Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 28, 1921, Page 1

Number of Injured is U May Be One of the Most Disastrous Wrecks in History | {7 Vit &2 2C 2 —Michigan Central Train Was Cut in Two by a New York Central Train at Porter, Ind,, a Railroad Junction Fifty Miles From Chicago—Both Engines Plunged Down an Embankment—TFifteen Dead Bodies Were Recovered Within a Few Hours After the Wreck. Porter, Ind., Feb. zl—‘betwm thir- ty and forty persons were reported kill- ed, and an unknown number injured to- night when a west-bound New York Central train here in what officials said may be one of the most disastrous wrecks in history. : Michigan Central officials placed the number of dead at more than thirty, while unofficial reports made the death list as hich as fifty: g The tower man of the Michigan Cen- tral was arrestod immediately after the wreck, officials saying they believed he had left a switch wlosed, causine the de- rallment of the east-bound train. The Michizan <watral traim left Chi- cago at 5.05 p. m., wound for Toronto, Canada. Tt was cut in half by the west- bound fiver, and both enginus plunged down an embankment. Both enginemen of the New York Cen- tra] train were killed. The engineer Claude Johnson of Eikhart, Ind. Five bodies were recovered nedr the debris of the two engines. Fifteen bodies have been recovered With- ing a few hours after the wreck. It is believed that virtually all of the dead were in two of the Michigan Cen- tral coaches which were demolished when the New York Centra! train. hit The only dead known on the New York Central train were the two euginemen. The engineer of the Michigan Central.is missing. It was reparted thaf he leaped from his cab when he saw the. oncoming New_York Centra] train. - The tracks of the two raiiroads inter- sect here at a sharp angle, being -al- most parallel. The. Michigan. Central traln was believed to have started across the intersection and then to have been dersiled. _The tower was biamed by raliroad officlals for allowing the Mich: iran Central train o attempt to cross ahead of the west bound train. A few persous living at this junction t immediately began the work of woue, Gsing lanterns in their search far the dead and injured. ~Relief trains arrived from Michizan City and Chicago about an hour after the wreck carrying nurees and docfors.” The victims were taken to Gary and to Michigan. City: * The list of identified dead follows: Claude Jofinson. engingers of tae New York Central train, Elkhart, nd, . ''* Carl Deland, firoman York Céntral train, Efkhart, Ind| "~ Ba Kramer, Michigan City, Indiana. — Rosenwald, high school. teacher at Michigan City. s i — Heck, traveling salesmat ‘of Chi- cago. TE ten oclock ‘twenty-six bodies Haa been recovered from the wreckzge and ralway officials were of the opiuion” toat the total death list might excsed forty- five. 2 Twenty bodles were taken to Chester- ton, Ind., and four to Michigan City, In- dlana, ¥ automobiles. - =3 ldentification of many of the - bodies was impossible because of théir mangled eondition. 4 £ There were no physicians here anq first ald was given the injured only. by, pas- sengers. : The scene of the wreck is at the exact spot where the Hagenbach-Wallace cif- cus train was demolished and approxi- mately 80 persons killed several years ago. The circus train was running on the New York Central tracks and the Michi- gan Central train crashed inta. it. All of the dead and injured passengers ‘ware the occupants of a wooden bag- gage and passenger coach which was de- molished. ; According to railway officials, the dis- aster was caused by the faflire of the engineer of the Michigan Central-train t5 heed a block signal at the -over where the Michigan “Central” New York, Centrals tracks intersect. The block signal automatically ' set 'a deralling switch, when the * Michigan Central train’ failed to heéd the signal sgainst it. It struck the derailing switch ang ploughed along- the .ties for 300 feet hefore it stopped, with the wooden coach directly on the track in front of -the on: coming New York Central train which was hit squarely and, then .ploughed .it way through the wreckage before it could be_stopped. The telephone opérator at the .lacal exchange sent out an emergency call, ind farmers for miles around gathered at the scefie to ald in the work of recue. All of the vietims so far as known, ex- cept two members of the New York Cen- tral engine crew. were occupants of the wooden day coach and were mostly res- dnets of Ilinols, Indiana and Michi- points. PASSENGER GIVES DlAm!? DESCRIPTION OF 1.IF. WRECK Chicago, Feb. 27.—The uninjured pas- sengers on the New York Central train which crashed into a Michigan Central train at Porter, Ind., were brought inte Chicago on a special train late tonight: John H. Gelbart of Oak Parlk; Ill, one »f the New York - Central passengers, rave a graphic description of the wreck 18 follows: “TRe first intimation we had’ of the fisaster came when our train began te lerk and jump when the brakes were suddenly applied. ““The next moment the windows were shattered by bits of wreekage ana there ®as a terrific grinding as__we plowed throuzh the other train. Women begin to seream and I found myself lying along- side the track. “We crowded out of the wreckage as best we could. On all sides were people ing on the ground. some dead and some ijured. Many of the bodies were badly pangled. 3 “Fveryone was running around fran- tieally. flames and clouds of steam were thapting from the engines, but wreckage »f the cars o 1 not cateh fire. “The tra..men quickly obtained axes trom the cars and, armed with these, the sassengers helned in the work of recover- ng the bodies. “here was little we could do for the niared. but we tried to make them com- lortable until the rescue trains artived.” RELIEF TRAINS SENT FROM CHICAGO AND MICHIGAN CITY. Ghicago, Feb. 27—The Michigan Teatral railroad officially. anneuneed Jgvight that between thirty and forty / emergency- persons ‘had been Kkilled at Porter, Ind. m/ The number of persons’injured, has nn_td yet been determined the officials said. - Relief trains were sent <from here and from Michigan City, Ind. S The ‘wreck occurred when Train' No. 20 on the Michigan Central - derailed and collided with-a New York Central train. The New York Central an- nounced that two men on' its train had been killed. The Michigan Central train left Chi- cago at-5.05 p. m. for the east. Officials for both roads said the act- ual cause of the wreck could not be determined but it was presumed that the Michigan Central train either ran into- a closed switch or else the rails | spread as the two trains were passing ;each other. The Michigan Central jand the New: York Central wuse the -same tracks out of Chicago. Porter, Ind.. is a.railroad 'juncti point, fifty miles from Chicago. It i there that the New York Central lines cross those of the Pere Marquette. The nearest cities-are Gary and Michigan City, Ind. The tracks cress in open country and are visible for consider- able distances from either direction. The Michigan Central Train No. 20 was officially known as The Canadlan and was bound from Chicago to Detroit lalthough it carried through coaches for Toronto. . o New York Central Train No. 151 was known as the Interstate Express and | was bound from, Beston to Chicagzp. Both were practically solid. Pullman trains. 27 _BODIES< RECOVERED; W MORE THAN 100 INJURED 7 /Chicdgo, Feb. 2 -Word - received at Michigan. Central offices here at mid- night soid that 27 bodies. 'had been take from the wreckage.and that mot ! many more were believed. still hidden 1 in_the debris. e - More than 100 injured,” seriotsly and slightly, badbeen sent to hospitals at Chesterton. & i - 26—3By the ‘A. P.)—Javun Wil insist upon' its mandatory to the Is Hrig of Yap. according. to ‘authoritative Japiseses onitiion, The protest’ of “the ates government to ‘the’ coune of the-league of nations has afoused great intérest in Japan-as a new move: on a matter-which has<already beén langthily, but thus' far unsuccessfully, diceussed the ‘governments of Japan Umted Stdtés. i2d here ‘that Japan lases Lar’ mandatory on the final dec'sioe. ¢f the ‘supreme ctuncil in May. 1813, w d2g cver the German islands of the (quacr t; Japan without n.ade -oral reser previ 3 C €rat isiieclare! that Japan was not rep: ed-and ha s, official ‘cognizance of ‘aks the stand that s, the in# (he war Japan- livicted the Yap end of the cable’ from ¥ hai te fae Tec islands, bat Japan.anl Feurca - for adminiser: purposes. Therefore, cable communica- tion” from ' America to' Snamghai by way of’ Guam and*Yap does not exist. g It is understood that Japan has sus- gestéd to lay a cable direct to Shanghai from: Guam as a substitute for the Yap route. . - . 2. 36 Amonz the newspapers. the Nich* Nichi takee the viéw-that the-United States +ic in o pokit.on to- interfere because It has not ratifieg the peace treaty ahd has hct #ntered te’\leamue, but, it adds, eonsid- Amer12a’s share in ‘winning the war, it woawid. be immeral ‘not to consider tle contentions of- America. fx The Hoehi: 'Shimbun expressed . the opinion that America’s absence from the league does not imply that she renounces the right 6 question league decisions af- fecting important matters Fhiy REBELLION R S IN. I'4TROGRAD ‘AND IN THE UKRAINE London, Feb. 27.--In connection” with the .reports of a mutiiy at Kronstadt and also. reports . of .rebellions at Petrograd and in the Ukraine aud differences be- tween Nikolai Leniné and Leon Trotzky, the Graphic today clalms to6 haves“exclu. sive and unimpeachable information™ that a really serious attack is in progress against the bolshevist government in Russia. The newspaver sava the most important factor of this attack is the in- creasing dissatisfaction of the Russian people against the bolshevist regime, which is taking drastic form. INCENDIARY BURNS A SAWMILL IN NORWALX' Norwalk, Conn., Feb. 27.—A saw mill owneq by A. A. Betts was destroyed by fice here today, with 2 loss placed at $15.000. The fire was belleved to havs been of incendiary origin. It was'a vat- erpower mill and a landmark hers. A faise alarm was turned in at about the isame time and confused the firsmen. About two hours later fire badly dam- ageq the home of Charles A. Quintara, with a loss estimated at $4,000, This fire also was believed to have Seen incend. | ary. OBITUARY Dr. Charles Parkhuret Somerville, Mass, Feb. 37.—Dr. Charles Parkhurst, for thirty-two years editor of Zion's Herald until his retire- ment, two years ago, died at his home here today. He was born in Sharon, Vt. 75_years ago. was graduated from Dartmouth College and Andover Theological - Sem- inary ang held pastofates in many New England Methodist-Episcopal -churches before becoming editor of the religious weekly. § Hugh A. Brady . Greenwich, Conn., Feb, 27.—Hugh A Brady, a vaudeville actor who lived here, died in .Greenwich hospital taday, aged- 40 years, a wreck | ™ ‘Shigping Board, steamer, Vedmere, art reliic, poet ang short story . writer, died..¥riday 2t his home at:Seven Oaks, Couaty.Kent, . gl T < o asss Belgianiand French Trdops % £2 S0 7L Jeseph M. Steddsrt, retired editor snd London, Feb. 27 (By the ‘A P.).—On pnbu':h' , died .at i i y the' yirtual léve. of fll& allied conterence | Park; near. Philadéiphia. . He whs ' t e reparations an old. - s 4 disarmament questions, the two pflncip:l o allied” military -chiefs, Marshal Foch of France and- Fleld Marshal® Sir Hen Hughes: Wilson, the British chief of staff, | Many records were destroyed or. spent the week énd by ' invitation - with | by water. .. Mr. Lioyd George and Premier Briand | 4 of France in their seclusion at Chequers | Fighting between Geergian snd Ar- court; the new country home of the prime | menian troops in ths Borchalu district, minister of :England. o | between the .two. republics, . appears -to The purpose of the consultation was to | have terminated, " reduce to definite form the various pro- 2 e Posalsfor the abplication of wmilitary and (. Ferged passperts te emable undesiradle economic pressure sufficient to change the {and dangerous aliens to enter the United mind' of Germany, should her government |Statés are being issued in almost every refuse the reparations terms of the allies. | European country. This subject has been meglitated upon deeply by both the French and the Brit- ish general staffs, and .especially Kkl A fire In the eity hall, Oklahema City, caused damage °estimated at’ $300,000 Majer Halcy B: Philbrick, 78, bne time e E in | commander of the Putpam sShalanx, a Eatip oTac, apvasal entr. pakt, abd_the | vetéran, military organization dicd eans d ot 3 exchange of views between the two :Sflrl'xs e e tary chieftiins as to what action eould :“z:;en, and effectizely contipued . for |y, eal Pacific , or even vears, to compel Ger- | g t i St or eets this summer as planned, it was said o eet what are considered her ut the navy department. ! While one -aspect of the confereric k' < pted a dramatic warning to Germany inat thg | T® ey e e e e invasion of some parts of her territory | WiSSinale Premier Ver ntericad may follow a refusal of compliance on el e s W e her part, another is that the French gov- |t fiive years' fmprisonment. ernment, which would have to supply most, of the troops, desires to be in a position to act suddenly should the mo- ment requiring action-arrive. The general plan considered; many collateral features requir: ::x‘-g:;arhd understood to provide for a asked to support an increase of 10 per while the French would reoccupy Frank. | T@1Eht traffic in New England. fort and penetrate the country beyond to a co_nsiderable depth, possibly as far as Munich, while a fleet would blockade the port of Hamburg. The declared subject of- these movements would be to enforce :::“:H‘;:nné i Siauses of the treaty und e disarmamen i einwohnerwehr. Al The action faken would thus be based not upon the disputed economic demgnds but upon. the violated armament sections of the treaty. In,_these circumstances the aliles, it is pointed’ out, would not have to wait until May 1, the date be- fore which the allics mast inform wer- many how. much. she must pay in repdra- tions, and after which Geimauy. under A 75 per cent, reduction in ths price of marmot since lest May was r. ded at the winter auction at the ruternational ot whign | Fur Exchange in St. Louis. A i CXAMI- | ppe governars of New Enmglany were Viscount Milner, the recently retired British secretary of state for the colo- nies, was married to Lady Edward Cecil, widow of Colonel Edward Cec The oonference report on the Ferdney cmergency tariff bi!l was adopted by the house and sent to the senate for final ac- tion. The vote was 205 to 127. A gift of $230,000 te the University of ‘Vermont from the zeneral eéducation boara was' announced last night at Burlington, Vi ST AR city employes of Beston who take part in . tie ‘March, 17tif parade-wiit do S0 a ttheir own expemse according to a decision made by Mayor Petefs. E mediately under.( thority of thie treaty, i o plan argue. . i ’ ‘The Germmn: Eoverament has been noti- ged. that e brinciral points on the pro- iy “‘Discévery. of a comspiracy. in the pro- vince of Salto,- 107 miles norfhwest of Buénok Alres. caused the police to make ids in-which 27 persons were arrested, au- the sponsors of the The * United - Stafes ' shipfing baerd steamship Tesarkana from Brémen (o New ¥ Téporied by wireless ghat siig way ‘ii?ih( ‘ot Kire Tslandl d praiion S S e > be. tukemrup. pesc a0 Mier” Gerern TR han : ;fyf stafl, and a member of -the |started on - thé warpath. o S e ‘,v'al}enuon.’ is -coming to. London'|right' 16 vote in the tribal elections and answer: ;)‘wArqwru&nuunls. der this | share in' the. conduct. ‘of reservation’ af- Among. the forms of sconeris » ; Thich might. be applied L siemiary 1.0w provisians’ " elirktanted, ynder, discyssion is Lhe ‘sefting .up of a |1hs s.idiers’ bontis bil' was' reported o few customs frontier soparaie cec wte by the HAancs - ~omm tide pied Germany-from the' remtainder of the | The cash benus weuld bé pavable Janu- empire. QOne of the perplexities to the |ary L 4873.. .. . : conferees. brought ;out - by. this. propost. tion is: the question:as ‘to: what attitus the: American government wobld take axd what instruction would be$ent to ‘Mdjor General Alien, who_is both the mi ry gommander of the American forces nn the and. chief «-mmiissiones ~for «jvil o it gubiect The Wereestor ‘Woolen MNI . C nounced “that . it . will * begin ing at full capacity as soon as it t.g forge can be- increased to its 02300, hands. ;i v ohooL o oD wirk- size affairs ‘in the disty * Explosion. of & lamp In - the home of Miss Mary E.-Inman; 75, years old. of Slatersville. R. I, set fire -to the house and burned ‘its!cecupant o' severely that she cannot live. GERMAN DELEGATION 18 EN EOUTE T0 ENGLAND Berlin, Feb. 37— The delegates to th, Thre. men. belleved by the police te have stolen fitteen automebilos and to have held ‘up three trolley cars recently were captured”by a -sheriff’s posse at Kenilworth, N. J. —The eighlt , German i 3 -conference with t) - lies in -London,’ headed by Fnrei:nhell?l:- ister Simons, And accompanied by a staff ot gome Aty secretaries ind clerks gnd arly of 'seven Gérman new: lett Berlin unostentat#usly" a\ nesn so. day on.a. special train, en route to Eng- land. " Chasicellor Fehrenbach and . many of the lesser government. officials bade the delegation ‘fatewell at the . station, Theré ‘Was not a single uniforin or high hal observable among . the. delegation, which ‘more resémbled, a_crowd of busi ness men than A diplomatic mission. . - ‘The chancelét and Dr.. Simons both appearéd to'be in esnecially goeod. spir- its, laughing. ah. joking as .the.phots- gTaphers snapped- the . farewell scen: MUST FACE. TRIAL FOF¥. THEFT 0 VAF'$132,008 IN LIBIRTY BONDS Chicago,’ Feb. 27 - Morris Wheeler proprietor of twe la sfores at Lewiston, Maine. wa In the superior eourt’ to sixty Jail oa each of two:céunts 3f violation of the state prohibitory law. Fesr that the pretty . but destruetive pink~boll: worm may he‘a stow-away in 2 liner bringing.5,000 bales of ¢otton from Egypt to:.Boston may, delay the landing of _the: cargo several day “An armed bundit whe attemp:sd te held sile Lrancy €t the tone ~av. 5 =98 shot and proh- fatally” woumded by - Harvey & ‘Rheaume, manager of the bani. “The. evidence: in thé ? case of ‘Willian Daltom, ‘16-yéar-old 365 | John B. Farr, republican: of Seranton, a ménth bank: clerk -Who wa# arrestsd in | F%» 100K Nis seat in the house ns repre- Heyworth, 1il, yesterday 48" hours atfer | #entative af-the Tefith Pennsylvania dis- he had-stolen: $772,000 in Liberty bonay | iCt &8 the Tesult-of agtion by the house from the Northern Trust Company here, | it VCling. to unseat Patrick Where he' worked, will be placed befors % the grand jury temorrow. it was annoutic. | Anmeuncement was made that the lo- e tontght: i oo d comotive shops of the New Yoric Central Robert Crowe, “state’s’ attorney, said |2lload at-Avis, Pa.. which were closed every effort would be made %0 bring about Speedy punishment of the boy who found It a simple mannerto carry eut the big- gest bond -theft in' history, ohly te fall into the hands of a village constable after he had been recognized from pictures published in newspapers, - All of the bonds exce(t one for $500, Which had been cashed, were recovered. Meanwhile, Dalton sit.in & detention home with-an occasiohal tear running down his’' cheek. He was brought back from ‘Bloomington, Iil., early today. Re- Deatedly he asked for his mother. At noon ‘his two - sisters- brought him a chicken dinner and he discussed his case with them. 7 “I did wrong and Tm willing to take my medicine,” He said. - “I don't kmow just why T did it, but for a week I had been handling hundreds of thousands_of dollars in bonds and it was so easy to valk, out ‘with them that I just couldn’t help it™ The ghin denied that the case of Francis Carey, 13-year-old Ottawa, I, embezzler who was treated leniently by Judge Landis had influenced him, “T never thought-of'that case and it never sccurred t6 me that if I were caught I would be treated leniently. I was ner- vous and excited yesterday and the re- ported who quoted me on - that point must have misunderstood me.” tions on-Tuesday with a working force of $60 men. Merbert Hoover, whe is te be seeretary of commerce after March -4, arrived in Washington from New York and went in- to. conference with Secretary - Alexander to discuss affairs of ‘the department of commerce. The Manhattan Opers Womss,. York. which Mrs. Oscar Hammers: has- been struggling to preserve as. a monument to the operatic gening «f her late husband, is to be sold, it is reporiel. It is valued at $1,000,000. James Bemnett, alleged burglar, made a sensational escane from the Cheisca court. Roston, eluding the deputy sheriff who had him In custody running along a second story. window ledge and sliding down a telegraph pole to freedom. A $100,000 fire of umknewn ortgin at Maine and May street, Worcsster, de- stroyed the three-story lodging house of Mr. ang Mrs, Thomas Hogan. damagsd a series of stores and threatened the lives of several lodfers in the Hogan huuss. New J. L. McCoulloeh, a riilway mall elerk, was”found beaten unconscious at the Pennsylvania railroad station, Pitts- burgh by fellow employes a few min- utes' before the thiain was scheduleg to ME. AND MAS. COOLIDGE \ GOING.TO WASHINGTON |leave Union station “for Washington, — | Penna. Twe peuches of mafl were miss- Northampton, Mass, Feb. -27.—Vice | ing, 2 President-elect Calvin Coolidge will leave here for. Washington on the Colonial Ex- press at 8.20 a. m. tomorrow. with Mrs;| gomery, Ward & (4., mail - oreer ' hou Coolidge. Although there will be no | was defrauded' of thousands of dollars formalities. in connection - with his de- | thrcugh ‘g conspiracy of employes and parture it is expected that there will ‘be|customers became known sirough tie ar- a large gathering of residents of his|rest 4t Charles Steinbach, a- messzager home- city.at the station to. give him~ a | for_tie company, 13 years old, and three hearty send off. SR AL ERS - peted an 3 A systematie frauds by which Mont- | i on February 14-would resume full opera- |. fo1 PRICE TWO CENTS. [Big Fight Expeced | - Over the Ammy Bil L I ths Closing Week of Congress. ‘Washington, Feh. 27.—Congress enters tomorrow on the 4 ne stretch drive to- ‘ward adjournment .riday, with whip and Spur-on appropriation bills and a scram- ble for the tape on the part of scores of [Bther measures. Night sessions are in order with an all-night finale, as usual, preceding Inauguration day. All of the anpropriation measures ex- cept the naval budget are expected to. go through, althougii only seven of the four- teen regular money Bllls have heen com- pleted and just two have been signed so far by President Wilson. The chief executive plans to be at the capitol the forenoon of March 4 for action on elev- enth-hour measures, Five of the appronriation measures, the and fortifications zre in conference, bul agreements expected. A big fight is ex: pected over the army bill due to the sen. ate's increase of the regular army t 175,000 men as against 150,000 fixed by the house. The question of free seeds and of a $5,000,000 loan to farmers in drouth-stricken regidns of the west are tying up the agriculture bill. The senate and house are deadlocked on the sundry civil Imeasure over the $10,000.000 mus- cle shoals power amendment of the sen- ate and over the $i8,600,000,appropria- tion for soldier hospitals. The house probably willl vote tomorrow in an at- tempt to clear this deadlock. The contro- versy as to- the legislative hln‘ BOW, 7% volves lar; §v about the provision .for purchase )‘"Iho treasury of $200.000.080 of farm loan bonds proposed by the sen- ate. The house will vote Tuesday on the provision. Little legislation except the appropria- tion bills is expected to get through the final jam. The Fordney emergency tariff comes up tomorrow in the senate for fi- nal action with transmission to President Wilson in prospect. It is one measure in a four-cornered fight for precedence in the senate. The other thre bills be- hind which pressure is planned are: the war-time laws repeal resolution; the sol- diers bonus measure, and the navy ap- propriation budget. The last is expect- ed to bring a renewal of disarmament debate which promises to so delay. ae- tion as to thwart passage of the meas- ur:)!h!r jmportant bills which seem threatened with failure include the pack- ers’ controt bill, the maternity and infant aid measure, the budget bill, the congres- sional rcapportionment measure, the Cal- der coal regulation plan, and the $100.- 000,000 goyod-roads appropriation.” Pre- dictions were general tonight that the soldiers’ bonus also would be added ta the list of fayilures. Bills ty regulate cold storage, lohre?;; nize patent office and to.author g—operm\'e markem}gl by farmers are 0. conference wi fiblo‘gu; Other unfinished business in- finished business includes proposals for impeachnicht of Federal J\ldg)e Landis and for investigation of the ‘Bergdoll casge, both of whlch“ selgr?m:!y are 2 for the casualty. list. 4 conclusivns, of the bonus committees 80 due in. this week. Among these are war investigations, the shipping board inquiry, ~ and Calder reconstruction study. - The Kenyon _committee will meet tomorrow to frame a report on its investigation last summer and fall in- to political campaign expenditures. Further inquiry will be made tomorrow by the senate committee investigating allied loans, but legislation is regarded doubtful. “Senat democrats will make another effort 1o secure confirmation of the many army promotions recommended by President Wilson. Republican lead- ers predict that neither any of the ar- my promotions nor any of the thous- ands of postmasters and other civil hominntions submitted will be confirm- ed. A move is expected to be made in the house, however, to obtain the rank of lieutenant general for Major Genenal Enoch H. Crowder. ¢ \ Inaugural preparations and reorgan- jzation activities looking to the extra session also will come in for atten- tion this wee! Republicans elected to the next house will caucus tomorrow night for an organization. ALLEGED ATTEMPTS TO BRIBE A DRY ENFORCEMENT AGENT Boston, Feb. 27.—United States At- torney Daniel J. Gallagher announced to- night that he would ask the federal grand jury to make a complete investiration of the alleged: attempts to-bribe. Prohi- bition Enforcement Agent William J. Me- Carthy to turn from the performance ot his duty. Mr. McCarthy said last nizht that he had heen offered bribes totalling a mil- lion dollars if he would “get off the job” g0 that illegal liquor ‘trading might be carried on. Mr. -Gallagher announced that he had issued a subposna for Mr. M:Carthy's appearance befure the grand jury on Tuesday. in the eity tonight, but the district at- torney said that he was endeavoring to a subpoena served on hin either In ew York or Washington. “I regard the revelations made by Mr. McCarthy last night as t! > most as- tounding and important in my expericnre as a United States attorney.” said M- Gallagher. “It is an attempt to ob- struct justice and to corrupt a United States official and scarcely any violation can be regarded as more serious. “I shall hold the grand jury until it gets to the bottom of this and if charges are proved bribers large or small will g0 to jail. CORK CORFORATION ASKS © SUSPENSION OF EXECUTIONS Cork, Feh. 27—The Cork corporation at a maeting Saturday adopted a resolu- tion“appealing to the military authorities to suspend the execution of six Irishmen in Cork jall. whose death has been fixed for Monday morning. A copy of the res- olution has been sent to General Sir Nevil Macready, commander of the troops in Ireland, and others. Deputy - Lord Mayor Egan sald the i doomed men Included some who were not guiity of the alleged charges, among them John Allen.’ of Tipperary. who was sen- tenced to death by a courtmartial for having a revolver and ammunition in his possession. This sentence was confirmed by the king’s bench on February 24, which decided that a state of war ex ed and that the military had full po to deal with tre Insurrection without i terfezence by the civil eourts. Pruyers were oftered n all the Cath- olic cliurches here today for the :sndemn. &4 men. Tha othr five are: Timothy McCarthy, Thomas O'Brien. Patrick Ma- hony, John Lyons and Daniel Callaghan. These men were tried early In February on ‘1the charge of! levying war againit his majesty by a‘tacking erown forces t Dripsey, Cork, iast January. Night Sessions Will B: Held| Duri e %, - . ' coast of Panama. army, agriculture, sundry civil, legislative , W the outcome.| The enforcement agent was fot | AN AMERICAN Was Slight. ‘Washington, Feb. —One naval ea- listed man is dead. fifteen are mising and two are injured as the result of a collision yesterday between the American destroyer Wooisey and the American Steamer Steel Inventor off the Pacific The Woolsey was cut in two at the fier tank by the collision and sank at § a. m. yesterday morning while ‘in tow of the destroyer Aaron Ward. which, with the destroyer Philip, have 112 of (he oolsey’s survivors aboard. The collision was reported to the navy department late today by Admiral Rod- man, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, to which the Woolsey, one of the navy’s most modern destroyers, wzs at- tached. The damage to the Steel Inventor was slight and no casualties vecurred among her crew. She was reported to be pro- ceeding to Balboa under convoy of the destroyer Buchanan. % The report forwarded by Admiral Rod- man eaid Tom Stanley Woodcock, first class engineman, was killed by the coi- lision and his body was placed aboard the Buchanan. ng were reported as follow: ly, fireman, firet; Floyd Col tengin, - fireman, second; Roman Fieckls, | | Caigo. water tender, DESTROVER CUT IN TWO BY STEAMER Collision Occurred Off the Pacific Coast of Panama—One Naval Man Was Killed, Two Injured, and Fifteen are Missing—Steamer Steel Inventor Struck the Destroyer Woolsey at the After Tank—Damage to the Steamer blacksmith; John Joseph Galcher, ma chinist’s mate, first; George Joseph Zibel lo, fireman, second ; Elbert Jesse Harson, fircman, first; engineman, storekeeper, first: Leo Norwardsky, fire- man, third; Harcld Reed, fireman: Mai- tie Owen Stewart, fireman, Stubblefield, fireman, first; George Elmer Wochiman, electrician, third: Charles Yost. W Henry George Hanecock, econd ; Emerson Floyd Leng, third; Webb fireman, first, and ht, fireman, second. The injured, who . are ruiser Birmingham, are: und Attorst G. Burnside. The collision, Admiral Rodman report- ed. occurred thirteen miles southwest of Coiba Is! nd. The report to the navy department dw not explain the manner in which the missing men were lost, whether due te the collision and the flooding of thelr vessel or whether carried down when she The Woolsey was commanded by Com- mander H. C. Gearing, Jr. She had a length of 316 feet, a breadth of 31 feet and a normal lacement of 1,154 tons. Her speed was rated at 35 knots and hey normal complement was 16 officers and 106 men. - STREONG CONDEMNATION OF JAZZ MUSIC AND NIDITY Atlantic City, Feb. 27.—A olea more “moral sense not subjected sleeping sickness” was made here tod by Dr. Henry Van Drke. former min- ister to Hoiland and professor of liter- ature at Princeton, who addressed sever- al thousand educators here for the tional Fducation association conventnsn. 1t was this that was needed, rather than stricter statutes and decrees in re- spect to better art, Dr. Van Dyke de- clared. “Jazz music was for the torture of for to vented by Admons " he said. to prohibit the earryi of deadl: pons. But I do not think the reach the matter. teachers, let the law to make neople virtuous. “Nudity in art has done less harm than audity_of - the ancuare In which it s sometimes discussed. There is a rea! aif- ference between the nude and the undress- ed. It | “F#ém some plays one seos each sea son, in New York. one infer the thére was only ome commandment—t e seventh—and mankind knew but one pleasurr—breaking it." Sex education in_public schools will be considered tomorrow at the openinz ses- sion of the annual conventfon of the Department . of Superintendence of the National Education assoctation. Other matters to be ~onsidered olutions include: In res- “Compulsory physical education and litary training in the schools.” “Equai pay for men.and wo- men engaged in tie sane work.” “The matter of teachers’ federations as opposed to affiliation with the National Eduoa- | tion association.” and “increased sai- aries for teachers notwithstanding falling prices.” The national counell af sducation at its final session passed a resolution urging all churches, irrespective of creed, to united in making religious education mors universal and efficient, in order to com- bat “emissarfes of nations -now under fadical control” Who are attacking the churches and demecratic governments alike.” PLANNING WHAT TO DO WITH HIS $26,000 REWARD Heyworth, Ill, Fer 27.—Paul Drape-. world war veteran, tiyday was planniny what he would do with the $26.000 re- ward he received last night for the cap- ture of Wiliiam Daltan, Chicago bank robber. Dalton was arrested by Jack Draper, the village constabie~and the father of Paul Draper, after the atter had tried jn vain to induce “Blev” Bolin, town marshal, to take tbe flexing boy into custody. “I'll bet $100 he -ain’t Dalton,” Bolin deciared at the time, but today he zor- rowfuliy admitted his error. Young Draper. who was wounded over- | seas, is an amateur detective, having| taken a corrspondence school course in the art_of catching criminals. He intimateu tonight that he would give £100 of his reward to James Dennis, his “Buddy"” i France, who first called his attention to Dalton. g Both young Draper and his father were kept . busy today posing. for newspapes photographers who were aided by Mra. Draper, the wife of the constable. “Pa, pin your star on the outside of your coat so they will know you are an officer of the law.” was her suggestion; and Draper lost no time in complying. REPORTS THAT THE RESULTS OF PROHIBITION ARE BENEFICIAL Y., Feb. 27.—The state rities, in its annwal report lature. states that the resuit of prohibition are beneficial, althoug is too eariy to give any definite figures. “The effect,” the repors says, “are ben- eficial upon the cond which bring popula- the board attributing this to favorable in- dustrial conditi the resuits of prohi- bition, good heaith conditions and the work of country board of vhiid weifare. There has been a marked decrease in | the number of juvenile delinquents ap- pearing in the courts. Institutions caring for delinquents aily report & decrease in their popuration. BLACKSMITHS TO FIGHT REDUCTION IN Boston, Feb. —Decision against any reduction in wages until the cost of living “drops to a reasonable fig- unanimousiy voted at the WAGES to fight semi-annual convention of the New Eng- cksmiths, drop forgers ana helpers, here today. The delegates voi- ed to «oppose the instailing of the in- g;\'"lllll contract system and the opea 0P, « s —_—— COMMANDER OF TROOPS IN IRELAND WAS AMBUSHED Feb. 27.—(By The A. P.)— eneral Sir Nevil Maeready, com- mander of the troops in Ireland, was the vietim of ambuscade a night age I uffering from a buliet wound shouider, ‘s the report circulated in republican eir here (oday. Con- firmation of the report. however, has been impossible up to the present, In repablican circles it is esserted that on the night of February 12 not one ler- ry. as nounced oMiciaily, but =ix mili- [ care, headed by a touring car in which swaff officers, escorted by two armoured cars and three locries from Kingstown. were attacked at the Merrion Gates from behind the wall of the Mer- rion Biind Asylum. The reports say that the members of the attacking party wers not aware that General Macready was Mn the leading car, but that they were confident it contuined staff officers. It is stated that at least two bembs burst In one of she orries and thatthe belief prevailed that heavy casuaities re. sulted. The: entire attackifg foree, oon- ing of eleven men, escaped uninjured, aithough there were some narrow esedp- The above dispatch gives the first in- formation that General Macready bas been injured as a result of attacks government forces in Ireiand. The a tack to.which the dispatch refers was mentioned in a_Beifast cable Sunday twe wecks ago. This dispatch said geneta! headquarters had reported that a military lorry had been bombed the night before from a wall near Booterstown. South Dub- lin. Tt was added that unofficial reports asserted that ‘an impertant person™ was in a privats motor car accompanying the h;mb(d lorry and was the object ef am this. - —— SPOONING RECOGNIZED AS A LEGITIMATE OUTDOOR sPeRY New York, Feb. Spooning by young couples atop Fifth avenue buses was officially recognized today as & legiti- mate outdoor sport. Sheriff David H. Knott, in & statement made in reply to an anonymous corres. pondent who complained of the practice, declared that it seemed to him that “a man must be either a crabbed old bachelor or one who has heen disap- Pointed in love who will seek to invoks official aid in putting an end to a herd- tage of nature as oid as the werld . “Certainly there is nothing clandesting in spooning atop of a bus.” he added. "My advice to men who cannot stand the sight of the loving meeting of minds 2nd eyes. and in some cases lips. om & Fifth Avenue bus. Is that they ride in the subway. A trip or two in. the rush hours there ought to cure them. In the subway men and women, boys and girls, are thrown together indscrimin and even without the formality 6f an intro- ductioh or acquaintance. The differenss is that in the subway this attention is forced upon them afd instead of billing ;|~n1 cooing, one hears bickering and cuss. ng. - “Let the spooners s They always did. they adwagf will. Why try to awaken them from love's voung dream! I want to state that I must refuse te desiznate deputies to stop what you eall a nuisance. This statement by you rep- resents onir. 1 think, a conclusien,” & state of mind.” EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS BY IRISH INSURGENTS Dublin, Feb. 27.—Incidents reported today in the hostilities heiween crowsn prince forces and Irish insurzents inclmde #d the discovery of extensive preparas tlons for an attack upon the police bar- racks at Glenties, County Denegal, in which the roads had been blocked. wifes cut. and rails removed from the rafl- way tracks and the line diverted. The at- tack. it is announced, proved abertives as the police were prepared for it and a school boy in thig elty. : to a hospital suffering from zurshot wourds received on the street at noon. No official explanation of the shoot ing was fortheoming. It appeared. h that a lorry carrying armed. ams- ry police was passivg at the time of the shooting. . At Ballyneen near Bandon, County. Cork, Alfred Coiter was shot dead in home. Three men did the shooting. ITALY HAS REDCCED BUDGET 35,000,000,000 LIRY Mome, Feb, 26.—Italy's sovernmental budget. which ten months a=0 had amounted to 14 biilion lire, has now been reduced te four billlon lire, it was am- ced ta the senate taday by Premier i, admist loud and prolonged ap- plause, After hearing the premier. the senate by a vote of 290 1o 7 pu the bill in- creasing the price of bread. introduoed 1o make up in part the deficit in the budget Gue (0 the previows fixing of the price at a low figure. The chamber of deputies sassed this measure last Wed: nesday. 1t will take effect Mareh 1