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Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-03
SenatQ sdsLead
 Over Long is8,931
Long Claims $40 Precincts Missing Should be Favora- bIe to Him.

$ St Louis, Aug. 2.-(By the A. P.)- Senator James A. Reed isa, ,-adinG' Breck enridge Long for the democratic nomlna- tion for United States senator, by il ,9G4 votes, on returns from. S,osO ou- of S.S48 precincts in the state. Practically all of the missing precincts are in country dis tricts where Long has been running ahead,
 < Returns from the :3,oS0 precincts give Reed .175, ,2SS and Long 16s ,S24.
 R. R. Brewster, of Kansas City, took the lead in the republican senatorial race, on the returns reporting at 4.45 p. m, today, 2,6S7 princincts of of s,s4s in the state gave Brewster e6,S76; Will liam Sacks of St. Louis, 62,0S1. Pra'ctie- ally al of the remaining precincts to be heard from are from counties other than Jackson (Kansas City) and St Louis.l The rural districts have shown exceptional strength for Brewster.
 :, The outcome of the Reed-Long race feature event of yesterdays primary probably will not be known until the complete vote has been tabulated. As additional scattered precincts iron the rural districts drifted in Senator Reeds lead over Long was cut to s, s,93I | With 3,S0s of the BRAS precincts 1T the state reported, Reed had I32.208 against ITS PIT for Long The outstand ing precincts were in the rural districts which Long claims favorable to him.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-03
GUARANTEE TRUST co.
 CONTROLS sTUTz MOTOR

New York, Aug. 2.LControl of the Stutz- Motor Car Company of America was acquired today by the Guaranty srust Company, which purchased 133,- 71+ of the outstanding 100000 shares at a public auction of the collateral of Allan A. Ryan, who recently failed for SIS ,00e,00o. The stock sold for $20 share. Another block of 1.6o0 shares of Stutz stock was bought by the Ern- pire Trust Company at the same price.
 Only approximately s, $500 was realized from the sale of Ryan's seca G- a4cs, which had peen pledged as col lateral against bank loans of $14,0oo,ooo, the bulk of which were with the Guar anty Trust Company. l. Directors of the 6tutZ company re- gently made public balance sheet as of June 30, 1922, showing a surplus of $4473-352 Liabilities showed the 20o,- 1 900, shares Of common stock of no par value, declared at $5 share.
 In the. spring of 1920, Stuaz was quot 1 ed on the New York stock exchange al about S11e asnare. When Ryan cornered the availa blef supply. tne price had soar
 ed to $391 share, which represented the last sale on the r''big board A few days later. some shares were sold at pub. | lie auction for -S7o1.- The stock wa: 1 stricken from the list by the exchange
 and the shorts were required to set tie for S55o a share, this transaction net ting Ryan an immediate profit of $1,
 60000O.. ;.
 The corner proved, boomerang fo Ryan, who was, unable to, protect hi 1 investments and was forced to put him self in the hands of trustees in the fal of that year. The banks also found i difficult to liquidate his affairs, and volutary petition in bankruptcy was re
 cenly filed.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-03
PREPARATIONS COMMISSION LOOK FOR STATEMENT FROM U. S.

Paris, AuE 2.-fBy the A P)- Some statement by the American govern ment dealing with the note of ths Earl of Balfour, acting British foreign secre- tary, concerning allied war debts, is anxiously awaited in reparations com mission circles, where it was said to- night that the British communication on inter-allied debts would not have the ef- feet of preventing a Franco-Britlsh rep arations settlement.
 Information is said to have reached reparations headquarters from an au- thoritative source that Lord Ealfour' note was a trial balloon sent up fer the purpose of placing responsibility for a solution of the debts question directly at the door of the United States"
 If the balloon bursts through a re- fusal of the United States to deuart from it's already established policy. the rera' rations experts have been informed tl.at Great Britain will proceed to general dis i cussion at the coming London meeting e the French debts, regardless of tht American policy.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-03
HALE HOLIDAY ORDERED h.. RESTORED TO \. H. CLERKS

New Haven. Aug. 2.-The threatened strike of clerks freight handlers. ex- press and station employees ct th- N. |" N H. and H. Railroad and the Cen tral New England Railway will proba- bly be declared of if the railroad com pany carries out the terms of tele- gram said to have been sent c. l.. Bardos general manager of the New Ha- ven road by .. S. labor board ordering the company to restore to the employees the Saturday half-holday. vacation an& sick leave privileges that were in ef- 1 feet February I.
 The news was given out by R. c. 1 stearns chairman of the system board l af adjustment. who said that he was in rectipt of a. message to <lis effect from L.. NJ. Parker. secretary of the labor l board A meeting will probably be held tomorrow by the committee of three rep resenting the clerks and the manage ment of the road when it is expected that the decision of the company VII | be made known. ~ In an interview tonight Mfr. Stearns said that the tabuiation of the strike vote taken by the clerks had been com { plened but the result will be. withheld pending the result of tn meeting tn- | morrow.
 Railroad men declar7 his 70 be vic tory for the clerks and express the be- lief that other points ask -d for will bt given favorable co1si4sr:tt1ea by tkt labor board.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-03
ADMINISTRATION FORCES
 WON K OF c. ELECTION

Atlantic City. N. J., Aug. 2-The ad- ministration forces of the Knights of Columus won a victory in the elections at the, fortieth annual convention of the order today. The elections consumed the greater part of the day.
 The first victory came to the admin istra3ion, when Luke Fo-+ "f Y r.oris was elected suprNStS advocate In succes- sion of Joseph ~Pelletier, tu- lorlner Bos- ton district attorney who resigned. He defeated William J. MulIigan, of Thomp- scnville. Conn, 1651zs to 154.
 Hart is lawyer and has been prom inent in the national executive body of the order for several years.
 The directors elected are: John F. O,NeilL Jersey City, supervisor of Hud- son county William D. Dwyer, St. Paul George H, Boivin, Granby, Quebec. mem her of the Canadian house of .comI mons; Patrick H., Rice, Augusta, Ga.
 John H. Reddan, iDenvl7 Co1ol and William C. .Prout, Boston, state depu. ty of Massachusetts.
 l The principal business now before the convention is. action on the Knights o1 l Co.umbus American history movement I GaiIlard; Hunt, chief archivist of the 1 United States state department will address the convention and announce tn, winner of the K of C. history contest
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-03
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
 INVENTOR OF TELEPHONE. DEAD


 cydney. N. s., Aug. 2.-Alexander Graham Bel, inventor of the telephone. died at Baddeck, near here at 2 o'clock. this morning
 Alexander Graham Bell lived to see experiments which. he began with a dead mans ear less than fifty years ago re- suit in a means of colnmunic4t1nn fer millions of long distance telephone con- Versations daily in all parts of the Mcrld. The possibility of taking oysr- q wire. lsridiculed then as a dream by almost cv- erybody except Bell, became duriag his lifetime a reality, commonplace and marvellous.
 | The Bell basic patent, known in the records at Washington at No. .174, ,466 has been called the most valuable single pat ent ever issued in~the whole History of l invention. There, are4 today over thjr- | teen million telephone instruments through which billions of. telephone con yetsations are carried On each. year.
 MT. Bells first success came while l testing his instruments in his new. quart CTS in Boston, Thomas A. Watson, Bells assistant had struck, a clock spring at one end of the wire and Bell was electrified to hear the sound in an other room. For forty weeks the in- strument struggled. as 1t were, for hu- man speech! Then on March 15, lS76, | Watson became almost insane with. icy when he heard over the wire Bells voice saying: ..
 MI. Watson, come here, I want you" On his 18th birthday, Bell cceivsl his patent. It was at the Centennial Exposi- tion held at Philadelphia, two months later. where men of science tne world over who had come to examine and study I the numerous inventions exhibited, saw
 Prof. Bell yige. a practically. denionstra 1 tion of the transmission of the human voice by electricity.
 While Dr. Bell will be best remem
 bered as the inventor of the telepnon, police, a claim that has been ssustainet
 through many legal contests, he also he
 came noted for other inventions. He wal I joint inventor of the graphaphone witt Summer Taintor. He invented an in
 genious method of lithoErapfy a photo :. phone, and an induction balance. H : invented a telephone probe which he ,uset l to locate the bullet that killed Prasidcn . Garfield He spent Is years and owe r i,$2oo,0e0 in testing his famous tetrahe e dra1 kite, and established principle i Architecture, the use of tetrahedral cell | or units:
 e Throughout his life, pr. Bell <: main d ftained his interest and labors for deaf . -n1utes He founded, became presiden h and contributed $25o, 900 to the America [. Association to Promote Teaching C 1t Speech to the Deaf. He was q menlbe > of many of the leading American learn n ed societies
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-03
NEW YoRKERs AVOIDED
 PIE AT NOON DAY MEAL

New York. Aug. 2.-Pie. the better half of the noon-time meal of thous- anGs Of New York workers. today was an almost uncslled for article in the Greater C!ty's restaurants.
 Fear. caused by the deaths of six per sons who ate poisoned huck,eberry pie Monday in a Broadway restaurant. was given by restauranteurs as the cause Of pie market slump.
 Walters in the lunch emporiums in the Broadway shopping and manufacturing districts said after noon today. that the pie shelves had hardly been touched
 The district attorneys staff kDught today to solve the mystery of the T-an- ner in which poison got into the food at the Shelhurne restaurant on Broad way early this week. resulting in the death of six persons who lunched there. and Illness of almost 100 others. To- night no definite conclusions had been reached.
 Most of the sufferers ate pie at the i Shelburne. but one who died. 1t was | learned. partook of only peach cake, while two men were made ill by lunch ] ing on soup. rolls and ice cream. The ! district attoney said he hoped the 1 analysis of the stomach contents of thoss who died would show what food contain cd the poison. Two names were added to the sick Est today. one new victim being taken to the hospital
 While the restaurant remained closed today medical examination continued of all foods stored there The proprietor . counsel announced a reward of 5000 would be given for information that would lead to conviction of the person responsible for the poisonings.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-03
Foreign Debts are . Concerning Nations
Policies of Great Britain and
 France Should be Made Clear Next Week. '-

. London, Aug. A2-(By the A: P)-The British governments note ito Great Brit aims allies in the great war, reminding them that they owe Great Britain money and that she has a right to ask for pay ment has thrown wide. open the most delicate topic in international politics: The discussion of debts owed to Great Britain had been studiously avoided by all concerned, apparently withsra view on the part of the creditor nation that the question imght conveniently be postpon- ed. s .s- -. rt.,ss
 ! The most cheerful view of the effect of the Earl of Balfours note discoyerable today was that it will afford an under standing all round of what are the poli- cities of the governments concerned. It is considered that next to repudiation, or an equivalent plea of inability to. pay, uncertainty is probtby the worst dam age which Europe and the world of bus mess could continue to suffer. >.
 Within few days-after next weeks conference between Premiers Lloyd | George and Poincare--the policies of l both Great Britain and France should be made clear. The French position 1T one vital respect already Is plain-that : all European postwar indebtedness i. | linked together and any solution of tht l
 many may be willing or be forced b do
 There is much curiosity among tht public as to what important members O 1 the cabinet were responsible for the strong line Lord Balfours note takes since it is believed there is consider
 able difference of opinion in the cabinet 1 Also there is curiosity IS to how far tn advice of Sir Auckland Geddes. Btitisl
 ambassador to the United States, con tributed to the framing of the note since Sir Auckland's visit home was sup
 posed to be mainly for a conference ol the American debt. l George Harvey, the American ambas
 sador, in his speed recently .welcomin
 Ambassador Geddes at the Pilgrims din ner, drew a picture of Great Britain
 returning prosperity which in som
 quarters was translated as a very gen tie. diplomatic hint that Great Brit4i
 now was in a position to meet America
 claims Mr. Harvey went to Scotlln
 today. There is no information as {
 whether the American government wi
 be represented outside the doors Of th
 coming conference between the Britis
 and French premiers by an observer {
 play the same part that Amaassadc Child fulfilled at the Genoa conference
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-03
CONTESTS MANIA FOR
 REPORTING PERSONS KILLED

Sims5ury. Conn. Aug. 2.-Admittins that he has a mania for reporting per-. sons killed by being cut in hal whenever he is under the influence Of liquor. Jo- seph Conley of Hartford today cleared up the mystery surrounding the supposed death of Edward W. O'Brien of this town, who was reported killed by a freight train in the Cedar Eill railroad yards nt New Haven Monday night. Conley called upon William J. Reagan, tobacco plants CT here. brother-in-,sw of O.Brien. and asked his forgiveness. He said he wat the man who reported the Heath of o'Brien to the Hartford police. but ad- mitted that the stocy was entirely imag- mary.
 He told Reagan that he was obsessed with these Authorizations whenever he drank licuor. At one time he said he res ported a man cut in two by a saw In a lumber camp. At another time told the Chicago police that a man had been cut in twain by a trolley car and still an- other time he reported a man killed in the same manner by an automobile.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-03

srzslunrton. Aug . CBy the A. P.)- Further government action in the rail -oad strike was held in abeyance today, though railroad executives who refused President HardinEs suggestions for set tleu,ent yesterday were understood 10 have appriszd administration agencies that the door was still open. for nesotis- tons.
 1f protection in seniority status ac- quirsd by shopmen who have continued to work in spite of the strike could be ruarautsed. any basis of settlement. the president might nd fair would-be favor abiz Aausidered by the manasements i- was said Tentative negotiations dur Ing the day it was added. had brought no immediate tangible results.
 The president was said 10 be await ing the text of the reply which union leaders at Chicago were drafting to his settlement proposals. Secretary Hoover, who attended the session of the road executives at New York. saw the pres ident today. but said that no immediate governmental steps were to be expected other cabinet members who saw the president for discussion of strike mat ters indicated the feeling that claims of railroad rnanaEements as to their ability to maintain transportation would get a tsvt during the next few days. These of. fcizIs left the inference that If the strike demonstrated symptoms of disso lution the president might not move aEain.
 It was emphasized that the nations necessity for at least a minimum coa supply had largely governed the presi dent's action 10 date, and would con true to do SO. This was most import ant n the prospect if held out that coa carrying roads of the district south Q inc Ohio riYer might draw particula government attention. ar even contro unless betterment of their transporta ton cznacity Is soon accomplished These lines serve the larger non-unioi sids. which are the chief source of cur rent coal sunplv Tor the northeast sec tion of the United States.
 The definite answer of the strike lead CTS to the presidents settlement propo szls was expected 10 reach the Whit Hours fate tonight. and to be made pub uc bv tomorrow. Comment was with hsld. though press reports of their ac .eptance were forwarded to the pres 1ent
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-03
PREDICTS STRIKE OF \. '. C.
 MAINTENANCE OF WAY MEN

New York, Aug. A strike of 45.ooo maintenance of way men on the New York Central within a week was pre- dIcted here today by W. NJ. Parker, chairman Of the system organization, as the result of the roads refusal to ae- csot President Harding's plan for set tlsrent Of the shop crafts strike.
 Conditions among workmen at the Sy- racuse shops were reported very grave" by MT Parker, who asserted he had dis patchsd several union officials there to- Eav "to try to quell the uneasiness which became manifest when the action of the Association of Railway Executives be- ,ams known
 "I doubt whether ws can prevent our men along the whole New York Centra system from joining the strikers" he de -is-sd Indications are that all of oul 5oan men will te on strike within s UeeS."
 The railroads rejection of President Hardinr's plan for settlement of the rt-sEe served to send hundreds of me .hani-s to connpanv employment agencies l- sea-rh Of iohs under the roads as- r1rance of seniority rights and prot.c- lion to those who he,ped keen train run ninr. officials of several eastern line: claimed tonight
 New York central .eNecutves assert ee lh-v hired more men today than theS had been able 10 recruit in the last ter days
 F. M Rins. general manager of thu Lackzwanna. declared that strikers, wht Joined the walk-out 8 days ago. todd, asked Tor their rld jobs on the basis to -eadjusted seniority rights.
 The Jersey Central asserted many O rs men who had d;ayed on srikt through fear of the consequences of re turning" today Saw the light break n-' and retrned 10 the shops. Simila reports were made by the Lehigh Valley Inc New Haven, Pennsylvania and tn Erie.
 .At headquarters of the eastern strik committee however. union officials re ported that the action of the America AFsociation Of Railway Executives in definitely refusing reinstatement of thei seniority rights merely caused the me to tighten their belts for long. har fight"
 Strike ofacials characterized yester days action of the railway associatio as "a huge bluff." predicting that tn continued decrease in supply locomc dives and cars will soon result in paralysis of the roads which no on win be able Co ignore"
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-03
POLICE SAVE NEGRO FROM
 LYNCHING AT CEDAR HILL

New Haven, Aug. 2-David Roland, colored, of Morrison, Va, waS sereiously wounded and narrowly escaped lynching at the hands of crowd of about 800 citizens near the Cedar Hill yards of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad early tonight after he had shot and wounded John Daley a striking railroad shopman doing picket duty, and
 fired half a dozen shots at a. constable and two men who tried to arest him. The timely arrival of the local police prevent cd the crowd from carrying out it's pur- pose and Roland is now at the New Ha- ven hospital with three bullet wounds in his body He is under arrest on a charge of shooting with intent to kill
 Bo.and is q laborer in the Davis brick yards here and was crossing vacant lot when he was hailed by Daley, Joserh Nixon and Peter Mckenzie, who were | doing picket duty for the strikers In. stead of answering the, challenge, Roland 1 is said to have drawn a. revolver anG l fired one shot, the bullet lodging 1T Daley's right shoulder. Roland ran pur. l sued by a crowd attracted by the shoot 1 ing, who cornered him in. house nea, | by, where he took refuge. Constable Au | gust Schoepfer, with two men, located
 Roland in the basement after a search 0 | the house, but in reply to their demand
 for surrender Roland fired half a dozeI
 shots at the officer and his assistants
 none of which took effect. Schoepfer re
 turned the fire, hitting. Roland tf1re
 times, after which tie negro gave himsel
 up. .--
 When he was brought out of the hous the crowd, augmented by several hun 1 dred, started toward the man wit.
 threats of lynching. which were frustrat
 ed by the arrival of the local police, wh held the crowd at bay. Roland was weai from loss of blood when he arrived. a police headquarters and was immediate,
 taken o-the hospital after being booked 1 Daley is at his home under the care of
 physician. His wound is not serious,
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-03
HARBoR TUG BLOWN TP.
 FIVE OF HER CREW KILLED

New York. Aug. 2.-Ths harbor tug Edward was blown to pieces today and the five men of her crew were killed when her boiler exploded while the craft lay in her slip on the Brooklyn side of the East river. three blocks upstream from Manhattan bridge,
 There was a heavy puff of smoke and clouds of steam. and through this was shot Nigh into the air hundreds of feet the entire superstructure. the boiler. tubes and everything above deck. When the steam f1oated away only oil was to he seen floating where the tug had been. The hull. shattered into pieces. had gone to the bottom. The explosion hurled mud from the river bed far into the air, p,astering the sides of nearby build 1 ines.
 Four men working nearby were injured by flying debris and wood. Others were slightly hurt and many were sp'attered with mud and water. Ihe captain of a | barge only a few feet from the Edws I'd was knocked down. but none of the wreckage fell upon him.
 1 Several spectators told of having sAeT a body flying through the air. Thr | r1ancled remains of the skipper. Captain Charles McCaffrey. were found floating g beck from where his tug blew up. On' other body was recovered. The remain ing three still were missing tonight 4 diver. who found the hull broken in manI parts said he saw no bodies under tn surface
 Part of the boiler fell upon pier 2Ni feet away Boiler tubing 1n tcp of power plant st7 eq1aI 1ist1rcs fr5u the 'sIop and other b'n- and hrDzen sec tons of wood and ron were str-El about the immediate neIgnborko7l.
 - terTnined tonight. The tug had inst ar rived from another section of tn Brooklyn waterfront to take the barg Dutch Boy in tow and pdf her wa around the Battery and over to he Jer sey shore. when the ace'de..t occurrei.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-03
JOUTHERN HALLWAY EXTENDS
 OLIVE BRANCH TO sTRIKERe

Washington Aug 2.-Committees representing striking employees on the Southern railway system were invited today by Henry W Miller. vice president in charge Of operation. to confer with The management on a proposition to set- tls the strike on the basis of President Hardings proposal which the railway executives turned down yesterday.
 In announcing that the shop crafts committee of the Southern railway had been invited to confer, MT. Miller issued this statement:
 '-rhe policy of the management of the Southern railway system has. been to create no conditions pending terminz- ton of the strike that would embarrass the company. It's employees. or the public and with this end in view no ultima tum has been issued to the men. nc bronnises have been made. no new men lave been employed. and no writs or In- functions have been invoked There ii hsrefcre now no obstscle of the com
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-03
MOS OsQUIToEs INDIRECTLY
 RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATH

Passaic, N. J., Aug. Mosquitoes, indirectly, were held responsible for the death of Frank Schoenbrob. vice pres ident and general manager, of the eff ton Textile company Uho was found dead today in his bed from an over dose of sIeep-inducing powder.
 He took the powder, members Of his family said. to Seek relief from. mos quitoes which prevented his going to sleep Tuesday night. He was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1907 to become gen eral manager of the Van Raalte Com panys silk veil manufacturing plant in Paterson, N. J. A year ago he assisted in forming the Clifton Textile company, and later became it's vice president. He | is survived by his widow and two daugh- ters.