Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 18, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXII—NO. 239 NORWICH, EXACT GAUSE OF EXPLOSION REMAINS 'Eight Separate Investigations Are Under Way—Rickety Old Wagon, Which Had Bee: lice Believe Might Prove UNDETERMINED n Left Standing at the Curb, Po- Key to the Mystery—The Driv- er of ths Wagon is Believed to Have Escaped, the Horse Was Killed and the Wagon Blown to Bits—Six More Deaths Bring Total to 35, Injured Approximate 300— Property Damage From New York, Sept. 17T (By the A. F. |The exact cause of the explosion whica in the twinkling of an eye yesterday noon transformed Wall strect near Broad from $1,000,000 to $2,500,000. when they were chased away by a man in civilian clothes whom they took to be an officer. He added that they turned their horse around, passed the Morgan bank, and went to the corner of Wall a scene of bustling activi to one of |and Nassau streets, where they resumed o business. dreadful carnage remains tonight a mys- “My wagon was on the right side of b - . 1 by il | Wall street, looking toward Broad,” he omeial opinion, aa exprested by Wil | ided, “and across the street from me fam J. Flynn, chie e burea - vestigation of the department of justice, jorer Thomas Brennan, and Fire Commi: is that the disaster w by a tim bomb loaded with high explosives and re- was an automobile. We began to do a good business with the noon crowds. Then someone sang out to me in a Scotch accent, ‘Pull your horse up, buddy.’ I looked up at him and his wagon. e inforced with metal siugs. ~The early | °%pgc TB S om0 A m New street theary that the blast was caused by aly, .t W AO00 CH (e cop on Broad- collision between an explosive laden wagon and another vehicle seems to hav. been dispelled by subsequent tion, although it } Iy disearded by official investigators. investiga- s not yet been entire- way all the-time. My partner was doing the selling. If he came down Wall street 1 couldn’t have missed him. When I pulled out of the way he went straight down Wall street, and about a minute e Chief Flynn, who arrived here from |jai.r 1 was knocked down and didn’t re- Washington last night to take personal|rememper anything until I came to in the charge of the federal investigation, de- Broad street hospital. clared after leaving the J. P. Morgan | “qy SO0 ORI L ork wagon office late today that “from evidence Ob- | iy, garic dirty red paint, something like taimed within the last few hours it has a dirt wagon and about twice the size of been definitely estaklishad that the explo- |y 000 yiceq by street cleane It was a sion was due to a time bomb . { Tusty red color and was drawn by an old “The bomb was taken to Wall street, he added the w to pieces. The inferral machine wa to go off at noon and apparently placed in the wagon by a person who wa within four blocks of Wall and Broa treets when the explosion occurred.” Six more deaths since midnight brough: The num- those treated at night to uding the death tota lto ber of injured, in was brown horse. “The driver was a dark complexioned, aven, wiry man, probably or years old, and dressed in working clotcs aind a dark cap. He seemed to be about five feet six inches tall. He hal dark hair,™ s d i MYSTERIOUS LETTER THAT the scene, in hospitsls and at their homes, WARNED FRENCH COMMISSION was approximately 300. Nearly 100 of 3 0 ders » still being treated in hospitals. New York, Sept. 17.—The it late damage is variously esti- |today made public the mysterious letter 00,000 to $2.50,000. of warning alleged to hav been sent to Eight s vestizations of the ex- |the French high commission by Edward plosion were under way. tonight. They | P. Fisher, a former employe of the com- were bejng made by the department of | mission. Incoherency was evidenced in justice, vnder the s rvision of Attorney |the verbatim copy furnished newspaper- General Palmer and W J. Fly men, Dated “The Queens Totonto” it chief of the bureau of investigation; the |ore in the corner the following state- New York police department. under th gupervision of Commissioner ht an Chief Inspector Lahey; the fire depart- ment, the building department, the Sep- tember grand jury, the medical exam fner's office and two private Inquiries b, insurance companies and J. P. Morgan & Co. The key to the mystery apparentl lies in the idemtification of the rickety ol wagon drawn by an old horse which was left standing at the curb in Wall street ted Sta office an nea rthe U es assay across the street from the Morgan bank few minutes before the. explosion. Th d and the wagon'blown te Dlast. The “driver “of bits in al and police centering their the case " ‘ Every livery stable in.the €ity Is bein canvassed to determine whether a horse the wagon Is believed to have escaped. Fed- 3 authorities tonight were ctivities on this phase of ment: “My address may always be obtain:d at my New York Home, 33 West 92nd Street, Riverside 2688.” e a 1- | The text of the letter dated Sept. 13, y | follows: “Dear M. Annand, Greeting. “I think I am doing good work in ly | making the people know France, and in d | planting in them a strong blessing the desire in them to see France get her square deser(s.” d| “There is a rumor that something is e o 3 to 4 p. m—daylight saving—in the Wall Street district. I'll advise the mis sion close at 2 p. m. on that day and ev- ervbody go home. It may bu! the world is a great plac and millions feel then, have a j ance so I think. The missi play safety first. I am doing is of value to France and Krow g < a inati it pleases write me at once to Hotel d truck are missing. mination of | i ; 5 nce the horee’s body disclosed that it had | Pontchartain, Detroit, Michigan, where been mewly clipped and shod. This and [I Will'be some time Thursday. I think a mark on the horse only clues to its identi Confiicting descriptions of itself have been received by Al available bits of the the wago! vehicle hav been taken to police headquarters, where efforts are being made to reconstruct thy vehicle sufficiently to determine its exact A cursory examination indicates it was of unusual breadth, which leads De- type. tective Chief Coughlin to believe it wa of the type used in transporting crates of is almost unani- it was not the regular type wagon used in the transportation of pow- eggs. Official opinion mous that der or explosives through city streets. One of the best descriptions of the mys- vehicle was furnished by Law- terious rence Serbin, who with his partner wai engaged in se! Nassau and Wall streets, less than 30 feet from the scene of the explosion. H declared the cart came from New street and was driven by a man who spok with a _strong Scotch accent. Just before 12 o'cloc! said that he and his rtner -were doin, business on Proad strcet where the new is being built stock exchange addition Msay Take Up Banner For Harding Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who recently visited the Headquar- ters of the Republican National Com- mittee In the Auditorium , Hotel, hicago, Ill, and conferred with ohn T. Adams, vice-chairman and Mrs. Medill McCormick, of the exec- utive committs Mrs. Longworth take am active part in the cam- shoes furnish the the police. ing chocolates to the noon- day erowd from a wagon at the corner of Thursday Serbin somebody is in clean in the world of fail to wash their hands. Want me to 1, St. Paul settled that war. Anywhere else for France no expense.. Good luck. ‘ED FISHER.” n POLICE KNOW THE MAN WHO SHOD THE LORSE e Hackensack, N. J., Sept. 17.—Identi of the blacksmith who shod the horse found dead near the scene of yesterdav's explosion in New York's financial dist is known to the department of jusiice, according to a statement made here to- night by William M. Mead, chief ciers the office of J. P. Morgan & Co. Th cksmith, he added, claims to know ihe man who owns the animal. “We feel that the piot was premedi- tated,” declared Mr. Mead, “and that a deliberate attempt was made to destroy 0 © | the building of J. P. Morgan & Co. and. %o kill and injure as many people as © | wossible. The most likely story of the zpiosion is that a red wagon drawn by re stopped at the left side of the facing east on Wall street and di- v opposite the center of the Morgan ing. A man most likely then set a 1arge bomb believed to De enclosed in the Aagon to explode at 12 o'clock noon and Yien walked away. ‘We have found parts of the wagon and shoes of the horse. These shoes are cted to aid materially in solving the stery of the tragedy, for we have round the blacksmith who shod the horse ind- who claims to know the man who vwns the animal.” 3 MAN DETAINED SAID TO BE FORMER TENNIS CHAMPION New York, Sept. 17.—The Edward P. I¥isiier who is being detained in Hamil- von, Ontario, in connection with the in- vestigation of yesterday's explosfon is said by friends here to be a former city P. Fisher is officially listed as holding the tennis singles championship of this city in 1896, 1898, 1899 and 1900, ‘m 1902 Fisher and H. H. Hackett won the doubles championship. Mr. Hackett declared today that he knew nothing of Fisher's recent move- wments bLut that he could not recall ever having heard the latter make remarks of a revolutionary character. He described Iisher as a tall man weighing about 200 pounds, Other friends of Fisher declared that he had a nervous breakdown last August and left this city. He is known to have one to Philadelphia and Toronto. A statement issued here today by the French high commission explained the Yormer connection of Fisher with the of- fice of Maurice Casenava, French minis- ter plenipotentiary. According to the statement Fisher join- ed the staff of the high commission in September, 1918, and continued his em- ployment until Aug. 2, 1920, when he ‘went away on vacation and was auto- matically disCharged when he failed to veturn, Yisher is described as ‘“an excellent ‘worker, never giving cause for com- piaint, and a good mixer.” The man had shown signs of being un balanced mentally for some time prior to lcaving the commission’s office, the state- ment added. He is 42 years old. RAPID RECOVERY I THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT New York, Sept. 17.—The financia} dis- | off Cape Serge on the Siberian coast. anage ognizing | going to-happen after 230 b, m.—around MASiT umtion nnA=aEFEstE 16" Py extra | be all buil.} Iior Sunday and holiday performances. Dr. Giuseppi Motta, president of Switzerland, and Premier Millerand of CONN., SATU! RDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1920 LEGRAMS . er of persons killed in n earthquake was 174. The Charleston Gazette (W. increased the price of from three to five cents. ) has its daily issue Thirteen women are running for office in New York state, which shows they are not a bit superstitious. Hungary’s budget submitted to the National Assembly at Budapest shows a deficit of 10,000,000 kroner. Repor's from Riga said that the Rus- sian-Polish peace conference may break over the question of disarmament. The first “Commufiist congress of the Mexican proletariat” will meet at Mex- ico City today. . Officials of the Anti-Saloon Leagne will fight qandidates in Congress who are opposed to prohibition, it was announc- ed. Captain Raymond L. Murra; dence, R. L, was elected senior v mander in chief of the veterans of foreign wars. A general strike of all seamen on the Canadian Lake steamers seems today to have paralyzed Canadian shipping on the eat Lakes through Sault Ste Marie. Cer service division of fhe American Railroad Association announced the movement of freight by the railroads is back to normal. Captain Raol Amundsen’s expedition ship, the Maud, bound for the north pole, s caught in the ice about twenty miles School budgets in American cities should be twice as large as before the war according to an anaylsis of public school statistics just given out by the Russell Sage Foundation. Tentative dates selected for Semator Harding's appearance in New York when he will speak at Madison Square Gar- den, are Oct. or’2 Extension of credit by the government does not seem warranted by present con- Secretary Houston stated | terday British Admiralty has forbidden the first passenge: er of the United States Mail Co., the Panhandle te, to stop at Queenstown, Ireland. Women jurors have just served at the | | Bristol, England, sessions for the first |time in England. They were congratu- | 1ated by counsel prosecuting. Eighty-six lodges of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen were ex from the order for taking. part unauthorized strike of switchmen. Women's vofes in the Rhode Island | primaries more than doubled the usual vote in the republican primaries for delegates to the state convention. Reports from police authorities jn 18 cities throughout the United States show that gamb) has greatly decreased since prohibition became effectiye. Actors and theatre employes won their strike in Madrid, managers recosnizj France, trade tries. discussed intere matters rel between tive to the two coun- The Delaware, Lackawanna and West- ern Railroad applied to the Interstate Commeree Com: on yesterday for per- ‘mission to segregate its rail and coal properties. A movement to establish at Warvard uni ty a school of instruction in fish- °s. the wavs of the fis y ments, the! ching, was begun K. Witherspoon, Seattle, was clect- ed commander of the United Spanish War Veterans at the 22nd national en- campment of the organization at St Louis. Six hundred German, Hungarian prisosers of war who have been in Siberia since the war, sai'ed from Shanghai for Trieste on the steam- er Nankei Maru. Austrian _and | A parade will be held in New York by members of the American Olympic team ten days after all returs to this country. Mayor Hylan will present a medal to every athlete. Mrs. J. M. Lane. of Rosenburz, Ore. has completed a forty day fast, duri which time she partook of no now ment except a little orange and lemon juice and water. Republican . National .Commiteeman Babler. from Missouri, in a public state- ment flatly denied he asgreed with Chair- man Will Hays to allow the state com- mittee to assume of the duties of the national committeeman. The bombardment of moving targets at sea from an artillery train on the Rock port branch of the Boston and Maine rail- road furnished the summer colony of the Massachusetts North Shore with a novel spectacle and plenty of noise during the first days of this month. Conferences of TItalian manufacturers were in session throughout Italy to de: cide somp means of combating the con- trol of their plants by labor organiza- tions. Premier Giolitti’s arrival at Turin and his call for a conference betwcen strike leaders and manufacturers is ex- pected to end the trouble. DISTRIBUTION OF RADICAL LITERATURE IN NEW BRITAIN New Britain, Conn.,- Sept. 17—Radi- cal literature, led by “the Central Eecutive committee of the communist party of America” was distributed about the business section of the city during the night. The text inflam- atory in nature and the police are in- vestigating. triet made rapid recovery today from the disruption created by yesterday's trage- dy. business of the various exchanges, banks and similar institutions proceeding without further interrupiion. Aside from the marks left by the ex- plosion on the buildings within the im- mediate range and the congestion of traf- fic caused by thousands of curiosity. sees- ers, conditions Were almost normal. On the stock exchange resumption of trading was characterized hy the most active session in many weeks. Sales to-’ No Real Separation |Coal Priority for New | of Pakers' Interests| England Suspended Reports to Attorney Gen- eral Palmer—Plan is Insin- cere. Washingto, Sept. 17.—The plan pro- posed by the five big packers to dispose of their stockyard interests to F. H. Prince & Co. of Boston will not result in ulie separation of the stockyards from racke rinterests, the federal trade com- mission declared today in a report to At- t01ney Generdl Palmer. The commission gave two reasons for its corclusion as foliows: “The long-time stockyards relations uf F. H. Prince with the packers have been such that the plan will not resul’, in the crmion of the commission, in a Jivorce- mert of the stockyards from packer .n- I 1s. “The plan as outlined will result, in the orinwon of the commission, in an infrac- tion of the monopoly law of th> land grcater and more serious than the exist- ing infraction.” ThLe packers' plan to disnose of the stockyard interests was drawn up after the filing of a contest dissolution decree in feceral courts here agreed upon' by the packers and the department of justice 2s a result of anti-trust suits brougnt azaws' the packers at Chicago. The plan under which the “Big ‘Five” mea’ packers proposed disposition of their Federal Trade Commission So|l. C. C. Suspends Order of| Shipment by Water Put In- to Effect Several Weeks Ago. Washington, Sept. 17.—Priority in ship- ment of coal by water to New England, put into effect several weeks ago to re- lieve the New England coal shortage, was suspended today by the interstate com- UTS CONSTITUTION LEAGUE COVENANT To FoM Wilson, He Says, Would Be to Desert the Teach- ings of Washington—Says the Constitution and the Covenant Are “Irreconcilable” Because One Authorizes Congress to Decide Questions of Peace or War, While merce commission. COX SAYS HARDING WAS CHOICE OF REACTIONARIEN San Francisco, Sept. 17.—From the Au- ditorium stage where his nomination for the the presidency was announced at democratic national convengon last Jul Governor Cox of Ohio t#hizht ty doctrines and contrasting the cratic and republican conventions, raigned reactionary leaders. Delivered by the party can. conventions, arr: Senator Harding tion of a group of reactionar: Governor Cox also di leaders. claring for co-operation between Ca fornia and the federal government.. Service That You Should Have man who fails to see and appreci: unfortunate. He is wilfully medium of newspaper advertising, long ago. the readers’ attention. newspaper the more valuable the buyers. It provides service you sh columns, all for two cents a day : Bulletin Te ent agreement with the department of Justice, contemnlated sale of such inter- ests in fifteen s to F. H. Prince & Co. of Boston. It was filed with the supreme court of the District of Columbia’Aug. $1. It piaces the book W.lue of the stock to be disposed of at $50,000,000 to $40,000,- 000. In an accompanying affidavit, Fred- erick H. Prince outlined his purpose, if the plan should be approved by the court, of organizing a holding company to tuke over the interests in the stockyards and their supplemental railroad connectiona. He szid it would be impossible, under sting conditoinsgto dispose of the stock- yards individually. The court is asked to approve reten- i the packers, at least for a time, ock ownership in the holding com- Sl PER CENT. OF DRUG ADDICTS ARE YOUTHS Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 17.—More than 75 per cent. of the narcotic drug addicts in the United Statcs are boys and zirls approximating 16 years of age, Albert Weber of New York, chairman of the committee on narcotic drugs and crime of the American instityte of crim- inal law and criminology. declared in his report to the annual meeting of the insti- tute herg today. He declared tae o icpe of fffective relief was throug” c ional legislation 2 The report of the committee v nar- c drugs and crime quoted “an un- biased authority” as stating that Japan now is practically utilizing Shantung nrovince as “a gateway and medium for hipping tremendous quantities of opium ad other. narcotic drugs into China.” co CONCERTS BY WIRELESS FROM LONDON TO TRIST Triest, Sept. 17.—Concerts given in London can he heard in Triest by wire- less, according to a statement to The Associated Press by William Marconi, the inventor of the wireless telephone, here today. He was interviewed on his vacht, The Electra, where he is con- ducting experiments with the view eto perfecting his wireless discovertes. “I have evolved an instrument,” he said, “which will carry one thousand miles, and which reproduces the voice more dis- tinctly than the ordinary telephome. 1 talk regularly with London and get the news of the day. I have come to the Adriatic because conditions here favor my suddenty this afternoon. He had been in fech'e licaith for somé time. Judge ilan- nicrsley was a native of Hartford and $2 years of age. He began practicing law in 1859. Trinity college conferred the Gegree of Li. 1. in 1884. He was one of the founders, with ex-Governor Baldwin, of the Connecticut Bar association. He leaves a widow and a grandehild. John E. Dennis, Hartford, Conn., Sept. 17.—John Dennis, a veteran newspaper men Connecticut, died at his home here late today. He served eight years as deputy collector of internal revenue in Middle- E. in taled almost 900,000 shares at gains of two to ten points. Trading in bonds also was very larfe, denoting a confident in- vestment situation. Much of the day's activity arose from covering of short contracts and this was supplemented by heavy buying orders from out of town sources of oils, rails, shipping and steels. & sex county. Later he became managing editor of the New Haven Union and aft- erward went to the New Haven Palladi- um as manager. Going to New ¥ork, he was for some time on the staff of the New York Times, after which he came to Hartford and for twelve years was pub- lisher of the Hartford Post. Recently he had been connected with the Hartford Courant. i The greatest successes we know are advertising successes. money is made through this medium t throwing away minus a reasonable amount of newspaper If there were any surer method to business success than through the Advertising makes its appeal because of the way in which it gets Therefore the greater In Norwich and vicinity The Bulletin is the leader. covers this territory and is therefore an invaluable means of reaching During the past week the following matter has appeared in its Telegraph Local General Total Saturday, Sept. 162 170 594 925 Monday, Sept. 182 109 358 648 Tuesday, Sept. 14.......... 149 110 236 495 Wednzasday, Sept. 15, 114 398 642 Thursday, Sept. 16. 1 345 588 Friday, Sept. 17. 136 257 539 Totals . ..... 750 2186 3836 ol B L A TR More n any other. .The business ate this truth, is, to say the least, money. Any dvertising is business uncertain. someone would have discovered it the circulation of a advertising medium., It thoroughly ould not be without. stockyard intercsts, as required under a | front on the question upon the suggestion of Governor Prior to h governor, openin; Steph of fornia. City Pl a at cramento, praised as “another moredn although a foe. bu one for the league. CIRCULAR SIGNED “AMERICAN A ARCHISTS, New York, Sept. 17. the department of justice to shortly before noon today. te which he said he attached importance read: “Remember. - We will not tolerate a longer. Free the nolitical prisoners or will be sure death for all of you." The circulars, seven by eleven in size, made at 1158 o'clock. “In my opinion.” Chief Flynn declar-, P. Mor- these re- nter ed, “thi not an attack on J gan & Company. I believe tha sponsible picked out the financial in order to creat a demonstration.” TATE LABOR DELEGATES DOR: HAVE New Haven, gresman ford. Conn., Sept. Augustine Lonergan. democratic candidate for convention of lahor delegates here The convention, Connecticut Feder: h wa ion Senator PBrandegee and at the convention. HEAVY SENTENCES FOR to blackmail charges sion. MASS. LAWS DO NOT CONFLICT ment act. KNIGHT MILL PROPERTY Providence, R. Incorporated, including large to an audience of thousands, delivered the par- demo- ar- the choice of Senator Harding, his opponent, as a selection of a group of doctrines and contrasting the democratic and republi- med the choice of his opponent as a selec- cussed the Jap- anese question, a burkning local issue, de- He charged Senator Harding with changing here tonight, the s five day California campaign, spoke to a large crowd on the . the 0ld home | of Senator Johnson, republican, whom he progressive, a frank, outspoken FIGHTERS™ —Chief Flynn of ht made The circulars, the utmost inches were printed on cheap paper. Chief Flynn declared they were mnot in the letter box when the carrier made his rounds at 11.30 a. m. but that he found them there on hi snext rouna which was D LONERGAN 17.—Con- of Harr- United States senator, was endorsed by a state to- night, after a committee of five report- called by the of Labor named the committee to look up the records of Congressman Lonergan in congress and make a report Two hundred delegates are in attendance BRIDGEPORT BLACKMAILERS Bridgeport, Sept. 17—Pleading guilty in the superior years for complicity in a bomb explo- WITH 18TH AMENDMENT HAS CHANGED HANDS Marion, Ohio, Sept, 17.—Again assail- ing the Versailles league of nations Senator Harding declared in an address here today that the paramount issue of the campaigri was whether the nation would choose to stand by the American Constitution or abandon it for the league cotvenant. The' Constitution and the covenant, he asserted, are “irreconcilible” because the one authorizes congress to decide ques- tions of peace or war, while the other would transfer that prerogative to the league. To follow Whison, he said, would be to desert the teachings of Washington. dressed by the republican nominee dur- ing the campaign cheered the speech and gave the speaker a prolonged dem- onstration when, in conclusion, he re- peated solemnly the presidential oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Con- stitution.” It was *only by “being true to itself,” sald the candidate, and by serving the purposes for which it came into being that the United States could play its part* in the world. Senator Harding also attacked the administra- tion’s policy toward the smaller Ameri- can republics and declared the execu- tive had overridden the Constitution by taking into his-own hands the power to make war on Hayti and San Domingo. He reviewed the circumstances sur- rounding the making of the Constitution and outlined his. conception of the bal- anced powers of the executive, legisla- tive and judicial branches of the gov- ernment. Only by preserving that bal jance, he -said, could ®; United States fulfill its greatest destiny. “The Constitution never had failed | America,” he continued, “and despite heedless. assertions to the contrary, i America never has failed the world. And now as mever before, she stands ready, and, let us hope, soon Wwill be in @ pos tion, through. earnest cooperation of all branches of our governmcnt, to lend a helping hand, but she herself must point the way. “How. can we, then, in reason and with confidence make sure of fulfilling our mission on earth? The first step is | plain. We must strictly maintain and scrupulously observe, In letter and * in spirit, the mandates of the Constitution of the Unpited States. .\We are not doing 80 now.. We are at war, not alone tech- nically with Germany, but actually with the “little, helpless’ republics of our own hemisphere. The wars upon our neigh- bors 1o the sowih .were made and still are being waged. thoysh never declared, through the usurpation by the executive of powers not only never bestowed upon him, but scrupulously withheld by the Constitution. “Of_ the fact there can be no question. It is admitted, even .boasted.of I democratic candidate for vice president, between whom, if elected, and the presi- dency itself would be but a single life. “You know, he said to the people of Montana, his words were quoted by the press, ‘I have had something to d with the running of a coufle of little re- publics. The fact is that I wrote Ha ti's constitution myself and, if 1 do say it, I think it is a pretty good constitu- i jon. Until last week 1 had two votes in Fabl unier G et signed :;?e“ league - assembly; now Secretary in it et ghters” which| papjels has them.’ he said were found in a letter box at the | Do IR v ¥ ¥ my information this is corner of Cedar street and Broadway|,, . 1o, ihe Dest of my the first official admission of the rape of Hayti and San Domingo by the present administration. To my mind, moreover, |it is the most shocking assertion that Y| ever emanated from a responsible mem- It} er of the government of the United Bt . we know little of the conduet of these wars of ‘occupation’ and the imposition of laws upon our neighbors. The censorship is Tno less strict than it was during the secret con- ferences and conspiracies in Paris. Prac- tically all we know now is that thou ands of native Haitians have been kill- ed by American marines and that many of uor own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an execu- tive department ‘in order to establish laws drafted by an assistant secretary of the navy, to sécure a vote in the league and to continue at the pojnt of the baqonet a military domination which at this moment requires the presence of o less %han 3000 of our armed men on that foreign soil. “Vastly more important and far more menacing to our own popular institutions i i v his distressing example is ed in favor of Lonergan as against Sen-|than even U e B ator Frank B. Brandegee, who is seek-|the proposal to (flns(er by mdlc:uon‘, ing re-election on the republican ticket. | the chief prerogative of onc departmen of the government to another. As all are well aware, the Constitution vests n congress, exclusively the power to de- clare war, but it also-declares that & duly executed -treaty ‘shall be the su- preme law of the land.’ “Under Article X of the Versailles covenant, now being subjected to a sel- emn referendum, it would be the ap- pointee and representative of the presl- dent, not of congress nor of the people, who would either acquiesce in or reject a propesition in the council of the league ; court today, seven members of an al- |to uphold by force of arms the cause of experiments. Less power is, needed to!lageq “hlackmail club" were sentenced |one power against another. work the instruments here than else-|t," 99 to years' imprisonment each| ‘“The ~Constitution.of . the .covenant— where. After this cruise I am Soing to[ by Judge John E. Keeler. Those sen- |that, my countrymen, is the paramount America.” tenced were: Albert Di Pasquale, Pas- | issue. The. two. are .irreconcilable. . We quale Di Pasquala, Louis Papilas, Jo-|cannot be governed from both Geneva OBITUARY. seph Cappazillo, James and Rosarie Di|and Washington.. We. cannat follow our William Hammersley. Profie and Sabatane Dartanze. Sen- |present chfef magistrate without for- Wil tences were imposed on two counts, |saking the, ‘father of our country.' We Mar-iord, Conn. Sept. 1T.—Willlam |eight to ten years for attempt to|cannot pin our faith to hazy visions ef Z‘"""";t (;n““:;iic“::“:; d"‘; :‘t‘:t:“"':;“: blackmail Dwight C. Wheeler of the|the future without putting out of mind cury “on 2 e S| 2 H lities of the past.” after hie retirement some years ago, dind | ACMe Shear company, and 12 to 15|the stern real b ROOSEVELT DENIES STATEMENTS UOTQED Hartford, Conn., Sept. 17.—Franklin Boston, Sept. 17.—The full bench of the|D; Roosevelt, when shown that portion Massachusetts supreme court in a_deci-|Of Senator Harding's speech at Marion | sion handed down late today, ruled that|today in which the republican candidate} Massachusetts laws relating to the sale of intoxicating liquors are not in confiict{and San Domingo and which he said was with the 18 the amendment of the federal | recently =admitted anfl boasted by constitution or with the Volstead enforce- | Franklin D.. Roosevelt, prepared a state- denounced. .. The alleged rape of Haiti ment_denying Senator Harding's charges. Mr. Roosevelt's statement follows “When the Marion speech today was shown me I.immediately sent .to Senator ‘Harding at Marion tl following . tele- . Sept. 17.—The entire | BTaM: mill property of B. B. and R. Knight, “1 regret to see in today's speech you cotton | have put into my mouth an alleged plants in Rhode Island and Massachu- | Statement about the. votes in the league setts were sold today to Frederick R.|of.nations, Haiti Ruppscht of New York. The price was|which I, had and San Domingo, Iready publicly . denied not announced but it is believed to be | making and which denial was printed in between $15,000,000 and $21.000,08, all the leading newspapers. I cannot The largest front porch audience ml-l | helpless | | hibition was discussed tod the Other Would Transfer That Prerogative to the League—Attacked Administration’s Policy Toward the Jmaller American Republics. believe you did this intentionally. (Signed) “P. D. ROOSEVELT." ‘Mr. Harding has been a member of the United States senate since the gov- ernment was cmopelled to intervene in Haiti and San Domingo in order to pre- vent a recurrence of conditions at our very doors which were deemed intolera- ble. This action on the part of the United States not only met with no pro- test from the se but was done with the full knowledge o5 everybody. “As a remember it United States was obliged to restore order in Haiti in 1915 in San Domingo shortly afier that. That time there has been no effort to conceal the United States policy of help- ing these countries to get back on their feet, lly and every other wa and to « them a8 soon as to operate again under their own latures. This has already been ac plished in the case of ra “Senator Harding = quoted as saying: Practically all know now is ands of Ly Amer y of your gal ficed their lives at the cutive department in orde laws drafied by an of the navy, to secure league and to continue t the. bayonet a m which at this moment r.qu ence of no lers than 3 can men on that fore “Such a statem merest dribble made it, he did liberate attempt through his serviee senate must know why sent and why they It is In line wit served by President m- men have behest of a 10 ident Taft under whi 3 have maintained and still maintain small detachments of marines in Pe- king, and Nicaragua. tactics, on the part of Sen: ng is another evidence of this ‘win at any cost of 1o rouse racial hatr happily true that this will neither disturl sister re- publics, mor deceive inielligent Ameri- cans.” ANTI-SALOON MEXN DISCUSS WOELD-WIDE PROHIBITION Washingtof; Sept. 1 World-wide pro- at“the con: ference here of Anti-Saloon league offl: cials, who expected to m: initely map out the league’s international pro- se participating in the conference were told yesterday by Prohibition Com- missioner Kramer that th on’s pro- hibition enforcement machinery was in- adequate. Trial of dry L ors in some localities, he id, en de- layed as the result of 1 court dockets. In numerous communities, he continued, ten to twenty ses a week were being added to federal court deck- ets. The league charged in a s the jon is confronted and vicious conspir: ultimately overthrow OYSTER OPENERS ARE TO FORM A UNION South Norwalk, Conn., er openers employed tion to form a union. Demands an increase of fifteen cents a galion— they are now getting 35 cents a ga lon—have been presented. In the fail- ure of the compa: 0 meet the de- mands, the threat has been made that a strike will be called. A ve lo~ cal plants are affected, and about 2§k openers are employed here. works a bow—and some A violinist girls do likewise, but they spell it dii- ferentl; Don't imagine that it any girl to look unconce time she wears an engagement ring. Will Manage Cox’s Campaign ‘Representative James C. Cantrill of ‘Kentucky, who it is stated ha taken cver active management « Governor Cox’s campzign for thi presidency. Representative Cantril] who 1s §2 years of age. and whosi home is in Georgetown, Kentucky was Kentucky manager of Presiden :t’\ll:n'l Ca g~ 3 far re-election 1{ ’