Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 1, 1921, Page 1

VOL. LXN—NO. 27 ° SLIGHT INCREASE IN LEADING EW ENGLAND INDUSTRIES fa the South and West the Unemployment Situation Has Be-| come More Acute—About 100,000 Textile Mill Workers POPULATION 29,685 | Cabled Paragraphs Swiss Against Military Court. Berne, an. 3L—JProposed legislation, sponsored by -the soclalist party. and de- manding the suppression of military oourts has been rejected by a vote of 357.- 000 to 193,000 4n a plebiscite held through- out Switzerland. A bill supported by the federal assembly to submit to a pop- viar referendum all international treaties if such 2 demand be made by 30,000 citizens or eight cantons, wis. accepted, the' vote being 384,000 to 159,000, Aboutl 50 per cent. of the volers cast their bale = Sleeping Sickness in London, London, Jad. 3LFifty-five cases ot sleeping sickness have been reported dur- . ing the 1 th in this city. Only twen- in New Engl IHneSE i Wi CI. Awi ng the last month in this city. Only twer 22 1-2 Per Cent.—Review For Jlmnry‘ of Business and = Financial Conditions in the Country Issued by the Fed- eral Reserve Board. Washington, Jan. 31.—Industrial ope- \ In the Philadelphia district unemploy- | kines, today urged befor ty-three were reported in- the previous month. % EXECUTIVES APPEAL TO EAILROAD LABOR BOARD Chicago, Jan. 31.—American railroads, through Brigadier Geners’' W. W. Atter- bury, vice president of 4 P-nnsylvania « railroad la- - ol sufficiently to | Ment is prevalent as a result of the con | bor board immediate abrogation of the effect a material reduction in the wide- ago, according (o the review of business reserve board. A signt increase leading New England indusries during | the month but in the south and west the sifuation tallment of operations in spread unemployment prevalent a month | industry. "Textile mil tinuance of shutdowns of plants, or cur- | hatignal agreements between the many lines of |and their employes, and brought td a fo- Is in the Richmond district | Was a and financial condiions of the country | resumed work in January, but in for Junuary issued tonight by the federal | building and in the ranks of un- | reductions would be asked at present if skilled sbor a serious ack of employ- |the agreements were annulled, General in the activity of [ment existed there. The numper of goemploved has in-| i probably has brought a|creased decidedly th ©m Atlanta district, | ‘Atterbury roads lcus what railroad executives declared critical situation, threatening the | many roads with bankruptey. No wage Atterbury said. The course recommended by General was interjected into the measure of relief L. ere, the review -.m,i-nd idleness has &w3eme widespread in |Poard’s hearing on rules and working ! has beome more acute. fecte., the board reported ment © be abnormally great season. unemploy- board said, and the curtaibment has | shoes spread to sections of the country where S5 fas steady. Wage rates have Litherto been ma! t-ineq at hish levela About textie mill workers in New FEngland | noticeable. have suffered wage culs averaging 22 per cent.. the reviaw added, reductions in the bcot and shoe industry |able. extensive, bor in Massachusetis was moted in-Jan- 1a January, mills greater a dujtry of Rochester, but -transporta companies droppad a considerable num- | couraging, the ranks of the unskilled. In the San |lines wage Teductions have already been |MOTe than Francisco district, previsusly slightly af- | made. wages have A return flow of labor Prices uary. but the Boston employment offize | grains, cotton and other \ntdormed the board that the numbc: | products, rose early o of apolicants was the greater on re- |board reported, but later in the month |TISHt throw the whole Garing the first days of the month. | declined again. in Janua In many | conditions which has been in progress for iree weeks. Vigorous pro- test, charging the railroads with viola- = h tation act, was made Unemployment became more pronounc- | tion of the transportats for this |ed in the St. Louis district during the by J. G. ]:‘uhrsin, lm;:mld'enz of g‘nefl.l:m; month being especially fell in industries | ican Train Dispatchers' Association, Wage reductizns have continued. the |such as iron automobiles, | T€P1y to- General Atterbury’s statement. et fatews | forthcoming from the sixteen brother- from | hoods was also given by'B. M. Jewell, 100,000 | cities to the farms las been especially | President of the railway employes' de- continued Labor, With the exceptlon of San Francisco, 5 i - et and while | conditions in California are not untavor- | {¥leETam to President "Wileon protesting In Portland. unemployment was | 283t any interruption have mot been so large, they have been |twice the nofmal figure. Wage reduo- tions of fr-m 10 to 20 per cent. have oc- Some increase in the demand for la- |curred in various part of the district. staples, agri were increas- Stack- | Notice that a reply would soon be partment of the American Federation of Tonight Mr. Jewell sent a Jong proceedings. General Atterbury declared _that the railroad situation was so urgent that he 2 . nference Totably | €0uld entertain no proposal of col ultural with employes, as they could nol agrce. He added that ‘even a few days’ delay” the situation _into haos and flood the board with petitions Other leading commodi- | 5. . s s nemployment in the New York als- | ties, however, such as crude and refined | TO. Failroads for reduction, of wages. trict inereased by about four per cent |oils and bituminous coal mot greatly af- the raview said, £3me texti'e | fected in eariier menths, : fiway Executives’ labor com- e ‘respensl and theré ‘has been ingly weak, and fron ang steel continued | Lo% Of Railway Exegulives I ity in the men's clothing i1- | to decline. Financially the month has been the board declared. Genera] Atterbury appeared before the board in behalf of the American Associa- mittee, of which he ‘is chairman. He declared that unless operating cxpenses €0 were immediately reduced many roads faced bankruptey and that wiping out ber of employes durng the mcnth. Up- |ening in the demand for credit resuited ey ampi.yment was likewise aming longshoremen, sants. Conditions ings increased widesoread |im a material reduction in the total out- | oo%uticn to part of the problem. A re- treight handlers, | standing wolume of circulaticn, amount- | Juation of $300,000,000 & ¥ dock workers and seamen.. while there |ing in the month to abcut $50,000,000, were further reduction in iron and steel | while gold hy in other section of | $25,000,000, finance to about the the national agreements of~=el a o ing expenses couid be »f ruling the existing agreements and re- storing the status of December 31, 1917, ‘he country are given in the review as|month has been a period of improvement tollowing: of value in most classes of securities. ABBANGING FOR TRANS- ATLANTIC WIRELESS TEST tord, Cotn, Jan. 31—Twenty‘five ess rators in Has dis ests In st at 10.30 o Three hutidred cf in Engiand and Swotiand will be ot thelr I sage. The message has been divided into paris. each to be sent by a different s country. the mess Percy Maxim from his st: Robert Miner and C. will serd parts of the ‘message. tion in Michigan is the farthest west of thess taking part in the test. The Maxim station racenyy estabiished a trans-continental civilian wircless. re- lay record. serding a message to Los Argeles and receiving a reply six and one-ialf minutes late: MINE WORKERS' 1EADER BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE 3 jury lonight. appear; §- today before {ne sen- itiee considering the €alder coal 14 the merits of the meaure, but intimated sion of any ant!- Green did not complete his statement and il continue tomorrnw, when Gompers. president of the American Fed- -5 of Labor, has bee= asked to ap- APAMS CONVICTED OF out a 1. ™he first section of |now on the s to be flashed by Hiram | Harding said in an interview pablished ion in this|{by a local newspaper today. city. The ‘continuous wave” stations of | only eomment on national politicdl af- . Tuska here also! fairs, but he spoke at iength on Florida's A sta- | climate. GUILTY OF KILLING A PROMIBITION DEPUTY Williamson, W. Va., more tentative juryman was needed w Y circuit court adjourned this aternoon tg | t0day to the California senator intimated Jafi, HARDING 1S EXPECTED TO RETURN TO MIAMI POPAY |roads’ retrenchment should be removal 1 puz *No country ean go through v-ar with- | immediately, however, he sai i0d of readjustm: have reached the lowest step and are R AT T President-elect | JOIINSON CALLS ON COLBY It was his Tuscumbia, Aia. Jan. 31.—Hamp by, on trial in connection with the Kill- inz of Don Stephenson, prohibition e forcement deputy, and the wounding® of two other officers, was found guilty by Punishicent was fixed at life imprisonment. The verdict was re- | Japan, . 31.—Filiam Green, |turned within four hours after the jury aited Mine Woskers of | was selected and af'er fon of the defendarn.. Kirby, Who is 20 years of age, was rezulation bIIT. expressed mno opinion as|described by the prosecution as one of the central figures in a plot to kill all thai orzanzed labor would fight incij-|prohibition agents in this section of Ala- trike provisions. M. | bama. e Samuel | ONE JUROR SHY FOR TRIAL OF MOUNTAINEERS | People of the west -* * * t, but 31.—One he said. The national agreements, he continued, were “forced on the raiiroads as measures and cause gross waste and in- efficiency.” The first step in the rail- of these agreements which the roads de- Miami, Fla., Jan. 31—Perfect weather | clare wiil materially reduce operating ex- 2 eastern| favor.d ‘President:cléct Hardmng and’ bis | PONSes. states tonieht were tiRing up their ra:|vacation party [Uday on their.fishing trip/f repz-ation for.the st | south civllian trane-Xuantic wireless h% "Thro! test, under the auspices of the American | shone down from uneloud:d skies and|General Atterbury. Redlo. Re'ay Learie, is scheduled (o) tanmed the faces of the Sugsestions by members at- the board i o Pm.wmw " the roads and employes were rejected by " trojpical sun Judge R. M. Barton, fishermen as | chairman of the board, said that he con- ock tomorrow night. | théir yacht maneuvered about ihc fishing | Sidered some basis necessary for rallroad ian wireless opsrators | grounds off Cocolobo Ie 2| The party uments for the test mes-|into Miami late tomorrow, operations and questioned the wisdom of back | Wiping out the existing agreements. Re- buttal by the employes would be heard 2nd the we | matter taken up at once by the board. FOR JAPAN NEGOTIATIONS Washington, Jan. 31.—Senator John- son of California asked Secretary Colby ey to make public the negotiations be- tween the United States and Japan on Cotby replied that “it Senator Johnson expects to do a ghost dance on thi subject he's got to do it without a partner.” Senator Johnson, in a formal statement. reiterated his_declaration as embadied in a statement last Saturday that Roland S. Mogris, Gnited States ambassador to and Baron Shidehara. Japanese ambassador here, in the negotiations re- oing of a con- | cently concluded, tentatively agreed upon a treaty “which in effect repealed the California Alien Land law.” Pointing to Secretary Colby’s reply, als, made Sat- urday, that the California semator was proceeding an on erroneous assumplion. Senator Johnsen asked that the report of Ambassador Morris on the negotia- tions be made public, asserting that “the are en- titled to know what that report con- tains.” Secretary Colby who replied informally SLAYING MISS M'KENNA |complete the panel of twenty men, twelve | that the negotiations Would be made pub- Providence, R. I, Jan. 31—Rolt G. of whom will try the twenty-one inoun- taineers charged with the killing of Al- lic at what was descriebed as “the prop- er time” The subject, he said, was one Adams, on trial for the slaying of Miss |bert C. Felts in the Matewan battle last | "that cannot be settled In a covert man- Rose V. McKenna on Barrington park- | May. ®ay on the night of Sept. 2d, was this |Sides that such a mumber of men will be afternoon found guilty of murder in the |excused on challenge that it will be to. Szst degres by a jury in the superior | Ward the end of the week before the first witness is placed on the stand. tourt. Adams, who servid in the navy luring the worid war, heard the verdict without show of emotion. SUPREME COURT HAS It 1s conceded by counsel for both APPEAL WITHDRAWN BY EASTERN KODAK COMPANY| ner.” Doubt wag expressed by Mr. Colby as to whether a treaty based on the nego- tiations, could be sent to the senate be- fore the adjournment of congress and the end of the present administration on March 4. APOLOGY FOR ATTEMPT RECESSED UNTIL FEB. 28 K:::h::g;‘ yhn'.','a, :1.—":3. Fastman TO KIDNAP BERGDOLL : »y withdrew the ap- e Washington, Jan. 31—The Sreme | Deal it had filed In the supreme copes | BeFlin; Jan. ~3l—Brigadier General e i 9 Henry T. Allen, commander of the Amer- tourt recessed today until Feb. 28 with. | /Om conviction before the United States 2 e R wit having acted upon several important | district court at Buffalo, N. Y., under the |\C21 &rmy of occupation on the Rhine, sases which it had been- expected to de- | SNErman anti-trust act. On’ motion of|has made a formal apology to both the side. counsed for the company, Chief Justice|Berlin government and the government The long recess started .today was said | Y Nite ordered issuance 2 mandate re.|of Baden for the recent.attempt by men 1o have been taken for the purpose of | QUFINE the company to “abrogate the f1.|CoRRected With the American forces to satching up on the cases already argued. OBITUAR; Mrs. Geerge A. Parker : Meriden, Jan. 31—Death today sepa- raied Meriden's longest married couple, their sevVentieth wedding iast Friday. Mr. Parker sid. A son, Johm H. Parker, fruggist also survive Geergs B. Fremeh Essex, Jan. 31—County Commission- |SOUTH NORWALK HATTERS or George B. French of this place died suddenly at at 2 2 m. today from jeart fisease. It was the 76th anniversary of bis birth. He was a veteran of the civil 15 years and a former member of the Commissioner French's term weuld wis aiso seieetman. Rev. John C. Framee. 1y ACCEPT WAGE REDUCTION South Norwalk, Jan. 16. U. H. of N. A, have accepted war, postmaster for ten years, selectman | pronosed reduction 2 in the minimuem wage bill, legisisture. A widow and ome'Sen Sur- |mended by the national directors of the vive, Uniteq Hatters of North America recent- tly. The new scale will b bave expired on October 1, 1923. He |June 1. 1937, and il seare pomeal™! | ment on the German attitude- regarding 31.—Local of twenty per cent | gEPARATIO as recom- New Haven, Conn., Jan. 31.—The Rev, | IFCBESAED ACTIVITY IN John France, rector of St. James' Episcoyal church here, died suddenly this wfternoon of heart failure. He was born legal. monopoly” in photographic supplies | {2Ke Into custedy on Germ.. territory which the govérnment alleged it held. MONEY PAID BRINDELL 1 staten ' COMMISSIONS, NOT BRIBEss|°TTeNtRere today. New York, Jan. $1—Money paid by | UPGE EATHEE GO TO JAIL when Laura i. Parker, 87, wife of Geo, | CONtractors to Robert P. Brindell, head of A Parker passed away. They observed | (h® building {4 counoll, charged. with b on, was In reality commissions in|. . ’ " ,,“,':‘";:Z payment for work which Mr. Brindell se. | Lindsey of Denvers juverile court, when 3 | cured for them and not bribes, witnesses | Informed today that the supieme court Sl f:,'-l the defense testified today at Brin. |had dismissed his appeal from & sentence dell's trial. Grover Bergdoll, American draft evader, and his chauffeur, Isaac Stecher, says an official statement issued by the gove THAN BETRAY CONFIDENCE Denver, Col, Jan. 31.—Judge Ben B. on charges of contemp’ of court, said: “I'4 rather go to jail than betray the confidence of a child.” Judge Lindsey was fined $500 for a contempt of criminal court. He an- nounced that he would ot pay the fine. ):vf' preferring to go to jail. . S TO COME \ BEFOEE RIECHSTAG TODAY Berlin, Jan. 31.—A government state- the allied reparation demands is expected to be made in the reichstag tomorrow. President Ebert presided at two cabinet councils today, at which supreme coun- NEW BEDFORD MILLS |cil's notes were discussed. New Bedford, Mass.. Jan. 31.—Severa] Dr. Simons, foreign secretary, in a brief statement in the reichstag, explain- ip Cansds 64 years ago and was grad-|of the cotton mills in this city today o athat he . e dthat he wa sunable to dated from Oberiin coliege. Jie has held | started machinery that had been idle for express an opinfon_on the notes until the cabinet in Arkansas and Denver. Col.|weeks. Fully 20 per cent. more opera- and pastor of St- Luke’s church, |tives will be given e befere coming to this city. |cloth milla th 6 'was chapiain of the Conmecticut sen- ago. There is alo increased actiivty in u‘}vor-u 1913 gession. the y\g mills. ) " 3 & ployment by the week than two weeks deliberations” were concluded. When the right woman comes along she finds & man’s heartstrings as easy to play upon as a fiddle. the California land question and Mr.| V. Debs—Berger Case Also Treated. Chicago, Jan. 31.—The socialist party through its natonal crganization in Chi- cago issued a statement today on the re- m&l of President Wilson to pardon Eu- gene V. Debs, and the supreme court de- clsion in the Berger case. “The supreme court, in ordering a new trial for Victor Berger, J. Louis Bngdahl, William R. Kruse, ~Adolph Germer ‘and Irwin St. John Tucker, con- firmed what the Socialist party has main- tained since the trial, that the five social- ist officials were trieq and convicted in an atmosphere of hysteria and prejudice that made a fair trial impossible., “The soclalists asserted three years ago, when the men were indicted and repeated two years ago at the time of the trial that the men were being punished not for ‘specific acts but solely and only for their work as members ana officials ‘of the socialist party. “In oher wcrds, the socialists declare that the prbsecution of the five men, to- gether with the prosecution of Eugene V. Debs and other espionage cases, were political 'trials and that the men are being punished -for political opposi- tion to the dominant political party and for no other offense.” The statement applauded the & preme court decision as far as it re- lateq to Judge Landis and attacked the motives of that jurist. It then turned to the Debs case asserting that President ‘Wilson had “refused to recognize the fact that the hysterial of the war period is Jover and ihat savage for political heresy is out of date “Political trials, political prisoners and punishment for political heresy have al- ways been ot of place in America and |this country will be a better place to |live in when that chapter is closed.” {said the concluding sentence of the state- ‘ment. PRESIDENT WILSON REJECTS COMMUTAWION. FOR DEBS ‘Washington, Jan . 31.—Rscommenda-: tion by the department of justic that the ten year sentence of gene V. Debs. long a prominent socialist leader, and now serving a ten-year sentence a At- ,lanta, Ga., for violation nf the war-time espionage laws, be commuted, effective February 12, next Lincoln’s birthday, was rejected #y by Presidenc Wilson and commutation refused, The decision of the president came as no surprise because of his previous refus- als to intervene in ihe case on the ground that Debs had sought to handicap the government through opposition to the selective service act during the war, snd that the granting of clemeney in this case might’ induce’ similar tactics on the part of others in the.event of another war, Al ment, of the “presidents T N |recommendatione of the department of . justice had been submitted to him. The case was reviewed by a special board now taking up all convictions un- der the espionage act and their findings were endorsed by. Attorney General Palmer. The findings are understood to have pointed out that Debs would be eligible for parole on Aug. 11, 1922, and that his sentence, in case ¢f good be- haviour, would expire on Dec. 28, 1925, The recommendution 'is understood to have suggested that Debs had been ade- quately punished by his confinement since jJune 15, 1919, Petitions were presented several months ago by union labor and social- ist leaders asking for the release of the man, now 66 years old, who four times has been’'a candidate for president of the Uniteq States. The case has been con- sistently and bitterly fought both in and iuut of the courts ever since Debs w: ‘indicled and then convicted by a federal jury at Cleveland in September, 1918, for violation cf the éspionage act. Spe- cifically the charges against him in- cluded attempting to incite insubordina- tion in the military forces and obstruct- ing recruiting, The case was appealed to the supreme court of the United States which :m‘fl th elower court. SUPREME COURT GIVES . DBERGEE A NEW TRIAL ‘Washington, Jan.-31.—Victor L. Ber- ger, socialist of Milwaukee, and four co- defendants who were convicted and sentenced to t s ranging from ten to twenty years for violation of the war time espionage act, will be given new trials under a decision today by the su- preme court. Berger's co-defendants are Adolph Ger- mer, national secretary of the soclalist party, a native of Prussia; William Kruse, editor of the Young Socialist Mag- azine, whose parents were Germans; J. Louis Engdahl ,and Irwin St. John Tuck- er, writers and lecturers, natives of the TUnited States, and claiming to be not of immediate descent ¥ Dividing six to three, the court held that Federal Distrlet Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis of Chicago was Ineligi- ble to conduct the trial and should have retired upon the filing of an affidavit by the defendants charging him with “per- sonal blas and prejudice,” because of the nativity of certain of them. The sole question befors the supreme court was whether Judge' Landis had erred in continuing to sit in the case aft- er counsel for the defemse had flled a properly drawn affidavit of p--judice: six members of the court, includ'ng Chief Justice White, held that he @id. Three other memibers, Justices Day, Pitney and McReynolds, held that he did not, and filed opinions sharply dissenting from that of the majority, Justice McKenna, 'departing from his written opinion, said it should be of no importance to a judge whether he saw in any particular case. He added that the section of the judicial code under which the affidavic was filed was drawn to assure that the court not only would be Impartial but would be free from even a suspicion of partiality. “We ‘are of the opinion therefore” he continued, “that” an affidavit upon in- formation and belief, satisfies the.section and that upon its filing. if it shows the ohjectionable inelimation or dieposition of the judge It is s daty to ‘proceed no further in-the case. “The facts and reasons the affidavit states are not frivolous or fdnciful, but substantial and formidable ang they have relation to the attitde of Judge Lan- dis’ mind toward the defendants.” N. J. SEN ATE REPEALS THE 3.50 PER CENT. BEER BILL | over police-o™cers; , the Volstead Act Prohibition Leaders in Con- gress Strong For Jail Sen- tence For the First Viola- tion. ‘Washington, Jan. 31.—(By The A. P.) Prohibition leaders in congress are hop- ing to tighten up the Volstead law. ‘They are planning new legislation to a fine. > Other changes being discussed among the prohibitfon leaders relate to Seizure clause, 50 as to reach the home brew and to make more sweeping the present law under which a person buying liquor may be punished equally with the person selling it. Conflscation of every drop of held by citizens, regardless or how it wag acquired, is also being urged. This would legalize seizure of all stocks held in a private cellar—or a safety deposit vault. Objection to that, however, has been made by some dry leaders on the ground that little such liquor finds its way into channels of bootleg trade and that it won't be long before all such liquor will be used up. Unless.a pending bill, which would per- mit fedéral commissioners to try minor liquor cases, is passed, a proposed amend- ment to the Volstead law would take care of this. Federal court dockets are now badly congested with Volstead vio- lations and government officials have re- ported u change of procedure necessary. The big fight for amendment will start with the opening of the new session in April, according to dry leaders. The) say they have enough votes in the house now to put through any added. restric- tions they might desire, but that there is not enough time left. Meanwhile, Chairman Volstead of the Bouse- judiciary committee, on shoulders will fall the bulk of revising and tightening up, js awaiting word from prohibition enforcement officers as to suggestions for making the law bullet proof. Reports showing heavy transportation of liquor - and wholesale smugsling prompted the move L to put persons transporting and selling it in jail right off the bat. g In the effort to stop home brewing and operation of kitchen or garrett distiller- jes, turning out small quantities of Ili- quor for sale, prohibition leaders admit that they will run into a storm of oppo- sition, liquor to when JAIL SENTENCE FOK A NEW YORK DETECTIVE SERGEANT New York, Jan. 31,—Refusal of Detec- tive Serggant John Armstrong to_testify today before the grand jury, resulting in a jail sentence and fine for contempt of court, was charactorized by Former Goy- ernor Whitman ™=t as.an exampe of the power Which “the system” exerted “ P& swto”§ ¢ phase of the corruption investigation came to a ciimax when Armstrong refused to answer questions relative to the acceptance of rewards fo rthe recovery of stolen automobiles. . The court sentenced him to jail for thir- ty days and fined him $250 for contempt of court. In discussing the attitude of Arm- strong, Mr. Whitman said: “So far as Armstrong reTusing to tes- tify goes, things bippened as I expected they would. = It shows that the police are more afraid of ‘the system’ than they are of the law. They will go tv jail ra- ther than fell tie truth, although by telling the truth they would obtain im- munity from prosccution.” The payments made to Armstrong for the recovery of stolen automobiles were made by® persons who were instructed to pay him at police headquarters in mash, the prosecutor stated, “This is the rawest thing I ever saw,” Mr. Whitman concluded, Detective Sergeant William J. Hussey was indicted today. He is the third member of the automobile squad to be accused of accepting bribes in the re- covery of stolen automobiles. THREE FIREMEN KILLED; - 18 INJURED IN PROVIDENCE Providence, Jan. 31.—Thres firemen were Killed and eighteen sericusiy in- jured when a wall of a blazing building at 83, Mathcwson street collapged during a fire early this morning which lasted less than two hours. The structure, which fs in the busi- ‘mess district, was practically destroyed. The damage is estimated at $150,000 and Plan to Tighten up } Whosed + 8 PAGES—&4 COLUMNS Brussels for a week's late GeneralBenjamin il Professor George Schillings, noted as an African praveler and zoologist, Gied in Beriin, Owing to depresslon at Chateaugay Ore and Irch Co. closed its big ircn mines at Lyon: Mountain, in the Adirondacks. American are lear! the State rango, Mexico a8 a result of the reizn of terror begun by the twelve Aricta ban- dit brothers. Beventy-six per cent of the total car provide a flat jail sentence for the first | Miles operated by the Kastern Ma offense of selling -liquor, without giving | Chusetts Street Railway during Decem- the courts the optional right o! imposing | ber was operated with one-man cars, Wie transatiantic dirigible B-31 wan the | broken In two when it was blown. far out to sea after a bad landing on the York- Men shire coast. and flaan and commerce. William Gunn, noted _cricket in England. be a siortage of coal there. brought 4,000 tons. William E. MeCombs, former man, of the dem:s nionth in New York. lines of both hard and soft coal. Rev. Chapman Stephen’s parish, Jersey Cit, accepted the ca’l to be rector of at Elmhurst, New Tork. 000 and then set on fire. According te = bulletin issued try. tenant John C. Taylor, naval Roads, Va., by & sentry. ez Boston to New York, were in storm. town. lived: years old, were suffocated whe lan overheated stove. newspaper advertisement for five On aceount { centimes to fifteen. gion, arrived in Hartford on a the interests of veteran of the was in need of hospital care. it is believed that two of the victims will not survive. Trapped on the roof and blinded by Smoke, when flames suddenly severed the front wall, a company of firemen were hurled into a flery pit. Those in the street were showered with huge javelina of blazing beams and debris. Defying death that threatened them from what remained of the tottering framework, comrades of the victims rushed into the ruins and brought out the living and the dead. The three Who lost their lives were Lieut. Thomas H. Kelleher of Engine No, 2; John Peatue of Ladder 1 and Andrew Cooper of Ladder 1. Lieuts. Robert Mc- Donald and Thomas M. Tiefnan are on hospital, PROVIDENCE MAN KILLED BANDIT WHO TEIED HOLD UP Providence,' R. L, Jan. 31.—Orrie A. Lane, collector for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. stores, carry- ing the day’s collections, was held up on the stairway from his apartment today, but turned the hold-up man’s gun on the robber and killed him. Lane went home to dinner with several thousand dollars in his custody. After dinner he started for the bank; went down one flight and came face to face With the gunman on the second floor landing. Lane refused to hold up his hands; caught the robber’s wrist and doubling his arm over, pulled the trigger so that the hold-up man’ was shot throngh the head, he told the police. Lane's Wwife called the police. They found the robber, a man of 25, Who has not been identified, dead at The foot of the stairs at the ground floor. On the second floor landing they found Lane's false teeth, lost in the scuffie. Lane clung to the money bag. The police held him pending further investigation. TWO SCHOOL CHILDREN KILLED IN "BUS COLLISION Baltimore, Jan. 31.—Two school chil- daren were killed outright, two others weer perhaps fatally injured and nearly asscore narrowly escaped death this af- Trenton, N. J., Jan. 31.—The senate tonight nassed the bill for the repeal of Governor Edwar¢s' 2.50 per cent. beer hm.k The house took similar action last wee \ ternoon when the Camp Meade 'bus, in wWhich they were riding, was struck at Shipley station by an eleetric train. The accident occurred while the chil- dren were on thair wav heme from school. 4 ¥ ing his home in Springfield, IIL, attempt to reduce miners’ wages. Bir Ernest Shackleto: ted Antarctic explorer arrived at New York Brief Telegrams King Albert ang Queen Elizabeth Yeft ‘sit 10 Maarid. Enrique Estrada has been appointed minister of war in Mexico succeeding the The Mexican government is » the latest United States governme regarding oil properties in Mexico and will probably answer it this week. Arrival of six barges of coal at Bridge- | % port averted what had bee nsxpected to |fiscal year The arrivals ratic national commg- | The potent ttee, has ben seriously ill for mearly a A protest will- be made by Bridgeport - interests against the proposed lncrease available in an emergency. in carrying rates by the trunk raiiroad Lewis, rector of St. Episcopal parish, South Norwalk. A statue of St. Joan of Are, found only [ Gladys Witk slightly scarred in a war ruined French village, today graces an altar in a church The Commonweaiih National Bank at: Reedville, Virginia, a village, was robbed of cash and securities totalling $119,- A maval ceurt of inquiry has been or-| dered to investigate the shooting of Lieu- officer, at the operating base, Hampton. ‘Three barges, the tow of the tug Tri- » ton which Wis taking theffi light from |cording fo the po Three detectives were shot and seri- ously wounded in Detroit by three ban-|ehe was reunited with her child. dits who. robbed the Morton Bond com-(she suffered a nervous collap: pany's offices in the public square down- | Miss Gretchen Brandit, 37, was found | beaten and stabbed to death in her room | was Floyd Cars at the home of her brother-in-law, Dr.|ing someone w. Lester. Siemen, mn Cleveland, where she [man hurt in an accident on the i Mrs. James H. Glover and her three children, the eldest of whom was ei 'n th home at! London, Ont., caught fire from | wheel. Three hundred men at 8 o'clock this morning were jammed around front and (to the scene of the acdident. Tear entrances of an Indianapolis ten to twenty-five cent store in anewer (o a|T knew s of the increased cost of [ed the odor of ch newsprint, beginning Feb. 1, the A. B. C.|as long as I'could and other Madrid newspapers announce | ing. their prices will be increased from ten |the cohin Wk Cel, ¥rederick W. Galbraith, Jr.. ne- | cape. E - tional commander of the American Le- |to my husband, just to say 1 was i They toid me afterward thay sent | MBS, HARDING SPENT world | my letter with theirs, demanding $20,090 John L. Lewis, president of the United Miné Workers of America, who is visit- | they blindfolded me. ed the organization would opposs any 'me the pupers. THE ABANDONMENT OF SOME NAVAL STATIONS PROBABLE + ou.|If Naval Appropriation Bill, to Be Reported in the House, is tion ' bill, whieh probably a 0,000 from ppiopriated a year ago duction of ciout $38, amount An_appropriation of $395,000,000, the opinion of members of the a ying | Would Tote | Pavy’s enlisted pers: tinuation’ of the navy's buil t the same rate as durin, declared today that regulars would be ai 1 strength of the navy, E ber Iy 1 e .| wasnhing:®h, Jan., 3147me naval ap- La Acclen of Madrid, seks gevera- | PrODr mental intervention to ald the economic|!“POrted to the houte Wednesda 1 crisis in Spanish indusiry | Mes aporoximately $395,000,0 ve . car- re- the | navy and it would L a mistake to ferce and | economies in that direction. profes- | $234,000,000 less than departmental es- | jsional, died at Nottingham Sunday. In{limates. his_prime he was one of the best bats e | some stations. priel frawa a prese possible maximum of 143,000 1o & maa mum of 100,000, but would permit a con- Adopt:d—Calls For $395,000,000, a Reduction of $38,- 000,000 From Last Year—$284,000,000 Less Than De- partmental Estimates—Would Cut Enlisted Personnel From Maximum of 143,000 to a Maximum of 100,000 Iy, who said the sub-committes balieved every one of the §,500 now in servies should be retained. Trained officers, he eclared, are the nucleus of an efficlent Use of only modern craft, in Mr, Kal- | ley’s opinion, would cut down the amount inlof repair work at various shore bases propria- | and ‘would permit a reduction in land c hat framel the buil |forces and the possible. abandonment of necessitate 4 reduction of No provision is made m the bill for the abandonment of sny of the navy's land bases, Mr. Kelley as- serting that such economies are maf prozram | of administr @ n to be worked eut by fhe curreut | the mext sec...ary of the mavy. | Secretary Daniels, commenting fa- Chairman Kelley of the sub-commiitee night on the probability of reducing the force of 170.000 | enlisted personnel of the navy to 100,000 ple for the nav; men, gald such a curtaiiment necessardy would result in placing a number of he he | older batti-ships and smaller craft 1 o= added;~can be maintained with this nur especially since approximate- 9.000 men wio formerly were blu jackéts but are mow civilans would be | pected.” the naval chief said serve commission with skeleiop crews, but would not seriously cripple the mavy. ‘“The committee’s action is not unew- | “We still i will be able 1o keep aall the lJatest bat- There will be no cut in the number of | tieships and about fifty per cent. of the officefs, according to Répresentative Kei: troyers in full commissien.” J., has | MRS, GLADYS WITHERELL Trini.y Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. custody on a charge of kidnapping. of C. S. Witherell, investment ident, and pleaded guilty 1o he was known as “Jack. trouble * Carr told them. and the daily papers.” brief story of her abduction. ht when he. calling for me vard. I thot had_been hurt. £o 1 went with him. “We got into a machine down street afterward was Arthur Carr, was one who came to the house. “We turned on to the boulevarl. “They d nething wrong. felt a wet rag amund my face. oroform. Then I knew re they kep *“‘fhey told me th: me. visit in | right. | to let go! FOUND IN THE FOOTHILLS 31.—Mrs. 11, for whom search had (lican jeaders in accordamce with continued nearly a week, was at home | program for procedure wita the Fordney tonight after rescue today from a sheep. herder's cabin in the foothills, and “Jac Carr and Floyd L. Carr, cousins, are in |and, upon objectio police station the Carrs said names were Arthur Watson [ator Penrose of Pennsylvania, in charge Floyd L. Carr. The former said [of the bill, bore names of thirty-four They came | republican senators and will be voted em { here three months ago, “Jack” Carr said, |at 1 o'clock Wednesday. medical {and had taken most of that time pre. | two-thirds vote for adoption and its de- ‘y-zflhx for “revenge” on the father-in-law ell because he had once | licans and democruts. b3 vy Floyd Carr ave gotlen & Hshing yaeht, ae-|tor Penrote said he had exhausted ew- “We sure treated her all right” the|for voting. off Sandwich, Mass, ia & northeast suow- | police said *Jack" Mirs, Witherell bore up well until after, ho, republican: was wondering how foon we woull get|ging and throttiing” the senate. d not say much and suddenly | were “prohibitive I tried 19 would make persons. | jump out but one of them grabbed me. I 1 smel 1 strugeled 1 came to just before we reached | has v were after money. | revenue, but to establish an embarge T realized 1 must Wait my chance {0 es- | time of peace.” The next day they let me write , they did not hurt me. When they took me out of the house for fiesh air|Harding, wife of the president-elect. emz, Floyd Carr was|joyed an uninterrupted rest here teday PETITION FOR CLOTURE ON FORDNEY TARIFF BILL Washington, Jan. 31—Senate rapub- their mergency tariff bill, today asked unani- mous conseni, for a vote February 14, . presented the'r pes tition for cloture, or limitation of de- ¢ cousins tonight confessed to kid- | bate. napping Mrs. Withereil, who is the wife Senator Pomerene, democrat, (Vhis, ol company | jected to the proposal for a vots Feb- pr the | ruary 15 after an address in which he by the charge in the superior court today. Sen-|dencunced the bill Natioual Geographic Scciety, fisheries of Alaska may scon be displaced by rein- deer as the major industry of the coun- “taxtig about ew- Imm wasg deferred until next Wednesday | erything that goes on the breakfast tas ble of the workingman.” The cloture petition, presented by Sem- It requires a feat was conceded tunight by both repub- In_presenting (he cloture plan, Sena- ery reasonable effort to get an agreement He did not indicate what We | would be done with the bill in event of even bought Ler a powder puff, candy |defeat -of clotur: but Sensitors McCum- ber of North Dako'a and Dorah of lda- served notice that they Then | would attempt te hold the bill before the cenate and make every effort to get & Through her husband she gave out & |vote before the session ends. The notices It foliows: | of these two senators were regarded as “1 was getting dinner last Tuesday |likely to changé plai for laying asiue the man 1 learned Jater | the bill ‘n event of failure of cloture. 1t came to the door. say-|was said that instead of sidetracking the bill formally it probably would be 1aid aside “temporarily” from Jay to day t my husband's mothcf|to give consideration to the gession's ap- propriation bills. Private predictions the | were general, however, that there was Another man who I fouad cut|little prospect of enactment of the meas- t the | ure. I rode in thé back seat with the Eenator Underwood of Alabama. mi- nority leader. denounced the proposal for I)cloture. declaring it contemplated “zag- He amid that duties proposed in the Fordney bl and declared they e toiling masses earry the great financial burden for the relief of special Interests. “It is the first time" sald Mr. Under~ -|wood, “that the republican leade-ship ced the country with the direet Proposal to erect a tariff wall, not fo ENTIRE DAY IN HOTEL _ New York #”n. 31.—Mrs. Warren G deciar- [ Wich me most of the time. They brought | in one of the most restiess cities of the' 1 a1d some of ti wait, wait, w; caok- | land. ing. I was wild to do anvthing besides |at all. This disappointed the curious who 1 could not sieep, I|stood in clusters downstairs in the lob= She did not leave her hotel sulls British | was o worried about the Saby—is. had | by throughout the day hoping to eatch & on the Cunader Aquitania. He will leave | my family. soon for Montreal. He Bumer the the late OCharles prominent Uuray "(Cal.) digging the ground up for the buried treasure. Mrs. Victor Jacobsom and her the dangerous list at the Rhode Istand | ter, Victoria, 18, were burned to death at Bessemer, Pa., in a fire which fol- Jowed the explosion of a can of kerosene predicted we would have no “real” winter weather, rancher had buried a fortune has caused a rush of pecple who are searching the ranch and GOV. PARKHURST OF MAINE Doletx Augusta, Maine, Jan. alleged due to a diphtheritic_infection. daugh- | twenty-five days. with which Mrs. Jacobson was kindling | today. = fire. near Central Valley, N. J., where drowned while skating. Drugs valued at $60,000 were agents at _Baltimore. members of the crew of the gled the drugs into this country. Midlang Carbem ufacturing on 4 totaling $1,000, may be ported to have been town, Ohie. A mysteriows “ga day night was explained when The body of Alfred Tredway White, 74 | Céss, adjourned un years old, credited with _building rst model tenements in this country in 1376, was recovered from Fortst Lake, i o oe state in the rotunda of tne capi‘ol on Be WAS | Wednesday and that the funera) would |SP€nd five or six days seeing the Stores bl offies thrauen. |and sights of the metropolis. out the state will be closed on the day cf the funeral and flags on state bulldings | FORD'S GAIN OVER NEWBERRY and three men arrested by narcolic|wij remain at half staff for sixty days. The men are steamship Westwood and are alleged to have smug- |35 BADICALS TO BE DEPORTED ‘Washington, okt FROM NEW YORK TODAY |pet Jam, (ST SRy Co. and Oceldental 0Oil and Gas Co. are charged with viola- tion of the Wyoming carbon black man- counts. Maximum fines imposed oniit was announced the companies in the event of conviction. Twe passenger coaches were overturn- | night ed and a number ‘of passengers were re-|en guards under Com: injured when a |Skeffington of Roston, southbound traim on the Marietta divis- ion of the Pennsylvania railroad was de- A railed, ove mile north of New Comers- attack” which an- noyed residents of Quincy .Mass.. Bnmr-' Carson, Nevada, Jan. it was reconvened today after the wask- ‘the | Of_respect for the late governor. In a proclamation be on Thursday. seized tonight mand of the deportation party: TO FILE BRIEF TODAY IN the state attorn ing Mrs. Harding _select her 31.—Goernor Frederic Hale Parkhurst of Maine, died | fiodte, Warfrobe ' Faling In trie, Uiw today of pneumonia, ¥hich developed af- | TIVECIRC! u‘z gt ."‘*‘M ter his apparent revovery from an iliness | JAV FNCD, (00 ot o i i the distinguished visitor. been the chief cxecutive of the state for . g nder the statutes he| pAlrs. Harding's two companions—rk was automatically succeeded as governor | ¢ by Percival P. Baxter, president of the senate, who took the oath of office late 1.—The brief of v general in the Mary | Harlan, Ky, Jan. 31.—The case of Dr, learned that 100.000 feet of hydro car-|Pickford divorce matier, in “support of | H. bon gas was suddenly released from the ' his motion to set aside the decree of di- plant of the Eastern Massachusetts Oii |vorce granted the actress from Owen |settiement Refinery In East Braintree through a de- | Moore. will be filed tomorrow or Wed- not been well—and my husband ind all|glimpse of the future first lady of the, | United States. o Fifth avenue's fashionable shops of ail sorts were gay with throngs of purchas- IN OFFIE ONLY 25 DAYS | €™® and lookers-on who braved an unre- lenting snowstorm in the hope of sees White dward B, Mclean of Washington and Mrs. Harry 8. New, wife of the senator from Indiana—left their hote] suite and visited a dressmaker, returning for din- Both branches of the legis'ature, which | P¢F With the wife of the president-elect. ~ nl re- next Monday out|!ed _them from Washingion, eheered the The secret gervice man. whe secompan~ crowd in the lobby when he announced 4 to a group of newspaper folk that M. tonight Governor - Baxter said that the body would le in [Hamding would appear at 10 o'clock te- and probably would HAS PASSED THE 3,400 MARK Ferd's g4in over Senator Newberry in the recount of the 1918 senatorial election New York, Jan. 31.—Thirty-five radi- | Michigan tonight had passed the 3. cals who arrived here today from Boston mark. The Detroit manufacturer, hows ang Philadelphia will be deported to Rus- |ever, would have to gain nearly 4, sia_tomorrow aboard the liner Esthonia, |votes in the 157 precinets yet to ‘a by Commis- {counted by the senate privileges and elegs sfoner of Immigration Wallis. The pris- |tions sub-committee to overhaul the seme oners were lodged at Ellis Island for the |utor. They were in charge of a doz- ioner Henry J. To is in com- | 2. The senate committes when it ended its day's work had counted vetes i 75 of the 2.232 precincts in the and the net gain for Ford was givea 3,001 PICKFORD DIVORCE caAsg |/URY OUT oN TnE : WINSES MURDER CASH K G. Winnes, charged with the murdes of Miss Lura Parsons, Pine teacher. went to the jury at 10° o'clock tonight after fect in the operating mechanism eof & |nesday. Deputy Atiorney General Rich- ments by attorneys which occupled Fasometer. ards announced thie afternoon. entire afterncon and early evening.