Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 14, 1921, Page 1

VoL LXIlI—NO. 117 POPULATION 29,635 NORWICH, CONN. SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1921 . 14 PAGES—102 COLUMNS BATTLE OVER 7 MILE FRONT IN MINGO CO. COAL FIELDS Terrorized Women and Children Are Hiding in Cellars and Dugouts, in Many Cases Without Food or Water—For- ty Miners Are Surounded by the Belligerenf Forces— State Police Have Started For the Scene—Firing is Re- ported to be Increasing in Intensity—Three MenWere Killed in Battle at McCarr—Regular Army Offices is to Investigate the Situation. xliameon, W May 13.—Threejclosed with the belligerency of the - ted by state troopers to |mountain rifiemen apparently undimin- ay m a terrific bat- |ished. . “New Howard Coal Com |day's fighting had re Williamson Jlieated that forty min-|tonight, but from the conflicting mass i by belligerent forces, |of reports it seemed certain that yes h 15 state poiics terday’s death toll of two had been » bound for the seat of in inten- -reased during the day to at least six, While acceptance of all the reports would | piace the killed at from ten to fifteen. Fierce fighting was reported during | Howard | the dav from all the towns that figured ng al-!in yesterday's attack-—Rawl, Merrimac, 3 Sprige, Matewan and McCarr, while new A tacks broke out at the little town of inereasing fi | relativa tn the forty|Gates, near Matewan, and at the New men Howard Cozl Company rmines nearby. . A score or more non-union miners were { .w" = be hemmed in by the fire at |the Howard mines and their fate had not | ned tonight. wo of the known dead had been tonight. They are Dan Whitt, said by the state pelice to be a non- urion miner, killed at Matewan while at- tempting to obtain water for a family, and a man named Smith nitials wera believed to be D. W. was killed at MeCarr. seven- | bean | only dentified w Hams whose who *|REGULAR ARMY OFFICER TO INVESTIGATE SITUATION | the refugee | CABLED PARAGRAPHS Spain Protests Influx of Germans Bilbao, Spain, May 13.—The Biscayan Producers League sent a telegraphic protest to the minister of public works | today, demanding that ifnmediate and stringent measures be taken to prevent “qumping” by the Germans. ! PERSHING TO BECOME ACTUAL CHIEF OF THE U. S. ARMY Washington May - 13.—General Per- shing will become chief of the general staff and the actual head of the army July 1 Secretary Weeks -announced to- day. On that date he will relieve Major General Peyton C.-March, the present chief of staff. In additicn to his new duties Genreal Pershing will remain head of the general headquarfers or war Staff of the army. a post recenidy created for him. ~He will have as nt chief of the genera staff his old friend and chief of staff in France, Major General James G. Har- bord, who will relieve Major General Wright, the present execu- hing will be relieved of all administrative and detail duties by General Harbord and will be free to di- the larger aspects of the militar: tablishments, particularly . the organi- zation and training of the national guard and organized: reserves In announcing b3 decision Secreta Weeks made it plain that General Pes shing will be the real military head of the army from ever, nt of view. He said that the general W' the armies would be relieved of adininistration work by eneral Harbord and would be “charged with the (zanization and training of all ements of the army of the United | States ircluding the national guard and organized res General Harbord, Mr. Weeks said, will have much broad- er power than those formerly exercised by the aseistant chief of staff The plan contzmplates that i active military operations, General rves.” time of Per- shing - would automatically assume ac- tive direction of operations in the field Genera! Harbord would similarly move up the post of chief of staff and take over direction of the war department | geperal staff. DEFICITS THREATEN PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS | = r, was saot an Cashington, May 13.—Action o} the : P A T for women and children, | snia_and. Kentucky that federal troops |ent railroad operations, and’ the -increase | W0 Teports from mining | he sent to quell the disturbances on the | i Ciaims against the treasury ar B e A e e mateg | from war time _government con Wit 3 o county border beluween the 2atet | \hrenten the permanency of private own Yot the U orkers | ment mehding the repsrt of a staff Officer | eTship” in transportation, Chairman Cum- e e In (e e |t e e aiaartors of the Fitth |mins of the senste interstate gommerce | ™ harged with tiana, todsy to investigate the situation. iation by Julius Krutischnitt, chairman of the board of the Southern Pacific, in . Should s o se the re- : p 1 A ki L",“:M'j:'q'::fffl‘;"'“‘:‘fi be metor. | the general investigation of the raiiroad CHROUDED IN DARKNESS R A et L oy e | albuntion; : - a . From railroad administration accounts, - s | tion is taken. va: caplained at the | administ s EXCEPT FOR RIFLE FLASHE + 'w,flf‘,;"‘“fl\:f e e A ome | Senator Cummine said, he conclude, . m W Va. May 13.—The|doubt whether the depariment itself had | th¢ government placed the tof Willamean coal din. | authority. Major Gomoral George W, | o the railroad corporations at $1.201 night in_darkness |Reed, commanding the Fitth Corps area, | 000000 ~while «he roads themselves s mined only by rifie fashes |advicaq the department by telegraph that | claimed a total of $2,50,000,000. The fin- 5 & Virginia |he was holding troops in readiness to|al Sum to be taken from the government o N Tove, . in settiement, he added, very probably i would be around $1,800,000,000. P % 4 Continuation of deficits from opera- NALF OF THE SINN FEIN SUIT FOR $50,000 DAMAGES b Eumminsoud, would NOMINEES ARE IN JAIL UNDER THE CLAYTON ACT|yniess the railroads suceeeded if inorens: - ing revermes or reducing expenditure blin. Mas 13—(By the A P)—| New York, May 13.—The Commercial Kruttachnt ”'fi;’?s E\nr:v"l'}v‘;:\\' = oo » registered its | Advertiser Assoctation, publishers of the i i Y v Duil Eiraenn|New York Globe, an evening newspaper, out of under-maintenance of raf demsand for an |Brougnt sult in {ederal court today {4 | roug apuipment and rond - beds *during e e o ealint (e Terehttimnal: Papoe Goses) (e psriof of government. catont { TRE Setasient ¥ consti |pany and Philip T. Dodge and George|, Ore "eason for delay in gettinz ex « consti- | iip T. Dod E® | penses down, Kruttschnitt said, was tar- F K. Steele, mg individuals, alleging un- [ oiied ORn ERsenn et foc § rialist candidates | lawful conspiracy inrestraint of trade |3t G ! ‘abor Board in de- o 4 et | during 1915, 1918 and 191 ] application for lower who w rned unopposed for Dublin 816,18 o vages acales. - en nomi. | The complaint charges that the news-| “aqo "ales. n candidates, |Print_manufucturers’ aseoctation form. |, “Rafrads are loasing between $500,00 4 unopposed | #4 prior to April 15, 1915, and operated | 3o0 3500000 4 day while waiting for the . neies. Theae |Until late in 1917, and with which Mr.|p93rds decision on wages for “commen * o oath of ). |Dodge and Mr. Steele were afliated, i - \hetefore the |dominated the trade In newsprint during —_— 1 slance to th the period named, controlled methods of (TO PUBLISH AT INTERVALS Trus a viesroy | G0ing business, the lines of transporta- RETAIL PRICE ol e + limes |tion over which orders should be routed Y LEVEL‘si ‘dministration. unless |@nd in all other particulars controlled N o iea | the trade in tals necessary material (o) ashington, May 13 —Arrangements . rnd in the morih anq | Because 6f this allezed conspira or the commerce department to publish e north AN | ) complaint adds, The Globe was una- |2t resular intervals il price lev- e aeted in | Dle 10 procure paper from any other pro- |©1S of Standard commodities were made g —— " [ducer than tha International Paper Co.|Al a conference today by Secretary Hoo- o s W |The newspaver required from 9000 to|Yr and representatives of retailers in 83 =y 12,000 tons of newsprint annually various parts of the country. p s s s ¥ ally Pigures showlng produci ARELESS SMORERS CAUSE ' 0 o baper Company, 1t| Fiures showing Droduciion costs, EXORMOUS FIRE LOSSES | 0|, harged. i ot and would not | Wholesale and retail prices and expenss |deltver the mecessary newsprint. Con. |Charges are to be supplied the depart. | w York gar, cigaretie | cquently, through the three years, there | M€t bY the rotallers, it was said, to! obacco m wwgre \fxged a 18 in clrculation and in-Taver- | nable the government to keep the pub- | n - ational board | iginc" rates by reason of loss of clrcu-|!'C informed of necessary variatlons in d » lead in edUCAUNE |jaiion, and heavy losses because the |Tetall prices. essness in flinging | piainder was unable to print valuable o » o= and stubs, 1L 3% |advertising matter recelved for publica-|SIX KILLED IN WRECK ox v produits. tio mon “”:‘:‘”54‘77 TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILROAD Statimics gleaned from five vears' ih- | qygoxG PEMAND FOR A N ance records. the bulletin said, showed REDUCTION OF ARMAMENTS| El Paso,. Tex, May 13.—Six/ persons | at in_that time careless smokers were \ were killed and seven injured late to. | Bhoncocd Philadelphia, May 18.—An attack up-|3ay When twelve freight cars piled up| _ i on the military aspirations of the lead- iR & ditch at Bagle Fiat, Texas, on the ol g iy fag nations of the world and a strong|Texas and Paciic Rallway, according. to t riang} ing S | mers, the, _Srisnem demand for reduction of armaments|& Yeport made by train crews. Fagle | 2 New York in w were made today and tonight by one|Flat is 1123 miles east of El Daso and the Jarvh - democratic United States senator and . City which Caubed a three republican congressmen, who spoke $ 12 clothing factors fires, | P20Te the twenty-fitth annual meeting of 282 clothing factory fires, S : 2 of the American AGademy of Polit ) Tt Stkod Merwls fbat 173 wecs |01 the, American. Crown Prizce Eumbert O: meesl Uy Shriieny M. Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Mon-| ! Z tana, deplored the military race between the United States, Great Britain, and Japan, and declared congress should call a conference of nations to discuss dis- armament. He wildly criticised Presi- dent Harding for not encouraging the adoption of such a resolution by con- T Representativa - Frank ' W. dent Society Daughters of 1812 Mondell the house; John Jacob Rogers of Ma achusetts and Frederick B. Hucks, Long Island, N. Y.; all spoke of limitations of armament, All agreed however that this nation should start no actual disarmament, efther on land or sea, until an agree- ment has been reached with England and Japan to start reductions of armament simultaneonsly. of in favor MME. MARIE CURIE HONOR GUEST OF SMITH €OLLEGE Northampton, Mass., May 13.—Mme. Marie Curie, of France, scientist and dis- coverer of radium, was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of science by Smith college today and was the guest of honor of -the college ail day. She was entertained at a private dinner tonight by President and Mrs. William Allan Neilson. Among those at the dinner was Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, wife of the vice preaident. WILL RECOMMEND $227,000 FOR STATE FARM FOR WOMEN Hartford, Conn., May 13.—The appro- priations committea of the legislature wil] recommend $227,000 as the amount of the appropriation for the Connecticut State Farm for Women, it was learned of Wyoming, republican majority leader in Italy , Upper Silesia Faces B T seported plans vginst the Poles, shrown into a state of civil ihe allied forces here will be compelled /by circuinstances to remain neutral and meace of Europe, take their cours: sociated Press today by Generai Lercnd, head of the inter-alled Sailure of a sdier was present. French avould be unable to maintain order with dess then 50,000 soldiers. hear the brunt would not spare sufficien: Said to be Plan- Counter Attack the Poles. Silesia, May 15.—)By the A. the Germans carry out their for a counter attack Upper Silesia will be war which et events, which might disrupt the This statement was made to the As- commission in Upper Silesia. he e fieral deflared the situation, hich fourid the entente able only to t as mediators between the Poles and rmans “was brought about by the Great Britain and Italy to furnish a fair snare of trcops of occupa- “The Polish uprisin: a timé when not a 2, he added, “came single British sol- The Italians, however, 3.000 soldiers in the area, and the 10,000, repeatedly asked Great Britain and for more troops and told them we had Jtaly My plans were The French were left to of the battle, and we men ‘to main- disregarded. ta the allied prestige BRIEF TELEGRAMS Increased. values in francs and marks is expected by Secretary Melion. Mrs. Bergdoll Knows Where Gold is Buried, Says It is Just Where She Placed It Nearly Two Years Ago. ‘Washington, May 13.—Not one dollar of the $105,000+in gold obtained from tie treasury was put in a pot for burial in the Seventy-six bodies of soldiers who died in France were shipped from New York west. Price of refined sugar has been ad- vanced by New York companies 20i| points. ¢ Reports that €ount Sterza, Italian For- eign minister, will resign were denied by the government. Sterling foreign exshange auoted at $4.00 in New York, a new high levei for 1921, The lowest this year was $3.53 1-4. mountains, Mrs. Fmma C. Bergdoll of —_— Philadelphia testified today before a house Standard Oil Co., of New Jersey an- committee investizating the escape of |nounced reduction of 11-2 cenis a Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, her slacker son. Again picking up the trail of the treas- ure, the committee found and then lost it, for’ Mrs. Bergdoll fraukly declared that she had buried it somewhere around Phil- adelphia, that nobody ese knew the spot, and that it was just where she placed it nearly two years ago. In trying to_glear p some of the kinks in the testimony, the investigators zot|celebrated his seventy-first birthda into others, one of which concerned the | niversary. woman's declaration that Lieutenant | Bruce Campbell, who had taken part by lon in the price of keroseme in New Jer- sey. Department “of Jjustic men of Chicage are searching for swindlers who are seil- ing stock in the league of nations at $10 a share. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Mas- an-} The Ameriean Woolen Company an- direction of the military authorities in|nounced g plan by. which officers and the courtmartial of Bergdoll, had sug-|employes may purchase stock of the gested that former Judge John W. Wes- | company. cott of New Jersey e xept in the bac —_— ground as one of the defense lawyers. At| Freenh roeters, one thousamd stron. the same time she testifigd that she did be at the ringside on July not regard the judge as ‘one of Grover's|oheer Carpentier in his fight with Jack counsel, who, 'with doctors and others. Dempsey had cost her upwards of $30,000 since his General Lerond said it would be a One well known authority mak conditions tend to be depressed. I most tempted to change its buying to desert one dealer for another. to the courageous, and the frasight ours economic conditions can only rewards in life go to him who cont when the sun The best results of vicinity cannot wisel; e T THE TIME TO ADVERTISE is a continuance of advertising more imperative than when economic It is then that the business wealkings pall in their lines of communication with the public leaving the field The following matter has appeared /in its news columns for the past week, at only two cents a day : sachusetts, floor leader ia the senate.| Gift. Dhsis, May 13.—(By he A P.)—Tugh | Wallace, ica to France “History recorded escape. American Petroleum: Institute reports | tles in the centuries preceding oure T Answering an appeal: for help, Mrs.!dajly average of goss crude oil produced | Marne wae the seeme of the sxteenth, Bergdoil declared that less than a week | week ended May 7 @mounted to 1,305,- fand it is not too s0on to say it was the ago she had sent Grover, who is in Ger-|g50 barrels. greatest. 1t dah two distinct phases many, $10,000. x i The first ended September 10, 1914, and It was announced In Brussels that|was wop by France. The sacond b Belgian doekworkers have decided 1o | July 18, 1918, and the final victory oppose by all lezal means the loading -'110 the ‘united arms nee coal for §ngland. and the United Stat ermany crushed on the veryfield which saw the n connection with the wa tualiy all of the emp!oyes of the Eric- on Telepho: es the observation that “At no time Woman suffrage in the F cese of New York again failed of adop- tion in New York at the 136th annual convention of that body. t is then that the buying public is habits and needs but little impetus Board of governers of the New York ference will meet June 7 and 8 in Elmira and June 9 in Corning. The City Clerks' gh water mark /of her invasion. The MARNE MEMORIAL, GIFT, PRESENTED ‘Formally, Tendered by Hugh C. Wallace, Retiring . Ambassador, to President Millerand in the Elysee —Monument is to Commemorate the Victory of Marne—Four Million Americans Joined Directly in ‘I ~ the retiring American am- | Was saved. bassador, on behalf of the American com- “The Germans fought for aittee having its erection in _charge, | CASting aside mercy and Jjustice. THey Mormally tendered the Marne mémorial | Dad steeled their hearts and hands ‘to the gift of America to France, to Pres. |fight alome for victory. They came en. ident Millerand in the Eiysee Palace this |3 Taving horde equipped through the evening. Mr. Wallace, in part, said: |Years of preparation to make an end fo “I present to the goverfMent and |democracy in Earope a8 the s uep 18 people of France, in the name of the ‘“Ad':;"m_;:: t“"'err-fic; 4 hole Ame: le, the monumen ‘ eyl o2 <t bt gt ol e dare st Lident Millerand & Jetter from w ; e At e Maill't 10| imont of New York the originator of Jolned in the gift, buc It seanly fu thy |KIfL The letter said it would ~be the Fift of all, because It comes from Amer. | 07k, Of Frederick MacMonnies the American sculptor. who aiready has eom- menced making the designe. and added that the officials of the present adminis- liration in the I'nited States were o0z- | nizant from the sart of the commii- |tee’s plans. Myron T. Herrick. mewly |apointed American ambassador #o “France, and Willlim Graves Sharp a dormer ambassador to France, wers members of the committes, on which | James Stiliman. fojmer president of . the National City bank of New. York. and william K. Vanderbilt were active work- ers. - $ISTH ANNUAL P. E./DIOC CONVENTION iSE OF NEW YORK New, York, May 13.—Delegates 1o (he 136th fannual convention of the Protes- tant /Episcopal diocese of New Y day’ decla in favor of international redction of armaments and clected two | £ 7 - Stock Exchange eclected E. H. H. Sim-{er on B o A o Wittinm ©d who know that in a country like ||, o0y, vice president to succeed Sevmorsd T Sunning. who was consecrated head be a temporary thing. The greatest L. Cromwell, elected president. of, ‘the diocese last Wednesda inues his plans for haymaking even By resoluticn unanimousiy adopted the I Bhree hundred thousand men were af- | onveniion urged the “senate and repre- e 3 fected by Cotton Spinners and - Manu-{ entatives of the United States, hy leg : dvertislng are. secured:through continuons M (55T T Lt tfonl” of Manchesten | gumrion mae dt s od Biates hy 1 or action. The Bulletin is prepared to furnished n unexcelled advertising || ingland, wage cut of 30 per cen %S e s ice and the advantages of its extensive circulation in Norwich and ternational agreement for the immedlate be disregarded. The New York State Mayors’ Can- eductlon of armame The resolution added that “on the United S especial obligation both 1o curt military and naval commend this policy The two bishops suffrigan were shops Arthur Floyd, reetor of Bartholomew's church at White Plaf and ‘the Rev. Dr. Herbert Shipman. rec- expenditures to and to other nations” Bu- Association will meet at the same tim b Telegraph Local General Total Halt s million doflars worth of nem- Saturday, May 7 . 158 147 424 723 || nesotiable securities and 85 in cash were Monday, . May 9 . 166 % 308 500 | |stolen fro ma safe in the offices of the Tuesday, May 10. - 151 105 270 526 New Jersey F.lour Co. at Passaic, N. J. Wednesday, May 11 . 154 143 312 509 Will W. Heppin, of New York, was nominated by President Harding to be ENuachy, S May (2. e 1o 358 631 | aesistant attorney gemeral in charge of Friday, May 13... . 180 112 358 630 || customs. cases ac the port of New York. Totals...... s 852 713 2050 3715 Fire eaunsed & loss of $1,500,000 destroy- ing No. 8 breaker of the Lehigh Coal & I Navigation Co. at Coladaia, Pa. The structure and valuable machinery is in lish move for the fermans to attack she Poles, who probably would blow up he mines and factories, resulting in in- dustrial chaos as well as the loss of countless lives. GREAT BRITAIN'S STAND IN UPPER SILES§AN TROUBLE ‘London, May 13 (By the A. P.).—Great ed the seizure and holding by insur- gent Poles under the leadership of Adal- bert Korfanty of portions of Upper esia. This was made plain in the house of commons’ today by Premier Llovd George, who emphatically declared the invasion s in defiance of the treaty of Versailies. Either the allies should insist on the being respected, the premier said, ney ouzit to allow Germany to do so. ‘Not merely to disarm Germany, but to say that such troops as she ha sare not to be permitted to take part in restoring order—that is not fair,” the premier add- ed. 1t would be discreditable and not wor- thy of the honor of any land, and,” he asserted, “I am perfectly certain that it will not be the attitude the allies will Mr. Llovd George said preme interest that the allies should see that the treaty was respected. For the moment overwhelming force was on the side of the allies, and German: mit to them, but the future was dark and uncertain. He predicted that force wouls count less and less with the treaty of Ver- sailles and the honogsof Germany to her bond would count more. He added that if there should come a change in circum- stances and the could s i ou are asking us to hono: our bond; what did you do with yours: “1 am entitled to sa and I say itsol- to Great Britain and her allies that it is not merely a matter of honor— though even that surely is not be despised,” the premier declared. “Poland.” said Mr. Lioyd George. “was the lats country in Eirope which should complain about the treaty. She did not n her liberty. It was given her by Italy, Great Britain and Frange. There ‘was no letter in the treaty that did not represent British, Frenth and Italian lives.” He charged that the Poles dur- Inz the war had been divided—half of them fighting with the Germans, “They fell in German uniforms,” the premier dramatically exclaimed, “and shot down Frenchmen, British and Ital ans who were fighting for théir freedom. Mr. Llovd George challenged Foland it was of su- to KEYSTONE ViEw. co_ NEW XORK ‘Who may accompany General Al- tonight. The bill sent fo the legislature for this institution called for an ap- propriatlon of $743,000. Another bill to be peported to the legislature would re- strict commitments to the state farm to women between the ages of 16 and 25 Mre Clarence F. R. Jenne, Pres ident af the National Soclety of th Daughbters of 1313, mando Diaz, Commander-in-Chief of the Ttalian Armies, to the United States in the fall to visit President Harding at Washington. Reports, however, stated that plans are still undecided. - gears. At present there is no age limit, - claim of non-responsibility for the inva- 8ion of Upper Silesia. He referred to the invasion of Lithuania by regular Polish troops in defiance of the ailies, and said that the passage of officers and arms across the Polish border made it “very difficult to feel that those repudiations of responsibility are anything but verbal” $150,000 SUIT AGAINST A NEWARK POLITICIAN Newark, N. J., May 13.—A suit for $150.000, based upon political influence in obtaining a government contract, today was decided against. James R. Nugent, democratic feader in New Jersey. This action was instituted by Nugent and his associate .Joseph. A. Wright, against William H. Fiesell, a contractor, for division of profits accruing from the construction fof Camp Merritt 4n the early davs of the war. Nugent claimed the contract was awarded through his personal and political infercession. In_dismissing the case, Vice Chancel- lor Backes said such -methods in the procurement of governmental contracts were sulversive to the public welfare and characterized such political prefer- ment as “a most pernicious tendency.” Britain will not accept as a fact accom- | must sub- { power of the Germans | ruins. “What is Grover's intention about stay i e super-dread- counsel for the committee, asked, and | A8 peRnare L Mrs. Bergdoll's eves sparkled, | Me., for her standardization tests, moved {out’ to the deeper waters of Penobscot |into port. | If the harbor tugboat men refuse to | handle The trial of Mrs. Fthel H. Nott, one charged with the murder ships it would cause the boat|Of !hree persons o Sovigred owners Titie annovance, - Wintpop "L |of her husband. George B Nott is sched- Marvin, vice president of the American |Uled fo start on TTuesqay. FTed | Steamship Owners' ie in the superior court Association, fecinren | tore Judge Makbie in pe |tonight. ~ The situation would be over.|in Bridseport. come, he said, as it had been in Boston. = Officials of the shipping board fo. | Johm McFadden tried to serateh o V&h i mateh of the s:le of his shoe. His other Alght expressed gratification over the stniiagey He one daily movement of ships, foor siipped. Thurs jed of fracture of the skull. McFadden was 7 president of the Weehawken (N. X) board of education. DRUGGIST ACQUITTED IN WOOD ALCOHOL CASE| FEx-Gevernor James M. Cox, of Ohis, former democratic presidential candidate. arrived in New York with Mrs. Cox “to attend the wedding of Harver Childs, 3d, of Pittsburgh, & cousin of Mrs. Cox, to Miss Laura A. Haben. At & meeting of stockholders of the Grand Trunk Raflwav Co. in London. it was decided to ratify the agreement be- tween the mamagement and the Canadian government providing for the transfer of the road to the government. Two Hartford men who served homor- ably during the war, and are now mem- bers of Rau-Locke post, American legion. are included in the list of alleged draft slackers compiled by the war department for the Hartford second district. A shipment of 4.700 bales of raw sffk and 190 measurement tons of sfik and silk goods left Yokohama for the United States, due to arrive at Seattle the mid- dle of May. This is the largest shipment of silk ever made from the Orient. Jordan 8. Orler, broker, Joha D. Bey- er, a former employe, and Mrs. Jane Rutland were arrested in Boston on in- dictments charging larceny of securities valued at $115,992 from Mrs. Waiter Martin, widow of Edwin Clark, a former Boston drygoods merchant. New York, May 13.—A jury in Brook- lyn tonight acquitted Samuel K. Saleeby druggist, who was fried for complicity in causing the deaths of more than 100 persons in New England in December, 1919, from wool alcohol. He was charg- ed with having acted as a go-between | i nthe sale of ten drubg of the poison- ous liquor to Carmine Lizenziati, Man- hattan liquor dealer, who distributed It in «he eastern states and is now in Sing prison, Saleeby's defense was that he believ. ed the ten drums contained grain alco- hol and when he discovered their real contents he immediatcly notified Lizen- ziati to stop the distribution and sale. BEITESH RAILWAYMEN NOT TO SUPPORT MINERS London, Mav 13.—At a mass meeting held in Glasgow tonight an overwhelming majority of the delegates of the Glasgow and Ciyde railwaymen voted against striking in support of the coal miners, Recently it was reported that these railwaymen, ‘who number 20,000 would quit work In sympathy with the miners. —_— BILL TO MAKE WIFE DESERTION EXTRADITABLE Falling to prove authentieity of & let- ter alleged to have been written by a Ottawa, May 13.-—A bill which would Penmswivania railroad official ordering make wife desertion an ‘extraditable of- | “defamation iof labar organizations If fence between Canada and the United [ necessary.” union men have asked per- States, was introduced today in the |mission of the railway labor hoard to houee of commons by the minister of withdraw he letter from the board's re- Jjustice. It received a first reading. eords. 4or/of the Church of the Heavenly Reet n/this city. The convention, after mak- g their election unanimou¥ amid great sappiause. set their sa at $9,000 vach. These offices were created at the ~uggestion of Bishop Manning. whose as- ssistants- were chosen from a list of 13 clerzgymen nominated yesterday. Bishop L m was proclaimed at the close of the third hallot. but two more were required to elect Dr. Shipman. Throughout the first four ballots the Rev. J. Wilson Sutton viear of Trini whapel, the home parish of Bishop Man- ning, maintained , stronz second place s elect As goon as the armistice is signed he dale ut_just before the fifth ballot six can- is coming home,” and the laughter infuri. |P3Y foF anchor and steering triale. didates withdrew and threw thelr ated her. E strongth to Dr. Shipman. Two candidates 3 of the farmhonse of rew before any baliot t Well, there are thousands of Search of the ruins of th Withdrew before any ballots were cas {body’s boy but mine.” she cried. “Tnese | Ellington, which was burned, revealed the | County V.irginta. @ 1557, - He received are plenty of them in Philadelphia— megy. |b0dY 0f Charles Johnson, aged 7. who lnis degree of docter of divinity at fhe e rhome than Germany. was asleep at the of the fire, University f Viriginia, and wae zradu- Askeq how much Grover was w ated from the Viriginia Theological. sem- Mrs. Bergdoll made a quick menta] ror| Benjamin Brown Camm, assistant |inary in 1559. He was coneecrated a culation and answered: e pureer of the Yarmouth line steamship | bishop in 1209, | “Haif a million,” she said. Prince Arthur, wag arrested by federal| Dr. Shipman was born in Texington - authorities in Boston charged with im- 569. He was graduated from e porting 33 bottles of whiskey from Can- | Columbia university In 1890 and fram ; ada. Theologieal Seminary tn WILL NOT HANDLE SHIPS —_— (1894. He served ax a "har':.n in .-1. { MANNED BY NON-UNION 3 which enused 00 loss In |army during the war. ON MEN| TFire which e scecsd s J Youngstown, Ohlo, is believed to have New York, May 13.—Union engineers |heen of incendiary origin. Mahoninz —_— . »'“ Luslvboau in New York harbor have|Valley power house, a lumber v;rfl| 10| DISCUSSION IN SENATE agreed not to' handle ships manne, v cs and a garage were destroyed. oN 5. E |non-union men, Thomas B. Heatey. ma | " *" et FAYAL DISARMAMENE vr'_n;!cngmetrs' labor head, declared to-| penjamin McKean, vice !rnld?'“ of ‘Washington, May 13.—President Hard- ‘ R 5 enn fania, ratzosd, mays only ing’s att toward proposal of | o Hoales ameried no genci | cent ouf of every dotlar received by Senator ldabo. for ese men was con- 1920 remained for interes naval d erence betwee $ b i roads in renc ween |templated. but added *the situation will | VNS Vi cented, compared with Grest Britain, Japan and the United {work itself out.” He predicted the ac-|nenre in 1917 States was brought_into question in the tion of the tugboat-men would be an ef- | e —_— senate today during debate on the haif fective handicap to ship owners. €. E. McCullough, & cotton broker. of |yiiiion dotlar naval priation bill st with the shipping board and | oyanoma City, and Sergt. Aigoti Bloom Senator Borah~sa sident had iof e operators ate completely broken o uigi” were killed and Sergt. B. Grogan |not jndicated any opposition during a re- joff, Mr. Healey asserted. Telegrams | iousiy injured in an airplane accident | cong conterence the subject, while Sen- from subordinate locals along the coast, | Mr P "ilniary reservation at Fort lator Hale, republican, Maine, who aise he added, stated that the engineers are (N’ (UM T discussed the Borah amendment with Mr. jauitting the ships as fast as they come |l OKlal 2 th Mr. Harding a few days ago. declared that the president thought action by congress un. necessar: hat e matter would be aired further during debate, possibly tomorrow, was in- dicated. It aiso was intimated” that President Harding might give formal ex- pression of his views on the subject. enator Borah denied that his amend ment would constitute a “directio: to th president. He emphasized that it would “request” the president to have representatives of Great Britlin and Japan confer with American representa- tives on disarmament. LETTER RECEIVED FROM MISSING DANBURY WOMAN Danbury, Conn., May 13.—The disap- ce of Mrs. Fiorence W. Burr. wealthy widow, from her home hers on 21, was partially cleared up to- day when her nephew, Arthur Knapp, received a jetter from Mrs. Burr. It was dated from New London and said she had left Danbury to undergo treat- ment for rheumatism. No explanation was given as to why she left home without notifying relatives or friends. Knapp left for New Lon- don in an effort to locate her. The day after her disappearance a police alarm was gent throughout Connecticut and eastern New Tork and private detec- tives were engaged by relatives | FOUR ENLISTED MEN KILLED BY GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION Lawton, OKta., May 13.—Four enlist- »4 men of the Seventh Ordnance Depo Detachment, at Fort Sill. Okla.. were in- ‘stantly kifled late today when 300 pounds of black gunpowder condemned - |and ordered destroyed, exploded prema- turely. The men literally were blown to pieces. Search continu'ng until darkness resulted in the finding only of fragments of the bodies. Indictments sgainst William F. Quesss, president of the Chicago Fiat Janiterr Tnion, and nine other union officers charging conspiracy were voled by a grand jury, KEAMER FAVORS TIGHTENING UP OF THE VOLSTEAD ACT. Washington, May 131—A serjous probe ' lem confronts federal prohibition enforee. | ment officials in the prevention of sales { of alcohol. ostensibly for medicinal and ndustrial purposes, which later are di- [rerted into illicit channets, Prohibition, | Commissioner Kramer toid the house judi- |ciary committee today. The commission- |er. apnearing at the committee's request to discuse the new Voistead amti-beer, bill, declared that federal agents had es-| tablished sometning like good contrel every the illegal whiskey trafic but that thel new task was rapidly develfping into one: of magnitude. The commissioner said there was one “beas about the law which Mr. Voi- stead has proposed to supplement his first dry code. The measure, hie said, “goes to| the source of the evils™ and makes masl~ tive and definite the powers of federal of.| ficiala in_ enforcement work. The ruling of former Attorney General Palmer per— mitting prescription of beer 4% a medicine had upset the burean's policy with respeet’ to beer, Mr. Kramer said, adding that the: ruling had “opened the stable doer fer, somebody te steal the horse.” “The Palmer opinion seems 0 Syvar everything.” the prahibition chief eombp. ned. “Even now we are being pressed by doctors and others for our authority, for limitinz permits and prescription’ blanks. We need legisiation te_make oury regulations stand. for we are being press-| ed to tell what right we have to fix amyl limitation. | Mr. Kramer proposed jegislation alser which would cut off imporss and manu-! facturing of whiskey. entirefr for a time,/ #0 that consumption would catck wp Wity production. | —_————— F. OF L. WARNS AGAINSY ~ -~ EECOGNITION/DF SOVIETS. | Cincinnati, 0., May 13 —Organised la= bor in the Tnited States must not take any ‘action which would be construed asi an assistance to, or approval ef the |soviet zovernment of Russia the execus| tive council of the American 'a‘cru'# of Labor warned in its annual ol which was completed here today. The council in a lengthy declaration, which will be presented o the annual convention of the federation in Demver, condemns the soviet government as not being representative of the Russian peo- ple, and declares it to be antagenistic he union labor meovement ] The report is understood to criticizse they socialist party for its alleged support of the communists and other radical ele- ments in this country. The Industrial Workers of the World are aiso condemned, as one of the agencies being used by the soviet regime to destroy organized iabor in this country and overthrow the govers. ment. The non-partisan program of the fed-{ eration during the last year is declared| 10 have been a success in the council's re<| port, which recommends that this work be continued. State federations and local! bodies are urged 10 continue to conduct| campaigns to prevent the election of rep-’ resentatives 1o congress and the state leg- slature who are antagomistic (o organized abor. The membership report of the federa- jon. it is understood. will show a largel ncrease during the year of 19 bringing the total membership 1o near 4,500,099, | i / TMMIGRATION RESTRICTION ~ _ BILL UF TO THE PRESIDENT Washington, May 13.—The conferemce report of the emergency immigration ve- striction bill was adopted today by the senate and house and the measure mow. will go to President Harding for his ap- proval. The vote was 277 to 33. As modified in conference the bill weuld €0 Into effect 15 days afier it was @ign- ~d by the president and from that time until July 1, 1922, the number of aliens. admitted 1o the United States would ba limited to three per ceml. of the ma- tionals of each country here in 1910. Repregentative Siegel, New York, Tanking republican on the immigration commiette, said he hud carried his pre- test against the bill personally to Presf- dent Harding o had assured him R would have “earnest. careful and serious coneideration.” Mr. Siegel contends that the measurs is unworkable and would mitigate against desirable emigramts. from a number of European countries. O ! B, Wallingford. ~ May 13—Lewls M Pheips. , president ot ‘the Trust Company. died at his today., He yes-bers fe o ~ this town in the Eeneral scrved a sdeputy judge and judge borough court, was a veteran Civil war and a ternal organizations. dow f 3£ = ¥ AR - PR o - ~ ]