Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 11, 1921, Page 1

GTTH AMEREAN CONERESS *COWEAES AT NOON TODA el In Extraordinary Sesston Called by President Harding—fro- graim of the Day is Expected to be Limited to the Usual Opening Formalities — President’s Message Will be ities in Both Branches—Makeup of Semate is 59 licans, 37 Democrats— House, 300 Republicans, 132 Democrats. ‘Washington, April 10.—The uey repub- can administration will get under full appointnienis die lo be aie sentative Esch of Wisconsin 1o tie inter- a few weeks ago by President Harding. ambassador to Great Britain. The program tomarrow is exsected to| Committee reorganization of the senate be limnited to the usual opening formali-|as well as the house is tc -be. arranged ties, including the adoption of resolutions | tomorrow, with republican’ representation providing for a joint session on Tuesday greatly increased. Few chairmanships in to hear the president's address and to|either body, however, will be affected. begin orgznization work. Committees of | Dozens of unimportant senate committees, JeadeFs il also be zppointed tomOTTOw !with perequisites of patronage, are to be to notify the presiueu. of the assembling | abolished. cussion of internauional questions. * Ke-|program, the senate fmance committee publicans prommnent in gongress received !will start hearings this week on internal ! government. reports tonight that he fould state With |revenue revision. headed by the sales tax ! Tomorrow's program calls for reading|ployes also are to be pressed at once. in both Lodics or the president's procla- | While the house is engaged largely with mation caling the extra scssion and for | Ascal legislation, the senate will work on “lect:on of olicers. Speaker Gillett is to | the Colombian treaty nad dfterward take | POLICE OF NEW YORK ARE e re-ciectcd in the house, after the calliup the immigration bill, which was ve- 3 tie Toli by Committee slates ' toed at the last session. The Knox peace | | resolution and other proposals for bring- | uve Mondell of Wyoming to continue as ;ing about peice also promise much dis- | their wholesale crusade against violators | majority leader and Represenlative |cussion, and possibly early action. Sena-|of the recently enacted state prohibition Kitchin of North Carolina succeeuing the |tor Knox of Pennsylvania plans to intro- | enforcement law today, which w: late Champ Clark as minority leader. |duce his peace resolution soon, but prob- also are to be ad The nsual opening flood of Dills and |ably not during th resolutions 18 due tomoriocw .n the house | session. / in the house tomorrow and reported dur- ing the day or Tuesda: It will be President Wilson. This is to be xnuodualihmu. republican ieaders wiil press tor a final also will press the measure. hoping to Work iIn the senate wiil begin” on the | forelgn loans. undef agreement to reach a ,nn,u body there will be 59 .republ April 19, with ratification genérally to be received this week by the.senate] from President Harding. -Many recess present tomorrow. JUMPED FROM BROOKLYN ABMY OFFICIALS ;l'B TRAIN BRIDGE FOL “PICTURE! bridge and was picked up in the water|John J. Pershing, is under process 4 £ 133 feet below, alive and unharmed. It | formation, army offi~ia's a: Goveronor' from the structure, | Island announced today. Y. he having performed the feat in 1915. The first move, they said, wouid be = an auntomobile en the sotth roadway and ! ferent sections of ‘the counlry. to be in N A policeman saw Carone spring fromto the éstablishment of cambas in climb a steel girder. Before the officer|oOperation from August 7 to Septem: could reach him Carone plunged into|7. Plans, thus far obtainal tre ppeared and began to swmi towards the| Age limits for enroliment were pla :ul. In fifty strokes he had reached 'the | betweer 16 and 35. craft and was hauled aboard amid cheers.| Instructions in the various depari- Cafrone sald he also had jumped off}ments of the army will be given those Londén bridge and High bridge in Glas-| Who enroll for training. gow, | —_— Lo INTERVIEW -BY - PRINCE IN RHINELAND APEIL 20 - Mhyence, April 10.—The new allied customs collections in the Rhineland will become effective April 20. The present German tariff payable in gold will be col- lected on eastbound 2nd westbound goods through the western frontier of Germany. A 25 per cent. German tariff in gold he ati daily. of the Rhineland on westbound merchan- Se from the occupied into the unoccu- éd area the duay will be 25 per cent., pavable in paper money. The inter-sllied Rhineland commission has the power to chang ethe regulations as it sees fit. Evaders of the customs regulations will be prosecuted in ‘courts eét up by the commission and will be subject to a fine of 500,000 marks or Im- | gards as the best. prisonment for five years. o= T SECOND OLDEST DWELLING ARDZITRATICN DECIFTON ON PRINTING IN WASHINGTOX these chickens with evident pride. Sandwich, Mass, Washington, A tern' Typogrepnical union and the “ington Newsnaper Pub! 3 McCovw ot the D board. charact-rizel tesetting as waste|fire is believed to have been starateq b, y and extended the time within which pub- [8n incendiary. Ome old epinning wh a+ matter from fourteen | W28 the only plece of furniture m.zi:eel tishere ==+ re fays to *“'=ty. Justice CoCoy upheld the | house. sontettio- f the nublishers that reset-| — ting of forelm advertising should not|NEW ISSUE OF $150,000,000 be required because of insertion of a TEEASUEY CEETIFICATES merchant or agant. The_arhitrator refected the request of | Washington, April 10.—Secretary Mel. the vprinters for increased nav. except|lon announced tonmight the offer, of a new for work on Sunday afternoon news- |issue of treasury certificates . to papers, and also rojected the counter pro- | amount of about $150,000,000. The noe 1 of the publishers for an Increass |issue will be dated April 1 ‘hours. 3 1-2 per cent. $25,000,000 I8 DUE FROM < e, GREAT BRITAIN FRIDAY |CRYAN WOULD PREss mis i Vgt IDEAS ON BRITISH TERRITORY ‘Washington, April 10.—Great Brita'n's frst payment, amounting to. $23.00¢.000{ Miami, Fla., Apri 10.—A protest should m principal and interest ander ths fund- | D¢ lodged with Great Britain against the sehome for licundating the debt of |2llcsed liquor traffic at Bimini, in the g 122,000,000 fncurred drring the war hy | >Ahama Islands, the purchase cf 100005000 stardsrd sil- ver dollars for the relief of tho silver of the N American ment will probably be made through the [ C03St, h esald, development -of such g traftic amounted to “hatching conspira- tonizht, An additional | cles against the laws made by a friendly payment of $117,000%00 also fal's (u.|BOVernment for the protection or our May 15th. people.” Other. naugns, he ‘:dde1, should famine in India, folls due Fridav. Pa federa] reserve bank in New York, ury officials aal; 2ns ement for liquidating the sil- wer t. officials decared, was reached tely from any negotiations for the of the British war debt to ini the - of nearly five billion dollars. town meeting mystem.' respect our natienal aws. . VOL LXIH—NO. 83 ; POPULATION 29,685 s and e INDUSTRIAL SITUATION IN BRITISH ISLES LESS TENSE Belief Prevails 1hat the Mine Owners Will Submit-a New of Voluntesr Workers—Government Not Averse to Giv- ing Temporary Assistance to Tide ths Industry Over ths Difficult Stage. £0 ireconstruet, devastited - S of Home Rule.™ Dublin, “April’ 10.—A prominent Ameri- can lére made ‘the statement today that uential Irishmen in America were re- ting a ‘settlement of the Irish ques- ordering p strike of coal miners. | tion on thé bas's of ‘dominicn home rule L O by insisting upon Ireland being a repub- lic, failing. which the warfare shall be continued. This American claim- eq to have knowledge that plans were be- offices, of the will be moved on 1 from to Harvard universjty. er Howalt, sas Unon head, was declared in contemp, of April 9.(By The ‘A. beéen renewed h turks ‘and Greeks on the:Brusa front in Asia Minor. Turkish cavalry is attem, - Ing to break through the Greek ‘line Brusa. ‘It is reported a Japanese steamer with & thousand Turkish- war prisoners froi Siberia has besn held by Greek nav: units and takeli to a Greek port. sublihe porte is preparing to lodge u protest against the gelzure of the ves- my oy jculture from ‘1896 “to 1911, died homie in Ottawa after a long’ lliness. ¥ ing considered to induce the Sinn Fein After two days of virtusl wire fsola- | leaders to publicly announce their wiliing- Southern Canada, ering | ness to accept home rule, coupled with from the effects of a severe sleet @ L= S rm. | fiscal autonomy. - The informant deélared that for three ' unsuccessful efforts havy been made ‘Thomas & Son, in South | ta persuade Eamonn de Valera, tae Irish Loss is estimated at $150,- | republican. leader, and other members of 1§ the Irish ra)ublican parlament to state their demands. I am confident the British - govern- 3,400 { has joined ‘the carpenters in refusing to [men is ready to agree 2 wage reducticn from $1.25 to'$1 an |those terms, GREEKS LOST 600 KILLED X April 10—(By the A. P.)— IN ASIA MINOR FIGHTING |plant of Joseph tim y Was a day ef relaxatien from the tension created by the coal strike and the possibility of tieup, and gave the cabinet ministers and labor leaders an onportunity to get into t. “the Tumber yard asd . Among these is the NOMINALION G. ._.iuci vepre= Athens, April 10.—An official ment issued today estimates losses of the Grecks in the fighting in{ Electrical ' worker: Asia Minor at 600 killed . and state- | 000, eadway tomorrow when the BIX-|ga16 commerce commission. The diplo- seventh American congress convenes at|matic list is scheduled to be headed by noon for the extraordinary session called | Colonel George Harvey of New York for the country for a rest. Opinion on the present aspect to negotiate on erican sald, “but the leaders of the Irish in America who are FAVOR DISCONTINUING all precautionarw measuros and recruil PROPAGANDA AGAINST SULTAN of veluntecrs are proceeding actively and WHI not be relaxed unt:: th financing the movement here stand out Four units of the first division of the|with Michael Collins and the Irish re- army were decorated ‘at Camp,publican army for a republic or noth- J, for: varidys. service in the |ing." secretary of the waymen, said the vietory for anybody, umph for a common cause.” Constantinople, April 10.—A disposi- tion on the part of the Turkish national-|world war. their propaganda }aganst the sultan is shgwn treaty entered into wi signed in Moseow, in.which the Afgha: back at work. < These prepa ed a grear attraction for Londoneres to- day who, apparently no !onget commander-inchief of the. Irish republi- resulted In the | can army.) by the fear of strikes by the raltway men and transport workers, crowdal the parks anq rivers, enjoying the briiifant sun- It was a striking contrast Saturday, when fears of unmtoward velopments kept the population in its hcmes. Two important views were apparent Rallroad aceidents death of. 2,044 persons for the quarter ending September 30, 1920 ‘and injury of | BRITISH TROOPS BURN 17,947 others. men that somothing in the s ‘Afghanistan tional settlement will resu conference tomorrow, or at stapdard minimum wage with sor tem of honuses for districts where ex- ceptional conditions preyail. of conress. 3 Committee work 18 to begin Immediate- Domcsie needs, inoluding tariff and tax!ly on a number of subjects, including, revigion. are eopected 10 be emphasized by | arift ‘and tax revision, and the Ameri- | FeCOSize the Turkisn suitan as Caliph. President Harding Tuesday; but he also {can import valuatien, the 'anti-dumping | The Turks, for their part, recognize the ning a considerable dis- | and soldier bonus bills. To expedite the | HOUSES AS REPRISAL status of Bokhara and Khiva, in Tur- kestan, recently created by the Moscow The farm laber situation in the United bl States. is “decidedly easier” been for three .ycars, agriculture announces. Ireland, April than it has | troops in charge of an officer visited .the the department of | Upton district today, arrested several ci- vilians and burned houses and some produce in reprisal for the ambush of soldiers cn March 19 at Cross Parry, midway between Kinsale of the|any Macroom, in which six soldiers were killed and five others wounded. The residents In the farmhouses were given | half an hour to remove 10.—Regular today, the first was the confidea® be! among the labor leaders that now an un- The new treaty is an offensive and de- & 2% 2 v: fensive alliance, both the nationalists and considerai.e definiteness his attitude to- | proposition. Bills to gg[nh_]].h a budget 1 th posil 1o establish peace with |sysiem, to reorganize the government ithe Afghans agreeing not to enter into ward the proposal o e b agreementg affecting each other with for- eign powers without fottered conference is assured a greater umpers will return to their duties, alythough under the.terms of Consideration of the Dritsih mandate over Mesopotamia will be begun at the next meeting of the league of nations. Gernany by congressional action. departments and to reclassify federal em- W e agreemert they only are required to ab- stain from molesting volunteer workers. The seccnd was that while firmly opposing a_subsidy, 1s will- Byren K. Newton, collector of the, «C New York, is. making plans for ale of 100,000 quaris of wines whis- |key gin and brandy. ENFOECING VOLSTEAD ACT [, " ing for a limited period to afford some temporary assistance to tide induscry cv- er the difficult stage. It also is belicved that the whole basis recenty proposed by | the mine owners, which originated {dispute will be discardeq and a new basis formulated for the miners’ consideration. !tual session. New York, April 10.—Police continued SINN FEIN BOYCOTT AGAINST ENGLISH GOODS French government approves ‘Intention lof Marshal Foch to attend annual con- ~ivention” of .the American jfall in Kansas City. that the strike notices for Tuesday mi Belfast, Ireland, April 10.—The first attempt to enforce the Sinn Fein boycott agajnst English gcods occurred today in the Kilmallock, County Limerick, railway station. A quantity of gocds from Man- chester was burned by armed men. | seribed by some newspapers as the “dry- e first few days of the!est Sunday” since 1336, when the late { President Roosevelt, then police .commis- but not until Tueésaay in the senate. _The army and navy-appropriation bills, | sioner, clamped down the I The lirst legiz.ative achievement prom- |with their huge budgets, which failed in | liquor selling. ises to be enaciment of the emergency |the last confiress, and must be available | tariff bill veiced at the last session by |by July 1. are to be started soon in the ' cu: Fighting between socialists and f: Isti or extreme nationalists, ‘one person was killed and sixteen wound- ed, occurred in Venice: ip on Sundlyl“ BISSELL FOR COLLECTOR, GATES FOE MARSHAL Hartford, April 10.—Capitol gossip has it that State Comptroller Harvey P. Bis- ulster | S€!l is siated for federal appointment In|sion that he was concerned in the mur- the near future as colleotor of the port|der of Joseph B. Elwell in New York last with offices at Eridgeport. The present, June, today confessed that his stery is occupant of the post is James McGovern|not true. The prisoner had been ques- of bridgeport and the friends of J. A.|tioned for two hours by District Attorney a prominent Park City re- pubiican, have been trying to land the Bissell is a Ridgefield man and is sald to have the backing of | state leaders. Owing to the practice of distributing equitably the patronage, Is extremely uplikely any other big fed- | Buffa ral appointment will go to Fairfield Frequenters of saloons, wWhere “regular ! customers” have. heretofore been able to ibuy contraband liquor, t Railroad affairs will be ~investigated New Yotk was virtually “bone-dry” for {soon by the senaet interstate commerce the first time since the Volstead amend- taken up for debate on Wednesday, md‘wmmlthc. The inquiry, for which ment was enacted. Many saloons, which ! Chairman Cummins of Jowa will intro- | have kept open. ostensibly for the sale vote before the week end. Senate leaders duce an aithorization resolution on Tues-|of ‘soft drinks.” closed their doors and did not indicate whether they would re- TULSTER CONSTABLE SHOT DEAD FROM AMBUSH A decline . of about thirty per cemt. in the Venzuelean coffee crop is expected, { Consul Garrety, at Caracas, raported to the department of commerbe. Pelfast, April 10.—A special constable was shot dead ang,three oth- er persons wounded Grossmagilen, County Armagh, while re- turning from church today. It is believed some of their assailants were wounded in the exc! One constable was instantly killed and three others were wounded tcday when !attacked while eycling near f Gregganduff. The attack- in an ambush in day, may begin late this week. Another get it into the president’s hunds by mext |imvestigation which will cohtinue is the ek senate judigiary committee’s inquiry into It was semi-officially is the. French govermifient’ vt 'American claims ' fina! dettiement of the war pro aanounced in H. Robinson, Coney Island,. the city’s great play- / ground, whieh was thronged today with $25.000.000 Colom¥®an treaty, probably | The rejublicans will start upon the new ; thousands of visitors, received a pre-se Tucsday. Taken up during the special|session with commanding majorities in'son visit from a special police. squad of senate session last month. the senate is|both senate and house. In the uppertwenty detsctives, who arrested eleven .and one woman on, cha place for him. Boston Elevated Co. was outhorised by -Public Service. Commigsion tablish A mgainst 37 democrats. and in the house, liquor-in- their.passession. Police Inspec- ! icted. A hprd_ fight, however, I8 {300 republicans to 132 democrats. All tor Sackett, who. hsaded the squad, de- prospect. despite President Harding’s ré- | house members will take their oaths to- clared the campaign there against {llegal quest for ratification. It is planned te|morrow. Two new senators, Norbéck of ‘iquor sellinz and carrying..would: be. vig- have most of the debate in public. South Dakota and Bursum of New Mex- : oro Hundreds of nominations are expected | ico, who were not sworn in during the' March session,” also are .expected ‘to be ! nd used rifles, re | and hand ‘grenedes. The constables re- plied’ With reveivers. According to repert from Omaha a plot to peis:n Judge Robert S. Lovett, chajrman of the ;board of direc.ors of the Union. Pacific Railway The same rule will apply to New Ha ven county, where Col. Robert O. Eaton, member of the house from North Haven, is_slated for the coliectorship of internal that Representa- tive Walter of Cheshiré will probably not be chosen United States marshal or May- or Donovan of Meriden as prohibition en- forcement agemt. The job of ‘marshal according to pres- to_ Sherift Charles usly continued throughoit. the seasom. “The only wet part of the .island,”. he Adeclared, “wiHl be the:point at which the ocean meets the beach.” - . Other squads combed the Brooklyn to the Bronx, but few violators CURFEW 4 0/CLOCK IN AFTERNOON IN LIMERICK was. discovered. One -person in twent is either piarding or cther- twen.y-six.men, women -and- chil- dren, according.to parliamentary figufes: o ame - the| Cork, April 10—After the attack on a police patrol by armed civillans Friday night in Limerick, Colonel Cameron is- sued instructiors enforcing four o'clock in the afterncon.and at the same time ordered the nhabtants of the city to ke their windows open in order by explosions. Following .this not'ce, at six o'clock in| the evenng, explosioris were heard. Sev- eral houses and business premises were | bombed and destroyed. A woman nineiy years of age was ejected from ome <f; Police officials expressed the j opinton that- saloon keepers. and others ihad taken warning and were -proceedinz Reverses suffered by Greek forces in “Allflm_lk\ and.the casualties inflictéq up- on them by the = Turkish have caused great depression in Athens. CITIZENS' RESERVE CORPS Ncw York, April 10.—While motion |- New York, April 10.—A citizens' re- | : picture cameras clicked on the déck of & |serve corps ‘of the army .on the basis :NiFbt hy First Denuty Police Commix tug fn the East river today. Deniel Ca-!of voluntary service instead .of compul- :Sioner Leach that the.man who carried rone, 21, of Mt. Vernon, putling a cigar-|sory training which it is hoped will be otte, Jeaped from the center of Brooklyn:trained under the girection of General ent “dove” way go f Gates of Willimantic, Windham county. Tax Commissioner Blodgett and Motor Vehicle Commissioner Stoeckel are state officlal certain of reappointment in Blodgett will not became attorney Highway Commissioner Bennett has still two years o serve before the ex- piration of his term. New Haven men in the legislature say that their cofleague, Representative Fred- erick L, Ford, can have the mayoraity nomination of that city and that he is sure of election owing to his popularity with voters of every degree. The llve- liest sort of a campaign is assured. 0 obey the law. . Thao flask of liquor was in the sama class th the man who carried n gun. is be- ved to. have disheartened those who, { formerly were openly proud of a protrud- i inz bottle neck from the hip or overcoat The monthly tonna United States 'Steel Cornoraticn, d-6.284,765 tons of unfilled orders on fand March 31, compared with 6,933,867 on Feb. -28.- report of the ; rsons found The first case of dismissal after ar- ik Bl e . irest upon a state lquor violation charge, {was reported today. when . McQuade, discharged Freder- ick Rothe, a waiter, who was accused of having liquor inhis possession. trate McQuade not only ordered his dis- but directed that 2 half pint liquor be returned to him. saying the evidence and means of procuring it were doubtful. arrested Rothe, in a restaurant stood beside a tumbler of aliezed liquor ‘The liquor was said to have been ‘poured from the half pint bottle. Willlam H. Arderson, tendent of the Anti-Saloon League, an- nounced tonight that the league would begin checking up on federal. state and and would inform the public as to whether they were perfarm- ing their duty. Federal and state judges, he said, would also be watched to deter- ‘whether liquor -law violators re- ceived only nominal fines, or were given a prison sentence. “ Sixty thousand gallons of lquor, the laccumuation of two years' poice activi- ity in Gary, Ind., were poured into the|road between Middleton and Castlemar- sewer in the basemecnt of police head- | tyr during tae evening. The men fn the ambuscade exploded a large mine. fighting lasted for half an hour. casualtes are not known. Crown forces yere ambuscaded on the . make the .camps’ in -some respecis an lv::“m“ friends on the waiting tug|outing With uniforms, food 1nd trans- saw his body strike the water. He soon|portation furnished by the governmeut. | Drugs valued st more than $100.000, in half pound packages said to bear Darmstadt, Germany, seizeg in a' Mott street VERDICT OF GUILTY IN bottie- of supposed PEONAGE MURDEE CASE DEFICIT OF RATLROADS 05,000 IN FEBRUARY | Covington, Ga., April 10.—John 8. Wil- liams, plantation owner, was found guil- ty by a jury here yesterday of murder in connection with peonage cases. The jury recommended ‘Washington, April 10.—Railroads United States suTered a deficit in February of $7,205,000, while 106 out of 200 reporting to the in.e.stite commerce commission failed to earn their expenses and-taxes, as aganst a definic of §1,167, 806 for January with 109 o.t of 202 fail-; Harry New, wholesale clothing ma facturer and “former National Association of Credit Men, is dead in Cleveland several ' month ago. inw CUSTOMS COLLECTIONS * ALFONSO OF THE ASTURIAS Madrid, April 10.—Prince Alrenso of Asturias, the heir to the throne, today gave the first Interview he has ever ac- corded to the editor of the, Revista So- cial Yagraria, while working on - his mode] farm in El Pardo, near here, which state superin- an operation The verdict carries with it automati-| tjon, cally a life imprisonment sentence. The defense filed a motion for & new | Catherines at that tim ing to make expenses, accoid.ng to tab- ulations made public tonight by the As- county officials, The police announced the discovery In the home of a workman of the F. L A, T. plant in Turin, Italy, of about 200 bombs, 100 revolvers and some machine guns and rifles. was convicted _specifically lof the murder of Lindsey Peterson, farmhand, whose body, bound and weighted with a sack of rocks, was found | with that of another negro employe on Wiiliams' farm in Yellow river. of nine other negroes, said to have been | sociation of Railway Executives. Of the 106 roads repor make expenses, 46 were in eastern, southern and 44 in western districts. The 200 roads represent a mileage of 235,562 ed as failing to z fl:a;m;‘ m? Doulltryl and pigeons the n a few simple sentences declar- Wil be collectible at the eaktern frontler | o pimaale devoted to outdoor womk roa €xpressed the intention of ' endeavoring to improve the breeds of chickens in Spain. One of the best liked possessions of the helr to the thine is a number of Rhode Island Reds and he pointed to Naval officers again may wear the! civilian clothing that has been in moth bails since the daclaraticn of war was followed by orders to wear uniforms The carriers, accordng to the tabula- tions, fell short $63,884,000 of earning the amount estimatel under the increased rates fixed by th: commiss'on in accord- ance with the tramsportation act, devised to estibli-h rates yieldinz & return of 6 per cent. on valuations Total operating revenu's were given as $406,658,000, a decrease ol 4 1-2 per cent as compared with February 1920, whilé operating expenses were $385,378,- 000, a decrease of 7 1-2 per cent. com- pared with February a year net railway operating deflcit, however, it was announced, was reduced 56 1-2 per cent. compared with February 1920 when 1t 16 MEN HELD UP IN DEM. CLUB HOUSE IN BALTIMORE have been found buried on the farm or Baltimore, April 10.—The enrire tective and police force of has been busy today hunting a gang of bandits that early this . morn cessfully worked one of the holdest gei ups ever attempted in this city. armed men guarded the proach to the Citizens' Democrat'c club, at 3 a. m. seven men, six of Wiom were masked, entered the club, backed membe s against the wall with revolvers and robbed them of jewelry and money amounting to $7,000, it was reported to the police. One member, Dr. J. C. Craw- ford, was struck down unconscious by a blow from the butt of a pistol in the hands of the leader. The gang escaped in autemobiles. The sar witness for the state was Clyde Manning, riegro farm boss, Who, testified to having thrown Peterson Into the river at Willlams' owner having driven the automobile in which the negroes were taken The defense put W the stand, but no* under oath, which pre- cross-examination. | witness was called. John Sylvester James. & long time American resident of Paris, and form- erly a business associate of Thomas F. Ryan, ‘died at the American hospital Paris after a month’s {llness. ‘The prince's chicken coops for th most part are constructed on the mfld:l used in the United States, which he re- { | INTERNATIONAL 2:0TARY Jokeph Bosco, wealthy Detrolt' esst side bread merchant was shot and killed by three men who jumped from an au- tomobile- anq fired fifteen shots at him as he stood behind his delivery wagon. IN MASSACHUSETTS BURNED , ADril 10.—Fire 1 10.—In a decision | today destroyed the ’hlwer‘;oue, ?u:xll{ arhitration nroceedings between the [in 1636 and considered the secon = n est dwelling In Massachusetts, mfl.fi’}.’;- ers’ ‘asso- | Mer it was the scene of the annual re- ‘ion, just anmBunced, Chlef Justice|union of the Tupper Family associatiog, et "ot Columbla. su. | members of which came Trom st bl preme court, chaf-man of the arbitration [Of the country for a celebration. The | shin of the P RECONSTRUCTION, o e 80 TO 130 BILLION Rear Admiral Frank Harvey Balley, died suddenly at the Union a statement Parls, Aprl 10.—Reconstruction In the | ! devastatea resions owill brong the ex-| of France un fourtcen hillion frames annually for fen | years. This ie the calculation in the finance committee of chamber on budeet exnensss recoverabls from Germany, which will be in the chamber Tuesdav. Tt i= estimated that the raconserucdon | still to be completed will cost from to 130 billlons francs. Takinz the low- est fizure In the annual budget at elght billion. with four billion In nerisions and on_money already association said, “show that the operat- Ing revenues totaled $181,443,000 or an P: while waltnig He was oni his way to his home in Gowanda. Increase of 3.4 per ccnt. over those for | February 1920 while total operating ex- were $180.021,000 or a decrease The net operating ! ncome, however, was a deficit of § 754000 which was, however, an Increa of 67 per cent, over what it was during the same month last year at which time there was a definit of $29,527,000. - |zation. that time has come. Tf. w' EAETHQUAKE ABOUT 1300 MILES FROM WASHINGTON ‘Washington, April 10.—An earthquate' lasting an hour and described as rather severe occurred this morning. Director Tondorf of the Georgetown seismographic observatory. estimated ‘the center of the disturbance at about 1,- 800 miles from Washington, probably in Central or South America. The semis- mographs recorded the first tremors at The shocks reached their maximum intensity at 9.06 a. m., and the disturbance ended about 10 a. m. 1-2 per cent. The schooner Bowdoin buflf te carry Donald MacMillan, the explorer, on his next Aretic voyage was launcheq at noon Saturday from the shipyard of Hodgdon Bros in Boothby, . Me. starting in July —_— GREECE HAVING WOMAN Rear Admiral Bristol, commander of SUFFRAGE CONVENTION the Uniteq States naval forces in Turk- ish waters, has taken ub with the Turk- ish nationalist government the reinstate- ment of American teachers in the Amer- fcan college at Marsivan. m of mone. At any cost France to fin1 this vai Aoril 10.—The suffrage convention In Greece took place today. King Constantine and Queen So- phie were present. The chairman of the meeting made reference to the important part women had played in Greek history and disputed the contemtion th: men. were not prepared for suffrage in an equal basis with men. in six months and bearing interest o Germany must do it.” . Criticlsm of the reparations commis- slon secrecy made in phe remort. there are ma: Potatoes are selling for 18 ecents = bushel in Traverse. City, the lowest prices in many years and is OBITUARY . Judge Peter Conley Pritchard. Asheville, N. C., April 10 — Federal Judge Peter Conley Pritchard, United States circuit court for the fourth district of North Carolina, died here to- day after an lllness extending over sev- eral months. which declares that | anmaranily instified com- plaints of exclusiye personnel and warranted salaries in {due .to .the receipt bushels - growers -had been holding for higher prices since last fall. of thousands 's commission. TO FORESTALL FURTHER KINGSLEY-WARFIELD PLAN OVES OFOHARLES FOR RAILROADS APPROVED The naval balleen which. has missing with five Pensacola naval n_ since it left the tion March .22 was picked up. in the gulf late Friday by 2 fishing boat and brought to Panama City. No trace of the crew was found. Erneste Nathan. Rome, April 8. — Ernesto Nathan, Rome, died here to- He contracted the Paris, April 10.— purpose of findin: guaranteeing countries ad. 7ary asainst further attemy Zmperor Charles to reinstate himself ing have been begun between Franee, the members says the Petit ezotiations for a formula definitely cent to Hun- New York, April 10.—The ‘Warfleld plan for boards for settlement of tween employers and employes was en- dorsed today by Géorge E. Brock of Bos- Texas and Dklahoma, including the cities | ton, president of the National Conference of Tulsa and Oklahoma City and prac- [ef Mutual Savings Banks. In a letter to jtically the entire ‘Burkburnett oil field, the supreme court i be- former mayor of day of heart failure. disease while fighting in the mountan- ous .country a8 a volunteer in the war which undermined his constitution. Signor Nathan, who was born in Eng- land of Jewish parents, visited the Unit-!was ed States in'ihe summer of 19 disputes be- : organize Claim. to 14.000,000 acres of land in Great DBritain, e’ “Little Entente,” en, it ise probable that a decision will be reached in the near future, it newspaper says. —— Brookllne,ul(:-., is the largest town President Harding, to whom the plan was originally presented, he asked “great ot the ‘idea, Herbert th, president, and Frank Hodges. sccretary of (he Miners' Federa- tizn, ad the various branches of the orzanizatior urging all concernel loyally to acempt the recommendation, which is deseribaq P “not instruction thut our members sho return to work, but that those locked cut qut ‘should refrs #ttion to sccure the safety of the mines™ csecd a formal letter today tc 1 from obstructing aty In a speech at Rughby, J. H. Thomus, tional Union of Rall tatement was mot & but rather “a trl There is a general bellef among MaSor ‘The government's anxiety zot to em- bitter the dispute is shown by the em- vhasis lald on the fact that no soldl rs or saiiors are employed in actual punmp- ing, but only in protective guties. It understood that there will be a geners resumption of pumping in South Wales tomorrow, and that this will be only just in time to prevent serious damage to the mines. It is said that altogether twenty-three pits, mostly small ones, are already flooded. The position of the triple allianes Ir night are still operative and will not be withdrawn until the conference is ia ac- CONFESSED AS UNTRUE THE STORY OF KILLING OF ELWELL Buffalo, N. Y., April 10.—Roy Harria, held here by the police on his confes- Maore at the end of which time he made a Btatement admitting that his origiaal deglaration was ail false. Mr. Moore sent word to Charles 8. Whitman and Captain Carey of the New York police, who were on their way o 10. The development may camse - them to change their plans and retura to New York from Albany. Harris allezes as his reasons fer the hoax that he had been separated from his wife and had met her again only les: week and desired to know whather she would be staunch to him were ne in me- rious trouble. He sald that it she had not proved “loyal and true biu would have gome to the electri chaflr without regret. Harris’ confessed the hoax to Detective Oswald of the New York force cn Satur. day night, but the police officer a1d not make public the fact because he wishad he sald, to talk with Mr. Whitman and Captain Carey first. He Dlaced a chargs of first degree murder against the prison- er. Aftér a few hours that charge was withdrawn. Oswald says that it was through the wife that the prisoner's tale was dis- proved. He took the woman to the oute lylng police station where the man was locked up and let them talk an hour or 80, Harris had Insisted that his wife was in St. Catherines, Ont, during the plan- ning of the Elwell murder, while she de- clared’ that she was with him in New York that w She sald that she gnve him a birthday gift of socks at that time. “Did you get a hirthday present inet year?" asked Oswald. “Why, yes, two pairs of socks” said Jasper county | Harris. “Who gave them to you?" “My wife,” said Harris, with hestta. “But you sald your wife was in St sald Oswald ht me. The whale Harrie, with a “Oh, well, you've ca thing is a fake” hopeless gesture. At moon.today Harris was taken to the district attorney’s office and confrontad with his, wife. After he had admitted the hoax he was returned ta %'s cell and ordered held without bail in so'itary finement. This was done. lice say, at the reau wald The wife, who is beinz detalred as a material witness, was ro‘urned 1o her cell also. ~na. tne loeal no. t of Detective (e CONVENTION IN OTFAWA Aneil 10— Ottawa atiag a the peonle States, thereh » wisdom of era. it of concil'ation™ betwssn Canada and the TUnited strenzthening the f-ja-a. Y eneakine neoples, wae Arthur Meichen, prfne of Canada, In an addrase hat. =s International Rotary canventiar which closed here Jate last nigh: “If there was ever a tima” he maiq “when clivilized nsople eling with es- ness aronnd the thon~ht to save ofv God forbid. srvthing o strow the friendiy re'at'one t st between the two great Fn T Aroee to w e Ine patiens, toan i elvilization: s black brvoaa s vy of deserintion. The ngonle of eash eovm- tre have a work to neefym in -yt oWn country: tn stay agrrema demards of ane country to the athe+® Premier Melrhen Aex he A4g wer altogether sunnort the iden that 14a Tnited States ana at TRy day shonnld dom domination nor s er, he eald. was ti s that amer the eaerest PAYMENTS SUSPENDED BY BANCO NACIONAT DE €17y Havana, Aprll 10.—Ths suneneian of payments by the Taneo De Cuba Satur- together unexpected pected to co - the banks has Altions in ths snzar and tee bacco industries continie uasa ‘sfaziey, no real uncasiness scems sviden: here ug regards the couniry’s financial future.