Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 28, 1921, Page 1

VOL. LXIlI—NO. 236 PO?‘ULATION 29,685 ~ NORWI CONN., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 192)1 TEN PAGES—70 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS. BITTER FIGHT DEVELOPS ON TAX REVISION IN SENATE “Sweeping and Radical Amendments” Are to Be Ottered by the Democrats—Objections to Specific Sections of the Bill Also Come From the Republican Side of the Senate . Chamber, Senator Lenroot Proposing Amendments to the Income Sur-Tax Provision—Complete Revision of Tariff Improbable at This Special Session of Congress. ‘Washington, Sept. 27.—Tax revision legislation was put under way today in the senate with indications of a bitter fight to come over the more important provisions of the measure » finance committee. en by Senator Carolina, ranking the committee, that “sweeping amendmen ould be offer- the democrats and he added that sponsor for the manufacturers' would acecept those amendments deration wounld he given to such a sales tax as a part of the demo- ratie scheme provided such a levy should ve necessary In order to raise the reported by Simons, of minority radieca by the <ales needed revenus. Objections to speclfic sections of the from the republican, as well democratic side of the chamber Senator Lenroot, of Wisconsin, a member of the agricultural proposed amendments to the In- ax provisions under which would be continued up to omes exceeding §100.- ernate proposal of a came the Hlican per cent. levy incomes of from $100.- ot 0.000 and a sixty per cent r se above $300.000 ng the bil. up under an agree- pt uncontested committee nts original house meas- cenate made considerable pro- <= on proposed changes to some of the None of the levy was passed upon, however, ob- being made in each case. Con- «deration of the bill under this same will be continued tomorrow Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, ar measure, gave notice would seck to have the senate hour ear] r each day in order considemation, of the legisla- The amendments to be offered by the | vator Simmons said, would | be designed to “produce something like uniformity of taxation between the dif- ferent classes and groups of tax payers in this country and will remedy some of the class discriminations which reek throughout the bill” He added that “the favoritism which this bill displays to- wards the corporgtions of the count ard against the partnerships and ind viduals is so great that most of the part- nerships will dissolve to incorporate and every individual in the country who can, it possible, would like to convert his op- erations into corporate form.” Important provisions of the bill pass- ed over today for future consideration in- cluded those reducing the sur-tax rates to thirty-two per cent.: increasing life insurance companies; granting additional exemptions to heads of families having incomes of $5.000 or less and on ac- count of dependents; defining f¢feien trade and foreign trade corporation exempiing from the corporation tax la- bor, agricultural or horticultural organ- izations mutual savings banks not hav- ing a capial stock represented by shares. domestic building loan associa- tions “substantially all the business of which is confined to making loans to members,” and reads: ing out the house proposal making the salaries of the president and the judges of the federal courts exempt from taxa- tion,, Among ameriments offered to the bill during the day was one by Senator Mc- Nary, republican, Oregon, proposing to reduce the tax on expr=ss packages from one cent to half a cent for each twenty cents or fraction of the amount paid. Under another amendment by Senator McKellar, democrat, Tennessee, the treas- ury department would be authorized to accept long time interest hearing bonds from foreign nations to which loans have been made’ by the United States. The treasury secretary would be directed al- =0 to obtain similar bonds for past due Interest, REVISION OF TARIFF NOT PROBABLE AT THIS SESSION hingtcn, Any expectation special session of congress will Sept. able complete a permanent re- sion of the tariff before its termina- t n December is understood to hav heen abandoned by most high administra resent belief in administranton v at as soon as tax legisla- leted and the treaties with v stria and Hungary disposed | 1l devote, its attention to n measures authorizing r i of foreign loans and relief (ilway situation T! slar session of congress how- OSECUTION E THE ST IN ARBUCKLE HEARING —The district te today in the rge hear- | ground that developed beinz held to defense ob- that Mrs. | 1. Delmont, the complaining | 1 put on the stand. | ed a motion to dis- sinst Arbuckle and tinued until tomorrow | nguez for the the fact ently to Prevost and Alice Miss Rappe, dying. He that Arbuckle had told | or he would “throw r Shut up or I'll throw ndow” was the version of A s rex by Miss Blake, while A evost d, “If you don't stop | throw you out the window. Arbuc administered Miss Prevost saving he remark, “That'll | The prosecution, however, | from Miss Blake which there had been another ncident was told of by Jo- Kesa, a maid at the hotel who 2t corridor heard 1219, the roe by other witnesses as ti Miss Ra entered with A woman's voice crying, “No, no, Oh, from room followed .a masculine g to Mrs. Kesa, who said | she screaming all afternoon in | room i219," and music dancing and | 20 mming” in room 1220, where the P assembled. you listen in the corridor?” as mingquez. heard the scream, I ran and e replied. ANDREW ELECTED IN THE SIXTH MASSACHUSETTS RBo: Sept. 2 A. Platt Andrew, senuiblican, formerly assistant secretary ¥ the treasary, was today elected to songress from the Sixth Massachusetts | listrict a majority of approximately | n r Charles 1. Pettingell, the femocratic candidate. The complete vote was: Andrew, | ' ‘ Pettingell 6.792, Althougu the vote was light, the ra- %0 did not dfer greatly from that of D=t r when t sidentinl contret) (Aded interest, the fieures for 1920 ' ha 47.231 for Laufiin, republican, | ind for his a~sment, John P.| >onnell of Salem (liberal labor and| lemocratic.) OBITUARY Tred W. Sargent Broekton, Mass, Sept. 27.—Fred W. largent. editor of the Brockton Fair news yrominent in the shoe trade with Tol- nan, Inc., of Brockton and Boston and pr some year formerly with the Boston ferald, died this afternoon. He was 53. Je was a native of Nrth Bridgewater, ic was weil known as a_humorist and rrote Iyries of several comic operas lice and elsewhere alout 20 1it DAIL CABINET TO A IN MA SSEMBLE SION HOUSE THURSDAY Dublin, Sept. 27—(By the A. P.)—The Dail cabinet wil lassemble in the Mansion House Thursday to consider the reply of Prime Minister Lloyd George to Eamonn De Valera's latest communica- tion it was announced here tonight (Mr. Lloyd George's renly will be made public Wednesday, according to a Lon- don announcement.) With reference to the uneasiness cre- ated in certain quarters of Dublin, where it is suggested that the decision to remobilize the B Specials In Ulster is a breach of the truce, sald today that the withdrawal of B Specials at the commencement of truce was not In fulfillment of the terms of the truce but merely an act of grace with the hope of creating a better feeling. a high official the MEMBERS OF KU KLUX KLA) DISMISSED AS JUKORS Muskogee, Okla., 27.—Questions as to whether they were members of the Ku Klux Klan were directed to prospec- | tive jurymen here today by counsel for a negro charged with larceny cf livestock, Three veniremen wre said to have ad- mitted membership in the Klan and two were dismissed. Judge B. B. Wheeler ruied that in the future the question ould not be permitted unless so word- ed as to eliminate definite reference to | the organization. WORKING 1IN FOR CANADA PROTECTIVE TARIFF Portage, La. Prairie, Manitoba, Sept 27.—A protretive tariff, to safeguard Canada’s industries in world-wide com- petition, was made a political issue to- night by Premier Arthur Meighen in an adcress formally opening his election campaign. He declared any nation that believed could compete with another country enjoying protection, while its own ba riers were down, was ssurning the les- sons of two hundred years SHOT AND KILLED WHILE RESISTING ARREST Renssaeler, Ind., Sept. 27—Adam Schroeder, 29, of Chicago. was shot and killed today at a rooming hous® in a clash W h local and county officers. More than fifty shots were exchanged. Schroeder openad fire on Sheriff T. | Woodworth of Jasper county, when the officer entered the house to arrest him on a charge of having written threatsn- ing letters to the sheriff and chief of police. Woodworth was shot in the thigh. . ARREST OF TWELVE MEN FOR ROBBING FREIGHT CARS White Plains, N, Y., Sent. Twelve men, sald by officers of the state con- stabulary to be members of a state- Wwide gang which has stolen millions of dollars worth of merhandise from freight cars, were under arrest here to- day. Four railroad employes were ar- rested last night charged with particl_ pating in the theft of merchandise from the North White Plaing yards. Eight other men were taken into custody sev- eral days ago. 2 HEINEKEN WANTS TO ENOow WHO IS PARTNERS WERE New York, Sept. 27—Philipp Heineken, president ¢f the North German Lloyd Steamship Company, arived toady on the George Washington and announced he would apnfer with the United States Shipping Board as to the contract his line had with the United States Mail Steamship Company. The latter com- pany ceased to operate when its mnine passenger vissels were reclaimed by the ehipping board. Mr. Heineken said he wanted to know who his partners were, PEOPLE OF NORTH IRELAND TN HAVE THEIR OWN COURTS Belfast, Sept. 27—Sir James Craig, the Ulster premier, announced in pariia- ment this afternoon that beginning next Saturday ‘the old judletary systom will be discardod throughout Ircland and that the people of north Irecland will have thelr own courts, - The scation strik- | How Chicago Police Would Confiscate, Sell, Exact Money For Protection Upon Delivery and Later Raid. Chicago, Sept. 27.—A multiple shake down system through which Chicago po- licemen were alleged to have obtained as many as half a dozen rake-offs on the same case of whiskey was revealed today in the government investigation of the police department said by Chief of Police Charles Fitzmorris to contain 2,500 bootleggers in a membership of 5,000. The request of Chief Fitzmorris that the federal authorities help him clean his own housq made last week, was plac- ed before the federal grand jury with a score of witnesses, most of them police- men. testifying. ficials, down. ganized in bands, he information as to whiskey from other cities into Chicago and then explained the multiple liquor. cheap bootlegzing prices, the itin case lots. When the lig livered, however, a policeman appeared the recipient for protection. sum hsd been paid, other at high prices. VY.ONG PRISON SENTENCES FOR “Handled” Whiskey One of these witnesses, according to of- shake- Members of the police force, or- id, would obtain shipments in uniform weuld rob the cars in freight yards under pre‘ense of confiscating the The whiskey t*2n was sold at fairly cheapness making it easy to get customers to take r was de- and demanded a sugstantial amount from After the policemen t e 17 b3 rapide, wouid raid the place ang after collecting another potection fee, would “confis- | genater McCormick, Iilinols, intro- cate” the liquor, resell it and repeat|gye, the process of graft, sometimes half a dozen times before turning the whiskey over to a favored saloonkeeper for sale PORTLAND BANK ROBBERS BRIEF TELEGRAMS creased 10 cents a barrel by Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana, ¥rance will complete her daylight aving period this year on October 25 re- verting to normal time on that date. Chancellor Wirth is in conference with leaders of the coalition political parties with a view to reorganizing the German cabinet. Average gross orofits »f aver 200 rer cent are made by arm:nair iunchrocis in Massachusetts, the commissicn n *ec- essaries of life repo.t:d. President Harding sent to the senate the nomination of Raymond C. Brown, of Hawaii, to be secretary of the territory of Hawaii. 4 Census bureau announced Japanese population in this country increased 53 per cent. during the last 10 years. Totai pepulation of Japanese is 11,110. Canal street end of a street car tun- nel under the Chicago 1iver caved in burying one man alive and seriously in- juring another. A clash Dbetween communists and | former service men took place at Sheps- | tow, a suburb of London. The commun- ists were put to flight by the ex-soldiers. Eight of the ten mills of La Belle plant of the American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. started. Approximately 600 men idle since March have been taken back. Authorities are ‘wvestiguting a report I made that a maa jumpued from ihe ow- er steel arch biidgy, at Niagara I'u'ls, N. Y, into the wk *d a resolution in the senate to make available ‘surplus army supplies for use by unemployed ex-service men, General Andres G. Castro, defeated candidate for governor of Toluca, Mexico, marched on the city with a rebel army and has established a state of siege. Mark Depreciated By Speculative Selling Berlin Newspapers Deséribe‘ Rapid Decline in Value of London, Sept. 27—(By the A. P.)— The exchange rate of “he German mark sank 1o a new low record cf 464 to the pound sterling this afternoon, mainly owing to speculative selling. Berlin, Sept. 27—(By the A. P.)—The rapid decline in the value of the mark was the subject of anyious comment by the newspapers this afternoon whick agree in describing it as “catastrophic. HIGH RECORDS FOR LIBERTY BONDS AND VICTORY NOTES New York, § large proporticns and several new high records for the year, the-chief feature being victory 4 3-4s. These rose to 99 1-2 but reacted with most other issues later, when realizing les, presumably by speculative interests, caused moderate re- cessions from best quotations. Out of total bend sales, roughly timated at §$19,000,000, the liberty and | vietory issues contributed fully 75 per| cent. Unusual activity was shown by the several liberty 4 1-4s but the vic- tory 4 3-1s alone made up about 30 per cent of the whole. The demand for these securities again proceeded, according to reports, from im- portant financial institutions, insurance companies and other lafge corporation as well as estates rd rich individua in search of acceptable investments. From all accounts the liquidation these bonds by small investors ceased. Much of the shrink in the bond market during the past year was attributed to enforced selling by labcrers of has ze EMERGENCY RELIEF MEASLIRES ADOPTED BY MANUFAGTURERS the Mark as “Catastrophic”.| To Be Recommended to the National Confersnce on Uner ployed—Will Include Suggestion of Some Rearrange: . ment of Working Time to Permit More Numsrous Em ployment of Workers by nel of Committee Include: Gompers, Mrs. Sarah Conl Washington. - Sept. 27.—Unanimous | agreement upon emergency relief meas- ol i pt. 27—’rratling‘i;‘\ m}f‘:{knres on the part of manufacturers to be | ' onds and victory notes on the £0ck|recommended to the nat confe e | exchange today again attained unusually i Feilirion (ote 2y on unemployment was repirted today by the commitiee in charge of this branch of the country’s employment problem. The committee's report, which was not made pubiic, is to be snbmitted to the full conference for addition when it r convenes on October It was under- stood, however, th report would fuggest some rearrangements of work- ing time to permit of a more numerou employment of workers by the manufac- turers, | The manufacturers' committee, Wl was the first to complete its emerz recommendations, includes in its person- nel Charles M. Schwab, of New York; Samucl Gompers, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Fabor; Mrs. Sarah Conboy, secretary of tie United Text Workers of H. Stack- house of Sp: Or“0. chairman. Other committees were said to be rap- idly completing their recommendations for emergenqy measures to meet the un- emuloyment ¥ituation. The committees on state and municipal the the Manufacturers—Person s Charles M. Schwab, Samus boy and W. H. Stackhouse. about finished a report which woull suggest greater activit: he part o communities tles e public works with ntion tc increase road construct: of lessening the ranks'of idle. The first-public hea ence was held ics and a m ented data for t Labor's T for hard Hearings arc morrow on the ployment service. que examined formerly Penn: abor, and industry, Err Ernst of New York and Fred C. Croxto; bus, Ohio. of Colum- CONFIDENT OF PEACE BETWEEN ENG&AND AND IRELAND New York. Sep —Fran unsel in this country for t publ rrived today on Washingten from England was_ confident of the d and Irel w uld be country wou was of the op that there would be no resumption of warfare in Ireland. Mr. Wa wouid mot ve a stal ment 2s to what form ted peact would take. Asked on gov- ernnrat would be acce coun- tereu by asking “What dominion?” Ireland. he sted on being re- cognized gov sent an that she should be free to trade nation she saw her own He added t ed hav of Ireland being an aniagoni “There wiil be no resumpt " he declared. - “Pu and forbids it—Engl to coptinue army MMIGRATIO ROBLEMS DISCUSSED BY CABINET Was! b 3¢ cumven rican jmmigrat gain fraudulent admi this countr, measures and Middletown, Conn., Sept. 27.—Joseph All men of military mge in Albania|and wage warners, prought about by | public works was understood to have vireen and John Greer, both of New |have been called to the colors for opera- |country-wide depression in the principal v 3 vork, pleaded guilty in superior court|tions against the Servians, according to|lines of industry and trade. here today to charges of robbing the | report received in Rome. ’ Another important element in the in- |INVESTIGATING REINSTATEMENT ioirst National Bank of Portland, Conn. ; iy R tHes e Dtia e B i il e Judge Maltbie sentenced both men to| Firo on the American steamship Gen.|relaxation of money rates, as indicated pt St vhe state prison, Green for fifteen gto|George W. Goethals, at Port au Prince |by the rccent reduction of re-discounts| New ork, Sept. 27.—The Meyer legis \wenty years ard Greer for tep” to|has been extinguished and the Vessel has by Federal Reserve Banks. This has |lative committee concerned iiself today ywenty years. Green at ome time serv-|stamd for Cristobal, released large amcunts of idle capital |with reviewing the cases of 29 policer #d a sentence in Sing Sing prison. which were awaiting the first signs of [men, whom its counsel contended, had The daylight -obbery of the First| St. Plancon’s Orthedox Greek Catholic |monetary eas el e e, National Bank of Portland, occurred |church in Great Plain, a suburb of Dan- | Lowas records for the various issues|present city administration after previe bn August 21, 1920. Five men entered | bury, was destroyed by fire of unknown |were established early this vear. The having been dismissed from the ihe bank, locked the cashier in a vault|origin yesterday with a loss of $6,000,recovery to the highest levels of this | force. hne :scaped in an automobile with $12- | partially covered by insurance. year this week ran from about $2 to| Some were released for intoxication, [1:06. e Ehpmnel Moreo s eged eaaeni o o S $5.15 per $100 honds. The rice liad been |others for. unbecoming conduct, still the hold-up men, was tried previously} Reductions in railroad {freignt rates|graqual and attracted little attention un- |others for quitting their- posts. They and is serving & sewtence of twenty to|on grain amowruuZtu 12 1-2 ICT Ceqt. |3l the past few weeks when the demand |fad. 1t was Lroasht ont. amplied to for. i wenty-eight years in the state prison. become cffec.ve ahews Oetober 10 | g0 invectors Deean’ to! assiures laree | mest administintiousiretn Jiearines t.ewis Clarke was sent to. the county ‘\hm,u’r:l.",),‘,“ foe €ast2m1 trund ime ird | pnoportions. Purdiases of blockg of [their dismissals subsequently affirmed [Hall o e yoar &;"gg‘fi,;"i,i;’;, Al el T $100,000 and upward hecame frequent|For the present administration to grant gt i % i ~ ‘i rzest individual trans ditional re-hearings and re-instate the ind etioenfotners chatess®h Only. o CenjPERE Rl S0 S mal ¥ It 1l one block of $1,000,000 cf the victory |Flon R. Brown, committes counsel, and fundred dollars of the stolen money |8 Stmmer a1 Dark Hachor Mane. 311,745 changed hands at the top figures |his associates. They submitted such Wrss, Toeovers, il rematn urel b o ety L2 action was prohibited by legislation. i S Dissent from these statements was HELD ON SUSPICION OF Richard Washburn Child, American | FISHING SCHOONER BURNED made by State Semator Downing, demo- KILLING FELLOW WOODSMAX | ambassador at Rome, in a spesch at Tri IN PROVINCETOWN HARMOR |crat. who pointed out that thh practice este, sald: “Italy’s government and peo- ¢ =1 ¥ h Ly Dover, Maine, Sept. 27.—Allen Twit- | ple are the foremost European supporiers | Frovincetown, Mass, Sept. 27—Tne [[Tation. and expressed the h"H/‘,'l?fl( chell and Harry McDonough, woodsmen, | of America's peace ideals.” ng schooner Gracie Smith, 2nd, an I:nn”nr the men had been unfairly dis- were being held today by Piscataquis Il B ughit flee drn L PR oE sed. Y county orr?ciass in connection with the| Lieutenant Clifford Tinker, official | carly today anfl burned to the water's; Tne_committee also hnar'dlvkvsxf;nm\) death’ of another woodsman named | press representative for the navy depart- | edge There was no ome aboard. Gaso- | that Police Inspector Dominick Henry Campbell after a fight in the Woods | ment in connection with the ili-fated ZR-2 |line tanks exploded wWith a roar sev-;had a $23.000 deposit with brokers on {fear Northeast Carry at the head of | returned to Washington to report to Ad-|eral times, adding to the spectacle to|the day when it had been testified he {¥oasehead Lake Sunday might. miral Coontz, chief of operations. See which the towf went to the water |OPtained $500 as a gratuity from the It was alleged by the officers that af- —_— ¢ront in the carly morning hours. The | Ttalian American Steamehin Tine on the ter Campbell had been shot Twit- | Harry R. Capen, 43, a real estate trck- hvessel, used for mackerel seining, was |?lea that he was In financial straits. |y hell, which he claims was done in self committed suicide in a ruom ‘n a!lwned by Mrs. Jessic Costa and com- i niefense, they hauled his body on a cart | Hartford club by shootin himself in 're !manded by Leon J. Costa. It was val- | POISONING TRACED TO to a spot some distance from the scene | temple. A note left by (‘a indiza‘ed lmed at about $12,000. Captain Costa ARSENATE OF LEAD IN FLOUR vt the shooting and buried it. McDon-|that he Was in financal difficulties. said he gould account for the fire only ' ¢ugh, it was understood was leading 01 the theoty that ‘off Akius, Tung up fo | Consied ;BT Boo. 2T oe pols I45herift Roscoo M. Macomber and Coun-| A relief fund of 1,500,000 marks was |‘ry in the forccastle, caught fire from |oning of a family by arsenate of lead +¥ Attorney Harola H. Noyes to Camp- | received at Derlin from the New York | nearby stove. traced to the flour from which its ples entral Labor bell's grave toda Twitchell has been emploved for several mont at a hotel at Northeast Carry. He vhought to /belong in Pittsfield, Me. & bullet hole in his head. Lwitehell, who was taken county to the PEACE TREATY COMES UP Berlin, Sept. peace treaty and Gérmany will come up before FARMER UNEALTHED $35.000 WHILE PLOWING FIELD Ills, 2 Bloomington, Sept. plowing in his Normal, today, earthed bills, amount of $35,000. ‘The identified as having been stolen from the Charles Anderson October 8, 1920, when the bank vaults luoted. REPUBLICAN VOTERS OF BRIDGEPORT INCORPORATE Hartford, Sept. 27.—The Republican Voters League of Bridgeport has filed incorporation papers With the secretary of state to secure the individual par- ticipation by the republican voters of Bridgeport in its primaries and a more actlve Interest in the affairs of the city zovernment, and to secure and main- fain in the city of Bridgeport, an effi- cient economical and impartfal city gov- ernment. 'The incorporators are Arthur W. Burritt, Mrs. Thomas W. Cutting, Andrew M. Coover, Geofze M. FEames, Clarence E. Billon and Edward C. ‘Spargo. CARL WANDERER IS TO BE HANGED FRIDAY Springfleld, Tils., Sept. 27.—Carl Wan- derer, convicted of killing his wife and he ragged stranger,” will hang Fri day, Sopt. 30, according to announce thent from - Governor Smail's office, the pardon board -having denled Wanderer's Dpetitlon for clemency or @ stay of exe- cutlon. | about whom little is known, is | L the 300 cut-sole workers in loca! shoe {t30DY FOUND WITH A factories was provided in the report BULLET HOLE IN HEAD | yesterday of a local arbitration board. = Haverhill, Mass. Greeneville, Maine, Sep. 27.—The body of William Campbell, a Woods-| jgu. (oo ; L 2 s come when man must man. in connection unh‘ ‘who.e d‘ca‘llh choose whether he will become a demi- Sunday night the ‘amh_ortos a;eh\‘lq‘&.gud or return to the, barbarism of con- an Allen T;:rfhe-{or‘;‘:s ]f_';‘": Carry, | témporaries of mammotns, Dr. G. V. De ate today > Lo -aITY. | Lapouge, Universi Naney. whara thi fatality occurred. There was pings ot TP Uniyersity For F Ny jail at Dover this foremoon, is said by the authorities to have admit- ted shooting Campbell, but asserted he acted in self defense. His preliminary hearing is set for Thursday. IN REICHSTAG FRIDAY 27.—(By the A. P.)—The between the United States the reichstdg committee on foreizn relations Thursday and wili then be placed on the calendar for ratification at Friday's ses- sion. It is not believed here that par-|g3j 1951, made public, shows revenue nt liamgntary approval will be withheld | 567 54 65631, including $60,315,717.76 e b Ul et Eonts (o fnclcamines ot caralifor Heieyn | may possibly have in mind in connection UL vo_lflh_eimmy' Theodore Sevdel, Belgian importer, 7.—While field one mile north of un- coins and bonds to the bonds were Farmers' Bank of Benson the night of were dynamited and safe deposit boxes organization for families of 1,200 persons killed in the explosion of the chemical works at Oppau. A wage reduction of ten per cent with retention of a five day werking week for told the International Eugenics Congr New York. Explosion of a gas-producing machine in the American Brass company’s rolimg mill, Waterbury, caused considerable {excitement but resulted in little, damage. Panes of glass in several windows w shattered. No one was injured. Sir James Craig, the Ulster premier, after a conference /n Belfast with the military and police, announced that it ha! | been decided to mob speiai constab- | ulary in certain parts of northern Ireland for the maintenance of order. The annual statement of the Pnilman company for the fiscal year eadng July who arrived at New York on the La Lor- raine, declared the American shoe still dominates the better-class trade in Eu- rope despite heavy duties and unfavor- able exchanges. Vice President W. W. Atterbury of the Penvsylvania Railroad company, told the members of the Mutual Benefit Soci- ety of the road, in annual meeting at| Philadelphia, that, wages must come down or roads would b2 for:ad intc gov- ernment control or re:sl-.rshits. During a wind storm the steamer Lew- iston went aground st Little Rapids, two { miles” below Saut Ste Marie. Traffic through the Michigan Canal locks is seri- ously impeded as result of breaking up of ! a boom of logs in Marks Bay, caused by the wind. American trained workmen whe emis grated from Russia and some of ther na- country and sent to Russia 1o aid the £6- tionalities are beirg mobtizad ir th's viet governmen in the re-establishment of Russian industries by the Society Ter Technical Aid o Seviet -ussia. Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll, mother of the convicted army draft dodgers, filed suit in the federal district court a: Philadal- phia to hav® Thomas W. Millar, alien property custodian, return tc her ceriain property seized by him sonie mnonths zgo as belonging to Grov' L. D. Sale, president of the National Wholesalo Druggists’ Association, in con- vention at Atlantic City, declared the wholesale and retail drug business is be- STATE HOSPITAL SUSPECTED INMATE OF I NDIARISM Worcester, 27 X Sept. 27.—Following an incendiary’ fi which destroyed the residence and barn of Joseph North Grafton last night, with cial loss of $10,000, na aged 48 years, who cen an inmate of the state hos rear the Atchue place for 13 year be transferred to the Bridgewater hospital for crimi- nal insane. Leighton admits he was near the barn last night and torn ‘ieceg of uniform as he left the scene were found today on fences through which he crawled The state police believe that Laizhton is respon sible for two other fires which have de- stroyed farm buildings worth§ $25,000. GUILTY OF IMPERSONATING A FEDERAL OFFICER New Haven, Sept. h Jewell, vears old, and string o aliases, pleaded States district court today to charges of im- personating a federal officer. Judge | Thomas sentenced him to the Atlantic penitentiary for one year. hilip Louis and Patrick De Rosa. both of Meriden, pleaded gu to charzes of conspiracy to break iato a bond: warehouse at Warehouse Yoint. Louis was sent to jaii for three and one-half months and Da Rosa wasy fined $500. A federal grand jury returned & number of indictments and will continue its session tomorrow. 186,000 RATLWAY MEN TO STRIKE SOON AS VOTE IS COUNTED 3 Chicago, Sept. strike of the 186,000 rai employed on American ra ordered if the strike vote, now being counted, favors it, James Murdock, vice president of the organization, announced today. A “As a matter of fact” said Mr. Mur- dock, “a strike really has been authoriz- ed already by the leaders. The minute the vote is counted the strike order will be ssued—provided the vote favors a strike and there is little chance that it won't. The leaders will not oppose the wishes of the men.” Counting of the strike ballot will. be completed within a few days. An immediate flroads will be QUESTIONS CONSTITUTIONALITY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE Washington, Sept. 27.—The constitn tionality of the woman's suffrage amendment was questioned In a petition filed in the supreme court today by Os- car Leser and others. who seek to have that court review decisiong of state courts in Maryland, holding the amend- ment - constitutional. ELBERT H. GARY HAS RETURNED FROM MEXICO New York, Sept. 27.—Flbert H. Gary, | chairman of the board of directors of | the United States Steel Corporation, re- turned today from a pleasure trip to ing demoralized by an-invasicn of indi- viduals who are establishing drug shops to engage in sale of liquors, | Mexico. He denied reports from Mexi- co City that he had been negotiating for the purchase of the Monterey Iron and Steel Foundries Company, o were made was reported by State Chem- st Charles D. Howard today. Anaiysis lof the flour at the state laboratory, he said, showed that the poison contents was 8 per ece Investigation is being made to determine how the lead wgs introduced Examination of a flour I'stock in tha store where it was pur- chased showed no other case of contam- ination. There was no arsenate of lead n the store, it was said. Federal of- d to ald in the in- {au a view whether the flour wa: the poisonous cond those who were be not serious at SOVIET GOVERNMENT NOT RECOGNIZED IN U. S. COURTS to ascertaining shipped here in n. The iliness of poisoned was said present. ew York, Sent. —The Russi Soviet government was denied standing ag a litigant 4n United States courts | by Federal Judze Manton today on the ground that this country had not rec- ognized the Soviet government $The judiciary, Judge Manton h-}* must follow the executive department as regards other governments, In the case in which this was glven the Russian Sociaffst deciston Feder- ated Soviet Republic and Ludwlg C. A. K. Martens, formerly its agept in the Tnited States, who was deported. Were trying to obtaln nossession of Russian steamships, now in New York waters. CHOLEREA EPIDEMIC IN RUSSIA ON THE DECLINE latest information concerning the chol- era situation in Russia. indicating that the enidemic is on the decline, has heen laid before Dr. Rupert Rlue, in charge of the United States immigration ser_ vice in Europe. He has arrived in Riza in connection with his general investi- gation of the health conditiong of emi- grants likely to be bound from Europe to the Uniteq States. Dr. Blue already ‘has visited Danzig and Libau. — CLASH BETWEEN PERUVIAN TROOP AND REVOLUTIONISTS Tima, Peru, Sept. 27.—Federal troops clashed With revolutionists on Sunday last near Moyobamba, in the depart- ment of Loreto, whera the government last month closed the port of Iquitos and other harbors because of revolts, tol Riga, Sent. 27— (By the A. P.)—The | discussion | dent Hara Volumincy were laid {and altho iit is understood tha fed a cons eigners acro !dian borders i As jmined not oniy a res: jment of the a7 a tupon an effort to correct the situatio Iby more careful ric d vess de- parture. | {OFFICIALS FOR RACE OF FISHING VESSELS Gloucester, Mass.. 27—The Am- erican race commitice {Jamin R. Sm jHarty as its ational co Th th thre mem! named by na com- mittee. It was voted ¥ to offer thre rizes for the ination race to sailed Octo » termine which of several American fishermen be $500, the second $300 $200. JURY TO HEAR EVID AGAINST EMIL SCHUTTE Middletown, Cor 27.—Judge Maitbie tod ordered Mi eSex coanty grand jury orrow to hear evidence a Schutte, Shailerville storeke Attor- ney Inglis will asl indictments of first degree murder agal Schutte. He is charged with the murder of Dennis Le Duc, a farm hand, last April, and it also is alleged that he he fire ch burned to death Joseph ] and his wife and child six years ago. Schutte's five sons have been ordered to appear before the grand jury t fy. FUGITIVE NEGRO SHOT TO DEATH BY POSSE Allendale, S. C., Sept. —Memmin- ger Priester, a negro, for whom a posse Thursday had been searching since when he is alleged to have negro women and wounded 2 shot to death today after he on the possa from a thicket k and the bodles of 52 Insurrectionists have been recovered, according to mea- gre advices received here from th eat of the disorders today. It is helieved more dead revelutionists will be recov ered, the advices say, adding that-23 | federal soldiers were killed or wounded. OPEN SHUTTER CAUSED BINKING OF SUBMARINE R. ‘Washington, Sept. 27.—Sinking of the submarine R-6 resulted from an “out board shutter having been left open, |the navy department was informed ofi- cially today in a despatch from Ad- miral Eberle, commanding the Pacifie fleet. The open shutter affected an in- ner tube door, the dispatch said. . “Due to opening inner tube door, R-6 sinking, outboard shutter having been left open and interlocking device failing. Ordered” court af jnautrx.” gro began shoot to take no chanc attem: ture him alive, let loose a volle: shots at close range, only one, however, taking effect. posse, dec; GENERAL PERSHING HAS ARRIVED AT COBLENZ Coblenz, Sept. 27.—(Py the A. P.)— Géneral John J. Pershing arrived here this afternoon, accompanied by Major General Heénry T. Allen, comm\nder of the American forces in the occu A detachment of cavalr: into the city. Soldiers lined the streets from the em- trance to Coblenz to General Allen's home.. All the ed generals in the occupied zones will attend a dinner te General Pershing at General Allen's res- idensa tomorram miehe