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Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
RIOTING IN LIVERPOOL
 AS RESULT OF POLICE STRIKE

Liverpool, Aug. 3.-(By The A. 20 Rioting Saturday. as result of the police strike, did not cease until near ly four o'clock Of stone throwing on the part of the rioters and charges by the troops. The mob was so threaten ing at one point that the troops fired into the air with a view of over-awe- ing it.
 The riots were resumed today. Many more shops were footed and serious disorders occurred when troops were called to stop the sacking of stores in Lodge Lane, leading to a conflict be- tween the rioters and troops in which a Jun was severely wounded.
 /le magistrates are sitting contin- uouSly, swearing in constables and volunteer guards
 Late tonight rioting was resumed in the London Road district. with window smashing. Blank shots were fired over the huge crowds with little effect
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
NO DANGER OF FURTHER
 RIOTING IN CHICAGO

Chicago. Aug. 3.-Aside from few minor disturbances. order prevailed today in the Chicago black belt' where race rioting last week caused thirty-five deaths and injury to sew eral hundred persons.
 Adjutant General Frank s. Dickson of Illinois and Chief of Police GarritY tonight expressed satisfaction over the situation, the latter expressing the belief that dangSr of further general rioting was ended. The militia and police continue to patrol the negro district.
 With the c:=~tion of an attack on Captain A. R. ehrheim. G Company, Fourth Reserve Militia. who was fired on and stabbed by three negroes. and the forming of a white mob in the stock yards district early this morn ing, no outbreak of consequence had occurred since Thursday The cap tain was severely wounded but will recover.
 Six hundred whites were dispersed only after machine gun mounted on an automobile had appeared and mi litiamen with fixed bayonets. had pre- pared to charge them.
 While police were slowly being withdrawn from the negro district, and the bars were let down for whites in tkat section today. the sher- if was swearing in former soldiers as special deputies and expected to have between 1000 and 2.000 on duty in the riot zones tomorrow
 It has been definitely decided that negroes will not be re-employed al the stock yards until ill feeling between whites and blacks has sUbsided.
 The fire eorly yesterday which burned six blocks of homes of whites. west of the stock yards, and which many of the residents blamed upon the negroes aggregated the feeling of bitterness. The scores of homeless were fed today by the Red Cross and United Charities and clothing distrib- uted.
 The August grand jury will be sworn in tomorrow for investigation of the riots and the fire. At least 20 witnesses have declared negroes who appeared in automobiles started the fire.
 Assistants to the states attorney and Attorney general continued today to prepare a mass of evidence for the grand jury. Scores of witnesses were interrOgated.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
STORY OF CRUELTY TO
 AMERICANS IN MEXICO

Washington, Aug. 3.-A story of cruelty to Americans in Mexico. in volving the death from starvation of an aged American woman. reached Washington today through unofficial channels. The cruelties. including an attack by bandits. some of whom are alleged to have been Carranzistas, inn prisonment, indignities and later con- fiscation of property, were perpetrat- ed, it is said. upon Dr. and Mrs. Charles T. Sturgis of Washington and the 1atter's mother. Mrs. w. H. Keen right, also of Washington. Mrs. Keen right died of starvation while held prisoner by the bandits.
 Dr. Sturgis, an American dentist and owner of a coffee jlantation in Mexi- co, according to information received here went to Mexico twenty years ago. His wife and her mother joined him later.
 Not until last February. according to the story reaching Washington, were pr. Sturgis and his wife released. They returned to their plantation. al- though the dentist was partially para lyzed owing to the privations they had undergone. and later the American consul at Salina Cruz furnished them with funds to return to the United States.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
LETTER FROM FORMER
 PRINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA

Copenhagen, Aug. 3.-The former Prince Henry of Prussia in a letter to King George, published today by the Hamburger Nachrichten. says the truth about the war may be had from the allies statemen and he suggests that if the former German emperor be placed on trIal the statesmen ap- pear.
 The letter asks King George ''in the name of justice and his own interests" to desist from demanding the extra dition and trial of the former German ruler. The letter. which is signed Your humble cousin Henry charges that England plotted Germany's com mercial downfall.
 brave people have been Init severely but they are not yet dead. The Ger man spirit which now seems dead stiU lives and will one day awake to full consciousness of the disgrace and shame which have been inflicted and will one day demand a reckoning"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04

Los Angeles. Cal. Aug. 3.-Revenge for the part he played in the prosecu- ton of group of dynamiters in the middle west several years ago was as signed by the police here as the prob able motive for an attempt on the fife of Oscar Lawler former assistant att torney general of the United States, today.
 thorough investigation by city. county state and federal authorities led to the belief that the bomb was placed between two five gallon cans filled with gasoline, or some other highly infiammable liquid Experts working on the case found fragments of the bomb sufficient to reconstruct it. They said it had been made of a piece of iron pipe about ten inches high and six inches in diameter. Two discs of metal had been placed at ends, apparently held in place by two bolts passing through both ends and the pipe itself. They also found the two five gallon cans that had contained liquid.
 The Lawler home was a large brick and frame structure in the fashion able Wiltshire district in the west part of the city.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04

On Board L. s. s. New Mexico, Sat urday. Aug 2-(By Wireless to The Associated Press-)-Six dreadnoughts Of the Pacific fleet were shaken severe
 y by a double earthquake shock at s-1S o'clock this afternoon twenty miles of the coast of the state of Colima- Mexico. None of the war ships reported any damage
 The New Mexico trembled from bow charted reef and the navigation off the hagship's siren Sailors in the foretop said that the basket masts of the warshiDs swayed like poplar trees in a gale
 Ohcers on the quarter deck hur- r.ed to their posts and the crew and the marines took their places. Mean while all water tight compartments on the New Mexico were closed and in- Spection parties were sent into the holds to see if there had been any damage to the hull
 Admiral Hugh Rodman. command ing the fleet. quickly recognized the earthquake he said. We are right of the coast of Colima. where there are many earthquakes" Then turn ing to Commander Brainard. he or dered- Signal all ships in the fleet and see if they felt any excessive vii bration."
 Wireless telephone messages were received soon from the five other d-cadnoughts reporting that they felt the shocks The Mississippi, which was further off shore reported heavy vibrations Just what I thought an earthquake.' Admiral Rodman said.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
DESCRIPTION OF THE
 DOWNFALL OF BELLA KUN

Vienna, Saturday. Aug. 2--(By The A. P) The downfall of Beb. Kun, virtual dictator of the old Hungarian soviet government. and the fight he made almOSet alone to maintain the power that had caused the allies so much trouble for months. is described in deSpatches received here today and by refugees from Budapest.
 Final action in uDsetting the Com munist government took place Friday at the meeting of the Central Council of Revolutionary Workmen and Sol diers at Budapest. Zoltan Ronay, for mer minister of justice. announced the governments resignation He explain ed that the dictatorship of Bella Kun, effective on March 3. was based on Lhree assumptions. namely: world sian soviet and the Hungarian proie- tariat's capacity for self sacrifice. These conditions. he said. had not been fulfilled.
 Bela Kun then appeared before the council. With tear-stained face and in choking voice he admitted the hopelessness of the situation.
 speakers at the meeting told how ty kllometers of Budapest and that the allies threatened to tighten the blockade.
 Jacob Weltner, president of the Sol diers' and Workmen's Soviet. and pr. Peter Agoston. then minister of jus tice, who conferred with the allied representatives at Vienna and had been told plainly that Kun must go and a new government be formed got up in the council meeting and storm fly demanded Bela Runs resignation. Il. They asked him if he wished Buda- pests pitiful plight to be made worse by the hated Rumanians.
 Then Bela Kun yielded. He predict ed the coming of white terror" robbing the wor1men of their free dom and means of production all of which he deplored He added that the people would return to him.
 These who knew the fallen leader said that it probably was his inn pending defeat that caused his wife to appear so sad and that his wife's suf- fering had much to do with his final decision to yield.
 While the allied representatives here were said to regard Bella Kun as a fanatic and an opportunist they bear witness to his clevernesS in squIrming, out of diplomatic corners. His fearlessness and his ability to be theatrical were considered assets.
 He came to the conclusion early in his career. those Who knew him said, that ke would lose his life in the work but that with the spirit of a true rev olu tionist he snapped ais fingers at danger, and possibly was comforted by imagining that he would go down in history cro of the uncrowned kinds of Hungary.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
STEPS THIS WEEK TO
 REDUCE COST OF LIVING

Washington, Aug. 3.-Steps toward rsducinE the cost of living are expect cd this week
 While all government departments are working coward the end of allevi- stinS unrest by restoring normal level of prices. interest centers in the meeting Tuesday of the conference called by Attorney General Palmer to consider the best methods of proceed Ure- especially with respect to profit eerinE- The committee appointed by the conference, Director General Hines Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Leffingweu and Chairman Caiver of the federal. trade conInis-- sion. have been en47eed- in an exs pur before the conference for recom- meudation to President Wilso, who is following all steps closely
 The presence of Julius Barnes. di- rector of the United States Grain cor poration. at the meeting Tuesday will give expert counsel to the cabinet members and other officials on the grain situation Consideration of a plan to sell wheat in a free market. the government absorbing the differ ence between the market price and the guaranteed price. is believed certain.
 There are indications that the at torney gene al Is Itayinsg especial at tention to cases of profiteering. He has at his disposal a great volume of information collected by the federal trade commission showing production
 
 there is no law by which profiteering may be punished directly. Mir. Palmer has said that there is a great deal of good law on the statute books and Ir is believed he will find a way to punish any cases where there are evil lences of extortion.
 The average citizen ia the man in whose behalf the profiteering investi- Eation wFll be pushed, despite the fact that it Was the new demands of the railroad labor unions which precipitat- sd it- Several officials have expressed sI mpethy with the salaried man who lacks the backing of a powerful or EaniZation-
 The cost of living situation, it was earned today. will be one of the chief topics to be discussed at Tuesdays -s oinet meeting The question of re- ducIuE living expenditures was brought up at last weeks meeting, but it is understood that President Will Eon and his advisers decided to post pone efforts to reach an agreement as 10 definite action pending the obtain ing of definite information.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
GERMAN DELEGATES DISPUTE
 SAM GOMPERS' ARGUMENT

Amsterdam, Friday, Aug. l-(Ry Ine A. p Samuel Gompers. presi- dent of the Amersc;su Federation of Labor and head of the American de- egation to the international trades union federation in session here, pleaded for greater rights for labor today. His address to the congress followed the report of a committee which said it could not accept the charter given labor in the peace trea- ty as full expression of the workers demands.
 MT. Gompers declared that he al ways had worked for improvement of conditions and demanded that labor should not be regarded as an article of commerce. Ills urged also that a seaman's act be enacted to permit sailors to leave ships when they were safely in harbor, He pleaded for tine equality of women and men and the abolition of voluntary services.
 German delegates disputed MT. Gompers' argument, which. they said, made it appear that the European i4- They demanded that the workers strive for a realization of the Berne conferences programme, including the regulation of childrens educa- tion, womens labor. shorter hours, Sunday rest and the supervision of home industries. This position Was supported by Leon JouhauX, the French delegate. who declared the workers task should be to complete labor's cSarter as set forth in the peace treaty.
 The Dutch delegates OIdegenst and = 9Imen ere unanimously elected Ia c.ty joint SecrS&ary-: :ra.I ;lir.rr of the newly formed Internlti0naie. The German and Austrian de-egaros re- trained from voting. Carl Rudolph Legien, l~csident of the German F'ci- eration of Trade Unions, said the Ger man and Austrian delegates did not vote as a matter of principle.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
5.0co MARINES HAVE
 ARRIVED FROM FRANCE

New York. Aug 3.-Approximately 5000 marines. vanguard of 16,000 devil dogs" whose exploits in Belleau wood at Chateau Thierry. Soissons and other famous battlefields make up part of the record of the Second (regular) division. to which they were attached arrived here today on the transport George Washington.
 Led by Major General John A. Le- 5eune- the marine officer who com manded the Second division. the troops came into port to a tremendous ova- tiou-
 The famous Devil Dogs, it was learned. were given a rousing fare well when they sailed from Brest Two French Eunboats escorted the George Washington out of the harbor and fired salutes as they dropped the transport out at sea.
 Forty eight of the Devil Dogs brought home war brides.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
AUSTRIA .SAS CALLED
 UPON ALLIES FOR AID

Vienna. Thursday, July 31.-(By The A. P) Karl Seitz. president of the Austrian national assembly. urged today that the allies take steps to save Austria from plight similar to tha tof Hungary.
 While our Vaiuables. jewels. gold and paintings have been slowly ind ing their way across the frontiers, he said. it is not yet too late to save us from the fate of Hungary. which has been stripped and ruined for gen. erations wc,hin a few months This the allies will discover if they ever undertake it's reconstruction.
 We have been marking time com mercialIy as we have been forced td do because of our deficit of 4O00, ,0OO,- 900 crowns. the large sums We are paying to the unemployed. the large amount disbursed for employees pen sions and also because of the lack of revenues from tobacco and liquor.
 Speaking broadly. the allies should realize that European business must be kept going. Unless the people Of Europe are employed they must emf grate; for if they stay at home. they may become trouble makers. disturb ing the worlds peace. Men won't lie down to die quietly"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
Iieup Of Railroads
 is Very Probable
Unrest Among Workers Has Overwhelmed Internation- al Officers of Unions.

Chicago, Aug. 3.-A complete tieup of the railroads of the country. is very yer, president of the Chicago district council of the Federated Railway Shopmen's Union which called a strike of shop -cafts Friday. He re- turned from Washington today and declared the strike is spreading rap idly and that the unrest among rail- way workers is so general that the movement has overwhelmed the in ternational officers of the various unions involved
 Advices today from Cleveland were that the executive board of the Amer ican Federation of Railway Workers, unskilled labor in Cleveland and the cast, had dec -l to strike tomorrow, according to MT. Hawver.
 The maintenance of way mems un- in also is preparing to strike. it was said.
 With more than 250.00O shipmen on strike and the number increasing, both President Hawver- and Secretary John D. Saunders declared railroad sched- uleS and industry would be seriously steel mills and other industries at Gary and othCS northern Indiana points and in Chicago, have begun to feel the effects of the strike, according to union leaders. and. when the strike is more complete factories and mills virtually will be forced to close down for lack of ore. coal and other essen tia1s.
 This movement is spreading like wildfire and we are not going to lay down until we @ our demands" said President Hawver Tt has not re- ceived the indorsement of our grand lodge presidents although they now are getting ready for d strike August 24. But we are going ahead and are receiving many messages telling of more men our or to go out.
 "The seriousness of the situation seems to be better understood in the east than out here.
 Tn Washington the executive com mittee has been repudiated and the entire grievance committee of IS members, representing all railway workers, has been negotiating with he railroad administration. Director General Hines. while stating that he is favorable toward tic workers. has said that there are only two ways to meet our dcmanos-a congressional appropriation or increased freight rates.
 More and more it appears to be that complete tieup of the roads is to be the outcoSte'
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
TRAINED SOLDIERS ARE
 TO POLICE PRUSSIA

Coblenz, Friday. Aug. 1.-CBy Cour- fer to Paris-By The A. P.) The Prus- sian government. according to AmeFi- can reports. is planning the organiza- force" to consist of from 1OO.o6o 10 ,0OO trained soldiers. solely as a force to suppress disorder. It is plan ned to arm this force with the latest type of military weapons and to put the men in garrisons throughout Ger many. t--
 The promoters of this plan. it ts said have expressed tho hope that tho allies will not object. This military police force is proposed as an organ ization distinct from the army of oOO,- 900 men authorized by the peace trea- ty. the existing civil police and the great force of Home Guards planned by Gustav Noske. minister of defence
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
USED MACHINE GUNS TO
 QUELL RIOTS IN ZURICH

Geneva, Saturday, Aug. ? (By the A. P).-Troops sent by the government to quell riots at Basic and Zurich were forced to use machine guns mounted on automobiles during the disorders yesterday. The strikers at Basic rip ped up the pavements and bombarded the troops, injuring many. A number of strikers were killed and wounded and many were arrested.
 At Basic the outbreak was said to be of a Bolshevisk character. while at Zurich the disorders were attributed to the increa sing cost of living.
 Newspapers have ceased publication and tramways have discontinued run ring at BasIe- Operation of the gas md electric services are threatened. The ringleaders of the strike are re- ported to be youths IS and 20 years i'd. The military are guarding all banks and factories.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
PENNSYLVANIA CIGARMAkERS
 TO DEMAND HIGHER WAGES

Reading Pa. Aug. 3.-At a meeting of representatives of union cigar makers over all southern. central and eastern Pennsylvania here today, the demands of the union cigarmakers and packers for higher wages were ap- proved. The conference authorized demands for 50 per cent. increase in pay, a 44-hour week and better work ing conditions to be presented at once in writing to the manufacturers sub- ject to immediate acceptance with the alternative of a general strike. J. P. Keenan of Lancaster. president of the Blue Label league presided, and An drew P. Bower. Reading. secretary, will issue the notice to the employers.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
PROVIDENCE CARMEN VOTE
 CONFIDENCE IN OFFICIALS s

Providence, R. l.. Aug. 3.-Nearly 2 GOO members of the striking street carmen's union. in mass meeting this afternoon. voted confidence in their officials and sa tisfaction with the way that the strike on the Rhode Island company's system is being conducted.
 Ten speakers, most of whom are prominent labor leaders, addressed the strikers and urged them to stand to- esether until their full demands. 50 cents an hour and an eight hour day, are granted The general situation tonight remained unchanged. no at tempt being made as yet to operate the cars
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
QUAKE NOT RECORDED AT
 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

Washington. Aug. 3.-The double earthquake shock. which a despatch today from the battleship New Mex ico said severely shook the six dread noughts of the Pacific fleet late Sat urday off the Mexican coast. was not recorded by the seiSmo graph at Georgetown University.
 The shock. Director Tondorf of the seismological observatory said un doubtedly was due to tidal wave which may have had it's origin in vol canic action of some kind the bed of the Pacific ocean, heavy wind or a minor earth treInor in the vicinity of the battleships
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
TscHAIRovsKY TO CONFER WITH BRITISH OFFICIALS s

London, Aug. 3.-Nicholas Tschai- koysky, president of the North Rus sian provisional government. arrived here today to confer with British of ficials in an effort to induce the gov ernment 70 announce q definite poIi1y 'u rCr:r Lssla. He $ H- ;na ;"C lack of a t'7.dr rLt allied, po'tcy is -af-' fecting the nlorele of the lo:th Rus sian poDu ati..a. and tro JPs and Itir- venting; r pIUi' ing.
 Wha. h6 inost desires M. Tschal- koVsky ~;fid i.S .rccossGf -i.'i nf the Archarsel govern ment by one or more of the ltiics-
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04

When the first tremor of the ship was felt those below hurried on deck. The faces of some of the recruits showed alarm, as the men at quarters awaiting orders. while the flagship rolled and pitched in the heavy ground swells that followed the shocks.
 Admiral Rodman kept the crew at quarters for fifteen minutes and then ordered the secure signaP' to be sounded. He took the whole incident as if 1t were a matter of routine, giv- ing his orders quietly on the quarter deck while officers and men were run ming to their posts in the tense ex- citement of the first few moments
 One of the officers reported that he believed the earthquake came from an old crater in the Sierra Mountains which fringe the coast line near here, dropping off into the sea.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
lNTER-ALLIED MILITARY
 COMMISSION AT WORK

Rome, Saturday. Aug. 2.-The re- port that the inter-all military commission arrived at decision hos tile to Italy was denied today by the Popolo Romano. In the Plume ques- tion, the newspaper said. the com mission has not yet finished it's work and it's conclusions will be presented to the supreme inter allied council at Paris for a definite decision.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04
MAN KILLED WHEN HIS
 AUTOMOBILE STRUCK TREE

Westport, Conn. Aug. 3.-The body of Horace Hurlbutt.. Jr.. g. son of Horace Hurlbutt. a wealthy resident of this town. was found the main highway here early today by a. milk man. Near by was Hurlbutt's auto mobile, wrecked against a tree. It is believed the bursting of a tire caused the accident.
 Hurlbutt recently returned from France. where he. drove a war ambu- lance for two years without receiving any serious injuries.