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.« :W YORK, Dec. 24.—-Murders and
yuan“- committed in Le Mans by
.,,.:- of American and French sol-
using women as decoys were de-
wilt‘d today by Major‘George Arm-
wug. a Detroit efi‘iciency engineer.
Armstrong TEStifieSIReconstruction Work Has
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ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS FROM
Entered at the South New Ilk Post-
Office as Second-Class Mail Matter.
can WOMEN TRENCH llANli'NARNNR (:RRRlNAs 5"?
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(Don C. Seitx).
Had the world a conscience it
would not celebrate this Christ-
mas at all as a Christian holi-
day, but would revert to its real
origin, that of a festal day for
Wotan and the Gods of Val.
halls returned from Ragnarok.
There is no welcome in it for '
the Christ Child or the .peace-
ful shepherds upon whose fore-
heads fell the gracious beams
of the Star of Bethlehem. Babes
are being born in mangers, yes,
because homes are desolate and
fires chilled. The'heart of the
universe is hard and unchrist-
ian. Greed and avarice walk
hand in hand with the bearers
of the sword. The Sermon on
the Mount has no national .fol-
lowers. The budget for the“ ‘
United States. contains items .
gting' $2,000,000,000 ‘to
preserve the tools of war. Gapi-
tal and labor are alike merci-
less in their exactions. Bayo-
nets still gleam along the
Rhine, -and flash on the Rio
AND cRRNINR
Progressed Surprisingly‘
and Former Output Will;
Be Exceeded in Two.
Years g
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ARRRRNERiERs " ‘
.. a ARR ENflAfiEll
Damage Done to the Textile
Industry by the Germans
Estimated at Twenty Bil-
lion Francs ..
(BILLIE, France, Dec. 24.—Forty1
thousand persons are at work in tide
French textile mills which only a few,
He served as assistant provost mar-
.: in the American troop area.
Major Armstrong was called by the
I? 4159 as a witness at the court man
“a! on Governor's Island of Captain
aim S’V. Detzer of the 308th Military
J‘ohce Company, who is charged with
Prue“)! to prisoners while directing
criminal investigation work in Le
Mans. Lieutenant Thomas Ichfcrnan,
. nefcnse counscl. is allemptim: to
show that these charges were brought
by 'l ‘;llns;1.;p!£.wgew
3m “74%- attacked the credibility of vir-.
u lll)‘ evely Government witness.
Major Armstrong testified that he
‘ ii direct charge of 2.200 M. P35 in
Lions. from August, 1918. until
--I.-.u.:';~'. 1919. and that during this pe-
; 1500,0190 Americans passed
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\‘i NHTON. Dec.
h.- grandchildren will
‘.\ ll bl- no Christmas
llnuse. however.
plzlcim: of
U and evergreen,
om. It
“'ilson.
In his 1'0
. .\l R's.
his wheel chair.
mulling Mrs.
11 in the “'hite Hons
pi d-sr-nis
vim-(l at
Grande. The simple-minded
members of the ancient Greek
Church in Russia» are ruled by
murder and rapine. To talk of
the Christmas spirit, of the
saint-1y symbols of Christianity,
of the Brothrhood of Man and
the Fatherhood of God, in the
light of the universal attitude of
months ago were razed or looted by.
the Germans of their wonderfully deli— 3
rate machinery. ,_Tle correspondent:
of The Associated 'Press was given'
lhe facts regarding this Industry to-'
day by the French authorities who:
have arranged a trip to Show him?
the strides made by the nation in rte-1
construction. ’ ‘
\Vithin a. year. government ofllcialsl
a‘fl manufacturers agree. production,
sown nonwsi‘x.
3’s n
are Merge wayside BY A SPECIAL wms AND OUR own cream-on :
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The high nest and scarcity of an—l Vl'ASHJNGTON, Dec. 24.~—-“’ith]
thracitc 008.1 induced a resident of 13 peace a de {30“} if not a de jure con.
Railroad ayenue to build a fire in theidmon, the American people tonight
stove, in his room, last night. Willybegan the celebratibn of Christmas in
”soft coal. The Chimney didn’t. draw prenxar spirit.
well enough to carry 011' the CXCQSSWG; Evidences of the nation-wide return
smoke resulting. and the apartments to the spirit that dominated the Am»
and stores in-vthe Roodner buildingecrican Christmas prior to 1914, when
were filled with clouds of smoke. Aime war, although mm confined to
Still alarm was sent in to the Central Europe, cast a reflection across the
Slation. firemen responding finding‘Auantlc, has been noted in unprece-
monty of smoke but no fire. Other denied buying or gifts, according to
occupants 0f the building have made reports to the 'hcadquarters of mer-
previous complaints to Samuel Rood» cantile associations. Christmas malls
ner about the tenant burning SOft'——onc of the most exact indications ori
coal. . {national participation in the spirit of!
-—"--—- ithe holiday—have been the heaviest!
‘on rcconi, it was said tonight by Post]
:Otfice Department‘ officials. ‘
: President Wilson, owing to his ili-‘
jncss, will spend tomorrow quietly. al‘‘
though his Christmas Eve was mark-1
led by announcement of his decisiong
iwilh regard to return of the railroads!
llfMllllllAlS BUT
Hill PRflSPERITY 0F
ANlRIRAN PEOPlE olllRRAll’
.! ”"iliiiiiii'iil XMAS Wllfl RRtwAR SPIRII
to private ownership. Because of In.
Wilson's Illness, the grandchildren of
the family will not be at the White
House tomorrow and for the first tin.
in the Wilson Administration tlfet‘o
will be no Christmas tree. The late-
rior of the White House tonight. bow-
evpr, was decorated throughout . ll
Christmas style, Mrs. “'llson during
the day having supervised the placing
of evergreens, holly and other Christ-
mas decorations. “
Restrictions on the President‘s diet
have been removed by his physician.
Rear-Admiral Grayson, and he willow:
his Christmas dinner iii his room. Un-
less the weather should pmve disl-
greeablo ,lle will follow his newly pre- .
scribed custom of spending a part of
the aftflnoon in a wheel chair on thé
White House portico. .
Members of th’e President's officlli,
floutinued on Page Five.
2nd,...» . ..... if WEE? "E“E'RRARRER [If
international society, prevent.
ing international rm, re-
ducing armaments. and promot-
iug peace, justice and liberty
throughont‘the worm.
This year, also, saber-minded
people ought to {do their utmost
to prevent ex Vagance and
waste in public ,nd‘privste ex-
penditure, to bringback into
the practice of fie people thrift
and eager wcrlsigan‘d their [re-
A resolution advocating measures
that will bring new industries to
Norwalk and licmove obstacles that
hinder the progress of factories al—
ready located here was unanimousiy
passed at a meeting of the Democrat ic
SEIllllflN FILED
.. MAIN” JENKINS.
hat we as a Democratic body must; _. ~- :
seek to avoid in the future the - n-i EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 24.——Charges
flicts betwcen capital and labor wh ch of sedition will be filed against \Vil-
have been too frequent in the past. .liam O. Jenkins. Consular Agent for
and we must seek to do so by means "the United'States at Puebla, Mexico,’
of ccrdinalion such as we have mther- following the alleged delivery by him
of aims and ammunition to the band—
i
ot‘ textiles will 793911-53” 01 they. g‘overnmentsand thecruelman- km“ 4~ .7 m to not attempted-v ‘The representa-i
7 (0011?: ed on Pa 7 S: ,‘7‘7 ' Of liken. peoples ‘8 "W Y 113115“ doth '(Continued on Page Seven): 7 ito the Excelsior of Mexico City.
“ ge e‘en)‘ ?0 exalt ' I cannot d° to do, do it with thy might.”-— '—~—- 1 According to a dispatch from Excel-
1t.—Don 0. Salts, publisher of 01181198 . W. Eliot, president :sior's correspondent at Puebla. a.
.the New Yerk World, in the
New York Evening Post.
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MILLIONS BEMANI] ’
group of Indians testified December 17.
PM Jenkins handed over the war ma-
ll rial to the outlaws as part paymenb
m‘ his ransom. The dispatch adds ‘
emeritus" of Harvard Univer-
sity.
NRLSRRAcuElls
Rim the examination of the Indians
its who.»laa.d.captured._him...tmsmwcr~m=me new noo-
v as conducted with "considerable ROl-‘
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RETURNS AFlEli
BElNli MISSINE
Hill 24 NRNRR 3‘
Leonard Plumb, a lineman. 116 Tag,
lor avenue. returned to his home, last.
night, at 6:30 o'clock. after being'
missing for 24 hours.
night, but the police were not notified
lhorilics. and a search was started ab
oncc.
was informed last night that Plumb
had 1(‘lu1‘nPd_ No explanation of hi-
absence was given. ~
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TWO WOMEN KILLED
The man~did f
not report back from work. Tuesday.
at».
, i ..
llvlis description was furnished the any.“
Desk Sergeant J. Harry Gibson '
a; ' 1 .
,. ,, RISTMAS AT WHITEli-lghts" crisis very similar to that
. we which marked an earlier stag; of tho
illlUSElq—B‘E ”mailman. Republic.
fair—Christ-
at the White House will be
WWme‘: to President VVl'lson's
not
‘».=.1l.~llin:ton, and consequent-
ireo. '
will be;‘
. u~uul. Mrs. W‘ilson today
’poinscttas,
will eat his. Christ-
will be
Rear
. -_'x:—ml. the president's phy-I '
qwmi most of the day at:
i RRRRAN VIENNA;
VIENNA. Dec. sen—The Austrian Re-
public is passing through a “st'ates
Provinces are
demanding a high degree of indepen-
dence from the central government,
and in some of them. such as the T3
ml and Upper Austria and Etyria, '11.
amounts almost to complete autonomy.
If their demands Were eventually
granted. about the only thing that
would be lef‘. to the central govern-
ment would be foreign relations and
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QSTABLE fiflVERNMENT
NEEDED IN RNRle
lWHEElEIiSENTiIflfl
ANI] THANKS ill MEN
‘? WHfl SAflRflPERlY
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1 Arthur (‘.-Whecler. president of The
'Hour Publishing Company, encloses a
:check for $100 in a letter of apprecia-
.tidn sent to Chief George W. Bogar-
idus, head of the Norwalk fire depart-
‘ment ,yesterday.
l Mr. Wheeler‘s letter is the second
lto be received by Chief Bogardus, in
Irecognition of the qo’cndid work per-
l . h.—
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()F'llly." a number of prominent Puc-l
blnns being present at the hearing. 1
BY ESCAPING GAS .
i BURLINGTON. Va, Dec. 24,—rTW20
‘ zu'onlen were killed and lwclvc pcrsom '"3
‘wcrc overcome by illuminatingv at .;
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 24.—The
final hearing in the case of Joseph
Vl’eisaman, the local bankrupt, whose
failure for more than a million dollars
caused a local sensation in banking
and financial ‘circies here, was held to-
day before referee in bankruptcy C.
' h
ti Philip Onr.
{will
liNNY”-PERSHIN .
E. Hoatilev. With the conclusion of
the examination of witnesses. Attorney
representing Welssman
filo schedules of assets and liabili-
ties, followingr which there will be a
meeting called for apolntment of a
trustee.
Judge E. L. GarVin in the tnhfd
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EREBITBRS MUST 7 ! Samuel S. \‘elsor has resigned as
, 'teller of the City National Bank, and
PAY TflEflflAR" ETrust company 10 .rbccome teller 01'
’that bank. ' {which cscapcd through a break in, I.
:main, early today, and Denrtl‘llng ~.«&
R ERS iSF‘lVPl' mdo its way ihl'oush drainplnes
:into half a dozcn residences. Mrs.
gBank of Norwalk, as cashier to suc- _ 7‘ . I
Raymond were suffocated. Seven ' if .
officially elected to that position at i those ovol‘comc wcl‘c lakcn to :1 lmsph.
the next meeting of the directors 01"
K 7 would recover. .
' n is believed um additional deaths
HEAVIEST XMAS ~ . i°f tho R’ &' G‘,‘C°r.s,et Company, An“ ing of an alarm in hosnivalc, the police
.‘stlect. ““7 fimj‘a‘“ ‘5 years. were "3:! and the fire departments. by two men.
”‘3‘” ‘1’ yesteiday. by. the film they iwho wcrc awakened by the fumes in.
MA” EVER KNHWN hav." to long served faithfully and d11’1their homes. .
{EL — h mth $23 in gold, as a Christmas gift; "'~‘”""
~._ and tokcn of appreciation. Five monl HOLID A37 DRE , .
_ _ . ‘ . by he company. . l 7 . 7'
22233233; 722:: 3%.229 gésl‘gorségérgg A bdnus check, representing five per, The :-;l.’l(‘l(lu:~' home of the Norwelk
, . _ . . ins the last year. will be in each pay 1105'". scone than it dill "ml ovum-"8o
les-fotbwgadirgezeilldh:ggigdhggrgelfn1:: envelope given out at the ll. & G. inc All of the rooms are elaborzuely Ge"
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lhas accepted the other of the People‘s
i The directors of the iCty National
B R :Bank have chosen C. Otsi Fitch. as...
isl‘stant cashier of Tho National
Martha A. Haringlon and Mrs. Gemgo
lceed \Vilford Bodw‘ell, and he will be‘.
tal. but it was said tonisht that lull-z
the downtown bank. _
! Thirteen men and women, employcs were prevented by tho prompt sound-
imntly. They were eat-ll presented! _ ___~
NORVVALK CLUB IN ' ‘
‘ and tight women were thus bonorcd‘t
NEW YORK. Dec. Zl—«The heavicst
_ cent. of e e loe‘s " ' . '- ~ .rv“ n‘Wll, ' ‘~ (“1' t-
tonight. More than sixteen million ach mp ,\ edlmngs (1111 Hub] «1 pirsriml a mom ”5
101‘)” on Saturday, January 3- ’ icorated and most artistically dressed
its: - ‘ .. H... W
mwa for Mr Wilson E WASHINGTON, Dec. 2l.mle for". fiflEs BACK HflMElcr or: tailoigih égfgércogggsm file
, . . . ., - - . . ., , . re 1 .
. Wm spend some time i of Europe is so closely intemoytn, Lognecyoo bond in court before 7:30 to-
iwith that of Germany t at the other;
keep‘i
”Wilson
wcscnts to friends of
it) children who live
, will along the route to
V .‘r in nearby Virglfiln.
inicni has played golf
and cards l
the White 3
Al'lllllH'l' being deliver-i
night tel—assure the expenses of
24-“39301‘3-1 ing “’eissman in the custody of
lEuropean na‘lions should lend her . _
ievery assistanca in the organization! LINCOLN Neb., Dec.. ‘ “h 1
{and maintenance of a stable gO‘L‘ir‘E‘gOhn J. Pershing came to Lincoln to- sphcia] deputy mars a
ment. General Tasker H. Bliss, Amen: .
can representative on the Supremegof his family. 1
t{Var Council said today in a talk with; More than a quarter of a centuryi
e 'newspaper men. {ago he made this city his home. Then‘
'i Present unrest in Europé'is due al- he was a law student at the Univer-
most entirely to unfavorable economic sity of “Nebraska, and commandant of}
‘ ithe university cadets, and was knownl
i
‘rcturned today an international figure, l
some of whose friends here declare '
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(Continued on Sixth rare).
(Continued on Sixth Page) gas “Young Lieutenant Pershing." He
we. -.
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24.—Jud
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a judge of
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' ' in the slate.
' “(=66 20 Years.
‘. has been 'l‘egal‘ded
u. {in} Federal court
I! was the 7
‘ ' ' :1 3R . . , _d
‘ ‘ ‘ . epubhcan presidential candi ate.
BTEY REFEREE T0 77 4 1 'g “7 General Pershing. with his ten-year-
7 7 “ 7 gold son \Varren, and the. latters
\
SUV-it“ John v.1 Bahks Will Become Judge of Slllli’il'i"r
(WVPL Senior Refereee of state—I“
l rm» "inishes Next Week
. n l minate his térml
Mn for Fairfieldv a decision on an appeal, Judge Platt
. occupy the morel
‘ 9 Su- * Banks made a review
“'7me ‘he re Bree ; was little else to be
{in county for tip-51mg retained his post under all GOV’
. ill nit-t. ever since: emors during the past twenty years,
‘ licdcral bank-
ii.-.:' broil the senlOl'
HI
refers-c under th‘el
: lsitzhc ofl'ice has been 0
.mww of caseS. 39! a,
they are bent on “drafting" him as al Xx
attorney by wireless from the
aunt, Miss May Pershing, arrived l Ark” Buford. carrying deportea
ishortly after ten'o’clock from Lacledeq
Mo., the general’s bifrthplacg. 'h'ghgye
were accom rom ma y . .
Governor Slimuel RuMcKelvie, Mayor age-3t]: getlt‘lms to many
l'J. E. Miller of Lincoln, and a state re- an?”
:ception committee headed by States Mr £th holds
mce QO'SAdhltantGeneral II. J. Paul. ~
he announced‘ today.
7 7t
_. 7 - 7' i." JUGOSLA. VS PROTEST
That, perhaps, has been the case AGAINST D’ANNUNZIO
P. Plait who, perhaps, paid him . . . > z
7 In rendering ____—-‘ _
FPARIS, Dec. i’.4.—-—-Members“oi:i thie
'Jug'oslav Parliament from ‘ at c
neitheleasgeggglzlregions occupied by Italy-Gama.
Mr. Bankngrieste. lstria. Carmela. Flame. and.
De’lmatls,-have protested to Premier; :~
Clemenceau
against-7 the reported pro-1 _ ' '
iects cf Gabriele d’A’nnunsio to oc-~ .:
copy regions
. . , anal
‘ ‘ the bankruptcy referee . ., ' has 1)
c0311}: lg'iin‘i'mnuy growing, and it was! Sfirwgéhggfi *3; by in“
has been impossible fat Bets-mew " °' a lime: .
Banks to complete, , man ‘_ reading ‘ . ‘
mace F0 in: ‘39.
(Continued. on Sixth Pm).
ge 01'.
James
ithe highest compliment.
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made mention that
I
said.
lwhether Democratic or Republican.
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by
Fdoar Palrdéflhas shown a full 100 per cent.
day for a holiday visit with members son of U. S. Marshal \Villiam R Pal-
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l0 BANISHED mans Ruin MUTINEERS
NEW YORK, Dec. 24.——I’oWers of
“Sovie.
Rus-
sian radicals "home" from the United}
be the col way to pro-g
States. may '1 of them or
behind with Isaac Shorr.
bank 'Stocks, 90:1”; a
savings certificates, watches, on n
and other valuables belonging to his
(Continued on Page Six).
on
“The railroad and express compln ..
should be given ample rtunlty w
adequately prepare for the remnant“
or their business under the control
and‘smmxement of their own ‘
holder‘s. directors “spacers. Then-
tore. the tremors! geese-em '
'clent» -
'Foreign as well as domestic mail 1 . .. $
- . green and rcr. papei draped horn l.
m" TRIBESMEN ATTACK ilighling fixtures. In the manor of the
broken for numbers of pieces outgoing , TRAIN IN INDIAlaglow with tinv colored fights; and.“
and incoming, money orders boughti ——_ the head of the stairway and in evétt
and registered parcels. Nothing like ' India report that a train was attacked! . . - 5.
i - . v . . Great credit is due James E. Hu
,xecently on the ihorthwcst tindian lbell who designed the general decora-
:recentlv tht northwest .Indian‘ . ~ M
f - ‘ - who journeyed far afield to -et t
tribesmen. 'I‘he—ncglnc was derailed lt‘hristmas tree and 0th“ zl'eeuory-
killing ten and wounding sixteen ln- _ - - .
- . - - _ :first time last night. the dollmg .ip is
than soldiers. The attacking party at ‘especially for the dance to m give!
the train. . .
members of'the civilian crew of the, MlmflAfls AN" EXPRESS CBMPANIES ‘
transport America, who were put in: f ‘
‘ tiny," today were released by order . _ RETURNE" T" “WHERS MARE“ lST
.0! Major-General David C. Shanks,
tion.
General Shanks, on the vessels ar— W'ilson tonight announced he would [suing of the i-roclamallon and the (18”
the “10ng mutiny. m an omcial com- return the railroads to private owner—"of its actually taking ettecL ‘ .. _
munieaton, he notified Waehngton that! The president also announced that.raiiroads and express companies are
there had been riding of ship’s stores the railway express would be retumed not organized to make it WBENO 1“?
an attempt by in members 0" Tumulty issued the following state— ; pet-ties it actually turned over to them
orders. . . z .
. . ' “last May in his message no the 0011- ;it would raise financial and 19881 0033'
It was said that General Shanks m“ the president can that
gonad three
“1 “‘9 mmt‘” ‘ ”“1 their amt-s at the and estate clendar
Went if“, MIMI “39,325., It is m necessarto act by
‘ ”m ,. / am . . ad 3.8
had ' lathe ' ’ _ pout-cementum»
hitch 0" 001139590“ " ___..___.___._ iin Christmas. crooner?! wi’h 'il‘imls
crease for the holidays, with records lball room is a tall Christmas “.0.
and cashed, value of insured mattcr’ LONDON. DGC- 24--Ad\'ice5 fl'Olnicm‘wr are (.0531. tj‘ppg.
frontier. four miles from Thai, ‘by‘five scheme, and C. Irvin: Bylngtw
and the tribesmcn fired on the train, ithiic the show was on view for “I.
HAVE BEEN PREEflderu-vards robbed the passengers on the ladies on Monday cvcnm;
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HOBOKEN, N. 1., Dec. 24.—-—Twelve
the ship‘s brag at Brest after a "mu-E
commander of the pert of embarks-
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‘WASHINTGON, Dec. 24,—President sonable timc lo clapsc between the he 2.
rival her. ordered an Investigation of
ship March 1. "The’presldent is advised distill.
no mutiny had taken place, although
It the same time. them to receive nd manage their pro- .
it!” cm f" “‘9 “We 1“" awn“ menu» :on December 31. and it this were um
‘ i Colonel H" KI‘Tayior, who ‘1 t- the railroads would beheaded over to
weeks. ' ’ 1:21er at in the brig semi
the W. ' In the pie
plicatlons of a serious character.
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