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Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
LOWER COST OF LIVING
 OR INCREASE IN WAGES

Washington, July S0-The alterna- tive Of governmental action to force down the cost of living or of demand
 by the railroad engineers of the coun- try for another increase in wages was presented to President Wilson today by Warren $. Stone. grand chief of the brotherhood of locomotive engi- neers. and members of the brother hoods advisory board.
 Detailing conclusions reached by the advisory board at it's recent meeting in Cleveland, Mir. Stone in a pre- pared statement read to the president, gineers found themselves obliged to again request an increase to meet the mounting cost of living" they were Of the opinion that 'tthe true remedy for the situation and one that will result in lifting the burden under which the whole people are struggling is for the government to take some adequate measures to reduce the cost O. the necessaries of life to a figure that the present wages and income of the people will meet" t44
 The brotherhood board outlined no plan of action for the government to take beyond saying it was believed that this situation is brought about by the great interests who have Se- cured control of all the necessaries of life"
 President Wilson. it was said at the which lasted half an hour. was much impressed with the statement pre- scented and promised to give serious consideration and study to the ques- tion of what the government might be a ble to do. Previous to their confer ence~- with the president, the broth erhood officials conferred with Direc- tor General Hines. who expressed sympathy with their request that governmental action be taken to low CT living costs.
 The president was told by the brotherhood board that widespread spirit of unrest exists among all classes, especially among wage earn CTS whose wages will no longer pro- vide adequate food shelter and raj ment for themselves and families"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
NEW YORk'S VICE SQUAD
 REPRIMANDED BY COURT

New York. July 3O.-The police, un- der fire for some time for their all legged unWarranted arrests of women charged with vagrancy. received an- other shot today from the higher courts.
 In reversing the decision of a po- lice magistrate, Judge Mcintyre in general sessions indorsed the recom- mendation of the jury that the law be changed so that women cannot be convicted on the uncorroborated tes- timony of policemen" The court de- clared that there must be an end to policemen swearing away the fair name and liberty of women." and add ed that If the vice squad would give the same attention to burglars. high waymen, loft thieves and such crim- inals as they do to women in the streets we might have better condi- tions in our city"
 the police for donning army and navy uniforms Go ensnare women.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
MOVEMENT TO ELIMINATE
 SIUMS OF, NEW YORK

New York, July 3o.-Naturai causes will not eliminate the slums of New York for at least 100 years, according to an estimate based upon a survey of tenement house conditions made public here today by the reconstruc tion commission of the state of New York. The report was made after Senator Lockwood and other members of the joint legislative committee on housing had visited two specimen tenement blocks in the Cherry Hill district to see what progress had been made since the tenement reform law went into effect in 1910. This is what they found in one block:
 Homes of 2.714 persons of whom 561 are children under five years. Families of Americans. Irish. Span iards, Jews. Italians. and Lithuanians living in two and three dark, unventi- lated "blind'' rooms. As many as five persons sleeping in one room, of tentimeS three and four in one bed.
 Apartments advertised as having modern conveniences' which con- sisted of a cold water faucet in the kitchen.
 Single rooms for which the occu- pants, working men and women. pay rent of from $5 to s16. Incomes of these tenants vary from s21-6o ta $50 month.
 Flats minus bath tubs and dumb walters, absence of the latter mean ing that tenants must carry garbage often many as seven flights Of stairs to cans in yards or railways
 During 1918 and 1919. in one block, the rents of 6s tenants were raised 50 cents; 162 were raised $1; nine $1.5O and nine $2.
 Most of the vacant rooms were at the bottom of air shafts ten feet wide, some of the floors lacking several boards.
 The predominant occupation of the wage earners was shown to be gar ment work. such as tailoring and pressing, among the Jewish popula- ton, which is in the m-ority. Day 1aborers and longshoremen constitut- ed the next largest proportion. Many of the women earn from $20 to $30 moth by sewing. at home for fac tories, even the children being em- ployed to cut button holes or do sim liar small tasks.
 s'The only way the last of these old law tenements will ever disappear will be from natural causes, sucn as fire. collapse or abandonment by tenants because of conditions which make them uninhabitable by human be- ings" reported the commission.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
TO MODIFY PROVISIONS
 OF WAR REVENUE ACT

Washington, July 30-Formulatl ton of definite policy as to legislation modifying various provisions of the war revenue act of 1918 against which protests have been received from va r1ous parts of the country. will be dis cussed at a meeting tomorrow of the senate finance committee. The call for the meeting was issued by Chairman Penrose late today following hear ings on house bills repeating the soda water tax and substituting a tax of two cents a gallon on fruit juice bev- erages for the present 10 per cent. gross sales tax.
 Owing to the house recess Saturday for more than a month, members Of The senate committee said tonight, the committee would take no final acton upon the soda water and fruit Julce tax bills before Septeber at least.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31

Chicago. July 50-The state troops were ordered from the armories to- night to various points regarded is danger centerS- Request for the troops was made to Adjutant Gener- al Dickson by Major Thompson to control the race riots.
 The decision to use troops to patrol the dangerous parts Of the trouble zone was taken tonight as a pre- czutionary easure after AdJutant General Dickson had made a round of the South Side negro district and it's environments
 He said the situation was more serious than twenty four hours be- fore IL was deemed not necessary at the time the mayor asked for the troops to proclaim martial law and whether Governor Lowden was pre- pzrnd to take that step was not made known It seemed to be generally on patrol duty would prevent further serious rioting-
 Prom what I have seen this after noon and evening, I should judge the situation and temperament Of the people is more serOuS than It was at fhis time the night before. said the adjutant general as he started for the meeting with the mayor.
 At that time he troops were in req dineSs to move from the armories 10 the riot scenes at once.
 Todayfs outbreaks were widely scat tered. Or the four deaths, all of which were the result of shooting. two were shot today. the other two having been wounded in the rioting of Mon day and Tuesday nights.
 Tonight the official death list for four days showed 90. of whom IT were negroes two unidentified. and 13 whites one unidentified.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
FOUR KILLED AND 4
 SCORE WOUNDED YESTERDAY

Chicago. July 30-With four deaths and a score Of persons wounded or beaten in continued rioting today be- tween whites and negroes. police to- night were drawing a tight cordon about. the South Side negro area and other outlying sections where negroes are segregated. in the hope of avert ing further clashes While city and state authorities said they believed the situation somewhat relieved, there was no relaxation of vigilance and every policeman who could be spared tonight was stationed in the danger zone
 Governor Lowden today devoted his time almost exclusively to the riots, as did Frank $. Dickson. adjutant general of IlI--2is
 Attorney General Brundage upon h-s arrival from Michigan. where he cliS short a vacation. assigned an as sislant- John F. Burns. to the coro- ner's office to sift the evidence to be produced at inquests. Mir. Brundage who took charge of the prosecutions following the East St. Louis riots a few years ago, declared punishment 0E the guilty here was certain.
 A second attempt by rioting whites 10 burn a negro home was successful today when a two-story frame house in EnzleTood, far south Of the main black belt was burned to the ground None of the several families of ne- -roes who lived in the building was injured All fled so quickly from the premises that the police were unable to question them concerning the in- cendi4rieS-
 Coroner Hoffman today empanelled a jury and as deaths are reported the members will view the bodies and take preliminary steps in the inquiry.
 States Attorney Hoyne assigned several assistants to the work of ga thering evidence Mir. Hoyne also in dicated that his activities might go outside of investigation of actual dis order.
 through the influence of politicians and aldermen. some of the men ar rested for -iotinE have been turned out as soon as they were taken to the police station. I shall aI=o investi- gate this
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
STATE TROOPS HAVE
 ESTABLISHED BARRED ZONE

Chicago July 3o@Chicago streets tonight were pa atrolled by soldiers call quest of Mayor Thompson for the pro- lection of life and property threaten cd by the race war which for four days has terrorized the city.
 The state troops esta bIished a bar rcd zone about three miles square em- nracing most of the colored residen- tial district on the South Side Tn this zone they searched everr person whom they met for weapons. No one could pass in or out without mili- tsrr permission The district ex- tended roughly from Twenty Second street to Fifty Fifth street north and south and from Michigan Boulevard to Wentworth avenue east and west.
 This happened when riots in the colored district itself had somewha t s=ubsided but when there was an ais-ming spread of disturbances out siie-
 Ncer York Central Railroad. officials rer orted ali their trains being fired
 kc:ttant General Frank s Lick s31 after an early evs7.ug t~ip through the threatened district de- cIared that the situation was ominous secretary. who accompanied him.
 Hundreds of negroes appealed for protection Incendiary attacks upon negro homes increased through the GzT ana u1EnI- NeSrO lea1erS deCIdreo that many members of their race faced starvation because drivers of supply wagons feared to enter some portions of the black belt
 The decision to appeal to the state executive for troops to patrol the streets was reached by Mayor Thomp- SO after a long conference with mem bers of his cabinet
 Governor LoEden was notified of the decision and on the arrival of Adjutant General Dickson at the mayors office the formal request was made.
 Before the troops were ordered out, rioting broke out at several places and police were called on to run down negroes reported in automobiles and firing promiscuousIy on whites
 Ia Twenty-FoIrth street. three ne- grDez an an automobile fired at whites on rhe sidewalk and in the street Thouas PoSsen. white. was wounded in the side ss he was reading 3 news paper in barber shop. August ylc-
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
ZEMSTVO HAS ASSEMBLED
 UNDER BOLSHEVIK RULE

Omsk, Thursday. July 17.-(Russian Photographic Agency. A message pleading loyalty to Admiral Kolchak head of the all-Russian government was received by him today from the zemstvo assembly of the AkoiubinslG district, assembled for the first time after fifteen months under Bolshevik rule.
 Animated by the sincerest desire to re-establish life and order, destroy ed by the Bofshevik rule in our dis trict and now liberated by your gal lant army" the message said. i've gr- &ou, admiral, and are ready to do everything in our power to help re-establish the motherland."
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
LIBEL WRITs ISSUED
 AGAINST LONDON NEWS

London, July 3O.-Writs were issued today against the London Daily News on behalf of J. Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, Walter Hume Long, first lord of the admiral ty; Sir Eric Geddes. minister without portfolio, and Sir Ouckland Geddes, minister for national service and re- construction. for alleged libel.
 The specifications of the alleged li bel concern comments on charges made by the Weekly Nation that the statesment possessed shares in vari- ous Russian mining and development companies, some of which were pur- chaed since the armistice with the Teutonic allies was concluded and therefore while Great Britain was hos- tile to Russia.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
CONTROL OF
 WIRES TO END AT MIDNIGHT

Washington. July 30.-Government control, of telegraph and telephone properties will end at midnIgI.t to- morrow night Orders for their re- turn to private owners were issued today by Postmaster General Burle- son as required under a resolution adopted by congress and signed by President Wilson ten days ago.
 Under the resolution of congress di- recting the return of the companies, government fixed intrastate telephone rates are to remain in force for a pe- riod of four months, unless sooner changed by state commissions, but no provision was made as to telegraph rates.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
BRITISH ARE SALVAGING
 SUNkEN GERMAN SHIPS

London. July So.-one battleship. three Night cruisers and fifteen de- stroyers of the former German grand fleet which were scuttled by their crews at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands on June 22. are ready to be salvaged, it was announced today in the house of commons by Walter Hume Long, first lord of the admi ralty. MT. Long said work was pro ceeding on three other destroyers. He said there was no intention of hold ing a court of inquiry.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
CAUSE OF REGENT RACE |.
 TROUBLES IN WASHINGTON

Washington, July S0.-Recent race troubles in Washington, Chicago and other cities were due solely to local conditions and were not inspired by Bolshevik or other radical propagan- da in the opinion of Attorney General Palmer. MT. Palmer said today re- ports to the depar tment of justice had not shown any reason why the department should take a hand in the disorders.
 "We have evidence of some Bol- sheVik propaganda among negroes in the south," MT. Palmer said. "ConSid erable money has been spent and great quantities of literature distrib- uted to no effect"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
STRIKE OF WORCESTER
 LEATHER WORKERS AT END

X Worcester, Mass, July 30 The strike of nearly 2,000 leather workers at the plant of Graton and Knight Manufacturing Company, which has lasted three weeks and caused sever al riots, probably will be ended tomor- row. as the result of a conference of employees and officials of the company.
 The company offers a fifty hour week instead of 8 hours and time and half for overtime, but will not rec ognize the union of leather workers. These terms are acceptable to the union men.
 The strikers will meet tomorrow morning to ratify the terms.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
STATE TROOPS PATROLL|NG
 TROUBLE ZONE IN CHICAGO
Ordered From Arories Various Points Regarded As Dam ger Centers-Temperament of the People More Serious Than Heretofore-There Were Four Deaths and Score of Persons Wounded Or Beaten In the Rotng Yesterday Police Have Drawn a Tight Gordon About the South Side Negro Area.

tua, white, nine years old. was also wounded when the negroes fired at a group of children playing in the street. Possen and the ch.ld were taken to a hospital.
 Reports were also rec sived that a number of automobile trucks filled with young white men were being driven about South Side streets out side the negro district trying to stir up anti-negro sentiment.
 No funerals for the negro victims of the riots have been held. Negro un- dertakers are afraid to go to the city hall to obtain burial permits, city of ficials said today.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
REQUESTS IN THE WILL
 OF WALLACE K BACON

Middletown Conn, July 3o.-The will of Wallace K. Bacon, former member of the general assembly, who died last Saturday. was filed for pro- bate here today. His widow is given the life use of the estate, which is estimated at more than $10O,0O0 'Af- ter her death public institutions and organizations will receive various sums. Included among the bequests are the following: Tufts College, Medford, Mass, $25.O00; Universalist Publishing Company, Boston, 5000; Connecticut Universalist Convention S25,000;- and several of 5000 each to local institutions.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
NO BRITISH PROPOSALS FOR
 BOLSHEVIK PREMIER LENlHl

London, July 30.-Assertions by Liberal papers that Sir Philip Kerr, secretary to Premier Lloyd George. had given a memorandum of peace proposals for the BolshevilS premier Lenine. to William c. Bullitt. attach ed to the American peace delegation, were answered in the house of com mons today by Andrew Bonar Law, government leader. with a denial. MT. Bonar Law said MT. Lloyd George did not know of Bullitt's mission to Rus sia until Bullitt returned and he de- nied that the British premier had given Bullitt any such memorandum.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
RUSSIAN RED CROSS AT
 WORK IN WESTERN SIBERIA

.Omsk,1 Thursday, July 17.-(Rus- sian Photographic Ageney). The tenn porary central committee of the Rus sian Red Cross has organized dis trict committees in western Siberia and in the Far East. according to re- ports received here today. Work at the front being carried on in coop eration with the union of the muni- cipalities and Zemetvos.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
 VOTES TO RECESS SATURDAY

New York, July 30-F'or the second time this summer the governors of the New York stock exchange, acting today on Q petition of its members, voted to declare a Saturday recess. The Consolidated exchange is expect ed to take similar action.
 Although the volume of trading in the stock market has diminished wis ibly in the past fortnight, the many details connected with the purchase and sale of securities continues to tax the machinery of the banks as well as brokerage houses
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
REBELS CAPTURE A.
 TOWN IN HONDURAS

San Salvador. July 50.-The town of Danli, close to the NicaraSuan iron tier, has been Captured by revolu- tionists. in Honduras, according to despatches published here today. In the fighting. Colonel Jacinto Velas- ouez. a leader of the Gutierrez party, was killed.
 General Francisco Argena1. with 4oo revolutioniStS is reported to be with in a few miles of Ocotepeque, in west ern Honduras preparing to attack It.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER
 PLANT TO RESUME WORK

Hartford, Conn., July 30-Oficials of the Underwood Typewriter Com pany announced tonight that the com pany's plant here. which has been closed for eight days because of strikes. would be opened tomor- row. It was said that nearly all of the 1000 employees were expected to return. Officers of the polishers and buffers union declared. however, that none of it's members will go back
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
PERsHING TO REVIEW TROOPS lWHO WERE IN BASTILE PARADE

Paris, July 3O.-(Havas). General John J. Pershing, the American com mander- in chief, tomorrow in the Bois de Vincennes will review the bat talion of American infantrymen which participated in the parade in Paris on July IA in honor of Bastile Day. On leave for Brest on their way to the United States.
 American troops in the Bastile Day parade consisted of a composite bat talion called from all the regiments of the American army of occupation. Tn all there were about 1.5OO Ameri- cans in the parade. -s
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
NEW AMERICAN RECORD
 FOR ALTITUDE FLIGHT

Mineo1s, N. T.. July S6.-AIthough failing to establish worlds altitude record, Roland Rohlfs, civilian avia- tor, flying a Curtiss Wasp bipiane. set a new American mark today when. in an official flight from Roosevelt field, he reached a height of 50.!00 feet. ac- cording to the figures or, his baro- graph. The instrument will be in spected by officials of the Aero Club of America. and if found to be accu- rate the record homologated. ts
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
NEW BRITISH DiRiGfsLE
 TO START FOR AMERICA

London. July 30.-The giant Brit ish dirigible R-S4. which landed at Pullman, Norfolk, on July 13, after making. the first Atlantic difi- gible night. left there today for East Fortune, Scotland. the point rom which it started for the United States.
 The R-34 circled over London. atsioW altitude during the trip and was seen and cheered by excited crowds.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
7s,ooo BAGS OF COFFEE
 ARRIVE FROM BRAZIL

New York. July 3O.--Laden with 7s,000 bags of coffee, the largest car go of the kind to come to New York since the marine workers strike. the Brazilian steamship Tapajoz arrived here today from Santos and Rio. Among the passengers was Victor A. Pugajon, delayed Peruvian delegate to the Pan- American Labor Congress. which was held here two weeks ago
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
DOMINION GOVT. TO BUY
 AND MARKET WHEAT CROP

ernment decided late today to buy and market the Canadian wheat crop of 1919. The crop will be sold lat pre- wiling world prices and the surplus proceeds will be divided among the original sellers of the wheat. Specu- lation and profteering will be prohib- ited
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
STEAMSHIP DAMAGED BY
 FIRE AT BROOKLYN PIER

New York July 30.-The British steamship Maraval, owned by the Trinidad Shipping and Trading Com pany, loading here with general cargo and scheduled to sail tomorrow for Trinidad, caught fire at her Brooklyn pier today and was badly damageo. The blaze was confined to the bows of the ship.
 After the fire was under control the Marava1 listed heavily to port and all but turned over. No one was ln- jiired.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
SIBERIANS THE HEAVIEST
 PURCHASERS OF TEXTILES

New York, July 30-Representa- tives of Admiral Kolchak's Siberian government were among the heaviest purchasers here today when s4,000, 900 worth of surplus United States army textiles were placed on the auction block by Captain A. A. Stewart of the quartermaster's department. Total sales for the day in which 750 buyers participated, amounted to $375,000. with Admiral Kolchaks men and rep resentatives of the Colombian repub- lie bidding for the lions share.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
SEEKS TO RECOVER $27,353.5o @-
 PAID FOR FEDERAL TAXES

Hartford, July 30-The Travellers Insurance company today filed with the clerk of the United States dis trict court a writ and complaint starting civil action against James J.
 Walsh, collector of internal revenue to regain s27.353.50 which it claims was illegally collected in the form Of United States taxes.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
NEGROES ATTACKED A
 WOMAN AT NORMAL, ILLS.

Bloomfield; Ills. July 30.-Twenty negroes attacked Mrs. SKae Cecil, while at her home in Normal this morning after she had chased some negro children from the yard. The negroes are said to have become in censed because she called the children ''niggers." Police and white citizens Joined and succeeded in quelling the disfurhance in short order.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
BLACKS FIRED ON
 PASSENGER. TRAINS

Chicago. July 30.-Oficials of the
 New York Central railroad reported t othe police tonight that in the ne- gro district the blacks were firing on all passenger trains. About the same time the police received word that rioting was in progress at Thirty first
 and Dearborn streets. near the heart
 of the black belt.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
MICHIGAN TO PROBE
 METHODS OF PACKERS

Detroit July 30. H. Operations of the big packing companies and other con- cerns dealing in foodstuffs are to be investigated by States Attorney Gen eral Groesbeck to determine whether prices are controlled in viola ton of Michigans anto- trust law. He says that if investigation shows any com pines viola ting the state laws, an effort will be made iT h-,-s4 them from doing business in the stata.