Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 16, 1921, Page 1

M me-—s-mfll PmSentinP&ynfifllof Twmwlzcmbusendflm‘hh hlud tho Penm Have Filed Re- | Eribe New York, March 15-—New York, the finnacial heart of the nation, throbbed more rapidly today as it drove a golden stream into government coffers with nlmnlon{.flm.lux-hrmm 1920.° “Big Bill” Edwards, eollector of in- ternal revenue, and his taff admitted to- night that they were wearied acoepting money, but they were not too weary to hazard a prediction *7il when the final penny was counted it would be found that more peonle had tiis year thidin eéver before, but that they had lnrnrd in smalier amounts to their Uncle Delmd-mq in business and increasing tnemployment played their part in mak- ing ud tax retuss-for 1920. Officials said fluxmuywmlwhohmuwomuln five figures a year ago reported earnings \h\rbt 1920 ot unly " 000 or less. In- of many big corporations also ifirufl during the last year. Nevertheless, money flowed like turbu- lent rapids at all places where govern- ment agents coliected the payments. Thousands packed the *customs house from morning until late into the night, ~while hundreds more stood in long lines at the postoffice and other places dealing In money orders. the score at v.he customs house, thwnau sending their return® in that way instead | Was of appearing personally with the money. Early tonight 130,000 returns. come in by mail since morning and n-nymn were expected tomorrow, ‘Several persons Who sent in payments of two cents spent twelve cents each to send them in registered envelopes. Sev- eral unemployed married Women reported individual incomes -due to Wb‘ the ponies” ‘and “bridge parties.” One man confined in the Tombs prison sent in a request for a tfkt]-day time extension, explaining that 'he was “temporarily de- tained.” Severa! waiters reported tips approaching $1.000. No totals or ayproximation . of the amount received by the. government through the income tax returns com- pleted today were issued. 300 PERSONS IN BAY STATE FILED INCOME TAX RETURNS Boston, March 15.—When the doors of the internal revenue offices closed at mid- night tonight Collector John J. Mitchell estimated that 300,000 persons in Massa- ‘chusetts had filed federal income tax re- turns. Fifty thousand returng were re- erived in the mails today, a record for the proceeds from which shail be each year to the person who du‘l'ln‘ ‘the ! ence, sald those engaged in the Ameri- ear has made the greatest contribution | canization work must toward international amity. Mr. Drinkwater's address was fre-1to do with foreign quently interrupted. by ‘applay ularly when he declared that , partie-| Colonel Frank W. Gal Wil- { mander of the American son. *‘conceived beyond his :mflfln ca- | there ‘was pacity—a thing that is generally true of | canization work was figures.” all great historical “Most men,”-said the speaker. assault of expediency. he slung tenaciously: to his ideal regard- ‘less of personal conseguences.” “are | prop: prone to bow to submission at the first|some of it inspired need | cause, he sald, “un-American and disloyal openly mlched. foreign sou ganda (is being It is the tragedy |and some In the interest of foregn :w and the glory of Woodrow Wilson that | ernm ts” ted effort is necessary to “see that hypheriated Americanism doesn't raise its In addition to Mr. Roosevelt and Mr.|head once more” asserted H. C. Ryan, Morgenthau, the committee comprises: | chairman of the American commission of Cleveland H. Dodge, Malcolm Forbes, |the American Legion. Edwin Gay, Bernard Baruch, Colouel Edward House, Mrs, ‘Borden Harri-|Boy Scouts, told the conference Colin H. Livingstone, president of the that man, Adolph Ochs, Frank Polk, Miss Vir- | groups of foreigners must be prevented ginia Potter, Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Frank | “from using us as bat Cobb and Hamilton Holt. A ibal e s PI.BBIDE\A' HARDING FAVORS unds” for their -inteérests. otherwise “We are liable < |foreign * governments.” ANTI-DUMPING LEGISLATION |A: mericanization, he added, should be “to make: Americans in love With their own ‘Washington, March 15.—Approval was { country.” army promotion. nominations submitted by umnr Presi- dent Wilgon were confirmed by the sen- ate. S Captain Luschin of the cite police in upper Silesia has ‘while riding with ¥French and | cers. Prosecutor A. C. Ilr\‘h‘rl'n 47 ty began an investigation. ito the . which -destrdyed forty buildings at Camp Merritt, N. J. A vedmetion ‘of appreximately 20. per cent of the working forces, excepting train and engine crews, was announced Erie Railroad. ~ Manufacture and sale m(l Imitation evaporated or condensed milk would ‘be prohibited in a bill introduceq in the New York legislature. Responaibllity for the high prices of foodstuffs was ascribed to railway rates by speakers before the National Ship- pers' conference in Chicago. G. 0. Calvert, n research worker of Twickinghai claims to ‘have achieved the manufacture of synthetic alcohol en a commercicl scale. Motor ears registered in the United States last year numbered 9,211,295, an increase of 1,645,849 over the preced! year, or 22 per cent. ing | to ref 'Mwauarm hylafifih-n Wages— mmmmamwd.m if&-hihnbl’dthh“kdnmh?m— wwmwummwwu plebis- | Proposais of wage reductions and car:y their fight to the rail labur buaru, If the culy are put into effect, umlem l::\:; ut the workers who ve eoaf-reace hure, It was definitely leamned ton'gat, haye decided upon this course, ‘akiuz the position (hat Camp |1he presint wage siaquard mus: be main- tained and econdmi conditions will _permit any reductiva. little danger of any cessation ould the railroad put the re- ‘by the |/ marnugement of the New York Central railroad that they flatly refused to con- sider wage cuts of from 17 1-2 to 31 per cenf” as we find that those employes today are not receiving sufficient lunoml’ e to. maintain their families Drop- erly.’ _Representatives of the skilled mken of the New York Central, with tion of those in the “Big Four” b it was learned, have also declded ject proposed wage cuts. Altog-ther, spproxirhately 70,000 employes of the BT 5 o 5; a rveelvemrp for all the W roads, Mr. Rich . v by President Harding today to the SEesbai e i Heavy bags of mail were delivered by oMce. i‘r‘;:;my to make antl-dumping . and |ABMY TEANSFORT IN GOLLISION American. valuation of imports measures OFF NE& JERSEY COAST the first fiscal- legisiation to be enacted at the special session of congress ecalled Central lines have decided to oppose any Appvmll of a lean of ’I.‘fl... te su | reduction. American exporter who will . ghip milk milk products to Eurcpe was announced by the war finance corporation. DITIJCT-IVBS INDICTED FOR' | After recelving proposals for wage re- ‘ductions for unskilled labor ranging from GEEMANY'S BASIS FOR ¥ TAKING UNLAWFUL FEES R . % New York, March 15.—Four- police: de- partment detectives Who in the last twe years recovefed nearly a miillon dojlars’ worth of securities stolen in the financial distriet, today indicted on a charge of taking unlawtdl fees. - The indictments were returned in connéction’ with form- er Governor mmmnu investigation of in the city sdminis- Alonzo’ Greer. Q!"l}!nn and PROTEST TO THE L. OF N. Berlin, March 15.—In & protest to the league of nations on the infliction of penaities the German governmeng claims that the cnl yprovisions in {he tr fecting this question ‘are paragrazh leigh- teen of ampendix two to part eizht and the concluding sections of Ariicle 429 and Article 430, These, it is declared.-do not admit of any fresh ns of Ger- man soil beyond the territory west of the Rhine and the bridgeheads, The German government further. con- to meet April 11. | The president, mecting with Chairmen ,shipping board Penrose and Fordney of the and . means committee, ' respectively, agreed to the decisions reached at yester- * ‘New York, March 15.—In a dense fog oft ‘the New .Jersey coast tonight, the steamship Invincible, incoming from Manila, damaging the transport severely and necessitating radio n.ll.l for imme- day’s confercnces of republican members | diate assistance. of the twd committees and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and it was indi- The Mauawaska, carrying passengers, was| struck amidshins. ~ First messages cated he promised to throw his influence | said she was taking water rapidly. How- behind the two measures defin\tely de- | ever, a radio received at 30.50 p. m. from cided on. The question of whether priority shoufd | boat her commanding officer £ail he had all out and would await day- A pro-Trish meeting. held by the pep- ular party in the Eliseao theatre, Rome. senate } bound for Norfolk, collided with the army ; wae attended by @ larze crowd and lead- findnce committee and the house ways |transport Madawaska; ing members of the Catholic party. fecretary Hoever announced he would confer with directors of the United iStates Chamber of Commerce in an effort to devise means to develop fcreign trade. Pedro Madeo, syndicalist, wns arrested By police in/a resort in Madrid known as 7 to 13 1-2 cents per hour, »fective April 18, from the Delaware, Lackawanna and ‘Western Railroad, Jabor reprasentatives in conference here, it was learned, prac- tically decldec to reject this offer. They will make their final answer at another conference called for March 23, the New York Central put ‘the proposed decreases into effect April 1, withofit first getting permission from the it would be a violation of tae rrmmrl:-- tion act. Raliroad officials sa'd that board would be requested immediatoly fo au- he trunk lines and that New Engand was “dominated from the outside on traf- fic_problems.” Mr. Rich urged that the roals take & reater interest (in short rauts, assert ‘ng_that because of their Wagleot of ¢ rafflc motor transportaticn was being substituted for rafl. He said it cost as ~mch to’ ship freight 35 miles in this state as across the state to 4 trunk Mme. be given tariff revision-legislation or in- ternal {ax revision measures ‘was still un- | s to’ the /Invinetble, which.‘appar- e(} Senator Penrose and Represent- ently u no! uflo&_ s 1, s tter vfl& 1%‘ by K 3 ram_nd to /‘flm neces- of Inabfmy of republice: rmde‘r ‘Whatever h, Itatian And mgfluu . the T & .o £each mg vernments of pmmrfir nanimens emen - &'Z teen of the avnendix- to the treaty. s Gl ¥ “question, indicated that he desired to consider the | twenty miles no; ast of Atlantic City. z . ‘The league of matlons is requested to|matter further before anxvln: at a reg-'| The Madawaska, formerly the Ham-: initiate mediation proceeTinzs and to- see | ommendation. _|burg-American liner Koenig Wilhelm II | rewards that the forcible measures the allles have| ~Gther members of the two committees, | has a displacement of 9,410 gross toms. |land in'the districts of . Emolensk, Vi z:mlo:; nu: ‘:1::‘: ?e::";;‘:“dlflfl ng;:;m':etlom?:dhmy ate;av:ed. I the ehairmen said, probably will be cali- |She was turned over to the navy depart- |tebsk, Orsha, Mohilev and north of those officer T the commurists, social-{ed - into confer t } recelves 50 per dert, 40 per cent,’goes fsts, republican soclalists and radical so- e R ot Sty e Rl T T RRe RN Iyrt 1 T ki with the idea of reaching an agreement’| = The Invincible left New York this 1o the poice relief fund, and 10 per cent. | efalists today attacked the decistons of i N t to ths police B Tund.’ The acceptable if possible to all. morning for Norfolk in ballast. She has detectives are- charged~ with' apprapri- Anti-dumping legislation as proposed a meeting place for syndicalists on a Edouardo uwrlu the reductions. charge olmurdurhg Premier | light, when he would transfer hia pas- tends that ‘there has been no infri; iment’ of ‘partitions -of oblizations justi- tying the infliction of!the M\znmft sane-1; ‘tion !’ht “the fevr against lm 3 mflz, ion to the | and iV nn"'bv the - <4 The mdlcl.mn were not’ made pub. Mo, but it I8 understosd ::;%’,; werp: charged with acoept! as e from a brokerage firm for re- covering stoltn. . wfi _atithout ob- tainiag the necessary : ;- lice .flnn;rlrhner netioning af grataitied:. 1 " Under the éxisting polics ' resulatins; tendered “holice for ‘the recovery OPPOSITION TO RATE ADVANCE Dato. ON NEW ENGLAXD RAILROADS Ah'oclm RECEIVERSHIP “FOR NEW HAVEN uu» m'm l.—xfi nmlv'nm;‘ : Ml‘? ork, New. Haven and Ha rallifodd . and Its entire reorganization | was-advocated today by Bdger J. Rich, counsel for the Aksociated :Industries of Massachusetts. as a solution for some of the present difficuities’ of New England roads. Mr. Rich wag the chief speaker at the afternoon session of the special citi- zens’ commission representing the states of this sectfon which is investigating the He ‘of the transport is about to come to glun 10 seek stock yards, 28 positions we; able, . Aceording to reports, 18- to 20 bolshe- vik divisions are marching acainst Po- enfecbled condition of Lhe roads was due to operating inefficiency and would not bo helped by the advance. —_— William F, Gareelon, reprosenting (he The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee, Mass., tting the entire rewards to their own use ‘While assigned.to the Wali Street:ais- trict, the indicted 'detectives investigat- ed, among other caseés, the theft of $178;- 000 worth of bonds from Richard Whit- ney and Company by Benjamin Binko- | jevi witz. He disappeared in August, 1819, d later was murdered near New Ha- ven. His slayer has’ never been ap- prehended, but the bonds were subse- quently recoveréd in Washington, Cleve- land and ‘other ‘cities’ YALE LAW STUDENT 15, , olnmn' WITH FORGERY New Haveh, March 15.—Maurice H. Segal of Worcester, Mass.,, a sophomore, in the Yale Law school, was held in bonds fo $1,000 ia city court today for a The police say they learned that Segal served six in Essex county’ peni- w Jersey, for tampering. wml s'tnofflu!‘tllhwleho'lnld fater that Segan was expelled from the body yesterday on the recom- of the penalties. Particularly strong was the declaration of Vincent -Auri cialist, that the nenalties. woul fective because, according t6 fhe most reliable statistics. France's mart of the dutfes which it would be possihle to be led, wou!d, after payment: of the ex- penses of ‘occupation, show-a deficit of 200,000,000 francs annually instead of turnishing cagh for reparation. Asked by several deputies what he would propose in place of the London decision, M. Auriol declared that an in- ternational economig. office should he in- stituted in which nee, Great Britain, Germany ‘and v interested - nations shoupld’ colloborate for the reconstruc- '-lon of the devastgted rezfons and a re- of edowomic etivity, "America."" M. Auriol, finance such z\n Qrganlzatiml." ‘This declaration’ was r ed with. general skeplicism by members of the chamber. A: “would THREE MEN ARRESTED - FOR BURGLARY IN BRISTOL ‘Bristol, Conn., March 15.—Three al- leged burglars were arrested early today hl the store of Anderson & Bloom in For- lle. Officer James McNamee of For- eltvllh made the arrests after observing the men entering the store. He fired two shots and the alleged burglars, who' were in the cellar, surrendered. A loaded re- volver was found on the floor near one of the men. They gave their names: as 1| James Mullin, Boston, Edward Cyzywski, New Britain, and John Kaminski, Thomp- sonville.: They were arraigned in city court and bound over to the superior court in bonds of $1,000 uch. records of | PE. NEWMAN SMYTHE BESIGNS ' might to find any clue to the person who mailed a package containing a bomb to , L. B;pur olbthl:‘utflvn, who ‘was m B’M y resulting explosion when he openeq the packase today, enysiclans afthe hospital . in to which he was taken said epper’s Tight hand. was blown off, his left hand and lower few were severely injured and his eves were filled with powder. It was found recessary to nnmu his right arm below . the el- Dr. Pepper could throw no light on the reason for the sending of the bomb and said that he did not kmow who “had it in for” him. His office ‘was wrecged by the explosion. © It was learned that the packaze was mailed in the adioining town of ansbn gome time yesterda; Dr. Pepper is 55 years old and a graduate of Colby colleze. He has prac- ticed medicine here for twenty-five vears and s president of ths local board of m During the war he served in the army medieal corns with the rank of Meutenant, bein~ statiored at Cam Sherman, Ohio and Camp” Devefil SRR & ¥4 MR, AND MRS. WOODROT WILSON LEAVE CARDS AT WIHITE HOUSE FROM YALE CORPORATION New Haven, March 15.—Rev. Dr. New- man Smyth, senior fellow of Yale cor- poration, has offered his resignation, it was announced tonight. ‘Action by the corporation is deferred until June. - + Dr. Smyth in his letter says he takes| this action in order to give opportunity to appoint a younger man in his place, one who will be acceptable in assiating the president-elect in carrying out the increasing work and in the task of re- organization which, he adds, is ‘“now happily begun.” Dr. Smyth' became a member of the corporation twenty-one years ago, the same year that President Hadley took up his duties. - WV]IT-POLI!! PEACE TREATY WILL BE umn FRIDAY Riga," Létvia, March 16—(By The A. P)—ofltflumwnéemt ence that the:peace. treaty between tha | ! at yestérday's conference would be de- signed\ through a special tax to relieve American manufacturers from competi- tion. with imports selling below ‘the cost of American prodvction. - The other pro- posed legislation would- provide that ad valorem duties on imnorts shall be levied on the basis of the American dollar in- stead of on the valuation at the point of orlgin. THIS, sponsors of the legislation declare, would -eliminate the advantage now . held by foreign manufacturers through the difference in exchange. WAGE CONFERENCE . TO BE H.ELD IN PI‘I'TBBCBGB Philadelphia M’arnh 15. —Conferences between the regional general managers of the Pennsylvania Railroad system and representatives of its. 210,000 employes to consider proposed wage reductions will be held at Pittsburgh, Pa, beginning March 31. The company announced today that the contemplated downward revi- sion of salarics and wages would become effective April 20, The formal notice of the company in- forming the employes of the proposed cut announced by the directors last week, is | dated March 17 and will be posted throughout the system not later , than Thursday. - The notice says: “'Chl?'ul conditions since the present rates of pay became effective warrant a reduction of salaries and wages of offi- cers, subordinate officials and employes. ‘Therefore, notice is hereby given that the management desires to make this reduc- tion effective for officers, subordinate of- ficials and employes on April 29, 1921, “In. the meantime, it is the desire of the management to have conferences with their employes who are only designated and authorized to represent the subordin- ate officials and for the purpose of reaching an agreement as to what con- stitutes just and reasonable rates of pay in the light of present conditions.” The notice gives dates on which con- ferences with various classes of employes ‘will' be held, but gives no inkling as to the amountof reduction the company will propose. ‘The - procedure in arriving at agree- ments, it was announced, will be held in PENN. i { a gross tonnage of 4,960, N. Y. ALDERMEN SHORTEN DAYLIGHT BAVING PERIOD New York, March 15.—The board of aldermen. today unanimously adopted an améndment to 4 city ordinance providing that daylight seying begin here the last Sunday in April and end the last Sunday in Sentember. "The measure, cutting two months off the daylight saving period in :::ct last year, now gocs to Mayor Hy- N. H. ROAD TO CONFORM WITH NEW YORK CITY New Haven, March 15.—When inform- ed tonight that the New York city board of aldermen had amended the daylight saving law in New York so that it goes into effect April 24, C. L. Bardo, general manager: of the Ni York, New Haven and Hartford railrbad. said that the rail- road would change its ‘daylight saving plans to conform. He said daylight sav- ing would go into effect on the lines west of New London and Willimantic on April 24, instead of March 27. ~In regard to lie lines east of New London’ and Willimantic, Mr. Bardo said action of the railroad in that territory depended upon daylight saving steps taken in Massachusetts. 3 MAN MURDERED IN LONELY BOAD NEAR WATERBUEY Wadterbury, ‘March 15.—Joseph Rollf, 45 years old, of this city, was shot and killed tonight in a lonely spot mear | .- the Pearl Lake road, on the outsidirts of the city. The body was fiscovered late tonight and the police started a search |’ for the murderer. No clues were found. ‘The body was identified by John Lut- tonzio, son-in-law of the dead man, who lives near the scene of the shooting. Lut- tonzio- and his wife said they had heard no shot and that Rolli had not visited them tonight. Another neighbor said a sharp report had been heard about 7.30 o'clock. Aa automobile passed by a few moments later and no attention was paid to. the noise. St 2"with the transportation act. | , X0, Beareat bouses to the place where SUCCESSFUL TEIAL TRIP OF DIRIGIBLE AIRSHIP ROMA Rome, March 15 (By the A. P. & body was found are 100 yards dis- tant. Medical Examiner Crane viewed |. the body and said the shot apparently had been fired from sor~ “‘ztance, The bullet entered the man’ Robbery Was not u,..yc. -, have been With Robert Underwood Johnson, the!the motive for the crime, as a_ watch American ambassador to Italy, as one of the passengers, ‘the big dirigible airship ‘ment two countries will be signed Friday ev-|* ening at a public meeting. Of the confer- ence. Preliminary Treaty : Lohdon, March 15. — A pi peace treaty was signed in mu by ‘the | Russian Soviet and Polish peace -dele- gates, and the final terms Will be signed and money ‘were found in Rolli's clothing. CENTER OF BOCKVILLE Conn., K;n:h 15.—Fire total- ly destroyed:'the elevator of the Rock- wille Coal and Grain company In- the {eenter of the city early today. The loss Thursday, says a dispatoh to l.h‘ m- p don Times tm t\pg CABES Ano:gp LIQUOR IN BALED HAY NEGRO TAEKEN FEOM JAIL BY A ‘P‘ AND LYNCHED was estimated at about $100,000. The _wrote the fol-}insurance, on the bullding was between $50.000 and $60,000. “The fire was seen by a night watchman 'for the J. J. Regan company. Ten mi utes before twé patrolmen had passed by Ten minutes affer the first alarm ‘was given all apparatus availablé was at work to hold the flames in check. As it hed rained all night, brands which fell ‘& ‘wide area, especially on the ‘bulldings of the Rock Manufac- operating on a three-day schedule since Dec. 1, resumed full time operation and announceq an average wage reduction of ten per cent.. ’ Recretary of War W, announeced {General Wood will rrobably sall for the lf’hmlminec on Anril 2. Former Govermor CGeneral of the Philippines W. Cameron Forbes will accompany General Wood. Fire destroyed the electric power plant of the Coalbrook colliery of the Hud- son Coal Co.. north of Scranton, -Pa., In- curring 20.00 loss. About 10,000 -mine -| workers are idle. — % Warner Brothers’ company, manufae- turers of corsets. announced that it nlans to establish a branch factory in Brussels, Belgium. \The company has four plants in this country. b Decislon as to whether Canadian mem- bers of the Knights of Columbus may participate in Insurance bensfits of the order was postponed at a meetcag of the supreme council in Ottawa. Virtrally all of the employes of the New York ' Shipbuilding company at Camden, N. J.. where a ten per cent. re- duction in wages went into effect Monday | reported for work as usual. Police have been statloned tn the Mich- elin factorfes at Turin, Italy, where workers have Beén locked out.” This ac- tion was taken because of acts of vio- lence committeq by the workers. After signatnre of mew contracts with . T¥pogranhical union,. callinz: for a 1° ty hour week, the Ommm'gee . (Okla.) Times and the Okmulges Democrat an- nounced they would resume publication. ' An’ unidentified man, years old. yesterday jumped to death off the Brooklyn hridze. A tuz passed a rops Tope_around the body and towed it to the Brooklyn shore of the East Riyer. The lce left the Penobseot yesterday, opening Bangor. Me.. to navigation at the earliest date with two exceptions, in the history of the city. In 1943 the ice left the river on 13 and in 1871 on March 12. An agreoment was reached in the sen- ate executive session to postpone unti® the extra session the question of confirmine former Representative J. J. Esch of Wis- consin as interstate commerce commie- sioner.” A note hsa been gent to the secretariat of the league of nations by the German’ government D! against penalties being enforced by the entente for Ger- ‘many’s non-fulfillment of her reparations obligations. Cornello D. Vargas, whe came to the United States at the close of the Spanish- American - war as mascot ‘of ‘the Fourth Ohio_infantry luirn!nt is going gack to J of Guayma, Porto Rieo. inspectors announced the re- wury of $200,000 worth of the loot fn the mililon dollar Toledo postoffice rob- bery of February 17, More than lui 000 of -the -bonds ‘was recovered in N ork elty, $27,000 in Detrolt 'and $14,! Philadebhia. - The campalgn Dr. Wibar ¥F. Cratts. of the u'fi:.—uuom reform bu- reau, for the éstablishments of a federa: wmotion picture cehsorship law will be bandoned provided motion pleture pro- a hn on all mfl apparently 5o transportation situation In New England. “I doubt it anvthing can gave the N Haven from: .a receivership,” said Mr. Rich, adding that “it is not to be de- plored.” New England Textlle Transportation een- ew | ference in opposing ‘he advauce, said the roads could effect big savings, possidly as much as $50,000,000, by a reasomable reduction in wages. ———————— e GOODS STOLEN FROM EXPRESS COMPANIES EXCEEDED $12,000,000 Maecon,” Ga., March 15.—The American Railway Express company has already been relmbursed $19,700,000 from the United States treasury to cover losses incurred through operations during the six months’ guarantee period from March 1 to Sept 1, 1920, W. A. Benson, assist- ant fo the vice president of the company, testified in federal court today at the be- ginning of the trial «of fifty-four men in- dicetd on charges of conspiracy to rob the eompany of more than $1.000,0000 of foods. The loss and damage claims alone for goods stolen during that period will exceed $12,000 000, he said. For loss and damage claims during four months of the guarantee period, Mr. Benson sald, the government had pald out $8,000,000- The total deficit for the operation during the six months’ period he added, was. more than $30,000,000, as compared with gross receipts of over $62.770,000. Those under indictment in the case In- clude express messengers and business men. . Five have alrendy pleaded guilty. R. C. Brinson of Millen, a former ex- press messénger, who . previously had pleaded’ gulity, -was a withess for the government today and told how he had stolen hundreds of dollars’ worth of mer- chandise from the company. FUXERAL OF MURDERED WOMAN CHURCH ORGANIST Perth Amboy, N. J., March 15.—aAn immense_throng stood silently in the street this afternoon during the fumeral services in the home of Mrg. Edith Wil- son, church organist, who was murdered Saturday night. George Washington ‘Knight, a 'negro youth, who confessed he had attacked the young woman, is in jail |t New.Brunswick, charged with mur- der. The- house was filled with mourners, chief among them the cholrs of the Simpson Methodist church and the Bap tist church and -members of the Girls' Music. club, composed of Mrs. VWilson' puplls. Music ‘was omitted at the ser- vices.: The pastors of both churches pald high tribute to the victim, eulogizing her faithful and devoted work. Hours before the services,began erowds gathered in front of the dwelling and from 11 & m. until 3 p. m. a steady stream’ of Perth Amboy's residents filed | past the bier. The body was taken to - Arlington, Maxg., Mrs. Wilson's former home. AGENTS . OF PACKERS' EMPLOYES MEET IN CHICAGO TODAY laflup ‘March li—kznr-muuvel of employes in the packing industry from all parts of the country will meet in Chi- ‘cago tomorrow -to plan for united action against the reduction in. wages and re- adjustment of working hours which was put._into effect/on Monday. ‘The American Federation of Labor will be represented’ by ‘Thomas Rickert, vice preaident of the federation, . ° ‘While strike votes were being taken in various parts of the country today, em- ployes. of .Armour .and. Company togk the first m’hnemo“u”'m‘“ industrial mocracy recently , :ewnud the conpany by electing 24 of their f.lm employes to act as a committes in carrying out further tails of the conferemce nlan. ARGUMENTS CLOSED IN WISCONSIN RATE CASE ‘Washington, March 15.-*Arguments in the Wisconsin rate case, described by some participating attorneys as “the most important states' rights issue befere the supreme court in many years,” wers closed today after having heid the atten- tion of the court for three days. M. B. Oibrich, speclal counsel for Wis. consin, -summed up for that state and for the forty-two other states which Joined. with Wisconsin in opposing the authority to supervise state rates claimed by the interstate commercé commission under the traneportation act of 1920. P. J. Farrell, appearing for the inter- state commerce commission, cited specifie instances of . alleged diserimination against interstate rates when a state wis allowed to maintain lower schedules within, its borders. As a result, he said, |so far as revenues of the carriers were jconcerned, “Interstate commerce is eon- | vertea into intrastate.” He denled that the commission had seted “arbitrarily” in ralsing rates, citing its invitation to state commissions: to enter the hearings, ar argued that adequate autherity for 1 action could bé found in the commaroe act under which the commission was er- ganized. A new angle was given the case today when. In a supplemental brief counse for the varlous states attacked the com. mission’s order for fincreased rates ;¢ nroviding revenues far In excess of { amount guaranteed the carriers under the transportation act. In the western terri. tory, the brief said, an inerease of 64 per cent. in passenger fares would have been sufficient. to return 6 per cent. en the roads’ agreed valuation, instead of the 20 peér cent. increase ordered. ! TUPPER SILESIAN NATIVES RETURNING FOR PLEBISCITE Bresiau, Sfiesla, March 15. A P.)y More than 100,000 of native sons, and daughters from «1! !- cuon! of Germany have already reached their respective voting precinets i the plebiscite” zomes. Their presence It in- fecting the home populstion with un- bounded. enthusiasm and has served to glve German hopes a mighty impetus, The policing artangements for Sunday next, the voting day, now have been per. fected. They call for the umitel ser. vices of the biebiscite police, the military forces and officials of all branches of the government. One of the novelties of voting das n be- the balloting by Inmates of jally and other penal institutions who are eligibie. GOMPERS SAYS PACKERS ' SEEK TO Dlfl“! UNIONS ‘Washington, Ilr\‘h ‘15.—Samuel Gomp- ers, president of the A-u-n Federation will