Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 21, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXII—NO. 99 PENN. RAILROAD ULTIMATUM TO STRIKERS POPULATION 29,919 ISSUES AN Must Return to Work Before Midnight Wednesday or They Will Be Regarded as Having Permanently Quit the Ser- vice—Places of Men Out on the New Jersey Waterfront Are Being Filled Rapidly—Strikers in Jersey City Refus- ed to Be Addressed by Brotherhood Officers. New York, April 20.—Tho striking ~m- ployes of the Pennsylvania Laiteond, wio formed part of the gen:ril “nutlw’ strike were directed to ‘ctwn Lo work before midnight Wednesd.y in an ulti- matum isswed by the compuny tonfgat Employes who fail to conuly with order, it added, will be rew.riud as hav ing, permanently quit the =2+~ oad ef- forts will be made to fill their places. The employes who report will be re- stored to service without prejudice and without loss of seniority, the road said. The grip of the “outlaw” strike of railroad employes, so far as New York was concerned, was confined tonight to the New Jersey water front yards. Some of the men still were out, but their places were being filled rapidly, accord- ing to railroad officials. J. J. Mantell spokesman for the railroad general man- agers’ association, declared tonight that all roads are operating freight and pas- senger trains through the strike zone. Mr. Mantell predicted that normal con- ditions, both for freight and passenger service, would be restred by the end of the week Trains were operated all day through the tabes under the Hudson river, but the service was @iscontinued at 7 o'clock tonight. It will be resumed tomorrow morning. . St.ikers held a meeting in Jersey City this afternoon, which was to have been addressed by railroad brotherhood ofli- cers. The men, however, learned tha* the brotherhood leaders intended to ury them to return to work and they refused to hear them. DEMANDS OF THE “OWILAW” RAILROAD STRIKERS DENIED Washington, April 20.—Applications of hearings on their demands for a “living wage” were denied today by the railroad labor board after Chairman Barton had ruled that anyone might file a complaint but that it was for the board to determine whether the dispute was one which the law em- unauthorized strikers for powered it to adjust. In its reply to Edward McHugh of New York, who filed a brief us a citizen ask- ing a hearing on the ground of the “ex: as well as a formal isting emergenc; complaint, the board said it declined authorize the application to be filed and it did not comply with the Juw and with order No. docketed as a case because 1 Chairman Barton announced that the same ruling applied to the applications of ardmen’s as- sociations or any other body which had not «complied with the rules adopted by Order No. 1 provides that no complaint will be edtertained from any parties who are not using every effort to avoid any interruption to the operation of the St. Louis and Chicago the board. the railroads. Representatives of the strikers declared | would be on hand when the board resumes its hearings of the gen- that they eral wage controversy tomorrow. DEPUTY POLICE COMMISSIONER PORTER MAKES BLANKET DE New York, April 20.—Augustus Drup Porter, former third deputy police com- missioner, on trial on charges of wilful negle of duty, testified today that he was at_home with his wife at the time two police detectives swore he was found with another woman in a raided West Side apartment house, November 2th last. He is specifically accused of preventing the officers from arresting his woman companion. Porter made a blanket d of all the charges against him and declars1 he never had seen Hilbert Whoe'wright and Fred Sorger, the former plam clotaes men Wwho testified against him. He sail he remembered the night of November 12 very well because his wife had coms in from New Jersey the day before to be with him on Armistice Day, Nov:mber 11, and her trunks had not arrived until the night of the twelfth, he said. T had spent much of the evening unpack- g th dded. A Mr. Aoventhik had called on him about 10 %6clock, he contin until a. mid- e night, the time W) right and Serger were attached at the time of the ruid, said he had been with the two polics- men in the raided apartment and that although he had not seen Lorter as he was in another_room Wheelwright and Sorger had 0ld him of his presence in the place at that time. Porter's is the first case to come to trial in the “vioe'war" between Assist- ant District Attorhey James E. Smith and the police department. DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION PASSED BY HOUSE, $390,000,000 Washington, April 20.—Without a dis- #enting vote the house today passed :he deliciency appropriation bill providing $390,000.000 for the railroad administra won to wind up its affairs. Desides the appropriation of $300,00" - 900 for the railroad administration the bili directed that its §90,000,000 wo-1n of Liberty bonds be bought at par by the War Finance Corporation and th: pro- ceeds used by the administration in li- quidating its business. With these funie, congress will have appropridted a ictal of $1,780.000,009 for the roads The bill, which now goes to th» senate, also Included $7.000,000 for hespial treatment of disabled sold."ra, PICKED UP A LIFEBOAT MARKED “WILLIAM O'BRIEN" Boston, April 20.—The picking up of a lifebo=t marked “William O'Brien” was reported by the steamer Port Saund- ers in a message relayed here by the coast guard cutter Acushnet tonight. It was found in latitude 3 50 north, longitude 64 west, close to the position from whicli the wooden steamer sent sent out distress calls on the night of April 18. This is about 500 east of Philadeiphia. Thy A -ushnet reported =he had beén unable to find any trace of the O'Brie: for which she, with the cutter Seminole and the steamers Baltic and Minne- kahda, had been searching. ARMY REORGANIZATION BILL HAS BEEN PASSED BY SENATE Washington, April 20.—The army re- organization bill was passed today by the senate and now goes to conference. ‘The measure provides for a regular army of 297.000. officers and men, a na- tional guard of 425,000 and a voluntary system of military training for young men between the ages of 1% and 21. The vote on passage of the bill was 46 to 10. Opposing the measure were one repub- lican, Gronna of North Dakota, and nine democrats: Dial, Harrison, McKellar, Overman. Reed, Sheppard Simmons, Bmith of South Carolina and Trammell PENALTY AT WESLEYAN FOR “OLD CLOTHES” VIOLATIONS Middletown, Conn.. April 20.—A duck- Ing In the gymnasium pool is provided as & penaity for members who ignore reso- lutions adopted by Wesleyan university fraternities and societies in favor of the wearing of “old clothes.” Students will be expected to wear such clothing while in Middletown every weekday and Sun- days, at all university affairs and class room gatherings, but when going out of town they may put on their best raiment. The resolutions were adopted today with & penalty clause for non-compliance. UNITED SHOF 0. MACHINISTS STRIKE A MATTER FOR COURT Boston, April 20.—The report of Fred- erick H. Chase as master in the suit of the Unfted Shoe Machinery company the International Association of ists, which was filed in the su- court today, held that the question the machinists' strike at the ‘% plant in Boverly is justified legally, counld be detcrmined only by_the pwvork. eourt itmelf. WOTLD EX ARBITRATE STOCK CHANGE RULING ON New York, April 20.—Representatives of fifty-six stock exchange houses under contract to deliver shares of Stutz Motor a suggestion by stock | today the Stutz approved protective committee that board be appointed to arbitrate differs ences which led to suspension of trading in Stutz on the stock exchange. It is understood that opposing ests represented by Allan A. It is probable that the board may ths stock was dropped from the list. The arbitration proposal was made a meeting of stock exchange firms called late today by the protective committee. included a provision that the mediation board shodld be selected The proposa with approval of opposing interests. Tesolution anproving the suggpstion pro- vided that all parties should abide by findings of the board: STATE OF FINANCES OF WIDOWS' PENSION FUND Hartford,” Conn, April 20.—Robert Eaton, administrator of the board of finance his report for quarter ending March 31. support and their children amounted STUTZ inter- Ryan, chairman of the Stutz company, have ac- ceptid this suggestion and that a board of three leading financiers will be named. be calied upon to fix a price for the stock. S:fes at $730 have heen reported since widows' pension law, has submitted to the state the It shows that the amount disbursed to widows for their NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, APRIL Officials For Dem. Homer S. Cummings Select- ed to Act as Temporary Chosen. Chicago, April 20.—Homer §. Cum- mings, chgirman of the democratic na- tional committee, today was. selected to preside as temporary chairman. of the naticnal convention at San Francisco June 28 and to deliver the keynote ad- dress which will enunciate the party pol- icies in the forthcoming campaign. The convention slate was formed at a luncheon at the Iroquois club, where the democratic chieftains later listened with particular_interest to a speech in which their leader sounded what they said probably would be the main point of his “keynote address.” The republican party has lost its moral character, he declared, in launching a vigorous attack on the action of the ma- jority in congress in defeating the peace treaty and league of nations and particu- larly the methods by which control of the foreign relations committee was held by the republicans. “The whole fight on the league of na- tions dates back to a corrupt election in Michigan,” he said, “and a convicted criminal is the thing upon which repub- lican supremacy rests.” He was convinced that the people of the United States wanted the league of nations. The republican congress had de- bated the peace treaty for eight months and had failed “to pass one constructive Diece of legislation.” Turning to the war;, he declared that to thiz leadership he maintained the de ocratic party was entitled to credit. “It matters not what they may say of Presi- dent.Wilson,” he added. “His fame is immortal and future generations will ren- der tributes of vraise and obligation to this great democrat.” Relation of democratic women to the party and their part in the direction of its affairs would he decided by the San Francisco convention, the national exec- utive committee decided today. Meeting with members of the women's advisory board. the committee appointed Mr. Cummings chairman of a sub-com- mittee to draft the program under which th eenfranchised women will work. Their findings will be presented to the cenven- tion for adoption. Today’s session was said to be the first ia which women have had representation or. the national executive committee. ians for the convention were virtually cowpleted today with the selection of the teraporary officers. Besides Mr. Cum- mings, these officers are: . G. Hoffman, national committeeman from Indiana, secretary; W. R. Hollister, Missouri, assistant secretary. Colonel John I Martin, St. Louis, ser- geant-@t-arms of the national committee. to be convention sergeant-at-arms; J. J. Hughes, Oklahoma, assistant sergeant-at- arms, Colonel Martin, who has been sergeant- at-atins of the natignal committee for the last twenty-five years, has officiated at favr pievious conventions. 4 ‘Ohfection to the Srn ¥ranclsco conven-. tion. ccmmittee’s arrangements, and par- ticularly to the size of the hall, were re- imoved following the appearance ' before the committee of arrangements of Post- master Charles Fay, chairman of the San Francisco committee, and Isadore B. ¢ |Dockweiler, national committeeman from California, who exvlained the plans be- ing made to handle the guests and the coivention. Suggestions that the con- vertion might be moved across the bay to Oakland, or to another city, were drenper. a at A o A committee of five, with Charl X % % arles SLRJE. Other' oxpehses were: €alary | poocondinatein of TIlinols: ai. chafomias of agents $750; clerks $1.110; expenses | o "o a Cummingk to draft of Investigation $1,395; office expenses ot ke $345; miscellaneous $36.14. For the nine months ending April the sums paid the period was $69,280.44. pended $80.719, The balance of the appropriation posits $92. acted upon favorably. RESOLUTIONS OF PROTEST AGAINST DE VALERA Atlanta, Ga., April to widows amounted to $58,580.50, and the total expenditures for unex- Receipts in the way of re- imbursements from towns and counties amounted to $17,836 and interest on de- In the nine months there were received 405 applications, 287 were 20.—More than 2,000 people yesterday unanimously car- resolutions of sympathy and respect to be st to the family of Roger C. Sullivan, former committeeman from Tllinois, who died last week. The resolutions will be presented to the convention for adontion. General William Bruce Haldeman of Lomisville announced his resignation as national committeeman from Kentucky because of ill health. The executive committee and commit- tee on convention arrangements will meet at San Franeisco early in June, it was dmded. Tiicse present at toflay’s meeting were: Jokn T. Barnett, Colorado; Charles scescheinstein, Illinois ; Isadore B. Dock- weiler, California; E. G. Hoffman, In- diana; Thomas Taggart, Indiana; Wil- bur W. Marsh, Towa; Arthur F. Mullen, 1, ie ried resolutions urging Governor Dorsey | Nebraska; Norman E. Mack. William and Mayor Key to refuse any official | Bruce Haldeman, Kentucky; Homer . recognition to Eamonn de Valera, “presi- | Cummings; Mrs. John E. Castleman; dent of the Irish republic,” when he|Kentucky; Mrs. George Bass and Mrs, visits this city this week. Kellogg Fairbanks, Tllinois; Mrs. Stiles The resolutions were introduced at a|Burr, Minnesota; mass meeting in the Baptist tabernacle. resolutions declared there was no objection to the visit and entertainment of De Valera as a private citizen, but that the meeting objected to any formal or official recognition of him as “presi- The dent of the Irish republic.” $30,000,000 CUT FOR RAIL ADMINISTRATION ‘Washington, April appropriations committee. granted the railroad administration $1.780,000,000. Completing the emergency deficiency pro- posed a flat appropriation of $300,000,600 for the administration and recommended that the treasury department be author- to purchase $90,000,000 worth of Liberty bonds held by the administration. appropriation bill, the committee ized ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTS PATROL LONDONDERRY Londonderry, April 20.—Quiet previal- This was brought about by an arrangement between the Catholi Te- the neighborhood of the two priests taking the places of the officers and remaining on patrol all night, the clergy using their urging them to go home and to bed. The plan work- having the streets virtually to. themselves all night ed here last night. authorities and the Roman priests by which the police moved from recent rioting, were influence with the people, ed admirably, the priests along. SONORA TROOPS TRAPPED BY THE CARRANZA FORCES Nogales, Ariz., April 20.—General An- gel Flores and his invading command of Sonora state troops are trapped in Culia- can, capital of Sinaloa, by federal forces, according to an unconfirmed report given out by Carranza adherents here today. EXPLOSION IN MUNITPON FACTORY NEAR VIENNA Vienna, April 20.—(Havas)—A muni- tion factory near Vienna exploded yes- .—Reduction of $30,000,000 in the $420,000,000 asked by the railroad gdministration to wind up its affairs was made today by the house The new ap- propriation would bring the total of funds Miss lisabeth M bury, New York, and Mrs. Pattie Ru- ner Jacobs, Alabama. Chicken hearted people are always ready to hatch up an excuse. New Member Of Federal Trade Commission to J SENTRAL NEWS PHOTO SSRVICE, NEW YORK.; President Wilson has nominated Mr. John Garland Pollard, of Rich- mond, Va., to be 2 member of the Federal Trade Commission. He has been prominently identified with terday: the damage is estimated at | pemocratic politics in Virginia and 30,000,000 crowns. Fifteen hundred.| . workmen are thereby thrown out of | W2S Attorney-General of that State e dne to a oriminal attemot. - S b b e The explosion ‘is said to have under the administration of Gov- ernor Stuart, 5 National_figwentiunl “not chance but brains” won it, and for.| BRIEF TELEGRAMS Stutz Motors stocks rose : to s mew high level of $730 a share. French government is planning 'control of wheat and to fix prices for three years. The Danbury common council voted in favor of daylight saving beginning next Sunday. Bl_: silver was unchanged at 1.17% in New York, compared with _ 683 in London. American Sugar Refining Co. refined granulated cents a pound. raised _sugar price to 174 Investigation by federai grand jury of the railroad strike in New York was postponed until April 23, The Bristol common’council adopted an ordinance providing for the adoption of daylight saving beginning next Sunday. Paris quoted the American dollar at 16 francs 28 centimes. compared with 16 francs 45 centimes last quotation. Upkeep of government of this coun- try for the first nine months of the fis- cal year is estimated at $5,028,176,000. Daylight saving for To:rington ef- fective April 25 has been adopted by the board of warden and burgesses. Operators in the Lineashore cotton industry threaten to strike unless a wage increase Ot 60 per vent is granted. During the week of Aprii 1o output of soft coal amounted to 9,773,000 ions. Anthracite output estimated at 1,473,000 tons. Brooklyn federal grand jury is tak- ing up question of profiteering and is investigating cases where arrests were made. American Manufacturers’ Association unearthed another alleged- attempt at piracy of an American trademark im Brazil. In a collision with the Canadian gov- ernment steamer the pilot boat Howard B. Troop was sunk a mile and a half off St. John, B. Rallroad appropriation of $300,000 de- cided on by house appropriation com- mittee for Winding up affairs of the railroad administration. With a view of stimulating produe- tion ef loose leaf tobacco industry, the House passed and sent to the senate the 7-cent tobacco tax bill. Charles Grismer, president of the United Butchers' Association of Brook- Iyn, arrangel with U. S. Commissioner Ross for the sale of army beef. A deputation of the citizens’ amnesty committee, headed by Prof. Basil M. Manley, of Washington, hag asked for extension of amnesty to all political prisoners. Mayor Hartenstein of Rockville was authorized by the common council to name a committee of three to confer with manufacturers on the daylight saving question. Sevéfal Middlebury, « (Wt.)" - eollege students wore overalls , at chapel: and about the campus wésterday. Some of the professors announ that they would do likewise shortly. ¥ American Red Cross supplies en route from Marseilles to Constantinople were destroyed when the steamer Reywhich caught fire in Saloniki. The ship is a total loss. In order to imcrease the output of cotton in France's colonies that gov- ernment announced it will assist grow- ers in the Niger and Senegal valleys during the coming year. Chairman Gary of the United States Steel Corporation in his’ address to stockholders at the anual meeting at Hoboken, N. J., declared he was not in favor of certain shop boards. E. C. Simmons, founder of the hard- ware company which bears his name, “ied at hiz home in St. Louis. He was 80 years old, and was associated with the hardware trade for 84 years. J. H. Case, acting governor of the federal reserve bank of New York, is- sued a statement warning financial in- stitions to beware of counterfeit $10, $20 and $50 federal reserve notes. The Massachusetts senate passed = bill to exempt stock djvidends from taxation, the exemption to apply to div- idends received in 1919 and subsequently. The_house has mot yet acted upon the measure. The U. S. Supreme Court upheld the migratory bird act of 1918 designed to carry out provisions of a treaty be- tween this country and England. The “Jim Crow” car law in Kentucky was also upheld. Refusal of the Peking government to reply to the demands that secret nego- tiations with Japan relative to Shantung cease and that a decree abrogating secret treaties be published coused a strike of 30,000 students. United States Supreme Court dis- missed the appeal of Charles L. Baen- der, convicted in Oakland, Cal, of hav- ing in his possession steel dies similar to those used in coining money. He was sentenced to ome year's imprison- ment. Hearings were resumed In the cases of alleged anarchists and radicals held at Ellis Island for deportation. Apt- ing Immigration Commissioner Uhl de- clared 250 cases were triel ond the tes- timony sent to the department of labor at Washington. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROBATE JUDGES IN CONNECTICUT Hartford, Conn.. April 20.—Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, in a- letter recelved hare today, requests that Govenor Holcomb call to the attention of the probate judges in Connecticut that under an agreement between the Unijted States and Rumania they are required to give notice of the death of & Rumanian subject in this country who has no known heir. AN EFFORT TO RECONCILE FRANCE AND GERMANY Paris, April 20—(Havas)—Well-in- formed circles in Berlin, a Havas des- patch says, declare that the allied rep- resentatives at San Remo will urge the French representatives to brinz about reconciliation between France and Ger- many. LOS ANGELES SYNDICATE BUYS STEAMERS YALE A!DA HARVARD ‘Washington, April 20.—The steamers Yale and Harvard were' sold today by the navy department to agents for Los Angeles syndicate which- will - put them back on the Pacific coast run on which they were operating when pur- chased by the navy. - The price for both vessels was $1.756.000. £ 21, 1920 12 PAGES—84 COLUMNS [ Tomato Fatalties Now Placed at 140 Storm Swept Portions of Mis- sissippi, Alabama and Ten- nessee—| rty of Many Millions. Birmingham, Ala., April 20.—A death list which tonight stood at 140%and a property 1oss of many millions of dollars was the toll exacted by a toruado whick today swept a score of towns, villages and isolated farms in eastern M stricken districts was difficult, bu* frag- ‘mentary reports agreed that th: tornado swept down with deadly suddenn . ob- lieved to have been destroyed, and in several instances all members of a fam- ily were reported to have been killed The storm, apparently striking first in Lauderdale county, Miss., about 10 o'- clock this morninf, swept a narrow path across the state carrying destruction to a dozen or more communities. About the same time death and damage from the same or a similar disturbance was re- ported from counties in the northwestern corner of Alabama, the extreme force of the wind being expended before the Ten- nessee line was reached, in Williamson and Maury counties. Meridian, Miss., the heart of a rich farming district, suffered heaviest, ac- cording to late reports, with a known death list of 21. The village of Glen, Alcorn county, numbered its dead at 10; Aberdeen 10; pi, northwestern Alabama and mel southern counties of Tennessee. Communication with many of the literating everything that lay in its patl. | primary in Nebraska, tabulation’ of re- In at least one case—that of Rose Hill, |sults proceeded slowly tonight following Miss.—virtually thes entire town is be-|ipe close of polls at § o'clock. Ingomar 6; Egypt 5; Baker 5, and Bay Spring 7. A lumber camp near Philadel- phia, Neshoba county, lost twelve work- ers killed and thirty injured, several probably fatally. In Alabama, the rural districts around Sheeffild, Gurley, Little Cove and Waco, felt the full force of the storm and with some sections still cut off, a score of bodies have been recovered. Across the Tennessee line, 160 miles from Meridian near whers it originated, the storm still had force sufficient to wreck homes and farm buildings, and to cut a swath through forest and field. Only three deaths are known to have oc- curred in the state, however, The wide territory covered by the tor- 'nado led to a belief tonight that there was more than one atmospheric disturb- ance. Reports today describe the local destruction as having been confined to a path measuring from 100 to 500 yards wide, within which the cyclonic wind, when at its height, left nothing but the most solid structures standing. Sixteen persons were Kkilled, scores in- jured and property valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars destroyed by the storm in the northwestern part of Marion county. Twenty-one persons were killed on a single plantation near Aberdeen, Miss. Harbold's hog ranch, near there, one of. the largest in the south, was wiped ‘out, 500 of the stoek killed. ~ 3 Assistance from the outside world is urgently -needed-in -districts-“which were in the direct path of the tornado. Hun- dreds of injured require medical atten- tion, the force of physicians and surgeons available localy being inadequate to cope with the situation. Tents and other tem- porary structures will be necessary for those whose homes were destroyed and a shortage of actual food is feared. Roads traversing the track of the storm are completely blocked, reports to- night said. Dead cattle and horses may be seen in every field. TO URGE ASSEMBLY SESSION ON HIGH RENT SITUATION Hartford, Conn., April 20.—John J. Coleman, chairman of the municipal rent commission of this city, declared today that in order to create statewide interest in the project for a special session of the general assembly to enact legislation which would help solve the housing and high rent situation, he intended to secure 50,000 signatures from residents of the state in a petition for presentation to Governor Holcomb asking that he call a special session. It is planned to circulate it in every city and town in Connecticut, provided the co-operation of teh mayors and selectmen of the various towns can be obtained. % C. H. SUCKLEY HEADS POLICE DEPARTMENT OF BRIDGEPORT Bridgeport, Conn., April 20.—Follow- ing the suspension of Superintendent of Police John H. Redgate last night, Charles H. Suckley, acting superinten. dent, assumed control of the department today. No further developments in the wholesale vice cleanup have been made public. In the police court today two alleged proprietors of houses raided Saturday night forfeited bonds of $150 each nad three frequenters pleaded guilty and were fined $10 and costs each. APPOINTMENTS TO FACULTY OF WESLEYAN UNIVERSIAY Middletown, Conn., April 20.—Thir- teen appointments to the faculty of Wesleyan University for next fall were announced tonight, including the fol- lowing: Homer E. Woodbridge, of University of Indiana, appointed professor of Eng- lish; Clyde O. Fisher, of Clark Universi- ty, appointed associate professor _of economics; Thomas W. Bussom, of Un- iversity of Minnesota, appointed associate professor of romance languages. J. M. SPEERS CHAIRMAN OF INTERCHURGH WORLD MOVEMENT New York, April 20.—James M. Speers of New York was elected chairman of the executive committee of the interchurch wourld movement today to succeed John R Mott, general secretary of the inter- ional committee of the Young Men's Christian association, who resigned in order to represent the interchurch world mwevement abroad Mr. Speers is a well Kk:own Presbyterian layman. LRITISH PUBLIC HOSTILE TO EXCESS PROFITS TAX London, April 20.—It is announced that in view of the hostility shown throughout the country and in parliament over the increase to 60 per cent. of the excess profits tax, as announiced in the budget statement yesterday, J. Austen Chamber- lain, the chancellor of the exchequer, is disposed to allow the tax to remain at its former level of 40 per cent. OFFICERS OF STATE DISTRICT OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH Bridgeport, Conn., April 20.—Rev. P. A. Kirsch of Meriden Was re-elecetd presi- dent of the Connecticut district of Lu- theran churches at the annual conference held here today. The other officers are: Vice president, Rev. Martin Lorens of ‘Waterbury ; secretary, Rév. Ernest Aing- kelbey of Middletown, and treasurer, ‘William Schmidt of Middletown. PRICE TWO CENTS B BRYAN RUNNING POORLY IN PRIMARY RETURNS Loss of| A1) the Hitchcock Candidates Are Leading the Bryan Nom: inees in Meagre Returns—Bryan Himself is Running Last on the Democratic Ticket in Returns From 46 Pre- cincts, 20 of Them in Omaha—Johnson, Republican, is Leading Wood, 2,087 to 1,383—Tabulation of the Re- sults is Proceeding Slowly. Omaha, Neb., April 20.—Owing to the length of the ballot in today's statewide In addition to voting on presidential preferences, both republican nad flemo- cratic electors balloted to name sixteen delegates to each national convention and candidates for state, congressional and non-partisan offices. The number of votes was considerably increased by women, who for the first time expressed their presidential preferences. The republican ticket for president in- cluded General John J. Pershing, Major General Leonard Wood and United States Senator Hiram W. Johnson, together with Robert Ross of Lexington, Neb., Who also was entered as a democratic candidate, contesting the selection on the latter bal- lot with United States Senator G. 3L Hitcheock. A spirited campaign continued up-te the time the polls closed. Forty-six precincts out of 1.849, In- cluding 20 in Douglas county (Omaha), give Johnson 2,087, Wood 1,383, Pershing 762. Shallenberger, Neville, McNeny gnd Noble, Hitchcock candidates for delegates at large to the San Francisco convention, are leading Stephens, Berge, Thomas and Bryan. These candidates are running in the order named, with Stephens and Berge closely behind McNeny and Noble. The returns from Douglas county -ae well as the state at large were coming in exceptionally slow. - ASSOCIATED PRESS ELECTED OFFICERS AT AL MEETING New York, April 20.—Vice Presiden Marshall ‘was applauded by members of The Associated Press at their annual meeting today when he advocated free- dom of speech and press as guaranteed by the constitution, but favored “soak- ing it to the fellow who causes trouple in the American republic by What he says.” He drew a distinction as to rights of free speech between those who were born in the country and others. Native born, he said, had the right to advocte alter- tion of the government by constitutional means to sociziism or a monarchy, but those who sought a haven in this coun- try had no right to propose a change in the system of government. The vice president was the chief speaker at the luncheon of the members in connéction with the annual meeting, ‘at which the retiring five directors were re-elected by acclamation and four ad- visory boards and auditing and nomin- ating committees were chosen. In concluding their business meeting, the ‘members adopted a vote of thanks to the directors and officers for their ef- ficient services during the last year, and Vietor F. Lawson of the Chicago Daily News gave a short talk on the public responsibilities of publishers and the success of co-operative news gather- ing. by The Associated Press. The following board was among those elected: S Eastern Divisio P. Moore, “Pits! Wdward H. Butler,” News,. secretary Advisory Board: A. ‘Leader, chajrman ; Buffalo. Evenifre Richard Hooker, Springfield, Mass, Republican; E. L. Haynes, ‘Wilmington, ~Del, Morning News; W. P. Dow, Portland, Maine, Ex- press. Committees elected were: ‘ Nominating - committee: - Ralph ~ H Booth, Saginaw, Mich., News-Courier, chairman; Frank S. Baker, Tacoma, Washn., Ledger, secretary; - Theodore Bodenwein, New London, Day; David B. Plum, Troy, N. Y., Record; Ernest Bross, Terra Haute, Ind.. Star: Major | E. B. Stahlman, Nashville, Tenn., Ban- ner; F. G. Bell, Savannah. Ga., News H. W. Rodgers Anaconda, Mont., Strand- ard. Auditing cdmmittee: A. Liecty, Schenectady, N. Y., Gazette: C. C. Mar-| quis, Bloomingdale, TIL, Pantagraph; Frederick 1. Thompson. Mobile, Ala., Register; Harry Chandler, Los Angeles, | Calif., Times. g A STRIKERS HAVE VOTED TO RETURN TO WORK Ansonia, Conn., April 20.—A secret ballot cast by striking unskilled laborers of the American Brass company here on the question of returning to work today gave a majority of 77 in favor of return- | ing out of a total of 875. Before strikers | voted each had to identify himself as a striker, it having previously been claim- ed that in meetings men who were not strikers had voted on motions. It is not yet known whether the ballot will end the strike. ANSO PALMER LEADS IN DEM. PRIMARY IN GEORGIA Atlanta, Ga, April 20.—Incomplete and unofficial returns from ninety of the night that Attorney General Palmer was leading in_the presidential democratic prunary. First returns gave Palmer 100 convention votes, Thomas E. Watson 76 and Senator Hoke Simth 58. The state has 384 convention votes. WOULD BAR SOCIALISTS FROM OFFICIAL ELECTION BALLOT Albany, N. Y. April 20.—Two bills, aimed to bar the socialist party of Amer- ica as now constituted from the official election ballot, according to Assemblyman George R. Fearon of Onondaga, intro- ducer of the measures, were passed by the assembly tonight. The vote on each bill was 83 to 56. > DETECTIVE SHOT DEAD ON - MOUNTJIOY STREET, DUBLIN Dublin, April 20.—Detective Inspector Dalton was shot Mountjoy street when he and another detective of the metropolitan police were attacked by several armed men. The other detective escaped injury, but a {woman was wounded by a bullet. The assassins made their escape. DEATH TOLL OF TORNADO IN ARKANSAS REACHES 26 Little Rock, Ark., April 20.—The death toll of the tornado in northwestern Ar- kansas Sunday night reached twenty-six today, according to reports received here. ‘Twelve of this' number have been con- firmed Wire service to the storm-strick- en communities was still damaged today. JOHN M. PARKER ELECTED GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA New Orleans, La., April 20.—John M. Parker, democrat, was elected governor of Louisiana today. He will take office May 17, oue week after the opening of the general assembly, in which a big fight suffrage amendment. Lion Ran Loose In Geneva. * Geneva, April 20.—An African llon, which e¢scaped from its cage yesterday &t the menagerie at Chaux-de-Fonds, created a pani¢c by running through the streets of the town. It eventually jumped a high wall into a courtyard where it was surrounded by gendarmes oand firemen. Then it keeper came with the care and lassooed it 105 counties in Georgia showed early to-| | and killed today on | will be made for the ratification of the | AGREEMENT TO CONSERVE BITUMINOUS SUPPLY OF CQAL New York, April 20.—Railroad exegu- tives and experts in the coal industry have reached a better understanding. of the plan to conserve the bituminous sup- ply of coal as the result of a recent con- ference here, according to a report made public today. The railroads, it was pointed out, can play an important part in, the stabilization of fuel. especially by storing in the spring to tide over the period of greatest traffic congestion in the winter, and tentative plans have been made to that end. The committee which had charfe of the stabilization of labor was prevented from taking up all the questions because.of the absence from the conference of the representatives of labor. The commt declared the compensation of minnig ed- gineers should be increased and calaries paid commensurate with the knowledge and experience required. CLOUDBURSTS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN OHIC Colpmbus, O., April 20.—Hundreds of families had been driven from thelr homes tonight and great property lose caused by a number of cloudbursts and heavy rains that swept central and southeastern Ohio today. At Sidney several hundred families were leaving their homes as a result of a rise in the Great Miami river. Housing conditions are acute. Three hundred per- sons are spending the night in an office building. * At Newark residents in the lowlands . were moving fo higher ground, due to a rise in the Licking river. The southern part of the city faces a serious flood tomorrow. Streets were wrecked and homes flooded during a clondburst at Athens late toda DELIVERED WOOD ALCOHOL FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION New Haven, Conn., April 20.—Frank Annicelli, charged with delivering wood aleohol for human consumption, was found guilty by a jury in superior eourt ate today. ntence was deferred untii Thursday According to tes ony at the trial. Annicelli secured liquor in this eity for a Meriden saloon keeper. It was al- leged that Mrs. Maria Williams of Meri- den died from drinking some of the liquid Martin Catran of Meriden be- nd. Cases growing out of the . Williams will be taken ugp NATHANIEL HERRESHOFF ARRIVES FROM BERMUDA Bristol, R. L. April 20.—Nathaniel Herershoff, designer of the sloop Reso- lute, which will contend for the honor of defending the America's cup this sum- mer .arrived here today from Bermmds and inspected the sleep and preparations for its launching. which is scheduled for the first week in May. He was accom- panied by Robert W. Emmons, 2d, man- aging owner of the sloop, and Georgu Cormack, secretary of the New York Yacht club. Father Of The Volstead Amendment Bill GENTRAL NEWS PHOTO SERVICE. NEW YORK. - One of the new -anti-prohibition bills Introduced in the House re~ cently proposes an amendment of the Volstead prohibition enforce- ment act so as to permit the States, by referendum, to authorize the sale of 2.75 per cent. beer and 18 per cent. wines, its author being Representative Daniel F. Minahan, Democrat, of New Jersey. This bill, Mr. Minahan declares, merely provides for a more reasonable and logical method of enforcing the- prohibition constitutional amends ment,