New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 6, 1921, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870. SCHOOLS OPEN TODAY FOR FALL TERM--MANY CROWDED Authorities Working On Figures of Enrollment—- State Trade Has Had Suc- sion. cessful Summer £ Although official figures were not available up to a late hour this afte:- noon at the office of the board of ed ucation in City Hall, indi that the enrollment in the public school of the city will run far beyond that of any other year in the history | of the city The various schools, both publc and parochiel opened this morning for the fall term. In the grammar, junior high and senlor high schools, the Was a half session, the remalnder ¢ the day being allowed the pupils for the purpose of providing themselve Wwith books and other necessities. In the cases of the children attending the parochial scheols, devine services were held this morning ptior to the opening. At the junior high school a large enrollment Is being recorde whi at the High schools there are no new entrants from the Grammar sche those puplls who ordinarily would to High school being taken care of by the Junior High school The State Tra chool has been running at full capacity all summer and with the opening of the academ achool year it Is expected that man boys will be refused admittance be cause of insuficient accommodations. Several additional rooms have been turned over to the Trade school by the High school for temporary use. Because of the demand for instruc- tion in the bullding trades a masonry department has been added to the achool this past summer where brick- laying, plastering and concrete work are taught and the carpentry depart- ment has been rcopened after hav- ing been closed for lack of accommo- dations. The electrical shop has wired three, six-family blocks in the first district at Hartford and fivd buildings on the Connecticut company’s new extension at Berlin. The drafting and tern departments are busy on drawings and pattern for a heavy duty engine lathe to be manufactured by the school. The machine department is very hard hit by the present industrial depression but is busy rebullding machines and replacing tools worn out during the rush of the past few years. The printing department s very busy on catalogs, forms, year books, etc., for local plants. This department with the electrical shop shows the greatest increase in enrollment during the past two years. Tha Increased enrollment has neces- sitated the employment of additional instructors as follows Arthur Mahan, drafting instructor; ations are a 'MINGO COUNTY COURT NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, OPENS FOR BUSINESS Matewan Trouble to Be Re- viewed Again — Shoot- At Last W. Va., of the circuit court opened today many cases growing out of in- ing Session. Sept. 6.—The Mingo county During this Williamson, September term sos expected to be tried. S, S. Stokes de- the court to cleared. This addition to the in connection several private de- tectives and residents of th town dur- ing the Matewan battle in ), cases agaipst C. F. Keeney and Fred Mooney, president and secretary respectively of District 17, United Mine Workers of America, would be tried. Keeney and Mooney here by a special grand ago in connection with two men during three ds along the Tag river last ) has been arre Other that of strife Attorney he dustrial Prosecutin clared that sit until the would indicate trial of 14 men with the deaths of are expected docket s that, in indicted were indicted jury a week the deaths of s of shooting ay. Neither ed. on Robb, the docket include international or- ganizer of the miners’ union on an in- dictment charging him with being an accessory before the fact in connection with the death of Willlam McMullen, a state trooper last June McMullen was shot while on guard duty. When the second Matewan battle trial is called, two familiar faces at the first trial last spring, which resulted in an acquit will be missing. Sid Hatfield, former Matewan chief of po- lice, and Ed Chambers, two of the de- fendants in that trial were shot and killed at Welch on August 1 when en- tering the courthouse there to take part in a court proceeding. Weeks Orders Soldiers Home From West Virginia Washington, Sept. 6.—Withdrawal of the 26th infantry one of the two regiments ordered into the West Virginia coal ficlds last week as rec- ommended by Brig. Gen. Bandholtz commanding the troops in the field was approved today by President Harding. Orders for the return of the regiment to Camp Dix, N. J., its home station were immediately issued by etary Weeks. o David L GTON. rashington, Sept. ~President and Harding and party of friends number of high offici hington today abx 6 Mrs a including turned to W (Continued on Eleventh Page) president yacht Mayflower. LAFAYETTE-MARNE DAY OBSERVED AT THE TOMB OF PRES. WASHINGTON Harding Lauds Frenchman of American Revolution- ary Fame—Friendly and Cordial Relations Will Al- ways Exist. Mount Vernon, Va., Sept. 6.—The dual anniversary of the birth of Laf- ayette and the first battle of the Marne was celebrated with impressive ceremonies today at the tomb of Wash- ington President Harding, who was unable to be present sent a message declaring that America’s indebtedness to the French soldler was eternal and prais- ing the “dauntless courage'’ of Ameri- can soldlers in the second battle of the Marne. Similar messages were sont by Secretary of State Hughes and Myron T. Herrick, American ambas- sador to France. Harding's Message. The president's message sald “To Gen. Lafayette in no small meastre the success of the Revolution was due. With n> sordid motives, but tnflamed with ardent sympathy and a passionate desire to help them, he espoused the cause of the struggling colonies and hastened thelr sup- port. He sought no selfish end & arked no pay; but found h ard in tho thanks of congress and the un dyinz nffection of generations of American citizens whose gratitude has Loen, and always will be suitabl shown on all appropriate occasions. Not only did he render brilliant per- wonal military service, but through his instrurientality much needed financial assistance and reintor wore obtained for the Americans indebtedness to him is eternal President Millerand's Message ¥rom President Millerand of eame this message “In eommemorating the double annl verary of the birth of Lafayette and tho battle of the Marna tho American people show its attachment to the principles which have made {15 inde pendonce.” to Our Other Mcessages ‘remier Driand sent the foliowing: “In the schools of France the pages in which our history merges with yours are read to the child n. They learn therein the gratitude which overy Frenchman owes to the Ameri- cah heroes who died at Saint Mihiel at Bellean Wood, at Chateau Thierry. Ambassador Jusserand sent the fol- lowing: ‘The eventh of immense importance vhich Washin n and lLsfayett eould no have forescen conflermed and » e (Continued on Second Page.) ements of troops | H. H. RICHARDS TO WED FLORENCE LADD Chestnut Street Man and Hart Street Young Woman Will Be Married at . Trinity Methodist Church. Howell H. Richards, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. P, Richards of 326 Chestnut street, and Miss Florence Ladd of 27 | Hart strget, daughter of Mrs. George Ladd, will be married at 4 o'clock to- morrow afternoon in the church parlors of the Trinity Methodist church. Rev. John L. Davis, pastor, will officiate. | Mr. Richards is an instructor in the | Hallock school for boys at Great Bar- rington, Mass. Miss Ladd been for ral years children’s librarian at the Institute and Mrs. Richards plan to make in Great Barrington. Mr their home UNEMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE To be Called at Washington by the 15th or 16th of September, Sccretary Hoover Says. Washington, Sept. 6.—Plans for the coming national unemployment confer- ence to bo held here this month, were understood today to be under consid- atlon by administration officials. ecrotary Hoover was understood to have completed a tentative draft of | the program together with a slate of | representative men from which Mr. | Harding may select the conferees. , Tho udministration is anxious to set | to work quickly upon the unemploy- ment problem in order that necessary remedios may be evolved before win ter and to this end Mr. Hoover has expreased a hope that the president | would be able to assemble the con- ference by the 15th or 20th of this | month White the mestings of the confer- | ence will precbably be open it is ex- pected that most of the constructive work of the gathering will be done by committees O’DUFFY’S ARMAGH SPEECH AFTERMATH Unionists Given Arms in Belfast as Preventive Measure FRENCH VIEWS ON QUESTION Lloyd Gceorge Discussing All Possible Angles of Situation — Cabinet to Mect Tomorrow and all Eyes Are on Action to be Taken. Belfast, Sept. 6.—Unlonists employ- ed by a large concern near the of the recent rioting in this city meeting last night and were given arms with which to protect themselves if attacked. Routes were indicated to the men with the advice that they should use them for ching and leaving their place of employment. It was declared that the meeting was a sequel of the speech of Owen O'Duffy at Armagh on Sunday, in which Mr. O'Dufry declared the boycott against Ulsteer would be tightened by the Sinn Fein and if that was unsuccessful in bringing Ulster into a united Ireland, “we will brind lead against them.” Charles Harvey, wounded during the rioting of last week, died this morning. He was.the nineteenth victim of the disorders. Paris Newspaper Report. Parls, Sept. 6.—Sinn Fein Ireland's demands upon Great Britain are de- fended in an interview with Eamon De Valera, printed here by the news- paper L'Oeuvre. That journal's rep- resentative, Simone Tery, quotes Mr. De Valcra as asserting that the Irish republicans are basing their fight on principles of justice.” *“Our realism is more practical than the opportunism we are advised to adopt,”” Mr. De Valera is quoted as declaring. The British government de- clares it desires to end, once and for all time, strife between its country aur ours. Wa also wish to end strife, but ara we lacking in practical sense because we know as everyone else in Ireland knows that ldsting peace ¢an be made only on the principles of jus- tice? 1If Ircland is refused rights which for her are primordial and es- sential, can she be accused of stub- bornness because she points out that these rights are denied her? Who, then, can imagine, even among these ‘realist politicians,” that lasting peace can be built on a refusal of these fun- damental rights ™ Is Conferring With fondon Cabinet. London, Sept. 6. — Premier Lioyd George today held conversations with membars of his cabinet, and civil and military authorities in Ireland, rela- tive to the situation which has arisen as a vesult of the latest note to the British government from Eamon De Valera, the Irish republican leader. The premier met his colleagues at In- verness, near Gairloch, Scotland, where Mr. Lluyd George has been spending a brief vacation. It was believed the Irish situation would be talked over preliminary to the meeting of the cab- inet which will convene at Inverness tomorrcw. Irish Situation at Crisis? Although London newspapers con- tinued today to counsel patience and forbearance in dealing with the Irish question, there were certain indica- tions that the Irish controversy had virtually reached a crisis, and that to- morrow’s meeting of the British min- istry might prove historic. There were many wiio believed that Mr. De Valera and his colleagues at Dublin would be given a certain limired time in which they could either accebt or reject the British government's éffer of dominion status for Ireland as a basis for a set- tlement of the anclent controversy. Cigars For Cabinet. A party of American tourists hai sent anonymously to the premier and the cabinet a box of cigars. Accom- panying the cigars was a note of per- sonal esteem and ot appreciation of Premier Lloyd George's efforts to “set- tle the age-long lrish problem.” Hope was expressed that “Ireland and Great Britain might soon smoke together the pipe of peace. NEWNHAM-HILLS WEDDING Former Local Girl To Marry New York Resident on October 3, at Indian Neck. Mrs. Kate C. Hills, formerly of New Britain, now of Indian Neck, announces the engagement of her daughter, Olive Hills, to Ernest W. Newnham of Hyde Park, New York. The wedding will take place on October 3 at the home of the bride at Indian Neck. After an extended wedding trip, the couple will make their home at Augusta, Ga., where Mr. Newnham is a professional golf player at the Augusta club_ Miss Hills was formerly employed at the American Hoslery company office when she lived in this city and has a large host of friends. Mr. Newnham is a golf professional at the Pine Orchard club at Pine Orchard, Conn. Plans to Aid N. Y. Unemployed Are Considered New York, Sept. 6.—Plans for aid- ing New York’'s army of 500,000 un- employed were taken up at a meet- ing today of the new industrial aid bureau created by the legislature. Tabs’ Drum Corps Wins Prize in Capital City Tho local Y. M. T. A. & B. Drum corps. added another trophy to its col- lection Jaturday afternoon in Hartford in the mecet held under the auspices of the Royal Typewriter corps. The Establishment of great dormitories in National Guard armories and or- ganization of free kitchens were two proposals for ameliorating the con- dition of the jobless taken up by the bureau. TO RESUME OPERATIONS Madrid, Sept. 6.—EIl Diario Univer- sal today predicts an early commence- ment of Spanish operations against award was for the best playing modern corps. The other two prizes awarded went to Massachusetts corps. the rebellious Moorish tribesmen in the Melilla area. DOLLAR DAY The New Britain and Hart- ford merchants will hold Dollar hursday, and some vare ins will be offered in this mmoth event and battle of prices. THURSDAY. < SOLDIERS CONTROL TROUBLED AREAS Everything is Quict on Boone-Logan Line After Many Days of Threatened Rio Charleston, W. Va., Sept. 6.—Quiet prevailed along the Boone-Logan county border early today. From Min- go county were some shooting was reported along the Tug river yester- day and the day before, came reports that the situation was not regarded as serious. Advices from Spruce Fork Ridge in eastern Logan county were that United States soldiers sent to that district were in complete control. Further trouble in that region where last week large numbers of men had gathered on one side of the ridge for the an- nounced purpose of marching through Logan to protest martial law in force there, and deputies, state police and volunteers on the other, to prevent the march, was not looked for, army of- ficials said. Briz. Gen. H. H. Bandholtz, in command ‘of the federal forces sent into the state after a tour of inspec- tion yesterday, announced that he was satisfied with Wwhat had been ac- complished and stated that he had made certain recommendations to the Washington government. What these recommendations, were he refused to say, adding that.any information must come from the War department. REY. 0. S. DAVIS 1S CONFERENCE LEADER Former South Church Pas- tor Will Address Meet- ing of Conn. Ministers, N Rev. Dr. Ozora S. Davis, formerly pastor of the South Congregational church in this city, has been chosen president of the Pastors’ Conference Meeting for Spiritual Fellowship, for this year, and will have for his theme: 'he Minister's Message for a World in Ferment.” The conference will be held at Hart- ford, September 19 and 20, under the supervision of the Hartford Seminary Foundation and Patorzl Union the se sions being conducted in the chapel of, the Hartford Theological Seminary. The first meeting will be held at 10 o'clock Monday morning. ~An after- noon session wil convene at 1:30 o'¢lock and the evening meeting wi be held at 6:30 o'clock. Sessions will be held at 9 a. m., and 1. p. m. Tues- day. In the original program for this vear's conference. Dr. Herring had been selected as leader, but his. tragic death during the summer months made necessary a postponement of tho sessions. Te former local minister was selected to fill the vacancy. Dr. Davis has been in close touch with Dr. Herring and was familiar with the theme which that eminent man had planned to bring before the conference and will embody the salient points of it with his own topic. The meeting are to be held in ac- cordance with the custom of recent years which has proved so profitable, ministers of all communions gathering for spiritual fellowship under such leadership as that of Prof. Fosdick, President Mackenzie and Dr. Coffin. SEEKING ACCOMPLICE Authoritics Continue Case of Pecus Romga in Hopes That Culprit Can Be Apprehended. An effort 1s being made by the po- lice to apprehend an alleged accom- plice of Peus Romga, who is held on a charge of passing a one dollar bill “raised” to a ten, and for that reason Romga's case was continued for one week in police court this morning. At yesterday's session, Morris Downham was fined $50 on a reck- paid $3 for parking in a restricted less driving charge; A. Rosenblatt area; judgment was suspended in the case of E. T. Whaples, charged with driving without a license, and judg- ment was suspended In the case of Carl Johnson, drunk. WED 0UT OF TOWN Two Local Men Marry in Other Citles —Return Certificates Are Filed Today The following marriages, performed out of the city, are indicated in certi- ficates filed today in the office of the town clerk: Arthur H. Oquist, a local carpenter, and Miss Ethel Viola House of East Hampton. The ceremony was perform- ed July by Rev. Samuel Thatcher of the East Hampton Methodist church. Czeslaw Konopka of this city, and Miss Sophia Grapkowski, a widow, of Terryville. Rev. P. J Kaczmarski tied the nuptial knot in Terryville, August 2. THE WEATHER. e Hartford, Sept. Generally fair with moderate tem- perature tonight and Wednesday 1921 —TWELVE SYZRAN, RUSSIA, IS SCENE OF DISASTER Once Most Golorful Gity in Volga Valley—Now Desolate CHILDREN'S LAUGHTER GONE Drought and Clouds of Grasshoppers Cause Pitiful Conditions Through- out Once Fertile Valley—Pcople Waiting in Groups to Die. Syzran, Russia, Sept. 6, (By Asso- ciated Press).—There was a time when Syzran was the most colorful city along the Volga, but that time is gone. Today it is crowded with dust begrimed peasants, who group themselves into gray masses in their search for food. There wad a time when the air was filled with a per- fect babel of tongues—the languages of the Kalmucks, Mongols, Tartars, Chinese and Russians—but the crowds that throng the streets of the city at present are mute. Even the laugh- ter of children has been silenced in the despair that has settled over these tens of thousand who sit, crossing themseclves and wait for what seems to be the inevitable. Pictures of Misery. Pictures of misery seen here are duplicated in Samara, Simbrisk, Sar- atoff, Tzaritzin and every other city in the famine stricken valley of the Volga. Docks and railroad stations are piled high with the belongings of the refugees who were driven from their land by the drought and the clouds of grasshoppers that destroyed even the meagre grain that had de- fied the heat of the terrible summer now drawing to a tragic close. Com- mittees are trying to move the refu- gees to other points where there is some promise of food but it is neces- sary to use the limited river and rail- road transportation facilities to send seed grain into the country and to bring bread into the famine districts. Many Beggars Everywhere. Many | professional beggars of the gypsy type are to be found here and in other large centers in southeastern Russia, but the starving farmers ask no alms and utter no cry. They stand silent and await their fate with the stoicism pictured so graphically and truthfully by Tolstoy and Dostoievsky. Markets have sprung up mushroom like here and there about the refu- gee camps offering for sale vege- tables, bread, flour and m@t. They are surrounded by hungry people who have no money to offer, but who exchange weddings rings, fur coats, caps, kettles, pans, boots and other small possessions. They know the Russian winter is coming and that it will find them without shelter and clothing but they are obliged to give up the necessities of the future to meet the demands of the present. In State of Exhaustion Large peasant families arrive in a state of exhaustion, their carts dragged by camels and starved horses. There is no hay or grain here and there is slight prospect that the animals can be kept alive until spring. In the carts are samovars, talking machines, concertina s and American sewing machin&, which are bartered for food or for coffins. The dead lie unnoticed for hours, while near them are pitiful groups boiling a few potatoes and onions with which to keep alive. Some markets are under armed guard, but this appears to be unnecessary, as the peasants are too weak and pas- sive to take violent measures. Great crowds attempt to cling to the few trains that leave here daily and soldiers often pull some of the refugees from the car, frequently separating families, some members of which have managed to secrete them- selves between the cars. Typhus in Many Places. Typhus has appeared In many places and the hospital superinten- tendent at Samara said the other day the only way to handle the situation was to segregate those who had been stricken. They receive rations when food is available, but there is no soap and no hot water to wash the sufferers, many of whom are children. Five hundred sick chil- dren were found grouped in one building in Samara. Some of them were seen eating leaves from shrubs, while others were lying about on dirty bags, more dead than alive. Most of these children were so ashen and so emaciated that they re- semble old men and women. Many prosperous German families from Mariupol and other German centers are among the refugees at Samara and are living in filth and poverty in crowded dock sheds, or have no shelter at all. Several Germans told the Associateed Press they had rela- tives in Siberia, and were trying to reach Omsk, but they had exhausted their money and could not get per- mission to migrate eastward. Miss Anna Haines of Philadelphia, a worker for the Friends' Relief or- ganization is in Samara and last week said the mortality among children less than three years is very high and that nearly 90 per cent. are already dead. Die at Railroad Station She told of four persons dying on a station platform in Samara the other night while they were waiting to be transferred to some other town. Others were lying about and were so helpless that it was difficult to distinguish between the living and the dead. A committee sent to Russia by the American Near East Relief left Samara last week for Tiflis after making an investigation. NEW BRITAIN HERALD PAGES. ROTARIANS TO HEAR INSURANCE SPEAKER A. D. Risteen of Travelers Insurance + Company to Speak Thursday at Noon Day Luncheon. On Thursday noon, the Rotary club members will have an opportunity to listen to A. D. Risteen, manager of the Travelers Insurance Co. Research Houses branch, when he will address them on protection, from an insurance standpoint. Mr. Risteen is an inter- esting speaker and will have some good points to bring forward that will benefit his listeners, it was stated today. The luncheon will commence a‘ the usual time, 12:15 o'clock. The Rotarians will be given their new Rotary badges for the first time since the organization has been found- ed. They are a new addition to the club and have been recently pur- lchased. The name, “New Britain Rotary club,” is printed on them and underneath, the name of the person wearing it 1s lettered. His vocation and his nickname is also on the badge as it is a rule of the Rotar- ians to know one another by their first names and address them as such in order that a closer relation may exist. EXPECT LIVELY FIGHT ON TWO PLATOON PLAN Proponents and Opponents of Measure Lining Up Today. Adherents to and opponents of the two-platoon system for the fire depart- ment are leaving not a stone untyrned today to add strength to their faction in anticipation of one of the liveliest battles that has taken place in the council in many years when the report of the fire board comes before that body for action at a special session tomorrow evening. Despite the fact that many of the city fathers have already made up their minds as to how they will vote, there is believed to be a sufficiently large number of council members who have not determined what course they will take to swing the issue one way or the other. Interviews were secured today with as many aldermen and councilmen as. could be reached so that the probable action of the coun- cil might be learned, but the results indicat> a wide variation of opinion as to ways and means of providing a two-platoon, affording considerable ground for lively debate at the council meeting. As a result of the fire board’s latest unheaval, the report to go to the coun- cil wiil set forth that two commis- sioners, Messrs. Parsons and Tomas- zewski, favor the adoption October 1, (Continued on Eleventh Page.) LOCAL GIRL MAY BECOME PRINCESS City of Dallas, Texas, Gives Mayor the Difficult Task of Choosing City's Most Popular Debutante, Mayor O. F. Curtis has been request- ed by the committee on the Texas Cen- tennial, to delegate the city's most popular debutante to act as a princess in the court of the Queen of Dallas dur- ing the celebration. The princess is to be attended by two ladies in waiting, a prince and two knights and is to be in full court regalia. The appointing of attendants to the princess is optional with the mayor, the City of Dallas hav- ing ‘‘nobility’* on the waiting list to fill vacancies, a communication receiv- ed by the mayor announces. It is planned to have 5,000 people in a pageant depicting the history of Tex- as during the centennial observance. Toward this end a princess from each principality or city in the country is wanted. SENDS IN RESIGNATION Chairman E. B. Stone of Fire Board Follows Verbal Statement of Quit- ting With Note to Mayor. The written resignation of Chair- man E. B. Stone of the board of fire commissioners was received in this morning’s mail by Mayor O. F. Curtis. The mayor announced that he has not, as yet, accepted the resignation of the commissioner who wishes to retire for service. Mr. Stone was ap- pointed less than a month ago, and attended but two meetings of the board. At the first meeting he was elected chairman and at the second he resigned after his motion to defer adoption of the two platoon plan jailed to receive a majority vote. Municipal Teams May Play Thurs. Afternoon Alderman Coe Hawkins of the eighth ward, Hartford, leader of the Capital City Municipal baseball team, haj communicated to the committes in charge of the local municipal team, his desirc for a game to be played Thursday afternoon at Goodwin park. Herald “Ads” Mean Better Business PRICE THREE CENTS BRUSSELS MAY BE NEW LEAGUE SEAT Economy Will Be Used as Argu- ment Against Geneva 10 SETTLE CHILEAN DISPUTR Sir Eric Drummond to Submit Secre= tariat Report for Year to Augusf Body of Diplomats at Today’s Ses« sion in Switzerland. Geneva, Fept. 6.—(By Associated Press.)—Bolivia's request that the as- sombly of the league of nations con- sicer ome means of settling the dis- putes over the provinces of Tacna and Arica, at present under Chilian jur- 1sdiction, was expected to cause sharp debate in today's session of the as. sembly. Peru appeared at first as a Party to Bolivia's request, but it was announced this morning she had withe drawn. The request for the assembly's aid was based by Bolivia on the principle enunciated by Woodrow Wilson, that all states were entitled to an outlet to the sea. Augustin Edwards, Chilean 1ainister to Great Britain and head of the Chilean delegation in the assembly, ~nme here expressly to oppose consid- eration of the Tacna-Arica problem. He was armed with a formidable ar- ray ot opinions from international lawyers, including one from John W. Davis, former America ambassador to Great Britain, supporting his conten- tion thatthe assembly wasincompe- tent to deal with he quesion- Sir Eric Drummond was prepared to report on the year's work of the secre- tariat of the council of the league and it was expeced that this report would be heard after the election of the six vice-presidents of the assembly. Sir Eric’s report embodied the con- clusion of the special committee which investigated the organization last spring and recommended the seat of the league should be removed to Brus- seis in the interest of economy. A number of the delegates had intimat- ed they would urge such a removal, ard they pointed out that, with the evchange rate adverse to all delegates, the cost of living and maintenance of the secretariat here was excessively kigh. The absence of delegates from the Central American states at the open- ing of the assembly yesterday occas- ioned much comment, there being a tendency in some crcles to attribute their absence to the influence of the United States: It was explained, how- ever, that the Cosa Rican delegation had expressed the opinion that the absence of other Central Americans was due to uncertainty as to whether the new Central American federation was entitled to only one delegation, or whether each state still could be rep- resented. THREATENING CLOUD APPEARS AT 2nd ASSEMBLY OF NATIONS LEAGUE Chile May Withdraw if Bo- livia’s Request to Place Area Disputeed on Agenda is Complied With. '} ¥ Geneva, Sept. 6. -— (By Associated Press)—The third session of the sec- ond assembly of the league of nations opened here today under a threaten- ing cloud. Reports were circulated widely that the Chilean delegation would withdraw from the league if the question of Tacna and Arica, the dis- puted provinces now being adminis- tered by Chile, should be placed on the agenda of the assembly as request- ed by Bolivia. Reports Denied. These reports were categorically de- nied by Augustin Edwards, head of the Chilean delegation who was said to have made the threat of withdrawal. Senor Edwards asserted he had made no statcment to either the newspaper correspondents or delegates to the ef- fect that his delegation was consider- ing withdrawal. He said he would make his only statement on the sub- ject to the assembly when the ques- tion comes on. Animated Conferences. Animated conference. were held around the Chilean delegation for some time before the assembly was called to order. Arthur J. Balfour, the British representative had an ear- nest talk with Scnor Edwards after which the Chilean delegation confer- red at some length. H. A. Van Karne- beek, of Holland, who yesterday was elected president of the assembly re- lieved the tension somewhat by pro- posing that the assembly complete its orgamization by naming commissions for the election of vice-presidents be- fore taking up the agenda involving Tacna and Arica. A Prolonged Debate. A prolonged dehate on the proced- ure to be followed an ensued and oc- cupied of the morning session. Presi- dent Varl Karnebeek proposed that the afternoon also be devoted to the work of organization thus throwing over to tomorrow consideration of Bolivias® request that the Tacna-Arica question be placed on the agenda. Meanwhile efforts are being made to secure the consent of Chile and Bolivia to the appointment of a commission to study the question. FAILS TO OPEN DOORS Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 6.—The Guaranty Bank and Trust Co. of this Since the local committee has but a Dr. John R. Voris, one of the com- mittee will go to New York to re- port on the situation short time to make arrangements for the game, it may be necessary for the local officiala to decline. city failed to open its doors today hav- ing been taken over by the state con- troller at the request of the board of directors. s st