New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1925, Page 13

TAX ON CATS No1 - GIVEN APPROVAL Nither Doesuhssemby Suppo Levy on Giarotes State Capitol, Hartford, ¥eb, 26—~ Today was another legislative day in which members talked: little but ac- complished considerable work in clearing calendars of bills ready for adoption, ’ In the house Mr, Peck of Bristol objected to a bl which gave Bere lin the right to mgke ordinances on bullding lines because it had no pro« vision fer assessment of benéfits or damages. Mr. Averill thought the bill should pass as it gave chance for an appeal after the town: had adopted ordinances. Mr, Peck pros riosed an amendment but Mr. Alling raised a point of order that the * amendment was not in writing, and was sustained by the speaker. The bill was tabled. Mr, Burrows of Groton was in the chair at<the time and after Speaker Darbie took the gavel Mr, Peck offered his amend- ment to provide for suitable provi- dlon for ascertainment of damages and benefits, and My, Lynch, chalr- man of the cities and borotghs com- mittce opposed it, The point made was that the bill does not establish bullding nes. Mr, Averill of Bran- ford thought the amendment un- necessary as the constibution pro- vides against the taking of property without due. process of law., Mr, Alling did not believe Berlin would disobey the constitution and Mr. Peck was sure his amendment would 4o no harm and might be convenient. The bill was adopted. The joint committee on constitu- tional amendments, will hold a hear- ing tomorrow on tho proposed amendment which came over from last session,#relating’ to representar tign of towns in the house of repre- sentatives; | this applies directly to Beware Anyonewithacold Watch people with colds. 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The former town desires its own representation and to obtain It the constitution must be amended; The senate sesslon opened with consideration of house matters\which came up from ¥riday's session in that branch, Many bills ronds wore rejected in concurrence, This action also was taken on bills to tax cats and to lay a tax on eigar- . |ettes, In the Mouse favorable reports were made on bills authorizing the Seymour Trust Co., to increase its capltal stock to $200,000 changing name of Union Trust Co, in Green- wich to the Sound Beach Trust Co., making its directorate 25 instead of 9, and making private bankers Aub- Jeot to suspension orders of the bank commissioner, The desk of Ropresentatfta Wil- llam J. Ferrls, ot Greenwich, who died last night, was draped, and the Rev. Dr, Phillips of Shelton, who served as chaplain of the day asked for divine consolation for the family of the departed member, A bill which is said to give the tax commissioner wide powers, and also to give drastic and almost equally extensive authority to a deputy commissioner and which members have been reading with in- terest was tabled in the house at request of Mr. Bell of Sulisbury whe remarked that ‘the bill “required careful scrutinizing before every member, Speaker Darbie appointed Messrs, Mead of Greenwich, Alling of New Dritain, Shailer of Issex, William- son of Darien, Light of Norwalk, Gurley of Stamford, Burke of Say- brook, Hill of Shelton and ‘Mrs. Nevius of New Fairfield, a commit- tee to attend the funeral of Mr.| Ferris. . By rising vote the housc | adopted a resolution of regret at hls[ death., Favorable Report Fayorable reports to the' senate were on bills providing for payment by the board of gas and electrical commissioners of Norwich of not exceeding four per cent of the city's investment in tho lighting plant for municipal expenses; providing for filling of vacancies in offices’ of treasurer, clerk and tax collector in Norwich; providing that polls in Norwich be open from 7 a. m. till 7 p. m. at elections; changing ter- ritorial 1lmits of Norwich to include certain park lands and relating to appointment of assessors in. Nor- wich, The senate bill unfavorably ported for annexation of part of Salem on the shore of Gardner's lake, ‘to Montville was sent back to the committeeon request of Chair- man Lynch of the cities and bor- oughs committec, Senate Concurs The senate adopted in concur- rence with the house the following measures: Increasing salaries town court. Amending charter of Norwalk court, increasing certain sal- re- in Stratford ci arie Incréasing salaries in the Killing- ly town cougt. Increasing salaries in the Norwich Increasing salaries of judge and prosecutor in Stonington court, Creating a commission on forest and wild life. ) Placing the Charles H. Pine manual training school in that ecity under the Ansonia hoard of educa- tion. . Merging ‘the Ansonia Water and IFountain Water Companies. ixtending time for acceptance of charter amendments by Plainville Water Co. Authorizing, in separvate bills; the Farfiiington Water Co. to increase its -capital stock; the Yalesville Water Co. to issue bonds, and the Soath' Manches: Water Co. to is- sue bond Amending charter of Willimantic | court so that its prosecutor may be | a member of any political party. | Permitling Young Men's Temper- | ance Society of Waljngford to hold property up to $160,000, Creating a board of public safety | ctmen | in East Haven. Permitting Norwalk taxing dis- | tricts to appropriate money for public librarie Increasing salaries in Hamden | town court, and also in the Willi- | mantic court, Increasing the number of trustees | Connceticut Agricultural, coliege | appointed by the governor. I Making close seasons on and Hungarlan partridge. Eliminating requirement that can- | didates for certain minor offices | make returns of election expenses. | Authorizing transfer of lands un- | r Norwalk river and _Sheffield | sland to federal government for | navigation aid purposes. { Providing that school nurses may »e appointed by local school boards. | Amending charter of the D. M. | Read Co. of Bridgeport., | Providing that a person injured | n state highways may sue the| highway department, amending the 1t law in several particular: rom ifs calendar the senate | adopted these senate bills: i Amending charter of Waterbury | Button Co., allowing capital stock increase. Decreasing salaries of New Ha- ven county auditors from $300 to $150 each per year, Amending charter of Brothers, Manchester, to allow cap- ital stock Increase. House Bills 0. K, The hofise adopted these house | bills on its Talendar | Exempting Bacon academy at Col- | chester from taxation. Abating penalty tax against estate of Jate Liz tlesey of Washington. Incorporating Westport Electric Co. to take over the Westport Wa- ter C and have a capital not ex- ceeding $75,000. Authorizing bond fssues fn Beth- lchem and Ridgefield. Prohibiting use of set lines floats in trout strcams, ponds akes. Establishing park commission ficld, Paying counties one- ceipts of unincorporated tax. Making railroads né repealing the 1 law which placed the cost on towns. Amending charter ~ of Walnut of quaif Cheney | ‘assensed | » M. Whit. or or in of re-| business maintain over- | ad brid for new |¥ [tion. Were fixed at $1,000 today by an By | 1ess than 98.46 per cent of par. The Fat That Shows Soon Disappears Prominent fat which comes and stayh whero It 18 not uceded Is & burden to carry, A lindrance to activity, b eurb upon plea- sure, Yoy can remove the fat whore it by taking after each meal an Marmola Prescription Tablet, These tablets are as pleasant and effgetive us tho famous prescription fro which they take thelr na Buy and try & box today. All druggists the world over I them, at one doliar for g box, or you can order them *direct from the Marmola Co, General Motors Bidg., Detrolt, Mich, You can thus say good-bye to dieting, ex- orciso and fat, each and 8l Beach Improve- ment assoclations, Repealing~act which gave coun- tlos half of the admission taxes, Giving the motor vehftle commis- sloner legal counsel for his depart- ment, Merging the Savin Boclety of Sallshury and Robbins Burrall Trust Co. Valldating ‘agreement between Vernon and trustees of the George Sykes will for maintenance of high and manudl training school in Rockville, Amending unincorporated busi- ness tax law by ingreasing penalties. The hoyse adopted the bill chang- ing the name of the Union school district “of Orange'” to ‘*of West Haven” as the district is in the lat- ter town since the separation act, The senate bill extending time for organizing the Lordship Railway Co, was tabled at request of Mr, Wheel- er of Btratford, The proposal to drain great marsh at Ellington was unfavorably re- ported, Favorahle reports include those increasing salary of Wallingford's tax collector; for towns planning in Stratford; for a water and sewerage commission in' Darfen; extending limits of Laurel Beach association; giving Southington wardens right to make ordinances of snow removal, and amending Bristol charter in regard to liens for public improve- ments, The house adjourned out of spect to the late Mr, Ferris. GITY HAS APPEALED New Haven Objects to Judge Wolfe's badtim re- Decision Permitting Double Truck One Man Cars. New Haven, Feb. 25.—The city of New Haven filkd notice of an ap- peal in the superior court today from the decislon of Judge Isaac Wolfe, making permanent the in- Jjunction against the enforcement of an ordinance enacted by the board ‘ot aldermen prohibAting the use of double truck one-man cars in the streets of this city. It had been practically agreed betwean the coun- sel for the city and the Connecticut Co. which sought the injunction that whichever way the case was decided it would be appealed to the supreme court. BONDS PUT AT $1,000 Minimum of* $1,000 Alsa Will Be Fived in All Cases of Violation of i + Liquor Law, Commissioner Says, New Haven, Feb, 25.—Bonds in the case of Augustave Sherman, 28, held for trial in the U, 8. district court on a charge of liquor viola- U, 8. Commissioner B, E. Lynch, In fixing the bond the commissioner said that in addition to advices from Washington that bonds fixed in such cases were not adequate a minimum of $1,000 would be fixed hereafter in _such cases. Sherman's place in Farren avenue was ralded yesterday and alleged whiskey seiz NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY Norfolk Man Fined $1 Tor Lach of Four Bad Woxds He Called State Policemen Probing Accident. Norfolk, Conn.,, Feb. 25.—Justice of the Peace Philip L. Curtiss, who is also a writer of repute, today fined Edward Burke $1 each for the four words of alleged abusive language of used in addressing a state police of- ficer. While he appreciated the good record Burke had maintained in the community the uniform of the police must be respected, the Jjustice said in imposing the $4 penalty. Burke was charged with interfering with the officer when he was investigating automobile accident here last Sunday. . Non-St(;‘\viators‘;\ re Missing in Sahara Desert the Assuciated Press, Paris. Ieb, ptain Lemaitre and Lieutenant Arracard, Irench aviators who early this month made a non-stop flight from France to the Rio Oro in an attempt to reach Dakar in the French Senegal with- out a stop, have been missing in the desert of Sahara since February 20, it became known today. They left Timbuctoo last Friday, flying north 'in an attempt to make Oran or Algiers, and have not been heard from since. Missouri-Pacific Geis Right to Issue Bonds Washington, Feb. 25.—The Mis- souri Pacific Railroad company to- day received authority from the in- terstate commerce commission to is- sue $8,820,000 of equipment trust certificates and to sell them at not proceeds will be used new equipment, to purchase BIG REWARD OFFERED. Los Angeles, Feb, 25.—A reward of $10,000 for informatiog leading to the return of $485,000 in paintings and art treasurcs stolen from the Hollywood home of Martin Wein- schenck last week, br leading to the arrest of the thieves, was offered to- day by Los Angeles representatives London firm said to in- sured the collegtion for more than $200,000, DEGLARES BANKERS RULE 0. AMERICA Editor of Nation Makes Startling. Recusations in Senate Washington, Feb. 26.~Lewls 8. Gannett, *assoclate editor of The Nation in New York, charged be- fore a senate committee today that without knowledge of the Amer- loan people or the consent of con- | gress, thy United States has been | committed by bankers' Joans and Onancial contracts to a “policy of cmpire that has brought ten South American republicans almost under complete domination of our gov- ernment, The committee has under consid- cration a resolution by Senator Ladd, repubiican, North . Dakota, that would prevent any American military intervention in 8South or Central American republics. In six of these republics, Ganneft declared, United States troops are now maintained. He submitted loans contracts which he maintained committed the American government to the palicy he referred to. The resolution, Gannett said, would clear up the situation so that American bankers would not expect the assistance of the army and navy in collecting their private loans. He presented contracts covering private lonns to Salvador, Nicaragua and San Domingo, which he said impli- cated the state department and the United States government in their | execution. | A contract between Bolivia and a New York bank, he said, “sub- stantiadly turns over the republic of Bolivia to a group of New York bankers,” adding that situations have arisen which will involve the American government in exccution of the contract. He declared the executive officers of the department of state, marine and naval officers should be stopped from invading foreign countries and driving their presidents and legislatures from power. STUDENTS ON STRIKE W. Va, Montgomery, State School Pupils Protest Cancellation of Their Basketball Schedule. i Montgomery, W. Va., Feb, 2 Students at New River state school here staged a “strike” today to voice their protest against cancella- tion by school authorities on the re- maining games on the school’s bas ketball schedule. About three hun- dred students, ineluding approximate 1y 100 girls, and comprising virtually the whole resident student body, | joined in the demonstration and par; aded the streets of the city, with banners, drums and musical instru- ments, The protest demonstraton olcurrr‘d during a conference of a students’ committee with school officials re- | garding the cancellation of the bas-| ketball schedule which the students understood had been done because of Jack of financial support fér the game. When the student conferees | reported that they were dissattsfied with the result of the conference the demonstration was renewed with ad- | ded fervor. ADMIRAL T0 TESTIFY H. P. Jones Head of Navy Gencral Board, Will Go Before House Air-4 1 craft Investigating Committee, Washington, Feb, 25.—Rear Ad- niral Hilary P. Jones, head of the | navy general board, will appear be- | fore the house aircraft committee when it reopens its aircraft investi- gation tomorrow to discuss the re- | cent report Dby ,the special navy board on battleships and acronau- tics. Rear, Admiral William Sims, re- | tired, has notified the committee he | will appear Friday, and Rear Ad- miral Fullam, also retired, will be | heard if his health permits at- tendance, { The committee has not decided | whether Secretar: ks will be asked to reappe: | | {employes were t ok far | back asJcan | remember Bakers was the best BAKER'S COCOA is better because it is made of better beans by a better process | | and has a better l | flavorthan other | evrtoor kinds. Walter Baker&Co.LHd. LSTABLISHED 1760 Dorchester Mass. Monlreal. Can. [POOKLET OF CHOICE RICIPES SINT FREC < & X {ter in a resort, | orchestra will | man STOKES SONNOW | 1S IN CHICAGO May Possibly Testily for His | Stepmother ? Chicago, 1eh. 25.—~The trial of \\'v} D, Stokes, New York miliionair three co-defendants, charged with conspiring. to defame his second wife, Mrs, Heien Ellwood Stokes, recelved increased attention today after the unexpected arrival from New York of W, E. D, (Wed- die) Stokes, Jr, No announcement was fortheom- Ing from attorneys as to the prob- able part of the young man who was mentioned in the defense's opening statement in the present trial and who was sued by his step- wother in 1929 after a letter alleged o have ‘Qeen written by him in revelation of intimacies with Mrs. Stokes was read in the first Stokes divorce suit in New York. Mrs, Stokes' suit for $1,000,000 alleged character defamation. It never has been brought to trial. In outWning its present case, the defense asserted that the allegations of intimacy with his stepmother young Stokes made in what has be come known as the “darling pop” letter would be proven, That letter read: “My darling pop: 1 am sorry to say that I was intimate with Helen at Naragansett pier this fall. W. E. D. Stokes, Jr, 11 Jan. '10." | Stokes, Jr., was not quoted, but | the Chicago Tribune said that he had a heated interview with his father upon artival yesterday and “there is every indlcation he will tzke an active, it sudden part in the | trial x x x x, presumably to clear his own name of any alleged mis- conduct with his stepmother.” Mrs. Stokes declined to confirm rumors that “Weddie” might testify in her behalf. She said she knew nothing about her stepson's” inten- tions and had not seen him for g6me time, Charles Burnish, K, and formerly a por- allowed to leave the witness stand and walk about the courtroom to determine ‘it he could identify persons who had ask- ed him™“to sign a paper.” The de- fendants are accused of paying for fraudulently ~damaging affidavits about Mrs. Stok He identified .no one, remembered no names, and there was no cross-cxamination. Burnish said he signed a paper in a taxicab, that the persons Wwho him the paper gave him but ‘“not for signing the John Moore, negro, said he could not read, but “touched the pen” | when an affidavit was read to him.! “Sure they read it, but I didn't know what it meant,” said Moore on cross-examination. City Items Scandinavian W, T. U, will hold @ meeting at the home of Mrs. Charles Ericson, 66 : | tomorrow afternoon at 30, Cottage place, | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1925, SENATOR DIES - IN WASHINGTON (Continued from First Page) ambassadorship at Berlin, Word had reached him, it was sald, that the | latter post, too, would be given to another, Although one of the members of the senate, Mr, N mick possessed some qualities of unusual brilllance, and had a wide one of the most inclsive orators in the senate, particularly on questions of foreign policnes, Dr, Noble P. Barnes, who made the first medical examination after the senator’s death had been discov- erdd, communicated his findings to the goroner, who instructed him to Issue a certificate of natural death. Funeral arrangements will await the arrival of Mrs. McCormick from Chlcago. Arrangements were made to take of the Countess Eleanor Gizycka, Chicago, whose family has long heen associated with the MeCormick fam- ily in management of the Chicago Tribune. The countess was one of the first to call at the hotel, Another was Representative Longworth, the republican house leader, It was learned today that for some time Senator McCormick had sufier- ed from digestive disorders. About ten years ago he underwent an oper- ation for uicer of the stomach. Born in Chicago, May 16, 1877, he was a son of Robept S. and Kath- erine Medill McCormick and was a member of a famous Tllinois family. The senator was a graduate of ale and his wife, Mrs, Ruth Mec- Cormick, is a daughter of Mark | Hanna. He was formerly a member of the Tllinols legislature and was repre scotative-at-large from Illinois. An Irreconcilable During his service as senator, Mr, McCormick was a member of the foreign relations committee and during the fight over the treaty of Versailles was an irreconcilable. Even-after the defeat of the treaty he continued his attacks, making a trip to Europe to gather facts for his arguments. Other assignments of Senator Me- Cormick included the powerful finance committee, the rules com- mittee and the insular committee. He was chalrman of the committee on expenditures in executive de- partments. Senator McCormick was in the senate yesterday but then appar- ently was not in the best of health. He had just returned from Florida, where he had spent a week with his mother at her winter home. A few days ago he gave up apartment here preparatory to retirement from official life and took a room at the hotel. Physi- cians said he had been dead about an hour when they reached him. Hotel employes said they had {heard him moving about his room |as late as 8:30 this morning. Formal announcement of the sen- ator's death was made in the sen- his his Hear the Victor Radlo Concert at |ate by his colleague, Senator McKin- Morans' Music Store Thurs. 9 p. m. | —adv of the Sons of Vet- erans, ry will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at Jr. O. U. A. M. hall, . regular meeting of Andree I 0. 0. I, will be held to- A meeting lodge, night. Miss Lydia Stcege, daughter of | Rev, and Mrs, Theodore Steege, has réturned from the Hartford hospi- tal where she underwent an opera- tion three weeks ago. Get your fish at Kopy's, 94 Hftd. —advt. Mrs. F. Hollfelder of street, is seriously ill at St. hospital, Hartford. The Kenilworth club will hold a joint Washington birthday party and dance at the elub rooms on Friday night. The Bacchanalian play and the aders will entertain. NO RESULTS tile Oficial | | Av Madison Francis Conference Between Te ley, and the senate immediately adjourned until tomorrow out of re- spect to his memory. News Is a Shock. Chicago, Feb, 2 News of the death of Senator Medill McCormick “in Washington was so entirely un- expected that at the moment press wires were carrying bulletins of his death, the senator's office here could not credit the dispatch. Cormick, who is here, cel the news, Gen. Frank Dick- son, the senator's personal represen- tative here said. Mrs. McCormick was entirely un- prepared for the shosk of the news of her husband's death. St was virtually prostrated by the news, but prepared to leave at 1 p. m. ' for Washington. Senator McCormicy, who was just ound out his term as United States senator to which Illinois elec ed him in 1918, had left Chicago for Washington only last Sunday. He had spent a few days here and had attended funeral of Fred W. Upham, former national treasurer of th the Mill Owners and Willimantic Brings No Settlement. | Willimantic, Feb. 25.—The confer- | ence held today between Thomas F. | McMahon, president United | Textile Workers of America arnd a committee representing operatives of | the local mills of the American Ihread Co., with Agent John I, Cur- | tis of the mills, was without result, ! it was stated by Agent Curtis. The operatives renewed their request that | a cut of ten per cent in wages an- nounced 1ary 12 last be restored. Mr. McMahon and members of employes’ committee said after the conference that any information must come from the mills manage- ment, Agent Curtis said that told that the company was unable this time its | ¥ to the former wages Employes at a meeting here a week ago voted to strike if the wage cu was not restored At a conf held at that time with the mill man- agement the company e employes’ request. of the the | it to see eclin ASS MEETS nior at high its first meeting th auditorium and ¢ vating committees. How was elected chalrman “lass Night SENIOR © ] class school | mor t Neipp t exercises, | Howar Hilda T Lois Freemar and m song otto | airman, picture | chairman, | The class officers are Howard Beloin; vice-president, Regan; secretary, Kathlecen Re treasurer, John Grip Carl R President BELGFAN SENATOR IN UL S New York, Feb, The B Senator Alfred Nerinex, a ayor of the Louvain who a retired professor of inter- aw at the University arrived today n 25 ian | former camer the 4 Washingt | of the most the republican Mrs. ac- in the rrangements for the woman's warld has ' remained here for some She has spent much time with Alice Roosevelt Longworth at c Lying-in hospital orths' baby Mr: he where born F ry 14 Was Very Prominent. Senator McCormick's active ycars in places of prominence in only his Washington servic positions as vice-chairman progro tiona! tee which in carried th ¢lt banner th the ¥ of part commit Roose- Moose ago Tribun e bega lusively he had devo to his pub As his right MeCormick had b nfl wssistant, Mrs known as o iential Americ women in affairs. The senator guaranteed Mamond Dyes. dip in cold v lint soft, ades, or knowledge of forelgn affairs, He was | the body this aftennoon to the home | formerly Miss Eleanor Patterson of | cal success, Her husband's achieve- ment and future were her principal thought, The senator, who would have re- tired from the senatorship on March 4, when Charles 8, Deneen, former governor of Tilinols, assumes office, has been'many time mentioned as « possible ambassador or appointee 10 other high office, but he had been glven no inkling of his plans after March 4, Mr. Dencen, who in former years was a close political ally of Senator McCormick, in & bref statement said: “L am profoundly shocked and grieved to learn of the death of Sen- ator McCormick, The scnator and 1 had been friends for 25 years, and the contest which we had did not interfere with our long friendship. He was a man of fine natural talent, unusual educational training and cquipment, and had the advantage of wide travel and intimate friendship with the leaders in many lands, He was in the prime of life and his un- timely death will be a great loss to | the state and nation.” Was Not Yet 48, The senator was approaching his | forty-cighth birthday, having becn born in Chicago on May 16, 1877, He was a grandson of Joseph Medill, pioneer Chicag® editor and founder of the Chicago Tribune. He was a | son of Robert Sanderson McCormick. | His mother was Katharine Van Etta Medill McCormick Senator McCormick bore the name of his grandfather, having been named Joseph Medill McCormick, | | His father was a diplomat and au-| thor. The latter had been ambassa- dor to Austria-Hungary and to Rus- | sia. The senator's mother, Mrs. Rob- | ert 8. McCormick, has been In| Florida two months. The senatot’s | father was a son of William Sander- | son McCormick, who was a member | of the reaper family. | It was announced here today that Mrs, McCormick had been told of the senator's iliness yesterday and that in the afternoon she communi- | cated with the senator's secretary | at Washington by telephone, She | was assured that his condition was | not alarming and that he said he ) felt much improved and would probably be all right in a day or | two. | The McCormicks had three chil- | {dren, Katrina, aged 12; John Me- | dill 9, 2nd Ruth Elizabeth 4. | Despite the high political honors | he had earned, Senator McCormick | prized two of his accomplishments far above the others. One was the introduction of the budget system ! into the financial system of Illinois | and later of the federal government. The other was his deep water legis- lation refating to the Lakes-to-Guif project. He had repeatedly said that it in years to come boats were running from Chicago through to New Orleans, he would feel that he had done something worth while. He had often pointed with pride Ito two other undertakings—that he was first in his neighborhood to plant soy beans on a large scale and that he raised alfalfa where alfalfa had not been raised before, His friends often were surprised at his intimate knowledge of the Bible and his mastery of the French language. He likewise knew Span- ish well. Senator as congressman linois. While the McCormick family has always been associated with the reaper business, the senator had re- peatedly announced that he had no interests in that business. Likewise, after he resigned years ago as publisher and managing edi- tor of the Tribune, he often stated that his political policies werc not to he confused with those of the | Tribune, they were separate. | McCormick at also served large from Il- DEFENSE OPENS UP National Disabled Soldiers' League | Produces Witnesses to Offset | Other Testimony. Washington, Feb. 25.—A defense | of the activities of the National Dis- abled Soldiers’ league, which has) been under investigation by a house | committee, was begun today when | witnesses were produced by the "'n:dglh’. Before the b ings, {ever, Abner Siegal, league couns [declared the organization's papers | were in the possession either of the | federal grand jury here | post office department, which { cently conducted an inquiry, | Mrs. Mary Todd, a Washington ! boarding house proprietor, testified | {that John T. Nolan, league nations commander, had disal Ve Chairman F her bills to the leagn rapidly since the he post office depar ed that had it n ague of tl 1 have died | how- | or of sent terans to more he ir investigation by mer m bureau Thirteen thousa {was paid out by | Chairman cag IFish MAKES REPORT ON GENEVA Washing 1 v color 1s | linen ton, or mixed cot goods, aw | laxative regulates the tender “California Fig Dependable Laxative for . Baby or Child 23 | Hurry Mothe en constipated, | Vilious, foverish, or sick, colic Bables- and Children love to take gemuine “California Fig Syrup.” No other little 4 bowels so nicely. It sweetens the 8 stomach and starts the liver and howels without griping, Contains no’ narcotics or soothing drugs. Say “California” to your druggist and avoid counterfeits, Insist wpon® genuine “California Fig Syrup” which contains directions. i Your child— Scientists now that it is far better g’l:: children have the right kind of candy regularly. Then they are less in- clined to over-eat. 4 The active growing bodies of little folks need sugar to replace the en- ergy they burn up so quickly in play. You can find no more ideal cfildy for children than Life Savers—the mints with thehole. Youngsters like these china-hard cirtlesof pure goodness. They eat them slowly because they are hard; also, because they love the wonderful flav~ ors and want them to last longer. St flavors displayedat all good stores so you A i Cinn-o-mon, Lic-o-rice, Cl-o-ve, and Viov-h Kiddies' Colds Mothers who have precious ittie lives in their keeping rea- he danger to delicate stom- uchs of so much dosing. That is why so many millions of mothers now depend entirely upon Vicks for croup and chil- dren’'s colds, There is nothing to swallow vyou just rub Vicks over throat and chest at bedtime and cover with a warmn flannel, leaving the hes loose about the neck sing vapors may inhaled. 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