New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1923, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1870 SCHWAB WARNS OF TRADE EXPANSION Steel Corp. Leader Sees Danger ol Disastrons Inflation BUSINESS IS PLENTIFUL NOW “We Have Fvery Reason to Feol Happy,” He Says, But Adds That “Our Joh Now is to Keep An Even Keel and Steer Straight.” New York, April 16.—"Indications are that we are entering a period of business expansion, and utmost cau- tion must be exercised to prevent this from developing into a secondary in- flation which would he disastrous,” Charles M, Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corp, declared in a statement today. “RBusiness is plentiful and industry is active throughout the country' he added, “and we have évery reason to feel happy over the sitnation. Must Steer Straight “Qur "job right now is to keeps an even keel and to steer a straight course. Business is on a firm founda- tion but it must be kept there., }con- omic conditions abroad are not as promising as I would have them, but 1 am not at all discouraged over the| outlook and I think progress is being made and will be made for the re- NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1923, ~FOURTEEN PAGES, JLITIES OFFICL%, Bridgeport Mayox Deal If P. U. & Are Company—Wants Senate and House Appraised of | " Conditions. Stamford, April 16.—~Mayor Alfred N. Philllps, in a telegram to Minority Leader Senator Thomas McGrath of ‘Waterbury and Representative J. Walter Madigdn of Stamford, asks that the Connecticut Co. bus accident be brought to the attention of the general assembly. His tclegram for- warded to them at Hartford, Friday, follows: “Terrible accident here. Connecti- cut Co. bus killed two women. Have given Connecticut Co, repeated warn- | ings because of fast driving and over- crowding of these apparently unheed- ed. Although victims lay injured in WILD AUTO DRIVER FACES TWO CHARGES OF MURDER Pittsficld Man Who Killed Two With Car Hurled Through Windshield, Safe. Pittsfield, Mass., April 16,—The three year old son of John P. Gar- Arrested—Baby, ‘%"TH FRATERNIZING WITH %% THE CONNECTICUT Co. % That Public Cannot Get Square Judge Specilies Hard Labor lor Mrs. Miner Claims More Than mainder of the year. son was found virtually uninjured to-| COMMISSIONERS Too Friendly With Trolley road, T am informed local manager of company was notified before ambul- ance was called and driver was taken ito his own home where our took him from bed. ngineer public | utilities commission was guest of lo- | eal Connecticut Co, men at entertain- | ment here last night and appeared at | #cene of accldent. Also Connecticut | Co. inspector. Why not tell senate and house. Ask how the pcople can get a square deal from the utilities commission and prevent such lament- able accldents if members of the utili- | ties commission are fraternizing with officials of the Connccticut Co.” 17 SAILORS RESCUED INFIERCE SNOWSTORM :Thrilling Rescues When Oil | Tanker Goes on Rocks | Off Maine Coast polce | TOLIFEIN PRISON' IS CHARGE OF D. A.R. Rev. Father Dillon 8,000 Seek to Discredit U, 8. A. ARE ASSAILED | ACCUSED PLEADS GUILTY PAGIFISTS i . Retuses Advice of Counsel and De- Al Forms of Bolshevism Also Raked ¥ | clines to Claim Temporary Insanity Members of Which Opened in Washington To- | =Blds Gowdbye to Former Congregation, day. Washington, April 16.—Pacitists and bolshevists were brought under a raking fire today at the opening ses- sion of the annual congress of the D, A. R, Mre, George Maynard Miner of Conneeticut, president general, in the | first address of the session asked American women to link themselves together for a battie against influences now at work to destroy American in- stitutions and sugges tion of the American public schoot ystem presented a fine place to begin ch a crusade Disloyalty In Schools, More than 8,000 teachers in Ameri- can schiools, Mrs. Miner asserted, not only are disloyal to thelr ¢ountry but are using their position o dissemin- ate disloyal the ideals of the American nation. She Kalamazoo, Mich., April 16—y Father Charles Dillon, confessed slay- ar of his superior, Rev, Father Henry O'Neill of . 8t.. Augustine’s Cutholic church, last Thursday, was senterced | to life iImprisonment at hard labor by Judge Welmer in cireuit court this | forenoon, PMeads Guilty The sentence followed a plea of | gullty entered by ather Dillon over the objections of his counsel who ad- [ vised the court he had Ineffectually | tried to persuade the priest to enter the defense of temporary insanity, “He does not intelligently know what he Is doing,” Attorney W. L Fitzgerald informed the court, IFather | Dillon persisted howexer and after a conference in the judge’'s chambers { was brought back into the court and sentenced, Bids Parishioncrs Goodbye A crowd that paecked the couri- room was present when the assistant ganization to see that teachers in their various localities be compelled to con- ed that a por-' doctrines and discredit | called on all the members of her or-/ Average Daily Circulation Week Ending ,2 71 April 14th PRICE THREE CENTS PRIEST SENTENGED DISLOYAL TEACHERS, METHODISTS URGE HUGHES T0 EXERT HIS INFLUENCE FIGHT ON TOBACCO CARRIED INTO 1., Anti-Cigarette League Rep- Subject to Curriculum Panama Manfred “America I8 paying five canals a year for tobacco,” P leher fleld secretary of the Anti- tte League of America, told |pupils of the Seajor High school at assemblies this morning, Mr. Welcher has been in anti- cigarette work among boys and girls for the past 13 years, Last year he delivered his message 200 times in four states and 20 cities and towns. He finds New Britain ready to receive the missionaries of his work, he say: and was especially well pleased with the cordial reception extended him by Superintendent 8, H. Holmes of the school department and by the pupils ot the Higli school. “High school education is not com- plete unless the truth about tobacco is known,” said Mr. Welcher, 52§ tried to get a date with the principal of one of the high schools in this state but T was told that T could not Lave an opening for such a tal that k.| 10 END BOOZE SMUGGLING Bridgeport Conference " Resolution Calls Upon Secretary to Use Office Over Coals At Anmial Convention pegentative Adds New 4 to Stop Foreign Shipl ging in Liquor Conferees Vote to Hold Next Year’s Annual Ses- | sion at St. James’ Church in Brooklyn. '~ Brin 16,—A resolution king Secretary of State Hughes to use his office to “end liquor smugs gling into this country by foreign shipping interests” was introduced at |the New York Ilast conference of { Methodist Episcopal church today. Another Resolution. A resolution strongly condemning [the practice and urging Secretary | Hughes to eliminate “intolcrable eon- ditions” by the employment of such According to Mr., Welcher the reason | precedents 1n‘ international relations |ships as are familiar to him was pre- Bridgeport, April fine themselves to patriotic methods of instruction, Slams Soviets Hard. for suct refusal was the | DA R |sented today by Rev. G. W. Roesch, principal himself smoked and that hf" he would not have any campaign against |- D. of Danbury. The resolution “I have always found the steel in- dustry is a pretty accurate indicator day at the home of Fred Miller in| this city where he had been taken/ pastor of St. Augustine's appeared He accepted the sentence of the court Biddleford, Me., April 16.—In a| of industrial conditions. Bethlehem plants are working almost to capacity and I am sure that the same condi- tions apply to most other steel mills. 1t is rather a good sigh that a good part of this steel is going into new construction work and railroad equip- ment, This indicates business leaders are looking forward in an effort te meet demands that will be made on them for increased production and increased transportation. “If there is one word of advice I would give it would be that we pro- ceed carefully and place our confi- after being hurled through the wind-| plinding snowstorm last night 17 men | shield of an automobile which had struck and killed his father and Miss Mildred Molt. Miller was arrested on a charge of murder. Mrs, Gasson and Daniel Read, who were also hit by the car were at a hospital today where it was stated that the injuries were not dangeyous. The automobile, after ploughing through a group waiting to hoard a trolley car a mile and a half from the center of the city, speeded away. What became of the baby boy was not known until the police had traced {were taken from the oil tanker An-| lahuac when she ran aground at KFor- {tune's Rocks. This morning she was | resting easily on a sandy bottom and | it was belleved by the coast guard that ! {she could be saved. | { Captain F. E, lahuac and his crew were rescued by |the coast guardsmen of the Fletcher's Neck station. The tanker was bound for Ilast Braintree, Mass, after dis- charging a cargo of oil at Bangor. The coast guard cutter Ossipee came here from Portland today to make an Stewart of the An-| ith seeming indifference. Turning to members of his former congregation in the courtroom he bade them a ‘‘goodby: and turning to the sherif declared “I am ready to go.” He wil be taken to Marquette to begin his sentence sometime today. Thousands of the late Iather O'Neill’s parishioners attended funer- al services for him today. In the presence of more than 100 visiting priests the Right Rev. Michael = J. Gallagher, bishop of Detroit celebrat- ed the pontifical requiem high mass. The execution of Vicar Gen. Butch- kavitch in Russia, the speaker said, was only the ouvtward manifestation of a governmental policy which de- nies the home, the country and God. As an evidence that all is not well with the administration of justice in the United States, she instanced the trial of William Z. Foster ¢n Michi- | gan and the failure to secure convic- tions in the Herrin mine tions. t is time to awaken to this dan |ger,” she said, “and so tell all radi- cal agitators that there is no room in prosecu- tobacco in his school. “The students of that school were robbed of their -ation,,” the speaker added. We are not carrving on a ed fight against cigaretes only, for cigarettes | take up a forth of the total amount. We are fighting tobacco,” he said. ‘GAN DANCE THEMSELVES T0 DEATH IF THEY WISH |was not discussed, but took the usual |course and will be referred with oth- ler resolutions of the conference to the general conference of the Metho« | dist Episcopal church. | Wesley Foundation Plan. | In addition to the action on the liguor smuggling, today's session was taken up with consideration of au proposal to establish a Wesley foun- | dation fund for Princeton and to | consideration of the activities of the Ladies' Aid society of the M. E. | church. A resolution by S. L. Hamilfon of dence in the integrity and good judg- Chicago Authorities Not to Ban E ment of American businessmen.” WUTINY, NOT PIRACY, IN RUN SHP HYSTERY Revenue. Officers = Believe "Vessel Was Abandoned hy Discouraged Crew |the metropolitan district of the anti- |saloon league of New York city ask- ing for the appointment of a coms mittee of the New York East confers Chicago, April 16.—Endurance or|ence to confer with similar commit- marathon dancers may dance here |tees of the New York West, New this country for the red Broadside at Pacifists The pacifists, Mrs. Miner said ing a car with a broken windshield as|efrort to float her. belonging to Miller. | Captain Stewart said that in the The police satd that Miller admit-|thick snowstorm it was impossible to ted that he was driving the car at|see the lighthouses along the coast. the time of the accident but said he The coast guard station from which could not avoid it because the gears the rockets sent up by the tanker| of the car were not acting properly.|could not be seen, sent out a boat| He told them the child had been|when warning blasts were heard from “F $l“,["]" F"RFEITED The president general withheld her |until they drop without interference [and New Jersey conferences on the ;: thrown through the windshield and|the whistle of the Anahuac. Little - ;“pm_"“ il s l"m'lro‘l”“"l‘l(-ll ‘;’fi!,,mm the police, Commenting on the | Wesley foundation project was adopt=: " landed In his lap. Miller is an elec- |difficulty was experienced in effecting | RSl e 5 o T . |thought might make toward destruc-|announcement of a vhamvwnshw;“d; trlc):‘l"::rpl‘li::-dm e la rescue, 'U. 8. Coutt Learns That 1 {tion of the American home but she|contest for Chicago Herman Bunde-| The conference voted toqhold the ot it ness Did Not Prevent | " | ¢ : |next annual session at James suggested that the modern tendencies ' sen, health commissioner said: {% triet court today to a charge of mur-| | whinh are affecting the life of . Am. “Chicago health authorities will not |church, Brooklyn. ‘ der. The @Rse was eantinued for u His Appem'ance ; } bdedn girs arve 105 dangerous thas | nferfere with auy one who ‘wishes! e weel and the defendant was held | girls are ldss dangerous thas | Inter iy withotit ba. |5 et st safi P owevet. iho, beklth 6o {WOUNDED 20 TIMES, ALSO SCHLEIFER CASE THRCWH T OF UPERIOR GOURT\‘ | 2} lff‘l'iel\’-""slu- said “that thf givls | _Hor':\';; ::;‘édh"s::l-‘» (;?;’:ll:;lm:tne; yl]EMflBRATS MAY HELP OU _S___,_ | Washington, April “16.—Bond for Of today are just as good we “»Url,::‘.:t ;f h(:“hrm ety }’ GRIPPLED, BEGOMES ARTIST T0 ELECT PAJEWSKI/ | $10,000 furnished by Harry 1Y, Morse|When we were of their age !time three times a week as about the | not piracy was the theory advanced | | durance Tests But Boston Pro- | are “trying to disarm America and kill | hibits These Marathons. | patriotism in the hearts of her de-| tenders.” 'I:ur she declared that was a vain dream. | | | | {after his indictment with his father, | Charles W, Mor: and others on |charges of war-time shipping grauds, | was ordered forfeited by the District| | of Columbia supreme court today be- | New Haven, April 16,—The case cause of the continued failure of the against Frnest Schleifer, charged [Younger Morse to appear for trial. with inciting to acts of violence and| At the same time the court issued a felonies striking shopmen of the New | bench warrant for young Morse's ar-| Judge Wedd Upholds Demurrer Filed Boston, April 16.-—Mayer Curley to-iurmsh Veterans Overcomes Crushing day reiterated that he would not per-| SALE OF STOLEN GEMS FINANCED DARING BREAK?[’T;(’);:;S"‘M“ dancing contests in | DRIVE AT TRUGKERS e | | | today by federal officials who are! | by Defense in Famous Railroad seeking to solve the mystery of the; Disablement and Now Has Pic- abandoned rum runner Patricia M. | I3ehan, which was picked up yester- | day at the entrance of Great South . 7 | bay by the coast guard cutter .\(an-"Runlol HSS It They " l"‘ Strike Case ture in Academy Show. Money ¥From Mrs, Schoelkopl's Jewel London, April 16.—Crippled by 20 Pald For Last Week's Sensational hattan. The vessel's sails were set, | her anchor was dragging and there| was no sign of the crew which prob-“ ably numbered ten. The deck was littered with empty‘ cartridge shells and bullet holes were located in various parts of the ship. At the first the theory was put for- ward that pirates had overcome the crew, but as the investigation ad- vanced this supposition was eliminat- ed. One official expressed the opin- ion that a mutiny had been carefully staged so that the vessel might Iater| be salvaged. Edward Barnes, assistant sollcflor} of the collector of the port's office, | said he believed that the crew had‘1 become discouraged by the hardships | of rum running and abandoned the craft. The boat apparently was at one time a Nova Scotia trading schooner, but had changed hands sev- eral times, and her real identity §s in doubt. Entries made on a torn leat from a notebook indicated the boat had been engaged in rum running since last January hetween Bridge- port, Conn., and Keyport, N, J, STEAMER IN COLLISION Penobscot Crashes With Schooner Off Virginia During Night—No Lives Are Tost. | Norfolk, Va., April 16.—~The steam- er Penobscot and the schooner Dustin G. Cressy collided off Assateague, about five miles southeast of Black- fish Banks late last night according to a wireless report at the coast guard office here at midnight. The coast guard cutter Manning was dispatched to the scene and the coast guard stations at Assateague, Wallops and Mentomkin were notified to render whatever assistance they could. Reports indicated that the steamer was not serfously crippled. Informa- tion on the condition of the schooner was not available, The Penobscot left Norfolk yesterday morning for New England. The Cressy was enroute from Georgetown, S, C,, to New York. Three Candidates Spent Nothing During Campaign Statements of campaign expenses in the recent election have been filed to- day at the town clerk’s office as fol- lows: Arthur G. Crusberg, success{ul candidate for councllman in the sec- ond ward, running on the republican ticket, no expenses; Matthew W. Hal- ioran, unsuccessful candidate for councilman in the second ward, run- ning on thie democratic ticket, no ex- venses; Prospero Francolino, unsuc- cessful candidate for counellman in the sixth ward, running on the repub- lican ticket, no expenses. Support Him for Presi- | [5one 8 e missed in su- | dent Pro Tem, Republican headquarters will be the scene of a lively session tonight at 7:30 o'clock when the G. O. P. repre- sentation in the common council meets to select, among other officers, a president pro tem, of the common council. Predictions are being freely made today that the caucus will re- sult in a split that may result in a final threshing out of the dissatisfac- tion on the floor of the common council next Wednesday night. Alderman-elect C. J. Qehm of t first ward and Alderman Peter J. F jewski of the fifth ward are the can- didates. ‘There appears to be no question that Dehm will be the one for whom a majority of the votes will be cast, while Pajewski will be the he personal cholce of a minority of the : expressions made by him and such in- | That the taking of lhl:‘ | republicans. ballot will attended by interesting ac- tivities is assured, while there are some who claim that, should Pajew- ski's caucus strength warrant it, there will be not one, but two nominations brought before the council and the democratic strength will be relied upon to elect the fifth warder. Corporation Counsel J. H. Kirkham, Prosecutor J. G. Woods and Assistant Prosecutor W, M. Greenstein will not be opposed for re-election, it is under- stood. Democratic members of the council will also caucus tonight. It is ex- pected that Alderman 1. T. Conlon will head the onc committee chair- manship that wil! be turned over to the Jeffersonians. BOTH SHOULD OBEY LAW- mmission Recommends That Jitneurs and Trolley Ought to Observe Rogulations. Hartford, April 16.—A suggestion that trolley motormen and jitney bus drivers obey the state law with re- spect to right of way at street inter- sections and a report dividing re- sponsibility Letween the motorman and jitneur, is the result of the public utilities commission investigation of a street car-fitney aceldent in Bridge- port on March 9 when 18 persons wero injured. The suggestion and finding are made in a report of Chief BEngineer E. Irvine Rudd of the public utilities commission toda DEMING TO ADDRESS LIONS, Robert C. Deming, state director of Americanization, will speak 4t the regular. meeting of the New Britain Lions' club at the Flks' club tomor- row at 12:15 o'clock. He will speak on “Past, Present and Future Pa- Motormen | perior court today when Jugdge James | | P. Webh upheld a portion of the (IP-‘ murrer to the complaint filed by coun- | | sel for the accused. | The court sustains the fist, second, | | eighth and ninth paragraphs of the | | demurrer. | | These paragraphs are: | | That said information is sufficient | |in law | That said information fails to set | orth any offense or crime, That said information merely | charges the defendant with having | uttered certain words set forth in said ilnforma(inn and such utterances do | not constitute a crime by virtue of | any statute of this state or at common | Ilaw, | | ‘That satd information merely states | that the defendant entertained cer- ! tain intentions as evidenced by certain tentions do not either at common law | or by virtue of any statute constitute | erime, : The concluding paragraph the decision says: | | “The motion to quash is sustained | and the information set aside and dis- | missed. | What further action will”be taken {In the case is as yet unknown. Schlei [fer is still under bonds from the city court on the charges preferred there. He had not been brought to trial in the superior court but the case was to | have been called tomorrow in the lat ter court, The text of Judge Webb | decision was given to State’s Attorney | Alling this afternoon. of MURDERER A SUICIDE | { an Alstyne, Slayer of Marfan Mac- | Laven, Hangs Himsclf Tombs in This Moring. | | New York,sApril 16.-—Harold Van | | Alstyne, an acrobat, who last nuary |shot his sweetheart, Miss Marian Mac- {Laren of Philadelphia, a vaudevillan | committed suicide in the Tombs thia| morning by strangling himself with {his belt, after breakfast, | Judge Mulqueen in general gessions | Hast Friday, sentenced Van Alstyne to from 20 years to life imprisonment | after he had pleaded guilty to mur- der in the second degree. A lunacy commission had declared him sane. Motorist Who Killed 3 Gets 6 to 10 Years Philadelphia, April 16.—Henry G. Brock, banker and club man was to- day sentenced to from six to ten years in the castern state penitentiary for killing three persons with his automo- bile, | |clared | use all its power to expedite action. Japanese Children, rest and court attaches were ordered | to serve it at New London, Conn.,! where his attorneys said he had heen| detained by illnes The action was taken after a board of medical ex.| Part of the $300,000 worth of jewelis aminers appointed by the court had|Stolen from Mrs, C. P. Hugo Schoel- reported that his condition did not|KOPf last New Year's eve members prevent him comi to Washington. New London, April Morse was too weak to answe telephone this afternoon, his stated, when information of his con- dition was sought. His local physi- cian had just left him and he was d¢ to be in an exhausted condi- tion. He declined to comment on for feiture of his bond and the order for s arrest at Wasl gton today Trial of the c in which a num- ber of men prominent in Washington | official life are expected to testify ¢ ready has been postponed half dozen times on account of Mo \liness. Government counsel repeated- Iy have protested and it was indicated today that the court was prepared to | Escape From Mattewan New York, April 16.—By selling at |tacular escape of four criminals Fhk Mattewan Insane hospital last |the police disclased today. | Matthew Biddulph, one of the |gang alleged to have staged the | Schoelkopf robbery, called detectives to his cell at the Tombs where he awaits sentence to tell about police id. Marquis Curtis was one of the quar Mattewan inmates who over | powered several guards and kidnap- ped three of them, to be recaptured _|in Connecticut after a battle in which o/ tWO of the fugitives were wounded, Detectives learned that Curtis and lugene Moran, a fugitive in the hoelkopf rob were pals until Curtis was sentenced to the hospital as criminally insane, According to Biddulph when Cur- tis was arrested and threatened with being sent to Sing Sing for life as an habitual criminal Moran Biddulph and the other participants in the robhery that they would have to give a percentage of eir share of the loot to finance Curtis' rescue. Dwight C. Farnum Left Estate to His Niece Here Dwight . Tarnham who died in the IMiteh Home for Soldie ton, left all his properties to niece, Adella Phelps Baker. was filed in probate court toda the valet 16.—Harry tet of Ranging Irom 3 to 17, Dic in “lission Flre Sacra- mento, California. Nine from Sacramento, Cal, April 16 Japanese children ranging in s 5 to 17 years were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a Japanese mbs- slon school carly today. There were 24 children in the building but most of them escaped beforo the flames| The will Henry Ienski, also were under filed today, directs that the life u. Six bodies were and income his shall b the top floor when firemen given his wife, Amelia, and upon h their way through thg flames, | death $500 shall go to a son, , The fire unknown origin, had|the remainder to be divided equa almost completely enveloped the among the children building before the firemen arrived The structure was threc storics high and burned like tine his of estate found in a room on fought 1 of 1y Miss Robertson Is Named As Vets’ Welfare Worker Washington, April 16.—An execu- tive order permitting the appointment of Miss Alice Itobertson, former rep- resentative from Oklahoma as a wel tare worker in the voterans bureau, signed today by President Hard- 16 (By the Associated Minister von the Rejehstag this ed the battle now in £ banks of the Rhine Jand the Ruhr was not one for coal or wood but a fight which would de- termine whether the ideas of land peace would progress or ground. The foreign minister ap- | | proval of the suggestion of Secretary THE WEATHER lof State Hughes that the reparation g ‘ problem be referred to a body of au- thoritative experts, The German gov had tried in var ways to get the { | reparation question ofit of the que | | mire in which this problem together % | with ajl Burope was threatencd with April reign berg, addressing ternoon de OgT on the in, lose voiced e Hartford, April 16.—<Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight. Tuesday fair and warmer, fresh westerly winds, rnment he said, |of the underworld financed the spec-| it, the | informed | at Noro- | The will! Rosen- | right | wich When 14 Are Arrested for “.\m(:-whlo Campaign Opens in Green- J Overloading Vehicles, Greenwich, April 16.—A statz cru sade against use of overladen trucks on the state highways was evident today when 14 truck drivers were before Judge James R. Mead on charges preferred by state officers. | Fines of $25 and $50 and costs were imposed. One truck weighed 25,200 pounds when detained but when the truck and its load was weighed to- day the total was under 25,000 pounds nd no explanation could bes given by John Carroll of Waterbury, the driver, for the discrepancy. FORD OFFICIAL ARRESTED Arraigned With Windsor, Ont.. Bank- er on Charge of Conspiring to Cover $30.000 Bank Shortage. . Ont, April 16.—Rdward manager of the Ont., branch of the Bank of Mon- treal, and Willlam E. Discher, pur- “hasing agent of the Ford Motor Co., | limited, of Capada were to be ar- raigned here today on a charge of conspiracy to cover a shortage of $30, 000 in the Iord Company's account with the bank. The men were arrested Saturday and are at liberty under bonds of $30,- 000 each, Investigation of cies in the bank's funds led to the arrests. According to bank officials 7 attempt had been made to cover $30,000 over-draft made by Discher. Rank officials charge the two men had been speculating on the stock ' market., Windsor, | J. Colquhoun, alleged discrepan- 'GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER FAVORS HUGHES’ IDEA ABOUT REPARATIONS fast, Secretary Hughes' Haven in December, Baron Rosenberg reiterated the (statements he recently made before e foreign relations committee of the | Iteichstag In the German government's opin- fon, he said, an international com- ! mittee of experts such as Mr. Hughes | had suggested should determine first {what Germany has done so far on | reparations; second what could and |should Germany do regarding them |in the future, and, third, in what way could she do what was expected of her in the future, Germany and the entente, he added, would be repre- ed on such a commission with cqual rights, becoming stuck Referring to proposal at New von Ford, | |hat, yet he makes etchings and water |colors of such fine quality that one (hag been entered for this year's |academy show, Mr. Hawkins has just sufficient | strength in his left hand to hold the brush and he has to support it with |his right hand while painting. As both wrists are rigid he guides the brush or pencil by swaying his body {above the hips. | Twenty times, since Mr. Hawkins |was wounded he has undergone oper- |ations. Both elbow joints were cut {out and the muscle of the left arm |is gone at the elbow. The right hand |is quite dead. For three months his |arms were strapped to a bar above |his head and tubes were inserted in his arms and body to carry off the |sceptic poison. It was while in this condition that | Mr. Hawkins began his struggle to be an artist. He painted with the brush held in his mouth and turned out six pictures in the hospital. AUTO ACGIDENT FATAL New London Woman Dies at Hospital This Morning Two Hours After Be- ing Run Down by Car. New London, April 16.—Vrs, Elean wife of lLeo W, Brogan, ant purchasing agent for the ew London Ship and Engine Co,, rly today at the Lawrence and | Memorial Assoclated hospital, two hours after she had been mortally in- jured when struck by an automobils operated by Milton Card, 19, of Gro- ton, near the ship and engine com. pany plant She died of a fractured skull with« out regaining consciousness. Card, who is subject to heart trouble, ed after the accident and Thas since revived. His condition is garded as serious | B IN dicd Ventn IV . Grain Futures Trading Act Is Constitutional Washington, April The grain futures trading act was declared valid constitutional today by the su« eme court 1t was the second time the court |had passed on validity of a grain fu« |ture trading law, a previous statute |based on the taxing power of tha |federal government having been held unconstitutional. The law upheld to- lday was based on the right to eontrol | Interstate commerce. 7,075,662 PROFIT New York, April 16.—The 1922 re« port of the Atlantic Refining Co. mada | public today showed a net profit of 87,075,662 as against a net loss of $3,740,261 in 1921,