Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 29, 1921, Page 1

\ ‘» VOL. LXIll—NO. 25 POPULNX’ TION 29,685 NORWICH, CONN., SATU! AN ACREEMENT REACHED ON GERMAN REPARATION | (Finding of Committee of Experts Provides For Payment of Annuities on a Sliding Scale of 2,000,000,000 to 6,000,- 000,000 Gold Marks Over a Period of 42 Years, With 12 1-2 Per Cent. Tax on The Longer Period Will Make the Task Easier For Ger- many—Belgian Delegation Straightened Out Differenc- es Between the British and French Delegates—It Nfl_)w Remains For the Supreme Council to Endorse the Agree- ment. Pparis, Jan. 29—The session of the committes of experts of the allied supreme couneil ended at 12:30 o'clock this morn- ing. after having reached a complete agreement on the systém of annial pay- ments of reparations by Germany and annuities on Germany's foreign trade. It now remains on.y for the plenary sitting of the supreme council today aturday) to endorse the _agreement, draw up instructicns for the Brussels ex- perts and fix peralties for defaults by Germany. Premier Briand declared as-he came out from the meeting early this morning tirat the conference of the supreme coun- cil would not break up without having reached a definite decision. The proposed scheme provides for the payment of annuities on a sliding scale of from 2,000,000,000 to 6,000,000.000 marks over a period of probabiy forty- two years and also a 12 1-2 per cent, ad valorem tax on Germany's exports, so that her creditors will be paid according to Germany’s increasing prosperity. The sudden smosching out of differ- erices came afier 1w days of a continu- \aly widening breach that threatcned to hreak up the conference, it being virtual- y supended except for private confer- ences. Official French circles glve he Belgian tion credit for tre suc- cess e eoneling the British and Fxonch viewpoints. The project In its final form, when ap- -proved by the supreme council, will be submitted ta Germany for acceptance as 2n agreement outside of Article 233 of ihe peace treaty, which entrusts he rep- arations commission with the task of fixing the amount of the indemnity. Tl!zn another conference will b~ called to which the Germans will be invited. The committee of experts was in ses- sion at midnight considering the ques- tion of shortening the period of thie pay- ments to thirty years, fer ‘which the treaty of Versilles spccifically provides. But It is expectad that the.period of 0‘2 years finally will be ad>pted, as the whole agreement is outside the treaty, and the Jonger period of payments will make the task easler for Germany. Values of German Exports— This aternoon’ conferences between small groups of the delegates went or in an effort to clear up the tangle in the situation which had arisen. M. Briand the French premiler, after leaving Premier Loyd George, consulted with his c leagues of the cabinet and later return- ed for another talk with the British prime minister. - Meantime Lioyd George had received the British and Belglan representatives on the special reparations committee ap- pointeq Thissday, znd after some dis- cussian these representatives returned to the session of the committee, which had been susrended during their absence. After the consulggtion with Lloyd George the members of® the. committee seemea somewhat more hopeful. A great deal of the afscussion bore upon an ad-va- lorem tax of from fifteen per cent. that it had been proposed Germany should place on cxports. Speculation was rife throughout the day as to what ultimately would pe the result if an agreement Were not reached. The general opinion seemed to be that should failure result, M. Doumer, the French minister of finance, would be held responsible for raising obstructions to a settement of the reparations question and find it necessary v resign. Persons close to Premier Briand expressed the belief that if M. Briand were unable to conciliate the French view with that of the British he would report the circum- stances 1o the chamber of deputies and then announce the resignation of the entire French cabinet, Late in the afterncon the alternative propasition was submitted to the French aclegates, prividing for fixed annuities for forty years plus varying annuities fizured on Germany's roreign trade. This plan was suggested to give satisfaction to the French viewpoint that owing to the impossibility of determining now what Gamany's shpation skuation will be in the fature ne part of France's claim shoula be abandoned. Under this plan the Frodeh sod.ajher. crsdiiaghet Se 1 many wagld be pald a minimum consist- ing of fixed annaitics :0d an additional sum proportionate to the economic pros- verity of Germany’ FICKNESS AND MUTINY ON BELGIAN FREIGHT STEAMER New Yorl 28.—The myl!ery_ox the Belzian teanier Cannonier, Which was reported in distress on We« v and later reported safe, was Tnl up today when the skipper steer- e her into port here and refatod a tale o two months’ hardship, sickness. and ed mutiny. 3 ke siip satied trom Bordeaux on No- vember 22 and was battered by gales and heavy seas every hour of the voyage. A week ago, running short of fuel, Cap- iain Nocoias said, they put in at Ber-j muda to re-coal. Whree firemen were taken ill and had to be left there. After ng again, five sailors were alleged to have refused to budge from their bunks and to have threatened the Ife of the sixth, an 1S-year-old French- xe his turn at the he offered to U All responsibility for running the ship. therefore, devolved upon the skipper, lis mate and three offi o by this time were becoming Sea-wear: % On Wednesday, during the heaviest storm of the voyage the éngines went Yad. The wireless apparatus long since Ead been out of commission. In desperation, the wireless operator, after many efforts, managed to send tne Qigtress message, h, on account of weather conditions, was garbled on iis reccipt heie. Fragments of the message, owever, Iad to suspicion that it was the annonier which was in distress, but de- rangement of the salill = “compass pre- vented the ship's operator from Indical- ing its position. late in the afternoom, however, tie m abated. the engines were repaired hey bezan to make progress for the ret time in 24 hours. Upon his arrival’ Captain Nicolas re- ricd the alleged mutiny of the five \ljors, who ate Frenchmen, to the Lel consuiate. Action against then r, was reserved pending invest: Towe Fation of international law defining the #iatus. The question to be solved s whether the Belgian consulate has jur- isdiction over French sailors shipping un- der the Belgian fiag within a United States port. FRINT PAPEE INQUIRY ASKED IN SENATE Washington, Jan 28.—A resolution re- questing the federal trade commission to inquire Into the price of print paper dur- ing 1920 and to ascertain whether or not “the newspapers of the United States are being subjected to unfair practices in the sale of print paper” has been introduced in the senate by Semator Harris. The senator explained that he was anxious to mscertain why present high prices continue to be charged for print paper “when all otiaer prices of manu- factured articles have suffered big de- iclines” FHe charged that, newspapers in leontracting for their 1921 supplies were Joreed to make contracts in which paper manufacturers reserved the right to fix thelr own prices subject to quarterly re- sdjustments There was no real shortage of primt paper, Senator Harris said. He added that information furnished him by pub- lishers was to the effect that white paper ‘was now offered on the open market at a lower price than that covered by con- tracts with the big companies who usual- 1y control the situation. LD TP MEN GET $19,700 IN CASH AT TAMPA, FLA. Fla, Jan. 38.—The cashier at the Station main office of the American Raliway Expreas Company was E.—u up Jate today by two men who es- ped with $19,700 in cash and two pack- of merchandise. TO CONFER REGARDING® BOSTON BUILDING STRIKE Boston, Jan. 28.—W. A. Johnson, sec- retary of the United Building Trades council, announced tonight that he had received a communiq:tion from the American Federation of Labor informing him that leaders of the building trades department of jhe federation would come here next Monday to confer with local labor leaders ' regarding the building strike now in progress in this city. He said the visitors would seek first hand information as to the situation in order to assist them in meeting any similar sit- uation that might develop elsewhere. A two days' convention of representas tives of all building trades organizations in New England will open here tomo#- row. Mr. Johnson said plans would be discussed for combatting any attempts on the part of Boston contractors to extend the wage controversy to the whole of New England. At the headquarters of the Building Trades Employers' association it was said plans had been discussed at a meet- ing in Lawrence today for the formation of a New England Building Trades Em- ployers’ association. It was arranged that the Boston association should send out a call for a convention to be held in Boston in the near future for the purpose of enabling building contractors from all sections of New England to discuss a proposal to establish a wage rate of 90 cents an hour and a 44-hour week throughout New England. The present strike was called after the Eoston ‘association had announced a re. duction of ten cents an hour from the previous wage rate of one dollar. COAL MAGNATE CALLS CALDER BILL ‘“HYSTERIA' ‘Washington, Jan. 28.—Statements by Senator Calder, republican, of New York, that the public was ‘mulcted out of a billion and a half dollars” during the 1920 coal shortage were characterized as “outrageous and below the dignity of any senator,” today by Thomas H. Wat- kins, president of the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Corporation. Testifying before the senats commit- tee considering the Calder bill to reg- ulate the coal Industries, Mr. Watkins said that he had gathered stgtistical re- ports on high priced coal fold during 1920 and that “$600,000,000 is the utmost firure that could be placed on the cnal which might have been open to profi- teers.” The (Wilder bill, Mr. Watkins asserted, ETew “out of a hysterical fram of mind. T fesiicg {hac somebody must be pun. , an e desire to make FoT Political Oppcnents of the bill took all the ¢ today, but Chalrman La Follette. ot me manufacturers’ committee, holding the hearings, announced the session would be closed. Committee members supporting the measure expect to secure next week a majority report favorable to the bill. Wwith _some modification of its taxation clauses and will endeaver jto yet a vote upon it in the senate at this ses- — TREIO OF HIGHWAYMEN SENTENCED IN NEW HAVEN New Haven ,Coun, Jan. 28— Cyril Bomstér, 19, Charles Humphrey, 26, and Meyer Humphrey, 18, pleaded guilty in superior court here today to charges of highway robbery. Charles Humphrey was sentenced by Judge Webb to the state prison for one to three years and the other two were given indeterminate sen- tenices in the state reformatory. Tho trio held up and robbed Burton S. Bradley, aged 79, and robbed him of $400 Cabled Paragraphs Magistrate Shot Dead. Dublin, Jan. 28.—Failing to halt at the order of a polics patrol Hyde Marmion, son of a Lismore magistrate, was shot dead at Gleribbon today. Noted Art Conmoisseur Dead. London, Jan. 28.—Sir Merton Russell Cotes, noted art connoisseur and art collector, is dead. PATHETIC SCENES FOLLOWED ACQUITTAL OF STUDENT BRINES Philadelphia, Jan. 28 —Willidm M. Erines was_acquitted today of the charge of killing Elmer C. Drewes. gthe Uni- versity. of Pennsyivania sophofhore was freed on the ground that insufficient evi- dence had been submitted to connect him with tze Dartmouth college senior's death. Judge Ferguson of the criminal ‘tourt, before whom the case was tried, in his charge to the jury pointed out that no evidence had been submitted to prove that Erines met Drewes on the day of his death, that all the.evidence submitted against the defendant was circumstan- tial; that only one witness told anything | of the automobile alleged to belong to Brines, gvhich was found abandoned in Germantown, and as she admitted be!n‘_ nervous at the time, it was possible she had been mistaken in the car. The judge added that it was passible someon: else might have had the car on the night of the alleged murder; that Drewes might have committed _suicide and someone might have taken the body to the spot where it was found on Oct. 7. He therefore directed the jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty. The foreman said it had been unani- mously decided by the jury last night at the close of the prosecution’s case to ac- quit Brines. The action was followed by 'a com- motion in the court room. A momentary silence, abruptly broken by gasps, hys- terical feminine laughs, and noisy moving of chairs wae followed by sharp demands for order by court attendants. Mrs, An- nie Brines, the widowed mother of the accused student, wept. “This {3 the happiest moment of my lite’ she exclaimed as she kissed her son, “they have given me my boy. God has been good to me. I know my boy and I know his conscience and I know he_did not kill Elmer.” Brines' reserve, which he has main- tained since the trial began on Monday, aropped from him. He impulsively threw his arms aboul nis mother's shoulders and wept. Then, yonerated, he left the court room with her. Stunned by the verdict, Mr. and Mrs. Christian Drewes, parents of the dead Dartmouth man, left the court room arm in_arm. . The middle aged woman, who had col- lapsed in court this moerning _when Brines' counsel suggested that Drewes might have committed suicide, moaned piteously. “My poor Elmer,” she sobbed. “He didn’t kill himself. This is terrible. There is a Higher Judge who looks over us all. He ig the One who will see jus- tice done.” : The morning session of the trial was devoted entirely to hearing of the mo- tion by coupsel for the defense to take the ‘case from the jyry. _CBGED AN ANCREASED. iy -~ TARIFF TN SEWING THREAD (Special to The Bulletin.) Washington, Jan. 28.—W. H. Hall of Willington, Conn., representing some 50 thread manufacturersr, among whom are the Boos Thread Co., of Stamford and the Summit Thread Co., of East Hampton, Conn., testified before the ways and means committee yesterday urging in- creased tariff gp sewing thread, of cot- ton, crochet coiton, darning cotton, and embroideries totton, on spoois, | tubes, cones, skeins, reels, balls or in any other form notexceeding 100 yards—six cents per dozen; exceeding 100 yards or frac- tional part thereof in excess of 100 yards 6 cents per dozenm, provided that in no case should the duty be assessed upon a less number of yards than is marked on the spools, tubes, skeins, etc. His appeal provided that nonewf the forego- ing should' pay a-less rate of duty than 490 per cent. ad valorem. Mr. Hail said that this proposed tarift is predicated on pre-war conditions when the costs of production of foreign indus- trial nations were veadily ascertainable and is believed to represent the minimum amount of protection requred by -the American cotton thread industry and the 25,000 operatives whese livelinood is de- pendent_thereon. Mr. Hall also recommended that con- sideration should be given to a specific clause in the {ariff act providing that the U. S. standard par rates of exchange be employed in the calculation of ad valorem dutes. Asked as to whether he con- templated any reduction in the wages of employes, Mr. Hall said that notice had been posted calling for a reduction of 22 per cent. in the Wages of emplo,es but he did not think the reduction would & that much. i | WAGES OF 20,000 REDUCED BY GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. Schenectady, N. Y., Jan. 28.—The Gen- eral Electric company announced today that wages will be reduced here on Feb. 7 for hourly’ workers 10 per cent. and for pieceworkers 15 per cent. reduction. The war time working force at the than 22,000 men and women, including about 5,000 in the offices. Two weeks ago there was a_general reduction in the number of workers which the company announced as at least 10 per cent. No official figures have been given out as to the number employed The company explained that the action was taken with the expectation that or- ders will be secured which otherwise might be lost to competitors on account of lower prices, Which can be met only by lower cost of production, and with the hope that more constant work will there- by be provided employes. Union leaders said tonight that they did not belleve the reduction was justi. fied by reductions in the cost of loving, but there has been no display of hostility on the part of workers. MES. GLADYS WITHERELL OF LOS ANGELES MISSING Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. 28.—ILos An- geles county supervisors today added $1,000 to the reward for information of- fered by the husband, father and neigh- bors of Mrs. Gladys Witherell, who dis- appeared from her home here Tuesday might. Police and ibrl\‘tn detectives continued their .search for clues that would lead to the persons who are said to have abduct- ed Mrs. Witherell in the hope of obtain- ing a ransom. SKATER DROWNED IN WEST HAVEN RESERVOIR New Haven, Conn., Jan. *8.—James Lennon; 17, of West Haven, was drowned late today when he plunged through a hole in the ice While skating on a reser- General Electric plant was slightly more | RDAY, JANUARY 29, 1921 ] 12 PAGES—88 COLS. — PRICE TWO CENTS. Filibuster Continues on the Fordney Bill Chances of Vote in Senate a This Session Are Growing Less. ‘Washington, Jan. 28.—Consideration of the Fordney emergency tarff Lill was delayed In the-eanate again.today and new rocks appesred in its path. With fiilibustefing openly charged. the leaders of boih sides declarsd that the chances of the measure coming to a vote In this session were gradua'y".srowing less. Anothér session of var.ed discus- sion is scheduled for tomorrow. But it is planned now to turn to the bi gappro- priation bills when' the senate convenes Monday. . Once the tariff legislation is displaced, advocates of the bill admit: 1t will be difficult to get it up for consider- ation again. The consideration given the tariff at to- day's session consisted of a spesch by Senator King, democrat, of Utah, on Russian trade, which occupoed almost the etire afternoon and contained only oc- casional 'references to tariff matters and brief exchanges concerning the meaning of Senator Penrose's -cloture petition which was circulated yesterday. The open charge of fiflbustering was mauc by Senator Ashurst. demoerat. of Arizona, _following a colloquy between Serator Thomas, democrat of Colorado, and Serator Penrose relative to _!'insin- uations” of a filibuster. The Pennsyl- vanit serator assured Mr. Thomas that ke had not intenued By circulating his peticion ‘o insinuate ti:at a filibuster had No Recognition of “Repuhliipf_lreland" Killed in House During Con- sideration of Diplomat Ap- propriation Bill. - ‘Washington, Jan. 28.—Indirect recog- nition of “the Republic of Ireland” was knocked out in the house today on a point of order. During consideration of the diplomatie appropriation bill Representative Mason, republican, of lilinois a mgmber of the foreign affairs committee, offered an amendment providing a salary of $10,000 for a minister to Ireland. Instantly half a dozen representatives ére on their feet. o ¢ Chairman Rogers of the sub-committee of appropriations, in charge of the bill, challenged the right of the house to in- clude such an amendment, on the ground that it was without authority of law and that there had been no executive recog- nition of Ireland. Before the point was sustained by Representative Towner, republican, of Towa. presiding, Mr. Mason declared the question of policy with resnect to Ireland should be determined by congress on its merits and not on a parliamentary point As the appropriation, if authorized, would not be gyailable until July, Rep- resentative Connally, democrat, of Texas, asked if Mr. Mason had any Indication or assurance that Mr. Harding would desig- nate a minister. “I have no promises, but I have hopes,” Mr. Mason replied. “We all know, how- ever, that President Wilson is not i s s o ey The: Way to Get It Before the People This is the time when geods being gotten off the shelves at large reductions and many times at a Toss in order to restock with new goods acquired at better prices. This is, therefore, the time whe! it is desired to complete the cleanout quickly. y To get information regarding t there is no method' that can equal the advertising columns of the newspaper, and this is consequently the time when no one can afford to overlook the exceptional offerings Speed up your turnover by setting forth the advantages to the prospective buyers through the advertising columns of The Bulletin, ‘which has a thoréugh circulation During the past week the following matter has appeared in The Bulletin's news columns : Bulletin Telegraph Local General Total Saturday, January 22. . 102 134 295 531 Monday, January 24. 108 278 459 Tuesday, January 25. 18 231 453 3 January 26. 88 215 445 . January 27, v 112 208 521 Friday, January 28. 12 305 524 : 589 672 1682 2943 D E———— e — are being moved, when stocks are n a speedy turnover is desired, when * hese opportunities before the people that are being made. in Norwich and vicinity. been crzan.zed. Senator King then began the speech on Russian trade but was interrupted by Senator McCumber, republican, of North Dakota, Who suggested that the tarift was the subject technically before the senate. The latter meutioned the ref- erences made to a filibuster and Mr. erences made ‘o a filibuster and Mr. Ashurst broke in witl the exclamation: “I do mot’ insinuate that there is & filibuster. 1 charge it." The accusation, however, failed to inter- fere with Mr. King's speech and for more than four hours he discussed Russia, its government, its people, its trade and internal conditions and the prospects of establishment of a permanent republic. When the senate regessed Senator King announced that he had much more to say tomorrow and it was understood also that several otaer senators wers pre- piring to speak on subjects rot clos: reluied to tarift questions. - This pros was sald by leaders to mean :he ening of action on the p'a1 ta lay as%ie the Fordney bill and Jispore of tie moier ne:sures which ha,: «:me over fem the hovse JAPANESE ANSWER ON LANGDON FORWARDED Tokio, Jan. 27.—(By The A. P.)—The! Japanese answer to the note of the Unit. ed States government concerning the re- cent Killing of Lieutenant Warren H. Langdon in . Viadivostok has been for- warded to Washington. According to information available hers the reply does not discuss the question of Japanese: occupation of Sioerfa. It re- iterates the regret or the government over the shooling of Lieutenant Lang- don, which has already been voiced by its official representatives in Viadivostok and Washington, and calls attention to the measures already adopted to prevent the recurrence of such an unfortunate incident. -~ The communication empha- sizes the completeness and impartialicy of the investigation into the shooting now in_ progress, which it says will be fol- lowed by such reparation as the cir- cumstances call for. Athough the shooting of Lieuteaant Largdon was an outgrowth of Japancse treops in Viadivostok, the Japanese ap- razertly think it should be treated as & separate and distinct question. Not con- nected with Japan's policy with regard to Kussia. > The authorities today de'~1 the states ment published yesterday by the Asahi Shombun to the effect that the police had decided to exercise greater surveillance over American visitors to Japan, who, the newspaper asserted, werebusinly en- gaged in invesfigating industrial and mil- itary conditions. American visitors, the authorities declared, were welcome in Japan and wouid not be molested. - They explained that such survelilarice over for. eigners as exists is du® to the desire of the police to keep out bolshevists. BTRIEE TIES UP ALL STREET CARS IN ALBANY Albany, N. Y.Jan. 28.—A strike on the lines of the United Traction Company which furnishes street car service in Al- bany, Troy and several nearby cities be- zan at midnight and it was expected that by § a. m. not a car would be operat- ing. The employes struck because of a reduction of wages, from 60 to 45 cents An hour, which was to go into effect to- day. : ‘“Milionatre Kid's” Fine Paid. Topeka, Kans., Jan. '28.—The -$1,753 fine and costs recently assessed against voir at West Haven. Other skaters at. on a lonely road in North Guilford. Bom- ster was Bradley's chauffeur and admit- ted to the peliee later that he planned the hold-un tempted to-rescue Lennon. and Hareld Richter, a- chum, took off part of hig clothing and dived twice into the ley water in & futile effort to save him. The body was recovered. Louis Osterweiss, known 'as- the “Mil- lionaire Kid." by Judge Pollock in the United States. district court of Kansas City, has been paid here. F. I Campbell, clerk of the federal court, announced to- dow - clined to favor recognition.” While the fight to prevent authoriza- tion of salaries for ministers to Finland and to the country of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes failed, the chair sustained a point of order on the section which Sought to reduce the embassy at Turkey | to a légation. 4 Ministers to Czecho-Slovakia Poland, eliminated yesterday from the }$12,000" salary rank, ‘were put back witn ministers in the $10.000 class. as amended on the floor fixed a salary of $10.000 for an ambassador to Turkey in- stead of $17,600, the normal figure. With final disposal of the ambassador and minister scctions, the attack was re- newed on other provisions. An effort to cut the item of $5,500 for a Japanese secretary at the embassy at Tokio. prompted Chairman Rozers to declare it ‘was (‘he most imporcant in the bill. Ex- pressing similar views concerning a Chi. Tese seerctary at Pekins, Mr. Rogers said e course of history was upon these two positions | - oPnd The bill was shot at all day part the outcropping of opposition frem 1o publicans and democrats aMke pare appropriation measures so-called budget system. Work constant. ly was interrusted and Representative 1 McClintic, democrat, Oklahoma, made five separate demands for a quorum, each roll call requiring nearly half an hour. Before ‘taking up salary items for the consular service, Chairman Rogers® ex. plained that many of them were subjeet to points of order, but gave warnin, c 3 1l the American service. esmecially in ’i"h’;‘:at and Janan. would be seriously crippled by their elimination. The house ad. Journed, however, before attack opened on the items, 2k adibe and The bill to pre- under the R LR LA DRE. H. C. WINNES DENTES MURDER OF MISS LURA PARSONS Harlan, Ky., Jan. stand today in his own Winnes, charged with the murder of Miss Lura Parsons, a scheel feacher, strongly denied that he was implicated in the killing of the girl whose mutilated body was found on a lonely pine mountain trail near Dillon, Ky., Sent. 7, 1920, Taking the stand immediately after the Drosecution closed ity case this morming the former state veterinarian ajso launched into an emphatic charges of the state thaf drinking whiskey der Starting of !ntreduction of defense te timeny caused much interest and as a result more than 700 persons crowded into the little courtroom. Dr. Winnes was calm and compos: throughout his testimony. s 28—Taking the behalf. Dr. H. C. on the diy of the mur- BLANKET INDICTMENT FOR NEW YOBK “BUILDING TRUST" New York, Jan. 27.—Another blanket Indictment, believed to contain the names | of at least 55 members of the Association ! of Dealers in Masons and Builders’ ma- terials, was presented to Supreme Court Justice McAvoy today by one of the'ex- traor== ry grand jurles investigating the “building trust.” The names of the defendants in the in- dictment, which is believed to charge violation of the state anti-trust act, were | withheld. Their counsel was notified to produce them in court for arralgnmény next Monda LAWYERS §ONVICTED OF RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS Boston, Jan. 2§—Hector Holmes ana Robert D. Weston, lawyers, were found wuilty by superior court to ving_stolen goods. Toe £00ds consist m Gf ietters taken from denial of | t he had been | ‘ Brief Telegrams Miel G 'y, an ardent Sinn Felner, was mnyl‘l:rl::;:ly Killed in bed in Bel- fast, . Fire in the repair shops of the Pullman car works in Chicsgo causcd an es.imat- ed loss o $300,000, p The agrienltural appropriation bill carrying approximately ' $34,000,000 w.s passed by the house, ~ The engagement of Princess Marle of Rumania to the Bulgarian Czar was an- nounced from Bucharest. The house confirmed, 169 to 145 its action in voting $360,000 for distribution of free ‘s, ds by members. Arthur Walter, editor and reporter of official debates in the house of lords since 1593, died in Lcndon. Rivers ang harbors bill carrying s lump sum of 31 00, or 341,554,000 less than estimates, wes reported. The Pope will create fourteen new ear- dinals at the next consistory. The con- sistory is to be held in March. A Coryzn closet to snuff the snuffles and nip the coids of Wel college giris is to be installed al Founders' hall. -~ Augustin L. Sanchéz and Henry Gar- cla, Mexicans, convicted of murder, were put to death in the electric chair in Sing Sing. A collision between a Main street trol- ley car and a Montclair Gus, resulted I the injury of 30 persons in Paterson, 3 - Construction of China's first mational mint will begin at Shanghai soon under the dircetion of Clifford Hewett of Phil- adelphia. [ Mexlean rebels, headed by twelve Arieta brothers, captured several emall towns and are reported advancing on Home bullding by Mfe insurance com: panies, under a po.icy system of protec- tion was prcposer in a bill introduced in the Wisconsin senate. Cotton manufacturers, north and south, appeased to the house ways and means mittee for the immediate relief from 00d” of importations. Dynamite, an appropriately named sup- er-stubborn mule, lay down on the car tracks on Third avenue, New York and tied up traffic for two hours. Employes of the Standard Ofl com- pany 2 New Jersey ~vill be priviteed to piy-chase cammon k dn the com- pany at $135 per share during 1921 A light engine following a Lackawanna express train into Scranton. Pa., picked up packages of silk trown from the ex- press by thieves. The bandits escaped. im- Torest Inventory and s ccnsus of { per requirements were urged by R. S. Kellogg of New York, representing the American Paper and Pulp Association. With the enptore of Réy Fitzhenry, 12 years old, the Chicago police believed that activities of a child bandit who had held up several women were ended. Four hundred barrels of four per cent. beer was dumped in the sewers of Olean. N. Y., by a federal officer, who had seiz- ed it from the Olean Drewing company. Dr. John Martin Thomas, president of Middlebury college, in Middlebury, Vt., since 1908, has resigned that position and his resignation has been accepted. Put out of business by prohibition. the house alcoholic liquor traffic committee. which hasn't met for more than a year. is preparing to fade away like the old brass rail. Cotton exports last year exceeded those of any other. commodity. . Ship- 36.- 1, ments of cotton were valued at $1. 408,916 as compared with $1,137 the year before, The first Baptist missionary conference of the national campaign to be held in this state opened at the First Baptist church, Ansonio, Wwith & conference of ministers, Trading in he 4 per cent. certificates of the Imperfal Russian government, 0,000.000 ew York having a par value of 2,3 rubles, was suspended by the stock exchange. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dick, formerly residents of Chicopee, now living at 127 Pitt street, New York city, are to cele- brate the 75 anniversary of their wed- ding Sundar night. Americean property in Germany ‘which ‘was taken under control by the German custodian” of enemy froperfy after the United States entered the war has been uncoditionally released. The conference held at San Jose, Costa Rica, for uniting five Central American countries in a Central American Unicn. has been ended without obtaining signa- ture of 'Nicaragua (o the pact. Under the nation-wide campaign put into force in 1920, Fpiscopalians increas- ed their gifts to missins and general work of the ehurch 113 per cent, over the tot:'l contributions for 1919. The New Hamp: sentativy passed and sent to the senate an anti-daylight saving bill giving to tre people of th: state the “benefits of the established standard time.” More than 500 candidates waded knee deep In water and slush in Rirmlv::hzm. Ala.. into the’ mystic cave of the Knights of the Ku Klux Kian and were intlated to the heights of superior knighthood. ‘he Rev. J. A. Irwin, the Presbyterian miniser who spoke in the United States with Eamonn De Valera, and who was arrestea Monday and sent to Ballykin- lar internment camp was released on bafl. tion of shipbuilders and ma. oer‘r.q'\lx“n‘mtnt manufacturers nad deal- ers was completed at a meting in New York of representatives of forty-seven companies. ' Txpert women erooks. speclalizing in house-breaking, safe-cracking, jewel snatching and cloak-room robberies, suc- ceeded In making the present seas~n of TLondon one of the busiest in the history of Scotland Yard. Tevised fignres show that the socialist party in the recent Eerne on the question of adhering to the twenty-one eondlticns laid down by the Moscow internationale rejeced the propo- sition 25,324 to 8,723. Neither of two rival negro Masonie lodges of Florida is entitled to use the V'the law office ot Daniel H. Coakley. The case was in its second trial, having been _taken from a previous jury, Masonic square or compass as emhlem, Sir George H. Barclay, former British minister at Bucharest, died ia London after a leng {iness, re house of represe- . Iprogress was being made toward the for- voting at | NEW ENGLAND RAILROADS REFUSED $12.000.000 “GIFT” | W. H. Williams, Chairman of the Wabash Railrcad, So forms ths Interstate Commerce Commission—Offer Was Made by the Trunk Lines West of the Hudson River— New England Carriers Claimed It Would Not Meet Their Needs—Exzcutives of Trunk Lines Are to Meet in New York Tuesday to Consider Other Ways of Settling the Cass Pending Before the Federal Commission. Washington, Jan. 28.&New England railroads were offered but réfused a “Eift” of <12,000,000 from trunk line | §g. executives to protect the former's credlt the interstate commerce commissio. was mediate settiement of the differences. The conference. he testified, was held with ew of giving the lines for ome year 190,000 in the hope that they could arrange in other ways thereafter to fine ance the yeariy deficit shown om the t6ld today by W. H. Wiliams, chairman | books. The stipu.ation was made by of the Waoash Raiiroad, testifying at|the trunk he said, that the gift hearings on a re-division of joint freigh’ | would have to be approved by the inter- rates between carriers east aad west Of | state commerce commission. Another the Hudson river. stipulation, ke said, was that the gift Mr. Williams said the New England not impair the rights of the trunk carriers turned down the offer on the| lines (o fight the application of the New grounds that it would not meet their| Engiand carriers for a re-division 6f needs. rates. Mr. *illiams sald that he, with pres- Idents Rea of the Pennsylvania and Ma- her of the Norfolk and Western, repre- senting the lines west of the Hudson riv- er, had conferred with Presidents Pear- son of the New York, New Haven & Hartford and Histis of the Doston and Maine, with an idca of effecting an im- n New Eng- land situation has been set for Tues day afternoon. it was stated today. V rious proposals 1o pool the interests of the trunk lines and other ways of settiing the case pending before the federal come mission will be discussed. B —— — CONTEST IN HOUSE OVER AEXY APPROPRIATION BiLyn MANIFESTO ISSUED BY THE BUSSIAN INFORMATION BUREAU Washington, Jan. 28.—Storm warnings were up in the house today over proposa of the zppropriations committee to pare | the regular army down to 150,000 men. The appropriation bill making provi- sion for that number during the next fisgal year was reported. by Chairman Anthony of sn appropriations sub-com- mittee, but it was indicated that repub- lican members of the militaty commit- tee planned to fight it out on the floor. Scveral members asserted thelr unwili- ingness to accent further reduction be: New York, Jan. 25—Manifesto assert- Ing that “the peoples of Free Russ cannot be bound by agreements conciuded Ly the bolsheviki and repudiating con- cessions granted 1o foreigners, which was lopted at a conference mow i at Paris of all Rus mads public here tonight by A. J. Sack, dl- rector of the Russian in‘ormla‘ion bu- reau. Attending the Parls conference are former Premier Kerensky: Mitukew, former minister of foreign affairs, Cathe erine Breshvosky, “Grandmother of the Russian revolution” V. Beris A. Bakhmes tefl, former Lussian ambassador st Washington, and several membess of the All-Russlan constituent assemily which low the 175,000 Fgure by the house and senate recertly in_a resojution which ite House today for con- sideration of the president. Under the resolu.ton, which directs re- | cruiting: be stopped until the present en- listed =irens' it of more than 200,000 gets convened in Petrograd for one day in down to 175,000. The army would not | 1918 before it was d 7, reach the lower strength in the normal|she e course before next Sep'srper. The The declaration lssued by the confer- ence stated that “Russia can never ree- ognise any despotiem as a legal awthori- 1y, particularly the bLolshevist 1 which repudiates (he most element principles of popular rule and civil 1= erties, and leans oniy upon the brute force of bayonets and rutiviess terror.” The conference auso adcpted a dees laration by members of the All-Russian constituent assembly, which, while op- | posing any endeavor to recognise the bol- proposed cut to 130,000, however, would presumabiy leave the war department | without funds or authority to maintain a force in excess of that number after June 30, There was speculation among army of- ficials teday as to what action Pres: dent Wilson would take on the 17 resolution. In some quarters it fFthought he might let it go back to con- aress w acul Lis ature to become = law a the erpirccien of tan. daya. Ex- shevist government, said: Prexeing @ s~ct t- the plaw in that way.|. It is necessary to rem rtifictal i Was win: ited, *owever, that no Indi-| barriers in the € todiing cation had teen seen as:to the attitude way of resuming the Mr. Wilson would take. economic contract of Russia with the pest of the world and 1 Chalrman Kahn of the military com-| ade ity tocma. . Tot tha Mubl miites said he believed it would alof the ade as a system m.s(-}.e 0 cut the army below 175,000 |a government rests maln at this time, shouiders of the innocent In reference to Representative _An-| after the Jifting of ine b ockade will the asses understand fully where the real source of all their unbearable, inhuman miseries lies. For it is not so much in the blockade, which, as a matter of fact, gropped Russia three years befors the boishevist upheaval. As rather in the entire geonomic policy of the bolsheviki that the cause of the fotal destruction of the national economy of that greas country is to be looked for™ FOR SAFEGUARDJNG HEALTH OF MOTHERS AND BABIRS Washington, Jan safer in any of sev tries than in the babies in ten other thony's statement yesterday that Pres- ident-elect Harding favors the 150,000 figure, Representative Kahn sald that in his conference at Marion he got the impression that Mr. Harding regarded that step as advisable “ultimately” but not at once. BULLET FIRED THROUGH WINDOW OF COURT BOOM New York, Jan. 28.—Essex Market po- lice court was thrown into confusion to- day when a bullet was fired through the { window, paseing over the heads of the assistant district attorney and the magis- trate, and finally embedding itself in the wall near the magistrate's bench The court room was cleared and police 25.—Motherhood i8 enteen forelgn cous- United States, and countries have & bet- ter chance of living through oo made a fruitless search of nearby build- thir first ings for the person firing the shot. The z;,',,';,i;"fi'f,’“‘:,,' 1o the house commeres police believe the bullet was fired with port today on the I ] pard-Towner bill to appropr malicious intent. ~They did not state, |b gy ed ‘emer. g The renort classes th The court at the time was engaged in | gency | e . egislati the trial of Harry Cohn charged with pmfxuu'y"..?::m'.?fl -'xu:' - an alleged violation of a section of the| The committen ,,,.,.,:"uo.,,;., that ma tenement house law. ternal and infant mortality in the soohn was arrested on January 10 with|United States was not decreasing. st; Jedamin’ Welnateln, Who. is ekatged | {ics hefore. it showing & 36 per ant i with maltreating Caroline Gray, of Roan- | crease in deaths from childbiciy ‘Dotne oke, Virgiaia. The girl .was testifying 1919 a8q Infants undes o :‘: «:\D%":xme the bullet passed throush |of age are dying from muenln’:le’fl‘l: . ; ment : The magistrate declared that no threats | repors sniy'® "2'¢ °f 290000 & year, tha report said. had been made against his life, and that | oy 0 he was unaware of any enemies, VISIbIY | certained. the rrmpry il [t A8 8- shaken by the incident, he port added, “that 86 adjourned | per cent of mothers recel or trained care children.” court immediately. fved no adviee Dreceding the birth of FOREIGN TRADE FINANCING CORPORATION OF NEW YORK o e LETTER DELIVERED APTER TRAVELING FOR 19 YEARS ‘Washington, Jan. 28.—Approval of the articles of association of the Foreign Trade Financing Corporation of New York was announced tonight by the fed- Dedham, Mass., Jan. 28.—A Jetter that had been '19 years on the wi eral reserve board. The . corporation,|the time traveling through m:y":r":.:-‘ which is capitalized” at $100,000,000, is | itals of Europe. . i being organized under the Edge act for | Mrs. Fred I pratt ot ':e“::fin“fii” the purpose of engaging in ‘international [ ed like a futuristic conception of hg financial operations.. . . 4 International postal _system gone mad Announcement was made in New York | with more than a schra of foreien pmad recently that the presidency of the new |marks cutting cirlique: mest! corporation wouid be tendered Governor petrocrad. ks TR marks. ~ London, Petrogra Berl Harding of the federal -reserve -board. |and other far piaces s "o - Governor Harding stated that until a for- | cheek by jowl with the little station of mal offer was made he would refrain|City Mills from which from comment upon the tender. sent on February nnam'g‘,]:,f:“dm sz Bt dates indicat “the | PROGRESS IN READJUSTMENT e ce T i At S OF GOODYEAR' DIFFICULTIES was within a day or two of rertapin Mrs. Pratt: at others it w..o;u ‘.t hind and oddly it found her today withe In & few miles of its starting place, 5 —— ey New York, Jan. 28.—Bankers and mer- chandise creditors of the Gopdyear. Tire and Rubber company, afier a week of conferences here for the purpose of ef-, OBITUARY, N fecting an ddjustmient of the company’s Col. Elisha Theal. financial difficulties, had failed to reach | Ywashi rd a gettlement at the close of today's ses- e oo iCeL S 1 Theal, United States Marine corps, de- sion. scribed. by Secretary Daniels a6 ‘one of the most capable and efficient officers In the service, died at the naval hospital here today from complications resulting from an automobile accident a year ago, Colonel Theal, who was a natives of New York dnd 47 years of age. was graduated from the naval academy amd after'a nericd of service in the maring cqrns, was retired for disability. In 1907 hé bécameé clerk of the house naval afs fairs commitice and his ten years of ser- viee With “the comnfittes caus-1 him ‘3 become known to virgumlly 9y 1§ that sat in corgress uuring that peri: r During the war he commanded the ma- Lindfi of San Diego, Calif . gerfously in- | rine station at Norfolk. ftraipine masy jured in an airplafie accldent today.|of the marines that schieved distinetion While making a ifight théir plane went' in France. and later was attached to into a tail spin and fel to the ground. office of the secretary of the mawk. - It was understood, however, .that mulation of a plan acceptable alike to the company and its creditors. A meeting of theé directors of the Good- year Tire and Ruble: company.scheduled | for Friday in Akron, O., was postponed Feb, 1 - AMERICAN.AVIATOR RIELED - - - - IN ACCIDENT AT COBLENZ Coblenz, Jan. 28.—Lieutenant Clarence M. Cutler, of Massachusetts, wag instant. Iy killed, ‘and Licutenant Chester P. Do —— 1~ e