Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 27, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXIV—NO. 180 INJECT POLITIGS INTO PREVAILING STRIKES Chief Executive Aroused by Telegram of Advice Upon How to Run Government From J. Cleve Dean, Chair- man of the Railway Employes’ Publicity Association— Curtly Answers That the Right of the Railroad Shopmen and Miners to Strike Has Never Been Questioned, but Makes It Plain That the Strikers Have No Legal or Moral Right to Interfere With Men Who Desire to Accept Em- ployment Under Terms Rejected by the Strikers—Mili- tary Forces of the United States, Are Never Used Save! for the Prevention of Lawlessness and Violence—Gov- ernment Does Not Undertake to Represent Classes— Speaks Only for the American People as a Whole and the Common Good of All Citizenship—Treats With Contempt Aspersions Cast Upon the Republican Party. Washington, July dent Harding. fay w0 J 26 (By the A. P.).— Pre n a telegram sént to- Dean the Ratlway Bmployes % Ty ttancoga, go striking the deciston of th and return to work “until you and 1 and everyone Bterested in Américan wiitare may join in asking the raliread labor board to give a re-hearing on any question -eoncerning which rea sofable doubt about the correctness or the justice of the decision made The president's meseage was in reply a telegram he =—weived last Sunday trom Deen in which it was said that “to temp 10 mines and raiiroads by military forces or to attempt to draft men Into mining or railroad service would be n tttempt to establish invoiun- ary servitude” President Harding. in ais telegram, said he was convinced Dear’s “attempted appeal to American orejudice will fall upon deaf ears.’ The president told Dean that is ity associa- Dean workers to accept ratiroad Tenn oper abor beard | ties, in response to a manifest | need, at prec the ‘same wages under precisely the same working e tions as those under which they been working contentedly for the | two years. Those who epoke for the mine workers refused such a proposal | There is no dispute of the right to re- | tuse.. Since they declined to respond, | and since it is believed there are enough men who love this country and cherish its security and believe In serving the common welfare to come to the relief cof the mining situation and avoid. suffer: privation and paralysis, I asked the g7 ernors of the coal mining states to! in- vite mine operators and mine workers to {resume their activitles, and to promise that to which every man is entitled, namely, protection in his lawful pur- sults. This protection applies alike to the men on strike who observe the law and make no lawless interference with men at work, and to the men who arc pubic and ndi nad e were | jagfully at work and entitled to p: ne “believer in neace and harmony and | tection by every agenc of government in he reign of Justice which you would|ihat work. If you mean to challange save beiteved I invite you now o Dass |ihe righteousness of free men to be pr: o0 the faiiure of the mine Workers 0 (acted in their lawful pursuits against iy » an able and im-| i, arference and violence, 1 will be glad g determining the ty"ioin vou In submitting that question merlts ofy [he ispute between coall(y the decision of the American peopl miners and coal operators Dean's assertion that “the American| “It will interest you to know that in- farmer and labor have come o realize | stead of the govermment's-action being Hardiog. said he would treat with “con;|3n eSPression of ‘the preference of uiie empt” The president’s talegram, dated | capitalistic class, it has been quite as July 3, was as follows | much opposed by those who speak for President’s Telogram. employrs as 1t is-by you and your as- Cleve Dean. Chairman Rafiway | Socials. Government undertakes to rep- pioes Publicity | Association, | Fesent nelther class alone, and s op- Chaktancogs, Ténn I posed to all conflict among classes, and “Since vou speak as chairman of the | disputes the right of any group or class, Raliway Emploves’ Publicity association | organized or unorganized, to imperil and t is exceedingly important | American welfare. Government speaks hat American peovle know precisely | only for the American people as a whole he s at issue in the peesent|and the common good of all its ci rdflway and coal strikes. I am more ship s : han glad to answer vour (telegram, | nough 1 can oniy treat sour poiitically| Attempt te Appeal to Prejudice. sartisan references with that contempt| w1y view of all that the govi xhich s felt by every good citizen in the | pay done or attempted to do du our of deep public concern. Hapbily|paet year and a half to relieve the or the American Dublic. everything done | yerican farmer from the burdens of wnd everything said herity relating to matter of record, and be distorted. There the loval America men on strike, nor question | that many of them gave eve 3 tnat men can give for the servize of this country in the World war. Nor is it dis- | puted that the men on strike ar: exer- siging their comstitutional 1nd lawtel rights, under existing statutes, in de- clining to work under the terms decided by the railroad labor ooard or tendered | to the workmen oy tks mine operators of the country Rights of Free Americans. No ane has attempted to or proposed to draft free men into either the railway , or suggested coercion | or- mining se military force. The military forces America are never used for such a ‘purpose. Their service is only that of preventing lawlessness aal violence. That same unchallenged freedom which | ur as s permits you and to de- eline to work is no less e of the free American who choo:'s to ac cept employment under posed. The difference between 1wo | positions is that the strixing railroad workers exer In seeking to hinder the necessa=y trans- portation of country, notwithstand- ng the provision made oy law for the consideration of any just grisvanc:; und the striking miners seek '0 provent the production of coal necessar ommen wolfare, motwithstanding the offer of an agency to make an impartial setilement whilé the men who choose o worx in re aponse 1o the call of the ountry are ax rcising their like rights, and at (he same time are making their contribution o our common American wolfars. Tae decisions of the rallroad Loard are in somplance with a mandate of the | making body of the Unit:d States Without discussing the decisione at lr- sue, 1t is falr to assume chat a govern- ment agency is ever ready 15 correct an error which is made, else government Itself would become unjust. Moreover It is indisputable that there can be no government unless its mandates are ac- copted by the citizenship of the repubitc This observation relates more particu- larly to the rallroad situation. When the mining situation became menacing, invited representatives of the operators to a sonfer- ence. They came together, they were advised as to the call of common we fare, et in eight days of opportunitv no progress was made. Objective Was Industrial Peace. In the absence of any tribunal au- thorized to settle disputes beiween min: workers and their emplovers, the federal government then voluntarily proposed the creation of a national commission before which the disputes might be set- tled justly, in the light of fuil informa- tion and in accordance with the best ex- pressions of our modern civilization. In- stead of contemplating the resort to foree, it anticipated the very opposite— Industrial peace with justice to every man concerned. Instead of aiming at Anvoluntary servitude’ to which you in- exeusably refer, the government asked jbe mins workers to resume their aotivi- 1 the workers and mine government au- | | are the things expected by readjustment and to relieve labor from he hardships of unemployment, I know | your attempted appeal to American prej- | udice will fali upon deaf ears. It is un- { grateful and it is untruthful. If you are the believer in peace and harmony and the reign of justice which you would judgment on the failure of the mine workers to accept the awards of an able and impartial commission in determin- ing the merits of the dispute between coal miners and coal operators, and I invite you to urge the striking railway workmen to accept the decision of the American raiiroad labor board, acting under authority of the law, which must be supreme, and return to work under | that decision, until you and I, and every- one else interested in American welfare, may join in asking the railroad labor board to glve a re-hearing on any ques- tion concerning which there is reason- able doubt about the correctness or the justice of the decislon made. These are the ways of peace, these are the require- ments of enlightened civilization, these your govern- ment of its loyal and law-abiding citi zenship. “WARREN G.~HARDING.” Dean's Telegram. Dean's telegram was sent under date of last Sunday from Chattanooga. It was as follows: Hon. Warren G. Harding, President, Washington ; “I wish Lo point out to you that the rallway employés and miners who are on sirike are loyal American citizens and are only exercising their constitutional rights. A large percentage of them fought on European sofl - that thérs might be no more war, ani for you or any governor to attempt to operate the mines or roads by milltary fofces; or to | attempt to draft men into mining {rallroad service, would be an attempt to establish involuntary servitude. And 1 dare to predict when ‘involuntary srevi- tude’ Is attempted by you, then the long predicted war between labor and capital wiil loom up. The American farmer and | labor have come to realize the hostile at- | titude of the G. O. P. toward them, and they realize that the hard times that now exist is a premeditated plan . to bring the farmer and labor down to thelr knees. The blood of the American farm- er and labor is at a boiling heat, because |they came to the firm conclusion that | their government, or your administra- | tlon at least, is against them. I pray that it will not come, yet 1 feel at Iib- erty to predict that in your attempt to place the American labor under: the gun nothing short of a revolution will hap- pen. I am a lover of peace and har- mony, yet I am for these striking rail- way employes and miners, and I know that they will put forth every possible means to keep peace in _our. country. But these are days which ‘try the very souls of men,’ and I am hoping that you will be wise enough to see the dark clouds that are in the hrizon sky and will change your attitude so as to re- move those clouds. “J. CLEVE DEAN, “Chairman Rallway Employes’ Publicity ‘Association.” last | have believed, I invite you now to pass | or | CABLED PARAGRAPHS Discredits Airplane Warfare at Sea Lendon, July. 25.—Replying to a question in the house of commons Lieutenant Colonel Charles Amery, parliamentary secretary for the ad- miralty knew there was no airplane in any navy cabable of sinking . a British ship by a bomb or torpedo. Irish Rebels Wreck Train. Dublin, July Armed men held up 26. a freight train of fifty cars at Howth Junction, near Dublin, today_and forced the engineer to put full steam abead to send the train crashing along a section f the track from which the rails had been removed.. The whole train was Dlunged ahead into a shapeless mass. The act similar to that which took Place at Clontarf lasi APPROVE TARIFE week| HIGRER ON RAW SENATE woor Washington, July 26. — A raw woul tariff rate of 33 cents a pound of cl=a; content, § cents more than proposed by the house, was approved today by the senate, 38 to 16. Four republicans voted against the rate, and six democrats sup- ported it. The roll call fallows: For 33 cents: Republicans. Ball degee. Bar Cameron. Capper, Dupont. Frelinzhuysen, Brar- Cait Goa anc ne, Hale, Harreld, Jones of Washingto«: Keves, K Tedd ley. MeNar Lodge., MoChmblr. Mo . Moses. New, Newberry. cholson, Pepper. Phipps, = Shortridys, Smoot, Spencer, Stanfield. Warren, Wai- son of Indiana; and Willis—32 Democrats: Ashurst. Brussard, Jones of New Mexico: Kendrick. Randall and Shepnard—6. Total for 38 Against 33 cents: Republicaans: Fo- rah, Keliogg, Lenroot and Wadsworth— Y, Democrats: Caraway, - Dial. Heflia, Hitchcock, - Overman, Pomerene, Robin- son, Simmons, Stanley. Trammell. Walsh, Massachusetts ; and Walsh, of Montana —12. Total against, 16. The committee amendment to the ‘hill, as finally app ved. is in the same form the provision was_ wrlitten into tha by the house, except that the house provisn for a limitation of 35 per cenr. ad valorem was. stricken out. The mn- ance committee majority withdrew at the last minute original amendment providing for uated bracket rates de- prendent upon the nercentage - of . -the shrinkage of the wool when cleaned. This bracket arranzement was recom- mended by the republican agricultural tarift e and this was the second-time it _had been bhefore the senate.- Before acting finally on the’ substitute committee amendment. the “senateé r- jected, 38 to 19, an amendment by’ Sen- ator Wadsworth, repubHean;” New Yorlk, to make the rate 25 cents a pound. Scnator. Wadsworth’s first- move wira respect to the wool rate was to increise the house rate to 28 cents, but this amendment was rejected, 54 to 6. By a vote of 43 to 22, the semate previ- ously had defeated the Lenroot amend- ment proposing to limit to 60 per cen: ad valorem maximum duties on oarse wools. Wight republicans sup- ported the amendment and seven demo- crats voted against it The republicans supporting Borah, Cummins. son, Lenroot worth The the it feCormi €ic democrats and Wads- opnosing were: Ashurst, Broussard, Ransdell, Jones, f New Mexico: Kendrick. Sheppard, sad Walsh of Montana, Before vote on the Tenroot propns- al the fight over it. which began three days zgo. waxed warm, with Senators Kellogg and Lenroot supporting it in ad- dressesand Chairman McCumber. of the finance eommittee and Senator Goodinz, 1daho, onnosinz Senators Lenro )t And Gonding had several plashes :in the course of which the Wisconsin sen- ator declared that the Idaho senator was the “worst encmy of the farmer in America.” NDICALISTS CLASH WITH CATHOLICS IN MEXICO Ju Mexico City., 26.—Catholic .work- men and synlicalists clashed yestorday at the Hercules textile factory mnear Queretaro, m connection with a suri at tie plant. Atanasio Ponce, leadsr -f the Catholics, was killed and. several other persons were injured. Heads University. Near Arectic Circle o 20 PAC Britain Maintains Freedom of the Seas Unable to Makea Precedent .\Allowing Seizure of Ships Outside Three-Mile Limit. London, July 26.—(By the A. P.)— With reference to the note from the Washington government, asking co- operation in the suppression of liquor running into the United States through Bermuda and. Bahamas, it is understood, the British govern- ment has’ informed Washington that the three-mile-limit rule cannot be altered. ~Great Britain takes the ground that sh is unable to make a precedent allowing the seizure of such vessels gutside that limit. e MBS, MINNIE REISLER TELLS WHY SHE SHOT HEE SISTER New York, July 26.—A message from her dead father, urging her to “make an end of all this business,” prompted Mrs. Minnie Reisler, wife of “John the Barber” Reisler. widely known sporting man, to shoot her sister, Bertha Katz, police quoted her as saving toaay after she had been locked up with her two sons and a brother on homicide charges. .. Miss Katz_was shot while in her home early today. Detectives indicated they :believed Mrs. Reisler's state- ‘ment, ‘although Miss Katz, in a death- bed statement, told them that Morris Reisler; a.son. of Mrs. Reisler, fired the shots which_killed. her. ~ Morris _and George Reisler, and Max Katz were held with Mrs. Reisier- after an investigation of their stories. “I.did" it because my father. who is came to me in a dream ana told to put’an end to all tnis bus| them. [ e “He was dis- And 1 er told Knew what' was going” on. el ‘for waiti am glad T 4id it.” An. all-day search failed to bring “John the Barber,” whose alleged love affair with ‘Miks Katz “was declared by Mre. Reisler to bave, beén the cause of the shooting, into the hands of the po- lice. . The last time they saw him. they said, was-last night when he went to a Brookiyn police - station and asked for protection for the Katz girl. Detectives visited , the -apartment. but did not re- main; and a few hours later the screams of Mrs. Jennie Katz. the girl's mother, told of what had: happened. * Mrs. “Relsler malntained, - throughout the day, the same attitude of deflance that she had since early in the morninz whan she screamed “You lie” to the dying. girl as the lattér accused Morris Reisler .of the murder. “I ghot. her and I'm glad of it.” she fold reporters. “We broke in the daor and she came running toward me in her night gown. 1 velled and shot. 'She &raBbed me and T fired again. She kept on.fighting and T gave her another. and because she wasn't ‘dead then, .1 fired again.” ~Then -she dtopped. ““I wanted to catch them both. Morris and ‘Géorge and my brather Max were with mte because they thought T .was'gzo- ing to beat her up. They mid mot know I had a zun. We found out my husband and Bertha were goinz to Bertha's apartment last night, and we stood in the rain waiting for them, But when they drove up-Bertha eaw us, and my hyshand - stepped on the &as and [ couldn't shoot. Then later the hoys help- ed_me break in the door and\T Killed Bertha. T am elad of it. too. It's off my mind, and T won't have to worry abent it any more.” The alieged romance of Miss Katz and Reisler came to light in a court action last year when Mr=. Reisler sued her husband for separation naming M Katz as a “love pirate” Mrs. Reisle charged her hushand had nerlected her while he lavished money and attention on_her younger sister. Reisler known principally for his claims to the mana~ement at one time of Jack Dempsey. Dempsey has denied that Reisler ever managed him. Start- Ing fiftesn vears awn as a barber in a smal!l ‘shep near Herald mouare. he made money and soon operated a_chain of bharber ahops in the Times Square sention. He went to Tulsa, Okla.. where he pro- moted fights and now owns the largest fight arena in, the southwest. He also had. largé oil interests in that section of the country and was interested in the automobile business. FRIGATE GRANITE RTATE /BURNING OFF MARBLEHEAD Marblehead, Mass, July 26.—A my+- terious veskel' seen-blazing off the coast today proved to be the old frigate Graa- ite State, ofiginally the warship New Hampshire, and- a contemporary of the old’ Constitution. While being towed from New York to Eastport, Me. to be broken up. the hulk of the old frigate Charles E. Bunnel, A. M., who is President of the Alaska Agricul- tural College and School of Mines— a university situated near Fair- banks, just one hundred miles from the Aretic circle and furthest north of any in the world. This 3chool opens this month and is in- tended as a nucleus of a greater university. President Bunnel was formerly a Federal Judge, and is | 2cquainted with the many needs of \Alaskan territory, - caught fire this morning in Massachu- setts bay, ‘about ten miles southeaast uf Marblehead Neck, and burned - throus out the entire day. CHIBEOPRACTOR JUMPED FROM' TENTH FLOOR OFFICE New: York, ‘July ‘26—A fev minutes after he had finished a ncated argu- ment about chiropractic, Archer . John, a chirepractor, jumy:d ivday from the 10th floor of the building in whith . he had .his office and was 1 The bédy, hurtling throuzn the narrowly missed several persons were passing - the bullling in stfest. - -Occupants of the bullding Johns had been in_ ill-health for about 8’ year. 4 OBITUARY John_Knox Bissland Thompsonville, ~ July 26.—John Knox Bissland, state bank commis- sioner of Connecticut, and formeriy for.'12 years town clerk and judge of DProbate for the town of Enfield, died of heart disease at his home here to- night. Mr. Bissland spent the day in New London attending to bank mat- ters. He collapsed one-half hour after his return without complaining of illness. Mr. Bissland was 52 years of age. He was born in Scotland but came to Thompsonville with his parents when but four years old. During the Spanish-American war- he was sta- tioned in Cuba where he was pay- master ‘for the United States army. In 1912 he was appointed judge of probate and in 1916 was appointed deputy ‘state bank commissioner by Governor Holcomb. He was ap- pointed state bank cmmissioner by Governor Lake on June 1. this yvear, succéeding Everett J. Stuinges who resigned. Mr. Bissland was a 32nd degree Mason. He was married and his widow and four children survive. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Many a man's failure is due to his having uimed too high with a short. range gun. I Mr. A Coal Distrbuton Committee Selected Interstate Commerce Com- missioner ~Aitchison = Asks Cooperation of States. Washington, July 26.—(By The A. P.) —President Harding tonight set in mo- tion the federal emergeney fuel. contro] organization with the selection of & central coal distribution committee - of government officials under the chairmai.- ship of Secretary Hoover. The commerce secretary, at the pres- ident's request, immedjately wired the governors of the various states askim, them to set up emergency state organ ations as the first step todawd, de-csn- tralizing the organization for equitase distribution and maintenance of far prices for coal under the administra- tion's plan. Tnder this plan,” Mr. Hoover saii, “the distribution for railway use will be diredted { om Washington, thity wica the possibic exceptivn of a few states public utilities the responsibility for ail other distribution wil| rest upon or; izations set up upnder state control. Co-operation of statea organizati- was also asked by Interstate Commerce Commissioner Aitchison. . The federal coal distribution commit- tee selected by the president consists of Attorney General Daugherty, Secretari¢s ¥all and Hoover and Commissioner Aitchinson, or their representatives, un- der the temporary chairmanship of the commerce secretary. A fifth member s to be added lates, Hoover said, who will -undertaxe the administtrative direction while the ultimate character “must depend upon the situation. This was taken at the commerce de. |Darlmt‘ht to indicate that the’ commit® would = be an elastic body witl pressed into service as expert advice the needs of thoes sections may be te- qunred. SUMMARY OF CONDITIONS federal fue] control organization .with selection of ‘a central coal committee. Governor McCra: and operate sufficient mines “for ‘Ind ana’s necessitiés. out” engineers, firemén. and pump men, strike. Missouri operators, ed trial court ‘will westernl coal interstate operators’ asa jopen mines in southwest ment within two weeks. EMERGENCY MEASURES TAKEN New York., July 26.—Nationaal iocal officials today took out emergency ' measures President Hardinz and laid down the coal and rail strikes. of profiteering will be tolerated an emergen v did not exist in the e states west of the Missis heavily - through the rail sfrike. the biggest problem. witn the roads, it was claimed. Central declared The New its side -tracks storage. at Fairfield, Pa. ager of, the La ed the re-open motive repair shops at Kingston, N: J.. with a fifty per cent. force of mechanics. the strike. The Erie reported its total shop forees, in the four distrlets, including Chicagzn, 280, 9,580 men. INDIANA TO MINE COAL FOR THE STATE'S NEEDS Indlanapolis, Ind., July 26.—Gevernor Warren T. McCray announced tenizht that the state of Indians was arranmng to take over and operate “sufficient minas to supply Indianas’ nesessities” The an- néuncement was made in a telegram to John Hessler, president of the Indiira Miners, who is in Philadelphla in an endeavor to arrange a settlement of tns mine strike. UNWITTINGLY INVITED POLICEWOMAN FOR JOY RIDE New Haven, Conn, July 2. *Hello last night as he “hanled her his card. On it was the name of Robert. T. 0'Con- nell, business man, >f Highwood section. The woman turn:d .ack her coat lapel and showed a police bad, She was Mrs. Nevins, the city’'s first and oniy policewoman. The incident was Guly reportel and on a warrant alleging breach of the peace, O'Connell was before Hoyt In court tuday. A was given, This was Mrs. Nevins' first case. POLICE TO USE TEAR GAS TO DISLODGE INSANE MAN gas, carly tonight made preparations to Tush a house in which John Fredeking, an 11 days. One man has been killed and four wounded in the attempt to get the man from the house. After an unsuccessful attempt was made to bomb the house tonight. the police decided mot to rush the bullding. At midnight a guard or mve state pofice was stationed at the house. - of the organization admis- istrative aides representing-the railroa: Joseph A, Sloan. marine architact of geographical sections, such -as:New |during the World war fof - the - Sloan England, or the Great Lakes _regim, |Shipbuilding company, was found dead n F THE MIN z | 1010 o'clock’ last. night ,aiter a long > MINERS' STRIKE | period of illness, whch Kas been crit- President Harding set in motion :he | ical for the last ten days. distribution of Indiana announce ed “a provosed” arranzement to fake over Executive board, district o - & | The sailing of the Thite Star Jimer United Mine Workers, Oklahoma, Arkan. | Olympic, from London for New York. sas and Texas, passed-resolution calling | AUSHAL,:2, has been carcelled n conse- who had been permitted to work since after conference with Governor Hyde announced co-oawr- ation in opening mines had been assur- Assurance given that Kaneasa indns- co-operate with soutn-. clation in advancing its ' resolution to re- Frank Farrington, president of . ihs Tllinois miners, calls state convention for | Past of the American Legion at Casper, August 3rd to act on peace plans, lead- |'W ers on both sides predicting a settle- FOR COAL IN NEW YORK and steps to carry gl | not.. interstate commerce commission for preferenciia distribution of food ard fuel during the United States Atforney Ralph . |Peen on a “vacation” in Cincinnatl su;|he iGreene announced that all hands were | JUIY 1. went back to work after the co-operating with Attorney Genera) | Manufacturers agreed n 2 Daugherty to this end. . wages ten per cent, and signed a mew| “Every governmental agency will be |aTPitration clause. used to supply coal to piople in th. / aistrict~ declared Mr. Greene. “Ne ayes | Tiermian Upmann. president of the Meantime, railroad chiefs insisted- that ern states—that the priority of -ship. | Charkes of fraud which caused his ar- ments plan of President Harding, ana |Fest last Friday. the rationing of coal, was meant: for —_— Where roads are reported to have suffered most Lack of cars..not lack of repairmen, is eastarn York waze o “clogged with. coal,” while a big. surpus owned by the road, was said to be in | In s i i e pany in Chicago and escaped with $5.- n_support of, their claims -that~the | B0 L oo e and cighzettes after crafts strike in the east is gradually dis- 5 integrating, E. M. Rine, general men. | Overpowering the guard and two pass- sawanna, today-announc- = of their heavy loco- The shop was one of the first closed hy had been recruited to a strength of 5- The pre-strike force was put at dearie! Don't you want to come for.a ride with me?" asked a man of 2 slightly built woman in College street insane man, has defied capture for ' BRIEF TELEGRASiS £ The number.of stackholders of the Pennéylyania railroad on July 1 was was_139,828,:a decrease of 1,147 from the humber as of July 1, 1921. Whiskey distillers from the entire country are assembled in Louisville to ‘'declare war” upon the national prohibition. enforcement law. President. n.rTug has accepted the resignation of Elmer Dover, Tacome, Washi;, as assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of internal revenue, and_customs. Mrs. Gurnee Munn, daughter of John Wanamaker of Philadelphia, has been robbed in Paris, of a platinum bracele:. et with gems, valued at 250,000 francs. Born a slave in South Carolina and now -living at the Los Angeles county farm, has just pussed what is said ta be her 118th birthday. anpiversary. Edwin Denby, secrefary of . the. mavy, willarrive in San Francisco September 1 from Manila on the nay ytransport Henderson, One private was killed and six were injured when a trapsport trucx of Troop| B, -52nd. Machine 'Gun Squadron,. over- turned at. Farreiton, 19 miles south of Johnstown, Pa. Antoine Oullette, one of the Indlans who served under Sjtting. Bull at -the time. of.. the Custer massaere. over fifty years -ago,-is dead in Weyburn, Sask., at the ‘age-of over 100 years, The * use - of shipyard machine shops for .repairing ‘the rolling stock - of -the railroads in_the United States. is the latest- ‘development.in- the strike of the shopmen. ' Investigation by the.senate labor com- mittee. of labor conditions. in_the. cotfon industry of New England was proposed in- a reselution introduced by Senator | Gerry, democrat, Rhode Island in_Seattie in a Japanese. 0dging houze, shot through the head. Bishop' Johni 'Grimes, of the Catholic dibcese of’ Syracuse, N. Y. died at A..H. Woods, New York producer, addressed a general appeal to’ the ht: atrical profession through the Acto Equity association to accept a reduc- tion in salaries. quence o fthe discovery, after the ves- sel was dry-docked at Southampton. on Manday that hér stern post was crack- ed. Pope Plus recelved in private audience Henry / Morganthay. former American ambassador-to Turkey, and had a long| conversation with him abaut his expesl- encesat Constantinople_ dlring the ear- of the war. The charter of the Denny O. Wratt of on- v | Wyo. has been cancelied because charges that gamblinz games were ducted in clubs operated in cunnec with the post, Special délivery. letters will not be gent out from any post office in the country after 11 o'clock at night, under new postal regulations. Such letters elivered. prior to that hour will be " after 7 “delivered“as soon as possible o'clock the next morning. One thensand cigarmakers who have| banking firm of H. Upmann and Com- pany. Havana. was at liberty under bond of $2.000 for each ~of the two An alrplane took off from Twin Falls, 1daho, to zuide an’ armed posse in search | of “two bandits, who with guns levelled and . gunnysacks over their heads t> serve as masks, vesterday held up the OaKley-Vihont stage 35 miies southeast of Twin Falls. Eight men riding in a five-ton truck, raided ‘the offices of the Tarr Cikar com- CLAM TRAFFIC IS NORAL ONTHE WESTERNRALROADS All Western Lines Wi ith Headauatters in Chicago Report It creases in the Number of Men at Work in the Shops— Freight Embargo of Perishables and Livestock to and Through Montana Has Been Lifted—Leaders in the Strike Maintain That the Walk-Out Was Virtually 100 Per Cent. idents of the shop crafts, Healy, bor member of the board. went President Harding. ral road a statement asserting htat ‘was normal. W..W. -Atterbur: ce strike. The. Baltimore and .Ohio send a copy. to President -Harding. statement tonight asserted freight is be ing moved as offered without a gestidn' and passenger traffic operated hormally. Leaders in the rail way shopmen's strike ‘still ‘maint the twalk-out \as virtually 104 per = The western pr.sidents’ s*1*:ment car loadings ex. except on roads especiafiy the coal strike.. All western lines 2d shops, the statement said. maintuined its hands off policy. man Ben W. Hooper was called to Now and other bpard mombets zave sirike no official. attenti. Tolegram from _ the. Idaho . Producers' unioa the Idaho. Farm Buraau- ‘ederation serting that fruit and vegetable growe face disaster unless tae tled at-once. E. F. Grable, head ance’ of way- union, from Detroit that his azain talking ‘of - strit of seouted urganizatic and ‘anno w: rep applications for wage re-hearings séveral_roads. - W.' Atterbury, vice _presiient _of Pennsylvania® railroad, snd Sior Hoover regarding tne strike, - A Western railway executives issued freight was' béing moved -as offefed without congestion and that passenger traffic President Harding conferred with president of the Pennsylvania- system, and Secre- tary ‘Hoover, regarding the shopmen's railroad made a written proposal ‘to- its shop- men to ‘end the strike on its:lines and Chicago, July 26.—(By the P)— Western . railways' executives in a < L con- is being s | 1those of a y>ar ago by with headquarters' in Chicago report increases in the number of men at work in the The United, States railroad labor board Chair- port, Tenn., by the dea:h of a relative, strike can b sct- | the mainten- that- he intended to submit to the board President Harding conferred with W. the §ie B.'M. Jewell, head of the striking|terbury stating that the reniority ques- railroad shopmen. international pres- | tion was taken up. Scattered disordere Timothy 1 president of the firemen and oilers’ union, and A. O. Wharton, la- labor to Washington to sce were reported and in ceveral statm the forces of troops already on duly were Increased In order to be preparcd to_cope with violenze. The freight emba<go on perishable and livestock to and through the state of Montana, impos:d last week becanse of railway strike conditisrs, has been lifted, it.was assertad at the westesn headquarters of the Great Northern raflway today. Henry L. Adams, attoraey for the Chi- cago Northwestern railwar, told Jadge Martin J. Wade in fuderal court a: Des Moines, that the “Sorthwestern nas the equipment and is ready and willing to continue operation undsr adequate pre- tection, but said that the ime is rapid- 1y approaching when it wiil be obliged to abandon all efforts to op:cate if tha: pro- tection is not extend=d. LEADERS OF SHOPMEN AVE FOR WASHINGTO¥ Chicago, July 26—B. M. Jewell, head of the striking railway shopmen, the siz international presidents of the shop jcrafts organization. Timothy Healy, of the firemen and oilers, and A {O. Wharton. labor group member of the United States raliroad labor beard departed today for Washington, presum- ably for a conference with President Harding ‘temorrow regarding the rail &trike situation. ! After a hurried confersnce with the president. the strike leadecs planned te leave Washington tomorrow night, ar- Tiving back In Chicago Friday morning. A veil of secrecy was thrown over the {trip and thelr ‘drncrture over the Pen vania at 10.00 2. m. did not become public until hcurs later, union leaders declaring that Mr. Jewell was stiil in the city during the afternoon, Not “Imvited” to White House. Washinzton. July 26 (By the A. P.)— The statement was made in-official cir- cles tonight that B. M. Jewell, and the other labor representatives who left Chi- €ago today. for Washington. had mot been “invited” to the White House for.a conference, althomgh it was added. that fhoiild they call at the executive offices to discuss the rafl strike situation, they, of course. would be received. The bellef here tonight wa= that such a conferenes would be held tomorrow. | E i s s 1 LEGAL CASE OF IMPORTANCE TO CLAUDIA WINDSOR TARTOU New York,. Juiy sal document Broadway drawn up today in girl—born tieth century Cinderella. ther, should the document be certified surrogate’s court tomorrow—it wi transform_Claudi daughter of Mrs. R. Bengue Barne! tove. portralt painter. into quetot.” Mme. Tartoue 1is being adopted_as a daughter by the Count Clarel De Tocqueville De Legal action will of the noble French family. and one has been handed down tions to “generation. her *country place. The Cou of Honor. ersby. Robert M. Holbiook. former cashier of the Loose-Wiles Bigcuit company’s local ‘agency at Bridgeport, hsa been arrested at -Bethlehem Junction, N. H., charged wth the ‘embezzlement of $722.52 from the company. Charles Pfaff, 9 Wooster Place, New Haven, was instantly killed when an autonfobile - in. which he was riding turned a complete somersault on the} Derby turnpike about a mile west of Yale feld. Word came to Stamford from Bridgeport that the federal prohibi- tion enforcement -officers were to make raids because “Stamford was the wattest town in hte state” The intent of ‘the raids was to make Sta ford “the ‘dryest place in the state The Nathaniel Hawthorne home- stead at Raymond, Me., "has been sold and will be converted into a community house for- patriotic ment of the Hawthorne association. and Community A rail_moter car will be placed n operation this month on the Fargo & Southwestern branch of the North- ern Pacific railway, to run between Fargo and Lisbon, North Dakota. The car seats 40 passengers. A pllgrimage o feot from Boston te Ste Anne De Beaupre, at Quevec, has been accomplished by Father Bernard O'Kane of Brookline, Mass., and Father John Mahoney, of Brighion, Mass. The distance covered by the two priests is estimated at about 425 miles, The appearamce of Darid Belasco with bandages around his arms revealed that he was so geverely injured last Thursday in a fall from the stage of a Broadway Hinton, W. Va., July 26.—Sheriff's| theatre In New York, to the orchestra deputies_and _state police, using tear|pit that he was confined to his bed for three days. A bond of $9,000 to cover the tug William C. Bickel, under seizure by federal officers in New London, was filed in the United States court by .Capt. Fawcett. The libel of the gov- ernment isfor $75,000 alleged dam- ages covering thrice the value of a cargo of liquors said to have been carried by the fus A Royal Visitor The Maharaja, of Rajpipla, who recently arrived in this country on a sight-seeing tour. The youthfu! ruler (he is only 36 years old), heads an Important principality of 200,000 persons, a part of the pres- idency of Bombay, India. He plans to study economic and financial conditions and looks forward to Americanising his country to a certain extent. Prehibitien is com- spicuous by its absence In the list of reforms e will bring bome with him. —An imposing le-; law office is the modern glass slipper which wiil make of an American in Portland. Oregon—a twen- Should the slipper fit her foot—or. ra- Windsor Tartoue, the of Portland. and the wife of Pierre Tar- “the Count ess De Rampan and Countess De Chan- ofMctally Rampan De Chanquetot. after a friendship of years. make her a member ot the heirs to the aristocratic estate that from genera- splendid -old mansion near Cherbourg, is ess De Touqueville is the widow of Vicomte Augustin Rene Clerel De Tocqueville, an officer of the Legion WHAT CAUSED REPUBLICAN E PARTY DEFEAT IN 1912 Washington, July 26.—Defeat of the republican party in 1912 was attrl ed today in the senate by Chairman Cumber. of the finance committee. 0 the refusal of that committee thros pears previously to heed the demands of newspaper publishers that newsprint na per be placed on the free list in the Payne-Aldrich tariff act. His declara- tiou brought demands from the demoera- tic side for full details and waas fol- lowed by recitals by Senators Watson, lidiana: Smoot. Utah, and McCumbe: of incidents which, they said had ta%- en place behind the scenes In congress a | decade ago. Senator Robinson, democrat, Arkan- sas, declared that if Senator McCumber's statement that the newspapers of the country, because they could not “intime idate’ the finance committee into giviag free newsprint had trmed against the republican party and defeated it, were true, it was “a terrible indictment against the press of the United Sta‘es, a n n ‘Mme. De Tocqueville entertained in Paris in a luxurious home on the Rue|the men who own it and the men waz Viete. The Chateau De Tourlaville, a|cOntrol its policies” Asserting that he could not accept it without first having “definite and complete” information, tha Arkansas senator, and later Senator Stanley, of Kentucky. demanded that Senator McCumber give the names of rerresentaives of the publishers wh3 had made threats to the committee. Stating that he wanted to give the senate the facts,” Senator Smoot said the late John I Norris, representing tha Newspaper Publishers’ assoclation, hal arpeared before a finance sub-commi’~ tee, of which Mr. Smoot was a membar; had refused to compromise on the mate ter of duty of mewsprint and had stat ed that if a duty were imposed, “*he republican party will be driven from power.” The Utah senator said he sup=- posed this was the statement from whizh Senator McCumber had drawn his “con= clusions” and added that he did not think Mr. Norrls had been authorized by the publishers to make such a state- ment \ i MORSE DECLARES CIVIL SUITS WILL BE FOUGHT FIEST Bath. Me, July 26—The agreement made before Judge Clurence Hale in the Tnited States district court in Ports 1and Monday, whereby civil suits brought by Charles W. Morse and his assocla:ss against the United States shipping board and the Fmergency Fleet corporation will be tried before criminal charges. pend- Ing against the men, come to trial. wil stand, Morse deciared here tonight. Jn reply to a statement made in Wasn. ington today by United States Attoraey | Peyton Gordon. in which the Portiand agreement was declared to have no effact, the shipbuilder said that “if Mr. Gordon made the remarks attributed to him, the matte: too petty to discuss™ “Frém what T have seen of our civfl and criminal cases 1 have every to believe that Fletcher Dobyns. spe- clal assistant to the attorney generaal, who entered into this agreement wi: my attorneys before Judge Hale, wa clothed with full authority,” Morse saif RUSSIAN PEASANTS DIED P BEARING FOOD TO RELATIVES New York. July 26.—Numbers of Rusy sian peasants, weakened from died of starvation as they homeward from the food distributing point, in the Kazan -distrist, recently, laden with bags of the corn intended for relatives in their village, says a dess patch received today by the administras - tion headquarters here. £+ Peasants for miles aroued hearing of the coming gift from America, had waited for hours for the arrival of lhi i