Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 27, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXiI—NO. 192 POPULATION 29,685 RESOLUTE WAS TWO MILES N THE LEAD WHEN YACHT RACE WAS DECLARED F Signal Calling the Race Off Was Sounded at 5:03, After the Contenders Had Wallowed Along for Four and a Half Hours in an Almost Breezeless Sea—Skipper Adams of the Resolute Displayed Superior Seamanship—Third At- tempt to Run the Race Will be Made Today Over Same Cities in the State and From New York and Boston—150 lenge Again Next Year or Sandy Hook. N. J., July 26.—The 25- mile Sandy Hook gale that drove defender Resolute and her British challenger, Shamrock 1V, back to shelter last Satur- day went into retirement today, taking all the littld Sandy Hook zephyrs with it, d the fifth and decisive race for the America’s cup was calied off after the ontenders had wallowed along for four and a half hours in a virtually breezeless ea. The third attempt to run the race that will settie 1920's vachting supremacy will »e made tomorrow, wind and weather per- mitting. The course will be the same that the rivals tried (o cover today—I15 5 miles to wigdward and 15 miles to lee- ward. Although their favorite failed to win today. Resolute’s supporters took great comfort in the fact that she was leading the challenger by about two miles when the match was deciared off. Believing that the morning northerly would last through the day, the commit- tee ordered the yachts off on a leeward and windward race with the outer mark a little west of south of the lightship. Both yachts prepared for spinnaker work. but Shamrock, which led Resoiute acroes the line by two seconds under a full minute, elected to start the first luf- fing match of the series and the two yaehts headed directly off the course for the Jersey shore under bailoon jibs and usual working sails, The wind was about four knots at the wtart from the north and the first mile was sailed quite fast Thern the wind began to fade and haif an hour after the wtart had dropped to a mere zephyr. Shamreck, however, etill held off the course and Resolute followed During the first hour the green craft gained a lead of more than a quarter of a mile, and it Jooked for a few minutes as if she COL. JOHN E. HUNT RELEASED FROM TECHNICAL ARREST New York, July 26.—Colonel John E. Hunt. former commandant of the Fort Jay military prison here, was released from technical arrest in quarters today immediately after the army court mar- tial whieh has been tryinz him on charg- 3 of nmeglect of duty in connection with the escape of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, weaithy draft dodzer, had reported its findinga. The decision of the court will mot be made known until after it has been re-| viewed by the commanding general of the department of the east. The fact that Colonel Hunt was released from arrest, however, and not ordered confined or dis- missed from the service was construed by army men as a virtual acquittal. The court reached its decision within a few minutes after completion of the sum- ming up by Lieutenant Colonel C. C Cressen, judge advocate, and Lieutenant Thomas L. Heffernan, counsel for Colonel Hunt. ; Lieutenant Colonel Cresson, urging a verdict of guilty, declared Coionel Hunt deliberately ignored warnings that Berg- dell was a “dangerous criminal” Lieu- temant Heffernan asserted the former commandant had obeyed orders of Adju- tant Gemeral Harris in permitting Bers- doll to leave the prison and had provided sufliclent_guards. Mrse. Emma C Zergdoll, mother of Grover and his haif-brother, Edwin, eall- ed at the prison today to visit Erwin, who surrendered recentiy after military autherities had hunted him as a draft dodger for more than two years. Mrs. Bergdoll declared she had no knowledge 5t Erwin's whersabouts during his ab- senee and that she had not heard from Grover sivce he escaped from military guacds in Philadelphia 325,000 IN TWO PAYROLL ROBBERIES IN CHICAGO Chicago, July 26—Two bandits and two express company paymasters were shot, one of the laiter probably fatally, and $25,800 stolen in two daring pavroil rob- beries on the West e within twenty minutes of each other this afternoon. The two wounded bandits were arrested to- night on imformation furnished by a doc- tor called to treat them. Barlier In the day (wo young men, who have been holding up branches of a chain store grocery system. perpetrated their fifteenth robbery within 2 month, escap- ing_with, $750. Five bandits in a touring car fought with three express company messengers in frent of the Hart, Schaffner & Marx clothing factory, in the heart of the censely populated West Side, and escaped with a stesl box containing $10,000 after two of their number had been wounded. More than fifty shots were exchanged in the fight. while 200 pedestrians and emploves of the factory looked on, George Faubrock. ont of the express pavmasters, was shot through the iead and is not ex- pected to live. Another messenger, Charles Gande. was ded in the leg. After Haubrofk fell, one of the robbers grabbed the box but was shot down by Gaude. A seend bandit snatcred up tne meney and threw it into the car, but was #isct Lefore he eould follow and collapsed n the running board. His companions -d-agped the other wounded man into the machine and it dashed off with ove in- jured man elinging {o the running board. A motorcyele policeman gave chase but Jost the trail after several blocks. Shertly after the first holdup, three armied mer drove up to the Peterson ma- chine works, almost at the edge of the Loop district, £nd took $15,000 from Abe Nélson, a saloon keeper, who is a stock- bolder in the oancern. Nelson had just reached the plant with the money, which he had drawn from a downtown bank. The men escaped. MEETING OF STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE BLIND Hartford, July 26—The annual meet- of the state board of education of was held today in the office of Governor Holcomb with the governor. 34 blind people throughout the state, them adults, were receiving the ed- the from this the board has with 2 considerable num- ber of blind persens in the state, helping _hmwnm of eye specis them advice s to business e L3 Aside touch n 1922 With a New Boat. had a chance te make up the 7 minutes and 37 seconds necessary for her to win. Then Skipper Adams showed Skipper Burton that he could play the luffing game a trifle better, for after getting five miles off the course to the westward and almost going aground on the upper end of Sandy Hook, Resolute suddenly jibed over and hauled off shore. Before Shamrock could follow, the defender had slipped into the lead. a positior, which she maintained un- til the postponement signal was blown some three hours later. The yachts worked the Jersey shore for the next two hours, with the wind backing and hauling and still keeping Ve light. Shamrock dropped steadily behind, while Resolutq, picking up a head wind, shifted canvas quickly and ‘was well to the windward when the breeze finally sank back into the caverns of the deep. The eignal calling the races off was sounded at 5.03 p. m., with Resolute six miles from the turn and Shamrock two miles away off shore. The yachts will try to decide the long contest tomor- row. Summary : Yacht. Owner. Start. Shamrock. . Sir Thomas Lipton .. 12.30.29 Resolute. .R.W.Emmons. 2d, et al 12.31.25 tace called off at after sailing nine miles. Gentle and variable winds, with fair ‘weather. was the weather bureau predic- tion tonight for tomorrow's yacht race. IF DEFEATED LIPTON WILL CHALLENGE AGAIN Aboard Steam Yacht Victoria, Off San- dy Hook, N. J., June 26.—(By Wireless to The A. P.) Sir Thomas Lipton stated today that if he failed this year to cap- ture the America’s cup he would chal- jenge again next year or in 1422 with a new boat. | HARDING INFORMED OF CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA Marion Ohio, July 26.—First hand in- formation on conditions in Russia and Poland was given to Senator Harding to- day by C. Herbert De Fosse, a New York fiscal expert who recently returned from an extensive investigation of Furopean affairs. They talked over in detail the relation of this country to Furopean re- habilitation, the republican nominee ask- ing many questions about conditions there, In a statement after the conference Mr. De Fosse, who came-here at Senator Harding's redquest, said he had taken the position that this country should go slow in its foreign commitments at this time, and that he was well pleased with the attitude taken by the senator in their conversation. “The fact is that an extremely grave erisis confronts Europe right now.” the statement said. *“Trotsky has proved a good deal of a genius, and he has built in Russia an army numbering probably 750,000 men. I regard it ag the great- est military force in the world lor‘l:a), This is a good time for America to give particular attention to its own interests and as little as possible to the cc # :rns of other nations.” Senator Harding had no other extend- ed conferences during the day, devoting most of his time to correspondence. Late in the afternoon he took an automobils ride. He plans to spend most of the week quietly, but will prepare in ad- vance 3 short speech to be made Satur- day when the front porch campaign is opened formally by the visit of a dele- gation from Mansfield, Ohio. It was announced that Harry M. Daugherty, manager of Senator Hard- ing’s pre-convention, would act as the nominee’s representative tomorrow at the notification of Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts, the vice presidential can- didate. Mr. Daugherty already is on his way east. In a statement made public tonight through Harding headquarters here Hen- Iry C. Wallace, the Des Moines, lowa, {publisher of farm periodicals declared himself greatly pleassd with his talk yes- terday with Senator Harding regarding farm reforms. COLLECTION OF NATION'S GREATEST TAX BILL ‘Washington, July 26.—The nation’s greatest tax bill—§5,410,284,874—was collected during the fiscal year ending June 30. Official figures tonight showed that the tax paid in the last twelve months had exceeded all estimates, congressional and official, by approximately $300,000,000 and was nearly 75 per cent. larger than the total of taxes paid in either of the war vears of 1918 or 1218, The 1918 tax levy yielded $3,634,619,638 and the, taxes in 1919 aggregated $3,839,950,612. Collection of this record-breaking as- sessment cost the government $29,750,000 or about 55 cents for each $100. Revenues derived from income and ex- cess profits taxes alone were $3,944,556, 737 for the twelve months, which is near- i1y $1.250,000,000 larger than collections from the same sources in either of the last two years. Total collections by states or by groups of States in cases where more than one state comprises a district were an- nounced and included the following: Connecticut and Rhode Island, $151,« 318,761; Maryland, elaware and the Dis- trict of Columbia, $120,752,457; Massa- | chusetts, $350,928.233; New Hampshire, { Maine and Vermont, $41,596,651; New | Jersey, $153,559,234. i i —_— {CUSTOMS RECEIPTS snow BIG INCREASE IN IMPORTS New York, July 26.—Receipts of the New York customs house for,the year ending June 30 totalled $330,083.885, nearly double the amount collected dur.- ing the previous year, according to the annual report of Collector Byron E. Newton, made public here today, Re- ceipts for the preceding year were $117,- 354,252 & The tota! value of imports was $2,- 904,946,043, and of exports $3,386 934 723. The expense of collection wWas $5.- 185,156, representing for each dollar coi- d two and one-quarter cents, as compared with 4.34 cents for the previ- ous year. A wise man knows a good thing when he sees it. but & fool deesn’t know a good thing when he has it ¢ * “as the “Leroy” Millen sought. NEW ENGLAND COAL PRIORITY ORDER HELD UP July ‘Washington, 26.—The New England coal priority order was not issued today by the interstate com- merce commission as had been indi- cated. It was explained by the com- mission that not all provisions of the order had been determined. GATHERING IN NORTHAMPTON FOR NOTIFICATION OF COOLIDGE Northhampton, Mass., July 26.—Re- publican party leaders who constituted an adyance guard of the host expected. gathered here tonight in preparation for the ceremonies tomorrow when Governor Calvin Coolidge - Will be formally noti- fied of his nomination for vice presi- dent. Members of the notification com mittee, headed by J. Henry Roraback, of Connecticut ; several national commit- teemen, leaders prominent ih state par- ty_councils and original Coolidge men arrived during the day and at confer- enaes tonight completed arrangements for tomorrow. Speculaton as to the character of Governor Coolidge’'s address of accept- ancewasc directed tonight towards the position he would take on the League of Nations and the relative importance he would assign to hie treatment of party olicies to foreign affairs as compared with domestic issues in the period of re- construction. It was taken for granted that he would follew. broadly at least, the party platiform and Senator Hard- ing’s address acceptinz the presidential nomination. The city with its ofice buildings and its residences decorated with the Red, White and Blue, with pictures of its can- didate under the slogan “Law and Or- der” prominently displaved in hundreds of Windows and with its clubs maintain- iMy oven housé zave evidence of its in- tention to da its full part in its tribute to its most distinguished citizen—the first governor of Massachusetis to be elected from Northampton for more than 100 years, and if elected, the first vice pres ident from Massachusetts since Henry Wilson occupied that office in the second Grant administratin. The one plgce which did not reflect the general air of suppressed excitement was the Coolidge home, situated on a quiet street near Smith college. There Governor and Mrs. Coolidge occupied themselves quietly with arrangements for nitification day, including preparations for a luncheon Which they will tender the notification committee at noon tomor- row. v 3 During the afternoon John C. Coolidge, the gorevnor's father, arrived from his home at Plymouth, Vermont, and was met at the station by the governor. The programme Will _open officially with a meeting of the notification com- mittee at 12.30 o'clock but_the city will begin its célebration several hours earlier, the Northampton brass band beins sched- uled to give a concert on Main street at 9.30. Thousands of visitors are expected to arrive during the forenoon, as march- ing delegations will testify as to their loyalty to the vice presidential mominee through biz demonstrations. The Re- publican Club of Massachusetts, several hundred stronz, will arrive by special train as well another big delagtion from Hartford, Conn. The notification exercises will he held at Allen Field on the Smith College grounds at 3 o'clock. Prescident (emeri- tus) L. Clark Seeleve, of Smith college, will preside and the invocation will be delivered by Rev. Kegpnth B. Wells, pas- tor of the Tdwards Congregationa: church. Which Governor Coolidge attends. Michael K. Fitzgerald, the democratic mayor of Northampton, who has Jjust arisen fro ma sick hed, Will deliver the address of welcome and Governor Edwin P. Morrow of .Kentucky will deliver the notification address # which Governor Colildge will reply. Colt's band. of Hart- ford, will be among those to give con- certs. After the exercises Governor Coolidge will hold a reception on the field. NATIONALISTS DENOUNCE CONSTANTINOPLE PEACE TERMS Angora, Turkey, July 26.—(By The A. P.) The Turkish nationalist congress here adopted a resolution today AZounc- ing the peace terms accepted by the Con- stantinople government and declaring the nationalists will oppose the terms mili- tarily to the bitter end. Observers arriving here from the Cau- casus say the bolsheviki are training an army of 10,000 at Baku on the Caspian Sea, for an invasion ef Persia. The force includes many Persian workmen who are being trained primarily as pro- pagandists, although having military in- struction. The bolsheviki have insisted, acgording to the observers, that they will penetrate India after Persia and arouse the entire Mohammedan world against the Turkish peace. T 25,000 AT THE FUNERAL OF SEUMAS NACERGAIN Belfast, June 26 —Twenty-five thous- and persons today attended the funeral at Old Tustle Meath of Seumas Nacer- gain, commandant of the Irish volunteers and a relative of Cardinal O'Connell of Boston. Navergain was shot by the military while discharging his duty with the volunteer police. After services at the Kells church, the procession marched sixteen Irish miles to the cemetery. SAILS WITH THE OLYMPIC ATHLETES CRUISER Newport, July 26.—The cruiser Fred- erick, acting as transport for the navy athletes who will represent the coun- try at the Olympic games, sailed for Antwerpt this afternoon. Departure was made after the Annapolis crew which gained Olympic ¢ selection at Worcester Saturday had embarked. EENTUCKY GUARDSMEN SENT TO TUG RIVEE COAL FIELDS Frankfort, Ky, July 26—Fifty Ken- tucky national guardsmen will be sent to the Kentucky-West Virginia border to prevent further trouble in the Tug River coal fields, it was announced. at Gov- ernor Edwin P. Morrow's office hero to- day. MILLEN CLEARED OF THE DETROIT TRUNK MYSTERY Chicago. July 26—Roy Millen, former army aviator, temporarily held in cus- tody by the police of this city in connec- tion with the Detroit trunk mystery; was released this afternoon. Patrolman Truni- bull, from Deiroit, failed to identify him 8 PAGES—64 COLUMNS “PRICE TWO CENTS : t2 of Russo-Polish Designated by Wireless Mes- sage From Moscow—July 30 Date Assigned. London, July 26.—A wireless message from Moscow today asks the Polish peace plenipotentiaries to cross the lines along. the Baranovitchi-Bhest Litovsk highway July 30, where they will be met. The message, however, does not fix the exact location of the aYMistice meeting. The so-called Lloyd George boundary boundary line of Poland runs on almost a straight line north and south ~“from slightly west of Grodno, past Brest-Li- tovek to the Galician line. It is approx- imately 115 miles east of Warsaw at its nearest point. REPRESENTATIVE OF POLAND TO ACCOMPANY MILITARY MEN ‘Warsaw, July 26.—A representative of the foreign office left here for the front today. He Will accompany the military commanders who, are to meet the soviet representative to arrange for a conference for a discussion of the Polish armistice proposals, which Russia has accepted in principle, SEARCH FOR HUSBAND OF , TRUNK MYSTERY VICTIM Detroit, Mich., July 26.—Search for Eugene Leroy, whose wife's mutilated body was found iammed in a trunk ship- ped from Detroit to New York, assumed @ationwide proportions today. Police In every large city of the coun- try were asked to aid the search after Patrolman. Leo Trumbull of the De- troit olice Hepartment »ad failed _to identify a man giving tHe namé of Roy Millen and held by Chicago authorities pending investigation, as Leroy. That jealonsy and revenge played a part in the gupposed murder is the re- ported contention of Allan A. Tatwm, now in Birmingham, Ala., and who told Bolice there that he knew Mrs. Leroy inti- mately in “Detroit several months ago. Tatum's name was writtep on the frunk that contained the mourdered woman's body. He expressed the belief, it Is said, that Leroy may have Rilled his Wife through jealousy when he learned that she had been in Titum's company and that Tatum's name was used on the trunk with revenze as the motive. A Detroit detective left for Birming- ham to bring Tatum to this city. if pos- sible. in an effort to throw light on Leroy's whereabouts. second trunk believed to have been senl to New York and thought to con- tain the vital orzans of the murdered woman, is being sought. Positive identification of the dead wo- man was established, the police say, by Patrolman and Mrs. Trumbull and others Who recognized the clothing found in the trunk with the body as having helinged to Mrs. Leroy. A sweater which Mrs. Trumbull once had borrowed was among the_clothing. Police investization today fthat Mrs. Leroy had been marcied pre. viously to her marriaze to Leroy. Ac- .cording to information in the hands or the police she was the divorced wife of a south§n pusgilist mamed Jackson. Her maiden name is said to have been Kath- erine Dixon and her home was in Stark- ville, Miss. Leroy’s description. police departments follows Age 23 or 24: height 5 feet, 10 1-2 in ches: weight 145 pounds; smooth face swarthy comnplexion: jet black hair, combed straicht back: scar on left leg: teeth rood, eve When last seen Teroy wore a dark green coat. ereen soft hat, silk shirt, bow tie and tan oxfords. indicated as sent toda in all larze cil GOV, COX AT WORK ON HIS ADDRESS OF ACCEPTANCE Dayton, Ohio, July 26.—Goxernor Cox made much progress today on his ad- dress for August 7 accepting the,demo- cratic presidential nomination. The gov- ernor found, however, that he was una- ble to carry out his plan for “locking” himself in_his library to work on the speech. But between several visitors, the candidate put in some good licks on the hurried drafting job. The address, the roverror said, will be “just long enough to tell the story” but because of its embrronic stage he could make no definite predictions as to length. He is to send it in install- ments, as subjects are comoleted. to his newspaper office here for composition and then he promised “to use the blue pencil vigorously” on proofs to eliminate every unnecessary word. Hetween shifts on his address, the governor today confer- red with Judge J. G. Johnson of the Ohio gupreme court, who made the ®ox nominating speech at the San Francisco convention. It was their first meeting since the convention and Governor Cox thanked the judwe for the successful out- come of his efforts. Another caller of the governor's was Oscar E. Bradfute of Xenia, Ohio, of the Ohio Farm Bureau and a director of the Federal Farm Bureau as well as former member of President Wilsan's in- dustrial commission. Agricultural af- conference Wwith the governor, who also fairs were the principal topics of his had a social call today from John D. Spreckels, Jo., of California. Senator Pomerene, Ohio, of the senate committee investigating eampaign expenditures, is to see the governor tomorrow regarding continuance of the inquiry during the campaign. —_— BENT COMMISSION PRESENTS PETITION TO GOV. HOLCOMB Hartford, July 26.—The Hartford mu- nicipal rent commission presented a peti- tion to Governor Holcomb today bearing between ‘5,000 and 6,000 names, princi- pally from Hartford and New Britain and also many from other cities in the vate, asking the Zovernor to call a spe- cial session of the legislature to enact laws to curb rent profiteering and pro- vide other forms of relief in the present housing situation. The governor told the commisison he would give the petition due consideration and would notify them of his decision. That the governor will heed the peti- tion of these signers is seriously doubt- ed in most quarters as the legislature once in session could take up other sub- jects, such as ratifying the suffrage amendment. DESTRUCTIVE TYPHOON HITS ISLAND OF LUZON Manlla, July 26.—Thousands were ren- dered homeless by a typhoén which, ac- companied by. torrential rains, swept the island of: Luzon during the past ten days or two weeks, causing tremendous dam- age. A dike of the Turlac River, central Luzon, was broken, flooding thousands of acres of rice and sugar lands and carry- ing off bundreds of small houses. Loss of life was reporied small [Nipped Gvl War n ~ North of Irefand Troops and Police Have Shown the Sternest Impar- London, July 26—Sir Hamar Green- ‘wood, chief sécretary for Ireland, declared’ in the house of commons tonight that tne troops and police had shown the sternest impartiality in Ireland and that the pres- ence of the troops nad warships had saved Belfast from a possmle/mazsac:'o of thou- sands and north Ireland from a devastat- ing civil war. ENCOUNTER BETWEEN POLICE AND RAIDERS Listowel, County Kerr: 26.—In an encounter pelween the polige and raiders today, four policemen were cargetously woended. CALLING ATTENTION CONDITIONS London, July 26.—Moving adjournment of the house of commons today for the purpose of calling attention to conditions in Belfast, Joseph Devlin, nationalist, contended that the trouble had nothing to do with the Sinn Fein controversy, but was entirely due to religious hatred on the part of Protestant workers. He de- manded protection for the Catholic work- ers. Mr. Devlin and James Sexton, laborite, who supported hirs, beoth warned tie gov- ernment that it was driving the Irish people to desperation. They together with the labor members appealed to the gov- ernment to withdraw the ramy of occ pation, which they declared was causing all the trouble. Closure of the debate was adopted and Mr. Devlin’s mition was defeated. TO IN BELFAST ARCHBISHOP MANNIX BARRED FROM ENGLAND London, July 26.—Archbishop Mannix of Melbourne, Australia, will not be al- lowed to land in England because of his recent utterances, Premier Lloyd George announced in the house of commons to- day. ['ARCHBISHOP MANNIX IS TO SAIL ON J 26.—Arch- Atlantic July bishop Mai rrived here today from Washington, ecommenting on the statement by Premier Lloyd George in the house of commons that he would not be permitted to land in England, said he would like to know “more Jeiit jus* what the premier said” befors committing himself at length? “If he says T am nol going.” declared the archbishop, “I am not going.” Archbishop Mannix tention to sail on the Baltic on J ‘She stops at Queenstow Ireland, route to Liverpool” he added. “I intended to go to Ireland, later to En land, and then to Rome, but he (Lloyd George) may be able to change my i aid it was his in- y 31. en had erary.” PARIS RECEPTIQN IN IONOR or MYRON T. HERRICK Paris, July 26.—The municipal =overn- ment of Par 21 off Vilte form. . ception in the of Myron T. can ambassador to I recognition of his and’ to France aftep, the = o e cmieAE fing mest of the . diplomat coms had been transferred to Bordea uaom the neat approach to the German arm.cs M. Le Corbellier, presidenc of tha mn- nicipal counci after a ) dfess, presented Mr. Herick gold medal. M. Autd Seine, and Hugh C. Wal ican ambassador, ‘ also rick responding. The v moved and was u speech because of h Premier Millerand. former Poincare, General Pau and dreds of persons vrominent public and social life, were TO PLACE A CONSTITUTION Pr; many THE ALL HOMYS cery o¥ N Supreme C'c ldrick 104 New York, Justice Bdward J. proved the applicat the Constitutional cue of which has announced its purpose placing a copr of {:e constitution of the United States in “ail ofgthe twenty mil- lion homes in America.” The directors of leagne, among whom are Franiflin retary of the inte Hughes and Cornel New York, declare inate a wider know the constit tion—the principles upon which it was founded and ideals inspired it. The league also plans to ‘“encouraze the use of the constitution as a model for self-government in industrial _ plants.” and to inaugurate the “School Republic” method in public and private schools. ACTION DEPORTATION LEGAL TO STAY THE OF RADICALS New York, July 26.—A stay the deportation of cals brought to Bllis from western cities | attorney appeared in be the aliens. Immigration authorities said the Workers' Defense Union plans sim- flar action for the others. First stens wero taken in the cases of Mathew Kaplunoff, brought from Sea tle, and William Krispens, from Cleve land. “The complaint that Kapdunoff to become a public charze is flaged to make sure of the case,” h counsel told the authorities. Krispens, the attorney said, has not been a member of the commui party, as alleged. He al- so said that such membership is mot a deportable offense. legal fight to lable “camou- NON-POLITICAL RECEPTION FOR FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Fastport, Me., July 26.—Plans for an inforshal and non-political reception to be tendered to Franklin D. Roofevelt, assist- ant secretary of the navy. by citizens of Eastport on Wednesday evening were ap- proved today by the democratic nominee for vice' president. who is resting at his summer home on Camrobello Island. A committee headed by Mavor John N. Henward, who isa republican, explained the arrangements to him. EXPRESS DERAILED ON THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD Philadelphia, July 26.—Six cars, four sleepers and two day coaches, of the Western Express on the Pennslyvania Railroad were derailed at Bird-insHand, seven miles east of Lancaster, Pa., af 10.50 o'clock tonight. Although no. re- ports of casualties had been received by the company here up to' midnight, & relief train was.sent to the sceme from Harrisburg. Treland, July | THE BALTIC | L Lane, former sec-| allezed radi-| i i BRIEF TELEGRAMS Bar gold in London was unchanged at 108s 3d an ounce. America was eliminated from the po- lo contests when Spain won 133 kill kil Various labor bodies of Utah. refused to amalgamate with the new farmer- labor party. Senator James A. Reed denicd he ever attacked President Wilson in pub- lic speeches, in an address at Nevada, Mo. Treasury officials declare ths peak of extravagance throughout the nation is passed. Luxury tax receipts are falling off. Upon orders from Moscow the bol- shevik armies are withdrawing from Poland, following acceptance of the Polish plea. for an armistice. . _Struck by an automobile, Haddic Sharkovisch, 6 vears old of Hartford, was instantly killed while crossing the istreet in firont of his home. Hundreds of persons went shrine of St. Anne in St church at Bristol, making as has been the yearly cu A lone robber on horseback fr four stages filled with tourists c to the Yosemite National Park a caped with $500, at Miami, Cal. One members of the Detroit Department was k ed and five othc injured in a collision between a fire department truck and street ca As a result of prohibition, and identity cards, entitling person cross into Mexico, totaled 500,000 d ing the first year of prohibition. a to the |2 Joseph a plgr stom. ha t d.up d :Ab— ar The body of Major Genera C. Gorgas, former Surge the army, who died in Lond buried in Arlington Demetrio Tocci, a well knpwn Italian, was found dead on the porch of home at South Norwalk from wh AL v thought to be wood aleohol poisoni The First Infantry, Connectic State Guard left Hartford for (an Major Rau at Niantic where the will put in a weel ensive tra s ir Harvard laboratories and sever other New England institutions we looted by a band of platinum thic JUSSES BUSY IN BRIDGEPORT SINGE TROLLEYS SUSPENDED More Than 500 Busses Handled Traffic on Regular Routes and Into the Suburbs Yesterday—100 Jitneys From Cities in the State and Four New York and Boston—150 More Are Expected to be on Hand Today—There Has Been No Announcement From the Trolley Comprmy! Nor From the Special Commission—Hearing in [lew Haven on Trolley and Jitney Situation. sil t, Conn., July 26.—Bridgeport (hearing under the direction of a (ommit- ing in motor 'buses today, mot |tee of seven of the board of aldermen,, car rumning inside of the city recently apointed to investigate the sit- £ the suspension of troliey |uation here. The largs room was crowd- Connecticut at |ed with spectators, who cheered a state-* t night. More (! s ment by Samuel Durgent, a bus driver, traffic on re.ular reates i |that the trolley company could put the into the suburs, the local Jitneys out of business by reducing the augmented mt 190 | fare to five cents. fom it nies e e Tl e R ew York amd Boston. Harry necticut Company, was the only president of one of the local ‘bus \man for the company. Other gpeakers tions, said tonight thal 139 mors |who advocated favorable action'on be- s were expected t¢ be hand to- company included: dent of the local trel- hours from 5 fo 6|leymen's union; L. J. O'Connor, of tie sne-minuts head- | trolleymen’s union; Bernard E. Lynea, sitney ‘liizes | United States commissioner, and Charles the factory E. Jul secretary of the New Haven taken care of Chamber of Commerce. Addresses on behalf of the jitney bus were made by Michael J. Quinn, counsel n of tr . for the state bus asso Terrece Clifford B. Wilson today con-|Kelly, internal revenue agent, and sev- special commission which |eral bus driver: & inquire into the trolley| President Storrs said the company was no announcement does not ask the elimination of the jit- nission. The Connecticut |ney buses, but that their operations be ssued no statement since Testricted. He said the company could iven several days ago that|DOt stand competition of the jitneys as suspended in this eity DOW in operation and that the city wmight Bridge; its i trolley. e it nk the, rush on a 1 by th ts and arently Swere tin The police had no fic jams or arrests for vio- ports of t " S hout trolley service when buses were | find itself withou r winter comes unless cOnditions a%e | changed. Mr. | trasm Julin submitted the report of the committee of the chamber of com- AND JIT UEARING IN NEW HAVE: — merce, which said that trolley cars and sw Havery Conn., July 26.—Cham-|jitney buses both are needed. but held s e trolley car and the jitney|that the trolleys are indispensable. The arious improvements in transportation question | report urged gles tonight at a public! trolley service. vho also took all the platinum e ment. R Germany is making pavingstone out | of ashes left in Berlin's i from the city’s burnt refuse. ! is said to be as hard and servicea granite. Bar silver in London was 1-8 f higher at 54 1-2d. New Yor price was unchanged at and foreign silver was 91 3-8 cents. 1-8 higher at i, The original manuscript of Tasso' “Jerusalem Delivered” is among | quantity of art objects and other |ures just returned ., to It |tr terms. During the' past fortnight b were in the home of Ju Roger Newell, in Bristol, i their absence the amount of the 1 s not known. | | Immigration during the week ended, in New York, totaled 1 not counting Aquitania and Balti tine Saturday The Royal Mont Serrat fron vana arrived at about 100 Cuba r homes here, Spain’s wheat harvest this year i | estimated 37,000,000 quintals, 2,000 000 qu ore than last ye ty million: intals are rec feed th For the first time since the eightee: century the Paris Opera [ com of | scene to form intes ation singing al action, | Ninety per aent. of the member. ;?lvl- committee of the Nat League ir sed ment of a feder cation with a | Read. | Council of A national commi jadjust the Tesc jbetween Polan was refused. and Payne, just returned from Alas Secretary Daniels Secretary At~ th ltended a formal dinner | honor by the Aretic clu men who were sour ven in pughs' above the | Arctic Circle, in Seattle. | The passenger s’amer Governor |« Cobb, for many years on the | 4 jor Main coast summer ru hd | Bastern Steamship L t of Boston and Occi- | | dental Steamship Copany. | Thnze hundred families, most of them | summer guests at Fort Lowry and I vedere hotels, in Bath Beach, B were, driven to the street 1 which totally destroyed three ing structures, causing $150,00( A gift of $60,000 statue of Lafa to France and the adoption for the spending of $7,000,000 of the K. of C. war fund on fr 10ols for former. service mer cost courses for civilians will outstanding features of thirty eighth supreme convention program of of the K. of C. SOUTHERN SLOVAKIA 18 I UNDER MILITARY RULE Prague, July 26.—DJMilitary _law been proclaimed over the whole or of nine districts, putting wmearly al southern Slovakia under military The proclamation states that rule, gathering 450 POUND SHARK WAS . o CAPTURED ON BATHING BEACH| ., Edgemere, N. Y., July 26—A shark, weighing 450 pounds, was captured and killed/ on the bathing beach here toda: by George Weiss, a life guard. Attracted| by the screams of bathers, who fled from | a the water, Weiss saw the shark plunging | ta over the breakers. He jumped into small boat, drove the shark into shallo; water and clubbied it to death with an oar. {an o o Wi pro &hir their ships. STATEMENT COAL SHORTAGE N ‘Washington, July 26.—No coal shortage for next winter need be feared if the present plans of bituminous coal operators and railroad executives, backed by the interstate commerce commission, are made thoroughly effective, the National ALLAYS FEAR OF XT WINTER EPORT ON ILL-TREATMENT OF ©0r HEBREWS IN POLAND 26.—Copies of the re- Stuart M. Sathuel, ) commission to investi ill treatment of the Jew in Poland, have been rerican Jewish Con- J v York, ation A ¢ Hesiiinters e Coal association tonight declared in 2 : T hsomvations Sir| formal statement. Ir was added that co- ¢ the loweat fieure of the | ODeration on Lhe part of the miners them- selves, If noi fortl:caming, would endan- ger the whole program, which is based upon a priority of car supply for mines lives lost is g§4, and authorities under the arbitrari- ns, for and upon priority in transportation for coal bound to the northwest and New England. 3 There is a real need for action in the matter, the statement also asserted, ana- rarely Chri serts that the Polsh frequently resortel to the the Jews as bolshevi- distract attention from Stuart declares that aft- investigations | he n 10 per dent ation was affected by les. The allezed po- November 2 and 1 as a bloody clash be- and Jewish poputaticn davs' striegle killed, 463 wound- amount of property stol- ng statistics furnished by the geolog- al survey. These figures were said tc show that if the present rate of outpuf was maintained until next April 1, the azgregate froduction would be 516,720,000 tons, which the association estimates would be less than the country requires by some 30,000,000 tons. The further estimate is made that production today is 35,000,000 tons behind = the schedule which should be maintaincd to supply all needs next winter. With transportation priorities in effect, and rhines in opera- tion, however, the statement concluded, the present and potential winter short. ages alike can be obviated, and the pres- ent speculative prices brought down te normal. TESTIMONY FOR DEFE IN PETTIEONE MURDER CASE Manchester, Vt., ¢ of Boston, testifyi in the case of Mrs. James g for the defense ron M. Pettibone, his wife, said in November, d to take 2 remedy The Pettibone kill- g her salts which con- r manu and other sates who have upied with i 101 some sear ne. cution closed ng as been ite direct cass evidence a statement le by Pettibone to bald on the day n to State's Ate statement Pettie ng that he had imself of his prior to April 6th, d that he and OPERA CO. 1T SIT LONDON INVAEEDXO/ ISIEIDREE Helen 1. Guilow, a nurse, had cons T ated.a marriage since Mrs. Petti- : July 2 i s s death Tomdon nmext| Benjamin H. Pettibone, a younger ; S haoeeced lere| Drother of the defendant. testified -that . itattnn will ba|the home life of his brother and Mrs. Pettibone was normally p fectionate. e and whether Jt| asant nad at- 1s upon VILLA HOLDS AMERICA BREWER FOR RANSOM e Tex., July 26.—A report e o continent reaching }Eagle Pass tonight says Villa s politan O has t; arl Haegelin, an American, . on. it adds, it Will| president of the nas brewery, and is a and upon the in-) holding him for ransom. BANDIT HAS ENCOUNTER WITH GOV'T FORCEY ELD, FOR COMPLICITY IN Eagle Pass. Tex., July 26— Francisco Villa, bandit chief: binas this morning was lowed by a sharp ment forces numberin; men, all of whom rrival of ain, at' Sa- mmediately fol- ounter with govern- about twenty-five are believed SMUGGLING DIAMENDS —Named by cus~ 1 an attempt to smuse to have of cut diamonde into|been killed, according to information hell Safron of Brook-| Feaching Eagle Pass late this afternoon. $3,500 bail todas when!It is said Villa's . forces totals between United States _omms- | 300 and 500. Last Fridey Jacobb Villa, who, advices sayl came to Sa- 2t alleged attemp: to|binas to megotiate by telesraph with the with 251 cut diamonis on|De La Huerta government on terms of Wwas parvel today in|Surrender for himself and men, will start customs inspector un- | On‘another warpath if his terms for giv- ing of the case. ing himself up are not accepted, it is res en named by ‘he pros-|ported here. Refu: 'S are coming to Pie~ District Attornev John third defendant, Her closed. @ras Negras from the Sabinas district, tearing trouble as a result of Villa's pres- ence, it is understood. 95 The. hazipet W SHianseied Y 0% [cmANGES )N WORRING RULES OBITUARY. ¢ gitators. s ved the meas- L E o jures taken are adequate to control the| FORDMBECHANTHEN OEEECBRS B Mo s situntion, 3 New York, July 26—Mrs. Ellen M. Cyr Sl . New York, July 26—Changes in work- | Smith. author of school text books, died tles and increased allowances are for deck officers of American ng steamships in the annual wage d workng agreement siznid today at o ference of renresentatives of the offi- p owners and the United States > board No nicreases in wages are made but the yesterday in . it was learned to- day. She wrbte the first series of what age called modern readers for the publia séhools. Her books have been in use in schools throuzhout, the country for twenty years. Mrs. Smith was the wife of Perley: Smith. an author. 1Mrs.'Smith was born in Monjreal. She was a graduate of the NES cment provides for clearer interpre- | Cambridge, Mass., normal school and tion of the working rules,” subsistence | taught school in Cafmbridge for fifteen’ nd 1 ng allowances for officers on | years. - ore duty’ and allowances for officers | Funeral services will bo held: at hi%e traveling by train or boat to join ! home in Biool 1yg tomorrow and the will be taken to Rutland, Vt, for