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Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18
LIVING WAGE FOR WOMEN
 TO PROTECT HEALTH, MORALS
Special to The Bulletin.)


 . Hartford, March 17.-Women were in attendance in goodly numbers this after noon at hearing in the hall of the house of representatives before the committed on labor on the bill concerning a. living wage for women in LOW paid occupations to protect their health and morals" The bill was presented in tie house by Miss Edwards of New Hartford. The bill was explained by Thomas J. Molloy of Hart ford for the Consumers League. The bill provides for commission of three mem bers-an employer, an employe and a member from the public-one of whom must be a woman-appointed by the gov ernor with the consent of the senate. The commission is to enquire into conditions, hold at least three hearings a year, and each member is to receive S5 a day for services and to receive actual expenses. The commission is given power of subpoe- nae and the bill provides that employers of labor shall keep a register of employees women and minors-which shall be shown to the commission on request. The commission may investigate wage condi- tions upon petition of a certain number of employees, and may if necessary name l a wage board The bill is very much the same as the one supported by the Con ! sumers League two years ago, though i dpptdiS lildl lllS pISSSlI Dlll gives liI' commission more power than the forme1 bill which was rejected two years ago. l The bill provides that no employe shal be discharged because he or she give i information to the board or commission i or is suspected of going to give inforra l tion.
 Miss Edwards in speaking for the bi! 1 said she felt it was a great protection t the health of women and { protection against the temptations which effect thel i morals.
 Mrs. Clara Mortersen Eyer. of tn I wage commission of the District of Co lumbia told how the minimum wage la1 has worked the~e in the past two year: The minimum wage iS determined b a board of nine-three employers, thre employees three representatives of tn public. This boz I'd, Mrs. Eyer said.~ .ir vestigates the living conditions for girl before deciding the wages standard.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18
HoLD-uF MEN sTRANGLED-
 WOMAN IN- BRooKLYN


 New York. March 17.-Mrs. Henrietta Defelicio. mother of nino children, was strzngied to death. and Mrs. Rosa Men ditto. nurse. was gagged and bound by four hold-up men who entered their home in Brooklyn late this afternoon and de- maaded money and jewelry.
 In trussing up the two women the rob- bers thrust a towel into Mrs. Defelicio's mouth. To keep it in place, they passed 2 rope around her face One coil slipped down around her throat and was pulled .o tight that it strangled her.
 Mrs. Menditto, who was thrown on to a cot in a room adjoining that in which the two women were sitting, rolled her self to the floor after the robbers had fled with s2,5O0 in iewelry and money. l.oosening her gag by pushing her face along tke floor, sine staggered to her feet pushed up the window with her head and called for the police.
 News of the hold-up and murder spreading rapidly throughout the neigh borhood. caused such indignation that police reserves had to be called to handle crowd of 1000 which quickly gath cred.
 Mrs. Menditto told the police that thu bandits had not allowed her or her com panion time to make a reply to their de mands. but had at once seized them. Sh' said they had put up a struggle, but soor were subdued and their money and jew slry taken from them.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
 IN WATERBURY MURDER

Waterbury. March 1.-The latest de- veldoments in the Joseph Rolli murder case include the positive identification today. according to the police, of a truck, now in custody of the police. as the machine see nspeeding away from the spot where R9lli's body was found pie-c ed with a bullet late Tuesday night. Thomas Amico. owner of the truCk. is held on technical charge of operating a motor vehicle without license. Amico has emphatically denied that either he or the car was near the scene of the murder Tuesday night. The identity of person supplying the .,olice with informa- tion relative to the truck in unknown outside of police circles. This person did not. however. identify Amico as the
 driver of the truck on the night of the crime
 RolIi's body was found on the Pearl Lake road with bullet hole behind the | left ear about ten o'clock Tuesday even- 1 ing. It is the belief of the police that | he was shot while the occupant of a | truck and that his body was thrown tc
 the roadside. The gun used in the fatal l shooting his not been found.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18
WOULD STRONGLY FoRTIFY
 THE NEW ENGLAND COAST

Providence. R. l.. March 17.-Brigadier General John W, Ruckman. commander of the First Coast Artillery district, in an address here today before the chamber of commerce, urged that immediate steps be taken to strengthen the fortifcations of the New England coast from Maine to Connecticut with special reference to the naval base at Newport. He recommend ed the installation of fixed guns of the largest calibre on Montauk point. Block Island. No Mans Land, Cape Cod, Cape Ann. Portsmouth aid Portland, to be supplemented by mobile artillery of the railroad and tractor type. to fill in the shore between these points and make, a continuous line of defense. Widening of the Cape Cod canal and of Hell Gate al New York was urged as part of the same general defense plan
 With this arrangement" he declared "ah the navies could not enforce an ef- fective blockade against our fleet located in Narragansett Bay"
Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18
RENTS ARE GOING UP WHILE
 WAGEA ARE COMING DOWN

Boston, March, 17.-Rents are going up while wages are coming down, Charles H. Adams of the state commission on the neccssaries of life told a legislative com mittee today in urging the extension of existing remedial measures soon to ex- pire and the establishment of further pre- cautions against landlords greed. House owners managed to meet almost every handicap imposed by law on unfair prac- tises, he said. explaining that they were now giving notice to vacate at the first step in raising rents, were attaching to lease a. section by which the tenant valves all rights under the laws, anothe, section saying the lessor is the sole judge of the amount of heat necessary, and stii another imposing an automatic increase 1 of $10 a month on each addition to l family.
 Landlords. too he said, have turned the state law limiting rent increases t, 25 per cent. each year The commission
 CT said new buildings would not/ over take the demand for houses for sevzra years and he predicted that the stat
 would find 1t necessary ito consider tn
 construction of homes for workingmen il the near future s~
Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18
OBITUARY
John Joseph o,Nen

Waterbury. Conn, March l7.-John Joseph o'Nelll. aged 51. A lawyer in r.is city since 1897. when he was admitted to the bar. died suddenly early today at his home here. of heart trouble. He was an officer in the state guard. in- dpector of small arms practice for the Fifth infantry and last night. with Col. R. G. Hanne=sn of the regiment. he at- tended battalion social gathering in An sonia. He appeared to be in unusually good spirits and made no complaint of not feeling well. He Cad been an of- 6cer in the state guard since Is orran- ization as the home guard. serving first on the stan If Col James Geddes. whom Col. Hannegan succeeded.
 Capt. O'Neill was a native of this city. a son of the late John O'Neill. who was one of the states best known lawyers. John Josepi O'Neill was graduated from Georgetown university and the law school of the University Of Pennsylvania. Dur ing his practice here he served as c7un- sel In many cases heard in the bank ruptcy court. He-leaves his wife and a brother. One of the sisters. Mss suzan C. o'Neiil. and the brother. Prank B. o'Nelll. boih of this city. were in part nershiD with John Joseph In the law Arm Of o'Neil. o'Neii and o7SeiL
Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18
FRENCH CHAMBER APPROVES
 THE LONDON CONFERENCH

Paris. March r. CBy the A. P.).-Ths decisions Of the London rcparations con- ference. the occupation of I uesssldorf and other German cities and the sppiica- tion of the allied economic penalties on Germany were approved by the chamber of deputies this aftt rnoOn by a vote that was practically unanimous except for the socialists and communists. The vote as officially given out was 49. to 6s.
 Premier Briand. replying 10 former Minister of Finance KIotz and former Minister of War Lefevrc. who rcspective- ly insisted upon further light as to the governments intentions with regard 70 execution of the treaty of Verssil..s and securing the disarmament of Germany. took occasion 10 answer Germany'5 gio- test to the league of nations agairst ;,is allied occupation on 'he groun1 that it was violation of the trcatv. .Ie cai.sd the attention Of ths chamber D he fact ] that the same ime tiGs p.1.ast uas z,ht Germany had ref--ed. cL the s:srumnns cf the reparations coTm'ss.or. b exccJte the clause of the treaty ca.lins for ire payment of twenty bi.io1 Eol1 marks | Germany" he ,ai1, "has violated ths | treaty in three essential clauses-dis- armament. reDarations and the trial of accused oficers Thus the sanctions as provided for in fife treaty are applicable and just. as we have applied them"
 
 The allied commission of control. he ldeclared, was working under the advice of Marshals Wilson and Foch and might be depended upon to ssttafy ths requrr- ments of N. Lefevre as b the disarnla- ment Of Germany.
 NJ. Lefevre said that ft had been proved that Germany was making a new machine gun capable Of shooting fifteen hundred bullets a minute. The guns had been found in Koenigsberg. he declared. along with a new type of six-inch can non. proving that the Germans uers making new armament to replace that destroyed under allied control He said that material had been discovered in cel- lars of the Spandau arsenal sufficient ia manufacture 5000 field guns.
 M. klotz pressed the premier for a specific answer as ta whether or not ths London decisions brought the question of reparations back 10 the treaty of Yer sailles. The premier answered that obvi- ously' since the Paris accord had moi been accepted by the Germans. the treaty had not been modified.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18
THOUSANDS WATCHED
 BIG PARADE IN BOSTON


 Boston March 17.-South Boston, deck ed in red. white and blue in honor of Evacuation day-the 145th anniversary of the departure of British troops from Boston-and in green for St. Patrick, turned out by thousands this afternoon to watch its parade, in which federal troops were not allowed to participate.
 Orders issued by Rear Admiral Dunn, commandant of the First naval district, and Brigadier General Ruckman, com manding the First army corps area, re- fusing to allow the troops 4o march, were sustained in a telegram from President Harding's secretary to John F. Harrigan, state president of the American Associa- i tion for the Recognition of the Irish Re public.
 The message said that although 'the spirit of St. Patrick's day is felt through ! out our country, nevertheless ''the naval and military forces of the nation can have no part Tn any demonstration which may. be construed as influencing the for : eign felations of the republic 1 When the telegram was received parade i officials gave orders that no placarde were t1 be carried by any organization in the line, and the procession, led by several units of the Massachusetts Ma tional guard. thereby became essentially military spectacle.
 i The local bureau of the department of l justice had announced that it's agents
 would watch the marehers and report violations of the laws for wearing the
 uniform, but hundreds of former service
 men, most of them in khaki, but some ir
 navy blue. paraded nevertheless
 Members of the Grand Army of the
 Republic and of the Society of Foreign l Wars, who followed the national guards
 men in the line, added to the militar, aspect of the parade. No flags of tn Irish republic" were carried by militar,
 organizations and in the raAks of tn
 Irish societies the blue. white and or
 ange was ia rless conspicuous than tn national colors.
 | Governor Cox. Mayor Peters and mem bers of the city council reviewed tn
 marchers.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18
JURY FINDG CLARA HAMoN
 NOT GUILTY OF MCRDER

Ardmore. Okla, March 1T.-clara Smith Hamon today vas acquitted of a charge of having murdered Jake L. Hamon. republican national committee man from Oklahoma and millionaire. The jury was given the case at 4-SO p. m. and returned to the court room forty minutes later. B. F. (. Laughridge, 73. foreman. said only one ballot was taken, secret one. confirmed by rising vote.
 Clara Hamon obtained the information fully seven minutes before the verdict was rendered ill open court and sat, sur rounded by members of her family. half smiling, half afraid to believe the mods of assurance that were bent toward her. When Judge Thomas ". Champion mounted the bench and received an af- firmative response to his question: Gen. i tlemen. have you reached verdict?T hef eyes followed the motions of the Dailifi as he received the verdict from Mir i Loughridge and handed it to the clerk to read.
 | Clara Hsmon gasped audibly in tn, | tensely silent court rooom. dropped for. ward in her seat. only to be seized iron behind by her younger brother, Jimmie, squeezed violently and kissed. Tear: came to- her eyes and the other members of her family cried with her as sh' crossed to the standing jurors and halt IlBlg -lnauhtu luelh iuI AheiT NeTulCl-
 T am the hay st woman in tn world" she said .-.s
 i She used secret passage from th court room to escape the crowds whici lthreatened 10 oyerwhelpl her with con gratula;ions.
 Tonight her plans for the future wer incomplete. she and members of he counsel of six attorneys said. She considering number of business propo sitions, according to Walter Scott of For Worth. Tex. one of her counsel. but whs she shall do in the immediate future undetermined.
 Her father, J. L. Smith. is seriously 1 at Fl Paso, and it was said she migll return there to be with him in the las days of what is termed an illness whic may be fatal
 None of the members of the family C , Jake L. Hsmon was in the court rool when the jury returned its verdict. Mir Hamon. the widow. and her 19 year ol son left when the case was placed in tf
 jurys hands. Mrs. Hamon at that tim
 was in tears.
 Tonight at the home here of Mrs. Jab f Hamon it was said that she had not bee
 told of the verdict and that she woui
 not he until tomorrow because of ht
 physical and mental condition.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18
.FERV|D FEALTY FEATURED
 STPATR|CK'S DAY, NEW YORK

Mammoth Demonstration Made in Parade Up Fifth Avenue Was Marked With Unresrained Display of Approval For the Republic of Ireland" and Bitterness Toward Eng landLBanners With Singing Sentimens Were Carried by the Womens Organizations Fighting lrsh' Regi- ment Held the Place of Honor in the Long Parade Green White and Gold Flag of the Republic of Ireland Di.pIacel the Old Time Green Banner With Golden Harp-Tens of Thousands Packed the Sidewalks and Windows Along the Line of March.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18
are at Work on Tax Revision
Insistent Demand Made For Raising Exemptions of the Lower Salaries.

Washington, March 17.-Formulation
 of a treasury policy on tax revision has
 been started and probably will be ready for submission to congress when it con
 venes April II in extra session. Treas ury experts have been engaged for some time in making a survey of revenue
 sources and the extent to which each
 may be tapped in bringing money into the governments vaults.
 Secretary Mellon said that no decision
 had been reached on any question per tinent to the forms of new tax laws but intelt1al revenue experts were under stood to be preparing to make recom- mendations on some phases of the i'm portant problem.
 Among the questions into which the experts have been delving is that of a sales tax and the treasury expects to have complete statistics prepared soon showing the amount that can be ex- pected from such tax. together with 1 data concerning its effects on prices. Changes in the rates On larger incomes and increases in exemptions also are un. | der. consideration with a view to determ | ming the aggregate amount of revenue There has been an insistent demand fol !, raising the exemption of the lower | salaries, now placed at $2,000 or mar I ried men and $1,000 for single per l sons.
 1 Repeal of the excess profits tax. whici has been particularly odious to busi l ness, appears to be assured The ex perts also are Investigating the revenu producing qualities of higher luxur,
 rates. Most treasury officials believe tha 1 many ofthose now in effect should b
 repealed, particularly those similar to tn
 soda Fountain drink ~levies. The ex pense of collection of such taxes. it ha hnn
 ton to the revenue received in the las s two years while <s public was compelle
 at the same time to pay the amount
 prescribed by law.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18
PACKERS EMPLoYEs ALMOST
 UNANIMOUS FOR STRIKE


 Chicago, March 17.-An almost unani- nous vote in favor of national strike in the packing industry was cast throughout the country, according to un- jon officials who began to count the bal lots tonight. Definite returns are not ex- pected before tomorrow.
 Information from all points," said Dennis Lane. secretary of the Amalgam- ated Meat Cutters and Butcher Work mems union, indicates that the senti- ment seems unanimous in favor of a strike in the event that the government fails to have the packers return to a compliance with the wartime arbitration agreement"
 At the same time MT: Lane sent tele- gram to Secretary of Labor Davis at 1 Washington charging that the packers | were trying to precipitate a premature strike and appealing to the secretary tc use his influence to prevent an oper break before the conference in Washing. ton on Monday.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18
SUBMARINE N-s IS FAST
 ON THE WATCH HILL REEF

Westerly. R. l., March 1.-The sub marine N-2, coastal type boat struck the Watch Hill reef while maneuvering off here today and ran upon the rocks high and dry. Coast guards who went out to he reported that Lieut.. Claude Farmer and his crew of fifteen men would remain aboard. Seas were fairly heavy in Block Island sound. but the weather was clear.
 Except to say that the submarine must have run in too close. to shore without knowing it, the Watch Hill coast guards could give no explanation fJtffe. accident. The N as she lay stranded Oh the reef was within sight of thA. wreck of the steamship Onondaga, which brof H it's back on the rocks three years ago.
 | The submarine was operating out of the l base at New London, and had beer. en- gagged in practice stunts in the sound.
 Efforts to drag the N-2 from the rocks failed at full tide. Apother attempt to float the little vessel will be made before dawn tomorrow. at the next high waAer 1 Some of the N-2's crew were taken of this evening, Life savers will stand by the subma rine all night.
 | : The T. A. Scott company of New Lon don has been asked to send tugboats tt ! help move the submarine into deep water
Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18
$1oO,Ooo JEWEL ROBBERY IN DAYLIGHT IN NEW YORK

New York, March 17-Details of A Sl00,O00 jewel robbery perpetrated bv four armed bandits in daylight less than a block from the heart of the Fifth Ay- enue shopping district became known here late today after having been sup pressed by the police for "A hours The firm which suffered the loss is the Foch Manufacturing Company, Inc.
 The bandits entered on the pretext nt making purchase, drew revoIvers and then bound the proprietor, three em. ployes aSd a customer with window cord and scooped jewelry and cash from the safes and show ca ses into a pillow case. The alarm was given by the book keeper, whC succeeded in freeing her self shoftly after the robbers escape.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18
REVENUE AGENT KILLED
 IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT

Schenectady. N. T.. March 17.-Five men, believed to be revenue agents, were taken to the Ellis hospital tonight from an automobile wreck in which broken bottles of vhiskey were conspicuous. One man was killed. The accident occurred about a mile east of the city on the road to Albany.
 The man killed, it was said at the hos pital, was George H Farrell of Glovers- vile He wore an army uniform. VII liam Thomas was seriously injured The other three men declined to give their names.
 Pedestrians who saw Se accident said they saw a touring ear, with a govern meut license plate. careen on a rain- coated concrete pavement and then smash into car going in the opposite direc- Son. The occupants were tossed into the fitch Both cars were wrecked.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18

New York. March 17.-TurninG their annual St Patrick's Day celebration into a mammoth demonstration of f3al-y tor the Republic of Ireland" and bitterness toward England, thousands of New York's Irish marched up Fifth avenue today ill a parade that lasted more than three hours.
 They were watched by tens of thous- snds packing the sidewalks and windows along more than seventy blocks of the venue. and overflowing into Central Park :hd the side streets.
 Rainbow Division, veterans of the 69th National Guard Regiment. known as The Fighting IrizS- marching in their ser vice uniforms and carrying rifles held the place of honor in the long pageant Fluttering above them were the Stars and Stripes. the regipental standard and blue silk banners with rainbow centers, while for Hiles tn the rear the scores of Irish organizations and bands came tramping along with tbe green, white and gold flag of the Irish Republic" This irieolor waved everywhere, replacing al- most entirely tho green banner with gol- den harp enscribed Erin Go Bragh," SC numerous in past processions on the feast day of Ireland's patron saint.
 The paraders were reviewed by Mayor Hyisn. Former Governor Smith and g number of Catholic clergy. including the Rev. Francis P. Duffy. chaplain of the Fighting Sixty-Ninth."
 Banners with stinging sentiment: against England were carried by the wo nen's orSiniz~ tions. One of their posters read "ErTiai 4 damn your concessions Se want oI.- country" and another de scribsd "E5nllish civilization in the Twen .ieth Century as '@The Torch, The Bullet and scaHold."
 We want no Anglo-Saxon Caste in tn United States" declared another sign Behind it came a statement that "A Tru American Is a True Sim Feiner."
 Uniformed cadets from several school in New York. marched to the music o Erin's folk songs. The air was filled al afternoon with strains of Wearing O the Green.'' Kathleen MayourneenT ana My Irish Molly Mingled with thes, tunes we're bsgpipe serenades played b! Irish Highlanders marching in kits an. tzHi-o-shznters.
 The women of the Irish White Cros marched in two huge crosses. wearin the badge of service on their sleeves an carving AmericsM and Sim Fein flag Clnhs of men and women from variou sections of Ireland formed other batta ions.
 Leutenant-C Colonel Alexander E. Ar Serson. who was grand marshal of th rsrzde. characterized 1t as q Solemn an iiznifed protest against what is happeI ing in Ireland"
Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-18
SIGNIFICANCE ATTACHED TO
 IRRIGATION OF BoNAR LAW

London. March IT (By the A. P.).- The prediction is freely made by politi- clans tonight that MT. Bonar Laws res- ignation froom ths government means dissolution and general elections in the near future. The. belief is based on the theory that he is the only conservative able to hold the party together behind the leadership of MT. Lloyd George.
 There has been much obtK>$on to some of Mir. Lloyd Georges policies among the ''old guard" conservatives, and many think that only Mir. Bonar Laws person. ality and diplomacy held them in line
 Some reafranEement of the cabinet is considered Necessary, but it will not be decided upon until after the unionists meet next week and elect a new leader.