Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 11, 1921, Page 1

VOL. LXHI—No. 141 POPULATION 25 CLAS Between Attorneys For Ford and the Members of the Senator- ;al Committee—Paul M. King, Newberry Campaign Man- Showed Symtoms of a Nervous Collapse During Con- Washington, Senator Newbe H AT SESSION OF THE EWBERRY-FORD HEARING ager, Examinations Concerning Expenditures Under His trol. r Willlam C nt of the General scess Compal the men will with the Newberr marked Ford, i e bers and King. the by the Newberry witness . Treah nder his control t the ook i and on checks, though $17,500, marked 1 said to hav individuals, s explained as No money. he insisted, b previously pa them. the entire June 10.—New fields wers ppened today in the senate consideration rd's contest for the seat of v of Michigan, when at ord counsel, subpoenas | Durant, Motors Andrew Green, Jr., president y and Ly a New York stock brok- were drawn into secutions which preceded be asked Monday connection they may have campaign financ. by Henry Luck- and Chairman ¢ the senatorial com- withdrawal campaign stand when mptoms of nerrous collapse examination concerning expendi- Charles A. wherry place, and the armed with t cancelled checks, pressed him ranging “paid” tncluding “r actual ut d of $16,000, he said, con- amount campaign. They were a expenditure of even greater sums. for- ion that checks.” Pomerene, Senator ment. ) drawn from Floyd an explanation of o a[transaction which all concerned agrel berry expenditure. moned) n and after our report was made up said, “and drew me a check for betwes $12,000 and $15,000, and I paid all bi that had come in after our accounti report.” cam- ator Newberry was $176,000. Through King, the campaign manage Mr. Lucking earlier in the day put in been details and financing. King, however, stated that he hims responsible for all of the taken. He took orders from his prin pal, said, but went ahead alone campaign projects without even repo: ing by mail. econ- w they e used In the Newberry primary election bookkeeping matter, he said, but the cross-examiners sought to prove by the witness they were duplications and concealments for the Chairman Spencer interrupted the ex- amination and though Alfred Lucking protested vehemently, Reld to his decis- “Thiy is enough about these democrat, Ohlo, left the committes room in some heat after failing to force an adjourn- Out of the morass of flying checks, stubs, check registers and accounts, was was outside and above the reported New- “Mr. Green (the industrial leader sum- came to me after the primary The former conceded total of expendi- tures in the primary campaign for Sen- the record a description of the Newberry campaign, striving all through it to show Senator- Newberry's familiarity with the steps ~ CABLED PARAGRAPHS Heavy Ralns in Egypt. Cairo, Egypt, June 10.—Tremendous rains have fallen jn the province of Daka- liyeh, in the Nile delta region north of here, and a despatch from Mansurah, capltal of the provincg says that 30,000 acres of cotton and wheat have been de- vastated. It is estimated that S0 per cent. of the cotton yield of the province has been lost. Packet Sunk in Aegean Sea. Paris, June 10.—The mail packet Bou- boulina, which has been sunk in the Aegean by a mine. had 240 passengers on board, besides a crew of twenty-five, says an Athens despatch to the Radio agency. The Bouboulina was formerly the steamer Coronilla. She was built at New- castle, England, in 1878 and was owned by J. G. Bouboulis of Spezia. She was 258 feet long and had a beam of 32 feet. Her registered tonnage was 1,312, ROY HAYNES NATIONAL PROHIBITION COMMISSIONER Washington, June 10.—Formal &n- nouncement of the appointment of Roy Haynes, of Hillsboro, editor, as nation- al prohibition commissioner, was made today at the White House. Mr. Haynes has been editor of the Hillsboro, Ohio, Dispatch, since 1908, and was among the first, if not the first_editor in the country to come out for Harding for president. This he did in January, 1917, more than three years before Mr. Harding was nomin- ated. He was born in Hilsboro, the home of thefirst temperance crusade, on_August 31, 1881, For some time Mr. Haynes served as headmaster of the Miami Miktary institute at Germantown, O., where he acquired the title of major. He was a member of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1916, and otherwise had been identified with church work, as well as with the Anti-Saloon League. In 1912 he was a candidate against Representative Fess, republican, Ohio, for the republican nomination for congress, but was defeated. He was a Taft republican in 1912, Antl-Saloon League officials In Wash- ington are greatly pleased at the neww that Mr. Haynes is to be appoinied pro- hibition commissioner, Wayne B, Wheel- er, the league's general counsel, express- ed satisfaction that a man of Mr. Haynes' type had been chosen. The Anti-Saloon League, it was said had been taking a deep and active in- ne ed he en lis ng. er, in elf of- on rt- 0-OPERATION BETWE! BANKERS AND G groups of ntry that the . M tion nen the transith n of th the onal character rnment approval, s ad ke | > v Infor- | $730,000,000 to $1,000,000,000. st N p and | meeting that he did not plan'to bring to 5 ordinarily for info Chdfihesss B ity future of the Amer-|Rev: W. B Johnson officlated. The bear- | the attention of the president or the cab-| scu L 8 ers were O. I Givbs, Se inet the speech of Rear Admiral Sims at s me it became known to- |ican merchant marine was expressed by | po WOUE O S M ROl B BT e ey Hs watd) renresentatives of the federal|Rear Admiral Benson today on the eve S sympal ek vl 4 and the treasury select the conf y assembled VOTE BY MAINTENANCE EMPLOYES OF THE L. & W. June 10— Delaware, stern railroad w York, decided ote to be rep therhood of a working -agreemen! balioting, Anthony rman Spa the n. o conference between officials of the be held on and the rallroad will 9 CONVICTED L W. W.S )ecember, the successful prosecution of the sea sircuit co Min fed States d on_said th ARE TO BE RELEASED of the Kas t of appeals at which OVERNMENT Assurances are en given the gov- international sanction I be sought i Fances are understood to have # a result of the recent White | phasized by officials e held by President Hard- | an and other Ameri- | assurances given, ad- sald that as a e United itor nation it was impera- be the fullest co- government and ged in transactions of an in- rstanding reached between the and the internatioal bankers to be of a broad and general! it is un- quired before any gen- ed, but separate trans- s under the poficy will be referred | have al- ees for e of bankers such as at The second conference is xpected to include bankers from aintenance of Lacka- Det b nted by Maintenance n negotiations with the road's t. incing today the result of the ir, of the Brotherhood, said regarded as a substantial In a total of 4.765 otherhood received 4,- 0.—Nineteen Indus- World, convicted in urt in Kansas City, Ka 1919, of activities designed to released, Fred Robertson, trict attorney in Kansas announced today. Mr. Robert- government would not ap- trom the ruling of the United States St. declared the first count of he indictment against the men invalid. PRESIDENT HARDING SIGNED weeks THE BUDGET SYSTEM BILL rowed to thres or four men. USI0N ME SENTENCED FOR BOMB CONSPIRACY olsterers’ union, today _wel fined $2,000 each vietion several wecks ago to injure property during a strike which bombs were thrown. OSSACKS ASSIST MUTINOUS - BOLSHEVIK REGIMENT # received reinforcements, 4 Blagovestchensk. Washington, June 10.—The bill estab- lishing & budget system of government spendifures was signed today by Presi- t Harding. n order to put the new system quickly nto effect, the president expects to ap- point a director of budget as provided for the bill some time within the next two It is understood that a number ¢ avallable men have been under consid- on and that the field has been nar- Chicago, June 10.—Edward Graves, in- ternational vice president, and Roy Hull, usiness agent of a Chicago local of the re need to from one to five years in prison following of Harbin, Manchuria, June 10 (By the A. @ ).~It is reported from Blagovestchensk a bolshevik regiment from Trans- iikal mutinied, and with the assistance » Cossacks, disarmed 2 communist sailor sattalion and took control of the city. our hours later, however. the bolshevik PLANS CONCERNING THE SHIPPL Washington, June 10.—Plans administration concerning the of clal quarters for the first time since ' appointment of the new members with D. Lasker, of Chicago, as chairman. The necessity for the fullest: co-ope; all | in view of was described as the “virtual paraly of American shipping especially that the shipping, boar; Rather than to proceed upon the un dered routing and maintaining of sh Ding routes to every quarter of the glol irrespective of the commercial needs Iy business basis=This would mean, begin with, it was said, the charging by the government since tion's inception. the corpo 000 and the present estimated value the shipping board's assets of of the shivping board. The new org: the | Will be effected Monday. SENATOR SUTHERLAND HEADS SOLDIER RELIEF COMMITT: the land,'renublican, West Virginia, heads relief and hoepitalization administrat; provided for in the tween | adopted yesterday by the senate. )y an named today by Vice President Cooli land, republicans, and Walsh, Massac} setts, and Pomerene, Ohio, democrats. e e e con. | WECELESS WALKING CAUSE vie- Hartford, Conn., June 10.—'"Reckl an dhighway accidents as reckless d: el told the Technology club at its me ing here. In outlining the new state accidents listed by the motor vehicle partment in 1920, 137 were charged to the negligence of pedestrians. TWO MEN INJURED WHEN , in Cheshire, June 10.—Walter H. Bald {of this town, president of the Connect | Pomological society, and N. 8. Steven: trolley ear at Richards’ Crossing. automobile was wrecked. Mr. sustained a fractured ankle and Mr. vens suffered bruises. Paul, 350 APPLICANTS FOR STATE Hartford, June 10.—Although the r ganized state police force s to have fifty members, more than 350 applicati be given prior consideration if equal other respect: PANS TO ERECT $325,000 ROOSEVELT MEMOR! sen-| The president of the body was aut ized to appoint a committee to carry outlven; secretary, L. B. W. i R - : y, L. P. W. Marvin, Hart- their | the program in co-operation With the |ford; treasarer, Eradford b Bieses con- | Harvard corporation, which will select the i 7 sour, rial. SPRINGFIELD MACHINISTS Springfleld, Mass, Springfield Machinists’ June per cent, it was announced today. action was taken in a secret meeting night and is immediately effective. recap- ploying concerns are now operating el on part time or with much reduced forces, BOARD OUTLINED the shipping board were outlined today in high ofli- tion with commercial interests was em- what | the United States, it wag stated that the object of the new administration would be to piace the corporation upon a strict- to the war of the heavy losses sustained This Joss was estimated as the differ- ence between the war cost of $3,000,000,- | from of his retirement from the chairmanship ization, of which he will be a member, Washington, June 10.—Senator Suther- committee which is to Investigate soldier Walsh resolution The other members of the special committee are Calder. New York, and Weller, Mary- OF MANY STREET ACCIDENTS walking” is the cause of as many street ing, Motor Vehicle Commissioner Stoeck- destrian law, he said that of 223 fatal TROLLEY STRUCK AUTOMOBILE Canaan were injured this afternoon when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a New Haven-to-Waterbury Baldwin POLICE FORCE APPOINTMENTS for appointment to the force have been received by the new state police commis- sion, it was announced tonight by Rob- bins B. Stoeckel, motor vehicle commis- sioner. _Former service men, he said, will Milwankee, Wis, June 10.—Plans to erect Roosevelt Memorial to cost $325,- 000 were adopted today at the annual meeting of Associated Harvard clubs. site and choose the name for the memo- ACCEPT 12 PER CENT. WAGE CUT 10.—The union, with a membership of about 12,000 has volun- tarily accepted a wage requction of 12 Em- terest in the choice of a prohibition com- missioner. There had been fifteen or more men considered for the place but all dropped for one reason or another— | many on objections by the learge—un- til only two were left, Hay ana Fairbanks, both from Ohio. Haynes was the league's actual choice, Fairbanks. it was said, was not opposed. Commissioner Kramer said he had been too busy as commissioner to make the A ra- field, W the Anti-Saloon League League, said the appointment of Mr. Haynes was ‘‘very acceptable to the prohibition forces and Ohio, ysis of or- LP- the friends of law and order.” e, — of LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN . ts| . Norfolk, June 10.—No progress off 8-l are on the case. in Winsted to view the body of Mr. P: which took place this afternoon Center cemetery in of an- attend, Parsons, whose mother works Parsons is steadily improving. Hamant, EE the | Miss of' the side other teeth were loosencd. fon, dge today. Officers had mot located him. hu- murder was committed an as a serious obstacle to p case. They have said (h found there will be a deunt’ on. it less iy.| FOREST FIRES IN MAINE eet- pe- Bangor, Me, June 10.—While proved in some instances the forest de- | & up of the state was burned over, was re be increasing in seriousness. The which broke out anew Thursday in town the efforts of 300 fire fighters who Work. Win | e continuously through Thursday night. lcu; Today the force was considerably in- s o creased, fifty men being sent from her: nearby. The Ste-land a mil getting beyond the control of the 13 men fighting it. Fires are repoted under township 33, Great Pond region, control Hancock county, th in the Pistol Lak eor- but - ; fons | the village of Grand Lake. In_Aroostook county, today. SOCIETY OF COLONIAL 1 in eral court of the ‘Wars, Connecticut Branch, here today. The speakers was hel IAL were of New York. follows: Governor, bury, New Haven; Frederick J. hor- Bridgeport; registra, Lu Hartford ; historian, Prof. ker, New Haven; chaplain, the Frank B. Gay, Hartiord CHILD ATE 20 PILLS The last ther | mother had placed them aftsr mal purchase in a drug store. “While, arrangement for his future, but proba- bly would return to his home in Mans- e B. Wheeler, general counsel of NORFOLK MURDER MYSTERY has been made in the inquiry into the murder of Joseph Parsons of South Norfolk today, according to statements of officers who The state officers were. sons before it was brought here for burial, the The seryice was in the chapel of the Congregatiohal church-and | sons, mother of the murdered man, was | present, ‘but his sister,’ Miss Mary Par- sons, who was wounded, was unable to The Norfolk library was closed be- tween 2 and 3 p. m. out of respect to Mr. n it Miss Dr. the medical examiner of Nor- folk, says that a bullet took out iwo of Parsons' teeth and as it came out The report that Arthur Burgess. farm- hand, who was to begin haying for Mr. Parsons on July 1, and who oa Monday. was seen on the road at Norfolk Summit, had been found in Lakevilie, was den‘eld The absence of weapon with which the d Miss Passons wounded is now regarded by the officers ross cn the is cluc tu work BECOME MORE SERIOUS " uation which is the most serious since 1903 When one-tenth of the wooded area garded today by local lumber concefns to fire ship Four was raging unabated despite and others being summoned from towns In townships 41 and 43 In the vicinity of Machias Lake the fire which has ai- ready swept over a tract six miles long wide was burning furiously, in region and at Grand Lake stream where the fire was stopped within two miles of A new fire n township 14, range eight, was reported here WARS ELECTS OFFICERS New Haven, June' 10.—The 29th gen- Society of Colonial Dr. Charles A. Eaton and William W. Ladd, Ofticers were elected as Kings- deputy governor, Frank B. Wecks, Middletown ; lieutenant governor, kdward R. Sargent, New Ha- s B, Barbour, illiston Wal- Rev. John C. Gaddard, Simsbury; genealogist, - CONTAINING POISON New Haven, Comn., June 10 —Josepn Beasley, Jr, 21 months' old, Jied late today as a result of eating about 20 Ppills containing poison.. Th2 child found a box of pills in its carriage, Where the Stri is in Sight| e — Coal Miners’ Delegates Ad- vise Men Accept Latest Of- fer of Mine Owners. London, June 10.—(By The A. P.)— A resumption of work in the British coal mines Monday, June 20, it is generally miners’ delegates tb take a ballot on the |r proposals made by the coal mine owners This assumption is said to be based les on the idsea that the miner regard the latest terms offered by the mine own. ers as acceptable than en the belief |t that there will not be a two-thirds ma- Jjority in favor of a continuance of the |t strike, 1l The cessation of work in the mines has lasted for ten weeks and the funds of the miners are exhausted and, it is as serted, although the terms the mine ywn- ers have proposed do not meet the claims the workers have advanced, they constitute a considerable advance on anything previously offered. The conference of the coal miners’ del- egates today voted overvwelmin that the torthcoming ballot would find a majority in favor of a cessation of the strike, although it might be only a small one. induce the Mexican government ,to en- ter into a treaty of commerce and amity g s a condition to recognition were re- assumed here, will result from a decision | ported Ly Secretary Hughes reached today at a conference of ths |President Harding and his cabinet. of & bricf summary of he steps, which looking to a settlement of the strike. | hase 3 me: state department that he does mot con- sider himself free, [nant a against advising the men to reject the of- | fer of the mine owners, and in interested |.c circles tonight little doubt was expressed |t said not Obregon has definitely rejected the offer to negotiate the treaty and Mr. Summer- Question to Cabi ecretary. ‘Hughes.. Reports Tubber Shproiity. Has nie ST o June Steps Taken For Treaty of Co'mmerce and Amity. Washington, June 10.—Efforts made to to . The eport was understood to have consisted today been taken through George T. Sum- in, the American charge d'affaires i Mexico City, to reach an understand- c for the signing of the proposed reaty. While official information of the situa- fon was lacking here today, it is known haj President Obregon has notified the because of constitu- rictions to sign such a cove- proposed. Formal statements ued at Mexico City have indicated his to agree to a ‘treaty if cer- fications are made. Here it has indicated that no_modification af- the principle involved . will be made and that the United States will in- t that property of Americans in Mexi- shall be safeguarded against confisca- on. oif ional re: fals of the administration were to be convinced that President Some day you'll see him, slowly, the best, you are feeling your way. And they are a guarantee of sati pays money to tell you about he backs them with his money beca Read the advertisements. Don't of The Bulletin and get the advanta: news columns of The Bulletin for two cents a d: PITY THE BLIND MAN other times he has a guide who quickly leads him where he wants to go. ‘When you shop without advance knowledge of where to go to get The advertisements in the newspapers are guides. You where to g0 to get the best—quickly. you are in search of goods of any kind get in touch with the columns During the past week the following matter has appeared in the Bulletin Telegraph Lozal General Total Saturday, June 4. .. 169 ‘142 430 791 Monday, June 6. S 137l 12 258 507 #Tuesday, June 7. .. 185 1 290 546 Wixdnesday, June 8. 161 % 350 606 Thursday, June 9. 144 S0 275 503 Friday, June 10 48 116 24 505 Tokals. .. .o sinvins owveves vose-+ 90K 656 1894 3464 , hesitatingly feeling his way. At They will tell sfaction. The, consistent advertiser He knows they are good— use he believes they will atisfy. When spend your money blindly. ge of the help which they afford. ANOTHER RESOLUTION IN HOUSE TO PUNISH SIMS ‘Washinzton, June 10 said today before ente cabinet | the matter was one he could handle him- self without bothering the president. | The secretary has not yet received a reply to his cablegram to ‘Admiral Sims inquiring whether he was correctly quoted | in press despatches pubfished in his | country. 'The secretary will await a reply before taking further action. A resolution declaring Rear Admiral Sims “an undesirable alien” and deny- ing him re-admittance to any Aberic an | port, was introduced in the house late | today by Representative Gallivan, demo- | crat, Massachusetts. | The resolution offered by Mr. Gallivan | referred to Rear Admiral Sims as ‘a foreign born citizen of the United States, but now connected, unhappily and unfortunately, with the haval esiab- lishment of this counts “On other o casions, it added, he had “publicly stat- ed that in case of war between the United States and Great Britain one British ship could easily dispo: or five American sh'ps of corresponding type,” and it charged that s has publicly depreciated his superior office in the naval® establishment and the character and quality of the government of this republic.” SWEET SOLDIERS RELIET BILL PASSED BY THE HOUSE | ‘Washington, July 10.—The house late today passed the Sweet bill under which government agencies dealing with former | service men would be consolidated. The | measure now goes to the senate. The bill was passed by the unanimous | vote of 335 to 0. Provision is made tn the bill for crea tion of a veterans' bureau in the treas ury department, in which would be placed the war risk insurance bureau,| the federal board for vocational educa- tion and functions of the public health service relating to war vejerans. Fourteen regional offices would be cre- | ated for expeditious handling of claims | e | Of former service men for compensation, e | hospital and medical care and vocational | training. The house also approved an amend- ment by Representative Elliott, Indiana, authorizing payment of government in- surance to beneficiaries of war veterans ‘Who , permitted their policies to lapse while suffering from wounds or disease incurred in line of duty, from which-they died, 0 FRENCH DEPUTIES HAVE ADOPTED NAVAL PROGRAM | a Parls, June 10 (By the A. P.).—The| chamber of deputies tonight adopted the naval program ptresented Thursday by Deputy Paul Denise, reporter for the naval commission, by 468 to 128. The program calls for the construction of six light cruisers, twelve destroyers, twelve torpedo boats and thirty-si suhm:lnn@sl a tan approximate cost of 1,416,000,000 marks. 500 AMERICAN ROTARIANS ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL | Liverpool, June 10.—Five hundred dele- gates from Rotary clubs in tde United States to the international convention of Rotarians to be held in Edinburgh begin- ning June 13 ‘arrived here today on the Caronia. They were welcomed by the lord mayor and the lady mayoress and a delegation of Livernool Rotarians. | Blake and Walter M. Newtoen, of«1 cily, were arvested by the lacal police today on charzes of passing worshless checks. The police claim to have record lin, who deseribed {ibmitted waiting nite the proposal, was the announcement ¥ T MEN TO ATTEND UNERAL OF F. W. GALBRAITH a nore de PROMINE Cinginnati, 0., June 10.—Many high of- cials of the American Legion, command- ers of many of the legion posts in various parts of the country, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelf, Gover- nor Harry Davis-of Ohio, the members of the Ohio supreme court and many other inent personages will be in Cincin- nati tomorrow to attend the funeral ser- vices for Colonel Frederick W. Galbraith of this city. commander of the American Legion, who was killed in an automobile accident in IndiaRapolis yesterday morn- pro; entire city wi of Colonel ( in the om 10 a. at which hou 1l pay tribute to the th. The body great rotunda. of m. tomorrow until the services will the hall. 1 t will be regular army soldiers from , Kentucky. ervices will be in charge of Rev. Herget, pastor of the Ninth Baptist church, this city, who served at chaplain of the 147th infantry, which was commanded by Galbrpith dur- fie will be assisted by Rev cMillin_of the First Presby- 2 of Walnut Hills, who also as chaplain. t the cemetery will be s” will be sounded by a orps of buglers and ‘a squad from Fort Thor Il firp a salute over the body. body will be placed in a vault its removal to Arlington ceme- Washington, where it will be in- d with additional military honors. request that the American Legion ve charge of the funeral was made by the widow. FIRE FORCED FAMILY 5 TO FLE FROM HOME Danbury, June 10.—The family of Louis was forced to flee from their « late tonight when fire. believed to have been of incendiary origin, badly damaged the dwelling and destroyed a barn”in the rear. Two nights ago the house was discovered to be on fire, but it was extinguished quiekly. The loss was placed at $3,000. HALT IN CONFERENCE ON TROLLEY WAGE! New Haven, June 10.—Wage confer- ences between The Connecticut Company and the trolleymen of the state have come to a temporary halt, it was learn- ed tonight. It is said another referen- dum vote on wage reduction proposals of the company will be taken by the trol- The company’s plan a recent referendum . leymen’s unions was rejected PASSED WORTHLESS CHECKS IN NEW HAVEN New Haven, Conn., June 10.—Jola L. of 35 Wogus checks cashed by the men in this city, Meriden and Hartforl The checks were usually for about $25, it Was said. SEVERAL GOVERNMENTS FAVOR DISARMAMENT ‘Washington, June 10.—Informal re- sponses of a favorable character have brought 328 cording to annual Hardwood Lumber Association, in con- whicl flood district, issued a list of missing persons containing 437 names. /500 members of the Cleveland fire de- to repair 4&% bridges of Denver as result of recent apple crop in Maine shows mn.mummnutdn’m ate in the country. that the Beacon Company will Te- room on Notices were 3 Eight paintings by Hubert Robert - 0 at an auction in Paris ‘Vien Capraola Forest” was purchasec for $30,000,000 by unkmown buyer. Lumber prices are rock bottom, ac- Teport of National vention at Philadelphia. Pueblo Chapter of the Red Cross, is in charge of relief work in the ‘War department accepted the bid of Max Solomon of Pittsburgh, for approx- imately 21,000 tons of shell steel and shell steel forgings at bid of $217,251. The senate by unanimous vote adopt- ed resolution of Senator Walsh, providing for an investigation of all government agencies dealing with former service men. The Duke of Marlborough and Gladys Deacon, whose cngagement Was an- nounced on June 1 ,will be married late this month, probably June 25, in Paris. The American steamer Silver State col- lided at sea about 70 miles from Havana, Wednesday with the American schoomer Elizabeth Root, which was damaged. An appeal for volunteers for a blood transfusion was answered by 372 out of partment. . The body of Jo:m Golden, president of the United Textile Workers of Ameri- ca, who died at Brooklyn, was brougit home to Fall River, yesterday. Five letters address to members of his family, friends ard the funeral di- rector were left by Adolph Endres, 69 who was found dead at 903 Park ave- nue, Bridgeport. President Alfredo Zayas of Cuba, has asked congress for new taxation to raise $32,000,000 needed by the government to pay the high cost of Mving allowances of federal employes. Senator Herrier through labor depart- ment has offered plans for a model com- munity housing plan to be used in re- building the negro aquarter of Tulsa, Okla., burned during the race riots. Wire communieation with southern- western Oklahoma was severed when flood water of the South Canadian river poles and bridges over which communi- cation lines were strung. The Rev. Dr. W. M. Stamford, Harrls- burg, Pa., bishop of the Evangelical as- Kichline, Allentown. The bishop is 75 years old and the bride 53. Municipal laborers of Brocktom struck in protest against continued payment of a daily wage of $3.50 TUntil recently the city department had been paying at an hourly rate of €8 cents. Orland A. Somers, 78, who was ma- tional commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1917-18, died at his home in Kokomo, Ind., after an illness of everal months. The $10,000 mansion in Lexingtom, Mass.,, which Charles Ponzi bouzit and lived in at the height of his finaucia! ca- reer will be thrown into the scanty as- sets of his quick rich scheme. The cure of ‘cancer by radinm nlone without the aid of surgery was questien- ed in an address by Dr. Joseph C. Beck of Chicago, before a section meeinz of the American Medical Association in Bcs- ton. Rose Sealzo, mine years old, was killed late yesterday when she was struck by a Pittsfield to New Yock 2x- press train on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad on the outskirts of Danbury. Resiznation of Dr. James R. Day as chancellor of Syracuse university was submitted to the board of trustees and | accepted yesterday. Dr. Day was ap- pointed chancellor emeritus with an an- nual salary of $7,500 for life. Charged with emberzlement of $100.- 000 a Filippino note teller at the Philip- pine National bank, at Manila, was ar- rested. It is alleged that he worked n connection with Chinese who cashed the worthless checks. The treasury is considering s plan for, extending credits to cattle raisers with- out legislation, as an_ alternative to the federal reserve board's recommendation for use of $50,000,000 by war finance corporation for that purpose. | Thomas Howard of ~Wethersfield, = collector for the Prudential Life Insur- anre company, pleaded guilty to embezziement of §287 in police court and was bound over to the criminal court. Charges of price collusion and restric- tion of production to maintain prices weré made against the' West Coast Lum- {bermen’s Assoclation by the Federal Trade Commission in a special report to congress. . Gasoline was Feduced one cent & gal- lon in Pennsylvinia and Delaware, from {24 to 23 cents. Kerosene reduced 1 cent ja gallon, same states, from 14 to 13 cents and from 14 1-2 to 13 1-2 cents, respectively. The Bureau of Navigaton, Depart- ment of Commerce, reports 112 sailing, Steam, gas and unrigged vesseis of 109,- 393 gross tons built In the United States and _ officially numbered during the month of May. e Colonel William Hester, president of the Brookiyn Daily Eagle, died at his home in Brooklyn. He was born in Poughkeepsie 86 years ago and entered the Eagle office when a boy, serving un- der his uncle, Isaac Van Anden found- er of the paper. General Kumura, comda g Japan- ese troops in the Viadisvostok district, has announced that the Japanese in con- sequence of the way the situation is de- veloping in Eastern Siberia will be forced to occupy various Siberian towns of strategic importance. Fifteen negroes eseaped from the county jail at Jacksonville, Fla., 1y been received here from several of the There has been a general steike called in Christiania. Norwa governments to which the United States recently addressed informally the sug- gestion for international negoffations re- gardine disarmament. yesterday. Oae sawed through-the door of his own cell and then released the others. Making their way to the ja!l yard the negroes pushed an automobile against the wall and scaled it. Sociation, was: married to Mrs. ‘Amelia |- arrival late tonight of Mrs. Eva Kath- erine Kaber, widow of Daniel B. Kaber, wealth Lakewood citizen, and Miss Marian McArdle, ‘Mrs. Kaber's daughter, three generations were in the county jail here facing trial for the first degree murder of Kaber two years ago. Mrs. Mary Brickel, 69, mother of Mrs. Kaber, | t of $5,000 bail. 4 Mrs. Kaber and Miss McArdle were brought back from New York, where they were arrested about a week ago, by Chief of Police Peter S. Christensen, and Lakewood police. In addition, two other women and & man, incriminated, by Mrs. Kaber in a confession in New York c#ly today, were in custody while Prosecutor Stan- ton sought fwo other men in comnec- tion with the crime. Prosecutor Stanton said he would ask that Mrs. Kaber be tried at this term of court, which ends July 1. One of the women under arrest, ac- cording to Mrs. Kaber's confession as related by Prosecutor Stanton, planned the murdet of Kaber who was stabbed twenty-four times. She -was taken in- to custody at Sandusky, Ohio, and is al- leged to have concocted a poison, later hiring the assassin. The man figures in 19-YEAR-OLD FARM BOY FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER Warsaw, Ind., June 10.—Virgil Decker, 19 years old farmer boy, was found guil- nection with the death of Leroy Lovett, his associate, by a jury in circuit court here tonight. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. The jury was out less than hours and reached a verdict on the fifth ballot. Young Decker showed no emotion when the verdict was read to the court or when sentence was passed. He had adopted a nonchalant attitude throughout the trial and seemed in cxcellent spirits when he was taken back to his cell. The case of Decker, who was accus- ed of murdering Lovett, said to have been his “double” as the outcome of an alleged conspiracy between members of the Decker family to kill Lovett, claim his body as that of Decker and collect $24,000 in life insurance, was given to the jury at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon. The Decker case which has created ‘widespread interest, is one of the strang- est ever to come to the attention of the local authorities, On.Satirday night, March 12, a young man was found in a dying _condition on a railroad crossing near Bourbon, Indlana. He was taken to Bourbon where he died without regain- ing consciousness. The body was iden- tified as that of Virgil Decker by mem- bers of the Decker family. On the following Monday the body was identified by Samuel Lovett, of Elkhart, India: son, Leroy and on Tuesday night Virgil Decker was ar- rested at the home of his uncle in Ma- rion, Ind. Young Decker was brought here where he was lodged in jail and a few days Jater the Kosciusko County grand jury indicted him, together with his two broth- ers, Calvin and Fred Decker, and his mother, Mrs. Lydia Decker, for the mur- der of young Loveit. The other members of the Decker fam- fly are in jail hers awaiting trial, the date of which has not yet been set. Virgil Decker Was heavily insured, and it was the contention of the state that members of the Decker family had con- ceived a plot to kill Lovet Ty resembled Decker and who _cl im the body as that of Virgil and collect the insurance. = METHODISTS WOULD XNOT TOLERATE PRIZE FIGHTS Washington, June 10—Declaring that it was astonishing that “any state In tf American Union would tolerate an exh bition not only bloody and brutal in it- self, but intended to appeal to all that is abysmal in the average man,” the board of temperance and public morals of the Methodist Episcopal church issued a statement today condemning the Demp- sey-Carpentier fight to be heid at Jer- sey City, July 2. All “rizht thinking Americans,” the statement said, to see to it that this is the last prize fight on American soil.” Boxing was characterized as “a per- fectly harmless, character-building sport. but the Dempsey-Carpentier bout, the statement said, “will not be boxing or anything like boxing.” fen who habitually see such thinzs inevitably become not only brutal, but cowardly,” the statement continues, “and lose every sense of sportsmunship. Wo- men who see them frequently, in the end become things that are certainly not WO0OD ALCOHOL MAN FOUNT GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER Springfield, Mass., June 10.—Samuel Darling of Hartford, Conn., was found guilty of manslaughter at 10.30 o'clock tonight by the jury in the last sitting of the supreme criminal court. Darling is charged with the murder of Josefh Kunia and Michael Bedarnz of Chicopee through dealing in the wood alcohol cases during Christmas week in 1919. Darling was on the stand in his own defenes today. He told of a trip to New Haven and admitted buying the whiskey there. He dended, however, that he knew that the liquor was poison. o —e. OBITUARY. Mrs. Fred B. Fisher. New York, June 10—News of the death, from influenza, in India, of Mrs. Fred B. Fisher, wife of the resident bishop of Bengal for the Methodist Epis- copal church, was received today by the Board of Foreign Missions. % She ' was formerly superintendent of young peonle’s work in the New England branch of the Woman's Foreign Mission- County Jail, Cleveland, Facing Trial For a Murder mitted Two Years Ago—Two Other Women and a Were Implicated, According to the Confession Cleveland, Ohio, June 10.—With the | Mra. Kaber's confession, according Stanton, as one of the agents who the two other men to'stab Kaber, the second woman, accord Kaber's statements, knew of the plot commit the murder. large, Stanton declaref, are the uul" hired assassins, ¥ confront Kaber and her daughter tonight in the hope that the prisoners would tell what they knew of the murder. _— MINORITY GROUP OF ZIONISTS 3: to M The two men In her confession, Mrs. Kaber declared he men were hired to “beat up” Kaber has been in jail several days in defauit | “to make him treat her better” The | polson was given to him, according 10 the * confession, habits. Mrs. Kaber insists, given to her as medi Although Mrs. Kaber Aeclared she res: fused to pay the hired fors > she learned they had murdered her hus= band, ome of the men beinz mouzht is alleged to have left behind in his Sight an automobile said to have been given in the job. The men were to “ghosts” Mrs. Kaber's confession states) She said Kaber had never believed in ghosts or epirits, and that he probably fought with the men when he awakened and found them by his bedside, bing resuiting. ‘as medicine to cure his\ S She did not know it was poisom, declaring it ,was | ine. 3 ners, when act as e Fy Prosecutor Stanton was prepared to the three prisoners with Mre TO HOLD A CONFERENCH New York, June 10.—A mass confer= ence of the minority group of the Ziom- ty of murder in the first degree in con- | ist organization of America will be held July 2 falo. day of a coftmittee of the group appointed to confer with Supreme three | Court Justice Brandeis, or 4 either in Pittsburgh or Buf- This was decided at a meeting to- minority former honor- agy president of the Zionist organization, After hearing the views expressed by Justice Brandels, Judge Julian W. Mack, and others, it was agreed that as far as the attitude of the minority group toward the new Zionist administration was con< cerned there shall be no actife antagon- ism, but it was decided that no member of the minority group shall accept an election as delegate 10 the forthcoming Zionist convention at Carlsbad, next Sep- tember. A committee of the minority group will draft a statement to be printed in sev- eral languages and presented to all the delegates at the Carlshad convention, Tt ill include the reason why Justics Brandeis, Judge Mack, Rabbl Wise and others of the minority group do not find it advisable to attend the Carjsbad com— vention. It is probable that the minority group will resolve itself into am independent organization to be called the Palesting development associates, although the members will retain their individual af- filiations with the Zionist movement. Justice Brandels stated that it might be found practical to launch a series of wholesale cooperative enterprises in Pale estine, completely segregated from any activities undertaken now or in the fu< ture by the Zionist commission. RETUEN OF PROSPERITY TO BE SLOW AND GEADUAL Washington, June 10.—Immediate re- turn to prosperity is not in sight, Azches, W. Douglas, chairman of the committes on statistics of the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States, declared in his semi-annual report today on business and crop conditions. THere need be no delusion about a resumption of War- time volume of business, Mr. Douglas sail adding that while things will be quiet during the summer the termination of harvest may bring some what better business and a slow and general im- provement. “There is a growing realization of the fact,” Mr. Douglas continued, “that re- turning prosperity in this country de- pends upon the recovery of Europe. since she is and will be for a long time to come the best market for our sur- plus. Meanwhile, the slow progress of business finds its chief stimulus in the gradual depletion of stocks both of mer- chandise and commodies and that de- mand for replacement both of merchan- dise and commodities and that demand for replacement and repair, which in it- self Produces the principal volume of our domestic commerce. There is still mon- ey to be spent where bargain prices are in evidence, ghowing that purchasing power is still high, despite many gnto- ward conditions. — GREEKS MASSED ALONG WESTERN ASIA MINOE FRONT Constantinople, June 10 (By the A. P.). —Greek forces have been massed along the Western Asia Minor front for an of- fensive against the nationalists. It i estimated t £0,000 Greek troops are available for this struggle, while the Turks have about 60,000 effectives be- tween Brusa and Smyrna. British sup- plies are being given the Greeks, but it is understood the British will not take an active part in the offensive King Constantine of Greece will leave Athens on Saturday for Smyrna with a number of government officials, and it is, presumed that, nominally at least, he will be in command of the Greek aitack om, the nationalists’ position. M. Nathernos, an Orthodox Russian, who has been appointed Russian bolshevik ambassador to Angora, has arrived in that city, it is_said in advices received here. During his trip through Asia Minor he is said to have made a number of ad- dresses in which he declared the boishe- viki would assist the Turkinsh nationale ists in their fight against the allies. : ANTI-BOLSHEVIK UPRISINGS IN REGION OF URAL MOUNTAINS Tokio, June 10 (By the A. P.)—Deter. mined anti-bolshevik uyrisings in the re- gion of the Ural mountains and at Petro- paviosk, about 200 miles south of Tobolsk, are reported in semi-official advices re- ceived here. It is said that Petropaviosk has been occupied by the anti-bolsheviki and that the movement ffom Moscow of ary society of her denomination and was widely known in missionary promotion work. ‘Her death occurred in Darjiling, in the Highalaya mountains, the mission- ary retreat during the tropical summer. P: J. Kelly. New Haven, Conn. June 13—P. J, Kelly, In_the furniture business Lere 49 years and head of the firm bearing h's name, died at his home tonight fter & long lliness. He was. 72 years old. reinforcements for soviet troops in Siberia is difficult, as the anti-soviet elements Reports from Scoul state that Korean communists are holding meetings with Chinese bolehevikl at Harbin for the pur- pose of deciding on the program to be. followed by eastern communists. the conference, it is said, will be sent to the 21 % LReT VL