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g VOL. LXII—NO. POPULATION 29,685 London. b The most Lmprensive ceremony : prominen® it was a wonderful I hals | Watch, a slow, never-ending stream, with heads bared as they approached the ceno- taph—hours of “waiting patiently endured class of soctety. American soldjers ambet rt awalted iphe. ked bareheaded. [ nd Pet 1 attered ring th a leg sald The procession Triomphe Nov. 11.—(By the A. P)—An e war was seath 1 llion and s. Never rendered of Na- Helena did not from nameless man. rd but not a tear ar war having long bbscure, oppressive. marshals s prominent in diplomatic corps am- Miller- to President wn_soldler's cof- to the ¥ “Unknown [ Camp Dix, N. J., triumphant _repre- the unk nt Milterar h Tsles and d Belgium and Serbia, offer YOUr | teries, marcaing in the most thriliing fea- once | ture of the Armistice day reunion of “the peace! | first to go over and the last to come ed your destiny.” rand ende ganixr of the who after on the 1ope the president’s oration in fu d soldiers. soldier ment. I would go through | scription and decoration each its story of if necessary. us of the'} ed trousers and kepis, ibdued applause vhile flowers were Sy e s on the car bearing mMerall, the division commander, General ¢ heart of Cambel e fed the Arc De|brigade officers of the division made up rtly after noon. The bpdy | the first division of the parade. With (RENCH NATION GLORIFIES AN UNKNOWN DEAD SOLDIER L aid His Body to Rest Beneath the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, After a Most Impressive Ceremony at the Pantheon— Honors Accorded the Unknown Soldier Were Greater Than Any Ever Given a King or Emperor in th= History of France—Impressive Armistice Day Ceremonies in | friendly’ policeman. by mourners from eve FIRST DIVISION IN A sonnel of their old companies and bat- back.” sible. unique in American army history, com- the | bining medieval Buropean allegory and ook up the march to the Arc | tradition with history of the great war. g Millerand | Witnessed by thousands of visitors. who Marshal Joftre, | Were thrilled by its magnificence and sig- regalia, following | nificance, the parade especially signalized | 5 gun of the model | Breat offensives in which this division body of the unknown | participated in France. It was presented on the north parade ground, its horders dragging | banked with tanks large and small, light ‘ded bodies but with faces ra- and heavy feld artillery, huge “can- . pride, opened the procession. | thrdwers, We captured Givench and other battlefield equip- ight mémorial arches told by in- some big event in div. on_history, from arne battle of 1914, | the disembarking on ¥regch soil to the recely- last successtul drive on Sedan. General Pershing, Major General Som- Edwards and other headquarters and o3 fhe urn containing the | General Pershing, and acting as his aide, of the poflu and th way homeward after one of Gambetta were e Ardente and in the | Was Major George Marshall, who as chief procession | Of operation of the divis broke up. The crowds were permitted to ; drive on Cantigny. on, started the 5. ' The o ended their| Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, o past the coffin ond then wendsd el 1 “omrorny of the Twenty: -sixth infan- e raped in the tricolor flag| Uy, marched with his old regiment and bove which was halt Not Pass.’ s w the inscription “eThou | Shared in the crowd’s great ovations. x ve which this, | AS the first field artillery was forming a n..l;;—\-c-:‘:fiwn half other|in line for the pageant an aged man, n mave up their lives. carrying the silken Danner of an Ameri- n 1 . girls | can Legion post, stepped into the ranks. This afternoon a group of Mtle EFR11t was Colonel Fred Figel of New York, e e Ol e of Amerioan ea- | former Texas Ranger. - His son, Lieuten- jecorated the graves rs in Suresnes cemetery of An us America dor W d in the pres. | ant Jeff Figel, is said to have heen the eador \Wallace, American | first American artillery officer killed in O eials and mumer-| action. The father came to fill the dead on and Fr Y\:h‘n‘ Address Ambassa- |bOY's place In the ranks < y, ‘and the banner was that of a post named in the I wish to thank these children for|YOUD§ man’s honor. soldiers’ todsy full man IMPRESSIVE ARMISTICE DAY MONIES IN LONDON CERE! London, Nov. 11—(By The A. P.) In t tehal]l tonight, eiled ric W bundreds of flo raves for myself and them the mother whose son wnd also of every r fell on a French bat'| oivilized world what Independence day o e Mver | means to Americans. It struck the death another knell of aulocrati_c rule and l‘e\'.(‘YSQ(] the B o unites e, | doctrine that ‘might makes right’ It :\: symp: ”“)v,“:‘hglher fiy ad. marks a new epoch in history and estab- oy or sorrow % Y de of success.” provinces the an- ice was celebrated garrison | FARDING TALKS OF FOREIGN cities marched in review POLICY TO BOEDER CEOWD hs were lald on the graves of +d in the war or on the momu-| Brownsville, Texas, Nov. 11.—(By The ected in their memory. e people r dead when hey in th of the arm! h solemnity. Brit- to her tood half buried beneath er tokens of the nation's y . After paying a tribute to the men, to place flowers O%| General Pershing said: in the| “The second anniversary of Armistice i e T ventare to |98y finds undiminished the appreciation government, bu ¢ “avery | Of those Who comprehend the meaning of Wfl‘“”d;k: burfed | the great victory achieved on Nov. 11, American 1918. This day will come to represent to the lishes a dividing line between the old order and the new.” A. P.)—Facing a border crowd in which were many citizens of Mexico and several officials of the Mexican government, Pres- ident-elect Harding proposed here today a foreign policy directed toward . peace and friendship but demanding always full protection of American nationality and American citizens wherever they may go. The address, which was his first pre- pared utterance since his clection to the presidency, was delivered from a stand on sorrowing appreciation of their sacriflees i the Fort Brown parade grounds, within A few hundred yards away, in West-|, few hundred yards of the international ninis Abbey, amidst the tombs of the|bhoundary. The cavalry sabres of = the cat men, reposed the body of| Fort Brown garrison rattled about him, immortal"—an un- were jamme At th abhey hled th s “fAewest ade of those whose deeds the emorializes, urt of the empire, all classes , from the king to bereaved| jgent. { the humblest private, particl- y ve unveiling cere- s and the subsequent burial rites in abbey. During tehall and the streets adjacent to the impre h people, most of | Iy to the league of nations. told the tale of lost The two ver this old concourse as “Big ed the hour of eleven seem- e with silence | wish amicable relations everywhere ; a_silence hroken only by thefof trade, will be safer at home a woman who col- ity of its spell. On| I like to think of an America whose cit- great gong thelizens are ever seeking the greater de- eiling the impos-| velopment and widened influence of the i the others, stood| republic and I like to think of a govern-{ Then, | n of the Princa|ever they go on®a lawful imission, any- shriek of 8 e of ly denos-| Mr, Harding also suggested that h, the field| nation learn a lesson ©f preparedness hailowed| from the experiences of the world war 3 bey, the king following the flag-draped coffin. conclusion of the services in the|mouth of the Rio Grande, declaring 1o sound of muffled drums rum-{vacation visit to Point Isabel had brought ugh the ancient edifice bugles a new realization of the economic possi- but in a place of honor on his right was also a part of the Mexican garrison of Matamoros, paying a visit of compliment and courtesy to the next American pres- In the course of his address devoted jointly to the significance of the armis- tice day anniversary and to the country s ceremonies | foreign relations, he did no tmention Mexico by name nor did he refer direct- “We crave fraternity,” he said. “We offer peace and thoose to promote i but I believe an America, emin- ent on the seas, respected in every avenue and greater in influence throughout the world. t_which protects its citizens where- where, under the shining sun.” the and spoke a word for Waterway develop- ment of adequate port facilities at the sounded and the king and mempeis of Sidier, the symbol of France’s | the royal party filed slowly out. Through g i final [ out the aftirnoon great lines extende de Tri- |from the cenotaph through the length! of glory |of Whitehall across Trafalgar Square cxpression of the grat-| Waiting to swell the accumulation of . is countrymen | flowers about the monument. of | Never before has London witnessed or emperor been af- |such vast and patient crowds. At a late : hour tonight they were still silently de- filing by the cenotaph, many depositing wreaths, and throush the abbey, past the : epth of cmo- | Erave of the unknown warrior. The ab- B e 8 e ik || DEViwas 45 /be kept loperfit I alaniEne ik necessary, for all desiring to eter. Dark- ness added greatly to the sombre impres- sivneess of the scenes, and many painful incidents were to be observed within the vy fog hang- | abbey, Weeping women, overcome Wit & HERRY TOEsAE | ANt Haying (o e baived alons hyte ly two months ago. Viewed from the center of Whitehall, moving scene to GREAT HISTORICAL PAGEANT ov. 11.—Marching afoot as one of its veterans, General John of [ J. Pershing today led e dead who lie in eold graves | division in a great h e that in striking manner memorialized its battle of the world war. Hundreds of voung heroes who | former officers and men of the division, \ the other side of the [since returned to civilian life, were in ant do- | the three-mile line with the present per- famous First | headquarters Torical pageant home industry. At the conclusion of the great demon- | the | stration General Pershing decorated with he spoke | their regimental French-fourragere a de- « who in 1870 was the | tail of crippled veterans of the division national defense; | from the Walter Reed hospital at Wash- of | ington, praised in a brief address the im- | record of the division as a standard of e whose enthusi- | inspiration to American soldiers through of heart and whole aspira- | all the future, and paid a touching tribute P morrow of dis- [ to the memory of those “whe, by their su- soaring above the|preme sacrifice, have made ‘this day pos- catled “ahpr:r( of the religion | The historical pageant was an event iting the sale of Constantinople, celebration, crowd came by we we demand our freedom and our own'! repressed emo- | America. beyond the stand, Forbids the Sale of Hops and Malt to Others Than Bak- ers and Confectioners — New Prohibition Ruling. ‘Washington, Nov. 11.—Home brewln_‘ ‘was brought actively under the prohibi- tion ban today when it was learned that enforcement officials had ruled the sale of hops and malt to others than bakers and confectioners. surrounded the prohibition bureau's ac- tion but it was definitely ascertained that such instructions had been issued. Details of the order were lacking. Th} only admission made by prohibition offi- cials in the absence of Commissioner IKramer was that the Volstead act had; been construed to mean that the sale of! hops and mait as component homemade beer were without the pale of the law and their sale must stop. En- forcement officials throughout the coun- try have been notified 'of n ment's determination, but they have not been supplied with the guage of the decision The construction of the law which re- sulted in the new orders was made near- At that time officials having it in charge started a document the regular - procedure from which it emerges as a treasury decision. But it has not yet been approved Secretary Houston. There were persistent rumors at bot® the prohibition ‘and internal that scores of complaints | had come from the manufacturers of ce- real beverages, containing less than one- half of one per cent. of alcohol against| the tremendous growth of brewing as a| On this phase of the sit- uation, officials also refused comment. was understood however, erage manufacturers’ complaint had been| based on a steady but rapid decrease in; their sales which they charged to the growth of home brewing. derstood to have protested to the inter- nal revenue bureau that agents were strictions on er with the been able to The point Which they expect to be tested | in court was whether the food value of | the two articles banned would, eyes of a court, permit their continued! sale asg such despite their use as a basis for beverage making. The line of de-j markation between the use of the two articles which cannot be sold, and fruits, sugars and syrups was said to be re: garded as rather having the question they were on safe ground. indefinite, SOVIET RUSSIA DESIRES GEORGIA AS A LINK ARGUMENT TO MAINTAIN VY IN THE PACIFIC AN, St. Louis, Nov. 11.—War between the United States and Japan is almost cer- tain unless this nation builds and main- tains a navy in the Pacific, Congressman L. C. Dyer, of this city, declared in an Armistice Day address here today. bilities of the state. Although primarily an armistice day the programme of adresses and the parade which preceded it were al- so planned as a welcome to the presi- and as a boost for the Rio Grande deep waterways movement. The thousands from many of the Rio Grande valley cities and from across the border, and there were in the day’s events many elements to emphasize both national unity and In the parade, which included an elab- orate pageant epochs and demonstrating productive pos- sibilities of the valley, Mexican Consul vasquex of Brownsville and American Consul Wilson of Matamoros rode to- gether, each carrying the flag of his na- Many other Mexican flags were in the procession and the military band of the Matamoros garrison had a place just behind the Fourth Cavalry squardon which acted as the president-elect’s es- representing General Lopez, military governor of the Matamoros district, was one of those who sat-on the speaker's stand. By special request of the president- elect, the Matamoros military band, sta- tioned near him, played “Mexico Alle- just before he began to speak. ABOUT 30,000 PERSONS IN PARADE AT PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh, Pa. mit for what was termed a “pro-German The mayor refused to cancel the permit and leaders of soldier organ- izations said that the soldiers would re- fuse to pass in'review before the mayor ' ‘When the head of the parade reached the reviewing stand, wounded veterans, being transported in automobiles machines and made a detour, and then took up the line of march two squares A man who bas no enemies has but few NORWICH, O FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1920 New Ruiing Puts Ban on Home Brew 16 Pages—112 Columns STARTLING SOLUTION ADVANCED OF THE RECENT WALL STREET EXPLOSION BRIEF TELEGRAMS | New York Evening World Says the Bomb Outrage Was the Result of a Retaliative Plot by Workmen Against the Tyranny® of “Labor Leaders”—Was Intended as a Re- in Trades Council, and 85 “Brindell Workers”—Bomb Exploded Before It Reached Its Designated Destination. New York, Nov. 1. Paris was quotea ms | the disastrous 17 francs 19 centimes, compared with 17 [ Seplember 16, the echo of francs 29 centimes at last close. ey g Spamshy ieh and Greek Ex- changes. New York, Nov. 11.— change market as expressed In terms of the American dollar was again extremely nervous today, denoting ‘in greater meas- ure the paramount position of this coun- try’s as the world's sole “creditor na- Bar gold in London was 121s sn ounce, The forelen eX-| compared with 1223 4 d at last close. Rear Admiral Thomas B. Howard, aged 60 years, died suddenly of heart Great secrecy disease in Annapolis. Heavy offerings of grain and cotton bills caused the British or sterling rate mecticut average yield of tobaces is reported as 1,480 pounds per acre and to fall to $3.35 1-4 for:demand bills as;production at 34,704,000 pounds. the pre-war quotation of $4.86 Today's low was 4 1-2 cents under but consdierably over the low record of last Februars, when Sterling fel] to $3.18. New minimum rates French, Gelgian, Itaimn, Greek exchange, Resporsibility for, efforts had been made by unnamed per- n|sons to prevent evidence relating te the catastrophe from coming to light. It was brought out that a man Whe had alleged to have claimed ownership ' of the horse which drew the death wa- gon immediately after the blast and who had directed to Wall and American dollar the recent best eard around the world in denanceations ‘Reds” and “anarchists, ana | charged to individual = treasurer of the Fowler & Huntting Co., | 14POF sympathizers by ghe Ne Hartford, died suddenly at his home. in ening World. The paper, mitted it could not ex; further | demroalization ! was reported in all the Central and South American markets, and American dollars rose sharply in Canada. Exchange on the Scandinavian coun- tries also was heavy and stances dealers declined to qupte prices of bills to several new eastern European war created nations. Private advices from London were to the effect that no immediate relief from existing exchange conditions in England; and France is probable. vices attributed the weakness of French rates to heavy purchases. of .American poke of the the govern- him to drive the convey: technical lan- Broad streets, had disappeared. One of the men to whom he told his story, and Who persisted in repeating it, was the The emigration society of Japan held | CUnd in a malil box near tue scons of the a meeting in Tokio in protest against the California land law, adopted at the re- cent ‘election. In a three-page story, the paper nounced that the m: in some in- an attempted assassniation yster7 of the blast that killed nearly forty pors i a | Jured 150 more had been theory advanced was thst Wwagon in whioh the bomb tad cxploded had. not been sent ir trict to terrorize bat that it -had prisal against Robert P. Brindell, presi- ident of the Building Trades Council, ani “Brindell” workers " molishing the stock exchange building. annex... Held up on the way, the bomb was believed by the paper to have ex- it reached its designated within a month, according to the stery, the fact that he had “geme The New England potato crop suffere: a” shrinkage of about six per cent. and was reduced in quality as the result of rot during October. This man, at whom three shots were fired one night in October the story de- Further than to ad- mit existence of the proposed treasury ruling officials declined to discuss it. Emphatic denial was made to the re- port that the bureau had considered or had included in the order other articles used in home brewing. denied that provision was to be made for the licensing of even the confectioners, » the financial dis: clared, was Raymond Clark, chief fore- man of a gang of housewreckers who were tearing down the stock exchange annex. Clark, it continues, is a “Brin- dell lieutenant,” though employed by a firm of building contractors. the present week,” the stery Evening ~ World has found two business men of high stand- ing to whom Clark told it the afternoon The same ad- Sixty-one undesirables, traveling in twe inteadel as a special cars from the West, arrived at New York and were sent to Ellis Island for deportation. Officials likewise T TR ) EVIDENCE IN DEFENSE OF THE SHIPPING BOA French Olympic committee sent an of- international com- mittee that the Olympic games of 1924 destination. be held in Paris. request to the ploded betore apparently the culy per- sons who Wwill be able to purchase hops of the explosion and to whom he men- tioned it again explaining to them the New York, Nov. 1l.—Commander A. B. Clements, executive assistant to Ad- miral Benson, chairman of States - Shipping Board, congressional committee investigating the affairs of the board everything, it is a remarkable tribute to | the board that the United States sec as near 100 per cent. value as it did. referred to the work of the board in building up new trades and told of the business - connectios' established that were proving remarkablly success- He declared conditions in different trades were such that a general operat- ing contract covering everything was, in his_opinion, a_“dream.” The United States Shipping’ Board now employs 10,000 men and at an annual payroll of $19,000,000, said Commander This size of the organization is being gradually reduced, however, he Seeking to link the explosion with the “building 'trust graft” now being inve: tigated by a joint legislative con It was snnounced government inter- vention in the situation at Vera Cruz where dock workers are on strike; will | unjon, sai begin immediately. attempt to assassinate him three weeks And so certain are these two bus- s men of the justilication -for Clark' silence that they would not alk to the investigator at all until they had a promise gussmnteed by higher Au. thority than that of the reporter that their names would not be published.” 1j told of the circumstances surround- ing the shooting of Clark. The foreman Vi ccompanied on the night of Octo- by a foreman subordinate, James Coming out of the garage s Long Island City home where it s quite dark, the two were contronted hout warning by three strangers, ene of whom asked: “Which of you is Reilly?” was the reply of the as- today told the bouse-wrec..er’ St : “The Evening ‘considering proof that 1,800 men, mearly all fore born, : sober, well-disciplined—have within a space of eighteen ‘months been subjected to amazing conspiracy of greed and inju. tice ‘and the explosion was the culmina- an-| tion of this tyranny ‘William L. An early hearing of the appeal of Sen- ator Newberry and others in the Michi- will be asked by So- industrious, gan election cas licitor General Fi that the bev- Department nounced appointment Schurz, of Lebanon, Ohio, as commerciat attache at Rio Janeiro. The building trades| Braft was ‘responsible for the crime. The! Evening World does union as a union, with ragsonsibility. It| was the work of individuals, possibly in- side the union, sympathizers. They were un- enforcement enforcing the alcoholic re them while the home brew. aid of hops and malt has produce a beverage approxi- mating old fashioned beer. Officials _anticipated that the ban on malt and hops sales would bring a wave of litigation as to the They claimed, however, that de- cision had been preceded by a thorough study of the questions involved and said they were prepared to meet the attack. Sections of the act specifically prohib- integral parts of beer as well as the formal advertising of re- cipes for fts manufacture were cited as one of the foundations for Officials of the near east reliet reversed their decision not to send more workers to Turkey because Asia Minor 2nd Turkey in Europe. possibly the of disturbances “Further proofs the wrath and resentment of these W presented that ingmen and their fellows who knew their tragic losing fight to avert v “Then you are Clark?" sharply interro- gated the first speaker. % answered the man who ed the tale of the cart driver. ntly the shots rang out. Clark feil to the ground and before either he or companion ‘could recover from the of the sudden attack, the gang- men had escaped. ¥ old-fashioned watch in Clark's left breast pocket saved his life by de- flecting the first bullet. One of the large bakeries of Bridgeport announced a reduction of 2 1-2 cents a|cy and starvation in days : large loaf and also cut the price of a|labor opportunity was centered not only on their arch oppressor, Robert P. Brin- dictator of the but upon house-wrecking Commander Clements’was on the stand as to his’ personal knowledge of the charges contained in the report to the committee made by Secre- taries Fisher ard Richardson. Jority of the matters, but_little personal knowledgé—his consisting mainly of “matters of the fu- ture” having particularly to do with trade government's day testifying 16 cent loaf from 10 cents to § cents. Interstate Commerce Commission nounced approval of a government loan to the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad of $7,862,000 for improvements. | mei he said, he had The police and agents of th, the paper a are “busy looking through the rolls of housewreckers' union Number 95 to find men who might have been o false | his A. H. G. Kokker, inventor and build- 3 s e er of the combat airplanes used by Ger- £eco shoulder, while' the third went wild. As his examination was drawing to a close he said in reply to a question by Representative Foster, S, ubmitted was “subs‘ant.liv correct - fn- | Noordam. sofar as his personal knowledge of mat- ters alleged were concerned. he modified thi the report was only af to things which he knew, and that his testimony showed there were which had come to 3 % : New | to modern labor union principles and the man airmen in the war arrived at Y am on the steamer |teachings of Gompers and York from Rotterd of organization's FEDERAL AGENTS NMAVE NO TANG(BLE CLUE name by a as to blacken William * Zaranko, their organization's godo name ate vengeance as ho Street explos! executive com: Herbert Hoover and the SRRUTY o L esions! o€ he American ! Will Told a tonférénce: im W- g next Tuesday on a general indusirial and labor topics. mittee of 1] vy Hi agents tement b: . department “substantial of justice officials sald *-aught, as 16 the Street bomb explosion tending to substantiate the solution of the mystery published today by the District Attorney Swann this afternoon announced, he had invited every person {lated cases mentioned in the newspaper story to be 7-8d up at 54 5-8 | 3t his office in charge added that if they had any information London bar silver w: d an ounce. ew York Even- and linking the explosion with ullding trust graft” under inves- tigation in that city. 3 rt T. Scott, assistant to the at- . said that agents of the artment working on the explosion had not found thus far any tangible clue hav- ny bearing in the direction suggest- The government hopes to solve the problem, he add- its expectations lay direction, if the criminals ever are found. Under the administration of Admiral the witness asserted, the board was always ready to hear and to act upon complaints and constructive _criticismi Much of his testimony during the day tended to show that t was preparing, or putting into effect, reg- ulations, checking systems and account- ing which would alleviate most of the fir- regularities charged in the He said Chairman Benson had instructed the New York domestic price was unchanged at 99 1-2 cents. silver 1 1-2 cents highsr at 82. dollar, at 62 7-8. likely to result before the September regu which already has investigated the d A woman and two men were ov. 1*—Soviet Rus- sia, according to information from relia- ble sources in Tiflis, professes that it in- tends no hostile movement against Geor- It desires to use Georgia only gs a link with Europe, ‘the information say: provided Georgia recognizes the prepon derance of interests of the Soviets, agrees break off rdlations Wrangel, the South Russian anti-bolshe- vist leader, and discontinues against communists. * “Zaranko, who has anpeared a ness in the building trust this afternoon denounced the newsp: story, declaring it nd at a street crossing in the out- Bkirt yn while on a flight to skirts of Brook ‘Boston from Atlantie City. the newspaper. “false and absolutel committee's belleved te| The story emphasized a charge that legal department of the board to “go the limit” to corpect exist: Forty-elght persons are have perished when the coastwise stam- r San Basilic was struck by a typhoon in the South Philippines. Only sixteen sur- vivors reached Cebu and Manial. ‘with Efforts are under way to bring up the system of accounting so that the board I know just where it stands financially its relations with agents an any time. At present, he testified, no member of the board could cast a balance to asesr. tain if the government had lost or made money in its operaii-a of ship: he explained, is advanced to the ope ators on the operators’ own showing—the board being protectyd by bond. An op- erator might have a lot of money due him or he might have a %' of money due This condition, he added. is MAYOR NYLAN A VICTIM “BUILDING TRUST” COMMISSIONER ATTACKED AT PIMLICO RACE TRACK ital in its operators and | Steve Semolan died at the hosnl Physicians are agreed that was a vietim of wood alcohol poisoning he police are trying to find where he got the liquor on election night. New York, Nov. 11—(By The A. P.) Under. severe questioning by the commit-| tee's counsel, Mayor John F. Hylan on the witness stand before the joint Jegis- lative committee inve: ing trust” today admitted th been made a victim of John “labor unfon game in the interests of the |3 limestone ring.” Hotly resenting any “personal intercst to submit to alleged promoter p at the wholesale liquor | clearing house for bids, i D g sald he had been carried off 12 bafrels’ of aléo- | suggestions made by I | bullding_committee of the b cation that resulted ing 315,000,000 werth of work going instead of terra cott 11.—Joseph P. of the Maryland today was attacked crowd at the Pimlico races and Both men and women edy a member ng commission, verely beaten. were among his assailants. said tonight he was suffering with 1 finger, severe body bruises asd effects of a blow on the head. lief on the part of the crowd that Kennedy was responsible for Fran- General Nivelle, resentative at Fdench official rep- the tercentenary -of th»t landing of .the Pilgrims and member of the supreme war council visited Annap- olis and addressed the midshipmen. had caused him the requests of Hettrick, possibly due to freight fees being collect- ed both in advance and at pailit of de- livery or freight, and the accounts be- ing carried by the operator in the gen- eral account of all his ships. Three men, horse Manoevre, instead %of Jockey Car- roll Shilling, is thought to have be . attack. The ussault immediately after Mr. Kennedy had a conference with members of the Maryland Jockey Club race officials, J. Ross and Jockey Shilling relatfve to the latter's riding Manoeuvre in the sponsiv.e for into sending hol\ in view of many of the nelghbors. ard of edu- day accounts have not been possible, he said, as auditing takes place at termin- ation of voyages. “The board now has a force of 4,000 working to bring its accounting up to date” the witness testified. that the board Wharton Clay, architectura’ engineer, told the Calder Committee on stone contractors Reconstruction the housing, situation in : this country could be solved in part by He added |y, requetion of present heavy fire loss. system so that it could receive promptly | a separate accovuting of each ship and | This actlon was taken by Ad. miral Benson shortly afier he assumed | ‘These *suggestions contained in a letter| to the board o +Aucation Shilling was granted a license to ride v by the Maryland Jockey Club af- ter the latter was warned by the Mary- commission that a refusal would bring about the revocation of its lic to_conduct racing in Pimlico.” racing commission was prepared to see that Shilling should if Ross had not withdrawn his eon- " said Mr. Kennedy after the last xplaining the advantages of liesione over terr: Mayor Mylan said were based s on information contained dum drafted for him by Hett said, he did not know | Untermyer branded as “pure fabrication and a pack of lies.” ‘While the ma; was continually in a cl: E Untermyer of the committee's counsel. It John J. Garrity, chief of police of Chi- and Charles Fitzmorris. was appointed Garrity has been un- der fire in connection with the whiskey ring and crime conditions.. international cago, resigned. to the mayor. the chairmanship. to take his place. He further asserted that he knew personally of only one case ‘Where the “board had actually suffered a loss in its dealings with operators. On the subject of alleged abuses in T was on the stand, he Soviet Russian oficial claims penetration of the Crimean Penin- sula, where General made a strategic retreat hefore the over- whelming bolshevik troops, who outnum- bered Wrangel's forces three to ome. the purchase of Suppli these were being corrs g 1. One instance where witain two weeks, representatives of the $2,600 on an account of between $5,000 The witness withheld names Ie also referred “We will be at Pimlico tomorrow te 1stain our decision in the Shilling case. s our permission, a license and < can prevent him from riding if cares to employ him besides Kennedy said. ¥ Bedwell, who trains for Ross, at Skilling would have the mouat lico Cup race to- he added that was a battle of wits which brought de onstrations from the large crowd of spe tators who jammed the hearing chamber and filled the lobby of city hall. times Senator Lockwood, ch. committee, threatencd to clear he monthly meeting of the New Yotn e Yo::c Board of: Trade and Transporta- tion the system of petty sraft carried on; by rallroad efployes in the sile of Pull- man and railroad tickets was diseussed, {with a view to ending the petty graft. if the noisy dem Mr. Unterm; leader, follpwers to an alleged abuse which had come to! his attention recently in Havana. Doniface in the Pl instance was where shi from the United States had put in large | orders for supplies and should have purchased at lower pre- vailing prices prior to sailing.” The agent of the board at Havana refused to O. K. A new system where- by supplies for Shipping Board vessels | will be purchased by the board instead of its operators and at wholesale instead | | of retail prices, was being prepared. Of alleged favoritism ships, political influence i interlocking Ps but recently: — |REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CAMPAIGN COST & made by the w “which they could Untermyer's method of exs of the mayor, declaring tha A reduction of one-half cent a m-‘ in the price of refined sugar was ‘an- v leading refiners in the eaet following decline of raw sugar to cents, establishing the price of wholesale lxugar at 10 1-2 cents, a new low level for the current year. : mittee’s counsel was “indulzin ch Lick, Ind. 1L —The 28~ these requisitions. e e AT ing to_ figures given out here red Upham, treasurer of the 2 ittee, who_ is He state] that ted to $1.350,000. m said thet heshad just his report and that the defict 1l bills had been patd. um #aid be would” leave here Sunday for New York, where he would submit his report on republican finances meeting of the natlonal committee 2 . After approval. by Chalr. H. Hays and the committes would file the re- do with this investigat benefit of the gallery. Nov. 11—The Armis- tice Day celebration in Pittsburgh, fea- tured by a parade of about 30,000 per- sons, was marked by the refusal of scores of overseas veterans to march past the reviewing stand as a protest against the| presence of Mayor . V. Babcock. The veterans recently lodged a protest against the granting by SHORT TIME IN 80vTI re for a brief rest. CAROLINA COTTON MILLS with other members of the Chilean: delegation: to ‘the Assem- bly ot the Leamue of Natlons, of which he is head, -arrived at Plymouth. Eng- They will leave for Boulogne en Huneus expressed con- fidence in the league. Shveiea. .} CLATMS LAX TREATMENT _ OF WOUNDED VETERANS Antonte Fuenus. organizations, Commander Greeneville, 8. C. Clements. claimed to have no personal tor Monaghart Co Nov. 11L—The V 0 several large plants employing He had heard, he said, in a “gossipy will. shut down to- sert of way of delays in dispatch of the Shipping Board vessels and the favoring by operators of ships owned by them- selves against government vessels as- This he characterized thousand operutives, night until Monday and will operate on a basis of four days a week until further it was announced of demand for cotton goous was gi en’as the cause. e city of a per- | signed to them. as a natural said that in his opinion better could-be obtained by the hoard if gov- ernment ownership we competition with priv 11.—United David 1.. Walsh, address- ing Veterans of {he World ‘War at am Ar- mistice Day eelebration today, said that. the government it has been treatment of ‘the woundeld'veteran T shall not feel that the government has done itd full duty to our Qigabled and woundcd voierans until Tt har given eath one of them everything that woney ping Board as & body of men who since can buy and service can do to restor. rtion had accomplished a wender-| them to full health and strength,” he SHIPYARD WO ATTACEZD IN BELFAST © States Senator ere not placed tely owned vessels r them to vessel-ow some «f th? hes| VERNOR COOLIDGE CITES CAUSES FOR THANKSGIVING “means to' Be very lax- i companies. He said t its had been obtained by new having only ton Nov. 11-—The security of the overnment in the support of the peeple, T¢ | the soundness of the country's ‘economic tive deepenin; ous comvictions are mentioned ons for gratitudy in the Thanks- ing Day proclamation iued, Finally Mayor Bab-! cock left the stand and the parade was continued along the tice Day celebration at the city hall attacked by a erowd of Na‘ion éns street area. interventions quelled ance, but not bLefore one gir shot in the -hand and amother injured Governor Coolidge, the vice on the head by a stone. e original charater~d to old established lines. of the peo- The commander characterized the Shi the ‘North Qt achievement, .

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