Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 10, 1920, Page 1

American destroyer Southard arrived at' Venice from Spalato. A decree has been issued in Italy rais- of Armistic the league of nations was receive headquarters of the league. here today. : ing the price of tobaccos. Piaz President of Fremch Line. Paris, Nov. 9.—J. Dal /Piaz, adminis- e Day Paris exchange quoted the American trative officer of the Comp: Trans-Atlantique (the Fret \today appointed president of the line, suec- ceeding Gaston De Pelle: Who died_last week. doilars at 17 francs 19 centimes. | F \ Requests play of the Stars and Stripes to pre-war on All Public and Private Buildings. Hartford, Conn, the Board Submit to the House Com- mittee a Report Alleging Graft in the Purchasing of Sup- plies and Collusion by Employes and Officials of the iring Ships—Officials of the Assumption of Diplomatic de la ; ‘ . Former Employes of g Captain Emmet Kilpatrick and Two Nurses Were Victims of Stapleton of Meriden is Among Twenty Red Cross Workers Who Are Believed to Be Safe in the Crimea— State Department Had Been Informed of th: Capture of an “American Mission.” P R o ot By gy e St Red Cross in south Russia, and two | Atechny, who is founder of the Mennonite nusses were brutally killed during a bol- | Relief soclety, landed at Halberstadt 7 shevik cavalry raid on Salkovo station, | Oct. 25. bs London bar gold was quoted at 112 4d an ounce, compared with New York, Not. 9.—Robert P. Brindell, ident of the Bulilding Trades Council, Who is alleged to have raceived pay- ling off building strikes, “ If of one per cent.” ‘on city tion contracts totalling $3,- 250,000, testimony in .Commissioner Accounts Hirshfield's inqury into rami- “trust" Tevealed today. _Howard H. Sherwin, vice president and | general manager of Terry ', contractors for “Staten - Island, piers, declared that of thi one per cent. had been paid § In a letter to Samuel Untermeyer, sp 9.—Governor In a statement tonight, urged a general observance of Armistice day E +The statement follows: “Souie of the states will observe Thurs- day of the present week, which will be the s¢cond anniversary of ‘the day when firing - ceased along the battle fronts of the world war, as a puolic noliday. With- out a compulsory suspendingof business and indusirial activities in this state on that day, it“will be appropriate that a very general observance of the day be had in recognition of the sacrifices made by the fighting forces of the state and BALTIMORE BUILDING TRADESMEX DECLINE INCREASE IN WAGES Baitimore, Nov. sana workmien, mesbers of the build- ing trades in Baitimore, have declin- ed to accept an At a meeting of representatives of the workers a motion to accept! ‘a wage advance® fram 90 _cents to one dollar an hour was tabled by an over- whelming vote. An agreement that the increase go into effect November President Wilson appointed George S. Sheiton, of Butte, U. S. District Attoraey for the district of Montana. in this state. Padding of Payrolls for Board Are Charged With ‘unctions. ‘Washington, Nov. 9.—(By the A. P.)—| Corruption of employes and ofticials” of the Shipping Board Emergency Fleet in purchasing sup- ernor Smith of. New November § to 14 as Girl Scoat Week. York designating and - Tenth According to reports the wine grape yield of Spain this 66,000,000 gallons more of wine than last tent “composed of persons previously en- | fleet corporation; that it purehased piatyrials from the corpora- tion at & stipulated price and sold these; materials “where is as is” at an advance| Baged with ;15;2050, Brindell actually Corporation, graft DIRING A BOLSHEVIK RAID S @ Sebastopol despatch to Reuter,| Kilpatrick, formerly publisher of a |3 in the great. world war, and I suggest that the day be generally observ- ed Wwith a ‘Spirit of loyalty and thankful- in repairing _government-| owned merchant ships, and the use of po- litical or other Secretary of the Navy Daniels S el nounced Rear Admiral Scales would be retained in command of the Naval Acad- ‘sometimes of more than 100 ser cent. ov-| er_the purchuse- price and that in many | caes It appeared used fleet corporation 1°was signed: a year ago by contrac- tors, builders and representatives of cial counsel for .the joint legislative, com- mittee ifivestigating the alleged trust, Mr. Hirshfield forwarded copies of testimony in obtaining’ country newspaper, served with . the American army in France as lieutenant of ¥ TWENTY BELIEVED TO BE field artillery and after the armistice as The employers. made 1o from the agree- Some of the men say that, as prices are falling and there are indi- cations of -steady’ work at the pres- ent wage they are satisfied. érs alone of the building trades have' ness, and that the S ars and Stripes be dispiayed on all public and private build- { mtracts for ship construction and ithe allocation, of completed yessels to op- re among a maze of feport submitted jto the house committee on shippidg opera- tlons by A. M. Fisher and J. F. Richard- emy at Annapolis. plants and equipment “to reap enormous profits from the sale of materials Which it from the fleet Corpora- of Mr. Sherwin and Frederick Tench, his. assoclate; taken by.a deputy of the com- missioner's office, tending to show that operations of the “building combine” ex- tended to' contracts for work for New attempt to ‘recede erating companies ai charges made in a United States District’ Attorney Lewis of Brookiyn announced that facts in his possession indicated “profiteering to an alarming extent” in coal. had pufchased,’ Scbasiopol, Nov. S.—The twenty Ked |ODtained his discharge from the army in Cross workers who are belleved to be sate | P78 I September. 19 in the Crimea include Michael J. Staple- It was alleged in the report that re- pair work on shipping board vessels was 1S APPRAISED AT $2,603,115 R chief of the supply division of the Ameri- SAFE IN THE CRIMEA | can commission to negotiate peace. He connected as a ton of Meriden, Conn. ; Charles W. Brown, | S°Tmission. 4 Sgerwln testified it was his derstanding” that Brindell expected a half of one per cent. figure. He said he dell $5,000 last Ma; dell ‘put the money gave Sherwin a cigar. A secon, ment ‘of §2,500 was month ago, Sherwin son, former employes of the boatd. Chairman Benson Board refused to discuss the report de- claring that any have to make would be-mads house committee which now ' is 'continu- investigation of the board's op- ‘done on a basis of pay for workmen on the job at- current wages plus 50 per cent. for overhiead ‘and - profit, .plus ten per_centi of material cost to cover cost of purchase and profit to the contractor. “Overcharges imme continued to be common under this form of agreement,” said the report. the advantage of the contractor to pad gone on strike for an advance. r—————— New York, Nov. 9.—The estate of A. Paul Keith, theatrical. man, Boston in October, $2,663,151 in an apraisal of the estate filed here today. About $700;000«is tax- able in New York state. was - left to the 1bul Harvard class fund, to be paid on il twenty-fifth and cases of whiskey were seized in an express car on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Glenshaw, near Pitts- burgh, by prohibition agents. ¢ York; Walla _When the commission was .di B k‘jfl‘;fi;:";flf:‘;"‘i Kilpatrick joined the Lithuanian u-yt the total contract sonally paid Brin- and _ that Brin-' “his pocket ~nd; is A. Johnson, Soringfield, Mass. John D. MacNabb, ‘Washington, D. C., |Americans and saw seceral months of ac- and Alonzo D. W was valued at SECRETARY COLBY TO VISIT tély -became and SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES The Near East Relief organization in the United States must assume responsi- bility for the support of 500,000 Armenian “Ih of ask ischarge returned & e STATE DEPARTMENT AWARE e e ooy b The report was made public tonight by ‘Washington, Nov. 9 (By the A. P.).— a captain along with a number of athen 3 tive service on Lithuanian-bolshevik e, ew: Tork. battlefront. When the fighting ended ha i Paris to join the American Red Cross in OF CAPTURE OF AMERICANS | 1920 and by ordered first to Constantino- ittes of Which Representatives Wash, " eput Massachusetts, hdirman. It covers more than 100 print- “4 pages asd deals . exhaustively with The recent visits to the United States of Presidents Brum of Uruguay and Pessoa of Brazil are to be returned by Secretary Colby of the State department, if Presi- payrolls, slight work, put too many men on the job, encourage loafing on the job, corrupt ~ inspectors and timekeepers, use helpers and” charge for first class work- Sherwin explained award of the.pier contracts to his firm he called on Brindell to He said Terry\ and: Tenich Com- t following the people during the coming winetr. ‘Washington, Nov the state department today that Captain | Kilpatrick's next of kin was shown as PROTESTS K. OF C. $5,000,000 TMrcodore C. Hudson of Hartford, was OFrER TO! AMERICA elected secretary of the Trinity college ple and then to southwest Russia. Reports reached | In the records of the war department, . Emmett Kilpatrick of the American Red | Lida M. Kilpatrick, his sistér, of Camden, . Ateqhny of the Mennonite | Ala. 3 3 Relief society had been captured in the | “Kilpatrick was last seen at Noo B roany phases of Shipping Board opera- e a8 observed by the committee’s in- vestigators over a period of more than a The plan contem- Colby and his possibly aboard conferred today with Secretary Danicls regarding the trip. While Secretary Colby wil pay official pany felt it had assu prise, and’ that he d¢ all concerned,,as & labor' walkout, would: have been an “émburrass: Fojlowing this - meeting, Shi he understood that Bri common labor and charge for skilled labor, drag the work to make it last longer, find additional work to and get it specified, ete. “Corruption of . United States Shipping Board: Emergency Fleet Corporation em- dent Wilson approves. plates departure of party within two wee] a battleship. succeeding Charles F. Johnson, /92, of Hartford, resigned. s d @ heavy enter- alumnf couneil, d to coreiliate! Washington, No. 9.—Use of $5.000,000 offerad by the Knights of Columbus to the American Legion for a national memorial building in Washington would constitute breach of trust and an act soviet advance in southern Russia, but no | Alexeievsk, on Oct mention was made of the possible death | underciothes, in bitter zero weather, and of either one. " Camllle Barrerre, French Ambassador to Ttaly, is being considered government as successor of who formerly was connect- ed with the Federal Trade Commission Paul Cambon, stripped to hia It was belicved that the | being led away by Red cavalry raiders™ recent assertion of the soviet government |sald the state department’s official am- that an “American mission” headed by | nouncement, given out before the London . General Morel had been' captured by their | report of the captain’s death Was re- - made a survey for the Shipping. Board .as to record-keeping systems in the office of lumber administration. csdson for twenty yedrs employed for several years in rtment of investigation. ployes and officials became the tendency under. this practice. Usually atiempis are made by, contract apparently are successful to secure the port construction and repatr representative, who has the sits only to Uruguay and Brazil, it is probable he will accept the invitation re- cently extended by Argentina and visit that country in an unofficial capacity. formal visit to Argentine is precluded by the fact that the secretary is going as half of one per cent. had not taken stch a fee tion in calculating its bid {and neVer be- fre had paid said, hig firm| of _injustice, ambassador to Great Britain, who resizn- . and, in many ident of the Private Soldiers' and Sailors’ Leglon, declared in an open letter today to Supreme Knight James A. Flaherty. The money offered was contributed dur- troops was founded on the capture of Kil- [ ceived. “His fate is consequently & mat- '3 a mewspaper Premier Leygues in an interview in 4 rded such a the -Petit Parisien, of Paris, said France G Beards Cui payment would be more i ter of grave concefn.” —_—— e the nature of | has safely passed from war to peace, B g g which has always been difficult for vie- designed to - deal only which could ba solved wholly by the shipping board if “Jeft untouched” in presenting t! of work to the various cpntractors, and the local United. States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation agency au- who _has_under checkers and timekeepers. 1t was charged that “good men” were “heckied, insulted or even frightened off the work, where they will not prove sus. ceptible to. corruption.!” clared it was a comparativel the personal representative of President Wilson and solely to return the visits to the United States of Presidents Bessoa ing the war for “the aid and relicf of our soldiers,” Mr. Spery asserted; “and its use for the construction of a great marble palace at Wasnington” would be an “indefensible diversion from the pur- pose for which it was intended.” American pegion officials will meet in New York tomorrow to consider accept- ance of the offe etainer’s fee" than a. ed that in justice to Brindell he wanted; to' say that the latter had ‘proved useful in adjusting labor disputes. Mr. Untermeyer tonight. addressed a| letter to John T. Hettrick, at Seabright, counsel for the Master Plumbers’ Assciation of New York and operator of a “code of practice” by which 400 “code members contractéd for jobs, LLOYD GEORG! with problems fourteen general eots in connection with the board's op- Among these Were gnumerat- he board technical construction _programme. assumption of board - ofticials, About 60 puplls of the Seymour school In West Hartford were excluded from school as precautionary measure against| the spread of diphtheria among the pu- Nov. 9.—(By The A. P.)— Point Isabel, Texas, Nov. §.— The Premier David Lloyd George in his ad-| A P.)—President-elect & e dress at the lord mayor's banquet at the South American countries, how- soon be visited by General That plan has consideration for some time, tary Baker said today that no decision If General Pershing been under ed organization of U errors in the various problems with which|yte tussie he 1 German-American _deals, government is dealing. had been reached. _Renator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Mass- DISCUSSE! PROBLEMS OF BRIT PRESIDENT-ELECT HARDING MAD TUSSLE WITM TARPON Harding went tar- Y pon fishing today and although his prise 5 ight discussed briefly and | catch got away after a fortysfive min= With regard to Germany he declared | gon)’ diplomatic functions enforcement of the ne act and evasions of th ter to “accidentally” drop a bar or into a_ship's timekeeper or standing under. The report dealt at length wi furnishing of fuel ‘and supplies to Ship- ping Board vessels, declaring that the ex- penditures of millions of dollars was left in the hands of “masters, chief engineers did go, Mr. Baker said, his trip-would have mo connection with Secretary Col by's mission. SEVENTH ARREST FOR THEFTS FROM FREIGHT TRAINS ov. 9.—Frank Cole of this city, an employe of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, arrested tonight on charges of being im- | plicated in thefts from freight trains in -This made the seventh ar- him to resume the witness Thursday before the stand next! achusetts, will act as the chairman of the congressional committee supervising the fnauguration of President-elect Harding w merchant marine himself personally pleased with the pro- It was the breaking of a trell line o selective service posals of that country for the liquidation|tangled in the wreckage of an oM her obligations. Coincidentally’ the | wharf that lost him his fight with the chancellor of Chamberlain, announced in the house of| pon descri commons that Germany had placed &|uring more than large amount in bonds in the hands of | gent-ciect’s boat had p the reparatizn commission. shore and the sea giant was showing inspector was “An afternoon paper contains the an- nouncement that you are now sojourn- ing at your country home in New Jersey, beyond the reach of a subpoena from the | committee, and that you deny that yor are evading the process of the cmmittee, Taking up in detail seven general phas- Danbury, Conn. es of the board gross waste tunds, improperl cost the government ure of the vario ADDRESSES BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Reports continue to arrive y drawn contracts which City of the Qisorders in Yieatan, where, Jarge sums and fail- ivisions of the board Boston, Nov. 9.—Governor Coolidge, as the principal speaker at the annual din- this section. tion fights between and stewards.” o i3 ed the sport so well that ¥ he, stayed out from morning to night- B ja the exchequer, Austenpbiggest fish he ever had hooked, & tar- ] x feet. ‘The presie The premier spoke optimistically of | signg of giving up When the line caught intimating that the situation|fast and snapped. He had several'oth- In many cases, it was as- serted, the supplies are purchased from it of from 25 to the lefter said. “I Deg: to remind you f the fact that your testimony is- uncomnleted ,and. that rest of alleged members of a. band of railroad, thieves in e last week. Rail- road police saly this band has stolen more iclently and the almost the liberals. ¢ some of the divisions ta ‘cooperate ef: complete fallure o to_function properly. ner of the Boston chamber of commerce tonight, said that economic needs there was well in hand. brokers, .who ere was well in ham Thirty-five governors and bed by his companions as meas- i er bites but came home empty halded, Referring to questions between Ger-|favored an the first day of his vacation & many and the allies, Mr. Lloyd George| by eiear, hot weather. i id that the real test of German sin-| “Mr Harding set forth on tha expedi- ¥ cerity wag disarmament, and, be 14ded.| tion shortly dfter six oglock this mern- - “the report I have fo give on that sub|ing At the Point lsabll life'suving sta- governmental needs went hand in hand and that neither could be met properly without cooperation with the other. The ‘vice president-elect referred -specifically to the problem of the national debt. “is _under a great burden of public debt, $24,000,000,- Yet we have great resources {uities - to masters form of “free Jaunch- es, free_automobiles, free liquor, free en- tertainment, ete.” .and charge them in with the, price of supplies. The report charged that ships’ officers were enabled by the fuel allowances for each ynyage to finish with excess fuel ho add . 40 per cent, give e e by | and stewards in the overnment vessels Adfnishing _sup- eraft at prices ranging 1u 50 per cent. above wholesale costs, wholesale theft of sup- ent from ships, and the| than $30,000 worth of’merchandist from you are still under su gena. Cole was locked up In de- standing this fact, and t were made for your office, we ors-eiect, will attend the convention governors, the thirteenth annual mee ing to be held at Harrisburg, Pa., Decem: ber 1, 2 and 3. Miss Allda B. Clark, for 45 years a teacher in the Brown school, Hartford, Miss Clark was born in Padding of payrolls Shipping Board vessel sompanies operating g > stock in cor freight cars. faylt ‘ot §1,000 bonds.- NEW YORK DE RESTAL FOE HORSES AND MULES epeated calls aring Axd at| ere told that you have not recently visited ypur office and unbale to find any way of communi o % We should be pleased, ow-| ever, to take your reported statement at ED $204,191 s very satisfactory. “The German army is rapidly being!his motor launch to a skift wen 7 T diced to 100,000 ~There are still 00| work. e fight wi M anywhere from 40 plies and equipm Washington, —New York state | died Monday. tion three miles cut, he transferred from The fight with the big tarpom rifies at large In Germany, but they | took place soon afterward and when it are a greater menace to Germany's in-| was over he decided fo make & day of It i ace than to Germany’s neighbors. | and sent the launch back to port to bring IV h I could speak as hopefully of out his luncheon. Previously, the presi- ian problem, where we have 10| dent-elect had planned o Dlay & game of that they receipted for a full supply on re-bunkering _and from the. bunkering company” to the ex- tent of the excess. It was charged influence ships had companies in which officials of the Ship- ere or had been asso- clated” and that companies wich did not with which. to meet _it. “We can't shift this burden. We must people to the ¢ dollars through im- loans thade government vessels also its face value and to have you appear| and continue your testimony at the nexti meeting of the committee on Thursday next at two ofclock in the afternon.” lost today its effort to collect $294,191.68 from the federal government as a rental horses and mules which went to the Mexican border during the 1916 national guard mobilization. not éntitled to the inoney, according to' a decision handed down by the court of The animals were part cquipment of the state's guard di joss of millions o properly secured iractors building narged. .?::\a:::f\nwn alleged that in some ases the fleet corporation loaned money contraciers and accen®sd as security bsonds lssued by comy y the contractors Chester and was graduated from Wilbra- then get a ham academy. educate the that -they must among all of us. District Attorney Harry E. Lewis, In Brooklyn, announced "Federal control of coal is needed,” with prices ranging from $7-to $16 a ton at the mines of independ- ent coal dealers. at through political ‘We must have all the organization, intelligence apd skill that we can muster to meet the tremendous But we shall meet it as met and discharged our duty and obli- The state is CONFERENCE ON RIGHTS OF ¢ important it 18 ; % pingfi Board JAPANESE IN AMERICA R Mr. Harding's companions on the fish- d respect their obligations.” |ing trip today were F. E. Scovey and R. incorporated professing the ridiculous; goif during the afternoon at the Browns- Y of bolshevism, who unfort-| ville Country club. of the Irish situation, the| B Creagey. his hosts here: and Senators have “the standing or the financial re- sponsibility to insure safc and proper management and operation” got all ton- nage applied for by ithat means. ‘While many of the government ships are making a profit, the report said, oth- ers are operating at a loss and it was asserted that there were many who be- lieved that a final accounting of ® the operations of the ships would show erious loss on the gross tonnage oper- -Ambassador Shi- ‘Washington, Nov. 9. denara of Japan and Roland S. Morrig representing the sumed today their conferences at the de- | partment in search of a basis pf agree- ment as to the rights of Japanese in the out of which there has been official indication that a draft treaty might soon emerge for submission to the {wo governments. clauses of the proposed treaty are report- ed to cover equalization of the rights of Japanese in the United States with those of other aliens and the stoppage of al Japanese immigration. The conferees aiso have left out of the draft any provision for the naturalization of Japanese. gations in 1917 and 1918.” Governor-elect extended congratulations' to Coolidge upon his election to the fce been found to be worthless. The charge also was made many cases shipbuildi § plants with ma. “which are gowg concerns to contractors as salvage the contractor reap large profits at the expense fieet corporation. Another allegation premier said: s “Unless I am mistaken, by the steps| ginj; we have now taken we have murder bY|sonal adviser for the president-elect also Injunctions restraining the Iron Mould- ers Union, local No. 63, from interfering with the business of the DEATH OF MEMBER OF THE department, re- FAMOUS 1878 COLUMBIA CREW | Niles Tool Works were refused tion to detailed accounts of disturbances and what they call the horrors of mur- HELD FOR THE MURDER OF There will be.‘no real peace, no conciliation whil is scattered. “We are gett and.are dispersing the terrorists. The|Dbridgeport and Joseph Roach of Dan- government will seek ‘further powers, if necessary, to deal with the situation. If} it is war, as the terrorists say, then they turmed back New York, Nov. 9.—Announcement was 1ropositions, made today of the death here last Satur- day of Edward E. Sage, bow oar of the famous Columbia _ crew h visitors' cup at the Henley regatta on the Thames river in 1878, by the Supreme court. United_States, USED FORGED GOVERNMENT PERMITS TO GET WHISKEY King Alfonse of Spain and party ar- rived in London. They were greeted King G'qrge, the queen, Wales and the Spanish ambassador and member of the embassy. in the report wa holding _construction contracts inaugurated ¢ erty bond ing crusades in their pints and. charged to ship construction ten per cent. of the money thus secured as the cost for sell- It was further charged hat In some cases the fleet corporation o take from sums to pur- the Prince of arrants were is- sued late this afternoon by United States Commissioner Mason for the arrest of “Mike.de Pike” Heitler, Mannies Green- berg and Robert Perlman on charges of possessing and selling liquor and procur- ing whiskey on forged government per- mits. The warrants were requested by Assistant Attommey John J. Kelly. Heitler'’s name recently figured in investigation of worth of whiskey, in which several Chi- cago police were alleged to have been Im- The death of Mr. s Harry S. Ridabock as the ing member of that great Co- lumbia crew, the others having been Jas- per T. Goodwin and Cyrus Edson. Reviewing shipbuilding contracts and settlements, the report charged that * uable and expensive shipbuilding plants erected on lands owned or leased by the “several cases” eguarded as to title. “The result of these oversight; ‘was that the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corpor- ation found itself in the position of own- ing a plant located on privately owned sites and faced the necessity of givi away or selling these plants for a_small percentage of their original cost o the | owner or lessees of the sites.” The report also charged that in some cases attorneys who represented the fieet corporation in drawing the contracts lat- er engaged with the contractors us coun- sel “to assist them in interpreting or in breaking or in attempting to break the An investigation will be started by the Treasury Department to determsine # | Robert P. Brindell York Building Trades Council, correct income tax return. ng the bonds. e ) inst|locked up in the county courthouse. In contractor in WISLON AND COX LIFE {ploys some of the rules of war agaim: MEMBERS DEMOCRATIC CLUB He referred to his offer to discuss any|Without bail by Justice McCarthy on & proposals with anyone able to speak in tchnical charge of breach of the peace. behalf of Irel “If 1 had gi in the middle of the war I would|had made no statement up to a jJate hour ad a response. But. giving it to|tonight as to whether they had evidenes no man dare respond because|azainst the two men which would war- intimidated. You must break|rant holding them. The inquiry into the the terror to get peace. case has been coninued, however, by both “What the government is offering to|tae state officers and the towsu authori- B is partnership in the greatest|ties In Newtown. - empire the world has ever known, at the| The inquest held at Newtown today by height of its power. Coroner Phelan “their appropriated funds’ thase Liberty bonds and that subsequent- Iy in some cases these bonds were sold or hypothecated at a loss and the money| thus realized used for “They (the contractors) then put in a the United States Ship- ping Board Emergency Fieet Corporation! thus incurred,” SMUGGLER OF COCAINE COMMITTED SUICIDE New Yotk, Democratic club, at a meeting today of the /board 'of governors, dent Wilson and Governor Cox honorary life members rendered to the world.” the fifst of its kind since that of Grover An appeal Js made to the Spanish gov- ernment by the newspaper El De appoint an expert commission to conduct a survey of the whether there are oil deposits. ‘plant purposcs.” elected Presi- New York, Nov. 9.—Two hundred and 19 Gsterming forty bottles of cocaine were seized be- neath a dead fireman's bunk aboard the steamer Atlantic Sun today by authori- ties from the port surveyor’'s office. The Manuel Garcia Cayon, his own throat and shot himself twice during the ship's recent trip from Rotter- claim _against This_election is FIRE DSTROYED TROPHIES OF OLD ATLANTA BOAT CLUB. General Rebert G. New York on the French liner Lorraine to attend the national Mayflower this country. the attacks that drove the Germans from ! Nevflle arrived at Going into the matter shipbuilding plants, umcompleted hulls| and material and stores, the report al- leged that it was “aseerted by persons, o position to know" th: Nov. 9.—Fire tonight de- COSTLY TO GREAT BRITAIN TO MY ON THE RHINE. centenary in He planned arophies and shells in the clubhouse of the old, Atlanta Boat club, now located on the Harlem river. FAILED IN ATTEMPT TO MAKE es conforming to previous accounts of A WORKLESS DAY IN BEBLIN. the sele UE" thel London, Nov. 9. worth of materials™ swned by the fleet corporation had néetted 1-2 cents on the dol- far at & time when the shipping board at was purchasing materials in ihe open market at prices in advance of the original cost prices of the materials 1t was stated in the house of coramons today that the cost of the British army of occupation on Ruine is 3,600,000 pounds sterling a year. The total cost since the armistice was signed up to September 20 this year was His captain told Cayon left a note to him saying the rea- son for his act “would be found unde Members of the crew intendest. smugsling the cocaine into New Yorl, but feared being He told them, smuggling drugs into Philadelphia on a previous occasion. officers today Bar sfiver in New York was unchanged | 9 91-2 cents. off at 53 7-84 an ounce. was quoted at 80 3-4 cents. a ¢ 1 1-4 cents. quoted at 61 1-4. It also was alleged that some com- Danies towhich the corporation had “over- advanced many millions of dolla unable to repay these “over-ndvances” and that they were permitted “all sorts iof exhorbitant claims to absorb” them Nuimerous cases were on record, the re- port said, “where doctors, veterinary sur- geons, barbers, drygoods clerks, and oth- ers of similar inept callings, were placed as_ inspectors over work of con: of both plants .and ships.” In a “foreword o more than 13 neath my bunk.” complaining because they could not get | 2sserted Cayon stewards, due to the graft on shipping board vessels.” He asserted there had been some cases of prosecution and conviction of ship em- ployes charged with enough to make it a dangerous practice, as less than one-fourth of the cases pre- sented had been carried to prosecution. Charges illustrated by alleged specific instances of waste included lack of safe- guards against theft of supplies, lack of a system of standardizing expenditures, a practice of granting rebates and failure to support reports of sales of ships' sup- plies, purchase of unnecessary equipment and failure to support charges made by the shipping board's supercargoes. Richardson testified that he had found in one instance that supplies sold for shipping board yessels had been paid for at\50 per cent. higher than the mar- ket wlolesale rate. He old of one steward who bought supplies for a twelve-day voyage and ‘whew he quit at the end of five days an- other’ steward threw the first supplies overboard and amount “in order to get his commission.” xpectedly issued late Monday by the| MARKET FOE FOUR YEARS. Mexican sitver dojiar was |general fede amount received from Germany for the cers made today, the second troops amounted to 346,000,000 marks. | Striking dockmen at Vers Crux refnsed an to accept agreement City by the Chamber of dustry, Ship' Owners’ President Huerta. at Mexico | workless -day question seems to be one of maladmin- istration rather than one of fundament-| as the limited re- tums from the sale of these ‘materials is comcerned.” The report said that “the Bardee Com- trying to purchase under a blanket contract all supplies and stores »C the fleet corporation and charged that an8 of the officials of this company was “also an adviser to the Shipping Board tion and claims board. CHILDS RESTAURANTS ARE TO REDUCE PRICES 11 TO 28 P.C, SUICIDED WHILE TALKING TO HER FORMER FIANCEE supported by and {as far as t Al conditions A call for a general government employes, pursued | ¢ ¥ 0 1 en i | WGEE New York, No served at Childs restaurants -throughout e reduced from 11 as soon as new cards can.be printed and distributed, it wa sannounced today by head of the government's “ ron’ of profiteer hunters. —Prices of Chicago, Nov. 9.—Plunging a Mexican dagger into her heart while talking to her former fiancee, Miss T. Saunders, 25, of Laredo, Texas, ended her life on the mez- zanine floor of a' down town hotel here H. H. Garver, of this city, de- clared .that an engagement between..the two.had recently heen broken off, but de- clined to tell why. left no explanation of her act. Garver said the young woman gave no warning of her intention today, but sud- denly drew a long. siim dagger from her sleeve and plunged\it into her left side. She died as she was being removed to to the repox, ‘While I desire to give full credit to the United States Shipping Board for its accomplishment of having and lauriched tnder abnormal and aas such a fleet of ships as _ I feel that this task equialied. by the problem now conront- ing the Shipping Board of creating and nourishing an American meérchant ma- rie. From this viewpoint the ted herewith is a sketch of Proposed inquiry by this committee des- ignated to deal first with the problems which now : contronts the Shipping Board and secondly With the problems pre- its past accomplishments.” 8 TO OFFICERS interruption, although the downtown crowds were of smaller pro- portions than usual owing to a cessation in the tramway and subway services. | oou.com 78 cents, and December sats rike of the electrical . workers |'o" this evening left the principal downtown | CULL 0 Lyy the mew low prices fn cafes’ without |compelling the “hoilday guests to =1p thel o il riliers of declines in fami'y pat- |fisst real beer brewed in the new repub- | R lic under flickering candle light. Sing below $10 a bsrel -for fthe et Between 350 and 400 Catholic clergy- men representing virtually every parish in the Springfield diocese. attended a me- morfal mass in St. there Monday in honor of the late Bishop Thomas D. Beavan. ited States will to 28 per cent: ying squad- verse condition: PIRE saun The young woman Former President Willlam I ¥aft was mentlond in Washinzton as a probable successor to Edward D. tice -of the United State Supreme Court, Iwho is 75 years of age and who, it !s re- ported wants to retire. TANKER GEORGE PIERCE coast valued at about $15,000,000 to D AT CHESTER, PA. “Rardee Brothers, Inc., of New York., As to bullding contract cancellations and hull removals, the thst the Shipping Board entered into a contract with George F. Rogers to re- meve hulls which were on the ways in an ayfinished condition at the time the con- hiet was signed or to secure from the or the owner of the land upon White, chigf jvs- Chester, Pa., Nov. 9.—The 9,000 ton} tanker George Pierce was launched to- day at_the. local yard of the Merchant Ship Building Corporation. Miss Virginia Dedham, Mass., This' vessel was the last of the ships contracted for by the Emergency Fleet Corporation. ADVANCE CAUSE report asserted \OF THE “IRISH REPUBLIC." | _“finished corn™ James M. Miles, former vice president bf the Standard. Trust and Savings bank. Chicago, was sentenced to serve from one | 20 ten years in the penitentiary when ! was_sponsor, New York, Nov. $.—Meetines for dis- | DE. W. H. WALKER RESIGNS cassion of plans for advanclug the cause FROM FACULTY OF M. L OP ¥, “Irish republic” will be held In TURKS ARE NOT MEETING REQUIREMENTS OF THE ALLIIES, repurchased Hale of Maine and Elkins of West Vir- : Harry M. Daugherty, a close per- Do not pay too much atten- | joined the party during the afternoom. t this murder conspira- REPORTER A. V. DONAHUE. AW v c the right sort of men| Danbury, Nov. —Max Krass of e {bury, held in connection with the mur- ider of Arthur V. Donahue, New York | newspaper reporter, weer taken back to n if the government em-|Bridgeport tonight from Newtown amd Newtown today they were ordered held d, saying: The state polics. who arrested Krams that invitation to Ger-|and Roach in Bridgeport early today. ught out no new de- velopments. the Lestimony of all witness- tae shooting. After a proclamation | LOWEST PRICES IN GRATN — v iy of industrial and tech-| o Nov. 3 Towest prices s four years prevailed today for all op= t the German revolution. a |yi,n of wheat, corn and oats on the They were not, BOWEVEr, | oy o hoard of trade. The new prices the middle classes. These, | o onted declines of six to seven cents y comprised clerical Work- g, \wyeqt and two or three forcorn mmd sl ik week-diy. routing. was 33 to 39 cents Jower today than i esges in all lines Droceed- |, ., s week o and cora: squotations. were less than one-half what they were six monthe azo. The Deesmber option in wheat closel today at 137 to 138; De- their usual _fllumination. | ope0: came announcement from Minne- low points, the price drop- time in nearly four years. Lower comrm prices were foliowed by declines in pork varfous cities beginning at Washington | Boston, Nov. .—Dr. William H. Walke vember 16 betwéen “President”. De-|er, director of the division of industrial a purchase of knives at $1.50 each for a ship's crew; a wooden lemon squeezér at $3, and “straw- he pleaded gullty to absconding w ,000%of the bank's funds. hulls and ways rested a re- further MNability. some reason,” said the .report, Paris, Nov. 9.—A despateh Havas Agency from Constantinople says: “As the Turkish government continues ‘FOR BUPPLIES PURCHASED New York, Nov. 9.—The report mad BODY OF MISSI proximately $300, FOUND IN POND NEAR DANBURY leading American. Sympa- | co-operation and research of the Massa- 2nizers, the Irish leader announced here | chusmetts Institute of Technology. tender- berries at 60 cents a quart” for another crew, purchased, he said, on the threat Channing Rudd, ased 45 United States Shipping Board saw troller of government orgamizations for to make a contract with Rogers to public in Washington, charging corru; to postpone the execution of cerfain un- tion of employes and officials of the ship. dertakings .required by ‘the allies, mota. ] Danbury, Conn., Nov. $.—The body af ed his resignation today. to become ef- Following (he opening conference at | fective Jan. 1, 1921 Dr. Walker, who Washington, Mr. DeValera sajd he would | for the last twenty-five years has devoted yisit, at intervals of several ‘days New |himself to teaching and research work, that I the berries were not obtained ‘n two nours the crew would These supplies, he added, were charged to the shipping board account. The witness added present system of accounting between the shipping board and operators of its ships there was no way of telling just how war savings and treasury certificates at the, Federal Reserve Bank in New York. | died snddenly while on his wazy to the bank from his home in Morris Plains, ) fm $5,000 per hull for each Kuh The result has the United William B. Banning, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., was found today in Boggs Fond, near Banning disappeared on Oc- i tober 23 from a sanitarium at Brewster, N. Y. where,he had been taking treat-|J. ment for nervous trouble. ping board, was submitted in evidence here late foday at a hearing before the congressional committee investigating af- fairs of the shipping board. it ‘was supplemented by further testimony of graft by A. M. Fisher, secretary and statistician of the committee, and his as- F. Riehardson. who made the By the ratification of the treaty of Sev- government, trade and financial aid given the Otto- man treasury will be curtailed. If that measure does not prodyce results, the delivery of an ultimatum is being con- led by him. hat in many cases Shipping Board has paid an addi- to have Rogers Cleveland. Chicago, St. Paul,|in applied chemistry and chemical ens Denver, Kansas City, St. Louls, | gineering at the institute, will resume his and possibly Dallas, Atanta |consulting practice. * o \nd other southern cities. He will be succeeded by Prof. lonal $5.000 ped hull the hull or give it away, in many sases the cost of the hull representing several thousand eafiars. Rogers has More tham 300 representatives of suto- mobile menufacturing organizations NIANTIC FARM FOR WOMEN RSP SR » L. Norton, professor of industrial OPERATORS AND COAL at the institute and director of the' much money belonging to the board was now in the hands of the operators. The amount,. he said, was anywhere from $125,000,000 to $150,000,000. He added that subsidiary organizations of oparating companies for towing, steve- doring, supplies, Water and repairs, made posible excessive charges. tended a hearing held by the New Jersey Judiciary Committes on the bill of Sena-, tor White, providing for increase. ranzind from 20 per cent up, in automobile licens- ‘ouhd no difficuity in selling thése hulls AUSTRIA REQUESTS ENTRY * at a very fair price, which reve- TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. report afier a year's inv 4 igation. Richardeon testifieu that there pre- generally a system of commissions or gratuities to officers for supplies + aill by the persons who sold the This practice, he declared, had " reduced - greatly by private com- 18 IN CEROWDED CONDITION Hartford, Conn,, Nov. 9.—Owing to the crowded copdition at | State. Farm for. Women at Niantie, Gov- ernor Hoicomb toduy issued a request to the state courts to make no further,com- mberland. 3d. Nov. 9,—Wiiam J. | FOLICEMEN KILLED TWO OF 2 S ecretary-treasurer of District ATTACKING PARTY IN DUBLIN, United Mine Workers of Amer- ! announced here tonizht that there | Dublin, Nov. 8.—A police patrel Vienna, Nov. 9 (By the A. P.)—The Austrian - government has formulated - a memorial requesting addition of Austria TUnfted States Supreme Coort, reversing to« the league of nations. The draft of deciston of the decision of the Federal MINERS WIDE APART. |Search laboratery of industrial little prospects of a settiement of |was ambushed Monday afternoon controversy between operators and {ed the usual resu’t of such aise miners of the region prior to November |the ‘policemen killing two of the At 19, on which date the workers have de-|ing party. wounding one and taking institution until condi- _by means of auditing and check- il it was only ubout 1 per prevailed on shipping board | tirely impersonal” . had the practice be- | charged to any individual. steamers, he as- les . were row. Mr. Fisher's report, made after a year e declared, “was en- no crime was the memorial was adopted by the chiel parliamentary committee today. ¢It will be presented- to parliament, which as- sembles tomdrrow, and:then will.be for- warded to the league . headguarters in rict couft, ordered the release of Jules W. (“Nickey”) Arnstein, who was risoned in New. York since August tions ara changed. of investigation. When a girl weighing 180 poy to the name of “Birdie; the itness of things gets an aw- 0 on charges of contempt following his |cided to suspend operations unless the jprisoners, atcerding to the oficlal to a3 questions g will be continued tomor- ,unom:nempxo;:lnum.mmur»otmm The police pes - aasualties