Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 24, 1922, Page 1

S VOL. LXIV—NO. 152 NEW THREATS OF IOLATION N COAL FELDS OF LLINDI POPULATION 29,685 Secretary of Coal Operators’ Association ' Declares - That Pumpmen at Three Mines at Madison Have Been Warn- ed to Quit Work or “Get the Same Dose We Gave the Strikebreakers in Herrin”. —Wounded From Herrin Tell Stories of Merciless Bloodshed and Horror—A Military Court of Inquiry:Has Been Ordered to Entrain for Her- nn. Chicago, June 23.—New threz. v lence have been made in the Willlamson county flelds within the last 24 hours, Dr. F. C. Honnold, secretary of the Liinols Coal Operatons’ association declared today. He sald pumpmen at three mines of the Madison Coal com- pany bad been threatened that unless they quit work they would “get the same dose we gave the strike-breakers in Her- rin mine ™ VERSION OF CAUSE OF HMOSTILITIES AT HERRIN Ilis, June 23 (By the A. P.)— through the maize of contradictions and facts Her Attempts to rumors, reports, of the mine war to obtain an uncolored aceount of the events leading up to it. anight after everything was quiet brought two authentic reviews of the affair. one from a union official and from w a state military officlals. lis, district board member s in-the first statement from als concerning the massacre; id newspaper reporters the blame lay squa; on the coal operators who im- ed " strike-breakers. He declared that the first shots were ed by the strike-breakers and that e shots were withott provocation and o causes of the disaster ed manner in which the “held up private refused to let them t highway by the mine. made no attempt o deny that the affalr really was a massacre, but insisted it was mot started by miners. sionel Samuel Hunter of the state sdjutant general's office, reviewed his shcial in ation of the disaster, the: ng g the salient points of his That Colonel Hunter on half a dozen #ecasions asked Sheriff Tharton and oth- e local county officials if they wanted roaps sent here but was fold each time —even after the fighting started—that he jocal authorities could bandle the That he urged the mine officials to mc it d to avert a disaster, but as refused. persuaded the besieged work- sp a whits afig and obtaln from mine officials for a truce this truce ,was broken: by he did mot knbw. Eoth reports termed the armed guards at the mine “gunmen” r. Willis' ver- alon_ follows in part The Southern Illinois Coal company has been runninz this mme _apout a When work was suspended on was agreed by the mine union and ths operators that + should be allowed but 7o coal was to be loaded for indus- six weeks of stripping the com- nformed me by letter that they longer would recognize the agreement and that they wanted to load and ship woal for industrial purposes. I told them 1 rould not give permission for this. board mem pping of pany Ten days later r. Lester, owner of the mine, asked me to set aside the agreement. 1 told him T couid not re- pudiate it. He 3aid that unless T repu- diated he would open the mine he had “Leste: even If to repudiate his agreement said his comnany was in bad stralis ane that he could mot overiook a chance lfke this to make a financial clean-up. He said he did not his contract with us as meaning hing. when he could make a lot of breaking it. ‘This statement was made to me when he knew the gov- ment had offeially said be no profiteering in coal because of the On ane infarmed that Les- ter had dicharged all union workers in he mine—dirt strippers, that is—and tad imported workers, guards from Chicago. to work the mine. T visited the mine and was met by men with guns. They said Lester was not when T asked for him and told me including armed that the soomer 1 left the better satis- fed they would be. Naturally T left. Mr. Willis insisted that John L. Lew- s telegram that the importsd men should be treated as “common strike- breakers” 4id not incite the trouble. He refused to discuss the Lewls' telegram, raying that those received hers came trom Frank Farrington. It was under- stood that he made this statement be- tause of antipathy to Lewls, whom he there should | ,Uirough the attack on his 'gang of 52 men. Story of Wounded Man. Sodter, his back full of buckshot and suffering from the effects of hunger and exposure, lay in bed today and told his story. We were driving from Carbondale ‘n a truck when we encountered a car about eight miles from theimine.” said Sodter. “I was suspicious. An occupant of the car fired a gun into the air and immediately a hail of bullets came from the shrubbery along the roadside. Deserted by Armed Guards. Two armed guards riding in a car be- hind us turned their car around and de- serted us. “We speeded up and reached a river where all but Sidney J. Morrison, Who was wounded by the firing, jumped in and swam for life. The shot in back gave me much pain and the wounds were bleeding freely, but I managed to make the other side and hid in the brush. Walking all day, I finally made the camp where my pals took me in. Bertrand, the cook, told of the sur- render of his gang yesterday, how the: were herded together and shot in col blood, and how he himself escaped by using a fraternal pass word. Besieged ANl Night. “We were besieged all might, with the boom of dynamite and the crack of the miners' rifies keeping up & continual racket,” said Bertrand here today. “In the morning the union miners came across and the white~flag went up. “I returned to the camp cook house to get some papers and when 1 came out, carried a white sheet to show I would give up. “The first man 1 saw fired point black at me. ‘The bullet grazed my temple. Then they lined us up and .marched us into the country about four miles. We came to a barbed wire fence and they ordered us to climb through, warning us that they were going to shoot as we did so. Just as I saw the guns go up, I dived Into some bushes. Saw 14 Men Shot. Three Hanged. “Lewis Bert, the second copk. was with me, -“We saw fourteen men shot down and three hanged. Then . they be- gan looking for the rest of us.. When they stumbled over us, T thought my time had come but T gave the pass word of my lodge of Elks and a brother mem- ber stépped forward. 1 showed him my' union card and told him 1 had just come down tife day before. Later he took me to his home, gave me something to cat and paid my fare back to Chicago.” Bert was almost miraculousy epared from death under the withering rifle fire when he crawled to a safe hiding place beneath a clump of blackberry bushes, where he lay three hours. The second cook was one of-the gang of 52, most of whom met their death at the harbed wire fence, Two men, members of a gang which reached the troublesome mine country the first of the week, today rode into Chicago on the rods. after beating their way back from “Little Egypt. “Srtkle Duty” Understood. According to a book signed by all the men whe made the trip, recruited through an employment agency here, all knew they were going for “strike duty,” officers of the agency declared today. F. W. Wilkie, superintendent of the agency, said when he opemed the camp on June 12, there was no trouble, but that apparently the citizens of the town resented his coming. He said his wires were tapped on long distance calls, his automobile was stop- ped in the street, and in several Instances men sought to pick quarrels with him. The stores in Herrin, he sald, refused to seil him meats and supplies, So that pro- visions had to be sent from Chicago. Wilkie lald the cause of the disturb- ance to moomshine liquor and radical speeches. The damage to the mine, he =ald, could scarcely be estimated, although a $110,000 steam shovel was blown up and supplies valued at $10,000 were con- fiscated by the raiders. SAYS COAL OPERATORS VIOLATED AGEEEMENT Springfield, Ills, June 23.—(By the A P.)—Senator William ' J. Sneed ' of Harrin, sub-district president ‘of the United Min Workers of America, said to- day that he had addressed a letter last Sunday to W. J. Tracy, of Chicago dis- foes not mention when discussing mine; trict representhitive of the Steam Shovel mions James Richie, another union official, jald that the attack on the mine was made mostly by citizens of the commu- nity who were not miners and who were imcensed over the actions of the guards. A MILITARY COURT OF INQUIRY ORDERED TOHERRIN Springfield, 1L, June 23.—(By the A. P.)—A military court of inquriy, com- posed of five Chicago officers of the Illi- noise national guard, sntrain immediately for Herrin, was announced by Adjutant Black late todgy, following a telephone | tonversation with Governor Small. The appointment of court, General Black sald, was made zfter he had ex- plained to Governor Small that conditfons 8t Herrin were quiet and that he had in- structed officers of the guard that had been mobllized, to hold their men at call, but to permit them to return home to sleep tonight L, it NARRATIVES OF MERCILESS BLOODSHED AND HOEROR Chicago, June 23.—The remnants of Ohicago's gbor contingent whith in- vaded bioody Williamson county and was repulsed with heavy casualties, #raggied back today and told stories of merciless bloodshed and horror. Joseph Sodter, a detective, described brutality and privation he saw during ds brief stay in the war-ridden district w4 Fred Bernard, ook of the labor pang, which went south to begin work the mines. told a similar tals of per- . and m Bernard said he 2 men - who _ lived was ordersd to| General | Men's unlon, asking gim to withdraw members of his union from Herrin, and | advising him that the work they were ! doing was under jurisdiction of the Unit- {ed Mine Workers. Senator Sneed said he had wired in- formation of the tense situction to Secre- tary Victor A. Olando of the Tilinois | Federation of Labor, at Chicago last { week, and Mr. Orlander ‘had taken the ed no word from Mr. Tracy Indicating his intention. \ “An understanding regarding the work at Herrin,” Senator Sneed explained, “was entered into by W. J. Lester of the Southern Tllinois Coal company with | President Frank Farrington and board member Hugh Willis of Herrin, at the miners' state headquarters in Spring. fleld carly in May. “Lester agreed that no work of loading coal would be attempted and that the striking miners would be employed ture resumption of mining. However, after 75,000 to 100,000 tons of coal had been uncovered by the steam shovels, the company violated its agreement. Union mine workers were directed to load the coal in car— “Twenty union members rebelled im- mediately and were fired. Tiie company continued its efforts to persuade the others to work, but were fofced to stop some of their steam shovels. The first of last week they brought about sixty workers from Chicago, and started them to work under guard, and discharged all members_of the United Mine Workers." A Tokio cablegram to the Nippu Ji Ji, Honolulu, T. H., says the privy. council will meet today to study the Washington four-power Paocific treaty. . . . .. 7 matter up with Mr. Tracy, but had receiv- | state ! stripping the coal in preparation for fu- | (CABLED PARAGR Bun ¥ot Sen: Has Dissoye Shanghal, June 22—(By the A. P)— Sun Yat Sen, the president without a republic, has disappeared, according to advices ' recelved from the south - by Chinese circles here. EFFOETS FOR SETTLEMENT OF BITUMINOUS COAL STRIKE ‘Washington, June 23.—Along with of- ficial expressions of regret for the alne strike outbreak in Illinois, it was made known teday that the administration still was pressing efforts to bring about a settlement of the bituminous coal strike through a conference between “ihe two Darties and has some hopes of success. There were White House intimations that publicity for the details of the at- tempt might not be helpful and that de- talls consequently wolld be withheld. President Harding was said to deplore the_Herrin events and to realize in them evidence of the bitter hostility arising out of the strike while Secretary of La- bor Davis who was twice in conference With the president during the day issued a statement declaring that those respons- ible for the outrages in the Iilinois min- ing town should be punished to the fullest | extent of the law. 3 The president is awaiting an _official report on the events in the Herrin meid which he is sald to expect shortly. La- bor department agents have been in con- stant touch with strike _developments since April 1 when the miners walked out in all union fields. Efforts to bring about the desired set- tlement ‘at present lie along the lines of getting the mine operators and tha ‘miners’ union representatives 115 a joint gathering, Secretary Davis indicated. This objective has been defeated to dats because the operators have refused to re- instate the central commetitive field gath- ering, empowered to fix wages for Illi- nois, Indiana, Ohio and Western Pznn- sylvania, as the miners demand. The miners’ leaders however, have countered in the informal mnegotiations with a proposal to meet in a national conference fixing wages at one time for all fields or attempting the task. The op- erators in union territory, have, in pul- lic, held out steadfastly for a series of district and 'state conferences and the pet result has been no conference of any ind. KING GEORGE HAS SENT CONDOLENCE TO LADY WILSON London, June 23.—Lady Wilson has re- ceived the following letter from King George: feelings of horror and grief at the appal- ling tragedy which robbed you of your beloved husband and the country of one of its most distinguished soldiers. “Speaking for the queen as well as fo rmyself, I can only say our heartfelt sympathy goes out to you In your great sorrow and irreparable loss.” General The Earl of Cavan, chief of staff of the British army, paid tribute 10 Fleld Marshall Wilson foday, saying: “By the murder of Field Marshal Wil- son the army sustains ~an irreparable loss. He was one whom all ranks loved, and deservedly loved. His wisdom in counsel, his teachinigs at’the Staff col- lege; his cheerful oytlook on the darkest situation set an example to the army which, tohis honor and - his - memary, we shall do well to_follow humbly.” TO BRING SUIT AGAINST THE UNITED MINE WORKERS Chicago, Jume 23.—(By -the A. P.)— Legal action for the recovery of damages sustained by the Southern Illinois Coal company, as the result of .the mine riots at Herrin and the destruction of the com- pany’s strip mine there, will be started immediately against the United Mine Workers of America and the county of Williamson, in behalf of the company and the families of its dead employes, Follett W. Bull, attorney for the com- pany announced tonight. The suit against the United Mine Workers, the attorney pointed out, will be the first suit under the recent Coronado decision by the United States supreme court, holding labor organizations liable for damages. The suit against the Unit- ed Mine Workers will probably be filed in the/ federal court at Indianapol's and that against Williamson county at Mari- on, Ills, the county seat. TWO SERVANTS GET BEQUESTS OF MORE THAN $100,000 Jersey City, N. J., June 23.—Two ser- vants won bequests totalling more than $100,000 when two contested wills today were admitetd to probate in the local courts. Miss Katherine Lindenteltzer, 75, for years housekeeper for Percy Aa- nin, of this city, was left a $57,000 be- quest in his will. Miss Mathilda Wetter was bequeathed half of the $60,000 es- tate of her late emplover, Dr. John Frank of Bayonne, The Annin will was contested by Mrs. Phoebe Palmer and Byron Alger, of New York, his avnt and uncle, who alleged he had been incompetent to execute the document. - Testimony today showed that his aged housekeeper had been his only friend for many years. Incompetence was alleged by relatives who contested Dr. Frank's will, which, after providing that half of his estate go to Miss Wetter, left the residue to char- ities. DEATH OF WU TING FANG HAS BEEN CONFIRMED Amoy, China, June 23.—(By the A. P.) —Confirmation of the report of the death of Wu Ting Fang, former minister to ‘Washington, more recently foreign minis- ter for Sun Yat Sen in the southera re- publican government, was received here by telegram from Canton today. Wu's death was hastened, it is belicved, by political worries which have pifod up- on him since the disruption of tae south- ern government. He had given no reply to President Li's offer of the premiership. ARRANGEMENTS MADE TO END HOSTILITIES IN CANTON London, June 23.—A despatch to the Dajly Mail from Hong Kong says that in ‘consequence of pressure by public bodies, arrangements have been made {0 terminate the hostilities in Canton. The arrangements contemplate the transfer of the navy to the control of the govern- | ment of*General Chen Chiung Min, wnich promises its maintenance’ and to pay arrears in salaries. This means, the despatch adds, a defi- nite end to Sun Yat Sen's regime and of his northern expedition. SIX COACHES AND ENGINE DERAILED AT COENWALL, Cornwall, Conn., June 23.—Six coach- es and the locomotive of train number 240, New York to Pittsfield,. Mass., ex- Press on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, were derailed near Swift Bridge in this town tonight. The train was in charge of Thomas Shields, conductor, of Great Barrington, and Peter ‘Wilcox, engineer of Pittsfield. As far as could be learned 1o one was injured. The' woman who is continually lec- turing to her husband either considers him a-fool or else she has forgotten ~that a word-to the-wise is sufficient. “I can find no words to express my [ Decision of Cablne! Has Been Referred to the Imperial Diplomatic Council. . ‘Tokio, June 23 (By the A. P.)—The| Japanese cabinet today decided that Ja-| pankshall evacuate Siberia, according to reports carried by the Japanese news agencies. The decision has been refer- red to the imperial’ diplomatic council. The cabinet decision to withdraw from Stberja is declared to constitute’ a reaf- fimation of Japan's policy in that coun- try. The date of evacuation will not be fixed until after the matter has cansidered by the diplomatic advisory ‘council tomorrow. TIDINGS OF BOY WHO DISAPPEARED NOV. 17, 1 Bridgeport, June 23.—Kenneth Moore, a junfor in the Bridgeport High school, and living at 203 King street, Stratford, disappeared on November 17, 1920, on his way home from school ‘at noon. To- day, his father and stepmother and an officer ape on the way to Upper New York state to see him as evidence given them indicated that the lad was well, on a two weeks' vacation on a farm owned by an employer, and that for most of the time he had worked in New York city, starting as a messenger boy and being promoted to a clerkship. ‘The finding of young Moore came about through a letter received from Ivan Courtland, a blind man, employed in the offices of the Holland consulate in New York city. The man wrote that in the late fall of 1920 he became ac- acquainted with a lad who gave the name of John Long and sald he came from Bridgeport. He claimed to be alane, and the writer said he took him hom and later got him a place as a messenger in the plant of an electrical concern. Aft- er some weeks the lad left the man's home and Mr. Courtlandt said he had not heard from him and had no way of knowing where he was. Mr. Moore went to see Mr. Courtlandt and from there he went to the place where the lad had been employed in the wintér of 1920, after leaving Courtland, He found that the owner of the plant had taken a Illking to young Leng. as he ‘was known, and had promoted him, and this week sent him to' upper New York state for a vacation. The parents and an officer left to make certain of the identification. Mr. Courtlandt said that NORWICH, CONN., SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1922 "\ Japanese Are to |Army 125,000 Men Evacuate Siberia amllZlIlIl{lllflit:erQ Holue Last I“lgl:t Concurred - With the- ‘iennte in Fixing the Size of the Army. Washington, Jun( 23.—The house to- nigat concurred with the semate in fix- ing the size of the army at 125,000 en- listed men and 12000 officer. In accepting th senate plan. for de- veloping a_civiliajy naval reserve—the plan urged by Assistant Secretary Roose- Velt before the s:nate committee—the house conferees wizre said to have made an important cdncession. Under the Dbeen | plan two weeks tiaining on Eagle boats and destroyers will be given to 3,000 men and 10,000 dfficers who will be en- rolled and subject to call for service like the National Guard. In addition to the $7.500,000 increase for naval construxtion, the house confer- ces accepted a isenate amendment &u- thorizing transfer from the shipping board to the navy department of $8,000,- 000 of indebtedness owed to the board by, private contracts, the additional $8.- 000.000 to go into-the: naval construction fund. The house conferees also accepted a senate increase of $109,000 for the New- port, R. I, training station. an increase designed to re-open the station for train- ing naval recruits. A reduction of $100.- 000 for the Hampton Roads, Va., train- ing station voted by the senate also was accepted by the house conferees. MANY ARMY OFFICERS TO /BE DISMISSED JAN. 1 Washington, June 23 (By the A, P.)— Approximately one out of every seven officers in the regular army must be turned out into civil life, by January 1 mext, according to a preliminary esti- mate made today at the war department of the meaning and effect of the com- promise reached by senate and houss conferees on the army appropriation bill. The unofficia} study of its provisions be dropped entirely withm tue mext six monthz. Of those officers to go the great ma- jority will be from the line and many others probably will be demoted one grade. The compromise bill provides for a tota] of mot exceeding 12,000 officers after January 1, 1923. There are now after the Jad left he found a note and in the service 12,822 officers of all grades. The only second lieutenants, however, are the hundred odd recent large as our quarters. street car fare. The pennies of a in buying power as these of today: But Poor Richard’s advice is still good. And it is no less valuable when applied to dollars instéad of “Every year you spend a large So much for clothing. There's just one way to save Know what you want beforesyou buy. Read the advertisements. They tell you what is new and good. wheén to buy to the best advantage. what the stores and manufacturers are offering. Read the advertisements in The Bulletin. earn money for you. Bulletin Telegraph Local General Tatal Saturday, 124 1%0 314 628 Monday, 1€8 120 294 582 Tuesday, 150 131 293 574 Wednesday, 138 20, 375 603 Thursday, 141 % 241 4 Friday, 127 % 385 03 Totals. . POOR RICHARD SAID — penny saved is a penny earned.” Yet all' the pennies in the world would not have taken Poor Richard to'a movie; bought him a flivver, or paid his So much for shoes. house furnishings, garden seeds, tools and what not. During the past week the following news matter has appeared in the columns of The Bulletin, for two cents a day : In his day pennies were as hundred years ago were not as big cents. proportion of the monéy you earn. So much for things to eat, mongy in making your purchases. They tell you where and They help keep you posted on They save money and some newspaper clippings referring to the disappearance of a high school boy. The note stated that the writer had been in_trouble in Bridgeport. In taking the name of Long, the miss- ing lad, should be Moore, took the maid- en name of his own mother. Some time after Moore disappeared Mr. Moore had a telephone call from a man who gave -the name of Drummond, in Newtown, Mass,, saying he had the lad and asking that $100 be sent at once to secure his release. _The $100 was sent and the man got away with it. Later this man was arrested for automobile theft ‘but Mr. Moore did not press the charge -against him of —obtaining the money. Afterwards, Mr. Moore got a let- ter from Montreal asking for §20 for his son’s railroad fare. Two men were con- cerned in_this, Mr. Moore found, upon going to Montreal, both being overseas soldlers who had been gassed. One of these men claimed to have been from Hartford, Conn. WAS OLDEST ALUMNTUS IN AGE OF YALE UNIVERSITY New Haven, June 23.—It was announc- ed at the office of the secretary of Yale university today that Rev. Charles A. Maison, whose death occurred in Phila- delphia on June 16, was the oldest alum- nus in age of the university, having been in his ninety-ninth year, and of tke class of "44. The alumni list is now headed by Rev. Giles Buckingham Kilkox of Chi- cago, aged 96, class of '48, although John Donnel Smith of Baltimore is of the class of 44, but is only 93" vears old. SUBPOENAED-BEFORE THE WAR FRAUDS GRAND JURY ‘Washington, June 23.—Officials of the United States Trust company,-of Pater- son, N. Jj., have been subpoenaed to ap- pear before the special war frauds grand jury here with all records of the firm bearing . upon sale of the government's surplus lumber supplies, it was learned tonight. Evidence to be submitted by the Paterson company will be along. sim- ilar lines with that exgected from lead- ing financial corporations of New York, Philadelphoa, New Orleans and other cities- upon ‘whose ~officlals subpoenas were recently served. SHOT MARRIED MAN FOR PAYING ATZENTION TO HIS DAUGHTER Plainfield, N. J., June 23 —Enraged at the discovery that a marrled man had been paying attentions to his 16-year-old dnughter, Vito Cavalzante ot and kill ed Alfred Rapisardy, late ‘today, as. ne left the bakery where he o employed Rapisaify was 26, married, and the fa- ther of two childfen. ~He lived at Scotch Plains, graduates from the military academy while the bill in fixing the number of officers in each grade after January 1, provides for 1771 men with this rank. 1t further provides that not more than 800 demotions of one grade may be made in reducing the corps while the total num- ber to be eliminated within the time set $5 2596 including Jine and staff. By grades the following reductions in totals in present strength must be made under the bill by January 1: Colonels, 160; lieutenant colonels 94; majors 636; captains 1,258; first leu- tenants 71. In addition the following reductions in the total number of officers now in each of the staff corps named are provided for: Medica! corps 149; dental eorps 77 veterinarians corps 34; medical adminis tration corps 66; chaplains 51. No change is made in the present number | of general officers, 73 MINERS ON DUTY AT THE CLOSED MINES QUITTING Herrin, Tlls, June 23.—(By the A. P.) —Miners on duty at the closed mines in Williamson county, through an agree- ment_between the coal operators and the United Mine Workers of America, are quitting their posts tonight with the résult that unless substitutes are obtain- ed, millions of dollars worth of mines soon will become a total loss through flooding. It is understood tnat they are quitting because of threats they have received from local miners. Most of the men quitting are not mem- bers of the minérs’ union, it wa ssaid by coal operators and state officlals who to- night made a hurried tour of the county to confirm the reports previusly received from anonymous sources. They ™ Tave been caring for the mines since :he strike began on' April 1. Yesterday and tadoy there have been many rumors here that further raids on mines, in retaliation for previous labor troubles, were planned and that the bumpers and guards would be_told to leave soon. Mine unions here could mot be reach- ed tonight to discuss the matter. Hugh Willis, district board member, was said | at his home to be out at one of the min-s. The information that the men were quit- ting came to The Associated Press through an officlal and indisputable source which cannot be revealed. FLEEING MEXICAN PLUNGED TO DEATH FROM MINE TIPPLE West Frankfort, Ills, June 23.—(By the A. P)—An unidentified Mexican track worker plunged to death from a mine tipple today after being pursued by a crowd of 75. Two ofher Mexicans who s i bed Ths pursnit oc- curred when a rumor w:-flre;‘h:ed that 'a; girl had been attack Tepurt * was apparently without foundation, indicates that 2,000 or more officers must | Fire il‘l‘d a four-story h!ck build- ng in Main street, Hartford. The l0ss was estimated at $10,000. s Canadisn Tacific rallwey passenger train Np. 16, en route to St. John from Montreal, was. partly wrecked in )mu One man. was killed. 7 Louls Stern, prominest merchant member of the firm of Stern Bros., New York, died in Paris on June 20. He was born in Germany in 1847, Edwin A. Thomas, age 74, was found dead in_his apartment in Ansonia from gas asphyxiation. Thomas, it was said, had been in poor Health for several days. A two days’ registered shoot of the Connecticut Trapshooters' assoclation be- gan yesterday at-the Island Brook traps, Bridgeport. Harvard university conforred thirteen honorary degrees and 1,401 regular de- grees at its 286th commencement exer- cises. The Federal Reserve bamk of Boston yesterday ceduced fts discount rate from 4 1-2 to 4 per cent. The old rate had prevailed since Nov. 4 last. Officials of the Whitinsville, Linwood and Saundersville (Mass.) cotton milis announced that beginning July 26 the plants would run on full time. ¢ The Boston police say that Donald H. Stewart, detained in Los Angeles as a fugitive, js wanted in Boston on an in- dictment ‘charging larceny. Gifts of $4,926,000 to Harvard univer- sity were announced by President A. Lawrence Lowell in his commencement day address to the alumnl. Demand for a congressional investi- gation of the office of the alien prop- erty custbdian was made in the house by Representative Woodruff. The Rev. Dr. John Coleman Adams, pastor of the Church of the Redeemer, Hartford, and one of the leaders of the TUniversalist church died at his home. Mayor Robert A. Kenyon of Pawtucket, R. I, has offered a reward on behalf of the city of $500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of bomb throw- ers. Serious delay to traflc on the Maine Central raiiroad system was caused by a cloudburst along . the Penobscot civer valley, particularly in the vicinity of Bangor, Me. Capt. Roald Amundsen's exploration ship Maud, bound on a five-year scientific expedition in the North Polar basin re- gion, has arrived in Nome, Alaska, 17 1-2 days out of Seattle. A message from Moscow to the Central News says the Russian coungil of com- | missares has granted Premier Lenine a leave of absence unti] autumn on account of his liiness. La Nacion of Harans printh an attack against the United States under a seven- coumn first pags head, declaring that “Hatred of the American Must Be Our New Religion.” Mrs. Isetta Jewell Brown of Kingwood, W. Va. one of the best known women in public life in West Virginia, has an- nounced her candidacy for United States senator.” Capt. Frank J. Jomes, 86 vears old, of the North Adams, Mass., police depart- ment, died at a hospital from burns and injuries sustained in a fire which de- stroyed the police station on May 26. Critoti Emetrio, an employe power house of the New York, ) ven and Hartford railroad at Cos Cob, was killed yesterday when he was caugit in the machinery of a coal crusher. Everitt Colby of New Jersey, Willlam C. Wyckoft of New York and Judge Wil- liam W. Pouglas of Providence, former justice/ of the Rhode Island supreme court, were elected trustees of Brown uni- versity by the corporation. John A. Caswell, & blind Ciril war vet- eran, has been stricken with smallpox at his home in Milford, Mass. He returned Saturday {rom a trip to Arizona and it is believed he may have contracted the dis- ease in that section. Robert M. McQuade, commissioner of conciliation, United States department of labor, arrived in Manchester, N. H., and has arranged a series of conferences in hopes of bringing to a speedy settlement the textile strike. Twenty-three children, nine of whom were {liin bed with measles, weer re- moved from the cifdren’s home, an or- phanage. in Springfield, Mass. following an explosion of chemicals in the basement that filled the buflding with smoke. A letter recelved by Mayor Curley of Boston, in which the writer offers a re- ward of $1,000 for information concerning his wife and child who, he asserts, have been kidnapped, was turned over to Police Superintendent Crowley for investigation. Senator Glass. democrat, Virginia, was called a “liar” in the sénate by Senator Heflin, democrat, Alabama, aft- er the Virginia senator had declared that a statement made by the Alabama sen- ator-was false. . Eight stills, 1,000 gallons of mash and twenty gallons of “moonsinine” were confiscated by federal men when they T stu LEADERS I]ISAV[IW KNOWLEDGE OF ASSASSINS ‘W‘lflllflsDentheVllmluuedlMlnifdoDedlrin'b Cause of Such Outrages is the Policy of the British Gov+ ernment and That of Ulster—Funeral of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson Will be Held Monday in St. Paul's the Assassination Extend Virtually Over the Whole World. London, June 23.—(By The 1. P)— The funeral of Field Marshal Sir Hen- Ty Wilson will be held next Monday in St. Paul's Cathedral. the empire’s mil- itary pantheon. The body will be encer- red in the North Transept, beside the grave of Fleld Marshal Lord Roberts. Full military honors wil] be accorded the dead soldier. Except for the portion of the cathe- dral reserved for relatives of the field marshal, members of parliament and other prominent persons, the whole of thevast edifice will be thrown open with- out tickets to the general public. Over the long route from Eaton square, the home of Field Marshal Wilson, to St Paul's, others of the public will have opportunity to pay their last respects. The two men arrested as assassins of Field Marshal Wilson were arraigned on acharge of murder today and formally remanded for a week in ofder to enable further investigation. Little has been added to the identity or th emotives of the assassins, except that they prove to be former soidiers, and one of them was employed as a doorkeeper in a govern- ment office. The expressions of horror and indig- nation over the assassination are not confined to England. ~Today they ex- tend virtually over the whole world. Large numbers. of messages of condoi- cnce reached Lady Wilson from sov- ereigns, great soldiers and cabipet min- isters in various countries. Thus far responsible republicans in Ireland who 'have spoken regarding th assassination. including Eamonn De Va- lera, have disavowed any knowledge of the crime or its perpetrators. Mr. De Valera tonght, however, dssued a poiiti- cal manisto in which he denounced the policy of the British government and that of Ulster as the cause for such outrages. - Sir James Craiz, the Ulster premler, also issued a statement in which he asserted that the aseassination would serve to widen the breech and harden the hearts of the Ulsterites for their policy ‘of no surrender. Regret wa expressed in government circles today that the murder mirht be calculated (0 delay an Jrish settl § ent. Special police protection hae now-heen redtored, Today's critics of the govern- ment demanded ‘that the police should be armed. It néver has been the cus- tom. in - England for the police to carr; firearms, except on very rare and specia’ occasions. and discretion in this mat- ter lies with the police administration England's comparative freedom from political crimes “has made the emplioy- ment of firearms by the police arpear to_be needness. That the governmént Is taking full precautions in connection with the as- sassination of Field Marshal Wiison was showni today by the announcement of the public prosecutor at the arraign- ment of the assassins that the names anl photographs witnesses would be withdrawn from the public. The police are still scouring London for further ev- idence and for possible accomplices of the two men under arrest. DID NOT ISSUE ULTIMATUM TO DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Dublin, une 23.—(By the A. P.)— Rory O'Connor, one of the leader of the dissident republican army, tonight ab- solutely contradicted a report in circu- lation in the United States that he had issued ap ultimatum to David Lloyd George, the British prime minister, threatening an_attack against the Brit- ish troops unless they were removed from Dublin within seventy-two hours. The chief of stafft of the dissilent branch of the army headquarters in the Four Courts also authorized a_contra- dictlon of the alleged ultimatum by O'Connor. STATEMENT ON ASSASSINATION MADE BY EAMONN DE VALERA Dublin, June 23.—(By The A. P.)— Eamonn De Valera in a statement to the press tonight disavows any knowl- edge of the assaseins of Field Marshal Wilson or their motives. *“I have no desire to make 2ny state- £aid the republian leader. “The killing of any human being is awful, but is equally as awful when the victim Is a humble worker or peasant unknown outside his owa immediate neighborhood as when the victim i= placed in the sea of ‘the mighty and his name known jn évery corner of the earth. It is char: acteristic of our hypocritical diviliza- tion that it is only in the latter case that we are expected to cry out and express our horror and condemnation. For my part, T have nothing but loathing for such coventional expressions when plain means to secure that such awful hap- pings will not cocur are deliberately put aside. “I do not know who they were who shot Sir Henry Wilson, or why they shot him. From the latest press reports it wou'd appear that they were British soldiers. raided ten shacks located on a tract of land in Town Plot, in the south west- ern section of Waterbury. The committee on business conduct of the New York stock exchange. accord- ing to_an announcement carried by the Dow, Jones Financial Ticker has begun an investigatioh of the recent sensation- al movements of Mexican Petroleum stock o the floor of the exchange. Supreme Court Justice Carroll in Bos- ton dismissed a bill in_equity brought by the Preferred UnderWriters of Delaware against the New-Haven road to restrain the company from contracting. with the Statler Hotel Co.. Inc., for the sale of 1and in Boston to be used as a hotel site. | FIRE AT THE WHITE CLOVER FARM, BETHLEHEM Waterbury, Conn., June 23—Fire de- stroyed all buildings of the White Clover Farm at Bethlehem before daybreak this morning, causing damage of several thou- sand dollars. The house, several barns, an jce house and a silo were burned to the ground. The occupants escaped. Major Arthur E. Wenig of New York, summering nearby, ' discovered | the fire and gave the alarm. The origin of the fire is not yet known. Jesse .W. Smith of this city sold the farm_two' m ago to Jos. Wilke of ‘Waterbury, But I know the attitude of mind which a campaign of outrage and aggression against which there seems to be no Tedress can beget In the men of the community against which that cam- paign s waged. 1 know that bold men. abandoned by the organized defense of the state, will be driven by their posi- tion of desperation to seek to defend themselves by deeds of desperation. 1 know that life has been made a hell for the nationalist minority in Belfast and its neighborhood for the past couple of years. and, particularly for the past six months. I know that women have been outraged, men and women murdered and whole families wiped out. and I share the common belief that cvnical imnerfal- ism ‘has instzateéd thes: owtr W5 and provided ‘means for camying them through. “I can imagine, therefore, a brother of an outraged sister or a husband of outraged wife or a relative of a murder- or kinsman taking the law into his own Mands and resolving to give his own lite for that of the supposed designor of the campaign of which his dear ones were victims, 1 do not approve, but I must ‘not pretend to misunderstand. “The moral from the Irish situation : this: It is idle to look for peace be tween nations or domest's Deaq wittin a nation. except on a foundation of jus- tice. At Versailles regard for justice would have secured a lasting peace be- have set the two nations heading 18 paralled courses of friendliness and €o- operation. But so-called political expe- dlency and threats of war intervesed, and we have what we have “Similarly, regard for justice in the matter of the northeast seitiement would thave given Ireland internal peace, but in selecting an arbitrary area of six counties for the northern states, in de- flance of the desires of the majority the several areas within these counties, justice was flouted. and imjustics, as usual. has been compelled to main- tain itself by force™ i\ IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY DISCLAIMS COMPLICITY Dublin, June 24—(By the A. P.)— “The shooting of Sir Henry Wilson wag not one at republican instance or of the Irish republican army; if it wers the Irish republican army would ae- knowledge the fact,” says a statement issued by the publicity department of the dissident army at the Four Courts head- quarters early this (Saturday) morning. PRESIDENT GOMPERS AND ALL A. F. OF L. OFFICERS RE-ELECTED Cincinnati. June 22—(By The A. P) —Led by Samuel Gompers, foes of the Russian soviet government in the Amer- ican Federation of Labor seemed oer- tain tonight of placiaz the feredation &t its convention here on record against the recognition of the third consecutive 3ear. ed for at mpers’ tually endede th: debeis. show-down went over until tomorrow. Aside from (u: Russian question, the question went on record against the fede eration affiliating with the international federation trades union, and re-elected the federation’s present executive con- cil of eleven offiers, headed by Mr. Gompears as president. It was Mr. Gompers' forty-first election and he was unopposed. Other officers were re-slect- €d as folows: First vies presidest, Quincy, Mars.; soviets for the James D--m seaond vice presi Soue Vaisntine, Cincinnatis thivd. 3168 president, Fark Duffy, Indianapois: fourth vice president, William Green. In- lanapolis: fifth vice president. W. D, ahon. Detroit: sixth vice president. T. A Rickert, Chicago; seventh vics pres- dent, Jacob Fischer, Indianapolis; | Senth vice president, Mathew Woll. Chi- cago: treasurer, Daniel J. Tobin, Indi- apolis, and secretary, Frank Morrison, Washington. i BODY FROM RUSSIA OF 1 AMERICAN TYPHUS VIOTIM New York, June 23—The body of Harold F. Blandy, the first American relief worker to die of typhus whils as- sisting in relief work in Russia, arrived in Brooklyn today on the steamer u- lonia. Services on the pler today, in which the Buketoff quartet of the Russian Cathedral took part, were the second to be held for Mr. Blandy since his death) where he had been stationed since December, 1921. Russians honored Kim with a great public funeral in Mos~ cow. Mrs. Charles Blandy, of this city, his mother, attended the services on the. pler. Mr. Blandy was a graduate of St Paul's school and of Y: In 1516 he Jjoined the royal Canadian flying corps and went overseas in the same yoar, serving - until the armistice, when he | went into busines in London. PROPERTY DESTROYED IN ; THE KIANGSI MUTINY sty f Shangha!, June 24 (By the A. P.)— Ithough there f5 mo report of confirmed accuracy on the carualties in the Kiang=/ sl mutiny a probably fairly accurate es-t timate piaces the dead at four trousand in Kiangfu, Taiho, Wanan and Lung=| chan. The greater portions of thess eit-' ies were destroyed. It is belleved Bo foreigners were slain or taken captive. Much foreign property, principally be-| longing to Christian missions, has beem destroyed. Great anxiety is felt regarg= ing the fate of the Cath Lagzarist mis.' sion under Father De Jenliss at Talbo, which Thursday was reportsd under siege by the mutineers with 600 Christian, convert refugees withia its compound.| There has been no further news from thel miesion. TO CONTINUE WORK AT NORMAL EATE ON NEW WAR VESSELS Washington, une 23.—A senate provi- sion for continuing work at a normal rate on new naval vessels under come struction and appropriating $3.000,000 to! initiate a civilian naval reserve were re-y tained in the naval appropriation bill under a complete agreement on the bill} reached today by the senate and houss conterees. - | Appropriations for dikes dredging of the Mare Isiand, Calif, navy yard| were increased from $500,000 to $750,000. | The house conferces agreed to senate fn- creases of $500,000 for a mew pler at the Puget Sound, Wash.. navy yard, and $157.500 for improvements at the Peari Harbor, Hawall station. HOUSE ADJOUKNED BECAUSE OF FILIBUSTER ashington, June 23.—Becauss of filibuster by Representative oVigt, ré- publican, Wisconsin, the house 4 tonight without taking action provisior® of the army bill senate, appropriating $7.500, tinue construction work mmm mmmmw,m g LT