Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 19, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXIV—NO. 16 POPULATION 29,685 NORWICH, «N., THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1922 BRANDIGEE 1S PATIENT WITH WATSON WITNESSES Gives Them All the Time They Want to Answer Direct Ques- tions—There Was No Evidence Yesterday Bearing on the Charge of Illegal Hangings—Witness Who Was Ex- pected to Testify That He erw of the Killing of Three Soldiers Said He Had No Knowledge of His Own as to Such Crimes—Testimony of Alleged Brutality Was Pre- sented. Washington,® Jan 18 —Testimony re-y Wating to alleged brutality toward enlisted nen in home and foreign prison camps s presentea to the senate com- charges that Amer-{ been hanged Wi France k- was no evidence bearing on the f tllegal hangings. Five of the ses expected to testify concern- o the inquiry were sum- v did mot appear, a report at-arms of the senate four of them could not be 1 as a witness after telegraphing Watson, democrat, Georg'a, that v of the killing of three soldiers. naer of Elk Garden, W. Va. o knowledge of his own as < nressed by wmittee a8 to his atements members cf reason for making Bennaer explain- | 10 written the telegrams and | 1 town operater, rewriting of eliminating un- made him say what the | w the view | of Frank Ahenck, a prisoner, by ere you given food?” “1 don't recollect.” “Did they give ¥ou water prison?” Walmer related many stall. ate horse he Eager to get two a said, & of meritorious Pershing. conduet” “Have you any grievance against the army?” “Absolutely nq; only I things like this to happen again. Walmer wept as he t ing the Iittie things his by hi& grandmo‘her. and the insig- e : : nificant operations of primitive man,” e~::r;;ng‘ 3;1( )f’vv«f‘l( = nnxf ag:‘lecannf-‘\;n‘ Senator Hitchcock told the association inches in his socks, told of the shwznpf that the practical collapse of natignal in France. The prisoner, bars of soap made him ill, and he was tagged as an influenza patient and sent to a hospital. Walmer declared he had a certificate from General he said, Iying down and was shot as he started to at 0, but we got some on the Q. T.” lleged way, don't want d how the mili- tary police had robbed his baggage, steal- mother knitted for him, and a Bible given him a sentry was the griey- ances, saying after he left Paris he‘was stopped at a village and put to sleep in he which had Hitchcock Advoc - A Bank of Nations With an International Trade “Dollar”” As a Substitute For Gold—Capital $2,400,- 000,000. New York, Jan, 18.—A bank ef na- tions, with the United States as major- ity stockholder, an international trade “dollar” as a g -timte for #,ld, and conduct of Wori. § iness on a credit instead of a cash basis, were advocated by United States Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, in an address today before the American Manufacturers' Association here. Senator Hitchcock discussed a bill Which he has introduced in the senate providing for establishing such a banx ©of nations, with $2,400,000,000 capital. The United States, he said, wouid hold $1,300,000,000 of the stock and bankers, importers and exporters of this country another $200,000,000, - leaving = the re- maining $900,000,000 to be purchased by the leading nations of the world through the president. The Unitea Export States, by virtue of its stock holding: ould choose 13 of the bank's 24 directors. Headquarters would be at New York. The directors would have power to issue curre ey 10, Ibe known as the international dollar, | which would eliminate the continual shipment of gold between countries, cording to Senator Hitcheock’s plan. Asserting that “credit represents the difference between_the vast husiness en- { terprise of civilizéd man af commerce is due to the fact that nations are “trying to do business for cash.” Nations, within their own boundaries. ner of New York city |turn over. An order to shoot the prison-| COnduct nine-tenths of their business on 5 e e i o e Gier e i the senator said, adding that if e that while in the alr!®er if he moved Siskven, 2.4 B ited States or ¢ othe ook hé sforred to | Said, by Serzeant William L. Born, who | the United States or any otier nation i s ekt Ao suddenly was compelled. to do business rough | W3 for s P vould by ormo Y rison { "I saw and heard Born tell the .unvr,viih;;n‘k‘_dn“f_ 'hmf“ \‘y‘(;‘(“‘:‘}‘_‘*‘ siofbs b o ind_nerson.” Despite | If the prisoner moved to shoot him.” sald | Shrinkage of business. =Business be- orders. Walmer aid. he was | Martin. I don't,know if he meant mov- | LWeen this country ope has beer - bard ting he was a |iNg a muscie or attempting to ‘escape. A | Slashed in half in a s Toiay e “" % i moment later I saw the man dead.” rted, because Amer cash ut in room with so many In conducting the examination Chair-|©n delivery and Europe cannot pay. wa couldn't sleep even on the | man BErandegee gave the witnesses all| Speaking of the enormous amount of . and was kept | the time they nted, but in some in- L'"ldfln’»\\" in lmf(:«l States banks. Sena- WAt even o) to zet a “Yes" or|tor Hitchcock said: = e | ~t questions as to We ought to use it as a bas e MEap Ll allezed to have been |currency and seize this yort e e ket un on camps actually had | make the international dolls mone; o T hoen Aillad |of the world. the medium of exchange| l The hearing will be resumed tomorrow. | between countries, If we do not do th ' our gatheri=z of all the gold here in the —_— United St is worse than folly. It POINCARE'S MINISTERIAL WORKING ON AMERICAN :‘W ;‘L\ : ax i“gt i: 'n’fh:a:.‘fi"qifif \:":,,] - g JOOR OGRAMME | e iy coE e s PECLARATIONS PUBLIC TODAY oy BOSTED it. We have Ara\h it here an we have R T i very much more than we are using. ) By The A. P.)— hington, Jan. 18.—(By The A. P.) i = v/”v"»'»'fiv‘!' lifi" —The American open door Pf”‘fl‘mm‘_{l:i ACTIVITIES OF THE IRISH s which will be|was accepted in part today by the Fa oSSt S the Pr pariiament to- | Bastern committes of the arms confer- EBONISIONAL (GO VERNMENT Ses two parts—home | ence, but anproval was given .ol B | iin, T g 3 _ = fjelimination of ths-ptox ich would | McManon, wyder meecrctary for Treiznd, | regamd 1o France's [ have specifically author an inquiry |3 B 5 i S i gt i St Al and A. W. Cope, assistant under rous and cone into existing concessions i a. 2 S e s 2y - = jectic tary spent the. greater portion of .the N e b i ir obJection | atternoon at the Mansion House, which R wereecond. | for the present is the headquarters of | il S 4 > % = the new government, presumably in con- » €d byt Javanese, and 'h.fi “r“"n’,fil s ation concerning g‘ of the - k3 : s "f:' s Ii'”' O D rinfer Db nowaraVas ‘Gat >4 50 in of Fecs 1 L ohTose, reaabed the Msnt hte/| GCIAl statetbent fonignt, P a o L Loy n later, but the general | The ‘new provisioral government has . £ make ub 1ta mifd] faorecaion e the delomates iomixht Lbeen prompt in fixing itself in the sad- . frms 1t undertook | wan thac it nad been permanently side- | dle, and every onme of ireland’s numer- . \ Verssillen treaty 1 |sisiked a0 fardas the ‘Washington eon- | o' oficlals WU leain Tomorsow voo g 1 1 up. | ference is concerned ho hi snew official chief is. e s ? the ¢ ation relating 0 | Yiewed by many delesates as the most {MOney {n:’—’f:gémffls e ‘ « the Importance | sweerfing provisions oft the American | B3 vith ;the, Bank : Tt pays trib- | o R atiis eoncessions article was | Ireland, which has agreed to a loan of - e 22 befors | e center of_debate In_the m,,,,mm,,“:;:;:::v pounds to the provisional goy- He extr casston, and | ¢ esentation ves- | 5 jfrom th moment. of its presentation yes- | en i < = for re must be | torday by Secretary Hughes until it fin- | Dublin Castle, it is reported, will be n 1 monthly votes onlajy was stricken ont today, various del- |converfed into a mi um, s 10 In-legates opnosing it on the ground that| The statement of the publicity de- - budeet | ;& pient lend fo an almost endless in- | Partment relative to the details of the " | quirs into the validity of the maze of |transfer shows that every government ¢ it | economic s ements <1 in’ force | Gepartment has already come under the rt of i ment to: throughout Chin#. For the American |drovisional mifistry, and all persons are . ¢ | delegation, however, it was said tonight | diTected to carry on until further o - . tance of the Su-[hat the climinated article was not con- | ders. dThr \:?Iri'ms offizes have been al- tion to France foigsjjertd of vital importance, since re- |located as follows: o eeone Yence | maining provisions of the plan would Shcl\‘ael";‘o!l:nsi as minister z:fofirzlanc;f I + that remained un- |parmit examination of existing conces- | 8¢ts eleven, including boar: v abjnet councll N8 {gions where both parties agreed to it. | WOrks, customs and excise and the min- a onelderations of As adopted, the open door resolution |iStry of pensions. Eamon J. Duggan e read 1:_"““‘ "han¥ | containg a mutual nledge not to seek | minister of )mre ahfl irs, takes nir.-ai h‘e- reday he Aiffienl- | cpheres of influence or monopolies In | ginning with the chief of police of Dub- ! ‘ co-Pritieh pact | China 1n the funture, and authorizes cre- |lin Castle and the constabulary, and | s 1 i the Near East lation of an international board of refer- | Winding up with the office of Ulster s tpo ence with power to investizate and re- |King of arms. He will also have charse munication issued to-lport on any case which seems to in-|of the office of the chief crown solicitor, Tae ministers and Wndet | voive violation of the princinle of equal { who is responsible for criminal prosacu- ¢ fnet n! ) 1 3 f state In cabinet coun-feconomic and commercial opportunity. jtions, and takes over as web the chief & prea of M. Poincare 2 tlegal departments. 7 of the "n'"“""”‘;“ CHILE HAS ACCEPTED Kevin O'Higgins, minister of econom- N the text of which will be st = s ai 5 ttled at a ‘meeting of the AMERICAN INTERVENTION |ics, has four departments, including the of ministeds tomorrow at Elysee Po 2 to The emerging from the Assoclated Press | believe Amer- Gen- mind. 'SRt W on on the its up . to that America's decision the premier was asked, and ed: “Tou can say it; I cannot.” ha authoratively stated, how- M. Poineare, in his conversa- the British prime minister, conditions upon attend: First. ree- Versailles tred(: by guarantee that repar- would not be dl ting owing woul atitds & ed WORTH $500,000 STOLEN WITH MAIL POUCH Jan, SECURITIES Ind, 18.—Securities #tolen when a registered mail pouch was taken from the New" York Central rail- Toad sta here carly today, were re- ported by the local nolice to have been worth $300,000 A packet of bonds, which had been in the pouch and were found beslde a ventilating grate at the post office build- Ing here, were said to amount to $100,- 000 and t be non-negotiable. police sald they had no clew but Daniel Tngram, a negro mall mes- r. pending an tnquiry., The regis- mail was consigned from New to Grand Rapids, Mich. JAPAN DECORATES A MEXICAN EDITOR 18.—(By The A. P.) , regent of Ja- y City, n, th ugh the Jananese cnarge d'af- fairs here today notified Felix F. Pal- avicint, editor El Universal, he had been decorated with the order of the Rising Sun of Nippon. Senor Palavicini has received decora- tlons from the British, French and Ital- fan governments for his services during the war, the JMexican congress having voted him special permission to. accept these decorations. Wash!vigton, Jan. 18.—(By The A. P) —The American government has inter- the controversy between Chile involving the execution of the ing the two South governments to send plenipo- to Washington for a confer- vened in and Peru treaty of American tentiarieg ence. Ancon, invi The invitations, it was sald today at were wforoard- ed to the foreign ministers of Chile and several days ago In tht name of Harding. The text of the in- it was stated would he made =oon as it had been learned hay been received in Santiago the department of state, Pern President vitations, public as that they and Lima. Following a conference between Will- American ambassador, forelgn minister, jam M. Colller, and the Chlillag cabinet went derstood that authorlzed to TUnited States into e the 4+ favorably vyvernment's President Aless troversy with Peru. Preeident Alessandri, replyi~g to Mr. Colljer, said that Chile would immediate. ly accept the American government's Notice is glven that certaln depart- invitation, ments in the lst will no longer be re- quired, and their present activities will AMFRICAN TRIBUTE TO be concluded as soon as possible. N UNENOWN g b e e SOLDIER | 00T WHALE NEARLY : Rome, Jan. 18.—(By The A. P.)— CUT IN TWO BY STEAMER America tsday pald tribute to the Ital. ian unknown soldler, whc algeps be- New York, Jan. 18.—The story of a neath the nation’s shrine in‘-f the oration at the tomb. After the ceremonies at the tomb Gen- eral Allen placed wreaths on the tombs of King Humbert and King Emmanuel, 2nd, in the Pantheon. Later General Ravazza, commander of the Rome army corps, on behaif of the officers in Rome gave a luncheon to Gen- eral Allen and the members of his staff, Ambassador Child was present. to is city. American soldiers, forming a composiea battalion, participated in the ceremonies incident tq the bestowal of the Congres- sional Medal of Honor upon the Italian warrigr. Richard Washburn Child, Unit- ed States ambassador v Italy, deliverea the on, and it is un- foreign minister was the ¢ Invitation. Mr. Colller then had a conference with ndri and is raid to have told him that the United States viewed with satisfaction the efforts initlated by Chile looking to a solution of the con- board of trade and the ministry of transport. Joseph McGrath, minister of labor, is placed at the head of the Brit- ish department of the ministry of la- bor. Patrick Hogan, a youns solicitor, is given charge of the congested district board and all the agricultural depart- ments, including the land commission, in which his father once held an important post under the British administration. William T. Cosgrave_ minister of lo- cal government, will havé control of the department of public health, the asylums for ,the insane, industrial schools and census office. Finfan Lynch, minister of education, once himsclf a teacher, will have control of all the educational de- partments, managing all_primary and Intermediary ~schocls. (Prof. Michael Hayes has previously been announced as_minister of education.) % Diarmid O'Hegartyh secretary of the new ministry, was once an official in the agricultural department, but had to leave’ because he refused to take tha oath of alleglance to the king. He now will have charge of the stationery office and clvil strvice commissions. J, J. Walsh, once post office clerk in Cork, and thence transferred to = Bradford, England, and there Jismissed on his po- litical record, is placed over the gen-| eral post office in Dublin, 75-foot whale, which was neatly cleaved Presidente Wilson, was related by’ pas- sengers when the vessel docked here to- day. 3 The Presidente Wilson was sailing in mid-Atlantic when the whale was sighted. Iying directly across the course of the vessel. A hundred and fifty passengers lined the ra‘ls to see what would happen. Passengers along the port rail heard a crash as the bow struck the huge mam- mal, saw the water turn nink and saw the head of the whale float astern. Those on the starboard _-ail experienced the In twain by the prow of the Italian liner |- BRIEF TELEGRAMS Premier Lloyd Georfe celebrated his fifty-ninth birthday Tuesday. Norway has recognized the Obregon government of Mexico, it is stated in ad- vices received from the Mexican charge 'affaires at Christiania. King tor Emmanuel of Ttaly dec- orated eMajor D'Alary Jechet of the American expeditionary forces, as an of- ficer of St. Lazarus and St. Mauritius. Matthew McCabe, 29, a boiler .maker of Manhattan, was arrested for the murder on Saturday night of Yun Wing Fung, a Chinese laundryman. Hugo Stinnes, the German industrial magnate, is- believed to be planning to combine and expand his multiple inter- ests in Argentina. An entire block of frame buildings in the center of Whiz Bang, an, oil town in Western Osage county, Okla., was burn- ed yesterday. The Sanity league of America, a Cali- fornia organization, formed to combat so-called “blue laws,” and favoring the sale of light wines and beer, filed a copy of its charter at Nashville, Tenn. The death a week ago in New York of Manuel Dieguez, Guatemalan consul general in New York, was due to natu- ral causes. Nicholas Clementl di Schotte, age 7, ended a prospective stowaway voyage to Ttaly in a Staten Island police station, waiting for his daddy to come and claim him. A pledge of $100,000 from an anony- mous friend of Yale for the establish- ment of a professorship fund in the Yale School of Medicine has been an- nounced. 7 Federal hospltal enpacity for a min- imum of 32,000 patients with provis- ions for 472 employes for each 200 pa- tients is planned by the government in its hospitalization program for former gervice men. throughout of the once vroud Hapsburg are all living in voor circumstances, some of noverty. Seattered members inrope, the house of relatively them in Chicago’s $2,700,000 municipal repair, shops have been closed as a failure, be- cause city work done there “cost 300 per cent of what it would have cost on the outside.” William M. Paxton, of Boston, through his painting “Girl Arranging Flowers, was announced as the winner of the popular prize of $200 offered by the Cor- coran Gallery of Art, Washington. Far clare by ord, fmatel buyers in the Adirondacks fhe vresent season will ‘he the larzest harvest of melts on rec- ith the trappers recelvinz approx- $1.500,000 for their catch. A mob everpowered officials in Mayo, Florida. sejzed to have ¥: night and de- marked rez=™who was al B. R. Taylor Saturday nched him on the outskir: town, Ted Charges that general constructlon is heinz held up by coilusive price fixing in materials were made by Fred- Crawford. forme-, -director of e plant at Muscie Shoals. Lillian Russell sailed for Europe as snecial agent for Uncle Sam, commis- med to look over the intended immi- grants to America and ervort to hte sec- retary of labor on her return next ring. Eight Indians. 20,000 that remain of their race in Cal- ifornia, are en route to Washington . to seek fulfillment of promises they con- tend were madas by the government in treatles signed seventy years ago. Director Forbes of the Veterans’ bu- reau announced his intention of person- ally inspectinz available sites along the Atlantic coast for the proposed nautical school for. the tratning of former service men for the American merchant ma- rine. The British steamer Harbinger, with coal bunkers and water tanks refilled. left Rockland. Me., on the third leg of her voyage from St. Plerre, “Miq.. to Nassau, B, W. I, with 300 cases of li- aquor. Posing as a corpse In an undertaking shop at Pittsburgh, .Pa. Prohibitlon Agent Arthur E. Kemmerling reported that he had succeeded in capturing an allezed bogus prohibition ager who had been wanted by the authorities for some time past. George Baldwin Selden, 77, Inventor of the first gasoline propelled vehicle and a ploneer in the present automotive industry died at his home in Rochester. . Y. He was president of the. Selden Motor Company of Rochester. b Princess Anastasia of Greece is re- ported to be slightly indisposed at the villa Kesbeok. It is asserted by per- sons close to the princess that her ill- ness is due to the unfavorable climate of Athens. The senate accepted the house substi- tute bill authorizing\ President Harding to turn over surplus army medical sup- plies not exceeding $4.000,000_in value to relief organizations for distribution in the famine districts of® Russfa. Rear Admiral George Washington Kline, U. S. N., retired, who headed the board of Inspection and survey of the navy during the war, was adjudmgd in- sane at ‘Somerville, N. I, by a commis- sion appointed by Chancellor Walker. Charlte Chaplin, motion picture come- dian, hau a credit balance of approxi- mately $100,000 with the stock broker- age firm of E. W. Wagmer and Company, New York, when the concern was forced Into bankruptcy on Dec. 30, last. Chiet Justice Taft is expected to ap- pear today before the house military committee in favor of a proposal to turn over to the city of New Haven, Conn., the federal military reservations of Fort Hale and Lighthouse Point. The Norwalk High schoel was closed at 12.30 o'clock vesterday for 4n indefi- nite period owing ‘to the fact that Nor- walk's first case of smallpox deveioped there when Louise Thomas, a jutior at the school, was stricken at her studies, Louis Lively, negro_slaver of Matilda Russo, 7 years old, at wast Moorestown, last June, and George Washington Knight, also colored, who killed Mrs. Edith Marshall Wilson, a church organ- ist, at Perth Amboy, last March, were same sensation—omy they saw the tail float_ astern, Dut to death in the electric chalr at the state prison in Trenton. N J, et renresenting the seant ! rhages and that his life would be endan- H TEN PAGES—70 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS bonsprcy Charged | FGIS| ATIVE AGREEMENT InTohacco Industry Senate Committee Reports That Secret Rebates Have Been Uncovered by Inves- tagation. t Washington, Jan. 18—Three of the principal tobacco manufacturing com- panies—the American Tobacco company. the P. Lorillard company and the Liggett & Myers Tobacco company—were charged with engaging in a censniracy with nu- merous jobbers' asscciations to keep up jobbers' "~ prices in a committee report transmitted today to the senate. The commission’s report covered tobac- co trade activities from April to Novem- ber, 1921. Since last September, the re- port stated, the jobbers' agreement be- came less effective through weakening in the support of the American Tobacco company, owing to the fact that the com- mission’s field inquiries were on foot. Secret rebates were uncovered, the re- port added, statin “The inquiry incidentally developed the BY SEWA TE REPUBLICANS Party Conference Decides to Press the‘ Allied Refunding Bill, the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill to Follow—Details of the Twe Measures Are to be Discussed Today—Vote to Press the . Refunding Bill Was Unanimous—On the Bonus Mea- sure Unofficial Reports Give the Result as Thirty For and Two Against. Washington, Jan. 18.—Senate republi- cans voted to press the allied debt and a soldiers’ bonus bill, In the order. There was a disagreement as to deta of the twn measures und the conference adjourned unt that discussion. today in party tomorrow The vote to conference refunding bill to continue Dress the refunding bill purpose but 1t was sata tnat the pre- ponderance of sentiment was for 8 specific provision that the financing be done with funds derived from the sale 1s | of nefunded British bonds in the United States. This brought up the question of a sales tax or some other sptcial form of taxa- tion, proponents of a sales tax arzuing was unanimous, but the conference di- |that some such plan would be necessary fact that, during recent years one<large | Jaci"CTRH O TH A CORKERERCE. T 4o bride the Eap betweem the thme of tobacco manufacturer—the American To-| .\, 4q siving the result as thirty.one for | the passage of the bonus legislation and bacco company—has | given to favored |, o= o S L oponents | the time that funds_from the sale of the jobber customers secret bonuses of re-| ip.r ahsent or withholding their votes. |refunded British bonds would become bates, in round amounts, ranging from a gt EoSTRT o8 FHEPCIAINE Thelr VOlen | L le. They were understood . ta t;wdh“ndred;Io'lalr_s l: sgl\_'fi:nl hmusa"':: the size of the ma insured pass- |have argued that the money f=sm the of dollars at a time. >se paymen i s sess| honds mi e available for eev. have usually been made .semi-annually, | 28% 0f @ bonus bill at this 1 e e - and recipients have regarded them as secret and confidential.” There is at present a large supply of leaf tobacco, resulting chiefly from a de- crease in the quantity used for domestic products and for export, the report de- clared, adding that prices paid to grow- ers for leaf by “the court successor com- papies above referrec to” show large de- creases in 1920, as compared with 1919. ing made While there was no division on the al- tied debt bill, it Geveloped that the m ure, g reported hy the finance comm tee, met with some objection, inquiry he- pecially as to the reason for the elimination of the provision requir. ing semi-annual pavment of interest on the refunded bonds of tions. Borah, It was of Idaho, and some the debtor na- understood that Senator other re. eral ‘months or a vear after the honus Dbill was passed as the refunding nego- ons might consume considerable time and some time might be necessary for the sale of the bonda. A general speeding up of the worw of the senate also was sald to have beer brought un with suzgestions for day and nicht sessions of the flnance commit. tee. s i ticn b N om e, | publicans were ready t iotn with dem-| Aslde from the allied debt refumding éreimtll;ls o fgf;:‘r;‘;‘r:’;m::! ocratic senators in Gemanding that this bl and the hnn(usmme:.-ure, the pemate that the department of justice prohibit | Provision be retained in the measure. |will b S5 hH.‘ors dr “-"fv\u;.pow"r ety e mleniice s nie s e e al shokesmen for the conference | the tariff bil an LS st amnia r:up' agencies or buying in other than their |00k pains tomake it clear that the ma- | DIy measures 2s Yeli=s ofue lmv‘:» ?n own names. Reviewing organization of |JOTity senators had declared for matters. With a congressional -m{m erowers, the report said that the 1923 |bonus bill and ‘not the partfenlar next November, and a warm campalgn butleys: rop iwould lbe ‘handled coZppera || RIICH Wi ireferred ¢ hact fothe “senate |l rosnert, Mom the bestaniag jof satly. HRly: fitndtho misantime, 1tiwae aaid that|(inance Jsommitted: et Tuly. owhthe ree | BTMES AT MSERCE 4 SORRTAS SESY the prices (charged by manufagturers re- | ommer¥ation ‘of _Presldent ‘fHarding. fto get away Trom Wasbington atound mained “practieally constant” at the high | Some leaders sald, however, that the [June Ist. To get throusl levels attained in 19 measure to be reported to the senate un- fore that time, the senate, zenators de- e o i inquiry the 1921 | donbtedly would ba similar to that ome | clared, must 'drive ahead with s Burlay s o ket was nob t open.” the|insofar as the five wavs for payment of 'steam from this time on. commission said; “for that part of the|adjusted compenzation were concerned e e o ol theuwen B o D O el fost of the discussion of the bonus |ate republicans, a group of house mem- and Virginia, sold in September and Oc- | ceatered around the means of providing |bers who saw s s "';fl“‘ w,' o tober, 1821 the prices were somewhat |the necessary funds. Some senators fa- | bezan circulating a petition calling higher than for the 1920 crop, though|vored a measure carrying merely an ob- |a conference of republican repr: ‘_r:r’:" i & is satisfactory untll | payments to be made outo rent re- | dis s e D Ay | reipts as money was avallable fog the | posed means of financing a bonus. Carolina prices for the entire 1921 crop averaged $11. which is about 1e same as the 1913 nrice in that state. and about | PELLETIER DEFENSE TO PACKERS SURPRISED BY half the 1920 price” The commission said a report on profits of tobacco concerns in 1921 was not yet available, but -xpressed belief that th profits would be “substantially larger” than in 1920, Obstruction was placed by the Ameri- can Tabacea orm and ihe Loritiard concern, the report said, in the way of withholding free s to. books and papers. The co "n also said it was hampered when all of the corresponde: and minutes on prices and discounts af the New England tobace: conference were “wilfully and designedly destroyed” a few days before the commission's re- port arrived 2cc . viss ‘HEAD OF TILE TRUST ' REL FROM PRISON concluded today dence Joseph C. Pelletier on conduct on which Wes count showing every depos ana over in cash during 1918, The court took the cuestion of the ad- OPEN FRIDAY MORNING Jan. 18.—The Boston, in the trial of Di Attorrey seeks the At on Allen -y's removal. tior, until Friday will open. Counsgel for Pe presentation trd charge distric the request or James A. Reed, of Missonr e | counsel for Pe pended defense the trial morning, gnvernment at ot of letier opposed vigor- | ously efforts of the prosecut duce a transeript of Pelletier evi- Attorney s of mis- ral aitor- senior was sus- when the | OFFER OF MEDIATION Chicago, Jan. 18.—Chicago packers in dicated today they would decline the government’s offer to mediate in th¢ pakcing house strike. G. F. Swift, Jr., vice president of Swiff & C issued the following statement: Ali livestock received at the stocks ard sis being handled promptly. W have a sufficient number of employes te¢ care of our work without interrup | tion and are operating on a normal basis. In New York and Newark, N. J., packin, house workers have voted their strike of 3 1i n to and have asked to be reinstated.” 'S bank av-| The packers refused the government of $1,000 1916, 1917 and | offer of mediation. Jast December, on the und & that the wage reductions in the had been made by the plant on which employes have repre« coun SN Aot ey A missability. of the g rds under | sentation and that a sufficlent number of Sdmuel Untermyer, counsel for . the|,, T0e finsl instance of. aileged miscon|plants Armour & Co. fssned 2 statement iLockwood legisiative committee which | AUt presented g el bl e Rl el i At ta trust, expressed | ftatement attributed to l“l:l!r‘n;r during | no grievances to ba czrbitrated. The Smdefment today- when ‘they” learned | Vo CRmUNIER wedches Tn b BT SR SAUREL L rised by th chat Frank H. Nobbe, one of the first|Ma¥oralty contest. ~Three ne I el et 1 men to go to jail for violating the Sher. | ¥Titers testified that Pelletier 1 report - that T e e governmen( o % ro he | Pblic_addresses that his audilors deny | Wil be formally tendered to bring about Newark Jail on rece an executive | TePOrts that he intended to resign Beitis ot e e ameloe oad Newaric Jail on X an eXecutive | (RS o inat it they g0t Into operating conditions in _every plant are he .four p on arriving at|D¢ would nolle pros the cases. X Saiaith um;nn-nm’all e ?‘merh:lm =7} ewark, were a room near the |Paper clippings. giving accounts of §lie | Some time, e jail hospital, becaise, Nobbe was saiq | addresses were ex s ey {8 # = s ) 10 be suffering from some malady which [ Counsel for Pelletier e Tequired medical atte: ion. SENTENCE WAS COMMUTED . BY PRESIDENT HARDING Newark, N. J., Jan. 15, —Prasident Hard it was learned to has com- muted the prison term imposed upon Frank H. Nebbe, one of the group of men sentenced by a federal judge in New York for violation of the Sherman anti-trust act. Nobbe had served about a month of} PARDON RECOMMENDED BY ATTORNEY GENERA Washington. Jan. 18 —The prison sen- tence of Frank H. Nobhe wus commuted by President Harding upon recommenda- reduced its evidence, two weeks or more will be required to present DEBATE IN SENATE RAILROAD RATES railroa: enger, wer made when debate of Sefiator W both was, atson, clared now carry half empty. enator Cum- ! mins, who offered a substitute authoriz- ing Interstate Commerce Commission to order m would be The bill was opposed age books at a by s:veral s besun on the republ diana, to order the railroads to i terchangeable m rate fair and compensatory. reig] su tion of Attorney General Daugherty he- | BUT LITTLE INTEREST IN cause of the state of the prisnner’s health, it wAs said today. The trwl judze and prosecuting attorney in the case, it was added, had suggested that such action be taken and submitted affidatits from five physicians showing that Noble was suf- fering from tuberculosis with hemor- zered by further confinemient. Although the sentence was commuted, it was ex- plained that the $4.000 fine in the case was allowed to stand as explation, THREE STILLS SEIZED IN BARBER SHOP IN MERIDEN a Meriden, Conn., Jan. 18.—Three large stills in a room under a barber shop here were seized this afternoon by Ralph Blakeslee, New Haven prohibition officer, who was accompanled by a local policeman. Two hundred gallons of illie- it whiskey was selzed and 12 barrels of mash destroved. David Goldring, proprie- tor of the barber shop, and John Pitka- vitz, who wag operating the, stills, were arrested and held in bonds of $2,000 each. ¥ TUNEMPLOYED IN DUBLIN INVADE HOSPITAL BUILDING i Dublin, Jan. 18.—A group of unemploy- ed today occupied the hall and rotunda of the Dublin hospital building and said | they ‘would not leave until the city au- thorities had provided other accommoda- tion: ous accident,” M at the party ond trial against Arbuckle. Miss Blake testified that for two and precedizg the first trial ped with Miss Pres: against her ‘will at she was detdin other witness, home of an attache of the ( ney's office. while torney. The appearance of Miss garded as one of the chief pros witnesses, latent public interest in the tr were_a number of vacant seats in the court room throughout the day. SECOND TRIAL OF ARBUCKLE San Francisco, Jan. R: of a half mont; Theé had no effect vitness said she “prefer not” to answer a ques! whether she was “mustreated or abused” | in the custody oi the district at- in ro 18.—Roscoe C. Arbuckle excused his appearance in pa- jamas and bathrobe at tr which he is alieged to have fatally jured V' party In in- age books in 5,000 mile | which in- | Ppe with the ex- planation that he had “met with a seri- s Alice Blake, a guest testified today. in the sec- manslaughter charge WAGNER STOCKHOLDERS TO BE REIMBURSED IN FULF New York, Jan. 1 recei —John S. Sheppard er for E. W. Wagner & Co., whict ¢ went bankrupt with labilitles of and assets of $5.000,000, was pplauded by Je cusfomers' reclamation committee today when he announced thal rs who had bought stock out- or on a margin woald be reimburse¢ omers who had cazhi baiances o of the deiunt c> rayation will DR A e R R at 213 cents per mile. not be so fortunate, Mr. Sheppard said by executive clomency. No information| Reduced rates would stimulate traffic|as they had no priord ims under the as to ‘the pres=.nt's reason for releas-|and increase railroad revenues, Sena-llaw, and would have to shareithe assetf ing him could be obtained here, tor Cummins, republican, Iowa, chair-|along twith general creditors when the Nebbe, vice president - of the Tile,|man of the senats interstate commerce |final apportionment was made. Grate and Mantle Manufacturers Asso.|committee, asserted. Rate reductions It s estimated the company had 13, clation, pleaded guilty of violating the|were hoped for, he added. as a result of | 000 creditors here and in Chieago. Sherman act after practices of the asso- | the present rate Inquiry of the Interstate ition had been disclosed by the Lock- [Commerce Sommissiom. =4 REMIER LENINE T - wood legislative committee Investigating| Present rate levels, Senator Rodmson. | P r!;u; 'c:voo An\?r‘zl; housing in New York. - He and Herman S e e e e o N Petri, Arthur Shilstone and Albert | obstructed commerce, but in hundreds of - By the Schaile, sentenced with anlm\ jai‘l cases had ac I StogpedCpunitiess RS '“P’ e A P')EP""“;‘: terms, were the first persons cver to g. | interchangeabe mileage book plan, he|RLenine Will represent soviet Russia iKJ1e t [added, would increase passenger traffic |the coming Genoa conference on the com | to jail for violation of the Sherman act. |added, & I dition that thi i v The others are still in jail, and fill cars which the raiiroads, he de- |dition that the various governments per mit the Russian cheka. or secret servica to organize a complete system to guar{ him safely during his absence from th( soviet capital, according to semi-officia advices from Moscow today received her( by Latvian authorities. POPE BENEDICT HAS SYMPTOMS OF INFLUENZ/ Rome, Jan. 18 (By the A. P.)—Popt Benedict is confined to his bed with am attack of bronchial catarrh and ,mpe toms of influcnza, but his conditica it not_serious. This announcement was made thig ev- ening by the Osservatore Romano, th' official vatican organ. in | PRINCE OF WALES GOING THROUGH CENTRAL INDI/ st, an-| Madras, British India, Jan. 18.—Tw the | Prince of Wales started for Bangalor strict attof-| today on the first stage of a long jour e would | ney through Central India and ino the on as to| heart of Kashmir. Today marked th alf way date of the prince’s Indial tour. . Bmkt'q"':\: OBITUARY, ‘: v Rev. Henry C. Woodruff. l. There! Bridgeport. Jan. 15.—Rev. Henry € BANK OF IRELAND IS TO LEND 1,000,000 POUNDS Dublin, Jan. 18 (BY the A. P.).—The Bank of Ireland has agreed 1.000.000 pounds Irish provisional | nounced today. to lend to the ministry of the'by government, it was an- Woodruff, for thirty-six years pastor o the Black Rock Congregational church oi this city, died carly today at his home after a long iliness. Rev. Mr. Woodruf was bor nin Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1545, ane as graduated from Yale in 1865. Hit first charge was at Northport, L. L He came to Eridgeport in 1851. . Besides his wife, deccased is survived one " sister, Sarah F. Woodruff, of ookiyn, N. Y. Funeral will be on Fri- day v A