Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 14, 1922, Page 1

POPULATION 29,685 IRELAND 1S REVERTING 10 PREARMITICE CONDITIONS! Snipers Are Becoming Increasingly Active in Belfast—Two Constables and a Number of Girls Are on the Casualty List—Many Persons Were Injured by a Bomb—Arthur Griffith Asserts That De Valera Understood, Before Signing of the Treaty, That Ulster Was th to be Coerc- ed—Crown Forces at British Ports Are Held in Readiness to Reenter Ireland. ers. up wounded, An unidentifi was taken to Belfast tonigkt at the Irjsh office that the concentration of crown forces near the Irish ports and ed | the assembling of transports to bring althem to England was continuing, ~but b found to be dead on|that embarkation had been temporarily i Two constables were | suspended to enable the commanders to woun n North Queen street. It is re- | determine how many reinforcements are concealed. avenue. the The a number of girls are on principal were required in Ulster and what units should be sent there, When these matters are determined, it was added. the withdrawals from the & v. and tram cars|south would be resumed. ast the danger spot. —_— A bo n Weaver street. | DE VALERA UNDERSTOOD THAT sons injured ances v was SUSPENSION OF EVACUATION o1 eTe required TROOPS DISTURBS COLLINS &0 ULSTER WAS NOT TO BE COERCED Dublin, Feb. 13.—Arthur Griffith, president of the Dail Eireann, in a state- ment tonight renlying to various asser- tions m Eamonn De Valera's speech of a that with respect to 1 A. P.)—Mich-| partiton De Valera himself gave an un- . n spen- | derstanding not to coerce Ulster, and that Toops | the arrangement in the treaty was the o London tomorrow | aniy onme that could he made without hin Why He in-| coercion. Mr. De Valera was in full pos T s that he had|session of it before the signing of the onight from the | treaty, Mr. Griffith added, and made no n Dublin that| objection. e a up. When| On. the question of the treaty itself ght the reason was|Mr. Griffith quotes Mr. DeValera's state- addin, the t to see that and to m anding. sinist ian ng refo; Nunday’s ng was to g lie to the assertion that the Irisk i their 11 would the of own free w m- the tréaty, and says there is onl er|one adequate way whereby the people | can show clearly whether they are for or re inst the treaty he people w 1 be given that oppor- at the earliest possible moment election.” the tément continues. will decide, and we shall abide by — statement, which set ERITISH CROWN FORCES column De READY TO REENTER IRELAND tion: als with, the - e oath forces in ndon, Feb, t was said today and fi butions, BEOTHEKHOODS TO CONDUCT CONTEST OVER MERICAL SEFARATE NEGOTIATIONS STRENGTH OF THE ARMY ¥ The “Biz Four”| Washington, Feb 13— Demands for a r nave diveded into! reduction in the size of the army to t which conduct | 100,000 enlisted men, or even to a maxi- = ns with tf rallway | mum of 000 will be made in the house gers gional conferences, W. G.| when the annual army anpropriation bill nmen and War-| com-s un for consideration, members of gra hief of the engi-|the sub-committee, which is drafting the future,” ions nego 0. s fact ge years, as a rence will be 1y between he trainmen, ¢ p of railway will bring toget railway exec brotherhoods 4 enginemen taken within a direction away abor ng an relations which had e nce the war. T on al basis of agreement. otherk might ome continue subjects, a i wage questions as we atlons means mai- The e rail- rn, western whole ! it wa¢ deciared. ecable to the repre- ors from central- to return to the ive of the engi- meagure predi d today. A formidable bloc of representatives, the sub-committee members declared was preparing to w a deter fi it to limit the army's size 000 men while others who favor red had indicated they would be satisfied f the maximum was fixed at 100.000. Other factione among the house member- ship were safdl to favor 125.000 max- Imum, to oppose any reduction - in the present size, which under a I!tmita- tion for of enlisted men approxi- mates 13 War ¢ s | through ction partment estimates transmitted the budget hureau call for an appropriation for the fiscal year b ginning July first, sufficlent for the pa of 150,000 men and approximately 14,- 000 officars. Chatrman Anthony of the Sub-committce in charge of the bill an- nounced todav that three new estimates had been called for from the war de- partment to be computed on the basis of an armv of 75,000, of 100,000 and 125 000 enlisted ‘men. The budget estimates call for a total ion of $154.266.512 for pay of 1d h- u- | rsons connected with the army, in- of = field clerks and officers on the retired list. The total requested in es- a|timates for the war department ig ap- proximately $364,000,000. Hearings on the appropriation BHill be- fore the suh-committee nrobably will be concluded this week with Secretary | Weeks and General Pershing as the last to| witn. es. Tt probal will be severa! -| weeks. members of the sub-committee said, hefore the bill fs reported by the ha . rhood. but in the matter of | appropriations committes. r technical differences between it emei g S Sraat that independent| yyryrr PROGRESS IN TAYLOR the with the proposition ay unions iners, it wi ng themselves, seem mprobable that d be worked out fi e brotherhoods with ti miners. One that * vions and ointed out brotherhoods has in a confer- s declared. will be represent- ion on wage mat- it was stated, any e brother- the rules of the MURDER INVESTIGATION 21 Tos Angeles, Feb. 13.—The investiga- tion of the slaying of William Desmond Taylor, motion picture director, reahed a setage today deseribed by officiale as “waiting for .the unexpected.” It was admitted that no progress had heen made toward establishing who fired the shot which killed the director in his home February 1. The only actlon taken at the district attorney’s office, where the inguiry has or r ' T been centralized, was the interviewing four broth rhoods forbid sympathetic| e e e 5 with a request that she might mee some P R of the Investigators, She left about CHARGE OF POLITICS IN fifteen minutes later after hav bheen RESERVE BANK BYSTEM | taken to th- nff'-~ of Tistrict Attorney “oolwine. She declined le give hor ia, Feb. 13 —Polit'sians are|rame. Pereons wio suw her said she m, George W ¢ the Philadelphia tan ared today Norris, govern Tederal in an addrese b tore g of the Pennsylvania Bankers' a. fation. He said that peliticians we ng ‘o control the discount rate or & ahout 600, from six counties su g and ineluding Philadelphia, nic intetosts wi prevan®. politics ¢ e ng to control the federal reserve Reserve mposition of the federal re- | Norr's urged the bankers, number- business men and ceping into the reserve was no ene connected prominently with the motion picture Industry. 3 Distriot Attorney Woolwine sald he had checked up “countless” clues which had ‘been brought to his attention, but without definite result. REVOLT T or e e o ey THE STATE t OF MICHOACAN, MEXICO 'a| Mexico City, Feb. 13.—(By The A. P.) —The municipal president of Patzoua- ro, In the state of Michoacan, with thir- ty followers yesterday revolted against The fear o the state government. [No aasualties .. ::‘r:“f_’:,h oo ML i ::: have been reported although the revo- 1" he added, ~was that politics | lutionists begam their movement with v g + v cries of “Death to Muglaca." ol It foub. 350 0k pakra o e | < (Rranciane..7. Mugica govarnor. ‘o il free the partiean sense, but re- | Michoacan, seized the office in July, mibers of congress have been | 1920, prior to the installation of the Sitiee into it by | Obregon government in Mexieo City.) to comtrol it6 discount rate or to| e e T 0w of the federai re- | BRUTAL WINDSOR HUSBAND sarve board, not in :coordance with any HELD IN BONDS OF $2,500 round or recogrizs® banking principle, g 2 but in the interest of certain classes of | wingsor, Conn. Feb. 13.—Joseph e Stroff, who is alleged to have pinned his - wife to the ground between trolley car s rails Sunday night so that the woman 25 Ttallan Soldiers Killed. 18t '8 leg “Whert 4 car -passel’ pleadsd Tondon, Feb. 13 (By the A. P.)—Ital- | guiity to charges of drunkenness and as. ces fighting rebels at Mistrata, have lost 25 killed and abol 100 wounded, says a Central News des- Batch from Rome today. b sault ,when arraigned tonight in justice court before Justice of the Peace James A. McCann. Court adjourned without date and he was held in $2,500 bonds. ut with Cromwell's grim host vietory “with push of pike, poneon’ guard that dies but never surren with Pickott's “flower of the south.” at Gettvsburgh, so it was with Pershing’s “buddies” in France, Cold steel wys the ultimate arbiter of bat- | tle. | jsubstantially all of NewHaven Roadsks Loan of $31,324,000 To Use $26,258,000 in Pay- ing Off Loans Made in Eu- rope Which Fall Due April 1, 1922, V("uhinE(O)'A, Feb. 13.—The New York, New Haven” & Hartford Railroad asked the interstate commerce commission to- day for a goveernment loan of $31,324,~ 000. The road proposes, according to the application to use $26,258,000 in paying off maturing loans made in Europe which fall due April 1. Of the balance $3,000,- 000 is asked for provision of additions and betterment to the road, and $2,- 066,000 for the purchase of new equip- ment. As security for the government, the application said the New Haven is pre- pared to offer stocks and honds of va- rlous descriptions but of an estimated value in excess of the liability which It proposes to place against them. MAN THE FUNDAMENTAL INSTRUMENT IN BATTLE ‘Washington, Feb. 13.—The “doughboy” with a bavonet still is the “basic com- batant” unit in battle in the tmanimous judzment of the 1y rendered Aircraft, tanks, cannon, merely are valu- machine guns, able auxiliariesf ro the infantry man, armed with rifie and bayonet and pro- tected only by steel helmet and own agility. The judzment is based on aswers to a wid:spread ‘“questiosnnaire” semt re- cently throughout the army by the war department. The answers were nnmistakable. There hhs been no change for the soldiers who fought In France believe iz gospel of “cold steel” In war. As The conclusion follows an exhaustive study of the influence that modern scientific developments will have uy the technique of warfare especially with | rezgard to aviatien, motor transport a “tanks” Chiefs af all combat branch- es had thelr eav on the questionnaire de- signed “to bring out the bhest present military thougfit both on basic princi- ples and as to changes iIn fighting tegh- nigue necessitated hy new weapons.” As the research work goes on, tests i “to solve debatable ques- these iz that of ‘“the comparative value of bombing planes and fixed heavy guns in seacoast defenses.’ It is concluded, the statement added and doctrines of tactics and of training will be hased accordingly. The man remains the fundamental in- strument {n battle, and as such cannot be replaced by an imaginahle instrument short of one more perfect than the hu- man body including the mind. “That man in the bulk— greater portion of the armed fights with greatest freedom and h greatest efticien when on foot, not on horseback. in a tank, alrplane, in a fixed fortification, that to achieve decisive ation he armed with the rifle and bayonet; man is rendered least vulnerable when merely clother against the weather and armored by his own agility and a steel heimet. “That battle 18 normually determined by physical encounter with = bayonet or the fear thereof; all other agencies of destruction, as artillery, machine guns and aireraft are auxiliary in their ef- fect, however potent, and serve to_make aning the i forces of action possible the advance of the foot soldler to hand-to-hand encounter.” That infantry is the basle combatant arm upon whose success pends the succe: the prim- ary duty of other arms, when assodiat- ed with infantry the in- fantry to achieve its mission by pro- tecting and alding it In svery way and by destroying enemy resistance to f{ts efforts. That no arm except infanry can he expected under normal con ons to de- stroy an approximately eaual force of ensmy infantry armed with rifle and bayonet, That while infantry is normally the basct arm of war under certatn condi- tlons or during certain phases, cavalry may replace it as the basic amm for example, in operations against mount- ed forces or against foot troops whose efficiency is below normal for any rea- son, Misoonceptione arise in thbs ‘public mind the statement sald as to the pos- sible effect of new azencies of war and in making public results of its studies the war department ‘“hopes t6 insure that thée heresy ghall never be- come implanted in the country that an riaterfal means can ever replace in war the individual soldier who is willing and able to fight. RATLROAD ADMINISTRATION TO BE COMPLETED BY JAN. 1, 1924 Washington, Feb. 13.—Confidence that the work of the railroad administration will be “substantially completed” by Jan. 1, 1924, and that the ‘“entire liquidation of the .uigations of the government arising during the period of federal con- trol could be eoncluded without any ad- ditional appropriation for that purpose by congress” was expressed in a letter from President Harding to Speaker Gil- lett, transmitting-to congress today the report of the director-general of rall- roads covering the = twenty-two month period dating from relinquishment of federal control to the end of the last calendar year. The president sald the predictions were based on the estimates of the director- general and so far as the ability of the admimkistration to wind up its affairs without” another appropriation was con- cerned they took into consideration the cash now available and the disposition of definite obligatlons of the carriers now held by the raflroad administration. This probably {s the first time that this continued, “is based on the railroad ad- ministration collecting from the carriers the expenditures made by the government for additions and betterments chargeable to capital ac- count.” CONDITIONS IN BRITISH INDIA MORE MENACING London, Feb. 13.—The situation Is re- garded as so menacing that all Europ- eans in Madras, British India, are being enrolled as special constables by order i wa Of the [governmnt, ain cding to a despateh to the Daily Mail from Madras dated Monday. The despatch adds that it understoodthe constables will be armed with military rifies and ammuni- tion. P o o CONN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1922 TEN PAGES—70 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS BRIEF TELEGRAMS The North German Lloyd has resumed its sailings for New York, interrupted by tha war, Three unpublished, works of nt Leo Tolstoi are to be included in the b Memorial edition of his works which his daughters are planning to issue. _An indoor rifie match for the Connec- ticut Nationa} Guard will be held from April 10 to/April 2, according to orders issued from the adjutant general's office. The\Danish steamer Texas, which went aground on Nina shoal in Vineyard sound Sunday, was floatei early yesterday by the coast guard cutter Acushnet. The parliamentary correspondent of tke Milan Corriere Della Sera denies that the Italian government is favorable to a postponement of the Genoa conference. Ten-year-old Loulsa Offensteln of Wichita, Kansas, upon whom four oper- ations have been performed to remove a- Pin lodged in her lungs. will undergo an- other within a few day: The plant of the-Royal Clothing com- pany in the North End, Foston, was turn- ed out forcirg sixty persons to the streets over ladders, fre escapes and smoke choked stairways. During the sixteen years of its exis- tence, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advan ent of Teaching has distrfbuted $8.920,661 in retiring allowances and pensions to 999 persons. Consumption of intoxicating liqnors in Sweden has been_ reduced nearly 50 per cent. since the beginning of 1914 when Sweden's liquor rationing system went into effect. - The only observance of Lincoln Day In New Haven, aside from closing of the banks and brokers' offices was the an- nual dinner of the Young Men's Republi- can club, More than 200 Russian relief organiza- tions operating in this country are de communistic commit- Hoover in a repgrt ing. . Ellis Island officials are arranging for the deportation during the ensuing week of 63 en and women just released from various federal prisons in the middle west. Steriing Elliott, inventor of the pneu- tired sulky and of the stexring de- now used on automoblles, Gicd at e in Newton, Mass. He was in ear. Three young men held np Stephen Tier- collector for a cf grocery com- > n Boston, dazed him with a blos over the head, seized a baz contining $3, 000, and then escaped in an automobi'e Seven members of the ecrew of ree-masted schconer Rose M, the from Fogo, New Foundland, washed ashore at Fayal, Azores Isla January 15. were rought to Providence from Ponta del Gada, Azores, Dy the Fabre liner Asia.’ fe s ‘Wild rumors were clrculated through- Mexico City that President Obregon dangerously ill from pneumonia, having suffered a relapse, but inquiries at Chapultepec castle elicited the infor- mation that he was improving. Fleld Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, former commander of the troops in Ire- land, has been made the unionist can- didate for the vacant seat In_the im- parliment for North Down, Ire- Nicholas D. Macheras, a who upon his discharge from a lunch room in Brookline, Mass., is alleged to alve staled to death Thomas D. Plakias, loyer, was held for the grand jury on a murder charge. dishwasher The “wets” in alarmed. s Mexico are frankly They say there is a real pos- v that Mexico City, at least, may dry” before the end of the year and if so, the next step would be to the entire republic arid of alcoholie beverages. Six scientific expeditions Will be sent out of New York this spring and sum- mer by the Field Museum of Natural Four will be sent to South America, a fifth to the Isthmus of Pan- ama and Colombia, and the sixth to the Malay Peninsula. Modern “antiques” are being pur- chased wholesale in Germany for sale to unwary foreigners and newly rich Teu- tons who have b=en prompted to seek objects of real art by the news that a number of princely families have been corapelled to market family heirlooms and rare treasures. Traffic over the Danbury divisien of the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford railroad was unimpeded yesterday. the wrecking crew from this city having cleared the line at Stevenson which was blocked by a frelght wreck. Accusations against all persons under arrest for political offenees in Russia 1oust be made within a fortnight and within two months all persons under arrest must either be freed or turned over t othe courts, unless special permisd slon for further detention is received from the central executive committee. Joseph Bedo, 55, of 15 Marne street, Newark, N. J., was killed in New York when'on automobile in which he was rid- ing with his wife and seven other per- sons collided with a street car. He was hurled from his seat and crushed be- tween the automoblle and the car. On behalf of the provisional govern- ment in Ireland, says the Exchange Tel- egraph Company, Michael Collins has issued an announcement decreeing gen- eral amnesty for all men of the naval, military and police =#rvices “by whom acts of hostility toward the Irish peo- ple were committed.” More than eight million members of the fraternal beneflciary svystem of this country and Canada will be represented at a meeting of the National Fraternal Congress of America when it convenes at Chicago, Feb. 20 for a 3-day ses- sion. Today's inebriates are mostly men of older years, the percentage of young men falling sharply from what it used to be, according to Judge J. Kent Greene, Cotton Mills of New Hampshire Suspend, Plants Could Not Be Run With Workers Who Report- IN A GUANDARYFOV TO RAISE FUNDS FOR SOLDIERS' BONUS ¢d—20,000 Now Out in|Position of the Administration May B¢ Made Known in Con Rhode Island. Boston, Feb. 13.—Cotton mill opera- tives in New Hampshire and Rhode Isl- and, with few exceptions, were on strike today in protest against wage reductions averaging 20 per cent. and restoration of the 54-hour week. There were no dis- turbances In either state. Many of the New - Hampshire mills suspended operations before noon when it was ‘seen that the plants could hot be run with the workers who reported. The number of employes thrown out of ‘work by the almost general strike in New Hampshire was estimated at be- tween 25,000 and 30,000. In Rhode Island the List of persons affected by strikes Wwas brought to more than 20,000 by the closing of three departments of the Jenckes Spinning company’s plant at Pawtucket, necessitated by defections to the ranks of the strikers. The situation in Rhode Island marked time today with the state guardsmen who, have been ordered to ve in readiness for possible duty still in their armories. —_— 2,600 TEXTILE WGRKERS ON STRIKE IN LOWELL Lowell, Mass., Mass, Fab. 13.—A strike of employees of the Bay State and Han ilton cotton mills, numbering about 2,600, against wage reductions began today. At the Bay State mille, with the excep- tion of loom fixers, company officia claimed that mos{” of the emcloyes re- morted for work. TUnion officials said the reports of the number on sirike were heing checked up. “The Hamilton mills, in keeping with announcement made on Saturday, di dmot open. Pickets were stationed at both milla. The walkout did not affect employes of the many other cotton mills of this city, where no wage reductions have-yet been announced, The Lowell textile Gouncil of the American Federation of Textil aperativ with which the majority of the workers are affillated, arranged a meeting today. The council has authorized a walkout in any mill where wage reductions are announc- ed. NORMAL CONDITIONS IN MILLS AT BIDDEFORD, ME. Biddeford, Me., Feb. 13.—Normal con- ditions prevailed in all local cotton mills where a 20 per cent. wage reduction be came effective today. Employes of hoth the Perperel and York mills reported for work, in aceerdance with a previous decision not to resist the cut. The mills halve announced no change in the operat- ing .schedule. A large section of the Pepperell mills are working a three day &chedule, while the Ycrk mill is operat: ing full Ml CABOT MILLS RUNNING UNDER WAGE REDUCTION Brunswick, Maine, Féb. 13.—The Cabot mills were running today on a schedule of 54 hours a week zs usual, but under a wage reduction, the amount of which had not been announced. Two strikes within the past three years, lasted 15 and 13 weeks, without bringing desired changes in working conditions, in consequence of which there has been little strike talk ibout 800 are employed. CONTEST FOR CONTROL OF PHILA. RAPID TRANSIT CO. Philadelphia, Feb. 13.—A spirited and unusual contéest for control of the Phil- adelphia Rapid Trangit Company In which the 10,000 employves have taken the side of the president of the corpora- ation and s attracting much atten- tlon. In the scramble for proxites for the annual meeting on March 15, the em- ployes voted to purchase 10,000 shares of the stock out of the funds in their co- operative welifare assoclation and throw théem to the support of Thomas E. Mit- ten, president of the company. The contest started when President Mitten recently announced the company would attempt to earn sufficient réevenue } thie year to pay a six per cent. divi- dend to . stockholders and then give a bonus to the smployes not exceeding 10 per cent. if thbe earnings amounted to that much. This was followed in a few days by five directors requesting stockholders to withhold their proxies for 'the annual meeting until further notice. The five dirfectors declarsd that Mr. Mitten was conducting the affairs of the company without consulting te board. The board is made up of Mitten and two other of- ficers; the mavor of Philadelphta and two other citizens representing the city, and the five opposed to Mitten's methods. The hoard In a letter to stockholders announced it would continue, and strengthent the co-operative agreement with employes thersby thelr wages are fixed by the average paid to street car men in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Buffalo, but wanted a voice In the man- agement of the company's affairs. 1 Durlng Mr. Mitten's incumbenoy as president there has been no trouble with the employes, who have been working under the co-operative plan. In mass meeting they have announced themselveg in faver of his policy of management. Today a committee of employes start- ed out to call on stockholders to ask their, support of the present manage- ment. — £16.000,000 FOR CONSTRUCTION OF HOSPITALS FOR WAR VETERANS ‘Washington, Feb. 13.—Approval has heen :ivei' by President Harding to the | bBill authorizng an appropriation of $16.- 000,000 for the construction of additional hospitals for war veterans, Chairman Langley of the house public buildings and grounds r.ommi(te;..‘ author of the meas- ure, announced todey. Pasgsage of the bill also h_ndvcufied by the faderal board of hospitalization, with the recommendation that a clause providing that $500,000 be expended in enlarging Mount Alto hospital, Wash- ington, D. C., be eliminated. In additlon to authorizing an expendi- ture of $16,000,000 for hospital facilities. the bill provides that all construction work shall be under. the supervision of the director of the veterans' bureau in- steda of under.the direction of the su- president of the Washington Home As. [Pervising architect of the treasury de- sociation, the oldest operating institu- tion in the United States for the reclam- ation of drink addicts. Sdewen 1s facing & curlous dilemma as the result of her well-meant hospi- tality in granting temporary. asylum to Emma Gildman, Alexander and Alexander Shapiro, formerly de- ported to Russia from the United States. Since this trlo arrived, Russian anarchists country, . several other | of one of the ships of t “have come Into the | here. - 5 4 Jured, partment, who in the past charge of all hospital activities. has had CHIEF BOATSWAIN MATE KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION Guantanamo, Cuba, Feb. 13 (By the Berkman | A. P.)—Charles O'Dea, chief boatswa mate, was killed this morning by an ex- plosion. of storage batteries on the dock Atlantic fle Twe other men Were slightly in- gress Today—Congressional Opinion is Divided Be tween Special Taxes and Short Term Treasury Notes o1 Bondl—Ol;pmition is Developing as ths Enormity of the Undertaking is Becoming Realized—Sentiment it Strong For Amply Providing For Wounded and Disabled ‘Washington, Feb. 13.—The position of the administration as to how the funds for the soldiers’ bonue should be raised “If congress would adabt as the meth. od of raising ravenue,” he added, “a gen- eral sales tax so that everybody, rich and be made known to congress tomorrow |poor) accordinz to their expenditures President Harding and Secretary Mcllon | would thus pay ir proportion _and had a conference today and were under- | equally as important the pofoy of the stod to have discuseed the questicn. cales tax would thus be placed on the The plans have been suggested members of congress charged with t porting of bonus lezisiation. One b Dublican members of the house ways and maens commiites contemplates sp-cia taxes while under the other put forward by Chairman McCumber, and Senator Smoot, of Utah, ranking the finance committee, notes or bonds would be issued durk time that the cash payments were to the forme: service men. After the White House conference to- day it was indicated In some admini tion quarters that the treasury held the same views with regard to :ssu of motes or bonds that he expressed in his recent letter to Chairman Fordney, cf the ways and means committee. On the other hand, congressional leaders said oposi tion to the levying of additional taxes at this time was increasin; 1t was understood that the tax program drawn by the house sub-committe with instant @position when statute books so that it cow'd be used for cbtaining necessary governemental reve nue in the future and permit congress t¢ cut down the high sur-taxes and businest taxes already paraiyzing business enmer- gy, there might be more justification for passing the bonus biL" CONGRESSWOMAN ROBERTSON OPPOSED TO SOLDIER BONTUE New York, Feb. 13.—Alice M. Robert. m, representat in congress from kiahoma, declared today in an address the Women's Republican club that she soidier bonus. € a bonus. she said, m of Americans whe lution, in the Civil nish-American wars. “Those vetel 4. “didn't puf on their patriotis e of her own she said, to some eented to majority carliest defenders, and ate figance com ers of the Civil and were to thre. T a conference with Secr were undérstood to have pres they two proposas to the president. boys of 61 k for bonuses. a quits They “We can glve claim dede if thes A\ the president the matter the time today. was con sub-committees Senator McCu expected to get the preside ering marke nber said ts views to-|m didn morrow, but added that he was no for i X t the govern- wised as to how they would be communi- | ment the doliar sign on thelr cated. patriotism, we can do ! by bonus question was discussed to- @ay both In the senate and house, ator Borah, republican, Idaho, brough the subject in the senate, declarin: the demands for a bonus for form vice men who were not im ally or men service might embarass the government in taking care of wounded and disable The Idaho senator declared tha 000.000 was a consgrvative estimate Miss Robertson critcized members of League of Women Voters for drawing sex line in politics not the province of women vot- jers to stand off in a wholly non-partisan look down into t where the is going on and say, ‘You're mot it right! " she declared. to vou: and clean it up.” she =aid, addin: ‘like former Presi. ] dent Roosevelt” she considered the re. publican party “least bad. “You have a tremendous power. It's e going-into a -kitchen awis finding-a Iot of Qirfy~aiFAes Yo Wash, and washing them. . “The woman's vote howling succes to ba good that bt what it would cost the government to care fo rall disabled men before the govern- ments_obligation to them would be dis- chapged.. He szid_that ja his juigment | would be a matter of only ten years be- for congress would be appropriating a billion and a half dollars annualiy for the necessities of disabled men. The bonus was brought before the house by Representative MacGregor, repubiican, New York, who urged that the funds for 1 be raised by means of taxes on light wines and beers. Senator Edge, rerbblican, New Jersey, in a formal statement, declared that while been a t . to learn in order to be good be a 50-50 proposi- thers are some make 1t & 76-25 women who want to proposition.” PROTEST FURTHER TAX he had not yet taken a final position on ON AUTOS AND GASOLINE the bonus legislation, if the bifMons neces- sary to pay the proosed bonus are to be| St. Lonis, Mo, Feb. 13.—Protest te raised through further taxation upon | congress against the proposed placing of business and industrial enterpriss, “then | further taxes on the automobile or gas« I am against it, and in my judgmnst we | oline to pay are simply putting off just that much longer a resumption of industrial and bus- iness activity necessary to lessen presenmt unemployment.” for the proposed soldlers® bonus was made in resolutions adopted by the board of directors of the Natiene al Automoblle Dealers’ assoclation &t & speclal meeting here, SOFT COAL MINERS TO ASK NO INCREASE IN WAGES indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 13.—No gen- eral increace of wages for soft coal miners, but the direction of all efforts toward retaining present wage scales was the policy adopted today by the scale committee of the United Mine Workers of America for submission to the union's special convention that begins tomor- Tow according to semi-officlal informa- tion received by convention delegates. The committee's report on wage de- mands to be sought as the basis of new agreements with operators, effective on April 1, was adopted finaily at a long afternoon session, but committee mem- bers sald they had agreed to withhold all information until the report was submit- ted to tha convention. probably late to- morrow or early Wednesday. Desplite the announcement of the com- mittee, whichp fincluded the 27 district presidents of the union, their report was understood to include no proposal of a strile, and likewise made no demand for adoption of the six hour hal, five day week as proposed by the demands of The only comment on the possi- of a strike was that of Interna- tional President John L. Lewls, who is- sued this formal statement: “The United Mine Workers of Amer- fea o not desire a strike. We propose to do evervthing possible in a proper way o prevent such an occurrane I feel sure when the convention has finished its work, the public will realize this fact” TO USE CHURCH VALUABLES TO RELIEVE RUSSIAN FAMINE Moscow, Feb. 13 (By the A. P.).—Ths initial step for the carrying out of the decision of the all-Russian central com- mittee to use the valuables in churches of all creeds in Russia for the benefit of the famine sufferers, includes directions to the commissariat of justioe to work out the method and the imstructions for execution of the decree as soon as possi« ble. The valie of the gold and silver ean- dlesticks, the gold-coversd and bejeweled ikons, the chalices and salvers, is vari- ously éstimated, but in weight the precious metals and jewels alone are re- ported to be worth hundreds of milions Although varying sentiments have been evinced by churchmen to the stripping of the historic edifices of the country of treasures dating back for centuries, some of the notables among them approve t! idea. Archbishop Evodokin of Novgarod in a letter in the Pravda advises the sac- rifica as “a loan to God.” to be repald heaven. . It warns that cold-heartedness bring It toward the faminestricken wlil v punishment in the future. ‘It is a shame to wear gold and @fa- monds now, when each jewel not only wipe away a tear of suffering hu- but also will save a man frem say® the archhishop's letter. Thie probably is the rst time that thig communist newspaper has been used ag the medium for a church injunction, couched in Biblical terms. The news- paper says that one church had volun- teered the sacrice callad for before the all-Russian central committee reached its decision to take over the valuables. BROWN MEN TO CONDUCT A RESEARCH EXPEDITION Providence, R. I, Feb. 13.—Professor Richard M. Field, head of the geological STRUGG! E WITH HUGE EAGLE department of Brown University and three RESULTED IN SOLDIER'S DEATH honor students, Lawrence A. Whitcomb, [ g .\ S Brookline, Mass., Frederick N. Beede and | , Santfazo. Chill, Feb. 13.—(By The A. P.)—A curious story of a soldler's atal struggle with a huge eagle in a mount pass near Los Andes last Saturday told by the newspapers here. The sol shot the eazle and, thinking he had 4 it, approached, but the bird had suffered a broken wing and furious- attacked him. the struggle which followed the 's claws clutched the trigger of the oldier's_zun, which was dlscharzed, tha ullet entering' the man's body. He dled in the arms of his compantons, who took his body, and also the wounded eagle, te Los Andes. e FITME IS AGAIN EXPERIENCING DISORDERS Rome, Feb. 13 Ellsworth Sale, Pawtucket, R. T, will sail June 24 for Europe where they will con- duct an independent research expedition, obtalning material for the University de- partment. The party will travel in an esecially equinped automobile and will conduct in- | O vestigations in England, Scotland, Francs, | I¥ part of Germany and in the Pyrenees. I will also attend the geological conzracs in Brussels, this summer, the first since the outbreak of the war in 1914. Professor | Field in addition to obtain speciments. plans to put his department in personal contact with all the princlpal Buropean universities. oot baas D SPOTS ON THE SUN CAUSE WIEE TROUBLE IN SOUTH Washington, Feb, 13.—Some trouble was experienced by wires in' the south tonight, due, it was believed, to the sun spots. Telegraph wires radiating from this city felt the effects, particularly in No:rth Carolina, South Carelina, Georgia and sections of Alabama. The rroubls, although considerable, was not serlous. — Despatches from Fiume describe a serious situation there owing to the antagonism between the Fascisti and the police forces organized by Mavor Zanella, who is accused of be- ing friendly to the Croa The Fiume correspondent of the Po- polo Ramano savs that Croat bands are encamped outside the gates of Fiume and that Maver Zanefla tried to induce the carabineers and Italfan troons to dis- arm the Faselati but falledl. Zanela has telegraphed the Ttalien goversment for assistance ; meanwhile telegraphie. ser vice has been temporarily Veto de Palo was Leld witheut bail in Gistrict: court ‘at Fltch#burg, Mase, charged with the murder of Angelo Man- cusco, a store olerk, in & street fight.