New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1923, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY on Murder May ESTABLISHED 1870 30 MINERS ARE SENTENCED Clue in Remingt TOPRISON FOR THREE YRS. = Reach Across Continent to Ct. l” mT VA. S WKE Rl 073 'Murdered Man Had Written to Friends in This State of All Ple nd—G-ui.E to COII-I Death Threats—Wife Tells Police He Had Lived in M".R“Ans MmlNfi Fear of Assassination—Police Drop Boolleuersj spiracy in- Clitonville| iy \GF BOOK CHANGE, ¢ ™" Fi‘llt Tht c“t Liv“ l Los Angeles, Feh, 23.-~The dual| it is announced by George K | life eredited to Earle Remington, | cAptain of detectives, * . of Sheriff and Six Men T Take I. C. C. Order to |:.'.::“ "o“':“'r":"‘:m'_"‘l'l'q'“::":"’;‘: -W'.‘:':"‘.‘. | #ling gangs in this district, Captain C. Frank Keeney, Preident| Court for Rauling | of State United Mine @ direct evidence worked in his office whe Workers, Freed on Mur- how orders for banks—was | Connecticut State Libra ‘::1 .:::x‘; ':I:r:ullu:: further today by officlals der Count When Case Is Thrown Out. Home, Advt, Dept, ok given by Rem- Washington, Feb, 28.—Railroad | 1x responsibility for his & . v < legger for some | & week ago, taréfor® Copn, ropresentatives before the interstute > - P 4P A g A returned by the (-o:'nmerw- ke sty |todny sy ':; | The officers said they wors searehi-[bank marked “no funds,” was made " “|ing for Remington's private papers.| good later by him, the police said ;(Iru of the intention of the carriers to' The police denfed they had in a jail | they discovered. institute court procecdings to block | outside Los Angeles, a man suspect-| The polica turned their attention | the recent commission’s decision or-| ©d of the slaying but made no offi- [to a scrutiny of Remington's rnnn-; dering reestabshment of the inter- e e e - | - changeable mileage book system giv- | ting reductions of 20 per cent in Wellsburgh, W. Va., Feb, 23, - 8¢ r fares to travellers, Thirty miners, indicted for conspiracy “Before going any further with this | in the Cliftonville strike riot which matter,” Wolfc Bikle, counsel for the cost the lives of Sherifft H. Duval and | Penn. rallroad, who also spoke for all six of the attacking party last July|eastern lines, told the commission, I pleaded guilty today and were sen-|want to give notice that any stey tenced to serve three years each in|taken here is taken subject to ou. the prison, right to ligitate the commission’s ¢ - cision or protest in any way again:: any detail or principle involved in it Subject to that reservation we are prepared to discuss the rules and | regulations which may be put into ef- fect if the sale of mileage bonks 1 eventually authorized.” Keency Berkley Springs, W. Va., The case against C, Frank Keeney, president of the West V United Mine Workers, who was put on trial | here as an accessory to murder in the l.ogan county industrial disturbance ended abruptly today when Judge! . L . 2 Woods threw out the indictment on! New York, I%eb. 23.—The Jastern motion of the prosecution which al- | Rallway presidents conference today leged there had been tampering with |voted to contest the recent order of witnesses, the Interstate Commerce commissio The motion was made by H. D. Al-!providing for the sale of interchuny len. prosecuting attorney of Vorgan |able mileage books at a reduction o county, who declared that four im-|20 per cent from the prevailing prier. portant witnesses for the state had = e Frederick S. Wooding disappeared and the prosecution would not attempt to continue the Dead at Age of 71| Frederick Sherman Wooding of 242 | 7~ case without them. Judge Woods indicated that in such e, 7 | Main street, died this morning at| i, Comment on the persistent re-| 112:20 o’clock of infirmities coincident | P 16y ‘possensed- “vital - int | | { FARLE REMINGTON MRS. VIRGINIA REMINGTON spondence and private papers today. | This search, it was announced, re- vealed that he had written to friends/ in Connecticut of death threats made against him and verified the state- ment of Mrs. Virginia Remington, his | widow, that he had lived in fear of | his life for several weeks prior to the slaying. DE VALERA NOT TAKEN circumstances nothing remained but for him to grant the motion. To this with advanced years. Had he lived formation which if made public now | {until April he would have been 70 | Would hamper the final solution of T, C. Townsend, counsel for Keeney, objected, declaring that the witnesses 7 the tragedy.” | yea f age. He was born in th 5 BN o e 1= 8 Information in the hands of the in question were also witnesses for the defense and three of them had come 'town of Prospect. Conn,, in 1851, and to him a day or two ago asking pro- [had been a resident of this city for p‘{”'“ does not bear out the theory tection from deputy sheriffs from =32 years. He was formerly employed | that bootleggers were responsible for “forelgn coun They told him he by the John Pinches Co. as an ex. | the mysterious slaying of Remington, said, that they had been compelled to pert cabinet maker, but when his| make statements which were untrue. | health failed about eight years ago| |he gave up this employment and HEARIN[i FuR JACKS"N He had sent them to another hotel and they were at present, e added, since that time had been cngaged as at 23, 1923, BRITAIN HERALD ~TWENTY-FOUR PAGES Average Week E PRICE THREE CENTS 17 PERSONS BELIEVED BURNED T0 DEATH IN FIRE IN KANSAS CITY; SEVERAL ARE HURT IN N. Y. BLAZE MASTER MIND OF BANK THEFTS MAY HAVE KILLED HIMSELF TO PERMIT PAYMENT OF DEBT FROM INSURANCE thorities Scout Idea, Claiming Marcino Had Almost $200,000 When He Disappeared. Chicago, Feb, 23.—While ties In various parts of the United States today continued checking up the operations of Joseph M. Marcino, alias Biata, who rose from immi- grant barber to buyer of banks and whose financial dealings were re- ported to have ciaused losses approxi- mating $591,000, reports have indi- cated that he might have committed suiclde, A May Be Suicide. That theory found its inception in a letter written by Marcino from some point in Texas or Mexico to Abraham Goldman of Chicago, his father-in-law, and who, according to investigators, supplied the missing man with funds in a greater or lesser amount, The letter, said to contain a minute aecount of the fugitive’s financial career since its beginning here, was reported to indicate that Marcino might end his life so that creditors could realize on his life insurance policies totalling $100,000. “The only thing that remains for me to do,” he was reported to have written, "is to disappear from the face of this earth into oblivion, or endure a life of suffering and wilder- ness. In only hope within a few vears, through the proceeds of my insurance, to repay creditors.” Taylor Arraigned Today. Today Frank T. Tayior, a former railromd fireman finally advanced to president of the First National bank of Warren, Mass, by the fugitive at a salary of $50 u week, faced ar- raignment in the federal court here, after the reported discovery of a authoeri- | | Letter of Father-in-Law SCHLIEFER GUILTY, Hfirf Hints at Suicide—Au- FOR HIGH COURT HEARING | New Haven Judge dines to Take Jurisdiction Decision Against Agitator, New Haven, Peb. : Ernest Schilefer, charged with inciting strik- ing shopmen of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rallroad to acts of violence, was hound over to the superior court by Judge Caplan of the city court today. Judge Caplan did not give a written opinion but sald, when Schliefer was called before him, | that he found the accused guilty of the offense charged, but owing to the “aggravated nature of the offense,” would not take jurisdiction, He bound the accused over to the superior court, The Schliefer case had been before the city court since November 23, when he was held in $15,000 for a hearing. The bail was made $10,000 on December 4 and the hearing was in installments up till a week ago, when it was finished and decision was reserved. The alleged offense was committed at a striking meeting. Schliefer was one of the speakers at the railroal lLearing at the capito!l when the strike of shopmen on the New Haven was gone into at length as a part of the recital of causes which have impaired the operation of the road in both its freight and passenger service, General Manager Bardo at the rail- road hearing claimed that an inter- pretation of the words ‘“bump off” was to do violence to men who were at work in the shops. Schliefer de- nied that he had advocated violence or sabotage. REVENUE FROM TAXES EXCEEDS CITY NEEDS After Announcing lAppalling Loss of Life | When Two Story Frame Rooming House is Des- troyed Early Today in Western City otham People Injured When They Are Forced to Jump to Safety—In Idaho, Miners Escape From Burning Tunnel. Kansas City, Kan,, Feb, 23.—8evene 1 persons are belleved to have pers ished in the fire which destroyed a two story feame rooming house here carly today, Twelve bodies have been recovered and search is being made for those of five other persons bes |lleved to have lost their lives in the |blaze, Only three bodies have been identified. The identified dead are: Mrs, Elisha Coiston and her children, Violet and John, Bodies of five ddults and seven children have been recovered. Survivors said today there was ne warning of the impending danger, that it seemed as though the entire structure was enveloped in flames | without notice. 1 Many Were Trapped. | Unusual construction of the stair- |way in the building is believed by firemen to have trapped many pers |sons. The stairs lead to a center cor- ridor on the second floor which branches out in four directions. 'Per- sons blinded by smoke coming from {the west side of the building it was | pointed out easily could run by the | head of stairs. This, Mr. Colston said, |is what happened to his wife and two children who were directly behind him when he made his escape. The building, located in the Ar- mour district, caved in within 15 min- utes after the fire started. not far from the courtroom, sayi “we have not got to go far for them, After a brief conference, Mr, Allen told the court the men would not dis- rusgg the case with him and it would he useless for him to proceed without them. Judge Woods agreed with him caretaker and elévator dperator Judd's block on Main street. Besides his wife, ~ Mr, Wooding leaves a son, Frederick Wooding of |Waterbury and a brothbr, Dayton C. | Wooding of the same city. Mr. Wooding was a member of the | $215,000 shortage in accounts of the PRISONER AS RUMORED ¥sircs, orion o 1 1. CoOllctions Total sL830467) < —— falo, N .Y, where he-:acquired the Against 31,824,086 Budget | New oYrk, Feb. 23.—Three per- controlling interest in the Bison! = | sons, one of them a woman of 80, | Holding corporation, the holding con- | Requlrements were injured early today when they ?.cern of the Niagara Insurance ! jumped from windows and fire es- ON CHARGES BY VETS Cosgrave Makes Denial |Mayor’s Secretatry Says In- | vestigation May Be Held Next Week First Congregational church and Rev. Henry W. Maier, the pastor, will con- | duct the funeral services, which will| be held from B. C. Porter Sons un- dertaking parlors on Court street to- morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. In- terment wilk be in Fairview cemetery. | BRITISH DEBT SETTLEMENT IS GREAT AID TO BUSINESS / and Keeney was freed. Mr. Allen filed with the court a number of papers which, he said, were “propaganda’ sent into Morgan coun- ty by Joseph D), Cannon of New York eity, whom he described as a ‘'social- ist supporter.” Though Other Rebel Offi- cials Are Captured London, I'ch. 23.—A Central News dispatch from Dublin reports a ru- mor that the Iree State government has arrested Eamon D¢ Valera and Liam Lynch, Detectives of the Irish Criminal In- vestigation department, the dispatch' adds, made several important captures early this morning. The men taken Mayor A. M. Paonessa will hear | the complaints of veterans organiza- | tions against Secretary H. C. Jackson | of the war service bureau, anent the | management of the finances of that bureau, some evening next week, Paul Robinson, secretary to the mayor, |said this morning after a conference | with the mayor. Mayor. Paonessa is | still confined to his home on Stanley |included five of the principal irregu- | + . |street with a hard cold. {lar leaders, The authorities were ex- /Babson Looks for Active| The veterans claim that Jackson | tremely reticent as to the results of | [failed to carry out the plan under|the operation, but it is rumored that Stock Market This Year— [which the bureau was organized, by De Valera and Lynch were among not allowing organizations other than | those taken. ,Ne“. YOl'k, Penn., and the American l.egion to have voice in It is understood, the correspondent | Ohio Industry Slowly Re- its business. They ask a complete ! asserts, that th itregular army | covering From Depression Heat From Excited Theater Patrons as a Coal Substitute accounting and reorganization of the | council was surprised while in gession | committee in charge of the bureau. in a house at Drumcondra. 5 Ao —— A dispatch to the Evening ‘Standard DEATH OF W. H. POND. |from Dublin shortly afternoon says' Hartford, I°¢b. 23.—William H. |the secretary of William Cosgrave, By ROGER W. BABSON, Pond, clerk in the office of the school | head of the Free State, denies that De (Quoted Lacally oul The tlerald). | fund in the capitol and senior in offi- | Valera had been captured. New York, 1eb. - Roger W. | ¢jal service -of the approximately 2,- | - Babson is now on his annugl trip of | (00 persons in the state's employ, died | Raid Is | inspection. With some 10,000 miles| ;¢ the Prospect hospital Thursday eve- [ Dublin, I"eb. ‘of traveling he wil Istudy conditions ping of pneumonia. He had been ill |in 26 leading centers of the United|jop a week. States. His report divided into eight’ sections presents an unusually valu- | able picture of current business con- | ditlons. Section two, which is issued | today, treats of New York, Pennsyl- ! vania, Maryland and Ohio. | “As New England was the first sec- | tion to be hit by the depression and ——— the first to recover,” says Mr. Babson, “so New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio being the second section to be hit, GOURT To SAYWHETHER | naturally is the second section to re- KELLY ls DEAD OR ALIYE cover. In 1920 the center of the de- pression was at Bridgeport, Connecti- cut; but by 1921 the center of de- Julius Grass, 65, Was Struck By Trol- | pression had moved to Akron, Ohio. | From Connecticut to Ohio—however ley Car Sunday Night—P. & F, Cor- | | =business is today in fair shape. The | steel industry is back to 85 per cent . Light. .ol"nlla oa]p:mt ;p:o?l :nlp(n(: 1:-] \t-v,-r) Julius Grass, who was struck by a active; the carpet factories and tes-| painville bound trolley car at the A hearing on the petition of Anna fyile mills are exceodingly prosperous; Wooster street crossing Sunday night, Kelly to have her father, Patrick F.| the agricultural sections and the nu- gi.q this morning at 6:30 o’clock at Kelly, declared judicially dead on the | merous small factories of these states |1 New Britain . General hospital grounds that he has not been heard | arc getting on much better. New (pore e has been confined since the from in more than 20 years, will be York city is feeling fairly on!imlstlm!”mc of the accident. He celebrated | held tomorrow morning in probate The hotels are full and the retall’; o g5ih pirthday on February 8. court, Judge Bernard I'. Gaffney pre- | stores arc doing a good business. \q 44 pesult of the accident the man siding. There, however, is no. such riotous .,gained two fractures of ghe skull, The matter was to have come up $pending of money in the restaurants .0t and rear and a compound frac- Jast Saturday, but objection to the|and theaters as during boom times. (.. of the left log as well as numer- | proceeding was raised by other mem-|The principal industry of New York | .. jaccrations and abrasions about| bers of the family who declarc that|city is banking and jobbing. The bank-| 1. y6q they had received letters from their, rs are not especially optimistic over! —y - father within two years. They were | the prospect of lower money rates for ||, o najker Boston, 5 plays and motion cause the temperature of audi- ences to rise and result in the throwing off of bodily heat that Judicious theater owners utilize a8 a substitute for fuel, accord- ing to Professor Edward ', Mil- ler, chairman of the faculty of Mass, Institute of Technology. Professor Miller, who said he had made actval tests on the audiences in Boston playhouses, asserted that many theater own- ers observing this phenomenon lowered their heat supply as acts approached their climax. Successful. —Tive Irish irregu- | (Continued on Page 21.) Sleeping Sickness Affects Girl; In Stc_zte of Coma For T wo Weeks | DIES FROM INJURIES | "First Case Reported to, i Health Department in More Than Year Comes to Judge Gaffney To Hear IPetition of Her bin Employe for 42 Years. Daughter Who Wants Father Declared Dead - A case of encephalitis letharg, commonly known as sleeping sickness, the first to be brought to the attention | of the Jocal health authorities in more | than a year, was reported today by| Dr. William I, Flanagan, who is at-| tending the victim, p An 18 year old girl who lives on {Chapman street is the patient. The | young woman has been suffering with | the dis for about two wecks, dur-| ing which time she has slept continu- ally with the exception of brief per- jods when she was arouscd to take tood or medicine, after which she | & had been employed as a ' at the . & I Corbin | (Continued On Page Nineteen). WARREN RESIDENTS ARE LOSERS IN BANK CRASH Individual Losses to Depositors 1n Savings Dept. Expected to Run as High as $2,000, Warren, Mass, I'eh. 23.—Residents of this town face heavy losses as de- positors or as stockholders in the First Nationa! bank here through the theft of $213,000 of its securities. Bank Examiner Howard W. ¥ resumed today the work of checking up the bank’s affairs, still declining to say what conditions had Dbeen found. Chief miner 8. Jean similarly has maintained reticence. The bank couducted hoth savings and commercial departn dividual losscs to depositor former will run as high ¢ the latter the town's acc $9,000 is believed to be in the $2,000, In unt of about among the | largest. Y, W.” FUND NOW $9,897.98 Predictions That It Will Reach $10,- 000 Shortly—Drive 1s Continued For Another Week. reported at re- the Almost $10,000 was ceived in cash and pledges final luncheon of the Y. W. C. A, for $11,716 at noon today. The fol- lowing amounts were reported toda Team 1, $219; team 2, $686; team $430.75; team 4, $180; team $208.84; team 6, $ 0; team $235.66; team 8, $2 team (Berlin) $141.65. The amount received today was $2,- 714, making a total of $9,807.93. In thanking the workers, the men’s team, the luncheon committee the newspa- pers and others for belping in the drive, Mrs. P. B. Stanley, chairman, predicted that there were enough pledges outstanding to put the sum over $10,000, She announced that al- though luncheons will cease, the 50 9 | drive will not close officially for an- other week. FORD FOR PRESIDENT Endorse its and in- | | With more than one month's col- “'lections yet to be reckoned, Collector | Bernadotte Loomis reported this | morning that the city’s revenue thus | far has exceeded the budget require- I ments in personal and property tax | collection by $6,381.47. | The budget requirements year are: Personal taxes, $35,000; property taxes, $1,789,086. Total, $1,- 824,086, Collections thus far | Personal taxes, $50,351 taxes, $1,7580,116 ‘otal $1,830, 467.47. The amount in excess of bud- get requirements ,as indicated by the above figures is $6,381.47. Next year's personal tax require- ment is $44,000 and the bills for this amount have already gone out. Pres ent indications are that of next year's | personal tax, $15,000 will have been | collected and turned over to the city | treasurer before the opening of the | next fiscal year, Mr. Loomis asserts. | Tax Commissioner William H. Blod- gett in his annual statement of taxing | conditions about the state as of April the opening day of the pres- jent fiscal year, reports this city to | have had the smallest amount of back |taxes on its books of any of the so- |called “Rig Five" cities of the state, than a Jarge number of 1he smaller cities. Collector Bernadotte Loomis' report on April 1, 1 |showed 2173,89779 on the books un- der this heading, a large part of which has not been collectea. have been: |No Change Today in Fuel Situation Here There were no new developments in | the fuel situation today, but the nsuat number of appeals for coal were re- ceived at the office of the mayor. As has been the custom the pa |three weeks, the cases are being in- | vestigated by Mayor A. M. Paonessa land Secretary Paul Robinson ang |those which are urgent are turnca lover to the charity department for action. Insofar as is @possible, the charity superintendent, of all cases called to his attention by the mayor. i2 RECEIVE SENTENCE Febh. 23.—Twelve a seditious society Samar, convicted native on the of rob- Manila, leaders of istand' of ,bing the people. have been sentenced to prison terms from six months to two years. for the| property | s taking care | capes in an East Side tenement house | fire, believed to have been of incen- diary origin. Scores of others were rescued from fire. The fire was the fifth one that occurred within a radius of three blocks in an hour. The four others ! were quickly put out. . Mrs. Fannie Berger, 80, jumped from, a third story window. Both her legs were broken, Two men i who jumped from fire escapes were not expected to live, | $500,000 Loss at Hamilton. Hamilton, Ont.,, Feb. 23.—Fire to« day destroyed the four city office ! building owned by the Lister Estate, | opposite City Hall. The loss was es- timated at more than $500,000. | Miners Escape Flames. Wallace, Idaho, Feb., 28—The Her- cules mine at Burke, north of here, was reported on fire early today. ‘Mcssngu received here stated all {miners were out of the mine. | The Hercules, a property of the | Day Brothers, is one of the richest | and best equipped mines in the state. 1 It has paid dividends since 1901, to- talling more than $14,000,000. A | lead-silver ore is mined. | This is the second mine fire in this vicinity this year. The Morning mine at Mullan caught fire on Janu- ary 23, three men losing their lives, /Martial Law Is Reported Declared in German Town Berlin, I'eb, 23.—Martial law has been declared in Borchum says a despatch to the Central News, in con- sequence of yesterday's disturbance in |which I'rench soldiers fired on a lcrowd with fatal results. I Essen, ¥eb. 23 (By Associated Press)—The French have decided to replace German customs officials by Trench throughout the Ruhr. Moving Picture Men Here Favor Proposed Statute John Giackin, Harry Burke, John Contaras, and Peter Perokas, repre- sentatives of New Britain theatrical interests, were scheduled to appear before the judiciary committee of the legislature at 1:30 o'clock this after noon at the state capitol to endorse a moving picture bill now pending. | The proposed bill would legalize the admission of children under 14 years of age to moving picture theaters on days when school is not in session given a week to find and produce the letters in question. Action is being brought so that real estate to the value of $10,000, which the petitioner sets forth, was the pro- perty of her father, may bLe disposed of among the heirs at jaw. A son, William 1. Kelly, claims title to the real estate and has filed a quit claim deed, alleged to have been drawn in 1901 by his father, JERSEY CHURCHES GUARDED. Jersey City, Feb, 23.—An order di- recting a constant guard of all Zoman Catholie churches in the city was dis- tributed by Chief of "olice Datters to- day after a request from a priest w)ame name Jie would not reveal. | | 1923, excepting those who sell bonds, | | Of course, as money rates decline the | demand for bonds Increases and bond | prices strengthen. Certain banks ®ive alreadv been obliged to reduce their| dividends and more reductions may be expected by other institution “The jobbers of New York city are facing some uncertainty. Their work ! is very largely importing and export- ing. The tariff has handicapped thom | considerably, notwithstandirg the op-| timistic figures on forelgn trade which the Department of Commerce s fssu-| ing. Whatever the figures may show, these exporters and importers | find much more difficu't to business. This, of it do (Continued on Page Nineteen) ;::;:-qul i’:rl:;rv;’:fit :;;2“:;n;s.':;l:m\t'¢::;’]r”p’ off into sleep again Democrats May of the Sons of Veterans, the Schwaben || ThC 4% Was diagnosed by, br Vercin and the New Britain quartet | ogoiday by Dr. 1. P, Lee, superin- | club. He is survived by his wife. [tendent of the health department, he funeral will be held Saturday |, poee diagnosis agreed with that of a!'ovnnnn at 30 o'clock from the |n. Flanagan. Frwin Mortuary chapel. Rev. M. W, Gaudian, pastor of St. John's (}er»‘ man Lutheran church will officiate and : interment will be in Fairview ceme- | Michigan D DU tivver King As Their 1921 Candi- Husband, Dying, Refused to Write His Wife Lest News Spoil Pleasure of Her Trip Around World was sick for ten days broke his promise. *“I cannot write because it would ruin her trip,” he said. His wife is some- where on the Indian Ocean. Relatives decided to write the man- ager of the tour at New York enclos- ing a letter with the news to Mrs. Brown, which she will receive when she arrives in New York several weeks |Mno¢. date At Today's Meeting. Detroit, Feb. 23.—Possibility that | Henry 1Ford might be cndorsed as the | party’s presidential candidate in 1924 —% |overshadowed all other business be- I"eb. — Becaus | |for Michigan democrats when they |z, agreement enteted into last Octo- | Dr. Brown but he never Ashtabula, O, of met in state convention here today. . 2 i i : M Ford was selected by Wayne |DeF betwecn Dr. H. Milton Brown and county democrats to head the delega- tion of 137 in today’'s convention bhut | | | ! few expected the manufacturer wou'ld |ot tery. his wife, when the Jatter started on a FORMER AMBASSADOR 1LL. Philadelphia, Ieb. 23.—Charle- magne Tower, former ambassador to Russia and Germany, who is ill in a hospital here with pneumonia, was in a criticaj condition today. Hartford, Feb, 23.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Fair, colder tonight: Saturday fair and continued cold, north- west winds. to write cach letters—Mrs. round the world only cheerful Birown is unaware that her husband dead and buried. News of the agreement was disclosed by friends ‘lodly. tour appear personally. No statement has been made | | Mr. Ford's close friends, as to his at # 'titude on the poiitical situation. | by |is