Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 19, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXII—NO. 265 POPULATION 29,685 NORWICH, CONN. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1920 10 PAGES—74 COLUMNS s e PRICE TWO CENTS. . HARDING REPLIES TO PRESIDENT WILSON'S INQURY, BUT NOT AS \In Absolving the French Government of Any Impropriety, Senator Harding Informs the White House That “Spokesmen” For France Had Apméhd'Him Not as “a Private Citizen,” But as a Member of the Foreign Re- lations Committee and as a Nominee For the Presidency Way For an Association of Nations. \ tional intercourse. I hesitate, there- fore, to draw the inferences to which I have referred unless I am assured by you that you actually 'made the state- ment. “Very truly yours, “WOODROW WILSON.” Marion, quiry Oct. 18.—Replylng to an in- from President Wilson, Senator Harding wrote the White House tonight that although France had sent her “spokesmen” to him informally asking America to Jead the way for an Asso- ciation of Nations, the incident had mot involved French government in any vioiation of intermatioual proprieties. The senator declared that in his ref- erence®o the subject in a speech at Green Castle, Indiana, recently he only had sought to convey the thought that there had come to him ‘those who spoke a séntiment which they represented to be manifest among the French people that his words *could not be construed to sav that the French gov- ernment has sent anybody to me. Referring to Mr. Wilson's suggestion, of impropriety foreign nation ap- proaching “a private citisen” on such 2 subject, Senator Harding pointed out That he I8 a member of the foreign re- lations committee as well as a nominee for the presidency and suggested that an srmal expression to me is rather more ate citizen.” nator Harding’s letter. to one from the president CTROWDS SURGED AROUND THE HARDING HOMESTEAD Marion, O., Oct. 18.—The long succes- sion of political pilgrimages to Senator Harding’s front porch reached high tid: today in a gathering that dcfuged Mari- on and swiried about the vicinity of the Harding home in a roaring human whiri- sool. So great was the crowd that its fringes packed the sireet a block away, and hundreds woere unable to get close enough to hear the nominee's speech on ine obligations of the American voter. Delegations from many states and rep- resenting many special groups were in the crowd, which paraded to the Hard- Ing residence shouting and singing, and greeted the candidate and his wife Ty as uprmad of political enthusiasm. More than a score of bands marched with the than that to a Dri The text of n reply asking whether the senator had been €OF| o1 qers and sarenaded the nominee for reetly quoted in his Green Castle 8peech.| v hours after his address, while he and is an follows: : Mrs. Harding st0od on their front steps Dear \ny l'rv-*\lh;":‘ o deens Sone Ot and shook hands twith a stream of visl 1 have before me . ey ; b e, tt 1 5 your letter to me of ihis date, thouh 1| The senator's spcech. largely devoted am not in receipt of the oris E to a non-political .discussion of the obli- ¥ations of the American voters. was ad- dressed particularly to those who are to exercise the ballot this year for the first time. He pronounced use of the fran- chise a duty as well as a priviege. and urged that the two party system be pre- #erved as the most practical means of curing efficlent government. New wo- men voters he asked especally mot to segregate themselves I8 a party of thir ewn. The candidate nlso addressed himse'f to several groups of forelgn-born voters In the gathering, teliing them that they Bhould help to maintain loyalty in, return for the advantage of American citizenship. He recounted the history of the republi- tan party in a final plea that jt bé chosen by all classes as - the ‘most efficient «gency if the government. The first voters' contingents. including groups from thirty-three colleges and un- fversities ;made up most of the crowd. In ddition, NOWEVEr, there were represent- stives of the Polish, Hungarian, Li uvanlan and Itallan races and delegations tr.m many Ohlo countles. Heading the parade was a bieyele bri- ad to make a_prompt reply. “T4E% Very gratitying that you hesi- tate to draw inferences without my a- surance that 1 am correctly quoted. The auotation as reported in vour letter is pot exact. The notes of the stenograph- er reporting my remarks quote me as sAying ‘France has sent her spokesmen 1 me informally, asking America in its new realization of the situation to lead the way for an Association of Nations!| “I am sure that my words could not be construed to say that the French gov- ernment has sent anybody to me. - The thought 1 was trying to convey was that Whers had come to me those who spoke a sntiment which thyy represented to be very manifest among the French people. but mothing could suggest the French gavernment having violated the propri- eties of international relations. Officlal France would never geek to %o over your Meh officr as our chiaf execitive to ap- peal to the American people or any por- tion _thereot. 1 ‘1 ean ses ho improptiety In private cit ens of France, or in Americans deeply | jendly to France, expressing to me their understanding of sentiment in that friend- 1y reoubll gade, formed abowt a bicyele which Tt is mot important enough to dis-|Eenator Harding once owned and rode. suss. perhaps. but 1 very respectfullyand as a part of the front porch cere- urge that an informal expression to ml&imnnils he was présented with a new 18 rather more than that to & private)machine with his name engraved on the citizen. 1 hold a place as a member o1 | sross bar. the forsign relations committee of the| Two of the show spots in’ the proces- T'nited States senate, which is charged gion of marchers were formed by girls with certain constitutional ‘authority In|of Ohlo Wesleyan, attired in middie Sealing with foreign relations, and I AM | biouses, ard by a woman's club of Pltta- necessarily conscious that I am the nom- | burgh, who wore marching costumes of imes of the republican party Vlue and white. et of our republic. Although the parade did not start un- “In tha combination of these two posl-|¢il nearly two o'clock crowds began to tions it ousht not be unseemly that SOMA |clugter about the Harding residence very devoted friends of a new and bet-|hourg before, and by noon the lawn was ter relationship among nations. no mat-|sverflowing and the porch had been tak- ter whence they come, should wish t0lan over completely by the visitors Po advise me relating to aspirations 0 €0-{ycs cleared them out and roped off for operate with our own republic in Attain*ieho marchers a reserved space, extend- ing that high purpose. Let me A8SUT®|ng for naif o hlock cach way, but the you again on the observance of all Dro=|ynciogure was filled long before the end Drieties and again assert that the French| ¢ i, parade was in sight, and the long government has maintained that ETeat| . jumn picked the mass of humanity respect for your position to Which I MY-|\izhecr and tighter as it plouged its mose salf subscride. ‘oward the porch. “With great respect, 1 am, frohe’ college delogations were in the truly, cG |front of the ploture during the demon- “WARREN G. MARDING" | prations, that preceded and followed (he senator's speech. Cheer leaders mounted an the roof of the porch and perched Is trees kept the groups on the ground below singing campaign songs and howl- ing out political parodies on their col- lege yells. The Columbus Republican Cee club and a chorus of republican wo- men from Pittsburgh helped with the serenading. Fdna Thomas Gordor. of Ottumwa, Ia,, made the speech presenting the new wo- men voters to the nominee, and Walter Rogers of Columbus, Ohio, was spokes- man for the young men who will cast thetr ballots for the first time next month. Pote Jans, well known as a golf player, apoke for several groups of college ath- letes. Paul F. Stacy of . Philadeiphta for pres: PRESIDENT SENT INQUIRIES 70 FRENCH GOV'T AND HARDING Washington, Oct. 13.—President Wil- von today directed inquiries to both the French government and Senator Hard- ing as to the republican candidate's re- cent statement that he had been ap- proached ‘informally” by a represen- tative of Pranes and asked to lead in the formation of an association of na- “he inquiry to Semator Harding, which was in the form of a letter, was made publie at the White House. At first officials there refused to ®e- my or confirm that an inquiry also had been sent to the French government bot’ mbecquently Secrstary _Tumulty | Pretented the mator with the bicycle: anmounced that such action had been taken COX TALKS LEAGUE OF Mr Tumulty would not say what ppcid NEW Y form the inquiry to the French govern- YORK STATE ment had taken, nor whether it had been communicated through the embas- sy hers or through th@ American am- bassador at Parls. Declaring that the state * department “had aiways found the government of ¥France most honorably mindful of its international obligations and punctil- jously careful to observe all the pro- pristies of International intercourse’ ihe President wrote that he hesitated “to draw the inference to Which I have roferred uniess 1 am assured by you that you actually made the statement.” The letter of the president to Senator Harding follow: Buftalo, N. Y., Oct. 18.—Preaching his league of nations gospel today in north- western New York, Govenor Cox renew- ed assaults against- Sehator Harding, nis republican opponent, for alleged ‘iwig- &ling and wobbling’ upon the league issue. To six large audiences, at Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, 'and in two rear platform addresses en route, the demo- cratic presidential candidate carried his proachments. upon the feague, declaring that it was;“inspired by God,” and a “pledge” to American soldiers and mothers. At the Broadway auditorium and Gen- esee hall here tonight Governor Cox de- clared that Senator Harding had made a “slip” in stating that he had been ap- proached “unofficially” by a French rep- resentative regarding “‘a world frater- nity.” “The French government,” said Gover- nor Cox, “very promptly and- properly denles that there have been any official overtures of any. kind. . I want to ask Seénator Harding * ¢ * * whether it is not true that the . ‘representative “Octeber 18, 1920. “My dear Bir: In the New York Times of yester- Aay, Sunday, October 17, 1920, t find & statement, dated St Louls, ber certain In it oe- 16 which purports to report public utterances of yours. fabtle Id. that he airesdy had been | France' was mot Maurice De Kobea of ‘informally’ by a represen-| Paris. If s be true, and I have strong tative of France, who asked that the reasons for belleving that it is, o & » o we have an instance of the kind of coun- sel’ be “will ssek” in . international “af- Governor Cox'#ald that Mr. De Kobra, a_correspondent for the Pacis La Liberte, and who recently traveled with the gov- ernor before going to accompany Senator ‘was an author and humorist. i r Harding’s sfip oacurred” Governor Cox emtitued, “In one of his m by the M‘mfl tha‘ t has bean' with him fof weeks was for the moment withdrawn.. Tke statement comes TUnited States lead the way to a world fraternity.’ 1 write to ask if this is & quthtion, asd if you really said is there attributed to you, I point out to you the grave and e inferences to be drawn statement, namely, that the i A PRIVATE CITIZEN" question, * * * * as to what protection America can devise against presidential blunders if Senator Harding should chance to be elected.” Governor Cox reiterated that Senator Harding had taken thirteen variant league positions and the democratics nom- inee predicted that the American people would not approve an attempt to “wiggle into the presidency.” Governdr Cox ask- ed whether, if elected, Senator Harding, in carrying out his proposal for “plufal government,” , would consult __ with . the Johnson-Bprah or other groups. That a “storm, a cylcone of protest from republican men and women,” has followed Senator Barding's Des Moines speech, was assérted by Governor Cox to all of his audiences. “They've followed him until they are dizzy and couldn’t any more,” the gover- nor_declared. 5 Charges that the opposition was pre- venting the voters from reading the league covenant Wwere, repeated by the governor and he reiterated that, if elect- ed. he believed he could atree with the senate upon ratification. Restating that he would accept any reservations not harmful to the' league's basic principle, the governor said , the verdict Nov. 2 would be & “people’s mandate. LEAGUE TO ENFORCE PEACE FIGURES IN FUND HEARING St. Louis, Oct. 13.—Scores of confi- dential letters from the files of the lezaue to enforce peace, of which Wil- liam Howard Taft is president, were in- troduced into the record of the senate 0 wmittee Investigating campaign ex- per. ditures here late today. Names of a mumber of prominent New York ban- kers were mentioned in the ‘correspon- dence. Dom H. Hunt, attorney for the com- mittee, who investigated the acti of the league reported that ‘“in my ation” officials of the league have violated the Logan act, passed January 30, 1799, which prohibits American cit- izens carrying on negotiations with for- eign governments or their agents Te- garding disputes or controversies with- out the permission of the United States. The act carrles a penalty upon convic- tion, of fines of not more than $5,000 and imprisonment of from six months to three years. The senate committee met here today to complete its investigation of the pre- convention campaign in Missouri and adjourned to meet again some time af- ter the election. Before adjourning tel- egrams were dispatched to the chairmen of ‘the republican and democratic na- tional, sematorial ~and congressional committees, directing them to file com plete statements of their receipts, ex- penditures and pledges at Chicago on Thursday ~October 28. The reports will pe made public at_that,time. Thé report “of Mr. Hunt's investiga- tion of the league to ~enforce peace proved- the- sensation of the day. Doz- ens of confidential letters between Mr. Taft, George W. Wickersham Theodore Marburg | and others were given. In his summary, Mr. Hunt says that Herbert §. Houston testificd before the committee that he had talked at times with the German chancello Lord Robert Cecil and David - Lloy George in regard to the United States entering the league of nations and that Edward A. ne, of Boston, who has been abroad ‘on a similar mi i now “in Germany on a missi Germany into the league.” ‘The correspondence and data which follow bear out the charge which I am about to make,” Mr. Hunt's report ¥s, “that this organization, has throush its officials, by correspondence and confer- ences talked with various officials “of foreign governments about getting this and other countries into the league of nations peace treaty ail ofs which in my estimation, is in violation of the Lo- gan act. K Mr. Hunt also charged tnat William H. Short, secretary of the league, took from the files certain letters between Mr. Short and George W. -Wickersham in which Mr. Short proposed a cam- paign in the interest of Governor Cox, and Mr. Wickersham ‘“agreed in part.” Mr. Short refused to give up the letters, the report states, cn the ground that they were personal. A letter from Mr. Wickersham to Short, dated July 30, 1920, says: “Thank you, my dear Mr. Short Arthur Sweetser's memo. It is very ical and sounl. How much better Governor Coolidge's speech of accept- ance than that of Senator Harding. Other - correspondence shows that For- mer President Taft threatened to resign from the presidency of the league if it took a partisan part in politics and re- iteratod his belief that Senator Hard- ing will be elected and that “the one hope of securing the league with the Lodge reservations is through the re- publican _candidate.” The Hunt report says that the league to enforce peace spent $2,500 to finance a letter sent by Samuel Gompers to 50,000 local unions asking the union members to bring pressure to bear on senators to have them vote for the league of nations. Other items of expenditure include bills for publication of advertisements in 44 cities throughout the country, and two bills, one of $24,583.25 and the oth- er $10,534.22 from the Western News- paper Union. A letter from ‘Theodore Marburg of Baltimore to, Secretary Short, dated Aug. 12,1920, says that the ‘“most direct road to ratication (of the treaty) is the completo defeat of .the political party which has suffered the conscienceless senate band to ride its neck.’” Angther jetter from Mr. Marburg to Mr. Short, written at Baltimore on April 29, 1920, discussed an article on tho league of nations, written by Ham- ilton Holt and added: “I strongly urge that question be reprinted In the type and style of a newspaper clipping—that from the Times, preferably—and sent to every delegate to the democratic and republican conventions before the meet- ing of the conventions.” POLITICAL PARTIES MUST MAKE FINANCIAL REPORTS Mr. for log- was the article in St. Louis, Mo.,, Oct. 18.—Chairman of the republican-and democratic national, senatorial and congressional committees will ;be asked to file, under oath, com- te - Teports of all receipts exceeding 00, since the last report, and a report of ail expendilures, promises and pledg- es, Chairman Kenyon of the senate sub- committee investigating campaign fund (expenditures, announced today. The announcement was made prior to adjournment of the investigation. The statement must be flled with the just| for the third time in the case, & record| Variable Reaction- 360,000,000 Fun for inForeign Exchange | Railwey Equipment National Railway Service Cor- vel of| poration to Issue Trust Cer- < New York, Oct. 13.—The National Rati- way Service Corporation: foday announc- iéd an issue of $50,000,000 of trust cer tificates for the purchase of equipment to_be supplied to the railroads. This corporation was recently organ- ized by the National Association of Own- ers of Railroad securities under an amendment to the transportation act ance in the British Isies: Declines at|suggested by tie association and adopt- centers such as Shan\I and ' Buenos|ed by the Jast congress. Alres yere sald to be .due to-local condi-| ~ Under this amendment the interstate tions. .- . |'commerce commission is authorized to The lowest rate for London demand re-{make loans from tHfe $300,000,000 fund mittances here today was. $3.43 to the| provided by congress to the service cor- pound, as against. the normal,. of $4.8€ |poration 'to supply such railroad equip- Today's ninimum . quotation 1ot| ment as may be approved by the commis- only cancelled all the recent recovery | gion. British exchange, ‘but forced ‘the price| ~The certificates now go-be issued are in down to the low level of last March. | two® series; mot| to exceed $30,000,000) e each, Ahd maturing in fifteen years. Sev-| TO CONDUCT.A BEARCH ~ - : en rajlroads or systems are thus far piT8s] XK~ | included in these series, which provide two 2 ING LINKT| dfstinct methods under which the roads ‘may secure equipment. One. method is known as the condition al sale basis, under which a raiiroad may purchase equipment in thicty semi- annual payments. The other is thel lease basis, under which a carrier may lease equipment from the service cor- poration in thirty semi-annual rental payments. Roads likely to be included in one or the other of the present series are the Baltimore & Ohio, Chicago, Rock Isiand & Pacific, Minneapolis St. Louis, Wheel- ing & Lake Erie and Bangor & Aroostook: Tentative negotiations are on with the! Gulf Coast lines and the Cincinhati, In dianapolis & Western roads. Equipment| comprises locomotives and freight cars of various classes, approximating $10,- 000,000, The National Railway Servic, Cor- poration is a public corporation,” oper- ated without profit Its entire capital stock will be deposited with the secre- tary of the treasury. The trustees of the corporation are: * Haley Fiske, New York, president, Met- New York, foreign exch: day, the m don where tributed miners, French, m, Ttalian and the neu- tral exchanges also reacted variably alld in sympathy with 'the industrial disturb- -All ‘markets for unsettled here to- e of the British coal New York, Oct. 18.—Organized. search’ for the well-advertised but undiscovered| “missinglink”—the remains of the near- man that scientists sinne, the day of, Darwin have longed to examine—is -to te carried on in Asia for a five-year:pe- riod, beginning next February. An expedition, financed by a_$250,000 fund will penetrate remote regions,: and even if it falls to uncover remnants of ran’s rude prehistoric - forebear, it | is planned to bring back to New York the greatest naturul history collection he world has ever seen.” The Amecrican Museum of History, which is sponsoring the .ex- plorations, announced tonight ,its asso- viates are the American Asiatic socie- ty and the Asia Magazine. These thres will finance the_expedition, swith = _the telp of private contributions . by Mrs. Willard Straight, J. P. Morgan, George F. Baker, Childs Frick, W. A. Harriman and Mr.iand Mrs. Charles 1. Bernhei- vier. Huntsmen and cowboys as well as erudite professors and sclentists, will be Natural - - ropolitan_Life Insurance Company; Dam included! in_ the big party, for it 18| yin P. Kingsley, New York, president, vlanned to trail some of the wildest|New York Life Insurance Company ; John wild animals in the world in the Gobi J. Pulleyn, New York, president; E: i desert and bring them back ta New mous yak, snow leopards, glant pandas and beautiful golden monkeys with biue, upturhed noses,” the statement contin- ued. “In China is tie Takin, a' ereaturc With a veritable ‘golden’ fleece’ ‘a stranze ox-like animal that roams the . highcot ERT WESTWARD TIDE OF IMMIGRANTS _New Tork, Ot 18Requests from Wil parts of the United States that the WOULD DIV mountain valleys and' actually .‘repre:| geeat 'westward tide of immigrants be fents &n intermediate stage between Uie|diverted from the fast-growing cities entelope and the goat” s - - | to- rural. gistricts to populate abandoned | It is”the hope:of finding the bomes|farms have led Commissioner of Immi- | of a prehistoric. ancestor of man How-|gration Wallis to reply that immigra- ever, that is held highest by ‘Roy Chap-|tion authorities lack this pow Im- man Andrews, associate curator of | migrants, he said. plan their destination mammals in,the American Museim' ' of|before leaving their home countries. Natural History, who will be in. charge| Delegations from different states have of ,the expedition, and his assoclates, | called at Bllis Island to urge that steps The party will have its headquarters in|be taken to prevent immigrants from B Y| solnz. to certain cities. o Bepresentatives of the chamber of commerce of Detroit’ which new census figures advanced from the ninth to the folurth iargest city in the country, asked that jmmigrants be sent to ,northern Michigan. Present labor conditions in Detroit are not such as to warrant an Influx of foreign labor, they declared, as many Maltese, barred from entering Canada by a recent order, have located i Detroit. ‘A Louisiana delegation visited the i migrant station in an endeavor to in-| duce . immigrants t) go to unoccupied | farms in that state. Commiissioner Wallis has conferred with railroad agents with a view of /specding the westward departure of im- migrants to allleviate crowded condi- tions at the island. OWNERS MUST HEAT N. Y. APARTMENT HOUSES New York, Oct. 18.—Health Commis sioner Copeland who today reported that unsettled weather within the last six weeks caused nearly twice as many deaths from pneumonia as in the cor- responding period last year, at the same time announced he had taken steps to Bssure heat for apartment house ocens pants_here this winter. Dr." Copeland _said thst ‘his depart- ment had reached an agreement with the’ Retail Coal Merchants Association, whereby the association ~wil .furnish coal at prevailing prices to any land- lord presenting a certificate of need is- sucd by the health depafiment. Tenants who suffer. from ecold sheuld report to the health -department, Dr. peland said. The department will in- vestigate and if the landlord has been unable to buy coal, it will furnish him #ith a certificate. If the landlord does not then furnish heat, he will be prose- suted.” “I have nothing to do with the pries f this coal,” said Commissioner.;Cope- land. “It is 'my business to furnish Vealth regardless of cost. There is_plen- ty of coal in the city if it is proparly distributed.” CHANGE FOR THE WORSE IN CONDITION OF MACSWINEY London, Oct. 18.—(By The A.,P.)—e The condition of Lord Mayor MacSwiney in Brixton prison has taken a change for the worse. This announcement was made in the bulletin issued by the Irish. Self- Determination league at five o'clock this BOLSHEVIKI ADVANCING TOWARD VILLAGE OF SINYAVA London, Oct. 18.—The Russian Soviet officilastatement of Sunday, received tdlay by wireless, reports that the anti- bolshevik forces are advancing east of the village of -Sinyava. All attacks by the enemy on Novo-Konstantinov, south, of the Bug river, and to the northeast of ‘Novo Konstantinov - which were sup- ported by strong artillery fire, were re- pulsed, the statement says: “In the direction of Proskorux, firce fighting along the front of Latychofi- Bir, continues ~ with varying success, the statement continues. “We have re- ‘occupied the town of Latychoff. In the Bereslavl _region we are continuing to advance and already havé advanced seven miles. In_the Xokopol region (on the south- ern Russian front west of Oriekhov) | evening. e are advancing on the town of Niko-| “The two prison doctors and an out-1P9L In the Alexandrovsk area, 6n the | side specialist, Dr. Bedard, 'visited 'him[Tieht bank of the Duieper, we occupied | this gfternoon,” continued the statement, | villages fourtéen miles west and south- “Dr. Bedard nformed the sister (of zheF"“ of Alexandrovsk. In the Sinelni- prisoner) that the lord mayor was show- | KOV district, (northeast of Alexan- ing symptoms of scurvy, which if it de-!drovsk) tHe enemy has started an ad- veloped, would cause great pain. He ap.|Yance, East of the Chaplin-Polugu vised that MacSwiney should ‘be induced! r3ilway line we occupied a new position to take lime julce or orange juice to|along the rivers Vokrye, Yamy and prevent development. Kashlagatch.” “Miss Swiney thinks it won't be R possible to* induce the lord mayor to|SENATOR JOHNSON SPEAKS consent. IN HARTFORD OCTOBER 23 MACSWINEY HAS COLD IN'HIS HEAD AND THROAT New York, Oct. 13.—Senator Hiram Johnson will: speak in_Hartford, Com., | Oct. 23, it was anncunced here tonight by | Thomas W. Miller, directo® of the speak- ers’ bureau of the republican national committee. Senator Johnson will speak in Baltimore Friday evening, it was also announced. _Governor Cox will make an address there the day before. London, Oct. 18.—The cold contracted by Lord Mayor MacSwiney. is till- con- fined to his head and throat, according to the afternoon hulletin, which adds that there is grave danger it may pass to the lungs. Kvery precaution is belng taken to avoid that. In other respects, says the bulletin, the condition of the mayor remains- the sume. He was very quiet all morning, speaking now and again about Fitager- 2'd who had just died and praying for him_.asd his comrades whe are dying in Cork Jail. NO VERIFICATION OF REVOLTS IN MOSCOW Berlin, Oct. 17.—Official quarters have no knowledge of reported revolts in Mos- eow and the invasion of the Kremlin, as stated in recent Zurich, dispatches claim- ing’to 'be based on an announcement o the Getrhan foreign ministry. The minis- try categorically denies responsibility for the reports-and states that no informa- tion'Js, In its possession corroborative of the reported disorders. GEORGE LEWIS ON TRIAL FOR KILLING REFORMED GANGSTER New York, Oct.” .18.—George. Lewis, charged with first degres. murder . for the killing in July, 1919, of -Thomas “Tanner] Smith, reformed gangster and gunman, today Wwent on trial for his lfe COKB!‘AILI. KILLED IN FIGHT b WITH *RAIDERS AT ENNIS, IRE, ‘Frmis, County Clare, Ireland, Oct. 16.— One ,constable” was killed anfl two were in the recollection of the criminal ‘habitues. - y committes on the Tuesday preceding the ImEnediate sissue Lewis was the victim-of . a. mistrial last January. when one .of the . ‘jurors died. , The jury dizagreed.in the-second A jury was selected todsy. fer the 1 Wounded dulng ‘a battle today with raid- ers’ who sttacked -the Rian ' police bar- £ahe ncps Barer. “Twe ciher conitaich are missing. - raiders seized al the ! 1aent would attempt to pry into < BRIEF TELEGRAMS _ John Reed, Moscow, Ruse; agazine writer, of typhus. died in King Albert of Belglam left Rio Ja- neiro for Antwerp on the steamship Sio Paulo. Political leaders declare that not more than two-thirds of thosc eligible registes- ed in New York. Raflway and transport workers may walk out in sympathy with the coal min- ers in Great Eritain. The Planters eotton gin at Savre, Okla.. was destroyed by fire of undetcrmined orizin. The lcss is estim.tea ut 329,000 Malatesta the head of the Italian ex- treme radicals, was arrestud in Milaa charged with plotting against the guver: ment. General Willlam Bramwell Booth, com- mander in chiet of the Salvatin Arm saled for Nex Ycrk from Siuthampion on the Maucetar American steamship Krakow, destroved Dby nire in the harbor at Havana, resulted in a loss of $1500,000. Authorities be- lieve the fire was of incendiary origin. Attorney General T'almer, in a letter {o the National Security league, declared the 1enacs of the Reds is much less ser-| fous now than a ycar and a half as It was announced by the republican state committ=2 that all candidates on the republican ticket in New York state will ccnduct an active campaign tats week. Edward Quail, encincer of a Penosyl- vania railroad passenzer train bound from Philadelphia for New York, was fatally scalded yesterday im a wreck. A eampaign to register digabled sol- dlers and sai'ors for vocational and cdu- cational training will be started in New York by the federal beard for rvocational training. No less than 1.917 students are atten ing classes at Princeton this year. This fe the larges: enrolimen* in the history of the college and an insreace of 67 dver last year. Dense fog blanketed New York harbor again yesterday -and for the third con- secutive day shipping suffered delays. - coming vessels were stopped outside the harbor. L : grant Industrial Savings Bank; Myron T.| « Adhering to the policy of the American Bl Sl . | Herrick, Cleveland, Ohio, president, So-|pederation of Labor, the Oh'o, Siate ““Antelopes that can' run sixty miles| ciety for ‘Savings; George F. Drook, Bos-! Fegeration of Labor, in convention at an hour,” wild horses with less, speed | ton, president, Home Savings Bank: W.|Dyyton, made no indorsement of political but more control in their kicking appar-| W. McClench, Springfield, Mass., Presi-|eandidates. atus, and wild, cimels, wild asses and|gent, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insur- long haired tigers “can be run down in|ance Company; Louis F. Butier, Hart-| rarasto Gabaldon, mewly elestel resi- wotor cars, lassooed by mongol: cowboys | ford, Conn., president, The Travelers In-|4oni commissioner from the I pines, and some . of the specimens broughtlsurance Company, and S. Davies Warfield, | ypnounced that he will seek “immediate back alive to the New York Zoological| Baltimore, Md., president, The Continsfproiitil™ “ilg nongence” as soon as vark” said the statement announcing|ental Trust Company, and president. Na-| oon e convenes. esexpodition, tional Association of Owners of Railroad 24 “On the Tibetan Steppes are en>:-| securities. The Bureau of Statisties of Stite Industrial Commission, analysis of reparts-of 1.570 manul. ers, thow a further decrease in ua. ment of 2 per cant. The State department declar: “agnmes that no official of th gage of a foreign diplomatie scarching for liquor. Twenty-five thousand persons, including several hundred trade excursionists from Houston and El Paso. Texas, witneased the first bull fight of the season at Max ico City. The Massnchusetts Motor Corporation, which was declared bankrupt two months ago. was placed in the hands of three trustees who Wil close up its busi- ness, Six destroyers pave been ordered to the Black Sea by the navy department to re- lieve a scuadron of destroyers in the force assigned to Turkish waters under Rear Admiral Mark L. Dristol. A preat anarchistic plot was discovered fn Mian, accordinz to the newspaper P-rserveranza. Arrest of the editorial Staff of the anarch'sti: newspaper Uma- nita Nuova is panned Tn a eampaign specch at TIndianapolis Willlam G. McAdeo devoted himself fo d'ssecting the BEsch-Cummins . Ra‘lroad bil. He defonded government operation as the reai solution of the transportation problem. The Interstate Commerce Comm! suspended until next February posed increases of 40 per cent. on rates to eastern and Canadian points o cotton and _cotgn linters origi: in Oklahoma, New Mexico and K: The supreme court refused to advance the hearing of the suit brought by Charles §. Fairchilds for an injunction restraining Secretary Colby from pro- mulgating the federal suffrage amend- ment. American bankers agreed at a con- ference at Washington with offimeialsc ference at Washington with officials of tthe government and sugar companies to afford reiief from the present financial stringency in Cuba. The “lid” has been shut down Tight on gambling in Paris. The poiice have started a campaign on palatial billiard palaces where thousands of people let millions on the result of gamea nlayed by protessiona’s. Fishing schooner FEsperanto, rack hnat of :he New Engiand fsh'ng fleets a Jecage ago, will represent - American fichermen on the challenge racs with the Neva Sestian schooner Delawanna, queen of the Canadian iteet. Announcement was made that former President Willlam H. Taft is to be the el incipdl speaker at a republican meet- T to 28 of the ! ing to be held under the ausp Harding-Coolidze club of Yale univers- ity, in Wolsey hall, on' the night of Oct. 30, Carlos Manuel Cespedes, Cuban Min- teter at Washinzton, informed h's govern- ment that American financlers azreed {o purchase thesland’s forthtominz suc- ar crop and advancs £:0.000.009 Ioan to Cuban banks to help solve the firanclai Thirteen seaplanes, two hangars and most of the other property at Bolling Fie'd, naval rir s'atian at Anscosta, 2 Washington guburb, were destroyed by firs, the loss bei=c est'mat-d at £1.000- (TALEQF P’ ‘ FORDEM, San Francisco, Oct. 18—Reports that forty barreis of whiskey and gin were withdrawn from government bonded warehouses here for the entertainmernt of the delezates and other visitors to the democratic national oconvention are being thoroughly investigated.” according to an_ announcement from the office of United States Attorney Krank Silva here today. The federal grand jury is investigat- fing liquor selling conspiracies but no information could be obtained as to Wwhether thé alleged withdrawal of the bonded goods for the democrats was before the inquisitors. Sacramento, Cal, Oct. 13—A tele- EASEOF LOUR™ NATLCONVENTION Investigation Being -Made in San Francisco ot "keport That Forty Barrels of Whiskey and Gin Were Withdrawn From Bonded Warehouses For the Entertainment of Delegates and Other Visitors—Attorney General Palmer of the Relea: - of the Liquor. ) P gram from Attorney General Palmer at Washington asking that Meclegan submit proof of this statement had mot been received by him, McLeran said, but would be answered at once wi it came. - E “1 never said any person Palmer had knowledge of release use of liquor during the democratic convention. I never met Palmer and have no means of knowing whether he wes aware of any liquor transtc- n. “The matter was one of general knowledge among the delegates.and the attorney general was in San Fran- cisco™at the time.” SENATOR BRANDEGEE SPEAKS IN BRIDGEPORT Bridgeport, Conn, Oet. 13.—Senator Frank B. Brandegee. republican, Connec- ticut, in a speech here tonight reiterated his position to the league of nations and supported the statement made by Sen- ator Harding, republican nominee for president that a representative of France had approached him relative to the es- tablishment of an Association of Nations n which America should take the lead. Senator Brandegee is a member of the forcign relations committee of the sen- ate. Senator Prandegee saiq in part: “I am for an understanding among the nations based not on the brute force of medieval and tyrannical associations but for the same sort of an association that Senator Harding will negotiate as s00n as elected. The issue of this cam- paign is whether we shall have the United States to talk for, to fight for and to die for If necessary. We came out of this world agony in which elvi- lization weltered from 1914 to 1918 and the president of the United States, and I speak of him respectfully, came befors a joint session of congress and said he was invited to go to Europe and he was £0ing. The press of the country thought it was unwise as it was an unprecedent- ed act for him to do and a.great risk for the presidefi “to leave his ceuntry for months and go to foreign lands. He laid down 12 points, as Clemenceau said, two more than God Almighty laid down. He had hardly got free of Castle Garden' when he_ réceived, a . message from Lloyd George that-if- the freedom of the seas was sine qua non then port your hélm and go Home. The president laughed and said you are right ~Lioyd | George, and he arrived in that coun- try whichi had saved him from destruc- tion. “When we cross examined Mr. Lans- ing and asked him, why the great prov- ince of Shantung was handed over to Japan he said he did‘ mot think it need- ed to be, and, asked if Japan had mot refused to sign the treaty unless this was done, he said he ‘did hot think so. He was next in rank o’ the president on that commission and ‘when at the White House I asked the president about that transiction reading Mr. Lansing’s testimony the president did not agree with him." DOMINION PROVINCES TO VOTE ON PROHIBITION LAW 3 Toronto, Ont. Oct. 18.—A referendum is to be held in the provinces of Nova Scotia, Alberta, Ontario, - Saskatchewan and Manitoba on Oct. 25 to decide whether the importation of intoxicating liquor into these provinces shall be for- biddeA by law. All of these provinces now have local prohibition in foree They arc permitted under the Dritish North America Act to prohibit the sale of liquor within each province but at present cannot prevent its' importation into the province as Interprovineial trade is under the control of the Domin- ion_government The Dominion ~parliament, however, has decided that control of liquor ship- ments into a province shall be abro- | Eated wherever the province has so vot- ed. The purpose of this s to confer upon each province the right to com- Dletely carry out the will ‘of the people regarding control of the sale of liquor. This is a concession made by parlia- ment as an alternative to national pro- hibition. If the vote in_either of these prov- inces on October 25 is in favor of taking over full control of the. liquor business “'uhm the province, the importation of liquor will be prohibited. GLOUCESTER FISHERMEN ARE READY FOR RACE G'oucster, Mass., Oct. 18.—"“Give us good sea weather and we'll make the intes national eup races look ifke 4 pink te said the Gloucester fishermen when theyp came in from the banks late today io prepare a welcome for the Nova Seotia fishermen who are due in G oucsster. to- morrow to complete arrangements for the rac: between the Americas schooner Es- |peran‘o and the ~Canadian - challenger | Delawanna . No one in Gloucester knew tomight {fust how many Canadians would eome |for the confersnce or what time - they would arrivs, but the local fishermen asked Mayor Charles B. Brown. as phair- man of the committes on arrangements | to spare mo pains in_showing the visitors what a Gloucester we'esme was, An announcement-tonfght commission- ed Captain Martin L. Weich, eaptain and part owner of the auxiliay schotner { Thelma, as_skipper ofi the Esperanto is |the race. - Four captains, well knewn as the “best ‘Klllers’ of the coast” were named as.members ' of her’ crew of. 25. and a few amateur yachtsren were mentioned as poesible additions At th conferencs tomorrow, the local fish-rmen expect to ask the Caradian challengers for a_series of three. races. |The date of the meeting, % was said, will also be deetded. 004, Defectiva wiring is delleved to have baen the cauze. ABOUT WHISKEY RELEASED FOR DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES Sacramento, Calif, Oet. 18. — Acting Mayor Ralph McLeran of San Francisco in Sacramento today, denied he had ever said “Attorney General Palmer knew all ahout the transaction™ whereby forty- one barrels of liquor were purported to have been released from bond ' im' San Francisco for use of delegates to the DREAK OF 50 PER CENT. IN 3 PRICES OF PRINTED PERCALES. New York, Oct. 13.—A' flat 50 per cent. reduction in the prices of printed percailes to the cutting and. jobbing trades was announced by selling agents of La well known line here ‘today. This was said to be regarded in the trade ss even mors radical a readjustment of prices than that announced” for bleached cot- tons last week. The slash in printed MYSTERY SHROUDS DEATH - OF CAMDEN BANK MESSENGEE Camden, N. J, Oct. 18.—Afjer two Q&S of investigation, the authorities tomaght admitted they were no nearer a solution of the mystery surrounding the death Bt David 8. Paul, the Camden bank messen- §er, than they were the day his body was found buried in a shallow grave in ihe Jersey pines. z Several supposed clues have bees Tun out, but apparently they have not shed. any light on the case. One of the promising, that of the yellow car, San eliminated today when a Haddonfleld garage owner informed the police that. e and two friends were in the vicinity of Tabernacle, near where Paul's body was discovered, on Friday afternoon in a yel- low roadster. They went there to Jock over soze land, and the police said moms of them knew anything about the case. Instead of $10,000 in cash and 312,500 m checks which it was at first reported that Paul cagried wlen he disappeared-on Oct. 5, Prosecutor Woiverton of Caméen county. announced tonight the messenger had 340,000 in cash and $30.000.-in checks. All of the checks were found 4n a coat which had befn placed in the bot- tom of the grave under Paul's body, he said. None of the cash was found. OMi- cials of the Broadway Trust compansy, from which the moncy was being taken to & Philadelphia institution, would neither confirm nor deny the messenger carried the larger amounts. An insurance com- pany, it was stated, paid the bank's jees two days after” Paul's aisappearance. SING SING JAIL MREAKERS - - ARE STILL AT LABGE Onsining, Y. Oct 18—Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing nrison rec tumned late today from Columbge, 0., snd took persomal charge of the hunt for George Stivers and Marcus Passett, the trusties” who escajed Saturday night The search, which had been halled temporarily, was taken up by guards and keepers who set out In automoliles on the trall left by the conviets during the wild automoblle ride which occupied e twenty-four hours following their rmeape Seevral cars started for the Connecticat horder, near which henig the men were seen Latest reports received at the prison ‘Wwere that the convi bal abardorcd the second machine which they store mear Mount Kisco early yesterday and had #tolen another near Lakeville. Conn Warden Lawes tonight bezan an inves- tigation of the escape and James 1. Long, acting superintendent of prisons, also arrived to take part in the investi- gation. The warden announcsd he woeld inquire into & report that several of the 120 keepers who were off duty when the men escaped failed to respond to the alarm sounded when the men broke away. WOMEN TO FIGURE IN CHURCH LEGISLATURES Hartford Conn. Oct. 15.—Rt. Rev. C. B. Brewster. bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Connecticut, Who recently re- turned from the Lambeth conference, at the Cathedral church yesterday, stated that one of the conference recommen- dations was that women should haye equality with men in the legislatures of the church. = Women also are to be admitted Jaty the order of deaconesies and be resoge nized as a part of the ministry but With limited functions, such as reading pray- er, and, at the discretion of the bishop, preaching. Dishop Brewsfer sald that the Episcopal church in England has ready given some equality to the Wo- men. He also sald that an appeal-for unity of Christian churches was drawn up by a committee of seventy bishops and in its adoption only four dissent- ing votes were recorded. The corlers ence urged co-operation betwen. capital and labor as a means of improiing e dustrial relationship. LOITERING CHARGE AGAIN®T WATERBURY STREET SPEAKER ‘Waterbury, Conn., Oct! 182D Paut Jonee. former bishop of Ulahs wp arrested tonight when he atipmpted 5 deliver a_street address here. e charged with loitering and released~in $25 bail. Bishop Jones was schieduled’ to speak under the auspiees of TN American Civil Libertiés Union ard the! socialist party as a “free speech” | of interference with street speakers “He was mot charged with violating the 4 ordinance against street speaking out a permit Superintendeat of Police Beach issued a permit for tonight's mesting to the lo-1 cal sochalist organization 2 wesk age | but it was returned: TWO MEN FATALLY SHOT AT GONCERT IN DUBLIN _Dublin, Oct. 15 —Two men were fatal 1¥ shot Sunday evening during a milliary raid on a hall in Rutland square whefs' -1 4 PREMIER DELACROIX OF s BELGIUM 15 TO RESIGN Brussels, Oct. 15.—The Libre 2 s LS