Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 9, 1920, Page 1

* o, LN ajfitm :l'r%ut ronibl: A special session of the German National Assembly was called for Saturday. A ~Mary Faith M ive #.d- cAdoo is the nams n’s youngest “CABLED PARAGRAPHS Ve B g e Rt sl + Prince of Wales Bound for Honolulu. San Diego, Calif, April 8.—The British - eruiser “Renown ‘left here to- night, carrying Edward, Prince of ales, towards Honolulu on the next leg of his trip from England to Aus- tralia ‘via the, Panama 'Canal. Governor Holcomb appointed Dr. Howard P. Manstel Ridgefield a mem!:er of the state council of public|, . Hours—1,000 Brotherhood Men From Other Cities Have TN isinandet Answered Cill to Go to Chicago as Strike Breakers— late today by the regular grand jury | thereby increased the. government's of i-bolsheviki - forces, arrived at < J 3 S 4 . O Ty AL LI A Constantinople. _ : Slight Improvement Noted in Chicago—Strike is John J. Gunson id Josep! 0- | Commerce Commissijon- reportes 0~ A ‘ak- PP TR e AN g X ” - % loney, plain clothes men on the staft|night. . The commission's report n rpent —Embargo F Taspestor Henry, alsa were indict-|.covered the earnings and. expenses of tied up bullding operations in Jaa- ng From'Co.fl to Coast on Freight at Buf- ¢d. They are charged with per-|more than 80 per cent, of thé lines. -|chester, N. M. =~ *falo Continues. jury in connection \with testimony RS e ¥ 3 given concerning the arrest of a brok- | PAY ENVELOPES LED TO nii.'é':,'?n.:flg‘a?:'},:'pi‘i'.:f.' 1::1;“31? Chicago, April 8.—The unauthorized | their mormal er's wife whoise homethey raided | ARREST OF BURGLAR SUSPECT |ecd and several wounded. : strike of switchmen 374 sulirond en- | vania eald “that - e ginemen which started in the Chicago | haif of its I district and spread today to several | reported ‘Mo Gunson already is under indictment ¥ R - on charges of bribery and extortioh. © Waterbury, "April 8. Pay envelopes Ex-Premier Clemenceau has been | cities, will be broken within the next | 50.per cent. forty-eight hours, A. F. Whijgey, vice The grand jury #iso handed up in- | bearing his name led to the arrest to- | suffering from bronchitis since his rs- president of the Brotherhood of Rail- New York, April 8.—Police Inspec-| Washington, April 8 —Railroad op- tor Dominick Henry, commanding the | eration revenues for February, the Tenderloin district, a central figure in |last month of federal control, fell $8;- New York's vice war, was indicted | 654,000 below:operating .expenses and 3 2 3 April 8 (By the A. P.).—|cupation around Coblenz in large % long conference which the | numbers, the state department . was ambassador, Papl Cambon, | infomed today. ll;h: than 5,000 were with Premier Lioyd George today, | disarmed and intern: Tuesday dnd & full discussion of the Franco- |reports were that'at.least 15,000 more "incident by the cabinet coun- | were exported. yesterday. m':‘&"" Sntih miniss | GERMANY TO ASK ALLIES 10 the British minis- \ A TO POLICE NEUTRAL ZONE An authoritative staiement was ‘o the effect that France ac ive in-de- | Berlin, April 8.—The Berliner Tage- irasy Glvman v blate says it is Jiformed that th German government is negotiating with the entente for a prolongation to Octoher' 7 of ‘the agreement of August, 1919, for'the maintenance of troops in the neutral zone, pleading that a strong polica force is requir- ed to maintain order in-that area. DECIDE GERMAN TROOPS ARE NECESSARY IN RUHR ;:, i The. Hague, Apeil 84 despiltch, to trod 2 |the Nieu Rotterdamsche Courant from T e R liernative | Dulsburg says a commission of allied that the eclsion should be left | oMcers which arrived in Duisburg to the German government, with the | Investigate whether the presence of lation that unless the status quo | BOvernment troops. in-the weutral re- Suficlently restored the allies | Kion still was @ cessary ‘decided that Ives. would _oceupy German | the government forces should remain | New Jersey, a supporier of the com- oelms 5 enforce thielr demunds. The | there until all the Reds had surren - i pulsory plan, offereq the amendment “atement 3 ered their arms and a new safety ¢, training volunteers. He did so “The German government appears to | fuard was formed. “reluctantly,” he said, but with other save acted precipitately and France'to advocates of compulsory training, saye responded by adopting a plan thought that the volunteer schjme which was only intended as a last.re. was the best that might be hac | at wrt method, ll’l? even then to have present. een the affair of the allies and not of Debate today was confijeq entirely ny one of them simply. to ‘the training schemes. Senator +Great Britain. - Italy. Belgium ana Thomas, democra; he United States, it is declared, ail feat of compulsory s ‘it that the task of restoring order largely due to “political cowardice” of ihould Tle with Germany, and all were members desirous of refraining from sed to thelr regular forees being 3 supporting it on the eve of an, elec- upon, except as a last resort, | The exports: im, February, ‘reached|tion Senator McKellar, democrat. & undertake what are virtyally police | 500,000,000 francs, as compared With|mennessce, declared, howev that Juties. 1t is ointed out that France |a totla fonthe,year 1918 of only 830,- | woverwhelming sentiment” of the sen- ‘eared some uiterior motive on the | 000,000 francs. ¥ ate against the compu'so) plan ermany, and doubtless acted | The exports. of January and Feb- | oompelleq its practical withdrawal.” ruary reached fitty-nine per cent. of the impoxts, against only five pe cent. - for the same months of 1919. shared by the allies as d | The proportion for February was six- sertainly there is mo intention on the | ty-five: per cent. these figures being sart of the government to allow 'Brit- | elevén pér cent. higheér than in Jan- sh soldiers to act as police between | wary. i ; wstile German factions and incdr” all & production of coal and of iron odium of such a position, to say | goods is now higher than before the wthing of its risk: v war, L el Th tate t conelud . & P " wnd whe FASTEST LONG RUN IN “If, wnd_when, France’s suspicions Germany's ulterior motives and de- BLAGK 8EA NAVIGATION ril §.~The United rate Suunting of ke terms of the | t R ac X e r::u:‘l':\é: rowa, doubtiess be P i e b g hieio Gole rena; o Ly e ¢ b Yot 1o padieate the et | SLick Rers fren PEOMA . G | Michigan—it. the: repubican pArty had ons | Qistancs fun In: the history of Black] ®pent, say,fonly a couple of hundred Ahe time being | Sen navigatipn, * The - Cole started thousand. dollars—the ~ deocrats © may e taken that no British 5ol- | with only a 94 hours' supply of food | Would have organizéd ihe senate and tier will participate i the eccupatlori | wnd. water g raced the nearly 500 | the foreizn relations committee ¢ German cities in the nentral zone.” | miles to Censtantinople at n\T;ve{;zle }"t \‘-lvll?ulgnr‘]:\ Lre‘x’l:w\tlflllmzher treaty and ORT 5 3 me ave bee ssed JFFICIAL REPORT OF vttt S e B “It took months of struggle to get ; EVENTS IN FRANKFORT g % - | these democrats to desert th 'weive Russian refugees, ‘who late the party. —(BY 1 ed from Odessa, were on Tt A B board the Cole, /They are now in the e e i of i Red Cross hospital being treated for Q;h! ',.cu wounds and typhus. 2 STRIKE AT INDIAN ORCHARD MFG. PLANT, SPRINGFIELD! Springfield, . Mas¥, April _8.—Three hundred empgloyes of the doffing, spin- ning ang weaving departments of the Indian Orchard Manufactiring Com- pany left their work ' this = afternoon following refusal by, the company tol grant 4 15 per - cent. increase in wages. The company made a counter- offé of 10 per cent. which employes turned down, - The entire plant, em- ploying 800 hands, is affected. URGE MODIFICATION OF e THE VOLSTEAD ACT New York, April :8—Resolutiojns urging modification of the Voistead act to permit the .manufacture and sale of wine, cider and fruit juices and opposing the rehabilitation of ‘the sa- loon were adopted here today at the 18th annual convention, of the Amer- ican Wine Growers' assoclation. “Mis- management: of ‘the' saloon” «is held responsible for the enactment of the 18th amendment and: the Volstead ac UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING BILL DOOMED Washington, ‘April 8.—Facing cer- tain Gefeat, senate suppérters of com- pulsory universal military training to- day retreated from pressing the adop- tion of - their plan of four months training of all youths as a part of the army reorganization bill.. With. this change of -front, advocates of training shifteq their tactics, in an effort to obtan acceptance of a system of vol- untary trainin < It is expected that a vote will be taken on the voluntary training sub- stitute ' tomorrow. There will be no divect vote on the compulsory plan, if the voluntary,_plan is adopted. 5 Supporters of the compulso train- ling feature exprassed the opinion to- day. that its defeat meant the vir- tual “wreck” of the entire measure. Senator Wadsworth, republican, . New York, in charge of the bill, said pro- vision for redufing. the regularearmy to 210,000 men, within the next five years would not be practicable with compulsory training rejected. Senator Frelinghuysen, republican, while the ts on Wdnesday ™ today of 25 per cemt. Local industries begau today to fee! the effects of the strike The packiuz road Trainmen, and S. E. Heberling, | plants werr virtvally without .ship- international president of the Switch- | ments. Lackawanna Steel Com- men’s union of North America, pre- { pany was working with about jxalf 4{s dicted tonight. nbérmal force and officials <a:d-thai if The strike situation in Chicago | the tieup confinuéd. only envagh men showed some improvement during the | would remain at work to keep e day but Whitney said that the trat re, alive.. Automobile plants and handled was still less than 50 per cent. | other - mamufacturing establishments, of normal. “One thousand brotherhood |ynable- to get iraw material were men from other cities have answered | forceq to curtail br cease operationm. the call to come here as strike break-1 At g méeting tonlght attended by ers, he added. about 1,380 of tho Striking switchs The Railroad Managers' association | the grand lodge of the Internations reported that more engines were OP- | yard Workers ociation was o erated today than at any time since | col o O RTC @SICRITR | WES ST fhe. triin Xied Ty e WpTiciing Gleot Gt B tion would be ex- trict. the While “conditions Here showed im- fheded fo other - citios. .,‘.:,‘"&',":‘_ provement, the strike was spreading clared that the . throughout the country st to e assoclal lon,ovnomm - rsede the switchmen's coast. Reports tonight sur N\ :rized | the situation as follows: the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmes Chicago—$,000 traffic 3 to 40 per cent. of norma 40,000 packing plant workers thrown out of work, with complete suspension of the plants, employing 50,000 men, in prospect LOMOITOW Buffalo—1,500 to 2, embargo on all freigh dictments against Peter Galliotti, pro- | day of Rodnick, an employe of iro. Prictor ofia, West Bide retatrant vl i Tolinlicr here on.the. cHarge . of | trom: Luxor. o Catro cently raided, and three employes,|preaking the window of a Grand| President Wilson’s summer home at charging them with keeping adiSor-|street jewelry store vesterday and of | Woods Hole, Mass. is reported ready derly house. Today’s seven. inditt- | stealing $1100 worth of rings and|except for “a little polishing up.” ments bring the total since'the vice | watches. When the robber was dis- z _— crusade was started to ten covered at his work yesterday morn- With o ‘stage of 185 | fo:i,xt'n‘n‘ high- e ing and. whs pufsued by the police he | est in’33 years, the Mississippi river, BAY STATE ICE DEALERS took -réfuge in a_lumber yard, some |continued to rise at Clinton, lowa. STRADDLE FENCE IN PRICE | distance ‘away. He left his overcoat, > ; R0 A = containing 30 of the stolen watches.| President Wilson nominated Charles . Springfield, Mass., April 8.—The 800} the Jumber yard, where it -was|P-Summerall and Henry Jervey t6 be members of the Massachusetts Ice|found by the police. In the pockets|{major generals in the regular army. Dealers” assbeiation ~ in convention l.ere discovered several pay envelopes = b here today refused to adopt a reso-|yciino"ihe name Felix Rodnick. It| Mniister of the interior of Germany lution putting the association on rec-{\was an easy matter for the police to|announced that election for the new ord as against any price increase in{finq. the factory at which the en- |Feichstag will be held Sunday, June 6. the coming season. This attitude] vplopes were issued and when Rod- S was taken, it was said, because of the ik showed up for work this morring uncertainty of conditions, including | ha was placed’ under arrest . He cost' of labor and materials. It Was|alaims he was out of — funds and Stated, however, that the members|smashed the jewelry store svindow as would do all in their power to avoid{'an easy way of getting money. He higher prices. - The association voteddcame here from Worcester and has fo favor legislation to compel driv:|heen in this city five months. He was ers to weigh all ice sold for domestic | pafore the ity court foday charged purposes. George H. Voter of BOs-|yith hurglary, but the case was con- ton twas elected president. R IR S astrow. HER BILL FILED IN IN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CASE Beigium were all opposed fo the @nd that France's action has Wosed § delicate situation. The maiter is under discussion of s¢ British and Freich guvernments, Wi the hope is expressed that the sit- Wmiion may be eased, statement recites various expe- ) suggested for dealing with the Rhr situation, among others, the of allied officers y\with _the Gomplete but unofficial returns from Milwaukee city election, show that Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, socialist, was re-elected. Permits to prescribe intoxicating li- 'quor have been isued to 1800 physi- cians in MasSchusetts by the internal Tevenue. office. MOREf THAN 1000 MEN HAVE QUIT IN DETROIT Detroit, Mich., A ~The unku- thorized stmike of hmen whieh began c‘" x‘heiloa}l‘ w. of the Michi~ Kansas City—200 to 500 men out; |8an Central railr this forenoen frelght elbatgo in effact: j | with the walkeut of a few crews, hadl Los Angeles—1,200 men employed by | extended this afternoon to oumy-s trans-continental lines on strike . and according 106 representatives Toledo—600 men - out; complete |the strikers, more than 1,000 men had freight -tieup with twenty-four hours{Quit by 2 . m. More than 300 predicted. Dm:;‘_lt'(”u:’ v tonight ex i to folljow ton: 3 g:en-——m to 400 ml-';‘ 350 Brother- | MASS MEETING CALLED OF - hood of Railway Trainmen members NEW YORK CENTRAL MEN v in loyal to their union. _ w;fa-‘f ;.ml.a!:fl:—lofl out 5,000 in St.| Cleveland, “ O, “April §.—Circulars Louis vote to. “resign” 'adl midnight ;':’vc:lm:\;;ed late ll;h.‘:flmh ted. yards, of ew unless demands are gran Ceatral tatt = e N ork. EXPORTS 6F BELGIUM NOW EXCEED IMPORTS Brussels, ‘April —For the first time since the signing of the armis- tice the exportation of manufactured goody has surpassed imports. The February . returns _give 286,000,000 trancs in exports, an increase of 51,- 000,000 france over the previous year. COAST GUARD CUTTERS TO A RELIEF OF STEAMER MYSTIC Boston, April 8—The .coasf Fuard| Boston, April A bil chtters Ossipee from this district and | tne Mastachasetts SUpecme sou tar the Seminole, on duty off the New- Iday by Herbert W. Bustace and other foundland coast. wers ordered tonight | irustees of the Christian Bcience Pub. to the assistance uf the steamer Mys- | jishing Society secking temporary in tie, which was veported disabled in the | junction to restrain Luther P. Cud— Gulf of St Lawrence. The Mystic-1eft | yortn of Brookline' and other mem- Avonmouth for New York cn March|pers of the First Church of Christ, 21 and in a wireless message - inter- | Scientist, from “taking further action cepted here today reported her boil-|intended” to interfere with them in the gl;s :;ibleg,h :uegla f::”{::‘r ‘3‘:;;32“‘73:;1dlschargep!_their duties or to <ompel latitude 40.05 north; - longitude 65.0¢| pnen ' Teoin thelr offices as trus- e The Mystic registers 3,741} "The bill alleges that the defendants i 2 e B have entered .into a plan and conspir- HARTFORD ALDERMEN acy for the‘num‘!e of nullifying the " announced that it had been notified by REPEALED DAYLIGHT LAW | et Of the, deciion of Judge Dodee | e navy department.that it would be ST S ool RS rt. [@gainst the directors, in favor of the|&iVen the navy.seaplane 39-B. artford Conn. April 8~The Hart-{iyiiie " “1¢"ix ;alleged that the 4 Stheri ford board of aldrmen tonight repeal: | PINPHES. T8 18 CHCEES 18 'he d" Greek troops were authorized by ed the daylight saving . ordinance | ([CEUCHS, e e e ihe 3. |the supreme military council to ad- yhich went in%. effect here ongMarch | 9100 of the master was fled. IS vapce in Asia Minor in anticipation 29. The city returned to.’ standara | CHATE! at the defendants in pYF-{of an attack. by, Turkish rebels. time last Sunday at- the ‘vequest : S i i -G, P. Bart ,h-g-:-w and John C. el Mayor Kinsella; ii naving. hacn foi Emison were: ted to the board of dreC confirme® reports of a Sinn Fein plot for an armed uprising in Ireland were based on a fact. - New York State Senate passed a bill providing for an _ appropriation of $250,000 o, build &' new state arsenal in New York' cit: : According ta Irish police, recent un- Jersey secretary of-agriculture, a seri- ous shortage of labor exists in all sec- tions of the state. New Jersey senate passed a tending the prize fight limit from eight to twelve rounds. The bill will go to Governor Edwards at once. ATTORNEY GENERAL PALMER IS PEEVED AT MICHIGAN spon The Harvard Aeronuatical society . “x“- m'u‘k"""’"‘“ - ] stay out until d are gran Jollet, M—50 on four roads n:&ei Chicago outer beit imen refuse to join walkout. Springfield, Ill.—Baltimore and Ohio switchmen .out. Colton, Cal—30 Southern Pacific men quit; freight tied up. Cleveland—1,500 to vote tomight on strike fssue. Sheridan, Wyo.—Men vote to remain “to. Chi- rike. Macon, Ga., April 8.—Attorney Gen- eral Palmer, speaking here. tonight in behalf of his candidacy for the pres- idential nomination, ~declared ~that “three-quarters of a million dollars killed the peace treaty and the league of nations covenant,” “With the majority vote purchased in’ Michigan,” “he . said, ~“Senator Lodge ovzanized the foreign relations committee and refused to report the treaty. If the democrats Hadwearried CONGRESS TAKES UP STRIKE - OF RAILROAD EMPLOYES Washington, April 8.—Congress tesk ‘at wopk and coguizance teday of the strikes of cago o ald in breaking railroad employes, which, 3t Niagara Falls—Switchmen refuse to | Chiicago, have spread 1o half & lmnu after listening to appeals from | cities from the Pacific to the 50 Buffalo strikers. . Senator McCormick, republican, IRi- Elmira, N. Y.—Yardmen of the Del- | nois. introduced a resolution author- aware, Lackawanna and Western, New |1zing the interstate commence commit- York Central and Lehigh Valley ofder- | tee to investizate the walkouts and oo ) ed_out. to rport on the causes and merits of State department announced discus- | pittshurgh—2,000 Pennsylvania em- |the controversies.. It was referred to gion between ~the United States,|;ioves at Conway yards vote to strike | the contingent _expenses France, ®rcat Britain and Italy on the | at midnight if demands are not grant- @ \ ‘committee WhicH will recommend whether funds Ruhr Valley situation are now in pro- for the inquiry should be voted. gress. The resolution proposed an investi- a:inn Of any existing strike of rafl- officers unions. Ohla], vanted to know "whether the Tesolution would apply specifically strikes reported foday from Lo A:: geles. Buffalo apd other cities. Sen~ ator McCormick said it would apply te all strikes in which ithe men ‘“have disregarded the judgment of their re- sponsible leaders.” These walkouts, be declafed, have taken, place: despite the efforts of thé leaders of the-railroad crafts to pre- vent them. A With the unauthorized strikes spreading;: President Wilson's advisers urged him to speedily railroad labor board prev the transportation act. talked -with the president said he was giving the appointments serious consideration and probably weul make them within a few days. - CONFLICTING VIEWS OF RAILROAD STRIKE Chicago, ‘April 8.—While leaders’ ol the insurgent switchmen and. train- ol LR by Christian ce of the alleged conspiracy hise that_much gonfusion: was éanseq standard time was usal ar much’ the_auaual. meeting of |as_deylight saving time. A neW . Smeling._ & Refning dinnace was intcodiced (O fectd ) 5 | New York will od 1y Gay, T ¥ i s w,,umh‘;,ur,“}{":;,fm;czzafi“,:‘f,’” W8l pointed dates and have sent out filse| Répresentativés of the light saving colum: or. Aprit “7|and mileading statements regarding|State Grange wé m Albany to exert £ APIEES: . |'the adnitaistration of the trust by the | their influence for th passage of & BITTER BATTLE IN R. I. SENATE | trustees. sweeping daylight saving repeal meas- T PREY TR N T o ure. OVER DAYLIGHT SAVING LAW|s) GALLONS OF “MOONSHINE" ‘Providenice, R. I, Aprll 8—The| BOOZE SEIZED NEAR MILFORD Rhode-Island _senate asjourned arid i Scones of:confusion. toisefues o i, | _Bridgeport, Conn. ~April &—Fifty ter battle “over the proposed state|S2llons of ‘moonshine’ whiskey and daylight saving law whiza was passed | & complete liquor still were seized to- ol i by i night in a lonely section on the Boston A test vote an k> maasurs, fndicat-| Dost cad between Milf6rd and De- el o miTority ety g fadicatz}von. M. Oliva and C. Demara, of this e as topn s be city, were arrested and brought here Same on s motioh:te.rofer the to be locked up. They will be given en, 18 10 14. ODPonen’s then began an | Sioo e (OMOrTow hefore = onited effort.to send it to the special legisla- | oparzes of violating the pronibition tion committe, belfevad to be against | jive > . 108, DR HON the bill but sudden adjournment | “i . B ac® fiac, Senate ‘When it meets | enforcement~bfficet, and Frank Cine- afternoon. mara. o deputy. “They wayw u covered aundry wagon drive away from a de- DEg{:_:g;fig_:&:‘z"‘o“v}mirm serted house and halted the wagon to Winsted, Conn., April 8.—A commit- look inside. It contained fifty gal- tee of twenty, said to represent a ma- lons of liquor and the two men on jority of the six hundred empolyes in the wagon seat were arrested. In the deserted house, the officers found a}) the William L. Gilbert Clock company ‘plant_here, «foday presented demands still and a quantity’ ol mash. plans, here od, prescpied Semands | pEw. CONVENTION WiLL 8E pay to.C. E. Williams, general mana- ity ger of the company. The committee | Waterbury, Conn, April $.—The asked for a reply by Saturday. Offi-|gemocratic national convention will clals of the company said that somelpe peld in San Francisco, according to of the employes were in favor.of a ten | Fomer S, Cummings, chairman of the hour day, with ‘an increase in hourly | jemocratic national convention. L® wages. It'was indicated that confer- |made this declaration here tonight whe nhe was shown a despatch saying it was proposed to hold. the conven- tion in Oakland, across the bay. Mr. Cummnigs “said. “I strongly _doubt that Mr. Lynch has been cofrectly quoted. There is always a_certain amount of dissatisfaction and com- plaint at this stage of the game. The convention will be held i &an Fran- cisco and no pcross the bay as pro- posed. 1 hve n personal representa- tive in Sap Fraaciscc at present and he will go atcad with the programme as planned.” JUSTICE REBUKES JAMES LARKIN, IRISH LABOR LEADER 2 lfl)} Y Paria BANDIT ROBS MAIL CAR ON ATCHISON ROAD Kansas City, Mo, April 8—The mail car of Atchison, 4 Santa Fe Raj ad train No. 9, Chica- go to Kansas City, was robbed by a bandit between Lexington Junction and Kansas City tonight. No estimate of the amount of loot obtained 'was available. The bandit boarded the train at Lexington Junction, Missouri, which is 3_0 miles east of here. Entering the mail * car, flourishing a revolyer, he foroed four ‘of tie five mail clerks to lie face dow d on the floor and compelled a fifth to bind them. He :’m :guflndl the fifth man himself and eeded leisurel; i g proceeded | y to rifle the ‘regis- The bandit ‘left the'train at Shet- lég‘l.d. an industrial suburb of Kansas ity, “ e et Memphis—Yardmen on all but two roads entering city vote to strike at 4 p. m. Friday if demands are mnot granted. Fort Wayne—Strike of 3,200 Penn- sylvania Shopmen believed settled. Strike had no connéction with switchmen's walkout. San Francisco—Twenty switchmen quit work. Jersey City—All Erle yard brake- men out. The Erie men walked out just be- fore the evening rush of commuters began. Railroad officials hastily re- crufted a_few employes familiar with the operation of trains and succeed=1 in making up some of the suburbaa traing and’ moving them into the sta- tion: The congestion at the railroad and Hudson tube statiofs became s0 great that 150 policemen were sent out to preserve order. Railroad officials reporteq tonight that not more than 75 men went on strike here. Only five out of 110 trains were delayed, they &aid. J. J. Mantell, New York regional director of the ~road, characterized the strike of the men as being. “in violation of the rules of theis own or- ganization as well s the Jaws of their country as covered by the transpor-|men insiste s N ot tation act.” ~W. G. Lee, president of | had spread from coust. io renst Lo the Brotherhood of Railroad Traxn-}m‘.bmd 80mé 25,000 men, officers of en, also condemned the strike as|the union who *have condemned tha virlegal,” and pledged the support of |swalkout, after takinz stock of the his organization to keep trains mov- | situation that the pelk of the ing. trouble had y e A free for of clte Petitions. were circulated in Port- land, Oregon, yesterday to place the name of William Howard Taft on the Oregon primary ballot for endorse- ment as republican candidate for president. led. with the addition that ter on the evening afjer ‘he street conflict issuad a proclama- don stating that the troubles during day were due to provocations by the population and calling upon the cltizens to remain calm and . avoid sontact with. the Frefich- troob _Another appeal signed by the pres- iaent of the prov onkl loeal govern- ment, Herr Coseman. Prefect of Po- Use Ehler and Burgbmaster - Voist, sayn nfortunately, the thoughtless ele- tents went o far as to employ in- sits and blows agains' the French irpops of oceupation, W.-hout reflect- ng that thereby they could change aothing as to the situation but i stend aXorded a motive for measures from which the ‘efitife population would have to suffer. ““We _formally ‘disapprove of ~these acts and we address a pressing appeal ‘o ihe population {o preserve its calm, semposure and dignity. We ask you sxpressif and seriously to- abstain 7 k- S Managers of Chicago’s six leading hotels were selected as a coroner's Jjury recently to determine whether an alleged street’ flirtation is sufficient grounds for killing a man. The New York senate repealed (hci “conductorette” bill passed by the 1919 legislature fixing the hours of la- bor of women employed on surface, elevated and subway Sailing on her passenger liner, the steamship Santa Teresa, left New York for Valpairaiso | and other west coast South American ports with passengers and cargo. LSS Fortunes await the in: Tife-boat that will float trouble. ventor of af on. a sea of | A break in the Musecatine vee twelve milés south of Muscatine has. inundated thousands of acres of tarm land and the overflow of @ eon- siderable part of South Muscatine, Iowa, is threatened. 7 ences between the committee company officials would be held. MURDERED RED CROSS NURSE WHO HAD CARED FOR HIM Bordeaux, April 3—Crime, which has been rampant in France since the war, has afforded an instance of pe- culiar turpitude in the case of Maurice Ducollet, a former soldier. On March 12 he murdered at Abbeville a woman who, as a Red Cross nurse, had cared for him when’wounded. The victim was Madame Bonjonnier, wife of the head of the bar in Abbeviile, She was killed by Ducollet and then robbed. Ducollet has just been arrested, His home at Talence, & suburb of Bor- deaux, jyas searched and jewels which belonged to Madame, Bonjonnier were | found there. N. C. DEM. RECOMMEND “the Vol "¢ Soapshot Of Balfour e SAVAGE ARMS CORP. -ENTERS SHOTGUN FIELD . Y., April 8—Purchase by the Savage Arms corporation of the Stevens = Arms’'_company's plant at Chicopee Fals, Mass., marks the. en- try of the Sayage corporation into the shotgun field, according to a statement by C. W. Cushman of Utica, a director. ‘With the exception of an .additional treasurer, no changes are planned at the Chiconee Falls plant. ERIE BRAKEMEN AT : JERSEY CITY. QUIT WORK® Jersey City, ‘April 8—All yard brakemen employed in the Erie rail- road yards here went out on strike late this afternoon without, giving any Vice Chancellor Fielder forbade the Francisco Sugar company T icase sugar plantations to” a Cuban ar- poration for the purpose of evading | federal incame taxes of more than $1,000,000. It was announced in Athens that an Italian’ commercial mission arrived in | that city on the way to Russia to ne-| gotiate with the soviet government for the purpose’of gblaining raw materials | for manufacture, | RDERS DIMINISH AS RED ARMY DISSOLVES . ApFil 8.—(BY “The A -diminish| disor , the of the digsolution of the Red the fulfiiment other of the peace treaty seemingly all oratorical contest | Réports from developed today when 8. E. Heberling | jes where the international president of the switch- | officers men's union, attempted at a meetinz | 000 men to persuade 500 strikers to return to | indirectly, § work. . The meeting at first broke up,, where the re-formed and then melted away when | days ag Heberling departed. Many times the| T'nio ders toda union official was forced to quit talk- | efforts to win aver ing while the crowd hooted. | number of the “Wall Street” and “Are you with us| said varlous gro or against us?” the men shouted as!work and that Heberling told them a strike now was | weake mor a score B g -5.000 in Chicaght started = several e X Senators and representatives were e among the guests at a dinner ziven in Washington for Eamon D Valera, “provisional president of the Irish re- public” prior ‘to his departure foT a tour of the south. this part of the Saturday nooh, the time set return to normal By the au- l}n desire of the executive failleq In theit considerahle at New York, April 8.—Attempts on the part of James Larkin, Irish labor lead- er, to bar “bourgeoisie” from the su- e preme court jury which is to try him o o ol reasons. for their. action. Railroad offi cials declare that the strike was un- sanct{ned by union officials and ap- parently was called in sympathy with the unauthorized strikes. of ,railroaq employes in Chicago, Buffalo and other middle western and eastern cities. - SCHOONER BRISK AFIRE . AT SEA-AND ABANDONED / Barbados, April 7.—The . American of the power they have had for feur K € fo be the oniy politi- cal y. The municipal_author- ities, ever, ‘are confident fhat they an uriderstanding, although -éxecutive desires to retain super- power after April- 18, , peace is rapidly be- e, ..The raiiroads were Hssen for the first titne In Altenes- islature ‘whijch meets demacratic convention, 585 to 428. The ,plank adopted - was tute offered for the platform he asked’ to_defeat for criminal anarchy, and obtain the S Increases. . SUFFRAGE RATIFICATION Raleigh, N. C., April-8—A platform plank recommending ratification of the suffrage amendment by the state leg- | in July was adopted today by the North Carolina a substi- it com- mittee's proposal that_the_legislature fhe “amendment men, today again delayed progress of the trial, attorney® Justice Weeks Larkin during the examination ments and Social beliefs. lected. selection only of “proletarian” tales- Larkin is acting as his own repeatedly rebuked of talesmen when the latter insisted upon questioning them as to their invest- At the end of today's session only two jurors had been tentatively se- ¢ | from the United Kingdom = to North America will take place on April 19, ranging from 25 per cent on lower classes of goods to G50 per cent. on more valuable articles. decided to advise Secretary of State Colby that he might, if he chose, make, pablic testimony given before the commitiee in executive session in con- nection with the confifmation of his in ocean freight rates| Senate foreign relations committee | unwise. ington were rebels too; one tim E. Kerr, Chieago Yardsm tion organizer, answered. “You say we ean’t strike lawfully. But what the masses sy is law.” { “Wait and you will get the| sald increase you need in a lawful fashion.” v he urged. g with the railroads and a strike would | FRENCH TR;PS B, be unlawful. Do you think switchmen | PapEE are bigger than the government?’ ! “Xou are under contract| “Patrick Henry and George Vemsh- | E.| 's Associa- they to work k. of funds. woul few he ! Vack Liaihns S i i and submit The 1ssué to the people at auxiliary schooner Brisk, which sailed the. polls. from Newport News March 16 for Rio Janeiro, has been abandoned at- sea fire. r crew was rescued by the :&-«Hfim, und from New York for _Montevideo, and brought here. ST g i o Zhe Brisk OPPOSED TO LEGISLATION ALLOWING SUNDAY SPORTS Boston, April 8.—The New England conference. of the Methodist Episcopal Church today adopted resolutions op- posing local acceptance of the recent legislation providing for Sunday sports. A committee of ministers ap- pointed by Bishop Havings represent- ed the conference at a hearing before Mayor Peters son the rfl(lflcn}ion of the law in this eity. Speakers urged similar action in all other communi- ties in the state. BRIDGEPORT COUNTERFEITERS ‘ENTENGED_TO -PENITENlelv‘ Mrs. Marion L-y;‘ Ottaraod of New Haven, Conn., April 8.—Anto- | Concord, N. H.,. was indicte/ by the nioi Bilotta of Bridgeport pleaded | grand jury fos. the murder last Oc- guilty in United States court today to! tober of her brother-in-law, Maurice raising and altering United States| Otterson. The latter was killed at snd wss: askitenced bozharve the [fauiiy ko ‘g.. Hooksett while n EMBARGO ON FREIGHT H nomination. » : AT BYFFALO CONTINUES | Russian (anti-soviet) legation hand- ed a note to the Chinese warning them | that the soviet's peace offer. in which the Chinese Eastern Raflway and oth- er concessions are promi: bs. considered until the a nize the soviets, James J. Larkin, . lIrish agitator, charged with criminal.anarchy, asked Justice Tgeeks to vacate jurisdiction in the case o that some other judge may sit in the trial. He characterized re- marks of “Justice Weeks as “hetero- geneous, conglomerate and illogical.” SRR A s w more , & muburb of Esseh, the Reichs- have been rooting out bands of lleged to. be demobilized Al All the coal mines ‘ start work mostly with full crev:d -.m- R Iast night entered miles northeast of Dues- . 4. 4 . BELGIUM TO A . 3 . MENT READY JApril 3.—King Albert pre- . at_a cabinet mndl’“ was_decided as a token_ of umwflmnflm severe losses. “KIND TO ANIMALS WEEK" WHOLESALE PRICE OF _ SUGAR 15 1-2 CENTS POUND New Yok, April 8—The ‘American Sugar Refining Company today an- nounced an. incease of one-half cent a pound in the wholesale price of sugar, making the present price 15 11-2 cents a pound. Another advance is predicted by the company uniess | there is a drop shortly in the price of the raw produet.’ OBITUARY. John' Dolbey. Providence, R. I, “April Dolbey, 82, sald to ~ be .a - direct| descendant of William Shake&peare, [ died today in the home for aged men and couples, where he and Mrs. Dol- bey were living. He had been a shoe- 't maker here for 25 years. » 1 during the Buffalo. N. Y., April §—Officials of | 5 o railroads affected by the strike of ARD CHPMANE SUNPAE switchmen aftersa conference lag 10- | 11ariford 1 | day. issued a stitement deelaring that | o1 omb { lifting of the embargo on frefght shib- | qeignated Hext 1os aments was_ “not in sight™ No de-! Animale Week” @ mands have been presented to-the ! day. April 15 roads by the 2,000 yard employes who | walked “out yestu:day, according sto | officials, although demands for ® in- creased wages Wwere drafted at meet- | m%u ‘ol 112: d:triknru yea:‘erdny . g mion rs contimucd today with- | 3 (INSTRUCTED out success their efforts to induce |':.o( e TES CNINSI men to abandon ~ their Wunauthorized| Jackson, strike. At meetings of strikers there | structyg dels was no sign of weakening. rer 5 The New York Central, Penngyl- | mect vania and Lehigh Valley continucd to | co: move freight today. Ths Centrni claimed that its Gardenville yards were handling about 35 per ceht. of Cor A [} was of 2,151 gross tons & crew of twenty-three. She was SOVIET TROOPS ‘SURRENDERED TO JAPANESE FORCES 4 in lumane Su observed with B =¥ hroughout TENNESSEE REPUBLICAN be pre- it into the W, New photograph of Arthur 'J. four, snapped on way to the first ting of the League of Nations pecently heid im London, He fought{ three vears the federal penitentiary | other members Sepoy mutiny in India. at Atlanta, sent,