Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 8, 1921, Page 1

VOL. LXiH—NO. 7 Complete Information —At Present Great Britain’s of the United States—American Navy Today'is More Than Doublé the Strength of the Japanese Navy—Sta- tistics Compiled to Facilitate Consideration o’f“ Proposals Looking to World Disarmament. Washington, Jan. T.—(By The A. P.) ‘What officials believe to be complete in- formation as to the relative naval strength of the principal world powers ls mow in pessession of the American government. Whether it Wil be pre- fented to the senate foreign ~relations committee in connection with that com- mittee’s consideration of proposals look- ing to world disarmament has not been ke information has been compiled in e form of tables which show tnat Great Britain's sea power is double that of the United States and that althousn the British preponderance in capital saips will practically have been overcome by The United States with the completion in 1823 of the American building prozram, the Amferican navy will still be greatly interior in types of vessela Which naval officers yegard as extremely important. notably destroyer leaders, cruisers and lignt cruisers, cruising sabmarines and e ships. e American navy today, according to ihis- information, has more *han double iEe strength of the Japancse navy and this ‘ratio will be maintained even with the completion of the building programs of the two countrles. The United States will be far superior mot only in capital hips but also in destreyers and sub- marines. Japan, howeser, will have dou- e {he number of battle cruisers, now four such vassels with eight others projected, whnile tae Unitad States has mone completed and only six build- Without reference to second'line ships, of which Great liritain has a preponder- rice In all classcs oyor the Unit>l States and Japan, the British navy contains 26 baitieshive corrying at least ten eaet of 13-inch calibre or larger and dis placing 20,000 tons or moré. The United States has 16 such vessels. Japan six, France seven and Italy four. Great Briain has no first line battleships un- der construction while the Unifed States has 11, Japan seven, Frarce four and Taly, four. The British navy, pioncer in the de- valopment of the battle cruiser type, still refains an easy advantage in this gen- erally, regarded indispenmible class of modern ships of war with six first line batiis cruisers and four others classed as “second line.” The United States has »d and six under construc- \tion: Japan four in service and eight projected. France and Italy have no battle cruisers bullt or building. In‘ compiling the figures as to cruieer strewth, rigid gualifications were laid dewn for this type of vesscl The re- quirements for first line cruisers were declared to bo “large” fast cruisers launched since Jamuary 1, 1901, capable of keeping station with the battle fleet.” Neither the United States, Japan, France Bor Ttaly have any abls to meet this re- quirement. Great Dritain is credited with two such vessels in service, none under construction, 20 in the second line, while the United Statss has none under con- struction and ten in the second line. Nei- ther Japan, Francz mor Italy has any such eruisers built or bullding. although each mation has a few obsolete cruisers: clasaified as “second line.” light crulser strength Great Brit- aig Jeads all other mations by a large margin. with Japan second and the Unit- ed States a poor third. The British navy has 44 light cruisers in the first line, 24 in_the second line and five under con- struction. Japan has six ouch vessels in service and nine under comstruction, while, the United States has three ships built as scou: cruisers designated as ‘light crujsers of the tecond line,” and ten light cruieers of the Omaha class un- der construction. France has four first , POPULATION 29,685 yeitornrtct b it e -~ RELATIVE NAVAL STRENGTH OF LEADING WORLD PO in Possession of Washiington Officiais RS Sea Power is Double That 528,920 tons. Japan is expected to reach its greatest tatio of increase between 1923 and 1927 when the relative standing as projected is indicated a8 being the same in the case of Great Britain and the' United States, but with Japan's capital ship fleet in- creased to 21 veliels of 848,920 tons. The total first-line shi) strength of the three powers Jaruary 1, is placed as. Great - Britain 532 ships of 1,601,652 tons; United States 530 vessels of 766,- '773 ‘tons; Japar 43*shibs of 340,536 tons. 5 5 A comparison of the broadside gun power of first line capital ships mount- ing 12 inch guns and up shows.the fol- lowing: A Great Britain 288 guns; Un'ed States 176 guns and_Japan 96 guns. These fig- ures take into account only vessels com- pleted. ) SENATOR EDGE CRITICISES FORDNEY 'SARIFF BILL New York, Jan. 7.—Opposition to “haphazard” (ariff legislation and meas- ures for .government aid in finnacing foreign trade was expressed by Senator Edge .of New Jersey in an address here tonight before alumni of Stevens' Insti- tute. g He declared that the Fordney tariff bill now before congress would “give a black eye to the genuine republican—the real American—tariff policy and. will*set it back far more than ali the free-trade arguments could accomplis Hurried tariff legisiation, the speaker declared, would cause losses to American business through the closing of markets abroad in retaliation. Tendencies by congress to create artificial price stand- ards were: condemned as being in oppo- siti-n to the “inexorable law of supply and demand. “We must aim,” he sald, “to sell our excess products to other nations, and in that our real profit lies.' Senator Kdge declareq that he was an ardent advocate of a profective tarift but believed “in making haste s'owly.”. He said he favored a tariff law which would be a scientific measure based on prevall- ing conditions, without dancer of jeopard- izing American trade abroad. Both Amer- ica and Europe could bet be helped, he asserted. through American private in- vestment of capital i o et e EXCITEMENT IN COCHRANE AS. BALLOONISTS APPROACH Cochrane, Ont, Jan. T.—Another day of intense activity and excitement, rarc- Iy experienced in this region _of the bleak north, has passed without, definlte new’s of the approach_of the three U: ed States navy airmen battling thew way out of the Hudson Bay willernass. Basing calculations on the assumption that the intrepid little band started from Moose Factory for the railroad Lo days after Christmas, native guides and wea- ther sharps prepared Cochrane’s popula- tion tonight to be in readiness to extend- a welcome to the advénturers by Sunday at the latest. Opinion now has shifted to the Mattite Trail as the most likely route from which the aeronauts and their traveling companions will emerge, since - it is known from reliable reports that - the Abitibi River Trail into Clute Is-covered with unbroken - snow and more difficult for sled travel. George W. Lee, chairman of the Temis- kaming and Northern Ontario Railway Commission, the government-owned rail- road system, telegraphed messages of | Cabled Paragrap! greeting and an offer of free transpor- tion to the airmen:to be delivered on their arrival in Cochrane, the road's ter- minal. - His message to Lieutenant Hor- ton offered to furnish free long distahce telephone telephone _communication to line light cruisers in service and six building. and Italy five in service and nene bailding. Several of the French and Jtalian ghips were obtained from the for- mer German navy. Great Britain is shown to be the oniy nation with any destroyer leaders, having 24 such vesseis with a speed of 30 knots and up, and a minimum displacement of 1500 tons and another building. Neither Japan nor the United States has any iie- stroyer leaders under comstruction, while France has 12 building and taly five. Déspite the United States' great war- time destroyer building programme, Great Britain still maintains a prepon- rance ojn both first and -second line vesseis of this type. In the first line classification the British navy has 334 uestrovers. bullt ard- 11 building; the United States, 260 in service and, 12 au- thoriged but not- under construction ; Japan 27 built, 15 under construction and ly 30 others authorized; France 19 compieted and one building, and Italy 19 ia service and 11 authorized. Aithough the United S is Great Brimi'ns only serious competitor in the matter of submarine strength, there is no etidence in the tables of anything ap- nroaching equality in this branch of na- vl strength_when England has 71 first n submarines in service, 66 in the scomd line, 18 first line fleet submers: bles i@ 7 second line, one cruiser sub- marine and two monitor fype smbmersi- bies mounting a 12 inch gun, and another building. Against this great undersea .QO! of 165 veesels the United States ©ouid oppose a total of 98 submarines of all types divided into 52 first line and 44 second line short-radious craft. two fieet submarines and no cruiser submers- ies with 46 others of various types au- thorized. The United States has none of the monitor submersibles ripuntigg 11 inch tarret guns either bnmilt or uild- ng. Japan has no first line submarines of ahy class. She has 10 second line thot radiva vessels. bui no fleet. cruis- ing or monitor tvpes, although about 40 submersibles of all classes have been au- thirized. France has 63 submarines in service of all types and none building, and Ttaly 22 built and eight building. A recapitulation of the figures shows that the January 1, 1921 strength of the three principal naval forces in first line major ships, (battieships and battle cruisers) mounting guns of 13.5 inch cli- ber ar greater is as follows: Great Britain 25 vessels of 723,650 tons: United States 10 vessels of 300, 909 tons and Japan 9 vessels of 367,530, This compilation excludes capital ships mounting guns of less than 13.5 inch cuiibre because of their low rate of ef- ficlancy in modern battle, The profected atrength of the same hree powers at the end of 1923 in cap !al ships within the same limitations as 1o calibre of guns. on the basis of pres- ent projected building, e fixed at: Great Britain 28 ships totalling 723,- §40 tong: United States, 27 ships of 81000 “toms; and Japan 16 shine at Rockaway Point, N. Y., or Washington, COMPLETING INVESTIGATION OF CASE OF EUGENE V. DEBS Washington, Jan. 7.—Completion with- in a week of an investigation of the case of Bugene V. Debs, who is serving a prison sentence at Atlanta for vio- lation of the espionage law, to determine whether recommendations for. a . pardon would be warranted, was indicated today by the department of justice in an an- notncement. All cases of persons serving sen- tences under the espionage act are un- der investigation, ~department . officials | added, and the Deps case has been.reach- ed in_its.order and is now on the. desk of the pardon attorney who. wiijl report his finding of the facts to. the attorney general fo reubmission to President Wil- son. As yet, officialy said, the investigation has not progrested far enough to -de- termine whether the facts warranted the granting of a pardon to Debs. White House officials have previously made it clear that President Wilson looks with disfavor upon th: possible extension of executive clemency to Debs. - $30,000,000 EXPENDED FOR RELIEF WORK IN NEAR EAST New York, Jan. 7.—American organi- zations expended more than $30,000,000 last year in relief work among the peoples of the Near East. This sum, reported tonight at the an- nual meeting of the Near East Relief by Cleveland H. Dodge, treasurer, included government flour and foodstuffs distrib- uted by the American Relief Administra- tion under Herbert Hoover's supervision. Charles V. Vickery, general sscretary, who recently returned from the Near East, declared that rellef was given more than 1,000,000 sufferers - during 1920, chiefly refugee women and children, “without which most of them would have perished.” COURT LOANED “PANTLESS WITNESS AN OVERCOAT Montreal, Jan. 7.—Because the police appropriated his sole pair of trousers on the ground that they bore important marks of evidence, Albert Lonaha: ap- peared in court “pantless” in connection with a charge of appropriating $10,000 worth of negotiable securities from the Premier to Confer in Paris Jan. 19. Longon, Jan. 7.—The conference of the allied premiers will Be Leld in Paris Jan. 19, sions will be the situation caused by Ger- many's failure to disband her self-de- fense organizations. ALIENISTS HELD SWAY / IN THE NOTT MUKDER TRIAL Bridgeport, Corn., Jan. 7.—Today’s session of Elwood B. Wade for the mur- der of George E. Nott. The crime for which Nott's widow, Mrs. Ethel Hutchins Nott, and John E. Johnston, Wade's friend are als) under indictment for murder in the first degree, developed in to a technical discussion between coun- sel for the defense and state and ceie- brated alienisis. i After Dr. Allan R. Dieténdorf of New Haven, expert on mental disorders Who testified in the Harry K. Thaw trial, had declared Wade insane in' response to a hypothetical yuestion, Dr, John C. Lynch of this city, another noted alienist, testi- fying for the state, said Wade was sane but admitted his mentality was not above that of ‘an eleven year old child. Dr. Arnold L. Gesell of Yale university also testified that Wade was insane and both he and Dr. Dieiendorf expressed the opinion that the accused youth was not a fit subject to be at large in a commun- ity. £ While State’s Attorney Homer S. Cum- mings™ and the alieists for the defense argued for hours én the deiinition of irre- sistible impulse,” Willlam H. Comley of counsel for the defense, drew from Dr. Lynch, the state’s alienist, admissions considered favorable to the defense. In cross-examination, Mr. Comley asked Dr. Lynch if It was the act of @ sane man to apply at police headquarters for a per- mit to carry a pistol “because Nott said he would get me and I will get him first.” Before the mental expert had a chance to answer Mr. Cummings had interposed an objection. The question put in a dif- ferent form was not answered directly by Dr. Lynch, but the opinion was ex- pressed’by the physician that he believed Wade had an undeveloped mind, but was not insane. He termed Wade a morcn Dr. Lynch will resume the stand on Tuesday when court reconvenes. I’of a high degree. TO DESTROY HOUSES OCCUPIED BY MILITARIST SINN FEINERS T Dublin, Jan, 7.—(By The A. P.) Dub- lin Castle today announced its intention to destroy houses in the vicinity of scenes of outrages which are’ definitely known to be occupied by militant Sinn Feiners. This action is to be taken as a deterrent to further outrages and zs an example to other districts It was also announced by the castle that owing to the persistent interfercnce with mail cars in Tipperary, Sligo and Dcnegal, the mail services in those dis- tricts will be suspended, effective Mon- day With reference to the ‘military repri- sals, the Castle’s announcement says: “Although it is not yet possible to, identify any persons actually engaged in attacks, thegmilitary governor is of :ne opinion that it is impossible to effect pre- parations for such attacks without the knowledge of many local residents, who exteht of having failed to give mforma- tion to the authorities” * Tha weekly summary {ssued by Dub- Iin Castie shows that atrests for tre week for outrages and political offenses were 208, ar Increase of 142 over the previous w: 4 while 189 iaternment cr- ders wer2 izsued. No further information as (o tle whereabouts of Eamonn de Valera or any news concerning the peace activities was had today. The extensive raiding and searching of pedestrians continues in every part of Dublin. HARDING FAVORS PEACE STRENGTH ARMY 150,000 Marion, O.. Jan. 7.—The plan of re- publican leaders in congress to limit the peace-time strength of the army to 150,- 600 men was given approval today by President-elect Harding in a conference with Representatiye Kahn of California, chairman of the house military commit- tee. “Senator Harding is in complete ac- cord with our policy,” said Mr. Kahn after along talk with the president-clect. the burden now resting on the shoulders of taxpayers, and he believes much can be saved by reducing the army strengih to 175,000 as soon as_possible, and then working it down to 150,000 as a contin- uing maximum. “I am sure Semator Harding does not believe that the milenmium has come, but T do ot think he is expecting trouble in_the near future.” The- conference, at ‘which Mr. Harding aiso indicated his desire for a well-or- ganized reserve force, was one of a se- ries he is hoMing with congressional leaders in charge of the house naval com- mittee, to urge retrenchment in that arm of the service and to- shape a continul ing policy for naval armament. Again tonight Mr. Harding “walked the purninig sands” of the Masonic order, receiving ‘initiation -into the _Mystic Shrine at Columbus, where. on Wednes- day he was.made a thirty-second degree Mason. He made the rip to the state capitol by motor, leaviag here late in the day. PACIFIC FLEET PREPARING TO JOIN ATLANTIC WARSHIPS San Diego, Cal, Jan. 7.—Headed by the flagship 'Birmingham, 18 destroyers of the.Pacific fleet steamed out of the harbor today to join the battleship squadrons off Point Loma, preparatory to departure late today for Panama where the Pacific fleet will join the Atlantic fleet for maneuvers and target practice, following Which will come a cruise to South American ports. The . superdreadnaughts New York, Texas, Arkansas and Wyoming, wiich sailed from San Francisco Wednesday and the superdreadnaughts New Mexico, flagship of Admiral Hugh Rdoman; Ida- ho and Mississippi, saling from San -Pe- dro last night, were at the rendezvous When the destroyer fleet arrived. Aux- iliary eraft attached to the Pacific fleet, including supply ships, mine sweepers and mine layers, were also at the ren- dezyous. An interested spectator of the joining of the warships was Admiral Sir Louis Bayly, of British navy who commandcd the ~American - and British destroyer forces operating out of Queenstown har- bor during the war. Admiral Bayly ar- rived in San Diego yesterday, as the guest of Admiral Roger Welles, comman- der of the San Diego navay district, and officers of the Pacific destroyer force. ARRESTED WHILE ATTE THE DING OTT MURDER TRIAL Pridgeport, Conn, Jan. 7.—As he sat in the spectator's gallery listening to the American Plumbing Supplies, Ltd., on Christmas Da; For modesty's sake the court loaned him an overcoat, the first covering for his nether Limbs .in thd last twn sl evidence. in the Nott murder trial today Joseph Josephson of New Haven was arrested charged with issuing a Woith- less check for §$426 on the Modern Elec- tric Co. He is held in $1,000 for a T e The primary object of the discus- | | therefore are held guilty, at least to the | NORWICH, CONN., §ATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1921 Dead 5f the Hat- d in the Noted Fe of Senator Newberry In Argument on Appeal C. E. Hughes Ascribes It to i One of tl:;. field-McCo B Mounf S st Virginia| a “Grotesque” Construc- and Northern Kentucky. tion of the Law. Huntington, W. Va., Jan. .—~Devil | Washington, Jan. 7.—Conviction of Anse” Hatfleld, noted leader in the Hat- field-McCoy feud of thirty years ago,,died of pneumonia last night at his home in Isiand City, West Virginia, according to word reaching here tonight. Senator Truman H. Newberry, of Michi- gan, and sixteen others of conspiring to violate \e corrupt practices act was de- nounced as a “gross perversion of jus- tice” by counszl for the senator and was upheld by the government as a salutary lesson to those” who would purchase an election “by paid propaganda,” before the supreme court today, when argumentis in the appeal were heard, Charles E. Hughes, former associate Justice of the court, who headed courssl for the defense, asserted that oniy through a ‘grotesque” construction of the law had the government been able to present any case to the jury. He quoted th government brief as,showing that it was admitted that no 'restriction - was placed by Jaw cn the expenditures of a political committee in behalf of any can- didate, nor on the amount such a eom- mittee in behalf or any -<candidate, mor on the amount such.a committee might raise for a campaign, and further that no attempt was made by the government to show that Senator Newlerry had him- sel? contributed in excess of the legal lim= itation of $3,750. The eatire basis of the governmept's case, Mr. Hughes told the court, was that this “legal committes, having legally raised a legal mum of Anderson (“Devil Anse”) Hatfield was one of the leaders of the historic = feud between tne Hatfield and McCoy - fgmilies in the mountaips of West Vjrginla and Northern Kentucky. . Shot af from am- bush and in hand-to-hand combat scores of times with the McCoys, he had always predicted he would live to die a natural death, as he now had at the age of 80, without bearing any marks of battle. “Devil Anse” had a reoutation as a crack shot, that was known throughouf the mountainous region of the two states. and at the age of seventy he could shoot a squirrel\nul of the tallest timber. He often turned the trick for admirers. with the old rifle that he carried ready for ac- tion at all hours, and with which during the early eighties, he would shoot on sight any mergber of the McCoy family. The celebrated feud of the Hatfield family with the McCoys was started over some hogs, one of the Hatflelds winning a lawsuit that was brought to determine their ownership. Soon after that a broth- e Helps Every Day In the Year This is the seison of the year when those who are looking for goods they need, pay strict and close attention to the advertise- ments. 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Bulletin - Telegraph Local General Total Saturday, January 1.. 75 134 527 736 Monday, January 3.... 73 107 279 459 Tuesday, January 4... 76 150 260 386 Wednesday, ~ January 5..: 77 110 332 519 Thursday, % 254 442 Friday, 115 3/ -, 59 ! : / — T e Totals . .. 71 2033 3238 er of “Devil Anse” was shot and wounded in more than fifteen places by one of the McCoys. The feud then started did not end until the few remaining McCoys went over into Kentucky, where they now reside. ‘Devil Anse” had nore of the attributes of the “bad man” in his character. He always was recognized as a loyal friend of the many with whom he was acquaint- ed. Numbered among thos2 who, be- lieved he hal been right by the position he took during the feud days, were the late Judge John J. Jackson, kiown as the “Iron Judge' who was appointed to the federal bench by President Linc:ln. ang former Governor E. W. Wilson, “the formfer protecting Hatfleld from capture when he had been called into court, and the latter refusing to honor a requist- tion of the governor of Kentucky for the arrest of “Devil Anes" éna charge of kiil- ing some particular member of the M- Coy family. ! | money sor a legal purpose, bicame an f1- legal conspiracy because its candidate Was aware that mere than $3,150 was be- ing expended. Apart from the direct attack on the conviction as illegal and uusustained by. the evidence, the defense ullempted to show the court that the corrupt practices act itself, so far as it attempted to limit campaign expenditures ‘for legal objects, was_ unconstitutional. Solocitor General Frierson, presenting the government's case, 100k issue with the theory presented by the defense as to what constituted a violation of the cor- rupt practices act. Semator Newberry. according to Mr. Frierson, being desious ob entering the race for senator in 1918: called a conference in New York of Paul H. King of Detroit, afterwards his cam- paign manager, and Frederick Cody. New York. former superintendent of De- troit schools. At this conference the He is deeply concerned about reduction of Detectives, real and alleged, had ar- ranged for the capture of Hatfleld, spur- red by a reward, after they had seen to it that he was indicted on a charge of whiskey selling, in 1888. Judge Jackson was on the bench at the time and was qusstion of the campaign’s cost arose, and Mr. ¥ricrson said, Newberry jwas told it would 1equire thé expenditure of *$50,- 000 or more.’ Having agreed to en- ter fhe race on the express condition that this sum wovld be expended, the govern- ment held tha: he, Cody and King had en- tered a conspiracy to defeat the provi- sions of the statute Mr. Frierson added that more than $176.000 was shown to have been spent by the report filed by the campalgn man- agers. v Replying to a question from the bench as (0 whether each of the 17 defend-, ants had becn equally identified with the conspiracy, 'Mr. Frierson said “all save one.” and named George S. Ladd, of Stus bridg® Mass., the exception. R Associate Justice McKenna ecaused a general smile when he asked Mr. Frier- son if the varying sentences had been based on the theory that some the defend- ants were “worse consirators” than oth- ers. 3 ¥ informed of the danger that awaited the accused man. Judge Jadkson sent word to Hatfield that if he would appear 15 court without an officer being sent for him, the court would see that he had am- ple protection until he returned to his home in Logan county. Hatfleld appeared and was acquitted of the charge against him. Some of the de- tectives pounced upon him soon after he left the court room, but Judge Jacksen summoned 41l of them before him, 2nd threatened to send them all to jail, di- recting special officers to see that Hat- fleld was permitted to reach his home. After Hatfield was well 01 his way, Judgo Jackson told the detectives that if they wanted their man’ they would have to got him, just like the McCoys had been trying to do for a number of years. They never went. “Anse” Hatfleld spent the last fifteen years of his life quietly and peace- ably on a small farm he owned in Lo- gan county. He raised a good many hogs and but seldom left his community. Once he was prevailed upon by some en- terprising amusement manager to go on the vaudeville stage. He made all prer- arations to do so but abandoned the idea when an old indictment was produced. which had been squashed on condition that the old mountaineer agree to remain at home the rest of his days. Hatfield was born in Logan county, West Virginla, but then In the domain “One could have been more culpable n solocitor general agreed. Bach side was allowed two hours and a quarter for argument. Neither had used its full auota when the court ad; - ed until Monday noon. i VETERANS WITH NERVOUS DISORDERS ARE NEGLECTED ‘Washington, Jand. 7. money sa_far appro or the care of war veterans sufferin from disability or wounds incurred l.: service has been spent for hospitals for the treatment of insane, the house com- Not a cent of the priated by congress of the Old Dominicn, In 1841, a short | merce committee wa; distance from the ol ¢xbin in which he | Dr. Thomas W. Fn;m:‘:n{o?e“‘l\'v‘:d.go:ky dled. advisor on mental diseases to the Rack. ; 3 efeller Foundation. The statement was THOMPSONVILLE LANDMARK made at a hearing on the Rogers' bill WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE|(0 consolidate into one bureas ‘tng onr: eral government agencies dealing witn Thompsonville, Conn., Jan. 7.—A land. | Felief for former service men, mark in Enfield street—the Joseph| As a result of this faiifre to provide Dierce 9place—was burned today. It was | Prover facilities, Dr. Salmon wddes a two-story frame house occupied by Da- | Veterans suffe) from mental and ner- vous disorders are in many instances pe. ing committed by the government to in. stitutions in which criminal insane, drug addicts and viclous degenerates gregated. 5 2 vid Stillon who had barely time enough to escape with ‘wife and three chil- dren, losing all his effects. Yesterdday i a defective chimney set a fire in the ell which did some damage and it % thought that embers smouldered throughout the night and then ignited a partition. The house was valued at $6,9000 and the in- surance on it was $4,000. 9 2 S e Washington, Jan. 7.—The HTATISEION OX SOUIRAGES States is doing more along the line of COMMITTED IN IRELAND” |vocational rehabilitation of former rer- New York, Jan. 7.—The British Li- |Vice men than any other country in the brary of Informatica, an official British | world, the senate educational cgmmittee organization with headquarters in this {said In a report today accompanying a city. today issued a statement giving sta- | bill which would extend training bene- tistics on “outrages completed in Ireland.” | fits to Americans who served In the ailied For the two wecks ending January 1 |armies nad also to widows and children ot 1921, the statement placed the number | men who fost their lives of police officers killed in Ireland as six. | The committee's report. safd 75.000 men 2nd the number wounded at twelve. Dur- |had taken advantage of the tralning law ing the same period four British soldiers 'and that 2,000 had been restored 1o in- — oz ateial activity. 4 s _— VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION WORK BY THE UNITED STATES United the eves of the court than another,” the | The war finunce corporation |s open for ‘business, Secretary Houston an- nounced. One-third of the seats in the Fremeh senate will be* contested in the €lections of Sunday. A woman, Mrs, Mary Eflen Smith, will be the next speaker of the British Co- jumbian legislature. The Natienal Cash Registrar Company will, contipue in 1921 its profit sharing plan, adopeed in 1920, Government experts from the east are to inves igate Chicago breweries sus- pected of making real beer. James H. Sterrett, widely known as a swimming Instructor, died in Philadel- phia. MHe was 64 years old. | W. Freak Kennedy, who retired as managing editor of the Fall River Globe three years ago, was found dead In bed. The Waterbury police have thelr orusade against viclators of state liquor laws with renewed vigor. the A tailor shop In the West Virginia 14 PAGES—102 COLUMS. Attack on Conviction | _Brief Telegrams resumed | Gefended efforts of penitentiary at Moundsville was set on fire tonight by several convicts who tried to escape. Leading bankers in Mexico City de- clared to the correspondent of The As- sociated Press that “the back-bone of the financial crisis has been broken.” Eamonn De Valera, it became known Thursday in Dublin, has uccided to de- fer his intended proclamation several days longer. 3 The jper River Rbine has virtually gone dry wnd iliere has been no water connection between Basle and Surasbourg since Nov. 18. An excise bill backed by the prohibition interests of the state is ready for intro- duction in the general assembly, possibly next Wednesday. A six day a week working schedule will be put into effect at the Detroit plant of the Studebaker Corporation when it reopens Jan..10. “Down with United States” was the heading on a hundred or more circu- lars found on the steps of St. Paul's Epis- copal chureh, Eridgeport. A wage eut of 20 per cent., in salaries from the president down, was announced by the Yale & Townseid Man- ufacturing company, Stamford. Papers incorporating the National Sta- dium, . Incorporated, at Baltimore, with a capital stock of $5,000,000 have been filed with the state tax commissioner. To get more meney for city meeds, the Bridgeport board of finance anpounced it would ask the general assembly for per- mission to issue bonds on the grand list up to 7 per cent. instead of 5 per ceat. The United Btates mail beat Pulitzer, with at jrast seven men on board, has been missing since December 15 and may havé been fost in the Straits of Sheli- The mewspaper proprietoss’ association of Grest Britain has been protesting against the imprionment of the directors of the Freeman’s Journal of Dublin, urg- ing clemency. Two pairs of shogs designed to sell at retail for $100 a pair and said to be the most: expensive ever made in this state, were exhibited at a factory in North Adams, Mass. Stricter discipline In college education was advocated by Chancellor Elmer Ells- worth Brown of New York University, in an address at a dinner of the Asso- ciation of American Colleges. That the office of the federal prohibiti director for Connecticut is making stren- uous efforts to “catch up” with the forged permit situation in Connecticut was ad- mitted by Julius C. Stremlau. Revenue officers under the Volstead act “are up against the toughest proposition any men ever were up against” accord- ing to Paul F. Myers, assistant commis- sioner of internal revenue. The value of liquor covered by forged withdrawal permits discovered this week in the dffice of Federal Prohibition En- forcement Director Charles R. O'Connor in New York has risen to $2,750,000. Veterams of the world war should re- celve no further preference in the civil service as they are now getting all they deserve in the opinion of Payson Dana, civil service commissioner for Massachu- setts. Four men have been ran down by hloodhounds and arrested by the state police for complicity .in the dynamiting of a mine incline railway of the Willard Branch Coal Company a: Fayetteville, W. Va. The aid of Genotal Pershing hns been enlisted by Major Geoffroy of the French army in the ‘search for a battle flag of the Fifth battalion of the 329th French Infantry lost In Januaty, 1919, at Eper ndy, France. After_ousting John Leonard, who has been Mayor Clifford B. Wilson's political opponent, the Bridgeport fire board has announced that a score of fireman have been demoted becaue they were illegally promoted by Leonard. Twe familles of Japanese who arrived at Hadlingen, Texas, from the.west. in- tending to settle on farming lands, were met at the railroad station and inform- ed by, a committee of citizens that their presence was undesirable, Dr. Joseph Femer of Los Angeles, a dentist who was found guilty of stealing $16,000 worth of jewelry from Mrs. Madge E. Wilbur at 4 hotel in Boston wto_years ago and has been at liberty on ball awaiting a new trial. valued at $100,. placed in the Universify of Pennsylvania for transla‘ion by Dr. Wil- llam R. Newbold. . It is said to have been written by the English monk, Ro- ger Bacon, some time between 1216 and 120 Residents of Lower West Serante Pa. are . living over a raging furnaee while officials of the Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western Railroad, and the city' police and fire departments are try- ing to determiue the exact location of a fire coveging fifty acres underground. The Rev. Heary N. Cowden, the blind chaplain of the house of representatives. was retired after more than twenty years continuous service. The house unani- mously voled him an allowance of $125 a month for lifs and made him chaplain emeritus of the house of representatives. Some women look upon husband as a ' money _earning convenience . rather than neceastty. ’ s o Admestia %% HOLDS GOV RESPONSIBLE FIR ECONOMAG CONDITIO: Col. John P. Weod, Representative of the Wool Manufactur. ers, Upset Hearing on Fordney Bill Before Senate Fi nancs Committee — Ground For Charge Was Encour- { agem:nt of a Buyers’ Strike—Members of Committes D-=fend=d Efforts of Government to Force Down Living Costs. Washington, Jan. 7.—Consideration of (have nuuu—-rx:lmu ltfm_-l | e j in discredit_attaching to all of business.® the Fordney emergency tarff bill was |In Siec e ARt sidetracked for a time today by the scn- e Palmer's course was the only way ate finance committee while it smembers | cover specific cases and add-d that the government te ness should have purged its force down living costs. The dcparture | He exnressed the belief that the from the prozram came when a witness | had some rights, after all, and chagerd the government with responsi- | government had functioned in bility for economic conditions confronting | ests of “a vast ma‘ority of 1 the country throuch encouragement of a | when it sought to bring dows buyers’ strike. For an hour decorum was | commodities. cast off anil pointed cxchanges took place. | To this declaration Colonel Notwithstanding ~ warnings by Acting bplied that there had been & Chairman McCumber and Senator Smoot, | resentment against the high republican, Utah, that the - comnittee | added that the government campaign must obtain speedy action on the bill to!been successful to the point that prevent further losses for the farmers, prices have gone down and to the Senators Thomas, Colorado, and Jones of | that hundreds of thousands of men have New Mexico, democrats, induiged in a been thrown out of work.” spirited argument with Colonel John P.| The committee also heard George Di Wood of Philadelphta, who apneared in | Briggs, representing the nations! shees hehalf of the wool manufacturers. Col-|and wool bureau; Renresentative onel Wood's assertion that the govern- |republic'n, Massachusetts; John ment, ang particularly the denartmert of | gren ¢ Portsmouth, Va., representing justice, had been “unwise” in promulg: vegetable ofl producers, and D. 1. Greser ing a campaign against high prices. met | of Norfolk, Va., representing peanst proe with the rejoinder by Senator Thomas |ducers. J that present,conditions were simply those | - Mr. ‘Astergren, as well as’' Mr. Grones of “one man beinz willng: to see another | supported the bill, but requested the lase money but very anxious not to lose | mittee to correet the proposed metheds any himse assessing tariff on vegetable ofie. Scnator Jones asked the - witness | Representative Tralsh appeared fof whether his charges of unwisdom could manufacturers ust.g Ezyptian long not aiso be applied to the Calder com- | cotton, on which the bill levies a Guty mittee investigating housing and the sen- | seven cent sa potnd, with & ate itself, “for many members have been | dut yon manufactrres of the active in agitating for a price decline” | “There is no ifimediate meed for Mr. Wood replied that he was unfamillar | provisions.” he said. “My with the Calder committee’s work but he | that to put a duty on these know the accusations of senators many [ would only upset their trade Wwhigh times had materially affected prices. just now beginning to revive. Teth Heme “My objections,” continued thé witness, | could and should be elifninated froim Whe “are principally against® the methods | emergency tariff.” used by the government, and particularly | The house ways and means by Attorney General Palmer. Mr. Palmer | at its hearing today on permanent and his staff, instead of sceking out and |legislation continued eonsideration Drosecuting specific cases of -profiteering. | chemicals, paints and olls. fi et it iz ¥ i inlr € — e — TRANSPORTATION BY TRAIN GUICKER THAN BE AIN TO INVESTIGATE COAL PRICES CHARGED WAR DEPARTMENT Washington, Jan. 7.—Prices charged the war department for cual last sum- mer and fall would be investigated by the department of justice under a rec- ommendation w g h Senator Ider of New York, chairman of the senate coal New York and Chicago by train, mot by air, Chairman Madden, of the ations sub-committee, declared house today in explaining provisiens §i i v investigating commitiee, announced 10day | (he post office 5ad been submitted Lo the aLiormey £€0: | u gorar of Sersaareiion M, careyifg eral. 3 984, Cost of airplane mall is at'f 195 a ton mile compared with of seven cents a ton mile, sald, and if &l mail were the cost would be ten b year, with actual receipts around 000,000, aside from the cost, Mr. declared, that, while most folk think 50, there was me time saving in the New York-Chicago service. “A letter for this scrvice ed in the post Bffice a¢ Ch than 3:45 p. m.” he s.id. ‘Some between that hour and to the flying fleld, eleven miles New Disclosing as to the committee's action came durinb general debate in the sen- e today on coul profiteering, Senator Calder announcirg that the evidence gathered by his ctinmittee as to the nrmy’s coal transactions had been turned er to the justice department offcials with recommendatior that action be tak- en. The committee chairmign's announce- ment was followed by a statement from Benator Kenyon of lowa, a member of the committee that “if the American peo- ple were robbed as the war department was robbed on coal- last fall, the rob- bery ran up to hundreds of millions of dollars. Taking up the other sde of the con- troversy as regards the high prices charged for coal last year, Senator Suth- erland, republican, West Virginia, de- clared that “because buyers crowding ftorward and bidding against each oth- er sent the prices up out of reason, coal operators who stood back had to take tne money, though they were ashamed to *% i o i ] by & iy HH leaves the next morning at seven ;and by good luck reaches 6 p. m. It goes out on delivery lowing morning. So about 43 hours s between posting and delivery. time limit on fast mail train delivesy is 24 hours, just one-half. | “There is no advantage in alr matf service to justify the presemt ture by the goverument, unless il i i 1® pragioe experience acquired by alrmen for miil- Further inquiries, Chairman Calder |tary service.” said, would be started next week. General debate was begun on the pests office bill, which will have the right ef way untll passed. WEST ‘POINT CADET FOUND DEAD ON THE RESERVATION TO MAKE PROPOSAL T0 SEND ‘West Point; N. Y., Jan. 7.—Dennis Tot- SENATE (UMMITTES TU CURA ten of Milford, Conn., 19 year old cadet at . o < the military academy here, was found | ‘Vashington, Jaa. 7.—A proposal thag dead on the reservation at 9 o'clock this | the Cuvau relatons committee of ibe morning. A board of officers is investi- | seialc ve sent 10 the island repudiic W v gating the cause of death, which has not | vblain Luformation congress may need i yet been determined. the American governmeni is cailed upo Tucten was a third class man, having |19 act because of fiuancial asd been a cadet at the academy for a year ) difficultics there, hus been made and a haif. Officials of the academy sald tonight that Totten had not been in good heaith recently ard that prpbably while ill he wandered off about 5.40 p. m. yesterday and was not seen a~ain until his body was found this morning. The board of officers investigating his death will make a report of their findings tomorrow. by @iur Knox, republican, Pennsylvania, will be acted upon immediatery. { “Grave accounts, first of the 4 difficuitics in Cuba, aud more lately-of % the polliical situation, have caused & deal of concern as they have been bx to the committee,” Senator Johnson e “Scnator Knox, who has been matter particular attention, suggests in view of pending developments we low 0p a study of the conditions. “In order 5 place the United States in a condition to aid Cuba, it aMirmmtive action by the government is called upom for the relief of the situation, it wid be necessary 10 have tfs facts. It is g gested that the committee conduet inquiry there as may be possible r Son of Lieut. C. A. L. Totten. Milford, Conn., Jan. 7.—Cadet Dennis Totten, who is dead at West Point, w the son of the late Lieut. C. A. L. Totten, who, prior to his Geath about twelve years ago, was military instructor at Yale college. The family have been closel related to the army, his step-father. half- be. brother and brother-in-law being field of- jin a position to intelligently adviss gen-' ficers at the present ime. gress in case action is sought” ’ Cadet Totten visited his sister, Mrs. —— 1 Frank Brotherton, here during the Christ- | MARCH CHIEF OF STAFF | mas holidays. 4 261 KILLED, 446 WOUNDED YOR INAUGURAL PARADE ] Washington, Jan. 7.—Mafor Geseratf IN IRELAND DURING 1920 Peyton C. March, chief of sitaff of Bie army, wil stat London, Jan. 7—Two hundred and R At o T = General Pershing, grand marshal of the) inaugural parade here Mareh fourth. wt General Pershing’s invitation aiso, Major General Peter C. Harris, adjutant general of the army, will serve as adjutant geh- eral of the grand marshat, The war department is making prepas | rations for all iroops within motor trans- 7 port distance of the capital, including the entire Seventh division, now ssembling at Camp Meade, Md., to take part in the darade. In addition to the West sixty-one persons were killed and 4 wounded in Ireland in 1920 as a result of what are described in an official report as “serious outrages” These figures do not include eighty-two civilians who died as g result of the riots in Ulster from June to September. The casualties are divided as foliows: Policemen killed, 165; wounded, = 225 ; soldiers killed, 53: . wounded, 118; ans killed—(death sald to have been due to Sinn Feiners)—-43; wounded, 103 The report says the number of court| cadet corps and the midga ! houses destroyed was 68: Royal Irish|napolis. Ivnnfl—b‘ Constabulary barracks destroyed, 530, ENORMOUS EARNINGS OF LANCASHIRE CUTTON MILLS London, Jin. 7.—Two lundred and fifty Lancashire cotton miils with & total capital of £31.000,000 sterling _paid 1920 mote than 25 milion pounds in div. idends. accord.ng to a report lnsued by the American chamber of csmmeree hars today. One mil paid 425 par cent. and damager, 163; raids on mails 998 raids on coast guard stations and light- houses 46: raids for arms 2,801, and raids on revenue offices 119 Minor outrages are not included in the report. 20 “DRY" ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MAKE EAIDS IN WATERBURY Waterbury. Conn., Jan. 7—Twenty en- forcement officers under L B McAuliffe made quick ralds on ASK $1.000,000 FEDERAL FUND loons tonight and arrested - FOR FIGNTING FOREST FIRES tor of each and two bLar tenders all .of whom are held for a hearing tomorrow.| Washington, Jan. 7.—A millien The oflicers say they each place, mdst of ! man tried to pour a but ot evidence in|federal fund for fighting forest fires in pitchers. One|co-operation with -States was uf fuid down a sink |day before a house committes by he officers scooped up enouzh for|than a score of, 7isis. . A barrel of “moonshine Wlis- merchul orgamizations, ‘forest was the largest exhibit,