Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 26, 1920, Page 1

” OVERRDE COV. OLCOM ‘islators Might Convene in Special Session Without a Gubernatorial Call—Pins Faith on Favorable Action in Connecticut in the Event of Failure in Delaware—Hope For a Ratification Majority in the Delaware Legislature Appears Doomed to Defeat—Opponents Are Pressing For a Vote Today. ¢ Déver, Del, March 25—The Dela- wire legisinture today cleared the way for voting, possibly tomorrow in the te. 80 ratifiention of the proposed 1&-& suftrage constitutional amend- mehi. “Connecticut will be the next state,” said Mrs. Catt. “Ratification ulti- mately is assured. ~ The only question here is whether, women of _eighteen states shall vote ih the coming. pres- idential clections. In thirty they may whether the. constitutional amendment ix ratified or not. The question .- is shall they vote in all sthtes: this year or wait another year." 2 Miss . Charlotte Rowe, : principal speaker today for the national ' and Delaware an uffrage organizations, declared that “so-called” ratification in many other states wouid be contested before -the United' States supréme court. “This may throw the presidential election into the courts” said Miss Rowe, “and make an awful mess of th eelections. Votes of women in the contested states will not be counted until the contests are settled in the Hessions today were occupied in public hearings of advecates and op- ponents of the pending ratification refpiution and leaders planned def- inlfe action tomorrow but some said ® ¥Pte in either tiody before next week was improbable. Hopes of sulyagists that ‘Delaware would give the thirty 3% votes nebessary for u ratification majority tonight appeared doomed to ieteat without marked changes in the inaup’ of both semate and house, Suf- e, workers admitted they - stiil iaeked syfficient votes in both bodies. nut declared changes later would raily the, meedad ‘majorities. Opposition v confident of vic- | higher court.” 3 lekders were equplly confident of vi xSty Tor appiause, with gome his- 4 {« impossible hefore | iNg. about *evenly djvided between O er eaind . tonight. | suffragists -and antis, -there were no eveh should -the senate adopt the | demonstrations at tod: hearings. ‘esolution tomorrow. Adjournment of o ‘he ' legislatare tomorrow night until | MRS, CATT'S STATEMENY Monday is planned, and should the NOT TAKEN SERIOUS serale vote ation toMOrrow, - the; resolution would go over in the| New Haven,!Conn., March 25—Pres- 1ouse. ent and former state officials of Con- Opposition leaders of both senate |necticut were not inclined tonight to and housé are pressing for a vote to- morrow -but the suffragists supporters take seriously the statement made by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt at hearings were prepared to talk down a vote In|on woman suffrage in the Delaware the absenice of suffcient strength. contest, in which sh® said that the Senator Walker, author of the rati- | Connecticut legislature could meet in fcation resoiution, pians (o report the | special session -without a call from the measure from committee and, if ef- | governor. ) orfs are successful in securing addi- | Former Govefnor Simeon E. Bald- ienal support. proposes to ask an im- mediate roll call. Mr. Walker said onight he was perfectly confident of smfavorable senate action. hut would 76t make definite plans until tomor- House action was not planned until affer ihe senate vote. Republican Laader Lyofis. in charge of the house -esolution. said he would not even ask 1 eommittes repbrt because the pres- ent house lineup would defedt. the mensure. - Governor Townsend was in Whmington today, presumably for aid o ratification. t suffrage leaders will turn to Ceénnecticut if Deiaware refuses rati- ‘Wag intieated at today's hear- ~by Mre, Carrie Chapman Catt. safional suftrage leader. Referring.to win, u democrat, said at his home here that it was his opinion that only the governor could summon the Eeneral assembly in special sesslon. Former Governor Rollin S. Woodruff,, repab- lican, expressed a . like .view. on the question. In Hartford, John Buckley, executive secretary to the goverrier, referred to Mrs: Catt's statement ad “nonsense.” e Governor Marcus H. Holcomb, in his statement last pight declining to ac- cede o the reduest of' the republican state convention that he call, a spe- cial session, said “the state “constl tution places the responsibility - wit] the governor.” In_his’ previous state: ment on March 15 ‘Governor ¢ suid: “Our conatitution: provides when ard where our gemeral assembly shall| 6f Conmectienl’s’ governor to| meel '\, regulig session and further ahe Isgisiature in special session, | proviu . that in'case of special’ emer- Mrs, Catt said the members might | genoy the governor may convene thé convene without a gubernatorial call. general assembly &t any time. INVESTIGATING REMOVAL OF REAR ADMIRAL FLETCHER $80.000 SUIT AGAINST THE TAFT-PIERCE CO., WOONSOCKET Washingtor; Mar -Investiga- | Providence, R, 1, March 25.—Alleg- tiem of toe reasons for ine removal of |ing a breach in contract, as a result Rear Aamirsl Wiliam /B. Fletcher |of wnich the plaintiff paid to the de- from ‘command of the American naval base at Brest was begun today before | « Daval court of inquiry fendant many thousands of doeilars in overcharges, the British ~government, in the name of King George V, today Counse! for Kear Admiral Sims, who | filed deciaration against the = Taft- removed Admiral Fleicher, insisted | Pierce Manufacturing Company of thgt the court consider a request that | Woonsoscket, R. L. in the United Secretary Dan cope of | States district acourt and fixed the the inquiry to ircumstances | amount of damages as $80,000. surronnding & of American | The suit grows out of a contract vessels in French w . Secretary Dahiele in a letter refused to modify his instructions to the court on the ground that they covered a sweeping investigation as originaily drawn. tle testimony was introduced at ! entered into by J. P. Morgan and Co. American agents for the British gov ernment in December, 1915, with the defendunt company for the - manu- facture of certain gauges 10 be/used by the British government in the the first session, most of it being doc- | prosecution of war against the central umentery. In 4 letter 1o Secretary | powers. JWO weeks ago process was Daniels, Admiral Sims denied that he | served on- the defendunts that the removed Admiral Fletcher because of | British governmen: would file suit the transport Antilies, decluring that | against the company.and the suit was be had reached that decision some | made returnable by the piaintiff to- time before when he had learned that |day. on two oreasions transnorts were per- mitted to start pack without adequ CANADIAN NAVAL OFFICERS cemvoy. The sinking of the Antilles Admiral Sims wrote, led him to de- ARE TO BE DEMOBILIZED cide. however, that Admiral Fietcher Ottawa, Ont, March 25, —Demabili: mition of all Canadian naval officers and naval ratings, that the service may. be reorganized “on an economical basis,” has been ordered, C. C. Ballan- tyne, minister of the naval service, announced in the house of commons here’ today. The naval service, he | said, would be carried along on a pre- war’ basis. ng-u have no Buropean command. estifying In his own behalf, Ad- mifal Fletcher, who requesied that the #ourt be convened, charged that at no time-did Admirai Sims in hjs orders iy down specific ruies as {0 convoy formations and the minimum protec- tipn ibat should be accorded vessels off the French coast. The first direc- Adoption of a permanent . tiow I,-:"r:fl;:g;fi‘_'z i 2 a0 | naval policy hal. been deferred, he ex- e way | by Liemtenant -Comy. | Plained, pending discussions by the D-r{m-. Admiral Sims alde, | OYFTseas dominions and Great Britain at a forthcoming imperial conference. Great Britain's offer to present Can- ada with one-light, cruiser - and - two | torpedo boat destroyers to take _the place of the Niobe and. the- Rainbow has been. accepted, he said. Mr. Ballantyne also announced the retirement of Admiral -Kingsmfll, di- rectdr of the naval service. ! wheh he visited Brest in August. 1 Deapite the difficulty of adequately prefecting troops and supply trans- Borth with the small force of destroy- ers and y:mh' - hi hnl'i‘lposnl. led sdmiral suid this force had been us best nomsible advantage. foljowing rear admirals formed ‘he ‘Persbane! of the court: W. L. Rog- t, J. H. Oliver and J. A. | REDUCTION IN PRICES OF NANSOM OFFERED FOR . KIDNAPPED YOUTH Lexington, Ky., March 25.—Although trace of Paul Little, 11 year old of E R’ Little. Lexington capitai- Kidnapped Wednesday afternoon ! held for a ransom understood to “$25,000. . ha's “vet, been-found, it be- e (kRown ‘that the police are work- on theory thatthe lad might v 4 by two men who by Mr. Little. from Louisville today that & answering the deseription of he stranger Jast seen with Paul Little Beeri seen in that city were dis- by the molice. who believe <the boy is being held either in or . New York, March 26.—An average reduction " from March prices of milk td the, distributors .of one and seven- tenths per quart was announced to- night by the Dairymen's League, which has held a series of conferences here durie. the last few days to set pril.prices, ] “The price. of three per cent. milk to distributors during . the ~month - of April_ will _be 5 4-10 eents .per. quart, according to the announcement, while 3 6-10 per cent. milk Will-be sold at 5-9-10° cents per -quart. WARSHIPS IN HAWAIIAN CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION San Diego, Calff., ~ March . - 25. Twenty-nine warships, * eaded - by the - cruiser " Brookiyn,' flagship of Rear Admiral Henry Rlley. sailed ta- day for Horolulu fo participatesin the Hawaiian mission centénnial celebra- tion. Seven lestrovers , from- -San Francisco will join the ‘warships. en route. After the . celebration _ eight destroyers will proceed to the. Philip- pines where they will be stationed. ts of the missing lad re- “make public the note received night, but one of the mem- family intimated today note is expected from the n_ the next {wenty-four It is believed that this note instructions for disposi the ransom. which, the boy's - expressed willingness to 860 4 returned safely. e A usart wlode: ety TO GET LOAN OF o FROM ENGLAND g ey Mareh 25—The Soir says negotiations are under England for a loan of the money to be used for of the devastated P 3 CANADA REQUESTED TO 1% DEBAR ENEMY ALIENS Montreal, March 25—The Dominion |government is asked to debar enemy aliens from entry into Canada for fif- teen years in a resolution adopted here today by the Great War Veterans' sociation. "% i mlr{ MILK IN NEW YORK | ) f i ‘| been- resctied ¥Om -the blazing ruins. Mayor of Dublin Asks Protection. ‘London, March 26.—The lord mayor of Dublin has applied to-the authori- | 'ties: to furnish. police to protect the Masion House, according to a despatch to ‘the Central News from Dublin, SENSATIONA LCHARGES MADE AGAINST PROSECUTOR SMITH % ) New York, March 25.—Police In- speetor Dominick -Henry, whose dis- triet has been included in the vice in- quiry, being conducted’ by Assistant District Attorney James E. Smith, to- night made public affidavits which he said he had filed with Police Com- missioner Enright containing sensa- tional charges against Mr. Smith to the effect that he or his representa- tives had sought protection of ‘certain undesirable resorts. Mr.. Smith, replying tonight to the charges, - declared that Henry “swore to a lot of wilful and deliberate lies.” “It is an act of a man in despera- tion or of a rat caught in a corner, squealing for Ris life” sald Mr. Smith. “Henry knows I am about to ingict him on a charge of grafting. He is_caught and he knows it.” \Referring to a_charge in one affida- vit that “J. E. S.” once had told him he had District Attorney ~ Swann “muzzied” hvcause Mr. Swann had “the governirship bee in his honnet” and had: asked = his - assistance, Mr. Smith said: “THe statements in his affidavits are absolutely laughable. Can you picture mie: teHing. Judge Swann that 1 would elect him governor?” SCARLET FEVER CLOSES BROWN UNIVERSITY Providence, R. March 25—Fol- lowing a conference between college officials and municipal health authori- ties, - notices were posted at Brown university today announcing the im- mediate closing of the institution be- cap: of the outbreak of scarlet fever among the students. It will not be reopened before April 8. The women's college -is not affected. Closing of the university resulted in-a rush of students for their homes. Superintendent of Health Chapin, fearfyl that they will carry the diS- ease along with them, took steps to- night to notify the health authorities of the 26 states from which students are registered of the possibility of outbreaks, ew. caswes developed rapidly to- day. Tozusht local hospitals had 23 students, while others were ili at pri- vate homes. An investigation of the cause of the outbreak today by Dr. Chapin indicated, he said, that an in- fected milk supply at a college lunch rodm was responsible. There have been 1o deaths. ENGAGED IN GUN BATTLE WITH A POULTRY THIEF Greenwich, Conn., March 25.—Robert C. Smith who keeps prize winning poultry early today -heard. a_noise in“his yard. Revolver in hand he sal- lied forth. and was. confronted by a ranger who poked a:gun into. his body. Smith gave fight and in a 2{ minutes ‘the _sznnger and Smith exchanging ‘shots., , Smith got one Mesn wound in_the right hand. The, stranger nad anotner mah who Was in the hencoop ran and disap- peared in an automobile. They had several valuable hens'in a bag which ! was Jeft benind. Smith is a rural mail | carrier. - As he had an ipjured Tright: hand: he had to fire with his left. Each T shot four times and bullets ere dug out of the hencoop parti- tions. . CLAIMS REVENUE AGENT .PRACTICED BANDITRY New. .York, March 5.—Federal Judge Learned Hand today granted a | writ transterring the case of S rt ! McMullin, an internal revenue agent charged with murder from the state to- the federal court. McMullin re- cently shot and Killed Henry Carlton, a chauffeur, during a liquor raid on an PBast Side apartment house. When arrested he said he shot Carlton in| self defense. McMullin, state prose- cution_officials said, served time in Sing Sing under the name'of John Conway for a holdup in Petham. | WOULD LIMIT PRIMARY EXPENSES TO $10,000 Washington, March Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, announced today that he would introduce tomor- row a bill to prohibit candidates for the presidential nomination from ex- pending more than $10,000.for cam- paign purposes prior to their nomina- tion. The bill' would exempt expen- ditures by a candidate for personal traveling expenses, telegrams or cir- culars but would include expenditures in his behalf by associations or, indi viduals uniess he publicly rejected | their efforts. Penalties of $20,000 fine | and two years' imprisonment would be provided. TENANTS INVITED TO DISCUSS THE CASE OF HIGH RENTS New York, March 25.—Tenants of a | score of apartment houses owned by Charles W. Bidt today were invited to | discuss “the case of high rents” with | their iandlord instead of taking their troubles to the legislature. In a let- tef o400, tenants. Mr, ‘Bidt invited to | inspect his books and then agree with | hin uppn “a reasonable profit” on hi: inyestments. ~The Real Estate Own. 2 # 4dte might i A 9 ers’ Association reported that only a it cribh. See its.way ‘clear to: wird notified of rental increases this!| “few_of Mr. Eidt's tenants have been | spring.” §. 0..8. CALL ‘SENT OUT FOR . ELUSIVE “NICKY” ARNSTEIN New York, March _25.—The New York police. department, ~ which for weeks has been conducting a fruitless search for “Nicky"-Afnstein, alleged | lepder in” Wil Street’s $5,000,000 bond thefts, today t, out an . 8. 0. S. Ten™ thousand circulars describing the | elusive Arnstein were issued appeal- ing to police authorfities throughout the country: to spread their nets for the itive. 'FIRE DESTROYS KY. HOME FOR CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS Peweé Valley, Ky, .March 25—Fire breaking out at'6 o'clock -toriight has almost - totally destroyed the Kentucky home for Confederate. soldiers here. So_far-as learned, all inmates have The fire, said to have started in the hogpital division, enveloped the ‘entire | frome’ structure, $1,000,000 WAREHOUSE 2 FIRE IN MONTREAL . Montreal,’ March 25.—Tire“early to- day destroyed immense quantities of grain, shellac afid tobacco in the Mol- son, brewery .nreho:n.’»which wasg ground. The . emtizaates of 11000000, o P was |2 third reading in the senate this ari- | that, it was hoped might be avoided. | light Saving’ * regulations ion of Bridgeport. Bridgeport, Conn., March = 25.—The ‘Bridegport city council voted to defer action-on a ylight saving ordinance at a special meeting tonight. . The or- dinance, now in committee, provides for setting the clocks ahead one hour here on the first- Sunday in April. The Central Labor Union :of this city has filled a protest against the daylight saving proposal. New Britain Takes Action Tenight. New. Britain, March 25.—There will be a special meeting of the common council tomorrow night to take action on the daylight saving plan. Corpor- ation Counsel. J.-E. Cooper -has ap- proved a propceed plan which has been submitted. TRAIN SCHEDULES ARE TO REMAIN UNCHANGED Hartford, Conn, March™ 25.~The! New York, New Haven‘and Hartford railroad will not conform to.any lo- cal daylight saving ordinance ‘or law, at least not so long as: there-is ot more uniformity of .time among cities and towns which it serves, es- pecially in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. This was announced::today by Charles A. Mitchell, superintendent of the Hartford division ‘of the road. It was the result of a conference of railroad officials at New Haven Wed- nesday afternoon = and . information was given out that train - s¢hedules would no the changed. It was point- ed out that if changes were made great confusion would result. Hartford's daylight saving ordinance goes into effect next Monday. With- out a change in time . of arrival of trains in the morning on - which thousands of commuters travel bus- iness is- likely t0 be. seriously dis- turbed. What effect the .railroad company’s decision will have is to- day problematical. SAVING LAW GENERALLY > ACCEPTED IN NEW YORK New York, March 25.—The confu- sion whiche it was feared ‘would de- scend upon New' York with the arrival of -Uaylight saving time is ‘gradually disappearing -as the federal, state and muneipal institutions _ increasingly ignily their intentions of setting their cks forward mext Sunday morning. Of the federal institutions the Mmost important announcement ‘was made by Thomas G. Patten, postmaster, to- day, who said that although there still remain numerous detafis to be worked out,: the postal system in-New York will adopt the advanced time. g H. C: Stewart, special deputy -col- lector, made a similar 'statement for| the custonm ‘house. The Federal Rer. serve banks lined up’ with .other: lo- cal financial” interests ¥esterday aft noon’ in_the #éceptance of time. “This " leaves only courts still undecided. At th States marshal's office it was said this morning that rul\g: must ‘come from Washington - before it ‘can be definitely -stated. that the federal courts _will adopt .daylight-saving time. The same situation exists in the Brooklyn federal institutions. At a committee meeting of the New York Stock ,Exchunge last night it was decided to advance the. Ex- change's clocks . next Sunday. The Boston Stock Exchange will modify its opening and closing hours to make them synchronous with the local ex- change, it was reported yesterday. GOVERNOR COOLiIDGE FAVORS DAYLIGHT SAVING Boston, Mareh 25.—The daylight- saving bill, which is being ordered to ernoon, will be signed by Gevernor Collidge, according to friends of the chief executive. Advocates of the bill believe that they have one vote more than the necessary. two-thirds .to attach. an emergency preamble, which will allow the measure to become effe: ouce. If the bill passes the remaining stages in both branches and reaches the governor tomorrow, it is expected that th bill sign it at once and that it will go into effect on Sunday-morn- ing, If the bill should be delayed until next week, daylight saving wouid be- come effective the moment the gov- ernor signed the measure, In that case it is expected that the governor: would hold the bill ‘twenty-four hours and announce the time when hé would sign it, in order to give the public time to arrange its aflai GOV. EDWARDS CALLS FOR DAYLIGHT SAVING Bdward L Bdwards of New has carried = direct to the his fight for . daylight saving Jersey. He issued a statement Gov, Jersey people in New reading: “The failure of the - New: Jersey Senate last night to pass the Eldridge state-wide . Daylight . Saving - Biil opens the way for: endless .confusion It was with the hope that' the San- off this confusion that 1 addressed a special message to-the Senate yester- day morning. 1 have,, with ‘thousands of people all over the. States, the keen regret .that will be:felt' becalise, of the failure of th Senate to. respond. “As'the only means left for warding off endless complications Sunday and thereafter, I ask the people of New Jersey to adopt- voluntarily- the ‘day- beginni; Sunday.at 27a. m: when the c‘lfnknxg to be put ahead one hour, such a course being likely to help New Jersey conform' with “the davlignt ‘saving Rw in effect in New York state.” INCREASE .OF TEACHERS" ~ ' - . SALARIES IMPERATIVE Albany, N: Y., March 25.—An immi diate increase.of salaries for teachers throughout the: ‘state, is neéded ‘'to save our country. frém the ‘peril of those forces’ which’ spring from ignor- ance and want of appreciation of our institutions,” according to a.statement issued by the regents -0f the “Univer- sity of the State of New Yotk tonig following a conference on schobl co; ditions. 4 NEW ORLEANS FEELS - . 5 LONGSHOREMEN'S STRIKE New Orleans, La., March 25.—South- ern Pacific Railroad company’ officials announced today - that :passenger and frieight seryice between New' Orlean and New York had' been discontinued indefinitely - because of coastwise longshoremen's strike in Tork. " Robbery. New York, March 5.—The bodies of Dr. Vincent J. Campisi, wealthy phy- sician, and a “patient” to whose side has was hastily summoned were found tonight in a tenement house in stabbed to Brooklyn—the physician death and the “patient” strangled. * The police, who at first were un- able to identify the “patient”, learn- ed later that the physician had been - hastily called, to the house by an un- idenified man. the theory that the physician was lur- ed into the tenement for the purpose of robbéry and thef attacked when he _room, he strangled - the entered the “patient” while fighting off his as~ sailants and then was stabbed by the man . who lured him into the trap. The - murdered apparently lost his nerve, the police believe, and failed to carry ‘out the robbery, for a large sum of money and a gold watch were found -on the physician's body. _ Frank Ambrose, a Toomer house, told the police Campisi enter the house with another man who_seemed to be greatly agi- tated. Shortly after the paysioian arrived, Ambrose said, he heard the noise of breaking glass. in" the For The police advanced he saw Dr. Adrianople is reported to have de- clared its independence. » Bar gold was guoted at 108s' 4d a fine ounce at last close in London. Italian Chamber of Deputies held a stormy debate over the Fiume situa- tion. " New York quoted silver at §123)2 an ounce, compared with 71% in Lon- don. authority fo iSsue $7,000,000 in gold notes. Geor Picot has been appointed French high commissioner at Sofia, Bulgaria. America dollar was quoted at 14 frs. 55¢c compared with 15 francs at pre- vious close. « Allied Supreme Council will meet at San Remo, Italy, on April ing to Rome reports. Massachusetts senate committee fa- vorably reported bill exempting stock dividends from taxation. The civic commission at Montreal, decided vyesterday that clocks should be set ahead one hour on May 2. Comercial Cable Co. announced continental wire had not been placed and delay is still in effect. its re- President Wilson made his first trip | outside of Washington since taken ill A few minutes later the man who |lasf fall. He went to Alexander, Va. accompanied the physician left the - 3 place l;mrried!y and ran down the| Russian boishevik forces, which at- street. Becoming suspicious, Ambrose said he called @ policeman and inves- | tigation revealed the two bodies the physician’s on th floor and toe other on_the ked. Exatifmition of the body on the bed showed the man had been choked to death. 'No wounds were found. The physician’s on the floor and the other neck and mouth. Mrs, Dorothy Parker, who conducts the rooming house, said the strangled man..rented the room a week ago without giving his-name and she had net seen him in that time. Nor had she ever seen, she said, the ofaer man tacked the Polish front with great fury in the vicinity of Bobruisk, were repulsed. A majority of the alleged radicals held at the Hartford jail ' after de- portation hearings can be released on bail of $1,000 each. The supreme council of the allies will meet at San Remo, Italy on April 1, according to authoritative ad- vices from Rome. demand for a wage increase of $3.60 described to- her as the one who|was rejécted will meet to decide brought the physician. whether they will strike. The room in.which the murders e were committed is dingy and - small| New York. State will need $5,000,000 about nine feet by five feet, with a single ~bed, a table and a window, which had been broken in the death struggle the physician made for his life. A dirk and a razer, both rusty, were found in the room. Dr., Campisi was 35 years old and married. His brother, Samuel Cam- pisi.- said -he knew of no enemies his brother had made who might have had cause to seek revenge. et LATEST FIGURES FROM SOUTH DAKOTA PRIMARIES Sioux Fails, S. D.,, March 25.—With 322 scattered and tly isolated pre- cingts unreported, returns from ues- day’s as’ tabulated tonight, following vote for candi- tes for republican presidential in- grsement: Wood 29,362, Lowden 25, 781, Johnson 23,594. Sendtor Miles Poindexter, who was an indépendent. candidate for indorse- ment, received a small vote. His in- complete total was slightly less than 1,000. There are 1,740 precinc Three-fourths of the pricincts not reported are on the prairies, or in the ouri river. Bad Lands, west of the Mi; Phe total republican vote of the mis; ing :precincts at the 1916 election— when women did not vote—was about 4,500 Democratic returns became available today for the first time since the polls Scattered reports on presi- closed. to meet demands of former men for a bonus of $10 a montn if the legislature ratifies the bill. More - than 16,000 anti-reds were found frozen to death on the Steppes, it is announced received at London from Moscow. Assemblyman Gillette predicted that his bill providing for .75 per cent beer woull win by a_substantial ma- majority in th New York Assembly. Wednesday was the hottest March 24 in Boston weather annals. The mercury rose from a morning reading .of 48 degrees 1o a mark of at 2 p. m - & e ‘Z."Ripley, chairman of the national adjustment commission, de- clared the United States bad no power to end the strike of longshore- men. Major Evelyn Wrench sailed from England on the Carmania with $150.- 000 subscribed by British admirers of war. The. appointment of Elihu Thomson, of Lynn. electrician and inventor, acting president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was an- nounced. The four-masted schooner Jere G. dential indorsement showed a Very | Shaw, which went aground off Sar small vote and majorities of ‘from 2 |point’ Block Isiand ~Saturday I to 1 to 10 to 1 were reported for |xae floated by the coast zuard cutter James W. Gerard of New York over|Acyshnet James O. Monroe of Maywood, Il In R this county Gerard received 266 voteS| The street cleaners of Hartford have and Monroe polled 64. The county’s|put in a demand for 65 an hour republican vote ,was slightly more |for an eight hour day, an i of than 9,000. Davison county (Mitchel) | about 50 per cent., and a w half gave Gerard 146 votes and Monroe 12. The republican vote was 2,600. Returns from four-fifths of the state for the republican senatorial nomina- tion gave Norbeck 28,164, Hane; 138. 27,856 and Richards 18,731, sentative Charles Sioux Falls, republican, nated. W. C. Cook, lisher, was re-elected republican na- & first time next June when Boston tienal committeeman. University will award it to seven Tnder the Richards orimary law. |candidates. party candidates for dential in- i dorsement receiving plu; es 'shall| The Grand Trunk railway showed a be supported by the ten delegates to |surplus of 277.600 pounds for opera- the national conventions for at least |tion of its lines in Canada during three ballot: OPPOSED TO EXPENDITURES IN ST. LAWRENCE RIVER New York, March For governor, McMaster received Repre- Christopherson of was renomi- ux Falls pub- The project holiday. Governor Edwards, in a message to the New Jersey Senate, asked for im- mediate action to end the confusion caused by New York's Daylight Sav- ing Law. The degree of bachelor of religi education will be conferred for 1919, or 61,000 pounds 1 previous y ss than the Fifty American Rhodes were invited 1o spend their Easter va- cations in English homes so that tormake the St. Lawrence river be- | may gain a more intimate insight in- tween Montreal and Lake Ontario {10 English family life. navigable for ocean-going vessels was declared to be a ommercial and| President Wilson will sign an or- economic failure” a resolution adopted at a conference here today of the New York delegation of the na- tional rivers and harbors congress. The resolution declared that proposition now the international joint boundary com- mission whereby the United States is to co-operate with Canada in the con- struction of the canal should be op- posed “within all reasonable means.” It, also_was announced an attempt would be made to have various state commercial organization: resolution. A summary of these ob- jections will be presented to the inter- national commission. The “tremendous cost of construe- tion and the insurmountable obstacles in -operation” were assigned as the main reasons for disapproval. Among those who expressed disapproval Public Works W TO CONSIDER SOFT * COAL WAGE AGREMENT Ish. New York, March 25.—The general scale committee - of the coal |of_operators . will .meet next Monday afternoon to consider a ‘new wage agreement, Phillip Murray, internatipnal » vice president, an- nounced here tonight. notification. of the meeting had been received in a telegram from John L. Lewis, Internagion&l president, whe is now in" Washington. MRS. WOODROW WILSON FOR bituminous “CHEAPER MEAT WEEK"™ ‘Washington, March —The depart- ment ' of justicé campaign t induce cheaper ‘cuts of . by Mrs, Woodrow Wilson, Who wrote that the d per- the ‘save money on meat’ cam- housewives to buy meat was_endorsed ' today ‘White House would’ “zladly @do. Balenn the being considered by | endorse the | of the plan was State Superintendent of miners and a similar _committee in New = York He said that der directing all department of the federal government to purchase and store up a three month's supply of coal during May, June and July. A report from Coblenz says women are fighting in tae ranks of the reds in the Ruhr district. Anti-s dem- onstrations were made, although most of the communist leaders are Jews. Original position of the American government that the Turks should be expelled from Furope, is restated in a note to the allied supreme council signed by Secretary of State Colby. Lieutenant Commnader Thomas Mott Osborne has finished a week of service in the dungaree garb of the naval prison at Portsmouth of which he was ‘commandant until recently. Platt bill, providing that in the dis- cretion of the federal reserve private bankers may ors in two or more bank: private or national ban! by house banking committee. Following their victory in forcing | the adoption of a resolution haling Superintendent W. H. Anderson of the Anti-Saloon league before the as- sembly judiciary. committe to answer for alleged insults to legislators. ‘wets" compelled Speaker Sweet and “dry” leaders to grant a hearing on “wet” bills. LET SUNSHINE STERLIZE YOUR LIPS FOR KISSING New York March 25— unsanitary until sunshine and fresh air_have, sterilized, the lips, according to Dr, Lamison Brown of aranac Lake. who told the :New York state medic: society at today's- session of-ifs con- vention that “it d_thing for the human race courting is done at “I night ‘and in the late afterncon.” ind is 21, accord- | inereasing. Representatives of the miners whose | service | ( in a communication | the American navy's work during the | by artillery. Dinslaken is in the hands of Reds, direction of Munster. tion for the Reds. Reds. are arriving north of Coesfield. to the Harz Mountains. | GOVENMENT TROOPS Coblenz, March 25 operations. ESSEN REPORTED TO BE en, March and orderly this morning. qui d_bavonets, would have received bur | thirty ment. This_council, ty ctory over = the workers, coal mines: RUSSIANS HAVE ‘ASKED | {of to the Courant spat Russian board | Town Bombarded by Artillery—Reichswehr Confident Holding Out There—Krupp Works at Essen Are Re-- ported to Be Manufacturing Ammunition For the Reds —Government Troops Have Officially Occupied Gotha —DMet With No Resistance. Coblenz, March 25.—(By The A. P.)yrespondent Is writing —Wesel was being hombarded ‘today The eichswehr were re- ported to ‘be confident of holding out|ings here, typical of the clashes sim- there, although the Red . pressure| ultaneously in' many places in Ger- against the town was declared to be|many, makes an interesting chapter in the history of labor's protest the R The Red line extends from Friedrichsfeld. nine kilometers north of Dinslaken, through Dorsten, in the The Krupp works at Essen are re- | ported to be manufacturing ammuni- The military situation in the Ruhr region is said to be favorable to the Additional -government troops In Thuringia the revolt is extending HAVE OCCUPIED GOTHA (By The A. P.) —Government troops officially “occu- pied Gotha at 1.30 o'clock this after- noon. They met with no resistance. It is reported that the ussian bol- k Makek is at Hagen, in the tphal n area, directing the Red QUIET AND ORDERLY .—Essen was still The center of interest was the square in front of the town hall, where com- munist troops in‘the most varied -uni- forms and armed with swords, rifies and with one or two nd grenades affixed to their beits, were continually forming into platoons | to be marched to the front, according to a despatch to the London Times. The question of the soldiers’ pay has not vet been settied. but employers are paying them the same selary as they it still_at work and the employers have been told to apply to the workers’ council for reim- numbering ~three, is composed of members of the independent or communist par- all of whom are manual workers. The workers' delegates are said to have declared to Minister Giesberts at | Bielefeld that in case of a government the coal miners would:certainly blow up all the SPARTACAN MOVEMENT Rotterdam, March 25.—The Sparta- can movement in the Rhine provinces long been organizéd with the co- eration of Russian aid and the of- ve against Poland, with the joint object that Trotzky, the Russian bol- shevik minister bf war, would be at {the zates of Berlin at the beginning). according to a Munster de- R zu * despatoli was pierced by bullets the daily fusillade. The story of the happem- against Dr. Wolfgang Kapp's attempt to establish a ment. . 1 ‘When the néws of the military coup at Berlin was received the workmen here, as _elsewHere, immediately struck. Statements ‘obtained from both sides substantially agree that this is what then happened: .the workmen offered to cooperate with the pelice to guard the city; and post- ed up notices that looters would be shot. They then consulted the ma- jor commanding the garrison. Ke de« clared that the soldiers would sup- port Kapp and proclaimed martial law. He sent to Erfurt, a few miles distant, where two thousand troopd ‘were stationed, for reinforcements.. The workmen from the munition plants in the outskirts of the city be- gan ‘to converge. in Gotha, having seized quantities of arms and sev- eral armored cars. The forces en- gaged in fighting after the workmen had killed two soldiers who inter- fered’ with a boy tearing down the martial law proclamation. ARMED WORKMEN ARE SAID TO BE BEHAVING London, March 25—Respatches from a high British authority on the Rhbine, says the London Times, received here yesterday stated that Dusseldork, El- berfield, Essen and Muelheim wers quite quiet and that conditions there could be described as normal. The municipal administration was being carried out by the former officials. The existence of large bodies of armed workmen in the district was confirmed but they were sald to be be- having in an orderly fashion and the number: of communists among them was thought to form a very small proportion of the whole force. The Mines in the Ruhr basin are working fariy well. RED ARMY LEADERS HAVE REJECTED ARMISTICE London, March 25.— Essen despatch« es forwarded by the Berlin corres- pondent of the London Times say that armistice with the Reichswehr. The Reds are now completely under th Communist leadership of the “Rote Soldatenbund,” which played an im- Portant part in the Beriin riots i DENIES THAT H. C. OF L. / “IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM* New York, March ‘William C Redfield, former secreta of com- merce, in an address here tonight, de- q offcers, savs the cnrro!['flh'le:k clared that assertions that the high are already directing the Germaf | cost of living in New York “is a seri- Spartacans. whose army is being Yap- | ous problem’ is disproved by the de= idly or: 1 and armed on the exact| posits in savings banks of the state. e O kS origtaly plans| et us get Tid of this talk ‘ol ned for May 1. but the leaders believ- | matanied suffering amone our peos ed that the PP movement gave k them an_opportunity to hasten thetr ‘n which inciuded the capture of | Munster and Wesel. r ne person in three has $5 it Telegraaf. the | FOTdS. one person in three has $500 t6 Dutch ger—rnment prevent Red ty PLANS FOR SPARTACANS IN RHINE PROVINCES | | A | plans Lo March gives furthe: The is taking steps to Munster details of the partacan movement in $600 put aside % “It certainly adds cheer to our lot to know that the people in this state the savings banks. are stacking up and three-quarters of every da: Mr. Redfield sald a new class of spenders had arisen as a result of high salaries paid during the war which ad brought on a spirit of lavishness putting _away a million dollare on_May 1, ac-{hitherto unknown.” Rotterdam despaich to Tim It says that a|SWIFT & CO. IN DEFENSE OF ded by three Rus- officers decid d arri Germany, | mot vernment my was to_be the purpose. alr d on March 13 that d to start a Red which had \ prepared up to the smallest de- Tne workers were to be armed: the troops disarmed. An ar- anized on the Rus- ) Russian officers having ed in the industrial pro- The workers, y been selected as eli- enlistment, were instructed he munitions_stores, and EDUCATIONAL ADVERTISING Washington, Mareh 25 —Swift & Co, one of the “big five" Chicago packers, “have no apologies to make concerm= ing educational advertising directed against federal regulation of our im- dustry, intend to keep it up and are going 1o spend as much as we can af- ford to do in the light of our business,” L. D. H. Weld, a representative of that, concern, told the house agriculture committee today during hearings on packer, regulation legislation.™ s What other packers were doing, Mr. | were armed, to march|Weld said, he could not say. Reports | Wesel also was to be| previously given the committee as to | strong Red army was t0|the amounts spent for advertising N A list of high PO- | said were exagzerated. | was drawn up | Though | 1v, the movement more or Jess acc was carried to plan . ;SPARTACANS" SAID TO BE e being hi Wesel. of NO NOTIFICATION OF Paris, March egation in Paris sation of the forma inet at B INDUSTRIAL CENTERS OF Gotha 24 (B; emerging out Saxe C The A. of 1 rs_of Sazony. e strike, The strikers, helq the upper hand down their arms today. of Afty the cit; row. Fighting has been continuously since March 17, it is timated thi ntrol of the-cities. in_Gotha, T workers were buried today; A wal volution was untime- out MASTERS OF DUISBERG! d in check, however, east | NEW CABINET AT BERLIN —The German del ve received no no: n of a new They describe the Ruhr district as still SAXONY BECOMING QUIET burg Gotha, March —Order is slowly the confusion and in the last ten days in the in- The { re capitulating and calling and the military are who for several days laid e garrison men who were-driven out of last week will return tomor- going_ on here o 90_persons . were killed ana several hundred- wounded. Eighty in_the room of a leading ho- to Swift & Co's appropriatio largest, he said, was about §1, a year. | GREW MENTIONED FOR i MINISTER TO DENMARK ‘Washington, March 25. Grew, former secretary of the ,000 | Brussels, March 25.—The Sparta-|basey in Berlin and secretary of the | re masters Duisberg, in|American peace mission, with rank 6f | h Prussia, according %o un- | minister, probably will be selected for i ivices received here. They |minister to Denmark. An official an- nouncement isexpected soon uniess present plans are changed. - Norman Hapgood was the last min- ister to Denmark. He left the post and returned to the United States amid much public discussion of his al- leged sympathies with the bolshevik government in Russia. RESULTS OF STATE REP. CONVENTION IN MAINE . March 25.—Four deles rge and eight district deles gates were clected to the republican national convention without opposition at the state convention of the nzz here today. All are uninstructed. presidential electors also were nomls nated. e OBITUARY. Charles French. Newtonville, Ma: *March 28— Charles French. the cldest living grad- uate’ of Harvard college. died at his home here tonight. He was gradust- ed with the class of 1848 and was 8§ years old ~ Mr. French was an cator, having charge of a private paratory school in Boston, 7 among his early pupils was President (emeritug) Charles W. Eliot. of Har~ ;nrd_ B& ,;\l death Kr.Lmnm toner, ewport, 8 of the class of 1850, now tel. where The Aseociated Press cor-|oldest living grads ¥ .‘ g Red army leaders have rejected the™ Lx : | = 4 5 i