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Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
Second Stage Today
Te|egraphers' Strike
When Railroad Operators at
$4,000 Points Discontinue
Handling Commercial Mes
sages.

Chicago, June 13.-The second
stage of the Commercial Telegraphers'
strike will be reached tomorrow
morning, when railroad operators at
$4,000 points in America are to dis
continue handling commercial mes
Sages under an order issued by the
Order of Railroad Telegraphers.
Such action. strike leaders declared
tonight will tie up all commercial
telegraph business except between the
larger cities in which the Western
Union and Postal Telegraph compan-
les maintain their own Offices. Off,
cials of the Postal said that company
will not be affected by the order as
little Postal business is handled
through railroad stations.
Western Union officials, while ex.
pressing belief that the order woult
be rescinded, predicted that it's effec
would not have serious results.
They estimated that the $4,000
points handling commercial busines!
over railroad wires do not averag'
more than five messages each day.
Meanwhile, officers of the CONNER
| cial Telegraphers' Union of America
| continued to receive reports indicat
! ing that the strike is spreading. S.
konenkamp, International presiden
of the union. said the number of strik
| ers had reached $4,000; that the strik
of electrical workers set for next Mon
day would add 10000 workers to tn
list, and that by early next week tele
| phone service in many cities an
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
Repeat the Salute
to the Flag Today
Every Loyal American Should
Make 1t a Part of the
Flag Day Patriotic Demon
stration.

New York, June 13.-An appeal to
the American public to make Flag Day
the occasion of patriotic demonstra-
ton which will give an answer to the
recent bomb outrages as striking as
the outrages themselves. has been is
sued by the National Security League.
LET hundred million people show
their loyalty" says the appeal, "and
the apostles of violence will see the
futility of their efforts"
Every newspaper throughout the
country is urged to print the Salute
to the Flag and every loyal American
is asked to repeat either at home. il
church, theater. public, assembly OF
street meeting the pledge contained II
the last sentence of the. salute: :"
pledge. allegiance to my flag and tt
the republic for which it stands, ont
| nation indivisible, with liberty ane
| Justice for ALL
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
POSTAL co. HAS ENTERED
INTO NO NEGOTIATIONS

New York, June 13-The Postal Tel
egraph Company has entered into no
negotiations whatever with it's strik-
ing operators, and has received no
communication from them at any time
except through the public press, it was
stated here today by Edward Rey
nolds, general manager of the Postal
system. Mr.. Reynolds added that the
company looked Jpn the strike as vir-
tually at an end.
I Mr. Reynolds said the company had
practically a normal force of oper
ators and that reports from other
cities showed many men coming back
to work. The report that officials of
the Commercial Telegraphers' Union
of America had submitted to the Pos
tai Telegraph Company conditions
upon which an agreement could be
based, was attributed by Mr.. Reynolds
to the fact that Postal operators in
the union are bringing pressure to
| bear on the union leaders to call off
the strike"
no principal is involved In this
strike he continued "and the men
are becoming restless.
while we have had no negotiations
| with the men and are not urging them
| to come back, we are willing to take
Hen BACK without preJuQlce ana
without considering their continuity OF
service interrupted, if the return with
| in a reasonable time"
The order issued by the railroad
| telegraphers' union directing its mem
! bers to refuse to handle Western I'm
ion business after o'clock tomorrow
morning will affect less than pei
1 cent. of the company's traffic. accord
| ing to statement issued tonight by
| W. N. Fashbaugh, vice president.
mot more than 10 per cent of oul
| business" said Mr.. Fashbaugh, 81:
handled through railroad telegraph of
fees, and we have arranged to handle
at least half of this by other means.
Percy Thomas. vice president Of th'
Commercial -Telegra piers union, reit
| GRATED previous claims that the stril0
was srowing in strength Throughout
| the country. Gains, he said. were be
ing made especially in Boston, Phila
delri1ia, New York and eastern Penn
sy vania'
A meeting OF the strikers he'll
fale = it was decided to appoint
CONF ee to call upon the typosraph
ical Union and ask members of tha
organization to refuse to set copy
: received over wires from "scab" op
orators.
Brokers' operators in the financis
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
FOUR HoLp-UP SUSPECTS
All ESTED IN NEW YORK

New York, June 13.-Four men were
arrested late today on suspicion that
they were members of the gang of six
bandits who chloroformed Henry Boy
Ian, 81 years old, messenger Of the
Colonial bank in the elevated station
at Columbus avenue and Eighty first
street, this morning. and who, but for
the pluck of David Ryan. 80, another
messenger, would have escaped with
100000 worth of securities
The suspects were arrested by six
detectives touring the precinct to in
speet gang "hangouts'sfin quest of tht
hold-up men, who fed in an automo,
bile when r Ryan eIled-ore of their
number with revolver bullet after
he had himself been blackjacked e
Orders to round up "al habitues o.
Broadway with criminal records were
issued tonight by police officials, wht
declared that 'in this dra gnet we shall
get the men who attempted the Colo.
NAL bank robbery" A few hours late
ten suspects had been gathered in fol
examination
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14

towns will be greatly impaired
through a walkout of telephone op-
orators.
The brokers' division of the tele-
graphers' union has been asked to
take action. Meetings were to be held
tonight and tomorrow at which it
will be decided whether to strike in
sympathy.
The Association of Western Union
Employees representing So per cent. of
Western Union workers, announced
that the small number of strikers in
that company had returned to work.
"a A committee representing the
strikers submitted to the Postal con-
ditions upon which a settlement could
be reached They provided that the
company agree to wage adjustments
after the government has released
control of the company. The condi-
tions were forwarded to New York.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
WIND PREVENTED "HoP OFF"
OF VlCKERS-VlMY BOMBER

St. Johns, n. F.. June ia stiff
southwest wind prevented Captain
Jack Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur
Whitten Brown from hopping Off
late today in their Vickers- Vimy
bomber in an attempt to capture the
$4,000 prize offered by the London
Daily Mail for a nonstop flight from
Newfoundland to Ireland. The aviators
announced tonight they would take the
air at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning,
weather permitting.
Tonight Vice Admiral Mark Kerr
said the Handley- Pages flight this
evening had proved so satisfactory
that he might leave tomorrow, al
though Sunday was more likely.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
SENATORS LINING UP FOR
FIGHT ON PEACE TREATY

Washington, June 13.-Senate lead
ers drew their lines more sharply to-
day for the next phase of the treaty
light, to begin early next week, around
the resolution of Senator Knox, re-
publican of Pennsylvania, proposing to
put the senate on record against ac-
cepting the league of nations as now
interviewer with the terms of peace.
Both sides were opeiInistic but were
predicting long and stormy debate.
Whether opponents of the resolution
should carry their fight to the point
of parliamentary obstruction so as to
prevent vote until after singing of
the treaty at Versailles was discussed
at. conference of democrats attend
ed by Senator Hitchcock of Nebras-
ka and several other members of the
foreign relations committee. After
wards the senators present gave con-
f1icting views as to the method of pro-
cedure but agreed that it much be
shaped largely by DEVELOPMENTS.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
MOUNT HOPE BAY LANDMARK
CHRISTENED "LIEF'S ROCK,

Bristol. r. l., June 13.-Northmen's
Rock, a landmark on the shore of
Mount Hope Bay famous for hun
dreds OF years on account of the
strange characters chiseled on its
surface. was christened today Liefs
Rock in memory of Lief Ericsson. son
Of Eric the Red, the ancient Morse ex-
plorer. Dedicatpry exercises were car
ried out by the Rhode Island Citizens
Historical Society and the pupils of
the Bristol public schools. Rear Ad-
Iniral John r. Edwards, L. S. N, and
Thomas W Bicknell of Providence,
president of the historical society,
were speakers.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14

that this self-selected advance guard
would. impose its will upon the work
ers and the others must obey.
THE American workingman wants
nothing of that kind of dictatorship
of the proletariat. The American
worbingman wants nothing of that
kind of obligatory labor. The Ameri-
can workingman wants nothing of the
political, social or economic conditions
that have existed and still exist in
Russia. We have worked out our
scheme far beyond that stage and we
are going to continue to work it out
to the achievement of higher ideals
and by the will of no advance guard,
ne matter how just or right their po-
sition might be, but by the will of the
majority themselves
President Gompers sketched the his
tory of the department of labor and
added:
There seems to be policy to
starve this department out of exist
ece or deny it money to the point
where its efficiency and value to the
working people of the country will be
| materially reduced. Let me tell you
that outside the government depart
ments which had to do with ships and
soldiers during the war, the depart
ment of labor did more toward win
HlllS II tndH ~ tner. we nope soon
that the worW Will sway from mill
tary to industrial activity. 1 predict
that the war and navy departments
will become less and less potent and
that functions of the labor depart
ment will become more vital to the
nation. Let me announce too, that the
American Federation of Labor will
fight any and all efforts to curb,
) weaken or destroy the department"
President Gompers announced that a
. committee consisting of C. L. Baine
of the boot and shoe makers, Martin
5 F. Ryan. of the Car Workers, and D
H. Mccarthy had been appointed tc
2 cooperate with the electrical workers
2 committee in negotiating with Post
master General Burleson in an effort
r to ward off the electrical and tele.
e phone strike called for Monday.
n The convention adjourned unit
e Monday. Tomorrow most of the dele
V gates will go to Washington by spe-
e ci2l train to participate in the dem.
e onstration there in protest agains
d war time prohibition.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
OBITUARY..
John Walsh.

New Britain, Conn, June 1S.-John
Walsh, former mayor this city and at
one time associate judge of the court
of common pleas of Hartford coun-
ty, died at his home here tonight at
the age of 70. Born in Ireland. he
came to New Britain at the age of 20
and studied law He was the first
stenographic court reporter in the
courts of this state serving thirty
years as stenographer of the court of
common pleas.
Judge Walsh was mayor in 1888
1889 and 1928 and had been a
members of the school board for for
ty years. He had also served as cor
poration counsel and judge of pro-
bate.
Sias Partridge Knight.
New YORK.. June 13. - Silas Par
fridge Knight, inventor of the electro
type process, died today at his home
in Brooklyn in his Goth year Mr.
night, who was believed to be the old
est member of the Independent Order
horn at ST Johns. N. F. He came to
New York in 1852 to install the first
dlectrotype plant for the Harpers.
Samuel H. Wilcox.
Guilford, Conn, June 13.-Samuel
H. Wilcox, chairman of the board ot
! directors of the Peck, Stow and Will
cox Company, hardware manufactur-
ers, of Southington. died at his sum-
mer home at Sachem's Head today. He
retired from active work ten years ago
at which time he was manager of ths
New Yorw ofice of the company
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14

Paris, June 1S (By the A. P).-Plans
for the great formal ceremony OF the
signing Of the peace treaty at the
Chateau OF Versailles have been with
drawn from the pigeonholes in which
they were gathering dust when no
DEFINITE date for the signature was in
prospect and are being brought up to
date. II is probable they will soon be
submitted to Premier Clemenceau or
the council of five for the necessary
approval before being put into effect.
The actual signing. as originally ma
nounced. will be staged in the historic
Hall of Mirrors. so often described.
The allied delegates will descend
from their carriages at the doorway of
the cha ateau through which the Paris
mob on the momentous day of the
French Revolution broke into the cha
tcau. massacred the Swiss guards and
compelled King Louis and Queen
Marie Antoinettc to return to Paris.
To reach the Hall of Mirrors the del
crates will traverse the state apart
meats. al one time occupied by the
monarch and his queen. A space at
either end of the Hall of Mirrors will
be rallied Off At one end will be the
privileged spectators, while at the
other will be the correspondents rep
rssenting the newspapers of the world.
The German delegation Will approach
the chateau from the other side, and
will be conducted by a different route
10 the Hall of Mirrors
Probably only the French flag will
float from the chateau at the opening
OF the ceremony. but when the pen of
President Wilson. as the first dele
gate. is placed 10 the document. the
standards of the twenty-three nations
associated in the war will be broken
out upon the chateau in a gay display
OF triumphal bunting.
I It's expected that the ceremony will
be timed to begin about o'clock in
the afternoon. There will be speeches
by Premier Clemenceau as chairman
Of the conference and by the head oi
the German delegation. The actua
work Of appending the signatures OF
the representatives of all the belliger-
ent nations will occupy well over ar
hour. but ii is expected that at least
two hours of daylight will remain oi
the long summer evening during which
the fountains distributed over many
acres OF the chateau park will play for
the admiration of the delegates and
spectators.
The plenipotentiaries after the cere-
mony will leave the chateau by por-
tai opening on the terrace from which
many of the fountains are visible. Tht
German delegates, no longer regarded
as enemies. will walk with the othe
plenipotentiaries.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
TASK OF ASSEMBLY is TO
CREATE NEW ORDER IN Russia

Omsk Friday, June 6.-CRussian
Telegraphic Agency. A. BeilrussoV,
the radical writer. who is chairman
of the committee in charge of the
preparation of the elections for the
constituent assembly which will sue
ceed the Kolchak government, has is
sued a statement that the future con-
stituent assembly will have the SOW
ereign power over all political and So
cial problems.
1t will be the task of the assembly,
he said to create a new order in
| Russia, to establish a stable govern
ment and to bring Russia into the
| family of free nations. The elections
| to the assembly will be on the basis
| of universal suffrage.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
PROTEST DECLARING POLAND
In A STATE OE WAR

Berlin. June 13.-(By The A. P.)-
Matthias E3rzberger. head of the Ger
man armistice commission, has writ
ten General Dupont. chief of the
French mission in Berlin. protesting
against a Polish army order declar-
ing Poland is in a state of war with
Germany and that Poland purposes to
distribute divisions of General Hal
ler's army along the frontier.
Erzberger says this is opposed to the
terms of the armistice. and he ad-
vises Marshal Foch that unless the
order is rescinded Germany will be
compelled to spend the transport Of
General Haller's Polish army across
Germany.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
ANNUAL ELECTIONS AT
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

Middletown, Conn. June 13.-At the
annual college body elections at Wes-
leyan University today. Edward S.
Boote of East Orange. N. j., was
chosen president of the college body.
Other elections resulted as follows:
Secretary treasury of college body,
George F. Peck. Tilton. n. H.; base
ball manager Carl V. Dixon, Berea,
Ohio; assistant baseball manager, F.
NJ. Johnson. Meriden. track manager
NJ H. Andrews, Cambridge, Mass; as
sistant track manag F. E. Fellows
Troy, n. Y; tennis manager, S. L.
Thornton, Philadelphia; assistant ten
mis- manager, r. H. Giere, Mount Yer
| non, N. Y; manager of dramatics and
debate, M. NJ. Davenport, Jr., Clinton
n. Y: assistant manager of dramat-
lies, c. S. Johnson. Meriden; assist
ant manager of debate, John S. Piper
MiddletoWn
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
TO PRESERVE NATURAL FLOW
OE WHEAT FROM The EARN

New York. June 13.-To preserve
natural flow of wheat from the, farm
periodical premiums covering storage
charges will be added to the basic
price at various guarantee markets,
according to an announcement here
tonight, by julius H. Barnes, United
States wheat director.
These premiums will not be intro
duced during July, when basic pric-
es prevailing for the last year will re-
main in effect. For each succeeding
month, however, premiums will be an
nounced thirty days in advance
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
GERMAN PEACE LEADER
REQUESTS SPECIAL TRAIN

Paris, June 13.-(Havas). Count
Won Brockdorff- Rantzau, chairman of
the German peace delegation. has
asked that special train be placed
at his disposal as soon as the reply
of the allied and associated powers to
the German counter proposals are
handed to him. The count, it is said,
intends to go to Cologne as soon as
he receives the reply. He may con-
tinue his journey to Weimar, the seat
of the German national assembly,
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
WALSH AND DUNNE WRITE
TO AMERICAN DELEGATION

Paris, June 13.-Frank P. Walsh of
Kansas City and Former Governor
Edward F. Dunno of Illinois repre-
senting the Irish societies in Amer
lea, have written to the American
peace delegation asking to be inform
ed what action has been taken on
their request for conference to con-
slider the question of Ireland.
The letter quotes the resolution
passed by the United States senate
requesting the American peace com
mission to secure a hearing before
the peace conference for Edward De
Valera and his associates.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
STATE CONVENTION OF
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE

Meriden, Conn. June. 13.-At the
third annual convention the state field
day association, Loyal Order of Moose
of Connecticut, which was held here
this afternoon, the following officers
were chosen: Dictator Thomas W.
Paris of Waterbury; vice dictator,
Charles Husey of Ansonia; prelate-
George Raynor of New London; treas
urer. C. A. Sargent of Hartford; Sec
retary B. c. Mead of South Norwalk;
sergeant at arms. James Gaming of
South Norwalll: inside guard, A. T.
Tewksbury Middletown; outside
guard, w. J. Pfeifer. Rockville; trus-
tees, C. w. Blackwell, New Haven,
w. F. Costello, New Britain, and John
Frantain, Stamford.
Following the recommendation of
the State dictator it was voted that
in the future the convention and the
field day meet will be held in different
towns each year.
Tie parade mad field day meet will
he keid here tomorrow.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
CLOSING SESSION CIVIL
SERVICE COMMISSIONS

Rochester, n. Y, June 1S.-Election
of Ralph L. Peck of the Cook county
civil service commission, Illinois, as
president; choice of Colorado Springs
as the place for the 1920 convention,
and authorization of a campaign to
raise a fund of $4,000 for establish
ment of a national central service bu-
reau to facilitate Standardization OF
examination methods, marked the
closing session of the assembly of civil
service commissions today.
Charles P. Messick, Trenton. n. J.
secretary and chief examiner of the
New Jersey state commission. was one
of the members elected to the execu-
tive committee
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
EMPLOYEES TO BE WATcHFUL
AROUND STATE CAPITOL

Hartford June 13-Comptroller
Morris c. Webster today instructed
Capitol Superintendent John L. Will
son to instruct employees to scrutinize
closely any suspicious appearance
characters who may attempt to enter
the building or hang around the
grounds and to watch out for anything
looking like a bomb. The comptrol-
Ter would not say what had caused
this specific order other than that he
thought it well to be on guard.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
HAS BEEN NO COMM UNICATiON
WITH TURKISH DELEGATION

Paris June 13.-(By~ The A. PD
There has been no communication as
yet between officials Of the peace con-
ference and the Turkish delegation
which is at VaucressGa under French
supervisor. The restrictions about
the Turks are the same as those at St.
Germain and Versailles.
The Turks it is understood, stand
firmly for the retention of the Otto
man government in Constantinople.
They are divided about equally as to
whether France or Great Britain
should have the mandate for Turkey.
There has been no mention of the
United States in this connection, it is
understood
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
SALE OF PROPERTIES OF
JOSIAH V. THOMPSON

Pittsburgh, June 13.-The signing of
the bill of sale transferring the coal
and other properties of Josiah "
Thompson, Uniontown, Pa, to the
Piedmont Coal company for $4,000 900
will be made here tomorrow by the
trustees in bankruptcy. The sale is
con = mt upon ratification and ap-
proF,> ~ the United States courts not
later than Dec. 81. 1919.
The purchaser takes title to the
property subject to all mortgag ges,
deeds in trust, venders' liens and dow
er charges. The purchase price is for
equities in the properties and is to be
paid in cash on delivery. The secured
Indebtedness assumed by the purchaser
will aggregate between S12,000,O0o and
$4,000 900.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
FOR HELP
EXCEED REGISTRATION

Hartford, Conn. June 13.-Applica-
tons for employment made to the
Connecticut Office of the United States
Employment Service the past week
exceeded by POI the registration of
workmen for jobs. it was stated to-
day. While employers made requests
for 1888 men and 519 women the
number of applicants for work were
1,401 men and 1928 women, of whom
1246 men and 34S women were re-
ferred and 100 men and ITS women
were reported placed in positions
Three women and 81 men were trans
ferred to jobs in other cities.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
DISCUSSING PLANS FOR
ORGANIC CHURCH UNION

Atlantic City, \. J.. June 13.-Del-
egates representing large evangelical
churches in the country in session
here to devise a plan for organic
church union, failed to agree upon a
workable plan today to bring about
the formation of a league of the
Churches of Christ of the United
States.
Bishop Luther c. Wilson, head Of
the war mission of the Methodist
Episcopal church. authorized the
statement. which was concurred in by
the representatives of the Methodist
Episcopal and the Presbyterian rep
resentatives, that the progress made
at the meeting was encouraging"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
TWO NEW YORK PATRoLMEN
SHOT While ARRESTING YOUTH

New York, June 13.-Two patrolmen
boarding d surface car wit ha prisoner
tonight were made the targets of
volley of revolver shots fired by per-
sons in a crowd of 200 which had tried
vainly to rescue the captive, a youth
charged with robbing a candy. shop,
Both policemen, another man and
young woman passenger on the car
were wounded. but none seriously.
In spite of their wounds, the officers
took their prisoner to a police station.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-14
BRITISH LABOR PARTY
NOT TO BE REPRESENTED

London, June 13-The British labor
party will not be represented tomor-
row at the conference in Paris which
is to discuss the Italian proposal for a
24-hour strike in Italy, France and
England in protest against allied in
tervention in Russia and the peace
terms.
1t was explained in labor circles to-
night that there is not sufficient time
to permit of ballot by the affiliated
trades unions, which would be neces-
sary before any decision could be
reached concerning British laborites
taking part in the conference,