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yOL. LXIII—NO. 8 ~ PRESIDENT-ELECT HARDING " RESIGNS AS U. S, SENATOR Letter of Resignation Awaits Action of Governor Davis—Sen- ator-Elect Frank B. Willis to Receive Apppintment to Fill Vacancy—Mr. Harding Will Devote. the Next Six Weeks to Preparation For the Duties of His Administra- tién—After a Conference With the President-Elect, Sen- ator Smoot Stated Many Burdens of Taxation Would Be Lifted by the Revision of tlie Next Congress. Marion, O., Jan. 9. — PresidenNelect Harding resigned today as United States senator from Ohio, forwarding his letter of résignation to Columbus for action of the newly-elected republican governor, Harfy L. Davis, who assumes office to- MOFrow. . The move was in accondance with the president-elect’s announced purpose to give 6p his senate seat ns soon as a / change in the state admimistration would admit the appointment of a rcpudlican successor. Governor-elect Davis has In- dicated that Frank B. Wiliis, elected sen- ator_for the term beginning next March would ?nmc‘! to fill the vacanoy. Followipe the wishes of Mr. Willis, Mr. Harding made Jan. 15 the eitcclive date of Ma resignation. By gziving up his sepatorial office thenm, the president-elect will be permitted td, devote the last six weeks before his inauzuration wholly to_the preparation for the duties of his administration. That the inauguration ceremonies on Mareh 4 may Mic.ude a ceremony unigue In historp of such affairs was indicatel tpday when it ‘became known thap Mr. tation to akie Such a meeting would have 56 formal nor legal sigmificance since the actual casting of ballols by the electors takes Place tomorrow in the various state cap- | itals and they will be canvassel by con- gress more than two weeks in advance of inauguration day. Tax revision, appropriation measures and reorganization, of the executive de- vartments of the ‘government were dis- cussed by Mr. Harding today With Sen- ator Smoot, of Utah, who has made a close study of all of these subjects. After- rds Scalor Smooth said he beligved that the president-clect had definite ideas that would lczd to practical economics and reforms during the coming adminis- tration. The Utah senator predicted that $200:4 000,000 would be saved annually by re- organization of the depariments on the efficiency basis and that many of ‘the burders of taxation would be lifted by *he revisions of the next congress. Senator Harding aiso had a lonz talk this afternoon with Dr. C. E. Brooks of New York, whom he invited to his home repubiicans and ’democrats Marding had approved a to have| after listening to him preach here to- all the members of the electorial college| day at the Trinity Baptist church. Tpe In Washington for the oc on. Thg pro- sermen was on the spiritual consequences | of the Versailles peace, and it was for a further discussion of the subject that Dr. Brooks was inyited to see the presi- dent-elect. £ pagal was made by the froup of Ohio slectors, who sugzcsted at first that all republican electors be invited, and lat- r modified the picn to indiude an in / ¥0 REQUEST BETTER CARE JOELESS MEN IN XIW YORK LED VETEDRANS PARADE AND ATTEXD CHURCH memerial drawn up by the netional oficers of the America Legion and proposing m I better care of disabled world war will be S President-elect Coolicge New York, Jan! 9.—After services had | started this’ m ning at historic Trinity | church, Lroa y and Wall street, 141 unemploved men, members of the “Ho- boes Union,” cntered” the church ~ and r filled up the front pews. . The men filed | ton tomerrow by oificers.o’ it - | tn Sy Yy quietly into fae cdifice during a praver | and quietly tools their places in the pews Qesignated by the sexton, ; Urbain J. Ledoux, an official of the | Hoboés Union announced yesterday | that 500 jobless men would attend the | ce stoday, but 141 were all/ he couid muster this morning on the Bow- ery. the starting point of the parale. The marchers did not apvear dejected heir enforced idleness, many of the lively itunes as they Ir\:nde%| heir way through the streets from. the Bowery. % Many of tie men were well clad, while a few had army blankets drapad over their shoulders. Thirteen placards, at testing-wantof food; ~ratment whd ghel ter, were interspersed through the line of march, 5 The personnel of the marchers was made up mostly of young men. same meroilal is to be presented- tomor- tew to President Wilzon, President-elect Harding and members of congress. * Agcompanying the memoriai wiil be a letter from Istter M. sraith says the principal recommendations of the memorial are: “Basic legisiation whicti Ehail comsol- ldate in ons azeney the function of the rious independest .burcaus now d Ing with the probleams of care, treatmont and compensetion. Appropriation of funds to be piaced at the disposal of the unified organization in an amourt which shall enable it to accuire, opera‘e aRd main- tain ‘hos.itals sufficient to relieve and prevent a recurrerice of the present sit- _ustion. i STORY OF THE LOSS OF A CANADIAN TRAWLER MARRIED ELCPERS SEE ; THE ERROR OF THEIR ACTION vew York, Jan. 9.—Captain George seEash Sorsel Chicago, Jan. 9.—Pierre Paul A Dawe and the crew of the 43-ton Cana-! _, © Paul Auther,; Lk 404~ (who eloped from Madison, Wis., last| dian trawler Euphrates, which they ¥ & | Tuesday with Mrs. Philip F B -| abandoned Janu ay's | e IRBZT. 410 ary 3 after a five day'S:piont reftrned o his home I Highland | s fight with heavy eeas. arrived here £o- 1 Park, Iil, with his wifd and baby, while | nzen left for Madison with her | day on the steamship Galileo, from Ant- | husband, the four figyres in the “love ! werp, The Euph 3 v] e Euphrates, which sailed from | auadrangle” having dé peace with each j other. Polle Isle, Newfoundland, for St. Johns, Dec. 27, 3 ge. 27, sunk after her crow. had bean Franzen announced that he would with- | draw his charges of larceny against Au. taken off by men from tho Galleo. e Euphrates, Captain Dawe said, A awe "mlnher, whom he charged with robbing him | {of Mrs. Franzen at the point of a gun was within two miles of St Johns on December 28, wWhen a sudden shift of the | wind to the northeast caught his.light| craft and drove It out to sea. The small | amount of bunker coal carried was soon exhausted, and in order to keep afloat, cvery ploce of avaflable wood was torn from the vessel and used to keep the; fires under the bollers going, the last re- | sort being the vessel's car; = g0 boom and to help pay for the homeymoon Auther and Mrs. Franze,n planned to take. Mrs. Auther faid she expected to be happy with her husband hereafter and that she would let him be the “master of | the house,” for she believed that she %er- | self was responsible for his attentions to other women. Mr. Franzen said he was glad to take back his wife and she expressed her | wil}insness to remain with him forever. NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE MOVEMENT IS OPPOSED o L COURSE IN COOKING FOR VMEN Newton, Kas, En. 9.—The action of AT PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE the Balina post of the American Legion {nactively opposing the epread of the | Non-Partisan league movement in Kunsas was upheld here today at a meeting of the cexcative committee of the American Le- glon, department of Kansas. Resolutions werd adopted denouncing A. C. ‘Townley, nead of the lenzte, who has been. in Sa- lina holding meeting2. The committee is compased of two members of the Ameri- can Lezion from each congressional dis- trict in the state. % State College, Pa., Jan. 9.—Men students are to invade the sacred domain of wormen l[‘ Pennsyivania state college—they are going to learn how to cook. 1 The home economis department an- nounced tonight thdt begiuning with the second semester on February 1 a course In cooking for men® will be inaugurated. It will inclule a study of the nutritive value, selection and preparation of sim- , The resolutions declared that Townley {Dle foods, “with special emphasis upon “stands corvicted in one of the state | thosc suitable for camping.” courts of Minerota fof acts of disloyaity | | The men will have a one hour lecture | during the way.” that his activity in Sa- [and three hovrs a week practice in the | lina “endangers ‘the peace of the com- | cooking laboratory on the women's side of | munity.’ ' | the campus. —_— —— e —— PROPOSAL TO RESTORE | RECONCILIATION EFFECTED IMPORT DUTY ON fl!fl' BY OFFICIALS IN SPAIN Madrid, Jan. 9.—The confesence of Juan De La Cierva, the conservative leader, with King Alfonso yesterday ap- parently resulted unfavorably and no reconciliation between the Cierva group and that of Premier Dato was effected. After the conference eSnator Cierva re- fused to state what his future eourse of action would be, but gave the impression that his opposition to the premier would be as determined a3 ever. The conservative group of former Pre- mier Maura also maintains its stand 2gainst the premier, and the liberal leda- ers, Count Romanones. and the Duke of Alba, intend to fight against the govern- ment at every opportunity. Gloucester, Mass,, Jan. 9 —Representa- | tives of the fishing interests in this city ‘wero being sounded out today to obtain their views of the proposal to restore the import duty on fish. Comuittees representing the fish ex- change, vessel owners association and mariners’ association held an in- formal conference last night at which it was apparently asreed that a tax on both fresh and salt fish from foreign vessels should be asked of congress and 1t w stated that a definite-program would be prepared after the committee- men had had af opnortunily to report back to'their organizations, REFOBT OF LOSFES THROUGH —_— BURGLARIES IN PARIS | TO RESUME ACTIVITIES IN KENTUCKY TOBAOCO blsrncr Lexington, Ky., Jan. 9.—Activities in the tobacco district of central Kentucky, where most markets have been closed al- most a week because of failure of buyers to offer prices satsfactory to growers, will be resumed tomorrow with an ad- dress during the afternoon by Congress. man J. Campbe il Cantrill to a meeting of those interested in the burley crop. A conference between Louisville warehouse- men and a committee appointed, by grow- ers, bankers and local warehousemen to seeck closing of the Louisville hogs! g 1 market also is'scheduled. W 55 Parls, Jan. 9.—Twenty-four million franes in cash securities and ‘ten mil- lion francs’ worth of goods and valuables, half of which were recovered by the /po- Hee. were the total amount obtained in Paris through burglaries, thefts and swin- dles by criminals during 1920, according to official figures made public by polige h-ucmmem today. The minlstry 6f finance alone lost 3,220,000 francs through swindles and for- ———— FLOATING CAP INDICATES DROWNING OF THREE MEN i - Hollistbn, Mass., Jan. 9.—A cap float- ing in-® .space of open water in LaKe Winthrop today told the story of the ing of John Driscoll, John Me- Guiness and Forest Hitgins, all residents of this 4own. The men, whose bodies were recoversd, wetit to a camp at the ImteJast might for ice fishing today. RIOT IN TARANTO, ITALY, WHEN LEGIONARIES ARRIVED Taranto, Italy, Jan. 9 (Havas).—The arrival here today of legionaries from Fiume provoked: a ‘manifestation which énded in a riot. One person was wounded #nd numerous others arrvested. . ' POPULATION ‘29,685 ¥ ’ All Miners Assessed to C# on Strike of Union Miners in Alabama. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 9.—Tp carry to a finish the strike of the union. coal miners in Alabama and the fight ‘against what is_termed “the’ lockout™ in Mingo county, West Virginia, the United Mine Workers of America has sent letters to the four thousand local unions in 'the / . g country levying 2n assessment of one dol- lar a month fgf two months on the entirg membership, fumbeting 553,000, accord- ing to an announcement made tonight at the intqrnatipnal headquar rs here. _Ap- proximately 50,000 ner: 4 in the ‘two fields, it is said, are be..._ supported by the international union, which up to Jan. 4 had czpended $1,345,000 out of its {reasury for this purpose. +“The sufferings which the men, women and children living in both these coal filds have undergone chalienge the ad- mirzation of every member of our nion. and calls for our full support in the struzgle these brave men and women are makiug against the forces of corporate green and cornorate power,” declares the letter sent to the local unions. MAYOE OF CORK GEEETED BY CROWDS IN NEW YORK New York, Jan. 9.—Daniel O'Callaghan, lord mayor of, Cork, who entered the TUnited States at Newrort News Jan. 4, arrived here today and was greeted by crowds of “Irish republic” sympathizers. Accompanying O'Callaghan was Peter MacSwiney. brother of Cofk’s late lord mayor; Harry . Eoland, secretary to Bamonn De Valera, and Acting Mayor Gannon and Deputy Mayor Malone of Jegsey City. x uring the short trip from the station to his hotel, O'Callaghan’s automobile wag followedy by a procession that waved Sinn Fein 2nd American fiags. ' Crowds gather- ed before the hotel and O'Callaghan, re- sponding to their calls, appeared on a bal- cony. He spoke of his trip from Cork as a stowaway, expressed appreciation for the welcome accorded himi, and said he probably would remain in America sev- eral months. He eaid Ireland would not aceept ‘pome rule. “We don’'t want home rule. ,We want nothing but freedom,” he declared. 3 Te added that “home rule might change conditions for a while. The Irish people ! would aceept it with u non-resident policy to see what would become of it before they did anything definite.” Hundreds crowded into the Pennsyl- vania station to greet the lord mayor. Fifty police Teserves were detailed to handle the crowd. When O'Callaghan ap- peared from the train shed a prolonged weleome was shouted. A path to the automgbile driveway was cleared and police escorted the lord mayor to_his automobile. Mr. Boland announced that the lord mayor Would mot appear for public specchmaking- until he had testified in Washington before the compmittee of une hundred investigating the Irieh question. O'Callaghan, .he said, would remain in New York several days, preparing ewi- denee he intends placing on. exhibit. w:th- fttee, and probably would leave for Washington the latter part of the week. CORNERSTONE LAID FOR, POWERFUL RADIO STATION Sainte Assise, Department of Seine-et- Marne, France, Jan. 9.—Louis Des- champs, under-secretary of state for posts and telegraohs, laid the corner- stone today of what is desirned to be the most powerful radia station, in the world," capable of transmitting with two sendinz intruments.24,000 words hourly, or re- ceiving and deciphering simuitaneously 60,000 words hourly on five instruments. The alternating system will be used. The Lafayette station, which now s the most powerful, has a maximum range { of 15,000 miles but experience has shown. and forcing him to ‘write = check for $100 | ° according to the ministry of telegraphs. that it cannot be depended upon for more than 4,500 miles regularip, being unab'e. for instance. to- work satisfactorily with Argentina. The .Sainte Acsise statin when completed in 1923, will it is ealen- lated work easily and regularly with all stations in the world. The station will he erceted fo rthe gen- eral wireless telegraph company. Thirty per cent. of the capital Invests1l in the company s Enel'sh and soventy per cent. French. The company has a working asreement with the Ameriean Radio Cornoration. The striking physical features of the plant will be sixteen stcel towers $20 feet hizh. Cantain Cecrme R, Fyans, assistant naval attache to the Ameriean embharwy In Paris! renresented the United States navy at the cereniony today. —_— TO ISSUE ABOTUT $250.000.000 OF TREASURY CERTIFICATES ‘Washington, Jan. 9,‘~0fleJ of twi series .of treasury certificates, the com- bined. issue for about $250,000,000, was announced tonight by Secretary Houston. Both series are to be dated Jan. 13, one maturing April 15 and bearing interest at 5 1-2 per, cent, and the other maturing Oct. 15 #nd bearing interest at 5 3-4 per cent. ‘While the interest rates on the new is- sue sare less thar offered op certificates ‘Which the treasury has issued during the last six months of 1820, attention was called at the treasury that the terms of the new series have been reduced. CS- tificates recently issued bore interest at 5 3-4 for six months and at 6 per cent. for one year. Flotation of the ’$250,000,000 treasury officials Said, will enable the government to meet the maturity of $125,000,000 in certificates due on Jan. 15 and at the same time provide a margin for expenses not met by current revenues during the first Dart of the year, when tax returns are lightest. 0 new issue, UNEMPLOYED IN ENGLAND CRY “WE WANT REVOLUTION.” London, Jan. 9.—John Robert Clynes, labor member of parliamemt for Man- chester, former food controller and pres- ident of the National Union of General Worksers, was howled down today while attempting to address a meeting of the unemployed at Campbell. He wids obliged to ‘desist. A larze section of the audience shouting “We want revilu- tion! We want soviets!” — COMPLETES FIFTY YEARS AS MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGE Boston, Jan. $.—Judge Joseph R. Churchill, who i8 said |to have presided over a court of Jaw for a longe rpericd than any justice in the United.States, cel- ebrated today the fiftieth anmiversary of his appointment &s municipal court judge in the Dorchester district. He was ap- pointed by Governor William Clafin om Jan. 9. §l71. pie N, MQDAY, JANUARY n siiver was 1d off at & 2 iatio 33, ised the sundey civil appro- u{, carrying approximately ,291. ) g s Lo™M Milner resigned his portifolid ns secretary for the oolonfes His suo- cessor has nut yet been announced. . Overail dentm prices were revised by one of tre. largest manufacturers to a basis of 17 cents for 2.20 Mdigos. Six persomns weep killed and two oth- ere mortally injured when the Royal Ho- tel, England, Ark, was burned down. Enrico Caruso is reported progressing favorably from his atiack of pleurisy, according to a bulietin issued by his phy- C. F. Bernadi, newly appointed Ital- ian consul general to New York city, arrived on the Italian steamer Regina d'Italia, ward at the McPherson at Atlamd, Ga., was royed by fire, but no patients were in ! the building at the time. Four hundred crooks, Including five Americans, were rounded up at Montreal by the police to rid the city of eritn- i inals at largs. A warning to tobacco growers in Con- necticut aginst “wild ‘fire” a' bacterial disease, was issued by the agricuitural experiment station. Superior. Steel Corporriion resumed operations after a short shutdown ai- fecting 1,209 men. The wage reduction averaged 15 per cent. Argentine and American business men at Buenos Alres predict passage of the emergency tariff bill will resalt in & tarift war between the two countries. New failway from Ibague, capitol of the Department of Colombis, to Do- aging director of newspaper organizations disthnce of approximately 60 miles. " “The population of the Island of Veglia has revolted aginst the Italian govern- ment troops and proclaimed a “Croatian Republic.” According to repgris received at th department of commerce, the British dye- stulfs act, prohibitivz imports of dye- stuffs, will become eftective January 15. Waiter D. Hines, arbitrator In the dls- tributor of German inland shipping under the peace tresty, has awarded France 13 1-2 per cent. of Germany’s Riunc fleet. Fire, possibly from defective wirin; broke out in the American embassy of- fice in London. Quick action of a large force of firemen confined the biaze to one rpom. Six Texas Rangers, under Sergeant King, engaged in a running fight with 12 Mexican smugglers in the Zapata County gas flelds, according to word re- ceived at Laredo, Nearly twice as muny men and we- ment were. {reated in the 'w York City ‘hospitals. #4r" Aletlolizm’ flufln\hhe Jast four montks of 1920 -as daring the same period of 1919. Pennsylvania rallway police and post- office inspectors of Philadeiphia are in- vestigating the rifling of mail bags on the mail train which left New York 12.45 a. m. January 7. Rufus J. Fellows, proprietor of ~ an in,n just over the Providence boundary in the town of Jbhnston, was shot while in bed at the hotel. His condition was sald to be not critfeal. Federal prohibltion officers of New | York are investigating 1,000 forged liquor permits which have come into the pos- “session of the special intelligence net of the internal revenue bureau. The advisability of sending s seale committee to Cuba to obtalu first hand information about conditions there wii be considered early this week by the senate Cuban relations committee. State Bank Commissioner E. J, Stur- gls informed a depositors’ committee that unless finial aid was forthcoming at once a receiver would have to be appointed for the Shelton Bank and Trust Co, James G. Seripps. lidher and man- agind director of newspaper ‘organizations died at his home at Miramar, new San Diego, Ca., from complications foliowing | an attack of influenga a month ago. Henry U. Havey, s Pawtucket, B. L, | druggist _surprised five men who Were | driving off in an automobile with Im- | ported liquor valued at - $5,000. which | they had taken from his celiar. They es- caped. z Information was conveyed to members of the family at Milford. Conn., that Cadet Dennis Hunker Totten, who was | found .dead on West Point reservation, | died from a bullet in the brain, self- inflicted. State department ordered an favesti- gation of Harry ‘Doland, secretary of Eamonn de Valera. Alleged remarks made by Boland urging a “race vendetta” on subjeat of Great Britain, are the bas- is of the investigation. The Shipping Board freighter Schoodie ended a vovage half way around the world at Boston with one of its crew in irons and another at the point of death as the result of a duel fought whiie the ship was on the high seas. | Colomel Fedgewood, British laber del- | egate to the Indian congress, declared {in an interview at Allahabad, India, that | Indian masses are ‘turning politics into ia crusade agalnst western civiiization| rather than against western rule. James J. Geis, chief Jjanitor of the capitol ‘building of Charlestown, W. Va., declared the attic which was destroyed by fire last Monday was frequently used by “crap shooters.” - He also id the “fire was not due to defective wiring.” Noel B. Chamberlain, 78 years old, s thirty-thrd degree Mason, and a grand- son of Henry Price, the first Grand Mas- ter Mason In America, who is said toi have introduced Masonry in this coun- try, died suddenly at Niagara Falls, N. Y., No burley tobacco will be grown in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohlo during 192% and tobacco sales floors will be closed for an indefinite period if resolutions passed at a meeting of represcntatives of farmers at Lexington, Ky., are car- ried out. A new high rerord for dividends was made by the cotion mills of Fall River during the year 1920. The total divi- dends paid during the Will year of 1920 ;;no\m(ed. to $9,989,300, an hverage of .148 plus per cent. on A eapitalization * of $36,060,000. » LD i police exp 10, 1921 Various Questions Settled or Discussed During Year of kxistence. 5 aris, Jan, 9—Secretariat of the league of nutions today issued an official docur ment entitied [“Tae Work Acconiplished by The Leas irst Year ol lis 10 Jan. 1y, 181, ous questions seitied or discassed by ae league. At mentions first tie estavlishe ment of a perfuaneat internucionul court of justice; second, the work accomplish- ed in tne Hmitao nof armaments, snd third, the creation of an Internatioual commission 10 study use Of the D.OGuuE as an cconomie weapon. The three fore- going ure mentioned as “mehsurds Jes- tinea to prevent war.” Under the head- ing “efforts at politiéal conciliation,”. the document - refers v he quesuon of the Alind Islands, upon whica the lcagul commission will report within three weeks. a3 mensures destined to remedy the economic crisis, the report says, the ere- Hion of an economic znd financial or- 1idn* in mcordanee with the con- clusions of ' the irussels finansial . con- ference, and the or~zation of & ngit comunission, were lucemost in the league’s work. Loacerning humanitarian measures, the report goes on, league eciaborsied & series of projects. including an appeal for funds to light typhus, the acceptunce of responsi and also the white slave traflic, caused Ahe United States, Brazil and Spain to aveept médiation in Armenta, and eéffected the repatriation of more than a hundred /mousund War prisoners, Regarding execution of the peaco treaty tne league poinis out the follow- ing misslons accomplished: 1—Adminiftration of the Saar Valley. 2—Direction of the affair sof the free city of Danzig. . - 3—Rejection of the German govera- ment's conciusions$® and note askiag an- other plchiscite in Kupen and @nd the final awarding of the terriiories to Belgium. - 4—Tae establishment of 'a permanent mandate commission to administer the affairs of former German colonies. b—Accepiance of responsidility for the Pprotection .of minorities. 6—The registering of 69 treatid cordance wit hthe stipulations of treaty of Versailles. WAITING AT MATTICE FOR RETURNING BALLOONISTS in ac- the . Mattice, Ont., Jan. 9,—Information to- night was lacking in regard to the three American naval balloonists who are re- turning from Moose Factory, near Where they descended Dec. 14, The time of theif arrival is still problematical. i George Macleod, one of the * Indian runners who brought the meronauts’ dess patches here from Moose Factory. said tonight he doesn’t expect them to-arrive until tomorrow. 'r)w‘lnd\‘:u:h-qd el-ula days, the time constmed by his party in covering the distance aiong the Misginabi from Moose Factory, was a feeord. ' usuzlly . takes two -weells: to make trip, he added. MacLeod sald the;nav: balloon probably will be salvagéd and ‘| brought out by the Hudson Bay company next sumnier. . 7 . 3 Lieuctnant Farrell, the Indian comtin- ued, is being brought back on # sléd_espe- clally fitted for the purpose. He' suffered more from exposure than his companions and /was top weak to “mush”‘with the others. Newspaper correspondents, who gave up hope that the party would arrive at Cochs rane ove rthe Abitibi river trail, arrived here early today. Nome of the sent out by them had returned tonight. Official documents from Washington for the naval aeronapts are’ In’ care, of a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted police, Who were ordered to wait at this point. b Factor Mavor of the Hudson Bay com- pany said tonight that Oliver Marks, the Indian guide leading the Amerfcans out of the frigid wilderness, is an exception- ally capable man and owns some of the finest and fastest malemutes in this coun- try. \ Milder weather prevailed in this vieins ity today, the temperature rising to 10 de- grees above tero. AIRMAN TELLS OF FOLLY OF BIG BATTLESHIPS London, Jan. 9.— Viscount Rothermere, former secretary of state for the air forces, in an article today in the Sunday | Pictorial under the caption “The Folly of the Big Battleship,” submits a startiing contention directly challenging the tradis tional basis of the British naval policy. The doctrine he propounds is that it is no longer possible for any nation to possess wholly cond command of the seas. ~ participation in big. battl ...y Lord Rothermere British rivalry with the Unitea States and-Japan because hey obivously ace building against each other and not against ux.’ He urges that Great Erir'si cannot af- ford t nd any monc 4 naval con- in pursuing antiguated forms of w: that is no proof the capital ship will = The article concludes that-no na- renceforth will enfo¥ naval supre- “That's-a nasty pill. but- we must swallow it,” Lord Rothermere says. BODY OF MISSING BOY WAS FOUND IN POND New Bedford. Mass., Jan. 9.—The body of Jimes F. Collins, Jr.. 3 of Alderman Ccilins of found late today in a pond in Plainville. There were no magks of violence and the was accldentally drowned. He had been missing since he Went on a_hunting trip in the Plainville woods on Dec. 18 last, and it was feared that he had beer mur- dered. - Searching parties had assisted the po- Hce on many days sihce the boy's dis- appearance and his father had offered a reward of $570 for his finding. dexd or alive. Ten uays after he left home his mittens and gun were found on the shove of the pond within tem feet of the spot where Lie body was discovered to- day. But search of the pond at that time yielded no result. belteved that the boy while hunt- 2 *he pond and broke through the thin' lea, PLANNING FLIGAT FROM PERU TO UNITED STATES San Salvador, Republic of _Salvador, Jan., 8.—Juan Leguia, chief of the sea- plane service of the Peruvian govern- ment, is planning a flight from Peru to the Unletd States the latier nart of this month. information as to his plas. was received here In the form of & request from the Peruvian government to the Salvadorean government that he be per- mitted to on Salvadorean soil during the flight, 1 it becomes necessary. Georze 3. “n: Gould of Lakewo, Now Jersey. Farly - iran by Anthony ‘Martina scd the opinion that the boy | TROUBLE IN DETROIT OVER cfLecgieof Nations | “MAUNCIPAL STREET RAILWAY i About 200 Policsmen Guarded Laborers as They Laid Rails city policemen, 100 laborers employed by the city early this morning lald tracks of Detroit's new municipal street rallway across tracks of the United United Rail- way Company at Bt. Jean and Mack ave- nues, aftér’ Circult Judge Harry J. Dinge. man had issucd an injunction restrain.ng the city from crossing the tracks. Whiks tite 'work “wis being accomplished E. J. Burdick, 'aszistant general manager of the Defrolt Uhited Rallway, who had in his_pocket the restraining order, was a virtuil “pi m;:u- on” Belle Isle, a sdid, his being to the park Ly the police.. . &= When ‘tlie work of crossing the D. U. Actoss. Tracks of the Detroit United Railway—Injunc- ing the Tracks—Assistant General Manager E. J. Bur- . dick Arrested With Restraining Order in His Pocket. " Detroit, Jan. 9.—Guarded by about 200 | permit the patrol wagon to cross and a- ter to permit the wagon to return to the city after Burdick had been left at the island police stition. Burdick was un- able to Grosy until daylight (The Belle Isle bridge is closed to all exeept pelice traffic at midnight each night). Burdick in a statement today, declared { contempt of court proceedings would bd started by. his' compan} against: the city and that he intended .to file a persorl suit against the city for faise arrest. The police admitted Burdick had been takén to the island station for investigation. The break between the city and the Detroit United Rallway Company fol- R. tracks-was begun Burdick is sail to have approached’ Joseph 8. Foodwin, was about’ to produce the injunction pa- cusjady by manager- of the municipal system, and |in the comstruction of a municipal street demanded that the work be halted. He|ra lowed a legal fight carried” on between the city and company since last Apfil, when Detroit voters at a regular election authorized the city to expend 5, 000 Hway system. Following the election the -company pers, it is said, when he was taken into | started suits against the eity attacking a.policeman, and taken in a|the validity of the election. The suits patrol wogan -across the Belle Isle draw-|are still pending. bridge to the island for investigation tn Efforts of thé city and the company to a charge of disturbing .the peace. . He |compose their differences recently in pub- soon ;liberated but was. unable to|lic hearings met with failure, the com- the drawbridge would mnot FIRST CANDIDATE FOR THE SOUTHEERN IRISH PARLIAMENT “.Dublin, Jan. 9.—The first - candidate publicly to offer ‘himselt for election to the southern Irish pariiament Decies who has written & letter for pub- lication tomorrow in the Irish newspap- crs in which he admits that the home fule act is far from perfect but says “it represent a gift of self-government which ts ours for the usking. Expreesing. the :beilef that the home Tule. act can be nade .stiil better, Lord Lord | state, return to the city because tie tender of | pany refusing to sell certain lines and close tle|parts of other lines to the city at figures span. The bridge had been: closed toladvanced by ecity officials. NOTT MURDER TRIAL TO BE RESUMED THIS MORNING Bridgeport. Conn., Jan. $.—Dr. Jéhn C. Lynch of this city, chief alienist for the will resume the stand, when the trial of Eiwood B. Wade for the marder of Ceorze E. Nott is continued Tues- day. When court adjourned Friday. William H. Comley. of counsel for. the defense, was engaged in a cross-exmmie- ation of Dr. Lynch. In addition to the local allenist, Drs. C. C. Godfrey and Frank W. Stevens will also testify for Decies . announces his purpoee of asking member of the southern parliament. “THey. may - refuse me,” he says, T'shall feel that I have attempte | thing. practical and done more |‘lnnd than those who, however “but for Ire- sincere nitely with an recomplished fact. their purpose, continue to quarrel Indefi- | parts for the the state. Unless the accused youth is placet soine - Irish constityency. to. elect him 2| "4y, yyitness stand to testify in his own behalf. the evidence given by the insanity experts wi'l colsesthe trial and the case may g0 to the jury Wednesday afternoon. Wade, accordingto both the mental ex- tat. and those for the defense, is subformal mentally, the de- Thé netion of Lord Decies Is spuposed | tense maintaining that he is insane. Bat to be part of the plan of th: government | the state claiming that despite his men- new ‘act. and it is expected that candidates lfke Lord Decles will be an- Lord Decles married Vivien Gould. daughtér cf Mr. and Mra Jast ysar repo1s were in circulation;that Lord Decirs mizht become Tord Lieut-n- ght-of Irelend, He s a represchtative lords. PRILADELPI(IA NEUROLOGIST VISiTS THE WHITE HOUSE Deroum, who ‘was called for consultation during the early- stages -of President ‘Wilson' fllnets;- visited the wWhite' house today for “the first time in two months; and spent . some time with Kear ~Admiral ary T. Grayson, the president's perso- nal physician. Dr. Grayuon -said- that no significance was attached to Dr. Deroum's. visit; it merely being made, he said, in accord- ance with the agreement reachied sevaral months ago that the Philadelphia spe- clalist. should come to Washington o¢- casionally for cofisultation. Dr. Deroum was ‘sald by Dr. Grayson to have expressed himself as “immensely gratified” over the condition of the pres- ident. CESSATION OF THE PEACE NEGOTIATAONS IN IRELAND Dublin, Jan. 9.—If reports in official circles are to be credited, all negotia- Itions looking to peace in Ireland have broken ‘down. Definite information Is ! lncking, but it is said that Premier Lioyd | George- has definitely refused to consider {the Sinn Fein's proposal for the with- drawz] of the home rule bill. Officials here take a gloomy view of the sitvation. ‘The Inereased activity re- ! cently on’ the part of the military and re | publicans in the martlal law arcas is con- idered as 4ndjcating an extension of | guerilla warfare. SEIZURES OF LIQVOR BY REVENUE MEN AT STAMFORD Stamford Stamford, Conn., Jan. 9.— Revenue men descended on a restaurant today and seized.some whiskey and a few momenus | stopped an automobile going through the jeity and conflscated fifteen cases more.. !The automobile was driven by Alphonse { Holtback who said it wa3 owned by Sax- jton Robertson- of Newport, R. L Mar- Itino and Hol'back .were arrested {held in bonds of $500 for & heairng to- morrow. 5 | MACHINISTS . WOULD DPEAL 1 WITH SOVIET GOVERNMENT * Beston, Jan. 8.—A proposal to send the | president of the International Association i of Machinizts to Russiy’ to contract with the soviet ernment for the manufa ture of machinery was made in resol tions adopted by the local lodge of the association today. Another resolution ask- ed Preaident Wilson to act toward re- storing free and unre: d commer- eial exchange and traveling privileges to Soviet Russia. KUMOR OF AMBUSII OF CROWN FORCES IN COUNTY MEATH ‘London, Jan. 9.—A dispatch to the Daily Mail.from Dublin says it is ru- mored fhat cfown forces have been am- bush. at Dunboyne, County Meath, on the border of Dubiin county. The Qis- patch adds that the operations appear to liave been extended over a wide area. Roud bridges at various points are re- portad to-have been destroyed. There has been no official confirmation of the rumors, as alj the wires in the districts concerned have been cut. BRITISH . IMPORTS AND EXPORTS SHOW INCREASE Lohdon, Jan. 9.—British fmports for 1930 wers; £1,936,000,000 sterling, an in- crease of £111.500000 over 19 Exports and | peer of Ireland ‘and sits in the houss of court. Washington; -Jan. 9.—Dr. Francis' X. | wi to encourage willingness to work for the | tal infirmities, he is sane and able to dls- wore | tinguish right from wrong. As the 8- fense has made no cffort to deny Wade's responsihility for the 1 murder, Ko futy will bave to pass o the insanity auestion. Mrs. Ethel Hutchins nott.- fhdioted the. murder of her nd, and E. Johnston, held the - same - crfime, are expected to. be brought totrial dwr- ing the February term of the superior PLAN FOR MOVING PICTURE EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN Gdeuo& Jan. §.—A plan for & nation- ide moving pictire educational cam- the Philadelphia neurologist, | paign through which it is hoped to brinx the city and the farm closer and thus solve many . of the problems mow confronting the farmers of the country was announced . tonight by Wililam B Bkinner, secretary of the National Datry Assoetation, * " For this purpose, Mr. Skinner sald, the Farmers' Film Corporation has -besn formed' and tion - with it n the work will be the federal departmentment of agriculture, state departments of as- riculture and state agricultural cofleges the American Far mBureau Federation; the National Dairy Assciation. = The American Bankers' . jp-fociation, grangs movements and c¢i>-orerative buying and marke‘ing Associations throughout . the countryq. One of the first things to be undertaken in the plan will be t> he'p the Ameriesn Bankers' Assoc'ation raise a billfen ‘del- lar trade expaneion fund. INSANTTY FROM ALCOWOLISM 1S INCREASING IN CHICAGS . Chicago, Jan. 9.—Cases of insanity from a'doholism have Increased in the Cook county Psychopathic hospital sines prohibition went into effect, according o the questerly report of Dr. Jaines Whlt- ney Hall, chairman of the insanity eem- mission for the county. Dr. Hall reparted an increase of 13 per cert, in alcoholic cases in December. 1920, over the last officlaMy “wet” De- cember. He atiributed the inerease “either to the fact that prohibition dees not prohibit or else thers is more ek’ In the modern when liquor sellirg wae legal.” “Bventually. however.” the report said “inaciy. will be greately decreased by prohibition. for future generations will not kmdw the taste of whiskey..” GUARD PLACED ON U, R, STEAMER AT QUEENSTOWN Queerstown, Ireland, Jan. 9.—On the arrival here today from New York of the American steamer Homolulu with a earza of provisions on bcard for the réllef of fhe un-mployed in Cork, the authorities placed an armed guard on the _vesse'. Notwithstandinz the protest of the cap- tain of *he guard remained on the steam- er when it procceded for Cork. More than one hundred tons of sap- lies for the suffcrers from the recefit York December 23. The supp ies were sea* on board the Homolulu which left New York December 23. The suppiies were gent by Irish relief committas in Philadelshia New York and othet cities. ) e ARREST OF A SINN FEIN MEMBER OF PARLIAMEN1 Delfast, Jan. 9.—Troops at Derry to- day surrounded the residence of Josept O'Doherty, Sinn Fein member of parlis ment, and arrested him. He will b2 in- terned. Two previous ralds on his home were without result. Raids, on rate collectors, the latest form of Sinn Fein activity, are becom'hs to £1,500,000,000 for ! on Sunday owing td the 1920, en increase of nearly £500,000,000. nomizing in coal increasingly common. Six are reuprted in the county of Wexford. DEADLOCK IN SHIPPING STRIKE AT MELBOURNE Melbourne, Australia, Jan. ' §.—The deadlock In the shipping strike continues and Is having cerious effects. No. trains or trams are running here or &t Perth L