Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 16, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXII—NO. 66 CONFIT BETWEEN GO GERAANY AVER Cri-hRafllh;metheSeizweofl’owerlehe“Ebefl Government Has Ended—Ebert to Remain in Power Pending Election of a President—Kapp Government Was Forced to Come to Terms by the Response to Ebert’s Call For a General Strike—A Meeting of the Na- tional Assembly Has Been Called For. Tuesday at Stutt- gart. Berlin, March 15.—(By the A. P.)— The counter-revolutifary in Ger- many appears tonig.A to have reach- ed the end of the road. There is a S0 probability that shortly one goverament will be in control and that President Ebert will come back o Berlin with his ministers. A basis_of_agreement between the government #et up by Dr. Wolfgang Kapp as chancellor and the govern- of President Bbert is enunci- ated in a declaration issued by the present Berlin government today. An- nouncement is made that negotiations with a settiemen: in view have been opened between the two governments &t tae instance of Pesident Ebert and Bis wssociates. But there is no direct confirmation of this from Ebert, who is understood to be at Stuttgart. Brief. Chanceilor Kapp is agree- able i the continuance in office of the “present imperial president”— who is Friedrich Hbert; he renounces the formation of a new ministry and places the direction of affairs in the Jands of the under-secretaries of state. The agreement as set forth by Chanceilor Kapp provides for a cab- inei, waolch shall inclde “profes- sional ministers’’ or experts; _elec- tion within two months for memberk of the reichstag and the Prussian na- tional assembly, and subsequently an election for “imperial president” by the people—until which time Ebert shall hold the reins of power. One significant clause in the pro- nunciamento says: “The new and old governments shall issue a joism A=tla- ration that unde. present conditions a general strike is a crime against the Herein les the explanation of the) proposed settlement. for the general sirike, as often before, has proved an effective weapon. Germany already has felt iis sinister effect, for the strike in Berlin and many of the other princigal cities of the country immediately cut off sup- plies, means of transportation, light and heat. it was President Ebert ministers who called upon the workmen and all the to declare a general strike, | and there was an instant and effective tespose to this call. Labor fiercely resisted the usurpation of the reac- tionary government.' Vast numbers of men left their work, ad serious disorders occurred in various part of the country. Chancellor Kapp and his supporters | announced that they would deal barshiy with strikes or passive re- sistance to the existing order in Ber- Jin. One of the leaders of the coun- ter-revolution voicing the sentiment of the others sai “We won't knuckle down to the so- clalists and workmen. who think they ean run the countr: Notwithstanding the government's threat of drastic measures it has been evident that neither Dr. Kapp ® nor Major General Ven Luettwitz was willing_to put their warnings to the test. Bloodshed would have then been inevitable plunging the country possibly irm a state of anacrhy and giving the communists the oppor- tunity they had long awaited to foist the soviet doctrines upon Germany. The situation for a time was fraught with alarming possibilities. particularly if the strike should ex- tend to the railroads. The immedi- ate consequence of this would have the speedy starvation of Ber- Un. The most liberal estimates plac- ed Berlin's food supply at less than sight dayy Th's stiie of affairs was recogniz- od in all seriousness also by the Bbert governmeat. Therefore hope is entertained here that an agreement be reached by the two contend- ing_governments and that the streets of Berlin will 300n be cleared of wire entanglements, machine guns and armed troops. Although this country-revolution bas thus far been the most ordwly of wny i the history of a great coun- ry. as not passed without the clash- ing of arms and bloodshed. In vari- ous cities there has been fighting, both by mbs and by troos and today severul pedrons were killed and others wounded In disorders in the. suburbs of Beriin, when rifies and machine guns were turned upon they crowds. Hand grenades were also exploded ‘v front of the headquarters of Gen- Von Luettwitz, the reactionary er of defence, but they did no great damage, indicating merely the spirit of opposition. Much interest should attach to the meeting of the national 3, assembly which has been called fof Tuesday st Stuttgart. The action of the as- sembly, if the meeting is held, should effect in clearing _up arfgen and his the so- bave a potent the grave situation which b in the last few day: TEN PERSONS KILLED IN CLASH AT LEIPSIC Berlin, March 15—Ten persons were killed and several wounded in a sanguinary collision Sunday between demenstrators and members of a vol- unteer regiment in Leipsic, according o advices received today. A general strike has been proclaimed at Leipsic. KAPP FAVORS REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT London, March 15.—Chancellor Kapp stated today that the new gov- srnment of Germany was neither monarehical nor reactionary, accord- ing 16 the Berlin cerrespondent of the Exchange Telegraph. The chancellor bhas ropeatedly declared that a re- publican form of government was preferabie to a monarchy. “The t does not enter- tain monarchical or reactionary views or intentions” Herr Kapp said. ‘It is mot the military who rule, but they who are ruled by the civil power, For instance it was not Von Luettwitz (General Baron Von Luettwitz, min government wanted peace at. home and abroad and branded as false. hoods reports of the intention to re- introduce compulsory enlistment or restart the war. - SITUATION IN DIFFERENT PARTS PARTS OF GERMANY London, March 15, — Telephonic messages received by the Berlin: cor- respondent of the Exchange Tele- graph Company from different parts of Germany report the situation as An independent government has been formed under the direction of the socialist, Herr Philipps. In the Rhine valley and Westphalia in- dustrial regions the Communists have proclaimed a counter-revolution and general strike. A number of lahor councils have been formed at Fksen and Dortmund.' Heavy fighting continues at Frank- fort. 5 Bavaria, Wurttemberg and Baden have joined together as one state, and ony, it is reported, will also enter bloe. VON LUETTWITZ “ONE OF THE KAISER'S OLD GANG” ‘Washington, March 15..— General Von Luettwitz, commanding the mili- tary forces of the new government in Germany, was described today as “ome of the kaiser's old gang” by Herbert Hoover, who said he had found it nec- essary to deal with the officer during the war as one of the principal Ger- man military officials in occupied Bel- gium. Mr. Hoover was of the opinion that the events in Germany have not developed sufficently to indicate how closely the imperialists were connect- ed with the movement. A NUMBER OF PERSONS KILLED IN BERLIN Berlin, March 15.—(By The A. P.)— A number of persons were killed and several wounded in clashes between soldiers and crowds at various places in the outer suburbs of Berlin this afternoon. The soldiers used rifles and some machine guns, FIRST INSTALLMENT INCOME TAX ABOUT $900,000,000 Washington, March = 15.—Treasury officials estimated that the first dn- stallment of income and profit tax- es. due today, one fourth of the total, would amout to about $300,000,000. Coincidentally with the tax-payment, treasury certificates aggregating about $775,000000 matured, which must_be retired with the money col- lected. Treasury officials did not expect to be able to give a complete statement of the first installment ayments be- fore Friday. On these figures will hinge the treasury financial ‘pro- gramme for the future. All were op- tomistic that receipts possible a continuation of the pro- gramme outlined several months ago. When the tax books close tonight, those who failed to make payment be- come subject to penalty. Payments by mail. postmarked today or earlier, will be credited given if received after mid- night, by instructions of Commission- er Roper, all internal revenue offices remained open until_ the last minute for receipt of taxes. INVESTIGATING SINKING OF BARGES OFF BLOCK ISLAND Providence, R. I, March 15.—Feder- al steamboat inspectors here, acting at the request of New London author- ities, began an investigation this-aft- ernoon of the circumstances surround- ing the sinking of two barges of the Consolidated Coal Company of Boston loss of five lives. Four members of one of the barges who reached Block Isiand in 5 life boat and were brought to this city today testified fore the inspectors. The two barges tvhich sank. they said, were the last of a_tow of three. The tow line between the. first and second barges broke, they said, denying re- ports that it had heen cut. The second and third barges, then floundering about helplessly. hegan to fill, The former was sinking, they said, when men in the third barge cut th, rope Dbetween the two to prevent their craft being. dragged under when the other | sank. GUILTY OF THEFTS OF OATS FROM RAILROAD New Haven. Conr Susman, a grain de ed $750 in United States court today, after he pleaded sguilty to charges of theft of 150 bags of oats from a railroad car In interseate commerce. A count of bribery and fraud was in- cluded in the indictment. Roland J. Brantner and John Con- don, both of New London, pleaded guiity to buying government. sugar from a naval officer at the New Lon- don station. They were fined $25 and $35 respectivel: RATHOM A WITNESS IN THE COURT OF NAVAL INQUIRY Newport, R. I, March 15.—John R. Rathom, editor of the Providence TJournal. late today was again made a witness in the court of naval in- quiry which is investigating the oper- ations of a_naval anti-vice squad. Mr. Rathom. who recently made charges before the senate commitiee at WaSh- ington of improper methods on the part of the squad, was made a com- plainant when he apearep dbefore the court last week INDEPENDENCE OF SYRIA HAS BEEN PROCLAIMED Beirut, March 8, Via Constantinople, March 15—(By The A. P.)—The inde- ister of defense, whe appointed me chancellor, but it m.:d'hn appoint- od him war minister commander- Ju-chief. chancellor reiteratad tbat lhe pendence of Syria was here today by the representatives of the Syrian ple. Emir Feisal was declared king with Palestine part of the kinadom. would make off Block Island yesterday with the proclaimed ! SIMS CONTINUES CRITICISM OF THE'NAVY DEPARTMENT e e T ‘Washington, March 15.—A hitherto unpublished story of war time anxiety in London and Washington least Ger- man. battle cruisers attempt a forlorn hope raid against American trans- orts was disclosed today to the naval investigatiog committee by Rear Ad- miral. Sims,. Messages exchanged by Admiral Benson, chief of operations, and Admiral Sims, in July, 1918, were presented by -the latfer “to correct “implications” which, he said, Secre- tary Daniels had made to the commit- tee that “general plans and policies Hatsding: Dotion Pecistors To Forego Recess. Washington, March 15.—All phases of the prohibition question will be heard by the supreme court before handing down its decision upon the validity of the prohibition amendment and the Volstead enforcement act. - Hayving heard arguments in _the Rhode Island, Kentucky.and Massa- chusetts cases, the court today granted the state of ‘New Jersey per- mission to institute - original proceed- ings to test the amendment, It also fixed March 29 for hearing arguments in the New Jersey proceedings, onap- peals by Christian = Ieigenspan, .a Newark, ‘N. J., brewer and on gov- Rssalls President’s | Fm Ambassador Wilson - Tells Why Mexicans Laugh at the United States. Chicago, March 15.—President Wil- son’s policy in Mesico is responsible for “amarchy which has exicted in Mexico for years,” and was the direct s the resignation of Robert Lansing as secretary of state, Henry Lane Wilson, former ambassador to Mexico, declared in an address before the Agate club here today. “It is an error to ever suppose that Mexicans have struggled for liberty,” he added. “Mexicans interpret liberty as license, and conrequently the etruggle has always been for loot. Mexico has never had what we call & ‘were none of my business.” Included in plans formed by the ernment appeals in injunction pro- political election. Every government navy department to meet such raids ceedings against the Manitowoe Pro- has been shot into and out of power. and rejected by Admiral Sims as “im- practical” was a proposal to call on Japan for a battle cruiser division to Sserve with the American Atlantic fleet. \ In his first statement to the com- mittee .when' the present investigation began, Admiral Sims said the com- plaints he had to make against the navy department were confined large- {1y fo the first six or eight months of the war. _ When he entered today up- on his discussion of events that oc- curred in the summer of 1918, he said he did so because Mr. Daniels, in a statement ‘to_the committee, had_im- plied thgt Admiral Sims' post in Lon- don was “purely a local one. “The statement was inaccurate,” Admiral Sims said. In the spring of 1918, he said, when the submarihe menace had been over- come, naval officials in London became as a last venture, send out battle cruisers in ‘the hope of destroying an American convoy. That this appre- hension was. felt also at the navy de- apprehensive that the Germans might, | ducts. Company, a Wisconsin coneern. , The two appeal cases apply princi- pally to the validity of the prohibi- tion amendment insofar as it relates to the marufacture of beer aleged to be'non-intoxieating. The government won the former but lost the -latter case in the .lower courts. The court also {ook under advise- ment motions asking that arguments be heard on appeals involving inter- pretations of the amendment and the Volstead act docketed = today from New York and San [Francisco. The former appeal resulted from the de- nial of injunctions to prevent federal agents from seizing _intoxicating li- quors designeg for private consump- tion but held in storage. In view of the multiplicity of re- quests for hearings, the court ‘post- poned a two week recess planted to begin March 29. Solicitor General King announced tonight that in the New Jersey suit he woud file the same motion as pre- sented in the Rhode Island case. This “President Wilson followed consist ently his foolish policies by, recogniz- ing Carranza, the man who has brought Mexico to the conditions of anarchy which prevailed fifty years ago. x 0 European government recog- nized Carranza and for that reason they have been able to maintain their dignity in Mexico and command re- spect from tlie Mexican government. Mexicans, however, laugh at the United States. They have insulted President Wilson and they continue to insult him because they can do so with impunity. Since 1910 there have been 660 Americans convicted and murder- ed on Mexican soil, and during that time no ta single Mexican or European has been convicted nor even tried by law. American capital has been con- gficated to the amount of $1,200,000,. During the late war Mexico was the center for all German plots against the United States. Under President Wil- son’s very eyes 100 Germans were training Mexican troops for assault on partment, he said, was demanstrated by the following ecablegram from Ad- miral Benson: “As_last hope German battle cruis- ers mhy be sent out to completely de- stroy one of‘our large troop convoys. We depend upon you to gain and give information on this point and Grand Fleet to take necessary action until United States could act.” In reply, Admiral Sims said, he ca- bled that everything possible would be done to intercept raiding German cruisers but that there could not be any guarantee that enemy battle cruisers would not reach the open At- iantic undetected. He advised guard- ing United States troop convoys with battleships. % Despite this, he said, the navy de- partment on July 30 outlined a plan of its own to meet such raids, predicat- ed, he said, “on the false premise” that advance warning would be givi | The plan contemplated placing one di- vision of American battleships at Queenstown, Treland, to cover _the eastern - Atlantic, another to be held {at home in readiness to cover. _the western Atlantic and a divisten" " of Japanese battle cruisers fo be station- ed with the Atlantic fleet to pursue and sink raiders. “The plan was impracticable for a number of reasons,” Admiral Sims de- clared, “It was eventually abandon- ed with the full concurrence of the department.and for it was sub- stituted a plan substantially the same as previously recommended by me.” plan be given a trial and that it was not abandoned finally until months after it was first suggested. A raid in the meantime, he asserted, would have found the United States without a praetical working plan to meet it. Only the fact that “God was with us” saved early troopship convoys from German torpedoes, Admiral Sims declared. “Good luck” was with sthe department, he insisted, as the enemy had advance information of the sail- ing of convoys and destroyers through the department’s use of an old and un- safe code. Data regarding the first convoy was thus obtained by the en- emy, he said, and the transports De Kalb ad Savannah, carrying— thous- ands of troops, narrowly escapéd de- struction. Admiral Sims said he had “implor- ed” the department *- use British ad- miralty codes in sending news of con- voy movements but without avail. The muccess of the allies in “breaking” en- emy cods and deciphering the mes- saages was “astounding.” he added, and he had assumed that the enemy was equally successful although aét- ually, it was later learned, the Ger- mans did not have great success if breaking allied codes. Vital facts regarding American con- voys were discussed at social aairs in Paris before either' he or General Pershing knew them, the admiral said. In some cases, he added, the news was sent to France from New York in business codes This was the sixth day on which Admiral Sims has read to the com- 'mittee from his, preparéd statement. and he does not expectgto conclude it before Thursday. Officels who served on his staff in Burope will follow him. BRITAIN WOULD RECEIVE Russian Cooperative Societies, sub- ject to-the right to exclude individ- uals. In this cennection the premier bolshevik assistant commissioner because on a previous occasion had taken advantage of his diplo- matic privilege to engage in political propaganda in England. Every facility would be given for the coming to England and the re- turning to Russia of the.delegation, the premier added, but it commercial lines. HEAVY MOVEMENT OF COAL Danbury, March 15.—The New England railroad moved fro yards at Maybrook, N. Y., yesterday in New England. Some of this coal had been snow-bound at since January. About 1,800 ~ cars, at Maybrook but will now be moved speedily. The 3 coal into New England is the -heay- this section is believed to be passed. enemy. dmiral. Sims said .the department sent cable after cable insisting that its permit the visit of a delegation of the emphasized that Maxim Litvinoff, the of foreign affairs, could not be admitted he must be clearly understood that the delegation would be forced to confine its weork to INTO NEW ENGLAND Central its about 300 cars of coal, practically all of which were sent to various points Maybrook many of them containing coal, remain present movement of iest since January, and all danger of a further shortage of steam coal in Better a fool friend than a wise|keeping. and upon motion contended that the questions at issue were not justifiable ane.that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the suit. BEER BILL INTRDUCED IN NEW YORK ASSEMBLY Albany, N. Y., March 15.—Passage of a bill designed to permit the sale in thi sstate of 2.75 beer and three per cent. wine was indicated in the legislature tonight, on the eve of the important conferences and hearings on prohibition enforcement legislatiyn and measures dealing with light bev- erages. ¢ FAVORABLE REPORT FOR 3 1-2 PER CENT. BEER IN MARYLAND Annapolfs, Md., March 15.—A bill providing for the manufacture and sale | of beer containing 3 1-2 per cent. alcohol was reported favorably by committee in the house fonight. . § The measure is similar to that pass- ed by the New Jersey legislature. The hill appiying - the* Volstead “aet ~ to Maryland was reported unfavorably. PROGRAM FOR PERSHING IN BRIDGEPORT TODAY Bridgeport, Conn.,, March 15.—The details of entertainment of Gen. John Pershing in Bridgeport -~ tomorrow were put into final form today. The general with two aides will arrive at 2.80 p. m., and will be met by various committees representing the city, the chamber of commerte, the Manufac- turers Association ang several civic bodies. The general will be taken by auto- mobile for a tour of the city with vis- its to the plants used in war-time for making.munitions, notably the Remington Arms, U, M, C. plant, the Lake Torpedo yard, the Locomobile company and the Bullard gun shop. At 5 o'clock General Pershing will receive the ,school children at the state -armory and Justice George W. Wheeler will make an address. The Manufacturers’ Association will give an_informal reception at 7 o'cleck, and half an hour later there will be a dinner at the Stratfield. The speak- ers will be James N. Beck and Con- gressman Schuyler Merritt. After the dinner the general will go to the Ca- sino and meet the ex-service men of the city informally. The speakers here will be Former Attorney General Wickersham and Former Ambassador J. W. Gerard. Later the general will atteng a reception at the Elks club. He will stay over night in the city and_proceed on his way about 11 a. m, Wednesday. GEDDES ATTACKS PAPERS’FOR ANGLO-AMERICAN IRRITATION London, March 15 (By The A. P.).— Sir Aucklang Geddes, the newly ap- pointed British ambassador to the United States, made a sharp attack on papers which stir up Anglo- American irritation at a dinmer given in_his honor tonight by the Pilgrims. In the course of his speech, Sir Auckland said: “I am no magician, nor do I know where a master ma- 5 gacian is to be found. But of one A. RUSSIAN DELEGATION| thing I am sure, it is an essential i condition of the working of the magic Lendon, March 15—Replying to a|of peace, so necessary to save civili- question in the house of ~commons | zation, that the two great English. today, Premier Lloyd George an- |Speaking communities shoud sail for- nounced that the government would!Wward in mutual respect and under- standing—in naval slang—as chui fhlps to the unchartgd'sgels of thenl;?.z ure, “To labor to secure, if it be granted to help to secure, that mutual respect and undefstanding is a man’s work, and T am not insensible of the high privilege, which it is to have been given a chance of so serving this and generation,” i b GERARD CENSURES DELAY OF PEACE TREATY IN SENATE New ork, March 15.—Deay in rati- fication of peace treaty by the United States, premature dissolution of the allied armies and marked differences of opinion at the peace table in deal- ing with the Turkish question !em- boldened the “junkers” and hastened the attack on the Ebert government, according to James W. Gerard, for-, mer ambassador to Berlin, NEW ALBANY, IN: MoB BENT ON LYNCHING New 'Alb.ln)'. Ind, March 15—A mob estimated at several hundred persons swarmed about the city jail tonight with the .announced intention of Iynching Charles Pearson, negro, alleged to have attacked dirs, Cecilia Summers here Sunday. night, Offi- cers, however, spirited the negro to the Jefferson reformatory for safe discovering ‘this, the mob dispersed. our border. Our representatives down there have been hissed in the Mexi- can’ congress. The latest instance of this is Ambassador Fletcher's resig- nation, saying that it was impossible tn live down there nad that the United States had no definite policies to be carried out.” o, Secretary Lansing tried repeatedly to change the president’s polic; Mr. Wilson added, hut failed. “A short while ago, while Mr. Fletcher was still ambassador to Mexico. there was a conference hetween Mr. Lansing and Mr. Fletcher,” he said. ‘They intro- duced, as a result of this confgrence. a motion in the senate to break off rela- tions with Mexico. The attempt failed by reason of interference from Presi- dent Wilson. Lansing’ resignatios ‘was one of desnair at trving to follow a consstent policy in Mexico.” HOLCOMB WILL NOT CALL ASSEMBLY FOR SUFFRAGE ‘Hartford, Conn, March 15.—Gov- ernor . Holcomb fonight / formally. re- fused to call a_special session of tae Connecticut general assembly to act on the woman suffrage amendment. He issued a statement setting forth his_reasons for declining to legislature and outlining his constitu- tional position on the question at this time and on previous occasions when he refused to act. The governor savs the :ta&c con- stitution Jrequires that a special emergenc}” be at hand in order to summon the legislature into special ession, and he does not consider that illch a situation is created !7)‘ “the de- sire af a number of indi iduals to have the genéral assembly \'n[p'upon the federal suffrage amendment.” The governor’'s statement foll_nw “Our state constitution 'declar?s that all- political power is inherent in the people. It also provides that any amendment of it must be submitted to and approved by the electors. It formerly safd that the electors must be ‘white male citizens of the United States, who had gained a settlement in this state but this was changed by an amendment regularly adopted in 1876, erasing the word ‘White. Un- der our- constitution women are ex- cluded from becSming electors unless and until the word ‘male’ is erased by an amendmert regularly adopted. “Our constitution also provides when and where our general assem- bly shall meet in regular session and fixes the maximum length of the ses- sion and further provides that in case of a special emergency the gov- ernment may convene the general as- sembly at any other time or place. “Members of the general assembly and all executive and judicial officers are required to take an oath of office Wherein they swear to support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Con- necticut. This oath of office is not intended as an idle ceremony and does not permit me to favor changing our constitution other than in the manner therein provided, which is by concurrent action of the general as- sembly and the electors of the state. The merit of the change desired does net justify the departure from con- stitutional methods to obtain it, nor does any action which may have been taken by sister states, “The desire of a number of indi- viduals—be the number greater or l1ess—to have the general assembly vote upon the federal suffrage amend- ment prior to the next regular session doeg not create the special emergen- cy provided in the constitution per- mitting the governor to convene the general asssembly in special sessi_fln, and is his only authority for deing 50.” , MORE THAN 100,000 INCOME TAX RETURNE FILED Hartford, March 15—C Internal Revenue James J. W today that more than 190,600 income tax returns had already beu filed by Connecticut corporations and individ- vals and estimated that the mails would bring between 41.099 ard 5i additional returns by Tuesdzay. n . Tt is estimated that about §10¢ 000, 000 will be paid over to the govera- ment during this year by individuals and corporatiens in this state, the tax rate being lower than for the year before. Collector Walsh has already made two deposits in the federal re- serve bank in Boston, sending checks by registered mail. Another deposit will be made at midnight and a fourth early Tuesday afternoon, An augmented force of clerks was on hand teday to gather in the pay- ments which were being received in the mails and over the counter. Mail deliveries are being made hourly. The office will be open until midnight for the benefit of last-minute tax- payers. Many persons who never filed income tax returns before are filing them this vear, it is sald, - X it purchased the plac }ascribed to his age. call, the Condensed Telegrams W g b Two men were reported killed in a mutiny aboard the U. S. Shipping Board steamship Giltedge, The Academic Senate of the Uni- ‘versity of Beriin disapproved lecturs delivxered by Prof. Nicolai. Reuben H. Donnelléy, of Chicago, was appointed president of the Asso- ciated "Advertising Clubs of America. The. American Legion has a mem- bersip of over one million jn 8475 posts- scattered throughout the coun- wy. Unofficial figures of the plebiscite in the Second Schleswig zone show an oOverwhelming majority for Ger- many. For the first time ce 1914 Paris elected a new Queen of Queens. She is Mlle Lucile Batallle, a striking blonde. Four pt ns were killed and 12 in- jured by the explosion of an infernal machine in a theatre at Sofia during @ conference. Linseed oil crushers announced an advance of five cents a gallon to $1.84 for March to June and $1.74 for July to October. John D. Rockefeller, Jr, has re- tired as a_member of the board of directors of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. Professor Champy, Freach physi- ologist is confident his researches in- to the cause and treatment of cancer will result in a cure. Air_mail service from New York to San Frnacisco will be inaugurated early nmext autumn. It is exected to run on a two-day basis. Italian government is overlooking no oportunities to attract American tourists, acording to reports receiv- ed at the Department of Commerce. Negotiations reported in progress for some time for the absorption by the Scottish-American Oil Transport Co. of the Trinidad Central Oil Fields Co. Contracts are reported closed by German potash syndicate with sev- eral American concerns for the sale of $3.000,000 marks worth of nitric reid. Heavy ice floes driven by an e tremely high wind and heav swept away a breakwater portion of the mecreation Patchogue, L. 1. and a pier ~ at President Goathals of the Ameri can Ship & Commerce Co., confe red wita Sii toard on s Ing passenger service from New York to German poit. Lord Byron's famous house in Sa- vile Row London was saved from the hand of speculative real estate op- erators. A INitish _army captain Former ~ United = States ~Senator Samuel M. Blair of New Hampshire | died in Whusbing®n _geath being His son, Jame: B. Blair, is an attorney there. Chilean stamship Yungai, former- Jy the American steamship Saranac, 1.959 tons, was abandoned in a sink- ing condition 30 miles off Cape Fear while en route from New York to Havana, Handley Page, English _ airplane manufacturer, arrived at New York on the.Mauretania. He registered at the Biltmore and his wife declared he had gone to Washington and would not return for about ten days. * New ltalian Cabinet appointed. They will be as follows Premier and In- teriar, Nitti; F s ciala War, Ferraris < and Telegraphs, Deneva; Agricultupre, Facioni: Public Instruction, Torre and Treasury. Luzzatti. Marshal Foch left Paris for an in- spection of the bridgeheads along the Rhine river. Frenca English and American reserve troops were sent to reinforce the troops which are now actually occupying the jthein bridge- L heads. An ltalian company perfected a process for removing impurities from oysters. On heing taken from heds along the Venetian coast the oysters are shipped to Rome where the shells are carefully washed in steril- ized water. In order to raise 6,000,000 frs. to romiete the American Hospital | Paris, which will have 100 beds, committee decided to ask every) American getting a passport to the United States to contribute $1 to- ward the fund. Twenty -three men who were indict- dicted with Joseph Weissman, form- er clothing dealer of New Haven, on charges of conspiring to - conceal Weissman's assets, pleaded not_guilty before Judge Thomas in the United States court at New Haven. Charges of mismanadement of the Bronx Zoological Garden and re- commendation that the city take over charge from the zoological so- ciety were contained in a report made public by David Hirshfield, commissioner of accountants. APPOINTED TO STUDY NEW YORK’S HOUSING PROBLEM New York, March 15—A committee appointed’ by Mayor Hylan from the ranks of labor, the public, contractors, material men and real estate finan- ciers will attempt to solve New York's housing {problem. This action was agreed upon today at a _ conference called by the mayor in the city hall to discuss measures for relief from rent profiteering. The committee will make a thorough investigation of the housing situation and submit its report with recom- mendations to the mayor, who will place it before the city officials for ap- proval. Several hundred persons attended the conference. Real estate financiers and money lenders declared the ex- emption of building mortgages from tederal and state taxation would re- sult in releasing of large amounts of money for building projects. Represeptatives of the building con- tractors Blamed the instability of ma- terial prices and labor as the chief reasons for the lack of building oper- atiops. Union officials denied that labor was responsible for the suspension of the building operations, declaring: that the unjons, were living up to their con- tracts. 1 | | \ ‘.\_.:_,z-.'.i__J'...‘ R e Fourteen Democrats Voted With the United Republican * bership For the Reservation—Senate’s Action is ed Generally as Hastening the Treaty Toward Anotl Sufficient Number of Votes to Prevent Ratification. Washington, March: 15.—Reajrming its disagreement with President Wil- son on the dominating issue of the peace treaty controversy, the senate adopteq today by a vote of more than twWo to one the new article ten reser- vation framed by republican leaders. Its action brought to-an end, at least for. the present, the protracted effort for a compromise that would insure ratification, and the senate's decision was accepted gemerally as hastening the treaty toward another deadlock from which it could be re- leased only by a verdict at the polls next November. Fourteen democrats voted with the united republican membership for the reservation, but this defection from the administration ranks fell far short of the number that would be re- quired to ratify. It was conceded that others probably would swing -over on the ratification roll call, but adminis- tration leaders, backed by a definite assurance that the new reservation was unacceptable to the president, evinced no apprehension that their forces would dwindle beyond the dan- ger point. The vote for adoption, 56 to 26, showed on its face a two-thirds ma- Jority for the reservation, but it by no means indicated that two-thirds would vote for ratification on that _ Included in the majority were irreconcilables, holding about a 5,000,000 BARRELS FLOUR FOR POLAND, AUSTRIA AND ARMENIA Wshington, March 15.—Food relief was assured today when owerwhelmingly a Uni ates The vote on the b those opposi Blaci A an, Garner Johnson, Sisson Johnson Wilson, , and Kraus, democra , republican ‘man Fo cy of the ways and s committee, urging prompt ne- on the measure, declared there s need of immediate relief and that cording to officers of the.grain cor- ok there was no demand in i ntry for the flour, which was likely 1 uniess disposed of befofe hot sayinz nohody in the United States wanted the soft -wreat flour, Representative Fess, renuhlican, 4 declared the point had been. reached where no further credits shonld b ex- tended for countries. “The one vation for Europe Is to go to work,” Mr. Fe the house that the ways and means comm a month hill provid- ing fifty million dollars' relief for Fu- countries, resentat democrat, Carolina, that the renublican steerinz committee’s refusal to let the measure come befo; used the death sof thirty thousand persons by starvation There is no man here so lack'n in humanity ns to vote arainst thi form of relief” said Mr. ¥ , who estimated that the transaction would mount to ahout $53,000,000. SOLUTION OF SHORTAGE OF DOMESTIC SERVANTS New York, M ch 15.—The shortaze of dome: se nts in this country can be solved in part by the importa- tion of hundreds of trained girls now sut of work in Denmark. Byron Thl, acting immigration commissioner, was informed. today sy Charles E. Lexow, commissioner of records here. Mr. Lexow made this statement after he had received information that it was not a violation of the alien contract labor 1a to hire grls abroal bring them to this country. Commissioner Lexow explained that he had received a number of letters from friends in Denmark stating that many peonle who were wealthy before the war were no longer able to keep servants and were forced to economize by doing their own housework. In consequence, he said, hundreds of girls have been thrown out of work and have been left without means of earn- ing their living. These girls would be nleased to come to America, he added, if the cost of transnortation and work could be nrovided for them. and TO SELL EASTER BLOOMS AT ¥ LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES New York, March 15.—Public flower stands at which Easter blooms will be sold at the lowest possible prices will be established at Union Square and Columbus Circle here during the East- er holidays, Park Commissioner Gal- latin announced today. Use of the markets will be limited to bona fide growers or their authorized represent- atives. The purpose of the maskets, Mr. Gallatin said, is not only to fur- nish flowers to the public at “reason- able” prices and thereby check profit- eering, but also to provide a ready market for the surplus stock of small growers and “generally promote the love of flowers.” FIRE IN BUILDING OF THE HARTFORD COURANT Hartford, Marcn 15.—Fire in the Courant building today did little dam- age, but the big newspaper presses in the basement were thoroughly soaked by two lines of hose. The building was choked with smoke and Miss Dorothy Schuttenheim and Miss Mar- guerite Conger, reporters, locateq on the third floor, threw their coats over their heads and went - through the hallway and down the stairways to the street, the smoke nearly suffocat- ing them. The telephone one~ator on the fourth floor, and:the other women employes got to the ground by way of the fire escape. score of votes which on the o tion roll call will be cast against the treaty. The reservation, adopted. after efforts to modify it had been under by the soligly united republi-{ can majority, follows in general form' the one adopted last Novéliiber. It ! 31 “The Uniteg States assumes no ‘ ligation to .Z_—v. the territorial tegrity, or political independence. any other country by the em of its military. or naval forces, its re-| sources, or any form of economic dis-, . crimination, or to interfere in any - way in controversies between nations, including all controversies relating to. Article Ten, or Yo empioy the military" or naval forces of the United Stalas, under any article of the treaty ~for' can ”“x.’”“mg:,."""' which, snder e case the un constitution, the sole power to declare war or aughorize the ment of the military or naval forces of the United States, shall, in the ex- ercise of full liberty of action, by st or joint resolution so provide.” On adoption of the original Article reservation last November “the vote was 46 to 33, with only four democrats, Senator Reed, Gore, Smith of Georgia, and Wailsh ef Massachu- setts, voting in the affirmative. | To 1SSUE NO PASSPORTS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL Washington, March 15.—A embargo on foreign travel by can citizens was in effect today With the expiration of the thirty day per= iod durjng which Under 5«1-1 Polk acted as secretary of state, interim. No passports were issued at the department today and while mo official announcement was made as to the future, it was indicated that neme would be issued until the senate had acted on the nomination of Bgins bridge Colby to be secretary of stade Administration officials held. that, the department technically was w. out a head and that as must be cigned by the secrctary -or acting secretary none copld be issued. From 600 to 800 passports haye W issued dafly during the last a weeks, officials maid, about 60 per-eents. . of them to persons golng to Europe and 20 per cent. to traveiers to Cubn. Officials of the administration did not agree with members of the senate foreign relations committee that un- | der the Overman: act President Wil- son had authority to designate some government official as acting heal of the state department. They said the Overman act could not be made to :uq_l:‘y in this case. e senate commigtee had ed to_continue its hearings on Me Gol- by's nomination today, but the ina- | bility of witnesses to come to. Wash- ington = causeq postponement of the corfittee session. i | SHIPPING CRIPPLED BY STRIKE OF STEVEDORES New York, March 15.—Coastwise shiping interests today canceiled all passenger bookings and placed.an emgarbo on freight consigned ‘to southern ports because of the strike of longshoremen for higher pay and shorter hours. * Speedy settlement of the strike was predicted tonight by T. V. O'Conner, - j president of the International Long- ' shoremen’s Union, who came here today to take charge of the situstion for the strikers. E. R. Richardson, chairman of the coastwise steamshiy committee, de- clared that the couipanies are . now paying the limit and will not yield one cent more to the strikers. b At a conference with managers the coastwise steamship eonwz late tod union leaders agreeq=3o modify their demands for $1 an and $2 overtime. They said would accept the rate of 80 centd hour ang $1.20 for overtime, which is in paid the longshoremen engaged handling deep sea cargoes. . Four ~hundred members of Brotherhood of Railway Clerks _em. ploved on the docks of the Fall Line struck today in sympa the coastwise lonnhonemen.m == MUST HAVE PERMIT TO MOVE INTOXICATING BEVERAGES, Hartford, March 15.—All and " common’ carriers In. the - sl must secure from prohibition enferce- ment director Julius C. Stremilau, a special permit to transport in \ ing beverages for dealers, educational institutions or househalda.‘ ers, according to a ruling recently, re- ceiving from Commissioner oRper at Washington. About fifty _truckmien have already received such permits. If detected in the act of moving %i- quors without the required Ifl!llta‘ £00ds will be liable to seizure, Direc: tor Stremlau said today. ‘The truckmen must also make cer- tain that the individual or concern who hires him also has a permit.. .- PRINCE FEISAL EXPECTS TO h CROWNED KING OF SYRIA Washington, March 15. — Feisal is expected to be crowned ki of Syria on March 20, the state de- partment was advised today by the American consul at Beirut, Syria. - Emil Feisal is the son of the king af Hedjaz, and according to press des= patches was proclaimed king of Syrin by the Syrian congress at Damastue on March 8, when the congress de- clared the independence of Syria. SMALLPOX QUARANTINE == AGAINST ONTARIO LIFTED Toronto, Ont., March 15.—The Hft- ing of the smallpox quarantine against_Ontario on the Michigan and New York borders is recommended by Dr. Hastings, loeal medical of health, in a lotter sent the health authorities at W ton. This quarantine has been effect for several months. 1 e s SORS S5 il |