Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 3, 1920, Page 1

VoL LXI—NO. 109 "POPU LATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN., MONDAY, M AY - 3, 1920 TEN PAGES—70 COLUMNS. JOHNSON-HOOD CONTEST. MARYLAND PRIMARY In Presidential Primaries and State Conventions Schedulsd For This Week 54 Delegates Will Be Selected For the Re- publican Convention and 68 to the Democratic—In the | California Primary, Tuesday, Interest Centers in the Fight Between “Group Pledged For Johnson and a Group Pledged to Hoover.” 2.—Fifty-four dele- | another group to Herbert Hoover. New York, May gates to the republican national conven- On the democratic ticket in California, Henry H. Childers of Los Angeles, who tion and 68 delegates to the democratic| ryyorg g Jiberal interpretation of the na- national convention will be selected primaries and state ggnventions to be Indiana, which sends thirty delegates to each na- tional convention, will hold a preferen- tial presidential primary, preparatory to the republican and democratic state con- ventions, May 12 and May 18, respective- to e held this week.. In addition 1y, at which the delegates are elected. Utah republieans will hold a state con- which eight delegates are to be chosen, four | Jahnson. large. Senator Hiram W. Johnson of Califor- Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illi- Jeneral Leonard Wood ve conducted a campaign in the hough it is possible that an un- vention at Price tomorrow at district delegates and four at nois, and Major each k etate a instructed delegation may bé chosen. Sixteen delegates to each national cpn- tion will be elected at the presiden- tial preference primary in Maryland to- " General Wood are the principal republican presi- electors also having to vote for uninstruct morrow. Se ator Johnson and dential contestants, the opportunity ed delegates. The name of no cand dates for the democratic presidential nominati ar on the ballot. convenion in Lou 1 elect 26 delegates to the onal convention at a state ille on Tuesday. The in | tional prohibition amendment, is running as 4 lone candidate against a groupd of 26 unpledged candidates. Thers is no contest in the prohibition party, the 26 candidates being pledged to the- candi- dacy of Henry Clay Needham of Los An- geles. 2 There are four republican candidates in the preferential presidential prinfary in Indiana on Tuesday. They are Gov- ernor Lowden, General Wood, Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio, and Senator The delegates to be chosen at the state conventions later Will be in- structed for the presidential candidate receiving a majority vote in the primary. 1f no candidate receives a majority, the state convention may either instruct its delegates for any one candidate or al- low them to go to the convention unin- structed. The names of no candidates for the democratic presidential nomination will appear on the ballot in Indiana although voters have the privilege of writing in names of candidates if they so desire. The name of W. G. Webster ~of New | York appears on the ballot as a candi- date for the republican nomination for viee president. sl The republican state convention in Michigan, to be held Wednesday, will name four delegates-at-large to the ma- pr pal cont will be between. .dele- | tional gathering. Chief interest there gates wishing to go to the national con- | centers in the resolutions expected to be vention ur ed and those pledged | adopted endorsing Senator Johnson. Al- to Governor James M. Cox of Ohio. though he won the state’s primary pref- California holds a statewide primary |erénce by 44000, the senalor failed in Tuesday to choose 26 delegates each to | the popular vote, to carry seven of the the republica democratic and prohibi- | thirteen congressional districts. Of the tion national conventions. Chief interest|nine district conventions already held, there centers the fight between a|five pledged their delegates to Johnson, group of republican candidates for dele- | while four districts named uninstructed gates pledged to Senator Johnson and | delegates. NO HUNCFR +3RIKERS HEMAIN 1 (By the removed from piral today, ina r released i1 the past two days. There Gma Mid-Tyrone district in w fifteen tary tith elections. Dr. Stuart, arrested In Londorderry Saturday night Con- ‘table Peter Henley was shot through the A party of police which hastened to the scene of the shoot- One of the police- men was struck by a spent bulet but was The police returned the fire of the attackinz party, all the members leg while on his beat. ing also was fired on. no thurt of which escaped. NEW WORKERS OF GLA Providence, R. I, textile aachueetis tits Worke's of £ merica. Thomas ¥ to discuss the report, but said that statement cciering the situation would be tic union tomorrow mornifig. The national executive board adjourned iay at New York after a session issued by Ratr! thet 'asted twc days. DOMESTIC DISCORD RESULTS IN TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN KENTUCK Dawson Springs, K. his 4 year old son. LABOR MOVEMENT IN MEXICO 1N OPPOSITION TO C‘IRBQNZA Agua Prieta, Sonora, May 2 (By the A.| #.) ~ ‘onfirmation of widespread reports anti-Carranza labor movement ihroughetes Mexico and the declaration of an that the American Federation of Labor expected 10 give its support .to the PR 1t is pointed out that the country is , lsovenent were made by Ju:n|Rimf, WITNESSED ECLIPSE OF MOON full of young men who were unable to union of presicent of the Lynotypers’ Mexico and secretary of the executive “beard of the Mexican labor party, here toright. ETREET CAR SYSTEM IN UTICA is paralyzed by a strike. Not not to return to work. BEVERAL HUNDRED HOGS BURNED IN STOCK YARDS FIRE Louisville, Kr., May 2.—Fire of - un- known onigin destroyed the hog house, a three story frame structure covering about four acres of ground, in the Bourt bon stock yards here this afternoon and entailed a loss of $200,000. Several hun- dre dhead of hogs perished in the flames and 29,000 bushels of corn were destroy- ed. KOREAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION [ uthy 5 Seoul, Korea, April 27.—A special o BELFAST JAIL ¥ A P)— hunger strikers were represented the parliament for as arrested by the mili- ing and brought to Belfast. He was election agent for Arthur Grif- founder of the Sinn Fein organiza- tion. in Northwest Tyrone at the general health officer at Belturbet, County Cavan, also has been COLBY MAKES PLEA FOR F UCCOR FOR EUROPEANS New York, May 2.—In a plea for suc- cor for the distressed people of Europe, made at a relief meeting here tonight, Secretary of State Dainbridge Colby de- clared “the world is really at the brink, new no bunee strikers in the [not of a great disaster, but of utter dis- aster.” Emphasizing the need ‘for physi ,a solicitor of | cians. and_medical supplies in certa areas of Europe, he urged the gathering “to see that the great workaday world of precccupied men and women, of Well- meaning and well-disposed but humanly selfish men an'd, women; are roused-from their distractions and their preoccupa- ticrg.® “Let me say a word,” he continued, “abour the general attitude of our coun- try in this time of great perplexity, of doubt and uncertainty, that hovers and broods over all nations., Let us not be ay Day Casualties inVarious Countries Three Men Killed and 102 ..Wounded in Paris—Fight Between Police Dem- onstraters in Montevideo. Paris, May 2—Official figures issued today give the casualties resulting from the disorders yesterday as thrée dead and 102 wounded, of whom six remain in hospitals, two of them in a dangerous condition. The arrests aggregated 103, The foreigners among those arres! are to be deporied. = Alexandre Blane, extreme socialist deputy, who was injured in vesterday's clash with the police, Will be prosecuted a charge of abuse of the police. Parlia- mentary immunity, it is said, will not ap- ply to. his case, which it is asserted was a flagrant offense. M. Blanc was one of the deputies who met the Germans in Switzerland during the war at-an inter- national socialist conference. SHOOTING DURING MAY DAY DEMONSTEATION IN MONTEVIDEO a a Montevideo, Uruguay, May 1.—Twelve persons were wounded by revolver shots in a fight between the police and 500 | workers during the May Day demonstra- tions. The shooting began when the po- lice intervened to stop, workers from at- tacking street cars, one of which was overturned and other stoned. The street care employes were virtually the only workers who did not join the May Day strike. \ TERCES‘!'E)ARTCELEBI’IATIO.\' & OF LANDING OF PILGRIMS New York, May 2—In celebration of the tercentenary of the landing of the| Pilgrim fathers, the Sulgrave institution, | with headquarters in this city, has issued an address urging-the people of the United SL‘?'es to hold appropriate cere- monies in ghery section of the country be- ginning Jdne 4. Great Britain and Hol- land, it said, will celebrate through peo- ple’s committees and will send represent- ative delegations to take part in carrying out a popular American program. The Sulgrave institution, of which Vice | President Thomas R. Marshall is honor- ary chairman, suggests that these cele-| brations be in the nature of a program of public meetings, special instructions in the public schools, universal church ser- vice, local pageants and parades. The institution itself already has arranged for an educational program in theé public ¢ schools ‘beginning June 4, and a public address to be made by Senator Arthur lCapor of Kansas in the senate for official i record. In September there is to.be a celebra- tion in Provincetown, Mass., which will be followed a week later by another in New York city, while in October celebra- ions will be held in Norfolk and Hamp- ton Roads, Va. and New Orleans. On later dates celebrations will be held in} Buffalo and the Niagara frontier and in other American cities and towns. On Nov. 11, Armistice day, and the -anniversary of the signing of the May- tlower compact,“there are to be celebra- world, with further ceremonics Thanks- giving day. Some Sunday in November also is to be selected for universal church service throughout the English-speaking world. TAXICAB DRIVER EKLUND'S BODY FOUND X ‘ Boston ended. N horers asking for 87 1-2¢ an hour or §7 county, upheid th® May and June w 16 1-4 cents per quart, a three-quarters. Saturday, but the workers in the building trades occurred in several cities. * ler of the Chicago Opera Co., ceed the late Cleonfonte executive director of the company. ity of Hysar, dispatch of the Coast Guard cutter Al- gonquin from Fort Townsend, Washing- ton, to that place. “BRIEF TELEGRAMS Strike of stwise Zongshoremen 2 e T Bronx Grand Jury is investigating tho rent Su'ikb\in that borough. Gold coin amounting to $410,000 was | withdrawn, Treasury for saipment to Ceylon. from the New York Sub- Another efort was made by non-recog- nized ag.ciations of rafiroad men to gain hearing ‘before the Railroad Labor Board. General Contractors’ Associaiton, ot ewark, N. J., granted demands of la- day. Judge Andrew Curran, of It was learned in London when the Duchess of Marlborough received her di- vorce she will spend America. , much of her time in The retail price of milk in Boston for set for Saturday at reduction of Polish troops pierced the bolsheviki front, taking 10,000 prisoners, according ! production, it was said, increased only to-a report from Warsaw to the Berlin D Vossishe Zeitung. May Day was quiet in New England usual walkouts by The TFrench govefnment designated Gabriel Hanataux as its representative at the sanctification of Joan of Arc by the Pope on May 23. Directors the British-American of Corporation are considering the declara- Princess Margaret of Connaught, died at Stockholm Saturday afternoon. Twenty-five thousand signed protests against the increase of fares on the Hud- son tubes were turned into Fnance Com- missioner Gannon of Jersey City. Herbert M. Johnson, business control- will sue- Campanini _as Four alleged “moonshine” whiskey man- ufacturers of whem Mrs. Vittorio Bialo is] said to be the.leader, were held for trial ! in United States district court at Spring- field. ¥y of alien a Ala: Ac ators in thé vicin- resulted in the Fire Friday night swept the Methodist camp grounds at Sterling Junction, Mass., and destroyed the tabernacle, three cottages and a garage, with a loss of $10,000 . Swedish Methodist Despite prohibition the Adams street police court, Brooklyn, had 39 more cases of intoxication in the month than in the same There were 56 cases. of April time a year ago. Pilot Simon and Mechanic Wheeler were injured when their airplane fell at ther military aviation field Peru. had just arrived from New Orleans. near Lima, They are commercial aviators and Fire yesterday cavsed damage of Ap- “. Crawford | constitutionality of | the new Kansas Court of Industrial Re- lations. i Actual Shortage of | Gasoline is Feared {Producticn is Not Keeping Pace With the Increasz of Automchilts in Use — Stocks Shrinking. Washington, May 2.—Warning of the probability of an actual shortage of gas- oline before the end of next summer, as !a result of the disproportionate increase in gasoline : # uction and the number of automobiles i use, was given in a state- ment issued today by the bureau of mines. While an increase in stocks at the end iof February of more than 100,000,000 gal- 11(711’:. or 20 per cent., as compared with a iyet acute, it is vrobable, the statement {said, that before the “summer season is over it will become tight, if indeed, it does {not. become short.” ‘Wit the number of automobiles andi | trucks now in use estimated to be 25 per cent. greater than last year, gasoline 11 Per cent. in February: While it is un- ticipated that increased installation of | processes. giving a higher yield of gaso- {1ne will cause a steady advance in pro- duction this year, it is doubtful, it was added, that this will be sufficient to meet the increased demand. | HEAVY CONSUMPTION OF CRUDE PETROLEUM IN MARCH ‘Washington, May 2.—Heavy drafts were made in March on the reserve| stocks of crude petrdleum notwithstand- | tion of a stock dividend. Action was|ing a 20 per cent. increase in production, deferred to a later date. according to a report today by thes L | United States geologic survey. The total Crown Princess Gustav Adolph of | increase in output of the United States Sweden, who before her marriage Wwas|in March as compared with March, 1919, was 6,000,000 barrels, but the increased consumption made necessary the importa- tion of 6,500,000 barrels from Mexico. An additional million barrels was drawn from the reserves to meet the demand. { “The March consumption of crude pe-| troleum exceeded that of a year ago by nearly twelve million barrels,” said Sec- retary Payne in discussing the report. “This single month’s record of 14,000,000 barrels means that the United States is now using more oil each month than the whole world used in the whole year or 18! These are facts that must be faced by every citizen who uses, any petroleum product, whether fuel oil, gasoline or: { lubricating oil, and these figures like-] Wwise raise questions of public policy, for in the matter of oil the United States is | certainly living beyond its means.” STRIKE IN FRANCE FOR THE NATIONALIZATION OF RAILWAYS Paris, May 2.—(By The A. P.) The strike of the railroad men for nationali- zation of the railways, which is to be joined tomorrow by the miners and dock- men, has resulted thus far only in hin- | dering traffic on four of the five' big’ sys- tems—the Kastern, Northern, Orleans and the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean. Temporarily, however, the state line | which runs to Havre is tied up. “The strike” is a complete failure,” isaid Yves Le Trocquer, the minister of public works, today. Services on all lines were curtailed to- day. The Parisien forces were operating about 50 per cent.. except the Lazarre state .system, which cancelled all trains from the capital. ¥ PRICE TWO CENTS SUFFRACE CRUSHORRS ARE TOUNVADE STATE TOMORROW Members of “Flying Squadron” Have Received Final Instruc- ticns From Mrs. Carrie Chapman Cati—They Will Lunch at the Hartford Golf Club Tuesday—Thursday Meetings Will Be Held Throughout th: State—Friday thz Visitors Will Call on Governor Holcomb. New York, May 32.—The “flying session, but to persuade him to do so. We squadron” of suffragists recruited from|ars goirg thete on the supposition that varipus states to invade Connecticut to- | mofrow for a four-day campaign in an { vear ago, shows that the situation is not | effort to win it as the last state neces- =ary for ratification received final instruc- tions here tenight at a dinner given by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of associa- the National Woman tion. The femin cozched carefully Miss Catherine the ciation, The Suffrage spelibinders we Ludington, president the visifor will call on Governor Holcomb. “We are going to Connecticut to tell| her people that an emergency exigs,’ said AMrs. Cait. “The whole idea is not drive Gevernor Holcomb to call an extra ind closed doors by | nnecticut Woman Suffrage asso- Geiegation will start for Hartford | at § a. m. tomorrow, arriving these for lunchece at the ‘Hariford Golf club. From | theii unul Thursday meetings wili be held | ughout the state, and on Friday the = i8 an honesi man and will listen ic tal, having done so, will see the Cal, and Mrs. James A. De- t of Cskulo su, Ia.. have letters from the g of their siates addressed mor Il comb. Mrs. Devitt is a 1ge to the republican na- re of | tional ccnves t ¥ierhens of California in his urged Governor Holcomb to call gcevion of the Connecticut legls- wsserticy (hat suffrage has work- clorily i California. The state in every way, he wrote, because wonwn Eive Lién given the right to par- ticipate in public affairs. Governor Harding of lowa vouched fSr Mrs. De- in republican princt- letter to virtg scund Leiel ples THREE PUBLIC DINNERS FOR "AMERICAN FINANCIERS IN TOKIO Tokio, April which were unusually ese and American in honor of the Ame can financiers, headed by Mission who are visiting Japan.’ At banquet -held at the Bankers' club, \'is-‘ count Kaneko, former special rcpresenta- S in his tive of Japan in the United address recalled the worde &£ Theodore Roosevelt to he the effect 27.—Three public dinners, | largely attended, were_given yesterday by leading Japan rank A. Van- derlip, and members of the American Silk WHISTER OF ECONOMICS NOT . WORRIED ABOUT GERMAN GREDIT Berlin, May 2.—Questioned whether credit purchases from American packers and other foreign agencies would not unduly burden the German balance ot trade at a time when marks possibiy would be at a lower level than at pres- ent, Robert Schmidt, minister of econd- mics, replied that he was not appré- hensive on that score if Germany's credit received no greater setbacks a late | through political disturbances. that | The foreign exchange department, peace in the Pacific rests upon the mut- | tyrough which credits are, arranged, said uality of respect between America and |t Japan. Other speakers included Baron Kanda, |of the mark rate. a member of the Japanese P. Kingsley, Mr. Vanderlip and Shibusawa ,président of the Japanese Association. his address said in part: minister, has already fuliy justified | its existence, as shown by the steadiness THis department, he e commercial | added, would form the nucleus of an in- mission which visited the United States|stitution for the in 1909, Jacob Gould Schurmap, Darwin, foreign exchange business, centralization of all which is Baron | considered desirable and which is uni- American- | versally advocated. Between September Mr. Schurman in|and December its turnover was 700,000, “The late European war has put back 000 marks, he declared. civilization 7 half century, and a conflict COMMUNIST LABOR MEN between the United States would put back centuries. moned to work t ment of the east SWEDEN MOURNS DEATH OF CROWN PRINCESS Stockholm, May 2. and Japan Asiatic civilization for The two countries are sum- ogether for the develop- | ADOLPH ; The entire nation ARRESTED AT NASHUA, U. B Nashua, N. H., May 2.—Herman Adler of Boston and Adolph Blazonis of Me- thuen, Mass., speaker and president, re- i spectively, at a meeting of, the communist {labor party here today, were taken into | custody bzy the local ~police . follow! |the session. The meeting had been vertised as a protest against the nd- has been plunged into mourning by the |tion-wide round-up of alleged radicais’Su | death vesterday of Crown Princess Gus- tave Adolph of Sweden, daughter of the King Gustave, who Nt and Queen Victoria, who had just arrived at the bedside of her sick mother in Baden, have been notified Duke of was in ‘onnaught. 228, and are returning for the funeral. The official report of the physicians profiteers upon our geographical position. AR TAUNTON proximately §100,000 at the fibre board D MAKE DEMANDS May 2.—It was re- yorted m textile circles here tonight that demands for a flat increase of 17 1-2 per e May 31, for all classes of workers, will be mailed tomorrow (o mur:iacturersein Rhode Island, Mas- z1d Connecticut by the na- tional executive board of e United Tex- AfeMahon of this city, viee president of the textile workers, refused Let us not be profiteers upon our com- fort and security and God-given and per- sonally quite undeserved commercial and trade advantages. Possession implies re- sponsibility and there rests upon this | great and powerful republic a reciprocal duty to this world, a duty that we should undertake happily, soberly, responsibly, to administer r Wealth, te apportion our power in great work of modest suc- €0~ and relief to those Who are less for- tunate.” ‘Let a great and liberal Americanism take possession of your mind and wills,” he added. “This is no time to hesitate and stumble, to equivocate and qualify. Let us give of our political power, of our political expericg®e, of our commercial strength, of our pecuniary power, b the succor and relief of this sorely afflicted world. It is not only our duty as human beings, but it is the only enlightened pol- iey.” a METHODIST EPISCOPAL . QUADRENNIAL CONFERENCE Des Moines, Ia., May 2.—Heralding the Methodist Kpiscopal quadrennial general ¥ conference meeting here as the most im- Providence. R. I, May 2.—The body of Oliver L. Eklund, Providence taxicab driver, who disappeared a week ago to-| night while taking two men from this city to Taunton, Mass., was found early this evening _n a shallow pond near the old Taunton iair grounds. It was found face down in about thir- ty inches of water, twenty feet from the ! short by two Taunton Boy Scouts, and was identified shortly after it was brought ashore by Irving Iklund, of this city, a brother, whose machine Oliver Eklund borrowed last Sunday to make the trip to Taunton. The body was fully clothed, even to overcoat and ~gloves. , Only the cap, which_had previously been | found in the car, wds locking. A hurried examination of the body, {made by Medical Examiner Charles A. | Atwood, of Taunton, showed that Ek- i lund had been struck on the back of the head. The blow, Dr. Atwood thought, 1had not been sufficient to kill Eklund. His belief is that the taxi dfiver was struck and thrown out of his machine and,, dazed, stumbled through the under- { brush into the pond and drowned. - District Attorney Joseph T. Kenney, of out France will continue demonstration into a general acordsnce with the decision of the rail- road. workers and the resolution of the General Labor Federation. i to the United States candidacy for the believing that his services as a.diplomat | are needed by the country and desiring | to be free of political entanglements. 5,000 tons of merchandise cleared from | St. Louis for Memphis and New Orleans, ! being, shipment of freight since the revival of | barge traffic on the Mississippi in 1918. | ofpol ed and sent to conference fortifications appropriatiohs bil plant of the J. P. Lewis company, Beaver ¥afls, N. Y. Two of buildings were destroyed. partly covered by insurance. he company’s The loss is It was announced that miners through- | the May Day strike in! Mexican ambassador | has renounced his | Mexican presidency, | Ygnacio Bonillas —_ | Ty Six barges earrying = approximately ' rivermen said, the largest river Without a record vote, the ¢ “nate pass- | «the ~annual carrying | fThe government's determination to fight the strike for nationalization has | been voiced by M. Le Trocquer and Pre- | mier Millerand. M. Millerand - said the government was prepared to do its duty who attended the crown princess gives the cause of death as poisoning ‘or pyemia. She had general blood suffered from inflammation of the ear, which ne- cessitated an operation last December outcome of the situation. other transportation equipment tain regions. The response of the miners recent demands. miners’ union order. roads who have ceased work. I —_— DEMOBILIZATION OF NAVY 1S PRACTICALLY COMPLETED in the maintenance of order and to pro- tect the men who remain at work. Le Trocquer expressed confidence in the carrying out its policy to break the stme. the government again has issued a decree to requisition motor trucks and strike order is awaited with interest, es- and this was followed by maxillar sup- puration. Weakness of the heart, aug- mented by the crown princess’ expectafit mothe€rhood, was given as the contribut- cause of her death. LOCOMOTIVE DERAILED AT TORRINGTON M. in cer- = Torrington, Conn.,_ May 22.—The lo- to the | comotive and tender of a southbound passénger train from Winsted to New pecially as they have been granted their The secretary of the in the Loire department has asked the men not to obey the strike Téchnical students and volunteers who Were organized by the government dur- ing ihe strike last February already are replacing many of the men on the rail- -+ May 2—Sherman mmons, 55, wealthy farmer, shot an a:unlly killed his wife, 23, her ssister- in-law, Mrs. John Hammons, and then hlew out his own brains here today after he had been foiled in an attempt to kill Mrs. Sherman Ham- mons had instituted divorce proceedings nd a dispute over the !losae!ston of the child is sald to have caused the trouble. 1S PARALYZED BY A STRIE Utica, N. Y., May 2.—For the first time{ tne nava: in the history of this city the street car|j g in the air one and one-half hours. portant in the history of the denomina- ? tion, the address of the thirty-four: bish- | to #art an autopsy tonight. ops of the church submitted to the con-} 2 rION 1 ference today declares the- church is on | LAND AGITATION IN, WES 1. On behalf of their ‘denomination, | the bishops accept the challenge and aver that the church must determine to deal courageously with the vital - ques- us the new dge has presented. “Never before did a general conference meet at a tim like this,” they said in tlieit address. “We cannot go back to the less troubled, more simple, placid days. “We are at a crisis in the ages. If we fail here, it Will not matter what else we | aTe_broken, walls - New Bedford, Mass. ordered Dr. A London, May 2. Clare. intimidation are said to be daily occurrence. Grazing lands are B Lo The address is devoted to answering the question: “What is our chief business at the present conference?” It divides the question into eleven sub- divisions. ‘will be one of the i country has seen for some time.” AT ALTITUDE OF 3 l(fMlLES New York, May 2—The'eclipse of the moon tonight was observed here by Lieu- tenant J. H. Tilton and W, H: Cushing of | the Rockaway Beach naval air swation at{ SCHOONER RISOER AFIRE; a height of nearly three and one-half mices. The two lieutenants ascended in y hydroairplane No. 9, remain- their activities cannot find an parents, says the Times. a Were ‘“very satisfactory.” They will be embodied in a report to b | Ri from Norfolk for Denmark on April 27. partment. JEWISH CONGRESS WILL OPEN west. Jewish congress will open in Philadel- phia on May 30, a week carlier than was planned, it was anonunced here tonight. = The éarlier date was decided upon as a|ayNE WORKERS OF OHIO . result of the decision of the allied pre- miers at San Remo giving Great- Britain: the mandate for Palestine, which is to be constituted as the Jeyish national home- land. Seizure of British and American Coins. Forty-one. demands, than £15,000 in|on the run of mine The | removing stone were presented * by pedk water - tank. a week ago, twobd IRELAND IS SPREADING The land agitation in ‘West Ireland is continuing to make rapid headway, a2ccording to a despatch to the London Times, and has spread to County Cattle driving and other forms of of almost are i stripped of their stock, fences and gates smashed and houses fired into by armed parties. Large and small holders alike are the victims. The despatch says it is openly boasted that the “coming fight in the test for land | biggest things the emigrate during-the war and that their outlet within the few acres possessed by their WAS ABANDONED AT SEA Boston, May 2.—The motor schooner Risoer was abandoned today about 250 Lhe observations were made at the di.| miles east of New York because of fire, wheel turned on the tracks of the local|riction of the navy department. . Prof.| according to a wireless message from the company after 3 o'clock this morning, | Dayic Todd of Amherst college assisteq when the men, ignoring the pleas of their | i3 the observations from the shore. Lieu- union officials not to strike and to leave | toronts Tilton dnd Cushing reported their the adjustment of their demands for.an|opservations ewhs hour day and a wage increase to further arbitration, voted unanimously | made by Professor Todd to the navy de- British ‘steamer. City of Canton bound from New York for London, which re- ported that she had taken off the crew. No (details were given of the fire: The T registered 1,342 tons and. sailed ‘The City of Canton gave her position as latitude 40:42 north; longitude “68.52 She reported, that she would re- i Acushnet reported from Woods Hole that she would leave tonight for that purpose. | TO CONFER WITH OPE§ATOBS Cleveland, O, May 2.—The scale com- mittee of the Ohio mine workers' sib- distriets Nos. 5 and 6 will confer with representatives of the Pittsburgh Vein Operators’ association tomorrow in an Rangoon, India, May 2.—On the arrival | effort to break a deadlock which _existed here of a steamer from the China and |wher the conference adjourned yesterday. tourt today sentenced Kangokio, a Ko- | the Séttlements Straits the customs au- rean, to death on a charge of attempting | thorities seized more to assassinate Admiral Baron Saito, the | British and American gold coins. governor-general of Korea, last | coins had been concealed in o ‘payment basis and pay-for the fore | miners’ officials, representing 16,000 men, $19,383,442, and containiug provision for the retura to the treasury of $800,615,000 in unexpended war appropriations for fu ture use. v 4 Attacks on members of Catholic orders in'Mexico during the Carranza rebellion and the looting of schools, hospitals, churches and other estabiishments under their control were described before the senate: Mexican investigating committee by Tonsignor Franeis C. Kelly. NORWALK YOUTH MARRIED WOMAN, THEN HIMSELF Norwalk, Conn. May 2 —Harold Gujles. 21 years old, shot Mrs. Addie Morrill, ‘aged 35, while they were walk- ing together here today and then turned the revolver on himself, sending one bul- let under the heart and another into the right temple. Both were taken to the Norwalk hospital, where it was said to- night that no hope is held out for Guiles' recovery but Mrs. Morriil has a good chance for life. © With the couple when the shooting oe- curred was William Morrill, 14 year old son of Mrs. Morrill. He was questioned by the police.- Guiles lives with his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Guiles, whose home is next door to that of Mrs. Mor- rill. According to the police Mrs. Mor- rill has been living apart from her hus- band for three weeks, but had told Guiles that her husband was going to return and that they were going away together. Mrs. Momrill's son, the police say, heard his mother tell Guiles that she would not write to him, after which Guiles drew a revolvér and fired twice, inflicting two wounds in the woman’s head. William Morrill screamed, but Guiles did not look SHOOTS £ at the youngster;. shooting hi - New,~ York, May '2.—The American | gent out to take off 'the crew. The| -° = MI;BE COMPANIES ABSORBED BY BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION Montreal, May+ - 2.—Consolidation’ of nine steel, coal and transportation com- panies of Canada’ into the British Steel corporation, with a canital of $500,000 000, was announced today by Colonel W. Grant Morden. He said it was teh largest merger of its‘kind in the British empire and second only to the United States Steel corporation. : i Colonel Morden declared the consolida- tion will -associate” the iron and coal de- posits- of the Atlantic-seaboard for the Dominion with the steel-makinf} experi- ences and financial resources of Great Washington, May 2.—Demobijization j of the navy from the maximum of 2400 | j §hips operated during the war, including ! hundreds of vessels from battleships of the first line to yachts and anti-subma- { rine craft acquired for the emergenc i now practically completed, it was i nounced today by the navy department. | The reduction in ships, it was said, has | been almost as great in proportion as the ; demobilization of 400,0uv in personnel. | The largest vessels remaining to be sold by the navy are the Nopatin and Narragansett, 3500 ton passenger steam- ers taken over for transpart service, for which bids already have been asked® In addition to its disposal of usable craft, the navy, it was said, also is plan- | ning to sell a numbet of obsolete torpedo iboat destroyers submarines and gun-| i boats, now worthless excent for - thair | scrap value. The old cruiser Cincinnati launched in 1892, will be included in the | sale. NEW BEDFORD HE TO CLOSE IF STRIKE DEVELOPS TODAY New Bedford, Mass., Ma¥% 2 Mayor Charles S. Ashley announced tonight that he had been unsuccessful in an. effort to arrange a conference between the textile council and New Bedford Cotton Manu-| facturers’ ciation in the, hope of! averting the strike of all classes of op- eratives called for tomorrow-in all but three of the mills of this city. The mayor said that, acting in response t oa request by the textile council, he had tried to get in touch with officials of the manufacturers’ association, but had beet unable to do so. He said that he would continue his efforts. | Union officials said that 20,000 opera- 1| tives would refuse to report for work to-! ! morrow. The work was ordered in sup-| port of looom fifers, who have been on irike for some time as a protest against | facturers have announced that if a sur- ficient number of workers fails to go to| work tomorrow the mills will be dewn. < . HOLDUP IN A NEW YORK EAST SIDE APARTMENT HOUSE { ey New York, May 2.—Four masked rob- bers held up nine men at the points of revolvers in an East Side apartment house tonight and took from them $1.000 in cash nad jewelry. The intruders, who the raen were gathered, escaped in a tax- jcah after threatening ‘theh' victims, York were derailed here today, smashing a siding, throwing them from the tracks and tearing up the rails for a short dis- tance. Railroad detectives found evi- dence of a deliberate attempt to wreck the train, the switch lock having been broken and the switch thrown. No one was injured, although 35 passengers and the train crew were shaken up. The open switch was a' short distance from a curve and Engineer Harry Boyn- ton of Waterbury was unabie to halt the He and Fireman Thomas Starks into the earth. IN HIGH COST OF LIVING y 2.—Cost of in fourteen American c ‘Washington, X figures s, cembher, 1914, put Detroit at the top the list with an increase of 108 per cen* | No-fclk, Va, rar 1 second with 1 per cent., while Portland. Me., took first ailing the list with a per- honors by t centage of 91 1-2. Tncreases for other cities were: Boston 96, Bal- Jacksonville, 92, New Yeork 103, Philadelp: timore 98, Savannah 5 ¥la., 102, Mobile, Ala, 94, Houston, Te 191, Chicago 100, 102. NEW YORK FIREME SUBDUE STATEN HELPED _New York, May panies from Manhattan were rushed Staten Island on municipal ferryboats to- day in response to the fire department’s “borough signal.” occasicned by a blaze in the plant of the National White Lead works, Port Richmond. The Staten’ Isiand fire fighters feared feared the flames would spread to adja- cent shipyards and lumber yards because of high wind. The fire was checked with the held of Standard Oil and Baltimore and Ohio railroad tugs and the fireboat The damage did not William F. Gaynor. exceed $100,000. SIX MASKED GUNMEN MADE GOOD HAUL AT ROADHOUSE Clifton, N. J.,, May 2.—Six and took from them about money and jewelry. $2,000 Liberty bonds. roadhouse in a touring -car. WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE | San Antonio."l'—lel May 2.—Ordnance Si>- ‘went to the room on the four floor where | plies valued at $1,000,000 were in the|was tuken ates | ago n_ he Lope that the elimate warehouse No. 11 at Camp Travis, here, was destroyed by fire today. building and according to first the loss will be at least $500, 1jitney bus by a detective. sted remained at their posts. The | locomotive telescoped one of the freight cars on the siding and then dug deep! living ob- tained by the dgpartment of labor for Deccmber. 1919, as compared with De-| Cleveland 95, Buffalo ISLAND BLAZE —Fourteen fire com- masked © required to care for a larger num-| gynmen held up thirty men in a road- ber of looms than formerly. The manu-|nouse on ' Highland avenue early today They also rifled the shut | proprietor’s safe®of §$1,100 in cash and The bandits drove to the They es- caped before the police could be informed. January 2 last. Adler, after outlining the platform of the communist labor party, called for | funds to be used in taking to the higher courts cases of persons now awaiting de- portation. Chief of Police Goodwin sald that in detaining the men he was aeting on his own wuwwrily and that they would be held until with government officials in Boston. he had conferred FEAR THAT ATSTRALIA MAY HAVE TO IMPORT WHEAT London, May 2.—Owing to the bad season there is fear that Australia may have to importa wheat in 1921, despatch to the London Times from Sydney, N. S. W. The wheat board re- cently asked Great Britin to forego the balance of 1,500,000 tons owing her, but she refusel. It'is still hoped, says the despatch that Great Britain will defer requiring the shipment of this wheat un- {til the visible supply in Australia is as- | sured. into three freight cars and a bunk car on | West Australia already has re- fused to contribute toward the British shipment an dother staiz4 are being urged to take the same course. * A BRIDGEPORT CRIMINAL ARRESTED IN BALTIMORE Baltimore, May 2.—Afier flecing two blocks from his captor last night, Edward Donovan, 19 years old, of Bridgeport, Conn., was seized as he crouched in a When search- ed by the police, Denovan had jewelry valued at $1,0000 in his possession and nearly $400 in cash. - Donovan was arrested at the Pimlico race track. According to detectives he was caught jostling bettors. The detee- tive was taking Donovan to headquarters on a tralley car and the detective loosen- ed his grip on Donovan. who leaped through the Automatic door us it was folding shut. ‘ SOVIET RUSSIA DECLARES AMNESTY FOR MINOR CRIMINALS London, May 2.—A wireless despateh- received from Moscow today says that i order to enable prisoners to participate in produetive woblk the soviet government has decreed an amnesty, except, for those condemned as counter-revolution- inals. Persons rele: will be divided aries or thugs, ban dangerous crim- into two categories, namely, general of-- fenders, who will be Kberated absoiutely on giving an undertaking to engage in, useful work, and graver offenders, whe of | 07 will be assigned to work under the gur- veillance of local labor mobilization com- mittees. to TEOLLEY SERVICE IN SYRACUSE, Syracuse, N. Y., May 2.—Trolley sef- vice in Syracuse was at a standstill to- day following the walkout of more tham 700 emploves of the Syracuse lines of the New York State railways to foroe & larger increase in wages than ten cents per hour already offered. OBITUARY. » George M. Weaver. Mount Vernon. N. Y., May H. Weaver, a vice president of, the Rem- ington Typewriter Compasy, died in & hospital early today from injuries re- ceived “in an ‘automobilé accident on the White Plains road in_Bronxville, whila driving to New York. His car was found in a ditch and bis body pinned under it. { The polics -have not beén able to deters mine how the accident occurred. M- Weaver was a native of Rome, N. Y. Dogtor Howard Sweetser . Blins. York, May, *.—Doctor Howard Sw r Dliss, president of the Syrien Protestant college of Beirut, Syria, died fodluy at Serimac, N. Y., according to ‘s messaze Teceived here. He had been n . in il iz hea for might be helptu. He was 60 years i