New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1923, Page 1

. vance News of the World By Associated Press OBREGON WOULD REFUSE T 0 ACCEPT MEDIATION OFFERS; REBEL ADVA Does Not Want U. S. To Make Proposals As That Would Im- ply Recognition of Insurgents’ Belliger- ency. Dispatches From Front In- dicate That Federals Are Temporarily Victorious in Crucial Battle of Rebel- lion. By The Assoclated Press. Mexico City, Dec. Colunga,secretary of the interior, de- nying reports that Washington had offered to mediate with those rebell- ing against the Obregon government said “Mexico has not officially re ceived the proposition which beest rejected as it would imply gnition the rebels’ beiliger- have rece of ency Federals Victorious The rebel advance against Mexzico City from Vera Cruz has apparently been checked, for the moment at Jeast, near San Marcos, 85 miles east of the capital, where a Mexico City dispatch says the fate of the re- bellion is being decided. Revolutionary headquarters in Vera Cruz claim the federals have with- drawn toward the capital, but this is not borne out by newspaper corres- pendents on the scene, who report that the situation has remained stationary sinee Tuesday's fighting, with the ad- guards of the opposing forces in contact near San Marcos, President Obregon, in a message to the Associated Press, brands the bels’ claim as false and says he has reason 1o believe that peace will be restored very quickly. A federal thrust from the south in an effort to cut the rallway line be- tween Vers Cruz and the rebel armies i» reported in a movement by General Juan Dominguez over the rallway from Ranta Lucrecia, with Cordoba and Orizaba a8 his objeeibies In the western area the Mesxican war department says the operations against Guadalujara, the rebel strong- hold, are “developing tormally.” 200 Reported Killed Mexico City, Mex, Dee. 19.—(De- layed, by the Associated Press) Rebels attacking Villa Hermosa, cap- ftal of the state of Tabasco, have been defeaton after a 36 hour battle with the loss of 200 killed and more than that number wounded, according to an official bulletin issued by the war deportment, The defending federals under Gen- era! Vincente Gonzalez, military com- mander in Tobasco, fought gallantly and suffered 30 casualties, according to his report. The rebels fled, leaving their dead and wounded and large quantities of war material General Eugento Martinez, com- manding a military column, marching upon Vera Cruz, reports no further developments during the day, accord- ing to the war department communi- General Martinez is sending to quie Mexico City 56 prisoners taken during | skirmishing about San Marcos." Military operations against Guada- lajara are developing formally,” con- eludes the war department statement. Judging from the previous derth of official and unofficlal statements it was thought military operations against Vera Cruz, Puebla and Gaud- alajara were entering a quiescent pe- riod, although reports of negotlations in an attempt to reconclle the war- ring elements as well as reports of preparations for a general advance econtinued in circulation. Fighting Resumed News despatcfes from Apizaco, 8¢ miles from here, state has been resumed on the outskirts of Puebla and Esperanza, while Tehua- can has been evacuated by the forces| under General Fortunato Maycotte and occupled by a federal column. Puebla is 63 miles southeast of Mexi- co City. UNPLEASANT HONEYMOON sStamford Girl Falls From Wheel and Is Trampled by Horse While On Trip to Bermuda. New York, Dec. 20.—~Her honey- moon in Bermuda cut short by a fall from a bicycle under the team of galloping horses, Mrs. W. H Dippel of Stamford, Conn. was taken from the Arcadian today and rushed to a hospital for an operatigh to re- numerous scars from her face. Dippels were married at Whee Va Lone Bandit Robs Four move The ing W On Train Near Milwaukee Dee. 20, A bandit Ploneer Limited, crack Chicago, Milwankee and robbed four passen Milwaukee aboard the train of the St Paul railroad, gers of $579, as it city last night. While three passen- gers and a fag were seated in the smoking com rear car, the masked ared, flonrishing four raen hind the handit aropped ofi. o the thedr the car and ked out of money 20.—Enrique | would | that fighting hoofs of a s nearing this| NEW BRITAIN H NCE IS HALTED ADVERSE REPORT ON FARLEY IS ORDERED Commerce Committee Will Oppose Him as Shipping Board Chairman Washington, Dec. 20.~~The nomina- | tion of Edward P. Farley as chairman | of the shipping board will be report- ,ed adversely to the senate under a decision today by the commerce committee, The committee’'s action was based entirely, members said, upon provi- | sions of the law which allot only one member of, the board to states touch- |ing on the Great Lakes. Mr, Farley 1s from Chicago, and the Lakes sec- | tion already is represented by Com- missioner T. V. O'Connor, of Buf- falgs y its action the committee over- {ruled President Coolidge’s contention that senate confirmation of A. D.| Lasker of Chicago as board chairman | in 1921 constituted a precedéht for | similar approval of the Farley nom- ination. At the time of Mr. Lasker's | omination ulso there was another member sitting on the board from the | Lake states. Mr. Farley now recess appointment Harding. The vote in the committee agalinst Mr. Farley was said by members to be unanimous. Senator Harrison of Mississippl, announced he would ask that the nomination be considered in open session when it was brought be- fore the senate, Favorable reports were drdercd by the committee on the nominations of ¥rederick 1. Thompson of Alabama and Bert Haney of Oregon, re- appointed as members of the board. is serving under a by President SOME THIRD PARTY MEN STILL DEMANDING FORD Including Democrats Think His But Majority, and Republicans, Candidacy is Settled By The Assoclated Pross, Detroit, Mich, Dee. 20.—Henry Ford's statoment announcing that he will notgoppose Prestdent Coolidge, “on ullbflrl\l'! whatever,” still was rebounding in Michigan political elr- cles today. Republicans, headed by Governor Groesbeck and Burt D. Cady, chalr- man of the republican state central committee, were exuberant, and dem- ocrats, including A. R. Canfield, sec- retary of the state central committee, James W. Helme, who filed Ford petitions and Edward Trensdorf, dem- acratic “"wheelhorse,” tempered dis- | appointed with relief at the clarafica- tion of the political atmosphere, | The coterle of third party sponsors | in some cases were finclined to go ahead with its plans despite Mr, Ford's statement, while others indi- cated that the Ford statement settled | it | Reverend Willlam Dawe, of Dear- born, where Mr. Ford lives, president of the original Ford-for-President club, has taken the latter view. He belleves the club now has nothing to do but wind up its affairs. Robert R. Pointer, neighbor and friend of the automobile manufactu | er, sald third party plans would go on, despite Ford's announcement. “Mr. Ford will live to change his mind in regard to supporting Cool- idge,” he said. TUCKERS T0 RETURN 17-Year-Old Husband WBringing Ma- ture Wife Back To Jorsey City Where They Will Stand Trial 'NEWARI( P[lLIIJE GET |a car in New Haven in order to trave! | arrested last night. ESCAPED FUGITIVES | | | Joseph Dioune and Alexander Mrs. Augusta Anderson in Hos-|Secret Consistory Today Attended Rnusewicz Caught in New Jersey| GOT AWAY IN STOLEN CARS| e e WllMAN 5 HURLEI] THRU WINDSHIELD pital in Seriods Condition AUTOMOBILE HITS TREE. .-)23 —EIGHTEEN PAGES. UI{EATES ™ | ITALIAN CARDINALY P by Digaly and Splendor~ pINN DISAGREES WITH ISSUES PAPAL ALLOGUTION' KIRKHAM'S OPINION Tip Sent by New Britain Aullmrlues‘llusbmd Attempts To Avoid Collision | | Pius XI Points Out That (.omlmmm Results in Arrest of Men Wanted Tor Flight From Greenficld and | Cheshire Tnstitutions, | Through the efforts of the New Britain police department, Joseph Dionne, alias Frank Moran, who is| wanted here for the theft of an au. | New Britain general hospital with a |secret consistory today created tomobile and at Greenfield, Mass., for | escaping from jall, and Alexander Anusewicz, alias Albert Cook of New- ington, who is on parole from the Cheshire reformatory, have been ar- rested in Newark, N. J., and are be- ing held there as fugitives. Word to this effect was received by Chief Wil- liam C. Hart this morning, Chief Hart has notified the Green- field and Cheshire alithorities and has wired Chief Michael T. Long of Newark to hold both men as the fed- | eral authoritics at Greenfield and the | Cheshire authorities have sworn out warrants for both and extradition proceedings are now in process. Al- though Dionne is wanted in N Britain for the theft of an automo- bile he will not be hrought here until | he has served his sentence at the | Greenfield jail to which he was sen-| tenced by the federal court at Boston | in June. | Quartet Arrested In June | Dionne, Bruno Poplarski, alias Bruno Blask; Ignatz Kowalski, alias| Frank Kulis and Joseph Kowalski, | alias Joseph Grabeck, were arrested in Springfield, Mass.,, in June by the federal authorities on a charge of vielating the Dyer act by transporting a stolen car from one state to an- other, The arrest was made by the fed- eral authorities after the local police had located the men in Springfield. At the time of the arrest a number of guns and bullets were found in the car, The ‘men were taken to Boston and tried before a federal court, Joseph Kowalskl and Bruno Poplarski were discharged while Ignatz Kowalskl and Dionne were sentenced to one year and a day et the Greenfield jall, Both escaped from that institution in Aug- ust. Escaped In Stolen Car After they had made their escapes the two youths stole a car in Green- field, it is alleged, and brought it to Hartford where they took anothaer car halouging to the Colonsl Anto | Co. of Hartford. Deteective Rergeant William P. MeCue and Hergeant Michael Flynn récovered tho former car and Sergeant Flynn caused the arrest of Kowalski for the theft of | the Hartford ecar. Dionne magaged ' to escape again but Kowalski was re- | turned to Greenfield, Sergeant MeCue and members of the detective bureau have been on the lookout for Dionne since his escape, Recently Sergeant MeCue learned that Dionne, alla#® Frank Moran, was in Newark with Anusewicz, who e on parole from the Cheshire reforma- tory. Tt is alleged that the two stole to New Jersey. Chief Hart ecom- municated with the Newark officials with the result that the youths were | It is belleved that a charge of aid ing and abetting a federal prisoner to escape will be preferred against Anusewlcz when he is brought back to L‘onmctlcut KILL KIDDIES' 0y Childhood Experts Would Have ¥ ers Permit Children Believe There is a Santa Claus, Chicago, Dee. 20. — The greatest | stumbling block in the child's path 1o a true and reasonable belief In Santa Claus is the fact that grown- ups cannot be content to leave Santa in the reaim of fairies and other un- | scen playmates of children, the fac- ulty of the National Kindergarten ! would not be a candidate, to |and Elementary College here, advises. | Jersey City, N. J,, Dee. 20—Mr. and Mrs. Burton 8. Tucker, indicted for perjury in connection with their marriage here October 2, are expect- | jed back Saturday night, Assistant Prosecutor McMahon announced to- ay. He added his latest ln!or‘m‘-] tion was that they were still in south~i ern Pines, N. C. They will not be ar- raigned until after the Christmas holi- MeMahon said he had no desire to severely prosecute Tucker, aged 17, but he would press the case against Mrs, Tucker, whose age has been | placed at 51. George H. Grebe, registrar of vital tatistics at Union Hil, and John Muller, former justice of the peace | | aiso indicted for perjury and conspir- acy today were released in bonds of $7500 cach. No date for trial was, wet. John a fifth defefdant, found MeGinness of Gloucester, has not yet been | ENGLAND'S EXPERTS orman, Stamp and Mckenna Will { Represent Great Britain in Repara- | | tions Examination. 20.—The British mem 'ters of the expert mittees which | are to examine Gerflany's financial | sitnation under the auspices of the reparation commission, # was learn- «d today, be Vontagu Norman, | governor of the Bank of England; sir Josiah Stamp. nomic and sta tastical anthority and Reginald Me- Kenna, former chanceflor of the ex Paris, Dec. | hequer. These experts in childhood educa- tion say emphatically that there is a Santa Claus, but because parents must drag him forth, stuff him with | pillows, trick him out with a grotes- que false face and a shabby red suit | with cotton fur, Santa, as the child- | like incarnation of the spirit of joy- ous giving, Is in grave danger of be- coming the spirit of getting rather | than the spirit of giving. o S Nanette’s Romantic Tale A Lie, She Is Taken Home New York, Dec. 20.—The romantic story of “Nannelte Prevost,” who said she came from Denver to find work in New York, where she fainted from hunger, finally collapsed today, when she was positively identified as Viola Porter of Trenton, N. J.. and taken home by agents for the state board of charities. | STORES OPEN |ing into the driveway of | year, In his 80th year. |safes in the office of the Charles ‘With Another Car on Burritt Street —Police Called To Investigate, | | Make No Arrest, | Mrs. Augusta Anderson of (rgoorl' }avenue is in a serious condition at the | fractured leg, numerous lacerations | about the face and head and contu- | sions of the arms asthe resultof be- ing thrown through the windshield of an automobile which her husband was driving when it crashed into a tree on Burritt street shortly before 1 o'clock this afternoon. She was rushed to the hiospital soon after thegaccident and was attended by Dr George Dunn who reports that her condition is serlous. The acci- dent is alleged to have occurred when |a resident of Burritt street was turn- his home. According to the police the driver of the first car had signalled that he was to turn in but Anderson did not have time to stop and in order to avoid striking the other car drove his machine towards the curb with the result that it crashed into a large tree, the windshield and he was badly cut | by flying pleces of glass. Policemen Michael Meehan and Herbert Lyon went to the scene of the accident and there found the front of a car badly damaged, The radiator was smashed, lights broken, axle bent and mud guards crushed. After an in- vestigation they reported that they found no cause for arrest. VETERAN CLERK DEAD, LEFT MIXED ACCOUNTS $2,100 Discrepancy Figures of Board of Control Official Who Died in November Hartford, Dec, 20.-—~The session of the state board of eontrol today was considerably prolonged by the con- | sideration of the discovery of a dis- crepancy in the accounts of the late Samuel J. Marsh, clerk of the su- perlor court of Waterbury, and amounting to about $2,400, Mr. Marsh died: November 17 of thiy He had been clerk of the court for 20 years, The discrepancy extended over a perfod of nearly 20 years and consisted of small ftems, Mr. Marsh left an estate of | about $60,000 it is understood, and in the discusison of the matter today | it was made clear to the members of | the board that the state will be re. imbursed in full for the amount of the discrepancy. | Mr. Marsh had a wide eircle of | acquaintances throughout the state, | particularly in New Haven county IS 0UT OF POLITICS Any “Dark Horse” Tor Republl- can Nomination. | 8t. Louis, Dee, 20U, 8. Circuit Judge Kenyon former Sepator from lowa today commenting on reports | that certain republicans were consid- | ering him as a “dark horse” for the | presidential nomination asserted he | “All T want is to be let alone,” he said. “I am out of politics.” Judge Kenyon was leader of farm bloc while in the Senate 'Buffalo Je\\ elrv Robbed Of Gems Worth $25,000 Buffalo, N. Y., Dee, 20.—Gems val- uved at $25,000 were obtained by yeggs today blew open two huz the | | | Damm Jewefry Manufacturing '-:mh'| lishment at Main and Tupper streets The wails of the office and factory were cracked by the blast BAD Il\ll Rll Bethseda, Ohlo, T Eight or ten persons were reported injured, two seriously, when a Baltimore & | Ohlo passenger train bound from “ RECK | Wheeling to Chicago split a switch in front of the station here, turning over one day coach and damaging the front end of the station. * THE WEATHER o Hartford, Dec. 20.—~Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Unsettled, probably oceasional rains tonight and Friday: warmer tomight; southwest winds — TONIGHT UNTIL 9 In order to serve the public New Britain stores have arranged to keep their places of business open tonight, Friday and Saturday evenings until 9 o'clock. They will also be open Monday night until 9. For the benefit of you shop early in the day if you can. will be served. rself and the storckeeps-n, If you cannot, you | trom Washington by His wife was thrown through | | ent knelt until the pontiff, with a ges- | blom. When this part of the ritual was | Providence | delivered his allocution at the end of |six | West | his own |One Dead, One Overcome 5 Furope Have Not Changed mnPO]Ice Board Ma\' Ignone Ruling on Age of Patrolmen ! The Better Since His FLast Cfln-‘ sistory—Hopes For Future, ed Press. | 20,—Pope [ By The Assor | Rome, Dec. Pius XI at n( two | Italian cardinals. They are Evariste Lucidi, papal auditor, and \lm\hignor\ Aurelio Galli, director- general of the | Vatican museum. Today’s function was held in the Consistorial hall of the Vatican amid all the dignity and splendor that characterize one of the most solemn functions of the church. The pagean- try began an hour before the stated time when throngs of artisans and workmen lined the two old pupal roads, the Borgo Vecchio and Dorgo Nuovo, leading to the Vatican, to watch the eardinals resident in Rome drive to the Apostolic Palace for their part i the creation of princes| oo ) |of the church. Tt ended some time| "\ T | 1ater in the ancie hall when the(, " i to d lof the two new eardinals the rings of their high office, retired in state to | his private apartments the | congratulations of Indications were numerous today |flml the board of police commissioners would ignore the opinion of Corpor: tion Counsel John H. Kirkham given to the common council on the author- ity of the board to appoint policemen who are more than 35 years old “The opinion is ineorreet,” said hairman David 1. Dunn, of the po- lice commission. “After all, it is only an opinion, it isn't a law.” The dispute between the {®ouncil and the police commission hinges on whether the latter body has authority to appoint to the regular force men past 35, the age limit set by the council. Three men who have passed their 35th birthday huve been common the police board t fINKETS | o statement by Chairm interpreted g tha will be taken to dismiss the the corporation counsel been nppohnr illegally ALGORN RECEIVES MANY GOMPLAINTS ON DOCTORS | People Complaining of Treatment by Medicoes Bring Their Cases ne AS mean men who. leaving have prelates to the rules, their colleagues. Swiss Guards on Duty When the members of the Sacred college arrived at the Vatican they found the Swiss guard, in full dress uniforms and equipped with breast- plates and helmets, drawn up in the | court of St. Damasus to receive them. From the court, the cardinals ascend- ed directly to the Consistorial hall, | there to await the arrival of the pope, | L Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelll, the venerable dean of the Sacred college, greeted his brothers and divided them into three groups—the cardinal bishops, the cardinal priests and the to His Attention. Hartford, Dec. 20.—~Muny complaining of treatment physiclans whose names have been b 0 v cardint | deacons, Other Vatican offi- rought Info the grand jury probe of alle, v - clals were also present, 5o that the |as o, LoFus medical coliegs diplo ot Hotpars B oy o a n communicating with the state attorney’s office, it was gorgeous drapings, presented an anl-|y.00q today. The charges are mated scene. \!fl\’filll(a!"d.. Sistine Choir Appears | Benedict M. Holden, foreman of Suddenly a door was thrown open | the grand jury and Edward Hickey, and, a distant chant was heard, grad-|eounty detective, have been examin- ually coming nearer, until the white- |ing letters and written statements robed singers of the Sistine cholr ap-|purporting to come from patients of peared, marching to the throne which | physicians, espectally those whose had been erected at one end of the licenses have been revoked ball. After the choir came the Swiss| It I8 understood that where there, guard, Immediately behind them, [{g tangible materiul in the complaints flanked by noble guards with erested | subpoenas will be issued calling the helmets and drawn swords, walked |complaining patients before the grand Pius XTI robed In white and wearing|jury. It is understood that immedi. on his breast 4 golden cross. All pre# ately after grand jury reassembles on January 2 a time™will be fixed for hearing such complaints as warrant ihquiry. HELD IN $30,000 BAIL persons from ture bade them arise As soon as Plus was seated on the throne the eeremony of the kissing of the ring took place, each person in the hall, according to his rank and senfor. ity, kneeling before the pope and touching with his lips the papel em Gunman Faces Siv Charges As Result of Pistol Fight With Police and Citizens finished the pontiff pronounced the| “exeunt omnes” which was the signal | for everyone except his holiness and the cardinals to leave the hall. ‘ sacramental 'ormula | Woonsocket, R. 1., Dec. George As soon as the doors were elosed | Webster, allas George Brown, of Pius offered a prayer to the Holy|Providence, pleaded gullty and w Ghost to be with him and the cardin- | held for the grand jury in 836,000 als on so solemn an occasion. He then|bonds in the district court today on charges of assault in connection with his revolver battle with police |and citizens here last night in which | Policeman Joseph Cunningham was {seriously wounded. On two charges of robbery he was held without bai end taken to the state prison at Howard. At the hospital today it was said that Cunningham probably would re- cover. 20 (Continued on Fourteenth Page) AGGUSED O0F HURDER Waterbury Negro Who Shot Woman, | Then Himsclf, Recovers And Is To ONCE OCEAN BOTTOM Whale's Stand Trial Dee. Coroner John made public Waterbury H T. Monzani, in a finding today holds Henry Allen (colored), | responsible the murder of Mary Vietcher also colored, who was shot | to death on the night of November | 8 as she lay in bed at her home, 34 Farm strect Allen was found alongside the bed the de 1 with two bullets in body. A remarkable opera- tion saved his life and he is now held at loca headquarters awaiting his arraignment in court on the mur- der charge The @oroner makes {known in his finding that a note found in Allen's pocket shows clearly that Allen intended to kiil the Fleteh er woman and then himself The shooting, the coroner inti mates the result of jealousy Although married the Fletcher wom an had been friendly with Allen, the coroner finds and an alleged transfer of her affections to another just prior to the time w dered is believed to have b sponsible for the trageds Discovery of Fissilized " Indicates California Fight Million Years Ago was Inundawd. los Angeles, Dec. 2 whales' r that southern bottom the 8,000,000 years stateme by Dr. and others of a party gists, who have Investigate fossil deposits in Trab southeast of here Dr. A. J. Trege museum of Califc oce ago. nia was at of an not more yrd police . rdan aleontolo d exte nsive source & mur she sca she thou N ousand Climbs Down Rope Made of Bed Clothes to Kill Self Miss Har Spr i By Gas in Bridgeport Dec. ng the past mmons, 4%, T} £ carly today It is believed t when he retired he jeft the gas turped low and #t later was extinguished in some Mre. H. A, Kosuth 28 was come in her home today, but will cover accidentally 1eft a j her gas stove open 20.—One persor by Bridgeport is dead i Maine of Irow i Stockt Bangor riet Hiehborn early tod ned Penobscot Escay m sanatorium where she had been a pa tient, by lowering herssif from socond st window by ans bedclothing tied together rar a bridge and jumped into the water 0 feet below A her of the sui ings i herse way. a over re- me P 1 note found in —" room told contemplated cide BRIDGEPORT POSTMASTER g,‘gq.. . Dee. SMASR ‘l'"fl“- STEAL Montrea smashed 1 H tion @ Arthur F. Connor to be post master at Bridgeport w to the senate hy according Dee e window Birks & and escaped $2,000. Aisprate re Bridgeport Post. ued at being 1 Average Daily Circulation Week Fndmg 10 107 Dee. 15th . PRICE THREE CENTS SWEEPING INVESTIGATION INTO WOOD'’S REGIME SINCE GOING TO MANILA IS ASKED Rep. Frear, Republican, Also Demands Deci- sion As To Whether Time Is Ripe For Granting Philippine lndependence Goes Further and Urges That Charges of Scandal- ous Nature Reflecting on Governor and Officials Be Sifted. Washington, Dec. 20.—Demand for a sweeping investigation by the house of the administration Gen- rules committee the Phi ippines of Governor made Wi & ilso should time is sted, ether the ripe to grint the islands independence, Political ¥ . Referring to General Wood's came | paign in 1920 for the republican pres- {idential nomination, Mr. Frear's rese- lullnn declared “it has been repeateds and publicly alleged Governor \\ od's selection for the post of gove ernor general would enable him to reciprocat ors extended to him in the political primary campaign of 1920, and that the sileged usurpation of authority and effort to extend ex- tend exploitation prviileges would afford recognition of unprecedented obligations incurred in that came paign.” Big Interests Gave M “Individual subseriptions,” the rese ohition continued “which went to make up the $1,773,000 expended by he Wood cumpaign committee in the presidential campalgn included, cone tributions from oll, tob banking, raflway and other interests that have an interest in the undeveloped re sources of the Philippines” The resolution proposed that “ia fustice to Governor Wood and those who contrihuted to his political cam- paign, the investigation should be ex. tended to incinde cha s 1o the ef fect that rights in the Philippines given or proposed to private American Interests are uarelated to such contributions.” Shonld know Facts, Congress and the country, Mr, Frear contended, also “should know all facts surrounding the acts of Gov- ernor Wood in calling the Phillippine legisluture in specinl session; the leg- Islative proposals insisted upon by hitm from the legislature: the faets relating 1o the attempted closing of {the Philippine National bank, and the rival interests (hereby served, if any: the alleged attempt to lease the Manila Railroad company, the bond ls#ue demanded by Gevernor Wood |and deposits of recefved therefrom: the facts surrounding his course in the sugar centrals; the proe posed oil and rubber concessions; the unwarranted removal or appointment of officials and ucts that have been the subject of bitter controversy in the Philippines,” Hits at Congress considerable length the resolu- quoted of despatches to a group of American news May from correspondents which statements were that Governor Wood had in his ssio of “Senators, Representatives and others prominent in Washington life,” who, it was charged ived money for advocating Philippine indepe The investigation commitiec stablish whetl n th dec Congress, i ©0, not moneys her At tior a series a papers last n Manila nade [ i the names had ree ndence would er there was any truth which the resolution ched ficis n Insular service of WANTS LIBERAL TERMS ared p % war de Amendment to War Risk Insurance Would Provide Free Treatment Por Soldicrs in Certain Cases. w 18 Months Old Bristol Boy Is Scalded to Death Rainando, 18 Chatles Morgana, ‘hospital today of 1 sister wa® the kiteh grab- water an@ m. The scalded right arm., e Bristol, months old sor Tiristn t rowg! e ding hot scaped with a