Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 12, 1920, Page 1

First BROTHERHOOD LEADERS " WAYWARD ELEMENT OF Important Break in the Unauthorized Strike of Rulroad Employes Occurred at Columbus—Defections From the Ranks of Strikers Have Been Reported From Chicago, Kansas City and Several Qther Cities—Brotherhood " Leaders Confident That the Peak of the Strike Has Pass- " ed—Passenger Traffic Has Been Little Affected Except in the New York Area—New Haven Road Has Cancelled 15 Passenger Trains—Samuel Gompers Declares That the Walkout Was Ill-Advised and That the A. F. of L. ; surgent Strikers. Chicago, April 11.—The first impor- tsuburban passenger { * Will Back Brotherhoods in Their Fight Against the In- service about ARE CURBIN - POPULATION 29,919 CONDENSED TELEGRAMS / H Dr. Adolph Koester was appoainted German minister of foreign affairs, Bar silver was $1.23 an ounce in New York compared with 69 7-8d rin London. London quoted bar gold at 102s 7d an ounce, compared with 103s 2d at previous close. Application of Jersey Central Trac- tion Co. to charge 10-cent fare post- poned until July 15. , William T. Atwood of Boston was elected dean of the University of Maine College of Law. An emphatic denial was issued at the ‘tant break in the unauthorized strike \\hxnrlllroad employes which started in the Chicago terminal district nearly two weeks ago occurred tonight at Columbus, when 600 switchmen on the “Pennsylvania railroad voted to return to work tomorrow. In addition, 500 ‘engineers and firemen, forced out of work by the strike, will return. Although there was no general movement back to work among the 40,000 men reported on strike through- out the country, defections from the ranks of the insurgents were reported yesterday and today in Chicago, Kan- sas City, in California, and several other places, and brotherhood oxcers were confident that the peak of the strike movernent was past. Leaders of the rebel walkout, how- ever, maintained that the strike was gaining momentum and that their ranks were daily augmenting. A statement issued by railroads in the Chicago narea declared that the situation was steadily improving and | tha tthe movement of livestock, coal and other commodities into Chicago was Increasing. Passenger train ser- Jyice was being maintained at 100 per gent, it was announced. In Chicago freight embargoes have been lifted by the New York Central a1, normal; moving some freight. completely tied up. Hodson and Manhattan closed. er trains run Sunday, up. senger service; moving some freight. little freight moving. ject to delay men threatening to strike. service. Ontario service. and other passeger treight service at a standstill. night and early to: railroad manage declared Whatever foodstuffs can. be here will be cared for, Erie—Passenger and freight service tubes— . Lackawanna—Two through passeng- other freight and passenger service completely tied Baltimore and Ohio—Delayed pas- Lehigh Valley—Few through trains, suburban passenger service tied up; Jersey Central—Few trains run “sub- Long Island—Normal service, yard- New York, New Haven and Hart- ford—Irregular freight and passenger Western—Irregular T'ennsylvamia—Southern and Westex‘ni trains being run 50 per cent. of norm- | francs 80 centimes in Paris, service curtailed; ! Mik trains will be brought in to- norrow at all costs, White ‘House regarding rumors of President iison’s relapse. Two thousand men joined the Bir- mingham Overall Club in a campaign against the high cost of living. Forty-nine mines of Indiana, pro- ducing 88,000 tons dily were closed as result of the switchmen's stiike. 3 Delawan: legislature leaders declare suffrage is a dead issue as far as the presént special session is. concerned. An unconfirmed report tht John Reed, magazine writer, was executed in Finlang, was received i Chicagu. Italian Foreign Minister Sciaoia de- clared ltaly concurs with England re- garding French occupation of Frank ‘orts American d~fia vins quoted at 15 compared at last wita 4o Jl close. = I { witness. . +and the Chi Paul railroads. ago, Milwaukee and St. In_a number of im- systems, except the New York Central | New York City will operate the | portant rail centers railroad employes ; bave voted not to strike. Large sec- | dons of the country still were virtual- ty unaffected by the walkout, notably New Engiand, the ‘southeastern, the northwestern and rountain states. In Columbus, where about 3,000 men | were ldle, the return to work of one- third was exrected to relieve the food and fuel situation. : Passenger traffic was affected very | lttle, except in the New York area, where service was reported below 50 per cent. of normal. Fears of a food fam'ne in New York city were allaved | by the arrival of supplies over the; New York Central and the New Haven | raiifoads. Althourh the Hudson and Manhattan tubes were still shut down | today, ferry service between New York and New Jersey was improved. ev- tral thousand were reported on strike In eastern New Jersey and freight trafic was corsiderably hampered. crs to the idea of the League of 3 - YR, > | s % = : ' workers to organize, the labor commit- | interests it had been urged the publi- | tions and to urge them to teach that embargo agdinst freight on the Penn- : Navy Department . received word New Haven, Conn, April 11— &' (o0 caid the right of such “.,,‘;kem to | cations were printed. ‘The objections |doctrine to their school children*™ The crew of the Chicagn express on | sylvania was described as the “most from Penscola Bay tnat'the seaplane |f§ Cancellation of fifteen passenger the Erie railroad abandoned the train | in its history. It is directed|N-8 fell and was completely wrecked. at Port Jervis, N. Y., 90 miles from ! lThe New Yor! specials” of solid feod trains were on {ana the New York, New Haven and | that scores of food alled along their routes. | “war Hartford announced trains were announced that their way from Chicago to New Yor! Passenger service was general operated below 50 per cent. of norm: today. virtually at normal, trains experienced delays from a few minutes to two hours. Stations Resembled Barracks. Railroad stations = resembled although floors. scheduled Sunday trains today, Mercantil: all shipmnents The New York Central and the New Haven managed to operate some ranging | army barracks aslt n:ght with men, women and children sleeping on benches and The Pennsylvania cut out 24 of their in- cluding -the Congressional imited for Washington and the Commercial and Express for St. Louis. The Staten Island Midlafd raifr direction of Federal Receiver Jacob | Rrenn | Panama Canal Commission reported more slides in canal. Ships passing | through are to be prepared for one| dya's delay. k. 1y al ..New York Stock Exchange is con- tions in the shares of the Stromberg Carburetor Co. H Mayor Peters of Boston signed th ciy council's bill allowing baseball, tennis, golf- and other outdoor games ! to be played on Sunday. Canadian Wheat Bo:)! withdrew price restrictions on the sale of flour for domestic purposes, but will retain control of the price of wheat. ducting an investigation of transac-! g The crew was siigntly injured. i 1 S0n0r2, Mexico ALl Property of the Caffanza Government at Nogales Has " Been Seized in Name of “Republic of Sonora.” Nogales, Sonora, April 11.—Cus- toms houses and all property of the federal government here today were formally seized in the name of the ‘Republic of Sonora.” The report said Carranza soldiers at Guaymas were expelled from the town in a short fight, during which two Carranza soldiers were killed. So- nora troops control the entire state, according to official reports. Sonora state officials, headed by Governor Adolfo De La Huerta, gov- ernor of Sonora, who has becn pro- ciaimeq “supreme power of the Re- public of Sonora” by the state con- gress, declared today while the state had seceded, it would return to the Mexican republic /upon guarantees from the national administration that there would be no infringement of the state’s rights by the federal govern- ment, The secession, according to the of- ficials, was brought about by Carran- za ordering federal troops into the state, They said the next move de-| pends upon Carranza. Unless he acts, political leaders of Sonora said, the new republic would defy the Mexi- can federal government and resist) with armed forces any attempt of | Carranza to take back the state by force. General P. Elias Calles, former gov- ernor of Sonora, who recently re- signed from the Carranza cabinet, has been made supreme commander of the state's military forces. He has, issued a sproclamation calling for . volunteers and calling on all soldiersi in the state to rally against any threatened invasion by Carranza forces. Spread of the secession movement ! to other states unless the Mexican government acts quickly was fore- | cast here today. The Sinaloa state! congress, according to information ! with d Vellives ! constitut’onal rights and Lower Csl-:nplll[ organizations and substitution It tsons O Welliver ad tha fivme e winE 0 thobe. oparts. 18| oF welliig work s ponfuctod Yy Tabor expected to d6 the same. Sinaloa ! politics are closely interwoven with | controlled by General Alvaro Obre- | gon. H GENERAL OBREGON UNDER ARREST IN MEXICO CITY i Nogales, Sonora, April 11.—General | Alvareo Obregon is technically under rrest in Mexico City in connection with the arrest of General Roberto Cejudo, Mex'con rebel leader. accord- ing to an unverified report received here General Obregon, according to the report, is not allowed to leave the city but has not been put in jail. N. H. ROAD CANCELS 15 PASSENGER TRAINS trains because of the switchmen’s | political observe Oroanized Labor's - Puliflflflesires Views on Industrial Problems Have Bsen Forwardsd to Republican National Com- mittee. ashington, April 11.—Organized la:gr's Yiews’ on industrial problems likely to enter into the coming politi- cal campaign are presented in detail in reply to a questionnaire l\lbn‘lt{_ed by the advisory committee on policies and platform of the republican na- tional committee. The reply, made public today at American Federation of Labor headquarters, is signed by Samuel Gompers, Matthew Woll and Frank Morrison as mniembers 0(x the platform committee of the national non-partisan campaign of the federa- nc:cceptance of the principles enunci- ated in the reply was regarded by rs here as determining of candi- ions. These organized labor’s suppn(l dates in the November elect rinciples include: pAcceptance of the eight hour day and the six day week with aturday half holiday. TRecognition of American wage earn- ers' right to organize in accordance with their own judgment. Continued exemption of labor organ- izations from anti-trust laws. Acceptance of the right of employes to choose their own representatives from within or without the plant. Recognition of the right of employes to strike. Abandonment of the use of the in- junction in labor disputes. Establishment of free federal em- ployment ‘agencies 'in the administra- tion of which labor would have ®» vo! old age and retirement pensions un=- necessary. Equel pay for equal work. Minimum age of 16 years for em- ployment of children. Extension of ‘the federal workmen's compensation act to all wage earners not protected by state compensation Investigation’ of high shoe prices | received here, has endorsed the action acts. today. | Was begun by the senate committee, Of the Sorora congress in demanding | moved i aithough all Elimination of company welfare and organizations. Other phases of the industrial sit- d under | Sonora's and both states are largely | uation covered by the questionnaire and labor’'s replies include the princi- ples of the Kansas court of industrial ns. the function of the secon- e or boycott, right of govern- ment employes to organize and to strike, establishment of fedemal arbi- | tration boards and encouragement of thrift among wage earners. “The general principles in what is known as the Kansas court of indus- trial relations law,” the labor commit- tee asgerted, “are principies that are sible in the extreme and repugnant to every American concept of justice, freedom and democracy.” “The eecondary strike,” or boycott, th reply stated, has been resorted to !and will be resorted to only when taec- «tics of employers left to labor no other course. Defending the right of government strike “should be maintained but there e. Payment of such wages as to render- so anti-democratic as to be reprehen-l TEN PAGES—70 COLUMNS R ment against George Creel, former chairman of the committee on public informaticn; Roger W. Rabson of Wellesley Hills, Mass., and concerned in the tr: ter of the com- mittee's war publication, the Official Bulletin, to Babson are recommended in a report made public today by Sen- ator Smoot, republic Utah, chair- man, and Representative Kiess, repub- lican, vice chairman of the joint con- gressional printing committee. The report charges that Babson ob- tained ghe “Bulletin” in March, 1919, by “secret connivance” with Creel and others “without the government receiving a cent in compenstion” and urgest that suit be brought to obtain merous abuses in government ications, includ'ng army and navy and other war service journals, are cha in the report. Mauny of ese ations, it says, were used for propaganda favorable to the League of Nations, the liquor interests and of- ficers in charge. Advertisements, the report asserts, included “get K quick” oil speculationg and polit. propaganda improper in *government publications. Another alleged abuse of government funds charged by the report was printing of 30,144,362 speeches of fea- eral officials at an expense of $442,798 to the government. Paper consumed totalled 1,451,000. pounds. As mem- bers of congress must pay for coples ! of their speeches, the report says, the “gross abuse” . resuiting from the free printing of other federal officials’ speeches should stop. The report says the committee under its power to supervise government printing dnvestigated 266 magazines and periodicals continue 111 at a saving of $1,200,000 1y. ‘Eight army and navy news. papers and magazines were suppress- ed at a saving of $400,000. “This has been done,” the report states, “without a single protest from any man in the ranks, chiéfly in whose i to discontinuing came entirely from RECULARITIES DISCLOSED IN GOVERNM ‘fl 'PRICE TWO CENTS ENT PRINTERY Legal Procsedings Against George Creel, Roger W. Bobson Bulletin” Are 'Recommended by Joint Congressional Printing Committee—Urge That Suit Be Brought to Ob- tain “Just Compensation For th: Government”—*“Camp Merritt Dispatch” and the “Mess Kit” Conspicuous Ex- amples of Disregard of Public Funds by Officials in Charge—Committee Discontinued 111 Magazines and Periodicals Without a Protest From the Men—Many Were Established For Self-Glorification—Greatest Pro- paganda Scheme th: Country Has Ever Escaped. ‘Washington, April 11.—(By the A.[tions; the report declares, “were pub- P.)—Legal proceediag'by the govern- | lished for scif-glorification of certain interests and to provide comfortable and safe places for a large number of men who found such occupation more congenial than active service in the front line trenches.” While conceding that many war publications were necessary and help- ful during the war, the repert save. other “carvings for the limelight un. jdoubtedly were inspired by the bom- bastic activities of the committee on public information, headed by that ter publicist, George Creel.” The law giving the printing com- mittee control over government publi- cations, the report declares, “nipped in the bud the greatest propaganda scheme the country has ever escaped.” | “There is no doubt,” the -report says, “that'a certain clique both in nd out of the army and navy had their preparations well advanced to cover the country with an all-enmesh- ing chain of newspapers and maga- zines for the purpose of spreading and fastening their military and interna- tionalist doctrine upon the United ficial Bulletin when its publication by the government ceased, to Babson, the report charged that * assent of Cree! ith the evident " and through Edward |S. Rochester, former editor under reel, Babson “came into possession i Bulletin’s name, good will ige and value as a going concern, taff and office and even was per- mitted to copy its mailing lists and subscription accounts without paying the government one cent.” Babson and C. T. Clayton continued on the department of labor payroll, the report adds, while devoting much of their time to the Bulletin and Bab- son “took advantage of his position” to give the Bulletin an official status. “Another extravagant publication ir- ued by the Creel committee,” the 1e- ‘was the so-called vice.” which was i tiibuted free to teachers. Its under- lying purpose, the 1eport deciires, “seemns tc have been to convert teach Regarding the army and navy publi- | should never be occaslon to use it high ranking officers. of general strike around New York was an- “The committee has no desire what- New York, tonight. Two hundred and nounced tonight by the New York, cations, the repori says that the Camp Bfty passengers were on the train, X Merritt Dispatch and the Mess Kit coal, steel and foodstuffs orig- inating west of Altoona, Bank of France reported gold hold- I« K h NATION-WIDE CAMPAIEJ ever to hamper or discourage the men | were “conspicuous examples of the Pa, for|y {§ New Haven and Hartford Railroad. of the army or navy in publication o It was gnngunced from Washington [ points east, and all freight from the | neg ‘o408, %3%0.209000 trancs _for | il parior and dining car service in AGAINST FOUR LOTTERIES 4 Ly g that the fuestion of governmental ae- | <outh destined for points north . - it utter disregard of public funds by of- ficials in charge.” “The Mess Kit,” the report states, “excelled sensational theatrical publ- cations™ of ton in the strike would be taken up by | Attorney fly-ernl Palmer upon his re- | All Pennsylvania yards east of turn to Washington tomorrow. Re-|Waverly, N. J., are at a standstill, it g:rls from the strike districts were | wag stated today. and out of New York three express trains effective at midnight. Nine trains out of New York thelr own magazines and newspapers. In fact, it hear endorses and ap- proves such expression of American- ism. rnment controlled, censored 884,000 francs for previous week. Mrs. Lillie E. Wilkinson, who had | the distinction of making famous the ' except on Norfolk, Va. is annulled, Columbus, Ohio, April 11.—What is declared by local police officers to be | the start of a . tion-wide campaign ! with pictures of fascinating A 3 are §| inst four big lottery g | OF subsidized newspapers are utterly |girls and frothy literature. The Dis- Theroad is bgnding | part of “Topsy” in “Uncle Tom's|§ among those taken off, including the fi acanst ToUr big lottery companies |, smerican, and the committee earn- | patch was said to be larger and more "l',' assembled by the department of | every effort to bring here 300 ct\rs of | Cabin,” died at Worcester, aged 79. | 11 p. m. express for Boston and the J| OPeTating throughout — the country pe i it fustice. livestock and 100 cars of perishable — i Action eould be taken by the gov- ras : E estly hopes this Prussian idea will|elaborately {llustrated than one of the " = = train leaving at 7:51 a. m. for Wat- || o, taken hcre today when fourteen foods, now en route. No freight had| Lumber mills of Wieconsin, 7 find no root or faver here.” most popular women's monthiy nation- { Michi- | erbury. The trains leaving Doston || coaimous men —were arrested on |y T8 (0% e we r plica- | al 1 ‘ jriment under the Lever act, it was | peen moved from New Jersey piers to | £2n and Minnesota will shut down the f at 1.05 . m. for New York . auq || Charses of selling lottery tickets or ¥ ar service publica- |al magazines. Beren fhuniren the Manhattan side of the Hudson by | first of next manth as a result of lum. . strlking ewitchmen at Milwaukee vote dtoday not to re- turn to work. The Chicago, Milwau- kee and St. Paul road declared an em- bargo on perishable freight. At Welles- ville, O, 250 vardmen and roadmen promoting a lottery. ')lo?O than $100,000 worth of lottery | tickets were seized here, the police say. The four lottery companies are said to be the Hondurus, the Cuban, which leaving Waterbury at 12:12 p. m. for New York also are annulied. Changes and curtailments are made in sleeping and baggage car service. The three trains on which dining the Pennsylvania since last night, it was said. The importation of loyal Brother- hood Switchmen, yard workers and firemen began unofficially today, with berjacks’ demand for 75 cents an hour. | Colonel John N. Partridge, aged 83 years, died.at his home in Westport, Conn. He was Police Commissioner BOLSHEVIK TROOPS FAIL lROOT URGES RELIEF TO INTIMIDATE POLES FOR/ RUSSIAN REFUGEES Warsaw, Friday, April 9.— {to bring t n A heavy| New York, April 1L—Elithu Root, 0 3 ‘01 of Brookiyn, before the consolidation. |Jand parlor car service will not b fiis declared to be conducted through |artiliery, infantry, and cavalry action |speaking at a Russian relief mass went on strike today. More men went | number of union men coming in y sl aradndt | ool present are the Knicker- || the National Bank of the Republic of|in the region of Mozir, designed, acy [ meeting today, .urged the Ameriean sut in the Pittsburgh region and 500 |[rom outside points to relieve the| Efforts of congress to declare peace |} bocker Limgited, the Merchants }, Cuba, the Metropolitan, whose head- icording to an official communication, | people to keep their promise of ald guit at’ Peoria. pressure here. No non-union strike|jetween the United States -and Ger- ||| Limited and the Colonial Express, quarters are in Montreal, but whose In the Cleveland district, where | breakers were used, and announcement the Poles to look favora- many is expected to fail because of friendship for _those 2,000 were reported on strike, blast|Was made by the railroads that nome Russians =) 2 printing establishment is said to be|bly upon the bolshevik terms of | who have sought refuge in bordering lack of, votes to override ‘tho veto: of Reports recmxed here tonizht B| i Toledo, Ohio, and the Alaskan. peace, has been repulsed with large|countries to await the overthrow of mills and steel mills began laying off | Would be used for the present. the president. said that the freight yards at May- §| ~ According to the local police, they!enemp losses, says a satement issued]bolshevism. Civilization looks te men. Eleven hundred men were| J. J. Mantell, speaker for the Rail- : O brook, N. Y. the Central New Rilearncd of the. alleged lotteries when | by the war office today. them, he asserted. 10 re-establish thrown out of work in Newburgh. The |r0ad General Managers' Association,| American Fuel Oil and Transporta- || England Railroad gateway into New 3 ticket salesmen approached a police- | Captured documents, the statement Bormal movement of freight in Cleve- | today characterized the situation as|tion Cofl, of New York placed concract || England, were tied up by the strike. fand was cut to one-fifth today. Al Russia_and make her a member of {man and asked him to buy tickets,|add, show that Soviet delegates ad- | the Society of Nations, “about the same as yesterday” and|for the construction of ten 10,000-ton terminals, with the excention of the | prospects for tomorrow “very serious.” The police ‘state the tickets were of-|dressed the Red soldiers, explaining “It is fair to sayZ continued Mr. deadweight steamers with Skinner & fered for sale at from fififly cents to|to them contemplated military action| Root, “that thcre are now a million Lollinwood switching yards, where 500 ' All roads except the New York Cen-|Eddy shipyard at Seattle. ten dollars each, and that the prizes ears of freight were handled, were re- | tral and the New Haven were in “very ported tied up. D on the various parts of the frot was | persons who have flet for their lives 5 e ARE WE REGARDED ABROAD offered ran as high as $10,000 and |conceived to compel the Poles to make | before the cruel terror of bo'shivism. bad shape,” he said. The Central Rail- | President Menocal of Cuba declared Samuel Gompers, president of N EGARDED. ABROAD.: - Lituoin peace quickly. Two fresh infantry |They are homeless and destitute, clad the | road of New Jersey was threatened |that the American consumer cannot e Those arrested here today included | divisions and one of cavalry were|in rags. Diseases are decimating thelr n Federation of Labor, who |with shutdown of its service although | €¥pect any cut in the price @ Cuban| New York, April 11.—Failure of the|One alleged general agent of the lot-| thrown against the Poles between |ranks and unless we heip them they arrived in Cleveland today, declared |it moved its through trains in and out | vasnow is the timie for al good me|United States, fo ratily the peace|LCTY companies and thirteen [ der e coms the walkout a mistake and said the : others today on delayed schedules. the Pripet river un- treaty and join the league of nations | Who acted for the various companies. sugar because of labor difficulties. der the command of General Hopie- tederation would support the brother- will perish. boods in their struggle with the insur- Improvement in Ferry Service o9 K . o ‘A special reason we should help ek R “ b it i olice here said arrests’ were ex-|Zyn, a former member of the Rus- them is because the ‘bolshevism to E Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. ',':fe":,agdszte'fsg%r%ffi e “’l():\(i protess | Pected soon in Toledo, Cleveland and | sian staff. y which they refused to bow is the gent strikers. He will confer with| Ferry service between New York|will consolidate with Bell system in{gsions of idealism and disinterested- | Other Ohio cities. The fighting was partitcularly se-|deadly enemy of American freedom. brotherhood chiefs tomorrow. and New Jersey was materially im-|Missouri, Kansas, Arknsas, Oklahoma {yess are marked down for sham and| The police said all information re-|Vere in the neighborhood of Kalen-|its fundamental W. G. Lee, president of the Brother- | proved today and tomorrow it will be {and Texas into a $200,000,000 corpora- | . v - Deighborhoo ; principle is the 5 : garding the lotteries had been plac- | Kowecze. where the Reds persistent- of Rallroad Trainmen, sald b extended o its utmost to care for the tion, with headquarters in St.. Louls. | mprocrioy. Raymond B. Fosdick from had received many reports k B destruction of demoeracy. It js a gov- - : i s -3 . v S ted in an endeavor to wrest|ernment of class instead of a gov- 1 quarte: who recently resigned as under sec. |©d iB the hands of federal officers. v assau : s e ey, cebuls fihm |rush of commuters, ralicoad, OMicialel. oy ociiiatiary) of the United . Staia]|ZSIAY. Beneral f the league of Ta- T Tei N Senae | onieL s Riinbi angontis: thy Tedn et | ot o e T el o e R lmprovgdmclondx? Tabes were Still ahut down today with | Worsted: Company-voted to . increass tions, declared here tonight. Mr, Fos-| TO PRESENT BILL IN SENATE force and strength of bolshe- sending its missions to Eng- no prospect of being operated tomor- the capital stock from $5,000,000 to dick, who arrived here westerday on row. | tacked at Mozir. The communication the steamship Baltic, has spent the FOR NAT’L BUDGET SYSTEM Loyalty to the union was pledged by Cincinnati switchmen in a telegram to 8. E. Hfipfllnl. president of the tehmen’'s union of North America. No Danger of Food Faminge Incinnati was the only large Ohio New York is in no immediate danger 8,000,000 and from the increase to pay a stock dividend of 50 per cent. Rhode Island State Board of Bank city dnaffected by the strike. No change was reported in the etrike situation in Kansas City, where about Two hundred to work vesterday. 400 were renorted out. strikers returned of a food famine, railroad mgnagers said, although the coastwise longshore- men’s and harbor strikes have shut off food arteries by water and the railroad strike has blocked most of the rail lines, Supplies were arriving by Tncorporation refused to aosprove pro- posed merger of Providence County Savings Bnk and the Slater Trust| Co.. of Pawtucket, as voted by stock- holders. last month in London and Paris fin- ishing up his work in connection with the organization of the league. “Our isolation is complete and we: face the rest of the world in alliance,” he asserted. “It is foolish to assume that the situation has no elements of danger for us. Our position is one of | peril, a' fact that is evidently realized | Washington, April 11.—A bill pro- viding for a national budget system week by Senator McCormick, republi- can, of Iilinois, chairman of a special committee assigned to this subject several wegks ago, The plan proposed was adopted unanimously by the com- will. be presented to the senate this! jasserts that not only were the Reds |rcpulsed but that their ‘military spirit j was broken. Attacks are continuing, are principally by artillery. The newspapers today say that M. Paderewski, the former premier, will {return to Warsaw from Switzerland April 20 and resume his duties as a member of the Diet. There is much but they land, France and the United States ip order t establish jts terrors in those countries. The whole dependence for the rcconstruction and re-establish- ment of Great Russia and to make, her a member of the society of na- tions is through these refugees. It they die there is no hope of a regen- erated Russia.” . L . 3 i | mittee, enator McCormick said to-| speculation among the politicians, s e = Four warrants for strike leaders, is- | the New York Central and New Haven | . A bill was introduced in the British|in Washington, judging from the night,'and is “more sweeping” than|however, as to whether M. Pade-|STEAMSH|P RAMMED AND sued at Kansas City, Kas., on request | roads, they said, in sufficient volume |COlmobia legislature providing for a Pplans that are being made for the|that outlined. by the house budget bill | rewswi will of Attorney General Richard Hopkins, |to still the graves fears. loan of $2,000.000, half for land settle- will be issued tomorrow. Demands of 4,000 striking yardmen at Detroit were nresented to the rail- road No progress was toward a settlement of the . _Nearly 2,000 men were out at Jackson, Battle Creek, Kalama- naw, Flint and Pontiae, Mich. it traffic on several railroads Pittsburgh were reported at still, and many throueh pas- the Pennsylvania v On the Pittsburgh and m:Fle raflfoad 2,690 men were re- ported out. They were joined by 400 today. wee.. enterin, senger trains - on were annulled. eonductors. RAIROAD STRIKE SITUATION IN AND AROUND NEW YORK New York, April 11.—With the su- test to date in the strike of switchmen, yard workers and firemen n&oauled hera for dtomorl:uw morning, e operators and s‘rikers 5 1 their forces for hai- with its quiet brousht ity for both maunagers to draft plans for the astrug- into which Greater New York has plinged now for three full days, o information obtainable tonight situation on the railroads uu%te.l aNew strike . in and around 9 to be as follows: New Central—Through % : k a The Chicago Express, eastbound, one of the fastest trains on the Erie rail- road, was abandoned by its crew early this evening at Port Jervis, N. Y., ninety miles from this city. There were 250 passengers, milk and mail aboard. Erie Railroad officials declared that the Celeyelan Express, due at Port | Jervis at midnight, may meet a similar fate. Strikers on the Erie have been advised, it was learned here, to refuse to handle milk trains which also car- ry_passengers. Freight trainmen of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad employed on Staten Island at am eeting here tonight to out on strike. The night shift of 120 men left their work immediately and the day shift of 240 announced it would not report tomorrow. Situation in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, April 11, — Although there were no additions to the ranks men of the Penusylvania Railroad here today. the situation was describ- ed by an official of the company as serious and growing more so hourly. An embargo was placeq teday on all ad was made in passenger Freight movement vitruaily was at a standstill. About 500 men are out. of the striking trainmen and switch- | ) | | ment purposes nad the other half for irrigation projects and the soldiers’ nnd act. Sherman L. Whipple, New England attorney, appearing for Massachusetts, | urged the government to pay for the condemnation of Cape Cod Canil, tak- en over by the war department dur- ing the war. Dr. John A. Brashear, former chancellor “of the University of Pitts- burgh :and one of the most noted as- | tronomers ‘and instrument makers in the world, died at Pittsburgh in his’ eightieth year. i Civilians who desire to be trained in aviation will be accepted as students | by the army air service, it was an-| nounced, Applicants will be rated as cadets and will receive $75 a month, while in-training. Unless Waterbury factories agree ¢, a 75 cents an hour wage scale, in ad- | dition to \@~ recognition of the princi- | ple of coilective = bargalning, " about | 2,500 unskilled laborers will walk out | next Wednesday. biggest navy in the world. The price | of our isolation will be armament. “For it must not be forgotten that the ghastly business in Washington | has left us without a friend anywhere, All that we won during the war we! have. deliberately thrown away. The influence that we had, our position of leadership, the affection in which ev- | erything relating to America was held have all gone by the board.” . 'GREAT BRITAIN REPLIES | .. TO LAST FRENCH NOTE Paris, April 11.—(By The A. P.) The Earl of Derby, British ambassador to France, this morning handed to Pre- mier Millerand, Great Britain’s reply to the last French note concerning France's invasion of the Rhineland. The note is animated with the spir. it of conciliation, according to a semi- official communication, and allows of the-hope that within a brief time the difficulties which have arisen in the passed last year. Responsibility for fiscal matters fe largely vested in the gecretary of the treasury by the senate committee plan, the senator said, adding: “While the measure reserves to the president the power to revise and control the terms of the budgets it is the hope of members of the committee that in the actual working of the pro- posed law, this power would have to be exercised but seldom ang that the secretary of the treasury together with the commissioner of the budget would assemble, revise and prepare all estimates of expenditures for the government.” RUSSIANS ATTEMPTED TO LYNCH A PICKPOCKET )&ew York, April 11.—An attempt to lynch a man accused by worshippers in a Russian church in Brooklyn of having picked the pockets of two persons attending services there was past few days will be smoothed over: and that a representative of Great Britain® will return to the .ambassa- dorg’ conference. express, except milk, to points east oleennrm that steamship lines owned by this city and a further curtailment|the Unitod States Steel Products: and service. | the Iliine Judge E. H. Gary notified Admiral Steel Co. are.not diserim- | inating agninst Ainerican vessels in Pacific Coast. shipments from the A great explosion has occurred at an army supply factory north of Ro- tenstein, near Koenigsberg, East Prussia, and it is feared that there has been heavy losg of life among the 200 employes. ., frustrated early today by the police, who took him from a mob as he was actively re-enter poli- tics after his two months’ vacation. | HOW K. OF C. IS TO USE $7,000000 CF WAR FUND ‘Washington, April 11.—Directors of the Knights of Columbus in session here today notified Archbishop John | Bonzano, papal delegate, of their de- i cision to use the $7.000,000 balance of | their war fund in educational work for former service men. Monsignor Banzano -endorsed their action and told .the directors that just before he left Rome Pope Benedict had told him he looked to America not only for material and economic leadership, but also for moral leadership. The delegation of Knights of Co- lumbus who will go to_Metz to pres- jent the city a statue of Lafayette in | August, were invited to visit Rome. ) SUICIDED WHILE AWAITING TRIAL FOR PROFITEERING| New York, April 11.—Awaiting trial being drapped to a park. A rope had!on a charge of violating the Lever act beaten before the police arrived. After his rescue, he gave his name as Jacob Halpern. He is alleged to have taken $960 from the pocket of one worshipper and $65 from another. He is being held by the police on two charges eof grand larceny. | been procured and the man was badly | by profiteering, for which he was ar- rested Saturday, Joseph Nichthauser, aged 70 years, a Brookiyn haberdash- er, today committed suicide at his home by shooting himself in the head, according to thé police. Nichthauser was out on $2,500 bailz Ie is alleged to have averaged a profit of 63 per ¢ent. on articies sold in his store. SUNK IN HAMPTON ROADS New York. April 11.—The shipp! board steamship Lake Calvenia, bound from New York to Norfolk, was ram- med by tie steamship H. H. Rogers in Hampton Roads t night and sank within five minutes. according 1o & wireless message received here today, by the naval communication . service. The entire crew of the Lake Calvenia was rescued by the coast guard cutter Manning. s z ! The accident happened at 9.40 o'clock between Thimble Light and Old Point Comfort. The stern of the sunken ship is yrotruding above the water, a menace (v navigation. The H. H. Rog- ers, bound from New York to Tampico; via Norfolk, apparently was only. slightly damaged. The Lake Caivenia registered 3,500 tons. PRIVATIONS OF CHILDREN IN THE RUHR VALLEY Berlin, April 3. —Privations suffered by children and nursidg mothers - in the industrial areas of the Ruhr val- ley, Saxony, and Silesia are so severe that the American Society of Friends' relief committee for Germany has de- cided to extenq its operations to fn- clude 750,000 women and childremr ‘in fifty cities. Alfred Scattergood Harold Evans both of Phi*adel said today the organization was - ing 36,000 childrer in this city and more in other centers. ¢