Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 8, 1921, Page 1

r I COAST OF | ... POPULATION. 29,685 Ships Have Picked Up a Number'of Boats Loaded With Survivors—The Steamship’ Grounded on a Reef Late Saturday Night—Details of ithe Wreck Are Lacking. Eureka, Calif, Aug. 7—-Twelve bodies }8ave been brought here out of,a list of ithirty six passengers and twelve of the lerew missing in the wreck of the coast- wise steamer Alasks, which struck -a rock in Blunt's Reef forty miles south lof here and sank last night. Ninety six passengers and seventy of the crew were brought here late today Iy toe steameg Anyox, which arrived at the scene of the wreck in time to pick theee survivors up from drifting lifeboats and from amonmg the wreckage, The Alaska was bound from Portland, Ocezon. to San Francisco. Captain Harry Hobey, skippef of the wwrecked vessel is missing and believed to have gone down with his sbip. A dense fog concealed the troacherous rocks of t°~ Blunt's Reef, which projects far into tne ocean, when the Alaska 1 at 9:40 o'clock last night. With- minutes the crippled steamer tarned and sank to within four of the tips of the masts. The passengers were placed in life- boats but ane overturned as it was low- nto the water. etails of the wreck are lacking. The ernment survey shio left here at four oclock this morning with doctors and nurses to bring in survivors. The Alaska. of the San Francisco and Portland . Steamship Company, eft Port- 1234, Oregon, last Friday with 131 passengers of whom 123 were in the cabin and eight in the steerage. Tia majority of passengers .were summer touris: The Alaska hailed from the home port Townsend, Washington, its net of Port tonnage was 3,109 and its length 327 crew numbered 45. 1 Her normal Sho was bulit at Chester, Pa., in 1889, Blunt's Reef is forty miles scuth of Fureka and 157 miles north of San .Fran- clsco. S%ip accidents were frequant at that point years ago until a lightship was it in 1901. The only notabe wreck since”was the sinking about gfteen years ago, of the steamor Columbin. With a heavy less of life. ihe Alaska, incidentally, “olumbia Fogs have prevailed along the Wash- Ington, Oreson and northern California ast for two weeks and sevaral shipping wsualties have occurred. the most not- being the wreck of the Canadian ernment steamer Canadian Exporter. Bend, Washington, last week. Thomas Jobnston of Brooklyn, N. Y. was drowned and his wife rescued though Injured. Owen Berlin and his wife of Indianaoolis were saved slightly injured: 0f the tweire bodles recovered four ha: beén identified as_passengers and elght of officers and erev. Cantain Harzy Tobey master of the Alaska with two pagkengers were the last on the ship. Toe eaptain is missing. He was without a life preserver. One of the- passengers, George Glenn -of Nebraska, was saved The owners of also owned the by The .steamer Anyox, with the known 16% surgivors arrived here late today. A ing 40 the ‘stories of the sur- vivors, three lifebonts were launched. The last ome wae but a few feet from o wreck when the Alaska, which had sted to starboard suddenly righted and en plunged, bow first. orge Glenn who with another pass- and the captain, were the last men on the ship, came to the surface a st time afterward and finally found in empty lifeboat. Others were struggl_ ng in the water. Tie steamer Anyox, towing a barge to Vagcouver was 12 miles distant when the first SOS signals he Alaska flasned out Within an hour the Anyox arrived at the wreck and with order that won high from t°e survivors, the crew of Anyox speedily picked up those who arifting In lifs preservers or In lifeboats. Through the night other ships joined In the rescue work. Twelve bedies were found which with the arrival of the Anyox and a tug bear. mz the bodies here left the unaccounted lor at thirty two passengers and four members of the crew . Praise was~ mutually extended between members of the crew and passengers in stories of the scenes following the crash. Despite the solation of the ship, which was enveloped » fog, with swells dashing agajnst it and ng spray from the jagged rocks of reef, calmness prevailed among the ngers and crew. It was a short time, scant thirty minutes between the ing on the rock and tite sinking. But igne of disorder the passengers were heiped into the lifeboats under calm direction of officers and crew and low- ered into the water. Captain Hobey's heroic direction of the fe saving was such a thrilling example hat several men pansengers stayed by Wis side a8 the women and children were iaken first into the boats. The vessel slowly lifted and vighting itself, suddenly plunged. An overturned lifeboat.shot many pas- sengers ‘nto the water. There was'a half hour of bleak darkness with the life- boats drifting in the bianket of fog be- fore the siren of the rescue steamer Anyox was heard. Captain Snoddy of the Anyox and his srew defled the treacheries of the reef in sarrying on the rescue work, but it was with difficulty that the victims in life- eats and many in life preservers - or slinging to driftig wreckage were found. Ali through the night the rescuers woried, picking up many who had been wrugshing in the water, clinging to ~ckage. for haurs. One of the last survivors picked up was Irene Syer, a girl not yet in her teens, who had been clinging to wreckage lor more than eight hours. Pase: that then, LATE REPORTS FUT THE LOSS OF LIFE AT 4 Bureka, Calif. Aug. T.—Forty-eight 36 passengers and 12 of the grow, were lost last night when the samer Alaska of the San Francisco Portland Steamship. Company, @luthbound from Portiand, Oregon, to Ban Francisco, sank thirty minutes af- tr crashing into the rocks of Blunt's Reet, forty miles south of this city. The survivors, numbering 166 per- wns, were brought here today by the rescus ship Anyox. the first vessel to reach the scene of the wreck in response 1o the Alaska's radio signals. The coast guard tag Ranger, dispatched carly to- fay from Eureka, returned to port with the bodies of 12 men. Eight were mem- Bers of the crew and four were passen- gers. Captain Harry Hobey, master of the Alaska, is still unaccounted for and W believed to have gome down with his ship.- > - Of - the suryivors landed by the Any- ox. ithirty were more or ‘léss seriously ihjured and- received medical treatment at_local hospitals. . . .. 2 The Alaska,struck the reef bow-on in a_dense fog, according to the survivors, and “immediately. began to list. The work of launching life boats was accom- plished without delay. Three boats suc- cessfully rode the waves; but-the’fourth capsized, throwing its occupants into the sea, The greatest loss of life, tho sur- vivors said, resulted ,from this -mishap. A few who wore life belts kept afioat until picked up. Captain Hobey, ‘When the last of the life boats had heen sent over the side of the rapidly-filling Alaska, went to the stern- of his vessel and he was there when it started its plunge to the bot- tom. _ 96 PASSENGERS AND . 70 OF CREW -PICKED TP San Franciseo, Aug. 7.—Captain Snod- dy of the rescue shin Anyox, in a wire- less despatch to The Associated Press from the scene of the wreck of the Alas. ka, said that he had 96 passengers aboard and 70 members of the crew and was proceeding to Eureka, Cal. Thirty- six passengers and twelve members of the crew are missing, according to the message, and are belieyed to have per- ished. . ATTACK ON HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE Washington, Aug. 7—An attack on the adrginistration generaly and on the house ways and ! means committee particularly or_its handing of the tariff and tax huestions is made in a statement issued today v Reoresentative ~ Keller, Inde- pendent Republican, of - St. Pail, Minn., author of four tax revisicn bills which bave been endorsad by orgamizations of farmers and others. He chargss that the machinery of government. has been commandeered by a little clique, fgnorast of the A. B. C.'s of economics whose blind obedience to Wall street I3 responsible for the stupid, selfish, shortsighted policy that fs re- tarding our prosperity and ereating pro- foind distrust and ‘discontent anbng ta people. Declaring ' that most members of the house want to -carry out the people’s wishes with regard to taxation and other conomic questions, he savs, A little dominant’ minorlry has tied down tha safety, valve of free dispussion until an exclosion jmpends which will scatter the THjiNGisan peifty: front Maine to Caifor- nia." “Tia president has assumed . mare power thanany of his prececessors,” Mr. Keller continues. “and tells congress what bills to pass‘and what not to pass. Bills conceived at secret conference are_intro- Auced without being referred to respons- ible cgmmittee. The president’s’ advisors seem to think it possible for this country to lift it7elf by its economic bootstraps and vaguely promise that a half -billion dollur gift to the .raflroads—whieh ‘in Some - mysterious mannér is not to .in- creage’, taxes—will restore prosperity. T-ey would do better to busy themsalves with Jowering rates, taking cff the trans- portwiion tax, and snelng to it that the railroads are run efficiently with a min- fmum of waste. But that is not.Mkely s0_long as railroad executives can de- pend * upon administration - for lavish gifts.” SEARCHIN FOR MURDERERS . OF NEW HAVEN GROCER e New Haven; Aug. 7—No trace had been found by the police tonight of two young men sought for the murder of James Spardaro, a grocer, who was shot through the head in his store- leye. late last night. From a statement made by a woman living near the grocery. store, the, police believe that two young. mem who Were seen near the store before the crime were the grocer's assailants. The police opinion is that personal vengeance ‘was the motive for the murder. ‘Andrew Frezzi, a brother-in-law of the murfiered man, was held as a suspect to- day, but was released after he was ques- tioned by Acting Coroner Kenneth Wynne of New Haven county. . Cotoner Wynne later said he believed that rob- bery was the sole motive for the crime. Police alarms for the capture 6f the two alleged murderers have been sent throughout the state and to New York. —_— THREE PEBSONS DROWNED, £ NINE HIT BY LIGHTNING New York. Aug. 7.—Three persons were drowned and nine struck by lightning -to- day during a thunderstorm which was accompanied by a torreatial downpour measuring nine-tenths of an inch. Heavy rainfall continued ‘throughout the night. At Gravesend bay a woman _was drowned when a canoe upsét. Another woman lost her life in a similar manner in Long Island sound. In the East river an_unidentified boy’ was. drowned while swimming off a city pier. Lightning . struck trees “and - buildings in all parts of the city and suburbs and at the Metropolitan Yacht club on City Island a bolt struek a flagpole in the midst of a crowd of sevéral hundred per- sons witnessing a swimming mateh. Two men and a boy were knocked unconscious and three women fainted. At Coney Isi- and lightning struck a party of three young women ‘in bathing. One was knocked unconscious and all three were rescued. oBGANS ND PIANOS USED IN N. Y. MOVIE HOUSES New York, ‘Aug. . 7T.—Motion ' picture theatres throughout the city ‘were forced today to.recruit new-musiclans or to de- Dend ‘on organs: and pianos to furnish musical- accompaniment to the films. This was made . necessary when fifteen hundred - musicians, affliated with the Musicéns Mutual, Protective Union, fail- ed to report for work as a protest against a s sed twenty per cent. wage cut. - Union - members said they had been Jocked out. Vaudeville theatres, which have an- nounced. their. intention. of- putting - into effect a simflar ‘wage ' cut. will- bo ' af- fectéd tomorrow, umion - leaders sald. Tegitmate theatres are not imvelved In the. contraversy. % One Proadway theatre today engaged a chorus volees. to.take thy place of -ita” symphony orchestra.: e o) B d (CABLED PARAGRAPHS * Laber Troubles Delay Ships. Napjes, ‘Aug. 7.—The Italian steamers 2 | Presidente Wilson, on_which of - Americans have taken pas- sage.fgr New_ York, have been prevented from ;sailing owing te labor troubles among_ their_crews. £ ' Premier Bonomi Off for Paris. Rome, Ayg. 7.—Premier -Bonomi. Min- ister of Finance Soleri and Minister of Forelgn ,Affairs 'Torotta left for Paris today to' atfend the sessions of the su- preme council. People Thanked by Caruso’s Family. . ‘Rome, Aug. . 7.—The family of the late Enrico’ Caruso has circulated through. the Stefani agericy ‘a message of ‘thanks to the people of Italy, and abroad. for the sympathy expressed at the death of the teor. - _, MRS, OBENCAIN HELD AS WITNESS IN BURCH MURDER Los Angeles, Aug. 7—With Mrs. Mada- lynne Obenchain of Evanston, Illinois, hold_as a material witness and_Arthur C. -Burch, also of Bvanston, held in connection wita the slaying .in Beverly ill Friday night of John B. Kennedy, in_ surance broker, county, and city -officials today “began: gathering .loose ends xf evidence which they expect to lead to an early solution of the mysery. Kennedy was shot from ambush when, accompaniea by Mrs. Obenchain, he was searching the ground in front of his Bevery Hills home for a lucky penny which his companion said she had buried there a year ago. According to Mrs. Obenchain and a neighbor two men were,|a seen fleeing from the place directly af- ter the shols were fired, Mrs. Obenchain Wwho though but twenty vears old is a divorcee having separated from her husband 'Ralph S. Obenchain. a prominent Chicago attorney denies all knowledge of- the shooting. Sce avers that she was to have married Kennedy and that she had secured her divorce for this punpose. Opposition by Kennedy's family ds said to have delayed the mar- riage. Burch and Mrs. Obeno‘ain knew .each other at Northwestern University where they were students. 5 The' facts leading to the arrest of Burch were given out by deputy sheriffs in charge of -the investigation, in sub- stance as follows: On July 24 Burch went to a small hotel on Broadway irere and sgcured a front room\ partially “facing the 'office occupied by Kennedy's firm. e asked for a room_difectly opposite Kepnedy's of- fice and offer\1 a bonus for it. The rcom was occupied however, and he was re- fused. He spent all his time in his rcom thereafter, Totgl' employes said, constant- ly watching Kennedy's office. Friday evening Rurch le ftthe hotel early after receiving a telephone call from a woman. - le carried a long parcel wrapped in nowspapers. He returned at midnight. The medical and other evi- dence. indicates that Kennedy was shot not later than 12 o'clock. Early yesterdey he checked out of the hotel without making known his plans. ‘When tie cfficers had deveioped facts sufficient in * their beliet o justify. the detention” of Burch they learned he had pltchased a ticket for Evanston apd left at 10:40. / Authoritics at Las Vegas, Nevaday were notifiel to make the arrest. /The man was identified by the long sultcasé he carried, 'Wedle officers were ‘questioning Mrs. Obenchain a plain. white envelope mailed at' the Geperdl Post-Office here and ad- dretséd to her was delivered at her hotel. It contained $85 in’ currency, nothing ‘eise. ~ Mrs. Obenchain -told the officers that this was a repayment by Burch of a loan ‘ste had made, him amd said that she .and he had fréquqently @psisted each other. financialy. 1 Although Mrs, Obenchain’s mother and sister. lived at Pasadena adjoining Los Angeles they had not kqiown of her pres- ence here. Tiey first heard of it yes- terday - when repotters called at their nome for . information. Kenrtedy’s father- said tonight that the son Tiad ‘ot had the keys to the Beverly Glen csftage where he was shot for more than two years-and did not have them Friday night. He said he did not know why his Son should ihave gone there, Mr. Kennedy issued a statement in which he dnsisted that ‘Mrs. Obenchain had urged young Kennedy to:marry her and ‘that. the situation had caused iis son to-be greatly worried. KILLED WHILE MAKING A PARACHUTE JUMP % Chieago, " Aug. - T—Patrick Love, a sergeant insthe U. S¥ Aviation corps, sta- tioned at ‘Chahtite Field, Rantoul, Illi- nois, was' Killed' today while making a parachute jump_ from an_ airplane be- fore thousands ef spectators at the Pa- geant of Progress. : Love had taken the place of Lieuten- ant' G. A. Shoemaker, who was ill The ' airplane was only about 300 feets in.the ‘air when Love made his leap. The parachute opened properly but was ght in the’ wind and driven against ofie. of * the .towers of = the municipal pier. Love was knocked from the har- ness apd fell to a balcony at the foot of the. tower. pHe died while being taken to -3 - hospital’ HEART, DISEASE CAUSED DEATH OF MAN IN CHURCH ‘Worcester, - Mass,, ‘Aug. T—Reverend Christian Peterson, 52, retired, was stricken with' heart disease today as he leaned. forward . in.his pew to pray at the: Pebples church, Greendale, and died before aid could reach him. He was @ native of Denmark and had been a resident of the United States for 34 years. He was a in missionary work in tce west. before coming to ‘Worcester. He_was pastor of the Scandinavian Meth- odist church: for ten -years.and retired from active service twelve vears ago. . f 1,000 QUARTS OF WHISKEY FOUND BURIED IN WOODS Barnegat,-N. J., Aug. 7.—One thous- and quarts. of,Scotch and rye whiskey were found dburied ten. feet under the grougd ‘in_the Woods a mile west of here today by. ceunty officials. Seven men were -arrested,” including - John' Maxwell, and George Walsh of Atlantic City, | Who “are -alleged to be tbe owners of the liquor. 7 Two tracks were required to take the whiskey to.the Ocean county jail where it was placed. under- guard, BODY OF. ELLIS G. KINKHEAD R SENT TO CINCINNATI New ;Yerk, Aug.7-—The body of ElMis Guy Kinkhead, Brooklyn lawyer who was_shot andkilled near his house last Friday by Miss Olivia M. Stone a nurse, wassent to Cincinnati, his former home, today for burial. =His widow Mrs. Maric \Louise Kinkead was a passenger on' the same train, Miss Stone, who admitted killing, the Iawyer out of revenge for alleged wrongs he - committed ' declined” to sed visitors today at the ‘Raymond street jail where ;':' s being held without bail on a charge o . : World War Veterans in 14 States Are Receiving Cash Bonuses . Totaling $184,- New York, Aug. 7—State _legislation converting more than $375,000,000 to the aid of world war veterans- has been passed or is’ waiting popular referendum the bank of America announced tonight at the conclusion of a nation-wide survey of the bonus situation. Veterans in four- teen states already are receiving cash bonuses, totalling §184,00,000 and in eight more States egislation providing for casa bonuges of $191,000,000 now is pending. Orily Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi have failed' to .pass legislation authoriz- ing aid to veterans in exemptions or benefits of some kind, the report declared. The bonuses range from $10 a_month for service in a number of states to $25 a month in North Dalota. Several states set maximum rates, ranging from ew Jersey to $300. in Oregon. achusetts, New . Hampshire, gave §100 cash bonuses chusetts:.also . provided sh bonus for service prior 519182 g ims the hopor of hav- tate-to pay the bonus, the list for amount with ded the beaus law passes Eues provide the most popular rajsing tie necessary conus funds. ‘In twenty-one states bonds, notes or certificates have been authorized and sold or are awaiting popular approval Many states which have given cash bonuses also are providing a‘d of a pract- ical natire. In fifteen states aid is of- fered for vocational education and in California a bill has been adopted pro- viding for vocational educafion of vet- eran’s dependents. Arizona, California, Oregon and South Dakota provide aid in buying homes and Oregon the bonus is made optional th toe privilege of borrowing up to $5000 on real estate from the state Nine western states offer assistance in settling-on farms and in eight more western states special boards have been established to look after the interests of former service men, In Connectivut, lowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, North ~ Dakota, South Carolina, Texas and _ Wyoming, veterans are exempted from taxatio Sixteen states provide for elvil service preference in the cases of former service men. In nearly all the states:the term vet- eran includes nurses wto were in regular army service.! In many cases the cash bonus is extended o widows and depend- ents of those veterans who have died. HELD IN CONNECTION WITH SLAYING OF J. B. KENNEDY “Chicago, = Aug. 7.—Arthur Cowbrey Burci? held at Las Vegas, Nev., in con. nection with the murder,of J. B, Kennedy near Los Angeles, Mrs. Madalynne Con- nor Obenchain, who was, with the victim at the time of the tragedy, and Ralph B. Obenchain, her. divorced husband, were classmatés at Northwestern university, Evanston, Ill. Kennedy'also- was from Evanston, having moved ‘to. Los Angeles five years ago. 3 Burch is tl'e son of Rev. Wiliam A. Burch of Evanston, former member of Northwestern university - faculty. He married Allie Gayl Quale, daughter of Bishop William A. Quale, who later sued him for diverce. This suit is pending in Lawrence, Kas. Mrs. Burch separated from her husband in October, 1920. A 3 year old child is in the custody of the mother. Plans for the defense of Burch were made today by his‘father”in’consultation with Attorney C. S. McNett, who said he could not credit reports 'that Mrs. Obenchain had borrowed money. from Burch, as he believed the latter's finances were low. v The attorney said he did mot believe the young man was interested in Mrs, Obenchain other ‘than that they were college chums. The inquest announced to be held ever Kennedy's body still remained indefinite as ta time, awaiting the return. of Burch from Las Vegas. = The day being Sunday, closed stores made it impossible to check ‘further in the search for a 12-gauge shotgur, shells from which were found where the asassin stood. Information that Burch had no weapon in his possession turned. attention to places “that rent ‘Weapons, and. these are to be checked also tomorrew. MANNIX WILLING TO SWEAR ' ALLEIGANCE TO THE KING Brisbane, Australia, Aug. 7T.—Arch- bishop Mannix, who has just,returned.to Australia from a round-the-world trip, during which he attempted to' visit Ire- land, but was not permitted to do so, has-expressed his willingness to take the oath of allegiance to the king. Archbishop Mannix, when - he arrived In Queensiand last Sunday, was perm. ted to land without hindrance, ‘although it had been reported that there was strong belief that the Australian govern- ment intendeq, to require the prelate to take the oath of allegience. Acting Pre- mier. Cook was quoted as-having said, however, that the government had de- cided not to_interfere with the arch- bishop. ET. REV. C. E. W'CONNELL IN CRITICAL CONDITION Brentwood, N. Y., -Aug. - 7.—Right Reverend Charles Edward--MaConnell, head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Long Isiand, was reported in a critical condition tonight at the Tenvent of Sis- ters of St. Joseph. He has been com- valescing thers for several weeks after attacks of arteric sclefosis and nephri- tis. His physician tonight said he was “very- low. SRR vl SOUTHPORT MAN FATALLY * INJURED BY AUTOMOBILE Bridgeport, Conn., 'Aug. .7.—Andrew Bellic, 28, of Southport, died in, St. Vin- cent’s hospital here today. from_ injuries received late last night $n Fairfield when Christian F. Hass of Fairfield. Hass arrested on a technical charge 'of J‘ slaughter. O R OBITUARY. 2 William ‘A ".Flouto Westfield, Mass., Aug. 7.—William A. Flouton, 59, past grand chief of-the Or- der of Red Men in this state and-for the last sixteen vears chief of police of Westfield, died today as a result of a shock sustained last Monday. - For eighteen vears he has beenome of - the state representatives to -the . national council of Red Men G he was struck by an automobile driven by | & _ To Be Freed. . Grath. Though the opening of the parliamen the priscners has been decided as. nec essary of ,afford tiem oajortunity to con: fer-with their colleagues. he was convicted was the -shooting o District Inspector McGrath during a figh in which the inspector tried to shoot hi McKeown’ also was the orgamizer .\ several ambuscades in county Longfor were blown up by mines. several British officers testified in De- received good treatment while held capt- ive by him. not received the confirmation of the com- mander-in-chief. Hence his detention in prison while other: by the mewspapers as indefensible. Al the men are to be released uncendition ally. No paroles have been asked for o given. FIGHT AT BAUL GAME LED Detroit, negro, who is alleged to have done the shooting. local police and reinforcements with fists and baseball bats, and ha tied a rope around his meck ‘With the announced ntention of hanging him. kuski, 12 dowski, 12, is said to be serious. sin, after Owen was s at the game.’ cording to the police, Grizzs came outside and when and faced informed. into- the gathering, wounding the boys. Infuriated, the crowd attacked the negro and some one brought a rope an powéred. & riot call was sent In an persed the crowd. ing but declired he was fired on first. The three negroes were arrested. BUSINESS DEPRESSION -THE CAUSE OF EROUS SUICIDE: New York, Aug. sion and abnormal conditions followin the war were held responsible for ai increase of 3,735 in the number of adul six months of th's year as compare port made public telay by Life League. - The report states suicides among children more doubled during the same periad. In the case of children, glect and fear of school tha own lives to the number of girls, averaging 15 years old, number of 293. used revolvers and the girls poison. 214, an ip favcr of the men of whom 4,527 too! their own lives. 43 Years.’ Iy the first six months of 192 pared with 2,771 last Fear and 50 pared to 225 in 1920, was *Hd wide. BRITONS™ OFF TO MEETING London, Aug. 7.—Premier Lioy George, Foreign Secretary Curzon and party of forty left London tached to the regular train. Baro the same train. - the Prince of Wales; Lord Riddell, whi represented the British press - at peace conference ; Hankey, secretar® of the British cabi of the exchequer, and Sir B. to be away a fortnight. Lady Curzon and Sir W. Sutherlan the party farewell. PRESIDENTIAL YACHT IN en route from Portland, ‘Washington with President Maine, t val communications service here. - ecretary Christian, said: er, all well” day moon. MOORISH REBELS ARE AT are reported to-have arrived _outsids Mzil from Tangier. N Spanish civilians are sald hastily t ToBzReleased Today All Members of the Irish Re- _publican Parliament, Ex- - cept John J. McKeown, Are Dubfin, Aug. 7— (By the A. P)—Al the Sinn Fein members of the Irish Re- public parliament now in prison will have been released by tomocrrow, except John J. McKeown, who is under conviction for having murdered District Inspector Mc- is some. time off the immediate release of The general Impression express (! by the newspapers Is that the government's actlon in freeing the prisoners has been marred by making an ejception -in_the case’ of McKeown. The killing for which in.which members of the crown forces At his tiial half of McKeown, saying that they had The sentence of death has McKeown was the commander of the Irish republican army in his district and his ‘acts were endorsed by his chiefs. are permitted their freedom is regarded TO LHOOTING OF TWO BOYS Aug. 7—A fight starting at a baseball game un the outskirts of De- troit this-afternoon led to the shooting of two white boys, one perhaps fataily, and an attempt to, lynch Sam Griggs, Griggs was saved by the arrival of from Hamtramek, a suburb, after a crowd of men and boys had severely beaten him The boys wounded were Victor Bud- years old, and Pster Nadra- The condition of the latter They were in & crowd that had chused Owen Griggs, ne- 1o, to the home of Sam Griggs, his cou- to have struck a white chih’ in a dispute over a. Seat Owen gought safety In the house, ao- sam the crowa_at his frontdoor, -the'folice were Mrs, Mary Andrews, his sis- ter, handed him a revolver and he fired Dolice reserveg got Griggs away and fis- He is said to.bave admitted the shoot. 7—Business depres- suicides in this country during the first with the same period in 1920, in a re- the Save-A- taat parental ne- examinations were mentioned as the principal causes. Boys of an average age of 16 took their the the In most £ases top boys Among adults the preponderance was Their average age was 6,509 adults committed suicide s com- children ended their own lives as com- The, report stated tse suicide increase OF ALLIED SUPREME COUNCIL today for Paris to attend the mecting of the allied supreme council, which begins tomorrow. The party traveled in special coaches at- Hay- ashi, the Japanese ambassador, was on The British party comprised Sir Ed- ward Grigg, former military secretary to the jeut. Col. Sir Maurics net; Sir Harold Stuart, chief British rep- resentative on tife allied Rhineland com- mission ; Sir Robert S. Horne, chancellor Blackett. Members of the party said they expected were among tlie large crowd which bade VICINITY OF BLOCK ISLAND ‘Washington, Aug. 7.—The Mayflower, and . Mre. | Harding aboard tonight was In the vi- cinity of Block Island, according to a wifeléss message received by the nas The - message, sent at 842 p. 'm, by “Fine weath- Tke yacht is due to arrive here Tues- \ THE WALLS OF MELILLA London, Aug. 8.—The Moorish rebels the walls of Melilla, causing a panic in the city, says a despatch to the-Dadly be seeking safety on board shipg in the barbor, The four bir ralirond brotherhoods in Canada -annonnced - they would jointly contest the 12 per cent.. wage cut. Senator Shortridge of California intre- duced -a resolution to make Sept. 14, The Canadian air board will, flend a number of aero €ngines at the disposal of the Asociated . Air - Research - Committee for distribution to colleges. A whits_boy, 10 years old, & negro and four mules were killed by a boit of lightning,, striking them_from out of a clear sky at Tallahassee, Ala. Forest fires seriously menaced the vil- lage of Howland, Me., with the flames only half a mile from the told. Aid was sent from Bangor, Old Town and Orono. t| Resumption of formal diplomatic r: tions between the French gove - | and the Vati ent ter many years shter- - | ruption, was completed Saturday. TUpwards of 17,000 names of alleged draft evaders issued by the war depart- ment between June 5 and July 3. were published in the congressional Récord. | Two Greek divisions are advancing t | south of Ismid, a town 56 miies southeast of Constantinople, which has=been in the hands of the Turkish nationalists. George T. Summerlin the United States charge d'affairs at Mexico City, - | has dellvered to the foreign office a new note from Washington. More than_150 protests against the ap- plication of ‘agticie 27 of the Mexican constitution will be taken up by the su- preme court in Mexico City. | American delegates to the international congress against_ alcoholism, to be held 1 | at Lausanne, Switzerland, were passeng- ers on the Zeeland. r Ambitious te swim the English channel, Omer Perreault, 21 years old aquatic ex- pert sailed for England from Montreal with his manager, Armand Vincent. Representative Rorer A. James of the fifth Virginia district, died suddenly at his home in Danville, Va., from heart fail- ure. He was 62 years old. Selt-defense is the claim of C. F. Lively e | Baldwin-Felts detectivé, held under bond in connection with the shooting and kill- ing of Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers, Mingo mountaineers, Mrs, Annle Statkus, whose husband d | Leon, a pool room proprietor, at Stough- e | ton, Mass., was shot in their home tners Wednesday night, was arested immediate- ly atter the funeral. Judge Jimes G. Jenkin, 37, wh t achieved prominence in 1393 when he en- joined employes of the Northern Pacific railroad from combining or conspiring to strike, died in Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. J, M. Chase of Urbana. Tlis.. wha | the 600th anniversary of the death of - Dante, the Italian poet, a legal holiday. | - 1 had fasted 53 days because of & disease of the stomach which prevented her from taking food, died Saturday. She retain- ed conscioasness until death came. « Two delezates of the National Assoel- ation for. the Advancement, of Colored o | People to the Pan-African congress to 3| be held in London, Paris and Brussels, put it around his.nuck. SIS kirs O the Drpfam. Stanley Gorlezvk, a policeman, . at- tempted to reseue Grigss but was sver- | = Employment of school phraiclans and nurses by every city and the larger towns will be required under the law passed by the last Massachusetts legislature which became effective Saturday. Relations between Afghanmistan and Great Britain depend upon the attitude of England toward Turkey, it was de, clared by the Afghan ambassador to the g | Turkien nationalis} government. The weekly payroll of the Barrett Co., g | of Edgewater. N. J, containing between | $15.000 and $25,000 was obtained by six |t | bandits ina daring daylight holdop not far from the Barrett plant. a The contjnued presemee of 14,000 Amer- ican soldiers in Germany stirred the zen- ate. Senators Borah, Brandegee and McKellar protested against their main- tenance on the Rhine. d n Beotf's modern earm , consisting of 28 fainilies who are going to Buhl, Idah> from Brooklyn to seitie on an irrigatea plot of 5,000 acres, reached Niagara Fails 8 wor. Col. Samnel P. Colt, former president jof the United States Rubper Co., was in a critical condition at his summer home at Bristol, R. L, following a para- Iytio stroke. k 1 It became kmown in Waterbury that the Conmmecticut company is planning to operate express service betwean New Haven and Waterbury is a means cof meeting inter-city jitney competition, Appointment of former Maver Henmry Lee as trustee of the defunct Danbury & Bridgeport Traction company, was af- firmed by Referee in Bankruptcy J. J. | Keosh. o] 7 of chicken eggs halched after they had been salvaged from the interior of a_ python was told by the publicity department of. the board of missions of the Methodist ‘Episcopal church. Burglars who entered the home of Edwin T. McKnight, former president of the state semate, at Medford, Mass., Fri- day night, and made off With about $40u 0} of jewelry and a small amount of cash. New York was introduced to the post- i- | tage meter. A machine which mekas every man his own stamp printer and loes away with the necessity of stick- ing them om, the National City Bank has the first one exhibited in New York. Official_anneuncement of the mppsint- d | ment of Bishop Michael J. Curley, of St. Augustine, Fla., as archbishop of Balti- more, succeeding the late Vardinal Gib- bons., was received by Catholic officials in Washington. The American steamer Pocohontas has been ‘ordered by the courts to remain in the port of Naples untils- debts incurred 0 | {n the repairing:of damage suffced-on her recent voyage from the United States are paid. Wage boards te consider rates of pay for brush, -laundry, retail store, muslin underwea, and men's and women's cloth- ing wokers were ordered-reconvened by the Massachusetts state minimum wage commission Saturday. Five men suspected of being the ban- dits_who held up the Manhattan limited at.Gillitstn, Pa. last Friday and eseap- ed after throwing off several bags of registered mail, were arrested In Cleve- land. e —_— Tndor an order issued by Acting Secre- tary of the Navy Roosevelt, ali naval ships amd stations will- ogahnize to mssist. 0 | ex-service men “In every possible way in securlng contact with the bureau of war risk insurance.” Berlin, Aug. 7 (By the A. P.)—The American relief workeis who are about to go into famine-stricken Russia prob- ably will find 12,000,000 persons in the Volga Basin actually starving.and tw> thirds of the entire population of Russia on hunger rations according to Mrs. Mar- guerite E. Harrison the American news- paper - woman recently released from prison in- Soviet Russia. This Mrs. Harrison attributes to in- ternal economical and political disintegra- tion under Soviet rule, to the ravages of the internecine wars against admiral Kol- chak and General Wrangel and to the drought. What the drought -falled 1o accomplish, conscription of farm hands and the requisitioning of grain for the Red armies completed. The result is that 4 Ukrainian republlc, narmally the granary of Russia, can barely sustain itself. Siberia 1§ in the same predica_ ment. Neitaer region is willing to pro- vide grain for the famine sections and migration of peasants is now proceeding, completely halting the autumn planting. The food situation, Mrs. Harrison said. also will mave a bearing on the public health, althtugh the Russian sanitary corps had_the cholera situation in hand when she left Moscow at the end of July. The famine area begins between Nizhni- Novzorod and Kazan on the north and extends southward in a broad belt to Tsaritsin on both side of the Volga, em- bracing the Tartar republic provinces of Simbirsk, Samara, Saratove, Penza and Tambov; tse Tcherkask republic, parts of Riazan and Tua, and a large part of the province of Ufa to the foothills of the Ural mountains. Famine conditions have been worse by poor transportation and the inefliciency of local distribution organizations, which have béen vigorcusly atacked by the newspapers during the past few weeks. For instance, $5 per cent of the milk spoiled in the/ Moscow government was due to the defective organization of the receiving station: Pitiful stories of suffering are told on all sides. The peasants of Tambov are reported to be eating bread made ox straw, potato parings and weeds. In the Novenski prison where Mrs. Harrison was detained the bread was adulterated with a four which appeared to have been made from cowpeas.. Kasha, the staple cereal of the peasants, has been re- placed by flageolet beans, which are fme parted. Mrs. Harrison visited the Voiga Basin “with the' British labor delegatin a year ago, when she observed symptoms of tae appriaching food ehortage. - This, she says, is not the result of the crop fail- ure but of the economic conditions pre- vailing since the beginning of the revolu- tion. Duding the Kolchak = campalgn Provinces were overrun with the result that the fields were ot cultivated and the popuation scattered. —This was the only reason why the official figures for 1920 - showed that, the number of farm workers in Russia had decreased fifty per_cent since 1916. When. the Soviet retock the Volga provinces in 1919 they proceeded vigor- ously, and in the main efficiently, to car- ry out the program of agricultural re- construction. They succeeded fairly well though lacking in man-power. machinery and fertilizer. The Commissariat of agri_ culture began a campaign of education. sending to the provinces trained prop- ganda workers and technical literature erperts. In the spring of last year, Mrs. Harri- son said, the reserve supplies which had been hidden, wers nearly exhausted, but the crop prospects were good. This was the situation when tre Polish campaign brought further conseriptions and requisi- tions in addition to the natural produce tax. At the close of 1320 the govern- ment found the f0od supplies greatly in- adequate, and in February the revolt hindered the importation for a time of foodstuffs from Siberia. In the carly spring the Soviet instituted free trade and re-organized the cooper- ative societies in the provinces but these measures were not productive of great practical results and the people pinned their hopes on good harvest. Then the drought set in with an al- most total loss to the erops in the Velga region, resulting in a hopeless situation. Alarming reports began to pour into Moscow, mass migrations from the Volga regions. which the government still is unable to control. ‘Last year the Soviet encouraged emigration, when *135,688 -persons were transferred to Siberia, realizing the thre: of famine which had been growing for several years. The emigrants now often are greeted by the natives with clubs and rifles, but_the government's efforts to stemthe tide of emigration is with- out appreciable results. During July, according to Mrs. Harri- son.the heavy rains spoiled much of the hay crop. The government is making an effort to save the livestock by concen- trating herds on the natural pasturage slopes of the Ural mountains. The peasants. however, are oppesing this plan fearing they will never 'get back their eattle. The = health situation Mrs. Harrison says, 15 distressing. While cholera is under control, " incomplete figures showed there had been 34,000 cases to tie end of July, most of them in the government of Astrakhan.' There were only 195 cases in Moscow up to July 25 and the health department which Mrs. Harrison said was efficient, had done spendid wosk. It had undertaken compulsory inoculation throughout the country and seemed to have plenty of virus. Typhus will be a menace wWith the approach’ of the cold weather. Tubercuosis and venereal dis_ cases are making terrible Favages among the people. FOODSTUFFS FOR WORKMEN OF PETROGRAD AND MOSCOW Esthonia, -July. 25- (by the A. Yhe shiploads -of foodstuffs Which, during the past month, 1 trograc riving aimost daily-at:the port of Pe- are to be used aimost exclu- sively -for the workmen of Petrograd and Moscow, says a despatch from the Rosta Agency, the official Bolsheviky telegraph bureau. These shipments added to available foodstuffs from the surrounding terri- tories Is . considered by baisheviki offi- cials to assure at least these two cities against_starvation: The shipments total, according to Ros- Released From Prison in Soviet Russio—In the Volga sin 12,000,000 Persons Are Actually Starving—Health. “onditions Add to the Distress—Pitiful Stories of Suffer- ing Are Told on All Sides. not only of famine but of t:e | of wheat, 1,000,000 goods §00,000 poods of rice and peas, 090 poods of herrings, 200,000 poods of 5 fats and considerable quantities of can- ned meats, sugar and other necessar- fes. ’ CARUSO REPRODUCTION AT HIS OWN MEMORIAL SERVICE New York, Auz. 7.—Enrico Caruso sang at his own memorial service hers today. A phonographic reproduction of the tenor's voice moved a large gather- ing of friends to tears. Miss Carmella ‘fi Ponselle, sister of Rosa Ponselle, sang Nearer, My God, to Thee and Face tc Face. 3 Opera_singers, musicians, professienal men apd patrons of music mingled with tage hands, laborers and “gallery gods” of the Metropolitan Opera Homse to pay tribute to the late artist A large portrait of Caruso draped in the Amreican and Italian flags, occuplied a conspicuous place and beneath it were several floral wreaths. frim directors and members of the Metrolitan Opera Company, stage hands and others. Dr. Antonio- Stella, Caruso's personal - physiclan, presided. He delivered a, brlef eulogy. describing Caruso as “not only a grest singer but also a great p] man.’ L Father Ceraso of the Church of Our Lady of Sorrow in Green Village, N. J., Dr. Stefano Miele, president of the or- der of the Soms of Italy, and Dr. Ste- phen T'mce, a Protestant clergyman, memorialized the singer in short ad- dresses. : F. C. Coppicus, secretary of the Me- tropolitan Opera Campany and one time manager for Caruto, today told the story of a wager which the tenor lost because he failed to understand the psychology of an opera audience. An argument arose among members of the opera company, then playing Philadelphia, as to whether an o R IN SANDY HOOK New York, Aug. 7—The 3 bdassador, bound from New York to At- lantic City,. was foreed into the of Sandy Hook bay by am electrieal storm late today. and then the waves until the boat at! zers on board &lung to the wings unmtll the yacht Louder II rescued them. which operated the plane, sighted party shortly after it landed. Mrs. Up- percu. who was on the yacht, sald thet the pllot had told her it had been fm- possible to stay in the air with the sterm raging as it was. Wh tempted to land the force tore the boat from the plane. * ‘The plane was plloted by perton. He saw the storm approaching * while flying over the onen ocean, and brought the plan, into thebay, whers he was forced to land . When the yacht sighted the plane. the seaplane passeigers were framtical- - Iy signaling for help. ANl were taken on the yacht. which slso took the Am- bassador in tow and brought her to & private landing at the highlands. GRIEVANCES EXPRESSED BY EAILEOAD EMPLOYES Jersey City, N. I, Aug. 7.—The New . ork district council of maintenance of way locals, representing employes of ev- ery railroad entering Greater New York, today made public resolutions passed by it, which condemned overtime work om railroads during the present unempley- ment period and any attempt by rall- . Toads to re-establish the ten-hour day. The resolutions slso condemned overtime agreement ~recenily Teached between the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad and foremen of its depgrtment of bridge and and track adjustment. b The New York, New Haven and Hartford agreement, the resolution de- clared, was the work of a minarity which did not represent the organized foremen and by its sul n overtime arrangement opened < for the re-establishmert of thy ;) hour day. The resolutions also 4 clared tie agreement gave the L] the authority of final decision s amy controversy. . .’ Speakers also protested that 3 ent compensqtion to injured of $12 a week was insufficient in e face of living costs. en of the waves Test of LLOYD GEORGE DINED % WITH PREMIEE BRIAND Paris. Aug.-7.—Premier Lioyd dined with Premier Eriand tonight, only other guests being Sir Robert. enson Horne, chanceiior of the quer, and Mr. Lioyd George's secretar- fes. ' Later the two premiers had a long. conterence. LR Because of the late arrival of Sigmer Bonomi, the Italian . there o be no meeting of ‘Fupreme tomorrow morning: the sitting will be- gin at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Mr. Lioyd George il occuny the = hours in conferring with the British lesian experts. ) 15-YEAR-OLD CADDIE WAS KNLED BY Newark, N. J. Aug. Li; ‘fl:-m on the Weequs . bétween here and . today, instantly killing Arg 15-year-old caddie, who shelter beneath it._