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THURSDAY! Cloudy
FRIDAY: Fair
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AUGUSTA, MAINE, THURSDAY, MORNING, MAY 5, 1921. PRICE THREE CENTS
DEADLOCK STILL HOLDS IN MARINE SCRAP
CABINET HEADS’ EFFORTS ARE FRUITLESS
SHIPPING BOARD CHAIRMAN OBDURATE
Ship Owners Willing to Change Working'
Rules But Stick to Wage Cut — Secretaries j
Davis and Hoover Admit Situation Looks;
Hopeless—Both Sides Preparing for Seige!
Apparently Unavoidable ' j
| BOTH sides stubborn
Washington, May -1—Efforts of
Secretaries Davis and Hoover to
settle the wage controversy of the
shipping board and American ship
owners with their employes appar
entlv were unavailing today. A
feeling of hopelessness was indicated
all parties after a series of sepa
rate conferences by the secretaries
of labor and commerce with Chair
man Henson, the ship owners and the
men.
Bert J,. Todd of the Marine Engi
neers of New York, declared after
conferring with Secretary Davis that
"there were no hopes for a settle
ment" adding that the owners had
refused to consider proposals made
by Sc rotaries Davis and Hoover,
while Secretary Hoover indicated
that mi progress had been made in
oqorts to effect a settlement. See
retaiy Davis announced that he
would confer agai ntomorrow with
representatives of the seamen, radio
operators and marine engineers, but
declined to say that there was any
hope for a settlement.
Chairman Denson declared that
the attitude of the board was un
changed and while both he and the
ship owners were willing to change
to some extent the working rules,
their position on the matter as a
whole remained unchanged. The
ship owners, he said, were living up
to '.lie proposals made by the board,
which included a 15 per cent, out
ami weer not wavering from that
position. The situation as regards
the operation of shipping board ves
sels was very encouraging, he add
ed, reports showing a decided im
proveinent in all departments with
the men indicating a desire to work.
Secretary Davis was at his office
at 7.110 this morning and in confer
ence with the marine engineers,
evolved a set of working rules which
were said to be acceptable to tbe
men. It is understood that upon
these rules were based tbe hopes of
a settlement in a proposed joint con
ference between Admiral Denson,
th ship owners and the men.
However, after a meeting of Sec
retaries Davis and Hoover, with Ad
miral Denson, and tbe ship owners
at which the proposals of Secretary
Davis were discussed, a pessimistic
tone was apparent. Nothing further
was said of a re-opening of the ne
gotiations with all parties present, a
development which had been indi
cated yesterday as a possibility lead
ing to hopes that an agreement
would be effected.
Asked whether the matter would
come to the attention of the Presi
dent if present negotiations failed.
Secretary Davis said he saw no rea
rm, for any one attempting to bur
den the President with the problem.
Sanford Grist Mill
and Box Shop Are
$70,000 Fire Loss
Sanford, Me., May 4.—A box shop
und grist mill owned by Louis F. Traf
ton were burned today by a Are of un
known origin with a loss estimated
at $70,000. His toy factory ciose by
was saved.
Buy China Life Saving Stamps
If each person buys ten stamp* at j
a cost of 30 cents, this community
wul go over its stamp quota.
Stamps can be secured from the
committee at the Chamber of Com
merce rooms, City hall, Augusta, Me.
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RIVAL PREPARATIONS !
New York, May 4—Steamship own- j
ers and striking marine workers at i
this port sparred for advantage to- !
day—the fourth day of the walkout— i
while their representatives conferred
with Federal officials in Washington
in etfort to bring about a settlement i
of the wage controversy.
Managing operators of shipping
board vessels, meeting here, drew up :
campaign plans for the strike and 1
named a committee to act as a board I
of strategy.
These operators decided among
other things to bar union delegates
from their ships and from docks
where such ships are berthed.
The rules also provided that no
men were to be employed on ships
not in actual operation and that
crews were to be signed on vessels
only when they are ready to sail.
Union leaders late today asserted
that they had succeeded in getting
three steamer lines operating coast
wise and trans-Atlantic ships to sign
a year's agreement at the union’s
scale of wages and working condi
tions.
Efforts to persuade men loyal to
their employers to leave their ships
were continued by more than 2,000
pickets patrolling docks and visiting
ships in launches. I.eaders asserted ,
more than 200 men had joined their
ranks today from ships which arrived
dusing the ’.ast 24 hours.
The marine engineers also claimed ,
to have received assurance from har- 1
bor and tugboat engineers that they ]
would not dock a vessel manned by a ,
non-union crew.
The United States Mail Steamship ;
Company’s steamer Potomac, which
was to have sailed yesterday for !
Danzig, tonight was still at her dock, j
.Union leaders asserted she was with- ;
out a crew. Officials of the steam- i
ship line, on the other hand, said she !
was held because of delayed arrival 1
of a number of passengers from wes- !
tern cities.
Two American ships were reported
today as leaving port—the Astrol for
Beaumont, Texas, and the Comanche,
a passenger carrier, for Charleston.
Today’s clearances at the customs
house for early sailing carry the
names of six’United States flag ships.
Oneof them is the steamer Hog Is
land for Creek ports, and the others
for American or Mexican ports.
Clashes at Boston
1 Boston, May 4.—Scrimmaging be- j
tween alleged marine strikers and re
emits to take strikers’ places on the j
! shipping board steamer Craigrownio
at Providence occurred here today. A
| group of 16 men at the South Station
awaiting a train for Providence, !
where they were booked to sail on the
t Craigrownte, clashed with alleged ;
pickets of the seamen’s union, hut
quiet was restored before arrival of
the police. Another encounter at a
wharf between alleged strikers and
strike breakers resulted in one arrest
for assault.
U. S. SUPREMACY
IN FOREIGN TRADE
URGED AT CLEVELAND
Cleveland, May 4.—The predominat
ing note sounded at the opening ses
sion today of the eighth annual con
vention of the foreign trade council
was the adoption of an active policy
of cooperation among bankers, manu
facturers and merchants to maintain
world supremacy for the United States
in foreign trade. Two thousand dele
gates attended.
Organization of financial resources
(Continued on Page 4—Col. 8)
Move for New Parley !
in English Coal Strike !
' London, May 4.—Beyond the fact |
that the members of the parliamentary j
Labor party and other members of I
parliament are trying to resuscitate j
the conference between mine owners
and miners, there is nothing to indi
cate a basis for the optimism of J.
H. Thomas, general secretary of the
National Union of Railwaymen, who
has predicted the end of the coal
strike within a week.
The House of Commons tonight, by
a large majority, adopted a resolu
tion prolonging the government's
emergency powers and adding new
regulations.
Masons Elect at
Portland Meeting
Portland, Me., May 4—Fred C. Chal
mers of Bangor, was elected gTand
master of the grand council. Royal :
and Select Masters of the Masonic Or
der this evening. Maurice L. Slugg
of Belfast, was chosen .deputy grand
master. The annual meeting of the '
order of high priesthood was held
tills evening when Albert M. Penley ]
of Auburn was chosen president;
James E. Parsons of Ellsworth, sen
ior vice president and Wilbur A. Pat
ten of Portland, junior vice president.
LANDIS MUM ON
RUMOR HE PLANS
TO QUIT BENCH
Chicago, May 4.—Judge Kenesaw ■
M. Landis, in a formal statement to
day denied reports that lie had re
signed from the federal bench to de
vote his, time to his position as base- ]
ball commissioner.
"1 have not resigned, nor have I i
said anything that could have been j
construed into a statement that 1 have
resigned," the statement said.
The action Monday of the Senate ;
Judiciary committee in indorsing Seu- 1
ator Dial’s bill making it an offense
for a federal judge to accept another
position of pecuniary' profit while on
the bench had again aroused rumors
tiiat the judge was to relinquish his
federal position.
Judge Landis refused today to say.
however, whether lie was thinking of
resigning at some future date. To a
direct question he made the same re
ply he always has made during the
past few months whenever the possi
bility of his resigning came up.
"I cannot discuss that." he said.
Judge Landis said the present ru
mor about his resignation probably'
had arisen through conversations he
had had with Charles Xagl, custodian
of the federal building.
“I told Xagl that when I left this
court I wished to take some of the
chairs with me, as they were cherish
ed by mo. They belong to the gov
ernment and 1 asked him if 1 could
purchase them."
Judge Landis would not say why
lie had refused recently' to set any
cases beyond June 15, a fact which
caused reports that lie would resign in
June.
EIGHT POLICEMEN
AMBUSHED AND SLAIN
COUNTY KERRY, IRE.
Dublin, May 4. (My The Associat
ed 1 ress.) A sergeant anil seven
constables were ambuscaded and
killed today a short distance outside
of Hath more County Kerry. Only one
man in the party escaped.
The police patrols, comprising a
sergeant and eight constables had left
Rathmore to recover the body of a
man lying in the road half a mile
awa.v from the village, but ran into
the ambuscade before they had
reached the spot.
American Railway
Express Announces
Wage Cut for 80,000
York, May 4.—The American
Railway Express Co. announced to
day it had notified its 80.000 employes
that it contemplated a revision in
wages, effective June 1.
The company also announced a con
templated revision of rules governing
hours of service and working condi
tions, effective on July l.
“The company is arranging a con
ference with representatives of the
employes in the hope of arriving at an
agreement mutually satisfactory.
Failing to agree, the matter will he
referred to the United States Rail
road Board.”
THE WEATHER
CLOUDY
Northern New England: Cloudy
Thursday, rain over extreme south
portion; Friday fair, no change in
temperature.
Southern New England: Oversast
with rain, Thursday and probably
Friday; no change in temperature.
Eastern New York: Overcast over
north and rain over south portion
Thursday and probably Friday.
Boston Forecast
Forecast for Boston and vicinity:
Thursday unsettled with rain: Fri
day probably rain; not much change:
in temperature. Strong northeast
winds.
General Forecast
The - coast storm has moved very
slowly northeastward and last nigTit
its center was off the coast between
Delaware Breakwater and the Vir
ginia Capes. This disturbance has
been attended by rains in the middle
Atlantic states and south New Eng
land and by strong winds and gales
along the middle Atlantic and south
New England coast.
Storm warnings remain displayed
on the Atlantic coast at and between
Atlantic City, N. J.. and Boston,
Mass.
Except for the rains caused by the
eastern storm, fair weather was gen
eral throughout the country. The
outlook is for a continuation of un-4
settled weather and rains in the
middle Atlantic states and southern
New England and fair weather else
where east of the Mississipi river
Thursday and Friday.
The temperature will change but
little in the New England states.
Winds: North of Sandy Hook —
Will be strong northeast and east
winds, gales over south portion, rain
Thursday.
GERMANS TO GET
ALLIED ULTIMATUM
SOME TIME TONIGHT
London, May 4.—(By the Associated
Press).—The settling of the final de
tails of the reparations questions has
new been effectively accomplished, and
the allied ultimatum and the terms of
the reparations commission which are
to be handed to Germany will be sign
ed by the supreme council tomorrow
morning.
Premier Lloyd-George will hand the
ultimatum to Dr. Sthamer, the Ger
man ambassador, some time tomorrow
night, while the reparations commis
sion's terms will be mailed to Paris
and turned over to the German com
mission in the BYench capital at 10
o'clock Thursday evening.
The settling of the final details of
■ the complex problems was a protract
! ed task for the supreme council,
! which was occupied in its final ses- j
j sion for three hours tonight, rising ;
i at midnight.
Secretaries of the experts were en- ;
, gaged tonight in the completion of the
j final details and translations so that
: the documents might be ready for
[ signature tomorrow. Premier Lloyd
; George tomorrow will address the
j House of Commons in explanation of
* the arrangements.
The reparations commission has i
i adopted the supreme council's plan 1
| concerning German bonds. The first
i issue of these bonds which will be
'made immediately will aggregate 600,
000,000 pounds sterling. They will
i have priority over the later series.
I Interest on them will not he payable
| until after the end of the first quar
ter following their issue. The second
I series, to be issued in November, will
■ be tor 1,900,000,000 pounds sterling.
; These will have priority over later is
! sues.
Hr. Sthamer had a conference of i
I °ne hour tonight with Count Sforza, :
■ be Italian foreign minister, while the1
! supreme council was sitting. Baron j
i d'Abernon, the British .ambassador to ‘
Germany, was present.
GERMAN CABINET
RESIGNS IN FACE OF
NEW SITUATION
i
London, May 4—A telephone mes- •:
sage received from Paris gives a
Berlin dispatch saying that in view of
. the situation arising in consequence
of the reply of Secretary of State™
Hughes to Germany’s counter pro- j
posals of reparations, the German
cabinet unanimously decided, to re- !
sign.
Chancellor Fehrenbach informed
President Kbert of the cabinet’s do- j
vision whereupon the president re- j
quested the ministry to continue to
deal with current affairs, which it
consented to do.
Claims Only Two Resigned
- London, May 5—The Berlin cor
i respondent of the London Times .
; understands that Chancellor Fehren
i bach and Foreign Minister Simons
; have resigned but that the rest of the
; cabinet remains. He also says that
the suggestion of Dr. Sthamer as
; new foreign minister has been drop
j ped at his request.
I It is believed in Berlin that Dr.
Gustav Streseman, leader of the Peo
| pie’s Party will be the new chancel
I lor and that Dr. Mayer, at present
j ambassador to Paris, will be the new
foreign minister.
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BORAH’S RIDER
TO DISARM NOT
IN NAVAL BILL
Committee Report Re
spects Wishes of
President
—
I
Administration Desires to Keep
Questions Out of Congress
for Present — Borah and
Pomerene to Fight for
Amendment
Washington, May 4—Administration
forces won the first skirmish today in
the impending Senate fight over na- |
val disarmament.
Guided by tha expressed wishes of j
President Harding the Senate naval
committee refused to incorporate in
1
the annua! naval appropriation mea
sure the proposal of Senator Borah,
Republican, Idaho, authorizing and
requesting the chief executive to in
vite Great Britain and Japan to send
representatives to a disarmament
conference here.
Before the committee acted, Sena
tor Borah had given notice of the
fight to come by reproduction of his
proposal in the Senate and moving
| to suspend the ru'es tc make it in or
j der.
| Senator Pomerene, Democrat, Ohio,
also gave formal notice that he in
! tended to ricsent a disarmament
| amende ent tc the naval bill in th:
Senate. His amendment would au
thorize the president to delay t he
building program six months while
an effort was being made to arrange
a conference between the United
States, Great Britain and Japan
Should an agreement to limit con
struction be reached by the three
countries, the president might sus
pend the building program in whole
or in part. *
Tt Is understood that the adminis
tration leaders in both the Senate rind
House plan to delay action on any
i proposals for international disarma
ment because of the desire of the
president, not to have this question
initiated in congress in the present
state of international relations.
As favorably reported today by the
naval committee, the annual naval
bill, which failed at the hist session
‘provides not only funds for continu
ing construction of the uncompleted
1916 program, but also for a perso-i
: nel of $20,000 in excess of the $100,000
; proposed by the House. It also car
| ios funds for beginning work on va
, rious naval bases on the Pacific coast
' The committee increased the House
total of $396,000,000 to S496.500.000 for
the same figure that was in the bill
as it failed in the Senate last March.
The principal increases voted to lay
: by the committee included $12,0o9,000
1 I or aviation; $15,000,000 to start wjrk
on two new aircraft carriers; about
$7,000,000 to begin construction of a
now fleet base at Alameda, Cal.fornia,
and other Pacific coast bases, a no
about $7,000,000 to expedite construc
tion ef capital ships. Th" rus.i wor >
' laiv.' inc: i ases for pay and support
f)r j era' nnel.
Senator Poindexter, Republican,
Washington, in charge of the bill,
plans to report the amended measure
to the Senate tomorrow with a view
to calling it up next week immediate
ly after disposal of the emergency
tariff bill.
PHILIPPINE POLICE
KILL NINETY MOROS
ISLAND OF SULU
Manila. May 3.—(By The Asso
ciated Press.)—Ninety Moros, includ
ing Maharajah Untong, a religious
fanatic leader, were killed Sunday by
a, detachment of Philippine constab
ulary in an engagement near Taglibi,
on the island of Sulu, 500 miles from
here, according to advices received
today at Constabulary Headquarters.
The slaying of the Moros followed
the murder Saturday of Lieut. D.
Velasquez and three constabulary
troopers. After killing the four men,
the Moros took their guns and escap
ed. All available constabulary forces
of the Department of Mindanao, sta
tioned on Sulu Island, were despatch
ed in pursuit of the Moros, overtak
ing them near Taglibi.
In the battle following, virtually
the entire band of Moros was wiped
out. The constabulary forces recap
tured the guns taken from their mur
dered companions. One constabulary
man was wounded in the battle.
No Work for Striking
Gas Workers in
Lowell, Mass., Plant
Lowell. Mass., May 4—Workmen on
strike from the Lowell Gas Light
Company will not be taken back on
their jobs their representatives were
told by company officials today. Men
taken on by the company as strike
breakers were promised steady em
ployment, the strikers were told in
the course of a two hours’ conference,
and no- vacancies now exist in the
working force, which is said to be am
ple to handle the working of the
large plant. In normal times, 250 men
have been employed there.
Precautions have been taken by the
company against a possible outbreak
of violence on the part of the disap
pointed strikers, in the employment
of a considerable squad of police of
ficers to guard the works, which are
brightly illuminated with electric
searchlights.
WITNESS TELLS OF
MEETING OF GUIDE
AND MRS. STILLMAN
New York, May 4—Testimony that
Mrs. Anne U. Stillman and Fred
Beauvais, an Indian guide, were seen
together in Mrs. Stillman's room at
the Stillman summer home In Grand
Anse, Que., was given here today at
a secret hearing in the divorce suit
brought by James A. Stillman,
wealthy New York banker. The al
leged meeting was described by
George Adams, 75 year old woods
man, who claims to have witnessed
it through a hole in the window cur
tain.
Mr. Stillman did not attend the
hearing, but his wife sat at the coun
sel table .with her attorneys through
out the proceedings, offering sugges
tions from time to time during the
cross examination of the four wit
nesses who testified against her. It
was the first appearance in court
proceedings of any of the principals
in the case. Daniel J. Gleason, as
referee, is hearing the testimony.
Mrs. Stillman is charged in the com
plaint with having intimate relations
with Beauvais, who is described as
the father of her infant son, Guy.
In her answer, she denies her hus
band’s charges and sets up an affirm- ;
ative defense by accusing him of
having had improper relations with i
a former Broadway chorus girl, and :
with being the father of the worn- j
an’s child.
The banker's lawyers today made
another effort to introduce in evi
dence certain letters alleged Jo have
passed between Beauvais and Mrs.
Stillman. Some of these letters were
marked for identification today after
Bernard Kelly, for three years su
perintendent of the Stillman country
place at Pleasantville, N. Y. had
identified the handwriting as that of j
Beauvais. The question of their ad
missibility will be decided later.
Arthur Beauvais, brother of the
co-respondent, who was at the Still
man camp in Canada on some of the
occasions mentioned in the suit, at- j
tended today's hearings. He is to be
a witness for Mrs. Stillman tater.
Mr. Stillman's attorneys arc expect
ed to complete presentation of their
testimony Friday and a date will i
then be set for hearing the defend
ant’s witnesses.
Dr. Hugh Russell of Buffalo. N.
Y., family physician for the Still
man’s for throe years ending in 1010,
has been summoned by the banker’s
attorneys and probably will testify
tomorrow. His testimony, it was
asserted, will bear on certain con- !
versations he is said to have had
with Mrs. Stillman. - f
Other witnesses today included
Fred Adams, a carpenter, and son of ,
George Adams, and Edward Purdy,
who Is now superintendent of the
Stillman country home at Pleasant
ville. Their testimony was devoted
largely to a description of property
at Grande Anse and Pleasantville.
After the hearing Mrs. Stillman
conferred with her attorneys. She '
came out of the room smiling and
posed for photographers before de
parting in her automobile. She told
her counsel that she was satisfied
with the day’s developments.
Labor Head Says
Steel Workers Will
Re Driven to Union
Washington, May 4—“There is no
justification for the 20 per cent, re- i
duetion in the wages of employes of j
the steel trust,” Frank Morrison, j
secretary of the American Federation !
of Uabor declared today in a formal j
statement commenting on the an- j
nouneemcnt yesterday by the United ,
States Steel Corporation of a cut in
wages effective this month.
“Employes of the steel trust are
unorganized,” he said. "They are
helpless. The steel trust is a law un
to itself and is permitted to violate
the anti-trust laws because of the
fear that it will interfere with the
company's foreign trade.”
“If the steel workers were organ
ized,” Mr. Morrison continued, “they
would be in a position to resist this
arbitrary cut in wages. Rut the work- j
ers, without organization, are as
helpless to resist the will of the steel :
trust as the government had been to
have them comply with the laws of ;
the land.
“Tyranny is always dangerous. The j
action of the steel trust will increase
unrest and result in the organization
of the steel workers. When organized
they will establish the eight hour day
notwithstanding the statement made
by Mr. Gary that the workers want
the 12 hour day.”
In support of his argument that the
wage cuts announced were without
justification, Mr. Morrison said, gov- j
erament figures showed that the av- j
cragd cost of living last January 1, i
was 100 per cent, above that in 1913 '
and that during the first three months
of this year the food products com- i
posing 38 per cent, of the family bud- \
get dropped 12 per cent.
Chicago Printers’
Weekly Wages to
Be Reduced $4.35
Chicago, May 4—A wage reduction !
of 84.35 a week for each of the four I
major printing crafts in Chicago was ,
announced today by an arbitration ;
board, four members of which were j
chosen by the employers, four by the !
unions, and the ninth selected as an I
arbiter by the others.
Under the decision compositors i
were reduced to 846.65 a week; press- •
men to 847.65; feeders to 839.65 and
bookbinders to 842.15.
This scale applies specifically to a
week of 48 hours, according to Har
ry G. Cantrell, commissioner of in
dustrial relations for the Franklin
(closed shop, division of the Franklin
Typothetae of Chicago.
The arbiter on the arbitration board
was Ralph Emerson Heilman, dean of
the School of Comemrce of North
western University.
POLISH REBELS
STAGING FIGHT
IN UPPERSILESIA
All Big Towns in Industrial Region
Surrounded by Insurgents — Also
Control Whole Right Bank of Oder—
Clash With Small Italian Force
German Foreign Office Disclaims
! Responsibility
POLISH REBELS ACTIVE
Berlin, May 4.—(By The Associat
ed Press.)—Semi-official advices re
' eeived here are to the effect that all
the large towns in the industrial re
gion of Upper Silesia are surrounded
by Polish insurgents, while Richters
derf, a suburb of Gleiwitz and Kief
erstadtl have been occupied by reb
els. Various places in the district of
Orsenburg are reported to have been
similarly occupied.
i The Polish flag is said to be flying
| fro mthe town hall of Uybnik, but the
Italians have expelled the insurgents
from Pless and arrested some of their
leaders.
The whole of the right bank of the
Oder in the liatisbor area is in the
hands of the rebels. The authorities
have regained possession of Myslo
v.itz.
_
j Oppeln, Upper Silesia, May 4.—
(By The Associated Press.)—Colonel
Pond, British control officer at Cross
strehlitz, reported to British head
quarters here tonight that he opened
artillery fire on two of three thousand
Poles attempting to occupy the city.
The Poles brought up light field
pieces and were replying.
! Colonel Bond, who has approxi
mately 200 Italian troops, also re
ported that he probably couki not
hold out long.
j Oppeln, Upper Silesia, May 4.—
(By The Associated Press)—The
Italian forces at Gross-Strcnhlitz to
day opened w’ith artillery fire on
Poles who were attempting to occupy
the city. The Poles replied with field
guns.
Paris, May 4.—The dsorders in Up
per Silesia are continuing, according
to French official dispatches received
here tonight.
Although the disorders have been
controlled in the mining districts the
disturbances are spreading into the
rural sections of Pless. Uublinitz and
Rosenburg the dispatches state.
Agreement Reached
in Eastern Mass. St.
i Railway Controversy
Boston. May 4.—The public trus
j tees and the arbitration committee of
• the union of employes of the Eastern
1 Massachusetts street railway have
reached an agreement on all contro
versial points remaining to be sub
mitted to the state board of concilia
j tlon and arbitration for a decision on
a new wage scale and working con
tract, it was learned here tonight!
Final questions for state arbitra
tion will be submitted to the board
tomorrow when the joint onference
of the trustees and the men's commit
tee is scheduled to continue.
GERMANS PROTEST
London, May 4—(By the Asso* -
ciated Press)—Dr. Sthamer, the Ger
man ambassador here tonight re-,
eeived a note from the foreign office,
protesting against the Polish coup in
Upper Silesia as an apparently con
certed effort to take the province by,
force and refsuing all responsibility
for the situation and its conse
i
: quences. The note has also been
j communicated to the other allied
| governments. It declares that by
: the action of irresponsible Polish
agents and provocateurs a strike
has been engineered in Upper Sile
sia through the mining and Indus
I trial areas, terrorizing tho' willing
workers and preventing them from
carrying out their tasks, while Polish
Sokols and armed bands cover the
country as far as Ratabor.
The organized destruction of rail
ways and bridges, shows a pre-ar
[ ranged plan for Polish insurrections.
j The inter-allied commission, it is
added, has recognized that the Ger
many population has given no provo
cation.
I,ate in the afternoon Dr. Sthamer
presented a second note, stating that
the situation hud become acute and
reciting details, according to which
the insurgents had seized the entire
industrial regon. In fighting at Ryb
] nik two Italian officers and 13 men
were killed. Director Cox of the
| Preusen mine at Mischowitz and Di
: rector Ganse of the Czuschez mine at
■ Rybnik have been murdered. Dr.
Sthamer concludes by calling the at
| tention of the British government to
! flic extreme danger, unless speedy
i steps are taken to suppress the re»
| volt.
Nicky Arnstein
and His Four Pals
Convicted Conspiracy
Washington, May 4 — Jules W.
(Nicky) Arnstein and the four other
defendants jointly on trial here with
him in criminal court on charges of
conspiracy to bring stolen securities
into the District of Columbia were
found gulty by a jury tonight after
40 minutes’ deliberation. The other
defendants were Nick Cohn. David W.
Sullivan, AV. AA". Esterday and Nor
man S. Bowles.
The cases arose nut o fa $.',000,000
Wall street bond theft and the de
fenders are expected to be placed on
trial soon in New A'ork as the next '
step in their prosecution. Counsel for
the defendants announced today they
would file a motion for a new trial
and if this was denied, would appeal.
Sentence will not be imposed for two
weeks. The maximum is two years’
imprisonment, or $10,000 fine or both.
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