Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 16, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXHI—NO. 147 POPULATION 29,685 GEN. WOOD DENIES THAT STOCK GAMBLERS AND PROMOTERS BACKED Defeated Candidate For Republican Nomination For Presi- dent Brands Statement Made by Nicholas Murray Butler as “a Vicious and Malicious Falsehood”—Asserts That Mr. Butler’s Action Was ‘“‘an Attempt to Ingratiate Him- self With Certain Elements Which Exercised a Determin- ing Influence at the Co is Opposed to Making a “Barnstorming” Campaign— |7 nvention”—Candidate Harding Petition From Utah, With 5,000 signatures, Calls Upon , Senator Johnson to Repudiate the Republican Platform. HIS CAMPAIG ALLIED MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS “OF AMERICA IN CONVENTION New York, June 15.—Medical experts’ estimates of the number of deaths from cancer in the United States in 1919 place the figure at 100,000, and the number._of persons afflicted with the dis- ease at present at 500,000, Dr. Fred- erick Dundale of Boston, a Vice president of the Allied Medical Medical Assoecia tions of America declared today at the] organization's ninth annual convention here. Sufficient evidence has been gathered, he said, to support the theory that the disease originates in a constitutional or blood -ailment, that ithe individual has within his body the predisposing caus- Chicago, Jume 15. — Major General] Governor Coolidge has made no plans|eS of It and that it requires flnlyr_cemi_n Weod, in a signed statement . tonight, | for his campaign. He intended to spend | €Xciling causes” to develop. Cure is eharacterized as “a vicious and malicious| his vacation next month in Vermont. | Possible, he said, if the exciting causes talsehood de 2 by Nicholas are removed and the predisposing factors | Marray Butler motley_groun of| PROCTOR TELEGRAPHS BUTLER | Properly treated el farama #tock gamblers, oil and mining promo R il Mrs, 1 rose, i &% mubitions’ makers and - other -like HIS STATEMENTS ARE FALSE|the Vivisection Investigation Lengue of persons” baked the geneml's campaign| Cincinnati. O., June 15.—Col Will- | New York. declared the results of! ¥ivi- for the republican presidential nomina-{iam Cooper Proctor, manager of Gen,|Section g):l "i‘“; Wda"mhm "-:‘ ean‘(’mu- tion Leonard Wood's unsuccessful campaign | 209 The declared there has been General Wood said that he regretted to| for the republican . presidential noming. | "3 &reat increase in the number of peo- make the statement but that it ¥as nec- | tion on_ his arrival homo from Chicago| "1 Who oppose vivisection because of its B y to “hrand a fakir and to denounce | today [ Dr. Nicholas | © o ; o Ho " Declaring that. the men - who | oay Sent a_telegram to Dr. Nicholas ) ' committee was appotnted to.condugt mdnaged his Rt aiee 308 +“ax i e Ving that the latter's state:|® thorough investigation of the vivisec- erdinary high character” the generaliment given out yes relative to | tion question. said that the attack upon them “is infa-| Gen. Wood's supPart Wholly false| The convention also adopted a resolu- mous.” and that Mr. s action was!and was given out with malicious disre- | tion recommending the psychological, as “an- attempt to ingratiate himself with| gard for the truth. The telegram as giv-| Well as physical, training of children' for certain elements which exercises 2 |an out by Col. Proctor reads: the bettepment of the race. determining infuence at the convention.” tatement in the morning papers| The treatment of disease by color The statement follows credited to you relative to Gen, Wood's| WAVeS Was demonstrated by Dr. Dinshah 1 have just read the statement is-|guinote wholiv false and made with ma-| B: Ghadiali, of New York, who said that e New ek MUEFAY | s Qserepard fos the .tk scientists were mistaken Wwhen they be- Butler to the effect that motley ETOUD, Dr. Butler in his statement is quoted|lieve the three primary colors of the of stock gambiers and ricd 1 ag saying that stock gamblers, oil and SPectrum to be red, yellow and blue. buy the presidential nomination for me | tad o8 0, PO okt to buy for Gen,| Red. green and violet are-the colors and that the forces » were defeated | era) Wood the presidential nomination, | Ne contended, asserting . this . is proven n_their insolent attempt to buy the | Tha senatorial influence. the same ele-| Y the.fact that only a combination of nomination represent all that IS WOFSt | ment'th prevented a ratification of | these Zolors will produce white. n Amer business and political life.| the peace treaty responsible for | 2 “The wf em s a vicious and mi-|Gen Wood's failure to obtain the nom-| PRINCETON HONORS SIR Nelous fa - i EnOre tn. | ination,” said Colonel Proctor. AUCKLAND C. GEDDES pot remain silent when my loyal friends | E P 2 Princeton, N. J., June 15.—Sir Auck- and_support re villified AN SOMNBIN AN U Ul land Campbell Geddes, British ambassa- Colonel Willlam Cooper Proctor, who | THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM | dor to the United States, who was given was chair of my campaign comm " e W | the honorary degree of doctor of laws at tee. Is & man of extraordinary high c Portland, Ore., June 15.—More than|1c Jo0Om8Td CREree O o oot Princeton known ughout length and | five thousand signatures were obtained for his absolute in. most o r¥'s call The brought me g alivion with: prepondécint Torce e and wome wa But- of Nicholas Murra; nts which exel ~ e the convention | AMS said, "o we started them hers in|eq a new movement for freedom for'dem- SRR o ccoiain his ewn. pollfic } Predatd sy SRG Gs eliiohs geratic inaticutions which we st-that:tiine - A self-seeking cowardly | - s ¥ »| had not vVisions enough to ‘dredte. BEERE s the cEE o an alleged | Dt We plan to send them throughout the | "In the circumstances created by - the Public service, which was never Intended | State” R present unrest 1 look forward to the fu- or ‘rendered | it Adams sald that he and the &roun | ture friendships betweer the nations as “J regres to make a statement of this| With Which he is connected will continue | one of some uncertainty unless, as I be- kind, but it is ne in this instance, !0 circulate the petitions until Senatot |jieve, the universities on this side of the to brand a fakir to denounce a }Johnson declares positively that he will| Atjantic and the universities on thé other o . not be A candidate for the presidency on | gide of the Atlantic work so together.” P, an independent ticket. ks CITIZENS OF NORTHAMPTON - K LA. HOUSE IS OPPOSED WELCOMED GOV. COOLIDGE LENROOT TO SUPPORT T0 FEDERAL SUFFRAGE o THE REPUBLICAN TICKET L e Northampton, Mass., June 15.—The = ot Baton Rouge, La., June 15.—AIl possi- citisens of Northamuion. the home city| Superior. Wis, June 15.—While ex-|bility of action by the Louisiana legisla- »f Governor Calvin Coolidge, turned out|pressiag regret at the nomination of Sen-| ture to enfranchise the women of the na- In & body toda and- cor ator Harding by the ropublican conven-| tion before the November elections .was vlate the republ for { tfon, Senator I. I.. Lenroot of Wisconsin, | removed 'today, the house voting down, president. Amid nnon sa-|in a statement here today declared that|g7_ta 44, the federal ratification resolt. vs. the ¢ « had| “in this situation there can be but one | tion, and then adopting in quick order, ! mbled o the | gholes, it seems to me. and that is to| gy (o 39, a resolution flatly opposing fed- St Biitecy stle air-| heartiiy support the republican ticket.” | ra suffrage. planes soaring o RYhS s S The federal ratification resolution fail- staod e por A fARDIRGS NOMINATION A ©d in the senate last weck and a measure | tebiNir “Te wat’ LY’ OIS &8 SOLACE FOR DEMOCRATS | grantng stat~ suffrage today was made affecte 5 X ey chatted with S r Gillett of the na-| publican leaders are less well pleased|jeen passed by the hraso. ik et 2| Jrith the nomination of Senator Warren s B i morning and then!G. Harding of Ohio for the presidency |ya 5 = ittend the class day | onight than_ they were last " Satusday | YCOME AND EXCESS FROFYES exercises of his alma mater. He left| was declared by Vice President Thomas TARES ARE-BOURING 2N Jate tonight for Worcester, where he wil end the Holy Cross commencement to morrow ; At Amherst College Governor Coolid was epthusiastically greeted and before tending the class day exercisqs held an infermal reception at the Phi Tielta house. He was hailed by R Eastman, retiring president governor's class of 1895 the ideals of Amherst, “public Luciu of th service for a group of attack upon before poll of unpre- Gamma as representing to a petition circulated in Oregon today king United States Senator Hiram W. Johnson to repudiate the platform adopt- ed by the renublican national convention n Chicago and to announce himself as an independent candidate for the presidency. according to a telegram sent today to enator Johnson by W. P. Adams, Port- land attorney. Mr. Adams sald that he did not repre- sent any Johnson organization that here- | tofore existed but that his telegram was sent in behalf of many’ supporters of £ 1 Senator Johnson in the recent Oregon primary election. s “We heard that similar petitions were being circulated in New York,” Mr. Ad- | vention. not a candidate for the presidency, bu on the contrary was about | from politics. publicans were sumed was a foregone conclusion. President Wilson in error if they as He sald tha r did not want a third R. Marshall on his arrival here tonight to attend the democrattc national con- The vice president added that.he was to retire He declared that the re- the election of Senator Harding university today, told the students and i faculty in an address that America had provided a great inspiration for the de- velopment of liberal institutions in Eng- land. f T came here,” said Sir Auckland, “to tell you how much we are indebted for what you did in the war; to tell you how through the years past while you have been developing your country. haw great an inspiration you have proyjded for the development of our liberal institutions. It would little become me if I had not, told you today that the debt between the countri 1 speak only of ideas and thoughts—is not from this country to the old country; it is from the old country to yours, for you in this land have start- New York, June 15.—Mor¢ than $75,- 000,000 in_income and excess profits taxes for the second guarterly payment were redeived in the New York district today, according to an announcement by William H. Idwards, collector of in- | ternal revenue here. Most of the payments were large individual and corporation taxpay ers of the Wall Street districf, who take t o _from t a public good” His classmates. strolling | term. but could be nominated and eleot-| 2dVantage of the: quarterly. payment plan With him about the campus, frequently|ed for one if he did to save in the charges, he said. sddressed him as “Cal” and “Coolie, Of Senator Hardlng's candidacy the his college nicknames. vice president said: While at Amherst the governor receiv-| “The republicans are not so well| Friends of the senator supplementde #d the following telegram from Robert|pleased now as they were on Saturday |his statement as to the kind of -eam- of state: I heartily con. Lansing former secr: “As an Amherst man. ry gratulate you on the signal honor done 'y Jou by your pa: ‘oreign Minister Of Poland «Boly night. Senator Harding. democrats as a party. They are going to find us very much alive in November.” Mr. Marshall decried lavish expendi tures 6f money in connection with pres- idential eampaigns. It was “dishearten- he said, adding that he regretted republicans were not the only guilty ones.” Of the demoeratic convention and his own part as a delegate in it, the vice president said: “1 am here to promote peace and good convention.” question” and of prohibition enforcement enforcement he declared: “Nothing is so detrimental to the coun- try as the passage of laws and the ig- norfhg of those same laws.” Mr. Marshall's reference to his retire- ment was in answer to a question as to whether "he Wwas a candidate for .the democratic presidential election. His answer was: “I am an old man who has torn his halr for Bryan, slaved for Parier :nd Iam: done his hardest for Wilson, and abouteady to retire from polidics HARDING 18 OPPOSED TO A “BARNSTORMING” CAMPAIGN ‘Washington, June 15.—Senator Hard- ing, the republican candidate for the pres- ideney, indicated in a conference today with newspaper men his opposition to a “barnstorming” eampaign. His preference on the other hand would be for somewhat of a “front perch” campaign from his home in Marion, Ohlo, with a limited number of set speeches delivered on spe- cific occasions. The republican nominee also made it clear that there would be no delya in opening the campaign, announcing that it would not await the official notifica- tion of his nomination. The notification, he said, would not take place before July Al the earliest. Personally I have high regard for 1 would do anything for him except vote for him. The repub- licans are making the mistake of their lives in thinking of the November elec- tion as a foregone conclusion and of the disorganized, defeated will among the democrazs at this coming He said so far as the con- vention was concerned “there is no Irish paign he desires with the assertion that hé believed the office of chief executive of the mation was too high and too im- portant to be sought through a continu- ous scries of whilrwind campaign tours. Senator Harding also announced today that he would not resign his seat in the senate prior to the termination of “his term on next March 3 but would withdraw at once his petition, filed last wee kat Columbus, entering the August primaries for re-election. The work of preparing his speech of accgeptance has not been started by the nominee and it is expected he will de- fer ®—«ntil after the conference with Chairman Hays and other party leaders now tentatively fixed for Monday. “Great care must be taken in preparing this speech,” Senator Harding sald today. Tt represents the candidate’s interpreta- tion of the platform and if the issues before the people. Mr. Harding received but few visitors today and he continued his efforts to clear away the vast amount of mail and'| telegrams congratulating him on his nomination. Among the few callers he received was Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary aof the treasury, who at a conference lasting about an hour discuss- the coming campaign. Other callers were Senators Smoot, republican, Utah, and Thomas of Colorado; Chamberlain of Oregon and Walsh of Montana, demo- crats, and Representative Hays of 'Mis- souri and Morgan of Oklahoma, republi- cans. DEMOCRATS OF MARION COUNTY .OUT FOR HARDING Marion, Ohio, June 15.—To make M; rion county as nearly ~unanimous for Senator Warren G. Harding, republican nominee for president, as possible steps were taken today for the formation of a county “Harding for. President Club,” following the appointment- of an exe- cutive committee by D..R. Crissinger, democrat and local banker. 3 The executive committee is cos | three democrats and four republicans. The Caledonia band, of which Senator Harding was a member in his boyood, will be reorganized and will be ready fo:- the homecoming of Semator Harding, of in New Haven. Néw Haven, Conn, June 15.—Domi- nick Perrot , Who is at liberty-on bonds of $10,000 in connection with the alleged sale of poisonous whiskey, for which he| was charged with manslaughter in Springfield, Mass., was shot and prob- ably fatally wounded here ' tonight. Mi- chael Fiore, of Torrington, was arrested as Perrotti's -assailant andis held with- out bonds by order of:Coroner Mix. Per- Totti Was sitting on the seat of a motor truck when a man. waiking along~the sidewalk drew a' revolver.and fired five shots at him. Several- of ‘the bullets struck Perrotti. b The shooting’ was the culmination of a feud among “whiskey runners,” accord- ing to the police. Petrotti,. the olice, say, is a member of a band which has been bringing large. quantities of* liquor from New York into Cannecticut. His motor truck figured “in“a recent - holdup at Portchester,” N. Y., 'Which" the police/ describe as a “frameup.” " The police say that' Fiore came here. today from - Wa-( terbury and waited’on the street for Per- rotti to appear. z TO FIGHT FOR' RIGHTS OF ' INDEBENDENT. TRUCKMEN New York, June 15.—Walter G. Merritt of .the law committee of the Merchants' association today wamed. shiping inter- ests that legal action would be, instituted against companies refusing to. handle freight hauled by independant: truckmen of the citizens'-transportation. committee moving freight tied up by transportation strikers here. The ‘warning was in re- sponse to “indications” that a number of companies do mot_wish to become in- volved - with independent truckmen through fear of sympathetic strikes by their union employes. Colonel Frederick . A. Molitor, directing operations of the indevendent trucks, said fift ytrucks wer ein operation today, cart- ing at least 200 toms of freight from wharves. The strikers are mar] return of labor leaders and the American Fede: until the ‘ashington of Labor convention at Montreal, ing o John F. Riley, president of gistrict council of the Irgernational . gehore- men’s association. CHAUFFEUR FOR CARUSO HAS BEEN AREESTED FEasthampton, N. Y., June 15.—George Fitzgerald, chauffeur fer Enrico Caruso, opera singer, whose country home here recently was robbed of jewdls valued at $500,000, was arrested tonight on a charge of violating the Sullivan law by having a revolver in his possession With- out a vermit. _Fitzgerald, with other em- ployes of the household, has been detain- ed on the Carusp estate since the. jewel theft by order of the district attarney. “We had been-informed that Fitzgerald was invited to-go ‘to New York 'with his | attorneys,” Sylvester I. Kelsey, ali’ inves— tigator in the -district attorney’s office, said, tonight. ' ‘“We thousht It hesi to place him under arrest so that hé might be kept within the jurisdiction. of the court. The John Doe inquiry would be a tame affair without Fitzgerald.” * Fitzgerald maintains that he is. info- cent of the theft. v RESOLUTE WINS THE EIGHTH RACE WITH VANITIE Newport, R. I, June 15.—The Resoluts won the eighth America's cup ‘defense elimination race from the Vanitie to- (day by the widest mafgin either vach {has had in"the last week. The elapsed time was two minutes, six seconds, and the corrected time three minutes, 41 sec- onds. The race was safled in an increasing breeze and over a shortened eourse, which {had been ‘expected to give the. yachts 2 beat to the outer mark and a run te i the finish. The wind_ hauled in the last leg, making it a reach. The Resolute gained 26 seconds in the 14 mile beat and one minute ffty seo- onds on’the reach. Afater the race Manager Hoyt of the on- the last leg was due to.a jammed centerboard on the Vanitie which com- peled the Gardner boat to .drag" the :g:n"ll. l”Dlvefl worked .on the center- T X tonight in an’effort to the board. 2. Secretary George A.-Cormack of the New York Yacht club announced that the committee on cup defense had aes »;dded 21&0 keep. the yachts racing until une AMERICAN OFFICERS' ARMS SEIZED IN PORT OF DUBLIN Dublin, June 15.—The removal of per- sonal arms from the officers of an Amer- ican ship which arrived at Dublin came the subject of inquiry by. the Amer. ican’ consular officials today. When the freighter Milwaukee Bridge arrived at Dublin_recently “the police took from the cantain and three officers under pretext that a raid for arms by Simn Feiners was feared. - It is pointed out that a ship while seizure of arms in Irish ports. SMITH COLLEGE $4,000,000 Northampton, Mass, June 15.—At ‘a meeting of Smith "College alumnae' today it was-announced that the §4,000,000 en- dowment fund, fer which the alumnae have been working, had been eted. The last pledges are to be paid in 1924, The last §50000 of the amount was given. by Dwight Whithey Morrill, of En- glewood, N. J., whose wife was Eliza- beth Cutter, class of 1896. DISTRICT ATTORNEY SWANN ASKES FOR INVESTIGATION | New York, June 15.—District Attorfiey Swann today -asked for the extraordin- gation of the allegations of Gaston /B. Means, that he and his assistant, John Dooling’s, prosecution of Means was fl- nanecd by the Northern Trust Company of - Chicago. Means, who was tried” and acquitted for the murder of Mrs. Maud A. R. King, in Concord, N. C., yesterday entered" suit for $1,000,000 for-malicious - prosecution against Mr. Swann and Mr. Doolin 270 CADETS RECEIVED DIPLOMAS AT WEST POINT est graduating class in the history of the military academy—270 éadets—today re- ceived diplomas from Secretary of War Vanitie .asserted that the Resolute's gain | ENDOWMENT FUND COMPLETED | Kussia. West' Point, N. Y., June 15.—The larg- | A. F. of L. Calls For Such Ac- tien by President Wilson or Attorney General Palmer. Montreal, June 15.—The American Federation of Labor in annual conven- tion here today called upon President Wilson and Attorney General Palmer of e United States (o secure “amnesty for all political prisoners.” In a resolution tie convention declared that the “further prosecution and im- prisonment in the United States of po- litical offenders is contrary to the demo- cratic idealism, and the traditions -of freedom, to which our country is com- mitted.” The federation pledged its support to Senator France's joint resolution for am- nesty of “political prisoners” and-repeal of_the espionage law. The convention also ~instructed _the executive council to continue its efforts to obtain from the governor of Califor- nia a full pardon for Thomas J. Mooney and ‘Willlam T. Billings. The convention instructed the execu- tive couneil- to -coRtinue 1s: ODyusiii O the bill-now in congress providing for the zoning system of mailing rates on sec- ong.class matter and requiring all. trade union_publications to be printed in the English Janguage. The . convention - condemned the gov- ernment}s, use of the, injunction under the Lever. act, against _the bituminous coal miners in ‘the recent strike. It pledged, “moral support” to the striking - Boston policemen and instrucc- ed "its executive committee to assist in establishing representation for these policemen “and endeavor to obtain their reinstatement.” “Full responsibility” for the men’s . walkout was placed on _FPolice Commissioner Curtis of Boston. His at- titude in .the recent stike was con- demned. The Boston police situation, said the committee Teport “is but one more suc- rifice in the human struggle against au- tocracy, injustice and wrong, aut of which had grown a better and a brigh:- er day for their successors and fellow workers."” The federation approved the execative council's. Feport urging fa> people of the country fo demand of €ONg cus Measures “of fundamental Tolief [r>m oppressive legislation, = measures of fuadamental character looking toward currcncy deo- fation and ‘reduction in the cost of liv- ing.” police- SOVIET RUSSIA MOVEMENT BLOCKED BY THE A. F. OF L. Montreal, June 15.—Movement to call upon the United States to recognize ioe soviet government or lift b.ockades against soviet Russia, was blocked in tue annual convention of the American Fe.e- ratiin-of Labor oday after a heated de- jbate. James A. Duncan of tne Seaitie |central labor council, led the fight in be- haif of'the soviet with the- aid of repre- {sentatives of ‘the Lad.es' Garment Wors- "ers, ‘bt the convention “adopted by an ‘overwhelming Yote ihe repori of the reso lutions cominiitee OBZOSINE any action: ; “The .committee report declared tie federation” would not bs Justified in tak- as/an_assistance, to, or approval of, tiis £oviet governmnt, so long as it is based upon ‘authority which hig not been vest: ed in it by a popular ntaional represent- Aative ass:mbly of the Russian peop e, or 0 ‘long as it enaeavors to create revolu- tions in establisned ° civiized na- tions of the world, or so long as it 2 vocates and applies militarization to bor and prevents the organizing i functioning of trades unions and main- tenance of free speech, free press and free public assemblies. Jonn Frey, chairiman of the resolu- tions committee, said it had ascertained on the “highest authority” that the so- viet government i3 an “autocratic, mili- 3;"’;:&5‘::2;’33’";’:(1“’_“; e ot detieve | northwestern Honduras, from a terrific i s s ruiing DY e | otorm which burst over the coumtry. {Mifon hand of the dictatorship.” Bx- | ORI WaER PUTSC o : jtracts from Lenine’s speeches which Le praees . showen. Me Froy decirey, thal | permdr Sapaber dames K. -Lewle', of | Lenine beiieved in making * trades unions |y, et CIEEE SeMeR L Tws of subservient to the soviet government, and | wouia® o n candidate for democratic labor compulsory.” Opposition to the re- Port, he said, “might indicate that the hoisheviki had infesied the ranks or or- Banized labor in America with its prop- aganda,” Mr. Duncan said the committee had Made a “camouflage” report to deceive the workers of the- country as. to the true situation in Russia. Conditions there Were much better than Teported in this country, and added that President Wi, son agd Premier Lioyd Georze approved Fecognition of the soviet government but bad not “the courage of their convictions 0 stand up and declare for it.” James Duncan of Washington, D. C, first vice president of the federation, an- swered in defense of the committee re- port. He read a telegram from Secretary of State Colby wnicn said the exisiing gofivernment did not “represent the wil or consent of any considerable proportion of the Russian people. :David Grange, 4 New York delegate, 2. the greatest trouble in America was the bolshevis. piot.ers who are Lrying to disrupt organized labor. | in] The telegram from Secretarly of State port is amenable to local laws, but the|Colby said: American - officials want assurance that | Tegular trading there is an apparent necessity for the|States and Russia at “There is no licensed or betwen the United present. :There have been as you may know several conferences on the subject of the re- moval of restrictions against tradign with These conferences have been held in Europe and their coprse has been carefully observed by this government, They have %o far been void of result. The soviet government is insistent upon political recognition as a condition prece- dent to a renewal of any commercial con- tact. . r “While this government bhas no desire to. Interefere with the" internal affairs of the Russian people or to suggest the kind of government that they should sa.e tue existing regime in Russia dose not reprgsent the will or consent if any C=isiaeruie - proportion of the Russian people. It repudiates every principle of { harmonious and trustful relations, wheth- based upon the negation of honor and 1800d faith and every usage and conven- tion underlying the structure of interna- tional law.” !TO CONSIDER MODIFICATIONS IN THE TURKISH PEACE TREATY { pondent of The Temps says today he. has received confirmation of re | that the, supreme council of the alileg | Will conbider ocertain important modie | ficacions in the Turkish peace treaty, TWO DEATHS FROM BUBONIC ing fany. action that mighe be construéd Paris, ‘June "15.—The London corress |t PLAGUE IN VERA CRUZ| 12 PAGES—88 COLS. BRIEF TELEGRAMS New York quoted bar silver at 85 cents an ounce and London at' 44 1-fd. A landslide for Harding and Ceolidge is predicted by former President William H. Taft. The allies have decided to abandon Batoum, Transcaucasia, in the near fu- ture. Charles H. Harding, known as a manufacturer died at Philadelphia. 77 years, widely of woolens, Census Bureau announced cotton con- sumed in May amounted to 541,080 bales of lint and 31,032 of linters. German government printing works, according to the Kreuz-Zeitung, turned out in May 4,250,000 marks of uncovered paper money. Norman H. Davis, Tennessee, was ap- pointed by President Wiison to be under secretary of state, succeeding Frank L. Polk, who resigned. Major General Edwards, of the 25th Division, New England, was among the 42 men given honorary de- grees by Syracuse University. Government officials and telegraph op- erators emploved an the national lines of Cuba haye reached an agreement by the operators’ strike which ended. commander Exports from Mexico to the United Statse. during ten months ended April 30 last amounted to 135,000,000 pesos, com- pared with 131,000,000 a year ago. Bolsheyiki are pouring into the Kiev region, backed by the greatest number of divisions ever facing the Poles, who are withdrawing their main forces. A third politieal party to contest in the coming Presidential campaign will be launched in Chicago July 10, headed by Amos Pinchot and a committee of forty- eight. Herr Meinze, moderate conservative, of Berlin, who was asked by President Ebert to form a cabinet, renounced the task giter oppid ori by majorfy socialists. 4 Three thousand operatives In the Henry Sonneborn clothing factory of Baltimore were idle under circumstances which union leaders declared amounted to a lockout. The Wisconsin branch of the Non-Par- tisan League is expected to go on record Madisen, today as endorsing the. en- tire state ticket of the La Follette fac- tion. Unless striking longshoremen get their demands for 80 cents an hour and $1.20 for overtime before Jume 23 all coast- wise workers of New York will be called out on strike. Two men were killed and another wi badly injured when eight pounds of dyn- amite exploded . on board their boat at Middle River, Florida. The' party were dynamiting fish. 1t was apnenced that Chiléaw govern- ment is in the market to buy in the United States $8,000,000 worth of railroad rolling stock to be used on Chilean gov- ernment rallroads. Second instalments of Income and’ ex~ cess. profits taxes for 1819 due 'sterday will yield the government $750.000,0(/0 according to estimates by the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Turkish Natiénalist treops raided fhe island of Marmora Saturday, setting fire to Greek vlilages and attackipg the Greek steamer - Angehike, from’ Rodosto, which escaped and gave alarm. England is confronted- with a labor lockout within ‘three weeks, as a result of demands of the workmen in the en- gineering ‘and allied industries for furth- jer increases in wages. Many lives were lost and great prop- erty damage is reported near San Juan, nomination for vice president at the San Francisco convention. The opening session of the Postmasters’ Association of New York State, was at- tended by nearly 350 members, Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, was principal speaker. A heavy fog over Sault Ste Marie, Mich., caused a number of minor ship- pivg accidents. The steamer F. R. Haz- zard was . grounded following collision with an unidentified steamer. President Hibben, of Princeton TUni- versity, in_his baccalaureate sermon to | the senior class, declared folis of today are “slaves to the Goddess of Folly. in her domain, the fashion of the hou By resolutions the Utsh siate demo- cratic_convention went on record fov- dring William G. McAdoo .former sec- retary of the treasury, as the democratic « nominee at the San Francisco conven- tion June- 28. 1 Oné man was killed and twenty in- jured when the Pere Marquette “Resort Specfal” bringing week-end parties from Miohigan summer resorts, crashed head- on into an eastbound freight train in the South Chicago yards. Premfer Lioyd George has informed the house of commons that the govern- ment has sent representations to the ambassador at Washington concerning the effect of the Jomes bill on British mercantile marine. ENBARGO ON COAL EXPORTS 15 UNDER CONSIERATI By Several Departments of the Government as a Means of Re- lieving Serious Fuel Shortage in Various Sections of the Country, Notably New England — Should Emergency Arise Attorney General Palmer Has Authority, Under the Lever Act, to Place an Embargo on Coal. “Washington, June 15.—An embargo on coal exports as a means of relieving seri- ous fuel shortages in various sections of the country, notably in New England, was taken up for consideration today by several departments of the government. Reports from New England received in the past few days by the interstate com- merce commi have told of a coal shortage so serious that in some munici- on hand. Governor Coolidge chusetts has made repeated requests for relief to the commission. 3 Other ‘sections of the country are said to be facing similir problems, although relief has been effected in some cases. The _ railroad congestion, from which the country has nbdt fully recovered, and the strike of marine workers in a num- ber of Atlantic port ever, officials conversant with the situa- | tion said, would not bring complete relief from the coal shortage, and for that ves- son the matter of an embargo, similar {0 that in effect during -last fall's- 8831 strike, is being considered. - During the war the fuel administration was possessed of power to declare am export embargo on coal, but the transfer of fuel- administration powers -to the director general of the railroad adminis- tration and the more recent placing of the director eral’'s powers in the hands of the secrelary of the interior have clouded the question of whether an ém- bargo could laid without additional legislation. Some lezal experts hold that no official now has power to declare an embargo and cite as support of the fon- tention the effort made in the closing daye of the last session of congress to are held to be.the|pass a bill providing for such an em- principal contributing factors to the| bargo. o Ppresent situation. Members of the interstate commercs Eradication of the harmful influence of these two, factors was the subject of conference; today between Attorney Ge eral Palnjer and members of the inter- state cornmerce commission. Means of | inate the supply of cars for the trams- dealing yeith rail congestion and marine | portation of such coal to the ports. - labor toubles “were understood to have| Shonld the emergency become suff- been asreed on, although no statement | ciently great, some officials declare {hat was isriued after the conference. the attorney general might act under-the Reszoration of normal transportation |Lever food and fuel control act to pises condifions by rail and by water, how-|.on embargo on cos commission are said to hold that commission- could not put export coal except indirectly by means of car assignment orders, which would elim- “the an embargq on GAINS 1 COLLISION FOUR WARNING TO DELINQUENTS MILES WEST OF WORCESTEW IN REPORTING SALES TAX Worcester, Mass, June Hartford, Conn, June 15.—Collector were injured, two seriously, James J. W h to issued the 10:,-. eastbound Worcester local crashed intos| ing stutement as a warning 1o dealex ho have been delinquent in reporting soles tax: the rear end of an eastbound Albany ex- press on the Boston and Albany railroax near Lake Park, four miles from here,| “In this, as in every other section ef tonight. The express had stopped after | the country. there will be conducted dur- having picked up a crowbar which was|sales and other misce.laneous taxes, such pounding against the floor of one of the|ing the next two months an intensive coaches. Among the injured were Chief|drive for the collection of delinquest Martin O'Brien of the St. Louis police |as tse so-called luxury tax, the §oft department and two detectives. The | drink tax, the manufacturers’ tax, the Boston College baseball team Was in|tax on jewelry and works of art and the the rear car of the iocal tax on toilet articles and proprietary The express train, which left the sta-|medicines. Reports of laxity on Ihe tion about twenty minutes before the!part of dealers and other persons Te- local, picked up a crowbar which pound-|sponsible for returns and codection-of «d against the floor of the baggage car.|these taxes haxe reached the bureau ©f Eugene Murphy, baggageman, pulled the [internal revenue from many sourees, air rope to stop the train. It was whilef <1y remedy this condition Commis- the bar was being removed that the loca gioner Willlam M. William has assigned crashed into the rear end of he standMy| o the work of investiz: express. The vestibule of the rear. express was crushed and the the collision threw passengers in a.l ¢i- rections. - ‘Calls to the police - brought ambulances and doctors from all parts of { the city, The injured were removed to the city hospital. When the express stop- ped a flagman was sent back to -set a warning against the local but it was said he had gone only a short distance when the train rounded the corner. special revenue officials, Thes: men will com- pose flying squadrops wibch will visit every large city in the United States, cooperatin gwith supervisors and fleld deputies.” The drive in this state will be under the immediate supervision of Collestor of Inernal Revenue Walsh. Discovery.of evidence to show wilful tax evasion will be followed by prosecutions. In Sagramt cases the bureau will urge the imposition of extreme pena For wilful refuss al to collect e tax the penalty is a fine of n n $10,000 or oné | year mprimon: both, together | amount of tax For failure to | with an added assessment equal to the make the penalty is a fine of mot mere than $1,000. { MOB IS LYNTHING SIX NEGROES IN nd pa DULUTH evaded. Duluth, Mimn., June | the police force of the city, a mob esti-| 15.—Overriding | mater at five thousand persons late to- | night took possession of police head- | quarters and seized six negroes held in connection with a criminal attack on & { young white girl. i One negro was lynched at 11.45 p. m., | }and another had been taken away at! HOPE TO ARREST THE MURDERER OF ELWELY rk June 1 time, apparently with the intention announced late 7 b Fo o g o |eral detectives had left here for Lexing- Members of the mob held “court” on' o Ky, where they hope to arrest the {the second floor of the building, tem. Mmurderer of Joseph B. El | porarily acquitted two of the negro sus.’ Sportsman 3 | pects, but apparently decided tae others’ found sho were “gulity: , home here last Friday. The negro hanged was taken about two " PG T | blocks from the police station to the PLEAS®F GUILTY IN THE | corner of First street and Second avenus, EVANSVILLE WHISK EY CASE was v telephone pole. As he was d into the air, the rope broke and he tumbled to the ground. He ed and the hanging proceeded. thrown over a Indianapolis, Ind.. June 15.—Five more defendants in the Evansville whiskey case, on trial in United States distriet court, changed their pleas from not gufl- ty at the opening of court session today. Two of the men are motorcycle polices men in Evansville. TWO COMPANIES INFANTRY ORDERED TO DULUTH ALBANIANS CONTINUE = ATTACKS ON AVLONA Paris. June 15— St. Paul, Minn., June 15.—Two com-! panies of the Sixth Infantry, Minneso- | ta National Guard, were ordered tonight 1o N train due to leave her Ibanian insurgents J are continuing their attacks on_ Avioms, according to a_despatch from Rome 0 was held for the assémbling the the Temps The insurgents. howevep. troops. i have been driven bacy by caunom fire National Guardsmen of the state &re’ fm the Italian warships. - i camo 4t Fort Snelling, and in a com- § parasdvely short AL o S of time after orders had been issued by State Adjutant General Rhinow, the troops were ready to leave | for Duluth. i President Of American Nurses SECOND CASE OF BUBONIC 1 ties took him through the section of the eity where the first case was discov- eréd. George R.. Murray, graduate mansger of athletics at Princeton, announced ar- rangements were .male for Yale and Princéton to meet on the Polo Grounds mext Saturday to play-off the tle in theim series of baseball games. Persia’s appenl for protection agalmst Russian_ blosheviki aggression w Pected to be one of the first subjects ary grand jury for an immediate invésti- €T ©f nations or of individuals, and is |4istussed By the Council of the League of Nations at the dpening St.-James' Palace, London. _Sabscriptions to the Centemary Ci vation Committee of the Methodist copal chureh excéeded the quotas for the | yarious areas by more than $1,250,000, .total quotts was $113.824.439 ‘and were $115,003,375. seesion &t Tased on domestic _price at whieh Frederie J. Stimson, United States Am- bassador to Argentina, obtained 14,000 tons. ,pius _transportation cest, it 3e ated the sugar will be landed 3 at 15 a pound. Prince of Asturias, heir to the Spanish WORKING FOR CREATION OF A¥ INTERNATIONAL POLICE PORCE London, June 15.—Premier , Lioyd George has promised to receive’ tomor- Tow a deputation organized by “The League 1o Abolish War,” which will urge that. the covenant of the league of ma- tions be so extended or developed as 10 secure the creation of an international police force at the disposal of the lemgus, the simultaneous obligatory disarmament of all nations and rohibition of the pr.- vate manufacture of munitions of war. TO FIGHT FOR “WET" PLANK IN DEMOCEATIC PLATFORM PLAGUE PENSACOLA Pensacola, Fla. June 15.—With the announcement that a second case of bu- bonic plague had been officsily report- ed, city authorities today speeded up their plans to eradicate the disease-bear- ing rats. The latest patient is .Oscar Newark, N. J., June 15.—James R. Nugent, New Jersey's representafive on the democratic platform committee, an- nounced here tonight that he would fizht| to Incorporate a “wet” plank in the plat.|’ form at the national convention in San|; Francisco. He will be backed up in his efforts by the other members of the Naw Jersey - delegation, according to Mayor Baker automatically commissioning them second - lieutenants. the clags was James B. Callum of Penn- ' ne sylvania. uates and Secretary Baker. al briefly. Vera Crus, June The honor man of ‘dlr. 5 here, two, the di General Pershing addressed - the md.l o <52 ‘cazes of the disease and -three Te Were also two deatsh from the 15.—After three cases of bubonic plague developed | formerly éted - cases were - reported _today. | i with -~ ‘in Peru In the regiment known as the old Third Moardas. which participated in the conquest of Se- ville in the thirteenth century and fought | 15. Cortex of Mexico and with Pizarro Breen, negro ice wagon driver, whose du- Frederick Donnelly of Trenton, another took - the oath of loyalty. as a | member of the state's “big four. “beginning last Friday, in which ne | private infantryman Police Inspector Killed in Ireland. Gorey, County Wexford, Ireland, June 154 pollrlhl'l’l??':; Captain Wilson, been shot dea ve armed men. Seven shots were fired at him. WEws_ PHOTO . Miss Clara D. Noyes, of Washing= ) ton, D. C., who has just been elected president of the American Nurseg. Association at the National |