Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 19, 1922, Page 1

States Calling Upon Them to “Second” His % | German Election in Fall Berlin, July 18—(By .the A. P.)— President Ebert and . Chancellor Wirth have persuaded reichstag leaders to post- Pone negotiations for reconstituting -the present coalftfon government until the German legislative body resumes its sessions éarly this autumn. Visit Said to; bl Un-|3 _American - Recognition of | ‘Washington, July 18 /By the Some progress toward ‘removal of obsta- cles to American e was said to have been made at a rather; lensthy conference today at the White House between President Mard- ing, Adoifo De La, Huesta, munister of finance, and Brigadis S ) ition of, Mex- Mexican, Gen-| 40- hose lines. : ‘New York, July 18.—(By the A. ' A stubborn warehouse fire in ‘wich Village section of ‘the city-broke ou about. § o'clock this morning, through the day, and’was still blazing tonight after nearly: 4,000,000 gallons of | ater thad ‘been Disyed on the flames by ‘Washington, July 18.—(By The A. T') | to the servic¥ of that cause. To thel MES. PHILLIPS TO UNDERGO PHYSIOAL EXAMINATION erci J. A. Ryan, retired, representative! ¢ assocfated Amarcan ofl interests in Mexico. The Mexican minister, it was explained, was recéived | “The toughest fire T've ever ‘encounter- ed” was the comment of Acting Fire Chiet “Smoky Joe” Martin, made to “~In the name of the common welfare, and the paramount need of the American people for the production:and transpor- tation of a fuel supply, President Hard- ing tonight, through telegrams, calles upon the governors of 28 coal states to furnish protection and safeguards to men and employes willing to resume work in the industry, notwithstanding the mine workers' sirike. To the ef- forts of the states, in this direction, he said, “the federal government pleds to you every assistance at its command, Behind the telegrams there loomed the definite indication of a government de- cision to obtain the resumption of trans- portation and mining, both hampered to- day by walk-outs, which high govern- ment officials consider inter-connected and associated. Replying 10 a question late Attorney General Daugherty “Naturally there's a relationship be tween the raflroad and coal situations, whether Inspired or conspired I am not John L. Lewis, president of the Unit tod; sa task of lawful protection and the main- tenance of order the federal government pledges to you every assistance at its compatand. v “WARRBN G. HARDING." While there was no evidence at the war department that th - cjresiden.s move had resulted in any immediate change in the status or station:of trp units, it was evident that the military authorities had been advised of the . cision and had made plans according- 1y. Secretary Weeks indicated that the state authorities would be given tunity in any case of disorder to cor trol the situation before the federal pow- er would be'invoked. It was made pliir, however, that a request from a state was not deemed absolutely essentlal for fel- eral troops to be sent where their pres- ence was deemad necessary, or for tite federal government to summon the N tional Guard of a state if supplemen- tary troops were needed. The govern- ‘ment held the opinion, it was said, that t is disposal under present laws was I Los_Angeles, Calif., July 18 —Mrs. Clara " Phillips, indicted for the: murder of Mrs. Alberta Meadows, -underwent a “thorough physical examination” today, her attorney.announced.. s The purpose of the examination, Mrs. Phillips' attorney said, was to determine the nature and cause of bruises and acratches on her limbs. These, the at- torneys aver, weret inflicted by ' Mrs. Meadows while she was struggling with Mrs. Phillips at the time Mrs. Meadows was slain with hammer blows. “Earlier in the day an allenist examin- €d Mrs. Phillips and .found her to be “not legally insane.’” 3 The defendant was arrangned today and will plead next Thursday. The pros- ecution said its case was complete, but not quite ready for a jury. (S Rt St S e S S meeting. Meanwhile, Attorney .Gene-al Daugherty issued instructions to Unired States marshals to work In close aaso- clation with federal attorneys and juds- es In cmploying and directing special as States. was Senator official,” plomatic difficulti ‘a Mexican cltizen . republican, Mexico, was also present at the Whits Hcuse conferénce and later Mr. De La|Side. Huerta and General Ryan called State department and. were received by Secretary Hughes. ~All the discussions, however, it was. emphasized, were “un<| as would be held with any Mexican citizen occupying a responsi- ‘ble_position. The Mexican minister came here from New York, where he has .negotiated with bankers for refunding Mexican loans. - - Mr. De La Huerta, it was sald, the president information Mexican policies and threw light-on di- which haye contrib- uted to the deadlock in the program for recognition of Merico . The president, interested fin his statements con- cerning the political and economic situa- tlon in Mex:co. The. question of recognition,. it was Bursum, by it wi y the pres.dent t ‘the United ‘added, Newlof 'a doorway by one of a series of ex- gave g 2 %21 £2%) returning, lest the’ warehouse walls col Mayor Hylan Avhen he returned to direct his men after having béen blown out plosions _which Focked the lower = West Nl With the flames checked, but not un- der control, investigation showed that two firemen had been killed, three miore were missing, about 15 persons had been tak- en to hospitals_ seriously injured, and more than 175 had’ received first. ald treatment at three emergency stations opene dby the Red Cross. In addition, about 500 families were driven from their homes In the Bohentian .quarter, and to- night' were . barred by the police from [lapsed. - The outstanding feature of the fire was the pungent black smoke that rolled out of the building soon after the first of the blasts. Though a mid-summer ~sun blazed down until in the afternoon, when a thunder squall broke, the firemen found it black as midnight and rigged great not only the regular army, but the full strength of the National Guard. Authority ¥or Employment of Troops. Legal -authority for employment pf the regulac army or the National Guard in ers’ strike would be continued. Earlier [the way contemplated to protect coal In the day, before the telegrams had |mines was expected to be found In the been dispatched, Samuel Gompers, pres. | “insurrestion” sections of the .revised ident of the American Federation of |Statutes which are known to have be: Labor, predicted in = statement that junder study recently at the war depart- President Harding's ifvitation to the |ment. 3 operators tu resume operations would | There are three of these sections. Sec- esult in no appreciable increase in pre. |tion 5297 provides that in'case of an fuction. He added that “when a haif |Insurrection in any state against the million men are aggrieved is a poor time | EOVernment - thereof, “it shall be lawful Indeed for the roll of drums, the rap. {for the president, on.application iof the Uimg of sabres and the pounding of the |legislature” of sugh state, of < of the wailed fist- cxecutive, \when . Jegiaiature cannot resident Harding in his telegram ex- | DS convened, to_ forth such_number dained in detail the negotiations and |Of the militia'"of ‘any other-state or tonferences with union officers and mine | States which may be_applied. s, as he sperators and the offer of existing wage | 98€ms sufficient to Suppress such - insvr- Scales to lhe striking miners, all of jrecton; or on like appiication, to em- ed Mine Workers of America, declar- ed the president's message to the gov- ernors “merely a gesture which will not produce coal in any substantial quan- tity,” and asserted that the mine work- duties in the protection of transporta- It was reiterated at the depar:- ment that protection to interstae cote tion. merce. will-be given. A the White House during the dav it was declared that there was no inten- tlon to use marines on mall trains. A: the same time reports were recelved at the post office department of condit.ons in the moving of mails, which it was added, would appear to require no sucn steps at present. At the department of justice it was declared that reports on the railriad - uatlon were' more satisfactory than ves- Trains, it was said, were run- ming on better schedules and with less terday. Intedference. DETAILS OF FIGHT AT CLIFTON MINE, WEST VA. Willsburg, W. V. 2., July 18 (By the A. deciared, did not enter directly Into the conversations at the White House, ai- though it was indicated that the dis- cussion of Mexican conditions had an indirect bearing, because of their in- formative character, on the Tecognition question, In conversations today ' with : other than officials, Mr. De La Huerta was understood to have received suggestions as to means for clearing up. the dead- lock in the récognition situation which! he probably will transmit to Mexican officials upon his return to Mexico City. The informal reception of the Mexican minister at the White House was said to have. been arranged ‘by Senator Bur- sum, who has urged. reéognition of the ‘Obregon government with .proper safe- guards - to_protect American interests. After his visit {o the White House and the stite department, Mr. De La' Huer- ta, accompanied by General Ryan, ‘went to Senator Bursum’ 1to be called to the attention of the dis- searchlights in their efforts to pierce the darkness. Fire - Commissioner Drennan, who de- clared that no permit had been issued to store explosives or chemicals in the ware- house, worked feverishly to ascertain what was stored in the building. Although the property damage could not be accurately estimated without: a check of the contents, said to include newsprint, rubber, rice and epsom. salts, it was evident that it would run into hundredsof thousands. Late this afternoon Commissioner Drennan declared there was “something triét_ attorney” and announced that his department would confer With ‘the’ prose~ cutor. The known dead are: Fire Lieutenant J.'J. Schoppemeyer, killed by falling debr! Fireman James' Carroll, attached to a which had ended, he eaid, in failure to reach a voluntary adjustment, and laft 5o Tecourse but to invite the mine op- SFALPrS to return to their mines and re- sume operations. For this last en- Geavor, he asked the assistance of the Wates. The message which was under- tood to have been approved at today's tabinet meeting follow: ;mu-v Telegram to Governors. he text of the pre g R, president’s ielegram “The proposal of the federal govern- ment to- the United Mine Workers and the various coal operators, whose mines we nlldu suepension, to submit all ques- tlons In dispute to a national coal com- wission for arbitration, has been de- clined. The mine workers declined as % body. The majority of the bituminous Sperators pledged unqualified acceptance. Thé anmthracite operators flled uncondi- Uanal- acceptance. A minority of the bi. tuminous operators accepted the " princi- of arbitration, but made specifica- tions which could not be considered. I bad propased that the operators and @ine workers in dispute shoul dimme- Rlately resumc coal production under the wage scales and working conditions which prevailed at the time of the strike o Jast April 1; that every question in Rispute should go to & national commis- son to be composed of three represen tatives of the mine workers, three repro- tntatives of the operators and five repre. sentativ of the ‘mine workers, three representatives of the operators and five| representatives of the American people, It was proposd to make the comm sion the final authority on ail digputes untll next March, and meanwhile the|°f reading the message, commission was to inaugurate a search- ing inquiry Into every phase of the coal Influstry, In order to recommend the way to maintatned understandings be- tween workmen and employers, to pro- wote steady employment and assure a continuous and ample fuel supply. “The fallure to secufe the acceptance of this proposal for a voluntary adjust- ment left me mo other course but to in- vite the mine operators to return to thelr mines and resume activities. “T trust you will find it consistent to second this invitation, it you have not already done so, with the invitation to miners and operators to resume elr _work. This invitation should be vecompanied by ®uch assurance of main- tained order and the protection of law- tul endeavor as will xive assurance (o sverybody concerned. 1 want to comvey you in this message the assurance of the prompt and full support of the fed- ral government whenever and wherever you find your own agencles of law and srder inadequate to meet the sftuation. “Your state government.and the fed-| wal government are jointly responsible for maintained conditions under which free men. willing to work, may work in| fety, We are responsible for the pro- fuction and the tramsportation of a fuel wupply ample for the necessities of the American people and the public utflities| which serve them, particularly the ra:l- ways engaged iIn interstate commerce, We must have ample coal to maintain industrial activity: we soal mecessary to health, the activity 'of all of the people. I ra- cite to you these details because it Is important to. have it understood how far the federa] government has gone in seeking & voluntary adjustmemt. Thus far thers has been no challenge of the right of workers to decline employment or the right of the employers to hire as| Ne- yelect. “Our present duty is to guarantes se-| curity in the exercise of these rights, se. curity in a1l lawfu] operations, and af- ftord a safe opportunity for that pro- finction. and 'distrfoution demanded by the necessities of the American people. “Theré has been no government as- fon of a part In the dispute be sumpt! % which attaches to an American|said to be improving. engaged in providing any pun-|ed that ‘there w: necessity and to afford securitv to| believe that the fho serve ready and willinz| common need. No| 2 are the must have the| security._and| organized workers and organized 1 414 ofter the only avails Pploy for the same -purposes, such part of the lard or nival forqes of th United States as he deems necessary. Section, 5208 Brovides: “Whenever, by reason of unlawful 0o- ;nlctlvpl. compinations ‘or . assemblazcs persons, or rebeflions against the ay- thority of ‘fhe go of the Unitei States, it shall become jmpracticable, ir of .the "president, to en- Toree, b e Setes o1t orce, et proceedings, the laws' of° (e’ United States within any ‘staté -or terrifory, it shall be lawful for the president to call forth the militia of ‘any -or -all of the states and to .employ ‘such parts.of the land and naval forces of the Uhited States as he may deem necessary to cn- force the faithful execution of the .la 45 of the United -States, or .to suppress such rebellion, in whatever state or ter- ritory thereof -the 1aws of the Uniusl States ‘may be forcibly opposed, or ths execution thereof foreibly obstructed,” Section 5300 provides.that the pres:- dent shall issue a proclamation ‘calling upon those resisting the law to disperse and go to their homes, the proclamation serving as the method in bringinng in- to force the two Bections of the statutcs Just “quoted. These. provisions are heid by military- legal authorities to be ample {o -cover any contemplated. use of federal or stnte troops, although the "enactments have never been as. yet. interpreted by tne courts. b Statement By Leader Lowls. “The action of the government will in no manner change the position of 1My mine workers,” Mr. Lewis declared at*- “or result in termination of the trike. Men who are voluntarily on strike ‘will not refurn t. work merely because armed guards are (placed around the mine. There s no | question of law and order involved, he- cause the mine workers are punctiliously { observing the requirements of law and | order, and no-troops are necessary, “The men have been free to return to work during the sixteen weeks <his strike has progressed. This action of the federal government is merely a gestnre, which will not produce coal in any sub. stantial quantity. The mine workers will continue cA strike until some av- enue of honorabie settlement, in accord ance with the principles of collective bargaining, Is accorded them. We aro ready now, and wo have always been since last December, to joint ady eon- | Friday, when' it became evident :thers|pe B structive move for an adjustment of this situation. Bituminous Operators Silent. Bituminous operators In the city and leaders of the associated employers of the anthracite section, who recirned to Washington to get in touch with tre sit- uation, maintained silence ~wpon the message. There was a disposition ev'~ derced on the part of Ohio and Pean- sylvania groups to order the mines opened. There were also, suggestiors tha some grounps 'of operators might slgn wage contracts with the umion and end the. strike for their properties, but that Mr. Lewis or the fhine workers' policy committee intended to permit sush lotal and individual action” at the pres- ent_time was denjed. Government officlals belleved that some coal output would result from to- day's action, even though the railroads serving non-unfon territory still produc- ing have been unable to maintain ser- vice at any where near capacity. P'ans are being offfcially drafted, n’r’- to dis rect to the northwest the movement of such coal ‘as 18 brought. to the 'Grsa Lakes: and - for_ later. controlling bution completely, if the should, require. It was not entirely certain in the g emnment view that the entire ‘Famon ship of the United ‘Mine Workers would support the pasition of their leaders in refusing arbitration and continue the strike. . Facing .a’ determination -of - the ‘was, considered “possible that district or- ganization might niake settiements, = Rall_Situstion Improving. - © Thé rail’situation, held to be the nost Important. . facter for the moment, 'was Officials decla~- 2 still good reasons 1o en return to. work, . G f The railroad” situation, howeye: P.)—The ‘inquest into"the death of Sher. ] Duval and three other men, Wwho. were killed in ‘the attack’ on the Clifton mine, near Cliftonville, yester- day. was adjourged late today until Was some éonfusion in the mind of 'a forelgn witness, ~who ‘was: testifying| through an interpreter. . - # The witness,: Paul Huzzor, a. Hungar. {an non-union miner, ‘while feciting his,; Story. of the fight, said he saw.two men' standing near the’ tent colony, and fir- ing at the deputy - sherifts. He - fater. withdrew this statement, and it was ex-| plained ' that the interpreter; owing to the vagaries of the vernacular, was un- able to determine just what the witness meant.. ~The ‘inquest Wwill ‘be resumed- to- morrow. Deputy sheriffs, who took part in the fight ‘were the’ other witnesses. = George Caldwell, a Wellsburg * business man, testified . that _the ‘“invaders” rushed' down the hill firing and yelling as they| ran, and drove.the deputies to cover be-! hind a freight car. Here they were sub-| jected, he said, to a heavy fire. from the tent colony. ‘He detailed the fight around _the tipple, saying that the mob charged the deputies tnree times be- fore they were finally driven off, Hugh J. Radcliffe, another deputy, startled the jury by declaring that he hal seen six ‘dead men during the fight. The- official account” of the ‘dead so far is Sheriff Duval and three of the at- tacking party. Another witness was J. C. Edwards, mine superintendent, who that the Wounded had been taken! from the mine and given first aid at a farm nearby. The owner of the farm, Who was said to have: been a former union miner, was arested and taken to ‘Wheeling. “, ‘W. S. Wilkens, prosecuting ittorney of Brooke caunty, said tonight that as soon as the inquest is completed the evi dence would be laid before a special grand jury, and if indictments were found the accused would be brought to! trial within a month. N possible haste, he said, would be exercised by the au- thoritles, consistent with the demands of Justice, Twelve more prisoners wr brought in late today by the state police, Some of them had been arrested in the vicinity of Avella, Pa, where the Pennsylvania state police were reported as being very active. One prisoner gave the name of Johu Habitch. He had a builet wound in the shoulder and said he had been wandering in the woods without medi-, cal attention since the fight, The funeral of Sheriff Duval will be held Thursday afternoon. In a procla- mation lssued by Mayor George Kraft, all business establishments were = re. quested to suspend business between 2 and 4 o'clock that day as a mark of respect. i GEORGIA GUARDSMEN ON DUTY AT WAYCROSS Waycross, Ga., July 18.—Three com- panies of Georgla' National Guard troors arrived here late today as a result of a réquest for protection because of strile! disorders. Martial law will not be de- clared, it was stated, unless the situa- tloni” becomes worse, At the same time it ~ became known that J. T. Ross, general -inspectors for the second and third divisions of the At- lantic Coast’ Line_rallroad, was seized| in the. passenger station here last mid- night - and: carried away in an automo- bile. He has not been heard from since. According” to the _authorities, threats| have been made a ‘fictals. . his hip: SURVEY OF THE SUPPLY _OF'COAL IN.NEW ENGLAND _Boston, July .18.—Figures-based on & survey. of the coal now on hand for the use’ of: public utilities companies in’, New England show a fifty days’ supply for’ thirty-eight companies ‘engaged in _the electric Tight and power . industry;.forty- ‘six -days supply for fifty-eight gas com- panies, and sixty-six days' " supply . for eleven” eleetric. street railway companie saysia statement given out today by the New England Bureau" of Public Service Information.. The survey was made by the _American -Electric' Rallway associa- tlon, National Blectric Light assoclation of the coal strike. felicitatio couple, ‘ullets took effect. conduct conflicting storfes were told gs to who. fired the first shot, Korykora and the woman shifting- the blame. According ‘to the story told by Miss Korytko, she trafled Korykora through several states in an effort to recover $1,- 500 which ‘she claims he borrowed from her and never repaid. She said ‘she lo- cated'the man through an advertisement | in a Russian newspaper in.which she oftered- $50 reward for information re- garding - his whereabouts. vestigation the state police say were told that the ‘woman had threats: that she -would “shoot Korykora| The man is-charged with as- sault with fitent to’murd in. bonds of :$2,500: gation aving “ha titude: of - the Washington government. Mr. De La Huerta planned to return; to New York for a day or two, in cor- nection with negotfations with -American He thought it probable that he would leave for Mexico City within| another two days. nanciers, No _ au Secretary Hughes. by een rized “the carry _back to high thoritative WOMAN WOUNDED IN DUEL WITH MAN IN HAETFORD Hartford, July 18. t .sight.” Another -bomb, fired at ' the same time, fell nedr a circus’ tent without; damage. * CONSTRUCTE: amden, N i with- American. flags and the city colors, and-with 200" cheering’ men aboard, the’caisson o be used on tha New -Jersey. side in_ constructing _the Philadelphia-Camden bridge bver the Del- aware. river, .was launched today. gt the New -York « shipbuilding” .plant..- The| sponsor. was, Miss Margaret M. Kates, 15 year-old daughter of ‘former. Judge John. d by the MAN AND WOMAN INJURED BY GIANT AERIAL BOMB Hammonton, N. J; July> 18—A" ‘man and a woman were injured seriously to- night by ‘a glant aerial bomb set off at & fire ‘works display, which . failed " to ex- plode in the' air-and fell whereit" burst. < - NG BRIDGE uly, would statement _ available at the state department in #ard to De LLa Huerta's interview with he Mexican cabinet official made it plain, however, that he Ead come to Washington on ‘the sugges- tion of administration officials here. e stressed the pleasant impression he had gaimed in both conferences and sald he. had_been able ‘to present the salutations of President Obregon and could return to his own chief similar kindly expres- slons from Washington. law, was badly office at the capito} and met several senators and citizens from border states' who are in Wash- ington. 5% _Mr. De La ‘Huerta said his calle were ‘ery largely visitssof courtesy and that e - gratified and, honpred: a'miqmrm, 6 exe! né with the. Ameri while: the: relationship ‘hetwéen the two countries and the question ‘of recogni-|- tion - of “Mexico~ by - the ‘United - States had no -been. talked: over. as his fune- tlon was. purely that of finance and not ‘o foreign relations of his government, many - matters of intérest to both gov-! ernments had been brought up in ‘his talk_ with Secfetary Hughes. g Mr. De La Huerta added that he ha been glad to furnish all the information in_ his ‘possession in reply to inquiries both at the White House and the state| department and sald = he doubtedly” Obrezon & report of ‘the impressions he 1 had received here as to the friendly at- officials of ' the PISTOL Wounded in a pis- tol duel early tonight with a man sald to be Miron Korykora, Newington recently from _New York, Paulina Korytko, 26, of New. York, is at the Hartford hospital suffering from a severe, but_not serious bullet hole in tha chest, Several shots were exchanged by the it Is said, but only one of the During an_investi- police, who came to state In their in- the 2y ler and released ‘into a yard Mrs.: Gusie ‘Dagostino" ‘suffered severe gainst all railroad of-lburps: of -the body’ and Charles ‘Valerfo, o ‘her brother-in- OVER!THE DELAWARE -Decorated Camden worl “un.| President. was on Brooklyn company, killed when his ‘en- gine struck ‘a curb while responding to an alarm. The names of firemen and policemen appeared most frequently on the list ot injured. About a score were struck by byilding- material biasted from the ware- house by . the explosions or by falling bricks or_ timbers, but most. of those ind been: overcome by the thick smoke. Dr. Harry M: -.Archer, an honorary deputy fire' chief, fell.- 3 victim to the fumes while treating the injured. - He also suffered numerous gashes. .The whole quarter, was thrown into a panic by the first blast. Firemen an- swering: the first alarm; found flames shooting up an_eclevator shaft at the Jane street éntrance to the building, which extends through the block to 12th street. . > When “Smoky. Joe' reached the scene he, ordered three more alarms sounded, ‘bringing to the spot the greatést mobili- zation of apparatus in New York sinca the Equitable building fire. Then came the explosion that slightly Injured Martin and nurled other firemen and policemen across the street. A little later Schoppemeyer led his men into the buncing, to be met by another blast which lifted the roof. Driven back, he reached the street just in time to be felled by debris. He died on the pave- ment, with a priest administering the last rites of “the: church. ! By this time, policemen were driving to the Streets occupants of the apartment houses’ which surround the warehouse. Many" of " these—palnters, sculptors and Writers—fled from their cellars and attics carrying their works of art. The crowds were held four blocks from the fire. Many mounted roofs and watch- ed the fire. The heat became so intense and_the smoke so blinding that the fire- men had to set their nozsles on tripods and withdraw nearly 100 feet. First ald was given hundreds of fira- men who were driven out of the smcke time and again. “Smoky Joe” Mar'in, the 72-year-old acting chief, who says he makes a regular diet of smoke, tvice ' was forced to go to relief stations to be revived. b ‘Hospitals' stripped theéir staffs of * ternes and sent them to the fire. The services of the doctors were constantly i demand. ~Particularly was that true on the Jane street side, where fremen from three engine companies sought to check the blaze ‘from roofs of aoai ments across the t. - They were ¢ rectly in the path of the smoke, and it was only by working In five-minute re- lays that, they were able to hold their own. Many of them were overcome. Shortly after the fire started plice ordered about 500 families from their homes ‘in the vicinity of thp burning warehouse. Many children became separated from thelr mothers, and there was a near panic among the thousands of specta- tors as police tried to' reunite them. District Attorney Banton, fbillowing a conference with fire department. offi- clals, said late this afternoon that an explosion of a case of magnestum pow der camused the fire: He said that 38 cases of magnesium had been taken in- to the building since March 5, and that some of them were being taken out, by widy of the elevator, whed .dne was dropped. and _exploded. 3 The other cases were ignited and. then foliowed ‘the -great explosion as flarmes reached the powder. HAMILTON HOLT TAKES 188UE WITH SEC'Y HUGHES | ‘New York, July 13.—Hamilton Holt, president of the Woodrow Wilson ‘dem- ocracy, tonight: made’ public-a' copy ‘of ‘a letfer' made in_ his recentreply to Mr. Ho} request for a definition of thel ding administration's position on ‘the league of nations. | - . 1 you decline to make public the nistration’s present attitude toward the' leagie” he wrote, “I shall confine| SHf. to commenting-briefly on ‘the sids es_ to which! you refer.” ., = * The writer then declared he was will- ing_to let the public decidé’ whether, as Mr. Hughes had written, former Presi- dent Wilson had _failed adequately to meét ‘stx of the ~ seven _changes. Mr. Hughes had proposed’in the' league ‘cove- Bant.© and . diseussedl - at . length, Mr. ey | de | An_attempt will be_ chamber of deputies at down the facta government. . An_invent trucks in. New Haven is being conduct- d by the post office department there. A special British mission will arrice in the United States early in September to arrange for thg tunding of the British debt to America, Adolfo De La Huerta, Mexican minls- ter of finance, denied newspaper reports from Mexico City that he intended to resign, - - Torrential rains have caused flood conditions in ail the rivers of the Tyrol. The railways are submergéd in the val- leys, stopping all traffic. Dissolution_of the corporate existence of the Yale Brewing company and clos- ing of its plant in Fair Haven means the probable removal of a landmark. Burial has been given in Bridgeport to the body of a man dragged in from the Sound by fishermen. It was found oft Bridgeport light. Nathan Easterbrook, Jr, of New Haven, once head of the Easterbfpok Manufacturing’ company, and a ship owner, died, aged 8. 2 Willlam Durban, 7, died at Akron, 0., from burns suffe late yesterday when playmates poured gasoline over his clothing and lighted & match to it. Charles Ransom Miller, for forty years editor of the New York Times, died at New York. He was 73 years old, A wage reduction which went into ef- fect at the New Haven Ciock company last week is said to be the third madecoad and union leaders to have had & there since the readjustment period be- gan. Emma Goldman will not be allowed to enter England, as her presence is con- sidered undesirable. This statement was made in the house of commons by House Secretary Shorti. The supreme court of Porto Rico, by| a vote of four out-of five, has sustained| oot "R ETLE Governor E. Mont Refiy in his contro-| - b versy with the unionist attorney general| in the various courts of the island. Because W. R. Thomas refused to speak to Louls McConnell, the two men! fought with_shotguns from the porches! of their homes in Taylorville, Ilis. Thom- as is in a hospital. McConnell was re- leased on $2,000 bond. ‘The Fremch automobile industry has - the severe perfod-ef the-general| treated at the emergenoy. stations bad | industrial crisis and i3 gradually getting | batk to its mormal stdte, accord.ng 1o Baron Petit, president of the Syndicate of Automobile Manufacturers. Mrs. Lewis Brinton, 'soclally promi- nent and wifé of Dr. Lewis Brinton, head of the American Stomach Hospital at Philadelphia, was stabbed and seri- ously wounded by a Japanese cook in her home at Villa- Nova. Virtually all the $100,000 estate of Mrs. Annie Leroy Foote-of White Plains, N. Y., mother of Mrs. Irene Castle Tro- main, former dancer, is divided equally between Mrs. Tremain and her sister, Mrs. Elroy Bradford, of Long Island. New Orleans police are investigating the story of Mrs, Robert Dopp, 22, who ¢laims she was kidnapped. gagged. beat- en and held for a night and a day in a house on the- outskirts of the city by two. men. £ The wedding of - Miss Katherine T. Wendell, datighter of the late Jacob Wendell, Jr., of New York. and Lord Porchester, heir to the earidom of Carn- Margaret's in_ St Ens. arvon, took place church, Westminster, Lionel G. Curtls, lecturer at Oxford, England, arrived in New, York on the liner Adriatic to lecture at the second session of the Institute of Politics which opens at Williams College, Williams= town, Mass, on July 27. A Sathering of secretaries of cham- bers of commerce at Momauguin Satur- day will probably resolve itself forma- tion' of a state association of secretarics which has not existed heretofore as in other New England states. Elmer Dover hay temdered his res- ignation as assistant secretary of the treasury, in charge of internal revenue and customs, it was, stated at ‘White Houst laonch Betty M. missing from Putn-Bay. slfce. Monday morning; was picked up in Lake Erie early yesterday by the United States cruiser Morreil with a disabled’ engine, the launch having been drifting nearly 20 hours. The Rev, W. W. Culp, former Spring ley, Ohio, minister, who “eloped with st saiher. Hughes, 18, a boarder at the Culp home, pleaded guilty to desert- ing his family, in probate court. and was sentenced to one year in the workhouse and td pay a fine of $500. anson, of Philadelphia, Pa. s e appointéd & member of the Deste "ot the Manutacturers Association ¢ Connecticut to succeed Clifton D. Jackson, of Springfield, Mass, who has resigned, elve Japanese students "‘2‘:(5??”;" l‘l’\'; imperial university in Tokio and from other Japaness univer- sities WiM visit New Haven on August 18 and‘18 in the course of ‘a tour of the United States. General George Paul Harrison, for- ‘mer commgdzr‘ln chiet ‘of the Confed- erate Veterans and the youngest briga- Qler general ever commissioner by the Confederate. States. of America, died at his home at Ceplika, Ala. He was §1 years old. Mrs. Robert: Voorhees, . of G ‘place, South Norwalk, who was injurad Sunday evening in an . automobile ascl- the St worerament ownea| Maintenance of Way Men: ing the Main Points of Contention—Troops Are in F is One 3 ness in Georgia and North Carolina to Cope With Stz Disorders. E. F. Grable, head of the maintenance of way union, announced that “the path| to an early adjustment is open” so far as his organization is concerned. egotiations looking toward settlement. of 'the shopmen's strike were continued; with seniority rights of strikers one of the main noints of contention. The Pennsylvania railroxd announced a mutually satisfactory wage agreement had been reached with the shopmen in its employ. Compantes of the Georgia National guard were ordered to Wayeross, Ga, because of strike disorders. North Carolina troops were mobilized for. possible duty in connection with the strike, - MAINTENANCE OF WAY MEN NOT EXPECTED TO LEAVE WOEK Chicago, July 18 (By the A. P.).— With E. F. Grable, preside€iit of the main- tenance of way union, asserting that he @id not expect his men to leave their ‘work, conferences looking toward a peace- ful settlement of the shopmen's strike continued today. Announcement by the Pennsylvania railroad that a mutually satisfactory wage agreement had been reached with its shoomen was considered by some rail- clarifying effect on the entire situation, inasmuch as the Pennsylvania has insist- ed on dealinz diréct with its own men. Mr. Grable issued a statement tonight asserting that “the path to an early ad- justment is open” so far as the 400,000 members of his organization are con- cerned. Referring to his conference with President Harding last weex, m. Grable said he had ceceived assurance that Chuirman Cummins of the senate inter- rontait'e expected to hoid eariy hearings on disputed noinis of the labor provisions of the tiansporta- tion act, particularly with reference 10 the-living wage principle. “The basis for the guildance of the settled by such a hearing by the state commerce committee of the and amendments to the law, is aa pretation of this phrase ‘just and able’ and its avpiication to & wage " 3 Mr. Grable said he advised’ the ¢ orders sent to b 10 open negotiations Wiln their coads immediately regarding rules, working conditions and wages o submit the casé to the board if agreement was not reached. - The first of these isputes came | the board today, the dispute being that the Chicago, Milwaukee and St ol road. The carrier set aside the thirty da clause in existing agreements for filing of a dispute and Mr. Grable the board's icomise for early on this and similar cases, many of will be consolidated. He requested that future decisions wage disputes. favorable o the men, made retroactive to July 1, when wage cut became effective. Mir. Grable s3d that a peaceful ment of the shopmen’s strike wap held up by a few roads who were wiiling to allow returning employes sentority rights. k. The raflroads, in’ uitimatums to’ stcikers, said unless returned work by certain dates, of which now expired, they would start in again new employes. They are supdorte their stand by proclamations issued r board. % On tie other hand, President B. M. J ell dnd his striking shopmen have cd that any settlement must be predic on a full restoration of semiority. to the ceturning: strikers. Georgia National ruard comuanies sent to Waycrose ioday because of disorders, and North Carolina troops W held in readiness for 2n emergency. troops were mobilizcd in Tiiinols to\ré place those on duty at Bloomingion Clinton. * Chen aralysis of the milk served at the Chicago. Milwaukee and St & g board {n the present act is to set a just | and reasonable wage.” Mr. Grable's state- ment said. “The present issue, which should be cailroad yards, which made about workers ill, disclosed that the milk tained croton oil, city health said. L —_— DEER TAKES RIDE OXN TROLLEY. CAR IN NEW HAVEN i New Haven, July 15.—A deer sprinted across New Haven green this morning. sprang on the running board of a trol- ley car at the Bennett Fountain corner, rode one block without paying fare, fell| oft and jogged through Center and Orange - streets and into Crown street and stopped ‘in front\of The Associated Press bureau. Policemen tried to close. in on it but in spite of injured condition it got by and into-the corridor of the First National Bank bullding, made its way into the cellar where it died from, hurts and fright. In spite of a recent report to the gov- ernor on fish and game conditions in Connecticut which =aid that deer had een almost exterminated, and pessimis- tically review the game outlook, deer have been reported at many places. -A number. have crossed Long Island sound from the island to the Connecticut shore and motorists have had to sound their. horns on country highways to clzar the way. but this is the first time in late years when a deer got down town. A Policeman once caught a doe in the old railroad station. A fisherman last week reported that he had seen a giraffe browsing in the! woods at East Hampton, and fimgr! in Tolland county have been _chasing black bear cubs. The circus which bis- ually puts up at Bridgeport is on the road hut stories of fish and game ani- mals continue to come in to prove that hope for fishermen and hunters in Connecticut has not been lost. EEFUSED TO SIGN COMPLAINT AGAINST HEE HUSBAND York, July 18.—Declaring that eserved to be shot” Mrs. Marga- ret Maher today refused to lodge a com- plaint against her husband, George, who shot her five times on June 2. One of the bullets is still lodged in her spine. “He forbade me to go out with the other man,” said Mrs. Maher, who came. to court from a hospital. “I did go. He caught me several times. I refuse 3 sign any “paper against him. “You'll do as I order you to do.” re- plied the magistrate. “Your wrong is a matter between your consclence and your God. Your husband’s remedy was in the courts. We cannot let people g0 around shooting each oth Mrs, Maher, however, persisted in her| refusal to sign, asserting she would g0 to jall first. On the signature of a de- tective, to whom he had admitted U shooting, Maher finally was held in §2. 500 bail on an assault charge. NOT THE LONG MISSING. ' LITTLE JIMMY GLASS Jersey City, N. J. July 18.—Onee more the parents of little Jimmy Glass, who was stolen by gypeies in Pennsyl- vania seven years ago, have been dieap- pointed in . their hopes of getting their son back. A 12-year-old boy, adopted seven ‘years ago by Robert J. Maller, of N man, Okla., was_brought Fimm; home in Jersey City today, to be fdenti- fied by Mr. and Mrs. Glass.. Maller knew nothing of the boy's -lifa before he took charge of him in Port Wash- ington, and dedcriptions broadcast'in the world-wide . search for _ the supposed gypsy captive taliied with that of his charge. “Identlfication experts who were pres- ent when Jimmy's paren’s met the.lad. declared that whilé the eyes and hair off " the Oklahoma .boy, were like those of dent at Bee Hive turn, Rowayten, iS| Jimmy, other features were so dissimi- still| in an unconscious condition in tht2|lar as to remove any possibility that he Norwalk hospital from the result of 2could be their son. fractured skull. ; William Hogan, labor leader, convict- ed.In, Néw York of having stolen $26.-| 000 from Local No, 3 of the Interna- JAMES W. WILKERSON SUCCEEDS. JUDGE LANDIS nomina- ‘Washington, July 18.—The tional Brotherhood -of Electrical Work-|tion of James W. Wilkerson to be fed- ‘ers while serving as its secretary, was|era] judge for the morthern Niinois dis- gerich- to serve from a year -to years in Siag Sing at hard labor. ] respect “to his| sentenced” by Supreme Court Justice Gle-| trict, succeeding fcrmer Judge Landls, threel was confirmed late today by the ata . PBICES OF LIBERTY BONDS - CONTINUE UPWABD TRENE g 2 New York, July 18.—Prices of erty bonds on the New York stock exe change continued o soar today. the éntore group of 4 1-§ per cent. 3 establishing_new maximums for year. The Firsts went up to 10104, Seconds to 100.80, the Thirds to and the Fourths to 101.08. % = Continuance of easy money rates, e cluding a new low of 3 3-4 per cent fo 60-day paper, and prospective of Great Britain's war obligations, this country,~were regarded as D factors in the further strength of erument issues. Much of the reo Liverty bond buying is attriouted | purchases for government account. B | houses also report that country b as well as a number of large. |tions in this city, have purchased lions of dollars worth of Liberty Victory bonds in the last few with their surplus funds, the yield fr the government securities netting larger return than could be obtals from either call or time money at ent rates, \ JECENE SENA " 55 BAYONNE FIREMEN ARE ACCUSED OF COW. Bayonne, . July 18.—Accused | Fire Chief Davis of cowardice and having abandoned their posts during million doflar fire 2t the Tide Wi Oil company plant May 15 last, Guarini and George Hendrickson, men, and Danlel O'Neill, fire chauffeur, were arraigned today Director, of 'Public Safety Deviin. Guarini and O'Nelll, given to visit a cafeteria during the fire, | not return to duly, the chief while Hendrickson, he said, went to Bayonne hospital without supposedly suffering: {rom Guarini, weight of a pool of water and acid went a boiler room where he was found, order to dry his clothes. O'Nelll he returned to the fire, found the of hose on which he had been Wo {was burned. and joined another aquad {The chief said other firemen riske their lives searching for the men. Decision was reserved. _— $8,702,300 REFUNDING FOR THE NOETHEERN New York, July 18—Public : of an issue of $8,702,300 refundng and improvement mortgage five per bonds of the Northern Pacific will be made tomorrow by J. P. and company, the First Natiomal and National City company. The ceeds of the bonds, which will be at 96 and interest to yleld 5.20 cent. ,will be used to pay off the standing bonds of the 3230, Northern Pacific Great Northern 6 1-2's, which have been called for The private ‘sale of a g.'ln.m of equipment trust of Baltimore and Ohio rallroad has made by Kuhn, Losb. -and o Spever and company and the City company. The securities at prices to yield.an average of cent. ESTABLISHING A SCHOOL OF ORATORY Fom