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— ey Average Daily Circulation Week Ending 10,061 i Jan. 5th E ) News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD = PRICE THREE CENTS TAKENFROMLOCAL CONGRESSIONAL ACTIVITIES ARE RAIDED DURING NIGHT SHOP AND DEPORTED /N WASHINGTON START ANEW ler AS SENATE ENDS WRANGLING I Smith, Democrat, Head of I. C. C. Promises te Handle Railroad Legis- lation Sanely—Public Hearings on Russia CITZENS FOR STATE UNIT FOR ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS of Crooks From Man Shot After Clothesline Thelt Sails for Italy ‘Stills and Gambling Devices Exodus Fill Two quen Patrol! Philadelphia Brings Re- Wagons — Gen. Butler, newed Crime Wave in Sets 3:30 p. m. as Zero| New York City—Cle\'e-?HAD SUFFERED BROKEN LEG Hour for Clean-up—Ac-| land Starts Anti-Gamb-|yium of patrotman Wiliam Gra.| tion Continues Today. ling War, ¥ | State and Hartford Com- mittees Already Being Organized — Move- Directs Taxi Driver to Undertaker’s;: Find Man Has Killed Self ntingfon, W. . Simms, of § who came here recently to gage 0 business, summoned taxicab today, paid the and instructed him to about the city before him to an undertaker's « lishment. The driver instructions and finally the undertaker'’s, where, it wa discovered, Simms had com- mitted sufelde by taking poison A con nnah, beck's Marksmanship is Now ! i | | Route to His Homeland on S, S, Canada. Iriver Sevario Divicino, aged 26, who was, shot by Patroiman Wllliam Grabeck while attempting to make a get-away after a series of clothesline thefts in | the vicinlty of Smalley street, was taken from the Union Works factory | yesterday by a federal agent and re-| follax reached Still Another Muscle Shoals and narcotic drug peddlers. As they walked along @ path skirt- | Plan—Treasur_v l)efends Views. % vy | More Than 12,000 Troops . v —— {4 ment Posnbly WI" Engaged in Federals’ | | o = | Philadelphia, Jan. 10-—At the dawn New York, Jan. 10.—Barred from | s read Offensive Toda,\ iof thesfourth day of Brigadier Gen-|the “White Light" district by police | p ——— {eral Butler's campaign to clean up |orders Issued yesterday as a result of B The Adsctintsd Prese | Philadelphia, police reports indicated | “forty-eight hour” Butler's Philadel- | Mexico City, Jan. 10. (By Radio via that one of the most crushing blows| phia cleansiug campaign, holdup men | " i in the history of the city had been today were operating near the far nl i | Fort Worth Star Telegram)-—The fed- ¥ | Local Enforcement Agen- Kot oo B e ronps in the|d°alt to crooks, gamblers, hootleggers | ends of the subways g 7o state of Vera Cruz has begun accord-| cies Will Be Asked to‘tnz to unofficlal information obtain- 7, . . ed at the war department. Work in Co-operation—/| the main oftensive is under tne 4 = o |command of General Eugenicio Mar- Favor Judgc Wheelers;tenz and involves more than 12,000 {troops according to this information advancing from San Marcos in the state of Vera Cruz along the Mexican e |and inter-oceanic raillway. Another Rirttord 3 0= Beate and Hact !column is advancing toward Tehucan SEEOES, SN, 1 )—Iwate “/in the state of Peubla, under com- ;’:‘-Ldh:‘i’:;m(‘:)(r'ne\idonh‘“\:;i;:{:r:’::::;‘mu"" of Generals Juan Almazan and foday. 1t 18 the hope of those inter- | "*J5O ;';"k‘::“" Sartofaiihe :;tr:fi ‘vri‘n::at;:‘-:3’”::‘!’!1’“\»:.}‘:' :r:;::)"(:;‘ur" two thousand loyal troops from . : |the garrisons on the isthmus of Te- public spirited ecitizens in each com-| e munity of the state urging the puhlln‘:‘r':::::r.:gd:o“r:::":l:‘;:m;:q“r:‘:l;nm e orin o offiints wn|Thesa two generals recently refused Atvolis to alrect Hatd m’or”_\oflwru from the de la Huerta head- ment. quarters to join the revolutionary While no formal announcement of '“"lff’"l‘""'P 2ee' Gakay bad Yeen & pluns has been made it is understood "'"i m" ";" . ‘:’ ("” '"”"' that Attorney Harrison B. lfn-»nmu,fi"" N S Professor Edwin Knox Mitchell and|'h® rebel general Romula Higueroa Attorney Ralph O. Wells are Keenly who is operating in the southern part interested in the forming of such o |°f the state of Moreles. Gabay it 1s local committee. It is expected that|®ald has been ordered to keep his the committee when fully organized, |CA¥AITY in pursuit until the rebel will inelude clergy of all sects and chieftain and his band have been an- that among its members will be men | Nbilated. who have been opposed to both the| A column of federal troops under 15th amendment and the Volstead act | General Perez, chief of military oper- but who want to joln with those who|ations in the state of Coahulla defeat- demand that laws shall be cnforced ¢ 200 rebels under Vicente while they are on the statute hooks, |n°ar Allende, Coahulla, today, ac-| The state cominittee would hring[C0rding to a report he made to the together representatives of the local | War department and given out in an (official bulletin, The rebels lost 17 dead, seven wounded and seven pris- enforcement committees for co-oper- ative action It is the hope of those behind this enforeement movement that the local | und state commitiees may carry to the publie some such message regard- Ing law enforecement as Chief Justice Wheeler, backed by judges of the su- preme and superior courts has given to the court officluls of Connecticut during the past few months, BAVARIAN LEADER IS SLAI BY ASSASSNS Five Others Are Killed in Accompanying Outbreak at Speyer (Continued on Twelfth Page) 'UPSON REPORTS BAR PIN OF PRECIOUS STONES GONE | Vawyer Cannot Say Whether Tt Has Been Stolen or Lost—Missing Since Sept. 185, Arthur W, Upson of Meadow avenue reported to Captain | George Kelly at police headquarters this morning the loss of a bar pin of pearls and diamonds valued at about $200. T'he pin has been missing since September 15, Mr, Upson could not | say whether the pin was lost or stolen, The Speyer, B Associated Pross, rian Palatinate, Jan. 10.~Ifve persons were killed here| ast evening in disorders connected | with the killing of Herr Heintz, the| scparatist leader, president of the autonomous government of the Pal-| Hartford, Jan. 10.—Nine youthful atinate, | robbers were rounded up by the Hart- | The fatalitics occurred during col- | ford police early this morning and are lisions between the separatists, whose | being held in connection with a series headquarters are here, and the popu-| of holdups on the cast side extending lade of the city. | over a period of months. The young y | outlaws made a practice of “rolling™ drunks and filching their pockets of money and jewelry. The police say » Martford Police Round Up Nine Youths, 16 to 20, Who Confess to Numerous Holdups, Jan, 10.—The Frankfurter Zeitung, reporting the assassination at Speyer of Herr Heintz, president that the prisoners, whose ages range of the autonomous government of the! from 16 to 20 have confessed to a Ithenish Palatinate, says that three!jarge number of robberies reported by other separtist leaders were shot| the victims, The accused will be given lIcad in a Speyer hotel. Several per-|a hearing in the police court on Jan- sous were wounded. The shootings, uary 17. the work of a band of armed Beriin, PROPOSED MOTOR LAWS Mass. State Dept. of Public Utilities An “were men, The assassination of Herr Heintz vas semi-officially confirmed here this morning. FREED TODAY, REARRESTED Released After Yem Would Be Given Control Over Public Service Cars. Boston, Jan. 10.—Hegulation by the state department of public util- itles of all motor vehicles transport- {ing passengers for hire is recom- mended in a report made by the de- partment of public works to the leg- islature today. Routes utilizing state highways and the maximum weight of the vehicle allowed on such roads the report says, would be subject to approval by the division of highways of the public works department 125 Waterbury People to Be Held for Tax Evasion Waterbury, Jan. Waterbury's { deputy sheriffa started out to serve 125 warrants this morning on persons who falled pay the state income tax on thelr busine The delin quents for the part are small | business men and the owners of ® local court this morn actories. The rifls have next Thursday on | orders to coliect the momey Aarson. The police ~"-'mlm of the George Irvin in Wethersfield, Now Faces Charge for Offense Five Years Ago. Hartford, Jan. 10.—George W. Ir- vine, relcased from state's prison to- after serving a year for at- tempted theft of an automobile in New Haven was arrested by the Hartford police on a warrant issucd here five years ago. He s charged with the theft of the automobile of the late Charles Dillon, a prominent merchant, who died last spring Meriden Peddler Is Held On Charge of Firing Barn 10.- 1o Lovis Levine was held W Meriden, Jan produce peddier, by the for trial most ing charge that 1evine fire rear « Jast Me perished caused whitten, the horse of hody Aelinquents has admitted setting the | . cui of the morning’s work which destroyed & barn in the | cocment of over a score of | home on_ Crown street| . o000 tny night in which his D"mr"" Eons s etten 1o 1 | Jail and Fine for Men Who Violate Liquor Law two anonymous letlers to be warning him to get #a or he would be sorry forrinton, Jo Louts Filippini and Camille De Vaux, both of Tor- rington, and Henry Kosgel and Albert Koegel, both of Thomaston, In the superior court at Litchfield today changed thelr pleas from not guilty | zuilty of violation of Tiquor laws ige Witliam M. Maitbie tmposed # Her sentence of 14 days and a fine of 5 at mid-| $29% and costs upon cach of the four | men of 1" SUES FOR $10,000, Meriden, Jan. 10.-Suit for $10,000 brought here today by the estate AT Ward, late of Plantavilie, ning A Magarty 1his cits Miss Wa ' tally i f to her home it as fa- 11 hurt ast Notember offensive | Davila | 267 Bhuttle | GATCH YOUTHFUL BANDITS | | ally speaking, he sald, he was highly | All the known gambling establish-|ing Bronx park two men were held | ments, disorderly houses and speak- | up by three masket bandits and rob- | |easies were sald fo have eceased bed of their watches and money. operations and their proprietors fled. Robbers entered the Bronx home of As a precautionary measure, however, | Mrs. Rose Comras, aroused her and {two policemen were stationed in the her 15 year old daughter from their| ;wmdowfi of suspectad places. Blinds ! slumbers, tied them to chairs and | were thrown to the top of the win-| ransacked the place {dows and Lieutenants in charge of, John Hays a 1 {the pollce districts made frequent' to a hospital su rounds to see that the policemen| wound suffered, carried out'their orders. | men raided a o1 40 Raids Last Night, | was piaviag. B Three youths About forty places were raided last| Bronx restaurant charge. night and approximately fifty arrests| Bonx park and Comras robberies made. Thirteen men, plcked up on » |the streets as suspiclous characters, | |were held for further hearings, | Armed with short handled squads of pollcemen and detectives hinist, was taken | [ e pistol | Onn, Advt, 3, | Haryg,, | Aen H Cleveland Campaign | Cleveland, O. Jan. 10,—In raids| axes | paralleling those in Philadelphla, po- Hee last night confiscated 163 slot ma- | under the leadership of thelr Lieu-|chines and arrested 153 persons, all | |tenants started their raiding activi-| except 16 on charges of exhibiting and | | tes early in the night. In the tender- | operating the machines, /loin and central sections they con-| The pollce expected to direct their| [fined their efforts to cider saloons,|activities toduy against places where | |gambling establishments and disor-! pools on horse races ares old. { lderh‘ houses, while in the outlying] The ralds were ordered by the new | city manager government {districts chief attention was pald to| | HiMieit stills and saloons. When they| “This I8 a battl @ between Lhe} gamblers and the people and we are | returned to their station houses early | {today they had confiscated and|for the people,” Director of l’ul\llr,f Safety Barry said. |smashed enough gambling parapher- nalia and stills to flll two dozen pa- |trol wagons. In only a few ll\nlflm‘"sr were the ralders forced to use their| axes to gain entrance, but when necessary they wielded them vigor- ously, | Camden Feels Insulted | Camden, N. J, Jan. 10.—~Camden | officlals were quick to resent re-| ported remarks of Brigadier General | Smedley D. Butler, Philadelphia's di- | | rector of public safety in advising| gamblers und other undesirables to| “go to Camden.” An officiul protest was sent to Mayor Kendrick by Com- missioner of Finance Middleton. Chief of Police Tatem declared that his men were ready to send back to| Butler Joins Ralders General Butler jolned one of the ralding partles late in the night for a | brief perfod and then mhde the rounds | of the varlous police stations, Finding that his orders had not been strietly | obeyed at several of thé stations. He ordered every avallable policeman on | the strect all night and bluntly told | the lieutenants In charge that they jwnul:l find themselves out of a job when the “zero hour” arrived at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon unless they had cleaned up their distriet | General Butler said that more than | b per cent of the cleanup had been ' completed and he felt sure that it would be nearly 100 per cent at the | expiration of his time limit. He was| congratulated on his accomplishments | by Mayor Kendrick, who said lhut“ thus far, politicians had not placed | any obstucles In his path Works Untll 2 p. m, | General Butler was on the job until | after 2 o'clock this morning. Gener- | { v.ho seek rofuge here Church Offers Reward. Chattanooga, Tenn, Jan. 10.—As| the beginning of an offensive against | bootleggers, the First Baptist church of Rossville, Georgla, has organized a men’s club to pay a reward of $26 for! every offender arrested, convicted and scnt to prison for at least 29 days in | the church. pleased with the work of the police- men. “When the forty-elght hour period ' I gave the department to clean up ex- pires,” he sald, “we will take account | of stock and the men who have not gone into this thing heart and soul will hear from me. I've started out to make every clean, honest, on-the- level policeman my friend; to have him a8 keen for the honor of the force as the marines are for the corps with which 1 have served many years. There is a force i that sort of thing that the biggest organized vice situa- : i 2 tion in the world cannot defeat Miralty message says the Brit- Only One Deflant Place ish submarine 1-24 has been So far as kuown, only one place 108t off Portland in a collision. closed by the ralders has openly de. It is feared the entire crew fied the police. This is the Venettan |perished. Cafe, one of the largest saloons In the Is Reporled As Rammed central part of the city and one of 9. o in 14 thoos vistied Governor Pinehot| . 1he L-24 which is reported to Disaster Occurs in English Channel When Dread- nought Resolution Rams | Underwater Craft. A\ssociated Presa, y T London, Jan. 10. — An ad- - ! during lis personal investigation o, have had 30 men aboard, sank liquor violations several months ago.|after a collision with the dread- The raiders swooped down on the cate nought Resolution off Portland vesterday afternoon, arrested the pro- | p: . " prictor and several bartenders and Dil A T0cky promontory on the seized a large quantity of what they | I8le of Portland extending into believed was illegal beer. Later the the English channel. It is un- - ;m;-m e z;»awl on coples ' officially reported that the sub- ol the charges signed by a magistrate, i ” . They '-‘Arflfd |-u:’k to the .la!:::l L marine was rammed l"\ the resumed operations as soon as their dreadnaught. supply of wet goods could be re- plenished. The proprietor said he was selling only near beer Father Fitzmaurice Sent “Rald, Rakd, Rakl’ To New Haven R. C. Church When General Butler heard the cate| New Haven, Jan. 10—The ftes ad reopened he ordered the police of | JOhn Fitzmaurice, pastor st ntral station to “Kald, raid, ratg ' Patrick’s church in Waterbury the proprictor of the Venetian Veen appointed to St. Francls church tired of being arrested, hay. 0 Ferry street this eity, it was an- r taken from him and DOUNCed today The pastorate of town.” The wearing down pro.| St Francis church has been vacant oould e today, the ¥INCe the death of Rev. Vather James said 3. Smith Vather Fitzmaurice has been a #1 years and previous Many Bobberics Occur, his appolntment to St. Patrick's Despite the offorts been at Naugutuck, Soutl Ports today showed Da: Jewett City and Nor ups an robberies He N in the thicves & w downtowr right, six ¢ has jaunched to | had entry. wieh London 5 The Putie was a! a church tion ilate last tin fits attempted b a government warchouse thre biocks away This was bad ng for booticgger and the moonshiner, ris Ir Witerent sections of th at activity on the part patice A small ho'# 1n the Frankford district in northeast Phila deiphia was invaded about breakfast time. In this place the police seized two galions of liquor mixed with cher- rles, five gallons of whiskey, four bar- | rels and 219 bottles of beer, one gal of gin gallons of alcohol. one that three hold- wer committed etted th is nath yo st to Dr. Patrick's Mar appointment be R and . vort e Farrell fistrict nasked BROKER SUSPENDED York Jan. 10— The New curb market Atoda¥ announced L. Morge New the | York for the suspension of John thau for six months. wod v " | THE WEATHER o Hartford, Jan. 10 —Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Rain late tonight and Friday: warmer tonight. ior fixe (Continued on Tweifth Poge) ( ) | come to this eit ticyt S Dep, rd, Cony, Philadelphia any and all andgsirables | BRITISH SUB WITH CR " THIRTY LOST IN COLLISION | ments are on | of moved to Providence, where ie em barked today on the 5. 8. Canada for Naples, Italy For several deportation proceedings have under way and they were completed just in time to permit Special Agent Clark to ‘ocate the man and take im back t¢dProvidence, i Divicino was s/t in the u'Y Lires *imes by Patrolmah: Grabeck. M5 jeg tat, yken an! he was taken to the € Lj, where he was under treat or several weeks. . 4. MARKHAM RESIGNS Faamining months been Head of State Felectic Board Puts in His Resignation Year Before Time Expires. Hartford, Jan, 10,—Dr, Ernest A. Markham of Durham, president of the | eclectle examining board, today ten- dered his resignation as a member of that board. Seeretary James E. Halr of Bridgeport to whom Dr. Markham gave the resignation, sald that it should go to the Connecticut eclectic association and it was expected that the letter would be given to some offi- cer of the association today. Dr. Markham's term would have expired January 1, 1925, Members of the examining board were at the county ecourt house today, having been summoned by the grand Jury investigating the fake doctor sit- uation. Secretary Hair was called into the jury room to explain why two Mis- souri colleges were restored to the ap- proved list after having been left off. He sald that the name of the two colleges had been left off by his predecessor und had heen restored to permit the 21 men with invalid certl- ficates to retake the board’'s examina- tions. MILLION DOLLAR GIFT Brussels, Jan. 10.-—A Detroit manu- facturer, Raphael Herman, has given $1,000,000 to the International uni- versity which has its headquarters the territory reached and served by here according to an mnnouncement | made toda: EW OF Upper Floor of English Spinning Mill Collapses, Letting Workers Fall into Cellar, By The Associated Press Bradford, Eng, Jan. 10.-~From elght to 10 persons, It is feared, were killed today through the collapse of the upper floor of a spinning mill on Wharf street here. Heavy masses of machinecy crashed through the floors beneath and imprisoned 40 workers| in the debris. Scores of police and firemen this afternoon were feverishly haullng up the machinery in an effort to release the imprisoned ones Another Auto Holdup Hint Occurs on the Post Road Stamford, Jan 10,—~While the police did not regard the incident as an attempted holdup, there was, their opinion, a suggustion that might have been turned into when a man jumped on a truck which was on Atlantic avenue early today and tried to engage the driver in con- versation. The truck belonged to Willlam Kneeland of Springfieid Mass., and the driver reported to the police here that a man jumped out of a sedan machine and onto the running board of the truck and de manded that the driver tell him where he was going. driver did not check his speed and the Aropped off A sedan was in dence when two trucks were stoler Saturday night and was used as a vos these trucke were Ne York state f oldups o York f it one man evl- driver There thronugh to " have been five £ trucks bound to New nights. n . NEGRO RUNS AMIUCK Charles amuck Thee Jan ¥ negro. town streets right and left them belleved the other sor we ran her & m . v ns and h victims, Scores A ves SESD REINTORCEMENTS The Ases e Maniia, 9. B 1n Jan 4 to eir wa ent furigas. Tsland of Mindanao, constabulary 1 Bucas, where consta giers were killed In a clash with re ligious fanatics. a ol post nearest 19 note in Simms pocket talned directions for his funera) L MRS, TRAUT'S ESTATE * YALUED AT $34,676 'More Than Half Is Repre- sented by Deposits in Banks Appraisers Jullus H. Pease and George P. Spear have filed their re- port in the estate of the late Mrs. Ellse M. Traut showing holdings to the value of $54,676.32, slightly more than half of which was represented tn bank deposits, The Inventory is as follows: New Britain Gas Light Co. $5,000 bond, valued at $4,000; New Britain Turn- ers soclety $200 bond, valued at $160; 1004 shares Traut & Hine, $6,024; 25 shares New Britain Trust Co., $4,500; one shara Shuttle Meadow club, $10; | five shares Terlin Tires, $5; 500 shares Participating Operating certi- ficate of the Consumers Service sta- tions, doubtful value; bank deposits, 27,785.67; household furnishings, Jin- ens, etc., $3,396.65; Jewelry $3,735; automoblies, $1,100, Total, $54,676.32, 7 YR. OLD GIRL SLAIN Filipino, Aged 27, shoots Elizabeth, N. 4. Young Woman to Death as She Starts For Work Today. Ellzabeth, N, J., Jan. 10.—Miss El- len Alber, 17, was shot three times and mortally wounded by Felix Sala- zar, 25, a Flipino, at her home here | today. The shooting took place in the hallway of the girl's home. She died {in a hospital, Balazar was arrestcd and is said by the pollce to have con- fessed to the killing | Salazer, the police reported, fired six | shots at Miss Alber as she came out to go to her work, Three shots went wild, the others hitting her in the right side, just above the heart, and in the head. Salazar then fled and was caught outside the house of a neigh- bor who heard the shots. SCHOOL STRIKE ENDS stlver Creek, N, Y., High School Pu- pils Return When Superintendent is Reinstated Again Silver Creek, N. Y., has ben declared ir | school war. By a three, the board of night reinstated W. H perintendent of schoc missal caused a strike of students last Tuesday. Mrs. Robert Erdel, an ewly elected member whose vote was the deciding one in dlsmissing the superintendent, voted to re-instatement after a peti- ton Aining 1 ames had been presented to the board Use of tobacco was been one of the charges against him MUST MUZZLE ALL CATS in Berlin, 1 Peace Silver Creek's | four to last | vote of education Edwards, su- whose dis- his school cont 0 said to have Domestic Pets Germany, Must Have Headgear om Even 1o Uross Threshold. Berlin, J stray must 1 police Te liscovery of from hydro gnr 300,000 BANKRUPTCY York. Jan. 1 An i titior ptes New vo P was gainst | manufacturers nd suits. $700,000 tary today Weinstein & jand jobbers of make Tin wit} Pilities wer ' aseots, 84 NOMINATED A BRIGADIERS Washing J f|amusl D, Parker we | brigadier generals. i k ominated today to I 17 New Britain Natlonal bank, $3,060; | Mellon Policy—Coolidge | Approves Shipping De- | cision. Jan. 10.—Elevated to » of the senate inter. commission with the insurgent repubilcan ana group, Senator Smith, democrat, of South Carolina, sent forth the word today that the com- mittee would handie railroad legisla- tion “sanely and in the manner the people will want their representatives in congress to act on it enator Smith said he probably Jwould call the committes together !before the end of this week or early pext week. First action will be on |the nomination of two members of |the railroad labor board Several |measures for amendment of tha [transportation mct have been referred [to the committee Senator Cummins of {regular republican choice |committes chairmanship who wa (defeated by Senator Smith, retaine his place on the committee today | unanimous consent of the senate [ New Muscle Shoals Plan, : Secretary Weeks has received st another proposition for dispositio:. bt the Muscle Shoals project. Dett .8 of the new plan have not bev uise {elosed, but it contemplates mauutdes ture of nitrates for fertilizer. The Secretary sald today he had not yet examined the proposal and |eould not tell how it compared with |the Ford offer or with the plan just |presented by a combination of South- |ern Power companies, contemplating |rental of the Alabama piant |period of fifty years with a provie [that title to the property remain in the government and that the way be. left open for fertilizer manufacture, The new proposal still is tentative [but the Sacretary sald it came from entirely responsible people. He de. elined to reveal the source. He has been asked to make such suggestions as he desires and he appearcd to bee lleve a definite offer to purchase lease the Muscle would follow, Washington the chairmanshiy ate | commere the aid of lowa, for th the, or Shoals plant Detends Mellon's Plan 1n support of its argument that the Mellon plan will loosen up for pro ductive investment a large residue of capital now reposing in vaults in the form of tax exempt ecertificates, the treasury today made public a com pilation showing that on January.1 a total of $£12,300,000.000 in such secu- rities was in the hands of the Amerd. figures were said to the Liberty of the federal gov de all securities government and casury inelude only one ¢ per cent bond ernment, but ex deposited with the other cireulation bonds. Other issues are partially exempt, and Secretary Mellon believes the figure given prob. ably undercstimates the exact amount now outstanding. Coolidge Approves President Coolidge today gave final approval to the shipping board resolu- tion placing operation of the govern. ment’s merchant fleet in the hands of the rgency fleet corporation He made his appr however, contin gent on the board's cooperatior president, who called the fere inderstood dissatisfaction s of the 3 1ssuo, board to have with resolution, preferred a the fleet however, d ot make detalls a m ) Ong as Lelgh C. P ed to h i witt to 2 in Senatore w opposition. committes but 1t was ator Borah will rep Aiscunmed considered certain Se Ibe chatrman

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