New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1923, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1923, —SIXTEEN PAGES, FRENCH THREATEN WITH BAYONETS CITY MEETING BOARD BOWS T0 COUNCIL AND CONCEDES AUTHORITY OVER SALARIES | Cllnmul‘hll ofl"'meel Commission Leads Suc cessful Fight For Adop mm&wmm' F. A. Searle and Howard S, Hart Opposed — Quigley FREE SPENDERS IN EVIDENCE | Takes Fling at Curtis and Other Political Enemies, The power of the common council | to exceed appropriations made by the city meeting board when the -ul.Ju-l' matter concerned is saluries and w the councll feels that it is advisable | to overdraw *on this item, was ac- knowledged by the city mecting board last night when that body, by a vote of 39 to 19, lovied a special tax of| 1 8-10 mills to make up anticipatea departmental deficits, u major portion | of which was caused by the payment | of salaries 10 per cont in excess of | those authorized by the board, The meeting was held in the Cen- tral Junlor High school auditoriym | and was attended by 59 members, this| number being slightly less than once third of those eligible to take part in the cvening's discussion. Mayor A. M. Paonessa presided and Col A. L. Thompson, city clerk, read the cal for the meecting. Hall Lead's Winning #ight After the call had been read, Chairman E. F. Hall of the board or finance and taxation submitted a| resolution for the levy of » 1.8 mills| tax to bg/ collected on next year's grand lisf; for the purpose of provid- ing the {departments with funds that will be necessary to carry on the year's work. He moved adoption or the resolution. Finance Commissioner ¥, A. Searle, who recently opposed recommending that a tax be laid to make up suen deficits as are caused by refusals to cut salaries as ordered, then took the floor and said: “Before we vote on this resolution, | it would be well to review the ac- tion that brought about this condi- tion and caused this meeting tonight. One year ago the board of finance and taxation, in regular proceedure, held hearings and listencd to the needs of departments. A budget was prepared and then submitted té” a smaller committee to revise. It was then presented for the approval of the full board. The sub committee had spent much time on this matter and its recommendations were adopt- ed. “The budget was passed on to the common council in due course and that body undertook to revise = the budget. Their revision was to the extent of restoring certain cuts that had been made by the finance board. The budget adopted by the common council was referred to the city meet- (Continued on Twelfth Page) REV. HUGH MAVAY DIES IN MINNESOTA Was Former New Britain Resident and in Priest- hood 35 Years Rev. Hugh J. McAvay, formerly of this city, and for the past 35 years in the Catholic priesthood, died yes- terday at St. Mary's hospital, Roches- ter, Minn,, relatives in this city have been advised. He was 65 years of age and the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McAvay. The deceased clergyman spent his early years in this city, attending the New Britain town schools, and after | his ordination and assignment to western parishes was a trequent visit. or here. He was especially well known among the older residents of | New Britain, while he also numbered | among his personal friends many of the younger people whom he met dur- ing his visits here. I'ather McAvay was born in Penn- sylvania. When he was a small boy, the family moved to New Britain and he was enrolled in the public schools where he received his early education. | He later entered St. Charles’ college in Baltimore, and after completing his studies there was admitted to Al- leghany college. Thirty-five years ago | last June, Father McAvay was ordain- | ed in the Catholic priesthood by Arch- bishop Ireland in the archdiocese of £t. Paul. His endeavors in the field of religion have been confined entirely | to the western states. His most re- cent assignment was to the parishes of Goodhue, Minn, and several sur- rounding towns. Funeral services will be held at his late parish at Goodhue, and the re- mains will be brought to this city for interment in St. Msry'n cemetery, Cold Wave Is Sweepllég Across United States Chicago, Feb. 3.—A blast of winter from the northwest that cansed sud- den dropa of temperature in the plains alates last night, was overspreading the United States today. It was pre- dieted that the cold wave would em- |lators expeet to !grandchildren are A5 ITS WORK BY MAY 1, Business Expected to Be Cleaned Up Blrlhr Than in 1924 |leghlature Asked to Millions on Varions Projects—1"ro- Chiropractors— Ammmruu- posal to Recognize “Freak” Bills Headed for Discard, BY CLARENCE G, WILLARD, (Hpecial to The Horald), Hartford, Feb, 3.—According to predictions of legislative leaders at Hartford, and based on a survey of the business which the present legis- lature must handle, it is safe to pre- dict that final adjournment of this general assembly will come at least a month sooner than in the session of 11021, May 1 is the day most legis. journey from Hart- ford to their respective towns for the last time, House Leader Buckley's motion, carried by both houses, that consideration to all appropriation measures so that the final report of that committee might be placed be-| fore the legislature by April 1, has by members, It is considered a good business move, and upon its passage is based the fact that this will be a shorter session than usual. Small Chance for “Freak” Bills While there are only about 100 bills less than in 1021, which must receive consideration of committees and action by the assembly, considerable of the proposed legislation is duplica- “freak” un- is also quite a bit of so-caled legislation proposed that will doubtedly be disposed of in short order when the time comes. Con- necticut legislatures have been noted ent one is ne exception. In past sessions, it has been the custom for the appropriations com- mittee to wait until the last few days of the session before presénting the general budget bill to the assembly. This was considered necessary so as to include . all measures. Major Bugkley maintains that committees and others interested in appropria- tions matters can arrange early hear- ings and reports so that the budget Lall in this session may be before the legislators on the first of April, giv- ing ample time to all members for careful perusal and consideration of all’ parts of this tremendousiy impor- tant bill. Of course this was not im- possible heretofore, as preparations were under way for adjournment and the bill generally came in too late for details and minute consideration. Appropriations Requests. Plenty. of measures wait for the ap- propriations committee and its par- ing knife. Many are worthy, and hen again many bills were presented in which the amounts have been placcd high enough so that the par- ing process might leave amounts agreeable to the proponents. A (Continued on Fourteenth Page). EMBLY MAY END the appropriations committee give | Mpossible to determine exactly when met with almost unanimous approval | |tion so far as the bills go, and there | for their conservatism, and the pres-| FLU GERM DISCO , SO SMALL IT IS MAGNIFIED 1,000 TIMES AND IS Dllly Circulation 071 PRICE THREE CENT> u Week Juury 31“ THEN ONLY SEEN unber mickoscors | AND USE BUTTS OF GUNS TO STOP 3,000 DEMONSTRATORS IN COBLEIVZ 'TERRIFIC EARTHQUAKE lfi RElilSTEREII TODAY Vears—If | lh":-;e:{ "la,."l Cleveland, 1 4, = Vielen. shocks were recorded on the seismo- graph at Bt, Ignatius colloge observa- tory here today, The main wave was urnrlul at 11:22 & m, No location or distance could be| given the director sald, The shocks were the most violent ever recorded here, . “If the earth shocks are on land we expect to hear very bad news, Father ¥, 1. Odenbach, in charge of the observatory, said, The shocks as recorded on his selsmograph, he said, belittle any of recent years, Washington, Feb, 3. = An earth- quake of unusual magnitude was recorded today on the seismograph of Georgetown university, Father Ton- dorf, in charge of the instrument de- seribed the disturbance of “‘tremen- dous” proportions, Before 1 p. m,, two of the recording ncedles had been thrown entirely off the record. At that hour the quake had been| in progress for some time but it was | it started or estimate the distance of | the disturbance from Washington. | Mobile, Feb, 3, — Violent earth thocks wva- recorded at Spring Hill| college today, Father Rohlman esti- mated the dlsmnco at five thousand | miles, Denver, Ieb, 3.—A. W. Forestall, seismologist at Regis college, said that he believed the disturbance re- corded today occurred in China and Japan. New York, I'eb. 3.—Belief that the| earthquake recorded today on seis-| mographs all over the country was| centralized south of Japan, possibly| in the Philippines, was expressed at the American Museum of Natural History. Violent seismic disturbances were first recorded on the museum’s in- | strument yesterday. They continued today with increased intensity and had not ended at 2 o'clock. Washington, ¥eb. 3,— Indications |terium pneumosintees Moldkr Institute of edical Research Now llopu to Evolve a Cure or Preventive for This Dreaded Winter Disease, Sehenectady, N, Y, Feb, 3,—Hopes of thousands of sufiercrs from epi- demic influenza for a cure tion were raised today by the an nouncement of the discovery of the cause and the isolation of the germ, The announcement was made by Dr, Simon W. Flexner, the Rockefeller institute of medical research, who attributed the discov- ery to Dr, Peter Kolitsky and Dr, IPrederick T, Gates, also of the iIn- stitute, Germ Is Microscopie, The isolation will permit experi- mentation with antidotes and anti- toxis, So small is the germ that it must be magnified 1,000 times before it is seen distinctly under the micro- scope, The germ lodges In the nose |and throat during the first 36 hours of influenza infection, then attacks | the lungs in such a way as to make | them susceptible to other germs in the nose and throat, notably those of pneumonia and bronchitis, Describing details of the Dr. Flexner says: Effect Blood First. The effects are of two general classes: first, as they affect the blood and alter the relative number of red and white blood cells through the de- struction of one variety of the latter, The second kind of effect from the discovery, | germ causing influenza is far more significant and consists of mild in- Jjuries to the substance of the lungs | recognizable under the microscope, “This new bacterium, found thus far only in cases of epidemic influenza in the carly hours of the disease, is 80 small that it can pass through pores of an earthenware fiiter and when | magnified 1,000 times is just capable | of being seen distinetly under the mi- | eroscope. Affect ng Tissue, “It has been given the name of bac- which, trans- lated into simple English, signifies |that this germ injures the lung tissue in such a way as to deprive it of the power, ordinarily possessed of it, of resisting the attacks of the common bacteria of the nose and throat. “In health these common bacteria are easily destroyed by the lung tissue, hut as a result of the injuries induced were that the center of the disturb- ance probably was hetween 4,000 and 5,000 miles from Washington about the same distance as the two dis- turbances recorded Thursday and Iri- day, neither of which had been de- termined as to location. Cleveland, Feb. 3.—The seismo- graph was still recording the tremors at 1 p. m,, Father Odenbach said, Lut not as violently as at noon. “The shocks may be in South Am- erica or Alaska if on land, or in the Pacific ocean if on water,” he said. “I am inclined to believe we may hear from South America later.” YD VETERAN TO WED Joseph I%. Carroll, a veteran of the World War Wwho served overseas with the Yankee Division, and who is at vresent a member of the regular army, | and Miss Alice Osakowicz of 59 Broad street, were granted a mafriage license | this morning at the town clerk's of- fice. Carroll is 24 years of age and his prosgecn ve bride is 16 years old. NORTON AND SCHUTZ WILLS FILED IN PROBATE COURT Children and Grandchildren Benefit By Former; Widow and Cemetery Association By Latter. a daughter and of $50 each to three contained in the will of the late Charles I°. Norton, which further provides that the rest |and residue of the estate shall go to the widow, Netta G, Norton. The will was drawn October 12, 1912, and was submitted today for probate. The beneficiaries are: Daniel Nor- ton, son, $10; KEthel Norton Coe, daughter, $10; Russell C. Norton, grandchild, $50; Charles N. Coe, grandchild, $50; Maxwell Coe, grand- child, $50. The will of the late Edward I Schutz, also filed today, directs that a sum to be fixed by the exccutor of the estate, be paid to the Fairview cemetery assoclation for the care of the family plot, and that the remain- der go to the widow, Carriec W. Schutz, The widow is named execu- tor and she is empowered to sell the real estate if she secs fit. Town of Savage, Miss., Is Covered by River’s Flood Tunica, Miss.,, Keb. Flood wa- ters from the Coldwater Fiver covered the little town of Savage, in Tate ccun!y today, adding the suffering caused by a terrific ‘lnrl and rain storm which late yesterday caused ex- tensive property damage and injured upward of a score &f persons, four scriously. PPhysicians and medical supplies were rushed to #he storm center from Tunica late last night. brace the lower Lake region, the Ohio valley, Tennessee and the interior of the east Gulf states not later than fo- night, reaching the Atlantic states from North Carélina northward by temorrow. 3 HURT AS BOATS CRASH New York, I'eb. 3.-~'Two women and a boy were injured today when two ferryboats collided in a dense fog in the Hudson river. Both boats were etowded with commuters. Jersey Rum Runners Sneak Much Booze Ashore; Two Boats Caaglzt Bequests of $10 each to a son and | | running Jow since ice by bacterium pneumosintees they are now enabled to lodge anfh multiply iu the lungs, thus producing these seri- ous inflammations to which the names (Continued on Twelfth Page) “FLU" IS PREVALENT Records of Board of Health Show 67 Cases in January—Many Developing Into Pneumonia. Records in the office of the health department at city hall indicate a large number of influenza sufferers in the city, and while the “flu" in itself is not of the serious type of several years ago, there are numerous in- stances where pneumonia has de- veloped. During the month of January there were 67 cases reported. The February report for the first two days showed 16 new cases in existence. ANSWERS DE VALERA Minister of Home Affairs Higgins ups Prominent Public Official| of Highlands—600 CaseSw Are Seized. New York, l%eb. 3. (By Associated Press)—Rum runners suffered two casualties early today in extensive launding operations from the liquor fleet off the Jersey coast overnight. With drawn revolvers, customs offi- cers seized the ocean going tug John L. Cann in Arthur Kill, arresting three men and seizing six hundred cases. | The other casualty occurred when | coast guards captured the motorboat Rose on the ocean beach a mile south | of Highlands, N. J. Much Liquor Landed. Advices received from Highlands stated that bottle fishermen, taking advantage of fog, clearing ice and smooth scas put out in good numbers !to the rum fleet of 19 vessels moored off Ambrose channel lightship. Just liow many small craft succeeded in running the blockade could not be definitely ascertained but truck move- ments today indicated that a consid- erable amount of liquor had been | landed. 1t was reported in bootlegging cir- jcles that Highlands' stock had been | and weather | conditions, plus the vigilanee of dry agents, had put.a damper on smug- gling operations which were carried on on a wholésale scale ahout three weeks ago. Highlands runners spent yvesterday morning tuning up their speed boats ip preparation for the night's work and late in the afternoon began slipping out to the flect off | shore. It was believed in Highlands that ail but one of the jocal rum runners kad returned safely. § Owned By Public The motofbhoat Rose, One Is Said to Be Owned by; )owo"r. fen | | Issues Will be Vindicated by Prc;- ent Government. Dublin b. 3.—(By the Associated Press)—Kevin O'Higgins, minister of | home affairs in the Irish I'ree huto | government in discussing the inter- view given to a British newspaperman by Eamon De Valera declared today | that “we are at a stage when very | grim decisions will have to be taken if the organized sabotage is to go on. The right of the people of Ireland to | Fgsex county penitentiary to serve a Man, died today aged 80 years decide by their majority will prevail” | he added, “and the domestic and in- | | ternational issues will be vindicated by | the present government at whatever | cost is neces SOUGHT IN CONN. Son of President of Vacuum Oil Co., | Escaped I'roh Hospital, is Collecting Money in State. New York, [eb. authorized charge accounts left Charles E. Bedford, Jr, son of the president of the Vacuum Oil Co. is being followed throughout Connecticut 3.—A trail of un- in an effort to find the young man, | who escaped January 16 from Bloom- ingd & hospital where he was h(‘lng‘ | tréated for a mental aberration suf- fered during the war, The father said today he had learned that young Bedford had been obtaining articles in Connecticut stores | them | charging them, then reselling elsewhere for cash, to replemish the $5 eapital he had when he rl\slpnonrm-l.l Mr. Bedford warned merchants today that he would not be responsible for further debts contracted by his son. * ' WEATHER | | | Hartford. Feb. 8.~Forccast for New Britain and vicinity: Generally fair and much colder with a cold wave tonight and Simday: strong northwest winds THE (Conflll'l on d Page). or proven- | director of | by | | lttlmama Won tAcce t Ruling ‘Aude From This OQut- of leag‘ue, New War 77createned | break However, Con- 'Object to Poles Occupvlnz! Neutral Zone and Will Blockade Penllty Likely. | Paris, ¥eb, 8 (By the «m.uuuu-q' Press)—A threat of war and a men- | ace of blockade were unexpected fea-| tures of today's session of the councll of th league of nations, M, Sidzikau- kas, Lithuanian minister to Germany, representing his nation before the! councll declared the Lithuanians | would not accept the decision of the league to allow the Poles to occupy u | part of the neutral zone between the two countries, He sald they would| use force to prevent it, Blockade Likely M. Viviani of France said that In such case the Lithuanian action would involve the imposition of a blockade. The council hua adopted a resolu- tion entrusting the occupation of the neutral territory by forces divided about equally between Poland un-l Lithuania, The Lithuanians Mth-‘ drew from the council chamber after making their protest, without chang- ing their attitude, The Poles, it was announced by the Polish delegation, would proceed to | troops. POLICEMAN SHOT DEAD BY MAN HE HAD ARRESTED Framingham, Mass,, Murderer Leaves Wife and Three Children Escapes—Dead Man | Mass, Fup, 3.—Pa- trolman William J. Welch was shot |dead early today by an unidentified | man whom he had arrested as a sus- pect, The man, believed to have been the same onc who two hours earlier Framingham, escaped. ) There were ng witnesses to the shooting but 'the, patrolman had been seen struggling with thc man shortly before the shots werefired. One hand was bitten and his face was bruised. Welch had been on the. police force for 17 yecars, (He leaves a widow and three children, So far as could be learned, Welch encountered the man in the square in Saxonville village, arrested him be- cause he was acting suspiciously and took him to a lodging house nearby. His body was found lying near the telephone in the parior and it is sup- posed he had started to telephone to police headquarters. John McGrath, fireman at the lodg- ing house, while in the cellar heard sounds of a struggle upstairs. He rushed up and saw Welch grappling | with the stranger. McGrath hurried across the street to get help and re-| turned with the watchman at a mill. | While he was out the shots were fired | bis, we broke ints a store at South Sudbury,; JUDAISM VINDICATED Rabbi Lahsch Head of Cen- tral Conference of Rabbis, Welcomes Debate Richmond, Va,, Feb, 3.—Rabbl Fdward N, Calisch, president of the central conference of American rab- lcomes the much-debated ut- terances of the Rev, Percy Stickney Grant, rector of the Protestant Epis- copal church of the Ascension, New York, as a vindication of Judaism, In addressing the congregation of | Beth Ahabah synagogue here, Dr. Calisch said: | “Speaking broadly and generally| and not in any detail as to specific Goctrines or dogmas as given in the ' theology of the church, Dr, Grant | denles the belief accepted among| Christians that Jesus had divine pow- er, that he was part of the Godhead itself—""very God of very God." “He holds rather as I understand it that Jesus was a highly gifted re- ligious teacher, even the most highly gifted, but that he was no more | occupy their part of the zone with divine than other human beings Who \ith bayonets and used the butt ends all possess the possibility of divine conduet, “1 have heard it expressed that there are many thinking Christians who are sympathetic with this view- point and that Dr. Grant is speaking for more than himself or his congre- gation. I welcome this expression of Patrolman’s \Dr. Grant’s views for the reason that it is, first, a vindication of Judaism whose followers have been martyrized through the centuries because of | their devotion to this ideal of God's | unassailable unity, and, secondly, T | welcome it as a new means by Which which has been a source of schism of dissension and, alas, of bloodshed.” ' PRINGIPAL SLADE ORDERS COUPLE T0 STOP DANCING High School Director Finds Boy and Girl “Check to Cheek” and Tells Them To Leave Floor. What is considered to be the first step in a drive to require New Brit- ain High school students to confine themselves to refined dancing while attending social af was taken yesterc ing the course of “dime dance” when Principal Lguis P, Slade order- ed one couple from ‘the floor for al- Yeged offensive conduet, The couple in question had afternoon dur- been the so-called “cheek to cheek” danc- ing. The young man had *“cut in” on a couple during the dance which made and as the two men entered the stranger rushed out past them. They found Welch lying. dead with three bullet woundq in the head. WOLF OF WAL STREET CONSIDERED FUGITIVE )Daud Lamar, Sentenced to Prison, Disappears From New York Hotel New York, Feb, 3.—Federal agents ‘gmng to the Hotel De France to take David Lamar “wolf Wall street” to sentence for a war-time offense today | discovered that Lamar had checked out of the hotel erday and dis- appeared without leaving an address. | Harold Spielberg counsel for Lamar declared that Lamar had no intention to try to escape from the federal au-| | thorities “It was my assumption he was at {the hotel De I'rance” said Spielberg. “If he has left it may be reasons fov personal convenience and he certain- |1y will surrender to the authorities on | Monday.” U, Marshal Heeht said that T.a- mar was now considered a fugitive {from justice. A bench warrant was issued for his arrest, |Waterbury Woman Dies From Gas Asphyxiation | Waterbury, Feb. 3.—Mrs. Anna | Vico, who was taken to a hospi- | [tal early yesterday morning with het | husband, after both had been overs come by illuminating gas escaping, |from a leaky tubing attached to n‘ |gas stove in (heir bedroom, died to-| day without having regained o | selousness, The husband has re- covered. Mrs, Di Vico leaves two rhil-} dren, one 15 days oid | STOCKHOLDERS M ING The annual meeting of the holders of common stock of the Stanley Works | will' be held Wednesday, February 14, at 2:30 o'clock p. m., for the election of directors, for the approval of the doings of the directors during the past year, and for the transaction of | any other business proper (o comc | # Jbefore said meeting. him guiity of breaking a second school regulation. Mr. Siade took the young man aside after the dance and reprimanded him | tor his conduct telling him that such actions would not be tolerated at the| school in the future. H FAYETTE DOUGLAS DIES Prominent Forestville Man, Brother of Chestnut Street Man, Passes Away At Age of 90 Years, Forestville, Feb., 23.—H. Iayette Dougias long in the mercantile busi ness here, once postmaster and selec e was born in New Hartford. erved in the Civil war. Resides two sons, Junius Dou, commissioner, and J. I"ay Do+glas and | a duughter, M Cora, and a brother, Spencer Douglas of Chestnut street New Hritain, survives, as, county | O'RYAN PRAISES “BOB” L FOR BRAVERY UNDER FIRE adp. The valor of Robert 8. Lee of formerly a sergeant in C company, 102d field artillery, is praised in the story of “The 27th Division in the Great War,” written by General O' and being run in serial form in The New York World. In today's installment, refer- ring to the local soldier, General Ryan writes: “Robert 8. Lee of New Brit- ain, Conn., scrgeant, Co. C, 102d Field Service Battalion, was a member of an advanced regi- mental signal party which went over the top with the third wave in the attack against Hinden- burg line. The officer in charge and three privates were wound- ed and two sergeants, two cor- porals and two runnéfs yere killed. Sergeant Lee, in the face of tervible shell and machine gun fire, fearlessly and courage- ously strung telephone lines and patrolied same in such a man- ner as to insufe teléphone com- municgtion with the haftalion to Wwhich he was attached.” the church itself can clear itself from| irs at the school, | violating a school rule which forbids| . |cabinet the ditions in Occupied Germany Are Reported Use Force to Prevent lt—‘ BY Im fiflANT'S VIEWS as More Peaceful Council of Leuue of Ni tions Flatly Refuses to Take Up Question of Ruhr Occupation Repara- Bl Plymouth, Eng., Feb. 3, (By Associated Press).—An act of gross folly and the wrong way to approach the reparations probiem, was former Premier Lloyd George's characterization of the Ruhr occupation in an interview here today on his re- turn from Spain, “It is a sure way not to get reparations, I think,"” he said. Associated threatened "3, (By troops Feb. rench Coblenz, | Press). of their guns today to break up a crowd of 3,000 persons noisily pro- testing before the Rhineland high commission building against the de- portations of officials. The two latest deportations were in the cases of Johannes Fuchs Obers president of the Rhine province and Dr. Russell, ober-burgomaster df Co- blenz whom the French took into un occupied Germany last night. s was expelled by order of the inter-allied Rhineland commission for inciting German functionaries to dis- obedience of the commission's order. Taken Toward Frankfort. Berlin, Feb. 3, (By Associated Press). — Ober-Presidepnt Johannes TFuchs, Berlin’s representative in the | Ithineland was arrested when enter- ing his automoblle after a visit to President Tiard of the inter-allied Rhineland commission, according to a Coblenz message received today. He | was taken toward Frankfort in a French automobile accompanied by two. military cars. League Drops Rublir Issue, Paris, Teb. 3, (By Associated Press).—The council of the league of nations at a secret, informal session Jjust before finally adjourning here today, declined to put the reparation or Ruhr occupation questions on its program. This means that for the present there is no possibility of the league taking any initiative toward mediation between France and Ger- many. A summary ments follows: Relations between the occupying forces and the populations of the Ruhr and the Rhincland are report- ed notably improved, although the"* German magnates are still holding aloof in bitter opposition to co-oper- ation. The railroads are again in opera- tion in large sections of the occupied area but the mines are doing little | better, largely owing to shortage of |empty cars, The French declare they will feed the civilian population if necessary and they are moving food trains into districts where the railroad strike {is still on. In Paris, the reparation commission reaffirmed its action of January 26 in refusing Germany a moratorium re- plying negatively to the request made in a German note yesterday to reopen the reparations controversy and re- examine the capacity of Germany to pay. P'remier Poincare told the Ruhr situation could |considered satisfactory The council of the league of nations in Paris took a final adjournment without going into the questiom | Ruhr occupation or reparations. GHILD DIES ON SAW | North Branford Girl, 13, Killed When of the day's develop- French be She Falls Against Circolar Saw i Mother's Mill, North Branford, | —Mary Tor- *i. aged 1 working at a circular <% in a little mill of her mother and lier uncle, in the woods on the town's outskirts, fell against the this morning. The medical examiner re- ported that the saw cut the ¥irl from chin to 'ahdomen, and that death was immediate. Negroes Dig Up Yard in Effort to Find Gold Pot Manbattan, Kas., Feb. 3.—Undaunt- ed by the fact that the hole they dug was so deep they had struck wa- ter, 4 party of negroes today continued to dig in seareh of a “pot of gold” in the back yard of Mrs. Amanda Cruse's | home here. Tt was in a dream that | Mrs. Cruse “saw” ghe pot of goid coine. Having a repiitation among ne- groes as a clairvéyant, number of volunteersfat enee began search at the point designated by Mrs. Cruse. Today ‘nw hole extended over most of the | back yard and 30 feet deep. i T 1 saw