Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 27, 1921, Page 1

VOL. LXIlI—NO. 312 POPULATION 29,685 NORWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1921 EIGHT PAGES—SIXTY COLS. | ENINE HAS OVERCOME THE COMMUNISTIC GOVERNMENT The All Russian Soviet Congress'Has Approved the New Sov- iet Economic Policy—Acceptance by a Large Faction of the Communists Was Given Grudgingly, But They Had No Alternative Plan to Offer—In His Address to the Con- gress, Premier Lenine Mercilessly Attacked the Trade Union Men Who Desired to Continue to Manage the In- dustries—He Challenged Them to Show Qualifications to Buy Supplies and Keep the Factories Going. Mossow, Dec.-24.—(By The A. P.)— The n All-Russian Soviet congress S roved of the mew Soviet econ- as ned befofe that vesterday by Premier Nikolal = approval was given by + Lenine's address, report of the do- the So- ed as the issars on policies of ndorsed a Fr resolution ansen and for iministration Russia. The res- the relief helped more organization. presented @ typhus epidemie. being =0 bad | B¢ the sol- » to place had He said dozens et were ngestion rafl- plac a the was lake the govern- apitalistic methods. unists aceept. nted ont in some these h grudg apologie chanwe was only tem- the ultimate communist gov- general among the reme economic apoears to he than againet whether un- or ermore, | on ac- nation- the hour- LENINES ADDRESS TO ALL- RUSSIAN SOVIET CONGRESS Moscow The A. P)— All-Russian So- 1ssia’s acceptance Relie? administration's - Russis £20,000,000 worth ¢ shala ndition that Russia huy £16.000 more in Americn, Premier Lentih stima that this total " would buv about 30,000,- Soods nf his is approxi- Boviel pecater i this woul Soviet exert every He poods the total to 215.- 15,000,000 necessary to famine crisis. congress. Pre- and merei- especially the ared de- the indus- ad demon- ndugtries in con- qual- keen fac- wr sitnation grain 18,000,000 arvest es and er than o reso- continued. "is ratory, but hated demanded 100 1t be done. Raw ted and hought arp traders, and bus- But, he added, ten or fifteen at the com- earn how to H would eriticlam of the trade unions was applan: . Premier Lenine said the Cheka, the Soviet secr hereafter woul afife , iteelt political affairs and shment of Soviet power. He de- Russia’s position among the, na- s had become thoroughly established Jespite the faflure of the great powers coognize the Soviet regime. The reicn capitalists, he asserted, had nstrated their willingness to traaded Russia. He was extremely optimis- er the trade outlook, and said the of uniting the peasants and work- nen more closely through free domes race had been highly successtul. The wief time this arrangement had been " « showed that the government wvax on the right track toward the re staolishment of ~conomic selidarity. The sesslons of congress were held in he Moscow Opera house, which was rowdsd with 1952 delegates and 200 sher party leaders and spectators, in- suding Major Lonergan, representing « American Rellef administration, and uny other foreigners. The main floor ¢ the theatre was entirely filled with «legates, mostly workmen dressed in wre, who kept on their fur caps through- the procesdings, presenting’ the ap- warance of a gathering of frontiersmen, ont indd muld-decorated auditorium. us cxecutive committee of 32 members, rcuding Premier Lenine and Leon trotzky. occupled seats of honor around A red tabie #guug the foreign communists was J. Carr, representing America. During his speech to the congress, Carr said: do mot bring greetings from the Amcrican government but from millions not from the politicians now conferring at behind locked doors as to 1 bring greetings from millions who are streets with nowhere to of oppressed people in America, w how hington, they can down Soviet Russia. iking the v and nothing to eat.” Carr declared the American workmen would were gecretly organizing and eveatually overthrow capitalism and es- tablisk a workmen's government. ANCIAL STRAITS OF THE RUSSIAN oo The W, Soviet s of expenses, Dec, government is dev taxes in an It emplayes and charging for that used to be free. been opened to facilitate foreign trade Bills of exchange will be handled. posits will be accepted and Interest paid on them. Loans will also be made. pital of the hank is 3,000,000,000,000 s and the total issue of paper mon- ey to date is sald to 000 rubles. everything SOVIET GOVERNMENT —(A. P. By Mal)— ing all effort to meet its is reducing the number of A state bank has De- The be 5,750,000,000,- | cABLED PA 5 Lloyd Georfe En Route to Cannes. London, Dec. 26.—Premier Lloyd George left today for Cannes, France, where the supreme council will meet on January 4. Mr. Lloyd George plans to Test until the opening of the meeting. Resigns French Foreign Office, Paris, Dec. 26.—Philippe Berthelo _general secretary of the French foreign office, today tendered his resignation to Premier Briand. FIVE PERSONS KILLED BY TROOPS IN CAIRO Caim, Dec, 26. —(By the A. P.)—Five persons were killed and four wounded by troops Who were called out during an attack on the police station in the Mous- ky quarter this morning. The troops oo- ened a heavy fire tn the rioters. One rioter was killed and another in- jured at Suez on Sunday, and two ri oters were Iilled and two wounded at Port Sald. Naval units are stationed at SSuez, Ismailia, Port Said and Alexan- dria. Minor acts of sabotage ¥ telesraph and telephone communications are re- ported in lower Bzypt. A majority of the government officials have declded to go out o strike, but It s not expected that they will remain oul long. Cairo is without local mesws»nf transportation, even the cabs suspending service on account of attacks by niughs early In the day. It is estimated that thus far nineteen persons have been killed and about forty wounded in the Cairo, district. The French and Italian consuls are reorted to haive made a protest to the authorities against the attacks on the praperty of their nationals during the rioting. Disturbances in Alexandria Alexandria, Dec. 26.—Slight disturd- ances occurred here today. Four hundred agitators have been arrested in thi city since the trouble began. Tt is reporte that Satd Zagloul Pasba, ora of the na- tionalist leaders, will be transportel to Cey¥ DEPRECATES REPORT OF CONDITIANS IN WAITH New York, Dec. 26.—A statement s sued today by the executive commitiee of the Haiti-San Domingo Independence so- ciety, of which Moorefleld Storey is chairman, characterized as a @disgrace to the United States the preliminary report of the senatorial commission appointed to The ruble continues to fall, and the | fnvestigate conditions in Hait! and San government and public alike are scramb- | Domingo. ling all the time for foreign currency.| ‘“Tssned immediatcly following a con- hicherin's offer to rccognize the pre- | ference with Secretary Hughes, it justi- war foreign debts if the entente pow- | fles and makes a part of American pub- ers will mant Soviét Russia recogni- | lic policy the overthrow by force of arms tion had n. stabilizing effect on bolshe- | of small ana weak neoples” said the ¥ = money statoment. ~ “It endorses the policy fol- The American Relief Administration | lowed in Haiti of using violence to im- hild feeding and the announcement that | pose upon a free people a treaty which it warehouses will be esablished by the | never would have accepted of its own free Hoover orgamization to supply food | wiil packages on dra sent from abroad “The commlission has done rrevocable have not checked the rising nrice of | damage to the faith and good name of bread and economists say It will continue | the United States, especially in Latin- to rise until the next harvest and the | America, where our protestations of bes famine will be far worse next spring | nevolence aro as nothing in the face of thamy it is now. the acts and facts which are now part of 1t is clear that the Soviet govern- | public record. ment s reverting to copltalism as rap- ' as it can without lesing its com- munist apport. But Lenine, Kalenin and other leaderg frankiy gdmit fn their addresses being done only after stores of manufactured artlies and financial resources have been ex- hansted. They say the change iz sing made merely to get a breathing <pell for another attack on world cap- ita With this threat rincing in hig ears, the Amerlcan or British business man whe % in Moscow trving to establish commercial relations, does not hav mucl: heart in fhis mnegotintions. far fcreign business men are mot per- niited to rent offices. Neither may they rent apartments. They must live in tac great houses conducted by the gov- ernment. Al mafl and telegrams for fareigners not attached to some official mansion must pass through the forelgn Odessa has appealed to the Moscow government for permission to have in- surance written in foreign companies so it can resume its export trade. After failure to get foreigners to operate the ron industry the Donetz Pasin the zovernment has organized a trust com- binng several of the b ks and wil] try to run them with the aid of loans fron: the state bank. Shipding In the Biack Sea has been even less active than in the Baltie. Small craft have taken flvers in.the imnort and exnort trade tut the turnover hag been almost neg- h'e. E OF WALFS WARMLY GREETED AT CALCUTTA RACES PRI Caleutta, Dee. 25 —Great crowds gath- ered today when the Prince of Wales at- tended the race for the viceroy's cup. The | ith Euro- who gave the prince five huge stands were packed peans and natives a remarkable reception as he drove slow- Iy around the course. The prince presented the cup to Mr. Goculdas, owner of the winner, Roubaix, amid hearty cheering. Many of the natives were in the streets n contrast to Saturday, and they Earlier in the day there was a clash between the guards and natives, one native be- today, heartily acclaimed the prince. eivi ing killed and another wounded, SPEECH FROM THRONE BY CROWN PRINCE HIROHITO Tokio, Dec. 26 (By the A. P.).—Crown personally reading the speech from the throne at Prince Hirohito, the regent, the opening of the forty-fifth diet tpday, expressed gratification in noting the in- creasing friendship of the Japanese gov- ernment with the different treaty powers and that the Washington conference was approaching a successful conchusion. The regent exhorted the co-operation of the Japanese neople in the promotion of national prosperity and lasting peace in view of the added responsibility of the nation with respect to other nations. The session of the diet was brief and formal. IMMIGRATION AGENTS LEAV San Antonio, Te: tion given United Stfates by troops was withdrawn published at headquarters, Eighth corps, announced today. sirables. TO INVITE RUSSIAN SOVIET FOREIGN MI London, Dec. 27.—Premiers on verr important questlons of pollay, Feb. 8 is mentioned as the probable date on whic hthe conversations will begin, MEXICAN BORDER Dec. 26.—Co-opera- immigration | agents in patroling the Mexican border in an order During the war, when violations of immigration laws were nu- merous, the United States soldiers assist- ed in keeping out of this country unde- NISTER TO LONDON Lioyd George and Briand have decided in prine sting with the brilliantly lighted | ciple to invite the Russian soviet forclgn minister, M. Chitcherin, and M, Litvinoff, M. Kalenin, the elected chairman, and | “» Tondon rarly in the new Yomr, accord- ing to the London Times. It is belleved ey Will be asked to give clear answers “The United States should withdraw the marines from Haiti ard restore Hait! an indeperdence at once.” FOUR DEATHS RESULTED FROM CALIFORNIA STORMS San Franc!sco, Dec. 26.—The death list In the California storms of the past few days reached four today. were killtd in accidents caused by the wind yesterday, and today the body of a fourth, belleved drowned when the high waves upset his skiff, was found in Oak- Jand estuary. Damage in this section was cstimated at §100,000, but was much heavier In Southern California. Tourists who pressed southward across the desert from Bakersfleld had the unique experience of driving through a sand storm while rain was falling. Strong winds whipped up the fine grit from the desert despite its dampncss and huried it at all who were aboard. . Tops were torn from automobiles and at times gusts were so powerful headway cofld not be made against them, and the cars had to stop and await a lull. Sev- eral automobiles were turne? over and a number of minor accidents were report- ed. 5 BODY OF B. L. HARSELL FOUND IN THE. WOODS Asheville, N. C., Dec. 26—Finding of a body in the woods of Mitchell county which has been identified as that of B. L. Haflell, wealthy New York clubman and sportsman, who has heen missing since last April, after leaving Roanoke, Va., to walk to the northern Georgia line, was reportza here today by private detectives. Evidence that Harsell, who undertook the tramping expedition in order to con- dition himself for a hunting trip in South America, was murdered by parties in the Pigeon Roost Creek section of Mitchell county, was declared by Detective Brim of Galax, Va., to have been found in connection with the discovery of the body. Brim, with other detectives, ar- rived here about six weeks ago and b gan working on a new clue to Harsell's disappearance which led them over Mount Mitchell and into a remote sectica of Mitchell county, where the body was found. ITALIAN NEWSPAPERS CONDEMN JUDGE THAYER London, Dec. 26.—Italian newspapers condemn the refusal of Judge Thaye: of Dednam, Mass.. to grant a re-trial to Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Who were convicted in his court last sum- mer of murder in the first degree, ac- cording to a despatch to the Central News agency today from its Rome cor- respondent. The despatch says the Rome newspapers predict a new agitation throughout Italy on the'r betalf. ELDERLY COUPLE BURNED TO DEATH IN THEIR HOME North Thetford, Vt, Dec. 26.—E, Pay- son Clay, eighty vears old and his wife were burned to death in a fii » which de- stroyed thier farm home near Lore early trday. Thelr son Fred managed to res- cue his wife end little child, ,| FRENCH WOMAN COMMUNIST OPPOSES ANTI-MILITARISM Marseilles, France, Deo, 26 (By the A, P.).~An uncxpected feature of tha first natlonal conventlon of the French com- munist party, in sesslon here, developed today when the woruen delegates voiced opposition to the antl-militarist crmprign, In a speooh to-the convention Madame Colilard declared: <1 don't want any antl.militerism, I am in favor of militarism whieh, s in Ruasia, Will Jefend the revolution, Wa ncoept violenfo when it will gain power for us, Madame €oliiard and pther wemen delegates demanded that wemen be given B more prominent place en (he com- _munist pregram, 4 Three men | ‘At Auburn Prison Of Five Convicts in the Plot One Was Killed and the Others Were Recaptured. Auburn, N. Y, Dce. 26.—(By the A. P.) —Five convicts, recently found guilty of rioting in the yard If Auburn prison, failed in an attempt to escape on Christ- mas night through their efforts to carry away one of thelr number who had brok- en his leg in fiight. This became known today when prison officials anniunced ong criminal had been slaln and the oth- ers recaptured. The quintet, all of whom came from Buffalo had been serving long terms for manslaughter = and highway robbery. Clement Pacyna was the conviot slain and those wiv> planncd escape with him were John Wydro, Alexander Y. Kali- mowski, Walter Gahdika and Frank Lu- bicki. Investization showed that the convicts had sawed through the bars of tho five cells. Then, mounting on one another's shoulders in the drridor, they sawed thragugh the bars proteeting the skylight. With a rope made of Dblankets they climbed to the roof. Making their way to the roof of the old execution chamber they dipped into the outer yard, Kalimowski landed on a barrel, foll, and broke his leg andhip. Reluctant to abandon him, his fellow orisoners held a brief parley and then placed him in a wheel barrow and car- rled him % the outer wall. Many val- wable minutes had been lost and it be- came evident that they could not haul him up with a rope to the ton ofthewall. Breaking into a cabinet shw, two of the prisoners obtained a ladder. It was several feet too shrt. While the conviets were looking for another Jadder, the alarm was sounded and guards appeared on the walls with Toaded rifies. Kalimowski the was the first to fall into clutches rf the autheritles and Gah- ik and Lubicki wera the nex: recaptured. But a search of several hours fafied to veal the remaining paid. At 4 o'clock this morning Patrick J. Mohan a guard, looked into an offics which had not besn searched earlisr he- cfuse the door was found It:lted. As Mo- han entered, he said, he saw Wydro standing In the packing box witk a ham mer raised to brain him. Mohan said he fired two scare Wydro. From the hox came a scream. Pacyna. out of M-han's slght. had been mortally wounded. ~ Wydro romptly ered. Pacyna died an hour later. Wydro was serving 20 vears. The, ac- u'ated terms of Pacyna amounted to years and ten months. The others, R the excention of Gadhik, wr-uld have been releassd next year, had long terms shots to S. Jennines and_Super- intendent of State Prison C. F. Ratigan have ‘besun a full investigation to de- termine how the prisoners cbtalnd saws. A CANADIAN PENNY LED TO CONVICTION Buffalo N. Y., Dec, 26.—A Canzdian penny sert Clemen Pacyna to Auburn prison, where he was killed tofay ir an attempt to escape. When New York Central passenger traln number 15 was held up at the Clinton street Y on Oc- tober 21, 1920, the big enny was taken by the rothers from a passenger wio had carrled it for years as a pocket piece, When Pacyna was arrested two days lat- er the penny was found /n his pocket and this fact resulted in his conviction and sentence of 40 years. Pacyna was rst convicted of highway robbery in 1918 and whas sentenced to Avburn for 19 years, but thmugh the clemeney of Governor Smith he was re- leased only a few days before ithe hold- up which sent him back to prison. EEVIEWED MOSLEM SITUATION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD Ahmedat In his pres dia caliph a, British Indla, Dec. 26.— dential ‘address at the Al!l In- e conference here here, Ha- kim Ajmal Khan, reviewed the gmoslem sitvation throughout the world. He said that sia Minor, on the one side, and In- dia, on the other, were the tws extreme links in the chain of a future Ismalic federation. He complimented the Turks, that “their victory over the Greeks had completely smashed British diplomacy.” Britain alone, he said, stad in the way of a real solution of th: Near East- ern question. India wanted peace, but only if it safesuarded the rights of citi- zenship and national honor. Hakin charged that the government had com- mitted inhuman atrocitics at Malabar under martial law. PREMIER BRIAND GREETED LLOYD GEORGE IN PARIS Paris, Dec. 26 (By the A. P.)—Pre- mier Briand greeted Prime Minister Lloyd George of Great Britain as he passed through Paris today on his way to Cannes for the nieeting of the supreme council. The statesmen conversed for a half hour at the Gare De Lyon before Mr. Lloyd George's special train left for the south, Mr. Briand will leave for Cannes on January 3. CHILEAN GOVERNMENT HAS ACCEPTED PERU'S PROPOSAL Santiago, Chile, Dec. 26.—(By the A. P.)—The Chilean government has for- warded a note to the Peruvian govern- {ment accepting Peru's propsal that the two countries designate pleninotentiaries to meet at Washington to corkinue nego- tiations for a solution of pedning dis- putes. The negotiati ns between Chile and Peru were begun a fortnight ago. Their chief aim is a settlement of the Acna Arica controversy. TO PREVENT DEPARTURE OF FORMER EMPRESS ZITA London, Dec. 26.—The governor of Madeira has suddenly received orders from Paris to prevent the departure from the island of former Empress Zita of Austrio-Hungary for Switzertand, accord- ing to & Funchal despatch to the Morning Post. Announcement was made on Dec. 17 from Funchal that Zita expected to start far Bwitzerland on Dec. 26, sha having | recelved official permission to make the trip on account of the {liness of her son. The Russo-Itallan commereial agr ment was signed Rome last evening, rocording to e -alsoateh rocelved by Haves, Queen Wilheimina of {he Ngtherlands, i§ a great jever of flowers, and in tho ad_eenscrvataries at Het Lo iha parest flawers pad piants arg ta be found s eaFs of wiiel nsjther labsr nor is Epaed. | written in all of the Attempted “Break” | Mexican General Reyna Executed By a Fining Squad in Noales —Had Figured Prominent- ly in Revolutions. Nogales,- Ariz, Dec. 26,—General Francisco Reyna, who had figured prom- Inently in revolutions in Mexico in the last 10 years, was executed by a firing squad in Nogales, Sonora, across the in- ternational line from here late today. He was alleged to have been caught dig- ging rifles, saddles and ammunition from the ground near Canosa, Sonora, 15 miles west of Nogales, General Reyna who has been living in the mountains in Santa Cruz county, Arizona, 10 milés northeast of here, was captured af{-ut nine o'clock this morning and taken to the Nogales, Sonmora, jail where he was tried by a military eourt. Reyna's chauffeur also was arrested. Mexican officials said that after Rey- na was captured, soldiers unearthed 30 rifles, 30 saddles and about 4,000 rounds of ammunition at the spot where he was digzing. Reyna and his chauffeur was arrested by 15 Mexiean soldiers under the command cf Captain Francisco Gonzales. Reyna and about 200 followers, it is alleged, planned to launch a revolution January 1. He also was charged w haiving had connections with leade another proposed revoluti'n. The allege leaders of that affalr were arrested Nogales, Sonora, about a month ago and were executed shortly afterward in Her- mosilla, Sonora. Reyna was arrested by United States efficials here at that time but later was released. SANTA CLAUS ON STEAMSHIP CELTIC 500 MILES AT SEA New York, Dec. 26.—The ingenuity of Santa Claus in overcoming obstacles on his Christmas eve journey, brought mingl- y and wonder Saturday children on the steamship ¢ miles at sea. They landed todiy still amazed over how Te could have done all the things he told them of in the main dining saloon while the vessel rolled in the grip of anery sea. Before a Christmas tree ablaze light and heavy with gifts, Santa CI appeared. First he assured the sushed and wind down the smoke stack. he said, as the stokers hard fi were, then to a seazull larzer : % hi 1 training university to be established ss, which overtook the ship. al v ishe T he mudience. . passensers and crew {bY the veterans' bureau is understood to choered as Sarta hurried away saying [ ave been practically decided upon by he had many other children to attend to. Among the younzsters who enipyed the excitement was Ross Campbell Geddes, 14 years old son of Sir Auckland Geddes with w3 s Zritish * ambassador, who, bur for th delay due. to bad weather, would have spent Christmas with his parents in ‘Washington. REPORT ON SAVINGS BA LIFE INSURANCE Tt-ston, Dec. 26.—Savines bank life in- insurance in Massachusetts has bacome the cheamests form of level premium life insurance in the United States accovding to a report en the comoletion of the 13th financlal year of the system made pub- lice tonight by the Devision of Savings Rank Life Insurance of the State Panking Deuartment. A perstn who at the age of 25 years took $1000 of this form of in- suranca when the syst'm was inaguratel will receive on the 13th anmiversary of is policy a cividend which wi'l make the met cost of his Insarance .for the year only $9.97. The report rays this represents a sav- Hlder of more than 25 ared with the 13th year Ine Insurance comnarfes 1y «compete with savings Susiness in force to- reébresenting insurance than 32.000 n-rsons Four savines banks have establidfed in- surance department and 65 rther savings banks and trust companies have estad- lished agencles for this four. The ma: ‘mum amount for which any one person may subscrfbe is $4,000 nd policles are it formas commonly written by the commercial companies. THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FOR GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH ing to the poli percent. as com cost in the old which most nea bank insurance. tals $16,900,000, on the lives of mo Philadelphia, Dec, 26.—Plans to es: tablish a theological seminary here for students preparing for the ministry of the Greek Orthodox church are being considered by Rev. Meletios Metaxikis, patriarch-elect of the church, it was an- nounced tonight. He would make an ef- fort, it was sald, to obtain the use of one of a groun of buildings to be erected by the Philadelphia divinity school. ' Clergy and members of the Rugsian and Greek Orthodox churches in Phila- delphia and New York were present at a dinner given tonight In honor of the vis- itimg dignitary by clergy of the Protest- ant Episcopal church of Philadelphia. The npatriarch-elect, following His re- cent election at a synod of the Gresk church in' Constantinople, began a move- ment looking toward union With the Protestant Eviscopal church. He plans to tour the United States In the' interest of the unity movement. \ TO ISSUE FINDING ON RIALTO THEATRE FIRE TODAY New Haven, Dec. 26.—Coroner ElIl Mix of New Haven county will issue his find- ing tomorrow on the Rialto theatre fire of November 27, which cost nine lives. The finding, it is understood, takes up 60 pages and totals about 18,000 words. OBITUARY, Father Lais. London, Dec. 26.—Father Lais, viee- directorof the Observatory of the Vati- can, dled today In Rome, according to a despatch received here from that city. i Father Lals was rector of the Church of the Oratorlans, and received Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia last March when the cardinal took possession of his titular Church of St Nereus and St Achilicus, which was under Father Lais’ jurisdlction, Samuel Jerome Bennett, w Yorls, Doc. 28.-—Samuel Jerome Bennett, a newsyaper man of New York and Bt, Louls, s dead In Tucsoq, Ariz. acoording to word recetved heer today, A native New Yorker, Mr, Bennett was edueated to bo n clvil ongineer but gave up that profession after a few years for pewspaper work, He npoted as forelgn correspondent In Lenden and Paris and &t one tlme vs clty edilor af the New York Evening Sun, About twelve yeers he moved to Bt, Jemis Colombian congress. lower Mississippi river took a toll qf 31 Jives and injured about 0. BRIEF TELEGRAHIS The treaty between Colombla and the United State shas been ratified by the | A storm which swept bbth sides of the The Peoples Gas company of Chicago TOCONFERONSUBSIDIES FOR announced it would resume payment of dividends Jan. 17 with a quarterly pay- ment of 1 1-4 per cent. AMERICANMERCHANT MARINE Pacific fleets, scheduled for February in Panama bay, probably will be abandoned Riley, Kansas, formed part of ‘the Christ- mas dinner of Secretary Weeks. Sunday afternoon. Several of the dem- onstrators were killed and a we unded. and members of the All-Indiaa congress h: to taree months' at Sault Ste Marie, Mich., of the steamer | Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, navigation of the Great Lakes formally ended for the 1921 season. of renorts that he was working to bring about prohibition of the use of fermented wines for sacramental purposes. can Chamber of Commerce have adopted a_resolution favoring extension of the pines next Februa; valued at $32,000, contributed by mem- ment Workers' union, left New Riga on the steamer Orl a clerk Joint manoeuvres of the Atalntic and in the interest of economy. An all-army fruit cake, prepared by the bakers' and pooks' school at Fort Rioting broke out In Ceiro, Egypt, on number Sixty-twe more nationalist ve nteers Washington, Dec. 26.—A- final confer- ence of officials of leading marine trans portation companies with the shipping Mard's mecial subsidy committes has feen called for January 5 to pass upon a tentative plan formulated by the commit- tee providing for the subsidizing of the American Merchant Marine to insure its mantenance The committee was formed to study the broad uestion of subsidics at the sugges. tin of President Harding who made spe- cial refeence to this method of assisting American ship owners in_his messaze to the last congress The plan, when firal- - |1v_approved. will be snbmitied to Presi- dent iarding who is expected to adapt some of its provisions In a message to @ nzress. In its present form, which members of the committee stated today, was not of- ficlal and is svbject to changes in any one of its featur the plan gproposes both direct and indirect ald, the former through diversion \of ten per cent. of im- port customs _as bonuses to American ship operators and the lgtter through es- @ been arrested, and nine sentenced imprisonmr? each. With the passage .through the locks ! Ralph A. Day, New York state prohibi- n director, issued an emphatic denial The bonrd of directors of the Ame: coastwise shipping laws to the Philip- Food supplies for starving Russians, bers of the International Ladies' Gar- ork for The mew dollars, k now In process of | tahlishment of a revolving fund of coinage, and expected to be available for | $100,000.000. circulation about Dec. 31, will not bear a| Other suggestions now @mprised If broken sword, Director Baker of the mint | tha plan ar wndoreroon o {oommn: announced. That the shirving board sell its re- maining fleet as rapidly as gosslo'e at A determined fight by Hazel Morgan, | prices not to excesd the prevailing werld Mesting of Officials of Leading Marine Transportation Com: panies With the Shipping Board’s Subsidy Committes Has Been Called For January 5—One Plan Proposss Direct Aid Through Diversion of 10 Per Cent. Import Customs to American Ship Owners—Another Plan In- volves the Establishment of a $100,000,000 Revolving Fund—Other Schemes Are Under Consideration. Ghout Besiats b aibatts. praatt i American ship operators to cover the general wage and ubsistence differential between the ships. new routes through nominal bare charters, operation under managing op- erators contract, until private capital is available. and through bids f:r the op- ezation of prescrived rostes and services. and t us spell- hound youn-s‘ers that he Lad not come Tt was too hot, working force the ship through the gale. He left the land of perpetual snow in a seaplane, he related. but with an acci- dent, tPnsferred to the back of a whale, r than an alba- the office of the Niagara Opti- cal company, Buffalo. N. Y., frustrated a hold-up and resulted in the capture of two bandits. B Considerable excltement pravailad throughout Alexandria, Egypt, Sunday due to nationalists’ agitation. Police pa- trolled the city in armored utomobiles, frustrating attempts to stage demonstra- tion Selection of Camp Johnston at Jack- sonville, Fla., as the site for a vocation- Director Forbes. chant marine act > market price for similar tonnage. Amendment of section 11 of the mer- permit the lishment of a merehant marine fund of about $100,000,000 under the administration of the shipping board for the pumbse of making loans at reason- able rates of interest, not to exceel five per cent. ger annum on first mortzages on American flag ships: this fund not to he limited to shivping board transactions. but to be avallable for financing of aM American #hip operating organizations. Income tax rallef to create an incentive to shippers ) use shics flying the Amer- ican flag, providing for a deduction from net income tax navable on the basis of for the present session of co daughter of the Italian patrist, has arriv- ed in Washington to join'the Italan del- egation as a member of the press sec- OVERDOSE OF MORPHINE M. Stevens, who was detained by the po- lice yesterday in_connection death of Miss Grace Logue, his office nurse, was released today. of criminality was present, the medical died as the result of an overc) se of mor- phine administered to rellave tooth ache. yesterday in her room in Dr. suite in a board house. he had given her morphine in ordinary @poses to stop the toothache and suggested that she might have helped herssif to an excessive amount in his absence from his office. Notice has been received by the state department from the new government of Guatemala that Dr. Julio Bianchi. min- ister to Washington under the Herrera government, recently overthrown, no longer represents that country. small nercentage of the fréizht pail on American flag ships. or through a greater allowance on depreciation £.n ships. Creation of a government marine in- ¥{in {1 non-yofitymakiny joarporation to insure its ownershis and to offer hul! insurance at opst to private American owners, backad by a loan of $10,000,000. Other suggested schemes include the carrying In American ships of at least fifty per cent. of the Immigrants eoming Christmas ples in San Francisco this year contained liquor, local pie bakers having availed themselves of the per- s o this countr hip T i £y : mission under the Jaw to “pep their pies” | | YA Jomeiny S e b ooy Ao o amending and revising of navigation jxaiits he government store- laws: preferential through rates ¢t American flag vessels. e extension of coastwise laws t> our insular passessions and the cooperation of shipping board and nany to secure better compensation of the merchant marine officers and men of the naval reserve. Beleving that indirect aid will mnot alone enable American ships to roerate successfully in competition with those of other nations, the committee also has adopted tentativel) the following meth- ods of direct assistance: Establishment of American shipping on Vallue of the estate of Charles G. Roebling, of the firm of Join E. Roeb- ling’s Sons'’ Company, cable and wire manufacturers, is $15,355,671.32. accord- ing to th eexecutor's account filed with Surrogate Madden at Trenton, N. J. Three hundred and fifty tenants of a downtown arcade building in Cleveland, O., received Christmas presents in the form of rent reductions of 10 to 15 per cent. Present leases do not expire until April. LYNCHED BY BAND OF MASKED MEN AT KEY WEST Poter Caproni is dying as a result of burns receivedswhen a large still explod- ed in the basement of an East Side New York t¢nement and set fire to the house. Th elives of members of 22 families were endangered. Key West, Fla, Dec. 26—Manuel Head, owner of a coffee shop who, after he had been beaten by a band of mask- ed men, yvesterday shot and killed Wil- liam H. Decker, a promnent Key West resident, was taken fro mthe county jail by a mob early today and lynched. He was- shot twice before being Sigorina Italia Garibaldl, grand- removed tion. She was assigned by Maruls Della |'from the jajl, then placed in an auto- (Tn;rmla, Italian minister of foreign af- | mobile and taken out on a country road airs. near old Fort Martello and strung to a telephone vole, Where he was riddled with bullets. Barricaded in the cupola of a house, Head last night stood off an armed mmb until captured by the authorities and taken to the county jail. Marines from the navy vard stood guard outside the jall until the mob had disbanded. But at 2 a. m., when the marines were r lieved by deputles the mob gathered again and demanded the prisener of Sherift Curry. When the latter opened the door in reply to demands for a con- ference, a dozen armed men forced thelr way in, overpowered the jailer and seiz- ed the keys to Head's cell. Philip S. Honywood, youngest son of the late Sir John William Honywood and nephew of the Earl of Devon of Powder- ham castle, Exeter, England, was cruelly beaten and robbed of a large amount of money not far from his home near ‘Woodcliff lake, New Jersey. Joseph Oats of New York city w. taken to the Englewood, N. J., hospital With a dangerous bullet wound in his side, and the police held him under sur- veillance on suspicion that he was one of the two bandits who held up a cigar store in the Bronx, New York. Directors of a score of the largest obe servatorics in the country and many other porminan tastronomers are expect- ed to attend the annual meeting of the American Astronomical = society at Swarthmore college Thursday. Friday and Saturday of this week. DR. FISCHER TO TALK WITH —~REPARATIONS COMMISSION Berjin, Dec. 26—Dr. Fischer, chair- man of the German war debt commis- sion, has been instructed to proceed to Paris for oral discussions with the rep- arations commission. His mission con- cerns Germany's forthcomving reply to the reparation commission’s inquiries and was decided upon after informal conferences between the members of the cabinet, Dr. Rathénau and Rudolf Ha- venstein, president of the Reich bank, at which several under-secretaries of the ministries of finance and economcis also } were present. Although Dr. Rathenau has been in constant touch With the cabinet and al- so with President Ebert since his return from London, where he was engaged in reparations affairs, officlal quarters de- cline to discuss the information he brought back, or give any indication of the nature of the reply, which it is ex- pected will be despatched to Paris before the end of the week. Representative Albert Johnson, repub- lican, Washington, will introduce a res- olution when the house reconvenes Jan. 5 to make permanent the temporary 90- day_release granted to 1.100 aliens held at Ellis Island because quotas for their countries under the immigration law been filled. S s CAUSED DEATH OF NURSE ‘Woburn, Mass. Dec. 26.—Dr. Michael with the No evidence examiner said, in finding that Miss Logue The young woman's body was found Stevens' Dr. Stevens said FORBIDDEN TO GO TO MOVIES 17 YEAR OLD GIRL KILLS HERSEFL Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 26.—Matilda Bat- taglda, seventeen year old, shot herself dead this afternoon when her parenis re- fused her permission to go to a movie o show. 'She had.attended the show last BISHOP BIEWSFI WOULD night nad wished to g> again with girl DEFEND BACRAMENTAL WINES |chums who had called at the house. Hartford, Dec. 36.—Bishop Chauncey) POZEN SHOTS FIRED IN B, Brewster, of the Episcopal diocese of THE STREETS OF BELFAST Connecticut, in n statement tonight, sald he was opposed to proposal of prohibi-| Belfas Dee. 26.—Further disorders oc- jlon offlcfals to bar the sscramental uselcurred here today. A dozen shots wer of wines of all falth, Ho sald the Epis-|fired in Ieuis street this afternoon, but copal church will stand for the rights so far as is jown no one was injured. outlined in the Volstead act and for the Scldler were hurried to the acene and ré- such a bill. bt o Making available a portion of the re- munerative fund of about $8,000,000 per annum for encouraging construetim of mail carriers. Enucouragemertt of special services and Doat Customs receipts and tonnage taxes form the main support of the direct aid sugzested. From the estimated ineome from customs receipts for 1922-23, about $300,000,000, 000 would be set aside as a special fund for paying remunefation =hips on a basis to be adopted. _Aug- menting this fund there would be Tort states, on tonrage taxes dllected in American parts from all ships, bbth American and foreign ; this tax estimated at $2,000,000 under would be raised to $4,000,000, if the pro- posed tonnage dues under the pending measure are made effective. 10 per cent. kr $30,000- 0 Amerean the re- present conditions LEGISLATIVE MATTERS TO COME BEFORE CONGRESS ‘Washington, Dec. 26 —LegSslative plang ngress call for the enactment of bills to en the merchant marine. to provide some sort of bonus paymiént to former service men, enact permanent tariff schequ and’ provide 'the regular approprisiites which sustain the government, Repre- sentative Mondell, republican house lead- er, said today on leaving the White House after a conference with President Harding. There are no definite proposals om the ‘merchant marine or soldiers’ bonus whick can be said to have the approval of the majority at this time, Mr. Mondell sald, but the outline of subjects to be taken up includes both matters. Every en- deavor will be made in the house, he added, to have all the appropriation bills, which originate there, enacted by April 1st, so as to give the senate time tc conside rthem on final passage and ad- Journ’ the congress in June. The question of finding the sources for funds with which to pay the soldlers bonus, the house leader asserted, was the chief stumbling block of proposals for Enactment of such a meas- ure, he added, would probably require simultaneous creation of a spewial tax toumeet the outlay. Mr. Mondell said ho did not discuss With the president the “remuneration plan-' for subsidizing merchant ship operation, and he ex- pressed the view that comsiderable dis- cussion would be required before con- gressional leaders could Afopt & plan of action on such a measure. There is a possibility that President Harding will Jeave Washington before New Year's for a three days' trip te Pinehurst, N. C., but no definits decision as 10 vlans had been reached tonight. — — THREE OFFICIALS OF COAL MINERS' UNION IN JAID Logan, W. Va, Dec. 26—C. Frank Keeney and Fred Mooney, president and secretary-treasurer respectively of dis- trict No. 17, United Mine Workers of America, and Willlam Blizzard, a sub- district president of the union, placed in jail here tonight afrer th surrender at Huntington, to Sheriff Cha- fin, preparatory to pleading to indict~ ments growing out of the armed march into Logan county last summier. The ‘three men were released from jail In Charleston Saturday midnight, after furnishing $10,000 bafl each. They had been held there in connection with the same Logan county demonstration. Sev- eral months ago Keeney and Mooney ob- tained their release on bail from the Mingo county jail, where they had been incarcerated a result of industrial troubles In the Tug River dlstrict. BURGLAR GEORGE HOWARD 1 RELEASED FROM SING SING. Ossining, N, Y. Dec. 26—Sing Sing prison today cpened its gates and re- leased George Howard, its senior pris- oner in length of imprisonment and oms of a dwindling few who remember the day of prison stripes and the lock step. Sentenced to his first ter mof burglary in the early 90's, Howard was released but soon returned. Yesterday was hix fifteenth consecutive Christmas behind the bars. He is 65 years old and has grown gray in prison. Howard pat the small bill gven to pa- roled prisoners into the pocket of s mew . civilian clothes and shook hands with former prison mates, One of them ask- ed what he planned to do. “Earn an honest living,” he replied, gravely. Then he strode away. WHILE FLEEING FROM POLICE AUTOIST KILLED TWO BOYS Passaic, N. J., Dec. 26—Two boys were killed tonight by an automobils driven by Anthony Van Gulick of Pas- saic, who was being pursued by police on suspicion that his car had knocked down and injured Stephen Zentner, 60, a few minutes before. After running over tiia boys, the car, crashed into a telegraph pole and Van Gulick was arrested, The dead hoys are Joseph Tenzog. 15, and ‘Willilam Frost, 10, both of Clifton, N. J. NEW HAVEN THEATRE GETS TEMPORARY INJUNCTION New Haven, Dec, 26—Judgp Simp- son, of the common pleas eourt, today granted a temporary injunction te the Globe theatre, a moving picture house. It restrains the local police from Inter- fering with the operation of the theatre, which was closed two weeks ago by the! 7 state police. It was sald the state Ph- = lice gave permission for the re-opeming . LA e | 4 |