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Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-12-19
UNWASHED SENTENCED.
jBy United Press)

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 19-Twenty-
seven industrial workers of the world
were sentenced to from three and a
half TO nine and half years in the
Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth
late Yesterday on charges of conspi-
racy,
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70 RETURN WAR PRISONERS.
(Bv United Press.)

PARIS, Dec. 19-German delega-
t;an here announced that Premier
Clemenceau had informed them tha'
German prisoners of war in France
/ MI Be returned Immediately without
lawaiting the signing of the Protoc0t.
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BIBLE LANDS NOW
PLACE OF F!l0RROR
ANDCANN|BAL|SM
AN ENTIRE NATION STARVING
"OR FORCED TO EAT HUMAN
FLESH-FERTILE FIELDS BUT
NO GRAIN TO PLANT-WORLD
ASKED TO HELP

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19-Women
and children starving by the thous-
ands or eating flesh from the dead
hodies of their friends and neighbors,
nestilence and other horrors are de-
nicted in letters which come from the
near east, the Bible lands, now the re-
fuge for Armenians and Abyssinians
from the cruelties of th Turks.
Aimee V. Higdon, "a noted philan-
tropist, writing from Erivan tells OF
conditions that are almost beyond be-
hef In her letter to -1the Near
East Relief Association here she
says, in part:
the worst place gdir, near Fitch.
m:adzin. The e housese are fu.
of ,,nbnried d A man walking
through the Gets the oufef ia.
seemed to bs carrying a sack; upo'
examinationi it was found to contain
the body of freshly killed man
which the bearer was carrying hom
to eat. Inanother family the cool
was found roasting half the body o
baby. In other places chlldrel
have been seen cracking huma'
homes for marrow. I can reall'
scarcely endure the sights we see o
famished children on the streets. W
do not have enough to feed half o
them: besides we do not have enoug
relief workers.
"If the American people could re
alize that it a common thing a
through Armenia to see children ~
! no dead in the streets and tina
reople are forced to eat each othe'
tbav would hate themselves for haV
ING any surplus money which Ohe
would not offer to save these peopl'
In some places the orphans are gatf
cred from the street and placed IN
big open courtyard to be given on
hit of bread. They have to sIee
On the ground with no covering
Usually the following morning Vhe
are sorted over and the dead one
r,,t to one until the ox-cart come
around to gather them up.
"Meanwhile the wonderful fertt
fields are all ploughed by the su
vivors of the massacres, but there
| no grain TO show. The Tartars al
Turks have carefully taken away
r soed o,.ain so as to make 1t mpo
sible for the Arnenians to have
e harvest this year. just think Tn
y these black soil valleys must go ba
,er-that is the discouraging thll
a abop,t it. 1t looks as though u
: famine must continue all next yes
: Things like this make ones blood b
% MANY of the Armenians have mo
r. av hut neither Tartars nor Greg
r;ans will sell them anything.
sc ems as though something ought
ba done at once to put an Amerlc
or other protectorate here to sa
the people.
a. sThe streets are full of weepl
,r and begging. I can certainly
at 7 have never seen smile in t
oe place-Just people crying all
nc =; "a lam, Ajam, Il am hungr
I u hen they receive something to e
thew break down and weep from sh
weakness. If some of the indltt
ent people in America could see Il
70 thew would never be the same peo
,s again There are few Amerlc'
g. who could ever dream that Tn
he could be so much torture and sun
ing in the world. Of course un
+ ere individuals cases everywhere
: he ever before q whole nation in S
:. condition of suffering winch I
er ends" -
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-12
TELEGRAPH COMPANIES
NOT SEVERELY, AFFECTED

New York. June 11.-Oficials of the
Western Union and Postal Telegra phi
companies reiterated tonight their
statements that service of the two
companies had not been severely af-
fected by the strike of the Commercial
Telesraphers' union, despite the claims
of the union that between $4,000 and
25,Jv0 men had gone out.
Edward Reynolds vice president and
Sener al manager of the Postal. admit
ting that between 20 and 80 per cent.
of the companys 10000 employees had
quit work during the day. declared
that reports tonight indicated a large
number of the strikers were returning
to work.
I'll give the strike about two more
days fefore it collapses altogether
NJ. Reynolds said
Newcomb Carlton. president of the
Western Union. announced that nine
employees of that company had Joined
the strife since 4 o'clock this after
noon. At 4 o'clock Mr.. Carlton had
placed the total number of strikers al
155 out of total employed force of
40 900.
Mr.. Carlton declared that employees
who joined in the strike were out OF
the Western Union service Hfor good.
Percy Thomas, vice president of the
C. T, u. who is directing the strike ir
this city, announced that the New
York local of the union had voted at q
meeting this afternoon to appeal to
| President S. J. Konenkamp to call 6
strike of all operators employed II
brokerage offices in the United States
| and Canada.
The strike, if called. would affec'
about 5000 operators. Mr.. Thoma:
| said.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-12
SUSPECTED OF HAVING
KILLED HIS MOTHER

Trenton, N. j.. June 1.-THE police
tonight arrested Stephen Urban, 19
years old, of this city, on suspicion of
having killed his mother, Mrs. The
resa Foder. 40 years old, who was
found dead at a lonely spot near ST.
Johns cemetery last night with her
hands bound behind her back, her belt
tied tightly around her neck and two
deep gashes in her head. A shirt COW
cred with blood found among the
young mans effects. his contradictory
stories as to the shirt and inquiries he
is alleged to have made about his
mothers insurance. prompted the po-
lice to make the arrest. Urban is a
son of the woman by a former mar
riage. His father died in Hungary
about eight years ago.
Three other suspects are being held
by the police. One is Joseph Urban, a
boarder at the woman's house, but in
no way related to her or her first hus-
band; Joseph Feder. the second hus-
band of the woman, who was divorced
from her several years ago, and Frank
$50, who was seen with her shortly
before she met her death.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-12
Wilson UnOfficia||y
to Aid Irish Cause
To Bring the Irish Question to
the Attention of the Other
Peace Commissioners.

Paris, June 11-(By The A. P.)
President Wilson today told represen-
tatives of Irish societies in America
that he would do what he could un-
officially to bring the Irish question
to the attention of the other peace
commissioners.
Announcement to this effect was
made by Frank P. Walsh and Edward
F. Dunno, the representatives of the
Irish Americans. after they had had a
thirty minute conference with the
president. The promise made by the
president was in reply to a question
from Messrs. Walsh and Dunno as to
what the president intended doing in
view of the resolution adopted by the
senate urging that the American del
egation take steps to have representa-
tives of Ireland heard by the peace
conference.
Messrs. Walsh and Dunno said tha
they went over the situation in Ire
land generally in their talk with the
president
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-12
A FORMER GERMAN LINER
RAMMED OFF SANDY HOOK

New York. June 1.-THE steamship
Graf Waldersee. former German
liner taken over by the United States
shipping board, was rammed 100 miles
off Sandy Hook at 11.45 o'clock to-
night by the steamship Redondo,
cargo boat, according to a wireless
message received by the Naval Com
munication Service.
The Leviathan and the Patricia are
standing by the Graf Waldersee, which
sailed at six o'clock tonight for Brest.
The wireless message said it might
be possible to save the transport but
no details of the the damage were
given. The Redondo, operated by the
United States shipping board, was
bound for New York, having sailed
from Gette. France, on May 2S.j
A later message said the Graf Wal
| dersee had six feet of water in her
| engine room.
The Graf Waldersee, a vessel of g.
| 375 tons, arrived here on June 2 from
Brest loaded with troops.
1t was the second trip of the ship
| since she was turned over by the
Germans. When she sailed for Brest
i tonight she carried nine army passeng-
ers and one representing the navy.
| Prior to the war the Graf Waldersee
was one of the 1agships of the Ham
| burg American line. In 1915 she fig
ured in a collision when she sank the
steamship Norge in the Elbe river
She was taken over by the United
States navy as a transport on March
81 and arrived in New York with hel
first complement of returning roops
on April Goth.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-12
BERGER'S SEAT CONTEST
BEFORE HOUSE COMMITTEE

Washington, June 11--Victor Bers
gfer's right to sit in the House of Rep
resentatives while under a twenty
years sentence for violation of the
espionage act was brought to an issue
today before the House Elections Com
mittee.
Running on the socialist ticket, Ber
ger defeated Joseph p Carney, demo
crat and William H. Stafford, repub-
lican, in November, 1918 He then
was under indictment and subsequently,
convicted but is at liberty on bail
pending an appeal to the Supreme
court.
The committee had before it today
brief filed by Harry r. McLogan
counsel for Carney, setting forth thai
the latter was entitled to represent the
Fifth Wisconsin district, and thai
Berger was disqualified and ineligible
The brief charged that from the date
of Americas entrance into the war, un-
til the date of the November 1918
election Berger, as editor of the Mil
waukee Leader had been INJECTING
subtle poison into the public mine
with intent to Interfere with the op-
Grafton or success of the military o.
| naval forces of the United States"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-12
APPROPRIATION BASED UPON
REDUCTION OE THE ARMY

Washington, June 11.-Further re-
duction in the size of the army to be
maintained for the next fifiscal year
was tentatively agreed upon by the
hor today in deciding to base ap
pr ions for pay and maintenance
on army of 100000 men, instead of
100000 as recommended by the house
military committee. The war depart
ment had recommended provision for
an army of 5es,000.
Tho controversy over the army's size
was brought to d test vote when an
item If S2S,605,000 for the pay of line
officers came up for considera ton
Representative La Guardia, republican
OF New York. moved that it be reduced
to $40, 100000, making it in proportion
to an army of 100000 men. After two
hours debate. the amendment was
PASSED by a vote of 50 to 81.
Supporters of the amendment con-
tended that if provision was made fol
AGO. 600, the war department would
make no effort to carry on the de-
mobilization as rapidly as might be
possible.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-12
NOTIFICATIONS IN LEAGUE
OF NATIONS COVENANT

Paris, June 1.-THE league of ma
tions commission completed and pre-
sented to the council of four a second
report containing certain notifications
of the league covenant in favor of the
Germans, but the fate of the report is
uncertain.
The first report was submitted after
1t had been adopted unanimously by
the commission, including Leon Bour-
geois of France. 1t was rejected by
the council. it is said, on the insistence
of Premier Clemenceau and sent back
to the commission 70 be toned down.
Any information whether the second
report provides for the admission of
Germany into the league at the first
meeting next October was refused to-
day.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-12
100 DEPUTIES WERE DOING
GUARD DUTY LAST NIGHT

Ansonia. Conn.,. June 11.-With more
than 1000 idle in this city as result
OF strikes in several brass mills here
100 deputies were doing guard duty
tonight as precautionary measure
against disturbances which might re-
suit from the gatherings of strikers.
Thomas L.s Reilly, sheriff Of New Ha-
ven county, was in charge of the dep
uties, having brought fifty from New
Haven in the afternoon. Twenty eX-
service men from Waterbury were
sworn in and thirty more men were
sworn in late tonight. Sheriff Reilly
acted at the request of Mayor Mead
! of this city.
| 1t was estimated tonight that the
| total number away from the plants
owing to the strike had passed the
| 1000 mark, as there are only four
small plants which have not been af-
| fected by the walkout. These employ
less than 1000 persons and in addi-
1 ton, there were about six hundred
working today at the Farrell Foundry
and Machine Company. where foun.
| dry and furnace mek quit yesterday.
| No sign of a settlement of the strike
was apparent tonight and no confer
EbetWeen strikers and officials hat
| been arranged. Mayor Mead is try.
| ing to bring about conference be.
tween officials of the American Bras.
Company and the strike committee
A crowd of strikers gathered abou
the city hall late today following tht
arrest of Thomas Lutstosky. who wa
said to have tried to prevent worker!
from returning to the Farrell plant af
ter the noon hour. The man was or
dered held in bonds of $1,000 on tn,
| charge of breach of the peace and in
| timidation, but the bonds We're re
duced to $1,000 after COMMITTEE
from the crowd had been given hear
ing. The leader of the committee SAT-
that all those in the crowd wer
friends of Lutstosky, and, while no
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-12
ANSON|A STRIKE GETTING
. BEYOND CONTROL OF POLICE
Mayor Mead Has Called Upon County Sheriff Thomas L
Reilly for Help-Deputy Sheriff John D. Tierney Of
Waterbury Has Recruited 19 Former Soldiers for Strike
Duty in Ansonia-Loca Police Arrested Striker Who
Was Using Force to Prevent Men Returning to Work

Ansonia, Conn, June II. - Mayor
Mead of this city, feeling that the
strike situation was getting beyond
control of the local authorities, called
on County Sheriff Thomas L. Reilly
for help this noon. Sheriff Reilly and
30 deputies were expected to reach
Ansonia by o'clock.
The local police made the first ar
rest today when they nabbed strik-
er using force to prevent workmen of
the Farrell Foundry & Machine com
pany from returning to work at / o.
clock. He is a foreigner
Men, women and girls of the An
sonia Electrical company did not leave
the shop at noon today because of the
crowd outside calling to them to quit
work. They remained in the plant
| during the noon hour.
Joseph Ettor, prominent I. w. w
| agitator, is in Ansonia, according tc
| Mayor George P. Sullivan of Derby
who saw him coming from the rail-
road station late yesterday afternoon
Mayor Sullivan has seen Ettor severa
times and says he has face that i.
not easily forgotten. He is quite sure
the man he saw is Ettor. A little I. W
| w. propaganda has been scattered
here
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-12
ROOT SHOWED LODGE
COPY OF PEACE TREATY

Washington. June II. - How the
peace treaty reached private hands in
New York. and thus stirred up SEN
sation in the senate, was established
today az a two-hour hearing before
he foreign relations committee.
Senator Lodge revealed that the
COPY he saw was shown by Elihu Root,
former secretary of state Mr.. Root
told the committee he got it from
Henry =. Dawson, a member of the
Morgan banking house and head of the
Red Cross. and Mr.. avison in turn
testified that it was given him in Paris
uy Thomas ". Lamont. another Nor
gan partner attached to the American
peace mission.
J. p Morgan and Frank A. Wander
ltp. retiring president of the National
city bank, also before the committee,
said they never had seen copy.
With that the committee adjourned
without setting q date to continue the
hearing.
Mr.. Dawson said he secured the
copy 10 clear up the status of the Red
Cross under the league of nations, and
never had used it in a financial way
He had shown IL 10 no one except Mr.
Root. he continued.
Mr. Root gave II as his opinion that
there was nothing improper in the way
The treaty reached him. There could
hc nothing secret about il, he told the
committee, because the German gov
eminent had made it public.
Under questioning Mr. Root, who
appeared in the inquiry voluntarily
went on 10 say that while the senate
was within its right in asking for a
copy after the treaty became public
IN Germany, President Wilson was
within his right in Withholding it if hc
chose
All The witnesses said they haC
heard rumors Of other copies in New
York. but did not know whether they
existed
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-12
ONLY FIVE OPERATORS
ARE OUT In HARTFORD

Hartford, Con, June 11.-Five com
mercial telegraph operators are out of
Hartford offices today as a result of
the wire strike order Four are from
the Postal office, representing prac-
tically the entire operating force, only
the chief operator and his assistant
remaining. Chief Operator Kroher
admits that the local Office is prac-
tically tied up. Two Postal clerks
are out in sympathy with the strik-
erS.
One man is out from the Western
Union-discharge Chief Operator
Hall says the man was disloyal but
declines to give details. 1t was said
at union headquarters that he was dis
charged because he refused to turn in
his union card. The local Western
Union Office employees about a dozen
operators. There are two or three
night men who have not been heard
from concerning the strike order.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-12
FOLLOWING THE CLUE OF
ANARCHIST BLOWN TO PIECES

Philadelphia, June 1.-THE man
blown to pieces by his own bomb in
front of the house of Attorney Gener-
al Palmer in Washington on the night
Of June had his hat repaired in this
city the early part of last December
by Michael De Luca, whose name ap-
peared on the bomb thrower's hat
band, according to detectives working
on the case 1t was in December that
bombs were exploded at the homes
of Justice Won Moschzisker of the state
supreme court, and several other
prominent Philadelphians and the au-
thorities said tonight this strengthens
the theory that the same group was
responsible for both the December and
Jue explosions.
De Luca told the detectives he re-
called repairing the hat but said he
did not know to whom it belonged.
The band. he said. was made of 1mita
ton leather and the only time he had
used that kind of material was early
last December when he ran out Of
leather bands.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-12
FEW TELEGRAPHERS HAVE
RESPONDED TO STRIKE CALL

Chicago, June 11-Union leaders
declared tonight that the first day re-
sponse to the call for a nation wide
strike of commercial telegraph oper-
ators gave promise that the tie-up
will be complete in three days. despite
claims of company officials that the
strike has failed.
Press from many towns in various
sections of the country indicate that
commercial telegraph business was
not seriously interrupted in most dis
trictS.
A statement by President Carlton of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany that only about 166 persons. 121
of them operators. answered the
strike call brought from S. J. konen-
kamp, international president of the
Commercial Telegraphers Union of
America, a remark that more than
that number of Western Union en-
ployes in Chicago alone had joined
the strike by noon today.
Reports up to late today point to a
ninety per cent. response in the Pos
tai Telegraph sCopany service and a
seventy per cent. response from
Western Union employees" said Kon-
enkamp in a statement to The Asso-
ciated Press tonight "The east has
shown up surprisingly well. Telephone
workers have added to the strikers
numbers in Philadelphia and New Or
leans. When the electrical workers &C
on a nation wide strike Monday addi-
tional telephone workers also will &C
out"
In a statement declaring only a few
Western Union operators had quit
Edward F. Wach, deputy vice presi-
dent of the Association of Western
Union Employees, said the 10000 mem
bers of that organization were no
concerned with the c. T. U. A. de.
mands.
The association has an agreemen
| with the Western Union whereby it il
recognized and is permitted to bargain
collectively for wages and hours" h,
laid.
Reports from locals in all section
employees on the job with a few excep
tions which are negligible"
| E. w. Collins. general superintend
ent of the Postal Telegraph Compan.
! in Chicago. admitted that larg
number of their 800 operators ha'
quit but insisted thai if the "agitator
about the building were driven away
many employees would come to work.
Police protection was asked bysth
Western Union here after minor stree
clashes. Late in the day all but fou
of the Western Union messenger boy
at the main Office joined the strike.
was charged that they had been in
timidated and messages taken froT
them.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-12
ACTION IN PORTO RICO TO
CHECK PROFITEERlNG

San Juan, Porto Rico, June Ito
check profiteering and to reduce
prices for necessaries of life, which are
now higher than during the war, the
lower house has passed an emergency
resolution authorizing the government
to re-establish the food commission
and arrange a million dollar govern
ment loan to finance the commission S
operations.
= The Porto Rican food commission
was the first organized on this side of
the Atlantic and began preparations
to cease it's operations at the end of
April. Immediately thereafter, mem.
bers of the legislature charge, specu-
lation commenced and prices were
raised to such an extent as to bring
protests from every town in the is
land
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-12
A.F.ofL 0ppOsedto
War-Thn1eProhibition
Delegates to Go to Washing
ton Saturday to Participate
in Demonstration of Protest

Atlantic City, N. J., June 11.-A
resolution expressing organized labor's
disapproval of war time prohibition
and strongly urging that "a per cent.
beer be exempted from the provisions
of the eighteenth amendment to the
constitution and from the war time
prohibition measures which goes into
effect July l, was adopted today by the
reconstruction convention of the
American Federation of Labor bit
ter fight was waged on the proposal
by dry elements, especially delegates
from Seattle who based their argu
ments on the benefits they said their
city had found through prohibition but
it was carried by an overwhelming vote
of 26,475 to 1905. The voting is pro-
portional to the membership of the
| unions represented.
The resolution will be sent to Presi-
dent Wilson and congress and the ex-
ecutive council of the federation is
directed to do everything in it's power
| to preserve to the people of the
| United States their freedom, liberty and
democracy"
| Nearly all the big labor organiza-
tions of the country voted for the
resolution, only a few voting mega =
lively or splitting their vote. The
blacksmiths, spinners, stereotypers and
delegates of the delegates of the
Teachers Federation of America, all
voted against it. The boilermakers
and iron shipbuilders, the longshore
men and typographical organizations
spill heir vote. Aside from Seattle
Chicago was the only one of the big
| city labor organizations that voted
| mo-
Immediately after the passage OF
providing that the convention should
suspend its session Saturday in order
that the delegates might go to Wash
ington on special train to participate
in the create demonstration to be hel(
in front of the capitol there as a pro
| test against war time prohibition
This resolution was adopted almos
unanimously, the delegation from Sc
attic being the only one to vot,
against it.
1 The Mooney case also came up to
day, when in response to resolution
by John H. Walker of the Illinois Fed
Grafton of Labor, Mrs. Rena Mooney
!, the wife of the convicted man, wa
given permission to address the con
: vention from the platform.
Mrs. Mooney discussed all the evi
dence in the case which she said tend
ed to prove the innocence of her hus
band of any connection with the Sal
, Francisco explosions. The delegate
listened in silence to her recital an
at it's conclusion there was consider
able applause.