Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 1, 1921, Page 1

VOL. LXitll—NO. 186 ELECTRICAL STORMS CAUSE [Prestent Harng | POPULATION 29,685 NORWICH, CONN., MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1921 DEATH TERRORAND DAMAGE Thirty Members of the New York Athletic Club Were Knock- ed Down by a Lightning Bolt—Boy Killed at West North- field, Mass.—Two Barns Middletown—Church in Burned and Four Cows Killed at New Haven Struck While Serv- ice Was in Progress—Second Hail Storm Caused $20,000 Damage in Suffield—Storm Was Severe Over Western IAassachusetts. Travere Island, N. Y, July 31.—Thirty | Royaton after it members of the bolt of ligatning ew York Athletic club| The injured firemen ar were knocked to the ground today by a| that struck a shed in’fire department. Bur: wes by lightning. Chief George W. Bogardus, Norwalk of face, back, arms wdhich they were secking shelter. Nonehand hands. Condition serious. was seriously injured, although ph: clar s declared one man would have died im- had had mnot artificial mediately applied. Leen swimming, but respiration been The clubmen run to the shed when the storm came up. All were able to watch a ball game an hour later. W HAVEN CRURCH IN . STRUCK DURING STORM New Haven, Conn., July 31.—Lightning etruck the Grand Avenue Congregational ehurc: today while service was jin pro- gress. knocking a hole in the brick wall and scattering plaster over the congrega- tion. No one was injured and, though many were badly frightened. there was no panie. In order to calm the worship- pers, Rev. William.C. Prentiss, the pas- tor, announced a hymn, but no note could be played from tre organ as the bolt had burned out the electrical con- nectic A_drugstore in the adjoining town of Hatlden was struck by lightning and part of the roof destroyed. Electric light seryice was impaired by the storm and many telephone connec- tions were burned out. Hail in the rural sections surrounding (he city injured standing corn, but little damage to cth- er crops was reported A rainfall of 1.12 inches in little more t'an an hour was reported by the weath- er bureau. LIGHTNING KILLS BOY AT NORTHFIEED, MASS. Northfiel, Mass., July 31.—Harry Field,, Jr., 13 years old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Field of West Northfield, was killed wien lightning struck the barn in which he had taken refuge dur- ing a severe electrical storm that passed over Northfield and vicinity this after- noon. g large stock barn valued at $15,000 and more than 100 tons of hay were de- stroyed at Northfleld seminary when the building Whs struck by lightning. An ox and several calves were lost in the fire. © herd of prize cattle that was in the pasture at the time, escaped injury. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE IN WORCESTER COUNTY Worcester, Ma: 31.—Lightning, hail and wind did extensive damage throughout Worcester county today. A miniature cloudburse in Winchendon flooded strasiz, washed out railroad tracks, and florded cellars, A barn was struck and damaged several hundred dollars. In Templeton a 15 yeaes old boy was ! thrown several feet by a bolt of light- ning and was unconscious for nearly an hour. Hail stones, wind and ramn delay- ed ear service, damaged crops and up- oted trees in olden, Millbury, Athe nd Leominster, where ligitning struck a three story dwelling and damaged it $400. Jn Worcester trolley schedules were up &t and telephone put out of commission. I1Xzhtning struck a cupoia on City hos- pital. The bolt smashed windows, walls and electrical fixtures, doing extensive damage. WORCESTER MAN VICTIM OF STORM AT MARLBORO Marlboro, Mass. Jul worth, of Worcester, ears old, was killed by a lightning bolt while seated er a tree during a heavy shower here today. Miss Margaret McLaughlin, his companion, received a concussion of the brain and slight burns. She was taken to & hospital by a passing motorist. 1.—Walter Whit- CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE IN THE VICINITY OF BOSTON Boston, July 31.—Considerable damage was caused by a severe thunderstorm in thie vicinity tonight. Lightning injured Mrs. George H. White of Waltbam when it entered the kitchen where she was working. At Arlington a gale blew down elec- tric light poles and plunged the entire district into darkness for several hours. Streets were washed out and electric car service was interrupted. Halil did damage to crops. 'TWO FATALITIES FROM LIGHTNING IN POUGHKEEPSIE Poughkeepsie, N. Y., July 31.—G. A. Gottschalk, of the Bronx, New York city, was instantly killed and Henry Wooden, of 115 Broadway, New York, gerlously injured during a heavy shower at Rhinebeck today. Gottschalk was an muditor for the Interborcugh Rapid Transit Company. ¥OUR COWS KILLED BY LIGHTNING IN MIDDLETOWN Middletown, Conn., July 31. —A severe electric_storm swept over Middletown to- day. Two barns were struck by lightning ‘and burned to the ground witha loss of $5,000. Four cows of the herd belonging to the Conmecticut State Hospital were killed by a lgrtning bolt, and the flag- #taff on the main building of the hospital was struck. The tobacco crop was bad- iy damaged. A SECOND DESTRUCTIVE HATL STORM AT SUFFIELD Guffield, Conn, July 31.—The second destructive hall storm within a week vis- fted Suffield today, lavitg waste about two hundred acres of standing tobacco @nd causing an estimated loss of 20,000. EIX FIREWAN SERIOUSLY BURNED AT ROWAYTON Bridgeport, Cenn., July 31. — Chiet rge W. Bogardus of the Norwalk Fire department and five other firemen of local and Darien departments are In the Nor- | walk hospital, all suffering from serfous burns which they received today while fighting a blaze that consumed the form- Willlam T. Raymond homestead in George Gaynor, Norwalk department, serioys facial burns. Robert Clarke, Norwalk burns about hanos and arms. Arthur Billard, Reliance Ladder company, Rowayton, feet badly burned. 3 Richard Hudsor, Reliance Hook and Ladder company, Rowayton, feet badly burned, first degree burns also of hands and face. George Brencher, Darien department, faec, hands and feet seriously burned. Last night it was stated that the out- come of the burns woud not be known for a few days. All of the men inhaled considerable smoke and their condition was somewhat aggravated by the fact. The Raymond Fomestead recently sold by the Thomas I. Raymond estate to Da- vid Guth, a New Yorker, who opened the Royayton House. was valued at §2 000 and the loss from the fire which zut- ted the second and third stories is plac- ed at $15,000. department, Hook and hands and ELECTRICAL STORM OVER WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS Springfield, Mass., July 31.—A severe electrical storm swept over this city and ‘western IMaasgchusetts tlfis afteencon paralyzing telephone, telegraph and light- ing service an decausing damage estimat- ed at several thousand dollars. A num- ber of buildings were struck by ligntning. FORMER SOCIETY WOMAN DIES OF ALCOHOLINm New York, July 31.—A woman identi- fled as farah Cowan, said to be the daughter of John K. Cowan, former pres- ident of ths Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road, was foind dead today in her room at the Maryland hotel. Doctor Benjamin Schwartz, cois¢ medical examiner, said death was due to alcolholism and rrug poisoning. Divorced From New Hayen Man. Baltimote, July 31.—Sara/ Campbellina Cowan, ‘daughter ot the late John K. Cowan, president of the B. and O. Rail- road and former member of congress, had not béen in Baltimore for years and which she was once a great favorite had not heard from her. She was considered one of the most beautiful girls in Baltimore when she made her debut. Miss Cowan's mother died some years after her father's death. In Aprol, 1909, Miss Cowan eloped with Charles Monson, Jr., son of a New Haven man, who was reputed wealthy. They were married in the Little Church Around the Corner, New York. Ten years later Mrs. Monson obtained a ¢ vorce in Seattle, Washington, on the grounds of non-support. She charged Monson® with drunkenness. 8,178 NATIONAL BANKS NOW IN OPEEATION Washington, July 31.—National banks in operation on June 30 numbered $,178, representing a net gain of $2 for the fiscal year, says a statement issued to- night by Comptroller oft the Currency Crissinger. / The authorized capital stock of these banks was $1.277,000,000 and the total circulation outstanding was $743,000,000. During the year 212 banks were char- tered, 90 With an aggregate capital of $2,000,000 and 122 with an aggregate capital of $16,000000. In the same period 130 national banks were closed, of which 28, with liabilities aggregating $17,000,000, failed, 84, with an aggregate capital of $34,000.000, were closed by voluntary liquidation, and 18 twere con- solidated with other nationalb ank Three of those closed were restored to solveney. LOED NORTHCLIFFE NOW 4 BOUND FOR WINNIPEG Toronto, July 3l1.—Lord Northcliffe, British publisher, arrived today from New York on his tour of the world and announced that he was in”Canada to 1dek into_the immigration nroblem. “They tell me,” he said, “there are ten thousand men qut of work in Toronte, and that is a matter which interests me because we have millions of people at home proposing to emigrate.” Lord Northcliffe and his party were en- tertained today by Leighton McCarthy, lawyer. A round of golf and a visit to. a farm made up the program. Lord Northeliffe and his party left to- night for Winnipeg. LIBRARY FOR THE BLIND ENDORSED BY HARDING ‘Washington, Julf#31.—The work of the national library for the d is endorsed | by President Harding in a letter written to Miss Etta Josselyn Griffin, director of the organization, in connection with the ninth biennial convention of the Ameri- can_ association of workers for the blind at Vinton, Ia. “The idea of a national library for the blind,” said the presi- {dent's letter, made public here tonight, “has always seemed a particularly feasi- ble and considerate method of serving these unfortunate people, for, more than anything else, the privilege of - reading means a great deal to them. Please ex- press my great sympathy and interest to vour fellow workers in this excellent cause.” PROF. VIALLATE ARRIVES AT WILLIAMS COLLEGE Williamstown, Mass.,, July 31.—Prof. Achille Viallate, representing France among the lecturers before the institute of politics at Williams college, arrived today He will make his first public ad- dress tomorrow evening. The general subject of his course is “The Economic Factor in International Relations.” He is an authority on history and con- stitutional law and has made a particu-. lar study of American economic._affairs. Baron Zergis A. Kirft of Russia will begin tomorrow his course on ‘‘Russia’s Foreign Relations During the Last Half Century.” her former friends, in scciety circles .u, In Plymglih Today For Climax of Celebrations of Tercentenary of Landing of Pileri Plymouth, Mass.,, July 31.—This old colony town was on toe eve of another event of importance in its long history. As the climax of a year of celebration of the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims it has set tomorrow apart as the day for the principal exercises and pre- pared to welcome as its guest the presi- dent of the United States. Through tae long line of chief executives who have governed the republic that had its begin- ning here none previcusly has made the pilgrimage to Plymouth Rock while in office. While the presidential yacht Mayflower with President Harding and his official party aboard was cruisng lesurely toward this port where she will anchor tomorrow morning, the townsfolk of Plymouth and its many summer residents stirred them- selves to make ready for his coming. The narrow streets were garlanded and arch- ed with streamers, the log cabin that first housed the Pilgrim women and children was reproduced and the gravi of the forefathers were marked ~anew. Heavy thunderstorms failed to check the preparations. Official guests from ccuntries connect- ed with the Pilgrim history preceded the president. Isaac Foote deputy mayor of Plymouth, England was received formally by the selectmen who made him tieir guest when he brought the greeting from the mother town. Jonkheer William De Beaufort, charge d'affaires of the Dutch embassy at Washingtcn, came tonight as the official representative of Holland. In the absence of the British ambassador, Captain Sydney R. Bayley, naval attache ;f the British embassy, came to represent im. Vhen t:e Mayflower puts into Ply- mouth Bay temorrow morning she will find anchored a naval force consisting of the battleships Delaware, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania, and the British cruiser Cambrian sent from Bermuda. The Dpresidents’s yacht will bring a convoy of five destroyers. A submarine tender will bring President Harding ashore #*om the Mayflower early in toe forenoon. The navy will relinquish its charge to the army at the dcck, where Troop C, the crack outfit of the third cav- alry, will act as his bodyguard, accomp- anying the president to his place in a pa- rade that will bring from the old colony settlement floats or marc:ing delegations. The president will leave the line cf march two miles from the start and will Tetrace in a formal pilgrimage the move- ment down Leyden street, first street of the colony, wilich the forefathers and their families traversed on their way to tie church which they built as the ground floor of their fort. From a stand atthefoot of Cole’s Hill, where were buried the first of the Pilgrims who died in the new country he will review the marching, then attend an informal lun- cheon at tie Samoset House. Amcng those in the line of march will be many girl scouts, and girl seout officers will havé charge of two first aid tents. In the gourse of the day member of the first national girl scout officers’ training camp at Longpond in this town will pre- sent 'a birch bark scroll of greeting to Mrs. Harding, who is honorary national president of the girl scouts. Late in the afternoon the president will return to the stand facing Cole’s Hill, there to speak to an audience seated on its slones in banked stands which have a capacity of ten thcusand persons. It was at fre cornerstone laying of the Forefathers' Monument at Provincetown, across the bay from here, that President Roosevelt some years ago gave his vigor- ous admonition to “certain malefactors of great wealth. After the speech the president will go to the Hotel Pilgrim for a rest and to attend an informal dinner. His evening vil! be given over to attendance at the presentation of “the Pllerim spirit” the pageant prepared by Professor George P. Baker, of Harvard University for Pilgrim :reentenary mi : President Harding will return to the Mayflower-late in the evening to make tie trip to Prtland Mainee, en route to a short vacation at the summer lodgze of Secretary Weeks at Lancastetr, N. H. PRESIDENT'S YACHT AT CAPE COD CANAL ENTRANCE Buzzards Bay, Mass, July 31.—The yacht Mayflower, bearing President arding and party to the Pilgrim tercen- tenary celebration at Plymouth, anchored late today off Wind's Neck, at the west- ern entrance to the Cape Cod canal. The Mayflower will proceed through the canal early tomorrow to her anchorage at Ply- mouth. _— GOMPERS OPPOSES THE PRISON CONTRACT SYSTEM Washington, July 31.—Samuel Gom- perse, president of the American Federa- tion of Labor, has written presidents of local unions and organizers to aid in the fight against the prison contract systems in various states, to urge improvement in federal and state vocational systems and toa ssist in increasing the member- ship of the federation to the million be- lol:g the next convention. The communi. cafions' made public here today were sent ‘out in accordrs-e With resolutions adopted at the Den®: concention. In his letter to union organizers, Mr. Gompers said: i “Thousands and thousands of the un- organized have been discharged, locked out, for the single purpose of starving ll\em into accepting lower ‘wage scales,” adding that “from reports received from all» parts of America the one cry that is going up from the unorganized is ‘come and help us.” Lt s ARCHBISHOP MANNIX HAS LANDED IN AUSTRALIA London, July - 31.—Archbishop Man- nix, over whose return from England to Australia there has been considerable discussion landed at Thursday Island, Queensland, without hindrance, accord. ing to a Melbourne despatch to the Lon- don Times. He declined to accord an interview, remarking that this was the time for silence. » Irish enthusiasts attenmped to hoist the Irish flag, but were prevented from do- ing 80 by the officials. - FORMER BOSTON HEALTH OFFICER COMMITS SUICIDE Boston, July 31.—Dr. David D. Brough, former city deputy health com- missioner, committed suicide by hanging at his home today. Despondency was assigned as the cause. He was removed from his position in March last by Health Commissioner ‘William_C. Woodward, who charged neg- lect of “duty. He had been connected with the health department since 1893 and was madc deputy commissioner le 1917, 1000,000 during the fiscal BRIEF TELEGRAMS in to oil tankers, according tv Teport to department of commerce. Leaf tobacco held by manufacturers and dealers on July 1 aggregated 1,672 017,169 pounds compared with 1,452,962, 024 pounds a year ago. Plans for 'an air service between Italian cities and Black Sea ports will ghortly be completed, according to eLw Echos, of Paris. According to dispatch received at Bal- timore, Canal Zone, forty persons were killed at Callao, Pery, in a riot of Spanish Italian and French sailors. According to reports from Spain re- ceived at Paris, Spain must re-conquer Morocco again as a result of Moorisy up- risings. Jones and Laughlin Steel Co., an inde- pendent company of Pittsburgh, annouc- reducticn of seven cents an hour in wages of eommon laborers. Chicago Federal Reserve bank am- ncunced a reduction in discount rates from 6 1-2 to 6 per cent. New rates were effective Saturday. It is understood in Lordon that an agreement has been reached by Imperial premiers on the-naval policy of the em- pire. Eight freight cars and a locomotive of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Otlantic railroad were derailed by n'explosion of Bushnell,‘ 15 miles cast of Fitzerald, Ga. An Ttalian swimmer, namer Gradischi, attempting to swim the English channel was forced to give up because of the heavy sea. Employes of he Acme and Empire Worsted mills, at Jamestown, N. Y., went on strike in protest of tte 50 hour week. p John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, in a letter to ' Pennsylvania Retail Clothiers® Associaticn declares that prices must be brought down to’ the level of consistency. Two women and a child were mem- bers of the varty that embarked with Carl E. Akeley, on the steamship Baltic for a trip into the jungles of Africa. Danzig banking house of Meyer and Gilhorn will be liquidated and all its as- sets and obligations will be taken over ‘by the Dresden bank. S Five alleged bootlegzers were arrested and 240 gallons of alcohol and four mo- tor cars were seized in the South End, Boston. The possibility that President Harding may -issue a proclamation of peace with Germany while he is on his New Enz- land trip is probable. Preferring death by starvation to fac- ing trial on a charge of hasing slain his wife, Andrew Brykajlo, died in the county hospital, Chicago as the resuit of a long hunger strike. The De Witt Clinton engine with its hisforic coaches, and first engine operated in New York state, 30 years ago, arriv- ed in Chicago to be exhibited at the pa- Zeant of progress which opened Saturday. Alien Property Custodian informed Chairman Peters, of the fouse committee investigating the Bergdoll case, that he would go after the buried pot of gold as asked by the committee. ‘ Acting District Attorney Bantom, of New York, declared the Dempsey-Car- pentier fight pictures may be shown in New York state without viclation of the law. Brazilian government will again valor- ize the new-season coffee crop. It is un- will be paid for at the rate of $14.80 and $14.66 respectively. Wireless telephone connecting all fire and police stations will be operated from the top of the City all in Chicago. Re- ceiving appaatus will be attached to the coats of al policemen. First race in the international six-me- es sets as §87. re listed as $280,399 and as- 13. Declsion to use the transport Grea Nerthern until recently in the service o the army, as the administrative flagship of the Atlantic fleet, was announced by Secretary Denby. Board of estimate of New York, author- ized Borough President Riegelman, of Brooklyn, to proceed with the Coney Is- land board walk, whi¢a will cost about $1,900,000. Exports from this country to Europe fell off nearly $1,600,000, while those ‘in South America increased more than $50,- year ended June 30. Street car services of Des Molnes will be suspended beginning today. Credit- ors claimed their accounts would be in- sured if the company was allowed to op- erate longer. The Beligan American Coke Ovens Corporation announced the completion of its organization in New York with a cap- ital of $10,000,000 preferred stock and $200,000 ares of common stock with- out par value. The twentr hours of argument Which started Friday was continued Saturday In the baseball trial in Chicago, a half special session being held in the mo-ning in order to €xpedite the case which has now entered the final phase. Edgar E. Clark, chairman of the in- terstate commerce commission, who re- cently submitted .his redignation~ to President Harding, will enter a partner- ship for the practice in Washington of commercial law. Mrs, Ida Crouch Hazlett, national se- cialist lecturer from New York, was pelt- ed with pastry and ordered off the streets of Bogne, Iowa when alleged to have criticiged the present form of government in the United States. Construction by the government of a trans-Pacific cable, if private enterprises sould be unwilling is recommended by Secretary Hughes and approved by Pres- ident Harding in letters made public by Scnator Jones, republican, Washington, auther of a cable bill. Most Rev, Mgr. Thomash M. O'Leary, bishop-elect of the Roman Catholic dio- cese of Springfield, in’ a telephone inter. view from his home in Concord, N. ‘H., stated definitely that his consecration would take place In St. = Michael's Cathedral at Springfleld September 3. derstood that the August-September crop |Traction Company Manzger Beaten ers at Wheeling, W. Va. Bridgeport, O., ;luly 31.—C. P. Billings, peny, and his assistant, Charles Marsh, left here early today after a crowd had dispersed which gathered around the jail in which they were confined last night on a charge of inciting a riot. The two men had been beaten last night by a crowd and after giving bail had feared to leave the jail until the crowd left. The attack of the two men here fol- of a score of 'bus drivers at Wheeling, W. Va, operating between the Ohio and West Virginia river points, by constables, on a charge of violating cer- tain sections of the West Virginia state road law. A controversy between traction officials and operators of the 'bus lines seems to have come to a head with the arrest of the 'bus drivers throughout the district. Crow Wheelirg Traction company at Martins Ferry, 0., and at Wheeling last night, blocking traffic. The mob at Wheeling was dispersed only after riot squads of the police had been sent to the scene the special constables for blocking tfaf- fic. The constables had taken the 'bus drivers in tow, leaving- the machines on the streets. Tracks were greased in the vieinity of Martins Ferry and traffic tied up there. At wnidnight last night the the river. The appearance of Billings and Marsh here has not been explained and it was with some difficulty that their bonds were obtained. The former was held un- der $300 bonds and the latter under $100 HE RELEASED THIS WEEK Riga, July 31 (by the A. P.)—The reléase of all Americans still in prison days, according to Mrs. Marguerite E. Harrison, of Baltimore, who herself spent many months in imprisonment at Moscow, but who was released came here under the protection of Sen- ator France of Maryland. She was in- formed before leaving Moscow that all would be out soon. No notification of the release of the and the American ocffiials have not been be freed one at a time or in a group. Mrs. Harrison related her story to- day and p! d her life in prison as ferings drawn from time to sentfully told of theevents from the day of her arrest to her release. “T was first arrested on Anril 4. 1920 two months after T arrived in Russia hv way of the Polish frontier,” she said. was detained two days for cros: nation, then was released, and for s motnhs was vpermitted to work unmo- lested in Moscow. order of the Zchecka (the soviet Inqui- sition.) 1 was charged among other things with having come to Rusgia with- out permission, With having supplied food illegally to American and British prisoners and with having been In com- munication with peonle hostile to government—all of which was true. ‘The examiners were polite, but they made me realize the seriousness of my position. “Then I was put fn solitary confine- nally a prison, but was house; it was primaril tention only and the vl forts there were du “Generally spea as good as, or better than; in the soviet nsed for de- vsical discom- to this fact. ers, mitted weekly, and in these T shared in- termittenly. There were periods of sev- never reached me. formed officially that there were pros- pects of my release if the American gov- ernment. formally demanded “On June 6, by order of the prison physician, I was removed from Cheka detention to the hospital in another and better equipped prison especially for wo- men, whére T remalined untfl released, receiving every care and attention. reléase came through Senator France, who called on me on July 23, and I was finally freed and taken to a railwa: station, Sarriving just seven minutes b fore the train left for Riga Mrs. Harrisén declared e gave no pledge to the bolsheviki not to talk out- |side, but refused when asked to make such a pledge. b e e ALLEGED AUTO THIEVES ARE HELD AT STAMFORD Stamford, July 31.—Alfred Prunier of Shrewsbury, Mass., were arrested here today charged with stealing”an automo- bile from a Worcester man named Wil- lett. They were held for the federal court under the Dyer act. According to the police, the men under arrest said they intended to drive south and join the navy. Three other alleged automobile thieves were arrested earlier in the day. They were Leo, Tony and Joseph Partyka, brothers. Tony said he lived at Chico- pee, Mass., and Leo and Joseph, gave their address as 22 Alden street. Hart- ford. They are charged with stealing a car from the estate of Mary Kenyon Cooke of Hartford. The Turkish eabinet at Constantineple at a meeting -decided that any attempt toward br.uging about peace between the Turkish nationalists and the Greeks would be inopportune until the battle around ‘Angora had been fought to a de- ~‘flnlto deciston, With Assistant, Was Attack- ed After Arrest of Bus Driv- manager of the Wheeling Traction com- | lowed the report last night of the arrest special collected on the car tracks of the| when regu’ar police threatened to arrest cars of the traction company were or- dered withdrawn from the Ohio side of bond, . accordiig to police at Bridgeport.| The issuance of ‘mo injunction was They left in tde direction of Wheeling in|confirmed to a Telezram Treporter by an automobile after the crowd about the|Judze Thomas at - his Norwalk home, jail had scattered peaceably, the police|Highwood, yesterday. He made the said. » statement : g “Attorneys R. E. Woodruff and Arthur AMERICANS IN RUSSIA TO Kilein, of New Haven, made application in Russia m:y be expected within a few | and | Americans has yet been received at Riga advised as to whether the prisoners will differing far_from sketchos of er suf- time by in the Balti ing s i In fact it T travelers arriving in the Baltic states!inz accounts of the hearing. Tn f from Russia. Although under close |had seen them I would have avoided the confinement for considerable time, she | subject.” 2 gave an unemotibnal statement of her| Judze Thomas then stated that the fs-| experiences. - She was thin and frafl, [sie brousht to his court was carried, and her recital was interrupted otca-there under a recent federal statute sionally by a deep cough as she unre-|which provided that questions ari . “In October I was again arrested by the an ol rooming ing, the rations were dining rooms outside, but I. like the oth- inside and out, lost weight on them. Food packages from outside were per- eral weeks when I got nothing from out- side and some packages sent apparently “I had ons more hearing in Novem-|federal court action was expected ber, which was without result. At in-|purpose, in refusing to make the an- tervals after January first I was In-|nouncement, it is believed, was due ta it on the basis of trade negotiations or iIn exy- |was made. change for communist prisoners in All “ifs” or “ands” ahoul_ enforcement America. of Motor Vehicle Commissioner Stoeck- The st word of Immediate prospect of my ‘Worcester, Mass., and Joseph Marcort of EIGHT PAGES—56 COLS. 'FRICE TWO CENTS. EDERAL INJUNCTION HAS New State Law Conflicts sale Arrests. Bridgeport, July 31.—By a federal In- junction issued by Judge Edwin S. Thomas of the United States district court, officials of the state of Connecti- cut who-had set midnight tonight as the | zero hour for the enforcement of the new Connecticut jitney law are restrain- ed from making their contemplated moves for wholesale arrests and jitneye will_continue to operate in the state until August 16 at least when the offi- cials will have a clLance to be heard on the order. The temporary injunctim was grant- ed upon anplications of Attorneys R, E. Woodruff and Arthur Klein, of New I{a- ven, who called upon Judge Thomad at his home in Norwalk Saturday after- noon. The petitioners in a bill of; equity filed claimed that the' new state| law was in contravention of the Con-! stitution of the United States in that its; provisions, if carried out, would be in the nature of pronerty confiscation and an infringement unon the property rights | of American citizens without due pro- coss of law. {to me for a federal injunction to restrain |the state officials from enforcing jitney law. I have granted such an injunction | and have set August 16 as the date and| New Haven as the place when a hearinz | {will be had unon dissolving the order or | making it permanent. “In a bill of equity which has been! filed, the claim is made that the law denies the petitioners certain rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States and it will be unon such a claim that the hearing will be based. “There has been some misunderstgnd- ing as to how this matter reached the federal court When it was already be- fore Judge John E. Keeler in a state| court. Tt 15 of course due to the fact that entirely different questions are raised. I was away from home when! apnlication was made to Judze Keeler and 1 did not read the pavers contain- Judge Jo:n E. Keeler zust 16. out of the confliet of state laws With the United States Constitution might be the subject of hearing and decision. Un- i der this federal act, when heard at New Haven on Aug. 16, mi he arzued before a special court of the| TUnited States ng in this state for the first time. Circuit Judge Wade Rog-| ers, of New York, former dean of Yale law school, will be the presiding judge| and with him will sit Judge Thomas of the Connecticut district court and an other district judge, not yet selected probably from Vermont. = Judge R is of the Eastern District court of peals and while it & the other of his two associates on tha anpelate branch may sit, the provabill- ties are that Judge Rogers will be pres- ent. The !njunction hearing s by far the o ¥s—mot in a dungeon, | most mportant step in the procsedinzs by Britain, scoring more points than | ¢, {1 At o' time was T In a dun- [Jitneymen who learned of the move yes-| American vachts. The weather was|Cton And this wae my only solitary con. |terday expressed a great deal of sat-| SULAN v <] finement in Russia. I was removed on|isfaction over the course that had been | my own request to a general room, with |opened. “I think it is very fortunate A voluntary petiton ‘n bankruptcy | ¢, occupants varving from seven to [that we have been able to take the case| was filed at Boston by the Arcadia Print | the o e “PTURE U VR (G| fon & testimony to the United States! Works, wohse plant is in Arcadia, R. L |months. This building was not origl-|court,’ said one man who has heen in- Liab terested in the State Bus Owners' A ciation. “I would not think of reflect- ing in the slightest way upon any of| the very fine and able, honest men whe are judges of the courts in Connecticut, | but there is natural satisfaction in hav- Ing the issue go into an entirely neutral court. With the decision, whatever may be, will come complete satisfaction to both sides.” Although the granted Saturday, who Wwag interviewed would not confirm the fact but s injunction had b Attorney Woodru §, | Saturday a desire to inform the state ass of the success that had been. ach before vublic newspaper announcement el's order to arrest jitney operators are now set aside until after the federal court ,hearings which will be two weeks from tomorrow. Police Superintendent ‘Patrick J. Flanagan has not yet re- cevied the order wiich the motor vehicle commissioner announced Saturday he had sent to all police departments of the state and it was expected last night that it would be in Monday's mail. It is likely that the motor vehicle commis- sioner will at once telegraph all police departments to disregard his order | the radical ne: nossible that one or | which is nullified by thé injunction. There was no official potice in Bridge- port of the issuance of the order but service will protably be made today by a United States marshal upon the mo- tor vehicle commissioner as such and as head of the state police department which would enforce tha law. OFFICERS ARE RESTRAINED I FROM MAKING ARRESTS New Haven, Conn., July 31.—The in- junctior: issued by Federal Judge Thomas restraining officers of the state from ar- resting drivers of jitney buses acts as a fmer stay in denying the use of the streets and highways t> operators of such vehicles. Formerly the jitneys were operated un- der registration plates issued by the pub- lic utilities commission without any spe- cial regulaton. The last legislature en- acted a law giving the public utilities commission power to issued licenses to such jitney men as, in Its judgment, should be allowed to continue in business as furnishing necessary transportation. The law went into effect July 15, and the public officials gave the jitney cpe- rators an addition three days In which to procure their licenses, before making arrests One bus company, the New Ha- BEEN GRANTED JTAELRS State Officials Are Restrained From Enforcing the New Con- necticut Jitney Laws—Buses Will Continue o Operate Until August 16, When Officials Will be Given an Op- portunity to be Heard—Petitioners Maintain- That the With the Constitution of the United States—State Officials Had Planned For Whole- vent-Derby Bus Corporation, applied te of the superfor court for an injuncticn restraining the police from interfering with the opera- on of the jitneys but the application w: denied. The injunction granted by Fed- ral Judge Thomas, however, will have the egect of stopping tie arrest of Jit- nevs until after tre -earing sct for As BODY BELIEVED TO BE THAT OF MISSING NURSE Providence, R. I, July 31 of a woman, believed to be that of Miss Millis Oates, the Huntington, L. I, nurse who disappeared from her wtatee om on the steamer Georgia, between New York and this city, Friday nij was found thrown up against & pea -‘r:;‘ on the estate of Colonel G. IL. Shepley, in Warwick, this afternoon. K The absence of water in the woman's lungs and the presence of wounds in het head, to which the blood still adhered, The body has led the authorities to suspect fou! L-.uy and a rigid investigation has been cgun. 2 The disappearance of Miss Oates from the steamer was reported upon its arriv. al here yesterday. A search of her state- room teésulted in tie finding of a blus silk dress and a hand bag containing 41 cents and the address of persons fn Huntinzton. = The authorities now be- lieve Miss Oates must have had a large sum of money and that robbery may have n 2 motive for her murder. The body was thrown Up against the wall by the tide and was lying face dowanward, partially covered with sand, Had the wounds in the woman's head been caused by stones on the beach, med- ical authorities declare, no blood would have resulted. ANTI-WAR DE: TRATION AT IMPERIAL PALACE, BERLIN Berlin, July 31.—(By The A. P.)—In front of the lmperinl Palace in the Lustgarten, where Emperor William seven years azo made his famous war peech priof to the declaration of his- tes abainst Russia, a huge demonstra- on was held today. Ten thousand/red flags were flying, in contrast to the standard of the kaiser which was flown the day he made his speech. Thir'y speakers inveighed against war. il Intended as a general anti-war pyo- test meeting, it -Wwas turned into a so- ci omiqunist demonstration, the ra- d speak'rs invading the sacred pre- nts of the Dom Imperial Cathedral, the columns were decorated with red bunting. Anti-monarchist speakers ad- dressed the crowd from the steps of the cathedral, while boys and girls went among the throng selling the Rote Fahne, paper. Hundreds of cripe Dled soldiers in wheel chairs were <run- died about pleading for money to help ‘Red Russia.’ A majority of the crowd did not take part in the parade merely watching the radical demonstrators. Many of the pa- raders carried banners reading “no more war” The dem:nstration was confined chiefly to the bauor orzanizations, thirty of which were represented. WRELESS CONVENTION IN CHICAGO AUGUST 29 Hartford, Conn., J ment was made tqnigh quarters in city of thy American Ra- dio ¥ League, an orzanization of amateur iwireless operators, that plans are now complete for the first national wireless convention“to be held at Chi- cago in the five days beginning August Two thousand radio operators from foray-five states are expected to at- tend. Admiral Bullard will be present as the representative of Secretary!of the Denby, and the United States army sig- nal corps will have delegates in attend- 31.—Announce- at the head- ance. Secretary of Commerce Hoover will send a wireless message to the conver which, it is expected, will result jn the formulation of important ans for the extension of wireless me- in this country. ENIGHTS OF COLUMBUS/NOT FOR SUNDAY BLUE LAWS an Francisco, Calif., July 31.—fThe ghts of Columbus convention here week cannot consider an apneal re- ceived today from the International Re- form Bureau in Washington, D. C., ask- = co-operation in Sunday blus laws, it a3 announced by Supreme . Knight James A. Flahertr after a.meetinx of the board of directors of the order, Applications seeking establishment of of the organization in Rovs- a and Rumania, received today ens of those countries prob- not be granted, according to Advocate Joseph C. Pelletier of A service men in Knightsof Columbus z classes operated in marine and itary hospitals was opened today. CHAIN CANDY STORE CO. TO CUT PRICES 50 PER CENT. New York, July 31.—A cut of apprexi- mately fifty per cent. of all candy from gum drops to bon bons was announced today by a_chain of candy store com- panies, folldwing a =zeneral agitation against the high prices of ice cream, cold drinks and confectionery. Benjamin Millér, one of the company offici made public a memorandum in which he said had been sant to the na- tionaljconfectionery association. It sald: “It's time we t down to reason in this matter. We h2ve been making not 100 but 300 per cent. for a lmz:e. 4 This kind of business if kept up, create a panic™ RING GEORGE VISITS T. 8. BATTLESHIP UTAH Cowes, Isle of Wight, July 31 (By the A. P)—King George today was on Cnited States territory. This was when he visited the United States battleship Utah to return a visit paid him on the royal yacht Victoria and Albert by Viee Admiral Albert S. Niblac, commander of the American naval forces in n waters, who Is here to attend the Cowes regatta, which begins tomorrow.