New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1922, Page 1

! Herald “Ads” Mean Better Business R — -,.fi"l‘/\BLIS}IICI) 1870 NEW BR CIGARETTE STUBS INDICATE TAYLOR MURDERER WAITED AT DIRECTOR’S BACK DOOR Mabel Normand Last To Leave His Home Who Are! frange Other Actresse Questioned (‘ase Include Edna Purvi- m ‘ance and Mary Minter. Tos Angeles, Ieb. 3. A half dozen cigirette stubs may furnish the key to the mystery surrounding the mur der of William Desmond Taylor, noted picture direcfor, These half- vemains fonnd near the hack of his lusuriously appointed recidence, according o investigators, gave mute evidence that some one ap parcntly waited nervously there on the of the murder. link the statements by Mrs, Douglas MelLean, wife of motion picture actor, that on the evening of | the murder she heard a shot fired and looking from the window of her home, which overiooks that of Taylor, saw a | man, a stranger to her, emerge from the ‘ront of Taylor's home, look i and apparently speak, | door and depart. Another link is a statement by em- ployes at an oil service station nearby that within an hour prior to that time | stinnger whom they describe sim- i asked them where W, lor lived and they directed him to the the shooting later oc- crew of a street car add gdnformation that at a time closely cors | wonding o that which Mrs. Mac- lean gives as of (he departure of the | man from Taylor's house, boarded the car at a stop maotion smolked cvening | They door | W here curred, The terions [ anger Mystery Deepens revelations only the myste for M the stranger was not ervant of Taylor, whom for whom the police Taylor reported to the some time ago this man property and money from light of Taylor's hame Maclean observed him in serve to| Mac : the | she are | Po had | him. | was These deepen Lean former I'new gad and seeking e siolen The on it porch | d M | full glow The movements of this stranger co incide with the visit of Mahel Nor ms notion picture aetress, to Tay s hame on (he evening of the mur- escorted Miss Normand motor car and talked a few with her there. The front home was open. Investi- gators suggest that the stranger who ! had been nervously smoking cigarettes while waiting opportunity to get at Taylor apparently entered the apartment while the door was open nd Taylor was out talking to Miss Normand. Tayior w0 her minut for an on Tax Statement. Miss Normand fixed as departure closely corre- Mrs. Maclean fixe wving heard the shot, an indica- poreibly, investigators say, that anger shot Taylor immediutely Paylor returned to the house and himselt betore his desk to con- | worli on his income tax state- Working The that spond time of her 5 to the time as i tion, the afte seint tinuc ment, Motives Are Sought, Itevenge, jcalousy, hate and swerea love wll were considered by the police in continuing their search for the or W. 1. Taylor, motion picture director whose body was found | vesterday in his apartment here. While the meagre clues obtained so far pointed chiclly to the commission of the crime by o man the defectives working on the cuse said they believed | it that Taylor was Killed by a woman. Thew hunt was largely | centered along three lines, it w id. ail of the skulking e of a seen around thedirector’s apart- Jjust hefore and after neighbors | ot in the mght; the where- of o former servant, arrested alleged robbery of the director ported to have threatened re- wnd the sender of an anor letter_in which were enclosed tickets of articles stolen from unan- possible | | | | ments heard a abouts for the and r venge; mous fpawn aylor May offic Have Been Soldier also had under consid- tion a close scrutiny of the life his of the director to lcarn if the |y might have heen committed hy | voldier due to an ancient grudge | instance some soldier he might offended by the application of military discipline while he was an officer in the British forces during the war, Bvery in or n lor's | neck The er tory crime some as for known to have heen - the apartments: where Ta . with a buliet wound in the was found ve morning Leen closely questioned in the reh for clues, 4 Mahel Normand Questioned They range from Henry lor's negro houseman to Mahel | Normand, motion pieture actress, | while others noted in the film industry | imes were hrought into new in conection with the director's | include I1idna Purivance and | Mary M Mister, also motion pic- ture actress i Peavey gave the police an account| of his finding the body and of his spreading the alarm. Miss .'\'m-mv,'vml.lq who was one of the last to see the it director afive, told of a call she made [t his apartments Wednesday night in connection with Taylor loaned i her. Her chauffeur corroborated her account of the visit which incinded the |1 statement that Taylor com- |1 panied her to her aufomobile when [ eft. Mrs, Douglas Macl.can, wile film actor, said her maid related |i geen a heavy set man, dressed | clothes wearing @ cap| person whose pape death ey at bool she darl a (Continued oun Third Page.) imulul | | the | was |the [ tions at village brothe sought ian to Peavey, = Max Cohen, went EXECUTIONERS TO STRIKE Berlin, Feb, 2 executioners at Karlsruhe, and Baden following the lead of | | public ; | | their confrere at Mannheim ‘ | | The have notified the ministry of justice that they will go on strike unless their pay is in- creased. They declare it im- possible to behead eriminals property at the present prices. $125 000 FIRE WHEN DANBURY MILL BURNY UTAIN, CONNECTICUT, GROUND HOG AIDED |} BY BIRD I‘Rlnan‘ Underground Prognosticator —Robinxs Sa “Early Spring' Arrive As lce and Snow Disappear, At cated, people of last the groundhog is vindi rom time immemorial have felt that the oid story the groundhog and the subsequent six weeks of good or bad weather, was a myth, founded imagination and fostered by superstition. Today the little subterranean resident has proven his case, Yesterday morning he failed find shadow According to the faith of his fathe he did not be- come frightened but hung around until, by the time the sun had come out he was accustomed to sights and sounds of the great outdoors and re fuged to be frightened, Thus saith the ancient ftale, the backbone of winter has heen broken and an early spri s on the way. True to tradition, velapments have proven this conten- “tion When Mys, G, & Vivian, of 41 Emmons Pl iwoke this morning her ears were greeted with a medley on to i snbsequent de Sprinklers Did Not Work Owing to Break in Feed —Will Rebuild Iteh, 3. IFire early destroyed the mill of the 3rook Paper Mills, Inc, on skirts of this city, cansing a al $125,000, partially insurance The flames when the fire fanned by a veloped the main plant years ago and he sprinkler todag Reaver the out loss esti- covered Danbury, by a big start and en- The sisty conived as discovered, wind had W strong entire structure. had been buiit burned quickly. system did not work an investigation disclosed today, ix inch water main leading into mill had broken during the night water Wi supplied to the system, The water pressure at the hydrant was low and the one piece of mofor apparaius sent from the city of no value in ting the fire apparatus saved a nearby dwell- from catehing fire. The mills were taken over abont four years ago by the present own- ers. The plant furnished empioy ment to ahout people will be rebuilt oon as possible. YETS IN HOSPITAL FiGHT After 50011 the and no tigh The ing house It r Nearoes Leave Tostitution Alleg- ed Threats With Razor—To Inves- Jtizate Condition:., Chicago, [eh, 3. D Cincinnati, has been ardered here by Dr. Hugh Cummings. surgeon gen eral of the public health service to investigate a disturbance last night in Fdward Hines, Jr. Memorial hos pital which resulted.in ten negro ex- soldiers leaving the hospital hecause of fear of white veterans. An inguiry into causes the disturbance in which ¢ was hurled at one negro and others said to heen threatened with a or, will be started, as well general investigation into condi- the hospital There are about 900 soldiers at the hospital, 100 of whom are negrocs. ARBUCKLE JURY DISAGREES Poll Taken Indicates That There Can Joseph Hall of leading to heavy cup ve as a Be No Agreement and Judge Calls On Second 'Trial of Comedian, Ran failed today slauehter Francisco, Peb. 3.—The jury to agree and was discharged in the second trial of a man- 1inst Roscoe . Arbnekle in connection with the death of Miss Virginia Rappe, motion pic- ture actre IForeman J. J. Mclilroy that the vote stood two to ten. He did not des te whether the ma- jority was for canviction or acquittal. “There no chance for us to agree,” McBlroy said A poll of the jury termine if they could agr deliberation. All emplatically apm Gossip said the for conviction announced was taken to de- ee on further said, poll was ten to two SHERIFF SHOOT! IH(U”I. R Decorah, Ia., Matt Dotson, marshai and killed his , Al, early today when the lat- interfercd with the officer when he to Movris, who cged to intoxicated, dance er remove J ave aln, been GIOLOTTI TO FORM CABINET. London, Ieh. 3, (By Associated | ~~~The presidents of the Ital senate and chamber of deputies advised King Victor lmanuel ask former DPremior Giolotti - to form a cabinet in succession 1o the Bonomi ministry, says a Central News lispateh from Rome today have which comes from one the red breasted cobin. P’eering out of her bhondoir window she espied two of her feathered friends industrionsly seratehing for worms in the garden and express- ing in hird language their opinion of and snow where only worms should grow And thus, Mr. Ground- hog fé the world with a clean state and a truthful reputation. FAR EAST QUESTION 1S ABOUT SETTLED of music source only, ice (China’s Reply End-—Plenary Session of Arms Conference (By Asso- “big nine’” Washington, Febh. 3. ciated I'ress)— The arms conference meeting today for the iast time, whipped into shape the treaties relating to C‘hina and {issued 2 formal call for a plenary session to- the final windup of negotiations. worrow to mark the Washington It was decided to treaties on the Chinese the conference and to emhody them only a few of the 15 tiors in regard to Chinese qu One of the {reaties will cover (‘hinese fariff revision, and the other Ithe Root four points and the open door. The remaining resolutions are to be presented at the final plenar. session merely as a series of joint declarations of polics Although in announcing before the lastern committee yesterday the s of their government to give group five of the “de- mands” the Japanese pledged aban- donment of that part of the ‘“de- mands" program which China .most strongly objected to as calculated to impair her sovereignty, the Chinese reply today was expected to voice re- newed over the whole pro- gram. 1t appeared that the question would be concluded by spreading the views of the two governments on the con- ference record without any attempt to adopt a joint declaration with the possibility that to this would he added a formal statement of the American position on the question. two of in hase only decision ar readine np entirely protest Plans were made today for the at- tendance P’resident Harding at a plenary sion of the arms confer- ence nest Monday to witness the sign- ings of the treaties to thank the dele- gates for their work and to participate generally in the activities marking ad- journment of the conference, It had been planned to adjourn the sine die tom ow hut state draughtsmen d they conld not have the official treaty text prepaved hefore Monday. It was deelaved the president would m an address at the Monday ses- sion and that the heads of various delegations would respond before the of conference department 5 final gavel. Pacnessa to Be Named Electric Com. Chairman A meeting of the common council committee appointed to® hring about lower electric light rates, will be eall- ed next week for the purpase of or- inizing. Alderman Angelo M. Paon- o of tie sixth ward is expected to be the committee's choice for chair- manship. The alderman and Coun- cilmen Howard Hart and Norman MeKirdy are members of the com- mittee, RESIGNS, Chile, 1%eh. 3, (By The Chilean Tocornal, CABINET Asso- abinet resigned Santiago, ciated I'ress). headed by Ismacl today. Berlin Authorities And Seize Big One of the biggest moonshine out- | confiscated by the authorities in! ction was located last night by lin authorities at the home of | at Blue Hills. Acting on | Prosecutor €. 1% Lewis Brown, Pola and | scene, and on being selzure Mr. Liewis | its his ne e nformation, Constables fackett to the yolified later of the oined in the party. That the cutlit was for the supply- ng of a large t=ude is evineed in the eiznre of a still with a capacity of 4 Wons, 400 gallons of mash, a larg paaniity burst sugar, 20 g of | tilled fluid, belies by Mr lons Lewis | cd Make Raid Mocnshine Qutfit to | and a large quantity of yeast When the house there were aving been uround windows were covered in the cellar the bove stuff was seized o took the furnace, which has evi- dently been to supply the heat for the still; aleo a new furnace which was delivered recently, but which had' not heen nsed I'rosecutor 1ewis said today aetion had heen teken as yet, asrects are pending. aleohol s arrived at the no signs of anyone recently. The up and it was place that the The officers office of used that no but that of the! | $700; FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, NEW BRITAIN FLKS | PLAN AUDITORIUM Would Lay 0ut Large Sum m' Improvmg Structure NAME BUILDIHG GOMMITTEE Original Conception Would Provide Large Auditorium, Gymnasium, —Oficers ‘ted at Meeting, Britain lodge, B has under consideration fhe of a suhstantial addition to the on Washington street, at the meeting last night, Ruler B. W. Alling was authorized to appoint a committee to look into the advisa billty of the proposgition. Should the plan be carried ont the proposed ad dition would afford the public of the largest aunditorinms in the eity, where such events dances, fairg, entertainments, ete., could con- ducted. The erection of such a build g as the BEiks have in mind would entail an expenditure of a consider- able sum., In the pr contained an nasium where moted erected for lodge. During the The New P.0..B, erection hame and xalted ane also gym- sent plan there is idea of having a athletics could be pro- the members of the wartime period the I21ks turned over the use of the build- ing for various mectings and drives and since that time the building has been let out to various other organ- izations and clubs for bangquet and so- cial purposes. Due to its beauty and the favorable location, it has been in demand of late, Nomination Nominations of suing year were time Jast night, ruler, John W, leading knight, Richard C. Brown; esteemed loyal knight, Thomas . Juckson; esteemed lecturing knight, Henry W. Rice; re: Dudley T. Holmes; treasurer, M. Curtin; tiler, John ‘I'. Fole - three years, Charies Schurr; representative to the grand Jodge, B. W. Alling; al- ternate representative, IDir. Henry Martin Many Years of Service, Mr Holmes, who wnas again named as secretary night, has filled the duties for the past 17 yvears, since the foundation of the lodge in this city He is connected with the W, T.. Damon Lumber & Coal company. Mr. Curtin, treasurer, has also occupied the duties of tr wer for the same per- 10d of time. He is one of the leading men of the city, g president of the Commercial Trust comp: and has many business and wternal affiliations. Confer Second Degree. The vartous chalrs were occupied last nigit by past exalter ruler: he second part of the degree work was in charge of the officers of Middle- town lodge At the ciose of the busi- ness meeting a social ion was held. State Deputy Harry C. Brown will pay his official \isit to the lodge at the first meeting March. The com- mittee in charg the fair which will be held ¢t Bardeck's hall from Ifebruary 17 to 27 reported that plans ave progressing favorably. of Officers, officers for made for as follows: Lockett; the en the first alted esteemed s last a of GITY’S INCOME WILL DECREASE THIS YEAR Board of Finance Estimates Drop Off Approximately $50,000. submitted taxation with estimated income tinance 1 tor in connection next year's budget, a decrease of $ 104 under than that of last year indicated. This s exclusive ol the amonnts to he collected through taxa- tion. The In the the consideration to bourd o it year amount is will be received sources ofher than fice, 15 $159,950, while timates were §211,304. This is { chiefly by the fact that there is no item this year for a state grant on teache lowance Last year this count vepresented $44,154 in the estimated income. Last year. court | revenues! were expected to reach atotal of $12,- | 000, In less than six months this fig ure was That figure has Lieen hoosted to $i5,000 for next year. A comparison of the 1921 with the 1922 estimated income is as follows School enumeration, $36,000-835.000; evening schools, §2,000-§2,200; libra vy and apparatins, $500.$500; penalty tax, $1,000-2500; tax on bank and in surance (1 1,000-§14.000 Am ericanization srant, §$450.0; rade school grant, §1.600.0; physical ex- amination of children, 0-§500; con solidated schooi district, $15,000-820,- 00 town depe fund income, $700- town clerk's office fees, $5,000 $4,000; police court, $12,000-8$15,000; city court, $300 %1,000; fines and costs at jail, $500-$600; miscellaneous, $2,400-853.000; street sprinkling, $11, 000-$11,000; income from city pro- perly, $200-3500; building’ permits, $2,000-$2,000; charity department, $i, $5,000; subway department, $1,260-81,250; interest, $9,000-$9,000; hoard of health 100-$3,000; per- sonal faxes, $21,000.§30,000; muni cipal ice, $1,200-§1,200; teachers al lowance, $44,154-0, which expected this through the collector last ye: cause excecded stock, * Hartford, . | for New Britain and vicinity: Generally clondy and not <o warm tonight and Saturday. COURT FI mm"m'u-r l:l.p‘ I Fhallots 1922, — DS FATHER DIDN'T NEGLECT BOY Yuchnevicz Found Not Guilty of @ Atinor Chikd to Remain oKD, gf‘w LmraRy, court this ..\}srn-... 4 ¥ dence in the case of William Yuetre viez was insufficient to hold him on n his 14 he was charge of neglecting to send year-old hoy to school, and dischirge accused was brought into court Miss Avis Kemp of She The the school at instance of the attendance bureau reported that the hoy has not attended school sinee the early part of January that the father wag aware, that he was not in When she ques tioned the parent was told that the boy said he was released from school Judge William 17, senting the acensed, moved for a dis- charge, He pointed out that Miss Kemp's testimony indicated that the father was not aware of his son's ah- sence was not permissible, but on the contrary had reason to believe that it was all right nest Nyauist, a jitnenr operating the Kast Main street line, was fined 5 for overloading his bus, S geant W. €. Hart counted passen- gers on bhoard last night shortly after 6 o'clock. His license permits him to carry only MAYOR THREATENS TO GLOSE GITY HOSPITAL Must Have More Patients or Shut Doors Is Curtis’ Edict. and school she Mangan, repre- over Kither the hoard of health must in duce more tuberculosis patients to submit fo treatment at the city isola- tion hospital on the town farm pro- perties or that institution must close up, Mayor Or Curtis stated this reorning in a discussion of the tuber. cnlosis situation The health authorities iencing considerable difficulty ting patients to take treatment institution. While there are accom modations for 18 at present with ac cessibility to additional room for more beds, there are but eight patients un- dergoing treatment toda Dr. Ired . lLee, health superintendent states. M: number warrants ¢ city hospital service. He feels that at least a dozen patients should he at the institution at all times to compen sate the city in ter health for the amount of money necessary to carry on the work. Copies of the are exper in get- continuance tuberculosis relief nurse's report owing nearly 350 tu herculosis sufferers in the city have| been submitted the mayor and feels that eight patients at the pital out of that number is a percentage. Dr. Lee has admitted that there are sufficient number of sufferers from white plague in the city at the time who are in dire need institutional carve to fill the to capacit he hoard of finds it practically impossible cure the consent of families to take one of their members away, however. Under the state laws the department can make institutional treatment compuisory where felt advisable. The superintendent is not in sympathy with such treatment and thus far, with one exception, has used only persuasive measures to secure pa tients for the hospital. a the present health ANOTHER STORE B RED. Stanley Domkoski, proprietor store at 160 Grove street, to the police this morning that the place was entered by thieves during Jast night and $9 in change and some cigarettes and tobaced was stolen. of a at the! yor Curtis does not feel that this of of | hospilal | to se-| reported | Ne\\s of the World By Associated Press NORTHANDSOUTH IRELAND WIDELY DIVERGENT UPON SETTLING OF BOUNDARIES |Craig, Ulster Leader Tells of Conference KIiLLED San BY VILLA BOMB, Antonio, Tex,, I1eh, & 1Mive children Killed while playing in a school yard in Her- mosillo, Mexico, when one of » paen e e tneve ||| Ulsterites Not Informed as Sormed the o, accoring o ||| to British-Trish Agrees ment; Will Go Before British Cabinet. were a dispatch received today by the La Prenza. h R S HOOVER RECOMMENDS LOWER FREIGHT RATES Appears Befm'er Interstate NeWspaper London, Febh, —(By Associated Press.)- -Premier Craig of Ulster de- clared a statement today that he been told yesterday by Michael head of the southern Ireland provisional government that Collins had made a promise of bringing into the Irish free state almost half of north lreland, inclnding Fermanagh, ‘Fyrone, large parts of Armagh and Down, and Londonderry city, En- niskillen and Newry. Sir James said he had suggested to Mr. Collins a week's adjournment for consideration of the situation re- in had Collins, I Commerce (‘Commission Today Washington, Feb, 3 Reduction of freight rates and resumption of rail- road expansion are the two sources ¢ from which the country may get ns‘;:urdmg the boundaries between ‘ll- strongest impulses towards economic | ster and south Ireland, but that Col- betterment Secretary Hoover declared | lins had replied the differences sep- today appearing witness in thel arating them were so wide that post- interstate commerce commission in-| Ponement would be useless. vestigation of transportation charges.| ‘l?z"':‘r“pr"“f:"";r‘“h;"z::"m 3 The first, he said depends on a re- e 8 duction of operating costs, and the ;:i;’:d':_‘:::"‘{j{:::nzf‘ifh:::c:::‘l:‘ “":; :T.:f;‘,‘,d ap uenstuatipl. Bt aaUReY colonial secretary, at the colonial of- Trananortation sarniigs. aw Ao Gosieipi e e IR AsISRC At HIETE ot b interent, | Mr, |1ty which he attached to the hitch in the negotiations with the provisional Hoover said make it impossibie for R the commission to give immediate ’*'°_‘,l U i el et important rate relief but he declared | (o 2P iedn SGE Michael Collins that improving conditions would al-| ot t2i "0 Lectanding questions, hoping low downward revisions during the | 0" Uobive” Senoe in Treland. It was L only when T started from Belfast, When sich revisions were made, he|yowever. and read the morning pa- said, the commission should apply|ers that 1 suspected any change of them first to the primary basic com- attitude on the part of Collins. modities—agricultural products, coal, ! Boundary (ommission, metals and timbers—even if passenger| ] soticed that he had received rates, class rates, and less-than-car- deputations of Sinn Ieiners from dif- load shipments had to be charged| ferent parts of Ulster the previous more to protect railroad revenues.| day demanding that their areas This course should be adopted, he|should be taken into the free state. argued, because the series of horizon-| Collins replied to the deputations tal percentage increases by which the|that they were only trying to force rates were advanced had distorted | open the doors and using unnecessary the existing fabric of commerce in the | energy in doing so. Arthur Griftith, U'nited States, and “was moving in-| who also was present, said he and dustry as a whole toward its sources| his fellow delegates had urged the of raw materials.” Incidentally rail|claim of those districts for weeks wages should not be expected to go|during the negotiations in London, back to pre-war levels, he said, but|and the result was that the free should “follow downward step by step|state should extend over Ireland, the cost of living'" and the rates de-|that Ulster should have the option of creases should he so applicd as to| VOing herself out within a month, maintain railroad revenues and re-|but that if she did so a boundary store the confidence of investors in|commission would be set up to decide uitimate railroad earning power. it such districts should come into “We talk glibly of giving billions[the free state. — That, sald Griffith, n( credits to foreign countries to in-| Was the position today also. e our farm exports,” Mr. Hoover "l decided,” continued the Ulster 1 wish to say with all responsi-| Premier, “to have the matter cleared for the statement that a billion | UP Immediately so as to obviate even dollars, spent upon American railways|® Shadow of further misunderstand- will give more employment to our| '8 and I have to admit that in the people, more advance to our industry, fi"“,‘”‘““?f“ with Mr, Collins yester- twice (hat sum cxpended outside the| ¢t boundaries have been revived In A 5 ntensified form. frontiers of the United States—and i . be greater security. for in- . Ulster Not Consulted . o & “When the treaty was entered into hetween the British government and representatives of southern Ireland, we in Ulster were not consulted. We faced the possibility of a loss of ter- ritory without our consent—territory solemnly assured to us as an estab- lished government by his majesty the king and the parliament of Great Britain. 1 endeavored to find a solu- tion of the difficulty earnestly trying as a mi.l, | bility there will | vestors.” There is danger that in the present period of low earnings and litfle traf- [fic that needs of the railroads in new [construction, cquipment, betterments {and maintenance will be neglected, Mr. Hoover added, with resulting breakdown of transportation when a {tull load is put upon them by indus- trial resumption. This should be| |averted, even by the extension of gov-[to bring abhout an honorable peace in lernment indorsement on railroad se-|an honorable way." curities whose sale would give bonds| Th2 Ulster premier sald the British for expenditure on equipment. The| ministers had assured him privately commission’s efforts should be devot-| that Premier Lloyd George had stat- od, he said, to @ policy of “maintain-|ed in the house of commons that the ing public control of monopoly and|boundary commission proviso meant at the same time maintaining pr | & mere readjustment of the boundary. | mitiative. | "I am offering to lay my views be- | il fore the whole British cabinet,” add- Rome, Feh, 3 (Ry Associated Press.)—\Voting for the clection a Pope to succeed Benedict XV was be- gun by the conclave of the Sacred College today. ‘T'wo ballots had been taken up by one o'clock this after- noon on neither of which any Car- dinal received a sufficient number of votes to elect Iifty-three College were toric Sistine chapel to ballots in the election of the new Pope, The doors of the Vatican were closed yesterday with the elaborate centuries-old ceremony 1o shut until the next Pontiff and invested in the pontifical chasnble and stole Cardinal Marini, of members of the Sacred assembled in the his- cast their first mitre, who has influenza, been at the in 1t had unahle ipate in remaining closed wonld he id not par ceremonics, doors were thought he tend. He opening bed. to Four Ballots Daily, ballots will be taken daily, in- stead of two as has been the rule, it is learned through the Irish colleges and confirmed in other quarters, The number and issue of the successive will be evident to the people ated ontside St. Peter’s by the customary vote bhurning, a common iron stove having been installed just outside the limits of the long lines of cardinals’ thrones in the Sistine chapel. Two sacks of straw lie near- by this is nsed to color the smoke of the burning papers, dark smoke in Four CcOngreg | % dicating to the crowds watching the cimney that there is still no election, Two Ballots Taken To Choose Successor To Late Pope Benedict | remain | is chosen | was taken into the Vatican before the | ed Sir James “and will consult my colleagues in our local parliament and in the imperial parliament regarding the steps to be taken in consequence | of the serious situation—one which is not of my making, but which 1 ear- nestly tried to aveid.” Forecasts Revolution Belfast, 1eb, (By Associated Press)—Captain Charles Curtis Craig, [ vaighe: { unionist member of the house of com- | TR it few votes, it is thought, | MONS for south Antrim, addressing a | will be merely in the nature of a|Poltical n.eeting today said he was tost of the drift of sentiment. Prog- | convinced that within two or three | poss ffer that, however, is expected | YEATS, south Ireland woull have a re- to he fairly vapid, Cardinal Gasparri| Public [and others having indicated their be- He declared that if any attempt was lief that the conclave will not be| Made by the people in south Ireland Ly any commission which might long lived 19N X 0'Connell be appointed by the imperial govern- large pieces of the There is much ment to take away Ithe effort of stx counties from northern Ireland, | amohbishom no other result could come about than [in time to civil war. i ! The steamship President Wilson, on| [f they wanted WHIEH. T 18 18, - SRGBHERD: VoL auestion settled without more hlood- ex- pected in Naples before Saturday (the | $hed and more trouble he said, they New York officers say mot before | Would have to alter the provisions of iday) and it is feared that he may | {he Anglo-Irish treaty regarding the be disappointed as he was in 1914, | boundary question. when ['ope Benedict was elected “a - while the Cardinal was speeding to-| 700 Candidates Initiated Into Ku Klux Klan ward Rome from the seaport in an iomobile Rome, 17eh. 3 (By Austin, Tex,, Feb. 3.--More than The steamer [Presidente 700 candidates were initinted here last [bringing Cardinal O'Connell of Bos-|night into capital city chapter Knights ton to Rome will not arrive at Naples(of the Ku Kilux Klan, it became Lefo Monday morning, February 6, known today. About 1,500 persons at- it®vas learned today from the steam-|tended the initiation according to ship company, owners of the liner, newspapermen allowed to be present. Addresses were made pointing out alleged immoral conditions in Austin The company stated it had received a |wireless message from the captain |and denouncing anti-American tend- encies, that a new Pope | land light vapor To Arri interest in Rome in Cardinal O'Connell, of Boston, to reach here | participate in the voting. | peace and the Irish Associated Press) Wilson, saying he had decided to call at Al- giers, New York, Feb. 3. Marine advices received in this country today showed that the President Wilson, with Car-| dinal O'Connell on board, which sailed from New York January 24, arrived at Gibraltar yesterday. Waco, Tex,, Feb. 3.-~Nine hundred and 37 new members were taken into the Ku Kiux Klan at a meeting here last night, according to information given to local newspapers today.