Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 29, 1920, Page 1

Before the Senate ln'm ‘Woman fo Presch in Genera Pulpit. Manufac- Statement Made by George Berne, April 28—Women's first ap- pearance in a Geneva pulpit will occur on June 8, when Miss Maud Royden, a Lon- don pastor, will preach at the cathedral there. Authorization for Miss Royden to conduct services has just been given by the consistory of the national church. ANTHRACITE MINERS REJECT PROPOSAL FOR ARBITRATION New York, April 28. of the anthracite mine workers have no- tified ‘the operators that their counter- offer of a wage increase approximating 15 per cent. is rejected and declined to accept their proposal for arbitration, ac- cording to a statement issued here to- night by the sub-committee appointed to negotiate a new wage 'agreement for the hard coal workers. z The plan of arbitration sumbitted by the mine owners, it was learned, propos- ed that the sum-committee ask President Wilson to name three individuals repre- senting the public to sit in with the com- mittee and attempt to arbitrate the dif- is to Be Directed at Profiteer- Representatives Washington, April 28. — high prices for mewsprint paper bought on the spot market are due to a “corner” resulting naturally George _ McAneny, manager of the New York Times, de- piured today before the senate committee ;aper situation. ce,or three times as mmeh as that for paper bought under sontiacts, he said. Brokers and small manufacturers were blamed by Mr. McAneny for the high prices. Answering a question by Senator Ticed. Gemocrat. Missouri, as to whether there was profiteering, he said “they are seiling the paper.” Frank P. Glass of Blrmingham. Ala., wntil yecenily president of the American Publisacrs’ association, mariet yrices as “excessive” and without Aistin;aishing big and turers added that the paper makers were making “big profits.” Pubiiners from Boston. Philadelphta, xidence, I1tisburgh and Baltimore are dulsd to appear as witnesses, and sopimiiieemen Indicated today that the iavesigation wenld be directed at prof- manufacturing costs, “Absurdly” | orices, pape; consumption and advertis- ‘Among today’s witnesses, Charles Lane of the New York Evening Post and Mr. McAneny suggested the best remedy JSor the spot market condition was for pub- lishers to stop eompetitive bidding. Price fixing, government control of dis- tribution and limitation on the size of publications by a postal ban were op- ‘osed by the metropolitan publishers. Ar- thur W. Dunn, representing the American Press association, which serves a number of small dailies, however, smalier publishers favored government control of distribution, but did not know { whether legislation to that end would be constitutional. The complaint of the small publishers, veices by Mr. Dunn, was. that they were compelled to pay the high prices while the big publishers, able to buy in larger quantities, bought cheaper estigating the market price is t The -presentatio; resulted in the negotiations going into a Neithdr side attempted of the miners’ reply declared the moderate their stand. however, asked ‘that the committee take an adjournment until tomorrow at 12.30 The operators, Officials of the mine workers declared tonight the only thing’ that would prevent a breaking off of negotiations would be the submission of an “acceptable” plan of arbitration or a more liberal counter- offer covering their demands. erators made no comment as to their described spot “Is_someone profiteering?” asked Sen- “Yes, somebody is making a good big profit out of it acding. however, that he was unable to any evidence: of combinations or Drice-fixing agreements. Representatives of the mine answered - Mr. plan of the operators, declared that ‘it ‘was not practical and that it would cause unnecessary prolongation of the negdti- They declared that the appoint- ment of arbitrators not familiar with the anthracite mining industry was one of the unacceptable features of the plan. John L. Lewis, international president of the mige workers, refused to make any comment tonight on the arbitration plan and its: rejection. Mr. Lewis, It was learned tonight, has been in_communication with Secretary of Labor Wilson at Washington and has requested that he propose & plan Mr. Wilson informed the mine workers that he would be willing to meet with them at any time to discuss the. matter and mdke an effort to pre- vent a breaking off of negotiations, it is PAID UP INSURANCE IN © SOLDIER RELIEF PLAN Washington. April 28. — Republican smbers of the house ways and means committee virtually decided today to in- cibde §a their soldier reliel rogramme & plan of paid I,II value to l:fl'tli! annually by com- interest and on which loans be obtained from any post office. th this addition, & elect anyone of the five folowing republican pro- cash bonus of $1 y of service: aid 1o be reclaimed by the gov- id in buying city homes; aid In their education: or the insurance. To last four .plans, SENATE'S TRISH RESOLUTION BROUGHT UP IN London, April 28.—The United States Benate's Irish resolution was brought up in the house of eommons today and drew - Ronald Me- Neill, unionist for the Canterbury di- Kent, asked the government. it it had “any official information regard- ing a manifesto to be issued in Wash- ington by an organization known as the Philippthes Commission for Independence in which it was maintained that Ameri- can belief in_the principle of self-deter- mination would be demonstrated more impressively by conceding the repeated demands made for independence by ten and a half million inhabitants of Philippines than by passing resolut in_the senate expressi the cause of ‘Irish { Whether as a’ matk United States senate. “‘mons would be, enabl cedent set by the 230]!!;4“ in" support “of. mand for_sejf-determination, . | Andrew.-Bonar ‘Law, government, sald he hac statement said: -up insurance, ex-servize men The statement issued by the sub-com- mittee tonight said that “pending. furth- er meetings of the conference” the text of the operators’ counter-offer and the miners’ reply would be withheld from the ficans propose to allow $1 each day of service, instead of the 5 cash bonus as the basis for com- farn and home aid, ng _sympathy 'with independence, of respeét’ for ‘the When asked tonight if there was any Dility of the miners modifying their “in.an-effort- to -bring about a a representative of tions. » 5 as the duty. of'the men to re- ore to the. legal and -orderly précesses the law to adjust their dif- the ‘statement '#ays, in dis- cussing the strike of .the: marine” workers. “This, they did: not-do,” it ‘continued, “and therefore the strike cannot be jus- If the _claims of the' men are true, they ‘could have been:presented to the “companies and_thence to ‘the board provided by.law. The men therefore, ‘we think, were not justified in this strike, and are not entitled.to-any rellef except that provided by the -transportation. act.” Mr. Ames' statement said -that his time had not permitted a- personal in- vestigation of the charge that truckmen and fish- handlers had formed ‘a com- bination to béycott fish caught and con- signed by ‘non-union fishermen ‘but that nt of - financial receive in the form of educational in . & ‘-n— plan as such was said committeemen to be a “misnomer” but declared it was the “most’attrace " of any of the five plans. verage word war veterang was 400 days. they ®id. explaining mnce plan the average veteran could re- eeive & paid-up insurance policy of $1.- $57. payable to him in cash at the end of twenty years, or immediately to his heirs I event of death. lue of the insurance—de- moted in the legislation service ecertificat til the end of the third year the plan and at that time an sx-service man, with a record of 400 aid each man *- the hous €d to follow the pre- | peaceful settlemen: e fact that no meetings of the gen. eral scale committee of the ‘minérs is to be: held before ‘the canference session tq- indicates that we | nothing new to offer.” , The mine workers in their reply to the operators tonigt flatly counter-offer of their ' employers reviying for the | no information on the question, which did not seem to be one in which the Briti ‘was concerned. Numerous - other Qquestions and Sir Edward Carson, the ul asked whether it was not h country to leave the oth- ish ‘government | ionist leader, better for eacl demands stand as presented. They point- ed out that a wage increase @ cent. was inadequate and that a closed shop contradt must be granted before a ment can be signed. Mr. Bonar Law replied " he that in other words that was his GOV'T ARKS REOPENING AGAINST U. 8, Washington, —would not STEEL CORP. —The supreme court was asked today by the g:vem- DISCUSSION ON IRELAND HOUSE OF COMMONS been in fores, wervice, "would be entitled would be the cash certificate” at that time at 5 per cent. interest compounded annually. Similarly. the veteran of one hundred ddys would be entitied to paid-up, twen- ty_year endowment with a cash-surrender or loan value of $137 in three years an to insurance of § 3 of $325: the 300 day veteran to insur- London, April 28—T. P. Nationalist member for'Liverpool, moy- ed the adjournment of the house today to call_attention to the treatment of the prisoners in Wormwood Scrubbs and the threat of a strike at Liverpool. James Sexton, Helens and_ secretary. of Unio& Dock Laborers, said that the lead- ers of the dockers' union discountenanced such a strike in support of the United States Steel Corpora- t 855 issed on March 1 by a 4 to 3§ The government's argument on the mo- g was based largely three decision rendered Monday ordering the Reading Company the first of the so- anthracite coal cases to be de- ion for a re-hearin, on the four to by the court las dissolution of tha and its subsidiaries, insurance of $464, Labor member for St. the 200 day veter- with a loan value with' a loan $413, and the 500 day veteran to insur- with a loan Counsel for the govern; that the steel case would esnetem Within the Reading case and th; holding of the steel corporation legal corporation under the anti-t o coniflct with the conclu- sed in that and other de- Sir Donald MacLean, Liberal to the government for some philosophic act of. statesmanship, enabling the dis- continuance of coercior and repression in | Ireland and made suggestions for the ameliorative which EdwaM Shortt, the hose secretary, in a.subsequent speech defending the po- licy of the government, promised to bring. heforce the government. the ‘government had no yielding to threats from the Liverpool dockers. “Every. consideration was being shown the prisoners, but they must be prevented from returning to Ireland to continue their courses. Mr. O'Connor's motion was defeated, This plan, if adopted universally by the world war venerans, would cost the government far more than the cash bon- us of $1.25 a day. Estimating that 3,590,000 ex-service per- sond w§ be affected by the bill, com- mitteemen declared that the sost of the Imsurance plan, if adopted by all. would be approximately six bil- lion dollars. The cash bonus, it was es- timated, would cost $1,807,000,000 if ac- septed by all ALBANIANS FAVOR UNION OF KORITZA WITH GREECE Boston, - April 28.—The Albanian So- ith headquarters in this city, sent a telegram to President Wilson today urging him to take action upon the question of the Union of Ko- ritza with Greece “onl§ after verifying at first hands the wishes of the inhabi- tants of Koritza, which the Koritzians in America assure you are decidedly in incorporation of their dis- triet with their mother country in Al- would appear t committeemen said. | slons expres: GUARDS AND TRAIN CREW He added that OF ERIE ROAD OVERPOWERED e ‘tions to J. April 28—Guards and crew of an Erie railroad Te overpowered here to- members of the freight train we: at a crossing. slightly injured. uncoupled and the clety of America FRENCH READY TO WITHDRAW WHEN GERMANS GET OUT engineer was_forced Weefawken yard, Four men rode in the cab of the, engine until it entered the y: dropped” off. Police in Jjei Hoboken were called and persed after damaging the that'the train could not Paris, April 28.—Premier Millerand, in making a declaration to the chamber of deputies today on the results of the su- preme council meeting at San Remo, said tha tthe Frankfort and the Darmstadt territories would _ be French as soon as the allied commissions had established that the German armed force over the number allowed by the convention of August, rsey City and the crowd dis- air brakes so be moved for eacuated by the EXPLAINS FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE AMERICAN WOOLEN (o, WOMEN VICTIMS OF MODERN BLUEBEARD IN. TANTA, Cairo, Egypt. Boston, April 2| Dresident of the Amey Willlam M. Wood, rican Woolen Com- pany, issued a statement here today in explanation of the' company' nancial statement which was e by lic yesterday and sho 1919 of $15,513,415, less reserves taxes and contingencies, solutely no just ground fo, tion that this company h; cessive prices for its cloth or has an unreasonable or excessive prof April 18.—The work of & modern Bluebeard has been discovered ot Tanta, 54 miles northwest of Cairo, | wtéd for its Mohammedan festivals and 8 into a ecertain house on the pretext of meeting a weal- thy admirer have been robbed of their jewels and then murdered. Afterwards thelr bodies were burned, except for the heads, twenty of which were found in T'e whole German forces in the Ruhr region, the premier declared, must be re- duced to 10,000 men by June 10 next, and by July 10 all the German soldiery must be withdrawn and replaced by a police force of 10,000 men. “The details of the treaty with Turkey cannot be divulged before Turkey's pleni- potentiaries come to Paris on May 10, but 1 can say that the treaty is in conformity With the outline already made public, the Turks being maintained in Constantinople Which they are in the ich was made pub- Women enticed wed a net profit for ‘There is ab- T the sugges- | as charged ex- and in territories in DANNUNZIOS BATTERY OPENED ; FIRE ON AN ITALIAN DESTROYER | CU ) ARP LINE I8 PREPARED FOR Flume, April 27.—(By The A. P.)— battery opened fire M. Millerand declared that upon leayv- |ing San Remo the allies were more united than ever, “if I may be permitted to say it, especially the entente between France | and’ her sister.of the Latin race is closer than ever,” he said. ‘SLUMP IN FREIGHT RATES Liverpool, April 28.—Speaking today at the annual meoting” of the Cunard Gabriel D’Annuntio , e yesterday evening on an Italian tor- boat destroyer in the vicinity of | Steamship ~Corhpany, The shells, of which twenty | Booth, chairman of. the.company, said it awgre Sred, fell one thousand yards in | Was quite prepared for a Elump in freight rates and that the soonér the storm was over the bettef. oy P Sir Alfred added ‘that he hoped the slump would result in a definite break in RAL LEGISLATION | the “Vicious circle of rising wages .and rising prices.” BRITISH PLAN BOND SALE TO REDUCE FLOATT: ' Tondon, ' Aprii lain, chancellor of 4!-_.#:‘\” vessel. There , were no ATE SUBJECT 28.—Austen Chamber- the exchequer, an- nounced in the house of commons today that in order to make further provision for reduction of the floating debt the government had decid®d lic_subscription on government bonds maturing in from five to fifteen years. The issue price will be Bonds will' carry 5 per cent. | Interest, Mr. Chamberlain added, but ad- ditional interest up to 2 per cent. might able during a period of fiye years, ing to the discount rate of treas- - IN BA : To April 25 —The house of rep- : @ bill to make | EMBARGO ON GRAIN SHIPMENT! TO NEW ENGLAND VIA CANADA per_cent. beer able for sale in state, sfibject to federal legislation. “had previously passed the| Chicago, April Which now: goes to the gov- finn to. greet when it is to offer for pub- Monday next new 28.—The Grand Trugk railroad today placed &n embargo- -on. grain_shipments to New England -via émbdrgo closes the last misfortune | outlet from. Chicage into that territory as other roads have previous goed grain because of the rail strike. Iways frown- Federal Grand Jiries of New|With 84 Districts Missi York and Newark Will Be| Wood Has a Ma; 612 Over Johnsc ing Leads Wood in Ohio 14,313 Votes. Newark, N. J., April 28.—Revised re- turns in all but 84 districts in New Jer- sey, tabulated at midnight, gave Major General Leonard Wood a majority of 612 votes overSenator Hiram W. John- son of California in the preferential pres. jdential primary held yesterday. vote was Johnson 50,7903 Wood 51,402. Seventy-four of the 84 missing dis- tricts are in counties which have given in the incomplete re- o d s New York, April 23.—Indictments charging violation of the Lever act will be sought - by ‘the government - against leaders of the railroad strike in the New ' York district, according to announcement - issued tonight by Asgistant United States Attorney" Gen- eral C. B. Ames at the close of an in- vestigation he has been conducting into transportation strikes here. Federal grand juries in New York and Newark will be asked to proceed against the strike leaders, Mr. Ames said. He asserted that ~department of justice agents have fully established the identi- v of these leaders. Joseph L. Bodine, assistant = United ! States attorney for New" Jersey, Who ‘was present when Mr. Ames made his announcement, said the New Jersey fed- eral grand jury is in'session and ready to take immediate action. % None of- the railroad strikers was summoned by the, government investigat- ors, it ‘was-stated. Mr. Ames said he was convinced that neithet the Brother- the American Federation of Labor had been |involved in the strike. “The oujlaw railroad strike _situation seems to be improving steadily,” = Mr. Ames said, “and I do not think requires attention further than possible punish- ment for the violation of law. Mr. Ames investigated the strike of coastwise longshoremen and workers, and. the charge of certain com- mercial interests that 'there is a com- hination of truckmen and fish handlers to boycott fish caught and consigned by non-union fishermen. the commercial interests affectéd by the various strikes and with representatives of the strikers and their employers, were held by Mr. Ames. £ 2 A statement covering thescope of the investigation was issued tonight by Mr. Anies. Concerning the longshoremen, his “I_Delieve. that the sit- nation is possible of adjustment. without legat. proceeding by the department of is far better than any legal .remedy that may be applied. Therefore, before reaching any conclusion as to the course -which the department of justice should pur- sue, I have requested the representatives of the Merchants’. Association, the Chamber of Commerce of the state of and the other chambers of commerce with whom we have been in conference, to select a committee of rep- resentative citizens to make a final: ef- fort to settle the matter fairly to all in- terests concerned. He expressed the belief that ‘such a committee can reach-a conclusion which can be: accepted. Further action of the departriient of justice, ‘he said, will de- hoods of Railroad Employes nor jussice and that an adjustment New York, pend upon ‘the ouf Lo ferenc tified. further consideration will- be given it. AMES GIVEN FULL POWER TO HANDLE N. Y. Palmer_said tonight. - Mr. not be States district attorneys had show, persons involved. act would be sought. . JAP GUARD ANNIHILATED IN DISTRICT OF NIKOLAEVSK ‘Washington, April 28.—A serious up- heaval in the district of Nikolaevsk, on the eastern coast of Siberia, far north of is_reported in an official statement issued by the Japanese foreign oflice received today by the state depart- Vladivostolk, ment. With- all communication cut off, the ing is shrouded in more or less mys- tery, but the foreign office said that all | reports. received point to the conclusion that the Japanese guard in the district had been annihilated and several hundred Japanese residents, including the consul, up massacred. The number of men in the guard was not given. Because of the ice, the despatching of a.Japanese expedition to Nikolaevsk, the principal city of the district, located on An expe- dition was started, however; on April 19 under ‘escort of the warships Mikasa and Mishima, and it reached Alexandrovski, a port on the Siberian coast about 300 miles south .of Nikolaevsk. on April 22, where it will remain until the ice breaks up. The foreign. office -said . that the troops landed without meeting ersistance and that the Japanese residents in that Most of the Non river, is impossible. district were found to be safe. them were taken aboard the Mikasa. GERMANY PERMITTED SECRET, REMOVAL OF 286 GUNS Berlin, April 28—In. an article ‘com- menting on the discovery by the entente control conimission of 286 guns at Stettin the independent socialist organ Die Frei- heit says the incident was discussed. at a cabinet meeting at which' General Von declared : that this secret movement. -of - guns, Which igsberg. ; was un- Seecht, the chief of staff, were intended for Koenigsber dertaken with the full know] approval of the ministry of “This statement,” says the newspaper, “is_very astonishing. Under the' treaty of Versailles Gérmany was allowed only 186 guns, and incidents such as this are bound to inspire the entente With -the deepest disgust.” jority .of will introduce a bill in the house tp pre- vent speculation in sugar. Wood a_majority i turns. Virtually all of them ar in rural and outlying sections state and their vote will not be available before tomorrow morning. hand indicate that Wood fourteen counties and Johnson seven. The republican “big four” will consist of United States Senators Walter Edge and Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, pledg- ed to’ the choice of the VOters as express- ed at the primary; Former Governor Ed- ward C. Stokes and Former Acting Gov- ernor William N. Runyon both pledged Figures at has carried UNWILLING TO CONCEDE WO0OD VICTORY IN NEW JERSEY New York, April 28—A. C. Joy, asisst- ant eastern campaign manager ‘for Sen: Johnson of Californi: announced tonight he was not willing to concede fo Major General Leonard Wood in _the New Jersey preferential presidential primary. He even if Wood carried the state, the mar- gin undoubtedly would be so small as to amount virtually to a victory for John- tor Hiram W. or harbor “We entered New Jersey with no funds and virtually no organization to battle ore of -the strongest political organiza- tions in the country, the New Jersey re- publican_state organization,” “Unless Wood ‘wins by a very large ma- | it will be a serious blow to his Conference - with “We have won eight district delegates and possibly one delegate-at-large in the Under the circumstances and with only fragmentary reports we can see no reason for conceding a Wood victory in New Jersey." Charges that Senator Johnson had been “robbed” of the republican preference for president in at least’ three counties of New Jersey were made tonight by Wil liam P. Verdon, republican leader in Ho- boken and one of the most enthusiastic Johnson supporters in the state. Verdon made his allegations in a tele- gram sent to Semator Johnson in which “You were robbed in ‘Camden, Morris and Essex perssed the opinion that Johnson would win at least 11 of the 28 delegates. SENATOR JOHNSON HAS 2 NO CHARGES TO MAKE Richmgnd, -Ind. April 28.—“T make no charges, but I have a very lively recol- lection of the fraudulent Minnesota pri- mary and T.have wired my friends in detailed information,” said” United States Senator Hiram W: Johnson here late tonight, ing on the New Jersey primaries. had just received a telegram from Wil- liam P. Verdon telling of charges that he had been robbed in three countied. Senator Johnson's complete statement, which he wrote out, follows: “There are some Strange circumstances connected With the returns Jersey.. They are being ‘revised’ every féw hours. Any man with experience in politics will understand this. charges, bt I have a very good recol- lection of the fraudilent Minnesota pri- mary and I have wired my friend New Jersey for detailed information. tcome of ‘the negotia- New. Jersey in comment- HARDING LEADS OHIO BY 14,313 VOTES Columbus, Ohio, 135 precincts out of- 5882 missing, Senator Warren G. Harding to- night_was leading Major General Leon- ard Wood by 14,313 votes for the re- publican presidential preference terday’s primary figures. At 10.15 o'clock the vote was: Hard- ing 122,436; Wood 108,173, Harry M. Daugherty, paign manager, who on the face of the returns appears William Boyd, Cleveland attorney and a Wood candidate for delegate at large had_cut Boyd's lead to 1,797. of 533 precincts are vet to from in the delegate race. Tabulated returns from 5309 out of delegate-at-large showed the following resnlt STRIKE SITUATION Washington, April 28.—Assistant At- torney Genmeral Ames was given “full power o handle the New York strike situation” when - he left to investigate conditions there, Atorney ' Getneral Ames had not communicated with the department of justice and offfcials preferred Ro await information from him before dis- cussing the government’s proposed action. Rumors of similar action would be taken in several .other cities where the strike had been particularly bad could cdnfirmed ‘at the department. Of- ficials there woulll say only that United instruc- use ‘their own judgment” and where violations of law . were -specifically they should proceed against the Tt was mot believéd, however, that any great number of - in- dictments under the Lever food control —With only in the state Harding cam- (Harding) 107,688 ; Turner (Wood) 96,709; IDAHO DELEGATION IS FOR SENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON Couer D'Alene, Idaho, April 28.—Sena- tor William E. Borah, favoring United States Senator. Hiram Johnson for the four delegates-at-large from Idaho to the national convention, it was voted at the republican state convention today. other three are State Thomas of Mooding John P. Gray and Stanley A. Easton, Kellogg (Woog). Chairman John (non-committal) ; Couer D'Alene SENATOR KNOX PRESENTS A PEACE RESOLUTION ‘Washington, April for the hous eresolution terminating the war with Germany was, laid before the senate foreign relations committee today republican, Pennsyl- It was discussed briefly, democratic opposition indicated, and or- dered printed for furthier committee con- sideration next Friday. Besides declaring the war with Ger- nox resolution. would provide for the establishment of peace with Austria. N. €. REPUBLICAN APPEAL TO NAT'L CONVENTION Raleigh, N. C., April 28. lina republican by Senator Knox, many_ ended, the EGROES TO egroes will carry their fight for participation in the party coun- cils to the national -convention at Chi- cago, it was determined at the negro re- publican state convention here when' delegates to' the Chicago convention OBITUARY. Michael E. Tracy. New Haven, Conn., April 28. E.- Tracy, one 'of the eight National Order of ights of' Columbus in this city in 1882, died tonight at his home in Orange. | He was born In Ireland 70 years ago. 'He leaves a widow, three daughters and one ledge and Hudson and Manhattan tubes to’ New- ark resurhed operations.” More than 50,000 soldiers in Mexico now are in revolt against the Carranza government. . Poland has resumed telegraph service, recently suspended, with other countries of the world. An agreement water power | house conferees. the bill was reached by. the senate and|JFy Sir Malachy B. Daly, former deputy speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, dead, aged 8$4. Representative Howard announced he According to a report received in London from Rome, a bolshevik rising has occurred in Jugo-Slavia. P. 3. ‘Conmelly of the L ®. T. Brotherhood, announced there would be no strike of L R. T. employes. Memorial Day exercises will be held at American cemeteries in France by Paris Post, American Legion. Reenforcements of Japanese troops at Nikolavsk have been landed at Alex- androwsk, on the Gulf of Tartary. Senator Underwood of Alabama, was elected democraitc leader in the senate at a conference of senate democrats. In the house of commons the ques- tion was discussed of sending a Cana- dian envoy to the United States. All seed wheat In the province of Chubut, southern Argentina, has been purchased by a North American firm. A general strike was called at Sar- gossa, Spain, following the arrest of 15 members of the local radical committee. Reports received at’ Constantinople from Pylgrade show that the railway strike in Serbia has become nationwide. The United Frait steamship Ulua ar- rived at New York from Grennock and Glasgow, equipped with a wireless tele- phone. Internagional bankers are in receipt of advices indicating an early fesumption of gold imports country. - from London to this As a result of the elections held throughout Denmark, the radical party lost 15 ‘seats in the lower house of par- liament. More than 1,000 quarts of whiskey al- leged to have been smuggled across the Canadian _border, Buren, Me. were seized at Van There were 800 casualties in the re- cent fighting in Guatemala City during the revolt which resulted in the over- throw of Cabrera. The Publip Service Rallway Company of New Jersey announced a voluntary increase of ten per cent in wages for 6,500 men, effective May 1. Governor-elect Joh: M. Parker de- clared in an address at the Tulane Club, New. Orleans’ that he had bought only one pair of shoes in three years. Flour advanced 50 cents to $15.50 & barrel at Minneapolis in carload lots. This is the biggest single rise this year and highest price ever received. In a collision on the Oudh & Sehilk- hand Railway mear Morabad, east of Delhi, India. four coaches were burned, killing fifty persons and injuring fifty. Application by Iccland for member- ship i the league of nations, will call attention to the little-known fact that Iceland is now a completely independent state. “Nomination of & commission to con- sider claims of the Roman Catholic church to holy places in Palestine, is a source of gratification to Vatican au- thorities. The British steamer Westgate, aban- doned by its crew on April 18 - while bound from NewY ork for Halifax, was reported a derelict { igation. dangerous to nav- Trustees of the Amoskedg Manufact- uring Company voted to place on a $6 dividend basis was recently doubled by a stock dividend distribution. its common stock which Officers searched a swamp between Taunton and Easton, Mass, for the body of Oliver L. Eklund of Providence believed to have been hidden there by his murderers. Professor Jacques Hadamard, noted French mathematician, who is to deliver the Silliman memorial lectures at Yale University this year, arrived in New Haven yesterday. Latest Information received at the Paris foreign office from Asia Minor in- dicates that the losses to French troops were less serious than at first supposed in encounters at Urfa. Charles E. 3nith. a director of the Florida National Bank of Jacksonville, Fla, and . the Indian Head national bank of this city died at his summer residence at Nashua, N. H. About 50 indictments for violations of the Volstead act for selling liquor or for smuggling it into the United States were returned by the federal grand jury in session in Syracuse, N. Y. The French freighter Fordonian, which became disabled a week ago by a ma: chinery breakdown swhile hound ~from New York for Halifax, was towed Boston by the coast guard cutter Ossip- Dpee. to Doubt that the According to statements filed Governor Edwards and Mayor Hague, of Jersey City, receivi no money as candidates for delegates- at-large to the democratic national con- ‘vention. no contributions and spent St. Paul's Episcopal chureh of New- buryport, Mass, a wooden structure built in 1800 and valued as a historic landmark was burned with the parish house adjoining. The loss including furnishings was 330,000. William C. Clarke, of Mount Vernon, filed with Surrogate Slate, of West- chester County, the appraisal of the es- tate of John R. Hageman presideni of the Metropolitan Life Insurance So. It shows he left an estate of $3,362,045.92. Responsibility, for the continued res- idenee in Hollind of former Emperor William of Germany was placed square- ly and exclusively on the Netherlands government in a note sent by Premier Lloyd George March 24, of Great Britain on| ‘unds of the Custom Office in Juarez Were Brought to Paso Bank Yesterday Afternoon—Amer ‘-.W-.r‘ EleHlveBeenW'bBewrfl' in the Event of Uprising in Juarez Endangers the C Revolutionary Forces Are Attacking Mazatlan, a Port o El Paso, Texas, April 28—Carranza|today. The sugar had been sent officials in El Paso and Juarez tonight ‘Wwere prepared to move against a threat- ened attempt to swing the Juarez garri- son into line with the Chihuahua revo- lution which was launched in’ the stas capital yesterday. Funds of the customs ‘fficé in Juarez ‘were brought to an El Paso bank late this afternoon. United States under bond but was. fes turned to Mexico by order of Presiait It is now being return to the United States. SPREAD OF REVOLUTION. _ AGAINST CAREANZA GOV'T. ‘Washington, April 28.—Mexican. A~ vices here today, both through Ames and rebel channels, continued to note & rapid spread of the revolutionary mawe- ment against the Carranza governmept, particularly near Mexico City itselt. Government officials here, however, said they saw nothing in these rather scatter- ing incidents immediately critical in the Y the federal autherk The best available information, it was added, indicated that the roval forces under arms were nearly equal in mum- Until the rebels operating in every part of the country are nated, Mexico City is in no serious dane ger, military men here believe, except By coup d'etat or from a raid that turned intd a more important ‘movement. The chief immediate dificulty of federal military observers here sad, of harassing of Carranza’s lines of communication might force them .o adopt a defensive attitude In place of of- fensive measures against the rebels. News from the southern part of Mex- ico confirmed reports that Cuerbavaca, Mexieo, - April City was quiet at noon today and all Americans are safe, according to a mes- sage received this afternoon by American Consul E. A. Dow, Stewart, American consul in Chihuahua .—Chihuahua. situation faced b; Revolt Spreads to Salina Cruz. Juarez, April 28.—Troops at Cruz, commanded by General Alejo Gpn- zalez, have revolted and taken possession of the port, one of the most important according to a report vtk i e e b on the Isthmus, received here tonight. MEXICAN REBELS ATTACK PACIFIC PORT MAZATLAN Agua Prieta, Sonora, April zatlan, Sinaloa a port coast of Mexico, is being attacked by revolutionary forces under General An- gel Flores, according to an unconfirmed Teport received at military headquarters General P. Elias Calles an- nounced the attack had been expected since yesterday. on the Pacific AMERICAN TROOPS ORDERED TO PREPARE FOR ACTION El Paso, Texas, April troops in El Paso tonight Were ordered to be prepared for action threatened uprising In Juarez endangers Mexico City yesterday and - Cadled. Washington that General Dieguez was in Guadalajara, with 8,000 federal was regarded as significant announcement was made - three ago, that he had started from | City for the west coast to attack | Tebels moving southward from His failure to get further than jara was said to have given the | an opportunity to move on organize their lines of that extend to the American border. - A telegram announced ” | border mources” i 300 CARLOADS OF MEXICAN SUGAR !u.-m Calles’ estimate of FOR SALE IN UNITED STATES of fedegal troops in revoit Nogales, Ariz, April 28.—Three hun- dred caricads of Mexicap .sugar. refined 4n Sonora will be released for sale in the United States as the result of the revo- lution . Sonora, it was announced here | of 28.—American Military police in the city have been issued rifles and ammunition, city police have made arrangements to patrol a deadline in the lower part of the city beyond which civilians will not be permitted to go in the d Rio’ Grande. irection of the | | hua state at 4,000, | Crimiahon. General et and General FRENCH LABOR LEADERS HAVE NOT MADE MAY DAY PLANS Paris, April 28 —French labor leaders ill_hesitating today as to the na- ture of the manifestations to be made by the workers on May Day. Technical- the holiday pro- gramme. rested entirely with the general federation of labor, which was expected at a meeting of its general council to- night to decide on the course to be fol- Leon Jouhaux, president of the however, has said that it was organization GERMAN SOCIALISTS FAIL T0 MAKE MAY DAY A HOLIDAY Berlin, April 25, make May day a legal holiday was feated by both the national assembly = the Prussian diet The vote in sembly was witheut division, but Prussian diet the motion was only after acrimonious debate, national assembly also fejected other eocialist - motion organizations of braced by the recent general In view of the this test of strength intention of h celebrate the day in a quiet, dignified manner, avoiding all manifestations that might provoke a clash with the police. The federation of railroad men, never- theless, is discussing its own plans for May 1, although its members agreed on Sunday last to leave the matter in the hands of the general federatiom. The general labor gramme at present consists of a general cessation of work for 24 hours in or- der to obtain first, general amnesty all_ prisoners guilty of military or po- litical offenses ; sumption of economic relations with So- ciet Russia; third, nationalization of the public service, and fourth, the right of the labor syndicates to be represented on the boards of direction of the utility ser- vices and firms in which labor is em- approaching election, is considered signifi- cant, inasmuch as the non-socialists were eolidly arrayed against the socialists. compulsory pre- payment of postage on “serviee” The bill, therefore, cannot become tive on May day, as was in nust be returned to the 3 ::zel;;! llmln] to Minister of legraphs Giesberts, means a mmmuo,aoommh‘ s STCWARDS CHARGED WITH CONCEALING SEVEN STOWAWAYS New York, federation's pro- immediate re- cabin Red Star liner Finfhgd red held by immigration pending investigation of le by seven stowaways who Posters plastered all over the walls of Paris call upon the workers not to work lmmedl-;ely al:n‘ll:;‘ av- ars another poster from the syndicate {:? former soldiers, saying: “Workers, to your shops, to your work benches. Let ue. have no idleness on May 1" today were ordes charges made EXPLOSION OF HYDROGEN GAS CAUSED DEATH AND INJURIES aks, April 28.—The m& sion of a 'tank of hydrogen gas at foundry of the General Electric Com- pany late today caused the death of Her- bert Williams, chief welder, injured sev- demolished _ the . out- building in which it occurred and shat- tered hundreds of panes of glass in fac- The operatives were alarmed, but none except the men at the scene were hurt. Emile Pocaro a teamster who was un- loading the .tanks, was so severely in- jured that he was still unconscious at a hospital tonight, where his condition was considered dangerous. The ruins of the outbuilding, known as house, caught fire and sev- o Miatms were sounded, but the flames were confined to the structure which was located at one end of the plant. —_— DIFFICULTY IN SERVING PICKFORD-MOORE PAPERS. Nevada, April 28.—As mel Pickford nor Owen Moore ars. with summons fot aside the divorce ickford, Judge istrict court hers tory windows. to be served the state's suit to decree granted to L;::n i the d o an order directing se: lication for six weeks i & Oun paper coples of which are to the two at Hollywood. Callf. Misy Pior ford is referred to in the {Gladys M. Moore, k Fairbanks” Her rnment will be | able to accomplish -a ‘Ereat deal in re- lieving the print paper shortage was ex- pressed by Frank P. Glass, of Birming- ham, Ala., former president of the Amer- ican Newspaper Publishers' Association. in a Gardnervills nown as Gladys M. FOUR WIVES IN COURT ‘TO HEAR HUSBAND SENTENCED New York, April 28.—Four wives of James Babeock, 29 years old, of Newark N. J., were in the courtroom today when Judge Louis D. Gibbs sentenced him to five years in Sing Sing prison for big- Babcock selected PLANS ‘FOR MAY DAY CELEBRATION IX ENG the “month of er public services in connection wigh the British labor's celebrat: Reports to the Lon ters of the Trades Union Congress, haws ever, indicates that a_number of agricultural and distributive take the day off to participate in loeally. organized processions and that speechmaking will far exceed the ord of any former year. $465,000,000 NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL PASSED BY THE SENATE ‘Washington, April 28.—The raval propriation bill carrving approximat £465,000.000 for 1921 navy expendits passed the semate late today « record vote and was sent to for adjustment of $40,000.000 senate crease over the house bill - June for his marriages, testimony show- . His last wife caused his arrest when she learned of the other marriages. Two of Babcock's wives came from Paterson. N. J., and the other two were New York fon of May FIGHT AT WORMWOOD SCRUBBS AT SINN FEIN DEMONSTRATIONS London,” April 38.—gSinn Fien demon- strations at Wormwood Scrubbs tonight led to rigtous conflicts with an anti-Sinn Fein crowd. Several persons were slight, 1y injured and two Irish priests w. g roughly handled. sponse to the demonstrations from inside There was no Five more hunger strikers were sent to. the hospital today.