Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 16, 1922, Page 1

197 VOL. LXIV—NO. POPULATION 29,685 'NORWICH, * Gemany Defauts On Pre-War Del Sends Note to Allied Govern- ments Giving Reasons for Fealure to Pay 2,000,000 .Pounds Yesterday. Beriin, Aug. 15 (By the A. P.).—The German government today addressed a note to the British, French, Italian and Belgian governments declaring that in consequenece of the demand for foreign currency to pay for -urgently needed necessaries of life. and in consequence o fthe fall in the value of the mark, it could not meet the clearing house install- ment of pounds stecling 2,000,000 due to- day in payment of prewar debts to allied natlonals, FRICE TWO CENTS STRIKE SETTLED; ORDERED T0 WORK AMoSlcnedRuwmgWagethndsmFmew thMmQuitheMmMuchSl—OpentonConmfl- m;mAmeWuflofGOOO0,000TomS:gnedth Contract—Plans for Extending the Break of the Strike HaveBeenMulebytheUnimMen. e was lssued in Rome punish- 000 railmen who participated in . eneral strike, OPERATION OF RAILWAY TOHAVE GOV'T PROTECTION Within 36 Hours President Harding Will Give to Congress and the Public Every Fact of the Railroad Strike Situa- tion as He Views It—No Room for Further Presidential Efforts for a Compromise—Leaders of Four Big Broth- erhoods Have Invited Railway Execuitves to Reopen Negotiations for a Compromise. Washington, Aug. 15.—(By the A. P.) jover some of the responsibilities of rail- +~—Congress and the country will be in-|way transportation and evea the govern- formed within 36 hours by President | ment itself in the west.” Harding of every fact in the railroad Aunicipal ferry service betweem Mll attan and Staten Island will be reduced at once because of shortage of coal. Rutherford Hayes Humter, who was deposed and dismissed as rown manager of Stratford, will accept the recall given him by vote of the new. town: council Francis John Grlfllhl. l‘!d 10, of Torrington, died of injuries received when he was thrown head first from a bicycle while coasting. William M. Wood, Jr., Son of can Woolen - Co.—Chauf- feur Also Killed Reading, Mass. Aug. 15, —Willlam M. Wood, Jr., son of William M. Wood, the president of the Americin Woolen col pany, and -Alex Gardner of North Apd- aver, were instantly killed today. when their automoblile,” after demolishing two other; cars. on the Reafllu-AnAWer t , ‘crashed into ?:i'x:;'::‘,hm:;hm’ ko ‘Cleveland, Aug. 15 (By the A. P).— Paul Rice of Shawsheen Village, the| Immediate résumption of coal production third occupant.of. the automolile wWas|yn blmmhwn ‘mines ‘scattered over seven hyrled. 20 feet into a swamp. He es- 1:4" was ordered tonight, and in some caped with a_broken rib. | places t‘he cutting” of .coal will be-started The condition of Col. Norris G. Os- born, editor of the New Havén Journal Courier, who had ~his Jower right fleg amputated, was good yesterday. Three representatives of the - Oxford TUnion, the great debating society of Ox- ford, Eng., will visit several American universities in September., erators there. The anthracite conference =et for tomorrow was postponed until g:s:m) It will be held at Philadel- No Illinois operators signed the agree- Twelve theusand workmen have joln- CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY ed the Fascisti Cooperative organization NO DEFINITE ACTION AT NEW HAVEN/CONFERENCE strike situation as he views it, and al- po—administration advisers satd today— will be given \an expression of his de- termination to give the full aid and pro- tection of the federal government t0 maintenance of railway operations, There is no room for further presiden- tial sfforts to bring about a compromise settlement of the shopmen's strike, a high offfcial at the White House said, by negotiating between managements and the unions, although the president does not wish to hinder attempts of officials of railroad unions mot on strike to mediate for thelr associates. Meanwhile there emerged today from ! the almost continuous sessions here of the transportation labor organization heads an Invithtion to the association of railway executives to re-open negotia- tions for a compromise settiement of the shopmen’s strike, the five train service brotherhoods of engineers, conductors, tralnmen, firemen and switchmen, acting for the striking crafts, Warren S. Stone, chief engineers, expressed the bellef that the extcutives would confer again, meet- tng the brotherhood spokesnfan by Thursday, and press dispatches later © rmed his eonciusion. TELLS OF ECONOMIC PLIGHT Berlin, Aug.. 15 (By the A. P).— Marks which sold at a rate of ten for a cent and less; the European situation growing out. of the deadlocked Loncon conference on a moratorium, and the Al- satian refugees gituation were some of the subjects on which Chancellor’ Wirth unbosomed himself today in the course of a frank discussion with the correspon- dent of The Associated Press. Inciden- tally he admitted that the Genman gov- ernment no longer was able to carry out 1its “progra mof fulfilimen:.” Dr Wirth was visibly depressed as he stressed the insecurity of the present European situation, especially with ref- exence to its direct bearing on Germany. “We must first safeguard the nation’s bread supply,” he declarde, “and if any gold is left after we are through paying for foreign grain we will use it to meet our reparations obligations.” The chancellor denied that Germany was attempting to evade payment and averred that the gold resoucces out of which the government had been paying the allies was now virtually exhausted. As a result. he added, it would be neoes- sary to adiust reparations payments to New Haven, Aug. 15.—No definite ac- tion was arrived at, during the confer- ence between Clinton L. Bardo, general manager of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, and the commit- tee from the Big Fouer brotherhoods which took place this afternoon. An at- tache of Mr. Bardo's office said that the meeting developed into a discussion of the condition of equipment now in use, but that neither Mr. Bardo or the com- mittee had come to any decisions. John L. Rowe of Bridgeport, chairman of the committee. said that there was nothing he could say regarding the meeting and other railroad men appeared to be equally reticent. It was announced tonight that the re- sult of the conference will be made known at a joint meeting of the Big Four brotherhoods which is scheduled to take place within a week or ten days. TWO M. C..ENGINE WIPERS ARE CHARGED WITH ARSON Aug. at Portland, Me., wipers employed 15.—Two engine the Thompson's President Harding also moved tonight | Point vards of the Maine Central rail-|the nation's financial and economic ca- aubidt Sk t -e com- | Toad were arrested today charzed with | pacity. i ':‘n,,,‘f,‘e,: ety laws which | attempted arson following an early| Calling attention to today's quotation morning fire in a roundhouse where locomotives were stored. Raymond Clark, of South Portland. the first man arrested. is alleged to have admitted to Sheriff King F. Graham that he attempted to set fire to the structure. The anthorities said that Clark implicat- ed Ernest L. Dinsmore, also of South Portland, who was then arrested. Clark denied any knowledge of the origin of the fire which damaged a score of loco- motives in this city Sunday. A blaze in the general office buflding of the Maine Central this morning was subdued by clerks. 28;0f the mark on the world bourses. the chancellor declared that if the deadlock- ed London conference had eucceeded in |2dministering such a staggering blow to German exchange, “a conference com- pigtely dominated by Poincare would have meant an end to German curren: wil com riers. shortly require withdrawals of lo- ves from service on important car- h the matter placed before W him by Chairman McChord, of the com- mission, President Harding vepucu he knew of “nothing to be done except to insist upon enforcement of the law end sald he trusted that “inspection forces would exert themselves to the ut- most in order to be able to pass upon safe equipment.’ Leaders of the striking railroad unions now in Washington indicated their dispo- eltion to await the new peace efforts of their associates, but made public their letter rejecting President Harding's fin- al proposals for a compromise settlement of the sthike. Through B. M. Jewell, their chairman, they also issued a state- ment contending that the rallroaa re- sponses to the proposals had been a de- e | @80 “proclaimed the “policy of fulfill- ment,” for which he had but indifferent parliamentary, suppért. today virtually admitted its failure, although he said he believed the government's endeavor to carTy out the program had had the prac- tical effect of proving the absurdity of the allied demands. “The nations of Eurone apparently do not vet understand one another.” said Dr. Wirth. “They appear to be steeped in the theory that coercive measures are the obvious remedy for economic ills and .conyulsions and will definitely determine the trend of economic developments.” BOMB THROWN INTO YARDS AT EVANSVILLE, IND. Evansville, Ind., Aug. 15.—A bomb was thrown inte the Chicago and East- ern Illinois railroad yards here tonight, clination. The letter, in addition to de- | The exnlosion did no damage and no one| Tpe chancelior added his anproval of claring the president’s proposals “im- | W28 RAdTMhis !"‘"“E‘d“ the time. e the spirit which marked th enegotiations practicable,” asscrted that the strikers . a9, reposted non-wiph: IS A in connection with the American-German left their fobs after the blast, refusing to | cjaimg agreement and expressed the home woek longer. No trace of the bomb- throwers has been found. would not return to work unless assured of unimpalired seniority status. The terms of the president's commun- feation to congress and the possibinty that it will contain recommendations for legislation to arm the executive in cop- ing with the situation, it was sald, will 2l depend on what events transpsre up which actuated those negotiations might be transferred to the continent of Eu- rope. Referring to the deadlocked London pourparlors, Dr. Wirth stated that the element of insecurity which resulted from SPELLACY ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR SENATE ‘ the impasse was a gravel disturbin, to the moments before he delivers tne factor in the pmsenlg silm\};ion and m% message. b A Hartford, Conn, Aug. 15—In a J|stantaneously reflected itself in the cat- Attorney General Daugherty declared |§ ;i rcnt tonight former Assistant | @strophal fall in the mark today that reports to tne justice depart- |}S* “The psychological effect of a mora- ment indicated a serious situation in|QUnited States - Attorney General f}torium on the German people becomes Kentucky, due to the tving up of many |} Thomas C. Spellacy announced his || vitiated with a currency depreciation as coal cars, but that in Iltnols, coal was |l candidacy for United States senator || W€ eXperienced it today. On this 15th being moved in spite of sporadic efforts of mine strike sympathizer to coal cars from trains. : day of August we are wholly without in- formation from the entente as regards the measure it pronoses to adont in the “eut out” | o0 the democratic ticket. Thet. WAt Wis ol el 20 near future. Meanwhile sixty million &lder that the coal strike would soon | WORKING ON THE MURDER people are left in harassing doubt with cease to be a serious factor in the sit- OF WILLIAM GIBERSON 24 helnestonanic stutwre ot fo, uation, though his message may deal e~ speak of being helpless onlookers as hun- dreds of former compatriots are forcibly being deported from. Alsace Lorraine and literally thrown on the streets as be- gars.” The chancellor then hurried off to a cabinet meeting which was to endeavor to devise means for bolstering up the mark. Other government officlals expressed the fear that Germany was heading in the same direction of Austria, which now was trying to borrow money abroad, pri- marily with the purpose of insuring the national bread supply. The press today with consequences which have to be fac- ed, as a result of that controversy. Sen- ator Lodge, the republican senate leader, has arranged a conference at the White House for tomorrow morning, to discuss the terms of the expected message. Lakehurst, N. J, Aug. 15.—Officials investigating the death of Willlam Gib- erson, retired lumber dealer, who was found in bed early yesterday shot through the head, and for which his wife is locked up at Tom's River charged with the murder, believed. tonight they soon would establish a motive for the crime. In addition to the inquiry which first centered on the discovery of many love letters, the finding.of three revolvers m and about the Giberson home and the dead man’s purse from which his money had been taken, are regarded by the in- vestigators as important clues. The of- ficials said that the weapons were hid- den after the shooting. Significance also is attached to the fact, the county authorities said, that the house was in order and showed no signs of a struggle that would support Mrs. Gibberson's statement that she fought two men who bound and gagged her and then shot and killed her hus- band. The inquiry disclosed that Mrs. Giber- son obtalned a divorce from her first husband, William Meehan, fifteen years RATLWAY EXECUTIVES To MEET BROTHERHOOD CHIEFS Ne'w York, Aug. 1 of Railway Executiv the request of the five raliroad brother- hoods for a conference looking toward the settlement of the shop crafts strike, and agreed to meet the union represen- tatives here next Thursday. R. S. Binkerd, assistant to T. Dewitt Cuyler, chairman of the Assoclation of Railway Executives, who made the an- nouncement sald that the same cOmmit- tee of rail chiefs which conferred with President Hgrding in Washington on Baturday would represent the assoclation at the conference. On the recelpt of the request from Warren S. Stone, chairman of the eon- ference on rallroad labor organizations, in Washington, to confer in an effort to avert what the union leaders termed, “the ~—The Association tonight granted amply reflects the Tageblatt expresses the opinion that the the program of fulfillment now has been demonstrated to have been a piece of im- practical optimism. The Vossische Zei- tung aseerts that today's quotation of the mark makes any criticism of the deadlock in the London . discussions su- perfluous, SHARP WAGE CUTS MADE BY CANADIAN RAIROADS Montreal, Aug h—Canadmn railways todaly cut the semi-monthly wages of their shopmen about $200,000, although erisly which s agproaching the rail- |ago, and two years later married tries- | 57000 Workers had threatened to strike roads” an Informal meeting of eastern |son. She has a son, Joseph, 17 years old, | L the action was taken before the rallroad presidents was called by Chair-| Mrs, Giberson's attorney sald tontyw | 02T OF concllation had decided te man Cuyler 3 1 that she would prove her Innocence and | orut®: that she would produce witnesses who could testify that when she was found she was securely bound. The coroner’s inquest will be held on August 29. The committee which conferred with President Harding in Washington on Sat- urday was designated to meet the repre- pentatives of the five transportation brotherhoods the engineers, firemen, conductors, brakemen and = switchmen. Mr. Cuyler !s the chalrman of this com- mittee 'The meeting will be held at the head- guarters of the Association of Railway Bxecu Railway officlals the conference ccess, # o Fuccesstul might of?: journed. The roads refused to recede from their position, insisting they had the right to enforce the cuts pending the board’s decision. Only one hope of averting a strike is left, according to labor leaders, ana that lies in the reply of the roads to Premier King, who has notified them that he endorses the opinion of the de- partment of labor and justice, that the cuts cannot be enforced until the coneu: iation board acts. If the reply is a ra- fusal, to accept the opinlon, as the work- ers expegt it will be the leaders say they will have to act immediately. OBITUARY George C. Hopkins. New Preston, Conn., Aug. 15.—George REED HAD PLURALITY OF 5,042 VOTES OVER LONG Jefferson City, Mo., Aug. 15.—(By The A. P.)—Senator James A. Reed, won the democratic nomination for Uswed States senator over Breckenridge Long, jthird assistant secretary of state In the Wilson administration, by a plurality o | 5:842 votes in the recent Missouri prim- ary, according to the official coum which was announced tonight by the sec- retary of ‘state. The vote was: Reed 195,955 ; Long, 190,013, declined to dlseuss or the chances of its 0 to designate what a culmination of the meeting be construed to mean. That the came from the flve bratherhood shiefs was natural, it was said, as the gemeral strike of shopmen s - being kandled jointly. L W. W. ACTIVE IN CONNECTION - in accordance with the reorganization C. Hopkins, 86, proprietor of a o A N N summer | plang proposed by the war office an WITH THE RAILWAY STRIKT E hote] at Lake Waramaug for half a|approved by the cablnet recently. wnd OBITUARY century, died here today. H 2P > orite il g { - ; y. HOPKins rep-|pegun Monday when 4,000 artillerymen Washington, Aug.-15—(By the A. P.) George E. Bicknell resented this district in the general as-|wers disbanded. —Attorney General Daugheriy declared | Meriden, Conn., August 15.—George T |SeMPly in 1895 and held several town - today that reports had com: 5 \no ue. | Bicknell, president for nearly 20 years|CMces at Warren, where he was born,| Douglas Fairbanks, motion picture ae- partment of justice Indizatimz “rme [ [Of the Meriden Permanent Bullding and | GUrng his lifetime. He was represen-ltor, was arrested in Pomona, Calif, on W. W's are quite active la conncction | Loan assoclation, and at present secre- | ati's Of the fourth generation-to occu-|Safurday night for speeding. He was with the rallway strikes” I e ol Honking homestead. tary and treasurer of the Merld=n sus~{ ire ang three sons. survive chine Tool company, His The attorney-general added that there The chancellor. who more than a _\ea'r- that the mutual exchange of confidences | gloom prevailing in official quarters. The | The board which was meeting | to dlscuss the question, immediately aa- | in the past few days. At Sarzana, near Genoa, 2,000 more workmen also have asked to be admitted. The Mliami-Barbadoes Western Union cable, long the subject of dispute ‘bé- tween the government and the cable company is in operation between Miami and Pernambuco, via Barbadoes. A Helsingfors dispatch to the Central News, London. sald the Russian lega- tion there announced that a Russian de- stroyer had been sunk during recent naval manoeuvers. Nathan Pycome, who cranked his car while it was in second gear in New Ha- ven, and saw it start up and crash inio a truck, was charged with reckless driv- ing. John Paight in city court in Stamford, for breach of the peace, made his 70th appearance as a defendant since Dec. 23, 1894. Fifty-eight times Paight was charged with drunkenness, A dynamite explosion dpmaged the 400-foot St. Louis and San Francisco railroad br.dge across the sac river at Ash Grove. 15 miles northwest ol Springfield, Mo, James F. Pershing, Jr., nephew of General John J. Pershing, resigned as iassistant federal prohibition director for New York state, giving as his reason that the work was “very distasteful.” Congresslonal investigution of labor conditions in tha cotton industry in New England, was called for in a resolution introduced yesterday by Representative Maloney, republican, Masachusetts, Andrew Bunkum went into a restau- rant in Bridgeport and ordered a meal. 1t was spread before him and just as he began to eat he fell over to the floor and died of heart trouble. William J¥alsh_ of the carmen's unlon of Boston was nominated without op- Dosition for president of the state branch of the American Federation of Labor at its annual convention. Two bables born on stranded trains at Seligman, Arizona, were among four hundred passengers returned to San Ber- nardino, Calif. after four hot days and nights in the desert. The resignaion of John T. Texas, as a member of the Brazilian jcentennial commission, will be accepted by President Harding but no successor 1 be named, 1t was stated yesterday at the White House, irby of In a finding made public yesterday “oroner Stephen B. Davis exonerated {George 1. Black of Mliddletown, Conn., whose automobile struck and killed Aloysius Drennan at Deep River on July 29. The next hearing on the application of the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford Railroad for a temporary injunc- tion against the striking shopmen wil be held Thursday morning at 10 o'- clock at South Norwalk before Federal Judge Thomas. The president’s office, general financial headquarters, general] accounting offices and the general sales offices of - the Wickwire Spencer Steel . corporation, “Worcester, are to be moved to New York at once. The police are without clues as to the identity of the burglars who early Mon- day morning stole jewels vaiued at $7,- 000 from the summer home of George E. Tener of Pittsburgh, in Glouces Mass., a brother of former Governos Tener of Pennsylvania. Relatives of Mrs. Myrtle Fortney, 18, who disappeared from her home in Tra- vers City, Mich., Sunday, continued to insist she was kidnapped by three men who seized her, tied her into the seat of an airplane and flew away. Evan Burrows Fontalne, dancer, Los Angeles, will ask a court order to com- pel Cornelius Vandervile Whitney to ; submit to a comparison blood test in her attempt to prove he is the father of her 18-months-old son. Seventy-five members of the Motor Hearse Owners' association, New York, protested against the action of prohibi- tion agents, who, they declare, hava been stopping hearses on Long Island to search for liquor. No evidence indicating foul play was produced at the inquest held yesterday {by Coroner S. B. Davis into the death of Vernon E. Mather, whose body was found at the home of S. B. Platt in Es- |sex on' August 1 under mysterious: cir- cumstances. Mrs, Elizabeth Sturmer Huge, wlife of former High Sheriff Philip Hugo of w Haven county, died at her home in ew Haven after 2 long lliness. She was 80 years of age, a native of Bava- ria. The reduction of the Japanese army sajd to have been driving 35 miles an e Rt hour. His wife, Mary Pickford, was was no datailed informatien in the |after a long illness. He was born in ‘. s with him. Fairbanks will appear for hands of the department but he was sat- | Belfast, Maine, November 25, 1851. He s P::::;f;i:o BE AT, jtrial August 22. isfled from the meneral information re- |served in the city council, was 4 po- SETT FIER TODAY| il i S i eefvad that a relaxation ex's batween | lice commissioner, represented Meriden |, = BIA00- OF FIgy il oage o searohing. the be v 2 % oston, Aug. 15.—Gener: s 1 - the strikers and activities of the I W.|in the house of representatives at Hari- | expested to wicive ot N:r:‘hlg::;:t’:m}giet gt h;’gf 200, e SR w. s S ford from 1901 fo 1905, and was the R I. by airplne tomorrow to witness FMrs, B. S. Craib of St. Louis some time “There are Indications,” said Mr. | first member of the senate from tae new the polo match between the Army and Meadow Brook teams for the’ junior championship, according to ceived here today. Daugherty in 2 statément t newsyancr- men at the department of justi \at the I W. W.'s aré ever willing to take thirteenth district, 1905 and 1906. Mr, Bicknell was prominent in Free Mason- Two children: and a brother survive. 4 - word re-| Kelly. f between July 29, and August 5, while she was a guest of her sister, Mrs. Isaac of St. Louis at “Shore Acres” Narragansett Pier, — % = | side with another bi, The mer were killed at & volnl known locally . as Deadman’s” Curve which has been. the’ scene of a number ' of (métor | accidents in recent years. - According to .the police of - Reading, Wood' Gardner’ were driving .a heavy car :t high' rate of speéd. They passed through Reading square and went down’_the b levard towatd . Andover, racing side By car, the police ‘de- clared. At the curve, hal! a mile from Read- ing square, Wood's automobile overtook |- a smaller machine, struc< it and ré- duced it to junk. 1 Edward Br ckett of Wakefield, and Samiuel Ramsey of Med- ford, the occupants.of the small car, were thrown clear of the roadway, both suffering. fractured limbs. "They were taken to a hospital at Winchester. Another car headed in the direction of Reading was stopped by the = wayside. The Wood automobile crashed into thi also, smashing it up. Charles McCar. thy of Dorchester and John McLean of Boston, seated in this machine, were shaken up but not seriously injured. . Wood's car then left the road and plunged into the telegraph pole. Young Wood and Gardner were hurled againét the pole and crushed. Both were killed instantly. their skulls and limbs being fractured. Police tonight were looking for th driver of the automobile with which. they said. Wood and Gardner appeared to be racing before the crash. It con- tinued down the bonlevard after the ac- cident, according to the authorities, without even slackéning speed. Its number, as réported by -vitnesses. was that of a car reglisterd by a Brooklyn man. William M, Wood came here as soon as the news of his son's’ death 'reached him and took the body te his home at North Andover. Gardner's body was ré- moved to a local undertaker's establish- ment. WOoOD’'Ss BOPY BROUGHT TO HIS HOME IN ANDOVER £33 Andover, Mass,, Aug. 15.—William M. ‘Wood, president of the American Woolen returned te hi= home here to- M.. Jr., who was Kkilled late today in an automobile accident at Reading. William M. Wood, Jr.. who was 20 years of age, was married seven years ago to Miss Edith Robinson of Louis- ville, Ky. Mrs. Wood left their two children at Kennebunkport, Me., where she had been spending the summer, and came to Lawrence tomight by seaplane, comnleling the journey here by auto- mob! The dead man was educated at .S€ George's school, Newvort, R. 1. and at Harvard. He worked in the milis of the American Woolen company at Lawrence on graduation, and later entered the Boston office of the company. Four years ago he succeeded his uncle, Frederick Aver, as a director and first vice presi- dent of the company, later resigning the vice presidency to go into business asa wool broker. Alex Gardner of North Andover, who was also in the automobile accident, was a resident member in America of the firm of Dawson -& Son, wool brokers. of London, England. Gardner was married last spring, and Mrs. Gardner' was spending the summer with Mrs. Wood at Kennebunkport, READY TO ATTEMPT TO SWIM ENGLISH CHANNEL Dover, England, August 15.—(By the A. P.)—Charles Toth, the Boston long distance swimmer is fit and ready for his attempt to swim the English. chan- nel to the French-shore. It is belicved the weather conditions for the “naxi twenty-four hours - will be unfavor- able, although for the next tiree -days the tides will be propitious: ~The. tem- perature of the water is slowly rising, but a strong breeze for sevaral days has made ‘the sea lumpy. Toth told the Associated Press that he was leaving - himself entirely ' in the hands of his local pilot, Jack Weidman, and that he is‘ready to taks the water immediately he gets the word Toth has been training assidiously - for * his task, and Weidman today. expresselthe wpirs jon that he will be able to stay/in the water swimming for twenty four hours, if this should be required to reach the French shore. Sam Richards of Boston, Henry Sul- livan of Lowell, Mass, and Waiter Pat- terson of Bridgeport, Cenn., also are in steady training with the cross-cnannel swim as their objective. Richards and Sullivan probably will make . thei: not long after Toth has 131 e wie. is not expected, however, thut Paif son will make his attempt until a forte night hence. BTEPBE\S LEADS VAIBA)!A' g IN !l!!l.!n?l lelY Jackson, Miss,' Aug. 15, — Hubart Stephens, former member of congress from the Second Mississippi distriet, was leading former Unitéa States Suuwr James K. Vardaman by 4,937 votes in the contest for the demoeratic -nomina- tion for the United States = senatorfa! nomination on the face- of incomplets unofficial _yeturns from - 50 of the 82 counties at 10.30 o'clock tonight. * The figures give Stephens 33,991; Vardaman 29,954 and Miss Kearney 9,- 041, Unless either camdidate —receives a majority of the vote cast in today's state- wide primary, asecond primary will be necessary to decide the issue. LR $50,000 SUIT AGAINST THE GOVERNOR OF MISSISSIPPI Memphis, Tenn.. Aug. 15.—Miss Fran- ces Birkhead of New Orleans today filed suit for $50,000 damages against Gover- nor Lee M. Russell of Mississippi in the United States district court at Oxford. Miss Birkhead, as in her two previous suigs against the governor, alleges seduc- tion. under promise of macriage. / Service was secured -by federal court officers on Governor Russell when he re- day. uum-mmm and |@8veemént ‘renewing the wage contracts | | | ment, but one of them, Richard Campbeil, of Springfield, attending the conference, Mr. Farrington. the district leader of the miners, declaced that he hoped to have all I¥inoie mines opened at the same time, and Mr. Campbe!l said he hoped that an early settlement would be reach- ed by the union leade: 1 the Tilinols operators’ association. which refused to join in the conference h tomorrow. :'Orders for miners to return Wwork. were sent by district union offi- cials' ‘after’ operators .had signed an that werein férce: when the men quit the hities’ last -March 31. The -formal break in the strike came at_ 310 o, m, when the scale agreement was adopted by’ the’ unanimous vote of miners and_opefators at théir joint con- feunce e “ genéral agreement then | was signed by T. K. Maher of Cleveland, an operaior, as chairman of the confe ence. and William Green, a miner. as its secretary. = Supplemental agreements be- tween operators: and state union ‘officials ‘were, then' executed, with-thie union chiefs RS WILL FEEL LEGAL ARM OF GOVERNMENT COAL PROFITE Washington, Aus. 15.—Congress will be called upon for legal weapons to arm the government for war against. coal by = " profiteers, it was announced today by Wiring jocal unlons that work might be|yigh administration officials. Legisiation et Jobin L. Lewis of the miners) ™ill be required. it was declared, to as- sure price contro] and equitable distri- bution of fuel, even in the event of a settlement of the whole national coal controvers; Coal operators, Secretary Hoover stat- ed, were break away from the volun- tary fair price agreements, excep® in some districts In Virginia and West he declared. must g charges and at authorize the continuance ribution machinery now unteer services which said’ that operators controlling an annual outpwt' of anproximately 60,000,000 tons had signed the agreement. Their mine he said, were in West Virginia, Penns vania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Oklaho- ma and Washington. James Paisiey, one of the big operators signing the agree- ment, announced -that his mines in Charlestown, Fairmont, Eim Grove and Morgantown, .W. Va., Valley Camp and Monongahela City. Pa., and Lafferty and Stuartsville, 0., would be opened tomor- Tow. Plans for extending the break of the strike also were laid by the union men. Frank Farrington, the [Iilinois miners’ president, announced that he would ask the Mlinoie operafors to meet the unions district scale committee at Ci go on Friday. John Hessler. head of the In- diana miners, also asked the Indiana op- érators to join in a &cale conferénce at Térce Hauté on the same day. Van A. Bitther, statistician for the international union, announced that operators from Kansas, Missouri, Okiahoma, Texas and Arkansas would be asked to meet with the ‘union at Kansas City next Tuesday. Under the policy laid down today by the union, operators will be required to accept the interstate aereement made at the general conference hcre as the base for ‘their contracts with the union. This agreement: brovides for the re-establish- ment of ‘¢he - wage ‘contracts which in- ciudes the “check-Off” of union dues, that were in foree last March 31, with the new contract 16 run until ‘March 31. 1923 Further, the agfoément provides for cre- ation' of an advisory fact-finding cemmis- sion, a meeting being called of all soft coal’ operators for next October to effect thé selection of the commission. Both the miners and the operators held separate meetings to ratify the agree- ment before joining jn the afternoon con- ference, where unanimous approval was voted, ‘to be followed by the signing of the document. Mr. Lewis -and other union officlals wiil remain here tomorrow to' conclude con- ference with operators ‘but most of th miners’ " officiale ' left tonight for their homes to ssek negotiations with the op- s the same tim: of the feder: functioning b could not continue indefinitely. Mr. Hoover indicated that about @ week's study of the situation and the ef- fect of the Cleveland agreement on pro- would be required before the ion could be framed TO PAY FOR DISTRIBUTION OF COAL IN THIS STATE Hartford, Aug. 15.—As a means of guaranteeing that coal assigned to this state by the Hoover commission at Washington will be paid for, §50.000 has been set up by a special financs com- mitttee appointed by Governer Lake te share with the state fuel distribution commisision. This step was decided at a meeting of the commitiee today at the capitol. The members of the committee &re: Samuel Ferguson, vice president of the Hartford Electric Light company, chair; Morgan G. Bulkeley, jr., treasurer of the Aetna Life Insurance company; Joha O. Enders, president of the U. S. Bank of Hartford, James A. Hamilton . of New Haven, Charles L. Sanford. of Bridge- port and John A. Elton of Waterbury. Much more than $50,000 will be needed to fulfill the needs of the distribution stem, it is expected,”and the commit- tee stands ready to swell the figures to the required sum when the situation aris- es. All coal shipped to this state wiil bs consigned to a single consignee, it war explained and will be distributed by him to a district consiglee in various parts of the state in accordance with coal re- quirements. BRAZIL BOUND FLYING CONDITION OF GABRIELE BOAT DAMAGED IN ALIGHTING D'ANNUNZIO IS ALARMING New ' York, Aug. 15.—The giant fly-| Gardone Riviera, Italy. Aug. 15 (By the ing boat Sampaio Correia, . primed to|{A. P.)—Phy ns attending Gabriele take off at dawn tomorrow on the first D’Annunzio. leg of a flight to Brazll, lay crippled up who effects a fall ‘\m(.-n s suffering from the are beginning to the waters of the Hudson tonight. show consideral anxiety over the fael Her crew of five, assisted by me-|that his. condition is remaining station- chanics, expected to get her away on|ary. The symptoms of cerebral commao- schedule time, however, ‘as they worked hurrledly under electric lights replac- ing the pontoon smashed this afternoon when the seaplane under electric lights replacing the pontoon smashed this af- ternoon when the seaplane side-slipped in_alighting after a fight from Rocka- way. A box of lemons caused the accl- dent, which for a time threatened to de- lay the departure of the seaplane on the first air voyage _between North and Séuth America. tion have not yet subsided, while his tem- perature, though not very high, remains at the 100 point. With a suffused, dusky countenance, drooping eyelids, dilation of the pupil in the right eye palior of the skin and coldness of the extremeties, the doctors say there secems to be no doubf that the brain was more or less severely shaken. Prof. -Rafaele Basitanelli, the sucgeon, has visited D'Nnnunzio agreed with the diagnosis of Dr. noted and Duse P 'As the ‘boat, with her engine cut off,|and the consulting physicians. swooped down toward the water, the| The physicians are at the bedside al- pilot, Waiter, Hingon, noticed the box of | most constantly, applying counter-frri- tants to D'Annunzio’s neck in an attempt to secure arterial contraction. Hot appli- cations are aiso being placed. on - the limbs so as to cause local afflux of the blood. thus lessening the tendency to en- cephalic enlargement. Cold compresser applied to the head apparently afford some relief to the natient. It has been pointed out by the doctors that the vaso- motor svstem of the poct-soldiec shows extraordinary sensitiveness considering his age. 3 D'Annunzio is being nuecsed alternately by his son, Mario, Deputy Finzi and the aviator Eugenio Casagrande. King Victor Emmanuel. Premier Facta and many prominent political leaders, ir. respective of party, have sent messages of sympathy to the D'Annunzio villa BONDING COMPANY SENDS BRIDGEPORT $40.000 CHECK sour_ fruit floating just under the sur- face. ‘He tipped ‘the plane to starboard to avoid hitting_ it, the flying .boat slip- péd ‘and the .end, of the right lower wing went _under the water with a great splash.” When she got back on.an even Keel and came to a halt, wne pontoon on| the end of the wing was found cracked apén like an oyster. The fabric above it was badly torn. “In a few minutes -telephone messages to the naval station at Philadelphia, where the seaplane ‘was outfitted, suc- ceeded in getting another pontoon on the way aboard an express train. Be- cause .of the accident, the program for c.hflstenhu the Sampaio Correia this af- ternoon: at.:the vacht- club mooring -and then driving her back to Rockaway for the start down the coast tomorrow, had to' be “abandoned. - Instead, mechanics were summoned, the baptism was called off, ‘and it was. decided to go straight from the ~Hudson to Charleston. instead of/ stopping for a call“at Rockaway. . Hundreds were_watching_ the big air crulser when the accident occurred. but few of them knew anything was wrong. They waited on the bank for hours wait- ing to see the ceremonies that were not to T Bridgeport, August 15.—Mayor Fred Atwater received a check for $40,000 this morning from a Maasachusstts bonding company covering the bomd of Edward F. Smith, former tax chllector here, who disappeared last May, shortly before a shortage of $85,000 was dis- covered in his accounts. B. F. Cocney, local repres:atative ef the bonding company received the check this morning and turned it over to Mavor Atwater. In making the payment Mr. Cooney said that the bonding company was satisfled with the audit of ths tax books ‘made by City Auditor Bernard F. Keating, which revealed the shortage. A warrent for Smith's arrest charging embezzlement was issued May 31 of this year but he was never founi be. Tonight the hydro-airplane was equip- ped: with a radio receiving set capable of receiving messages sent by Instru- ments a thousand miles away. The par- ticular_purpose of this 1s to permit: the fiiers to receive weather reports while! én. route. . They will cross part of .the gulf and the - Caribbean, the region ‘where ‘West Indian hurricanes some- times rage during the closing weeks of summier. 5 NEW YORK CABARETY NOW “MUST CLOSE AT ' A, M. New York, Aug. 15.—Broadway's glit- tering lights and its midnight dance clubs both went out together at 1 o'clock this morning. when the police quietly but firm- ly stopped all dancing and cabarets at that hour. The recent gangster hattle outside one of the hectic resorts in which a man was shot and killed and a cabaret proprietor held was given as the cause for the order. The police edict spread consternation among the night moths who formerty fluttered to the tune of jazz orchestras until dayoreak. e s e LT NORWALK COUNCILMAN OUSTED FOR MALFEASANCE Norwalk, Conn., August 15—C. Jack- son White has received formal notifica- tion that the council has dismissed him as a member on the charge of malfcas- ance in office. Counsel for White has stated that an appeal will be n to the courts and an orde rwill be. asked {or at opce made returnable to the su- The police | Perior court at Bridgeport next mofth, turned to his home.at Oxford to vote ¢o- { announced that the 1 o'clock clnflns law This will require issuance of papers D" woulflboltfleuym _fore August 24.