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Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
HoWAT REFUSES TO ABIDE
 BY INSTRUCTIONS FRO LEWIS

Pittsburgh, Kas.. Aug. 4.-Alexander M Howat(. president of the Kansas Mine Workers Union. tonight sent a telegram to John L. Lewis, president of the International Union, refusing to abide by instructions received from Lewis to return to work immediately.
 In the reply Howat said:
 "The cowardly insinuation you have made that I have called the miners on strike at this time is without the least senblance of truth. Had you stood as firmly in defense of the mine workers of the country last winter when they were making such a noble fight to obtain jus tice at the hands of the coal corpora tions as you are standing in defense of the operators at this time there would have been no occasion for the Illinois and Indiana mine workers to cease work to secure another increase in wages
 You speak of demagogues. l know no man who is more of a demagogue than yourself. If you were as much con- cerned about the welfare of the miners as you appear to be about the coal op- orators the condition of the mine work CTS of the country would be a great deal better than they are today.
 Your action in sending a committee of the international executive board here, and your statement that you will take charge of the district and depose me from office, shall not influence me in the least"
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
TRUE BILLS AGAINST fl
 LEADERS OF RAIROAD STRIKE

Chicago, Aug 4.-True bills against forty-one leaders in the recent strike of rail employees, understood to have been voted by a federal grand jury, were held in abeyance today by Judge Samuel Alschuler while the jury began an in newspaper were able to publish accounts of the indictments two hours before they were reported to the judge.
 Judge Alschuler characterized the un- known person who gave out news of the indictments as an anarchist and declar- ed every legal step would be taken to punish him.
 Reporters will be subpoenaed, he said. The judge instructed the jury to find out ed each one individually if he had been responsible for the leak'
 Meantime John Grunau, president Of the Chicago Yardmens Association, which was formed by railroad men who quit work with the announcement that they were taking a vacation until granted higher pay" and other said to have been indicted prepared for court action.
 MT. Grunau and others expressed surprise at the alleged indictments and indicated the yardmen's association might take concerted action. Counsel was employed by many of the men nam ed.
 MT. Grunau pointed out that he and several other members of the yard mems association were arrested some time ago in connection with the recent sporadic rail strikes but said the fact that their case had twice been postpon- ed, the last time indefinitely, had led them to believe federal officials were satisfied they had in no way violated the law
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS FAVOR
 BEER AND LIGHT WINES

Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Aug. 4.-The ticket of state officers determined upon by party leaders was, with one exception, the only slate rsuggested" for the guid- ance of the electors at the final session of the unofficial democratic state convention here today.
 Delegations from three of the counties in the Adirondack region, Clinton, Essex and Franklin, notified the convention that if former Lieutenant Governor Thomas F. Conway of Plattsburgh should decide to enter the primaries for the nomination of United States senator he would receive their undivided support. It was explain ed by the Clinton county spokesman that Mir. Conway had the matter under con- sideration but had not reached a decision.
 While the convention did not actually designate or recommend any candidate for any position, the eladers' ticket was placed before the convention, place by place, and no other candidate was sug- gested for the consideration of the dele gates with the single exception of MT, Conway.
 The proceedings were unusually har- monious. The only serious objection to the program prepared by the leaders of Tammany Hall and the upstate organiza- tion came from Mayor George R. Lunn of Schenectady, an aNowedz candidate for the nomination for United States senator, who left the convention before it had finished it's business today. Undaunted by his crushing defeat of last night, when the convention by a vote of 434 to 16 bowled over his motion that no suggestion of can didates be permitted, the Schenectady ex- ecutive returned to the fray with renew ed vigor this afternoon and battled val iantly but Va lnly for the elimination from the platform of a plank declaring for a modification of the Volstead prohibition enforcement act that would define intoxi- eating beverages in such manner as to permit the traffic in beer of PTS per cent alcoholic content. Again he met defeat, the vote being 406 to 34 against his pro- noSa1
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
MILFORD WOMAN AMONG
 THOSE RELEASED FROM ADANA

New York. Aug 4.-Seventeen Ameri- cau men and women workers or the Near SEast Relief and one English women who have been virtual prisoners in the l.-sieged CiIlclan city of Adana for over tvso months have been relieved by the French. according to q cable despatch received here today from Larnaka, Cy- frt1s. by the Near East Relief
 On July T.. Adana wa reported on the verge Of famine and Dr. Edward Mills Dodd Of Montclair. N j.. Near East relief worker left the city by aeroplane 10 send the news Of the desperate sit nation of the Americans and their Ar r1leniaa charges Previous messages giv- Ing accounts Of local conditions had fail d 10 reach the outside world.
 Among the Americans who have been bes5eEed in Adaua are; Miss Nan Olive Lowe, Avis, Pa: Dr. and Mrs. Edward NILS Dodd of Montclair. N j.: Rev. and Mrs W E. Rambo, West Philadel- mia. Pa Miss Clara L. BisseIl. Milford. Conn Miss Margaret Owens, Pittsburgh, Pa, and Byron Moons. Haworth, \.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
REPORTS REACH PARIS POLISH
 ARMY HAS GONE TO PIECES

Paris. Aug. 4.-(By The A. P.-The bolshevik forces apparently have scored a great military victory over the Poles who are reported to have been forced to abandon the BuG River line and possibly will be compelled to relinquish War saw.
 According to the latest reports reach ing Paris, the Polish army, for the time being at least, has gone to pieces and the bolsheviki columns, advancing in Echelon in accordance with approved German technique. are envelopng War saw simultaneously from the north and the east
 The Bug River line, Poland's Marne has gone almost without a fight, con- polling the Poles to make rapid re- treat and shorten their front. which some of the military experts believe will be likely to bring the Poles onto the Wis .tula and San rivers and involve the abandonment of half the country to the invaders.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
COL. HUNT EXONERATED
 OF NEGLECT OF DUTY CHARGE

New York, Aug. 4.-Colonel John E. Hunt, former commander of the Fort Jay military prison, has been acquitted of a charge of neglect of duty in con- nection with the escape of Grover c. BA-gdoll, wealthy Philadelphia draft dodger it was announced late tolay
 Colonel Hunt was fully exoINated of blame in the approval of the courts &C., quittal by Major General Bullard, commanding the department of the east.
 The specific charge against Colonel Hunt was that he had not provided sui ficient guards for Bergdoll who eluded two sergeants of nearly twenty years experience when he escaped from his Philadelphia home May 20. He was out of prison on special permission from the war department. ostensibly to recover a large sum of gold he said he previously had cached in the hills near Hag9rs- town, Md.
 No handcuffs were used on Bergdoll in his trip to Philadelphia and Hagers- town, because Colonel Hunt had receiv- ed orders that Bergdolrs mission was ''confidential," the colonel snid. Hand- cuffs would have made fn q his par ty conspicuous, he added.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05

teen months of scant diet in Russian hospitals, Corporal Prince has entered for two weeks stay the quarantine camp on the Finnish frontier in ac- cOdgfance with the regulations imposed upm all persons leaving Russia,
 Seventeen months ago while leading a pafrol through frozen north Russia 250 versts southeast of Archangel over a snowshoe trail four feet deep in snow, eight American were a1lbuscaded by the bolsheviki Prince was hit in the knee and his leg was broken at the hip while another bullet struck him iu the side as he was crawling to- ward the American line. The corp oral was captured and placed on Sleigh which started on a 250 versts trip, requiring five days in ero weather, to kotlas without knowledge of the people who had made him prisoner or their language K, Americans knew of his presence in Russia until more than a year later, when Prince recov- cred sufficiently to go to the bolshevik foreign office and ask how to get home. When the American in Moscow learned of his presence they cared for him un- til permission was received for him to take the refugee train to the border.
 In middle Russia, Prince underwent seven months of intense suffering and
 
 attempts of the Russian surgeons to treat his broken leg, the tendons of which had become taut as a result of improper attention on the long journey from the front
 On September 28 last Prince was discharged from hospital and sent as a prisoner to concentration camp. Here after ten lays his wounds sup purated afresh, necessitating his aagin going into a hospital. There he re- mained for a month when he was transferred to Moscow.
 At Moscow Prince says he experience ed the worst suffering of his entire A " in Russia. The hospital was he..ed only two hours daily in the November weather; there were untrained nurses and only few doctors in the hospital and also a shortage of medicine. The food conditions were bad. Through the friendship of an English Jew bol- shevik soldier who had been wounded while fighting on the southern front, Prince learned of an international hos pital maintained by Hungarians in better
 Permission was obtained for his trans fer to this hospital, but in three weeks the hopital authorities had not been able to furnish transportation for him across the city of Moscow. Finally the Englishman, whose wounds did not prevent him from walking, went to the hospital officials and told them that he had a revolver and five bullets in it. and that he would kill four Russians and then himself unless conveyance was obtained for himself and Prince. The transportation was secured.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
PRESIDENT CoAIMENDs
 PROMPT ACTION OF MINERS

Indianapolis. Ind, Aug. 4-President Wilson has expressed to John L. Lewis president of the United Mine Workers of America, his qualification over the prompt action taken by Mr Lewis in directing the striking coal miners of Illinois and Indiana. to return to work. Lewis received a letter from President Wilson today saying:
 Your action in response to my statement urging the striking miners to return to work has gratified me very deeply indeed. It is the action of a pa triotic citizen and a man of vision and prescience"
 Today President Lewis sent telegrams to thirty local unions in Kansas order ing the striking miners there to return to work. According to MT. Lewis S,4SS miners are on strike in the Kansas field
 MT. Lewis also sent q telegram to Alexander Howat sharply taking him to task for fostering the trouble in the Kansas field. In his n6 ssage Lewis de- clared the president of the Kansas min CT he'd made no attempt to settle the strike.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
K. OF C. RECOGNIZE RIGHT
 OF IRELAND TO FREEDOM

New York, Aug. 4.-The Knights of Columbus, in annual convention here, adopted resolutions today stating they be- lieve that Ireland has the right and ough ito be free and independent ma tion." The resolutions were adopted a short time prior to the receipt of letter from Eamonn De Valera, president of the Irish republic" appealing for the or der's support in an effort to gain official recognition by the United States of the republic of Ireland"
 De Valera said in his letter that private despatches he has received show that throughout the greater part of Ireland, British rule now is little more than a system of licensing the shooting up of peaceful towns and villages and the mur- der of unarmed Irish citizens by rowing bands of irresponsible British military marauders." He said it was hard to be- lieve that America that had to endure similar conditions in it searly struggles a sa republic "can continue to give coun- tenance to this British terror in Ireland"
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05

Washington. Aug. 4-(By The A. P.) Five destroyers are patrolling the en- trance to the Miami. Florida, harbor un- der orders from President Wilson to prevent, by force if necessary. the land ing Of a cable the Western Union Tele- graph Company is having laid from Bar 6ados. a British possession in the West Indies.
 A British cable ship, the Colonia. has been chartered by the Western Union company to land the American end of the cable which would connect with a British cable line from the Barbados to South America. At the state depart ment it was stated today that the Brit ish embassy had been asked to inform the master of the shin that such land- ing would be in violation of American law. Officials explained that there was no significance in the fact that the vessel was British that she probably was the only cable craft available to the Aneri- can conpany when she was chartered.
 Work on the cable line from Barba- dos was begun last summer Some time ago the Western Union connoany applied to the state de2artment for an execu- tive permit to land the wire at Miami, but officials said action on it had been delayed pending the holding of the in ternational communications congress call ed to meet in Washington September l5-
 4 British cable company. it was ex- plained. now has 2 monopoly Of cable rights in Brazilian waters. An American concern desires to construct direct gable line from the United States to Brazil and il was stated that the Ameri- szn government desired to know before Issuing the permit to the Western Union company whether the arrangement enter d into by that company with the Brit Eh concern, the Western Cable Company, controlling the line from Barbados. to Brazil would add to this monopoly.
 There were reports today that after the Western Union company filed its application for 9 permit the state de-
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
FREE SPEECH POLITICAL
 ISSUE OF ORGANIZED LABOR

Atlantic City. \. J., Aug. 4-orgen- led labor has decided to make the right nf free speech and assembly for union labor organizers in the steel manutac- turing territories of Pennsylvania, ono and Indiana. 9 political issue in every conxressionaI district affected during tl,a campaizn this fall
 This movement will be in the nature of a prelude 10 campaign to extend ,Tnion activities throughout the large Etcei-ufzETng centers Of the country II was announced at the close of ses- sion of the executive council or the American Federation of Labor here today.
 T. was said that the question or free Epeech and right of assembly prooaolS would be liut squarely up to the presl> S5entizl -lou1irees ss well as the con rressionsl csndidatss in all steel-mak- snr states and that both Senator Hard, ing and Governor Cox would 3e calleu mon to declares themselves tranh Morrison. secretary of the federation declared there was no possibility Of -rsat steel strike coincident with the movement. T should not say that strike is contemplated" said Mir. Mor- -fson. Tt would be better to say that nore thorough organization is the oo- objective
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
SENSATIONAL SMASH IN
 PRICES IN WHEAT MARKET

Chicago, Aug. 4.-Excited general selling brought about a sensational smash in wheat prices today. The mar l1et opened 8 to 13 cents lower with December $2.26 to $2.21 and March $2-- 2I. Most of the selling was said to come from country holders anxious to turn their wheat into cash. In few minutes the market rebounded as much as II cents in some cases.
 For the first time since trading in fu- lures was resumed, the pit was filled with traders. Business was on big scale The rush to sell appeared based largely on unfavorable financial reports, especially from the southwest.
 There had been severe fresh break in sterling exchange, and contrary to expectations the British royal comnlis sion was said to be still absent from the export market.
 Assertions that domestic millers were active buyers helped to strengthen the market later. So did reports of Ca nadian crop damage Dispatches telling Of increased gravity of the European diplomatic and military outlook were also influential toward a reversal Of sentiment. The market closed nervous at about yesterdayl's finish, 1-2c net lower to 1c advance with December S2.29 s2.30 and March s2.32.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
PoNZIE OFFERS TO SHOW ASSETS
 COVERING HIS LIABILITIES

Boston, Aua 4-CharleS Ponzi, whose offer of 50 per cent. on invest ments in ninety days, has reusulted in federal and state investigations, de- clined today the suggestion of Attorney General Allen, that the state conduct an Investigation to determine his assets. The audit now being made by federal authorities is for the purpose of disclos- ing his liabilities.
 There is no law which can force me to show all my assets" Ponzi assert ed. Show me my liabilities and I'll show enough cash to cover them"
 The offices of the Securities Exchange Company, conducted by Ponzi, continued throughout the day to honor all notes presented by an ever-diminishing line of investors. At the end of the eighth day the run on Ponzi, caused by in vestigations and published criticisms of his business methods appeared to have reached the end
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
Commuters Must Pay l 20 Per Cent Advance
At Same Time as Other Rates Are Increased-New Haven Road Preparing New Rate Schedules.

New York, Aug. 4-Schedules for in creased passenger rates to become ef- fective August 26 are being prepared by the New York Central and New Hav- en railroad systems it was announced today. Communication tickets, used by thousands of suburbanites will ad- vance 20 per cent. in price at the sai4-l time other rates are increased, al though it will not be necessary to use these communication tickets until Sep tember 1.
 Rate schedules will be filed with the public service commissioners of the vari- ous states for approval as the authori- zation for increases granted by the In- terstate Commerce Commission does not directly apply to intrastate business.
 Other railroads operating in this state are also expected to file schedules to be- come effective August 26.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05

Washington. Aug 4.-Armistice con- dltions will be submitted to Poland by the soviet regime only to forward the good of the bolshevik campaign ac- cording to an order said to have been issued July 29 by the soviet military staff on the northwestern front, inter- cepted by Polish agents and forwarded today to the Polish legation here
 Addressed to Comrade kranklis commissioner of the Twelfth Army, the order was signed by Skalin, member of the revolutionary committee of the so- viet front, northwest, and read as fol- lows:
 We shall put forward the armistice conditions to Poland only to forward our good. Until formal order is is sued by the military staff, you can fight the Poles. Pay no attention to the obligatory conditions of the armistice.''
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
LAYING CABLE WITHOUT
 APPROVAL OF UNITED STATES

Miami. Fla, Aug. -4.-While United States destroyers lay off this port today under orders to prevent the British ca ble layer Colonia from landing on Amer ican territory. the Barbados-l Miami ca ble, instructions from the British em- bassy at Washington were recelVeo Dy British Vice Consul Hubbard to direct the captain of the Colonia upon her ar rival to disregard his orders from the Western Union Telegraph Company as to the landing of the cable.
 The Colonia is expected to arrive here from Newport News tomorrow and or ders issued to her captain are under stood to direct the beginning of work al once on landing the cable. working at first beyond the three mile territorial linn it.
 The Colonia is said here to be carrying also equipment for submarine tele phone cable to be laid between key west and Havana This project. 1t IS stat ed here, also has not received the ap- proval of the United States government
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
SPEED RECORD MADE
 BY NAVAL TANK STEAMER

Rockland. Maine, Aug. 4.-what nav al men said was a new speed record for naval vessels of the tanker or collier type was made today when the naval tank steamer Braozs, carry a full car 20 of fuel oil, covered a mile at the rate of 14.66 knots an hour in her standard iztaion trial on the Rockland course.
 The average of her five top speed runs was 1432 knots.
 The steamers displacement was 14,- 800 tons, the maximum horsepower de- veloped was 500 and the maximum number of TEopellor revolutions was. 9914 a minute.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
AMERICANS REQUESTED
 TO LEACE WARSAW

Warsaw, Aug. 3.-(By The A, P.)-Al Americans, except officials and welfare workers have been requested by the American legation to leave Warsaw or Wednesday night The legation has se- cured accommodations for them on trains leaving at that time for Danzig. It is expected that about one hundred persons will leave.
 Transportation is also being arrang- ed for several hundred emigrants who have relatives in America. Most of these are women and children who have had their Polish passports vised during the last few days.
 All British women and children not having urgent businesss in Warsaw are urged by the British legation to leave immediately. Several cars secured for their use have already departed
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
GREATER PRODUCTION OF SUGAR
 FROM SUGAR BEETs THIS YEAR

Washington, Aug. 4.-Sugar produc- tion from sugar beets this year is fore cast at FOOT, ,OoO,OOo pounds by the de- partment of agriculture passing it's esti- mate on the condition of the crop July 1. It will be a record crop. Last year 1453 ,0o0, 900 pounds were produced from sugar beets and the average production for the five years, 1914-1S, was 1,577,- 200, 900 pounds.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05

partment requested that copy of the contract with the British cable concern also be filed and that the company had refused to comply. N oin formation as to this was obtainable at the department
 The orders from the president which resulted in the destroyers being as signed to patrol the three mile limit OH Miami were issued. it was said. after re- ports had reached the government that the company planned to complete con nection of the line. Secretary Daniels was advised of the orders upon his re- turn from Alaska. In announcing to- day that the five destroyers had been assigned to the patrol duty, he said that the instructions from the president were to use any means to prevent the landing of the cable.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
RULING ON RETURN TICKETS
 AND MILEAGE BOOKS

Washington, Aug. 4.-Rnturn tickets and mileage books bought before the higher fares allowed railroads last Sat urday become effective will not be valid when the new schedules go into effect, it was said today at the Interstate Com merce Commission.
 How the commission will handle the problem of tickets purchased before the new fares are made operative for use after their effective date is now being worked out it was said
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-05
rHARGE L W. ". IN CONTROL
 OF FARMER-LABOR PARTY

Salt Lake City. Utah. Aug. 1.-Two leaders in Utah activities of the Farm er-I.abor party tonight made public a joint letter of resignation to George Crosby, state chairman of the party, charging Industrial Workers of the world were in control of the party They were H. A McCollem, state vice rhafrulan, and Charles A. Weaver, as sistant secretary of the state organi- pffon