Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 30, 1921, Page 1

VOL. LXIli—NO. 130 POPULATION 29,685 VICH, CONN., MAY 30, 1921 FIVE ARMY OFFICERS. TWO PASSENGER, KILLED IN WRECK OF AMBULANGE AIRPLAN They Met Almost Instatancous Death When Plane Struck the Ground Nose First Near Indian Head, Md. During a ‘Terrific Wind and Electrical Storm—Impact Was So Great That the 400 Horse Power Engine Was Thrown on Top of the Pilot and Passengers—All the Bodies Were Badly Mutilated—Accident Was the Worst in the His- tory of Aviation in the United States—The Exact Cause of the Accident Probably Never Will be Known. May (By the A. P.) ,ington on navy motor trucks. Meantime of the army and two |officers in charge of ambulances had been ed in the wreck f an|sent from this city and the bodies were ambulance airplane Maryland, forty miles yesterday even- and electrical transferred to them and carried to Wal- | ter Reid hospital here. The families of the dead have been notified and their wishes with regard to the funerals will be carried out. wind For the trip to Langley Field from Archic Miller, U.|Washington, which began yesterday b B Ca mo ng, the plane was stripped of tis of Dubuqe, JIowa, | hospital equipment and seats provided for er of the house of represent. |the passengers who were taken to the i | Virginia aviation grounds to witness a A helder, of W ston, - D w of the army air fleet which is to of t ard o ation, Ames d p! W Ameri- participate in the naval bombing tests off the Virignia Capes in June and July. that the wrecking cf the aused by a holt of lightning uted by army air service officials ared that there wae no record of ng hitting a plane. They said that a bolt struck the Curti could have donme little if any 2% the lightning could not have grounding necessary to cause McDermott, Pennewill, Langley hard Blumen- it affected damage. Theories of Some Officers The theory of some officers is that ad unusuaily heavy blast of wind struck the ship on one side and uibalanced it, send- ing it into a nose dive from which it could not recover because of the short distance to the ground. In preparation for the official inquiry Lieutenant Paul C. Wilkin went to the ne of the accident today to take pho- | tographs of the wreck and to obtain from | eye witnesses and others any possible in- formation that might be of use in solv- ing what is now a myste Statements of naval officers at Indian Head that the plane fell only a short dis- tarce caused surprise to army air eer- vice officials who examined the person- al effects of the passengers which were brought to Bolling Feld today A stick ¢t shawng soap and its nickled plated container was found smashed almost as flat as a knife bl . A heavy black handback w ripped and torn Wl a straw hat which one of the civilians had } worn was torn to shred: ton an the ac- Lieutenant Colonel M r wWas a na- tive of lllin:is #nd was appointed to the army from Missouri. H- served in the Spanish-American war, the Phiikpines, | where he won the congressional medal of honor and in the werld war. He was ex- ecutive officer of the aviation division of running cor army when the United States de- ng properly d d war on Germany and to | assigned cammand M Long Island. He was 43 years old survived by his widow and several chil- | dren y made the Th action which decoration n gz won for him the within the gift of the vernment took puace on Tian July 2, 1909. The Americans Moros and Colonel - heavy the as ted men placed a machine gun in advance of its former position, at a distance of about 20 yards from the en- in accomplishing which he w: ed to sph ace of timber to one Americ Machine Was Badly Balaneed balanced. had er pilot could neot > return ¢n it and . Island on badly host the £ enli ance th Campbell of Kansas es com the miachine gun’s tripod. ) e M Connolly was the W \ L T'" | representative of the Curtiss Airplane ta o Washi {Company and was born at Dubuque, ampbell sald t clement of |jowa 44 years ago. He served in the oa ha e 1 info their decision |4ir service during the war with the ret Bagle: that both of {rank of major. For a time he was execu- AT re and the air in the bad i verysbum: We had rood pilot. He would run |vention at St. Louis in 1916. He was de- was a hillside |feated for the United States semate.in would drop some- (1914 by Senator Cummins and then be- o n 100 feet.” | One of the Best Tilots In Service executive comm e tea of the Smithsonian tions in Towa, marvl a member of the National Builders' association, of which he ern over hiz safet , w: “and when the Eagle |president in 1908 = eld a couple of times Lientenant Ames had served in avia- before straightening out on the notherly |tion for a number of years. He enlist. course for Washington it was runninz perfectly. We waved goodbye from the (the war, and later waa tramsferred fo figeld, expscting that the big ship would |the American forces in France. He was 56 th Wash befcre we were ready |testing and engineering officer at Bolling 25 lenve T field and was regarded as an autherity The Eagle Langley Field at about |in aero-engineering and festing. . Ha 430 p. m. yesterday, the time of the (was marrfed about three weeks ago wreck I8 piaced at 6.25 p, m., the hour at| L g utenants McDermott and Pennewitl o stationed at Langley Field, to which they recently lev Field, Texas, for the bombing tests with the navy next month . addresses could not be obtained here, which a watch earried by Mr, Comnolly was found to have stopped. _ | Trees Proventsd Earlier Landing. Naval officers at Head who gaw the plane go at Pilct Amen tried to bri down befare the full force of the Indlan chine storm s |PAPET man and was a natlve of Attiea, ruc! Y. He was 41 years old and wx 3 but that he wan orovented from making |of the organizers of the. American s landing at the fkat attempt by a - atove of treeh. THa aivaliy crossed aver| pafely and appeared to put on te reash an open fleld a short dis- home in Washington for seven years, since the assoctation : headquarters the t In Washington, the motor elther failed to | KING ALEERT SENDS MESSAGE respond or the hlgh wind checked the TO P ehip’s fiight for It was keen fo turn over acit s e rs HARDIHG and fall nome tet. It Was then only & |American Memorlal Day, King AT 5 fow feet in the alf, Offlcers at Indlar | todav wont @ Tocesntas o PE - Tend sent a Astachment to the poone, hut | rr..a. 3 resident it was same time hefore they arrived and Briec the ward of the peolient ald not reach Boll- A apian people and the ine Field hete unil 11 o'vlonk Jast nlent. | iat roinine of tho e =i Officers ol the fleld had heen awalting | American forees i the orecy S he arrival of the Easle. but when she|king mpeaks of the gratitude. towsrq falled to arriva early in the evenlng they | the Amarican nation, and he expresse. assumed thet #he elther had landed | tg Proggidont Harding the high eetev'r: bomewhers {0 eecape fhe atcrm orhad |in which he holds the Amertenn ! turmed Wack to Laneley Field, Te. | preside 3 ) J (imed ek to Laneley Field, | Bre | prosidont and his sincere friendship. Ring Alby Sor het husbond st the Inding feld here | Augire o ril; 110 _Mmade and when the report of the accident came she Btarted far Margantown in her auto- mebile, arthving aficy midalaht and re- mataing there thraush the nignt. Rudies Rent $a Washinszton, The bodles 6f (he tead were taken out ’4 the plans by the naval parture from Antwi American woldier stances Iing wi dead, 1t menr n representutive. Lo IWasheGister, ol gwar, en. Horace Porter | Perilous Airplane Dead at Age of 84 Experiencein Storm TWO DAYS" OBSERVANGE OF {continuous since ¥ |at Harvard, the most valuab! tive officer in command of Wilbur Wright aviation school, Fairfield, Ohio, and he been open we would | fiew for Liberty loans. sald Mr. Campbrel Graduating from Cornell University, in lsh t retnrn | 1897, Mr. Connolly received the LLB. seasi ree in the New York law school in We N more | 1398 and afterwards took postzraduate t sea in a Martin |courses at Oxford, Heiderlberg’and Bal- mbin ments. |liol College. He was a member of the down to Langley d the [fsixty third congress and was a delegate- at-large to the democratic natienal con- |came interested in airplane manufactirre. He also was a regent and member of the Institute and had many business connee- Mr. Connolly was a member of the American Legion and of the Aero Ciub of America, the Metropolitan Club. the | Army and Navy Club #nd the National cunsidered one Club. He was president of the ce and | Towa state lodge of Elks In 1913 and was Carriage ed in the British army at the outhreak of were transferred from Kel- . Thelr home My Batchelder was a former news- fomobfla Assoclation and had made his or ovened its national American army and known his desire fo arsist personally in the de.q erp of 1,200 of the circum- Was Last Survivor of Grant’s Military Staff—Former Am- bassador to France. New York, May 33.—General Horace Porter, last survivor of General Grant's BRIEF TELEGRAMS Two women were elected from Ulster, the parliamentary returns show. . General Mangin, one of the foremost | military staff and former ambassador to aders of French trops during the werld | France, died early today in his $5th year. war will sail June 4 for South Omerica. = Brigadier General Horace Porter, of the Union army in the Civil wyr, accompanied Grant to Appomatox_and was with his chigf when Grant anl Lee discussed the terms of the latter’s surrender. After the war, when Grant served as secretary of war, General Porter acted as his assisi- ant. When Grant became president, Gen- eral Porter accompanied him to the White House as executive secretary and remain- ed during the first term of office. When Grant died, it was General Porter who or- ganized the popular subscription that yielded $600,000 and built Grant's tomb in New York city. : Altogether General Porter spent thirty years in public service as a soldier, diplo- mat. scholar and patriot. A congressional medal of honor was awarded him for dis- tinguished services in the Civil war. The Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor from France testified to his services as ambas- sador at Paris. He received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard, Princeton, Union and Williams. Born at Huntingdon, Pa., April 13, 1837, the son of a governor of Pennsyl- vanla, he studied at Harvard and at West Point and graduated into the regular army. He fought, in turn, with the Union armies of the Ohio, the Cumberland and the Potomac. He won six brevets for bravery on many battlefields. At Chatta- nooga his bravery attracted the attention of General Grant, who selected him as a Four new cases of bubonic plague re- ported in Tampico. Three deaths are al- so reported. Premier Lloyd George urged strik- ing miners to reach a decision quickly cn wage proposal he has offered them. Frank H. Wheeler, president of the Wheeler and Schebler Carburetor Co., of Indianapolis, committed sulcide. French cabinet decided to authorize the immediate, unrestricted importation of wheat into France. Sixteen mere labor union officials in Chicago were indicted by special grand jury invstigating graft charges. William €.’ Dillingham, %3, courts of Middlsex coun M: suddenly at his home in Malde; clerk of died The factorie in Derby and Shelton, with on exception, have decided to adopt daylight saving time tomorrow. President Harding announced the nom- ination of William Maynard as United | States attormey for the southern district | of New York. Enrlea Carusa, sailinz Saturday for Italy took a huge quantity of American | Mitchell Had a Narrow Es- ‘Washington, May 29.—(By The A, P.) Brigadier General William Mitchell, as- sistant chief of the army air service and formerly in command of all American Air Forces in France, had a marrow es- cape from death vesteraay in the storm in which the army Curtiss-Eagle ambu- lance plane crashed with a loss of seven lives. General Mitchell left Washington ves- terday morning, in company with several other machines, to review aerial manu- vers of the greal concentration of army aircraft at Langley field, gathered there for the army-navy bombing tlests to be conducted in June and July. He was fiying a Se-5 pursuit plant. capable of/ a speed of 120 miles an hour. “I left Langley field about § o'clock in the single seater, accompanied ™ Captain William Ocker in another Se. said the general. “We flew in forma- tion and although it was already quite aark we expected to beat the storm out. After a short time we found that the low lying cloud ceiling was only about 1.000 feet from the earth. We could see the storm south of Washington and apparently about over Indian Head, Ma. Ailmost before he knew what was happening we were caught in the midst of it, a terrific wind with hail or rain and plenty of lightning and thunder. As we crossed the Potomac the wind was coming out of the north in great gusts, causing my ship to twist and dip badly. Captain Ocker was behind me, but we could scarcely see a shin's length ahead of us. It was lfke driving inte a selld spaghetti with him, as it is scarce in It- aly at present. Yiee late Chief Justic White. The United States army has developed | a machine gun bullet of .50 calibre cap- able of piercing one-inch armor plate at 200 yards. Mayor Hylam of New York anneunced, owing to pressure of work and the Meyer Investigating committe, he fould fcrego his usual summer vaction. Average daily oil production in the TUnited States for the week ended May 21 totaled 1,328,570 barrels, compared with 1,317, 240 barrels for previous week Senate committes on education and la- bor ordered an inquiry into West Virginia coal strike, following statement ¢f min- ers' counsel. A Japanese schooner captured while geal poaching in Canadian water, was de- stroyed by Canadian ship Malaspina. The Intrastate freight rates on sand, 1 d shed e have increased 13 1 i i SRl rGe e SRl Alone can keep a nation at its height. ity commission. Prsident Calvin Coolidge was 1 * Smithsonian . Institution, succeeding the | With acclamation and with trumpet tone, With prayer and praise and with triumphal state Of warlike columns and the moving weight - Of men whose firmness, never overthrown, Proved itself steadfast, which did add to fate Speed, vision, certainty and ever grown More terrible as more enduring shone A fire of retribution and swift hate, All visibly advancing—with these we keep Unsullied in our breast and pure and white The spirit of gratitude that may not sleep— 5 A nation’s safeguard against shame and blight— - Since sacred memories and the tears men weep —Langdon Elwyn Mitchell in Century Magazine. member of his staff and kept him by | side during the remainder of the war. General Porter was by profession a rail- road man. of age he resign- ed from the army and became ‘vice presi- dent of the Pullman company.” Later he Walla and det gaged in counterfe Spanish council of ministers decided to | se tariff duties as a T from Curacoa, Dutch West Indies, had |2 1 institutions. on hoard eight cases of g valued at| General Porter again entered public life $90,700, |at the age of 60. President McKinley ap- — pointed bassador to France in 189 The Mnassachneetts legislature pro- | and he remained at that post for eight rogued shortly before daybreak Satur- He became one of the most distin- |day ending a session that had been | & d of the diplomatic corps in Pari | iday afternoon. | = | Award of the Sachs research fellowship | e single fe to Richard | serving his country during the period of war with Spain. he embling of ed a second treaty of Paris on table upon which Franklin and after the Revolution signed of Paris. rough Paris for the John Paul Jones, the Ameri- was conducted by Ambas lowship at Offner, was the University, announced. Bishep William Lawrence of the Epis- | copal diocese of Massachu annour his withdrawal from efficial duties un the last of October. ! n admiral dor Porter. He spent six years and more 000 of his personal fortune in A creditors’ petition in bankruptey. arch, and when he found the body against J. F. Mosser Company of Bos- |he gracefully refused reimbursement: from ton. dealers in hides and leathér, was | CONgTess. 5 filed in the federal court. The claims| “Diplomacy,” said General Porter at one of three petitioners amount to $107,696. | time, not the science of representing the broadest falsehood with the straight- est face, nor should the word carry with Coast guard cutter Seminole captured weeks, looking for vessels reported In the General Porter closed his carcer as an rum-running business. earnest advocate of universal peace. At e age of 70 he represented the United Former Postmaster General Albert S. tes at the second peace conference at urleson, who for several weeks has been He married in 1863 Sophie surveying eotton market ccnditions in | N. T., who. died in Germany, left Berlin for Vienna. He will [1903. They had\two children. visit the Saxon cotton mills later. General Porter \po: ssed rare gifts an orator and after-dinner speak wit and the brilliancy and felicity of his public speeches ranked him among the foremost speakers of the country. His mechanical tastes and power of in- vention were marked. He invented the ticket hox in use on all elevated railroads and most of the ferries in the count An interior mechanism mutilates the tick- as they are dropped into it, making heir re-use impossible. During his long military, business and To cemplete 5 survey of the Grand Canvon of the Colorado river, naver he- fore attemnted, six members of the Ur ed States Coast and Geodetic Survey will cut themselves off from clvillzation for four momths. John Hays Hammond, engineer and an- thority on commerce, declared in an ad- dress before silver jubilee convention of the American Cotton Association. at Phil- adelphia, that Germany is America's most dangerous competitor, elf to considerable literary work. He author of “West Point Fife” (1860), George Simon, a vezetable cook at a | 'Campaigninz With Grant,” and he also hotel in Boston. died from a huilat | CONtributed to numerous magazines and wound inflicted by a fellow employee Sat- (NeWspapers. He sy?nke French and Span. urday. The shooting is thought to have|ISh fluently and was well versed in the been aceidental, but search is beinz made | literature of th for Al Joanta who has disappeared. e countries. Bernard Lawn of Medford, Mnaes, a lamp lighter working on the TFellsway boulevard, was seriously burned when an auto truck collided with his wagon and! cansed the explosion of a barrel of gaso- line. A FAMILY OF THREE i o] INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDEN Guilford, Co: .—Mr. and Mrs, J. S. Halstead, and their son, Allan, 14, of Brooklyn. are in a local san- itarium with serious injuries as a re- sult of an automobile accident here last Their automobile was struck in the rear by another machine and went The funeral of Bishop Matthew War- Kins, for 34 vears head of the Providence | diocese of the Roman Catholic church | inte 2 ditch. The other automobile did | was held In the Cathedral of Sts. Peter | not p. The boy's injuries are regard- and Paul, Providence Saturday with |ed as critical, hut it was sand tenight ymany churchmen of high standing par- that he probably would recover. ticipating in the ceremonies. e SALZBURG, AUSTRIA, VOTES Ammouncement that FOR FUSION WITH GERMANY Terbert Toover, scretary of commerce, would address a meeting of the allied shoe and leather Salzburg, Austr May 29.—(By The trade of New FEngland 1In Boston. on|A. P.) In the referendum held here to- July 12 was made by Thomas F. Ander: son, secretary of the New England Shoe | and Leather assoclation. day the vote was virtually unanimous in favor of fusion with Germany. With cighty per cent. of the returns aiready received, only a few hundred votes were recorded against fusion. Judge Flbert H. Gary. chalrman of the )rrnvmt this participation the he Eraves of the American soldiers burled In Belgium have been decorat- dotachment | @8 With flowers by order of the min- United States Stel corporation. will be nominated fo rthe presidency of the Svr- acuse University board of trustees wlen they, meet June 11 to choosé a successor to the late Senator Francis Hendricks, it #5 learned. . Norwalk.—This city is facing a serious ng problem. The - shortage of homes ho has become so acute that the eity faces a stagnation in growth, both in population result of pro- |Wwas president of the New York, West tests by diplomatists and commercial , and the St. Lo and representatives. S o During his bus- —_— eer of twenty-four years he was Steamer Znlin, arriving at New York or in fourteen railroad companies | His term also embraced | path, the peace commission | the schoonr T M. Skinner w bar- |it the demeaning idea of craftiness, as| rels of whiskey on board. The Semincle | man dictionaries define it. The has been searching the Atlantic coast for | Drofessi en“to a higher plane.” matic career he found time to devote | T4 | Field, but |native was to turn and run % wall of black. “It is apparent that we had our choice of three alternatives. One was to land at once, with practical certainty of a bad crash, another was to turn and try 1o get back to a landing at Langley tailed a danger of missing the field and being biown out to sea. The last aiter- away from try to go around it or between two storm areas. That 1 de- cided to do. In the meantime my ship was being thrown into a succession of spinning dives, some of them 300 feet long and it was during one of th¥me that the problem of turning away from the storm was solved for me for when I came out of it I was heading on the return the storm and “I estimate that the wind must have been blowing at least 100 miles an hour up there for my plane, with the engine full open, should have been doing 120 miles an hour and actually was hardly making headway against the wind. 1 have been In some had storms in the time T have been flying, T have seen a storm under me blowing trees down in its path, but I never was in suech a storm as that before. “We recrossed the Potomac and raeed almost back to Richmond. then cut between two storms. doubled back over Indlan Head and reached Bolling field at 7.20., Arriving at h! home after having been in the afr more than six hours dur- ing the dav, General Mifcheli that Captain B. S. Wright, who had started at about the samb time he did from Langley Field in a Fokker plane, had crashed at Rockpoint, Md., after dropping behind in the raee home. General Mitchell left immediatelr for Rockpoint by motar where he found Cap- tain Wright uninjured but the Fokker demolished. Tt was not until his return home at 2 o'clock this morning. after bringing Captain Wright bhack tn the city, that the general recelved his first information regarding the fatal crash of the Big Eagle. —_— SPECIAL MEMORIAL SERVICES IN CHURCHES OF NEW YORK New York, May 2.—In churches and parks, New York today paid reverential tribute to the memory of those who laid down the lives in defense of the nation. Though the general Memorial Day .pro- gram will not begin ' until tomorrow morning, thousands of persons gathered throughout the city for special Sunday | services, More than 2.000 persons assembled at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine this afternoon to attend the American Legion memorial serviee. President | Harding, General Pershing and Admiral Wilson sent messages. The president’s message said: “I find it quite impossible for me teo participate with you in the American La- gion memorial services in the cathedral on May 29, much as I would like to do s0. But I do want, If you will be so good to make it possible, that my word 0f greeting be conveyed to those who Wwill assemble for the servieds. “They will be gathered to pay the mi- preme tribute of love and patriotiam te those who gave all in the cause of the nation and of ecivillzatien. To pledge ourselves never to forget thelr macrifies is not enough. It is for use and these 0 come after us, to pledge and par- form far more, to insure that the pur- poses and ideals for which these have Eiven So much shall be held macred for all time in the memory of the whole American people.” General Pershinz, n his message, said he was sure such men would not have chosen otherwise than to have died a heroes. in the storm that course en-! learned | EIGHT PAGES—56 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS. MEMORIAL DAY IN FRANGE —(By The A. P.)— ary and relizious services, Joined with America in the first of two days' observance of Memorial day for the Americans who gave their lives in the great war, with -British, Belgian and other allied participants, the French peo- ple symbolized their severence for those who by a notabie ceremony _at the Arc De Triomphe where soldiers and civilans placed wreaths on the tomb of France's unknown eoldler, while Hugn G. Wallace, the American ambassador, Speaking for his natien, counled his trib- ute to the dead with an expression of the world's admiration for the spirit of France. Paris, May France, in m: Throughout France, wherever there were American graves. memorial gervices were ‘held in o French churches, and in Paris there were observances of the day in the Englis-speaking churches. { America’s day for the dead has become |almost a French rite. The government and people, through the newspapers and veterans’ organizations asked to be al- lowed to homor the American dead, and the programme of today and tomcg-ow suggested by the American Memorlal committee, were arranged by the French aione at many places In various parts of the country. The ceremony at the Are De Triomphe served as a symbol of the fraternity of the comrades in arms in the late war when a comnosite battalion of the Ameri- can forces of occupation from the Rhine- land with its band piaving “Madelon, swung up the Champs Elysees, under the arch and passed the French Guard of | Honor, with a sprinkling of other allled uniforms in the massed forces at the arch. As the America nboys, tall and guard, the pri an spec- tators was stirred by the laudatory com- pearance of the American forces. Ambassador Wallace, Major General Henry T. Allen, commander of the American forces of occupation, scores of | American officers and eniisted ben, del- ezations of British and Beizians, and reprepentatives of American and French orzanizations, attanded services which were held in the American church of the | Holy * Trinity. The French government | was represented there and Marshal Foch, who was absent from Paris, sent his mi)- itary alde, meanwhile the American bat- talion stacked arms outside and formed outside the-Church, while the French bat- talons of infantry and cavalry were massed in the adjacent streets, Headed by the mounted Garde Repub- laine, the procession formed outside the chureh, with the American battalion and the French troops in line, followed by delegations, with colors, from the Amer- | ican lezation and from scores of Amer- ican and French veterans, and military | societies, uniformed detachments of Brit and Belgian troops, and the mem- bers of the American churches, each co: | tingent carrying a wreath for the poilu | tomb. Between masses of spectators bared heads the with procession marched 1 the. Palace De 1'Etoile, where the French troops, facing outward in a circle, sur- | rounde the arch. As the American and | French marchers arrived they formed in | battalion front, facing each other and | presenting as Ambassador Wallace, i ng Ministor and others, passed where the ambassa- ath the tomb and de- | General Rerdoulat, represen Martk of War u, | through center, dor laid on a w livered an address In depositing a wreath unon the un- known soldier's gzrave at today's Memo- rial day exerc Wallace, the : American amba “I place this wreath upon the grave of the unknown soldier who s here as the very type and symbol of heroic France. He died for France, as France herself stood ready to die for liberty it | there was no other wa, | France, and grant no more. Who shall call unknown when every { French mother who lost a boy may claim hem as her own? “He sleeps in peace, more to bring peace | the world? but who did to France and to His body lies in the earth | which bore him, but his spirit lingers near, and, with its lellows, keeps watch and warn over France. This is not death, it is life supernal. “Soldier of France! I epeak to you, for you still have ears to hear. We praise vou but we can do you little hon- or, for you are above and beyond all earthly tribute. Your resting place, a ! hallowed tomb for you, for us a ! Here your countrymen may come ; shrine. as to an altar to pray for France. Here they may inbibe patriotism for a never- falling source. “The spirit which took you into bat- tle was the spirit of France. ‘The courage and devotion which led u on to the supreme sacrifice of your life for home and country are at once a pre- cious memory and an example to be fol- Jowed by all who come after you. France while the memory lasts. y that wars may cease, but that is as God wills. When France is threatened she will protect her own. The world knows what it owes her, and her | allies will be faithful, but her chief de- fense is in her children. Inspired by you they will do as you did. As they marched to the battle the eye of faith will see above, and marchinz Wwith them, that other le; —the souls of the Frenchmen who have died that France may live.” HARDING TO DELIVER MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS ‘Washington, May —Leading the na- tion in commemoration of its historic sol- dlers and sailors dead, President Hard- ing tomorrow will deliver the Memorial Day address at the ampitheatre of the s National eemetery.. Ar;::flf«"m in the national capitol im honor of the men who followed their country’'s flag began today, but the for- mal homage of the states will be paid by the chief exequtive, himself the son 'of a veteran of the Union armiesc. who resumes a custom broken by the war— the annual address of the president of the United States in the midst of the graves of the nation’s dead. Memorial Day was dascribed tonight by Secrstary Denby as the “day of sol- emn % "anwhn for humsnity have offered all and given all” e said “receive "We can but strive to carry out back !l of tender thought snd loving School and formerly was a Judge of | straight, and with thelr ciean-cut faces tanned aimost to match the shade of | their uniforms, marched passed the ments of the French veterans on the ap- | He died for | For the Americans Who/Gave Their Lives in the Great Wi British, Belgian and Other Allied Participants Joined With the French in Ceremony of Reverence—Memorial Services Were Held in the French Churches—American Ambassador Wallace Delivered Address. . They did not fear to die that we might live, free and splendid in our streagth. It is a day when in homility of spirit we | the living, offer thanks to our herei dead. It is theirs to die; it is omrs ¢ live—for America, but enly for Amer ica. Now has come the greater vision the wider sphe: Our influence upor all the worid is great. We can mos effectively maintain this inuflence by seeing that we ourselves in our private and public dealings never part for aw instant from our lofty ideals. We 'n America must be clean in thought ané pure in motive or humanity will deeply suffer and the blame will be ours. Be- cause of those which take off we menry and whose memory we cherish, we mus' ever walk in the light that shines mpor the white road of duty.” TO BE TRIED FOR KILLING PAYMASTER AND GUARE \ Dedham. Mass. May 20—In the tris of two men for the killing 3 a paymas- ter and his guard, to begin in the Nor folk county superior court hers mext Tuesday, this town becomes the stage of a legal drama of which the prelogue has attracted wide atiention. The defendants are Niccoia Saeoe. of Stoughton, a show worker, and Barthe- lomeo Vanzetti, of Plymouth, a vender of eelt They are charged with the murder of Frederick A. Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli, who were shet down while trying to protect a 316,000 factory payroll from robbery at Seuth Brainiree, in April. 1920. Allegations involving the federal department of jus- tice have marked the prelimimaries of |the case It is | with | the contention of the defense, the endorsement of several organi- zationsthat have spread the word across |the country. that the men had ne hands {In the robbery, but were arrested be- |causa they wers activa radicals. | Vanzetti was convictad last vear of |attempted highway robbery at Rridge- | water In the previous December and i |serving a state prison sentence of 12 te |15 years. The state's case againet Saces {and Vanzetti will be based on the ev'- {dence of witnesses that the defendants {were the robbers and murderers. The |paymaster and his guard were held wp {!n "daylight on the sidewalk at the door |of a shoe factory, from the window: of which employes saw the affair. The robbers after the shooting took the mem- ey and flad in a waiting automobile, Judge Webster Thayer, hefora whem Vanzetti was tried for tha Rridgewater hold-up. will preside at the trial The prosecution will ha divscted by Dlstrict Attorney Fred G. Katzmann, of Ply- |mouth. ‘and Norfolk counties. whe han. {died the presentation of evidence at Van- zetti's previous trial. As eounsel for the {defense, supporters of Vanzett! and Saes cro brought from the west Fred - | Moore, of Los Angeles. who last appeared in New England as aseociate counsel in |the trial at Salem of Ettor. Glovannite: and Caruso for murder in conmeetion with the I. W, W. textile strtke st Law. rence In 1812, Moore will have the headed by Jers- sistanca of local coun 1 McAnarney. cial support for tha defenme has come from all parts of the country as s result of several organized movements te funds. Various organizations ve endorsed the defense. including the American Civil Libe: TUnlon. the New England Liberties committee, the Leagua for Democratic Control and certain labor uniens. These orzanizations will he repressms. e4 by observers at the trial, 1t UL ONE PERSON KILLED, THREE INJURED IN PE) ROAD WRECK Buriington, N. J., May 29.—One per- #on was Xilled and three seriously is- |jured tonight when a Fennsylvania raii- road express tramn bound from Atlastie City 1o New York crashed into a local passenger lrain from Camden stamding at the station here. The rear car of the local t was completely demolished, the locomotive of the express plowing haif way through it. But few passengers were in the car as the local train ran only te South Buri- ington, the next station bevond. The man killed was identified as John Nubbett, of Trenton, N. J. His wife was among the injured and little hope is heéld out for her recovery. Others hurt were |Margaret Hetigan, Bordentown, and Wil- am Creisling, Camden, N, J. All were passengets in the rear of the local |TWO PERSONS l\'ILLE—D I~ ANOTHER PENN, WENCK New York, May 29.—Two persons were killed and eight others injured when a Pennsyivania railroad excursion train, bound here from Atlantic City, crashed int othe rear end of a local passenger train at Burlington, N. J. officials of |the Pennsylvania railroad announced te- | night. BADICAL AGITATOR WHITE TARRED AND FEATHERED »w York, May 30.—Bouck White, radical agitator and founder of the Church of Social Revolution, was drag- ged from his home near Maribore, N. Y., last Monday night, horsewhipped, then tarred and feathered, The New . York Herald says this morning. A group of White's neighbors visited the punishment on him for alleged harsh treatment of his bride of five weeks, a young French girl. She is now seeking an annulment of the marriage. Although White denied the tarring and feathering, he admitted 2 “gaag of eity toughs” had handied him roughly,-taken him miles away in an automobile and forced him to walk home in his bare feet after extracting a promise to treat wife better. e MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR . JUDGE AND MRES. CHOAYHN Wallingford, May 29.—A memorial ger- vice for judze and Mrs. Willlam G Choate, both of whom died here last fall, was held in St. Paals chnrey today. The servies was comduet: ed by Rev. A. P. Tector of the chureh. An eulogy of Judze and Mrs. Choate was given by Rev. L B: Pare ry. of Springfield, Mass. Judge Cheate was one of he founders of o-‘t:l