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-president z | Association of America in con- Vention at Del Monte, Cal. ) ; Officials. . el vu.‘wh.',«:::u-. alleged < o Ahn R ‘ 5 Ve rol a . Meri gas company’s 13 (By the A, P)—Over-| New Brumswick, N. J, Oct.: 13—As-[E4Ye Tobbed a Meriden gas company's G:;mh, of__Detroit 88| serting that Mrs, Frances Stevens Hall| o Wa) Jy 3150 ului.h‘e“lfinn of fraud. . be_silenr | 2% A school of polities sad gevermment arranged by the Massachusetts League of Women oters, will open at Ra cliffe college on October 18. Bad Trade and Industry—Speech Will Have Strong In- fluence on Political Crisis That'Now Threatens Great ¢ “With a view to mak- ing all possible efforts to overcome the deficit in'the .cstate’ budget, which n 0 ‘new demand “for improved working| torney Timothy N. Pieifter, tonight ra- exceed 6,000,000,000 lire, Minister of{ conditions and a living wage” would bo{quested Governor ‘Edwards to place the| e federal fact finding coal commis-| Treasury Paratore, proposes ' to bring|made by the - organization upon the|investigation exclusively in the hands of{sion, will hold its organization meeting about a return to ‘the use - of war|United: States railway labor board.|a competent, fearless officer of the stals.|in Weshington October 18, it was ~an. bread.. The bread will be made of =!marked today's sessions of the Brother-|The lswyer made public a letter to L2 New York—Stays Were Granted Until Tuesday, When - Gt na Cases Along Similar Lines Will be Heard. New York, Oct. 13.—Federal Judge to sail from Liverpool on e mixture of wheat and. other cerials in Britain. Lenden, Oct. 13 (By Zurlosity and speculation tonight revol pon whether the speech delivered today at Birmingham by Austen Chamberlain, government leader in, the house of com- mons, which reveals'Mr. Chamberlain as still 2 convinced and devoted coalitionist wnd Joyally attached to Premier Lloyd George, may Le taken us an indication of the premier will assume in his tomorrow at Manchester. consider that perhaps be. most notable point In Mr. Chamber- tibn of nmarrow party aims and person- al considerations to the. service (f the country ‘and the empire. It was care fully pointed.out by the speaker thar in all that he had done as party leader he had acted with the full assant of' Lis|{—The United States order to decrease grain purchases in the United States. DETAILS OF BURNING OF STEAMER CITY OF HONOLULY San Francisco, Oct. 13 (By the A. P.), army transport unionist colleagues in tne cabinet and |Thomas is steaming tonight toward .San had spoken their minds, ‘This harmony among Francisco with the 261 passengers and ualonfs: min- | members of the crew 'of the liner. City of Isters was described as: part of a.greater | Honolulu, which is drifting a burned-out harmony embracing the whois minisiry. | hilk. on the sea lanes to the southwest. Mr.” Chamberlain declared .that th har-| Army ‘transport sefvice officials here fig- hood's triennial convention® here, - President Grable, craditsd with hav- ing averted 2 strike of the 400,000 rail- way maintenance men of - the couniry last summer, after they had voted over- whelmingly in faver of jolning the sho.- men’s walkout, was defeated by more than 3,000 votes out of a. total of 2p- proximately $6.000, cash delegate cast- ing &s' many votes as there were mem- bers,_in the- local -union- he represented.’ The new president and other officers will be installed bifore the convention ends,” probably early next week. .In a statement made-through his per- overnor criticising s=ver:ly tne tactics fr( the present county investigators and the conflict between them. “The “atmosphere of New Frunswick 3s charged with every sort of rumcr that yolitical pressure, mo1:y. and official prestige have béen made use of by Mrs. Hall and her family to hinder and de- lay the administration of justice in the case,” Pfeiffer wrote. —“in -the mind «.{ the public, Mrs. Hall is held responsible for the bungling stupldity and presenmt impossible conditions of afal n truth, it is due to the bungling stupidity of tha officlals’ of these two counties. nounced at the White House. Bank Commissioner John B. Bryme has forwarded to the federal authorities at ‘Washington, & statement of the condi- tion “of state commercial banks. Learned Hand, late today jssued tem- porary injunctions restraining federal pronibition enforcement agents from mo- lesting liquor “on. board the vessels of the British owned White Star line and the American owned United American line. y The temporary stays were granted un- Tuesday when the two Dew, CASes will bp heard along with the simi '| case filed by the International Merca: tile’ Marine and. the order requiring fed- cral enforcement agents to show cause why ould not be restrained frors molesting liquor on the twenty-four The third annual meéeting of the Amer- ican Petroleum Institute will be held at the Statler hotel, St. Louis, during the first week in December. Alabama Power Co., which opsrates the government's electrical generating steam plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala., renewed its contract for another year. morning, and that it wanted scme’ ance from the court in deciding dispose of this stock. Three vessels French and on y, all of them e President Harding of the Unit: States line bad had her bar sealed Of Tuesday night on wireless instructions from the company's headquarters The sale and consumption of liquor Wete stopped that eveniing, The French liner ish yessel Emanuel bars at the thfte-m 3* nce and the Span- Calvo sealed thelr = § mony of ,political, alm_bétween - himself ] ure" the Thomas should arrive .Sunday. and the premier was.perfect: and he re- | The Doint where the Thomas took off the minded the uniopists that the premier's| passengers and crew of . the. Honolulu success in the 1918 election was largely | from the West Faralon, which rescued ade to the pramier’s influence: and pres- | them from 'the seas about the burning tige. Since then’ the premier had heen | Honolulu, i some 620 miles southwest of pertectly loyal: to /his uni>aist ‘alies and|San Francisco, ‘the armyi transport offi- scrupulously “ha- débsefved ‘the agraement said. s T With' Andrew .Bonar ' Law, the unionist| Word from the transport to The Asso- leadér, and apparently had” zone beyond | ciated . Press. today by, the ‘wireless ser- it in“strengthehing the union'st Influence | vice.of the Federal Telegraph :company in the cabindt:~ »* 3 > © + . |was to the cffect that the passengers-were Turning to the' future,-Mr. Chamber- | in.good spirits and that they evidently lain dsserted ‘it -iwds unilkeiy ‘that- udy | had showed no fear When the fire. crept ision of-would divide:the umtonist and | around them on. the great .liner . and -al members 6f the coalition.govern- | forced them into the sea in small boats to mhént. On the contrary he ‘forésaw a new | await what: proved to -bera kindly .fate. bond. between:-the two collrion. witigs.| The tons of water poured «into the Hono- ‘The coalition had- brought 'the’ country | lulu's blazing compartments. caused her through many-periious crisises, . at. homs | {o list heayily to port, dccording to word and abroad. ‘There had been moments | from the Thomas, swinging. the stricken when revolution was very near Engiand's | vessel's small boats outboard.on. the port door. £ ke ¢ side, greatly increasing the rescue haz- Moments of National Danger ard. Later the el righted herself so Reterring 10 thé possibility of the-ad- | that ‘the boats. could, be lowered. with vent of a'labor government, Mr. Cham- n%:_xor facility. i berlain ‘spoke ‘of ‘the present time as a ord from the West Faralon tonight moment ‘of national danger. ) was that the Honolulu was still burning. ~“These: are >days”, he Jdeclared, “when | D4y reports {old.of the caving in.of her, it is our doty to seek -to rally all the buncfut_ruclure‘ this destruction: stdrting” econstitutional: conservative elemenzs, of | fAiTst with the collapsing of . one- of .- her Whatéver: clags of - party, to the dofunge | Stacks and an aftermast . before. — the} of the constitution angd the social and: the [ fames. oconomic ordet. which has made us all |« The ocean swells. sent unce with the custom Dbeginning of the proi ficers' and members of the crew of €At France and of e Rochambeau, whieh is at her dock here, had their usual Ta- tions of ‘white and rea wi Cap- tain Roch ordered that the wine be Serv- ed as usual when he Tound that federa! enforcement agenis did rot show “=aw disposition to enforce Daughersy ruling at once, Finland, it was ain's speech was the plain intimation”to s party of the danger.of allowingi'a abor government. to come into power acs cmpanied by the dark shadow of direct ction, a capital levy aml-other similar planks in its. platform. His allusion to he laborites is regarded as susceptible of being interpreted in two ways, first, Jhe line of policy for the ocoalition in the syant of an appeal to the-countty. ahd, wacond, as a mere hint to Mr, Chamber- ain's own party. which is now deciaced to s dangerously split ‘into. supporters’ and antagenists of Mr. Lidyd George, and a warning to them to closé their ranks-and { 1§ stlll support the coalition, The premier, on previous: occasions when confronted with difficulty, has rep- esented the labor party as a bolshevist wganization against the copntry, which must take a firm stand; but eritics de- slare he also has seemed ‘to realize this 15« rather risky policy and generally has trawn back from pursuing it to\its logical onclusfons. His hesitancy, It is- assefted, was motived by plain evidence. afforded mes out of number, that the British la- vor party repudlates communism, and uso by the fact that many~ highly re- wected economists and financires have sdvocated a capital levy as the only ef- sctive means through which to deal with he pation’s colossal war debt. Charles. Passanisl, of Church street, New Dritain, arrested on the charge of transporting liquor- was found ' guilty in court and fined $200 and costs and with 10 days in jail added. RtV ot|aud now the evidance is unmisiakable Gbposition to' a. strike -of -the maints-jare at odds “with the authorities of the nance men at any time in ‘the. future|Other county, with the efforts of thu but announced that “the union-member- ] State troopers, ‘s!.nfldmg between the twe ship t be prepared to walk' out’ ifjréndered abortive: 15 improved ; working .’ conditions > and ‘adu-| The, attorney. told the governor that quate wage increases were mot - forth-|further silence on the part of the slai coming.”. . . 5 rector's widow -and. her.: family would Mr. Fljozdal, it was announced by h x| possibly_be construed by many an ad- seis of the Cunard and Anchor lines. The United American. ling, Wl represented by George Adams Ell required’ to furnish a .bond to guarantee uor on board the steamsiip Des- olute, ~leaving New York on Tuesday, would not be 'sold or consumed until the Former President Gonzales Flores will | \oasel -asrived at Hamburg. . The bond represent Costa Rica in.the dispute wlzhil::: e tha, caluer of The: Hyade; M t “|order to’get the liquor on the fore Chief Justice Taft as arbiter. fato & forelgn port, to remain’{here unct a supreme -court decision ‘finally- settles S0 oremaings e the week cnded Sept.| e validity of the- Daugherty decision. of th erecord for all time in Américan Van_ Vechten \‘_e\'eder. ot couttsel f:r railroading, “and an increase of 15,000 |the White Star line, declared u‘x:ll e cars over the previous week. would come -back to court with “one or two' similar cases tomorrow. He said Ameri grain Is clogging up the | {hat the company was in a quandary as Georglan Bay ports, aceording to a re-|to what to do with the large stock of li- port by James Carruthers, leading grain | quor on board the Majestic, which is due dealer in Morftreal. Canal ports and es pecially Montreal harbor, are also being ‘congested by the shipping. The American lin stated today, will icave for Europe to- morrow_with her bar scaled. More than $3.000 worth of liquor on board will be kept under seal and disposed of a- Southampten. The granted to the International Mercantile Marine freed the Finland of any poms’ bie ~molestation b but officials of the company decided mot “to take any chances.” Benefits For All Concerned Adverfi;ix\g henefi‘ls llha ‘consumer ;xuile as’ much.as it does the advertiser. - Advertised 'goods are trade marked to protect the con- sumer for:quality and geantity:: ~ How do you suppose the person-who - first tnought of household convenlences, business conveniemces, various accessories and a 1long, -long list of every day needs was able to let you know about them and to make.them for a price you.could afford to pay? 1t was through advertising—of ‘gourse. * But advertising bues more than present ideas to the publi¢, it points out trading opportunities that are most valuable and which -help the pocketbook, and it is the . advertising 'medium that thoroughly: covers its field-and reaches-the homes that renders the cheapest and:best. service. KOENIG WON'THE LIBERTY ENGINE BUILDERS’ TROPHY ARCHIE ROOSEVELT SECTY NEAR EAST RELIEF COMMITTEE = » New York, Oct. 13—Archie ve)f\, son of the late Theodors Roosevelt, and vice president of ‘the Union Petroleum company, mm named_executive secretary “of - dent Harding's near cast emergency un-l-'.: s.fln-?n::‘. edot‘chumut Hill, rwalk, aged 19, rom a broken = neck and a fractured skull received when| ~Mt. Clemens, Mich,, Oct. 13 — In a an automobile he was driving struck a|race in which nine army planes. par- “one man” trolley car. ticipated, the navy having withdrawn its two entries, Lieutenant T. J. Koe- the | nig of Buffalo, Y., won the Liberty illed | engine builders' trophy here today. The funeral of Raymond Bradl Bridgeport high school lad who up _clouds of Seenfingly the gemeral beliet hers is| t the gremier will not seize the present casion to affront the labor party. There Gil_is ecnormous unemployment and. onstant scaling down in- wages. Tie ahor party aMributes the cogutry's bad rade and m“nn_.gfll.tgu Y artign poliey. i #) seps Europe in turmoil. The party sd- ovates & policy of appeasement with both fermany and Russis., In the mest recent bye elections the abor party has bad big majorities over » coalition candidates, Which® s . taken o show (hat the labor iriterest ls very itrong in the country, especially in the iorthern Industrial districts. fons are c w0t siways a reliable index of w) pen In general elgctions, because par- ¥.feeling in these-isdluted contests is not scited to a high pitch; but they express that in the event of an appeal country under present conditions of rade and industry the labor party would wye a strong position. For these reasons the balance of poi opinion lies in the ides that Mr, riain's allusions to the anger of or were intended rather to give pause rebellious die-hards- of his own than as a line of policy in a possi- appeal to the country. Mr. Chamber- t was declared tonight, either was ive any definite idea when an opeal to the country would. come, or he 123 leaving this important matter to his . who is closely guarding any ecret ¢ to reveal at Manchester to- es, Mr. peechi Is consldered trongest pos Chamberiain’s | to have been the le plea for a continuance His references to the were promptly met by the aders. John R Clynes, in a.speech red at Reading tonight, sald with *gard to the addfess of the government cader hevism was produced in Russia by ession of all popular liberty, and 7 can be fomented in this country ters seeking to put the labor, par- e the ‘pale of constitutional dc- nes complained that Mr. Cham- ® sirictures wouid _deepen _class Atagonism and render ‘Turther disser- % to the throne and constitutional pi ise.” Fle added that'the labor party “i ' constitutional a PNty body as any sher. Mr. Clynes argued that all the. trades snions . have dome was to threaten to strike in crder 10 prevent another war. o added that it the minister faljed to ase the machinery of the league of na- Jans and had kept parliament closed at crisis they ought not to be varprised at a threat of a strike. H. Thomas. labor member of par- ment. {n an interview at Derby said the abor party was quite ready to acoept the general election 4 raised by Mr. either te return to the talents and no is considered in effect to have thrown very liitle light upon the situa- tion, because it was prastically known beforshand that he wouid suppoet the palition, and the eountry therefore still must look to the premier s pronouncement tt Manchester for real light on coming CRAMBERLAIN ON DOMESTIO AND NEAR EASTEEN AFFAIRS Birmingbam, England, Oct. 13—(By A. P.)—Austen Chamberiain, govern. t leader in the house of commons, & apeech bafore the Midland comsar- alub, today touched both on the Smestic crisis wnd near eastern affalrs to his hearrs reveaied himsel? an (& it afrepentant and eomvinesd coalitivnist. | wait, we gre,"and’ upon’which our prosperaus developinent. depends: - * . ® “Within ithe last few aweeks threats of diroct aption - have besn raised again. Parianent no- lenger had-to - are to be:govered By the political strika, % 3 t happens it a 1 warn.you it wiil not-He-the modérates of ‘the labor party whe Will prevail” foderate vfogtam was. 80 harmless that it could-be giyen- fair: play for the next five voars, and-he drew a lurid, pictive of.a capital levy' ag the doom of indus- . \ ! Do not let us”, he pleaded, “hand over for experiments of the wildly subversive, it not' the volunteer revolutionarv. tvpe, the institution. sof industry &nd the wel- fare and groatness of this country and empire.” : Near East Sltuation Referring toithe near east, Mr. Cham- beriain said there -had been grave mo- ments,when danger of attack ‘against the British forces appegred imminen:, when unanimity of. thougat am action -&mong the allles ‘seemed weakensd and the Kem- alists were éncouragad by «indications of allied divergencies to. try ' conclnsions with them,He -explained that as. betw=en Greeks and Turks Great Britain had been neutral and ready to recogaizs the re- sulis of the Greek defeat, and also as ready as before to restore Constantlno- ple to the Turks and the orderly trar.s- fer of ‘eastern Thrace, aB far as-th: Ma- ritza river, to the Turks; but Great Brit- ain was.determined to prevent the war from being brought into Europe, in o dér to save Constanilnople from the faie of ‘Smyrna-and to preserve the freedom of the. straits. 2 believe ‘our ‘policy has been succoss- Mr. Chamberlain . declared amid cheering. But not through any help we reckived fromi the lsaders oft-the opposi- tion,” he added. . = The speaker continued to' castigate the apposition”ifor “Using’ language, the cnly effect of which ‘could wgaken ‘govern- ment's’ adthority, dncdurige the Kema)- ists _and. present the Britlsh .empire to- France, not as an ally and equal, but ac hunible ‘satellite :in ‘the ‘orbit: of Frénch policy,. -bound to exercise ‘no ‘indepen- Gent judgment, or: take ‘independent ac- tion.” Mr. | Chamberlain - politely 1but - firmly rebuked Viscount Grey and former Prem ier ‘Asquith for alleged attempts to ham- per thesgovernment’s near eastern policy at periods- of grayve difficulty. “Where, and insofar as a common al- 1ted . policy. ‘has. failed,” ‘the speaker de- clared, “it has:fot been. owing to any fault of this govern: t, but to events outside. qur control. I¢ any amateur con- tributed by-untimely intervention to those results, that amateur was. not commis sloned by op. 3, repfesentative of his ma- Jesty’s government.”. > “Mr, Chiamber]ain -recalled- that before the_coalition -existed Viscount Grey and ‘Asquith had “entered into commit- Mr. ‘ments witli the allies amounting to’par- titlon, by way of annexation or zones of intluence, nearly the whole of the. Ot- toman h the, péace negotlations “when the peace conference met. Greece, he added, was to recefve the miajor portion “of eastern the zone around Smyrna. _U.S, Wenld Take Part ‘“The_allies hoped, and were encourag- ed by President, Wilson and the protec- tion of ths minorities which sutfered so much under the sultan’s rul 2 berlain contintied. “All the allles. and none more ‘than_ our' Country, attached of the' 3 u&o’mopmfl” hdve always shown great interest in the subject peoples- of. the Ottoman empire and by thelr u thruull“m education- B “have played a great. part in. thelr regegeration and. edication” twas only ‘when it Lecame ci thiat President vuuz'r.nn:h ‘Would b\r destroyed and when it was nseless to : co-operating, that the Turkey ‘was seriously &mplre” ‘Which were the basis of steam ax, they. lapped against: her blister- ing sides. but, she continued to ride t ¢asily and showed no indications | that the flames which raked her. would send-her {o.the-bottom.. The hull, was too ! | hot, to be anproaciied foay, e tataad o bntil smaivage vessels arrived. Al meseages received- here said that the work of rescue Was as effectiye as though it had been rehearsed. .Accord- ing o a wirefess' message from the Thomas, the geeatest hardship suffered by the passengers was thelr experience of seven hours on the open eca_ while the, Thomas, the West Taralon and-the Mat- 5o liner Enterprise werc specding to ard them. ; According. to a mesage received” trom Capt. M. M. Walk of the Faralon, the firc had' destroyedall of tfe Honolulu's upper works and her hull was evidently 50 warped and twisted by the flames that salvage would be out of the question. “oday’s Teports brought words of praise for the manner in Which Capt. Harry R. Lester of the Honolulu and the crew handled the emergency. The passengers wanted to stay with the Hoholulu, aceord- ing to the message from the. Thomas, in’ the belief that the fire would be gotten under control: They' were told, however, that the fight agalnst the fire, was proving a losing one. L Tho probable cause of the. fire was given as defective wiring in the second cabin, according to the message from tae Thomas. should qr. mierely wait - Greek debacle, Mr. Chamberlain pro- ceeded : “Then followed an even which had great influence upon subsequent ‘happen- ings, namely, tho second visit ~of M. Franklin-Bouillon ‘(the Freneh:envoy) to Angora and the -separate agresment of France with Kemal. It’ cannot ‘e ‘doubt- edithis unilateral ‘action greatly encour- aged: the Kemalist pretensions and’ gave the first Indicition’of: serious “divergance of views among the alljes.’” B The Greeks afterwards ‘accepted’ the proposed peace. terms, but the. Turks re- fused them and resumed: Hostilities! and the Greek collapse followed,” Mr.- Cham- berlaln sdid” " 4 7 Made No Separate’ Agreement; “Throdghout’ these - transactions,” the speaker said, “the British government sought at: every step concurrence of our allies.. We made no- separate .agreements no' separate negotiations. Our’ policy was based upon the agreements entered*into by Mr. Asquith and ' Viscount . Grey, though with large and increasing. modifi cations i favor of Turkey, owing to the collapse of Russla, the withdrawal ‘of the United States, the altered aftitude-of the French and Italian governments. and the changed situations In Greece and.,Tur- key, ‘But then-arose:a new, danger -as the result: of-the Greek ' collapse—the threat.of a. Turkish advance toward the nd . Constantinople - became - im- Mr. Cnamberfain next explained the necessity for establishing the neutral zones around the Bosphorus ‘and along the, Dardanelles; from which the. Greeks on one occasion had'besn warned off by citizens Britfsh; troops! ‘He, recalled ths Freneh ambassador’s letter declaring that France in 'agreement with ‘Great 'Britdin ‘con- siderad the.Greeks should be told: that evory attack on the zories from thé Gréeks or7the Turks ‘wotld be fofclbly repress- ed: The unlonjack ‘appearcd beside the lorin the ~Tchataldja - zone; - and France - declared it desirable’to main- tain- the neutrallty!of ‘the - zones’ actual- 1y occupled. % ‘When General Harington asked. the Hrefich and ‘Ttalians to join the British forces at Chanak and lsmid, td show tha flag. and’demonstrate fo ths Turk sthat the ailies’ were united,”" said-Mr, Clam- berlain, . “the French and Ttalian generals readily complied. But tae Mranch govern- | menty however, countarmandad its grders without consulting Great Eritain, -and tr Ttalian govetnment followed sult. . Tosition ‘of Utmost Gravity . ‘Genitlemen, we were confronted by.a mW'gt the utmost gravity. We had her: to defend: alone the positions we occupled in' pursuance of te allipd de- -or abandon the protaciiun-of the o The Bulletin for two cents a da; “That ig the service that can be depended upon in the use:of advertising columns of The Bulletin'each. morning. the During th past week the following news matter has appeared ‘in. Til,lanqph 2 reprscntative, s prepared immediatel upo nmassuming offiee to make an apped 0 the labor board “setting forth the needs. of the maintenance men for higher wages and Improved working cond: fions,” and ‘that the:organization is pre- pared to prove to the public as well as to the board, the justice of our - mands.” 3 \ Shortly before the result of the elec: tion was made ‘known on the convention floor, a telegram sent yesterday by Mr Grable to labor members of the labo: board was read. The telegram was an agpeal for a quick decision of the casa of maintenance men now- before the board, a protest against as small an - crease as two cents an hour for mainte- nance laborers, and a threat that unless alarger increase . was: granted to all classes of workers in the brotherhosd that “loyal members of our brotherhood may adopt extreme tactics, fostered by queStionable leaders, to remedy ther just grievances of long standing.” Eimer E. Milliman, of Mount Morris, N. Y., was elected secretary of the Brotherhood defeating S. J. Pogg, of De- incumbent. i 1t.was decided to reduce’the number of vice presidents from fourteen -to five and cut their anval'salaries from $8,000 to $4,200: It was" intimated by -leader among the' delegates’ that further salary, slishes’ would. be voted upon. - . ‘The election “of 'a-grand presi#git hos overshadowed all other 'issues in -the conivention,: that 'bégah ‘two Weeks &80, ccbriling * to - delegatés. | A~ determined éampaign -had. been waged by. both ‘tre Grable and Fljozdal’ factions. * . THe new president has been a mem- ber of the'organization 20 years'and for some. time has-been an'internaiibnal yi president of the. order, - Hes iyt w's railroad work asa q-x“ion tiahd. CONDUCTING HEAAEING ON HAZING ‘AT ANNAPOLIS Annapolis, Md., Oct. 13.—Trial of two midshipmen of the senior class before a naval courtmartial ‘on charges of hag- ing; and the opening of the sessions by Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, super- intendent, were the outstanding develo; ments of the hazing situation at the Na- val Audgmy today. 3 * Further denouncing the alleged acts of the enlors, ‘especially in view of the extensive liberty privileges. he has grant- ed ’ them .since ‘he took charge at' the ‘naval &ehool, Admiral Wilson reitereated his detérmination” to’ curtail "these-:pr fleges to’a marked: extent. The curtail- ment, he said, would inclyde rescinding permission. to the’ entire class- to ‘attend the - Nevy-Unirersity ‘ot _-Pennsylvania football game zt’ Philadelphia ‘on October 28. - ~ Two ‘members of the fourth class are Under treatment at the naval hospital 8 the Tesult of the alleged hazing es- capades, instead of one, as at first re- ported, Admiral Wilson refused to dis- close the names of!the victims for the present. 3 The offense. is ‘alleged to have. been commiitted at one of .the mess tables. in Bancroft thall a_few, days ago when a “plelie”. wgs compelled "to " eat his mieal beneath the table. .~ - T ; Another iplebe wad put through . the physical exercise lnown as the, sixteeuth in’the nmaval academy vernacular. This | occurred ‘in “one of the: sleeping” rooms: of Baneroft hall. - Hazing is punishable by- dismissal from the service. = ... 3 The board detailed by Admiral Wil- 8on_ to conduct a -thorough probe of other Teports ‘of hazing .consists of Command- € W. R. an Auken, senior member Commneder . D. Wasliburn and - Lieu: tenant Commander William D. Brere- J % 2[been made,” Pfeiffer, wrote, mission of the false accusations leveled against- them. Mrs, Hall, her brothers and = al relatives,” the letter said, have been from ‘the beginning, desiro of submitting to every. test of their co plete innocence which a. thoroughly com wrehensive, intelligent and coherent i vestlgation demands. : But it the inve tigation is to ‘continue ‘in the hands of officials who cause an’arrést for murder upon the accusation of an admittedly ir- responsible. person’ and then- state they are not Interested in whether the acc: sation is or is mot true, then nelthcr Mrs. Hall nor anyone else .is ‘free fro the menace of offictal hysteria and ty- ranny. ; it is not pleasant for me to write as 1 have, for New Jersey Is my own na- tive state and I.share with yon the decp- st respect for the tradillonal Integrity of institutions. of government. 1 cannot, without protest, see their intez- rity debased. I respectfully request therefore, that as governor. of the sta‘e, you take such action at once as may .c necessary to cause the conduct of this Investigation to be under the exclusive authorily .and jyrisdistion. of & com: tent, fearless officer of -the: state, -who Wil not be subject’to county limitations, political entanglement or petty disputes batween riyal .detective. forces,: but, who ill be_dne of. mind ‘and . determinatios to establish. the truth and:to.bring ‘T guilty td Epeedy justice” . Mrs Hall's. attornsy urged the gov- érnor {0 use his moral power to _ bring abeut 'a “thoroughly comprehensive, in- telligent and coherent - investigation . of this hideous crime.” -“Shch* an investigation h her snot . yet or do_the methods hithérto_employed by the. pres- ent prosecutors indicate that it ever will be or can bLe made by them. -The best Febult of their_ activities up to the. pres- ent, 50 far as asolution of the crime or the’ development of any. clus reasonably l6oking toward the, solution is concern- ed, is absolutely ‘mil.” The appexl fo the governor was given out after w. family conference at. the home of Mrs. Bell lasting over-an hour. It followed unofficial reports today . that the investigating' . authorities intended again’ to question the rector's. widow. She was 'sald to be in.poor. health, but her condition was not considered seri- ous. It could.not be learned if Mrs. Ha'l would positively be examined again, but it was sald there was.still a- probabilit she’ might’ be .asked a few. questions to- morrow. e 1 TWhen informed of Pfoiffer's letter td Governor. Edwards, Josspi. E. . Stricker, Middlesex county prosecuior,,sald: *. information, Mr. Pfeiffer .can -procure about the case will be: welcomed; but as the ; same time T do mot~think it would be wise 4o take him.or anybody. else. into my confidence in. the’ investigation. = J personally ‘have not changed ‘my'" mind as to the wisdom of ‘that course.” : Agariah M., Beekman, :Samerset’ cotnty prosecutor, caid that as far as he was coneerzied ‘e would ‘be ‘grateful for heiy in' the case.either from .the state ‘attor ney, gemeral or anybody else, i | Raymond -S¢hneider,s who had’ accus :a Clifford Hayes of the double kiiling, wad brodght' i0" New Brunswick late today 4nd: was [locked, ip’ in - the “Middléssx dourty jail on. charges:of peujury.and f impairing . the morals of Pear! Bahmer; e pleaded not ‘gulity. to the chargs in- Yolving “the “girl and declined to_entér a plea’ on' the’ other accusation. Judge at’ $8,000, 9r - “scolds,” the ing stool was a chajr fatened| 1852 e end/of a lon& beam over a pond| iver, The last recordof its use in was at Leominster, in 1809, { himsel? leaving & mot which sought to {explain his intended act, will be held jthis afternoon. Schoolmates bearers of the casket, A nerles «of Satorday.pfternoon teas with dafcing in commons was anndunced by Dean Students B. P. Twitchell, of ale yesterday. —“The -idea‘was tried out last spring and-was successful, ‘ will be The use of intoxicants caused the re. vocation of 324 motor lidenses in Sep- tember in Massachusctts, . the largest number for any month sinee the motor vehicle bureau was ‘organized. E Captain John L. Ma: once shipper of the famous clipper Young Amer- ica, which. made many fast trips around the Horn many years ago, died in Bos- ton, . Reconstruction of the present Greek cabinet “is~ expected ~ when Alexander Zaimis, who recently accepted the post of premier and is now in Vienna, arrives in Athens. Tt is learned in reliable quarters at The Hague that the award of The Hague arbitration tribunal in the case of the Norwegian ship owners against the Unit- ed States, amounts to $11,972,200. The Massachusetts supreme court rul- ed that in cities which had adopted charters of the form known as Plan B the awarding of contracts was an execi- tive function to Le exercised only by mayors. The Boston police were asked yester- day to be on the lookout for Miss. Ma- ria_de_ Corte, a Belgian girl who was a nurse on active duty during the World war. As Rt. Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Con- necticut will be in New Haven on Oc- tober 26 and 27 at a conference on di- ocesan work a dinner will be given in his honor. Frederick Bergera of Porichester, ) Y., was held for the superior court or th echarge of stealing two torches from the" Greenwich Ornamental Iron Works, and selling ‘them to a garage at Pork chester ‘for $20." The articles were valued at $105. . No criminal responsibllity was found by Coroner John J. Pheldn for the death of William , Sheldon, a_city -employe of Stamford, who died after being struck by the automobile of Henry R. Rose, a Yale Divinity School student, on October 6. John C. Ready, chalrman of the Sys- tem. Federation of Shop Crafts on the New Hiven:system safd, that the reopen- ing of car shops In New Haven by the comipany on Monday next Was not expect- ed to have “the least bit of difference with the strikers,” ladder which Jacob Johansen was trying to: raise from another’ ladder standing .against St.” Joseph's church, n, Mass., slipped and knocked hiny to the ground forty feet below. He was instantly killed. The British steamer Cardiff Hall, be- lated for five days: because of the hur- ricane at sea on’ September 25, reported on_ her arrival in. Boston from*Imming- ham, Bngland, that the second mate had been washed overboard during the great sale. . ; ‘Mayor David E. FitzBerald, of New Haven,” who is. the- demécratic ‘nominee for. governor ‘accepted an - invitation to speak- at the = United Congregational chureh in Bridgeport on Sunday, Nov. 5 under ‘the auspices of the Community Forum which aleo has asked -Mr. Tem- pleton, the Tepublican candidate. 2 OBITUARY James Finlay Hartford, Oct. 13 — James Finlay, 5 Coupty | president of. the. Finlay-Brothers and Daly, fixed ‘bail:for -both offenses| company, printers and -lithagraphers, died at his home, here tonight in his 70th year. He leaves his widow, three sons and one -daughter.. © " - Mr. Finlay was born in Scotland in and came to the United States when he was fourteen years old. He removed _to. Hartford he established his business, . 1890, where{ Lictenant Koenig piloted a Lepere observation ‘plane, equipped with a 400-horse power -Liberty 12 motor, over ther 240 mile trianigular course at ‘an average speed of 128.8 miles -an hour. - The plane is the same in which Tleutesant Joht A: MacReady estab- Jished. a world's -altitude ~record 37,800 feet st year.- - Secand. place ‘in_ the race. went. tc Major Follet . Bradley, of - Chanuts field, Rantoul, 1lls., who piloted a De- Haviland 4-B_ observation _plane driven by ‘a 400 horsepower Liberty 12 motor. Lieutenant W. L. Boyd o | Pittsburgh, piloting a similar plane, was third. Three: planes were forced down by engine trouble. The navy announced shortly before roon. that its two planes wauld not fly. No explanation was 'given. It was said, bowever, tbat late Thursday the ‘army entered ‘a formal protest against the entry of the Vought ob- servation planes of the navy, wheih are of a new type, complaining that the Vouht planes did not Parry ma- chine guns and other combat equip- ment carried on the army planes. Speed trials for the world's record over a one kilometre course, set for today, was postponed because of ad- verse winds. Secretary_ of the Navy, Edward and Assistant Secretary of . inwright, went up during the afternoon and looked over the crowd from anlaltitude of several thousand feet. - MRS. GIBERSON- TESTIFIED AGAINST DAUGHTER-IN-LAW Toms River, J. Martha Giberson, 79 years old, took the stand late this afternoon to tes- tify against her _daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ivy Giberson, who is on trial charged with the murder of the lat- ter's husband, Willlam F. Giberson, tat Lakehurst on August 14. | = The mother of the slain man told of a conversation she said-she had with her daughter-in-law a_month’ before he was found shot to death. Refer- ring ‘to the defendant, the aged wit- ness sai She_spoke to me about chime. in Toms River. She said there was no Jjustice in Toms River and that any- one could murder and get away with it Harold Ganun, of the Bronx, N. Y., whose letters to the defepdant were placed in evidence at the- mornimz session, was reealled to the. stand. this afternoon for cross examination. This was brief. He denied that he had at any time been intimate with the defendant. AVIATOR BEARING CHARTER TO NATIONAL AERONAUTIC ASS'N Hartford,. Oct. 13—An_aviator rep- resenting ~ the National Aeronautic association is expected to arrive here shortly “after noon . tomorrow. with a copy of @ charter incorporating the association ‘before the . second - uero congress ends tomorrow nikht.in De- troit. “The incorporation is to be made under the laws of this state, and the aviator ‘expécts to return with the papers late tomorrow night. Hiram_Percy Maxim, president of the Hartford Aviation commission, announced ‘tonight that ‘he had re- deived word of, the, departure of"the aviator from Detroit but said that he did not know how far he had come. He added tHat_Bellfont, Ohio, which is about four and a guarter hours from bere, was the logical stopping place for the night, and concluded that the aviator had stopped there. LABORITES TO CONTEST | 40 SEATS IN. PARLIAMENT. | miles off Thatcher's committee, which met hers to formu- late. plans for a national campaign for funds. Mr. Roosevelt, whose serv- ices have been loaned by the wotrol- eum company until the relief work it sompleted, is on ais_wa:® to New York -~ from = Texas, Will G. Hays chatrhant_of the committes said. 7° President Harding, in & letter to the sommittee today, said: > “As the veople »f America have siven, and given -enerously, in every IMeat crisis Rhat. %as “hina, Russia, .ndia, and all parts of lie world, so they must give and give ' 2-great sum now—millions of doliars —if the lives of these victims are ta be saved. “No appeal “f real need from whatever part of che world has ever been made in vain in America.” The commiftee determined that the strength ‘of the American Red Cross and the Near East Relief should be combined for the fund drive for the immediate needs of tha emergency committee. The ather Jrganizations represented in the committee are mot to set up separate campaign outfits, but will throw the etrength of their memberships behind the main drive A national’ co-operating committee, ta be selceted from every state in the union by Président Harding, is to be announced next week. SCHOONER BLUENOSE SIGHTED OFF CAPE ANN Gloucester, Mass. Oct. 13.—Unoffictal word was® received nere tonight thas the Canadian champion fishing schoonet Bluenose, which had been reported sinct it parted company with the Canadl cruiser Patriot nc ble Islagd Wed- nesday morning. been sighted Island twin ligl off Cape Ann. According to the the Bluenose was sigh Ransom B. Fuller, w evening for Port Apparent confirmation of the rveport came. with the depart of the Canadian crulser Patriot few minutes after- She put out in the dark to make a search along « Ann shore with a view of pick e Bluenose and taking her in tow port reaching hers” d by the steames : Jeft Boston thit Shatters Consecutive Hit Record - London, Oct, 14 (BY The A. P)—A| | call to labor to rally its utmost efforts to wifl the coming electoral n:m. is big-type feature of the front page gdl::’e labor party's organ, the Herald, “Ageneral election is imminent” says the article. “The flowing “?t;_ with lat:!or. and if it is taken by the men and women workers throughout the country it will lead to a greas 5 e 0.2 great elec _The newspaper says 400 'seats in e contested by < o - George Sisler, first baseman for the St. Louls Browns, on Septem-. - ber 1#th broke the record® estab- lished by Ty Cobb. of the Detreit Tigers, in 1911, when Cobb hit 4n forty cvnuenu: “p::,. A ‘broke the recor: 0 ping in the New Y [ American game, “one stralght c Bas hit safely.

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