Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 30, 1922, Page 1

RRABACKVOTERS TE REPUBLEAN Ullman Adherents Win Republican Caucuses in New Haven, Bridgeport, Meriden, Stratford and Greenwich—In New Haven Ullman Delegates Were Elected in 30 of the 33 Wards—in Eridgeport John T. King Succeeded in " Defeating Tickst Backed ” Other Towns Are Favorable for Continuance of Rora- back as Chairman of the Republigan Shte Central Com- mittee. Hartford, Aug Henry Roraback to the chairmanship of the state central committee is assured by a 3 to 1 vote according to the Hart- ford Courant, basing its believ on re- turns from more than 100 towns through- out the state. Hartford county, in towns which voted in the republican caucus tonight went to Rorabadi except the seventh dis- trict which went Frank E.- Healy, a .supporter of Colonel Isaac M. Ul man New Haven, Meriden. Bridzeport and Norwalk were conceded to the Ullman faction while the rest of the state was predicted as going in the Roraback col- umn. WINE IN 30 OF 33 WARDS IN NEW HAVEN TLLMAN 3 Delegates to Colénel Isaac elected in 30 of the were 83 wards at the vepublican caucus here tonight. The Uilman forces carried 112 delegates out of 122 These delegats meet at the city ronvéntion Thursd night when 12 of their number will be elected t5 repre- dent this city at the state convention Bridgeport Anti-Rerabed| Bridgeport, Aug. maries. in this In a sweeping victory publican organization. King, over the Republican Voters' League, Inc.. which was backed by all of the Roraback influence in the eity The regular ticket was successful in the first, second, fourth eighth, ninth, ténth And the tweifth districts where there was a straight contest against King, and kas representation upon tickets in the third, fifth, and seventh, where there were joint tickets without contests, and ‘aims the délegates upon tickets in the xth, - backed by the Voters' League. and the cleyenth, where there were dis- triet contests. This will give the King party control of the three state ceniral tommittee men from this eity, “'A de- termined fight yas made by Roraback mants in the ninth tenth and ‘welfth districts, comprising the twenty third zenatorial district, = to defeat Howard S. Challenger renomination to the senate, but it f , regular tick- ets winning by & two to one vote in every instance. The city conventicn for selection of delegates to the various con- ventions will be held Thursday night. Strattord For Ullman. Stratford, Aug. 20.—The people's gen- eral committee won a sweeping via- tory tonight when its members gained control of the republican town caucus mnd elected its complete slate of town tommitteemen and convention delegates. Every effort was made by the Old Guard or so-called “politicians” to defeat the pebple’s slate. Delegates to the state convention, who wre claimed 1o be anti-Roraback: Charles E. - Wheeler, - William “A. Stagg, Mrs. H. Leroy Lewis, and Mrs. Jeremiah Kenne- ay. Vi 29.—The republican ! v tonight resulted for the regular re- led by John T. . Regulars Win {n Waterbury. Waterbury,. Aug. 20.—Tbe regular re- publican primary ticket was unanimously chosen’ ar the republican’primaries here today. Delegates chosen will meet in local conventions Friday and choose del- egatés to represent the city at the state, € ssional. Bounty and probate cons There was only one ticket pre- tonight. None of the delegates ingtructed but those seiected at undoubtedly . will were the conventions Friday be Meriden For Tliman, % Meriden, Aug. 20.—Sarah W. Cham- beridin, George B. Crowell, Fitzpatrick, Eugene P. Golden, Charles A Xaschub and Ida 1. Pooley were slected delegates to the republican state sonvention at the primaries held here this evening. This is the complete slate of delegates which are supporting the Ullman-King- Healy faction of the republican party, and it is expected they will vote for Charles A. Gates, of Willimantic, for shairman of the state central commit- tee.. The Roraback delegation was ‘de- leated by about forty votes. The oniy contest at the primaries other than the one over the state delegation wids over the chairmanship of the town commigtee. Henry Dryhurst, former postmasted and chairman for several ¥ears was defeated by Maleolm King, the candidate of the anti-Roraback fac- tion by only two votes. Greenwich ‘for Ullman Greenwich, Comm., Aug. 29.—Four dele- gates were elected here tonignt al the re- publican caucus to attend tie republican staie conyention which will bs hell at ew Haven, September 12 and 12. Two men and two women were alasted, making equal representation vf the sexes on the delegation. This is the first time women have been elected on an equality with men on a ¥tate convention delegation, aecording to James F. Walsh, chairman of th: publican town commiitee. Those elected for the stale convention were: James F. Walsh, James R. Meaa, Mary C. Ray and Jennie E. Stevens. 1t was announced that they ‘wouaid support Colonel Isaac M. Uliman. Roraback Wins in Plainvilla. Plainville, Conn.. Aug. "9.--Jamss H. Trumbull, and Edwin H. Hills were elect- »d at the republican caucus tonight to act as delegates at the repabl®an state tonvention this year. in a statement to the Associated Press, Mr. Trumoull sai “We are both unqualifiedly for Ruca- re- The fifth republican district will hoid n election here Saturday for esenta- tive on the state central mmittee. fames H. Trumbull, the present reprs- s.ntative will be opposed by Judge Wil- jam J. Malone. Danbury Distriet for Roraback Danbury, Conn., Aug. 29.—Mayor Wil- llam C. Gilbert will head the republican delegation from this elty ta the - state)] convention at:New Haven. Ochers elect~ at the party caucus here toight were 20.—Re-efection of J. ! Represertative George W. Anre: | resentative A. Homer Fillow and Charles ‘Rep- 8. Peck. Reports from Ridgefield show the fcl- lowing. delegates elected, darvay F'. B sell, Seth Low Pierpont, W. C. Barhite and Miss May Hoyt. The following delegates were elezted in Bethel: ' Representative Albert J. Mag- nus and Charls H. Hart. Political followers in this district say the delegates clected from these thres towns are counted as supporters of J. Hénry -Roraback for chairmdi of tnc central committee, —_———— MOORE LEADS JOHNSON, IN CALIFORNIA PRIMARY San Francisco, Cali.. Aug. 29. — In- complete returns from 147 precincts scattered throughout the. state, heaviest ym give for republican nomination . for ‘Un- ited States senator: Moore 5,237; John- son 2,636, IN SOUTH CAROLINA BLEASE LEADS McLEOD Charlestown, 8. C., Aug. 29.—With [ 67,099 votes reported from today’s demo- cratic primary. the News and Courier's figures gave Cole I. Blease 30,135 and T. G. McLeod 24,848, It appeared cer- tain there would De a second primary between Blease and MloLeod. Montana Frimary. Helena, Mont., Aug. 28.—Farly re- turns aimost entirely from city preeincts, give Attorney Genéral' Wellington D. Rankin. a slight lead for the republican nomination for United States senator, over Representative Carl Riddick, FORD NOT BLUFFING IN HIS THREAT TO SHUT DOWN Detr 48 Mich: that ‘Hia “Ford ‘was in Final Vote on Bill ol fto Tecord vote the debt in finan: settlement option in the house measure. Then “it quit for ‘the day with a final|- vote on the bonus measure at least one; Nations has been instructed to vote for and perhaps two or three days distant.|the admission of German The amendment authorizing the pay-|if she applies. ment of the bonus charge with the in- terest on the eleven -billions of dollars owed the United “States by the alied|pe nations was rroposed by Senator Sim- mons, democrat, North Carolina. He and “Senator Reed,- democrat, I not only of meeting Presidént Hardinz's requirement that the bill carry a means of financing, but also of ‘silencing the talk’ about the cancellation of the fore- ign _debt. . The , Smith-MeNary'. . reclamation amendment was ‘agreed to by a vote of 43 to 26. Party lines disappeaged on ‘the: roll call, :23 republicans and” 20 democratis” posing it. 1 of the senators from the far western states voted for the pro. posal’and all of those from: the Nesw England states voteu against it. 7T PR, LIQUOR STOLEN BY FIEW OF PROHIBITION BOAT Providence, R. I, Aug. 23.—Members * the| of tho United States .Prohibition boat) being from Los Angeles, | Hahi stole at least five ¢ases of liguor from the cargo of .the British schooner Marina at Newport, Saturday evening, August .12, after the . boat had been seized off Block Island, and for several days’ while guarding the ,ship at the state pler, this city, were hilariously darunk according to a statement made afternoon by Captain Archie Went- zell, skipper Of the schooner. . Wentzell told his story to United States Marshal Willam R. Rodman, and his deputies directly after he' and ‘his crew of five had been placed under arrest for al leged violations of sthe’ national prohi- bition act. That members of the crew did tate at least five cases of Fguor off the schoon- er and carried the same -aboard the pa- tro] boat-Hahn was admitted in United States oustoms circles today. = United States Deputy Collector of Customs Jeremiah Dillon, of New London tas at Newport at the time and upon com- plaint of Captain Wentzell ‘that mem- bers of the crew of the Hahn were tak- i ordered the liquor placed back on the Captain Tawes, of the Hahn his decision ito 'sbift -down ;his iz~ gutn- [0 ¢ mobile ulants here on September 16, as part of a fight against what he terms a “hold-up’- on the partof coal brokers, | transporting lifior in violation of the Rnd deniar. of verlous Teports that eairs: | DaHonal proniBition law” and also. with €8 other than the fuel shortage were | CORSiring to violate the sa a responsible for his action. were made |Pieaded not guilty in court this morning today at the Detroit manufacturer’s of- [and each is being held under bal fices. A report from Louisville that when charged with unlawfully possessing and same law, for trial Friday morning. Wentzell aenied bein gwithin the three mile limit. when the 75,000 Ford workeérs In the Detroit | 1S Vessél was seized by the Hahn. and district were released on September 18, Mr. Ford would advise them to- take employment with the railroads in an ef- fort to break the rall strike, was denied emphatically. . The. statement.was. .term-. ed ridiculous. “There may be individ- ual cases of Ford workers. anticipating: the lack of employme;t making appli- cation for work wilh the railroads,” not going to advise the men to attempt to break the rail strike.” Another report that met emphatic de- nial was that lack of business figured in the decisionto close the. plants. Fgures were cited to refute it. GENEEAL STRIKE IN FRANCE HAS PASSED OFF QUIETLY |ground that , insufficient Paris, Aug: 29.—(By the A, P) ‘With the exception of a few .minor.-int cidents. in. the manufacturing - su'§irdbs today, the so-called ' 24 “hours géneral strike -which had been ordered by the Extremist Labor Federation in -sympa- thy with the Havre strikers and in op- position to the .conservative labor fed- eration, passed .off quietly A" heavy raln began faling this evening, which seems to indicaté that no .trouble is ikely tonight. % Even the communist eversng newspa- mper does not claim that thz new general labor ccnfederation's strike ~ has met with great ruccess. SET NEW HIGH RECORD FOR STRIKE COAL LOADINGS ‘Washington, Aug. 20.—Figures seting another high record for daily ceal load- ings during the strike period, made pub- the Association of Rallroad Executives, showed that on Saturday last, the cars loaded . totaled 22,173; exceeding by 312 the total for Friday. The total for the whole of last week was announced as 117,730 cars, or approximately 6,300, 000 tons. Pri{iminary figures lon loadings coz) Yor yvey §-day reomived fov t § Central Fuel Distribution Committee dicated a total of about 25,000 cars. MILLIONAIRE HELD IN CONNECTION WITH MURDER Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 29.—Owen De- witt, said to be a millionaire realty op- erator of Rochestern, N. Y., was taken into custody here late this afternoon at the Onondaga hotel at the request of police of Rochester, who are said to be seeking him to explain ' his connection with the slaying of Frank O’Connor, a tallor in Rochester last night. DeWitt will be taken back to Rochester tonight. BUDDIES OFFEE SKIN TO SAVE BURNED COMERADE'S LIFE Springfield, Aug. 29 —Four ecomrades of Private William E. Davis of the 101st Motor Transport Company, who was critically burne® last month at Camp Devens while extinguishing a gasoline fire have volunteered to contribute two square feet of skin which is to be graft- ed to Davis’ body In the hope of saving his life and preventing deformity. BUT TWO OF 322 PASSENGERS ON/!“AMEI ITATA BAVED Santiago, Chile, August 20.—(By the A. P.)—Only six persons, including two passsngers, out of a total of 322 on board the Chilean steasmhip ltata were saved when the vessel sank off the Chilean coast near Coquimbo. In the game of life ‘diamonds are trumps only when a man had a good deal | the | Pr® hands of the raiders. MRS. GIBERSON HELD -FOR MURDER.OF HUSBAND husband William “Giberson, who of today was held :without bail grand jury. The prosecution presented - but . one ‘witness, county Deteetive-- Ellls -Parker, He told of finding of Bergen ccunty. £ a revoiver in a shed near the Giberson home. ~Counsel “or Mrs. Giberson moved for' a dismissal of ‘the charge on the evidence been submitted.: “I’'do not see, thousand times nét be,” said ‘Justice of the Peace Willets, quoting an_old sro- veérb in denying.the motion, “but as an officer sworn 1o, do his duty .over the evidence submitted, it hold Mrs. Giberson for the ~grand jury.” * AV “The judge was more scared than L” Mrs. Giberson confided to the sheriff as she was being taken back to her cell LOWER RENT CONDITIONAL ON ADVERTISING BUILDING 2 Chicago, Aug. unusual down-town 1lease:was announced today, the terms of which disclosed that: a reduction of $1,000 a year in the rent- al of a .shop had been specified on conc:- tion that the tenant spend.'$5,000 a year in advertising and in each advertisement should-mention the.building. = Rapresent- atives of .Gordon Strong, owner of the bullding, said- he believed the value cf the advertising would far excoed the dif- ference in rent allowed the Torrington company, of Torrington, Conu., the les- see. FAILED TO LIVE UP TO PRE-UPTIAL AGREEMENTS Milwaukee, Aug. 29.—An experiment in a love bonus was a failure - for-- Adolph Loose, according ‘to an answer - to his wife’s divorce petition filed “today. He is 61, she 49, and they ‘were mar- ried in August, 1921 Loose said He and his wife signed a -nuptial agreement by which she was to receive $500 for every year of hap- piness ~she- gave him. This - bonus plap was to last ten years, but it petered out in a few months and each now canarg- es the other with desertion. HERRIN MASSACEE WITNESS DECLINED TO TESTIFY Marion, Tll, Aug. 29.—(By.the A. P.) —Orne witness-before the grand jury m- vestigating the Herrin massacre refused to answer any questions today, ‘t was learned and was placed in custody of Sheriff Melyin Thaxton. He will Ye giv- en a hearing before Circuit Judge Hart- well and given a opportunity to =xplain his refusal to testify.. The witness' name with - withheld. NO-LONGER-SKIRT LEAGUE = FORMED BY MONTREAL GIRLS Montreal, Aug. 29.—Twenty of Mon- treal's smartest and prettiest - girls, re- bélling against the attempt of style cre- ators to foist long skirts on women, rav: formed a ‘“no-longer-skirt league.” Main- bers are pledged to cling to the = abbrevi- atefl varisty and do all they can to in~ duc= - other young womeén to keep ‘their skirts ‘short. Washington. -Aug, 29. — Without: a ® senate - approved today the use of the interest on the foreign ‘soldiers’ ~ bonus. Also " it substituted the ' Smith-McNary $350,000,000 reclamation bill for the land Missourt, and- other members urged it as a. means supporting the amendment and 18 republicans and § democrats op- | ng cases of liquor out of the cargo! complained of rough tregtment at the ..Tom’s River, N. I, Aug. 23.—Plead- ing not guilty to a charge of killing her was it was stated, “but Mr. Ford certainly is |found slain’ in his bed on the morning August 14 last, Mrs. Iyy Gibérson for ‘the had and ‘would' rather a is- my duty to the acticn of .—Negotiations of -an| in Boston ‘since Fa- total rainfall 4 until noongMonday was 3.45 inches. | « " Coal of Nova Scotia will back Itm.hyuulnd of the week, n?l: Ppredicted.” . - ST 3 Larty Fernia, or Tert i Mass., was bound | zrand jury after a rriet of? Springfield, ver: to ithe federal ring on.a charge Fire destroyed Carroll Inn and a ga- and several motorcycles were\burned, the total loss being $15,000. M. M. Spring of Portland, Me. planned to make a record auto run of 100 hours from Portland, Oregon, failed by, 19 hours. F 3 The Swiss delegation to the league of Yy to the leagu : i Tobacco users paid almost nine per nt of the. $3,197,000,000 in internal mev- enue received by the government 1in the fiscal year of 1922, B Max Zeitler, maker of. the. present great seal of the United States, andya widely known steel engraver, died ’ Philadelphia. He was 68 years old. The FEastern Steamship Lines | nounced a reduction of practically five per cent. in freight rates between Ne: York and Portland, effective ; September, 5th. I | Mrs. Esther Munhall Schwab, aged 50. ’wxaow-,or‘:osanh E. Schwab, brother of { Charles M. Schwab, steel magmate, died at'the Schwab summer home at Loretta, Pa. i Sir James Craig. o conferred with Winston Churchill, the Colonial secretary, on the Irish situation’ arising out of the deaths of Arthur Grif-/ fith and Michael Collins. Ulster premier | i T Doctors, not lawyers, probably will have thé last word in the approaching legal contest over the huge estate left by Viscount Northeliffe, aocording ‘to ‘the London Daily (Express. Nearly 50,000 more men voters than ‘Wwomen are registered in Boston for the September primary according to the fig- ures made -public by the registration of- ficials. New . regulasions covering distribution of .wine for sacrimental purposes in ac- cord with ths recent opinion of Attoriey General Dausherly were issued by In- ternal. Revenue ‘ommissicner Blair, o become effective Saptember 135, Two men were convicted in Bosten on Saturday of the murder of Sfichael Sear- pone. In less than 24 hours _wedding bells were ringing for the murdercd man’s ‘widow as she was led to the al tar by Guirino Culangelo. b successes against the. Greek, 1 in’ Asia’ Minor by the Turkisi nationalists are ciaimed-in a nationalist communique, dated August 25 TN Greeks, dccording to the statement hAve evacuatéd Vizirhan. i Hampered by the lack of cars due te the railroad strike, farmers of ‘western New York who are having the largest peach crop in fifteen years have appealed to motorists to help relieve them of the surplus, Willlam J. Lester, of Cleveland, owner of the strip mine. at Herrin, 1L, which & number of miners were siain in June, announced that he would sell the holdings of the Southern Illinois coal company in Herrin within a few days. A complete skeleton of & sabre tooth tiger, which roamed the southwest in the pleistoscene period some 500,000 years 1 ago, has been assembled at the Los An- | geles county museum of history, art and science. The New York, New Haven and Hart- ford Railroad vesterday. claimed that the shopmen's strize on its system “is about over,” that in some places it has the quota of workers’ places filled and at others almost filled, State police were on gmard at the state reformatory at Toma, Mich., after an outbreak among they inmates that Was suppressed only when'fear gas was poured into ‘one of the ddrmitories where the rioting " centered. Emile Baoardl, under whose manage- ment the distilling company bearing his {name ‘made its product known around the‘\;;orld, died, aged 70, at.'his sum- mer” home, Cuabitis, near i Santiago De The spectecle of s race across the country between an army- dirigible and a. reconstructed De-Haviland airplane :‘ill be witnessed on .September 5 and The number of boys committed. te the Lyman schpol at Westboro, Mass.,, dur- ing the last vear increased 23 per cent. over the previous year,, according to a report ~made’ public by ¢he board of trustees. Two white mules of high degree, Jack and Jill, which formerly decorated. the stables of the khedive of Egypt, were in Boston harbor on board the Ossa, near the end of their voyage from Alexandria to New York. Fatal injuries to John Devin, old son of Edwin Devin of Brooklyn, N. Y., resulted from an accident to a motor truck ocarrying _elghteen’ boys from Spofford, N. H. The truex left the road and rolled down a-steep bank. 14-year- —— A dispatch from Grandes Piles to Three Rivers, Que., said Mrs. Anne U. Stiliman, accompanied by three meén believed to be newspaper correspondents, was pro- ceeding up the St. Maurice river by boat for Grande Anse where her summer camp is located. Girls in business n New York next spring will have 2 hotel of their own, where the - restrictions will be no more than in the average hotel. Charles B, ‘Webster, of R. H. Macy.and Company, be- queathed a third of his fortune for a hostlery exclusively for working girls. The marriage of John Harriman. 18- year-old son .of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Harriman, to Miss Alice A. Laidley, al- so 19, daughter of Mrs. William H. Laidley, of Chicago at Port Chester, N. Y., on, August 2, was made public yes- terday. ¥ o= —— odson Maxim, the imventor who is ‘to be Father Neptune in the pageant to be “held in Atlantic” City in eonnéction with the contest “for -the title of the country’s most beautiful bathing girl, has succeeded - in having perfumes ban- ned.. of passing counterfeit $20 and $10 bills.| 2/} tack against Afiun Karanissar, they L in % an~ fmople. /| massed at points:where the bull | | Greek defenses. | near | 3 rage, at Qssippe, N. H. Five :automobiles | gaging & refentiess offensive azainst the Greicd in sAsia Minor, in apparent; attempt to'force. a decision before_ the coming lenice conference. _ ® < Before the Turks lanuched their a(d- neglected nothing to make -sure of the Suc¢ess of their plan. All ports un the /Black ‘Sea had been ciosed to naviga- .telepgraphic and postal communications = with ' Constant nopte had been suspended. These mad ures ‘gave the first indications here that an offensive was being planned. The Kemalists, taking special care to choke any, information which might pos- ly reach the, ‘ears.of. the enemy, had en cancelled all permits to Constinti- . Up to,the last_moment efore the cifen- sive started, the Turkish troops had beer of their forces could be brought into astion.” A number -of- local actions and feinted of- fensives had been carried out a few days before the offensive opened, the idea bing to’ shattr the Greek front and harass the The Turks made a num- ‘ber ofsurprise attacks south of the Me- igndor river, resulting in the captuve of a series’ of villages.' At the same time groups of raiders crossed he river and carried ‘out a few successful operaticns. Most of these operations were diracted against the wings.of the Greek army, al- though the supreme effort of the natisnal- 1sts, according to a communinus, was be- ing directed against the Greek centi:r. Greeks Bracuate Aflun Karahlesar Athens, Aug. 20—(By the A. P.)—It has been officially confirmed that ti Greek troops have evacuated Afiun Kar- ahissar, a!strategic position on the Ber- lin-Bagdad rallway in Asia-Minor, to ths Turkish ‘nationalist troops. WILL. OF PARKE BENJAMIN DISINHERITS HIS CHILDREN New York, Aug. 23.—All of -his chil- dren, including Mrs. Dorothy Caruso, wi- dow. of Enrico Caruso, were disinherited by fthe will of the late Parke Benjamin, filed for probate today. Anna Boichi Benjamin, an adopted |@aughter, was left $60,000, the residue of the estate going to the widow, Mrs. Ida *| E. Benjamin, whose address is given as /Goshen, N. S. Upon Mrs. Benjamin's dé\m,ma'srrmcwu will go to the adopted ~ Mr. Benjamin gave as his reason for his _children off, “{he unfilial con- “the Childrén toward their father. The children.opposed the adoption of An- na Bolchi Benjamim who was at one tima | Mrs. Caruso's governess. { Besides the $60,000 bequest Mr. Benja- min left his piano, all paintings, pictures, furniture, personal effects and wearing apparel to Anna Bolchi Benjamin' whom he Teferred to as his adopted daughter “by ‘decree of the ‘common pleas courts of Luzerne county, Pa. dated December. 19, 1919.” { His will stated that he had devoted the best years of his life to the care amue support of his children, and continued, & have had only in return ingratitude and no help in supporting the many and heavy burdens which I had to bear. I consider it my right to dispose of my tate without reference to those who have acted less like children than parasites, and who have defied me under threats of contest to make any disposition of my sald estate other than to themselves.” Mr. Benjamin declares that Anna Bol- "chi Benjamin is given the large bequests because of her effort to devote herself to his ‘“care and welfare” -during his old age. Mr. Benjamin, who died August 21, at Stamford, Conn., was a patent lawyer. LYDEN SISTERS DROWNED IN A RIVER IN NEW HAMPSHIRE Frankiin, N. H, Aug. 23.—Gretchen and Phose Lyden; of Rutherford, N..J., |sisters, aged 18 “'and 15 respectively, i were drowned in the Pemigewasset river today. P. Lyden, assistant general manager of the International Paper company. Phoebe, wha was. wading at a point where the river drops off sharply, got beyond her depth and sank. Gretchen lost her life.in attempting to rescue her sister. Neither girl could swim.. Leo Routhier, who went to the girls’ assist- ance, was nearly: overcome by their struggles and was unable to bring them iashore. The bodies were recovered lat- er, 15 feet from the river bank. NEW YORK TO HAVE A SINGLE HEADED FUEL ADMINISTRATION Albany, N. Y., Aug. 29.—Wihout a dissenting vote, the New York legisla- ture, in ~extraordinary session, today ‘'passed the' administration bill providing for the creation of a single headed fuel administration and an appropriation of $10,000,000 to cope with the shortage due to the coal strike. ~Two hours after the legislature had ad- journed, Governor Miller enacted the measure as law by signing the bill. In less-than than 24 hours after the legisla- ture had been convoked in extraordinary session, the state was thus officially em- barked on a drastic policy of fuel contrel to continue .during the existent emerg- ency. —— NO DISTURBANCES IN HAVRE GENERAL STRIKE Havre, Aug. 29.—(By the A. P.)— There were no disturbances today gro: ing out of the general strike which. has been in progress for several.days. The funerals of several persons killei juring the disorders of Sunday and Moaday : fields.” were held, but no.trouble resulted. The tramways are not running. The American “good will” New York. « — TROUBLE AT RAILROAD SHOPS AT AN BUREN, ARK. Fort Smith, Ark., Aug. 29.—Officers were. rushed to the Missouri Pacific rail- way shops at an-Buren, Ark, early to- night when a.report was received that several volleys of shots had be:n fired at the bulldings. : | tem of carriers, a single mine or a ser- They were -daughters of Frank: delegation. | agreement on wages fould hé set entireir which had been visiting France, will sail | agide, and the only important questior to on board the Rochambeau at midnigat for | e decided would be that of how long Cleveland Agreement—Practically Ends Strike Which 'Began April 1—Mines to Reopen Employ More Thar Ten Thousand Men—Senator Pepper Has Made a Pro. posal for. Settlement of Strike in the Anthracite Coal Fields—Attorney Hiram C. Todd to Investigate Possibil- ity of Criminality in Train Stoppages. . Pittsburgh, . Aug. 29.—The Pittsburgh Coal Preducers’ association -tonight ac- cepted ‘the terms of the Clevsland agree- ment and signed a supplemental agree- ment with the United Mine Workers' organization to immediately re-open 54 up to investigate the entire minimg in- dustry and would serve the same purposc as the proposal arbitral tribunal. DETAILS OF THE KILLING mines employing more than ten thou- OF “DAREDEVIL” BERGEX sand mep. This action practically end- = ed: the strike of miners in the bituminois| ;, COFSVALET. N. J. Au —Two more movie peoplve today were Witnesses to the tragedy quacted at the home of George F. Cline. location direc- tor, last Friday night, when “Handsome Jack” Rergen, daredevi double for film stars, was fatally shot. Miss Alfce Thornton, whom Bergen had lifted from a enographer's desk ir financial Manlattan to a place befort the camera, was identified as “the m; terious blonde” who was in the Cline home when the man who befriended her | was killed. Another witness, who today shed new light on the affair, wae Joseph Turilo, fireworks expert in battle scene movies known to have seen th tragedy enacted ion wasidt the Cline home. County authorit announced they were ready to proce: With the case. and 100 men and womer field which began April 1. revealed as HOUSE MAY TAKE ACTION ON COAL MINES AND EAILRUADS Washingt8h. - Aug. 29.— Smouldering official op'nion in faver of a presidentlal authorization to take over railroads and coal mines not. operated at their highest efficiency was revived in congress to- day when it was made known at the White- House that President rding still_held that such a grant power was ' desirhble " although without any! idea of using the authority except in aj case of direct public necessity. One immediate result of the renmewal) discussion of government opera self on record in the Represent-| WeTe impannelied for the September ative Johnson, republican, South Dako-|Ju The grand will convene or ta, announced his intention to offer to-|September 8 to prepare the way for morTow an amendment to the adm'n- istration coal control bill, which would give the president the authority he wak said to desir Several other members of the house indicated that they also would sutmit amendments with. the same purpose ‘n view, although congressional ~leaders generally predictéd no such iegislation w.l be passed for the present. { As explained at the White House tha president’s attitude is that the aamin-|police to have cleared up a puszling istration's hold on the situation would|phase of the investigation, by answering be measureab'y strengthened if it had|the question. “Why, when he feared as a foundation the potential power 0| Ciine, Bergen accept the invitatior take over, a single raiiroad or a sy r home?" answer is said to have been Mler ‘es of mining properties, which had been}Thornton Berzen was attentive to her. shown clearly to have failed to render|cho sai § unf] ithey quarrelied oww the public the full service of which they | Berzeme o ioped relat were capable. them, it was announced storv was told after detectives had trailed her to her home oin upper Manhattan. She it was, ac- cording to that story. who first Infermed Cline that his wife had an affair witk Bergen. Then. on the night when Ber- gen was summoned to the Cline’s hom¢ and denounced by the hushand, she war a witness, the police assert. The movie actress is allezed by the ns with Mrs. Cline during tha recent filming of some scene: —_— at Saranac Lake, N. Y. STOPPAGE - OF TRANSPORTATION Miss Thornton said she told Cline SERVICE TO BE INVESTIGATED . what she had learned but he did nef believe -her and he asked her if she Washington, Aug. 29.—(By the A. P.) [would tell the story bsfore Bergen. =-A degision to jinstivute a special de-|Cline telephoned her Friday night. she partment of justice organization to in-}said. and asked her to come to Edge- I vestigate alleged illegal ~stoppdges of|water. She declared she did not know transpartation &ervice incident to thelthen and does mot know now whether irail strike 15 @ne west, a formal relaxa-|zhe was used as a lure to get Berger ion of some of the interestate cOmmerce ¢, the House.. The.Edgewater investi- cimmission priority control of coal dis-}gators helieve ergen went to the Cline tration, publication of federal safetyljoyge thinking Miss Thornton wanted te spectors survey of railroad engines.|maie friends with him again. after he preparation of official estimateS|y. g peen informed. it is “alleged that [that soft coal producing for the weeK|y. o014 “make up with Alice” is_rising above 8,000,000 tons, or 100 per| .y b FEIE B L A e house.” cent. more than was coming up & MONM |y Thornton said, “Mr. Bergen was ago, wefe among elements that emerged| ;.o gy ipere, The Sculllons, Mrs. today out of the government actual CON-{ cyinas prothers, also wehe there and one tact with the industrial situation. ts.| oF two others. ~As soon as T was in In the midst of these developmentS|y, ‘poyce Mr. Cline asked me to re- John L. Lewis, president of the United| ., "0 0 170 470 1a “him. Mine Workers, whose position has been| ™oy oy caig to Bergen: Now are in the continuation of| "Mr- C — BE A dominkut jone. 2 _| you satisfied” Mr. Bergen shrugged the deadlock which has kept the anthra- |, " 4o iqers and said something in- cite flelds of Pennsylvania tied up, ar-| M8 shoulders and said Something in- ive din Washington and began a suc- and slighting. Mr. Cline an cssion of cAnferences shortly after Mf;\Ber:en went_upstalrs. g : -| A moment later I heard a_scuffle on White House expressions indicated con-| A ™ hitte e scuie o fidence that the long delayed settlement|the stairs an n a shot. We ran to 4 the door and Mr. Bergen came stumbling there was to be looked for at once. |the door and Mr. Bergen came st % Attorney: Gemeral Daugherty an-)downstairs and rar out bt e 1ro! d that a separate investigating|door. I did not know then that he pescec 5 3 immediate- | was the one who had been shot. Then organization will be built up imm . A b g et Iy in 1os Angeles. in charge of Hiram|Mr. Cline came down and told me. ] &. Todd, United States attorney Jfor |Eot out of the house as soon as T could. northern New York, who is-to resign|Mr. Turilo. the fireworks man, who left post at once to accept TL:h sp;c,al i‘e:hfeerxtn:i ;"lr:séltrflo_lf me to the Fort i 1! e r. s duly, TY O wnc:::i‘ugt Brirlos dnto"the] * Turilo, =ald”he' Tadhe the honss ot ible criminality involved in 4he ser-|after 8 o'clock and heard sounds of 'Pe.;&cl Cirain stoppages and interruptions|quarreling inside. When the door was to interstate commerce in the west. |opened he said he walked in upon Cline, There is “a very general let-down in|who was starting up the stairs prodding the matter of inspection (of locomotives) | Bergen ahead of him with the muzzle by carriers wi gives cause for cOn-fof a pistol. Cline turned his head. and carn’ {he interstate commerce COmM-|gaid: “He wronged my wife” When mission raported- to - the senate today.|the two men disappearsd on the landing answering a resolution brought out bYlabove, Jurflo sald he heard footsteps but the . contraversy between strike leadersino, sound of a scuffle. Mrs, Cline. he and. railroads over safety conditlons of|caid, was screaming “Some one do some- equipment since the ~shopmen ~walked!tning for God's sake Make peace be- out. ‘The railroads -are failing to makel ween them.” Then there was a shot and all the inspections required by 1aw, the| Bergen came down with his hand over report continued, and managements arelyis chest, gasping, and ran out. reporting inabjlity to do-so because of| “geven persons are now known to have the strike, ;while the commissions OWn|yean jn the Cline home at the shooting. staff of inspectors are merely s-bmden! Mr. and Mrs. Cline. ergen. Mrs. Cline’s in. numbers to supervise and t8st thel{ . 1 oiners, Miss Thornton and Turtlo. carriers inspection system.” Mrs. Mary C'ine, wife of the slayer The decision of the governmeMt t0 Te-| o5ty "cauce of the shooting. told her lax markedly and immediately the €on-i ;.. ¢ the tregedy tonight for thé first trol on-coal shipments was carried into . effect by an interestate commerce oot Jack Bergen told the truth fust be- mission order greatly modifylng prictityr . TipoTont up stairs that night” requirements hitherto imposed on CoR'| o g5iq. “After my husband had ae- cumers. Hereafter, uponspechl desle} 37 of having maltreated me, he nation by the commission and its GEEMS | 10y, his coat back as if to bare his coal will_be chipped first to sections ‘l’v chest and shouted: ‘I know I am a dirty the. morthwest whose sumply ordinarllyli, % oy rm no good: I'm a rotten moves by the Great Lakes water ToUleS. |y, 'y a rat’ Then he said: ‘All and to railroads whose meeds are Dress-| ... 'y gont’ That was when they ing to main transporiation. that|went upstairs. Down in the reception The government now eatinates (ASH . oy e heard them struggling. Mise 90/ per cent. minous Min*%| Thornton knows that, and she'l have “|to tell ‘the truth. She knowr \oa. thn: e . Jack Bergen made a peaceful settlemen PROPOSAL FOR SETTLEMENT of the trouble impoossible when he OF ANTHRACITE STRIKE | sneered out an unprintable name at me after admitting my husband’s charges.” i of the bitu are in operation or resuming operatl Washington, Aug. 20.—A preposal that the strike in the anthracite co: Selds b2 settled immediately on the basis of the wage scale in effect, last April wfli\ ad- vanced through Senator Pepper of PPenr- sylvania, tonight at a conferenze of rep- resentatives of operators and min: _unlon ofticials. Some of those participating. in the conference expressed ballef that the proposal offered hope of enliag the long ! continued suspension in the hard c_ul] | BAYARD WINS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY IN DELAWARE Devore, Del., Aug. 20.—Thomas F. Bayard, of Wilmington won the demo- cratic nomination for United States sen- ator today in the democratic state con- | vention, receiving 115 votes to 94 for Judge Willlam H. Boyee. Mr. Bayard is a son of the late Thomas ¥. Bayard.. sec- retary .of state in President Cleveland's administration. TUnder the proposal the cont--y_vt-rsm 5= sue of arbitration as a mea1s ol reachiag TO WITHDRAW GUARDSMEN FROM PA. SOFT COAL FIELD! o compromise would be effastive. ths"m;r Pepper and his associate from Pennsylvania, Senator Reed.. who also participated in the preliminary confer- ence, left the meeting after the proposal had been laid before the opposing delega- tions. Mr. Pepper expressed the opinion that the operators, who have “insisted on arbitration, might easily retire on this is- sue, since there was every. pro that a federal commission soon . woald be set Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 29.—Five units of the Natlonal Guard now in the bitum- inous coal fleld will be withdrawn Friday and the rest next week according to an- nouncement made tonight by Governof Sproul following a conference of national guard and “state police officials ané himself with Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel ‘W. Fleming. Jr.. of the 104th cavalry whe . returned today from the strike zome.