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Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
GERMANY UNABLE TO
 MEET JULY PAYMENT

Paris, Jnly 12 (By the A. P.l-Ger- many served notice on the allied powers through the reparations commission to- day that she could no longer meet cash obligations of any sort. whether grow ing out of the Versailles treaty stipula- tions, undertaken by acceptance of the London ultimatum of May 5, 1921, or arranged by the schedule of payment s drawn up by the reparatfons comnli S sion on March 21. 1922
 The depreciation of the mark on for eign exchanges is given as the reason for the inpossibility of Germany. to pay. and for her request that she be re Iieved of cash engagements. including the payment of 32,00o. 900 gold marks on Saturday, as well as all subsequent payments in 1922. 1923, and 1924.
 The German note submitted to the Preparations commission makes no men i tion of Germany's intention regarding cash payments after 1924, but asks that the negotiations for a foreign loan, in terrupted at Paris last month, which Germany planes for the continued fall of the mark, be resumed at the earliest possible date, or a financial, economic and social catastrophe in Germany is likely to develop.
 The reparations commission swill de i eide tomorrow whether Germany must meet the July 15 payment, but Will make 1 no ruling as to a further moratorium luntil it receives the report of the com
 mittee ons guarantees. now in Berlin. The commission this afternoon took
 under consideration Germahy's requesi for a moratorium of two and a hall years on cash reparation payments which was contained in the German note. It is understood that the copn1is ! sion tentatively determined to insis upcn the payment of 32,00D,o0O gold marks due5 on Saturday
 The committee on guarantees. or < whose report depends the question of 2 i moratorinn, wiil furnish details on thi 1 financial situation in Germany. In rep arations circles, however, the feeling i tbecorning stronger that some relief il the form of moratorium on cash pay
 ments will be granted Germany, a ma jority of the members of the commission
 seeming to favor such a step.
 The Germans asked to De relieved U
 next Saturdays payment on the groun that the money was badly needed t 1 pay for foreign cereals soon to be pur chased in order to insure enough breai for the people.
 In the note. the text of which wa 1 published tonight, Germany points ou that in May 1921. the rate of sixty pa
 per marks to the dollar formed tn basis of fulhllment of reparations pay ment while on July 6, last, the mar had declined to 800 for the dollar. I order to effect the payment kof 72U,000 i 900 gold marks during this year tn sum of 80,0O0 ,oo0,o0O paper mark
 would be necessary, the note held.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
HAGUE coSFEREScE pooaLEp TO FAILURE

The Hague, July 12.-(By The A. P.) Two stormy sessions of the conference on Russian problems today disturbed the calm of the Carnegie peace palace and apparently ended all chance of an agree ment between the Russians and the oth- CT powers. Another session will be he'd tomorrow which is generally expected by Russians and on-Russians alike to con- demn' The Hague conference to absolute failure.
 The chasm between the Russians and the other powers. apparently is far wid- CT than at Genoa. and the non-Russian group is not divided, as it ;yas at Gen ca. The British and French are acting now in agreement on the demands con- cerning nationalized property. which the Russians say practically amount to in- sistence on absolute restitution
 This position was developed at the meeting of the sub-comuission on prop erty, after which Maxim Litvinof. head of the soviets, stated emphatically he believed that the conference had exhaust ed it's usefulness and would end without results. This afternoon the sub-commis- sion on debts had equally unfavorable results The Russians insisted on hav- ing the present conference fix the total amount of pre-war debts Russia would he expected to pay. but the non-Rus- sians stood out for fixing this sum through mixed commissions at a later date.
 At the conclusion of this meeting M Litv;noff granted an interview in which he declared that the non-Russian dele gates had clearly agreed to make the conference a failure and were trying to pin the Russians down to answer ques- tions in order to justify breaking up the meeting
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13

EAshing gton, July 12. = Anthracite mine owners today submitted response to the governments offer of arbitration in the coal situation that President Harding was said to regard as com plete acceptance,
 Meanwhile the miners union. and. to degree, the bituminous coal opera tors, continued to pursue a policy which high officials declared was intended to evade or delay. an immediate response, and in which officials saw a disposition to reject the governments settlement plan if public opinion would approve such a course.
 John l.. Lewis, president of the Unit ed Mine Workers of America. and other officials of that organization, called on Secretary Davis today and were under stood to be endeavoring to induce the president to make the arbitration propss sals apply to all the partly unionized territory as well as the mining area shut down by the b:tuminous strike. So far as the willingness of anthracite opera ftors to settle was concerned. Mir. Lewis said arbitration in the anthracite fields would be considered by the mine workers along, with the bituminous arbi- tration proposals at the general policy
 committee meeting Saturday"
 Responses from the bituminous indus try, 1t was evident, would not be in the 1 presidents hands before Monday. Two conditions were attached to tho
 anthracite employers acceptance of ar 1 bitration as a, means of ending the sus
 pension of operations in their territory lone that separate commission consider wage scales in that. industry and a sec ond that the commission be required I to return decision about August 10
 Meantime. they. agreed to the president: suggestion of paying the wage rate oi | March 31, though protesting that tn.
 would embarrass rather than assist tn,
 effort to restore normal conditions be l cause public demand for decreased prices of anthracite is imperative" Declaring that the anthracite indus l try had no problems of part time em
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
ASKS RETURN OF MONEY
 PAID FOR STOCKS

Boston, July 12.-Restitution of s14,- 00e,000 allege6eo have been dlid by more than 60,e0o persons for stock in the H. V. Greene Company. the Conner cial Finance corporation, the Mutual Finance corporation and the First Peo- p.es' Trust, was asked in bill in equity filed in supreme court today by coun- sel for the Boston Legal Aid society.
 The bill, which joined as defendants the directors and trustees of the com panies, both as officers and individuals, asked distribution of all the available assets of the companies and appointment of receivers for them. Supreme Court Justice Jenney granted temporary in- functions returnab,e next Tuesday re- straining all the defendants from dis posing of any of their assets paying dividends, transferring stock or destroy ing or concealing corporate and trust records
 The plaintiffs in a separate motion re- quested special precept of attachment to the amount of S15.000,00 against de fendants and defendant companies. All the banks in Boston were named as trus- tees in order that the individual bank accounts might be reached. Writs were also sought attaching the real estate ot the various defendants. The court post poned decision on this motion until to- morrow.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
KABBrs PLEA WINS
 FREEDOM FOB PRISONER

Philadelphia. July 12.-A personal plea made today to Judge McCullen in quarter sessions court by Dr. Abr %Am s. Ans pacher, rabbi of the Congregation of Beth Israel. Hartford. Conn.,. won the release on rcobation for one year of Ernest Wer- ner, who had had pleaded guilty to three indictments charging him with entering to steel.
 Werner was arrested in this city in June. 1916, after serie aof apartment house robberies, and was released on bail. Jumping his bail. heybecame a fugitive. He was arrested later in Hartford and sentenced to six years imprisonment in the Connecticut state prison. After his re- lease he was returned here to answer the robbery indictment.
 Rabbi Anspacher tod the court that he had made an extended investigation of Werner's past life and that if paroled he believed he would make good The rabbi said he had job for the prisoner and should he misbehave he would have him back in his cell very quickly
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
Pueblo Flyer iIl
 HeadOIl Collision.
Five Killed and Forty Injured When Fast Express Crashes Into Freight Train on Out skirts of Kansas City.


 Kansas City. Mo, July 12.-E Five pea- sons were killed and forty injured, most of them seriously, when the Missouri Pa ciac Scenic Limited Flier, west bound from St. Louis to California, colIided head-on with a local freight train near here tonight.
 Persons who were in the wreck be- aieved. other dead were under passeng- CT coac1nh which turned over at the side of the track. c. L. sCurmm, of Kansas City, engineer on the freight train. was killed.
 The fisf was running an hour late on it's schedule. It left St. Louis at nine o'clock this morning, after connecting with a Pennsylvania fast train from New York and Philadelphia. Most of the passengers were from the east a railroad official said.
 Misunderstood orders are believed to be the cause of the wreck.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
TWO RESCUED FROM
 WRECKED HYDRo-AIRPLANE

Atlantic City, N. J.. July 12.-Racing across the inlet in his motorboat. Fritz Dayton today rescued Earl Beers. an javi- ator, of Union Hill, N. J.. and his sister in-law, Mrs. Anna Ciausen. from a wreck ed hydro-airplane a moment before it sank.
 Beers flew to the resort last night from Union Hill, bringing two members of the Elks to the reunion of the grand lodge. This morning he gave a performance of stunt flying.
 This afternoon he took his sister-in-law for a spin When they were over the center of the city the engine went dead. Beers made frantic efforts to start the motor, but his gasoline tank was empty In landing, the plane struck the water with such force that it was wrecked and began to sink at once.
 Dayton, seeing the plight of the couple started down the inlet and reached the scene moment before the waves closed over the plane. Neither was injured.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
EightChi|drenBIOWIi
 to Pieces by Shell
'sSouvenir" 75 Millineare
 Shell Exploded on Back Porch of House at Water
 town, N. Y.

Watertown, N. r., July H-Eight children, ranging in age from Is to Il years, were blown to pieces late today by the explosion of a 75-millimetre shell an the back porch of a house in Dim mick street, occupied by Edward C. Workman and William L. Salisbury.
 The dead are: Morris Salisbury, Is i; Frances Wiley 13; Vivian Jones. F i; Olin Brown, II; Anson Workman, 13 Edna Workman, 14 i; Sarah Barden, 13 and Donald Horton. F, of Pulaski, N. 1..s who was visiting the Brown boy.
 The shell, which was owned by Mt. Workman, was one which he kept as a souvenir and used on the rear porch to hold the door from closing. It was be | lieyeds to be dead"
 The children were playing croquet in the back yard. The shell is believed to have either been set off by the hot sun or to have been struck by one of the victims with a croquet mallet. Windows within a radius of two blocks of the explosion were shattered. Practically all of the clothing was 1 blown off the bodies of the children. Fragments of it lodged in trees and house I tops in the vicinity. The bodies were horribly mutilated, but identification was possible in every instance.
 One5of the first physicians on the scene
 
 which had been placed over one of the forms. he recognized the body of his 12 year old daughter, Vivian, by means of an adhesive dressing he had placed on a cut on her leg barely half hour before l He did not know his daughter was in the group and was almost overcome with l grief
 The bodies of the children were found 1 apparently at places near where. they had I~. xr. them lay fragments of the croquet nal were blown to bits and the wickets were
 torn from the ground.
 l The shell apparently let go without warning. Two carpenters at work on a l house next door to the wockman home said that a second before the detonatior they had heard the voices of the children lat play. The two men were the first tC reach the scene.
 I They were greeted. by a scene of utter I desolation. Ihe Workman house is oi concrete. and the concussion had reduced
 the entire rear of the house to powder On the ground lay the eight bodies ant over all gray pail of concrete dust wa, Il beginning to settle.
 | Fragments of clothing were suspended ,l from trees and lfousetops. Two automo
 bile tires which had been on the baci
 porch were blown to the roof of build ing two hundred feet away. Blocks O
 concrete were blown against neighberin, !. houses and into the streets and surround Il ing yards '
 Physicians found al sign of life in onl. one of the bodies. Morris Saissbury bu :. the boy died while being taken into al
 ambulance: Others were in many case literally blown to pieces and died in stantiy and without suffering.
 The shell was whatis commonly knowl
 as "dud.s The projectile had beensfire, from one of the six-inch howitzers durinl l target practice of the 104th Field artilier, i at Pine Plains reservation last summer { It had not exploded by fuse or contac , and lay. in the sand. fully charged. whei
 MT. Workman found it and brought i
 home as souvenir
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
GEORGE J. GOULD wEps
 SECOND WIFE AT PARIS

New York, July f2-Broadway and It's show people and Fifth and Park ave nues and their society folk consulted
 their best memories today to find out
 whoythe- Mrs Alice Sinclair. who became
 the second wife of George J. Gould in
 Paris last week.
 Cable dispatches bringing first news of the nuptials- to this mornings news
 papers mentioned that she. was an act
 ress, and had played behind the foot
 tights here. With this for a clew. 1t ii-
 nally. was established that she came
 here in the cast of an English musical comedy some years ago. and had there
 after lived in West End avenue and at
 country home on the island in Long
 Island sound, off Rye. She was fa- miliar figure in that village, and resi- dents there said she was the mother of two children. She mingled seldom iii
 the society of the place. For several years; it was said, she and MT. Gould had been friendly.
 MT. Gould's first wife. and the mother of his seven children, Mrs. Edith King
 don Gould, died less than year agf while goIang with him on their country estate, Georgian court. near LaKe1.o-- IN J.. In her will she bequeathad to MT Gould their splendid mansion in Fiftf avenue and another residence in the six l t;es during his life and until he re {, u1arries." Now that he has re-married these properties valued at almost s3. I 900 ,0o0. go into trust fund in wnlci the children share equally.
 Mrs. Carroll Livingston Wainwright
 who was Edith c. Gould. confirmed tn i Announcement of her fathers marriage which was attended by but one of hi children. Mrs Anthony J. Drexel. Jr who was Marjorie Gould. son, Ja. Gould, sailed for Europe on the Majes l tic last Saturday, and will meet his ia ther and step-mother overseas. MI Gould has leased a castle at Invernes l shire, Scotland, where he and his brid | Will spend their honeymoon until Nov ember. Early in the fall Mrs. Vain wright and her husband will visi them.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13

pioyment, but had entirely different con ditions of work and living than In the bituminous field, and that a commission now appointed to operate should be re- quired to set up a permanent method by which wages and working condi- tions in the future can be automatical- ly adjusted" the operators asked the president to name three representatives of the public on the board, and only one miner and one operator This. it was held. would assure a non-partisan adju- dication. decision from such com mission. they declared. they would ac- cept without reservation or qualifca- tion"
 Conditions which both operators and the unions of the bituminous industry are asking 10 be attached to the pres disturbing today by officials concerned. MT. Lewis and union officials, who have professed themselves powerless to an swer the arbitration tender without summoning their general policy commit tee today suggested that the govern ment arrange to apply the arbitration proceedings in settlement of wages n ] practically all the territory which the unions claim as it's own. in the mines of Washington state. and those of West Virginia and Pennsylvania, where some production has been accomplished Min go county, West Virginia, the scene of mine disturbances in recent months, and i Somerset county, Pennsylvania. where mines working for steel output were con
 sidered non-union until the recent strike were included in Mir. Lewis list
 The bituminous operators objections to the proposal were said to attack the presidents proposal to put the men back at wage scales of l920-32, when non union mines, with 100000 employees. had I been steadily working all through 1921 at wages practically identical with those
 of 1911 This not only will force dis
 turbances of operation in non-union ter ritory. in the view of the operators, but will leave them with high cost coal to sell in competition with lower cost non
 union coal.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
HURRY CALL FOR TROOPS AT SAGINAW

Saginaw, Mich. July 12.-A reoues, was sent to Governor Groesbeck al Lansing late tonight for state troops to maintain order here when a threat ening crowd, estimated to number near. ly 1000 persons. gathered about the Pere Maruuette yards. One report which officials could not at first confirm, was that strike sympathizers had hrol- en into the Pere Marquette round house seized strike breakers brought here by the road. and marched them toward the Saginaw river.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
RAILROAD MANS HOUSE
 ATTACKED BY GANG

Buffalo. N. Y, July 12.-The home of Andrew Millet, a railroad man in Gar denville near here, was attacked early today by gong of men who hurled bricks and stones through windows and broke down a door. Several railroad men live in the Millet home. one of them a foreman in the Pennsylvania railroad car shops, who has been working since the shopmen's strike began The sher- ifs office was notified but when depu- ties arrived at the scene, there was nc sign of the attacking party. which 1t was reported fled in automobiles.
 The home of George Gibbons, a Lehigt Valley railroad foreman in South Ogden street, was stoned last night.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
ORDERED TO CEASE - LOCOMOTIVE REPAIRS

Washington. July 12.-Menbers of all unions affiliated with the metal trades department of the American Federation of Labor were instructed in orders sent out today from the headquarters here that no further repair work will be au- thorized on locomotives coming from railroads on which strikes are in pro- gross to outside shops employing union labor.
 The order, sent out by A. J. Berres, secretary y-treasurer of the department, was to be effective at once. Identical copies went to the presidents of all inter- nationals affiliated with the metal trades group, who were instructed to notify their locals.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
ROADS WON'T TAKE
 STRIKING SHoPMEN BACK

Boston, July 12-striking shopmen will not be re-employed on New England rail- roads except to fill vacancies officials of the three railroads with terminals in this city announced tonight. Thousands of men, they said, had accepted offers of permanent employment since the strike began, and these would be retained no matter what settlement was reached with the shopmen.
 The New York, New Haven and Hart ford railroad hired III new men here today, bringing the total taken on by this road since the commencement of the strike to 1889.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
TURNED DOWN PROPOSALS
 FROM SHAH OF PERSIA

New York, July 12.-It was only a few days ago that cable dispatches from Paris bore a rumor that Mrs Peter Cooper Hewitt had turned down IT pro- posals of the Shah of Persia. that she share his throne. And so dispatches telling of her quiet marriage in Paris today to Baron Robera D'Erlanger gave a little thrill to New York society, In which the widow of the electrical inven- tor is well known.
 Before her first marriage. she was Marion Andrews Brugiere- Tn 1918 she became the second wife of Peter Cooper Hewitt. inventor of the mercury arc lamp and many other electrical de- vices, who had been divorced from his first wife. the former Alice Work The Inventor died in Paris last August fol- lowing an intestinal operation
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
ATLANTA ELKs' CHOICE
 FOR 1923 CONVENTION

Atlantic City. ". J., July 12.-Atlanta, Ga, was se.ected as next years meeting place for the grand lodge of EIks at to- days session of the annual reunion of the organization.
 Other features of today's session were the arriyal- of congressional delegat on from Washington, the prize drill by the Elys patrols. and the adoption of the report of the Elks national memorial headquarters commission.
 The prize drill competition was held the airport First honors went to the washington, Zouaves' from Lodge No. 2S5, Jackson, Mich Milwaukee won second place, and the Buffalo team third.
 The siKty-fiye senators and congress men in the Washington delegation will take part in the big pageant tomorrow.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
TROOPS WITHDRAWN FROM
 BLOOMINGTON SHOPS

Bloomington, July 12- (By The A. P.)- Mclean county today began putting g it's government back on a peace time basis preparatory to relieving the Illinois Ma tional Guard of the task of keeping or der here,
 Sheriff Morrison, with, five deputies took over the duty of guarding the Chi cago and Alton yards. and the troops were withdrawn to the railroad shops
 Their withdrawal from the yard dis trict stayed of the threatened wa7xout of engineers, firemen, trainmen and con- ductors who had refused to take out the trains under troop protection. The four brotherhoods ordered their members back to work and freight service was re- suned this afternooy
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
NEW ENGLAND FIRE CHIEFS
 ORGANIZE AT BOSTON

Boston. July 12-Fire departnaen. heads of fifty New England cities and towns meeting here today formed the New England Association of Fire Chiefs. Chief John P. Doyle of Wellesley was elected president. Other ofii>efs are: First vice president, John c. Moran, Hartford. Conn; second vice president. P. J. Hurley. Holyolze; secretary-treasurer J. W. O'Hearn. Watertown- The state vice presidents include John O. Tabor. Boston, A. J. Cote. Woonsocket R. |. and D. B. Johnson. Bridgeport Among the members of the board of directors are former Chief R. D. Weeks of Providence and former Chief Peer E. Walsh of Bos- ton.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
NEW HAVEN YOUTH
 DROWNED IN. POND

New Haven. July 12.-Taken with cramps after a dive into the pond at the old shipyard at the foot of Water street, Lereto Ursinl, 1T, was drowned in sight of. a number of companions today. The youth was seen to disappear by his friends and when he failed to come up they summoned William Collier from a lumber yard nearby. Collier brought the body to the surface but not before life his parents, seven brothers and three sis ters
Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-13
TEXAS MOB ATTACKS FIFTY-ONE MEN

Denison, Texas. July 12.-Fifty- men were attacked by a mob here early today. They included forty eight being brought to Denison to be sworn in as United States deputy marshals. and four railroad guards. according to information available here late today. First reports that some of the men attacked were com ing to take the places of striking shop men were incorrect One guard was shot and wounded and sixteen other men beaten by the mob, alleged to have been composed of strikers and their sympa- thizers The attack occurred while the men, just arriving from Dallas. were marching from the station to the Mis- souri, Kansas and Texas railroad shops.