Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 1, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXI—NO. 134 ; POPULATION 29,685 SENATE CONNITTEE REPORTS RESULT O INESTIEATION As Agreed Upon by Joint es Call For i Commission Increas-| CABLED PARAGRAPH ,000 Raise of From Amnesty for Political Prisioners ,000 E MEXICAN AFFAIRS NORWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, (Final Adjournment and Senate. Congress Saturday Agreement Reached by Re-|Richard J. Burges, Command- ' publican Leaders of House| er of Arnold Post, No. 4, G. JUNE 1, 1920 Close of Parade A. R,, of Providence. Washington, May 31.—Republican | Providence, R. L, Ma% 31—Richard J. leaders of the house and sehate today | Burgess, commander of Arnold Post, No. agreed tentatively on a final adjourn-|4, G. A. R., of this city, dropped dead Prague, Caecho-Slocakia, May 31 e 5 p 1 $ to ually For = | Presi 14 SOUERSERi Saturday, at the head of his post just at the close 150 Ann For Postal Clerks and Letter Car- ident Thomas G. Masaryk today $250 ent 1 Sa granted amnesty to all political offend- riers, With $400 For Supervisory Officers—Clerks to Be | crs, with the exception of those conviet- ed of either espionage or murder. Divided Into Six Classes, Graduated From $1,600 to|.... .. Siicrarion Acars $2,300—Pay of Postoffice Inspectors to Range From w tion FLOWS INTO UNITED STATES J Become Effective| New York, May 31—Though the tide $2,300 to $4,200—New Salaries to of immigration has begun to flow again July 1 into the United States from Europe 5o . that incoming ships have their 1ower | meniar 4 p fn. Setorde May 91 —Armed Intersen-, is attacking the president severely. He|decks crowded with homeseekers from > n » in| goes from one blunder to another and|other lands, there is litle prospect that the mew forces inj o each day more clearly that he is a|relief is in sight for the American house- tativel yagreed on. Many members of both the senate and house, however, have indicated that they prefer a recess for the political conven- tions to a sine die adjournment and this| had been urged to rids in an automobile may cause 2 change in the plans as ten- The agreement reached by leaders to- day contemplates the calling up by Rep- resentative Mondell of Wyoming, repub- lican leader, in the house tomorrow -of his gesolution proposing final adjourn- of the Memorial Day parade here to- day. Mr. Burgess, who was 75 years old, but refused, saying that he wanted to march with hi smen. He enlisted at ghe outbreak of the Civil war when h was but 16 years old and served until October, 186, WOMAN KILLED IN PALMER Final decision as between a recess or| DURING MEMORIAL DAY PARADE an adjournment it was said might hang fire until the last moment. 1In a con.| Palmer, Mass, May 31—Mrs. Grace control there show an mability or UM-| yerectly incompetent person. wife who has been promising herself 2| ference with the senate leaders today,|A: Allen, a member of the Woman's Re- willingness to set stable government| “If the failure in Europe were not suf-|cook or maid-of-all service to be recruit-|however, Representative Mondell is up.|lief Corps, was killed during the Me- ndly towand Americans was| ficlent, it would be corroborated by the|el from the newcomers. At least that nvestigatin Should a stable g ommittee Which | from Washington and which President Mexican affairs. Carranza has answered with the imperti-|Station on Eilis Island. ernment be estab-| nence those Yankees merit. 1 see in all e recommended that full recognition be accorded it and that finnacial axsistance be offered by the United States. The committee said. how- ever, that fu ognition should n~t be| go\E HISTORIC TREES NOW had been “entéred Mor=T1, o STANDING 1) Article 27 of the commonly regarded confiscatory shall not lished, the commit Time will show me to be Boston, May 31—The part that treestry. play in the history of a state is shown ne but a Me Baker of the United States Immigration it is a hopeful sign that the aliens ar-|tion and conference rep riving in this port during the last few |list of important meagirés slated weeks have exceeded the number going back to their native lands by many thou- MASSACHUSETTS | sands. Last week six times as many come in as qualified to leave the coun- for passage before congress quite and it is likely that after the senate has voted on | tal, Where she died. Armenia tomorrow it will spend its time - on various bills of a minor or special A character while the house considers the eople who think the servant girl | Armenian resolution. by an index table of historic trees now |problem is going td” be soived soon will — o1 Gt ]vrr:id standing in Massachusetts. The table, | be ~disappointed. if they. are’ depending | PEADLOCK ON EIVEE AXD \n citizen may | Which was prepared for the New England lon the women immigrants from Ireland HARBOR APPROPRIATION BILL derstood to have been advised to 8O morial Day parade:today: when she, was » the senate today by the | inexpedient notes that we have received|is the opinion of Superintendent P. A.|ahead with his adjournment resolatigy|struck by an automobile in the parade under the assumption that it probably] Car " 3 W, Would be found satisfactory to the sen-|bY Captain Hiram B. W l| * “Immigration has been increasing by | ate majority. inal_intention to intervene in | leaps and bounds,” Mr. Baker said, “and| Only ing Civil war veterans and driven ris, aged 85. The relief corps was marching ahead « : % N the Armenian mandate resolu.|the veterans in autos and it is supposed indate resolt-| Captamn Clari's foot touched the ac- celerator instead of the brake. Mrs. Al- len was taken to Wing Memorial hospi- 42 PERSONS INJURED U persons. BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO- PAY 31—Although the agreement on the part of the British gov- ernment to pay off the §50,000,000 owed c national| |,y Argentina to United States bankers, ¢ 15, has been hailed here as of | “an act of friendship,” official publicity | has not yet been given to the under- standing n banking circles that the agreement was only a conditional part which enables Great britain to pay her Historic Genealogical Society, shows the |and the Scandinavian countries. Plenty = . | EH e Ao b oo Creed In | association of irees with hisiric. events | of these are amriving on every boat, but jtamkueion,. b e BT s ¢ caster Shali @Bt ution extending through important p hey turn up their noses at _thou : >0 ol g T e e P iufiah | since the days of the Pilgrim Fathers.|of menial labor. They. have their minds |[rUOr appropriation e e ome O the. Bt w formation regarding the acts of [ The most famous is the Washington |set on getting work in the better fac- |y “opor M0 "Dt ° F0OTH TR HUEC opiiteq crowd of 1 thorities o of private individuals,| Bim in Cambridge, under which General | tories, principally those manufacturing oot o B8 (0 PETEEEC 1 2o Sanelle they have to do with public| Washington took command of the little | luxurics such as candy/and women’s fin- i g Aftairs. | wble to Americans. force of patriots ‘Ih“h g can«-f; u“\e[ < ’I‘Iw‘.\' pratiatg pest - Into ‘fi"@f’ PRESIDENT A DIRECTOR OF That t on th inister or| American Army. It has been said that|where employes are well treated and into e = 5 i g £ T e dhct shdom| the trosparconld aimost he ° shéltéred {localitiss | Where: housiig sfacllitisat Cars PP AmeNAL CoNURRTION [ sr primary instruction shall not ap-|under the elm's 95 foot spread of 'best so that they can live on the seale| “wwagnington May 31.—President , Wil- Sosges SR B I oo oF ATSUNBUNS, W& branches. justified by the high wages paid them. | on' tool & dircet nand totne i the wo E r which undesira-| Other trees mark revolutionary inci- | If employers want to attract these classes | an aon & G 0€0 00 T00 ) ¥ be expelled be so re-|dents and events, with local, state orfof women immigrants they had better | convention at San Framoisce June 28 bt Amerieans the right to|national significance, as the places where |look to the reputations of their factories | “ Symmoning Chairman Cammings. of| P2Y*21¢ 2 . the representatives of their| Washington rested, or made an address, ,for pleasant working conditions.” the democratic national committee yovern or.watered his horses; where Lafayette | Mr. Baker scouted the idea that Pro-|the White House, the president discuss: T mendations alsd proposed a | stopped during his campaign in the patri- | hibition was one reason why immigration | e’ with. him the pacty platform, - tne peovie the agreement for the im-|ot cause; where revolutionists had their | was mot gaining more rapidly.. He said|jeague of nations as a campaien issue, mediat o of a claims com-|rendezvous; where the Minute Men train- | the foreigners were coming in at about | the status of thé peace treaty, the sen- mission ¢ Mudicate the claims ofled or took stand in actions against the |one-third the rate of the year immedlate- | ate = investization into pre-convention Americans, the commission to be made up| British. Iy preceding the European war. The of men ehosen by the two governments| The Boxford Blm, a revolutionary | principal reason why more were not com- meeting-place, was the scene also of the | ing was that the men are uregently need- signing of an important treaty in the|ed in their own countries, some of which, days of the Indian Wars, and under the |notably Poland, are supporting huge Gliot Oak at South Natick, John Eliot | armies which use up a large part of their ult that those understanding that its find- g and be immediately car- ried out by the payment of the damages and with the Mexican oficials fail 10| opread his gospel to the Indiang. Fam- |man power. with the an o to establish a gov- [ o0 N KOS ¥ 4 " ous speeches on abolition by the orators | who are free to do nent capable of affording adeauate] e ). timn were made among the trees mand wages comparable to those paid jon to Americans, the eSmmittee | s 19,50 Grove in North Abington from | this country. ted “that- we witl send a policet ;e q”through the Civil War. consisting of the naval and mili- a spresd of S5 feet, is preserved as s i before the war, with “the exception reputlic of Mexieo to open and mainta feation be.|Piace Where the first settiers found shei- | Germany and Austria-Hungary. Italy D) of extr pe of cofgmmEycEtion ter while tiley slept, and the Sheffield |furnishes by far the greatest number. |ter and misrepresentations. ty of Magico ‘""‘)""-‘ S| EIm was the camping piace of the found- | These are largely unskilled Jaborers who Porder port 0f MeRIc0. | er ofthat tewn, and the- seerie -of ‘the | find (helF wayiinto thie bid Citiessalt-oyer T e R e en given | town meeting. long afterwards. The, Pax-| the country, ‘where: they go_into the blg o eanle that the United|ton Blm marks the center of the state. |industries and mines. 2 corrin® om them and that| The Oakham Oak gave that town its| Only in the case of one country Mex and the Avery Oak at Dedham, a Jeople them-) model for the town seal, ser sire, a Mexi-| ing. o mrious, competent and| The oldest tree in the index is the|sued last month and nearly as many ble men Ei \exican authorities meet | planted by John Endicott in 1630. The | firs committee | greatest ¢ the United States|ham, with # spread of 145 feet. The |sickness and anxiety over (he welfare crnment, enabling | famous “Great Elm” of Doston's earliest | relatives in the war zones. \ Iness and build up | da; no more, but an off-sheot is rec- - he sugzes- | ognized ws Old Elm's Descendent. The | HISTORIC FRIGATE RICHMOND IS mon. might | Ancient Oaks, made famous in Lonsgfel- 48 a|low's “Tales of A Wayside Inn.” Haw- =il thorne’s Grove at Concord, favorite walk imittee, pre-|of wre author, Louisa May Alcott’s Elms ator Fall co. was concurred in chairman, Sen Holmes' Pine at T<i ®id all are treas- 1 Comnecticut, repubtican, o e pride of the United States navy. The| If theré is, he is the “man of de v pocrat, and or-| " famous wooden warship, built in 1858, |according to the revelations of % t senate, which 5 = was used luring three wars in capacities | Sybilline Bellaugh, the Hungarian a [ decoliad Uiy it be | THERE OF A CANOBING FALY varying from admiral's flagship to re- | tional prophetess, who was asked recent- o It probably will be called up DROWNED \IN ST. ALBANS BAY |ceiving ship and finally was burned for n by the Sepate ations.| St Albans, Vt, May 31—Taree mem- i of ree.|bers of a canceing party of four were bt drowned by the overturning of their s i craft late last night in St. Albans ‘bay. mmary contains a|The drowned were Bertha Remillard, Who have|Anna Marquette_and Gordon Smith. An- the copper in her hull. The Richmond one of the ® & Bextean sitairs B » over-|thony Redig wis rescued. Alli Were|camouflaged. During the bomBardment Forfitio Diaz in 1911, For the | from St.” Albans. of New Orleans, Farragut ordered the Sexte L owever. it sounds a note| Redig said the party had been out all man- the necessary paint, the fi ‘ the evening and were returning home ureed that before any|when the canoe tipped over. When he srded General De La|came to the surface the two girls were olutionary leader, who |clinging to the bottom of the canoe, ont ad interim te-|Smith was missing and Redig did not that his adminis-| see him again. Ly and| Although they were not far from shore, that 1t ie dispesed to comply with theltheir cries for help remained unanswered - of international comity and the ob-|for a considerable time a siccupants of Jigations of treaties. To everyone exer-|the nearest coltages had retired for the is wority In any part of Mexico|night. Meanwhile the young women ba- v warning should be sent, the report|came exhausted and although Redig at- “ared. that this government would | {ampted to hold them above water, they n responsible for the sufferings|sank barely a minute before a rescuing osses of Americana. rowboat arrived. Redig wa staken ashore i on the testimony | gyffering from nervous shock but other- tnesses heard hewe.|\wise unhurt. d on the border and a| Tne bodies the girl§ were recovered evidence, much of it| this morning in six feet of water. The government archives. The|gaarch for Swmith's- ®ody continued. The orih that since the Madero| girls were 18 yvears of age; Smifh and from the enemy’s vigx. in 1898 for when she the Spanis! s used as a recel ). years she wi o into use again in the World War as receiving and training ship. Yevoiution began there have been killed in | Ragig about 21. Mexico as a consequence of revolutionary dicott Pear Tree at Danversport, | esach of the montils preceding since the of the year. They are gbin back. NOW A MASS OF WRECKAGE Fastport, Me., May 31—A mass of 3 twisted metals and charred timbers ly- also at Concord, and _Oliver Wendell |1 "an concy Bonch here 18 oit tons 1o S ’ : mains of the frigate Richmond, once the | dency? members. Sena-|ured for the associtions with those who o > Admiral Farragut’s | president would be. flagship during the Civil War and was | foregoing in several famous engagements in south- | Mme. Sybilline ern waters and along the Mississipai River. It is said that the Richmond was rst American ships to be|of the people” She added that an tempt. was made to assassinate him with- in the last two years. The next pre ar camoflaged and not having |dent will ate was|and popular,” she declared. smeared with mud, partly obscuring her| America will The once great warship's days of use- fulness were over and a short time ago | : o S el strikers tomorrow or Wednesday e z + | president of the Longshoremen's Associa- | cereals, on fa oF 2 i ion. Mr. O’Connor said that following the world's deep sea divi h e & A = diving record. | 4 “conference. Hetween Iabor leaders and Governor Smith today he hoped to make| gapp BY GOVERNMENT EXPERTS definite proposals to the strikers to &nd Suimed into Passamacuoddy Bay. He |the strike tomorrow. Definite action will Turner, of Newburyport, Mass, holder After lighting several fires from bow to stern Captain Turner hauled down the sinerican flag from the frigate and keynote speech. after the convention, remained at It was indicated that terne the - irginia_convention. f I rect touch from the white House. PROPHETESS FORESEES NEXT determi istinguishing peculiarit whose election is demanded by the ma be a “good man, can War { STRIKING LONGSHOREMEN ng ship adelphia Navy Yard. Then ew York, May 31—Termination ; was picked up part of the ship's o e conditions 461 Americans and _a 1a-ge|yosn JEwELS VALUED AT T Pory. fon The metod dp'® CTEW | chants’ Association: that the men pumber of other foreigners. The MUMBCr| " 4100,000 RETURNED TO OWNER | swim. 2 uf Americans killed on the American side Fsss: The beach on which the Richmond was | V28°%- o the border was placed at 126. Chicago, May 31—Jewels valy\ at ap- | hurned is the most. eastern point on the by gETeRAle ‘hn'm::eh :(;h;m“‘";"‘; proximately {100,000 lost from a motor | Maine coast and is where four other mittee estimated should be pe car in Evanston, ‘a suburbfi today had been returned to Mrs. James Simpson, wife of the vice president of a large department store and Thor Alredson, car- penter, was $100 richer and Justice of the Peace Nazareth-Barsuwnian, also h @ DELEGATION OF SUFFRAGISTS deatha of these Americans Was given as $14.875,000 the total summary of Josses incurred by Americans in Mexico was placed at £307 002434, The losses suffered by the national raflways was 4 at $80.000.000 and for other rail- ways in Mexico th aggregating $60.0 one Ameriean n junkment in other years e g One | brary. Alfredson found the jewels, de- ses b great part of the I Das not yet been reported, According 1o the fvestigations of the|ed when infSrmed of the find. committee the population of Mexico has a direct result of the disturbed condition. Much of this is due to disease attributable —— e I a large measure, it was awerted, to| Tulsa, Okla May 31--At least five per- | day. starvation sons were killed and £ score injured in| Th which the Carranza administration re-|ports received here. garded the United States and its presi- i dent there was published in the report| MARRIAGE TO MAKE INROADS there. the following copy of a letter written by ON GIRL 'PHONE OPERATORS Candido Aguilar, son-in-law of Carranza, GABRIELLE D'ANNUNZIO 18 to Elizo Arredondo, Mexican minister at| Hartford, May 31—The Hartford tele- Madrid, three weeks after Aguilar had |phone exchange is to lose about twenty placed a wreath on Washington's tomb: |of its girl operators by marriage enxt “Your note dated the 4th of the past wonth received. In view of the internal[changes in the state is about 150. The erisis which the United States is experi- [ number of brides going out of the Hart- encing Wilson's policy is provoking indig-|ferd exchange to get married Minnesota and Vermont, were burned by ik HAS ARRIVED IN PARIS e ax bredited a Yoss| $100 toward his fund for a circuating 1 twenty-eight other American delegates, alternates and visitors who will attend Gecriamed nearly one-third since 1310 as|FIVE EILLED IN TRAIN COLLISION |the congress of the International Woman : % Suffrage Alliance at Gemeva, Switzer NEAR WHITE OAX, OKLA.|jand, on June 6-13, arrived fh Pafls to- were joined here by elght other | Socnon s i ~ i American representatives, including Mrs. hout the period, it was claimed,|a head-on colllision of two St. Louis and ing Mrs,, e Mosican authorities have displaved o | San Francisco passenger trains carly to- Stanley McCoriliks e Re VN 1l SN v hostile attitude toward the United States|day near White Oak, a village about 50 |for Geneva tomorrow. - Mes. Daniels bas| ybles spemt on political measures which | ceints of fwo stores of @ drug company 4nd aa an indication of the manner in |miles northeast of here, according to Fe- £One (o the Hague to visit her brothe, | ios" found mecessars th s the worn: | comniey T harreer men quiet. . The political measures, the consisted chiefly in sta- | SERIOUS COAL'SHORTAGE . t soldiers and gendarmes in the lieutenant commander David W. Bagley, naval attache to the Ameriean Legation ILL AT FIUME WITH FEVER Geneva, May 31.—A despatch received mouth and the estimate for all the ex-|here from Innsbruck says that Gabricle D’Annunzio is ill at ‘Fiume with fever. It is believed the malady is the same as averages | that which_recently ared among the| e e = o organization. Mr. Marling. 5 DEFICIT OF R 5! toncern was fixed |fcribed by the owner as heirlooms, and | Paris May 31-Mrs. Cartte Chapman g oy a2 805,600, but. it was potnted out, a|called in Judge Barsumian in a neffort | Catt. president of the National Woman at 92 b 22 vointed out, & (" he person who had lost them. | SUTFage associntion of the United States wat part of the losses had boen borne |10 (T U PRl et them i nihe morn: |and Mrs. Josephus Danlels, wite of the by small properts g g Altredson said, Mr. Simpson repil- | American seeretary of -the navy, with ceeding sale more turbulent factories. - MORE THAN 3300 QUARTS OF campaign financing and Mr. Cummings’ later to have lunch with the president. at length, Mr.-Cummings agnounced, be- cause the president’s views on the sub- ject had been set forth in his letter last js| Week to Senator Glass of Virginia, ap- name and was a model for its town seal, ) the outgoing population greater than that | OVIng the platform adopted by 180 the | coming in. This js Poland whose na- |femocrak d as the | tionals besiege the Polish Consulate daily Ay T % 3 b matitute “in|site of the town's first religious meet-|in great numhers seeking passoprts. | Pational varty platform would be pat- About 5,000 of these passports were is- the democratic convention in that state two g the general lines of that of President Wusou s cxpected to confer with other party leuaders before the con- = i = X.| vention and while the San Francisco the Rugg Klm at Framinz- | it is generaHy believed, Lecause of home™ | oi 0 £1G Wooo (o0 B, JRaTCio0 AMERICAN PRESIDENT BLONDE Budapest, May 31—Is there in America | S2T¢SPORdent & man who is blonde, slightly bald, wears | glasses, 48" “sugrounded by fine children” and who is an aspirant to the presi- 1y to apply her gilts to the theé task of g who the mnext American In addition to the leclared he was “the | most popular man in America, and one sses successful ‘vield to popular senti- ment and turn anti-prohibition,” the A few years later the Richmond was | prophetess asserted. retired but was put in commission again it was | Great Prit: E k] back to work pending an adjustment of Emphatie denial that the Merchants’ Association or the Citizens' "Transporta- ot b tion committee were fighting for the goden frigates, the,Hranklid, Weabaslifl s o it o opdniopidal wide by Al fred E. Marling, chairman of the latter the Russian boishevils government -re- ports an estimated deficit for 1920 on| Hartford, May 31—Six hundred dollars the operations of mationalized industries |in cash disappeared today from the scene of 23,75.700,000 rubles, according to a|of a collision between a light automo- dispatel to the Exchange Tele- |bile truck and a {rolley after the driv- WHISKEY SEIZED IN PROVIDENCE| Very serious el *-- Providence, R.-T. May’31.—More than|ginia_fields, ax 3300 quarts of whiskey, said to be worth $30,000, were seized by police a=i fed-| Logan Coal Association, said here to- eral prohibition agents here today as it - " arrived on a big truck from New York. own hundred million doliar debt to Ar- hout sending to this country gentina Mr. Cummings, who will leave tomor-|® Sinsle cent. row for San Franci m ntion et Y] ited by Argeritina sen i » jobligation, but the remaining $30,000, e o T s s gond resuirned (0 atter being renewed, is to be grad- an work com-| The chairman said the president had|Uvally extinguished through an arrange- in|talked “very freely and frankiy” The league of nations issue, he said, had The present wave of immigration orig- | been sharply defined. A buttonwood tree at Charlemont, with | inates in about the same countries as our government, into the on the principal part of Argentina's ex- “I have never had any doubt of thejternal debt, bankers have learne of | result” he said, if the league were takén| Thus far ‘the Argentine Government, to the péople cleared of extraneous mat-| which wi try and has been correspondingl mental to that of the Unied Great Britain aiso. of the Ameri loan tr America are represented as waging a comercial contest for trade i ers on hi States W s at six percent. Turning to the British government of | Anglo-Argentine banker, the Minister a |the Strike of coastwise longshoremen, | was able to get a loan of $50.000,000 which has seriously hampered water- front transportation here for more than |This he was able to a month, will depend upon a vote of the |out. because of cond ions which enable n-to pay her own oblization vorable terms. RIPE OLIVES PRONOUNCED perts. The appetizing delicacy which, by reason of a few instances of imper- fect packing, was brought into tempor- ar ydisfavor all bver the United States, has been officially restored to at the table and epicures may breath a sigh of satisfaction. Incidentally, - the ‘There is nothing in our | bacillus botulinus, that tiny organism principles,” said a statement issued by responsible for the ripe olive's undeserv- ed loss of popularity, has been utterly routed and destroyed and, henceforth, must seek other fields. POLSHEVIK GOVERNMENT | (00 1x CASH DISATPEARED London, May 31—The official orsan of WHEN AUTOS COLLIDED er of the automobile, John Fernino, had ides 5,650,000,000 rubles | been rendered unconscious. The accl- - and on organ- |dent occurred on Main street when the ,industries, 14,393,000,000 | truck driver swerved to avoid striking Wing 10 production cost ex-[a wonan, hit the trolley and smashed es _and - 1,210,000,000 | into the surh. The money was the re- THREALLNS “ian AURTHWEST Huntington W. ¥Va, May 31.—The northwest is in imminent danger o inless cars, used between the lakes and West the mines, J. J. Ross, president of -the night at the close of a meeting of the organization. Dropped Dead at | WHEN SALUTE WAS FIRED Marshalltown, lowa May 31—Forty- two persons were injured, four seriously, yesterday afternoon at Liscomb, Iowa, When a squad of former soldiers fired alute. Shot cartridges were used (0 make u mMaXuuum of Lowe. attered into the as- $50,000,000 OWED BY ARGENTINA of an ingenious financial arrangement | Not only is this $30,000,000 to be cred- gainst Great Britain's ment whereby Great Britain for a cer- tain period pays in London the interest s unable to get a renewal of the loan in the United States, has rfur_lc . Platform questions were not discussed|public only the fact thal Great Bn:lam has agreed to take care”of -the obiiza- tion in behalf of Arzentina and La Epoca, the government organ has praised the ransaction as an evidence of . Great Britain’s friendship to Argentina and of great promise for the future relations of the|pe two countries. Bankers say there is no doubt but that the payment by Great Britain of Argentina’s debt has greatly increased the prestige of the British in this coun- y detri- aes but call attention to the fact that the trans- action is not without its advantages to “I regret it very much,” said one Ar- | gentine banker to The Associated Press “but 1 fear the failure can bankers' to renew our hd the fact that Great Britain stepped into the breach and paid it, mean a loss of economic zood will toward the TUnited States. While the complete action is a good business deal for the fact “stands out in public opinion that the British did what the Americans would not. We in finan- cial circles understand that money is badly needed for domestic purposes in the United States. Nevertheless Britain and Argen- tina. The economic effect of the trans- action in. favor of British prestieg is t- | obvious.” ° As told in loeal banking circles, the best terms that Finance Minister Sala- berry could get from the American bank- recent. trip to the United as a renewal of the $50,000.000 for five years at 7 per cent, the bankers ing delivery of the new bonds at 92 :h would have been equivalent to an «|interest of 9 1-4 percent. The maturing TO TAKE A VOTE TODAY |loan w s held idie o at the Norfolk Navy Yard but was put at five per cent to pay off the Americans. do, it is pointed Washington, May 31—Ripe olives have De taken on the proposal of the Mer-|been restored to favor. It is again safe to eat them, accorling to government ex- s place _acaiately to 10 PAGES—74 COLUMNS BRIEF TELEGRANS The Poles have thrown fresh troops into the fighting in the Tarashtcha re- gion, 60 miles south of Kiev. Most of the German war prisoners held in camps in Japan and in China| have now been repatriated.’ The foréign sections of ConStanti nople are crowded with Russians who want to go to America but cannot. The Nnther-Austria Workmen's Co- operative Stores has been ‘organized at Vienna with a membership of 400,- 000, The body of Leonard F. Meiklem, a service man who died in London, Eng- land, arrived in Meriden and was buried yesterday, Five persons were killed early yi terday when a Canton interurban car crashed into an automobile.at Hoover, east of Akron, Ohio. The sloop Resolute, America’s cup defense candidate, showed qualities of steadiness and speed in a two hours’ spin in Narragansett bay. Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the democratic_ national _committee conferred with President Wilson yes- terday at the white house. Vandals and robbers have turned from plundering graveyards to robbing churcheg in Vienna. Several famous Vienna edifices have been entered re- cently. / The archbishop of Canterbury h: expressed his envy and amazement at the way in which Ameri S are sub- scribing money to foreign missions aproad. _Employns of the woolen and worsted mills of Xpnh Adams, Mass., voted not to accept the 15 per cent. increase in wages granted by the manufacturers Friday. M. Paoli, the general secretary of the French prefecture of police, who has just died. of sleeping sickness, was known the world over as “the guardian of kings.” Miss Marion Zinderstein, the Boston tennis_star, who w: New York May 29 team, has decided to abandon her trip to England. A bronze tablet placed in ity park, Meriden, and-dediecated yesterday, is in memory of Capt. Charles B. Brown, late chief of police who served in the Spanish war. Under an agreement reached with the French government, the return of the American soldier dead from the mili-| tary zome in France will begin after September 15. Reports reaching Peking indicate that the Japanese are carrying things with a high hand in Manchuria now that the other ailied troops are vir- tually out of the country., Enlargement of the work of the Young Men's Christian Association in China is planned as an outcome of the international convention of the associ- ation just held in Tientsin. Joseph T, O'Hara, 29, who was well known in semi-professional baseball circles throughbut the state as a piteh- | er for the old Dublin team, died Sun-|Strhegth of any candidate in the con- vention, and ranged prificipally about the questions of regulari issue frequently was injected. In all decisions today the was guided on questions of law and prec- ‘Warren of Detroit, national committeeman from Michigan, who was acting at the request of Chair- ays as he committee attorne: usion of each contest, Mr. War- a statement for. the reasons the committee was acting. Chairman Hays said that was a part of his plan of laying the committee work be- day of pneumonia in Meriden. The Dutch naval authorities have de- cided to return the German mine- sweeper U. Z-18, which was interned a few weeks ago, to the German mine- sweeping flotilla, from which it desert- ed. The Germans have failed in their ef- fort to stamp their culture upon the Turk and, instead, the English lan- guage is beginning to ranX next to French in the commercial life of the Lovant. The strike of Detroit street railway employes, threatened for June 1, was averted when the Detroit United Rai would be met. 2 Reverent tribut was pa memory of Theodore Roos dreds of citizens headed by the mem- bers of the Quentin Roosevelt Post of the American Legion. Resht, an important city in Persia, n st of enzeli, the most important Caspian sea_ port of that country, and about 150 miles northwest of Teheran, has been occu- sixteen miles southea d by Russian bolsheviki trapps. John Kell who was arrested in Worces! his case, The cafes of Antwerp, where Ameri- can “jazz” music resounds nightly un- til the early morning hours and cham- pagne corks pop continuously at 30 to [ re crowded with tourists and sailors in for a shore cel- 100 francs a pop, : ebration, Farms of New York state will pro- duce their normal contribution to the nation’s food supply this season if the farmers are wiliing to pay the high wages demanded by farm labor, say officials of the state department of farms and markets, MAY BE DECREASED ACREAGE OF SHADE GROWN TOBACCO Hartford, May 31—Freight tie ups from strikes and embargoes are likely to decrease the acreage of shade grown tobacco in Connecticut this Year unless the situation in regard to cloth and fer- tilizer improves. Many pounds of the cloth, which is a stro g7 weave of cheese- cloth, have been reported in shipments to Connecticut growers but has not ar- rived and the shade grown plantations will be ready to start setting plants at the end of the week. BOLSHEVIKI SHIP OIL FROM BAKU TO Ei Constantinople. May 31.—The bolshe- viki have shipped 100,000 tons trom Baku to Russia by sea. All the old officiais of Azerbaijan are now out of office. It is reported that the bolshevik forces in Azerbaijan ag- of oil thi_sis an exaggeration. The British and Polish missions whicn were arrested at Baku are still held pris oners. Little hope is felt that they will be released, as the bolsheviki refuse to| answer wireless messages. $1,200 A YEAR JOB GOES ABEGGING IN HARTFORD Hartford, May 31—The city of Hart- ford is having difficulty in finding a man for a $1,200 a year job. Five-to whom it has been offered have turned it down. The place is that of assistant sealer of ‘weights and measures. The new sealer takes office Tuesday and for a week or more has been seeking an assistant. SALARIES AS RECONMENDEL FOR THE POSTAL EMPLOVE Sup-Committee of Foreign Relations Committee R Armed Intervention Should the New Forces in C i There Show Inability to Set Up a Stable Government, 31.—Increased sal- aries for postal employes amounting to approximately $33.000,000 for the year, effective July 1, were recommend- ed in a report to congress today by a joint congressional commision. Increases of from 30 nually for postal clerks and letter car- for supervisory officers to $250 an- riers” witlt $400 were recommended. s postmasters receiving above 0 a year were proposed, however. Rstimates by the commission place tae increase of the postal pay roll at about $38,000,000 for the second year and $43 - 0 for the third and fourth years. Should the recommendations commission based on_hearings held various parts of the country, be adopted, first and second class into five classes the first class receiving $1,400 annually and $100 added for each class. temporary clerks would ceive 60 cents clerks would be paid from $1,900 ta increased § and laborers would be divided inw (wo the salaries ran receiving $1,350 und the second §1, Clerks in the postal malil service would be divided into six classes with thase in the first class receiving $1.600; thuse in sixth class graduated between, Service for all clerks recommended, 5 unable to leave ith the Dayis cup the commisst would be o. EP. NATIONAL COMMITTEE DECIDING CONTESTS Chicago, May 31.- the republican national committee| deciding contests delegations to the convention but made only slow progress. In what Chairman Hays characterized “judicial rather than political deci- { sions,” the committee seatqd reguarly re- ported delegates from Arkansas and Al- postponed the contest -over the District of Columbia until tomorrow and after giving an extepded hearing to a three cornered contest from Floridd, ad- over night without making & Halifax, of Preston and Dartme ed by a for Preston and Waverley road, Halifax toda: burning four 4 and is within three miles of both places. Efforts are being made by scores of fire fighters to check the aflmes. Residents of both villages are reported to have packed are ready to leave on short notice. At today's rate of progress Chairman Hays estimated that the contests would up before Friday. day’s dicisions will not be factors in the which raged th; ich were still barning tonight. Twelve thousand acres have been swept by the flames. three mills. although the race seven of the one thirty-seven contests were decided in the hundred and In the Alabama contest the regularly reported delegates were seated in the ab- the contestans. larly reported delegates from Arkansas, the negro contestants being dismissed. ay announced Sunday that the wage demands of the street car men's union Several, regu- to the evelt at his grave at Oyster Day, N. Y., by hun- GUATEMAL TO FACE A FIRING SQUAD Guatemala City, Guatemala, May urtmartial seven prom- ent participants in the bombardment of the capital in the April revolution have nced to death before a firing are J. Claro Chajon, com- manding general department commandant; Larrave, sub-secretary Leon Arriaga After a trial by Carlos Leon Regil ¥ Ga- y, aged 21, of Reading, Pa., Felipe Marquez and Gilberta Man- March 1, on a charge of misconduct with Mary Wilson, aged 16, of New York, escaped yesterday from Worcester county Jail, where he was awaiting disposition of The prisoners were given a legal trial, this being tie first time in twenty years, or since the incumbency of the late Pres- ident Estrada charged with a high crime were granted that privilege. The prisoners may the superior court, composed of four civil and three military judges, for a suspen- sion of sentence and a new the supreme court. WATERBURY e o rse w| Washington, . May 31.—Georgs Wastol ington University at its 95th anmuat commencement tonight conferred . the honorary degree of doctor of laws on SiF Auckland Geddes, British ambassador o the United States: General Pershings) Senator Hrading of Ohio, Atforney Gen-| eral Palmer and Senator Lenmroot 6f ‘Wisconsin. H The honarary degree of doctor of sdl- ence was conferred on Edward Williai. Nelson. chief of the biological survey, and honorary degree of doctor of divine ity were awarded to Rev. Canon.J. Towns send Russell of Washington Cathedral | and the Rev. Herbert Shipman, of New | Yorw city. dor Geddes detiv- | ered the col t address. INDIA RU . T0 OPEN trial before BUILDING TRADES ARE TO RECEIVE $1 AN HOUR Waterbury, Conn., May 31.—An agree- ment has been signed between the mem- bers of the Building Trades Council of this city and the whereby the wage rate has been increas- cents to_$1 an_hour, thereby averting a_threatened strike of 5,000 carpenters, plumbers, electricians, steam fitters, lath- metal workers, Some of the agreements.will become effective until October of this year but a substantial ed from 65 and painters and August and in_each case increase has been made The estimated in- crease amounts to 25 per cent. FOUND HIS WIFE HIS FUNERAL . ARRANGEMENTS New York, May 3L—Peter Keenan, a wachman, reached his home tonight to in mourning, cleared of furniture for the reception of his corpse and invitations being sent out A few hours before his two nieces had “identified” the bod® of a man who dropped dead on Amsterdam us their Uacle Peter, identification had brother Thomas, body and noified the “widow.” SSIA BY SEA to his funeral EARL OF READI “confirmed” by who claimed the gregate 60,000, but it is believed here) i T HARRY HOWARD Portland, Copn., May 31—Harry How- town clerk since January 1; indigestion today. He had been in excellent heaith appar- ently until this sudden fliness during the Mr. Howard was treasurer of the Portland Board of Trade. of several fraternal and ofher organiza- for thirty years tréasurer of Free- stone Temple of Honor, active socially and in town affairs for Tis parsnis, three broth- died of acute and had been many years. ers, and a sigler sutTve. | Financial Assistance Should a Stable Government Be ‘Washington, average of eight hours per day, 306 aays ver year. Division superintende.ts in the postal mail service under the com- mission's recommecndations, would re- ceive §4,200 annually assistant superifi- tendents $3,200: ch assistant chief cle £ clerks §3,000 and s §2,500. of postoflice inspectors would range from $2.300 to $4,200 with an ql- lowance of not more than expenses while traveling. Clerks at di- vision headqua spection service would receive from $1,- 600 to $2,600. A grad the commission for first class postmas- ters recei ranging from §200 to $400 for postmas- ters now receiving $3,000 to $3,700 an- nually; $400 10°3500 for those now get- ting between $3.700 and $3,500 and $500 and $800 for t! between §3.900 Second class postmasters whose pres- ent’ salary rang: would receive $50 for each grade up fe a day for rs of the postoffice fh- ted increase was proposed by ng less than $5,000. annually, se wWho: nd $4,00 pay now i3 om $2.300 to $3.009 Third class postmasters 0 from basic salaries ging from $1,000 1o The commission also. recom- mended that fourth class postmasters be aliowed 140 per cent. on cancellations of §75 from §75 to §1 per quarter and in excess of $108 per quarter, 100 per cent. on the first $100; per cent. on the next §100 and $0 per per cent. on the per quarter and less; 115 per ) of cancellations ainder. FOREST FIRES MENACING VILLAGES IN NOVA SCOTIA The villages. outh are threatens ig between the fire b accordin to reports received The which has been preading rapidly heir valuabl s and furniture and $50,000 DAMAGE BY FIRES IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY Halifax, N. S, May 31—Damage. es- timated at n caused in Cumberland ' coun forest fires ut the day and The property destroyed included FIRE WIPES OUT WHOLE TOWN - EXCEPT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH St. John, N. B., May man Catholic church and the home of its. pastor are standing today in the village of St. Quentin, which was virtually wip- ed out by forest fires of the past three 1.—Only the Ro- All of the thousand-odd inhabitants,. with the exception of the parish priest are homeless, and are camping out of doors or housed or lumber camps. The property loss 8| estimated at from $400,000 to $500,000. | An injury to the priest, Rev. E. Mar-| was the only one reported. Relief of the homeless ones was started by the! government at once. Premier Wi Ef Foster directed Arthur T. Le Blane of! Campbeliton, a member of parliament,| to procure all necessary relief supplies and forward them to the sufferers. B! Quentin is 70 miles from Campbeilton ont the line of the International Railway. — The flames swept on St. Quentin from. the tinder-like wooduands adjoining late Friday, the wind tossing the brands widely over the Hitle settlement. Women and children fled, taking few bes longings while the men stayed behind fn in_nearby settlements a fight to save their homes. Their ef- forts were unavailing, and the flames! overran buildings, virtually m‘ the town to the ground. e DEGREES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON U PLANT AT BRISTOR TO! Bristol. R. L; May 21.—Officials of the National India Rubber Company sme nounced tonight that they would the plant tomorrow to the clerieal members of which were assauled on Fri-_ day last in a rioutous demonstration fn Which three persons- were shot and sev-, eral otherwise injurcd. The offffice workers will return under the protection of 500 members of the rcorganized Rhode. & Island national guard w30 are here under command of Adjutant General Abbot by order of Governor Eeeckman. = EEADS INTERNATIONAL Portsmouth, England, Mj Earl of Reading was unanin toilay ‘president of the Ini Association for the ens ta of Holland, who since 1914, was eled farmers, planters, or fruit growers to Tt a man has but one shirt he never | lective marketing and owes a big wagh bill |