Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 6, 1921, Page 1

VOL. LXHI—NO. 243 s POPULATI RESIGNATION OF UNITED STATE ~ WILLIAM R PALMER HAS BEEN REQUESTED By United States Attorney General Daugherty—Mr. Palmer Declares He Will Give the Request “Careful Considera- tion” As He Understands Charges Are Pending Against the Conduct of His Office—Most of the Sixteen Men Ar- rested in Connection With the Winkle Murder and Liquor Cases Are Still in Hartford Jail—State’s Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn is in Washington. —The resignation Palmer, United States nec equested roey agherty. I he would give the onsideration” _before ¥ general d, “under He ordis of the but be- e disposs any time,” charges pending of his office he de- ponse for the Palmer had given out a n w h he has ferred to s office was to ticularly in connec- now going on into runners Connecti. Mr. Daugh- ve to in- been re- Imer, in this Harding has e and that he been asked to no suggestion not resign.” in this state- gave Massac us Mr nt has not care he after seizure off: ers, saying ustody of a onest man.” n a number of small men s w an official could be liquor without possession of such N0 ADDITIONAL ARRESTS FOR ILLEGAL LIQUOR TRAFFIC absence of Alcorn, in t was un- ons re- uncovered nquiry into ¢ of New Bri- e state ts, in and ve been still in ey bt baf new of the dead man, % i connection with arze aga ective Sergeant New Britain, and his two ¢ concealing stolen automobiles, dge W. J. Malone of said he talk- e w ke 3¢ th uest of Win- his friends in New Britain a Auliffe, former prohibi- flicer for Conmecti- cut, Who declined to have a court hearing on a writ of habfieas corpus before Judge Thomas yestefday did not get a bondsman today. At New Britain decislon was again re- served by Judge Alling on the charge, al- ready heard, against Clemens Kalkow- ski, saloon keeper, of manslaughter, until October 15. It was in or adout this saloon that Winkle met his death and of- ficers claimed Kalowski said Winkle fell down stairs. The state now alleges that failure of Kalkowski to 'give the man surgical attention contributed to Winkle's death. State's Atforney Alcorn saw Richard- son at the Hartford county jail last Sat- urday and it was reported that the lat- ter made a statement which was taken by a stenographer. Several arrests were made and this week Mr. Alcorn went to Washington. Soon after his arrival there word came that United Sta wrshal Palmer's office had been under investi- gation and today the marshal's resigna- tion was requested. All the automo- es and liquors seized from time to time by federal enforcement officers have been in charge of the marshal under or- ders of the United States district court. { The value of the flulds is said to have | reached large figures and there have been scores of automobiles, both passenger and trucks, held in storage for disposal by the marshal under court orders. LEASED LAST BONDS OF §15,000 MWATULIFFE R NIGHT O Oct. 5.—Thomas F. McAu- prohibition enforcement was re'eased from Hartford, life, federal chief in Connecticut, 2 5 the Hartford county jail tonight in bonds of $15,000. The bail was fur- nished in cash by a group of friends of McAuliffe, who came here from New Haven and eisewhere and nooled their funds. McAuliffe is charged with cepting bribes from Detective Sergeant Andrew J. Richardson and Charles and Samuel Gardini, of New PBritain. The case is returnable in the December term of the sunerior court, United States District ward L. Smith later liffe's attorney had agreed to . confer wigh the district attorney here tomor- row. in company With the accused pro- hibition officer. Asked it McAuliffe was to be re-arrested on a federal charge, Attorney Fd- id that MecAus the district attorney sad: . “The proceedings wWhich .the United States will take will be determined by the character of the conference tomor- row.” The Gardini brothers remained In jail tonight, lthough efforts were made to obtain bonds for them by lawyers and friends. They are held in §15,000 each on charges of giving bribes. ASSEMBLY OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS HAS ADJOURNED he A. P.)—The league of na- o'clock this eve- I Belgium, Brazil, four non-perma- summing n, said that expected from the league rm the world would be di s who had league would of work ac- 1. He dwelt upon the impor national court of jus- on th chnical mbly as gress toward the kind of inter- was organized to eague e delogates toward e on the lim- varies according rent coun- aments n of the as contere d an ezations the idea outcome of the some interna- ay be formed the league S apar om tuted. Some over the pos- organization he registrat of rovided for by article XVIII n h it is proposed to oned until the cons! xpressed v a SAYS NINE-TENTHS OF FIRE LOSS IS PREVENTABLE v, N. I Oct. 5.—George B. ¢ on fire prevention American that nine- fire loss of ne ation ual Dle. nt selection als and fire pre- i make any building president of the In- was elected WITHDRAWS AS MEMBEE OF COUNSEL FOR ARBUCKLE s Angeles, Oct. 5.—Frank Domin- riez, ammounced that he had drawn as a member of counse! for v C. (“Fatty”) Arbuckle in his tal on a chargs of manslaughter in c tion with the death of Miss Vir- ginia Rappe. Dominguez, in a letter to later gave out for he could not spend necessary time in San Francisco to uckie's defense. you are innocent of the made against you and that a your peers in the ccurt of jus- ¢ San Francisco will acquit you,” d. vinced from my knowledge of the ewidence in the case that a great triumph awaits you.” The attorney expressed his pleasure st having become acquainted with Ar- bucks and voiced admiration of his tlient's conduct during his connection \ the case. Dominguez's letter ex- essed belief that Arbuckle would not b found guilty of the charge against bira, W. C. POTTER PRESIDENT OF GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY New York, Oct. 5—W. C. Potter today was elected president of the Guaranty Trust Company to succeed Charles IH. Sabin. Mr. Sabin was chosen chairman of thé board, Edward P. Stettinus and George Whitney, both of J. P. Morgan and Company, were elected directors. ’ Sabin issued this statement: : “Mr. Potter was actively associated with the management of the company for many years and his ability and judgment were real factors in helping i its up- building. He is thoroughly familiar with its affairs, and as president his recogniz- ed capacity as an executive will have a wider fleld of activity. As chairman of the board, I shall continue to devote my entire time to the management of the company and shall maintain close touch with its affairs and its customers. Mr. Potter is a mining engineer by profession and was actively identified with Guggenheim interests in the devel- opment of their copper properties. With the election of Messrs. Stettinus and Whitney to the directorate, the firm of J. P. Morgan and company now is rep- regented by three of its members. Thos. W. Lamont of the Morgan firm is chair- man of the executive committee. In point of resources and international connections the Guaranty Trust company is one of the largest financial institutioms of the country. Its development of the Central and South American field during the war resulted in some severe reverses which were written off recently when the company built up an extraordinary re- serve and reduced its rate of dividend. Rumors had been current in Wall Street for some time of & coming change of affairs. Mr. Sabin's banking career pegan in 1887 as a clerk in the Natipnal Commer- clal Bank of Albany. His rise wasrapid and in 1907 he came to New York as president of the National Copper Bank. When the bank in 1910 Gonsolidated with the Mechanics and Metals National bank Mr. Sabin became vice president of the new institution. Shortly afterward he was taken into the Guaranty Trust as vice president, becoming president in 1915. He succeeded Alexander J. Hemp- hill. Mr. Sabin Is a native of South Wil- Mamstown, Mass., and a graduate of Grey lock Institute, where Henry P. Davison had his schooling. He is fifty-three years old. BRANCH BANKS TOPIC OF AMERICAN BANKERS Los Angeles, Oct. 5.—Money was the root of all questions here today in the second session of the Amerjzan Banker$ Association’s forty-seventh annual con- vention. One question with a promise of making itself one of the big themes of the meeting was rvealed in alignment of forces for and against business ex- tensicnthrought branch banks, especial- ly by national banks, as suggested in a proposed law reported to be fostered By natjonal banks. Oscar W. Schaefer of Girarde, Kansas, declared an ‘“octopus” menaces state banks. In addressing the state banke ing division he branded extension through branch banks as a forchoding of ruin. Discussion ended in the addition of & motion placing placing the division on record as “absolutely opposed to branch banking” with the understanding that the question would be taken before the gen- eral session tomorrow. | as possible. NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, OGTOBEE 6, 1921 ARSHAL CONFER WITH PRESIDENT ON TAX REVISION LEGISLATION ‘Washington, Oct. 5.—The tangle in congress over tax revision legisiation was given the atiention of the admini: tration today at a succession of confer- ences between President Harding and senate and house leaders. What posi- tion the president may take regarding substitution of a sales tax for miscel- laneous excises in the pending bill was not disclosed, those who saw Mr. Hard- ing declaring that he was keeping an open mind on the subject for the pres- ent. Meantime groups in the semate went forward with conferences on the whole subject and opponents of the pending measure continued their assaults on it. The democrats on the finance commi tee put in their minority report in Which they declared that the bill “neither fulfills the promises of the re- publican party for a simplification of tax law and procedure nor satisfies the demand of the democratic party for a complete survey of existing taxes and their modification and simplification.” Senator La Follette, a republican member of the finance committee, also filed a minority view, declaring that he was in genmeral accord with the dem cratic report insofar as it critl “the proposals of the majority to reduce the super taxes, upon large incomes, to repeal the excess profits tax and the capital stock tax, to retain the transportation taxes and to greatl; gravate the existing disparity beiween corporation and individual and partner- ship taxes” He added, however, that he felt the recommedations of the minori- ty would “do some of the monstrous iniquities of this bill. without curing any of its funda- mental evils.” “There individual s nothing to be gained by the forced inconsiderate enactment of the present bill’ said the min; port. “The bill affords no re country. There will be no reduc: fective during this calendar months after the advent to full power of the padty which promised immediate re- lief from oppressive war taxes. “The purpose of the republican ma- jority seems to have been centered upon the exemption of millionaires from the higher sur-taxes and the exemption of Gorporate interests and monopolies from the payment of proper taxes upon in- ordinate profits.” The democrats gave notice that they | would offer amendments to the bill Jarge- ly ingreasing the sur-tax rates on in- comesup to and above$500,000; restor- ing the corporation capital stock tax; reducing the normal tax on incomes be- low $15,000; limiting the exemptions allowed to heads of families to incomes below $20,000 and repealing the tax on freight, passenged and Pullman trans- portation. oA TR SIGNATURE “COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT” A FORGERY New York, Oct. 5.—The widow of Colo- nel Theodore Rosevelt, severai relatives and a number of business associates to- day declared that the signature “Col. Theodore Roosevelt” which appeared on a note for $69,000 held by Mrs. Emma Richardson Burkett of Hillsdale, Ind., was a forgery. They gave their testimony at the open- ing of the trial in general sessions of Mrs. Burkett, who was arrested last July on a charge of forgery after she had presented a claim to the Roosevelt estate; was extradited to New York, lock- ed up In the tombs and later transferred to Bellevue hospital for observation as to her sanity. All the witnesses agreed that the col- onel never had prefixed his title to his name in any signature they had seen. Mrs, Roosevelt and others also denied that they had ever seen the colomel in the company of Charles J. Shunson, a former roughrider, during the republi- can convention in Chicago in 1912, when Mrs. Burkett asserts she received the note bearing the names of both men, in exchange for cash pald Shunson. Mrs. Roosevelt was the first witness. Following her came George E. Roosevelt, a fellow executer, who Landled all the colonel's affairs; State Senator Theodore Douglas Robinson, a nephew of tie form- er president, who testified he was con- stantly with his uncle during thg conven- tion; Matthew T. Jones, New York bank- er, who had the colonel's signature on file since 1895 and who testified that it never had varied. William Loeb, Jr.. presidential secretary, who testified the signature on the note was a poor imita- tion; and Lawrence F. Abbott, president of the Outlook Company, who had scen the colonel’s signature on a number of contributions to the magazine. CENTEAL BOARD ADVOCATED BY UNITARIAN CONFERENCE Detroit, Oct. 5.—Holding that the Uni- tarian church best can serve the world by adopting the guidance of a central | board, the council of the Unitarian gen- eral conference. in session here, urged permanent establishment of such a cen- tral group in its report to the confer- ence today. In the past churches of the denomina- tion have acted independently of each other, the report pointed out, in ask- ing that the organization endorse a pro- gramme providing for a board that would act in the capasity of a bishop. “We have found that our old, self- centered, parochia] life has been foolish and selfish,” the report stated. “The church cannot be turned into a depart- mental society or an organ for any spe- cial and temporal programme. not forget its duty is world service.” The report will be acted upon by the conference at business sessions Fri- day. The conference today adopted a resolu- tion congratulating Willilam Howard Taft, president of the conference upon his assumption of duties as chief justice of the United States suprerue court. INSPECTED THE AMERICAN PASSENGER LI R LEVIATHAN New York, Oct. 5.—Five members of the United States Shipping Board, Com- mijssioners Thompson, Chamberlain, O Connor, Listner and Plumber, tcday of- ficially inspected the American passeg- er liner Leviathan. ‘While no statement was made as to the immediate intentions of the board. the commissioners were said to be in favor of restoring her to the sea as quickly Cost of her restoration has been estimated by Shipping Board en- gineers at between' seven and twelve mil- Tions of doliars. A force of more than fifty draftszmen are now engaged In making plans for contemplated alterations. This was au- thorized when her German builders de- manded $1,000.000 for her detailed plans. little more than palliate | It must | 8 Children Injured | In Airplane Swing Went to Pieces and Threw 29 Persons Into Crowd at the Brockton Fair. _Brockton, Mass., Oct. 5.—A swing that simulated the flight of an airplane went to pleces at the fair ground here today, sending 12 cars in which were 20 per- sons, most of them children, spinning in- to the crowds along the midway. Kight of the child passengers were severely hurt when the cars came to ground. A score of persons, some passengers, oth- ers bystanders, were less seriously hurt. The machine was one of those in which the gondolas, attached to rods, are swung outward from a central pole, to which the rods are connected by a crow: plate. The power had been started and the cars, gathering momentum, wert swinging in a widening circle when the crownpl! The cars and their passengers skimmed off in all directions, In flight and in the crashes that fo lowed the children screamed in terror. When police and attendants at the emerg- | ency hospital on the grounds had check- ed up injuries, however, it was found that they were no so serious as at first appeared probable. TUFTS DECLARES THAT HE IS INNOCENT ATTOR: Boston, Oct. 5.—Nathan A. Tufts, who was removed from the office of district attorney of Middlesex county last week by unanimous decision of the Ma: chusctts supreme court tonight*issued his first atatement, declaring himself an in- nocent and misjudged man. The court. which Temoved hj trial on charges of after suse of his office, did not find him guilty of dishonestry up- cn, Mr. Tufts asserted. that” when the “present hys- terla” was over he would be vindicat s innocent of charges of con- spirac when I.was a babe in my mother's arms,” his statement said. “In the few other instances and they are few, where I have been found guil- ty of reprehensible conduct or of mis- conduct or of other things which mean the same, I submit to the public that my worst offense is that my ment in the tremendous pressure of the businessof the office, differs from the judgment of other men, however, learned and conscientious, who with ample time for calm 1>flection, for review and study of the law and the facts, and for the ex- hasty judg- ercise of ‘higd sight' * * * think now that something different should be done.” Mr. Tufts asserted that he had express- been found to be not guilty on “almost of the more than 100 charges pre- ferred azainst him by Attorney General Allen. The state. he said, had idmitted by legislation passed this vear that it did mot give him enough court sessions to attend to the county's business. “I had frequentiy 40 or 50-cases to dispose of in a single day,” Mr. Tuits said. “In the hurry and turmoil of the business of the office there is no doubt that I made mistakes.” “If I had known as much about these casés as I do now after hearing all the evidence given in the trial, I should have acted differently in numerous instances,” he_added. Endicott P. Saltonstall, of Newton, was namedtoday by Governor Cox to fill out Mr. Tufts unexnired time in the dis- trict attorney's office. CONVENTION OF AMERICAN MANFACTURERS’ EXPORT ASS' New York, Oct. 5.—Alteration ,of the 1902 treaty between Cuba and the United States so as to increase substantially the Present 20 per cent. tariff differential was requested of congress today in a resolu- tion adopted by the annual convention of the American Manufacturers' Export As sociation. The change is being sought b; the Cuban commercial mission now in the United States. Growing severity of competition, espe- cially from Germany, emphasises the great- er nced for preferential arrangements with Cuba, the resolution maintained. It cited that American trade with Cuba ex- ceeded half a billion dollars in 1920, more than the trade of the United States with all South American countries combined. German manufacturers, the convention was told by its secretary, A. W. Will- mann, have. surpassed American pat- ents, selling German-made goods bearing United States trademarks in foreign countries and even in America. Allen Walker, of the Guaranty Trust company, discussing world trade condi- tions and the foreign exchange situation, pointed out that every time American ex- ports rose with no corresponding increase in those of the buying country, their pur- chasing power weakened, and the for- eign nation’s exchange slumped further. To strengthen the buying power of for- eign customers, he said, must be the para- mount consideration in contemplating a national economic policy. Study of the Latin temperament by American exporters segking sales in South America was recommended by George Weston, South American manager of the American Express company. Fail- ure of Americans to understand this tem- perament, he said, mhde unsuccesstul their competition with British, Germans and Japanese. Ernesto Franco, trade envoy of South America, requested more reciprocal trade Telations, longer credits and an “end to attempts by American manufacturers to exploit their customers abroad. One way to increase South American trade would be reducing the price of candy, he remarked, holding that $1 a pound was too high with sugar selling at six and cocoa at eight to ten cents. WON COURT FIGHT TO RESTRAIN SPITE FENCE New York, Oct. 5.—Mrs. August Stet- son today won her court fight to restrain the First Church of Christ, Scientist, with which she has been in controversy, from building an alleged spite wall be- tween the church and her home which ad- Jjoins it In consenting to a permanent injunc- tion against the proposed stone wall, Mey- er Steinbrink, representing the church, said that Mrs. Stetson's theological dif- ferences with the organization had noth- ing to do with the stone wall. DRIFTED SEVERAL HOURS IN DISABLED POWER BOAT New York, Oct. 5.—After drifting about in a disabled power boat outside New York harbor several hours, three men to- day were rescued by the steamship Nan- tucket, ¢n route from Boston to Phila- delphia. 3 Earlicr in the day the helpless craft was sighted by the steamer Hudson, wisich notified harbor authorities, BRIEF TELEGRAMS Fifteen students at Northwestern unl- versity have been expelled for hazing. Pennsylvania erude oil was advanced 25 cents a barrel to $2.25. Dr. Charles Thach( president emeritus of Alabama Polytechhic Institute, died in Datlon, Ga. The freighter Arizona, of the Willians S. S. line, en route to Vancouver, is re- ported. to have grounded near Prince Rupert in a dense fog. New Jersey republican leaders in con- vention at Trenton adopted a prohibition plank in the party platform twhich hey declare will satisfy both sides. State department anmounced s tenta- tive agrement had been reached between this country and Japan on the Yap- Guam cable. Turkish nationalist forces which had been concentrated on the left of the Greek positions at Eski-Shehr have been dispersed by the Greeks. Contracts for the purchase of 2,000 new freight cars have been awarded by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad com- pany. Hungarian troops began to withdraw from the second zone of Burgenland, a narrow strip of territory along the Aus- trian frontier. The federal reserve bank of the third district, Philadelphia, reduced its redis count rate on all classes of paper from 51-2 to 5 per cent Former military men of Mexico will be granted farms by Obregon administra- tion. One million pesos will be expended for the acquisition of lands in various parts of the country. A decision to maint the present prices at which their newspapers circu- late was reached by the newspaper own- ers of France at a general meeting in Paris. Former vice president Thomas R. Marshall called at the White House to pay his respects to the new adminis tra- tion as a private citizen , out of ‘a job and not looking for one. The largest oat crop and second larg- est wheat crcp in the history of Sas- Katchewan is predicted by the provinee's statistics bureau of the department of ag- riculture, Chairman Corney, of thie Midvale Steel & Ordnance Co,, in reply to stockholders, declared the company was overa 40 per cent. loss as a result of "tk freight rates and price of coal.” Asembly of the league of nations adopt- ed report of the amendments committee that no change be made in Article 21 of the covenant dealing with the Monroe doctrine. Charles E. Starr, head of the Starr- Kane Oil Co, of Tulsa, Okla. was ar- rested on a warrant from Philadelphia charging him with securing $255,000 fraudulently in an oil stcck deal. Approximately 100,000, or onc-third of the native Indian troops, have revolted acocrding to a dispatch from Calcutta, India, to S. N. Gnose, national director <f the American commission to promote self government in India. Governor McCray, of Indiana in an ad- dress before the Grain Dealers’ Associa- tion in Chicago proposed a plan for fin- ancing <f foreign countries to enable them to take America’s surplus agricultural produets. Whiskey imports for 1921 will be double 1920, according to figures of de- partment of commerce. During August imports totaled 68,000 gallons, compared with a otal ¢f 32,000 galions for August, 1920, The United States court of appeals in Chicago reversed a decision of Judge A. B. Anderson, at Indianapolis, giving the K. W. Ignition company a verdict of ap- proximately $2,000,000 against the Ford Motor tompany. Federal Judge Julius M. DMayer ap- pointed Robert C. Adams receiver in euity for the Green Star Steafship Corp- oration upon complaint of A. H. Whan & Company, accountants, who presented a claim for $4,900. James J. Bosdan, proprietor of a local news agency in Beston, was placed on trial before a jury in the federal courl charged with larceny of government doc- uments. 5 Andrew Horne, of Lynn, Mass, was sentenced by Judge Cox in superior court ti serve a year in the House of Correc- tion. He was charged with stealing an automobile in Lynn on November 7, 1920, and admitted his guilt. Work for the unemployed, as well as for employers who have found business dull, will be provided through the action of the Portland, Me, city government Tuesday night in authorizing the appropri- ation of $500,000 for the erection of a new building for Deering High school. Losses in earnings of workers threugh- out the country during the past fical vear due to involuntary idleness were put at more than $6,500,000,000 in an esti- mate prepared by economic experts of the national conference on unemploy- ment. Mrs. Ellen 0‘Grady, of New York, re- signed as fifth deputy police commission- er last December, told the Meyer legis- lative committee investigating city af- airfs that her resignation followed “per- secution by Police Commissioner Enright” extending throughout her term of office. Twe bronze cannon, three centuries old, were given the town of Plymouth, Mass.,, ‘on behalf of the British govern- ment and the Ancient and Honorable Ar- tillery company as anothsr marker of the observance of the tercentenary of the Pilgrims’ landing. OBITUARY Hiram Francis Millg Hingham Mass,, Oct. 5.—Hiram Fran- cis Mills, widely known hydraulic engin- eer, died at his home here yesterday aft- er a long illness. He participated in ime portant construction work in New York. Nova Scotia and New England and when the Hoosac tunnel was built he was resident engineer at the east end. He conducted extensive development of hy- draulic power in New England and the west. He served for many years on the Massachusetts board of health and con- ducted important experiments which re- sulted in improved methods of sewage disposal and water purification. Mr. Mills was born at Bangor, in 1836, and was a graduate of, leer Palvtechnic Institute. - Me se- Fire in Michigan State Reformatory All Cell Blocks Destroyed— National Guardsmen Are Patrolling Outer Walls. JTony, Mich, Oct. 5.—Michigan Na- tional ‘Guardsmen and members of the state constabulary this evening were patrolling the outer wall of the Michi- gan state reformatory here, where fire today destroyed all cell blocks, the ad- ministration offices, the chapel and war- den's office. During the fire, that caused a loss roughly estimated at half a million dollars, at least three prison- era escaped. The fire still was turning tonight among the twisted iron work of the cell biock and the heap of charred bricks that marked the site of the other build- ings. Only the factory bulldings of the reformatory escaped. The fire started from a soldering lamp in the hands of an inmate Who was repairing the roof of the administration building. It swept through that part of the reformatory Practically unhindered, because of an inadequate water supply. The 680 inmates of the reformatory were to sleep in the factory buildings tonight, Fearing a possible outbreak among the inmates, state troopers late today placed machine guns at the corner of the prison wall and other troops, each armed with a rifle, patrolled the m long wall. The escapes today were made when a group of inmates were taken from in- side the wall to help fight the flames As the roof of the administration build- ing fell, sending a shower of sparks over the fire fighters, three of the in- mates made a dash for freedom. Posses tonight were searching countryside for them. Early reports that one inmate burned to death in the fire were discounted. Someed ey SELECTING JURORS FOR TRIAL OF EMIL SCHUTTE the Middletown, Conn, Oct. 5.—Ten jur- ors were seated today at the opening ses- slon of the trial of Emil Schutte, Shail- erville storekeeper, charged with the mur- der of Joseph Ball. his wite Mary, and their son Jacob, in December, 1915, The panel of talesmen called in the case was large and fifty remained from which t5 select the remaining two jurors, The jurors accepted are: Arthur D. Fowler and Gordon S. Goodrich, farmers, both of Middlefield; A. A. Packard, elec- trical engineer, of Portland; Frederick Bielefleld, storekeeper, of Middletowny Frank W. Merrill, manufacturers, of Old Saybrook ; Niles O. Deming, cashler, of Essex; F. 0. Jackson, farmer, Portland. Forty-seven were excused from jury duty, among them the Rev. Frank Park of Clinton. The defense used seven challenges and the state five. Schutte appeared to be in good health in spite ofseveral months confinement in jail and showed interest in the examin- ation of the talesmen. Four of his sons were in court. A large throng packed the court-room. The marder charge against Schutte resulted from an investigation by the state police into the death of Dennis Lo Duc, who had been empliyed by Schutte as a farm hand. Part of his bod found last April in a wooded section which had been burned. Evidence was presented to the grand jury and Schutte was indicted for the murder of Le Duc, as well as for the killing of the Eall family. The bodies of the latter were found in the burned wreckage of their home six years ago but no charzes in connection with the deaths were made un- til this year. —_ U. S. RELIEF WORKERS HELD UP BY SOVIET AUTHORITIES Rigr, Letvia, Oct. 5—(By The A. P.) —An American relief administration courier, on the way from Petrograd to Riga by way of Reval: was searched and some of his persona! effects seized b_y the Russian Soviet frontier hori- ties at Yamburg, near Narva, Esthonia, on Tuesda: he reported on his arrival here »toda_ He brought a sealed pouch containing relief administration corre pondence, which he declared he only sa: ed from seizure by the Soviet authorities after a struggle. This violation of the agreement signed by Walter Lyman Brown of the reiief administration and Maxim Litvinoff, representing the Soviet government, has been reported to Consul Haskel, head of the relief administration in Moscow, by Captain John Miller, chief representative of the relief administration in Riga. American Relief workers and Coviet officials here expressed the opir#in that the incident was due to “over officious- ness” on the part of some local offi at Yamburg. The Yamburg route been used only twice by couriers, who generally travel direct from Riga to Moscow, where no serious difficulty has been experienced. v were ia has - INJUNCTION IN ESTATE OF JOSEPHINE BROOKS Providence, Oct. 5.—A motion in which executors of the estate of Josephine Brooks, late of Newport. seeks a tem- porary injunction and restraining order to prevent Collector of Internal Revenue Frank A. Page from collecting $243 787.87 in decedent estate tax before ruary 13, 1922, will be heard in the Uni ed States district court here Saturda: Frank L. Polk and the United States Trust Company of New York, executors of the will, filed their motion today, claiming that the executors have one year and an additional 180 days after the death of Josephine Brooks on August 17, 1920, in which to pay the tax. The collector clajms the tax must be pald ome year after death unless the commissioner of the internal revenue at Washington grants an extension of 150 days. STEAMER HAYDEN ADRIFT 700 MILES OFF DELAWARE CAPES Boston, Oct. 5—A wireless message re- ceived here tonight from the disabled shipping board steamer Hayden said she had broken adrift from the steamer Wichita at a point several hundred miles off the Delaware Capes and that there were no vessels in the vicinity to offer as. sistance. The Hayden, which on Sep- tember 9 Teported pump trouble after leaving Ponta Del Gada, said she was having difficulty with a rough sea and a strong northwest wind. OMAHA ATTORNEY HELD IN EMBEZZLEMENT CASE Omaha, Neb, Oct. 5—Thomas H. Matters, Omaha attorney, was arrested by deputy sheriffs tcday on a charge of aiding nad abetting a felony in connection with the alleged embezzlement of $200,000 m the nOw defunct Pioneer State Rank. TRAINS INCOLLISIONINPARIS: CARS N FLAMES INA TUNNEL 2 Many Persons Are Believed to be Dead and Burning in the Wreckage—16 Bodies Have Been Recovered—Rescus Has Been Made of 20 Pe Slightly Injured—Seventeen Coaches Are Burning— rsons Seriously Injured and 53 7 Trains Were Filled and Authorities Say That Anyone Re- maining in the Tunnel is Paris, Oct. 5.—(By the A. P.)—Many persons are believed to be dead and burn- ing in the wreckage of 2 rear-end co lision of two suburban trains in the mile tunnel leading to the St. Lazare road station, from which 16 bod ready had been recoveged at nine o'cl this evening. Twenty seriously persons and 53 slightly injured also had been rescued. Seventeen coach firemen, almost helpless, were cutting a Chole through the roof of the tunnel through the pavement of Rue De Rome, hoping to create an upward draft in or: der to allow the smoke and gas to es Both trains were filled with home- bound commuters and authorities at any one remaining in the tunnel almost certain to be dead. The collision occurred when the train from the suburb, Marly-le Roi, crashed into the ear of a train for Ver s were burn and cape. ward sailles, which left four min earlier on the same track but which stopped in the tunel for some xplained reason. Cries for help and moans were audibic at both ends of the tunnel. It is feared that thos ped in the burningz wreckage may never be identified, as they would surely be burned to a cinder in the intense heat, yet unreached by the firemen, who were di- recting streams of water from both ends of the tunnel. Later it was learned that started by explosions of small illur ing gas tanks in the coaches of the scoped train. The train for Versailles who were trap- the fire Almost Certain to be Dead. had stopped to repair a broken coupling when the collision occurred hundreds of the injured were able to escape by run- ning through the- dark tunnel along t track ends. Troops were called out im- mediately to surround the sceme of the disaster. At a late hour tonight sixtcen bod had been recovered. Twenty persons are known to have been injursd and sixty others were slightly injured. This, however, gives no idea of the extent of the disaster, because the firemen and others engaged in the work of rescue have been unable to get any distance within the tunnel, owing to the gas The fire spread with great rapidity and for a time cries of distress and the moans of the dying were heard on all sides, but these finally were silenced, the crackling of the blazing wooden coaches still could be heard. The firémen were® not prepared for the poisonous fumes which assailed them as they reached the scenc. Finaliy they succeeded in playing four sreams on tk last coaches at the St. Lazare end of tunnel but these were empty and mot burning while seventeen coaches in the center of the tunmel, far away from the firemen’s efforts, were buraing fiercely, At no time could they get closer than five hundred feet from the -inferno. Never- theless, every mow and then a passenger with blackened face would come stras- gling out, begging the helpless firemen, police and soldiers to enter the-tunel and save those dying within. MINERS FAVOR FORMATION OF A NEW POLITICAL PARTY Indianapolis, Oct. 5.—The United Mine Workers of America ended their biennial convention here today with the addition of a resolutjon favoring the formation of a new political party, combining the forc- es of organized labor and the organized farmers. The conbention also selected Indianapolis for the seat of the next con- vention, to be held in January. elected Alexander Howat, D the Kansas miners, and W secretary of the Indiana miners. as del- egates to the internatjonal mining con- gress that meets next year in England, The union's political declaration asked Samuel Gompirs to call a conference all unions aifiliated with the American Federation of Labor and of all farmer organizations to affect as far as possi- ble a political coalition of these organ- izations. The resolution was adopted by an almost unanimous vote and with- out discussion. As a preamble to the resolution, ccmmittee report indorsed the Non-Pa tisan League government of North Da kota. a JECKE DEMPSEY TESTIrIES IN SUIT BY KEARNS Batavia, N. Y., Oct. 5.—Jack Dempsey, world's champion boxer, testifying to- day in the $100,000 suit brought again: him and Jack Kearns, his manager, by Frank P. Spellman of Batavia, denied that he had entered into any oral agre: ment whereby Spellman was to receive 25 per centfl of the profits of a motion picture in which the champion was star- red. Dempsey raised his voice and m: fiant answers to some of the asked him on cross exami: B. Moore, one of the lawyers an. He objected when Mr. Moore asked him if he was the champion “prize fisht- ¢ the world and declared that as not a prize fighter but the ch ade de- he m- plon “boxer” of the world. ou did mot serve your country in the world war?* was one of the que tions put to Dempsey, but tk e court su: tained an objection and he did not have to answer it. Dempsey he had never voted. He gave a New York hotel tual residence. his place of ac- PENN ROAD TO ASSIST RELIEVE U MPLOYMENT Philadelphia. Oc railroad hopes soon to the unemployment situa: an additional force of men to repair idle cars, President Samuel Rea announced in a statement tonight. “We have at present, $2,000 he said, “of which 46,000 have been stor< ed without being repaired. None of th latter are required for current use and it might be perfectly safe to defer u repair until spring. But we feel tha we put them in order now we shall not only be prepared for unexpected re- vival in business but shall also be as- sisting, at a time when it is most needed, in President Harding’s endeavors to in prove the general employment situation.” idle cars,” RESTAURATEUR TELLS OF “COME BACK” OF BE: NS Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. 5.—Beans are coming back to their placz in the hearts and stomachs of the American peo- ple, from Boston to Los Angeles, ac- cording to John W. W:lch president of the National Association of Restaurant Men, who spoke vesteiday at its annual convention. The “comeback” ‘of beans, he added, followed a similar reinstatement of doughnuts in public favor. “The war did it Mr. Welch declared. “America again stands before the world as the home of the doughnut, the ple and the bean pot. BOSTON POLICE FIRE SIX SHOTS AT FLEEING NEGRO Boston, Oct. 5.—Six shots were by police officers during a chase of sev- eral blocks in which two hundred or more Dersons participated before Foster Davis, a negro, was captured in the South End district today as a fugitive from justice. He is wanted, the police said, in Peters- burg, Va., for obtaining money by means of fraudulent checks. Similar were said to be pending in Baltimore. Davis said he was a tailor and had been employed on the U. 8. S. Nantucket, used as a schoolshin, charges “T6GO MUCH THEORY” IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING ‘Washington, Oct. 5.—The present sys- tem of federal vocational training come tains “decidedly too much theory,” and needs the injection. of practical methods, declared in a report to President Ha: ing made public today and covering recent countrywide inspectiun of hospita: lization ang vocational training facili- ties. 5 g “In makifiy publiec the report Colonel Forbes chafacterized the system as ‘un- mistakably and absolutely wrong’ and expressed doubt whether ‘very many men have actually been rehabilitated by the Zovernment and have gone back te their respective communities as wage earners and as assets. “We have farmed men out under this system,” the director added in comment. ing on the report. “It is moth of crime and slavery to put men into some of the places they have been put 1 am opposed to the sweat shop system and I do not propose to let more of the former service men be exploited by mushroom houses that ave sprung up merely to explojt the soldier and get tae government's money.” REVIEW OF LIVESTOCK CNDITIONS FOR SEPTEMSER ‘Washington, Oct. 5.—Business depres- sion and unemployment have not been re- flected in the American public’s choice of mean, the Ins: te of American Meat Packers said in . statement issued to- day reviewing meat and livestock cendi- tions for September. “With nearly four million industrial ‘workers reported idle by the national employment copference, it na would be expected,” the statement “that the so-called chy be less in demand and that a co: | share of the consuming turn to those cuts which are t very mnuch lower prices. the single exception of forequarter cuts of beef there has been no consumers’ buying preferencs out September the beef from cattle was in better demand expensive grades and the relative er priced pork cuts were m ecager sought than those selling at lower figures.’ | RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT 5 RED CROSS CONVENTION Columbus, Ohio. Oct. 5.—Inglusion of a course on health conservat®n curricula of universities, colicges, k sctools and free public schools was urs- ed in a resolution adopted today by health service section of the Americ Red Cross at the first national convea- tion of the association here. Sectional conferences, including discas- sion of service for enlisted and expservice men, home hyziene and care of the sick, Junjor Red Cross and health services, were held during the day. Frank discussion marked the confer- ence on service for enlisted men and ex- service men. Lieutenant Commander docl T. Boone, medical corps, U. S. Navy, declared that “care must be exercises io prevent the hobbyist and theorist from getting control and diverting the society from its straight course” He said the mijjtary purpose of the organization must be ecomonically administered and cx ialled during the peace time. but iha “it canmot be laid aside to be picked up when emergency arises.’ HELD FOR MURDER OF HIS DAUGHTER IN 1911 Madison, Wis,, Oct. 5.—Martin Lem- berger, father of Annie Lemberger, 7, who was killed here in 1911, was arrested today on a warrant charging second de- gree murder, making the climax of & hearing on an application of John A. Johnson for pardon after serving tem years in state prison for the murder of the girl. —_— AMERICAN BANKEES TO FLOAT LOAN FOR GERMANY fired Berlin, Oct. 5.—(By the A. P.)—It iz reported unofficially hat certain Ameri- can bankers have offered to support 3 group of manufacturers in the flotation of a loan for the German government. Ac- cordnig to the Lokal Anzeiger discussions with the American bankers will begia shortly. Even the man who carries chips both shoulders doesn't necessarily wi ‘ Director Forbes of the Veterans' Bureau'y. T