Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 30, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXIl—NO. 327 POPULATION 29,685 NORWIC N. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1920 . 10 PAGES—76 COLUMNS ABRIELE. 'ANNUNZIO 15 LEAVING FIUME BY AIRPLANE Has Issued a Proclamation Declaring That It is Not Worth While Dying for Italy—Municipal Council of Fiume is Conducting Negotiations for Surrender of the City— Settlement is to be Based on Recognition of the Treaty of Rapallo, Disarmament of the Legionaires and Gen- eral Amnesty. Rome, Dec. 29.—D'Annunzio has issued his breast.) Fire upon me!” At this, it Jamation decla is not|was reported, Pittaluga embraced &'An- b e e or Dialy. _Ha sald hi | nunsio and the soldiers on both sides set wA sieaving Flume by airplane. up the cry: “Viva Fiume! Viva d’Annun- e i afticiatly announced here | zl0t”. The d’Annunzio troops then en- tfis afternoon. tose with the an | tered the city. ; : ol R ime agreement | The 15 months {hat have clapsed since = t8 Sataried a8 sonciuded. the poet-warrior set himself up as “a \y be regarded as eonCuIt of the | dictator” have been filled with tragic as g o e egnition of | Well as obura bouffe events. Ulashes be- Uisbandment of | tWeen the Italians and Jugo-Slavs were treaty legiona w0 general am- | frequent. D'Annunzio proclaimed the an- B el Some time today fol- | nexation of Fiume to Italy even while ey B Tt lag #ivices from the | that country was appealing to the allied e, The Suspension of hos- | POWers lo wrest the city’ from him. R er oualy ordered has been pro- | IROts, strikes and .fires were numerous S ytesio and, the Unitet Siates cruisers ‘Qlympia R Lk for sutrende ro- | and Pittsburgh were sent to the Adriatic e s s chunil P70 | to protect American interests. The Jugo- Fame: t Which d'Annunzio has ceded | SIavs cut off . TAnhunzio's food. supply o g and Italian warships blockaded Fiume from the sea. D'Anhunzio put the city on scant ra- tions and continued to issue defiant man- ifestos and declare he would “never leave Fiume alive. LAST PHASES OF T¥ STRUGGLE IN FIUME Rome, Dec. 28—A deserip the 3 Many Italian sall- o 1 .-\‘m«-;'.:r,:\“gx‘m:.{‘ Te.|ors and soldiers joined his forces:until, “ived here today, show that the legion- [ 8t one time, he was reported to have an iires reopened fire against the troops who | AFmY of more than 100,000 men. He oc- e e L noiing the positions they | CUPIod. several other places in the dis- aad taken Monday fight. puted region, including Stussak, Risniak, Durazzo, Trau, Castua and Zara and pa- 3 assumed the character of X ol pa- “.f;" u;nf«";rmr-u:n long the line. The \l;;;llcd the Dalmatian coast with his war- & £ epreod 2 ships. w egionalres took advan! e of the natu- %l resources of the terrain for laying| OB January 1, 1920, when the supreme amBuscades. As the regulars were advancing across srchards they were enveioped by fire ‘rom machine guns which had been sunk o the level of the ground and cleverly samouflaged. The houses seemed to have been aban- lened, but when the troops approached, the legionaires, hidden behind Wwindo Lehind chimney-stacks and on balconies allied council disbanded in Paris the Adriatic questior was still unsettled. Last March, Italy strengthened the blockade Whereupoh d'Annunzio proclaimed Fiume “a free and independent state.” In un- nouncing this to the allied powers he I said the action did not mean : Fiume's “renunciation” of Italy. He also sum- moned a constituent assembly to meet an order thal precipitated the resignation of sven | the Fiume national council and left a and roofs, suddenly opened fire. Even | ; ¢ 5 - Annunzio as chief of s‘ate, forej in- 3 £ tmachis - gu min. SR found working mi ister and commander of the army. e gravest losses wore inflicted by| Meanwhile, diplomatic e%orts were in . progress between Italy and Jugo-Sla- hand grenades, which were used so free- | 3 ugo-Sla- a x;‘».. \bé fmpréssion that ~they ;‘:v to composc tHeir differences. Nhese mmet have been accumulated by scores | 1¢d to the parley between delegales rep- of thousands. It would have been an |TeSeNURg both nations at Rapallo early sasy matter to get the better of the le- | I November, 1920, and a settlement of h iy the long vexing Adriatic questio th ng ar-illery, but the 4 1 stion on the 3 anthoritics | refused such re. | following Jbasis: 1:—Tho Istrian frontier course except against military buildings. | [ e €O b'fllled by the Jugo Slavs; Tho legionaires ultimately tried ‘to| (HHC :0 e independent, with territorial force th lars to retrea: in order to | (ORUBUILY to Ttaly; 3—Zara to be under relieve on the city, but failed | lt3lian suzerainty; 4—Islands of Cher- g0, Lussin and Unie to be Italy. The treaty was signed by the cn- jYovs of hoth mations on November 10. It was later approved by the foréign rela~ tions committee of the Italian chamber of owing to t lly of the carabinecrs who fought coura three hours. Th gle was bitterc : stubborn resistance, espec- d Alpine troops. for more. than s where the $trug- the railway sta- granted to neur t -, | deputies. . D'Annunzio w s biltére 4 oY, 4 as admonis! '.f,'l-y.““l@u-.w‘ua ) ——— ¥ | to accept its terms. e repliod mazmt‘: Calonel” Marals nead of the staft of | 40 0 Would be “suicide” for Italy. Jago: e Tt ke an order | SIavia thereuponappeated. to Ttaly - ts Ail w to the i ers were at the head of ut exception, tafr ed regu oust d'Annunzio from Fiume and I 2 Tegular troons then surrounded the ire. On December 1 d'Annunzio declared 5 stafe of war with Italy and there was much war-like activity in Fiume his officers to the rs especially re- lovellod at them A Calubrese sol- broken while tretcher: “The in- the wound.” FEDERAL ACTION TO BE TARKEN AGAINST. “BUILDING TRUST” T on a than New York, Dec. 29.—The federal gov- ernment added its legal flail to the whips of New York state’s “trust smashing” or- ganization today by returning indictments charging violation of the Sherman anti- trust act agaist four sand concerns and eleven individuals recently investigated :. the joint legislative committee sitting, here. These indictments, the first of a federal story of Seizure of ¥ t of Flume in Sep- Gabriels d'Annunzio, jor., the head of 8 nadiers and arditi, was max to a controversy the treaty of London, spring of 1915 between me. 1919 by t-wars r g ramatic back i th soncluded Laly and the allied powers, under which |nature to e returaid in connection with Italy_entered the war against the Cen- |the “bullding trust” Inquiry,” scoumuint. 2 Porsis ed upon more than 120 indictments re- The truaty assigned the part of Tyrol [turned by a trlo 6f grand juries Go-ap. wuth of the Brenner Pass, as well as |erating with the legiiative inveotinarin, Trieste, Gorizia, lIstria and 'a sec.ion of |The defendants will appear for pleading \e Dalmatian litteral to ltaly, but gave |tomorrow. Flume, the seaport of Hungary, to Croa- tia. When the war ended, I'alian national- ists, including d'Annunzio, demanded that Fiume, with its preponderant Ital- lan population, should be given to Italy, an cat that would have required the re- ‘teaty of London. The Ital- owever, invoked the principle of self-determination neiated by Pres- t Wilson and pointed to the fact that Meanwhile the committee, before an audience of business men that packed the chamber, uncovered some of the most ex- tensive cooperative organizations of man- ufacturers and contractors which daily in- Quiry over ten weeks has brought forth. It has shown that hundreds of firms in all lines of trade throughout the country exchange through clearing houses, the names of prospective buyers, their bids i i and signed contracts and also daily re. ey s, ubon, the dis- | poris of stocks on hand, and shipments @ Austro-Hunga em- | These < prociaimed through thett na- practices, carried on under prs- grams advocated by the late Arthur + rome Fddy and his economic discip! ® were characterized by Samuel Untermey- er. as “teamwork to fleece the people. Their legality s involved in- the case agianst the American Column company now before the United States supreme court. » union of Fiume with now a part of Jugo-Slavia, op- laim on the ground that Sus- important suburb of Fiume and part of the city i‘self, was overwhelm- inzly Jugo-Siav. In addition the Croa- r country and the adjoining lands | L1OW® Acting as counsel for a group ot several of these societies, admitted in testifying today that he was employed to steer the qoncerns banded together under his direction “within the anti-trust laws.” Among the many other men who are stm- ilarly employed in the count:y he named Clark McKircher, formerly with the anti- ;:‘ust division of the department of jus- ce. 4 needed Flume as their only outlet to the sea. This positioh won the support of resident Wilson who was subsequently denounced by d'Anrunzio and his sympa- thizers as “the only obstacle to the re- nlization of Italy's asnirations. Presi- dent Wilson's view, however, was shared by the British and French. Back by Italian public opinion, the Ttslian delegation to the Paris peace con- ference, headed by Premier Orlando and Foreign Minister Sonnino refused to yield Italy's claims. In April, 1919, the crisis came to a head when President Wilson threatened to withdraw from the conference. He issued a public state- ment sustaining the pact-of London in- sofar as it related to Fiume. Receipts of the decument in Italy precipitated nu- merous antl-Wilson outbreaks in which #'Annunzio took = leading part. Mean- while, Orlando and Sonnino quit the Paris conference and returned to Rome whero they were received with wild ac- slaim by the people. The Itallan cham- ber of deputies adopted a vote of confl- dence in the Orlando ministry, « Later, however, the two statesmen returned to Paris at the invitation of their col- leagues and participated in the negotia- tions and the signing of the Austrian peace treaty. Failure to reach a satisfactory solu- tion of the Fiume embroglio, however, ‘was one of the principal causes of the downfall of the Orlando ministry on June 19, 1819, and it was £ # ceeded by the moderate Nitti cabinet, whose gelec- tion exasperated the Italian nationalists and was the forerunner of the d'Anntin- lo_coup d'etat the following September, Fiume, at the time of the entry of the @'Annunzio forces, was under the mili- tasy control of General Pittaluga of the ltalian army. The gencral had led a strong detachment to the o #<irts of the city to intercept the invadirs who had | LUNOHEON IN MONTEVIDEO FOR SECRETARY COLBY Montevideo, Uruguay, 'Dec. 20.—(By the A. P.)—Bainbridge Colby, the Amer- ican secretary of state, was informed to- day by Dr. Javier Mendivil, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the Uruguayan senate, thit Uruguay had a thorough comprehension of the Monroe doctrine and understood that it did not imply rar involve any right on the part of the United States to compromise or dominate the independent sovereignty of any American state. “This, in our concept,” said Dr. Mendi- vil, “is the true sentiment of the American people an of the men of its government.” Dr. Mendivil was speaking at a lun- cheon given by the senate in honor of Secretary Colby. He recalled that when Uruguay broke off relations with Ger- many during the war it was on a basie “definitely affirming Pan-Americanism as regulating the principle of our foreign poley.” OHIO CAVALRY ESCORT IN INAUGURAL PARADE ‘Washington, Dec. 29.—Troop A, First Ohio Cavalry, Captain Ralph Perkins, of Cleyeland, commanding, has_ been desig- nated to act as President-eléct Harding' personal cavalry escort in the inaugural parade. The selection was made by Mr. armored automobiles and were armed | Harding. . with machine-guns. D’'Annunzio met h| Troop A is the same organizatic with the salutation - - o “I understand acted as persomal escort fo President Me- would fire upen Xeus heathuen? s AL m peasmmaagion . S T ¥ g | Cabled Paragraphs FRENCH SOCIALIST CONGRESS WORKING TO PREVENT SPLIT Tours, Dec. 28.—(By The A. P.) The three wings of the French socialist con- gress met séparately late today in an effort to reach an understanding to pre- vent a split in the socialist party —of France before the full gession tonight takes up the quesiion of affiliation with the third internationale, ‘While the left, centre and right groups sought earnestly in individual meetings for a common ground for unity, it was currently stated in all sections that few expected anything except the division which has appeared inevitable. The communist majority has offered to inform Moscow that it considered the message sent by G. S. Zinovieff, blshe- vik governor of Petrograd, in the mame of the Moscow executive committee Ler- ring the center wing from the iaterna- tionale is too harsh. The proposed com- munis: message would add that tie right and center sections demand repudiazion. HARDING COVERS A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS IN CONFERENCE Marion, O, Dec. 29.—A wide variety of subjects, including the coal situation, packer control and the naval building program, were talked over by President- elect Harding today in a dozen confer- ences which kept him busy from early morning until late at night. The' coal production problem was pre- sented to him by Daniel B. Wentz of Philadelphia, president of the National Coal_assaciation, who furnished detailed information about the present rate of production and the outlook for the coming year. Mr. Harding asked many questions on the subject, but it was not indicated what attitude he took regarding govern- mental regulation of the industry. Mr. Wentz was accompanied 5§ Fred Upham of Chicago, a prominent coal man, who s treasurer of the republican national committeé. On the subject of naval construction the president-elect sought information from Representative Patrick A. Kelley of Michigan, chairman of the house sub- committee which handles naval appro- priations. Means of cutting down expen- ditures without crippling national defense were discussed at length, Mr. Kelley sus- gesting that' while the present building program was being completed an interna- tional agreement might be perfected for limitation of armaments. He also urged that the national reserve plan be pegfect- ed as an inexpensive guarantee of suffi- clent naval personnel. A committee from Chicago, headed by S. B. Stafford, president of the Chicago ivestock exchange, took up with Mr. Harding the question of governmental regulation of the livestock industry and presented a plea that during the next four years thé business should not be harassed unduly by legal restrictions. They asked that a secretary of agricul- ture be selected in harmony with that policy. 7 With Mr. Stafford were 'Everett C. Browh, president of the National Live- stock exchange, and Ray Wood, chairman of the organization’s legislative commit. tee. All the members of the delegation eéxpressed ~confidence that the president- elect would inauzurate a policy to reas- sure the trade and- stabilize markets. Another caller was Vietor E. Lawson, publisher of the Chicago_Raily . News, who saidhfs conference concerned various domestic problems. Charles B. Warren of Detroit, former republican national committeerhan for Michigan, also called to see the president-elect and had lunch- eon at the Harding home. The day brought no outward develop- ments regarding cabinet selections. Tomorrow the president-elect is to talk with Will H. Hays, prominently mention- ed for postmaster general or secretary of the interior, and with Senator Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania, who, with Charles E. Hughes, has been in the fore | of recent speculation about the secreta ship of state. It was said at Harding headqarters, however, that the call of Mr. Hays and Senator Knox was con- cerned primarily with arrangements for the inauguration. | BRITISH ORGANIZED LABOR ¥OR IRISH-SELF DETERMINATION London, Dec. 23.—A movement caleu- lated by its organizers to place the full weight of British organized labor in sup- port of the Irish self determination claims began with a specially convened conference of the parliamentary laber party in London today. Several members of the party's commission which investi- ga‘ed the situation in ‘Ireland told of what they had observed and learned there. - A resolution was adopted unanimuosly challenging the government to disprove the commission’s accusations regarding reprisals and other outrages charged lo the crown forces. The conference Wwas held as a curtain-raiser for a campaign in behalf of self determination and in op- position to the government's alleged pol- icy of repression to be inaugurated by the laborites in Manchester on January and concluded- in London on February i 15. | A G. Cameron, chairman of today's { conference, in opening the lengthy dis- cussion on the inquiry commission’s re- port, characterized it as “the,most se- rious indictment against British methods in trying to govern Ireland ever placed before the British people.” Brigadier General G. B. Thompson, who accompanied the commission, de- clared that the soldiers in Ireland were to a large exient merely children, and added: “The army of*occupation is mas- terful and criminal. The Black and Tans are violent in thought and deed. In ad- dition to being the, perpetrators of the worst _outrages they are the most provo- cative element in that unhappy country.” General Thompson said he thought the Pprime minister knew what was happening in Ireland, but “is the tool of the power- ful Clique who sre working the Irish policy.” J. Bromley in moving the resolution deploring “the lamentable condition of affairs in Ireland,” warned the British laborites that “the auxiliaries, with their class hatred, their political and racial hatreds and anti-Catholic bias, form the nucleus of a white guard.” MUSIC TEACHERS PREDICT THE END OF JAZZ MUSIC Chicago, Dec. 29.—The demise of jazz music and renaissance -of good music were predicted by delegates to ~the Na- tional Music Teachers’ Association to- a; ‘Music,” - declared’ R.’ G. ‘McCutchan, secretary of the association, “will give the country ‘the emotional stimulus for- merly taken by. booze. -A. singing nation is a contented nation; music will drown out the insidious muttering of red agi- tators.” FRENCE SOCIALISTS VOTE FOR MOSCOW INTERNATIONALE Tours, France, Dec. 29.—(By the A. P.) —The French soocialist party tonight by a large: majority. voted in favor of absolute affiliation with the Moscow internation- ale. Efforts are now proceeding to keep the socialist party intact. But the probabili- ty seems to be that the organization.has P 300,000 Workers are Now ldle in France But the People Will Begin the New Year More Confident Than They Began 1920. Parls, Dec. 20.—(By The A. P.) While the French people have ‘their wo.ries, yet they will begin the new. year im- Cocldgz Spaaks for Me;gar of Ralroeds Gives His Ideas’ of the Solu- tion of Serious Prchlems of Railroads in New England. Boston, Dec. 29.—Consofidation of the New England railroads into one system or with trunk lines that {ap this section il mensely more confident than they be- | wagsuggested by Governor Coolidge, vice gan 1920 becauso of ' extraordinarily | president-eicct, tonight, to remedy their good crops. progress .in res.oring tie | troubles. He was speaking at the an- nual banque: -of the foreign and domes- tic commerce commissions of New Eng- land. The present condition®of the railroads In this section is serious, the governor eaid. He quoted a recent statement to ‘he interstate commerce commission that at the current level of rates, wages and prices the roads would show a deficit be- low fixed charges of §$19,000,000 for the year ending June 30 next. If the bu ness of the previous twelve-month were repeated. Referring to the request for relief now pending before the commission, Governor Coolidge added that “even if our roads received @il they are asking it is doubt- ful if it would be sufficient to rehabili- tate their credit.” “In_the last amaly: he continued, “the New England public themselves will have to determine whether they desire an adequate transportation system and if they do it will be necessary for them to meet the burden of supporting it. “There are chances for some econom- fes. Fach dollar saved on a ton of coal on the basis of the consumption of last year means $5.000,000. Materials and supplies_are showing some reduction in cost, Efficiency in operation is improv- ing. The transportation act provided that wages should be fixed by the labor board and any liquidation here is not likely private industry but must be mado in ac- cordance with the provisions of the act made to avoid transpor:ation interrup- tion. “The transportation” act provides for consolidations, seemingly for the pur- voso of joining together lines which com- prise parts of importan: through routes. but beforo such consolidations take place the. rizhts of each road and the amount it is to feceive as the full measure of return on i's value should be definitaly _established. The New Bngland pub which must after all support the rail- roads, must give this subject careful at- tention. “There is an opportunity. for a_New England system and there arg opportuni- ties for combinations giving several great trunk lines access to Nuw England. It is not my purpose to discuss the relative desirability of any of these proposals, but rather to direct the attention of the New England public to the necessity of inform- ing itself and the necessity of the preser- vation of its rights. “Although about to retire from office. it is my earnest recommendation that the joint New England conference on foreizn and domestic commerce immediately at the beginning of the next political year cause to be held a conference of the governors- and interested parties for the purpose of infirming themselves and the public and deciding on a policy that will provide adequate transportation for the industrial needs of the New England uined departmenis of the aorth, a plen- titul supply of coal and the prospect a year hence of having - the period of military service reduced from three years to eighteen months. Two foreign questions are likely to give constant concern fo the government throughout the coming year. They arg the payment of reparatioas and the war witi; Turkish nationalists over the § aal Cicilian mandates. Tawa, alsc, tnere are the large general ques-ons of the fu- ture of the Versailles peize treaty, the league of na grewing out of the pease slh.of which France has a .very deep con- cern in what the coming Zorth. The German attitude at the Brusscls couference, whieh Wil be resumel Jan. 1v, gives rise to the expectarim that an acreement on reparations s possible carly, in the spring fixing the total sum and the manner of paymunt. There will be a pericd of anziety at- ter the decision until it can ‘be zeen whether Germany will pay the install- ments agreed upon. It probably will take a year or more to determine this, conse- quently the French army will be main-| tained near its present s.rength of 840, 000 men. The advance France has made in re- construction, her wheat crop which duces buyings abroad by two billion francs, and the continued confidence of French investors ,as shown by the un- precedented success of the ligt loan, ase considered as jus'ifying a greater cptim- ism concerning the financial and economic situation than is held at pressnt. The struggle over the high cost cf Tiv- ing Teceives a large share of publie at- tention. Resistanco of merchants and manufac urers to consumers, demands for lower prices has resulted n some- thing like a deadlock. The buyers ab- stain from mak Lecause they feel that war prices siould no long- er be asked. The merchants, habituated to big profits, ‘refuse to rel them. Consequently prices remain high and buy- | ers are scarce. Meaniime ‘he hanks are impatient under repeated demands from large holders of merchandise for renew- als of their securities. The new year opens with unemploy- men% increasing daily. It has been causing much concern to the government since October ‘and now has reached a stage which officials agree calls for im- mediate effec’ive remedies. Three hun- dred thousand workers now are idle in France. Nearly a hundred thousand of Which are in Paris, according to figures announced by the minister of public works, FIANCE OF PRINCESS OLGA INHERITED ABOUT $7,000,000 New York, Dec. 29.—William B. Leeds, 18-year-old son of Princess Ands. tasia_of Greece, who may marry Prin- cess Olga, niece of King Constantine, was is in no sense a suzgestion that any part of the nation should h> disre- garded. New England has training, abil- left abou: $7.000,000 in 1903 upon the |ity and skiil to perform very great ser- death of his father, William Bateman |Vices for the atfon as a whole. It hasla Leeds; Tmerican 3 tin plate king.” Young Leecds, son of the elder Leeds his second wife, was taken to Hurope mother in 1915. At the time she right to demand adequate facilities for the performance of thess services, not from a narrow or selfl point of view. but for the general welfare of the whole plained that “rich men in America|nation. as patriotic Americans desiring grow d " and she wanted to- re-|national prosperity it is the duty of New move her son from “such influences.” | Fngland enterprise to secure for jtse't. ‘ Prlm‘» to that the boy had beer estab- Iished in a mansion in Montelair, N. J., where he was under constant surveillanc from the rest 9° the nation, an opportuni- ty to develop itself. to maintain itself % !ana serve to the extent of its ability the by @ governness, a private detective and |industrial and economic needs of Ameri- 18 personal servants. He went daily in{eo.” a carria g to o Montclair academy, and on Sundays attended an Episcopal churcl accompanied b; QUESTION OF RE-DIVIDING vants. Daily R e L JOINT FREIGHT BATES LT pore sent his mother, who remain-| washington, Dec 29.—Attorneys for S P S NS the New York Central Railroad at a s I hearing today before the interstate com- YALE RESIDUARY LEGATE merce commission on the question of OF JUDSON ESTAT: dividing joint freight rates between car- riers east and west of the Hudson river argued that plans sugsested so far for this purpose would yield an unfair re- .+ $1,000,000 Bridgeport, Conn, Dec. 29.—Under the terms of the will of Robort M. Judson. filed for probate here today, Yale Uni- |turn to the New England roads and versity is made residuary legatee of the | Would discriminate against the trunk estate which s valued at more than | lines. i $1,000,000. Mr. Judson died- In New | George M. Ea‘on, assistant {reight Canaan last week. He was unmarried, | manager of the Boston and Maine rail- Thaewills fenveitberncat o eral | road, gested to the commission that relatives and a cemetery assoffation, and | arbitraries be established as temporary the nstates that “all bonds, mortgages, | means of dividing the rates until (he notes, securities nad real estaate are wiil. el e ed to Yale udiversity. The s s sk will pro- vides that in case Yale “is unable to ac- cept or declines to accapt” the bequest Columbia university should be substitut- ed as residuary legatee. A request at- tached to the will Is that Yale retain con- trol of a piece of real estate in Cannon street this city, for 20 years, after which it may be disposed of. The wili speci- ed that the division be on a percentage basis according to the length of haul from New England points to the Albany gateway and then over Trunk Line ter- ritory. Chairman Clark asked Mr. Eaton if he believed the commission had the pdwer to make such a ruling lh‘ absence of an o fles that Yale erect one or more perma. | express agreemen by tho interests in; nent buildings with the morey fro volved. Mr. Eaton said estate v ¥ from the | | swer the question, as it was a matter of law. New York Central attorneys, on cro examination, tried to show that Mr. Ea- ton's raté exhibits which hé had sub- mitted on a basis of a proportional divis- fon of freight rates would work to the disadvantage of their road. Mr. Baton said he was aware of the high terminal charges were generally less in New Eng- land than in New York. Witnesses for the New England rail- roads are expected to consume the rest of the week at the hearing and will be followed by representatives of the trunk lines. . Governor-Elect Of Illinois PATENT BILL HEARINGS ARRANGED BY BRANDEGEE (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Washingon, D. C.. Dec. 29:—As rank- ing member of the putent committee Sen- ator. Brandegee has arranged for hear- ings before the conferees of senate nr!vl house on the so-called patent bill in which Connecticut manufacturers have exprossed great interest. The hearings will begin January 5 and Mr. Brandegee states there will be ample opportunity given all peisons who desire ¢ be heard both on the nceded improvements of the patent office service with increase of salaries but alzo on the propesed amend- mnet giving power to the federsl trade commission to acquire the right and work patents. PROFIT-SHARING REDUCED WAGES ABOUT 10 PER CENT. Newbern, N. C,, Dec. 29.—Employes of the Newbern Iron Works and Supply Company voted today to. disregard the profit-sharing agreement recently enter- ed into with the company and to go on Brief Telegrams Loren Stone, of Theresa, N. Y. who was nearly 101 years oid, died after an lllness of ten days. A storm of utmost violence is raging on the western coast of France. In Bre Harbor a vessel was sunk. President Obregon fixed Mexican ex- port duty on, a sliding scale based on the price of silver at New York. Deficiency appropriations amount te §110,000,000 were asked of conzress by three ‘executive departments. a Minimum to Gh Fire destroyed the six-story Prudden oftice huilding at Lansing, Mch. Loms amounted to more than $500,000. Another batch of 25 Bussians will be deported from New YorK in about three wecks. ¥ Robert W. Mattox, presdent of the Georgia divieion, American Cotton Assu- ciation, committed suicide at Atlanta. Plans for reducing the number of fed- eral permits for the handling of liquor In the next twelve months were an- nounced today by Prohibition Commis- sioner Kramer, who said the new issue of licenses would be held to a strict minimum i an effort to check iliegal Ui~ quor gales, The greatest reduction wholesale permits under Mr. Kramer's program, but other dealers enlitid to operate under the Volstead ac. will also be considerably affected. The commis- sioner said it was his intention to refuse to reissue “between 50 and per cent” of the wholesale licenses now in effect. The enforcemen: staff has been en- gaged for several months in studying the records of the 77,00v-0dd permit holders to ascertain who have committed overt acts under the prohibition s atutes with the view of climinating them from the list of those who ‘may handle intoxicants next year. The bureau has been aided in this task, Mr. Kramer said, by the failure of many to apply for new permits. This is especially true of the wholesalers, he | added, The number who desire renew- als of retail licenses, however, has not decreased markedly, according to the Five prisoncrs held in Jall at Utica, N, Y., for conveyance to the ~° .S. Peniten- tiary escaped and are still at large. The rallroads’ coal bill for the first nine months of this year was $97.026,624 more than during the corresponding pe- riod last year. H will be in Purchase of a machine gun to guard liquor sezed at San Francisco and held by federal authorities will be recommended ‘to Washngton. * President-elest Harding will become a member of the Scottish Rite . Masons. Jan 5 when the Columbus Chapter will! confer the degrees. Continued improvement in Cardinal Gibbons' condition was reported from Union Mills, Md., where he is staying at the home of Robert T. Shriver. Orfors were recelved at Aurora, TIL, to lay off 25 per cent. of the employes of the Chicago, - Burlington and Quincy shops_ effective December 31. ‘TOREDUGE THE NUMBER OF FEDERAL LIQUOR PERMITS Commissioner Kramer is to Hold New Issue of Licenses to sck Illegal Liquor Sales—To Be a Housecleaning in Cities Along the Atlantic Seaboard From Boston to ths Potomac River, Where th: Illegal Traffic Has Been Particularly Menacing. ‘Washington, Dec. 29.—(By The A. P.) | commissioner, although hundreds of thess will be refused because of their records during the first year of operaion of the Volsiead law. Atlantic seaboard areas apparestly have provided the prohibition enforee- ment agents with their greates. problecs and it is expected that those districts will lose he largest number of liquor dealers under _he-plan. Mr. Kramer said the illezal traffic in liquor had been pare ticularly menacing in the cities from Boston to the Potomac river and he in- dicated that the house cieaning would be thorouzh in cumsnunities of thal section. Great Lakes cities and border points, both Canadian and Mexican aise have given trouble for the enforcement corph, according to the bureau's records, and Mr. Kramer said he planned to ses hat fewer permits would be gran.ed in those regions hereafter. The prohibition bureau was said to 58 giving some atiention also 1o the sale Yquor by retall druggiste. Although forcement agen s have examined of druggists in some communities for the most part, have found littie reas son to revoke or cancel permits, it Indicated tha: in the future the who strays {rom the regulations ed for retail sale will find himself ble to handle distilled spirits of any @ SN Officlal permission was glven to Ameri- can airmen flying from the northern fronter of Mexico toward Panama may land on Mexican goil If nccessary. TWO APPROPRIATION BILLS HAVE REACHED THE HOUSE Washington, Dec. 29.—Two of the fif- teen bills carrying appropriations fo run the government during the year beginning next July 1 reached the house today and were given more than the usual prelim- Inary scrutiny because of the, announced intention of republican leaders to cut | overnment expenditures. The sundry civil bill, which contains the miscellaneous appropriaticns, as re- ported carries a total of $383,611.202, This total represents a slashing of $42 914,192 from the estimates submitted by the zovernment departments and a redue- tion of $52.237,514 from the amount ap- propriated through the same bill last year. The cut in estimates for the postoffice bill, the other appropriation measure submit- ted, however, was not so great and the expenditure redommended represented @ considerable increase over this year's ap- propriation. The measure us reported carried $573,964,721, & reduction of $11,- 442,181 from the amount asked by the postoffice department, but an Increase of 569,530,021 over th eappropriation ior the current year. Democratic leaders were prompt to point out that the sum total carried by both bills, if passed as submitted by the appropriations _committee, would add about $17,000,000 to the cost of running the government next year. Republican leaders were equally prompt in declaring that there was abundant ground for gratification on their part. inasmuch as they had used the pruning knife on esti- mates of democratic department heads without mercy. Outside of the $223.000,000 provided for the care of the disabled service men d dependents of those killed, the sundry civil measure left only $160.611,292 all other purposes as compared with $126,000,000, the amount appropriated for 1916. The : committee reported that the in- crease in the postoffice appropriation was due principally to the $10,000,000 increase in the pay of city letter carriers, the $36.000,000 increase aliowed the railroads | for mail transportation and the $12,500.- 1000 increase in pay of clerks and em- ployes. Coal dealer: were told to come down from the high-price perch of recent months in a communication from Fuel Administrator Eugene C. Hultman. The barge May Rug was sent to the bottom in a collision with the Japanese freighter Genoa Maru in the lower Boston harbor, Countess Georglanna Markivicz, tried by British court-martial on charge of conspiring to organze a seditious socfety. was sentenced to two years at hard iabor. / The phonograph works of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., of West Orange, N. J., will remain closed indefinitely, it was an- nounc- Dr. Willls P. Craig of Walpole, N. H.. was killed by his step-son, Mariner Cralg when a gun In the boy's hands was dis- charged - aceidentally while they were hunting foxes. One man was killed and two others in- jured, one probably fatally, in the ex- plosion of an oil tank in the forward end of theVacuum Oil Co. tanke=, Charles M. Everest ,in a Brookjyn dryd-ék. Twenty-six countries are now repre- sented diplomatically at the Holy See. This is a ain of twelve countries ince 1914, as shown by official communications of the Vatican. State Department offcials declared Ren- resentative Kahn was mistaken in his opinion that Japsn had withdrawn oppo- siton to the California Anti-Japanese Land Law Act. Seven American relief workers who have been cut off from outside communi- cation in Urfa, Asiatic Turkey, since Au- gust 19, were reported safe and walting opportunity to leave. The steamer F. J. Luckenbach brou; the first shinmen: from abroad since before the war. There were 2.5 rollers dnu 5 & iV ~.vud lie Harts Mountains, Germany. Four sons of the late Yuan Shihkai, OF JUDGE MGANNON IN HANDS OF THE JURY TE second president of China, arrived | (oo B ToT L oo wou dtgiisbury, GVLL o Lbecmen stajents jam H. McGannon, chief justice of the Middlebury Coliege. Their ages range al court, was placed in the hands of the jury late this afternoon, following } the conclusion of final arguments by the defense and state and a brief charge by Judge Maurice Lernon Judge McGannon went on trial on De- cember 14, charged with second degree murder of Harold C. Kagy on May 8. litter charges of lying and perfured timony against witnesses for both sides marked the closing argument Willlam H. Boyd. chief counsel for the defense, branded the state's case as being built upon the testimeny of “depraved™ witnesses. The term “liar” was fre- quently applied to state’s witnesses, while he denounced Mary eely’s story as “insane.’” County Prosecutor Roland A. Baskin termed alibis presewted by the defense as the “most unsatisfactory things known to criminal Jaw” and criticised the police de- partment fof “their failure to co-operate with kim in the investigation of the Assistant Prosecutor Green charged de- liberate perjury and lying on the part of the defense witnesses. from 12 to 17 years. The messroom and several state rooms in the officers’ quarters on the presiden- tial yacht Mayflower were damaged by fire while the yacht was tied up in tne Washington navy yard. Announcement was made that the At-| . water Manufacturing Co., Southington. makers of drop forgings. would close its plant indefinitely on Friday. The cun- vern employs 200 per sons. Bar sliver in London remained unchang- ed at 42d. an ounce. New York domes- tic price was unchanged at 99 1-2¢c. For- eign silver was 65¢ up 3-4c and Mexican dollars were quoted at 43 1-dc. Daniel D. McIntyre, 45 years Boston, was instantly killed by from a seventh story window of the Bancroft hotel, at Worcester, onto the roof of an annex five stories below. old. of falling Francisco Villa, now & peaceful farmer at Cautillo, Durango, has asffed Adolfa de 1a Huerta, former provisional presi- dent, and now secretary of the treasury to meet him at Torreon for a eonference. ADMIRAL NIBLACK ORDERED TO COMMAND IN_EUROPE ‘Washington, Dec. 29.—Rear Admiral A. P. Niblack has been ordered to as- sume command of American naval forces In European waters succeeding Vice Ad- miral H. McL. Huse. It was announced today at the navy department. Rear Ad- miral Niblack will take the rank of vice- admiral and will fly his flag on the erul- ser Pittsburgh. He has recently been naval attache at London and during the war commanded American forces based on Gibraltar. He was later chief of na- val intelligenca a: the navy department. Vice-Admiral Huse will revert to his permanent rank of rear admiral and shortly after his arrival in this country will relieve Rear Admiral James H. Glennon as commandant of the Third val District with headquar-ers at New Admiral Glennon will soon re- Newspaper reports received in Parl declare that the wound suffered by Cap- tain Gabriele d'Annunzio at Flume was caused by a fragment of shell which tell on the palace where his headquarters are. Dismissal of 47 federal prohibition en- forcement agents from the staff cf the supervising enforcement agent In New York during the last two weeks, includ- ing the dismissal of 20 Tuesday was re- ported. chusetts Militiamen’s expenses in attend- ing the inauguraton ceremony in Wash- Ington next March wil be asked of the legislature by Adjutat General Jesze F.| ot Stevens. tire. Traffic is abnest a: a standstill in Northern New York state. Trains are running from an hour to two hours late. Snow fall is more than a foot deep. Tirer- ‘mometer at Malona dropped to 15 degrees below zero. CONSTANCE TALMADGE AND DOROTHY GISH BOTH WED New York, Dec. ‘The marriage of Constance Talmadge, motion picture act- ress, to John Pialoglo, New York city to- bacco merchan’, was announced here to- With thousands of steel mil hands idle in the Pittsburgh region it wasinight. The ceremony took place at agreed by big employers that the end of [ Greenwich, Conn, last Sunday in the the business depression is.not yet in sight. | presence of the bride’s mother and her T GOPYRIGHT.KEYATONE VIEW €O NEW YORK. strike, Pay received by the workers last , the first under the new plan which was based on profi:s of the concern above operating expenses, amounted to a re- ducti~ 3 of ten per cent., from the amount 4 the previous weelk: Len Small, of Kankakee, Illinois former speaker of the House and tate Treasurer. though they appear optimistic condtions a few months herce. about jgwo sisters, Norma 2nd Natalie. Dorothy Gish, also a motion picture ac'ress and a friend of Miss Talmadge, Lazy men bump up against a lot of | Was married at the same time and place ctiticism, but they usually live long and|to *ames Renuie, an detor. Each couple * contented lives, 1 as uttendants to, the m‘_‘ 1,000 PERSONS PAY $2.000 F- PER PLATE FOK GELF STEW New York, Déc. 29.—One thousand New York's men and women of paid $2,000 or more emch here tonight to sit at a plain board table ind est beef ste The “banquet” was u testimonial mre ranged by Herbert Hoover. chalrman eof the Buropean Relief Council. of Ameri- ca's effor: to succor the 3.500.000 stary- ing_children of Europe. The stew, accompanied by white bread and & cup of eocoa, was the same as that served to starving children at relief #tle tions throughout FKurope at 3 cost of jess than a cent and a haif. General John J. Pergaing. Mr. Hoover, John D. Rockefeller, Jr, >Mrs. August Belmont and other notables carried soup bowls and wei first 19 & line that pase- el by army field kichens to be served. The servitors were society young Wwo- men. Fritz Kreisler entertaned the with several violin solos. A vacamt chair, placed for the “invisile™ g honor—the children for whom Hoover's campaign of $35000,000 was launebed, giood at the head of the speakers’ 4= e. Mr. Hoover said, in part: “So long as any person in this mation can entertain an automobile, he can en- tertain ‘an invisible guest’ Thers are 6,000,000 automobiles and only 3,500,088 guests. Since this nation is spending & billion dollars annually supporting autes mobiles, another billion on ice creams cosmetics and chewing gum more on drinks, tobaccos and uries—it has not reached a point titution that warrants refusel happiness and cheerfulness for this of children.” v atter eulogizing feendige SRR i General Pershing, Hobver for his work in Europe immee diateiy after the war, sald: “Today even the most destitute of our own children in America are rich In parison wich millions of children of poverty-stricken nations of Europe appeal to-us for help. It meems to that if there ever was a time in the tory of the world when human thies should be stirred to activity it during. this after-the-war period. A recital of the facts should fill our with the tender emotions that prompt the master to say: ‘Suffer little to come unto Me and forbid for of such is the kingdom of hesven.'= Mr, Hoover, announced after the ner that the 1,000 guests paid $2,01 or more than $2,000 a plate. LADOR LEGISLATION FOR P PROTECTION OF WORKERS % ew York, Dec. 29 —Indus'rial ot tions in the United Siates and the of lahor laws for the protection of ers were discussed by speakers at dinner here tonight of the American sociation For Labor Legisiation, opened its 14th annual meeting this ternoon. Rev. John A. Ry, of industrial ethics of the Catholic si'y of America; Habbl Stephes & Wise of the Free Synagogue, New = city, and Whiting Williams, formerly 3 president of the Hydraulic Pressed Company, were among the speakers on the program. : Plans to urge immediate passage congress of a bill extending the men's compensation ac. to provide dent insurance to longshoremen and sails ors were discussed at the Speaking at & dinner tomight, Ryan declared “the trade unions fight as hard as they know how the attempt to destroy them, friends of juétice must redouble thelr forts to improve conditions of ment by legisiation.” The “one 2 which, he said, wili suffioe for this puse pose is a “considerable meascre of dividua] ownership by the workers of tools of production through co-uperative organizations.” NEW HAVEN ROAD TO LAY OFF 2,000 MORE MEN New Haven, Conn., Dee. 23 —4 reduc lon in the working foress of : New York, New Haven and aRilroad will be made next week it announced by C, 1. Barde, gen ‘mae ager of the road. He sail Uit 2,600 s ployes would be pald off. “cwing fo furs ther severe declines in tho business of the road.” - This curtailment will affec: pri ly mechanical departments and workers, Mr. Bardo said. Notices of further cut in personne! will be | tomorrow in the shoms of ihe ‘With this reduction 1 road will dropped 5.0v0 persons from its since November 1. CONXDITION OF ENRICO CARUSO I8 New York, Dec that though be during the day, |