Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 22, 1921, Page 1

VOL. LXI—No. 231 NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1921 8 PAGES—64 COLUMNS : PRICE TWO CENTS. NEW YORK AROUSED T0 THE GRAVITY OF UNEMPLOYMENT Citizens Are Launching Plans Fer Housing the Homeless— Ledoux Has Enlisted the Assistance of Churches and Civ- ic Bodies—Predicts He Will Be Able to House 5,000 Within Five Days—Mass Meeting For Unemployment Has Been Arranged For Cooper Union Early Next Week —Auction Block Not Needed. JLONEL F ATRICK CHIEF REDUCTION IN ROBBERIES IN tmaster 1ay exam MAKING 21—Hav which seem is progra: ving weathered followed ction off the jobless here, today ed to be win- m for feeding ntment tomorrow with of the Protestant Epis- New York to discuss s rch hall as a He predicted MA oF A DE IR SERVICE Joseph C. w American min. fef eng the sup- ait- was selected as the air apacity served dur- ot the war. On his 1 States he was a mmander of the en- agp Humphrey, Vir- néw cn duty who eo Division t! reers in is d_giv The in manded b MAIL the or general corps also soon —Mail 3500 per cent” ¢ that | chief had been o secret- officer’s cap- | befora 1t | was to General mmanded hroughout its France, will three corps be vacant in generally as- uceced Major the as commander of when_the of er two posi- rea (Atlanta) the early re- John F. Mor- area (San dajor Gen- to retire. 20) FIVE MONTHS robber- nths since the post office romulgated an order arm- and_offer! mail robi General the reward ead or an- ing ber Hay manner in partment proposes to deal dit ce trap olerk postma: to rob Texa: were For that bbers, Al Fort ngton to resulted ster genersl a mail tran September 14 sht dead by is part in in_ the S. Page, railway vin the Worth “as been receive a re- FIFTR ATTEMPT TO SWIM ENGLISH CHANNEL afternoon England enry Sul Sept n 2 n Lowell, began him fifth attempt the Bnglish Channel to (by the A. When SuMtivan start_ el the weather was fine and the sea t this avening he was six mfles out in the nnel and making excel- lent progress. Sullivan last tried September 9§ to « chanmel from Dover, but was Rough abandon his attemnt he French coast after he had the water twelve and 2 half weather was given as reason for hie abandoning the swim. elght 1LOYD GEORGE'S REPLY b UNLIKELY London, Sept. 2 telegram of kel to be mnisterial able <ab TIL NEXT WEEK (by the A. P.)—Pre- Hylan, on ne municate with him a telegram. Meanwhile other gitizens were launch- A hens in front unempleyment Ledoux sought an audience with Mayor Informed he would have to com- sent in writing, he plans for housing the homeless. of the hall. conference Monday. | HUGHES' SUGGESTIONS FOR ARMAMENT CONFERENCE CABLED PARAGRAPHS TLeague of Nations Council. Geneva, Sept. 21.—(By The g P)— Canvassing for the election &f e four non-permanent memmbers <& suncil of the league of nationa tremely active. Swe kia, Brazil, Chile, Iand are the prine® Switzer- AUSTRIA RS wAIvr 4 r;em,vh.’g. 21—(By The A. P)— Austria stl nopes that tae United States will waive priority of payment of repara- tions and other credits, to pr mit the ap- plication of the plan for the economic restoration of the country, Count Mens- dorff, head of the Austrian delegation In- former the financial committee of the league assembly today. ..“It seems most unlikely” he said, that the great republic whose people came foryward when our distress was at the worst and when famine was threaten- ing fn Vienna, and In a magnificent movement of philanthropy for more than two yetars provided food for hundreds | of thousands of children, show'd stand back when ohter countries have already released us.” The discustion of the situation before the committee devoloped that the restor . WILL PATIONS PAYMENT pecial mass meeting on unemployment | ifo FOTVR e STRUORT 0L ek Tmen- has been arranged for Cooper URIOn| ever the United States sovernment joins early next week. Prior to the meeting | (er 1€ B CRS HRICE & doux will distribute rations from soup At tomorrow's session Letvia, Es- thonia and Lithuania will be admitted to wtulating Weltare Commisslon: | 1unilorahip, Immediately aftersards the Coler on the work of the In-| I e before the assem- { Aid_ Bureau, which today re. | Viina disput will come be e i 100 women as well as hundreds | "' Siete - g e Jundreds} ¥ Count Apponyi arrived today to pre- of male agplicants for jobs, Mayor Hulat | yon Hunzary's claim for admission. He announced that the frst of & Serice o | declared that the report that Hunga- T e e e e w aftes. | Tian troops were in Burgenland was ab- i N el | colutely untrue and that all the trouble noo | there was caused by local armed band: Commissioner Coler has accepted an! 1€ sl 3 = d T Prosinen Hordim to oit | o Which the Hungarian government was ). | 7 respons'ble ™| The admiasion of Hungary will ba op- posed hy the “Little Entente,” Rumania. Jugo Slavia and Czecho Slovakia, with the probable support of Poland. st s PERSHING NOT TO RETURN WITH ington, Sept. 21—Secretary BODY OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER Hughes nmade public today the sugses- B tions as to agenda for the confer-| Paris, Sept. 21.—(By A. P)—Gen- ence on the limitation of armament hich [ eral Pershing informed the newspaper « communicated to the in- | correspondents tonight that he would not governments. return to America wit hthe body of an American suggestions, as made | unknown American soldier. His triv, he public today, differ but slightly from the | suld, had nothing to do with the se- sug 1 agenda carried last night | lection of a body, and no private soldier n ated Press dispatches. The offi- | was accompanying him for the purchase cia t follows of making -a selection. Li on of armament: This announcemant caused gurprice, ritorial nistra and industrial D—Con erentia E—I econ F preferential Status of cRs s o0l REDUCTION OF REDISCOUNTS o ¥ g e T FROM 5 12 TO 5 PER CENT. Unless questions earlier scttled, — Under the heading of Status of Exist-| New York, Sept. 21.—Conforming to ing Commitments, the department’s state- | the steady piling up of reserves at the ment said “It is expected that opportun- |Principal finamcial centres, together ty will be afforded to consider and reach |With other signs of monetary reaxa- an understanding with respect to un-|tion. the New York Federal Rescrve settled questions involving the nature | Bank today anmounced a reduction of and seope of commitmenis under which | rediscounts from 5 1-2 to 5 per cent. claims 4 rights may hereafter be as-| The cut Was mot made known until serted.” after the close of the stock market al- The order of the tapls as sugegsted | though overnight advices from Wash- ' is ot to be taken, it Is understood, as|mgton, where the federal reserve ad- a suggestion as to the order in which | Visory council had held a two day ses- they should be discussed by the con- |=ion. pointed to sueh action. ference. Directors of other reserve banks, which usually take their cue from this 20 WhVE 56t i centre, are likely, 1t was generally be- T lieved, to constder lower rediscount and BECAUSE OF CHEAP LABOR |interest rates. The money strain ar western and southern poin‘s has eased ew York, Sepr. 21.—Officials of the|Perceptibly in the rast few weeks, hizh- American Manufacturing Company, one|r Drices for cotton having released of the largest of basging in the United |Arge sums long tied up In frozen cred- in the compan Loui ted. Th has purchased Andrew Gratz, sald that could day. The remo ion_of ns relating to China. to be applied. nal army |ing plans relating to C ex tation of naval armaments, un- discyssed of new land armaments. stern questions: integrity. egrity. oppertunities. essions, mi agencies commercial inasmuch as all the despatches from the United States had declared that Gen- eral Jershing was bringing a private from from the ranks to chaose the body. General Pershing will go to London after the ceremonies in France and dec. orate the grave of the British “Unknow Soldier” with the «ongressional medal. He will proceed fiom Liverpool arriv- ing in New York in time to receive Marshal Foch! The selection of the unknown ican soldier whose bod Amer- s to be interred in Arlington will be in the hands of Majfor General Henry,T. Allen, command- er in chief of the American army of oc- cupation, arcording to General Pershing, morfopolies or pref-| who added that he himself would be in privileges. America wren the hody arrived. of railways, includ-| He will go to Coblenz about the end inese railways. road rates. sting commitments. and Charleston, ‘thrown out of work by the move, it was manufacturing p! cost about $4,000,000. in Calcutta mill be obtained for 10 to 15 cents Because raw material for the bag- ing is grown in India, production costs also will be greatly reduced he said. tariff meant the here,” he added, of the killing of the industry declaring that competitors were also mov- ing their plants to Calcutta. States today announced they would move machinery will be dismantled and shipped to Calcutta, where the company The new it is estimated, will acres of land nt head of the concern, operatives of the week to attend a review of all the American troops on the Rhine. its. their plants to Calcutta, India, because — cheap labor to be hired therc.and the| 85,000 ODD FELLOWS TN { fallure to obtain tariff protection. PARADE IN TORONTO More than 5,000 operatives, employed Toronto, Sept. 21—Marching abreast to music of seventy bands, 000 Odd Fellows and members affiliated lodges attending the soverelgn grand lodge, gave Torcnto today its most im- posing parade. Rain failed to check the enthusiasm of the tramping host which took more than three hours to pass a giv- n point. The spectacle was Intensified by the elaboorated flozts which harmonized with the: brilliant wniforms of the men, and the dresses o. the women. Hundreds of members of the Rebekahs wore gorgeous- ly colored stisue paper dressss The marchers passsed through solid lanes of cheering crowds who jammed the streets, doorways and windows. DAYS' RATIONS FOR eight a TE: Lioyd George's reply to the Iatest Eamorn De Valera is un- subr in mmaten made before next week. The renes Gairlooch to- onsidersd the tenor of De Valera’s egram so doubiful as to make it ad- clegram to the appofnted to Geal with Irish alfaies before 3 reply is prade. The Naharajah, of Petiala, one of the greatest experts on precious stones in the world. 1,000,000 RUSSIAN CHILDREN Riga, Sept. 21 (by tions for about ten days more for 1,- 000,000 Russian children left Riga to- iday in the first all-American food train the A. P.)—Ra- ©of 40 cars. The train, which is under the auspices of the American Relief Ar- ministration i bound for Moscow. Tha shipment consisted of 1,300 tons of balanced rations. Uniess Colonel William N. Haskell, director of the American Relief Admin- istration worls in Russia, should change his plans :(cr having made a study of the sitnation on the ground. no huge supplies of relief administration food are to be sent into Russia at one time. Thi estep is to be taken in order to avoid any temptation at confiscation or the risk of losing the supplies if the relief administratich should be forced to withdraw from Russia. BALLOON RACE WON BY THE SWISS PILOT ARMBRUSTER Brussels, Sept. 21—Unless there should be unforseen changes in the avallable figures for the distances cov- ered in the flight of the fourteen bal- loons in the James Gordon Pennett in- ternational cup race which started from Brussels last Sunday, the Swiss pilot Paul Armbruster, who landed at Lam_ Dbay Island, off the east coast of Coun- ty Dublin, Ireland, with a flight of 750 Kflometres (515.44 miles) is the win- Ter. The English balloon second Wwith 675 miles) and Ralph Upmn, American, in a balloon loaned him by Lieutenant De Muyster, a Belgian aeronaut, third, argaret was {lometres (419.43 Hartford—Harry G. Moore of Brook- Iyn and Arthur Bowers of (his dressed in khaki uniforms, have rted to walk to Calffornia and instruct youths in Boy Scout work. | i 1 i 1 1,000 to 1,500 Killed in Oppau Explosion Injured Close to 2,000—More Than a Third of the Houses of the Town Were Destroy- ed by Explosion at Chemi- cal Products Plant. Mayence, Germany, Sept. 2 explosion today at the chenfeal pro- ducts plant of the Badische Anilinfabrik Company at Oppau, on the Rhine, wreck- ed the town and spread death and de- struction on every hand. The number Killed is varjously estimated at from one thousand 10" fifteen hundred, and the in- jured at close totwo thousand. One report says that there were three thous- and men on the spot at the moment of the explosion and it is believed that about half of these were Killed. The town of Oppau is a scene of ut- ter desolation, more than a third of the houses having been completely destroyed, while the Toofs of the others were swept ofl. Here also many were killed or in- 1.—A great jured. The explosion is attributéd by some to excessive pressure in two adjoining gasometers, the whole of this part of the worksbeing literally pulverized. Where the gasometers stood is mow a funnel shaped hole 130 yards wide and 45 yards deep, while twisted girders and de- bris of every description lies scattered about. For a distance of several hun- dred vards not a wall is left standing. The directorate of the company is quot- ed as saving that the explosion occurred in a storehouse containing four thous- and tons of nitrous sulphates, which had previously been examined and was be- lieved to be free from danger of ex- losion. All the workmen's dwellings In the vi- cinity were razed to tha ground. At Manrheim, at the opposite side of the river, thirty-five persons were seriously njured and two hundred or more slight- Iy injured. Tudwigschafen reports say three workmen's trains were buried under the wreckage and many children on their way to school in that town were injured. Heart rending scenes were witnessed sides. At the little cemetery on the outskirts of Opnau there are already more than two hundred bodies laid out on the grass. Numerous tombston #: were lifted and hurled in varfous directions by the force of the explosion. There was 10t a door or window left intact for a radious of three miles. FURTHER DISCLOSURE! “FATTY” ™~ ARBUCKLE CASE 21.—Admission de- 0 have been made by Roscoe Arbuckle that he had used a foreign substance in an attack upon Mis Virginia Rappe during a party at the Hotel St. Francls, in San Francisco, were described by Al Semnacher, a friend of Arbuckle's, today before the Los Angeles county grand jury, according to W. C. Doran, chief deputy district atiorney. Ar- Dbuckle'is held at San Franciseo, charged with murdering Miss Rappe. Doran said Semnacher swore Arbuckle had told of apriving ice to portions of Mass Rappe's Doran outlined the testimony in con- firming reports that Samnacher had made dentical statements to him at an earlier time and then had declared that he had not, even at the San Francisco inquiry, 101d of the alleged admitted facts. Semnacher testified that on the morn- ing following the party Arbuckle told him in the vrescace of Lowell Sher- man, actor, Fred Fishback, director, and Harry McCullought, chauffeur, that he had taken M Rapoe into a room with him and had committed certain acts in connection with the alleged crime. These acts, according to Chief Deupty Doran, were of a character likely to have caus- ed the injury from which Miss Rappe's death resulted Tos Angeles, Sept clared “Fatty The grand jury sesslon was called by 1 Do i in order to hear this testimony, formation concerning which was immedi- ately conveyed to District Attorney Brady at San Francisco. Harry McCullough, chauffer for Ar- buckle, Who was present when the alleg- ed statements were made by Arbuckle, according to Semnacher's testimony, al- =0 was examined by the grand jury to- day but his testimony was not made pub- lic. Semnacher announced after the exam- ination that he would leave Los Angeles| for San Francisco at once REVENUE MAN CHARGED WITH RUM SMUGGLING Camden, N. J, Sept. 21.—W. Joseph Schott, a deputy collector of internal revenue, was arrested in his office herex tonight by United _States Marshal Jackson on a charge of assisting in the Janding of 1400 caees of liquor from a ship in the Delaware miver. The ar- rest of another federal agent is expect- ed_soon, officials indicated. In announcing the apprehension Schott, Nicholas C. Brooks. spectal azent for the treasury department in | its pursuit of liquor smugglers, simul- | taneously made known that Martin | Hochgesand, owner of the schooner A E. Blackman, and Captain Smith Hand, master of the same vessel, had also been arrested. They are charged with | violating the custom, navigation, immi- | gration and quarantine laws and with of IRISH SITUATION BY THE BRITISH CABINET DISCUSSED Gairloch, Scotland, Sept. 21.—(By The A. P.)—Premier Llovd Georze and his ministers discussed the Irigh sit- uation tonight. It is understood that the delay in the ‘premier's replying to Eamonn De Valera, the Irish republican leader, is due to the desire to avoid the use of phrases that might be loosely in- terpreted or give)any opportmnity to saddle the premier with the blame in event of a rupture of the negotiations. It {5 stated that the premier's sole desire is to leave no stone unturned to bring about a conference. Optimistic views are reported from London tonight and there is strong belfef that the next exchange of communications will result in a conference. i HOLM 0. BURSUM ELECTED SENATOR FROM NEW MEXICO Albuquerque, N. M., Sept. 21.—Holm O. Bursum, republican, was elected United States senator from New Mexico | vesterday by a majority that his cam.- paign managers aserted would run over 8,000. The democratic state chairman, in a statement at Santa Fe this afternoon admitted the defeat of the democratic candidate, R. H. Hanna, Figurcs compiled by the Evening Her- ald here give Bursum a majority of 7, 173 votes Scattering returns, according to the Evening Ilerald, indicate the approval of a constitutional amendment to forhid 1and ownership by_alien Orientals. ers. Call for Probe of New Britain Police Mayor Curtis Charges Police With Indifference in Murder of Lovis Winkle, a~ Real Estate Dealer—Bartender Arrested. New PBritain, Sept. 21.—Fdward Cot- ter, a former local bartender who arrested in Bridzeport last nicht, brought to this city late today and without bail as a material witnes in X con- nection with the murder of Louis Winkle, real estate dealer, whose body was found last Saturday with‘the skull Whether the police helieve any diredt knowledze of xilling is not known. . The local police hold to the opinion that Winkle was killed in a hold up which had robbery as its only motive. A statement by Mavor 0. F. Curtis, of thi city, charging the local police with in- difference and calling for a complete in- vestigation of the Winkle killing, resuited in the state police takinz hand in the Inquiry. It was reported Superintendent Hurley of the state lice was here today, but he did not at police headquarters. The federal prohibition agents also were said to have visited the city, looking into_the alles- ed bootlegzing angle of the Wi crushed. Cotter has the Wintsle der. Mayor Curtis drew a parallel b tween the Winkle killing and the death of Eno Renaldino, whose body was found at the wheel of his automobile a vear ago. The official verdiet In the Renaldino case was shicide, but fhe mayor sald he still helieved Renaldino was murdered and that the “evidence was obscured, ecither intentionally or unin- tentionall As a result of the mayor's statemen a reward of £1,000 for information lead- ing to the arrest of the murderers of nkle was offered today by State's At- torney Alcoln, on authorization of Gov- ernor Lake. COAL MINERS TO DEMAND HIGHER WAGES NEXT YEAR s Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 21.—A de- mand for wage increases next year for coal miners, expressed today by reports of international officers of the United Mine Workers of America o the un- ion's convention session here, c: ried here, carried an jmplied threat of a strike invo'ving the largest number of organized miners in the history of the United States. This outstanding development of the convention did not get before the dele- gates for consideration but opportu- nity for their discussion will come later after the officers’ reports are placed be- fore the convention tomorrow for ac- ceptance or rejection. However, the convention was told by Lee Hall, of Co- lumbus, Ohio, chairman of the wage scale committee, that he was opposed to any reductions. The threat,of the strike in e repori f Vice President Philip Murray, who said it was a foregons conclusion that the convention would favor improvement of present wage agreements that expire next March 31. The report of Secretary Wiliam Green gave the union's membership for the ‘last year of more than 515,000 work- was_seen TO BRING SUIT AGAINST THE AUTOMATIC Y., Sept. 21—Permission A. Gardner, acting for stockholders of the dissolved McLean Arms and Ordjnance Company of New Jersey to bring suit, involving millions of dollars against the Automatic Arms Company, in a decision handed down by ARMS CO. Albany, N. was given F. Federal Judge Cooper here today. The vage Arms Company also is involved in the litigation. The complaint alleged that Samuel L McLean invented the machine gun, now known as the Lewis machine zun and assigned his patent to the McLean Com- pany and that directors of this compan: conspired with Isaac N. Lewis to de prive the McLean Company of its patents and that by various foreclosures of mort- gages, defaulting on loans, and 'written instruments, these directors fraudulently diverted the property and transferred it to the Autcmatic Arms Company formed by _themselves. During the war, the complaint further charged that the Automatic Arms Com- pany disposed of its license to manufac- ture the gun to the -Savage Arms Com- pany. INVESTIGATION REVEALS ZELDA CROSBY SUICIDED w York, Sept. 21.—Following an investigation into the death last June of Zelda Crosby, motion picture scena_ rio writer, Chief Medion! Examiner Norris tonight made public the contents of a letter from the girl to her mother which he said indicated clearly that she was about to take her life. “I am satisfied that she committed suicide,” Norris declared. The examiner said he had not in- quireqd into possible motives, beirg in- terested merely in determining whether the young woman had taken her life deliberately or had died from acciden- tal poisoning. MISS MOSELEY WILLIAMS TO ENTER BARNARD COLLEGE New York, Sept. 21.—Miss Moseley Willlams, who served from 1914 to the end of the European war in the French ambulance and American Red Cross Services, winning the Oroix De Guerre and a Legion of Honor decoration, ar- rived today on the Olymplc to become a speclal student at Barnard College. She was presented with a scholarshin by the Red Cross in recognition of her work. REGULAR DIVIDEND BY THE AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING CO. Cleve'and, Sept. 21.—Directors of the American Shipbuilding Company today declared the regular quarterly dividend of 1 3-4 per cent. In cash and an extra dividend of 2 1-4 per cent. cash on the common stock and the regular quarter- Iy fvidend of 1 3-4 per cent. cash on preferred, both payable November 1 to stock ot record on October 15, $350,000 WATERFRONT FIRE IN LONG ISLAND CITY New York, Sept. 21.—A spectacular waetnfront fire today burnell she stor- age house of the Astoria Mahogany Company in Long Island City and spread to an adjoining coal yard, caus- ing damage cstimated at more tham $330,000. Large piles of mahogany, valued at §$1,000,000, were saved Dby firemen. S BRIEF TELEGRAMS opened by Duteh Parliament was Queen Wilhelmina. Albania notified the league of nalions that a new Balkan war is impending un- less the league intervenes to prevent it. Annual internaitonal fishing fleet races will be held off Nova Scotia, Announcement s made in P; i Oct, 15. death of Georgs erly of Y:w lerh few years a resds Treasury department build a $1,000,000 public health service hospital for the treatment of former ne- gro soldiers. Many persons were drowned and hou: es swept away int flood near Vera Cruz, Mexico, according to dispatch from Mexi- co Cit; Leabyd M et t Fran i Ten Indian rebels were killed when & 70 attempted to ambush platoons of British troops in the Manjiri force of river district. un-os, furm- tor ice vart e decided to | starting ot fLe three to the Tax Bill Over Beer Washington, Sept. 21.—Johp Bariey_ corn’s ghost today cares back to haunt PARAMOUNT TO TAX REVISION Willis-Campbell Measure Called Up At First Opportunity in the Senate by Sterling—Obstructive Tactics Prevented Any Real Consideration of the Measure, But the Senator Promised to Continue Pressing the Measure—Little Doubt Prevails That the Senate Will Give Right of Way Legislation. HARDING ATTACKED FOR TAKING A VACATION CONZress upon ifs reassembling after : he summer vacation when the z With four stitches In his heart. I8aa | beer biil bobbed up again in the senate. | , Washington, Sept. 21_Senator Har- Green, of Philadelphia , 18 recovering |t met the same opposition over the | TISOR Of ssippi, one of the demo- from a stab wound received SaWrday |scarch and seisure provielon as befors |CTAUC SPokesmen in the senate, today with 2 pocket knife. the recess and again was shunied aside, 7attacked Presient Harding for taking Senator Sterling, who previously a vacation trip last week and charge Plans have boen completed for re-es- | conferrad with Drocidens 1ionde | the Tepublican administration with fafl. tablishment of the Australian Mercantile A up at the firer mmartunie i | ure to carrs out its campatzn pledse ta Marine service with American and Ger-| concieonos repart o the Wb ng increased prosperity to the coun . Tence. report on the Willis-Camp- | P7! e < mantamsistance SN bell bhL which the house had adopted |V L L L before the rec s ssissipp! scnator in his 7 A cooperative advertising service has £o,che. last month butia cal been added to the list of farm-owned and | controlled projects under the guidance of the American Farm Bureau Federation. | Miss Ellen cam- |21 bridge, Mass., formerly of ouisville, Ky., |AC;r 21 executive session adjourned died” suddemty at Portiand, Maine. ‘while |#nLll tomorrow : . on the way to a Maine health resort. Senator Sterling promised tonight to continue pressing /the conference Liabiligies of $103,419 against which | P27 but final enactment remained | were set’ assets of but $30 were listed in | MUCH in doubt. With opponents block- a voluntary petition in bankruptcy filed | "% @ VOte, republican leaders are in- by Frank Boyden of Boston. Sisting_that the senate proceed with Mhe tax revision bif Sudge E. E. Porierhuid, presiding over| Thers was little doubt, leaders the juvenile court in Kansas City. Mo., (¢Pat the senate woud vote to stopped @ session of that court, removed | [ENt 0f Way to the tax bill ov one of his low shoes and spanked four ju- [*'°°r legislation. “Dry” leaders, eitie) (B Uetarith e ever, said that even should considera- ble more delay be encountered. they Joseph Riley, 50 years old, of New |Dal N0 fears of the susnended heer rec- Haven was instantly killed Tuesday |"/ations TDeing {ssued by the treasury when he was struck by a big ditching | department machine ni the Parkville yards of the e New Haven road. TAX REVISION BILL WAS The Greek army In Asia Minor s e ED N ThE temporarily holding the western bank of the Sakaria river from Hihalidj to the| Washington, Sent. 21.—The south of Sivri-Hissar, a distance of forty [house tax revision was miles. formally today to the senate man Penrose, of the finance committe Peace in the Sullivan, Ind., coal fields was believed to be in sight following the | resignation of one man, the part of the miners to quiet what was | “outside influences. termed as Scott Carl R. Tabb, Davison, of and efforts on American employe of the Mexican Petroleum company, shot and killed Sunday night “by Mexi was for a quorum. a mo! other obstructive real on to adjourn and tactics prevented any consideration of the b enator Reed refused to agree to fixing a def nite date for a vote and the senate then who gave notice the majority report at that time that the sidered as soon as the senate would permit. Designed to ralse approximately three and a quarter billions of dollars in revenue this fiscal vear, the amend- ed measure provides for: that he would submit omorrow and urge measure be con- other business of which enlivened the senate, declared that Harding and several cabinet were enjori “millions of America their heads in shame “helped the ed on the auet e American work and less play.” rison, looking across side of the semate chamber. and fewer meal tickets and fe more prosperity houses Senator Harrison made the letter re- cently written by Pre: Senator MeCormick man of the republican eco: becaus: paign committee. recoun the achievements of the re gress. the basis for ! though upon in from rose of Penneylvania, a u leader. as to his “text” he =aid he was = z on “the deficiencles and de- linquencles of the repu The president’s letter to S Cormfick, Senator Harri aid “shocked and almost pain me dem. ocrate” and was written | toraxth of the eandldacy of Senator Darsum republican senator! crday’s election tar Lodge, rept conneetion read a the electlon of .Senator plained that he was as an argument by tion, i $aforma~ can soldiers” in the oil fields near Tam-| Repeal of the excess profits tax on pico. January 1, 1922, as proposey by the | SMALL ATTEXDANCE AT house THE OPENING OF CONGRESS Christian Sinding, Norwegian compos-| Peduction of the maximum inesme er and poet, arrived in New York on the |Sur-tax rate from 65 per cent, to 32 * Steamship Stavangerfiord from Christi- [Per cent. effective’ next January 1, as| Washington, Sept. 21.—Receint by ania. He will go to Rochester to be a |Provided in the house bill but With |tha senate of the tax revis from professor in the Eastman school of music. | changes made in the ‘ower brackets =0 !the finanee committes and of the peace as to reduce the amount of sur-taxes |treaties with German 2 and James Rowiand Angel, president of by all individuals. Hungary from Presiden: ng wors Yale university arrived at New Haven| An increase of 5 per cent. to 15 per |the principa assem- last night to take up his duties as the |Cent .in the normal corporation income |%ling today fts re- successor of Arthur T. Hadley, presi-|tax. effective January.l, 1922, in len | cess dent emeritus. of the 2 1-2 per cent. advance agreed | Only brief sessions were held the upon by the house. senate, after reopening of wart Another memorial to the Pilgrims wus | ReDeal of the corporation capital[he anti-beer bill and a d dedicated at Plymouth. by the Daughters | Stock taX, beginning in 1922, & new pro- | tack on President Harding of the Revolution. Their gift was a|vision istration policies, adjourning unti] te- fountain erected in the Piigrim Hall gar-| Reduction of the freight and passen_|morrow. and the hous: den. ger taxes from three and eight per cent. |ment to transact no im: et S tool 12 and 4 per cent. respectivels. |until October 4. adiourn The Belfast Telegraph says that a|SfeCtive next January 1. with their |day after a perfunctory m Thres Tiihed. at Drumaness. County Down, six |Froposed repeal of ‘all transportation |until mext month miles from the Ballykinler internment | taXes as of next January 1 h Many members of both bodles f: camp, where more than a thousand Irish| An increase of $ he exemption | to put in an appearance toda republican prisoners are locat [Arowed to h es having net |54 of the 96 senators answe ncomes of $5, a house pro-[call and only two score hou President Yrigoyen of Argentina, sign- | /00 £ : heard the gavel. j ed and promulgated the new law designed [ AN Inerease from $200 to $400 in the | 1In the senate the peace treatles wera to prevent rent profiteering. Under it | SXPmptions allowed on account of de-|referred to the Tandlords are forbidden for years to|Pehdents. also a house proposal o jmittee. which charge higher rents than those in force ‘h"”‘;”:‘:‘"fi"fl conmmities concuTeal i ene i, Senator sl called mulsance and Toxury taxes col- | department 2 lected direct from the consumer and | ad the treatie An official ammaanserient wrée mdi-|qunctituting manufacturers taxes. | ToC be el e e e taiirn oty 1y { TPeSe anG other minor changes In the |of the senate. repw ._ pist e 2 ey ATom | pys previously have been published. pere: lislng s consiaered’ 0/ expedits TAll month. bill not herotofore made public deals| Senate debate of th with taxes on canital net gain. The |Lodge announced, won Providence college opened with 1 reg- stration of 300 third year of the ex:ste.ce of iz Albert Casey, tuton. celebrated. The economic los: accidents amount vearly. miesions. Charles H. Miller, 42, president of the Detroit _Typographical Union anc of the Detroi tomobile a cement culvert. Trade relations they are affected were discussed with President by Sir Richard land premier. Two New York prohibitien enforcement agents were dismissed by Associate Pro- hibition Director E. C. Yellowley who was | that in the case of a hona fide =ale of sent there from Washington to conduct | mines. ofl or_gas wel's or any Interest an investgiation into the disappearance |therefn. where the principal value of of 400 liquor withdrawal permi A. E. Weod of Everett, Mass., was in- stantly killed and three were injured when crashed into the side of hte underpass on Very Rev. made the opening address and mass was | students. between by tariff Sauires, ot their This is the [if any taxpayer derives a capital met 2 ivsti- |gain in any taxable year, “such canital 0. P.,|net gatn chall be stated separately from the ordinary net income fn the tax- pavers' return: and only 40 per cent caused by industrial to a billion Sidney J. Williams, secretary of | the national safety council told the con- vention of the International of Industrial Accident Boards and Com- the Pprospecting or exploration and" discov_ ery, work done by the taxpayer. the her” persons | portion of the tax ‘imnosed by the autorzobiles | come sur-tax seetfon of the law “attrib- the Central Vermont railway about mlie outside of St. Alban's, Vt. The executive committee of the Kings County republican committee adopted resolution appointing U. S. Semator Wi in the approaching municipal campaign, in preterence to its chairman, Jacob®A. Liv- liam M. Calder, ingston. James J. Hines, who is contesting the democratic nomination of Julius Miller, Tammany hall candidate for president of the borough of Mankattan in the recent primaries was granted permission to ex- he amine ballot in might choose. The Ku Klux Klan ‘was denounced as desructive of free government, peace and harmony by William F. Jornson, grand master of the Centennial Grand Lodge of Missouri, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, in an address at the lodg campaign whatever manager districts nual convention, in 8t. Louw Mo, dollars | Association editor Labor News, was instant- ly killed near Eagle Mich., when an au-! which he was riding struck Tnited States and Newfoundland, particularly as regillations, Harding the Newfound- a enate eommittee measure provides that of ‘such capltal met shall be taken Into account in determininz the amount of the net income upon which taxws are imposed by sections 210, 211 and 230f of this title (the normal éncome. sur- tax and corporation tax sections) Tn any such case the tax shall be colleet- g4 and paid upon the sum the Amount of ordinary met inaome plus forty percentum of tife amount of the capital mes gai The house I provided that case of any other corporation whose nrdinary net and eapital net gain together 29,000, the total tax imnosed should be the amount of the tax on the ordi- nary net income “pus 12 1-2 per cen- tum of the eapital net gain, or minus 12 1-2 percentum nf the capital net loss. as the case may be: but in no case where a taxpaver derives a capital net gain shall the total tax be less than 12 1-2 percentum of the total net income.™ A change in the present law agreed unon by the finance committoe prov in the than a neome excneded I the property has been demonstrated by atable to such eale shall mot exesed af- ter this calendar year 16 peroentum of the se'llng vrice of such property or interest.” The rate the present ‘aw is 20 mer cent. and it Is continued for this calendar vear. RepubHean leaders have mot vet de- termined when the tax BNl Wil be taken up for debate but Semator Pen- rose sald today it probably womld not come up befors Monday as it was de- sired to give members of the senate am- Ple opportunity to discuss it. He add- ed that there was a srowine disposition to consider this measire and the treaty with Germany alternately With the tax DI debated during the day and the treaty taken un at night sessions When Senator Penrose - cffered the bill Senator Underwood. of Alabama. | the democratic leader, obtained unani- | mons consent for the fillng of the mi- nority repor: within seven days. Sena- tor La Follette of Wisconsin, a renubli- sion. republican wouw'd be reason Tt had heen s leader in execn the chan nator Lodge, chacge of the ant publican _leaders the president regarcing gram, which Is admitted The immediate program. nounced, was to expedite and the peace treaties. former probably will be day, with the anti-beer b tinue at available opportunit treaties also, it was said “sandwiched in" Whenever The railroad debt fun pected to follow the tax the technical “unfinished senate is the Borah bill tofis to American coastw using the Panama Canal. T for a vote on Octobar 10, with measure being given for place in meantime. 1 Chairman Penrose of the finanes committee amnounced toda for- ther hearings on the tariff isfon bill would begin soon. OBITUARY. X Charles L. Spencer. Suftleld, Conn., Sept. 21.—Charles L. Spencer, president of the Connecticut River Banking Company, lartford, died at his summer foliowing an operation. ld. He was also a vice president of the Travelers Bank Company of Hartford; vice president of the First National Bank of Suffield; a dircctor of the Travelers Insurance Company, and the Aetna Insurance Company, and a trustee of the Suffield school. Mr. Spencer representeq Suffield in the general assembly ten years ago a8 later was elected to the state senate. Ho leaves a widow, one son and one daughter. Mrs. Clara Metcalf. Hoyoke, Mass, Sept. 21—Mrs. Clara (Farr) Metcalf, aged 77, widow of Jo- Seph Metcalf, and daughter the founder of the Farr-Alpaca Company, She = died in her home tonight. \born in West Chesterfield, X. Maughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ma \Tarr. The first of the Farr ‘:ame to America in 1628, settlin ‘Lynn and Salem. Her husband was the treasurer of the Great Western rail- was can member of the fincace committes, alw obtained consent to file dissenting views within that time should he de_ clde to do so. road. . She leaves three children. Frank 1. Metealf, tTeasurer of the Farr Al- faca Company; Howacd F., agent of the company, and Mrs. Addieon L Graan, 3 3 e e