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Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-01
PRESIDENT WILSON
 CONTINUES TO IMPROVE

Washington, Sep(. %. - President Wilson. whose illness took turn for the better yesterday continued to inn prove today under the rest cure pre- scrieed by his physician
 After the first good nights rest he hss had since he was taken i'll, the president was up most of the day and was permitted by Dr. Grayson to give his attention for a short while to pressing executive matters He sign ed several minor bills and resolutions, sent some nominations to the senate d nd dictated a few letters
 During the afternoon he took another automobile ride and seemed to enjoy fc thoroughly Accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and his daughter. Miss Mar Esrs1. he was away from the White House nearly two hours, driving far out into the country.
 AS long as good weather continues. it is understood. the automobile ride will he a daily feature on the presi- dents rest program IT has been pre- scrioed not only to give him the bene- ft of the sun and fresh air, it is said. but because 1t aids in overcoming the SleepleSsness from which he has suf- tered
 Dr Grayson would make no predic- ton today whether the president would he able to take any part in the Ia bor a nd industrial conference which meets here next Monday The physicians bulletin merely said: The president had 2 good nights rest and is improv- ing
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-01

kufow Province of ShantunS, China, Sept. -(Correspondencc of The Asso- ciated Press)-kung HSianG ko, who traces his descent in a direct line through seventy four generations from Confucius, has returned to his home here from his la bors at the Par.s peace conference, to which he was sent by the Shantung provincial assembly as a special delegate representing the province.
 kufow. in the far center of shan tung, noted because the tomb of Con fucius is here, has felt probably more keeniy than any other center in China the grief that the ShantunG decision of the peace conference brought to the nation, for if Shantung is the birth place of the Chinese nation and the place from which came many of the sacred and historic traditions of the people, then the little city of Kufow in which the great Chinese sage lived and from which he gave to the world his immortal code, is the very heart of the province.
 Kung Hsiang- -Ko, with other Chi nese delegates to Paris, arrived at Shanghai but few days ago. After a short stay there he came on to his home to prepare for the provincial as- sembly the formal report of China s activities at the peace conference.
 The Shantung delegate has, the height of the northern Chinese. He is about six feet tall 32 years of age, and has family that carries the descent from COnfucius into the seventy sixth generation. Though he speaks Eng fish fairly well, his education was not obtained in the western world. Not until he went to Paris, in fact, had he seen any part of the world outside of China. On his return he told friends the story of the diplomatic experience at Paris and explained the causes that led to he refusal to sign the treaty with Germany.
 After telling of the efforts of Dr. Wellington Roo and Dr. C. T. Wang to which had hampered the work of the delegates at every turn, he said he be- 1ieved one of the important reasons why China was defeated was because the Plume question had been given precedence g the conference.
 President Wilson was fully deter mined to support the Chineses cause" Mir. Kung declared. ~So if the Shan tung question had been brought up first it would. perhaps, have been dis posed of to the satisfaction of the Chinese"
 The blow under which the Chinese delegates were crushed. however, the Shantung delegate said was the dis closure of the Tokio treaty. of which they had never heard until the Japan csc produced it at the conference.
 While much had been published con corning the tWenty-one demands of Japan and it has been known that in these China surrendered the rights of the Germans in the province of shan
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-01
BALLOTING ON RETENTION OF
 GRAND DUCESS CARIOTTE

Luxembourg, Sept. S0-(By the A. P.)-Ballotting in favor of the reten- tion of the Grand Duchess Charlotte as ruler and of the establishment of an economtc alliance with France in stead of with Belgium continued to show overwhelming majorities at the start of the second day 8 count Of votes cast in the plebiscite Sunday to determine the future of the grand duchy. Voting in the republican dis tricts in Luxembourg City and i'm Esch reduced the proportions of the lead of the grand duchess from four to one down to something over three to one but this reduction had been anticipated.
 The French economic alliance con tnued to be in favor by a vote of about three to one.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-01
WOULD LIMIT TIME OF
 FOODSTUFFS IN COLD STORAGE

Washington. Sept. 30.-Additional legislataion recommended by President Wilson as a means of reducing living costs was passed today by the house and sent to the senate. It would linn it the time of holding foodstuffs in cold storage to twe1v emonths and require that when released such food be plainly marked with the date it was placed in storage.
 The vote on the measure was 264 to 4. The regulatory features of the bill will become effective immediately on its passage. but ninety days for an adjustment of the business affected is allowed before penalties will be ap- plicable.
 Vast quantities of food now in storage are expected to be released as soon as the measure becomes a law Cheese, is the only commodity exempted, the time limit for storage to perfect aging being extended for a longer period than one year.
 Per8ps convicted of violating the law, ,swauld be fined $1.O0O or imprison- ed for one year.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-01
NO CHANGE IN STEEL STRIKE
 IN THE PITTSBURGH DISTRICT

Pittsburgh. Pa Sept. 3O.-The steel workers strike so far as the Pitts lurzh district Is concerned drifted fn4nse being noticed The entirr calm 1hey are holding their men to Eetner and are constantly brinsine more into their ranks The steel com getting more workers into the plant: due 10 1he desire of men to work ana ro the good police protection afforded them
 While both sides are working to 11crease their respective forces there Is d belief in some quarters that no break 1T any can be looked for un- rn after the industrial conference which opens at Washington next Monday
 Tn the meantime the struggle will go on here There are more organiz- CTS in the Pittsburgh district now. ac- rordin= to labor leaders. than at any other time since the big walkout start cd nine days ago. Virtually every one Of the tWenty-four unions involved has ssur its own orga nizers into the field and claims are made that hun dreds of men are being taken into the organizations every day
 Steel companies that daily give out information continue to maintain that the situation from their standpoint is slowly but steadily improving We are making steel and lots of it: we have lost no ground but on the con trzry are still gaining" said a Cerne-
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-01
REPRESENTATIVES OF INDUSTRY
 NAMED FOR CONFERENCE

Boston Sept. SO.-Magnus W. Alex ander, managing director of the Ma tional Industrial Conference Board, announced today that in accordance with the request of President Wilson. he had named five representatives of American industry members of the National Industrial Conference called for October 9th a Washington, D. c. Four of the men selected are:
 Frederick P. Fish, of Boston, chair man of the National Industrial Con frence Board. formerly president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company; John w. O'Leary, of Chica go. manufacturers of iron and steel products and president of the Nation al Metal Trades Association; $. Penn berton Hutchinson of Philadelphia. president of the Westmoreland Coal Company and a member of the con- ference boards recent European com mission; Edwin Farnham Greene, of Boston, treasurer of the Pacific Mills a textile manufacturers with interests in the north and south.
 The name of he fifth appointee will be announced when his acceptance has been received.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-01
Gap Between Miners
 andOperatorsIsWi Wide
Each Side Hopes That Threat ened Strike of 400, 900 Men On November l Will Be Averted.

Buffalo, N. Y. Sept 3o-With the extreme views Of both sides voted and operators of the central competi- tive field tomo.~cw will begin at zero to negotiate new wage scale and new working conditions.
 Following the rejection by the oper- ators of the miners original demands for a sixty per cent. increase in wages and thirty hour week. the joint con- ference today voted down the opera tors maximum which was that the scale of 1916. called the Washington agreement, be continued until April l, 1920.
 The olive branch came from the operators side, the motion to proceed to ncGOt>, te u new contract '.in ac- cordance with the call of the confer enceT being offered bv one of their number. It was conceded that the ga D between miners and operators was a wide one. but representative of both bridged and that the threatened strike of 100000 men on November l would be averted
 The Washington agreement was the only question before the conference today. John Y. Lewis, acting presi- dent of the United Mine Workers. first offered a resolution that the agree mcnt terminate at the end of next month. P. H. Penna of Terre Haute spokesman for the operators, moved as amendment that April 1. 1920. be fixed as the date of expiration S provided in the Washington agree ment When it came to a vote oera- tors and miners supported their re- spective delegates. The motion to proceed under the call of the confer ence was then unanimously adopted ana adjournment was taken until to- morrow.
 In the decision to proceed can be seen the first compromise. the opera tors apparently yielding, for the time being at least. to the miners conten- tion that the mine workers committee has ample authority to conduct ne gotiations.
 The other crucial point. the date or the expiration of the present agree ment according to William T. Brew ster, chairman of the operators dele gation will come before the confer ence or one of it's ub-committees la ter on.
 The first demand of the miners to be taken up for debate tomorrow reads:
 eve rec, ,mmend that this conven- ton demand a sixty per cent increase to De applicable to all classlhcauons of dav abor and to all tonnage. yard age and lead work rates throughoue the central competitive field
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-01
SENATOR FALL ATTACKS
 THE LEAGUE COVENANT

Washington. Sept. 3o-The German n peace treaty got three hour speed ing up in the senate today all but thirty minutes of which was an ad- dress by Senator Fall, republican of New Mexico. attacking the League of Nations covenant and pleading for amendments which would keen inc United States free from representa-
 tion on foreign commissions created by the pact
 The rest of the treaty programme was an address by Senator Edge. re- publican of New Jersey. in which he urged republicans and democrats alike to hasten it's consideration so that congress might devote it's time and at
 tentlon to pressing problems at home
 While the leaders generally refrain
 ed from predicting just when the country might expect a vote on inc FaH amendments. the continuing or der before the senate. there was nutter of excitement today with the suggestion from high repuh1ic.n sources that the vote might be taken durlng the afternoon. But there w.s nttle hope of so early decision judging by the small attendance on the noor, so small, indeed when Senator Fall began speaking that proceedings were halted by demand for quorum call
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-01
DEPUTY COLLECTOR. OF
 CUSTOMS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT

Island Pond, Vt. Sept. 3e.-The body of Ralph E. Flanders, a deputy collector of customs, bearing a bullet wound, was found in the home of H. E. Randall, where he had room. A revolver with one empty chamber was on the floor. Medical Examiner B. H. Stone of Burlington, pronounced death due to accidental shooting.
 Flanders last activity as deputy was early today when he arrested four men on a charge of smuggling and seized their automobile, which was loaded with liquor, on the iron bridge road" from the Can ttian bord- CT He took the men to jail and re- turned to the Randall room
 He had been in his loom but short ti>s when members of the Ran dalf fani-N heard him cry I'm shot Randall e1Sered the room and found Flanders semi conscious. He died few minutes afterward without speak ing again.
 The bullet from his revolver had pierced his heart.
 Flanders, who was 2S years old, had been active for some time in the search for liquor smugglers.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-01
LITTLE CHANGE OF BREAK IN
 STEEL STRIKE IS APPARENT
Both Sides Are Awaiting Developments the Industrial Con ference to Be Held In Washington Next Week-Strike and Representatives of the Companies Continue to Give Conflicting Statements.

Soh sides in the strike of the steel workers. now in its ninth day. are awaiting developments at the indus trial conference which will open at Washington next Monday. and it was said last night that there seems little chance Of a break either way until then
 Throughout the affected territory there was little material change yes rerdsy. Strike leaders and represent ztives of the companies continued to give out conflicting statements.
 Ir the Pittsburgh district indicatio were that the day had brought little material change while in Chicago it was said that the tension had in creased" between the warning forces. but no serious violence was reported
 Authorities at Waukeegan, H.. con ferre6 with union leaders in regard to -aliInS on Governor Lowden for sta te troops, but the labor men gave assur- ances that they would redouble their -Torrs to control the strikers and the request for troops was held in abey- znce.
 Governor Goodrich Of Indiana sent 'oiorsi J. R Harrison to Gary to in -pecr the situation and report to him.
 The Bethlehem Steel company said na- no reports or disorder had been received and that the strike situation ~nOEed improvement over Monday
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-01
JOHN MITCHELL LEFT
 AN ESTATE OF $25o,oo0

White Plains Sept. 30.-John Mitchell. former president of the Unit ed Mine Workers of America, left an estate of S250,000, mostly in stocks and bonds, according to a petition for letters of administration filed in the surrogate's court today.
 In a will written in his own hand shortly before his death, but believed to be invalid because it lacked wit nesses, he bequea athed all but S1O,OoO of his estate to his wife and chll- dren The s10.00o was to be divided among other relatives and friends
 The. petition was filed by Mrs. Catherine Mitchell, the labor leaders widow. who lives in Mount Vernon It sets forth that MT. Mitchell left no real estate but did leave stocks in coal, railroad and industrial corpor- ations. valued at s156.ooO; bonds valued at S71 300: notes worth s2,600 and about s2O.00O in cash
 The will, written on one of his let terheads and dated August 30, 1919, says:
 If I should not recover from the operation I am about to undergo, I give my estate to the following per sons in the following amounts: To my wife, Catherine Mitchell, B per cent: to each of my children an equal share of the remainder. provided. however, that. from each share there shall be deducted an equal sum so as to make s1O0OO. This S1o,000 shall be given to the following persons in the fol- lowing amounts: Mrs. E. c. Morris, s, 900: Miss Margaret Dunne $3,0oo:
 ~ brother, James Mitchell, $1,0e0; my brother, Daniel $1,000"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-01
HUGHES SAYS CUMMINS'
 BILL IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Washington, Sept. 30. Holding unconstitutional the provisions of the Cummins bill for railroad reorgdniZa 70 ton which would take over all excess earniJngs of the roads over a "fair re- turn" an opinion by Charles E. Hughes, rendered to the Association of Railway Executives has been filed with the House Interstate Commerce Committee.
 Former Justice Hughes contends in brief that if rates which produce so called excess earnings are just and reasonable rates then the earnings from those rates are the property of the railroad companies, which may be taxed, but cannot be taken away.
 "All the rates fixed and maintained" !" he says, are open to inquiry and the commission has full authority to insist that they shall never be more than just and reasonable.
 'The provisions of the ;en6ing bill is not tax laid upon all carriers with respect either to gross receipts, or Det receipts, or any other basis for the assessment of a tax, but is simply requirement of the payment to the government board of the excess earn ings of a carrier which the Interstate Commerce Commission determines to be more than a fair return upon the value of it's property.
 Such an exaction goes beyond the limits of any decision known to me, and if the rates under which the so- called excess earnings are collected by the carrier are to be deemed to be just and reasonable rates, fixed and maintained such under the authority of law, I am unable to escape the con clusion that the requirements as to the pay of the So-ca He'd excess earn ings of carrier exceeds the constitu- tional authority of Congress.
 To the argument that the fixing of rates by a regulating authority may be considered only tentative, and that the rates so fixed may be assumed to be unreasonable if they produce excess earnings. Judge Hughes holds that what is a reasonable rate can not be determined iI this way, which is not a regulation of either "a tes or service but of earnings.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-01

tung little light has been thrown on this secret agreement. called the To l<io treaty, even since the conference. This Tokio treaty. however, Mir. kung explained, was concluded with Japan by the former Chinese minister to Tokio. Chiang Chung Hsiang, one or the officials against whom the wrath of the students was turned in June when the minister with the cabinet then in office was deposed. It was with the power of a plenipotentiary that Chiang Chung Hsiang acted when he concluded this treaty. By It's terms the German holdings in Shantung and in particular the railroad concessions were given to Japan When Dr. hSo and Dr. Wang, protesting against the twenty -one demands, contended that they had been signed under threat of war, the Japanese produced the To kio treaty, of the existence of which they were ignorant.
 When this treaty was produced" MT. kung said, ii closed the mouths of all of Chinas delegates and none of them knew exactly what to do
 When the Chinese delegates learn ed that the decision on Shantung had been reached" he went on "all the smaller nations protested and the Chineses took vigorous action. At a conference delegate asked who had big five M. Clemenceau answered We did it. When he was asked haw the big five could decide a question like that, he replied, saving We have suffered more than others
 We trusted MT. Wilson entirely NA much. We sent a note to Presidem8 Wilson asking him how he could recon cile assurances he had given to China before she had entered the war, with the decision. He sent representative to us expressing his sorrow and he suggested that he would help us when the league of nations was formed.
 When the conference was conclud- ed the Chinese divided on the ques , tion whether to sign the treaty with Germany. It was the students and Chinese statesmen in Paris who sway ed those who were disposed to sign.
 On the morning of the day set Tor the signing of the treaty. after China had been refused the right of signing with reservations, crowds of students patroled in front of the hotel Of lu Chen Ii Hsiang. our chief delegate, who had been suffered i'll health and Waa again confined to his bed. The queR- tion of signing had not been decided when the delegates gathered in his room. He was asked for the last time if he would consent to sign and he re- piled with tears streaming from his eyes:
 I signed the twenty one demands. Can I, must l. also sign this" It was the only answer he gave and the dele gates understood. That is why when seats of the Chinese were vacant"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-01
NEWSWRiTERS WITHDRAW
 APPLICATION FOR CHARTER

Rochester, N. Y, Sept. 300.-Ro- chester newspaper writers who re- gently presented demands to pub fishers of the four English daily news papers of the city for increases in sa l. aries and other concessions have withdrawn their application to the In . ternational Typogra phical Union for a charter on the ground that the meas ure of control over the editorial de partments insisted upon by the In- ternational as part of the proposed agreement with the publishers was inconsistent with the traditional in dependence of newspaper men.
 An association known as tho Ro- chester Newspaper Writers Associa ton and unaffiiiated with any labo. organization has grown out of the proposed union and the publisher have siSnined rhein willingness to con sul1 with the new body. They prey. ously have refused to recognize an, orga anizaton of news writers affiliated with a labor organization
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-01
STRIKE OF PACIFIC SHEPARD
 WORKERS PROBABLY INVERTED

Washington, Sept. 30.-Strike Of Pacific coast shipyard workers threatened was believed here tonight to have been averted by an agreement reached after an all-day conference by which representatives of the Shipping Board and the sHaxy depa partments agree to permit acceptance by the men of wage increases offered by the ship yards on the western coast, provided the governt would share no part Of the additional expense.
 Notice of the conferences action immediately was telegraphed to all shipyard workers union and ship building companies on the Pacific coast.
 Representative of the workers here were confident that tomorrows walk out which invc1ved the possibility of strike also by workers of the indus try on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, would be aVerted.
 Secretary Daniels and Chairman Payne of the Shipping Board, both of whom attended the conference, de- clared emphatically that the govern ment would not share in the payment having been decided on by represent atives of the department and the board two weeks ago.