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Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
TO PER CENT REDUCTION IN
 FREIGHT RATES BY JCLY

Washington, May 24.-Railroad freight rates will be reduced on July 1 by amounts equal to ten per cent of their present levels under a decision of the interstate commerce commission an- nounced today.
 Practically. all classes and commodities of traffic are affected by the decision which marked the conclusion of the in- vestigation began last autumn by the commission on it's own initiative into the reasonableness of existing freight levels
 Agricultural products in all sections oi the country outside of New England livestock and western grain and grain products are the chief commodities ex- cluded from the reduction. these com prising the freight classifications upon which reductions have been recently put into effect
 Passenger charges and Pullman fares also are left unchanged by today's de- cision.
 With it's decision on rates, the com mission announced also it's determination of 5.75 per cent. as the reasonable an nual return which carriers in the future will be entitled to earn on their actual 1 capital investment This compares with six per cent. the reasonable return level fixed under the transportation act for the period expiring March 1
 Railroads were required to signify to the commission before May 31 whether they would voluntarily make new sched- ules complying with the decision or re- quire the commission to issue Its formal | and detailed order for the alteration. Though divergence in view within the commission was indicated by several sup | plemental concurring or dissenting opin- | ions, the full weight of the commission appeared to be thrown behind the state ment made in the majority and control | ling opinion that general reduction in the rate level as substantial as the condi- tion of the carriers will permit will tend to stabilize the conditions under which commerce and industry are carried on, with consequent fuller assurance to car riers of realizing fair return
 On the statement of the commission that rail freight revenues in 121 approxf- mated S4.0oO, ,OOo. GOO today's decision will reduce the national freight bill by si0e.- ! 100000 per year.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25

men on the porch turned and ran into the woods. Reaching the New Have; road tracks. the two men asked w5 man the way to New Haven. She toA them and few minutes later she teie phoned to the Stratford police statiof and told the police she had seen tTS suspicious appearing men on the ra-l. road tracks. Captain Walker and twe other Bridgeport policemen had just ar rived at tie Stratford station and they headed at once for the railroad tracks They arrested tIJ two men within q fe@ minutes and -[j were later identified as Becker ana s1ivait.
 Kraut, driving the automobile. had it 1 the meantime been speeding through Stratford streets, with the body of Stoni l in the tonieau of the machine. Ths
 body was observed by man and a boy
 as .the machine went through Broad.
 bridge street and they shouted and rar after the car. Kraut stopped the ma
 chine short distance away and jumped | out Officer Holmes of Stratford joined the man and boy in the chase and krau; soon was overtaken. The body of Stone
 WAS left in the machine until Corone; Phelan arrived. He had been fatally wounded by a bullet from Dunn's pis- tol
 The three prisoners told the Bridge
 
 early this morning at the request Of | Stone, who had told them he needed their assistance. They said they met
 Stone and were taken to house. which
 they could not locate now. as they did
 not know the streets here. Stone had
 an automobile waiting for them when
 they arose at o'clock and he took
 them to Middle street, where he had said they could pull off job.' . It is believed that the house wher. the men had slept is in Stratford and that man known as Freedman" wal . i there also. One explanation of thi ] leaving of the money at the house il { Barnum terrace was that the robberi | lost their bearings and stopped at th ' wrong house. ' The police say the automobile used D. ? the quartet was stolen in New York sey e eral weeks ago and that the Connection O | marked and registration was false
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25

, til the sheriff is through with his in- vestigation, because 1 intend to have all the facts brought out, in the open" MT. Weeks asserted positively that he Knew of no woman connected with the case.
 His assertion was made after he had been questioned concerning woman all legged to have been seen frequently in the company of Peters and two otheE men who might trrn out to be Charley Ross" and Jack, the two mysterious missing men who were alleged by Ward | to have been present when the pistol bat ! tie ragged.
 Reports received here stated that this woman had suddenly disappeared from ] Broadway resorts she used to frequent, and 1t was understood that search was being made for her to determine i whether she could give any clue to whereabouts of Peters companions.
 New York reports stated that the young woman. described as sA dainty dresser, has often been seen with Pe- ters shabblly tailored, in her high-priced car, at race tracks and along Broad 1 way.
 The only other feminine touch revealed l thus far. in the case came this afternoon l when it was reported that there had been found in Peters pockets a woman's handkerchief embroidered with pansies l. To heighten the mystery, there were conflicting reports concerning the dis covery or non-discovery of Peters pis- i tol, with which he was alleged to have 1 opened fire on Ward
 Mir. Weeks said Ward would have tc explain what had become of it. Sheriff Werner, while not professing to have the gun, asseEted he was satisfied that the weapon and eight missing cartridge shells would be presented at the proper l time before the cornoner
 Ward had asserted nine shots had been exchanged, but only one shell wal reported found. Investigators have beer sssogned to look for bullet marks or trees where the shooting was said tt have occurred, and others have been de tailed to look over Wards car and SCI whether it bore any marks of battle.
 Sergeant Edward MsGaryey of tht state police told an Associated Pres representative of the report made to hin by Trooper Joseni Collins who went t l get the body after it had been found. According to Collins whereas war' has claimed his car and that of th
 the blaekmailers were on the scene o
 battle he could find the marks of onl.
 one set of tires. These were lo feet iron
 the spot where the body lay.
 | Collins told his superior there ha been no signs of fight, nor could h
 find anyone who had heard a numbe
 of shots The fact that gravel clung {
 heels and soes on both the dead man
 shoes led him to believe that he ha
 been standing when he was shot.
 Peters coat was open. The bulle
 passed through vest, shirt and under shirt and came out the back.
 In the pockets. were found $1.32 card
 and dice. Collins did not report fndin l any woman's handkerchief.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25

Bridgeport, May 24.-A daring day light robbery by four youths fxom New York was frustrated hare today when one of the hold-up men was killed and the other three arrested after police chase through Stratford, a suburb. The loot was s19,000, the local payroll of the. Connecticut company, which was being carried across Middle street in a wooaen box When the q dit automobile came up. The money '. sls recovered in Stratford, where it was left on the porch of house in Barnum terrace by two of the robbers.
 The body of one of the robbers was found in the automobile, which was abandoned on the road. It was identi- ! fed assthat of Louis Stone of Brooklyn, alleged leader Of the quartet. The men under. arrest are: Herman kraut, -91 Willett street, New York; Max Becker. S20 Clinton street, New York and Ed ward Kivait 22 Pike street, New York. Sidney Tfbbals, assistant cashier of | the Connecticut company. and William Dunn, a company claim agent were car 1 rying the box of money from the com pany's office to the car barn when the ! bandit automobile drove in front of | them. Three of the robbers jumped
 out, one grabbing the box while the oth- CTS hlt Tibbals and Dunn over the head ! Wltn- lead pipes, Dunn was only dazed
 and from a reclining position in the | street he drew an automatic pistol iron his pocket and fired several shots. Stone was hit. but was able to stagger to the
 waiting Automobile with the money box
 The other two jumped in and the ma chine sped away. turning into Housa-
 tonic avenue while a gathering crowt set up a shout
 The police were quickly on the seem
 and from headquarters an aIrm was sen
 out at once to New Haven, Stratford
 Milford. Fairfield. Norwalk and also t
 Mamaroneci1 and White Plains. N. '
 The speeding machine entered Stratfor,
 and in Barnum terrace stopped in iron
 ofN residence. Two of the robbers wen to the door and asked if 'Treedman
 was there. They were told no one b
 that name was known there and the
 set the money box on the porch. Tn : automobile then started up and the tN
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
TALE STUDENT FELL OFF
 CLIFF OF SLEEPING GIANT

New Haven. Conn, May 24-John c. Pope Of Cleveland. Ohio. Yale fresh man. fell over the cliff of the Sleeping Giant at Mt. Carmai yesterday and Is at a hospital with a fractured leg and wrist and internal injuries. Pope was unconscious for Some time after the fall. The cliff Is bout so feet high.
 It has been many years since a Yale undergraduate has been hurt in amateur mountaineering hereabouts. For years students had ambitions to climb the perpendicular faces of East and West Rocks on New Ravens outskirts in pref erence to ascending bv tthe footpaths. Several students were lIled in the course of years and many hurt. The last killed gas a grandson of Gen. w.. T. Sherman.
 The university put both these rocks "out of bounds as areas for Alpine ex- periences and they have so- remained. The Sleeping Giant. several miles from this city has not been under Yale ju- flsdiction
 The hospital reports this-morning that wfile Pope's injuries may not be serious he Is badly shaken p.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
Situation in Ireland
 More Complicated
Proclamation by Sir James
 Craig, Premier of Ulster,
 Dwarfs Interest in Pending . Elections.

Dublin. May 24 (By the A. P.).-The Ulster situation has ecliDsed the interest in the forthcoming elections, and the gravity of the situation is everywhere recognized Beyond brief statement by Michael Collins that as the treaty was with the British government, Sir James Craig, the Ulster premier. has nothing to do with it's interpretation. no indication has been given of what is to be the atti- tude of any of the southern Sim Fein
 The arrest of Sim Feiners in the six counties was in no wise surprising IL was declared that an even larger num- Der of arrests was to be expected But the proclamation by Premier Craig in tlIe Ulster parliament Tuesday making mem bership in the Irish republican army an offense came as a surprise, as all the southern leaders on both side of the present controversy belong to the army
 It was said today that tine first con- sideration of the effect of the proclama. tion on the army organization probably would be by an officer board, and not by the Dali Edreann leaders. who have not yet arrived at common policy to De adopted toward the Ulster problem.
 Eamonn De Valera's newspaper, the Republic of. Ireland. will say tomorrow: 1:
 'HThe De Valera-Coflins agreement (regarding elections and coalition cab ineD at least has given us respite from the dissensions which were tearing the nation asunder, and if 1t leads, as we trust it will, te unifcation of the army. it averts the terrible arbitrament of civil war between comrades"
 Touching on the Ulster question, the same newspaper says:
 '.The action of the British government in conniving at porgron1s. in paying for special police and in extending almost unlimited financial support to the north ern government in the midst of it's ter 1 roristic policy. is an insolent breach of l the spirit of the treaty. Surely Mir. Col l fins can take bold stand with the Brit ] ish in the treaty"
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
TO ANEWER IN COURT
 FOR MURDER OF HIS SON

Toms River. N J., John shheim. the Tuckerton farmer under arrest in com nection with the death Of his ten-year- old son. Henry, today waived his right to immediate arraignment. ard Prose cutor Wilfred IL Jayne announced the accused man probably would be taken to court on Saturday.
 Scheim. who was rushed to the coun- ty jail here immediately after his ar rest~last night. a few hours after hit sons body had been found in a porc' near Tuckerton, slept until a late hour today and seemed unperturbed when Mr- Jayne called on him.
 I'm in no hurry" he is reported tc have told the prosecutor in answer tc, a question concerning his arraignment 'It can wait. want to- sec a lawye- before I go to court Coroner Smith announced tonight that an inquest into the school boys death will be held Friday afternoon al whics the father probably win appeal as a wit ness.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25

White Plains N. T.. May 24.-(By The A. P.)-Clinging srimly to his si- fence concerning the nature of the black mall threat which he asserted had led up 10 his shooting of Clarence Peters, ex-marine, Walter s. Ward, millionaire bakers son, late today resigned, as po- lice commissioner of New Rochelle.
 In the early part of the day, the only word that came from Ward sources was a denial of the report that he would re- sign under fire. But this afternoon, shortly before his attorney notified the New Rochelle authorities that his res ignaion was in the mai. man close Co the Wards told the army of reporters m9bil.zed here that they might ss well go home. ss the family has the case seWed up tighter than drum"
 When this was repeated 10 District Attorney Weeks of West Chester coun- ty. who earlier intLe day asserted :Gat he had not swallowed nook. ;!nR ard sinker." the story told by -WAre of hay irg fired in self-deferse. ae poundeS tue table In front of him and roared
 "sewed up, eh? Well, let me set you fellows right. Nobody can deliver us We're going through with this thing, running down every possible angle"
 But nevertheless. the public remained as ignorant Of the secret hold which Peters and his band of alleged black mallers may have had on Ward as on last Saturday, when he surrendered, 2 week after Peters had been found shot 10 death near the Kensioo- reservoir where Ward claimed to have notored for a Ntryst and been forced into pis- tol battle.
 Mir. Weeks asserted that. if Ward set up a plea of self-defense. he would have 10 tell the whole story of the hlackmall- ing Asked II he had seen any of the 'b'ackmailing" letters. in substantiation Of Wards story, the district, attorney replied that he had seen two threat ening" letters-typewritten- signed "C R."
 Earlier in the day, a series of written questions were presented to the district attorney by reporters. in connection with report that the coroner's inquest might be postponed several weeks. The ques- tions read:
 "Is is customary for a coronef. "a fter Q man has Surrendered, himself as a slayer, to hold up the Inquest any length Of time?
 ---ffss- the prosecutor the power in such case to step in and take the mater out of the coroner's hands?
 "Has the prosecutor's office to wait several weeks. a month, or six weeks until it receives word from the coroner to go 10 work?
 Has there been any case this kind of your knowledge in West Chester county where a coroner has held bacl the wheels of prosecution until he de cides to hold an inouest where a mar has confessed to the staying?
 How long may the coroner hold u1 the case?'
 Mfr. Weeks made the following reply:
 Tho coroner will hold no inquest un
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
DEATH COMES ID BANDIT !. AFTERBR|DGEPORT HOLD-UP

lis Three Companions in Crime Were Arrested After
 Automobile Chase Through Stratford-They Hat Grabbed the $19,oOO Payroll of the Connecticut Com
 pany From Assistant Cashier Tibbals and Agent Vii
 liam Dunn-Dunn Fatally Shot One of the Robbers During the Getaway With the Money-Later His Body Was Found in the Automobile, After the Capture of His Companions.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
JURY DISAGREED IN S5O,ooo
 SUIT BY MILFORD MAN

Boston, May 24.-The federal jury in the suit brought by Michael V. Ryan of Mflford, Conn, seeking damages of s50,- 900 from the United Fruit company and the Northern railway of Costa Rica for the loss of an eye and other injuries sus- talned when train was fired upon by Costa Rican troo9s in 1918, reported a disagreement tonight after ter hours of deaieeratton and was dismissed. Ryan s! in Costa Riea to make arrangements Tor the transportation of Belgian refugees to the tropics when the injuries were sustained.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
DEMAND HOUsECLEANING
 OF SUPREME COUNCIL. K. OF c

Oswego. \. Y. May 24.-Drsstic reso- lutions demanding general houseclean- Ing of the supreme council of the Knights of Columbus were adopted at the closing session of the New York state council here today.
 The resolutions provide specifically that Joseph c. Pelletier Of Boston, Mass, su- prerne advocate of the order, who was removed from the office of district attor- ney of Suffolk county, Mass. by the state supreme court on charges of malfeasance and misfeasance in office. be removed from his office in the order. Further pro- Tision was made that James A. Flaherty, supreme knight, and John B. Kennedy, edkor of Columbia" be censured for publicity given in connection with the Pslletier case. Delegates to the national supreme council session at Atlantic City during the week of Aug. 1 were instruct bd 10 present these resolutions.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
NOMINATION OF DWIGHT
 DAVIS CONFIRMED BY SENATE

Washington, May 24.-The nomination of Dwight Davis of St. Louis to be a member of the war finance .corporatiop was confirmed by the senate tonight He had been nominated to succeed himself ls a member and the confirmation means that the corporation can resume making advances for agricultural and livestock purposes.
 Agricultural and livestock credits can only oe advanced by vote of a majority of the five directors of the corporation, and were temporarily suspended this week when Managing Director Meyer left for a trip to the south. leaving only two direc- tors in the city, inasnuch as MT. Davis had not been confirmed, and an appoint ment to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Angus Mclean of North Carolina has not been made.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
GAS PLANT EMPLoYE AT
 BRISTOL SHUT. OFF GAS

Bristol, Conn, May 24--A man did something today that all the town soon knew about. He was an empioye of the gas plant of the Bristol and Plainville Electric Company. and he. by mistake, shut off big gas valve on. one of the containers. The pressure of gas went down and Bristol and Plainyille soon were without gas.
 It will be evening before the pressure is up. The Bristol Press had to Set type by hand asthe gas jets on the linotype machines were unlighted
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
PAID $s 900 FOR A PAPER
 MONEY MAKING MA CHINE

New Haven. May 2l.-John Groos
 Lynn and Frank zilinski Of this city were arrested by the local police today on complaint of Alexander Struzinski, a Branford farmer. who claimed the two men sold his paper money making machine" and thereby swirdled him out of $3,000 The two men were locked up in default of $1o,ooo ball each on a technical charge pending hearing be- fore a United States commissioner.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
THE LABOR PARTY WILL NOMINATE IT CANDIDATES

Dublin, May 24-The labor party will nominate seventeen candidates for the include James Larktn, the former head of the Transport Workers union, who recently was released from prison in the United States on 8 writ of reasonable doubt.
 Larkin was found guilty in 1920 Of criminal anarchy and sentenced 10 a term of five to ten years in New York state prison.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
GENERAL LEONARD WOOD
 . AND PARTY STILL MISSING

Honolulu, T. H. May 24.-Great an- xiety is felt in Manila for the safety oi Governor General Leonard A. Wood and party who are reported missing in a small yacht, following a typhoon of the FIuzon coast, according to a press dis patch from Tokio to the Haiwii Shimpo a Japanese language newspaper here quoting Manila advices. a The storm rose so suddenly. the dis. Hpatch says, that many vessels navigating tiie open sea were unable to reach safety Before 1t was upon them and the govern org yacht was one of the many vessel. reported missing.
 ,iThe storm did considerable damage ir
 an daround Mntla-
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
CONVENTION OF AMERICAN
 MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

St. Jous, May 24.--An organized fight 70 prevent separation of the scientific sections of the American Medical asso- ,iation in convention here from the house Of delegates Or the legislative body was started today in the sixteen sectional meetings of the association with the ,in- Production Of resolutions. protesting such Ictioa
 The introduction of resolution in the iouse Of delegates yesterday to amend .ie bylaws SO as to eliminate from the iouse of delegates such representation as he scientific branches now have precip- taied the fight, which Is expected by delegates fully to develop in the meeting Sf the lgislativ branch tomorrow
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
"GRETNA GREEN" FIGHT
 RENEWED BY PREsBYTERs

Des Moines, Ia May 2l.-(By the A. P.)-The "Gretna Green" fight of a year ago was renewed today in the Presbyteri- an general assembly, when the congre- gation of the Rev. John McElmoyle, the marrying minister of Elkin, Maryland, applied for transfer of the church from the New Castle Presbytery to the Balti- more Presbytery on a charge that mo justice can be had from the former. The minister was suspended by the assembly last year.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
TRoLLEYMEN VOTE TO REJECT
 PROPOSED WAGE REDUCTION

New Haven, May 24-The ballot of the members of the trolleymen's union employed by the Connecticut company throughouts the state rejects the pros posed wage cut of five cents an hour, it was announced tonight.
 An agreement to submit the wage dis pute to arbitration and to accept the
 decision of the arbitrators as final will
 be drawn up and representatives of the Connecticut company and the trolley mems union are expected to sign it on Saturday.
 It is understood that the board of ar- bitration will be made up of the same
 members as a year ago. when Joseph Berry of Hartford represented the com l pany. James Fahey of Boston the tfol-
 leymen and Justice John K. Beach oi :. New Haven was the third member.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
RADIO IS TO BROADCAsT
 APPEARANCES OF ALLAN

New York, May 24.-Radiophone fans
 hereabouts soon will be able to strap on their headpieces and hear what Mayor Hylan thinks of the various organiza- tions that attacks his administration. The board of estimate today recom- mended that the board appropriate s5o,-
 900 for erection of a big broad casting station on top of the Municipal build ing.
 The station. it was announced, will have a sending radius of about s1 BOO miles and will be used chiefly for broad
 casting educational and musical pro- grams
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
VOTE FOR MASONIC TEMPLE
 AT FREDERICKSBURG, VA.

Atlantic City. N. j.. May 24.-The resolution endorsing the project for a Masonic. temple at Fredericksburg, Va, to house the relics of George Washington. who was made Mason there Nov 4, 1752. and who later became master of the lodge.
 The convention also went on record as strongly in favor of the Smith TowneT bill, and called upon congress to speed the passage of the measure
 A parade participated in by 5000 Ma sons took place tonight.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-25
WOULD HASTEN THE TRIAL
 OF CHARLES ". MORSE AND SONS

New York. May 24.-An order to show cause why William A. Barber and Stu art c. Gibboney, who with Charles " Morse, his three sons and eighteen others are under indictment on a charge Of us ing the mails to defraud, should not be granted immediate and separate trial. was handed down today by United States District Judge Augustus N. Hand. The order Is returnable Friday.