Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 26, 1921, Page 1

VOL. LXIII—NO. 260 POPULATION- 29,685 . PROSPECT OF B RAILAOAD STRIKE 1S GROWING REMOTE T.abor Board Announces No Petitions For Further Wage Cuts * Will be Considered Until the Question of Rules and Working Conditions Have Been Settled—Such Decision 7ot Probable For Six Months or More—In Reply to the iabor Board, the Carriers Have Dechr{d They Are “Powerless to Take Any Other Position” ‘Than the Pres- ent One in the Matter of Wage Reductions. ; Following were Tuesday's rall strike |riers know,/jt was learned that since a velopments: 5 cago: Labor board suggests to < that they temporarily postpone seek- further wage cuts because the dock- .a decision could not be , but roads de- 3 less to take any than their present one. ard announced rules and working con- fons will be settled before any wage tionf are considered. es meet to discuss strike and fabor board hearing which ns toda = exec on: Attorney General Daugh- Disttict attorneys from New veland, Buffalo, Indianapolis hicago, complete plans “for trans- portation of people who travel and trans- tion of food and fuel” in the event . Warren S. Stone, head of vincers, announces he has instruct- airmen they need not attend to- w's lahor board hearing at Chicago, the board has misunderstood their ty and will not want them when is explained. er, president of the firemen ent declares ‘the whole power is to used to and that “there seems no disposition on the part,of any ng an equitable adjustment.” ¢ union chiefs ask Walker former director general of o act as their 'counsel in labor Doard, but he de- York, Cle £ a stri iministration be Railway eclerks will give € an to proposed walk- refusing to do other than their nz it. Train dispatching or- ot be handled by the clerks by ns Houston International and Great Northern strike situation unchanged ; full passenger and part freight service being operated under armed guards although strikes maintain hands off policy. RAILREOAD UNION CHIEFS PREPARE FOR LEGAL BATTLE (By the A. P. railroad {ransporta- ion chiefs are expecting a en they appear before the railroad labor board to- ago was indicated today to retain Walker D. lirector genera lof raile gal phases which Mr. Hines informed the cxecutives that he “was not represent them and re- New York tonight. velop. Mr. Hines deciined to make any gen- ral comment on the situation or to dis- c spec a labor board has aftitude concerning the ne- general chairmen OY the five ations appearing at the Chi it 1 squabbles to be decided tion of Warren S. Stone, Erotherhood of Locomo- in notifying his general y need not answer the labor tion. Mr. Stone announced at oniy himself and six grand whom the authority of the or- is vested, will attend the con- ers, to conflicting reports im exchanged between Chairman Barton of the railroad labor sident Stone, regarding the chairman of the being required to attend the hearings, Mr. Stone tonight chairmen are scattered all over the from Maine to California and it be impossible for me to get them z0 in time for the opening of the ked how long he and his ers expected to remain in e replied that he could adding that no - arrange- been made for the return trip, herhood chiefs would not in- whether their general chairmen be present, excepting W, G. Lee nt of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, who has ordered the approxi- y general chairmen and grand icers of his organization to be present hom he will confer in Chicago morning, previous to meeting boare. chiefs and their officers will confer separately preliminary to the board meeting. In a statement issued today, W. S. Carter, president of the Brotherhood of comotive Firemen and Enginemen. the men are determined to peace- the service of the railroads, sfactory adjustment has been Mr. Carter also stated that “if press orts:are to be taken at their face the whole power of the adminis- is going to be used to defeat the strike of the employes,” adding “Not one word comes through fhe press that any fuence is being used upon the raflroad orporations.” The five chiefs held today and discussed final plans for their appearance before the railroad labor and left late tonight for Chicago. two conferences CARRIERS POWERLESS TO CHANGE POSITION, THEY SAY (by the A. P.)—The es Railroad Labor Board to- rned to the railroads in its at- to avert the rail strike scheduled ober 30, suggesting that the roads postpone ‘seeking further because the board’s focket was so crowd:{l a wage decis- fon cou'd not be rendered before July 1922, The carriers, however, informed the board that they were “powerless to take any other position” than their pres- en: one. In a_formal statement the board In- tormed The carrfers that it would not consider any petitions for wage cuts un- til the questfons of rules and working conditions. now hefore it, were fully ses Rled. 4 The board then unofficially let the car- lor Oct: lemporar wage reductions It is understood that|C | | P In ruling on wages could not be handed down before July, 1922, it would like the roads formaly to announce post- ponement of their plans to seek further pay cuts, taking the attitude that such an announcement might avert a walk- out, The committee of the Association of Railway Executives which conferred with the board annoiinced, however, that the carriers would stand pat on their plans to seek new pay cuts on the ground that wagzes must be reduced before freight rates could be lowered and that since the strike was called technically in protest of wage cuts already author- ized by the board, there was no neces- sity for the roads to take other than an inactive part in the strike controversy between the board and the unionms. its coramunication to the roads, the hoard declared that if both sides would consider the delay necessary be- fore wages agaln could be reduced, they would rea’ize that!there was no cause for immediate strife between them over this point. The unions, not taking into consld- eration this delav, were crossing bridges before comipg to them when thev called a strike, the board's statement sald. It pointed out that the carriers had repeatedly urged a ouick decision on the rules and working corfditions, questions (Continned on Page Thrae, Col. Feur} MIDDLETOWN ASYLUM IS 600 OVERCROWDED' Hartford, Oct. 25.—Dr. Floyd C. Hav- iland, superintendent of the Comnecticut Hospital for the Insane at Middletown, told the state board of control today that the institution now has 600 more pa- tients than its facilities warrant. Be- cause of the crowded conditions patients have been refuse?. admission, he said, and in many instances sheriffs have left tieir charges in the hal'ways and de- parted. Dr. Haviland's statements were made during a’ discussion of plans for a new reception building at the Middletown in- stitution, for which $325,000 was appro- priated by the general assembly. Former Governor Weeks recommended that the construction work be started at once, In- stead of waiting until next year, INDIAN AFFAIRS DISCUSSED IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS London, Oct. 25.—(By The A. P.)— Despite government efforts to prevent parliamentary discusslon of Indian af- fairs on the eve of the departure of the Prince of Wales, for India, that sub- ject was taken up in the House of Lords today, whern Baron Sydenham charged the governthent wlith exercising a weak policy by which British authority had suffered througlout India. He asserted that it was widely believed ¢ the masses of Indian people that Brit- rule rather had ended -or shortly would end. He argued that the govern- ment must have been aware of the re- cent Moplar uvrising which he declared was well organized pnder the eyes of the government. MOTION DENIED IN THE STILLMAN DIVORCE CASE Poughkeepsie, N, Y., Oct. 25.—Supreme Court Justice, Morschauser today at White Plains ‘denied the motion of John E. Mack guardian ad litem for Guy Still- man, to bring al ithe heirs of the late James Stillman and of James A. Sti- man into the divorce action against Mrs. Anne U. Stillman. Mr. Mack made the motion for the pur- pose he said, of protecting the interests of Guy in the future. Justice Morschaus- er in giving his decision said he believed the interests of the child would be prop- erly safeguarded if Mrs. Stillman should win the divorce action. 7 » HAPSBURGS TO BE EXPELLED FLOM SWITZERLAND Berné, Oct. 25 (By the A. P.).—The end of October has been fixed as the time limit for the departure from Switz. | erland of about eighty persons belonging to the household of former Emperor harles and members of the Hapshurg family the Swiss government has decideq to expel from the country. There will be aliowed to remain in Switzerland only those persons necessary to care for the children of Charles and Zita, who are at Hertonstein. Among the members of the Hapsburg family in Switzerland are the mother, mother-in-law and «unt of Charles, ADD STORM 7 o oty s (8 MWIDDLETOWN WOMA. s’ Middletown, Oct. 25.—Mrs. Nellle Har- rison, aged 27, mother of three chil- dren, who are in the county home, was shot and killed by her husband, Fred- erick, early today. The latter shot him.- self and may not live. Harrison had been a patient in a tuberculosis hospital at Hartford. He came hare Yesterday ana eaw his wife who declined to live with him. He apneared at her boarding house early today, and after conversation shot her and himself. Medical Examiner Calef sald that he believed the deed was actuated by jealousy. NOTICE OF APPEAL FILED IN SCHUTTK MURDER CASE Middletown, Conn., Oct. 25.—Notice of an” appeal to the Connecticut supreme court in the case of Emil Schutte, who was found guilt by a jury of the mur- der of Joseph Mary and Jacob Ball, was filed in the superior court late ‘to- day by his counsel, Gustaf R# Carlson. The action of Schutte's counsel came a few hours after Judge Maltbie had sen- tenced Schutte to be hanged on April 10 next. Rc@me wag taken 1o the state prison, at Wethersfield after the sen. tence was pronounced. KILLED BY HER HUSBAND ; | tinuance of the Irish conference, Army Suppii Stanving &Wiond Authority Has Been Asked—5,000,000 to 10,000,000 People Starving. Washingtor, Oct. 25.—Congressional authority has heen asked for the use of surplus army supplies in the famine areas of Russia where the 5,000,000 to, 10,- 000,000 people are starving, Secrétary Hoover announced today. Mr. Hoover made public a letter to Chairman Kahn of the house military affairs committee, in which he called at- tention to the ‘'very terrible situation in the Volga basin in Russia” and the ef- forts of private relief agencies to save as many lives as possible. s At the same time Mr. Hoover made Dublic a statement on famine conditions in Russia by Dr. Vernon Kellogs, secre- tary of the National Research Council, which declared that in the Volga famine area the lives of 15,000,000 people were placed in direct jeopardy. He ndded that concentration of the food available in that area upon certain individuals throughout the year might mean thd survival of seven or eight millions of this number. COMMITTEE ON FORMULA FOR IRISH CONFERENCE London, Oct. 25.—(By The A. P.—The committee comprising Prime Minister Lloyd George, Austen Chamberlain, Ar- thur Griffith and Michael Collins, which was appointed yesterday to endeavor to find a formula that would enable a con- con- ferred another .two hours today without completing its task. No date was fixed for the reassemblying -of the conference itself, because the committee’s report i¥ not yet ready. The Ulster question is closely connect- ed with the question of Sinn Fein's con- sent to enter the British commonwealth, and the committee today had to consid- er suggestions for meeting the Sinn Feii demands for Irish unity. Sean Mellro; Sinn Fein member of the House of Com- mons for Tyrone, was in conference with Sir Hamar Greenwood, although the lat- ter is not a member of the committee. Detailed maps showing the tion of Catholics and Protestants, only by counti(s but Ry districts, again were brought into the committee con- ference and the inference was drawn that Sinn Fein is fighting the Ulster issue be- fore consenting to yield' anything on the question of allegiance to the crown Its arguments were marshalled by depu- tations which before the conference met waited on Eamonn De Valera in Dub- lin from all sections containing national- ist majorities within the area of the northern parliament. It will be recalled that in replying to them Mr. De Valera declared the issue of Irish unity to be as fundamenta] as that of the Irish form of government. At the Irish headquarters tonight an at- tempt was made to cc§ vey the impression that a break-off tomorrow and the im- mediate return of the delegates to Dub- lin are within the range of probability. Among the British officials, however, there appeared a disposition to'believe that the committee would present its re- port and that a full conference would re- assemble tomorrow. BODY IDENTIFIED AS MRS. BERTHA BECKER LEGLESS New York, Oct. —Mrs. Elizabeth Richard of Jersey City today identified the legless body of a woman found S: urday in a pool in-Long Island City as that of Bertha Baker or Becker, who lived with her two years ago. A des of the German iron cross and the initials “B. B.” had been tattoed .on her_right leg above the knee, Mrs. Richard told the po- Hce, and she thought this mizht have been though why the less had been sev- ered Mrs, Richard said the girl had come to America from Cologne, Germany. She appeared at her house in company with her husband and baby, and asked for lodging, Mrs. Richard said. The man was a boatman. | WOMAN MISSING FROM COLONIAL LINER CAMBRIDGE Pawtucket, R. I, Oct. 25.—Miss Eloise Hopffgarten, 25 years of _age, whose home is in Florida, was missing from her stateroom on the Cononial liner Cavm- bridge when the steamer docked at New York today, according to word received v friends here. The young woman Wa ZEnmoyed #s a stenographer. When she left her work last night she said noth- ing about her Intended visit to New York, but telephoned friends that she would be home within an hour after leav- ing the office. Miss Hopffgarten wo employed in one of the government of- fices until recently. TO CALL FOR BIDS FOR RECONSTRUCTING LEVIATHAN wash‘ngton, Oct. 2! Bids for recon- structin.; the Leviathan will be asked for; ¢ the shipping board on Oct. 31, it was :inzhuedp?oday by President .Powell‘u! the. Emergency Fleet. corporation. Bid- ders will be given sixty days in which to prepare their bids. : item is expected to be for conversion of the ship into an oil burner, at an esti- mated cost of about. $1,250.000. It has been said that one year will be required for the completion of the work of recon- ditioning. - STANDARD DISCOUNT RATES BY FEDERAL KESERVE BANKS Washington, Oct. 26.—Formuiation of a general policy rcgarding rates of dis- count by federal reserve “banks ‘“from which there.would be no divergence ex- cept in unusual . or emergency cases,” seems desirable, Governor Harding, of the Federal Reserve Board, declared to- day in an address at the joint confer- ence of the board with federal reserve agents and governors of reserve banks. . HADLEY-ON TRIAL = FOR MURDERING HIS “"IF'E DR. W. Richmond, Va., Oct. 25.—Dr. Wilmarth Amos Hadley, former army surgeon, was placed on triel here today on the charge of murdering his wife, Mrs. Sue Kathleeen Tinsley Hadley, whose body with wire fastened around it, was found in James river December 30, 1918, NEGRO RILLED IN BATTLE WITH BALTIMORE POLICE 25, - Baltimore, ‘Md., Oc! A negro was The largest single | BRIEF TELEGRAMS - _ Approximately 6,000 licenses for game shooting were issued in the Province of Manitoba. ¢ 2 William E. Crow, appointed to succeed the late Senator Knox of Pennsylvania,’ to)k his seat in the senats. Railroad companies are not liable for damages caused while operated by the railroad administration. Recelvers were appointed in the super- ior court for the Touraine Company, con. fectiorery manufacturers, Boston. The synod of the Episcopal province of New England opened jts annual -two days' gession in Providence With nearly 75 mer.bers in attendance. TUnited States labor hoard says average daily rate of pay of all grades of railroad workers totals $4.54 as . compared wita an average of $2,87 jn 1917. After six months idleness more than 1,000 men returned to work when 600 ovens of the Frick Coal Co. resumed op- eration. Eighty-two boxes of gold was part of the cargo of La Lorraine which arrived at New York. The gold valued at $2,- 750,000 is consigned to New York banks. An important success by the Spanish troops in Morocco—the occupation of Jount Arruit—was announced in an of- ficial comminque. Persons paying federal taxes Dprotest cannot bring proceedings to recov- er such taxes against a successor of the collector to whom the taxes were paid. Courtland P. Dixon of New York city, formerly associated with A. Barton Hep- burn, and wel known in financial circles, died at Ridgefield of heart trouble. Moorish contingents which bombarded Spanish positions in the sector of Tigui sas, Gomara and-Magab Sugday morning were repulsed. Hodiamont bank, outside of St. Louis’ city limits, were commpelled to lie face down ward while four bandits robbed the bank of $7,000. A. J. Balfour, with other members of the British delegation to the Washington conference, have booked passage for the United States on the steamship Empress of France, sailing Nov. 2. An attempt to organize a conference on the limitation of armaments among’ Eng- lish colleges similar to that to be held in Princeton on Wednesday, will be made shortly. The board of directors of the Prov- idence Chamber of commerce wired Pres- ident Harding offering him its co-opera- tion in his efforts to avert the threaten- ed rail strike. 4 Announcement was made .that every coal mine in Nova Scotia and probably the steel plants as well would pe closed if the miners did not moderate their wage demands. Mrs. Emma Richardson Burkett of Hillsdale, Ind., was sentenced to Serve three vears in the peniténtiary for forg- ing the indorsement of Theodore Roose- velt to a note for $69,900. Four men were arraigned in Spring- field before a federal commissioner, rged with krowingly receiving lottery tickets, from a common carrier engaged in interstate commerce, The price of a scat on the New York stock exchange dropped $10,000 yester- day -when the sale of a membership was announced at $50.000. The last previous sale. was recorded at §90,000. Birmingham, Ala., undreamed of when Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomatox, and in 1921 the largest city of its age in the United States, began the celebra- tion of its fiftieth birthday. ‘W. Cameri n Forbes, former governor general of the Philippines, arrived in San rancisco on the steamer Golden State it hthe report of the Wood-Forbes mis- m_which investigated conditions 4n the Phiippines. Ensign Lyle S. Gunn was brought to the navy yard in Boston, under arrest on charges arising out of the disappear- ance of $1,500 in Liberty bonds from thy safe at the naval prison at Portsmouth, N. B A final decree in divorce was handed down to Mrs. Cordelia Biddle Duke, formerly Cordelia. Biddle, daughter of Major and Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel, against Angier B. Duke, in common pleas court at Philadelphia. Dwclaring that “business is better,” the H. C. Frick Coke company, a sub- eidiary of. the United States Steel Corp- orations extended its order providing for the resumption of operations in the Con- nellsville coke region. Major General A. W. Greely, U. S. A., iretired veteraw’ of Arctic explorations jand of the Civil war, today volunteered jton, for any service which might be re- jauired of him in the event of a railroad i strike, > Prof. Paul Millukoff, minister of for- eign affairs, and Nicholas Avksentiev, ipresident of the Siberian directory under ihe former provisianal government - pf Ruwa, arrived in New York on the America, en route from Paris to Wash- ington for the conference on armaments. The town ecouncil of Zurich, Switzer- land, decided to profit by the easy money market terms in Switzerland and float an internal loan from Swiss banks.for the purpose of rédeeming the loan of $6,000,- 000 obtained from American financiers last October. Zeke Anderson, & mountalneer of Elkhorn City, in Pike County, Ky. who escaped from the Rock Castle convict road camp last spring, sent home and made a erop so his family would have food next winter. Testerday he gave him- self up at the state reformatory. Major General George W. Goethals, U. S. A., retired, was selected to be com- mander in chief o fan emergency supply system for the Metropolitan area of New York in the event of a railroad strike at a meeting of federal, state and army of- ficials. B WEST HAVEN FIRIMIAN I8 CHARGZD WITH ARSON New Haven, Oct. 25.—Casper Stocker, killed in a battle with Baltimore police |a member of the West Haven fire de- |Tropical Stormon - under | The Florida Coast Tampge, Fliodid With Theee Feet of Water — Freight Steamer Sunk. West Palm Beach, Fla., Oct. 25.—The St. Petersburg wireless station went out of commission this afternoon, dccording to a rteport from the Jupiter wireless station eighteen miles north of here, and the St. Augustine wireless station 1s also said to be out of coramission. The center of the tropical storm early this after- noon was a short distance west of Tampa and moving north northwest.. The maxi- mum velocity of the wind was given as fifty-six rhiles an hour and the barometer at Tampa at noon read 29.04. Considerable damage to shipping is feared. The freight steamer Thames, plying between Jacksonville nad Miami. sank today about fourteen miles north of Jupiter, but Captain E. J. Wuhl and his crew of fifteen men reached «hore in lifeboats at Gomez. > Because of many wires being down re- ports are incomplete and details of dam. ages are unavaimble. TAMPA WITHOUT LIGHTS OR STREET CAR SERVICE Jacksonville Fla., Oct. 25.—The busi- ness section of Tampa _is practically flooded under three feet of water as a re- sult of the gulf storm, according to ad- vices reaching here tonight over crip- pled transmission lines. No loss of life has been reported but industry is at a standstill. -The entire west coast of Flor- ida is feeling the effects of the storm an dis virtually isolated insofar as com- munication is concerned. = Tampa is without light, telegraph tel- ephone or street car service, according to the advices which were received here by way of Plant City, about 30 miles north- Six employes and a customer of the east of Tampa. —Heavy rains are reported falling over the entire state. TForty miles inland from Tampa in the section around Lake- land nad Plaint City, the truck crops have suffered serieis damage The high- ways are Virtually impassable because of fallen trees, but so far as known railroad service has not been sériously inconven- jenced. Officials of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad with division headquarters at Lakeland report interruption of ser- vice south ofgTampa with water three feet deep over the track between Punta Gorda and Boca Grande. The flooded area in Tampa was describ- ed as extending from the bay shore sea wall to the heart of the business section, a distance of about a mile Fashionable residences along the bay shore drive were reported badly damaged from the high water A gale of 56 miles an hour was reported in that city, At Plaint City the rainfall for’ the last 48 hours registered 4.26 inche3 with a wind of 35 miles an hour blowing. Rail- road officials Teported they were unable to communicate with any intermediate stations between Plaint.City and Tampa. A number of cattle are reported drowned. No information as o the plight of St. Petersburg, 20 miles across the bay from lieved the city is faring much the same as Tampa. Both cities are protected by a sea wall, The heavy rains throughout the state have thrown many cities and town in darkness because of the disrution of power plant facilities. Notable among these are St. Augustine and Orlando. At St. Augustine pedestrians and property were endangered by broken live wires dangling across the streets. Three small blazes in the business section also re- sulted. Orlando was in total darkness and newspaper plants suspended along with other business. The wireless station at St. Augustine feported it had heard no distress calls throughout the day and that communica- tion with west coast stations had failed. The full force of the storm is reported to have passed Key West, where no seri- ous damage has been suffered Shipping between Key West and Havana was sus- uended because of the heavy damage The storm is described as the worst = simce 1897. STORM CAUSED DAMAGE Jacksonville, Fla,, Oct. 25.—At mid- night tonight the tropical hurricane which entered the state at Tampa this morn- ing and spread northeastward across the state, causing a loss of property and \crops estimated at Lpproximately one million dollars, was apparently attain- Ing its maximum velocity in the vicinity of Jacksonville. 2 STORM IN EFFECT OFF ‘Washington, . Oct. 25.—The ville and Titusville, without late reports from ing been received about noon today. MISSING S. N. E. T. EMPLOYE i employe of the local exchange of mainder of the loce what he was doing. and has one child. YOUTH KILLED WHEN TRUCK STRUCKE Bl <CLE Greenwich, Oct. 25.—Theodore Teufel, 16, son of Mw..and Mrs. Fred Teufel, was | killed today when the bicycle on which he was riding -was struck by a motor truck from Conyer Manor, the estate of Teufel was a the late E. C. Converse. messenger for the Western Union Tele- graph company, and was going over up- per North street, about three miles from the center, when struck. Willis Guy, driver of the truck, was held in $5,000 until Coroner Phelan makes an inquiry. POLAND AND DANZIG 3 SIGN POLITICAL TREATY War saw, Oct. 25.—A political and at Pumphrey Statlon, a suburb of this | partment, vas arrested by state police | économic treaty between Poland and the city, late tonight, following a threatened |today on a charge of arson. race riot. The riot wag precipitated by |locked up in default of $2,500 bonds. it is{by high an assault upon a Wwhite girl by a ne- | alleged that hc set fire on October 10 to|both principals. At a jate ‘hour a band of negroes|a public were in a house, surrounded by pdlice "Haven, gro. garase which he owns In West He was|government of Danzig was signed today commissioners representing They exprsSed the be- lief that this would mark the beginning » Aof prosperity and mutual understanding. Tampa, has been received, but it is be-’ APPROXIMATING $1,000,000 SOUTH ATLANTIC COAST weather bureau tonight announced that the trop- ical storm which is in effect off the south Atlantic coast was moving iniand at‘last reports and was heading for the north- east corner of Florida between Jackson- The bureau was the ficoded at a citizens' recrulting statfon, in Bos- | 27€as near Tampa, the last advices have SURRENDERS TO »OLICE Waterbury, Oct. 25.—Fred Ford, 24, an the Southern New England Telephone com- pany, who disappeared on Oct. 13 with $1,000 of the company’s money and sev- eral checks, surrendered himself at po- lice headquarters here today and turned over $700 to the authorities as the re- ce ®rd's only excuse for running away with the money was that he had drank four glasses of cider on the day of the theft and did not know He. is locked up in | default of $500 bonds on a charge of embezzlement, The prisoner is married Caused to be Printed in 'Obscene and Unprintable | Washington Oct. 25.—The house was asked today to expel ome of its mem- bers—Thoma$ L. Blanton, democrat, of the seventeenth Texas district—for caus- ing to de published in the Congressional Record an affidavit which related to a row at the govérnment printing office and which was characterized as obscene and nuprintable. b Presented on the Texan's 49th birthda by Representative Mondell of Wyom! the republican leader, the resolution wa placed on the table for consideration and vote Thursday, becauSe of Blanton's ab- sence from Washington. He left here Monday night for Wheeling, West Vir- ginia, to make a speech, in accordancs with arrangements made prior to the ac- tion of the house Monday in expunging his undelivered speech, containing the of- enfding affidavit, from the Record, but is expected back tomorrow. Examination of house proceedings, par- liamentarians announced, failed to show where a member had been expelled ex- cept during Civil War days. Many dem- ocrats for expulsion have been put for- ward, but censure only resulted, some representatives resigning before the house acted. A two-thirds vote of members present would be required to expel Blanton. In the question of voting on the Mondeil resolution leaders declared the house HOUSE HAS BEEN ASKED T0 EXPEL BLANTON OF TEXAS Tense Moment in the House as Republican Leader Mondell Read the Request—Member is Charged With Having would vote withou The Texas delegation w to discuss the case and house the Congressional Reeord_ an Affidavit Which Related to a Row in the Government Printing Office—Matter Was Put Over For Action Thursday. garl to party lines. meet 1OmMOrrow as sald to be quite likely that a substitute measure, providing for cemsure instead of exs pulsion would be presented. There was a tense moment fin the vhen the leader, rising from his sent 1o the clerk's desk a paper with quest taat it be read. The roil call, just'ended, showed Blanton absent. Necks were craned as Mr. 3fndell, turning to the democratic side, and pitching his voice, asked “Is the gentieman from Tex- as present?” Getting no response and declaring that it svas a serious_matter and believing it unseemly to proceed with its considera- tion in the absence of the accused, Mr. Mondell announced that he would call it up tomorrow. Later, however, ed to act on it Thursday. Blanton some months ago was denounc- ed on the floor by Representative Sumners of Texas, with the solid Texas delegation standing at Sumners’ back. A week ago he was denounced by Representative Burke, republican, Pennsylvania, who, jumping out of parliamentary bounds, called him “a damned liar in the midst of bitter debate. When the motion to strike his nine page speech from the Re- cord was made Monday Blanton demand- ed an immediate vote, and cast the only vote to keep it there. it was $5,000 REWARD FOR MAIL ROBBERS, “DEAD OR ALIVE"” New York, Oct. 25.—Disclosure of lhel fact that the loot in last night's mail truck hold-up -in Broadway included | mearly $300,000 in bonds, coupled with Postmaster Genera! Hays' offer of a $5.- 000 reward for the robbers, “dead or alive,” today set scores of detectives worklng on a theory that the rich haul wa san “inside job.” Of the stolen securities, $463,000 worth were the property of patrons of the Chase Natfonal Bank, while $27,000 worth belonged to the Park National Bank. The inside job theory, upon which pos- tal inspectors admitted they were cen- tering their investigations, wgs haged on the bellef that news of the precious shipment had reached the band through | channels so reliable that they not only knew which truck was to carry it, but could pick out the Sacks containing their prospective booty. The robbers never hesitated in selecting the four most val- uable onés out of e'even sacks of reg- istered and six sacks of ordinary mail matter. As the search nrogressed, bank offi- cia’s were frank in criticising the nostal authorities for alowing so valnable a shipment to be transported at night through the city streets. At the time it was overtaken and halted by the trio ‘of robbers in a touring car, the mail truck was in charge of only one man, the chauffeur. Postgl Inspector Georze Brown Indl- cated that while hip suwbicions have not vet centered on any individvals enough Is known to justify the belief that the robbery was of the Inside va- riety, and to make necessary Investiga- tions of a number of clerks. delivery men and other emp'oves of the City Hail post office, where the truck picked un its load before startinz un town. HOUSE ACCEPTS THE INVITATION OF BRAZIL ‘Washington, Oct. 25.—The Louse late today passed in amended form the senate resolution accepting Brazil's invitation to the United States to participate in an in-| ternational exposition at Rio De Janeiro | next year and authorizing an appropria- tion of one million dollars for an exhibit. Favorable action on the resolution had previously been taken by the senate, but an agreement must now be reached in conference on several points of differ- ence, particularly as to a house provision limiting the salaries of a commi general to $15,000 and three comm on- | ers to $7,500 each annually. Two other commissioners will be appointed to serve | without pay. The senate would not limit | the salaries. STATEMENT BY TWO RUSSIAN ANTI-BOLSHEVIST LEADERS > New York, Oct. 25.—The two Russian anti-bolshevist leaders who arrived here yesterday today issued a statement ex- plaining their purpose in coming to this country prior to the opening of the con- ference on the limitation of armaments. These leaders—Nicholas D. Avksentiev and Professor Paul Miliukoy, delegated by members of the All-Russian constitu- ent assembly—said they had come as rep- resentatives of the Russian democratic anti-bolshevist movement “to show the great American people that bolshevism has nothing in common with democraoy, just as our struggle against bolshevism has nothing in common with reaction.” They expressed the belief that the Rus- sian_democracy, would emerge from the present crisis “stronger than she ever was before SWITZERLAND WILL NOT PERMIT RETUEN OF CHARLES . Geneva, Oct. 25 (By the A. P.).—For- mer Emperor Charles and ex-Empress Zita have worn out their. welcome in Switzerland, “Never will they be permitted to return to this country,” declared President Schulthess to The Associated Press to- day, “and if .they should return by air- plane, as they left, then we should arrest, intern and finally exile them. Chayles | definitely jto fill certain portfolio: | the® United States. WIRTH TO FORM NEW CABINET FOR GERMANY Berlin, Oct. (By thes A. P.)—Jo- seph Wirth, who resigned from the office of the German chancellor last Saturday, has been designated by President Ebert to form a new cabinet. He has consented to assume the task. It was in an eleventh hour attempt to soive the political chacs brought about by the Wirth cabinet's retirement on Satur- day that President Ebert tonight re- quested Dr. Wirth to form a,so-called business.men’= or non-pariamenfary, min- istry. It is expected the new government will take office tom w. ow. The cabinet will not be a coalition one, as all efforts to reconstitute the three varty bloc or to induce the German peo- ple’s party to enter a government failed when the democrats and the representatives of the people’s party withdrew from today’s inter-part con- Terences owing to a dispute over the up- jority socialists and the clerical constitute the nucleus of the parliamentary support actually vouch- saféd the m>w ministry. The democrats and the Inuependent socialists promise to stand Dy it; while the German people’s party again agrees to observe benevolent neutrality Dr. Wirth's choice of ministers will be confined to the majority socialists and clericals, - which ane the only reichstag parties giving him active support He will, however, go outside the reichstag parties “for which non- political experts or professional men will be selected, Dr. Wirth made it a condi- tion of acceptance of the task of forming a ministry that Walter Rathenau should continue as m.nister of reconstruction. JUDGE CAMPBELL TELLS OF . INTERVIEW WITH DE VALERA Dublin, ' Oct. 25.—Judge Michael Campbell of New York, a member of the American committee for the relidf of dis- tress in Ireland conferred with Eamonn De Valera on the eve of his departure for Later, in the court of an interview, Julge Campbell said: We are certain that out of the dark days of turmoil and trouble will come a govern- ment of the Irish, for the Irish, by the Irish.” teferring to his visit to the north of Ireland he said he was appalled at the ferocity of the religious intolerance dis- vlayed by a section of the people in the northeast, and the resultant destruction of preperty. BEER PRESCRIPTIONS ARE LEGAL IN ONLY NINE STATES Washington, Oct. 25.—Prescriptions of beer al beer as medicine under &he new treasury regulations can lesally bs made in only nine states, W: 3 Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti- Saloon League, said today in a state- ment commenting on issuance of the reg- ulations. These states, Wheeler said, are California, Connectigut, Massaghusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Penn- sylvania, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. Prescriptions of beer also is possible, he sald, in the non-prohibited portions of Louisiana and Maryland. ] - OBITUARY. Judge Joseph P. Tuttle, Hartford, Conn.. Oct. 25.—Judge Jo- seph P. Tuttle, one of the best kmown members of the Connecticut bar, and a former superior court judge, died at his home, 8§83 Asylum street, about 11 o'clock today: Judge Tuttle had been in poor health for a year and had been confined to home for six weeks.. He was born in Unionville, June 12, 1865; was a graduate of Yale Academic (1889) and law and had been practicing law in Hartford thirty years. He was .| appointed to the superior court bemch in February, 1913, and resigned in Au- sust, 1918, Judge Tuttle after entering the prac- tice of law entered the office of Judge William F. Henney and in 1891 was admitted to the bar. He was nominated must understand that the doors of Switz- erland are definitely closed to him. . NATIONAL DEBT OF . w7 FRANCE INCREASING Parls, Oct. 25—(By the A. P.)— France's national degt wil lamount to 320,000,000,000 francs by the end of this year, M. Leroix, chairman of- the senate fiilnance committee, today told that body at its opening session. “At present,”-he said, “the interest amounts to 14,000,000,- 000 francs, and soon it will approach 1 909,000,000 < S by the democrats for congress in. 1898 and 1900 but failed of election. When President Wilson was on his first campaign tour ard came to Con- necticut and spoke in. Hartford, Judge Tuttle presided at the afternoon rally in Parsons’ theatre. In the years just pre- caling his appointment to the. bench by Governor Baldwin, in succession of Judge Ralph Wheeler, Judge Tuttle was active in party politics. ‘Mr. Tuttle hiad many fraternal and so- cial connections, having been a 32nd de- gree Mason, and a former member of the Hartford City Guard. 4 His widow and two daughters survive.