Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 30, 1921, Page 1

NORTHCLIFFE HAS CABLED A DENIAL TO KING GEORGE Of Having Ascribed to His Majesty the Word or Words as Stated by Prime Minister Lloyd George in the House of Commons—DBritish Foregin Office Was Not Surprised at the Snub of Lord Northcliffe by the British Embassy in Washington. ‘Washington, July 29.—Lord North- €liffe, the most widely known newspaper publisher of ilie British Isles, left Wash- ington tonight after a two day visit without having been entertained at the British embassy and without having re- ceived from embassy officials ' any of those attentions usually accorded by for- eign diplomals to distinguished fellow countrymen. N Both embassy officials and Lord Northeliffe maintained silence today with regard to the withdrawal of invita- tions extended the publisher to gfop at the embissy while in Washington and 1o attend a dinner which was to have been given in his honor there last night. The viseount, however, was understood #till to regard the withdrawal of the| tions as an outgrowth of the con- troversy now raging in England between the Northeliffe press and Lord Curzon, the British foreign minister. Despite the withdrawal of the dinner invitation Lord Northciiffe was under- €t0ood to have met at a dinner given to- night by Mrs. E. I*. McLean, wife of the Washington pub’ r, at her country home, most of the guests he would have met at the proposed embassy dinner. Sir Auckland Geddes, the British ambassa- dor, and a personal friend of the vis- sunt, was understood to have been one the guests at the McLean dinner and oubtedly he and the publisher met again. Lord Northeliffe called on Sir Auckland yesterday tv pay his respects. Many members of the cabinet and of congress were understood to have been among tonight's guests at the McLean ome aithough the list of those present was withheld. The single new development here to- day in the controversy between Lord Northeliffe and Lord Curzon and also Tremier Lloyd George was a reply by the publisher to the statement read int the house of commons by~ Premier Liloyd George and authorized by King George. The reply made in the form of a cable- m sent to Lord Stamferdham, private eecretary to the king, was made public foll ing George: ‘Please convey to His Majesty with humble duty my denial of ever hav- the word or as stated by the prime minister I gave no such interview.” i here tonight after the Me- , Lord Northcliffe will ar- early tomorrow in New York and after spending the day there will depart for Vancouver by way of Toronto, He will board ship at Vancouver for his trip to Australia, New Zealand, China, Javan, the Philippines and India. The scount was entértained at lunch- ton tonight by the Overscas Writers, an organization of American newspapermen who have done work abroad and late' In the day joined the regular working ! newsifaper men of the capitol present at | Harding's semi-weekly conference. The Dritish publisher showed great interest the nresident's talk with the news- | paper men but asked no questions of | Mr. Harding. ur my Ing aseribed to His Majest words e SRITIEH FOREIGN OFFICE EXPRESSEC NO SURPRISE Lond July 29.—The foreign cffice P no surprise today when it earned that Ambassador Geddes in on had cancelled the proposed | Lord Northcliffe, in view of the Lord Northcliffe had used to- rd Curzen, the ambassador's swn chief. It was officially denied, however, that Lord Curzon had coerced the Washing- ton embassy or in any way influenced decision te cancei the function. inn nEuAL ward 1 the STATEMENT BY PREMIER IN HOUSE OF COMMONS Londop, July 3%-—(By the A. P.)— Premier! Lloyd George in the house of mmons today read a statement, author- ized by King George, declaring words at- buted to the king concerning the gov- ernment’s Irish policy in a reported in- terview in the United States by Lord Northeliff# were “a. complete fabrication.” Mr. Lloyd George read a statement which he said the king had authorized him to read on his majesty’s behalf. His Majesty, the king has had his at- tention directed to certain statements re- port.d in an interview with Lord North- cliffe appearing in tre Daily Times and reproduced in the Daily Express and | some irish newspapers. The statements contained in the articles are completely false His majesty also desires It to be Le made q r, as the contrary is suggested in the interview, that in his spesch to the parliament of northern Ireland, he followed t:e invariable con- stitutional practice relating to speeches {rom the throne in parliament.” In his introductory remarks Mr. Lloyd George said “Statements bhave appeared In cer- tain organs of the Irish and English prese attributing wordss of grave conse- juence to His Majesty the King relatin. to Irish policy. They appear in the form of an interview which Lord North- cliffe seems to have given in the United States and to have caused to be forward- ed to his newspapers here for publication. ‘It is quite impossible,” continued the prime minister, “always to follow these caluminous statements, but bere they are of a very categorical character and at- tribute very serious statements to ,the sovereign, and moreover, they are cal- culated at the present moment, if be- lieved. to prejudice seriously the chances of an Irish settlement. They have been circulated very freely, more especially in Ireland, and His Majesty has therefore authorized me to read to tre House of ommons the following siatement on his behalf which T have just recgived:"” Mr. Lloyd George then read the previ- ously quoted statcment to the house. The premier conciuded. “I hope this statement may do some- thing to steeflize tie effects of the crim- inal maligni’y which for personal ends Is endeavoring to stir up michief between the allies. misunderstanding between the British empire and the United States and to frustrate the hope of peace in Irc- land.” The interview to which the premier referred quoted King George as saying to “Well, then, you must come to some said the king “Tris thing 1 can’t have my people agreement with them,” according to the interview. can't go on. killed in this manner.” The replted conversation interview with Lord Northcliffe have given in the United State: city July 25, attributed to H. Steed, editor of the London Times and companion of Lord Northcliffe Ameriean tour. The interview text said, was given by Mr. Lord Northeliffe The tributed directly to Lord Northcliffe. REPORT OF WASTE IN THE METAL TRADES INDUSTRY New York, July 29.—Idle men and ma. chinery are causing a loss of nearly a billion dollars a year in the metal trades industry, says a report issued today by the committee on elimination of waste in Engineering This estimale does not incluae ie ‘ndustry of the American Council. the calue of materials that would utilized if productivity were increased. instability of labor employmea: and ‘auity management, the committee are major causes of waste in the dor - turnover in the metal computed at $100,000,000. indus Modern oy <m. of “why men quit,” are urged. Ve have 2,000,000 unnecessary ‘sep. arations’ the equivalent of 2,000,000 work. ers annually separated and re-hirea, ®ays the report. Present industrial conditions in thaa United States and abroad are declared ro ] have affected seriously the metal trades industry, which as a whole, is operating at only about 60 per cent. of normal “Manufacturers,” the report-adds, “can undoubtedly hasten a return to normal cunditions by producing. goods as econ. omically as possible so as to make sell- ing prices low enough to attract buy- ers. Zhe report says “It is evident that man- a higher plane. Because labor is the major factor in most if not all industries, it should be led by,recognized intelligence. rather than by radical agitators on the one hand or by stupid reactionaries on the other.” The metal trades findings are a part of the general report made by tre com- mittee on its national assembly ¢/ indus- Wallace viece chairman. The trades investigation was in charge of Fred J. Miller of New York, and Will- trial waste, directed by I. W. of Washington, as metal iam B. Ferguson of Philadelphia. ATTACHMENT WRIT FOR COMMANDER IN IRELAND Dublin, July 29.—(By the A. P.j— Writs of attachment, calling for the ap- prehension of General Sir Nevil Mac- ready, commander of the. British troops in Ireland, and Major General Sir Ed- ward P. Strickland, commander in Mun- ster, were issued today by the master of the rolls. Sergeant Hanna, attorney for General Macready and General Strick- land and also for tie governor of Lim- erick jail, issued, announced that a notice of an appeal against the decision of the master of the rolls would be lodged with the house of jords. The case had its origin in the failure of those against whom the writs were issued to comply with proceedings in habeas corpus to produce John Egan, under sen- tence of death by a military court in Limerick, in court today. Sergeant Hanna told the master of the rolls that he had been instructed by General Macready to give an undertok- ing that, pending a final hearing on tre appeal, the sentences of death agaist Bgah and another prisoner named Hig- ings would not be executed. The master of the rolls, however, de- clined to listen to ergeant Hanna. He declared the case represented deliberate contmpt of court, unprecedented in tie whole history of Britisz law, and ordered the writs of attachment issued. GOULD DIVORCE IN FRENCH COURT RECOGNIZED HERE New York, July Frank Jay Gould, wealthy sportsman. Justice Mullan dismissed a divorce ac- tion brought by Mrs. Edith Kelly Gould, declaring she had defended her husband's suit in fiancanail and had her full day in court. to a decree obtained in such circum- stances?" PRESIDENT LEAVES FOR REST IN WHITE MOUNTAINS ‘Washington, July 29. — President Harding left Washington late today on the presidential yacht Mayflower for an absence of more than a week, most of Which will be spent resting in the White Mounating of New Hampshire. The first stop will be made Monday where the presi- dent is to deliver an address at the ter- the Pil- grims. He expects to arrive Tuesday H., ‘Where pe Will be the guest of Secretary at -Plymouth, Mass., centenary of the landing of by automobile at Lancaster, N. of War Week: _— LEGION HEAD OPPOSES e PARDON NG OF DEBS Indlanapolis, July 29.—Promising a fight to a finish if Eugene V. Debs and other war prisoners are pardoned at this time, John G. Emery, national command- er of the American egion today wired President Harding that suchgaction wiuld romier Lloyd George just before Mis Majesty left for Ireland: Are you going to shost all the people in Ircland?” to which the premier was guoted as replying. , Your Majesty.” be interpreted as a license to disregard law and order. The legion commander assured the president tiat no action the administration could take would draw the fire of ex-service men more promptly or unitedly than the pardon of Debs. between King Gecrge and Premier Lloyd George, quoted as having appeared, according to the British premier, ‘in the form of an eems to appear- ed in an interview publisied in New York Wickham on his the con- Steed the day after his arrival from England, with interview appar- ently appeared in English newspaper at- in- dustry, which is the largest maufactur- ‘ng industry in the United Sta:es, bota manufacturing, of sources of raw In number of employes and value of 1o~ Aucts. The average waste due to avoidabie la- Dioyment methods, embracing the stily for whom a cimilar writ was 29.—The New York supreme court today recognized a divorce obtained in international French court by at reason is there,” Justice Mullan asked, “that our courts charged with the guardianship of the state’s sovereigntyq should deny extra territorial competency ~ With Immigrants On Ship at Three Mile Limi Because of Excess i tion of Greeks. New York, July 28.—Some 130 icans tonight were bobbing about three mile limit somewhere off 4 Hook, bemoaning the fact that steamer Megali Hellas on which t had taken passage from Greek ports carried an excess immigration quota .of Greeka. 2 Several days ago it was announced that Greece had sent into this country in July all the immigrants to which she was entitled under the new restrictive laws. So when the Megali Hellas—the first of several ships in like quandry— thrust her bow up to the theoretical three-mile mark, her skipper tossed over his anchor to wait for August to roll around. The Americans kept the radio shack busy. Wireless wails came warbling ashore, lodging complaint with the El- lis Island immigration station. But El- lis Island did nothing and N Ga- lanos, ship's agent, who said he had heard nothing about the protest, an- nounced the craft would stay where she was till Monday. THEORETICAL BOMBING OF NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON New York, July 29.—New TYork and Americans Detained | Mrs. Stone as’ Miraculous angled at the End of a ope Over a Chasm Hun- of Feet Deep. Banff, Alta, July 29.—The story of ‘w Mrs. 'W. E. Stone, wife of the for- mer president of Purdue University, dan- gled at the end of a rope in midair and then dropped exhausted on a four-foot ledgy, the only break in a precipitous cliff hundreds of feet high, after an un- successtul attempt to save her husband Who hud fallen into a crevice below, was revealed today in a dispatch received here from the correspondent of the Cal- gary Hefald. Mrs. Stone is now in an improvised camp on the mountain side, recovering from the experience of lying on the tiny ledge for eight days without food eor water until rescued by Rammer, a Swiss guide, who carried her down the steep mountain side to safety. The corres- pondent told ;how she had watched her husband fall as they were attempting to climb Mount Eanon and then attempt- ed to lower herself with the rope m tne hope of rescuing him. The rope, how- ever, was too short, and after hanging alonfside the mountain and finding she was unable to pull herself back up ghe let go, expecting to plunge to her death in the abyss below. Fate intervened and she landed on the narrow ledge, a drop of ten feet. The .search for Doctor Stone’'s body manifestations of advertising. R e Y ~ The Great Ally of Progress - Advertising is often thought of as merely a collection of clever phrases pretty pictures, attractive designs, well printed in places where they may be seen most easily. As a matter of fact, these are but the visible Real advertising presupposes a thorough study of the markets, of material supply, of shipping facili- ties, of packages and packing. Advertising gives both the advertiser and tha consumer the price advantage that eomes from the increased market and the movement of a larger amount of goods. Advertising is an ally of progress. It is closely associated with those who move ahead and in Norwich and this part of the state it can- not fail to be appreciated that the best method of bringing the buyer and seller together is the use of the advertising columns of The Bulletin. Summarized for the past week is the news matter which has been carried in The Bulletin for two cents a day: Bulletin Telegraph Lozal General Total Saturday, July 23............. 165 146 * 398 709 Monday July 25...... 121 282 603 Tuesday, July 26 117 223 491 z Wednesday, July 27...... 929 266 &3 Thursday, July 28 .... 110 298 566 Friday, July 20......... 98 20 - se7 Washington today in theory were bombed oft the map, following in the wake of Norfolk, Newport News and Richmond. Philadelphia is due for a theoretical bombing Monday. “The fate of the various cities was made known today by Brigadier General Wil- liam Mitchell, assistant chief of army air service, when he stepped from his plane after leading three squadrons of seventeen bombers on an aerial “attack” against New York. . A simultaneous at- tack on Washington had been ordered. All these sundry air raids are part of a war problem which army aviators are working out after having pragticed in the recent bombing of former German war- craft off the Virginia capes. The planes arrived here after coming up the coast from Langley field, Va. Seventy men were assigned to the New York attacking party. Weather condi- tions were ideal for an air attack. The haze that hung over the land made ob- servation of the planes flying at 8,000 feet practically impossible, and officers declared the planes could have bombed away without fear of successful counter- attack from anti-aireraft guns. After the forts had been put out of ac- tion, the squadions swooped down to 4,000 feet and flew over Wall street. The sub-treasury was their chief target. Although curious New Yorkers never knew it, thousands of them were slain— always theoretically—and scarcely a building was left standing in the financial district. The aviators declared they had opened the way for a hostile force to steam into the harbor and scize the city. “HITCHY KOO” CAUSED THE DOWNFALL OF HITCHCOCK New York, July 29.—Raymond Hitch- cock, the comedian, who recently filed a voluntary petition in bankruptey, gave evidence today in support of the claim that he was broke. He told Referee Townsend that frolicsome show “Hitchy Koo” caused his downfall, leaving him with only notes, pawntickets and scenery. The show bogged down in Philadelphia, he explain- ed, and he had to pawn a wafch that “Diamond Jim” Brady had given him in order to buy railroad tickets for the chorus girls. The referee, seeking to learn of the comedian's assets, which he listed at $125, asked about his town House, his country place on Long Island and his automobile, but Mr.’ Hitchcock said his wife owhed them all. He denied news- paper report sthat there has been moon- light bathing parties at his country place or aesthetic dancing in the pink light of dawn. The actor declared his liabilities were too numerous to mention within two hours, so the case was adjourned to Aug. 25. the THE GEORGE CUP BETAI;BD BY THE YACHT NIRWANA Hamilton, Ont., July 29.—Scrapper, 2d, of Toronts today won the last of the yacht races for the George cup but was barred from possession of the trophy be- cause of ‘failure to finish the first race last Saturday. The trophy remain8 in possession of the Hamilton entry, Nirwana, which fin- ished second today, bringing its point score to 7 against 6 for Scrapper, 2d, which also was victorious yesterday. HARTFORD MAN'S DEATH WAS CAUSED BY A DRUG Montreal, July 29.—A verdict of manslaughter against an unidentified person was rendered today by a coro- ner's jury which investigated the death of Chauncey M. Gould of Hartford, Conn., in the -Grand Central Hotel last Tuesday. .The autopsy disclosed that d.ath was due to a drug. which made New Yorkers stare aloft had | has proved unavailing and members of the rescue party are nearly exhausted from their efforts to find him. It is probableTthat the' body will be left until another and better equipped search par- ty can be organized. Mrs. Stone still weak but Doctor Bell of Winnipeg, who has been with her since she was found on- Sunday, is confident she is now out of danger. The accident in which Doctor Stone lost his life occurred on Saturday, July 16, she said, and not Sunday, as was at first believed. On Saturday morning they set out to climb Mount Eanon without being fastened together by a rope. In the afternoon they had nearly reached the summit and were negotiat- ing a particularly stiff bit of almost percndicular cliff. Mr. Stone was slight- 1y in advance. X Mrs. Stone said she suddenly looked up aud saw her husband slip. Then he fell past her and she saw him strike the face of the cliff several times, his body turning over and over until he dis- appeared in the abyss below. Although Mrs. Stone had but faint hope of saving her husband's life, and realized the grave dangers that con- fronted her in the task that lie ahead, she endeavored to go to his rescue. Fas- tening a rope to the edge of a ledge she climbed rapidly down until she reached the end of the rope. There was no foot- hold and no handhold and she found herself dangling against the steep moun- tainside. or some time she hung there, trying vainly to draw herself back up again. Finally, exhauated, she loosed her hold, expeoting to dash to her death. Instead, she landed on the four-foct ledge, the only one in sight, about ten feet below. There she remained for eight days. During that time clouds often sur- rounded the mountain tops and frequenti ly rain and windstoriis, accompanied by lightning and thunder, broke about her. Long before help arrived she had about despaired of ever being rescued, but her remarkable stamina carried r through, h; On Friday night, by a forced march, the first section of the rescue party ar- rived at Mount Eanon. It consisted of Rammer, the guide; William Childs and William Peyto, both of Banff, and a party of Canadian Royal Mounted Po- lice. The search was immediately started, and on Sunday morning, after riding hard from Banff all through the night, General Mitchell, head of the Al- pine Club of Canada, and Doctor Ball joined the rescuers. Last Sunday evening, Rammer, the guide, found Mrs. Stone. Letting him- self down to her ledge with a rope, he fastened it about her body, a difficult task, for she was badly bruised. Draw- ing her up to where a foothold could be gained, he performed what General Mitchell described as a wonderful feat for he carried the unconscious woman dow nthe side of the mountain in his arms Although Mre. Stone is now recover- ing and the worst of her - experiences are over, an arduous journey still lies before her. The trail to Banff is 55 miles on_pack horses, beset with many difficulties. She must be carried on a stretcher every foot of the way with the exception of the shore span of the Marve]l Lakes, HEAT CAUSED INK TO RUN ON HUNGARIAN MONEY Budapest, July 29.—Hungary’'s finan- cial situation has been further compli- cated by the intense heat of the last few days, which has caused the ink to Tun on the paper money, making mere smudges of the badly printed bills. Care- ful capitalists are using refrigerators as safes. : ; Thermometers today registered degrees in the shade. 103 s Escape| BRIEF TELEGRAMS . Theatre tickets are selling at pre-war prices in New York. Five mills of American Sheet and Tin Plate Co, at Cambridge, Ohio, resumed operations. A Cuban mission is-en route to this country to float a loan, the state depart- ment was advised. Noticeable decreases in the spread of choléra during the past fortnight are re- ported in the Moscow Pravda James 0. Ostrand, of Minnesota, was nominated to be associate justice of the Philippie supreme court. Two persons were drowned in a clond- burst that practically wiped out Beula, a village in Wyoming. Evidence of alleged building trade mo- nopoly and price fixing rings has been been presented to the grand jury in Buf- falo. Premier Lloyd George announced in nouse of commons that the date for the official terminaticn of the war will be Sept. 1. A bill was introduced in the house by Representative Appleby, of New Jerse providing a tax of 40 cents per horse- power on automobiles. Affairs in Spanish Morocco, where na- tive tribesmen and Spanish scldiers have been fighting for several days, are fast becomiflg tranquil. The Cuban sugar commission at a meeting in New York sed the new price of its raw sugar at 3 1-4 cents cust and freight, an advance of 1-4 cent. Five men and one woman have disap- peared mysteriously from summer resorts in Salzburg province, Austria, within the past fortnight. « The engagement of Archduke Albrecht of AuMria and the eldest daughter of Admiral, Horthy, regent of Austria, will be announced shortly. The C. Bianchi & Sons granite ngnl, at Barre, Vt, was partially destroyed by fire with a loss of $60,000 throwing forty mean out of employment. Three severe electrical storms -which passed over Woonsocket, R. L., ieft demox- alized telephone and electric car service in their wake. Army aviators are forbidden to make spectacular flights or do “acrobatic fly- ing” over cities orother populous distri in general orders announced yesterday. A printing plant for counterfeiting government doctor's liquor prescription blanks was seized by revenue inspectors in a raid on the home of William Ben- son, in the Roxbury district, Boston. President Harding's suggestion, for putting the railroads of the country on taeir feet were incorporated in a bill in- troduced by Chairman Winslow, of the interstate Commerce committee. A ‘strike on the federally operated rail- roads in Mexico is threatened for August ¥ as the result of a refusal by the railway directorate to rescind its recent order re- ducing the wages of all employes Discovery of a $150,000 leather specula- tion of Warren C. Spurgin, missing pres- ident of the closed Michigan Avenue Trust Company, Chicago, was reported by the state’s attorney’s office. The right eof Senator Michigan, to his seat will be voted on next Thursday by the sub-committee, which investigated the contest by Henry Ford, tee democratic candidate. Newberry, of Attorney General Daugherty is ready “to grab Camp Sherman, Chio,” he an- nounced, to establish a great national reformatory for young first offenders against federal laws. Sir Henry Dra¥ton, Canadian ministers of finance announced that the $15,000,000 Joan due in New York mnext Monday would be paid without any further gov- ernment borrowing. The inventory of the estate of Com- modore E. C. Benedict, banker and phi- lanthropist, filed in probate court at Greenwich by the executors, has a footing of $5,912,750.09. Michael Curry, proprietor of a Main street cafe in New Dritain was fined $200 and costs in police court this morn- ing for having liquor wity intent to sell. A 30-day jail sentence was suspended. Appointment of Walter H. Rastall of Dayton, Ohiv, as head of the commerce department’s newly created heavy ma- chinery industrial division was announced by Secretary Hoover. A treaty providing for a deelaration of war on Hungary in event Emperor Charles turns to the Hungarian throne :as been signed by Rumania, Jugoslavia and Stovakia. More liquor is going into China as the use of opium fad off, according to a re- port to tie commerce department from | Consul General William H. Gale, at Hong Kong. In accordance with erders received from Washington the Canadian fishing schooner Helen McLain was allowed to land her catch of 77 swordfish at a Bos- atn pier. Sale to the Boston National bank of the assets and property of the Hanover Trust Company, of Boston, now clised, was deferréd until August 2 by Juig De Caurcy in the superior court tolay. Governors of the various states have been urged by Secretary Hoover to let their contracts for road comstruction in the fall rather than in the spring as a means of relieving the unemployment sit- uation. Herman Schmanski, 60 years old, died in a hospital in Detroit from burns e said were caused when his brother with whom he had a business quarrel, threw turpentine over him and lighted a maton to it. Captain Ross and 23 me of the Norwegian auxiliary schooner General Pershing, before reported wrecked on Endymion reef, near Turks Island, arrived in New York on the Huron. of the crew Officials at Hamilton, Bermuda, are re- ported determined to stamp out smuz- gling of waisky into the United States. Two pasengers slipped aboard a boat for New York with a bottle of wishky were arrested and heavily fined. * Additlonal expenditure of $16,400,000 for hospitalization of former service men, making a total annual outlay of $35,000, 000 for that purpose, and a re-examina- tion of all men who served in the world ‘War, were propositions laid before the senate- committee Investization solgier relief. PAGES—84 COLUMNS ~ PIGTURED INDICTED BALL PLAYERS PRICE TWO CENTS. AS TRAITORS In a Two Hour Attack During Final Arguments in [rial at Chicago—Charged With Betraying Their Comrades and the Public, and With Conspiracy to “Make Baseball 2 Confidence Game”—Defense Pleas Will Be Made Nexi Week. Chicago, July 29.—Final arguments in fence if necessary to lose the first game the baseball trial were begun today with ! He confessed to Judge Charles A. Mc- the state directing a two-hour attack on the defendants in which the former White Sox players were pictured as “traitors who for $100,000 of dirty money sold thei rsouls betrayed their com- rades and the public and conspired to make the one truly American pleasure and sport—baseball—a confidence game.” Edward Prindiville directed the prose- cution’s first fire in the final plea, his talk coming after the defense had won a bat- tle of strategy from the state by keeping out of the record a statement Happy Felsch, former Sox centerfielder. is al- leged to have maded to a newspaper re- poTter that he was paid 35,000 to throw games. Mr. Prindiville expects to finish his ar- gyment in a special session of court to- morrow. The defense pleas will take up Monday and possibly part of Tuesday. Mr. Prindiville directed his words mainly against Eddie Cicotte, Chick Gan- dil, Joe Jacksom, Claude Willlams and David Zelcer, the latter identified by two state's witnesses as a man who, under the name of Bennett, helped organize the alleged conspiracy for the throwing of the 1919 world's series. After outlining the details related by Bill Burns, Mr. Prindiville called the Jw attention to the similarity of | Burns' story and the confession of Eddie Cicotte. He was particularly bitter speaking of Cicotte. “This man, by his own confession, sat his room at the Warner hotel here and arranged to receive $10,000 for the dirty work he planned,” said Mr. Prindiville. “Then, Judas-like, he went downstairs to hobnob with his innoceht teammates and, in his own words, to allay the sus- picions of the mfn he had just betrayed. “He said he'd throw the ball over the in Donald and then he went to the judge and confessed. A nd what happened ir the first game? Cicotte. the Americar league's greatest pitcher, hurling with 2 heavy heart—by his own confession—and a pocket made heavy by $10,000 in graft, was beaten, 9 to 1. Mr. Prindiville declared the evidence proved Chick Gandil one of the conspir- acy leaders and that Williams and Jack- son stood convicted by their own confes- sions. “Williams and Jackson have admitted their guilt,” he said. “What can you gentlemen do but go the limit in punish- ing them? “And this man Zelcer,” he shouted, “he has tried to prove an alibi, to prove he is not the man Bennett who helped Abe Attell run this deal. “Yet we prove .that Abe Attell had thousands of dollars under the mattresses in his room at the Cincinnati hotel; we prove there suit cases of money thers and that he took $10,000 of this money against Bennett's wishes and gave it tc Burns for the players, and Burns gave il to Williams and Jackson. “And Zelcer, after first saying he knew Attell slightly, finally admits that Attell roomed with him in Cincinnati during the series and that he registered Attell himself. He then admits that he has known Attell for years—and yet he did not know of this conspiracy, or of the $10,000 transaction in his own room. “Burns may be a squealer. But is he any worse than these defendants. Three of them squealed. His story is as good as theirs—better, because he withstood two days of gruelling cross questicning without changing a single main fact.” Tomorrow Mr. Prindiville will go inte the legal aspects of the case. PUBLIC HEARINGS ON TAX REVISION CLOSED ‘Wahington, July 29.—Public -hearings on tax revision were closed today by the house ways and means commitice which will start drafting the new rev- enue bill after hearing Secretarr Mei- lon, Internal Revenue Commissio Blair and other treasury officials, in lez- islation session, beginning Monday. Chairman Fordney said today it prob- ably would take three weeks to get tne bill before the house. All of the republican membess of the committee have not yet amresd te the treasury proposal to repeal the execss profits tax and substitute an increase in the normal tax on corporailrns, but leaders generally believe this programme ultimately will prevail Like the great majority of those who had gone before, most witnesses DLefore the committee today sought removal of the tax from their particular :dustrics, but, as Chairman Fordney repeatedly pointed out, the commitiee got -cw saz- gestions as to how the Joss in revenue proposed was to be made up. William A. Brady of New York and other spokesmen for the moving picture industry, ‘nciuding theatres, asked that the theatre geat tax, the five per cent. sales tax on films and the ten per cent. admission tax be removed. They declared the industry way in werse shape than any other in the country with four thous- ’and theatres already closed and many others planning to +hut down next month. J ames A. Emery of this city, on be- half of the Nationa! Manufacturers’ As- sociation, urged rereal of the excess profits tax and the higher brackets in the surtax, substitut.ng a general turn- over on sales tax, wil representatives of the fur industry asked repeal or mod- ification of the tax on their products. _ Representativa Alfpieby. republf-am, New Jersey, argued in favor of his bills to impose a two cent stamp tax on bank checks, to repeal the soda water tax and to levy a federal tax of 40 cents per horsepower on passeriger automobiles and $10 a ton on trucks, with a proportion of this to go to the state lieu of their present state taxes. Robert Homans, a Boston lawyer, rep- resenting corporaticns and Aassocations holding and developing real estate, argued against any increase in the normal tax on those corporations. He said one o1 them now pand excess profits taxes. Opposing repeal of the excess profits tax and their groupsow surtaxes, Charies A. Lisman, secretary of the ational Board of Farm Organizations, said there was a feeling on the part of the farmers that some plan should be worked out under which the vast accumulations of wealth should bear a large part of the tax burden. ALLEGED WIDOW TO CONTEST WILL OF HENRY G. HEMMING New York, July 20.—Mrs. Helen Hen- derson-Hemming, whose estranged hus- band, Henry G. Hemming, was killed in her presence by Frank Eberhard, her hired man, July 14, at Northport, on Long Island, today filed notice to contest Mr. Hemming’s will, which left her noth- ing. A son by a previous marriage was named sole beneficiary. In the will Mr. Hemming referred to “my alleged widow,” but Mrs. Hemming asserted the document, dated Feb. 28 1920, was executed prior to their ma ‘age, which she said took place May 31 last. She asked that Hemming be ad- judged to have died intestate. INTENSE HEAT EXACTS _TOLL IN NEW YORK CITY New York, Ju 29.—Two deaths fro mthe heat, thre¢ drownings and a haif dozen prostrations were the toll ex- acted from New York city and vicinity on the fifth day of the city's second in- tense heat wave of the year. The ther- mometer registered eighty degrees short- ly after daylight and rose to 84 at 2 p. ™., when the humidity registered 69 per cent with scarcely the trace of*a breeze. - Thundershowers lowered the temperature somewhat after three o'- elock. | CONVICT KILLED IN RIOT IN OKLAHOMA PENITENTIARY McAlester, Okla., July 29.—One con- viet was killed, a building was wrecked and several guards were slightly injured in a riot which broke out in the shirt factory at the gtate penitentiary this afternoon. Macwhitehead, life termer, from Pitts- burg county,' was killed when he at- “‘tempted to rush guards, TO DISCOURAGE PRELIMINARY DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE Washington, July 29.—Proposals for preliminary. meetings of the representa- tives of all the powers or any separte group of them prior to the disarmament conference are receiving no encourage- ment from the American government. Although officials decline to comment formally, it is the apperent belief here that all of the various schemes sugges:- ed for preliminary sessions are imprac- ficable and might lead to defeat of the purpose of the conference jtself. This feeling is understood to arp with particular force to any proposii t certain questions be taken beforeha in separate conferences where only cer- tain members of the main confsrence are sepresent.d. It is held that suca a pi only woull have the undesirgl’s resu! of creating groups within the main greun, but might open avenues of discussion .. it would lave the participan-s further from a solution beginning. Tt also is increasingly apparent tha. the United States is doing what it can to discourage suggestions for a prelim'n- Ary conference among all the na that are to be represented. No deais of the negotiations on that subject havs than they were iz the heen revealed but it is generally 1ader- stood that Great Britain is urging sach & conference and this country holding out against it. Meantime officials are working steadily in the preparation of details, and al- though it is sai¢ actual choice of ihe personnel of the American delegation is yet to be made President Harding is known to have given the ome serious thought. It is expected ner: not sit that the president, himself. at the conference table but that Secretary Hughes will act as head of Ameri- can delegates. It has been indicated that serious consideration might be giv- an to suggestions that at least ome of *he places on the delegation go to a wo- man. EAMON DE VALERA STILL MAINTAINS SILENCE London, July 2 (by The A. P.)—Ea- mon De Valera still is silent, another day having passed with no word from the republican leader. The general supposition now is that there will be no new move in the peace negotiations pending the expected re- lease of those members of the Dafl Eireann who are in jajl and the sum- moning of a full meetiffig of the republi- can parliament. Mr, De Valera for the best part of the last few days has gome over the peace proposals with the able members of the republican cabi- net, and it is expected When the Dail Eireann is called to consider what shall be the decision, he will be ready to pre- sent the views of his colleagues, as well as hig own opmion. NEW YORK YACHT CLUB ENCOUNTEKS BAD WEATHER Block Island, R. L, July 29.—The yachts taking part in the New York Yacht club’s annual cruise ran into the most trying weather conditions today that have been encountered in several seasons. The run here from New London was hardly more than a drifting match for the fleet was becalmed for most of the day. In the evening a rain squall came up which added fnrther to difficulties of navigation. At midnight only five of the thirty craft had reached the rendezvous, and the fleet had become so badly scattered that steam yachts accompanying - the cruise put out to round up the strag- glers. WIDOW OF CORE LANDOWNER WAS EXECUTED AS A SPY London, July 29 (by The A. P.)—Mrs. J. W. Lindsay, widow of a Cork land- owner who wa® kidnapped from her home in Coachford in February last by three armed men, was executed as a spy, according to information revealed this evening by the Dail Eireann au- thorities. = ITALY NOT TO SEND TROOPS TO UPPER SILESIA Rome, July 29 (By the A. P.).—The committee on foreign affairs of the cham- ber of deputies today discussed the Sile- sian question and decifed to adhere to the British viewnoint of not sending merg troops to Upper Siesia prior to the meete ing of the allied supreme council.