Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-26

Representative Samuel H. Davis of
 Westerly has made a direct move to
 eliminate the discrimination. ameElg
 members of the Fifth company, West
 erly, E. l. N. G.. in connection with the proposed bonus act, so that the mem
 cluding the commissioned officers, 1 would receive like treatment as the mem bers who resided in Westerly. The ! Fifth company was a Rhode Island organiza ton, wask mustered, into the regular service as such, and every mer1her ought to receive like recogni- tion from the state they represented in the world war. MT. Davis presented a resolution Interpreting certain pro visions of the soldiers bonus act, to determine who shall be entitled to the 1 bonus, and the resolution was sent to the finance c 3Innlittee having the orig inal bill under consideration.
 The i,solution provides that service of any person for six months in the
 Rhode Island guard immediately pre- ViouS to April $, 1917, the date of the United States entrance into the war, shali be equivalent to six months resi-
 dclrre in the state as required by the
 nullte act. That will help some. but
 wji not include several PaWcatllck yt une men who enlisted in what they
 considered their home company just
 after war was declared. It so hap pened that some of these were among
 the very first to volunteer for foreign service were in many. engagements, and credited to the military force of
 Rhode Island.
 When the bonus act was passed Mr.
 Davis stated that s nearly half the
 membership of the Fifth coinpany,
 Westerly. lived over the liver in Paw
 catuclz. Connecticut, would be barred
 from the bonus.
 Joseph B.. Morse. 20 overseer- of the twisting department at the Westerly Textile mill. who was electrocuted while at work Friday night. as told in The Bulletin Saturday, was one of the most industrious capable and popular of the employees at the plant, according
 to an officer of the mill company. MT.
 Morse discovered a motor out of order and went into the basement and turn ed off the electric current so that he could work with safety in making re- pairs. He was at work with a hammer in one hand and serewdriver in the other and remarked to an associate worlIman: Suppose the juice were turned on now; it would benny finish" The words had been hardly uttered when he received the fatal shock of $50 colts, more than his weakened condition could withstand. It had been i the custom of young Morse to take someone with him when he turned off the main electric switch to his depart ment, leaving a guard to see that 1t was no turned on He did not happen to take this precaution Friday night. The night Watchman, Albert Thomp- son, entered the basement to look over 1 the boilers, and in order to see to reg
 ulate the fires threw the switch. Tn
 an instant the voltage reached young l Morse, and the result was fatal It was of common occurrence for the
 watchman to find the switch closed,
 by req son of low pressure, and he in variably turned it on as a matter of l acconmo odation to the operatives. MT. | Thompson was completely overcome after the fatality.
 1 MT. Morse is survived by his wife, | who was Miss Gladys Ros, about the 1 same age of her husband, and there ] town of Westerly. The young wife i frequently met the young husband as
 he came from the mill and they went
 merrily to their home on Spruce street, | their united hopes and aspirations be- 1 ing evident. They had planned to own
 a cozy home all their own. and the 1 loving pair went together weekly and
 deposited a specified amount in bank l with that end in view. The sudden 1 death was a severe blow to the young wife and she has the heartfelt sym pathys of many friends.
 Their home was in the upper tene- rnent of the house in Spruce street, the I lower part being occupied by MT. 1 Morse's aunt. Mrs. Hamton Carr, and
 his grandmother. Mr. Morse's mother, 1 Mrs DanieI Hunter, arrived in West5 erly Saturday from her home in Kit l tery, Me. His stepfather was a ser 1 geanti in the marine corps and was
 killed in action in France and his
 name is on Westerly's roll of honor.
 The twelve Rhode Island posts of 1 Veterans of Foreign Wars comprising g
 a state central committee, were repre-
 sented at a meeting in Providence Fri 1 day night. A resolution was adopted l declaring that the elimination of the