Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 4, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXII—NO. TY OAREZ ASG Proclamation of the Commander at Juarez Says an ment Can Be Established in Mexico—Ouly. One Garer walked out several days ago returned to son in the State of Chihuahua Remains Loyal to Carran- | work today. za—State Department Has Received Report of the der of Two More Americans in Mexico—Requests Have Reached Washington For Warship Protection on the East Coast of Mexico. : Bl Paso, Tex, Ma ever, severed relations with the Carranza That, is the significance of Attitude of —Juarez has not) According to General Calles, the delay was caused by the desire to have the re- volt of Carranza troops complete take the eity without fighting., “We did this to avoid any complica- tions with the United States authorities,” “We . feared- titat in a battle bullets might fall into American terri- In a proclamation issued today, General uares, annou: ed this step, eutrality would be main- tained until a stable government can be established in Mexico gience to that government. More Phan half the length of the inter- boundary between the States and Mexico now revolutionists, ences are being held through which they hope to soon have the entire internation- al boundary in their hands. ranza’s only communication with the out- side world would be by ocean routes. United is held by the and confer-' Juarez tonight is in_the hands of the itionists. The revolution was announcement by Gen- } Escobar was accompa- Thus Car- *aso crossed to Juarez REPORT MURDER OF TWO MORE AMERICANS IN MEXICO | tcr ight, being relayed by messenger to neorby towns, where it was sent out by ‘The murder of | tojantione. . A telegram from Concul sent by way of Douglas, said that the district sur- capital is quiet Washingtor; May 3 two more American in Mexico, reported today to the state department, accentuat- ed the concern with which officials here identifyi bodies of the devélopments. -beyond. ‘ths locating and identifying the bodies of There was nothing, however 1o tordano and when the first party arrived indicate to what extent ‘the -attitude of | e village' was found to be a tangled the Washington government toward the | mass of wreckage. with numerous pools Sonora revolutionary movement might be the fact that the incidents occurred in Carranza controlled territory. | found among the ruins of a single build- Requests for additional warship pro- 5 tection at points on the east nterrupted when the change of | Mr. Stewart said e mining Mistricts permitted to con- given complete foreigners resident there ith utmost consider- Stewart declared. © for posseasion of rebel commanders that Mexicans maintained absolute neu- Calles and Governor f Sonora are ex- to take charge of r in the day it had Juarez revolt: connection with the Sonora move- this was denied tonight REVOLUTIONISTS ST STATE IN MEXICO Adolfe De La Huerta ing . capacity. Sonora, May 3.—(By, The res against the government of Mexico the revolutionists control argest stale in the republic of Mexico Only one small Carranza garrison 8 Grandes, near remains loyal according to a waters: was not but the belief .was expressed ould be sent at once. Destrovers will be stationed at Tam- pico, Tuxpan, Vera Cruz and Fronteras, ready to take off any Americans who may/ be in danger either from authorities or the rebels. state department specifically stated that vessels were not the struggle between fdctions in- Mexico but were asked for solely to provide a haven in case of need. commander-in-chief of the revo- 2z had been expected Mexican 1o take part in for-in-chlef stated. TOUTH DROPFED DE IN BRIDGEPORT CLUB “MOONSHINE” STILL NEAR POLICE STATION IN WINSTED | Winsted, Conn., May 3.—In & raid of a house close by police headquarters to- day Superintendent John found a keg of what “raisin juice" police said was of this city dropped the boxing ring at tonight after He had sparred Young Saxon,” Persons at the ringside H. Seleum Thomas _Cartella | but what the | “moonshine , whiskey,” two barrels of mash, ard a press. tella claimed his own use and that he had given lib- | erally of it to friends. Prohibition Enforcement Officer Me- Auliffe of New Haven could send an of- The police say that complaints had been many against Car- tella’s place. i Examiner Garlick re- of external injury on Saxen.” who said his real ctartha, was arrested of $1,000 on a charge rorted no exiden o He was held un- mansiaughter Sulle was acting the latter being scheduled to ap- ar in a boxing match hers Thursday employed In a manu- acturing plant aere and came from their work together la ficer here for him. OBREGON, ARRIVES IN JUAREZ ulle practiced punching + bag for fifteen or twenty minut into the ring with Juarez, Mexico, May 3.—General Urba- lejo, enemy of Obregon and | of the federal troops at Casas Grandes, tonight and went into conference fith General Escobar, commander of the Juarez Obregonisias - here earlier the evening expressed the fear that Ur- balejo's hatred for Obregon might cause | him to attack Juarez with center of the | troops. commander immedi- naker of the who was present and several Cameron | Barrison. oxers struck orily d then went into a clinch. his Indian Mz apparently dazed, 6,000 SONORA TROOPS To MARCH INTO CHINUANUA El Paso, Texas, May . 3.—General P. Elias Calles is mobilizing 6,000 troops in march through Pulpito Pass in the Sierra Ma- deiras into Chihuahua. Juarez with his column, he will proceed south to Chihuahua City, then to Tor- reon and from there will march on Mexico City. 1 make no r investigation After coming ‘to THREE HARTFORD MEN 00 CORPORATION May 3.—Papers show- Hartford corporation ware filed with the secretary of state to- is the Hankers Union for Forelgn Commerce and Finance. The in- sorporators are B. M This was announced here late tonight by Arturo M. Elias, of General Calles. e UNIFICATION OF METHODIST Holden, Josephine | ... .. and Donald MeCarthy. Des Moines, Towa, Ma: t A : sion of the Mef s e thodist Episcopal Genera: Conference, in convention here tonight Five millions of the | Was given over to a reception to the fra. ternal delegates from the British Wes- leyan and Canadian Methodist chirches, Luke Wiseman of the Metho- Birmingham, Holden said the chief promoter was Henry Brunner of No. 52 sapital are to be taken by foreign inter- England, ‘esleyan church and delivered an address compil. menting both countries on the friendly feeling existing between them, (High Cost of Govérnment. Before the war there Phrls, May 3. —(Havas)—A despatch to the Tempts today says that in_supreme council nalination to ensure continuation of the supreme councll by making ah inernational governmental organi- tatlon. It in sven probabie. the dsmpaten | departmental clerks and declares, that the admission of German |eMployes of the government im Wash- delegates to the council would be consid- ugsian delegates also being aa- [ Shows that among other high costs the high cost of government.is not taking anybody's dust—Kdansas City Times. mutual, were 37,903 Now there are 100,110, which mitted sooner or later, SIX PERSONS INJURED BY TORNADO IN KANSAS Wichita, Kas. May 3.—Six were Injured, two perhaps fatally, by a | —and many. of BureMs. Kansas, Jate toda 1o & telgphons message reaching here. ‘Men are %o contrary them to stay out wouldn't do it. A Paradox. A tan in Greenwich, Ct, says that | emissary, persons | he will get married because he'is sick | Vossische appear to bé sick bedause | ed of the plan. the center | they are married.—Norfolk Virginian- . according | Pilot. Danbury. —Commeneing Saturda¥ ne if their | the barber shops in this pity are t'o :1‘}:5 at 9 o'clock, instead, ot present closing hour, o'clock, the' . It is understood that the * Former Kaiser to Move' to Doorn. s —M: o it arier former Emperor Willlam's ‘| mrrival in Holland, has been set for the day upon which he will move estate at Doorn. : Strike at Naples Ends. g Naples, May (3, —The executive com- mittee “of the jfederation of labor today called off the strike which has been in progress for several days, and Work everywhere was resumed. A Rome Civil Servants Return to Work. Rome, May 3.—The civil servants who M'III‘- DEATH aTOLL OF LATEST 4 OKLAHOMA TORNADO IS 51 Muskogee, Okla, May 3.—The death toll ‘from the tornado at Peggs, Cherokee County, reached 51 at six o'clock tonight, according to a telephone message from Locust Grove. —There are seven persons unaccounted for, with about 100 injured. A special train bearing the injured was and | dispatched to Muskogee. ‘Many of the injured are seriously hurt, the reports said. No estimates of the property loss were available. ed all day.in the mud and tangles wreck- Quring the war. - Vinita. Wire communication with swept area had not been re-established the storm- Members of rescue parties returning tonight told of difficulties encountered in victims. Heavy rain accompanied the of water and considerable mud. In some cases several bodies were ing indicating that whole families had : coast of | heen wiped out. The bodies were cov- Mexico already had been forwarded to|ered with mud, making identification dif- the navy by the state department. While | foult. this had no relation to the laf ders, it was said to indicate the ; officials as to the prevailing in that re least, still held by Car On the border, the the port of Juarez dicating defection of | under Gemeral cause. Loss of this entry port, said, would be a serious blow federals, because of its revenue-produc- believed complete rebel control of the state of Chibuahua would be the logical result.. 2 The murder of Eben Fr: icls Greenlaw and his young son by Mexicans rear El Oro, only 125 miles from Mexico. City, brought from the” American embassy ifi Mexico City a prompt and emphatic de: mand that the Mexican government ar-.| rest and and pumish the murderers. ‘The| American - government - contends that - the Carranze authorities were responsible for tion of the ‘Greenlaws-because presence of Mexican troops in the immediate vicinity. The dnte of the. sailing of the:fleet of destroyers to Mexican In one instance a small frame mir-{ building, uninhabited, was left stagding in the heart of the town while’ néirby brick structures which had housed many | persons were razed. The area swept by the tornado was I said by members of the rescue parties.-to be about three miles long and a mile wi e tornado appdrently had dip- . time to strike the village. RAILROADS TO ASK 30 PER CENT. . INCREASE IN FREIGHT RATES rd, Conn, May _3.—Railroads east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio ‘and. Potomac have agreed to ask for a 30 per cent. increase in freight the rates, P @ Buckland, vice president of the New n road said today. . These Troads-eover What is known as the official classification ferritory. . He. added that they ‘would demand 1o’ increase in ex- state commerce. commission might see fit 1o Taise somescommutation irates Which are 50 low as to make the lines unprofit- able. The 30 per cent. is needed because of increased. eosts . of “labor - and materials since - the beginning. of . the ~war, Mr. Buckland said. : In commenting on_ the question of in- creased railroad rates, Chalrman Clyde B! Atchison of the interstate commerce commission _said: “The eastern _lines | have: filed informally through their exe- cutive committee requests for a general inérease ‘in-freight and passenger rates. They have not filed formally. “The, interstate commerce commission plans no_action in this connection un- til a concrete statement as to the de- sired increase is made and the shippers have an opportunity to meet the issue. “No_ increases have been authorized, and nine will be until the matter is thor- oughly considered.” The TAXICAB DRIVER EKLUND DIED OF A FRACTURED SKULL New Bedford, Mass., May 3. The death of Oliver L. Fkiund of Providence, the ublic chauffeur whose body was found In a pond in Taunton yesterday after he had been missing for a week, was due to fracture-of the skull, inter-cranial in- juries and possible ashyxiation, accord- ing to the official report of the autopsy. The finding, which was submitted to day to District Attorney Joseph T. Ken- ney by the medical examiner, Charles A. Atwood of Taunton, says that the ex- amination revealed several scalp wounds, tracture of the temple bone and a hem- orrhage At the right side of the brain. Eklund is supposed to have been kill- ed and his body thrown in the pond by two men who engaged him in Providence to take them to Taunton on the night of April 25. His car, stained with blood, Car- in district of Boston the néxt day. DEADLOCKED OVER WAGE Cleveland, Ohio, May committee of the 3.—The burgh Vein Operators’ Association slate. ing. to exceeds twelve inches. Thursday in Wheeling action to take unless an agreement reached in the meantime. 350 COAL MINERS ON STRIKE NEAR EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO hundred and fifty coal miners, employed by the Kirk Dunn Coal Company at West. Point, near here, went on strike taday. The men claimed that non-union brakemen had helped to switch empty coal cars to a railroad siding at the mines ,and they declared they would not work until union men were used to per- form the task of placing empties. GERMANS TO SETTLE ON PUBLIC LAND IN BALTIC PROVINCES Berlin, May 3.—General Erhardt, ‘com- civil scheme, to Settle his men on puble land with opportunities for ultimate ownership was submitted to him.by.a government replied, according to the Zeitung, that he- fully -approy- He expressed the beli full execution, ades will dissolve after uveefidm:.fl‘ CABLED PARAGRAPES || Amerongen, Holland, May 3 (By the A.| ®. 11, which is exactly a year and |- to his| Rellef parties from Tahlequah, fifteen imiles ‘from Peggs, and the nearest rail- road town,-and from other points, search- age for victims of the storm. The relief parties included many nurses and physi- cians who had seen service in France The first trainload of injured, number- ing between 30 and 40, arrived at Musko- gee tonight. Other trains loaded with in- jured were to be sent to Tahlequah and Dress passenger raies, but that the inter- | was found abandoned in the Dorchester SCALE OF MINERS OF OHIO scale . 16,000 eastern . Ohio union miners and officials of the Pitts- Te- mained deadlockeds today over the min- ers’ demand for extra pay for removing They. will meet again tomorrow morn- The men demand three cents an inch for the first twelve inches of slate re- moved. Their present-contract calls for nine cents an inch where the thickness The miners have called a meeting for to decide what is East Liverpool, Ohio, May 3.—Three says the newspaper that the men would | of Laborr who may. be impeadht accept, but he did not wish to lay the proposition _before. them _until the gov= érnment’ had. given guarantees; for its ’ ‘Warsaw, May 2. Public riots ‘and uprising among the sol- diers are reported to have occurred in Moscow upon ‘receipt of news of the Pol- ish’ ‘Buccesses. ), . The reports say there are increasing demands for a change of government. Followed : Poles Have Not Occupied Kiev.. London, May ' 4—The anhouncement by the newspapers in Warsaw.that. the Poles have occupied Kiev is unfounded, sayssa despatch to'the London Times from Warsaw. Tp The Poles, however, have taken Fastov (about forty miles southwest of Kiev on the railroad) and are continuing to ad- vance, the’ despatch adds SUFFRAGISTS*OPENED DRIVE IN FOUR CONNECTICUT CITIES New Haven, Conn., May 3.—The “fiy- ing squadron” of woman suffrage leaders opened its “emergency drive” . in - four Connecticut - cities - tonight. The party composed of 46 women Tepresenting ev- ery state in the country - except Texas and Delaware, arrived in Hartford this afternoon. | A. welcoming delegation greeted them at the railroad station and a luncheon followed at the Hartford Golf Club. Miss Katharine Ludington, president of the Connecticut Woman Suf- frage Association, addressed the. visitor suffragists: It is the aim of the suf- frage “emergency corps” to demonstrate “special. emergency” exists which ‘would warrant the governor to summon the state legislature in special session so that Connecticut might be the thirty-sixth state to ratify the federal woman suf- frage amendment. Tonight the “fying squadron,” broken into four groups, held mass meetings in this city, Bridgeport, Waterbury . -and New London. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National Worpan Suffrage Association, was the chief speaker ut the meeting here, held in Woolsey Hall. Mayor David E. Fitzger- ald of this city presided and -other speakers were Professor ~Charles M. Bakewell of Yale University and Sherift Thomas L. Reilly, former congressman. A resolution was. adopted calling. on the governor to summon, the legislature. Congressman Schuyler Merritt was the principal speaker at the - meeting . in Bridgeport. He said he did not believe Governor Holcomb should continue to re- fuse to call a special session “simply be- cause he has gone on record as opposed to it.” He declared that a question -af- fecting the rights of “eight or ten’ mil- lion women outside of Cofinecticut” could not be considered as anything but a “speclal emergency.” £ “I. est that yéu women,” ‘said Mr. Merritt, “'say "to the goverrior when; you call on +him, -that he is not in office to legislat> for the people: of the_ state, or lofil:‘“zth.m f tlaey b b o) rdia, president of ‘the ¥ oL alisvinen and foret | congressman, . addressed - the meeting. in i Waterbury. i i {PRIVATE BARRY ACQUITTED | OF MURDER OF SERGT. KING New ,York, May 3.—Private George W, Barry, charged ‘with the murder of Ser- geant Prank H. King: at "Foft Totten Long Island, March 29, 1919, tonight was_acquifted by. &' jury in the federal district court - in. Brooklyn. Barry, -according to Federal District Attorney Ross, is wanted at Council Bluffs, *Towa, on a charge of burglary. After the verdict was rcturned, he was ordered locked up to await the arrival of extradition papers. THE STREET CAR STRIKE IN ROCHESTER HAS BEEN SETTLED Rochester, N. Y., May 3,—Rochester's street car strike will end at midnight to- night. Members of the Rochester divis- fon_of the.Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America, this afternoon after once voting down the proposal to return to work and arbitrate their demands,. pe- Yersed thelr decision and voted to re- rn. Syracuse Men Still sOut. Syracuse, N. Y. May 3.—Syracuse em- Dloyes of the New York State Railways who went on strike Sunday morning to enfofce demands for increased pay and an eight hour day; met tonight and after hearing of the decision of the Rochester employes to réturn to work, adjourned to meet again at two o'clock tomorrow af- ternoon. Meantime, Syracuse will con- tinue to be without trolley service. Usually the chronic talker is a chronic kicker, Assistant Secretary Of Labor 4 May Be Impeaches mander of the Baltic brigades, when the | - it is proved that he sought ito pre- vent - deportations™ of radical »g‘gfl who plan_to overthrow. the | 4 10 B, Ross, both of J . Me., and ¥ Bhernian Parkéf ‘of cm Me. Indications Are That the Gen- to Governor Marcus' H. Holcomb that a\ | conven strike Saturday to enforce a demand for eral Will Nearly Double the Vote Given the Senator. Baltimore, Md., April 3.—Virtually complete returns tonight from today's presidential primary in Maryland gave Major General Leonard Wood 14,683 votes to 7,113 for Senator Hiram Jofn- ‘majority for the soldier candidate . General Wood carritd all the counties but Allegany and Dorchester. Johnson's majority in the former county was 1,000, According to the returns, Wood will have 117 of the 129 votes to the state convention which will select sixteen dele- gates to the Chicago convention. All of there will be instructed to vote for him as long as they “conscientiously be- lieve” he has a chance of being nomi- nated, in accordance with the state pri- mary election law. JOHNSON DECIDES NOT TO ASK BECOUNT IN NEW JERSEY New York, May 3.—Supporters of Sen- ator Hiram W. Johnson of California have abandoned their plans for a re- count of votes cast in the New Jersey presidential primary last Tuesday, it was announced late today by A. C. Joy, as- sistant eastern campaign manager, after a conference of Johnson leaders lasting | most of the day, “Senator Johnson has agreed tha: there is no chance of going further in the matter of securing a recount in New Jersey,” Mr. Joy said. ‘The vote there now is a closed incident insofar as the Johnson managers are concerned. “The sehator had left the matter of procuring a recount _entirely in the hands of his managers and it has been optional Wwith us to Institute proceedings fhe same. Lack of funds suf- secure cient to cover the $50,000 asked to se- cure that state by State Supreme Court Justice Gummers won’t permit us to go further than we have. We have Jess than one-third of that sum on hand now.” CONTEST IN INDIANA FOR NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOE Indianapolis, Ind, May 3.—Indiana voters tomorrow will express their pref- erence of candidates for president, gov- ernor and other public officés, and will elect delegates ta the state conventions of both the republican' and democratic parties. The primary follows a series of the most vigorous campaigns waged in In- diana, the fight being centered around the republican presidential ~nomination. There are four men in the race—Senator Hiram Johnson, California; Major Gen- eral Leonard Wood; Senator Warren G. Harding, Ohio, and Governor Frank O. Lowden, Illinois. “There are no candi- dates for the democratic nomination for president on the ballot. Delegates elected to the state conven- tions of both republican and democratic parties in turn will name the delegates ntions. - These selec- tions will be made on the eve of the state . to be held later in the month. ~ No @¢legates either to thé demo- cratié or republican national conventions 0 the national canventions. from Indiana will be selected. Unusual; interést is_attached to race for nomination for governor _on both sides. There are three republican and - four - demogratic candidates. . The republicans are Warren - T. McCray Kentland; James W. Fesler, lis, and Bdward C. Tomer of Anderson. The democrats are Dr. Carlton B. Me- Culloch, - Indianapolis; Mason - Niblack, Vincennes; John - Isenbarger, North Manchester, and J. K. Fisk of Lafayette. PRERIDENTIAL PRIMARIES TO BE HELD IN CALIFORNIA TODAY San Francisco, May electors at a presidential primary elec- tion tomorrow will register their choices for delegates to the republican, democra- tic and prohibition party national con- ventions. Interest in the election centers almost entirely in the republican contest be- tween rival groups of delegates pledged to the candidacies of Senator Horam W. Johnson and Herbert C. Hoover. Vigor- ous campaigns in behalf of each group closed tonight with leaders expressing confidence in tomorrow's outcome. The registration broke records for all previous primary elections, 1,111.192 vot- ers having been recorded. Of this num- ber 93,767 declared their affiliation with the republican party, 247,737 with the democratic and 18,124 with the prohibi- tion party. ‘The “declined to state” list totaled 125,308 and the remainder were listed as “scattering” or as - affiliated with the socialist or progressive parties, which have no tickets in the election. The unpledged democratic ticket has a list of 27 names from which the yoters will select 26 delegates. Henry H. Chil- ders of Los Angeles, who announced himself in favor of a less drastic en- forcement of the national prohibttion law, is the independent candidate on this ticket. The prohibition ticket is pledged to fhe candidacy of Henry Clay Needham of Los Angeles. Regardless of political affiliation vot- ers may demand and receive at the polls any party ballot they desire. The polls open at 8 a. m. and close at 7p m OFFICIAL RETURNS FROM 28 COUNTIES OF MONTANA Helena, Mont:, May 3.—Official returns ooru last week’s primary in 28 of the 39| Montana counties showed today Senator Hiram W. Johnson recaived 10,153 votes £o>r nomination as republican candidate f.r the presidency. In these returns Gov- ernor Lowden received 3,519, Major Gen- eral Wood 3,472, Herbert C. Hoover 2,444 and Senator Warren G. Harding 396. ITALY NOT OPENING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH SOVIET RUSSIA London, May 3.—The recent report that Captain De Martini, in command of an Italian cruiser, called at Novorossisk, on the Black Sea coast of Russia, with the purpose of opening up diplomatic re- lations with soviet Russia, was called to the ‘attention of the government in the house of commons today. Cecil B. Harms- worth, under secretary for foreign af-| fairs, replied to questions saying he un- derstood' that the Italian vessel had gone to Novorossisk ' with the purpose of es- tablishing ‘more satisfactory wireless communications with Russia and that its commander had no. instructions regard- ing opening negotiations with Soviet Russia. THREE MEMBERS OF .COAST GUARD CREW DROWNED Portsmouth, N. H, May »3.—Three ‘members of;the coast guard crew at Ap- pledoré., Island - were -drowned late. today n theip thirty ~foot .motor . sailing unch as ‘struck by a squall and sank. by were: Reginald C. Chesterton and 585,193.: the on Indianapo- 3.—California population is who' went on According . to government reports srikes thpoughout ‘the Unifed Stated now -involve ‘more. than 75,000 workmen. Rockville Center, L. L, threatened to discontinue- supply -of - power- to govern- ment refuses to.pay the increased rate. Painters of Derby, _ i Anso; and Seymour struck ‘for $1,an hour. This would be an increase of 25 cents an hour. uniform rate of pay of $1 per hour will return to work today, a compromise of 85 cents per hour having been affected. Attempts made yesterday to bring about a settlement of the strike of 9,000 unskilled workers in Waterbiry were un- successful. Northern Baptists' campaign for $100,- 000,000 in. connection with = the ¢ inter- chiueh new world movement has passed the $38,000,000 mark. Thomas Morris, probably the oldest man in the world, whose age was ab- solutely ~authentfcated,. died at his home in Grand Island, Neb. aged 126. Plumbers of Derby, Sheiton, A mnia and Seymour were given 90 cents an hour by their employers, and while they.want- ed $1 an hour they accepted the'offer. Rear Admiral Graysonm, it is reported will advise the president to resume his weekly- trips ‘down the ‘Potomac - river and on Chesapeake Bay on the May- flower. Immigration officials for the port eof New. York, are watching with intereat the growing - number of stowaways arriving here on almost every ship that carries passengers. : Several thousand Iabor men marched in orderly lines through the streets of ‘Winnipeg as a protest against the im- prisonment of leaders in last year's general strike. George H. Weaver, viee president of the Remington Typewriter Co., was killed in an automobile accident pn the White Plains road, near, the Elm Rock road, Bronxville. J. B. Howard, president of the Amer- ican Farm Bureau Federation, predicted bread lines wthin a year in all the large cities if something is not dore fo in- crease food production. John Me( for fifty years an em- ploye at the ‘Unders Frary & Co.' fac- tory, New Britain, was run down and killed by a&n inl d passenger train, while on his way to k Monday morn- Postmaster Paiten, of New York, an- nounced the Berlin post office- calls at- tention- to’ the. packing of foodstuffs to that country. . The .contents are fre- quently in a state unfit for use. An_ appropriation of $45,000 was made_in- the sundry civil appropriation bill Teported to the house of representa- tives, for'-making. Improvements in the annex of the Brooklym post office. 7 The will of Nathan Geff, former United States semator from. West Vire ginia and ex-sectetary of the navy, was filed -for probate at Clarksburg, W. Va. His_estate was valued-at $7,600,000. Witiam _C. Chapaton, alleged presi- dent of the Detroit Yardmen's' Associa- tion ; and leader- ‘of the ‘local _switch- mén's strike, was arrested-on charge of violating Section 47 of the federal penal code. The price of stove coal was advanced by Montreal coal deaers to 318 a ton, an increase of $1. Dealers maintained the ad- vance was necessary because 'of higher freight rates and’ increased wages of miners. English papers are asking King George to_efface the “stain on British honor,” brought by Thursday night's incident at the Garrick theatre when hoodlums broke up -Laurette Taylors play, “One Night in Rome.” U. 8. Senator Boise Penrose had an hour’s conference with Will H. Hays, chairman of the republican national committee. ~Senator Watson of Indiana will possibly draw up the party's plat- form at Chicago. Walter A. Watson, alleged to have married a score of women and confessed that four of them died violent deaths, an- nounced he would show to the.police of Los Angeles the grave of one of his murdered wives. An explosion at the entrance of ome of the Havana City Hall departments in the .old presidential palace, near the Plaza d’Armas, blew out the framework of the doorway and wrecked the in- terior of the room. Fifty-four members of the “Fighting Journalists,” an organization formed by American newspaper men on the Rhine more than a year- ago, met Monday in convention at Fort Worth, Texas. They will make a tour of the-oil fields and cattle radges. Methodist general comferemce in ges- sion in Des Moines, Towa, adopted a resolution calling upon the major polit- ical parties to add a plank to their plat- form against “any weakening” of the prohibition act. The resolution was in- troduced by- Anderson. Twelve thousand members 4t the congress of women's clubs of the Pitts- burgh district pledged, themselves to wear only “staple” clothing until prices of more modish garments drop and to place a two weeks' ban on potatoes in a campaign _against. the high cost of liv- ing. Robert Morrison, of Clinten, Staten Istand, was shot through the back while running away from a soldier on guard at warehouse No. 3, U, S. Base Hospital, Fox Hills, S. L. According to. the guard Mills, Morrison stole out of the ware- house with a typewriter under his arm and refused to stop. GREAT BRITAIN GETS SIX FORMER GERMAN WARSHIPS London, May 3.—Six former German warships, the Baden, ‘Helgoland, Posen, Rheinland, Westfalen.and Nurnberg, and 124 submarines have been. allocated to Great “Britain,” according to announce- ment in the house of commons today. The United -States will get the Ostfries- land and Frankfurt. According to the announcement, France has béen awarded the Thuringen and Emden ; Japan will ‘get the Oldenburg, Nassau and Augsburg, and Italy will re- ceive seven submarines. The ships scut- tled at_Seapa Flov, says the announce- ment, are to g0 to %ireat Britain. Allocation of” the remhining 12 light cruisers, 59 destroyers and 50 torpedo "boats, the commoners were informed. des pends on the selections made by France and Italy from the.shipst6 be' surrender- ed under the Austrian treaty. . NEWSPAPERS Indianapolis, Ind., May. 3.—Charges that the international Typographical un- ion, exercised a censorship over the news colun:ne ot ull except four newspapers of rtry were declared to be “abso- lutely untrue” by Walter W. Barrett, vice president of tnat organization, here to- day. { CHARGES CENSORSHIP OF PRESS BY INT. TYPOGRAPHICAL TN oN Waghington, May 3.—The charge that the International Typographical union exercised a censorship ever part of the American press was made before the senate newsprint investigating committee today by E. J. McCone, general manager of the Buffalo Commercial Called upon for a specific instance in support of his charge, Mr. McCone de- clared that only-four newspapers printed last October certain parts of Elbert H. Gary’s testimony before the senate steel investigating committee, and that the Buffalo Times, after putting the story in type, was forced to change it ~under pressure from the union's shop chapel. The witness said that the Commercial and the New York Times were, the only papers in the eastern section of i country that printed the Gary criticism of organized labor as given the ‘committee. Although the witness stated that only four newspapers were free of union cen- sorship, he did not give the names, nor | !v - BY TYPOGRAF Vice President Waller J. Barnett of the I graphical Union Refutes Charge of Cen General Manager E. J. McCone ofi the cial—Bill Introduced in House to Have stipulated number of ed, commended and Rogers, publisher of the approved it, with . the that all advertisemen! voluntary pressure_of some kind ment, would solve the problem. BILL FOR GOVERNMENT AID A FOR SMALLER NEWSPAPERS ‘Washington, May 3.—Government for smaller newspapers unable to print paper is proposed in a bill to be troduced in the house tomorrow by resentative McKinley, republican, It would create a commission of five lishers of daily or weekly papers circulation under 15,000 each, and it with a revolving fund of $10, buy and distribute puper. INDICATIONS OF FAILURE OF RAILEOAD STRIKE IN FEANCE Paris, May 3.—The situation at the railroad stations created by the strike of railway employes was much improved by this evening, especially at the St. Lazare station, and the current opinion expressed was that the strike would prove a fail- ure The Havre train, bearing many 5 o'clock this evening. The optimistic feeling prevailing prospective American passengers to the steamer La France, whose sailing was in- definitely postponed, this morning, left at around official government quarters and the ministries of public works and in- terior was quite different from the anx- fous, pessimistic appearance of the rail- road men's headquarters. An official statement issued by the railroad men, however, asserted that “the development of the strike surpasses ~the k‘ehn};ry moement and exceeds our hopes. Com- plete victory is certain.” The failure of Ueneral Secretaries Midol! Monmousseau and Leveque,. the three rafiwaymen's leaders, for whose ar- rest warrants ha¢ been issued, 1o put in appearanice at the headquarters of the railwaymen today cast gloom and de- pression upon their followers. Twenty warrants have been issued, none of which affects the leaders of the General Federation of Labor, but only the leaders of the railwaymen and members of the advanced-syldicalist press. Plain clothes men, making no pretense at hiding, stood this evening at every door leading out of the railroad federa- tion’s headquarters, which was deserted by the leaders, with underlings in charge. 61 CHARTERS OF BEOTHERHOOD TRAINMEN HAVE BEEN REVOKED Clevéland, Ohio, May 3.—W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, announced tonight that 61 charters of local lodges throunghout the country have been revoked because mem- bers participated in an unauthorized strike of switchmen and that eleven new B. R. T. odges have been organized in lieu of eleven of those concelled, asfol- lows: ,One each at New York city, Jersey City, . J.; St. Louis, San Francisco, Sait Lake City, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and McKees Rocks, Pa.; Kanss City, Mo.; and Youngstown and Canton, Ohio. DUBLIN CORP. REORGANIZES IRISH REPUBLICAN PAELIAMENT London, May 3.—The Dublin corpora- tion this evening passed @ fesolution ac- knowledging “the Irish republican par- liament’s authority’ to undertake the car- rying out of all its decrees affecting the muniupal council” It was decided to send coples of the resolution to the Eugo- pian governments and to President Wil- son and the United States senate and house of Tepresentative: 87 MEN AND FOUR WOMEN LISTED FOR THE HALL OF FAME New York, May 3.—Names of $7 men and four women who distinguished them- Belves in various wolks of life have been proposed for election to the Hall of Fame of New York university, it was announc- ed here today. Nominations closed May 1 and the process of election will begin immediately. The largest group comprises the four- teen nominations in the editor-author classification, while there also are four- teen names in the combined group of musicians, painters and sculptors. Of the four women nominated three were home and social workers and the fourth was Fanny Davenport, widely known nctress of two decades ago. COAL MINERS AND OPERATORS FAIL TO REACH A DECISION Washington, May 3.—The wage scale committee on anthracite miners and mine operators who have been in conference for two days with Secretary Wilson at the department of labor, seeking an ad- justment of increased wage demands by miners, adjourned today, without having The conference was held behind closed reached a dec\ion. doors and no statement was issued re- garding the points under discussion. Anthgacite miners have asked for in- creased’ wages equal to the increases granted bituminoups mine workers! BECOMMENDATIONS TO SETTLE TROUBLE OF GRANITE CUTTERS New York, May 3.—Recommendations designed to settle the labor troubles con- fronting the members of the Internation- al Monumental Gramtie Producers’ As- sociation of the United States and Cana- da. which is holding a two days’ meet- ing here, will be submitted tomorrow by a committee named tonight. Nearly fift- | teen thonsand granite cutters in the United States and Canada are now out on strike for-higher wages, according to S. Hollister of “‘Barre, Vt., the association. ‘u SIBIEE OF OPERATIVES IN . NEW BEDFORD COTTON MILLS New Bedford, Mass, May strike of operatives in 37 cotton milis-in this city today was followed by the isstie ance of orders from union headquarters tonight to al union firemen Yo quit work tomorrow. Union leaders said that many o ithe filemen reported for work todfy tivcugh a wmisunderstanding. Although two of the mills were to shut down because not enough oper- atives reported to carry on the wark, the manufacturers’ association that the mill owners were satisfied the operatives want to work™. and the mills in general would remain open. Officials of the Textile Council that 15,000 operatives obeyed the strike order. = The strike was called in support of thé loom fixers who ‘were already out in W effort to compel the rescinding of onfers that they should ca®e for a Jarger ber of looms than formerly. Do qtiestion of wages is. volved, the unions represented in the. tile council ‘recently voted in faver demanding a Afty per cent. increase wages. This demand has not yet been presented to the manufacturers. Pickets were active in front . of mills throughout the day, but there was no disorder. YOUTH OPENED SWITCH THAT DERAILED TEAIN AT TORRINGTON he who opened a switch early morning and caused 1235, south bound, to leave track and plough into an empty car attached to an empty box car. siding, pushing them a number through a bumper of cinders ties, until the box car crashed passenger car used by rallway All three cars were badly the roadbed torn up for & space. The aceldent oogurred a. m. standard time. A East Hartford arrived noon and began clearing The three damaged cars moved but the locomotive as to baffie all attempts to second wrecker was secured night and aided in replacing tive on the rafls. o5 LaPatowsky claims he switch lock with a ke; and later threw away. been unable to find was directed toward the that he had been invol tampering. T Euiifliz%i;u : { FEl 1 TO BE REDUCTION IN PRICE W OF MEN'S LINEN COLLARSE New York, May 3.—Men's linen u-i which have been selling for as high s . 30 and 35 cents. are now virtually g sured to the pubiic at 25 cents each, cording to A W. Riley. chief of the ing Squadron” of the deartment of tice.” Mr. Riley declared the retail chants have. been co-operating with fh8 squadron to secure a proper adjustmest of prices and that virtually an Y ment stores and haberdashers l-m L promised their support. e ARE UNABLE TO MEET D Washington, May 3—Farm Bank officials, meeting here today at expansion of the agricultural ustry was daily being retarded | to While inability of the system try awaits hearing constitutionality of the the system operates, it thousands of farmers were forego plans for extension or of their crop planting. ~ PRESIDENT OF MASS. SENATE == per cent. beer a legal 3 state should the Volstead act o ¥ unconstitutional, but President McKn ers, has blen’ sold: f deiphia buyers, it by the Shipping- rises