Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 21, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXII—NO. 319 - ~ POPULATION ; “NORW ICH, CONN. TUESD NEW YORK CITY THOROUGHLY AROUSED BY WAVE OF CRIVE Another Murder by Gunmen and Numerous Minor Robberies Were Reported Yesterday—Thé Most Sweeping Round- Up of Crooks in the History of New York is Underway —_American Legion and Merchants’ Association Are Making Plans to Help the Municipal Authorities—Crim- inal Courts Have Cleared Their Calendars For Action Against Robber Bands—Heavy Penalties Are to Be In- flicted in Cases of Conviction. New York, Dec. 204—-"R.1it?'s by Dpo- lice fail to stop crime wave. Thus read headlines in New York new‘:papu‘l tonight after what was de- scribed as the first day of “the most sweeping round-up of crooks in the his- tory of New York." : During the day, amid numerous minor robberies was listed on police Tecoras another murder by gunmen who invaded the Seamen’s Mission on the waterfront and shot and killed one man while steal- ing $400. . But at roll call in police Stations this afternoon were read two orders that in- dicated Commissioner Enright intends to push the round-up to the limit, The first command was for patrolmen to stop and question all pedestrians found between midnight and dawn on unfrequented streets, and if their actions arouse suspicion, to search them for fire- arms. T The second order revoked permission for policemen to take half an hour for meals while on duty. i Revocation of the meal hour permis- sion came after the board of estimate had postponed until tomorrow further con- sideration of a request by Commissioner Enright frr nearly 600 more uniformed rs of his force. ml‘:‘e?nwh\lz criminal courts cleared their calendars for action against robber bands. All cdses against burglars and highway- men were advanced, and heavy penal- ties. inflioted -in cases where a verdict of gullty was returned. While the municipal authorities were preparing to launch their official of- et e on the underworld, the Amerivan Legion, merchants’ “assoflation and oth- er bodles met to lay plans of their own. New York posts of the War Veterans' mssociation, after their session, dispatch- ed a letter to Mayor Hylan offering him ‘t'hs services of 500 to 5,000 selected members of the legion to reinforce the regularly constituted police force of Greater New York at such a time as you, as the chief executive of the city and responsible for the maintenance of law and order, may determine that their services are required.” “This offer is made recognizing the responsibility of the individual mem- bers of the legion as citizens and does not contemplate oifering the assistance of the legion in any matter involving in- dustrial disputes,” added the letter. Steps taken in other. cities to check erime waves were discussed at the meet- ing of the Merchants' association, which appointed a committee to study the .sit- uation in New York. Mrs. Lucille Emma Brooks, who under arrest with John Cavannaugh and Nicholas lLoresch in connection with the shooting of Police Lieutenant Horton in & running fizht with gang- sters after a hold-up last week, today appeared before a grand jury. Before testifving, she was said to have declined a daiver of immunity, accord- ing to attaches of the criminal courts building. this presents prosecution of her in the present case. It was reported she had signed a statement, but its contents were not made public. Mrs. Brooks was heavily veiled, but &he appeared on the point of tears, when she entered the jury-room. She was one of eight witnesses summoned by Assist- ant District Attorney Dineen, who ap- peared before the legal body to ask for first degree murder indictments in the Horton case. Examination of witness- es will be continued tomorrow. John Walter Brooks, a Chicago insur- ance man who hastened here to his wife's assistance, accompanied her into the criminal courts building. In receiv- ing newspapermen he reiterated his con- fdence in Mrs. Brooks' innocense. He said she was 35 years old and a native of Russia. Asked if he knew the persons with whom Mrs. Brooks was alleged to have been riding in the car from whose run- ning board Horton fell to his death with a bullet -in his lung, Mr. Brooks said that he believed he had seen Nicholas Loresch deliver drug store supplies to the apartment the Brooks once occupied near Barnard college and that John Cav- anaugh was the son of a janitress im another apartment house in which they had liver. Mr. Dineen said that, under examina- tion, Mrs. Brooks admitted having been drinking the night of the Horton kill- ing, but denied having any weapon with her. According to the version of her ex- amination given out by the district at- torney's office, “Nick"” Loresch was as- sisting her to move by automobile to Brooklyn when they met Joseph Loresch and Cavanaugh, with whom she had sev- eral drinks. She was quoted as saying that later #he went fer an automobile ride with the party, heard a shot, saw a man jump on the running board, realized that #he herself was wounded and became dazed. The next thing she knew, ac- cording to Mr. Dineen, was being taken home by “Nick.” A statement issued by the woman's attorney coincided in the main with Mr. Dineen’s version of her story, except that it made no mention of the drink- . Demand for a legislativé investigation of the financial condition of the city of New York and of every municipal, bor- ough and county department in the city, especially the police departmeht, is con- tained in a resoluticn mada public tonight by Henry H. Curran, borough president of Manhattan. 1t will be submitted to the board of estimate tomorrow for ac- tion. A crisis in the city's financial condition which demands immediate investigation 13 reyealed, the resolution says, by the fail- ure of the board of estimate and appor- W‘“ to appropriate $27,000,000 neces- 6 conduet the public schools during the last four months of 1921. “The unparalleled peril to lifs and prop- erty that exists today in every home, of- fiee, shon and puhlic place in the city,™ it adds, “as evidenced by the recent record of undetected and unpunished murder and robbery, demands a similar investiga- tion.” Declaring that he will vote for tiec 769 additional patrolmen asked for by Police Commissioner Tinright. Prosident Curran @eclared : “ “L would vote for three times as many 4t that alone would hei uo. | i Floyd | and their coming stimulated speculation | in automobiles. They werey particulariy active in. the Bronx and many tmoforists entering the city were stopped and ques- tioned. ive men were arrested in an Eighth avenue jewelry store tonight while, po- lice charged, they ere attempting™to dis- pose of $15,000 worth of goods said to have been stolen frcm a warehouse. BANDITS ESCAPED WITH : SAFE CONTAINING $16,000 Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 20.—Six men armed with shotguns and with the lower part of their faces covered with bandanna han- kerchiefs overepowered ten guards of the American Raliway Expncss company here early tonight and escaped with a safe containing about «§16,000 in cash and Liberty bonds. ! The holdup took piace on Summit street, the city’s mdin business thorbugh- fare,les sthan four blocks from police headquarters. The exprees company guards were conveying the safe. on a wheelbarrow to a truck in the rear of the store preparatory to taking it to union station, a mile away, for shipment edst. When the guards Stepped outside the store the six bandits drove up in two au- tomobiles beat two of the guards sense- less, loaded the safe into one of the cars and escaped. All availalle policcmen have been armed with shot; in search for the bandits. the ity ns and are HOLD-UP ON TRAIN PLATFORM AT SAYBROOK JUNCTION Saybrook Junction,- Deec. 20.—Herman Solotoroff, 25, of East Lyme, was robbed of $120 and his watch by two hold up men here tonight while he was waiting for a train connection. H= was walking near the end of the train platform when two men attacked him, one hitting him over the head with a blunt instrument. The robbers are thought to have escaped in an automobil HARDING IN CONFERENCE ON MANY SUBJECTS Marion, Ohio, Dec. 20.—President- elect Harding's conferences on the poli- cies of his administration ranged far and wide today among the nation’s forcign and domestic problems and gave him the benefit of advice from upwards of a dozen of the “best minds” he has-invited Into consuitation. Two of those with whom he has talked about domestic qu:stions have been vper- sisitently mention for cabinet positione. b about tty possibility of their appointment to the next president’'s official family. They were Charles G. Daw:s, Chicago banker, and Henry Wallace, of Des Mones, Iowa, an editor of farm publica- tions. With the former Mr. Harding talked of financial conditions and tax reforms, ana with the Matter discussed farm reli:f. Senator John K. Shields, of Tennessee. a democratic member of the foreign re- lations committee, and an irm-concilable opponent of the Versailles treaty, con- ferred with president-clect about the plan for an association of nations and gave his approval of the general prin- ciples proposed by Mr. Harding for an in- ternational court. ‘The league ques- tion also was discussed by the president- elect with Samuel McCune Lindsay, prd- fessor of soclal legislation at Columbia. who said he was confident the foreign policies of the new administration were bedng laid on a sound foundation. Among other callers during the day were Lovernor Willlam C. Sproul’ of Pennsylvania, W. W. Atterbury, vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad. and Michael Gallagher, of Cleveland an official of the Hanna Intcrests, all of! whom tolked about financial and railway conditions. Mr. Atterbury was in charge of the American raflways in France dur- ing the war and has been rezarded as one of the world's leading experts on trans- portation. He sald h: viewed American raflway conditions hopefully and and felt that Mr. Harding had a competent under- standing ‘of the problem. Representative Slemp republican na- tional committéeman from Virginia, aiso saw the president-elect but said he came merely to make a delayed report on'the conduct of the campaign in the south. After his talk with the president-elect. Senator Shiclds said he did not gather that a very concrete plan had been form- ulated for a peacu league, but was con- figdent Mr. Harding had chosen wisely in working toward a codification of inter- national law and a world court rather than toward any sort of military allince. There was no evidence that anything definite regarding cabinet appointments developed between the president-elect and Mr. Dawes and Mrs. Wallace. Some of Mr. Hardings closest friends believe he still has an open mind about most of the cabinet selections and that none has been determincd upon finally. No definite offer of cabinet portfolios are ) expected by him until he has canvassed| he whole field thoroughly in his confer- ences here. BOAT BOTTOM SIDE UP; TWO HUNTERS MISSING Clinton, Conn,, Dac. 20.—The boat used by William H.” Howland and -~ Ernest Schwabe on their ducking trip last week, from which they did not return, was found bottom-sice up and with four oars in it, in Gardiner’s bay, Long Island, yes- terday. . It had driffed across the Sound. Men have gone over to bring the boat back. They probably can tell whether or not the hunters were in it when it capsized but the -belief here is that the boat broke away, leaving the men on Duck Island hreakwater and that they were washed off. A sharpje was washed into Saybrook Junction yesterday and Norman Rand went fro mhere to see it under the im- pression- that it might have been the Howland skill. 1: was of different type, and the message from Gardiner Bay iden- tified the real one. The Howland boat was a lapstrake one. * Men searched about the breakwater ull yepteraay for the bodies. As each Vv . ..{man had on hip rubber boots‘and prob- w.ew patrolmen, but Fefors that we need a |ably carrying ammunilion in their pock- pew nélice semmissioner. y . / et it is hardly thought likaly the bodies ‘Squads of police tonight toured the city will come to the surface. Bishop Burch Dies ‘ of Heart Failure Was President of the Episco- pal Synod of New York and _New Jersey. New York, Dec. 20.—Charles Sumner Burch, bishop of the New York diocese of the Episcopal church, died suddenly here today. Heart failure is thought to have caused his death, which was unex- pected although the prelate had not been well for several days. Bishop Burch was president of the Episcopal synod of New York and New Jersey, having b!‘sil elected to that of- fice last month. He attended the Lam- beth church conference in London, last summer, declaring its attitude on thz2 relation between capital and labor to he the “most advanced of any since the re- formation.” He was born in Pinckney, Michigan, in 1855, the son of a writer. He taught school two years, in Detroit afier being graduated from the University of Michi- gan in 1875. Later he took up journal- ism and became a reporter and editor in Chicago and Grand Rapids. He also worked in a Chicago publishing house owned by his brothers. From his early years he had aspired to the priesthood, but circumstances prevented his taking up his theological course in Chicago until he was 28 years old. He was ordained jn 1906, and be- came rector of St. Andrew’s church, Sta- ten Island. - A year later he was ap- pointed archdeacon, and three years af- terwards was elected suffragan bishop of the New York diocese. He was elected bishop of New’ York on September 17, 1919; Bishop Burch was married and had two children. Bishop Burch had been suffering the past week from ~laryngitis, but this morning felt a liitle better and, unac- companied, left his residence for a walk along Riverside drive. Near 127th street he. felt weak and went .into -the hallway of an apartment house to rest. ‘While there the fatal attack came. ANTI-STRIKE LEGISLATION CONSIDERED BY THE SENATE Washington, Dec. 20.—Anti-strike leg- islation “which has gone a part of the way through congress got momentary consideration again today in the senate. Senator Puindexter, republican, Wash- ington, whose bill designed to discour- age strikes in interstate commerce was passed by the senate last week without a word of debate and in an almost empty chamber, but was held from going to the house by a motion by Senator LaFol- lette, Wisconsin, to reconsider, gave no- tice that he would ask shortly for the removal of the parliamentary barrier. Senator Poindexter said that he intended to give the Wisconsin. senator a full g@p- portunity to bring the ’reconsidera¥o motion up for debate, but if that was not done, he would ask the senate to table it and let the bill proceed. Senator Robinson, democrat, - Arkan- sas, protested in. behalf of the motion to reconsider, although Senator LaFol- lette, who was in, the chamber, .did not join in the debate. . “This bill passed the senate under a rule designed_to t whieh H6"_objection position,”. Senator Robinson said. not disposed to criticise senators ‘who failed to object to its consideration, and remove the umanimous - consent agree- ment under which the sena‘e was operat- ing, but it i3 a2 measure upon which there is a sharp division of opinion and to which there is most substantial opposi- tion. ' It doesn't make this bill any friends to try and close off debate upon e Senator Smoot, republican, this point interjected: : “So far as I am concerned, there is no desire to shut off debate ,and I am consequently in favor of letting the mo- tion to reconsider come up for discus- sion. Utah, at e President Marshall ruled that the bill, although technically passed by the senate, could still be brought up for de bate. The senate adjourned before fur: ther action could be taken. DEALINGS WITH SOVIET RUSSIA NOW PERMISSIBLE Washington, Dec. 20.—Restrictions on exportation of coin, bullion and currency to Soviet Russia, on dealings or ex- change transactions in Russian roubles, and on credit or exchange transactions with Soviet Russia, ‘Were removed today by the treasury and federal reserve board, acting with the appfoval of the state department. The treasury and federal reserve board in annbuncing removal of the re- strictions said the action was taken ‘“to give force and effect” to the decision of the state department, as announced sev- eral montps ago, to remove barriers in the way of trade and communication with Soviet Russia. Removal of the final restrictions on trade with soviet Russia, treasuy cfficials explained, in no way meais government sanction of commercial relations with that country, but merely sives full effect to the state department’s announcement of July 7 that trade would be permitted 2t the trader’s Little is expected to be accomplished in the way of onening up trade with Russia through the Temoval of the financial re- strictions, treasury officials added, Pe- cause in the absence of official relation between the two governtaents all breine: transacted would be at the risk of the contracting parties. CONGRESS HAS REVIVED WAR FINANCE CORPORATION ‘Washington, Deec. 20.—Legislative en- actment of the joint resolution direct- ing revival of the war finance corpora- tion as a measure of relief for farmers against falling prices was completed to- day when the senate, without a rezowl vote concurred in house amendments eliminatinig the" section' suggesting rhat the federal rgserve board extend liberal credits to farmers. The resolution now goes to the president. Senators and representatives were di- vided today in their opinion as to a pos- sible veto. Some believed the presideat still would veto the measure, while oth- ers were inclined to the belief that' with the elimination of advice to the federal reserve hoard, approval of the executive would be given the measure. Leaders who were esponsible for the final enactment of the resolution, how- ever, expressed confidence of their ability to override a ve'o in.the senate and house. They were assured, they said, of votes from southern members in such 2. contingency. LONG FIGHT FAILED TO SAVE LIVES OF MURDERERS Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 20.—A long fight ir. the courts to save the lives of Alson B. Cole' and Allen V. Grammer, condemned murderers, ended shortly after 3 o'clock this afternoon, when botit men were put to death in the electric chair, « u flita‘e legislation- to, n Brief Tel rief Telegrams Turkisp Nationalists accepted the Brit- ish proposal for a confereace rea'umg the exchange of prisoners. 1 Armando Palacio Valdes, Spanish aa- thor, was nominated for membership in the Royal Spanish Acaiemy. The French dispatch boat Bar-de- Duo ran aground near Cape Doro. Twenty members of the crew - are thought to be 1 tost. Governor Coolidge signed a bill allow- ing women of Massachusetts the right to hold any municipal office except that of juror. L3 Canning unit of the American com- mittee for Devastated France won the gold medal at the Horticultural Socies: of France. Twenty-three communists at Uberty under bail in Neéw York city will ‘'be de- ported to Russia next Thursday;on the liner Imperator. Coast guards are making a-seirch for the unidentitied vessel, supposel’ to be the Svea, reported in distress off the coast of Oregon. Twelve persons were ' droward vhen the United States steam garet sprang a leak and sank tiaree nules below - Augusta, Ky. Panche Villa, former “bad man” ef Mexico, new ‘ranch ewner of Canutillo, Durango, appealed to President Obregon for police protection.’ The civil service commission will ex- amine 113 women tomorrow ‘for po- lice ‘jobs in Boston, Brookline, Lynn, Cambridge and Lowell, Mass. After prolenged negotiations, Berlin hotel keepers and restaurant owners an- nounce they will be able to resume serv- ing food to their guests. Plymouth Rubber Co., of Boston, cap- italized at $1,500,000, with factories at Conton, Mass., filed a bankruptcy peri- tion in the-federal court. . Mrs. R. Livingston Beeckman, wife of the governor of Rhode Island died sud- denly of heart disease ' at Sulphur Springs, Va. Allied warships were ordered to quit Greek ports to avoid rendering honors to the cruiser Averoff on which Con- staine is journeying to Greece. With a view of impriving Spanish ex- change, exporters of that country are planning virtual prohibition against im- portation of all articles of luxury. Salvador ~“Alvarade, Mexican minister of the treasury, has challenged Felix F. Palavacini, editor of El Universal, to & 2uel whic hthe latter has mot accepted. Mrs. Rodwick W. Weed of Sonth Nor- walk, was instantly killed when an au- tomobile in which she was riding turned over in Cross River, N\ Y. first year the plant has been on a. pure- ly peace basis sine¢ 1914, was 159,000, 000 marks. The sucorss of America’s effort to help Armenia dependents upon the moral and m%umtic x:porc that the. Buropean ‘allies\ will ord, according to Henry Morgantha. Two hundred pupils marched out of the Prospect street school in Reading, Mass., in perfect order in one minute after fire had been discovered around the chimney in the basement. Athony Roviello, of 143 High avenue, Bridgeport, one of the robbers who en- gaged in a pistol duel with officers in South Norwalk, was bound over in bonds of $10,000. Announcement was made by the City Bank and Trust company of Hartford had purchased the banking business of the American Industrial Bank & Trust and assumed charge. According to American embassy re- port to the state department John Berens, American mining man of San Francisco, was killed about Nov. 2 9in the state of Mexico. 4 Bar silver: London unchanged at 412 an ounce. New York domestic price un- ; foreign silver 3 cents Off at 63 5-8 cents and Mex- ican dollars at 43 1-2 cents. According to an announcement by J. W. Norcross, head of the Canada Steam- ship Lines, Ltd., an aerial passenger ser- vice connecting Montreal, Toronts and New York, will start next summer. Jane Addams of Chicago, has been designated as- chairman of- the Memorial service to pioneer suffragists with ,which the national convention nf the woman's party will open in Washington on Feb. Prince Lubomirski, Polish minister at Washington, informed Senator Hitch- cock that Poland desires to purchase 300,000 or more bales of American cot- ton, provided credits can be arrang- ed. Findings of the naval couvt of in- quiry report that there was no “in- fiable says. homiciles ‘were Forty families in three tenement hous- clared they will fight &viction order the men are war veterans. April. He in ow, In Paris, and in addi- tion to his concért tour singed a con- tract to sing in the opera at Monte Car- lo in February and March. John N. Bischoffn a real estate dealer er of Jacksonville, Florida, securely bound and raged and coyered with a cost of tar and feathers, was dumped from.an utcmobiie at one of Jacksonville's busiest d,wriown street intersections. Governer Juan Barragan, chief of staff under the late President Carranza, of Mexico, and who escaped last June from a Mexican prison, where he was incarcated following the death of Carran- za, arrived at San Antonio, Texis. TEmergency measnres preventing the linflux of unskilled labor from rural dfs- tricts to the metropolitan cities are urg- ed in final employment report of 7920 issued by Knights of Columbus. ndigent job hunters give crime wuve imp:tus, It says. « The United States Envelope comi with main offices at Springfleld, Mass,, |tram was reported today from Charleville, ! shocks have occurred in the v and factories in several citiés, wiil sub- mit to its stockholders i Portland, Me, January 7, a propositidn to increase its capital stock from $,000,- 000 to $8,000,000 by - the issue of. $3- £000,000 of common stock. AY, DECEMBER 21, 1920 discriminate killing of natives” in Haytl|cess by American marines. Only two “unjusti-|nation is today prepared with the means committed Itfof quick retaliation and there is grave granted the owner on plea that the build-|amined. ings were about to collapse. Many of in congress proposed protection a3 the John MecCormick, American temor, in-|republican plan of protection in t tends to return to this country eardly in|stance, the report declared, 14 Fordney Tariff B Will Be Contested Both in ths House and Ssnate—Emerg- ency Measure. Washington, Dec. 20.—Presentation of the Fordney emergency tariff bill the house and decision of its supporfers to call it up for consideration Wednesday was followed ioday by expressions of open antagonism Loth in the house and senate. The opposition, hitherto mani- fest only to a silght extert, was inten- sified by the filing of minority views by Representative Rainey, democrat, 1lli- nois, scathingly denouncing the measure from beginning to end and by decision of the senate democratic steering com- mittee to resist hasty enactment of any such legislation. Chairman Fordney of the house ways and means committee, in réporting the measure, urged ac.ion not because it was perfect but because it was the best ob- tainable -under the circumstances. The report declared the remedial legislation was urgently necessary to correct a Sit- uation which was described as rapidly becoming worse and likely to bring ruin t9 the agricul.ural industry. The filing of the committee’s report disclosed that the measure -had been made applicable for a period of ten months from passage irstead of the one year period previously fixed. Chairman Fordney submitted with the report es- timates of the treasury department hsowing that, on the basis of available import figures, ‘approximately $150,000,- 000 in revenue would be derived from the duties' to be imposed under the meas- ure. The commodities enamerated in the bil Inow produce less than. $5,000,000 an- nually. As finally approved and reported to the house, the bill carries import duties on commodities which together with the rates ggreed to in committee follow: Wheat, 30 cents bushel. Wheat flour, 20 per cent . Corn, 15 cents bushel. Beans, 2 cents pound. Feanu's, unshelled, 3 cents pound. Peanuts, shelled, 3 cents pound. Potatoes, 25 cents bushel. Onions, 40 cents bushel. Rice, cleaned, 2 cents pound. Rice, uncleaned, 1 1-4 cents pound. Flour, meal and broken rice, 1-2 cent pound. Rice, unhulled, 3-4 cent pound. Lemons, 1 1-4 cent pound. Oils, peanut, 26 cents gallon. Oils, cotionseed, 20 cents gallen . Oils, soyabean, 20 cents gallon. Cattle, 30 per cent. Sheep, $2 a head. Lambs, $1 a head. Mutton and lamb, 2 1-2 cents pound. Wool, unwashed, 15 cents pound. Wool, washed, 30 cents pound. Wool, manufactures of, 45 cents pound. Wool, scoured, 45 cents pound. On the voting in the ways and means the negative. Representatives Tread- way, Massachusetts, gnd Tilson, Connece ticut, were understood to have been the republicans who stood against the meas- ure, while Representatives Rainey, Huil, Tennessee; Oldfield, Arkansas, and Col- lier, Mississippl; were\the democrats who opposed the legisiation. The republican committes members were said to have opposed the bill on the grourd that ify tariff legislation was to be enacted it should includ tien for manufactured commodities of which were allowed to remain i final draft. This con‘ention appeared to have gained some strength among repre- sentatives from textile and other manu- facturing districts and is expected (o precipitate heated debate. Representative Knu'son, ~republican, Minnesota, chairman of the recently or- ganized conference of representatives from farming districts, said he was sure there would be bitter opposition from the urban representatives, but added: farmers for help are prepared for a ba:- tle royal. We think we can muster 200 votes for the bill and I personally serve notice on those people Who seek to de- feat this bill that they will sweat blood before they get anything for their in- dustries when it comes to a permanent tariff unlers they do the fair thing now."” Against this came the statement of the senate democratic steering commit- tee that they did hot regard the meas- ure as an emergency proposal and Woui. demand that it be considered by the fi nance committee in regular order when it reaches the semate. Senator Harrisoa. of Mississippi, a democrat, .served notice from the floor of the senate that he would oppose the Dbill. “The democratic party,” “cannot afford to stultify itself at this time upon so important a question Of principle as that which the tariff propo- sals involve. Representative Rainey, in presenting the minority views, warned of dangers which he said would beset the business of the country should the emergency meas- ure pass. He declared that the measure amount- ed to an embargo and that it would “in evitably jead to retaliatory tariffs.” ‘All commercial treaties betwegn na- itions were practically annulled by the war,” Mr. Rainey’s report said, “and today new comntercial units are in pro- of formation. Every commercial he declared, danger that they will quickly respond Lo the challenge we give them in this bi.” The Rainey report also ch.rged that es at La Villette. a_suburb of Parls, de-|the bill had been framed wjichout hear- ings and that no experts had been =x- It asserted that the majoriiy medicine {or every economic evil, adding that “this bill is protection mad.” The in- offered = remedy worse than the ill it sougit to correct. DE VALERA WAS NOT ON STEAMSHIP AQUITA Cherbourg, France, Dec. 20.—(Bye The A. P.)—Eamonn De Valera, president of the “Irish Republic” was not among the seven hundred passengers who landed here this afternoon from the steamship Aquitania from New York. The captain of the vessel said he had not been aware of the report that Mr. De Valera was aboard the Aquitania untii he was asked by the correspondent of 'q@ Associated Press. ‘The pollea here veré in requiring verifications of the passports of passengers landing in Cher- bourg from the Aquitania. BIG RAID MADE ON MAIL TRAIN IN COUNTY CORK |val wireles§ message from the Island of | Yap in the South Pacific ocean today |Colonel Dublin, Dec. 20.—A big raid on a mail County Cork. FPifty armed and disguis: station and removed- twelve mail bags, which later were recovered In & hedge near by. TWo of the bags had Teen emnt ¥ “We members who see the need of the | Iwha iaress earolin Wor. tiv neaa committee on reporting the bill, two re-{was a renewal of an old one that had of 1920 of the mreat Krupp works, tn|Publicans and four democrats vo'ed in!been mended with cement. AGES—98 COLUMNS Opposition to the EXPRESS COMPANIES GIVEN FRICE TWO CENTS. | AUTHORITY T0 CONSOLIDATE Interstate Commerce Commission Bslieves Public Will Be Better Served by One Consolidated Company Serving All Lines With Equal Rates — M:ans Merger of the Adams, American, Wells Express Companies Into ths Company. Washington, Dec. 20.—Authority was granted today by the interstate com- merce commission for permaneat con- solidation of the transportation business and properties of the Adams, American, Wells Fargo & Co., and Southern Ex press companies into the American Rail- way Express Company. The commis- sion said that it was their belief that the public would best be served by one consolidated company serving all limes with equal rates. The permit granted by the commis- sion was based on an application filed by the four express companies last March. Hearings were heid by the com- mission in August, respresentatives of the companies, siippers and the pubiic appearing to prescat arguments. The commission divided on the ques- tion of permitiing the express consol- idation, effected by the railroad admi tration as a war measure, to be permanent, Commrissioners McCord and Meyer dissenting from the majority and| presenting a minority report written by the former. * 3e The consilidation, the dissenting report asserted, “creates a monopoly” and “de- stroys every semblance of competition.” The other members of the commission In their report declared thel were “of the opinion and find that the public in-| Fargo & Co., and Southern American Railway Express terest will be promoted b idation.” “It is my view." déclared the report written by Commissioner MoCord, that the time has come when the carriefs should give serious consideration to the conducting of the express business them- selves. That business has reached such proportions that it is now a parasite on the freight traffic of the railroads.” The report of the commission reecited that with the outbreak of the wargthe express companies included in the pres- ent consolidation were formed into the American Railway Express Company and took over the express business of the country the azent of the director gene eral of railroads and that while thirty- three states appeared to protest agains§ the continuation of this combine the protesis were based on inadequate ser- vice performed by the joint express com- panies, which the consolilated compamy imits was poor, duec to labor con@i- The commission accepted the cone y the ocemsol tention of companies that service was performed more efficlently under the combined mar thar could have been possible u separate manage- ment The com: sgion ruled that sults pending against the various companfes must be settled by the courts and net by the interstate commerce commig- sion. —_—— PLYMOUTI TO OBSERVE THE LANDING OF PILGRIMS TODAY Plymouth, Masd, Dea '20—%n the eve of Forefathers’ Day, 300 years after the landirg of the Pilgrims, this old town set the stage today for formaul observ- ance of the event. At the two hundredih anniversary Daniel Webster delivered here an oration that has becomne a clas- sis.. Tohorrow United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge will give an addre setting off another milestone of a hun- dred years. Plymouth Rock, the boulder which was the stepping stone of the Pilgrims, from an Old World of persecution to a New World of civil liberty and religious free- dom, underwent another change today. In the course of transfer from its bed of many years under a canopy now re- moved, it was split jn_two. The break The rack will present a united face again when it is cemented and restored to its origin base a tthe waterline on e shore. to which it will be its higher position*of rec 3 The accident of today recalled to his- torians theé fact that when the break first occurred in 1775 it was pointed to a portent of the separation of the colonies from England. Tonight Plymouth Rock was under a police guard. Souvenir hunters had early been on_the scene and the efforts of one man to chip a piece from the rock were prevented. The few hote here had many guests tonight as in the height of the summer season. In Boston a distin suish of invited guests awaited the morni move to the scene while oth them the Belgian ambassador, Emile De Cartier, were en Washington and New York. A’ serles of historical tableaux in the| First Church tonizht was the town folk's curtain raiser to the events of tomorrow. route frow " were particularly se-| {8 -a meeting in|{men held up the crew of the train at (e | shocks were followed Weather conditions of ‘the best are in| prospect, but plans for aj out door| demonstration hav en ‘cancelled be-; cause of a small epidemic of minor dis- eases. CONVICTED OF KILLING CAMDEN BANK MESSENGEM; Camden, N. J, Dec. 20.—Frank J. James was convicted by a jury here to- day of murder in the first degree in connection with the Killing of David S.| 1, Camden bank messenger. The| verdict was without a/iy recommendation for mercy. 4 Paul disappeared on Oct. 5 Wwith $40,- 000 in cash and $30,000 in chacks which he was taking from a Camden bank to a Philadelphia banking institution. Elev- en days later his body was found in w shallow grave in the Jersey pines Burlington county. rected to James, who wus the son seen with Paul, Raymond Shuck was ‘later arrested as an acco! plice. Both are alleged to have m:W'| confessions, accusing eack other of tue! crime. Most of the money w found | buifed under a flower pot grave of Schuck's mother in a ( cemetery. BIG ST. BFRNARD RESCU CAT FROM BUR. Everett, Mass., Dec. 26.—Judson T. “o- gan and members of his family overlooked the family cat, “Ckhum,” when they made a hurried escane from their burning home on Irving street today. But “Ted,” their vig St Bernard, rcmembercd. The doe discovered the absence of his playm.ate. rushed back through the smoke, and soon reappeared with “Cl in his moutk Incidentally the Logans as well as the occupants of 4nother apartment in the Louse give the dog credit for awakening | tnem by larking so that th-y teached the street before their escape was cut off by the flames, £ SENATE TO TAKE A BERIEF CHRISTMAS RECESS Washington, Dec. 20.—The senate to- day adopted a plan for a brief Christ- mas recess, having disposed of the bill reviving the-war finance corporation and without other immediate pressing busi-| ness before it. the senate adjourned to-| night until Thursday when it pians tol adjourn until next Monday. A similar| three day recess over New Year's also planned. The recess will not Inter- s with committee activities. TPHEAVAL OF THE BED " OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN Tokio, Dec. 20.—(By The A. P.) A na- announces that ° violent * carthqua ity The the island, lasting scveral day Saturday by storm Which created extensive damage. Experts here believe there has been a|through the various grades to colonel. tremendous upheaval of the bed of the " Pacific ocean. SHERIFF IS CHARGED WITH TIPPING GAMBLERS Mineola, N. Y. Dec. 20.—The charre that Sheriff Charks W. Smith of Inwood tipped an al ed gambling casino to an wding raid at the direction of Georze Doughty, Nassau county repubMcan leader, was made today by District At- torney Weeks in support of his allegation that “some invisible pow r” had pro- tected Long Islund gamblers. Mr. Weeks made these assertions in his openinf address to the jury which is trying Smith, Doughty and two other of- fice holders, indicted on conspiracy charges in conmction with the reeent gation of gambling in iff had been summoned to join the rald ing party in Lyndrook and that after he had been informed the raid was to be *ged to have been arles H. Stuckey, he had nd had riff got anv- s crampa’ ntinwed Mr we do know that when owe men ot there, Stuckey sald: ‘You saM I could have ten minttes and T only had four minutes. I cou'dn’t remove afl the gambline paraphernalia In that time.” Asserting that there was only one per- son with ooportunity and motive to ten off the place. Mr. We ks added that "we shall show you that that person was Charles W. Smith.” 70 MASTER PLUMBERS INDICTED IN NEW YORK 20.—Twenty-five New York., Dec. ndi- vidual master plumbers and 27 plumbine firms, members of the Master Plumbers’ ation. were charged in a blanket in- a ent reported to Justice McAvoy to- day with violation of the Donnelly ant- trust law. Justice McAvoy fixed ball at $5.000 in the case of each individual. The corporations will’ not be required to furnish bonds. Tonight six of the indi- viduals appeared and furnished bail. The rs were dircted to appear tomorrow aignment. extraordinary grand jury, which returned the indictment. has been oon- sidering the evidence produced before the Lockwood committee, which is {nvestigat- inz the alleged building trust. Tt was emphasized that the Master Plumbers’ was not Indicted. he defendants were members of vho constituted what Is Hettrick group that has red to in the trade “166 Broadway. John T. Hettrick. tounsel for the Master Plumbers' Association .was mentfored in the indistment. his attorney notified him. but he will not be required to furnish ne-v bail. Z'ttrick was recently indieted h members of the Cut Stone Contract- PHYSICAL CONDITION OF HARVARD STUDENTS Bl ricen péo class ef Har- vard o » use of tobacce when the men were examined by Rogers 3{. Lee professor of and his assistants, according to a Sr. Lee made puslic tomght. Stiiefuct: bodily mechanics, wkich represents a good posturc and proper use of the feet, was found in 13.5 per cent. of the class. Nearly 1,200 students, including freshs men, unclassified men from other colleges. and first vear men in the graduate schoel of business administration. were axam- tned. and of this number Dr. Les report- ¥ 5 per cent had serious or ed that ogl canic diseases. He also found a marked A emedial defects, rush as ur corrected eyesight or porr testh . Dr. Lee attributes the grneral healthy condition of the students to the ecareful. consideration given rood health in thelr homes and also to the interest taken in the subject by preparatory schools. MRS, MACSWINEY SPEAKS 2 IN MASSACHUSETTS SENATE Boston. Dee. 20.—During her visht to the statehouse here today Mrs Mace Swiney v cd 10 the senate chamber and spole a few words to the members, from hc pr = “I am very zrateful to America for the Xind reception I have receiv she sakl. “As you omce suffered, 0 we now suffer” . The party 2%0 went 1o the houes of representatives, but remained n the visitors’ gallery. OBITUARY Colenel Francls 3. MeConnell ‘Washington. Dec. 20.—The death of 3. McConne'l Decembrr was reported todsy at the Death was due to ar- Colonel McConnell en= 15 in G war d ment terin soleros. a |tered the armmy as a second ljcutenant of infantry in 189). and was mmu: was a native of Conmecticut and wae 48 years of age, )