Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 25, 1922, Page 1

VoL, LXIV—NO. 126 o s i e e Marklewicy, ‘the Irish repub- ‘woman. leader; has been recalled ANALYSIS OF “BLA KILLING DEEPENS TR § e bR x Standard Oll company of Indiana and the i ; 5 g 3| Gulf Oll corporation are belng conducted Investigators Find Discrepancies in the Ward Version of the nding | Petveen the two companies. Shooting.of Pg;n—-—ReMrs ‘Have Been Informed i That the Ward Family Have “the Case Tied Up as Tight at a Drum”—Statement Has Aroused the Ire of District Attorney Weeks—Ward Has Resigned as Po- lice Commissioner of New Rochelle. 1 White Plains, N. Y, May - 24.—(By P.)—Clinging grim!y to his si- concerning the nature of the black- mall thréat which he asserted had led up to his shooting of Clarencé ‘Peters, marine, Walter S. Ward, mittonaire baker's son, late today resigned.as po- commissioner of New Rachelle, the early part of the duy, the only that- came from Ward sgurces was jental of the report that he would re- under fire. But this - afternoon, shortly his attorney. notified the wuthorities that his res- in the mai'.'a man close toid the army of reporters e T y might as ell g0 home, ss “the family has the dase sewed up tighter than a drum.” . . ing of Bankers in Paris In- ?nls, May 24—(By The A. P.)—Four tenertative solutions of the international loan problem for the settlement of' the economic situation in Europe, with par- ticalar reference to Germany, were pre- sented today at the meeting of the Bank- ers’ committee, of which J. P. Mofgan is the American representative, and | the spirit of .the mecting was described by some of those -who took part as indi- cating that something can. be dome. It was even said that probably an an- nouncement of a defipite nature could be made in a relatively short time. ¥ The solutions - were submitted respec- ively by Mr. Morgan, who offered what he termed “the American plan,””Sir Rob- ert Kinders, one of the governors of the Bank ,of England, Charles, Sargent, former French under-secretary of fin- ance and president of the Banque De L'Union -Parisenne and’ Dr. G, Vlsuerin;. tife, Connecl.cut company, which was president of The Netherlands bank. No [ being ‘carried across Middie street in a hint was given as to-what these plans|wooacn box when the : g dit automobile are, but the committee conveyed an idea| ¢ame up. - The money \.us recovered in of optimism and definiteness when they | Stratford, where it was leit on the porea called them “solutions. ¢ i of a house in Barnum terrace by two of They were advanced in response to a|the rabbers. request by M. Delacroix, former -Belgian |' Cruz, Mexico, has escaped from a band Dublin, May. 24 (By the A. P.).—The/ of rebels who kidnapped, him Saturd Elnex{ situation has eclipsed the interest : TIRLE the forthcoming elections, and the:| pZuy BTAViLy of the situation is everywhers | semernl draEEists camp u recognized. Beyond a brief statement by cessive. an Michael Collins that, @as the treaty waf |cines, with the British government, Sir James Craig, the Ulster premier. has nothing to do with its interpretation, no indication has been given of what is to be the atti- tude of any of the southern Sinn Fein The arrest of ‘Sinn Feiners in the six counties was in no wise surprising. It was declared that an even larger num- ber of arrests was to be expected. But the proclamation by Premier Craig in the Ulster pariiament Tuesday making mem- b;.rrshlv in the Irish republican army an{ Antoulo Telesto, a coal peddler, offense came as a surprise, as all the!sold fias er- the compaay of Peters and Uwb 0ther | sonthern Jeaders. on both side of the | s v ,;"Mc’::" ,::n""hx";‘:f"‘:; men who might trii out to be “Charley | present controversy belong to the army. | fied 3400 and costs in. court' in. Stame Ross” and “Jack,' the two miysterlous | . It was said today that tite first con- | ford, < . . missing men Who were alleged by Ward | sideration of the effect of the proclama. to have been present when the pistol bat- | tion on'the army organization. probably | The tle raged. would be by an officer/board, and not by | tine S Reports recelved here stated that this |the Dail Direann leaders, who'have not woman had sugdenly disappeared from |yet arrived &t @ common policy to be Broadway resorts she used to frequent, |adopted toward the Ulster problem. and it was understood that a search Eamonn De Valera’s newspaper, the | was being made for her to determitie | Repubiic of. Ireland. will say tomorrow: r fire in the what were described as ex- exorbitant prices for medi- ‘War has broken out bll'l-‘ the gyp- sy officials of Hungary and the negro jazz-band artists, many of whom - are til the sheriff is through with lis in- vestigation, because I intend to have all the facts brought out)in the open.” . Mr. Weeks asserted 'positively that he krew of no woman connected with the case. His asserlion was made after he-had beew questioned conterning:a womard al- leged to have been seen frequemtly in /Americans. \ To the “faces in stenc” and statmes Which interest visitors to the Harkness Memorjal Quadrangle at Yale, added the face and figure of President James Rowland Angell. His Companions. Bridgeport, May 24.—A daring day-men on the light robbery by four youths fsom New jthe woo "York ‘was frustrated here today ,when | Foad tracks, one of the hold-up men was k.lled and the” other three arrested after a pbilce chaserthrough Stratford, & suburb. The loot was §$19,000, “the local payroll of road tracl el Polith foreign minister, Constan- kirmunt. was pelted with ‘rotten eggs in Vienna last night as he was go- ing Into a dinner he had arranged for the representatives of the foreign press. was They arrested minutes and Automobile Chase Through Stratford—They Hac Grabbed the $19,000 Payroll of the Connecticut Com pany From Assistant Cashier Tibbals and Agent Wil liam Dunn—Dunn Fatally Shot One of the Robber: During the Getaway With the Money—Later His Bods Was Found in the Automobile, After the Capture of ng the the two men asked a wo man the way to New Haven. them and a few minutes later she tel® phoned to the Stratford police statior and told the police she had’ sétn- tws sfispicious appearing men on the rall Captain Walker other Bridgeport policemen had just ar- rived at the Stratford station and thes headed at once for the railrcad tracks 15 iwo men within a few ' After a rned and ran inio New Hawer She toit and twc werg later identifiec Kraut, driving the automobile, had ir meantime been speeding through 5 > : The body of one of the robbers was|as Becker ana aivait. 3 i An gEreement for a Joint receivership | premier, who acted as chairmas, for |found-in the automobile, ~which was When this was regeated {o District | whether she could give ny clue to| “The De Valera-Collins agreement|of tne Connecticut Briweriea Company|statements’ as to What the bankers be- | abandomcd o the rat 1t was identt: | the Attorney Woeks of West -Chester coun- ; Whereabouts of Peters’ companlons. (regarding elections and a coalition cab- | was reached at a conference between/| lieved could be done. tv. who earlier intke Aay asserted that| New Tori reports stated |that the |inet) at least has given-us respite from |Judge T he had sinker fled as that of Lou!ls Stone of Brookiyn, alleged leader. of the quartet. The men under. arrest are:, Herman Kraut, 91 not_swallowed “hook, iine and the story told- by -Ware of hav- ing fired in self-defense, s pounded ile saac Woife and attorneys for the young woman, described as 3} dainty ers and for the company. dresser, has often been seen ‘with Pe- ters, shabblly tailored, jn her high-priced the dissensions which “were tearing the | petition nation asunder, and if It leads, as we trust it will, to<unification of the army, The committee aiso decided to spend the next week in an exhaustive study of Germany's condition, which strength in SEre ens Preparations for 'the preliminary hear- ey . ens | Willett atreet, New York: Max Becker, the belief that the bankers, in beginning | 320 Clinton street, New York, and Ed- able in front of him and roared: car, at race tracks and along Broad- |lt averts the Lerrible rpltrament of clvll|ing of Rodolph Valentina, motion picturs | theid work, see a chance to accomplish | ward Kivait, 22 Biko street, &ew York,|after the car, Sewed up, eh? Well, let ‘me set you | Way. ‘"1', POpRen W; e‘;s‘ \ < actor charged with bigamy, are under|something tangible. When. the commit-| Sidney Tibbals, assistant cashier of fellows right. Nobody can deliver us. The only other feminine touch revealed (:wiunx on the Blatee question, the |way at the district attorney’s office in|tee had these=Tour suggested remedles | the Connecticut company, and Willlam | out. Were going through with this thing, | thus far in the case came this afternoom _,'f'“:e;«!l;::er(!:g'-mxsh - % Los Angeles. . before it, Herr Bergmann, the German | Dunn,-a company claim agent, were car- r g gown es possible “argle.” when it was reported that there had been | = s roee o R B gl '""";:r e expert was called upon, and. he outlin- neévertheless, the public remained | found in Peters' peckets a woman's & POEPUEIR. 18- PeyIng Chalrman McCumber may bring up the special police and in Exlemil'n‘<a.|moft soldiers’ bonus bill in the senate finance h- unlimited "financial support to the north- | committee majority without walting for ern government in the midst of its ter- . President Harding to communicate his roristic polley, is an insolent breach of | views on the amended house measure. the spirit of the treaty. Surely Mr. Col- iins ean take a bold stand with the Brit- Ish in the treaty.” Tying the box of money from the com- pany’s office to thé car barn when the bandit' automobile drove in front of them. Three of the robbers jumped out, one grabbing the box while the oth- ers hit Tibbals and Dunn over the head with lead pipes, Dunn was only dazed and from a reclining position in the street he drew an automatic pistol from his pocket and fired several shots, Stone ‘was hit, but was able to stagger to the walting dutomobile with the money box. a rant and t of secret hold which his band of alleged black- ¢ have had on.Ward as on when he “sufrendered, 2 s had beenfound shot to death the Kénsiod. reservolr. where Ward claimed to hat#’motored for a\tryst.and been forced into & pis- tol battle Mr. Weeks asserted isat if up & plea of self-defens handkerchief embroidered with pansies. . To helghten the fystery, there were conflicting reports concerning the d! covery or non-discovery of Peters' pis- tol, with which he was alleged to have opened fire on Ward. Mr. Weeks sald Ward would have to explain what had become of it. Sheriff ‘Werner, while not professing to have the gun, assefted he was. satisfled that the Wweapon' and eight' missing cartridge ed the negotiations which'are still pro- ceeding between the German delegation and the reparations commission and éx- plained the state of the German budget and the changes to be made in it. The two sessions of the committee to- day were held in the Hotel Astoria, the home of the reparations commission, Sev- en financlers of ecommanding personali- tiés In the neutral, allied and German money markets, sat down together there Peters et~ 43 Phelan arrived. week Prince Paul of Serbia arrived in Bu- charest, Rumania, to arrange details in —_— connection with the coming marriage of THE LABOR PARTY WILL King,Alexander to Princess Marfe of Ru- NOMINATE 17 CANDIDATES | Mania. Stone, their assistance. Ward set he would have Stratford streets, with the body ot Stont the tonneau of the machene. ody was observed by a man and 2 boy as .the machine went The through Broad. bridge street and they shouted and ra: T Kraut stopped the ma- chine a short distance away and jumped Officer Holmes of Stratford jeined the man and boy in the chase and Kraui soon was overtaken. wus left in the machine until Corone: The body of Stone He had been fatally wounded by a bullet from Dunn’s pis- tol. The threa prisoners told the Bridge- port polics that they came to this city garly this morning at-the request of who had told them he needed They &ald they met Stone and were taken to a house, which they could not locate now, as they did Stone had an autombobile waiting for them when took where he had here. in one of the drawing rooms and began | The other two jumped in and the ma-|not know the streets ot Dublin, May 24.—The iabor party will| Three railway yardmasters’ and yard h ibility | Chine sped._away. turning into Housa- to tell the whele story of the blackmall- | shells would be presented at the proper} ~ 7 O MY ?n“ md‘dat;‘f; the | employes’ associations were consolldated | :ti:“:‘-;l::';r::ll::: 1:: ;:mp‘: m’i tonle averus while s gathering crowd |they arose at 8 o'clock and he ng. Asked If he had seen any of the | time before the cornoner. had |coming Itis helectlons. ‘The candidates | iito one organization to be known as the| o S8 BUSETE OUCLE COU AT SRS et up a shout, them to Middle street, “b'ackmaillng” letters, jn. substantiation Waid had asserted nine sgx; wx inciude James Larkin, the former head | International Brotherhood of ~Railway distributed loan to enable the allies to| The police ‘were quickly on the sceme|said they eould ‘pull off a job.” of Ward's story, the dlurmJ attorney | been oxchanged, but only one shell was | o%0y ' rancnort Workers' union, who | Yardmasters and Yard Employes. Teceive reparations and the Germans to|@nd from headquatters an alrm was sent reptied (hat e had pebsl 10 Ctiifesl- r:z:;t::dfl::nflw_ln;::“i:tlgf D o on | recently was released from prison in the = ening” letters—iypewritten—and signed | a i R ¥ que rlier in the dar, @ seriss of written fons were presentad to the district attorney by reporiers. in connection with « report that the cororer's inquest might be postponed several weeks. The ques- tions read: “Is is cbsiémary man has surréndarsd, himself 3s a aver, to hold oy the’inguest an¥ length a case to Has =everal the weeks, 20 to work? tha prosécutor step | mater ofit of the coroner’s hands? prosecutor's office a month, it receives word from the coroner, for ‘a corahér“after the powar in and” tgke the to. wait or six weeks. Has there been any case o this Kind of county the w “How long may the case?" your knawledge Mr. Weeks made the followlng reply: “The coroner will hold no_inquest un- West in Chester where a coroner has held back els of prosecution until ides to hold an inguest where a bas confessed to the slaying? the coroner hold up he de- man YALE STUDENT FELL OFF CLAFF OF SLEEPING GIANT New Haven, Copn., May 24.—John C. Pope. of Cleveland, Ohio. a Yale fresh- man, fell over the cliff of the Sleeping Giant at Mt Carmal vesterday and is at a hospital with a fractured leg and wrist and internal injuries. Pope was unconscious for some time after the fall. The cliff Is bout 80 feet high. It has been many vears since a Yale undergraduate has heen hurt in amateur mountaineering hereabouts. dents. perpendicular faces Rock erence se of herman. university had ambitions to climb For yecars the of Bast and West on New Haven's outskirts in pref- to ascending by Several students were \'led vears and killed gas a grandson of Gen. W. tthe footpaths. in the many hurt. The put both these rocks “out of bounds” as areas for Alpine ex- periences and they The Sleaping Glant, this eity tisdiction have so- remained. several miles from has not been under Yale ju- The hospital. reports thig.morning that wrile Pope's injuries may not be serious he is badly shaken DEMAND HOUSECLEANING OF SUPREME COUNCIL, K, OF C. Ing of counci! here today. Oswego, N. Y., Ma tutions demandipg a general housetiean- the supreme ocounel of Knights of Columbus were adopted at the closing session of the New York state ¥ ‘2L~——Dm reso- the The resolutiofs provide specificaily that Joseph C. Pelletier Gf Boston, Mass., su- whether it bore any marks of battle. get _the body after it had been found. ‘According to Collins, wheres has claimed his car and that -of the blatkmailers were on the scene battle oneé set of tires. the spot where the body lay. (Collins told his superior .there of shots. shoes led him been standing when he Peters’ coat was passed through vest, shirt and came out the back. was_ shot. open. trees where the shooting was sald to have oceurred, and others have been de- tailed to look over Ward's car and see Sergeant Edward MyGarvey of the state poli¢e told an Associated Press representative of the report made to him by ‘Trooper Josepir Collins who went to Ward the Lof he could find the marks of -only These were 15 feet from: had been no signs of a fight, nor could he find anyone' ‘who had heard a ‘number The fact that gravel clung to heels and soles on both the dead man’s to believe that he had The bullet shirt- and under- doubt. Larkin was found guilty -in 1920 of criminal anarchy and sentenced to a term of five to ten Years in-New York state prison, ; Bank Manager Arrested. - Befast,” May 24.—~Special canstables today arrested th Ban] magh. Catholic Bishop Held Tp. 5 Dubjin, May 24—The. Catholic bishop of Derry, while motoring from his resi- dence to Moviile, was held up by Ulster special constables today. He was ordered to leave the car and was searched on the roadside, according to a Londonderry despatch. The incideut. it is asserted, has aroused great indignation. TROLLEYMEN VOTE TO.REJECT PROPOSED WAGE REDUCTION Tn the pockets were found $1.32, cards and dice. any woman’s handkerchief. ALLIED DEBTS COMMISSION TO SEND REPLY TO FRANCE Washington, May 24.—(By The A. P.) —A reply to the French government's request for an indication by the allied debt commission as to when a special mission of. French experts would be re- celved is in the course of preparation it was said today at the treasury. The response, of the American government to the Fredch government probably will go forward within a day or two, it was sald. Negotiations with . France for country. ating the ot@zatlons ‘of was_deferred terminates. ‘While treasury officlals have large interest. payments in egree of confidence. This assumption was born out by Sec- to Chairman McCumber of the senats fin- ance committee in which he listed the prospect British payment alone as rev- upon from abroad {n the estimates of the in- retary Meilon -in a recent letter enue which might be counted preme advocate of the order, who was removed from the offics of district attor- ey of Suffolk county, Mass., by the state supreme court on charges of maifeasance and misfeasance in office, be removed trom his office in-the ord Further pro- come of the United States for the fis- cal year 1923. JURY DISAGREED IN $50,000 Boston, May 24 Collins did not report finding the, funding of that nation’s war debt to this it was indicated, at the treas- ury, might be expected to take the form more of arranging the method of liquid- that nation when its funds are available rather than with the expectation of payment of in- terest in October, when the period dur- ing which Interest on all the allied debts been non-committal to a great extent over the Prospects of this country obtaining any October on its '$11,000,000,000 of demand notes of the arfous nations, the impression has been given that $200,000,000 from Great Britain is ail that is expected with any SUIT BY MILFORD MAN The federal jury in New Haven, May- 24.—The ballot of the members of the trolleymen’s” union employed by the Connecticut company |the monotony of his daily occupations, throughoute the state rejects the pro- posed wage cut of five cents an hour, it was announced tonight. An zgreement to submit the wage dis- pute ‘to arbitration and to accept the decision of the arbitrators as final will be drawn up and representatives of the Connecticut company and the frolley- men’s union are expected to sign it on Saturday. 2 members as a year ago, when Joseph Berry of Hartford represented the pany, James Fahey of Boston the - New Haven was the third member. NOMINATION OF DWIGHT DAVIS CONFIRMED BY SENATE ‘Washington, May . 24—The nomination of Dwight Davis of St. Louis to be a member of the war finance -corporation was confirmed by the senate tonight. He had been nominated to succeed himself 4s 2 member and the confirmation means that the corporation can resume making advances for agricultural and livestock purposes. 3 Agricultural and livestock- credits can only e advanced by vote of a majority of the five directors of the corparation, and were temporarily suspended this week when Managing Director Meyer left for a trip to the south, leaving only two direc: tors In the city, imasmuch as Mr. Davis had not been confirmed, and an appoint- ment to flil the vacancy caused by the resignation’ of ‘Angus MclLean of North Carolina has not been made. EADIO IS TO BROADCAST UTTERANCES OF HYLAN New York, May 24.—Radiophone fans hereabouts sqon will be able to strap on their headpieces and hear what Mayor. | Hylan thinks of the various organiza- tions ‘that attacks his administration. The ‘board of estimate today-recom- Tnited States on a writ of reasonable he-local manager of the | p, s of Ireland at Lurgan, County Ane m?x:ten'[‘m;d:o.m It is understood that the board of ar-|ed in the municipal court, Boston. bitration will be made up of the same |- leymen and Justide John K. Beach ofthe late Jonathan Bourne of New Bed- |Georl’a P. Boehm, all of Chicago, con- pay._them. “We have ¢ome together,” sald =M. Delacroix, who is hedd of the Belgian state bank, “as bankers, ‘and not as statesmen.’ In addition to Emma Welr—"Big Emma”"— known by a score of allases in police circles, was discovered dead with a gas tube in her mouth, in the attic of a drab cottage in Chicago, which had been her/| homgq since she “retired” 20 years ago. those already mentioned Tour Greemwich men are Imn the Stamford hospital with .injuries - re- cefved in ‘an automobile collision on the r machine hit & truct s H. Everson of 45 Broad street, New, Haven. s * | present, while tha elghth . member, One. of ‘the first roceedi that ngs_ shou erly be announced. An investigator for the Ku Kinx Klan will be sent at once to Columbus, Ga., 2nd to other places in the south where threatening letters purporting to have been signed by the Ku Klux Klan have been sent to various persens. a day. interest shown In Mr. the other members of the committee came and departed in handome aufomo- biles, the American representative used a taxicab, driven by one of the veterans of the Marne. 4 —_—— CHICAGO COUNCIL VOTES $675,000 FOR 1,000 ADDITIONAL POLICE The Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters, in their 43d annual session in Pittsfield, Mass., voted to recommend to the high standing committee of the order that the next annual convention Dbe held in Worcester, propriating $675,000 for. the .employment of 1,000 additional policemen was pass- ed by the city councll today while the state’s attorney's office was battiing in court to prevent the freeing of two la- bor leaders recently indicted in connecs tion with the slaying of two policemen by bombers. The release of Fred Mader, president of the building trades counct, and Timo- thy D. (“Big Tim”) Murphy, head of the Gas Workers' union, was sought on a writ of habeas corpus issued by Judge Harry B. Miller over the protests of Robert E. Crowe, state’s attorney. Judge Miller made the writs returnable to- Seeking a much-needed change from Ralps M. Chase, said to be a New Eng- land business man, arrived in Balboa as a member of tho crew of the freight steamship Thomas F. Beal. - Larceny and receipt of bonds that were taken in three bank robberies in New York and Pennsylvania were charg- ed against Max Kiine and Harry Maniff, both of Revere, when they were arraign- ‘Word was received in New Bedford that papers contesting the will of Miss Emily Howland Bourne, daughters of its evidence. . : Meanwhile new indictments were re- turned charging Mader, Murphy, "Con” Shea, husiness agent of the Theatrical Janitors” ynion, Dan McCarthy, business agent of the Plubers’ unlon;' John Mill- er, self confessed driver of the automo- bile used by the slayers of the two po- licemen; Margaret Hoffert, known as Mrs. John Miller; Charles D. Uschaswski and Stanley Bylook with murder. The indictments were in connection with- the slaying of the policemen as the culmination of a series of hombinigs and other acts of lawlessness blamed by the police on & labor war in_the bulldings trades. > . ford, had been filed in New York by a niece, Miss Helen Merriam of Providence. The case of the United States against Thomas McAuliffé, former chlef national prolifbition enforcement officer for. the district ‘of “Connecticut, was dismissed Tuesddy from the federal court by United States District Judge Edwin S. ‘Thomat Four laborers were killed at West Nyack, N. Y, when they were buried und®r an avalanche of stone at the Bel- mont-Gurnee ‘quarry. A premdture blast of dynamite unloosened” hundreds of tons of rocks upon them. A-book called “The Sins of Hollyweod” supposed to be an expose of the:lives of certain motion picture actors and sgc_ tresses, 15 “too scurrilous™ to’ be admit- ted to the mails, according to a ruling by Mark Herron, deputy United States dls- trict attorney in Los Angeles. VOTE FOE MASONIC TEMPLE AT FREDERICKSBURG, VA. Atlantic Oity, N. J. May 24—The League of Masonic clubs today:passed a resolution endorsing the project for a Masonic temple at ‘Frederié¢ksburg, Va. to house the relics of George Washington. who was made 2 Mason there Nov. 4, 1752. and who later became master of the lodge. < G The convention also went on record as strongly in favor of the Smith-Towner biil, and calied upon. congress fo speed the passage of the measure.- 5 A pamade participated in by 3,000 Ma- sons took place tonight. Announcement was made by the de- partment of justice that President Hard- ing had commuted the sentences of Jo- seph G. Gordon, Albert W. Wehde and victed of war-time offenses. Monsignor Michael J. Phelan, of St. Cecelia’s Roman - Catholic church in Harlem, accidentally shot himself while Signor D'Amelio, ‘reprexenting Ifaly, ';_l Sekiba, of Japan, has not yet arrived, | suggestion: uid, bo_altogsther e cret_yunflf ‘something vflgqlta could prop- The committée decidded ta mest twice There was extraordinary public Morgan. While Chicago, May 24—An ordinance ap- morrow and ordered the state to produce- | WOULD HASTEN THE TRIAL out _at to New Haven, Stratford, Milford. Fairfield. Norwalk., and also to Mamaroneck and White Plains, N. Y. The speeding machine entered Straiford and in Barnum terrace stopped in front ©ofta residence. Two of the robbers went to ‘the door asked if “Freedman” wag there. ey were told no one by that 'name was known there and they ®ét the money box on the porch. 'SOLDIERS' BONUS DEADLOCK BY SENATE REP. COMMITTEEMEN Washington, May 24.—Dem members of the senate finance co may be called uvon to break a deadlock amfong the republicans of the committee over soidiers’ bonus legisiation. The subject was brought up today at a meel- ing of the majority and it developed that there was a five to five division on the so-calied McCumber plan—tl.e amended house bili—and the Smoot proposal to issue to service men paid up insurance policies in lieu of ali compensation op- tlons heretofore proposed. Chairman McCumber sald a’ter the ses- sion that he probably would cail a meet- ing of the entire committee for this week, probably after the return frim Indian- apolis of Senator Watson, republican, In- diana, who has had several conferences recently with President Harding on the bonus . question. The only action taken today by the majority was the appointment of a sub- committee, consisting of Senators Curtis, McLean and Sutherland to hear Repre- sentative Mondell of Wyoming, the re- publican house leader, refative to substi- tuting the pending rectamation bill for the land settlement feature of the bonus measure which the senate committee re- publicans -have agreed to strike out of that bill. Members of the house from some of the western states have conferred with Mr. Mondell and members of the house steer- ing committee in an effort to get prefer- ence for the reclamation legisiation. Mr. ‘Mondell “suggested that If It could be Incorporated in the bonus legislation it Probably could be enacted at this session. ‘While the. reclamation measure is general legisiation, it proposes preference rights for. soldiers in reclaiming and. set arid lands. It would provide a revoiving fund of $350,000,000 for reclamation. the idea -being to keep the fund active until all arid lands have been reclaimed. A demand for passage of the pen Tetiamation bill—known as the Smith- MoNary measure—was made in the sen- ate tonight by Senator Ashurst, demo- crat,- Arizona; who 'sald he was speaking not only for himself but for other mem- bers, including republicans. He “served a notice that we will not aflow this con- gress to adjourn before the bill is made a law." For soldiets ever to obtain the lands for homes, he added, the bill would have to be passed, and its failure to pass ‘would provoke a “flow of fury from the west.” ratic — The automobile then started up and the two mittee It is beileved that the house whers the men had slept is in Stratford and that a man_ known as “Freedman” was there also. © One expianation of the leaving of the money at the house fr Barnum terrace, was that the robber: Jost their bearings and stopped at the wrong house. - The police say the automobile used by the guartet was stolen in New TYork sev- eral waeks ago and that the Connecticu! marked and n . was false. P S TR 10 PER CENT REDUCTION IN FREIGHT RATES BY JOLY 1 Washington, May 24.—Railroad freight rates will be reduced on July 1 by |amounts equal to ten per cent of their present levels under a decision of the interstate commerce nounced today. Practically. all classes and commodities of traffic are affected by the decislon which marked the conclusion of the in- vestigation began last autumn by the commisision on its own initiative into the reasonableness of existing freight levels Agricultural products in all sections ot the country outside of New England, livestock and western grain and grais products are the chief commodities ex- cluded from the reduction, these com- prising the freight classifications upon which reductions have beén recently put into effect. Passenger charges and Pullman fares also are left unchanged by today's de- cision. With its decision on ratés, the com- mission announced also its détermination of 5.75 per cent. as the reasonable an- nual return which carriers in the future will be entitled to earn on their actual capital investment. This compares with six per cent. the reasonable return level fixed under the transpoctation act for the period expiring March 1. Railroads were required to signify tc the commission before May 31 whether they would voluntarily make new sched- ules complying with the decision or re- quire the commission to issue its formal and detailed order for the alteration. Though divergence in view within the commission was indicated by several sup- plemental concurring or dissenting- opin- ions, the full weight of the commission appeared to be thrown behind the state- ment made in the majority and control- ling opinion that “general reduction i the rate level as substantial as the condi- tion of the carriers will permit will tend to stabilize the conditions under whick commerce and indusiry are carried on, [ with consequent fuller assurance to ear- riers of realizing a fair return™ On the statement of the commission that rall freight revenues in 121 approx{- mated $4,000,000,000 today’s decision will reduce the national freight bill by $400.- 000,000 per year. commission an- —_— TO ANEWER IN. COURT FOR MURDER OF HIS SON Toms vision was made that James A. Flaherty, supreme knight, and John B. Kennedy, sditor of “Cojumbia” be censured for publicity given in connection with the Palletier case. Delegates to the national supreme council session at Atlantic City during the week of Aug. 1 were instruct- ®d to present these resolutions. CONVENTION OF AMERICAN > e MEDICAL ASSOCIATION the suit brought by Michael V. Ryan of Mfiford, Conn., seeking damages of $50,- 000 from the United Fruit company and tie Northern railway of Costa Rica for the 1oss of an eye and other injuries sus- talned when a train was fired upon by Costa Rican troons in 1918, reported a disagreement tonight after ter hours ‘of Welireration and was dismissed. Ryan '(", in Costa Rica to make arrangements the transportation of Belgian refugees to the tropics when the injuries were mended that the board appropriate $50,- 000 for erection of a big broad casting ;t‘nflon on top of the Municipal buid- 5. The station, it ‘was announded, win have a sending radlus of about $1,500 miles and will be used chiefly for broad- casting educational and musical pro- grams PAID $3,000 FOR A “PAPER : MONEY MAKING 'MACHIN. OF CHARLES W. MORSE AND SONS cleaning a pistol\and was removed to a hospital, where N’ condition was said to be scritical. : ‘New York, May 24—An order to show cause why William A, Barber and Sty_ art G. Gibboney, who with Charles W_ Morse, his three sons and eighteen others are under indictment on a charge of us- ing the malls to defraud, should not be granted immediate and separate trial, ‘was handed down today by United States | District Judge Augustus N. Hand. The to cutor Wiifred IL New Haven, May 24—John Groos Lynn and Frank Zilinski of this city weré arrested. by the local police today SRS _ The decree of diverce granted to Mrs. Anna T. Mitchell, .ypon- the- heels of which her former husband, Oliver Mo-|on complaint of Alexander Struainski, rosco, theatrical producer, marrfed Miss|, Branford farmer, who claimed the two Selma Paley, in Los Angeles, was up- n sold- his. a -“paper money making held by Circalt Judge Dingemann in De-|mot, fU0 (13 thereby swindled him ot court on Saturd: —— GAS PLANT EMPLOYE AT troit, J: er, N. J. John Shheim, the Tuckerton farmer under arrest nection with the death of his ten-year- ™ old son, Henry, today waived his right immediate arraignment, and Prose- in com= ne announced ghe accused man probably would be taken t& Scheim, who was rushed to the epun- ty Jaif here immediately after his ar- rest-last night. a few hours after hif son's body had been found in a 1. Louis, May 24. o prevent sections of the siation An organized fight separation of the scieniific American Medical asso- in contention 2ouse of delegatesBr the legisiative body was started today in the sixteen sectional here from the meetings of the association, with the in- Foduetion of resoiutigns_protesting such retio: The introduetion of 1onse of delegates e by-laws &0 yvesterday to amend to eliminate from the a resolution in the 1use of delegates ‘such representation as he scientific branches now have precip- tated the fight, which is expected by lelegates fully to develop in the meeting of the Igislativ branch tomorrow. De Valern Father of Twin Boys By the A, P.)-— Eamonn Da, Valera, wife of the re- leader, rublican party » today gave birth sustained. — 1,500 GALLONS WINE AND CIDER 5 SEIZED IN S8O0UTH NORWALK {S;ulh Norwaik, Conn.,. May 24.—Chiet o squad of police raided the bakery of Julins Strassberger last night and seiz- ed approximately 1,500 gallons of wine and cider, the argest seizure ever made in this city. Strassberger is held for trial on possession and sale, his case to Dbe heard next Monday afternoon. — RESIGNATION OF AUSTRIAN CABINET ANNOUNCED Vienina, May 24 —(By’ the A. P.)-—The Austrian cabinet he by Johann Scho- ber, chancellor, today owing to lice William R. Pennington and & BB}STOL BHUT OFF GAS . Bristol, Conn, May 24-—A man -did something today that all the town soon knew about. He was an employve of the gas plant of the Bristol and Plainville Electric Company, and he, by mistake, shut off a big gas valve on. one,of the containers. The pressure of gas went down and Bristol and Plainville soon were without gas. It will be evening before the pressyre is up., The Bristol Press had to ‘set type hand asthe gas jets on the linotype machines were unlighted. JOHN B. BYRNE DEPUTY - STATE BANK COMMISSIONER Hartford, May 24.—The, appointment of John B: Byrne of Puti as deputy state bank commissioner was announc parliament having reduced credits asked. of $3,000. The two men were locked up in -default of $10,000 bafl each on @ technical charge pending a hearing be- fore a United States commissioner. ‘Purchase of a site in the Park Square section of Boston from the New York. New Haven and Hartford rddmlwmd ¥ the erection of a and - ons | hotel to cost $7.500,000 were ann GENERAL LEONARD WOOD by E. M. Statler, president of the AND PARTY STILL MISSING Statler company in New York. e T s 70 > fonoluln, T. H., May 24.—Great an- Armenian National Unlem ‘o .i.v js felt in Manila for the safety of America hag forwarded a telegram = %0 boovernor Gen President Harding - urging that - th 5 United States accept the invitatios “storm rose so suddenly, the dis- P.)—The 2g0 was renewed today in the Presbyteri- an general assembly, when the congre- gation of the Rev. John McElmoyle, the marrying- order is returnable. Friday. “GRETNA GREEN” FIGHT . RENEWED BY PRESBYTERS Des Moines, Ja, May 24—(By the A. "Gretna Green" fight of a year of Elkin, Maryland, for of the church from Presbytery on can be had” from the urr:: The suspended by -the mbly pong near Tuckerton, slept until a late hour today and seemed unperturbed when Mr. Jayre called on him. 'nt in no hurry,” he is reported tc- have told the prosecutor in answer t4, a question concerning his arraignment “It can wait. 1 want to-sce a lawyes before I go to court.” ~ { Cofoner Smith announcsd tonight thal an inquest into the school boy's death- will be held Friday afternoon at which. the fathér probably will appeaf &s a wit- . nes: TRIAL OF SARAH L. ROBERTSON PQSTPONED