Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 29, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXII—NoO. 326 POPULATION 29,685 % N. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1 920 BLOCKADING FORCE 15 T0 SUSPEND FIRING ON FIUME Suspension is For Period to Discuss the Possibility of Ending Hostilities—Action Taken at Request of Director of Na- tional Defense and the Mayor of the City—General Ferrario, Commander of the Blockading Force, is to In- sist Upon Recognition of the Treaty of Rapallo— D’Annunzio Demonstrations Are Being Held Through- out laly. Rome, Dec. 28.—Firing on Fiume by the Italian blockading foree will be sus- pended, it was decided at a conference in Albarzia to?ay, according to advices re- ceived he The sispension was requested by the direcidr of national defense at Fiume and the mayor of the city, who met General Ferrarlo, commander of the bloc force, to discuse the possibility of hostilites. 4 At a conference in the morning general informed the delegates that por pariers were impossible without prior re- cognition of the treaty of Rapallo. Such recognition having not been given, U delegates decided to return to Fiume t discuss the matter and asked for another meeting in the afternoon. They also re- the quested a suspension of the firing which was granted. Rome, Dec. 28.—D’Annunzio demon- strations, some of which have resulted in disturbances, have been held in all the great centers of Italy. Shops every- Where have been shut up. On their doors are pogers reading “closed as a sign of national mourning.” Flags also have been half-masted. In Milan, Genoa, Speziy and Bologna, the volice were compelled to interfere t orestore order. No seribus incidents however, have been reprted, although two persons were wounded in Turin, The executive committee of the Milan authorities have passal resolutions pledging the nationalists to immediately rise up against the government “which alone is responsible for the crime per- petrated against Fiume.” JUDGE WGANNON DENIES MURDER OF HAROLD KAGY Cleveland, Dec. 28—.Judge William H MeCannon of the municipal court, charg- ed jwith the second degree murder of Harold C. Kagy, took the stand in h! own ebhalf today and denied all of Accusations made aza‘nst him. He the last witness for the defense. The state unuouaced 18 case cioesd but reserved the right to call in rebuttal James F. McCaffery, who testified he wi ving Miss Mary E. Neely, chief witness for the state, around ths city in an automobile at the time of the shoot- ing. Miss Neely testified several days ago that she stood at Oregon avenue and East Ninth st'eet and “saw McGannon take something from his pocket. Simul- thneously a shot was fired and Kagy lugehed forward.” It is expected the case will go to the jury late tomorrow. McGannon assalled Miss Neely's story almost to the last word. He toM his story deliberately and calmly, except where he emphasizel his answers by ralsing his _volce. When asked by W. H. Bovd, chiet counsel for the defense, it he had k'/- «d Kagy, Judge McGannon's voice shook with emotion as he answered: “No, sir, of course 1 did not" Judge MeGannon wis cross-examineq by Prosecutor Baskin for one hour and fifteen minutes, but failed to change his story of any material points. PRESIDENT CELEBRATES 64TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH Washington, Dec. 38.—President Wil- son who entered the Wiite House at the age of B8 today celcbrated the sixty- fourth anniversary of his birth, his last birthday defore retiring to the Kfe of a private eitizen Al of the men ers of fhe president’s Immediate family, with the exception of William G. MeAdoo, his son-in-law, spent the day with him. Business engagements prevented Mf. McAdoo coming to Wasi- ington, but Mrs. McAdoo, Mr. and Mrs. Francis 1. Sayre, Mr. Wilson's son-in- law and dauthter, and Miss Margaret Wilkon, the t daughter, were pres- ent for an informal pirthday party giv en by Mrs. Wilson for the president. Numerous messages of congratulations were recelved at the White House dur- ing the day ‘ncluding one from King George of Great Britain Mr. Wilson epent the day auletly and with Mrs. Wilson entertained at luncheon Miss Marjorie Brown, cousin of his first wife, and her fiance. Benjamin Hill, of New York, whose wedding took place to- nigit at the home of the bride. Mrs. Wilson, togetfier with Mrs. MoAdoo, Mrs. Sayre and Miss Wilson, attended the wedding. TORMER DOMESTIC REWARDED WITH LEGACY OE $500,000 Boston, Dec. 28 —The domestic service of Agnes McNevin in the family of | Mrs. Mary Gilbert Knight is to be re-| warded with a legacy ‘of half a million dollars. The executors of the will of Mrs. Knight filed a petition n the probate court today for leave to make final dis- tribution of the property reporting that &l epecific public and personal bequests mggregating $195,200 had bee npaid. The eatate was worth $697,952, they reported, leAving approximately half a million for tile former servant who was named resi- duary legatee. MARD LABOR SENTENCE FOR FROMER BANK PRESIDENT ' Barre, Vermont, Dec. 28.—A sentence of four to seven years at hard labor in state prison was imposed today on Frank G. flowiand, president of the Bacre Savings Bank and Truse company, ifter he had pieaded guilty to embezzicment of the bank’s funds. The charges on which he wils arrested set his thefts at §25,930, but when Howland objected to an item of $10.500 his admission of guilt was ac- pepted on the four other counts aggre- galing $15,450. {STER BELIEVES LIEUT. O'BRIEN WAS MURDERED Nomenee, TIl, Dec. 28.—Believing that hér brother, Lieutenant Pat O'Brien, heor aviator who was found dead in_a Los hotel two weeks ago, w8 mur- , Mrs. Clara Clegg, sister of the d i man, mid today that an investiga will be made. Mrs. Clegg said brother, Merwin O'Brien and Virgil . an associate of the dead man, sufficient evidence to warrant an Jnvestigation. She believes O'Brien did not commit swcide. PONZI'S NAME ON ONE BALLOT IN NEW YORK New York, Dec. 28.—An official canvass of the New York county vote at the last made public today, showed that Ponzi, erstwhile of Boston, had At least one supporter in this state. On né ballot the name of the former fin- Anelal “wizard” now serving a term At the Plymouth County jail had been written in for state treasurer. When the new warehouse of the El- Tobacen Growers, Inc, was for- opened Saturday evening, 175 ‘were present. The speakers con- the assoclation upon the com- of the building, the first farmer w-operators’ warehouse in Connecticut, ADDRESS BY MISS ANNA MACSWINEY IN NEW HAVEN <ew Haven, Conn., Dec. MacSwiney cf Cork, rec .—Miss Anra sister of the late Lora Mavor ived an ovation tonignt when she addressed a large gatherlag m tke arena Lere The meeting was nider the auspices of the New Haven branch cf the American Association for the Ree - mition of the Irish Republic. A big dele- zation from Bridgeport marched into tiae kall with bagpipes playinz. Pmiip Troup, postinaeier of New Haven, was chairman. Miss MacSwiney saja Americans snould insis: tnat this government coll burs to Great Britain, “which B is _spending for the death of libar: “Merey whith American peop's rad fyr 1lerty bonds is being used to pry Eoglish soldiers who are desteosing a sis'er vaton of the Uniicd States” she deciar “Pecple favorable to Treland are calicd hyphenat'd Americans.” she , “bat a'pers ¢ 45 per cent. British is known as a 106 per corv. American APPEAL FOR UNEMPLOYED CATHOLICS IN IRELAND London, Dec. —The Westminster Gazette's Belfast correspondent says the Catholics bishop of the diocese of Down and Connor has cabled Cardinal O'Connell at Boston appealing to the cardinal for aid for workers who hve bee discharged from their positions. The cablegram said tens of thousands of persons have been deprived of their employment be- cause they were Catholics. Fully. filty * theusand ~€atholicy in my dAlocese are now on the verge of starva- tion" {he message of the bishop said. “My diocese no longer is m Ireland, not even in Ulster, but in a namcless satra- wate made up of six couties. PLIT IN THE RANKS OF TEXTILE WORKERS IN LAWRENCE Lawrence, Mass, Dec. 28.—A spdit a the ranks of the local union of the Amalgamated Textile Workers of Ameri- ica at a meeting tonight and a faction headed by Ben .Legere, former secretary announced the Intention of joining the the ne big unfon.” The other faction. headed by, Joseph Salerno, who was elect- ed secretary last Sunday night, declared its determination to retain membership in the Amalagamated. ASSEMBLYMAN VINDICATED OF PROTECTING G3AMBLERS Minecla N. Y., Dee. 28.—Assemblyman Thomias . McWhinney, shaszel with conspiriny o protect Nnsiil comnty gamh) £ht was acqnited by a juy in_the supreme court here, The jury reported it was unable to agree in the cases of Supervisor Ceorge Wilbur Dovghty and. Sheriff Charles W. Smuth, charged with the same offens», and Justige Young asked them to deliberate again in an effort to reach a unanunous decision. FALL RIVER TEXTILE UNIONS ACCEPT WAGE REDUCTIONS Fall River, Mass., Dec. 28.—The six textile unions of the American Federa- tion of Textile Operatives tonight voted to accept the wage reduction of 22 1-2 per cent. recently announced by the man- ufacturers, effective January 3, 1921, T action of the unions affects approximate- ly 33,000 empioyes in 110 cotton clo'h and yarn mills in this city. Sir Edward Carson TUlster leader in the House of Com- moms, who has been invited to ‘Washington to give his views on the Irish situation. Cabled Paragraphs | Kilauea Voloano Active Hilo, T. H., Dec. 28.—T'wo lava streams each a quarter of a file wide, are flowing from Kilauea voicano after sevarol weeks of stead rist of the lava pit, according to reports from the volcano observatory to- day. The overflow s through a crack | made by previous: eruptions about five | hundred; feet above the main pit where lava foundations have been playing spectacularly for weeks. Colby Arrives at Montevideo. Montevideo, Uruguay, Dec. 28.—Bain- bridge Colby, the American secretary of state, arrived here this evening. GERMAN SOCIALISTS ADDRESSED BY COMMUNIST CLARA ZETKIN Tours, France, Dec. 24.—(By The A. P.) Clara Zetkin, member of the Ger- man reichstag and of the executive com- mittee of the third internationale, whose psasport it is alleged the French ire- fused to vise, came suddenly into the hall where the French socialist congress was in progress today, and the session became bedlam. M. Frossard, secre:a of the French soeialist party, Who was speaking for the communists, was inter- Tupted and the delegates escorted her to the platform. Clara Zétkin is a White-haired woman of sixty. She was attired in a simple brown dress and was cheered wildly. “The French have forbidien me to come,” she said to the delegates, “but like a good communist I came anyway. The doors of the hall were locked and the telephone and telegraph wires in the hall disconnected, and no one Was al- lowed to leave the building. She then continued her speech, denouncing “the Scheidemanns, Noskes and Reynaudels of all nations.” She also denounced the moderates and all those seeking to form an internationale in opposition-to Mos- cow. Split your party to achieve more pre- clous unity,” Madame Zetkin advised the congress. “I urge you to split from your party all social patriots and all vacillat- ing centrisis, and form a single revolu- tionary force capable of discipline, vig- orous action and emancipation of the pro- letariat. “The barbarians who destroyed the ancient cathedral at Rheims belong to the same class, kin and family as those who destroyed the ancient cathedral at Kiev,” she cried, referring to the Polish warfare against Moscow which was car- ried on with allied aid. Madame Zetkin arrived late in the af- ternoon_and spoke for half an hour. She then left with a small escort of friends, and no one else was allowed to leave for twenty minutes, to enable her to de- part secretly as she had come. Her visit to the congress was unex- pected. It is believed she came by mo- for and is supposed that after leaving the hall she proceeded to the German frontier. SPEAKER CANNON THE NESTOR OF AMERICAN LEGISLATORS Washington, Dec. 28.—'Uncle Joe” Cannon, war horse of the house of repre- sentatives, today es:ablished a new Amer- ican record. With the close of a dull house session he passed the mark for length of service set by Justin Smith Morrill, of Vermont, who as senator and representative, served 43 years, nine mon:hs and 24 days. The former speaker will begin tomorrow add- ing new time to his own Iecord, with the, hope of reaching the ripe old age of 100, and beating Gladstone's Tecord of 53 years in the British house of commons. “Uncle Joe's” achievement will be cele- brated in the house tomorrow, wih Champ Clark, himself a veteran, who re- tires March 4, leading the speak §: core- monies. Mr. Cannon also will speak, and many of the older members will ask time for a few remarks. ‘Walking about the corridors of the cap- itol today chewing his long black cigar, Mr. Cannon told a friend there was no use offering a little advice to younger representatives, because somebody else always was thinking up smart things and attributing them to him. The remark, charged to Mr. Cannon, that they put spurs on the heels of army officers to keep their feet from slipping off the desk, was never uttered by him. “But what's the use?” he asked. Counting his victory in the recent landslide, Mr. Cannon has been elected to congress 23 times. He is now ending the 44th year of service. First elected in 1872, he has kept coming to congress ever since, with the exception of two No- vembers, when his people failed to return him. On May 7, next, he will be 85 years old. Few of his friends remember that he was born at Guilford, N. C. He serv- ed eight years as speaker, and has been doing committre work so long he has forgotten when Te started. “Mr. Gladstone served 53 vears in the British house of commons, and with good election luck I hope to beat that” the former speaker said. “I have had four years of absence I didn’t ask for, and hope to reach the fifty-three, but then you never can tell GALBRAITH CALLS SOLDIERS’ BONUS AN OBLIGATION ‘Washington, Dec. 28.—Testimony by Secretary Houston of the treasury before the senate finance committee yesterday placing the cost of carrying out the pendin_ gadjusted compensation or soldier bonus bill at $2,300.000,000 was charac- terized by F. W. Galbraith, national com- mander of the American Legion, in a statement tonight as “a cuttlefish skir- mish ‘to muddy the waters so that the principle involved can be clouded in a lot of fisures that mean nothing.” Mr. Galbraith estimated the maximum amount the bonus bill would cost the overnment at $1,878,000,000. “Secretary Houston's whole presenta- tion of the matter,” said the Legion. com- mander, “was misleading and designed to frighten the country into a repudiation of its obligation to ex-service men. The general impression was conveved by his testimony that the passage of the adjust- ed compensation bill would entail the im- mediate appfopriation of billions 6f dol. lars by the \government and seriously cripple the financial” condition of the treasury at the presént time. The facts are that appropriations necessary to car- Ty out'all features of the bill except that of cash compensation would be negliigible for this year, and for several years to come, and that appropriations for cash compensation are not asked until July, 1921, and are to be spread over a period of two years.” Ao e o v HOOVER MAKES ADDRESS IN WOOLSEY HALL, ¥EW. HAVEN New Haven, Conn., Dec. 28.—Herbert Hoover conferred with state workers of the European relief council here this af- ternoon and he addressed a mass meet- ing in Wooleey hall tonight.- He sald that the relief council has sent an inves- tigator to Ireland and if Irish children are in need of food, the council will in- clude irelanc in its work. Prof. Charles M. Bakewell of Yale, chairman of the state organization of the relief council, presided at the meeting. The invocation was by the Rt .Rev. John G. Murray of Hartford, and brief ad- dresses were made by President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale and Dean Charles H. Brown of the Yale Diviniy school, Impar by Ney k’ Police Members of the Band That Robbed Bank at Milliown, N. J,, of $80,000. New York, Dec. 28.—Two men, cnarg- ed with being members of the band that jheld up and rovbed the First National Bank of Milltown,s N. J., December 20, escaping with §80,000, and believed to have been implicated in the murder and robbery December 16 of Bdwin M. An- ciews, Fifth Avenue jeweler, were ar- rested here tonight with their wives, Liberty bonds valued at $13,000, said to be part of the Millkown robnery 19oi, were found in a suit case carried by the two men, the police said, and acded that all four carried firearms. Coincident with these arrests came an announcement that Police Commis- sioner Enright's latest measure to curb lawlessness—the calling out of more than «00 New York policemen for training— had been dealt a knockout blow wnen the board of aldermen failed to vote nec- essary funds for their pay. In denying the appropriation, the aidermen promis- ¢l o reconsider’ it at a fucure meek- ng. “he men taken in custody tonight said they were Jerome B. Chaffee, 28, and Harry Bitzerger, 30. They were, haited when they alignted from an automobile at Seventy-second street and Broadway. Resisting arrest, they fousht for several minutes before being subdued. The two women who tollowed closely in a taxicab, surrendered. Fifth avenue was crowded with Christnds shoppers when two men ea- tered the jeweiry shop of Andrews on the eighih floor of u buikling in the center of the fashionable snopping dis- trice. Andrews was alone. e 15 be- lieved to have been snot in an attempt to frustrate the robvery. Two Jewelry salesmen, Who entered while the sate Was being rified, were bound and gag- ged. - Lhe men escaped with gems val- uid at §100,000. Chartee and Litzberger Will be confronted tomorrow with lae 'wo salesmen. The nignt of Deceraber 0 four ban- dits entered the bank at- Milltown, bound and gagged the ‘Watenman, placed tae 100 in nunubags and Lies. Releasing himself from his bonds the watchman sounded an alarm. A-posse was tormed and atter a long chase through the Jer- Sty nmrshes, Lwo men were captured During their trial they are said o have given information regarding the ideatity uf their confederates. Wrile operating under various aliases the prisoners are accused by.the police of having taken part in many Senva- tional hoid-ups and robberies througaout the country. They have ween connected, the police asserted, with a recent Phila. delpnia bank rovuery, and served five Yyear sentences in Leavenworth peniten- tiary. ‘They are said to have escaped from the prison at New, Bedford, Mass., Ivaere uiey were serving terms for burg- ary. PLAN TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL POLICE BUREAU Trenton: “l J., Dee. 28—Establishment of a central rational jpoli u in Washington; through Wiilch xx:fi?m’auon could be flashed around the world to keep a check on movements of known crim- inals, was onc of the principal recom- mendations made at a conference here to- day of state, county and municipal ofii- clals called by Governor Edwards to de- vise some means of combatting the pres- ent crime wave in New Jersey. Police Commissioner Enrizht of New York city, who suggested the establish- ment of a central bureau, declared the United States was far below thé effi- ciency of police of European countries and that the police of this country could not expect co-operation from foreign coun- tries until a system of checking convicts was adopted. e asserted criminals from England were entering *this country daily through Mexico. Nt e CONFLICTING COUNSEL ABOUT ASSOCIATION OF NATIONS Mairon, Ohio, Dec. 28.—Conflicting counsel regarding an association of na. tions was given President-elect Harding today by former supporters of (the league of Versailles. Senator Porter J. McCumber of North Dakota, who voted for unreserved rati- fication of the Versailles treaty, advised the president-clect to put the league aside and try for a new deal all around in his efforts to form an international peace society. Oscar Straus, of New York, a former ambassador to Turkey and pro-league worker in the treaty fight, took the view that the United States still should ac- cept the league in some form and should launch its next move for world peace through that agency. Both expressed confidence in Senator Harding's policy of seeking to unite the country behind an international program but neither would express publicly an opinion regrading the president-elec”’s specific proposals for a world concert as he outlined it to them. Although he was the leading republi- can supporter of the league through both ratifica‘ion battles in the senate, Senator McCumber said he regarded the covenant as definitely rejected so far as | the United States was concerned and thought an association of nations now could be built up independently of the leages machinery. He suggested that the greater powers be linked by a network of arbitration treaties as the basis of the new society and that a disarmament agreement might be consummalted as the next step toward world peace, As ac'ing chairman of the senate fi- nance committee, Mr. McCumber also talked with the president-elect about tax- ation and tariff proposals. He held out little hope that the present session of congress would do more than pass anpro- priation bills and a budget measure® FREIGHT WRECK BLOCKED TRACK EAST OF DANBURY Danbury, Conn, Dec. 28.—Three lines of the New York, New Haven & Hart- ford Railroad were blocked tonight as the result of the derailment today of 20 freight cars loaded with coal and Steel, three miles east of this city. All freight traffic_through Danbury on the Central New England railmad and the New Haven road has been annulled. Pas- senger trainst between New York and the Berkshires are being run by way of “Bridgeport. The lines from Danbury to Pitteficld, Danbury to Litdhfied and Danbuty to Waterbury and Hartford are tied up. Shuttle trains are I ing used to transfer passengers around iae wreck- age. Three wrecking crews. from New Ha- ven, Waterbury and Malbrook, N. Y., worked all afternoon and all night in an eorflt to clear the tracks, whioh are piled with coal, steel and wreckage, min- gled with snow an dice. It was expected the tracks weuld be cleared and repairea some time tomorrow. Dropping of a brakebeam on one of the freight cars is believed to have caused the wreck. Ne on was_ iniured, el e L et ‘; in Wilmington, Del. ‘le of Wilmington Rubber + Co.-—$600,000 New Fire- proof Addition Consumed. ‘Wimington, Del, Dec. 28.—The huge plant of the Wilmington Leather Con- pany was a mass of smoking ruwins, twisted steel and shattered concrete 1o- night after the most destructive fire in the history of Wilimington, which caused gum;e estimated at more than $2,500,- 00. At 10 o'clock the flames were dying down, after having consumed eleven buildings and a valuable stock ‘of raw, pantly finished and manufactured leath- er. All that remained of the great plant was a small warehouse and a workshop set apart from the main buildings. The cause of the fire is not known. It Started in one of the older Jui spread quickly. Ome of tul tures to go was a new fireproof addi- tion, built last year at a cost of $500,- 000. The plant was one of the largest in this section and employed many hundreds of workmen. After having been closed for weeks, it was planned to recpen this week and take on 800 hundred hands who had been added to the swelling list of the city's unempjloyed. CEMENT MAKERS SUBPOENAED IN “BUILDING TRUST” PROBE New York, Dec. 28.—All but a small fraction ofy the cement and terra cotta manufacturers of America exchange their price quotations and other data on the amount of business handled through na= tional and regional associations, it devel- oped here today at the legislative inquiry into the alleged “building trust.” While these revelations accumulated on top of similar ones recently brought forth in the investigation of other construction lines, one more organization of building contractors—the hoisting association—an- nounced it had dissolved. The members promised to have “unrestricted, open com- petition” in the future. ‘The medium through which the terra cotta makers reviewed data on the busi ness of all their competitors was the Na- tional Terra Cotta society. its former president, William H. Powell, told the committee. He explained an “oven price system” of cards was issued, with each firm designated by “code letters.” This was done daily in detail among regional branches of the society in the east, west and central sections of the country. Gen- eral data was exchanged between the sec- tions weekly. Cement manufacturers from various parts of the country who had been here attending a convention were summoned by subpoena servers of the committee and they appeared one after another to un- dergo examination by Samuel Untermyer, committee counsel. Quoting from price lists of the manu- facturers who faced him, Mr. Untermyer charged that all the cement maker had “quadrupled prices sinee 1914 and had boosted them 50 per cent. between Janu- ary and October this year,” when the quotations were slightly lowered. The prices quoted by all the mapufac- turers emfraced in the Portland Cement s association throughout the country were “horizontal, unanimous and uniform,” he said, Later two of the witnesses testified the prices quoted by all cement manu- facturers usually were identicl within forty-eight hours after any one of them had made a change. This association, according to a sum- mary of its transactions which were read into the record, spent $1,500,000 last year. Mr. Untermyer expressed a desire to get the books in order to find out how this large sum was expended, and John (. i Morin, president of the Atlas Portland | Cement company, which he said contrib- uted §125,000 to the association’s fund in 11919, ordered the secretary to produce the | books from Chicago. Mr. Morin, one of the principal witness- es of the day, told the committee the money was appropriated by states and used in employing engineers to “chaperon cement work” and promote the use of that poroduct. ONLY FOUR APPEALS FROM DEPORTATION OF RADICALS Boston, Dec. 28.—Assistant United States Attorney Lewis Goldberg an- nounced today that except in the case of four defendants the government would no tapveal from the decision of Judge Anderson of the federal court last July recommending the discharge of twenty alleged radicals arrested by department of justice ofiicials last January. Exceptions are to be made in the cases of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Colyer, Lew Bonda and Frank Mack. Judge Anderson ruled that all should be released on the ground that the com- munist party, of which they were mem- bers, was not a party that believed in overthrow of ttw government by forcé and { violence within meaning of the statute. Appeals in the €-3a of the four to which exceptions have been made will be filed next Tuesday, Mr. Goldberg said. This will mean the immeGiate and uncon- ditional release of the others, who are now at liberty on bail. Judge Anderson in rendering his de- cision said that if the higher court should view the communist party differently then the four to whom exceptions have been made should be “remanded to the custody of the immigration authorities.” Allof the defendants have remained in or near this city pending final action. PRICE OF MILK TO BE REDUCED IN BOSTON 2 Boston, Dec. A_reduction of one cent a quart in the price of milk to dis- tributors, effective Jan. 1, 1921, was agreed upon today by the New England Milk Producers’ association at a confer- ence With the state snecial commission on the necessities of life. The commis- sion in a statement said the distributors were “unwilling or unable” to reduce their charge for handling and delivering milk to the consumer, but were willing to pass along to the public the reduction made by the producers. OBITUARY Menry L. Thorpe Hartford, Dec. 28-—Henry L. Thorpe, president of the Park Brick company of Elmwood, died at his home in Elmwood this morning following an illness of near- ly six week. He was 68 years od. He born in North Haven. For about thirty years he had been interested in the man- ufacture of brick, about eight years being spent in the pusiness in North Haven, coming to, Emwood in 1898. He leaves is wife and a son, the latter in Califor- nia. 3. Bernard Rylivn. New York, Dec. 28. — J. Bernard Dyllyn, (Bdwin Dunn), widely known years ago as a baritone ballard singer on the variety stage, and the first actor | his home here today. He was born tm Brooklyn 67 yedrs ago. Arrests A $2,500,000 Fire ! Portland, died rs St ‘Brief Telegrams General Robert Nivelle, of France, ar- rived at St Louis for a two days' vie- it The New York Cotton Exchange here will close at noon, Friday, December 31 About two hundrei shipping board vessels are tied up for lack of busi- ness. . $ A hollday drinking bout esused the asphyxiation of four persons at Fall Riv- er, Mass. . Baron Mayor des Planches, former Italian ambaseador to this country, s dead at Rome. American dollar was quoted at 17 francs 9 1-2 cents on the Paris Bourse. Prices were ifregular. Emerson Hough, novelist, was report- ed in a critical conditron at St Jo- seph’s hospital, Chicago. William Hood, a megro gunman witn & long police record, in Springfield, Mass., was held in bonds of $24,000. Price of gasoline was reduced 1 1- cents a gallon to 25 cents, wholesale, by the Standard Oil Co., of Indiana. It will be several months at least be- fore the actual withdrawal of American marines from Sar Domingo will begiu. Leather dressing plant of Henry E. Brandt, at Gloversville, N. Y., was de- etroyed yb fire. Loss estimated at $200,- 000. Commodore John Eccleston Craven, TU. S. N, (retired) died suddenly at hs home in Annapolis, Md. He was 62 years old. New York silver was unchanged at 99 1-2 cents. Foreign prive advanced 1 1-8 cents to 64 1-4 cents. Mexican, 48 1-2 cents. Cancellation of President Irigoyen's usual holiday trip added stremgth to rumors of an impending strike in Ar- gentina. in British freight rates con- tinues.. Many vessels are laid up be- cause it i= impossible to meet the cost of operation. Slump Thousands of persons in Massach setts are buying coai on a co-operative basis and many. corporations are making purchases for their employes. Los Angeles Russian Progressive elub adopted resolutions asking President- elect Harding to obtain safe passage to Russia for 500 of its members. A strike of railway workers in threatened in southern Auhtr: unless the government promises to take meas- ures to reduce the cost of living. Arrangements have been concluded In New York with banking interests where- Dby the weak marzinal accounts of Rep- logle steel have been protected. Intervention in Cuba under authority of the Platt amendment is being con- sidered as a result of the disturbed po- litical and financial condition there. Employes_of United States Steel Cor- boration will be given an opportunit to buy common stock at $20 to a share below the price paid last year. Production of iIngots in the Vw.u}[l- town district fro mpresent indications is expected to be about 40 per cent. of normal for the last week of December. Very Reverend Michael V. Balagh, dean or supervising head of the thirty five Hunzarian Greek Catholic r:hux:(-\vr! in America, died at his home in Cieve- { tand. James Phillip McCarthy, veteran newspaper man, died at Post Graduate hosp! ew York, as the result of an operation for appendicitis. He was ill but a week. A resolution was adopted by the sen- ate calling upon the interstate commerce commission to report as to the increased cost of fuel to the railroads for the current year over 1913. Pacific Steamship Co., early in Jan- uvary, will inaugurate a steamship se vice from Antwerp to Seattle, making it possible for Washingion fruit growers to ship products to Europe. Russo<Polish peace negotiations were definitely broken off. Adof Joffe, so- viet, aldecred Russia’s internal condition treat further with the Poles. Sophocles Venizelos, son of the form- er Greek premier, was married to Made- moiselle Katelin Zerouda A number of prominent French persona es attended the ceremony. Senator Edge's motion calling upon the Shippinz Board for a detailed state- ment of s financial condition, ships being operated and profits and losses of operation was adonted by the senate. Rev. Charles W, Collins, former chan- cellor of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Clement’'s house, Boson, Sunday night. it b:came known Tuesday. He had heen chaplain at St. Clement's for several years. American Red Cross provided civilian suits as Christmas gifts to 6.000 Polish Americans, being demobilized at War- saw from the army of General Haller nreparatory to returning to this coun- try. . A special concession was granted for the construction of a railroad from Huancayo to Negre Bueno inthe De- partmentot Junin, Peru, passing through the most important coal center of the country. Four men, belleved by police to be members of a band that perpetrated many hold-ups and robberies throughout Bergen county, New Jersey, early in the mon‘fy were arrested in New York charged with robbery. A hold-p by armed robbers, a mys- terious 'shooting in the downtown sec- tion, numerous arrests on less serious charges and the fining of 85 men who were arrested marked cleanup of the bus- iness districts in Pittsburgh. Bishop Willlam Lawrence of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Massa- dhusetts pleaded for church unity that would include the Roman Catholic and eastern churches, at an inter-denomina- tional church conerence in Boston. mnd sent parts by way of England to France, where they were assembled. District Chiet Franeis J. Jordan, Lieun- tenant Edward Fottler and gas explosion at the William E. Endi- eott = the Roxbury district, was so good that it was unmecessary to! 10 PAGES—74 COLUMNS COMPROMISE SUIT AGAINST FORMERN. . R. . DRECTORS Federal Judge Charles M. Hough Orders 3150,000,000 Stocke« holders’ Equity Suit Against William Rockefeller and Other Former Directors of the Road Discontinued—Iin< dividual Defendants, Charged With Waste and Misman« agement, Have Paid the Road $2,500,000—Judge Al lows Lawyers for the Complainants $833,333.33, to be Paid Out of Settlement Mone; ' New York, Dec. 25.—A compromise in {1 ane 1 28.—A compromise Inlocked by historical, finane e the $150,000,000 stcckholders' equity sui ..;»m,f.-m.u;. rat '-::i L,,um against William Kockefelier aud other | be broken apart = - former directors of the New York. New | Te commission Haven and Hartford railroad was affect- | ningham that “four out of (s coie o0 ed here today when Federad Judse England showed & freght Charles Hough ordered the action dis- present. but if the Grand Trunk continued. England were considere The terms of the compromise of the purent line in Caneds. ang "a that th In the to the whole result wha decline this, o1 et it wo ed ! potic ceed whom waste charged, pay the N court is th to another defendant t can ne he raiv e for the fra the corporate defen: any it seems to me a perfec ng on the take a fund produced whol! “This is the r: allowance of counsel f. he individual and defendants, mismanagement ew Haven, the corp: varent | adi and the - New England a part of the New w Haven and Har-ford to which ate defendant, $2,500,000 which cour p for the road tonight said had been do ided that Then the judge issued an order a.i £ were. Comiteonat & Ing_the lawyers for the complaina $833,332.33—a third of the compro sum—upon their application _for disbursements and expenses, to be out of the scttlement mone In a memorandum accompany average Jocal discontinuance papers Judge Hough s Fland was 7.9 miles while “The compromise of suit and action it was 3 miles, and generally a matter private between s 39 conts 2 trate piarties, and the only reason 51 as compared with me for submitting this settlement tines unus ent b al fact thag y_was given one set of def of a larg OVer 10 croms exe k line attorneys of wite arriers east of the Hud~ pa. money in consideration of a geners lease, Lad FE The jndividual defendan w’”'”“'"v PROYIBITION . their peace from the plaint NTS RAID HURLEY, WIS, money to the cory - only interest of the . — however, is to get money for the corpor- ago visited neate ate defendant and counsel fees and ex- arrested about penses for their own solicitors. ufiscated (we “However, since the appro Ad that sared court has been asked, it i tay and continued following reasons: This by prisoners and conspiracy to cause the corp: defend o Ironwood and lant to violate the Sherman dofng | As whers probably very expensive and unpr thin tor 1l be arraigned bee Ergo, says the bill, the dividual de- | for ited States commissioner on ‘8 fendants must pay as the dam h lat e federal prohibiion their conspiracy cost the New Haven rajflway. 1 have regarded th e raid was undertaken at the Airege an extreme doubtful cause of act 1 of Judge Kenesaw M. Landis of Chi- cult to prove and in outcome u; and was planned by Prank B, Riche itself. n. newly appointed prohibition em- “After the reneated attacks ement agent for this dis however, the bill has been re ing party of fifty or more far as [ am concerned—main of Joseph Callahan underneath the maz p of the T ng fact of ursued the eor could stent course quiring what be called competine e rolied into the transformation ems fn New England | of newspopermen accompanied the jand many that, to my mind conld mot s be called competing, paying for such ae-| e crawd thap. followed the sments quisitions a great deal of monev or prop- | Aown Silver strect grew fn a for micutes erty constituting an outlay which i than 200 per sons bt there wall light of subsequent events it would be monstratin, » fhle Lints of vABE ficult to justfy on a husiness bas t opposition to \ fact. ther “Now th s have retracted wd seer.ed more Inpoacd to make R stions of personal profit by oceasion for a holiday. fendants and retracted also whatever ‘rom the viewpoint of u surorise pare lezations of moral wrong-doing ar e affair complete suconil bill and all that may be sugse leral agents While # wag @ the business transactions t 1 no' gteat quantity of lquor el case is eminently one for sett 1t | been conegated g to many T rests, 1 think, o the court of last tes Who watched the “mash manh® resort ma [down snver stre | Strest cars wer A to transort the a1 | cucs 2he 56 T A seted i ar tiy mot all wn by two horses fo) the acenty to be tréated alike. They n office | in the eleanup, 5-4 havied Srwor 38 t times and the acts complained | the street ears. Tn Tronw: driy et not evenly distributed, over the the street cars and took the liguor to the o0dd years covered by the plead- | speeial ears Ings. | Moonshine, sccopding 14 ohaervers wh “Further, they can be liable for | pretended to kmo ted the prin- their personal acts, and it remain v » unknown to me—and 1 presume larg 1iffs—how particular r the persora plain of x the minoruy. POISON GAS SUPREME WEAPON OF NEXT WAS mal § to av 1to b r to give 1 not pay ssed onight] ernment, . opinion Now money tially admil t tn 2 n comas furnished their names. = o rou fendant has been no more than a saee- | of the ri- |tator, the work has been done who'ly by p tard | counsel on both sides. and in s> far 28 the | . - Jany fruit is prodiced it is wholly oo A8 i plaintiffs’ counsei. | (0 the Tnttedl- Large as the sottlement is, T cee no h bl reason why the rule usual in this jurls- |¢ rygs et i diction In respect of recoverics of sum American Industry i e Findcred largely speculatve by counsel operatin= g L Lrs would on contingent fees should rot be 21 sther n abity and T award one-third of s plteon’ i I et ot to plaintiffs’ counsel 4 ] Asa P. French, Arthur Dereson. Fran- s 2l 2 1 Garland, Bernard Perenson and: spyg, GrARDSMEN GOING TO Frank M. Swacker were counsel for the | g v g - £ complainants. | Gve The defendants named in 1 s el - August 30, 1916 were: WX cke-| . Pine e feller, Charles M. Pra Led- ot vard, George McCul McKa: York, NEW ENGLAND RAILROAD: ‘Washington, railroads mus: be kept in one group for financial reasons, railroad expert, told the interstate com- Many French toy manufacturers were | merce commission today at resumption forced to close by the appearance of |of the hearings into the r German toys on the French market. The | freight rates be.ween carriers east and Germans established French toy firms|west of the Hud Mr. Cunningham, who made a study of the New two other | for bréaking New ingway, A. Heaton Rob sus Brewster, Charles F. Brook ar Elton, ry K. McHarz, E i Robbins, Yoim L. Billard, Ro . Taft, Chartes S. Mellen, and J ol Morgan, Herbert L. Satterlee, P. Hamilton and Lewis Cass Ledyarl executors of 3 Pierpont Morgan; Florence A. V. Twom- bly, executrix of the will of F Company. | mobiti; om | Twombly McKay, and the New New Haven and Hartford Railroad the wil of the NEGRO MUEDEREE 18 ? SURZOUNDED BY POSSE Wilson, -Arkansas, SHOULD BE IN ONE GROUP Dec. 28—New England | W. J. Cunningh m. a telcphone { rations wer negro's s division of wosed n GOV. ASKS CONTRIDUTIONS ¥OR CHILDEEN IN EUROPE on_river. England situation at the ro- quest of the carriers, said under cross| Hartford, Conn.. Dec. examination tha: he could see no reason Holcomb, in a statement gi England group leapital this afternoon, urzed the peophe nnecticut t7 “eimtributs to popularize the song “Afker the Ball”|members of the Boston fire departmentnorthern and southern sections and join- | of was found dead from asphyxiation in|were overcome by smoke as a result of a | ing them to other railroad divisions out- | as they can™ 10 (S fund side of the New thgt territory. He argued gland carriers were inter- starving chlldren in Europe. ‘-