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VOL. LXII—NO. 309 POPULATION 29,685 ' DECEMBER 9, 1920 AR T0 SIMPLIFY THE TAX ‘ Cabled Paragraphs ! Minds" * Republic of Baranya. P s < Vienna, Dec. 7.—The Funfkirchen dis- - = b trict, 105 miles southwest of Budapest, : N which was awarded to Hungary by the - peace treaty, has been declared the repub- lic of Baranya under the protection fo Serbia, which promises military aid ta e the event that Hungary attempts to oc- ON CORPORATION INCOMES Chairman Fordney of the House Ways and Means Committee Has a Definite Plan in Mind—So Simple That a Corpora- tion Will Not Have to Hire an Expert or a Lawyer— Change Will Be Made at Extra Session After March 4— Finds That the Estimates For Governmental Expendi- tures Are Ridiculously High—To Begin Within a Few Days Hearings on Revision of Tax Laws. day toward revision of taxand tacift laws| at the extra session to be called soon e aensn Forney of the hous wayal and means committee announced that his committee would begin hearings within improvement. I do ess will grant any such TREASURER HOUSTON GIVES SCHEME OF TAX REVISION Washington, Dec. 8.—More equitahle and {Just distribution of the four billion. dollar a few & on revision of the tax laws, |tax burden which the American , people these hearings fo continue until Jamuary;must bear for at least four more years § wher hearings will be started on tarift| was recommended to congress taday by Jegistation. Almost simultaneously with|Seerctary Houston, who in his | annual Cliibian Ford announcement, Sen-| report submitted a comprehensive, scheme ator McCumber of North Dakota. acting| of tax revision. Shairman of the semate finance commit-| “Revision of taxes should bo effected.” tee, lssued @ call for a mesting of that|Mr. Houston wrote congress. - “There committee for tomorrow when plans willlcan and should be a better dstribution of be made for hearings similar to those|the tax burden. Unwise taxes should be sontemplated by the house rnmm;(lcu.. leliminated. But any scheme which would The senate and house committees alike|after this fiscal year yield for several hope to conclude their hearings by the years to come less than four billions of end of the present session. The house|gollars would be‘incompatible with safety sommittee, Chairman Fordney said. eX-|and sound finance. And the ‘country pects to be able to begin the work of|gnould face the fact that present taxes drafting the new tax and tariff measures|even may not in the future be relied up- a8 s0on as the extra session is convened. | ., 1o yield the needed revenue.” The senate committee’s hearings are ex- The secretary of the treasury sald the pected to be briefer than those planned| .xcess profits tax should be repealed and by the house committer must of course, be replaced. He said he Chalrman Fordney's announcement | pojiaved it should be “replaced in large tollowed a conference or‘ the l‘r;aio:;llg part by some form of corporation profits members of the committee. e tax.” hat as soon as the committee had had Reduction of the higher groups of the Ume fo study the tax recommendaiions)income sur-taxes accompanied by in- contained in the annual report of Sec-|oreqes in the lower income surtax rates retary Houston of the treasuty. sent| UG 0 o G RS ary, Who to eonzress today, he would invite Mr. ,.pg tnat congress ‘“comsider, such a Housten o appear before the committee gonora) reyision, with a reduction to a _n,,m,l,l,, .,: his v '“v:‘: m‘o‘r- x\l‘:}mfl: maximum rate lower than that contained committee ogramme, the cha in the present law, provided acceptible said, be andounced from day to : " . new taxes of equal yicld can be found. e e B Dt hat he had| The secretary said the plain fact was that the present rates, which are as high a8 70 per cent. could not be successfully collected and that “the effective way to tax the rich is to adopt rates that do not force investment in tax-exempt se- curities. Mr. Houston suggests a number of sources of revenue which could be tap- ped and others which could be revised-to make up for the loss of revenue occas- foned by the changes in the taxes which he recommended. These sources Were outlined as follows: Tmmediate revision of the nation’s tax laws on the basis of an annual levy of $4,000,000,000 for a period of four years. and including an increase of 2 per cent. in mind a definite plan for simplification of the tax on corporation incomes. One of his proposals is a flat tax on tha in- somes of corporations “having o sualification or other modifying provi- slons” He also said it was his desire “that the income tax laws be made So simple that a corporation will not have to hire an expert or a lawyer to figure how much it owes the government.” The wavs and means chairman de- clared that a study of Secretary Hous- ton's report had showed him that the “estimates for governmental expendiy tures are ridiculously high." “I can go down the list of estimates of the secretary and chop out approxi- mately a billion and a quarter dollars as unnecessary.” Mr. Fordney said. “Just|urged by Secretary Houston in his annual. for example. hie wants $181.000,800 for | report sent today to confress. i« %= the war risk insurance bureau. I think| Reneal.of the excess profits taxes, that it a hundred miflion doliars or more too high. “With the proposed eonsolidation of the various soldiers’ lef encins {1 one bureau. we can ve & hundred mi lion and eliminate 35.000 clerks in Wash- Ington. The secretary wants $75,000 for elimination of certain of the so-called luxury taxes, including the levy on soda fountain and similar beverages, and a readjustment of the rates in tie higher groups of income taxes, s proposed by (Continued On Page 7, Column 4.) FROTESTS INCREASED TAXES 0N PASSENGER AUTOMOBILES DRAFTING A BILL FOR A NATIONAL FOREST POLICY New York, Dec. 8.—In an address to members of the New York Automobile Dealers’ assoclation” today, Alfred Reec- es, general manager of the Nnational Automoblile Chamber of Commerce, urged strong protests against increased taxes on passenger automobiles, motorcicles and accessories as represented by Sec- retary Houston in his annual report to congress. Mr. Reeves said the recom.nendations of Secretary Houston, if incorporated in the tax laws, would increase by 100 per cent. the taxes now paid by motor car dealers and manufacturers. He added {hat the automobile industry is paying $143,000,000 annually to the federal gov- ernment, with state fees of $64,000,000, and personal property taxes and other fees of $50,000,000. He characterized as an injustice any additional tazes on the owners, . dealers and manufacturers of motor ears. The speaker asserted that although the | motor caf business i# r.ow running at less & 50 per cent. basis, the full year's Washington, Dec. 8.—A draft for a na- tional forest policy including better fire protection for the' forests was discussed today by the forest industries committee at a conference which was attended by representatives of the American News- paper Publishers' Association, The Amer- ican Forestry Association, the National Lumber Manufacturers’ Assoctation, the American Paper and ‘Pulp Association, the United States Chamber of Commerce and the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association. “I regard the proposed legislation as a milestone In our progress toward a na- tional forest policy,” said Colonel Willlam B. Greeley, United. States for- ester, after the conference. “The objec- tive now before the country has been defined by a large group of industries most directly interested and concerned and by representatives of the public. The next step is legislative action. It behooves us all to remember that mo great public movement of this character enacts itself.” production will exceed all IPL‘Q.'KI‘.‘.“ ;fl' 3 c! d 340,000 B e ARE EXPORTING GOODS OF INFERIOR STANDARDS HWARTFORD MAN CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLING $150,000 Hartford, Conn., Dec..8.—Raymond I. New York, Dec. 8.—A small group of Americans, Interested more in “exploita- tion than exportation,” are being much censured from Latin American commer- !‘nr:nm‘. - xh:'cg&:;l:n:r;;z{:o;m;z: cial interests upon American business Uhe Hartford-Connecticut Trust Com- | Men generally, it was alleged here today peny. His bond was sct at $60,000, which| PY Dr. L. S. Rowe, director general of he whs unable to furnish and he was|the Pan-American Union, before the New bt . S Tork Board. of Trades and Trgnsporta M. 3. Whaples, chairman of the board | ton. . " of trustees of the Trust company, said| Some American exporters, he said, that Porter had made a confession-to the| have failed to make deliveries witiin bank officers, saying that he speculated [ Specified periods and frequently have D e Stock. market through Hew York | Shipped malerials totally unlike products B okere. Potter 1s said to have told the| called for in contract specifications. The ank oMcers that he would make resti-| Fesult of such methods, he said, is that Litlon of $40,000. Mr. Whaples said the | millions of dollars worth of United States “ompany was protected by an insurance | 098 are to be found in the wharves of bond of $100,000, which would make the | River Flate ports. =~ i vank's alleged loss about $10,000. e difficulty, he said, has been the Porter is 25 years old and married. | 8bsence of an organization of export He was head of & department in the | trade to maie. possible enforcement of pank which handled Do cash, although|definite standard + large number of checks passed through als hands. PONZI CUT SHORT BY . REFEREE IN BANKRUPTCY THREE GUNMEN STAGED A HOLDUP IN STAMFORD Stamford, Conn., Dec. 8.—Three men with guns which they poked in his face #08o0 frightened Joshut Nemor- as he was closing his clothing store last night that he could not refuse to his cash drawer. The men ook $38 and Jeft. Upstairs there was a gance and many persons were on the strédet in front of the Rippowam bulld- ing but Nemortin did not recover. his presence Of mind in stil to make an tery the gunman got away. The have found no trace of the burglars who took $3.000 worth of goods from the Palace Dress Shop night before Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 8.—The election of the present federal receivers of Charies Ponzi as trustees to administer creditors’ claims of about six million dollars was approved by H. E. Warner, referee in are Edward A. Thurston, William Sears and James A. Lovell. ‘The election was determined by the number of claims represented on each creditor’s . ballot and the amounts in- velved. Ponzi was hrought from jail for a briet sppearance at the creditors’ meeting. He said he would no tassist the trustees unless those to be elected met with his in the taxes on fncomea th to $5,000. is l'rungm. tankruplcy, after a hearing today. They | | cupy from Ag: “TRENCH OF THE BAYONETS” DEDICATED AT VERDUN B < Verdun, France, Dec. S.—Simple dedi- catory ceremonies Were held here today at the monument erected to preserve the famous “Trench of the Bayonets.” This monument, which is over a trench in which was entombed a Dbattalion of French soldiers during the great struggle here in 1916, was made possible by a gift of 500,000 francs by George F. Rand of Buffalo, N. Y., who was killed in an air- plane accident in England last December, his son assuming the obligation. President Millerand, surrounded by Marshals Foch and Joffre, Minister of Pensions Magniot and other members of the cabinet, took part in the exercises. Hugh C. Wallace, American ambassador to France, standing uncovered upon the | steps of the iong, mass ture, made the presentation address. was followed by President Millerand. The Rand family was represented by v Mr. and Mrs. s Rand, the former a brother of donor of the monument, Georgz Rand, Jr, and his_sisters, the Misses Evelyn and Gretchen Rand, all of Buffalo, N. Y., Frederick A. Jackson of Paris, an intimate friend of Mr. Rand, and Mrs. and Miss Wattles of Buifalo. in a simple address Trench~ of the told the Bayonets,” and added: ‘America.entered at this stage, and it was here in the region of Verdun that her armics appeared, bringing with them the promise of a near triumph.” The president rendered homage to¢ ‘America's volunteers and her ambuiances and recited the accomplishments of the ‘American army. “Pershmg, like Lafay- ctte, fought for the triumph of liberty under our united banners,” he said. “America was victoricus in the_ 20th a3 in the 18th century. M. Millerand con- cluded: “Standing before the grave of French soldiers buried alive under arms in the sublime sacrifice, before the monument erected over this tomb by the peity of their American brothers in arms, let us call to mind the sacred oath of the men f Lafayette's and Washington's da; jance of France and the United & will never fail the cause of liberty ana civilization. Later President Millerand and Ambas- sador Wallace placed wreaths on the seven unidentified French soldiers whose Lcdies were exhumed from various sectors und \brought to Verdun. Originally there were eight of these unknown soldier dead but one of the bodies was chosen to Test beneati the Arc De Triomphe in Paris. §2,141,269 FOR RELIEF, WORK IN THE NEAE EAST New York, Dec. 8.—The executive committee of the Near HEast Relief to- day appropriated §2,141,269 for relief work and made it immediately available to meet the emergency caused by the invasion of the Armenian re- committee . announted it assumed responsibitity for * $1,600,000 of this as that amount is in excess of the pres ent assets of the organization. “This appropriation provides only. for the essential food and shelter require- ments of the.orphans and others already under the care of the Near East relief personnel,” . Charles V. Vickrey, gen- eral secretary, declared. The monthly appropriations ‘up to April 1921 were allotted as follows: Constantinople area: $225,000; Trans- caucasia, $125,000; Syria, §$115,000; for northiwestern . Persia $55,000, the first month and $50,000 per month thereat- ter; for Mesopotamia, $30,000 the first month, and $10,000 per month thereaf- ter. The movement for the repatriation of the remnants of the ancient Assyrian nation, Chaldean Christians, who were driven south from the Urumian plains in northwest Persia a year ago and were gathered in refugee camps near Hdmadan, has collapsed, according to a cable message received from Bagdad by the Near East Relief. Disturbed politi- cal conitions in. Persia and unrest in Northern Mesopotamia were given as the reasons for the abandonment of the attempt to return these refugees 1o their homes. When the matter was 1311 before the executive committee a :otal of $85,006 was appropriated for immedi- ate use in relief wWork among these re- fugees. The Near East Relief tonight an- nounced that a direct cablegram nad bee nreceived reporting the safety of ail American women and men relief work- ers who remained at their posts in Ar- menia after the collapse of the Arme- nian army and the conquest of “Armenia by the Turks. G _ AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FEDERATION CONVENTION Indianapolis, Ind, Dec. S—Enactment of a legislative program, including changes in the tariff, the income tax, the Esch-Cummins transportation = aet, -and the passage of several new measures was asked of congress today by resolutione adopted at the annual convertion of the American Farm Bureau Federation. President-elect Harding. also was re- quested to appoint a secretary of agri- culture who has a_ practical understand- ing of all phases of farming. Among the volicies enunciated by the resolutions was the federation's opposition to strikes and lockouts. Further the rsolutions declared the fed- eration’s opposition to what it said seem- ed to be the policy of the treasury de- partment and the federal reserve board for deflation and the request was made that bankers and merchants extend farmers’ obligations to secure “imediate from the present economic crisis” con- tronting the farmers. The adoption of the resolutions, which. It was announced, was by a unanimous vote, preceded the closing session tonight of the convention, at which officers were elected. Announcement also was made to- night of the appointment of committee to meet with bankers, merchants and consider the organization of a $100,000,- 000 export - trade corporation under the Edge act. NANCY GILL PLEADED GUILTY approval. The referee cut him short when he attempted to make a length statement 25, to his tangled affairs, ACQUITTED OF CHARGE OF ¥ 'MURDERING MER HUSBAND Somerville, N. J., Dec. l_ o GENFRAL HOLDUP BY POLICE IN THE STREETS OF CORK London, Dec. 8.—A briet despatch re- ceived from Cork late tonight says there was a general holdup of the public ir. the streets of Cork by the auiliary police his evening. Firing was heard in vari- ous parts the city. . A man leaving & church was shot dead. - was much alarm in the streets, ‘which were quickly deserted, —Tt took the than an hour late this after- >quit Mrs. Bernardina Moody of murdering her husband, ‘Moody, who at one time was train- Bob “m“x'im.":a' heavy- champion pugi oody was and killed ‘t' hu# home at Freedom day during a quarrel with tw0 stepchildren. Mrs. lefense, A seif-de TO AN JLLEGAL OPERATION Hartford Dec. 8.—Nancy Gill, 66 years old, Who a quarter of a century figured in a nogorious murder case in Bridgeport and was sentenced to state prison then for eight years on a qharge of man- slaughter. stood, gray-haired and brok- en, before Judge Green in the superior criminal court today and pleaded guilty toan illegal operation on Camelo Darin, an Ttalian woman of New Britain. Judge Green after hearing Assistant Piedce, who appeared for Mrs. GIIl, sen- tenced the woman to state prison from the district, according to despatches ram today. < concrete strue- | amount until the money could be raised, | relief public officials at Chicago on Friday to State's| the house of commons today that Attorney 'Newell Jennings and Noble E.|supplementary estimates for the - Elect ot in Ca Prétnisss Mad e During paign. 3 Marion, O., Dec. 8.—After a month's vagation trip to Texas and Panama, President-elect Harding returned to Marion today to lay the foundations of his administration and its policies in con- sultation with many of the nation's lead- ing statesmen. . _ The “meeting of minds” he promised during the campaign will begin early next week after he has disnosed of, accurmulat- ed correspondence and has put into more concrete form the questions he wants to ask those who come here to confer with him. The league of nations will be fore- most in his discussions, but several other problems will be kept in mind as he gath- ers advice and prepares himself for ex- coutive responsibility. Throughout the ‘campaign and since, Mr. Harding has declared many times that there are urgent questions to ‘be de- cided in tne nation's domestic affairs and 1o these he will give attention in some of his conferences here. For one thing he has advocated a reorzanization of sev- eral government- departments to insure greater business efficiency- and he. is exX- pected before Match 4 to - discuss that subject with some of the country’s most successful business executives. Meantime, too, he must choose' his cabinet and must frame. the taxation program he will rec- ommend to the extra session of congress to follow soon after his inaugaration. Upon most of these subjects he made some progress during his two-day visit in Washington. His mind refréshed by his long play spell, the president-elect evidenced today 2 keen desire to get vigorously Into the swing of the task before him. ~During his absence in the south he has devoted his time almost without interruption to rest and recreation, putting: into the buc?{- ground entirely the trying responsibilitics of the presidency. He told his friends that this vacation probably would be his last real respité before he retires from the White House, and he tried to make the most of it. Dresident-elect and Mrs. Harding move to some southern resort some time during January but they expect to be in Marion continuously until after the holidays. Within this period Mr. Harding hopes to conclude the league of nations conferences and te gather much important data on domestic questions Senator Hitchcock of X ebraska, who led President Wilson's senate fight for ratification ‘of the Versailles treaty, and Senator Shields of Tennessce. an oppo- nent of unreserved ratification, will be among the first democrats to.be consu'ted by the president-elect in his league con- ferences. He also will ask the advice of geveral prominent .women regarding the league, but the list has mot been com- bleted. Senator. Harding had not decided to- night whether he would resign from the senate sooner than he had planned, upon Governor Cox’s promise to appoint Frank day he tried to ret into tele- | phonic communicaticn with Mr. Willis but j Was unable to'do so because of the seri-. ous Miness of the latter's father. 7The president-elect's decision ma: upon Mr. Willis® washes, | ¢ Pased MISS MACSWINEY TELLS OF CONDITIONS 1IN IRELAND Wflshlng{nfl, Dec. 8.—Charges that the British government has kept alive and conspicuously stirred religious hatred in Ireland-and has sought through a “relgn Of terror” to starve that country into submission brought to a conclusion eight hours of testimony today by Miss Mary MacSwiney, sister of the late lord mayor of Cork, before the commission from the ittee of one i vesti, Gommittee of one hundred Investigating *Miss MacSwiney told tie commisst that she and Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney, the lord mayor's widow, had come from Ire. land to “aid the commission in obtaining the true facts.” She made the prediction that Ireland would gain its freedom ever' though “England had to be beaten to the ground.”. The widow will be heard tomorrow. Miss MacSwiney punctuated her story of the movement for Irish freedom with the assertion that the United States had mot lived up to its ideal of “making the world safe for democracy.” “We are not disturbers,” the witness sald. “We want just to be left alone. We are not using coercion and we will not be coerced. We simply want England to clear out; we'll forgive her of every- thing, if she will only leave us alone. “We are going to get our freedom," she continued. “That every Irish repub- lican knows, for you cannot keep in con- tinual slavery a people, every ome of whom is ready to die for his country.” Miss MacSwiney recounted instances which she said proved that the British government ‘was deliberately firing re- ligious hatreds aund’added that - there would be no religlous differences “if the protestants and Catholics were left with- out outside interference.” The Irish have not persecuted ‘anybody, she asserted adding that the peace and prosperity o the large Jewish quarters in Cork and Dublin attested to that fact. The wit- ness said that “where there are no black and tan police there reigns peace and Dprosperity and a satisfied population.” “The British government” Miss Mac- Swiney continued, “has instituted a reign of terror in Ireland. It seeks to destroy work. It wants to starve us into sub- mission. The Irish people don't want war If England will get out, wé will estab- lish prosperity in our republic. We will keep our ports open and promise to let none use them as a war base.” CONSIDERING A TRUCE & IN THE IRISH **IUATION London, Dec. 8.—The recent message of Father O'Flanagan of Roscommon to Lremier Lloyd George concerning a truce in the' Irish situation is understood to have been under comsideration by the cabinet this morning. The knptty prob- lem said to be confronting the government is whether Father O'Flanagan represents the full foree of Sinn Fein moderate opin- fon. It is stated on high authority that it it is decided he does represent such orinion the gove: t will reply to his rmessags with a stitement embodying the following .terms: “No amnesty, no repub- lic, and a. cessation from the present czmpaign’ of outrrge and murder.” The opinion was expressed today by same students of the Irish problem here that the repudiation of Father O'Flana- gan's message by a section of the Sinn Tein had its origin in a desire for amnes- | ty for certain Sinn Feiners who are fugi- tives from justice. Estimate For British Navy. London, Dec. 8.—It was. announced in the navy will be oyer six million pouynds sterling and for the air force meatly two mil- lion pounds sterling... 40-sacceed Ldmi |- property and to. throw people out of| Caneda Opposed to Eurcpean Control British Delegates to L. of N. Asszmbly, Deeply Afiec.ged ‘Delegate. Geneva, Dec. $.—(By the A. P.)—The rienced was provoked today by N. W. Rywell, of Canada, who expressed his views regarding Kuropcan statesmanshin in a way that startled diplomatisis of the old world. A sharp debate arose over the recom- mesdation of the committee on technical organizations that the assembly propose to the governments to sct up under thc auspices of the league three new orgwn- izations: Fnances, transit and realth. } with annual conferences on these sub- Ject: Mf. Rowell objected on thé¢ ground that it was impossible for distant coun- tries to send their Lest men abroad four times o vear to attend the assembly and the conforences, and declared that the result would be to throw these organiza- tions under European influence. The as- sembly, he held, should occupy Iltself with these questions. Canada, at any rate, he gaid, felt that there were questions that should not be allowed to fall into Buropean control. “Fifty thousand Canadian soldiers un- der the sod in France and Flanders is the price Canada has pald for Kureopcan statesmanship,” he eried, to the aston- ishment of the entire assembly and the dismay of some of the delegates. Arthur Balfour and Mr. Fisher were plainly affccted by the thrust from a British Dominion. They remained mo- tionless in their seats throush the bal- ance of the debate, with grave faces. Lord Robert Cecil, represznting South Africa, in a gentle way, soft:ned the blow Dby saying that he agreed with much that Mr. Rowell had said. but thought Mr. Rowell was mistaken In sup- posing that the organizations would fall under the control of Europe. Several of the delegates suggested to Mr. Rowell that his words had created a different impression than he had intended. The Canadian delcgate took the floor again and said he did not mean to attack European statesmen, and, rather than give offense, preferred to withdraw his words. It was agreed to let the question go over until tomorrow. In the meantime. erdeavors will be made to arrive at a compromise. Some of the principal delegates, weary- ing of the protacted discussions and somewhat discouraged in their efforts to hasten the work of the assembly, are | talking of going home. M. Viviani, who has been away from his law practice for nearly a month, said he would not stav longer than the end of this week. The general ‘opinion, however, is that it will be Impossible to finish before the end of next week unless the debates are summarily shortencd. GREAT BRITAIN BARS . INVESTIGATOBS EROM IZELAN] ‘Washington, Dec. 8.—The special com- mittee of six which the commission of the committee of one hundred now hold- Ing hearings here on th Irish question had hop:d to send to England and Ire- land to gather first hand information will not be permitted to visit Great Brit- nin. William MasDonald, secretary of the commission, was informed in a letter sent today by R. L. Craigle, first secretary of the British embassy that “the proposed visit to British territory is not agree- able to His Majesty's government,” and that therefore the embassy would not vise the passports issued to members of the committee by the American state de- partment. Mr. Craigle's letter which apparently was in reply to one from Mr. Macdonald making formal anplication for vise of the passports, said in part: “This decision has been reached after full consideration of the circumstances of the case and I am to refer you to the ambassador's letter of October 23rd. in which he informed you that he was un- able to believe that the truth could be established until there had been a period of quiet in Ireland and then only by per- sons of the greatest experience of the ilaws of evidence with power to compel the production ‘of books, papers and re- cords and trat any otrer form of inquiry would in his opinion lead only t> a mass of statements unsupported by facts being made for propaganda purposes.” Members of the special. committee which it had been planned to send to England and' Ireland as announced by the commission were Oliver P. Newman. former district _commissioner of this vity; the Rev. Norman Thomas and Ar- thur Gleason of New York; James H. Mourer, president of the Pepnsylvania state_federation of labor, William Mac- Donald, and Dean Morss Lovett of the University of Chicago. Passports issued to members of the committee were for “travel and study in Europe, including Great Britain,” or for { purposes similarly stated, it was sald to- day at the state department. -Applica- tions for the passports were made by the committes members individually and thus the question_of whether the state de- partment would grant passports -for a committee as such as, such to zo to Eng- 1and and Ireland was mot raised. | TO FIGHT STRIKING COAL MINERS TO A FINISh New York, Dec. 8—Coal operators in Alabama anG Wingo county, West Vir- ginia, are determined to fight.the striking miners in those regions “to a finish,” said a statement by George Dexter, di- rector of the New York Wholesale Coal Trade Association, made public tonight by the association, Mr. Dexter, who has just returned from the strike districts, said: “Less than ten per cent of the min- ers have joined the union and by their murderous tactics' they are attempting to force the other 90 per cent. to join their organization. Most of the fighting is being done from ambush in- traditional feudal fashion, but the introduction o1 the militia is gradually bringing order ous of chaos, “The producers are determined to con- tinue the fight on the unionizing of the men against their will, until the union concedes defeat.” REASONABLE RATES FOR ) STOCK CATTLE LOANS Kansas City, Mo, Deo 8 —Bankers have confidence in the livestock industry of the southwest and will carry stock cattle loans at reasonable rates, under an agreement reached at a conference between local bankers and Governor J. Z. Miller, Jr.. znd Chairman A. E. Ram- say, of the Tenth Federal Reserve bank, it was announced today. It is not the § tention of bankers to. force liquidation of stock cattle, and further laons wiit be eranted in exceptional instances. Other conditions are satisfactory, the * bankers decided. liveliest emoticn this assembly has expe-' | 4 of of Focestry will have a reunion Uucember 21 and 22. The Italian desiroyer Bromzéttl, block- {ading Flume, has joined the D Aniiuszio (orces. John Skelten Willlams wos renominat- jed by Persident Wiison t> be controlier jot the currency. by Thrust From Dominion! Steamer Fintand arrived at Sow York | with $2,700,000 in goid cunmigued to Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Anaconda Copper Mining Co. will clos its Leonard Mine Dec. 1L uccause of lack ot demand for the metal. | American Locomotive Co. received an order from the Missouri Pacific itailroud for 25, Mikado typ: locomotives. Seuthern Pacific Rairoad has lail off 2.000- men in 1ts mechanical General Cipriano Castrc, former presi- dent of Venzuela, and wife have arrived at Santiago, Cuba, ¢n route to New York. The number of unemployed In Rhode Isiund. was 23,695 freater oni Nov.mber 20 thiani on the corresponding date a year ago. Three fishermen in the power bost An- toning weré towed to Boston after drift- ing 24 hours in a gaie with their boat abled. Gearge S. Rice, for seven years chief engineer of the Rapid Lransit Board of New York, died at his home in Montclair. N:J. A farther reduction of $10 a ton for lead ore was announced at Jopiin, brims- ing the base price of lead to u new low level of $45. Under the system of compulsory ath- Ietics ‘for first year men at Harvard U for winter sports. Four men held up two proprictors and a clerk in a Chicago jewelry store. and escaped with $25,000 worth of jewlery and $800 in cash. Russia warned Rumania not to permit violation of her neutrality by rebels against the soviet, uecording to dispatch reaching Helsngfors. Officers of the American lake steamer Lake Shore upon arrival at Mobile re- ported finding 10,000 rounds of contra- band ammunition aboard. Jorn Scanlon, formerly a police Heuten- ant in New ‘York, is under arrest in Ire- land charged by the British authorities with being o Sinn Fein suspect. The directors of the Farr Alpaca Com- pany, Holyoke, Mass.. recommended to the stockholders that the $7.200,000 cap- ital stock of the company be doubled. Thirteen prominent soclelies of Japan have .organized. a neeting. of .profest against the anti-Japancse measurcs adopted in California at the last election. A new coutse in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University to give men a broader traning in certain fundamental sciences and scentific methods was an- nounced. The American army In ome way or another, has cleaned up all outstandinz war contracts with Great Britain by pay- ment of a lump sum of approximately $10,000,000. Seeretary Payne, department of in- terior urged congideration of Governor Riges' (Alaska) appeal for medicinal whiskey for treatment of pneumonia and influenza. The first legislative action of the hause at this session was taken with the pas- sage of a bill authorizing the president to issue medals of merit for distinguished service performed during the world war. An appropriation of one millon dol- lars to be used in co-peration with the states in forestry work durng the next fiscal year was asked of congress by the department ‘of agriculture. program which included a welcome to of- ficers and men of H. M. S. Calcutta, flag- ship of the Bermuda squadron. The five cotton mills in Greenwood county, 8. C.. are now operating on full time several weeks, with one exception the plants have day and night shifts. A decislon. handed down by Federal Judge Alschuler, arbitrator in packing house wage dispute, granted a 5 per cent. increase for the period between July 5. 1920 and Dec. 5, 1920, in Chicago. When Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief sec- retary for Ireland, demanded the Sinn Feiners surrender their arms or submit to arrest, there was a great uproar of dis- approval in the house of commons Frederick F. Giliett, speaker of the |house of represeiiatives and - Semator Selden P. Suencer of Missouri: will he speakers at the 1i5th- annual dinver of the-New England Society of the city of New York. The Swiss federal autborities have in- stituted an inquiry into the activities of former Emperor Charles of Austria’ in Switzerland, follpwing _ the exposure of alleged Hapsburg intrigues by the so- clailst newspaper Tagwacht. Congressional Investigations of the in- creasing unemployment to determine what action if any can be tagen by the federal government was proposed in a Jolnt resolution introduced by Represent- ative Mason. Post Office Inspectors Collis Som- mers report=d a sack of important inter- national mail sent from the Orient through Toklo, with England, Ireland and Scot- 1and as its destination was rificd in a New York hatel room. Jersey Clty haw forbldden all megroes to appear on the street after 9 p. m. un- less they can give asatisfactory explana- tion of their business and identity. An unusual number that city lately TnegTOes. Representatve Hamilton Fish, of New York introduced a joint reslution in the houge asking that a body of an ynidenti- fied American soldier who fell on the bat- tlefield during the world war be brought fo this country and burled in Arelington National Cemetery. % have been charged to A fifty ner eent. cut In cotton produe- tion in 1921 through curtallment of the acreage planted (o one-third of the totas land in cultivation was agreed upon at a conference at Memphis, Tenn.. of Southern bankers, merchants and farm- ers. " | versity, 590 freshmen have been enrolled | ) The Britannla day was given special | recognition in New Bedford wth a varied | after having curtailed production | 1 ogal Phjudelpafa to adjust @ Justice or inequzity w wage incceas or t sion The attitude ward the demands of the. miners minimum day had been holding almost conferences during’ the la of Prices and Lowering Costs Long-Hour Men on an Eight Hour - er Represeatatives Are to Make Report to General Seale igrecment, representaiives Of the, - thracite mine operators today uotifed the mine’ workers that they wers agalnst grantng any general, additional ake any action that would tend o reopen the award of tie United States authrucite coal commiie= the mine owners to- general additfong! wage Tncredses, a 34 labor Tate, and ‘an uni versal eight-hour day for the hard coms workers was made known to the miners here late today at an exécufive ‘session of the joint sub-scale committee -of ihe anthracite miners and operators, ‘which continuous three days. Pending a meeting of the operatérs to make a more forma! answer as fo their position on general wage increases, the miners’ representatives will make 3 re- port on today's reply at @ repg® on te- ) ting eome of the ‘long-hour elght-hour sehedule. d Neither the operftors nor thé- milmers répresentatives - wire: willing' 10 diseusn the probabdle bulcume of the ‘present: com- troversy'. . No threat of sstriky for anthracite mimers and - been in progress sincs. last wuiting early in- the fall #n & tion™ str'ke-which - reriusly. production in the harJ ces! region. | NO UNITED STATES ENYOYS Washington, armament commission. nations _council de facto participation.” plan for world disarmament. couscil. “I have 1t follo viting the government “The governmeni of the commission acting on - behalf of | wee romuEmLy vxaBLE TO approaching wood legislative rly a dozen Ca variably turned in while the “lumber trade Wi lined up, said. business of boosted The prices. Thompson-Starrett ble Life skyscrapers, the tallest largest petit! witz, its president, Structural steel, testified. ate under an “open =hof, said. *{0TOE TRUCK KILLED WOMAN Milfo! on the Milford turrrike. Peter ctine. The woman was thrown woman. ing an investfgation by wmotor truck, also was held. JAPAN HAS RECOGNIZED NEW MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TO DISARMAMENT COMMISSION Dec. 8.—President Wil- son today declined the invitation of the ieague of nations to send delegates to take ‘part in the discussions of the dis- The president informed the league of that inasmuch us the Uniied States was not a member of the|ge league he did not feel justified in ap- pointing a commission “to take even a The United States, however, the pres- ident declared. is in sympathy with aty The reply of the president to the in- vitation of the league council was trans- mitted today through the state depart- ment to Paul Hymars, presiGent of the the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your cablegram of Dec. 1 I.-‘ council in the execution of provisions in the covenant of the league of nations™ OBTAIN COMPETITIVE BIDS York, Dec. h—Officlals of largest construction corporations United States, with a combined $100,000,000 Only an insignificant part of the sand ew York is handied by @ concern outside the “board of trad which it was testified had fixed and ON THE MILFORD TURNFIKE THE RELIEF oF raniEns Washingion, Dee. sonents of e a— leglsiation to reyive OFyoration and theseby i § i, T o R s e lnnmn MEASURES POR U of the United Siates 0 name representatives to sit with the military, naval and alr com- missions gf the. league in a consultative capacity during the discussions by the commission on thy reduction of arma- ments, the consideration of which s to e undertaken by it forthwith at the re- quest and on behalf of the council. United Btates is most sympathetic With any sincere effort to. evolve a constructive plan for| disarmament which is %o necessary for the economic rehabil'#tion peace and stabllity of the world. The president of the United States is deeply interested in this question and is most _desirous of co-operating 1o this end, but as the gov- ernment of the United States is not & member of the league he does not feel justified in appointing a_commission to take even & de facto participation in the deliberations of the council or of the the two ear, testified in the “building trust” in- vestigation today that before the Lock- inquiry began it was impossible to obtain competitive bids in lines of matetials. ractors for sand, gravel, marble, plumbing, limestone, brick, cement, lime, crushed Stone and fireproofing work in- identical _estimates, pretty well with prices uniform” they 903,620.05 made public partment of change and board ceipls of the grain Company, which built the Woolworth, and Equita- and office buildings In the world, and which does an annual business of $60,000,000 found it futile to seek com- e bids in New York, Louis Horo- ment of the'grain.to seasons the great wesi's cereal was handlied to the Atiahs tic seal ang ! Européan tne of the few im- portant bullding materials which they did not mention as controiled locally, can not be had by the' Thompson-Star. rett Company because it _does. not oper- " Mr. Horowitz fourth -with 630,000 , Conn., Tec. 8.~An unidentifiéd woman was killed late today when motorcycle sidecar in which she wak rid- ded head-on with a motor triek ing_colli . Hartford, driver of the motorcycle, was unhurt, although thrown from the ma- out against a rock. She was taken to'a phy+ sician's ‘office, but was dead on arrival there. Champ said he did not know the He was held by the police pend.- Coroner Mix. Jack Wolf of Hartford, driver of the Medical Examiner W. J. H. Fischer examined the woman's bedy and founc tattoo marks on both of her arms and o Ter left leg. She was about 33 years old New Mexico, Dec. 7—Japan has rec the Mexican minister in Toal> cd the new Mexican governmert of crimes committed in |according to a dispatch “received from P made public tonight by the fereign of fice. government. UNITED FRUIT COMPASY HAS DOUBLED ITS €A amended certificate of L Ths foreign office also annouac:l of- ficially that Brazil had resogaized thi TAY incorporatisn filed_here today, the capital of the Unit increuse: ed Fruit Company has been from $76,000,000 to $159,000, capital stock is divided into 1 shares of a par value of §100 sach. “The o