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Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-24
GERMANS AND POLES
 IN ARTILLERY BATH. F

Berlin, May 23.-(By The A. P)-Over crippled telegraph and telephone wires come reports from Oppeln that the Ger mans and Poles are tnyag ged in l5.+yy artillery and machine gun ftciag al a.Gng the Oder, especially iu ne vicinity of krappitZ. Both sides ar9 entrenclipg and the people n several of the towns are panic stricken.
 While the general rep0rts fror upp 7r SilesiA indicate a considerable reiafo-ce- ment of both insu gent and I+rman si ,es. a mcnacing food .nottase ir the rebe Ii- ous area and an exta rs!un and intensi- flying of the conflicts, the German gov ernment in a note to the TFelca ambas- sador on May 19. made pubic today, denied all responsibility for the dls- turbances and declines U comply with the French request to forward r,cney necessary to forestaI possible chaotic conditions.
 It declared that tIa Polish border nss been wide open. In evidence of which a band of 300 Poles crcss ed near Posen- berg on May 20 and attacked the Ge. mans at Kostau.
 In conclusion tre German nota points out that Germany cannot be responsible for situation over which the al.es as- stunned complete control and that if ne Gerhais have armed themseiv4s wirl rifles, machine guns ln1 artillery as the French note asserts. that IS . q1es- ton with which the forces of uccupAtic1 must deal.
 Germany, however, prorn:sas to e1er else great vigilance !n or1er 70 prey en' volunteers from crossing the German frontier. and says that to tn $ end tht police force on the German SilesIan tor der will be materially .ncrelsal.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-24
CRAIG's ADVICE ON EVE
 OF ELECTIONS IN ULSTER

Belfast, May 25.-CBy The A. P)- Sir James Craig's last word to the unionists on the eve of the Ulster cleo tions-'F1y the Union Jack"-has been complied with to the full in Belfast to- night. Not only did every unionist house display the British flag. but along Shankhill road and it's by streets the housefronts, sidewalks and lamposts were painted red, white and blue
 Donegal road, another unionist strong hold, was brilliant with British colors. as was also Ballymacarrett. which until the riots of July last. was about equally divided in it's political sentiments. but. with the removal of the nationalis.s from that district has DecJT= as strongly unionist as Shankhi,l and Donegal. Falls road, JoseT'h Devlin's stronghold. and other nationalists and Snn Fein quarters were practically barren fl bunt- ing. Their people regard the election a huge joke and the Ulster parliament as something that can never successfully operate.
 Voting will begin at eight o'clock ic- morrow morning. continuing il mos. i,s- tricts for twelve hours. but in some of the favored ones until nine o'clock at night Therefore. the curfew has been extended half an-hour urtii II o'clock. but pro- clamations issued tonight warn the peo' pie that they must be indoors by that hour
 The sohIers and po'ica are keep Ing order in Belfast bat a 'aree so-c' of 'black and tans" win assist she itr ulars All fairs and7msrkets arranged for tomorrow have been postponed.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-24
SPECTACULAR FIRE DESTROYS
 OLD FRIGATE. GRANITE sTATk


 :. New York, May 23.-The New York naval training ship Granite State, once the pride Of the American navy, today was burned ito y.the waters edge in a spectacular, fire in which sailors dived through portholes after flooding the magazine.
 The. old wooden trigate for years had lain in the Hudson river. moored at Riverside Drive and 97th street a few feet from the landing at which Presi- dent Harding today came ashore from the Mayofwer
 Seaihen on the presidential yacht saw the Granite State suddenly enveloped in flames. Bremen, later concluded that a break In nj oil pipe line running under the river had coated the water with a thick film and that a motorboat, back firing had set the oil .sbIaze.
 Soon the flames spread to the dock nearby and the state nautical school training ship Newport moored along side. The Newport was hastily towed ! into midstream.S -..
 Sailors aboard the Granite State sought to fight the blaze; but the oil-fed 1 flames ate into the sides of the old frig- ate land soon she listed hard to port Al ter H flooding the magazine, the men aboard her jumped for safety, many be | ing forced to worm their way through portholes. In a. few seconds the water was dotted with sailor lads, all of whom were hauled safely ashore.
 Then firenlen. reinforced by volunteers from the hundreds of seamen enjoying shore leave from destroyers anchored offshore, leaped into the old training shir in 8 vain effort to save her. They had a narrow escape when the chains that held her to her dock snapped and sh, rolled over on her side.
 The Granite State, formerly the U s. s. New Hampshire, had a service rec ord extending back more than 10e years. Her keel. laid in Kittery. Me. she was commissioned in 1878 in thu presence of James Monroe fifth presi dent of the United States, and saw varied duty until today when she was viewed for the last time by the country's 29tl chief executive. Warren G. Harding.
 She was on the battle line during tn Civil war, but when she was replaced b! the steel fighting craft that now bear her former name, she reverted to, train ing purposes, eventually passing iron federal to state control. Twice she re turned briefly to federal service-onc during the Spanish war and again dnr ing the world conflict. when she wa used as 8 receiving ship.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-24
DECLINE TO CHARGE MRS.
 BERGDOLL WITH CONTEMPT

Washington. May 25.-Mrs. Emma C Beredol, mother of Grover Cleveland BergdolI. the stacker. again went to the bat todag with the house committee in- Vestigatlng hIs escape.
 Al the end of a two-hour cross ex- sm.nation, Mrs. BerguOii came up sml- Ing, for the committee refused 10 senc her before the bar Of the house of rep .resentatives for not answering questions bearing on her buried gold. There were times when the witness rising from her chair and siamming the floor with parasol sharply denounced the inquiry as another Of a long series of persecu- tlon:.
 It was while Representative Johnson, republican, Kentucky, had the witness in hand that the clash occurred, which caused hIm 10 offer a motion charging her with contempt The committee. how ever, thought best to decide this question in executive session, and ten minutes la ter the uoors were opened and Mrs. lSergdoll was told that she might return tO -Philadeipfia-
 While making no attempt. as he ex- plained 10 find where the woman had buried S105. .ODe obtained from the treas ury in 1919. Mir. Johnson drew from her the statement that it was on the Berg doll farm. out on the Westchester pike | leaGlnG lnlo InlaurlpuAa- -hES- per doll declared that all of it was placed in one hole. that nobody knew where. and that if she died. it never would be found. Representative Luhring. republican, Indiana. wanted to know if she would dig 1t up and let the committee have a | look.
 No. I won't" she exclaimed. nor my children either I would not put thai temptation in your way" l T don't believe you have it buried, Mir. Luhring shouted.
 "Ha, ha." Mrs. BerEdoll replied, and the crowd roared.
 Asked how Grover had been named for President Cleveland. Mrs. BergdcI shouted:
 He has got as good chance as any body in this room of becoming presi- dent"
 The hearings will end tomorrow.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-24
SHIT OWNERS AND MARINE
 WORKERS HOPELEssLY APAB1

New York, May 25.-Eforts of Bert L. Todd, business manager of local 80, Marine Engineers Beneficial association to have his organization accept propos- als of federal nediatoPs designed to end the nationwide strike were repudiated at a meeting of his local today. The same proposals were rejected at a general meeting of the engineers yesterday.
 No statement was issued regarding to- days action, but newspapermen were giv- en to understand that the men stoou pat on their expressed determination to accep no settlement embodying a wage cut
 The officers and memh CTS of local so, Marine Engineers Beneficial association will fight to the last ditch aEinst any reduction in wages, Bert L. Todd. busi- ness manager of the local. said tonight MT. Todd made this assertion when in- formed the ship owners had declined the federal officers for a settlement Of the strike.
 Representatives of the owners and the unions were again invited today to meet with Secretary Davis tomorrow in Wash ington The invitation it was said, was accepted by representatives off the strike committee, who added that Nauona President William s. Brown, now ir Washington, was authorized to act fol them. Mir. Martin, for the owners. de clined to state, after the meeting of thu executive and wage committee. whether the operators would be represented.
 No change was apparent today in thu local situation The United States Mai Steamship company announced that tn pssenger liner, Panhandle State, danas ed bv fire last Thursday night. would sal OH her sched led voyage to London oi | Thursday afternoon.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-24
AIMEpA BASE STRICKEN
 FROM NAVAL PROGRAM

Washington. May 35.->Another suo- cessful attack by economy forces Tn the senate. against the {4e5, ,ee0,0oo naval ap- propriation bill resulted today. in detea' of the naval committees plan to estao- fish a Pacific coast base at Alameda. Cal By vote of thirty to forty, the item was stricken from the bill. |! ; r Advocates of reduction ir. naval ex- penditures then launched a drive 10 re- duee the navy enlisted personnel rom s12O. 900 as recommended by she senate committee, to 100000 men, as voted by the house. A vote on this question went over until tomorrow, but with predictions of A closer result than that on the Ala meda base appropriation.
 In the vote on the Alameda provision eighteen republicans joined with twenty two democrats in opposition.
 In the opening fight on the enlisted per sonnel. Senators La Toilette and Lenroot
 republicans, Wisconsin, urged economy
 in naval appropriations. The former. ir an address charger that corrupt inhu ences were s-orking for large appropria tions for profits on government armol plate and armor contracts. He charged
 existence of an. "armor ring" and in thi connection named the Bethlehem. Mid | vale and Carnegie steel companies H also criticised the navy league and th' | National Security league for their activ | ities in behalf of armaments.
 Urging reduction of the bill to th 1 100, 900 personnel voted by, the house
 Senator Lenroot said there was no possi bility 0 fwar with any great power | | the next five years. For this reason. ,h said. "a larger personnel was not needed
 t6 man ships which would be "junked | l. lA-
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-24
GERMAN NOTE TO FRANCE
 ABOUT UPPER sILEsI4

Paris. Nav s5-CBy the A P.)!4 German government note delivered to the French foreign office today says the German government has no influence or ihe se,f-protection taken by the popuia- tion of the upper Silesian territory which is under administration by the inter-sl- lied commission. The note adds thai inc commission is solely responsible for the maintenance Of law and order in up- per Siles!a.
 The German communication was in re- plv 10 the French note delivered in Fer in on May 1s, asking Germany to close the frontier between Germany and the plebiscite territory. as Poland had done- The German government in its reepiy says it has taken measures to prevent inc entrance of German irregular troops into the plebiscite area but that lt car not interfere with the measures ot sell protection taken by the popu'anon' un- protected by the French troops are in a state of legitimate self-oefense.
 The establishment of law and oroH in upper. Silesia. the note says s not question Of the resumption or work ou' mat .he instruction has a political char acter tending to impose Polish rue u2 on the upper Silesian population D. VI oience and in violation of all disPosiuon' of inc peace treaty and justice The note concludes that the Germs ah
 government has not lost hope or scent inc efforts Of the inter-allied co1lInlss,on | find a means to restore regular and ieSit,' mate authority in upper snesi~ ana l free the population from inc YoAe o'
 the Polish insurgents.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-24

tion, Chairman Good. of the appropris, tions committee. who opposed the Vol stead amendment said MT Kramer had violated penal provisions of law by in curing a deficit and had made him self liable to jail sentence
 'I want Mir. Kramer to obey the law just much as bootleggers," he de- clared. adding that s6,sUO. 900 already had been appropriated for prohibition during the current fiscal year
 As the house milled through the def- ciency bill today. a provision for the creation of an office of first assistant sec retary of the treasury at a salary of S10.000 a year and amendment by Representative Davis. democrat. Ten nessee, providing for purchase by the government of S1O0. .00O.oO0 of farm loan i bank bonds, were eliminated on points of orde>.
 l One provision approved would permit
 the treasury department to spend any part Of the S1S.sOO. 900 appropriated last
 session for additional hospital facilities for disabled service men in the improve
 ment of existing facilities. The origina' bill provided that sI9.5oO.000 was to b, lexpended for new hospitals.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-24

Washington, May 2S.-After heated discussion of the prohibition question during,;which Commissioner Kramer was bitterly criticised and as vigorously de- fended,s the, house today--voted an addi. tional S2oO,e00 for enforcement of the Noisteaa act until July first
 Representative Volstead proposed the increase in the total of the deficiency appropriation bill. which the house was consider;ng to permit retention on fed ersl payrolls of seven hundred prohibi- uon. agents, who Mir. Kramer had an- nounced -weuld be dropped for the re- ma inder of the fiscal year, because of shortage of funds.
 The Nolstead amendment was adopted. v to. s, less than one-fourth of the house membership being on the house floor. at the time. But another vote on the, increase can be demanded before the bill is passed.
 Even the members who favored the amendment. however, doubted whether il would afford relief in time to be of mucf ,vSTue, -inasmuch as the bill after pass age by the house must go to the senate
 During the wrangiing over the ques
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-24
Z | Deaths on Our
 ghWays ThaninWar
DeplOrabIe Result of Non Standardization of Highway Traffic Regulations.

New Haven. Conn.,, May 25-standard- Il .za non of highway traffic regulations lo meet the needs. of the. largest. cities ana The smallest villages and a. gener- aI enforcement of such regulations was urged by William Phelps Enc of Wash lngton at conference on highway traf- ne regulation held today in Mason Lab qratory' Yale, university.
 In the Is months the United S+atee was in the war, MT, Enc said. AS. 900 men were killed in battle or died of wounds. In the same period, he continued. there were sl,ooO kiHe& on the highways of tAe United States. ;2,0O0 of these being children of school age
 The great loss <B EA, tSne ana money" said the speaker. is largely due to the fact that practically every. cftv has been allowed to make it's own traf. nc regulations, which are usualiv en. forced. by untrained officers. Such meth oqs are-iuneeonomical and, should be sD. perseded by. those of intelligence"
 Other speakers "a t the conference wers Charles J.. Bennett. state highway com. missioner of Connecticut; Dean. A. N Johnson, ofsthe University of Maryland James W. Inches, police commissioner X Detroit; and Miss. Harriet E. Beard Iot the department of education, Detroit. Russell H. Crittenden. vdirector of shef feld Scientific. school, Yale, presided al the meeting.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-24
VICE PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
 WARNS AGAINST RADICALISn

New York, May 25.-Respect for the law and opposition to radiealism were urged upon Americans tonight by Vice Presldent Calvin Coolidge in. an, addres. at the 125ths anniversary celebration of the New York Commercial.
 Any class or organization, he said. underta king, to obtain for. itself privileges not open to any other class or organ lzation. was hostile to American instt- eutions and a menace to American lib erty.
 There is right of contract of agree ment, and association among individua,s which is protected so long as the end sought is equal justice.'' he continued Any effort which contemplates coercion and force is an interference with our con- ception of American liberty and it's just Is denounced by American law.
 It is true that we hold to the theory of equality not of character or possession but equality of opportunity and equality before law. This does not mean that the government guarantees any standard of achievement to, it's citizens, but that in its dealings with them it will gra nt to all an opportunity to be heard and the right to a decision based on the evi- | dence and the law, without favor and without prejudice: It is the belief of an American that he-creates opportunity, 1 that his achievement his destiny, his greatness lie not in others, but in him. self
 There is need to resist radicalism ernment, but because is disturbing l and wasteful element in society. l This does no mean resistance to the 1 growth and. expansion of our constitution 1 but the liberty. given to all under the constitution was not license, but the | fullest freedom of individual thought and action, limited by a like freedom oi thought on the part of others.
 There are those who speak of over. throwing the government" he said "Ir America, this reduces itself to the ab. surdity of -overthrowing the people, fol here the people are the government. Admiristra tions and offices may change have changed as at the last election when - tn epeop,e entrusted their des. tinies to a wise and clear. visioned mar | from Ohio, who. in their service tolls or l from. day to day, seeking not his owr but the public welfare.
 This administration may come ant go like the long line of it's predecessors but the government, our institutions l remain seeurer. in the support of thu American people.
 More than six score years have writer our constitution, not on parchment alone nor yet on bronze but into the ever lasting soul of the nation. That is ou security, that is our guarantee.
 There is discontent and unemploy ment at home, there are disorder abroad Their remedy lies in our Joy
 alty to our government, in our obe l dience to constituted authority, that Ou own country, strong, well ordered, res oiute, may continue to be the prosperou abiding place of such institution O publicity and education as we met her
 this evening to honor and acclaim tn
 stronghold of an enlightened liberty
 the supporter of an advancing civtliza | tion."
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-24
PATHoLoGIsT IS CONFIDENT
 McGILVARY WAS MURDERED

Madison, Wis, May 23.-Gaton McGil- vary, son of Professor E. D. >McGilvary, found dead in Boston last week was murdered, according to report of pr. c, H. Bunting, University of Wisconsin pathologist, and Dr. W. F. Lorenz, after an. examination of the body. The patho- logical evidence has been sent to his fath- CT who is in Boston.
 -Four shots entered the body" the re- port says. Two of them penetrated the chest and two entered under the chin Had McGilvary committed suicide his arm would have changed position with his body"
 T do not know of case where a mar has had strength to pull the trigger a second time where such severe wound has been caused by the first shot" sait Dr. Bunting
 The elder McGilvary went to Boston tc aid the police in attempting to clear UT the mystery surrounding the death of his son.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-24

this afternoon without having a new re- solve in his heart. l have resolved, my fellow Americans, that l want the same rights, the same justice, the same hopes that we inherited from those who went i before us. l want them to have our America, free, untrammeled, confident of itself.
 If you have ever had any doubt of the righteousness of the republic. if you have ever had any doubt about the wisdom of the founders, I ask you to turn again to the picture of this afternoon and see
 these children, garbed in essentially the same raiment, participating in the same salutatons, thinking with the same laugh ter, chorishing the same hopes, rising in the hopefulness of youth to the same op- portunity in life. An, let no one chal- ! lenge.
 It may be true that some of these children are not prepared to embrace op- portunity, but the wonderful thing of America is that opportunity, beckons to l all these young Americans alike Ask 1 them to enter into the privileges of the republic, and if you want another picture | md 1t before me now. When 1 was mak- ing the inspection I was not so much con- | cerned about the shining arms and the 1 way they were kept. l was not quite so ] much concerned about the insignias on | the shoulders of the service men who | served so faithfully in the war. I was ! rather caught by the blend of racial ori- 1 gin in the faces of the men, 1 saw in ! thfS~ group the citizens and defenders of l the republic, who, it seemed to me, came l from the origins across the seas that rep 1 resent almost every land in the civilized 1 world. Here is youthful fighting America
 which is the blend of the citizenship of the old world, standing in absolute equal 1 ity here, ready to defend the republic and it's affairs. There is nothing finer than
 the equality in the United States ot America. No other land under the sur ] offers the same reward of merit Let us i keep the America we inherited"
 ! Speaking eXtemporaneously at the con- ciusion of his prepared address, the pres
 ident said:
 T would like for you captains of in-
 dustry to know an aspiration of the pres
 ent administration. It is to inaugural, an era of understanding. I want al understanding between the governmen and the people, an understanding be tween nations
 T want our America to have nothing
 to do with any nation that is not willin.
 to sit at the table and, show it's cards.
 The president declared that he wante
 those who came to our shores to under
 stand that their coming to this countr7
 imposed on them an obligation. in addi ton 10 according them the privilege q becoming American citizens He wantec it pnderstood,\ he added, that they mus l give as well as received from the gov l ernment.