Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 28, 1921, Page 1

VOL, LXili—NO. -24 GATIH ORGANCED LABR " AROUSEDBY N Dermands lmmediste Action by the Government o Remedy| By Department of Jusice| (107 > the Plight Brought About by Steadily Growing Unem- ployment—Leader of Transport ‘Workers Makes Threat kAR e L " of Resorting to Means of “an Extra-Constitutional LOYMENT NORWICH, Ttaly has extended nr--i. recognitio Was Palmer Dupe » g ernment. : : ; A strike of mine wi employed by ~ _ the Pennsylvania Coal eo t Pitts- Statement That Attorney Gen- | ion i threatenca. iy » e - eral Was “Played Upon” | yowiy appointed temit Agents. 5, % Tresident Obregod, of Mexico, vho has but one arnT, was severely burned rescuing a child from a fire. Washington, Jan. 27.—Methods of: de- u : rag - Long distance telephome communica- e o e ioaw | tion Letween ~Ottawa and ~Vancouver, piauned at Washington, Jackson Ralston,| 5000 miles, was estaplished. N > Shon 3 ‘Washington atforney today told the b el S acter”—Refusal to Resume Trade With Russia is Given| sonatc sudicary commitice, . Ms. Ral-| The campaisn of namerous west Vir- Ston was one of the lawyers who sign. | Binia cities to have the seat of govern- p ) el a report charging the department of | Ment removed from Charlestown, fafled. as One of the Fundamental Causes of the Present bly reflected by the. delegates, however, seemed o effective means of moving the govern- mert to the desired action. The miners’ leader, ‘who, | €5 London, Jan. 27.—(By The A. P)— differ. on’ the most|lr=a1 taat never took place. HEritisli organized labor at .the national conference of the Labor Party and the Union Congress today demanded immediate action on the part of the gov- ernment to remedy the plight brought k _Hodges, | tn* bureau of investigatlon t> b= i“u: :cif‘lel:he;uliecigsal pni;cuces R ‘The Rev. Charles MeDonnell, Catholle g i been ill at Aticrney General Palmer, Raists bishov. ot Brookizn,iwha. has clarch was -played upon io jueiy «a| Rockledge, Fla, was reperted to be ence” byw advertising a rad 1 cut- convalescing. e public had been ca -sfuilv tr: A violent earth shock was felt in the d by the depart justiee throazh | Yicinity of Riverside and - Rivérton, N. tae b et e e | 5. Whers many of the bulldings. wers “We are in the greatest industrial|there was great danger,”” Ralston said.|Dbadly shaken. about by the steadily growing unemploy- | ment in the country. Bndorsed a policy which its authors assert will permanently. remove the cause of ,the present indus- *in our history; the “outlook + is| “They advertised uprisings on specific glvomy, indeed.” Mr. Hodges and other speakers insisf ‘dates, which failed time after time to| Many delegates to the ngbnl’ _eon materialize, until the whole matter be-|ference of the miners' federation which is 0 B i fas? 2 London admitteq that reduc- ed that the government's refusal to re-| Came a national joke.' in session in sume :1ade with Russia was one of the| Ralston added that some of the bombs | tion of wages was inevitable. trial depression and adjourned until Feb- | e bt z fundgmental causes of the present dis-|alleged to have been sent prominent per- “ii wa cannot achieve what this pro- gramme suggests by constitntional means sons never had been produced. The American Wringer, Company at Iienjamin Turner, who'was a member |+ E. A. Berno, a Detroit lawyer, declar- | Providence, the largest concern of its we will adopt Some means of an_ extra- of the British labor deiegation to Russi al charaeter.” deglared Rob- ed through a letter which was read to|kind in the world, was placed in the said (hut the committee’s plan for re-! the committee that 700 alfen born men, | hands of a temporary reeeiver. leader of the <toving trade was “better than a rev doaference was characterized by y Herald, the labor, organ; this morning as “either the most momentuus Mr. Thomas promised that the laborites| a0d held in a narrow gallery in the in "parliament from February 15 to 23| Post office building in that city. [man)‘ with. families and some of them o \ naturalized citizens, =were rounded up. Headquarters of the national soclalist party announced that a trip of five Amer- ican delegates to Russia, to study condi- every means to force upom All arrests were made without war- tions there, has been postpcned, or the most futile in labor's history.” the government definite fecognition of un- | rants, the letter said, -and all were de- treffloyment as a -mawer of paramount|nied counsel. They were kept hidden in| _ The resignation of Prof. Henry Wade General dissatisfaction with the govern- ment's proposed remedies wWas unmistaka~ BURGLAR SENTENCED FOR MORTALITY FROM CHILDBIRTH 5 YEARS IN PRISON police prisons in the city to prevent coun- | ROgers as a member of the facuity of sel, obtained for them by friends, from|the Yale Law. school has been dccepted locating them, it added, and @Bty per|by the Yale Corporation. cent. of them were discharged after be- 5 ing subjected i “thi The intersiate commerce commission IN THE UNITED STATES msmoa:s“ to various “third degree 3 ordered passenger fares in the state of Attorheys in other cities throughout | Ohio raised to. the same level as those New York, Jan. 27.—Seventy thousand | the countie c g 7 DU pis e Crgr ool Sonige s untry, Ralston said, had denounc- | prevailing in intersat New Haven, Conn., Jan. 27.—A j\;ry in suparior court here today, after deliberat- san ing 47 minutes, returned a verdict of | from childbirth in the United States last Avilliam ~ Chapman, youer old, of New York, who-has been on trial on charges | gulity agai gt oo | K. Vanderbilt, member of the advisory | PROYVISI of burgl-i‘,, council of the national orgamization ior ed uthg department of justice for its m‘ i e Maas % methods in dealing wi i Plans for regulation of the liqu 36 | year for want of nursing. Mrs. William J 3 T Withethe allensr | R e et Gasbes e . FOR 150,000 MEN commission of *three m;n were outlined v : vincial Premier Taschereau. public health nursing. declared in a state- IN ARMY APPRPRIATION BrLy | DY Provincial Prem Wb sentenced Chapman to’ the _state 0 25' years, 1 ment tonight. « S @b Fia ashin B P Fines and cosfs’ aggregating $400 were _ Bosten, Jan.2iThe hadlts of civil-| _Jashinston. Jan 27— (By The A P) | imposed in the city court at Ansonia on ization are making women %less adie to| T TXovIsion lias been made in the annual | (ROSHL 10 Che BV e bear children, and more mothers are dy- | 210 priation bill for an army of Xyt : Clapman was described. by cution as a prosperous cracksman, puted to be worth $100,000 and of no known lawful cecupation since he served in Massachusetts Since then he hes spent some time ing unnecessarily ffom causes connected | 1Y 150,000 at the suggestion of Pres: with childbirth, said ¢ Dr. Champion of department of Ing of lquor. dent-elect Harding, Representative An. | thony of Kansas, chairman of the house| A FuSrd was stabbed and a convict . appropriations . sub-commitere, - Louse | was shot at the West Virginia peniten- heaith at the annual meeting of the Mas- . T ot (obch | fiary at Moundsville when a prisoner sachusetts association of boards of health | rorted the measure, said tonight in an- | Hary in Sing Sing and other prisors. Chapman was -eharged Aided Frank Williams in blowing open a | here today. in Derby in_August, was captured but es- eaped from the Darby jail ‘while awaiting with having Thirty-nine per cent. of the deaths of | "huricd 0 the house. mothers: investigated in the months, Df. Champion said, weer due to six nouncing that the bill was ready. to be|¢rVInE @ life sentence tried to’escape. The prop 1 army of 150,000 which| The Bosten chamber of commerce is- compares the present army of|®ued @ call for an organization meet b # he Eastern Zone Dalyight Sas: to @bsence of proper pre- about 313,000 men and with the army of | in& .of the Ea i Several months and Williams iere Beach, Calif. {Villlams. who is 29 years | sasayy . BOYS SAVED FROM old and formeriy later ° Chapman in Bridgeport, 175,000 men fixed in a resolution recent.| & Association at New . York on Febru- Iysadopted by the house and senate, was | 27V 9. suggested by Mr. Harding as a proper ‘maximum, i 'he hi of & real warwh and & s ier B imum, Chairman Anthony said, at the | _The o Pieaded guilty to the safecracking caargs Jast Ocfober and was sent to the state recent conference which he held with |tribe of In s to sound it at the Ply- SRR the president-clect at Marion. mouth tercentenary next summer was ¢ e KA e 3 fati i N tive commit- of small boys, puplls in the Xaverian 3 o Soaropriation o Bill, . whieh| recommmended by fhe execy - Syihoon TortJb 10 13 ear: Leonardtown, Md., Jan. 2 ¥ N N STATUS OF PROPOSED NEW TREATY WITH JAPAN Brothers' school here: were dro ipdows and caught by men b the school building * There were-over-200-boy 27.—Assurances | scheol at the time the firé broke out but ! nped from:| baanny Wik be. eubmitted to the house b elo'w when Durned today. puplls in the Washington, tee of the celebration. tomorrow, carries appropriati ons. totall: - 000,000 -which sum represents a 1o | Investigation of the character of taxt on.. 0f . $62,000,000 from the ‘appro- $10.000 bord fromi euch to tion for the present year and a cue|Drotect the public were advocated by of more th 3 thy state department would mot | the Brothers got them all $out _safely. | an half in the esiimates |Judge Rosalsky in General Sessions, glve its approval 1o the, proposed mew ' With the exception of a small building : treaty between the United States and that was partly burned, the fire was * Japan until opporunity had been afford- o confined to the school building. The fire ed members cf the senate and others in- " feresteq to place before the departnfen their arguments were of California, today by Secre- is believed fo have started in @ defective flue'in the office of the school. : Residents of town and nearby | mittee memb farmers {ought the flames o 5 B 2 “th = with a bucket | living too high.” S SERs hnmibeen) (h¥, Thues Senator Phelan called at the state de- partment to obtain informaticn om the re- port submitteg 'by Roland MUST WEAR $10,000 NECKLACE amounting’ to $690,0 the war department. The drastic cut in the appropriation, A runaway herse plunged through the Chairman Anthony sald, was in no way | afternoon crowd on Washington street. connected with disarmament discussiohs | Bostonfi. bowled over two women and but resulted from tht conviction of com. |attempted to eater tae old South Meet- 00,000 submitted by |New York. The most drastic of the appropriation | Fires starting in the Sarsfield opera Guie Chairman Anthony said, was in|house at Avoca, near Scranton, Pa. the ' amount provided for o th e i heart of the mi TO KEEP LIFE IN THE PEARLS |Civilian employes of the a; Sl e S American ambassador to Japan, with re- speet to his negotiations with Baron ese anfrassador Secretary Colby explained to the California senator that he had not as yst read the report. San Francisco, Jan. 27.—A court order ; DY - the committee, he directing Mrs. James B. Blum to wear | from 30.009 to 50,000 em; for tiirty days ear year, gnder police | Nearly all construction wou guard, the $10,000 pearl nelslace of a | inated under the bill and A department. Th tmy and war |[town and caused a loss ‘esflmated at e decrease declded on|$150,000, said, would be — ployes. Secretary Baker, ehalrman of the fede- d be elim-|ral water power commission, declared A ¥ Nin i ‘e re- Telative, in order to- keep -ite in_ ths | 51 {hat the war aepennef” ABthony | Niagara Falls water possibilities ar Senator Phelan his conference gems through their contact with a human s2id thet Seoretary Colby also had as- oAt must dis-|garded as a national asset, ang will be 3 e present body, was issusd by the superior court | CAMDS. Present army.|so treated. mured him that no hasty action was con- Since the death of Mrs. Blum's relative | that the sAmerican troops 1y Gevn Ambassador Shidehara alsy called at The committee: Mr. Anthony sald, felt| Fiectton of Mrs. Anna Lee Werley, pe: Dok woul i mocrat, to- succeed her husband, the the pearls have not worn and have | WOUld be withdrawn in a few Snyiliacmocrat < ‘ i months. X Y, 92e lost much of their luster as a Tesult, the | TeXLimony he said. showed that ine e | otc, Parks Worley, in the Tennessee state the state department but it was explain- ; ed that kis visit had to do omly with min- | court was told. The order thereupon was | PeNSes of maintai Mrs. Blum wear the | Zpine to Deces ABE MAKING EFFORT TO L REORGANIZE SHELTON BA!"’ WHISKEY RUNRER HAD RUN OF HARD LUCK Shelton, Conn., Jan. 27.—Steps looking toward a reorganization of the Sheiton Bank and Trust Company, in the hands of a receiver, were taken at.a meeting of stockholders of the bank here today. W. W. Radcliffe, president of the Yhnk, pre- #ided, angd all of the directors were pres- A financial statement on the bank's condition was presented Marcus H. Holcomb and showed that the eapital and surplus, amounting to $168,- 000 was wiped out. 5 - The stockholders appointed a commit- qee of five to make an investigation of the financial condition of the bank and Philedelphia, Jan. 27—Fackey Packer, | o DMl would direct the wa: a truck driver, today was robbed of $50 ot o EE o 0dy 2nd a 31,200 diamond ring, and the con- | proo o nek® 200 20.000 of jts tents of his truck, $6,100 Worth of Whis- | {hony sarq: verl Sllles Wi key, were removed when bandits beat s el tathe him into insensibility and escaped. ring, valued Packer's pocket, was o erlooked. He admitted he had intended disposing $1,800, in by Receiver of the liquor to friends. SUGAR BEOKERS PREDICT RETUEN TO OPEN MARKET | the Winstd Ho : ex-| senate was'indicated n returns fromithe nerE sthe troops op the| spectal election. $270,000,000 o miery LSt ampunted to oniy 36,000,090, " Germany had pald| The fishing schoomer Gertrude De “As 8wl il Costa, which arrived in Boston reported adaed, f“at;easwa“;ea‘:“:w;' the chairman | naving picked up the power boat he- TRt o malet o et s/ s longing to the Monomoy Point Coast ould diey Y T2Y Up. Guard station. depart- t ~Aliens who were granted exemption from military service during the war on their own request were denied cifizen- Bovernment $9,000,000 peak £ ship by Judge C. B. Witmer in federal and care. @ year for feed| court at Scranton, Pa. An- costing the e A WAGE REDUCTIONS AS David Cottile, for many years secre- INDUST tary of the International Text Book b RIES RESUME | Company and all its allied corporations, Winsted, Conn., Jan, 2 both foreign and domestic, died at his home in Scranton, Pa. Announce- ment was made today that the mills of isery Company and the New Yois) Tau mlnmu i New England Knitting company, whic | The Srave of the late Uniteq States 10 make recommendations for the resump- tion of business. e ——— 60,000,000 GOLD BONDS OF PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD CO. competitive market jn sugar was fore- cast by sugar brokers here tonight as a result of a new selling policy for refined Sugar, announced in a statement b buckle Brothers, ‘one of the city's yl::;: est_wholesalers. The statement was taken to mean by brokers that dealers who, heretofore, ad- New York, Jan: 27.—Purchase of $60,- 900,000 of Pennsylvania Railroad com- pany li-year 6 1-2 per cent. gold bonds have been closed for a month, wil opened next wesk, w reduction in wages. ployed a total of §0 part of last year. investiment New Britain, Conn., Jan, 27._he| Robbery followed by i Gorbin Screw division of the American | Proceeds In stocks, the- police charze, Hardware corporation. ann 1 ive i for Th 4 oun; vago |Provided a lucrative income for Thomas deruction of annroxi Ced & wWase be re. | Senator John Kean in the Evergreen ith a %5 per geni, | Cemetery at Elizabeth, N, J. was brok- The companies em. |® OPen last night by vandals. No mo- 9 persons the latter | tive for the act is knawn. trooki til he was hered to (he general selling price are pe- | To :partiatls et e s, Der cent. | B Jones, 20, of Brookiyn, un was announced today by Kuhn, Loeb & The bond will be offered at public wale at 99 1-4 and accrued interest, yield- ing about 6.58 per cent, The bonds will be secured 1 %:60,000,- 000 general morigage 6 per cent. gold tonds of the Pennsylvania railroad and $6,000,000 general mortgage 6 per cent. gold bonds of the Philadelphia, Baltimore @nd Washington Railroad company. i S ginning to “unload” independently, e e EX-KAJSER CELEBRATED 62D BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY | Machine company has been n Doorn, Holland, Jan. 27.—The former | CONcern is German emperor observed his 624 birth. | P & very small fo day today. There was'mo elaborate cere. | 2tives are employed, daughter, the Duches: Brunswick, and two of hi i this " however, the |arrested on a charge of brglaky. fty hour week bas-|. Miss Lucy Page Gaston of Chicago. The office force at the New Britain|representative of the Intirnational Anil- otified of a| Cigarette league announced that she arief. _This ; would leave Kansas February 1 to be- practically closed down and |gin “next on Missourl and Oklahoma.” TCe of- factory oper- 'Dlan‘! will run on a fi 10 per cent. reduction in sal: Premler Lloyd George is understood is sons visited | STEAMEE HABTFORD mHAS to have taken umbrage to an article in BEEN RE a Parls newspaper critieising his atti- The condition of -the former German 3 ‘LEASED FROM ICE |tude on various questions now being dis- WCASH AND SECURITIES IN empress is unchanged. TRSASURY 81 e LA T et SR —_— GERMANS GET CONTRACTS .* Washington, Jan. 27.—Completion R d by the supreme allied council. Hartford, Conn.. Jan, 27 S Hartford of the Hartford anm e Ltamer and” N ¥ o TRl New York | The fate of the Beiglan freight steam ; s rel et i = FOR RAILEOAD LoCosorrvEs |from thie Ko at Sostn ia: g’ n S04 | ship Canmier, which s hieleved to be the first count since 1913 of cash a in the treasury has revealed 1hat the vaults of the national govern- ment hold a grand total of $13,883.819,- $26.2-3, of which $97,410,283.02 Madrid, Jan. 27.—A. B. C. announces { Th® Steamer became ir-licang I today that German constructors have ge- | 92Y Night when she' (W )eq cured the contracts for railroad locomo- | G1astonbury on the wa tives for the Spanish lines, for which | Necticut river. Tne tenders were .0 d 5 More than $10,000,000,000 of the bonds oelian ik and other securities held in trust by the treasury, which .totalled $12,308,849,043 34 2-3, Acting Treasurer Allen announces eonsist of evidences of the indebtedness of the allied TENNESSEE SENATE KILLED v THE SUNDAY BLUE LA Nashville, Tenn., Jan. senate today by a vote of tate | gioamer last Tuesday. o 5 to 2 killed 43 the pending Sunday blue law ‘whiet pro- | =%, © Shore. hibited Sunday-newsnavers and. troins well as Sunday amusements. WESLEYAN STUDENT WAS ASSAULTED IN DORMITORY OBITUARY, B W. Rogers. former preaidont of the ‘g!:dcf;)“;tard of Trade, and one of its oldest died tofay after a long iliness. \Mrs. Maurice Francis Egan. , New York, Jan. Middletown, Conn., Jan. 27 — Sey_ of Yonkers, N. Y. freshmah in Wesleyan university, was found unconsciotis” tn room tenight. Chicago, July ‘The room was in great disorder and the university authorities Yelieved, that the student had been at- tacked and had fought with his assail- Ely recovered conscioushess an hour later at the Middlesex hospital, where it was said his condition was ssrious. Money and h Jlojtaken; 27—Mrs. /Maurice | On_an capensive pearl necklace. Francis Egan, wife of the former United States minister to Denmark, died of pneu- | the case would be taken to the suprema Jeweiry in his|monia tonight at the home of her son-in- | court. The case has been pending for law, G. A. O'Reiliy, i Brookiym._ . - 1 NI W AS 10| uken_.~ TV today | the vessel that flashed radio“distress cal's ew - York. | from an unknown point between Bermuda ast Mon- | anq the Atlantic coast, remains a mys- at - South |tery. down the Con- . Vessel was freed TPassenger seaplane Ponee de Leon, ice i';; l‘:fl: ifi*;;y“t:n‘g 1‘93 Spartan, which | Jocked in Raritan Bay:since early Mon- | channel through tomthe rrogild Proke a | day, was freed and taxled under its own The Hartford cumfl “';:meh power through a 500 yard channel blast- b ] ee_passen; ite ta fo New York, one.of them a to year o | o 1 CJDAmite to 18 betth in’ Keyport, baby.~ Two ‘other passengers left the | - ° walking over the and proceeded on her t te Told that she had me momey, two au- tomobile handits in Chicago, snatched_a as e baby from a mother's arms and startdd ¢ BRESISH ARMY:OFNIOER. fo flee with it. Thelt kidnappinz ex- ! I8 FIGHTING EXTEADITION | ploit was abandoned only when the fran- & —_— tic woman gave up $15 which she had New Orleans, Jan. 27.—Charles Glenn | concealed. Collins of London, a former lieutenant 5 2| colonel in the British army, lost his fight| Mayer Petérs of Besten. naneunced in’ {in the United States district court here 2 public statement that he would dis- Iloday to prevent extradition to angwer | rontinue the operation’ of:the eity print- . {charges In Bombay, India, of having de- | ing plant on Feb. 1. unless a sufficient frauded merchants out of nart payment |number of the eighty men and women on strike there returned . to work by that Counsel for Collins announced that | time. s 4 more than Lwo yeam, . .. .. - ihe British army cost 30 2 paiz, PRICE TWO CENTS. 212,000,000,0000LDMARKS INDEMNITY SOUGHT BY FRANCE /£ 4 M. Doumar, French | State Troops to e “With Night Riders C-vnlry Held in Readiness For Immediate Action in Ken-. “tucky—Ords rs From Gov- Minister of Finance, Upsets Reparations Discussion by Radical Demands—Action is Disavowed by the French Press — British Prime Minister Lloyd . George Has Clearly Indicated That Such Radical De- mands Are Impossible of Realization—Question Again Referred to 2 Committee of Experts. Paris, Jan. 27.—(By The A. P.)—The question. of German reparations is aga. in the hands of a committee of experts. appointed after a wro- longed discussion by the supreme coun- is to consider certain details and report to the council before a final decizion is taken. % . The discussion on reparations was afternoon 'in an atmosphere made quite unfavorabie bysthe radical Frankfort, Ky., Jans 27.—Governor Ed- win P. Morrow today offered rewirds of 500 for the arrest'and conwietion of each person, participating in night riding in Fleming and Baih counties, request- _ed the courts in each county to forthwith make gnand jury investigations of re- ports that bands of armed men intimi- dated tobacco farmers last Saturday night, and instructed the state adjuitant general to have four troops of cavalry eadiness for immediate action. intend to and will use every power of the state to save the honor of the ate and tp prevent midnight outrages its citizens,” ivery dollar in the state treasury,” he continued, ‘and every soldier at my com- mand is pledged, to the prevention night riding with jts outrages, burnings and intimidations.” “Germany could easily pay inside the limits of her own territory, but she can- not export her forests nor her railwa; It the allies took possession of her rail- ways and doubled the passenger and the freight rates they wou paper marks that would the frontler. he contitued, can pay emly exporied toe much to the allies it would mean the ruin of f she' exported toe much This committee, be paid only in become worth- The troops are supplied with horses and equipment for field duty. The nizht riders were reported to have operated pear Bethel and near Sherbourne in Fleming coun- In each case, it was said, mounted meh called tobacco farmers from their in_Bath county allied industri French minister of finance, Who mamed-212,000,000,000 gold marks as the total amount of Indemnity Germany Consequently, the question of effeatively securing payment of reparations must be taken up With due account for homes and threatened them if shey fall- ed to heed warnings to cut out a to- bacco crop this vear and hcal the last The British - prime minister is under- stood to have clearly indicated that the radical - demands made by M. Doumer were' imipossible of realization. ‘The French press has practically dis- ayowed M. Doume: - The, committes crop for higher prices. Certain things must be insisted upon, Mr. Lioyd George declared, the determin. ation of Germany's ca n of Germany and the impos INCENDIARY BUERNS BARN WITH 10,96 POUNDS TOBACCO “fantastic bud- on upon her peo- of taxes as heavy as those paid the allied peoples. make her people ecomonize as the allies have done ; the total of the debt must bs fixed and the mode of parment estabiish- Then at a meeting similar to that at s should meet Germany and SCuUss a settlement. Doumer said George's speech did not change is compozed of and M. Doumer, for France; Baren I'Abernon and Sir Laming Worth- ington-Exans. For Great Bri Theunys, for Belgium ; Bignor Giovanni, for Italy, and Kengo Mori, for Japan. A report ‘may be presented tomorrow. Mr. Llayd George taking up the ques- tion declared that tiere was no dierence of opinion regarding the merits of the Gallipolis, Ohlo, Jan. 27.—J rington, a tobacco farmer Jiving near this city, reported today, that his tobacco barn, containing 19,000 pounds of burley leaf tobacco, had been burned last night by incendiary. Authorities beli e fire was started by persons opposed te crop because of pre- Germany must the sale of the 1! vailing low prices. -“Germany must pay to her utmost 29,742 TEXTILE WORKERS- UNEMPLOYED IN CO> he asserted. “In order te Bure this, the ‘allies: must stand togethe It is to Great Britain's Interest, as we: interests -of France, that -Germany pay to the last farthing. But the question is how to get B ——— PRELIMINARY REPORT OF BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION mier Briand a ed that French opinion was ready to accept what be collected, but woul not accept before investigation of a ons. sided theory that Germany is unable to Boston, Jan. 27.—In explanation of fig- Suight ‘readohs ures on the unemployed in the textile industries announced earlier J& the week loyment service of the federai department of labor, J. R. s trict director of the industrial smpioy- ment survey for the New Englaud divi sion, sald today’that those employed 'on part time had been listed a8 “employed.” MORE NEW YORK POLICE OFFICERS INDICTED New York, Jan. 27.—Two more indict- ments against members of the police de- partment were returned today in connec- tion with the investigation being -con- ducted by former into alleged corruption in the city admin- 1t was possible that some who hac) bees on part. time had been put on incedsed or full time since the survey was made, The department’s figures, which cofm- pared those employed on January 1 with those ¢aao¥ed on the same date last New York. Jan. 27.—Directors of the em Steel corporation today issued minafy report of the corporation operations for the year 1920 and declared the rezular divijends on both classes of preferred stocks for year, raye the reduction in employment in the textile and out the country as 35.8 per, cent. of the report of the survey'show New England was The new defendants are Detective Ser- geant Martin 8. Owens, world war hero; and Detective Thomas J. Horan, both members of the auts charged with recei iA ‘recovering stolen machines. Detective Sergeant Owens was record- ed as the first New York policeman to enlist for service at the fromt, and while ‘overseas he was not only promoted to the rank of captain but was commended for gallant sérvice by General Pershing and ‘was déecorated with the Croix de Guerre with sflver palm leaf by the Freach army. On his return he was given a banquet by the) police department, at which he was eulogized by Commissioner Bumright and presented with a diamond searfpin and reguiar quarterly dividend of 1 1-4 per sses of eommon stec! 2180 was declared. . Total net earnings of Dethlehem for 37.351.554 against that ‘the reduction 27:4 per cent. ey ving unlawful fees 1920 amotinted $37.441 219 in the nrev: come of $14.450,837 compares with 356.860 in 1919, Orders on hand. at the end of 1829 7.000 as compared @t the corresponding usiness booked dar- amounted to $168,296,00 In a statement lssued by President E. G. Grace. the opinion was expressed that “the low point in the irom and steel in- dustry had been reached and that from now on production would pending upon the rapi interests recognize the necessity of a re- turn to more nearly normal conditions. —_—— DETAILS OF ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING OF BERGDOLL By states the reduction in the number of employed in these industries was: Con- Hampshire, 3,051; Vermont, 5,058 ; Mass- 0,772 ; Rhode Isiand, 15,924. In its comment on umer-pioyment in New England the report said: & “In the metal industry, nmchinéry and specialties it is reported that there are many busy localities. centers such as Providence and Attie- boro production is approx 50 per cent. bgsis with prospects of a The cotton industry, { looks very promising. “The building industry is very slow. In the lumber industry ther: appears to be very little demand for buxes or shooks. is reported that the wood pulp and paper industries ar: very busy It _is reported that the vays have laid off about 13,- 000 workers while the electric railways d off approximately 7,000. ew Hampshire, the shoe industry has shown serious reduction in employ- ment and its prospects are not very en- couraging, at the present time. In Maine, Wwith $251,422,000 time of 1918, the jewelry with which all REPORT MADE OF TRACTIO CONDITIONS IN NEW YORK New York, Jan 27.—Con ions peculiar to New York city render impracticable Governor Miller's traction program for a unified state controlled system as out- message to the legislature on Monday, it.1s asserted In a report of traction investigations conducted by the City club' of New York and made public Berlin, Jan. 27.—The foreign sffice and ministry of justic: celved from the state’ bach, Baden, an official document reeiting the details surrounding abduction of Grover Isaac Stecher at that place last Saturday. report refers to assertions the American detectives were under orders of the American mill- this morning re- attorney at Eder- The report maintained that the plan would never work wiihout a complets consolidation of the city's transit com- the cost of which was termed pro- shoe and leather industries have not for many years experienced such poor ‘condi- In Massachusetis the shoe and leather industry is reported as being very tary authorities at Coblenz. Until this point is definitely established the German government can take ne me- ed The service-at-cost continued, in reality would defeat its own If higher fares were granted, for instance, to make surface lines pay, pas sengers would. flock to the subways, and the lined the higher fares were designed to help would thus be in worse condition than before SUIT OVER YACHT NOW z . The detectives are charged with hav- BEING USED BY HARDING ing represented Bergdoll and Stecher as i from justice in the Uit~ ed States. claiming that both men were under Indictment is charged that dope in order t> encon by the lozal New York, Jan.,27.—Alleging the yacht President-clect Harding on a southem cruise, was @ fective, though represented as seaworthy, when he purchased it, Senator Joseph S. ew Jersey today insti- tuted suit in Brooklyn to recover $3,000 from the original owner. Senator Frelinghuysen claims he pur- chased the vessel for $9.000 tember from Sherman Loomis of Brook- Iyn, with the understanding tnat she was sound except for two minor iDscovery that several timbers at the bow and stern were unsound was made after the purchase, ge co-cperation German authorities, be loath to assist the abduéting party if the two men sought represented as draft - Frelinghuysen of HOUSE VOTES AGAINST DOR TO RUSSIA Washington, Jan. 37—The house votea | £°T Were merely down tonight a proposal to pave the way for appeintment of an ambassador Russia and struck out of the diplomatic aporopriation bill a provision for ralsing the American legation at Peking to an ERSONAL EFFECT: OF HARPING TO WHITE HOUSE MOVING P Washirgton, Jan. personal effects of President-elect Hard- ing and Mrs. Harding into the executive offices of the White House was begun to- day from the Hirding Hampshire avenue, Mrs. Harding came here from Marfen, Ohlo, Sunday to attend to this work. The Harding hoase on New Hampshire avenue, Is to be sold together with the furniture, and only a few persinal be- longings have been preserved to supple- ment White House furnishings. It was upon the invitation Wilson extended some Harding decided to make ready in advance for tie change. nding. its. feet entangled in diffi- F cult diplomatic promblems, it quit work A fromer captain of the vessel said loday the yacht was damaged in a col- jsion after the sale was made, when the Victoria was being removed from dry- ‘with an agreement i» continue consider- ation of ‘the biil tomorrow. Attack on the provision for a min! to the country of the Serbs, Croats ana Slovehes was made on the ground that e RAILROAD EXECUTIVES TO CONSIDER WAGE REDUCTIONS there was no authority of law for such representation, In the course of two hours’ debate on the biil the chief reference to it was by Chairman Rogers. who explained it in de- tail Forty-five minutes of the democrauie time was taken by Representative Ven: in a tribute to Presi- Wiison and the balance was devoted to discussion on unreiated subjects. Chicago, Jan. - 27.—General wage re- ductions on the larger raiiroads all over the country will be considered tomorrow by the labor committee of the American association of railway executives in an effort to solve what railroad officials say is a precarious transportation situation. The meeting will make definite recom- mendations with a view to bringing t matter before the United States railroad labor board. TELEGRAM OF CONGRATULATION BEQUESTS«IN WILL OF LATE DR. MANNINE GENEEAL EDWIN §. GREELEY gram of congratulation 9 Manning of New York, elected as a bish- church, was sent to- day by Rev. Dr. Newman Smyth of this representative of the Congrega- f the United States in commission of the Episcopal and Congre- gational churches on concordat fot unity. : “Congraulations ¥ York hak chosen nresents to other Tomorrow's meeting will closed doors. Failure of increased rates to earn the the terms of an order of -distribution en- tered in the probate court today. a num- ber of charitable and religlous organiza- tions will Teceive bequests from the es- tate of the late General Edwin S. Greeley Among these are gatienal Church society of New -York, 35 Y. M. C. A and Y. W. C. A each; American Board of Foreign 2, American Missionary 00 ; Grace hos- op of the Episcop: expected revenue, the present large payroll and high oper- ating -expenses were given as the reasons for probable action before the railroad labor board te cut wages. in bysinesa, of this city. “The telegram that' *he diocese of N in .4, a bishop who comuunions the vision and the call of the coming age for the 3 er catholicity of the one church ef NEGRO CONFESSED MURDER OF 17 YEAR OLM® GIRL soclety of New York, § Redecmer, New Haven, estate Is appraised at $3 New York, Jan. 24-year-old negro, Dolice sald, to the murder of Ream Com- stance Hoxie, 17 years old, In her home on Wast 69th street, Fobruary 2, 1929, 3rown is aleged to have made the con- Zession after he had been arrested on a {charge of burglary, Just after his arrest, Brown, the po- lice ~xplained, confessed he had stabbed | Mrs. Loretta Smith, 24 vears old, in her home on Jane street seversl weeks ago. This led the police to question him con- cerning the Hoxie murder. have answere their questions so readily and calmly that they were inclined at first to- dislredit his answers. of details surrounding tie crime-lea the —_— ‘police to summon witnesses famiilar with :The boots:worn by the life guards of |'the case to police headquarters in am L <ort to Maoiey. him . 27.—Jomes Brown, EAILEOADS ANSK ABROGATION OF EXISTING AGRELMENTS RESCUED PUPPY FEOM IN HUDSON RIVER Chicago, Jan. -27.—Denouncing the na tional agreements between the railroads andethelr employes as restrictive. pro- ductive ‘of Inefficiency and, re piecework, obtained by propaganda and,! undue-inflence, the railroads made for- request ' today before the labor board fer abrogation of the existing New York, Jan. 27.—A yelping puppy ou a cake of ice floating down the Hud- son river today halted the Fort Lee ferry Edgewater In mid-stream while a rescus was effected: 8 After Caplain James | nocuvered hie craft alongside the cak descended a annigan ma- He Is said to First Mate Gerard Barr; ladder flung over the. E. T. Whiter, chairman of the railroad committee before the board in its hear- ings on rtles and working condition: declared the public-“pays in freight a: ‘Dassenger rates all the expenses incurred d 6 such Inefliciency. into the stream and reappeared with the puppy in his is knowledge Hauled aboard, the engine.room with he promptly named Parry descended inte 2 hjs new pet, which - by the rallways” icle.