Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 8, 1921, Page 1

- IRE OF SAM laborlaeuder(flnimThltHe_SlidethingioCaflForthe General’s Remark That /It Wasn't Labor That Won the War”—A. F. of L. President Regrets Lack of Tact of the . Famous Soldier, and Considers “His Generalship on the Battlefield Is Much Better After Dinner Speaker.’ Washigton, Sept. 7—General and Samuel Gompers had a tlit last night at a dinner given as the conclusion of the exercises here celebrating Lafayette- Marne day. whether labor won the war. Mr. Gompers had spoken as past the after-dinner program and while e did tell of the record %f the Am can Federatia\ of war and was with the cause of the allies. General labor had won th® war. who heard his remarks quote him having said substantially: “The polic this wepublic are not determined labor unions or by any other organiza- tlons, but the consensus of opinion patriotid icitizens of whatever fillations. “1 Wwant to Say is a pat labor organization or is just an ord citizen, and that it isn’t a question f labor unions, it isn't a question organization, it lsn't a question whether we belong to some associati or not it Persing | Persing’s speech. ' As An * ~ y POPULATION 29685 ERS“k Finding of Majority of Arbitra- Stock is Valueless tion . Board—William H. Taft, Representing the Ottawa, Sept. 7.—The common 'and preferred stock of the Grand Trunk Rail- way is worth nothing, in the ‘opinion of the majority of an arbitration board ap- pointed to determine what the dominion government: should pay stockholders be- cause of purchase of the system. The decision, ‘given by Sir Walter Cassels. Chairman of the board, and Sir Thomas ‘White, representative of the government, was made public today. William H. Taft, Later today Mr. Gompers issued the following statement At least official Washington ards it as a clash over the question made no claim that labor won the war Labor during the declared that previous to the try of the United States its sympathy Pershing apparently regard- ed Mr. Gompers' remarks as a claim that Some of those af- that every American ot, whether he belongs to some question of whether we are “General Pershing is quoted e newspapers today as having said it wasn't labor that won the war. ‘It seems to me itis time ‘for some one to say that it wasn't this association or that which won the war, it was the loyalty of all the straight forward American citizens _ which brought success to the allied cduse. “It is to be presumed that those who read the extrgct from General Pershing's speech at thd Lafayette-Marne day ban- quet concluded that in my address which preceded I had made the claim that la- bor won the war. “Of course I made no such statement and much as I regret the necessity for saying so there was no ground for the rather testy remarks of the leader whom we all admire and to whom we all owe a great debt. “With everything else contained in General's Persing’s speech 1 found my- self in full accord. I regret exceedingly that he should have made it necessary for me to make this.statement. 1 have been proud of the record of labor during the war. Tt was a magnificent record, unsurpassed by. labor anywhere, un- equalled by labor in any other country. I am proud that this record should have in the of he er- as les by of in- of of on loyal citjzens of the United States, It |heen made by American labor. That _] was tha citizens who inherited 'theiy [repeat and shall repeat whenever it patriotism from their forefathers who |seems opportune or necessary. ine and decide the independence America as well as those who have ad- nted American institutions as their own, It seems to be time for us to rise and say what shall erned by Ames rganizations whi clfish purposes to serve.” The incident however, did not dev: ©op into a debate and ended with General me across in the Mayflower and helped he ruled and gov- “I did not say that labor won the war. 1 offered no reason and no excuse in my remarks for what General Pershing had to say. I regret, as perhaps he himself now does, his”lack of tact, his impropriety. General Pershing is a brave and splendid soldier and I pay him the tribute of saying that his generalship on the battlefield is much better- than his generalship as an after-dinner speaker.” of up el- BIG CUT IN WAGES OF IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION BUILDIN TRADES, CHICAGO OF IMMIGRANT LEGISLATION Chicage, ‘Sept. T.—Judge Landis, sit-| Washington, Sept .7.—Permanent im- tmg as arbiter in the building trades | migration legislation will be considered wage controversy here today handed |by the house - immigration committee down a decision which made wage cuts | immediately after the présent recess, carying from 10 to 33 per cent. from|Chairman Johnson announced today. He for skilled workers. rs and architects declared it momentons ruling. most similar difficulties throughout t United States uniform rate of $1.25 an hour and predicted t wonld beeome the basis for set- predicted the law which . will plant the emergency act next would provide for selection aof grants by American . consular EntoRa RO IRGRION o The ‘Sbreentage restrictions by nations = and provision for selection of immigrants by Ameri- sup- Ju immi- agents. a he Officiale of the unions affected by the |can consular agents abroad, continua- wage reductions said a meeting of [tion of the percentage restrictions by nion representatives tomorrow will | nations and provision for voluntary reg- gest tted to ight. * “T a union mass meeting Frid feel thal réadjust them.” sald Officers of the carpenters’ which was not a party to the arbitra- t n agreement, a course of action to be ‘sub- . ir we can point to Judge Landig where in some of the wazes he fixed are unjust he will Thomas Kearney, president of the building trades coun- union, dec'ared their members istration of immigrants as they arrive and of aliens aready in the United States, Mr. Johnson has introduced a bill which {s exnected to be the’ basis of committee discussion. Under it pros- pective immigrants would be examined by American inspectors and physicians at_foréizn ports. It percentage restrictions are conp tinued, the chairman said, immigrants av will demand the old wage of $%1. an|from no country should be limited to but contractors asserted they |less than 1,200 a year, while the quota ofier the carpenters $1.10, the'from no nation should be more than rate =et for masons. 100.000- annually. . Eight of the forty-four building Registration of alfens, he said, should trades ruled wpon by Judge Landis will | “lead to citizenshin” through examina- receive 1 than 85 cents an hour and | tions, which he sald, could be held in ten cra whic hare in recefve seventy the cents. labori; cavating iaborer. teamsters Wl receive lesg than Ex- and composition roo’- nsidering the eimination of all re- ng | connection with annua’' “without the cumbersome. clumsy, ex- peneive and useless two witness system 70 | now in vogue” ons on labor saving ~machinery | PISABLED SCHOONER and materials save prison made, Judge TOWED INTO NEW BEDFORD Landis estimated the savimg in actual % per cent. 10 TO 20 PER CENT. DECREASE IN NEW Washington, ‘Sept. wage cent 7.—The new na the employes pay was of about 68,000 civili approved by Secreta Denby today. in general effect m « for similar work in all na s. According to the.report of 1 artmental wage board of review, t ised schedules will be four cen hour re an r higher trades, ommended are 45 per cent. higher th: than those in yre-war scales and estimates the cost v living at eighty per cent. higher tnan n 1913, The decreases broadly are 13 to Per cent. for artisans, ten per cent. for technical employes, 15 per cent. for certain other of the supervisory p iong, COENCSTETS S - I FINED %200 FOR TAKING DRINK OF LIQUOR IN ZION Waukegan Bwi Jon 1., Sept. 7.—Louis 15, also of Chicago, today plead: of building would be about twenty NAVY WAGE SCALE scale decreasing by 10 to 20. per Jhe new scales whRh be- . September 15 are made ess than prevailing wages for iroad trades and five cents per hour shipbuilding The board said the wages rec- for tlerks and supervisors and 20 per cent. Jr. of Chicago, don of the mil- re packer, and Dr. George E. Neo- New Bedford, Mass, Sept. 7.—The packet schooner Matthew 8. Greer, which called for assistance while off Newport yesterday on her voyage here with immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands, was towed into port late to- day by the coast guard cutter Acush- net. The Greer has been on her way since July, having lost her mainmast in a storm off Bermuda. She came north under a sloop rig, bringing 19 passengers, some of whom were women and children. v/ an ry vy he. he ts AMERICAN CHEMISTS FEAR INROADS BY GERMANY New York, Sept. 7.—The American Chemical Society today called on con- gress to eave by a selective embargo America's organic chemical industry, al- leged to be threatened with destrue- tion 0y Germany. 1% ! -This appeal was contalned in a res- olution adopted at a convention of the sgl:itly after Francis P. Garvan, former allen _property custodian, had charged in an address that the German cye mo- |nopoly controled certain members of cengress and that German agants were once more piotting agahist America’s seourity. The soclety also adopted a resoin- tion urging upon the coming disarma- ment conference “most serious consid- eration of the broad question of chem- ical disarmament as affected by the de- velopment an 20- . ed and maintenance of rthe ity to hawing taken a drink of al-|chemical industries by the several na. oholic liquor in Zion Saturday. Judge |tions™ Ll of the Lake county court fined hem $200 cach. The information alnst them was filed by State's At-|{SALE OF WAR STOCK SINCE orney A. V. Smith, whose home was ARMISTICE TOTALS $1,457,846,000 Yecently bombed as a reprisal against his fight on an alleged “booze ring.” PORTLAND MAN DROWNED | IN PARK IN MERIDEN { Meriden, Conn, Sept. 8§ —William Kane of Main street, Portland, Conn., in a lake at an amuse- nt park here shortly after midnight. Tile walking along a path he slid ‘With three Meriden last hight to spend the evening at the park. ras drowned Bown a steep embankment. other men he éame to ¥he body has bBeen recovered. prme ey s Mo GREEK PLANES BOMBARDED ANGORA RAILWAY STATION Athegs, Sept. unication jssued today. 7.—Greek airplanes rried out a successful bombardment | They had a_capacity of 15,000 tons f the Angora rajlway station on Sep- ember 5, according to an official com- ‘Washington, Sept. 7.—War materials sold by the war department last week totalled $1,599,000, making a total revenue. ' $ 46,000 from sale of salvaged and lus stock since the armistice. In making the announce- ment today Secretary Weeks said about two billlon dolars worth of materials still were on hand, including $600,000,- 000 worth of ammunition. — STANDARD OIL CO. GETS REFINERIES NEAR TRIESTE Trieste, Sept. 7.—The Standard Oil Company has acquired possession of the oll refineries at San Sabba, nearTrieste. Prior to the war these refimeries” were operated with Galician ,and’ Baku oils. illuminating petroleum, of benzine, registrations |/ ~of ¢ 12,000 tons of ' lubricants and. paraffin and 3,000 tons: the other member of the board, who heard arguments ii the matter before becoming chief justice of the United States, dissents, Tepresented the com- pany. . “There is no value in any of the four claims of stocks,” says the ma- jority decision. 3 It calls attention to the argument: of counsel for the government that “the accounts of the Grand Trunk System have been so manipulated as to render the accounts as presented by the books “that for reasons of his own, dividends were paid when the knowledge of the chairman there were no earnings ap- plicable to the payment of such divid- ends; and those moneys so paid were diverted ‘from paying claims due the government.” “If these arguments have any weight,”|. the decision continues, “then the deal- ings referred to would effectually des- troy any value to-be derived from stock market quotations” by -the board in reaching a decision. Mr. Taft in his minority decision fixed 10 value for the stock but said the share- holders were entitled to some considera- tion. He said the great mistake of the shareholders was the association of the old company with the construction of the Grand Trunk Phcific. “Had thepolicy dictated from London been as wise and efficient as the man- agement in Canada,” he said, “the fate of the Grand Trunk would have been different.” It is expected that the Grand Trunk Will exercise its right!of appeal to the supreme court or to the privy council against. the award, TRAIN DYNAMITED EIGHT MILES OUT OF ATLANTA Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 7.—An Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic freignt train was dynamited within eight miles of Atlanta tonight, according to reports to police station, which said several persons were injured. Un- confirmed reports were that the en- gineer had been killed. 3 FUNERAL SHIP' DAUNTLERS HAS SAILED ¥OR NEW YORBK Plymouth, England, Sept. 7.—The Eritish warship Dauntless slowly steam- ed out of Plymouth harbor this after- noon with the bodies of Commander Louis H. Maxfield and fourteen of his felloWw officers and men, who lost their lives in the disaster which befell the glant dirigible ZR-2 at Hu.l two wéeks ago. 5 As the funeral ship started om its Vvoyage to New York the guns of the outer harbor fortifications boomed a fareweel in homor of the Americans Wwho.a few weeks ago were anticipating 2 return home aooard the new Ameri- can serial giant. The bodies of only fourteen will reach the United States, however, as the ‘wish of Commander Emory Coil to be buried at sea will be complied with. The body of the sixteenth American yictim, that of John T. Hancock, will be buried inr London. He was born in England and his parents are resi- dents“of London, A naval guard'of 200 men, the super- intendent of the doek yard, three com- missioned officers from each ship in the harbor and representatives of each flo- tilla of the naval establishment partici- pated in the transferal _of the bodies from the train to the cruiser. All flags were fiying at half-mast. HARDING HONORARY PRESIDENT PRESS CONGRESS New York, Sept. 7.—President Hard- ing has accepted the honorary prasi- dency ,of the Press Congress of the ‘World to be held in Honolulu next month. This announcement was made to- night by Dr. Vigilio Rodriguez Beteta, vice president of the executive commit- tee of the congress. Ho added that a representative of the Marion Star, Mr. Harding's paper, would preside in his Name at several sessions. Questions coming up for discussion | include: - What training s necessary for®jour- nalists? S, To what extent is freedom of the press’ desirable, yghat are its 'rational ‘imits and what are the best meas- ures to preserve its freedom? ‘What are the most efficient ways to obtain a better exchange of news be- tween nations? Are journalists subject to obligations of an international character? Exchange of journalits among na- tions. 800 MINERS ARE ENCAMPED OUTSIDE ELIZABETHTOWN, ILLS. Elizabethtown, IV's, Sept. 7 (by the A. P.)—Eight hundred miners from El- dorado and nearby coal fields are en- camped within thirty miles of this town tonight, prepared to march on this' city and Rosiclare tomorrow, lead- ers of the men told an Associated Press correspondent who located their camp today. ‘ Reinforcements on the way from the coal fields will bring the invading army to more than 1,000 men, it was said. Deputy -sheriffs and private deten- tives clashed with the outposts of the miners who held up two trucks and three men at the Hog Thiefs Ford on the Harrisburg road this afternoon. The miners retreated, leaving' four prison- ers and three automobi'es in.the offi- cers' hands. FITH AND SIXTH BATTLESHIP DIVISIONS AER AT NEWPORT Newport, R. I, Sept. 7.—The fifth ond sixth battleship divisions of .the Atlantic fleet, commander by Rear Ad- miral. Hilary P. Joaes, arrived here- to- day and wiil remain until Monday grounds, .of ‘Reconstruction, when they' lesve for the southern drill jard the robbers left Negotiations in the United States for a ‘loan of $16,0001000 have been terminated by the Salvadorean government. The first frost of the sesson, an ex- tremely light one, was reported from the lowlands in the vicinity of O'Neeill, Nbr. Birmingham, Ala., and Pittsburgh, Pa. ‘were chosen for the biennial conventions of the American Chemical Society, in 1922, ! Divisional headquarters for the or- ganized ' reserves of Connecticut and Rhode Island, are to be established in Hartford. Police and Federal authorities eap- tured Joseph Urbaytis one of the three post office robbers who escaped from the Toledo jail. The Guaranty Trust & Savings Co., of Jacksonville, Fla., closed its doors temporarily, to permit the collection of outstanding loans, | Irish Conservati Favui Aecentance Send ' Letter to Eamon De Valera and Members of His Cabinet. Dublin, , Sept. 7—(By the A. P.)— Activity is apparent in moderate Irish circles to prevent a rupture of negotia- tions and the rejection of the terms un- til the precise significance of Premier Lbyd George's offer is definitely as- certained. Sir Horace Piunkett, who was chairman of the Dublin convention, and Captain Harrison, ahairman of the Do- minion league today addressed a joint letter to Eamon De Valera and the mem- bers of the vabinet. I= the letter they Chicago children returned to schoel’say to find that moving pictures had been substituted for books in the study of history and geography. Seven college students left Chicago, to attempt to cross Lake Michigan in a rowboat, a feat they believe has never before been accomplished. Munson Line steamer was seized by United States authorities at Mobile.” It is charged 118 quarts of liquor was found on board the boat. Elbert H. Gray, Chairman of the Unit- ed States Steel Corporation, ~announced that he would leave Wednesday for a month’s pleasure trip in Mexico. Profits of the Chicago Surface Lines have averaged more than a million dol- lars a wonth this year, the total for the first seven meonths being $8,512,515. There were 10,620 bales offered at the Wool Auction Sales in London. It was a superior selection, the demand was good and prices were firm and in sellers’ fav- or. Hade (Tiger) Gaulding, 21 years old, died in a Kansas City, Kansas, hos- pital yesterday from injuries 'supposed to have been received Monday night in a six-round, boxing bout in that eity. Plans for aiding New York's Army of 500,000 unemployed were taken up at a meeting of .the new industrial aid bureau, created by the New York legis- lature. The Swiss government infgrmed the United States government that it was agreeable to the nomination of Joseph C. Grew as American minister to Swit- zerland. 3 A mutiny has broken out in the gar- rison at Kronetadt Fortress, near Petro- grad, and food riots are rcported taking place in Petrograd, accord:nglo reports from Warsaw. Gold eoin and buliion and silver bars having an estimated valye ‘of $8,000,000 were received at New York from Ger- many, France,.Turkey, GEypt and Latin American countries. y Army engineers, in report submitted to Congress, said improvement of the Hudson River from its mouth to Hud- son, N. Y., 116 miles upstream, was in- advisable at present. The peace portal erected here s symbolic of the peace boundary between the United States. and Canada, 3,000 miles long and 107 years old, was de- dicated Tuesday afternoon. Imperative instructions for economy in prepar’ng the new goverament estimates for the next fiscal year's appropriations have been given all departments heads it was said at the White House. New York will lave one theatre next season which patrons can enter assured that no patriarchal jokes will be inflicted upon their ears. It will be a pantomime theatre, the first of its kind on Broadway. Charles Richter died in the hospital at Stamford, Conn., from a bullet wound inflicted, it is claimed, by Special Officer George Dann, during an altercation at Mission Hall, in the south end, last night. Harry L. Johnson, brother of George F. Johnson of the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Co., and general manager of the shoe company in Johnson City, N. Y., died of apoplexy in a-camp at New Brunswick. No action is expected for several days .on the announcement by the Pennsylvania railroad that it would not comply Wwith recent 'decisions of the rairoad labor board regarding rules conferences. Ten hours were elipped off the steam- ship record between Rio de Janiero and New York by the steamship American Legion which arrived at New York. The new record stands at 12 days-and 12 hours. The New Yorw stock exchange com- mittee on business conduct yesterday absolved exchange members from any connection With the false ticker réport on August 25 which caused Mexican Petroleum to break sharply. . A series of conferences between rep- Tesentatives of the International Long- shoremen’s Association and operatars of foreign steamship lines for a new wage scale, effective October 1, were commenced in New York yesterday. Chairman Sydney Anderson said ‘William G. McAdoo, Bernard M. Baruch, and Henry Ford may be asked to testi- fy when the Senate and House Agricul- tural Commission begin an. investigation on profiteering 13 farm products. Final payment of the presbyterian church’s share of the debt of the inter- church world movement debt, amounting to $583,365.77, was announced officially today by Dr. George B. Stewart, -acting stated clerk of the presbyterian church. J. P. Morgan and: Company, financial agents for the Interborough.Papid Tran- sit Company, announced . that renewals on the company’'s $38,144.400 worth of three years: seven per .cent gold bonds to next September 1 had reached a total of §33,000,000. TUnder a seccret agreement negotiated by Walter Rathenau, Germany Minister and M. 'Loucher, Minister. for. the liberated regions. Ger- many. has pledged to - furnish France Wwith 7,000,000,000 gold marks in currency and- materials during the - next three years. Bronx Iee Cream: Ce., of New York i City, was robbed by five bandits of $2,- 000 in cash. The, turglars biew open the safe and lel: a nie of checks i neat . stacks. -The Southern. Ice - Cream Co., of New York, was 73%+4 c? $1.41.0, & nile :f checks &z 5 stacked -neatly. - “Ireland would be well advised to ac- cept dominion status, if it implies, as we believe it must, full legislative and executive and economic independence, and imperial relationship, functioning as to policy and action by cooperation found- ed on mutual agreement arrived at by consent and carrying with it direct rep- resentation the imperial conference in and the league of nations. “It would reascnably follow that true acceptance by solemn treaty of do- minion status by lreland would be ac- complished by extension of concurrent agreements to regulate cooperation be- tween Ireland and the other units of the empire in all necessary matters. They proceed to argue that the prime minister offered dominion status in ex- press terms, subject to six conditions, which appeared to indicate that there were questions that might be adjusted by agreement. They voice the belief that Mr. ‘De Valera must have some special informa- tion derived from his conference wi Mr. Lloyd George and they invite him to take the public into his confidence. They clearly shcw they believe that on the documents made public domin- ion status rule for Ireland can be ob- tained, and are anious to know the grounds for Mr. De Valera's contrary poinion. SINN FEIN COURIER 1S BEARI BRITISH REPLY Inverness, Scotland, Sept. 7—(By the A. \P)—A decision whign may mean peace or war with Ireland was taken by the British cabinet at an all-import- ant meeting here today. The government's reply to Eamon De Valera, the Irish republican leader, unanimously approved by the ministers, has been dispatched to Dublin through the intermediary of Robert C. Barton, the Sinn Fein courier who carried the Dail Eireann's message to Premier Lloyd George and who was brought into the council chamber while the council was in session. The nature of the government's de- cision has not been made known, but it Is not necessary to await publication of the reply tomorrow to realize that an important step forward has been taken. Directly after the ministers had reached their decision came the an- nouncement that a committee consisting of the ministers now in Scotland has been appointed with full power to deal with the situation the moment Mr. De Valera's further answer arrivaes.” The committee comprises the premier, Austen Chamberlain Earl Curzon, Sir Laming Worghington-Evans, Winston Spencer Churchill, Edward Shortt, Reb- ert Munro, Lord Birkenhead, Sir Hamar Greenwond and Sir Robert Stevenson Horne. 3 This is taken to mean that the gov- ernment has appointed the committee of ministers to meet the Irish plenipo- tentiaries, should My. De Valera be readv to proceed on that course. "It is contended that if in the opinion of the cabinet a rupture of the negotiations was likely to follow today's decision it would hardly be necessary to apoint a cabinet committee to deal with the sit- uation. Naturally the possibility that the eab- inet may have decided to impose a time limit for negotiations to start is not precluded. In this consction it is re- called that unofficial intimations have been givej from Dublin of the names of the men who would likely be appointed plenipotentiaries. OPTIMISM IN TRELAND ON CONTINUATION OF NEGOTIATIONS Dublin, Sept. 7—(By the A. P.) — Word from Inverness that the British cabinet had “appointed a committee to deal with Mr. De Valera’s reply lends strength to the optimism in Dublin that the negotiations will not be broken, members of the Sinn Fein continue to profess confidence in'the ultimate result, and declare that they do mot expect re- newal of the warfare. While there has been little publie eriti- cism here of the method of conducing the negotiations, some of the Sinn Feiners have expressed themselves in private that while they realize Mr. De Valera is striv- ing for the best settlement possible, there | has been overmuch weight attached to what they consider non-essentials, such as naval and. air service arrangements. In their opinion more attention should be given to freedom of trade, for which Ire- land is anxious anfl to the question of Ireland’s share in the natidnal debt and Ireland’s contribution to the imperial treasury. On all these matters, it is pointed out, there is a possibility of bar- gaining with the British government. DE VELERA IS INVITED TO SEND DELEGATES London, Sept. 8.—The British cabinet has invited Mr. De Valera to send dele- gates to a conference with the cabinet ministers at Inverness on September 20,| according to the Daily Mail's Inverness corrrespondent, who adds: “Only ‘one condition is imposed, name- ly, the understanding that Ireland must remain within the empire.” GANGSTERS FIGHT POLICE IN THEATRE DISTRICT, NEW YORK New York, Sepjt. 7.—O- 2 was shot in the arm and the lives of scores of kheatre-goers were endangered to- night when detectives and gangsters ex- changed some fifty shots in a running fight through the theatre district. The gangsters, who -had been under police suspicion for , some time, were accom- panied by a woman and all escaped when their automobile ' eluded the detective's touring car in the after-theatre traffic confusion. A $3,000 DIAMOND WAS FOUND IN CHICKEN'S CRAW South Gloucester, N. J., Sept. 7.— A chicken . with an uncontrclable appetite ‘was killed today for-Mrs. Edwin Bloome's table. In the bird's craw Mrs. Bloome found her $3.000 diamond, Of Lloyd George’s Offer—‘ TAX SUGGESTIONS TODAY Be On Hand to Discuss Will Estimates As Revised by the White House—Mr. Mellon Has Favored One Cent In- t;leaseinFintClmPoshge,Shl;xpTuofTwoCenh On Bank Checks, Gradyated License Tax On Automo- biles to Average $10 Yearly and Increased Levies on Cig- arettes and Smoking and Chewing Tobacco. ‘Washington, -Sejt. 7.—Secretary Mel- lon's suggestions for tax revision which Wwere abandoned by the house ways and means committee after the intervention of President Harding will come up again tomorrow before the senate finance com- mittee. Mr. Mellon will be on hand pre- pared to discuss those suggestion, the estimates as revised after the White House conference on August 9, and the tax bill as passed by the house. The senate committee completed pre- liminary consideration of the house meas. ure today, but decided to postpone any decision on the various changes made by the house until after the treasury secretary had been heard. Mr. Mellon said today he would have no prepared statemient for the committee, but the Senators will have before them treasury tables showing estimated revenue yields and government expenditures. Suggestions originally presented to the house commijttee by Mr. Mellon were built around an estimated tax yield re- quirement of approximately - 000 next year, or some $750.000,000 more than provided for in the house bill. They contemplated new sources of revenue such as a one cent increase in first-class vostage, a stamp tax of two cents on each bank check and a graduated license tax on automobies to average ten dollars vearly for each machine; and ncreased levies on cigarettes and smoking and chewing tobacco to yield an additional $50,000,000 annually. The original total tax yleld as by Mr."Mellon is approximately that which some members of the senate com- mittee ‘believe will be necessary nevt vear. Others, and particularly the de- mocrats are of the opinion now that ap- proximately four billions of dollars will have to be raised from internal taxes unless the government is to face a huge deficit at the end of this fiscal year. In this connection some committee democrats indicated today that they de- sired to question the treasury secretary tomorrow as’to the purpose of the au- thorization contained in the house meas- ure for the treasury to issue an addition. al $500,000,000 in siort dated securities. They desire to know, they said, whethes secretary in the belief that the deficif under the house tax measure would fotal such a sum. After Secretary‘Mellon has been heard tomorrow the committee will get dows to revising the house measure and con- sidering general questions of policy, suck as the sales tax and other new levy sug- gestions. It was understood that Senator Smoot, republican, Utah, informed the committee today that he would present his sales tax plan. There also has been some talk of a proposal for 'a manufacturer's tax on a limited scale, but some of the ma- jority leaders do not believe .these will be incorporated in the measure as final- Iy drafted. TO DISCONTINUE DEALING IN INDEMNITY CONTRACTS Chicago, Sept. 7.—The Chicago Board of Trade today adopted an araendment to the rules of the association providing for the discontinuance in dealing in in- A:amnily contracts. The vote was 515 to 1 Joseph P. Griffin, president, and oth- er officers of the board had urged the membership to _discontinue indemnity contracts as a means of co-operating Wwith federal authorities in carrying out the provisions of the Capper-Tincher law. This ‘aw which places a heavy tax on deals in indemnity contracts, does not, however, became effactive for nearly four months. Mr. Griffin declared that whlle sach contracts at times serve a useiul eco- nomic function, the board's decision (o eliminate them was in line with public opinion in the grain trade itseif as wen as in legislative centers. “Today's action wag a clear Indica- tion of the grain trade’s earnest de— sire to co-operate in enforcemcnt of the new law,” Mr. Griffin said With only five dissenting association adopted a new mse lishing trading in cottonseed oil, A new feature here. The association also made a rule making No. 3 rye deliverable cn contract. the CONFERENCE ON PROPOSED WAGES FOR LONGSHOREMEN New York, Sept. 5—A ten per cent cut in wages was proposed by represent- atives of the International Longshore- men’s Association at a conference to- day with a committee of the American Steamship Owners’ Association on the proposed new wage scale effective Oc- tober 1. The steamship men submitted an agreement providing for a cut in wages from 80 cents an hour straight time and $1.30 an hour overfme under the eisting contract, to 55 ccnts an hour straight time an $1 an hour overtime. The longshoremen proposed a rate of 72 cents an hour straight time and $1.03 an hour overtime' as the basis of a new agreement. The steamship men came out for a nine hour day. The longshoremen were firm for an eight hour day. If the eight hour day becomes an issue, the steamship men said the working day would not include any overtime. Fred- erick Toppin, vice president of the In- ternational Mercantile Marine Company. who presided, said another meeting with the longshoremen would probably take place net week. AUTO-ORDNANCE MATCH OF RIFLE ASSOCIATION Camp Perry, Ohio, Sept. 7.—Prelimin- ary bulletins tonight on the result of the -ordnance mafch in the National Rifie Association’s contests gives the fol- lowing results: W. Adams, Mass, National first; James Tupper, United States In- fantry, second; Manansalla, Philippine Scouts, third; L. A. Barego, Philippine Scout, fourth; C. B. Byrd, Cavalry En- gineer Organization, fifth. Each con- testant had a possible fifty and are shoot- ing off ties for their respective positions. Preliminary bulletins on the Sigmund Eisner match give John B. Becker, Min- nesota National Guard, first place with a possible of fifty. The next nineteen entrants had strings of 49 each. C. T. Carney, Des Moines, Iowa, civil- ian, landed first in the Peters match with a possible of fifty and 31 balleyes additional giving him a total of 41 bull- eyes. T. E. Vereer, Upited States In- fantry, was second with a possible and 15 additional bulleyes. Guard, RUBBER COMPANIES HAVE VOTED TO CONSOLIDATE Springfield, Mass, Sept. 7.—Stock- hoders of the F.Jk Rubber Company and Federal Rubber Company in a meeting here today votéd to consoli- date the two companies and alkso to take over the Ninigret Company, a sub- sidiary. The consolidation ~ will take the name of the Fisk Rubber Company. It ajso was voted to issue $10,000,000 of bonds. REJECT THE AMENDMENT PROPOSED BY ARGENTINA Genev~ Sept. 7.—(By the A. P.).—The committee on amendments of the assem- bly of the League of Nations, on a mo- tion of Charles Noblemaire, the French delegate, today decided to reject the amendment to the League proposed by Argentina_ providing that all soverieign states should be members of the league lost !uurl unless by their own: volition they ab-|ths from membership, stained _— COTTON MARKET BREAK WENT THE LIMIT, 206 POINTS New York, Sept. The ket collapseG>today after a furious opening in which futures showed ad- vancks of 130 to 172 voints, some soars ing as high as 188 points above yes- terday’s close. The violent break sent prices down 200 points, the limit per- mitted for any one day's fluctuations. The close was weak with the lowest rices of the day, October finishing at 19.50 and January at 19.75. The break came after- quotations crossed 21 cents a pound for al months and exceeded 22 cents for distant de- cotton mar- liveries. The rise was attributed partly to another sensational Liverpool _ad- vance. The drop started when it be- came apparent that big interests, whick had bought at much lower figures, were letting go their ootton. Prices erum- pled under the strain of large offeringt in the last hour until the trading limits Were reached, The fall gave the market the unique experience of Waving reached the 200 point limit in {wo consecutive days, the Up side yesterday and the down side tod: There was no change in the news to account for the break. It was simply @ case of an overbought condition, PRICES OF CIGARS ARE REDUCED IN SPRINGFIELD Springfield, Mass, Sept. —Whole- sale prices on the cheaper grade of cigars manufactured in the Springfieid district have been reduced two cents each, following a voluntary reduetion in Wwages of §2 pér thousand by the Ci- garmakers Union. A wage reduction of $1 a thousand on the better grades was not reflected in the .wholesale - prices becanse manufacturers say Sumatra tobacco prices have advanced. Under the old waze scale the price of the cheaper cigars were in a grade which made the revenue tax on both grades the same, and the new scals of prices makes it possible to save $3 a thous- and in revenué taxes Manufacturers promised that with the vountary reduction in wages they would re-employ all cigarmakers who had been laid off. CHILE CLAIMS PROTECTION OF THE MONEOE DOCTRINE —The Ch¥ean protest filed on September 3 made pub todzy. declares that e 21 of the covenant of the leagme of nations amounts to a formal recog- { nition of the Monroe doctrine, accord- ing to which the American nations and consequently the assembly cannot inter- fere in a question exclusively affecting the countries of the new world. The assembly received the first offi- cial communication from Soviet Russia today when a Russian trade delegation from London filed the agreement re- cently signed between the soviet gov- ernment and the American refef ad- ministration. The 4 tion alzo filed facts concerning the Russian famine and an outline of sters taken to alle viate eneva, Sept. Gto the league, and SURVEY OF GOVERNMENTAL ‘Washington, Sep! —The survey of governmental departments with a view to a reorganization that will promete greater efliciency has been practically completed by the joi congressiona! commission on re-organization. The commission, headed. by Walter A. Brown, of Ohlo. it was esaid today, =oon wil' bégin the drafting of its rec- ©ommendations. Half a dozen points of aMference have arisen in the commission over dis- vosition of some of the governmental functions, it was understood. Members of the commisslon, however, were =ald to have reached an accord on a major- ity of the“important questions. . None would indicate what its determinations Were or on what questions a controver. sy had developed. —— R S 1,000 MILITIAMEN FIGHTING FIRES IN MINNESOTA St. Panl, Minn, Sept. 7.—Reports of rain faMing in the western part of the forest fire area mnear McGrath and Whitepine. the latter of which was 8e- stroyed yesterday, encourazed officlals to believe that the check put upen the flames could be maintained. All-night efforts at back firleg ard cutting of fire lines by the 1,000 miif- tiamen and vounteers gave the« fire fighters the upper hand early In’ Fay f "‘a e Videaws, ataving e v