Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 1, 1920, Page 1

TEN PAGES—70 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS. A SERIES OF CYCLONIG AND ELECTRICAL STORMS INSTATE Two Persons Lost Their Live Damage to Tobacco Crop is Estimated at $2,000,000— ia South Woodstock Buildings Were Moved From Foundations, Fruit Orchards Were -Uprooted and Tele- phone Poles Snapped—High Winds Reported in North, Haven, North Guilford, Granby. New Haven, Conn,, At sons dead, a score mJur:t\. 5 t bacco crop estimated at 3: i a’:d l:‘a\' losses to farm buildings anmd general crops, was the toll of a series of electrical and hail storms that swep Aug. 31.—TWwo pei- damage to 2,000,000 over many sections of Connecticut this North Haven, South Guilfore adscr, Suffield. Granby and oth- towns. Miss Florence Linsey, of Pitts: 1. Mass, was drowned off the Milfor( shore when high waves up et 3\ \\'.lvl":l Raffacle Shalon, a Wwa nder with & railroad section gang, was ki~ at North Haven when a group of fri ne hou,(f were blown down, A brau factoy of a fireworks concern, at North Haver was wrecked by the wind obacco Alstricts of the Conmect ¢ valley were hard hit. The Yop in most cases was about per cvested and the standi reported as a_total 4 g a in E ns g 'n ashore. Two hundred feet from the|Tegion north of the Crimea. - was reported as very heavil o nq the hoat capsized, all five occu- Bolsheviki have crossed the Dneiper in to tobacco in Sex-y \\ntq yeing throw: to the water. strong force at several points. Cavalry were st Whndsor, W Florence Linsey called to the two men | raiders are said to have captured Alex- 200 ; 1, £600,000: Windsor LOCE® |, pogoye her mother and sister, Down-|androvsk and fo have continued south- £300,080; Gran $200.000: FPINEOY | e ang Hines managed to hold Mrs. Lin-| ward, cuttin the railway. and Vernon, £100,006; Windsor $30.0901 .oy 5y Susan Linsey up until men ar-| General Makmo. who is evoperating Hall stones larger than walnuts we ved in a motor boat and took them|With General Wrangel, is attacking the found in the tobacco fields after M| p0.rq Then it was ‘discovered that | Reds ({:om the rear. He is reported to | storm passed. Tt was said very little Wy ioronce Linsev had disappeared. The |have daptured Mahmud and to have exe. surance was carried on thhe tobacco. T recovered later. cuted the bolshevik commissaries and! wind aléo ¢id heavy damage fo fru = = other soviet sympathizers at that place. trees ‘._\;‘fl to corn l"':l‘;{’:;‘_'\':; e stai. | THUNDER STORM AND TORNADO 2 impadred in severa : stat In North Haven the fury of the storr was spent in five minutes. A terrifie win with hail stones and rain created havo in two places in that town, nnroofin’ several houses, demolishing scores ¢ «mall frame bufldings, killing one U and injuring many persons. The fur of the storm was spent over two arv about half a mile apart, and alonz course Jess than 300 feet wide. The win struck a group of frame houses. carr most of them across the tracks *New York, New Haven and H ford railroad and piling up the fr ments. Wires were torn off the nc and for several hours it was necessary ing th spokesman of the delegation and prais- fide trains to pass them over the tracl ed the “diznity of self-restraint” with etween Meriden and North Haven. D which fhe senator had conducted ~his gang of section men at wnrkwn" Uridgeport, Conn., Auz. 31.—Elwood |campaign. He also voiced a hope that racks saw the storm cominz and r Py an 1 shelter in these houses, where the wat tonder was killed The path of the storm from Hamder North Haven was marked by fallen tr The beginning of the wind's sweep ir Y wept ove ra large part of eastern Massa usetts and lightning and wind caused mage estimated at many thousands of ilars. L ONFESSED THAT HE HAD KILLED GEORGE B. NOTT Further Gains by Poles in North Bolsheviki Are Continuing to Give Way in the Bialy- stok Region. Warsaw, Aug. 31.—(By The A. P.)— Further gains on the northern front are reported in the Polish official commi- que today. Polish troops occupied Au- gustodo, west of Grodno where they were enthusiastically received by the popuia- tion. Lithuanian detachments encount- ered by the Poles have been most friend- Iy. L The bolsheviki are continuinz to way before Polish pressure in the B: stok sector, says the communication. The Poles have occupied Sokolka, Grudek and Narew. It is reported that the Rus- sians are preparing to make serious re- sistance in the rezion of Malanarewka river. Quiet ector. | The Poles are resisting repeated ef- forts of General Budenny's cavalry to break throuzh near Zamosc in a move- ment . to encircle Lembers, Prabowiee, which had been temporarily evacuated by the Poles, has been regained in acounter- attack. Bolshevik attacks upon Zaeworze, east of Lemberg, have been repuised with heavy losses. General Budenny's forces ‘have been driven out of the region of Zydyczow and Chodorow, south of Lem- berg. s and a Score Were Injured— East Windsor, Suffield and struck the barn of George H. Kimball in Brookiyn this afternoon, and it was burned with a total loss placed at § 200. It was said to be the largest and hest epuipged barn in Windham coun- y. The structure was valued at $15.000 nd it contained 150 tons of hav, valued t $5,000. Wagons and farming machin also lost. pr in the Brest-Litovsk WVOMAN DROWNED WIHEN WAVES UPSET BOAT Milford. Conn.. Auz. 31.—Miss Flor- ‘nce Linsey, of Pittsfield, Mass., was drowned off Charles Island in Long Is- land sound late today when a rowboat wag upset by high waves in a storm. Her mother, Mrs. Mary Linsey., Ager 78, and a sister, Susan, were rescued. The three women were stopping Silver Beach and had walked o “harles Island on a sandbar. Rougn water cased by the storm prevented hem from returning on the sandbar. Jo- wph Downing and James Hines, pass- ng in a rowboat. offered to take the wo- WRANGEL'S FORCES REPORTED TO BE to i FALLING BACK Constantinonle, Augz. 31.—(By The A. P.) General Wrangel's forces are re- ported to be ling Back throughout the RO I I AR Ho 0 X = HARDING IN SUPPORT OF DEYELOPMENT OF WESY IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS 31.—Several Goslon, ere lifted rns and Aug, from maller dwellings their foundations and buildings demolished tornado that swept through parts towns of Marion, Ohio, Auz. 31.—The Roosevelt policy of conservation to develop the west and insure an adequate food supply was advocated by Senator Harding here today in a speech te a delezation of republi- can governors. He also suggested that many soldiers of the great war might be provided homes in the undeveloped west- ern country and declared the duties of reclamation and development rested both on federal and state authorities and on public as well as private financing. Governor Lowden of Illinois was the ¥ the Weymouth, Hingham, lbrook, Randalph and tay. No cne wdk serious same time Braintree late v injured. At thunder a severe storm Wade, years of age, tonight con- :ssed to the police that he had killed icorge B. Nott after a struggle in the itter's homa ott's republican victory would insure a fuller measure of co-operation between the fed- eral and state governments, and in re- sponse Senator Harding pledged himself to exert his influence t3 prevent ‘‘en- early cramped Sunday in morn| trunk T was body a i und by a searching party late last last | Croachments on the severai states of the North Haven apparently was along St gsht in a swamp near Sport Hil, | Unio i street, outside of this citv, where f ade, Mrs. Nott and John B. Johnson | Drawing an analogy between present, Jof was blown off a 1 house. M4 ¥ ho aidéd Wade in taking the trumk to | conditions and those following the Civil il beyena this ho0 | jagton are held by the police for the | WAT. the nominee declared his conviction of the storm crus frame building | 8 that many former soldiers would be giaa asod by M. Buoh Son, fireworks " Acoording to the statement made to|to help open the unsettled regions of the nakers, of Wall e Fias| the pblice tonight by Wade, he went te | WeSt as 2 reward for their service to were emploved there. The building Was| 4o ‘Noit home Sunday morning afmed | their country. Nifted y ftrom its undernining| it ha piece of lead pipe and a pistol, | . "It Was against profligacy” he said. and carried twenty feet and piled In A iop 1o intention of pummeling Nott in | that Roosevelt raised his voice and mass- of ruins. All of the girls Werel,ciajiation for a threat the murdered man | €Xercised the veto power. He started brufsed and one more seriously Wurt. |made to “get Wade.” Johnson accom. | N® Sfeat reclammation movement. | Further north. I \\.'!]l.’:»:"nrrl, light-| 1 jed Wade and ‘both young men con- | RO0Sevelt performed a great service to| % Killed o horse, Wires were blown|Col20 Tinde ahd, both voung men ¢ the nation and what he did for his time | down, putting electric light and tele- | (STEC, FICh 8. Tott over 20 Mour | oo must carry forward to the future.”| : ) 3 v nded victim slept in a room ; 1 : Sl vl out of oortimission Sl e et iotim Senator Harding also’ declared that in| “New Haven escapad the main sweep of | I the attic i corprg | IS conservation policy the government | the storm. no damage from wind or rain| Wade finally decided to go to Nott's| ust guara inst private monopoly, | » om and wa saccompanied up to the ¥ e cul Bolug reported O e e 4 he | byt said he 0 particular prefer- £l by Johnson. » The fiuitars of Mol o Satween: the emMlopRaT Af = room was 8o situated that the bed occu- | vafe capital and public funds to stiin SOUTH WOODSTOCK FELT vied by Nott faced a mirror which was on | the highest productivity of maturel e BRUNT OF THE STORM|a direct line with the open door. source',f e & 5 3 Staff ESPODCR by s btained a glimpse | eral republican gubernatorial nominees | Putnam, Aug. 31.—The village of Soutn | 9f him in a like marner,” Wade declared. | were in. the delogation which iaeluacd Woodstocl: this afternoon was swept | “He 8aid: ‘You get out of here.” and with | besides Governor — Lowden. Governors with @ hurricane, which was accompanied | that he sprang from the bed and we grap- | Sproul, Pennsyivaia; Goodrich, Tndiana . by a cloudburst and one of the most ter- | Pled. Johnson and Mrs. Nott fled to the | Beeckman, Rhode Tsland ; Stephens, Cali. rorizing electrical storms that hes ever |lower part of the house.” fornia; Campbell. Arizena; McKelvie, been experienced in this part of Wind-| The youth declares they fought on the | Nebraska and Townsend, Delaware. Aft. ham county. Buildings were moved from | landing of the third floor and'finally tum. | er the nominee's address at the Hard. their foundations, fruit orchards were up-| bled to the second story, where another | ing front porch the entire party wepe rooted, telegraph poles were snapped and|stand was made. The actual murder, ac- | guests at a G. A. R. picnic at a Marion damage at will amount to thousands|cording to Wade, was committed on the | park. of dollars was done. first floor of the house after they had To the old soldiers Senator Harding At the Woodstock fair grounds the|tumbled down another flight of stajrs, |made onlv a two-sentence talk, saying main exhibition hall, 120 feet long and|during which time Wade' had fired four |hi Sappointments made it impossible to 40 feed wide and a story and a half tall | shots from his pistol. Near the entrance | SPeak longer. The metinz at the park | was picked up by the gale and movec|to the house Wade declares he stabbea | Was closed by a fife and drum serenade, ! four foet from the foundations upoun|Nott several times, Nineteen knife | in Which the nominee's father, Dr. George which it rested. The laree wooden doors{wounds were found m the bodv. Neither | T Harding, a Civil war veteran, play- were ripped out and blown fifty feer|the accused or the nolice can aceount for | ed the snare drum. across the race track ) terrifl the manner in’ which Wade obtained-the S the force of the wind ihet doors Knife. WATERBURY JITNEYMEN ad with holta were shattered and After Nott was dead the body was put DENIED AN INJUNCTION W Sipiiied for. WUnfSdS obe YRYAS Yin the frank, where § remiined untiia o i The wind swept through the village 10| Sunday nignt. - €| Waterbury, Conn., Aug. 31.—The de- a pathway of more than 300 feet wide Wade in his confessi 'b. | cision of Judge George E. Hinman, of caryifig everything before R e M ke L’R’!fi“hff‘d;‘f‘fsy‘ not ab-| e superior court, on Yhe application of | Telegraph poles were broken lettinf|yer or taking part in the orime . - ¢ |the Waterbury Jitneymen's Association trie wires fall to the highway and b et B for an injunction was received here late when great trees were town up by i X = R S this afternoon, roots they fell on these wires and wer IHT INFANTRYMEN BREAK The ordinance against. enforcement of set on fire X ATTACK OF 200 MINERS ! which an injunction was asked desig- In front of the blacksmith shop c nate as traffic routes for public service Asa Seranton, Joseph Shetocinicls, off Williamson, W. Va. Auz. 31.—An|motor vehicles all streets except certain Redding, Pa., had stopped to have his|attack of 200 men, believed to have been |ones and portions of streets specially -in automobile repaired. As he Stood there |directed at the commissary of the How-|the ordinance mentioned. Counsel for the storm blaw so fast that he waslard Colliery Company, or the homes of |the jitneymen claimed the ordinance to picked from his feet. Ty grabbing his{Superintendent M. V. Ingham and L. I |be unreasonable in its provisions and automobile he saved himself from beine | Tinsiey, neari- Chatiaroy, near Wil-|void on that ground. \ mrl-d‘ away. He clung with all ms liamson, was un by eight United! Judge Hinman finds that the action of strength to the machine States infant today, according to|the aldermen in adopting the ordinance Not a telephone in the town .can be|reports reachinz here. was not so unreasonable as to render vsed for the Qile carrving the wires| The from Putnam was broken In East Woodstock the harn of John AMirich was struck by lightning and humed to the ground, and at Woodstoc Hill, hail stones as large as eggs fell doing biz damage to the cropa. According to Asa Scranton, whos blacksmith shep was in the direct pat! of the gale, the sterm broke very sud denly. It became as dark as night anc for five minutes the wind raged. Fear- Ing that his shop Was going to be blown down Mr. Bcranton ran out into the street and as he left his door a large pine tree crashed down in front of him and up and down the road the trees burst into flames. The ro ds leading into the village were blocked for several hours. Althoush workmen were busy several hours opening them up before this work could be begun, It was necessary 1o np- tify the power company in Putnam ts turn off the electricity for live Wire wers interwoven with the branches of the trees. Nearly every house in the nath of the wind hed nearly every window in and 1+ hen coop and woodshed in seme cases disappeared comhpletely. A silo at the farm of Mra Jeanette Shepard was blowr down and the orchard of John Ericson is badly damaged. $22,000 BARN DESTROYED AT DANIELSON Lasialson, Cemm. Ang. 31.—Lightning, attacking party formed on both des of the mountain unon which Chat- aroy is located, it reported, and marched in concert on the colliery. The infantrymen, a detachment of the troops, which were recently sent into the strike zone from Camp Sherman, | exchanged shots with the party and then charged into the woods. the ordinance invalid or its validity open to such question that its enforcement; should be no wenjoined. i The judge says suspepsion of the en- forcement of this ordinance pending fi- nal hearing and determination of fhis action is not warranted by the situation presented and the application for a tem- orary injunction is therefore denied. The hearing was held at Litchfield last Wednesday. GENERAL BARNETT SENIOR OFFICER ON PACIFIC COAST STRIKE BY BRITISH COAL MINERS IS IMPENDING London. Aug. 31—A strike by ashington Aug. 31.—Brigadier Gen- eral George Barnett, formerly major general commandant of the marine the and recipient of the Nobel prize for liter- jature in 1915, (lpcmd\a wants self- | COX AND ROOSEVELT BRIEF TELEGRAMS Bar gold was gaoted at 115s 5d an ounce against 1158 at last close in Lon- don. Census Report Gives Conn. 1,380,585 ,An.lncreue of 265,829 or " 238 Per Cent. in Ten Years. Mustapha Kemal, head of the Turkish Nationalist government at Angora, is ill of chronic malaria. Lieut. Yamagata, a widely known Japanese aviator, was killed while mak- ing a flight in Tokio. p— . The population of Massachusetts was announced as 3,851,651, an increase of 485,199, or 14.4 per cent. American dollar in Paris was quoted at 14 francs 45 centimes, as against 1t franes 36 centimes at the ciose. i . ‘Washington, Aug. 31—The state of Connecticut jwith a population announced by the cenfus bureau tonight as 1.38).- 585 had during the last ten years the largest numerical growth in its history. The population of the Nutmeg state increased 265,829 since 1910 or 23.5 per cent. Even in point of percentage with | one exception the state grew faster than during any decade since the first federal census, in 1790, Between 1350 and 1850 the state’s population increased 1 ser cent. The rate of growth was es- jt mated in 1910 at 22.7 per cent Connecticut can also boast of a larger per centage of growth than any of the eleven states whose population has been announced for this decennial census. The census bureau announced other vision as follows Revised Acting Public Service Commissioner Barrett heard both sides of the B. R. T. strike in an effort to bring about arbi- tration. Pakuba, a town 30 miles northeast of Bagdad, which was taken by A tribesmen, recently, was occupied Sikh trops. by The Merchants and Miners line steamer Grecian, which went aground on Long Island head in Bosten harbor, was floated early yesterday, apparently undamaged. Previously Announced © 18,889 27,557 35,086 29,842 91,410 1910 the as 1,114,756 the Union. William D. Judge Harry by Marshal ging murder myster. rnan, brother of County | Tiernan, was arrested accused of hootleg- wi the lickert L Power, in connection aterbury 2 In the decade endinz with popuiation of Connecticut ranking it 21st state 3 In the First Fede on- necticut ranked as Sth state. In area Connecticut ranked as 46th state in 1910 with 4.820 square miles, m;;k_:npg i ation per square mile 231.3 inhabi- ":]::):\I:.'\:“onnl:nm\l‘s increase from 1990 to 1910 was 206,336, or 22.7 per cent In the earlier decades from 1790 the rate of increase of the population of the state was slow. During the 50 years Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet, | in al Census in 1790 control like Canada. as Belgian Chamber of Deputies, by unanimous vote. passed the bill providing for the bonus for all soldiers who served at the front regardless of rank. Dandits shot and killed Sheriff Conroy and City Marshal Corner. of Clayton. a suburb of St. Louis. One of the bandits was wounded and two others are in Jail e { from 1790 to 1840 the inrease was only A {72,032, during the decade 1840-30 the in- A temporary embargo was placed on e i 1450 o certain carload freight on all the lines |crease was 60814, afdl T80 S0 of of the Boston and Main railroad to fa- (1910 it m;‘_‘ e T 4 i hi a New KEngz- | increase Dpi - - e f'fl.‘da'? TRl Ohicoal ol Sy e | per cent during the decade 1850-60 and s —_——— | he nearest/ approach to that was dur Floran Jendreau was killed in what |the decade ending with 1910. The in s claimed to have heen a friendly | 1se duting the 1900-10 decade nearly wrestling match at North Yarmouth, M with Philemon Laliberti. = His broken in two places. .| equalled the total population of the state S mn-‘.;ri:{m on of the rates of increase for the state with those for the Unied State as a who'e shows that the increase dur- ing each decade up to ]‘)“.N‘ was much less rapid in the state than in the coun- try as a whole. During the two deeades ending in 1910 he rate of increase for the state was slightly higher than for th¢ Unied States. The population of the neck No morning papers appeared in Liver- poo! for the first time in 112 years and no evening paper for the first time in 50 | years as a result of a strike of w)mv& positors for more pay. ( The velvet special on the Soo Line, | was derailed at Neenah, Wis.. killing the state in 1910 was almost five times as engineer and injuring the fireman. Two |large as in 1790, when the first federal hundred passengers were shaken up, but | census was taken. while the population no one was seriously injured. | of the United States in 1910 was more e than 23 times that in 1780. The shipping board steamer Andrew | Conpecticut contained 23.6 per cent Jackson. Falmouth for New York, was|of the total popuiation of New England sl s east of New | i,/ 1790, which was 1,009.408. The pro York, her hoilers out of commis radiogram which she sent out sion. in a | porion of New England’s population in Connecticut decreased steadily until i 11850, when it was 13.6 per cent. 1In D - poflge. president of. the Xn- 110" ‘atter 60 ~years . of more rap ternational Paper Co. authorized a |, ™ (00 Cotieut comprised 17 per statement denying reports that his com- o opulation of New England. pany was 2 party to a “giant merger of |°°NL, Of the nop ol : ; pa 3 ; ‘hich was 8\532.6S1. Since the firs i e C S T Ml s o ity oreta Cew England states had in 1810 multi- Prince Carol of Rumania. whe ended ,AP ing X, S hex while dNat 57: his visit to New York last Saturday, fol- | Plied more than si3 s, s than five lowed the lead of King Albert of Belgium it Connecticut had muitiplie by awarding service medals of goid and | times. silver instead of awarding money gratm.| The record of Connasticut's growth ties follows: - {Census Popula Bl ot London Daily Mail reports it has heen | )3T 238 deided to establish an Arab Paridament | 1220 7 in Mesopotamia. dnd also an Arab Cab- | 1910 -o.. L1008 Inet, with British advisers in charze if | 1800 . slgae the Arabs appoint a native wrines as 1890 - ] governor. iastaey =y ‘ 1870 . The condition of Edward R. Stettinfus, | 3 member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & |} 4 Co.. who was operated on for appendi- | citis, was reported at Roossvelt hospital | to be much Improved. | : 2 TUnder command of Admiral Wilson. | a ge on the battleship Pennsylvania, the flest | of five first ling battleships, which w at anchor for several days in the Hudson, went to sea for tactical enzinering practice until Sept. 3 DEPOSIT PONZI'S LARGEST AT ONE nd $2,700,000 TIM Aug. 31 arles Ludden, an fied at a hearing today be- Hannigan of the Old Col- oné Foreign Exchange company that the D o W Governor | concern was organized by men who sal Cox, Dr. Aaron S. Watkins and Frank-|iney wanted to get some of the easy 1, D ‘Rooeeyelt divided time In address|opey that Ponsi was making. Boston, attorney, ‘te AT OIIO STATE FAIR|(ore Receiver s were incom the PrOmot ey Texchange business, but Lindblad whom they sent an agent, appeared to he fa- languages and trade meth- ouchie, an accountant tompany, testified that sroes receipts from the % ned offices in. com- date, eriticized both the plans sponsored | by his two onoonents andg also eriticized | both the republican and democratic par-! ties for not takin a stand on prohibl- tion. Mr. Rcosevelt spoke briefly of ag-| ricultural progress made by the west. | Governor Cox today issued a_ state- ment replying to testimony offered by Chairman Ha:$ before the senate sub-| committee investigating campaign ex- penditures, in which the governor de- clared as “absolutely false” Hay's al- leged assertion that it was the policy of the republican committee to hold cam- | paign contributions to one thousand dol- | lars each. Governor Cox bases his as- sertion on what purported to be an offi- cial document issued by the republican’ committee, and which he stated, showed that subscriptions were to be sought in excess of §5,000. Governor Cox referred to approval or the Harding league plan by Viscount Grey, former foreign secretary of Eng- land. “We are not going to permit Vis- count Grey or any other English states man to write our agreement,” he said. ! “We are not for an English league. We | are for a woyld league of nations.” The | governor alsé spoke of the suffering and misery in Russia, Germany, Austria and Gunnar abroad as niliar With ds to carry William F. employed Ry the he believed the time the comgany = it with Ponzi ia J* \u: D n they were closed, were $275.000. Some details of Charles a- tions with the Hanover Trust Company which was scheme collapsed, hearing_today :ef re ¢ f Ponzi's business. Nars,, treasurer of the bank, | that he had balked Ponzi's a controlling interest in its ponzi's largest amounf o é::\f at any one time was $2,700,000. ST S were disclosed at testified stock STATEMENTS OF C COX FALSE, SAYS HAYS -.'-H.———“Cam\idale his Chicago. Aug. Cox runs true to form and again are false,” said Chairman Hays other European nations, asserting that| j.n shown Governor Cox's statement things would start toward normal as | 90 \Columbus in regard to campaign soon” as a definite indemnity had beem | TUl\ i tions fixed for Germany to pay. England and France, he asserted, were divided on the amount of indemnity and it would re- quire the voice of America to decide the controversy. it 15 1 “I may surprise you,” he said, ‘when I say that the people all over Germany are hoping and praying that the voice | e records show that there have been 1:?;‘;5! individual men and women who nave contributed since the convention with an average contribution of $82.11 each, he said. ight of these are :norc than $1,000, and none more than ‘:15004 During the approximately ninfteen British coal miners seemingly was brought nearer today by a resolution passed by the “Triple Alliance,’ com: prising the railway men, the transport workers and the miners, supporting the claims of the miners. It was decided by the meeting to as- semble tomorrow to consider the further orps, has been assigned to duty at San Francisco ag senior officer of the corps on the Pgeific coast, Secretary Daniels announced today. General Barnett, whose assignment follows a sixty day leave of absence taken at the beginning of the fiscal year when he was succeeded as commandant of the corps by Major General La Jeune, | POUICY Of the alllance. will have immediate direction in his new | sEVERAL HUNGER STRIKING Sost of all marine corps movements on PRISONERS NEAE DEATH the goast. T e e Sy, Cork. Aug. 3L—Several of the hun- SITUATION IN BELFAST ger striking prisoners in the Cork jail REPORTED CRITICAL |are declared to be at the point of death. Bl i Today the hunger strikers received the London, Aug. 3l.—Advices received|following message from Lord Mayor from Belfast today indicated that the|MacSwiney from Brixton jail: situation 'still was critical but up to a| ‘Greetings io all my comrades in Cork late honr no report that martial law had |jail. I am. them in spirit, think-| been established there had reached Lon-'ing of them and praying hourly don. for their welfare.’ R " e bul months before the conven}lon "‘hrre ‘were 18,515 separate contributions.’ of America will be asserted in the inter- | national affairs of the world and that America will cast the deciding vote and i v i i FRANCE ASKS SETTLEMENT '::tifegzmhx Tolign go oM’“l OF BRESLAU INCIDENT Dr. Watkins declared the league of Berlin, Aug. 31.—The French ambas- sador today infermed the German foreign ministry that the French government de- sired a settlement as soon as possible by the German government of the Breslau incident ,arising from the attack by - mob on the French consulate. DEMONSTRATION IN TOKIO . FOR U. 8. CONGRESSMEN Tokio, Aug. 31—Tokio newspapers de- clare that Chinese and Korean students nations should not have been made a part of the peace treaty but, he assert- ed, “the time is at hand for a real, not nominal nor pretended league of na-: tions”” He declared there will be a league of nations and that the United States will be a party to it. * TWO MEN RILLED WHEN AN ELEVATOR FELL New York. Aug. 31.—Two men were killed and sixteen persons injured, some of them seriously, when an elevator con- | in Tokio are planning to hold a demon- taining eighteen passengers fell ten sto- |stration on the arrival here of the party ries today during the home rush period |of American oomrmmr- t 215 Fourth avenue. ing the Far petent to man- | y to Auzust 13, Ponzi's reia- closed when Ponzi's finlncxaai ore the federal receiv- William S. Mec- | i 1 Nastville. Tenn.. Aug. 31.—The Ten- nessee houss of representatives today by viva voce vote adopted;a motion 10 re con; ider the action of the house on the suffrage ratification resolution and then by a vote of 47 to 24 with twenty m bers not voting., adopted -a motion ! non-coneur in the aetion of t The action followed dire assembling of the first quorum house since Friday., Aug. 20. Governor Robert statement on the expunging -from house journal of the suffragette than to y that the situatio be dealt with in a legai m: State officials and many the legislature expressed night that legali declined to ma me belie or illegality of nessee’s ratification would be' decid upon tue record cértified to Washin. by Governor Roberts and not on the : ion taien by the house today Shortly after the house con n, came evident that the anti-ratificatior ists, a majority of whom have bLeen i Alabarha on a filibuster for more th . Were in the majority everal of the suffrag. th: TENN. HOUSE NULLIFIES SUFFRAGE RATIFICATION With First Quorum Since Friday, August 20, a Motion to Re consider Was Adopted Viva Voce—Then a Motion No! to Concur in ths Action of th> Scnate Was Carried. 47 to 24, With 20 Members Not Voting. antis proc ded to put through thei. ttempting undo what wa when ratification was ac n o 10 shed smy The first step wos the motion to ex the journal of that day o edings uvon the 1 After th! ith & not voting n was made and carried that a or i copy of the resolution, the erigina ch in the hands of SeDale spread upon the journal The house adonted a motion tc n-coneu action of the Benat fyi the ratification resolution. IN MAINE TO RMIT WOMEN TO VOTF Aug. la Aws 21 —The re called by Gov mend the registration women in Ma te.at the state and adjourned tod one d Four aci speciz elections n r being rompany,announced tonight that fuli trolley service would be resumed tomor- Tow morning. Two persons were killed and scores in- jured today as a result of the tic-up. The casuaities resulted from collisions be- tween improvised conveyances and falls from crowded ‘buses. Many were run down in the congested street traffic Two acts of violence urred the day when a subway train runnin @ surface section was stoned. 36,000,000 POUNDS RAW SUGAR . WITHDRAWN FROM MARKET Boston, Aug. 31.—The South Boston re- finery of the American Sugar Refining company, with 36 000,000 pounds of raw sugar and 10,000,000 pounds of refined on hand. has witlwawn its stock from th market and will sell only to fiil existing contracts, Attorney General Allen was told today by William Post Warren, mar ager of the refinery. made at the inquiry general 1s conducting on the necessaries of official of the Revere bis company was 40,000,000 pounds asking price being The stateme which the for the com life. Yesterda sugar refinery holding from the its T stock and current prices in New York only certs. PROMINENT GREENWICH RESIDENT SUICIDES Greenwich, Conn., Aug. 31— Ferr member of a famil rrominent in this town, conun icide today by shoting hi the head with a revolver. M>mbers cf the dead man’s family said taey could giv2 no reason for the RESIGNS AS SUPT. OF CONN. SCHOOL FOR BOYS Meriden, Conn., Aug. 31.—Charles M, ing a crowd at the Ohio state fair here | o gaid he advised the promoters| Williams ’:D“rimvndrnl of the Con- today | sgntnst the” supposed Ponzi plan of in-!necticut School for Bo the past Governor Cox declared for the league | {finational postal coupon exchange.and|22 years, today sent hi ition 10 and criticized the Harding plan/ Mr. | jei"iold him they would try foreign eX|the truktees. He formerly s super- Watkins, prohibition presidential candi-|..nze. Subsequently he learned thatiintendent of the city school: Hadlyme.—Dr. John Morgan, one most celebrated eye specialists country, who for the past two had an office in Hartford. dropp the barn of his cauntry estate. { the in this ars has 1 dead in Costa Rica Recognized By United States effort to buy and t on deposit in the statements | Jullo Acosta. President of Costa Rica, whose government has been recognized by the United States. The U. 8. refused to recogi..ze the former government under Pederico Tinoco. ‘who overthrew the government of President Gonzales. arrive on time. With clocklike progrum re = e SERVICE IMPRO\ED ON FURTHER HEARING ON THE B. R. T. SYSTEM COX'S VISIONARY FUND New York, Aug. 31—Elevated and ug. 31 _Republican finances subway service on the Brooklyn Rapid |were again under scruting of the se Transit system, crippled by a strike of | committee investigating “campaign ex- T‘l"al ;P}:)\l.«xlx!{ll employes, was improved | penditures toda Will H. Hays, Fred oda; € public service commission re- } Upham and other art leaders G ported tonight that nine-seven tw occasion f rumn-rydg:“ of i;:..‘;‘::;: three-car trains were operated dur: Cox's charges that a $13.000.000 fu rush hour, compared with about s was Beéing raised and also to occasion vesterday. No attempt was made to op- | offer the committee leads directed erate surface cars. ward the democratic offers. . The city had mearly 1,200 'buses in| Mr. Upham, as treasurer of the re- operation. The Interborough Rapid | publicdn ional committee was qucs Transit increased it= subway service to|tioned at great length by Senztor Pome- Byookiyn, operating ten-car traine at [rene and Reed, democrats, who eljciten second intervais during the rus) from him information that the congres- hours. Many thousands used the ferry- |sional and senatorial eampaign commii. boats, which have doubled their service. |toes of the party had budgets lotalling he n $700,000 in addition to the more . than wree million doilar budget appearing in Chairman Hays' testimony yesterduy t Senator Reed's reuest, Mr. U . table of state quotas which the wit- ness said he made up fourteen months before Senator HaPding was nominated This table totalled more than $4,491, but Mr. Upham exp'ained t hope or desir collect more than $3.- of this amount. nator Reed delved deeply finto the amounts ssigned count cities and other locai sub-divisions of the party organization but did not shake Mr. Usn ham's al that he had no knowledze of the city quota list which Governo Cox read in speech at Pittsburzh jast week. The questioning by the Mis souri senator finally led to the i where Mr. Uph o s am said he did not know how much of the various state uctas was assigned t rticular localities. Senator Reed argued that teere s no way to limit the amounts that might be collected in any one state, and Mr. Upham retorfed that he would “stos hem before they got to three million Mr. Upham agreed with Senator Pom- erene that it was both possible and probable that large sum wouid be raised in industrial centers by either party ot which the national officers of the pary would have no krowledge. The wik- 8 said that no one knew what amounts would be expended by county organ ations 1 and then reverting to the cities which Governor Cox said he had never heard of wat only four copies of this made. Upham the he statement list were NI, of turned treagurer'’s Governor over a complete official hulletins, Cox also referred Reed pointed out discrepancies some items in the bulletin and siate receipts given the com Mr. Upham~ The latter opin. Senator between the lis mittee h at the language of the bulletin, which he said was designed to encourage th Id workers, might be taken as a manifestation of zood salesmanship, ov- er-enthusiasm or “just plain bhull” n Hays resumed the stand to or Reed with information ommit budget for adver- foreign janguage Newspapers. the party had no Appropriatien purpose, but hope to use some ts funds in that direction. Mr. Hays turned over to the commit #e a letter from an advert sing agency stated thag the democratic organi- was planning to insert 1,000 of ing in “the best forelgm inguage newspapers” He sald adver- tising experts had told him there were 241 publications which ight be placed n such a category and that #t would cost $235.000 10 carry the program out- lined in the letter. Senator New, of Indiana. head of the speakers’ bureau of the republican ma- tional committee. said he had planned to pay some few speakers who conld net offord to devote time from thelr regular werk to campaigning Congressman Brii g1 of Tinols was calicd to give evidence 1o support pub- lished charges that Br rovernment funds were being used to further the Cox campaign. OBITUARY. Prof. Bernadotte Perrin. Saratega Springs. N. Y.. Aug. 31—Dr. Bernadotte Perrin of New Haven, Cony., professor emeritus of Greek and history at Yale university, died sud- denly bere tonight at the home of his brother-in-law, General James W. Lester. He was born at Goshen, Conn., in 184 and was graduated from Yale in 1569. He received degrees from the universities at Tubingen. Leipzig and Berlin and the de- gree.of LL. D. from the Western Reserve university, in which for several years he was professor of Greek. From 1893 he wa sidentified with Yale university. Professor Perrin was author of several standard Greek and Latin text books and transiator of many of the Greei: anthors. A widow and two sons, lee J. Perrin and Lester W. Perrin, both of New Yerk city, survive him. lterature . e MAYOR MACSWINEY ti.. i A SLIGHTLY BETTER DAy London, Aug. 31.-*-Terence MacSwiney. lord mayor of cork, who is in Brixton prison in @ critical condition as 3 result of his hunger strike, passed a siightly better day Taesdgy. There was ltils change, except that the prisoner has de. veloped symptoms of neutritis In the arms. Nrs. barkl's bedside ¢ remained at her hus-