Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 16, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXIl—NO. 95 POPULATION 29,919 Periodicals Hit | By Paper Shortage | Staged At Braintree Publishers Generally RAILROAD BROTHERHOODS GIVEN UNTIL NOON SATURDAY T0 REPLAGE DESERTERS: ULTIMATUM ISSUED BY THE MANAGERS CABLED PARAGRAPHS Men Arrested in Dublin Released. London, April 15 rested in Dublin Thursday, except fiee, later were released, sa: 4 the Exchange Telegraph from Dublin. New Yo il 15.—Publi Braintree, Mass., April 15. e n P“bhsmrscigf of robbers today kmeclb ‘:)\‘lessandxll‘o s : Para i, a g y fatally culation have decided to combine two | Barandelli, a guard, probably ey issues in one or to reduce the number | Wounled Irederick armenter, pay- of paper |master for Slater & Morri Lsompsny, shortage due to the railroad strike, it |:nd seized the firm's payroll, amou! was announced tonight. . gt T 2| To cover the robbery, which was ac- T e I e o e omplidned by two of the men, twn ditions do not improve, the announce- | Others kept eight laborers under wovor If the Strikers Are Not Back by That Time Railroad Managers Are to Open Their Books For a Period of 24 Hours to Register Men “Acceptable” For Re-employment — 24 Leaders of the Insurgent Switchmen, Including John Grunau, Have Been Placed Under Arrest in Chicago, Charged With Violation of the Lever Food Act and Fed- eral Prosecutions in Other Sections Are Expected With- in 24 Hours—Freight Embargoes Are Beginning to Have a Serious Effect on Industry in the East, Throwing Thou- sands Out of Work. Railroad officials have thrown down of pages in_ each because All the men ar- Many of the |ing to §2 & despateh 10} hend publication temporarily went back to their posts today, mak- ing five strikers known to have re- Association. turned to work since the men wailed FREIGHT HANDLERS ON DOCKS ARE QUITTING Providence, freight handie cal docks of gation Comipany went on strike today upon orders union headquarters at New ang Miners, State anq Colonial Line men had not gone out this evening. “The strikes on the rious trans- P delli were tak- portation lines have seriously affected | FParmenter and Barandel nd clerks at the 10-} 15 move freight, the supply a very necessary this important industry, has been S s S toward the factory an automobile drew being utilized as far as possible, ‘the > situation is becoming more 75 per cent. normal on all trucks are Supperted by were manned students from Princeton, Stevens and Rutgers predominating. Getting List of Striking Workmen. An outstanding serious e in New Haven. New Haven, Conn., April 15.—Twen- ty-five freight handlers, employed at Belle Dock here b, Steamship Com| on union orders from COLUMBUS SWITCHMEN VOTE TO REMAIN OUT! Ohio, April ature in the local tuation was the part played federal ugents. 5 rtment of justice sought a listof traced causes for delay of mail trains and wat the prices of nece agitators with ulterior tives, six railroads in Columbus have of the moment; the New England quit work today | ducting the strike in their territory ad executives warned the representativ road brotherhoods t given until noon Saturda men back to work some of | off gun and an automa to get their strikers are They airead ; e e = paper and to | destrians and then pic! have notified ilroad switch- | nes some | box and fled in the automobile. g here tonight, | to combine| The ma other purposes to|number plate registered as that of cut down the number of pages in their | Warren H. Ellis By reducing their issues they | subsequent be forced to ) a_mass meetin rs ced would open managers announced, uld op Pl {as railroad offi with us relativ issues in one; 3 that others will man cars on which bodies to our demands.” | right to refuse actions and unfitness for f Drastic action governmental home towns. The military railroad division of the U. 8. army today began movement of government freight congested road terminals | sent to the railroad company officials a set of demands, includ wage increases, and requested many of the leading magazines w forced to ce: for France could not deal with PROPOSAL TO VINVESTIGATE flood of railroad men \ PRINT PAPER SHORTAGE! MEXICAN REBELS OF SONORA arrest last night | hawken will be removed tomorrow. |25 LEADERS IN STRIKE ARE UNDER ARREST IN CHICAGO ¢—Charged with Lever food act, twenty- gent strike of under arrest on charges of ials or were at 15.—Attorney Palmer would be directed { resolution introduceq today by Repe| The A. P.)—Military forces of the new Twe hundred additional warrants were prosecutions ollowing thes: ue the strike. RETURNING TO PITTSBURGH D]STR'CTyiiH“ into the manufacture, distribution of print paper and “to i proceedings all who have violated the law or who | 24_government of Mexico. are guilty of profiteer; Chairman Porter, of the house for- [ ant mining camps late evidence rrests are expected within | the next twenty-four hours outh Dako leaders in the insur; witchmen wer Pittsburgh, Pa. Brotherhood of Railroag Tr: nouncedl that large num- ! iilroad and | red “that the s were issded, and brotherhood officials decl. tions were confirmed yesterday Government agents said ¢ warrants would be Issued | ington toduy nounced that a hearing would be held | bound o April 26 on the senate tesolution pu | Junction hoint, Mave fallen to the So- R - | Mora forces. according to official in- onfer with-Caia- formation received here e et “Renoris (hat six - olmsemsttes= the export. of| Michoacan, Morelos, Tamaplipas, Ta- Included in the number arrested was movements of president of the Chicago all roads had increasea They declared that 2 0. work” on the part of the trainmen was in full swing anq pre- | conditions wou.d ther improved by tomorrow. appointment of can_commission io. diat government restrictions pulp wood to the Un ralircads entering nerth- The men were, taken unexpectedly Wy federal demand which. dicted that men, who also included H. E. Readin of the Uni | ition, were .released on $10,000 BELIEVE SELF-CONFESSED RAILROAD DETECTIVE K'LLED MURDERER IS DEMENTED | conmrr o, d7 1 il IN BATTLE WITH NEGROES Steubenville, Ohio, April 15.—Coun b s! accompanted by Harry | throushout Mex Miller of Akron, Ohio, retur under prepara ed from that | here say th is said to| Pl vear vas others wounded in the Baltimore and | Ohio railroaq yards here tonight have confessed th: old Frances South a month ago, w demented and was not connected with Wiashington. 0 the Lever Ben Kohut, age 35 y one of the detecuv of improve- | taken provides 1 $5,000 fine or impr two vears, or both. ‘ged that the men conspired to nts of food and onment for e beginning to interfere with shipm other necessaries of The men, it was declared, generally resentment against the gov- ment action and declared they ue the strike. 300 switchmen voted to siay out. from other tenters showed ment in the situation, with more men going hack to work nd Reading in a statement | Nt declared the wallout was not | demands were | being wounded. FENN EMPLOYES T0 TAKE UP GRIEVANCE WITH ROAD Philadelphia, t after he Al Z troop throwing thou. The articles were but nowhere are of famine condi there reports After the arrests Adena | tWeen the two st ssembled late today at Four hundred troops were expected police and Miller | here tonight from Cananea to under- before | take the defense of Agua Prieta and the crowd | the district between here and Pulpito despite the fact | Pas to, have told authori- z for | army into this hundred residents of tonight that a commit: defreduchciat e pressed into service to move govern- various shop ment supplies stalled in northern New representing in the Philadelphia district cepted the offer of the management to| grievanees within diction of the company and promised ! to have all back to work at once, The offér of that he is said moved in frains | nd said no ailroad managers men had left their work are still being here | troop to move civilian pending further investigation. | BOULDER FOR BIRTHPLACE = S OF ELIPHALET NOTT 17,000 ELEVATOR EMPOLYES IN “We realize that these arrests MARKED IMPROVEMENT IN work of the brotherhood officia TRAFFIC INTO NEW YORK without loss 1d that the P « boar] shall e convened within a reasonab. he accredited repress still’ deny tha law or committed are not L W. W, we have violated any | Connecticut, and Rhode Island, plan properly ins: birthplace of ribed at the site|scrapers, stores and busin Nott | tures, tonight were ordered RAILWAY LABOR 30ARD IS TO ORGANIZE TODAY Washington, April ailway labor board, whose nom- ! inations were confirmed today hy senate, were called tonight by dent Wilson Some_of them are already n the city *and provision their assembly quarters of the railway administration, The president’s call was as word of the senate’ Administration officials have felt that the board would prove a agency toward ending the " strike of railw The senate apparently shared While sharp criticism of -some of the nominations is know to have been expressed again today final ac- in an unusually brief considering this riew government agency the immediate task that faces it. dent of the new organizat jearly part of The | aved. | meeti taken up by Members of | Commissioner graduate of the college in | is taking an_ active ATTEMPT TO EXTEND At another meeting of the strikers STRIKE TO NEW ENGLAND! g 1t{$5 to $10 a week Commissioner | and time & Bennett will give two lectures at the| The agitation began last Tu day on highway engineering{ when elevator emplo: and transportation. NEW BRITAIN MAN AMONG SAILORS DROWNED | refused. Since then the Brotherhood leaders will be g #d to paresent it t, the newly federal ;railroad it was said. Teamsters to Return to Work. ‘The city's which was agzrav extend the unauthorized strike of rail- roaq workers to New form today with the announcement of | mass meetings under the auspices of | tion of Railway Workers in vaTious places in this reached him. Washington, April to the navy de were posted at porters handling frozen poultry took a more hopeful rtford railroad the meetings at brotherhood after being voted to return The porters will receive hour week under the new agreement, the unfon announced. They getting $30 a week, The short-lived was marked by frequent trucks and several hundred police re- serves had wserves bad market district strikes “of various re in progress in the W after an twelve hours, leaders said they had information that leaders of haq arrived New Brgland, | Coroniti’ Carmella, HOBOKEN MEN TO “STICK BY THE BROTHERHOODS"” Engineman 2648 South P Philadelphia and Arthur Larison, Chadron, NO NEW TRIAL FOR - = = MINERS IN CONTEMPT AT LEAST THREE WOMEN meetings announced for Sunday They were signed by “P. F, ? Machinist's - Mate thousand railroad here today voted not to form a new organization, but brotherhood, W. Gibson, secretary” of the Ameri- can Federation of Railway Brotherhood learneq tod the terminal was announced by the strikers' press committee tonight. No vote was taken on the question of returning to work. A new wage scale will be drafted at meeting here raiJroad brotherhood Wwill be asked to present to the new federal railroad board at Washington, it was stated. Timothy Shea, v that more than a score of men active as leaders in the unau- kes had left Jersey City last night on three traing running in- to New England. the men dropped off at ‘ various railroad centers propaganda. The thorizeq st Pittsburg, Kansas, April 15.—Judge Curran of ‘the Crawford county dis- trict court today overruleq a motion for a new trial in the cases of Alexan der Howat, Thomas Harvey, been held to a Minimum with but few The Erie moved train into Jersey City today from Port Jervis. Tt brought fuel and was pro- guards but there was tected by arm ne trouble on the trip. Better Serv Greatly improved service to eommuters this evening on nna and Jersey . appearance of the circulars was attributed to these men. | have been made to cause walkouts at New points, and ‘in some cases small bod- ies of railroad men have gone only to return within a few hours. Railroad officiais said knew of no strikes at any point in New England that might be connect- ed with the “outlaw” move: ed Mine Workers, sent to jail last Friday for contempt of court in refusing to testify pefore the court|be women. of industrial relations. R. I. NOT SOLICITOUS FOR THE SUMMER WHITE HOUSE Providence, house of representatives today refused Providence, R. T. to allow the introduction of a resolu- tivn inviting the president to make his summer home at Portsmouth state. The opposition on Lackawanna. vice president the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- men, who addressed the meeting, de- clared after it adjourned that he was ‘optimistic” regarding chances for a settlement of the unauthorized strike. LITTLE CHANGE IN STRIKE SITUATION AT _DANBURY Danbury, Conn., ‘Ece, Lacka subarban trains hetween 4.35 and 7.30. All Jeft on schedule time. inal assumed a normal appearance for the first. time since the tieup. wanna_sent out ndled 20.000 commute: vice on this road. it was announced, would he maintained tomorrow. The Jersey SCentral reported that forty trains left its Jersey City term- ‘with 45,000 commuters. Ay v 15.—The 5 1 snd Secretary of Interior Payne, is is- 15.—Litre| swing regulations ¢hange in the railroad strike situ.- [royalties and rentals under oil and gas 0 | leases in the “Territory recognized that.conditions there war- il- ‘rant more liberal terms than the U. Three firemen S, proper. #-ascribing tion occurred here switchmen and firemen of the Centra New FEngland and New Haven rai roads remaining out. today, about A Daring Holdup Have | Band of Roléb‘:::dl(ille:d a P&y; . Decided to Combine Two| master al Gol lsse::s in%ne——Mlny May| Away With $27,000—Eight Have to Suspend Tempol Laborers Held at Bay Un-| der Cover of Pistols. A band of pistols 2.+ fred twice int) fatory ' ? 5 -3 5 windows to €1’y away employ es. The o 5 ad- | driven up by a fifth member, and & 5 aver exse.|caped toward Brockton by opening fire to drop the crossing gates in _their i path. ing the money in a box from the office Rl qustty-lof the company in South Braintree to Qwing to the inability of the railroads (i, 'Shoe’ factory on the opposite side commodity the tracks of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. As they were walking along Pearl street up a short distance away and fodr armed men sprang out. Two of them o ¥master and his “Few publishers have large quann- | 2Pengd fire on the pay tities of paper on hand and the pres- ent supply is adequate to fill the needs in fact some of the publications have no paper, whatever. Accordingly, this condition has result- {ed, in some cases, of practically stop- ping the printing presses in a number of publication houses and in the printing establishments which are closely aligned to_publishing_industry “In’order to conserve uing their maga zuard and the two others made a dash for a pit in the street near by, where they covered the laborers. Barandelli fell at the first shot and the paymaster was wounded immedi- ately afterward but sought safety in the trench with the laborers, where he was subjected to fire from a sawed- pistol. The pistol and rifle shots at the shop windows and at pe- ed up the pa men directed warni ‘hine bore a Massachusetts of Needham. Ellis v informed the police that leave out much of | his garage had -been entered a month ng which they ordinaril rove, | obtained a description of the leader of 1l be | the band, who was said to be a young e publication temporar- | forei; y|azo and the plates stolen. The police r about 20 years of age. Pur- suing automobiles lost the trail at Ab- ington. HAVE CAPTURED TWO TOWNS hy| Agua Prieta, nora, April 15.—(By “republic of Sonora,” have crossed \| the state line of Sinaloa, captured investiz~. | two towns and are continuing towards 11| Culiacan, capital of the neighboring state, thus taking the aggressive in nst | the state’s fight against the Carran- El Fuerta, one of most import- n Sinaloa, about tn. | fifteen miles from the Sinaloa-Sonora ry, and. San- Blas, a railroad basco, Campeche and _Jalisco—have j ed forces with the SEonora move- ment against Carranza 'mained un- known that agenis and sympathizers with the nora movement were active o seeking aid. ilitary headquarters t President Carranza nd thousands of troops onora in efforts to put down the u ing. Leaders of the Sono- ra movement decvlare this plan { means a_new revolution. Reports to 1 o against S “took Miller 1o the scene of | More llmn1 three thousand Sonora ear Aden e roops already ored T mmah‘,‘:flc‘fi(fi;"i,;’ffiv it was said, and these included _a different places in which, according to | /ar8e._command of fully authorities, he told them he hid a re- | 9ui India 1 bloodstained sh led the girl., have entered Sinaloa, cquipped Ya- conceded fo be among the best soldiers:in Mexico. Other are Dei & rushed to the forces in Sinaloa and v suard the line be- ates. . through which, it was reported Carranza has planned to send an district. There are more than five hundred Sonora already stationed in the pass nforcements are being sent and re there. N. Y. SKYSCRAPERS TO STRIKE New York, April 15.—Seventeen thousand elevator emploves, operating a|in nearly all of the city's largest sky- ss struc- 0 go out trike at 9 o'clock tomorrow morn- action was taken at a mass of 8,000 union operators and tonight following the refusal of store and buildixz owners to grant in | their demands for wage increases of an ecight hour day alf for overtime. 3| starte nd one- in the 54- story Woolworth building, the tallest in the world, quit work because thefr request for a wage of 333 a week was elevators there have heen manned by strike- A despatoh | breakers, including many women. tment today from the —- Atlantic fleet said the eight sailors of the destrover Preble drowned in Man- zanillo Bay, 4 accident to the launch, were Fireman | James H. Molay, Fort Bdward, Lewis B. Wales, Monroe, MEN OF ATLANTA TO, V JOIN OVERALL ARMY Atlanta, Ga., April 15.—Four thou- sand pairs of overalls, to he worn hy Atlantans in an effort to combat the high price of clothing, will be sold at cost here Saturday afternoon by John A. Manget, fair price commissioner denim suits next Monday. IN R, I. DEM. DELEGATION Providence, R. L, April 15—The democratic national convention should Whether or not the dele- gates shall g0 unpledzed will be de- cided by the convention. NEW HAVEN ROAD IS SEIZING COAL SHIPMENTS April 15. — The coal reserve of the’ New Haven Rail- road has become so- depleted that all in_this| coal shipments coming on to its lines as led by Rep- | are being seized by the road. n» resentative Frederick S. Speck, repub- | matter committeeman from [ operating officials said tonight. Re- Rhode Island, who' objected to the .in- troduction of the, resolution as new | against the normay daily average of business by unanimous, consent. to whom they are consigned, 100, CONDENSED 'TELEGRAMS - Bar silver was $1.19. 1.2 an ounce in New York compared with 68 3-4 “ARNE ON A FRM S Businéss Men and Mesbers of Congress Favor Governtstll Bar gold was 104s a fine ounce in Loudon, compared with 104s 10d The Arlington Mills, Boston, makers of worsteds, declared a stock dividend of 50 per cent. Production of gold in Rhod: was 44,237 fine ounces, South Afric valued at £ 253,000. The shipbui g plant at Squantum will be known officially as a destroyer and submarine base. Rates on three and six British treasury per cent. to 6 1-2 per cent. American dollar w: francs 5 centimes, compared with 17 francs at last close in Paris. quoted at 16 U. S. gold coin amounting to $1,- 000,000 was withdrawn from the sub- treasury for shipment to Bast In- enable them to compete successfully ith foreign lines was recommended today by business men and members ! . of Chicago; Uwen You of of congress who advised with the | Sen, e = ot board on methods of transferring into private hands the government-owned merchant marine. Agreeing upon the advisability of the board disposing of its fleet the con- feer upon motion of Fred H. Wells, of Minneapolis, adopted a resolution that “the ships should be sold upon Ten thousand workers at the Wil Iys-Overland automobile idle as a result of the railroad Sugar stringency was relieved some- what yesterday with the arrival of 200,000 pounds of raw sugar in Bos: ton from Cuba. John Ashley Highlands, dergraduate crack pitcher known : sulidenly at the Harvard club i American merchant marine may be|ship subsidy and was not afraid of firmly established.” Lack of interest by the investing|chant marine, public in shipping securities and the Fresh fish are brought to the New |handicaps under which the American England, York market from all sources of su- ply in Maine, auto trucks. 00 miles, O | with subsidized foreign lines were dis- cussed and a committee was appointed to study a plan suggested by Eugene|for tmmediate d Meyer, director of the war finance cor- ion, that the flegt be sold through an organization similar to the railway equipment finance corporation. He proposed that the assets of the mer- | compared with what becomes. of the chant fleet be taken over by such s nization and that it issue bonds against payments due by purchasers, buyers being permitted to make pay- ments 20 per cent. down and the rest over a term of from 15 to 20 years. Only slight payments would be re- quired during the first few years to gcnable operators ‘to estblish their | must be developed for import as well ines firmly. as export trade if it was to become Sale of the bonds, which under the o Federal pure food official unfit «for consumption 40,000 pounds of ovats at South Law- rence, Mass. Direttors of the h American Tobacco Co. will make an announce- | ment in a few days regarding a rum- ored new issue. Dan, a veteran horse at the navy| yard in Boston, honored with madels in the workhorse parades for twenty years, died of old age. zone supply depot South Boston, is to be maintained as| army in New Lngland. Postmaster Roland M. Baker opened | a soup kitchen at Boston postoffice a a means of aiding federal employes to economize on ‘luncheon expenses. 3 ; PRICE TWO i Financial Aid to Enable Privately Owned Ships to Com- Were Advanced, But All Agreed That Some Way 3 Be Devised to Meet Competition With Japan and Eng- land—All Believe the Shipping Board Should Dispose of Its Fleet. Washington, April lS.—Govern-!buyerl made their full payments. In- financial aid for companies terest on the deferred payments would ships. Admiral Benson, chairman of the board, appointed Mr. Meyer as chairma nof the committee with Alex purchasing Shipping Beard vessels to| U¢, €Overed by the eirnings of the 3 Schenectady and C. B. YTarren, Detroit, a sthe other members. Chairman Warren, of the senatd appropriations committee, said he agreed that some form of goverm- mental aid would be necessary 10 make permanent the merchant ma= rine, while Chairman Green of the house merchant marine committee, | declared he_ also was in favor of & prices and terms that the that term for it. An American mer= he said, cannot com- pete with Japan and possibly with under a system of mnot granting favors to ship owners. $ A basis of cost of reconstruction less depreciation plus a certain sum- livery should koverm sale prives of government ships, Mre ‘Warren said, while Mr. Legg argued that what the board gets for ‘the ships was only a small problem as owners operate in competition vessels. “The future is more important tham the price,” he added, stating that pri vate ownership must nave govern- ment support or the ships - would come back to the board. i Representative Rowe of New York ' contended that the merchant marine permanent. He also favored goverh- plan would cover approximately 0 ;ment aid. per cent of the value of the ships, Meyer pointed out, would create pop- ular interest in the merchant marine and the issues could be retired as the The conference was to have listed two days but it decided that the ground had been thoroughly covered today and the session concluded, of t he Canadian clubs express = doubt 3 wheaher there would be horse racing ¢ of the heavy tax. ST LONGSHOREMEN END STRIKE New York, April 15.—The strike of 4,000 longshoremen against the United Fruit company, in effect from Boston | jured, including six Smith - to Galveston, hus been settled and the - i men will return to work tomorrow morning, it was announced here today by J. i Riley, président of the New York district couneil of the Interna-|ion kine. tionalLongshoremen's. gssociation. - lof the speclal, was crushed to deati Conditiors of the agreement- ‘hfl—l.fl; fe o The in Untario becau: Railroad workers reached a settl their strike with the com panies involved throuZhout Andalusia, begin work At auction a total shares of Stutz Motor Lamerica, no ar value, were sold at The buyer was Thomas by the men agreed to return to work, Mr. Rlley said, include the discharge { all men engaged by the company as “strike breakers.” Wages and other terms of the new contract were amic- ably agreed upon. Holyoke-bound car ai The settling of the strike as applied | Dickinson hospital o &ntf:;“: to the United Fruit company followed | suffered. None of the Smith collegs closely upon a settlement of the is- | students wi $700 a share. Search of the rum-filled hold of the steamer Monmouth which a fire caused $100,000 damage, lisclosed the body of Michael J. Curtin, a longshoreman. Mayor Hylan has written to the police and fire commissioners, asking fhem to take steps to cope With the threatened rice boosting as a result|the unjons und the Mallory, Southern| Ccllege girls, in o of the railroad strike. Pacific' and other Atlantic coast lines | 3. Mite St the goiarse of Prot. W. has not as yet been adjusted, but ne- gotiations are under way which, Mr. | Mot Litley said, may soon lead to a settle- Roger C. Sullivan, leader of the known all over the country for more than 30 years as a political died at his home in Chicago. Whiskey and beverages were seized in a spectacu- daylight raid on hington street, Boston. Levin, proprietor, was arrested. The strike of the coastwise long-|trolley came in si; ht, an, ither st-aremen,. which began more than six ot weeks ago, has resulted in almost a ple etticup of coastwise shipping ail along the Atlantic and gul(ofguxs;:. N. Y. ASSEMBLY PASSES ! Onc of the lines affected, the > N minion line, since the strike was called ANTI-ANARCHY BILLS has soid its vessels, and the service, Albany, N. Y., A —1 an official of the company said, has Hf e S been abandoned. One of the causes of the strike, un- ion leaders said, was a differential of | duced by ve cents per hour between wages intoxicating Case of Joseph Caillaux, former on trial for alleged summing-up stage for the prosecution. was postponed over the Easter holi- As a result of the rejection of their is practically \zprmake) s} demands for named a com plete plans general strike strike from Boston to Guiveston, voted t a mass meeting here tonight not to return to work until they are granted the wages of deep sea longshoremen. They have demanded an increase from 65 cents to S0 cents an hour and from $1 to $1.20 an hour for overtime and Sundays and holidays. The continuance of the strike af- fects the Mallory, Southern Pacific and other Atlantic coast lines from Boston to Galveston, but not the United Fruit company and New England steamship ¢ lines. F. Riley, president of the New York district council of the Interna- Cato Aall, general agent in Japan for the American and Consul Japan, is in New York the Far Bast from London. via San Francisco ges were denied Senator Georke F. Thompson, of Niagar: said members of the New York asem- bly were drunk in the that resulted in’the expulsion of the socialist members April 1. A thorough long session investigation killing of Paul R. DeMott ,of Pater- . J.. who was shot tempting to escape from ‘a prison at Wesel, Germany, will be made, it was said at the state deartment. said tonight that approximately 25,000 and to authorize the estabe weeks in conjunction \0#'h a general|lishment in the office of the 'nxomey dock workers are affected by tonight Distribution of potatoes from Aroos- | ENLISTED MEN TESTIFY IN , Me., to points outside New England has been stopped by the rail- road strike and resultant embargoes, precipitate drop in price from $10 to $4.50 a barrel. Charging they were “shanghaied” and improperly treated during a voy- age to Cape Town, South Africa, and return, four members of the crew of the Paruvian freikhter Bten called the federal building prosecution of the officials took county B avenue, Brookiyn and John Alldredge,|for Georzia. | Charles| Approximately 3,080 men already street, | have signed agreements to wear over- alls, Mr. Manget announced, and will | make their first appearance fin thel HUNGARIAN DELEGATION MOVES T OVERSAILLES Paris, April 15.—(French wireless Service)—The Hungarian peace dele- rom Neuilly ns of economy are No particular | democratic state committee today rat. | ified the selection of May € as the August | date for the party's state convention | nd R. B. Foster, officials oi|and decided that at least three ofi Rhode Islnad's ten delegates to the| given for the change. reservations were recuired obtained whatever rooms were available at the Hotel Des Owing to the absence of Count Ap-! ponyi, head of the. delegation, who is official pour- ! parlers have been suspended. ANOTHER CALL FOR BIDS ON STEAMERS YALE AND HARVARD Washington, Aprfl 15. department today again a the, steamers - Yale and Harvard, all the first two offers having It was announced London, April 15.—A Moscow re- | duty, anq several others: port received here by wireless says = 3 = ;&m-s of the Azerbaijan republic| A SHORTAGE OF COAST ve attacked Armenia and that the GUARDSMEN LIMITS RYVIC republic of Georgia has offered to act — SERVICE as_an ‘intermediary. Boston, April 15.—A shortage British military authorities are ac-|coast guardsmen 10 man the cepting the Moscow report skeptical- |Gresham will cause that vessel to ‘There is no other news than the put,m:z of commission within a bid ‘helow the appraiscd value of | bolshevik despateh “indicating that(days, it was said today. The such a situation as Tt Jescribes ex-|Ossipee and Acushnet will remain Lecn rejected. ceipts here today were thirty carsizo $3530.600 for each vessel would be con- TWO KILLED, 12 INJURED IN WITH UNITED FRUIT CO.!TROLLEY CRASH NEAR HOLYOKE Northampton, Mass., April 15.—Twe persons were killed and twelve in- . dents, late today in a head-on collision between a special trolley car carrying. fifty college girls and a Holyoke=- bound car-on the.Holyoke-Northamp~ William Keating, motorman | vestibule of the car. The cause ' of the accident has not been deter- ' mined ‘but it is understood the block signal system falled to operate prop=. erly. Motorman Edward Marsh of the as harmed i e involving the New England = ot John W. Haiden of New York city stéamship sound lines, upon the piers | sustained a possible. fractare ag the of which the men also will return to right leg and Charles Jensen - tomorrow. The issue between | chertown was injured 1memll)?.‘ = e geology de; pent the afternoon in study om nt Tom and were returning home. As their special car rounded a turm within the city limits the had sy motorman could cars collided. — . = i apply the brakes the, rence with previous action by the sen- ate, the assembly tonight passed two of the four anti-anarchy bills intro. § the Lusk joint legislative committee which investigated radi, 1 paid to deep sea and coastwise long- | activities. The mesgus o shoremen, created by the labor adjust- | the lower h Peessit 0 ment board in its decision following | the general longshore strike of last|tions, September. cial Science, to be licensed Coastwise longshoremen, who have | under the sy N er house tonight are desi to require private educational instity- such as the Rand School of So= pervision of the board on strike at ‘this nort for five! regent = ger;ml :f a special bureau 1o investi- gate and prosecute cases of criminal anarchy. Alleed) Both bills were passed b - stantial maority, th oy s o of 100 to 30 and the first by a vote he second by 100 te DISABLED STEAMER MYSTIC ARRIVES IN BOSTON HARBOR Boston, April 15—Towed by the coast, guard cutter Ossippee, the steamer Mystic, disabled at sea by the Splitting of boiler condensers, arrived In the harbor late today. Captain J. A. Meech denied reports that the crew faced starvation, stating that thers was ample food supply on board. “We had fresh water and plenty of provisions,” he said, “and the story | that there is v feet NEWPORT NAVAL INQUIRY [the forward howd is ihont torar Longshoremen’s association, s 3 tion. The ship had not had a leak New York, April 15—The naval 3 S s - court of inquiry Which Is investigat- | ©'C hAYe over 150 galions of fuel oil the alleged objectionable meth- 3 ods employed by the anti-vice squad |ang will then -~ at Newport, R L, resumed its hear-lher oricina qemtination. Toe oot e e o ey /e CADtAIn [ acat & call for assistance Aprll & and ichard H. Leigh, acting of the ey bureau _of navigation at Washington, | ‘e O%SiDpec. after cacouniering . se~ went on the stand. The original vice (nC7¢ £e. reached here ihree days: investigation was started under his 3 199 lies cast of New Yok department and Captain Leigh testi- I I fleq to the orders that had been is-| CHARGED WITH VIOLATION sued for the crusade and the corre pondence that passed between the au- £5 FHE VOLSTEAT RS thorities at Newport and the Wash-| New York, April 15.—The ington office. Several of the enlisted men testi- | the crimina) fieq that when they entered upon the | States district anti-vice work they received orders to|Judge Knox two indictments, trail certain men ang make reports of (on evidence presented by their observations. They were told,|John Roach Straton, they testified, to avoid .conversation |as Healy ith suspects, but if the latter gtarted | rant proprietors. conversation to learn what they|the Bolstead act. The Mystic is to be repaired here grand jury sitting in connection with branch of the Unitel ourt today returned fo. ba wed charging The- and Peter Gallotti, restau-- with violations of. It was the espo- sure of alleged vice conditions by Dr, federal } — Straton in his Easter sermon thas led THE AZERBAIJAN FORCES : |to the indictment by, the ragulae HAVE ATTACKED ARMENIANS | frand jury of Police Inspector Domin. ick Henry on charges of neglect of . duty on the New England coast,