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Arizona republican., 1917-03-24
HOLTHER TELLS OF ADMISSIONS MADE
 HIM BY HAL HART
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ton. Dowell said he took no part in the conference between Thaw and the attorneys for Governor Campbell where at last ThaW blurted out his ''proposi- ton"
 Alr. Ives wanted tc see ihe telegram Mr. Dowell had received from Carr, and later it Was produced in code MT l)oWeH unraveled it with Judge Stan ford, but naturallr 7clined to let the torneys OF the public sec how it was done.
 During the cross examination Mr Ives first asked that he be allowed L see the reports which the detective had made to the attorneys for Gov ernor Cam9bell he said he needed that information for purposes of cross, examination Judge Sloan said the re- quest was absurd and he countereo with proposal to exchange these re- ports for all the confidential nforma tlOn Ill the possession of the Hunt at torneyS and managers Later. Judge Sloan offered to lay the reports of the detectives before Judge Stanford. T. that objection was made by Mr Ives that evidence would thus be laid before the court of which the contestant would have no knowledge.
 Considerable time was consumed il legal battle for the possession of the detectives report. Out of the simple request of MT. Ives there was a forma demand for them which Messls. Ives Cnrley and Struckmeyer declared wer not privileged communications Much law was quoted
 Judge Sloan and MT. Bull lard supplemented their contention thai the demand was preposterous with de- cisions against it. This, like many oth CT issues which have sprung up IS sud f~7lY a s summer showers, was left in the air. t.aaxts
 New Mexican Excursion
 The next witness was D. E. Cox wh'
Arizona republican., 1917-03-24

of MT. Ives, Holther made no con cealment of the fact that he had de- ceived Hart He said that his ere dentials from the American Fedora tiCn of Labor were genuinea Thev are not. though, very recent 1909. He admitted also that he held a card from the Western Federation of Min CTS frcm 1907 until last September. He was asked if it had not been his business to disrupt and disorganize union organizations He admitted that he had done some disrupting and 6isorganizing. He had been act ing president and acting secretary and organizer for both organizations but when MT. Ives sought to show that he must have violated the oaths he had taken on his induction into the various offices, Holther stated that he had never taken an oblga- tion in his life.
 The nearest he. had come to I
Arizona republican., 1917-03-24

was when T. J. Ryan of Lead, S. D. just before the burning of the Home Stake had read the obligation to him and d bunch of others in a hallway" He had not raised his right hand or promised to do any, thing. He had visited many sec tions of the country where trouble was imminent and had reported to the Thie1 office at San Francisco
 Mr. Ives and his associates had heard of Holther before. He offered a typewriter document which had come from California which he saic was confession made by Holther to Ben GoSgins, a labor leader of Cali .- fornia. Holther denied that he had made a confession. The only state ment he mad ever made he said would be found in the files of the Stockton Record and MT. Ives hap pene6 fo have copy of that. Hol- ther identified it and said that it
Arizona republican., 1917-03-24

ing on and he took it down. There fore the document from which Judge Sloan was examining him was not un- familiar. He identified the facts. par agranh by paragraph.
 Midway, Mir Ives asked if Ryan had not been in the court room at the
 time Hart was testifyiEg and was therefore disqualified. It took some
 time to establish that though Ryan
 had not been placed under the rule -and had been in the court room he
 had not been there at the time this
 part of Hart's testimony was taken. Fifteen minutes before o'clock an adjournment was taken until this morning Three or four witnesses will be examined for the contestee | today, among them, former United States Marshal overlook and per- 1 haps Mir. Benshimo! If the latter is able to return from Douglas whlther he was called on Thursday night.
Arizona republican., 1917-03-24

him He said that Carr had offered him money Holther told him not to take it; it might be marked. But Hart was q wise guy. He could take care of himself. They have nothing on me" he said; "thev have no evil dencc' Holther said that Pearson might have talked. Hart admitted that ne might do so, for he was d crook and would do anything for money. It was decided that it would be good thing to take him out of the country, and Holther decided to go after him. It was then that Hart gave him the letter of introduction which is now in evidence. After awhile, an arrangement was made for a meeting at ' o'clock. Before that time the telegram from Mir Ladd had been received. and Hart knew to whom he had been unbos- oning himself.
 in reply to the shocked inquiries
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was substantially corraot though the reporter had somewhat enlarged upon what he had said
 MT. Ives desired to make this statement basis for further cross examination of Holther Judge Sloan raised the objection that all this had nothing to do with the matter in hand, the crookedness in Douglass precinct. He protested against the clouding of that issue with the labor activities of Holther-. What he might have done to the disadvantage or organized iabor had nothing to do with the investigation now being made. Juoge Stanford expressed a somewhat similar view, and the fast witness of the day was called.
 He Also. Heard
 J. B. Ryan, a stenographer was in room 232 with David Benshimol, Refs and Cox while the conversation between Hart and Holther was go-
Arizona republican., 1917-03-24

REALIZING HOW ENORMOUS OUR STOCKS ARE AND WHAT A SHORT SPACE OF TIME WE HAVE BEFORE US IN WHICH TO REDUCE OUR STOCKS BEFORE MOVING INTO TEMPORARY QU ARTERS CAUSES AND FORCES US TO STILL GREATER AND MORE DRASTIC PRICE CUTTING AND CONCESSIONS THAN EVER BEFORE PRICES ARE NOW AT THEIR LOWEST EBB
 DURING OUR
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31
GERMAN DAIDER SEEADLER
 WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE
1t Had Destroyed 25 Steamers and
 Sailing Vessels on Cruise.

A Pacific Port, Oct. 30.-Count Von Luckner, commander of the German raider Seeadler, told Fiji Island news paper correspondents when he was captured near the Fijis recently, that the raider was destroyed by fire D. 900 miles from land. according to of fcers of a vessel which arrived here yesterday with details if the counts capture. Previous reports were that the vessel was wrecked on an island.
 The count also asserted, according to the steamers officers, that the Seead Ter destroyed twenty five steamers and sailing vessels it's cruise. Five of the captured craft, all sailing vessels. were sunk in the Pacific. he said. All the crews were sent ashore.
 A favorite plan of his. he was re- ported to have said, was to send out a wireless message asking for the time. Some one would oblige him and after ward the ship supplying the time was traced and sunk.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31
FIRST ALLEGED DESERTER FROM CAMP DEVENS
Country Wide Search Being Made fol
 Private Joseph DeItore.

Aver, Mass, Oct. 30-The frat a1- legged deserter from the ranks of the New England division of the national army, Private Joseph Delrore. of Headquarters company of the 301st in fantry regiment, was being sought to- night in a countrywide search by fed era1 and secret service authorities. Deltore, who was selected for service by Boston exemption board, has been missing since Oct. 13.
 Today Captain Nea1e w. Richmond, his commander, received 9. parcel post package in winch were all the articles Of the missing mans uniform. The package was postmarked Brockton." :" Nc message of explanation accompa- nied the bundle.
 5z Several. .-chargesa=sefz-ifat-aal,o aal,oFdi ton were made against De1tore by his com handing officers, one of them alleging ar assault upon a sergeant. Aftd' pointing out to the man the penalties provided for such actions, Colonel Tompkins, regimental commander, agreed to hold up the charges against him on his promise to reform. Tae only punishment ordered was three week ends without leave and a pro- vision that he do kitchen work during those fatigue cuty periods.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31
FIRE RAGING ON BIG
 PIERS AT BALTIMORE
Where Are Stored Vast Quantities of
 Supplies for Forces in France.

Baltimore, Oct. 30.-One of the largest fires in Baltimore since the great con1agration in February, 190f, ttat destroyed the business section of the city, is raging at midnight on the rlg piers of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at its extensive terminal at Locust Point, on the south side of the harbor. Piers and g are stored wjSn vast quantities of munitions and sup plies for the American forces in France and their allies. Within ten minutes after the flames were discovered the entire structure was ablaze. Fifteen of the crew of a British steamer lying at the pier 1eaped overheard and it is feared some of them were drowned. 4 dozen or more men employed on the pier are missing. On one of the piers were cases of shells which exploded at intervals, leading to rumors that the fire department was using dynamite to check the spread of the fire. It is reported that the fire was of incen- diary origin.
 The Baltimore and Ohio grain e1e- vators are but short distance from the burned piers, which are the main terminal in this country of the Fur ness-Withy English line of steamers.
 The firemen have so far succeeded in preventing the flames from spread ing to the elevators.
 Shortly after midnight pier 10, the former immigration pier of the German Steamship company, was burning, but at that time the f1remen believed they could conf1ne the flames to the three piers.
 Baltimore and Ohio railroad off, cia1s could not give any estimate of the loss, but ti will reach several mill lions.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31

The drive Of the Germans and Aus
 tro-Hungarian armies begun a week
 ago against the eastern and northeast
 ern fronts of the Austro- Italian thea
 tTe continues unabated, but with the Italian cavalry fighting rear guard ac- ! tions to cover the retreat of the Ital- 1 fans to positions chosen for a stand and the Teutonic allies also being i'm peded by the flooded condition of the ETag1famento river.
 Udine former headquarters of the
 Italian army in eastern Venetia. has been captured by the invaders, who
 also are pressing the Italians westward Italian territory from the north
 through passes in the Carnic Alps. The invasion of the province of tNenetia from the east, with Udine the apex of the drive, already is about %
 miles, but as yet no definite informa-
 eIb1e to judge the extent of the ad- vance of the TeUtons in the other dis tricts. If the movement from the north keeps pace with that from the north east and the east however, the predic- ament of General Cadorna's forces necessarily will be a serious one, and 1t is not yet beyond the realms of posL eibility that unless the eastern armies are able to make a stand on the plains of Frfuli, a further considerable num- Der of the Italians will be captured.
 + Nothing has been vouchsafed in either the Italian, German or Austrian official communications to indicate what the situation is in the Trentino SC ctor, which lies to the wcE =.d northwest of the present zone of ac- t.vity. but it is not improbable that if. es unofficial advices have stated. the &ustro-Sw frontier has been closed, achievements, both from Germany
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31
Decrease in US.
 Steel Earnings
FOR THE QUARTER ENDING SEP.
 TEMBER FIRST
MORE THAN $2O,ooO,Ooo
But the Corporation Has Again De- clared an Extra Dividend of Per Cent. on Common Stock-Reduotion of Earnings Due to Lower Prices Paid by the Government.

New York, Oct 30.-Notwithstand- ing decrease of more than 20,000, 900 in the total earnings of the United states Steel Corporation for the Quar- ter ending on September 30, the cor poration today again declared an ex- tra three per cent. dividend on the common stock, together with the reg ular quarterly disbursements of 1 IA per cent. on the common and 3-4 per cent. the preferred issues These earnings totalled $68,243784 as compared with $9o,479,204 in the pre- V-OuS quarter.
 Net Income 55,245,377.
 Net income of $55,245,377 represents a decrease of slightly more than $19,- 100000 and the surplus of $21824554 is less by almost half that shown three months ago. namely $4O,965, ,761.
 The falling off in business is attrib- uted largely to the lower prices paid by the government for it's supplies.
 As matter of fact the earnings for tEe third quarter compare favorabIy with those of the three months imme- diately preceding which constituted record. The sum of $6S,243,7S4 was arrived at after appropriating $63, ,733,- O13, or almost half of gross returns, for war income and excess profits in addition to expenses incident to oper- ations and interest on subsidiary bonds.
 This item is larger by almost S1o,- 00O,0O0 than the appropriation set aside in the previous quarter and makes a total of $151. 516.885. To this should be added as additional allowances for the first half of 1917 the sum of $12,- 716,724, also for war incomes and ex- cess profits, pursuant to the revenue bill as finally adopted, making total appropriations of $164, ,233, ,609.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31
ACTIVITIES OF FRATERNAL
 ORGANIZATIONS IN CAMPS
Scope Outlined in Announcement Made
 by Secretary Baker.

Washington, Oct. 30.-Secretary Ba- ker today announced policy to govern activities of fraternal organizations in army training camps.
 Camp commanders will be directed to permit the construction of buildings within the camp sites by any fraterna1 organization, individually or group of organizations acting together; facili- ties of the camp for social and fellow ship meetings will be extended, and accredited representatives from the various societies will be authorized to visit the camps and arrange for enter ta1nments for the men at the buildings tEus erected or in nearby communities
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31
SWITCHMEN DEMAND A
 50 PER CENT. WAGE INCREASE
Referendum Vote on a Nation Wide Campaign Strike is to be Taken.

Chicago, Oct. 30-Demands for a fifty per cent. wage increase will be submitted to the. rae lroadS of the United States by thu members of the Switchmen's Union of North Ameri- ca as a result of a4yion taken by a special committee :n two days meeting which entt here today. The Adamson law enacted in 1916 to avert a threatened strike reduced the daily hours of labor of the switch men from ten to eight but did not increase, their wages.
 The demand for wage increase will be followed by a referendum vote on a nation wide strike of switchmen if it is not granted in thirty days, it was announced by s. B. Heberling of Buffalo, president of the union. The thirty days notice which the con- tracts of the union with the rail- roads require must be given before any change in wage questions can be taken up was served on the railroads at once.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31
A Great Chan'cefor
 U. s. Chemists
ENEMY OWNED PATENTS OPEN.
 ED TO THEM
SOME 2,000 ARTICLES
SaIvarsan, Used in Virulent Blood Dis eases, and Non- T oxic Substitutes for Local Anaeethetics are Among the Drugs Which will be Manufactured in America.

Washington, Oct. 30.-The latest store of German scientific information in this country was opened today to American manufacturers in regulations issued by the federal trade commits sion under which enemy owned pat ents and copyrights will be licensed for manufacture by citizens of the United States.
 When the regulations had been made public. the commission met a group of medical men to consider licensing the manufacture of certain drugs princt- pally Salvarsan used in virulent blood diseases and non toxic substitutes for local anaesthetics. of which the supply in this country has run dang erously low since the war interrupted commerce.
 100000 Articles Affected.
 Approximately 20 900 patented and copyrighted articles are said to be af- fected by the commissions order. These include dyestuf formulas of vital importance to American indus tries and mechanical devices of wide use, though thed humanitarian effect of the order attracts the wideS atten- ton. German though for many years has been in the forefront of medical research, evolving remedies for disease and for alleviation of pain, all of which patented in the United States will now become available to end suf- fering in this country.
 Public interests to be Safeguarded.
 Whether prices for drugs manufac- tured under license will be determined by the commission was not annOunc- ed. but it was intimated that the com mission would safeguard the public against exploitation. The trading with -the-enemy act, by authority of which the patents and copyrights will be aken over, confers on the president who has delegated the trade commits sion to carry out the law, power to fix conditions of licensing. which might be countersigned as authorizing limita- tions of prices if the public welfare de- manded it. Prices of drugs have un- dergone tremendous increases since 1914 many remedies having increased as much as 900 per cent.
 Issue of Licenses.
 The regf1fatiofIs issued today fol- low the law closely in safeguarding the interests of patent owners who must be reimbursed for the use of their inventions, and provides that licenses will be issued only where the interest of the public demands it, to supply a demand not now being met. The H cense must give evidence of abilitay to manufacture the article.
 When the commission will issue the first licenses for manufacture of arti- cles patented by alien enemies or their allies probably will depend on the time required for American producers to meet the license requirements.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31
FIRST ACTUAL CASH FROM
 SECOND LIBERTY BOND SALES
Treasury Department Has Received
 $124,590,753 From Reserve Banks.

Washington, Oct. 30.-The treasury department today received the first actual cash from the sale of the sec ond issue of Liberty bonds. Federal reserve banks turned in SPA, ,590,754 representing part of the two per cent paid by subscribers with their appli- cations and a small part of the fund received for the smaller bonds bought for cash.
 No further reports as to total sales came from the reserve banks today and none are expected until Thursday, when member banks and other sales agencies must deposit with the reserve banks the first payments and returns from cash sales.
 Complete figures for subscriptions by the navy were in hand tonight, showing that tho enlisted personnel and civilian employees in the navy de- partment bought $10,202, 15O worth of bonds. The battleship Texas led all warships with a total of $107, ,350 more than $1O0 to each member of the crew.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31

and Austria, are being hurried up for an offensive of great magnitude in this region. The driving back of the Ital- ia ms southward in this region might seriously affect the plans of the en- tente allies to send relief to General purpose were across the Franco Italian border and eastward by rail.
 Tn the retreat of the Italians the British artillery units which early s1 the spring were sent to the Isonzo front to aid the Italians in their drive toward Triest saved all their guns, but the men suffered severely from cold. the indictment weather and lack of food.
 Field Marshal Haig again has sent forward his forces in the Ypres sec- tion. on what apparently were intended as Hght-straightentng operations, and again has been successful in gaining the greater portion of his objective: The attacks were delivered over small fronts in the regions of Passchendaele and Poelcapelle, where spurs of ridges and other points of vantage were taken.
 The Canadians, with their usual brilliancy of attack, early in the of fensive gained their objectives, in the heart of Passchendaele. Some of them even penetrated into the town itself and also were close to the vi1- lage of Goeberg to the north. The German official communication admits that Passchendae1e was cap tured, but asserts hatlater the Ca4te- dians were driven out.
 On the other battle fronts, except for spirited artillery fighting in the Aisne and Mouse sectors of France. the operations have been of minor char acter.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31
LANDSLIDE ON DERBY-
 WATERBURY TROLLEY LINE
Half Way Between Beacon Falls and
 Waterbury-Traffic Delayed.

Beacon Falls. Conn. Oct. 30.-Traf11c c was delayed for over two hours tonight on the Derby Waterbury trolley line at Dead Mans curve, half way between Beacon Falls and Waterbury, by a landslide. The slide occurred as a result of the rain storm, several tons of rock. trees. boulders and gravel hav- ing slid down and blocked the single track trolley line. No one was in jured. The officers of the company were telephoned to and a gang of men were soon on hand from Naugatuck and Waterbury and they succeeded af- ter a little over two hours hard work Hi clearing the track. The cars going in both directions were stopped while the track was being cleared.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31
GERMANY HAS LOST 6,oO0,oOo
 MEN DURING THE WAR
According to Declaration Made in the
 Reiehstag.

Washington, Oct. 30.-Germany lost six million men in the three years of war, according to declaration made in the reichstag by the independent socialist Ledebour
 A report of his speech reaching Washington through Switzerland states that, contemplating the pros poets of a fourth winter campaign the socialist leader said:
 You have not evidently, gentlemen, ar exact conception of what war means. We have had 100000 dead, three or four million wounded, of whom 0,0OO ere crippled for life, and :wo million absolutely invalided That makeI altogether six million men lost during three years."
 It it stated that official information cCnfirmatory of these figures has been in possession of American officials for some time.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31
REFERENDUM VOTE OF
 CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE
Favors Government Fixing Prices of Materials for War and Public Well fare.

Washington, Oct. 30.-The declara- tiOn of the recent war convention of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at Atlantic City that it is necessary that the government fix prices on all materials needed for the conduct of the war and affecting the public welfare has been endorsed by a great majority of it's members throughout the country.
 The preliminary count of the result of the referendum on this subject, sent out before the Atlantic City meeting shows it was announced today. that the members favor extending the au- thority to control prices to raw ma terials and finished products and to prices the public pays as we'll to those paid by the government.
 The recommendation of the cham Der that price control be placed in the hands of a small board to be named by the president and that an agency to work in harmony with this board distribute available supplies to those purchasers whose needs are most directly related to the public welfare also is endorsed.
 Approval, too, is given the propos- al to have each leading industry and trade appoint committee to confer with the agencies that control prices and distribution.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31
A SEVERE ELECTRICAL
 STORM IN WORCESTER
Caused the Death of an Unknown Girl,
 Aged 1S.

Worcester, Mass, Oct. BOA severe electrical stord in Worcester today caused the death of an unknown girl, aged 16, wrecked the node of c. J. Eckers, blew out the big show win dcws of the American Supply company store on Front street and caused a lot Of damage by blowing over trees
 The girl killed by the automobile was carrying an umbrella and, in trying to protect herself from the driving rain, she walked off the sidewalk into the path of the machine, which she did not see. The lightning ripped the roof off the Eckers house and tore the plaster off all the ceilings but did not injure anybody.