New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1923, Page 1

mzzr | NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1923, —-SIXTEEN PAGES, ESTABLISHED "1870 BALDWIN BLAMES POLITICS FOR FAILURE TO AGREEON FUNDING OF BRITISH DEBT Declares, on Arrivng in WANT U, FUNDS FOR England, That Congress Has Tied H‘ndl of American Commission- | ers Is Frankly Skeptical About Reaching Any Satisfac- tory Settlement on In- ternational Plyment'a. (By Assoclated chancellor the London, Jan. 27, 'ress) ~~Stanley Baldwin, of the exchequer, Tedurning on Olymplo today from hik to Washington, told ne Lpermen that scttlement of the debt question in the United States was in the hands of congress as the representatives of the people and that this situation con- stituted the great difference lu-lm-on America and England, Explaining that in America ‘“you may have an executive who is willing | to do a great deat for you, but ean- not because of difficulties encountered in congress,” Mr. Baldwin said: “In the carly days, the secretary for the treasury could endoubtedly have arranged terms with the British gov- ernment, but the situation is now com- plicated because the latter is in the hands of the American congress. You are not settling in America with the cabinet at one end or with business- men at the other. You are settling with congress and the schate, which represent the people of America from one end of the country to the other. In England if any terms are agreed on regarding the debt, the government | takes the responsibility. “On the other hand, ceutives in America have to do is to endeavor to force anything of this sort through ‘congress and in doing 40 they may be beaten.” The chancellor said he wondered “whether the position which nh'u'nal‘ regarding the debt is as clear in Am- erica as iIn this country.”! Continuing he asserted: “The great difference between Am- erica. and this couptry is that the settiement of th® debt in the United States is in the hands of politicians. We arc bound in regard to the allied debt in the most stringent bonds you can possibly imagine.” “They have men of our way of thinking in the eastern states,” he said, “but that does not cut any ice at all with regard to the other parts of America.” Mr. Baldwin asserted that he might say more, but was obliged to discuss the question with the cabinet. Asked whether he would return to America le said: should like to do so because I have been well received there but I shall not be able to return as I have my own work to do at home."” Hurried Action Necessary Mr. Baldwin said that,unless an ar- rangement were arrived at by which an agreement between the American debt funding commission and the British government were approved and ratified by congress hefore March 4, the matter would be deferred until the end of the year. *If no agreement is come to now the whole thing falls to the ground,” Mr. Baldwin added. “The American com- mission was appointed and closely tied up by congress——not more favorable ferms than those you -are already familiar with. These terms are per- fectly impossible for they would mean | that we would pay something like !h per cent.” He believed the Amerlcnn pcop!e thought they had bgen generous fIn| (Continued on Sixteenth Page) dDIEIN A_U’IEWRECK‘ Machine Crashes Through Guard Rail on National Pike in Maryland— Drops 35 Feet Into Creek. Cumberland, Md., Jan. persons were Kkilled this morning when an automobile crashed through an iron fence on the national pike and dropped 35 feet into Wills creek near' here. The dead are Mrs. lough, Eva Dundee, and Willlam J. Farrell, berland, and Edward A. Hagerstown. Clara McCul- Louise Dundee all of Cum- Flynn of The bodies were found in the wreck said is that people overiook the fact|held Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock at of the automobile by persons travel-| that the coal mines were closed for|the common council chamber for the ing the pike and physicians said the a long period and the railroads are | purposc of securing accident had occurred fully an hour | béing called upon to move a \\hol(‘u»mmun relative to the elimination of attended a! and were before, The party had dance at Frostburg, Md., on their way home. FATAL STILL EXPLOSION Three Brewing Pots Blow Up Newark Garage—Watcher is durn- ed to Death in Wreckage, Newark, N. J, Jan. 27.—One man was killed by the explosion of three stills in a garage early today. The man's body, found under one of the wrecked Mtills was so badly burned it could not be identified. The explosion tore off the roof, shattered windows in several surrounding tenement - houses and brought a hundred families to the strect when a fire, which followed the explosion threatened the tenements. garage it mission | what the ex-| 27 —Tive | GERMANY AND AUSTRIA |New Britain People’s Pe- tition Presented by Con- gressman Fenn BY GEORGE H, MANNING Bureau #f New Britain H \\ulll ngton, D, C, | ty-five citizens of Ney have petitioned congl Iimmediate aid to th .’M Germun and Austrian v, Bigners of the petition, which wey presented to congress through Repre- [sentative E, Hart Fenn, are Eva C, Holmes, Mr, and Mry, C, 8, Mueller, H. 0. Willlams, N, W, Hunt, 8, L. Lit- tlejohn, John W. Caricton, H. E, Myers, Kugene Cayer, John Pfeifer, Norman Mackay, William Schaefer, Albert Hesse, John Nelson, Felix Hjelm, Gus B, Londin, John I3, John- son, Wardick Kass, 1. E, C, Felek, M, Cohn, Joseph K, Paonessa, , Willlam Ritter, Albert J. Leopold, Charles M, Schwer, Willlam It, Schultz, merous petitions of the same sort Im\o been pouring in from all parts |of the country recently, All are on {printed forms, which read as follows: “There is now pending in the con- |gress of the United States a joint resolution purporting to extend im- mediate aid to the people of the Ger- man and Austrian republics, now famine-strickpn owing to scant crops and money depreciation, Said resolu- tion provides for the purchase in the United States of sufficient food sup- |plies to tide the suffering millions over the winter, their governments huvlnr‘ declared their inability of pro- \mlnx for them after the end of the year," The petition points out further that such action would be in keeping with the spirit and traditions of the Am- erican nation, and in addition would | relieve the American farmer of his surplus grain, Seventy men and women in atten- dance at a meeting held Jlast under the auspices of the New Brit- {ain branch of the German Relief so- ciety at Teutonia Mannerchor hall on Arch street at which Miss Frieda Burkle of Boston delivered an address on conditions as they exist in eGr- many, .pledgoed themsclves to con- tribute to the national fund for re- lief work in Germany $5 a year for a period of three years which will make a total contribution of $1,050 from New Britain. Five dollars pledged will keep one child a year. The contributions were made fol- lowing the address by Miss Burkle who told of the dire need the chil- dren of Germany are in at present. She said that a mere ten cents a week from each one present would do a great deal of relief work among the poor in that country. Miss Burkle was a tcacher of economics in one of the Boston High schools. She resigned her position about three years ago to go to Ger- many where she did relief work, with- (Continued on Sixteenth Page). BARDO PROTESTS HE 15 DOING HIS BEST Trying to Transport Coal— Passenger Engines Can’t Haul Freights Hartford, Jan. 27.—That passenger | | locomotives are not adapted to the| | hauling of freight and thercfore | would avail little in the effort to re- | lieve the coal shortage in Connecticut and that the present situation is not ‘helng complicated by the lack of ef- fort on the part of the N. Y, N. H.| & H. Railroad Co. were declarations of General Manager C. L. Bardo of | the “New Haven” this morning. Mr. Bardo’s attentiofff was called to the efforts being made by Governor | Templeton to relieve the situation and plans discussed by the state executive in consultation with H, T. Montague, traffic director for the| American Brass Co. \ Mr. Bardo said the fuel situation so far as transportation is eoncerned, has materially improved and that at the present time and for some time | past the “New Haven"” has been mov- ing twice the amount of coal as uasl handled during the corresponding period last year. The trouble, he| season's fuel within the period of a | few weeks. | While he said he was not in a po- | | sition to state what is being done by | railroads west of the Hudson river | in regard to the disposition of coal ! | cars, Mr. Bardo said he had recently! conferred with railroad officials in New York and 'had learned that con- | ditiogs are improving. The state- | ment that there are six thousand cars of coal side-tracked in the railway i!’nrda at Maybrook Junction, N. Y., he characterized as wrong. The May- brook jam due to an embargo on soft coal, has been broken, he said. Mr. Bardo estimated the amount of coal at Maybrook as less than 700 ~ars of anthracite and said that the “New Haven" yesterday moved about 300 cars from that point ipto Con- necticut. While he would not say that this amount cquid be moved | (Continued on ®ixteenth Page) * | ' ‘Judlrufl Committee Starts Sessions | bitls placed T night | Ifl\hh(‘fi ’lllruugll \\llllmlmic Y. M.[ 11 | citizens are invited to the mnrflng BILLS INTRODUCED New Legislative Business Smallest in Many Years HOLD HEARINGS NEXT WEEK Wednesday - Kilpatrick Succeeds Late Reprosentative Cunliffe—~200 Bills in House, 191 in Senate, Hartford, adn. 27.—The number of before the general as- sembly in the period closing yester- day is the smallest in many years, Wnnn‘ to the journaliz- Y, ' ided: sonato 621, jere were approxi- A ires two ycars ago the nuea 500 bills and the senate almost as many, A large num- ber of bills were originated in com- mittee last session. which mdde the total much larger than the number introduced before the bars were put up. Examination of the b"ll indicates that in actual volume' the amount of business before the general assembly Is about threc-fourths that of the 1921 session. There are unusually large number of petitions for res. toration ,of forfeited rights and or claims against the state. Tlere have been many convictions of violation of the prohibitory laws during the past two years and several score of those convicted are now going to the legls- lature to get their civil rights re- stored. A number of men whose names were conngeted with “boot- legging" adventurcs are among the petitioners, The number of bills offered in the house yesterday was 200 and in the senate 191. Hearings On Wednesday Legislative hearings will get under way next week in a large measure. The judiciary committee announced hearings for Wednesday on many,un- contested court judgeship appoint- | ments, including Hartford, Branford, Norwich, Stamford, Greenwich, Derby, Waterbury, Stonington, Norwalk, Kil- lingly, East Hartford, Middletown and Berlin. In practically each instance the resolutions which wiil be befdre the committee will be for present in% cumbent judge and deputy judge. The committee also will take up that afternoon the hill of Representa- tive, Buckley which would make a member of the state board of finance ineligible for membership on the board of a state aided institution, up- less said institution was in his home (town. The bill ‘was heard and fav- orably reported last session and fs said to have had its origin in cer- tain personal differences between members of the board of trustees of an institution. Bridgeport Judgships. It was stated at the capitol yester- ddy that it was probably nlikely |that the judiciary committee would Itake up the resolutions appointing judges at Bridgeport until after 'the bill of Senator Wilder, which would place Bridgeport in the same category as New Haven in regard to court ap- pointments, had been disposed of. The governor has the appointment of thé' two judges for the New Haven city court and Senator Wilder's bill mere- Iy inserts in the present law the words “and at Bridgeport” enlarging [the scope of the act to that extent. Representative Kilpatrick of Bridge- | port has been appointed to the com- mittee on the judiciary by Speaker Nickerson to take the place of Rep- resentative Cunliffe of East Haven, who died recently. DOE RUNS AMUCK Furniture, Jumps C A, Out of Window and Swims River. Upsets Willimantic, Jan, 27.——A doe which had wandered into the city in search of food this morning was frightened | by a dog and bolted into the street. It dashed through the double doors of the Y. M. C. A, building breaking | the three-eighths into thick glassand | went through the vestibule giving Rev. D, B. Overton, pasto* of a col-| ored people's church, a scare, The doe bounded upstairs to the directors’ | rcom and then through a window to | the yard ten feet below. It crossed | the railroad tracks, swam the Willi- mantie river and disappeared. While the visitor to the Y. M. C. A, the doe turned furniture topsy turvy and left mot only a trail of broken glass but smears of blood and tufts of hair. {Public Meeting on R. R. Grade Crossing Tuesday Mayor A. M. Paonessa announced this afternoon that a meeting will be | expressions of ‘layton grade crossing. There are at| st three plans and the mayor feels a public meeting could decide which the best and a united effort might be made to have that plan adopted by the public utilities com- mission next Friday wmorning. All that {Woman Ob)ects to Paying Extra Tax on Half Dollar Among the taxpayers who called at the office of Assessor Edward J. Mc- Daily Cireulation 043 PRICE THREY CENTS Ave Week January 20th COMPARATIVELY FEW SCHEME T0 CONTROL (CAUTION IS MAKING | FRENCH ARE REINFORCED; MILITIA OF STATE YANKS GIVE UP COBLENZ JE* VAT PR RENENY MEDIATION PLAN RUMORED Measure Introduced in House: Aronses Snsplclon 0f Members muuum General Cole Said to Favor | New London Man as Dictators | Lively Discussion Over Birth Con. trol BIN, | BY CLARENCE G, WILLARD, | ¢« (Bpecial to The Herald), In the pile of legislative bills that were introduced In the house of rep- resentatives on Thursday, was one | mysterious bill that will cause as much If not more excitement than any other which will be under discussion during this present session, It s by number, House Bill 518, and is en- titled “an act amending an act con-| cerning the militia," Morris B, Payne, second member of the military | affairs committee, Introduced it in the house during the last few minutes of | the Thursday session. Upon opening up the bill, one finds a single sen- tence, to the effect that a substitute bill will uitimately be brought out! from the committee referred to. And behind this innocent bill with its single sentence, rests a most intcrest- ing and colorful story, It is known that during the past week, Adjutant General Cole, head of things military in Connecticut, had an informal meeting with a number of well known men of the state, among them some prominent legislators, to discuss the possibility, as he inferred, of taking the military branch of the state *“out of politics.” As explained by a prominent figure in the legisla- tive halls, the proposal sums up in| about the following nner: Cole Sclects Payne. It is said that Adjutant General Cole is desirous of having Mr, Payne | who “comes from New lLondon, suc- ceed him, but before this is done, it | is proposed to make the adjutant| general’s position a life position, and | give him power of appointment of all except a few aides to the governor, The man who would be appointed to this place would, under this plan, not bnly be there for a lifetime, but would be in direct charge and control of the military department of the]| state. Of course this would make a decided change in the governor's sttaff, and would be equalized by the appointment cvery two years of a number of social aides, to the gover- nor. Beyond this, however, the gov- ernor would have nothing further to do with the depattment, and of course it naturally followd that tife legisit- ture itseif would have nothing to say about anything military, should such (Continued on Sixteenth Page). American Legion From Its Nati Ex-fiervncemen Prepared to Greet Alvin Owsley At a Public Demonstration This Evening. Hundreds of men, women and school children from New Britain and surrounding towns are expected to fill the auditorium of the Central Junior High school this evening to | pay honor to Alvin C. Owsley, na- tional commander of the American Legion, and to hear him speak upon his first visit to this city. He is expected to arrive about 6 o'clock and a dinner will be serve®! in his honor at the New Britain clu at 6:15 o'clock to which a number ot guests have been invited. The pro-| gram, following the testimonial dln-i GIRL BURNED BY WIRE SEEKS 20,000 DAMAGE Florence Ruto\\skl, Aged 5 Years, Brings Suit Against Lighting Co. Suit for $25,000 against the Con- necticut Light & Power Co., has been ' instituted by Judge W. I. Mangan for Ilorence Rutowski, aged 5, by her father, Andrew, as a result of al-| leged permanent injuries sustain by | the little girl, September 15, when| she was badly burned by one of the| company’s “live” wires that had rm-‘ len on Clinton street. The case is returnable In ceurt on the first Tuesday ary. The plaintiff was walking along| Clinton street when the wire broke and fell to the ground. Her right hand was badly burned, causing her| to lose the use of all but the lllll"xw finger and practically permanently dis- | abling the member. The back of both her legs was also hadly burned. It Is set u pin the claim that the company was not negligent in prm'|rL ing protection for the wires from| growing trees and on this account the| wire broke, causing the plaintiff her injuries. superior | in Febru- | Carthy today to object to increased property assessments, was a woman whose land had been increased from $1,300 to $1,325, the amount of in- crease in taxes figured on this year's rate, being slightly more than 50 cents. The woman explained her ob- | jections at length and when referred to the board of relief declined/to ap-' pear before that committee for per-| sonal reasons. 1 * ' i THE WEATHER | o g | Hartford, Jan. 27.—Forecast | for New Britain and vicinity: | Unsettled tonight followed by | smow and warmer on Sunday;: | winds north to east. 4 | * | the state department of health todny | and the #tate maintained its remark- | erican Legion, have been requested by | b | corted to the Elks' home on Wash- ! [tional commander to the city. [Three Doctors Adviséd | Press)—Two men, People Call Doctor lore Prompt- | I Then They Ustd to Do CHICAGO FIREMAN IS 'Suspended for Membership, He and Officials Decide to Fight Case Scarlet Fover Doath Rate Also Drops | During Year—Death Rate From | Tuberculosis Likewise Lower—Few | Diphtheria Fatalities, | Hartford, 27~ from | Jan, ures Chicago, Jun, 27.~Belection of Chi show that during the past year 40 cago as the scenc of the first formal fewer persons died from scarlet trial of the invisible empire, Knights fever than in 1921, six fewer died|of the Ku Klux Kilan, before the bar from typhoid dever than in the pre-|of public opinion and a judicial body, vious year, and there were 54 fewer|was indicated here today by develop deaths from whooping cough. DBe-|ments since the arrival of imperial sides this improved health record, | cfficers of the organization, the death rate from pulmonary tu- Willlam H. Green, city fireman, berculosis was lower, though the|whose suspension from the fire de actual number of deaths increased |partment for his alieged klan mem bership bronght the officers here, 1epudiated statements that he had in-ulu-m-:] from the order., He admit. ted his membership and asscrted he wished to stand trial for suspension before the Chicago civil service com mission on that ground, “We have decided to make an issue of this case to prove to the world that the Ku Klux Klan is a law-abiding and legal organization and to prove that any city employe has a perfectly |legal right to belong to it if he wants [to join,” Green said, Although he declined to say wheth- |er he had been requested to make |that statement by the imperial offi- lcers it was known that Green had keen in conference with them. At Green's suggestion, Fire Chief |Seyferiich drew a charge against him for presentation to the civil service commission which in part reads as fellows: “That the said William H. Green, fireman, is an admitted member of the Ku Klux Klan and that he has subseribed to an oath of the said or- ganization which is contrary to the provisions of the constitution df the United States of America and which |is evidence of his unfitness to rem in the service of the city of Chicago. The civil serviee commission said the charge would come hefore it for Yearing February 2, when a date for Green's trial probably would be set. Meanwhile Hiram Wesley FEvans, imperial wizard of the kian, although refraining from outlining the pro-| gress of his activities here, issned statements explaining the purposes and obligations of th¢' order and re- | plying to charges in gonnection with the lhurrn;\ La.” investigationt “He charaeterized the fnqul as a frame- ;llp on the Ku Kilux Klan. rate in diphtheria Connecticut had the lowest death rate from diphtheria in its history and the lowest of any state in castern United States, This rate was 12.4 per 100,000 popwlation an. though the rate increased slights| ly in 1922 it was kept down to the unusually low rate of 12.7, Figures Arc Significant. The significance of these figures is seen when a comparison is made | with the diphtheria death rate 1n‘ other states. The 1921 figures are:| New York, 16.1; Massachusetts, 15.6; Tllinois, 22; Indiana, 24; Michigan, 25, and Pennsylvania 22. The reason for this changed condi-| tion in Connecticut was today attri- buted by State Commissioner of | Health Stanley H. Osborn to the fact| that parents are now calling in a physician more promptly than they used to do and cspecially to the ract| that the state legislature of 1921 ap- propriated sufficient money so that | anti-toxin is now available in all towns of the state with the Jlocal | | health officer as distributing agent. Measles Epidemic, Measles have been epidemic in Connecticut for several months. | Deaths have increased with the num- ber of cases but the records of the state department show that the per- centage remains the same. About one in every hundred cases proves fatal. Scarlet fever killed 62 persons in this | state last year and 102 the year be- fore. The 1922 death rate per 100,- 000 population was 4.3 compared with 7.2 in 192). More Smallpox Cases In 1919 there were 6 cases of small- pox in the state and no deaths re- | ably low death cases, In 192 | | APPEAL T0 SUPRENE GOURT IN SULT AGAINST POLICE, Counsel for Defendant Policemen No- (Continued on Thirteenth Page) Awaits Visit | onal Commander‘ tified Fiedorowicz Case Will be Taken to State Superior Court. Judge John H. Kirkham and At- ‘larncy Donald Gaftney, counsel for | Police Sergeant George C. Ellinger |and Patrolman Gustav Hellberg, Peter Cabelus and ex-Patrolman Patrick Howley, in the $10,000 Jawsuit insti- ner, will be carried out in the school | auditorium beginning at 7:30 o'clock. Members of Eddy-Glover post, Am- search, seizure leged unlawful suit of Josephine arrest, and in the IPeidorowicz for assault, have been their commander, William W. T. gIquire to meet in the post rooms at 7 o'clock and march in a body to the |notified that an appeal has been school auditorium. taken from the finding of Judge Allyn At the school the commander will | Brown in superior court in which the | give an address on “Americgnization.” | policemen are exonerated. The case later he will be met at the school|will now go to the supreme court of hall by a number of Elks and es-|the state of Connecticut, AT G. 0. P. DINNER Waterbury, Jan. ~— Final plans| Many New Britainites Attend were completed this morning for the reception here early this afternoon to | Alvin M. Owsley, national commander of ‘the American lLegion. American Legion members and officers of many | representative organizations will take |5y u( the McKinley dinner in W. part in the reception and a luncheon |y < tonight, 1 large delegation irom \\HI be held, at which Commander | (,." gurdware City taking piaces at weley and others will speak. It Was|yq (ahle assigned to this city in the l\\[\(‘l'l(“d this morning that both G Fiton banque. rall, Ex-Gov. I O. nor Templeton and Mayor Guilfoile [ "/ cie " Ly (e speaker would attend the reception and lunch- | ™ (0 T 00T T endance con and formally welcome the na- |y o Ot (o™ 0 | Covert, ex-Senator Representative E. W. John Trumbuil of Plainvi Operation on Woman sentative Arthur Benson All circumstances suggesting mys. Alderman G. H \I\"‘H& tery in connection with the death of | SR s L Mrs. Detoria Mitiole, who died at nu-l/"‘!!'" Augy Bergstrom, ~Aaron Court street hospital following an | Danielson, Alderman J. G. Johnson, operation for intestinal obstruction in- | COUncilman I%. A. Johnson, Dr, J. W. | duced by a previous attack of appen- | Bush. Councilmai Adrian Carlson, dic were clearcd up last evening|Attorney . J. Traceski, \l Alderman when it was announced that Michael C: J. Dehm, ex-Personal Tax Colle Korasalskas, of 17 Dwight street, said | tor J. Willie Mills, Chairman H. E. he was the brother-in-law who had ar- | Brwin of the republican town com- | ranged for her admittance. mite, "nn*lu":h‘ (:_nvm-g»» A ilurk. Mrs. Mitiole's condition upon enter- f““-"‘“_'“‘ A, P. Marsh, J. W. Murs: ing the hospital was such that an .uml‘. Frank buli.‘lvl\. Attorney Alfred operation was declared by three qif- L€Witt, Attorney M. D Attor- ferent physicians to be the only Henry Nowicki, ex-Councilman chance she had. Due to her weak- ph )H‘_\'n,\rkkl. pl'('!l‘l‘rlh.l[]\.l’ ened condition and the fact that she N. Rutherford, A. K. McEvoy, E. had undergone at least two previous,J. Porter, Howard Dreummer, Coun- | operations, she failed to rally cilman M Porter, Bruno Wagner, e i bt Assistant Prosecutor Attorney W. M 7 Greenstein, Prosecuting Attorney |Auto Il?leal{lelgh\otrlt’g veh | dosenh G, Woods, President . . o ow This Year Loomis of the Chamber of Com- At a meeting of automobile dealers mmerce, Representative B. W. Aliing, last night it was unanimousiy decided Gill and Lawrence not to Wold an automobile show this year. ington strect, where he will be enter- | tained. The commander 1s a mem- ber of the Elks. 27, Afiair At This Ex-Gov. Lowden is Speaker. Waterbury New Britain will be well repre e will be tichard Hall, Senator| ., Repre- of Berlin, Councilman trar Willlam David ) POSITION, Theodore E \I.tlTlO\G TWO MORE Dublin, Jan. 27 Cincinnati, Jan (By the Associated | Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the named Byrne and | pavy, will receive the offer of a place Geraghty, were cxecuted at Mary-[on the national executive committee | borough today. They had been | of the disabled American veterans, it found guiity of unlawful possession of | was announced today. He will be arms. The men were later ndemmed‘.. ked to fill the vacancy caused by as Joseph Byrne of Queens (‘ounu‘llht resignation of C. T. Mitchell of | and Patrick Geraghty of Mullingar. l\\'zushi!lg(on. tuted by Anthony Fiedorowicz for al-| and Afternoon—-| ‘1 countries. Little Entente Rumored mmummn MEETING &S5 TYPHODD F PATALITIES ASKING K. K. SHOWDOWN i Paris as Planning Way to Settle Franco- German Situation Gen. Allen Transfers Form- er U. S, Zone to Gen. Marty—All Quiet in Dues- seldorf. (By Assoclated Press), While the French were additional troops into the Ruhr to- day and tightening their control, the population of the valley remained yulet. Duesseldor! was virtually une der martial law, The telegraph employes in the vale ley have notified the I'rench that they will strike Monday morning if the troops are not removed from the telegraph offices, The effectiveness of the French cordon' around the Ruhr was indi- cated by their halting rolling stock unnecessarily being sent out of the valle, An through through (: offer mediation (;errnnn) he last act in the American with- drawal from the Coblenz area occus pled today when the district was for mally transferred by Gen, Allen to a French army commander, | pouring unconfirmed report comes Paris that the little entente *cho-Solvakia is about to between France and Americans Are Through. Coblenz, Jan. (By ociated Press).—The Coéblenz area of occu- i pied Germany held by American troops since the establishment ot the allied watch on the Ithine, was turned over to the French® at noon | today. Major Gen. Henry T. mander-in-chief of the American forces in Germany and Gen. Marty of | the French army were the two mili- | tary officers involved in the transfer, This final eeremony ending the four vears of American occupation was of the simplest character. Gen, Marty, accompanied by a single French offi- tecer, came to General Allen’s head- quarters where the American com- mander and his full staff received them. FPromptly at noon Gen. Allen {turned over the arca so long under (the control of his forces to the ’mmwh commander. The formal transfer of authority [tcok but a few moments. It was accompanied with brief expressions ‘of regret at the departure of the Americans. The assumption of control by the French, will, it is stated, be followed immediately by the application of the same disciplinary measures that the French have been imposing® on the Prussian civil authorities elsewhere in the Rhineland. This pelicy hcre- tofore has not been extended to the Coblenz area under the Americans. 27 4 Allen, com- French Press U‘nunl Duesseldorf, Jan. 27 (By the Asso- |clated Press)—Iresh contingents of troops are continuing to arrive ™ the | Ruhr. 6ns i | various parts of the vallc {on the other side of the Rhine. I:y tomorrow evening it is expected that ift the occupied zone there will be twice the number of effectfves that were th#te jast Sunday. How completely the French already encircle the Ruhr was shown during the night when a train destined for interior Germany, drawn by four lo- comotives where one would have been sufficient was halted east ot Dortmund and three of the locomos tives returned to the occupied area. The telegraph division employes of the postal service sent a delegation fo Gen. Simon today and delivered an ultimatum for the removal of sol- diers from the premises of the tele- phers failing which a strike would called at 9 o'clock Monday mom- gr be ing. Complete Im prevails throughout the entire valley today. There have been no further demonstrations since those of Thursday. The efforts of the German maguates to evade payment of the tax on coal due January 21 by journeying ino the interior of Germany and paying the tax at Muenster, Cassel, Hamm or other unoccupied cities was foiled by the French serving notices updn the magnates this morning declaring such payments null and void. $36 PER MILLION & in German Marks—Curb New Low Market Limits ign Currency Trading. New York, Jan. 27.—An overnight depreciation of 14 per cent in the quoted value of German marks car- ried them today to $36 a million, o approximately 27,777 to the Americau dollar another estreme low record The marks which could be bought today for a dollar would have cost more than $6500 before the outbreak of the war in 1914 New York, Jan. 27.—The commit- tee on securities of the New York curb market annoumced today that if had removed from trading all international issues of German marks, Austrian kronen and Russn rubles which are payable in the currency of these