The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 24, 1922, Page 1

- Sen mewn ~~ — oe wo ‘ ‘ a " of the: National For Generally fair tonight and Satur- ay, somewhat warmer tonight. Bismarck and _ vicinity: ‘ESTABLISHED 1873 CHILDERS AID OF DEVALERA ~ IS EXECUTED Shet for Having Weapon in His Possession When | Captured 4 GIVEN MILITARY TRIAL Trish, Revoluationist Captured By Regular at Home of Relatives 5 — (By the Associated Press) Dublin, Nov. 24—Erskine Childers, chief lieutenant‘of Eamon DeValera, was executed here at 7 o'clock this morning for havjng had an auto- matic pistol in his posgtssion, it is announced in an official bulletin iv- en out by the national army. The brief army report states that Childers was tried’by a military court at Porto Bello barracks, Dublin, on Nov. 17, charged with being in gs- session withoyt) proper Authority of an automatic pistol when apprehend- ed/by national forces on Nov. 10 at Aunamoe house, county Wisklow. The st the report adds,:,was found guilty and: sentenced to death, and the finding and sentence being duly confirmed the execution was car- ried out this morhing. While ‘the method of execuction s not: officially described, it is be- lieved by shooting # Childers was captured on the morning of Nov. 10 at the home ot a relative, Robert Barton, situated in a wooded and: picturesque section of Wicklow. Two columns of national troops surrounded the Barton house at dawn. One of the soldiers rapped on the door and was answered by a maid. The servant was thrust aside and a detachment of the expedition entered the house. Childers was.found in an upstairs bedroom., He attempted to draw a pistol but was overpowered. He was taken to Wicklow jail and later to Poto Bello barracks, Dublin. Robert Barton, one of the signa- tories of the Anglo-Irish treaty, later turned against it. SERVED IN WORLD WAR. Childers’ was placed on trial be- fore 2 military tribunal in Dublin, Nov. 17. on the eharge he -had a pis- tol in his possession when arrested at Wicklow by free state forces on November 10. The ¢rial lasted two days, Childers, who was 52 years old, appealed thrdugh ‘counsel for a. writ ‘of habeas’ corpus, which was denied yesterday by the. master of the rolls.* He then appealed’ :o the court ef appeals fon southern Ire- land. 7 \ 2 Childers was educated at Trinity Collee, Cambridge. He served in the European war as: lieutenant com- mander of the royal navy volunteer (Continued on. Page Three) SCHOOLS ARE SAFETY VALVE OR AMERICA ’ Fargo,\N..D., Nov. 24.—William Bishop ‘Owen of Chicago, president Educational As- sociation, sees in the: public: schools oF’ the nation 'theforce that. will build a newer and gteat America, he \told ‘the teachers.‘in addresses delivered before their convention to- day. " “Whenever I get a little down hearted by reading the ugly cyni- cism and° despair which appears in the daily press of my home city, and in ‘the weekly ‘and monthly periodi- cals published in New York and elsewhere, I have a sure anti-dote,” he said. g a , “I go around and visit the 200 schools in Chicago, and I know that the future of America is safe. No can despair of America who one knows our public schools. We are building a newer and a greater America through: our schools.” Some officers Mected at the sec- tional meetings of the teachers are: Principal's section: H. H. Kirk, Jamestown, president; Peter Ander- son, Lakai Vice-president. Elementary; Agnes Kjorlie, En- derlin, president. © Commercial: A. J. Ostby, Fargo, proidénts J. H. Bohd, University, vice-president. Rural. schools: marck, president. ‘Agricultural: FR. moure, president. Home Economics: Myrtle G. Cole, A. C. President. Shirley Fox, Biss D. Stewart, La- Art: Miss Basing, Jamestown, vice-president. Music: E. H. Wilcox, Grand Forks, president. ‘ Modern Languages and Latin: Henry Haxo, Grand Forks, vice-pre- sident. English: Forks, ssecretary Bolinger, Jamestown, — executive committee. The appointment of a standing committee to revise thé legislation and the granting of their additional days in which schools may pay their dues where the principal accomp- Mary Laycock, , Grand treasurer, Vera member = of , lishments at the fall meeting of the State High School Athletic League held late last night. Mr. Owen was the principal speak- er at the evening session of the as- sociation last night, talking on “two! great trends in the educational meth- ods in our schools;” and he spoke at three meetings of the convention to- day, ‘REDDEST OF REDS IS MISSING FUNERALS OF ~ MINEVICTIMS HELD TODAY bama Mine Since Operation In 1882 ! MINERS WILL RETURN Self-styled “reddest of the red,” William’ Bross Lloyd, Chicago’s millionaire radical, took his last step against imprisonment by suddenly dropping from sight. j Lloyd was convicted of violating the Illinois espionage act, and sen- tensed to serve five years and pay a! $5,000 fine. For two years he fought | the conviction through the courts. } Se CEh nea ie OLAS ES Se 20 MILLION TS ESTIMATE | ~~ OF RED CROSS, Society Needs This Amount To Carry on Relief » Work i Washington, Nov. 24.—Twenty mil-/ {lion dollars is the estimate of the American Red Cross’ for this fiscal year. Officers said this would be di- vided between the national organiza- tion and: the active: chapters on ap- proximately an equal ‘basis, Budget ‘allotments of “the national organization for domestic operations aggregate $6,335,795, or $488,015 less than *similar expenditures for last year, while the allotment for foreign operations will be $3,404,077, about $2,247,959 less than the year before. It was stated frat the reduction in thé: coat of. domestic operations rep- resented a saving in overhend ex- penses’ and. decreased personnel through the combining of divisional units, The foreign’ operations, with the exception of the Junior American Red Cross, practically were termi- nated last July. Relief work for disabled former service men and their dependents remaina the’smain obligation which the Red Cross is meeting in funds and service. Approximately $3,000,- 000 of the domestic budget is set apart for soldier service, this rep- resenting an increase of $366,000 over last year. Other. outstanding domestic items in the 1922-1923 budget, are: for dis- ‘aster relief, $750,000; for emergen- cier in chapter work, $500,000; for service and assistance to chapters and their branches, $1,293,000; for assistance to other oranizations and educational institutions that train Red Cross ‘nurses and owrkers, $200,- 000; for Roll Call assistance furnish- ed to chapters, $190,000; for unfor- seen .contingencies, $100,000. Less than $500,000 is set aside for management of the national organi- 'zation. The ratio of management. expenses to the total expenditures last year was placed‘at five and two- tenths per cent, and officers said the ratio this, year probably would fall below five per cent: The child -health program in Eur- ope and medical and hospital supplies for Russia represent more than two- thirds of the entire foreign allot- ment.. The child health program will {get $641,314, but this is the balance of funds contributed to the Ameri-} can Red Cross specifically for this purpose. The $1,834,044 for Russian| supplies is the balance of funds made| available by the Red Cross for med- ical and hospital relief in the fam- ine stricken areas of that country, {and this money is expended under {the direction of the American Re-! lief Administration, | “The Red Cross must depend -chief- ly upon its volunteer membership for financial support ‘and service,” said the budget announcement, “In its appeal for the maintenance ot strength through a full enroll@ent during the annual Roll Call cam- paign, froma Armistice Day to Thanks- | giving, the American Red Cross pres- | ents in its annual financial statement its evidence of unlimited work in the service of all mankind at the lowest, cost commensurate with adequaté j standards.” } BILLINGS MAN VISITS CITY Austin North, president of the North Real Estate Investment Com- pany of Billings, Montana, was in Mr. Bismarck today on busine: North is director of the Bi Gazette, one of the enterprising newspapers of Montana, which is in- stalling a new plant to give its read- ers the best service possible. The entire Gazette staff aided in enter- taining the National Editorial Asso- ciation on the western trip last sum- ! dence visible of the disaster was the | coal. production would be resumé. Injured Only Await Repairs In Shaft to Resume For- . mer Jobs (By the Associated Press) Birmingham, Ala,, Nov. 24.—The| Birmingham district today prepared to Iny to rest the first of its 84 dead dead\ whose} lives were snuffed out) Wednesday by an explosion. cf coal dust in Dolomite mine No. 3 of the | Wood Iron Company, west of this city. The dead belong to the dis trict, for virtually every settlement ! and ‘city is represented in the caiv | ualty list, and graves were being dug today in nearly every little cemetery. between Birmingham, Bessemer, Ens- | ley, and the mine. Sixteen victims in an undertaking establishment in Bessemer where yes- terday and last night men worked unceasingly to prepare the 75 bodies| there for burial, had not been identi-/ field early today. One was a white man and the other 15 negroes. Iden- tification of some of the negroes was declared impossible. because their faces were burned almost beyond recognition. At» the mine where the only evi- charred/ woodwork of the concrete tipple fired ‘by the blast as the flames being ‘made with the expectation that Monday. Many miners burned by the explo- sion or disabled by ‘the fatal after damp declare that, as soon as they were able to resyme work they will] return to the miné.. It had been in operation since 1882 without a seri- out. accicdnt until Wednesday and the disaster then was due to circum-, stances observed only twice before | in this country, according to records of ‘local mining. experts. The mine 4s what is known os “gas free” and to prevent the accumulation of coal dust, another, dangerous. clement, its equipment includes. an automatic sprinkling system which constantly keeps it damp. - -A string of coal dumps being haul- ed up the tipple broke, loose dropped 800 feet down'the {néline and the im- pact. when’ they. reached, the bottom ‘created clouds of dust. The crash severed a high tension electric cable and ‘the flash. ignited the, explosive, dust, - | Eighty-two of the [475 meh’ in’ the | Mine were killed outright by the ex-| plosion or asphyxiated by the after damp, and of the sixty buried or overcome two died a few hours later. MORE AID FOR “PAIRS ASKED ~ BY COMMITTEE $15,000 Annual Appropriation For Mandan Fair to be Requested ‘ The budget board will be asked to recommend to the legislature that it create one state and three regional ‘fairs, to be held jn cities in four parts of the state, and to grant state | aid for the tiny was decided at a meeting of representatives of fairs héld in Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot! and Mandan, with Commissioner of Agriculture-Joseph A. Kitchen here. It was decided to leave the ques- tion of whether the state fair shall be at Grand Forks or Fargo for fu- ture conisderation, but it was agreed | to recommend the same appropria- tion for the two fairs. The hydget board will, be asked to recommend annual appropriations of $20,000 for each of the Fargo and Grand Forks, and $15,000 each, for the Minot and Mandan fairs. Representatives of the Ward coun- ty fair, held at Minot, agreed to/ make the: name of the fair, “Thej Northwest Fair,” if it is created a regional fair with state aid. i The fentiment of those present, Mr. Kitchen said, was that“the ‘value of the fairs from the standpoint of edu-| cation in agriculture: and promoting | the interests of the state through | impressing upon those’ attending the | fairs the agricultural. rescurces which would lead to co-operation in immigration movements, would more than justify the appropriations usked BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1922 First Serious Accident in Ala-| spouted from the slope, repairs were | PASTOR, WIFE -IN POISON MYSTERY . MRS. CLARA ‘COWLEY (ABOVE), AND REV. W. GRIFFITH COWLEY. An investigation is being made o1 the sudden death of Mrs. Clara Cow- ley, rich Solon Springs, Wis., bride, who died Aug. 14, shortly after her marriage to the Rev, Griffith Cowley, 20 years her junior. Cowley seeks to disprove -any possible intimation that he might be responsible for the death of his wife. The body was ea humed for possible traces ‘of poison. TURKEY WANTS ALL NATIONS ON SAME BASIS New Regime to Drive Foreigners Out. \ (By the Associated Press) Lausanne, Nov. .24—Turkey’s spokesman at the Lausanne confer- ence; hearin of the arrival of Amer- ican missionary representatives here, expressed the hope that’ American philanthropic and educational insti- tutions would not be ‘needlessly alarmed by the advent of the new regime in Turkey. The Kemalist agents explained that there was no disposition to “drivd out Americans, especially those engaged in education- al and and charitable undertakings. It ‘was pointed out, however, that Turkey saw no reason why foreign institutions whether educational or industrial should be dealt with dif- ferently than Turkish institutions, and that Turkey’s school and factor- ie paid taxes then foreign estab- lishments should dd so also. The Angora® delegates declared there should be no special privileges for foreigners in Turkey and insisted that it should also be understood all schools, whether foreign or Turkish, should teach the Turkish language. The problem of Thrace ‘and the western’ boundary -of Turkey still oc cupied the attention of the confer- ence today.. The sub-commission 03 military questions comprising a the full ecommisston on territorial group of experts was wrestling with the boundary question. The estab- lishment of a demilitarized zone on both banks of the Maritza river which seems to be the boundary favored by the great powers, is one of the topics of discussion in the sub-commission. The plan to hold two distinct con- ferences on the near eastern ques- tion, one for re-establishing peace between Turkey and Greece, and be- tween the Allies and Turkey, and the second to fix the status of the straits jof the Dardanelles; has been aban- i dened, it was stated today and the problem of straits has been merged into the general conference. aoe LEAVE FOR MINNEAPOLIS (By the Associated Press) Fargo, N. D., Nov. 24.—Members of the North Dakota Agricultural College football-team will leave Far- go tonight for Minneapolis where tomorrow they will witness the an- nual gridiron battle between Minne- sota and Michigan, Immediately after the game they will embark for Sioux City, Iowa, to meet Morning- side University ‘Thanksgiving day. br. | Those -present at_the conference! included Sam F. Crabbe, Fargo; F.| W. McRobert, secretary of the Far-; go fair; E. R. Montgomery, secretary | of the Grand Forks fair; Carl W.; Mason, seerctary of the Ward county: fair; E.° Pfenning, director of the: Mandan fair, and Alfred Haldie, Mi-| not; Auust Krantz, Kenmare; A. 0.) Henderson, Mandan. | PUBLISHER DEAD | | | (By the Associated ‘Press) Chicago, Nov.. 24.—Arrangements for the funeral of Henry N. Cary/ general manager of the Chicage | Newspaper Publishers’ Associatior, | who died last night, was being made | mer, giving the visiting editors a most hearty welcome in the enter- prising Montana city. today. Death was caused by pneu- monia after an illness of . three weeks, He was 64 years old. » | ESSAYS BEGIN TO COME IN FOR CONTEST ue nih Essays have ‘begun to come in. The time is getting short, and those who are thinking about what they are going to write, must act quickly. All entrants in. The Tribune's Essay Contest must have their essays in hy December 5. The rules are familiar now to all and the competition is growing. Do not: delay, but write your essay today, and mail it to Con- test Editor, The Tribune. | ‘COMMITTEES _ NAMED FOR CLUB WORK i | Executive Committee Which Served During Campaign | Ends His Task 1 PROGRAM IS MOVING | Rapid Work in Completing | Organization Is Planned in , Next 3 Weeks | — | The executive committee which | |served during the first phase of the | reorganization and expansion pro- | gram of the Bismarck Commercial {club,completed its work at a meeting j held. late yesterday, and appointed ;a number of committees to carry on j other phases of the program tvyding ; up to the election of a new board of ! directors, j The executive committee appointed a by-laws and constitution commit- tee, composed of C. L. Young, chair- man; Miss Chanirka Beach and Geo. D, Mann, which will meet late today and begin framing a report to be submitted to the whole membership for adoption, rejection or amendment, An election committee compysed of, H. S, Lobach, chairman, Mary Buch holz, F. C. Copelin, Bob Webb and Alex Rosen was appointed for both the primary and final election. The count of the primary ballots prob- ably be made Dec. 4 and the final count on Dec, 8. Blair Clerk, executive and organ izer of the club, has sent an urgent request to all firms taking plural memberships to immediately name the individuals who will hold, the memberships. No firm name can be voted. Prompt answers will aid in completing the work of orgenizing the club. A committee on a new secretary was named, consisting of W. H. Webb, chairman; J. .L. Bell, H. J. Duemeland, Dr. N. O. Ramstad, M. B, Gilman. The duty of the committer will be to get a list of canuidates and jnformation as to qualifications to submit to the new board of «lirec- tors to be elected, which bvard wil! employ a secretary, Believing that one of the. best ways of building up the club program is to; have forum meetings for the discus- sion of particular topics the commit- tee named a temporary forum com- mittee 2s followg: Fred Conklin, chairman; J. C. Taylor, J. E., Kaul- fuss, Rev. H. C.' Postlethwaite, Mrs. W. E, Butler, Minnie L, Shuman, Geo. Humphries, W. G. Wingreene, Geo. Hi Russ. When the general meeting of the: membership is held it will be divided into groups alphabetically, and group chairmen were named as follows: Benton Baker, L. S, Crasswell, Price Owens, Dr. Towne, Dr..Quain, Geo. Will, C. R. Simpson, P, R. Fields, J.J. MacLeod, E. V. Lahr, Judge A, M. Christianson, J. A. Graham. All of the membership cards ob- tained during ‘the solicitation were accepted and Mr. Clerk was author- ized to put in an accounting .and bookkeening system, SHIP SUBSIDY IS ATTACKED BY DEMOCRATS They Select Republican to Lead off Opposition to Measure (By the Associated Press). Washington, Nov. 24.—The house was convening an hour earlier today to give more time for members de- siring the remaining two days of general debate on the administration shipping bill before the measure is laid before the house for amendment for three days beginning Monday. The measure| was defended and assailed in a total of five speeches delivered on the floor yesterday, with Chairman Greene, of the merchant marine committee which framed it, and Representative Edmonds of Pennsylvania, ranking Republican member making the principal argu- ments in its support. The Democrats furnished a sur-{ prise in selecting a Republican, Re- presentative John M. Nelson of Wis-/ consin, to lead off for the opposition in a speech in which he warned Re- publican leaders that if they would “hold the party together they must go out to the masses and not to the (ship profiteers.” ELLIOTT QUITS MINOT PAPER | Minot,. N. D., Nov. 23—Resigna- {tion of Howard Elliott as managing jcditor of The Farmers Prefs, local | Nonpartisan Jeague paper, was an- nounced at Monday’s _ stockholder’s meeting in Minot. Edward Brost, who has been in the mechanical de. partment, has taken charge tempor- arily until the affairs of the paper are straightened out. : It is known that John and Victor Corbett, proprietors of the Dakota State Journal, are negotiating for the purchase of the paper. The stockholders also have before them terms of a lease, tendered by Mr. Brost, who would take the paper over for two yéars. One of the two propositions probably wil be saccept- ed-some time: this week, it is stated. FOREST FIRES \ HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE (Leased Wire of Associated Press) CROSS HANGED FOR MURDER ~TNTOWA JAIL Fails to Make Five Minute Speech from Scaffold As Promised PREACHER SPRINGS TRAP Death Ends Last Chapter of Tragedy When Grocer Was Killed ; Fort Madison, Ia., Nov. 24.—Orrie Cross died shortly after 7:30 this morning on the ‘gallows at the state prison here. It was the same gallows upon which his partner in murder, Eugene Weeks, died ten weeks ago. The trap was sprung by Sheriff Robb of Polk county who during the war was chaplain of the 168th in- fantry overseas and who until re- cently was pastor of the Urbandale Federal Church in Des Moines. Robb also sprung the trap which caused ane death of Weeks on September .Cross failed to deliver his promis- ed five minute. address from the seaffold but marched from his cell to the ‘gibbet in silence, ‘engaged in a brief and whispered conversation with Father A. J. Zaiser, who ac- companied him, stepped on the trap and as the half hour sounded, was plunged through, by Sheriff Robb’s pull on the lever. Under the usual guard Cross was taken from his cell at about 7:15 o'clock, marched to the corner of the prison enclosure, where the scaffold had been erected the night before and passed within the board- ed screen that shut it from the view of the rest of the institution. Several of the witnesses present in accordance with the law's provi- sions, who had expected to see the doomed man “ falter ‘ and collapse after his, final days of strain and calm demeanor, were astonished at the stoical expression and the erect bearing with which he made his last steps and awaited the crash of the section of platform on which he stood. = i Thirteen minutes after the was sprung at 7:30 a. m., trap Cross was pronounced officially dead by prison physicians and the judgment of the court was fulfilled, Cross’ body will be sent to his boyhood home at Knoxville, Towa, for burial. Cross’ death on the gallows ends the, last chapter’of the tragedy be- gun in-Des Motnes on. the, Saturday night of Feb. 4, 1921, when George A. Fosdick, a grocer, was shot down by two youthful robbers as he was entering his home. Eugene Weeks. hanged on’ September 15, is alleged to have plotted the crime and led his companion, Cross, into it. Cross is said to have confessed, that he held the gun with which Fosdick’s life was taken. After shooting the grocer, Croes is said to have stood over the prostrate form and paying, no heed to the pleading of Mary Fosdick, 17 year old daughter of his victim, poured four more shots into her father’s body. nw HANGED FOR CRIME (By the Associated Press) Armouth, N. S, Nov. 24.—Or:ar Roberts, confessed .and convicted slayer of his 19-year-old housekeep- er, Flora Gray, on August 28, was hanged here this morning at 12:17 o'clock, BIG NOVEMBER STORM STRIKES IN NEW YORK (By the Associated Press) Olean, N. Y., Nov. 24.—Train and trolley service was crippled today by the. biggest November snowfall in the history of the city. The storm developed into a blizzard and more than four inches of snow already has fallen. Eight barges, loaded with grain were ‘sunk last night in Oneida Lake Two men are believed to have drowned. ‘ The tugs which were towing the fleets, reached Sylvan beach in safc- ty and managed to bring in several | barges of the fleets. IN MARYLAND, (By the Associated Press) Baltimore, Md. Nov. 24.-—Fire which Broke out about midnight in} the woods near Towson, Baltimore county, was still burning this morn- ing, but it was believed by the fire fighters that danger to dwellings and other property had passed. The flames which were running through the woods bordering the Maryland and Pennsylvania Rail- road, had burned back between two ; and three miles from the tracks, and for a time endangered big wooden; trestles of the road and a large number of cottages. A forest fire which started early | this morning at Towson, near here,| URGE WOMAN AS FEDERAL JUDGE Miss Florence King, Chicago at- torney, may become 'the first woman federal judge in the country, The Republican Woman’s Club of Chi- cago has asked President Harding to appoint her to fill'a vancancy in United States judgeship for ths northern district of Illinois. URGE STATE, COUNTY SCHOOL PLAN CHANGED Reorganization Called For By North Dakota Teachers Association ’ - FORKS MAN\ NOMINATED W. C. Stebbins Probably to be Elected President; Stark Man Treagurer Fargo, N. D., Nov. 24.—W. C.. Steb- bins of Grand Forks was nominated for president of the North Dakota Teachers Association by the nomi- nating committce of that body at tho closing day’s sessions of the sonvenyon. today. H. 0: Pippin, superintendent of schools of Stark county was nominated for treasurer. Election of officers and passing of resolutions is scheduled for this afternoon, aki 3 Some’ of the resolutions prepared for ‘submission . by’ the ‘resolutions committees are: 1, That it is for the best inter- ests of education and good citizen- ship in North Dakota to have care- ful but thorough re-organization of state and county administration of schools. f 2. Further that immediate steps be taken through the constituted agencies of the association to en- courage such legislation, in keeping with: the best practices of the most progressive states, by the coming session of the state legislature... 3. Further, that because of financial handicaps imposed. on many school district administrators by the law making the maximum levy one third of the sum of the levies of 1918-19 and 20 this law should be repealed but it is recom. mended that school districts shall be limited in their issuance of war- rants to a sum not exceeding their available income for tHe year. 4.Reiterate belief, in Towner? Sterling bill; urge all honorable means toward its early enactment; pledge influence against illiteracy in state; to the movement to estab- lish kindergartens throughout the state; endorse work of children’s code commission; endorse _alll worthy efforts to,raise qualifica- tions of teachers in the state. IY. A. DECIDES TO CONTINUE: Will Seek Change in State Election Laws Fargo, N. D., Nov. 24.—The Inde- pendent Voters Association will not cease to function, it was decided at a meeting of the executive com- mittee here. They voted’ to continue until March 15 next. Theodore G. Nelson. will continue as secretary. The organization will continue to seck Republican and Democratic fusion in various matters. A legislative committee consist- ing of W. H. Stutsman, George Shafer, Theodore Nelson, John B Fried and S. J. Doyle was selected The committee adopted a resolu- tion favoring a nonpartisan elec- tion law for the state to be enacted by the legislature. COGHLAN WINS SALARY SUIT Joseph Coghlan, supreme court re- has spread over a two-mile front | and is endangering a large number} of cottages between Lochhaven and | Bayneaville. ) Fire apparatus from all surrcand- | ing towns have been called upon for | assistance. Telephone and teleg-iph poles in the path of the fire, » hich | is‘ fanned ‘by a high wind, are said | to be down and the telephone orera- tor at Towson reported she was rn. able to raise subscribers in the vi cinity of the fire, porter, is entitled to a salary of $2,- 500 a year, the supreme court de- cided in the appeal in behalf of the state auditing board from Judge Nuessle, the district court being af- firmed. The legislature in 1919 fixed the salary at $2,500. The general ap- propriation bill, of 1,921 carried a $2,000 annual a¥propriation for the salary. Judge Robinson dissented from the decision and Judge Grace did not participate, LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS TIGER LASHES BACK AT HIS SENATE CRITICS | Replies to Charge of Senator Hitchcock That He Is a Militarist & SEE FRANCE IS PLEA Clemenceau Jubilant Over Re- ception Given to His Bos- ton Speech BY ASSOCIATED PRESS Boston, Nov. 24—The Tiger of France lashed back at his senate critics tody in his first American interview, granted to the Associated Press, replying particularly to the criticisms of Senator Hitchcock and Borah. } “Senator Hitchcock calls me a militarist”, Clemenceau said. “Well, I am glad to tell Mr. Hitchcock he is in the senate, owing to the vote, for only a few more days. When he }is free, I dare him to go to France | and learn the facts.” | Answering Senator Hitchcock's demand that he explain why France insisted on using black troops in her army of occupation, the tiger de- clared that Hitchcock had been mis- led by the German propaganda, and that today there was not a single black soldier in German territory. Georges Clemenceau, war premier of France, was up at dawn today putting the finishing touches on the second formal address of his American tour, which he will deliver at 4 o'clock this afternoon in Tres mont Temple. Seated before his inevitable pot of cold tea, with his battered gray skullcap on at a rakish angel, he worked for more than an hour. on his notes, at a small table in the home of F, L. Higginson, Jr. What he does with the notes after he has prepared them, no one knows. He never refers to them when he is speaking, but he always makes them. Refreshed by his night's sleep the Tiger appeared even more jubilant today than he was yesterday over the ‘reception given him by Boston and other cities between here and New York. He decided that even if his “mis- sion” of , winning American hearts for France. failed-—-which he was confident it would not—he always would treasure the memories of the welcome he had on this “last mis- son: of bis, life.” ¢ There was nothing on the ‘liger’s program for today except the speech. Yesterday he. declared he had wanted to see Bunker Hill ever since his visit to America, 57 years ago, and it was not improbable that he would summon Colonel Stephen Bonsal, tour conductor, and demand to be taken there immediately. Faneuil Hall, the “cradle of liberty,” was another point he hoped to visit. He has been invited to two foot- ball games on Saturday. The Brown- Dartmouth game at Cambridge, and the Yale-Harvard game at New Haven, He, wants to.see both but it is uncertain whether he will be able to attend either. To Senator Borsh’s recent asser- tion that Clemenceau was primariiy responsible for’ conditions in Europe, becayse of his great influence in the drafting of the Versailles treaty, the aged statesman declared his sit- uation was “particularly distress. jing,” since in France he had been most bitterly criticized “for having Vasked from the Germans less than } ought. to.” » Don’t Understand Ideas When he was told that some 0! the senators at Washington ‘had sa jthey were net able to understa clearly from his speeches just wh he wanted of America, the Tig said with a gleam in his eyes, that he thought they: would know after his address this afternoon in Tre- mont Temple—the second formal speech of his American tour. Clemenceau. received his interview- ers in his room at the home of F. L. Higgins Jr., where he is a guest while in the city. He, wore his usual gray cutaway suit, and his gray skull cap was\perched on his bald head. Seating Himself in a huge easy chair. he s “Now—put any questions you like, and I will answer them.” The interviewer went at once to the subject of the Washington cri- ticisms. Clemenceau smiled and shrugged. “I had made it a point not | to discuss with official people in ! America,” he said. “But I have said I will answer all, so I must answer. Answers Hitchcock “I am glad to tell Mr. Hitchcock jhe is in the senate only for.a few | days owing to the vote,’ he began, re- iferring to the Nebraskan’s recent |defeat for re-election. “Therefore, I jthink I'll be excused if I dare him 'to go to Europe, and ifyhe finds any- one in my country or elsewhere who isays I have been‘ a militarist, then Tl own it. “I have suffered’ much from 1871 |to 1917 for not being militarist, L turned militarist when the war broke out—before, I have been a militarist to the extent of extending the length of military service in France. “But that wasn’t too bad. If it al- lowed us to oppose the German front until England-America appeared.” Reagrding Black Troops. The answer to Hitchcock's question about black troops, tue Tiger said, “Bon” and waded in. “In the first place there are no black troops of occupation in the area of the enemy. The second place, I have seca black American troops at the front, and they stood the fire with bravery, too.” “The German’s and all of our foes had been killing enough of our white men, and 100,000 black men fell gal- (Continued on Page 3,)