Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 13, 1921, Page 1

< VOL. LXIl—NO. 116 POPULATION 29,685 NORWICH, CONN., FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1921 ‘12 PAGES—84 COLUMNS e PRICE TWO CFN_ TS. FEW SPONSORS FOR BEER " FOR MEDICIAL PURPOSES Plenty of Prohibitionists Were Present Before the House Ju- diciary Committee—Dr. John P. Davin of New York, Who Pleaded For the Use of Beer as Medicine, V{n < Roughly Treated by Volstead—Dry Leaders Urged the Committee to Make the Volstead Act Air Tight. Washington, May 12.—Scenes of the days when the drys were battling to put John Barleycorn outside the pale of law { were re-enacted today before the house ! jndiciary committee, except . that . few ! riends of John's family appeared to pro- ¥ ) test against Chairman tead's plan to eut off, even for medicinal purposes, the heritage of beer. eméy of drys were on hand, wearing fighting clothes and Dr. who i old time R. Davin, of New York pleaded for the use of beer as med was given none too cordial treatment. he was roughly handled by Volstead , with some show of feeling cha nged the physician’s ability to anything,” and on another oc declared the witness was using onziomeration of words that a mean in the festimony was the Oliver T. Remmers, counsel Anheauser-Busch company, of St that the firm's policy was “beer or beer for mome” e request- investization of “fav- in enforcement of A= tade declared that his firm our square for law enforcement. unalterably opposed to prohi- Outstanding men congressi-nal m and failure” neugh on Pry aks eaders sald there were the stocks of liquor and many urged it was not possible for physicians to make medical beer by using cereal beverages and alcohol. He asked Dr. Davin sev- eral cuestions along this line, none of which apparently was answered to the satisfaction of the committee chairman who finally blurted out: “Look here, you're trying to evade every quescion 1 ask you. Tell us what- know, if you know so much.’ The winess/again attempted an expla- nation but was interrupted by Mr. Vol- stead who inquired why cereal beverages were not as good for the invalid as beer with a kick. : “Ah, that's the point,” the witnesa re- plied. “Near beer is just like near statesmanship. It can't accomplish any noticeable result.” “1 don’t think you know what you are talking about,”* ‘returned the chairman. During the discussion of law enforce- ment, K. V. Claypool, superintendent of the Rhode Jaland Anti-Saloon league, told the committee the Volstead law was unppoular in his state. Despite the fact that Rhode Island is the smallest state in area, Mr. Claypool declared it pre- sented the maximum of difficulties in en- forcement of the dry law. Asked if the law was being enforced as well there as in other sections, Mr Claypool answered: “Yes! The draft act also was en- forced throughout the United States, but nevertheless Bergdoll is in Germany and Edsel Ford did not go." The Rhode Island legislature properly representedy the state in refusing to rati- fy the eighleenth amendment. Mr. Clay- pool said. Adding that he believed it was doubtful whether the amendment would be ratified in that state even now. 1o committee to make the Volstead law air tight. Dr. Davin, however, resented t move by Mr. Volstead ty “dictate to phveicians” what they shall or shall not prescribe and urged the committee to await consideration of the bill by the Ameriean Medical Agsociation at ite mestinz next menth. Mr Volstead sought to establish why TESTIMONY OF GAMBL AT SARATOGA SPRINGS IN N Spa . May 12.—Testi- gambling was in full swing A Springs duting the sum- E anG early n 1979 was civen tadsy ivv seif-confessed poolroom proprie- tors at the trial of Charies B Anfrus, listrict attorney of Paratosa county, arzed with negiect of duty. The pooiroom men declared they con- ducted resorts in Broadway and adja- street uised as cigar elores, where bets on the races were ac- cepted. Ewan awhile policer:o) were stationed in front of his store, sarws G Fe who pleaded guilty to naking earlier in the investiz ed*he carried on opgration Ernest H. Duval, clerk for Alfred Du- val. who also had previously pleaded Jty. said the play sometimes ran. as Bigh as $1.200 dafly in the Duval es- el loss of between $30,000 Bad 30,000 in a South Broadway. resort op- ated by Jules Fermel :ow | wein of Buffale, He testified thet he et the money while Rachie Brown, who was indicted in the baseball scandal,} spun the wheel. S - Schenectady and New Vork newspa- permen testified they had conducted in estigations in August anl September, 1918, an ad found mal places where ovs between 14 and 18 gambled. DECISION IN CASE OF DAVID ¢ M., BLAIR EXPECTED TODAY y a Washington, May 12.—Testimony and ents i1 the case of David H. Blair, i opipt el B ey .. nominee for nternal revenue commiesioner, ~were | ncinded today by thel senate finance RERISMOn. A decision is expected to + announced mext Saturday or Monday. With the momination of Mr. Blair held i by the fight of Senator Johnson. re- ‘hliean, California, against his confirm- ). the office of internal revenue com tnday became technically vacant, day term of M. F. West, as- commissioner, expiring by lezal Secretary Mellon of the treasury department took over the com- nissi-ner's functions temporarily. Further testimony of Senator on's charges that Mr. Blair, as a dele- to the republican mational conven- “ion at Chieago violated the North Caro- 7a primary in failing to vote for Sena- tor Johnson and also that hecause of an neome tax ease involving his father-in- jaw and wite, Mr. Blair should be dis- ified was taken today by the com- Marion Butler, former United State: senator from North Carolina, and Robert missi g Jimitath thirty n John- MeNeil, a North Carolina lawyer, testi- fied regarding the republican primary ast June. In executive session both wit- nesses were sald to have informed the committes that the primary was ne tre- zarded as bindinz upon the delegates. but was an expression of preference only. This view was said to have been opposed sharply by Senator Johnson. REBEL METXICAN CHIEFTAINS ARE SEEKING IMMUNITY Mexico City, May 12.—Generals Lucio Planco, Eduardo Hernandez, Irenio Vil- lareal and Lablo Gonzales, former Car- ranza chieftalns who have heen reported ts he starting a revolution against the Mexicon government from {he United Srates side of the boundary have made Airect appeal to President it urrender, Obregon for according to official advices received here today. The four generals have refused to treat with neral Arnulfo Gomez, federal commander In the state of Tamaulipas, declaring his order for the summary ex- ecution of the former rebel neral Tomas Erquierdo, who also said he wished to confer relative to surrender, did not war- rant their placing confidence in him, FROST CAUSED $30.000 DAMAGE IN HAMPDEN COUNTY, MASS, Springfield, Mass, May 12.—Fallure of United States weather bureau to forecast the conditiors that brought about vesterday's frost was responsible in a large measure, for -the loss of mote than $50,000 hy farmers in thiz section, William I Wolff, county hor- tienltural expert of the Hampden Coun- statement tomight. Adequate warning, he siatement tomleht. Adenate warning, he sa.d, would have enable growers to cover the up tomatoes and other vines which suf- fered most heavily from the frost. The weather report, he sald, indicatod rising temperature for vyesterday. it i= cus- tomary for the leagme to s-nd eut warn- ngs to farmers of cold suaps. VOTE IN GRAIN FUTURES BILL BLOCKED IN HOUSE Washington, May 1 A final vote on the Tincher bill to regulate dealings in grain futurks was biocked late today by Representative Walsh, republican, Massa- engressed copy not available. of the bill, which was Vote on passage, however, had been ordered by the house and it Wil be the first order of business to- morrow Representative Tincher, Kansas, author of the measure, said he was confident it would be passed de- spite cyidences of opposition which crept out during consideration of the proposal today. Opponents of the bi.l contended it would authorize unwarranted govern- | mental interference in business and de- | elared that many of the provisions were too drastic. Proponents held that the measure would check manipulation of grain prices and would prove benefi- cial to farmers. Favorable action on the measurs was advocated by Representative Mondell, who declared that it “meets the expec- tations of those who desire to stop gamb- Iing in grain markets and does not un- duly curtail those operations which are essential to the weifare of farmers.” Representative Blanton, democrat, Tex= as, declared the bill would license gam- Dling in grain and Representative Jef- fries, republican, Nebraska, ass:rted tne proposal was camouflage that “won’t help the farmer.” HAD BEEN CONFINED 16 YEARS IN A WIRE CAGE ispablican, of GIRL Saratoga Spring, N. Y,, May 12—'A![- | er sixteen years of confinement in a wire cage in her home on a farm near Round Lake, Miss Bessie Hall, 31, wage | released today for the first time. She { jeft the enclosure to accompany physi- ciasn to g hospital for a physical exam- ination. Riding in an automobile for the first time en route to the hospital she ques- tioned the physicians about scenes near | her home, which were totally unknown to her. Reports reached the humane society re- cently of the young woman's incarcera- tion in the wire eficiosure. Investigations by the society disclosed that the confine- ment was ordered by her mother, follow- ing, it was said, a temporary mental de- rangements when Miss Hall was fifteen vears of age. This method was used by her mother, the society, ascertained, to prevent the girl from running away. Physicians, who recently —examined Miss Hall at her home reported she was sane, bul probably suffering from tuber- culosis, After the second examination today, they announced that Miss Hall would in all probability, be removed to the county tuberculosis sanitarfum. GRAVE ERROR IN FIRST NAME ON SLACKER LIST Chicago, May 12.—Discovery that Wil- liam Sutherland Bacon, the first man named on the first “slacker list” released at Fort Sheridan, had In reality been a Meutenant colonel amd commander of the’ chemical warfare service at Lake- hurst, N. J., virtually had stopped furth- er publication of the list in Chicago newspapers. Three Chicago publications announced today that, until greater accuracy is at- tained in the lists, they will net be pub- lished. Mr. Bacon, it was ascertained, was not only guiltless of the slacker charge but had a conepicnous record as a vol- unteer in the service, rising from the rank of private to that of lieutenant colonel. He s a member of the Ameri. can Legion, with residence given as New York. DIFFERE NT VIEWS oF THE MARINE SITUATION ew York, May 12.—In reply to a pre- diction by ship ownerg that another week will see American shipping back to what it was before the strike began, Bert L. Todd, for the engimeers, declared the only strike breakers the owners have been able to secure are those termed ‘red | ticket” oflicers, or men having first citi- | zenship papers to whom licenses were jissued for the war emergency sailings reported today from New York included nine American ships of which one com- o PANY. the United American lines, claimed to have sailed five. The American Steamship Owners Association here was advised today that the Pacific American Steamshin Association had expelled from memberohin the China Mafl Steamship company of San Francisco for slening a contract with the striking unions. chusatts, who flemanded a reading of an| Reign of Terror in i Mingo l‘.o._llual Fieid Men Are Shooting Into Towns From the Mountains—State Forces Overwhelmed. - Williamson, W. Va., May 12—Guerilla warfare, with all odds apparently fdvor- ing the forces opposing the state, was being waged tonight in the grim moun- tains of the strike-torn Mingo county coal field. Beginning soon after this morning, at the little mining town of Merrimac, four miles up the Tug river from this city, a fusillade of shots was poured from. the mountainside successively into Merrimac, Rawl, Sprigga, Matewan, W. Va.’ and McCarr, Ky. All available state police and deputy sheriffs centered in Williamson were rushed to the scene by train and automo- bile, but according to reports they had been unable at a late hour to check the shooting. Harry C. Staton, a state prohibition of- ficer and merchant at Sprigg, was killed by a bulletifrom the mountains, and Noah Phillips and a voung man named Calvert, empioyes of the White Star Coal com- pany commissary at Merrimac, have been seriously wounded. Rumors of other kill- ings and woundings have been received at headquarters of the state police here but to a late hour had not been confirmed. Tonight a little handful of state police, about twenty in number, were reported te, be working their way gver the mountains between Merrimac and Rawl, seeking tw get above and oufflank their hidden focs. This force was led by Captain J. R Brockus, commander of the state police in the Willlamson district. A score of deputy sheriffs under Chief Deputy Johi. S. Hall were co-operating with Captain Brockus and his men. Today's outbreak. the worst since the, Matewan battle of last May 19, in which’ ten persons were killed. including the mayor ‘of Matewan, had all the appear- ances of a prearranged attack The towns visited with the hail of lea. are all within seven miles of each other and lie in a narrow valley on the ban} of the Tug river, which here separaten West Virginia from Kentucky. The firing today and tonight came from the moun- tains on both sides of the river, accord- ing to the state police. They concentrated, mountains on the therefore, in the West Virginia side, while county- officials here got in tbuch with the officials of Pike county, -Ken- l!lv- in an attemnt to obtain co-opera- tibn in routing the attackers from the Kentucky side. Terror reigned in the towns in the zone of fire as nTaht fell and it was learned the authorities had failed to apprehend any of the aitacking force. The bulk of | shooting heretofore has been done at night. when lighted houses afforded casy targets for the hidden rifiemen. Virtual. Iy all lizhts were extinguished ftonight and residents kent close under cover The outflanking expedition led by Cap. tain Brockus, despite its extremely haz. ardous character, was declared by the anthorities to be virtually the only hope of routing or eanturing the attackers, _The state police were virtually helpiess during the day, as the attacking forces in the mountains were completely sercened b yfoliage and boulders, while the police in order to attemnt a direct attack wonid have been obliged to cross the open va'- ley and climb the rugzed slopes in full view of the hidden marksmen, Sergeant David Peterson of the state volice. who led a squad of men to Sprigg this afternoon. told fonight of the plighs in which several hundred nassengers on a noonday /train found themselves when they reached the battle zone. “Bullets were pepnering down from the mountaing when the train got in" he said. *Women and children sereamed and cried in terror, while virtually every passenger on the train fell prone to the | floors of the coaches for protection, 1| don't know whether any shots were aimed | at the train. Nome of tke pa: e a2 ssengerm | were injured.” ue i g Sereant Peterson, who Sprigg with his seuad. said his men we: cnad, s s men were subjected to a hail of bullets before they could gain shelter in a nearby cabin, 4 by alighted a. COUNTY OFFICIALS APPEAL TO GOVERNOR MORGAN Charleston, W. Va., May 12.—Govern: or Morgan tonight responded to the re- quest of county officials of Mingo coun- ty and asked the war department for fedefal troops to restore order in Mingo county, i The Mingo county officials said that they were unable to cope with the Sli\l: ation, E A statement from the governor's office | tonight declared that “the greate: of the firing came from the Kentucky sld}ef' adding that reports to the state's chief executive were to the t two men had been killed. “It is understood,” amount effect that i said Governor Morgan's statement, “that (% county officials of. Pike county, Kentucky, made a similar reuest of Governor . row and that the latter wo for federal troops.” U R. Mor- uld also agk| FEDERAL TROOPS HELD IN READINESS FOR MINGO Indianapolls, May 12.—Federal troops at Camp Sherman, Ohio, are beinz held in readiness to depart for Mingo county. West Virginia, it was announced to. night at Fifth Army Corps headquart. ers at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, { Major Genera] George B. Read, Fifth Army corps commander, was in confer- ! ence with officials of the war department at Washington, it was said, rezarding the the request of Governor Morgan of \Wost Virginia for troops to control the turbances in Mingo county. —_— ANOTHER POLITICAL LEADER IN CHICAGO DIES FROM WOUNDS dis- Chicago, May 12.—Anthony D'Andrea, nineteenth ward pelitical leader who was shot from ambush as he entered his home early Wednesday morning, died today His death brought the number of mur- ders in the ward to four since the bitter aldermanic primary campaign there a few monthe ago in which D'Andrea was defeated by Alderman John Powers. D‘Andrea regained consciousness only at intervals following the shooting, but in one of these lucid moments he is re- ported to have given secret information to an assistant state’s attorney which may help in tracing his assassins. 7 Twenty-five men were held for ques- tioning today by the police. WOMEN'S CLUB HONOR MRS, HARDING AND MRS. COOLIDGE New York, May 12.—Announcement of the election of Mrs. Warren G. Harding and Mrs Calvin Coolidge to honorary membership in the Women's National club was made today at a luncheon for the directors of the organization given by Professor and Mrs.-William S. Sheppard of Columbia univer: They are the first women to receive this honor. BRIEF hop of Toledo, d. to 'will be issued by the erce and department costs. owing uwp of Bevelly wn has been ieolated and of Ireland. blicans were shot deau ounded in a fierce fight near Listowell, Ireland. Victor Nelson escaped from the state prison yard in.Boston, while being taken back to the prison with tweive otler prisoners after attending a school session. Department ‘of commerce reports for the month of April amounted to $255,000,- 000 and exports totalled $340,000,000. T. S. Prohibit.on Commissioner Kram- er believes New York will soon be dry if the good work of the police department is kept up. Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania sizn- ed a bill imposing a tax of one and one- half per cent. ad valorem on all anthra- cite coal, effective July 1. President-clect Zayas of Cuba an- nounced the selection of Dr. Jose M. Col- tantes as secretary of agriculture in his cabinet. The internal revenue vield of France for April totalled 1,24§,000,000 francs according to figures made public by the ministry of finance. A bolshevik plot to overthrow Mustapha Kemal Pasha, leader of {he Turkish na- tionalist forces, and establish a soviet republic in Angora has been discovered. Soft coal production in the state of Pennsylvania for the year of 1920 amounted to 168,853,561 tons a new high record. T super-dreadnought California, building at Mare Island navy yard, will be commissicned August 15 instead of September 9, as previously planned. Increase in the number of child em- ployes in the United States has been al- most proportionate to the increase in total population in the last eight years. The pational geographic unanimously to retain the name Msunt Ranier for the peak in Washington state that has been so known for 130 years. board voted Irving Grinnell, former commedore of the New York Yacht club, died at his home in New Hamburgh, N.\Y. He was 82 years old and had been iil for a long time. Two women were held in Tulsa, Okls. in connection with the shooting and seri. ously wounding of Judge John Devereaux, former justice of the Oklahoma supreme court, Alarms on stolen antomobiles will be sent out by wireless each night by the Hartford police by an arrangement with Hiram Percy Maxim. who has a radio station at his home there. A federal comrt Jjury In Bosten has heen asked to determine whether sweet chocolate bars_are candy or food, in a suit against John F. Maliey, former col- lector of Internal revinue in. Boston. William B. Williams, 55, whe said he was a machinist from Holyoke, Mass, was arrested in Hartford after he had distributed alleged radical leaflets in Bushnell park. Steamship Celtic was held up at Liv- erpool by stewards and cooks refusing to sign up at wages reduced 17 per cent. Other vessels have cancelled sailing dates for the same reason. Drugs smuggled into this country val- ued at $50.000 were confiscated by po- lice detectives in raids in Broklyn. One Spaniard was killed in fisht and two wounded. They were sailors. Tnvitations to attend the world's expo- sition to be held in Portland, Qre. in 1 were despatched by th edirectors to President Harding and members of his cobinet. President Harding telegraphed greet- iles and best wishes to the United Con- federate Veterans of Georgia, assembled at Albany, Georgia in their thirtieth an- nual reunion. Homer M. Brington, United States consul at Naples, recently refused visas to a nuriber of Ttalians desiring to sail for the United States when he discover- ed they were provided with false pass- ports. Semewhere off Nova Bank of Newfoundland the Mercy Ship Sainte Jeanne D'Arc is engaged on her annual mission of picking up tne ill and sick among the fishermen who “gzo down to the sea in ships. Scotla and the is Thomas Hale, a cowboy on a ranch near Gregory, §. D., captured a live eagle with a lariat. He saw the eagle swoop down on a cal Waiting until the bird had eaten its fill he rode toward it, rop- ed it and carried the captive home. Joseph Fianetti, 33, a farm hand in North Haven, who was mysteriously shot by a hold-up man on the North E\uwen turnpike lag: TPursday night, died in the New Haven hospital as a re- sult of his wound. ranking officer of the s coming to the United States to attend the fortieth reunfon at Annapolis next month of the naval academy class of 1881, of which he was a member, Admiral Urio, Japanese navy, . Messages received from Moscow report that Santeri Nuorteva, who was secre. tary to Ludwiz Martens, when the latter was soviet agent in New York, has been arrested and confined in the Tcheka prison, According to the Riga newspapers M. Gukov former Russian ministers to Esthonia, is being tried.at Moscow. It is charged that he wasted one-third of the entire soviet zold reserve in the pur- chase of worthless goods from' abroad. At & meeting of the sioners, general and decided to proclalm the neutharity of Constantinople, the Bosphorous and the Dardanelles in the hostilities between the Turks and the Greeks. allled commis- admirals, it was The Russian government n fixing a tariff for foreign telezrams sent from Moscow estimated that 4.000 rubles were worth one gold franc. This decision fix- es the exchange rate at 20,000 soviet rubles to the dollar. ¢ Chief Tron Lightning, am Indian snb- chief who fought under Chief Sitting Bull at the Battle of the Little Big Horn when General Custer and his men were wiped out, died at his home on the Chey- cnne river reservation in South Dakota last Saturday. GRAKS 11 ost on the Trail of the Bergdoil Gold Wu- Last Seen on the Kitchen Floor in the Bergdoll Home in Philadelphia. Washington, May 12.—The trail for the buried gold .of Grover Cleveland Berg- d.aIL draft dodger, which a house inves- tigation committee is trying to pick up, ended today in the kitchen of the l..s- doll home at Philadelphia, where it was last seen by the man who had taken it there from the United States treasury. James F. Romig, one time police mag- istrate of Philadelphia, who came to Washington with the slacker’s mother in the fall of 1919 to get the gold, and | Hartford, Conn., May 12.—A petition| marriages of elopers from whom the committee had hoped to| from William Howard Taft and i LLbe EEpOcted learn something of its alleged burial | With a Bill attacted for a civil adrvies | 107 DPlace, declared quite positively that he|law to take the piace of the ohe recent-| " *C¢ never set eyes on it after it had been repealed, -was offered id the senate to- dumped ‘on the kitchen floor. Whetifer | day. { it had been placed in a bank or under- ground he swore he could not say. The serious sessions of the committee were upset frequently by Romig, who is st Senator tion that the right of petition cannot ha denied any person, and the constitution | oD GIVIL SERVIGE BILL SENT JARY COMMITTEE Was Offered in the Senate on Petition of Wiilam Howard Taft I;’Id Others—Senator Banks Led the Opposition in Debate—Claimed That ths Measure Was an Attempt to Override the Constitution and Abridge the Right of the Citizen. It precipitated a debate in which Elmore S. Banks OF HE ate constitution to uphold invoked the | his conten- Sait Lake Cil Southard, 28 years old and another biil to change the law mun- der which muitiple marriages have taken CHARGED WITH THE MURDER R FOURTH HUSBAND Utah, May 12.—Lyda charged with the seventy years old, and who was in a fin..| cannot be overriden by any rule tie |Murde rof her fourth husband. Edward F. frame of mind, despite the fact that he| general -assembly might sake. The |Mever, at Twin Falls, ldaho. Seot. 7, is awaiting sentence on conviction of | verbal contest was with Senators W. H. was arrested at Honolulu today, ae- aiding Bergdoll to escape the draft. al-| Hall and Brooks. Senator Ban won rding to a despatch received by the ways in a laughinz mood, Romig added | in thhe end and the document went to It Lake Telegram. a constant touch of levity. the judiciary committes. Prosecuting Attorney Frank L. Stephen The former magistrate was called after| The petition was offered by Senator|of Twin Fails eounty. ldaho, said Mrs. Former Judge John W. Wescott, of New | Seymour and after some debate over Southard's matrimonial record was being Jersey, had reiterated that there was! introduction Senator W. H. Hall nvestigated for the purnose of determin- not a word of truth in reports that he [ ed that it be tabled. After recess, had been emnloyed as one of Bergdoll's ator Seymour askefl that the petition be ing the au: an lawyers. Two of the judge's sons, both | taken off the table. He asked tnat it |bands. an infant lawyers, and two other lawyers associat-| be referred to the judiciary committes ed with him testificd to the same effect. | and Senator Brooks asked if the bill had | Edward. John H. Sherburne. ‘counsel for the|been detached. Senator Seymour satd| Insurance in w committee, had not brought the Romig. it had and Lieutenant Governor Temple-|the benes story up to the point where gBerzdoll| ton oxplained that the bill had been |of all five men slipped through a bath room.and started | withdrawn. Senator Ranks asked if the|which she is sai for Germany, when the heari ng was ad-j document had been changed, as he he- . » I t § 0. journed until tomorrow. Considering the| lieved that the attached bill was rizhie other charges agaiifst him, Romiz de-| fully a part of the petition. Senator possession eviden, clared he would not stand on his consti-| Sevmour then asked that the petition |lish that poi tutional rights, but would answer any | he restored. to it orizinal form. Sen-|first, second questions anybody might as | ator Banks said that the right of peti- d Edward “There was a roar from members and (i ZA=Doo! spectators when the witness was asked received and whatever is attachefl to the if Berzdoll had told #m to go and see ! petition must be received P ¢ \u‘.:x’:‘g:u"ufl. g Harry Thaw, and get Thaw's advice| Senator W. H. Hall said he obfected | jom he T. as to the hest alienists to engage in i fo receiving any new lnsiness. The pe- ast. proceedings involving his sanity titon as received, he claimed, was a bill | xoy = : “Nothing to that.” the old man answ-| for an act to creat a new commission ana | NOVEL DEFENSE ered. “I did look around and ask people| had no right to be received under th ol and they told me Thaw's aoctors were | ry all right. Teliing of hig troubles with treasury clerks, who -tried, he said, “to stall him off. Romig said he first saw a part of the pen misnomer and T objec ed a ruling from th on is inviolate and a petition must be band. ales except by a two-thirds vote to sas- the rules. Sald the senator: “This not a petition: It fs a bill: it is a to it He demand- | alr. Dostopn. Ma Agassiz Shaw prohibition in ary was ecaried on enforcement seized an elaborate still, de d fixing the responsibil- ity for the deaths of three former hus- chi d by Robert Dooley, her first husband, and Dooley’s brother hich Mrs. Southard was the livea ephen said. apd of d to have collefted at Prosecutor Stephen said he had in his ce which would estab- on caused the deaths of her third and fourth Nusbands ley, brother of her fir she married Vincent 8. 8. ;hica;o Nov. 20 —_— e CASE OLSTEAD VIOLATION 12.—Counsel for Louis whose Back Bay home agents recenatly lared in ar- g0l certiicates which were" exchanged| Senator Banks repliod by Guotinx from |uments. before. Catted S s for zold at Mre. Bergzdoll's home. The| Section 16, Art PTE| eipalibad i S v il mother accompanied him on the trip to! iitution, sayin; e e e T Washington. i we mad do and some we may no Ao, ana | mation obtained as a result of the ray “Where did she carry It?" he said, Te-| one thing we may not do is to impugn the | could not be used against Shaw, it was peating -a question. “Why she had most| constitution. Citizens have a right to ap-| contended, becauss the search warrant of it in her stockings. {f made abite | ply by petition for any project ana the|bore the name of John Shaw y Jump. but we weren't taking chances Detition must be received. A citizen has| Assistan T At 4o v Asked about the stop over at the Bere-| a right to pet nguaze | Keith m: ‘n‘:mndlrvh::x‘?;: '\'r:n’-n; e doll home. in the custody of two ser-| (wording’ ™ e * skt Sorceinesit seh 0 L e geants from whom the prigyic= ascared.| go on record as attemptinz revenue laws under “which 'M“WM” Romig said the bot af uout | this oonstitation: . Wa S0 Sroerlews und_Swhich o which there has been much testimony | record as attempting to ab, i rched witheut a suddenly appeared in the Dool roon: as|of citizens. giEanL Sy i g ‘¢ by magic. He denied h ehad taken | Senator Troks Inquired 1t Senator| g miane Hayes will give hig de- it thege. adding that he “wouid not have| Banks was right, whether the leg e Mb he announced at the carried it that far” ve rule lmiting the time for introduc. | COPClusion of the arguments, Romig will proceed with his tes tion of new business was absolutely use. = tomorrow and when e zes Uwiagh | jess Senator Banks answered: *Insofar | HOLLAND DENIES ANY Mrs. Bergdoll will b d. s you adont, to nse a rula that attempts OIL FIELD DISCRIMINATION e to oerride the constitution.” NET RAILROAD OPERATING Senator W. H e i R e o INCOME FOR MARCH $30,894,065 | Senator Danks sav lation docs not draw any distinction be- ey tare has been viol the constitution | tween Dutch and foreign capital in the Washington, May 12.—N& railroad op-| for 25 vears. If this can be don el e gl L erating income for March was $30.894.-|one at any time can slip a b desires 1o see American capital take 065 according to a tabulation prepared by | cover and call it a peti o it e i the Association of Ra execntives | tition befoe \us is wdm i g o tionas e L EMY, from reports made to the inte~state com-| tab sh » dangerous precedent. I de-|note receritly presented at The Hague by mEGal o I L e 1 Tt o let . .| William Phillips. marine m . return. of 2 per cent. of the («»n:n-‘ ut, Gov. Templeton ruled that the | concarnine conceasions o e h_;:;:;:l:rl tive valuation fixed under the transpor-| petition wit d 00,000 tation act and a shortage of ed as a whole, W its attachment was recetv- | g o A summa: in the Dutch East Indies. from the net rebenne contemplated by snator Rudd moved that the pe o ”‘m.w‘.;"‘v\_fy was made pub. that act. the association said in & state-| be d-nied and the petitioners be givem| © U & *iatem y the state depart. ment tonight. 3 = wve to “‘i;‘hxlrvnw, LA i e e M h renorts, for inhe firs: time Senator Panks & 1 - - : T ecamper showed a surplus, | fzed what +he character of the petition | FOURTEEN IRISI CIVILIAN 5 deficit of more than $350,000 beinz | wast and identity of the persone who i ey PR Teturned in January and of $7.378.00 on't you want ¢ 3 o in February, according to association like Ex-President Taft _the courte-| Dublin, May T AR figures. The improvement. the —state-|sy of heing heard on a petitionT' he|were injured, some of them seriously nar ment said, “was due principally to a| queried. hall the genate deny these | tho expiosion of a bomb thrown st s torey marked reduction in cost of opera-|gentlemen and women the courtesy of a 200 withy duititipicalin i :sed by the institution of va hearing?* : i this eVt A ;‘::n::n‘ :dan-’l a reduction by m Senator Rrooks =aid oks 10 mel oo, Hna;: '-!dnn l:;:(“lb: roads in the number of emploves.” an If some one war ivhz to T e | thoroughfare. . evenues in March were an-| constitutional trick over on us. Someone 105 sl = o : ,.JJX::Z"Ef ‘.’u;v 361,527, a decreace of! who knew though thev woull gei tias| o o flr"“':‘ '”“Hl;"" ;‘:;‘I:r:e:(n‘{;:x-:d twn tenthe of one per cent. 'r”m_'k\l‘ eivil serviee hill in 'V ‘y,”.\.“u : 4 tacking party corresponding month of last vear and op-| same rentlemen must have had W'g ty. ating expenses of £3339.429.447, a de- ['legal advice to put ever now bue [ ——— 2;:;.’;" n(“;_: per cent. The net operat-| this petition. T don't belin: 40 CONVICTS ESCAPED FROM ing income was an increase of 104.6 | richt his realinz of HUNTSVILLE, TEX., PRISON nt. over March, 1920. tion.” s ey p‘;'r:‘:-’w:qnm district carriers came| “Do von think that (na negt chie? Houstow, Tex. Ma3 N mAei el nearest earninz in March a return of | tice of the supreme souct o Vnitel | of forty Gonvics whe coctpet oo S her cent, Their comniled reports show-| States and an ex-presifeat Mut this (T |state penitentiary a¢ Huntsville today ing net earnings of 266 per cent. The trick? asked Senator SeviiwT |were still at large tonight, “un'"m.u“ conthern district returned 2.27 per. cent. He may have been L e B ot and the eastern district 1.91. ho knew all about it Mo o oupir | the country for a radius of seventy-five e L B s Ticoh ) miles, Seven have been recaptured. STATEMENT BY DUBLIN rnr;m)’s:nqv.«:erz .i.:).-w‘ e 4',.,,‘,,‘ closed 1n;on tor iikices Jearihe CASTLE AUTHORITIES | Celt ot B e the petitio . | fore nightfall and renorts from Huntsvillg the .”“‘" 0.0 eI A P 4 were that a gun fight was imminent. = committee, Dublin, March 12 (By The A. P.)— The recent mesting of James Craig, o % | .and ‘that is not the auestion. It does not TED ;r,m;er.dr-:ar‘q:‘i:m f?:,- Ir‘(lfl:;“h,_"r:n Tatter what we have done in the rast} FOR $1,900 EMBEZZLEMENT Samonn De . T vent | The fact remains that neitier vou no leader, “must be ="?“m:1.,-:1m::~n" ev ‘TL I can refuse to reseive th.s jeiition. You nh."(«r«L May William H. Carri- of the first ‘m“'m"\m'h' the authori-| and I must obey the constitution gan of this city was arrested tonight on a statement issued today o | ' genator Hall moved indefinite post-|a charge of embezziement of $1,900 from ties in Dublin Castle. ek "1 sonement. only Senators Rrooks. Treat.|Dillon & Douglass. Inc.. butter and egg ada! 3 ion of the| Rudd and Blake beinz with him. "Hw dealers, with headquarters in New Haven. “With the do)‘fo“‘. R Eirn was el | petition then was sent to the judictary | Carrigan had been employed as a travel. ~ convention of 1017-15, which was held| O mittee and the senate adjourned. ing saiesman for the local branch of the at a time when the aut ¥ S e, company for twelve years. He was logked NS I T B e ta | LEGISLATURE ADJOURNED up in default of bonds of $3,900, ident of the ited sh o apes B & —e e — ‘sveak on .behal r'lf """ “‘“J""“, : ’;: e F‘\"‘\“' "‘,T :_" r:';‘:( NEW HAYV TROLLEYMEN thern Irishmen already was seriously artford, Conn, May 12.—Instead o prideayrey . is the first occasion in|, Friday &ession the general assembly ASK RENEWAL OF TERMS in which duly accredited| tnis afternoon, after a full-time sittinz. [— representativea of Norty and Souih Ire- | 5 “I am opposed to eivll servien” sald he HARTFORD MA djourned until Tuesday, on which day N ARR New Haven, May 12—Union trolleymen 4 ani S e sty ill be tak-|In this city at a meeting tonight deeided et on their own tive with-| the Sunday observance bill will be tak . ::-l:ll e O el e 10 ask the Connecticut company for a re- men to discusse the differences €0 10mg [ The house received a bill to carry out|newal of the agreement under which the dividing the two sections of the Irish| {he national prohibition law. Some mem-|men have been working the past year, peeple. And although neither Sir James|hers of the judiciary committec said it)The agrecment expires June 1. nor Mr. Valera appear to have emerzed | wae more in enforcing prohibi-| e s T e interviow with their convictions | tian than olstead act in most re- | TWO BARRELS OF ALCOHOL in any degree shaken. the fact of their | spects, but in the matter of transpor. SEIZED IN HARTFORD having entered into direct negotiations| iation of liquors five gallons or over Wi has produced an impression on the minds| pe prima fa evidence of viola °T| Hartford. May 12.—Federal agents and of men of all parties of materially im-| jntent to violate the law. y loe | POlice tonight raided the basement of a proved prospects for peace. The approv-| —The bill to reorganize the state police house in B al given the meeting by the press is a| gepartment, which was ready for action further encouraging sign of a BTOWINE| 1y the senate, was tabled. much o0 lleged whiskey disposition towards a settlement by con-| position to it had develoned. The Bill to 3 ciliation and compromise.” reorganize the state military e 5 g B e e ment, after being explained by Senato ELL MOTOR CO. Rudd, was also tabled. == Fo WAS SOLD BY AUCTION| The hose received the standard me [ ¥1590 XN W 8 violation bill from the =enate, ch haa Detroit, May 12.—Sale of the Maxwell rejected it and apnointed Representatives llevue street and seized twe barrels of alcohol and forty quarts of a Four men were arrested. of a once popular brand also were found. RECKED A GARAGE IN STAMFORD Motor eompany by auction, as ordered | Wadsworth and Beil as a conference| Samford, Conn. May - 12.—Fire ' to- by United States District Judge Arthur | committee. ittea ro.| BNt Wrecked the Xational garage, im B uttle omatime ago to provide for re-| The cities and boroughs committee re-| juther street, with a loss estimated at e oot the. company With the| ported in the bill fo ralte a_eommistion | §10.000. All automobiles in the build- Chalmers Motor company, was consum- | to study city "“l”"‘f«" o gree Jlo rec-|ing except one were taken out. safely. mated this afternoon. The property was|ommend In 1823 a uniform city charter|The garage was conducted by Sennen- ecquired by Walter P. Chrysler of New York, chairman of the reorganization committee of the two concerns, and Har- Other report ifiz reauirements of wera on b collection companies these companies Aeferrez for of taxes from changing pav- to wald and Burke. ars the was unknown. iway ry Bronner of New York, a member of eight inches outside the tracks: and $130,000 STATE the committee. The sale price was $10,- O mens * compaitieer 915,100, Judge Tuttle had stipulated the | fme oS the property must not be sold for less than $10.000,000. The sale today cleared the way for merging the two companies, although fur- ther: objection to the sale is expected to be made by ,(first preferred stockhoiders of the Maxweil company. which makes it n. tice of the peace recognize the five-day essity. the marriage bill Wallingford. the jus- The honuse adopted obligatory that a cost otice and placing solely with the judge|night. Governor marriage of “public policy or nec-| were present. This bili was drawn to stoplshort’ address. The origin of the fire g ARMORY AT WALLINGFORD DEDICATED Conn., Ma ¥12.—The state armory here, recently completed at of $150.000, w dedicated to- Lake and his staff, as of probate the decision of solemnizing | well as bther state and military officepr The governor made =«