Anglo-French:) ments of the party in the senate, took dtuation Trading in British bille during the fay was quite extensive. with only moderate transactions in French ex- change. Operations were character- ize4 as Iargely sneculative and partly | in the aalure of short covering. At i high of $2.70 for demnnd hills, 2 cents to the. 4 over yesterday's maxtmim and nta above the mjnimum recorded on Feb. 4. After the cloae of the tork of bills on oandon k to $2.65 154, with le reactions in French.and‘Ital- Tondon rate was market offerings foread the price b SEIZE 4000 RADICAL PAMPHLETS IN NEW"YORK New Tork, Mar pamphlets co muni phi the shoned T) o he authorities. scovery as jmpertant and m bail, are awaiting deportation pro- seedings at Ellis Island. The pamphlet contains the report of party to the Clenmun- ale made after a con- vention in Chicago last July. It was the communis: st internatio: printed in Chicago. ADVOCATES SALE OF U. 8. MERCHANT*SHIPS New York, March 5 swnership Edward carly sale of the governmemt-owned fleet but said “it must not be con- ducted in the hands of a.few large steamship companies.” Mr. Hurley explained thatmearly 300 steamship companies are now Oorgan- ited, many of them successfully en- gaged in foreign trade. By Septem- Ber of this year. he added, the gov. ernment’s fleet will consist of - R o set by ran be induced to take six shi the problem will be solwed. | o ool From an investment standpoint, Mr. Hurler pointed out that shipping pre. sented attractive possibilities even at present tomnage prices. GRIMM NOT CONNECTED WITH I, W. W. RAID ’ March 5—T. T, Edmonds. a Presbyterian minister, at present without charge, but recently smpioyed by the defense as an investi gator in the trial of ten alleged 1. W, W. charged with the murder of War. rew O. Grimm. virtually admitted in a latter, according to the prosecution, he had found 1o evidence connecting Grimm with any alleged rald on the LW, W. ha NICHOLS GOLD MEDAL TO SCHENECTADY MAN New TYork, March 5.—The William . Nichols gold medal, awarded an- nually for the best original paper printed in publications of the Ameri- can Chemical society, was preesnted | 1 ROLLEY PROPERTY tonight to Dr. Irving Langmuir of Schenectady. N. Y. for a paper on “The Arrangement of FElectrons in ANOTHER FAILURE TO Washington, March er failure to ratify democratic senators decid- vance today, rests of any fm- ropean gold ['with President Wilson Ppeisive vote is taken. British government here, dge of such a movement. Advioes| understood n the treaty was awaited. The move for such a conference, ini- long ago among some House asking that the president talk of a new It was indicated. however, that the appointment with Senator Simmons, if one were arranged, would be only pre- liminary to a conference with a com- | o¢ ‘the horsera.: 11 : miftee of senators chosen to ‘flkfl UP | to correct the s”;afi:’?‘ h“H‘;‘i efforts problem. | to megotiate a cessatior " hosti In sime quarters it was intimated that | (. faileq and. a peras oparas began' in the afternoon. The French fired upon certain sections from which with him the whole senators from both political eventually might meet with the pres- an effort to reach a com- parties y 5—Four thousand taining the manfifesto, program and constitution of the om- party of America were sedzed by the nolice today at the headqgar- ters of the party on the East Side. The janitor of the building found the.pam- s stuffed between the cellhg of | floor and the roof and tele- ANOTHER OUTBREAK FEARED IN London, March 5—The Graphic to- | IS filled with frightened day features- a Dublin despatch say- | 2larme ing that the Irish situation is chang- | HVes- despatch de. | “Today we raised the American flag, but no sooner had we raised it to < |the mast than a salute from a dozen | clares that nothing can avert a fresh strict attorney’s office: regzard- the, aNthoiities nounc: , that one of the pambhlets would used next week at the trial | of Harry Winitsky, secretary of tne lo2al branch of the party, who ‘is un- ler indictment of a charge of créminal wnarehy. About six hundred memfiers f the party, most of whom are out inevitably precipitate such a tragedy, complicationg for England in Amer- The chief danger, according to the widesprgad conviction that a small Dublin castle ale of the Sinn by bloody repre: the Aespatch says, is having one good result in causing the Sinn Fein leaq. | CUrch. She was bieeding from bul- ers to avoid provocation at all cests, | i€t 2nd Knife wounds. She says her be broken U. 8. MAY TAKE PART —Under* private and operation, merchant ships can succeed as well under the American flag as under any other, ¢ $. Hurley, former chairman of the United States shipping .board, deciared in a statement made public here today. Mr. Hurley adwocated the Washington, March formal invitation has been sent, in- formal suggestions have been made by the supreme council at London that| “February 1: More children tes have representation no gate conditions in Russia. cil is understood to appreciate that the subject must be approached with deli- cacy owing to rounding the consideration of the Ger- has felt some apprehension that fail- ure to extend America an opportunity | the plan to burn the orphanage. to particinate in the work of the com. might be resented Unfetd States. e Consequently officials asele, aggregatin 11,600,000 tons. and if thess companies the purpose of alone in the even United States to SALARY NOT TOO HIGH FOR RESPONSIBILITY gottenu. “February 7. At last reinforcements Declaring |are in sight. Already they are fight- ing their way into the city. " We heard today that eighty girls, inmates of a rescue home, have been killed by the Turks who afterwards fired the build- Minneapols, that the salaries of $25000 D presidents of the grain co not too high for the ”wxmflu"n 0, Frank T. Carey, DR’Ian: of the United States Grain corporation. came to the defense of “February 2: French t : roops are in ::“nm::,"lé::‘fla::r‘;?’:&fi;Y; "‘u?lrmnlr; {the valley, their guns shelling the e s et fissourd | hills, But it may be days before they reasonable " - “February 9: General Querette in- ‘The Minneapolis office of the ETain | formed us today that he hQas orders !t‘o > te the city at midnight. This handled $750.000,000 in grain and flour | coe ) - purchases and ;!-sl’el since the nflo‘:: o S e s amune cannot conceive that ed with fear. We m anyone wouid believe a Salary of $25.- | vette to delay evocnrTin e aid vice ces rendered, Minneapolis, vice corporation,” said, “has was opened. 000 unreasonable for which 0 much responsibility is at- a position to the | ican Committee for Relief in the Near 22 days without outside communication in a mission compound at Marash. They .were French troops, aided by Armenians, battled with Turkish nationals for the of which was burned during the en- gagement, which brought apout a ter- rible loss of life. The story i M. C. A. secretary, who went through the siege and arrived at Adana on Reading, | February 15th. 4 one at Hamburg and the other at Port| The Rev. Mr. tonight caused eectric_power, News-Times, to close at once. Snyder, Miss Helen Schultz, of Read- rash by automobile for Aintab, Jan- uary 20, but were driven back to small groups throughout the city. wounded. Turks, ! Turkish s Marash. Turks were sniping. “At night the city fate of being hit. and | BUNS sent us scampering to cover. I that any increase in the rigor of mar- [JUSt timed 33 shots in one minute. . “Five lmessengens were sent today dangerous | f07 SUPDlies and reinforcements. 1 do nobt know whether they will reach Ishalhie. chbild 18 months was slain. Mrs. Selattian died today. ing. can encircle the city. % the women and children who are craz- would try to secure a delay of 24 hours. If the French evacuates we are not sure what treatment we will receive at the hands of the Turks. We shall remain at our posts, however, DESTROYED BY FIRE |and do what we can to shield the Armenians and protect American in- Fitchburg, Mass, March 5.—Build- | terests. A—‘m’rmln' He won the |ings and equipment valued at $50,000 “February 10: General Querette minster Street About 1000 telephones in Manila | were destroyed tonight by fire which will be equippeq with an automatic | started in the car . ealling method, and if the experiment | shop, paint shop, a quantity of eiec-| York), belonging to the Fitchburg and Leo- | has been granted a 24 hour delay be- Company | fore leaving the city. Our greatest fear is for Miss Buckley (Miss Fran- A repair | ces 8. Buckley, of Cape Vincent, New She was in the Beshalom or- the system will be|trical supplles and three cars were ! phammge and has not been heard from _ since the beginning of the siege. Paris, March 5—(Havas). Signor in the course of a cordial conversa- tion reassured the French prime min- ister with regard to the interpreta- tion given Nitti's attitude in the last London. Signor Nitti said that there never was.in his mind any desire for struction for Germany to the detri- ment of the reparations demanded by 29.(By The A. P.)—Since the siege of ‘Peking, foreigners have undergone no under a constant rain of lead, while possession of the city, more than half s told in the dtary of the NO!Rev. C. T. S. Crathern, a Boston Y. Cathern, with Paul ing Pa., a French licutenant and two 10 prepare | Armenians attempted to leave Ma- Marash by a fusillade of bullets, not- Withstanding the fact Mr. Crathern + RATIFY PEACE TREATY | displayed the American flag. The Turks had been resenting the | With anoth- | French occoupation of Marash and | treaty | Other cities for many weeks, Mr. Crathern reports, and Algerian troops v to seek personal consuitation | ¥erey engaged in a skirmish with e DD Serore ihe o I Turiien Bundifa’when an . amedin They wished to | automobile appeared and drew = fire “know definitely how far he would go|{rom the Turks. Mr. Crathern's diary in endorsing a_compromise, and- also a clear understanding of his views on | With its bazaars and shops _eclosed, the treaty as a campaign issue should | 2nd the Turks engaged in talking in another deadlock force it into politics. Some democrats also to wish to know what measures | the president would expect congress to ] take to relieve the country from a war f:;” "“;;;‘:“':ruzfzfgls St i s e 11s 0 is] officials, which it T r e ehn, aCthe polle ey Dremimbd DreupLatad o e o | Aros. Shooting soon began in all parts | ele | Of the city. A French sentinel guard- ing &n American hospital was killed definite form when Senator Hitcheock | 214 another ~French' soldier ~was io1 % administzation | * Fighting continued on the 23rd, and through his fleld glasses Mr. Cra. over the senate situation with Senator | Hicr? sald he could ~see - Armenfans Simmons of Nortn Carolina, in_charge for the democratie movement to negotiate a treaty com- says on January 21 he found Marash _ At noon shots were heard by the re- lief workers, indicating that the long threatened clash in the city had start- fleeing through the streets before the shot _ them down, while i ers on’the hills about the shot at Armenians attempting to leave On the 24th the Americans conferred with the French General Querette and told him stories the refugees brought 1ld try in total dark- ness” the diary continues. “Whenever | We o {rom one compound to another | IRELAND | ¥ creep along the walls to escape the | Every compound refugees, alarmed over the fate of their rela- “January 25: Hundreds of Armeni- ans are ying o reach our compound, but the light made by fires the Turks g | &€ setting to Armenian T getting Ireland’s | 7 e e youth into the open go that the mor- | ™4kes thelr escape impossible. sy z‘sh,a;a px;m\x; case arriving i, homrowen| tox ras of Mrs. Selattian x| Wife of the pastor of the Third “January 31: Nine persons were shot today on the college grounds, IN RUSSIAN INQUIRY |Some of them seriousiy. Fortunately we have plenty of wheat now by Keeping the women grinding from sun- rise to sunset we can feed the people. have been shot.in orphanages, and hospit- on the commission which is to investi- | 4lS_continued to be attacked The coun- | . “February 2: A shell fell today through the Toof of a hospital and in- to the attic just below the floor where conditions sur. |many patients were quartered. The Turks tried to set fire to the Bartell man veace treaty in the senate, but |Orphanage. The French retaliated. by burning the house of the instigator of “February 4: This has been a tragie day, stories of fresh massacres reach- ing us. We are resolved to stay here probable that the counctl |3t &1l hazards. God help the Armeni Wil extend the invitation if only for [2nS if the Americans leave them. 1stifying it in proceed- | “February 6: This is the eighteenth the Russian problem |day of the siege of Marash. We had a t of a refusal of the | joyful surpeise. An airplane flew over the city, dropping several es- sages, which a high wind carried into the Turkish part of the city. But we knew heip was near; we were not for- Railway Executives Name _Commitiee Action Taken in Response to Request of President Wil- son — Will Confer With Brotherhoods on Wages. New York, ‘March 5.—The Railway Executives’ association today appoint- ed a committee to confer with repre- sentatives of the railroad brotherhoods on wages and working conditions. The action Was taken in response to a re- quest by President Wilson. The committee of executives, of which T. L. Bardo of the New York, New Haven and Hartford is chairma, is designed to become a part 5f a joint board under the transportation act to settle wage demands that have been pending since last August. Altogether sixteen railway labor organizations have been asked by President Wilson to_name committces for the board. Besides Mr. Bardo, the committee of executives is composed of G. E. Bates, Delaware and Hudson; F. E. Blaser, Baltimore and Ohio; F. W. Brown, Atlantic Coast Line; A. E, Lindsay, New ¥ork Central; A, W. Trenholm, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha; Samuel G. Strickland. former- ly of the Chicago and Northwestern; J. W. Higgins, of railroad adjustment board No. 1; C. P. Nelll, of the bureau of information of ~the southeastern railroads, and J. G. Walber, of the bu- reau of information of the eastern railways. FRANCE AGAINST PRESSURE ON SMALL COUNTRIES Paris, March 5—France has neither suggested nor approved the declara- tion regarding the economic situation | of Burope which the allied supreme council “oas proposed to make, it was declared here today. The original text of the allied dec- laration, it is stated, begins by setting forth that the small nations bordering on Russia must be obliged to make peace with the Russian soviet govern- ment in order that the economic re- vival may begin. It follows with the statement that Germany must be pro--| vided with the means of resuming in- Qustrial activity, and that since the prosperity of Europe depends upon the prosperity of all countries it is pro- Duteh Agam Refusel Condensed _Teiegrams Contracts liquidated by War De- partment in week amounted to $39,- 135,000. Imperial Bank of Germany reported . MILLION BARRELS OF FLOUR Cardinal Gibbons urged that steps be taken to legalize the sale of beers and light wines, to Dtflivef Kaiser Dutch Government Deciares Its Inability to Change Pre- vious Decisions — Promise to Guard Wilhelm Closely. March 5.—The Dutch government today for the second time refused to deliver the former German emperor to the allies for trial In a note addressed to David Lloyd George, the British premier, however, the government promised to take all necessary measures to minimize the liberty Of Wilhelm and prevent him from endangering the world’s peace. | While Doorn is not mentioned in the text of the note, it is understood that in conversations with the allied diplo- mats here the Dutch authorities have assured them that close guarding:and instituted when Wilhelm occupies his estate at that sts total gold holdings as 1,090,995~ 000 marks. Ao American dollar was quoted at 14f 18c in Paris, compared with 14f. 2lc. The Hague, at previous close. Italians in South America contribut- ed more than §00,000,000 lire to the Italian sixth loan, An intern; conference will be held in Geneva| | from June 6 to 12. with 84d in London. \A bomb exploded under the porch of the American Consulate at Zurich. No one was injured. censorship will Dutch government, while ap- preciating the motives actuating the allies, declares its inability to change its previous decisions. not forgetful of committed during the war, #t since Holland is not a party to the Ver- sailles treaty, the queen's government finds itself in a different position from other powers with regard It says it is inhuman acts The Swedish Rikdag by a vote of 152 to 67, approved the country's ad- | ¥PUS hesion to the LeAgue of Nations, “Sehviare prices ol flons aving ap! ANe L EOveriiueRL. SuDIems asked Representative Fess, republican, duty is to respect the constitutional laws of the kingdom,” the note con- tinues, “it can only emphasize that it would be committing an act contrary to law and justice and incompatible with the national honor if it consent- ed to violate those laws by abolishing the rights accorded to a fugi ing himself on Dutch territory.” Protesting that this attitude does not put Holland outside the commu- nity of nations, the note declares that Holland fis fully conscious of the du- ties the presence ofthe former emper- or lays on the Netherlands govern- . Two hundred and fifty thiusand pen- sions were approved by the It Ministry of Pensions for men injured | .- in war. oo 3 “There was a small b A . wheat yand a big yield of the soft pfvaanbsiance s sirnindst e being Flour made of the soft wheat De Havilgnd emd will carry two = FRENCH AND BRITISH NOTE MADE PUBLIC ‘Washington, March 5—The text of the note from the French and British premiers on the Adriatic situation, to President Wilson's reply was shipped from New York whiskey | delivered in London today, was made and other alcoholic beverages suf- | public tonight by ficient to make 290.000,000 drinks. ment. stretchers. Chicago were $1,454,395,000 for Febru- ary, an increase of $85,000000 over the December total. The note protests that, contrary to the impression deriver from the allied note, the Dutch govesnment from the heginning has observed the obligations entailed by these duti ment, the notes says do so, being able in the exercise of Dutch sovereignty to take on the spot The govern- will continue to Meet the Opportunity With Action The merchant with foresight should not be slow in recognizing that now more than ever before does the opportunity exist for the employment of advertising in not only sustaining but in developing trade. The needs of the people are as great as they ever-were and at no time has the earning power of the American people been so high. The tide of opporunity is in. its. flood and-advertising is the means whereby full advantage can be taken of this tide. Those Who wait for ppportunity to knock at the door-are frequently disappointed. It's the same with business. To get it, to keep it and to constantly add to it there should be consistent advertising. In Norwich and this part of Connecticut, The Bulletin with its more than 50,000 readers furnishes a medium that leads all others for reaching the desired trade. In the past week the following matter has appeared Bulletin's columns for two cents a day: Bulletin Tolegraph Saturday, February 28 Monday, March 1 Tuesday, March 2. Wednesday, ~ March 3 Thursday, March 4. Friday, March 5 Totals however, ‘and the price is expected to drop to a nickel a copy. the acute shortage of that commodity, it was anounced by the manager of | the Pennsyivania Railyoad. impo starting. a campaign in favor of re- | State: vision of the frontier of that city | inter which was constituted a free city|4uestion of peace.” under the Versailles treaty. patient at restrictions placed on his recreation, and following his automo- bile ride he discussed with Admiral Grayson the po: posed that a loan he made to Germany guaranteed by German assets in prior- Iy to reparation payments, the loan payments to be controllea by neutral commissions. Instructions are heing sent to Am- bassador Cambon in London, it was declared this afternoon, that he sign the declaration with the following res- ervations: Fir; st—France will not join in any pressure upon the small countries along the Russian border to oblige them to make peace with the sovier. | Second—France will not consent to giving any priority over raparations on any assets of Germany pledged for that purpose. Third—France will not consent to the control of German payments on any loans Germany may make by any other organization than the repara- tions commission. AMERICAN HELD BY MEXICANS FOR RANSOM Washington, March 5.—Peter W. Summenrs, an American citizen, has. been kidnapped by Mexican rebels at Salina Cruz, Mexico, according to a despatch today to the state depart- ment from that city. The despatch said Summers was captured by a band under Jesus Ma- rella, who is holding him for a ransom of 1,000 pesos. Summers is a former resident of Paw Paw, Mich, and has been en- gaged in farming and in the merean- tile business at Santa Lucretia, Mex. MANY TONS OF SUGAR TO MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Berlin, March 5—Japan has suc- ceeded in delivering forty million pounds of refined cane sugar to Eu- ropean Mediterranean ports in the last few months, according to the All- gemeine Zeitung, which declares the feat one which formerly was believ- ed impossible of accomplishment. Most of the sugar comes from Java refineries, the newspaper says. SALARY INCREASES FOR STAFF AT BARNARD New York, March 5.—Trustees of Barnard_ College tonight announced that salary increases ranging from $400 to 33,000 soon would be granted its teaching staff. Some of the lower paid faculty members already have received increases to meet living costs. 3 SUCCEED IN FLOATING STRANDED STEAMER Philadelphia, March 5.—The Amer- ican steamer Marsodak, which went aground off Cape Henlopen, Del,, ear- yl today, was floated tonight and proceeded to the Delaware Breakwa- ter. It is not believed the vessel was seriously damaged. in the near future. precautionary measures requisite to subject the freedom of the former emperor to necessary limita- [by leading papers to Marshal F “T do not consider the League of tions any protection of world peace. I do not believe in it because it does not exist, except in words. MANY EXHIBITS IN JONES MURDER TRIAL New Haven, Conn, March 5.—Over y-five exhibits this afternoon in the murder trial of ate-against William M. Jones, accused of killing Mrs. Esther Hop- in Dickerman ‘They included burned matches, pho- tographs, a handkerchief, some keys, @ coat and a candle, This afternoon’s witnesses included M. M. Scarbrough, the medical examiner, and Mrs. Mary Mullens of 239 Union avenue, West Haven, who hired Mrs. Hoperoft to do some iron- ing at different times. times was June 6. developed late on that day and Mrs. Mullens gave Mrs. listening to a controversy between S. Lovenbein, chairman of the rank nad file association, and Marvin Gates | adelphia; Sperry, national president of the |pany, Detroit and Coale and Company, private soldiers' and sailors’ legion. One of these A thunder storm Hopcroft the use In a pocket of the coat was a handkerchief. never had a chance to return the coat, but later the handkerchief, the state alleges, ‘was found in a pair of trous- ers belonging to Jones. kerchief after being identified by Mrs. Mullens, was admitted as an exhibit this afternoon. J. H. Candee, a local photographer, | was on the stand all of the morning, identifying photographs the murder scenes. MIGRATION TO CANADA SHOWS 33 PER CENT GAIN Ont., March tion into Canada from States and Furopean bonus of $500 be granted. Ninety per cent. of the former ser- | members. vice men favor some plan of financial relief, . Richard Seelve Jones, of|commissioner to ascertain the amount ‘Washington, D. C., editor of a service newspaper told the committee. He in- sisted that more than 60 per cent. of those in the military and naval ser- vices were unorganized. It was diffi- panies. cult; he said, to test “the pulse of the _— dicharged veterans through spokes- | VICE RESORTS FLOURISH men of prganizations.” Posts of the American Legion and other organiza- tions in the middle west, he said, favor the proposed land bills, adding that former soliers would be the last citi-\ zens to precipitate a financial panic if that might be the result of granting a bonus. This hand- 5.~immigra- the . United countries has which will end April 1 next, accord- ing to figures announced here tonight for the ten months ending January 31 A gain of 33 per cent. was-shown in the number of Americans settling in Canada over the entire previous fis- cal year, an increase from 31,604 to ‘The number of from the British Isles totalled 52,918, a gain of 98 per cent, and from other European couMiries 4,487, an 18 per Deportations | States international chiefiy of persons of criminal tenden. cies, decreased from ST} to 288. Jones added, “is that they should be given at least an even break with those who worked in shipyards or mu- nition plants.” of a flat bonus of $500 to every one who had served was acompanied by sharp criticism of the suggestion Levenbein, which herefrred to as “a skimping dollar a day.”_ immigrants WEST VIRGINIA SENATE CHRISTEN TRANSPORT WITH WATER FROM MARNE New York, March 5—A bottle of water dipped from the Marne, his- toric river of the great war, arrived here today on the steamship La Tou- raine to be used tomorrow sby Mrs. Newton D. Baker, wife of the secre- tary of war, in christening the Unit ed States transport Marne Jaunehing in the Hog lsiand yard at Philadelvbta. West Virsinia_senate this afternoon adjourned until Monday, despite re- | A™ ports that an pfio;t w;;xld be made to | $48° bring, about final adjournment ana {L¥TIC_thea o thul‘yrevent reconsideration of the | 1OTK'S theatrical district, for suffrage endotsement resolution which was rejected last Monday. The vote, nal woman suffrage ports h Ohio. ield. It is a 1Unless Congress Authorizes $50,000,000 Loans to F'mlm: Sales, Head of Federal Grain Corporation Tells Houqt Committee—Corporation’s Soft Wheat Flour, Held at: . . & y 1 American Ports is “the Cheapest in the World”—Charges | of Spokane Grand Jury Alleging Manipulation of Wheat Prices by Grain Corporation Agents Mentioned. : ‘Washington, could not be obtained for domestie a uses ‘at al times at the exact reflec~ tion of the government guaranteed price of wheat. “The pressure for a different kind of flour by the housewives led the millers to bid up the prices and In North Dakota in five months the hard wheat price was increased sixty cents: a bushel above the guarantee. ¢ Charges of the Spokane, Washn.. grnd jury alleging wheat prices man= | ipulation by Grain Corporation agents ' were mentioned. Mr. Barnes said he, had asked the department of justice to| make a thorough inquiry. Max H. Houser, vice president of the corporation and in charge of its work in the Pacific Northwest, men~ tioned in the Spokane report as finan= cially interested in several grain cor< porations, was declared by Mr. Barnes t0_be “an honest man.” Houser, bheo said, had dissociated himself volun- tarily from the companies in which he was interested, .s far as possible, and gave all earnings above six per cent. on hig investment to charity. . March 5.—Five Bar silver was quoted at $1.31 3-4lion barrels of Federal Grain Corpor- an ounce in New York, compared|ation soft wheat wheft flour will be sold on credit in Europe soon unless congress authorizes $50,000,000 1o finance the sales, Julius Barnes, head of the corporation, told the house rules committee today. now had authority to make the sales Lester H. Woolsey, solicitor of the|on credit but hoped #ie loans would State Department, resigned, to take | b _authorized. effect April 1, or earlier. He said he The flour, now held at American the corporation According to a report from the |asks $10.75 a barrell, is “the cheapest American attache at Pekin, wheat is selling in China at 30 cents. and_ for whi in the world,” committee. Barnes told the He added that z effort had been ‘exhausted to sell it for but that American housewives would pay higher prices for the hard “The last year crop yield was a pe- answered Mr. ield of the strong Wheat, ——y ® UROPE WILL GET FVE - Loans to state and national banks of During the month of January there | which Khrustaleff Nosar, chief organizer |and emph: of the first Rusian revolution, was executed by the soviet authorities | because of a pamphlet “How Trotzky | Sold Russia. the reports of | pub Frederick Kreinsler, an Austrian, | government ? who arrived in the Tampico oil re-|answer, however, a8s been given out glon last December, was expelled on and owing t: the ground that he had been spread- |essary ing soviet propaganda. note to reas Copies of the treaty of Versailles |until Monday. now sell for 25 cents in Parisian book ; The pre stores. There is little demand for it,|that they | | Germans in Danzig are reported| in the | while President Wilson is becoming im- sibility of playing golf = | The folowing statement is attributed | slate Washington, March 5.—Efforts of | traly The committee devoted much time to | aral Lovenbein's “The feeling among ex-soldiers,” | 5 gs; it conforms closely to the su mary cabled from London February importance at- the premiers to the fact that n had previously “expressed to accept a settlement by direct negotiations be- = tween Italy and Jugoslavia. Finnish Legation received an official | It has been scsumed here that the report from Helsingfors saying there was no foundation t an attack on Lord Acton, British Min- ister of Finland. presidents’s repiy will be tion to deal mainly premiers that he join them in formally proposing such nego- tiations to the Italian and Jugo-Slav intimation of his invitation of ae fact that it was nec- president’s most recent Premier Milelrand = {in France, it will not be made public ers’ note, after reiterating have never had tion of making a definite setflement of the question,”. the.premiers.said they the views, of ‘the . American. govern- ment," adds that the “further expia- ions of the views” contained in the dent’s memorandum, is for them - of very great interest and matt mere so” the note nce it shows that the United government do not wish to dis- t themselves from the general At this point comes the _— that absenca of an American repre- Shipping board steamship Marne, sentative from their defiberations had which caught fire at Cristobal Canal Zone, on Jargi carrying a caawo of 160,000 cases of gasoline, did not cease burning , for | 1°5° five days. proved obstacl insurmountable * to succesful adjustment. In exyrawsing agreement that direct those people be the ideal way of settling “would the question,” the premfersd said they were ready to withdraw: their settle- ment proposals of December Wilson was invited to join the preN = »ed clean qf all previous ettlement roposals ‘and that Italy and ugo Slavia greement” on that b: DEALERS CLAIM HINES DESTROYING COAL BUSINESS e e ‘Washington, March CONFLICTING VIEWS ON By an equity suit filed in the District of Columbia RELIEF FOR EX-SOLDIERS | SuPreme court today, a | wholesale dealers ask | straining orders be issued prohibiting Hines and the Cen- Distributing rom further interferences in the dis- the domestic coal sup- The charge is made that the or- s under which Mr. Hines has act- ed were illegal and that in the seizure of coal for diversion, the director gen- destroying the coal business. ‘While the suit was brought in jname of Swayne and Company, Phil- the Pine Ridge Coal Com- ' of| Director Gene the house ways and means committee | to formulate a soldier relief program| were again complicated today by con- flictng views of witnesses and injec- | tion of the rivalries between various | former soldier organizations into the | hearing. ribution Cumberland, suggestion_ was that | Wholesale Coal every man who had served be paid $1 a day with a minimum of $15N|the litigation because of the and that of Sperry was that a flatfest unfairness” of methods employed in the handling of coal belonging to its | statement cizt tonight said The court is asked to appoint of alleged damages due panies whose property was claimed to have been illegally conficsated or di- verted to the use of the railroad com- IN NEW YORK New York, March of organized vice in this city, show- ing a systematic coilusion between policemen and various women unpar- alleled since the days of the Lexow inquiry, were predicted late today by tant District Attorney James E. Smith. The inquiry, whith already has re- sulted in the indictment of Detective John J. Gunson, promises to involve ‘Revealations BERGDOLL'S MOTION FOR CIVIL TRIAL REFUSED New York, March _5—Federal Judge Learned Hand tonight refused to order out of military jurisdiction Grover Cleveland Bergdol, wealthy voung Philadelphian, charged with | desertion from the army in evading law, and his courtmartial be continued tomorrow morming on Governor's Island. : dismissing Bergdoll's motion, in connection with a writ of habeas corpus, Judge Hand said that “destitute of merit as I have ever encountered.” Weinburger, counsel for immediately announced he would carry the case to the United States supreme court and demand for his client the right of a civil trial by Judge Hand in his decision de« clared that draft law as it had been applied 1o appeared valid and that | nothing had peach the draft regulations. The action of Local Board for Di- Philadelphia, Bergdoll and the question of wheth- er Bergdoll at the time was of un- sound mind. wove- matters irrelevant to the ‘petition for a change of jurise the machinery of the been presented to im-| in drafting his case, Judge Hand! stated, adding that the “allegations™| in the petition seemed to show “that: the man was merely a morbid cow- | Federal District _Attorney| Caffey had askeq that Bergdoll's mo- tion be dismissed for lack of legal basis, Weinberger urged that Berg-| doll be given into the physical cus-, tody of a United States marshal im- mediately and that he be released on, appeal. Judge Hand dismissed the writ within a minute of} the closing of argument. Mrs. Bergdol!, the defendant's m o~ ther, was in court sitting beside Ier. nervously tweaked i moustache throughout the hearing. Weinberger referred to her once, as-/ serting that Lieutenant Colonel son, courtmartial judge advocate as-. sisting United States Attorney Caf=. | fey in opposing the motion, had re-. fused to allow Bergdoll to stay with, his mother in New York in the pe-' riod between first court this morning and the hearin; this afternoon, | © - “No,” Weinberger said Cresson had “put the handcuffs on him and take him back to Governor's Isi= appearance in Weinberger claimeq that Bergdoll, or any other man subject to the draft, could defeat efforts of the govern- meut to induct him into military ser= vice by failing to register or file a questionnaire, or by failing to report for physical- examination. He asserte ed that a trial by jury in the civi courts for a misdemeanor was pro= in upon_his convi a lawfully inducted into the military fprces and that only then could a courtmartial board have jurs isdiction over him. such cases; that only ion could he be de= NORTHWEST STORM HAS REACHED THE ATLANTIC Washington, March 5.—The storm of almost blizzard proportions which has swept over the’ country from the northwest, apparently had plunged ‘out int othe Atlantic tonight, leaving a trail of stranded shipping in its wake. Reports to the weather bureau show- ed that a 48 mile wind, accompanied in many sections b snow and sleet, marked the disturbance 10 the sea over the whole easter nhalf of the United States. At sea its coming had been foretold by storm warnings, but- reports of steamers driven ashore came quickly from the Virginia coast on_the heels of the warning. Weather bureau officials said to~ night that the wind ivould diminish in force ashore during the night, the een- ter of the disturhance passing on to. sea. Tomorrow they said would show lower temperatures east of the Mississippi river, po: winter cold records equa t northern half of the Atlantic gea- ibly —with e in the cold spell. Rowever, Sperry’s advocacy of the granting|officials higher up in the department, | Warmer weather lurks for the central ADJOURNS UNTIL MONDAY southern portior swept area, Witnin a tew days there will be & marked rise in temperature. according to Mr. that th edistrict attorney f | determined to press the investigation to the,limi. despie what he described as attempts to hinder it. LYRIC THEATRE BRINGS REPORTED PRICE OF $650,000 heart of New ported price of $650,009 to Smathers, prominent turfman. edberg” in which Richard Mansfield starred. theft of diamonds.vaiued at $2.6 never take me 1 cried as she snatched @ poisan: phinl from her handbag and swallowed /the Revenge is a gun that kicks much harder than it shoots, of the storm- the forecasters said. “DIAMOND QUEEN”" ENDS CAREER BY POISON New York. .‘r.’!fl‘hd 5. — Antoinette V. Vas oy New York, March 5.—Executors of | Bonner, who acquired (he interna Charleston, W nrrs. tarch S.—The | ine estate of Reginald De Koven, the | American composer who died in Chi- ion- al sobriquet of “The Diamond Queen” when she was brought back from Par- is in 1914 with Joseph B. Kislinzcr to face charges of large jewelry thefis in New York ended her life dramt ally today by drinking poiso: was being placed under rrest | in 13 to 12, was taken to mean that the | 3TIC opened in 1903 with “Old Heid- { Kislinger’s office” hers, charzed with friends of suffrage had not abandoned hope of holding the senate here until Senator Jesse Block of Wheeling can arrive from California and cast his Jote for reconsideration. 09. ahe ive!