Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 4, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXIV—No. 160 TRACK MEN'S ST Orders Authorizing Walkout of 400,000 Maintenance Em-| Place- Responsibi ployes of Naton's Reioads Held Up Pending Renut of | Ralroad Crash—Cape May Conference Between Union Heads and United States| ooy Vo Opened by Organization Striking Against Board’s Decisions Will be Outlawed—Grable Claims 90 Per Cent, of Votes So Far Tabulated Favor Walk-Out-—Samuel Gompers De- nounces Outlawing of Rail Unions—Maintenancs Men at Scranton Quit Posts. i - Chicago, July 3.—(By the . P)— With striking shopmen formaily brand- ed by the United States raiirad labor board as “outlaws.” the board tunight directed its efforts toward the prevention of an extension of the walk-out towsome 400,000 maintenance of way men. Toliowing a meeting of the executive souncil of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Rail- way Shop Laborers in Detroit today to canvass a strike vote it was annjaneed that the threatened walk-out wouid be held up pending a conferenc: with the labor board in Chicago at 10 a. m, to- morrow. Members of the board expressed &trong hopes tonight that the conference would avert a walkout. They deciared that'the only question at lssue was one of wages and that the way alreadv had Deen wpened for a re-consideration of waze reductions, which went - into effect on July 1, simultaneously with tlie shop- men’s walk-out. At that time Den W. Hooper, chair- man of the board, announced that gov- wroment reports indicated an increase in the cost of living since the board ren- fered Its wage reduction dncisions and that this could be made the basic of an tmmediate appeal to the board by the smployes for wage inereuses Union leaders were quoted today as demanding wnly that the board hold up its wage tuts pending the appeal. 'The difference ras slight .it was declar:d, and the be- tef was expressed that the gap would te bridges without a strike, Meanwhile conflicting clair:« contin- »4 regarding the number of ren avolv- W in the walkout of the shipmen. Nei- ther the union leaders or tas railivay _ ment Interver ‘Washington, July 2.—The conference of bituminous' coal mine operators and officials of the minees’ union summoned: by President Harding to consider meth- ods of ending the coal strike in unionized" fields adjourned today until Monday in the same deadlock which had character- ized its session on 1Wo previous days. Participants apparently considered that only . governmental intervention, going’ much further than it has to date, would offer possibilities of an ‘edrly strike set- tlement. ‘President Harding is expeeted on Monday to have again direct dealings with- the negotiators .bui the . govern- ment’s plans are kept secret! - G From first to last, employers contended in the discuesions here that they could no longer negotiate wage scales with the union in the central competitive field as a unit, or in a gathering of| all union coal operators and miners. | Miners’ - officials continued to demand such negotiation as the established practice in the industry and to refuse offers of negotiations by disteicts,, repeatéd ‘in several forms as’ they . were. . Secretaries. Hoover and Davis, who have attended the meetings a§ representatives of the " administration,: have offered no propositions outside of a tentative suggestion that a committee of miners and operators might be appointed to consider pessibilities of- outlining dis- tricts. P Meetings of operators and of miners, separately from the joint conference, were held today, but led to no action. tary Hoover remarked after the meetings had. been concluded - that participates might renew their gatherings Monday with more hove of success after discuss- ing the situation with associates at home. Alantic City, N. 1, July 3.—Invesi- gation from four sources was under way tonight to 'place responsibllity for the Wwreck of a Philadelphia and Reading railway train shortly after midnight last night at Winslow Junetion, near here, Wwhich cost the lives of seven persons and injuries to more than sixty-five others. Besides the investigation by the rail road ‘company, ‘others were being made Dy the county and state anthorities and the interstate commerce’ commission. The wrecked train was the “Midnight Flyer' which left Caden 11.40 p. m. and was.due in Atlantic City at 12.55 2. m. crash cccurred on the Cape Ma; . Wildwood braneh. when the train, run- But, 1 say now that the workers | BIng at full spced, crashed into an open of America, either on the -railfoads or | SWitch leading from the main line to.the elsewhere do not intend to .sacrifice: the | Cape May.line. The engine left the rails freédom of expression amd of action. | OB the curve, and catapulted down an The board undertakes to say that unions | embankment, taking jwith it five of the which differ with the board must: cease | Six cdrs it drew. to exist—they are out-lawed” Whether | = The Capé May switch had been opened this is for the moment an assumption | by mistake and John .Dewalt, §0-year-old of authority on the part of the board is |towerman at Winslow Junction, is under jmmaterial. It is the logical outcome | Surveillance by the state police. He is of the very'establishment of such béards. | in béd at his home“in Hammonton. 1t .is' an inevitable. consequence of an ini- |° Reports-that Dewalt had assumed the tial action that was wrong in principle | blame for the wreck were denied by the and that has proven impossible in ac-|towermans relatives and also by the tion, 3 3 7 ing: management. “The labor board, as an institution In ‘explaining the apparent: cause for functioning in the twentieth century is|the switch being open, Charles H. Ew- sscond in .ncongruity only to the 80~ | ing,/vice president of the Reading Rail- called ‘ope, shop’ movement, t way company in charge of operations; “The law gives theworker s, or the | said Dewalt had.set the switches for the railroads, the right to decline to 2c- | movément of the Cape May - branch, cept the board’s .rulings. The workers, | seemingly in the belief that a train of of necessity, deslined by vote of the | empty passenger coaches . which had membership withdrew their services. They | passed previously was the “Midnight declined to work for the terms ocdered | Flyer. 4 - by the board, The board now declares Railroad officials d that when a them ‘outlawed.’ ' This is-autocracy with | switech 1s-open a signal warns the en- a vengeance. It seeks to pot the whole | ginean of an approaching train to slow force of government. backof the move- | down. A train going 40 miles an hour, ment to kill the spirit and the fact of [ they said, wouid not have left the tracks. collective bargaining, of joint negotia- tions and agreement by the voluntary coming together of workers and - em- ployers. .1t .is' the calamituous outgrowth of a mistaken idea.. * ¢ . * “Unions. cannot be -ufimade.and re- made at government diotation. This is neither the Russia of the black auto- orat mor the red. autberat. This is America, where ths principle = voluf- anagers would give any figures, but B.|tary action, of conferénde and agree- :. Je:fll. reiterated previous statements|ment, of freedomr of expression and of hat the strike was virtually 100 per[lawful action:is rooted in our soil sent. The railway execut on the grown into our institutions, ¢ '* e sther hand declared that traffic was be-| “The unions exist for humanity, for ng continded. practically without inler-;flle workeérs. and. -they cannot.and.will ‘uption and repeated ‘heir x.sgertiom_‘not be destroyed at th: ‘whim or fancy hat the efficiency of ths roads wouidof a band of dictators. % 7 10t be seriously impaired by th> walks 3 st for several - weeks ard perhapsi nonths. New Yorkers are-being recruit-{ \d to take' the places of tn> strikers and Je opinifn of the rall heads was unani- mous that there would be nu interruption ¥ transportation. . The “outlaws” order issued by the la- Yor board today followed a statement by Mr."Hooper last week that “blood would » upon Mr. Jewell's head’, in ignoring | onders of the state., Freedom of expras- slon vanishes under the order of ‘the board, x i MAXIMILIAN HARDEN “A ] ATTACKED IN BERL] Berlin; July 3. (By the. A. P.).—Two men attacked Maximilian Harden, editor The engineman on the fiyer ‘took thejand political writer near his-home in the OUR INDEPENDENCE When on the Fourth the starry flag At morning is unfurled, (The banner that is. broad enough To shelter all the world), With sword and gun and rolling drum, And bugle, silent now, Should rest.the hammer and the-axerm= The snindle,' saw and plow. MAINTENANCE S'l'lll_v‘v :: ORDER HELD TP Detroit, July 3—(By The A. P.)— The ‘United States rafiway tabor board late today averted, temporarily at least, a threatened strike of 400,000 mmainten-, ance employes of the nation’s railroads, in protest against a wage reduction. The independerice that was won So bravely by our sires Before the foeman’s bristling steel, His cannon’s belching fires., S the "board's order to appear before it|. Just.as the executive board of the - 1 8 + United Brotherhotd ‘of Maintenance of 1nd jugiity b strike orter. The order| G, BOCR%, of Newns j Since Freedom from her ancient bonds borers was mapping plans {o send forth a strike call, the labor board made a request by long distance telephone that the union chiefs meet with: the labor bpard In CI tomorrow in an at- tempt toadjust the differences betwee: the railroads amd their employes. The invitation was accepted and: ‘the #f members of the union board, with E. F. Grable, international president, left to- night for Chicago. 3 In addition to the investigation, the labor tboard sent by telegraph to the union officials .a copy of a resolution “If it be assumed, that the employes who leave the service of the carrier be- tause- of their dissatisfactimn with any, fleclsion of the labor board are within their rights, it must alsy be concedsd that the men who remain n tha sarvice and those who enter it answ are within their rights in accepting sush employ- ment : that they are not strikehreakers seeking to impose their arvitrary will of 1 nemployer on employes; tagt they have the moral as well iezal right to sngage in smich service 5f the American At Yorktown found release, Behold ! has been preserved by these, The implements of peace. —NMinna Irving in Leslic’s junction switch-at full speed, Mr. Ew- ing’s statement said, and this caused the derailment. 2 Grunewaid, a suburb of Berlin, today. Hé was taken unconscious into the hoiise, where he was found to bé suffering from public tor avold interruption i-dispen- A dow ths Dekad ol ey it Ninety passengers, bound for the shore| five wounds in 'the head. The assallants ‘-rm- Tailway ‘(’r::smm:::;lv ;\‘dflw‘:t g . o s o":'fmm"n"‘dm“k_ ,over the holiday. were aboard the. train.| were arrested. ey are entitle o 1 - 4 They were mostly from southern New s against the boand’s declslons would | ;. ey towns and from the vicinity of The . labor board’s invitation to, the | Philadelphia. 4 conference brought 4o an abrupt. end a | Wrecking crews late today ‘had re- meeting’ of the brotherhood . board ; that | moved ithe wreckage af thre¢ of the began at 10 o'clock this morning. Aft- | coaches and found no additional bodies, er_the conference had progressed severa) | and it is not thought likely any more hours unofficial word came from the con- | Will be found. The body of Walter ference room that a walkout “reasona- | Wescott, ‘of Gloucester, N. J,, engine- Iy might be expected.” man, still lies beneath his locomotive. When the labor board's invitation Crowds . jammed about the Reading came the meeting was adjourned hurried- | station here when word of the disaster . reached the city. Hundreds sought to In addition to the brief statement an- | learn the identity of the killed and.in- nouncing acceptance of the labor board's | jured. When the first. relief train ‘ar- invitation, Mr. .Grable declared that in | rived, police had to fight their way the event the Chicago conference met | through. the masses in order to clear a with fallure “a reasonabie length of | passage way for the stretcher-bearers. As time” would ensue before a strike call | the long line started to leave the station, wass istued. He said this meant at least | many women fainted. 10 or 12 hours. The less_seriously injured passengers The brotherhood chlet refused to say | who ‘arrived on the relief train, seemed what' his attitude’ was to that of the | dazed and mothers with children in'their executive board would be before ' the | irms appeared near prostration. deqined tp say whether he was hopeful | , Besides Engineman Wescott, and Fire- of a settlement man Souder, the other known dead are: The clal statement of the execu- | Joseph Dilasuco, Pleasantville; John T. tive board, iésued upon the sudden’halt- | Lineham, Philadelphia; T. N. Selden, ne- IngLof . the conference follows: gro./ Philadelyhia ; Francis Corbatt, Phi- _“The executive: board - of the Un'ted | gdslphia, ani an unident Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Emploves and Railway. Shop Laborers has syent the day in tabulating the rtrike ballots and in perfecting the strike machinery. The board has been irvit- Sokad :n:‘f;;s'u‘:hoe;m o u.'vdmlt‘,‘;‘,’: gantic electrical . system. which - would take & provide power, light and heat for all of :;rr,:& M8 to take place In Chicago to- | 1\ "Tork state, city and. country, have . Grable exphained ‘the statement's | been worked out by Dr. Charles P. Stein- reference . to strike machinery by de- | M6t electrical expert of the General claring plans had been mapped to pre. | Electric company at Schenectady, it was vent any disorders in the _eventof announced today at the meeting here of str{ke, . He refused to anmounce tye |the state commitfee of the socialist par- result of the strike ballot recently tak- |tY. The Power would be generated at Dbeyond the stat Niagara Falls. D "cant. ‘of the voten %o far tsmisted | | DF. Steinmetz, who' hag been' nominat_ h 1 -|favored a walk-out in the event other {¢d by ihe socialists for sc._ze engine: T e aaty Should handle strike prob-| iy Torsantsatiors. foined in- Brac | and" surveyor: “willuse ‘the plan as-an More than 100,000 cars and 4,508 loco-| tically all the strike ballots have been | election battle cry, it was said. . motives are held In reserve, the associa- |tablulated it was announced. Hon chiefs asserted. “The ~situat'on.” g SR Ihey decided, “could not possibly become | MAINTENANCE MEN g 13 acute as the one which prevailsd dur- G soms e g the “outlaw” switchmen's strike in 1920, when all equipment was in a @i-| . geranton,’ Pa., July 3-oA - lar o~ ;- s on, 5 —A -Targe ‘num- “nidated condition.’ i ber of maintenance. men employed by the | Delaware and Hudson failroad at . Car-| bondale ‘went ‘on_ strike “today: crippling| the company in its efforts i 'to. recover|. At the same time the treasury an- | for workers between Seymour and ‘N from the ravages of Sunday’s' flood. nounced that the final figures of govern- | gatuck, ih common pleas court today. Maintenance men quit their jobs an the; ment receipt sand expenditures -for ~the |1t may be taken up Wednesday, It -comes Honesdale branch, where it will require; past fiscal year' revealed 4 surplus of | into .court as an appeal from'.Ansonia several days to make repairs t -damage $314,000,000. Herr 'Hardén has incurred the hatred of: the ‘nationalistic' agitators and was near the top of the list of men marked for assault, along with Theodor Wolff and Max Warburg. 4 - For the past six months Herr Harden has been less active than usnal, restrict- Ing his editorial ‘output to home consum; tion: He also eefriined from . giving public lectures, whers he always was the target for grilling by. mofirchists. - The attémpt on the life of Maximilian Harden, one of the most noted European pubiicists comes just e littl emore. than a week after the assassination ' 6¢ Dr. Wilter Rathenau, the ‘German foreign secretary, which' took * place - in - ‘the Grunewald. i Herr Harden in the course of the war published many striking -articles in his newspaper, Die Zukunft, mostly denounc- Ing the policy lof the German government. He finally aroused' the ire of-the ‘imperial authorities by his statements, and in July, 1917, his publication was suppressed 'for the remainder of the war. wy department and branch of the gov- wrnment, state and national.” During the day the board reeelved an mauiry from W. B. O'Nil, president of the International Association of Rai'rosd Bupervisors of Mechanies, who asked what his men should do if ca'la1 upon to perform the duties of shopmen. - Mr. Hooper in a letter replied: “The board is of the opinicn that the . members of your organization should not Ve required by the carriers with whom vou have agreements to perform dutiss sther than the supervisors’ work as with- n the scope of vour duties unless such performance s purely voluntary.’ The third day of the shopmen's striks passed in comparative quiet, although Might disturbance was reported at Per- ty, lowa, where twenty laborers brought b _from Chicago for shop work were ¥oned and run out of town. Ci E. John- yon. general manager of the Kansas City Bouthern, reported to. ths labor board furing the day that one of his assistants bad been assaulted by strike sympathiz- % at Leesville, La., while repairing an Alr hose. . In the larger cftfes polics guards were reported to have been thrown about rail- way propery, while the chamber of com- merce of Kansas City, Mo., following a weeial mesting, telegraphed a request to Governor Hyde. asking him to call out the National Guard of Missouri and to station enough troops,in Kai as .City to prevent loss of life, which the chamber 1add it belleved an imminent possiblity In_the raiiroad strike. The Amercan Assoclation of RaNway Executives, after a ‘meeting in New York city, decided, however, to take the namee »f all striking shopmen from payroils of Ihe eastern roads entering New Ydrk. thereby depriving them of their senior- Ry rating. The executives also decided WILL DEVOTE LIFE - WORKING ON- WAR MEMORIAL PLANS FOR GIGANTIC 3 N . ELECTRICAL SYSTEM New York, July 3.—George Gray Bar- nard, famous sculptor who did the groups in the Pennsylvania® state capitol, said today he would devote therest of his life to working on a war mémorial, which he hopes in. some future year will be erected in New York. It was. for this reason, he explained,; that recently he turned down an offer.from a syndicate in Los Angeles to go to-that city and Be- come one of the masters of the great art academy in prospect there. % “I told" the’ gentlemen who called on me that I wap. bound to the ems, ww New York, by tles that could not be broken.” e’ said.” YMy life from ‘now on‘is coffse- crated. to the war memorial. Tl never take -any other orders. New York is the only place for such a-memorial-and New York is where it must be. -Working it out is my, life work. New TYork, July 3—Plans for a gi- PG REDUCTION IN- E : THE PUBLIC DEBT ‘Washington, July 3.—A reduction of $1,014,000 000 in the public debt during jthe fiscal year ended June 30 and a re- duction of $175,000,000 in the debt dur- ing the month of June was announced to- day by the ‘trcasury. CASE AGAINST JITNEY A - DRIVER CONTINUED New maven, July 3. ‘was “taken in the case, of Harry Jones charged with operating a jitney service SOMPERS DENOUNCES OUTLAWING UNION Wash‘ngton, July 3.—The ruling 'of he United States labor board “out, law- ng” the railroad. unions now ‘om.strike ras denounced by Samue] Gompers, resident of the American Federation o Labor. in a statement issued tonight, ‘utterly bolshevik in character”s and an the board “to disband unions The ruling, Mr. Gompers add- M was palpably too ridiculous wnd ‘atuous to be accephed as permanent | \merican ent policy. = . “The of ‘the board,” his state- . “is exactly ‘a replica of 1ays to where_he \was arraigned for operating a caused by the flood. 5 motor vehicle . with, a_license: from: the One hundred machinists and. laborers T public utilities commission. His defence arrived at Carbondale .today 'to replace! roads entering th is that he operated a taxl. . g the striking Shop employes. is® olty, tneredy depriv- |ing them of their epnior’y rights. The action follows ‘ the debi*ition - of the railroad labor board outlawing the strik- ers, K B, M. Rine, chairman of the awsocia- on, in making the announcement, said| f —_—————— GERMAN MARK FALLS G SHOPMEN LOSE - THEIR SENIORITY RIGHTS . Néw York, July 5—The Railwas agers’ assoclation of p.‘ww X STRIKIN ew York, July 3.—The German mark A to’ yet ancthor new ‘low- level here agreed to refus:|today, being quoted before the ‘unions 2 e war e e Man- ork - Secre- | TO NEW LOW LEVEL| also 15, . a cripple, drownifig- in the North river, New. York. S —— 5 WIIIIJ- T.. Shamborguer.. of : Aflanta, Ga., a graduate of Fisk university and a student at the Yale school of law, was seized with cramps at Prout’s Neck, Me. i : An order restraining Jersey Olty tem- porarily from. interfering with the con- struetion-of the vehioular tunncl connset- ing New York and New:Jersey has besm signed by Chaneellor . Walker. Cartiss A. Comsteck and Ifl?hm X Daviet, assistants’ to the general - ager of Postal Telegraph Co., were ‘¢l ed directors ‘of jhe company a.méet- ing of the board. - - During the first two months. of the fis- cal year expenditures of the British gove ernment totaled- £108,111,461 as compared with £159,226,631 for. the same period-last year. 7 : 2 A Philadelphis . - ntates that thé Pennsylvania railroad ‘has reached a néw. wage agréement .with 10,000 clerks and 7,000 employés {n miscéllaneous. force in Easteérn terrftory,.. . . ° ‘. Mrs. Anna .Cadmuss Yereance iy dend at her home at Rutherford, N. I., aged 108 years. - She was born at Dundes, N. J., June 7, 1813. “Until two vears ago she was able to knit without eye-glusses. President Harding has called ihn third ‘semi-annual meeting. of the business or- gonization of thé government for July 11, it was announced.b; M. Lord, the new ctor of the budget. ? A. Stockston, cfntroller of t sylvania Raflroad. System, reports a Eain of '$34,110,641 ‘for the Malf year ending May 31 last over ihe correspond- Ing period a year ago. + he Penn- rived at Los Angeles.from Philadelp; consigned {8 the Southern I’acific-Co It Is said 30 more locomotives wiil ba ship- ped to California 8. L.. S ¥ of the New York State § - Federation, has been selected as r from New York on the board of the 'co-operative live stock _commission firm to.oe -established at Buffalo this, summer. Cut to pleces tn mid-alr whi] ; o om ‘mid-air while making a Louls James, one.airplane - to: anuther, 2 stunt fller with 2 fiying u feot 1o the- nd ey, » and was. instant- Iy killed. A i — 23 4 L::e E. d‘mu':k Louls, was elected supre: advocate - Knights of Columbus, the highest ::al office In the order, at the meeting. of the supreme board at Chicago. Hart succesds Joseph Pelletier of Boston, who resigned after serving in the capacity. for 15 years. H. J. Forsythe, assistant manager of the Hyatt bearings @ivision of General Motors,. has become .manager _succeed- ing J. G. Welss, who.was forced to retire on account of his health. Mr. Weiss, however will act in an advisory capacity for the Hyatt Co. A collection of old Russian crown jew- els, reported to be worth approximately $500,000, and .which the Raesian . soviat -| Bovernment is now appraising, was shown to James P. Goodrich, former governor of Indiana, Mrs. Goodrich.and Miss Aloo- ran during their visit to Moscow. The ‘part which . education - must, pluy in building a new. world was outlined by W. G. Cove, -president of the National Union of Teachers of England and Wales, in am address at the open:ing session of the annual meeting of the Nationul Ed- ucatio association at Boston. : > - Philadelphia fedsral reserve bulletin for July says that, although . June is normally’ a’ month of less industrial ac- tivity, ‘it has not proved to.be such this year.” The general improvement which started in April has ‘continued during June, although the /gains were - slightly lower' than May. A’ fortnight's negotiatiens between rep- resentative of United States shipping in- terests and the Nérth “erman - Lloyd Steamship company aré stated to have reached a stage where sigaing of a forio- al corgnm is only waiting approval from New York. Under the new .agresment the Leviathan will fly the flag of the Unitsd States line. 3 “ s - MADFE VAIN ATTEMPT e TO SAVE HIS . CHUM New York; July 3.—With a score of fast motor launches within halling dis: tance, and the- owners, members of the fashionable Columbia Yacht club, on a nearby pier mistaking his efforts for a diving stunt, Joseph Suncher, 16, strug- gled galone and in vain today to rescue his chum, Jo_Gimbel], also 16, from drowning in the North river. The Suncher boy was' sunning himsel? .in his bathing suit on'the pier, when he heard his companion, who was swimming nearly 100. yards off shore, ‘call' for heip. ‘Without summoning assistance or asking ald of any of the owners of numerous | boats tied to the: pler, he-duve off the pier and made for: his friend. His fran- tic_efforts to get-a rescue hold on young Gimbel were in vain. _ _ Finally, exhausted, Suncher had to givé up. - He 'managed.to reach a string- piece on the pler, where he was hanging exhatisted when his.plight was discov- ered, and half a dozen launches dashed to his rescue. -~ ° ° ) 64 HELD ON 5 Ry ~.CHARGE 'OF MURDER. ‘Néw Haven, July .3.—Mrs, M: Shee- han, who shot and killed her husband, ‘Dennis; in ‘a heme quarrel May 21, waiy- ‘ed examination .in' city court.today on;a cHarge of murder and was held without ‘bonds. for “the- superfor’ court.-® She be- came . hysterical ; before~the 'case. was over, . . g 'COMMON PLEAS' ©f WOMAN ounr .| PENIES LORD MAYOR :Brigadier General H. | Castie Blayney, | red — Posts Occupied by Irregulars Are on Fire — Republicans—Mayor of Drogheda Shot While Walking “Along the Street—Lannett Bridge, Between lineskeen and Castle Blayney, Has Been Blown Up—Mount Joy ..Dublin July 3 (By the A. P.),—Sevefelr“\l!t of the attack on the Gresham ho fighting in O'Connell street was in prog-|tel and other - premises in O'Connel ress at 10 o'ciock tonight. The national | street, which has been in progress inces troops - wece - maintaining - unremitting | santly since morning. The rebels hold pressure, ‘but at that hour there was no | positions in two -areas near each other indication of surrender. with a wedge of regulars between. All“the approachés to O'Connell street | In the upper area on the high grobe! had been barred, and somé of the posts [above O'Gonnell street: to th ocgupied by the irregulars were on fire. | east of Parnell square, they hold Barrs's 4 s hotel and the Plaza hotel, but-have lost all other. strategical points-in: this ssc tion. The encirclement f th's area i practically -complete and the lrregulars are confined within a position from which escape is not easy. , .. . In thelower area of ©'Connell streel the rebels still hold a block o ba'ldirgs running from Grésham hotel to Cathe- dral street. fronting on O'Connell streel and backed by the parcel post office, the Catholic cathedral and other bulldings in Marlborough street. Until late this afternoon on the soutk side of the“city the people were moving freely; crowds thronged the streets of engaged In chopping, although many o the larger stores are still closed. Mount Joy jail Fas been converted in to a war prizgn, with Deérmott Hawerty secretary of the provisional gover: \rent as governor. as:lu v n from During, ‘the, course of the and rifle- fire- from -the IN REPUBLICAN HANDS London, July 3.—A press assoclation Dublin despatch denles that. the lord mayor has been made yrisoner by the republicans. ANOTHER BREAK I EBAILWAY COMMUNICATION London, July 3.—Another break in rail- way - communication -between the mnorth and the south js reported in a Belfast despatch to the Times. - it says that the Lannett bridge, between Innegeen and Aas been Dl =3 K MAYOR OF DROGHEDA - SHOT ON STREET London;- July 3. —Alderman Monahan, mayor of Drogheda, was shot in the neck while walking along the street today, a. cording to a Central News m: is not stated whether he was killed. ——The Dundalk correspondent of the Cen- tral News reports that two gunmen held up the staff of the Dundalk prison this| evening, releasing seventeen men serving ‘sentences for looting. heavy barrage of machine gu the armored - Ititie of guns continued all day long, and crowds. of onlookers gathered oytside t line of fire. Now and ti“n especialiy heavy firing or the bursting of bombi of des caused a stampede, ‘but the crowds soqp returned, . fascinated by th( spectacie X 1 e e e = Casualties among the combatants are astonishingly small, while the toll.among civillans is heavy. A girl was killed ir her - bedroom in the t: Talbot “street. this DUBLIN AWAITING BESULT OF ATTACK _Dublin, July 3 (By the A. P.)—Tha people of are now awaiting tha Mp’ POINCARE WILL, S TODAY Pojncare, several members of his cabinet and Marshals Foch and Joffre will join With Americans tomorrow in celebrating the Fourth of Ji 1 French officlals will be represent®d at nearly all of the many public and social affairs that have been plannedy by American and Franco- American izations. « The premlier’s promise to speak at the American chamber of commerce Indepen- dence . day - dinner - tomorrow might will make that the principal event of the day. At this function Premier Poincare will b surrounded by a groun of notable French. men, ' including Macshal - Foch, - Marsha Joffre, Leon Bourgeois and Myron T. Her- rick, the American ambassador, who, ac- cording to custom. wiil deliver the princi- pal American address: Patriotic ceremonies will be held at Lafayette's tomb, where Americans and French will share in the program, and at the Washington monument here, where the Veterans of Forelgn Wars will place a wreath. * French efforts to promote better rela- tions with the United Sates will find ex- pression, at 2 receptipn fo be given by the Comite France-Amerigue. At this racep- tion' Lucien’ N. ‘Brunswig prominent French Tesident of Los Angeles, Cal. who has been calléd home by the government to ald in setting up a »ress bureau to promote , friendly reiations ~with the United Statés, will tell of the, plans to this end. out of the state while a poena had, been issued for his here, Testimony that such a D life of Ward was given jury by Palmer H. Tubbs, lus.r?‘ | partial transcript of the grand utes which Allan R. Campbell, Wi counsel made public. Tubbs. is a police.. commissioner of New Rochelle and Tubbs testified that a mah #ho gave his name as “Ross” visited Ward early He sald the man waighed with Ward *“Ross” whom he believed was the smiled repc?tdly. ) Independence day will be observed by | 'ard claimed to have" celebrations’ of various kinds by the gltfle 'n; the u,lr after American colonies in all the large French | Peters. “Ross. Cities. - | cording- to Ward's stor a blackmall plot, of dctim, anotber man, ing “Jack,” FIREWORKS DEALERS ORDERED igt'ro COURT — AMERICAN FORCES IN GERMANY CELEBRATE YoURTH. —_— New York, July 3.—The “day before the Fourth” drag-net which for years past has been a feature. of New York's safe and sane Independence day; today brought one wholesale fireworks concern and a number of smaller fry into the hands of the fire prevention bureau. All day-long the force working to pre- vent the sale of any. kind of fireworks was kept ‘busy, Small stationery and candy stores gave them much trouble, but unlicensed vendors along Park Row and in the downtown streets were an even greater problem. Everyone found seliing fireworks was ordered to appear {in court, Fire Commissioner Drennan stafted his war on noise and powder with offisial warnings to parents and to children them- selves. The commissioner warned partic- ularly against sparklers, which. he said were especially dangerous. The chief warning, however, was di- rected against thoge who want to see the fire engines run. New York has some new fire boxes, easy to pull, and because false | O0 the program, a alarms are frequent on the Founkh, Com- | #mudge boxing, will missioner Drennan issued a special warn- | children a chance t5 show their speed.. ing that pulling tne new boxes would re- | There will also be all sorts of suit in trouble. e —_—— POLICE CHIEF FAILED TO OBEY MAYOR'S ORDERS Cohlenz, July 3 «(By the A. P.)~The Amerlcan forces in Germany began their celebration of the Fourth of Juiy tonight with a great display of #fireworks from Fort Ehrenbreltstein, on the other side of the Rhine. The oyrotechnic display of the Ameri- can flag reminded the Rhineland inhabit- ants that the Americans. though reduced in numbers to 1,200 from.12,000 since the last Fourth of July, aré still here t¢ vigorously celebrate their county's inde- penden; A The long list of athletic events on to- morrow's program will-center around the- main boxing event in the public square. between Walter Baker of Stockton, Cal. featherweight champion of the America occupation -forces, and Henri Besq. th best in his class.of 80,000 French Rhine . Rahway, N. J., July 3.—Mayor Fuerber, socialist, today dismissed Chief of Police David H. Ramsey-after finding him guilty of disobeying orders. During the week of May 29 the Apferican Legion held a /faur, and the maybr directed tive chief to |" -suppress alleged gambling games. The chief, it was charged,.fafied to carry out the mayor's order and was cited to ap- 28." He falled to pear for a hearing Jufis 3 : i | e_fighlef'-lhmu'& has obtained a writ of forari difecting. the mayor and city to show cause on July 10- should not be Bergen. the case i