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VoL LXIl—No. 291 “‘Both in Government and Irish Circles the Feeling is Express- ed That Only a Miracle Can Avert the Collapse of Ne- , gotiations and a Renewal of Warfare—Cabinet Council Sidetracks German Reparations to Permit Meeting to Deal With Irish Affairs—De Velera, Speaking at Ennis Ireland, Said: “We Have Gone as Far as We Can Go”. Lendon, Nov. 3i (By The A. P.)—All Wovernment busin is giving way to the Eravity of the Irizh sitnation. - Both gov- ernment and Irish circles express the ffoeling that only a miracle can avert the feoliapse of the conference and a renew- Jo1 of warfare. A cabinet council tonight to consider German reparations had to be postponed in order to permit the ‘special cabinet committee dealing with Irish affairs to Mhold a sitting. o Lord Birkenhead, due to speak at volitical meeting in Livernool, wag oblig- ed to stay in London. He sent a_mes- cage of apology explaininggthat his ab- enée was owing to “grave public af- rs. Y Premier Lloyd George also wired to the meeting, explaining that Lord Birk- enhead’s presénce in London was “im- paratively demanded by the present po- the Irish negotiations.” okesmar of the Sinn Fein declar- s afternoon that there was no in- T on the part of the Sinn Fein to itz attitude regardinz either the of lIreland or allegiance to the Ropresentatives of the Sinn Fein paine_to deny formally the state- of a London paper that, first, the n hafl consented to agree to a Ulster could contract with parament retaining her untll, or unless, she d; second, to form an h ought to be satisfac- Heitish minister who is not 3 ‘maiist ;" third, the of 2 boundary eommission to the sent political and religi- Ulster in order to dist spulaiion between. the north and n & more satisfactory basis. ding the snzgestion that the gov- will pfopose a new «schems 1o ster. the Sian Fein delegates say they t conearned with it and refuse to government's responaibility for was another session this aft- of the British delegates, but noth- was forhooming as a result of it. Whatever | b r. Lioyd George t a _Downing he Ireland rights Rega ment sald -tonight. this it was stated at Sinn pariers that “sueh a move on premier would not b tience or without suspi- reason that if Irish-Ameri- was weakened in - conse he premizr's visit to.ths Unit- the Sinn Fein might be forced it Aemancs, uvon which jt position to- persist.” ~eaitility of maintaining the after e breakdown of the Th: view " ex- “iners is that there no formal denunctation of the tier aide, but that it would t eanterence ¥ would s nave been oecur- In Jrelund would be prob- rezaricd as geSinite breaches of the and s speedy collanse if the faet Yhat the con- When ably lead to renewed warfare, SIGNIFICANY DECLARLTION IN AN ADDRESS BY DE VALERA Fnnis land, v, Mov. Famonn De Valers . : hrought abont R wonid not be be- there is not’the will on the part 30— (By the A. fn an address declared if yeace in Ireland A to make it, but because those » us !n Ireland do not want to peace with ua™ tall yon.” Mr. De Valera con- that stand today, ne matter t other peoples say exactly whers we and for the principles for which wo four years uzo. We have gone 3t far as we can go, consistent with those principles, far peace; we cannot, and wiil rot. go any further. It we go farther would b for us to betray those princi- pies which have ben fought for by gen- ecations of Irishmed for the past sx hundred or seven hundred years.' Mr. De Valera had an enthusiastic re- eeption. He spoke with great firmness when he dselarsd that “all the power of the empire cannot break the apirit of one true ration.” We counted the cost four or five years #22." Mr. De Valera continued, “and you win have had the experience of those as- surcély will not suggest that anybody having cirge of the direction of affairs, or who hold the standard you entrusted to them, should for & moment give awa: our principles. We stand in the rock of truth and prineiple and will face the fu- ture with the same confidence and know- ledge as we faced our work four years ago.” IRISH BULLETIN COMMENTS ON SIR JAMES CRAIG'S SPEECH 20 (By Dubiin, Nov., the A. P.).—The Irish Bulletin, the organ of - the Dail Eireann, declares that Sir James Crai sech rejecting the British government's proposals for an Irish settiement belongt not to days of feudalism. The U however, is logical, letin, and poliey. “The belief as to parllament was cre- pted to destroy Irish unity,” the Bulletin sontinues, “and the speeches in that par- liament yesterday were merely an en- #deavor to earry this purely British poliey for a British purpose Jato effect. Peace Is to be made impossible rather than the fact of Ireland’s géographical. economi® traditional, historle #nd political unity should be admitted. “Throughout Hi: speech Sir . James Cralg used phrases suggestin® that he is ! willing to co-operate in meaxing peace possfble, but the terms of this co-opera- tion are absolute—he and his minority are ta be the final judges of ‘what will »r will not be”acceptable to Ireiand, Fhey barricaded the road to peace, and te British government assures them that removal of their barricades h ‘un- Ihinkable.’ “Canada would todny be either a sub- er premier, > according to the Bul- is “only executing the British ject nmation I revolt. or have already over to the T'nited States, had the ieh government Ln‘ph the game atti- wde towards the Canadian -minority. Bouth Africa wolill m}i}.n-: indepene Jent republic If British forces had been ap- | the twentieth century but to the’ | placed at the disposal of the opponents of self government in that cOuntry. “Greaf Britain put force aside in those seffjements, recogmizing fhat minority questions are domestic questions for na- tions in which minorities exist. Canada and South Africa then -solved their own internal difficulties to the mutual advan- tage of Great Britain and themselves.” e PRESIDENT MAY TAKE HAND IN TARIFF LEGISLATION Washington, Nov. 30.—President Hard- ing has.been urged to take a strong stand in his address to the mew congress next week in behalf of pending tariff legis- lation. Confidence was evidenced among many congressional leaders oday that the power of the executive would be put behind the bill which now renoses with the senate financial committee. The suggestion was said to have been made to Mr. Harding that he recom- mend, in the Interest of speedy disposi- tion of the measure, the elimination of the American valuation plan from the house bill and the writing of a tariff law on the basiz of the old method of invoice prices. He was understood to have been urgsd to ask eongress then to include in the bill a provision empéwering the executive to apply the American valua- tion basis of assessing duties where, aft- er surveys, it ls. shown that added pro- tection is needed Another suggestion reported to have been given Mr. Harding was that the house bill provislon regarding anti-dump- ing be stricken out and a law, describ- ed as “having teeth’ be enacted supple- mentary to the tariff. A division of oninlon among the repub- lican senators was said to exist as to the merits and practicabiiity of the Ameri- can valation ‘plan and it Was under- stood this situation had been outlined to the executive. Some republican members of the fin- ance committee declared today that even with ‘a2 call by the president for more speed, there could hardly he a tariff law before March.. One asserted it would be the midd'e of May before the bill finally becomes a law.. The late date for fina] actlon on the measure was based 6n the set of clr- cumstances suggesting _the huilding . of rates on the American valuation basis. Tt was stated that the zathering of in- formation on’ productions costs and whalesale selling prices by the treasury, upon which the rafes are to be computs ed by the eommiites, comld not be com-, pleted yinder thres weeks or a month, After that data = In”the committee's hands; it wag declared, some ‘time ,will elapsy. before the actual drafiing of Tates can be accomvlished hécause of the intricacies of the home value basis. The suggestlon that separates legisia- tion- be enacteéd giving the executive ap- thority to impose the American valuation basis in . cases where additional protec- tion was” found necessary, was said to embody a plan for making custom dutles variable to meet fluctuation of the de- Preciated currency of exporting coun- tries, 2 Those who sdvanced the plan hold that the fixing of. tariff duties at any definite figure in the present disorganized state of international currencles would make it impossible ademmately to protect the American. industries and labor from com- petition since the low prices of foreign money allows goods to be purchassd abroad In'Amefican dollars at far below costs in American markets. Jt was proposed, - therefore, that the president, presumably through the tariff commission, be given power Yo detsrmine to what degree the currency of a-given country has depreciated, to what extent the fact has made American prodncers | unable to compete with its imported pro- duets, and to fix the imnort duty at a percentage which will to =ome’ degres equalize these dlsadvantages. At the =ame time, similer goods from a coun- try with stable currency and undistort- ed ‘production costs wou'd be allowed to come in at lower rates. Caretully worked out estimates of the effects to be anticinated under operations of the plan have been submitted to Pres- ident Harding. The American valuation system, also advanced to meet the fluct- nating currency values at present en- countered, - would fix the level of duty not on cost price to the imrorters, but upon the walue of similar products pro- duced Jn the United States, on Ameri- can markets at the moment of importa- tion, ——— PROSECUTION CLOSES IN THE ARBUCKELE CASE San Franeisco, Nov. 30.—The prosecu- tlon in the case of Roscoe C. Arhuckle accused of manslanghter in' connection wit hthe death of Virginia Rappe, closed today but made reservations which may lead to an -extension of testimony for several hours tomorrow. Tt- appeared the jury might have .the issue in its hands by Friday afternoon. A leading witness today was Dr. Ru- fus L, Rigdon of San Francleco, ‘who was called to rebut defense evidence that” injuries /of the sort which resulted in- the .death of Miss Rappe eould be caused by agencier other than external force. Dr. Rizdon testified that he knew ©of no case of his own knowledge where such. injury was purely internal or spon- taneous In character. Before adjournment today * the. de- fense qffered to submit the case wWith- out argulnents but the prosecution de- clined. $5000 FINE, FIVE YEARS IN PRISON FOR JOHN TALBOT Indianapolis, Nov. 30.—John Talbot of South Bend, Ind., supreme president of the Order of Owls, a fraternal organiza- tion, who was' found guilty in United States district court last week of violat- ing the Mann act, today was fl.ed $5.000 by Judge A. B. Andereon and sentenced to Leavenworth prison for five vears. Talbol was convicted on,a charge of traneporting Pearl Bagley from Topeka, Kas., to South Bend, Ind., for immoral purposes. He was permmed to remain at liberty under $5,000 honds and His sixty days in which to make an appeal. Prior to the sentencing, counsel for Tal- bot-filed motions for a new trial- and for arrest. of, judgment. The mogons, how- ever, we erruled, Talbot hed no ‘make. | Sentence Ffillowed Cor 'ashamed to make lezging. scandals. For Murder in the Versallles, Nov. 30.—(By The A. P.)— Henri Landru,” who has been on tria] for more” than: three weeks in the Assizes court here, charged with the murder of ten women and a boy, was found guilty of murder In the first: degree tonight. Landru’ was sentenced to die by -the gulllotine. To all the forty-eight questions which the ‘court submitted to the jury on the questiong of ‘the guilt, innocence or men- tal capacity of the prisonmer, there was a verdict of guilty of premeditated mur- der’ No extenuating corcumstances were included in the verdict. Landru had borne himself throughout the lengthy trial without showinz the slightest’ weakness, and he heard the & tence of death imposed upon him without emotion. The jury required three hours, includ- ing a brief respite for dinner, to prepare their replies to/the questions submitted to 1t “After M. Moro-Giafferi, counsel for-the defense, In an eloauent plea, Ainished his summing un this afternoon, Judge Gilbert read forty-eight questions to the jury. The first. of these was whether Landru was guilty of murder with premedita- tion in the case of Mme. Cochet. Ques- tlons also were put as to the mental condition of the prisoner. M. Moro-Giafferi in his address re- minded the jury that a person could be proclaimed legally dead only when they had heen missing thirty vears and cited cases of persdns who were mlissing hav- ing returned yvears afterwards, when hope for them had been abandoned. He almo referred th notable’ cases of alleged miscarriage of justice hased on circum- stantia] evidence. “A white-slaver, yes: an assassin. nev- er” he exclaimed, looking toward the jury and at the same time polnting to- ward Landru. He added that the prose cution by the prisoner of papers identifv- ing his alleged victims corroborated the theory that Landru probabiv had sent the women abroad with false pepers In “white slava™ traffic. “These women all are alive” he sald, referring to the ten women Landru was charged with killing, ‘“but they are their whereabouts known.” “T am innocent.” Landru shouted to the Jury This was the first time in the thirty-two months sinte he iwas arrest- ed that the prisoner had used the word “innoeent” in public. Heretafore he had contented himself with saving. “show me my guilt: make out vour case.” Today, however, he was showing more emotion than at any time during his trial. During ' the short address he made to the jury. lastinz barely a minute and a half, Landru declared: “I have mnever killed anvone; I am innocent. Jurors, do vour duty.” LETTEBS MAY REVEAL CAUSE " OF WHITTLESEY § ELDB Havana. Cubd, Nov. 30 (By the A. P, —What compelling motive sent Lieuetn. ant Colonei Charles W. Whittlesey, com- mander of tha “Lost Battalion,” ~over- boayd into the sea may be revealed in letters to members of his family and busi- ness associates which he left for Captain Grant of the steamer Toloa to deliver . Nine of these letters were in the cap- tain's possession when the Toloa docked ton'ght. - Cap'ain Grant also received a note, from Colunel Whittlesey which he declared he regarded as confidential. “I can_say, however, that from all ap- poarances. the act was premeditated,” Captain Grant declared, “and that Col- onel Whittlesey leaped overhoard either just before ot just after mid-Saturda: Varlous wireless messages were left Colonel Whittlesey for transmission, but | these were not forwarded and except in case of one of the messages their nature wag not disclosed. This particular mes- sage said that he would he missing. None of the letters which Colonel ‘Whittlesey left on his berth were on the writing paper of the steamship company, nor were any of them dated, which led to the belief that_they were written be- fore embarking on the Toloa. It was only after two hours’ confer- ence with representatives of the Ameri- can and British consulates and the act- ing first secretary of the American lega- tioh, Cord Meyer, Jr., that Captain Grant would give out any statement. “T learfied just before we sailed last Saturday morning that Colonel “Whittle- sey was aboard,” sald Captain Grant, “but I.did not see him until dinner that night. He rat at my table and appeared quite normal. “The first Intimation I had@that he had disappeared was Monday morning when it was found that his berth was undis- ‘turbed. An investigation was made a¥d the letters and wireless messages and a note to me were discovered on his berth. "1 did not forward the wireless mes- sages, but sent two of my own—one to his. executor, John B. Pruyn, and another to the company office. The letters en- trusted to me I shall mail as soon as pos- sible.” X ITALIAN COMMUNIST WAS FOUND GUILTY OF DESERTION Plaermo, Sicily ,Nov. 29.—Francesco Misiano, Italian communist deputy, who | evaded military service and escaped to Russia ‘during the war, has been sen- tenced to ten years' imprisonment by a military court martial. He was found guilty of “deserting in time of war.” An enthusiastic ~demonstration by Fascisti here greeted the announcement ©of his sentence, and large crowds pa- raded the streets in celebration of his conviction, 'TWO BARGES REPORTED LOST WITH SIS MEN Boston, Nov. 30.—The loss of the barges Governor Robey and Carrie Clark, with six men aboard, off Navesink early yesterday morning was reported by, the tug Neptune on her arrival ar New o¥rk today, according to;word recoived by ths | agents here. The barges wer: in tow of the Neptune from Norfolk for this part.. ‘The barges went down n a storm, Cap- tain Little of the Neptine said. He sav- ed the West Point, third of ais fown, and brought h(r fito Neéw York safely. DECISION IN CASE OF NEW BRITAIN PROSECUTOR MONDAY Hartford, Noy. 30.--At the conclnsion _ BRIEF. TELEGRAMS '\ destroyed thirty homes in Montreal 0. Many families ate '} omolu-. £ dhsaih frum Pirineg, omeicalis, 4ys that bush flres have bronn out in the Wheat bet. Walter H. Wesson, former president of Smith & Wesson, pistol manufacturers, died in Springfiéld, Mass., aged 71. Italan destroyer Centrauro is reported lost in storm. in-the Mediteirarean Sea, ‘| off the pot of Adalia. America 1 Leglos effeniy announcd Slar- shal Focn will vist West Point en Dec. 10 J Approximately 2,000,000 ponnds et covper will be shipped to Germany short- Iy. Farmers’ State Bank of Shpshéwaha, In was robbed of between $12,000 and $15,000 I currency and Li'berty bords, e 2 > Twelve French, Italian aad Belgian six-day bicycle riders “arrived at New York on the La Tourajne. Gold amounting to $6,000,000 w. brought to this country by the La Tou- raine. town of Greenwich, has ommzed with a capital of $38,300. Statemen: of R Nov 23 show< guid hold 179000 marks compared “with 993,740,000 marks for previous week. Workmen are digging out portiong of a pasenger train buried under tons of rock endd carth near Union'own on the Pognsy varia rail cad. Congressman Hamlilton Fish, of New was said he will probably be in the hos- pital three weeks. Six hundred American soldiers of the army of occupation embarked at Ant- werp on the United States transport Can- tigny. According to report received in Honolu- lu Prince Hirohito regent of Japan said: “Japan must impgove her - foreign reia- tions,” Interstate Commerce Commisxion an- nounced the railroads. will be ziven from Dec. 14 to 21 to justify In hearings the present letel of transportation charges. The Douglas cldb of Hartford has formed an association 0 “to promote the so- cial, ?oral and intellectual welfare of its memBers, A Greek cruiser intercepted an Ttalan steamer off the Tonian Isiands, bound for Asia Minor with munitions on board alleg- ed to be intended for the Turkish nation- alist army. A. A. Alechine, the Russian chess ex- pert of Berlin, has challenged Jose R. Capabanca of Havana, the world's cham- pion for a series of games for the ti- tle. s:h Fragments of two fossil trees discov- ered In the Devonian rocks at Gilboa, Y. have been presented to the Har- vard Geological museum by Hugh Nawn of Boston. — hinese were arrested in Boston on of being in this country un- Seven police officer near, | Charlestown districl Thrée children of Mr. and Mrs. Willlam destruction of the family North Beverly, Mass. cottage at Ameriean Legion pate in mander James T. Duane to nutig oner of a parade in Boston on Dec. 8 in General Armando Diaz The natonal eonference on unemploy- ment has been instrumental In putting between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 idle men and women back to wcrk, Secretary of Commerce Hoover believes, American consu! at Eombay that Willam French Donerty, Amer'can citi and engineer, was killed in the ru [ Nov. 19. The first of the big government voea- jtonal training centres will open Dec, 2, instruction at Camp Sherman, Chilicothe. Veterans’ Bureau, announced. i Governor MeCray, of Indlunn, extension of urges $20,000,000 credits by the ipal corn-growing states n tae corn erop. by waves created by 50-mile gale Flow- ing inshore. Three men were takcn off the barge by the coastguard cutters Mon- mouth and Takanassee. $2,600. i Joseph, 16. and George Hoff and Mary I. Hoff, 12 each. Cleveland H. Dodge. financler, of New tution announced yesterday. A two-story f-ame buli%ing, owned by Joseph Hayes, and which had - just several tenants, was burned in Broad Brook, with a loss of $25,000, Frank Greenback, ayrested In Bostom on suspiclon of having been concerned in be wanted In Buffalo, N. Y., In connection with the shooting of a volieemm Elliott P. Frost, one of the f men reported marooned by the storm on Milk Island, off Rockport, Mass., while duck hunting, came ashore and expressed sur- prise that thelr failure to return mller hl(l occasioned conecern. N. H. ROAD DENIES BIG r PURCHASE OF Mvmn of the arguments in_the trial of Prose- cuting Attorney _Albert |A. Greenberg of New' Britain, accused. of taking a bribe, n the syperior court s2id he® would - give is decision Monday. - The charge against Gréenberg s in connection with the New Britain boot- New Haven, - Nov.. 30.—An official statement by President Pearson of the New York, New Hayen and Hartford rail- road today was to the effect that the rafl- road company did not'contemplate- pur- chase of motive equipment to the value of asquarter-of a milllon dollars in. the im. The Island corporation of Portchester, | York, was operated on in'Wachington. It | They were discovered by a | i ;teamshty dock in the J. Harding were burned to death in the posts throughout Massachusetts were asked by State Com- State department was advised by the ‘when ‘former service men will begin their Ohio, Director Charles R. Forbes, of the war finance corporation in the ten princi- Midadle | ‘West n order to market this year's big The barge Atlantic: anchored ff Ser- Lright, N J., is eing pounded to picces The Premier Brush company ef Hart- ford has organized with a gapital of The gubscribers to the stock .are Morris B. Hoff, 112 shares; Frederick York, has contributed $50,000 to Robert college of Constantinople, upon the con- dition that an“equal amount is obtained from other sources, trustees of the insti- been remodelled fro ma b'acksmith shop and woodworking plant and which had the $28,000 payroll robbery -at Chelsea last Saturday, was"found by the police to at an Altitude of 2,000 Feet ‘ at Fort Sill, Okla. g iators, two officers zn1 t today when the t airplanes in which they were performing combat duty dri. collided whil: at ar altitude cf 2,000 feetfi, and crasncl fo ca:th near Post Field, Fort Sill, Okiakoma. “The dead Captain Loomis. eutenant A. T. Ll'l('ll" Frivate Tubbard. Private B. A.”Smith, As the airplansa stracik the sarth, their gasoline tanks expladel, enveloping ‘he wreckage in flames. “Attendants were to reach the hodizs cf the men un- m they had been charced beyond recug- had heen In the aic fur some time when trey attempted to execute a difficult ma- neaver. As they swoxrad toward ach other their wings met and both airplanes Zell to earth in a heinles stang.e llundreds of one who lurried to the scene were o to stand by help- lessly while the wrecikags burned. INCOMPETE Y HEARING FOR, STONINGTON PHILANTHROPIST New York, Nov. 30.—Supreme Court Justice Guy today named Thomas F. Keough, an attorney, as referee to take testimony as to the alleged incompetency of Chan'er N, Wayland, Stonington, Conn., philan- thropist, : Mr. Wayland, 86, was committed ‘o Bellevue hospital for observation a week ago, upon application of his son, John E. Wayland of this city, who alleged the philanthropist was period had expired and on testimony of two doctors that he appeared In- competent, Justice Guy ordered the refereeshfp. ~He restrained Mr. Wayland, In the meantime, from dis- posing of any of his property. NAVAL EXPERTS UNABLE TO AGREE JAPAN'S NAVAL STRENGTH Washington, Nov. 30 (By the A, P)— Experts of the “Big Three” naval pow- ers agreed today that they could mnet reach an accord on the basls of calcula- tion to be used in measuring Japan's existing relative naval strength. They gave un the task and turned. the prob- lém back to their respective delegations to the arms conference. Upon . its.so- lution hangs the fundamental principle of the American naval limitation propo- sal: ‘the ““five-five-threé ‘capital ship ra- tio.! T?xo experts were substantially In agreement as to the accuracy of esti- mates of naval sthength of each power originally submitted by the American conference group if the American plan of including all ships actually under construction in arriving. at the ratio was fol'owed. The Japanefe experts, how- ever, insisted to the last that this was not the proper basis of calenlation: pro- posing Instead to disregard all ships now building by either power in determin- ing relative naval strength. The plenary delegates —of the two powers will continue the dl!cuss!on from this point, GROUPS OF FASCISTI AND SOCIALISTS FIGHT IN ROME Rome, Nov. 20.—Ink wells, clubs and and sociallsts at a provincial counch' meeting, convened for the purpose 6f honoring’ seven Roman cltizens. who were killed In the recent disorders be- tween the Faselsti and rallway workers, ! persed the combatants, CHINESE GOV'T GRANTED EXTENSION OF $§5,500,000 LOAN Edward P. Bruce, poration. Th2 interest due was pald toduy, he added _ OBITUARY, Lord Mount Stephen. Mount Stephen, pioneer railroad con- structor in Canada and first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway com- shire. Lord Mount Stephen,’ fen), (George Steph- first Baron Mount Stephen, was phen, a carpenter. romance of early struggles against pov- work In railroad construction = which culminated in the connmecting of the At- lantic and the Pacific by the Canadian Pacific Rai'way, of the acquisition of a $6.000,000 fortuhe, myeh of which he gave away to relatives, and finally of an old age spent as a peer in a historie home know ras Brocket Hall. Hertford- snirs, in England, which had at times Dbeen sccupied by two prime ministers of England, Lord Melbourne and Lord Palmerston. As boy, Stephen played bdarefoeted In the streets of his native village, was a shepherd on the nearby bleak moors and. then a draper’s -clerk. Coming to Canada, he entereq the store of an un- cle in Montreal. a cloth merchant, whom he ‘ultimately bought out. He invested his- savings in Bank ‘of Montreal stack, beemoing ome of its largest sharehold- ersfand finally its president. About - this tlme Stephen came Inte business relations with Donald Smith, a cousin,. who afterwards became Lord Strathcona. - Smith interested him in the construetion of a. rallway to the C: nadlan west, which he knew through his assoclation ' with it as resident govern- ot th mt B.! Company. Lawton, Ola., Nov. 33.—Four army av- | i privates, weve furniture furnished weapons for a con- flict tonight between groups of Fascistl matured tomorrow, it wae announced by president of the cor- tomorrow London, Nov. 30 (By the A. P.)—Lord pany, dled last night at his country res- idence, Brocket Hall, Hatfield, Hartford- He was ninety-two years of age. bor non June 5, 1829 at Ferres in Banff- shire, Scotland. the son of William Ste- The life story of Lord Stephen was a erty, of a rapid rise to eminence after he came to Canada In 1850, of pioneer incompetent to manage his own at- f} 2% fairs. , The patient demanded a hear- > ing before the ten-day probationary tax, man will sale for ing In. “to the Ing was AGRICULTURAL BLOC WILL OPPOSE ADOPTION OF SALES TAX ‘Washington, Dickinson, republican, of lowa, lssued warning tonight that the house agrieul- tural bloc which he leads, was prepared to kill any pan for adoption of a sales Dickingon' sald, would place nothing in the way of the bonus measure itself but would content itself with defeating ef- forts to raise the money by the. sales sufficient votes, were on hand to ellmi- nate the tax i bonus bill ‘“We shall not bringing out of a bonus b!IL” he con- tinued. ways and means committee and Chair- early. in the reguar session. quirements.” The bloc leaders have half a dozen forms of taxes which they will offer 2s means of rajsing the needed funds for adjusted compensation of the service i men, taxes ‘on gifts, community property. struck out of the revenue bill and Mr, Dickinson / should be used as revepue sources if a bonus was passed by congress, Mr..Dickinson’s warning aroused com-|What the nrocess of liquidating loans at ment among house members, some hod- :Imeu no changes i measures as brought BUSINESS MEN mMufr OVERCOME AGRICULTURAL BLOC New York, Nov. must organize and- defend agricultural bloc in congress.” Otto H. Kahn, banker, declared in a letter men, Business, he asserted, stands In need of: a spokesman and organizer. ‘but he added that he did not contemplate form- he - sald, | formabls to the genlus and the very un- approximately 9,000, from the 1919 'record, according to a computation by Frederick L. Hoffman. third viee p: 100,000 of population. cities for which figures were tabulated was but 1.3 for every 100,000. MeetTodnyWiththalecnmnndCHunhhyfil BmsFortbeNegohnhom—Jupcnl‘hoDechflhM titude in Regard to ForeunGAmmmChm—Ohn Delegates Are Striving For the’ Uncondmoml vm»- drawal of the Japanese Claims in Shantung. -| _ Washington, Nov. 30 (By the A. P.).— fBur, as respective heads of the-Ameti- At.Lordlng to officers, the two mashineg | Bringing with it some of the sharpest issues of worid diplomacy, the celebrated Shantung-controversy took its place today at the arms conferencs. The_ result was an offer by the Unlted States promptly by Japan and China, to assume | the role of friendly advisers in a new at- tempt to solve the problem and end the long and bitter debate that has swept over three continents. The plan for an exercise of American and British “good offices” ls understood | to- have originated with the Amerlcan delegation a'ter it became apparent that China had resolved to raise the question in the conference proper. Secretary Hughes and Arthur J. Bal- can and British groups, will meet tomore row with the Japanese and Chirese " fi lay the basis for the negotiations. On the eve of the first meeting the | Chinese delegates announced tonight they ‘accepted | wouid go into the discussions om to accept nothing less than uncénditional withdrawal of tfe Japanese claims In Shantung, The attitude of Japan ‘wis not set forth so explicitly, but it’ was ad- sumed the Japanese spokesmen wenid contend for the reservations insisted’ on in the recent diplomatic m &- tween Tokio and Peking. The advent of the Shanturfy questien at the council table followed on the heels (Continued on Page Ten ‘Cal. Three) -and . Great Britaln, STEADY PROGRESS BACK TO NORMAL CONDITIONS Nov. 30.—Representative | Washington, Nov, 30.—Progress tee ward normal conditions throughout the country has _been continuous during November despite a relative ‘“slowing down” ay compared with the previous two months, the federal ressrve board sald tonight In its month'y business and financlal revipw, < “On the whels,” the board saff, "the best oninlon now jooks to & stesdy, sven i locally Interrupted progress bask to normal conditions, aithough no -immedl. ate or sudden expansion or doom s im sight.” During the past month. the board dee clared, improvoment in business eond!- tlons was not so pronounced, For the time being, it was explained, the of demand hss been reached and while uncertainty prices of staples. particularly cotton, has imter- fered with trade buving. Possible further reductions of frelght rates, it wae asserted, -has tended to unsettle prices and to retard Industrial activity in some of the chief manufacturing sectiont. Recovery in steel and fron tnd- has halted for. the time, However, rrdneflon in the prices 'of cerea’s and -of the failure maintaln as high a level &8 a means of ralsing revenue to the soldiers’.bonus, The blov, Mr. The Iowa member deciared that It was attached to the interfere with the “That i{s the provinc: of the Fordney has sald it would be done But we not let the money be ralsed, by a etax for it will be an opening Wedge its extension to other revenue re- former according to Mr. Dickin- He mentioned among these the liquor, inberitance and All of these w farming Interests, the board sald, which has resulted In a lessening ‘of demand for consumable goods in farming com- munities and a tendency-to check some- declared they ecould and banks. Nevertheless - retail ess continues to i prove, taking the eountry that it was & step iIn the direction of ending housa action by special rule|3s a whole. Prices centiaue to mafn- Wwhich has limited debate and, It has{tain a substantially stable m«- becn “charged, permitted few and some-|¥hile ~ unemplovment has - at slightly decreased. BRITAIN REWARDS GERMAN X MERCHANT MARINE OFFICEN New York. Nov. 30 (By the A. P,)— There Is a saving of the sea that.Bng- land never forgets a service rendered a subject. - This was borne out todlay when it was leArned the British eon- su'ate had bestowed on a German mer- chant marine officer a silver loving eup and medal earned by a daring rescue in 1914, In February of that year, the British steamship County of Devon capsized on her way from Norfolk to Rotterdam. - For three days her captain and 24 mem- bers of her crew pitched- in raging seas. 30 —Business . men themselves oyercome the baneful effects of the to committee of American business made public today. a business bloc in congress. are pernicioiis and not Bilocs, con- derlyf oneepti - G Fulogistic speeches by the soclalist | yonan® C o Puons ©f our institu-| The German tanker Deutschland was tiona, first to slght the helpless Britisher whose members provoked the ire of the Fas- crew, unable to launch lifeboats, at last cisti, and general d[xf:rder ensued. TInk 5,000 HOMICIDES IN THE jumped Into the sea. Disregarding dan- wells were thrown with te'ling effect, ger, & boat in command of the Deutseh- wounding four men, who streamed & UNEIED STATES DURING 1910110045 iret’ officer. Einst Harsubays.” it mixture of blood and Ink, S5 e out_and rescued the entire British. erew.’ Order was restored when the royal ew York, Nov. 30.—Hamictdes In Then came the war. For five vea: guards entered the building and dis-|the United States during 1920 totaled 2 ik England and Germany wers enemfes. Farly this week there came to New York the tank steamer Vistula, -~ with Harzmeyer aboard. He was invited by a decrease of 500 ident and statistician of C =t the Prudential Life Insurance Company s oSl e of merica. y x > P N Nov. = s by direct! is Captain covernment requented ‘and Tecoived sor | g TS fleuren. made public. tonight 37 rect0" of Me sovernment Cap 2 e tension of lts 35- | WiroUsh The Spectator. showed Mem-|ro"Enciindy testimonials ¢ g ay o Dinety-day extension of Its $5-|phis menn.,;still in the lead with a kil- | [ sE" & testimonialy, for’ xiit88¢ ol 500,000 losn from the Pacific Develop- | yi™, Tent: S Jn the lead with a kil | hravery at sea ment Corporation which was to have s ¥ The safest of 31 e e CONTRACTORS HELD FOR COLLAPSE OF THEATRE WAL Rochester, N. Y. where the rate In general, the tables showed that York, Nov. 30.—Sylvester Rosen« southern states, with large negro popu- | thal nd Samuel Moskowitz, owners and lations, had the highest homiclde rate, and was ! rate o San the Red Belfast, Nov. 30—A number of men times that of whites. slightly in excess of four to one, Tabulations for ths perfod 1815-1919, grouped geographically, showed the New England states to be most 80 far as homiclde was concerned, with a rate of 2.8 southern group had the highest 10.8. Rocky sMountain states, 9.4 and Paclfiz coast states, 9.2. lowest rate, 5.1, New.York was second with 5.9, St. lmh, 12.6 and Clveeland, 12.5. MEMORYAIL, SERVICES SUNDAY FOR New York, Nov. vices for Lileutesant Colonel Charles W. “Whi vana bound steamer Saturday night, will be ‘held here next Sunday, It was an- nounced tonight. . The Association the 77th Division ,of which Colonel ‘Whittlesey was a member, soclation of America. KILLING 1% REPRISAL FOR contractors of the American theatre Brooklyn, which collapsed yesterday, burying nearly 50 workmen, today weee {ordered held without bafl when they were arraigned before Magistrate Liots on charges of manslaughter. Later, however, Supreme Court Jue-: tice Kelby granted aswrit of habeas cor- pus and the pair were released on 31 000 bafl each, furnished by a -f-ty comrany. With four city dvpn pnm eparate inquiries, saarel of the continued, resu'ting in discovery of the seventh body. Eighteen injured are ty- ing _in hospitals. -3 Three additional arrests were mads Charles lnl late today when Michael, brothers, - employed that the proportion of negroes slain from three and a half to seven The average was 3 law-abiding for. each 100,000. The rate, the 6.1 In the Middle At'antic sta was K. €entral states, fthe larger cities, Boston had the The 'Chicago rate was 10 Prancisco, 7.6; Philadelphia, 3 Vito Cannella, masonry contractors, wers held 1§38 000 bail each on charges of homicille. The complaint charges that they used Inferfor “material in the construetion. work under their®contract. COL. CHAS, W. WHITTLESEY 30.—Memoria® ser- MAYOR OF NEW HAVEN PRAISES YALF nm lesey, hero of the “Lost Battal- who leaped to death from a Ha- New Haven, 7. 30.-—Mayor ?I!*r— ald, In a letter to President A Yale University, male publip te pressed the thanks of the e’) tor m forts of Yale studen's whe aided many hx the Rialto theatre xudience 1o escipe. from ths fire Sunday night. . Sympathy for the death of cne student and the n’.j Jury of a score alas was “The devotion ¢n the cause of h ty." the mayor. 'rvt'!- every tralt of meniy concuct of ie arranging program. assisted by the American Cross and the Mn!ng Camps As- BELFAST BOMB EXPLOSION today held up ~Alexander Reld this xmm in Cormae street, in the nation- st market distrietand shot and killed him. been in reprisal for the bomb explosion Tuesday evening which killed on ‘ and injured two other our eity and win ex.st 2 u on_the part of onr peiple for Thére was mo change ir tl raity tist today :he Mgar's x dead, with 1.21a o ‘The killing fs- believed to have