Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 6, 1920, Page 1

N[ AMR | CABLED PARAGRAPHS - Mrs. Frances 'fl?lm-‘l- Dead. J - v + | Mumim,- a ‘native of Kansas, died at Neu- LVE ) \ | e S atr “ac. Mamm, French As Seen by Homer S. Cummings, Chairman of the Democratic m,,g:;;;g,;;,{m-,,":-::;::h”:; National Committee, Were Enumerated in Opening| %" e s or sevetal veare. Speech at Democratic State Convention in New. Haven| pnuniswive rowsx or < ° —Convention Today Will Select a Delegation of 14 to POPULATION 29,919 Paris, May 4.—Mrs. Frances Scoville- Dar silver was $1.09 an ounce in New compared with §43-5d ber last, after the lmrn![rllifl_fl commiit- tee of the house of representatives at CARRANZA 18 RECOGNIZED, 3 s : 35 8 Washingtén 5—Recognition " of the San Francisco Convention—Brief Session is Prob-| . asne sy, e, Siues sover i Mexico was admitted by government of- able as the Make-Up of the Delegation Has Been Settled | i:2ii° oday. “but the dispaten of a. flo- tilla of destroyers to southern wWaters was not taken: to, indicate that foreign: ers are in immediate danger. Homer S. | thought likely ever the last mentioned. | destroyers which sailed from N Lo i Senatorial Caucuses. will arrive. at Key ‘West tomorrow and smmings chairman committee as temporary chair- democratic state convention, doast omly in The senatorial caucuses in choice of | Will be. used along the east coas state central committeemen made many | the' event .that necessity “arises. Before he delegates tonight that during the | §ite S Ho e onteat to | his departure Captain Byron Long, com- veritable be settled tomorrow. There are fifteen | manding the flotilla, conferred with ‘the in the cause of truth and Jus- | changes from the present list in the | secretary of the navy, who gave him in- leadership of “We | makeup of the new committee: District | structions as”to the policy 'to“be ‘pur- the world | 1 phi] * Leakin ; Henry McManus; 3, | sued. president been properly sup- | C. T. Dillon; 4, E. G. Dolan; 5 W. J. . J.| Development of the revolution as re the | Madden; 6. Abraham Garback; 7, Geo.|ported to the governmeént has been so the | Peckham; 8, T. F. Keves; 9, P. H. Ken-|rapid as to convince many officials, and said that the re- |y Grady; 11, J. F. Shan- | especially ;army . officers, that. Carranea had its opportunity 12, H. P. Prior; 13, W. M. Luby; | cannot maintain = his _authority much had it | 14, A. B. O'Keefe; 15, J. H. Crary; (16th | Jonger, not" so" mich: because ‘he -is op- treaty of peace, | district contest) ; 17, W. R. Palmer; 18, | posed by a formidable military force ‘as that not only year of sterile it [A. T. Miner; 19, T. J. Kelly: 20, Bd-| because” he commands an grmy that is of one | ward Driscoll} 21, W. P. Corr; 22, J. A-| aily. . dissolving. ~before 'the rebels’ Cornell; 23, H. J. Lavery; 24 G. | force instead of offeringbattle. ‘ion tomorrow will select a | Olmstead; 25, J. R. Beecher; 26, H. S.| “information obtained through ° official fourteen from Connecticut | Weed ; 27, A Walsh; 23, Ran: M 2 channels has ‘been the basis of an esti- he | Ross; 29, Velentine Murphy; 80, F. E.| it s A o e strength of the reb- expected to be brief, as [ Coe; 31, E. O. Wagner; 32, J. F. AddiS:| o) ot ‘aimost double that of the govern- | to have T. F. Griffin; 34, L. K. Stevens; 35,| 100" "y coordination of the rebel "makeup of the delegation, al- | O- G. Hanks. forces “has been - hindered rather ~than name large and the con- conventions each will legates and alternates convention for four delegates New M“-';' position to have the convention declare and Imme- it so mayor of ution adjourned until tomorrow. n Cummings said. in his world today is testing, by | San Francisco May men institu- | erence primary continued to add to the The new state committee will have the privilege of naming an _assoclate’ wo- man’s “committee, each committeeman to name a woman in his district to serve. This is the adoption of & pln in effect " | in_several other states. E-| “The regolutions committee is expected to hicve Before it during the nighta pro- aided by the rapidity with which new groups -form in' the different states and the promptness with which the federal even before, being directly threatened.- Rebel claims that Carranza woulds Have difficulty now in leaving the country are supported by - reports from- official = & sources. East and west coast ports are it ORI SIARIE St closed ‘to him by the operations 6f rebel the - . PRIMARY: ° | unmits.at various places along the con- s A necting lines. His entry into the United JOHNSON 333,916, MHOOVER 178,578 | gioioo” might vet be effected over the —_Additional re- | 1ong line of railroad from the capital to é - h _ | Laredo, and the possibility of escape turns from yesterday's presidential, pref- | Larelo. 880, the postl Iy O €SURC ad- fon 11 i though such a He be- | majority of the delegation that will sup- | Guatemala remains, al = American | port Senator Hiram W. Johnson at the | Toute is regarded as impracticable on ac issue | republican _national _convention. _The count of “rebel operations in- zones he demo- | Tonnson ticke led the Herbert C. Hoo- | Would have to cross. ‘In any event, the i a jiteral | ver ticket tonight, on tabulations com- ntrol of the gov- | piled from 4831 complete preéincts out placed | of books more useful and | The vote than the republi- | Johnson group 333,916, n a genera- | Hoover group 178.578. revolutionists assert, his departure would have to be made after the manner of an ordinary fugitive and not like that of so many. deposed Latin-American rulers. Such infarmation as was available Here continued te indicate. the bloodless ¢ 24 in the state, by 155,338 votes. (acter of the revolution. The southward legislative | The republican contestant apparently | 3Cter ! pocratic con- | settled, interest has turned to the movement ‘of the rebel forces along "he4 period. | strength of the democratic and prohibi- crities | ea t= of human possibi more | vass may be mecessary before the result American gement,” he said, | OPposed to a drastic_enforcement of the Ameriea | national prohibition laws! the machinery | Incomplete returns showed ‘that Gar- on Into an instrument of | VIn McNal, of San Francisco wds polling Oniy a progressive and , STOUD. uid have brought | Scattered returns indicated -that = the « of power | Prohibition. group, pledged to the candi- men who | 4acy f Henry Clay Needham of _Lss ones who 24 of the | WOOD MAINTAINS SAFE LEAD ities of the American OVER JOHNSON the attitude | _Indiahapolis. In e senators from | tUTNS from 3,111 precincts out of 3,387 Cummings discnssed | west coast was continued but' no reports’ s vo o of any engigement were received. . The Angeles, on the democratic ballot, still :3:':::5: c.:",:,:;f.@::i?“ ;;{h;g::":; s, | was in doubt tonight and an official can- | THRET A PIEI PRI S in the vi- p it is under- is defnitely known. cinity of any of the ports, “hi i e stood British ‘consular- officers concurred Childers announced himselt as’ being | S03 Bl LC CP i i (e ould be available near Tampicp, Tux- i Vers Crizy and Fraglergstiy pfeei B etuee. tor. foreigners R conlnat mude and | the heaviest vote of the democratic 2 16,608 XEBEL SOLDI “se 0 MARCH UR these | Augite, recslved: s 1iFE vote, Juargz, Mexico, May 5.—Ten thousand state of Chihuahua, according tg an #n- M. Cuen, recently appointed to aid. in.tl May 5.—Official. re- to the change of government and declared that the Amer- | i Indiana, for ‘republican presidential | .§ix”thousand of the ~soldiers Will can people ha staggering penalty pald and are paying a | Preference in yesterd: for the election of a | tlon. give: Wood 80, 1o1s. | Lowden 36,341 and Harding 18 of govern- SQUADRON" HAD SEATS ON THE PLATFORM |here at 2.10.p..m. tod: Johnson 72,062 ; ite way south from Juarez. sas Grandes have arrived in Juarez dur- 3 Canada in 1919, en; valued at $3,213,% Field” Agent Skunders Fors: sees Higher Pricess For les as a Conse- - President Wil Pension bill~ incréasing* pension -of vet- Former Secretary of State Spoke For an Hour Crowded Chamber, Ui With Germany and Austria, Also a Supplemental Ti Nith Germany to Provide “Reciprocal Rights and ligations.” - Washington, May 5.—Senator Knox of nia today opened the republican fight in the senate for peace. Urging adoption of his resolution répealing the declaration of war against Germany and the former secretary spoke for an hour and a half to a crowd- ed_chamber. The peace resolution,. which senate re- Publicans - propose to ‘substitute for the house measure deelaring peace - with Germany alone, brought before the senate and afier Mr. Knox's address, other business was tak- erans of theclyil war. “frenton; N. J., May 5.—Declaring that The Béylan bill providing s pension rest. in. the country and the system for, New York - city: employees wis signed by Governor Smith. (day, drtving off* large numper of cattle. British. troops have gone in pursuit. Boston, May 5.—A reduction of 25 per cent. in the acreage to be planted for food crops in New England this year is snown in reports to the United States bureau of | crop estimates, Field Agent V. A..Szum- ders announced today. Higlier “ricss for. 1-getables are .a pro the. great un drift toward: radicalism was directly ‘due to-proiibition, Nugent of New- ark, one of the democratic big four from New Jersey, at an organization meeting of ‘the democratic national delegates to- gether with. the democratic state. commit- tee. here today, vigorously aitacked na- tional, Demogratie. Chairman Homer S. : ings, asserting that blooded and. virile leadership of the‘dem- ocratic party was needed. Mr. Nugent| £3id that matters had come to a “pretty pass” when the demoratic party of ‘the| “‘accept . the leadership of | Cummings” when there were men of the type of Senator Underwood available. bable con3squence,| The reduction, as high as 5 per cent.| is heaviest on McCumber of North Dakota, can member of the foreign rel , mittee, pldns to speak soon, however,-in. Senator Knox charged President d son with contending arbitrarily that the nation still was at war and with g peace to America in order to coerce senate into ratifying without change treaty of Versailes, The senator ed that peace, legally as well as now existed and that the proposed. resolution was needed to end a “paper™ war status and to. strip the war powers. Reaffirming his opposition te League of Nations even with the senats reservations, Senator Knox advocated “understanding” between the powers outlaw war and establish & He also urged negotiations of a mental treaty with Germamy to separate “reciprocal rights and ir some cases, i quirmg much hand. labor, such . s hects, and parsnips, w1l coarser crops, like potatoes, swaoi and late squash,. thaf can be with horses, are decreased 5 pe 15 per cett. on the average. cxt i the main produciaz :reas ncur the larger cities—Boston, Proside: ve New Haven—where a consideraiie] f the large :growers are - wn half and some quitting . enti owever, some farmers in all the regions are’trying to plant a full acreage of all crops, and some. will plant more, hoping that later they will somehow. be able td. care for their crops. Continuing. the field agents' statem says that farmers are ready and anxious to plant full acreages, but have been un- able to obtain sufficient. labor at any price. Much ‘of the labor obtained proves undependable-and is willing to work only the short city hours and gives indifferent| resuit’ of 'a clash -between s in Valencia. carrots, lettucc Nine, stowaways were om beard: the steamer Leopoldina, ' which York trom Havre. This is & e nation had..to Setlement by strikte “of firemen of Newfou ses ‘who, have been out for 'iwo ‘weeks was announced. 5 Witliam Supples Lloyd, textile manu- facturer,, elubnan - axnd collector of rare booke, died at- Philadelphia. . He was 60 years of age. . Display advertisements - appeared in ers announcing decided cost of: clothing and & CO. CHARGED WITH /PROFITEERING IN MEAT' . Profiteéring in meat ‘harged today against Armour & Co. and its' New. England manager, ‘John E. The -latter was .arrested on a warrant-idsued: by United States Commis- sioner_Hayes on_éviderice-transmitted by’ the United States district. that lamb bought for less than 10 cents a pound, plus freight eharges of about 4 cents. 2 ‘poutd, had been sold here for M-, of With a veto of the peacs resolution by President Wilson pre Tepublican and democratic sultory _procedure - with the measure is The republicans do -plan to call the resolution until late mext Wweek, and Scnator Hitchcock of Nebras- ka, administration spokesman, w his remarks until that time. Senator cted by both attorney’s office reductions in. other necessities. Hearings on the prapesed .increase in the amonnt- of federal -funds availabie for road building were begun by the senate post roads committee. ‘Wilson was. arraigned before Commis- sioner - Hayes jand released on nominal bonds for a hearing on May 12. poration was summoned %o answer to a similat charge at the same time. It 38 alleged that Armour & Co. on May 3 sold at 25 1-2 cents a pound part of -2 consignment of 100,000 carcasses of lamb’ The ‘meat. was brougnt nere from last week, where it is was purchased at less than 10 cénts.a pound. ' The. freight rate was between three” and. four cents a ‘pound. “The profit alleged-by:the government was more than 1% cent sa pound. ‘Wilson said that Armour & Co. “always sells its products at -market:prices, whether for gain or He said he did not believe the government.. agents had taken into ac- count any overhead expense. in making their figures. THe United States attorney’s office said information from Williami Walsh, an inspector for the staté Commission o the necessaries.of life. It was said " that.a consignment of lamb equal to that landed here is to be taken to. New Yok within a few days by the steamet which brought it to this port. DELAWARE SENATE HAS VOTED WOMEN SUFFEAGE Dover, Del, May The acreage of potatoes in Aroostook county, Maine, which produces about 60 per cent. of New England’s potatoes, is because the deep snows, strikes and embargoes have prevented the usual shipment of MINERS' LEADER LEWIS HAS + SURRENDERED TO U. 8, MA Anten Trambiteh, wha was in charge of the Jugo-Slav negotiations with Italy for a settlement of the Adriatic question arrived at Belgrade. Postmaster. General Burleson informed congress_operation of the telegraph and telephone lines during the war cost the government $14,005,56 D .—The resolution to ratify the proposed federal woman suf- frage amendment, which had been committee sin by the senate Indianapolis, Ind., May 5.—J vet uncertain, president of the qnuzb Workers of America, surren Urfited States marshal here late a federal indictment charging cy to violate the Lever act and was fe= leased on $10,000 bond. He will be raigned befare United States Judge A. B. Anderson in court morrow morning- along- with a of “other miners' officials and coal oper— ators, who were indicted by a grand jury, which investigated In the indictment, on which Fr. is surrendered today, 125 miners and col operators—in Indiana, Ohio, Illinols ‘Western Pennsylvania are named on counts, including the charge of to limit the production and to k the price of necessaries. Mr. Lewis all members of the miners' union Who had received motice of their will appear in the federal cow morrow for arraignment without ing removal proceedings. According to word from St Louis afternoon, the operators, however, brought suit there to resist the to the jurisdiction of the Indiana &sr trict federal court. Charles E. Hughes, special counsel the United Mine Workers, was in the city tonight and will appear for the =, dicted union men. in the court garrisons have joined in the movement | oday upon the reassem- Bling of the state legislature after 2 re- cess of tWo weeks. The vote was 11 ew Zealand COAL OFFICIALS SUE TO RESTRAIN GOV'T OFFICIALS Senators Brown and Paimes Sussex county, were the only cans to yote against the measure, while Senator Price of Kent county, was the only democrat to support it. Suffrugists held a big demonstration in the senate chamber after the .vote was announced. 1t is proposed to send the resolution to the house tomorrow where speedy ac tion on it is.expected. Although the 1o\ er branch of the legislature defeated @ similar resolution on April 1 by a vote of ‘22 to 9, suffragist leaders claim to have ineréased their serength sufficiently to assure the concurrence of the house in the senate measure. Anti-suffragists deny. this and declare St. Louis, Mo., May 5.—Suit. for an in- junction restraining government officials from compelling their appearance’ in the United States district. court at Indian- indictments charging violation of the Lever food and fuel con- trol act was filed in federal court here today by three mine operators under in- dictment as a result of the recent miners’ Representative Gallivan, Democrat of Massachusetts, announced in the apolis to answer would cost $88,000,000 annually. Fire shortly before noon yesterday de- stroyed the_plant of, the Curtis Tire and Rubber company at - Muskegon, Mich., causing a loes estimated at §500,000. " Rbode Island declared . her independ- 1 -_before. ~the States was-born, and May 4 was the | 144th_anniversary of that declaration. | Frederick G. Cottrell, ~ of ~California, was ‘nominated . today by President Wil- %:p fo '« dizector of tne bureau of min:s succeeding Van H. Manning,. resigned. Application for the it “had received made by W. K. Kavanaugh, president of the Southern Coal, Coke and Mining com- T. M. Jenkins, president of the St. Louis “and O'Fallon Coal .company, and W. L. Schmick, vice president and gen- eral manager of the Big Muddy Coal and AlL are local companies. The suit questions the constitutionality of the Lever act, and asserts that under the sixth amendment of the constitution removal of jurisdiction to the Indianap- olis court is prohibited. > The suit s directed against ‘Attorney General Palmer ‘and government . officials here and at Indianapolis. sentiment in the house against ratifica- tion is as strong as ever and that the measure surely will be defeated by that Tron company. DIVISION OF HONORS FOR NATIONAL REP. ‘Washingten, May 5.—(By The A. P.) Division of -honors of ,pfesiding over the republican national corivention at - Chis lars. and the pro- ble as a res on today be (oL both Wings, Fees was that had: been. reached of Massachusetts, | Several attempts were made today te block the passage of the resolution its original form by first opposition came from Senator Gorm- ley, democrat, who offered a. substitute Tejecting the resolution. feated, 11 to.! CORNF RO cerning the District ‘were continued. by grand jury in. the criminal court.building. ¢ . iy of coal, for was the reason ry ‘suspengion of " service New.-¥ork & North Shore Rail: extraordindry This was de- Senator Gormley then of- fered an amendment providing a referen- dum vote of the people, which also was defeated, the vote being 13 1o & The galleries were crowded with suf- fragifts and anti-sulfragises during the consideration of the resolution. time while_enator Gormley was speaking against ratification he was interrupted by _laughing “and _talking. paused and gaid: “This is what we might expect whep women get the. vote. mand as respectful a hearing as was given Senator Walker, who spoke for the resolution and was not ‘disturbed.” There was no. further interruption. whigh $22.a ton Was COMMERCIAL AGENT OF MEXICAN REV New York, May 5.—Ramon. until_recently Mexican eral in New York under ranza, announced here tonight had been appointed commetcial the Mexican _revolutionary Governor De La Huerta of Sonorp, pro=| visional civil head of the liberal tutional forces mow seeking the simultaneous- MORE THAN 1,700 GALLONS OF i ND ALCOHOL SEIZED May 5.-~Charged ting “the’ national prohibition law iR that the¥ had illegally in” their s of gallons of whis- gmund Rand of Cen-| and ‘Herman Rand of @1 before United atteson today aml IWHISKEY A temporary retirement i ~}an, " Brewn university ehgineering students took -the places of striking laborers and prévented an- interruption. of the memor- ial_gate 4t the Thayer street fide of the possession - huni key and - alcohol, The senatof Pawtucket were arraj States’ Commissioner held for action by-the federal grand jury in bail of $1,000 each; which they fur- Last week federal agents seized more than-1,700 gallons of and" aleohol on premises of the twq mén. revolutionary soldiers shortly. Wilk. begin | th’ 3 Thdiektions TRAL &' FolcARIe" ebuption 1 & march upon Mexico City. from. . the [Senator Johbé tiking place on thé lsland ot Old Prov- idence in the Caribbean Sed, were re- ported by the United eguncils _@nd_one of na ... principal | supporters, k annouficed_today that he favored Forrher INDIANA | nouncement made here tonight by Jesus | Senator, Albert J.. Beveridge of Indiana, he | far. permaneéit.chairman, with, the under- transfer-of federal funds here' incidental | standing -that Senator -Lodge was to be témporary. chaifman and rhake the key- ! Tote. speech. . Senator Borah said he was 8 primary elec-| oome from Sonora;” Senor -Cuen said. |not an ‘agpirant for chairmanshi; ‘The other 4,000 will join the column on | would fiot regard himself as availabl . Tt ihein s trorn Ca | 1 AL ¥hERE) wotia b o ntest ever - )even hundre aqui trooj rom Ca- e 2 i b eone | MINNEAPOLIS DEP'T STORE To a o et b;’",‘:;‘;,,;fi,,,:“";? e dioted In a statement given out Iy with the announcement of his ment, Mr. De Negri outlined which he said the revolutionary if successful in = superseding After predicting an end of the administration and the election of tenant Colonel Alvaro Obregon as Fruit steamer Cala- URGE DELAWARE ASSEMBLY TO RATIFY SUFFRAGE A large namber _of Ransians fleeing from South Russia to Asia Minor are beifeved to have been Tost in a”storm in the Black Sea. Fourteen ships. are said to be missing. Washington, Ma: —Resolutions urg- ing the Delaware legislature to rati auffrage amendment were night by the republican committee and transmitted o the speak-, CONTRACT AWARDED FOR BRIDGE AT WINDSOR LOCKS Hartford, Conn., May 5.—County com- The Munson line steamship Manamas congressional that MAKE DELIVERIES BY BIPLANES [ing the last few days, according to mili-| Leadars of the progressive’ “wing. Mineola, N. ¥.” Ma¥ 5--Two biplanes which will be used by a Minneapolls de. | or Tooched here foday. partment store for making deliveries left Tor Minneapolis |~ **Villa " Jeins - With- 2,000 Men. with §00 pounds of wearing apparel. Nogales, Ariz, May 5.—Francisco Vil- —Precedent| The machines expect to make the 1,500 | ia, with 2,000 men, joined the>revolu: state demoeratic | mile flight in 18 hours' flying time. They | tionary forces today ~af San Romico, Chairman Fitzgeraid, of the democra -|are scheduled to make their brst stop at| Chihuahua, according to._reports received dele- | Pouhkeepsie, pausing next at Albany, and | in Nogales, Sonora. . Villa, it was. said, omen of the | spending -the night at Syracuse. They|Will bring 10,000 supporters. to the side flying squadron.” which is now 2 ad seats on the plat- | cago. and Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, of Desha | COMMITTEE s . & ‘grand- POUNDS addressed the CET et Breckinridge, of Lexington, Ky T. Fuller, i sold by the city today at 21 cents per w Orleans, Lr.; wpeakers were cheered with ielegates rising. Each spoke briefly saying that they had democratic pated being at delegates as men aid them in their effort to pers to call a special session of Connecticut to de Gov- Chairman Fitzgerald declares e N T T 4 v Byl ‘hat, e ] Asua Prieta, Sonora, May 5.—Mexican ways tried to enfranchise while others hesitated and faltered. He| TNt of an officer of the United, States “Connec. | ATMY as military observer to accbmpany tieut shail come into line and, see to jt|Under the milltary proviisonal govern- America afe cntran.| ment: according to a message’ recsived wernen declared amid great applause: in his address severa]| HUeTta, temporary head of the liberal imies mentioned Preaident. Wilson, whose | cOnstitutionalist movement. same was vigirously applauded, especial- : Iy when the speaker declared, after ar-| GENERAL PERSHING E ralgnment of the republicans in congress, IN AN ALLIGATOR HUNT also will stop at Buffalo; Detroit and Chi- | of Obregon. THEFT LED WOMAN To | D 26,700 R AT STAMFORD the | Stamford, Conn. Ma Atlanti¢ Gity,-N."J..May.5.—An aged woman, arraigned- in police court here on a charge of stealing milk; proved to be Mrs. Elizabeth Weinberg, heir to $5,000, for“ whom -Police’ Judge - Clarence - L. Goldberg, before whom' she appeared,-hyd been searching for months. Mrs . Weinberg gave the narhe of “Su- —Sugar ‘was Mrs. | pound, in $1 and $2 packages. The fire- Mrs. | men put up these packages., 'The first Mrs. | plan was to make the packages five and the | ten pounds in weight. but as this :’hu‘l brought the value to $1.05 and ($2.10 it ut | was decided to make the weight less. in ith” h » b san Smith” when brought inf . '-('l:; A2 e "Whl: n making C';‘;"_m told Judge Goldbel;rg B hn‘; :f;::: i:: A mittee securec e sugar, 26, i o i % ‘ cured % |'millc because she. ‘was starving.” pounds, for distribution. court . expressed_ doubt as to the ti of the name, she had given and then admitted her real name.- MEXICAN REBEL§ INVITE U. S. MILITARY OBSERVER ‘Weinberg 1 ‘think you are,” udge. * £ - Later Mrs. Weinberg produced suf- revolutionists would welcome the assign- today from Governor Adolfo. De 'La | Groppe, 1 - *- TOnY. charge was WATERBURY. MURDER SUSPECT AGED ARRESTED IN- SCRANTON, PA. Wy oy I xy : Seranton, I Pa., ‘May 5.—Suspected of he (the president) is already im-| Panama, May 4—General John J.|DhAviog murdered a man in Waterbury, “no matter what Pershing, ‘after- an- all- ¢ alligator huni | COPR.. about two esks ‘age; Dominick % not expected that the session to- | in Which two of the animals were lassoed | LOPONO.-aged 34, Was'blaced under arrest as much of | and -captured alive, today boarded . thg | here today ~"He is being held to await will be protracted. the bus @ 's was finished tonight. CONTEST LIKELY OVER BRYAN MAHAN OF transport Northern Pacific and will ‘sail | the action of the-Waterbyry. authorities. for New York by way of Porto Rico, at | APOUt tensdays ago a man named Peter midnight tonight. » A% | Cecere was Killed in Waterbury and the slayer escaped. Lopono answers the - de- EW LONDON qouv!;u-AL{i:y DEBATE HAS . scription of the alleged slaver and a let- ¥ 5.—The demo- ral’ committee voted to recom- mend to the qgolutions committee that| Aljen he convention delegation to vote as a unit and not te endorse any candidate. Men Endorsed For District Delegates. | New York. district conventions mesting her nnecticyt congressional in cancuses endorsed for gates the foliowing: BEEN SET FOR FRIDAY, ) ter recoveréd by the police connects him MAY 28| vith the Cecere family, - Friday, May 28, ¢ = g has bee nset for the date of the Gompers- | BROWN SHOE CO. DECLARES debate on the Kansas industrial| ° A DIVIDEND OF 35 1- court law, according to informatioh re- S ceived by Governor H. J. Allen today. St. “Louis, May 5-—The Brown Shoe The debate wil be held in Carnegie hail, | company has declared & commion. stock dividend of 33 1-3 per-cent., \increasing its common stock from $6,300,000 to $8,- 400,000, it- was announced today. This its| Topeka, Kas., May 5. fele. | GOVERNMENT HAS PURCHASED Congressman COMMONWEALTH DOCK, BOSTON | it was said. is the first such dividend de- leakin.| Boston, May 5.—The feneral govern-|clared by the company since it-was re- Augustine Lonergan and both of Hartford ; Dunn of Willimantic and Yeomans, of Andover : of Meriden, and Arthur B. O'- P. | ment today completed the purchase from | Organized in 1913. M. | the state of the, drydock built by -the| The regular quarterly cash dividend at I | conimonwealth ,on the South Bostori wa-| the annual rate of 7 per cent. bn the terfont by payment of a check for $4,.|83.000 shares of corimon’ stock also was] Jeremidh | 58585 The dock is capable of accommo.| deciared. Denovan of Norwalk and W. P. Kirk, ot Bpert s Pth, Wikt R Palct: (d:llnl the largest vessel afloat or build- v\-::fl;;: JRGE O. Wigmae, o Litch- o irst district endorsed Thomas | pryISION OF 3. Spellacy of Hartford for a delegate- Ai-large and the Fourth district endors. SRDERED 10 XEY WEst +d Charles D, Lockwood of Stamford. | Washington, May 5—Secretary Dan- 3 toright were that the four | lels today ordered a division of destroy. | Yale Law, school in the cl rge would be Daved New Haven, Mr. Spellacy, | fleet, to sail immediately for Key West | here today. delegaten. Fitageraid of Mr. Lockwood and Bryan ¥ew London, aithough a contest ' was| in Mexican waters. ESTROYERS May: 5.—George R. E. | ers, now at New York with the Atlantic | since then Secretary, of -his- class,: d | missioners in awarding the contract for the new bridge to span the Connecticut river between Windsor Locks nad Ware- house Point, for which $500.000 was ap- propriated, have allotted work to C. W. Blakeslee & Sons of New Steel work will be done by the Construction company. It is expected that work will begin on the bridge as soon as water in the river recedes to normal. lie -north of the present. brdige and will have a length of 1,200 feet. with a clear readway of 24 feet and a walk of § feet. dent within 'a week, Mr. De Negrl the new government “of young men, with ideals and honor,” the social and economic equilibrium Mexico and “win the friendship of ‘all nations by rectitude of its actions® . “The present revolution in Mexico 19 . not. properly speaking. a military * Mr. De Negri continued. “Tt'is. a protest on the part of public opinien against the acts of brute force ted by the federal government.” which went ashore Sunday. night off San Salvador island in.the been reoflated. er of the house at Dover. In view of the nate today in voting to n members of the house were requested to fall in line and make Delaware the 36th state. OFFICERS ELECTED AT STATE CONVENTION OF RED MEN tary officials. . Two hundred of. this num- [ .there was no disposition to oppose, selec: tion of Senator Lodge for chairman and that they gipected to elect one_of -their group as chairman without .opposition. TRIBULATIONS OF TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN' NEW, ENGLAND —H. L. Rotzel, acting manager _of .the Lawrence. local of the Amalgamated Textile Workers of Amer- | ica, Who came here tonight action of the The Wialto theatre in . Y., was destroyed by fire incurring a loss -of $240,000, of which George Cohan, the owner said only $10,000 was covered by insurance. Poughkeepsie, Greenwich, Conn., May 5.—The great| council of the Independent Order of Red Men in Connecticut held its annual cog- clecting officers und officers and commit- tees. Henry P. Crawford of Greenwich was elected great Lee of Wallingford, great sachem; Jay Phillips of Torrington, great senior Parketon of Stratford, William Saun- The structure wilf Boston, May Haverhill, Mass., proporietors that after next Monday its members will handle no more bread not union made. R vention here toda; hearing reports of WARNING TO PARTIES THAT S FLIRT WINI THE “WETS" - Géorgé E.'Roewér" Jr., cotrsel” for tife AN INHERITANCE -OF $5,000) union, said that the members = of SAYS POLES DES _SEIZE MIDDLE SILESIA Berlin, May 5 (B: Two thieves smashed a jeweler's win- dow. at one of Harlems busiest corners in the broad daylight of noon and es- 00 worth of rings and branch ‘unions . wouid . decide there should he a strike to -enforce the demands sent. 1o the. agents of the mills &Y. - The 'central council lorse. thejr action before a strike could..be orgergd, he said, add- ing that the :council ‘could -convene on Threatening the democratic party with the loss of the women's vote in Wisconsin - if the man leaders dare temporize in any degTes. vith the wets,” Mrs. Clinton M. Barr, state vice chaiman of the Wisconsin weo- men democrats, today addressed the meeting of Wisconsin tional convention delegates and women. “The democratic party now has the opportunity to gather to it almbst the solid woman's vote,” said Mrs. “Even republican’ women are at the antics of the republican senate.- I8 you put a plank in the platform at San Francisco which gives light beer the A. P.).—A des- patch to the Tageblatt from Breslau says tnat documents found on alleged oPlish captured in the Militsch district of Silesia_ indicate that it is the intention of Poles to seize middle Silesia as far as the Bartsch river, and that a pretext i€ to be found in the driving of upper Silesian Germans into some act justifying Reichswehr have been sagamore ; Asa L. great junior sagamone; - ders of Naugatuck, great chief of rece caped with $2 precious stones. in Lawrence" would have to As_a result of the shorta | Europe the demand for sup trom Holland is was highest bidder, then France, and_Switzerland. onds; Andrew Weisman of Meriden, great keeper of wampum. . Fifty-six past sachems were admitted to seats in the great council submitted showed that the membersiip gain in the state in the pa 774 and the amount paid for sick -relief i the order for the year was $14,938. il endorsed William Saunders for great keeper of wampum of_the United States council. democratic ma~ the _agents demanding increase, a 44- , and . recognition of ade no request.for a reply 0 date for:the desired condi- a fitiy per cént hour ;warking , week, The | the union, Tuth | and set ne she | tions to go-into Folith invasion. sert to protect the frontier. g the correspondent, the immediate plan of .the Poles is ‘to bring Copeln, which is the seat’of the provin- cial government, into their power. The housa most office fused ‘to-act fayorably on. the Fess hill peal of the graduated in- committes . Te- | proposing .the crease in second class mail 1920, 1921 and 19 tHe 'stationary engi- he mills might strike tomorrow, ad given the manufacturers un- “There is a check in my office for you in - for-$5,000, if You .are -the \Elizabeth | ne.tney b said . the | til’ then wine or makes other concessions to wets, Wisconsin women will not vote for the democratic party.” 3 siternates-at-large included two women while six were among the district alternates hen 't6 ‘comiply With ‘wage demands ‘submitted; some time ago.. If the. engi- neers should (g9 but, . he said; the mem- Arthar Wiegand and Samuel . Marra pleaded .guilty to 7 charze of. stealing $25,000 worth of Liberty bonds, first is- sue 3 1-2 per cent from the Title Guar- anty & Trust Co., D T. S, gold coln smounting to £457,000 {was. received at the sub treasury from | Colombia. South America. of $35.000 in gold was ! for shipment to Virgin Islands. PROVIDENCE CUSTOMS HOUSE IS BEING GUARDED CICVELAND STRERT HAVE POSTPONED STRIKE Cleveland, May 5. cient proof*and the check, in settiement of the estate of an uncle, was .turned :::y _of his union would follow immedi- A threatened strike of 3,00 Cleveland street car men was in- dejnitely postponed late today. W. S. Fitzgerald andInternational Vice President W. B. Fitzgerald of the car men’s union made this announcement fol- Tewing a meeting with the special council . The car men and President Jotir. J. Stanley of the Cleveland Railway comrany have agreed to permit the coun- cil committee to work out a. rearrange- meat of schedules. Themen will vote on President Stan- ley's wage offer on Friday. on a warning fro mthe justice at Washington, special agents of the department here and deputy United States marshals were detailed éarly this evening”to patrol the federal building and old customs house’ during the night. Police reserves were held at all sta- tions. Federal officials refused to state the hature of the information sent them from Washington. Police Gilmartin said he had been in- formed by federal authorities that trouble might be expected from “the radical ele- | AMERICANIZARIQN 'TO. CURB . T SRFEAD‘OF RADICALISM ‘May .5.~—Better. and- more intelligent Americanization as a means of curbing, the spread of radicalism in the country, was urged -bye. Charles-D. Orth, président of the National Security League, in’an address to delegates from all parts of the country” atteriding the annual meeting. of the. organization. hera. gitizenship was the only department of ‘American life not representéd - by ' some organization and it was urgently ‘necessary foday. SHRINKAGE IN NET EARNINGS CANADIAN FACIFIC RAILWAY announced for Montreal, May 5.—Ne tearnings of the Canadian Pacific railway for 1919 wers $1,569,351 leas than in 1918, although fhe KTose earnings for the same period wete. $19,391.361 more than during the Ing year, according to the report by E. W. Beatty. president of ‘Warrants were sworn ont By a feleral agent for tHe arrest of two X sugar ‘brokers, George Finlay, acéused of profiteering sale of sugar to Philadelphia firms. Superintendent § d S e Ehos Resolutions urging defeat of any pro- posed action by congress which would recognize Ifeland as a adopted by the Methodist Episcopal Gen- eral Conference in session at Des Moines. of Rhode Island it MISSING WESLEYAN STUDENT HAS BEEN FOUND SOUTHERN RAIROAD EARNINGS NET LESS THAN 1 PER CENT. Washington, May 152,706 since 1917 A dividend of 2 1-2 per cent :!E Middletown, Conn., May 5.—John M. Stackhouse, a' Wesleyan university stu- who had been missing since Sun- day, was found late today in the Mount Higby section, He had suffered a nervous searching parties were sent out from the university today. Stackhouse reached weakened condition, having eaten nothing since Sunday.. Hé:was brought to the Middlesex hospital. is_in Bloomsburg, Pa. 23 PERSONS WERE WHEN BUS OVERTURNED REDUCTION OF ‘350,00 lPr’l'G OF ANACONDA New York, May 5.—Reduction of al- most $50,000,060 shown by the “Andconda Copper Mining company for 1919 in the annual report issued today: + Total ‘receints * aggregatet against. $147,618,802 Net: recéipts' declined from $24- 716,073 to '$7,415,236 ‘and total income amounted to $9,308,024 against $27,583,- 588. - Balane ' applicable” to - dividends are against $8.92 in L —With an estimat- ed_property investment -of $2,284.000,000 Southern railroad systems are deriving less than one per cent. met returns. -An increase of $120,770,000 will be required to bring the revenue to the six per cent. basis provided in the transportation act. C. H. Markham, Tllinois Central Raiiroad, submitted these statements to the commission in his brief in support of the request of the southern roads for in- creased rates. NO IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS <IN STEIKE AT WATEEBURY ‘Waterbury, Conn., May 6.—There were no important ‘developments ‘today in the local strike situation. no .more .arrests for- - intimidation since yesterday morning. - The strike commit- tee_of the New. England .Workers' -us- sociation in_session today, ,discussed a suggestion that Gov. Holcomb be appeal to” With a’ request that - Gavernor Beeckma: has offered a reward of $500 for informa- tion leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murderous -assault upon Oliver Eck- f 1y 3 breakdown and H farmhouse in a Mrs, Samuel Rieder, about 35 vesrs, president of the is in,a eritical condition at 'a hospital at Torrington as a result'sf having swallow- ed . solution, containing - poison, Delieved that she took suicidal intent. .- A_wholesae delvery of 8 the Raymond street jall in Brookiyn was prevented by the ‘discovery, of kevs to cells and outside. doors and a boitle of chloride of mereury on two men awaiting trials for murder in the ‘first degree. E. ¥. Grable, president of the United Brotherhood of Malntenance of Way, Em- ployes and Railway Shop Workers, de- clared before the Rafiroad. Labor Bogrd “Too many people eat cake, while others Hi Stackhouse’s home tlie poison with prisoriers. from . _— FIRED SHOT AT.SISTERAN-LAW AND THEN KILLE ‘Wallingford, Confi., May 5.-—Edward A. a Tully, -52, fired a shot at his sister-in- Cooley, for forty years a practising law- | law, Mss.+ Jamess Tuily,» in vher home late yer in New ‘Haven, Conn, graiiuate of |today, and then ran to the barn behind of 1875 and }the house and killed himself by a shot in g clas the head from ‘the revolver. Mrs. Tully He‘was president of the | was not.injured, the bullet cutting a*hole New York, May 5.—Twenty-three per- sons “were injured, sixteen. of them so severely- they. were -taken to a hospital, when a_crowded Fifth avenue bus over turned on .the upper West Side late to- day.. The driver of the bus, according to the police, in trying to avoid - collision with a héavy motor truck, swerved to- ward the cirb, striking glancing blow. The bus then foppled over o the. sidewalk. - The D HIMSELF ‘There have been L he appoint a of ['where tHey will be held for pessidle duty| New Haven .common. oouneil- for . two | through the: edge of* her -dress. . Tully years in the early 30's, - majority of the leannot get. bread.” A minfmum wage increase of 7 cents an board of mediation’ to- come here and settie the strike if possible.