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Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
"MoNk" EASTMAN, EX- -GuNMAN,
HAS ENViABLE WAR RECORD

Camp Upton, n. Y, April 1.-"Monk''
Eastman, gunnlan, notorious leader of
gangs who once terrified New York S
East Side, is now Private William De-
laney, veteran, back from France with
an enyiable war record. Tomorrow he
will be honorably discharged from the
106th Infantry and a few days later
there will be forwarded to Governor
Smith petition signed by his COM
rnanding officers, asking that he be re-
stored to citizenship.
Monks" life history is the story OF q
come back" In the old days he was
an opium addict burglar, creature of
the slums, with ever a gun" on his
nip. In 1917 he finished term for
burglary and in October of thai year
enlisted, no questions asked.
When the Twenty Seventh division
took its place in Flanders, Monk was
/ there. When the gallant New York
ers swept forward against the Hinden-
burg line-and cracked it-"Monk" was
in the first wave. When comrades fell
and stretcher bearers were needed,
Monk volunteered. When carried to
British hospital wounded in the head
while leading a bOnbinb squad into the
face of machine guns, Monk escaped
to mount once more the firing step.
These and many more are the facts
recounted in the petition signed by
Colonel Franklin W. Ward of The 10Gth
by Major J. Scott Button and by Cap
tain James G. Conroy and Lieutenant
| Joseph A. Kerrigan, Monks" immedi-
| ate superiors, who fought by his sidt
| on foreign soil.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
MEAT PACKERS RELEASED
FROM WAR TIME CONTROL

Washington, April 1.-The meat
packing industry which has been un-
der federal license since October, 1917.
was released today from Food Admin
istration control by a proclamation
signed by President Wilson in Paris.
Under the proclama ton AL persons,
firms, corporations or associations en-
gagged in importing, manufacturing,
including packing, storing or distrib-
uting fresh canned or cured beef.
pork mutton or lard are released
from license by the food administra-
ton.
Stockyards which were placed un-
der license under another proclama-
ton signed in September. 1913, and
are administered by the agricultural
! department, remain under the con-
| troll of that department. Regulations
under these licenses have no concern
with prices.
! The presidents action regarding the
| packers, officials said, released the
| industry from supervision OF every
! kind exercised by the food admins
tration, including restrictions upon
margins of profit. These profits, it
was said, were limited to per cent.
| on total annual business, and about
| two per cent. on the turnover on
meats.
| It was pointed out, however, that
| the mandatory featurese of the Lever
act under, which the industry was
controlled, prohibiting unfair prac-
tices, boarding and profiteering, re-
main in force, but under the author
| ity of federal courts.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
CHICAGO HAS REELECTED
". H. THOMPSON MAYOR
Unofficial Returns Indicate Plurality in the Neghbohood
of 15,0O0-Four Years Ago His Plurality Was More
Than 147,000-The Election Was One of the Most Ex-
citing Political Battles Chicago Ever Wtnessed-Ihe
City Voted "Wet" By Sweeping Majority.

Chicago, April Mayor William
Hale Thompson, republican, was re-
elected today in one of the most ex-
citing political struggles the city ever
witnessed, the incomplete unofficial
returns late tonight indicating that
his plurality would be in the neigh
borhood of $4,000. His nearest op-
ponent was Robert NJ. Sweitzer, dem
ocrat, county clerk, whom the mayor
defeated four years ago by plurality
of more than 147,00o.
Much of the big vote which the
mayor received four years ago but
lost today went to States Attorney
Maclay Hoyne, a democrat who ran
as an Independent by petition.
The city voted wet by a sweeping
majority, the first time the question
had been voted on in Chicago. The
liqtyor adherents made a campaign
based on the slogan Let congress
hear Your protest. The vote was
three to one or better in favoring
saloons. The dry Chicago Federation
made no concerted campaign, relying
on national legislation. The wet and
order of the state supreme court
which found that the dry petition had
been kept off the ballot illegally at
| the preceding city election.
| The mayor made his campaign on
| his record in office and on pleas for
republican party support on the basis
of national party lines. His princi-
pal opponent, Sweitzer, and Hoyne, the
| independent, both severely criticized
theee mayor and referred to "Thomp-
sonisn". and his war record. The
mayors reference to Chicago as ''the
sixth German CITY" his refusal to
| issue an invitation as mayor tc
| Marshal Joffre of France, and his
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
DEFENSE OPENS IN THE
MILLER MURDER TRIAL

Hartford, Conn. April William F.
Miller was the first witness for the
defense in the trial of five men here
for the murder following the shooting
of Captain William F. Madden, q
guard at the Cheney Brothers silk mill
in Manchester. The STATE rested L. e
this afternoon after four days of testi-
mony.
Miller's counsel William Egan. ask
ell the accused concerning a state
relt signed by Miller which had been
offered by the state earlier in the day.
He testified that the document con-
taiued ungua arded talk he mad with
srate policemen after his arrest and
which he signed. Taking; up his story
of his connection with the other four
prisoners, Miller testified that at no
tine did he know that robbery in
Manchester was contemplated and
that he had 40 part in the shooting.
His presence in Hobolzen. where the
state alleges that the re Cbbery plot was
concocted, he explained by saving that
of seeking employment on some rail-
rra ad as that was his work while liv
( ing in West Haven, his present home
lie denied knowing Lefty" Mcdonnell
James and Henry Moore and William
| Eessler. members Of the trip to Man
chester. Ia acknowledged knowing
Fred Klein, as Klein was a railroad
| man.
| Miller test fed that he had heen ask
ID to go with the party as it meant
Easy money that Bessler furnished
all with pistols and that 1t was mu-
| italy ARA nged that Bessier and Nc
| DonneI go first to Manchester with
| the others following in touring car
+ He admitted that he carried q gun il
/ addition to thn one given him by BesS-
| Ter.
| OF his experiences in Manchester
| Miller swore that he did not know un-
tir two days later that anyone had beer
shot, Gid not hear the report of tht
gun and left because he was told tt
get away quickly. tle denied tina
! anyone of the party han acted as {
leader and also affirmed that ther'
wore but five men in the touring ca
/ when the fatal shot was fred.
The witness swore that ne was toll
Il man had been killed by the auto
mobile and thought that was why tn
police were looking for him. H
closed by telling of his retLrn to Yves
Haven and his subsequent 3urrende
to the police.
ON cross examination he held to hi
story of ignorance of clot to rob tn
silk plant and gave the names os ~
/ FIVE in the car as himself. Klein. tn
+! two NIoores and ODonneIi. Cour
was then adjourned until tomorrow
morning.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
ONONpAGA INCIANS EVICT
AN OLD WOMAN SETTLER.

Syracuse, n. Y, April Federal
District Attorney Dennis B. Lucey to-
day started an investigation into the
alleged forcible eviction of Mrs. Mary
Knox, aged 6S, from a cabin which
she had occupied on the Onondaga
reservation near here, for forty eight
years, by a band of Indians yesterday
Mrs. Knox, who has leased the cab
afternoon.
in and an adjoining farm from year
to year, alleges that ten Indians came
TO the cabin and ordered her to va
cate it. When she refused she claims
five of the Indians broke down the
door with hatchets while five more
stood guard with guns. They then
removed her furniture and the mem
bers of the family
The Indians claim that Mrs. Knox
invalidated the lease by removing
some gravel from the farm when it
was specified nothing could be
taken from the tract. The Indians
also deny the jurisdiction of the fed
eral or state authorities in the case.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
Tuesday Afternoon List.
BAKER TO SAIL FROM
NEW YORK NEXT M0NDAV

Washington, April Secretary Ba-
ker will sail from New York next Mon
day on the transport Leviathan for
France to attend meetings of the
American Liquidation Commission and
to direct winding up the affairs of the
American army in France. Mr.. Baker
viii be accompanied by c. W. Outhell,
the war departments representative on
the board considering inter- allied
claims growing out of the cooperation
of the various belligerents. and Stan
ley King. his private secretary.
Mr.. Baker in announcing the date of
his sailing today said his stay d abroad
would be brief. He explained that his
intention was to return as soon as the
conferences with the arbitration board
had been concluded and he had made d
few necessary inspections. The secre-
tary said he had not decided whether
ne would visit The army Of occupation
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
A SURPLUS OF LABOR
REPORTED BY So CITIES.

Washington, April IA slight in
crease in unemployment throughout
the country is shown by reports for
the past week received by the federal
employment service from sixty cities.
A surplus of labor was reported by
thirty-siX cities, u shortage of laobr
by seven, and an equality of supply
and demand by seventeen. The num-
ber of unemployed in the cities re-
porting increased by 1000 during the
week.
New Hampshire and Vermont show
ed an equality of supply and demand
Massachusetts,, a surplus, principally
in textile industries Maine, an in
creasing surplus, and Connecticut a
surplus in most cities. All New York
state, excepting the territory about
Yonkers, reported a surplus.
Reports from Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Ohio were too meagre to
reveal conditions.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
TO REPORT CONDITIONS IN
PANAMA CANAL ZONE

Panama April 1.-Brigadier General
Herbert O. Williams sailed for the
United States today, having completed
an investigation of conditions in the
Panama Canal zone due to orders
emanating from General Richard NJ.
Blatchford, commander of the United
States forces in the canal zone. re-
stricting soldiers from entering the
cities of Colon and Panama General
Williams also inquired into charged by
General Blatchford that civilians in
the canal zone were interfering with
the discipline of the American garri-
son.
Prominent labor leaders said today
that regardless of the report of Cen
eral Williams, organized labor would
insist that Secretary of War Baker
take action on the protest of the civil
lans against alleged ISLANDERS of Cen
eral Blatchford on the civil population
of the canal zone.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MRS.
KATHERINE LENT STEVENSON

Boston, April 1.-"White Ribbon"
associates of Mrs. Katherine Lent
Stevenson, former president of the
Massachusetts Womens Christian
Temperance Union. who Gied at Des
Noines, Iowa. last week, heid q memo
rial service in her home immediately
after the funeral today. AS they filed
Fast the 'casket of the woman who had
Eeen their leader for twenty years.
each dropped 9 white carnation. Mrs.
Ella Gleason, of Winchester. president
Of the state branch, and Nter speak
ers. paid tribute to Mrs E;tevenson's
leadership. Mrs. Anna A Gordon. of
ETanston, His, national president. sent
a telegram Of confidence.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02

persons and of those individuals who
were direct participants in the great
struggle, whether as soldiers, sailors
aviators or other wise
An amendatory act, passed in con-
Currence with the senate, provides that
the commissioner of health shall have
authority over health officers and
may for cause, suspend for a period
not exceeding ten days and with the
consent of the council after notice and
| hearing remove any local health Of
| fetal. The aggrieved may appeal to
! the superior court for final diversion.
Another amended section provides that
the commissioner may, subject to the
approval of the council, appoint an
acting commissioner, who shall dur
ing the absence or inability of the
commissioner, perform the duties and
exercise the powers of the commits
sioner.
Notice shall be given to all persons
appearing of record as holders of any
mortgage, lien or other incumbrance
on any real estate or interest therein
which is to be taken by right of en-
inent domain; and the amount due to
any such mortgagor, iineor or other
! lncumbranCer, not exceeding the
| amount to be paid for such property,
shall be paid to him, according to pri-
| ority of claims, before any sum shall
| be paid to any owner of such prop
I erty. In case of dispute as to the
amount due any such mortgage. Hneor
! or other incumbrancer, the money
! may he deposited with the clerk of
| the superior court in the county in
| which such property is situa ted and
/ any one claiming an interest in the
/ same may bring suit therefor, max
| ing all others claiming interest in the
| fund defendants, and the court may
determine the rights in the fund of all
/ parties to such suit and may tax costs
/ to the rules of equity,
| An amendment to the act RELATING
! to allotment and appropria sIon for
state highways, so that no sum ex-
! Ceeding in the aggregate $4,000, eX-
! Guiding the amount expended on trunk
| lines shall be expended in any one
! town in any one year.
Auditors of all accounts required tc
! be made to the governor and genera
! assembly shall receive fifteen dollars
| a day for the time actually employed
! and their necessary travelling ex
penses.
+ Upon the approval of the secretary
I of the state of the certificate of or
/ gauization of q corporation without
| capital stock a fee of ten dollars shall
be paid by it to the secretary.
! Resolution was unanimously adopt
! ed by ballot appointing Edward L
| Smith judge of the court of common
pleas for Hartford county
! The House adjourned to 11:1j
f, Wednesday morning
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
B0|sheViki Routed.
By Allied Forces
Allied AirpIanes Destroyed a
Locomotive and a Stretch
of Track.

Archangel Monday. March sf.-(By
the A. P.)-Bolshevik troops. after
a heavy bombardment Sunday OF the
alled positions on the railway front
and south OF. Odozerskaia. ATTACKED at
1870 O'Clock in the afternoon. TIE at
tack was repulsed completely by the
allied fire. The retiring bolshevikifwere
met by their own machine gun fire,
while the allied artillery dispersed va
rlous groups of the enemy.
An allied airplane discovered six
trains three miles south of the front
line and attacked them with bombs
"A locomotive and a stretch Of the
track were destroyed.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
TO DETERMINE VALUE OF
CAPE COD CANAL

Boston, April 1.-The United States
government started condemnation
roceedings i'll the federal court to-
day to determine at hearing before
jury the value of the Cape Cod
Canal, which the government is to
take over. The owners of the canal
and the government representatives
weree unable to reach an agreement
for the purchase of the canal. An act
of congress authorizes the govern
ment to take over the property either
by negotiation or condemnation.
Papers filed by the government
state that the title to the canal is held
by the Boston, Cape Cod and New
York Canal Company and that the
Old Colony Trust Company of Bos-
ton claims to be the owner and
holder of the property under a mort
gage. No date was set for the hear
| ing
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
AIMS AND OBJECTS OF
NEW RULERS OF HUNGARY

Paris, April Reports received
from Budapest by the American peace
delegation indicate that the new rulers
OF Hungary are giving assurances
that they are anxious for peace on
all fronts and that the new army they
are creating is directed toward the
maintenance of order and not for pur-
poses of aggression.
The new Hungarian officials are at
tempting to draw a distinction be-
tween communism, which they say
they are trying to practice. and boil
shevism. They decl are they are not
copying the Russian programme, but
are forming distinctly different poll
cieS
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
INSISTS ON SETTLEMENT OF
ITALY'S FRONTIER QUESTION

Paris, April 1.-Settlement of Italys
frontier question contemporaneously
with that OF France was insisted upon
today by Premier Orlando at a con-
ference with President Wilson just be-
fore the Council of -Four convened to
discuss the Italian frontier question.
The Italian premier asked the pres
ident whether he did not think it ad-
visable to have an informal exchange
of views on the Italian problem, espec-
tally as regards the Adriatic, before it
is presented to the council. The presi-
dent replied that he shared this view,
but owing to pressure of work had
been unable to personally study the
Italian question. However, he PROM
iSed TO do so
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
Condensed TeIeqrams

Grain receipts at Chicago last week
amounted to 5,2S1,000i bushels.
German merchant marine totals
2 500, 600 tons, compared with 5400,0O0
tons on August l, 1914.
London reports say curtailment OF
output OF cotton yarns and cloth Is
being arranged.
Louis F.. Swift, president of Swift
& Co, denied reports that directors
had declared a dividend OF SO 1-3 per
cent.
The Government will offer at the
next two wool auctions at Boston,
4,000,0 geo poundst OF greasy pulled wool
on April and 6.UO0, ,0G0 pounds of
domestic fleece; and 100000 pounds
of Texas and California woods on
April 8.
1t was officially announced in Rome
the blockade in the Adriatic Sea had
been removed.
Coal and iron shortage reported in
| Italy VIII close industries in that
! country employing 500,0
West Virginia House. passed. the
, Virginia debt bill. The bill was sent
| to the Senate where il will be passed
| in a short time
| Discovery of airpIane fuel that will
! reVolutioniZe air flights is being tested
at Washington. It~is said TO be cheap
! er than gasolene and to have more
power
New communist regime in Hungar,
! executed $50 persons for looting dur
ing the turmoil last week.
! Guns on warships in Barcelona har-
| Dor We're turned on the streets TO sup
press violence.
| Australian Minister of Defense Wiss
announced under a new act employ
ers refusing to reinstate returned sol
diers were liable to a fine of $2,500
| Samuel Gompers, president Of tn,
! American Federation of Labor, SAILED
from France for the United States.
United States naval supply shiI
Culgoa, with 100 returning troops, al
Casuals, is reported III distress 60
miles southeast of New York.
1t was announced in the House O
/ Commons in Ottawa, IN reply to
query that the Canadian troops wer
ready to leave Siberia.
| Jamaican Government has decide'
to issue paper money Of its own t.
the amount of Sz50,000
Provost Marshal General March or
. dered discharge of volunteer an
drafted soldiers to be speeded up.
Casper knabIe, civil war veteran
credited with capturing Jefferson Da
Wis is dead at Mountain Branch Sol
; diers Home, at Johnson City, Tenn.
E kOrders instructing the army recruit
ing officer for New York district t
, accept $4,000 men for enlistment
the American Expeditionary Fore
We're received.
I Indications were that the strike c
textile workers at Paterson, n. J., in
. volving . mills, which has continue
for eight weeks, was broken.
5 Turkish steamer Akdeniz, left Cor
l stantinople for Hamburg, carryin
the last of the German officers an
} soldiers who were captured when tn
| Allied forces occupied Constantinopl
: Ernest Danning, president of II
| executive committee of the Soldier
and Workers Council of Berlin, Wa
s arrested on a charge of being a leadt
in disturbances in January.
/, Captain Zulgaga, who crossed II
: Andes Mountains in a balloon in 191
/ asked permission of the Argentir
: War Minister to attempt a fgl
2 across the Atlantic in an airpIane.
A jury was completed to try Et
ward Luciano, Brooklyn Rap
| Transit motorman, on a charge
manslaughter in Connection with II
@ wreck on the Brighton Beach line
4 Brooklyn last November.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
CANADIAN RAILROADS ADOPT
DAYLIGHT SAVING SYSTEM

Ottawa, April AT a hearing given
here today by the Dominion Railway
Commission, representatives of the
Canadian railways and railway war
board presented reasons for the adop--
tion by Canadian roads of the daylight
saving system now in effect in the
United States despite the fact that the
dominion government has not author
lied it.
The witnesses concurred in declaring
that the daylight saving plan would
have to be continued on Canadian
roads if connections with the United
States We're to be maintained, as the
running of trains on different schedules
would constitute "a dangerous expert
ment' and pile up difficulties in inter-
national traffic
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
MEETING OF COUNCIL
OF FOREIGN MINISTERS

Paris, April 1.-The Council of
Foreign Ministers, at their meeting
this afternoon, received the report of
the peace conference commission on
Czecho- Slovak territorial claims and
discussed the advisability of holding
a plenary session of the conference for
discussion of the report on interna-
tional labor legisla ton
The foreign ministers also consider
ed the question of holding business ses-
sions at Versailles when the German
delegates arrive there.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
VENEZUELAN PATRIOTIC
UNION ORGANIZED

Panama, April 1.-The Venezuelan
Patriotic Union, formed recently for
the purpose of effecting a democratic
government in Venezuela, completed
organization today. Thirty exiles from
Venezuela under the Gomez regime are
members of the organization.
The president of the organization,
Senor Rodriguez, a journalist, said the
avowed purpose of the union was to
work to bring about the unseating of
the present regime of President Gomez
and the establishment of a democratic
government in Venezuela. He added
that the movement was not being made
on behalf of any candidate or political
group but was being carried out sole
ly with the purpose of substituting
popular government for tyranny"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
TAFT, BROKE" WALKED
MILE AND A HALF

Detroit, Mich. April 1.-Former Pres
iGent Taft, who will speak at Kala :
plazoo tonight on the League of Ma
tions, arrived in Detroit this fore
noon-"broke.'' He walked the mile
ana a half the city hall. where May
or Couzens cashed a check for him.
4 just ran out of change" he ex-
planned to newspaper men. and
knew the mayor had lots Of it.''
The former president will go from
Kalamazoo to Lansing, where he is
expected to speak before the state
legislature tomorrow,
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
STILL READING INDICTMENT
OF SENATOR C. HuMRERT

Paris, April 1.-(Havas). The in
dictment of Senator Charles Humbert
was still being read today at the trial
of the senator and three alleged ac-
completes on the charge of having had
commerce with the enemy. Portions of
the indictment read today concern the
participation of Humbert and Captain
LadouX in the dealings which resulted
in the purchase of LIE Journal by Hum
bert. The facts adduced by the gov
ernment tended to show that Humbert
evinced a lack of scruples in the ne
gotiations for the newspaper Hum
bert displayed no emotion during the
reading of the Indictment
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
HOW TREATY WILL BE HANDED
TO THE GERMAN EGATES

London, April 1.-The preliminary
peace treay will not me submitted to
the German delegates at Versailles,
according to the latest information re-
ceived here from FreEcn sources. The
treaty, it is said. will be handed to
the Germans at some town farther
from Paris. as has been the rule with
other conventions since tue armistice.
Only the final session, at which sig
natures will be exchanged 1t is declar-
ed will be he at Versailles.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-02
JAPAN SENDS WARNING
TO CHINESE GOVEqNM ENT

Peking, Thursday. March 27.-By
The A. P.)-The Japanese minister
here has warned the Chinese govern
ment that if the prematura disclosure
of secret documents by Chian causes
less to Japanese financial and CONNER
cial interests, Japan VIII hold China
responsible Cor such loss. As the re-
suit, the Chinese government has
further POSTPONED the contemplated
publication aI secret agreements be-
tween China and Japan.