Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 9, 1921, Page 1

VOL. LXIII—NO. 193 Also So-Called Luxury Taxes on Wearing Apparel—Agree- ment Reached by Republican Members of House Ways and Means Committee—A Reduction of Half the Levy on Sperting Goods Also Agreed Upon—Proposed Act- tion Would Reduce Federal Revenue Slightly Less Than 1$50,000,000. ‘Washington, Teliminate and ige Aug. S—Agreement to the taxes on fountain drinks cream and the so-called luxury n wearing apparel is understood to have been reacted today by Republican members cf the house ways and means com- tee, sitting in executive session. A ion of one half in the ten per evy om sporting goods also is said have been agreed upon. The total loss of revenue from these praposed changes would be slightly less t 50,000,000 and the reductions are to be passed upon by tie maj- bers in their effort to carry the announced program of republican ders to cut half a billion dol- from the nation’s tax hill. The wearing apparel levies proposed repeal are ten per cent of the amount the which cost of Women's and misses' hats, bonnets and luc - exceed §15 each; women's and silk stockings or hose $2 per men’s, women's, misses’ and boys’ pumps and slippers exceed ; men’s and boys' silk stock- s exceed 33 each; men's and boys' amas, nightgowns and underwear exceed 85 each; kimonos, petticoats and waists exceed $15 each; men's waistcoats sold separately 'from suits, exceed $5 eact: and house| cr smeking coats or jackets and bathrobes or lounging robes exceed $7.50 each. _ The sporting goods on which it is pro_ posed to cut the tax in half ‘include tenis rackets, nets, racket covers and presses, skates, snow shoes, sKiis, - to- boggans, ‘canoe. paddles, and _ cushions, polo mallets, ~baseball bats, gloves, masks, protectors, shoes and uniforms, football helmets and harness and- goals, basket ball goals and uniforms golf bags and clubs, lacrosse sticks, bails of all kinds, inclhding baseballs footballs, ten- nis, golf, lacrosse, billiard and pool balls, fishing rods and reels, billiard and pool tables, chess and checker boards and pieces, dice, fames and parts of games texcept playing cards and toys and games) and all similar articles. Repeal of the ten per cent tax on carbonated beverages which is collected and paid by the manufacturers ‘monthly also was discussed at, the meeting, and favorable action was predicted by some members of the committee Who urged §5 each: men's and boys’ |that it was not fair to remove the txX ps exceed 32 each; men's and boy on drinks at fcuntains in the cities and seckties and neckwear exceed $2 cach: |retain the levy on the bottled goods -sold men's, women's, misses’ and boys' paj- largely in the rural distriets. OF 214 PERSONS ON STEAMER STARVING RUSSIANS ABE ALASKA 167 HAVE BEEN SAVED CRAWLING TO BREST LITOVSK Francisco, Aug. 8.—Oll-soaked| London, Awg. 8 (by The A. P.)— wreckage adjacent to Blunt's Reef, 190 Thousands ' of Russian refugees are miles north of here conceals the mys- tery sinking ks Saturday bodies have been ‘recovered. aboard, 167 have been saved. ords of the purser went down with the 21 the exact loss of lifs may be known, that several passengers have rescued Whose names did rot ap- om the company’s list of passen- gers and crew prepared 3t «Portland, Oregon, the city of departure. The check thus far indicates that for- ty-seven may have perished. Zureka, California, 40 miles north scene of the wreek, afe 17 bod- whiti_have been identified as| sengers, Including one woman 2d nine of the crew. Meanwhile, along hows of some 30 persons missing in the e coastwise steamer Alas- night, from which seven- Out 214 persons believed to have been | The ree- | for checking thus far | | pouring into Brest Litovsk—2,000 a day —many crawling on Fands and knees, 100 weak to stand, and scores dying in dugouts along the roads. . An appalling picture of the desola- tion and death in the famine areas in Russia is given by F. L. Thompson, in charge of the Brest Litovsk district for the Ameiican Relief Administration and the European Children's Fund, who ar- rived here ‘ast night. No one who hasn't seen sultering, sald {he, can imagine how gnastly it is. So awful are the hunger pangs that/the bodies become swollen and bloated, dnd the cheeks are puffed out. This. stage Women - and children, as_well _as_men, aze to be seen in this pitiable condition; they have dragged themselves up to me | begging for pennies auu 100d. is the vrelude of death, which the suf-| | ferers say is the happiest stage of all. ) ‘. __POPULATION 29,685 ARE TONAKE CECREANAND FOUNTAIN DRIKS TAXLESS CABLED PARAGRAPHS Pope Intites Aid for Russian: Rva Aug. 9 (by - the A. P.)—The has addressed a letter to Cardinal Gaepare, secretary of state, inviting all Christian and, civilized peoples to con- tribute generously to assist the starving Russian . people. Tom Wintringham Fell Dead. Lovndon, Aug. 8.—Tom. Wintringham, liberal member of ‘parliament for the Louth élvision of Lincolnshire, fell dead in the. reading room of the house of com- mons. this evening. The house immedi- ately adjourned as a tokei of respect. Tom Wintringham was born in 1867. He'was a timber’ inspector . gnd was elected for Louth in June, 1920. LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE KENNEDY MURDER Los, Angeles,. Aug.: 8.—Investigation to- day by - the police of : the mystery sur- rounding the ‘slaying Friday night in a lonely suburb of J. Belton Kennedy led them to replace -in jail - tonight = Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain, who was with Kennedy when he was shot, and Arthur C. Burch of Evanston, IIl, former school- mate of ‘Mrs. Obenchain and her divorced husband at Nortnwestern university. No formal chaiges have been placed against either. prisoner. Funti wis etiipen (oiDow Angsicaito- day trom Las Vegas, Nevada, where he was arrested Saturday night while on his way home from the coast. From admis- sions he -made todday, the police said, they ‘were able fo learn’ that'an automo- bile “had been rented the night Kennedy was slain and that the man who obtained th&" car, while giving the mame “J. W. Jones,” ‘gave his address s that of the home of the only relatives Burch has in Los Angeles. This car was driven to- day to the scene of Kennedy's death and the police averred that the peculiar mark- in gof the tires was similar tq that of the machine used by the: slayer of Ken- nedy. 'St Bloclnng Enforcement Has Been Revoked by - Judge| New Haven,’ Conn., ‘Aug. §—The :re- straining order issued a week :ago Satur- day by Judge Edwin-S..Thomas, under which all peace offiecrs-of the sstate have withheld interference” with- the.operatipns of jitneys ‘in the state, will-be vacdted at midnight tonight by a decision. filed today. In his decision ‘Judge ‘Thomas says: “The alleged rights of the plainiff on’ the facts set forth in the bill of*complaint are not free from doubt. -Coficludfag) this —as T do—the temporary restfain'ng or- der must be: vacated.”: - The revocation, of ' the Jorder Will be effective at midnight -tonight. * The sit- uation in the jitney-trolley. contioversy will Tevert to what it was, before- Judge Thomas grantéd a’temporary, restraining order. This condition: will continue pend- ing a decision of the three judges:who will hear the issue on Aug. I8. The court says that in;arciving at the conclusion that the order must be vacated “it has mot been- necessary for me to prejudge summe questions upon which the parties may be as issue when the matter is fully heard before the enlarged court of the three judges, which will hear and: determine the prayer for relief as to granting the interlocutory injunction which is sought in the bill of complaint, nor is it necessary at this time to pass upon the constitutioral question present- ed by the bill of complaint. — “The continuance of the -extraordipary remedy of a temporary restraining order The keeper of the hotel In ' which gr = pestey Burch rented ‘a” room, across the street | ¢a only be justified when it_ appears T e s "omes: oo Meemtieathat the plaintifs' rights 4re free ‘from Mrs. Obenchain as the “female’ cousin” Who had visited Burch at the hotst room. Burch had admitted, Deputy Sheriff Jo- seph Nolan saidd, that he came to Los Angeles {rom his home in Evanston on a telegraphic Tequest from’ Mrs. Oberchain. Search continued unsuccessfully for the shotgun - with which Kennedy was shot down while- -at his summer cottage, searching for a “lucky penny’ with Mrs. Obenchain, who had obtained a divorce, she said. in order t6 marry him. S had at. first told the police that she hat asked Kennedy to 'go tn the cottage to look for this penny, which ghe had buried a year ago, but later €aid that Kennedy suggested the trip.’ also announced that her ‘version did not coincide with that told by Burch. al- though both protéSted they had no know- ledge of the man who did the shooting, and Mrs, Obenchain repeatedly declared her love for Kennedy. Mrs. Obenchain has admitted receiv- ing $85 from Burch, but said that it was in payment for loans made By her while they Weer both students in Bvanston. She wrote today to her * former = husband, I Ralph Obenchain, of ‘Chicago, wno had allowed her a divorce, she said, in order that’ she might be happy With the' man she loved, asking that he come to her as- sistance. Obenchain, when he heard of Her story was some- what confused, the police said, and they. doubt—and not otherwise—in" addition to the allegation that irreparable damage will_result. “The rights of the state to enforce its law by its own instrumentalities is para- | mount and should.not be interfered with | by the federal government except.in cléar and convincing cades. “The power of the court to revoke the temporary restraining order ~has _been challenged and in support of that conten- tion plaintiffs’ reply upon section 268 of the judicial code, together with the de- cision of the supreme vourt of the United States is ex parte metropelitan watér company of West Virginia, 220 U. S. interpreting the section of the code: A careful examination of both. au- thorities discloses that plaintiffs - Dave miscorceived the legal mpd\-t of '.m statute and the-decisioh.” Counsel for the jitneynian. M!E ‘were_to confer \is afternoon on the next step to e taken. One matts v had in mihd, Attorne; Arthur Klefn said, was .an' ap- plication to Justice 'Brandeis . of . the United States sunfeme 'court'for a writ of mandamus ‘against state officfals. {>When ‘asxed what course- the state police department would )mw purm Supt. Robert T. Hurley :@ he would make mo move" had been offic’ally noified of tite revoeation of the injunction. “Will you then begin to make arrests Had Been' Excluded From General Release Order For|™ "Members of Irish Repubh- can Parlianrent. - London, Aug. §— (by the A. P:)—John | J.-MeKeown member of the Irish repub- lican parliament, whose case at first was made on exception when it was decided to “free, the imprisoned members of the {Irish republican parliament has been re- ledsed it was announced here tdnigit. . McKeown had been excluded-from the release order because he had been cons victed by a-court martial ofjthe mur- der of District Inspector- McGratn. ‘The exception in ‘his case was resented in Irish republican quarters, however, ‘and.| Eamonn De Valera was quoted as de- claring that if the deténtion of McKeown Were persisted.in Le'could not accept the responsibility of proceeding further with the Irish peace megotiaticns. ‘An- incident "Whith seriously 'threat- ened to wreck furt er peace negotiations between the British government and the Sinn Fein in Irfland has been overcome This was brought about today through the release from prison of John J. M- Keown by order of Premier Lloyd George on representatici® from Eamonn' De Valera, the Irish republican leader. McKeown . was in prison under con- wiction for the murder of Cief Inspector McGrath,” All the other memberfs of the Sinn - Fein parliament under .detention had been released, but the authorities of Dublin castle had.refused to set Mc- Kecwn free. This fact had stirred the Irish peoole wio claimed that McKeown shéuld be accorded the same immunity as had been granted the“other republicans. A special courier sent by the Irish republican wabinet t0lzy delivared to Mr. Lloyd George in Pari, where he is attending the supreme councfl a message’ on the situation. Dublin dispatches qucted Mr. De Valera as saying’ he @id not believe the excep- tion made in detaining McKeown rep- resented the considered actidn of the British cabinet, but that it was due fo the action of governmental subordinates in" Ireland v\)m were proceeding under technicalities,® He, also is said to have announced that he \mum\%‘ continue peace negotiations' wits the ritish-gov- ernment if the government persigtéd in holding McKeown in prison.\ Shortly af- terwards word came from Paris that it had been decidod to set McKeown free. In London the incident is considersd a victory for the Sinn Fein. ~The gen- eral belief is however, that the Dublin castle. officfals acted without consulting te London government when the issued their notice that McKeown cculd not be zeleased and that the London government in the interest of peace over-ruled them. EXPERTS HEARD 0 SILESIAN TPPER CONTROVERSY Paris, -Aug. 8 (By the R. P.)—The members of - the -allied supreme council are now gathered in Paris to settle the controversy over Ugoer Silesia. Experts tein | the trouble his divorced wife was in, s ‘were heard today representing both the the rock: coast patfols continued & | “At ome place I came across ten fam-.said he would do all he could for his| PrOmpLy?" Superintendent Hurley ,Wasijrench and British governments. They arch fou bodles. In hospitals at Eu-|ilies, formerly among the wealthiest | former schoolmate, although she had | asked- \ _|presented arguments for the frontier reka were many injured survivors. who were living on bread made from ! abandone® him for love of Kenneay. ‘Well, we are not golng out and tf¥|jines insisted upon for the moment by A score or more survivors reached jgrass, mud and straw. Mrs., Madalynne Oberchain, Kennedy’s | (0. SnaD anybodys head off, he replied. 0 today, Outstanding in eloped sinking and explosion of steamer, was the tribute to the heroism ¢ Captatn Harry Hobey, who went with his shin, of his offieers and and the. offic 1e steamer Anyox. ond Officer Dupree of the clared that an uncharted ent dragged the fog-bound miles inshors into the reef. thought we wera three miles reef, when really we were he sald. “An uncharted north- current had carried us inshore, We 4 this eurrent later when our eraft ed northerly from the We CONFESSED THAT SE SHOT AND KILLED MOTHER Aug. Boy ansville. Tnd 8 —Willie Dgf- the murder of their seventy- Mrs. Martha Deffen- today to officials at e shot and killed her, ;, the story which Willie iCriekhause, he and his walking through the woods 20me squirrels when the his gun struck against a harged a shot through his mother, confessed i, ndell, wounded, Zell’ down Then she turned over on ording to the stery drawn w Wol I a want_her to suffer,” Willie %0 T up and shot her again. That her. so 1 shot her again in e hurried to his home and then fage in Boonville. He set the the shooting as Friday, July 22, sald that it oceurred a: 8 o'clock » morning. ing to Willle's confession he had an argument with his mothe on the day before the shonting because -3 na ha had returned from Borawills without A job he fussed at ine” he sald b -8 w s confession clears up the mys- ¢ as to who shot Mrs. Deffendofl but accidental version of the shosting is ot given much credence by offizials at The body of Mrs. Defendoll with the ead severed swas found in a woods her farm home 15 miles from Foonville last week. William and Dolly, soms of the aged woman, Were pinced mder arrest immediately after the find- ng of the hod AIRPLANE RIDDLED A LAUNCH WITH BULLETS Providence, R. I, Aug. 3.—Sweeping down Narragansett bay with its ma- chine gun spraying the water with a rain of bullets, an gnidentified airplane this afterncon riddled and nearly sank a launch containing five people and se- verely wounded a girl passenger. Falling to observe frantic signals from the boat, the plana sped on its wa. With ¢he boat sinking and the girl in Aanger) from loss of blood, the lsunch party travelled eight miles to shory to reach medicai gasistanée. The wounded #irl is Grace Buxton, 24, of Oaklana Teach, near this city. AIR PTLOT AND TWO PASSENGERS INCINERATED Healdsburg, California, Aug. 8.—Alden Eldridge, Berkeley pilot, and Bert Fair- banks, Willitts, California, and Kenneth Hudson, Healsburg, Californin, passen- gers, wers burned to -death in an air- it the m-u'd:.fl. oytskirts of Al of tragedies of the fog-en-| the and crew of the one explanation of the wreck was held with his Htother Dolly, | boiled with Toots in water in order to make a thin eoup. If acorng are avail- able, these are added. “The bolshevist sentries in out of the way places are in rags and are subsist- ing on the fish they catch or In some other primitive tfashton.” “At one village a refuges staggered in. He spoke English and said he had resided in Chicago until Easter. Asked why he entered Russia, ho replied: “Be- cause T was a focl” “The refugee declared he had arrived in Russia with $800 in his possession, which the holsheviki took, giving him 1,- 500,000 rubles in return. The same day he paid 50,000 rubles for a small plece of bread.” LENIENCY FOR ERRING UNDERFAID BANK CASHIER New York, Aug. 8 —FExpressing the belief that” the defendants did not re- ceive salaries commensurate with thetr living requirements, Federal Judge Shep- pard exercised mercy today in passing sentence on a bank cashier and his as. sistant who pleaded guilty to misappli- cation of $5.500 of the bank’s money in the past two years. H. B. Rundall, cashfer of the First Natioaal Bank of Amenla, New York, |and Mrs. Judith-B. Demming, assistant icasmrr. were sentenced to serve one day Iuch in the custody of United States Marshal MeCarthy and to pay fines of $500 and $250, respectively. Judge Sheppard pointed out that net- ther of the defendants used the stolen money. in speculation and that the. bank had ‘heen reimbursed by them for its logs. He sharply criticised the bank of- icialé, however, for attempting ‘to con- ceal’ the “defalcations by permitting the dsfendants fo make restitution without nnu‘: the thefis to the attention of po- lice ‘muthorities, STERLING EXCHANGE MAKES AN ADVANCE OF 11 3-§ CENTS New York, Aug. $—An upturn of un- usual proportions in sterling exchange today carried ‘he quotation to $3.71 half, an advance of 11 3-8 cents. The rise was generally attributed to recent_speculative selling” in -anticipation | of increased ofterings of commercial bigs against exports of cotton grain and food stults. She shorts, apparently having oversold the market wefe caught uifre. pared when the quptatio: opened up about 4 cents and hasty covering caused a buoyant upturn whics continued throughout the day. Last prices were within a fraction of the top. Other exchanges moved up in sympathy with sterlinz. Rates on Holland, Sweden. Denmark, France, Belgium, Italy and Spain rose 20 to 50 points. CAPTAIN WERNER HORN TO BE DEPORTED WEDNESDAY Montreal, ' Aug. $—Captain Werner Horn German spy, who attempted to blow up the International Bridge at Vance- boro, Maine in 1915, will be deported ‘Wednesday to Germany on the steam- ship Poland. Horn who was pronounced insane af- ter serving eir year of a ten year Sen- tence in the Dorchester, N. B., peniten- tiary, is at present confined in the im_ migration buflding tere. 1 RESIGNS:AS COMMANDER Thousands of | others are existing on grass, which is| OF TURKISH NATIONALISTS Constantinople, Aug. 8.—Ismet Pasha, commander-in-chlef of the Turkish n tionalists, who defended Eski-Shehr un- successfully, against the~Greeks, has re- signed. Mustapha Kemal Pasha. has as- famed iM post ot companion at.the time of the shooting, who was held as a witness, stuck to her . declaration that she' believed * Burch knew nothin; of the shooting. “Burch xud I wers anly college friends,” she ' declared. © She sald she had only briet meetings' with him at her hotel alter he came to Los Angeles. “I believe ‘Belfon's. (Kennedy's) death | is to be traced to his connection with a Zirl in_ this, city,” Mrs. Oberchain was declared by sheriff’'s officers to sald. . She @eaid: she preferred - mot to mention the name of thig ed that Kennedy was attacked some time ago by two men as the result of his acquainiance with the unnamed wo- man. She said she had written to Raloh Obenchain, Chicago, attorney, her for- mer hushand,) and hoped he would come to Los Angeles in a few days. Mrs. Oberchain said she was positive there were two men, nelther of’ whom she retognized, who ran Dast her af- ter the shots were fired Friday night. She =aid Burch gave her $85 the last| time she saw him and said she took it because he had accepted loans from her while in college. Verses found among the effects of | Mrs. Oberchain-werd heing examined by investigators - today. Oberchain -had ad; the lines One poem began: They said v Mrs. ed authority for “We will g0 to the Glen in the twilight, And watch the darkness come.” ] The closing stanza read: “At last it a¥is over, your life on earth 1s doné; I will go to the Glen in twilight, And watch the darkness come.” Mrs. Oberchain, declared ths lineg and she had penned them in ments. the investigators sald, idle mo- MES. TUFTS TESTIFIES IN HER HUSBAND'S DEFENSE " Boston, Aug. 3—Mrs. Nathan A. Tufts wife of the District Attorney of Middle- sex County whose removal is sought by Attorney General J. Weston Allen on charges. of improper conduct of his of- fice, took the stand in her husband’s de_ fénse in the supremen court late tiday. She corroborated Mr. Tufts' testimony with_reference to how, he_obtained $5,000 in' May, 1917,,at about the time the prosecution alleges large sums of money were distributed to prevent litigation a Tesult of a party at Mishawum Manor, ‘Woburn, attended by several motion pic- ture men.” She said that her husband. was alone with' his father in a room in their .home_at. Pitchburg shortly before the _elder. Mr. Tufts. death and when came out he showed her five one thousand dollar bills given him by his father. About two weeks later she said, Mr. Tufts again sent for his son and gave him, an envelope containing an amount which she was informed was twice as much as the previous gift. Mr. Tufts earlier in the day was sub- jected _to . further questioning regarding his - financial. affairs between January 1917 when he took office and May 1921. Check stubs were produced to show how his money .was spent. The defense losjg & point when Chiet Justice Rugg ruled that the defense could not introduce testimony to show the pro- ceedings were, brought as part of a Do- litiéal plot ‘against. Mr. Tufts nor testi- mony to.show that conditions in Middle- sex county bad improved under Mr. Tutts' regime.- Kttomey Melvin' M. Johnson said that the district attorney's mother would take the stand tomorrow ‘to explain the moriey transactions between hel' husband snd ~her-som. . have | girl and add- had no significance . “We are going at this.thing on a com- mon sense basis and- give. everybody-a chance t cobey the law voluntarily, The whole jitney situatiori has been in_such confnsion that I have not attempted to lay down any definite course of action, but we shall sge that the law is en- forced as soon arc We are sure of our grounds.” Chief of Police Garrett J, Farrell said today that he had not heard of the va- cating of the injunction by Judge Thomas and that he was not prenared to say what action the department would take until Commissioner of Motor Vehicles Stoeckel had jssued further suggestions for the guidance of police officials, as the chief had no doubt he would do as soon | as possible. As soon as Motor Vehicle Commission= er Stoeckel heard of Juige Thomas' ac- tion he sent a messenger to New Haven to secure a copy of the order. Just as soon as that copy was in his office, he said, he planned to ask police officials throughout the state to hegin “picking up” the now._obsolete public service (P. S.) markers, drivers to’be' walmed . that they must exchange them at the. capitol for legal markers. Mr. Stoeckel said he did not plan to ask active prosecusion of violators of the new jitney,law until af- ter the federal court hearing, Aug. 16. ACTION TAKEN NY VEHICLE COMMISSIONEE STOECKEL Hartford Conn. Aug. S—As soon as Mo- tor Vehicle Commissivner Stoeckel heard of Judge THomas' action he sent a messenger to New Haven to secure a copy of the order. Just ms soon as that copy was in‘his cffice{ he said he planned to ask police officials thrnughout the state to bezin “picking up' tie now ob- solete_ 1\lic service ((P.. S.) -markers, exchange them at the capitol for legal markers. Mr. Stoeckel said he did not plan to ask active prosecution of vilators federal court hearing August 16. POLICE REQUESTED TO. < rgquesting them “to’ enforce’the law” im regard to jitney 'bus operation. UNEMPLOYED MEN BECOME ploved laborers today broke into valued at. £1,000,000. - Considerable dam- be| age was done before 500 foot and mount- ed police made way for a fire brigade. WOULD INCREASE PENALTY FOR THEFT OF MOTOR VEHICLES ‘Washington, to. the national motor vehicle -theft” act, which woyld impose a fine of $5,000 and Up to five years imprisonment unnn any- state lines with intent tc defraud own- s or insurance companies, was ordered favorably reported ;today by the senaté Judiclary ‘committee. . 3 BILL To PUNISH ANYONE y " SELLING WAR DECORATIONS Washington, Aug. 8.—The: nayy de- partment sent to the liouse today_ a 'bill 10 punish ‘anyoneé selling” | War.*decgta- tions. Pawn shops wen isplaying many drivers 10 be warned that they mustifSubject. of the mew jitney law until'after the| ENFORCE JITNEY LAW chiefs of police in all cities of the state INCENDIARIES IN LO.\:DOX London, Aug. § (By the A. P.).—Dis- the premises and sef fire to a stock of lumber Aug. $.—An amendment one who' transports lor receives dars over their governments. The Italian delegate Signor Torre Fran. ca, announced that the Italian govern- meng. had no boundary to propose, but <cunselled a copromise. He withdrew ‘the delimination which fad previously been submitted i)y Count Sforda the then italian foreign minister, for considera- tion by the British and French premiers. The statements of the experts were translated for the henefit of all the dele- gates, the/ French into English, and the italian into both French and Englis There were lighter moments however, during the session, the boredom of ge- ographical lines and figures being re- lieved by witticism "among the delegates. allusion even being made to Mr. 'Lloyd George having had his hair cut which mave him a mugh sterner appearance than usual and possibly forebode ill. The three premicrs, Llcyd George, Bri- and and Bonomi, all wore business suits. There were only three top hats and morn- ing coats in evidence; these were worn |y the American ambassador Mr. Har- and J. Butler Wright and Arthur Lane, the other American repres: ‘entativi Premier Briand aftér warmly welcom- ing Ambasador Harvey, said witt a laugh that it was pretty hot outside but he ‘hcped: the- atmosphere would be cooler inside. The members of the various delegations are deeply concerned as *o what part the American government. is likely to take, . Ambassador Harvey is spoken of @s possible arbitrator between the sharp_ 1y differing contentions of Great Britain and France. It is assumed by the dele- gates toat he will ask Washingten for specific instructions as questions arise upon which it may seem desirable to give an opinion or to make suggestions. But the ,ambassador is saying little on the He has had various confer- ences, among them with Sir Robert Steveps Horne chancellor of the British Exchequer. General Lerond, head of the inter-allied commission in Upper Silesia, who has been the central figure in the. difficulties arising in that country between the Ger- mans and Poles, will make a statement efore the council tomorrow after which Harttord, Aug, 3. — Commissioner| {1 general discussion of the sublect will Stockel tonight sent telegrams to the)™'p isigent Millerand has invited the delegates to lunca at the Chateau Ram- bodillet. Thursday, and it has been suz- gested that-the council hold its session there to eave time. PROVISIONS OF BRITAIN NEW LICENSING BILL appointed over their failure to . obtaim ¢ ; d - | Léndon, Aug. 5.—Under the mew I jobs at timber yard in East London : A3 Which advertised for 50 men, 5,000 unem. | sensing. bill, which has already passed the commons, all existing restrictions relative. to the price, quality and_lapell- ing of liquors will be abolishe, Staniey Baldwin, financial secretary of the treasury, annoinced in the house today. The maximum wprice fixed for whiskey and gin is 12 shillings sixpensé a bot- tle—one-fifth of a gallon. - Liquors must be properly labelled to . show _ thelr strength. Prominent whiskey manufacturers haye recently stated that it would be impossible to give better Whiskey at the bresent ' price, leaving the impression that if the strength were increased the pfice would go up Spirits are seiling for the” highest prices ever recorded ‘in England, TO ADMIT IMMIGRANTS UNDER PERSONAL BOND ‘Washington, Aug. 8—Immigrants in Jexcess of July and August quotas, now held at various ports, will be admitted ‘under personal bond and charged to the uu-.nl Foch ™ of Fradce will visit ~g}ne When corpes 48’ America in Oclo- . ¥orest fires which threatened Oqouoo, Me., have'been well checked by a heavy downpour of rain. * Fifty communist members of the Bugo- Slaviohamber ot deputies bave been ar- -in. Belgrace. King ‘Altonso_is understood to have dsked former PremiersMaura of Spain to form a new: cabinet., The colunin of Genersl Navarro, which was. -besieged. .hy. ‘the ~rebellious Mouic on, Mount Arfuit,-has been. annihiiated. Brownsville -Widdow Glass Co... at Brownsville, Pa., was destroved by fire with a loss] estimated at.§400,009. Heénry Ford has closed negotiations for the purchase of . the. Superior Steel Co., and the Union Electric Steel Co. Loans sggregating mor (i $5.000,000 have thus far been made Zrom ihe bunk- lers’ live stock rool. Dr. Carlos Zavalia, Argentine minister to Colombia, died at Bogota, Colombia, late last week following an attaok cf angina pectoris. - Tentative valuation of the Bangor and Aroostook -Railroad company was fixed by the inferstate commerce comm i for rate making purposes at §2 “Gen. Pletro Badoglio, former chief of | staff of ithe Italian army, who is on a tour of the United States, was the guest | of Detroit. yesterda ] The Equitable Trust company of New | York received gold bars valued at $2.700,- 000 on’'La Savoie from Havre and §52 000 on the Cameronia from Liverpool. A Copenhagen dispatch states that fhe Soviet government of Russia conf2a- Pplates the issue of siiver rouies in.Sep- tember. ‘AVstar-like objest, more brilliant than Venus, and believed 'to be the nucleus of a comet, was seen with the naked eye by five persons at the Lick observatory in California. Prime Minister Lloyd George has de- cided not to come to the United States to! attend the disarmament conference, the | opening session of which will probably be held on Nov. 11. Discavery ot ten smallpox cases at the state hospital for the insanme, at Water- bury, Vi, was announced by offi of the institution A new patient was said to have carried the disease to the place. Hugh J. Dimond and John C. Bills, Jr.. partners in the brokerage firm of Hush J. Dimond & Ce , which assigned Two hundred ot the 600 Jacquard or Brussels weavers of the Bigelow-Hart- tion, returned to work Monday. T capital stock to be distrijuted as stock dividends. ¥ A strike of 300 weavers at the Whittall carpet mills, Worcester, which has Leen the city, returned to his home with his back badly lacerated. 25 years connected With Jacob Adler & Son, glove manufacturers, dropped dead | just as he figished a dance at the Adiron- dack inn, at Sacandaga, a summer resort near Gloversville, N. Y., Saturday night. John J. Hynes of Boston, was reelect- ed general president and New Orleans selected for the 1924 meeting place at closing session of the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers International Al hnce convention yesterday in St. Paul. The younger members of {he Japans<e house of peers and headed Priace Konoye organized “the constitutional as- sociation,” apparently to meet guestions which are likely to arise at toe Wash- ington conference. British physicians are intensely inte- rested in a’Téport from Budapest givini the details of the birth of quintup.e: Professor Barsony, who watched the says that such an event occurs once in 700,000 times. year will be held at the Gravesend race track on September 10 and 17, it has becn announced at Police headquatte programme will consist of track, fi Loxing events, 1and Store at Fourteenth Street ani Seve avenue, Manhattan, forced Samuel Kur:z, the clerk to lie flat on the floor b fhe counter and took $150 from the casn register. Sir Sam Hughes, ing from pernicious anaemia for rapidly. hope for his recovery. and of its several offices. Frisble and Company, who formerly had offices in Hartford, have been guilty of embezzlement, cial master filed with Federal Judge Edwin S. Thomas. Chamber of Commerce to speak at meeting tp be held in Philadelphia Sept. business prosperity. Numerous complaints of failure of army commanders to provide fitting con- vOys for bodies of American so.diers re. for burial o the United States stirred the war uepart. ment to order all cori area commanders to furnish escorts at disiribuiinz poinis turned from FBurop: and - firing squads at the funera's. Shot by a man to whom he refused 2 loan of $1,000, Samuel Golden a store fixture manufacturers, of the Br-mx, New Bos last week to Daiel/@llLyne, were peti-| tioned into bankruptc; y creditors. fopd Carpet company,-who have been on | étrike agaidst'a 20 per cent. wage reduc- Louissille and Nashville Railroad | company aeked authority of the interstate | commerce commission to issue $53,000,000 | on since Jan. 17, was settled throuzh an | Benjamin Klein, 53, of New York, for | The New York police figld day this The Twe bandits entered the United Cigar | rick th former Cawhdian minister of mulitia, who has becn suffer- seve eral months, was reported to be sinking His physicians hold out little In an effert to put the American mer- chant marine on as nmear an‘all-Ameri-| cad basig as possible, the shipping board has ordered a survey of the personnel| on all its ships, including those tled up, stock brokers said Edward M. Yeomans, United States ref- eree in bankruptcy, in a Teport as spe- Gov. Henry J. Allen of Kansas has accepted an invitation of the industrial relations committee of the Philadelphia a 13 in an effort to assist in the return of ‘Washington, Aug. $—The Willis-Camp- bell anti-beer bill was passed by the sen- ate late tcday 39 to 20, and sent to con- ference with the house wits the prospect P s meat ehacosl Be N Tha Ll en Upon being informed of the action, are ready for Secretary Mellon's signa- ture, will not be issued. pending action by the senate and house conferces. Tie {regulations would provide for use of | {medical beer under the ruling of former Attorney General Palmer a ruling which | the “bill is designed to overcome. The ban against the prescribing of beer by physicians and limitations of prescrip- | tions of wine and whiskey contamed in | the bill as passed by the house were vir- tually uncianged by the senate. but a few impcrtant amendments were added. | These included a_provision to restrict operations of the Prohibition enforcement {officers by "prohiiting searches of any attempts at searching of private proper- ty cr premifes without search warrants {A violation of this clause would be a { misdemeanor subject to fie of $1.000 and one year's imprisonment. Penaities |of five years' imprisonments and, $1,000 fines were provided for persons atempt- searches while pesing as proibition !agents. The search azd selzure amendment was {offered by Senator Stanley, democrat Kentucky, as a substitute for an amend- ment by ‘Senator Reed, democrat, Mis- souri proposing more drastic penaltie: It was amended without a roll call Fourteen. republicans and six democrats | voted against passage of the Bl The | repudlican opponents “were Scnators Dall. | Delaware; Brandgee, Connec Car- Acivous; Jendeon” California:, La ollette, Wisconsin; Lodge, assachusetts : MoLean, Connecticat ; Mo Penr:se, Pennsylvania Colorado; Shortridge California { worth, New York; Warren, Wyoming: and Weller, Maryland. The &ix demo- lcratic opponents were: Senators Brous. {sard Leuisiana; Gerry Rhode Isiand ing Utah; Pomerene, Oio; Ransdell. | Louisiana; and Stanley, Kentucky. Sen- ator Reed was paired against the bill A motion by Senator Broussard to T commit the bill to committee was de- feated 35 to 23 with Senaters Dilling- ham, republican, Vermont; Spencer Te- publican, Missourl and Williams, demo- crat Mississippl, as the. extra sirength of the opposition cnthe recommittal roil call. = The senate wejected without .a roll call the beer and wine amendment of Senator Broussard. It would have per- mitted ues of Leer containing up to five -(WILLIS-CAMPBELL ANTI- PASSED BY SEATE. 391020 Now Goes to LonfaeneeW‘ththeHm:eWithl’nqdd Final Enactment This Week—An Amendment Was Adopted Prohibiting Searching of Private Property or Premises ‘Without Search Warrants—Senators Brande- gee and McLean Voted Against Passage of the Bill. treasury officials said that the beer reg- | ulations which have been drafted and } ser cent alcotol and wine of 14 per oent upon authorization by state M This amendment -Senator - Williams . de- clared. would nullify the- .prohibition. amendment. 793 Another amendment rgugga was By Senator Spencer and would have given| physicians power to prescribe wines and| distilled spirits in unlimited quantities. ‘The bill limits wine prescriptions to one fourth of a gallon and that cf spirituous IDeverages to one half pint by icuelle centent to an individesl in ten days No| change was made.in the house clause: fixing one hundred prescriptions as the maximum for a physician in n ety days except by special order of VI\IIN tion commissioner. The drive of the opposition ferees’ against the bill also resulted in the adop- tion of several minor -amendments mod- | |ifying the house bill. One would permit| {importation cf wines for sacramental purposes when the prohibition officers should determine that the domestic out- put of such wines was insufficient to meet home demands. Another would bar! toe prohibition oficers from revoking or requiring changes in formulas of manu- | facturers making products containing &l_ cohcl unless #§ skould be determined that such manufactures was. being used as intoxizating beverages in increased colume in communities. An amendment by Senator Wadsworth republican, New York, also adcpted would authorize the prohibition commissioner to permit re-importation of distilied spir- its exported abroad when returned to bonded warehouses in this coustry. in {original packages. - Tiis, it was under- | stood was to permit return of quantities | of spiritous liquors sent abroad but which cannct be sold. No essential changes were made in house provisions extending the federal prohibition ldws to all mrnun under government jurisdiction, including. Hawail_ and the Virgin slands. The senate aiso retained the house clause relieving from federal taxes all distilled spirits ‘icst: by teft, accidental fire of other means while in transportation of a commen carrier or from a bonded wartouse, providing there should be'no-connivance, negligence or fraud. Several senators who voted for the prohibition amendment and the Volstesd law opposed the mew bill. Prominent amenz them were Senators Pomerene. Ransdell and Williams. They opposed ‘tieing the hands™ of physicians and ‘also argued that tte bill was unconstitutional in that the _constitutional amendmest Rave congress no-power to limit medicina prescripticns, but was confined solely “to |alconolic beverages used for “beverage ipurposes” as limited in the amendment | OV STRONG DEFENDS agent of the Massachusetts state board S J of arbitration and conciliation acting as NEW YOEK'EESERVE BANK a conciliator. Washington, Aug.’ §—An - explanation of banking and monetary principles Benny Pinta of Fort Worth, Texas,|which he said, have controlled the federal who was taken into the country by a|reserve system since its inception waw party of masked men Saturday night and |given today before a congressional com- severely whinped and ordered to leave| on by Governor Strong of t-e New < Reserve Bank, in defense cf charges hat in its operations it has discriminated a t ricultural credit needs. De- liberate inflation of credit by lowered | interes raies with consequent increased | prices was resorted to during the war as . he said, but deflation a military nece and price drops in recent months, ne de- {clared, were not forced by the beard. but were inevitable and world-wide. Higher interest rates by the referve sys- tem he described as more or less incid_ |ental. New York, far from being fa- vored, Mr. Strong asserted, had Dbeen subjected to pressure by interest rates to liquidate greater than in any otzer part of the countr. OBITUARY. Rt. Rer. Charles E. McDonnell Brentwoofi, N. Y. Aug. S$—Rt. Rev. Charles Edward McDonnell, head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Brooklyn, died shortly before noon at the convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph. Bishop McDonnells who was consecrat- ed bishop of the Brooklyn diocese April 25, 1892, was 67 years old. He was born in New. York and l'du(‘;lll‘“ by CI llrll\lau Brothers and by Jesuits of vies college, and at the American college in Rome Upon his return from Italy. Donnell was ordained May 19, 1875, and was assigned as an _assistant to St y church, New York. He later was made master of ceremonies in ot Pat- s cathedral, Ney York, serving from 1879 to 1884. Aft acting as secretar to Cardinal McClosky and to Archbishop Corrigan, he was miade chancelor in 1885, serving until 1892, when he took charge of the Brooklyn diocese. Leroy W. Ros: Babylon, N. Y., Aug. S—Leroy W. Ross, Uvited States district attorney for the tern New York dis rist Jdied at his summer home here tonigiit. He was appointed United :lavs district attorney by President Wilson® in 1919, The district includes all of Long Island, Brooklyn and Staten Island. He was 33 He is survived by his wife and o Bishop Mc- | vears old. | one son. George Trumbull Ladd. New Haven, Aug. 8.—George Trumbuli Ladd, authority on oricntal life and problems and professor emeritus of mcral philosophy and metaphysics at Yale uni- versity, died at his home here tonight. Dr. Ladd had been a lecturer at the Imperial uniyersity, Tokio, and at’ uni- versities in" Calcutta, Bombay, Benares, Madras and Honolulu. He was retired from active duties at Yale in 1906. He was the authop of nume-ous works on philosophy, religion. and far eastern sub- Jects. Dr. Ladd was born ix Painesville, O. 79 years ago and was graduated from Western Reserve university in 1864 and Andover Theological seminary in 1869, He held a pastorate in Milwaukee for some time and in 1579 joined the fac- ulty of Bowdoin college. He came to Yale two years later. Honorary degrees | were conferred on him by Western Re- serve, Yale and Princeton. Among his Dbooks are- “In -Korea with Marquis Ito” and “Ultimate Glimpses of India. Profeksor Ladd was decorated with the Order of the Risinzg_Sun, third class, by #he emperor of Japdn in 1599, and with the second class of the order in 1907. Dr. Ladd i vived. by his widow, R < T STATEMENT IN OPPOSITION 4 TO PROPOSED DYE EMBARGE Washington, #ug. S—The senate S nance committee today heard a lengthy statement in opposition To dye embarge provisions in the Fordney tariff bill trom H. A. Metz, New York dye maker and importer, and a defemse of the ad- ministration of the present war time dye import réstrictions from Heary B. Thompson, of Greeneville, Delaware, the chairman of the state department's ad- visory committee on import applications. Mr. Metz charged Francix P. Garvaa, former alien jzoperty custodiam, - with laving brought” pressure to bear agaimst firms opposiig a dye embargo ‘whém fuch 2 plan was befors congress in, At the same time, Joseph H. Choste, Jr., cuonse] for the American Dyes In-. stitute and “the chemical foundation, h hes purchased German —patents from the alien property custodian’ re- submitted to the committes detailed.fig- ures covering_financial affairs of the foundation. He first submitted - thems Saturday but press reports stated that they had not been given to the commite tee. This was an error. : The statement shows the assets of been $364,595, the foundation to have June 30, of which $271,850 patents, trademarks and w{_ { There was a deficit of $123,465 on the | date, according to the statement. The | foundation had unpaid bills totaliing $57.285 due, the statement said, to heavy outlay ‘n educational literature, legal fees and miscellaneous ,xpenses Through royalties on licenses issued- to American dye makers, the fougdation |has recelved $88.458 since its inception in February, 1919, In the same time, it i has received $170,506 from royalties lev- ied on imported dyes which wers made under like patents in foreign lands. : The hearings before the committes in the controversy as to whether the taril ishall contain dye embargo provisioas neared the end tonight and Chairman Penroge said he hoped to_clean up the subject early tomorrow. With the bargo out of the way, the will hear several additional witnesses on the American valuation question =84 then take up the two in executive ses- sions. The controversy also reached the floor of the senate today when Senator King { delivered an attack on what he de- scribed as a “pericious - dye lobby™ which he said was attempting to influ- jence senators to vote on restoratiom ‘of, the embargo provisions to the tari® m.” KILLING FOLLOWED QUABREL i OVER $i.11 TELEPHONE BILL Philadelphia, Aug. §.—A quarrel over responsibility for a telephone Bl of $411 resulted in the killing of Ralph Penrose, 30 years old. by his brother, Norman, 26, in the dining room of boarding house in Eikins Park, near | here. today. acconling to the police. argument betweeh the _brothers, nesses said, led,to a vhysical encomum- ter which ended With the shooting. They are sons of a wealthy retired Dueks county farmer. } AMENDMEST TO EXTEND TIME 1 FOR IMPORTATION OF DYES ‘Washington, Aug. §—A bill fo e to March 27, 1922 the war time | system of Importation <f ch dyestucs was introduced 1 resentative Longworth, It would substituts ten medals and badges an. Secretary years totals, Commissioner General Hus- band of ‘the immigration bureau an- York hurled an- electric fan at nis as- Mrs. Frances Stevens Ladd, one Maugh- Roosevelt said, wmch ‘could “be: readily #Failant. Just as ihe man wes abaet (o three month_extension_from 4 ter, Mrs. Wilter Barrett, of Fort Wayne, provided for in.the nounced today. The order was issued acquired by anybody, ‘ienumemal value, ensening & 3 their / mflfiel. after & conference with ship line repre- shoot Golden a second timeé M:s. Golden, Rolding a toy water-pistol, frightenel tha - man away. Ind., and t~o sons, George T. Lpdd, Jr.. of Pittshurzh apd Dr. Louis .add of _Clevelana, -~ made_nceessary, - B