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VOL. LXII—NO. 58 POPULATION 29,685 e e a ALLIED TROOPS HAVE TAKEN POSSESSION OF DUESSELDORF Are Stationed on the Bridges and Roads and in the Important Factories—British Tanks North and French Artillery and Engineers to the South of the City—Belgian Troops Are in the Center of the City—Inhabitants Were Surprised, as the Newspapers Had Not Prepared Them by the Allies—Press of Germany is Unanimous in De- scribing the Action of the Allies as a Violation of the Ver- sailles Peace Treaty. Duesseldort, March §.—(By The A. P.) French and British arplanes flew oves Duesseldorf this afternoon while allied troops with maichine guns were taking positions on the bridges and roads and in the important factories. The inhabi- tants of the city had not been prepared Ly the newspapers for the determination of the allies to occupy additional Ger- man territory and were surprised this morning at daybreaX to see Rhine boats mooring morth and seuth of the city, loaded with troops and war materials. British tanks and cavairy janded (o the north 4 French artillery and engineers landed to the south of the city. The An- glo-French forces massed around Rues- seldort while Belgian infantry which had :ancentrated yesterday at Crefeid, cross- «d the bridge into the center of the aity. The a quartermasters have asked the mayor to give them possession of certain schools, besides the barracks and rafiway station, which have not yet been occupied. Traffic with Obercassel, across the Rhine, has s.opped and telephone com- munication with the town has been in- terrupted. SERMAN PRESS CLAIM ' VIOLATION OF PEACE TREATY Berlin. March § (By the A. P.).—The Serlin newspapers today discuss quietly the breaking off of the london repira- ions negotiations. They are virtually manimous in describing the enforcement >t the penaities as a violation of the Ver- sailles neace treaty At the same time, sowever, they advise the populace to meet tomin gevents with composure. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, or- 7an of Hugo Stinnes. the capitalist, say “Germany’s proposals were ~rejected with cold scorn before the allies took the rouble 10 examine them in detail. The French now have the opportunity. undes sretext of- enforcing the penalties, ot aking nossession of Germany's coal, set- iling themselves in the Rubr region and aking the first steps in their plans of testruction. But they soon will learn that Thess ‘measures are of as little use to hem as to the rest of civilization. Ger- many can confidently await the tide of svents, relying on the righteonsness of her cause.” The Germania says: “The conference »laced the true sentiment of the entente n the right light, and this led to a most ‘uthless violation of defenseless Germany ‘or a mere nothirg.” The Freiheit and' the Vorwaerts, both ‘iocialist organs, see in the breaking off »f the negotiations “a victory for the ‘apitalists over reason” and consider the oercive measures the limit of the ajlies’ «conomic and political impotence and perplexity. The Volks Zeitung:expresses the opin- lon that the answsr of Premier Lloyd e to the German proposals’ implies hat he would like to negotiate further while Germany is under the ‘pressure of he penalties. Theodor Wolf in the Tageblatt declares hat Germany by her last offer showed sven suicidal willingness for an under- standing. The Koersen Courier asks whether the end has come or whether the aegotiations will be continued under the application of stronger coercive meas- ures. Georg Bernhard in the Vossische Zei- tung writes as follows: “The failure of the negotiations is a failure for Germany's foreign policy. Germany must make proposals which will satisty the interests of her creditors. She must stretch to the limit her capacity- as for as the changed and unsettled eco- nomic conditions will allow. The Ge-. man experts who, according to the late.¥ news, are still negotiating with the eco- nomic experts of the entente in London, must pave the way for thi The Lokal Anzeiger considers that the effect of the penalties are no_tnearly as bad as the condition of affair® would be if Germany had signed the Paris agree- ment. AN ACT OF VIOLENCE, GERMAN CHANCELLOR SAYS Berlin, Mirch 8.—Chancellor Fehren- bach at the reassembling of the reichstag today announced the breaking off of ne. gotiations at London. He said: “The ai- lies have already begun to put the penal- ties into effec’.” This, in plain German, means an act of violence, for penalties have nothing to do wth the usual princi- dies of rignt. The conditions imposed apon us are to be secured by force. This rupture can neither be disguised nor jus. tified by legal deceptions.” The open discussion of the situation cannot begin, it was announced, until the return to Berlin of Dr, Simons, tne for- eign minister Chancellor Fehrenbach daclared the al- lies admitted that the imposeible was ex- pected of Germany in the Paris decisions. Neither sentiment, European relationships nor liquidation of the war was possible owing to the allied course of action. “If they persist in this course” he said, “the evil can only be enaanced by it. The allies are only craat'ng fresh em- arrassments for themselves.” The chancellor said that jorce must be eplaced by henest intent for world broth- erhood and good will. . He declared Ger- many had never delined to herself the consequences inseparable from defeat. “We must show now the height of our fortitude, the extent of our patience and “I have every con- | endurance,” he added fidence in the German people to do tha The chanceller declared he wag ready to. leave the war responsibility to the verdict of history. “T am of the opinion,” 5e said, “(hat histery will have a verdict to pronounce not onky on the guilt for the war, but also on the dictates of Ver- sallles. HOLLAND WATCHING FFFECT OF THE ALLIED OCCUPATION Y jon the superior court bench; Josiah H ake upon | and Cavalry Landed to the For the Pending Occupation have on important Dutch trade with the Rhineland. While losses may be incurred through a decrease in trade, Dutc officials take the view that nothing can prevent Ger- many sending as much merchandise as she pleases direct into Holland over the railroads, which are expected to handle it to their capacity. The Dutch evening mewspapers gener: ally are unfavorable to the action of the allies. The Nieuwe Courant says the occupation of Duesseldorf and the other Germar. cities is a vlolation of the treaty of Versailles and as a result Ger- many now undcubtedly will pay less at- tention to it than ever, while probably the production of coal will decrease enor- mously. The Vaderland says the measures cer- tainly do not improve the power of Ger- many to pay. GEEMAN DELEGATION WAS PLEASED TO GET AWAY London, March 8.—(Bye The A. P.)— The German delegates to the repara- tion conference herg left London for Berlin at two o'clock’ this afternoon and seemed pleased to get away. Their de- parture was Without incident, a number of persons, mostly German residents of London, being at the station to see them off. The Germans will proceed from Os- tend, Belgium, to Berlin on a special non- stop train. The train carrying the German dele- Batés from London had on board a num- ber of British reilef soldiers proceeding to join the British forces on the Rhine. GERMANS UNDER CONTROL OF THE ALLIED TROOPS Dusseldorf, March 8.—The administration of the newly ‘occupied territory, will ba the same as is at present applied in the Rhineland. German officials and em- ployes will carry on affairs accrdinz to German laws an dregulations, but under the general eontrol of the allied troops. commandeq at Dusseldorf by the French General Gaucher, and at Duisburg “by the Belgian general Beaurain, MEMORIAL SESSION FOR JUSTICK WILLIAM S. CASE Hartford, March §—Chief = Justice George W. Wheeler of Bridgeport pre- sided over the supreme court of errors this morning, in session as a memorial for Justice William S. Case, who died last week. The exercises were very impressive, the departed supreme court justice being eulogized" by former associates in col- lege the county bar, the superior court, and the supreme court benches. zor. .ollWimaiS, F Attorney General Frank E. Healy was master of ceremonies. « Seated in the ac- customed places were Chief Justice Geo. W. Wheeler and Justices John K. Beach. Edwin B. Gager znq Howard J. Curti the chair that had been occupied by Justice Case baing vacant. Gov. Everett J. lake was present in the court room fand occta’ed a chair.met to that of the attorney general, and assembled were also judges of the superior court. com- mon pleas court and men prominent in the state bar 4ssociation who had gather- ed to pay their respects to the memorv of the deceased. Those who paid trib- utes to the memory of Justice Case were Attorney General Frank E. Healy. State’s Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn. who had been a student in the office of Judze Case ; Lucius S. Robinson, 2 former class- mate at Yale; Percy S. Bryant. an as- sociate in the bar for ncarly forty years: Judge Joseph P.-Tuttle, former associate Peck, admitted to the bar at the time Judge Case was elevate4 to the suverior court bench; Samuel O. Prentice. form- er chief justice of the supreme court, and Chief Justice George . Wheeler. The minutes o fthe. proceedings were ordered spreaq on the records of the court. | IMPEACEMENT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST JUDGE JOHN W, WADE Little Rock, Ark, March of impeachment against Circuiti Judge John W. Wade because of his instructions to a grand jury yesterday, which, accord- ing to resolution adopted by the general assembly, reflected upon the young women employes of the body, were introduced in the house today. The house and senate also passed a Joint address to the governor asking him to remove the judge from office, Judge Wade in giving new instructions to the grand jury teday, said he had been misunderstood in hisi/ instructions Vesterday. He sald that He had talked with one young woman candidate who said that she had been asked by a legs islator to compromise herself in order to be selected for a position. BERKELEY DIVINITY SCHOOL TO REMAIN IN MIDDLETOWN Middletown, Conn., March 8.—Berke- ey Divinity echool of he Protestant Enis- copal church will remain here. according to an_announcement today by Dean Wil- liam P.Ladd. The decision was reach- od at a meeting of the trustees of the echool, who have had under considera- tion the question of moving the school {elsewhere. Cambridge Mass, and Phiia- delphia had been . suggested as possible locations for the institution either through coneolidation with other divini- ty school or separately. | THREE HELD RESPONSIBLK FOR SHELTON TROLF-EY WRECK Bridgeport, Conn., March 8.— Three persons are heid to be criminally respons- ible for the trolley collision at South SheltoSn on the afterndon of Washine- ton’s Birthday in which ten persons lost their lives, by Coroner John J. Phelan in 2 finding ‘today. They are: Milton Cheritree, deceased metorman of the car bouth south from 'Cabled Paragraphs 800 Chinese Killed in Wreek Honkkong, March §.—More than 800 Chinese are believed to have been drown- «d in the wreck of the steamer - Honz Moh on Lamock Isiand, off the port of Swatow, Kwangtung Province, on March 3, news of which wa sreceveid here to- day The steamer, which is a British vessel of 3.900 tons owned in Sinzapore. carried 1,100 Chinese on her present trip, and only 248 og these have been report- ed rescued, PREMIER DATO OF SPAIN ASSASSINATED Madrid, March 8.—Premier Dato was assassindted this evening while returning from the chamber 'in a moior ca. He was attacked by seveal persins who fired 4 number of stots. Eduardo Dato was recognized as one of the most conservative statesman’ in Spain. He became leader of the liberal- conservative party, the strongest politi- cal group in both the senats and thy house of representatives afte the disap! pearance of Canovas. “Never a friend of the working classes, and cpposed (o all reforms, Dato acquired the height of his sternness in August, 1917, when he sup- pressed with the utmost cnergy the work- ers’ movement. On several occasions he was rpeaker of the housé, and besiles uolding portfulios in various cabinets he was the prime minister a number of times. . Although appaently of gentle temperament, Dato possessed a will of iron and mever dis- cussed a subject with anyone once he had made up his mind on it. Dato was born in La Coruna August 12, 1858, and studied law. When he en- tered. politics he pushed rapidly to the front. During his occupation of the min- istry of the interior he secured the pass- age of laws regulating workmen's insur- ance and the hours of labor for women. While he was a_deputy Dato acted as lawyer for several English and Fremch railroad and mining companies operatin: in Spain. For his work in this connec- tion he amassed a considerable fortune. Dato’s sympathies throughout the war were not with the allies. For the United States he is said never to have had any love. He was a monarchist to the tips of his fingers and refused to consider any idea of a Spanish republic. Recently there had been considerable agitation for the formation of a coalition government in Spain to replace Dato's cabinet. TWO ASSASSINATIONS RESULT OF POLITICAL FEUD IN CHICAGO Chicago, March reign of lawless- ness, declared to have been the outcome of a political feud, which has terrorized one of fiie most densely populated wards in the city for wdeks, today culminatéd in the assassination of two of Alderman John Powers' political lieutenants. Pau) Labriola, a municipal court bail- iff, was The first victim. He was shot from ambush a block from his home just before noon. He fell with nine bullets through his back. Harry Raymond, a cigar store owner, was killed two hcurs later by two men {'who had entered Lis store to buy cigars. Two bullets pierced his head and two others penetrated his lungs. Both shootings todk place in a section known as “Death Valley” in the Nine- teenth ward and were ascribed by the police to the feud between the Powers faction and that of Anthony D'Andrea, who was defeated by Powers for alder- ‘man last month. The election campaign was marked by great bitterness and violence, including bombing of a political meeting and sev- eral kidnappings on election day. Detectives -leclared that children in the ward recently were provided with explo- siveg from some mysterious source. Dy- namite canes, detonating caps to be put on the car tracks, and firecrackers were declared tc have abounded in the ward since Monday. ¥ “It was part of the plot,” said Detec- tive Sergeant John Bei: “They cov- ered up their shots by dng the ward with similar sounds. We knew a murder was coming.” HOSTILITIES BETWEEN PANAMA AND COSTA RICA END Balboa, Panama, March § (By, the A. P.).—ursuant, to the ‘suggestion ' of the United States government, the Costa Rican forces which recently have been operating against the Panamanians have retired to the left side of the Sixaola river, on the Atlantic side of the isthmus, while the Panaman government has promised to withdraw its armed forces from the region of Coto, on the Pacific side, leaving the civil authorities in charge. Thus the situation will return to the status before the invasion of the Costa Ricans into the disputed territory along the Costa Rican-Panaman frontier from the Pacific to the Atlantic and leave the dispute open to arbitration. _ The Panamanian foreign office last night suggested a plebiscite be held in the disputed frontier regions with the purpose of finally settling the questions in dispute. HARTFORD BOY BANK EMPLOYE TOOK $4,300 OF BANK’'S FUNDS Hartford, March §—Officers of the Fidelity Trust .company tonight an- nounced that Leo E. Boutellier, a 17 year old employe of the bank, had confessed taking $4,300 of the bank’s funds, Up to a late hour tonight the police had re- ceived no information on the case and the youth had not been arrested. Benjamin Boutellier, the boy's father, said his son had less than $50 at present, but had lost large sums gambKez. The alleged defalcation, bank officers said, covered a period of three months. Boutellier was employed at times tabu- lating ledger cards with an adding ma- chine and is alleged to have obtained money and altered the cards to cover the amounts. = MUEDERER SUICIDED WHEN CORNERED BY CROWD New York, Maréh $—Cernered in a telephone booth after having been chased through the streets by a crowd of several hundred people following the murder of Morris Bealkin, a Greenwich street mer- chant, an unidentified ;man coumitted suicide Tiere tonight rather than submit to_arrest. The man opened fire on the police whea they discovered his hiding place. After recelving a wound in the leg when the police returned his fire, the man sent a shot through his brain. Robbery, the police said, was the motive of the mur- der. OBITUARY. Fred Enos. Bridgeport, March 8—Fred Enos, who organized the Bridgeport Board of Trade and was its president from 1300 until it merged with the Chamber of Commerce London, March $.—(By The A. P)— A wireless message’ from Moscow to- day says the food and fuel sitmation in Kronstadt is hopeless and that disso- lution among the insurgents s increas- ing hourly. The conflict' betweén . the rebels and those desiring to negotiate with- Finland for assistance is becoming more acute, the message asserts, and deserters from-the ‘insurgents state that the latter have mot the least hope of being able to offer resistarice. * B The leaders of the rebels are taking the severest measures to prevent the sailors deserting. to the soviet army from Kronstadt, according to ‘the message. UPRISING IN RUSSIA - I8 ONE OF A SEBIES New York, March 8.—The * present anti-bolshevist uprising in Russia is not a new movement but one of a series of | uprisings which occurred during the past three years and remained.hidden beneath the veil of -soviet .censorship, Sir Paul Dukes, former British , secret, service agent in Russia, declared . here today. Sir Paul, who spent more than-two years in Russia disguised as a Russian work- man, is now in the United States on.a visit. A % The first uprising, he said, ‘oseurred in dered by workmen. As a reprisal Zino- vieff, president of the Third Internation- ale and favorite of the ruffianly eiements, ordered 500 persons shot. ; Three more uprisings, Sir Paul added, ocurred in 1319, the first in March, when 200 workmen, were ordered shot, and the families of those « who escaped were seized. i) Disaffection among the sailars dispiay- ed itself early, he. said, 2nd: continued 1o show itselt from time to time. Uprisings in 1920, were sporadic,, ill organized, and hampeerd by the operations of cqunter- revolutionary troops outside. Russia, such as those. of Wrangel, which roused- the suspicions, of the peasants and workmen as to their motives. Sir Paul declared it was his belief that the workmen, sailors and peasants only awaited the disappearance of these counter-revolutionary Russian_borders to sta Which is now taking place. 7 He told of a resolution pt by 10, 000 workmen at the Putiloff iron . foyn- dry, with only 15 dissenters, which called for free press, speech, meeting, inviobility of person, freedom of movement and abo: lition .of the death pemalty and' torture’ These sworkmen declared, he explained, that the bolshevik dictatorship was net-a government. of - the Russian - proletariat but that, it ruled, autocratically through the medium 0f the extraordinary commis- sion, the tzar's, secret polics and darme detachments, - AREIVING ON ‘THE FRONTIER Stoekholm, i%arch - 8. —Refugees - from Russia arriving on the frontiér .of" Fin- land report ' that . ‘railway - connections north. and south.of Petrograd have been cut as a result of the firing on thé-lfe from Kronstadt.- -This morning great clouds of smoke were seen hovering over Petrograd. : Late this aftérnoon the bombardment between the fortresses which.had. slack- ened during the day had not yet been re- sumed. e WORKMEN REYOLT AGAINST ~ FORCED MOBILIZATION London, March $.—The . Petrograd workmen aresrevoiting aga:st forced mo- bilization and have -atticked the -Soviet troops, says a -Helsingfors despatch to The London Times. 3 _The revolutionary leader Kozlovski is completely victorjous, the despatch adds, the artillery having silenced the. minor fortt, and is preparing to march on Pe- trograd. He has issued a proclamation to the effect thal he.is in a hurry to save the population from the oppression of 2 tyrannous clique. EIGHT SHIPS OF BALTIC FLEET ARE BOMBARDING PETROGRAD London, March 8.—Eight. ships of the Baitlc fleet participated in t#e bombard- ment of Petrograd, says 3 Riga despatch to the London Times. A ‘panic ensued among the Red troops. and . communists. The whole garrison at - Oranienbaum, consisting of five regiments, deserted to the revolutionaries _after shooting all regimental commisars and communists. They also captured two ice-breakers be- tween Petrograd and Kronstadt. The bolshevists have sent agitators to Kronetadt with £0d 8 try to check the revolt. BOLSHEVIKI INFANTRY WAS REPULSED AT KRONSTADT London, March 8—Reuters' Helsing- fors correspondent says it is_reliably re. ported that bolshevik' infantry attacked Kronstadt this morning, but were repti ed with heavy losses’ ‘The bombardment continued throughout the morning: The gun flashes of the Systerbak battaries shelling Kronstadt “were plainly ‘visible at Terioki during“the night, Finnish troops’' are massing on the frontier. . 3 RUSSIAN RED TEOOPS ARE SENT TO FINNISH FEONTIER London, March.$:—A despatch to the London Times from Abo, Finland, timed at 3 o'clock this . evening, says Russian Red troops have been sent to the Finnish frontier as a precaution against. assi ance by Finnish White forces reaching Kronstadt. It is stated in Abo,'the des- patch adds, that no,such assistance from Finland ‘is contemplated. RED ARMY GENEEALS - . AREESTED IN FETEOGEAD Rige, March 3. —Several-Red army gen- erals, late despaiches say, have been ar- rested at Petrograd. ' Telegraphic ' com- munication is interrupted between Reval and Petrograd. pr i FIRING AGAINST MOSCOW, London, March & _The Kr the Moscow-Pétrograd railway: line, says a dispatch to the Central = News ' from Heisingfords. * T H four years ago, died in the Bridgeport The Hague, March 8.—(By The A, P.) —The Dutch government ‘s watching »r the proposed customs collections will Sheiton; George Robineon, his conduc- tor, and Stephen T, Palmer town clerk of heiton, and judge of probate of the car a five gaflon can of gasoline. SRR 5 e S R RS R i i i e e hospital tonight.. He was collector of customs here under the Roosevelt and Taft administrations and was said te ossly any effect ‘we alifed occupation |district. Who was takiSng home en the I'have been the originator of the automatic car coupler. Explanation Offered. [Official Statement 1918 when two commissars. wers mur- | debt.in the next two yea PETROGEAD EAILWAY LINE, | the nomin - oya Gor-' ko fortress' is . directing .its fire’ agajnst. SDAY, 'MARCH 9, 8 PAGES—64 COLUMNS — PRICE TWO CENT. o Sec'yofTreasry in Governmental Expendi- tures. ‘Washington, March 8.—Secretary Mel- lon of the treasury..in his «first official statement, made public tonight in the form of a letter to bankers.gappealed to the “People generally to stand. for rigid economy in, governmental , expenditures” and_ urged the immediate establishmen! of a national budget system. The new treasury secretary in his let- ter discussed.at length the nation's fina clal. condition, declaring that the snowing .made . in - the last eight months had been “particularly encourag- ing.” There are, however, heavy drains to come.on’ the treasury this month and mext he said, and.these requier the float- ation of more short term certificates of indebtedness, announcement of which he made coincident with the detter to the banker: ‘The mation cannot aflord _extrava- gance” M, Mellon asserted, “afid so far as possible it must avold entering new fields of “expenditures. Fgures on cur- rent operations' of ‘the government show that the country's finances are sound but that - the situation’ calls' for the utmost] ““The heavy- requirements of the gov- ernment on account of necessary expen- ditures, including interest = and =_sinking fund om the public debt,”and the ma- turity “of $7,500;000,000 in short dated or thereabouts make it imperative that Ihe greatest cars and economy be exercises in matters af- fecting government expenditures. “The people generally miust become more ‘interested in saving the govern- ment's money than in spénding it. A ‘thorough going national budget system must be establistied and the government expenses brought into relation to lts comhé. b4 The belief Is expréssed by the new sec- retary, however. that the first nine imonths' of ‘the fiscal Year, or to March 31, would show the treasury had made ds ‘meet with a slight surplus to use against the sreat war'debt. Payments on the war debt must necessafily be slow, he said. explaining that the heavy payments to.the railroads would seriously hamper previous plans to lower the deot. The jssue of certificates announced will aggregate $400.000.000 and will bear in- terest'at 5 1-2 per cent. half having a maturiay date of one year and the other for ‘six months. Both issues will be ac- cepted in payment of income and profits taxes! : 2 In: notifying the bankers of the issues, Mr, ‘Melion- said he felt it his duty te inform them at the outset of his ad- ministration of the probable requirements of the government in the coming months and to-'eay- something concerninz its ancial programme. . He said that $500.- 0,000 in certificates must be ‘paid oft March 15.and an additional $118,000,000 & month later. Besides these needs, there is to, be paid the semi-apnual in- terest on Liberty -bonds~(m March 15. 4 payment. of -about * $75,000,000. - The treéasury -also must' make Dayments to the railroads during March. which Mr. Melion estimated at.$200,000,000. < +To partialiy offset the heavy outgo, the Tegular quarierly.payment of income and profits taxes is due March 15 from Which the treasury hopes to realize ap- proximately $509,000.000. \This tax pay- ment, thereforp, Will .be used up in re- tiring _the certificates dué .n the same date. Funds obtained from the new issue of ceftificates then will become available for caring for other.debts of which the railroad payments and the smali.previous sues of certificates constitute the great- est amount. Mr. Mellon also observed _optimistie signs in the general financial condition throughout the country, moting particu- larly that the vast quantities ,of govern- ment securities were widely spread and that each new issue of government paper Was_belng taken more largely by in- | vestors. He cited. market quotations on treasury certificates showing that they had ‘been’quoted at par or at a premium s an indication of healthy and sound finance, Those now held by banis— treasury ‘records showing that many fin- ancial institutions were heavy holders— are being gradiaily absorbed by “real in- vestors,” Mr. Mellon said, adding that the ‘situation generally as regards to loans required by thé government was mach im- proved over conditions a few months ago. RS TOFICS TO COME LEFORE. ; NA'L POLICE CONVENTION New. York, March -8.—Standardization of police methods and the proposel es- tabiishment of a national bureau for the exchange of information relative to criminals will be the main tcpics of dis- cussion ' before the national police con- ‘vention, which,commissioncrs of police Richarq E. Enright announeed today will be held here from Ma7 2 to 7. Police ex- tion of 10,000 or more wlili be Invited to attend.” In announcing the convention ,the com- missioner declared that national co-ovn- eration of police methods wase essential in order, to locate and label criminals and radicals of al ltypes. The announcement cf the nation math- ering of police executives followsd a con- ference of officials from nearby eommuni- ties to perfect pians for *he eo-ordination |of police activities n the vicinty of New York cty’ A committee of fifteen. five each from New York. New Jersey and ‘Connecticut was named to fermulate ten- tative’ plans; for this work. The Connecticut members of this eom- mittee are: Chiefs of Police Philip T. Smith, New Haven; W H. Brennan, Stamford: Gar- Jet 'Farrell, Hartford ;. Keorge W.. Pen- ningion, Norwalk and Superintendent P. J. Flannagan, Bridgeport. GEN. 'WQOD .TO BE NOMINATED AS PROVOST OF THE U. OF P. _ Philadeiphla “March 3.—Major General Leonard Wood will be nomtated as nro- vost of: the' University of Pewnsylvania at’the next meeting of the board of trus- tées to be held March 21. 4 This announcement was made tonizht by, Effingham -B. Morris, a member of the board, following an Informal meetine of rtrustees dn-his office ot Which Gen- eral Wood. was present. No' other name was . discussed at the meeting, Mr. Mor- ris sajd,cand he added that he ‘believed Genezal Weod was “inclined to acceot” tion. 4l | FRANK AYDELOTTE CHOSEN “PRESIDENT' OF SWARTHMORE Philadelphia Match 3.—Frank ' Avde- lotte - Amherican - secretary to the Rhodes scholarship trustees, and professor of English “at Massachusetts Instituto . of An item in the agriculfural appropri- | Technology, was today chosen nresident ation biil provides $20,000 for ‘study}| of Swarthmore college. create an. organization to buy from the producers and lease films tof motion picture theatres. ecutives from all cities having a popula- |~ Brief Telegrams March 7 broke a record when ther- mometer recorded §5.2 degrees in New York, The.New York Cotton Exchange will be closed March 25—Gqpd Friday — and the following day. * Daily oil procuction last week in the Guit coast oii fields was 106,875 bar rels, a decrease of 7,615 barrels. IA ter. per cent. wage reduction will be put into effect in 24 shipyards in the port of New York, on april L. Paul M. Potter, dramatic critic and playwright, was found dead of natural causes in the Murray Hill Baths, New Yor! Twenty-five Soviet Russian Com- miesionaries who had been abandoned by their troops have taken refuge in Esthonia. Former German Emperor Wilhelm is reported keeping in touch with the repa-r ations conference in London through the newspapers. All - Railway Communication in Greece was suspended today as the re- sult, of a.strike affecting every line in the country. A total of 7,005 automobiles were stol- en in the state of New York last year vaiued at approximately $7,000,000. Over 3,300 were recovered. The Belgian government propo:lcs Q: irec The. Lehigh and Wilkes Barre Coal Company today declared a epecial cash dividend of 150 per cent. on its $9,210,000 stock outstanding. All classes of cif fi'"' at Kronstadt, the great Russlan faval base,. near Petrograd, have united in the uprising against the- Soviet government. Edgar. C. Felton, Philadelphia, was elected a director of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, succeeding Andrew W. Mellon, now secretary of the treas- ury. John Rubic, 22 years old, pleaded Suilty before a United States Com- missioner, to having sent threatening letters to Henry Ford, demanding $3,000. The Central News Correspondent at Helsingfors, reports receipt of advices from Petrograd saying many of the residential and business quarters were| in flames. 5 A reduction in the wages of common of unskilled labor throughout its sys- tem, effective April 16, was announced today by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Eight of the fourteen mines believed to have been laid off the entrance to Halifax harbor in 1918 by a German submarine have been picked up or accounted for. ' ! Plans for curtailment of the 1921 crop 6f burley tobacco were abandoned by the Burley Tobacco Growers’ As- soclatioh at_its annual meeting at Lexington, Ky. i The Columbian treaty’ was repgrted formally to the senate Monday by the foreign relations committee, but with- out announcement as to plans for its consideration. American financiers and manufac- turers are disposed to open large credit accounts in Europe, Charles M. Schwab, declared in the Paris edition of the Herald. L ne Master Plumbers, in connection with the building trust in- vestigation in New York, for viola- tion of the State Anti-Trust Act, pleaded guilty in supreme court. Members of the Tidewater Boat- men’'s Union, affiliated with the Inter- national . Longshoremen’s association, New York, have voted to strike here Thursday it wages are reduced. The government of Japan has re- quested from the diet an additional appropriation for defenses, amounting 10 50,000,000 yen. Of this sum 40,000,- 000 yen is asked for the navy. Count Michael Karcyli, whose ex-| pulsion from Italy was ordered last week, has gone to Tarvis, Carinthia, two *countries, Spain and Portugal, having refused to give him a refuge. The Polish government has suspend- ed operation of the railroads under martial law, all the striking railwaj ment having returned to work. Strikes in other trades also have been settled. The United States Navy Water Barge No. 31, ran ashore Friday, on Man-O’-War reef at the north end of Cat Island, Bahamas, while on the way to Guantanamo, Cuba, and was badly damaged. At state department it was learn- ed that the decision of the government to prevent the Western Union Tele- graph Company from connecting up its Barbados cable with a short line out of Miami remained unchanged. ' The government won its appeal to the supreme court for a retrial of the case - against the Diamond Coal and Coke Cempany to obtain the cancel- lation of eighteen patents to coal lands alleged to have been obtained through fraud. e destrsyed the interior of the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul, Chicago, causing damage estimated a $100,000. - The Cathedral is one of the oldest and best known Episcopal edi- fices in the city, dating back to Civil ‘War times. Lieutenant H. Ross, U. S. N, charged with embezzling funds from the battle- ship Tennesses, was reported to have disappeared from the receiving ship in Brooklyn, where he was taken to await the verdict of a courtmartial which tried him. Judge Rosalsky of general sessions, New York, indicated that he might dismiss the case against “Nicky" Arn- stein, whose correct name is Jules W, Arnstein, at_one time alleged to be the “Master Mind" of New York's $3,- 000,000 bond theft plot. The_case against Gimbel Brothers, New . York, ‘indicted on a charge of Profiteering, today was ordered strick- en from the calendar by federal judze Knox as a result of the decision of the supreme court of the United States, that the Lever act was uncon- etitutional. Nominations of Henry P. Fletcher, of Pennsylvania, to be under Secre- tary of State, Theodore Roosevelt, of He succeeds Dr. of the behavior of fruit in trzneporta- |Joseph Swain who.retired in-Jupe. * He tion.” - For_chapefones, maybe, for the peaches.—Detroit News, is_a_gradvate of Indiana Univessity and « former Rhoudes scholar. v New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the navy, and E. D. Ball, of Iowa, ommendations as to tariff and Ty congressional leaders and S, Aariff and rev Washington, March = 8.—Detailed rec- internal nue legislation will be submitted 10 President Harding within a few days by cretary Wil- son of the tre Arrangements for a confcrencé of re- publican leaders to draft a program of cue legislation were made in accordane h a plan of ac- tion agreed upon last night at the White House dinner. Republican members of u nate finance committee meet with v Mellon and a staff of half dozen assistants and Chairman. Good of the house appropriations committee within a few days. The date for the confaence is to be decided tomorrow by Mr. Mellon and Chairman Penrse of the senate com- mittee. A new emergency tarift bill for special protection of agricultural interests prom- ises to head the program to be submitted to President Harding, Senator Penrose said today. In the conferences hetween the repub- licans of the two committees with Sce- retary Meilon il is planned to draft definite recommendations for a complete program of fiscal reform for President Harding's consideration. Senator Penrose said that the “drift of opinion” was to- ward recommending that the emergency agricultural tariff bill be given prece- dence when the new congress convenes, It is the present intention of republi- n leaders to limit and circumseribe its today schedules more closely than done in the Fordney bill, which President Wilson vetoed last week. Such a bill. Senator Penrose said, could be passed “in a very short time if carefully drawn.” Both scnate and house committees will begin work soon probably next week, on he special legislation for the Apri] ses- jon, While the house committee is draft- ing the first bill for introduction jmme- diately upon convening of the congress, Senator Penrose said his commit* @ ~ould hold * supplementary hearings oi h spols”—epecial subjects in controversy, such as sales and other taxes. He added that he had not been “converted” to the sales tax theory and was not convinced that it _swas" aithon-prictientis or- desira- ble” but said that he had an “open mind" on the subject and was open to conviction. Congideration of revenue reanirements of the government, Senator Pe#ose said, would bring up soldiers' bonus legisla- tion. ‘ FIRST CABINET MEETING OF THE NEW ADMINISTRATION Washington, March, . 8.—Various as- pPects of the nation’s foreign relations as well us problems of administrative organ- ization were considered by President Harding and his department heads today t the first cabinet meeting of the new administration. Afterward definite announcement was made at the war department that in for- mulating its policy toward the Rhine situation this government is not now c sidering a withdrawal of the American troops of occupation. It was .rned at the same time that as another step to- ward Pan-American amity the president is preparing to ask that the senate ratify at once the long pending treaty with Co- lombia. Developments in regard to the Panama- Costa Rica hostilities were less definite, but it is understood the cabine ttook cog- nizance of that situation snd canvaseed latest official reperts on the subject. The next step awaits receipt of a reply from Panama to the American note despatched Saturday. In the realm of domestic questions major attention was directed toward per- fection of the cabinet organization as a smoothly working machine. Mr. Harding |15 understood to have made co-operation among the departments the keynote of his preliminary instructions to his secre- taries, telling them he wanted no hesita- tion and no jealousy about whatever changes of jurisdiction mignt be decided on in the reorganization scheme now be- ing formulated All ten of department heads and Vice President Coolidge, invited in pursuance of a policy announced during the cam- paign, were present at the meeting. The session lasted more than two hours and at its conclusion Attorney General Daugherty stayed behind for a short talk with the nresident. There also was a brief individual conference betweén Mr. Harding and Secretary Hughes of the state départment before the other cabi- net members arrived After the meeting all the secretaries declined to give an intimation of what had transpired around the cabinet table and the only announcement coming from the White House related to time and fu- ture seseions. It was said the cabinet would be called together again Friday and that thereafter meetings would be held at least once a week, probably on Tuesdays. The ~war . department announcement concerning withdrawal of American troops from the Rhine was made by Sec- retary Weeks. who would not discuss the subject further than to say that with- drawal was not now being considered. In reaching this decision in regard to its temporary policy, the administration is understood to have taken into account all the elements of the present situation in western Germany, where allied troops have advanced to enforce the terms of the Versailles treaty, while the American forces remained behind on the lines orig- inally. occupied by them under the armistica agreement. Although nothing definite has developed in other official quarters here to indi- cate the probable permanent policy of the ne wadministration. it is known that the situation néw presented along the Ger- 'man border is receiving the close scrutiny of Mr. Marding and his advisers. It gen- expected that some more con- on of this government's titude may be forthcoming in the near future. to” be Assistant Secretary of Agricul- ture, were sent to the senate by President Harding. REPUBLIGANS ARE AT WORK ON TARIFF AND REVENE BILLS Proposed Legislation Will Be Submitted to President Harding Within a Few Days by Congressional Leadsrs—New Emergency Tariff Bill For Special Protection of Agricul- tural Interests Heads the Program—Soldiers’ Bonus Bill is to Be Brought Up in Consideration of Revenue Re- quirements—After the Cabinet Meeting the Announce« ment Was Made That Withdrawal of American Troops From Coblenz is Not Being Considered at This Time. must be tal session. Also wrapped un in the Rhine situatios is the question of passing a resolution to declare x & wigh Germany, and it is bel ministration will determine its attitude on such a resolution in the light of fu information about present European cone dition: n up agais at the spectal MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF SOCIALISTS New York, March $.—Subjects relevang of tae future of the wicialist party wers discussed by its national executive come mittee meeting here today, and were eme bodied in a report to be published 28§ the official agenda of the next natiogil com¥ention in Detroit beginning J A statement issued by the commitieq declared the important matters of the preliminary order of business wer ur aiternative motions defining tha relations of the socialist party to the ine ternational; two aiternative definitions of political action and a motion to revlace the prohibition against voting military appropriations in th: party’s constitution.* The commitiee also pledged the party and its members “to hearty supprt of the organizeq weorkirg class in its struge gle against the nation-wide attemot i@ destroy the jabor unions.” “In addtilon to the agenda” the statement said, “the committee adonted a vigorous resolution bitterly protesting against the Ford anti-semitic camoaien, the Ku Klux antinegr) camnpaign and -ne anti-Japanese campaizn, as moves fn- tended to incite race hatreq and to divide the workers into mutnally hostile eamps. The committeq attacked the “opens shop,” wiich jt Characterized as “the open road to destruction for the organiz- ed workers.” “Like all wars in modern historv.” the statement sald, “the world war has been followed by a ruthless orgy of reaction on the part of the ruling classes. Con- Adent_ of their control of a mercenatr press, of their influence and power at the state capitols and at Washington, the ex- ploiters of labor are secking to conscript the workers for private employers. Tak- Ing for their model the Kansas industrial court act. The courts have also gemeral- Iy registered the will of the rulinz class- s by handing down 2 swarm of decisions against the workers, “All this is followed by the greatest drive in our history for the complete dee struction of the labor organizations. The ‘open shop’ drive is a mass action on the part of thé capitalist class to abolish the lest vestige of contral hy the workerd over shop conditions and render the workers completely dependent upen the whim of the exploiting cases.” ! EMPLOYES OF PACKERS TO CONSIDER WAGE REDUCTION® Chicago March $3—Unfon leaders reore= senting more than 100,000 workers in the packing industry in all parts of the country, departed for Omaha tonight 1 attend a two-day meeting which opens there tomorrow io consider the decreass in wages and readjustment of workine hours which were announced by the packers today to become effective March 14 Charging that the packers were trying to force a mational strike “because, h Ing forced livestock prices to the lowest level in years and having filled their warénouses, they want a sixty day shute down so thal they can unload this sups ply on the public at high prices”, the employes' representatives saiq that thd workers were prepared 1o oppose “tha restoration of the ten-hour day to the last ditch.” The packers declared tuat despite tHa lower rates to be pald, the employes would prebably earn as much or more than they did undér the present wac® seale anq insistad that the adjustment of working hours did not mean the re- turn to the 10-hour day. but only that excess pay would not be made excent for time over the ten hours, “We are In compl sympathy wity the short work day and fair wage the ories and our problem is to attune thesa theories as nearly as possible to the aee tualities which we encounter in d-aling with producers and consvmers” sall & statement issued by J. Ogden Armeur, head of Armour and Company. GOVERNOR LAKE ISSUES FAST DAY PROCLAMATION Hartford, Conn., March 8.—The procs lamation of Governor Lake ecalling peopde of Connecticut to prayer on Friday was issued from the sxecutiv this afternoon. Im It the governde ‘We justly revere the statesmanshie of the fathers for the wise and heinful customs which they established for our example. Among these it is the honor of our commonweakh that here. first. the government regularly set free from see- ular dutles the day whiea the Christian church has hailowed in commemoration of our Lord's great sacrifice, and thus for many generations, the people of this staie have together. without distinction of creed or ritual. sousht {he forgiveness and guidance of Almighty God. Tn ae- cordanes with this custom. 1 hereby des. ignate Friday. the 25th of March, 1821, as a day of fastlng and prayer and T earnestly exhort the citizens of this sata to unite in nublic supplication on that day for wisdom and brotherly fellowship among all peoples, that w~ and our leade ers may do our part in healinz _the wounds of war and solving the difficut problems of peace.” P MRS, MAY BRADY WARRIMAN HAS BEEN GRANTED A DIVORCH ) Newport, R. 1. March 8.—Mrs. Mav Brady Harriman of New York. a famous. beauty of the society colony here some When the armi\ appropriation bill was |yvears ag>. was granted a divores frm under consideration just before inaugu- | Herbert M, Harriman in the su erior ration, republican leaders in congrees [court here today. She charged confirmed proceeded on the exnectation that the |intoication and neglect to provide. The American troops would be out of Europe lcase which was heard on _depositions before the first of Ju.s. The bill with!was uncontested. The marriage of he its curtailed budget for the army of oc- Harrimans in August, 1908, was M cupatien failed of final enactment and Harriman's third. p