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Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11
IN COERCION
 TEAL OF JOHN T. HETTRICK

New York, Feb. 10.-The practical op- eration of the code of practice" was ex- plained on the witness stand, today by Edward F. Dean, Dookkeeper for John T. JHettrick, on trial with three others on charges of coercion. The men are charged in indictments with conspiracy to force contractors to join the Master Plumbers Association, under the penalty of caus- ing strikes. %
 Despite the objections of seven ttor- neys representing the four defendants, Dean was allowed to testify reative to the methods and accountings of Hetrick, and the csh book of the master plumbers operating under the code of practice was placed in evidence. He stated that be. tween September 19, 1919, and February 27, 1920, the Master Plumbers Associa- tion paid Hettrick about $21,SS0 in fees for legal services.
 George E. Gibson, president of the George D. Gibson Company, the next wit nessy testified he was told to see Hettrick | and that it would be good thing for him to join the Master Plumbers Asso- i citation. . ".Hettrick said he should submit ouI bids to him and he would hold them until i it was time to submit them" Gibson tes. tified.
 1 Hettrick wanted Gibson's company tc
 submit reports so that he could find out i the total volume of business, Gibson as
 serted.
 'The report was submitted in accord
 ance with the agreement" the witness
 said. Each firm could do a certain
 amount of business and could not exceed f that"
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11
POURING IN ON
 PREsIDENT-ELECT HARDING

St. Augustine, Fla, Feb. 10.-Callers offering advices on many subjects pour ed in on President-elect Harding here today as soon as he opened his office after three weeks vacation. 50 long was the waiting line of prominea: men and women asking for the president elects time that he made little progress with his correspondence or with any of the other accumulated business with which his desk is piled high.
 If the days conversation pr9duce,l any definite development toward solution of the big problems ahead, there was noth- ing on tbe surface to indicate it. Des= pite the influx of visitors, however Mir. Harding slipped away during the after noon for a game of golf.
 Although there was nothing today pointing At0 decisive developments in re- gard to the cabinet, the day did not pass without it's offering of advice cn the subject. Senator Phipps of Colorado brought to Mir. Harding's attention his friend C. c. Dorsey a Colorado lawyer whose qualification he urgently set forth for the post of secretary of the interior. Mr. Dorsey accompanied the senator. but So far as could be learned they brought away no promise of an appointment
 Another who saw MT. Harding was s. Davies Warfield. head of the Associati n of Railway Securities Owners. He IS understood to have presented his idea of the attitude of the federal government toward the railway problem, but after he conference ne volunteered no statement. | Carmi Thompscn of Ohio, an official of the republican speakers bureau turing l the campaign H. F. McGreS) )r repub bii- can national committman Tor Texas
 and Charles D. Hilles of New York, form l CT republican national chairman, came
 10 talk about various patronage prob lens, and Senator Wadsworth of New
 York brought report on the status o1
 army legislation in congress.
 There were a half dozen other callers
 who placed proposals before the presi dent elect.
 The out-pouring of advice is to go or tornorrw, Mir. Harding facing anothel long appointment list before he can get tc his afternoon golf game. z
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11
ALBANY AND TROY QUIET
 UNDER GUARD OF TROOPERS

Albany. N. Y, Feb. 10.-Both Albany and Troy were quiet tonight under the heaviest guard of state troo2ers and po- lice assembled since, trouble began to de- velop from the strike of the United Traction Company's 1900 employees.
 Downstate miiitiament were ready for a possible summons to duty in both cities where violence for two days followed at tempts of the company to resume troll ley service with crews Of s.rikebreakers There were few disorders today. however and the traction company announced that it expected to have. 125 cars-half it's normal number-in operation soon.
 Only five cars. each heavily screened and guarded, yentured out of the barns t7day. two of them operating in Troy and three in Albany. All were run back under cover before nightfall. A bare handful of passengers p9tr 2nized them. Disorders in Troy consisted only of i the tossing of Q single stone at a stalled car. but Mayor James w. Fleming re- quested Governor Miller to send state i troopers there as precautionary meas. Iure and this was done. In Albany a few svires were broken down and one attempt was made to assault strike-bSeaker.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11
FARM LABOR COOPERATIVE
 CONFERENCE IN SESSION

Cleveland. O.. Feb. 10.-The All Amer Ian Cooperative Congress. representing farm and labor organizations of the country was appealed to tody by Spur -eon O'DelL. representing the State Bank of North Dkota to give the moral and financial support of labor and farmers orEaniza tions of the country to the non- partisan leagues progrsm'for the sale of bonds of the state of North Dakota for tre development of rural credit loans. tho purchase of mIls and elevators and tome building.
 C. IT. Gustsfson. president, of the ne- 5rssISa farmers union and head of the cooperative marketing department of the American farm bureau federation, presiding at the farm labor cooperative conference which opened it's three day convention this morning, said the con ference would endeavor to conhne 1t sac ton 10 two subjects, the development ot cooperative marketing and establish meut of cooperative banks.
 Warren s. Stone, grand chief of the .7otherhood of Locomotive engineers, and Frederick C. Howe, secretary of the committee on cooperative banking anc credit Of the American Cooperative Commission. discussed cooperative banking systems and credit union tonight
 Mir. Stone pointed to the cooperative national bank established in tine city c Cleveland. by the Brotherhood of Lo comotive Engineers as an example 0 what labor can do.
 Credit union banks for working mel and farmers in which small loans wer explained by Mr. Stone and Mir. Howe They predicted that the time was no tar distant when there would be thou sands of the credit union banks and hun ireds of cooperative commercial bank scattered throughout the country.
 Other speakers at today's confcreTc included L. E. Sheppard of Iowa. presi ient of the Order of Railway Conductor
 George P. Hampton, Washington. gen rral manager of the all American Co Operative commission and W. r. M2 Caleb. Cleveland, vice president Of th Cooperative bank of the brotheraood . Locomotive Engineers.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11
ALARMED ABOUT CASES OF
 TYPHgs, AMONG INIMIGRANTs

Washington. Feb. 10.-Earmed by the increasing number of cases of typhus among immigrants arriving in the port of New York, federal health authorities to- night were engaged in a study of meth ods to prevent introduction of the disease into. the United States
 The situation at New York, where more than thirty immigrants are aboard ships suffering from typhus, was brought to the attention of President Wilson late today in telegram from Dr. Royal S. Copeland, New York health commission CT. Dr. Copeland called attention -tospro- visions qf the quarantine act granting the president authority in the interest of the public health to prohibit in whole. or in part the admission to the United States Of persons and property from such countries or ports as he may designa te and for such a time as he may deem nec- essary.
 The telegram was forwarded &to the treasury department, which has jurisdic- tion over the public health service. Assistant Surgeon-General R. H. Creel. t was stated, has been sent to New York to make thorough study of the situa- ton and to cooperate with health au- thorities there, in handling the typhus problem Surgeon General Cumming, tes- | tlfylng yesterday before house commit tee, said he feared spread of typhus in
 Europe and declared that every precau-
 tion must be take nto prevent it getting
 foothold in the United States. | Dr. Copeland tonight conferred with Major General oRbert L.. Bullard, com
 manaer of the Second Corps area, and | Colonel John J. Bradley of Hoboken and
 arranged to use the army d;sinfectine stations in Hoboken for the delcusng oi
 passengers and clothing from incomine ships Officials of the Holland
 Line had requested Dr. Copeland to assist
 them in having the 1900 steerage pas
 sengers of the steamship Ryndam de Housed. so they could be transferred tc l Ellis. Island. L
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11
NOVEL. DECISION AGAINST
 THE NEW HAVEN ROAD

New York. Feb. 10.-A small bows propensity to climb Dyiting structures re- ceiyed judicial recognition here today in a decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals
 The ruling was made in a suit brought against the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad by Davil Fruchte-. aged years. and his father. The. in the summer Of 1916. saw a pigeon nest on girder of a railroad bridge in the Bronx and bird sitting on tac wire nearby. The temptation was alluring. The boy climbed to the girder and reached out to seize the bird. The wire was charged win electricity. however. and when he touched 1t he was thrown to the ground and So badly burned that his arm had b be amputsted. The boy and his father sued the rail- road. jury in the federal district court awarding the boy sl0.OOO and the father s1,0o0. The jury was instructed to find | for the boy and his father If it believed the railroad had erected trestie work which might entice children to climb 1t and had not taken measures to prevent the clorabing.
 The railroad appealed but the higher court, in today's decision. ruled in favor of the boy and his father.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11
27 ons Killed by
 xbadO in Georgia
White Boy and 26 Negroes 30 to 40 Other Negroes Were Injured.

Oconee, Ga, Feb 10.-Qne white boy and twenty-five negroes were killed when a tornado struck here. soon. after o'clock this afternoon, seriously damaging the plant of the Cleveland-Oconee Lum- bcr Company and other property. Be- tween thirty and forty othersnegroes were injured by flying debris. .
 After striking here. the tornado con- tinued toward Augusta, according to re- ports, and was said to nave descended again between Macon and Camak
 The ten-year-old daughter of E. L.. Munor, manager of the lumber company commissary, and Dennis Orr, aged 14, were the two white victims. The negroes were all employees of the lumber com pany.
 The casualty list would have been much larger, it was stated, had it not been for the fact that the storm struck during the noon hour, when scores of the employees had gone to their homes
 While the winds fury centered about the plant of the Cleveland-Ocone Com pany, the main building, just completed a few weeks ago, was practically un- harmed. One of the old buildings was wrecked and fifty dwellings, homes of 4s employees. were demolished. About two million feet of lumber stacked in thS yards was levelled to the ground. A re- lief train took the injured to Sanders wills and Tennille.
 The lumber plant was valued at ap. proximately $40G. 900, but it was stated tonight no estimate could be made o
 the damage done by the storm. A Central of Georgia local freight train running from Savannah to Macon, ar rived on the scene. The conductor i'm mediately ordered the locomotive detach
 ed from the train and hastened to Ten nile, II miles away, for aid. He re | turned with four doctors and a relic party of 45. Doctors found one negro boy with board driven into his forehead. The l removed the board and express the te | lief that the youth will live. A negro man and his wife were foun
 more than hundred yards from thei
 home lying side by side in the road both dead.
 The bodies of several small negroe were found in trees. out ot the path o | the tornedo, suspended on the limbs b their clothing.
 The bodies If grown negroes wer | thrown into the field in a semi-circle an l in the center of the. group was goat
 who stood like a statue, too frightene i to move for hours after the storm ha ] passed
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11
Capt. Boy-Ed Weds
 An American Girl
Groom Was Charged With Connection With Muni-
 tions Plots During the War.

Lancaster, Pa., Feb 10-Miss Vir- Ginia G. Mackay-Smith, daughter of the late Bishop Alexander Mackay-Smith of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania, and Captain Karl Boy-Ed, former German naval attacae at Wash ington.r were married today in Berlin.
 cablegram to this effect was receiv- ed from the brides mother by close friends of the Maekay-Smith family in this city.
 Miss Mackay-Smith and her mother, left their home in Washington last month for Germany, but nothing was said of the approaching wedding at that time.
 The wedding marks the culmination of a romance which has aroused the inte- rest of two continents.
 Miss Mackay-Smith and Captain Boy Ed have been reported engaged a num- Der of times during the last few years, bu each time it was denied. The first report was circulated shortly before he and Captain Won Papen were recalled from Washington by the German gov ernment in December 1915. at the re- quest of President Wilson. The two of ficers were charged with having been connected with munition plots and the sending of supplies to German raiders from American ports as well as plots with Mexico.
 Captain Boy-Ed was reported to have returned to this country in disguise in 1917. and to have visited miss Mackay- Smith at her home in Philadelphia. This however was emphatically denied by the young woman and her mother charac- terized the report as ridiculous Agents of the department of Justice main taired constant watch at the Mackay- Smith home, but nothing wa sdiscovered to substautiate the report Bcy-Ed wa; there or even in the country.
 Miss Macksy-Smith first met Captain IDoy-Ed in 1912.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11

been stayed on, although lvur- mvestiEns tons had been made concerning ;he dsata of young Gushing.
 James Gushing. with several other boys about his age, was paying on the roof Of F1ftieth street house on Sunday. July 14. 1918, when two policemen. sar- ing plain clothes appeared on the scene. apparently to drive them or. CIsh.nE was shot twice by one of the officers. it IS alleged, dying short while later.
 woman witness told Mir. whitmaa that she hurried 10 the police station and pointed out Flood and O'Brien as the tpo officers Yho shot the boy. Tie boys father 1t was said. asked an invcsG=afion put litt.e effort ~as made Co iifi ils matter.
 Although the two policemen iuo,ics,ef in the death Of the boy reiu-n,d tc ti.e station shortly after the shotong. 10 rec ord of the boys death appeared ou the police better
 There Is not a grand jury in Tho country that wouldn't have indsc.sd on the evidence presented this afternoon. % former Governor Whitman said.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11
REtsoNs WHY FARMS
 ARE BEING ABANDONED

Boston. Febc10.-Cnless rural health conditions and educational facilities are greatly improved there never will be an adequate number Of women far mers. said Mrs. Allan ?. StevenE. dl- rector Of the home department Of the Maine State Chamber Of Commerce and Agricultural League in an address here today.
 Mrs. Stevens described the life wo- men arc forced to lc1d on Maine farms. where in some instances there are neither doctors nor nurses within a ra- dius Of nineteen miles and roads are poor. especially in winter.
 Can yvu imagine a young man ask Ing girl 10 marry him and 70 iite with him on n. farm under these cal-. ditions?" she asked. Tn Maine only one-tenth of the available farm land Is under cultivation. The remainder Is still waiting for farmers who dare face thes- adverse conditions-
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11

New York, Feb. 10.-An indictment charging two members of the police de- partment with murder in the first degree was returned by the January grand jury late today after Former Governor Whit man, conducting the inquiry into alleged city corruption, turned his attention to putative suppression by the police of ev- idence in murder cases in lgiS.
 The two policemen, who were ordered surrendered by Police Commissioner En- right. were charged wi:h responsibihtS for the death of q 16-year old boy shot and killed in July. 1918. whose case YVES resuomitted today after it originally had been dismissed without inc. .tments being found.
 The two patroimen. Cornelius J. Flood and Robert A. O'Brien. named in the in- dictments, were arrested later and locked up in the Tombs. They were charged With first degree murder.
 More sensational than the sto-y of the alleged murder of th.s boy mvfaSers Of the prosecutors staff said. was the fact that for two and half yel-s, lnd c.. ments against the two patro o.Elen had
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11
WANTS LABOR EXCLUDED
 FROM CALDER COAL BILL

Washington. Feb 1o.-Unlsss tradesi unions are "affirmativeiy and definitely. excluded from the Calder blii for rovera-l ment regulation Of tho coal industry. or-i ganized labor's opposition to It wiii ha unyieiding. Samuel Gompers. president os the American Federation of Labor todav told a serate committee. The federation l chiefs statement. together with proionF-l el and at times heated contest heforai the committee over an allegation by Ren- resentatiye~ ~TIuddiets;on. democrat. Aia-i bama. to the effect that coal minc oper- ators had induiged in "whoiesale footing Of the public and that the national coail association h.. something Co do with hr. ing the prices took un the entire day
 Mir. Hhddlesfon's statement was haf-yl denied b. ]. n. A. Morrow. vice prssi-i dert nf ihe coal association. Mr. Hud- dleston said he had stenor-aph .l transcript Of directors meetings ia whiehi prices were discussed and a-re.d to rr-. turn tomorrow win inc transcript ln his posse ssion.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11
ARCHBISHOP poUGHERTY TO
 BE NEW AMERICAN CARDINAL

Rome. Feb. 19.--tBy The A. PD- Archbishop Doughe-ty Of Ph.ladelph.a VIII succeed tp the sext American card nalate. according 10 the view held .n vatican circles. Tne official announcement Is awainted hourly. and the almost Inanl- nous opinion is that the choice of Afch- bishop DouGhcrty is definite.
 The appointment Of a new A-neriesa cardinal will be made al the next secret consisiory' which will be held early n March. and the whole attention of the vatican has centercd for some tom. fn the American candidate.
 IL IS recalled that the late cariiuat satoi.L apostolic delegate al Washington. who although he knew no English. sue. ceeded in gaining a marvellous grasp of American men and things. lad a hl=h opinion of the present arcnblsh5p Of Phii- adeiph's. As an influential member ot the congregation for the opagatioH of faith. he Insisted upon the appointment of Father Dougherty as Bishop of Ssura SaEovia. the Philippines. in 1908.
 From ITS Co 1911 America had only one cardinal Jope Piux x for the nrrt time. in the cons.story of 1911. inc-eased the number of American cardinals 70 three. In addition. MonsiEuor Fsico-la. apostolic delegate at Washington. who re- oeived the red hat .n the same con. eHs'oTg' vas an Anerlcan citizen.
 Pope Benedict has preserved the f-a- ultion Of Piux x by keeping the nurnb-r Of American cardinals at three. but In view of the fact that Inc United States IS the third Catholic power in the wo..d. following Immediately after Italy arf France. the prevailing opinion here has been that the csrdinalates in the United States would be increased In number.
 Italy. with respect to the church. De- cupies special position. At the present time she has ,weniy-one cardinsis out of hfty-seven Spain. with s0.eo0. .0oa Cath olics. four. and will have six af'e- the next consistory. while the Unite | States, with the Philippines. Porto Rico. Guam and Hawaii totallinE more fhan 24.OOe.o0o Catholics. will have but hs'f
 of SDair's representation.
 The sacred college after n. Narch consistory will number sixty three st which thirty cardinals will be I.alis-. | seven red hats thus will be unassisn@d. i the full quota of the sacred coliezs bs-
 ing seventy. though this is never at,sir-
 et. each Pope desiring 10 leave sora va canc:es in order that his successqr my | lS slte immediately to appoint new
 cardinals on his ascension to the thrU7.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11
SMALLPOX DELAYING THE
 MATEwAN BATTLE CASE

Williamson. W. Va, Feb. 1o-SmaIl- sox became a factor in the Matewan cattle trial tonight when it became rnovn that the Rev. Hugh Coombs, of HAtewan, an important defense witness, aad been stricken with the disease.
 The latest development caused persons n close touch with the situation to ex- press odubt as to whether the case would come to trial during the present erm of court.
 Proceedings in trial were delayed to- lay because of the absence of more than score of witnesses.
 The courtroom was crowded to capaci- " today in expectation that witnesses Tould begin telling the story of the Mat wan battle in which ten men met their leath
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11
\ CAMPAIGN AGAINST
 PUTTING HAIR AT EARS


 Norton, Mass, Feb. 1o.-Pufing the hair at the ears will disappear at whea- ton College if the campaign began today by the second year girls succeeds Hair nets too-but this for the cake of econ omy.
 At dawn the rest of the student boiy was awakened by the sound of beating drums and blaring wind instrum sais to find the sophomores> pa q ling about the quadrangle all wearing :hei= hair "old style" and with their ears barad Q tr,. breeze. many pairs for the first. time in months. Banners explained that the campaign was two-fold-for reform ih hair dressing and economy in the inter ests of the endowment fund
 Later the fresh Sri endorsed the lat ter purpose by huIAngs from the roof of the dormitory building an efigy of the stacker who does not do her bit for the fund. -f
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11
ARRESTS FOR ROBBERY OF
 DALLAS PosE4L STATION

Dallas, Texas. Feb 1o.-With the ar rest of three men in San Antonio and fourth man in Houston, today, federal officers here believe all members of band which participated in the robbery of a postal sub-station here January If were. iql custody.
 AlfRrt L.. Rowan, son of a wealthy Dallas property. owner and Ben Luna, recently were sentenced to 25 years in the Lfavenworth penitentiary for com plicity in the robbery.
 More than s2,OO0,000 in mutilated se- curities was taken but later recovered.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11

Roland B. hahany, Solicitor of the Department of Labor, who has been appointed by President Wilson as American Representative of the International Commission of Immi- grafton and Emigration, to meet at Geneva, Switzerland, on a date to be fixed by the International labor of- fee Of the League of Nations, This is the first appointment the President has made to any of the bodies meet ing under the League of Nations since the Senate definitely and finally refused to ratify the treaty of Yer sailles. Mfr. Mahany, who formally was Minister to Ecuador, was for -four years member of the Imnjgra- ton Committee in Congress, and for some time past has been in complete charge of the immigration work oe the Department of Labor.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11
AS MANY COMMox BROWN RATS
 AS HUMAN BEINGS IN THE T.. {

Washington, Feb. 1O.-It. keeps 200 900 men working full time to Support the nations rat population, That assertion is made. by the biological survey bureau in figures issued today showing that there are as many common brown rats" as humans in the United States and each of the 1O0.000.e00 or more destroys S2 worth of foodstuns year. They also maintain an efficient transportation sys- tom for black death" and other plague germs, the bureau adds. in urging A starve and slay campaign to check "a real hazard against Americn lives and property"
Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-11
60 VACANCIES FROM 2e
 STATES AT WEST POINT

. Washington. Feb. 1o.-There are sixty nine vacancies from twenty-six states al West Point for which no appointments have been made for the examination on March 1, the war department announced today Secretary Baker said it was highly desirable that representatives and senators make the appointments to fill up the corps.