Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 11, 1921, Page 1

VoL LXIII—NO. 36' 10 PAGES—74 COLUMNS SENATE COMMITTEE DRAFTS DRASTIC IMMIGRATION BILL X Would Limit For Fifteen Months the Immigrants Admitted to the United States Annually From Any ‘One Country.to 5 Per Cent. of the Nationals of That,Country in the United States in 1910—Purport of the Measure is to Legislate Only Against Immigration From European Countries, Whsnce 90 Come. Feb. 19.—Restrictions Washington, the house or Jomason bill are coa-ad an emergency measure app-oved an revorted today by the senate immigratio commitise. The me: 4 substitute for the bill passed severa weeks ago by the house, wousl hecom aftoctive foree oniy until June 30, 1932, g the fifteen months the would be effective semate latsn will be enacted anl in mean h@ predicted flood of alien: would be stopped as reported by the senate com. the immigrants provides strued as ing any that it shall ‘not be’ con. mending. repealing or modity- law of any natioraiity the Uni d States and China and the Unit ed States and Japan ‘would not in any wise be affected. Semators who have studied tiie immi- wation question tonight pointed out the aces between the Johnson yrinipal differ FARM LABOR CO-OPERATI CONFERENCE IN SESSION Cleveland, O.. Feb. rm and labor organizations country was appealed to tody by Spur- reon O'Dell, reoresenting the State Bank of North Dkota to give the moral and financial support of labor -and farmers’ organizations of the country to the mon- partisan league’s program®for the sale of bonds of the state of North Daiota for toe development of rural credit loans, the purchase of mlls and “elevators and tome building. C. H. Gustafson, president.of the ne- Sraska farmers upion and Thead of the’) co-operativd marketing ~department \ of the American farm bureau federatidi presiding at the farm labsr co-operative conference which opened its thres day | convention this morning, said the con- fatence would endeavor to confine-it sac- tion 1o two subjects, the development of cosperative marketing and establish- ment of co-cpe-ative banks. Warren S. Stone, granq chief ‘of tie therhood of Locomotive engiiners, and Frederick C. Howe, secretary of credit of the American Commission, discuss2d banking systems and credit union tonight. Mr. Stone pointed to ‘the ‘eo-operative nal bank established in the city of otherhood of Lo- comotive Engineers .as an examplé of nat “eveland, by the what labor can do. Credit union banks for working men and farmers in which small loans. were xplained by Mr. Stome and Mr. Howe. as- not ant when there would be thou- sands of the credit union banks and hun- ireds of co-operative commercial banks They predicteq that the time scattered throughcut the country. her speakers at today's confer included L. E. Shepparq of Igwa, presi- dent of the Order of Rallway Conductors, eorge P. Hampton, Washington, gen- sral manager of the all Americaa Co- ion )perative commi and “aled, Cleveian: COLBY DECLINES TO SUBMIT NEGOTIATIONS WITH JAPS Washington, Feb. 10.—The letter of Secretary Colby declining to transmif information on the negotiations tha have been conducted with the view to treaty action with japan was received without comment today by the senaie foreign relations committee. The let-] ter was In reply to a communication of ihe committee, forwarded at the in siance of Senator Johnsan of Califor, nia, requesting information on blic interest. Secretary Colby said in his letter the negotiations possession was “practically «hat the record ow in_his that of a preliminary comparison o of views, coupled with recommendations which are still the subject of examina- tion. “Substantial progress has been ma‘gi e \etter added, through the informal con- toward an ultimate agreement,” versations conducted Morris, the United Sthi to Japan, by Roland 8. and Baron Shidehara, by California of an bill. anti-alien “There is no agreed text of which a copy could be communicated tp the coramittes in advance of the regular convention may ultimately be signed,” Secretary submission of whateyer Colby said in his letter. SMALLPOX DELAYING THE MATEWAN BATTLE CASE Williamson, . Va. pox Became a factor in the dagtle trial tonight when Matewan, an important defense witness, 3a4 been stricken with the disease. The latest development caused persons n glose touch with the situation to ex- the case sress odubt as 1o whether ou Ly committee memhers > than those proposel i a re, decided «n as ext April first and contnuz in sonfilent permanent immigration the - d States annually from ¥ one country to five per cent. of the e 1910 census was The measure, however, specifical- or asreement now existing which forbids the admission of any alien or geographical boun- This provision was interpreted to mean that treaties now existing between 10.—The Alt Amer- © Congress, representing of the the sommittee on co-cperative banking -and Co-operative co-operative Mo the sgbject, if not incompatible with the tes ambassador the Japanese ambassador, with the view of laying the basis of a new treaty or amending existing commercial treaties in an effort to solve the problem’aris- ing from the enactment last NQNTM; an , Feb. 10.—Small- Matewan it became tmown that the Rev. Hugh Coembs, of Per Cent. of All Immigrants Dbill and the genate measure. The latter, they declared, would ‘exciude more aliens than the Johnson bill, 300,000 being esti- mated as the maximum number of admis- sions in the first twelve months of the senate measure's existence. Admissions ofj relatives and dependents, authorized by’ the house measure, they sald, would make more than equal the number of all entries under the senate bill. Another difference between the two bill8 was pointed to in the provisions fjor de- termining what classes of immigrants would be admitted. The~ house voted to_treat all nationalities alike. The ap- ‘parent osition in the semate as in- dicated in the bill reported today, is to, legisiate only against European immi- gration. In this connection, Senator Coit, Rhode Island, chairman of the commit- tee, described the bill as “one of tem- porary use only and intended to apply to European countries.” Statistics, he said, showed that silnety per cent. of all im- migrants come from Furope. The five. per cent. figure was ag:zed to after three votes had been taien in commities to reduce it and senators fa- voring_absolute prohibition will - carry their fight to the floor of the senate. Senator Colt. In reporting the bill, an- nounced that he “would push it for pas- sage immediately” and Senator Ha: expressed a similar intention. gFloor leaders, however, expressed duubt that the bill would pass at the preseut session because of the congested condition of the senate ‘calendar. 3 1 1 1 € nationalssof that country in the United Stites at the time taken. CALLERS POURING IN ON PRESIDENT-ELECT HARDING St. Augustine, Fla., Feb. 10.—Callers offering advices on many subjects pour- ed in on President-elect Harding hete Ytoday as soon as he opened his office after a three weeks vacaticn. So long was' the waiting line of prominent men and women asking for the president- elect’s time that he made little progress with Kis correspondence or Avith any of the other accumulated business with which his desk, is piled high. 1f the day’s conversation priduced apy definite development toward sotution of e big problems ahead, there was noth- | ifg on the. surface to indicaie it Dess | ite the influx of visitors, mowaver Mr. | Harding slipped away during the after- nson for a game of £3If. Althovgh there was mothing today pointingyte decisive developments in re- i gard to thé cabinet, the day did not pass without its offering of adviee ¢n the subject. Senator Phipps of Colorads brought to Mr. Harding's attention his friend C. C. Dorsey a Colorado lawyer | whose qualification he u:gent'y set forth for the post of secrelary of tae interio Mr. Dorsey accompanied the seaator, Lut 0 far as could be ledrned they brougnt away no proraise of an appoinment Another who saw Mr. Harding vas 8. Davies Warfleld, head of the Associati.n of Railway Securities Ownars He 18 understood to have prasented his id=a of the attitude of the federal sovernment towarq the raflway problem, but afier -he | conference ne voluntesred no statement, Carmi Thompscn of Ohio, an ufficial of | the republican speakers' burewn luring the campaign; H. F. McGrezr repubii- can national committman for Texas, and Charles D. Hilles of New Zork, form- er republican national chatrman, came (o talk about varlous patronag: Prob- lems, and Senator Wadsworth of New York brought a repert on the scatus of army legielation in_congress. There were a half dozen other cailers who placed proposals before. the presi- dent elect. The_out-pouring of ‘advice is to go on torcorrew, Mr. Harding facipg ansther long appointment list before he can get to his ‘af‘ernoon golf game. - PROCEEDINGS IN COERCION TRIAL OF JOMN.T. HETTRICK t New York, Feb. 10.—The practical op- t eration of the “code of practice” was ex- plained on the witness stand: today’by Edward F. Dean, bookkceper for John T. Hettrick, on trial with three others on charges of coercion. The men are charged in” indictments with conspiracy to force contractors to join the Master Plumbers Associatjon, ynder the penalty of caus- ing strikes. Despite the objections of seven ttor- neys representifig the four defendants, Dean was allowed to testify reative to the methods and accountings of Hetrick, fand the csh book of the master plumbers operating under the code of practice was placed in evidence. He stated that be- tween September 19, 1919, and February 27, 1920, the Master Plumbers Associa- tion paid Hettrick about $21,880 in fees for legal services. George E. Gibson, president of the George 1. Gibson Company, the next wit- ness; testified he was told to see Hettrick and that it would be a good thing for him to join the Master Plumbers Asso- ciation. “Hetirick said he should submit our bids to him and he would hold them until it was time to submit them,” Gibson tes- tifled. - Hettrick wanted Gibson's company to submit reports go that he could find out the {otal volume of business, Gibson as- serted. “The report was submitted in accord- ance with the agreement” the Witness said. “Each firm could do a_certain amount of business and could not exceed that” £ CHIEF OF GANG OF YOUTHFUL GANGSTERS SURRENDERED New York, Feb. 19.—Tony Vanilla, al- leged “chief” of a gang of juvenile gang- . | stors, who has been sought since last A\orember in-connection with the theft of $346.000 worth of 'Liberty bonds from two messengers of 3 Brooklvn bond firm, was surrendered late today to District ‘l«aa made to assault a strike-tPeaker. would come to trial during the present ‘erm of court. Proceedings In trial were delayed to- fay because of the absence of more than L seore of witnesses. / The courtroom was crowded to capaci- ty today in expectation that witnesses ~oulq begin telling the story of the M an baitle in which ten men met their leath loan. Attorney Lewis in Brooklyn. District Attorney Lewis announced re- cently that $235,000 of the bonds had been recovered, having been here from a Mémphis, Tenn., bank where they had been taken as collateral on a The female who is fat, fair and 40 @av be attractive, but so is slender, returned : bled Paragraphs Trial of Japanese Sentry Not Ended., % Tokiln,u‘FebA .—'lk'hl: offieial investiga- on of the recent killig hy a Japanese sentry at Viadivostok, of “Lieut: W. Langdon of the Amerioan cruiser Alba has not bee concluded. Gen. * Tan: minister of war, today made this ment in reply Lo -questions in' the to what the result of the court, fear of the felations between™the United States and Japap bécdming ‘strained ag a result of the shooting. ALARMED ABOUT CASES OF TYPHUS AMONG IMMIGRANTS - ‘Washington, Feb. 10.— 4 armed by the increasing number of cases of, typhus among immigrants arriving in the port of New York, federal health authorities to- night were engaged in a study of meth- ods to prefent introduction of the disease into the United Statés. Thé situation at New York, where more than thirty immigrants are aboard ships suffering from typhus, was brought to the attention of President Wilson late today ‘in a telegram from Dr. Royal S. Copeland, New York health commission- jer. Dr. Copeland called attention tospro- visions of the quarantine. act granting the ‘president authority in the interest of the public health to prohibit in whole, or in_part the admistion to the United States of persons and property from such countries or ports as he may designate and for such a time as he may deem nec- essary. The telesram was forwarded “to the treasury department, which has jurisdic- tion over the public health serviee. Assistant Surgeon-General R. H. Creel, it Was stated, has been sent to New York to make a thorough study of the situa- tion and to co-operate with health au- thorities there, th handling the typhus problem. Surgeon General Cumming, tes- tifying yesterday before a house commit- [tee, said he feared a spread of typhus in Europe and declared that every precau- tion must be take nto prevent it getting a foothold in the United States. Dr. Copeland tonight _conferred _with Major General oRbert L. Bullard, “com- manger of the Second Corps area, and Colonel John J. Bradley of Hoboken and arranged to use the army disinfecting stations in Hoboken for the delcusing of passengers and clothing from incoming ships. Officials of the Holland-American Line had requested Dr. Copeland to dssist them in having the 1,500 steerage pas sengers of thesteamshin Ryndam de- loused. so_they could be ‘transferred to Ellis Jsland. h ALBANY AND TROY QUIET UNDER GUARD OF TROOPERS Albany, N. Y., Feb. 10.—Both Alban§’ and Troy were quiet tonight under the heaviest guard of state troo-ers and po- lice assembled since, trouble began t> d: velop from the strike of ‘the Unjted Traction Company’s 1,200 employes. Downstate miiftiament were ready for 2 possible summons to duty in both eities where violence for two days foliowed at- tempts of the company to resume trol- ley service with crews of strikebreakers. There were few discrders today, however, and " the traction csmpany - announced that it expected to- have 125 cars—half its’ normal number—in_operation soon. Only- five cafs, each heavly: ‘serecned and guarded, Yenthred out of the barns taday. two “of them operating in_Troy and' three in Alhany, All were run back,| under cover before nightfall, A bare ‘handful of passen=ers patronized them. Disorders in Troy cons'sted only of the tossing of 2 sinzle stone at a stalled car, but Mavor James W. Fleming re- quested Governor Miller to gend state troopers thera 2s a precautionary meas- ‘ure and this was gone. In Albany a few ires were broken down and one attempt ARRESTS FOR ROBBERY OF DALLAS POSRSL STATION | Dallas, Texas, Feb. 10.—With the ar- rest of three men in San Antonio and a fourth man in Houston, today, federal officers here believe all members of a band which participated in the robbery of a postal sub-station ‘here January 14 were {1/ custody. Aligrt L. Rowan, son of a wealthy Dalias property. owner and Ben Luna, recently. were sentenced to 23 years in the Leavenworth pepitentiary for com- plicity in_the’robbery. More than $2,000,000 in mutilated se- curities ‘was taken but later recovered. Will R.epresent‘ ‘United States At Geneva Roland B. Mahany, Solicifor of | the Department of Labor, who has ‘been appointed by President Wilson as American Representative of the International Commission of Immi- gration and Emigration, to meet at Geneva, Switzerland, on a date to be fixed by the international labor of- fice 6f the League of Nations. This is the first appointment the President has made to any of the bodies meet- ing under the League of Nations since the Senate definitely and finaily refused to ratify the treaty of Ver- sailles. Mr. Mahany, who formally was Minister’ to Ecuador, was for {our years a member of the Immigra- /| stantly_traded one attorney for another. 5 After Mrs. Bergdoll had paid out $12,50p [\Naring the national agrcements promul- I resolution by. obtaining .2,-rule giving it Killed by | in Georgia te Boy and 26 Negroes * —30 to 40 Other Negroes| - Were Injured. Oconee, - Ga., Feb. , 10.—Qne white boy and twenty-five negroes were killed when ‘a tornado struck here sogn after 1 o'clock this afterndon, seriously damaging the plant of the Cleveland-Oconee Lum- ber ‘Company and other property. Be- tween (hirty and forty otherimegroes were injured by flying debris. o After striking here, the tornado con- tinued toward Augusta, according to re- ports, and was said to nave descended again between Macon and Camak. The ten-year-old daughter of E. L. Munor, manager of the lumber company commissary, and Dennis Orr, aged 14, were tne two white victims. The negroes were all employes Of the lumber com- pany. The casualty list would have been much larger, it wag stated, had it not been for the fact that the storm struck during the noon hour, when scores of the employes had gone to their homes. While the wind's fury centered about the plaht of the Cleveland-Ocone¢ Com- pany, the main building, just completed a few weeks ago, was practically un- darmed. One of the old buildings was wrecked and fifty dwellings, homes of 49 employes, were demolished. ~About two million feet of lumber stacked in the yards was levelled to the ground. A re- lief train took the injured to Sanders- vills and Tennille. The lumber plant was valued at ap- proximately $400,000, but it was stated tonight no estimate could be made of the damage done by the storm. A Central of Georzia local freight train, running from Savannah-to Macon, ar- rived on the scene. The ‘conductor im-| mediately ordered the locomptive detach- ed from the train and hastened to Ten- nille, 11 miles away, for aid. He re- turned with four doctors and a relief | party of 45. 2 Doctors found one negro boy with a board driven into his forehead. They removed the board and express the bLe- Iief that the youth will live. A negro man and his wife were found more than a hundred yards from <their home, lying side by side in the road, both” dead. The bodies of several small negroes were found in trecs, out o% the path of the tornedo, suspended on the limbs by their clothing. The bodies f grown nkgroes were thrown into the field in a semi-circle and in the center of the group was a goat, who stood like a statue, too frightened to move for hors after the storm had passed. TO ASK INVESTIATION OF ESCAPE OF G, C. BERGDOLL 1 Washington, Feb. 10.—After developing some of the high Epots in the case of Grover (feveland Pergdoll, “the house military committee decided: today 1o’ ask congress for authority ‘to find qut how the rich- Philadelnhia drafv. Jogzer es- caped from-a military guard and made his ‘way td Germany. The committee voted to go to the bot- tom of the case l!le;flhear‘mx District At torney Charles D. McAvoy of Philadel- phia, who declare there was no”evidence to justify the charge that anybody cofi- nected with the war department’had been corrupted with Bergdoll money. *Thé name of! D. Clarence GibBoney, -counsél for Bergdoll, -was brought into the. pro- ceedings, and Mr. McAvoy ‘was quite positive in asserting the belief that Gib- boney was drowned in Mexico, desbite an anonymous remort recefved by the com- mittee that he was alive. 7’ Chairmen Kabn, who ‘ntroduced a resolution ‘last May providing for ap- pointment of a special committee to con- duct the Bergdoll investigation, an- nounced tonight that enoush g evidencs | had been developed to-fndicate the neces- sity of action at this time. ‘Reéent statements cabled from Germany by the former military convict prompted the committee to renewed effort, in view of the runaway's charge ‘that he had ob- tained from tne treasury department and ncealed in the' woods $105,000 in gola o be used in effecting his release through Dbribery of government officials. Leaving aside a mtltitude of details connected” with Beérgdoll's " “escape. the committee will seek to ‘ascertajn what influence enabled Berzdoll to obtain. so much actugl gcld from the treasury at a time_last ear when the supply was be- ing conserved. ‘The more important thread to be followsd, members said. was the ability of tre prisoner's lawvers to obtain his- release under guard for the purpose of vroceeding to the end of a Tainbow in the -hiils-of Maryland to find and dig up his pot of gold. Tt'was while he ‘was out on the rolden , chase ° that Bergdoll, stopping /oves” in’ Philadelphia to visit his mother, indicted with him, eluded his soldier guards and slipped away in an automobile: 2 Describing the - lezal tacties of the former prisoner’s mother, Mr. MeAvoy indicated that’ a~Philadelnhia lawyer, wise enough to solve am}) court problem, could not satisfy the woman, who: con- in fees, she’ quit ‘edld, he \said, and left Grover alone with his plan of buying his freedom. £ From Mr. McAvoy the committee obe tainéd a definite statement as to dispo- sition of the $12,500. Five thousand of this amount, Be said, went to Samuel T. ; Ansell. former judge advocate general of the army: £5,000 to Gjbboney; the sum of $1.250 to former Judge J. W. Westcott of Pennsylvania; a little to 'an alienist, and a little less to a lawyer in New York: The committee” will endeavor to' get early action im the house on the Kahm privileged status. The hearing today was ouly the skimming of the surface, but, as Mr. Kahn ‘explained, it went deep enough at times to see the possibility of start- g disclosures behind the whole story of the. mdillionaire who cculd not fight un- der the American flag. 2 WITNESSES CONTRADICT THE CLATM OF JUDGE MeGANNON ' Cleveland, Ohio,. Feb. 10.—The ‘claim of Judge William H. McGannom, on trial for the second time for second degree murder of Harold C. Kagy, lastMay, ¢that he was -not-near the soee. of the claying was attacked By five #itnesses for the state at today’s hearing. “The state eXpects to rest its ease tomérrew. Patrolman Frank rooks, one of five po ticemen who testiffed during the morning, deciared he saw McGannon ‘at' the scens of the killnig.a few moments before Kagy was shot. Four gthers tebtified they passed McGannon, whom they “declared appeared intoxicated, on Supérior ave- mue, ten minutes after the time the judge had testifieq at. his prevous trial that he tion, Committée in Congress, and for some time past has been in complet, charge of the immigration work ofy the Department of Labor. had borded a street car for. his home, Picketing of garment making - shops in the South End. Boston, caused the ai Test of 25 men tuday. Capt. Boy-Ed Weds An American Girl Groom Was Charged With Connection With Muni- tions Plots During the War. Lancaster, Pa, Feb. 10.—Miss . Vir- ginia G. Mackay-Smith, daughter of the late Bishop Alexander Mackay-Smith of the Protestant Episc-pal _dlocese of Pennsylvania, and Captain Karl Boy-Ed, rmer German npaval attache at Wash- ington;” wére married today in Berlin. ‘A cablegram td this effect was receiv- ed from the bride’s mother by close friends of the Mackay-Smith- family in this city. Miss Mackay-Smith and her mother, left their home'in Washington last month for Germany, but nothing was said of the approaching wedding at that time. The wedding marks the culm‘nluon of a romance Which has aroused 'the inte- Test of two continents, Miss Mackay-Smith and Captain Boy- Ed have been reported engaged a num- ber of times during the last few years, bu each time it was denied. The first report was circulated shortly before he and Castain Von Papen were recalled from Washington by the German gov- ernment in December 1915, at the re- quest of President Wilson. The two of- ficers were charged with having been connected with munition plots ang the sending of supplies to German raiders from American ports as well as plois with Mexico. Captain Boy-Eq was reported to have returned to this country in disguise in 1917, and to have visited miss Mackay- Smith at her home in Philadelphia. This however was emphatically denied by the yzung woman anq her mother charae- terized the report as ‘“ridiculous.” Agents of the department of justice main- taired a ‘constant watch at the Mackay- Smith kome, but nothing wa sdiscovered to substentiate the report Boy-Ed was there or even in the country. Miss Mackay-Smith first met Captain Doy-Eq in 1912 EMPLOYES SEE VICTORY IN R. R, LABOR BOARD DECMION Chicago, Feb. 10.—Decision of the Unit- ed States Railroad Labor Board today that the national agreements shall remain in force until completion of the present hearing was characterized tonight by railroad emp:oyes as & victory. The ruling came as a surprise bota to railgoad and labor representativgs and up- set plans of union officiuls for a bombard- ment of the railrcad’s request for imme- diate abrogation of the agreemen Fortified with a legal battery, headea by Frank Walsh, the labor # presenta- tives appearcd today to answer the re- quest of W. W. Atterbury, speaking for the railroads, for quick abolition,of the n ma¥ agreemet The board's de- cision against granting the request lef: little for the labor men to do except. Ale a, statement prerared br B. M. Jewell, president” of the railrnad- employes” “dée partment of the American Federation of Labor. 2B This statement and #n amplification by Mr. Walsh charged the railronds with being a_party -to an_attempt at wiping out coli€etive bargaini: and crushing all labor organizations. When they had fin- ished, they were unprepared to proceed with the regular rebuttal of the railroad evidence objecting to the national rules and the hearing went over until Mon- day. Mr. Jewell's request for time in which to prepare his testimony met with pre- test from the railroad representatives, but he promised to canvass the situation to- morrow and advise the board on Saturday when he would ‘be ready to proceed. “I have been up in an airship for ten days *and a committée of 18 men has been working ¢Zay and night on this re- ply to Mr. Atterburv.” sail Mr. Jeweu. We are wholly unprepared to proceed edat . Doth sides of the controversy express- ed gratification that thc h g wou! proceed in the regular manner. Mr. A terbury, speaking for the railroads, de- clared that “if tnere was urgsncy on January 31, when I made the request of the bard, there is still more now. De- cember reports fom the intert#te com- mercd commission show that 113,009 miles of raiiroads did not earnstheir op- rating expenses and - fixed charges for that month.” The railroads have contend- | ed that abrogation of the nationnl agree- mefits would mean a big cut in their op- erating expenses. W. Jett Lauck, consultizg econo for the labor men, however, decia real issue was not the rule: “but what they concretely principle of collective bargas basis ‘of union recognitio; “When this principle has recelved te _board's sanction, no further disturbances or acute controversies will occur en the roads,” Mr. Lauk said. . The” board's ruling today reviewed the power delegated to it under the trans- portation act and declared its duty to by g ou the that of Ceclining just and reasonable wag- es,'salaries and standards of working conditions. It said that pending the out- come of the rules hearing, which was sep- arated by agreements from the wage gated under federal control would remain in full force. Pleafor their abrogation on account of financial inability to, pay wages awarded by the board was a mat- ter outside the board's jurisdiction, the ruling said, and should go to fhe inter- state ~ommerce commission. ‘The -executives’ request- for permission to pay common laborers on the basis of the 5oile prevalent in different localities was R0 denled and leaves the basic railroad rate at 37 to 48 1-2 cents an our. z The ruling pointed out that the trams- portation act provided that it was the duty of carriers and-empioyes to confer over disputes and said” that it did not appear any attempf had been made to readjust the wages of unskilled labor and therefore declared that the board - was without jurisdiction. . The Jewel! and Walsh charges simmer- ed down to declaration of a sconspiracy on the part of industry to crush the la- bor unions and reiterated charges that New . York banking interests were so in- terwoven . with the directorates’ of prom- jnent railroads that these banking in- terests controlled ninety-two of the lead- ing roads of the country, with seventy- &ix per _cent. of America’s railroad mile- age. " Mr. Walsh asked that these inter- locking directors be called before the bosrd f-r interrogation, but did not make wholly clear just what would be gained by thelr testimony.. The board took the request under/consideratoin. VACANCIES FROM 26 STATES AT WEST POINT ¥ Washington, Feb. 10.—There are sixty- nine vacancies from twenty-six states at West Point for which no appointments have been made for the eXamination on March 1, the war department announced today. - Secretary’ Paker said it was highly desirable that represetatives and senators make the appointments to fill up the corps. Brief Telegrams ' Themas & Edison was 74 years cld yes- terday. Study of s has been revived im Chicago high gchool. ! Germany Is now exceeding hed pre-war productien of eoal tar dyes. The Christian commanity of Bethle- hem has been presented 6,200 acres - of land by the government. A flood ‘of -petitions asking the repeal of the war-time tax of ce-cream’ sodas is reaching congress daily. Peter Augustus Jay, the newly appoint- ed United States minister o Salvador, arriveq -at San ’Salvador. erlin’s sixteen Jails are o fully oc- cupled that minor offenders ara being re- leased with only a reprimand. A movement to_declare war Ku xluf Klan was begun meeting of megroes in Boston, the a at . Moonshiners sactivities are reported te have created a reign of terror at Jjox- boro, Verson Covhty, N. C. Thifty-one railrands In Russla have now suspendeq traft'c almost completely as a result of the fuel famine. Unemploymient Is widespread through- out. West Virginia and hundreds of men ang women are working siort stime. by an_explosion, believed to have been dynamite. British Forign Office issued a state- ment denying reports published in this country that Anglo-American relations ‘were strained, Thirty-twe men were arrested in a gambling raid by a squad of thirty po- licemen at a roomi in the building on Harrison avenue, Boston. The New Hampshire house of repre- sentatives by a vote of 264 to 81 refused to abolish the office of state prohibition enforcement officer. An Ameritan committee for the rellef of dreland, headed by C. M. J. France, of Sesttle, arrived in London and will {leave for Dublin today. Fire Tuesday destroyed the Pler hall and tha Coliseum. a river amusement resort im Detroit, entiling a loss estimated at $500,000. A raliway strike as & protest against the shooting by the pslice of railwaymen at Mallow, County Cork. dreland on Janu- ary 31 seems a possibility. nee Mayer Souey of .. Woonsocket, R. L. called . special session of . the beard of aldermei to take action to prevent = possible spread of rabies. 3 Federal Joha C. Pollock, Clly..‘Kls, ‘heara arguments In habeas release of Erwin R. Bergdoll. A drive te. bting about - -the appoint- {ment of a- southewn man - in _President Har@ing' cabinst ‘has been begun by southern repubiicans .in cmgress. Forty-five . butcher baker shops were closed in New Brunswick, N. J., and the women who for days hawe hoyo-tted and picketed the places. are .jubilant, A golden, mirage revealed by a letter stating that he, may-be heéir to $1,000,000 has fafied to lure James Barnard, a shoe- maker of West &uincy, ,Mass, away from his last. A pig and a pullet, Who are barnyard pais, have combined in a daily bacon and ege demonstration on the farm of Mrs, Harold Snowden in Yarmouth, Mass. The trastees of Charles Pénsi's bank- rupt high-finance business petitioned the federal court for assistance in regaining for the benefit of his creditors $87,259 paid .to three men as commissions. of thelr enl'stment hurdred of service men in Massaghusetts have gone on the records of the adjutant general at Wash- Ington as slackers. " Neo progress toward a permanent wage settlement was reached at a meeting held between representatives of the American Stamshi> Owners’ Association and three employes' unions. That more than $1,000,000.000 are now available from all sources for the build- ing of - good: roads was _announced by Thomas H. McDonald, chlef of the federal bureau of public roads. Despatches received from elgrade at Londen report a conflict between caribin- eers and Croatian® peasants in Dalmatia. About eleven of the carbineers and eight peasants were killed or wounded, ¢ Birmingham, Als., girls. with heetle comp.exions artificially produced are in lon the streets in the future according to Mrs. Hulda Newsome, policewoman. %3 3. Coats, thread manufacturers of Pawtucket, R. I, announced that all departments will hercafter be run 48 hours a week, and that a nmight shift will be stacted in the spinning depart- ment. ~ Franee has the greatest st in the world according to, information sent to congress by Secretary Baker, bui counting its active and reserve forces. Italy is the leading worid's power, nounced. chand'se were seized by customs spectors on the freight steamer Flovilla at per 6 _Jersey City. does. eoated precipices while lost on Mount Monadoek, N. H., A* night, Karl H. Rob- inson, a_ Boston [University freshman carried Rubert Robinson a'fellow stu- dent to safety after the latté~ had been rendereg unconscious by a fall. A Fiorids giligater with a six smile, more_or lees, I8 to succeed White House pet President Taft's famous foot front , n Kansas corpus proceedings brought to obtain the for a face-washing yhensver they appear ing army military Arrest of five mem in Philadel- phia in & raid upon the printing shep of Henry Gfanelll: where counterfeit internal revenue _ liquor staros were being produced was an- Nine humming birds. fourieen bottles of liquor. and a collection of fancy, mer- in- Lake ‘The ves- sel hailed from Rio Janeiro via Barba- Braving death frem exposure and fce- ARE CHARGED Result o_f Investigation { T Death of a 16-Year-Old TWO NEW YORK POLICEMEN WITH MURDER —_—_— Being Conducted by Former Governor " Whitman—Men Were Ordered Surrendsred by Police Commissioner Enright—Are Held Responsible For the Boy Shot and Killed in July, 1918—Attorneys Claim the Indictments Have Bezn Held Off For Two and a Half Years. { New York, Feb. 10.—An indictment { charging two members of the police de- partment with murder in the first degres was returned by the January grand jury late today after Former Governor Whi man, condueting the inquiry into alleged city corruption, turned his attention to putative suppression by the nolice of ev idence in murder cases In 1318. The two policemen, who were ordered surrendered by Police Comm right, were charg for the death of a 16-year old boy shot Raflroad equipment valued at 5500008 | 505 ey iy Juiy, 1918, who: oe was pegos has been leased by the Mexean | ocyymiiieq tog government from various American lines. | oo g found. Two heuses fw the negro -section of | " iy (yo natroimen, Cornell lood DO o e i gy patrolmen, Corneilus J. Flood and Robert A. O'Brien, named in the in dictments, were arrested later and locked up in the Tombs. They were charged with first degree murd More sensational than tire sto-y of the alieged murder of this boy, merabers of the prosecutor's ‘swaffl sa'd. wus the fact that for two and a half yeirz, indct- ments against the two patriirien had been staved off, although 1our mvestigad tions had been made concerning ihe desin of young Cushing. James Cushing, with several other boys about his age, was piaying on the roof of a Fifticth street house on Su July 14. 1918, when two policemen. ing pi: clothes appeared on the soem apparently drive them off, Cashing twice by one of the oficers, 5t ged, dying a short while later. A woman witness told Mr. Whitman that she hurried to the police station and pointed out Fiood and O'Brien a o officers who the 1 shot the boy. The boy's father, was sald 1 an Invesization but little effort waie made to it the matter, Although the two pe cemen imniteated in the dgath of the boy retwsn-1 to the station shortly aft shotonz. 10 rec- ord of the boy police blatter, “There is death appeared om the not a grand country that wouldn't have inMe'ed on the evidence presented this aftermoon.” former Governor Wiiiiman said. Jury i the NOVEL, DECISION AGAINST THE NEW HAVEN ROAD New York, Feb. 10,—A small bow's propensity t, climb @viling structures re- celved judicial recodnition here today in @ decisfon of the United S.ates Circuit Court of Appeals. The rulicg was made in a suit brought against the New Ybrk, New Haven and Hartford railroad by Davil Fruchter, aged 8 years, and his father. The, in |the summer of 1916, saw a pigeon nest on a girder of a raliroag bridge in the Bronx and a bird stting on taoe wire nearby. ., The tempiation was alluring. The boy ciimbed to th> * girder and veached out to seize the bird. The wire was charged wih eiectricity, however, and when he touched it he was thrown to the grounq and s3> badly burned that his arm had t> be amputated. Uhe boy and his father sudd’the rail- Toad. a jury in the federal district court awarding the boy $10,000 and the father $1.000. - The jury was frstructed to find for. the boy ang his father if it believed the rallroad hid erected trestle work which might eatice children 1o climb it and had not taken measdres to prevent the ciombing. The raiiroad appealed but the higher court, in today's decision; ruled in favor of the boy ang his father. A CAMPAIGN AGAINST PUFFING HAIR AT EA Norton, Mass, Feb. 10.—Puffing the hair at the ears will dfsappear at Whea- ton College if the campaign vegan today by tHe second year girls succceds.. Hair nets tpo—but this for fiie <ake of econ- omy. At dawn the rest of -the student haly was awakened by the soumd of beat:ng drums ané biaring wind instrum.nis o find the sophomores. pa 9 iing ub: quadrangle all wearing taeir ha style, and with their-ears bared breeze. many pairs for the. first months, - Banners explained that campaign was two-fold—for reform ih hair dressing and economy in the inter- ests of the endowment fund. Later the fresh ¢ endorsed the lat- ter purpose by hui..ng.from the rodf of the dormitory hujding an effigy of the slacker who does Rot do her bit for the fund. AS MANY COMMOX BROWN RATS AS HUMA BEINGS IN THE U. 8, YWashington, Feb. 10.—Tt keeps 200,000 men working full time to ®support the nation's rat population.. That -agsertion is made, by the biological survey bureau in fighres issued today showing that there are as many “common brown rats” as humans in the United States and ‘each of. the -100.000.000 or more destroys $2 worth of foodstuffs a year. They also maintain_an eflicient transportation sys- tom for “black death” and other plague germs, the bureau adds, in urging a starve and slay campalgn to cheek real hazard against Americn property.” lives and Senator Medill McCormick i < ARCHBISHOP DOUGHERTY TO BE NEW AMERICAN CARDINAL Rome, Feb. 10.—(Dy The A. P)— Archbisnop Doughe-ty of deiphia will el 1) the next American card- according to view held n vatican circles. official announceme: Imoat anas hoice of Afch- . new Amerlcan xt secret eld early n ation of the has centercd for some tome cm mous opinion s that bishop Dougherty Is defini The appointment of cardinal will be made at the n consistory, which be March, and the whole stte vatican the American candidate, It is recalled that the late Canlinal Satoili, ap delegate at Washington, wiho although he knew no E ceeded in gaining a marvelo American men and things. opinion of the present arcnk adei As an nt the congregation for the spropagation of faith. he insisted upon the appointment of Father Dougherty as Bishop of Neuva Sagovia, the Philippines, in 1903 From one cardinal tire. 12d a high o of Phil- member ot Jopa in the consistory of 1911, Increased ceived the red hat he in sistory, was an American citizen same oon- Pope Pencdict has preserved the tr dition of Plux X by keeping the numbsr of Ameriean cardinals at three, but in view of the fact that the United 8 is the third Catholic power in following Immediately after Ttaly France. the prevailing opinion hers has been thai the cardinalates in the United States would be increased in number Italy, with respect to the church. oe- ial position. At the present out of with 20,000,000 Cath- and will have six aftes cupies a s time she has .wenty-one cardin fifty-seven : Spain olles, 1ey four. the nex: onsistory. whil the Usglted States, w Philippines, Ports Rico. Guam and Hawnii totalling more than | 24.000.000 Catholics. will have but ha'f of Smair's representation The sacred college after the March consistory will number sixty three € which thirty cardirals will be I:aMas, Feven red hats thus will bs unassigmed. the full quota of the sacred collegs he- ing seventy, though this is nev ed, each Pope desiring to leave som. cancies in order that his successor m-y: I dile immediately to appoiat new cardinals on his ascension to the threwsa. WANTS LABOR EXCLUDED Washinzton, Feb. 10— unions are nless men Fanized labor's onposition to it will he unylelding. Samuel Gompers. president o the American Federation of Lagor today told & serate committer. The federation chieFs statement, tozether with prolong- o1 and at times heated the committcs over an allegation by Ren- reséntative™Tuddletsion, democrat, Ala bama, to the effect that coal mine oper- duized in “wholesale looting d that the “sational enal mething to do with fix ociation b+ 75 to 1911 America had omly x X for the first the number of American cardinals 19 three. In addition, Monsignor Falens apostolic delegate at Washington, who re- FROM CALDER COAL BILL trades| iflirmatively and definftely™ exciuded from the Calder blll for govern| regulation of the coal industry, or-i contest befora| ing the priers.” took up the entire 3r. Hddlcston's statement was flatly| denied b+ J. D. A. Morrow, vice presme| dert of the coal assciation. Mr. Fod- dleston sald he had a stemographial transeript of directors’ meetings in which| prices were discussed and asresd to re-g turn tomorrow w porscssion. RE/SONS WHY FARMS ARE BEING ABANDONED be an adequate number of women far- mers, sald Mrs. Allan P. Stevens, di- rector of the home department of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce and Agricultural League in an address here today. Mrs. Stevens described the life wo- men are forced to le1d on Maine farme where in some instances there & neither dortors nor nurses within & dius of ninetern miles and roads are poor. especially in winter “Can you imagine 1 young man ask- Ing a girl to marry him and to live ‘With him on a.farm under these cqn- ditions > ehe . “In Maine only one-tenth of the avallable farm land is under cuiltivation. The remainder is still. waiting for farmers who dare face thes. adverse conditions.” PETITION FOR WORLD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE €O, the transcript ta hig! Boston, Feb®10. 1 njess rural health conditions and educational facilit are greatly improved there never will, cow, Pauline. the pony: that rode in an elevator in President Roosevelt's admin- ingtration and more recently, president Wilson's flock of lawn mowing sMee. J Hartford. Feb, 10.—A _petition for a charter for Worll Fire sng Marise Insurance company was presentel to the the Senator Mediil McCormick, of T1- [ toany by Cravies 1t Guces of 1oie oy mois, photographed at the Capltol, | The piition says thet the company 0 his return to Washington after his | would have an siliare: with the Aetms luropean ‘rip- which many believe | Fire Insurance company. A mumber & ias significant because of his ex- ressed attitude prominent insurance and hank officials of this city are listed as incorporaters of Gae proposed comparny the League lasue.